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WORLD WV HEAT SITUATION

"HE Commerce Department’s
Foodstuffs Division in a world
wheat survey says that accord-

ing to the latest available estimates

on wheat production, the principle

importing countries have produced
loos wheat this year than last by
about 245 million bushels. These
some countries imported for the crop
year ending August 1, 1922, 847
million bushels, if we add the 245
million bushels shortage, this gives
‘ a total of 392 million bushels re-
quired to equal last year’s average
wheat consumption in the importng
countries. It is of course. recog-
nized that some European countries
are probably living on a lower stand-
ard than last year, and are going to
conserve wheat consumption not
only through milling regulations but
also through the substitution .0:
other foodstuffs, such as potatoes.
The potato crop is larger this year
and generally speaking, can be and
is substituted for bread in times of
stress. _

The exporting countries produced
about 213 million bushel-s more this
year than last, which added to the
647 million bushels they exported
would indicate an average surplus of

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860 million- bushels based on last

year’s .crop. \
According to the latest ﬁgures
available the rye
Europe, exclusive of Russia, is about
53 million bushels less than last
year, while the rye crop of Canada
and the United States is about 50
million bushels more, indicating no
‘world change in the rye situation.
For the next four months the
wheat and rye available for the ex-
port trade should betound in North
America. If Europe’s combined
wheat and rye shortage of about 300
million bushels could be met, it
would make America a strong mar.—
ket, and it may be said from now
on the breadstuﬂs market will de-
pend entirely on. the economic con-
ditions in European countries and
their ability to pay cash to grain.
It is probable that there are some-
what more grain and flour stocks in
Europe than statistics indicate, since
the farmers in a number of countries
have been threatened with requisi-
tion of part of their crop during the
last year and it is generally known
when such conditions exist the crop
is concealed to Some extent. On two
or three occasions when restrictions
have been raised in past years, sup-

’pliei‘have’eemo autij
; amount. This ’prcb‘ quay, or some

production of ~

invisiblg'siipplies' is one of the uncer-V

tain factors thatmakes it-diﬁculttb
ascertsn the real breadstugl require-
ments of_ Europe.

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COOPERATION SAVES OREGON
FRUIT CROP

YEAR ago it looked as

though the fruit of the North-

west would rot because the can-

action would not run, bringing ruin

to thousands of growers and 9. Hull: .

famine for distantxcomumers‘. Then
the Oregon Growers’ Cooperative
Association worked out a plan. for
running the canneries and saving
the crops. The cooperators were not
interested in big proﬁts. What they
wanted was to get their crops to the
people and they .did it. "
During 1920 the Oregon 'Grewers’
Cooperative Association sold 12,006,-
000 pounds or prunes, which cleaned
out all the supply and left no carry-
over for 1921. In'1921 the Associa-
tion made arrangements for canning
a. considerable portion of the tone-
nage. This year, with the biggest
prune crop in the history of the
United States, the plants of the co-
operatiyo have been put into con-

dition to save the supply by evapor-_

ation, and in addition the Association
has rented and acquired other plants
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You owe it to  to provide for their future . .
in so far as possible. This means the putting U y .1  .
 all  can for them; but if you doyou'r ~ 
 duty, it means investing it proﬁtably and V it

safely in  that will give them full earn-

ings regularly and certainly.

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ORE than 1,090,000 tons" or

,  this 79st viii so into '

cons and be used 1s"mioua
pessimism! reducts such, as t-'
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‘crop for manufacture is estimated at

215,331 mm. as sumac-red  £89
.ﬂnal estimate of 87, 933 acres lg

1921. Estimated yield is 4.6 pg‘
acre, compared with 4.9 tons 1
year. Reports to‘ the 'depar‘tme

indicate that 5,884,900  of Na-
3 cans will be  this year. co
some with assuage em in 19 ‘ :
In some at  ﬁor maszr
niac’ture, indium  or! state!
With 271.534  @siﬂoi'nia has

173,?“ tons. Mafﬂm «111.510.

New Jersey 81, 368, New York 63 ’I
245, Ohio 58,847, Mismﬂ 37,16 ‘,

Deleware 31,712, Utah 88,387. and

other states smaller quantities.

WORLD RYE  ABOUT
SAM- as  {EAR ‘
. TAL (production o; 1922 to;
eighteen countries for which
, ﬁgures are sveilabie is estimat-
ed as 779,15§,990 bushels by the
United States  91 Agricul-
ture. Production in thee-same cons].-
tries  year  179593.000 1);.
Countries tor whim resorts are not
evil-ﬂame one  Austria, Da-
mark. Greece. New, and most 0!
the countries at the southern hemi-
sphem ,

The rye ems of Germany.  ,. 1101' 19”
is  set mm 510,580,090

from   ,

at Rome 11 decrease at

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lusty-8911‘.- me rue  of! France
is pissed at sitcom M815 colu—
pcred /wiilh 44 $3,909 bwhels
19211- A231 11: ., .- is! estimate places
the 17.9 cu, of  at 7.099,-
000 b, _ , an  ._ over last
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IMPRGYJEE  .94! celery ship-
ping and  and a
handlers pest $.99- Wg exec
returns--. -_   berm 1Lted Farm"
 ﬂeiony  Associatibp
at Kalamazoo- ‘I‘be colony shippers
wane  by. the Michigan
Team  ﬁrehouse at De-
. w   their eatery this
the  Bureau organization-
We the celery smarts orgas-
iaed  awn  organization.
  .d their crop through
 dealers who shipped to
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by express. The
new aromas to scout 9. standard
not

 
    

 sensed the
 to label it Kalamazoo
  Fara:- Euncau ships the
 to such markets as Detroit.
emu,  City, st. Louis,
Plowman. Finite-dolphin in carlets
 under heifmgcrmion. The celerfy
‘mﬁa as destination in peptect con-
 snd the consumer sets it in)
Meat condition. Distributing
smash; .. . _, ,  sooner. the celery grov-
 sosv have better control of the
moon 0;! 21151.35; celery. They re-
nowned returns since they
t . marinath their celery‘co-
  standard pack.‘

     

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,Qmmsinmwmrism

record ed the Montana Wat Grou-

tion of that state. This remarkabgp
growth of next to the youngest co '

erative _wheat pool in the northwqg'v
is largeg due to the enormous“!ng g

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i Growing Michigan’s Champion Potato w

the IA cre '

How ‘Mason‘Parmalee of Allegan County Grows~360 Bushels to

 _ ..  O raises the highest yielding
gi- ,.  .i . potato crops in Michigan and

how does he do it? Is there
a farmer anywhere in our state who
under ordinary soil and market con-

‘ditions is keeping his potato yield

peracre up to the point where he is
sure of consistent proﬁts? "

Many Michigan potato growers are
beginning ‘to ask themselves these
quest-ions. An average production
per acre hovering around 100 bush-
els,.and prospects of a long stretch

’ of low potato prices are responsible

for an inquisitive attitude toward

this high .yield business among the ,
spud raisers.

Thenumerous farmers who hope
to obtain a share of their future
bread and butter at the shrine of
the potato may well turn for their
Mecca of inspiration and ‘guidance

éto’the 160 acres in Allegan county

owned and farmed by Mason Farms.-
For on that farm was grown
the champion potato crop of Michi-
gan last year. And it was a money

\ maker too. Mr. Parmalee is a “big
' league” ’ potato grewer.

He made-
the state high production record for
1921 with a twelve acre patch aver-
aging 360 bushels per acre. .

Cherry Rill Farm, as Mr. Parma-

'lee has named his place, has no

unique advantages of lgcation~ or
soil, nor is it the pet hobby of a rich
city farmer. Mr. Parmalee inherited
' ' from his father, who
bought the land from the govern-
ment for ten shillings an acre when
Allegan county was pretty much of
a wilderness. Mr. Parmalee him-
self has worked the farm for thirty

33. GEORGE IRVINE

years, and has never used a cent of
outside capital. The farm has paid
it’s way from the start.

Let us ﬁnd the reasons why Cherry
Hill Farm is turning out some of
Michigan’s best potato crops. Na-
turally we turn ﬁrst to the soil, for
that is what really makes a potato
crop. The yielding of a farm as a
rule varies directly with the fertility
of the soil. In the long run, the soil
is What the farmer makes it. Mr.
Parmalee has doubled the fertility
of his soil, and thus it’s producing
capacity, since he has been'on the
farm. ,

Soil fertility is inﬂuenced by only

three things——the cropping system,

fertilization, and drainage. In them,
then, lies the solution of the great—
est problem of agriculture. That
problem, the maintenance of soil
fertility, no longer troubles 'Mr. Par-
malee. He has solved too, with re-
markable results, by his method of
handling the cropping, fertilizing,
and drainage factors. Here is the
story in his own words:

“We_use a three year rotation,
grain, folloWed by an alfalfa-clover
mixture, then corn and potatoes, af—
ter which we seed again with grain.
'We grow barley, oats, wheat or rye
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WHAT STATE FARM BUREAU SAYS 0F INGODIE TAX

LL Michigan farm organizations are urging their members to en-
dorse the state income tax amendment which Will appear on the
ballots at the genera] election Tuesday, November 7. The income

tax measure is of great interest to every owner of farm or town
It intends that the heavy tax burden now carried almost
solely by ﬁve billion dollars in farm and town real estate shall be
shared by ﬁve or more billion dollars in
other intangible property now paying practically no taxes to the
state. The State income tax measure would also give wage earners
their just share in carrying on the government. '

The farm organizations declare that the State income tax proposal
cannot be considered as another or an additional tax as it is intended
to relieve real property of its excessive tax burdens by more justly»
It is estimated that a fair and reasonable
state income tax would pay the State’s annual tax of $20,000,000 and
go a long way toward retiring outstanding bond issues.
cause every wheat producer to share in the taxation program instead
of leaving it to owners of farm and town real property. ‘

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half—and-half clover and alfalfa mix-
ture, eight pounds of alfalfa and six
pounds of red clover seed per acre,
with the grain for a nurse crop.
We never pasture the new seeding,
but clip it once in the fall if it gets
too high. We never take anything
off the first year. The next summer
we make two or three cuttings of
hay, and plow under in the fall.
We plow quite deep now—nine
inchesmbut reached that depth by
working down a half inch deeper
every time. We plow once during
a rotation, every third year, and disc
the other two years. For cultivated
crops we grow corn in the ﬁelds
next to the barn and potatoes on the
sandier land to the north.”

Cherry Rill's cropping system, a
three year rotation with alfalfa, is
worthy of a passing glance. The
average farmer would cackle heart—
ily at the thought of plowing under a
good stand of alfalfa after harvest-
ing only one hay crop. Possibly
that’s one ‘of the reasons he is an
average farmer.

Application of fertilizer is the
other big factor in building up the
soil. Four varieties are used regu-
larly on Cherry Rill Farm,—-—manure,
acid phosphate, green manure, and
lime.

“Manure is one of the most valu-
able things on the farm,” Mr. Par-ma—
lee declares. “Farm papers have a lot
to say about keeping farm machin-
ery under cover, but 1 say if you
can’t cover both, cover the. manure
and let the machinery stand out. I

(Continued on page 17)

Here are the Amendments to be Voted On at the November Election

“1 Wish you would print in your
paper the proposednincome tax state-
ment-and its beneﬁt to farmers.
Wishing you much success as we
think your’paper is ﬁne—R. E. H.,
Pierson, Michigan.

 

Many of us are wondering if you
will have space and patience to diag-
nose the amendments to appear on
ballots at the~November election?
Many, many voters are mislead when
amendments appear as they are us-
ually worded to confuse. Looks as
"though the “excess condemnation
act” was reaching for some more of
the people’s rights. Does this just

V affect city property owners, or could

the power be easily extended to the
country? Anyway, it doesn’t look
like a plausible act, to be passed by
the people. What do you know
about it and how will it be worded
on ballots—Jacob COpp, Ingham

wﬂounty, Michigan.

 

I HERE are three amendments to
be voted on at the fall election,
November 7th, excess condemn-

amendment, income tax

amendment, and giving ports and
port districts power to make internal
improvements. Four other amend-
ments~~which are proposed will not
be submitted because the required

"number of signatures were not ob-

tained to the initiatoryxpetitions
within the time prescribed by law.

‘Excess' Condemnation

,\ ~ When the voter enters the booth
en election day he will be given two
ballots. One of them will be the

n general election ballot on which he

votes his chOicefor county, state and
national officers; " The other ballot
will  emigthe three’ amendments
  arm,»th ﬁrst one on
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--eu public purpose,

 
  

of which is to empower the legisla-
ture to. authorize municipalities to
condemn more land than is necessary
for certain public purposes and to
issue bonds therefor. The text of
the amendment is as follows:
Sec.‘ 5. Subject to this "Consti—
tution the legislature may authorize
municipalities, subject to reasonable
limitations, to condemn and take the
fee simple to more land and property
than is needed in the acquiring,
opening and w ening of parks,
boulevards, public places, streets,
alleys, or for any public use, and

after so much land and property has’

been appropriated for any such needs
the remainder
may be sold or leased with or with-
out such restrictions as may be ap-
propriate to the improvement made.
Bonds may be issued to supply the
funds to pay in whole or part for the
excess property so appropriated, but
such bonds shall be a lein only on
the property so acquired and they
shall not be included in any limita-
tion of the bonded indebtedness of
.such municipality.”

The wording of the amendment

is plain. It could NOT be construed
as Mr. Copp suggests to apply to
rural districts. Only “municipal-
ities”, incorporated villages and

cities would have the right of excess
condemnation, under this provision.
The rural voter’s interest is only in-
directly affected by this amendment.

There are many reasons why this

amendment should be adopted.
When a city condemns.a piece of
property for a public improvement,
the value of surrounding property
instantly- rises, and owners of ad—
joning real estate reap a rich harvest
..by reason of improvement. The ques-
tion is, “should a few property own-
ers be enriched by the necessities
and tax expenditures .of. a whole
city?” 1 One of the obstacles in the
w of public impr‘dvemépfs is the

 

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pays this cost, it is argued, the city
should receive Whatever extraordin-
ary beneﬁts arise as a result of the
condemnation. The proposed a-
mendment would give cities the right
to take at a fair valuation this ad-
joining property and to bend it or
sell it and use the proceeds to apply
against the cost of the improvement.
Frequently it happens that a city
does not condemn as much land as is
needed for an improvement, and af-
ter work has begun on the improve—
ment it is discovered that more land
is needed. The city is'then obliged
to pay a much higher price for the
property than it would have had it
been condemned in the ﬁrst instance.

City real estate owners suffer as
much from high taxes as farmers.
W'hen their local taxes are high they
complain of their State taxes and
try through legislation and other-
wise to escape their share of
state taxation. Excess condemnation
should reduce city taxes and make
city taxpayers less critical of
state taxes. Therefore, indirectly it
is to the farmer’s advantage to vote
for excess condemnation.

The Income Tax

The income tax amendment would
amend section 3 of Article ten of
the state constitution. The wording
is a trifle confusing, but the amend-
ment has been properly drafted and
will, if adopted, pave the way for

a state, income tax. It reads as
follows:
“Sec. 3,. The legislature shall

provide "by law a uniform rule of
taxation, except on property paying
speciﬁc taxes, and taxes shall be
levied on such property as shall be
prescribed by law. Provision may
be made by law for a. tax not to ex-
ceed four per centum upon or with

, respect to the net gains, proﬁts and

incomes, from Whatever source de-
rived, which tax may be graduated
and» progressive and which may pro-

 

 

vide for reasonable exemptions.
For the purpose of such a tax, prop—
erty and persons, ﬁrms and corpor-
ations upon Which such tax may op-
erate may be classiﬁed: ‘Provided,
that the legislature shall provide by
law a uniform rule of taxation for
such property, as shall be assessed
by the State Board of Assessors, and
the rate of taxation on such property
shall be the rate .which the State
Board of Assessors shall ascertain
and determine is the average rate
leved upon other property upon
advalorem taxes are assessed for
state, county, township, school and
municipal purposes.”

The beneﬁt of the income tax to
the farmer is perfectly obvious. In
the ﬁrst place, economists declare
that the income tax is the most
equitable form of taxation ever de—
vised? It forces people to pay taxes
in proportion to their ability to pay.
under our present taxation system
many people pay too much taxes and
many do not pay enough. The in-
come tax will equalize this, and
reach thousands of salaried individ-

uals who now pay no direct taxes .
income tax .
should mean a substantial reduction ,.

to the state. A state

in taxes on farm property.
Port Rights

The proposed amendment relative ‘

to the incorporation of ports and
port districts with power to engage
in work of internal
is .merely a further recognition of
the home rule rights of local cor-
porate bodies,
Axtiﬁle 8 of the Constitution. We
can see no possible objectiOn to the

adoption of this amendment. It
reads as follows: _.
“Ses. 30. The legislature may 5

provide for the incorporation of perts

and port districts and .confer power’-;
and authority upon them to engage ,
.in work. of internal improvements
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ern civilization done) to the

Americairiarmen‘z\‘_ was an-
Gavered‘to‘theﬁbe troy thy abiﬁty in
the article-an ear is, nshe May 27th
'issue of the carber Independent.
‘A friend remarked, “Everthing you
state is absolutely true, but terri-
bly destructive.” 'If telling the truth
is destructive of that erroneous im-
pression which many people still
hold concerning the status of agri-
culture, then it was intended that
article should be destructive. In
this article, however, it is my desire
to present a contructive plan for the
rehabilitation of agriculture. Agri—
. culture is the basic industry, and if
civilization is to endure agriculture
must 'prosrer.

In the ﬁrst place, the ﬁeld of agri-
culture falls logically into three di-
visions: ﬁrst, economic; second’, so—
cial; and third, political. I .am cqn-
vinced, however, that the local and
political life of the rural community
is determined by it economic success.
Therefore, the problem of agricul—
ture is essentially a matter of earn—
ings and proﬁts. The improved and
modern schools, churches and social
organizations of the average rural
community may be considered an ac-
curate index of the “dollars and
cents” borrowing capacity of ‘the
community. Rural pride, however,
cannot thrive on husks alone. Far
too many rural communities ﬁnd
themselves today mere shells of
their former selves, disheartened
and impotent.

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By GEORGE H. STEVENSON - .

farmer.
out.

the Nation.

other extreme.

looking, plan for meeting them.
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MZANY SCHEMES TO HELP THIE FARMER

FEW years ago folks didn’t pay so very much attention to the
He was a sort of good-for-nothing, no-account chap.
If he prospered well and good; if he didn’t that was his own look
But times have changed. The American people have learned
what a tremendous inﬂuence agriculture plays in the economic life of
I They have learned that when the farmer prospers they
prosper, too; when he suffers they likewise suffer.
non-agricultural groups toward the agricultural group has gone to the
Instead of being indifferent they are over-zealous if
anything and come forward with such an array of palliativies for
the farmer that it turns the poor men sick to even look». at ’em, and
it is doubtful if he could survive the shock of taking them.
two-thirds of the remedies proposed for the relief of agriculture must
be diScai-ded as impractical or falling far short of meeting the stiuation.
We have here a practical discussion of the farmer’s needs and a sensible
Read it and tell us what you think

So the attitude of

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It is not within the scope of this
article to discuss in any detail‘ the
intricacies of the organization of the
Department of Agriculture, nor of
the state institutions. It is my in-
tention. however, to emphasize the
recognized fact that the Department
of Agriculture has become top-
heavy in the administration of regu4
latory functions; and that it has
made available more material along
scientiﬁc and investigationa1 lines
pertaining to the production of farm
crops than agriculture, in its pres—

ent economicplight, is able to make
use of.
The Demonstration or Extension

organization, consisting'of somea four -

thousand county agents, men and wo-
men, is'the great constructive force,
which will prove a vital factor in
the readjustment and reconstruction
of agriculture. The county agent
has the opportunity to become ad-
viser, conﬁdent and friend of his
constituents. He shouldvand does
know the problems of the farmer.
deay, .however, the county agent,

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ggested

instead of being looked upon as the
emissary of the farmer, has become,
because of pressureof .his superiors,
primarily the emissary. ‘or a multi-
plicity of ‘scientiﬁc' and semi- s‘cien-’
tiiic bureaus desiring to. exploit the
results of their research, and oft-
times their theories, at the expense
'of the farmer.

Too much stress is laid upon in-'
creased, production, but the alert
county agent knows, as does the
farmer, that the problem of agri-'
culture is not now a question of in-
creased production, but rather a.
question of marketing at a proﬁt the

. crops now being produced; likewise,

that too often the application of

science to farming is not practicable.

Science generally increases cost of
productio’n, and the market value of
an increased, quantity does not just-
ify the increased cost.

TOO MUCH SPECIALIST

Science dictates that liberal 'appli- ,
cation of phosphate' rock shall be
applied to the soil. No one will dis-
pute that increased production fol—
lows, but 'to make the application
an expenditure of from $10 to $20
an acre. The average farmer is not
being already reavily
burdened with debt, to assume this
new obligation The Demo’nstra-
tion or Extension Service is the me-
dium through which'the Department
of. Agriculture and state institutions.
are dishing out tothe farmer large

(Continued .on page 21.)

Land Clearing Crew-Silence the Wail of the Stump Land Farmer '

P in Presque Isle county a
| ’ week (go a gang of stalwart

young men wrestled with dy—
namite and stump pullers, clearing
land of stumps and blasting ditches
through swamps.
clearing crew of the M. A. C., which
had heard the “wail of the stump
land farmer” and sent its picked
crew of specialists on a tour thror gh
the upper and lower peninsulas to
instruct farmers on the cheapest and
best ways to clear land.

The tour started in the upper
peninsula in the early part of Sep-
tember, worked its way down the
IMichigan CentraI to Bay City in the
IOWer peninsula, and then headed
back north on the Detroit & Macki-
nac. In charge of the tour was Mr.
Larry F. Livingston—~land clearing
.specialist for the M. A. 0., who was
.accompanied by a corps of men
trained in the operation of stump
pulling devices and the handling of
dynamite. The railroads lmentioned
co—operated with the M. A. 'C by fur-
nishing cars and transportation.

Thirty—two schools or demonstra-
tons constituted the tour in the low—
er peninsula. At convenient points
along the rights of way of the co-
operating roads, the land clearing
train was shunted off on a side track
and stump pullers, tractors, dyna-
mite, and last but not least,

 

 

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dynamite rtore this
a swamp.

A single blast of
perfect ditch through

Bunyan’s” powerful hammer, quick-
ly unloaded and transported to a
nearby slte where stumps were to
be pulled or ditches dug.

Theory had no place in the opera—
tions. Only practical machinery, ex-
plosives and homemade devices
which are adaptable to conditions

then yank

They split ’em like this with dynamite,
’em out with a tractor.

found in Northern Michigan were
used. 

Inremoving stumps, the land—
clearing specialits explained to the
farmers who attended the schools
why different methods are employed
in different cases. Frequently, they
say, farmers will use a lot of dyna-

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mite in removing a 'stum-p which
could just as well have been
yanked out with a hand puller,
while at other times they will waste
a good 'many hours trying to pull
a stump with a hand puller which
was never meant for~ such a job
when a little explosive would have
done the trick much. quicker and
better. ‘ I

. The same thing is true in the mak-
ing of ditches. Often it is more prac-
tical to employ a dredging machine,
but in a great many cases Where it
Is difficult for a dredging machine
to Work, dynamite is the better
agent to use. ' /

In blasting a ,ditch at Otsego
Lake, ten feet wide and three feet
deep, 40 per cent nitroglycerine
was planted two feet apart in
double rows, and the dynamite cap
[placed near the center of the charge.
The concussion resulting from the
firing of the single stick of dyna—
vmite set off all the others simul-
taneously and water, mud and de-
bris were blown to a height of 75
or 100 feet, leaving a ditch as clean-
cut as though dredged.

Several thousand farmers attend—
ed the schools and learned many
valuable lessons in the more efﬁcient
clearing of land and blasting of
ditches.

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European landscape, plant a. few sticks of dynamite under tho-.stumns
ﬂy. and sgovthem blown to smithereensi " I V I .

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YOUNG—Mrs. Peshie Urdang who resides at the
Daughters of Israel’s home in New York City,
recently celebrated her lthh birthday by giving
a party at which all attending were over 100 years
old. Mrs. Urdang ‘is u's active as the average
person at sixty and reads without glasses.

     
    
    
        
 

 

UNCLE SABI’S FASTEST MAIL

sorter of m ail.

a minute, or over one a second.
high record by over 11.000.

SORTER—This A PROHIHINU
young man, Joseph W. Riley. a clerk in the central post seven years old little Josephine lilatt of Brookline,
ofﬁce in Boston. claims the title of the country's speediest Mass
His record is 31,815 outgoing letters composing poetry at the age of six before she
sorted in less than 8 hours, which is an average of 661/2 knew how to spell.
This beats the previous to write verse but grew to love poetry through her

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THE AMERICAN “0iVL”—-The “Owl” in this case is not a feathered bird but'
_ _ This super-plane carries a 4,000 pound bomb
or Its equivalent in passengers, has three fuselages, engines and propellers, and
each fuselage is equipped with rapid ﬁre guns.
is 106 feet from tip to tip.

 

FROM THE LAND OF ICE AND SNO“’—(‘ant. Donald B. MacMillan who
recently returned to America from an expedition to Buﬂ'in Land snapped on

board ship with two of his dogs.
The wing spread of the “owl” like the Captain’s? Just the thing to keep you warm when doing chores or
other work about the farm this winter.

 

   
   

 

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Dempsey.

SENSATION OF PUGILISTIC WORLD—Bat-

tling Siki, Senegalese tighter, who surprised the

world last month by. knocking out Georges Carf

mntier thereby winning the heavyweight chan'Lpion-

ship" of Europe. The African ba‘ttler has signed

'to meet Joe Beckett, English heavyweight, next

month and is‘ trying to -land a bout with Jack
. \ . , .

 
   

FOR-GET—ME-NOT DAY—Walter Ryan was
“banged up” at Belleau Woods but he is still
“carrying on” with his hands. He is shown above
with Florence Fisher, making\ the tiny blue
“Wei-s which will be sold as emblems on For-get-
me-not Day. November 4. to raise funds for the
disabled American veterans. Miss Fisher is one
of: the few who have not ion-gotten.

 

CAN IT BE TRUE?—This is Iowa’s most beauti-  . ‘
ful girl, Miss Bonnie Murry and she is of the real
old-fashioned variety. She doesn’t rouge, smoke or
care for bobbed hair. and she knows more about
cooking than she does ﬂirting. 'Furthermore. she is " . ’
not going to spend the $1,000 prizemoney she won
for pretty clothes but to start a college education.

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were «rowan-chins.“-
pere t—testitlneveryway.

0 Days’
Free Trial
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Cautzon! .m. m
shows that vibration of the
bowl causes cream waste!
The Helotts bowl is COU-
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get out of balance therefore
cannot vibrate. Can’t ro-
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Melotte has won 264 Grand
and International Prices.
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The urges? Fur House
in the Northwest—

“ ercey’s

    

50 YEARS IN OSHKOSH _

Trappers! Fur Shippers!

For fifty years the price list of Pereey’s
Fur House has been the standard of the
northwest. These prices are bonaﬁde,besed
on standard grading that insures you him
totem-the most moneyfor yourseason 'swork.

Write Now  S

For Price List
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Make sure your name is on our ist.
will pay to send us a postal RIGHT NOW.

Percey’s Fur House
260 Main St, Oshkosh, Wis:

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BUSINESS FARMER

   

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OWNER vs. RENTER
. I rented my house last April, and

‘ during August we had, trouble over

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the lock on my granary. 4 thrashed,

and .put my 300 bushels of wheat
in the greenery which he claims be
rented with the house and which I
said he could use until such time as
I looked the
granary up after the wheat yes
stored there and he tore the lock 01!
and entirely battered it so it was
of no use at all. We had words and

' I moved the wheat at once and now

I want to get him out. When I gave
him the receipt for August rent I
simply requested him on the bottom
of receipt to vacate by September
15th. He did not pay rent 'in ad-
vance, did not have money when he
moved in and I thought him 110th
and I felt sorry for him. I want to
get him out right away it I can.
What is best for me to do and how.
—B. P, Amanda., Mich "

-—It would be best to consult a com-
petent attorney. You appear to be
the victim of misplaced conﬁdence.
Your letter does not state how long
you rented for. I assume that the
lease was not in writing. Your note
at the bottom of the receipt may
be notice to quit but all such facts
should be stated to counsel who will
tell you what to do and probably
have to ask‘the aid of the court to
remove your tenant it you now have
a right to have him removed—Legal
Editor.

BOY‘B RATHER MISSING

I am writing to you about a boy
who came to our place from Hunt-
ington, West Virginia, in search of
his father whom he has not seen
for nine years. His uncle and grand-
mother are dead. The boy's name
‘is Clarence Cannoy. His father's
name is Bush Cannoy. The last
trace of him was at I. Stevenson’s
logging" camp near Gladstone in the
upper peninsula. He left there about
a year ago. The father used to
work for me and the boy came to
see if I knew where he was. I did
not, so am writing to you to see
it We can ﬁnd him through your
paper as others have had such good
success—«A.~ Bert Woodward, Vaud-
ernilt, Mich.

CONTRACTOR MUST PAY MEN
TWICE EACH MONTH

Is a contractor doing a road job
for the State obliged to pay the men
every two weeks. How could a per-
son compel him to pay‘l—H. F. M,
Harrison, Michigan.
—-I call your attention to Act 59 of
the P. A. of 1913 which is Comp-
Sec. 5583—5586 inclusive of the
Comp. Laws of 1915, which provides
that every contractor engaged in
public work shall pay his employees
twice each month. V

See. 3 of the same act provides
the penalty for failure to comply
with the provision of the act by way
of adding 10 per cent of the wages
due the employee, which sum may
be recovered as liquidated damages
for such failure to pay. This of
course is subject to the other pro-
vision of the law which must be
complied with and which you will
ﬁnd contained in the above refer-
ence.—.—-State Highway Department.

DESTROY SUMAC'

I would like to-know the best way
to destroy Sumac. Thank you.—-R.
F. P., Hastings, Mich.

——No experiments have been made
recently on ~the extermination of Sn-
mac, but very extensive experiments
were made last year and this year on
the extermination of barberry. I
think beyond doubt the results of
these experiments would apply to
Sumac. A/tter trying various sorts
of chemicals, the most satisfactory
results were obtained, and at least
expense, by the use of common salt.

. sued ' . .
you. All Inquiries ﬁm be accumulated by full I ems I   not also  so'IW'.  '

  

ditto/nil 

-mm
“denim-n1. We era has

   

shrub. A shrub 2 to 3 feet'high
would probably be, killed salt
spread over cradles of 18~ inches
.ptrom theaters; Quad to b feet high
would probably require the salt to
be spread for cradles of at least. 3
feet. in abundance of salt must be
usedr—e large plant of the sine just
mentioned would require shoots to
10 pounds? If applied inrthe fall a
__portion of the 'salt will remain un-
dissolved until spring so that the ac-
tion will be gradual but continuous.
Kline salt is used it dissolves quick-
ly and soon leeches out. or course
the salt will destroy the usefulness
of the land for the .Iollqwing sea--
son, but will probably be out of the
way by a year after that.

It is probable that in many cases
it would be cheaper to pull outthe
plants by horse labor than totry to
salt them out—E. IA. Bessey. Pro-
fessor of Botany, M. A. C. '

WILLING PROPERTY
Can a man will his property to his
wife away from his brothers and sis-
ters in Michigan, no children I—M.
C. B., Vermontville, Mich. '

——A man may will his entire prop-
erty to 'his wife and exclude his
brothers and sisters}! he is mentally
competent and no undue inﬂuence
exits, by complying with the require-
ments of the. law in the execution
of the wilL-e-TLegal Editor.

MUST KEEP HIGHWAY OPEN

Can a private individual— bank
logs on the highway? My team be-
came frightened at seeing a pile of
logs on the highway and before I
could quiet them down again one
of them gas injured and I wish to
know it I can collect damages?
Also, if it is against the law to bank
logs on the highway I would like
to know who to report it to. Thank
you.—é-Reader, Kent County, Mich.

——-No private individual orcorpora—
tion have a legal right to bank logs
on a: public highway so that they
will interfere with public, travel. _
As to whether you could collect,
damage for injury to your horse this
would‘be a \question of facts to be

passed upon by a jury after hearing Wr—You do not state whether the girl

all the evidence inthe case. Ordin-
arily however, I would say that

~there is an action for damages for

For this purpose" the coarse sort‘

’used by the commercial ice- cream

manufacturers should be used, not

.. the ﬁne crystals as these dissolve too
rapidly. It is best to chop the plants

of! at or near the level of the ground

 

ound t e“ a distal:

   

“.1 P“! the salt on the cut grounds

  

such injury. The responsibility of

keeping the highway open rests up- -

on the township highway commis-
sioner and chapter 7 of the Highway
Law provides the method to be fol-
lowed by your commissioner to com-
pel“the people to remove piles of
logs or other matter which may be
pld‘c‘ed as an encroachment on the
public highway—State Highway‘
Department. - '

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LAW REGARDING HUNTING

A and B each own forty acres ad-
joining with no fence between. .
There is a woodlot across one end.
A does” no hunting and will not al-‘
low anyone to hunt on his land,
Must be post his land or will a. no-
tice” published in the county news-
paper be suﬂicient?———L. D. H., Hast-
ings, Mich '

The law provided that; "no~-per—
son shall hunt with ﬁrearms or dogs
or in any manner in any public park"
or public game. preserve at any
time. No person shall hunt with
ﬁrearms or dogs or in any other .
manner on enclosed land of another
or upon any farm' land or farm
woodlot connected therewith when
notices have been posted onxsuch
‘land by the owner or leases therein
forbidding hunting thereon” , ‘If the
woodlots are in connection with the
farm land and. have been posted no
one would bake a- right to hunt
thereon. The printing of notices in
a public paper is not provided for
in the statute. But" I am” of the
opinion that it. the person sew the
notices. in the Inner it would be
equivalent to the posting on the,

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sum of 3mm
,1” steptgther and my  on s
real .  'At .-

   

  
   

‘iit to farmers, yet ‘the farmer must

'_ unnecessary things

  

    
  

   
 
 
 

years old endeavor-help him,  _ ‘:
1101a methane-claim" for,  .bo pi
‘-—-‘W. H4413, Aim Min , 
--I.t the   h " 
mother’s name you would use
but it mlmrrsteptathegsjfn
you vwould "not. Your f ,
mother. it no other  _V -‘ use
would inherit your naphtha-e .1"
estate it he should die More _
mother. Unless here was. {Sergei
' bonny your board and'ybn lived
. with your mother you would not (b
liable for board as it would be "L.
sumed ordinarily that you lived With
her as a member of the family.“ There"
are many questions that would have; ‘
to be answered before the property
rights could be determined from-tho; 
way you have suggested the prop- ‘7
. erty.——Legal Editor. I . a _

 
  
 
   
   
   
   

  
 
   
   
    
     

    
        
      
   
  

     
 
  
 

 

      

     

   
 
 

nor. ushers» To vote on ' -
HOLD OFFICE ‘ _ ~
Can a, man vote or hold-esny eta  
tics in Michigan who took out  ,f 
ﬁrst naturalization papers in m-r 1..
other state previous to ‘the 8th of :“‘-‘“’
November, 1894?—-H. F.,_ Clare.-
Mich. I _ ‘i
-—I would be of the opinion that‘if *
he was not a resident of the state j g
of ‘Michigan two years and six 
months before the 8th or November?
1894, gm! had not otherxise coni-_ 'r _
 his citizenship in the United 2 .7. f7
States he would not be entitled to 
vote and hold oihce in Michigan—- A  
Legal Editor ‘

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A certain man married a man un-
der the impression that be was a  g
divorced person, but whegjhe truth ~ g 2-,
was found out, he had not obtained,   i,
the divorce. Also he married 'under   "
an assumed name. Would this mar-
rage be held I legal in the eyes of
the law, or could this girl marry
again without going thru any cburt ,
proceedings? The girl left the man 
immediately upon ﬁnding out she _,
had been deceived. If she should get" _
married should she assume her maid: -  -“ 
en name or take the name of the. _.
man she thought she. was marrying! "

D. ,E. M., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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left the man before or after he had
.his divorce. You say she left him
as soon as she diSCOVered ft but I _
can not tell whether the'\discovery '
was before orr‘after the (items be;
came operative. It would, be dang-‘er- ,
one for the girl to act on the theory 
that .she was not lawfully'marri'ed a;
at the time, she left him as there are ‘
a number-“oi things to be considered
that are not stated in the inquiry.

It is advisable for her to ask for a
divorce or an anullment of the mar-
riage. If she employs competent
counsel he will inform her which to
proceed undone-Legal Editor.

   
   
       
   
   
    
  
    
    
      

 

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LEVYING AGAINST PERSONAL
-PROPEB.TY ‘

I am enclosing a, notice from the
chairman of our township‘ board,
and ‘would like to know if there is
any such law as he mentioned- Also, J '

g why do these roads have to be _
made when they are not much bene-

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really what he on t'to have and.
and needs very much to pay for these
Am a subscrib-

    
     
    

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hard to .tell'fwhich part I like best.  .:.
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Resolution of the Milibrook_
Township Board ‘ V.
"Whereas the funds in our town-ox.
ship have become depleted by the re:
turn of $6690.00 in the year‘lmo,
and $5 09. in 1921, 0 taxes not
...paid, a the township being com.- 
‘ to  in full be all; covert}
and Trunk .. - .

       

         
     
   
 
    
  
  
   
   
    

  
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
 
   

   

    
 
  
    

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For UNITED STATES SENATOR

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' 'RNED RE-ElEcTIO '

+all citizens who believelthat cens‘cien-tidus service should be rewarded will vote for

i  ° ’ 1‘! CHAS. E. TOWNSEND

ALEX. J. 'GROESBECK
. ~ For GOVENOR

Republicans of Michigan Are Proud of Their Records; Let the Facts Speak foﬂbThemselves

A RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT

Sen. Capper, recognized leader of the agricultural bloc, says of
Sen. Townsend :’ During my three years’ stay in Washington
I hav'e'come to regard Sen. Townsend as one of the most INFLU-
ENTIAL‘ and USEFUL members of the Senate. ' HONEST,

‘COURAGEOUS and ABLE, his inﬂuence has increased with

the length of his service until he is recognized as one of the

' leaders on the Republican side Of the Chamber.

‘ Among the many measures of beneﬁt to agriculture which Sen.
Townsend aided in, enacting into law, are the following:
' The Cooperative Marketing Law.

Grain Standard Acts.

Federal Farm Loan Aci, and many beneﬁcial amendments.

Increased annual appropriation for agricultural experiment
stations. ,

Act to enable secretary of agriculture to investigate and report
upon the organization and progress of farmers’ institutes and
agricultural schools. -

‘ Act for acquiring and diﬁusing among the people of the United
States useful information on. subjects connected with. the market-
ing and distributing of farm and nOn-manufactured food pro-
ducts. ~~
Act to make investigation relating to the transportation, stor

‘ .. age, preparation, marketing, manufacture and distribution of

agricultural food products.

A4013 directing the War Finance Corporation to take certain
action for the relief of the present depression (1921) in agri-
cultural sections of the country.

An act for co-‘operative agricultural extension work.

Act preventing the manufacture, sale of transportation of adult-
erated, misbranded, poisonous, or deleterious feeds.

Act to provide that there shall be in the year 1925, and once
every ten years thereafter, a census of agricultural and live stock
which shall show the acreage of farm land, value of domestic
 etc.

Act providing that labor, agricultural and horticultural or-
ganizations shall be exempt from taxation.

AUTHOR NATIONAL HIGHWAY BILL

Of ' supreme importance to the farmers of Michigan are the
eiforts of, Sen. Townsend to secure Federal aid in‘the building
of trunk line roads in the various states. He is the author of the
Natimal Highway Bill which released for Federal Aid Roads
the sum of $75,000,000 for the year, 1922. In addition, the post-
oﬂice Appropriations Bill, largely through Sen. Townsend’s in-

’ fluenee, provides federal aid to state highways for three y’ears,

viz: $50,000,000 for 1993,: $65,000,000 for 1924, and $75,000,000
for 1925. This Federal Aid means a great deal to the farmers
of  It brings markets nearer to the producer. It lowers
transportation costs. It will make farming more proﬁtable.

FlA'rnER be DEEP WAITERW YS
Perhaps the greatest service of. all which Se . Townsend has

rendered the dear old state is his work in e alf of the Great
Lakes to Ocean Deep Waterways project. It was Sen. Townsend

_ who introduced and secured the passage of the bill which author-

ized the'Prbsident to enter into agreement with Canada and Great
Britain for" Joint construction of the waterway, the culmination

v gt which Will bring Michigan to the threshold of the world ’s Inar-
e

._ OF ACHIEVEMENT FOR

ts and make the farmers free from their bondage of the rail-
roads and exhorbitant freight rates.

‘ Senﬂ‘vwnsend’s tireless efforts in behalf of the St. Lawrence
waterway project entitles him to the thanks and the support of
all who will beneﬁt by the project and that means ALL MICH-

? IGAN. .

'  IF YOU WANT TO PROTECT YOUR BEST
manners, BE GUIDED ,BY SEN. TOWNSEND ’s RECORD
AGRICUI/I'URE AND HELP TO

_ Bummer HIM ON NOVEMBER 7th. . _ y
e» for Chas. E. Townsend for United States Senator and Alex. J. Groesbeck

 "for Governor, ' on the Republican Ticket on November 7th. '

 ‘ '  .,  x  9., a ' ave Earned. Re-election.  V .

The.”

   

A BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Gov. Groesbeck was elected in 1920 pledged to a program of
consolidation of state departments and economy in their meninge-
ment.

As a result of his eiforts the State Administrative Board was
created and given wide powers over the various state depart-
ments. Hitherto every State Department was a separate govern-
ment .unto itself. It was responsible to no central authority. It
was about like your farm would be if you divided it up according
to its diﬁerent branches of dairying, fruit growing, hog raising,
etc., and putting a man in charge of each branch who was his
own boss and not accountable to you or anybody else.

Gov. Groesbeck thought that some one individual,——and that
individual the Governor who is elected by all the people,——should
know how the people’s business was being carried on in the
several branches of state government. ‘

That is the purpose of the State Administrative Board which
consists of the Governor and the heads of the departments. They
meet at regular periods and indulge in a round-table discussion
of the needs and plans of the diiferent departments. Thus, the
Governor learns all about what is going on in each department and
each department head learns whats is going on in every other
department. '

Result: There is now co—ordination in plaCe of division; order
instead of confusmn; economy in purchasing and administration
where there was often extravagance and duplication-

THE STATE OF MICHIGAN IS BEING RUN ON THE
BEST BUSINESS BASIS IN I S HISTORY, AND GOVERN-
OR‘ GROESBECK IS ENTITL D TO. THE CREDIT. .

GOV. GROESBECK NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR HIGH TAXES

Gov. Groesbeck’s political enemies charge him with extrava—

gance and blame him for high taxes. AGAIN, LET THE FACTS

SPEAK‘FOR THEMSELVES.
The State Tax Levy for 1922 is the LOWEST since 1918.

The general tax levy for

1919 was ....... ..'. ........ .. $17,430,895.73
1920 "  .........  17,378,328.35
1921 " ................. .. 20,441,333.79
1922 “ ................. .. 17,300,84394

The increase for 1921 was due to an interest item of nearly two

'and a half million dollais for interest on Soldier Bonus bonds

which the people voted; to a deﬁcit of nearly a quarter of a
million dollars in, Normal School appropriations; an increase in
the operating expenses of the University and the M. A. C., re-
quiring the levying of higher mill rates. '

As a result of Gov. Groesbeck’s economy program which was
put into effect AS SOON AS HIIMANLY POSSIBLE after his
election, there has been a NET DECREASE in administration
and operation expendituresof $1,839,617.63, a DIRECT SAVING
to the taxpayers. .

The savings in administration and Operation under the sim-
pliﬁed governmental machinery provided by the Legislature in
1921, apply to almost everv state agency. As an instance, in 1920-
21 the state oil inspection cost $82,000, and the fees collected

were nearly $81,000. This year the fees were $100,166.30 and .
’the cost of inspection was only $18,000. AND SO IT HAS BEEN

ALL THE WAY DOWN THE LINE.

Will you, Mr. Taxpayer. believe the stories of Gov. Groesbeck’s
litical enemies WITHOUT INVESTIGATION, or WILL YOU
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THE GASOLINE TAX

Editor’s Note:—Thc proposal to
put a tax on gasoline is one in which
every user of the fuel should, of
course, be interested. Such views
as we have been able to get from our
readers indicate that the majority
of them favor such a tax, but prob-
ably not all who favor. the tax own
automobiles or other gasoline burn-
ing devices. The automobile associ-
ations are opposed to the tax, and
the following communication from
Mrs. Sidney D. Waldron, president of
the Detroit Automobile Association,
contains the reasons. We should
like to have a thorough d’cnssion
of the subject in these columns and
invite letters from our readers. All

 r rascal-me" Amt. mobile; Cl‘ub- be- “many: in ‘ rate
li-wes that the part of road building}

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communications will be published
.without comment except as may be
necessary to correct a misstatement

. ‘ etc., etc.,—or in fact all of.the road
_of facts—Editor.

except the surface, is an integral
asset to the community, county, state
;and nation. We believetha't the
ﬁncost of this permanent construction
should be spread over the commun-
ity, county, state and Federal Gov:
ernment, as their re‘s
may be determined.

We believe that
roads, such as are today being laid
down by the Michigan State High-
way Department, may, under proper
conditions of maintenance, be con-
sidered as permanent and the ex-
pro-rated ac‘cordingly over
quite a long period. n

'TAKE pleasure in sending you,
separate cover,
copies of the Detroit Motor News,
setting forth our reasons for, oppos-
the addition of a gasoline tax, on
top of the present $7,000,000.00
paid by the motorist in license fees, p
These articles explain them-
I would particularly call
your attention to the article setting
forth the fair market value of all
motor vehicles in the\State of Michi-
as of December 31st,
This is the ﬁrst time this data has

state law, would in {single trip- s

pective interest

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HOW MANY OBJECTS CAN YOU FIND IN THIS PICTURE THAT BEGIN WITH “B”?

You and the Family take tonight off and find alt
' picture that begin ' with “B”!

$500
FIRST
PRIZE

A. E., Tannar ‘

Can YOU ﬁnd a Book, a Bear, a
Ball, a Badge in this Puzzle Picture?
If you can, you can ﬁnd all of the
correct objects and if you do, you
will be, in line for one of the many
CASH prizes The Michigan Business
Farmer will distribute after Novem-
ber 25th., 1922.

Thats the way to get started in
this friendly contest, in which the
prizes run up to a First Prize of
$500.00 in cash!

Every member of your family can
help you, but the list must be sent
in by one person. If you did not
read the announcement on page 11,
of the September 30th., 1922 issue
of The AMichigan Business Farmer,
look it up or write a postal today for
a copy of all the rules and prizes—-
sent free on request.

Don’t send in your list of objects,
until you have read all the rules.

B t you can start tonight, even if
you aven’t all the rules, to write
dewn the names of the objects which
appear in the picture and correct
your list before you send it in, after
you have read the rules.

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO SPEND
A PENNY 0R DO ANYTHING EX—
CEPT FIND THE MOST CORRECT
LIST OF OBJECTS BEGINNING
WITH THE LETTER “B” TO WIN
A FIRST PRIZE!

But look up the September 30th,
issue or send for a proof of the full
page announcement which appeared
in that issue, which we will gladly
send you free. p >

, THIS IS OUR SECOND
 , PUZZLE CONTEST, ~

   

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contained I 'had no special ar-
rangement except as
most convenient for myself.
divided the picture into groups
and wrote down the words ac-
cordingly. We are farmers try-
ing to pay for our farm on con-
tract and this year has been dis-
couraging, so you may know the
’ prize ’money was r most accept-
It at least gave us cour-
age to keep working.
wanted a piano ever since leav—
ing home but haven't felt that
we could buy one until we are
sure of our home.
‘fiddle while Rome
burned ’ so I have no piano yet
but have a lovely slip of paper
which says something about one ~
year from date and interest at
ﬁve percent, so I am consoled.
Most people have the opinion
that the puzzle contests are not
conducted honestly so "I would
like to assure those interested
that I am entirely a stranger to
the staff of the Business Farmer
and that they were-'most cour-
teous and did exactly .as the
rules promised. With many
thanks, Yours truly, Mrs. A. E.

 

 

 

 

Last year Mrs.
Spring Harbor, Michigan, was E‘First
in 'a contest exactly
similar to this one———read what she
wrote us after she received the prize

Prize winner,

“Spring Harbor, Mich, Jan.

Mt Clemens, Mich. Dear Sir—-
I am pleased to answer your
questions concerning my meth-
od of winning'ﬁrst prize in ‘8’
contest, and hope it will be of
beneﬁt to others in answer
similar puzzles.
So. many have congratulated

me on my good luck that I have
wondered it it was just that.

~ I would like to think the time
.and thought I put on it had.
some effect. ' ' _
I have had letters tram people , .
asking me how I arr-an « '
list and the number of

All you have to do to get imiine
for the prize moneysis to ﬁnd all of
the objects in the above picture that
begin with “Rm—start right may
and if you. cannot ﬁnd the .Septeni- '
bar 30th, issue in w k the full up
nouncemant appear. '_ , “write 
m..comsr.;uauacm. or.
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Michigan. ’A‘ milhonﬁ‘mds‘.‘a man
may run over these roads, ande
them to their full capacity with
appreciable wear, except to /' t j
Fords. <A single. vehicle, loadedyt'd
the ﬁfteen ton limit allowed bygom"

ject the road to ‘in-ﬂn'itelyf
stresses and? destruction than, th’ -
Fords- in a generation. The 

'sumption of gasoline bears prae-i,’

ti-cally no relation at all to the 
struction ofrroads. It is a measure 61‘? A
use, not a measure of wear... \_  '

We believe that the present ‘lawlsj
the best law. It reaches everyjinsn"

whose motor vehicle uses the high-e? 

W3Y- It imposes a tax burden in.

proportion to horsepower aﬁdQ'i
> weight. It is true that since—this 

law was enacted the use of hearle

motor vehicles upon our state high-s  7 '1] '
ways has developed and increased ‘3 
to a point where the law may per-Hg.  

haps require an amendment tolell-‘f
able it to properly ﬁt present condi— '
tions. . ‘ ‘ .V '
There is no, condition, ‘ho‘wever, t
that will be met by the propOsedgaae. '

oline tax, that cannot. be better met f '

by amending the existing statute. g _
For quotation in brief the above

. is ummed up as follows;

1. lRoad construction may be
divided into the sub—grade, sub-grade

ditching, bridges, culverts, etc.,\»

which are permanent, and the rbad
surface, which may or may not be
premanent. * ‘ ‘

2.. All that part of road construc-_
tion which is permanent, and con-
sequently is an integral asset to the
community, state and nation that it
serves, should be paid, for by each in
proportion as their interest is de-
termined. Maintenance of the road
is an expense that should be paid far
hv those who make the maintenance
necessary.

3. Road wear may accompany
roaduse, but road use does not nec-
essarlly mean road wear.- ‘A million
Fords passing over WoodWard .Ave-
nue between Pontiac and Detrdit—
Would represent enormous use, but
no wear, except to the Fords. 'A
single trip of a fifteen-ton load, as
allowed by our State law would rep.-
resent a dozen times mere injury to
the read than could be done by an
the Fords in existence. 

4. Measurement of gasoline con-
sumed bears no relation at «an. to
highway destruction. ' ,

5. Our present law is an excel-
lent law in principle. Anything that
can be done with the gasoline tax,

law can be done with our presen't‘- 

law. If our-present system, which

reaches ‘the vehicle itself, is not at 57

present spreading the burden fairly
where it belongs, then it should be

‘amended to work fairly and uni-

formly,lbut We cannot endorse anew

. source of revenue.

6. Motor vehicles in Michigan at
the present time are putting into the
State Treasury, in license fees, etc.,
5.1 per cent of the fair market value
of these motor vehicles: This is at
present more than suﬂlcienirto meet
and does provide a considerable sum'
to be applied against new construc-

aton.——Sidney D. Walden, President,

Detroit Motor Club. - "

THE MONEY QUIETION
NEVER had a chance to go to col-
lege \or even to patronize the ,
little school houSe very much, so

twould like to ask your opinion on ~ .

‘a few things. .
I claim the Civil 'v’nr debt,.was .
never paid. It was fought on a

cheap dollar and paid on a dear one I I ' ,

If~I borrow 20 bushels of wheat of
you and you said when I got it last
harvest wheat was $8, hut’now it is
only $1 or less, then I will have to
payka three bushels for each'one‘ '
I borrowed. In other words if I

borrow $100 for any length of time . l",
and the lenders juggle the‘ debt 
that I am paying back two dollars 

 

for one, what extra mbsgyutney 

  

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_  “threw ranmo- additional
_:tlie: subject. The question is,
ill, the werld war debt ever be
i If not, why not?”—-:-Editon

,7.

LET’S

 EATON_‘F .
ERE'S,”aK theOry I" have been
.-= thinking about and would
‘ I like..to,see'discussed.in M. B.
li‘g Every. farmer would have to
help make the plan work, but why
,‘ not set a price on our Stuff and no
sell for any less? The details of
themhheme would be as follows:

    

 
 

 

  

  
  
  
  
 
  

 

  
  

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L . _  The price would, of, 'course,
5 4' “119:8. proﬁtable one, based onithe
NV.“ g-‘ayerage'wst of production, interest,
lac“; ;,,taxes, unavoidable losses over a_ pe—
 ~_-.rip'd of years, management, etc. .
797',  M2,. Every farmer equipped to
fl:  ﬂstore about tWo years’ crops,—iet-
 - tingthem on to the market only
 v  so fast. as the market would absorb
vii-lg 5- ', -. them at the set price. Every man.
[,1- ,  would get his share, not same men

all and others, none.
_ . 3. An organization strong
v enough to held every farmer. to the
agreement.

4. Tariff just high

' spa-'3.

enough -so

4’  lithan farmers’ price. ,
  In case _of a bumper crop,—
' store it. Sell part this year, some
mere the next, just enough to sup-
ply the-trade. Let the farms rest,
 the fences, etc, go camping,
anything you want to, ylou still have
.the stuff to sell and at a proﬁt. When
' your supply gets low, raise some
more. The country will always have
a surplus in times of need or disaster
or crop shortage which cannot harm
the Ifarmer. The farmer would be in
a position to take advantage of big
, , . ' creps insteadof ruining his market.
 » If, a man could not produce a crop
'- at the set price let- him raise some-
thing elseT \
’8._ An arrangement to get the
stuff to the consumer at a reasonable
.- . commission and
_. charge. Abolish
gambling. -
' 7. Changing conditions
make it necessary to change the
. price after each period of, years, 5
 or ‘10, taking into consideration the
“supply on hand and the changed
1, cost of production.
._8. Nothing but best quality of
goods would be put on the market.
9. The surplus of all perishable
goods would be preserved to be mar-
keted in years of scarcity. There
would be a larger consumption ‘as
3 prices “would never be beyond the
' reach of anyone. It would be up
to’the farmer to keep their cost
, of. production below the set 'price.
' u I belieVe a family as fast as able
ought to stock up. with about a
years supply of food and other
things so as to be supplied in case
. of disasterfo an kind.
This plan needs much perfecting
I know and will be glad to explain
or add to up0n request so far as
possible. Others perha’ps could im-
prove it more than I. Let me know
what you think' of it at least. No
big money concern to go broke, just
. h _. ‘ __ our dues to keep the organization
 i “ to direct the a‘ffairs—LumamKlink,
f,- . ' Eaton county, Mich. .
i‘ ' ,'—It’s a great idea.“ I can see but
 I one objection to it. It won’t work.
' i 3 It would be a wonderful thing for
the farmer,-—+for the
your theory could be put into prac-
tice, for it would insu‘re continuous
. prosperity to agricultureTand to all.
' - But .there are several reasons why
 we don’t believe thescheme would
work. One of them is this: Nec-
essity is ,the ﬁrst law of nature.
There are'plenty of farmers ‘Who can
afford to hold their crops until they
want, to sell them—or until the con-
sumer is willing to pay the price
they want fer’them. But just think
oil-the hundr‘éds of thousands who
" can't wait, Think of the loans that

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1. amen the farmer’sipurse which ‘must
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that no goods could be sold at less

transportation .

might .

country,——if’

have to be'paid, the interest on mort-.

So then, I .

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tném‘iegether When. .7 ' '

 iihniediate-.wants.seemed more im- 7

portgnt than ultimate sin? An-
other reason ,why the sc eme would
probablyfail is because few farmers
can agree 0n the cost “of production.
The level atwhiCh the majority of
farmers can produce a crop at a prof-
it is too low for. many and too high
for others. While a set price would
automatically eliminate those whose
costs. are higher what will you do
with those whose costs are 'lower?
What possible inducement, can you
oﬁer a man to hold a crop for a set
price which he may never receive if

he can secure a proﬁt at a less price _

of which he is sure? Variations of
the ideal marketing plan of which
you and others have dreamed will

some day be seembut they will be.

accdm'plished by education and the
willing co-operation of the majority
instead, of by any-hard and fast
rules which may work a hardship
on many. We would like to hear
from other readers on this subject.
~Editor. *‘

LEVYING AGAINST PERSONAL.
\  PROPERTY
(Continued from page 6-)

to collect all taxes assessed on his
roll if possible, but if he neglects to
do so, where he can levy and collect,
he is liable to damages to any per-
son who might have a claim against
that particular piece of land, there-
fore - .

“Be it Resolved by the Board of
M-illbrook Township, Mecosta-Coun-
ty, Michigan, that we expect the
Treasurer to collect all the taxes
assessed on the roll for.1922 and
therefore we will hold him respons-
ible for all taxes Where he could
have levied on any personal'prop—
erty.. The cost of‘Vlevy and sale
coming from the property so at—
tached—M. J. Lambert, Chairman
of Millbrook Township Beard.

 

—-Yes, the law provides that in case—

of failure of a land-holder to pay
his taxes within the prescribed time,
the treasurer may levy against his
personal property. The tax problem
has reaches serious proportions.
Farmers must have relief and soon.
The Covert Road law is blamed for
about 90 per cent of the high taxes
and there is a concerted movement
afoot to bring about its repeal at the
next session of the legislature. The
State Highway Commissioner is op-

posed _to its repeal, and he exerts a"

powerful inﬂuence in legislation on
road affairs. However, he has an-
nounced himself in favor ofamending
the law to reduce the burden on
property owners Who are assessed
for beneﬁts, and it is probable that
steps will be taken at the next ses-
.sion to bring farmersvrelief. Like-
wise additional sources of revenue
will be sought and likely secured
for ﬁnancing the construction and
maintenance of trunk line roads
As you say, the beneﬁt of trunk
line roads to farmers is questionable,
.and legislation Will be introduced to
make the automobile pay a much
larger share of the cost of these
roads than it is now doing. Editor.

IS ELIGBLE FOR WTDOW’S
PENSION

I am writing you in regard to the
widow’s pension. I am not a‘widow,
but the father has deserted the child-
ren and I am not well enough to
work out much, and have to depend
on other people and what washing
I can get to do. I have two girls.
One is 14 years and the other 6. The
oldest is not strong. and has to be
in school. She is only in the sixth
grade. The little girl needs doctor’s
care now on account of kidney
trouble but_I am not able to hire a
doctor No ones knows where their
father is. Will you please let me
know if I am eligible to a pension
and if so who would be the proper
authorities to apply to?——-—Mrs. C. W.
Wexford County, Mich. -

 

 the facts given’ I am of the

opinion that you are entitled to the
so—called “widow’s pension.” Go to
the Judge of Probate at Cadillac,

your county seat, and, relate thefacts’ ,

to him. If you can convince him
that tyou come .Within the act men-
tioned "he is authorized to grant you

-a pension of not exceeding $2 a week '
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. : bush, his mind was in a strange daze.

 reference to the things that had
 been said since Joanne’s arrival. For
the first time in years John Aldous
completely forgot his work. He was

’ (inspiring    '5?
his head " bowed a , little,

 I John Aldous stood before her

after these words. A slight

‘ noise Outside gave him the pretext

to turn to the door. She was going

.. to—Tete Jaune—to‘find her husband!

He had not expected that. For a
breath, as he looked toward the

A dozen times she had givenhim‘to

'uuderstand there was no husband,

father, or brother waiting for her at
the rail—end. She told him that she

was alone—without friends. And

‘now, like a confession, those words

had come strangely from his lips.“
What he had heard was one of
Otto’s pack-horses coming down to
drink. He turned toward her again.
Joanne stood with her back still
to the table. She had slipped a hand

into the front of her dress and had

drawn forth a long thick envelope.
As she opened it, A1d0us saw that it
contained banknotes. From among
these she picked out a bit of paper
and offered it to him. '

“That will explain-partly,”
said.

she

It had apparently been cut from an
English paper, told briefly of the

tragic death of Mortimer FitzHughL

son of a prominent Devonshire fam-
ily, who had lost his life while on a
hunting trip in the British Columbia
Wilds.

“He was my husband,” said
Joanne, as Aldous ﬁnished. “Until
six months ago I had no reason to
believe that the statement in the
paper was not true. Then—an ac-
quaintance came out here hunting.
He returned with a strange story. He
declared that he had seen Mr. Fitz—
Hugh alive. Now you know why I
am here. I \had not meant to tell
you. It placesme in 'a light which
I do not think I can explain away-—
just now. I have come to prove or
disprove his death. If he is alive—"

For theﬁrst time she betrayed the
struggle she was making against
some powerful emotion which she
was [ﬁghting to repress. Her face
had paled. She stopped herself with
a quick breath. as if knowing that
she had already gone too far.

“I guess I understand," said
Aldous. “For some reason your
anxiety is not that you ﬁnd"him dead,
Ladygray, but that you may ﬁnd him
alive."-

“Yes———yes, that is it. But you
must not urge me farther. It is a
terrible thing to say. You will think
I am. not a woman, but a ﬁend. And
I am your guest. You have invited
me to supper. And—the potatoes
are ready, and there is no ﬁre!”

She had forced a smile back to her
lips. John Aldous whirled toward
the door. ‘ .

"I will have the partridges in two
seconds!” he cried. “I dropped them
when the horses went through the
rapids."

’ The oppressive and crushing effect

of Joanne’s ﬁrst mention of a hus~~

band was ‘gone. He made no effort
to explain or analyze the two sudden
changes that swept over him. He

" accepted them as facts, and that was

all. Where a few moments before

.there had been the leadenrgrip of

something that seemed to be phys—

uically choking him, there was new

again 'the strange buoyancy with
which he had gone to the Otto tent.
He began to whistle as he went to
theriver’s edge. He was whistling
when he returned, the two birds in
his hand. Joanne was waiting for
him in the door Again her face Was
a faintly tinted vision of tranquil
lovliness her eves were‘again like
the wonderful blue pools over the
sunft mountains. She smiled as he.
came up. He was amazed—not that
she had recovered so completely
from the emotional excitement that
had racked her, but because she be-
trayed in no way a sign of grief—of
suspense or of anxiety. A few min—
utes ago he had heard her singing.
He could almost believe that her lips
might break into song again as she
stood there .

From that moment until the sun
sank behind 'the mountains and gray
shadows began to creep in where the
light had been, there was no other

lestin‘Joaune , With the tremendous
reaction that was working out in him

 

'ful to him with each breath that he

It was a newspaper clipping, worn:
and faded, with a date two years old. -

‘ing a human face except that of my

 



By James Oliver’C-uru’wd 

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Michigan’s  and America’s Formost Author of‘the Great Northwest \~- I

 

 

~ SYNOPSIS ,

OéNIJE GRAY is one of the passengers on the train that connects “The
or c" with the civilised world. For eighteen hours she h v ldi

steadily bound for Tete Joune Cache. the home of "The Hordg”?::ll:e:e sill:
has no friends and all will be strange to her. The train stops at a town
composed of several tents and learning; that the train will not leave for two
hours she goes in search of food and a bath. She is directed to “Bill‘s Shack"
and it is here where she --meets Bill Quade, who not only owns and operates
“Bill’s Shack" but is also lead of the lawless men of,the town. “Quads says
he has a room she can rent an that he. will show it to her. As they nails
of the room a newcomer enters the doorway lending oﬂ the street. The new-
comer is John Aldous, a well known novelist. He sees the strange girl enter
the place and believes she has made a mistake and as he stands in the door-
Way his eye; rest upon the curtalned doorway through which the girl and
Quade have passed. In but 3 Insomnia the girlmteps out her face timing and
eyes ﬂashing. Quads follows her apologetically. He starts to offer the girl
some money but before he can do so Aldous stepsto the girls side and ﬂoors:
Quado with a; terriﬁc blow. Aldous hurries/ the girl away from the scene to
the home of friends. He then “1‘1 "10 [III to be his guest at supper in his

cabin. She accepts.

“Yes,:’ she nodded, clasping and
unclaspmg her slim white hands.
drew. He made no eﬂort to control , For years and years, perhaps even
the change that was Sweeping more than you, John Aldous.” "I
through him. His one effort was to Was born in it. And it was my life
keep it from being too apparent to (tier a long time—until my father
her. ‘ k stlfggglinsghetopauslfg’ anti he slaw her

. we in which Joanne had ta - 5“ “6 A 9 q“ vermg
enTllliies myritation was as ,denghtfu} throb In her throat. “We were in:

she became more and more wonder-

_ separable " she went on 11
as it was new to him. She had be be , ’ , er voice
hostess. With 0.011113% Baddenly strange and
come both guest and quiet. He was father, mother—

her lovely arms bared halfway to
the shoulders she rolled out a batch
of biscuits. “Hot biscuits go so well
with marmalade,” she told him. He
built a ﬁre. Beyond that, and bring—

everything to me. It was too won-
derfu-l. Together we hunted out
the mysteries and the strange things
in the out-of-the-way places of the

' _ earth. It was his passion H h d

ing in the water, she gave hlm to un' ' ‘ ' ' . e a
. given birth to it in me I l-
t s were at an . . ‘ was a

derstand that his all 19 ways With him, everywhere. And

end, and that he could smoke .while
she prepared the supper. With the
beginning of dusk he closed the
cabin door that he might have an ex-
cuse for lighting the big hanging
lamp a little earlier. He had im-
agined how its warm glow would
ﬂood down upon the thick soft coils
of her shining hair. '
Every ﬁbre in him throbbed with
a keen and expuisite satisfaction as
he sat down opposite her. During
the meal he looked into the quiet,
velvety blue of her eyes a hundred
times. He found it a delightful
sensation to talk to her and look
into those eyes at the same time.
He told her more about himself than
he had ever‘told another soul. It
was she who spoke ﬁrst of the manu-
script upon which he was working. calmness ﬁlled her 6 es.
He had SDOken 0f. certain adven- “Our trials have stringely crossed
tures that had led ’up to the writing Lady Joanne," he said_ “They have,
ofﬂone of his books. been crbssing—‘for years. While
.And this last last bo‘ok You are Sir Daniel was at Murja, on the eve
ertlng, Wh‘l‘ch you Gall ‘MotheI‘S,’ " of his great discovery“, I was at St
she said. Is it to be like ‘Fail‘ Louis on the Sengal coast. I slept

Play?”’ in that littl C 1'
“It was to have been the last of e ape verde howl" m

the triology. But it won’t be now,
Ladygray. I’ve changed my mind."
“But It is SO nearly ﬁDiShed, 011 before me, and I found a broken
say. ’ ountain en in th (1
“I would have completed it he}. tegkwood desk?w€writ(hf ‘11::
carved serpent’s head. And I was

then he died, soon after his dis/Cov-
ery of that wonderful buried city of
Mindano, in the heart of Africa.
Perhaps you have read " ,
“Good God,” breathed Aldous, so
low that his voice did not rise above
a whisper. “,Joanne— Ladygray
~—you are not speaking of Daniel
Gray—~Sir Daniel Gray, the Egpyt-
ologist,~the antiquarian who uncov-
ered the secrets of an ancient and

 

of darkest Africa?”

(‘Yes.,'

She bowed her head.

Like one in a dream John Aldous
rose from his chair and went to her.
He seized‘her hands and drew her
up so that they stood face to face.
Again that strange and beautiful

ing the sea. The proprietor told

week. I was rushing it to an end
at fever heat when—you came."

He saw the troubled leok in her
eyes, and hastened to add:

“Lets us no talk about that manu-
script, Ladygray. Seme day I will
let you read it. ,At ﬁrst I was un-
reasonably disturbed because I
thought that I must ﬁnish it within

for the interion of Ceylon when
I'learned that I was travelling again
one of Sir Daniel’s trails. And you
werevwith him!”

“Always,” said Joanne.

For a few moments they looked

a week from to-day. I start out on Steidly into eaCh Others eyes“
a new adventure then—a strange Swlfuy’ strangely' :the World was
brldging itself for them. Their

adventure, into the North.”

“That means—the wild country?"
she asked. “Up there in the North
——there are no people?" '

“An occasional Indian, perhaps a
prospector now and then,” he said.
“Last year I travelled a hundred
and twenty—seven days without see-

minds swept back swiftly as the ﬁre
in a thunder sky. They were no
longer friends of a day.
of Aldous' hand tightened. A hun-
dred things sprang to his lips. Be-
fore he could speak, he saw a sud-
den, s’tartled change leap into Jo-
'anne’s face. She had turned her
face a little, so that she was looking
toward the window. A frightened
cry broke from her lips. Aldous

Cree companion.”
She had leaned a little over the

table, and was lookin at him in-
tently, her eyes shin-in: ‘ I whirled about. There was nothing

.. there. He looked at Joanne again.

.That is why I have understood
you, and read. between the printed She was white and trembling. Her
lines in your. books,” She sad-d. If hands were clutched. at her breast.
I had been a man, I would have been Her eyes' big and dark and Staring'
a great deal like you. I love those W959 Stm ﬁxe?,,°n the Window‘ u.
things—lonliness, emptiness, the That man' She. panted‘ His
great spaces where you hear only face wastherwagalnst the glass—
the whisperings of the‘winds and likf a defilns'
the fall of no other feet but your ,-,,Qua(,i,°s"‘ _
own._ Oh, I should have been a man! Yes'  ,
It was born in me. And I loved She caught his arm as he sprang
it—Ioved it." ’ v ‘ ~ _ toward the door. .
A poignant grief had shot into “Stop!” she cried. “Youmustn't
her eyes. Her voice broke almost go o.ut—-—-” . '
in a.sob. Amazed, he locked at her For a moment he turned at the
in 81161109 QCPOSS the table; door. We was as she had seen him

“You have lived that life, Lady-
gray?" he said after. a moment.
“You have seen/it‘llI ; ,x. 

  

. were gray; 831-11198. steei.f‘\ at».

. (had, Ladygray,   '

    

wonderful civilization in the heart'

the low whitewashed room overlook- '

me that Sir Daniel, had occupied it'

at Gampola another time, headed'

The grip!

  

in Quade’s place, terriblyrcoolya .
strange smile'on his, lips”, . ,yis eyes -
* a.

m 111' .  
to be‘insultedl”; j ; j ‘ .  '2,
- As he wentl'out she «when 
something [from his pocket. .. 

caught a <gl‘ittergof it in the‘la'mj” _

glow.

«. It was in the blood of John Aldous .
He .ran with. the.»
quickness of'a harearound the. end ‘3

I to kill -,Quade.

of the cabin; past the ~V'itindow, 
then stopped to listen, his automatic.

in his hand, his eya.'piercing the

gloom for some moving'shadow. He ‘ "
had not counted on an instant’s hesi- -

tation. «He would shoot Quade, for
he knew why the mottled beast had
been at the windowt Steven’s boy
had’ been right. Quade was after
Joanne. His ugly soul was disrupted

with a desire to possess her, and Al- ”

dous knew that when rous’ed by pas,-

sion he was more like a devil-fish"

than a. man—a creeping, slimy, and
night-seeking creature who had not
only the power —- of the underworld
back of him, but wealth as well. He
did not think of him as a man as

he stood listening, but as a beast. 

He was ready to shoot. But he saw
hothing. ’
could have been made by a stumb-

ling foot or a moving body. An‘hour

later, the moon would have been up, .

'but it was dark now except for the

stars. He heard the hoot of an owl
a hundred yards away. Out" .the
river something splashed. om

the timber beyond Buﬂalo Prairie
came the yapping of a coyote. For

He heard no sound that‘

ﬁve minutes he stood as silent as.

one of the rocks behind him. He
realized that to go on'——to seek
blindly for Quade, in the darkness,
would be folly. He went back, tap-
ped at the door, and're:entered the
cabin when Joanne threw back the
lock.

She was still pale. Her eyes were
bright. , -
,“I was coming—in a moment,”
she said.
that—4"

"—he, had strucx me down in

the dark?” added Aldous, as she
hesitated. “Well, he would like to
,do just that, J‘oanne.”
ly her name had sxipped from him.
It, seemed the mest natural thing in
the world for him to call her Joanne
now. “Is it necessary for me to
tell you what this man Quade is—-
why he was looking through the
window?”. . s ‘1'

She shuddered.

“No—no—I understand!”

“Only partly,” continued Aldous,
hisrace white and set. “It is nec-
essary that you should know more
than you have guessed, for your
own protection. If you were like
most other women I wouldn’t tell you

the truth, but would try to shield'

you from it. As it is you should
know. There is only‘one other man
in the Rocky Mountains more dang;
erous that Bill Quade. He is Culver
Rann, up at Tete Jaune. They are
partners—apartners in crime, in sin,
in everything that rs bad and that
brings them gold. Their influence
among the rougher.elements a 113
the line of rail is complete. ey
are so strongly entrenched that they
have put contractors out of business
because they would not submit to
blackmail. The few harmless police
we have following the steel have
been unable to touch them. They
have cleaned up hundreds of thous-
ands, chiefly in ‘ three things——
\bladk'mail, whisky, and women.
Quade is the viler of. the two. He
is like a horrible beast. Culver
Rann makes me think of a sleek and
shining serpent. But it is this man
Quade—" ‘

He found it almost impossible to
go on with Joanne’s blue eyes gas-
ing so steadily into his. 1

—--“whom We have made our on-
emy,” she ﬁnished for .him.

“Yes—and more than that,” he{
said, partly turning his head away.)

“I was beginning to fear,

“You. cannot go to Tete Jaune alone, ‘

Joanne. You must
alone. ‘,,_ If yOu do——-

“What will happenf'.'f .

“I ‘don’t know. Perhaps nothing I
would happen. ‘But you cannot go 
I am going to take‘xr‘you' back.

alone.
to Mrs. Otto now. .AnthOm
shaligo onito Te ‘

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é'g‘Ia'nceH r‘uefully at the
 "‘1 am "ashamed to leave the dishes
 that mess,”_‘she said. ‘ ~ '
1',Q.He laughed, and tucked her hand

 ,ﬁnder'his arm as they went through
the door.

When they had passed
“through the little clearing, and the

 "darkness of the. spruce and balsam ,

sans shut them in, he took her hand.
" “It is dark and you may stumble,"

’_ he apologized. “This isn’t much like,
 the shell plaza in front of the Cape
,Verde, is it?" - ‘

i.“No. Did you pick up any of the

little red bloodshells? I did, and
they made me shiver. There were
strange "stories associated with
them.” . '

He knew ,that she was staring
'ahead into the blank wall of gloom
as she spoke, and that it was not
'thoughtof the bloodshells, but of
Quade, that made her ﬁngers close
more tightly about his own. His
right hand was gripping the butt of
Every nerve in him

tect nothing of Caution or prepar—
_edness in-his careless voice.

“The bloodstones didn’t trouble
me," he answered. “I can’t re-
member anything that upsets me
‘more than the snakes. I am a ter-
rible coward when it comes to any-
thing that crawls without feet. I
will run from a snake no longer
than your little ﬁnger—In fact, I’m
just as scared of a little grass snake
as I am of a python. It’s the thing,
and not the size, that horriﬁes me.
Once I jumped out of a boat into
ten’ feet of water because my com-
panions caught an eel on his line,
and perssted in theiargument that
it was a ﬁsh. Thank Heaven we
don't have snakes up here. I’ve seen
only three of four in all my experi-
ence in the Northland."‘.

“She, laughed softly in spite of
the uneasy thrill the night held for
» her. .
“It is hard for me to imagine you .
being afraid,’ she aid. “And yet
if you are afraid I know it would
be of just some little'thing like that.
My father" was one of the bravest men
/in the world, and a hundred times
I have seen him show horror at
sight of a spider. If you were afraid

 

 

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NEW YORK FUR SALES

 

UANTITIES of some of the
staple fur oﬂered at the auction

held in New York last week in
in September was as follows: Musk-
rat, 260,000; wolf, 10,750: otter,
4,150; skunk, 98,000; badger, 8,-
i250;~zcross fox, 340; silver fox, 348;

red fox, 21,550: gray fox, 9,700;
lynx. 7,700; beaver, 10,900; opos-
sum, 167,000; mink, 55,000; civet
neat, 12,500; wild cat, 21,000; rac-
coon, 31,000. V

Results compared with April,

when lastprevious sale was held=
were as follow :

Wolf, northern, 20 per cent
higher; wolf, southern, 10 per cent
higher; marten, 20 per cent higher;
muskrat, northern, 10 per cent high-
er; muskrat, southern 35 per cent
higher; ermine,. (weasel) 25 per cent
higher; mole, 25 per cent higher;
wolverine, no change; ifisher, 10 per
cent higher; bear, black 15 per cent
higher,. otter, no change;. beaver, 5

r cent higher; skunk, 20 per cent

her; red fox, no change; gray
fox no change; cross fox, .10 per
cent higher; silver fox, best 1,4. and
IA, 15 per cent higher; silver fox,
black silvery and low, no change;
house cat, 25 per cent higher; oops-
25 per cent higher; badger,
10 per cent higher; lynx, no change.

Present prices being paid for raw
furs are, high in comparison with
hides, wool ‘and many other farm,

-products indicating much hunting

and trapping when the season opens

 

MICHIGAN FUR LAWS
open season on otter, mink,

 ﬁsher, marten, raccoon, skunk,

and muskrat is November 1 to
Bear, wolf, c‘oyote, fox,
has spur wildcat arenot protected

' my ear. preparing 1 to so: a'vdti'sniires,

FUR DEPARTMENT

Edited by A. B.\ HARDING, America's Foremost Author and Trapper

but hides must be properly cared for
and tur ed over to the director at
expirati n of permit.
trap on State game preserve 'or to
trap beaver, badger or muskrat, in
and within 2 miles of any city pub-
lic park containing over 200 acres,

woodland. . /
Unlawful to use spears, explosives,
chemicals, mechanical devices, or

Smokers to drive animals from their
holes or homes; to destroy, disturb,

muskrat houses or holes;
muskrat except with a .22 caliber
riﬂe, or not to set a trap within 6
feet of a muskrat house or hole.

dent, $10.00; issued by county clerk.
A hunting icense also permits the
holder to trap fur animals, except
beaver.
years of age may hunt or trap dur-
ing open season on the incfosed lands
of their parents upon which they
live, without a license.
hunt or trap on other lands issued
to ngtiliors over 12 years and under
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guardian, but such licensed minors.
while hunting or trapping must be
accompanied by parent or guardian.
Aliens prohibited from hunting or
taking any wild animals in state.

of fur, animals killed in closed sea-
son prohibited.
skins legally taken, possessed, or
tagged.

in raising fur animals, price $5.00.-
Live animals -and skins raised in
captivity must be tagged (fee 5 cents
for each’tag.) ' ‘ ' "

   

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,  . 'why'di‘diroii‘i so uiiﬁtho
G‘s-mock, in Ge $911,212»;   -

“I: didn’t kn‘w the snakes were
theref“ 1 he chuckled: “If hadn’t
dreamed there :were ahalf so many
snakesin the whole world as there
were along' that confounded river.
I slept sitting up, dressed in rub-
ber wading ,boots that come to my
waste, and wore thick leather
gloves. ' I got out of the country at
the earliest .possible moment.”

When they enterend the edge of
the Miette clearing and saw the glow
of lights ahead or them, Aldous
caught the sudden upturn of his
co-mpanion's face, laughing at' him
in- the, starlight. »

“Kind' '1 thoughtful John Aldous!"
she whispered as if to herself. “How
nice of you it was to talk of such
pleasant things whne we were com-
ing through that black dreadful
swamp—.with a Bill Quade waiting
for us on the side!"

A low ripple of laughter broke
fnom her lips, and he stopped dead
in his tracks, forgetting to put the
automatic back in his pocket. v At
sight of it the amusement died in
her face. She caught his arm, and
one of her hands siezed the cold steel
of the pistol. _

“Would he—dare?" she deman-
ed.

“You can’t tell,” replied Aldous,
putting the gun in his pocket. “And
that was a creepy sort of conver-
satio‘ii to lead you down with, was-
n’t it, Ladygray? I imagine you’ll

catch me in all sorts of blunders like .

that." He pointed ahead. “There’s
Mrs. Otto now. She's looking this
way and wondering with all her big
heart if you ought not to be at
home and “in bed." .

The door of the Otto home was
wide open, and silhouetted in the
flood of light was the good-natured
Scotch-woman. Aldous gave the
whistling signal which! she and her
menfolk always recognized, and hur-
rie d on with Joanne.

Before they had quite reached the
tent-house, Joanne put a detaining
hand on his arm.

“I don’t want you to go back to
the cabin tonight," she said. “The
face at the window—was terrible.
I am afraid. I don't want 'you to
be there alone.”

(To be continued.)

 

 

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except beaver, may be destroyed
under permit from director, on one’s
own premises to protect property,

Unlawful to

of which 150 acres or more are

skunk, _ or
to shoot

or molest amy beaver,

Resident license, $1.00; non-resi—

Minor children under 17

License to

application of parents or

Possession of the carcass or skin

No restriction on

Annual license required tmengage

Bounties are_paid on woodchuck

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" The Farm Paper of Service ”

That Soil Survey
’ I ‘E'IERE is in progress today in Charlevoix

 

In fact; it is’. that the. _ .,  be
carriei- topsu‘chf; " as to provide-a‘job
for everyone at‘ state expense; ‘ ' - *

Returning to the Serious as A 1
survey a it may have ,s‘onie'yi no, but, in...the
main it appears impractical, and altogether
too costly: for the limited  to be de-
rived. The desire of the state to protect pros-
pectivebuycrs of farm lands  being swin-
dled is a worthy object, but can be attained
without any such elaborate survey as luncheon
undertaken. ‘ . "

There is no need- for the purchaser of any
lands in Michigan to be deceived as to what he
is getting. The‘ ordinary intelligent man can
tell by a visit to the locality at the season of
the year When vegetation is in bloom whether
the ‘land is good for anything. If he buys
without seeing the land or when it is covered
with a blanket of snow he has» no one but him-

self to blame if he is swindlcd.
IF we think we have a hard time of it with
coal and _ rail strikes and low prices on
our commodities, think of poor . Europe.
Dr. Gray of the Department of Agriculture,
who has recently returned\from there, tells
some harrowing tales of the misfortunes of the
people and the unpromising Winter before
them. Austria, he says, will scarcely survive
the beginnings of cold weather and Germany

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Consider ' Poor Europe

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this power the submigniion of  to} l,
is virtually compulsory wh‘enthe stated
» ment cf-agriculture so rules. . ' -. 

. nu W,.farméfis-the  '
er inithe world. ‘ He wastes his
"constant ’ cropping- I and “unscientiﬁc  ”
ods of farming he dissipates its fertility- He

wastes labor. ' ‘ '

’ “Of every 100 bushels 'of born that farmers 1
set out to grow”, says the Department of Ag-
.culture, ‘fonly 64/ bushels are ‘ r ' '
\Vere itrnot for  elements that. tend to ‘re-
duce the size of the crop the average for the 134,-
year 'pcriod would have been about 4,374,13;
000,000 bushels instead of 2,805;000,009.:f '

What are these ele. Unts'? Weathch condi- 
tionsx defective seed, p ant diseases,  (tee ;.

ﬁv’astations by insect and, animal pests. ‘AJl ~ ,
of these elements, excepting the Weather, are p 1
And even the" weather man can  ,
often. be outdone by judicious planting and  '

controllable.

cultivating. .. e _ _ -.
The same crops which were raised this year .1
could have been raised from two—thirds of the '
acreage. The other third represents gigantic,
and" in a measure ineXcusable, waste.

county a survey of soils which is about faces the certainty'that if her process of cur- this waste of effort and money that keeps so 

the
with private rights.
started in that county on June 17th to examine
the soil and report to the state the best pur-
pposes for Which they THINK it is adapted.
These ﬁndings will be published under the of-
ficial seal of the state and will be‘ the final
authority on the character and availibility of
those lands.

- Providing the theorists who "are responsible
for the survey do not meet with too much op-
position they intend to carry it into every
county of Michigan, and will not rest until a
description of every section of land is tabu-
lated and filed.

In the future a man who desires to buy either
imprOVcd or unimproved land in Michigan
will not have to go to the bother of looking at
the land. He will simply send to Lansing and

‘ sooner or later will receive a history of the
identical piece of land he is interested in.
And if the information says the land is no good

for agricultural purposes, of course he will not

buy and the farmer who has been raising good
crops on the land for twenty or thirty years
will lose his sale.

If the idea is a good one, why stop with
farm lands? Why not extend it to the com—
modities we buy, to the farmers’ live stock,
to the business locations in every city, and ev—
en to human beings? .

Think of the people who haVe bought spav-
ined horses and cows with crippled udders.
The state ought to put a stop to it. Let all
live stock be examined for flaws, numbered
and registered with the state. Then when

John Jones wants to buy a cow of Sam Smith!

all he does is to'write to Lansing and gets a
report on cow No. 1,234,567. The report says
the cow has a scar two inches long on 'the
inside of her left hind leg. And so Jones is
saved from being swindled.

And think of the unsuspecting swains who
marry maids with glass eyes. and bow—legs.
It’s an outrage. Let the state step in. Then
when the love—lorn youth desires the hand of
w a young women he writes to Lansing for a re-
port on her markings and pedigree, Horrors!
“No. 7,654,321 has web fcctand a mole on
right knee. Great, great granduncle once
arrested for stealing a pig.” "

There are other advantages to the scheme

which are quite too numerous to mention, and.

' most splendid of all the “cost. isn’t much.”
The “experts” up in Charlevoix county have
figured out that a soil survey of all Michigan
will not cost to exceed 10 cents per acre or

' $3,681,900 for the entire state. And the cost

ought . be

i, of registering animals. and people

dent

last word in government interference
A corps of *“experts”

 ducer of tuberculosis-free cattle.

rency inﬂation is continued she will soon be-

a recognized bankrupt. a
Nearly all hotter countries are equally as un-
fortunately situated. Many crops are a drug
on the market, due either to vast over-produc-
tion or inability of the people to buy. In
England and Scotland potato prices are too
low to even. pay the expense of shipment to

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market. ' .

_-- Whatever may happen in Ainerica her peo-

ple are reasonably sure of enough to’ eat and
to Wear and to keep the hearthstones warm.
Our greatest national disturbances do not
at the worst more thaﬁ inconvenience our peo-
ple. We make a great ado about them, but
afterall they do not amount to much, and seem

'so trivial beside the disasters which have vis—-

ited our neighbors across” the seas.
Misery is always fond of company, and no
matter how discouraging our own outlook
' may become, We' can always get a crumb of
comfort from the sadder plight of the people
of Europe. . .

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T. _B. Eradication

C OUNTY after county is appropriating
funds to aid the state and national de-
partments of agriculture eradicate
bovine tuberculosis in this state. In some re-
spects Michigan is far ahead of the other states
in this work, and thconly drawback now is lack
of funds. Were sufficient funds available or
insight Michigan could be completely rid of
bovinetuberculosis Within the next five years,
thereby putting her in the front rank as a pro-
That would
mean a great deal to the Michigan dairy and
- livestock industry. Up until the past few
months testing of cattle for tuberculosis was
not compulsory except that various city ordi-
nances have made it a condition of the sale of
milk within their confines. Last summer, how-
'ever, the attorney generalof Michigan ven-
dered an opinion making the testing compul-

to

sory. The opinion was predicted on the as:

sumption that all ‘cattlc must be suspected of
being tuberculous until a test had proven them
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many farmers only two jumps ahead of a moth: . 
gage Voreclosure and.,causes such hardship in; 
years of poor crops or low prices. "

The Income Tax

N. November 7th the farmers of Michigan  
will be‘ giVen a weapon to strike away 

the bonds of oppressive taxation which ’ have 
.fettcrrxi them so long. - It will be an amend— 
ment to the state constitution instructing the -'
legislature to enact a tax on proﬁts .on net.
income. _ i  '.

Should the farmers vote for iti Yes. For H
two reasons. First, ,on the broad general "I
grounds of principle. The income tax is the-
only form of taxation which can never burden ‘
those who have to pay it. If the farmer’s L

crops are a’failurc and he has no net income, 

_ at the (Bid of the year, he pays no tax. ‘If the 
business man has a bad year and his losses‘ -
eat up his proﬁts he pays no tax.’ The present‘ ,,

system of taxing land is no respector of-one’S-r—v ,

ability to pay. The tax must be p‘aidjin bad} »
years as well as good. I (- L,
Second, for a purely selﬁsh reason, the
farmer should vote for the income tax. It
would lower his state taxes. The' farmer who ‘
now pays a federal income tax will probably
have to pay the. state income tax.
income is not large enough to bring him with; 
‘in the federal tax, he will probably not be
taxable under the state income tax. This
conclusion is mere conjecture as the amount
of the exemptions and the" size of the tax are i
left entirely to the legislature; It is supposed,
however, by the friends of the income tax
that the legislature will be guided by the. '
federal income tax in these respects. ‘

Pres. Friday of the n A. C. estimates that

a 4 per cent tax on net \income will raise V 

$20,000,000 in poor years and twice as much
in good years. In. that case a tax levy against
real and personal property for state purposes

can probably be entirely done away with,  4",;
the farmers will consult their last tax receipt . ‘

and compare their state tax with what they
would have" to pay at 4 percent on all net "

income above exemptions 'of $2,400 for married ~ 

men and $4.00 additional «for each child, they 
can soon tell whether it  be  ad-C
vantage tovote faiths  tax. We again; ‘

. assume.  of course, that the legislature: 

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ferred to . issue The ‘Michigan Business L 535101“: it"iukprwl‘f‘l‘lmg“   ‘ »

' When agriculture is. properly taught in 
rural school; nine‘outo: ten tar-mes- boys,

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I  "said ’boutwomens clothes.-

     
"  know that ev‘r’y once in a

‘7,» awhile, an' some times oftener,,.

t- .Iget a letter from Some of my
' . “attends—acme agree and some don’t
"7- ' an matter,- 12m "glad to get the, let,-
~ ' hr. Just the MavAn' just recently

 I got a'rniceix'little letter from a,read- «

: in of M. B. l'..a friend! hope, that
'  “kinda raised my hair an’ set me to
- 'thinkin' where I was at. _ ’
’ ' ' Now I'm not, givin’ the ladys
 only" the first name which

   seems to be\anile or somethin' like

that. Well, anyway, Lucile inti-s
mates that I‘m .pnrty nigh a degen—
erate an' unless I mend my ways
I’ll be down shovelin’ coal. in the

l”   next world an' I must change my-
" V" '- ms.- or go beggin’ in the life t0”

. come. , .

‘ Now my'dear Lucile, I know‘bet-
ter’n. you can tell me all my short
comin’s. ’I'know I’m bad—Shave as:
we  been bad. I ’mem er on
whzgg I purty nigh kicked the life
out of a cat 'canse he was eatin' up
chickens I’d spent weeks to hatch.
An' later on in life, when I won a

‘ . young man an' I thOught I was purty
cute, I kicked a hole in a mirror
jest 'cause it showed a villainous
face where my face or’t to be.

An' only jest in the lastyear or
two I’ve busted a teller'in the bee-
zer fer beatin’ up a little 'kid an'
then found. but afterwards that the
kid wuz his own.

Yes my dear Lucille, I am jest as
bad as you painted me—I wish I'
could be diff’mnt but you see I’m
old and habits seem to be strong
an' I may go on my crooked way——
mebbe to the end.  ,

Lucile you took me to task jest
'cause I said that clothes does not
make a woman. I, take from your
letter that you think clothes does
make the. woman. Alright then, I
don’t 'care to argue the question
with you but will say this much—
if’clothes makes the woman then
clothes must make the man an’ if I’m
nicely dressed I'm a man no matter
what I do or what I say..r~Now dear-
Lucile, I wear all my clothes long——
longer ’an most of the fellers wear
’em an’ yet you tell me I’m lackin’

‘ in ‘grace that I must be born ag’in
an’ a lot of things like that an’ yet
you know absolutely nothin’ about
me—_—you only guess that I’m bad
’cause I wrote a little article kinda
stickin’ up for women wearin’ short

-skirts. . -

I am glad Lucile that you’re livin'
the right life. There are‘hundreds of
thousands of women doin’ the same‘
thing an’ we' love ’em all. God
created women to be loved—he
never intended them to be censors
oftheir brother. I don’t jest re-
member whether I read this or if
some one told it to me, but any way
I think you’ll ﬁnd it in the book
yor speak of so often—“Judge not
lest ye be Judged!”

My dear Lucile, I sure enjoyed
your letter—you commenced about
women’s dress and ended with an
exoneration for me to give my heart
to God. Long years ago Lucile, I
gave my heart to a girl, she has had
it in her keeping since that time an’
it is not mine to give at the present
time. You commenced your letter
..in a, funny way—4.0 the "so called
Rube Spinach?’—Why the “so called”
Lucile? I’ve 'used the name for a
long time an' nobody has ever
claimed it from me so why ain’t it
mine? An' now my dear Lucile jest
read the good book you’ve quoted so
freely to me an’ ’specially that part
of it ’at speaks of charity-——you know
I in speakin' of the 3 graces «it sez the
greatest of these is charity. Charity
‘ does not mean givin' pennies to the
blind entirely, more 'an all it means
to overlook the short comin’s of our
neighbors—those with whom we
come in contact from day to day.
Yes Lucile I am bad an' I feel my
weakness but ‘I don’t believe that
‘God will condemn me for what I
Cordial-

' ly.-——UNCLE'RUBE. ‘ .

  'échmmiyas reported a: is
  in the neighbor—\

3° died- 313 bond? was
' :  an, and according w

‘goot thing about Hans; he- wasn’t
'aluaﬂ as mean as he was coine-

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were  .
  Gustave Schultse
"Well, .I can say joost one

-times.”

» BACK IN .1890
The world's most famous auto-

v m’obile manufacturer was working in _.

a bicycle shop. _
Ar millionaire hotel- owner was
hopping bells.
- America's steel king was staking
a blast furnace. '
\ -An lntemational banker was tir-
ing a locomotive.
A President of the United States
was running a printing press.
A great merchant was carrying a
pack on his back. ‘
A railroad president was pound-
ing a telegraph key. _
7 There’s always room at the top——

. where’ll you be in 1954T—Ad points.

ONE WAY TO GET YOUR PIC-
TURE PUBLISHED

A young school teacher had just
arrived at the home of a country
school director where she was to
board: The director desired to make
his importance knoWn.

“You probably seed my pitcher in
this here county’s paper, ain't you?"
he began.

“I believe I have," replied the
young- woman. “I think you were
among the political candidates, were
you not?”

“Naw; I been takin' Dr. Pain's
Cureall.”—Everybody's.

Hiram came out [of the general
store and deposited an suspicious
looking package» at the feet of his

» wife in the buggy.

“What's in that?” she asked with
some asperity.

“Never mind, it won't hurt you,-

replied Hiram. .

“Hiram, that’s a box of dyna-
mite,” said his wife, excitedly.

“Well, what if it is? It won’t
do any harm unleés it explodes."

“Hiram,” shrilled thé woman, “if
you think I’m going to ride six miles
in a buggy with ﬁfty pounds of dyna-
mite at my feet you’re a bigger fool
than I thought you were! You take
that stuff right out and put it in
the back part of the buggy under
the seat!”

IT CAN’T BE DONE
Cholly—Do you think it would

be foolish for me to marry a girl who

was my intellectual inferior?
Dolly—More than foolish—impos-
sible! '

GOVERNlifENT BULLETle OF
INTEREST IN NOVEMBER
HE following list of Farmers’
Bulletins and Circulars are of
general interest during Novem-

ber. Copies may be obtained free by

addressing the Division of Publica—
tions, United States Department Of

Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Speci—

fy number and name and whether

Farmers’ Bulletin or Department

Circular.

Farmers’ Bulletin 735, Handling.
Grading and Marketing Potatoes;
828, Farm Reservoirs; 847, Potato
Storage and Storage Houses; 882
Irrigation oi Orchards; 927, Farm
House Conveniences; 970, SW90
Potato Storage; 1096, Frost and tho
Preventon of Damage from It; 110"-
Cooperative Marketing, Woodland
Products; 1923, Laws Relating (0
Fur Animals, 1922.

Department Circular 64,7 How
Lumber is Graded; 148, The Farm
Woman’s Problem.

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basement barn, two wells of water and two wind‘
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of farm. Price $75 per acre; $6.00 of this is
(‘ovm'e«l_ by l‘arm Land bank loan pay ble $180
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and prmmpal the balance can be handed by pay-
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nil-{not basement barn. Owner unable to operate.
“H.013 takes all. only $1,000 needed. Details
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of. buildings, _fruit, timber. um) mile to Dine
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sugar 18 as gOOd a preservative for 4138 is cut in 7 inches bust measure. ‘ than usual. ‘ Let our pot simmer,

use in canning as cane sugar. Hav-
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it made -no difference but to satisfy
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44. 46 and 48 inches
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about .the matter  Will publish the 41:38 is out in 6 The man; at the it sour‘ Don't hesitate to put
followmg communication from‘ Mr. ~ Sizes 25.  219. dill 10%; tits 25‘ Yﬁggs-t smallest bit of stuff in it when you
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Agricultural College.

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to advise you that it makes no dif-
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or ca e. If your fruit is properly

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whether you have used cane sugar
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yards. To make a girdle and the facings
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require 1 1-4 yard 40 inches wide.
TWO separate patterns mailed to any
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pattern in silver or stamps.

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flour and milk; or chop. up some
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thirty minutes and slightly thicken.

cups of water cook four good-sized
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"a an’interest to this soup.

two chappedonions, a sprig of pars-
ley, one ,stalk‘of celery and a corrot.
Cook? one cup of barley to two quarts
at liquid. \ ,
‘ For tomato 'soup, use the juice
and the soft parts alt-"canned toma-
toes to be stewed. On a foundation
of apbone or two, an onion and a
bay-leaf, you can make a Vegetable
soup with one carrot, one celery
stalk, a little tomato left from din-
.her and a sprig of parsley.
Onions, cut and simmered in a

‘ stock for half an hour, can be thirk-
ened with flour and water or milk.
Or add to «the stock a small dish of
‘lefe-over peas, a few dried pu.'atoes,
mashed, a little baked macaroni,
mashed, and ashredded chop. This
makes a very good soup. '
shank from your roast lamb, simmer
it for an hour and then add a pound
of dried Lima beans soaked over-
night. Ceok all day, mashing the
beans through a colander when you
are almost ready for dinner.

HALLOWEEN PARTY

The rooms or rooms in which
most of the games are to be played
should be decorated as grotesquely
with Jack—o’-lanterns
made from apples,, cucumbers,
squash, pumpkins, etc., with inci-
sions made for eyes, nose and mouth
and a lighted candle placed within.

Jack-o’-1anterns for the gas jets
may be made of paste board boxes
about the size of a shoe box. Cut
holes in all four sides of the box
and cover the holes with red or
green tissue paper. A black box
_with the openings covered with red
tissue paper or vice verse or White
and green make good combinations.
. Cut a hole in the bottom of the
box just large enough to ﬁt over the
gas jet, turning the gas low enough
to not burn the box. .

In addition to this Jack—o’—1antern
made w from pumpkins, etc., should
’be placed around an tables, mantles,
corners, etc.

A skull and cross bones placed ov-
er the door entering the house would
be very appropriate. The hall should
be in total darkness except for the
light coming from the Jack-o’-
lanterns of all shapes and sizes in
various places. .

Autumn leaves, green branches,
apples, tomatoes and corn should
also play an important part in the
decorations. Black and yellow
cheese cloth or crepe paper makes
very effective and inexpensive dec-
orations. .

The dining-room should be deco-
rated wi_th autumn leaves, golden
rod, yellow ch'rysanthe‘mums, strings
of cranberries, etc. For a table
center piece a large pumpkin could
be used with the top out off and

’ partlyrﬁlled with water in which a

large bunch 'of yellow Chrysanthe-
mums or golden rod could be placed.
Bay. leaves can be scattered over the
table , '
Another idea for a center piece is
a large pumpkin Jack-o’—lantern, the
top out in large points with small
chocolate mice in the notches and
scampering‘down the sides of the
pumpkin (held in place by long pins
or a little glue) and over the table.
Place cards representing pu-m-p-
kins, black cats, Witches’ hats,
witches brownies, etc., are appro-

If one is not an artist in water
color painting, some of the cards
could be cut from colored bristol
board or heavy paper. The witches’
hats of black or brown paper with a
red ribbon band; the cats of black
paper showing a back view may have
a red or yellow ribbon necktie; the
pumpkins of yellow paper’w1th the
sections traced in~ink or notched a
trifle ‘and black thread drawn be-
tween the notches. ’

’Any of these designs could be
tised for an invitation for a childa
ren’s party, by writing on the re-
vesre side: “Will you please come
to my party on Wednesday, October
31st’." with the name and address of
the little host, or hostess, using white
ink on black paper. 1' .

The dining-room should be in tot-

- all darkness, except for the light give

~ on by the‘Japk-oﬁlanmrns,‘ until the

ed, when they shOuld
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for 3 months. Have-the throat-ex-
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while the guests are still seateda
splendid idea 'would be to. extinguish
all the lights and to have one or more
of "the party tell ghost stories.

Have a large pumpkin on a stand
or table from which hang as many
ribbons asthma are guests. Have
one end of the ribbon attached to a
small .card in the pumpkin on which
may be a little water color sketch
of pumpkin, apples, witch, ghost or
other appropriate design together
with corresponding number. Have
red ribbon for the girls and yellow
ribbon for the boys, with correspond-
ing'numbers. Let each guest draw

a ribbon from the pumpkin and ﬁnd-

their partner by number.

Another suggestion is to have the
hall totally dark with the door ajar
and no one in sight to welcome the
guests. As they step in they are
surprised by some one dressed as a
ghost w’ho extends his hand which
is covered with wet salt.

PERPLEXING‘ HUNT.
in this game the seeker for a

 

pri e is guided from place to place;

by doggerels as the following, and is

started on his hunt with this rhyme:

“Perhaps you’ll ﬁnd it in the air;

If not, look underneath yourvchair.”
Beneath his chair he ﬁnds the

following:

“No, you will not ﬁnd it here;

Search the clock and have no fear.”
Under the clock he ﬁnds:

“You will have to try once more;

Look behind the parlor door.”

Tied to the door-knob she discov-

ers: ’

‘.‘If it’s not out in the stable

Seek beneath the kitchen table.”
Under the kitchen table he ﬁnds

Ianother note, which reads:

“If your .quest 'remains uncertain,

You will ﬁnd it ’neath a curtain.”
And here his quest is rewarded

by ﬁnding the prize.

ACTING RHYMES

* For this game, half of the play-
ers go outside the door, whilst those
who stay in the room choose a word
of one” syllable, which should not
be too difﬁcult. For instance, sup-
pose the word chosen be “flat,”
those who are out of the room are
informed that a word has been
thought of that rhymes with “cat,”
and they have to act, without speak-
. ing,‘ all the words they can think of
that rhyme with ,“cat.” Supposing
their ﬁrst idea be “bat,” they come
into the room and play an imagin-
ary game of cricket. This not being
correct, they would be hissed for
their pains, and they must then
hurry outside again. They might
next try “rat,” most of them going
into the room on their hands and
feet, whilst the others might pre-
tend to be frightened. Again they
are hissed. At last the boys go in
and fall flat on thier faces, while
the girls pretend to use flat-irons
upon their backs. Tre loud clap-
ping that follows tells them they
—are right at last. They then change
places with the audience, who, in
turn, become the actors.

An asbestos mat may be used for
toasting bread.

[Grind your, coffee yourself for the
best results.

HEALTIOiR HINTS

HOW TO CURE YOURSELF
B

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TOOTH POWDER
Please tell me what to use to make
a good tooth‘ powder.

=——Cha1k percipitated, 2/ drams;
Orris root, powdered, 2 drams; '
white sugar,.4 drams; oil of gloves,
5 drops; oil of lemon, 8 drops. Mix
well in a mortor.

BOY COUCHS CONTINUALLY

What can be done for a boy two
year and seen months old that
coughs continually?

—You should have this child ex-
amined thoroughly. Cough does
not always mean T. B. but keep the
child out-of—doors as much as pos-
sible, give lots of good nourishing!
food and give the following: Oil of‘
Eucalyptus, 5 drams; Emulsion of
Petrollum, 8 ounces. Give one tear
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EAR Nieces'and Nephews: Last
isssue I told you a boyV‘was
leading ‘ in our, bird contest.

Well he continued to lead and when

the ﬁnal reading t00k place his lot-
ter was chosen as the ‘best and he

was declared winner of ‘the prize, a-

leatherette pencil case containing
four pencil, a penholder and point.
The name and address of the winner
is Harold Pernie, Ossineke, Mich.
The prize was mailed last week-and
undoubtedly by this time Harold is
putting( the pencils and pen t3 very
good use.

All seemed to be interested in
the bird contest and many showed
they knew more about their feather-
ed friends than I. thought they did,
so I am going to tell several things
about birds. Some of you may
know many 1of these interesting
facts but I’ll bet most of you do not.

Of course all of you know that
most of the birds are great destroy-
ers of injurious insects and that
hardly an agricultural pest escapes
them. But do you know that the
alfalfa weevil has 45 different bird
enemies? Or that the wireworm
is anxiously sought ,by 168 differ-
ent kinds of birds. Other bugs and
insects are constantly pestered by
the birds. 42 different birds are
enemies of the army worm; the
cinch bug is killed by 24 different
'birds; coldling moth by 36; cut-
worm,. 98; horseﬁies, 49; seven
year locust, 38; potato bug, 25; white
grubs, 67; clover-root borer, 85 and
clover weevil, 25.

You have heard and talked about
the robin and other birds going
south in the fall but did you ever
wonder how far they flew south?
The average robin migrates 3,000
miles southward, taking about 78
days for the trip. Another bird that
winters a long distance from Mich-

igan is the bobolink. He spends his

Winters in'southern Brazil.

Some birds are called half-mi-
grating, because, while they usually
spend their summers with us and
their winters in the south, some-
times they remain with us all win—
ter, especially in sections where
food is plentiful during the winter.
The robin can be mentioned in this
class. Also the bluebird, meadow-
lark, nuthatch, woodpecker, chicka-
dee, goldfinch and certain of the
sparrows. The average person may
not observe them but the bird lover
often discovers one of our feathered
friends who failed to take the annual
trip south. Keep your eyes open
this winter and see how many of
these birds you can ﬁnd. Where you
ﬁnd them scatter food because many
times it is very hard for them to
ﬁnd enough to eat during the winter
months when the ground is all cov-
ered with snow. They will repay
you when spring comes with their
pretty songs. Also they will pro-
tect our next winter’s supply of food
by killing the insects that attack
crops.

Although I am unable to publish
all the letters I received regarding
the bird contest I am printing parts
of some of the letters. Some wrote
such interesting letters about their
favorite birds that I feel space
should be spared for the publishin
of them.—UNCLE NED

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle Ned—Please may I
join your new contest. I think it is
a very good idea to learn about the
different. kinds of birds. '

I am interested in studying the
value and the uses of the bird. I

am writing a description of one of 

the Michigan birds which I like
very much, and am also sending a.
list of birds which I have often no-
ticed on my Way\to school and other
places around the school. Here are
the following birds that I have
noticed. ‘

Sparrow, crow, eagle, robin, snow-

bird, swallow, bluejay, whip-poor-
will, nightingale swallow, owl,
blackbird, honeybird, thrush, plg-.

 

eon, partrich, chickens, geese,
ducks, turkey, cuckoo, dove, bob—
white, canary,'parrot, meadow lark,
snipe, woodpecker, bob-o-link, pea-

cock, chickadee, kingﬁsher,.killdeer,' ‘
, wood cock, turtle dove, goldfinch,“-
' quail,_ﬂsea fowl, cherry‘picker, seas;

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gull, wre’n, water thruehurin‘g dove, -~
night hawk, -w‘iid ‘ geese, chicken
hawk, wild duck, ‘mournfng __dove,
yellombird, ‘ bluebird, red wing and
the birdhawk. V  ' V' -
The bird that I like “best of all
the birds is the sky,- la‘rk for he can
sing, so beautiful, and he is a pretty
color. His back is Thrown. edged.
with bronish white, and is streaked '
with black, brown and cream colors.
And he has a beautiful.black cres- “
cent upon big breast and dark brown
lines on his head. Lurks usually

,build their nests‘on the ground and

they make them from grass . only.
The eggs in the nest are beautiful
oval eggs they are about an inch
long and a beautiful rosy white col-
or, speckled with reddish brown
spots. Lurks eat many diﬁerent
worms and insects which is a great

~help to the farmers, that is why I

like the lark the best. For the good
of all, do not destroy the. birds--
Master Harold Pernie, Ossmeke,
Mich. ~ "

Dear Uncle Ned and Cousins—I
am sending a list of birds that. I
know. They are as follows:

Eagle, nightingale, snowbird, pea-
cock, meadow lark, canary, robin,
crow, haiw-k, doVe, condor, stork,
thrush, pigeon, pheobe, owl, king—
bird, bat, sparrow, kingﬁsher, black-
bird, ostrich, woodpecker, chicks-V-
dee, crane, quail, bluejay, swallow,
catbird, blue heron, green heron,
bluebird, hummingbird, wren,
groundbird, killdeer, mudhen, par-
rot, magpie bob-o-link, bittern‘,
snipe, graybird, mourning dove, yel-
lowbird , skungbird, highh-oldehi,
aimless robin, corwbird, whip—poor-
will, and the bird of paradise.

I like the bird of paradise best be-
cause it is the whim of the rainbow.
I think it is the prettiest bird there
is. I am thirteen now. I wish
some of the girls around my age
would write to me. Your niece.—
Eleanor D. L. Stovel, Hubbard Lake,
Mich. /

Dear Uncle Ned—Heie is a list
of the birds that I know of and a
description of tlm one I like best:

Robin, sparrow, hawk, crow, wren,
canary, bluebird, blackbird, bob—o-
link, whip-poor—will, killde‘er, brown
thrush, bat, mourning dove, bob-
White, bluej‘ay, sea-gull, and, wood—
pecker, oriole, -- Chickadee, catbird,
crane, stork, swallow, pigeon, mead-
ow lark, ring-neck pheasant, ground
bird, pheobe, parrot, hummingbird,
snipe, partridge, swan, sap-sucker,
snowbird, kingﬁsher.

The best bird that I like is the
rebin. It’s breast is a pretty red,
with a ‘pretty brown back. It is
about four inches long and about
two and one half inches high. After
the long winter the ﬁrst signs of
spring is the robin, and how happy
it makes everyone feel. You hear
the old and young say “The robins
are here.” I take some crumbs and
throw them on the porch and then
watch them come and eat their
breakfast. These make their nest in
the lilac bush beside our house. It
is made of lint, feathers, and hairs
and they lay from three to ﬁve light
blue eggs. I am your little niece——
Berl McKenzie, Emmett,’ Mich.

 

Dear Uncle Ned-He‘re are‘ the
names of the birds and the descrip-

tion of the ,one I like best: ‘ 

Thrush, catbird, mourning dove,
mudhen- canary," bluebird, ’quail,
partridge, pigeon, sparrow, swallow, ,
stork, whip-poor-will, dove,‘ king
bird, owl, hawk, ‘crow, cowblrd,
turkey, sand-piper, goose, duck,
hummingbird, .eagle,‘ wood~pecker,
robin, oriole, kingﬁsher, snowbird,
Chickadee, yellow-throated vireo,
meadow lark, killdees, brown thresh-
er, mockingbird, crane, bat, ground-
bird,‘ bob-o-link, golden—winged
warbler;"marsh hen, pheasant.

I like the robin the best of all of
them because every year one comes
andgbuilds its nest in our apple tree.

We always look for. it in the spring ‘ :-

to come back and sing a very sweet V
song, It lays pale blue eggs.~ It is

about 'ﬁve inches long. ‘.It, has a

nest. about three inches wide." . It”.
has three qr four main)“ nest.‘

 in the eighth  u amour-1.1m
" live on a  of eighty acres  

summer night You‘ can hear them

"rude: to the farmer.

, you throw out grain they will come

’plump and fat.
.I said they may have a ﬂock to stay

' color, with some white and black

,. lar’ to a nest, a kind of small low

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luck. in the pictiii’efpnzzle.‘—BM¢1‘Y’ 

Arena, R. 3,,Fowler,-\Mich.‘.   ‘ '

Dear Uncle-,~Ned-‘——~%’-I'he ,bird- I- like
the best is the qualh "This birdJs'a-ﬁ
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calling “Bob-white” for :some dis-
tance. I’m sure that if I were a
hunter I never would kill them.
They destroy insects that are one-- f .. L
'I' thinkthat‘
they ought to be called the “'Farm— '
ers’ Friends," Just newsthere is a
flock of them here in our yard,
They nested beside the driveWay in
front of the house this year..' one
day when papa was mowing hay be-
side ~the read he mowed right over
a nest‘ with eight eggs in it. It
frightened the little bird so that
she did not come back again, and I‘
have seen several places where they
had‘ nested. .I forgot to tell you
about there nest. Most of them are
in the most delightful place; you
ever saw. They are in the tall  
grass where it is warm and sung and i ~ ’ '
are made out of dead grass. 7 ‘
In the winter time they will
scamper across the yard and some
times eat with the chickens, and if

   
       
 
     
  

 
 

        
     
      
     
   
      
      
       
     
      
        
    
    

about eight
and are always very
If some. of the little
boys and girls try to tame them like;

and eat. They are
inches tall

at their home—Violet Hopkins.
Stockbridge, Mich.  ‘

Dear Uncle Ned—Jrhe Whip—poor;
will is my favorite bird. Perhaps
you will guess why I like this bird.
I love to hear his cry on summer
evenings; and he aI'so sings early in
the morning. He is of a brown

spots. He is about ten inches long,
and has long Wing's, he flys with
the same flapping motion as pigeons
or harw’ks do. He has a beak formed»
somewhat like a. hawk’s, very'
slightly bent. He has a. short neck" ,
end head something like a hawk’s. "
There is nothing very nice in the
color of his plumage, but his cry, in
the night when there are no other
sounds, how sweet it rings, echoing
among the hills and trees;

He feedson ﬂying insects, and is
a very harmless bird. He does not
build a, nest like other birds, he
selects a place on the ground simi-

place. Their eggs are a brownish
color, to 'match the earth and leaves
around them. I ' ‘
During the day whip-.poor-wills
retire to the darkest woods, until
the sun sinks behind the hills, and
“whip-poor-will, whip-
poor-will,” we can hear. Sometimes 
we see him at the top of our house, ‘ ,V 
semetimes he is on a tree, stump, ‘
or the ground, sitting in a steeping
position while sinngg. Whip~poor~
wills are related to the night-hawks.
Good-luck to Uncle Ned and
cousins, I remain—Miss Mi‘lda '
Baravyx, B. 2, Branch, Mich.

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Dear Uncle Ned—:1 am sending ‘  w . ‘ i
you a description of my favorite '~ ' 
bird. The pigeon is my favorite
bird. I have one caged unthat I
caught and tamed. The color of, .y '. i .
pigeons is: blue, dark blue, white, .. ~ 
red, blac and white, red and white, ‘ 1 V 
and blue and white. _'Mine is pink ‘. ' f' l! 
and white; They. eat corn, oats, 2 ~
Worms and ugs. Their. nests are V
made of hay and straw. Their eggs _ ,
are white. Your nephew—«Kent
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says Robert Anderson, a successful

give up, for novother practises will
After spray-

ing co'mes ., fertilizers. You must

i ‘ feed the trees if you want his crops.

A lot of orchards don’t

pay' because
they are half starved."  

“How about pruning?” was a

question put > to Mr.  Anderson.
‘_‘Isn’t that one of the most impor-
tant factors?"

"“_'I don’t want to minimise prun-
ins." was the answer, “but I tool
that it is often overdone in the ef—

fort to make up for the omission of

 practises. The success of prun-
ing is not measured by the amount
of wood yen remove, but the amount
you can properly leave. I can il-

lustrate this by the fraction, six over.

two, in which six represents the
» trees and branches, and two the pro-
ductive power of the soil. It’s no
use to have more wood than the soil
will support to produce the fruit, so
you take four away~ from six by
pruning, and have the fraction two
over two. But another way is to
'add four to the two below by fer-
tilizing, and then you have six over
six—more fruit because you have
the wood and the plantfood to make
aha fruit. That’s the system I prac-
so.

Mr. Anderson has a sixteen acre
peach orchard on which he .has ap-
plied 375 pounds of ammonium-sul-
fate and 400 pounds of acid phos-
phate or bone "meal per acre for the
last three years. Also in 1921 he
applied ~in addition 560 pounds of a
10—10 fertiliser per acre (10% phos-
phoric acid and 10% potash). Rye
is seeded each fall and plowed un-

- der ‘in the spring, by which system
the organic mutter in the soil ~is
increased; ' . ’

a We readiness-s 
‘ Pm mare CROP
(compiled from page 3)

{said for rather leave my machinery
out the your ground than my men-
ure. We don’t waste a bit of man-
ure here. Come down to the barn."
A visit'to the Parmalee barn is a
revelation in eﬁcient manure handl-
ing. Asectiomofthebarnnearlyas
laws as the stable is devoted to

presume storage Overhead tracks
conduct the litter carrier from the

, stable to all parts of the room. A

_ smooth concrete floor makes clean-
ing easy.

Back of the barn is a small yard

tor the cattle to exercise in—e—they
are never pastured. '
, "Doesn’t dock wary ﬁlthy, does
it?” Mr. Parmaiee inquired. “All
the cows have run in that, little lot
for thirteen years.”

it was as clean as a dooryard!

“We clean it every night same as
the stable.”"M‘r. Parmaiee explained.

Foolish? Perhaps, but remember
Cherry .Rin Farm is producing
money-making potato crops every
Year.

"I put on all the manure as a top
dressing while preparing the seed
bed.” Mr. Pumalee continued. “We
spread the ammo at the rate of
on tons per acre, and at the same
time put on acid phosphate with .a
fertilizer distributor set’ at 300
pounds pm- acre. That is disced in
lust before planting!”

Green manure, as everyone knows,

- isa crop, preferably s. legume. plow-
 umier in the interest of soil 1m?
movement. Possibly some manners
think it is tilth often talked about,
but never actually done They would

 

 1, know better after looking over Mr.

Parmales"s next year’s potato

around. 1 , . I
 "I don’t know just how to handle

  -  can" in. Parmalee admitted,
’  walked inte‘ a knee—deep ﬁeld

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and er sumo smoths

will turn under in fair shape in the

fall. want to 7, turn under a hay.

crop e ery year to ﬁt the land for
somerecord potato crops.” 1' can
easily raise the yield way above last
year’s.” ‘

The last, yet’ by no means the
least, of the soil amendments for
Cherry Ri‘ll Farm is lime. Mr. Par-
malEe Ely/Bi! it full credit for the
nearly perfect catch of clever and
alfalfa which. he is reasc Jany cer-
tain to get‘ every year. One and one-
half tons of ﬁnely ground limestone
am acre is applied at the time of
seeding doWn.

Once upon a time lime was not
used. on Cherry Rill Farm. The
completelfailure of a twenty acre
seeding of alfalfa was the bitter ex»
perience’ whichrtaught the lesson of
lime. ' It will never happen again.

Good drainage was the last straw

needed to break the "bucket the poor ‘

crops came! on the Parmelee farm.
After several years a! “spare. time”
spent in ditch digging, Mr. Parmalee
has realized his ambition of a farm
tiled throughout. i

While the soil is the prime factor
in the production of record potato
crops, methods are quite important.
Mr. ‘Parmalee still selects his seed
potatoes. From the petatoes thus
obained, he again picks the choicest
for b. seed plot,.and 'uses the rest
for the regular planti g. All seed
is treated in form hyde solution
for scab. '

Early Petosky potatoes, planted
17 inches apart in 34 inch rows pro-
duced in 1921 top—notch Michigan
potato crop.
wo eyes, was placed in a hill. The
ﬁeld was spike4toothed after planing,
gone over with the weeder just after
the spuds were up, and cultivated
four times later on. One day of
hand work kept the rows free of
weeds. The crop was sprayed eight
times during the summer With 5-5-
50 Bordeaux (5‘ pounds of lime and
5 of. copper sulphate to 50 gallons
of water.

True, it was consQerable bother,
but it paid. Two thousand bushels
of the crop “brought $1.53 a bushel
as centi. seed, and the rest were
sold arciw d‘ 90 cents. Big league
prices, you see, go along with big
league potato growing. .

A few other features of Cherry
Rill Farm are well worth mention-
ing. Probably they are not factors
in raising money—making potato
crops ,bwt then, maybe they are.
Labor troubles are almost unknown
at Cherry Hill, and there's a reason.
. “I p'ay all my hired help by'the
hour, have for eighteen years" Mr.
Pamalee explained. “All Sunday
work and overtime is paid f6r. I

keep two men the year around, and '

have extra help in the summer.
The men seldom leave, so there is
little trouble in getting labor.”
The farm is the home of the farm—
er and his"family, as well'as their
place of business. Electric lights
and running water make life worth
living on the Cherry R—iil Farm. The
neat house with wide lawns, nestling
behind gigantic maples, reminds you
of the country '-estate of some mil-
lionaire. A plentiful supply of farm
papers keeps Mr. Parmalee on the
latest wrinkles of the farming game,

. and he gleass many a hint from col-

lege extension men and the county

.agent, who are frequent» visitors.

 

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EAR Nieces and Nephews: Last
isssue I told you a boywas
leading ‘ in our» bird contest.

Well he continued to lead and when
the ﬁnal reading toOk place his lot-
ter was chosen as the best and he
was declared winner of ‘the prize, a
leatherette pencil case containing
four pencil, a penholder and point.
The name and address of the winner
is Harold Pernie, Ossineke, Mich.
The prize was mailed last week and
undoubtedly by this time Harold is
putting the pencils and pen t'g very
good use.

All seemed to be interested in
the bird contest and many showed
they knew more about their feather-
ed friends than I. thought they did,
so I am going to tell several things
about birds. Some of you may
know many =of these interesting
facts but I’ll bet most of you do not.

Of course all of you know that
most of the birds are great destroy-
ers of injurious insects and that
hardly an agricultural pest escapes
them. But do you know that the
alfalfa weevil has 45 different bird
enemies? Or that the wireworm
is anxiously sought by 168 differ-
ent kinds of birds. Other bugs and
insects are constantly pestered by
the birds. 42 diﬁere'nt birds are
enemies of the army worm; the
cinch bug is killed by 24 different
birds; coldling moth by 36; cut-
Worm, 98; horseﬂies, 49; seven
year locust, 38; potato bug, 25; white
grubs, 67; clover-root borer, 85 and
clover weevil, 25.

You have heard and talked about
the robin and other birds going
south in the fall but did you ever
wonder how far they flew south?
The average robin migrates 3,000
miles southward, taking about 78
days for the trip. Another bird that
winters a long distance from Mich-

igan is the bobolink. He spends his

winters in southern Brazil.

Some birds are called half-mi-
grating, because, while they usually
spend their summers with us and
their winters in the south, some-
times they remain with us all win-
ter, especially in sections Where
food is plentiful during the winter.
The robin can be mentioned in this
class. Also the bluebird, meadow-
lark, nuthatch, wood-pecker, chicka-
goldfinch and certain, of the
sparrows. The average person may
not observe them but the bird lover
often discovers one of our feathered
friends who failed to take the annual
trip south. Keep your eyes open
this winter and see how many of
these birds you can ﬁnd. Where you
ﬁnd them scatter food because many
times it" is very hard for them to
ﬁnd enough to eat during the winter
months when the ground is all cov-
ered with snow. They will repay
you when spring comes with their
pretty songs. Also they will pro-
tect our next winter’s supply of food
by killing the insects that attack
crops. _

Although I am unable to publish
all the letters I received regarding
the bird contest I am printing parts
of some of the letters. Some wrote
such interesting letters about their
‘favorite birds that I feel space
should be spared for the publishin
of them.+—UNCLE NED

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS_

Dear Uncle Ned—Please may I
join your new contest. I think it is
a very good idea to learn about the
different. kinds of birds. '

I am interested in studying the
value and the uses of the bird. I
am writing a description of one of
the Michigan birds which I like
very much, and am also sending a
list of birds which I have often no-
ticed on my Way\to school and other
places around the school. Herc are
the following birds that I have
noticed. , '

Sparrow, crow, eagle, robin, snow-
‘bird, swallow, bluejay,- Whip-poor-
will, nightingale swallow, owl,
blackbird, honeybird, thrush, pig—
eon, partrich, chickens, ‘ geese,
ducks, turkey, cuckoo, dove, bob-
white, canary,‘parrot, meadow lurk,
snipe, woodpecker, bob-o-link, .pea-
cock, chickadee, kingﬁsher, killdeer,
wood, cock, turtle dove, .goldﬂnch,

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night hw‘wk, wild ~ geese, chicken-
hawk, "wild duck, mournmg “dove,

yellowbird, ‘ bluebird, red wing and

the bird hawk.

'The bird that I m... best or an "

the birds is the sky, la‘rk for beam
sing so beautiful, and he is a pretty
color. His back is (brown, edged

with bronish white, and is streaked ‘

with black, brown an" or colors.
And he has a beautiful 'ck cres-
cent upon his breasts . dark brown
lines on his head. Lurks usually
build their nestsvon the ground and
they make, them from grass—only.
The eggs in the nest are beautiful
oval eggs they are about an inch
long and a beautiful rosy whitecol-
or, speckled with reddish“ brown
spots. Larks eat many diﬁerent
worms and insects which is a great
~help to the farmers, that is why I
like the lark the best. For the good
of all, do not destroy the birds-.—
ﬁasﬁer Harold Pernie, Ossineke,

1c . e '

Dear Uncle Ned and Cousins—I
am sending a list of birds that, I
know. They are as follows:

Eagle, nightingale, snowbird, pea-
cock, meadow lark, canary, robin,
crow, hawk, dove, condor, stork,

'thrush, pigeon, pheobe, owl, king-

bird, bat, sparrow, kingﬁsher, black-
bird, ostrich, woodpecker, chicke-,_.
dee, crane, quail, bluejay, swallow,
catbird, blue heron, green heron,
bluebird, hummingbird, wren,
groundbird, killdeer, mudhen, par-
rot, magpie bob-o—link, bittern‘,
snipe, graybird, mourning dove, yel-
lowbird , skungbird, highholder,’
aimless robin, corwbird, whipepoor-
Will, and the bird of paradise.

I like the bird of paradise best be~
cause it is the colOrs of the rainbow.
I think it is the prettiest bird there.
is. I am thirteen now. I wish
some of the girls around my age
would write to me., Your niece.—
Eleanor D. L. Stovel, Hubbard Lake,
Mich. /

Dear Uncle Ned—Here is a list
of the birds that I know of and a.
description of the one I like best:

Robin, sparrow, hawk, crow, wren,
canary, bluebird, blackbird, bob—o-
link, whip-poor—will, killdeer, brown
thrush, bat, mourning dove, bob-
white, bluejay, sea-gull, ow‘l, wood-
pecker, oriole, ~ Chickadee, catbird,
crane, stork, swallow, pigeon, mead-
ow lark, ring-neck pheasant, ground
bird, pheobe, parrot, hummingbird,
snipe, partridge, swan, sap-sucker,
snowbird, kingﬁsher.

The best bird that I like is the
robin. It’s breast is a. pretty red,
with a'pretty brown back. It is
about four inches long and about
two and one half inches high. After
the long winter the ﬁrst signs .of
spring is the robin, and how happy
it makes everyone feel. You hear
the old and young say “The robins
are here.” I take some crumbs and
throw them on the porch and then
watch them come and eat their
breakfast. These make their nest in
the lilac bush beside our house. It
is made of lint, feathers, and hairs
and they lay from three to ﬁve light
blue eggs. I am your little niece—~—
Berl McKenzie, Emmett, Mich.

Dear Uncle.Ned~—He‘re are' the
names of the birds and the descrip-
tion of the Lone I like best:

'm-ieg to the? farmer.

gull, wren, water, thrushﬁring- dovlef-V'WQ‘“. , drop V33 (W m

" live on a farm.“ eighty sores

, ,. ' .,  than
Ned. «I amya girl 13, Years.) 
in the eighth grade at'e'ch‘ool. ,..I

03!

and one-fourth _.. miles, east  ‘.»tho§;x/

town- I salami-going to try 
kick in the “entire *puzzleewmr’yi‘
Arena, B. 3, Fowler,-.Mich.‘  

‘Dear Uncle Node—The bird  «like.

the best is the. duail._ This birdie»

very pretty. The color of it is light
brown and on the {up of‘itg head
the feathers resemble creep and it
isvstriped with'white, On” a still
summer \night you can hear them‘
calling “Bob—white” for‘-§Ome dis-
tance. I’m sure that if I were a
hunter I never would kill them.
They destroy insects that are ene-
I think that
they ought to be called the “Farm-
ers’ Friends," Just now. there is a
flock of them here in our yard.
They nested beside the driveway in
front 'of the house this year.. one
day when papa was mowing hay be-
side the .rond he mowed right over
a nest with eight eggs in it. It
frightened the little bird so that
she did not come back again, and I~
have seen several places where they
had‘ nested. .I forgot to tell you
about there nest. Most ,of them are
in the most delightful places you
ever saw. They are in the tall
grass where it is warm and snug and
are made out of dead grass. '

In the winter time they will
scamper across the yard and some
times eat with the chickens, and if

‘ you throw out grain they will come

and eat. They are ‘ about eight
inches tall and are always very
plump and fat. If some. of the little
boys and girls try to tame them like.

.I said they may have a. ﬂock to stay

at their home—Violet Hopkins,
‘Stockbridge, Mich.  -

Dear Uncle Ned—ll‘he whip—poor-‘V

will is my favorite bird. Perhaps
you will guess why I like this bird.
I love to hear his cry on summer“
evenings; and he alSo sings early in‘
the morning. .He is of a brown

‘ color, with some white and black

spots. He is about ten inches long,
and has long Wings, he flys with
the same flappiiig motion as pigeons
or hawks do. He'has a beak termed;
somewhat like a, hawk’s, very'
slightly bent. He has a short neck”
end head something like a .hawk's.
There is nothing very nice in the
color of his plumage, but his cry, in
the night when there are no other
sounds, how sweet it rings, echoing
among the hills. and trees..

He feedson ﬂying insects, and is
a very harmless bird.
build sanest like other birds,. he
selects a place on the ground simi-

‘ lar‘ to a nest, a kind of small low

place. Their eggs are a brownish

color, to match the“ earth and leaves

around them. 
During the day whipapoor-wills
retire to the darkest woods, until

the sun sinks behind the hills, and

Thrush, catblrd, mourning dove, if

mudhen- canary,‘ bluebird, quail,
partridge, pigeon, sparrow, swallow,
stork, whip-poor-will, dove,‘ king
bird, owl, hawk, crow, cowbird,
' sand-piper, goose, duck,
hummingbird, . eagle; wood—pecker,
robin, oriole, kingﬁsher, snowbird,
Chickadee, yellow—throated ,vireo,
meadow lark, killdees, brown thresh—
er, mockingbird, crane, bat, ground-
bird,‘ bob-o—link, golden-winged
warblerf‘marsh hen, pheasant.

I like the ro’bin the best of allot

. and blue and white.

them because every year one comes I

andI builds its nest in our apple tree.

We Tal‘ways look for ﬁlm thefsprin’g' it

song, It lays pale blue,eggs._,, It
about ﬁve." inches longr‘jlt hus'e,
nest about three inches wide; . It
has tn  or (our. eggs?

0

then again, “whip-.poor—will, whip-
poor-will,” we can hear. Sometimes

we see him at the top of our house, ‘

sometimes he is on a tree, stump,
or the ground, sitting in a stooping
position while singing. Whip-poor-
wills are related to the night-hawks.
‘ Good~luck to Uncle Ned and
cousins, I remain—Miss Mllda

Baravyx, B. 2, Branch, Mich.

Dear Uncle Ned—I am sending
you a description of my favorite
bird. The pigeon is my favorite
bird. I have one» caged upthat I
caught and tamed. The color of,
pigeons is blue, dark blue, white,
red, black and white, red and white,
,Mine is pink
and white; They..eat corn, oats,
worms and ugs. Their. nests are
made of hay and straw.._ Their eggs.
are white. vYour

VAoUuM,  was «i

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 satin the“ house, "Kate, on!
s ’ ‘ "‘ r T '. .

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to come back and sing a very‘sweot  (“13* woman-excited. 

A

nephew—Ken- * ‘
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'  IN? .SBRAYINGﬁ ..

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_  tant fact-orshin'truit growing,”

* says Robert Anderson, a successful .
of Covert, Michigan.

V ordha‘rdist‘

 Without spraying, you might as well

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give up," tonne . other practises will
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 are he}! starved." _ ,
' “How about pruning?" was a

question but to Mr. Anderson.

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tant factors?"
r f‘I don’t Want to minimize prun-
” was the answer, “but I feel

. that it is often overdone in the ef-

tort' to make» up for the omission or

'  practises. The success of prun-

ing, is not measured by the amount
of wood you remove, but the amount
you can properly leave. I can i1-
ltustrate this by the traction, six over

wo,

ductive power of the soil. It’s no
use to have more wood than- the soil
will support to produce the fruit, so
you take four away from six by
pruning, and have the fraction two
over 'two. But another way is to
add four to the two below by fer-
tilizing, and then you have six over
sir—more fruit because you have
the wood and the plantfood to make
3180 fruit. That’s the system I prac-
e.

Mr. Anderson has a sixteen acre
peach orchard on which he .has ap-
plied 375 pounds of ammonium'sul-
fate and 400 pounds or acid» phos-
phate, or bone meal per acre for the
last three years. Also in 1921 he
applied .in addition 500 p011 ds of a
10-10 fertiliser per acre _ % phos-
phoric acid and 10% potash). Rye
is seeded each fall and plowed un-
der ‘in the spring, by which system
the «organs matter in the soil~is
Increased. ' .
~ We HMO-ANS Cm-
, P101! POTATO CROP

‘ "'(Cdnt'lnusd from page 3)«
40111111” rather leave my. machinery
out the you around than my num-
ure. We don't waste a bit oi! rue-n-
nre here. Come down to the born."
A visit "to the Par-malee barn is a
revelation in eﬂclent manure handl—
ing. A section of the barn nearly as
large as the stable is'rdevoted to
W Overhead tracks
conduct the utter carrier from the
mbbmwmoithoroom. A
~ smooth concrete ﬂoor makes clean-
ing easy.

Back of the barn is a small yard
for the cattle to exercise lea—they
are never pastor-ed. '

"Doesn’t dock wary ﬁlthy, does
it?” Mr. Perm/ales inquired. “All
the cows‘hm run in that little lot
for thirteen years.”

It was as clean as a dooryard!

“We clean it every night same as

A the stable.” M‘r. Parmaiee explained.

Foolish? Perhaps, but remember
Cherry Rin Farm is producing
money-making potato crops every
year.

“I put on all the manure as a. top
dressing whﬂe preparing the seed
bed." Mr. Permalee  “We
spread the name at the rate of
M‘ tons per acre, ended the same
time put on acid phosphate with a
fertilizer distributor set at 300

' pounds pa acre. That is dlsced in
dust before planting!"

Green meme, as everyone knows,

. .lsa'crop, preteen.ny s legume. Plow-
"od under in the interest of soil m4

» movement. Possibly some WIS

think it is a stunt otterntalked About,

  but never actually done- They would

 better after looking over Mr.
next year’s-

"egno.   , . , I
if 1 dent}; know just how to handle

 Females admitted. . ‘. ,

to a,  ﬁeld

in chh six represents the‘
- trees and branches, and two the pro-

potato

9 under" in tak'7iﬁlﬁ‘?
crop? e ery. year to lit the land for
some . rec’ord potato .crops. I can
easily" rel-Se the. yield way above last
year’s.” ' ‘

The last, yet "by. no means the.

least, of , the soil amendments for
Cherry—Rm Farm is lime Mr. Par-
malEe giggle it full credit for the
nearly perfect catch of clever and

‘a‘ltelta which I he is reset Jably cer-
tain to get‘ every year. One and one-

halt tens or ﬁnely ground limestone
an acre'is applied at the time of
seeding down.

Once upon a time lime was not
 on Cherry Rm Farm. h The
cemplete,1silure_ ot a twenty acre
seeding of alfalfa, was the bitter ex-

perience which taught the lesson of 2

line. ' It will never happen again.

A Good drainage, was the last straw
needed to break the bucket the poor
crops came} on the Pas-melee term.
After several years at “spare time"
spent in ditch digging, Mr. Parmalee
has realized his ambition of a farm
tiled throughout. ‘

While the soil is the prime‘tactor
in the production of record potato
crops, methods are quite important.
Mr. ‘Parmalee still selects his seed
potatoes. From the potatoes thus
obained, he again picks the choicest
for h seed plot,.and "uses the rest
for the regular planting. All seed
is treated .in formaldehyde solution
for scab. 1

Early Petosky potatoes, planted
17 inches apart in 34 inch rows pro~
duced in 1921 top-notch Michigan
potato crop. ‘One piece, averaging
wo eyes, was placed in a hill. The
ﬁeld was spike4toothed after plantng,
gone over with the weeds: Just after
the spuds were up, and cultivated
four times later on. One day of
hand work kept the rows free of
weeds. The cro was sprayed eight
times during the summer with 5-5-
60 Bordeaux (5‘ pounds of lime and
5 of copper sulphate to 60 gallons
of water.

True, it was consdgrable bother,
but it paid. Two thousand bushels
oi the crop ‘hrou’ght $1.53 a bushel
as certi 7 seed, and the rest were
sold ardm d‘ 90 cents. Big league
prices, you see, go along with big
league potato growing.

A few other features of Cherry
Rill J‘arm are well worth mention-
ing. Probably they are not factors
in raising money-making potato
crops ,blllt then, maybe they are.
Labor troubles are almost unknown
at Cherry Bill, and there's a reason.
I “I piy all my hired help by the
hour, have for etghteen years"L Mr.
Pamalee explained.
work and overtime is paid fdr. I
keep two men the year around, and
have extra help in the summer.
The men seldom leave, so there is
little trouble in getting labor.”

The term is the home of the tarm-
er and his’iamily, as well as their
place of businees. Electric lights
and running water make life worth
living on the Cherry Riil Farm. The
neat house with wide lawns, nestling
behind gigantic map-lee, reminds you
of the country estate of some mil-
lionaire. A plentiful supply or tax-m
papers keeps I Mr. Females. on the
latest wrinkles of the farming game,
and :hs glean many a hint from col-
lege extension men and the county

.agent, who are freq:qu visitors.

NEW LAMP BUBHS
(94% AIR

pleats Electric or 

A new oil lamp that SiVes an amaz-

tested by the U. 8. Government and 35'

leading universities and found to be en-
perior to 110 ordinary 011 .1 V It lemurs
«without odor, smoke or noise-um pimp—
 up. is simple.  "safe, Burns 34

sm. In mm «onions
M? 621W mm trial. or men

. FEB-Wham ﬁrst user in
,t- 1 ember.

waist tells!!! under a hay-

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i 'V  Know These Facts ;
About Baking Powder 3
——-that a big  at a low cost many times results in

_ bakingsthatareunﬁtforfood. -

-that lack of proper
and disappointment on bakeday.

-—that one cent’s worth of inferior Baking Powder many,

ening- strength means

 ruins one dollar’s worth of other ingredients.
——that millions depend on *

WM BAKING P0 WBEBJ.

not because of quanti-
ty but on account of quali-

ty—not

but by

because of price
reason of results.

That is Why the sale of
Calumet is 2% times
as much as that of
any other baking
powder.

Buy it-ftry it—never fail
to use it.

A pound can of Calumet

Some

comcin

ef16

\‘ contains full 16 ounces.

baking powders
12 ounce instead
ounce cans. Be

sure you get a pound
when you want it.

 

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Rural Weekly. Dept. .29. at. Paul, Minn.

close. SHE IS'YOURS AB-
SOLUTELY FREE if you can
solve“ the Dolly Puzzle and
will devote just a little of
your spare time to help boost
our paper.

LE1; 

Big, beautiful, smiling “Ms
Ann" with the wonderful hair
and real eyes that open and

This is a new and unusual .
FREE OFFER, and you will be em:- j
prised how easy it will be to get ﬂue ‘

big 17-inch Mary Ann Doll.

First see if you can find the funny
faces hidden in the picture of the his
Mary Ann Doll.
sight while other; are hidden in the
folds of her dress.

Some are in plain
lf you can ﬁnd as ‘

many. as four (4) of the faces, mark V
them with an X and send the picture -

with the coupon.
Then we will tell you how to get Mary

Ann. Send your emwer to the Do e
right away. —AUNT Mﬂm.

Write your name and address below 0"
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s to sauna the growing of ere-cred: on the fa me or our r . Ou'r edvertislnu. rate
ie Thirty- tel (300) per agate ine. per Insertion.
0184.20 r inch, less 2% forcesh if '
 month following date of insertion. SEND IN OUR AD A E
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LARGE INCREASE IN NUMBER OF
PUREBRED FEMALE ANIMALS
‘ HEN farmersadopt purebred-
‘ A sires to head their;_herds and
“ ‘ ﬂocks it is not long before the

dollar than anyone else, He may‘.- ,
not feel that he is losing the doll ‘ 
.simply because he gets ithe‘sa‘me ’1
price for his product, but this risvé‘f‘
only a. temporary condition; the in; V n
dustry. is losing thed'ollar and heals.“ :-

 

To avoid conflicting date: we will without
00“ list the date of any live stock sale In
Michigan. If

you are considering e seie ed-
Vise us et once end we will claim the dete

an. Address, Live stock Editor. M. B.
t. Oiemens

for
IL.

Oct. 28-—Eolsteine. Corey J. Spencer, Eeton
Be ids, Mich.
l—aShorthorns, Eaton Count Shorthprn
Breeden s'n. Cherote, Mich.
I—Shorthorns. . mar, Bam-

use
Iii—Shorthorns Roland ,cmn...
Sonley Bros. , Mich.
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ERIE STOCK AUCTIONEERS

WAFFLE & HOFFMAN
OUR SPECIALTY :
BIG TYPE misalignmest
We ere experienced salesmen. Expert Judges and
write today for good dates and

r 0 us.
WAFFLE Goldwater, Mich.

Joni! HOFFMAN, Hudson. Mich.

Nov.
Nov.

Nov. and

St. Louis,

 

U-Need-A Prectioai Competent Auctioneer
to insure your next sale being e success.
the one Auctioneer who can ﬁll
e price in keeping with prevailing

GUARANTEED or NO CHARG-
850.00 and ectuel ex-
The same price end service

Seusfectlon
IS MADE.
es per sale.

ve one.
I. ery in selling Polends. Duma. end

Mrs. Let no reserve e 1922 dete for you.
Write or wire.
A. EGKHARDT. Dallas cm. Illinois

HARRY
‘ Jilllll P. HUTTOI

LIVE STOCK AUGTIONEER

ADVANOE DATES SOLIOITED.

ADDRESS 118 W. LAPEER IT.
LANSING, IIOH.

'7 _ E‘ 4 w.’
CATTLE v
WANTED—:OII OAR; 0F   OATI'LE

of coding lem .
 LINDGE , Deiton. Mich.

HOIBTEIN-FRIESIAN

 

 

 

 

BARGAIN
Purebred Registered
stein Heifer Calves
1 month eld$50; 6 months old $754100
' Federally Tested
. WARD WARNER, Pennington, Mich.

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Registered stock of ell eeee end Voth sex. Herd
headed by the imported bull, Kelmecott Yie-
couni: 25th, 648,563. Prices reesoneble. '

LUNDY BR08., R4, Devieon, , Mich.

SHORTHORNS AND xPOLAND OHINAs—NOTH-

inggfor sale at present. Are holding for public eele

Nov. 5th. Write for ceteloguee. ‘
SONLEY BR08., St. Louis, Mich.

FOB POLLED SHORTHORIIS
d lA di

Fe era core erd.
PAUL ouAcK,\8euit Ste. Merle, Mich.

FOB POLLED SHOBTHOBNS

Shropshire, Southdown and Cheviot reins write to
L. o. KELLY a son. Plymouth, Mich.

GLADWIN COUNTY ' SHORTI'IORN BR

offer the best in beef and milk streins. £50582:

8. HUBER, 800’]. memo. Mich.

AN GUS ‘7

DDDDIE, FARMS ANGUS of both sex for me.
Herd heeded by Bardell 319.10. 1920 Inter-
national Jr. Champion. »

Dr. G. R. Martin a Son, North street. Mich,
WE HAVE SOME FINE YOUNG ANGUS BULLS
from International Grend mpion Stock-1t
reesoneble prices. E. “- KERR a 00.. Addison,
Mich.

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HEREFORDS

WHAT ARE You come
T0 man nus ' *
wnnrm

EAR’LIVRIPE HEREFOR

has proven very proﬁtable
scores of producer: Rik“ vivtill
you once you on e e
£3 YO? ARE FIGURING 0N feeding cattle this
twillbetoyourintereetto nsid
three different wlags of meki toward
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mm 1) or to us .

Hereford Beef Booklg’t. “met

Registered ereford Bulls end cows with calves-

else grade Hereford cows with calves for sale- at
noble prices. Terms to rmponsible purchasers.

T. F. B. SOTHAM & SONS v

(Hereford Cattle Business Established 1835)
Saint Clair. Michigan

 

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FOR SALE—HEREFORDS—A’J’Ew -cI-I0Ie
bull calves. Sired by Wyoming 9th. Inter-nations]
Winner. Write or come at once. We are the
oldest breeders of Herefords in the U. S.
GRAPO FARM, Swartz Creek, Mich.

 

 

AYRSHIRES

FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYRSHIRE
bulls end bull celves.
Also some choice cows.

FINDLAY BROS" R 5. Veuer. Mich.

 

 

 

 

001'. CLEARANCE SALE. WE ARE OFFERING
O heifers end bulls. Hes producin dams. Sire

7 ' neairé 1 100
Free from g 3

MPH.

   {god Holstein helix:
.lves.-flfty dolhn. C‘Imlsrs free. CONDON'S
EOIBTEIN (IBM. West Chester.p0hin

SALE—FULL BLOODED HOLBTEIN
FI‘IB months old from good breeding. $100

sold soon. RALPH VAN LOTON. Stanton. Mich.
ti

on yearly

Gledwin. Mich.

 

 

SHORTHORNS

,DiSPERSiON SALE

Serene, Mich, Nov. 1, 1922
look

A! 1 0’1;

20—.HEAD—20

REGISTERED

Shortliorn Cattle »

l8 Cows and Heifers
1 Bull, 3 yrs. old, 1\Bull Calf
GEO. HULLIBERGER, Serene, Mich. ~

 

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MLVERINE DAIRY FARM .
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GUERNSEYS

FOR SALE—REGISTERED GUERNSEY HEM-'-
ers at meouehle prices, also choice bull calves of
May Rose breeding.

H. W. WIGM N, Lansing, Mioh., Box 52.

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’SECURE YOUR. NEXT BULL FROM ONE
with both A. I

R. Sire and Dem. heve when you
want. 1 else offer It few choice melee. .
A. M. SMITH, Lake c y. Mich. 1'

8[DIOR SAIiE—tREGESEEgED BUESNSEY BULL;
ears 0 . o 00 r ding. en e.
yJAKE DE EOER. R. . Illa-ion. Mich.

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RED POLLED .
,A few choice bulls

    and heifers for.sele.

novsrsu srocK FARM,
wm Dottie. n. .. 1. West Branch whomgan

FOR 8ALE——0UR RED POLLED HERD BULL.
Cos Elle IAddis, and a few heifer calves.
Pl ROE BRO’8.. Eaton Rapids. Midi. R. 1.

 

 

JERSEYS
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01110 HI
.I. E. MORRIS. Feminetonfnllolon." '

 

FOR GALE—JERSEYS. REGISTERED. MAJ.
esty heifers. Six months to year old. No. T. B.»
H. J. A P. H. WALKER. R. 8. Keiemezoo. Mich.

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‘ nnnoos
his. liiillochEiiSEY swmr

Snngemili‘eil‘Boersof ii sired
hilohu Gum! 0 ion endangnwndeo f cisso'lgg}
worlde 1917 $5 Champion. Spring. Em and
will? sows red by eboveboers open or breed-,
as. :“s: ‘zfﬂsmsdsm 1”" W...“ is”
. e wor 's
Junior 1:. Pereonel 21
. II Ila e SON, Devieon.’ Mich.

‘nunoe anst

RIOIOTERED BBRINO nan
A nice “ment,” eeie‘ot from et Perm Fri

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rite for Earliripe\

Phone 250 V

heifers end heifer selves. '

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percentage of purebred females in-
creases noticeably.’ This encourag-
ing tendency'towerd more rapid im-
provement of live stock has been
brought out by the United States
Department of Agriculture in the
Better Stock campaign. Of a total of

more than 300,000 female animals-

llsted by farmers who have agreed
to keep nothing but purebred sires,
more than 35 per cent are of pure
breeding. On these farms scrubs
have practically 'dlsappearéd. For!
the larger animals the reports show
that only. 2.4 per cent of the females

\ are.scrubs and, of course, the males

are of pure blood as that is the basis
on which the farms ere listed.

The poultry ﬂocks owned by these
farmers'are particularly well bred,
only 1.3 per cent‘of the female birds
listed as scrubs. More than 68 per
cent of a total of 610,000 birds are
entered on the list as standardbred.
Among the herds of swine there are
very few scrub sows—only 1.1 per
cent. Nearly two-thirds of them are
purebred.

This Federal—State effort to im-
prove the livestock and poultry of
the c‘ountry has now brought in a
membership campaign that repre-
sents nearly, a million head of ani-
Farmers who
have becormemembers have sent in
interesting accounts of their experi-
ences in improving their animals and
their bank accounts. Other farm-
ers who are taking part in the work
are invited by the department to

:send in their individual experiences

as well as those of community or-
ganizations engaged in the improve-
ment of live stock. Deﬁnite facts
and ﬁgures should be included when
ever possible. ‘

coonmbmms

VERY farmer Who.'ﬁilkF a few

E cows should have a cooling tank

of some kind. It makes little
difference whether he patronize a
creamery, cheese factory, sells milk
or keeps it for hisrown use: a cool-
ing tank is a. necessity. _ .

Why not capitalize the great stbre
house of col which lies
ground! This an be gone -by simply
passing the water designed. for live
stock ﬁrst thru a tank which will
eerV'e as a refrigerator for all pro-
ducts which need chilling. Well or
spring ’water. in most of the .dairy
states has a. temperature varying
from 55 degrees to '65 degrees F.
This is about as cold as the average
domestic refrigerator. By utilizing
this cold water to chill down the
milk, cream or other products we
are getting refrigeration at the low—
est possible cost. ~

Millions of dollars are lost annual-
ly to thecow’keepers of this country
purely on‘account of the neglect of
milk and cream while it is held at
the farm. Butter andcheeses would
be greatly improved if every patron
used a cooling tank. As a matter
of convenience it is warthwhile for
every farmer to be thus equipped,
for it is necessary to have a place to
keep the milk and cream, and where
a refrigerator can is put into use the
housewife will ﬂndrlt very eﬂicient
and convenient.

A cooling tank is needed in both
winter. and summer, in winter to
prevent freezing and to retain the
cream or milk at the uniform and
favorable temperature, while in
summer it is needed to pre-
vent extreme, soaring and the de-
velopment of undesirable ﬂavors.
Gold» is a wonderful preservative,
We are told that the prehistoric
mammdth has been preserved in the
ices of ~the «Polar. region for 'ﬂfty
‘xthousand years. When dairy pro-
ducts or. .pe‘rish‘able foods are kept
et at low temperature, decomposition
is retarded, outwith dairy products

quell-t and price. _A can of cream

kept in a sood‘cooling tank: is worth
‘7‘ «gem:- n“. ‘ . ‘ '

in the 

some other way.

. them all" theyf will eat.

us m? ,h in the way of better .season.
' used a preparation knows!» veto
rpm outbrthe. Eek .8; ms. .1'
the me. 

the nfost important and biggest part g
of the industry. As a matter «of;
satisfaction it should be worth while -
to turn .out a good product when it"

is nearly as easy to do so. ' "

The grading of cream and paying

.9. differential for quality is rapidly

coming into general use. In a little
while the cream producers will
either ‘have to get cooling tanks or'
suffer a big loss due to producing
second grade cream.’ The cooling
tank is sound, sensible, economical,
and demanded by decent and pro-
gressive farming methods. and we
should all be for anything that has
so much merit—A. L. Haecker.

GOOD DEMAND FOR
SHROPSEIRES

AN BOOHEB of the Brookside'
D Farm, the "Home of the Shrop-

shire Sheep,” was in our ofﬁce.
Saturday to arrange for some print-v
ing. Mr. Booher is one of the cele-
brated breeders of Shropshire sheep,
and has in his ﬂock ninety-seven
registered animals, headed by an
imported sire, and no better speci-

’men of the breed are to be found

aqghere. He has been in the busi-
us about ten years, careful at
tention to breeding has been his
constant aim, and he has sheep
where, wool is grown on all parts
of the body except on the “ti-p of the
nose and on the hoofs.” During the-
past year he has sold and shipped
to various farmers and breeders in
Michigan and Wisconsin, over sixty
animals, and the demand is constant
and increasing—Evert Review.

VETERINARY
I DEPARTMENT

TREATMENT FOR 00w GIVING
BLOODY MILK

Can you tell me what \to give a.
cow that gives bloody. milk? Only ‘
one teat is affected. She has not'
been hurt that I know of.——E. B.‘,
Frankfort, Michigan.

—Undoubtedly the‘ reaso the cow '
is giving bloody milk on of one
quarter of her udder is that she hast
injured this quarter at some time
or other. She may have stepped
over something that was too high
and the udder dragged over some
rough object or she might have hurt
herself when she laid down or in
We usually ﬁnd
that a. small blood vessel in the
udder has bursted. After the ﬁrst r
few days you will notice that the

 

 

 

.ﬂrst part of the milk is not bloody,

but the last part of the milk is,
showing that the wound is partially
healed but as the milking progress-
ed and the stripping process began
the wound was reopened. and there
fore the last part of the milk was
bloody—‘0. E. Reed, Professor of
Dairy Husbandry, M. A. C.

FEED SOWS SCORCHED CORN

I have two sows that do not come
in heat and would like to know what

to give them. They had their litters
last June. They are in fair condi-
tion and well cared for.——-S. M.,
Charlotte, Michigan.

——A young sow that had her ﬁrst
litter last J one might not have come
in heat since Without there being '
anything wrong with her. ' Unless
one has conditions for handling pigs
in real cold weather, it would not be,
advisable\to breed these sows before '
late in November. . ‘ ' “

If they do not show a heat period T

‘withn thenext two or three weeks,

it Would be well to feed them on»
scorched corn for a few days, giving-
, _ _ V g This, “often
proves effective ingbringlng sows. "

When, this fall‘s. we he

waning. stew.

 


  he need-won thg‘.:£&M‘ for a
. in  practical .. welding torch.

" ionisation ' thus received is
torhelp pave the way» for the

1  such scores in the

 r.’ uturent a price? which almost
iii, farmer can afford to pay. We
 learning day by. “day that we
 produce more economically it
 are. going to make any money
 of farming. '~ That means that
 _'must cOnstantly guard against

"lasso! time. during the busy season ~

ind too rapid depreciation .of farm
machinery. According to our read-
, More a Welding torch would have many
Qatrip to town at times when it is
’tﬁcdstly business to" leave the work
' 'in hand., p '
 The letters which we considered-
_ gave the b’estgariet‘y’ of uses for
gzwhich a torch- could be used was
_' "freon Mr. E. Eaton of Ingham coun-
‘ .ty, and to him will be awarded the
”' torch; _ ' '

AMOUNT OF DYNAMITE NEEDED
 ' T0 BREAK BOULDERS '
  VERYONE‘ admits that large.
‘" ‘ rocks in fields that are culti-
‘ .vated are bad from every stand-
“\po-int'., Yet we see big boulders on
:4 farms wherever we go.
VJ ‘ “How much dynamite would it
.take to break up that rock ?” (point-
_;-,ing-out a stone in one of his fields),
As a question often asked by a farmer
r ofgsomeone he thinks has had exper-
. lane in blasting. .
. This is a question that can be
 answered with some degree of ac-
 curacy. ‘leferent kinds of rock are
 .. of’-"varying degrees of hardness. The
3 shape of a boulder also has a hearing
I  on the subject. For instance, a
smooth, round stone is harder to,
'4 break than a flatone. ’
'There are three methods employed
by practical blasters to break bould-
-Vthe_..explosive on the stone and cov-
ering it compactly with stiff mud;
 snakeholing, meaning to tunnel or.
.~ hereunder the boulder, loading the
,"-~charge in the dirt up against the un-
ﬁ‘, dcr side of it; and, blockholding,
. which means drilling into the stone
 tseli and loading the charges in the
_' 5 Ole. ’ '* '
. T‘Mudcapping requires the least la-
;. ,_,-,bor, but the m6i3t-dynamite; block-
' .‘holding, vice versa. Snakeholing _is
 the 50450 .method'as betwen labor
-“ " and dynamite.
' As a general rule, it may be stated
that a boulder of average hardness,
111-2 ft. in diameter, may be broken
rwith a pound of 50' per cent straight
., Na..,'G. dynamite, if mudcapped; with
'  ’ 1-21pound ina snakehole or with 1-8
pound in a block hole." A 2 ft. bould-
er could be snakeholed or bloCkholed
as economically as the 1 1—2 ft. stone,
\ but it would probably Lethal—2 pound
more dynamiteto mudcap it. A 3
ft. stone Would take about 2 pounds
, fora mudcan, 3-4 pound for a snake-
. ‘ hole for 1-4 pound tor) a blockhole.
’ a‘A‘. 4‘ ft. rock is‘ usually, too big to
 break with a single mudcap shot,
and- will take about 2 pounds of dyn-
» amite" or a snakehole blast or 3-8 of
‘- a pound for a blockhole. m5 ft.
  ‘ boulderwould need about 3 pounds
 ~ for a snakehole shot and 1-2 pound
for blockholing. '
It is best for a “green hand" at
boulder blastingw make trial shots.
For instance, try a stone With/the
 ’char'ges suggested above. Watch the
result. It may show it is necessary
to increase the charge somewhat or
_' may be that less dynamitegcan be
7.".Tamping is the important feature
3 fbdulder blasting. If the tamping
campact, the minimum amount of
 itewill be necessary and the
' sin tobe successful

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~4—«ruin through neglect.

._ era: Mudcapping, which means laying ,

‘ a».

buildings “I... painted, as often as 1

necessary inorder to give them a
spick and "span appearance,--he feels
that they _
those who do not paint. their build-
ings and let them go to 'rack' and

It is a condition in most all mort-

888‘96 ‘on buildings that the build»
lugs shall be insured, for the pro-

tection of the l nder, against il‘re.
Some lenders in he the stipulation
albo that the buildings shall, be kept
painted at regular intervals. This
is a wise precaution, as'a building
can deteriorate from lack of paint so
as to lose a large part of its ya'lue
in just a few years. In a way, paint
is also a ﬁre protection, since it is
the slow combustion of oxygen and
other elements in the air that causes
the decay of building material.
Besides, of for any reason it is de-
sired to sell a property, the prospec-

‘tive purchaser can easily be induced

to pay a higher price for a well

painted house than for a shabby one.

A good buyer looking over a shabby
property is quick to assume that the
owner is bankrupt or badly in need

of money if his property has a run ,

down appearance and makes his of-
fer accordingly. II it is neatly
painted, however, he assumes that
the owner is prosperous and hesita-
tes to make an under—value bid. ' In
short, in case of a 'sale a coat of
paint'will bring a price for a house
enough higher than could be ob-
tained for an unpainted building to
more than cover the cost of paint—
ing.
Therefore, any way we look at it,
painting is a good investment for a.
property.

HARD, FACTS ABOUT CONCRETE

HERE is a right and a wrong "

way to handle concrete. Used

rightly it is one of the most
useful and economical of available
building materials. But handled
wrongly it is a source of trouble
and expense. There is scarcely a
farmer who has not had occasion to
use concrete. in one or ,more of the'
multitudinous forms it can be em-
ployed on the/farm. But the average
farmer’s knowledge of the chemical
properties of concrete, correct mix-
ture, etc., is somewhat meagre. With
thisissue we innaugurate a series of
articles under the heading, “Hard
Facts about Concrete," which will
ant'cipate and answer most‘of the
question with which the farmer is
bothered when he works in concrete.
The article: are Written‘by one of
the foremost concrete authorities in
the country, and will, we believe
prove of value to all who employ
cement in any form. Any question
which readers may desire to ask
about cement and concrete will be
gladly answered.—-—Editor.

 

 

THE EXPElllEllGE POOL.

Bring your everyday problems In and not
the experience of other farmers. Question: ad-
dressed to thls department are published here
and answered by gou. our readers who are
Graduates of the chool of Hard Knocks and
who have their diplomas from the College of
Experience. If you don't want our cdltor's
advice or an‘ expert's advloe. but Just plain,
everyday :huslness farmers’ advice. send In
you:I questlon here. w. wlll publish one
each week. If you can answer the other
follow’s question, please do so. he
wor one of yours some day! Address
Ionce Pool, care The Business Farmer,
Olemens, Mlch. "‘

 

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REMEDY FOR WARTS ON OOW’S
TEATS

N your issuenof Sept. 16th I read
where Mr- R. C. D. of Rose City
asked for a remedy for warts on

cow’s teats. Here is what I have
used for nearly forty years and never'
knew it to fail. Some warts are
harder to remove than others but
it will remove them all in time.
Samewill come off inra few weeks,
seed warts take more time.

' .Take fresh hog lard and apply

I

’freelyeve'ry day after milking.» Rub

in. well.—-—David A: Bennett, Dewitt.

.v  boy'_a,1z;we..‘.,«ammg’at his
' agelefs‘ate such, a good dinner that‘

aunt/observed: I ’-.~ _, .. ..

are ‘a better 'risk than \

 R5  "HORN  SAL 

j 35*  E. AD  35......

Scotch '- Scotch Topped - Milking
O Cows, Heifers" and Bulls \

‘l I Consigned by Members of the

Eaton County Shorthorn Breeders Association ‘

Beginning, at 12 o’Clock, noon, at the

FAIR GROUNDS
CHARLOTTE, MICHIGAN
Wednesday, Nov. 1, 1922

' For catalogue address Ira Zimmerman, Dimondale, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

PURE BRED DUROG-JERSEV BOAR
Pigs of April and May furrow, sired by Brook-
water Sensation and Model of Orion; Master-
piece. Place your order now, prices right. DET-
ROIT CREAMERY HOG FARM, Route 7, Mt.
Clemens, Mich. ' .

1 ml: spams

Sir-ed by Schabros To

1921 at Springﬁeld

heated for Cholew.
Sch: or

your name.
DUROG YEARLING AND FEBRUARY AND
d boarshsired by Pathﬁnder Chief
son of old Pathﬁnder; dams are Defender and
7th. Prices right; get the best.

oBAIN; Moscow. Mlch.

PEACH HILL mm

sex. Priced ve reasonable.
lNMIO D BROS.,

$20200 each. re
3mm. Oxford, M

offers choice weanling
Dumc pigs, either
Write us. _
Romeo, Mlcb.

HILL CREST DUROCS; SOWS AND GILTS
both bred and open, also serv1ce boarsﬂ O

B NK. Four mlles straight south of Middle-
ton, Gratlot 00., Mich.

 

 

HAMPSHIRE
REGISTERED ﬁrm-m?" “1

breeding. Prices rig-ht. W .W. OASLEeRYeavlgelﬁlcgf

ages.

REGIO‘I’ERED HAMPSHIRE AND D
Rains; also some good grade rams for salEl-CQILTIE
Write A. F. LONGPRE, Hardy, Mlch.

SHRQPSIHRE

SHROPSHIRE RAMS—«CHOICE YEAR
m  Ewa lambs. rite LINGS
DAN BOOH R, Evert, Mich" R. 4.

 

 

 

ngﬂelrobust one and two yr. old Wool-Mutton
‘ 1m lll‘e nuns priced right. Tell
want. aplewood stock Farm, Allgadfhaltl 

FOR SALE—~8HROPSHIRE, TUNI
and Lincoln Rams. Also ewes. s ‘beTswotill’l
recorded. L. R. ,KUNEY. Adrian. Mich.

 

DUROO JERSEY—WE HAVE A CHOICE LOT
of extra good spring boars ready for service; ship-
ped on approval. satisfaction guaranteed.

F. J. DRODT, Monmo, Mlch., R. 1.

DUROCS—POPULAR— BLOOD LINES—SEND
our wants to OCEANA CO. DUROC JERSEY
ilOG ASS’N. V. Lidgard—Sec., Hesperla. Michigan.

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POLAND CHINA

FBANGISOO FARM POLAND'BHlilAS

Big stretchy spring boars as good, as grow. Palm
and trios not akin. Can spare two or three of
our good herd sows bred for September.

-P. P. POPE
Mt.» Pleasant

L T. P. C. $15-$20-$25

spring pics at above prices Top fall gilta bred
for summer furrow, prricﬁd right.

Address F. T. Hart, St.

BERKSHIRES

 

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Louls, Mich

 

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V. .

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and ham hogs.

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are the fastest and

easiest feeding bu-
Purt of our business as a
breed pope help eve one secure HOOD
BERKSHIRES from RELIA LE BREEDICKS
at _ ble prices. Time payments mu be
arranged. send for free book “Berkshire Proﬁts“
and all particulars. ’Write:
E BS’RKSHIRE WORLD

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819 So. Sixth Springﬁeld, Ill.

 

 

 

HAMPSHIRES

 

A CHANGE TO GET SOME REAL HAMP-
shires. Boar pigs, sired by Gen. Pershing Again,
Gilt Edge Tipton, Messenger All Over 10th. Gen.
Pershing 2nd., and other great boars. Writes for
list and prices. DETROIT CREAMERY HOG
FARM. Route 7, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

HAMPSHIRE AND SHORTHORNS—MARCH

and April weighing 100 to .150. Price $20

to $2.5 eac . One red and one white bull_4 months

old. Price 340. Each registered. Write or call
; GUS THOMAS, New Lathrop, Mlch '

zAMPSHIRE SPRING BOAR PIGS NOW

«gay—*ch your order soon. 10 years in. business.
N . SNYDER, St. Johns, Mich" R. 4.

 

 

 

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not akin; ﬁne biz cmwthy sto

corded free. 0ne~balf mile W at of depo

Phone. 07110 B. SOHUL E, Nahsvllls.

.0 I 0's! Schi'il‘AlLstfglﬁEs on nu. rm
‘ or . e vs ,1 also spring boars
,for.-thmediatc shigment. I card save you mone .
Write . POLAR  DORIAN. Onover, .

0. l. O. TRUE'TO NAME, PROLIFIO STRAIN.
Open silt- bred silis,bnokiug order: for Skoptember
 u  0-  .  
. _.a.i ig.-epce one

Mb V4 91001: ram. North Adams, llleh.

Mlch.

 

 

 

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COTS‘VOLD

 

COTSWOLDS RAMS AND EWES, ALL AGES. x
priced to sell. Come and see them. Also 1
collie pup. A. M. BORTEL, Britten, Mich.

 

 

OXFORDS .

 

REGISTERED OXFORDS FOR SALE—ENTIRE
Flocks (at) head) Ruins. Ewe lambs. Also reg-
lstm‘ml Jicrcforll rattle any age.

EARL C. MOCARTY, Bad Axe, Huron 00., Mlch.

 

OXFORDS RAMS ALL AGES—:G-UARANTFE-E—D
breeders and to plvasv. A few owes also 10 ‘ewe
lambs. Wm. Van Sickle, Decker-ville, Mich., R. 2.

 

DELAINE

 

FOR SALE—IMPROVED BLACK TOP ’DELAINB
Murillo Rams.

FRANK ROHRABAOKER, Lalngcbul'g, Mich.
LARGE WELL COVERED .DELAINE -’SHEEP
for sale, both sexes. llama, Poll or Jlorned.

F. H. CONLEY a. SON, Maple Rapids, Mlch.

 

 

RAMBOUILLET m
- ‘rezistered yearlin d
Ramboulllet Rams two year olds, googd 01:33,
heavy shearers. best of breeding, priced right. H.
Hart, R. 2, Greenvllie, Mich., Gratton Phone.

FOR SALE—PURE BRED RAMBOUILLET
(loud stuff. At fanners’ prices.
M. EAGER, Howell, Mlch., R. F.'D. 6.

 

 

 

Cured Her

Rheumatism 1

Knowing from terrlble experience the suffer?
lng caused by rheumatism, Mrs. J. E. urst,
who lives at 608 E. Douglas Street, 0-489,
Bloomington, “L, In so thankful at having
cured herself that out of pure oratltude she ls
anxnous to tell all other sufferers Just how to
a? cold of thelr torture by a slmple way at

m ,.I

Mrs. Hurst has nothlng to sell. Merely mall
your ovvn name and address, and she wlll gladly
so you this valuable Information entirely
free. erte her at once before you forgot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN BUSINESS
FARMER
“The Farm Paper
of Service”_
TELL YeUR FRIENps
ABOUTIT ‘» “

 

 

 

 


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Advertisements Inserted under

this heading at 800_per agate line,

er issue. Commercial Baby Chick

,.advertisements 450 per agate line.

‘ . 1erte out what yen have to offer

'and send itin. We will put'_it in

type, send'proo! and quote rate‘s by

return mail. Address The Michigan

2 Business Farmer, Advertising De-
partment. Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

I f h tired Pullets in Lelhorns,
mmh'iiogﬂe Whit: ngandottes and Orpingtons.

1 these Pullets are near laying age
sho d lge put into winter laying quarters

If you want a flock of winter layers. write
W.
Also Cockerels, Bronze Turkeys, Toulouse Gem
and Pekin Ducks.
STATE FA M ASSOCIATION
Kala azoo, Mich.

PULLETS. HEHS AID GOGKEHELS

B. O. White‘Leghorns and S. C. and R. C. Black
linens. Must make room before cold weather.
About ready to lay.
LAPHAM FARMS, Pinckney, Mich.
  -—-150 WHITE WYANDOTTE
Oockerels and pullets. All from
winning stock of very best American

my rize , , .
Whit: Wyandottes laying strain. They Win for
me. Ting will win for you

case, Rochester, Michigan
WHITE WYANDOTTES—OHOIOE COOKER-
und Pullets from Regal—Dorcas trap-nested
$2) g strain. Marvels for size and beauty. Ex-

e
eeile t r show .
n o. . SMEAD, Rochester, Mich.

DR M J.
UR BRED PARTRIDGE WYANDOTTE
P E 7 mos. old, $2.50 each

is d Cockerels .
with Otmi-l. GOODER, Kalamazoo, Mlch., R. 3.
'I'OULOUSE GEESE, EARLY HATCHED LARGE

ram bird. ood quai y.
R8?d B. 81WAngS, East Jordan, Mlch., R. 1.

 

 

 

 

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LEGHORN S

LEGHORNS

. Buff Le horn Hens, Pullcts and Cockerels.
ﬁerg and Imiluﬁs‘ $2.50 each; cockerels $3.00 to
Show birds a matter of correspond-

‘500 and“ PinckneY. Mic“-

em-e. LAPHAM FARMS,

OOCKERELS AND PULLETS S. c.  LEG-
horns, m Burrongrstrttin, 25'?) egg utility hne,

' in hi 1.... '. . .
“HICECLFL e(\III.$EBO\;EE, North Star, Mich.

  ——-SINGLE come. Early

Hatched Cookerels.
W. WEBSTER, Bath, Michigan

 

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RHODE ISLAND REDS

 

ISLAND REDS TOMPKINS STRAIN
tnhﬂgogn'bs. Stock for sale, after September 15th.
. H. FROHM, New Baltimore, Mich R. 1.

WM ITTAK ERS
$2.00. Satisfie-
SONS, Bangor.

nos: contra n. l.’ naps

' k rels (April immhl.
ﬁlmzufxnéed. HAMPTON a.
Mich.

--RHODE ISLAND RED PULLETS
2:  (Lon 'ﬂeld strain) price 1.00 and
1.25 each. WILL AMSTON POULTR FARM,
llllemston, Mich.

REDS, 200 SINGLE
5.00 each. Also

and cockerels.
Box 4,

WHITTAKER’S R. I.

mb red pullets'ut- $2.50 to

th Rose and Single Comb coc

Irite for palatog. Interlakes Farm,
Lawrence, Mich.

 

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ORPINGTONS

F, iTE. BLA K

 HaatghI-ing egg: in season. 9
AUGUS E

T GRABOWSK
Merrill, Mlch., Route 4, Box 41,

BUFF OHPINGTOHS 8. SP-EOKLED

ex ooekerels. Buff geese and ducks. Newfound—

ood watch egg.
'L.‘ E. BIRKY, Pompell, Mich.

 

 

PLYMOUTH ROCK

BIG HUSKY. HEALTHY
wt of years of mrefui

DUFF ROCK OKL'S,
' res
Box M, Saitlllo, Ind.

uniform color, the
greeding.’
. c. OLIPP a SONS.

 

 

TURKEYS

 

OLLAND TURKEYHHOIOE PRO-
 stocH k, large and vigorous. Beautiful gob-
lore and h on, priced reasonably. Write me before
tying. A. F. STEGENGA, Lyons. Mlch.. R. 1.

runssnso sounsou REDS, LARGE, woo-
' . Evans train. Hens 8 tons $10. ,
"mMARY séscom. n. 4. Mariette, Mich.

 

BOURBON “RED TURKEYS—UNRELATED‘
k. Order early for low “rices.
THOS. G. GALLAGHA , Fenton, Mich.

nap TURKEYS READY

. FOR
‘ ﬂip , f noes etc. dress
. a mag? Mir rioso‘rHAM. Hesperis, Mich.

ones. Order early

ﬂamers essr PURE ‘snso snouzei
j ,ii’lisfﬁum. TANTON. Decker-ville, moh.

 

 

‘ DUCKS

 

, SALE enclo: wurrs ream ouoxs
;,, d dukes and mallards.
 cases I I) run. memos. Mich,

‘ ’ '  s Plum ou K8
m.   11‘“ Janine-loll.

 

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MY POULTRY EXPERIENCE, I

In response to the invitation ex- ,
tended some time ago in theSe col-'

umns to readers. to «contribute
stories of their eXperiences _ with
poultry, a number of interesting
them and proﬁt by what others have

learned about the successful raising

of poultry.--Editor.

IS THERE MONEY IN HEN S?

I CHOOSE chickens as my hobby
as I found the work pleasant and
proﬁtable.

I am just a. farm woman. I start-
ed on February 12, 1920 with 210
birds. I made a net proﬁt, during
the year of $544.90. Then I had
230 birds, had sold $785.20 worth
of eggs and birds, and spent for feed
and numerous small things $240.30.
the difference of $544.90 and“$240.-
30 was the pay for my labor.

I began keeping complete records.
I wanted to know how to take bet-
ter care of my chickens as I realized
better care meant more proﬁt. ..

We have to keep records of cost of
feed also number of eggs laid, sold
and consumed andchickens sold or
consumed.

I have ,found out that the proper
housing of chickens is important.
Do not keep more chickens than you
have room for. If overcrowded it
will mean disease and loss.

Ventilation must be so arranged
that there wlil be no draught on the
chickens. Every house should have
a system of ventilation so the chick—

ens Will receive the beneﬁt of the-

fresh air.
Too many chickens in your house
will lower the vitality of the birds.
Having had my ﬂock culled I
know and feel it has been a factor
in making a proﬁt. Give the well-
housedpvigorous hen proper food
and a full egg basket is the reward.
We keep a dry mash before the
chickens the year around. 100 lbs.
of ground corn and 200 lbs. ground
oats and 100 lbs. meat scraps. '
Scratch grain is fed in litter, oats
and wheat in morning and corn «at
night. Through the winter I give
green food for variety. , I plan to
have green food that is most easily
raised. Pumpkins vare the main
green food as long as they keep.
In feeding pumpkins, cut them in
halves, remove the seeds and the
chickens will do the rest. Cabbage
and potatoes are also good used in
this way. ‘ r
My experience has been that eggs
are the most proﬁtable part of the
poultry raising business. In order
to have pullets lay in winter I hatch
early. Good healthy. vigorous stock
with cleanliness and proper feeding
and housing will bring pleasing re-
sults. In my opinion‘ there is money
in chickens—Mrs. Charles Everts,
Kalamazoo County, Mich.

A PLEAURE AS WELL A PROFIT

OULTRY raising is a pleasure to
_|_ to me as well as proﬁt. It

seems to me there is nothing
better than a ﬂock of poultry to
eliminate waste on the farm.

My chicks have free range as soon
as old enough. I add to their feed
as they grow. I ,ﬁnd a. feed that
Will make a young pullet grow and
make her lay. A grain mixture that
will make a chick grow will make a
plump brioler.
healthy if given ‘a good mixture,
liberal feeding and exercise.

There is no economy in feeding
poultry to be sold beyond the time
when they weigh 2 to 3_pounds. If
they li’ave been well fed from ‘the
time they are hatched, the broilers
Will be plump and juicy and bring
the best price at the least expense.
The best plan, I ﬁnd in caring for
the ﬂock, large or small, is to select
the pullets and cockerels ydu want

to keep and sell the rest as soon as,“

they are ready.\ . , V I.

I’ always aim to keep, downx the
cost. My hens have free rangeall
summer and get most of the green
feed they need. I give lettuce, onion

.tops, waste fromthe kitchen, any:
thing ‘I‘have with a. little grain, '
 sour, militant! plenty
v “be a:  

in he

The chick will be.

, —the sooneruthe better.

name other time.

ot- veter‘ to 

a

tWeen lakes. Hens" like a.‘ change

01" ratiéns.

In Winter I give scratch feed in'

deep _ ‘ litter,-

and‘ barley, as much as they will
clean up, oyster shell, grit made
from pounded stone and charcoal.

This is kept by them all the time-

with plenty of sour milk and water
to drink. At noon‘- they are fed a
mash feed such as they feed cattle,
withﬂcheese 'made from sour milk.
Every few days in cold weather I
give the mash moist with a little
cayenne pepper.
ables for green feed, Cabbage, beets,
boiled potatoes, celery tops, and ole-
casionally apples for a,.relish. In
the eyening they get a. good feed of
grain, going to bed with full crops.
I have lots of eggs to sell all win-
ter when the prices are good.

Ionly aim to keep tWO‘ breeds,
the Plymouth Rock for meat and
White Leghornsfor eggs.

Mysurroundings for
ing‘are far from ideal, I have no
nice coops, patent feed hoppers,
drinking fountains, or trap nests.
Just troughs for feeding and drink-
ing, boxes for .nests, and a box of
ashes for dusting. This ‘is so ar-
ranged it takes little time and labor
to care for them. My methods are
not the best, but I get results.

To me it is not a question whether
poultry pays but how could we get
along without. I think there is no
better meat than a nice juicy broiler,
and the eggs play an important part
in our meals being of high nutrative
value. Care, management, selection,
breeding, culling and proper feed-

ing methods mean success or failure -

in the poultry business.

Much has been said of the cow,
the pig and the hen being kept on
the farm for proﬁt. I think all
things considered the hen ranks
ﬁrst. Hens do a business each year
large enough to be rated among the
big industries of the world,
some people speak of poultry raising

,as the “woman’s end of farming.”

It is said the fowls kept on American
farms number nearly three hundred
millions; the eggs they produce
nearly two billion dozens. When it
comes to poultry raising I amr en-
thusiastic and will continue to praise
the hen—Mrs. A. J. B., Presque Isle
County, Mich.

Illﬂ’ROVE YOUR FLOCK

MPROVE .your ﬂock—it will pay.

_VVe don't mean’by this that you

should spend money for a lot
of standard—bred poultry and then
give it the kind of treatment some
of you are now giving your hens.
Standard-bred poultry couldn’t
stand it—they aren’t used to it.
You'd better keep what you have.

But if you" are really in earnest
about getting the best proﬁt from
your hens, if you are willing to give
a little attention to housing them,
feeding them, and caring for them,
then it will pay you to think about
the kind of hens you have, and to
take steps to improve your flock
as soon as possible.  I

Cull—Get rid of the poor stud.
Weed out the weak, sickly, unde-
veloped hens that never lay -at_all,
the old hens that lay only two or
three dozen eggs in the spring, and
the surplus roosters that are star
boarders all the year around. Why
feed these when they are producing
little or nothing? Get rid of them
Culling is
thebasi‘s of a good flock. Cull, and
keep continually culling.

Begin now to build a better, flock.
Don’t put it off until next year or
‘ Start now, even
though you‘ start in .a very small
way, ~ . -

Eight or 10 hens will produce’all
the eggs you need for hatching. Se-
lect .the ., very best hens you. have

and mate them with “the; best cocker- .

cl on ,the place. ‘ 7
In order to do this you will have

to make'some arrangement 'tor keep_-_

ingigthe - breeding- stock
fro '-the‘re'st‘~'cf 1 :1

2.0

a ,which consists 'of a. ‘
Change‘f'of grain, corn, wheat, oats

i

They have veget—'

poultry raged

yet

l er.

. time.

_ c ..  . a
as a tattooing p nifor‘cockereis: A;
is one of -the best investh 
can makef‘on the term.  
You go to a little trouble-"3,11
pause to get. the best seed‘cornz

is. Why, not take the L 

‘ Ii
house

1 le money'p‘ in
proving your- ﬂock it willwpayf of!
to buy a well-bred male. . ‘ .
that the quickest Way to iniprcve‘f
your dairy herd is to put a good male?
at the head. The same is trueﬂof.
chickens—only you get. results quick-17

Mate a good male With the best "
hens you have and in two or three
years you can grade up your flocks
to quitera degree of perfection-

Results will be more quickly at?
tained if you buy as setting of good 
eggs. Keep the best pullets hatched '
from these eggs and mate them with '
a well-bred male, and you will have
a. standard—bred ﬂock in, a.

The quickest way to get a. good
flock is to buy two or three good
hens and mate them with a well-«‘
bred male. Two or three hens will
produce enough‘eggs in one season
to give you quite a stock of chicks.
Breed from the best of these the
next year. In two years’ time you
will have a. good-sized thorough,-
bred flock. '

In buying eggs or breeding “stock \ '

buy from some one Who
his hens.
record ’of the number oi eggs each
hen lays in a year. I is to't‘he
poultry industry what the Babcocx’
tester is to the dairy industry. You
~haven’t time to "feel" with trap-
nesting our hens, but if you are go-
ing to spend some of your hard-
earned money for breeding stock

trap-nests

' insist on having the best there is.

The trap-nest is positiv‘ély the only 
test there is of the laying quality of I ‘ '
any strain of chickens. " ' , ‘
Finally keep one breed only. A.
mongrel flock cannot be as proﬁt-
able as the pure-bred flock, provided ~.
both are given the same care and at-

, tention. . _ 
A- theroughbred flockds more pro- -‘ » I

ﬁtable because the products are un-
iform.‘ The eggs are the same size,
shape, color and texture of,.shell.
The chickens are more uniform in
shape and size of body, and in color.
of skin and shanks. - ' '
You will ‘take pride in a. pure-bred
flock and give it ‘better'care than you
would a flock made up of anyeold
kind of chickens. Your flock is more
attractive in appearance. Your
neighbors will notice it and will

' want to buy eggs and breeding stock

from you. It is good for ’you to
know that you have the best there
is. It stimulates an interest. in our
work, and the man who is interested
and satis'ﬁed’is the man who is get-
ting the most out of life.
' ON RAISING GOSLINGS
HAVE raised goslings with suc-
I cess. I started with 6 eggs and
hatched 5, the other was infertile,

.I kept over 2 hens, and bought a

pure—bred gander. The main thing
in poultry of any kind is good breed-
stock. Get the best at-any price,
its—is cheaper in the end, also‘ get un-
related stock. I have raised 35 this
7-year. After they are 48 hours did.
I feed hard boiled eggs (sparingly)
mixed with poultry tonic, and dand-
elion blossoms. They prefer the,
blossom to the eggs I igind.~ I wlso’
put a few grains of Permangnate’of
Potash in the drinking water from'
the start and feed sour milk. Never ._
let young goslings get me watch,
I keep them penned up to . one week
cleaning the V runs and? sleeping ’-
quarters daily. v —/ 

Second week I allow them out at , -
little every day; third week I let *
them run at large and have no
trouble, '  ,3

Second .week I feed brand and do,
so'till they mature. I ﬁnd thisv'er'y‘a ,
essential. 7 Change the feed to bread
rung. out of sour milk,,a little-cut ~
-meat; dutch (Sheen ,aud-gsome emu
grains; and some Statrite. glarind‘u
change of iced daily keeps"»their" v 
petite in good'shmpe. ,; '-   v.3,

 

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sinuses or rich dessert; when, {as l
a matter effect, the “average farm-g

er’t’zi's starving for substantial food.

an a case 'of “too much" specialist,
and not enough constructive, prac-
tical, nation-wide vision. \
’ . 'An analysis of the last annual ap-
propriation for the . Extension Ser-
yice will show that the Department
-riot, Agriculture- is spending more on
. ' overhead and specialists than it is

‘ on county agents, both men and wo-

men. The total allotment of all ex-

' (tension funds for the current year
’ ~was $18,497,360,
‘priations from the Federal govern-

including appro-

mont, state governments and from
c‘ounty authoritites. When the county
wants an agent it is required to put
up at least half theinoney. The sal-
aries and the expenses of the more

than 4,000, county agents' total $11,-
740,657, or which one-half is pro-

vided by the Federal and state gov-
ernments.  /
When the Bureau of Markets of

the~Department of Agriculture was
it was

hoped that the bureau would‘worvk

'out a comprehensible national mar-

keting policy. But no comprehens-
ive program has been envolved. ,

'The farmers’ isolation, the neo-
essity for independent or family unit
production, the wide variety of pro-

‘ducts grow upon the average farm,

the seasonable production and mar-
keting of staple crops, resultlng .1n
market gluts, and the uncertainlty

“of income, are the factors, taken to-

gether, which constitute the inherent
weakness of agriculture.

Generally speaking, I do not ad-
vocate the entrance of government
into private business. In agrlcul-
ture, I believe that the time has
come when the government should
provide machinery on a‘ nation-wide
scale, through which farmer co-oper—
ative marketing associations may
organize. and function.

Taken through a series of years,
the American farmer does not, and
need not fear the normal function-
ing of the law of supply and demand,
but fer many years this law has not
been permitted to function normally.
The more compact and’cohesive tend-
encies of urban peoples has made
possible a system of middlmen, so

thoroughly ingencheo that they now

maintain themselves in open deﬁance
of the laws of supply and demand.

It would seem on its face, that the
carrying out of a program of sufﬁ-
cient magnitude to effect the results
‘I suggest would prove a tremendous
‘It would impose the
test of sincerity and states-manshi-p
upon Congress. However, I am con-
vinced that the most drastic action
is justiﬁed.

The principal points of my plan
involve: » ‘

1. A reorganization of the Fed-

.eral and state co-operotive demon-
' strative service,

affecting principally
the character of work expected of

the county agent. ,(The Extention
its entirety be ad-

minstered "directly by an assistant‘

_ secretary of agriculture.)

2. A reorganization of the Bureau
of Economics (formerly the Bur-
eau of Markets)"leaving a portion
of" the work of the present organiza-
tion under the Department of Agr1r-.
culture, placing the balance under

. the control and direction of an inde—.

pendent: board to be kown as the
“Federal Board of Co-operative Farm
Marketing and Finance." .

The reorganization suggested wil‘..
be more particularlyya matter of re-
vitalizing the organization, and di-
ecting its course back into the chan-

' nels originally outlined by its found-

er, the late Dr. Seaman A. Knapp,
to wit: .
Economic production.

(a) .
(b) , Standardization] at products.
((1) Stimulation of co-operative_

effort among farmer's
a (d) Application of demonstra-

 tion principles to rural homes.

And of vital importance, en-
uraging the production upon the
ﬁrm of-as much as may be possible
., the food consumed thereon.
.JFollnwi’ '~ the; above general out—x
  'th tilt would be ad-

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‘ \It‘ "should, be said , for the Co—oper—
‘a-ti'Ve .Demonstration Service, as now
constituted, that it is doing much in

an unoﬂicialmay to aid the farmers.

in, their attempts at organization
long co-operative marketing lines.
The county agent in extending this
aid; however, is placed in a class
with the “lawbreaker”, for he is un-
“der instructions from headquarters
not to participate actively in this
work, as it is contrary to the interf
pretation given the organic law es-
tablishing the .Demonstration Ser-

,vice. ‘ I would recommend the estab-
lishment of this new agency under

the name of the “Federal Board of
Co-operative Farm Marketing and
Finance,” under a board of practical
men, representing the marketing in-
terests of co-operative assooiations,
organized along commodity lines,
tWo representatives for» each group,
namely: grains, cotton, tobacco, live
stock, dairy products and perishables,
with the Secretaries of Agriculture
and Commerce members ex ofﬁcio of
the board.

I would suggest that all market
work, together with the administra-
tion of the Warehouse Act be trans-
ferred to the (board as above out-
lined, leaving in the present Bureau
of Economics all economic investi—
gations, and crop and live stock sta—
tistical work. A part of the regula-
tory work since the ﬁrst of July has
been placed directly under ther Se’c-
retary of Agriculture, and should re-
main there.

h The functions of the Federal
Board of Co—operative Farm Market~
ing and Finance should be separated
into two divisions—ﬁrst, the Division
0 fCo—operative Farm Organizations,
and second, the Division of Finance.
The Division of Co~operative Farm
Or anizations would be that con—
truc ive force in the organization
and operation of farm organizations.

THE FINANCING PLAN

Under the Finance Division would
be established a corporation, the op-
erating capital to be provided from
the Federal Treasury, through the
issuance of long-term government
bonds, these bonds to be sold, in 08
far as may be practical. in the rural
sections. The sale of these bonds
should be made through national
farm loan associations, country
banks and farm organizations. This
corporation should be empowered
with the authority" to purchase
build, lease or license warehouses,
elevators and cold storage plants in
all primary and export centers where
available facilities are either inad-
equate or controlled by interests
which operate same on a basis dis—
criminatory to the co-Operative com-
modity associations seeking to do
business with them. Warehouse re-

ceipts should be issued for produce

stored as provided for under the
Warehouse Act, said certiﬁcates to
be acceptable as collateral security
for advances to the co—operative as—
sociation controlling the product for
Which the certiﬁcate is issued. It is
contemplated that a large part of
the capital of the ﬁnance copora—
tion would be available as a revolv-
ing fund which may Pbe supplement-
ed by collateral loans from the Fed-
ieral Reserve System. In fact, the
ﬁnance corporation should be a. mem-
ber of the Reserve System, author—
ized by law to do business direct with
any one of the 12 Reserve banks.
Be it understood, that the ﬁnance
corporation should seek in every
way possible, through cash advances
and the providing of storage facili-
ties, to bring about an orderly mar—
keting of crops, seeking by these
means to maintain prices against
the serious and ofttimes runious
breaks resulting under the present

‘system from the periodical market

gluts and from market manipula-
tion. ‘

The country as a whole has come
to recognize that the complexities
of the present-day civilization, con-
sidering the i terpendent relation-
ship existinga between industries,
render it- unthin’kable for our gov-
ernment to permit the ,disintergra-
tion and. failure of any fundamental
industry. I insist that the plight of
agriculture. is-the concern of the

wholenation, and that action along ‘

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HE approach of winter ﬁnds busi-
ness in a generally prosperous
and optimistic mood. 'The in-

creased movement of coal, under
government direction, has gone a
long way to alleviate the fear of the
large industries that they would
have to close down for lack ofiit and
because of their inability to pay the
-exorbitant prices charged. Employ—
ment is at high tide. People are
not skimping on their purchases to
‘ pu’ite the extent they did two years
.and a year ago. Yet, caution and
good sense are being used.

Perhaps the greatest single inﬂu-
ence in the upturn of business is the
gradually ascending of prices on
farm products. Certainly this factor
has given the farmers new hope de—
spite the fact that a. considerable
part of their grain has gone to mar—
,ket at lower prices. Farmers who
still hold their grain are looking for-
Ward with a good deal more encour-
agement than they have felt for a
long time. The low price of potatoes
and milk is still a discouraging fac-
tor, but the production of the latter
has taken a great slump and there
is a. tendency toward better prices.
The future of potatoes, however, is
still very problematical

The' foreign situation does not
greatly improve and the great swing
of public sentiment in this country
against the proposal to cancel the
War debts has plunged the European
countries still further into the slough
of despond,_though they have never
really received any encouragement
here in their fond hope that America
would cancel her obligations aganst

, them.

rIjhe Turkish situation has improv-
ed, and although the danger of hos—
tilities has not been entirely remov-
ed, there is little liklihood now that
vwar will eventuate. France seems
blind to her duty in the crisis and
refuses to be \drawn into the com—
prising position. A goodly number
of people of the United States, in-
censed at the Turks’ treatment of
the Armeninas, are quite ready to
take up arms against this notorious
disturber of the world‘s peace and
wipe him and his race from the
map. Strange to say, among these
who would avenge the wrongs of the
Armenians, we ﬁnd a considerable
number of the very same folks who
said that the United States should
not belong to the League of Nations'
and had no business to assume a
mandate over Armenia. ‘They must
be blind, indeed, if they cannot per-
ceive such a mandate, established at
the close of the World War would
have been a constant and effective
warning to Turkey to behave herself.
We cannot help but feel that the re-
fusal of the United States 0 perform
her duty at that time, has been a
contributing inﬂuence in bringing
about the present situation.

Despite the predictions to the con?

trary Europe continues to buy large
quantities of goods in this country
and is apparently having no difﬁculty
in ﬁnancing her purchases. France,
Italy, Spain and Great Britain are
apprently bringing their ﬁnancial
problems to a slow solution and will
continue good patrons of the United;
States, but Austria, and Germany

are rapidly approaching the verge~

of economic downfall, and sooner or
later must disappear from the list of
America’s customers.
“’HEAT

We are frank to confess that we
have under estimated the strength of
the bull movement in wheat which
began the latter part of September
and is still in full swing.‘ Where
and when it will end no man can say.
Tha it will go on for some time to
com and that prices will continue
’ to impnove now seems certain. The
" -action of this market\ the last six
_weeks once more illustrates what
yery little control the average farm-
, r has over his maket.‘ The ﬁrst
of September no man dared to pre-

ict that withinanother sixty days“

'wheat would advance nearly twenty
" "ts a bushel. ‘It, was the wrong
9 for an "advance, it natural fac-
ts were the only; inﬂuence.

'briskly upward.

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gunner SUMMARY; 
Wheat quiet to strong. - Comand oats Rye

active. ' Potatoes easy to lower.

__ steady“, Beans" I:
Butter "and Eggs .{in- demand. ‘

Poultry not wanted. Cattle active and : higher. -Hogsf' higher.
Sheep easy. Provisions follow trend of hog ima'rket. '

 

(Note: The above summarized, Information
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going to press —-Edltor.)

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.movement of wheat from farms was

at its height. Farmers were anxi-
ous to sell. ,.

Reports from other countries in-
die ted good crops. But ingthe face
of 11 these bearish factors the mar-
ket suddenly took on life and started
Those who grope
in the dark for the reasons for the
ups and dOWns of the market can
only conclude that the speculators
forced the price of wheat down and
bought it cheap and are now forc-
ing it up to make their proﬁts, using
the war scare as their excuse. This
theorie is supported by the fact that
the removal of the responsibility of
war never caused a ﬂicker in the
market. . - .

Last reports from other wheat
growing "countries are to the effect
that the total crop is short about
200,000,000 bushels. If these ﬁgures*_
are correct then we may expect very
much higher prices on Wheat. As
we go to press the eastern sections
ﬁnd themselves low on Wheat, with »
elevators and farm bins in the west
still bulging. Movement is slow~
from west to east because of the”
freight tie-up resulting from the
strike and should winter arrive a“
little ahead of his usual time it
might take considerable time to
bring about a balance between the
east’s demands and the west’s supply.

Most of the export business is be—"
ing done by Canada Who is offering
her wheat ‘freely and at somewhat
lower prices than the United States.
Canada has encountered no difﬁculty
with transporation andpthe wheat
crop of the Northwest has moved
steadily and in volume tO'the eastern
searboard.

Mr. Foster, the M. B. F. weatheli‘
man, predicted some time ago that
we would see $1.50“-wheat by Jan.1.
If wheat values continue to gain as

 

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they have the last thrty days he
wen’t be far fom the mark. But
that's a doggoned big “if.” ‘ a
I . Pricos,

Detroit—No." 2 red, $1.22; No... 2
white and No. 2 mixed, $1.20
‘vChicago—No. 2 red, $1.17@$1-17-
1/2; No. 2 hard, $1.15 @$1.16.

New York—No. 2 redand No. 2
hard, $1.26.

Prices one year ago—Detroit—No.
2 red, $1.24; No. 2' white, and No. 2
mixed, $1.21.

CORN

Corn followed‘ the trend of.wheat
the greater part of the past couple
of weeks prices for the former grain
being more sensitive to changes
working for higher prices than in
the latter grain. Total gains at De-
troit during the two weeks amount-
ed to 70 at the close on Saturday of
last- week while at Chicago the ad-
vance aggregated slightly less. .De-
mand has been good and trading ac-
tive. Chicago reports there has
been considerable investment buy-
ing of the grain at that point be-
cause of acive demand for cash corn
and belief that supplies next season
willmbe in ‘good demand. Receipts
are fair and buyers say if it were
not for the ishortage of cars receipts
Would be large as farmers seem to be
willing to, sell at least apart of their
holdings, at the present price levels.
Export business is not as good as it
was a year ago. Receipts at Chi-
cago last weekamounted to 3,780;
000 bushels, while 3, 365,000 bush-
els were shipped. ~

Prices

Detroit—No. 2 yellow, 78%0; No.
2 yellow, 77 Vac; No. 4 yellow,
76%c.

Chicago—No.

2. yellow, 70 
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As forecasted by W. T. Foster for The Michigan Business Farmer

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90 and Rockies crest—8 east of meridian 90 south '
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latitude 43%. west-of Rockies)

Washington, October 27, 1922.4—A very important feature of’brop-

weather is the'severity of the storms.

erate, severe and very severe.
I am making good on these.

I, class that feature as mod-

The latter includes dangerous stems.
Cropweather forecasts are the very best

kind for all purposes; they cover everythingﬁhat‘ is useful; they are

long in advance, called long range;

days in advance and are called short range.

all other forecasts are only a few

The former areascientiiic,

based on well—known causes and mathematically calculated.~ All the
short range forecasts are mere guesses, not a mathematical calculation
in them, The authors of the short range guessing, knowing what
the weather is in all parts of.-the continent today guess what it will

be H tomorrow.

Oﬂicial science calls it emprical forecasting.

These

two systems have‘their. separate spheres, each“ :is useful, neither com- ,
,petes nor interferes with the other; readers take their choice; therev

is room’for improvements in: both;

short range does not.

.ﬂie‘i long range covers ;both, "the

The last storms of the~.0ct'ober center on 127,7i‘n‘ .1115 middle north;
west, classed as severe; no. t will be moderate and center on‘Noveémbor

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and warmer than usualncoveringjﬂrsthaifof " ‘ ‘  f 3 3;,

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" 2'wiiite, 9133';- No; .2 mixed,

"$2.28;

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. Void?» 
7 Prices-one ,year...‘ago,+-Betrei$,; 
2 yerlow, 52‘c‘; No. ,3 yellow; 51's". ,
4- yell,ow,'“”4§c~ g ,7. f -,  *- ._ '
Best grade of pats ,at Detmi 
vireng to press‘re'adily «bring 481t0~
,cents per bushel which is

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ing scarcity, acting almost entirely
in sympathy with, wheat. '
been bullish on oats from the start-MI
and still are. Prices have .nor, in

our— belief, reached. their zenith for}, M

the season. -

- ' Prices . ‘4 , . 
Detroit—No. 2 white,.49c; No.3 ‘

White, 47%c; No.'4 white, 45c. V " ‘
Chicago:‘—No. 2‘white, 42% @456;

No. 3 white, 41%@43%c.  A" '

New York—No. 2‘white, 56@5’ic. J
, Prices one year ago—‘-Detreit,~ Not "
2‘white, 39c; No. 3 white, 366; No, '
4 white, .330. ' ' '
RYE
Rye continues upward the‘"prico
advancing 6c at Detroit during the 
fortnight ending Saturday, October
21. The price on the Chicago mar-
ket advanged about same timeline-
The grain seems to be in a strong ‘,
position at the present time and pos-
sibilities of higher prices in the near
future are good. '
Detroit—Cash, No. 2, 840. \ '
Chicago~—Cash, No. 2, 78%, @79c.
Prices one year ago—Detroit, 85c.
POTATOES ‘
The black sheep in the crop family
this year are potatoes. The October
lst estimate shows a drop of 5,000,— 
000 bushels from thewSeptember, but
that means nothing. As long as the
estimate remains over 4,000,000 ,
bushels prices must remain, low,
However, several factors enter the
situation, which if unh‘ampered will >~

‘ mean better prices to Michigan grow-1

Many thousands of acres have

61‘s. .
We believe that this .

not been dug.

faCt alone will «knock at least 10,-'  v

000,000 more bushels \oﬁ? the latest “"
estimate. Also, there are thousands
of farmers who swear they will never
Sell potatoes for 30 cents _a busheL
And they mean it. Farmers of’the
western states didn’t get a“) chance,
because it costs them more to ship,
to their market than the market is

-v» paying. Chicago potatoes can go to .
$1.50 per cwt., which wbuld mean “"

50 or 60 cents a bushel for Mlchl an
spuds, before the cempetitio‘n of he "
far western states will be seriously
felt. Daily shipments took a' slump
about the middle of the month. re-
sulting temporarily“ in a slight
strengthening of. the market, but
with little improvement in price.
However, it goes without Saying that
supplies cannot be held back for very
long without higher prices at can-
suming points. But prices have got
to be considerable higher at consum-
ing points before the local buyers
will raise their prices, asw none of
them care to’ chance a sudden drop
in price which would follow the re-

.lease of any considerable number

of potatoes. Prices are abnormally
low notwithstanding the size of the
crop, and We have the feeling, that
farmers who can afford to hang tight
have more'to gain‘ than they have to
lose. . r
Prices
Detroit——$ 1 . 2 0-~ per cwt,
Chicago—-—$1.10 per cwt. ‘ .
Prices one year ago—Detroit, ‘

‘ _ BEANS _ ~ -
The bean market continues gery
active and substantial price advances

are registered every, other day or so. _-

The Detroit. marketaq’on, b’eans'hfor 

instance", advanced? 5 Cents per 

from Oct; 12th to Oct 23nd». ,Whne

19.11MB believed. all/raisins that been

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I “mun” 11! Whh‘ihﬁ? £1701- be’inl 48.200 smaller-thin a. year ego ‘ V ‘ -
"3m: done their marketing.  10.700 larger _than campond- ' . A v - . "
2 * ‘ayewis‘el‘y actéd upon" the‘ ad— ‘ 3113 period two years, ago, Although , , n .
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Qt?“  Business Farmer and arrivals from both the 'natlt’re .and
5312.10 time since the hair- range states spring the ‘pnst tWe
  (the el/iyators been  transiting! genora’l-toxgect’giggg, * . I ‘
 gmns t an the user at ,, supply was: ow ecu re 9 11 ' 9 9 , . o g . e a
‘  l‘ibwrb. We do not be; manta cosmetically eyery session, v
ﬁve”, thaw. ‘n prices‘whaﬂ It“:th forcing mm 61 s to the highest Covering. Fire,   and 
’eir  'torv‘thie season. _ gavel 11:1 someﬂttnge‘.1 hged tand yeag- I i _
i  r   “I ~ 118' 3 991’ “3’ 9° ‘3 t 9 ex mm" a ‘ ‘ UTOMOBILE owners h ve be 11 usin eater care this our
Limoges-ma H, _P., $6.60 par cwt. nose. with 0119106 light native ewes 5 in selection of the comanany garrying tglll'eir insurance. yl‘hu
 595” 1“! angmdt' 0" 3.5m]?  ﬁle 11183? aieflrfgiwsigvﬁ‘éf 1(1)? Citizen? Mutual Automobile Insurance, Company of Hovy
I set i  !.' -   , .   . _
‘ L , I ._ “‘ ‘ . “may Gaming definable, BHOPgh 811, has a statewide organization of attorneys, agents and adJusters
V8 in More}. mgarkets are l '  $6??th émhcggieg'ﬂ‘iteﬁieﬁs to assist the Fancy home” in troyble’ The company has settled-
 .. . n a. , ..  m . ‘ , - - ' -
 93mg; d1, to the cin- short. my;th ‘9: mg aged and yearlings ,  Dion thousand claims and has paid during thls year over
8 r T in   curtailed again? alt: {Mirna ggfmtlatbaﬁgi t :1; 01:12:: A  >
 t “19399” 3’9 “TY ‘ a a v in 7 W .. - on your car is dame ed‘b ﬁre theft or collision, or When
vmmu, The quality or hay on weathers, during the Week 0381164 at daiﬁage suit of liability isg brmfght aigainst you you will be glad
ztha market 399313: to be improving. 38.0%whilgatgineyo ki‘llliggzsyaﬂgggg that you have a poll-Cy in a substantial comﬁany Automobile
,, g ‘. v ‘ ran“ up. . - ~- ' . . * .' .
‘th  Mill. guild.“ timmhy- and “in” r3194 9;, gm upyvard _trend losses are complicated and it takes men of experience to aSSISt
 cgﬁoa’osih No. 1.- gzmgggeut agapzﬁlg gag: gala}; :1: ~1n the adjustment or the .: :ttlement of the liability claims. You
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' cnéaswno, 3, timothy. $20@. use. ranging unevenly 50c to $1.00. gage $338419 tihisdsemce forba tsmall cost. Do not take chances on
$31; ﬁne 1 9104,91,.» $16@;18. M - r, un r1e company 11 insure m a company strong enough
» ‘ New Yorke—No 2 timothy. $24@ WOOL to stand the test of heavy losses.
v  1‘ _°1§;?r'3$i1;@5::; ’ ,16@ Strength continues in the mid—  y -
’ 31+ No. clover unsoes'm, "stem W001 market“. with a recent Total assets, October 1, - 
. --~?’rtees imp year ago—3.. tender-d 11c: aldnnge afoer .151 9118123: $1.1m: \ ‘ '
_‘ " ’ ’ ‘  Hansen... sates mesa 1, ° -
 ,V  “341:. 1352‘0Nger1 Eggﬁtlexi in 3mm ache, grades, notably 3-8 Galn over a year ago . .. _ 88,338.68 1
in“  #1 M1 m’ton. ~ ’ ‘ ‘brm mi” The market” ‘3 “mt? . . . . ..
~~   31.14 “ti”: Wm deﬁle“ ame‘ to d 3' L The cost of insuring a Ford car covering ﬁre, theft and) liability

T  -- ' ‘ “ ‘ '  ‘ 1 th are . . . . . .
H MAGO LIVE STQQK MARKET 5:21?" “ﬁgtﬁgggng:ipwfé’cnot 1n the country districts is only $9.60, and other cars in proportion.

’ A series of strong to higherxnar- - .
' 0111 in the midwest but in the east 8
km elevated cattle prices in general as is“, gevéml savanna s of u hav- See local agent 01' erte to

,wjiil‘ast week. Advances In the beef , 1" been chalked up on the 395mm,

r 'class"‘a‘mounted to from 25c to 60c. o o 9
 ‘ ' ‘ iv '5’ m week onbggme 1m" The C t ZEUS Mutual All ("I") .
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V: (inditlons, Iinc‘luiirisig healthyusnihg- ‘3“???th ,, \mﬁdwegter'n “rt so- 1 l » - l e
‘ s kets tonne dressed products as well ﬁlmed. ‘ nauve "9°13 1” lar ‘9 1° 3

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~— as: herrioes to: hides and lea- "such Wm” a9 3“ 9M3!” y.  " 
_ tarmers' Doom-resin as tollaws» ('11   . .   e
um. sided In boosting  market 0_ b. Chicago): F,” and madman

".last met at camp. mints at .1 o a 19 49
its: ﬁningthtﬁg, tam HOWELL. ~. MICHIGAN

{3.799191% approximately 10.400 93*

2 met than ‘ 1 ~ '. .

* ‘mll‘y  9:55: 5923:2533 m smog. 33084;; braid. 29c.
m the Mag Mia; . ‘ last Western ( territory) wools sol-1
 11191;“; this: ‘ “twin” mostly 2@3c below these levels,
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1g; weal: at eﬂrextmmly'lﬂﬁoo :hgﬁmithreet-vagetiegdem early to 03‘. SEEDS
on compare 1yer small for this . 9 111m n ma ury a), are grown V
season of" theﬁ yedr. being smaller in Michigan -, -, ~ $50523} #3325le iifﬁmﬁngﬂ‘ém‘hh
. , than .seven of the corresponding At the meeting it wee Shown that    ,' 1 g  ,.  r ﬁgmmggget'ogfﬁgggil‘gogg 1’3; m; 0" com?”
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«ago, My; 9,699 'lapgpri than two pone ot the old names were entirely 81%?“  M6 ﬁeghsgnil 23%;; mm timezone. st; di'liir, ‘Mien, n. 2‘." ‘
7' years each egg/34,599 Weleven- satisfactory anew name “Midwest” £135; '1  as. THE CROSBY FRISn 7
27217.? your" nveragg. 41% f, pﬂerings was suggested on;  IAN FUR. 02- “Wester- N- Y‘  - .. , 
~> -~ We re?! silent! corn .. , .g-with cor— Also the Early ileum?) Medium  new ”‘ """LWWK’F‘Es MREDALEs— _ j
' ‘ ‘ ‘  \ 7 won; second Early Yellow  {to gay, are the Ml?’ '. of .92  ’grmdgudoﬁuon Paging K M B I F .
~ t. mksimtbe middle name «variety and will he 1;. Wu as Eaten?  ,ﬁ " " " 99p 0 o ’ ,8 0
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fa‘ncv stripes checks and ids. White grounds

With pink, blue or tan deSigns. 27-inch width.

State pattern and color. Order by No. 97F3423

Send no money. Pay $1.49 for 10 yards and
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10 Yards 36-irl’cehr-cale at  

Very choice patterns in fast colors. In white.
pray, Calcutta and Indigo blue With. neat stripes.
figures or dots. State color and pattern. Order
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10 Yards 36-in. Challis  

Persian and floral patterns. Predominating colors 9 8
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els are richly em-
broidered. The self
material belt ties
gracefully at back.
Sizes 6 to 44.
Order Navy by No.
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$95. With pregy   sheep collart and lin-
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tips. the perforation if , _ wogol. “,3 a M gin ‘
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. cost that is‘ 1310013 against the mldest Wmd' and
gigs; lilgfhwlyon br-llll‘miéd is smart and dressy, too. Sizes 12 to . 80?“;
Wrists anﬁg ankle; “afé by No. 91E5608. Send no money. Pay $9-9 3"
elastic knit. Sizes, 32 to postage upon alwva" \
46 chest. Jaeger color
No. 9701279. Grey Ran-
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no money. Pay 990 and
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Boys' Flat Knit Union
Suite of ﬁne quality cotton.
Sizes 24 to 32 for 3 to 16
years. Order b No. 970-
1358. Price 7 0. Pay 790
and postage on arrival.

gain. Bumble flexi-
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to 8. \Vide widths.

$12§

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Hip Boots

Men’s pure gum hi
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97A122. Pay $1.88 and post-
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Brown OXFORDS Chrome 0 u - boys’slzes9 to'18'/ by e. 9 555. renown
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