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Glad to Get in the Fields Again

Read in this issue: Government Millions Available for Farm Credits-*Shall We Plant Our Late Potatoes
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JUST OUT: BIG ILLUSTRATED GUIDE

of the orgsmaation selling over 35, 000 imraved
farms since 11:! founding-gregmo, :ﬁlanlmnedm to
arms. 1on
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of farms of a sec pious a
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page 18-h horses cows pou,li:ry sows _159pigs;
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variety fruit new 2-stary ”(-room house, furnace
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BIG TURN-OVER IN FARM OCCU
PANTS LAST YEAR .
EARLY 1,260,000 farms, or ap—
proximately one out of every

ﬁve farms in the United States,
changed occupants in 1922, accord-

 

ing to a survey made by the United '

States Department ' of Agriculture.
In 9 southern states one farm in
every four changed occupants; in 6

states in theNew England group the .-

turn—over was one farm in every ten,
and in most of the; corn belt and
western states between 10 and 15
per cent of the farms changed hands.

Changes. in ownership of farms
took place on nearly 400,00 farms, or
approximately one farm in every six-
teen in the United States. In gen-
eral, more farms changed owners in
the west and south than in the New

England, Middle Atlantic and Corn,

Belt states.

Of the 2,300,000 or more farm
tenants in the United States more
than 626,000 changed the scene of
their operations during the year.
More than 75 per cent of these ten-
ant changes occurred in the 15 south-
ern states.

Although the number of tenant
farms in United States shows a net
increase of 27, 000 for the year, more
than 230, 000 tenants either discon-
tinued farming for some other occu-
pation or lefttheir communities for
parts unknown to the department's
correspondents. A percentage de-
crease in tenant farms is shown in
only 10 states; in 2 ,states the per-
centage was unchanged. In general,

the largest exodus occurred in the

south and west.

 

A. B. COOK TALKS TO GRANGERS
B. COOK, Master of State
Grange, was the speaker at the

Huron County Pomona Grange
hall, Thursday, March 15th. The

Grange, he said, is the only national.

farmers progressive organization
that has stood for 50 years and is
really doing things to educate the
farmer so that he delights in raising
No. 1 products and then can demand
eventually a No. 1 price in propor—
tion to the prices he has to pay for
what he needs.

One of the things that the Grange
is striving for is a fertilizer plant
which will be operated by the in—
mates of the State prison. This will
not interfere with any Michigan
business as practically all of our fer-
tilizer is manufactured outside this
state. This will materially beneﬁt
the Michigan farmers as it will low—
er the cost of fertilizer to the user.

The Michigan State Grange at the
present time has a contract with the
prison to use its binder twine. They
also have a contract with the State
of Minnesota for farm machinery.
This machinery is made by prison
labor.

AMERICAN CORN HANDICAPPED
IN EUROPE

UROPEAN corn ‘millers and
stock breeders believe that the
meal obtained from the Argen—
tina hard ﬂint corn is more nutri-
tious than that obtained from the
yellow and white corn shipped from
the United States. Consul F. F. Du-
mont, Frankfort-on-Marne, Germany
informs the Department of Com-
merce that the Argentine product is
reputed to be better dried and to
have better keeping qualities than

American corn. The nutritive qual»

ities of the two stocks are tested
abroad by putting equal quantities
of the diaerent varieties in contain-
ers and pouring water over them.
As Argentine corn absorbs more
water, it is considered the better.

CANADIAN RAILROAD WILL
HELP FARMERS

EW plans, never before tried, to

increase immigration into. Can-
ads. from European countries are be-
ing put into eﬂect by the Canadian
Paciﬁc. Railway Printed forms for
the use of farmers.have been dis-
tributed throughout Canada. These
are to be. ﬁlled out by agri-
culturalists
ting forth the nationality of the elp

With

ciﬁc RalIWay will undertake to de
- liver immigrants who w'ill ﬁll the re---‘ ‘

   
 
 

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SHORTHORN BREEDERS
HE Huron County Shorthorn Cat-
tle ' Breeders” Association an:

nual meeting and bandtiet We‘d- *
nesday night, March 7th, at the Ir»

win House was a blinger. It easily

topped anything of the kind prev-’

1011st held here. A- £611! over 100

set down to the well‘ﬁlled tablesaf— _ '

‘ ter singing “America.”

Community Club members were
invited guests, of Whom about 40
were present;
enting the Holstein, and Hereford
county associations were also guests.
County Agent E. E. Twing presided
and he certainly made it Snappy.

There'was surely a ﬂow‘of soul that A

kept the feast of. reason guessing,
but the great and growing cattle in—
dustry of Huron county was ever

   

Cattle men represe-

, kept to the front, as it is all over

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ﬁrst speaker.

Michigan.

S. H. Pangborn, president of the
State Shorthorn Association, was the
He commended the
get- together spirit so manifest the
past year among farmers, stock men
and town people and paid some nice
compliments to the Community Club.

Prof. W. E..Edwards of the M. A.
C., talked on the present day busi-
ness farmer and the person that at
one time was knowu to the city peo-
ple as a “hay seed.” He was follow-
ed by Dr. J. S. Wurm, of Pigeon.
president of the State Veterinary
Association, who gave a. short talk
which created much laughter and at
the same time . gave the listeners
some valuable pointers on the rais—
ing of stock. Mr. R. A. Turner, state
leader of Boys‘ and Girls’ Club
Work, discussed the club work in
Michigan and told how it was help—
ing to keep the boys and girls on the
farms. Mr. W. H. McCarty, leading
Hereford breeder of Huron county
also gave a talk that will be remem-
bered. Musical features followed

' the speaking and after that the pro-

gram was concluded with a. picture
reel on stock and farm topics by E.
E. Twing and C. M. Horn.

GOVERNMENT BULLETINS OF IN'
TEREST IN APRIL

SMALL list of Farmers' Bulletins

and Circulars of general interest

during April is belived to be of
value to our readers. Copies may be
obtained free by addressing the D1-
vision of Publications, United States
Department of Agriculture, Washing-
ton, D. C. 1 Specify number and name

and whether Farmers’ Bulletins or '

Department Circular.

Farmers Bulletin 181, Pruning;
609, Bird Houses and How to Build
Them; 662, The Apple Tree Tent
Caterpillar; 710, Bridge Crafting;
734, Fly rape and Their Operation;
766, The Common Cabbage Worm;
842, Methods of Protection Against
Lightning; 849, Capone and Capon-
1zing; 851, The House Fly; 874
Swine Management; 896, Rats and
Mice; 909, Cattle Lice and How to
Eradicate Them ; 932, Rodent Pests
on the Farm; 946, Care and Repair
of Plows and Harrows; 948, The Rag
Doll Seed Tester; 949, Dehorning
and Castrating Cattle; 959, The
Spotted Garden Slug; 975, The Con—
trol of European Foulbrood; 976,
Cooling Milk and Cream» on the
Farm; 979, Preparation of Straw—
berries for Market; 1045, Laying
Out Field for Tractor Plowing; 1085,
Hog Lice and Hog Mange; 1096,
Frost and the Prevention of Damage
From It; 1175, Better Seed Corn;
1176, Root, Stalk and EarWOrm Dis-
eases of Com; 1250, Green Manur-
ing; 1284, Apple-Orchard Renova-
tion. Department Circular 36', Use

1

of Poultry Club Products; 48, The .

Club Members Home. Vegetable

Garden; 214, Fusarlum Tuber Rot of _

Potatoes; 219, Phoma Rot of Toma-

toes; 238, United. States Grades for -

Potatoes Recommended by the

United Stat} Department of Agri-

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. , , Question Now is:

men million dollars. is ready
1 to be turned over by the U. 8.
Treasury to the twelve inter—

mediate credit banks of the Federal
Farm Loan Board immediately the.

charters are issued. The $60, 000,-
000 capital authorized by the new
law for the banks has been auto-
matically accredited to the Farm
Loan Board by the Treasury, accord—

”lng to Secretary of the Treasury A.

W. Mellon.
The Federal Farm .Loan Board has
completed the regulations which will

,serve as the guide for the system’s

operations in aid of the farmer. Tem-

- porarily, at least, the board plans to

hold loans made under the new law
to a basns of nine months’ maturity.

Judge Charles E. Lobdell, executive-

of the Farm Lean Board, is quoted

» as follows:

.' "It is the ambition of those charg-
ed with the administration of the
new law to render maximum service,
but elemental safety must be the
ﬁrst consideration. Banks and co-
operative associations desiring to uSe
the service and see it developed will
make their best contribution by of—

fering nothing, .but perfectly good

paper.
Direct Loans (to (lo-Ops.

“Direct loans cannot be made to
individuals. Direct advances may be
made to coaoperatiVe marketing as-
sociations or livestock associations
secured by warehouse. receipts for
staple agricultural products or by

‘ chattel mortgages on livestock.

“No such loan may exceed 75 per

. cent of the market value of the agri-

cultural product or livestock.
“Loans may be rediscounted for
national and state banks, savings
banks, trust companies, agricultural
credit corporations and incorporated

' livestock loan companies. .
“No paper can be rediscounted up—'

on which the borrower has been
charged a rate more than one and
one-half per cent in eXcess of the
discount rate of the intermediate
credit bank of the district.

“In making advances on ware-
house receipts, the credit from bond-
ed government warehouses or satis-
factorily bbnded warehouses operat-
ing under satisfactory State super-
vision and regulation. This should
lead to broader interest and greater
activity in the development of ware—
house facilities and proper regula-
tion.

Will Promote 00-0pcration

_ "The facilities which .the banks
will be able to afford to co-operative
marketing concerns should lead to a
greater development of. such enter—
prises.

‘-‘Ample funds will be available for

loans to facilitate original marketing

but none to support speculative hold-
ing of fart. products. '

“No loans will be made for a long-
er period than 9 months, until the
system is thoroughly tried out. Upon
livestock paper, satisfactory assur-
ance of renewal will be given in
proper cases but only in aggregate
amounts equal to the bank’s capital,

‘ and then the subject of the mortgage
1 must submit to reinspection and a

satisfactory condition of security

provided.”

Many writers and students of eco-
nomics fail to see where the present
legislation is going to help the small
farmer and stock or fruit grower

7- '5 Such as we have in the middle West,
.. they are not optimistic as Judge

Lobdell, that all is well, but they are

now presented for the measure
t and if found wanting,
"‘a‘sto .meet the

1' , overnment M

Homily agreed that the opportun- -

  

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ANALYSIS OF CREDITS LAW

HE American Farm Bureau Federation submits the following
brief analysis of the rural credits bill:

(1) The maximum loan which may be extended to one bor-

. rower by the Federal Land Banks raised from $10,000 to $25,000.

The larger loans under the Federal Farm Loan System have been

made by the joint stock land banks.

Under the new legislation,

the Federal Land Banks Will be able to make these loans and the
borrower will get the money about 1 per cent cheaper.
(2) Intermediate credit departments are established in each

of the twelve Federal Land Banks.

These departments may ex—

tend loans for agricultural and livestock purposes from six months

to three years.
associations.

They may make loans directly to covoperative
They may discount for or buy from any state 01

national bank or trust company, co-operative marketing associa-
tion, livestock company, or agricultural credit corporation, notes,
bills, drafts, etc., the proceeds of which have been advanced or
employed in the ﬁrst instance for any agricultural purpose or to

raise, breed, fatten, or market livestock.

These departments may

issue and sell tax—exempt collateral trust debentures with a matur-

ity of not more than ﬁve years.

(3) National agricultural credit corporations, with a minimum
capital of $25, 000, may organize under the jurisdiction of the
Comptroller of the Currency. They may make loans, rediscount, pur-
chase or sell, commercial paper and also accept drafts drawn for
agricultural purposes, or the principal of which .are to be so used.
The notes and drafts are to be secured by warehouse receipts or
other documents conveying title to unperishable and readily mar-
ketable agricultural products, or by chattel mortgages or other
similar instruments conveying a ﬁrst lien upon cattle being fat-
ten'ed for market; such notes and drafts to have a maturity when

purchased, of not more than nine months.

These credit corpora-

tions may also make advances upon, discount, etc. ., notes secured
by chattel mortgages upon breeding stock and dairy herds, such
notes to have a maturity at time of discount of not more than

three years.

debentures with maturities not exceeding three years.

The corporation may issue collateral trust notes or

National

agricultural credit rediscount corporations may also be organized
under the Comptroller of the Currency with capital stock of
$1,000,000 or more, for the purpose of rediscounting notes, drafts,
etc., for the national agricultural credit corporations.
* (4) Federal Reserve banks may now rediscount agricultural
and livestock paper having a maturity up to nine months.

(5) The War Finance Corporation has been extended to April

1 1924.

It is now possible for agriculture to borrow money for produc-
tion purposes for a period of time long enough to cover the reg-

ular production process.

Heretofore, farmers have borrowed on

the same basis as merchants and manufacturers who needed credit
for only thirty, sixty, or ninety days, or six months at the most.
Farmers may need credit for the entire growing season and after
harvest may wish to hold the crop for a favorable time to market.
This is likely to require a twelve or eighteen months loan. For
raising livestock a loan as long as three years may be desirable.

 

 

Shall We'Plant Our Late Potatoes Earlier?

By R. R. ROSSMAN, Lakeview
HAVE often heard that late plant-
ed potatoes outyielded early
planted ones. Our experience is
contrary to this. We ﬁnd with the

Russet Rurals that the earlier they .

are planted the greater the yield.
This we ﬁnd is a practical advantage
in favor of early planting. Of
course we usually have a drouth in
August and these early planted pota—
toes have quite a top by that time
and are using a lot of moisture. If
one has followed good farm prac—
tices up to this time and has lots of
organic matter in the soil, it will be
a very protracted drouth indeed that
Will reduce the crop to or below the
level of the late planted patch.
Anearly planted potato stands up
under hauling better than a late one
at harvesting‘time and is the only
kind ﬁt to go on the fall market. If

' the late planted potato is given time

to ripen 111 the bin befOre market-

‘ing, I see no objection to late plant-

ing from this angle, but we all know
that a lot of immature stOck is
dumped on the market every fall and
the general potato market suﬂers
from it. I don’t think a let1 planted

‘potato should be allowed in braded
sacks until it has ripened in the bin. .

Field frost cost us hundreds of

V; thousands of dollars last fall. Had

our potatoes been planted early, we
would have escaped a lot of this as
they would then have been dug and
out of danger before the frost came.
Then if those that were waiting for
the frost to ripen their potatoes had
been compelled to store them for a
few weeks in bins and pits before
marketing, we could have gotten en-
tirely away from this loss. If our
potatoes were all pooled, too, our
growers would lose interest in this
idea of rushing their spuds on the
market and we could market the
ripe potatoes ﬁrst, and let the im-
mature spuds ripen in storage.

In 1921 we had a great demonstra-
tion of the advantage of early plant-
ing over late, in another way. We
had the hottest June on record.
Those who planted before June
seventh obtained a good stand and
harvested a ripe even sized crop.
After June seventh, because of the
heat, seed potatoes deteriorated very
rapidly as, the ground dried out
deeper and deeper. The re§ult for
the late planter with their weakened

seed planted in the hot soil, followed

up with a cloud burst that packed
the soil, was about a. 50 per cent
stand. When the harvest came they
got a lot of pumpkins, ﬁt only for
hog feed.

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ions Available for Farm Credits

Judge Lobell, Head of Farm Loan Board, Explains New Credit Legislation Passed by Last Congress—
Can Farmers Use It to Practical Advantage?

the ground the more vitality it has,
but be sure it is treated with corros—
ive sublimate and is disease free if

you would reap the full beneﬁts of.

early planting.

Diseased seed will not have as
good a chance of infecting your crap
when planted late and harvested
early, but why plant diseased seed?

To summarize—If you would reap
the advantages of early planting,
plow in the fall, ﬁt like a garden,
plant disease—free seed, cultivate
shallow and spray continually. If
the ﬁeld has good under drainage
and is full of humus you are “sitting
pretty’ as fal as yield and quality
am concerned.

If you 2119. bound to put a piece of
thin land into spuds am your source
of seed is questionable; and if you
don’t believe in spraying, even for
bugs, plant ’em late and sell ’em to
any old line dealer. He will pay you
just as 1111011 as he would if they
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“’OOL MARKETS FOR 1923

AST year the mills and Eastern
wool buyers felt that the local
buyers pu one over on them

by advancing p11ces during the buy—
ing season and charging the full ad—
vance of purchased wools to them.
The local dealel made, as one ex—
pressed-“ a barrel of money,” and in
many cases made up the losses which
were heavy in 1920. This yeax the
East has said “that this must not
happen again” and are paying steady
to higher prices for imported wool.
and acting real indifferent to the
new clip. This is part of the play.
Foreign markets are higher propor—
tionately than Boston. Imports at
Boston for the ﬁrst week in March
were 15,374,600 pounds; almost
1—10 of the U. S. production. Therv
is a world’s shortage of wool;10 per
cent, as compared with the ﬁve yeam
pre— —wa1 average, and a 15 per cent
shortage of wool in North Ameiica.
In the U. S. from 1909— 13 the aver-
age was 314,110,000 pounds; in
1921, 273,064,000 and 1922, 261,—
095,000. Western wool producers
are standing ﬁrmer for what is more
than equivalent to 50 cents a pound
in Michigan, freight, shrinkage and
quality considered. These men are
asking that Ohio and Michigan do
not cut the ground from under them
by selling at a less ﬁgure. There is
no better wool in the world than is
produced in Ohio, Michigan and por-
tions of adjoining states. Austrail-
ian wool comes to the mills, skirted
or with the legs and belly wool trim-
med off. In this sense it is prefer—
able, but the new tariff makes it
cost proportionately more. Prior
tariffs were practically of no protec—
tion to the American growerywhen
skirted prior to exportation, and the
rejected portions were sent to free
trade countries. Rejections and dis—
count wool is a trade practice which
has made undue exactions from the
grower for hurry, seedy and chofiy
wool. Importers of carbonized wool
did not want to have this stock con—
sidered as anything but clean con-
tent wool, claiming that carboniziug
was merely a cleansing process and
the cost was normal. The treasury
department however ruled that car—
bonized wool was partially
factured and must pay the higher
duty. Unreasonable penalizing of
chaffy and burrywool belongs to the
past if growers would stand ﬁrm.
Eight to ten Cents per pound is 'a very
liberal discount. Fifty cents per
pound for average clips» of wool
should be the growers price this
year. ——Jas. N. McBride, Pres. Mith.
Sheep Feeders and Breeders A3311.

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not needed to ﬁll the market,

obscure ailment. Doctors from
seven states have been in con-
sultation and, as doctors sometimes
do, both agreed and disagreed as to
Mr. Murphy’s symptoms. Some
thought he should have an operation,

MR. MURPHY is sick. He has an

some that his physical system need—'

ed regulating, but all agreed that
he’d been over-exerting himself and
needed to relax a bit.

“What under the sun is she talk—
ing about?" I hear you exclaim.
Why about our humble friend, Mr.
Potato Murphy. to be, sure. 01’
coarse you know he's ailing. Get-
ting down to cases, here’s the story.

Several years ago, three or four to
be exact, potato producers became
aroused to the fact that their product
was subject to competitive juggling
of‘ prices, discriminatory shipping
agreements, hazy and biased inspec—
tion reports and various other ma,—
nipulations, most of them decidedly
unfair.

As a cure—all for these troubles it
was thought a good system of co-op—
erative‘ marketing would meet the
needs. A great step in improvement
was soon noticeable. Michigan ﬁrst,
then other in the “potato belt” or—
ganized and started to work with

WHEN THE POTATO CROP OVERFLOWS!

There ls no market for the over-production and those that are

serve only to demorallze the

normal market, so no fair pr'ce is paid for the entire crop and
growers must sell at less than It. cost to produce.

zeal and promised such
noteworthy results that
the enthusiasm surged
back and forth all along
the line. It took root on
the farm and in the
small market town; great
waves of it lapped the
studious halls of agricul—
tural colleges and the
public mind focussed on
Mr. Murphy gave a little
bit of an inﬂated idea of
himself.
An Interesting
encc
Minnesota having bump-
ed the bumps probably
fully as much as any 10-
cality in the Northwest,
The Minnesota State De—
partment of Agriculture

Confer-

on January 12, 1923.
called a potato confer—
ence of the states 0"

 

M i c hi g a 11, Wisconsin,
North and South Dakota,

 

Montana, Nebraska and
Minnesota, the 9th Fed—
eral Reserve Bank and

the National Markets
Committee.

The purpose of the call was to con-
sider ways and means to better the
marketing conditions in the potato
industry in the northern group of po—
tato growing states, by means of bet—
ter diversiﬁed farming, or by better
enforcement of grade quality by
state grading or by improved car
service, or by co—operative market—
ing control of crop thru binding con—
tracts calling for quality, time and
place delivery, warehousing and ﬁn—
ancing. ‘

Delegates from four of these states

BY M. L. BIGELow'

were present and two others while
not able to be at the meeting signiﬁ-
ed their desire to co-operate and to
work together instead of competi-
tively.

Those who sat in at this discus—
sion were able to visualize the status
of the industry. As one speaker af-
ter another spoke and different
phases .of the problem were present—
ed one could not fail to realize the
magnitude of the W0 k ahead, and
its absolute necessity 1f potatoes are
to continue to be an important,crop
in the Northwest. '

(lo—operative marketing, that mag—
ic idea, so potent when accompanied
by its able lieutenants, efﬁcient and
controlled production and expert
handling, so helpless when standing
alone, has been expected to do the
trick. '

In any great manufacturing con—
cern the sales organization is sup-
posed to take charge when, and only
when, a high grade, salable commod-
ity has been produced in the right
quantities which careful surveys
have ascertained that the market
can absorb, and a product which
when sold will- be shipped to. the con—
sumer in such manner that it will
arrive in salable condition. Added
to this the article manufactured is
christened with a branded name, and
this brand means a certain known
quality and on this quality its price
is ﬁxed. How has it been with pota—
toes? Has the exchange manager
been able to say deﬁnitely what he is
offering to the market? '

The crepe hangers tell us that in
this case co-operation has fallen

 

 

DON’T PLUNGE IN POTATOES
REX E. WILLARD, North Dakota potato expert says:

“Potatoes in a limited acreage are a proﬁtable crop
over a period of years but the man who jumps into potatoes
in one year without the next, usually jumps in at the wrong

time.

The price of potatoes ﬂuctuates up and down pretty

consistently in alternate years in the opposite direction. "

from the amount of production in the country.

Our re-

cords indicates, however, that over the long time period
potatoes-are'even more proﬁtable, acre for acre, than some

other cash crops.

 

 

Commercial Fertilizer Found to] be

expenditure for fertilizer as do,
sugar beets. Increases of from
1% to 3 tons of beets are not un-
' common for 400 pounds of fertilizer.
The sugar beet demands a liberal
supply of available plantfood, partic-
ularly, in the early stages of growth.
It.take_s a certain amount of plant—
food to start the plant and make the
leaves. Any plantfood in excess of
this amount goes into making larger
beets, increased leaf surface and ca—
pacity to make sugar.
Fertilizer vs. Manure
Manure, while an excellent ferti-
lizer for most crops, has some disad—
vantages for sugar beets as compared
with commercial fertilizer. When
used, manure should be well rotted.
applied. during the previous fall, and
plowed'under so as to decay. Spring
applications of fresh manure may
cause short prongy, low yielding
beets, and in many cases it carries so
many Weed seeds that the labor nec-
essiaryl to care for the crop is greatly
increased. Furthermore, the plant-
'food in manure is not so readily
available as in fertilizers, and does
not supply available plantfood‘ so
quickly early in the season. Fre-
entlmeanure produces an unduly
rge growth of leaves. and root above
"und. Altogether, _ the best place

[FEW crops give as large returns on

 

ts, to build up the soil to the,
’re proﬁtably. ,' _ .
.Wh'at (Kind of Fertilizer _

' o'st soils, the right kind .of

 

hould . contain], fromtwo to

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four per cent ammonia or nitrogen,
eight to twelve per cent of phosphor-
ic, acid, and two to six per cent of
potash. The proportions of each of
these fertilizer constituents will de—
pend on the nature of your soil, and
the farming practi e you follow. In
a system of dairy or livestock farm—
ing, where plenty of manure has
been applied to the preceeding crops,
it is not necessary to use much am-
monia and potash in the fertilizer,
especially on the heavier dark color-

ed soils. On thin soils, a fertilizer
fairly high in both ammonia and pot—
ash will be most proﬁtable. Practi-
cally all soils in Michigan respond to
a fertilizer high in phosphoric'acid,
we are.advised by the Michigan Agri-
cultural College. On sands and light
sandy loams where legumes are
growu in the rotation the 3-12-4, 2-
12-6, and 4—8—6 analyses are recom~
mended. On heavy sand loams, silt
loams and clay loams, the choice of
analyses may be conﬁned to 2-12-6,

 

 

man fet‘is on the" crops preceding ,

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Northwestern Writer Tells what Happened, andOHIOw' Cooperative J i
‘ ' Associations Plan to Avoid Catastrophe in, 1923 ‘ '

down; but indeed‘it hasn’t. There. 1

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simply wasn’t enough of it. Those
who are working out the potato prob,-

,lem are cOnvinced that co-o'peration

is. the answer. Not co-operative
marketing alone, but co-operation
between prodtrCer and producer that
may grow the amount and quality
that, all may'sell at a. proﬁt. ,Co-op-
eration between grower and the local
Warehouse manager, that the prod-
uct may be graded and stored ’in
such manner that when called Out by

market demand there Will be no;-

come-back from -the_buyer to reﬂect
back on the man who grew the pota-
toes. Co-operatidn between state ex-
changesso that when one exchange
has its market demand established
and the’, channels of trade open, a
sister state will not pour in. an aval-
anche of potatoes and, as was done
only last season in Michigan by the
states immediately west, and wreck
the market.
Over-production
Mr. Hughes, DireCtor of Markets,

‘in stating the object of the meeting

called attention to the fact that 62
per cent of the potatoes which rolled
in interstate commerce are produced
in the seven states represented in
the conference. He had prepared
charts which were hung where all
could study them. Among these
was a very illuminating table show—
ing an increase in potato production
in these states of 33 per cent in the-
last three years, with disasterous re-

sults. Here are the ﬁgures:
Acreage—Three Yea‘s

. 1021 1022
Mich. 340,000 357,000
“15. 315,000 328,000
Minn. 430.000 486,000
h. D. 124,000 198,000
s. D. 00,000 110,000
heh. .. 102,000 139.000
Mont. 41,000 46,000

 

 

Total, 7 states——
1,255,000 1,442,000 1,664,000

Yields—Three Years

 

1020 1021 1022

Mich. ....36,225,000 27,200,000 37,800.000

Wis. ...... 33,200,000 21,400,008 40,600,000-

an. ....31,500,000 32,200.00 43,700,000

N. I). 0,500,000 11,900,000 17,800,000

s. D. _ 7,000,000 5,400,000 8,500,000

l'eb. ...... 8,400,00 8,100,000 11,600,000

Mont. 4,400,000 4,700,000 5,700,000
Total, '1 states—

128,000,000 111,000,000 165,000,000

The Director of Markets said:

“Farmers agree that it is a bad year,
next year will be‘ a good year. And
what I am afraid of is that next year
again will see an increase in: acreage
and that We will be faced with a sec-
(Continued on Page 19)

Better than Manure for sugar Beets

2-16-2, 0-12-6, and 3-12—4. . Where a
considerable amount of manure has
been used previously in the rotation,
the 0—16-0, 0-14-4, and 2-16-2 ferti-
lizers are suggested. All of these
fertilizers are what is known as

high—analysis fertilizers, carrying the

maximum amount of plantfood with
the least amount of ﬁller. Such
fertilizers are: more economical per

pound of plantfood than the lower

analyses sometimes offered.
How Much Fertilizer

Some growers use 800 pounds of
fertilizer to the acre. It is not ad-
visable to use less than 200 pounds
except under special conditions. In
the majority of cases from 400 to 600
pounds per acre,will prove to be the
most proﬁtable amount to apply. A
common error 'is to use too' little fer-‘
tilizer, or too low an analysis.

How to Apply

If the beet drill has a. fertilizer at-
tachment, a part of the fertilizer, not
to exceed 200 per acre, may be appli—
ed at seeding time through this at—
tachment. The remainder should be
broad-casted by 'means of a fertilizer
grain, drill or a lime and fertilizer
distributOr, and harrowed Tor disked
in before planting, Whe jbeet seed
is sown With a grain dri l,_ leaving
every third hole open for the seed,
all of the fertilizer holes maybe left
open.fSomeggrowers prefer to broad:

cast all of the fertilizer, which is a ,
good practice ”when 660- or .800 ,

  

pounds are: used to___,the acre. Such"
air-application should,- be» 'made he:

be worked. thoroughl

{ore seeding so that the: fertilizer, ca

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MRS. HENRV FORD, who was Clara Bryant, THE ROLLS ROYCE 0F INDIA.—For real class, the elephant cars kept by the native “MARK” THIS COSTUME—9n the conti-
the daughter of a farmer who lived eight miles Princes of India surpass anything in the world in the way of pr‘vate e-uuinanes. TM nent the mark doesn't mean a thing, and it is
from the Ford farm near Dearborn, Michigan. most magniﬁcent trappings are used while artists are hired to decorate the tusks of the being used instead of paper to’ cover walls,
Mr. Ford attributes a large measure of his suc- animals with carvings in precious metals and to paint extraordinary designs In glowing wrap up commodities, etc. Here is an original
cess to his faithful helpmate and companidh and colors over the hides of the beasts. The upkeep of such a car would make the expense costume, taken at a masquerade in Amsterdam,
she is carrym on as agressiveiy as her husband of keeping up a high poWered automobile compare with the upkeep of a kiddie car. Holland. The Dutch girl is covered With 100
many plans 0 social uplift and charity. Photo shows such a car being conducted through the streets on a hazive holiday. and 1000 marks.

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Homeric declared that she had passed through what was the worst seas of her career during ting many acts of sabotage. Here is what happened in one of the railroad yards, in the
her last trans-Atlantic trip. Many never expected to see land again. Here Is a view of the occupied Ruhr territory, The train was derailed and it was many hours before order was
ship driving through an 80 mile gale with the waves actually mountain high. restored. The French are‘ﬁnding it difﬁcult to punish the culprits.

 

 

 

     
   
      
     
    
      
     

     
       

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the biggest drum in the world, is this one discovered In a of Cincinnati; Ohio, was the v.ctim of‘ miscarried Justice. Tutankhemen’s tomb, in the ruins of Luxor, Egypt, has con-‘ i
Logan; "If“. ﬂange; m'e‘nyl‘ a?“ 13‘ ighdiajﬂeotezagndfwes H's was “sensato tn: 912:) glengaenglarymfgr‘gife as thteh slayer hertedi the dgsolat: relvlne Iinto de veritable mecca tor tourists}.
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Complete Directions on Constructing Tank that Meets Demand of Average Farm Home

HERE is much evidence to show
T that a tight, well-built, under—
ground septic tank, so called,
with shallow distribution of the eﬁlu-
ent in porous soil, generally is the
safest and least troublesome method
of treating sewage upon the farm,
while at the same time more or less
of the irrigating and manurial value
of the sewage is realized.
The antecedents of the septic tank
were known in Europe more than 50

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

VERTICAL SECTION OF SEPTIC TANK

years ago. Between 1876 and 1893
a number of closed tanks with sub-
merged inlet and outlet, and all em-
bodying the principle of storage of
sewage and liquefaction of the sol-
ids, were build in Massachusetts,
New Jersey, Maryland, and ‘Canada.
In the past 20 years great advance
has been made, and many plants,
large and small, have been built.
Much remains to be learned, but it
is now certain that many of the early
claims for the septic process were ex-
travagant. There is nothing mag-
ical about a septic tank, and citizens
should not trust implicitly in the
name.
septic tank is assuredly not “spring
water,” nor is it harmless. It may
contain, since the process involves
intensive growths, even more bacter—
ia than the raw sewage. As to the
effects upon the growth and virul-
ence of disease germs, little is known
deﬁnitely. If disease germs bepres-
ent, many of their number, along
with other bacteria, may
through with the ﬂow or may be en—
meshed in the settling solids and
there survive a long time. Hence,
so far as the danger of transmitting
disease is concerned, spetic sewage
is not improved materially over
crude sewage, and the farmer should
safeguard wells and springs from

 

the seepage or the discharges from

a septic tank with no less certainty
than from that of liquefying closets
and cesspools.

In all sewage tanks a considerable
portion of the solid matter, especial-
ly if the sewage contains much
greese, ﬂoat on the liquid as a scum,
the heavier solids settle — to form
sludge, while other ﬁnely divided
solids and matter in a state of emul—
sion neither ﬂoat nor subbside. If
the sludge is held in the bottom of
the tank to be converted into liquids
and gasses, virtually to rot, the tank
is called a septic tank and the pro—
cess is known as septicization. Just
how far this process maybe carried
to obtain the maximum sanitary ben-
eﬁt with the least nuisance and cost
is still open to question. As prec-
iously stated, spetic sewage implies
oﬁensive putrefaction. Not only is
this objectionable as to odors, but
numerous examples indicate that
sewage reduced to the septic condi-
tion, or even highly staled, is less ef-
fectively puriﬁed, whether subjected
to artiﬁcial ﬁltration or to the natu-
ral ﬁltration of the soil, then is mod-
erately stale sewage. Aeration of a
septic effluent seems to aid in its
puriﬁcation, but aeration lowers the
temperature of the sewage and may
result in the spread of objectionable

V’ pants or disease.

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TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-GALLON SEPTIC TANK AND DISPOSAL LINE—SUITABLE FOR THE AVERAGE HOME

Build a Septic Tank to Dispose of Sewerage

 

NEARLYD ﬁve years ago [built a septic tank, similar
and no larger than the one here described to care

for the sewage from a toilet,
and kitchen sink at my home.

bath-tub, wash-stand
From that day to this it

has cared for every particle of sewage frOm our family.
Has never frozen up, ﬁlled. up or otherwise given a
moment’s trouble of any kind. ' The outside privy ought
to be one of the ﬁrst things abandoned en any farm, there
is no greater human convenience than an inside toilet
and bath-room and none that will contribute so much to
keeping your young folks on the farm.——Ed‘itor.

 

 

that the septic tank is not a complete
method of sewage treatment. With
the general run of small septic tanks,
it probably is close to the facts --to
say that of all the solid matter in the
crude sewage one-third is reduced to
liquids and gas, one—third remains in
the tank and one—third escapes with
the effluent.

The tank shown herewith is easy
to'build and meets the demands of
the average home. It has a capacity
of 270 gallons, suﬂicient for not
more than 6 or 8 persons.

The construction of this tank falls
under four heads as follows: Dig-
ging the hole,‘ building and placing
the forms; pouring and ﬁnishing the
tank; constructing the disposal ﬁeld.

Select a place for the tank. This
may be as near the house as desired
but care should be taken so that the
tile line does not run into a hillside,
necessitating extra digging to reach
grade. Dig a hole 44 inches wide
and 56 inches long, making the sides
straight and square, the hole must
be 42 inches deep below the level of
the sewer from the house. If the
depth of the sewer is not known,
make the hole 54 inches deep and
then lay the house sewer to agree. If

the hole is dug true and clean, the
forms will ﬁt into them nicely.

The number and dimewions of the
pieces required for making the form
are shown on the drawing of the
form. .Cut these pieces ,and put
them together as indicated: The
pieces marked “H” must be fastened
in by toe-nailing, and by inside
cleats. With the form put together
as shoqun the drawing, nail or bolt
two pieces of 2x4 timbers across the
top to aid in handling. The form is
now ready to place in the hole.

By means of the 2x4 timbers the
form can be placed as desired, cen-
tered carefully and held at the right
heighth, which allows a clearance of
6 inches between the bottom of the
form and the bottom of the hole. Put
interior braces in the form—pieces
of board a little longer than the in-
side of the form will do—to prevent
the weight of the concrete from cav-'
ing in the form. Level the form,
and bevsure that it is ﬁrmly in place.

The material required for the con-
crete work includes 9 sacks of ce-
ment, half a yard. of sand, and a yard
of broken stone, slag or gravel. Mix
the concrete about 1:2:4—not lean-
er than 112%:5.. Mix the ﬁrst few

 

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house to: new pit, and cover the old‘ outwith 30“., Morin

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hatches a little stiff and use these {on
the bottom of the- tank. If the 2...
mixture is'not too wet, the sides'can, "
be poured without waiting for the”
bottom to be set, thus saving time.

The inlet and outlet pipes can fit
placed in ‘the form, or wooden boxes
can. be used to form holes through:
which the pipe can later he led. W "
later method is usually the easiest":
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THE rouowme PIECES ARE aroma:- f
son CONSTRUCTING Form * _.

Place No. Diameter Place No. Dlamotn »
A 12....118118 In. F 2....1x4x 4 In. '
B 12....1x8x28 In. G 4....2x4x24 in.
G 24....1x8x15 In. H 4....1x4x48 In.
D 24..2x4118 In. I 12....2x4154 II-
E 2....2x4x28 in . - ’

FOR MAKING TANK
cement.

MATERIAL

rd sand.
1 Yard broken stone or gravel.

be concreted. Place elbows' at both 3 " '
inlet and cutlet, as shown in the
drawing. , .-
Let the forms remain until the ,
concrete has set for 36 or 48 hours.
In taking down the forms, remove 4
the pieces marked “H” ﬂrst,-atter
which the main portion will slip out
easily. Place the wooden baffles in ..
the groves provided for them, set the . ,2”
elbows ﬁrmly, and place the wooden?
ﬂoor for the cover. A shoulder is 7"
provided along the top for the pur-' .
pose of supporting this. Make the ~' ‘
concrete cover 5 or 6 inches thick. It . ~,
is well to construct a manhole in the *7
cover, and to use some reinforcing. .
While‘ the concrete is setting, the ' "
trench for the line may be dug. This
should be at least 100 feet in length,
but need not be in a straight line.
Methods of bracing are shown-for '
use where straight-away space is not. 7

   
       

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available. Dig the trench 12 inches 'tz
wide and 10 inches deeper than the 1,,
outlet of the tank. Fill the trench ~ te
to the level of the outlet with broken 01
stone, slag, gravel, or cinder,>and on 34
this porouus bed lay the tile, careé la
fully and to line, with a fall of about , fc
4 inches to the hundred feet. The ‘ 1);
best tile for the purpose, as well as .. e;
the cheapest, is the unglazed farm- .1_ to
er tile, without bells. One hundred ' tt
feet will be required. About‘3 or 4. ’ ._
yards of gravel, broken stone, slag. 10
or cinder will be needed for the"
trench ﬂlling.- " »

After the tile is laid carefully
grade, protect each joint from Wash‘ g
by placing over it a cover of burlap, ” ' ‘
roofing paper, tile or similar mater- ‘ se
i l, as shown. .Then cover with 3= _‘m
or 4 inches additional of gravel or w.
slag, and ﬁll the remained of the 1- “1
trench with earth. . ‘l “3
.. The outﬁt is now completed,‘ and . hi
will start to work as soon as sewage? ' is
is discharged into it. No chemicals. " ' V”
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. CAN NOT HOLD SILAGE

' I filled a silo tor a pirty last fall
and said party has not paid for ﬁll-
in: yet. He put me on and then he
had a sale and sold everything off.
"He promised to settle with me after
wthe sale, but he still keeps putting
me of. ,Knowing he was in hard
hope, I didn’t like to push him, but
w6uld like to settle now, and he
oesn’t seem to be in a hurry. Would
ﬁts to know whether the ensllage in
the silo still'stands good for the pay
of cutting and ﬁlling. How would I
have to go about it to get it?——V.. 0.,

‘ Whittemore, Mich.

x 5—1 am of, the opinion you would not
~ have alien on the ensllage far your
labor, but would have an adequate
, temedyvin an action at law for the
amount due on your contract of
labor. ‘I would sue and get judg-
ment and levy an execution on the

‘ — ensilage.—-Asst. Legal Editor.

  
 
  
    
  
   
    
   
 
 
   
  
   
   
  
  
  
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
  
    
     
   
   

 

   
  

MARIN G VINEGAR FROM SOUR-
EI) HONEY

~ 11 Would like to hear from some one
if soured honey could be made into

vinegar and if so how made?—L. V..

.Riggsville, Mich.

——-Soured honey may be utilized for

vinegar, provided that the acidity
does not exceed one and one-half:
, percent after the honey is diluted.
3 A very good formula for making
‘ honey vinegar is forty to fortyaﬁve

pounds of strained honey, thirty gal-
lons of water (preferably soft), am-

. monium chloride four ounces, potas—
l" .qsium. carbonate " and sodium phos—
phate two ounces each. The chem—

. ., .. ,. _icals should be dissolved in water
kl? g and added to the honey. This will

' assure their complete solution.

The abOVe chemicals are added to

7'9". :"~‘~ ‘ 'thehoney stock becauSe the honey
after dilution is poor in nitrogen and
~ phosphorus and these are necessary

foods for the vinegar— —making mic-

reorganisms. Heat should be used
, to facilitate the dilution of the honey

and also to destroy the undesirable

germs which the soured honey prob—
' . ably contains. '

After being diluted according to
the above formula it should weight
. . not less than nine pounds per gallon
4 ,4: 1 . in order to contain suﬂicient sugar.
.. ' From twelve to ﬁfteen percent sugar
- should be present. Diluted'honey

prepared in the above manner will
then,have to be inoculated with vin-
egar yeast, as the heat used in dis—
solving the honey also destroys the
‘desirable germs. Pure cultures of
yeast selected for its ability to pro-
,duce high percentages of alcohol
"V , 'from sugar may be secured from the
._ ' Bacteriological Laboratory, East
" Lansing, Michigan, as may also the
chemical salts. The price of the
chemicals and the vinegar yeast is
twenty-ﬁve cents each for one-barrel
amounts.
Following the alcoholic fermen-
tation produced by the yeast it will
be necessary to add a vinegar bac-
teria culture which is for the purpose
of changing the alcohol into acetic
acid of vinegar and which the state
1 law requires to be four percent be-

; ‘5 ., fore it is marketable. This vinegar

' ' ‘ bacteria culture may also be obtain?
‘ . ed from the Bacteriological Labora-
-.-_‘ ,. tory, East Lansing, Michigan, and at _
the same price as the vinegar yeast.
-—R. L. Tweed, Res. Asst. in Bacter-
iology, M. A. C.

    
    
 

 

ASSESSED TOO HIGH

When personal property is as~

P3.” \ sess‘ed for two hundred dollars

more than he would sell it for, or

' what he thinks is the real value of

it, and he refused to pay taxes for

that amount and it is sold, don’t they
have to allow a man'at least what it .

is assessed for, or can the assessor

- value your property anything he

wants to, and you have to pay it or
have it sold for whatever it brings,
or just enough to pay the tax for
hat year? Also how is re: . estate
hat is over-valued? All of our
taxes are assessed from one to four
undred more than we think they
- arm for what we wogild sell

 
   
  
 

 

   
  

    

  

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Monte Yer Information adds. tied tau thls department.
mouths accompanied by to“ n m ended damp.

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ohm. Prom'm. careful stunt!”
We are here
Nuns not used If u m

taxes, the defaulting taxpayer will
receive, upon sale, whatever the
property actually brings, after de-
ducting the amount of the delin-
quent taxes. He\ may redeem the
property so sold at any time prior to
the ﬁrst Tuesday in May following
the sale, upon payment of the
amount of the sale, with interest at
1 percent per month. Property
should be assessed at7its actual cash
value, and when any taxpayer feels
that his property is over-assessed,
he should make .complaint to’ the
board of review of his township, to
have such assessment adjusted.—
Asst. Legal Editor.

HAS WILL BEEN PROBATED?

Will you please let me know if
heirship property can be outlawed or
barred when there is agood title and
also a will left to heirs and their
heirs for ever and ever? Please let
me hear from you. The property is
in New York City. I have a large
sum of money that was left me years
ago.———Mrs. R. B., Beaverton, Mich.
-—If money or other personal prop-
erty was bequeathed to you by a
valid will and the will duly probated,
I am of the opinion you have a good

   

avenﬂy

, . However, it
the will has not been probated and
more than 4 years have elapsed since
:testor's death, you may have lost
your right to the property by its hav-
ing been sold to a bona ﬁde pur-
chaser after the lapse of 4 years.
Title to real property may be barred
by adverse possession.—Asst. Legal
Editor.

MORE INFORMATION NEEDED .

A farmer wishes me to help him
farm on shares this summer but he
does not know what share I should
get. He has his hay planted and has
about 20 acres and it is all good hay;
has wheat planted, but the potatoes,
oats and bean land has not had any-
thing done to it. He has enough
barn yard manure to spread it. Now
the machinery and team all belong to
him. All I do is to go in and help
him and he is to work the same as I
do.
sells his cream. What share should
I get from all these different things?
Should I get a share of the calves and
pigs or any other increase in live
stock?—H. H., Boyn'e Falls, Mich.
—Suﬁlcient data is not given to ﬁg-
ure deﬁnately what share of the farm
income should go to._ you for your
work? If it is possible to estimate
the income from the various sources

and knowing what you can afford to »

work for it would be an easy matter
to determine what portion you
should have—F. T. Riddell, Dept. of
Farm Management, M. A. C.

He has eight cows to milk and.

   

. ENTITLED TO ONE HALFOF . V
ESTATE
At the death of the husband sever- ~
al years ago no will was left, and
only one child. There was some in—
‘debtedness on the farm, but widow.
and child have remained on farm.
paid the indebtedness, everything is
clear from debt. The widow has liv-
ed there continuously for 46 years.
What share is the widow entitled to?
-——Mrs. 8., Branch County, Mich.

-——Upon the death of the husband
without having made a will and
leaving a. widow and one child, the
widow and child would each be en-
titled to one half of the estate, ac—
cording to the satutes relative to des-
cent and distribution—Asst. Legal
Editor.

CAN RECOVER DAMAGE

I am writing to you for a little in-
formation. I bought a cow register-
ed and she was to have a calf in the
spring, and she never had it or come
around, and we went and seen the
man I bought her of, and he made
me an offer. I was to give $25.00
more and receive another cow. She
was to come fresh inside of four
weeks. I asked him if he thought
it would hurt her to move her, and
he said it would not hurt her, but
he did not move her for 12 days after
the bargain was made, and he put»

[her in a truck and tied her, and she

was sick when she was delivered.
The cow was sick before she got to
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The new Nash Carriole for ﬁve people is built with
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the body is of all-metal construction. Along with
this greater endurance Nash has also given the
motor greater power, intensiﬁed smoothness, and
increased economy in operation.

FOURS and SIXES

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factory outgrew the Piquette
street plant, the larger plant in
g Highland Park was built. This
is really a great ,industrial city
in itself. It ' covers one hundred
and twenty acres and [employs
ﬁfty—three thousand men. Each
employee receives his wages twice a
month; yet every day is a pay day in
some section of! the plant and a half
million dollars is handed the men.

In the Ford organization are men
doing every conceivable kind of
Work. The factory operates its own
power, heating and lighting plant,
ﬁre department, telephone and tele-
graph‘ exchange, freight and express
oﬁices, hospital,
departments, motion picture studio.
park and athletic ﬁeld, band and
auditorium, educational and legal
departments, grocery, drug and shoe
stores, meat market, tailor shop, and
publishes its own newspaper—the
Ford News.

The Ford ﬁre alarm system is said
to be more efﬁcient and up—to-date
than any other in the country, even
including the cities of New York and
Chicago. Ninety experienced ﬁre
ﬁghters are employed in the plant
and two hundred trained workmen
are ready to aid at an instant’s not-
ice. When a general alarm is
sounded the automatic call goes i11—
stantly to the Superintendent’s ofﬁce,
factory service ofﬁce, ﬁre department
headquarters and Chief Engineer’s
oﬁice. The minute, hour, day,
month, year and box from which the
call comes are thus recorded. Three
hundred call stations are placed
throughout the factory two hundred
feet apart.

The medical department is wond—
erful and is one of the most modern
institutions of its kind in the world.
This is entirely separate and distinct
from the Henry Ford Hospital, built
at a cost of three million dollars and
rented to the government during and
after the war for one dollar a year.

Mr. Ford calls this his garage. “It
is my shop,” he says, “where I hope
.people can get well as rapidly as

possible and have their injured parts
repaired.” A pretty bit of senti-
ment is connected with the tall elms
that reach to the ﬁfth story of this
building. They were moved from
his Dearborn estate and replanted so
that the new part of the hospital,
which is the same length as the Na—
tional Capitol, is surrounded by old
trees that once had their roots in the
soil of his boyhood home. This hos-
pital was not built to serve the very
poor, for whom free clinics are pro-
vided, nor to serve the very rich, who
can afford to pay large surgical fees;
but is for those of us who ﬁnd it dif-
ﬁcult to make ends meet and to
whom heavy hospital bills are a cal-
amity.

The moving picture laboratory, in
in the Highland Park plant, is re-
markable. Its educational pictures
are shown in seventy per cent of our
country’s theaters. It may not be
known that these are sent to Mexico,
Brazil, Chile, Argentina, South Afri-
ca, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Japan,
China, Alaska and other countries.
Mr. Ford desires that they be used in
the large and small schools, wherev—
er they can be of service or can give
pleasure. Therefore, the rental price
to schools is ﬁfty cents a' day per
reel. The movie staff includes many
of the best—known specialists in edu-
cational lines, under whose guidance
are editors, scenario writers and di—
rectors. They strive to produce ﬁlms
of value to teachers throughout the
land, to be used for instructing their
pupils.

The Ford educational department,
its wefare work and Amdricanizatlon
school have been treated at length
elsewhere. The Ford trade school is

' in a large wing of the plant which
serves as a school building. It is in-

: corporated under the Michigan laws

‘ and extends to a limited number the
opportunity to continue their acad-
» emic education while
trade. It is one of the best plans
for salvaging some of our destitute
' boys, or boys who have no one to care
if they succeed or fail. Mr. Ford
not willing for them to be called
destitute; he prefers to think of

safety, and hygiene '

several years he maintained a home
for homeless boys near his estate.
This required such a large amount of
his time and interest that he planned
the trade school. Each student re-
ceives a scholarship which amounts
to four hundreds dollars annually,
divided into semi-monthly portions.
This enables him to. be self—support-
ing while studying. His scholarship
is increased in accordance with his
ability and effort until- it reaches
nine hundred dollars. To develop
thrift one dollar is added to each pay
envelope, provided the boy keeps a
savings account. There are ﬁfteen
instructors employed; a board of ﬁve
members directs the policy of the
school, and a long waiting list is kept
of boys who wish to be admitted. Mr.
Searles, the head of the school, is a.
distinguished educator.

Mr. Ford realizes that the future
of our country depends on the boys
and girls of today. He gives to
those he befriends his money, his
time and thought, and to each an op-
portunity to achieve success. They
will be the men and women of to-
morrow, and it is his hope that they
become good and honorable citizens.

Someidea of the gigantic size of the
Ford organization may be secured
from the fact that besides the High-
land Park plant, the tractor plant is
located at the River Rouge foundry
where twenty—one railroad tracks en-
ter. Here at one point a log goes in
and at another point comes out a
ﬁnished body. There are thirty—one

assembling plants in this country and ‘

others in different parts of North and
South America, Europe, Australia
and the Orient.~ During the last
year nearly one lundred thousand
freight cars were needed to handle
Ford shipments. Every available
method of transportation was used
also, such as express companies, par—
cel post and motor truck.

With a total of sixty-six thousand
employees in the Highland Park,
River Rouge and Dearborn plants, it
is a conservative estimate to say that
one—fourth of the men, women and
children in Detloit and its environs
are directly dependent on the Ford
industries for support, and that an
equal number are indirectly support—
ed from this source.

It is said that man’s eﬁiciency has
been increased 66 per cent by the
automobile; families and friends

have been drawn closer together;-

health has improved; lives have been
prolonged. It. has given more serv-

ice and pleasure than any other in-,

vention in the last several decades.
The inventor Who built a car within
the reach of the, mass of the people
has been a benefactor to his fellow
man, and has helped make history.

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For sentimental reaso‘ns the hand-
made bricks that were in the founda-
tion of Ten Eyck’s tavern are part
of the hugh ﬁreplace in the trophy
room, on the lower ﬂoor of the Ford
mansion. The great iron .horse
storms through Wayne Countv at a
more rapid rate as it parallels the
Michigan highway toward Chicago.
The forests have been cleared .There
are no more Indians about. For many
years the Dearborn arsenal has not
been used as an army post, but the
thick, gray stockade walls still stand.
One of the square, gray buildings
ﬂanked by twin chimneys is the City
Hall, where William Ford acts as
Mayor. The old site of Ten Eyck’s
tavern is interesting to people who
ﬂash by in their motors, because it is
the entrance to Henry Ford's estate.
The gray-stone entrance is kept lock-
ed and guarded; it is adjacent to the
gatekeeper’s tiny gray-stone cottage,
tucked quaintly under its Indian red-
tiled roof; around it sturdy forests
look dOWn on the spot which William
Cremer won his wager that hecould
'beat the iron horse into Dearborn-
ville, just two miles away.

CHAPTER XII

“Honest-to-Goodness Amer-
' icanism"

Five years ago a rainbow of prom-
ise, with a bag of gold at each end,
hung over a great industrial plant.
When the rainbow appeared some
called it a menace, but it grew
brighter and clearer; some of the
colors became obscure; three came
out stronger than all the others, and
behind them stars formed the two
words, “Americans all.” At each
end of the rainbow the bags emptied
an endless stream of gold, and with
the gold came freedom from old in-
dustrial conditions and with the free-
dom came the privileges and obliga-
tions of American citizenship.

Henry Ford made automobiles to
defray the expense of his main busi-

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HENRY FORD’S SUCCESS RULES

EAR is the great canker that eats at the hearts of men.

Most

.men are entirely too conﬁdent of their ability to fail—and they

fail.
most of them would succeed.
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What the world needs is more faith.

of it.

If they were as conﬁdent of their ability to succeed,

It i

We haven’t half enough

We are always saying “I can’t,” when we should be saying,

“I’ll try and I’ll never stop until I succeedﬂk '
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The idea of human beings in a hurry always seemed a little

absurd to me.

Haste is a great maker of discouragement.

It was

nearly twelve years from the time that I built my ﬁrst car before

I put one on the market.
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It is work done against the will that wears.

merely for wages.
wages are not enough to keep

from becoming weary.
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it it!
Or work dene

\Vages are necessary, of course, but more

'body awake or prevent him

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Nobody who is willing to get m‘iiney legitimately need think

about money.

i

It is only the people who want to get money with-
out earning it who need think about it.
t

it III

Right now there are thousands of opportunities to make for-

tunes.

People don’t see' them;

that is all. Let anybody who

wants money to come to him take the simplest useful thing he can
think of; let him study it, improve it and reﬁne it until it is better

than anybody ever made it before.

Then let him manufacture it

on a big scale and money will come to him.

t

Money mixes with nothing that is worth doing.
to get money, therefore, is not to try to get it.

The right way
Money, when it

comes, should come as an incident to something else—as the

result of doing something useful.

I C

One of the reasons why American business men, as a class, are , i
not as efﬁcient as they might be is because they think ﬁrst of pro-

ﬁts and next of service. '
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If American manufacturers and businessmen generally would,
for a period of ﬁve years, cease thinking of proﬁts and devote all
of their energies to giving the greatest values and the best possible
service to the public, they would make more money and they

   

 

would revolutionize American business.

  

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eitne case of labor difﬁculties?

‘ disclosed

onial stock and labOrers from every
nook and corner of obscure 'foreign
lands. He took men with the stigma,
of wrong-doing upon their lives, He
took untried men and men who had
tried and failed. Through one great

system he put them all, to determine

the number who would Come out
pure gold. , He thrust aside labor or-
ganizations and paid his workers
wages at that time considered fabul—
ous. He had his ownrdreams and
he followed them to fulﬁllment. '

Beyond a few brief newspaper re-
ports, the light of publicity . never
the inner workings of
Henry Ford’s mind, yet the spirit of
it permeates the country from Cana-
da to the Gulf and from the Atlantic

to the Paciﬁc where other plants

have used the Ford idea on a Smaller
scale. The pioneer who began the
movement has been assailed and held
up for ridicule, yet he was the ﬁrst
advocate of simonpure Americanism
in industry. What would his critics
have said had they known that he
took the dean of a great cathedral,

, made him head of avast educational

system and gave him power no
clergyman ever before had had in
the history of business—entire auth-
ority over the living conditions of the
Ford workman and real inﬂuence’ in

difﬁculties, however, refused to arise.

Durin-g strikes at nearby plants the

Ford workers remained at their
posts, performing their labors in con-
tented prosperity.

Henry Ford had evolved a system
so unique and remarkable that his
plans and dreams blend, making a
practical whole which has actually
beneﬁted over ﬁfty thousand homes.
The foundation is education and
Americanism. - That the system has
paid commercially is only a side is—
sue, but one of tremendous import—
ance—marking the ideal adjustment

,of capital and labor, and proving be-

yond doubt that the experiment is
overwhelmingly correct. The as-
sistants in this departmen are called
advisors, and the welfare work they
are doing is as helpful as it is novel.
What they do and how they do it
will be explained later.

Mr. Ford states his position frankly.
"If I can make men of my employees,
I need have no fear for my business,”

he says. “Everything I do to help
them ultimately beneﬁts -me; the
more money I_spend on them, the

more enthusiasm they will have for
my interests and the more money
they will make for themselves and
for me."

And he uses all possible labor-sav-
ing devices, for he says: “The less
fatigued a men is when he leaves his
work the more self—improvement can
he gain during leisure hours." This
is the message of Henry Ford to
mankind: “.Be your brother’s help—
er.” In his plant Bolshevism has not
dared to rear its serpent head.

The Ford plan is not to build elab-
orate libraries, gymnasiums or lunch
rooms for the employees, but serv—
iceable and substantial ones. The
difference in the expense is given the
working men for their homes, their
living and their families. It is not
the possession of money but the right
use of it which is emphasized. Mr.
Ford holds that the system of educa—
tion which increases, through the so-
called cultural studies, the capacity
for happiness and fails to develop the
ﬁnancial power for gaining the same
is a cruel, not a kindly system. It
increases human misery and failure.
The Ford idea, while increasing a
man 's capacity for happiness, at the

' same time increases his eﬁiciency,

his earning capacity, his home condi-

tions, his knowledge of the laws cf .

the state and the nation, making him
a more valuable citizen, more worth-
while to society, giving him a broad-
er vison, all of which develops a

’ man’s mind while training his hands.

‘ a Good. American,”

life standards

‘ The factdry has two slogans, “Be
and "Help the
Other Fellow."

cation of these slogans. even beneﬁci-
ally coerced into adapting

 

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You ﬁnd these signs '
‘in the working sections of the plant. , .
The workmen are taught self-appli-

  
     
    
  
 


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Write us, telling the size of the silo you own or
intend to buy this year and mention the name and
address of your implement dealer. We’ll mail you
freeaEO-pageFarmers’ RecordandAeeountBook.

This Is arranged for the easytakinzo ffarm and
household inventories, and for the keegmgm of
, simple amounts w will show a comp
accurate ﬁnancial condition of your year‘s busi-
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CALLUS GRAPE commas

How can I callus grape cuttings?

The bulletins say that they should be

callused, but do not say how it is .,

done. —-R. M. Saginaw County.

——The callus is the formation on the
wound at the end of‘ the cutting.
Place cuttings of grape, currant,
gooseberry, or any of the plants that
take root readily, in moist sand and
keep in a. cool place. If done when
the plant is dormant the callus will
soon form. 'The sand should be
kept moist, but not wet, until the
weather is warm enough for planting
out. .

BEST GRAPE FOR MICHIGAN

What is the most proﬁtable grape
for Michigan? What is the right
distance for planting? Does the
grape bear on the new or the year-
old wood?—E. T. 0., Oakland
County.
—-The Concord is by far the most im-
portant variety of grape for Michi-
gan. All other varieties combined
come'far short of the Concord. In

the Grape Belt there are a few Mor- '

ris Early, for the ﬁrst of the market,
a few Niagara and three or four oth-
ers, but they are unimportant. The
general market takes the Concord
and so do the juice factories. The
variety is hardy, productive and a
good shipper, a. combination suited
to the commercial vineyard. For
home use Niagara for a white grape
and Brighton for an amber might be
added to Morris, and Concord. For
a special market they have been
found desirable. But in ' general
there is nothing to take the place of
the Concord. Some years ago the
Worden was introduced as an im-
provement which was to supercede
the old favorite. It has much in its
favor, but the berries come off the
stems too easily. Grape vines are
planted about 12 feet apart in the
row, and the. rows far enough apart
to admit cultivation, about 8 feet.
The wood which grew last year will
produce the fruit next summer. ‘

GRAFTING GRAPES

Can grape vines be grafted, and if
so how is it done? Are seedling
grapes like the parent?———H. G.
C., Livingston County.
——Grapes can be grafted, though
that is not often done, since a. vine
can be grown so easily and quickly
from a cutting. As the vine is ﬂex—
ible the graft is put in the root. Dig
down four or ﬁve inches below the

cleft graft. Cover with wax, clay,
or some material to protect from
moisture. Grafting may be of little
commercial value, but it may occas—
ionally be of service. A wild vine
could soon be made proﬁtable, as a.
strong root system would force a.
graft into a vigorous growth. Seed-
ling grapes cannot be depended upon
to be like the parent. Like the
orchard fruits they produce new var—
ieties. Many kinds have been pro-
duced by hybridging or the crossing
of two varieties, but few of them
have been of any value.

NOTES AND COMMENTS
The questions asked regarding
grape culture indicate the interest
taken in this fruit. The planting
this spring promises to be unusually

large, but as the demand has increas-

ed enormously during the last few
years there seems little danger of
over production for several years to
come.

While the Cencord is the most im-
portant variety, both for the com-
mercial plants and for home use,
there are other varieties that merit
consideration. The Cotowaba re-
quires too long a season for Michi-
gan, but the Delaware, Brighton,
Ogawan, Niagara, Morris Deamond,
Green Mountain and Salem have
many friends. Will it not be well
for grape growers to plant a. greater
variety than they have in the past?
An orchardist is not content with one
peach, even the Alberta, ‘or with one
apple, even the Jonathan. Why be
satisﬁed with one or two grapes,
even Morris Early and Concord?

one of the needs of the hour is a

 

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the. sweet cherry will not grow in
thispart of the state, but is is diffi-
cult to get started. The trees have
the bad habit of dying the ﬁrst sea-
son, or if they live through that year
they try it the next summer. Then

there is sun scald and other ills to -

which the tree is heir, a“ ~f whichis
discouraging to the fruit grower. So
to plant some other tree, here is an
opportunity for some good work. Let
someone develops a. fruit for the pur-
mice. It ought not to be more difﬁ-
cult than some of the work that has
been done.
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A cherry not often seen, Yet one
of the best in ﬂavor is the Princess
Eugenie. It is slow to bear, which is
the chief reason for its neglect,
though production if given time, for
a sour cherry it has few equals.

. The shortage in. raspberries is an
encouragement to the strawberry
grower. This fruit promises to be
in good demand for some time to
come.
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Scions may be low out now, and
stored in moist sand or sawdust until
wanted. Use last season’s growth,
disMrd the tip or immature wood.
0

Seedling a; , le trees in out-of-the-
Way places may be made useful at
the cost of a little time and labor.
If the trunks and limbs are sound
they make the best of stock for graft-
ing. Put in some Delicious, Steel’s
Red or Grime’s Golden. They do
well on vigorous natural stock.

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JapaneSe plums are poor self- pol-
lenizers. It is not safe to plant one
variety alone Abundance or Burbank
when sanding alone may blossom
freely then shed their fruit. Much
disappointment has resulted from
this. Grow at leastrtwo kinds.

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The plum can be grafted, but the
varieties should have similiar habits
of growth. To graft Burbank and
Abundance would result in a freak-

ish. tree in looks, at least.
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Why not grow more currants?
They soon begin to bear and there is
a. ready market for the fruit. The
plants are scarce and expensive, but
it is not difﬁcult for one to grow his
own. Make cuttings and plant them
this spring. Foy’s Prolifer, Cherry
and Wilder are good market variet—
ies, but for jelly it is hard to beat the
old Red Dutch, though the fruit is
small. It is very productive too.
The greatest enemy is the current
worm, but that is easily controlled.

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Peach trees ought to be sprayed
for leaf curl. Copper sulphate at
the rate of One pound to 50 gallons of
water, no line, may be used at any
time when the liquid will not freeze,
the earlier in the spring, the better.

CAN RECOVER DAMAGE
'(Continued from Page 7)

my place, but he kept her moving
around so we did not notice her be”—
ing sick when she was unloaded, but
neticed it shortly afterwards.
lost her calf, and will not get with
calf now. I had a veterinary and he
said it was caused by moﬁng her,
I have got proof that the cow was
sick before he got to my place. ——J.
L., Midland, Mich. -

——If you can show that the seller
was negligent in delaying to remove
the cow, o‘r-~that he failed to use
proper care in moving her, and that
as a result of such negligence she
lost her calf, I think you would have
a right of action against him to re-_
cover the damage you have suffered.
”—Asst. Legal Editor.

TRY TO. HAVE CHILD ADOPTED

I have a step daughter that has
had ephleptic ﬁts for ﬁve years. At
the age of 17 she gave birth to a_
baby which is now '11 months oid._I
took this matter up with our prose-
cutor. She told him who‘the baby’s
father was and he was a poor marri-
ed man. The prosecutor said he
could not do anything for the reason

the girl’ a mind was too bad for evid- ,
'enc‘c against him. '

   

The girl now ha
., HW'

' —If the legabillty of the father for

~ make every effort to have it adopted

She ,

the child’s support cannot be enforc-
ed, it would become the duty of the
county or township to provide such
support. However, if you cannot
-take care \of the child, you should

by some private family or sent to
some good orphans home, so it Will“ ‘*
not become a public char "e. It
should be realiséd that..the c iidvls.

 

the innocent victim or unfortunate. ~ ~

circumstances over which it had no

control, and is as deserving of a fair I ‘ {

chance in life as if born in lawful '
wedlock. ——Asst. Legal Editor. ‘

FINISHING MAPLEI‘IDORS.

What is the most successful meth— ‘ ﬂ'

0d of ﬁnishing a hard maple or elmv
ﬂoor in a light ﬁnishf—H. B. A.,‘
Otisville, Mich.. -
—The following formula‘for ﬁnish-
ing maple ﬂoors has proved very ‘5 ’ .;
satisfactory, for several years: ' <- ’

Boiled linseed oil, 1,; gaL; raw 11n-7'“ .

’ turpentine, 2%“ ‘
bees

seed oil, ’29 gal.; 7
pints: Japan dryer, 34 pint;
wax, 1,4 pound.

Shave or cut the wax in small
pieces and dissolve in theturpentin'e.
Heat wax and turpentine by Setting
in a dish of hot water. When hot.
add Japan dryer and mix with the
oil.

For new ﬂoors apply by dipping a
soft rag or waste into the oil and rub
into ﬂoor until thoroughly covered.
Let stand about one-half_hour. Then
wipe thoroughly dry with rags or
waste. Burn oily rags at once Let
ﬂoor stand 3 or 4 days until thor-
oughly dry. Then ﬁnish with wax
or varnish as desired.

Elm ﬂoors are more open grained
and will need a light paste wood ﬁll-
er the ﬁrst application—S. B. How-
ard, College Painter, M. A. C.

COULD NOT COLLECT FEE
Will you please tell me whether a, '
note is legal drawn up in this man-
ner? A buys from B, cattle amount-
ing to $450.00. B tells A that'C has
money to loan. B goes and talks
with C, comes and gets A, A and B
goes to C, 0 makes out he will have
to go to Reed City Bank to get the
money, and his fee would be $25.00
and a bonus of $25.00. C draws up
note for $500.00 payable one year
with 7 per cent interest. C is a stock-
holder and director of the local bank.
C presents note to cashier, takes
$25.00. A gets $450.00 and the bank
gets the rest. Wouldthis note be
collectable?—-—C. H. S., Evert, Mich.‘

——-The $25.00 charged by'the bank

as a bonus would be usurious and

could not be collected from the mak- »
er of the note. If C is a director of‘
the bank loaning money, I am of

the opinion he could not collect from

A the $25.00 charged as his fee.—

Asst. Legal Editor.

INDORSER RELEASED

Please give me information in re-
gards to a note. A sells a. horse to
B for $80.00 taking a. property note
and C indorses note with B. There
A sells note to the bank and endorses
same. I don’t know whether note
was recorded or not. Then B moves
and ,gets an extension of time on this
note, has the interest charged to
note. During this 30 days exten-
tion, B has a sale and moves away
taking horse with him, afterwards
selling it. Now the bank insists up-
on C paying the note. C was not .
notiﬁed that the note was not paid
until after the 30 day extension had
expired. Is 0 liable to pay or should
A pay, and take his property with
his property note?-—J. V., Remus,
Michigan.
——Where an extension of time is
given to the maker of a note, an ac-
commodation indorser thereon is re-
leased if such extension was given
without his knowledge. ——Asst. Legal

Editor. 1'

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to put kerosene in mm cam— - *
F. V., Fremont, Mich. - -

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Chart of

Recommendations

Trade Name Motor Oil
Adaptable .................. H.

Allis-Chalmers, 6-12 ........ H.
Allis-01ml mers, 15-25 ........ S. H.
Allis-Chalmers, 18-30 and

20-35 ..... ... ............ S. H.
All Work ................... . H.
Andrews-Kimmie ........... E. H.
Arming ton .................. S. H.
Aultman—Tnylor, 15-30 ....... S. H.
Aultmsn-Tsylor. 22-45 and

30-60, ................... S. H.
Automotive ........... A ..... S. H.
Avery. Model C ............. H.

Avery, 8-16, 12—20,12-25, 14-
28, 18436. 25-50. 40-65. 20-

Avon Track Runner“

Bates Steel Mule, All Models.
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International, 8—16 ........... B.

International. 15-30 .......... S. H.
Klumb. .y ................... E. H.
.Lauson, All Models .......... S. H.
Leader ..................... E. II.
Leonard Four Wheel Drive” .8 H.
Liberty .................... H.
.[inooln ..... .......... ...S.H.

 

Trade Name MotorOll
Linn ................ ... .... .8. 3g:
LittleGiant. A&B..... .....

M at. 14-28. .. ....... S. H.
Mii‘ivr s.

McCormickliiééri",'i'51§off'H.
Minneapolis, 12-2 and 17-30. S. g.
Minneapolis, 22-44 and 35-70 E.

 

 

aﬁul ..................... S. H.
Mo ne Universal ............ S H
onarch ................... S H
_Montsm ................... E. H.
Nilson Junior and Senior ..... S. H.
Oil Gas, 20-42 and 25-50 ..... E. H.
Peoria ..................... E. H.
Pioneer. 18-36 and 30-00 ..... E. H.
Port Huron... .............. S. H.
Quadpull ...... .............S.H.
Reed ....... . ..... ..........S H
Rex ............... . .......
Wymmm any
nd 20-40 ................
Rumltlzly. Oil . 30-60 ...... E
Russo “Jumor”, 12-24 ...... S H.
Russell B ................
Russell “Grant," 30-60,. ...... E H.
Sampson ModelM .......... H.
Snag eA ................... E.
Shawnee, $12 and 9-18 ...... H.
Shelby. All Models ...... '. . ..S. H.
Square Tun .......... . ..... E. H.
Bun-on ..... .. ..... ..... S. H.
S H.
E. H.
H.
S 1!.
ﬁrm Ports ........ E. H.
Twin City ”-20 and 20-35.. S. H.
Twin City. 40455 and 60-00.. .E. H.
Uncle Sam All Models. ...... S. H.
allis ..................... S. ‘
WELL»... 17:2'2' ...: ind. ' :3
Wetmore ................... S. H.
Wheat ..................... S H.
Western ......... .. . . . ...... E. H.
Wisconsin ........ ..... . E H.
analel'I‘rud . ...... 8 H.

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l..-Polnrlne lellt.
M.—-Polnrlno Modlum

H.—Polarlno Heavy

8." .—-Polnrlno Special
Heavy.

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Tractor

Any number of engine troubles are due to improper lubrication. If you
are not using Polarine, you are not getting all the power your engine is
capable of delivering—nor all the economy. Polarine will avoid undue
strain. It will avoid worn bearings and scored cylinders.

 

Polarine gets into action the moment the engine starts, because its viscosity
is scientiﬁcally correct—ﬁts body stable, without being heavy. It spreads
quickly forming a perfect ﬁlm between all the moving metal surfaces.
Polarine is scientiﬁcally adapted to develop the full efﬁciency of your engine.
The grade of Polarine speciﬁed in the Chart is speciﬁed by our Board of
Lubricating Engineers, who know the design and construction of yourtractor.

Let Golarine

THE PERFECT MOTOR OIL

III—ade- in Five Grades

It is the oil chosen by the farmer who wants economy and power from
his tractor. Polarine is a specialized product—made only from crudes
chosen for their high lubricating properties.

Polarine avoids carbon troubles. This is proved by hundreds of tests,
in the laboratory and in the ﬁeld. Specify Polarine. The length of life
of your engine is involved.

 

    

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Albinstel d ood u “'
o e In w misare Incl
and powerlul. One-glu'rd the wdlrk‘
In: par!- of any other mill.
Only mam. Pilman ' g subjccl lo
wear. This 1: orllcu, and easily re-
placeable. Govern: by dependable
weight walkout springs Fits any 4pc“
sleellower. Wlly mlshoncn ourchore i
hours now Md! 1 good (Windmill).
Thu. 10 your chance—F. O. B.
Albion. Erccl n yourself. Ask your
dealer. or write direct to ‘

Union Steel Products Co. Ltd.
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Learn how half a million farmers
', save bi money by buying their

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, from my big factories at prices
‘2 way below others—send for cata-
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roads, streets, parks, cemeteries, etc, t planes,

levels and grades. A sure cure for ruts, chatter

holes and road vibrations. Levels loose gravel.

Length 4 ft.; Width 6 ft.; weight 850 lbs.;
6 cutting blades. Sold on approval

Price $110 F. O. B.

Clare Road Machinery Co.,
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CONCORD l-Yl-Ulll. Heavily Round
GRAPE VINES (Mr
} Sclecltd mail-size Vines lmm the Mlcllngsn (Sup:
B l h c th l‘r {Concords m l \c wor are
grown ﬁdrldyirhejtdyflusty Vince. bred up to yicld POSTPAID!
ABUSHE dtjsmmfnmfnuiﬂklmﬂ \' _
Three vines planted in your garden wrll ,
makca vigorous start. ()i rapid growth, .
they will soon amply supply your table
They will grow and fruit in very cold lo-
cationl with a little simple wmtcr covering.
(2ng l_!_ig Fruit and Garden iagazine Sent '
four Months [9 1219 You Start RIGHT! '
l'lllcd with illustrated. interesting pI’JCllCIl stories of suc-
cess with “Money Crops." To encourage l more general if -. .-
planling oi Grapes We make lhli libcral offcr. and n ulver -
Quarter takes it Ill. Send name and address today (or
HE FRUIT BELT
St. Grand Raplds,
H E AV E 5 Is your own horse aﬂllcted?
Use 2 large cans. Cost $2.50.
Money back if not satisfactory
ONE can at 5|.25 often sufﬁcient. In powder form.

:., NEWTON’S

A veterinary's compound for
7/”? Horses. Cattle and Ross.
Heaves. Coughs, Distemper.
.\ . \ Indigestion. Worm expeller.
‘ ‘ Conditioner, At dealers‘ or

30 ”9"" sale by parcel post.

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Beans .............................. $20.00 ton
Meal .............................. 26.00 ton

SEED

Northern Grown Pea Beans $10.00-100 lbs.
Northern Canada Field Peas.. 5.50-100 lbs.

PORT HURON STORAGE & BEAN 00.,
Port Huron, Michigan.

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We Pay {he Fulﬁl". Write for Free
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'Michigan’s Ohm rind America's- Formost Author of the Great~ Northwest

(CODyrizht by James Oliver Curwood - . -

(Continued from March 17th Issue)
CHAPTER xvu

7 ALF an hour later Blackton had

shown Aldous to his room and

. bath. It was four o’clock when

he rejoined the contractor in the
lower room, freshly bathed and shav-
en and in a change of clothes. He
had not seen Joanne, but half a doz-
en times he had heard her and Peggy
Blackton laughing and talking in
Mrs. Blackton’s big room at the head
of the stairs, and he heard them now
as they sat down to smoke their cig-
ars. Blackton was ﬁlled with en-
thusiasm over the accomplishment of
his latest work, and Aldous tried
hard not to betray the fact that the
minutes were passing with gruelling
slowness while he waited for Joanne.
He wanted to see her. His
was ‘eating like an excited boy’s.
He could hear her footsteps over his
head, and he distinguished her soft
laughter, and her sweet voice when
she spoke. There was something
in her nearness and the fact that she
did not once show herself at the top

of the stair. Blacktop was~ still
talking about “coyotes” and dyna—
mite when, an hour later, Aldous

looked up, and his heart gave a big,
glad jump.

Peggy Blackton, a plump little
golden-haired vision of happiness,
was already half a dozen steps down
the stairs. 'At the top Joanne, for an
instant, had paused. Through that
space. before the contractor had
turned, her eyes met those of John
Aldous. She was smiling. Her eyes
were shining at him. Never had he
seen her look at him in that way, he
thought, and never had she seemed
such a perfect Vision of loveliness.
She was dressed in a soft, clinging
something with a ﬂutter of white
lace at her throat, and as she came
down he saw that she had arranged
her hair in a marvellous way. Soft
little curls half hid themselves in the
shimmer of rich coils she had
wreathed upon her head, and ador—
‘able little tendrils caressed the love-
ly ﬂush in her cheeks, and clung to
the snow-whiteness of her neck.

For a moment. as Peggy 'Blackton
went to her husband, he stood very
close to Joanne, and into his eyes
she was smiling, half laughing, her
beautiful mouth aquiver, her eyes
glowing, the last trace of their old
suspence and fear vanished in a new
and wonderous beauty. He would
not have said she was twenty—eight
now. He would have sworn she was
twenty.

“Joanne,” he Whispered, “you are
wonderful. Your hair is glorious!”

“Always—my hair,” she replied,
so low that he alone heard. “Can
you never see beyond my hair, John
Aldous?"

“I stop there.” he said.
marvel. It is glorious!"

“Again!” And up from her white
throat there rose a richer, sweeter
color. “If you say that again now,
John Aldous, I shall never make
curls for you again as long as I live!”

“For me——7——”

His heart seemed near bursting
with joy. But she had left him, and
was laughing with Peggy Blackton,
who was showing her husband where
he had missed a stubby patch of
heard on his cheek. He caught her
eyes, turned swiftly to him, and they
were laughing at him, and there
came a sudden pretty upturn to her
chin as he continued to stare, and he
saw again the color deepening in her
face. When Peggy Blacktop led her
husband to the stair, and drove ‘him
up to shave off the stubby patch,
Joanne found the opportunity to
whisper to him.‘

“You are rude, John Aldous!

“And I

You

rmust not stare at me like that!”

And as she spoke the rebellious
colour was still in her face, in spite

.of the tantalizing curve of her red
_ lips and the sparkle in her eyes.

“I can’t help it,” he pleaded. “You
arc—glorious!” . , “

During the next hour, and While
they were. at supper, he could see
that she was purposely avoiding his
eyes, and that‘she spoke oftener to
Paul Blackton ‘than she did to him,
apparently taking the keenest inter—
est in his friend‘snenthuslastlc desq.

heart 1

_ white-button.

criptions of the mighty work along
the line of steel.
Peggy Blackton never seemed quite
so‘ happy as when listening to her
husband, he was.forced to content
himself by looking at Joanne most of

the time, without once 'receiving a,
‘ smile. -

The sun was just falling behind
the western. mountains when‘Peggy
and Joanne, hurried most incontin—
entlyby, Blackton, who had looked
at his watch left the table to prepare
themselves for the big event of the
evening. .

“I want to get you there before
dusk,” he explained. “So please
hurry!”

They , were back in ﬁve minutes.
Joanne had slipped on a. long gray
coat, and with a. veil that trailed a
yard down her back she had covered
her head. Not a curl or a tress of
her hair had she left out of its ﬁlmy
prison, and there was a mischievous
gleam of triumph in her eyes when
she looked at Aldous.

A moment later, when they went
ahead of Blacktop and his wife to
where the buckboard was waiting
them, he said:

“You put on that veil to pmish

,me, Ladygray?”

“It is a pretty veil,” said she.

“But your hair is prettier,” said
he.

"‘And you embarrassed me very
much bystaring as you did, John
Aldous!”

“Forgive me. It is—I mean you
are so beautiful."

, “And you are sometimes—most
displeasing,” said she. Your ingen—
uousness, John Aldous, is shocking!”

“Forgive me,” he said again. 7

“And you have knowu me but two
days,” she- added. -

“Two days—is a long time,” he

 

argued. “One can be born, and live,
and die in two days. Besides, our
trails have crossed for years."

“But—it displeases me.”

“What I have said?”

“Yes.” ‘

“And the way I have looked at
you?”

(‘Yes.i’

Her voice was low and quiet now,
her eyes were serious, and she was
not smiling.

“I know—I know,” he groaned,
and there was a deep thrill in 'his
voice. “It’s been only two days aft-
er all, Ladygray. It seems like—
like a lifetime. I don’t want you to
think badly of me. God knows I
don’t!” ,

“No, no, I don’t,” she said
quickly and gently. “You are the
ﬁnest gentleman I ever knew, John
Aldous. Only—it embarrasses me."

“I will cut out my tongue and put
out my eyes "

“Nothing so‘terrible,” she laughed
softly. “Will you help me into the
wagon? They are coming.”

She gave him her hand, warm and
soft; and Blackton forced him into
the seat between her and Peggy, and
Joanne’s hand rested in his arm all
the way to the mountain that was to
be blown up, and he told himself that
he was a fool if he were not supreme:
ly happy. The .wagon stopped, and
he helped her out again, her warm
little hand again close in his own,
and when she looked at him he was
the cool, smiling John Aldous of old,
so cool, and strong, and unemotional
that he saw surprise in her eyes ﬁrst
and then that gentle, gathering glow
that came when she was proud of
him, and pleased with him. And as
Blacktop pointed out the mountain
she unknotted the veil under her chin
and let it drop back over her should-
er, so that the last light of the day
fell richly in the trembling curls and
thick coils of her hair. _ .

“And that is my reward,” said
,John Aldous, but he whispered it
to himself.

They had stopped close to a huge
flat rock, on this rock men were at .
work ﬁttingwires to a. little boxlike

 

‘fhing that had, a white button-lever.

Paul Blackton pointed at this,“ and
his face was ﬂushed with excitement.

“That’s the little thing that’s g0-
ing ,to-blo_w it up, Miss Gray—the
touch of your ﬁnger on that little
Do you see that black-

base_,of:~the mountain yonder,- 4—rlsht, .

 

And as pretty

 

“ well ,done.- '.

  
 

  

The tremb of enthusiasm , was i, ,
his voiceas he Went on, .xpointlng
with his longarm: “Think ofﬂit!

We’re spending ahundred thbusand .
dollars going through that rock that i
people who travel on the Grand »
.Trunk Paciﬁc in the future. will be,
saved seven minutes in their journey]; ‘
‘We’re spend: -
ing a. hundred‘thousand there, and .

from coast to coast!

millions along the line, that we may

have the smoothest» roadbed in' the
_ and the‘
qulckest route‘f-rom sea to sea... .It-

world when we’re done,

looks like a waste, but it isn’t. It’s
science! It’s the ﬁght of competiS
tion! It’s the determination behind
the forces—the determination to

‘ make this road the greatest road in, y

the world! Listen!” .

The gloom was thickening swiftly;
The black mountain was fading slow—
ly away, and up out of that gloom

came now ghostly and far-reaching 4

voices of /men' booming
through giant megaphones.

“Clear away!
away!”

faintly

theysaid, and the valley

and-the mountain-sides caught. up_

the echoes, until it seemed'that‘a

hundred voices were crying out the -

warning. Then fell a. strange and
weird silence, and the echoes faded
away like the voices of dying men,

_ and all was still save the far-away

barking of a coyote that answered
the mysterious challenges of the
night. Joanne was close to the rock.
Quietly the men who had been work?
ing on the battery drew back.

“It is ready!” said one. .,

“Wait!” said Blackton, as his wife
Went to speak. “Listen!”

For ﬁve minutes there was silence.
Then out of the night a single mega-
phone cried the word:

“Fire!” -

“A11 is clear,” said the engineer,
with a deep breath. “All you have
to" do , Miss Gray, ~is to move that

little lever from the side on which it'

now rests to the opposite side. (Are
you ready?”

In the darkness Joanne’s left hand
had sought John’s. It clung to his
tightly. He could feel a little shiver
run through her.

”Yes.” she whispered.

“Then—if you please—press the
button!"

Slowly Joanne’s right hand crept
out, while the ﬁngers of her left.
clung tighter to Aldous. She touch-
ed the button—thrust it over. A
little cry that fell from between her
tense lips told them she had done the
work, and a silence like that of death
fell on those who waited.

A half a minute—perhaps three—
quarters—and a shiver ran under
their feet, but there was no sound;
and then a black pall, darker that the
night, seemed to rise up out ‘of the
mountain, and with that, a second
later came the explosion. There was
a rumbling and a jarring, as if the
earth were convulsed under foot;
volumes of dense black smoke, shot
upward, and in another instant these
rolling, twisting volumes of black be-
came lurid, and an explosion like
that of a thousand great guns rent
the air. As‘ fast as the eye could
follow sheets of ﬂame shot up out of
the sea of smoke, climbing higher
and higher, in lightning ﬂashes, un-
til the lurid tongues licked the air a
quarter of a mile above the startled
Wilderness. Explosion followed ex-

' plosio‘h, some ofathem coming in hol—

low, reverberating booms, others as
if in mid—air. Unseen by the watch-
ers, the heavens were ﬁlled with
hurtling rocks; solid masses of gran-
ite ten feet s'quare were thrown a
hundred feet away; rocks weighing
a ton were hurled still farther, as if
they were no more than stones ﬂung.
by the hands of a giant; chunks that
would have crashed from the roof. to
the basement of a skyscraper drop-
ped a third of a mile away. For
three minutes the frightful convuls—
ions continued, and the tongues of
ﬂame leaped into the night. Then
the lurid lights died out, shorter and

' "shorter grew the sullen ﬂashes, and

then again fell—silence!

During those appalling moments;
unconscious of the act, Joanne had
shrank close to Aldous, so that he
felt the softcrush of'her hair and the
swift movement of‘her‘bosom. Blaék-
ton’s voice brought. them back'to‘life:

'He laughed, and it was the laugh .

of aman-whohad looked upOn War ‘

    

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ﬁnd: have changed rm
. Coyote Number Twenty-yeight Hutch-

, ed Blackton

- at nine.

' to watch Joanne.

  

1118, the superintendent, is passing

through in the afternoon, and I want
- him to see it.”

He spoke now to a
inan who had come up, out of the
darkness. “Gregg, have Twenty-
eight ready at f6ur o’clock to—morrow
afternoon—four o’clock—sharp ! ”

Then he said:

“Dust and a bad smell will soon be
settling about us. Come, let’s go
home!”

And as they went back to.the

. buckboard wagon through the gloom

John Aldous still held Joanne’s hand

, in his own, and she made no effort to

take it from him.

CHAPTER XVIII

HE next morning, when Aldous
joined the engineer in the din—
ing—room below, he was disap-

pointed to ﬁnd the breakfast table
prepared for two instead of four. It
was evident that Peggy Blackton-and
Jbanne were not going to interrupt
their beauty nap on their account.

Blackton saw his friend’s inquir-
ing look, and chuckled.

“Guess we’ll have to get along
without ’em this morning, old man.
Lord bless me, did you hear them
last night—after you went to bed?”

“NO."

“You were too far away,” chuckl-
again, “I was in the
room across the hall from them. You
see, old man, Peggy sometimes gets
fairly starved for the right sort of
company up here, and last night they
didn’t go to bed until 'after twelve
o’clock. I looked at my watch.
Mebby they were in bed, but I could
hear ’em buzzing like two bees, and
every little while they’d giggle, and
then go on buzzing again. By
George, there wasn’t a break in it!
When one let up the other’d begin,
and sometimes I guess they were

both going at once. Consequently
they’re sleeping now.”
When breakfast was ished

  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
  
  
  
 

Bla’ckton looked at his Watc

leave word for the girl ..
What are
meantime, Aldous?” '

“Hunt up Mac-

And I’ll run dow
at the,work.”

As they left the hou ,-,
nodded down the road.
was coming. ._

“He has saved you the t >
“Remember, Aldo. '
o clock sharp!”

A moment later Aldous was .
vancing to meat the old mountaineer.‘ "

“‘“They’ve gone, Johnny,” was Don-
ald’s ﬁrst greeting.

“Gone?”

"Yes. The whole bunch—Quade,
Culver Rann, DeBar, and the woman
who rode the bear. They’ve gone,
hide and hair, and nobody seems to
know where’

Aldous was staring.

“Also,” resumed old Donald slow-
ly, “Culver Rann’s outﬁt is gone——
twenty horses, including six saddles.
An’ likewise others have gone, but I
can’t ﬁnd out who.”

“Gone!” repeated Aldous again.

MacDonald nodded.

“And that means

“That Culver Rann ain’t lost any
time in gettin’ under way for the
gold, ” said Donald. “DeBar is with
him, an’ probably the woman. Like-
wise three cut- throats to ﬁll the oth-
er saddles. They’ve gone prepared
to ﬁght.”

“And Quade?”

Old Donald hunched his shoulders,
and suddenly John’s face grew dark
and hard.

“I understand,”
under his breath.

’9

 

he spoke, half
“Quade has dis—

appeared—but he isn’t with CulVer ‘

Rann. He wants us to believe he has
gone. He wants to throw us off our
guard. But he’s watching, and wait-

ing—somewhere—elike a hawk, to.

swoop down on Joanne! He’——"

“‘That’s it!” broke in MacDonald
hoarsely. “That’s it, Johnny! It’s
his old trick—his old trick with WO-
men. There’s a hundred men who-
’ve got to do his bidding—do it ’r get
out of the mountains—an’ we’ve got
We have, Johnny!
If ‘bhe should disappear—”

Aldous waited.

“You’d never ﬁnd her again, so
’elp me God, you wouldn’ t, Johnny!"

“We’ll watch her, ” said Aldous
be with her to-day,
t ' ,

’ he ﬁnished.

:1 charge

.back

‘ March 1._
Standards Bill was passed two days
later. . , ,

u n'l’hey can‘t very}

we. ,

well steal her out of Blackton’ 3
house while I’m gone." .

For an hour after MacDonald left
' him he walked about in, the neighbor-
hood of the Blackton bungalow
smoking his Jipe. Not until he saw
the contractor drive up in the buck-
board did he return. Joanne and
Peggy were more than prompt. They
were waiting. If such a thing were
possible Joanne was more radiantly
lovely than the night before. To Al-
dous she be came more beautiful
every time he looked at her. But
this morning he did not speak what
was in his heart when, for a moment,
he held her hand, and looked into

 

her eyes. Instead, he said:

“Good morning, Ladygray. Have
you used

“I have,” she smiled. “‘Only it’s

Potterdam’s Tar Soap, and not the

other. And you—have not shaved,
John Aldrus!” ‘
“Great Scott, So I haven’t!” he

exclaimed, rubbing his chin. “But I
did yesterday afternoon, Ladygray!”
“And you will again this afternoon,
if you please,” she commanded. “I
don’t like bristles.” '

“But in the wilderness

“One can shave as well as another
can make curls,” she reminded him,
and there came an adorable little
dimple at the corner of her mouth as
she looked toward Paul Blackton;

Aldous was glad that Paul and
Peggy Blackton did most of, the talk—
ing that morning.
an hour where the explosion of the
night before had blown out the side
of the mountain, and then drove on
to Coyote Number Twenty—eight.- It
Was in the face of a sandstone cliff,
and all they could see of it when they
got out of the wagon was a dark hole
in the wall of rock.
about, and Blackton
hands with satisfaction.

“Everything is completed,” he
said. Gregg put in the last packing
this morning, and all we are waiting
for now is four o’clock this after-
noon.” .

The hole in the mountain was per-
haps‘ four feet square. Ten feet in
front of it the engineer paused, and
pointed to the ground. Up out of

!!

 

rubbed his

the earth came two wires, which led
. ay from the mouth of the cavern.

’ “Those Wires go down to the .ex—
0; osives,” he explained. They’re
ttery wires half a mile long. But
’ don’t attach the battery until the
-l moment, as you saw last night.

th of the cavern, leading his
the hand. Observing that
. ~ seen this attention on the

we entered a black

  
 
  
 
   
 
 
   
   
 

Blackton
Hs voice
chral:

the chamber.
might stumble ‘ ~
There ought to be a -

He struck a match,
ed slowly toward a wal
searching for the lante
encouragingly
gloom: '

“You folks are now standi .
ten tons of dynamit

over
there’s another ﬁve tons of
powder ”

 

A little shriek from Peggy Blac
ton stopped him, and his mate .
out.
matter?” he asked anxiously.
”Peggy 11-

“Why in heaven’s name do You
light a match then, with us standing
over all those tons of dynamite?”
demanded Peggy. “Paul Blackton.
you’re—J -

The engineer's laughter was like
a giant’s .roar in the cavern, and
Joanne gave a gasp, while Peggy
shiveringly caught Aldous by the
arm.

(Continued April 14th Issue)

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BE following news note has been going
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WHO GOT THE 96 CENTS?

NOTE IN A POTATO SHOWS PRICE ROSE 400 PER CENT. _

Lynchbu'rg, Va., March 8.—Mrs. W. J.
Crowder of this city, while peeling a. potato
found a note in it reading: _

“I got .24 cents per bushel.
you give?”

It was signed “G. F. Beardsley, Stanton,
Michigan.”

Mrs. Crowder said shc’paid 30 cents a
peck, or at the rate of $1.20 a bushel.

What did

“FARMERS GETTING DISCOURAGED AND
QUITTING!”

“Farmers all around here are getting
discouraged and quitting. There ' have
been more Auction Sales around here this
past winter than ever before. Within the -
last two or three weeks there have from
one to four.sa1es every week, within a
radius of ten to ﬁfteen miles and in most
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Auction”, and nearly all of them go to
town or city towork. I wonder how
much longer it will be before the towns
are filled 11p.”

ROM Rockford comes this letter from an
Fearnest business farmer who thus bcwails

the fact that farmers, in his locality,
“getting discouraged and quitting!”

Let's take out 0111 pencils :1 minute and do a.
simple problem in economics—you never 11111 ned
economics?—well, sit in close and get a. lnsson
in what Dr. Friday calls economics, but “but
perhaps you have always called “putting—two—
and—two together” or practicing “common—horse-

are

sense!” As near as we can ﬁgure out, they
amount to the same thing~—basing predictions
on experience, We all do that!

“Farmers getting discouraged and quitting”

to move to town!

Don’t sigh, neighbor, throw your hat in the

air! Here's your neighbor, his wife and thrce
children live mouths to feed. Five produccrs,
all working hard to grow more crops to food
themselves and other mouths somewhcrc in the
cities. _

They movo to town! He has a “good” job in
a factory, going to work before sunﬁup every

morning and working in a spray of paint, paint-
ing wheels all day, until it is nearly dark again
and he can stand in line to get on a crowded
street car and becdme another of the h11_man
sardines, but that is another part of the story!

Five pairs of hands that were producers, move
to the city and become ﬁve mouths which are
consumers! Supply less—Consumption greater!
What happens? Prices for, farm products higher.

So there really is nothing to be glum about,
unless you-miss the social life of your neighbors
and we might suggest that more money from
your crops will buy you a better automobile,
that will bring you near all the social life that

T ‘31.; will be good for you.

, Didn’t know you could do a problem in simple
",yeconomics, did you?
1‘ But it is mighty comforting, if a. lot of, mis-

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AND HIS WORK ONLY. BEGUN!

T seems but yesterday and in reality it was:

only‘a few weeks back that we wished Milo
Campbell good luck and God— speed on his
departure to take up his work as a member of

the Federal reserve board, to which. Pres1dent..

Harding had so wisely; called him.
Milo Campbell dropped dead from heart fail-

ure in Washington on March twenty-second, .‘

less than ten days after he had left his home
in Goldwater to take up his work and residence
in the capital.

Every earnest business farmer in Michigan
will regret the passing of a man who contri-
buted so much to the agricultural welfare of
this state. Mr. Campbell was 72 years of age
when he laid down his work, having been born
in New York state, of English parents, he came
to Michigan in 1848 and settled at Quincy. He
graduated from the Goldwater High School in
1871 and from the state normal at Ypsilanti
in 1875. In 1877 he was admitted ’to the bar,
practicing in Goldwater, with the Honorable
Clayton C. Johnson, now circuit judge, as his
law partner.

Mr. Campbell held several political appoint—
ments-during his busy life-time, and ran for
governor of the state of Michigan, with the gen-
eral support .of~the rural districts because of
his years of‘work in their interests.

Probably the position which brought him the
widest acquaintance nationally, was his election
to-presidency of the National Milk Producers
Association where he was instrumental in sug-
gesting and pushing to a successfullissue sev-
eral important innovations in the milk situation
for the beneﬁt of the producer. _

There is a genuine loss to Michigan and to
the farmers of this entire country in the passing
of Milo Campbell, but the record of. his life
and his achievements should shine forth as a.
beacon to those of us who are left behind to
humbly pattern the course of our footsteps af-
ter his.

 

EAT MORE WHEAT!

FEW years ago and it was “Save Wheat for

the Fighters—~It will vWin the War!”, now

from the north—west in particular comes the
appeal—-“Eat-more-Wheati”~and it is justiﬁed,
because every year American wheat producers
meet a curtailed export market because of mil—
lions of acres of new wheat lands under culti-
vation in other parts of the world and during
the past few years a money-value condition
which has taken white bread off the tables of
millions of people in central Europe.

The time was when we were Wont to smile
at such appeals as "Buy—a—Bale-of—Cotton" or
when we ﬁgured that the National Raisin Day,
wasonly a half—baked scheme of a promoter,
who really had little faith in its effect. To—day,
however after years of experience with this open
propaganda, we have come to know exactly what
may be expected from a. campaign to educate
the great mass of people to an idea.

Two weeks ago there was a “bread-war" in
Chicago between two lines of so—called chain-
storcs, each operating several, hundred retail
stores in all paits of that city. When the war
opcnod 21 small loaf of bread was retailing at

nine cents, one chain of stores cut the price
to eight, down went the other and so until it
was two—loaves-for—u—cent, whereupon the last
ch1in off cicd “Bread Free!” with every pur-

1111a :11 and within a few days had forced a truce
upon their livals.

The price of bread and the price of ﬂoor will
have a lot to do with the success of :1 “Eat- -more—
\thut!” campaign and if the miller will allow
the farmer a fair price for his wheat, add a.
fair margin for his milling and pass it onto the
baker or home with the least possible over-head
we believe this, coupled with a popular appeal
to the more than a hundred millions in America
will have its effect.

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THE SUGAR MARKET

.1787“ now the sugar market is turning hand-
] springs and getting ready so it appears, for

some high and lofty tumbling. No one seems
to know-from just what direction the manipulat-
is being done, but several gentlemen in
\Vashington, including Secretary of Commerce

‘Hoover, are very-anxious to ﬁnd out and they

seem to have an inkling that it may come from
a. certain well known street in lower New York
altho it is carefully wrapped and labeled “made

in Havana"!

It is such a long time before the 1923 beet
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-facts regarding the loan you want.

, ket, that we would scarcely adviso beet growers
guided formers and farmers’ sons fanddpughtero ’ _ '-

proﬁt from this contract that giv snmm on so
share of the possible proﬁts—providing

    
 
     

 
  

 

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get that.
THE PORTS .OF MICHIGAN

the Great Lakes-St.
will be a completed project.
value, however,

ports along the Great Lakes.

goods at a. fair charge.

Modern ports are far diﬂeren‘t from the old .
Future
changes.
which will demand very careful planning and a

type ports of .the early shipping days.
requirements will mean still more

point of view that can see a long ways ahead.

Even more essential than a clear vision on the

N a very few years, fewer than many realise.
Lawrence Waterwhy
Its future
as a commercial- factor will
largely depend upon the agreesiveness cf the
Ships are going ,
to bring their cargoes 'and receive the seme'
where proper facilities are provided to loadg

 
  

matter, however, is the necessity for as public

control of such port facilities which will assure
to all who desire to use them that they shall
have the fairest of treatments.

The tonnage of our lakes this past summer
exceeded 200,000,000 tons. Two or three
times the tonnage of both the Panama and
Suez canals goes through the Soo locks every
year.

is bound to grow to unprecedented importance
if only our port cities will make it possible for
this commerce to develop. '

The present session of the legislature has’re-

With the coming of ocean ships to our ‘
Great Lakes, this great highway of commerce

 

cently passed a Port Development Amendment _

which is to be placed on the April 2nd ballot.
1This amendment to the constitution if adopted
will be,

“To authorize the Legislature to provide 1
for the incorporation of port districts and
confer power and authority upon them to
Engage in work of intcinal improvements
in connection therewith.” :

This Amendment is a question on which it
does not seem possible that negative votes can
be cast with any sound reason. The future
needs of every Michigan Port can best be gauged
by the experience of everv American port which
\indicates the necessity for immediately giving
the legislature the power to create these port
districts and make a start. in the development

of the water transportation of the State.‘

 

BRING THE CREDIT BILL HOME

F you want to borrow money and have won,-
dering1~just what all this talk about “ex-
tended crodits” was going to mean to John

Henry You—turn back to page ,three ’in this
very issue of The Business Farmer and you will
see the rural credits bill, analyzed, boiled- doWn
and explained from the best authorities we eculd
locate. .

,In a nutshell the value of the relief measure
as adopted is going to be the extension of time
allowed the producer of grains or live-stock in
which he can market his product sanoly and
orderly. The oldest trick in history, has prob—
ably been thc lo'aning of money to farmers on
short time paper that came due just at the time
the crop was being halvestcd, so that it was
forced on the market, thus creating unnaturally
low prices and consequent loss.

Of comes, as with any innovation it’would
be easy to pick out the probable ﬂaws in this
piece of legislation. It has been roundly cussed
by both those it is aimed to help and those it
has promised to ruin. Republican and Democrat
have united in defending and defaming this
measure and yet it has won out and we are
going to haves. look at it in operation.’

If you need money now for legitimate pur-
poses in the conduct of your farming business,
go to your local banker, sit down and talk over
the situatidn with him frankly. State all of the
Do not try
to cover or apologize for your actual needs.
The legislation which has been enacted is avow-
edly for the beneﬁt of you, the farmers of Michi.‘
gem and every other state. If your local banker
will not cooperate or cannot, in meeting your
needs, let The Business Farmer hear from you
and we will do our utmost to help get all the

beneﬁt possible from the new legislation for our '

readers in particular and for the wholo farming
business in generu1.7.- . ., l 1-
The Business Farmer is most noxious:
the credit meshinery in ,f‘u .
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t with letters from hundreds
‘1‘) our readers who are in one kind
t trouble or another, and we have
. empte'd to the .best of our ability
to answer each promptly or to take
any necesSary action to secure the in-
,rmatlon which our readers have re-
peated. - *
In a' good many of these letters our
eaders tell us that they are willing
,pay for our services, and I want
you to know‘that the Business Farm-
; .makes no charge of any kind to a
. pajd—upsubscriber, unless we ﬁnd it
semi-y to supply’ legal assistance
’ or expend money in some other man-
»‘ne'r, in which case, 'we will, in every
instance, secure the written author-
. ity«~of our reader before we make
, any such expenditure.
_ ’ You can always write the Publish-
.5, (it’s Desk, knowing that there will be
' no Charge for our services unless it
isfully understood in advance, but
, I do \wish that you would look at
your subscription label before you
write us, because we must conﬁne
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' .ﬂ‘ff up in advance, otherwise, naturally
. W-e-would be taken advantage of by
' ’ = those who are not subscribers to- the

. . Business Farmer, or those who have
.;;. ,_ . not paid up. 'I think you will agree
with us that thl‘. is no more than

' fair.

. . - ' THE. “COME-0N"
' ‘ ; Dear Mr. Slocum—Will you please
Inform me through the columns of
your valuable paper, to which I am
a subscriber oi the ﬁnancial standing
and reliability of. the “Corporation”
whose literature I herewith inclose.
LA lady friend of mine bought shares

 

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l of their stock to the amount of about

, 4‘ $1000.00 a couple of years ago, on
« ‘ which she has received cash divi-

. . dends~as high as ﬁve per cent, every

».‘-;_ ‘ three months. Last Oct. a repre«

' *_ dentative of this “Corporation" in—

‘- -_ .rormed my friend that all parties

' ‘ who 'had bought stock in the

‘ corporation were required to buy an

' I . . additional number of shares of sto'ck,

:‘:-"~—~ the number of share being in prOpor-

‘f tion to the amount which they al-

4 ready held, and which in her case

. amounted to a cash ~payment of

‘ - nb'out ~$290.00, the additional call be-

‘ - in: made on stockholders for the

. purpose of creating a fund to enable

the corporation to place its stock on

~the “curb” market. My friend paid

her $290.00, signed some papers, the

' Lt" f . wording of which she did not under-

. stand, but which later proves to be a

'_ contract whereby she promises to

a“ buy 72 shares otstock at $16 per

i.“ share, a total of $1,152.00 and that

g‘ the $290.00 which she had paid was

. but the initial cash payment the bal-v

‘ I once of the $1,152.00, which is

3 $862.00, being payable within six

‘ months or failing to do so she for-

feits the $290.00 which she has paid.

,My friend was given a written

agreement which states that after

thirty days or more, should she be—

come dissatisﬁed with her invest-

' ' ‘ ment, her money would be refund-

ed upon request.

Iamwmingtopayyouanyreas—

enable amount which you may re-

quest for information which you will

. give or obtain for me regarding this

, V ._ c ‘3 ﬁnancial standing, re-

" - . liability, etc. Please do not publish
my name.” ;

e a e .

‘ _ Iamreprinﬁng the above letterin

a this column only because it illus-

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’ Shark“ operates, onc’e’he has a vict-

im in his'clutches-he has many oily
schemes with which to extract more

money than the purchaser originally -

intended. . ~ .

; We wonder sometimes why a per-
SOD. will go so far aﬁeld to ﬁnd an in~
vestment, or when the speculation is
so wide as it is.in the case of oil
wells, or mining stock. They do
say however, that most men and wo-
men at some time or other in their
lives, take a ﬂing at these two kinds
of speculatIVe investments; like the
child who will nottbeleive that the
stove is hot until it has burned it’s
tiny ﬁngers! Although continually
warned, there seems to be no end to
the game, and it goes merrily along
from generation to generation.

O O O

By-the-way, the most ap‘propriate- ‘

1y named oil well proposition that I
have seen in some time, was sent in
by a reader who asked what I
thought of the “Ralnbow’s ~End
Company, Unincorporated, Oklahoma
City, Okla."

I don’t know anything in particu-
lar about this company, anymore
than that their advertising is very
sensational, and I don’t beleive I
would care to invest in their proposi-
tion which “is to lease at the rate of
$1 per acre, with the understanding
that “should oil not be produced on
or before January 16th, 1929, the
lease dies a natural death."

They must be getting hard up for

names out in the Texas and Okla-_

homa district, when they call an oil
company “Rainbow’s End.” I wond-
er if any company has grabbed the
title “Will—O~the—Wispi" That would
in my opinion be equally appropri-
ate.

A SORRY FLIGHT
Last summer an agent who gave

.his name and address as, Geo. Mc-

Canna, 416 East Water St., Milwau-
kee, Wis., called at our house and
said he 'was selling an automobile
polish receipt for twenty dollars. As
I am a cripple, and I have a hard
time getting any money, he said he
w0uld give it to me for ten dollars.
I did not have ten dollars, so he said
he would give it to me for ﬁve dol—
lars. I bought the receipt from him.
He said I could make the polish for
ﬁfty cents a gallon and sell it for
tour dollars a gallon. I gave the
receipt to our druggist, he told me it
would cost about $2.75 per gallon,
for the ingredients, besides the bot-
tles and labels. I hope you can get
my ﬁve spot back through the collec-
tion box. ,

What do you think about those
hand knitting machines, put out by
the “Auto Knitter Hosiery" con-
cerns. .

. Are these reliable companies?

Are their machines all right, so that
anybody can knitt socks on them.
I mean people who are able to under-
stand the machines—bright minded
people? As I am- a cripple and can
not go away from home to work all
day, I would like to buy one of these
machines but some people say you
cannot make the complete sock on
the machine, so I am afraid to buy
one.
-—I* am sorry I cannot help this un-
fortunate reader collect the amount
he paid the agent over a year ago.
We cannot handle claims over six
months old. We have found there
is little possibility of making collec-
tions of that age.

I can, however, save the reader
money on buying a' knitting machine.

‘ if he is determined to have one, altho,
. I have yet to :ﬁnd anyone making a

success of this scheme. I am sorry
because I realize how much this
reader would like to procure home
work. ‘

There are several cripples in Mich- ,

igan who have built up a business
taking subscriptions tor papers and
magazines, sending out circulars to

-their triends or to‘ mailing lists in

their counties. Perhaps this might
be a suggestion for our friend who
certainly has my sympathy and
whom I would like to help in some
way. Has any reader a suggestion

to otter this ambitious, tho‘unfortun-
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100,000 Miles Without Stopping for oil

III 3;; ,.«- An inventor who could develop an automobile, a railroad car or any
ﬁrst" other conveyance on wheels which would perform such a feat would
~ be consuiered a wonder. But such is the record of regular
accomplishment by the Auto-oiled Aermotor during the past
eight years 1n pumping water.
. Did you ever stop to think how many revolutions the wheel
; of a windmill makes? If the wheel of an Aermotor should roll along the surface
5... of the ground at the same speed that it makes when pumping water it would
encxrcle the world in 90 days, or would go four times around in a year. It would
travel on an average 275 miles pér day or about 30 miles per hourforQ hours each
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Auction Sale!
April 3, 1923

An IDEAL DAIRY FARM luvma:
A distance of only 1‘ mile to B. B.
A creek oddmtlnx from a spring ﬁzht

oaths farm.
0

Th lax-gut barn in communiu.
large comfortable house and well ar—
ranged outbuildings.

A size oi about 170 emu.
WILL BE SOLD AT AUCTION!
on easy terms by widow of late owner

Mrs. A. Wilkens

THERE WILL ALSO BE SOLD

1 Cletrac Model M. Tractor,

1 Samson actor

1 Oliver 2-8 Botiom Plow.
and the complete equipment offal-m in»
plum-nu and goods on the hm.
All in ﬁrst cla- mdiﬁon at

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TOO MANY OFFICIALS WITH
HIGH SALARIES
SINCE the beginning of the .World

War there has been a mad
scramble to supplant the old
. American affairs
with every sort and kind of Imperial-

ism, and every sort of economic de- -

vice imaginable. The concentric
rings'of this giant contest for sur-
vival of the ﬁttest is now centered
upon the farmer and his possessions.

An inventory of conditions shows
the politicians have waxed fat on in-
creased salaries for ofﬁcial jobs, the
jobs have multiplied innumerably
and every job is a planetary with a
cluster of satelites of various little
and functionary obligations. Equip-
ment of the job that once consisted
of a plain salary, an oﬁ‘lce,‘ desk—mom
and modest clerical assistance, now
involves all these in palatial and
princely display and retinue. Auto
conveyance and its operatives, elec—
tric fans arid uniformed artists of the
cuspidore. In the old saying, “the
farmer feeds them all.” It is not
the feeding them that challenges his

- resentment but the little that most of

them return for their services. We
go out in the morning to feed the
cows, presto—over night there has
been a meeting of the Spook City
Women’s Club and an administrator
of stables informs us our cows are
facing the wrong point of the com-
pas]; because they are nonresistant to

We stoke the furnace, and low—a
fuel administrator has ordered choas
out of consistency.

A farmer was asked “what is a

fuel administration for?” Answer——
“I don’t know.” A merchant was
asked. Answer—“I don’t know."

A manufacturer was asked. Answ—
er—“I don’t know;” a coal dealer
was asked. He pondered a moment
and answered, “He's a damn nui-
sance to himself and a damage to the
coal business.” Then related how
recently in the city of Greenville,
Mich., a man seeking to engage in
the coal business ordered a car of
coal and a dealer’s license. The
coal came. The fuel administrator
stated there were several dealers al-
ready doing business in Greenville
and no need of more. The license
was refused. Did Ierr when I said
Imperialistic forces have been involv-
ed? Were I to ask'a politician why
have a fuel administrator he would
lay his ﬁnger beside his nose and
wink, I think. I have been in poli-
tics a bit and can answer the question
this waY.

The fuel administrator, like scores
of other jobs, chiefly constitutes one
more spoke in political machinery,
that depends on its appointive crea-
tions for its chief support and main-
tainance. Everywhere, the propell-
ing votes of economic industry are
overloaded with idler wheels repres-
ented by political jobs.

If our Legislation wants to do a
good job that would considerably re-
duce taxes, let them get out their
broad ax and decapitate one half the
politiJIl jobs in the state. Then out
back the salaries of the rest of ofﬁc-
ialdom to a “state of normalcy” be-
ginning with the Governor and pass-
ing down to the members of the town
ship board. There WOuld be plenty of
staunch, capable men willing to ac-

cept place for the prestige in it

and there would be much less incent—
ive to attract idlerrs and gamblers in
aﬁairs of public welfare to public
trust.——J. E. Taylor., Ionia County,
Mlch.

A REMEDY SUGGESTED .4

N your issue of February seven-
teenth is an article by S. H.
Slagle of Herrictta, endorsing an
article be me published :' . your issue
of December 9, 1922. The editor’s
comment on Mr. Slagle’s article is of

'a. nature to lead one to believe that

the editor is opposed to any plea- that
would give the farmer the full value
of the product of his toil; and the
reason for his opposition is based on
the fact that Russia has attempted
something of that nature and as a
result of the attempt a great many

people have lost their lives.

‘ This is not the time or place to de-
nounce or commend the Russia-us for-
what they have so far accomplished.
To my mind the great lesson for us

to learn from Russia is to see that:

our own country does not. become

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like old Russia to a degree that will
cause the farmers and wage workers
to attempt violence as a remedy for
their-economic ills.

Conditions always determine our
actions. Hence, the blame for any
loss of life must rest on t' lose having
the power to prevent injustice failing
to do so, and not on those who, 'be-
cause of their suﬁering apply the
only remedy apparent 'to them in
their desperation caused by starva-
tion.

The trouble with most of those
who suggest remedies for the diﬂi-
culties of the farmer and wage work-
er» is that they have 'not studied the
nature of the economic system und—

' er which we now operate.

The nature of the competitive sys-
tem must have been very well mast—
ered by the late Bishop Williams,
otherwise he would not have been
able to utter the following words of
wisdom:

“If the Lord in desperatiou—pard-
on the phrase—should say, I will
feed , these downtrodden starving
children of mine, and rain brown
bread and molasses upon the earth,
it would do nothing to help the pov-
erty of the world under our present
system. It would merely raise the
value of the land where the fall was
heaviest.”

Henry Ford is another of the few
who understand our. present econ-
omic system, as witness the follow-
ing taken from_,“The Intimate Life
of Henry Ford,” written by Allen L.
Benson:

“Our men work eight hours a day
for a living because it takes all they
can earn in that time to maintain
themselves and pay their share of the
general wastefulness and inefﬁciency
Our workingmen do
not get full value for the wages they
Spend. Nobody does.

_ would require too much space; but-A ,,

Net saving 40 per cent. .
To enlarge upon this in this article

I will endeavor to answer all critisms
that appear in The Business Farmer
as a result of the suggested methOd.

 

-—Joseph Warnock, Pre'sque Isle,
County, Mich. ‘ , . . . 1
A PIONEER

HAVE lived in Tuscola county
ever since 1861.
Cass river country fromRSanalac
county to Huron county both sides
for miles each way. When it was

a wilderness I was’ where Cass City,

now stands, before there was a-tree
cut down and at Caro when there was
only one board house and pine
stumps and logs.

I could turn a hand at any kind of

labor; I could ﬁll the place of a lumb- ,

er jack or a village cop but was no
drunkard and always associated with
all kinds of.company.
ﬁrst Caro paper that was printed in
Caro by Grant Slocum. I took that
paper as long as it lived, so I Want
the Business Farmer. I could write
a pioneer life for weeks to come. I
also know something about Macomb
county, also Detroit.—L. H. D.', Vas-
sar, Mich.

ISLE ROYALE
AM enclosing to y0u Isle Royale,
in verse. I know this represents
the sentiment of this my Huron
County
Oh, beautiful island of splendor,

- Ringing back to those manors of old

Every time ,

anybody pays more for a thing than -,

it is should cost to produce and sell
it, he is helping to support those who
are not producers and also paying
his part of the penalty for not organ-
izing the world on a scientiﬁc basis.
Earning a living will be the smallest
part of our troubles once we have
learned to do without parisites and
without waste. Too many activities
are now non-productive. That is
partly because of our faulty industri-
al organization and partly because of
parasitism.”

President Harding in his message
to Congress December eighth, 1922,
among other suggestions gave us the
following:

“The widespread gap between pro-
duction costs and prices which con-
sumers pay concerns every citizen of
the Republic. It contributes very
largely to the unrest in agriculture
and must stand sponser for the fam-
iliar termL—the high cost of living.

' No one doubts the excesses traceable

to the levy of the middleman; but it
would be unfair to charge him with
all responsibility before we appraise
what is exacted of him by our mod—
ernly complex life. We have attack-
ed the problem on one side by the
promotion of co—operative marketing
and we might well inquire into the
beneﬁts of co—operative buying.”

Considering the Opinions of the
eminent gentlemen above quoted, are
we not justiﬁed in looking upon the
critisms of the article by Mr. Slagle
as being somewhat unwarranted.

In an effort to right their wrongs
the people of a country will adopt
methods of a voilent nature against
their economic masters. Ability to
co-operate for the general welfare is
our only proof of intelligence. The
higher the state of civilization, the
greater the co—operation for the elim~
ination of waste of every nature. In
my article in your issue of December
9th I stated that I was working on a
program for the industrial emancipa-
tion of all wealth producers and use-
ful Workers. ‘

I herewith submit it for the crit-

ism of the editors and readers of

The Business Farmer. As a test of
the soundness or the idea, organize
from‘ ﬁfty to one hundred retail
stares in an equal number of 'the
most promising communities,
one purchasing organization for the
chain.
lows:

Retailers average grOss proﬁt 25
per cent. wholesalers average gross
tpjroﬁt 15 per 'c’éiit,-m anti c,
Issuing cost 10 per 11' at

The tale of the ages recording
Word pictures so weirdly told.

’Tis a church,
enshrined,
For ’tis in league with mountains of
snow, .

And the prows of leviathans are ever
inclined

To do homage in passing, so proudly
in tow.

in our heart, forever

Great inland seas pass by in review,

And mutely enquire the way,

Their passport, the smiles of citizens
true,

Who have in those beauties forever
portrayed.

The serried cedars in erray, .
Their sombre beauty makes appeal,

'That woodman may their fate delay,

God knows their plaint is ever real.

The noble beech whose bosom bland,

Is scarred by names of many'lands,

Yet, trite, and digniﬁed she stands,

Her drooping boughs are angel
Wands.

The pensive pine whose towering
spire

Had beckoned pilgrims to the shrine,

She gave her all, that homestead‘ﬁres

Might kindle love, supreme, divine.

——George J. Barrie, Huron COunty.

PUBLIC FUNDS
HE article of C. H. A.,
Michgan Business Farmer
February 3d, is right to the
point. I heartily indorse his views.
Farmers must plan better laws and
methods and see that they are en-
forced if they ever get out from und-
er the present unjust taxes.

The public gives liberally for sup‘
port of public schools, state and na-
tional government, etc., and by so
doing the people are in reality furn-
ishing the population the machinery
of government, and the capital which
makes great accumulations of wealth
possible. No person ever earned a.
million dollars. It was accumulated
from the public, and the major part
should, by law and justice, be re-
turned in taxes to the public to whom
it rightfully belongs. It is said there
are three ways of getting rich—by
labor, by gift and by stealing. Now
labor is honorable, gift Will not stand
law, and if any man lets millions and
has not justly compensated the pub-

: lie for it, he shduld hang his head in
shame and his photo should be in
j the rogues’ gallery along With the
lessee rogues- that try to follow his
, example...

havev‘

The saying Will be as 1361-“

  

Appointment to the federal bench ’

of attorneys of the Pierce Butler type
who have long served great corpora-
tiOns, is viewed With distrust and

"aldrmﬂ "1319 initiative and re 1,,

d :15 "119‘ 169i ' '
of co- operative retailing 10 per cent. ,_

I know the-

I took the'

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SWEET CLOVER PASTURE
URING the Summer of. 1921 the
Dairy Department in coopera-

'» tion with the Farm Crops De-
partment‘ conducted a feeding trail
of biennial sweet clover as a pasture
crop. The lot pastured was a por—
tion of a ﬁeld of sweet clover used by
the Farm Crops Department in a ser-
ies ofxinvestigations. ,

The test was started on June 4
when three cows were turned into
the lot. The clover had made a
good growth and was an excellent
stand, being from 37 to 42 inches in
height iii different parts of the ﬁeld.
Over 40 per Cent of the plants were
in bud, and nearly 15 per cent were
in bloom. Another portion of this
same seeding was harvested as hay
at the same date and producedtwo
and three—fourths tons per acre.

The cows used in this experiment
had previously been on a mixed grass
pasture and fed silage and grain in
the barn. During ‘the experiment
were given no silage or other rough—
age than the sweet clover pasture.

I The cows wer'e given approximately

one pound of grain to four pounds of
milk produced, and were on pasture
continuously except while they were
being milked or weighed. The aver-
age weights taken for three consecu—
tive days at ten day intervals were
taken aslthe true weights of the
cows.

A total of 177 cow days of pastur-
age Was obtainedfrom this plot con—
taining 1.46 acres. The cows‘pro-
duced 6,088.6 pounds of milk and
201.0 pounds of butterfat. At this
rate one acre furnished roughage for
4, 170.3 pounds of milk and 137.67
pounds of fat. During this time the
average production per cow per day
was 34.4 pounds of milk containing
1.135 pounds of fat.. During the
177 cow days there were consumed
1,452.5 pounds of grain or approxi-
mately one pound of grain for every
4.2 pounds of milk produced. Fig~
uring the grain at $40.00 per ton and
milk at*20 cents a gallon, $69.07
worth of milk was produced from an
acre of sweet clover. With grain at
$40.00 per ton and butterfat worth

. 40 cents per pound the cows produc-

ed $26.02 worth of fat per acre of
sweet clover.

The cows neither gained nor lost
an appreciable amount, weighing in
the total practically the same when
taken from the clover plat as they
did when they were started on the
experiment.

When the cows were ﬁrst turned
on the sweet clover pasture they did
not eat it readily. There was a very
limited amount of orchard grass and
June grass along one fence and this
was cleaned up entirely before the
cows would eat the sweet clover to
any extent. It was three or four
days before the cows evidently ac~
quired a. taste and ate the clover with
relish. One cow in the experiment,
however, was not turned into the
pasture ﬁeld until after the small
amount of orchard grass had been
entirely eaten and she ate the sweet
clover readily the ﬁrst day.

The cows were Iallowed'to eat the
sweet clover every day and at all
times of the day, regardless of
whether or not the clover was wet
with dew or had been rained upon.
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storms during which the cows receiv-
ed no shelter and were allowed to
eat freely of the cloVer afterwards.
During the time of the experiment
no animal showed signes of bloating.

A considerable portion of the clov-
er was destroyed, due to the trampl-
ing of the cattle and to their lying on
it. Some of the main stems, after
being trampled down, sent out new
shoots. Without question, however,
a considerable portion of the possible
feed was lost in this way.

It is the belief of the authors that
much greater value would have been
obtained had it been possible to have
turned the cattle on it three weeks
earlier or before the sweet clover
had ”obtained so much of a start. It
is expected that this work will be
carried on another year.———O. E.
Reed, J. E. Burnett, Dairy Section.

POTATOES BOON T0 MANKIND
HE lowly potato will now- take on
a new lease of life. Its positiOn
in the everyday standard of
things must surely rise with the pub-
lication in Germany of: a treatise on
its many and varied uses, just receiv-
ed by the Department of Commerce
from Vice Consul J. H. Wetmore at
Breslau. Divers are the uses out-
lined. The ﬁrst use of the potato is
for the nourishing of man—in a raw
or cooked state one cwt. is sufﬁcient
for one person for ninety days, with
additional and usual food. In the
form of potato ﬂakes, 1 cwt. of raw
potatoes gives 28 pounds of dry pota-
toes; the dried potatoes give 20.3
pounds of potato ﬂour, 4.4 pounds of
groats, and 3.3 pounds of waste.
The second big use of potatoes is for
the nourishing of animals—1 .cwt.
with other food feeding a hundred
pound breeding hog 12 days. In the
form of dried potatoes, calculated in
starch values, 1 cwt. is equal to 1.15
cwt. of oats; therefore they are suf—
ﬁcient for a working horse for nine
days. Compared with corn as a
stock feed, 1 cwt. of potatoes pro-
duces 4.8 pounds of pork fat, 1 cwt.
of dried potatoes 18.2 pounds and 1
'cwt. of corn 20.2 pounds. The third
possibility for potatoes is for techni-
cal purposes. In the manufacture of
starch 1 cwt. of potatoes with 20 per
cent starch gives 32 to 34 pounds
wet, or 20 to 21 pounds dry starch,
with a nadequate residue of pulp.
The pulp is used for stock feed;. in
the distillery 1 cwt. of pulp gives 1
liter of pure alcohol; for the manu—
facturing of paper, buttons, breaches,
and as fuel. On the other hand the
dry starch is used as a foodstuff in
bakeries, confectioneries, kitchens,
and as. potato grain for the manu—
facture of macaroni, noodles, choco-
late, and for sausages. It also goes
into vulnerary powders, paste band—
ages, pills, salves, and other phar-
maceutical remedies. In other in—
dustries, potato starch is used as an
addition in the manufacturing of
ferments, washing powders and
soaps, and as thickening ﬁlling for
corrosives and colors. In a distill—
ery, a hundredweight of raw potatoes
produces 5 to ‘6 liters of pure alcohol
and 80 to 90 liters of residuary liqu-
ors. The spirits are used for bever-
age purposes and for generating
light. In the manufacture of dry
yeast, 1 cwt of raw potatoes gives 6
pounds of the product. ‘

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Michigan Farm Bureau
Brands include the Best
varieties of alfalfa, clo-
ver, seed grains and
other field and grass
seeds. Their Vitality,
Description and Purity
is guaranteed to be as
. represented to the full
4 ' amount of the Purchase
' ' Price.

   
  
   
  
       
  
 
 

  
 

   

  
 

   

   
   
    
  
   
 
   
  
  
 
 
    
 
  
  
 
 
 
   
 
  
    
  
 
   
  
  
 
  
  
 
 
  
   
   
  
  
    
  
 
   
     
        
       
    
 
   
 
 
 
   
 
  
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
     
   

 
 

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Nevenbefore has it been possible to purchase in quantities at
low prices such high yielding varieties of seed corn and beans in
Michigan.

Farm Bureau Brands of Seed Corn are high yielding varieties
most .of which were developed through careful breeding at the
Michigan Agricultural College and certified by the Michigan
Crop Improvement Association. ’

They include certified M. A. C. Yellow Dent, Golden Glow,
Duncan’s Yellow Dent, Silver King, Pickett’s Yellow Dent, also
limited quantities of Illinois and Iowa grown fodder varieties.
We have seed corn adapted to all sections of Michigan of varieties
that Will give big returns for the slight increase cost of seed.

Farm Bureau Brand certified Robust Beans are the highest yielding
white beans in Michigan and Highly resistant to disease.

Farm Bureau Brand Soy Beans, Black Eyebrow, Ito San and Mid
West_ are excellent for an emergency crop, for ensilage, hogging-
off With corn, and for green manure. ’

This spring purchase seed certified as to orgin, purity and adapti-
bility and you know your money time and labor will be invested

not spent.

Buy Farm Bureau Brand Seeds of known value
through your LOCAL CO-OPERATIVE. If they
cannot supply you write direct to the

Seed Deparfmem‘

MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU

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MR. F ARMER!
Mr. Dealer Mr. Jobber

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 

Are you remembering in purchasing your binder-
twine that you have a factory of your own at Jackson?

It is making the best twine that can be placed
on the market and has a mixture of ﬁber this year;
Manila is added to the sisal to give extra strength.- 1‘

The State Farm Bureau and other organizations
and dealers of the state are in position to handle your
twine. If they do not, write direct for prices as -‘-we
want you to use your own twine as we make 14,000,.-
000 lbs. more than: Michigan can use. ' I 2

Michigan State Prison», .
HARRY L. HULBERT, Warden . "
JACKSON, MICH. . .


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COMFORT

100 % STYLE .

On the better farms you always ﬁnd
implements of the highest type—because
they assure the modern agriculturist
long and efhcient’service and the great—
est crop return.

 
  
  
   
     
   
    
     
     

‘Then why not assure yourself of the

greatest possible use of your feet by pro-

tecting them, your health, and pocket—

book by always demanding—Grief De-

fying ROUGE REX SHOES For Wear
' and Comfort for Dad and Son!

HIRTH-KRAUSE co.

FROM HIDE TO YOU

. Shoe Manufacturers and Tanners
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—-don’ t drive
an automobile
or truck without

I Collision Coverage

NEARLY two-thirds of the entire num-

ber of claims paid in 1922 were col-
lision claims, yet a great many members,
either through oversight of misunder-
standing, are still driving their cars
without this protection.

Collision insurance is written in two
forms, collision with moving trafﬁc ob-
jects, including street cars and railroad
trains. and accidental collisions with all
objects either moving or stationary.

Compare our rates with the old line
rates where the collision rate on a Buick
car in the country district is $132.00 per .
year and in cities of the size of Bay
City and Battle Creek it is $151.00 per
year. ‘Our collision rate is reasonable
and yet affords good protection. Talk
with your local agent about your colli-
sion insurance.

   
  
 

 

 

   

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AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE

COMPANY of HOWELL, MICHIGAN

  

  

 

 

 

 

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EAR Nieces and _Nephews: So
many of you have written to me
asking that I hold another con-

test, that I have decided to do so.
This contest is to be different than
any we have held so far and I hope

I wish to know which is the most
interesting article or department in
this issue of the Business Farmer, so
.here is an opportunity to help me
decide and at the same time compete
for a prize. Read this issue very
carefully, pick out the article or de-
partment that you believe will prove
of greatest interest to our readers
and then write me a letter telling
which article or department is your
choice and why you think readers
will like it the best. You can have
your father or mother help 'you.
Make your choice and you can dis-
cuss with them why it is most inter-
esting if you desire, but you must
compose your own letter. It, would

help compose your letter because
then it would not be your own letter
and even though it was the best of
all received you would not be entitl-
ed to the prize. The contest closes
Saturday, April 14th, and all letters
received between the tn 9 you rece-‘
iv: this paper and noon, Saturday,
April 14, will be elegible for the
prize providing they are of your own
composition.

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“mystery prize” and even the win-
ner will not know what it is until
he or she receives it. If a girl wins
she will receive something she will
prize highly and if a boy is the lucky
one he will win something he will
enjoy very much. Don’t you think
it is more fun to work for a prize
when you do not know what it is?
I do. There are two things you wish
to learn then—whether you won and
what there was to be won. The
prize I am offering is well worth
working for and I hope you will all
try and make this contest the best
we have held. If you do we will
have some more contests soon.—
UNCLE NED.

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle Ned: May I join
your merry circle? I am ten years
old and in the ﬁfth grade at school.
I haVe three sisters and, two broth-
ers. One of my sisters was taken
sick in school Monday and came
home. There are twenty-one schol-
ars in our school. I have seven
studies. My birthday is the 18th
of June. We have no woods. I
have been learning to skate this
winter. I wish some of the girls
would write to me. Your niece, Lila
E. Baker, Osseo, Mich.

Dear Uncle Ned and C usins:
Hello everybody._ May I write to
your merry circle? I wrote about a

year ago. I live on an 80 acre farm.
We raise mostly fruit, such as
peaches, cherries, apples, a few

plums and pears and we also have a
little raspberry patch. I am in the
8th grade, and I am 13 years old.
My birthday is the 1st day of Jan—
uary. I have two brothers and one
sister. I weight 98 lbs. I was read-
ing the letters in the Business Farm-
er last night and I happened to see
that riddle by L. D. Biddle: a three
cornered square, black as a bear,

”$3615.35: .-.-iﬁéﬁlﬂlmij’l‘liﬁﬁﬁmmoﬂta .

all of you ﬁnd it-very interesting. '.

not be fair for you to have someone

.7 cousins like to skate?

   

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guess this riddle or I will pull out ‘
your hair. Answer: an old fashion-
ed ﬂat iron. I will close with a
riddle and the one that guessesuit
right I will send a card to. Twelve .
pairs hanging high. Twelve knights
came riding by. , Each took a pair,
yet it left 11 hanging there. I wish '
some of my cousins would write to
‘me. ' I will answer all letters I re-
ceive. Bernice ,Mauer, Beulah,
Mich.,,Box 156, K. & W. Orchards.

 

Dear Uncle Ned: This is‘the ﬁrst
time I have written. We have 250
pure bred Barred Rock hens.‘ We
live’ on a- 50—acre farm. I have two
brothers. The oldest is 12 years
old and the other is 3 years old. - I
have no Sisters. ' I am in the ﬁfth
grade at school, and I have to walk
one mile and a quarter. My father
takes the Business Farmer and I.
like to read the Children's Hour. Ir
- will close with some riddles: Why is
a airplane like a policeman? Ans.:
Because he takes people up. Why,
is Sunday the strongest day? . Ans.:
Because all the others are week
(weak) days. To what island should
hungry people go? Ans: The Sand«
wich‘ Island. What tree is nearest to
the sea? Ans: The beach. .1 think
I' have. written enough and will
close.-——Frances Marten, St. Louis,
Michigan, Route 1, Box 6.

Dear Uncle Ned: I have .been a
silent reader of the Business Farmer
and I thought I would write. I am a
girl ﬁfteen years old, March ninth.
Have I a twin? I am ﬁve feet tall
and weigh 100 pounds. I have long
browu hair, I live one—half mile west
of town on a one hundred and sixty
acre farm. Do you like the farm?
Well I do. Of course, I like to have
a change‘once in a while but back to
the farm I go. The grammar room
and high entertain each other. The
grammar room gave it last Friday
and it was good. It was composed
of two dialogues and a piece and
songs. The junior class entertains
this coming Friday. How many
I like to
skate, I think it is fun. I can roller,
skate too. The best ice we have had
this winter was a week ago, but it
has disappeared. Will some of the
boys and girls write, I will try and
anuswer all letters. I like to write
them and receive them. Your niece.
—Mable V. Robarts, Owendale,
‘Mich., Box 6. -

Dear Uncle Ned: May I join ydﬁr
merry circle? I am in the eighth
grade at school and thirteen years
old. I am in the calf club. I have
a Jersey calf. We have seven head
of Jerseys. I won ﬁrst in the judg-
ing contest in Hillsdale County. I
have four sisters and one brother.
We had two or three days of summer
last week and today is a regular
blizzard. We take the Business
Farmer and I like to read the' Child-
ren’s‘ Hour. I like to ride down hill
and skate on a large pond and play
pomp—pomp-pullway. I go to the
east Maple Grove school just across
the road from our place. The answer
to the riddle that L. D. Biddle wrote,
three corners square, black as a bear,
guess this riddle or I’ll pull your
hair, is a ﬂatiron. My sister is going
.toi write too—Frank Baker, Osseo,
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be selected from
itself and the winning lists be based

on the average, made a much longer job of correcting and auditing

the lists of objects than was required in the “S”
The Business Farmer appreciated how anxious

contest last year.
were the contestants to

know the ﬁnal outcome and we take this opportunity of thanking all thoée

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have been handled proﬁtably.
rimeeting was

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stock and only the best 80 or 85 per

think we are all agreed that the big

. production.”

. did térous year in the potato
‘r-ketin‘g business our freights

That
restricts our market when seven
states are competing, one with the
. other.”

It was suggested that if 15 per
cent of the crop could have been kept
out of the market the balance could
The
asked to consider
:‘twhether it is possible to get tOgether

On a regional basis and work out

some method of co- operatively hand-

ling the crop, and marketing on the

“basis of quality and guaranteed con—
tracts between the grower and the

sales organization.

North Dakota Having Its Troubles

, Mr. Gorden Randlett stated that
the potato industry has grown during
the past few years in North Dakota
because Of the educational campaign
put on by the Agricultural’College,
Farmers’ Institute forces, Farm Bur—
eau and other organized effort with
the effect that the pOtato acreage has
increased from year to year with the
consequence that North Dakota took
its share of the grief.

' This grief was brought about, not
only by the glutted market, but part-
ly by car shortage, improperly ﬁtted
product and also because of a system
of buyers and commission agencies
that haven’ t always done the square
thing by, the people with whom~they
'deal. He suggested an educational
campaign among growers to the ef-
fect that in case of over-production,
15 or 20 per cent Of the crop should
be held back on the farm and fed to

Cent shipped to market.
Minnesota’s Experiences
Mr. Dunton, manager of the Min—
nesota Potato Exchange said: “I

trouble this year is the result of over—
He stated thatyone of
the factors that seriously effects the
problem is lack of quality. |There is
not only poor production quality, but
inefﬁcient local grading brings about
results as shown in the following
table: ‘ --
Report from State Inspection, Minneapolis of-
. Cars
U. S. No. 1
r
56
190
125
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“One of the great faults of the
present system is consigning cars un-
sold. The presence Of 50 or more
cars of potatoes in Chicago unsold
.and bidding for a market is one Of
the strongest factors in. reducing the
price.

“‘The unrealibility of the dealers is
another factor that must ,be over-
come. We haven’t developed in this
territory a satisfactory marketing
system. I believe that the solution
lies in creating large supplies of
standard potatoes in the hands of a
few strong organizations. The solu-
tion of the problem for any one state
is impossible. Mr. Wells, the man-
ager of the Michigan Exchange, stat-
ed that Michigan had‘gone as far as
it was possible until the other states
were organized. Michigan has a
very strong organization; they have
facilities for storage that will enable
them to hold back their entire crop

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.ave gonexup, and the indications are
. .‘t‘h'at they will go still higher.

until conditions are favorable, and

.yet, last season 1, 000 cars moved

from Minnesota, South Dakota and
nearby territory into the markets
and broke the market, not only for
Michigan but for the entire west. "

Mr. Dunton stated that Minne-
sota’s largest problem right now is
proper warehouseing.‘ To this end
he favors the organizing Of two asso-
ciations, a marketing association and
a warehouse corporation.
ciations for purely marketing pur-
poses; where warehouses are needed
they are organizing warehouse cor-
porations. These are ﬁnanced by the
issuance of common stock to the
growers and preferred, stock to oth—
ers, the common stock to eventually
retire the preferred stock as business
increases so‘that the warehouses will,

in time,'become the property of the ‘

growers.

South Dakota has also been seeing
her share of woe. When she organ-
ized her assocjation two years ago
her great idea was to get all the

«growers possible to market thru the

association. She sent out live men
to organize the growers and they
signed'up about 60 per cent of the
acreage in a little over' a month’s
time. Result, that potatoes poured
into the market and the ﬁrst six days
saw the association with 600 cars on
track, unsold. This year the asso-
ciation has learned a few things. It

The asso—j

consigned no cars unsold.
’ The conference lasted all day; the
committees, on production, grading
and transportation reported and
theirilndings were turned over to
the committee on organization, which
becomes the permanent interstate
committee. It consists of A. M.
Dunton, manager of_ Minnesota Pota—
to Exchange; Gordon Randlett, Dir—
ector NOrth Dakota Agricultural
College; Mr. Foster, Wisconsin Po—
tato Growers’ Association; J. ‘J. Mar-
tin, manager South Dakota Potato
Exchange; Mr. Wilson, Potato Asso-
ciation,’ Montana and Mr. Wells,
manager Michigan Potato Exchange.
Meetings 'will be called in each
state to discuss the reports of this
meeting with the view Of forming
plans for state organizations along
the same lines and that may be fed—

_ erated if so desired at some future

time.

FUR DEPARTMENT

EDITED BY A. R. HARDING
America.’ s Foremost Author and Trapper

‘_QUESTIONS ANSWERED—‘4'

TANNING DEER SKINS

Will you kindly send me a receipt
for tanning deer hides into soft buck
skin leather.—-E. J. S., Winegar.
——The skins should ﬁrst be unhaired.
This may be done in various ways,
the simplest, however, is to soak in
clear water until the hair slips, A

 

 

 

 

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When the hair and “grain” or
dermis can be readily scraped 0!
the skin on the beam hair dow

'ﬂesh it well, then turn it over

scrape Off‘ all hair and ' "
(loose outer hide).
with a square edge, is best for thi
A skate blade answers very well. if.
you perfer, the graining may be don
before the ﬂeshing.

Next dissolve a half bar of laundry
soap in two gallons of warm water.
While still warm put the skin in and .,
work the suds well into it. ‘ Let it:
stand about twenty-four hours, take
it out, wring and pull it dry. Keep
working—~ pulling and wringing".-
while drying—for the working has
much to do with making the tannei,
pelt SOFT. Give it a coat of oil
dressing of some kind, butter or“
grease will do, warm the water, add
another half bar Of soap and put in
again. After twenty-four hours mOre
take it out and pull and stretch as it
dries. The more you pull and work
with the pelt while drying the SOFT—-
ER it will be. A very thick skin
may require a third soaking inthe
warm suds (and a third pulling and .
wringing) but twice should answer
for does and young bucks.

When dry and soft, skins should
be smoked with a punky or dozy
hardwood ﬁre; this should give them
a nice yellow tinge, much better than »
can be done rubbing ochre into the
buckskin, as is sometimes done.

  

   
  
 

 
 
 
  
 

   
   
 

 
 

 
  

 
  

 
    
   
  

 
  

        
    
    
     
     
     
        
  

  

   

  

  

  

     
   
    
    
       
          
    
         
  
        
      
  
  
   
    
   

 

 

 

   

 

 

   

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CAMPAIGN
HATS

97c

This hat is made of pure wool felt. They
were manufactured under government
supervision. Very practical for farmers,
campers and boy scouts. Easily worth
$2. 50 . sizes 61/2 to 7%,. 97 plus

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COTTON HOSE
9’ plus
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MEN, YOU CAN’T AFFORD

TO PASS THIS UP

Rubberlined
Raincoat

$3.39

We defy competi-
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Men’s raincoats,
made of strong
waterproof drill
cloth, Pure gum
rubber lining with
two slash pockets ;
belt all around. A
dressy and serv-
iceable garment.
Cloth is very
closely woven. .15
about 45 inches
long. Sizes 136
to 46; at

$3.39

plus postage

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Khaki lace leg -
breeches, made from
closely woven durable
khaki cloth, double ‘
sent. Double sewed
throughout. “Regular
. $2. 50 value.

$10 7911] post-Be
seesaw

These breeches are

made like the above

only’they are made of
extra ﬁne quality
:moleskin cloth.

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311mm men or:

Startling Values 1n U. S. Army Goods and Other Merchandise
ARMY PUP TENTS

 

U. S. Army, Class B, Pup Tents, cannot be
distinguished from new, made with two halves
that button together; will accomodate two
persons and are absolutely waterproof. Folds
up into a. small bundle and only weighs 6 lbs.
Just the thing for the camper or for a chil—
dren’s play tent. They can also be used as
~waterproof covers. 1 7 plus

Regular $6.00 value ...... I postage

Complete with poles, 25c extra.

 

U. S. Government Auto Tow Lines

89c

Made of extra ﬁne quality Russian hemp,

inch, waxed and oiled, making it extra durable
and waterproof. About 27 feet long and
equipped with steel loops and snaps on each
end. A wonderful auto tow line. Hitch rein
for animals, pulley rope, etc. Can be used for
100 purposes: Cost the government $2. 50 8
Has six times the strength of ordinary
Put one in your car.

890 .552...

Guaranteed Six
Months’ Wear

$2.97

You cannot really ap-
preciate this shoe until
you actually see it.
Soft pliable uppers, full
vamp, two full oak
Boles, sewed and nailed,
leather inner soles.
Regular $5.00 value.

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ARMY WOOL -plus
WRAP LEGGINS ......... . 79C postage
TURKISH TOWELS plus
small size . . . . . . . . ..' ......... 10c postage
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or Money Back

Pay the postmaster on arrival. If after
examining the goods you ﬁnd that any part
or all of the shipment is unsatisfactory,
return the merchandise and we will gladly
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Khaki Blouse Coats

39c

S. Army
Khaki cotton
blouse, made of
closely woven
cotton material,
ﬂap pockets.
lightly used,
but they look

li new; $3.00
val 9; sizes 32
38

391: .332...

Army blouses,
brand new

89c .3235...

U. S. Army Style
Khaki Shirt

97c

Do not confuse this
shirt with inferior
grades. Double sew-
ed throughout, with
1 pocket, heavy roll
collar, slip-over
style.

97c

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SCOUT SHOE

We are proud to offer
you this marvelous
value in a scout shoe.
Strong muleskin upper,

durable chrome outer,
soles, barnyard .
proof.

$1.97

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AN EASTER HEMN
By Thomas Blacrburn
WAKE, thou wintry earth,
Fling 011' thy sadness,
Fair, vernal ﬂowers, laugh forth

Your ancient gladness,
t is risen.

\Vave, woods, your blossoms all,
Grim Death is dead,
Ye weeping, funeral trees,
Lift up your head,
Christ is risen.

Come, see, the graves are green;
It is light; let us go
’Where our loved ones rest
"In hope below,
Christ is risen.

All is fresh and new,
Full of Spring and light;
Wintry heart, why wear’st the hue
Of sleep and night?
Christ is risen.

Leave thy cares beneath,
Leave thy worldly love,
Begin the better life
- \Vith Godabove,
Christ is risen.

SPRINGTIME
EAR Folksz—Springtime brings
with it all the feeling of want—

_ ing to stretch ourselves and em—
brace the big outdoors, to see all the
wonderful things coming into life
and hear our birds busying them—
selves with building their new
homes. '

Our animal friends teach us a
great lesson in the spring of cleaning
house and freshening up their abode.
All the things about us take 011 new
life and seem to tell us to get busy.
A new season is here and we must
be up and to our task.

So let us take an inventory of our
own and start this week with our
own house—cleaning and ﬁxing things
up, both inside and out. I know it
will bring with it a great deal of sat-
isfaction and happiness in our minds.

‘ One of woman’s chief problems is
'house-cleaning and all the wonders
of going thru drawers and boxes get-
ting out last summer’s clothes and
putting away the winter ones so that
the moths and other pests will not
destroy them before they are needed
again.

Some feel house- cleaning a chore,
but after one gets into the work and
sees the wonderful results gained,
not only in having the house-in-
order, but that wonderful peace of
mind that comes to us all when a job
is well done.

Why not let us try this spring and
have the outside of the house made
attractive. You do not have to look
with envy upon the town woman and
think she is the only one that can

‘have an attractive front-yard. Why
not let us have John ﬁx a fence or
an enclosed place'to let the chickens
run in, instead of letting them roost
on our front porches, and decorate
our front yards. Why’not have the
children take an interest in keeping
the animals in the back of the house.

Let us try this spring to see how
attractive We can make the front of
our houses, with a few shrubs and
ﬂowers. If you cannot afford to buy
seed or special shrubs and ﬂowers, I
might suggest the woods ﬂowers.

- They have a lovely charm all their
oWn and will make very attractive
rows or beds. The little labor put
on these few things pays for itself in
the happiness that almost amounts
to pride. You will enjoy sitting
there to do your sewing and rest
when the day is done.

SUMMARY OF WHAT SHOULD BE
DONE CLEAN-UP \VEEK

LEAN—UP week should be pre-
C ceeded by a health sermon in all
. the churches and the Monday

following should be give as a school

holiday in order that the-children
may help in the home and commun—
ity clean—up work.

Following is a general summary of
what should be done:

1. Move out all rubbish, salvage
what-may be useful and burn the re-
mainer; move, dust and clean well

1111 pictures, furniture, drapery, car-1

sting, bedding, clothing, cooking
" snails, and all the furnishings of
house into the open air and sun
hem all day. If the day set aside
' ,- cleaning is cloudy or rainy, use
he next bright day.

2. Brush down Walls and ceiling

'ly- .all

  

ﬂoors and woodwork.

11 rooms; scrub and clean thorr

  
 
  
 

 

these columns.
my ability.

or material.

at once.

for the best letter, and
$1.00 for the next best let-
ter. The next three best
letters will receive a year’s
subscr’iptiOn to the Business
Farmer.

Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR

NEW service department for women will be made possible thru
Any questions will be answered to the best of
I will gladly advise you on any problems regard-
ing your home or personal affairs.
any articles you might’ ﬁnd if difﬁcult to obtain in your own vicin-
ity. Detroit has most everything and it could be sent to you C. 0.
'D. Maybe you would like to match up something either in thread
I want you to feel free to write me anything you
might have on your mind and know that it will be. taken care of
We will call it “Personal Shopping Service Bureau.”

CASH PRIZES FOR SIMPLE GARDEN LETTERS

In our next issue I am planning to devote this page to the garden
\ and making our front yard more beautiful.
for the best suggestions which incur little or no expense.

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AddreSs letters: Mrs. Annie Taylor, care The Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens

  

 

 

 

I will gladly purchase for you

Prizes will be given
$2. 00

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Strong lye and hot water may be us-
ed on rough ﬂoors, but only hot wat-
er and good soap should be applied
to painted or ﬁnished ﬂoors and
furniture. Do not use lye water on
anything that is painted. Now is the
time also to paint, paper or white—
wash such inside walls, ceilings and
woodwark as need attention.

3. Clean front and back yards,

scrape off surface dirt, level and
mend walkways, and attend to
hedges, ﬂowers and shrubs. Clean

barns, hen houses and pig pens, and
remove all accumulations of manure.
4. The water‘supply should be

carefully inspected to see that sur-

face ﬁlth cannot get into it.

5. Sanitary privies and water
closets should be installed or rerpair-
ed and made ﬂy— proof.

6. Make all
house, out-buildings and fences. See
that screens are tight, and free from
holes. Be sure to use plenty of
paint or whitewash. In whitewash-
ing use plenty of good lime, and, to
keep the whitewash from rubbing‘off
add one quart of salt to each ﬁve gal—
lons of whitewash.

:EASTER DINNER

ASTER is here and with it all the
glory of happiness that comes to
us on this particular Sunday.

Why not help celebrate it with
a suggestion of the day in our menu

. and have our table take on a differ-

ent look. If it is possible have some
ﬂowers or even a little green of some
kind in the center with a touch of
yellow or- purple ribbon. Let us
have a meal in keeping with the day.
The following is a very simple one
and if not heavy enough any good
meat will balance it. I have plan-
ned a menu with this in mind:
Oranges
Purple Jelly
Creamed Eggs on Toast
French Fried Potatoes
Buttered Asparagus in Lemon Rings
Twin Mountain Mufﬁns Grape Ice
Washington Pie

Serve halves of large oranges with
a little whipped cream colored purple
in the center of each. Put a rather
thick white sauce on buttered toast
and on this place halves or quarters
of hard cooked eggs. The yellower
the yolks the prettier the effect.

Draw asparagus stalks or string .

beans which have been heated and
seasoned through rings of lemon
skins.

The twin mountain mufﬁns are
yellow. Cornmcal muﬂins are also.

Grape Ice’: 4cwater, 2 c sug-
ar, 2 c grape juice, juice 2 lemons,
1—2 oz. citron out very ﬁne (if desir-
ed).

Make a syrup of the water and
sugar and bbil for 10 minutes. Cool.

Add the other ingredients and freeze.

If grape jelly is used instead of
grape juice melt the jelly, add to the
syrup and use less sugar. Deter-
mine this by the taste.

Washington Pie:
sugar, 2 eggs, 1- 2 c milk, 1 3- 4 c
ﬂour, 1- 2 tps. salt, 2 1- 2 tps. baking
powder, 1- 2 tps. vanilla er 1- 4 tps.
lemon extract. ' .

Cream the fat, add the sugar grad.
ually, then the eggs well beaten. Add
the milk alternately with the mixed

needed repairs to .

12cfat, lc.

SLIP-ONS .REVIVE OLD FURNI-
TURE
0 get a change or an appearance
of newness to your furniture,
try the slip—on scheme. There is

'no limit to what these slip-ons will

do for a room and you will also
come to love your furniture. .

New fashioned, sprightly slip-011s
for furniture are made from crinkly
chintz.

Very often the furniture becomes
worn or shabby and the owner does-

n’t wish to invest in a complete new .

set. Here the slip—ens serve their
purpose.

Just lay the material on the piece
of furniture and out exactly the
same size. Cut the back length six
inches longer and three inches wid-
er than tl1e back of the chair, if you
wish to make your own slip-ens. In
the same way cut the seat pieces.

‘Keep the cretonne straight and let

any large ﬁgure design come square-
ly in the middle of the back or seat.
Extra pieces can.be cut for the arm
pieces and up over the back, giving
the appearance or effect of an appli—
ed banding. The bottom may be

IN YOUR HOM E_.__

and sifted dry ingredients, then the
ﬂavoring. Bake in tWo layers in
round tins.

Spread cream ﬁlling
layers and over the top.

between the

Cream Filling: 7-8 c (14 tbs.)
sugar, 1-3 c flour, 1-8 tps. salt, 2
eggs, 1 tps. vanilla, 1—2 tps. lemon

extract.

Mix the dry ingredients, add the
eggs slightly beaten and pour 011
gradually the scalded milk. Cook

. 15 minutes in a double boiler, stir—

ring constantly until thick, then oc-
casionally. C001 and add the ﬂav—
oring.

. In the ﬁlling on the top arrange a
circle or other design of purple cher-
mes.

Hot Cross Buns

Hot cross buns, of course, are es—
pecially for Good Friday. In olden
times, if eaten before any other feed
011 Good Friday morning. they were
supposed to ward off witches, cure
internal diseases and to protect
dwellings from ﬁre. They now have
lost much of this legendary signiﬁ-
cance, yet they are still considered a
delicacy of the Good Friday menu.
Although properly belonging to Good
Friday there is no reason why they

'may not be served on Easter if one

wishes to do so. I give the recipe:

Hot Cross Buns: 1—4 cgsugar, 2
tbs. fat, 1-2 tps. salt, 1 c scalded
1111111,, 1—2 yeast cake disolved in 1-4 c
lukewarm water, 3—4 tps. cinnamon,
3 c ﬂour, 1 egg, 1-4 0 raisins or cur-
rants.

Add the fat, sugar and salt to the
milk. When lukewarm add the soft-
ened yeast cake, the ﬂour and cinna—
mon gradually and the egg well beat-
en. When thoroughly mixed add

the fruit. If raisins are used cut
them in pieces. Cover and let raise
over night.

In the morning shape in round bis—
cuits, place in a pan, let rise, brush
over with beaten egg.

bun.

Bake twenty ,
rminutes, Cool and with ornamental
frosting make a cross 011 ten of each . ,

we: ,9?
not mm» or d,
era-sh will do, but are no
for plaiting.

WALLS AND COVERING

T IS best .to remove any old paper

and if one does not want to'paper

with regular wall paper, butch-
ers.’ or building paper can be put on
with narrow strips, making a clean,
nice wall. Where there has been no
paper and the house is not lathed
and plastered, beaverboard can be
put on by some home folks. If you
have good plaster foundation, the
cold water colored mixture can be
easily applied'and stenciled.
er like this ﬁnish as it is easy to ap-
ply and by getting a good quality it
will not rub off and can be obtained
in soft tones. Below are a few sug—
gestions in color and design.

North exposure and rooms ' that
seem cold and dark need warm col-
ors—Yellow, orange and red.

If ,the room is small, light color
makes it appear larger.‘

Dark colors are advancing colors,
making large rooms look smaller.

Southern or western exposures re—
quire cool colors—Blr violet
green.

Stripes make room appear higher.

Bright colors make one restless.

Red paper often causes headaches.

If one has several good pictures
and wants them'to stand out, it is
best not to use patterned paper un—
less indistinct in design. .

Be sure to choose colors that
harmonize with rugs and furniture.

PUTTING WINTER CLOTHES
AWAY

The winter clothes will look better
and be worth more for wear next
winter if they are cleaned, brushed
and mended before being put away
for the summer. Moths thrive best.
in soiled clothes, and it is most-em—
barrassing to take out the winter
suit or overcoat some frosty day in
November and ﬁnd it full of lacy
little holes where the moths have
been living in comfort all summer.

 

 

 

Mothers Problems

 

 

. THE CHILD AT THE PENCiL-
MARKING STAGE

FRIEND made the remark to me

when my ﬁrst little boy. was ap—

proaching two years: “He’s
just getting to the pencil—marking
stage, isn ’t he? I suppose soon your
books and your pictures, your paint
and your wallpaper will bear his
ﬁrst s01 awls I was horriﬁed at the:
thought. I saw no reason why they
should be, and now, though the home
has four little children, the paper.
the paint, the books and the pictures
remain undesecrated by pencil-mark—
mgs.

Whether pencil-markings shall be ’

everywhere in evidence rests entire—
ly with you. Every normal little
child ﬁnds pleasure in using a pencil.
It is to him a delightful sensation
when he ﬁnds that there is a result
from merely moving the slender ob—
ject in his hand on paper. Natural-
ly he desires to make those funny
lines, once he has discovered how.
If, at that stage, he is not taken in
hand and his efforts guided, pencil-
markings will appear all over the
house.

The mother who understands will
not take the pencil away from the
child, and forbid him to have one
again. Instead she will provide him
with a piece of paper “like Mama
writes on” for his scribblings. When
that piece is used up, she will provide
another piece until the cravings to
make marks has been satisﬁed.

Little children understand much-
more than they are oftentimes given
credit for. If a mother will. repeat
when the baby Wants to use the pen—
cil he has picked up, “Mama give
baby paper; b‘aby make pencil go 011
paper; baby write on paper,’ ’she will
be surprised to see how quickly the
child grasps the idea, and how soon.
when he desires to make marks,.he
will run and get a piece of paper.

Persistence and patience a mother
must~ have. One lesson will not
teach a little child. The lessons
must be continued over a consider--
able period. The mother must be
continually on the lookout. * ‘ “Mama
doesn’t write on pretty books. See.
book is all clean. Mama write on‘
paper; Baby write on paper, too."
And Baby will understand.

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Pemace stone to rub the rust'dff
from needles- and the sharpen
needles is ﬁne just rub them on a
piece of stone. ——.T. D. ,

 

One way to save washing and iron—
ing, make the best parts of oldtable-
cloths into towel shaped strips and
place across the ends‘ and sides of
They can“ be changed
often and are a good deal easier to
wash and iron than a table cloth.—
J. D.

'. We hear a lot of talk sometimes
abOut women not having the meals
on time, but very little is said about

the men not being on time for their '

meals. The last is just as much of a
nuisance as the ﬁrst—J. D.

We have the poem, “Brier-Rose”
and ﬁnd it too long to print in the
paper, but will be glad to send it by
mail\if the reader who asked for it
will send me her name and address.

Keep Away Moths

Apply gasoline with a sponge or
brush to your carpets to keep the
moths away. .

Makes Furniture Shine

Old pieces of velvet or velveteen
should be saved and used for polish—
ing furniture.

 

What Will Remove Liniment Stain?

I have a large yellow stain on one
of my best pillow slips, caused by a
bottle. of Turkish liniment tipping
over on it and it seeped out through

=2AIDS TO GOOD DRESSING

EFFECT OF LINEs 1n DRESS

Perpendicular lines seem to increase the
and may be introduced
into the costume b‘ye panels, plaits. rows of but-

height of an individual

tonzs, tucks or brai

4319

be used for this model.

of 40 inch material.

 

. into this bag.

. Horizontal lines 8seem to increase the width
of an individual and may be introduced into the
costume by ruffles, tucks,

. he more nearly a curved line approaches
a straight line the more beautiful it becomes.
An individual with very ample curves may
straighten her curves by

not drawing her dress
in too tightly at the waist line.

    

A Stylish Dress in One Piece Style
4303. Taffeta, satin,

crossed in double breasted sty.ie The collar
may be rolled high, or turned low.

The Pattern is cut in 3 Sizes: 16,18 and
20 years. An 18 year size requires .114 yards
The width at the foot is
2% yards, with plaits extended.

sh ,1 as butter, 1

any good. I do not know anything

, about what the liniment contains as

it does not tell on the bottle. It is
oily and is or was put up at Port-
land, Mich The label was dated
.1906. Can anyone tell me some-
thing that will‘ remove it?—Mrs.
A. D.

——Has anyone ever had this trouble?
Write me and let us help Mrs. A. D.

 

For Mrs. C. C.

We are indebted to Mrs. E. S. for
the following information on clean—
ing feather pillows, requested by
Mrs. C. C. a few days ago. Mrs. E. S.
says to take a large clear pollow slip,
open one end and pour the feathers
Then to make a suds
of soap ﬂakes using three parts
ﬂakes to one of borax. Wash in

,three waters and then rinse in clean

warm water. When rinsed thor-
oughly hang bag on the line on a’
bright sunny day; ﬂuﬁ it often with
the hands then take into the house
to dry.

Mrs. S. H. S. sends in directions
for cleaning as follows: Remove
from cases to cheese cloth bag and
allow feathers to hang in sunlight
for two days or more. Wash tick-
ing, then return feathers, she says.

 

 

-—if you are well bred!

 

 

——You 'will never open another's
letters.

——you will not enter the room of any
member of the family without ﬁrst
knocking.

 

 

braid. etc.

 

serge or linen could
The vest portions are

cream, ietc‘., but notlfing seems to do

 

'and easy to launder.

Simplicity and Good Taste Combined

4305. Here is a model that has attractive
features and is withal comfortable. l‘igmed
and plain crepe, or the same combination in
voile or foulard, or linen and gingham could be
used for this style.

The Pattern is cut in 3 Sizes: 16, 18 and
- 20 years. To make this style for an 18 year
size will require 4% yards of 32 inch material.
'lhe nidtli at the foot is 21 yards. To make
the waist and sleeves of contrasting material
requires 21.; yards of 32 inches wide.

0

A Simple Pretty School Frock

4319. Plaid or checked Gingham (onld be
cmombinel with chambrey or linine for this style.
The collar may be omitted. The sleeve may be
ﬁnished in “rist length with a band cufl’, or in
elbow: length, with the shaped cuff illustrated The dress closes at the side.

This Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 6, 8,10 and 12 years. A 10 year size requires 1'7 3
yard of 36 inch material for the waist and 11/; yard contrasting material for the sk'nt. To
make of one material will require 3 yards of 36 inch material.

A Comfortable Sleeping Garment
4325. Madras. cambiic, silk or ﬂannellette. could be used for this style.
11'1thl cegtrtet back and leg4se§1ms f Thﬁ cuff 1111ay2 be omitted.
1s 11 cm is cu in race or eye: 0 and 16 years, and in 3 Sizes 1‘ \[z
Medium. 38-40,Large,4"—41;Ext1a Large, 426- 48 inches breast measure. 'l‘o inlilxe llic
gaunent for a Medium size requiies 4% yards of 36 inch material.

. , A Very Attractive House Frock
4302. Blue or black sateen with white dots, and with trimmin f
p sinngcar this stylg. It isS_also nigcc f§r percale and gingham g 0 white linine, would he
he atern is cu in 7 mos: ‘ , 40, 42, 44, and 46 1
A 38 inch size 1e<1nircs 5 yards of 40 inch material. To trim as illustiiiltcetlieswllllsgsilldliaesmf
yard of 3‘.’ inch 111utc1'iu1.1‘he width at ’the foot is 2% yuids. '3

A Comfortable Apron Model

4308. This style should appeal especially to women of mature figure Th
ﬁnished to close at the’shonldns or sides or to he slipped over the head It 61.511333; tgmihalzg
““3 Stu" ‘3 300d for 99191118 01‘ gimh'am also for other apron falnics.
The Pattern is cut in 4 Sims: Small 34- 36' Medium, 38-40; Large. 42-44 Fxtra
Large, 46— 48 inches bust 111e.1s111'.c A Medlum size requires 31/2 yards of 36 inch material.

It is ﬁnished

 

 

 

 

 

ALL PATTERNS 12c EACH—3 FOR 30c POST-PAID
2%? {ﬁﬁmaﬂfes‘ibislgnﬁl former issues of The Business Farmer, giving number and sign your
ADD lac FOR SPRING AND SUMMER FASHION BOOK
. Address all orders for phtterns to
Pattern Department, THE BUSINESS \FARMER Mt. Clemens, Mich.

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A Trial Bag Will prove it!
J. W.HARVEY & SON,

Central States Managers,

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MONEY TO LOAN

On the 33; Year Government Amortization Plan to desirable borrowers who own
good, well-managed farms 1n Michigan and Ohio, and wish to borrow not over 50%
of the value of their land plus 20% of the appraised value of the buildings.

No commissions—Low interest rates.

No stock investment.

Unusually prompt and

satisfactory service. If your loan will meet these requirements, write us.

FIRST JOINT STOCK LAND BANK OF CLEVELAND
Guardian Building, Cleveland, Ohio

 

 

Made in a great Michigan factory
built on 30 years of honest
shoe values.

.Wears like iron-
a good
barnyard shoe

Uppers of the
brown shoe
given a spec-

ial tanning
" to make

them resist
the barnyard

acidS- H- B HARD PAN
A favorite with farmers and outdoor
men. Boys’ sizes too.

Soles made from best part of the hide.
Sold throughout Michigan.

Herold-Bertscli Shoe Co.
Grand Rapids
Semi for Booklet

THE 11111111111111

of a prostrating illness 16 l
a time of rebuilding oil
strength and energy, and I
nothing quite equals rich,
nourishing

cuii’simuisiili

of pure Vitamine-bearing '
cod- liver 01l as a
strength- restoring'

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l food- ionic. Scott’s
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Emulsion is easily ,.
digested and helps build
up body and strength.

Scottdc Bowue. Bloomﬁeld, N. I. 22-53

 

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\\ rite today for free instruction
book and "Evidence of Concep-
ticgii” b%ank. Send 1sketchi o.-
m e or persons. 0pm on.
0 All-IEHCE 0’ IRIEN Ren-

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lswtered Patent Laws. 1053 Southern lulldln .
Wash lgtn gton : -. : D. 8.

 

 

 

Fully Guaranteed—We pay the Freight. 011-
color Free. Dependable 111:. Go. .Btreator, I‘ l

OISTS FOR FORD TRUCKS $27.

 

 

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Slate Sui-faced
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- LayYour OwnRoo '
This Spring
Do it in your spare time.
No experience needed.
Only hammer and jack
knife required. Use our
standard Radio Slate-
Surfaced Roofing.

Ap roved by
Fire nderwriters
Spark proof. Fire resisting.

Better protection than .wood
shingles. Extra durable and
not aﬁected by heat or cold.
Best Standard Quality

You(. an Buy

Only $2. 00 per roll
(enough to cover 100 sq.
it.). For old or new roofs,
or over old wood shingles.

Red or Green

Non—fading crushed
slate surface beauti-
ﬁes as well as protects
your home. Guaran-
tccd for 15 years but
should last longer.

Send for

FREESAMPLES

It puts you under
no obligation to buy.
$2.00 per roll in-
cludcs all nails and
cement. (Add So it wanted
‘ with extralong nails.)
Ship ed from Chicago. Kansas City, St. Paul
York. Ea. Southern. Ill or NewOrleans,La. (82. 2.1‘
per roll from Kansas City or St. Paul.)

Write to our house non rest you. Address Dem

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The Same !
" I saved 50¢ a
roll. buying my
g] o 0 ﬁ 11 g f 1' o m

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- Hookstown Pa
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Here’s good
news for farmers—the
famous Peerless Fence can now
be purchased direct from factory at

Lowest Prices Ever Quoted
on Peerless fence. Write for {1119.104
page catalog giving new low rice: .
on Fencing—Bari) WirchSteel oetl
Gates—Rooﬁng and Paint. Save 40%. . '
Satisfaction guaranteed. .
PEERLESS WIRE 8. FENCE 00.
Dept. 3807 Cleveland, Ohio .;.'

Fume”...- at CLEVELAND. omo :-~2
\ ADRIAN, RICH. MEMFHES. TENN.

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Cured Her

Rheumatism

Knowing from terrible experience the sufron-
ing caused by rheumatism, Mrs. . E. Hunt, .
who lives at 60 Douglas Street 0489..

anxious to tell all other sufferers ust h ‘ .
getri “d of their torture by a slni'ple 111:: ::
om

Mrs. Hurst has nothing to sell. Merely mall ‘
your own name and address. and she will gladly 1 -
send you this valuable information entire
free. Write her at once before you

 

 

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Frank. East Earle, Pa:

“Early in. the "spring I had a cow that
with Abortion which had taken,
a bad start, so I sent for a veterinary but the
worse and did. not eat
. for two weeks and
the doctor said she would die as she was
so weak she could not stand up any more
and he could do nothing for her so I went
of Kow-Kare and gave it
rig to directions and in three days
her feet and eating real good.
Tod y she is as good a cow as you can ﬁnd.
must say that Kow-Kare saved her and C
will others just the same, as this was a

was aﬂeeted

cow kept getting
anytime

_and t-a box

aceo
she was on

So
(very bad case when I started."

Not all abortion is curable, but usually it
is the result of a badly run down condition
It is these organs
and the digestive functions that Kow-Kare
Its medicinal aid is without an
equal in the treatment of Barrenness, Re«
tained Afterbirth, Scouting, Bunches; Milk
Fever, Loss of Appetite—all of them re-
impairment of the genital

of the genital organs.
rebuilds.

sulting from
and digestive functions.
-—

Don't give up‘ the abortive cow‘as lost
» :wmmmxow-Kmame.We

‘ receive yearly hundreds of letters telling of .
complete mics through the use of
Rhianna, Here is one from Joseph E.

 
 

You can ﬁnd Row-Kare at “mtg
"s'dealer 13”};3': supplied we mil.”

your .

pontpaid, on receipt of price.

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Advertisements inserted under this neadlng for I‘eputanu Breeders or Live Stocx at. special um
rates to encourage the growmg of pure-oreds on the farms of our readers. Our advertising rate

is Thirty Cents (300) per agate line per Insertion.
for cash if sent with order or paid on or before the 10th
N YOUR AD AND WE WILL PUT IT IN TYPE

or $4.20 per inch, less 2%

of month following date of insertion. SEND I

so can see how nan lines it will ﬁll.
FREE' so y ‘ IyYIICI-IIGAI“ BUSINESS FARMER, MT. CLEMENS, MICH.

BREEDERS DIRECTORY.

 

    

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To avoid conducting 031.05 we Will «lthou
008i. list the date of any live stock sale In
Michigan. If you are considering a sale ad-
vise us at once and we will clam the date

 

 

 

for u. Address, lee Stock Editor. M. B.
F.. t. Clemens
‘ . 1 -—Hoisteins, Howell Sales Company of
00‘: 8 Livingston County. \Vm. Grifﬁn.
spew. Howell. \l'I-“V
If ‘
HOLSTEINS

Fourteen agate line‘s to the column inch

Address all letters.

JERSEYS

 

Jersey Breeders Attention!

DO. YOU WANT A YOUNG BULL 0U

Silver Medal Sire and B. O. M. Dam? Good-135mg
individuals, priced to sell. Photos and prices on
application. ‘

Samuel Odell, HIGHLAND FARM Adolph Heeg,

Owner. Shelby, Mich. Farm Supt.

REG. JERSEYS, POGIS 99th OF H. F. AND
Majesty breeding. Young stock for sale. Herd
fully accredited by State and Federal Government.
Write or Vis1t for prices and description.
GUY C. WILBUR, BELDING. Mich.

 

YEARLING BULL BARGAIN—DAM A 25 LB.

'unior 4-year-old

breedm‘bﬁ. Snje 32

igan ‘ amplon.

Federally testedt.
‘ ‘ , ues .

prlﬁleuggETLeL1 JONES, White Pigeon, Michigan.

Pontiac Korndyke—King Segis
lb. grandson of 35 lb. Mich-
Cnlf well built, nlcely marked.
Pedigree, photo and bargain

4 EXTRA FINE BULL CALVES—ALL BORN
in January. From lmavyumlkmg ileum and mrcil
lw “Romeo King Segis Pontiac Kormlyke.
llerd T. B. Burgeyx prices to move quick.
7 ' l . Pedigrees roe. ’
“SrCtISAl-PIgEyR BROS., R. 4, Oxford, Michigan.

SHORTHORNS

i_ lInHlAiu sunning

 

’\‘ if 1‘ one red, low down, thick u
I‘lllfl’léllseold, also one roan calf ﬁfteen months old.
A bargain if taken at once. Also a few young

cows with calf at foot.

C. H. Prescott & Sons
Ofﬁce at Her-C at
Tawas City, Mich. Prescott, Mich.

SHORTHORNS

FROM THE

1 Me Commander, .J‘mln" Cham-
piometh: rmnt nternational. how is the .time
to buy. We have several oung cows and heifers,
bred to this wonderful imlvl, for sale. 130, sev-
eral bulls and heifers ohbreedlng age, from our
other noted sire, l’erfectlon Heir 3rd. Visit or
write us at once.
' s. H. PANGBORN and sons,

Bad Axe, Michigan

', $7sGete Registered Shorthorn Heifer

calf 5 weeks. out of good dam and we.
. J.

E YODER, Cenwviile, Michigan.

onu WITHOUT ' HORNs

153:8:ng "915;" U. . Accredlted Herd No.
28945. Fgr description and price wnte,
' L. C. KELLY & SON, Plymouth. Michigan.
IGH. SHORTHORN BREEDEBS’

252.73g; fig ‘sale both milk and beef breeding,

all ﬁle'syvrvllti’usn. Sec'y. Greenvllle. Mich.

: SHORTHORNS: 5 YEARLING
Hgi?ers,sA2I-Ecalves, 1 bull calf. selected for beef

F rs vices.
Hill-.3111: Prlmeer, R. 4 Harbor Beach. Mich.

GUERN SEYS

_._ —REGI$TERED GUERNSEY HEIF-

ngtsrg-sgnabée prices, also choice bull calves of
m . .

ngﬂfioWe. W%M§N. Lansing. Mich., Box 52.

Calves. Cheap.

EYS—Registered _Buil .
$52.53”. Best of breedmg for production and

site. (3ng0 Damken. North Manchester, indiana.

GUERNSEYS. A NEW CROP OF
Harms-“3‘15; soon. No females for sale. Order
calf A. ll. Sire and Dam.

SMITH, Lake City, Michigan.

" : MAY ROSE GUERNSEY BULL
gale-n: onAl‘lovédjEt!()(.l 139252. Dam on A. R,
‘ Fed 1 ccr e er .

reﬁll-Malia? BROTHERS. Camden, Michigan.

‘igzznso ousnussvs—FEMALEs sun
A R.

:xroa

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ire and Dam. . . R.
‘4300 West Fort at. Detroit. Michigan.
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ANGUS

. ' vs some rm: vouuc auaus cutie
nternationsl Grand Champion Stock at
1 prices. 5. iguana a. co.. Addison,

   

 

HERE FORDS

HEREFORDS

Young Cows with calves b aide
consisting of blood from Amer-
icas foremost herds at rices
that enable them under rli-
ripe Hereford Beef Plan to pay
for themselves within a year to
18 mos. Bulls including prize
wmnterslat the lei-fad shows at
. prac lea pnces. er s hes
by Straight Edge 1169786, one of two sonsdﬁg
l'erfect10n_ Fan-fax out of a daughter of the
famous Disturber.

T. F. B. SOTHAM & SONS
, (Herefords since 1839) ’ Saint Clair, Mich.

HER‘EFORDS FOR SALE. SEVEN CHOICE
year-hugs and heifer ‘ calves and seven yearling
bulls sued by Wyoming 9th. International Prize

 

 

 

Winner. , Farmers tic-es. llerd .established in
til.“ 33.2% It'll.mé‘fd‘s’ta..lvt‘l§.{?’£53.22:
RIVEBVIEW HEREFORD 4.57:]. “it?
few females. WM. C. DICKEN, Smyrné, Mich.

 

 

BROWN S WISS

FOR SALE: BROWN SWISS BULL,
Months old. Carries the blood of Colage 1E:
lira 2nd. FRANK POET, R. 6, Clare, Michigan.

Registered Brown Swiss Cow For Sale. 8 .
to'freshen May 10. S lendid milker. T. ll.’{eg€ég:
Price $160. Dewey artley, Kalkaska, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

. RED POLLED

BED POLLED CATTLETﬁa $353222". 3211;?
ROYSTAN STOCK FARM.
Will Cottle, R. R 1. West Branch Michigan

FOR 8ALE-—-OUR RED POLLED HER
Cosy Ella huddle. and a few heifer? 53:3:
PIERCE BRO’8.. Eaton Rapids. Mich. R.»1,

ammnns

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

FENDLAY 85108.. R 5. Vlflll'. Mlch.

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I‘NEWMAN'S 3T0.

DUROCB

 

THE BEST FALL DUROC_’PIGS IN MICHIGAN
is at Mich: ans rm. Pavilion. They are sired
by State air Winners-of Sensation and P
ﬂnder breedm . Sept. pigs tall and growth ,
weigh from 2 0 to 240 lbs” Oct. pigs 165
20 lbs. Priced to move in a hurry.
MICHIGANA FARM, Pavilion, Michigan.

PEACH HILL FARM

 

otters choice weanling

. Duroo pigs, either
sex. Priced vet‘s reasonable. Write us.
WO D BROS.. Romeo, Mich.

 

HILL CREST-,DUROCS, PERRINTON MIOH
We are breedln twently sows and eiﬁh ilti
to a son of GR ‘AT 0 ION SENSAT 0N, {ear-
ling, spring and fall boars. NE ON ‘ BLANK,

"m m' 0’ “Misht south of
Gratiot co., man, . Middleton,

 

 

 

O. 1. CA .
O. LIC. BIG TYPE, ell—T8 FANNOWED MAY
15th.~ 22 weighing 300 lbs. Bred to Leigh

glongter, an] ogistan ', boaré ’3'“? 130° been
116.1118 an s l in: . . . or . ears.
“git rams, Mariette. Micﬁlgan.

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, WONDW SUCCESS“-
NE of the most successful live-
stock-sales of the-season was
that of Alexander & Bodimer, at
Vassar, on March 8th, where they
sold 40 head of registered Chester
White swine consisting of 36' bred
gilts and one open gilt, two tried,
sows and one yearling hear.

The sale was held in a heated sale

barn on the Alexander farm and the
day was a ﬁne one and there was a
large crowd of buyers gathered from
all parts of the state and other states
as well, bidders being present from
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania. The sale went with a bang
right from the start and brought an
average of nearly $62.00 per head. ’
No. 33 topped the scale going to
Wilbur Jones of Reese, Mich., at
$177.50. She was an open gilt sired
by Alexander & Bodimer’s great herd
hear “The Monster” -.nd from their
champion sow “Long Beauty.” She
is, certainly a splendid animal with
great size for her ageuand as smooth
as a ribbon. Besides Mr. Jones,
Thomas Hile of Caro and the Detroit
Creamery Co. Farms of Mt. Clemens
were the opposing bidder. Detroit
Creamery Co. Farms bought the tops
of the bred gilts, Nos. 1 & 8, at $105
and $110 respectively. The whole
offering was in splendid condition
and at the prices paid should prove
proﬁtable investments for the buy-
ers. Col. H. T. Walker of Montpel-
ier, Ind., assisted by Cole. MacEl-
downey of Caro and Atkins of Vassar
sold the offering in a very able and
pleasing manner. List of buyers
follows: _
No. 1, Otto Neu, $50.00; No. 2,,
Wm. Hall, Vassar, $62.50; No. 3, A1-
bert Hall, Fairgrove, $50.00; No. 4,
M. Culbert, Fairgrove, $47.50; No.
5, Claude Cole, Caro, $65.00; No. 6,
Henry Lane, Fairgrove, $65.00; No.
7, Detroit Creamery 00., Mt. Clem-
ens, $105.00; No. 8, Detroit Cream-
ery 00., Mt. Clemens, $110.00; No. 9,
Thomas Hile, Caro, $70.00; No. 10,
Knox Youngs, Reese, 65.00; No; 11,
.Clara_V. Dorman, Snover, $50.00;

‘No. 12, (boar) Thomas Hile, $75.00;

No. 13, Crapo Farm, Swartz Creeﬁ
$45.00; No. 14, Roy Gardner, Fai M‘.
grove, $45.00; No. 15, C. Sodolski,“

Bay 'City, $55.00; No. 16, Claude
Cole, Caro; $47.50; No. 17, E.
Hodges, Colemen, $52.50; No. 18,

Roy Jackson, Caro, $55.00; No. 19,
Norris Miller, Fairgrove, $50.00; No.

20, Robert Aherns, Fairgrove, $50:- “

00; N0. 21, L. H. Ald, Reese, $62.50:
No.22, O. Wriggelsworth, Howell,
$65.00; No. 23, Mr. Vanderlip, La-
peer, $52.50; No. 24, Wiley Kirk,
Fairgrove, $62.50; N0..25, J. C. »
Kirk, Fairgrove, $57.50; No. 26, R.
Hamnet, $50.00; No. 27, Henry
Rogner, Reese, $45.00; No. 28,
Bruce Brown, Mayville, $55.00; No.
29, Lute Jones, Lapeer, $52.50; No.
30, Thomas Hile, Caro, $70.00; No.
31, John Howell, Ovid, $52.50; No.
32, Irvin Cross, Colling, $67.50; No.
33, Wilbur Jones, Reese, $177.50;
No. 34, Findlay Bros., Vassar, $65.-
00; No. 35, S. E. Lawrence,. Britten,
$62.50; No. 36, A. Gremmel, Sebe-
waing, $40.00; No. 37, A. Davis, La-
peer, $47.50; No. 38, J. Richards,
Reese, $47.50; No. 39, N. J. Neal,
Bay City, $52.50; No. 40, Crapo
Farm, Swartz Creek, $50.00.

SPRINGTIME FOR HOLSTEIN
BREEDERS .

PRING is a time of quickening
life, and breeders of Holsteins

in Michigan are acting springy.
Five County Associations met within
four days recently. The State Hol-
stein ﬁeld man, J. G. Hays, was call-
ed upon to attend these gatherings
and to explain the extension program
of the National Holstein Association,
and to indicate how the county units
should organize to get results from

the Extension Service.

Monroe county started the ﬁre-
works with a meeting the 14th. The
main interest in Monroe seems to lie
along the lines ofCow Test Ass’n.
work, Guy Doty, ,of Monroe, Was
elected as Cow Test Ass’n. deputy.
E. L. .Smith, of Adrian, president of
the State Holstein Ass’n., was pres—
ent~and talked State Holstein poli-
cies‘to the breeders. _ .

The second meeting took place the
' Lenawee
has been actively organized for sev:
eral ‘ years, boosting different .proé,

mm man "whom. em" . _ _. , ,
~~work held thecent'er , , ,
Earl Holmes of. Clayton a he county

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calf—- club deputy.

‘ The night of the 15th found the
‘ Wastenaw county breeders gathered ‘
for 'a banquet at. the Huron Hotel at.
Ypsilanti. .‘This was mainly a sociah 7
affair-with a little fancy dancing by - '

local talent to add to the good time.
After-the feed a short business ses-
sion was held in which 0. J. Fold--
kamp, of Saline, and Frank Geiger.

of Rushton, were, selected to assist-

Co. Agent Osler in pushing cow test
work; and Jae. Sanderson was elect—
ed to work with‘Club Leader Watts
-in calf club work.

The following daythe Livingston;

county -assin. sta ed a. meeting. The
- proportion of big class sires for the
county held theimain attraction here.
J. E. Williams; dairy supt. for the
Detroit Creamery Co. farms at Mt.
Clemens, gave a. talk regarding popu-
lar blood lines of the day, and told
of his travels searching for an out-
standing sire. , ,

The week was ended with a meet-
ing is Kent county.
breed and the Holsteins’ milk occu—-
pied the breeders' attention. Mem-
bers pledged their support to County
Agent Vining in a project to locate
several of the large “Bill—boards” in
the county at strategic points.

AnOther sign of- “Spring” in the l

Holstein business is the result of a
couple of recent sales, on which
prices showed a rising tendency.
Musolff Bro's., of South Lyon held
a. sale March 10th, dispersing a herd
of 54 head owned by the brothers on
one of their farms. In this sale ap-
peared many record animals, includ-
ing four 30 lb. cows. Most of the
offerings xere either sired by or
bred to King One Champion, King
Peteh Segic Lyons, or Maplecrest Apr
phcation Pontiac. These sires rep-
resent good seven day and year-

ly records. Two cows brought
the ﬁgure $610.00, one, ‘Wabash
Fancy 2nd, 3. showy ﬁve-year-old

with 23.4 lbs. as a three year Old and
689.25 from 16,601.9 milk in 10
months; the other a 28.66 1b. four
year-01d Johnna Korndyke Walker
De K01, heﬁidam a 1,000—1b. cow.

The florid)”. H. T. Lewis at Elsie
thm3th contained no large record
stuff, except the herd sire, a- two-
year-old from a. 1,000 lb. dam. He
brought $300.00. However, .the
cattle were of good individuality,
and the herd was fully accredited.
The milking cows averaged $204.00
the young stuff, - $137.00, and the
calves $90.00.

The sale was topped by Inka Can-
ary De Kol Aoggie, a 6 year old row
of great capacity, and quality. . She
had no ofﬁcial recor'd, but had milk—
ed over 100 lbs. a day on private test.
She went to Colonel Shubel of Lans-
ing for $540.00. ’

With cattle moving more freely,
and at better prices in private and
public sales and with breeders show-
ing interest in. organization it is ap-
parent that the Holstein business is
looking up in our state—’3. G. Hays,
State Holstein Fieldman.

 

SGHAF'FER BROTHERS’ SALE

UR ﬁrst Annual Sale of Duroc-

Jerseys was held March 13th,

and thirty-seven head were dis—
posed of at an average of $40.00.
The‘top sale was $100.00 and several
ﬁne Gilts sold at from $60.00 to
$65.00 and nearly all were taken bv
neighborhood farmers from Oakland
and Macomb.Counties and we‘ hope
that next year we will be able to take
in a larger territory.

“Sensation ,Marsi,” our herd boar
is coming along ﬁne and his two lit-
ters are real pigs, and we. are. now
ﬁtting him for County and S to
shows. We also have somo'wery ne
Sows, that we expect to show.

Mr. Walter Rice, formerly of Vic—
toria, Ill.,.is now in charge of our
herd and his many friends will be
glad. to know of his new location
where he will be glad to hear from
them.-——F. J. Schaﬁer. ,

PRODUCING MILK, TO
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' per cow is about the average.

’ .H. Broughton,
_ Dairying.

,the following:
.tonin, 1 dram Areca nut,

not — 1:3 .
milked. does there have to be a ce-
ment ﬂoor in the milk room {where
Do all milk uten-
sils and bottles have to be steamed

‘Or can they be washed and kept clean’

with boiling water? What is the

I _ name of the state milk inspector?—

W. H., Marcellus, Mich.

4—This matter is not deﬁnitely cover-
ed by any regulations which we have.

“I . It is necessary under each individual

case, to determine whether the milk

is being produced preperly or not. ,

Deﬁnite requirements are, however,

' ’ insisted upon by City Departments.

We do consider inspection work, es-
pecially in places where city inspec-
tion is not carried out.

Barns in which cattle are kept
should be reasonably tight so that
dust, cobwebs, etc., are not prevalent
in the stable. For a perfect score
four square feet of light per cow is
required. However, two square islet
jection is made to the keeping of
horses with cattle when the horse
stable is immediately adjacent to the
cow stable Many cities require a
separate compartment for the cows.
Manure should be carried at least 25
feet if possible from the cow stable,

'but no deﬁnite distance has been es-
' . tablished.

A cement ﬂoor in milk rooms is
practically requirr ' and if a cooler is
used it should be located in a milk
room free from dust; etc. Utensils
may be either steamed or scalded.

,The inspecter who does .most of this

work for us is Mr. E. J. Friar.—-——H.
State Bureau of

FEEDING VALUE OF SUDAN
GRASS

I_ would like to ask what you think
of Sudan grass for feed for horses
and cattle? When should I put it in
and what kind“ of ground does it
grow best on?———R. C. A., Harbor
Springs.

-——.Sudan grass has practically the

same feeding value as timothy hay.

It makes a fairly good emergency
crop because the yield is good and
the hay is secured the same season
that the seed is sown. '

Sudan grass is best adapted 'to
good corn soil. It should be sown
about the middle of May at the rate
of from twenty to twenty-ﬁve pounds
of seed per acre. An ordinary grain

_ drill set to sow two peeks of wheat

will sow approximately twenty-ﬁve
pounds of Sudan grass seed. In the
southern tier of countiestwo crops
may sometimes be secured in one sea-

" son, while in the central" part of the

state it is not likely that more than
one crop willpbe secured.— C. R. Me-
gee, Farm Crops, Dept., M. A. C.

 

WRONG RATION

I am writing you in regard to my
pigs. These pigs are about three
months old. They look good, their
hair is slick and in good growing
condition. One day last week when
I fed them two of them came up to
get their meal and just touching the
trough they would squeal and fall
over on their sides and back and
they would lie there for a while be—
fore they could get up, lingered along
for two or three days and died. Af-
ter these pigs died we opened them
but could not ﬁnd anything that
looked wrong. These pigs have
ground rye and corn together but
mostly rye. The seven pigs weigh
about ﬁfty pounds each—O. M.,
Mancelonia, Michigan. '

——The trouble you are having with
you1 pigs may possibly be due to
worms, although from the symptoms
which you describe, I would sooner
think that it is due to the ration
which you are feeding.

An excellent remedy for worms is
2.5 grains of san-
.5 grains
of calomel and 1 dram ofsodium
bicarbonate, for a 50 pound pig,
given after the pig has been off feed
24 hours. .

When, purchased from a local
druggist, this preparation is rather

‘ costly, but capsules or tablets con-
L taining any of; these ingredients can
_ be purchased trom any reliable drug »
.Eouse and from most mail order

houses. 7

      

' protein or muscle growing material.
Furthermore, when rye is fed, pains

for these young pigs one—half of the

~ is also a cause.

‘side, bone.

-ministration of potassium

, examination of these cows and to de-

' than his

ey getting. a snﬂicient amdunt or

should be taken to see that it does
not contain much ergot, which may
be easily recognized as kernels af-
fected with this disease are black
in color, elongated and crescent
'shaped.
Apparently rye is the cheapest

_ feed which you have judging from '
the ‘fact that you are feeding it in

large quantities. I would advise that

ration in connection with rye should
consists of wheat middlings and that

for each 100 pounds of rye andpmid- ’

dlings, you feed about 6 pounds of
digester‘tankage. If skim milk was
available, the tankage would not be
necessary". In addition, these pigs
should have access- to some good
mineral matter. We are» using the
following with our hogs this winter:
30' pounds ﬁnely ground lime stone,
30 pounds percipitated'bone meal,
30 pounds salt. 10 pounds- sulphur.
They should also be given access to
clover or alfalfa hay.—George A.
Brown, Professor of. Animal Hus-
bandry, M. A. C.

‘ VETERINARY
DEPARTMENT

' REMOVING , CORNS

I have a horse that has corns on
his front feet. What can be done to
eradicate the corns?——-T. F. K.,
Germfa'st, Michigan.

-—The causes of corns are bad leg di-
rection, poor quality of hoofs, inju-
dicious dressing of the hoof such as
leaving the toe too long, excessive
weakening of the sole, bars, frog and
the quarter are common causes.
Hollowing the sole and unnecessary
thinning of the branches of the sole
in the search for come is also a
cause. Shortening one quarter too
much in relation to the other so that
the foot is unbalanced and the lower
side is overloaded is a common Cause.
Shoes not level on the hoof surface,
too short in the branches, and shoes
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pletely cover the hoof commonly .

causes corns. Allowing shoes to be-
come loose and shifted in position
Dryness is very in-
jurious to hoofs and very favorable
to the production of come. Treat-
ment consists in ﬁrst removing the
cause by restoring the proper form

to the hoof by cutting down quarters ,

that are too high, shortening a toe
which is too long. Deeply digging
out an area of blood stained horn
is injurious. It is much better to
thin the entire branch of the sole
uniformly. The proper shoe is the
bar shoe with seme frog preséure
unless the horse is suﬂering from
The pressure should not
be taken from the quarter walls un-
less they are sore. The care of the
hoof consists in keeping it moderate-
ly moist and clean—John P. Hutton,
A‘sso. Prof. of Surg. and Medicine,
M. A. C.

SERVICE OF VETERIN-
ARIAN

I have several cows I cannot get
with calf, is there anything I can do?
—A. V., Croswell, Mich.

——Failure to breed in most animals is
due to disease of some part of the
reproductive tract and is most effect-
ively treated by local applications to
the diseased part by one who has had
some experience in treating diseases
of the reproductive organs. The na-
ture of this treatment is such that it
cannot be applied by the layman.
Some have recommended the oral ad-
iodide.
This can act only as a tonic and is of
questionable value. If a local veter-
inarian is available the best thing for
you would be to have him" make an

SECURE .

termine if possible the exact nature
of the trouble.———E. T. Hallman,
éssoc. Prof. of Animal Path, M. A.‘

 

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I have a small stream dammedand
have it ﬁxed so I could shut it off un-,
til I-would have water enough that
I think would give me lots of power.
I want to put in an electri'c light

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twenty—ﬁve or thirty lights. Also
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power that would equal a six or
eight horse power gasoline engine. I
would like to have all the informa~
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F. L., Curran, Mich.

——I may say that before the amount
of power 'which is available from
the stream can be determined it is
necessary to know something of the
ﬂow. '

If the stream is now ﬂowing it is
possible to measure its ﬂow approxi-
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this by the distance which it ﬂows in
a minute and the result by 8-10. For
example, a stream 2 feet deep 6 feet
wide ﬂowing 100 feet per minute will
discharge 1200x.8 or 960 cubic feet
of water the volume of water multi-
plied by the fall which can be secur-
ed, say 5 feet, given in the example
would be equal to 4800 cubic feet or
since water weighs 62.5 lbs. per cub-
ic foot the result would be 300,000
foot pounds per minute. Divide this
by one horse power or 33,00 foot lbs,
which would give a triﬂe more than
9 horse pOWer. This amount of
power would be the total or the
theoretical amount in the stream.
There would be, of course, consider-
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turbin developing this ,power, and al-
so there would be some loss in stor—
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If the ﬂow of the stream was not
sufﬁcient to produce power contin-
ually it might be dammed and the
ﬂow used for a part of the day or
during the time that lights .or power
is wanted. With this arrangement
the storage of power consists in stor-
ing it in the stream rather than
storage batteries, this scheme would
not be very advantageous, if the pow-
er was located at a great distance
from the house or source wanted.
Perhaps if the head of water did not
exceed 6 or 7 feet the turbin would
be the most satisfactory and efﬁcient
unit for developing poWer. The
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cubic feet of water per minute and a
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Mich.
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A loc‘k seam is made by doubling
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the two together and pounding them
shut. This makes a strong
after it is soldered.

A bead seam is only used for
joining very thick pieces of metal
and is made by.beveling the edges
down to about an angle of 60 de-
grees each thus leaving a space of
about 60 degrees to be filled with
solder when the two edgeskare butted
together, .

A cup join- is used for soldering
together lead pipes or light tubing.
It is made by spreading the'end of
one pipe into a cup or funnel shape
and shaving down the other to lit
into it.

An overcast joint is used for sold-
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couplings. It is made b" spreading
the pipe to ﬁt over the nipple and
then soldering a sort of a lump right
over the joint.

Soft; Soldering and {Pinning

All the common metals become
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especially when they are slightly
heated. As solder will not adhere to
a surface that is ever so slightly
oxidized it is necessary to apply
somthing to the surfaces to be
soldered which will guard against
this oxidation. ‘ '

The object in tinning is to coat
the metals to be slodered with tin

or solder to prevent this oxidation. ‘

In order to transmit the heat rapid-
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' Tinning» copper bit .
The bit should be placed squarely
into the flame or' ﬁre 80 that it! be:
When it'is
hot enough to melt solder rapidly,
(not redhot) ﬁle the bit bright on '
two adjacent sides to a distance of ,

about 11A, inches from the point.

Do this rapidly so that the bit'does-

not become too cold. Next rub these
sides on a bar .of‘salamoniac tare- *

duce the oxide which has already
formed. Then pick up'your' solder
and melt a few drops of it on‘ to‘, the
salamoniac, rubbing the bit onthe
twotogether at the same time.‘ You
will now notice thatvthe two ﬁled
sides have a bright coating of'solder
on them which enables the bit to
pick up globules of solder. If at
any time the bit becomes red hot the
tinning will burn off and it will be
necessary to retin it. Care shduld
be taken therefore not to Overheat
the bit. ' _'
Tinning Materials to be Soldered

Bright tin, copper, brass, zinc-and
lead need not be tinned , before
soldering, but sheet iron and rusted
metal should be carefully tinned so
as to insure a'strong joint. All
paint, rust or soot should be remov—
ed by scraping, ﬁling or sandpaper-
ing. Now apply zinc cloride=f1ux
freely, after which rub the bright-
ened surface well with the hot bit
at the same time applying the sold-
er. It may be necessary to .apply
flux and solder several times “before
the article is properly tinned». The
article is now ready to be soldered,
just like bright tin, which is as fol—
lows: If the pieces which are to be
joined are liable to beshifted or
pulled apart it will ﬁrst bezneces—
sary to “tack” them together. This
is done by applying a few drops of
solder at several places on the work.
It will now be necessary tonnknow
only a few'general principles, to do
good soldering. , ,

(1) First of all have your work
well fluxed but do not .flux too
large an area at a time. .;

(2) Have your bit welliftinned
and hot. If you solder with a bit

. that is not much hotter than the

fusing point of solder you will not
be able to get the solder to flow into
the joint but will simply cover it
with a thin ﬁlm. This is calledzskin‘
soldering and should be avoided be-
cause it makes a weak joint.

(3) Do not try to solderrwith
the point of the bit, but use asvmuch
of the flat tinned surface as possible.

(4) If possible hold you-r work
in such a position that thesolder
will flow in place by gravity, it Only
being necessary to follow with the
bit so as to keep the work hot. '

(5) Do not run the bit'Iover a
place that has once been soldered as
this only tends to make ro'u’gh asp—
pearing work. *3 .

(6) Never put your bit down on
iron or stone asvthis rapidlisr ’With—
draws the heat 'and wastesi’time.
Put it back into the ﬁre at every
opportunity. "

(7) When soldering heavy or
thick articles, (say a pipe to an iron
tank) it will be necessary to‘ heat
the work to nearly the melting point
of solder. ‘

(8) To solder a flat or lap seam ’
it is best t3 ﬁrst tin one of the edges
to be joined and then lay the"other
edge on top of it. Solder should
then be run right over the outside
of the lap. ‘ ,

(9) In a lock seam care must be
taken to have the solder run well
into the seam.

(10) When using a bit-to pick
up solder 'do not take .it directly
from the bar of solder because this
tends to heat up the entire bar
and leaves the bit co'ld. Instead of
this melt a few globules fromihev
bar and pick these'u'p as they are
needed.

(11) Leaks in washboilers and
pails, etc., should be' soldered from
the inside—E. C. Sauve, As’s’t Prof.
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EXPENSE 1N BEARING YOUNG
CHICKS -

HE embrayo chick ﬁnds all its
parts in the white of the egg;
the yoke is only its starting place

and the last thing it does before
breaking the shell is to surround the
yolk, which becomes its food for the
next three days, or longer it needs be.
That is one of the reasons why the
best time to ship away young chicks
is Within 24 hours after they are
hatched. The chick’s ﬁrst great
need is to be kept warm. In a state
of nagire the hen remains on her
stolen nest unless drivel. off by hung-
er long after. all the chicks have been
hatched, and when one after another
the chicks have come out from under
her, picking at bright little pebbles
and swallowing them for the mill-
stones which are to grind their food,
the hen calls them back under her,
but the next time they stray further

away, and then she goes with them to

scratch and hunt for their food.
From which we can learn that it is
notvnecessary to feed little chicks the
ﬁrst 24 hours, and als0 that they
should haVe ﬁne grit to pick at when
they are ﬁrst fed food that needs any
grinding; and there is not much fed
to a chick that does not need grind-
in'g. If we, when eating, get a piece
of stone between our teeth it sends

a thrill of repulsion through us; but’

that sensation which is so unpleas~
ant to us is delightful to a chick.
Using clean sharp sand in a hrooder,
I have had chicks ﬁll themselves
full, crop and intestines, with the
sand, probably because it felt good
going down their little throats.

Careful Feeding

It is very unwise to overfeed young
chicks; a little and often should be
the rule. About three-hour inter—
vals are considered right for a hu—
man baby, and like intervals during
the ﬁrst week would not be far
wrong for young chicks. It is far
better for them to be a little under-
fed than to be cloyed. After they
are a week old a dry mash can be
kept where they can help themselves.
They will not overeat of that, for the
reason that they cannot furnish sa-
liva enough to moisten more than
two or three mouthfuls, and dry they
cannot swallow it. They also need
some cracked grain, for that little
grist mill, the Igizzard, needs to work
—--wants a job. Water they must
have, but so arranged that the chick
cannot get in it. A very cheap
drinking fountain is made by taking
a quart tomato can, denting in the
sides at the top, ﬁlling with water
putting on the cover, then turning it
bottom up. The chick can stick its
beak into the cover where the indent—

’ ations are, but cannot get in itself.

The same thing answers for milk, if
it is in liquid form. When it thick-
ens a shallow tin pan with wire net-
ting fastened over it answers very
well.
Moisture needed

Chicks will thrive very well ap~
parently for the ﬁrst two or three
weeks on a ﬂoor, whether covered
with dry earth or not, but soon after
that there will be trouble. They
need moisture, dampness — They
must wet their feet. But they must

have dry quarters to sleep in at
night. I have seen little chicks with

their legs just skin and bone dried
down for lack of moisture. I had to
learn that by experience. My chicks
had grown very well in the brooder
house, but they gradually stopped
growing, feathers stuck out rough,
did not lie smooth *and close to the
body, some of them died; there was
an outside run they could go out—
doors when they pleased, but they
did not go out much. It was in April,
rainy, the top of the ground an inch
of mud. I took one of the brooders
and the chic s and put them out in
that mud. I a week no one would
have thought them the same chicks;
not another chick died, their feathers
smoothed down, they began to grow
again. and I had learned something.
Contact with Mother Earth is what
they must have. President Smith, of
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\chicks were due to hatch.

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fall, as soon as large enough .to do
without artiﬁcial heat they were put
out in little colony houses, and the
snow' swept away, day by day, to let
them on the bare ground, even
though it was frozen.

Experience With Turkeys

That Subject of moisture needs in-
vestigation. We have always heard
that young turkeys must be kept in
until the dew was off the grass; they
must not get wet. My neighbor, Mr.
George V. Smith, editor of New Eng—
land Farms, raised, or hatched some
turkeys. For an experiment he let
them run with the mother turkey
wherever they pleased. I think there
were nine of the young poults. Out
in the dewy morning grass, out in
thunder— storms, their umbrella the
mother’s wings, every night the nine
came home. They found nearly all
their food; a little was fed at night
to induce them to come home. Week
after week the nine were all there.
Then a fox came into the game; and
one by one they disappeared. I
think he managed to save three of
them.

Living Food .

While chicks were still in the
brooder house I have carried in a
pailful of damp earth and dumped it
in the little yard by the brooder, then
mixed their cracked grain with dirt,
so they would have to scratch for it,
and if they found an occasional
worm in the dirt then there was“rac-
ing and chasing o’er Canoby lea.”
That matter of taste. I have thrown

 

a piece of worm down in front of a
chick, and the chick would stand and!
look at the squirming thing, but if it
ventured to take it in its beak then
hesitation vanished instantly and it
ran to make sure of having that de-
licious mors-el all to itself, and never
again would there be any hesitation
when a worm was offered. It’s a
living food, and no kind of dead food
equals it. I have not mentioned
green food for chicks, but sprouted
oats, lettuce or any tender green stuff
it very good for them; almost essent-
ial to thrifty growth.
Brooding

During my last few years on the
farm I did not use artiﬁcial brooders,
using hens only for that purpose. I
had 40 little A houses, 20 in a row,
with 20 chicks to a hen. As they
were all white chicks there was never
any difﬁculty about hens refusing the
chicks. I kept White Wyandottes
and White Leghorns. Occasionally
a Leghorn would sit long enough to
hatch chicks, and when they do they
make ﬁne mothers; far less likely to
tramp on their chicks than the larger
breeds. I made a long pen in front
of the row of 20 coops, dividing it in—
to little pens, one for each coop, the
pens being about six by ﬁve feet
this prevented the chicks from get—
ting out of the mother’s sight, or too
to run for cover when the mother's
Skyward—looking eye descried a
hawk.

Sprouted Oats

The green food problem was solv-
ed by covering the ground in these
little pens with oats and spading
them in about a week before the
The hen
soon taught the chicks what those
green sprouts were for. They would
dig up anr‘ eat the whole thing, the
green sprout, the oat and the long
white rootlets, and when they were
getting scarce more oats were spad—
ed. When the chicks got large
enough to ﬂy over the 14—inch boards
forming the pens, the pens were tak-
en away and the chicks left to run
wherever they pleased.

The Bow of Coops

Those rows of 20 coops were set
facing the east. Why? Because it's
cool early in the morning. The chick
is out with the ﬁrst streak of dawn,
and the morning sun, rising far to
the north of east, soon strikes direct-
ly into his little house, and he gets
the sun's heat when he need’s it.
Take a row of coops facing the
south; the morning sun strikes the
back of those coops, the chick is in
the shade, and not until 10 o’clock
or after does the sun strike the front
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Bank Reference.
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BABY CHICKS

310.50 PER 100 AND up

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Barred and White Rocks, Rods, Angina, Minorcas: 50. 38- 0*

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BUFF LEGHORNS, 50,
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BLUFFTON HATCHERY, Box L, Bluffton, Ohlo

ll are reduced under my personal supervision
d Iliafreihery “1113111 is kept in best possible condition.

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a good.
The parent stock

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Box F. Mt. Blanchard, Ohio
289 Eggs in one year, actual
trap- nest record "LADY MII‘ HI-

GA also made record of 283
eggs in one year. She laid 294
eggs in 381 consecutive days.
51113 and daughters of “LADY
‘iIlC IIIGAN” are now in use in
our 1111111111.": {or 1.923. If vou want
Barron Leghorns

Single ('umb \Vhiw8. get rur 1' 023
ntalog and learn full particulars
In re 1.1111101" ﬂock which we have carefully bred
for high- egg records {or the past 21 years. Out
1: matings are made up of mature females with
actual trap nest r'HorIls from 200 to 21'“) 08:8

Chicks and Eggs for Hatching

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POULTRY FARM, Route 4 0, Hudsonvllio, Mich.

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HATGHER CHICK PRICES:
hMarch 26th and
following hate cc
and Reds. 50, hss.50: 100, $16:
500, $75. to Books, White
Wyandottoc. 50. $9.50; 10
$18; 500, $85 White, Brown
and uff Leghorns, 50. $1.5 ;
100 $14; 50 G I r0111

 

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hatches due; March 12111111111 19th
ill 5“ .1" “‘0 in 1.1115211 prices
P,ost'pald full hvxe delivery guaranteed Our ﬂock,
are carefully selected and bred for high egg pro-
ductlon. Order from this ad Leference Farrnem
and Mechanics Bank.

wasn'rEnaw' HATCHERY. Ann Arbor. Mich.

BABY cchKs White English Leghorns. Tom
Barron Strain. White and
barred Plymouth Rocks, 8 C. l: I, Reds
Orpingtons. All pure bred from selected stock:
Live arrival gaunranteed. Postage pui.d (Mich-

tom hatching. Durand Hatchery,
BABY onlcxg—“s'l'ﬂtgsf 1122.8;1151‘.
dottes. thigcrgns. W151i” {ﬁnanisheds Brahm yen”:

 

Fonton,

 

300 ft. long by 180 feet w! 6. A
strip 30 ft. wide by 300 long was
sown thickly with oats and cultivated

growing. Having been educated in
.oats, the chicks did not bother the
young corn to any extent. A row of
houses 3114 ft., were along the north
side of that, 30- ft. strip,
chicks ran in the corn all summer.
the corn forming both shade and
§helter from hawks. In four years
the chicks had practically denuded
the ground of weeds. There were
about 400 chicks if. that lot, remain-
lug there until time to be put into
winter quarters. '

Yes they do some damage to the
corn, stripping the under part of the
husk off and eating two or three
rows of the under part of the ear.
But the ﬁfth year I raised 165 bush-
els of ears, 133 of shelled corn, on
that lot, and all the cultivation It had
was the cultivator run through it
both ways twice. No hoelng whatev-
er on the main part of the lot; on the
south side furthest from the chicks, I
had a strip of potatoes the previous
year and that had to be hood. I
think 10 bushels would cover all the
damage the fowls did to the corn.
Foxes bothered, so I plowed a. deep
furrow around the lot, set posts at
the edge of the furrow and put up
a six-foot poultry-wire fence around
it, letting the wire down into the
furrow, and ﬁlling it so they could
not dig under.

 

CAPONIZENG

VERYBODY is fond of chicken,
but many do not know that cap-

ons have the same delicious
meat, Only more of it. Birds for
broiling must be killed while they
are still comparatively light in
weight, in order to have them at
their best, but cockerels when capon-
ized can be brought to a. weight four
or ﬁve times that of the broiler, ac-
cording to the breed, and still retain
the tender, sweet ﬂavoned ﬂesh of
broilers. ‘
It is difﬁcult to state the exact
size or age at which a cockeral may
be most successfully operated upon,
as different birds develop differently.

beginner will be safe in using birds
weighing between” 1— —10 and 9- 10 kilo
if they are of the Plymouth, Rhode
Island Red, Wyandotte, or Orpington ,
breeds. Later as one becomeslmore
familiar with the matter, the birds
will be selected by their “look” rath—
er then by weight or age. The prop-
er time is just before the Cockeral
begins to make ccmb, when the gen—
erative organs are about the size of
a small navy bean. The organs are
oval in shape, and at the time most
favorable for caponizlng are the size
of a small pea.
The Operation

Previous to the operation the only
preparation necessary is to keep the
bird from food and water for thirty;
six hours. This will allow the intes-
tines to empty and subside, making
the operation much easier and less
dangerous.

The present mode of operating is
to make a small cut between the last
two ribs on either side. This is pref-
erable to one large opening on one
side, being easier on the bird and the
wounds heal more quickly.

Lay the bird on its side on the op-
erating table. Wrap a. cord twice
around its legs. Wrap another cord
around both wings close to the body.
Attach the other ends of these cords
to weights like a. small stone, letting
them hang over the table side, hold-
lng the bird safely. A few feathers
should be plucked just in front of
the thigh, thus laying bare a small
space just over the last rib. The
surrounding feathers should be
moistened to make them lie down
and not interfere during the oper-
ation. The last two ribs should now
be located by the foreﬁnger of the
left hand. Having located the ribs
pull the skin as far toward the thigh
or hip as possible, so that after the
operationis completed it will go back
to its place and entirely cover the
out between the ribs. With, the

knife in the right hand, insert it be-

tween the last two ribs, cutting
through skin and ﬂesh, beingcareful
not to touch the intestines. Make
the out about 26 millimeters long.

  

 

"none Mum" Ennis. Fonton. 11mm.“

Insert the spreader, betWeen the rib

moot: 112.11 «mm nee": -
the chicks and begun to law he: ’
chicks were moved into the corn lot, I

in; on the rest of the lot corn was'

and the .

As a starting point, however the ‘

pushed aside the organ
Will be in plain slight.
the proper age it will be a

shape of a small bean.
‘ The care with which the operator

grasps the organs without grasping,-

the blood vessel, or the tissues suré
rounding it constitutes the whole
trick 0f the operation. Having
grasped the testicle with t!- forceps,
twist them arbund a couple of times
and pull them out and cut the twist-
ed cords with a. knife. Remove the
spreaders an'd anew the skin to cov-

. er the opening between the ribs. In
ten days there will be nothing but a.
shiny scar.

After the testicle Is removed the
bird is laid on Its other side and the
other testicle removed.

After the operation, the birds
should be placed in a yard by them-
selves and fed on soft food for three
or four days.
the birds several days after the oper-
ation, to see if there is and swelling
(wind puff). If there is, a slight
puncture of the skin will correct it.
—Progresslve Agriculture.

 

STANDARD REQUIREMENTS OF.
GOLDEN POLISH FOWL
- Will you please publish the stand-
ard requirements for Golden Polish
fowls?-—A. R. V., Croswell, Mich.

' —-—We are giving the standard re— ‘

quirements for the Golden Polish
fowl as stated in the American

Standarc of Perfection. .
Disqualiﬁcations: Shanks other
than blue or slaty-blue.
Male
Head: «Faz 1, red.
Beak: Dark horn.
Eyes: Reddish-bay.

Comb, and Crest. Comb, red. Crest,
golden—bay, laced with black.

Neck: Golden— bay. Each feather
laced with black; coverts, golden—bay
each feather laced with black, lacing

widest at end, forming two well de- '

ﬁned wing bars; primaries, golden-
bay, each feather ending with black,
the black tapering to a point at lower
edge, secondaries,
well deﬁned black lacings.

Back: Colden- -bay, each feather
laced with black; saddle feathers
abundant, each feather laced with
black, the texture of feathers giving
a. rayed appearance.

Tail: Golden— bay, each feather
laced with black; lacing widest at
ends; sickles and coverts, golden-bay
each feather laced with black, lacing
widest at end.

Brest: Golden—bay, free” from
mosslness, each feather laced with
black, the lacing being proportionate
to size of feather.

Body and Fluff: Body, golden<
bay, each feather laced with black;
ﬂuff, bay, tinged with black.

Legs and Toes: Thighs, bay, each
feather laced with black shanks,
and toes, slaty blue.

Under color of all sections: Slate.
Female

Head: Face, red.

Beak: Dark horn.

Eyes: Redish— bay.

Comb & Crest: Comb, red; Crest
1n pullets black laced with bay,
which after ﬁrst moult should be
golden-bay laced with black.

Wattles & Ear lobes:
red. Ear lobes, white.

Neck: Golden-bay, each feather
laced with black; feather in front of
neck same as breast. .

Wings: Bows, golden-bay, each
feather laced with black; coverts,
golden-bay, each feather laced with
black and black growing wider at the
extremity; primaries, golden-bay
each feather ending with black and
black tapering to a point on lower
edge; secondaries, golden-bay with
well deﬁned lacings.

Back: Golden-bay, each feather
laced with black.

Tail: Golden-bay, each feather
laced with black, the black being
wider at outer end of feather.

Brest: Golden—bay each feather
laced with black. » _
Body & Fluff: Body, golden-bay,
each feather laced with black; ﬂuff,
a. lighter shade of bay tinged with

black. -

Legs and Toes: Thighs, bay, each
feather laced with black; shanks and
toes, slaty h1ue.- '

Under color of all seetlonS'
-—-E. C Foremsn, Associate

Wattles,

  

1 eel )I: .‘ '
In a bird of ' “
rich '
creamy yellow and about the size and ,

It is well to examine.

golden-bay with '

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were wed in 0th egs, ' um.
'j; {stitch out, quit eating and ﬁnally
die. They are three Weeks old.
’When they were taken sick I was
' feeding cracked wheat, cracked corn,
Chick feed, green grass and chicken
grit, before them all the time. I

  

 

 

feed and ham been \feeding rolled
oats, bran, grass and sour milk;
have also put permanganate of pot.
ash in the drinking water .—Sub‘-
scriber.

.——-The trouble is digestive unques-
tionably. I have en 8“" troubles
developed by f ng moldy bran,
and it might come from any kind. of
”spoiled or dirty feed. If you have

 
  
   
   
   
   

.. ~ them they have overfed unless they
.‘,,..'N are on range and pick up so much
that they do not care much for what
__ i _ is before them in the rr-~ And that
green grass—do you mean that you
' feed‘it long just as is comes from the
mower, or do you run it through a
cutter? If they are trying to eat it
without cutting up their little crops
may be full of long pieces of grass
‘Whlch they cannot manage. Rolled
'oats, bran and sour milk make a
good ration if you add sorne hard
,‘f‘t‘? 4. grain. They need grain to keep
"if €~ , their digestive organs strong. The
potassium permanganate is an anti-
)» septic but not a remedy for indiges-
‘ tion. As they are a month old by
this time they should have a good
growing mash. Keep this before
them only half a day at ﬁrst. After
a month you can lengthen the time
gradually till at the end of the third
month it is before them all day. Feed
, , mixed grain morning and evening,
‘7 _,,~‘ - “ either in litter or spaded into the
‘ , ‘ ground if you have not litter. They
should by this time be through with
chick feed and eating'whol'e wheat
. and Egyptian corn or cracked corn.
. »» Keep the sour milk before them, and
' <5 i . feed cut greens at least once a day.
, It is better to put the green before
.3... them about 9 o'clock and let them
'pick at it all day. Alfalfa and let-
tuce are the‘ best greens for young
chicks, but lettuce is not practicable
for a large ﬂock.

 
   
  
   
  
  
  

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-‘ SOFT SHELLS
g} .. ' What shall I do for a Light Brah-
j‘, -‘ p ,_ ma pullet six months old that lays
“ soft shelled eggs? Her ﬁrst egg was
double yoked and since then she has
- laid two perfect eggs and several
' w I. soft shelled. Last night she drop-
. ‘-; ‘ ped two at roosting time and I found
T‘ another under the roost this morn-
, ‘ ing.——Subscriber, Calhoun County.
13.. -» . -—-Your ration must be to forcing. If
' you are feeding a laying hen.mash
“ . . change to bran for a week or so and
‘ ’ be sure to give plenty of green and
keep oyster shell before her. Brah-
mas mature slowly and should not be
pushed for eggs till they are eight or
t ‘ nine months old.

SMALL EGGS

One of my Anconas laid a tiny egg
’ - , with just a speck of yolk. I have
- . been told this is the last egg off a
' clutch and that after a rest the hen
will begin laying again—Subscriber,

Clayton, Mich.
—-—Pearl, Surface and Curtis in
“Poultry Diseases and Their Treat-
ment,” say that these little eggs do
not mark the end of a laying period
‘but may be produced at any time.
They are usually laid when the bird
is in a very active laying condition;
"and the white seems to form about
some foreign body, such' as a piece
of hardened albumen, a bit of coag-
‘. , ulated blood or a small piece of yolk
_ which has escaped from a ruptured
1 yolk. The egg you found was prob-
ably formed about a piece of ruptur-

ed yolk. -

’ CULLING REDS ,
.r' , I am hatching-from a dozen R.,I.
.~ '. ' Red hens mated to a rooster that is
the son of a prize winner. What
points shall I take into consideration
when I come to cull my spring
chicks? When should I begin to
cull?-—R. B.,, Clayton, Mich.
a: -—You"should have a late Standard
‘ -' of Perfection if you think of raising
show stock and you should also look
at birds that have won prizes. In
general, exhibition Reds should have
, dark, briliant red plumage, free
‘ ; 5” frwm white, but With black in wing
-’ v and tau feathers. They should have
ﬁght backs and the male
. like ur ﬂ 0,1511“. comb

 

 

 

    
  
  
  

 

    
 
  

 
 

 

*«tibn possibility

cut out the corn, wheat and chick,

7- kept all these different feeds before .

. ing in some kind of a breeder.

cull, except to rem0ve sickly 0 back-
ward birds, till the males wei , 2%
to 3 pounds. You can tell then

whether they will be even in color
and bloeky in build. All but the
best should be sent to market as fry-
ers for there is no market for breed-

.ing co'ckerels that are not fairly up

to standard. Pullets ‘should not be
so readily discarded for they may
make good layers in spite of white
feathers of other disqualiﬁcations. If
you really Want a good standard

bred ﬂock, however, it is best to get'
rid of all that are not good color and .

size.

 

FINE MEAT SCRAPS MAKE BEST}
MASH

EAT scraps in the home-mixed

'mash for poultry should be
, ground ﬁne to prevent waste
and to insure uniform distribution to
all indiviluals of the ﬂock, say poult-
r‘ymen at the Ohio Experiment Sta-
tion. .

The coarser meat scraps do not
mix uniformly with the other ground
feeds, so the birds pick .over the
mash fer the particules of meat,
causing much waste and what is
worse permitting a few birds to get
more than is good for them while
others are unable to get what they
need. After the fresh supply of
mash is picked over it is diﬁicult to
get the mash consumption required
for proﬁtable egg production.

If the other mash ingredients are
of proper texture the ﬁnal mixture
will be a uniform product and palat-
able. To make a mash of this .11111
standard wheat middlings is prefer—
able to coarse bran and coarsely

ground cats or alfalfa.

Many dealers do not carry the ﬁne
meat scraps. in stock, but it can be
obtained from them by special order
at the same. price as the coarse.
When the feed dealer orders meat
scraps the coarse product is sent un-
less the ﬁne meat scraps is speciﬁed.

A SENSIBLE EGG CARRIER

CHOCOLATE or broken candy
A pail that can be had for a song

at any grocery store, makes and
excellent egg carrier when treated in
the following manner: Take a sheet
of the corrugated br0wn paper board
used in wrapping for breakable ar-
ticles and line the sides and bottom
of the pail, as showu in the cut." Then
cut circles from other pieces of the
same material to use between each
layer of eggs, smaller circles for the
bottom, increasing in size as the top
is approached. Eggs can be gather-
ed from the nests in such a pail
and carried to market, with reason—
able assurance that few, if any,
breakages will occur. The cost of the
whole will be but a triﬂe, and your
own grocer may give you all that is
needed for the carrier. The corru—
gated paper can be‘ obtained in large
sheets from grocers, to whom it has
come packed about breakable goods.
GOOD BROODER ESSENTIAL TO

SUCCESS \VITII CHICKS

chicks ruined by worthless
brooding arrangements. Some
persons can take care of a few chicks
in any kind of basket or soapbox ar—
rangement behind the kitchen stove,
while others taking hold of the same
outﬁts would fail every time. All
such things are but veritable make—
shifts at best. If you care to make a
real success of raising w‘hat chicks
hatch, better put aside all rec—
mendations for ﬁreless brooders,
and invest in a good roomy reliable
breeder. One that has some reputa—
tion behind it, and can produce re—
sults which are claimed.

There are various kinds of brood-
ers. In the ﬁrst place, there is the
old—fashioned kerosene lamp heated
brooder, which ispretty good, but we

_ THERE is many a good breed of

think a much better one is the so— I

called blue ﬂame kerosene heater,
which produces a ﬂame very similar
to the blue ﬂame cook stove. These
are the best of that kind of brooder.
The‘n where a good many chicks are
to be brooded in a right cold climate,
the hard coal or soft nut coal stove
heater for heating a brooding house
is good. They are, of course, not
calculated to use where a hundred
or two chicks are to be warmed. The
gist of the whole matter is that no
matter what, number of chicks you
are to take care, of from 50 up, do
not try to economize by not invest-

  
   
 

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‘ REG‘I'from large Modern . ‘
.~ acre Poultry Farm
. ‘ Result of ten ears of
total breeding for heavy egg production. Winners at leading shows. A. it}.
‘ Inspected and An r0ved.100% live arrival guaranteed. Shipped Post ’
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ENGLISH WHITE LEGHORNS, BR EGHORNS sand. 8. c. ANGON AS.
EX SELECT, 5 .50; 100, 0514.00; 500, 365 1.000. $125.00.
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CUARANTEED C H I C K S

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EXCEPTIONAL VALUES IN HIGHEST ’
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rge modern hatching and breeding institution. Al stock scientiﬁcally culled and “13‘

  

 

   
    
  

 

 

ngVed and headed by large vigorous mules. New low prices. Sent postpaid.1000m -
9 delivery guaranteed. Write for line 1923 catalogue. Its free. Reference: Two Banks.
RURAL POULTRY FARM. DEPT.B. n.1, ZEELAND, HIGH.

 

 

Postpaid to your door and
full live count oguaranteed

CHICKS, $10 per 100 and up

8Prlcos on 100 30 o
WHITEb snowuv ”I:t aSum: LEGHO onu ........... 1.00 $13.00 $38. 00 $62. 00 $13200 00
RRE ROCKS, BLACK MINORCAS and ANCONAS. 8.00 05 4.000
.WH ITE ROCKS, WHITE WYANDOTTES and REDS... 8.50 16.00 46. 00 15. 00 145. 00
RUFF MINOROAS 50,$13;100,$25. MIXED CHICKS FOR BROILERS, 50, 6:100, $11: 500.
$50. Postpaid. Bhlll live delivery guaranteed. Hatched in the best possible manner rom us,
pure-bred, he“? laying ﬂocks on free Irangs. Carefully selects ted and packed to so safely. No mtaloz.

Order right from this ad. and save time. Reference. Citizen's Saving Bar1k.YouI take no chances.

THE EAGLE NEST HATCHERY, Box K, Upper Sandusky,
Only 7 hours from Grand Rapids. Can reach any polnt In Mlchlgan In0 24 hours.

DON’T BUY CHICKS

until you get our prices as we can save you money on Eng llsh Leghorns. Barred Rocks
and Anconas, that will lay when 882 prices are highest. 3.11 M. V\. Sellers, Route 1,
Saginaw, Mich ., writes: "I made, better than $1200. 00 last war from 425 pullets
in 5 months " Write today for free catalog and our contest offer and our ironclad

uarantee. We aie breeders and practically about the only so advertised poultry
45‘ Month: 0“ gar rm in this vicinity.

and Luis;

 

RIVERVIEW POULTRY FARM, Route 2, Iceland, Michigan

CHICKS $1200perlOOand Up

100% SAFE ARRIVAL GUARANTEED

PRICES—WHITE. BROWN and BUFF LEGHORNS, 50, 1; 100, $13: 500, $60.
RRED ROCKS 8. nd R. 0. REDS, ANOONAS B.
MAB: 500. $10. WHITE WVANDOTTES. WHITE ROCKS and BUFF ORPINGTONS.
S1HEP HPARDS 881 EGG STRAIN 1AN00NAS, WHITE MINORCAS, 50, $8. 50; 100,
75. I , 50, $6; 1,00 $1k;1,$

$1Hatched rom selected heavy laying flocks ttlaiat are well is d and cared for insuring
strong, livable chicks that will make a pﬂro for 1{11011. POSTPAII) TO YOUR DOOR.
OR RDER DIRECT FROMT TH IS AD and I)SAVE TI Catalog free. Reference, Geneva
Bank. THE GENEVA HATCHERY. Box 505. Geneva, Ind.

GUARANTEED CHICKS

Hatched from H 11 La 111g unlit Fowls on free ran a,
insure strong Cl1l1gcks.y Q 1' g properly fed and housed to

BARRED ROCKS SE

 

DS. MINOgGAS, ANCONAS. 50 $8; 100, $15; 500, $74

 

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WHITE WYANDOTTES B FF R00 .......... 50, 5.50 10
V"! "In. BROWN and ’ LEGHORNS ........ 50 '$$7. 50;'1od),' $1135 :88] 333
Postpaid to your door. 100% live delivery guaranteed. Catalog free. Bank Reference_
MORENO! HATCHERIES, Box B, Morencl, Mich. Member I. B. c, A

 

u-Qu'ality Chicks—-

that will lay an pay.
WHITE LEGHORN

Karsten’s

aggcéammm BARRON STRAIN ENGLISH
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UALI’I‘Y BABY KS cA‘N N311!) BRO“) 11135351193
AND 1111\I'I‘Elllelv‘131 ' I“ “LOG
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AR ST EN’ S FARM, Zceland, Michigan, Box 102.

300,000 Chicks

ENGLISH ,WHITE and BROWN LEGHORNS,
ANGONAS, 50 $1; 100. $13; 500, $60. BARRED

Guaranteed Michigan
Bred and Hatched

SHEPPARD' S Famous

ROCKS, Strain

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5.0 58-100 $16;5Q0,$75. 1,000 orders at 500 mte. RHO
$12,513.58 55:13:? {2318;}: 200, 1 $35. ﬂP11ir11aiélﬁf11HﬁéLvtef (lelivcly glu'uuntecad iss‘lfhmo
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OUR CUSTOMERS. Catalog lrce. Reference, Holland (Jill? StuISIcalllanlx. WE SA TISFY
KNOLL’S HATCHERY, Box L, Holland, Michigan
'l‘lMMER’S HATCHERY B
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Pure Bred Chicks 11...? mHome
Hard, health? Chicks from se-
lecte heavy a‘ying flkoc 3_ WM. Broiler Chlx .......... 11o Wh Wyandottes
and BR. LEGHORNS 50, $1; w. or B. Leghorns. .130 Buff Orplngtons. .110
100 $13, 500, ,$ 50.11"- Rocks or Reds 15,29 Light Brahmas-....220
googinsé7556 SgABRRE1pooéoﬁz1|€sI W. or Buﬂ‘ Rocks. .170 Black Mlnorcas ...... 160
and. EEO-S 50 $8. 50 100’ Add 35c if less than 100 lots wanted. Circular.
$1650' 560' $ 0_ Postpaid LAWRENCE POULTRY FARM
g11glelivet$flivery.llank reference. Dept. 8 Good Refernece R. 7, Grand Raplds, Mich.
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TIMMER’S HATCHERY, Rhode Island Reds, Tompkins straln hatching
Route 3 A: 'Holland, M'Ch- eggs and baby chicks. Eggs per hundred $12. 00;
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Hardy NorthemBredChICks A few good (ockerels left. Quality Breeder

of Rhode Island Reds, both combs.

Barron S. w, LEGHORNS WM. H. FROHM, New Baltimore, Mlch., R. 1.
Parks Strain BARRED ROCKS

The greatest egg producers known. BABY CHICKS—PUREBRED BARRED ROCKS.

Buff Wysndottes, Black Mmp2cas, It esd

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Heavy winter layers See record of
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our pen 6 now at the Michigan

International Eg Laying Contest. postpaid. THOS. G. GALLAGHAN, Fonton, Mlch.
(ht Quayty chilcI snot?" . _

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SOLD OUT!

“ E wish to say that the Business
Farrier did us more good than
any thcr paper we ever put

our ad in. We sold over ﬁfty cock-

crcls and could have sold more if we
_ had had them.” .

A. J. Brewbaker, Elsie, Mich.

 

The Business Farmer will do as much for you if you,’
have poultry, hatching eggs or baby chicks for sale.

WRITE TODAY FOR OUR SPECIAL RATES.
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CHICKS '

THAT GROW, LAY AND PAY
Barron English White Leg-
horns, Brown Leghorns and
i neonas.

PURCHASE THIS YEAR'S CROP
0F CHICKS from tested layers. headed
Plates. large vlcorous 260 to 288 Pedigreed

CUSTOMERS REPORT BIG1 PROFITS
with these wonderful layers. Write today
for our large Illustrated catalogue. It
tells all about them, It’s free.

4 WYNGARDEN HATCHERT
Box B, Zeeland, Mich.

   
 
 

   
  
   
   
    
  
   
   
 

                
  

       

    
    
 

  

  
 
  
  

 

 
    
    
   
   
   
  
    
  
   
    
   
   
     
     
    
         
 
  
 
   
   
  
  
    
    
   
  
  
 
  
    
   
   
   
     
   
     
    
    
       
   
    
   
   
      
      
  
   
  
  
    
     
   
   
   
   
    
  
 
  
     
        
   
    
  

Star Hatchery 33313
From Select Vigorous, Heavy

Laying dreading Stock

WHITEN and BROWN LEG-
NS and ANCONAS

50—$8 100—$16 BOO—$15
Hatched by modern methods
in best machines under our
, personal supervision. (‘arefully
‘ p.11 k111 atnddseiﬁt Riosgafid and
100% live delivery guaran ee an e erence.
You take no chances in ordering STAR BABY
CHICK Place your order now and get them
when you want them

STAR HATCHERY, Box X, Holland,

ARISTOCRAT

STRAIN BARRED ROCKS. THE
WORLD FAMOUS PRIZE WIN-

 

Michigan

 

 

NING AND HEAVY LAYING
STRAIN. .‘
Barron “flute chhorns
Spltm1li1l,big, heavy weight, heavy
laying hens.
Everlay Brown Leghorns
.; Z litautitul business hen Wonderful
- 2' wint-11 layers. S111111111 to none.
She'ppards Famous Strain
ANGONAS 13,111 eg' strain. .
From all these great strains Postpaul
0'1ch and 11111 li1'11 delivery g11.11.1nt1e1l Also
EGGS F0 and Stock

Breckding
~lteference 2 Banks. Member M. i. (,1. A
Fairvlew Poultry Farm, Route 2 K. Zeeland, Mich.

 

WOLVERIIIE BABY
CHICKS are Chicks

That Satisfy

"rod for egg production
l3 1e11rs.\V11 hatched
111111 shipped ("hicks for
"J years. 1113 assures
you Success. ENGLISH

WHITE AND
BROWN LEGHORNS.
1'111i'1al guaranteed.

\Vritc for
it‘s free. WOL VERINE
R. 21

 

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vigorous, heavy
laying breeding stock. “’1 ite,
Brown Leghorns, Anconas,, ar- I
red Rocks. Our price is 12 cents and up.
Guarantee 1000,, live delivery by pre-
paid post. (let your order in now—
will ship when you want. Customers re-
“Big Proﬁts" with these 110111le1f11l
1ayers Write today for Illustrated Nata-
(It’s f.re11 ctference State (:om-
' menial Savings Rank. Member M. B. (.
Queen Hatchery & Poultry Farm,
Zeeland. Mlchi gan

BABY CHICKS

11 new order (‘hi1ks in 11 breeds of the
IY’gi'le cBreed Practical Poultry that is making egg

From select

 

 

Barred Rocks iecords on our customer’s own
White Rocks farms. If you want stock that
RhOdOI Reds will make real money, send for
Wyond'oglt‘gs our description and price list.
8:533“? All stock guaranteed 1000/,7 post
h., Br ,Bufr paid. We want you to try our
Anconas stock this year. It is tl11 best
Minopcas 111‘111'ti1111 stor'k you 11111 buy.

STATE FARM ASSOCIATION
202 Chase Block Kalamazoo, Michigan.
State

Mme 8.0. W. LEGHOBIIS “HIX

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AMERICAN- ENGLISH STRAIN

Are you goin g to buy tl11 111 from a hatchery or’
from 11 B1111 l1‘Dlv R Iliuy from Michigans Largest
Leghorn 11 arm and insure success. We hatch our
own eggs only. Supply limited. l’rices reasonable

 

Pedigreed

Satisfaction guaranteul.
Descriptive Circular tells
all about them. It’s free.

SIMON HARKEMA 6’: SON, R. 1, Hollhnd, Mich.

BABY CHICKS

FROM SPECIAL MATINGS

A specialist breeder can furnish better
baby chicks. Our ANOONAS’ are Michi—
gans leading strain today—both in ex-
l1ibition 8.1111 in egg produrtion. WHITE
LEGHORNS from a select special egg
flock having blood lines of world's
lot q uT‘tWStIm‘gs' \\'11s{111cialize in quality
m_, uan 1 lowes

catalogue y prices. ‘1 rite for illustrated
PROGRESSIVE POULTRY FARM
Holland, Mich.

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Selected
Produced
Strong, vig-
acked to go

 

Box 1

GHIGKS Barron Strain
White Leghorns.
under my ersonal care.
orous chic s careful]

safely. Postpaid, ful ive delivery
guaran t.eed 5 chicks, 5.16 50; 100,
$12. 50; 500, $60. Get your \or1ler in

early. Eloln Hatchery, Box 811A. Iceland, Mich.

 

SELECTED CHICKS FROM
the heart of the baby- chick
ure breeds from heavy eggsprod
d A?!“ dhe very solar-an teed.

on

Tim
HOHEE& ‘BROH Iceland, Mich.

duduetry. Leading

—-WE HAVE SHIPPED THOUSANDS
' each tseason since 190.4. .Dit‘ferent
ookle wi guarantee and delivered

Hatchery, Box 10. Froeport, Mich.

 

ors lﬁ-

MPROVEMENT is the Constant aim
of those who would achieve the
highest type of success. With-

out this desire agriculture would still
be in the thatched stable stage of de:
velopment in this country. And any
sort of improvement which is not
honestly won, which is not perman-
ent in character, is deceitful. By
that we mean that we cannot adopt a
type of progress which merely defers
the day of reckoning; if.we are going
to secure high crop yields at the ex-
pense of sbil fertility, or high egg.
yields at the expense of the constitu-
tional vigor of our stock, then it
would be better not to hazzard’ it at
all. ,
Success with poultry, especially in
improving the ﬂock records, must be
built upon the solid rock of honest
methods or the structure is certain to
come tumbling down about our ears.
That is why so many people who seek
to beg the question through the feed-K
ing of nostrums- and stimulants fail‘
to achieve any real success. They
have not taken stock of all the fact-
ors inﬂuencing success. By crowding
the hens, by forcing an unnatural
production upon them, they have se—
cured temporary results at the ex—
pense of the future. And the future
has invariably cost them more than
the temporary r'increase made pos-
sible. .
The very ﬁrst thing to do, in seek-
ing to improve the home ﬂock, is to
take stock of the situatir and get
an accurate record of what the ﬂock
is doing something upon ”which an
intelligent analysis of future efforts
may be based. There is nothing
quite so important in any business as
a “set of books.” The merchant
ﬁnds them indispensible as to his
business success, for they are the
barometer which accurately gauges
the state of health of that business.
No man can do business these days
without records of what he is doing
and records over a long period of
years—comparative statements. Rec—
ords must be had of the poultry ﬂock
before one can attempt improvement.

We do not mean that trapnests
should be installed on every farm,
or that they need be installed on any
farm—although that would be worth
while, if it were done—but we do
mean that every person keeping poul-
try ought to know in round numbers
at least what his or her ﬂock is doing
by days, weeks or months. Too many
people imagine that their hens are
laying a good deal of eggs merely be-
cause they lay at a good clip at cer—
tain seasons. Then, too often, no
stock is taken of the eggs consumed
on the home table, and since they are
not checked off there is a tendency
to overestimate them, thereby caus-
ing one to decieve himself as to the
real productiveness of the hens.

Keep an egg record, and while you
are keeping that record keep in mind
the fact that commercial poultrymen
feel they cannot do business with
layers which produce less than 12
dozen eggs per year. How many
hens have you producing less than
that number of eggs? You can es-
timate, if you have a. total egg record
for the year, and it will bring home
some astonishing things to almost
anyone with a ﬂock which has-not
been systematically checked.

If you are getting eggs practically
the entire year, it will indicate that
not all ‘he hens are loafers. The
problem, if your egg record is not
what it should be, will be to elimi—
nate the loafers and get more of the
producers into the ﬂock. And this
will be a problem of culling and
breeding, other factors in the poult-
ryman’s route to success. Culling
is no longer much of a problem. Prac-
tically every community now has its
qualiﬁed poultry cullers, usually
working through the county agent or
the state agricultural college or both.
If one cannot command the services
of such experts, then the art of.cull-I
111g can soon be mastered by a study
of modern poriltry text-books and a
little practice. Culling is essential
because it prevents the lropagation
of undesirable individuals in the
ﬂock, and because it cuts down feed
bills and provides room for more pro-
ducers, thereby giving them a better
chance.

Breeding is, of course, important
While every poultry raiser cannot be
expected to master the art of breed-
ing, the rudiments of the science can
at least be learned. And it means a'
great deal more than simply selecting

 

a geod locking male and turning him ’

loose with the hens and pullets. The
more one gets into the subject of
breeding, the more important and
vital it seems to be. But it is worthy
the effort and the study because, in
the ﬁnal analysis, all substantialpro-

gress depends upon it; If more peo—_

ple were aware of this truth there
would be less of the disposition to ﬂy
in the face of nature and do some
of the things they continually. prac-
tice. More people would come to
realize that the pOultry flock is like a.
piece of delicate machinery which
must be given in proper amount all
the elements, the fuel,.the lubricant,

, and the like, necessary to make good

performance possible. To attempt
to secure results from a motor by
placing water in the crankshaft for
l bricant, for instance, would be
fool—hardy, but many poultry raisers
are trying to do just such a thing
when they feed them something oth-
er than a balanced ration and give
good, systematic care and housing.
Such a procedure would ruin a good
motor and it will ruin good layer
and the W1" r of her will
not save the day, rither.

(lood 11.1.11. 1 are as nec-
essary as good breeding, whatever
the respective purpose you may have
in mind. And good feeding means,
a balanced ration—a ration which
supplies in proper proportion all of
the respective elements necessary to
achieve the purpose which you have
in mind. if it means market eggs,
then you must feed a ration which
will produce eggs, giving all the ele—
ments necessary for egg production
and leaving nothi. to be supplied
by chance. Leaving some one ele—
ment to chance is one of the reasons
why more farm hens do not develop
into the producers. they should, for
it is singularly true, that the average
farm hen today is as well bred as the
aver re hen found in any other place
The trouble lies in other directions.

It is in recognizing all of the fac-
tors Which are necessary for success,
in giving them their proper place and
in seeing that they are discharged
that the greatest chance f success
comes. Details, we have said before,
are the bricks which make success
possible, if they are mastered. And
they must be overcome or there will
be no success in anything we may
undertake. They will not denied.—
Wisconsin Farmer.

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BOOSTING PLACES FOR, THE
POULTRY

HE arrangement of roosts in the

hen-house is a matter of consid-

erable importance. Not only
should these be so placed that they
may be easily kept clean by the at-
tendants, but the health and con-
tentment of the fowls‘should be con-
sidered as well. The usual method
of the farmer in 'putting up the
perches is to nail them to the wall
Of the house, beginning near the
ﬂoor and placing them at intervals
ladderwise, even 11p to the roof.
Take a look at one of these houses
after the fowls have gone to roost
and you will ﬁnd all the birdscrowd-
ed onthe higher‘perches. This in-
stinct of self—preservation prompts
them to get as far away from the
ground as possible, a trait inherited
from their wild ancestors. Often in
striving for the highest perch the
heavy fowls are crowded off and re—
ceive severe injuries, or in ﬂying

down from the roosts they are apt.

to be injured. Injury in the last
mentioned Way is a common ‘ e
of the so—called bumble-foot, p
lent among heavy fowls. Where
perches are arranged in this way the
highest is cold and unsanitary.
Snow and frost upon the roof may
chill the cembs and. backs of the
birds, resulting in sickness and
death in the ﬂock.

All perches should be upon the
same level and never more than four
feet from the ﬂoor. Many contend
that two feet is the ideal height.
The Asiatic breeds should not be

expected to -roost far from the
ground, ’while the Mediterranean
varieties may be given higher
perches. It seems to add consider.-

ably'to the contentment of the small—
er and more active birds if they are
allowed to roost farther from the
ground. They should never be al-

lowed too near the roof, however,

for reasons already stated.
An excellent arrangement is a
square platform with a perch some

 

to create best ‘
iii-2“?” grilowgfl dtghicks
g ven u wen ne
days and hatched y13nd“
10,11: 11111111- 1111
mm c ulets w 1111 ed
stock last year along wit the thirty wshichfrevlg m1);-
wegt .,1 610 eggs in December Can you beat it?"
e are the ﬁrst and old
Leghorns in this state est iniporters or White
Watch our pen number 17 in the Mlchi n
Laying Contest. It's coming strong! ‘All ga ﬂEﬁg
thomughly culled and properly mated to pure ﬂbred
cockerels. Tryao me real chi lcks this year. 0
now at new low price .Instructlve catalogue free.

 
  
 
 

     

proper tamperature.
Mich, writes as fol—

BRUMMER-FREDERICKSON POULTRY FARM
26 Holland, Mich. '

Box

 
       
  

HEAVY LAYING

breedl stock or real quality helps _
Eroducerhsn hSvie’s strong healthy and 1 '
uslry ch who.

25, 000 Thrifty Chicks Weekly

ITY Write for catalog. 11c and up, prepaid.
12 leading bree 3 Delivery guaranteed.

Ovie’o Poultry Formnnd Hatchery
132 Boots Street, Marion. Indiana

OUALITY CHICKS

GE THLE pAavPROFITaBLE .

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AND
They will on big. l‘ree
range. Selected. ogan test. Orp-
& swgvandottes;
50,139.25; 100,1 . Rocks,
Reds, Minorcas, 50, $8.25; 100,
16. Anc1mas,llieavly broilers. 50,
7.25; 100. eghoms, 5.0.
7; 100, 1513. Mixed, all varie-
ies. $11 per 100 straight. l‘ost- '
.- clivery.Lircnl11r fiee. Bank reference.
Mlddlepolnt Hatchery, Mlddlepoint, Ohio, Dept. B.

Day Old Chicks

Strong, sturdy, S. C. White Leghorns (English
strain) from large, vigorous, yearling hens, raised
on our own farms. That lay and pay. Barred Rocks
and Rhode Island Reds, from best laying strains.
Send for our illustrated catalog, free.

HJllcrest Poultry Farms and— Hatchery

R. R. 2, Holland. Michigan

Selected Baby Chicks
and Breeding Stock

Tom Barron strain White Leghorns. Also Barred
Guarantee 100 per e_nt live delivery on
Cookerels and pullets in season. All stock
Write for catalog and prices.

 

 

 

 

 

Rocks.
chicks
carefully selected.
l<~'1fe111nce Zeeland State Bank

BRANDT’S POULTRY FARM AND HATCHERY

R. R.3M

ZEELAND, MICHIGAN

Peerless Chicks

HATCHED FROM BRED- TO- LAV
S. 6.. WHITE LEGHORNS

They are selected long deep bodied, with
large lopped combs. Liberal discount. Live
a1'1ival guaranteed. Catalog free

PEERLESS HATCHERY a. POULTRY

FARM, Box 10, Iceland, Mich.

 

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DeKoster’s Hatchery

Strong, vigorous Chicks from se-
'lected heavy laying ENGLISH
STRAIN WHITE LEGHORNS and

WN 0 8

O NAS

$18; 50.0, $87.50. Postpaid, full
, live delivery guaranteed. Catalog
‘ - 1 ~11. Bank 1.911- .'_-li(:1.
DE- KOSTER’ s HATCHERY, Box x, Zeeland, Mich.

 

 

1111311 chicks

llatched from strong 11 111i
1igourous flocks of ENGLISH
L EGHCRJRNS AN D

ED FRO
EGG- PRODUCTION.
guarantee 100 per cent
$1. ,1. chicks on arrival. Postage PAID
1111. s vmasonable. Instructive Catalog and
1E1r11-cs free on request. QUAL IT HATCH-
E,RV Box A11, Zeeland, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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White Leghorn CHICKS

Writ. Quick. rm sud—Loam noun-1
on egrl “y orders: Wudd- Tum-o: 265-270,on 11280-

 

Ilvory e
IEILII' S SIAID VIEW DWI-III PAIN.

 

Box 43"

White Leghorn CHICKS
No.13! Lanyinfe'm pure bred. English strain. Flocks
ﬁghlth. chicks. 8100f oer'rlgelntznoblgtyi

'anetgewr" Poona“ e cRoi. otoIogvroal he" cgulalgt

Cut-1p- Grovee Ill-lichen. Box 4 1R.2,Hniiand,ﬂich.

BABY CHICKS and HATCHING EGGS

Direct from our farm at greatly reduced prices
only 90 u Barred Rocks, White Leg orns and
Anconas. rite quiet:) for particulars and special
introductory oﬁ’er. MODEL POULTRY FARM a
HATCHERY, leeland. R. 4, Milli-ch98

WHITTAKEH’S ii. i. BEDSTM‘E‘iii‘EEJ
Color3 and Ex Strain. Bred from winter layers
fox-1 years. Chicks ondaeggs. Write for free cal:-

Coom- Boll. Po.

 

 

 

 

 

slog. 3Interlakeo Farm, ox 4, Lawrence. Mich.
DAY OLD lllllt'lls 3'3‘1’11‘5 "‘" 3?:
ISRANDW H_.tTES Write for Cats]

Hatchery and Poultry Form. R. 1,0mIIDIId. Mm:

 

 

 

Boolv CHICKS—FROM CELESTE nooks ~
varietl s. P ulor

deliver yanrite £01e “outside ongngggcgn oranteed I:

nos. Jerome. m1. 1‘ - ‘

 

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' 'dvortls‘e‘ments inserted under
6151 . heading at 30c per agate 'line,“
' ; “Issue. Commercial Baby Chick
‘odvorttacrnents 450 per agate line
.Writo out what you «have to on‘er
land send it in.‘.. We will pint it in
type. send proof and .quote rates by
.return mail. Address The Michigan
Business Farmer. Advertising De-
partment, Mt. Clemens. Michigan.

   
  
   
     
  

   

 

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S; C. White Leghorn‘s and S. C. and R. C. Black

'Minorcas. Must make room before cold weat} “r.

About ready, to lay.
LAPHAM FARMS.

Plnckney, Mich.

 

 

HATOHING ‘ ‘EGGS “

 

:EGGS' FOR HATCHING: FROM THE FOLLOW-

ing v'arieties, Barred, Buff and White Rocks;
Silver Laced, and “ hite Wyandottes: S. C. White
Or pingtons, an (1. Black Minorcas. Eggs,

$1. p25 for 15, $2. 25 for 30, prepaid. From pure
bred Good Ls séing Stock, Booking orders for eg s
Order early. ENJAMIN SCOTT, Bannister, Mic
EGG ' F0 R MATCHING—UTILITY STOCK.
Grand White W yandottes—M. A. C.
Champions. Good. square deal.Re21sonable prices.

Sendafor price list
C. W. HEIMBACH, R. 5. Big Rapids, Michigan.

HATCHING EGGS

S. C. White Leghorns. Tom Barron Strain, 250
egg utility line. November to April. average 65

Mar cent. Pure white plumage Range grown,

healthy, vigorous7 stock. Eggs $1. 50 per 15;

3.4 00 per 50' 700 per 100.1’repeid. Lim—

ited supply. Order from this ad now.
MAPLEWOOD POULTRY FARMS

C. W. 'Bovee, Prop. North Star, Michigan.

 

YOUNG AND WYCKOFF WHITE “LEGHORNS
8818(3th hatching eggs $2.00 a setting. Prepaid
circular. .F. Arthur Martin. Indian River, Mich.

WHITE WYAIIDOTTES MARTIN STRAIN,

Eggs for hatching.
WAYNE'CHIPMAN, R. 2, Washington, Mich.

 

 

"SILVER LAcED AND WHITE WYA_NDOTTES

hour. large, beautiful roosters. I1 ggs $2.130. per 15.
C." W. BROWNING, Portland, Michigan.

[3an BOOK EGG av 10 LB. MALEs

and 1512 Cincinnati,

winners llogun tested hens. heavy layers.
.l. C CLIPP 8: SONS

RUFF ROCK EGGS

Box M, Saltillo, Ind.
THOROUGHBBE fioni Blue Ribbon \Vin—
11cm, 3]. 50 per 15; $9. 00 per 100.
BALDWIN a. NOWLIN, R. 4,1Laingsburg, Mich.

 

 

 

THOMPSON HEAVY LAYINGKBARRED ROCK
c'l'llS. . $1. 75—15; $31-30. Dark matings.
S. FRED KLOMP, St. Charles, Michigan.

 

BARRED AND WHITE ROCK HATCHING
eg's for sale from exhibition utility stock. F‘ainr
c s' prices Dawsons’ Farm, ,Muskegon. Mich.

PURE
‘ ~15; . 5. 50- 50. Pre)..11d
$5; MRS. $ANNA LA NOIJE Fostoria, Michigan.

 

 

S. C. REDS, GOOD LAYING STOCK, FINE
color. Hatching eggs $6. 00 per 100 Limited
number of chicks, $10. 00 per 100.

ED WARD CRYDER. Alamo. Mich.

 

SALE: ANCONAS EGGS FOR HATCH-
good utility stock. Sinpmds strain. $1.0
Mrs. WilliamO. Johnson, Twin Lake, Mich.

ron
111.2.

for. 15.

FGGS FOR MATCHING—FROM CHOICE PRO-
dnétive stock Big Type White Pekm Ducks,
1; 'so_ Buff Orpington Ducks. 12' eggs, $1. 00: 2t
$1 7.1, prepmd. Benjamin Scott, Bannister, Mich.

MAMMOTH PEKIN DUCK EGGS FOR SETTING
H .00 or two settings $3. 00. Also Wild Mallard
lluck eggs same price. Very choicest stock. All
or ers‘ prepaid. Cedar Bend Farm. Okemos. Mich.
GHOIGE MAMMOTH PEKIN DUCK EGGS,
$1. 50 per setting
Holly, Mich.

MR8. HAROLD SI,MMS

 

 

 

 

 

LEGHORNS

LEGHORNS

S C. Buff Leghorn Hens, Pullets and Cockerels.
“1113 and pulleis 2.50 each; cockerels $3. 00 to
.1 7100 eH‘1c11.Show birds a matter of correspond-
LAPHAM FARMS, Pinckney, Mich

 

 

 

PLYMOUTH ROCK

 

BARRED ROCK COCKERELS AND PULLETS
from America's best prize- winning laying strains.
\. inners of 18 that prizes at Detroit and M. C.
be last two seasons. Low prices

TOLLES BROS, R. 10, St. Mich.

JOHN' s BIG BEAUTIFUL BARRED ROCK
(ockerels, light and dark color. Sold on approval.
$30 to H.$6 00 each. Cirr‘aul 211's.

JHO N NORTHON, Clare, Michigan.

Johns,

 

 

 

'NORMAN

paid.
Mason. Mich.

EARNED. ‘KOCK COCKERELS,

Strain; ”shipped on approval. express

MR8. JESSIE C. DEAN. R. 1,
\

 

 

RHODE ISLAND REDS

 

ALE—S. c. RHODE ISLAND RED
‘8CK118REL1 _ Pme bred, Mankood strain '
Vigorous, dark, large red birds Price $3 apiece
or 2

$.) .1.0)
ALFREOD DEIOHMANN, R. 3. Pigeon, Michigan.

 

 

 

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‘ruDs‘. c. CAE'CAEHH'A‘NW Fenton, Mich.
BY 45

BIG‘ BRONZE TOMS

LB.
v YEARLING 132
O \ mner.
“ncmnah'urr a” SONS, Box M Saltlllo, Ind.

FOR SALE—WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS.

wraith. {‘39 "'cieisoss. an a, Mariette. Michigan-

TOULOUSE 'GEESE ARE MONEY MAKERS.

Two pounélsn cost less the raisef £13.: 03180133 Dork.
no ssar very B. r Mm“,

‘::t:: "iA‘L E ?W IT60M 3. Byron com.-

   

BRED BUFF ORPINGTON EGGS AT

'the description

'tions thru her sons.

 

21111111119 Geese, Wilma shalll'ind";

Such spots are breeding
places for red mites; the most de—
structive parasite that infests our
fowls during the day but hide-«away
in the dark corners, where a single
female in a few days will furnish the
family tree for countless thousands.
The aim of the poultrymen should
be to allow no harboring places for
these insects. The roosting plat—
form
clean.
as to
ing off the dropping platforms.

.Perches should be So placed
be readily removed for sweep,-
One

_ may if desired, arrange the perches

with dropping platforms 18 or 20
inches wide, in tiers across one end
of the‘ room or house. They should
be separate and i" no way attached
to the waﬂs of the building. Then
if all ﬁlth is carefully swept away
each day, it is always possible to
keep the quarters neat and clean.
The roosts and platforms should re-
ceive frequent treatment with coal-
oil or liquid lice-killer. In this way
no vermin will be able to gain a
foot—hold. ‘ ’

Ample roosting room should be
provided for all fowls. None should
be allowed to sleep on the ground.
Chicks should have shelves arranged
for their comfort. They should not
be allowed to perch on the regular
roosts until three or four months
old. By this time their bones will
have become firm and solid and the
danger of crooked breast bones will
have passed. The roosts should be
of material about tW3 and one-half
inches wide and rounded on the 11p—
per edges. This will avoid injury
to the fowls’ feet. All material used
in the house should be dry and as
light as possible. The droppings
platform should be of smooth
matched material to allow for clean
sweepings and afford no hiding for
mites. Droppings should be swept
off daily and the litter in the pens
changed frequently.

FERTILITY OF TURKEY EGGS

Please tell me how long before
laying turkeys must be mated to in-
sure good hatching? Also how long
kept together?—~Mrs. C. 1’., Onaway,
Mich.
—The best inform .tion availabe 011
the subject of turkey raising would
indicate that the Toms should run
with the hens from seven to ten days
prior to saving the eggs for hatching.
Fertility usually appears 011 the third
day but the highest fertility is not
usually secured at least of seven
days after the introduction of the,
Tom.——E. C. Foreman, Associate
Professor of Poultry Husbandry, M.

n

TURKEYS HAVE ENLARGED

‘ KNEE JOINTS

What shall I do for my turkeys?
They are late turkeys and would like
to know what is the matter with
them. They eat good and are in
good condition, only their legs are
weak and they lay around a good.
deal. Their knee joints are enlarg-
ed.——Mrs. W. H., Elmira, Mich.

——As to the ﬁrst one, dealing with an
ailment in turkeys, I might say that
it is difﬁcult to give a diagnosis from
given. It may be
that the addition of precipitated cal-
cium phosphate (sprinkle lightly
over the feed) or the giving of lime
water in quantities of two teaspoon-
fuls a day per bird giving in the

drinking water, and also the addition

of bone meal would be of assistance
in relieving this trouble provided it is
of a nutritional origin. If it should
be contagious it is necessary that a
diagnosis be made before a y intelli-
gent advice could be given. If you
care to do so you may send us a bird
for,diagnosis.——H. J. Stafseth, Dept.
of Bacteriology and Hygiene, Mich.
Agricultural College.

-1 _ﬂ
BREED BETTER FLOCKS
W0 points tokeep in mind: The
cockerel is half the flock and he
cannot be too good, and only
your best layers should be permitted
to .rear cockerels to use in your
main breeding pens._ There seems
to be no question any more that the

 

high-producing hen sends her laying

character down to future genera-
I have noticed
several times that where a ﬂock of

1 badly colored hens were mated to a

  

EH 8 ,
' _~ This Should be the main idea.
in the poultry house.
be no cracks and crevices for ﬁlth
‘to gather

There should .

described may easily; be kept~

be as nearly perfect in form, color,
and laying qualities as ,you can
select, and if you have only one
such she will provide you with your
cockerels. Select your cockerels,
sons of your best laying hens, es-
pecially for their 'form and color.

In this way you will soon bring
your ﬂock up in all desirable char-
acteristics. To do this to the very
best advantage you will need two
breeding pens, one to produce cock—
erels' and the other to produce pul—
lets for your main ﬂock, the two
ﬂocks to be unrelated as much as
can be conveniently arranged. Fol-
low this by strict fall culling and the
results will soon be noticeable.

POULTRY NOTES

It is‘a. harmful costly practice to
permit little chickens to get wet and
cold. Clean, warm, Cry quarters
are indespensable.

It is a mistake to feed sour or
tainted food. All mesh or soft food
that is not eaten 11p an hour after
feeding should be gathered 11p and
thrown away.

The best method of combating

' contagious diseases is to dispose of

the Sick fowls and. disinfect the
premises thoroughly.

Let the fowls have all the exer—
cise possible to keep their digestive
organs working.

The slightest ailment should be
treated as promptly as a contagious
disease.

A mixture of white and brown—
shclled eggs in the incubator will
give an unsatisfactory hatch.

Never over feed the you" ‘ chicks;
feed little and often; keep them
satisﬁed, but not ovcrfed.

Good, thick buttermilk is about as
good as green bone to make the
chicks grow and the hens luy.

Foul air and ﬁlth will furnish
shelter for contagion.
When the fowls are restless and

constantly picking their feathers it
is usually a Sign that they 2110 in—
fected with vclmin.

No matter how ﬁne the strain, it
is careful and intelligent manage—
ment that counts most in the long
run. _

Parched corn, wheat and outs of—
fer possibilities for varying the grain
ration of the hens. Almost any
change of diet will prove good for
the hens if they relish the new feed.

Weight and fat conditions count
when the hon is wanted for the mar—
ket 'but don’t sell her as long as she
is producing eggs in proﬁtable
quality.

The chick does not come from the
shell with gravel in its crop. Sharp
sand or line grit should be furnished
along with the ﬁrst meal.

The market demands uniform
products. If your eggs are alike,
shape and color, you can sell to a
fancy market and get a price much
higher than you can get at the local
grocery store.

Your ﬂock is easier to tend if it
is uniform. Leghorns are more active
than Brahmas. Plymouth Rocks
set well and make good mothers.
Leghorns do not. It is hard to pro-
vide the best conditions for all of
your chickens unless they are alike
in rate of growth, size, temperament,
and habits.

TRAI‘ FOR wonvns

HAVE read 21 good deal about

wolves in the north‘woods and

the havoc they make on (leer and
offtimes humanity. Now I would
like to suggest a. trap I heard of
from an old hunter many years ago.
It is to make a square den 011 the
ground, say twelve 01' sixteen feet
square, ﬁveor six feet high, tapper it
as it is built up, the opening: at the
top, say three feet square. The logs
of course, are notched close enough
so they could not get through. Put
an old sheep, cull of the ﬂock, in it
and feed him there: The object of
the sheep is the scent and a wolf
chooses to kill its own game. Drag
bloody meat for miles to this trap is
a good call. Ihave heard it said if
a pack is attracted the trapper gen-
erally gets a good haul. I am an ald
reader of Michigan Business Farmer
and-it is complete—Jars. O Colburn,
Jackson County, Mich.

George Washington owned Ameri-
ca’s ﬁrst mule. The mule was a pres-
ent to Washington from the King of
Spain, ‘and was‘named Royal Gift.

,0 . . . . 2.
YDur cockerel breeding hen should.

 

. MONTHLY PAYMENTS

 

Remarkable Experience of Mré." "

C. M. Bradshaw' 1n Prevent‘
ing White Diarrhea

 

The following letter will no doubt
beof utm2.st interest to poultry rais—
ers who have had serious losses from
White Diarrhea. We will let Mrs.
Bradshaw tell of her experience in
her own words: '

“Gentlemen: Itsee reports of so
many losing their little chicks with
White Diarrhea, so thought I would
tell my experience. I used to lose a
great many from this cause, tried
many remedies and was about dis-
couraged. As a last resort I sent to
the Walker Remedy (30., Dept. 680,
Waterloo, Iowa. for their Walko
White Diarrhea Remedy. I used two
500 packages, raised 300 White
W'yandottes and never lost one or
had one sick after giving the medi-
cine and my chickens are larger and
healthier than ever before. I have
found this company thoroughly re-
liable and always get the remedy by
return mail.—Mrs. C. M. Bradshaw,
Beaconsﬁeld, Iowa.”

 

Cause of White Diarrhea

White Diarrhea is caused by the
Bacillus Bacterium Pullorum. This
germ is transmitted to the baby chick
through the yolk of the newly l1atch~
ed egg. Readers are warned to be—
ware of White Diarrhea. Don’t wait
until it kills half your chicks. Take
the “stitch in time that saves nine.”
Remember, there is scarcely a hatch
without some infected chicks. Don’t
let these few infect your entire ﬂock.
Prevent it. ’vive \anko in all drink-
ing water for the first two weeks and
you won't lose one chick where you
lost hundrmls before.
prove it:

Never Lost a Single Chick

Mrs. L. L. Tam, Burnctts Creek,
lnd., writes: “I have lost my share of
chicks from ‘Vhite Diarrhea. Finally
I sent for two packages of Walko. I

raised over 500 chicks and I never
lost 21 single (hick from “bile I)i2"111l1111. Walko
not only prevails \\'biic l)i2"211111e1, but it gives the
chicks strength 211111 viroi; they develop quicker

and feithcr e2‘11lie1.‘

Never Lost One After First Dose

Mrs. Ethel Rhoudes, Shennandoah,
Iowa, writes: “My ﬁrst incubator
chicks, when b 21 few days old. he-
gun to die by the (102. us with White

Dinlurhca I tried different remedies
and 1121s about discouraged with the chicken busi-

puss linnlly, I S(lll’, to the \\'211k11 ltemcili i‘.,o
\\'ui:~rloo lon..1 for 21 box of their \Valko \Vhite
l)1211‘1‘hc;1 llcmctly. It’s just the only thing for
this ' lll"lllll( (liseisc. “e raised 700 thrifty,
111 mm chick: 21ml never lost 21 single chick aftex1
11112 first (1051.

 

You Run No Risk

We will send Walko \Vhite Diar—
rhea Remedy entirely at our risk—-
postage prepaidmso you can see for
yourself what a wonder—working
remedy it is for White Diarrhea in
baby chicks. So you can pr0ve~—as
thousands have provcn—that it will
stop your losses and double, treble,

even quadruple your profits. Send
500 for 21 box of \l'211ko,or $1.00 for extra
1211:1521 l\()X'—-,L{ll't‘. it in 21H (liiilkinu water for the
ﬁist iivu “(ka 21nd \HLli'll results You'll ﬁnd
you “out, lose one illlik “lure you lost hundreds
hot ore it's 21 posiiii i:1<t,\\'c 2.:11211'121111e it. The
Icznitt & lobnson Vuiionil ll2111k.1111 oldest and
stionutst bank in “'21111'loo. lowu stands back of
this guarantee. You run no risk. If you don't
1111:] it the greatest little (hirk saver you ever

used, your money “111 be instantly refunded.

Walker Remedy Co., Dept. 680, Waterloo, Iowa

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FOOTE’S MARKET LETTER '
By w. W. Foote

ENERAL farm conditions in
Michigan are better than a year

‘ ago, and the outlook is encour-
‘-,aging, especially for sheepmen, those
.who own fair sized ﬂocks. being ex—
tremely fortunate. 'Not many farms
in this state are changing ownership,
‘ and as Michigan farms generally
' failed to undergo the boom in prices

5 so common during the war in other

. ~' states of the middle west, they have
'. not suffered a similar decline.
Farmers looking for farms can make

‘ purchases in Ohio around $85 to
$150 an acre, whereas a few years
ago numerous sales were made at
1 $200 to $250, and even as high as
$300 in some instances. Farms in
Ohio are largely rented for $6 an
acre. There has been a marked re—
duction in the rate of interest paid
on farm mortgages throughout the
country, and sales are made in Chi—
cage of high—class ones netting from
5 to 6 per cent to buyers. The sev—
eral grains, with the exceptions of
wheat and rye, are selling above
prices of a year ago, corn being es-
pecially higher, and unusually large
quantities of corn were fed to live
stock during the past Winter. The
domestic trade of the country is ac-
tive, being far ahead of last year,
and manufacturers are complaining
that it is diﬂicult to hire enough
workers, even at the unprecedented-
ly high wages offered. Farmers in
many districts report that. it is im—
possible to hire helpers, with car—
penters, painters and other workers
in the cities getting as high as $1.25
an hour, while miners in the Penn—
sylvania coal mines have been paid
as high as $400 a month. The for—
eign trade of the United Sttes is
growing in volume, the exports for
the eight months ending on Feb-
ruary 28 aggregating in value $2,-

  

657,064,000, comparing with $2,-
480,021000 for the corresponding
period a year earlier. Meanwhile

our imports of gold have fallen off
materially, as Europe is paying
largely for its imports with various
commodities. Of late largequanti-
ties of provisions have been ex
ported from our shores to European-
countries. Rates of interest are. un-
changed, Chicago banks making
loans at 5 to 51/2 per cent.

\that Sells Higher

The long predicted fall in wheat
prices fail to materialize, and, on
the contrary, recent sales were made.
on the Chicago Board of Trade at
the highest ﬁgures recorded in sev-
eral weeks. Speculative operations
in wheat have increased in volume
recently, and when the “shorts”
entered the market to settle their
trades they were compelled to pay
higher prices. It is estimated that
15,000,000 bushels of “short” wheat
were bought in the course of a fort-
night. Of course, the marked fall-
ing off in our wheat, exports is a
drawback, but stocks are not in the
least burdensome. Rye continues to
loom up as an important article.
in our export trade, it being much
cheaper than wheat. Not much corn
or oats are being shipped out of the
country, yet supplies of both in
sight are much less than a year ago.
The prevailing belief is that feeding
livestock with grain will continue
a paying policy, provided farmers
have the grain. Late sales were
made in the Chicago market of May
wheat at $1.221/2, comparing with
$1.33 a year ago; while‘May corn
sold at 74% cents, comparing with
59% cents last year; May hats at
451/4 cents, » comparing with 37
cents last year; and May rye at 84 1/5
cents, comparing with $1.02 a year
ago.

, The Bean Market

In a late issue The Bean and Pea
Journal points out that about the
only beans in any large amounts are
‘to be found in Michigan and Cali—
fornia, and even in those states
. there are no overstocks. With the
Cadmitted large increase in acreage,
more beans will be needed for seed
”purposes than for many years. The
Journal hears reports that beans will
.bef"..gr9wn in many new sections
Where .theyhave never been raised,

   

 

   

   

”MARKET mm" Y ,

.X .4 -

Wheat gains strength aid price advances slightly. Imitroved. '.

export demand causes corn prices to go up.

of wheat ‘ and corn.

.exceed demand at Detroit.

Cattle slow to lower.

Oats 10110ws trend

Rye and beans show no change. 'Potatoes
ﬁrm and prices are expected to go higher. '

Receipts of poultry
Hogs and sheep

active and prices advance. . Provisions following the trend of hogs.

 

(Note: The above summarized information was received AFTER the balance of the mar- ”
ket p806 was set In type. It oonhimlast minute Information up to within one-half hour of

going to press ——Edli.or.) ‘

 

 

in a commercial way." ' The Robust
bean is in high favor, and Michigan
farmers testify to an increase in
yield of fully ten bushels per acre
over common beans. Michigan is a
large. consumer of beans, and heavy
shipments are made to other states.
Restricted Demand For Beef

Many families got into the habit
during the war of cutting down in
their use of beef, and it appears hat
in many cases they are still much
smaller consumers than in former
years. This explains why any mark—
ed improvement in beef cattle prices
brought about by smaller offerings
is quickly lost as soon as normal
supplies are received. Last week,
for'instance, there was a big ad—
vance in prices on Monday, because
of the eager offerings shipped to
Chicago on account of the severe
storm, while it disappeared later on
normal receipts.
of prime fat Hereford steers were
made at $10.10 to $10.35, and some
prime 647—pound Hereford heifers
brought $10, an unusual
Other sales of heifers of superior
quality were made at $8 to $9.50,
commoner lots selling at $5.50 to
$6.50, while butcher cows went at
$4.50 to $7.75. Calves were wanted
for the Easter trade, and sold much
higher, common to prime lots going
at $6 to $13 per 100 pounds. Lim—
ited offerings checked the trade in
stockers and feeders, county buyers
paying $5.50 to $8.50, chiefly $6.50
to $7.75. Late in the week cattle
sold much lower under larger of—
ferings. A year ago beef steers sold
at $6.25 to $9.30 for common to
prime. Recent sales of beef steers
were made at $6.75 to $9.90, largely
at $8 to $9.75.

The Hog Market .

The country supply of hogs is un-
derstood to be unusually large, and
when prices are up the receipts are
almost certain to be of liberal pro-
portions. Prices all along have been
much lower than a year earlier, but
they have for many weeks shown
marked rallying power, with a large
demand from Chicago packers, *as.
well as eastern shippers. Hogs mov-’
ing to market grade well on the
whole, and the bulk sell within a
range of 35 cents, light bacon going
highest and 30 cents above the best
heavy butchers. Recent-Chicago re-
ceipts averaged 240 pounds. There

is an extremely large domestic con-'

sumption of fresh products and pro-
visions, while exports of lard and
cured hog meats are running far
ahead of a year ago, despite the
higher prices. Last week’s hog re-
ceipts were far larger than a. year
ago, but active local and shipping
buying kept prices almost as high
as a week earlier, late sales ranging
at $7.25 to $8.50. A year ago hogs
brought $8.75 to $10.40.
The Lamb Crop

The ﬁrst shipments of California
spring lambs to eastern markets
were started a short time ago. Lack
of moisture and high winds have
affected adversely the growth of
feed in the California spring lamb
region. The ﬁrst shipment of spring
lambs for the season reached Chi-
cago the other day, comprising 53
Illinois bred lambs averaging 45
pounds, which brought $18 per 100
pounds. It looks promising for the
lamb market, but owners should
make their ﬂocks prime and not too
heavy.‘ Late lamb sales were made
at $13.25 to $15.35, feeding and
shearing lambs going at $18.75 to
$14.85. ~ ‘

WHEAT , ,,

Wheat is slightly lower in .price
than it was at our last writing nd
the tone of the market-is“ from e s’y

 

Early Week sales .

price. ,

 

to weak. During last‘ week trading

, was quiet and ‘prices showed little

change. here was some business
reported for export but not enough

to change the trend and the best'

the market could do was held steady
most of the time the early part of
the week at prices established the
week before. But before the close
of the week weakness appeared and
a decline in prices followed. There
was no news and'the dope fromvday
to day was a reiteration of previous
facts and views. There is a ﬁght be-
tween faith and the old idea of sup-
ply and demand. The faith people
believe the future will bring crop
damage news and active foreign buy—
ing. The supply and demand people
say stock are heavy and subjecting
the,market to heavy pressure, while
foreigners neglect American wheat
in favor of grain from Canada and
Argentine. Domestic demand is
not active and the bears say these
conditions have always brought low-
er prices in the past and will do'so
again. ,

Crop damage reports have not
been sensational; in fact, much of
the news from the southwest has
been favorable. Weather has been
just what the plant was in.need of
over a great deal of the winter wheat
territory and in some places the crop
appears more promising than it did
at the corresponding date last year.

Flour is not active and the mills
have been rather slow in taking
wheat, but a scarcity of soft winter
wheat has developed in the past few
days and the Michigan mills are
looking for wheat. Mills that had
received all the wheat they needed
from their own neighborhood from
day to day, report that farmers are
not liberal sellers now and there is a
feeling that the supply of good millm
ing wheat back'in the hands of Mich-
igan farmers is not large.

.. Prices

Detroit—Cash No. 2 red, $1.321/2;
No. 2 white, $1.321,é; No. 2 mixed,
$1.32V2.

Chicago—Cash No. 2 red, $1.30-
@1.32; No. 2 hard, $1.1917é@1.21.

New York—Cash No. 2 hard,
$1.32; No. 2. red, $1.45%.

Prices one year ago—Detroit, No.
2 red, $1.42; No. 2 white, $1.39; No.
2 mixed, $1.39.

CORN
The corn market is easy after a
small decline on the closing day of
last week. The Detroit market de-
clined 3&0 bringing the price down

, to the level quoted in our last issue

at Detroit.
Prices

Detroit—Cash No. 2 yellow, 79c:
No. 3, 770; No. 4, 75c; No. 5, 730.

Chicago—Cash No. 2 yellow, 73 1%-
@74%; No. 2 mixed, 731/2. \

New York-Cash No. 2 yellow,
9214c; No.2 white. 9214; No. 2 mix-
ed, 91%c. '

Prices one year ago—Detroit, No.
2, yellow, 6315c; No. 3, 62c.

OATS ,

Prices in the oat market are
slightly lower than they have been
at any time for over a—month. The
tone of the market in general is
steady while dealers, report they are
ﬁnding it difﬁcult to dispose of their

supplies, ‘ demand seeming to be
nearly at a standstill. _
Prices

Detroit-e-Cash No. 2 white, 49c;
No. 3, 4715c; No. 4, 46c.
-Chica;go——Cash No. 2 white, 45-
,@46c; No. 3, 43%@44%c. ‘

, {New York—«Cash No. 2'white, 56f
@56350. ' ,

. Prices .1 one year ago—Detroit,
Cash No. 2 white, 4155c; .No. 3,.
39 55c.» . _ ' " {

  

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.—

; bers estimate that'bean surpluses fin

- steady the greater part of the time

~dealers March 1 to 21 Northern

_ Michigan, -$ 1.97.

.cent urgent demand Enters“ mar
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' During theweek before last/folio"
Detroit bean‘ market’dec‘lined‘sha,‘ .
ly_ and last week it started out tore
gain what it lost and had advanced.
15c but dropped 50 on Saturday
which left the price 250 per cwt.,
under the price of tWO weeks ago."
Trading is quiet. State bean job:

     
   

    
       
  
 

   
  
  

  
   
 
 

  
 
  
 

Michigan to, be between 1,400’an'd
2,000 cars. “ This includes beans inl ’
the hands of the farmers other‘than; ..
those retained for seed, and ‘ also:f"
stocks in elevators. Using the” f:
smallest estimate, at 40,000 mayor

400 cwt. per car this would bring.»'
the total holdings in Michigan to

well over 6,500 bushels which job-

bers say they are Confident will take '
care of all demand unless conditions ._
change and business becomes brisk.» '
Elevators throughout the state are ,
reported to be offering from $7 to. ‘
$7.25 per cwt. with the lower .ﬁgure ,
leading. , , "

     
  

  
  
    
     
       
    
       
        
    
         
   

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Detroit——C. H. P., $7.40 per cwt. ,
Prices one year ago—Detroit, C.

H. P., $6.95 per cwt. , »

        
      
  
  
   
   
 
   
   
  
 
   
  
    
 
   
  
   
  
   
    
  
   
    
  
 
   
   
  
  
  
  
   
  
   
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
 
  
    
  
   
  
   
    
 
    
   
   
    
  
    
  
   

RYE _ ' '~ 7 ‘7

Rye seems to be without friends,

nobody wanting it, and prices were
on the down grade last week.

Prices ‘ "

Detroit—Cash No. 2, 81%c. ” ' 1’ '

Chicago—Cash No. 2, 81%@- ‘
821/20. '

Prices one year ‘ago—-Detroit,
Cash No. 2, $1.04.

POTATOES ‘
The potato market' has been

during the past fortnight and
changes in prices have been only
slight. The price at Detroit-is high-
er than it was two weeks ago. Sup-
plies are small on Michigan markets
as storms held up shipping, farmers
were unable to get their potatoes'to
tOWu because of the bad condition of I

the roads. Larger receipts are ex-
pected from now on. ‘ . 3 ._. -- :
Stocks of white potatoes in the ' at

hands of growers and dealers in the
United States. March 1 are reported
at 171,555,000 bushels to the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Comparative ﬁgures with other years . .
are not available. Ofuthe total stocks -'
23,968,000 bushels are reported as ' "
unﬁt for food or seed, 60,514,000 ‘
bushels will be needed for food and .
seed on farms where grown, 27,278,- ' ' , ' a
000 bushels are held for consumption ' ’ ‘ ‘
in local markets, and 59,795,000
bushels are available for movement
by rail and, other means out of the
counties where produced. More
than one—half the quantity of pota—
toes available for shipment are in
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and
North Dakota.

Stocks in hands of growers and

States which usually produce about,
four-ﬁfths the total crop are report—
ed at 152,117,000 bushels, which is ’ >
approximately 42 per cent of the es- 5
timated crop in these States. Stocks '
on hand March 1, 1922, were 102,— . '
764,000 bushels, or 35 percent of ‘
the estimated crop in these States ~’ 3 . ‘
last year.‘ ' I ‘ 7‘
A good market is said to be await- ‘ .y. .' 5
in the northern shippers since the 1- ~ 1
East is running short of old stock, ' > 4 '
there being reported scarcely more .- ~ » 1
than 50 cars for shipment from New '
York state and not more than 15 to
20 per cent of the entire crop left in
Maine. Michigan potatoes are re-
ported to be reaching a market in x 9 ‘
New York city even now, indicating I A. ‘1 7",
a continued strong market in this ‘ ‘-
commodity it is said. '
Prices ' ‘
Detroit—~Michigan, $2.00@1.,50.
Chicago—rWisconsin round whites,
$1.25@1.30‘ per cwt; Idaho rurals,
$1.40 per cwt.. '
Prices one

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in‘g about the middle 01 this week
rid lasting through Thursday and
probably Friday of this week.

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for year ﬂocks.

m broods of turkeys,

”warm Quarters, particularly durin

settled weather conditions will affect

‘ parts or the state at tail end. of the
week.

Week of April 8
’Unsettled and stormy conditions
are to be expected in Michigan dur-

', ing ﬁrst part of this week. ‘The

winds will be moderately strong
during this time and the temper-
atures moderate to cool.

During the middle days of the,

week and until near the close the

weather is expected to be fair in-

Michigan. As Friday and Saturday
approach the temperatures will be

rising and some unsettled, showery '
, weather may be expected

in the
state.
- Potato Outlook Poor

The probability of a potato yield
above the normal in Michigan this

season will range from 25 to 75 per
cent with the later plantings getting,

the best chance, those who plant
spuds about, middle of June, believ-
ing they will dodge the hot, dry
Weather of late summer, will ﬁnd
this year very different.

This year we believe the weather

. before June 15th will average cold

and wet while the latter part of June
will average warm and wet. How;

.ever, the entire summer season we

ﬁgure will average cool and with
about normal rainfall. Except for

severe frosts the harvest season will

be favorable for potatoes.
Judging bythe general character-
istics of the Rurals, there will be

" less tendency for this variety to be-

come hollow this year. In as much
as we are expecting droughty con-
ditions during latter part of August,
this variety will stand the conditions
better than most kinds. The Green
Mountain and Gold Coin are also
well adapted to the 1923 season but
should be planted early.-—L. N.

‘ PRITCHARD.

WEATHER FOR SUMJIIER

AsI am a raiser of pure bred
chickens, turkeys and geese, and also
reader of the M. B. F. paper, would
like your advice on what kind of a
season I might look for this coming
summer. The weather makes a big
difference in my poultry business. Do
you expect it to be cold and dry, cold
and wet, hot and dry or hot and wet?
Which do you think it will be?——-H.
S., Rapid City, Mich.

———We are expecting the spring and
summer of 1923 as a whole to aver-

‘age cooler than usual in Michigan

judging by what, we believe will be
the average eastward track of the
storm centers for the period in ques-
tion.

The exception to this general state-
ment will apply during latter part of
May, most of June and about ﬁrst

.two weeks of July, when tempera-'

tures will be warmer and thus help
bring up the general deﬁciency.

. We ~~ are also of the opinion the,
summer months will average only
normally wet in this state but that
there will be an over amount of
cloudiness.

The lack of sunshine together with
the average low temperature will
.not, of course, be the best condition
As a consequence,
We suggest you house your young
especially, in

early summer which we believe wil

  

. reevere storm to Michigan the temp-‘
tieratnres will rise unseasonably high
; butat the end of the week the temp-
. etatures will have fallen and the

«~~=sssr

The re-

which is considerably more
than usual at this time, the reason
given being that last year’ s crap was
unusually large, that it has been
difﬁcult to obtain cars and that the
prices have been
farmers who could hold their stock
Prices
' Detroit—No. 1 timothy, $16@16. -
50; standard, $15. 50@ 16 light mix-
ed, $15. 50@16; No.2 ,timothy, $14-
@15; No. 1 clover mixed, $13@14;
No.1 clover, $13@14.
Chicago—No. 1 timothy, $21@23;
light mixed, $19@21; No. 2 timothy,

$18@20;No.1clover,$15@16; No.

,3 13 @ 14. ~

New York—No. 1 timothy, $24@-
25; light mixed, $22@24; No.2
timothy, $20@23.

Prices one year ago—Detroit, No.
1 timothy, $19@20; standard, $18-
6219; No. 2 timothy, $1N70@18; No.
1 light mixed, $18@19; .1 clover
mixed, $15@16; No. 1 clover, $14-

15.

Alfalfa—Chicago, No.1 and
choice, $22@23; No. 2 and standard,
$ 1 6 @ 1 9.

MISCELLANEOUS MARKET QUO-
4 TATIONS
Detroit, Tuesday, March 27th
' BUTTER—Best creamery, in tubs,

50@51c per lb.
EGGS—Fresh, 24% @25c per doz.

APPLES — Greenings, $1. 7 5 @ 2;
Baldwins, $1. 65@1. 90; Spys, $2@-
2.50; other varieties, $1.50 @ 1. 75

per bu.' , western boxes, $2 @3; in
barrels, Greenings, $5. 50@6; Bald-
wins, $5. 50 @ 6.

HONEY—Comb, 23@25c per lb.

CABBAGES—Home— —grown, $2@
2. 25 per bu.' , Louisana sugar loaf,
$5@ 5. 50 per crate; round heads, $5—
@5. 50 per crate; Mobile, $5@5. 50
per crate.

POPCORN—~4@ 4 1,éc; Little Bust-
er, 7 173 @ 80 per lb.

DRESSED CALVES—Best 17 @-
18c; medium, 15@16c per lb.

ONIONS—$4@4. 25 per sack of
100 lbs.; Spanish, $2@2. 25 per
crate.

DRESSED HOGS—90 to 130 lbs.,
100; 130 to 169 lbs. ., 9c; heavy, 5-
@6c per lb.

LIVE POULTRY—Best chickens,
29 @ 30c; leghorns, 24 @ 25c;
24c; medium and large hens, 29 @-
30c; small hens, 25@26c; roosters,
17c; geese, 200; ducks, 30c for large
and 27 @ 28c for small per lb.

WEEKLY MARKETGRAIVI

U. S. Bureau of Agricultural
Economics

Washington D. C.———For the week
ending March 24, 1923. .

FEED—Markets dull and prices
lower. Linseed meal and, wheat
feeds continued downward trend and

.May bran is quoted at $5 below pre—

Stock most feeds in
excess of demand. Fair demand for
nearby wheat feeds. Cornfeeds in
ample supply. Gluten feed prices
steady, hominy feed prices easier.
Cottonseed meal in liberal supply by
resellers and a few large offers are
made by mixed feed manufacturers.
Fair export demand from Texas.
Production most feeds good. Move-
ment fair. Quoted March 23—Bran
$27.75; middlings $27.50; ﬂour
middlings $2 9. 2 5; Minneapolis;
gluten feed $42.65 Chicago; white
hominy feed $28 St. Louis; $28.50
Chicago; 31 per cent linseed meal
$40 Buffalo; 36 per cent cottonseed
meal $38 Memphis; $40 Atlanta; 34
per cent linseed meal $43. 75 Minne-
apolis.

DAIRY PRODUCTS—Butter mark—
ets unsettled during week. Uncert—
ainty as to production and supplies
during the immediate future has ad-
ded to the uncertainey of the mark-
et. Some California butter on East—

vailing prices.

ern markets at selling prices is:
slightly, under corresponding grades»-

of regular receipts; New Zealand,
Danish & Argentine butter also sell-
ing in a limited way. Tone of the
market ﬁrm at close today Closing
prices 92 score butter; Ebw York
501,50; Chicago 51%0; Philadelphia
5035c; Boston 50c.

W 01’ BUTTEBMAB MARKET
RFUL conﬂicting factors
11% the butter market, (1111'.
l 3 their «(:33 March :4

 

~ serves“? on Michigan farms March ist
are estimated at 38 per cent of the
\mp’

satisfactory to

caused either a. sharp advance or a
'rapid decline. On the one side Was
sentiment which resisted every ad-
vance and greatly favored'declines.
In view of the rapidly approaching
season of ﬂush production,*the trade
generally felt that prices were too
high. All trading was featured
lwith the greatest caution. Specula-
tive demand was almost entirely
lacking. Receivers pressed goods
for sale almost on arrival and buyers
purchased only for orders on hand.
Each operator was nervous until he

, had passed his purchases or receipts

on to the next fellow in his line.
These conditions were conducive to
weakness and conﬁdence could only
be restored by a decline in prices.
On the side of strength were light

 

, only {I
01111! h'aVe been necessary to have
a make.

' yed h m”
and possibly to a decrease in the
Stocks on all markets were
generally so closely cleaned up that.
a decline ' was almost

in some quarters at times would no
more than seem to give the market '
a weaker tone when they would
melt away again under an urgent
demand from jobbers. The market
showed some declines and some ad-
vances, depending on Whether senti-
ment or light supplies was the
stronger in its inﬂuence but by the
close of the week under review no
indications of a deﬁnite trend ap-
peared.

KEEP THE BUSINESS FARMER
COMING
SEE PAGE 13

 

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LIMESTONE

Don't let another seeding go by before
you put in SOLVAY. You make
more money using SOLVAYbecause
it gives you bigger crops, better crops
and that means more money.

It's so easy to handle SOLVAY—
shipped in ICU lb. bags or in bulk.
may be spread by hand or lime sower.
Safe, will not burn, and is so ﬁnely
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Sweeten your soil and you “sweeten"

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all about it —Write for the valuable

SOLVAY lime book-F—free!

THE SOLVAY PROCESS CO.

Sales Agent, Wing & Evans, Inc.
Real Estate Exchange Building Detroit, Mich.

   
 

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EGGS FOR HATOHING—PURE BRED WHITE
Wyandottes, 15 eggs 31. 2,5 30 eggs $2. 00; 50
can $3. 00' 010 eggs 06' more 5 cents each.
Bin 10 settings 1\fi'rﬁgmd. Others 15. o. b. Allegan
H. ORTO to. Phone 29413 Allegan Mich.

BARRED ROCKS. EGGS AND BABY
Chicks from Silver Cup winners and Champion
gd’inmter1 8Layers. d Egg sed$2 Cper 11115 f and i 113i; lit;

0 up 6 var ‘1rcu 1' Ice. ‘1 )
ASTLIN G Constantine. Michigan.

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PLANTS AND SEEDS

STRAWBERIEY PLANTS FOR SALE: SENA-
tor Dnnla unlasp Gibson and Dr. Burrill, 60 cts. per
hundred, 4. 001 per thousand. Postpaid. Progressive
Everbearersﬁl b. 21 per hundred. IIl’o aéid. gim-
asp er es r u r 00
Postpaid. 11100133311 J. DeGURSE,

 

Ovid. Mich.

STRAWBERRY PLANTS FOR SALE—SEN.
Dunlap $3. 50 per 1000. Gibson’s $4. 50 per M.
Five other varieties Also Raspberry plan
Price list free. FRED STANLEY, I’124 Main St..
Bangor, Michigan.

 

 

GRAPEVINE SPECIAL WEEK. 20 VINE8

$1 postpaid. good Medium Blue Concord.
3 N0. 1 White , 2 Red. GOBLE
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Pen Mated S. C. White Leghorns

Ferris 264- 300 egg strain, range grown, health
vigorous stock. Eggs $2. 00 Jet 15' $3 00 peyr'
30; $4 .00 per 50. Limite supply. Prepaid.
satisfaction guaranteed. Order from ed.

A. JOHNSON, Norwalk, Michigan.

 

 

MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEY EGG
Siwmg' Best stock. Farmers prices 8 FOR

SON'S FARM. R. 4, Muskegon, 'Mlchlgan.

 

EGGS FOR HATOHING, BIG TYPE PEKINC

Ducks, 12, 1, - 4'24

Ducks, 12 85 $1 75. Bull Orpinston
BENJAMIN

RUNNER DUCK EGGS, FAWN AND WHITE

Good laying strain. 1. 5 '

1.00 Order from d$ 0 for 15 $7 00 for
H. A. HERSHISER, West Unity, Ohio.

0 1 $ 1.50 e
sco‘r'r, pr pm.

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Northern mm. L. D D.UNLAP Lama. 15:13

, FROOTPROOF CAIIAGE PLANTS. MICHI-
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earlier and better crops to use our open field
own plants from the South. Early 3"?th

Wakeﬁeld, Success' Fl
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FANCY MIXED COLOR GLADIOLA BULBS - ROSE COMB RHODE ISLAND '
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5. Price $1.59. Order big boys' sizes 1 to 8
by No. 96A564. Price $1.19. Pay bargain price
and postage on arrival.

Black satin Strap
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Pumps .

Women's black
satin d r e s s
p u m p , one—
strap. one-but-
ton style With
f a n c y rosette
a n d ornament o n
strap. Plain v a m p
with medium toe and
close edge sole With
low r u b b e r heels.
Genuine oak soles.‘A
dressy, stylish
spring fashion
will be all the
rage among the
b e s t dressed
women. 812.98
2% to 8. wide
Widths.

Order by No.
96A58. 80nd
no money. Pa

only $1.98 on
postage on arrival.

 

 

 
 

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brings you ary of these smashed Price bargains.
Merely give name and .number 0. each article
you Want. Also state size and write your name
and address plainly to avoid delay. Bay nothing
till goods arrive—then only .the amazing bargain
price and postage. If you are not delighted with
your bargain return the goods and your money
Will be cheerfully refunded. ORDER.NOW!

Men’s Boot Bargains
Don’t. fall to make this

big eavnng on Men’s
Pure gum hip boots;

    
  
    
  
   
  
   
 
 
  
  

riction lined; heavy
corrugated sole and
heel; guaranteed ﬁrst
quahty. Made of the
very best rubber. Us-
ualy . lls at 5. Be

sure to order your pair
while this great saying
offer lasts. _Sizes 7 to
offer lasts. Sizes 7 to 12.
No half

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money. Pay $2.98
and postage on ar-

rival. State s I z e
wanted.

$2.51;

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Brand New
Fabric Tires
Guaranteed
6,000 Miles

30x3
$5933

Eresh stock of heavy, non-skid tires of live rubber.
(.eneroiisly overSize. 6,000 guaranteed, but of-
ten give _8.000 t0_ 10,000 miles. Choice of non-
skid or rib tread in 30x3 size. Others are non-
skid. Pay only bargain price listed below and
postage on arrivgil. l

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No. 96D4040—80x3

    
    
    

 

 

 

$5.98

l\o. 96D4041—30x3‘17é 8.98
No. 96D4042—32x355 9.39
No. 96D4043—31x4 9.98-
No. 96D4044—«32x4 11.98
No. 96D4045—33x4 .. 12.28
No. 96D4046—34x4 ................ 12.95
0 Mile Guarantee '

8,00
‘ . sharood's standard Cord, 30x3 '/2 .
Same sturdy construction as regular cord but
not m‘erSized. wonder-service tire for Fords.
Order by No. 9804090. Send no money.‘ Pay
only $8.98 and postage on arrival.

' Guaranteed Inner Tubes
Now is your chance'to buy extra thick, live rubber
inner tubes at a.big savmg. Don’t wait for- tube
prices to go up. How many shall we send?
. Bargain Price List
l\0. 96D4020—3Ux3

No: 08D4022—32x3’7é ........... . - 1:39

No. 96D4023—3ix4 ......... . ...... 1.69

No. 9 )4024—32x ....... . ........ 1.15

No. 4025——33x4 . . . . 1.79

No 961)4026—34x4 ............ 1.79
Men’s
Four

State Size

' Order

Quick.
Guaranteed

best quality all

rubber 4—buckle iii-cut . . _ .. 7 ‘
arctic for men. Made With double thick soles and
seams reinforced. Snow excluding _ . Furn—
ished in men’s sizes 7 to 15. Wide Widths. Sensa-
tional value. Send quick. Order by lilo. 96A990.
Bond no money. Pay $2.48 and postage enlarrlvel.

 

ALL ‘WOOL
'POLO COATS
A
BARGAIN
AT ONLY,

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'l‘hink of this beau-
tiful all wool polo

  
      

coat in a snappy
smart model for
only $ .9 8, made

of genuine all wool
polo With'beautiful
large collar with
two rows of stitch-
ing and novelty
buttons. Has in-
verted pleat in the
back like the best
made coats and two
novelty pockets but-
ton trimmed.
34 inches in length
Comes in beautiful
colors of reindeer
tan, and
Misses"
20

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Order Copen by No.
9 6 E 6901. 0 r -
der now at our
risk.'We know ou
will be more t an
pleased. Send no
money. Pay $4.98
and postage on or-
rival. Your satis-
faction guaranteed
or niche cheerful-
Iy rerun ed.

GUARANTEED

  
   
 

FOR SIX mourns-
wean

U. S. Army
‘ Work Shoe

 
   
   

 

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Men! Don’t lose a moment in orderin thin won-
derful brown work shoe. It is made otgleathor I
hear Waterproof as can be made—solid leather

through and through with full gram leather
pars. guaranteed to "wear Slx months. Easily wo
$5.00. ,Two full, heavy double soles, sewed aﬂ
nailed for greater strength. Extra wide, full leath—
er counter. riveted to prevent ripping. SIZBS_ 7 h
11, wide widths. Order by No. 96A699. Bend ﬂ
‘money. Pay $2.98 and postage on arrival.

Boys’ Guaranteed Shoes ..

Six monthg' guarantee
Two full green chrome waterproof leather soles.

solid leather lieelsn Munson army ype. Barn—
yard acid—proof. Sizes 1 to 5%. Wide Widths.
State size wanted. Send no money. Order

No. 96AB’50. Pay $2.69 and postage on arrival.

Women’s
Comfort

I ‘Oxfords

    
 
  

Send No
Money
SIZES

2 V2 ‘0 8

State

Every woman
Size

should get a .pair
of these senSible broad. .

toe shoes at thisamaamg price. Uppers of oft
kid—ﬁnish leather. Solid oak leather soles. or
rubber heels; comfort cushioned
2% to . Order Oxford by No.
dor High Shoe by No. 96A283. 'Send no money.
Pay $1.98 and postage on arrival.

Infants? Black or Brown
Kid Shoes
shoe in black or

‘18? ..

soft. uppers, flexible solid oak

 

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