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._   __ ,, Head Explains Plan to Store Wheat“
. f,  S.  ongrichltare and President Bradfute of Farm Bureau '
  ~ '  »- *de Effect Of  Wheat Greatly Exaggerated

“st-s  299,009,
 ~ of wheat from the
 is an emergency measure
instinct situation," accord-

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_' it; “‘Trhisfﬂdoes not mean indeté ‘
>_,,storage,’f continued Mr. Brad-J

“ “we m' antiserum; to hold

 1M ‘ orderly distill)!!-

 dolng "this the American
 Bureau Federation is ' coun~
suing sound business policy. Stor-

 agewill have a tendency to roll e
 present situation and it a c n-

. "sldsrabb"pmion of grain remains

"in the farmer's hand as a daily re-

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or unproﬁtable surplus,
for next season’s planting
will more likely be curtailed. Ad-
; 5mm: of acreage in line with

; world supply and demand is the

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permanent solution and our pro-

W Pm 1‘ aimed toward that ohm-
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V  Mr. .Bradfute continued; “A no“

or morale statistics has taken
-.s’acuWe support, from the mark-
ﬁet and ﬁnancial conditions abroad
men: the heavy customary pur-
 tor foreign account during
the-harvest soason.‘ Farmers must
sheet this situation by feeding the

 imarket gradually and it has been

7'" jmiby the. last Congress would“.
geared with all possible speed,‘

 hope that all the machinery

 to and in this endeavor.

 empowered

‘fThe Se‘cretary of Agriculture is
to designate suitable

gwarehouses which may be licensed
.end bonded and which may issue
‘ receipts to be used as “collateral in

’ I: obtaining loans .in those cases in

rwhich the individual farmer ﬁnds

1 credit necessary. ,

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g‘fit is our suggestion that aware-
Hhouse association be organized in
such community or county and act

 in its corporate capacity as the of-

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"  fullest use of all facilities to ob-

. ems the Very dimcultiea in which
  now ﬁnd ourselves and expected

mm action in making the'ware-

, house and intermediate credit» acts
We.

airman Federation is asking and is

ding its fullest co-operation in

acts! Woodman under the t‘ed- _
 law, , leasing such tatorfage ‘
, houses as may be available at the
',  shipping points
,.. m. granaries as may be adequate—
 ly constructed for designation as
We believe this
plan ‘thmughy feasible ot admin-
 inua way that will involve
r  the mt business practice.
 do «not ask the» Secretary or

E  or the banks to extend loans

and such

licensed h .

‘ thoroughly protected. v We do
‘aholieve that Congress contemplated

This the American Farm

elping to achieve this result.
.  Kindle Pessimistic Hysteria
“In faggot oﬂcial statistics which

 only forty million bushels
greater surplus in exporting couns-
 year than last and only
 million bushels. less require-

ts in importing countries the
'6 has been carried twenty-ﬁve
‘lower than the average for
“ This;additional surplus might

“batches care “by expand-
assumption in exporting conng

trimeﬂiate ,rollet oi the ; em
ed by‘the _
ed. Herrera. each individual farm- v

foyer ‘- "the , entire consumptive ,

' and animal products.

estimated at 725 million

 degndonrﬂichigan.

to the tall  staying out of the
met.

in

“We think that the present
can be wonderfully sid-
procedm' We have I outlin-

er" must understand that he lensing
his own Mgcment "in oﬂering for
or withholding from immediate
sale, We cannot guarantee higher
prices. But, as a matter; of con-
sistent policy we have advised trom
the beginning of our organization
more even distribution of market-

ing by farmers over the consump-

tive period: Now that the mach-
inery‘ of , orderly marketing has/been
made ready insofar. as laws can pre-
pare it, we want it put into motion
through the administration of the
laws. .

"While the present price of
wheat, far below the cost of pro-
duction, is a calamity to certain
sections of our country which rely
quite largely on their one income,
we are glad to note that the prices
of some products are as good or
better than last year. Cotton is
higher; dairy prices are better;
poultry products are holding even;
cattle prices are running about the
same; oats are stronger; corn is
decidedly higher but pork, in which
form corn is most largely sold, is
decidedly lower. _ .

“From careful estimates, made
by our Department of Research, of
sales of farm products by farmers it
was‘tound that wheat furnished
from nine to twelve per cent of to—
tal” income . from crOps, livestock
For the crop
year 1922 income from wheat was
dollars;
cattle brought in 1,000 million dol—
lars; hogs 900; ‘ dairy products
1,100; ,and cotton 1,270. Fruits

,_.tirely for their income,

_ the farmer.

and nuts, vegetables and poultry
each had an income value a little
over half as much “as wheat. Sales
of corn run from 35 to 45 per cent
as much as wheat. Preliminary
estimates by our Research Depart-
ment indicate that for the coming

.crop year gross incon e from total

farm sales of crops, livestock and
animal products will be about 100
to 200 million dollars more than
the previous year."

EFFECT OF LOW WHEAT PRICE
EXAGGERATED—MEREDITH
HE general effect of the (Map in

wheat prices to below $1 a
bushel has been exaggerated in

the minds of many people, both as ’

regards its eﬁect on farmers gener-
ally and upon business other than
farming, declared E. T. Meredith,
Secretary of Agriculture during
President Wilson’s Administration,
in a statement to The Associated
Press. He said:

“Those that grow wheat exclusive—
ly, or nearly so, and consequently
are dependent upon the return
from their wheat crop almost en—
have had
their incomes cut by the recent de-
cline in wheat prices; the serious-
ness of the situation, so for as they
are concerned, is a matter of inter-
est and importance to every other

, inter’ést of the 'Nation, Labor and

business being concerned as well as
Certainly steps should
immediately be taken to prevent
such a situation being again forced
upon a group of people who are
producing one of our staple products.

“The entire income American farm-
ers receive. from wheat, however,

‘represents but 10 per cent of the

total income of the farmers as a
group. Then that commodity which
represents 10 per cent of the total
income is only 10 per cent lower in
price than it was a year ago. It ap-
pears, then, that so far the price of
wheat alone is concerned, the pres—
ent price of corn is as much higher
than the price for that grain a year
ago as wheat is lower, and inas-
much as there are more than three
times as many bushels of "corn pro—
duced as there are of wheat, this
very increase in the price of corn
greatly exceeds the shrinkage in
wheat. Whether corn will maintain
its high price I do not know, but.
if it does, those who are both corn
and wheat growers—which is a very
large number—are, at least, in no
worse condition than they were a
year ago, and many of them are in
a much better situation.

“It is interesting to note that a.
10 per cent drop in wheat is only
equal to but 814 per cent of the
wealth produced each year by our
dairy cows, and that the American
hen produces more new wealth than
the total wheat crop alone.

“I ﬁrmly believe that a practical
method can be devised and put into
operation, whereby wheat growers
and other farmers can produce their
crops with an assurance of receiving
at least a certain price per unit of
their production, as is the situation
with those who manufacture certain
products, so that those who cannot
produce at that price may know it
in advance rather than afterward.

In other words, the law of supply
and demand, which means supply,
productive possibilities, and con-'
sumptive demand, shall be interpret-
ed to the farmch in advance, rather
than obliging them to operate in the
dark, as is now the case. It is a
passing demand of national import—
ance.”

Michigan Bean Interests Backing Advertising Plan

Elevator'Mgn Commend Business Farmer On Stand and Pledge Loyalty

HAVE read with very much in-
terest your editorial headed
“Come On 'Loosen Up” in Aug.
4th issue of your paper. You are
to be complimented on the stand
you are taking and the frank and
clear manner in which you present
this to the farmers.

I attended the advertising meet-
ing in Flint when Mr. Clendenin ex-
plained before the shippers present
the possibilities of a Bean advertis-
ing campaign. When the call
came for signing of pledges to sub-
scribe Michigan’s quota, I am glad

“"to say that I signed the ﬁrst pledge

that I know of being signed in
Michigan and was the ﬁrst one to
advance to the desk to sign. I am
told that ’ New York state have
pledged their quota. Reports come
from California that are very favor-
able that their quota will be pledg-

' ed and also favorable reports from

Colorado. Michigan would only
amine one-third of the total .ad-
vertising coat, while she produces
about one-half the Beans which are

now known over the country as the v

best prepared, best cookers and
best ﬂavored of all domestic beans

and .1! Michigan canft get her share.

of the counm's bean business with

-national advertising, it‘will be our
own tault, and unless Michigan
«takes hold assumes her one--

third,  . entireeadvertising cam-
.pm 1111 be dropped as! all others

. b"'-amd‘-y~l"Michigan’s action ,t'o-put it
4 over andtheiwholecampaign will,

our it there ever was
hardsinsgmisjht 1.56. .01

beneﬁt to all of the Michigan bean
interests, it would be this year with
the present splendid crop prospects.
There are not many elevators in
Michigan whose advertising cost on
the basis of 9-10 of a cent per bag,
would be over $300.00 for one
year. We have no way of know-
ing, of course, that the advertising
will obtain the results expected nor
that it would be a cure-all for the
condition that the Michigan bean
market has been in, but its cost to
each elevator throughout the state
would not be of an amount that
would work any serious hardship
on any one elevator and is surely
worth a trial. On the other hand,
should it stimulate the demand
that would be expected from adver~
tiring, all elevators would beneﬁt
in a reasonable increase in market
prices that should more than make
up the advertising cost as compar-
ed with no advertising and the
growers would receive a better
price than is now evident they are
going to receive based on some of
the quotations at which new crop
beans are-being offered for October
shipment.

It is my opinion that some of the
opposition to the advertising might
develop‘that those who are indiffer-
ent and uninterested in the adver-
tising have quite a. comfortable lot

new crop futures sold that at pres-"

ent appear to show them a hand-
some ‘proﬁtxand particularly "it the
crop comes thrOugh without any
damage and they, or course, could

not be interested in any advertising ,
 that might have any in-

ﬂuence toward advancing prices to
the farmers for their beans that
speculative elevators have sold
short and for which the farmer will 4
get no benefit if the market goes
down to where the short sellers
want it and you can bet your life
they will pound it down as hard as
they can. ,

We know or an instance where
an elevator manager last winter
drove through the country solicit-
ing beans from farmers to be plac-"
ed in storage in their elevator and
offered the extra inducement for
hauling when the roads were good'
that they would store them free of
charge, no storage, no insurance
and no shrinkag%the elevator as
sumed all that. You can appreci‘
ate that if they secured a large
quantity of beans which they evi‘
dently did‘ and then sold those
farmers stored beans short, they
would not be interested in an ad— .\
vertising campaign that might ad-
vance prices, particulary, to those
farmers who still hold storage slips.
It may develop later that the op-
position to advertising may lie in
those two factors speculators
short selling farmers new crop
beans and speculation in farmers
stored beans.

Those two factors
worth of thorough

might be
investigation .

"and an, effort to get at the bottom

of the real reason for the indiffer-

‘ence and opposition to the advertis-

ing might disclose that the very I

ones who are blocking the whole

campaign may be the shorts and we
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, H ogs. ' Were Bred Fed in 'Tuyberculin 

7.33.13) are at least two farmers
inl‘Michigan who have ‘had it
fully proven to them that ‘it

 

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falo. ' .

W -‘ The other shipment from~v 1-111ng
j dale county‘to command'a’ premium“;
Was made up of Poland Chinas' 
D'uroc-Jeriseys. ;.,They were" bought
' \by' the Klinck Packing.c0p_1pany.i..a‘
little below the’ top price, and were

‘ pays-to have their'live stock tested
for tub,erculosis;-.._that it pays well
‘0 ’liVe in a, tuberculin tested county.
b'These farmers, Charles Bowditch
cot Osseo and Andrew Reynolds of

are looked upon with considered

in/ Hills-
V These two farmers
"ch sold a carload of hogs and
collecteda premium of 10 cents per
hundredweight on top of the selling
ﬁrice. And this was because the
county has been recognized by the

culture as being practically free
1" from bovine tuberculosis.
Each man had a load of hogs on
the Buffalo market Monday, July
30, for' Which they received the
premium which the packers of that
and other markets have agreed to
pay for carloads of hogs from
, counties that are designated by the
vgovernment as .being free from
animal tuberculosis. ‘ ,
News of the county’s recognition
by the government as a tuberculin
tested accredited county brought to
. *its farmers through the ofﬁcial or-
‘ der from Washington created great
-intere_st, especially in view of the
fact that the county is the ﬁrst one
’ in the corn belt proper to be so rec—
ognized. Thirteen other counties
were recognized but the others
were "in northern Michigan, south-
ern Indiana, Tennessee and North
Carolina.
a When the word reached here
' that Hillsdale county had been rec-
' o'gn’iz'ed it was late in the week and
several local folks got busy right
away to make up a shipment- for the
' Buffalo market.

. Committee Gets Busy

The men who assisted in one way
or another in this enter-prise were
1F. E. Haynes, president Hillsdale
Live Stock Breeders‘ association;
'Charles Kimball, chairman of the

('7 county board of‘snp'ervisors; A. Z.

Nichols, president county farm bur—
eau; Col. E. H. Kerr, master of“ a

1 HEAT is now grown on one
acre out of every ten in Mich—
igan or in other words just

about~10 'per cent of the total crop

acreage is seeded to wheat and this
means practically one million acres.

The total crop produced is not suf—

ﬁcient to feed the population of the

state-now approaching four mil-

lion. '-In fact, with average yields

the acreage could be increased from

40 to 50*percent without producing

more than enough to supply the state

with home—grown ﬂour. Better than
this, however, would be to sow the
same acreage and increase the acre
‘ yield by {10 to 50 per cent. At any
a rate, Michigan farmers are certainly
’ justiﬁed in growing a million acres
of wheat, which is only slightly In
excess of the pre-war ﬁgure and only
' two thirds as much as was grown in
_ the state 30 years ago.
It will be of some

or not other states are getting back
to normal in wheat production. Some
wheat is grown in 42 states and the
crop now being harvested is 11 mil-_
lion acres or 24 percent in excess of
the average pre-war acreage. Min-
esota and South Dakota have re-
ced by more than three million
.. ores "and 11 other states are grow-
ing less wheat than in the years from
1909-1913. \
In 29 states, however, the wheat
acreage shqu ,an increase over the
épregwar ﬁgure, but the big increases

.9 found in seven states—Kansas,‘

, tana, Oklahoma, Illinois, Colo-
\ 7V’do,‘-Missouri anda'l‘exas. The com:
a,  increases in these seven states

 “nt; to (almost 12,000,000 acres

i‘mo‘re than the total increase for
hole United States over the
,arVacreage. "These are the

7 t are entirely out of line

7 Wheat "production is con- '

interest to\
Michigan farmers to know whether.

 

Here is a picture of the Hampshires taken Just before loading at Osseo. The nien
on the fence are, left‘ to right: F. E. Haynes, president Hillsdale County Live Stock
Breeders’ association; Chas T. Kimball. chairman county“ board of supervisors, who
signed the certiﬁcate authorizing the payment of the premium; 11. R. Smith, com-
missioner National Live Stock Exchange and a. native of the county; Fred Bowditch,
son of owner of hogs; Jabin Strong, Red Polled breeder; A. Z. Nichols, \president‘
County Farm Bureau; G. B. Smith, secretary Farm Loan association and E. H.

Kerr, grunge ofﬁcial.

local, grange and a war veteran; G.
B. Smith, secretary local Federal
Farm Loan association, and Jabin
Strong, Red Polled breeder. H. R.
Smith, live stock commissioner of
the National Live Stock Exchange
at Chicago, was also present to as—
sist in getting up the shipment of
hogs and seeing it through to
market. Mr. Smith had taken a
very active part in starting the tu—
berculosis eradication program in
the county two years previously,
which resulted in placing it in the
healthy list.

Mr. Bowditch was the only man
who had a carload of hogs in the
county which was anywhere near
ready to market, as the hogs had

V been shipped out pretty closely this

spring. He had expected to keep
his for a while yet, as they were
under‘200 pounds, but being a pub-
lic spirited man and wanting to see
his county the ﬁrst to cash in on
its new distinction he agreed to

The insert is a ﬁne likeness of Mr. Chas. Bowditch.

were Hampshires, being the. culls
from his herd of purebreds. He
also breeds Shorthorn cattle and
has always been in the forefront of
live stock improvement
the county.

The hogs were loaded in due
time and landed at Buffalo in good
shape. The Hampshires were sold
at $8.25 per hundredweight, which
was the top of the market. A few
other hogs sold at the same price.
The 39 head averaged 195 pounds
and were a very smooth, attractive
lot. They were b'Ought by the Dold
Packing company, whose buyer did
not know that the hogs were to
receive a premium. The premium
was paid in a separate check to Mr.
Bowditch later. . '

‘This is the plan which is to be
followed in paying the pr'emium on
all such shipments, according to a
statement by Commissioner Smith
of the National,“ Live. Stock Ex-
change, who was ﬁrst’to suggest

ship his carload of hogs. The hogs that the packers paY‘ the premium.

By H. R. SMALLEY

(Special to The Business Farmer.)

cerned and it seems reasonable to
assume that these states will be
most likely to .make further reduc—
tions, although it is not possible to
make any accurate prediction as to
how extensive these reductions will
be. .
- The large increase in spring wheat
acreage in Montana will probably be
maintained for some time.. This
crop—once important in ‘Wisconsin
and now leaving Minnesota—has

 

been gradually moving West and
North for many years, and the re—
cent increased acreage in :Montana
may be regarded as~a normal and ex-
pected development.
toward a more diversiﬁed and safer
type of farming will undoubtedly
result in a reduction of the winter

wheat acreage in Kansas and in parts .

of Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado.
On the other hand, the increase in

wheat production in Illinois "and‘

 

One half or this ﬁeld was (,ertilized when planted. to wheat while the other half

was not.

This arrangement has been carried on for several years and‘ the unfertil-

ized half of the ﬁeld has averaged, during the last nine years,” 12.4 bushels of wheat

per acre. .The half that was tertilized. part of which is shown abovéyh‘asr averaged
35.2 bushels per'acrekduring' the some period.’ ' . t . .‘ '  . . ‘ ~

plans in .

The tendency '

‘muchiabout wheat, pro uc
- murmur-9.: ‘ '
t ed ‘_va~ri

a_ good_,‘sale,'as' they
were’somewhat uneven.” ‘ 1

This load was also sold without 

the packer buyer knowing that they

had a right to a premiumh' jFor the ‘

sale of these and also the Hemp?

' shires the certiﬁcates, were present-_

ed by the commission company to
the packers which was their author-g,
ity, to to pay the. premium. The
certificate presented covering the
carload sold by Mr. Bowditch read
as follows: . x _
,“Hillsdale, Mich., July ,28, 1923
“To Whom It May Concern: , '
“This is to certify thatVI-Iillsdale
county, Michigan, has been oﬂicial-
ly designated by the United States.
Department of Agriculture and
State of Michigan as a modiﬁed ac—
credited area, all cattle having been '
tuberculin tested according to regu—~\
lations prescribed and that this
consignment of' hogs thirty-nine
(39) in number of the Hampshire.
breed, weight 7600 pounds, was
bred and fed by Chas. Bowditch
and Son in Jefferson Township, P.
O. Osseo, Hillsdale County, Michi—
gan, who are entitled to receive the,
premium of ten cents per hundred
pounds live weight above selling
price.
“Chas.
Board of
County." ‘
This certiﬁcate for Mr. Reynolds'
premium read the same with the
exception of names used. I,
In this step just taken by the
United States Department of Agri—
culture more has. been done to in—
crease interest in the testing of.
herds for tuberculosis than at any
time heretofore and every farmer
who raises live stock to any extent
will be anxious to have his own
cbunty fall in line so that he can
get a premium of his shipments.

T. Kimball,
Supervisors,

Chairman,
Hillsdale

Missouri is leading in the direction
of a better balanced cropping system
and little, if any, reduction in acre-
age can be expected in these states.

From the standpoint of ﬁnancial
returns, wheat is perhaps the most
important small grain grown in
Michigan. More than two million
acres are seeded. to cats, rye and
barley each year, but these crops are
grown principally for‘ feed. More-
over, wheat just naturally tﬂts into
the crop rotation on many .Michigan‘
farms. The labormequired in" its>
production is well distributed with
respect to corn, oats, rye,,barley, and
hay. Preparation of the soil in late

“summer after harvest, seeding in the
early fall before the corn is ripe;

cutting just after rye and ahead of

oats and barley and after hay mak-j s ‘
ing and corn “cultivation are about, I,

done, are big advantages in favor of
wheat. Of course, these facts are‘
not new to any farmer but they are
often overlooked by the advocates of
radical changes in the established
cropping system and so well known
to the farmer that he almost forgets
to mention them. ~
Then wheat is an
“n'urse” crop for clover. It‘shades
the ground less completely than oats
and is out earlier. Young clover,_'
therefore, is able to get a good start y

when seeded in wheat,-provided that 
plantfood and' lime are -.

sufﬁcient
present in the soil.

‘Whén all'its advantages‘are prop- 

erly considered, it seems probable
that the Michigan wheat: acreage-ts
more likely. to" increase sbmew ' »
than to decrease. .. " '

.Wheat Production _ has " if i

Michigan farmers. hays * j *

v~

excellent * .

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in  ﬁrst"
_ eke a larger amount, say a ,pint.
_ if so where could I sends sample.
tel. Ihave or had a very vahmhle
prescription to use on a sweieny.~ It
takes nearly a pint and I only have a
little, not “enough to cure a sweeny.
In some way I have lost the prescrip-
tion—Mrs. 13., Rhodes, Mich.
—-May I say that it is possible to
make an analysis and determine
the ingredients of a mixture, and it
saillcient time and sample is at
hand, a quantitative determination‘
may be made for. duplicating any de-
sired quantity.

, On the other hand, in compound-
ing 's‘u'ch preparations oftentimes
there are many medicinal plants or
drugs used which, so tar as we know,
we have no methods for their quant-
itative determination and in such
cases" it is almost impossible to ex—
actly duplicate a given prescription;
and, if a given medicament has been
used and found to be aﬁecﬁve in
treatment, 'it is necessary to dupli-
cate exactly, otherwise the desired
results will not be obtained.

'It seems as though a veterinarian
of ability could prescribe a satis—
factory treatment for sweeny.——W.
C. Geagley, State Analyst.

MAY COLLECT NO’I‘E

Have been a. reader for years oi!
your paper and should like to know
how I can get out of paying a note
which I have signed [or several years
for a neighbor? He renews it
every three months. His place is up
for mortgage sale and 01 course I
have no hold on any real estate or
any chattles, only a plain note. I
expect when he has to move I will be
compelled to pay it up.—-F‘. E. 8.,
Rhodes, Mich.
———Ii the holder of the note is not
able to collect the amount from
the maker, he could hold the
endorsers liable, and, after giving
proper notice, could collect the
amount from them.-—-—Asst. Legal
Editor.

LIABLE FOR PAYMENT OF LATE“
HUSBAND’S DEBTS

Am writing you for advice. Now
if a husband took shares in a stock
company and gave his note for
same and before note came due he
died leaving all money and mortgage
in point with his wife, can they
make the wife pay the note? He
has no property. Please answer me
if possible. Enclosed you will ﬁnd
a stamp for same. Please do not
publish my name or town and
(mildew). Thanking you in advance.
-—F. S., Tuscola County, Mich.
——-Pl‘0perty devised or bequeathed
, to any devisees or legatees of the
testator is liable to the payment 01
his debts, after allowance is made
by the probate judge for the main-
tenance oi the widow and children
during settlement of the estate. If
your husband had no other property
and bequeathed all his money and
his interest in the joint mortgage
to you, the money and mortgage in-
terest so bequeathed would be liable
to the payment of his debts, includ-
ing the note. However, your orig-
inal interest in the mortgage which
you held jointly could not be taken
for the payment of the debts. You
do not say what disposition vvas
made of his shares of stock. It they
were disposed of by the will, they
would be charged with thepayment
oi the debts, along with the other
bequests—Asst. Legal Editor.

WRITE '1‘0 PUBLISHER

What steps would I have to take
to correct a double subscription to a
paper to have them hold over one
remittance tor next year? I paid
subscription for paper and a little
later a daughter living in another
part of state sent $1.00 for same
paper to be sent to me at my address
not knowing I had already sent for
I one year.- I. have written asking
_' them to stop one and hold remittance
for next year but they still send. me
the two papers. There being no
‘ other one by my name at Evart
" known they are sending both sub-

‘ scriptions to me and I wish I might

 (a stop one.—-‘—H. W., Evert, Hich.
»  you »_ subscribed for the
~’ "  ' n duglntocontract with
$319314 him both

 
 

 

.a’mount‘.‘6t a medians w   - 
.M on com!

. mother until mother's lather

7 lainuger.  mr’ Informs
V. .uu. All  accompanied.

refunded or' to have it applied on '-

seme otherkyear than  for
which you subscribed. Hovyever. if

'you write the publisher, just

what you want, I see no reasonahy
they should not be willing to grant
your request—Asst. Legal Editor.

 

FIRE AND TORNADO 

Insurance agent:  policies
for old line compass-ta are luring us

(armors a combined policy covering,

are, lightning and cyclone. One of
the mutual agents tells me that such
a policy cannot be issued, that it is
against the Michigan Laws. Can
you give me any information that we

farmers may depend upon.—-A Sub- I

scriber, Clare County, Mich.

—This condition was recently re
ported to the State Insurance De-
partment and their answer was:
“Michigan Standard Policy Law
makes no provision for the issuapce
of combined ﬁre and tornado poli-
cies. This law is speciﬁc. The'en-
tire wording of the contract being
included, and such other provisions
as may be included in the contract
are therein speciﬁed.

“We have been informed that some
business is be’ , written as a com-
bined policy, but no speciﬁc insur-
ance has been brought to our atten-
tion. When ever an inquiry con-
cerning the matter has come up we
have invariably informed the in-
quirer that it could not be done.”

It would seem that the 1211ch-
tion, given by the department 0! in-
surance is conclusive, and it would
seem the better plannot to insure
under the proposed combined policy
until such time as such action has
been approved by the State Insur-
ance Commissioner, and in the,
meantime it will be well to hold the
policy which you now have in force.

WOULD BE AN INFRINGEMENT
Please inform me it a patented
article can be reproduced for ones
individual use?-—-L. R. 0., Alma,
Michigan.
The unauthorized making or re—

producing of a patented article by’

any person for his own practical use
would be an infringement of the
patent—Asst. Legal Editor.

WANTS To GET MONEY THAT
WAS WILLED MOTHER

My mother’s grandfather made a
will about 50 years ago and willed
the four children $5 each so they
couldn’t break the will. ' They lived
in Pennsylvania at the time. When
mother was 8 years old she "stayed
with her grandiather and. grand;
an
aunt came to Michigan, then she
came with them. The grandmother

mile Rilbec S

“FLOWERS IN 0178' HOME"
0U know I read in a recent
issue of M. B. F. a headin’
jest like this one an’ I was

int’rested the minnit I saw it. I've

always been a believer of such
things an' jest natcherly I starth

   

be? 33'an

  

has been'deadyahont' 15.
my memories-been  ‘ pears
but she never got the money willed

‘ ' ’like'te know l’t any-

thing could some to get lt.--un._~

J. R... Edam Kid.

-.-—-1 would suggest you write the ‘

probate court at  county.“ which
your grandiather diedto  it
hiﬁwil-lhasbeen proﬁted andwhat
became oi the property. If it 
not been probated, you would hrs
to ﬁndthewﬂllndproeeedtohave
it probated. and if the property can

be found, you might be able to re-_

cover it.—Asst. Legal Editor.

PLANTING mm AND

V .WALNU‘IS

Could you" please tell me whit
time of year to plant butternuts or
black walnuts for seedling trees and
how thick to plant them-‘t—Misa E.
IL, Bay City, Wu.
——Butternuts and black walnut: can
either be planted in the tall or
~ stratiﬁed in moist sand until spring.
Fall" planting is to be recommended
save. in such cases where rodents are
troublesome. If the trees are to be
grown in nursery hens and later
transplanted eight per running idot.
If planted directly in ﬁeld place seed
spots six feet apart. This spacing
will give the greatest timber yield.—
Paul A. Herbert, Instructor in For-
estry, M. A. C.
SHARE OF PROPERTY To HALF
‘ SISTER

Where the only heirs to an estate
are two sisters and one half sister
what’then by law would go to the
half sister? This property did not
descend from either parent. I am
a subscriber and read the M. B. F.
and will greatly appreciate any- in-
formation you will give me on this
question—J. M. P., Alma, Mich.

—Compiled Laws of Michigan 1915,
See. 1-1799, provides that the kind—

red ot half blood shall inherit equal-v
I ly with those of whole blood in the

same degree, unless the inheritance
comes to the intestate by descent,
devise or gift of some one of his an-
cestors, in which case all those who
arenot oi the blood-oi such ancestor
shall be excluded from such inher-
itance—Asst. Legal Editor.

_DR. FRIDAY AND THE DETROIT
MILK SITUATION.

In an article published in several
local papers recently—in fact an
“open letter"———it was stated that,
during the controversy between the
milk producers and distributors at
Detroit, Dr. Friday, then president
of hi. A. C., “threatened to investi-
gate and ﬁnd out it the farmers
could not produce the milk cheap-
er.” The letter also asks “why did
he not try to and out whether the

inech Sou s: 

. ,.

raisin’ in their homes, no blottin'
paper needed-vnothlnt put 01 the
ordinary—jest love an’ good fellow-
ship—the love every man should
have for his wile—{he love every
woman should have for the man
who had picked her, out at the'

 

 

to read the little article—“startedkmany he has known, to be the one

is right! First thing I read wuz
this—"try puttin’ a piece of blot-
tin’ paper”———I got no further ’an
that 'cause, don't you see, the ﬂow-
ers rwuz bein’ blotted out ’iore they
had a chance to even start. ~

Sure I b'lieve in ﬂowers in the
\house but "not in to much blottin’
paper. An' now dear folks what is
ﬂowers anyway? . *

Well now, it kinda seems to me
'at jest ’bout the ﬁnest ﬂowers ’at
can ever be had or found
home would be the lastin' ﬂowers,
not the kind that requires blottin'
paper or tables or pets nor pans,
but the most beautiful of all ﬂow-
ere—kindness, love, good. cheer,
pleasant smiles and pleasant words

—-even a kiss, you many of ’em;—-,
now an’ them an' even more often.
All/these ‘ things -- are jest ‘ lovely.
I

 

ﬂowers an' could easily grow in

in any

to put ﬂowers into his home and in-
to his life.

Yes, good friends, its ﬂowers to
a man to be met after a hard day’s
work by a pleasant an' a smilin,’
cheerful woman. It’s ﬂowers for
a wife when the husban’-—-the sup-
posed head ot.the o , notices
how hard the dear ‘ c has tried
to make his home pleasant as’ tells
her he realizes what she is doin’ for
him. Yes. there arenowers and
ﬂowery—«but themicest an’ best, the
kind at gets right hold oi as, ’at

grips the (heart strings; of. summer,
night or day—we've got fem with .

us, no blottinf'v‘paper’s needed to set
'em onto—:they show in the dark
as well as in the light an' are ever-

lastinf,  fheautitul- an’ 1

 

     
   

11311 the results. '

 N.:J.~.  z.

 “(is ".fDr, Friday at 1:

’ing economic problem.
tion has apparently shown that there 
.are two sides: to the question, and
' that the distributors are not making

times, unless they godowxi

  
 

 Friday more

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

ing a low price per  poo 
for their milk.   _
32.60 a hundred   "1in f":
entered the n ,  ,,
earlier in tho

  

been as low as $2.35
. result of ’agre’ 
mm by the mm “d D”

dueers, largely on Ir. Idiotic 
raid pro-r.

ommendation, the  __
ducers for their milk, d riﬂed it-
Detroit, was

ed there since.

Certainr , adjustments" or chair-323.11 I.)
prim of milk were made at this time 1

by the  lack oi exact
information on cost heron entering

noon, to 33:99. 
hundred pounds. and it. 11”" L.

        
     
     

 
  
 
  

 
 

 
 

 

 

 
  
   

    

 

 

 

 

 

  
  
  
   

 
  

  
  

 

mm distribution made a: very din;- 

cult to determine the exact price at
which distributors could retail milk»
with the wholesale price at $3.00 a
hundred pounds. 7 Mr.‘ Friday found
that numerous factors,  them ‘

taken into consideration in ﬁguring
distribution costs. ’

Mr. J. T. Homer, ‘3  oi the
M. A. C. economics department”
spent considerable time in gathering
data in the Detroit area tor the pur-7

pose of helping to determine distri—‘  I?
bution cost. On May Ist,'lr. E. L.“ ’

Hemenway, formerly of the II. A. 0,
economics stair, started on full time
investigation of distributing cost
factors in the Detroit area. Results
of this work are, of course, not yet
delicate.

I know of no occasion upon which

Mr. Friday “threatened” to see if the ‘

farmers could not produce milk
more cheaply. I believe that Mr.
Friday promised both distributors
and producers to make a. ﬁhorough
study of all factors entering into
production and distribution, in ord—
er that the-most just and equitable
basis for both wholesale and retail
prices might he arrived at.

The fact that the price paid farin-

'ers for their milk was raised to . ,
$3.00 a hundred pounds, and; that it: . a
.has remained there since, .would

seem to indicate that Mr. Friday’s ’

negotiations did not discriminate in
any way against the producer. He
may possibly have said at some time
that the most economical production,
of milk possible would be a neces‘
sary factor in future and permanent
settlement of the Whole milk queb-w
tion. The future will undoubtedly

throw more light upon the Whole *  .k
question, and make W a son'- , ' ‘

tion of what is admittedly a perplex-
Investiga- A

the tremendous proﬁts accredited to

them, under the present system of  I 7

distribution, at leas-t.—-—J. B. Hassel-h
$31:  upervisor of Publications.

RAT-Tm moor u
What is the name of things tint

look much like a cut worm but hare '

a long tail, about as long as the
body? They are tound "in damp

places. .1 found them last summer I, 
in a small house built around-a we;in 

and other damp places.~—-—M. W. 16.,
—This description leaves little doubt
that the insect in question- is known
as a rat—tailed maggot, othawise
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the independent distributor and the , p 
retail grocery milk depot, had to be '

  
 
 
  
 

 
 
  

  
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

    

  
 

 


  Indces'fur brand neW, fall styles will positivel amaze ou—-— Just letter or postcard brings any of these astounding bar
,I  hmayoare so low! But mm; until you have Iseen e actua me]:- Merely_ give name and number of each article on want. ‘
. i. grammes age. $31.2; sel°gtigge§§31§“§..%'§3utt attl.§“§i these new. ‘21:: headmistress“ is. Pars”:
\ .,‘: o t,  ' . . ~ . a
 _, “Ellie banging “rompinztion and approval ﬁght at llama ' not satisﬁed. you may return the goods and we refund mt 

Popular    g * l 7 V  'Popular , 2 Richly
Model  "  ‘ -‘ One-Strap " _ x ~ Trimmed
Embroidered "  ' One-Buckle - 3 ’ ' I Gabardine
Gabardine  e  Pump, Black ~ } " Dress for
for Stout;  '   - Patent or y   Misses and
Brown " I v Juniors

I recommends _this
attractivejrock of-
ood quality
subordine. t
signed along slender-
inng lines for stout .
‘ women. The skirt ._
is ﬁnished With two - An “ .
loose panels . 7 . Always novel Egyptian st 1e dress No prettier frock has
been designed in many.

attached at waist 11111) of non hlac velvet.
\ mom'on Riedium pomted dress toe / State 3 e a son 3 than t h is

and bottom. Th -  . . 4 ,
‘ SAt llegdlnug -  .' _ '33:" and patent leather trim— ’ Slze charming model for
“13‘; ‘13). "(’Sitias ’  _ - ordermg' ming, as pictured. t m i s s e s and juniors.
for f‘ﬁw ‘3 " .  leather vain , collar, and instep stra is fastened The_ material is a ﬁne
0 n 3- teal" ‘: on each sue by buttons. Neat. perlzwatimis at duality cotton gabardine
o e if n; ' ' Sides. Fancy carved Egyptian shiver ornament on With collar and tabs at
n 9 PC. 1‘:  vamp. Leather insole; . genuine ()ak outso'les; waistline of contrasting
pug‘pko “(t3 . medium height rubber tiﬁped leather heel. Sizes materials, attractively
I c n p“ 3‘“ .9“ Brown Calf ﬁmﬂhed lea-ther- 25§ to 8; wide Widths. o. 96A251. No money scalloped and embroid-
are also the vestee 1.9 wet ma 1?. WW Perforated sewed-tip and medal- now. Pay $2.48 and postage on arrival. State erod. The front, vestee
and tabs on bell- 10“ 09- ancy Del't'OI‘atlon 0n Vamp. strap and size. and sleeves are trimmed
shaped sleeves_ quarter. One-piece medium .extenswn oak sole; \ « i -_   with rows of red and
are“. “is gaitgerid I. ﬂa Biro grilling: vl'iielcilhsiwth rubber t0) hft. ‘ ‘~ ’ . Yap 2112301 iiogelty braid.
wars me a so , i ' . ' ‘ i i : »‘ irt is ni bed with
P'an ﬁnished with A20 Brown Calf ﬁnlsh. No. 98A21. ‘ ' ~ ‘  of two panels 9and has
he sagh‘ Sues 44 oy $1.98 and postage on arrival for , .- I  self material sash tying

mon . Pay
égat54lbu5€hnaea§mg either leather. State slzes. 1 1} bucka Sizes for
e eng esire . ‘ A misses an 'uniors, 14
0 Navy by N '  ' 5 velvet to 20 years,J 32 to 38

_ V and Patent mt, Waiiige'eeE-l’dgfi.
N l C - . i r :- Leather 3333"no"°h03§f’°3§;
For ’ ‘  53:; tlzlodrssgn  I ' gig? aggteooﬁige ang
W333: ' '  .~, i‘ I RichBlackPat- ‘
' ent .Colt-Skin

absolutely new and

long roll
shawl eﬂect, em-
brmdered to _match
panels on skirt, as

Child’s Middy  . _ V .  .
Dress Attractive »‘ I V  v _ i '  V “g Another shining 
Two-Tone . I , I » ' » _— ; v . . ' 1‘ a  “ ample o f Shara .
. . ' “ V _ j . ‘ _ . f X . V -  in _‘ I 3; super bargains. W
combination  . .- u -. ,. , I; A ‘ -. ..  claim this handso
. ‘ ~ ’ ’ ‘- ' .. i . ~ . . .7 ‘ ' - 7" . dress apron at o I
Wanted .. 2 ,.  special price is an

A wonderful '  . I and see for yourself, 1
shoe bargaitn in ‘ ‘ ‘ .- N‘ . 3 Order at our risk—.9

. I ‘ . . . . new ones rap, 1 i . ‘ , . i A
TOne of the most novel and " l - , -‘ Everyone “"11 ad‘m” “115 two button dress ; ' V ""t you”.

‘ nttroctive children’s gsr-  ' ‘ ‘ early faﬁl Style “0&35'5‘” p u m p. a s
' ‘ pump 6‘ Vamp 3“ qu‘“ ' patent leather vamp

‘-m0nt9 ever produced, and - k  " ' . .. ‘
13' f voxq‘te ' -- . ‘ at are 0f seleqted lilac t' and black velvet quarter and cross strap. Per- ‘, . .‘ v
to be a 18 3 ~ ent leather Wlth "Ch b 01‘ forated velvet ‘tip with medallion on toe. Neat .‘ i . ..

$  1‘ , or.- .‘?a i  l   ' . .i V’ $'\ 1 3 . : ' 3" equaled anywhere "uh
I . - .. ‘ L H ,  ,I ‘ . r . .. ‘ K F. r ’_ I America today. 1

and winter. A

' ' . . .suede four'b” eﬁept. ".053 perforations on _vamp and also on patent leather
“1'5 3- med!“ muted. dress toe has lmltﬂlon piping which trims the quarter and strap. Med-
per outed “9- “mp 13 quart.“ “951th? DerfOl" ium extension oak sole with military rubber heel.
ated. . Stra s fasten on each side W1th_ buttons. sizes 21,; to 8, wide widths, no, 96A253, No
One—piece eather sole With Baby Louis leather money now, Pay $1.98 and postage on arrival,
heel and metal late. Sizgs 2% to 8; d 3”“ size.

widths. No. 98 12. Sen no money. . ., '
ennui“,~ $2.98 and postage on arrival. State size. Women’s Classy Stitchdown  ' ' - Splendid quality black
» twill sateen which.

opiatirastinﬁ meagre: Rope I ' ' Oxfords  i.
gins 7:: t mvsyse b1 3e 22.11%; . l. j » ' .I ~ I t " iv e a r s wonderfully.
_ , . _ ' ._ Graceful V-nock.

lm clustered plaited st _1e v 3 H . Y
. 1m. . . y  * ‘  98 V '  - sleeves and belt trim-
' w ' ' ‘  . - ‘ 4 med with gay colored

UP

snapp
all r
lannel cotton warp With

 

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cretonne. P o c k e t I;

 

‘ . . , .  . ﬁnished wit h crepe

. Send no money. . .. . _, 4

1,98 and postage on  ‘  ﬁfﬁoﬂﬁgﬁgnwn w‘gr’l‘: ; , applique edged Wit 4
-. Be sure to state . V .‘ o- _ derfnlly comfortng and ;_ ,g  piping. Sizes smalls“-

 

 

 

 

. I stylish. Uppers of brown " - medium and lame.
V , .1 H , or patent l x
Bulgarian  I Snmoth logger.”-  Order by No. set
Eﬂ‘ect ' ‘ ~ _ ' \ gates}. ib‘éexible .‘
, . a , .‘ i “W own oak Pay $1 59 and out»
- r . - ~ outsoles. L _ -~ '
Gabardlne _  U list heels.0w   ’ age on arrhu' "on.

Frock For I .: I ,I _ . , » .1 are to 8. _\Vide . . BY back " 'm “"i
 _ I , _, . VVldths. . suite silo.

Women' ; _ , . _ 3f ' V 3 I, ,,
and Misses / 7 " " ' I ‘- i   ‘ ~ I _ , ._ GUARANTEED r
I  " '   i i " " For Six Months’ Wegr

$ — V  l f" VVomen’s ‘, I * .
2 ‘v ’ black ‘  ' 4- Order brown by No.

satin  -  98A213. Send new  V t  . -
‘ dress ’ . gifgesy. Zay oarily ., . for MC“ &
um,one-sra, . an pos ge . -
guerzbutton stye ‘ ‘ on arrlval. Order 1 BOYI
a n d ornament  "  patent leather by No.
vtvith [sin]? rosette s2 48 d ta I l96A274. Pay only
- _ on 5 rep. in vamp . an pos go on arr vs.

or women and with medium toe and r - - r

{gongth . _ close edge trim sole Men 8, Boys' and Little BOYS

eﬂect 3 “W With low rubber heels. Genuine oak soles. A dressy

' 1 Stylish new Sarina fashion that will be all the Scout Shoes
8 ‘d at?) best0 diressgd liviimaegi‘zssizes 21,5
:wreWi 3. rev! 0. 2. d -

no money. Pay only $1.98 and postage ans?» Rename Sturdy 5019“:

. . rival. Sta slzo low broad leather heels.

:ﬁgsl'de “(ll-Oder I y . leather insoles; kran—

v . 0.1 ere 8‘ w d] ther so 8 y.

3%“; Izmgﬂti; omen s  Kid fﬁi‘imfé‘ed to svtvar‘ild

ec w1 _
rich harmoniops . ~ one Strap  wear 1 e

colors. TW 0 ‘ ‘ ~ "1  ’ 

money

M 1 Don’t lose a moment in orderi
deixfxul brown work shoe. lt ismodo 3"
near waterproof u can be made-I—iolm loo
through and through w1th_ full (mu loath-r
pers, guaranteed to wear an montho.
i  $5.00.f Two gull, thong!) dtﬁlgl:. solos. uw .
. . -  'ld r reoersra . _. ,
Human ﬂu ' ' ‘ ‘ ‘ . ' ' 21? lgounct’er,‘ riveted to prevent upping. lies
_ .  12, wide widths. Order by No. sonoo. Sou
Soft kid leather gamer. Stylish strap model with many. Par 32-98 and "mm on anim-
.two buttons. 1v ium round toe. Cushion in— 3 _ . ,
301°9- Medmm. rubber heels. mono . Pay $1.98 and posts a on arrlvsl. Or- Boya' Guaranteed Shoes—Six months. on:
igloo. A Egg-cam tamour slasho deli lttle boys’ slzes 9 to 18'): by N . 96A585. Two.t green éhromeh lunar-v sologizanmh t
‘ ' . . ' l S 8 06 6.
365. 0rd". :wmwn Pr $0494 Order blgﬂbgys alzos 1 to 5/2 by (night y pom a a

, by No. - . l I wi e wrdt . Send no money. 0 . ,
menu. PM 1.49 and postage on arrival. 1M postage on “rival. 3‘3. 37: , human W Go 98A550. Pay $2.69 and norm. on or! I

i

No. 56 . Prlco

 

an:
shuns. .._‘
V Sir/PS, Ciiiliirh. (tic   Dept. lVllNNE.r’Xii’i—I'a 

 


 

‘ " Nation’s, Greatest  Show i

 
 
   

The promotion of agriculture, which 

certain increase in prOﬁts for the farmer, .13
the big idea back of the Michigan State Fair.

This great exposition is the clearing house
of agricultural knowledge. Here the state
and federal governments, agricultural in-
stitutions, practical farmers display their
latest discoveries. '

 
 

The great yearly growth of the fair during
its 74 years of life is powerful testimony to
1th value as an educational institution.

$50,000 Free Shows!

This year will see probably the greatest
program of entertainment ever Witness

A"$50,000 free attraction. scheduled is one
of the “eye—openers.” ' -
Auto races and horse races. The world’s
greatest trotter, Peter Manning.

’ Two stupendous ﬁreworks spectacles “The
Burning of Smryna” and “India.” Educa—
tional and inspiring! ‘

Half a dozen groups of the most skilled and
daring acrobats.

Balloonists will race from the clouds in par-
achutes. . Every dive a thrill. '

Three famous bands and many other
big acts.

Many Other Features!

Police dogs running down “criminals” will
be one of the startling features of the all~’
breed dog show.

A great Better Babies Contest, in which
1 every baby will be given a thorough med-
ical examination.

'1 The lecturers at the art exhibit will tell you
how to make your home and yard beau—
tiful. There you will see. how artists work
from living models in their studios.

 

Twenty—two great shows on the “Midway.”
Clean, attractive and packed full of fun.

’ . And scores of other. activities any one of
 which is worth coming many miles to see.

;'_ _ . At‘DETROIT _

 

  
  
 
  
 

Am“ 31 to September 9~

 

_ govermt, cow

 

“VW’VM the all minimising
mum am We such a govern- ,
meat to the people and seemed; it. is

perpetuated in this  at ours.
The voter! an ' pore and
more aware of this. fit op-

portunithn at the pan furnish re— '

liable evidence 0! this; -

The? need more and. more to
take personal chunk of! .M own
Wests, and thq‘ll'. .3. up
their minds to do co. ‘1” how
now that the mum is out they
sell and buy, are  priv-
ate monopoly. The! now the that
this control of the W Was

brought“ by monopoly and 'is'

maintained by this power over our
and the
courts. K ' »

No wonder that the servants of
private monopoly are being defeated
at the polls one after another. The
voters are learning more and more
to spot the traitors to the cause of a-
free and representative people.

The ﬁne beginning the voters are
making speaks well for the future.
They know that in proportion as
they rid the halls of congress from
the evil influences of lobbyists sent
there by private wealth, and free the
government from the" control 0! the
combined power of organized private
monopoly, can they free their mark-
ets and their homes from this sin-
ister power of economic despotism.

Here, brother farmer, We have
found the underlying cause of all
our economic troubles, that have
been seeking to engulf us more and
more. Here we must seek the only
solution possible. We have no
choice. We must act promptly. We
must do it wisely and nbhly. The
great interests or a free government
are in the balance. We must prove
equal to our opportunities and not
shrink our responsibilities.

Our Moron. our markets. our be—
loved country look‘ to on tor a, real
and lasting solution at this great
problem at the tumors and the
people in general.—-A. J. Raftshoe,
Leelanau County, Mich.

WRICA'S PmmON AN
EXAMPLE

EAR EDITOR: Your letter in
answer to mine just received.
Am very glad to know that/in

the past you worked for prohibition.
but otter reading you letter several
times I am unable to tell just where
you are at now. You had a. ﬁne
chance to Show just Where you stood
when you printed the Lambertson
aritclo. Are you just waiting now

, and only shooting so as to hit? You

have not been slow in the past to try

‘ and correct people who have gone

erng and what you would say
would have a thousand times as

ranch inﬂuence as a, Lambertson.

We have the Mmbertsons here,
though not bi that name. I can go
out and m with them. but it is a
“waste at time. They seem to lose
sight of everything but dollarsnThe
moral side of the question can go
lung.

The bootlegging in this section is
largely among the tor-alga emml-
grants. Shall We give no, and let a
few whiskoyites ruin this country
inst bosom the law does not work
pertectly in every plane? I say
“No.” A chronic waiter might say
Christianity does no good, but we
know better. ~

NOW. Mr. Editor; I ﬁrmly believe

the good Lord has set this nation for '

an example for all the world god it
we fall on prohibition In our be

looked upon all a M More by
God

other. nations. _ will “rely
punish them t!“ will not work
torhllﬂdhtloumdomus by
halves. ’ '1

W1 him When" too, long

for your _ , so will say good-
,bys; in?! your housed friend.

W. antics ﬂoaty.

 
  
     

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Thanking you for writing the as , 
you did, and assuring you that I ; ,'
would appreeiate a reply from'you to, '- ‘

Mr. Lambertson tor use in an early
issue, I am, believe me.—-The Edi-ton

snortro'rmirsmt

HE time has coms'to speak a g '

word to brother farmers. The
time has come to show What

kind of stuff farmers are made of. 3' 
Our revolutionary fathers were fum- j,

' ers and they taught the British «to.
crate a-lesson and if they will (10.80
they can teach our own autocrots a
lesson by standing together. Just
let us quit buying, let us patch and
wear old clothing tad “Winery,
and. It need be, let as wear the lklns
of calm which bring ﬁfty cents
m and which'We pay ﬁfteen dol-
lure tor all“ into shoes.
quit buying ﬂour and with I hand-

mﬁl mod out wheat and make the

best out Whiest food man ever
at» It would also save thousands
at doctor bills. We on soil 
tour direct as soon as tar-mu 
mymonsndboeintoouenthqlr
rights. Pam help will M m to
not. Format-u are thin potential m-
oon“ and can draw more respect
wearing cowskla cm than middle-
meddlers wearing ssalskins. Those
who are ‘deserting tam: are n ,

a mistake, Stay by the land and
educate your children with the “it
books. We can ﬁll the 1mm
with our .own son and Gauging”
and salt them to put mate to unﬁr
legislation. Hurrah for t tam!
he holds the reins and can guide
the torus—J. S. Hughes,
County, Mich. -

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 reach a! the recent war

I ‘ promoted

no more  ‘
.1, shall they learn war»
'  m an. .

 mo pointed-the

“  8%.»er have

A fi‘siicalists. loan was no

I f, ,.to this "human dreaming;
 to our text. he visions

.  world  iteratin-
 iuturet Pet-
 th‘o  as the age, (or

, in. some mature. M

 _ ’ p f “The meek
wit the earth” in this use
 Galilean prophet; and. we
 war no more.

 thought and activity. along}.
 that make for meslmess and
' ' Sudden; crises ’

 bloody won are possible; and
gamers ‘than‘ ever would we endeavor
1.13% avert, the complications that im-
  di‘sns’ter for us. We are re-
,  at post neglect. Our
 is been; sebered, our vision
‘ sharpened, and our conscience amr
odd—the conscience of the nation.

 m test now while we are at peace,

 yet in peril, shall we not taken com-
‘vm mice]: a: what constitutes.

' the elements of a people’s honor and

character. This is, in port, a moral

For emphasizes our duty to fu-
ture citizens use to whom shall
Vic transmitt ‘ the responsibility of
maintaining the honor and integrity
of the state. Militarism in our
teaching, means militarism in our
nation's conscience and life. This
has been a great general cause of
I was and the consequent submerging
a! righteousness in national life.
Thelma-ate strength of a nation is
not in the exhibition of great mili—
tary power, encouraged by military
schools and training camps; but in
the sum total of its character kept
healthy in its‘ boys and girls, and
in Christians schools,
, churches and homes. The Bible
recognizes this‘thought in the words,

the

'. 015a
  a
 hm   who in
 aim in. war is
claimed. to be a great leveler. Those
of mm: rank am Why sue
on equality;
develops sterling qualities of. man-
hood, such as obedience, {rompers-s,
unity, and endurance; but at what a
trighttnl cost ,in health, purity and
life; and what of the stronger and
mono spiritual Qualities?

1m? Instead of inducing our
young, men to seek soldier lite for
their training, let .us callihem to

turning swords into plowshares and 

guns into pruning. hooks, even to
the farms, mines, and other indust-
ries that lie at the basis of our in-
tegrity as a nation. These will de-
velops manhood minus the debauch-
ery and bloodshed of soldier life. Be
sides, we thus, are conserving the

agents of production ——- feeding in— .
stead of starving the hungry, and

mainatfng many happy homes.
But war, also, has its moral count-

erpart in social Christian service. '
War is said to be a call to state serv- ,
iem And during the recent war all -
classes responded with seeming ;

heartiness and alacrity. A thousand

times better would it be to ﬁght ?
wrong doing and social injustice ,
The making of this I

everywhere.
world better for God’s. creation is a
moral warfare, not carnal (Rom. 8:—
9), and our weapon is the “sword of
the spirit,” not the carnal sword.

Then, too. moral courage is much I
rarer and higher than physical cour- '

386.

This moral warfare comprehends ‘
individual and cellective responsibil— -

ity. The Christian must teach and
live the “life that is Christ” wher-
ever his labor extends. The church
also must match, in faith and works,
her responsibility in this light. A
non—spiritual commercialism and na-
tionalism in invading the world. Let
the militant church march fully arm-
ored (Ephesians 6:19-18) to the at-
tack. And ﬁnally, we shall'rid the
world of “wars andrumors of wars.”

“PeaCe hath her victories no less

renowned than war.” , And this is

“Righteousness exalteth a Nation.” “the victory, “the mountain of Je—

TMB implies that this condition must
_-eome thru the individual, since a na-
tion h. but amaggregation of indi-
viduals, politically organized. We
note that Abraham’s faithfulness in
"the teaching 0Lhis household was
made the ground of’his becoming a
great and mighty nation. ,
v The media thru which character is
» Insured and maintained an the state,
the church, and the home. The
 state, to fulﬁl its righteous mission
pianist provide a. condition under
" Which churches and schools may op—
erate unhindered in teaching the
elements of civic righteousness. I
on pained to remember the little
city. of A,—-——4,000 people—where
several hundred children had no
school privileges because oi! the lack ,
* oi  room. But there was
room tor seventeen drinking places,
besides tobacco shops, pool-rooms,_
and‘cheap movies. What a travesty
« eon‘tho good f?) government of one
ot'our great states!
j 11011, in exalting righteousness,
 ftho church shares with others her
A message of peace, reaching a third or
more of our population. 'But, ﬁrst
Z of 9.11,, the home should be a teacher
. 'otobedience and “the way of the
Lord," Young people are subject to
, seductions to enter a life, the issue
'02 which they, do not understand.
11ng men are well-night carried
 -‘ away by the mouthings of some mill-
7, ' Lt‘aristigc demagogue. Right here the
.  of a. Christian home would
v : “%Y.”“Count the cast," “Aim higher.”
 jShQuld we say then, that war, is
rr‘educative and good because it
arouses the public conscience to
 Hf'gher ground, on the one hand, and
” slopes many good qualities of
‘ on moot/her? No, NEV-
 a battleless and blood-
Witme for ‘war activities is

".de in the highmand nobl- p

 ot'msn; signage!-
’. preseason '_ at
  inhihiothehome,’
I ‘ " ch.

For ,

hovah’s house shall be established on
the top of the mountains, and shall
be exalted above the hills; and all
nations shall flow unto it.v—And he
‘will judge between the nations, and
will decide‘concerning many peo—
ples; and they shall beat their
swords into plowshares and their
spears into pruning hooks; nation
shall not lift up sword against na-
tion, neither shall they learn war
anymore.”

ST. CLAIR FARM BUREAU HOLDS
SECOND ANNUAL PICNIC

HE second annual picnic of the
St. Clair County Farm Bureau
will be held in. the County Park

at Goedells on Friday, August 17th.
A program of interest to every tarm-
er in the_Thumb Ditrict in Michigan
has been arranged tor the day.

The Executive Committee of the

St. Clair County Farm Bureau was
indeed fortunate in securing Mr.
Walton Peteet, Director in Market—
ing of the American Farm Bureau
Federation for the main address or
the day.

A special interest to St. Clair
County people will be the appearance
of Mr. C. L. Brody, Secretary—Man-
ager of the Michigan State Farm
Bureau, and former County Agri-
cultural Agent for St. Clair County.

An added feature of the program,
will be an address by Mr. Johnson
MacAdams of Sarnia, Ontario, rep-

, resenting the Onternational Plowing

Contest, to be held in Lamptou
County, Ontario, this coming Octo-
ber. An effort is being put forth to
interest Mjehigan farmers in this
contest. ‘ , '

Band concerts, base ball games,
bathing, etc" will round out the
day‘s program. _.

county mm, C.’ M'. Kidm‘an says‘
 indications point to a
much.  crowd than attended
 year‘s,'pie’nic.. ~ \ .

We are told that this ‘

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T the United States end of an inter-
A national river bridge, four armed
rangers sweltered in a little ’dobe
hut keeping a fairly faithful espionage
upon the lagging passengers from the
Mexican side. -
Bud Dawson, proprietor of the Top
Notch Saloon, had, on' the evening preL
vious, violently ejected from his premises
one Leandro Garcia, for alleged viola.-
tion of the Top Notch code of behavior.
Garcia had mentioned twenty-four hours
as a limit, by which time he would call
and collect a plentiful indemnity for per-
sonal satisfaction.

This Mexican, although a tremendous
braggart, was thoroughly courageous, and
each side of the river respected him for
one of these attributes. He and a fol—
lowing of similar bravoes were addicted
to the pastime of retrieving towns from
stagnation.

The day designated by Garcia for re—
tribution‘was to be further Signalized
on the American side by a cattlemen’s
convention, a bull ﬁght, and an old set-
tler’s barbecue and a picnic. Knowing
the avenger to be a man of his word.
and believing in prudent to court peace
‘While three such gently social relaxa-
tions were in progress, Captain McNulty,
of the ranger c pany stationed there,
detailed his lieu enant and three men for
duty at the e d of the bridge. Their
instructions were to‘prevent the invasion
of Garcia, either alone or attended by
his gang.

Travel was slight that sultry after-
noon, and the rangers swore gently, and
mopped their brows in their convenient
but close quarters. For an hour no one
had crossed save an old woman enveloped
in a brown wrapper and a black man-
tilla, driving before her a burro loaded
with kindling wood tied in small bundles
for peddling. Then three shots were
ﬁred down the street, the sound coming
clear and snappy through the still air.

The four rangers quickened from
sprawling, symbolic ﬁgures of indolence
to alert life, but only one rose to his
feet. Three turned their eyes beseech-
ingly but hopelessly upon the fourth, who
had gotten nimfbly up and was buckling

his cartridge-belt around him. The three ‘

knew that Lieutenant Bob Buckley, in
command, would allow no man of- them
the privilege of investigating a row when
he himself might go.

The agile, broad-chested lieutenant,
without a change of expressidn in his
smooth, yellow-brown, melancholy face,
shot the belt strap through the guard
of the buckle, hefted his sixes in their
holsters as a belle gives the ﬁnishing
touches to her toilette, caught up his
Winchester, and dived for the door.
There he paused long enough to caution
his comrades to maintain their watch
upon the bridge, and then plunged into
the broiling highway.

The three relapsed into resinged
crtia and plaintive comment.

“I’ve heard of fellows,” grumbled
Broncho Leathers, “what was wedded to
danger, but if Bob ain’t committed big;
amy with trouble, I’m a son of a gun.”

“Peculiarness of Bob is,” inserted the
Nueces Kid, “he ain’t had proper train-
in’. He never learned how to get skeered.
Now, a man ought to be skeered enough
when he tackles a fuss to hanker after
readin’ his name on the list side of sur-
vivors, anyway.”

“Buckley,” commented Ranger No. 3,
who was a misguided Eastern man, bur-
dened with an education, “scraps in such
a solemn manner that I have been led
to doubt its spontaniety. I‘m not quite
onto his system, but he ﬁghts, like Ty-
balt, by the book of arithmetic."

“I never heard,” mentioned Broncho,
“about any of Dibble‘s wvays of mixin’
scrappin’ and cipherin’.”

“Triggernometry ?” s u g g‘ e s t e d
Nueces infant.

“That’s rather better than I hoped
from you,” nodded the Easterner, ap-
provingly. “The'other meaning is that
Buckley never goes into a ﬁght without
giving away weight. He seemsto dread
taking the slightest advantage. That’s
quiet close to foolhardiness when you are
dealing with horse-thieves and fence-cut—
ters who would ambush you any night,
and shoot you in the back if they could.
Buckley’s too ful of sand. He’ll play
Horatius and hold the bridge once too
often some day.” ,

“I’m on there,” drawled the Kid; “1
mind that bridge gang in the reader.
Me, I go instructed for the other chap—~
Spurious Somebody—41w one that fought
and pulled his freight, to ﬁght ’em on
some other date."

“Anyway,” summed up Broncho, “Bob’s
albout the gamest man I ever see along
the Rio Bravo. Great Sam Houston!
If she gets an hotter she’ll sizzle!”
Broncho whacke at a scorpion with his
four-pound Stetson felt, and three watch—
ers relapsed into‘ comfortless silence.

How well Bob Buckley had kept his-
secret, since these men, for two years
his side comrades in countless border
raids and dangers. thus 'soake of him.

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'not knowing that he was the most arﬁhtﬂ

physical coward in all-a that Rio Bravo.
country! Neltherihis friendsn'or'hls enbé ,
mics had suspected him, of, auzht .else?-.,
than the ﬁnest courage. ,~It was purely"

‘a physical cowardice, and only. by'"..an'

extreme, grim effort of will hand he forced
his oraven body to do the bravest deeds”:
Scourging himself alWays, as a. monk:
whips his besetting sin, Buckley threw
himself with apparent recklessness into,
every danger, with the hope of someday.
ridding himself of the despised aftlicthn.
But each successive test brought no re- 
lief, and the ranger’s face, by nature
adapted to cheerfulness and good-humor,

'becaame set to the guise of gloomy melan-

choly. Thus, while the frontier admired
his deeds, and his prowess was celebrated-
in print and bf word of mouth in many
camp-ﬁres. in the valley of ,the Braivo,’
his heart was sick . within him. Only
himself knew of the horrible tightening
of the chest, the dry mouth, the weakens
ing of the spine. the agony of the strung
nerves—the never-failing symptoms of
his shameful malady. ‘

One mere boy in his company was
wont to enter a fray with a leg perched
ﬂippantly albout the horn of his saddle...
a cigarette hanging from his lips, which
emitted smoke and original slogans of
clever invention. Buckley would have
given a. year’s pay to attain that devil-
may-care method. Once the deboniar
youth said to him: “Buck, you go into
a scrap like it was a funeral. Not," he

‘ added, with a complimentary wave of his

tin cup, “but what it generally is."

Buckley’s. conscience was of the New
England order with Western adjustments,
and ’he continued to get his rebellious
body into as many difﬁculties as possible;
wherefore, 0 that sultry afternoon he
choSe to drive‘ his own protesting limbs
to investigation of that sudden alarm
that had startled the peace and dignity
of the State. *

Two squares down the street stood the
Top Notch Saloon. Here Buckley came
upon signs of recent upheaval. A few
curious spectators pressed about its front
entrance, grinding beneath their heels the
fragments of a plate-glass Window. In-
side, Buckley found‘Bud Dawson utterly
ignoring a bullet wound in his shoulder
while he feelingly wept at having to ex- '
plain why he failed to drop the “blamed
masquerooter," who shot him. At the
entrance of the ranger Bud turned ap-
pealingly to him for conﬂnmatlori of the
devastation he might have dealt. ’

“You know, Buck, I’d ’a’ plum got him,
ﬁrst rattle, if ,I'd thought a minute.
Come in a masQue-rootin’, playin' female
till he got the drop, and turned loose.
I never reacher for a. gun, thinkin’ it
was sure Chihuahua Betty, or Mrs. At-
water, or anyhow one of the Mayﬂeld
girls comin’ a-gunnin’ which they might,
liable as not. I never thought of that
blamed Garcia until—"

“Garcia!” snapped
did he get over here ?”

Bud’s bartender took the ranger by
the arm and led him to the side door.
There stood a patient grey burro crop-
ing grass along the gutter, With a. load
of kindling wood tied across its back.
On the ground lay a black shan and a.
voluminous brown dress.

‘_ “Maspuerootin’ in them things,". called
Bud, still resisting attempted ministra—
tions to his wounds. “Thought he was
a. lady till he give a. yell and winged me." ~

“He went down the side street," said
the bartender. “He was alone, and he’ll
hide out till night when his gang comes
over. You ought to ﬁnd him in that
Mexican lay-out below the depotﬂ He’s
got a girl down there—Pancha Sales.”

“How was he armed?” asked Buckley.

“Two pearl-handled sixes, and a knife.”

“Keep this for me, Billy,” said‘the-
ramger, hahding over his Winchester.
Quixotic, perhaps, but it was Bob Buck-
ley’s way. Another man—and a. braver
one—might have raised a posse to ac-
company him. It was Buckley‘s rule to

Buckley. “How

discard all preliminary advantage.

The Mexican had left behind him a.
wake of closed doors and an empty street,
but now people were beginning to ewnerge
from their places of refuge with. assumed
unsconsciousness ‘of anything having hap-
pened. Many citizens who knew ,the
ranger pointed out to him with alac'rity, '
the course of Garcia’s, retreat. ' "

As Buckley swung along upon thei'trail,»

r he felt the beginning of the suffocating»

constriction about his throat, the cold
sweat under the [brim of his hat, the old..
shameful, dreaded sinking of his heart v
as it went down, down,‘ down in This, 
bosom. -  : ' 

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o c e no

The\morni‘ng train of theMexican _Ce‘ ?
tral had that-day been three" house 'liteyf
thus failing toepnnect with the I a. 
on the other side of the river. ‘ E
for Los Estados .ﬂUnid'os
sought entertainment in the little
gering mongrel town of two nations,
until the ‘morrow. no other train ‘_
come to rescue them. Grumblin‘ ”

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Euro, .- Running Horses. and? Dane. 

those times": cattlemen played clack-’-
n the, sidewalks with double eagles,
and‘gaitlemen backed their conception 'of
,‘the fertuitous card with stacks limited
 height'only by the interference of grav-
ity. Wherefore, thither journeyed the
sewers and the reapers—they who stam-
peded the dollars, and they who rounded
them up. ‘Especially did the caterers to
the amusement of the people hasten to
San Antone. Two greatest shows on
earth were already there, and dozens of
smallest ones were on the way.
. On; a side track near the mean little
’dcbe depot stood a. private car, left there
" by the Mexican train that morning and
V doomed by an ineffectual schedule to ig-
nobly await, amid squalid surroundings,
connection with the next day’s regular.
" The car had been once a common day-

 fcclaaeh. but those who had sat in" it and”
cringed to the conductor’s hat-band slips ‘

would never‘~ have recognized it in its
transformation. .Paint and gilding and
' certain domestic touches had liberated it
from .any suspicion of public servitude.
. The ‘whitest of- lace curtains judiciously
v screened its windows. From its fore end
drooped in the torrid air the ﬂag of Mex-
ico. "From its rear projected the Stars
and Stripes and a busy Stovepipe, the
latter reinforcing in its suggestion of cul-
inary comforts the general suggestion of
privacy and ease. The bachelor’s eye,
regarding its gorgeous sides, found inter-
est to culminate in a single name in gold
and blue letters extending almost its
entire length—a single name, the auda—
cious _privilege of royalty and genius.
Doulbly, then, was the arrogant nomen—
clature here justiﬁed; for the name was
that of “Alvari-ta, Queen of the Serpent
Tribe.” This, her car, was baCk from
a triumphant tour of the principal Mexi-
can cities, and now headed for San An-
tonio, where, according to promissory ad-
vertisment, she would exhibit her “Mar-
vellous Dominion and Fearless Control
over Deadly and Venomous Serpents.
Handling them with ease as they Coil
and Hiss to the Terror of Thousands of
Tongue-tied Tremblers !”

One hundred in the shade kept the
[vicinity somewhat depeopled. This quar-
ter of the town was a ragged edge; its
denizens the bubbling forth of five na-
tions; its architecture tent, jacal, and
’dobe; its distractions the hurdy-gurdy
and the informal contribution to the sud-
den stranger’s store of experience. Be—
yond this dishonorable fringe upon the
old town’s jewel rose a dense mass of
trees, surrounding and ﬁlling a little hol-
low. Through this bickerer a
stream that perished down the sheer and
disconcerting side of the great canon of
the Rio Bravo del Norte.

In this sordid spot was condemned to
remain for certain hours the impotent
transport of the Queen of the Serpent
Tribe. '  -

, The front door of the car was open.
Its forward end was curtained off into
a small reception-room. Here the ad-
miring and propitiatory reporters were
wont to sit and transpose the music of
Senorita Alvarita’s talk into: the more
florid key of the press. A picture of
Abraham Lincoln hung against a wall:
one of a cluster of school-girls grouped
upbn stone was in another place; a third
was Easter lillies in a blood-red frame.
v A neat carpet was under foot; A pitcher,
sweating cold drops, and a glass stood
upon’ a fragile stand. In a willow rocker
reading a. newspaper, sat Alvarita.

Spanish you would say; Andalusian, or,
better still, Basque; that compound, like
a diamond, of darkness and ﬁre. Hair,
the shade of purple grapes viewed at
midnight. Eyes, long, dusky, and dis—
quieting with their untroubled directness
of gaze. Face, haughty and bold, touched
with a pretty insolence that gave it life.
To hasten the conviction of her charm,
but glance at the stacks of handbills in
the corner, green, and yellow, and white.
Upon them you see an incompetent pre—
sentment of the senorita in her profes-
sional garb and pose. Irresistable, in
black lace and yellow ribbons, she faces
you; a blue racer is spiralled upon each
bare arm ;‘ coiled twice about waist and
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small

his .horrid head,

or“ a1 has. ,, yids parcels: Kuku.
elevensfoot Asian python. ’ -‘ ‘

A- hand drew aside the cugain 

'partltioned the car, and a middle-aged, '
fadedwoman holding a knife and a half; *
peeled potato looked in and said:

"Alviry, are you right busy?”

“I’m reading the home paper, ma.
What do you think! that pale tow-headed
Matilda Price got the most votes in the
‘News' for the prettiest girl in Gallipo..—-
lees."

' Shuh! _ She wouldn’t of done it if you’d
(been home, Alviry. Lord knows, I hope
we’ll be there before fall’s over. I’m
tired gallopin} round the world playin’
we are dagoes, and givin’ snake shows.
But that ain’t ,whatI wanted to say.
That there biggest snake’s gone again.
I’ve looked all over the car and can’t
ﬁnd him. He must haVe been gone an
hour. I remember hearin’ somethin’
along the ﬂoor, but I thought it was you.”

“Oh, blame that old rascal !” exclaimed
the Queen throwing down her paper.
“This is the third time he’s got away.
George never will fasten down the lid
to his box. properly. I do believe he’s
afraid of Kuku. Now I’ve got to go hunt

' him.”

“Better hurry; somebody might hurt
him.”

The Queen’s teeth showed in a gleam-
ing, contemptuous smile. “No danger.
When they see Ku-ku outside they simply
scoot away and buy bromides. There’s
a crick over there ’between here and the
river. That old scamp’d swap his skin
any time for a drink of running water.
I guess I’ll ﬁnd him there, all right.”

A few minutes later Alvarita stepped
upon the forward platform, ready for
her quest. Her handsome black skirt
was shaped to the most recent proc—
lamation of fashion. Her spotless shirt-
waist gladden‘ed the eye in that desert
of sunshine, a swelling oasis, cool and
fresh. A man’s split-straw hat sat ﬁrm—
ly upon her coiled abundant hair. Be-
neath her serene, round imprudent chin
a man’s four-in-hand tic was jauntin
knotted about a man’s high, stiff collar.
A parasol she carried of White silk, and
its fringe was lace. yellowly genuine.

I will grant Gallipolis as to her cos-
tume, but ﬁrmly to Seville or Valladolid
I am held by her eyes; castancts, bal—
conies, mantillas, serenades, ambuscales.
escapades—all these their dark depths
guaranteed. '

“Ain’t you afraid to go out alone,
Alviry?” queried the Queen-mother an-
xiously. “There’s so many rough people
about. Mebbe you’d better—”

“I never saw anything I was afraid
of yet, ma. ‘Specially people. ‘ And men
in particular. Don’t you fret. Ill trot
along back as soon as I ﬁnd that run-
away scamp.”

The dust lay thick upon the bare
ground near the tracks. Alvarita’s eye
soon discovered the serrated trail cf the
escaped python. It led.across the, depot
grounds and away down a smaller street
in the direction of a little canon, as
predicted by her. A stillness and lack
of excitement in the neighborhood en-
couraged the hope that, as yet, the in-
habitants were unaware that so formid-
able a guest traversed their highways.
The heat had driven them indoors, whence
outdrifted occasional shrill laughs, or the
depressing whine of a maltreated con,-
certina. In the shade a few Mexican
children, like viviﬁed stolid idols in clay,
stared from their play, vision-struck and
silent, as Alvarita came and went. Here
and there a woman pecpod from a door
and stood dumb, reduced to silence by
the spect of the white silk parasol.

A hundred yards and the limits of the
town were passed, scattered Chaparral
succeeding, and then a noble grove, over-
ﬂowing the lbijou canon. Through this a
small bright stream meandered. Park-
like it was, with a kind of cockney
ruralness further indorsed by the waste
papers and riﬂed tins of piclmickers.
Up this stream and down it, among its
pseudo-sylvan glades and depressions,
wandered the bright and unruffled Al—
varita. Once she saw evidence of the
recreant reptile’s progress in his distinc—
tive trail across a. spread of ﬁne sand in
the arroyo. The living water was bound
to lure him; he could not be far away.

So sure was she of his immediate prox-
imity that she perched herself to idle for
a time in the curve of a great creeper
that looped down from a giant water-
elm. To reach this she climbed from
the pathway 9. little distance up the side
of a steep and rugged incline. Around
her Chaparral grew thick and high. A
late-blooming ratama tree dispensed from
its yellow petals a sweet and persistent
odor. Adown the ravine rustled a soda-
tive wind, melancholy with the taste of
sodden, fallen leaves.

Alvarita removed her hat, and undoing

~the oppressive convolutions of her hair,

began to slowly arrange it in two long
dusky plaits. ,

From the obscure depths of a thick
clump of eversgreen shrubs ﬁve feet away,
two jewel-bright eyes were steadfastly
regarding her. Coiled there lay Kuku,
the great python; Kuku, the magniﬁcent,
he of the plated muzzle, the grooved lips,
the eleven-foot stretch of elegantly and
brilliantly mottled skin. The great py-
thon was viewing his mistress without a
sound or motion to disclose his presence.
Perhaps the splendid truant forefelt his
capture, but, screened by the foliage,
thought to prolong the delight of his
escapade. What pl sure it was, after
the hot” and dusty car, to lie thus, smelling

the running water, and feeling the agree-
v hle roughness ,of the earth and stones.

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“ GREAT many people are talking and
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a small percentage of the total value of
American agricultural products. Wheat
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~crop. Hay andfo earethreetimesas

5,; valuable as the tot wheat crop. Cotton
nowadays represents as many millions of
dollars in market value as wheat.

“When you take into the reckoning other
crops, such as oats, potatoes, tobacco, wool
and barley, you ﬁnd that wheat represents
about 5 per cent of the total value of farm
crops, not 50 per cent, as one might assume
from the present agitation.

“The prices farmers are receiving for sev-
eral, if not most of the more important crops,
are reasonably satisfactory.

“This brief statement will help to explain
why mail order houses and other concerns
catering to our farming population are re-
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A SAD WARNING TO ALIERICA

HERE are several hundred thousand words in
the English language, yet there are in the
breasts of Americans today, sentiments

which cannot ﬁnd words for their interpretation.

Within the span of a decade, we of the present
generation have watched two presidents, cruciﬁed
on the cross of political and governmental leader-
ship, which we have built up.

When Warren Harding wentinto the White
House to take over the complex reins of ofﬁce
from a man who had withered under the eight
years strain, he was a hardy, rugged Ohioan in
the prime of health. A series of his photographs
from the day he was inaugurated to those taken
on thexill—fated trip to Alaska {see picture page in
this issue) tell a dramatic story of what the pres-
ent job of being president of these United States
really means.

Therefore the wholly unexpected death of
President Harding has a double meaning to every
thinking American. We feel with our deep grief
a certain sense of responsibility for what happen-
ed. It is, as if we, individually had watched a
friend sinking into the quick—sands and had lifted
no ﬁnger to thwart its grasp.

The presidency of the United States, as it is
understood to-day, is in our humble opinion,
physically impossible for any one man to handle.
No other country in the world asks so much of its
leader. France and England, for example de-
pend on ﬁgure-heads to attend the ﬂag—raisings,
make pleasing speeches and entertain foreign
visitors, while somewhere in seclusion from these
public demands, their prime-ministers work‘ out
the nations problems.

‘ Calvin Coolidge, who steps into the arena. is
not a big, hearty, full-faced man, who radiates
health as did his lamented predecessor. He is a
short,vwiry, pinched-faced man who speaks with

j  “a [raping voice, .but makes his decisions quickly
’~ 3  1““?-

His healthmust be‘guarded as a

‘ ‘  at humanity__ and for the good or

‘ easily made by any “rm” Who is ordinarily products for the great market at their dost!

-whereas wages are twice the pro-war, is that

_ existing at the present time.

- I‘do. ‘ anthem stocks  gaﬁb'w‘n  ._/,- .,

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amusements  -2, . .
. 0 less _ an authority than Béiiﬁﬁin' unmet?
Rochester, is responsible for the statement
in this issue that the farmers ought'to handpick
their own beans. - e
The writer of this page has for many years
harbored the idea that the winter months could
be well employed by the been more of Richly;
and their families in the hendpicklngbt their own
beans, providing they were equipped with the
same machinery which the local elevator has. .
The hand bean picking machine ls‘not an ex,-
penslve outﬁt and in fact is one'that could be

. , seed." _ ﬁ‘b ,onérgml
any please! sob-still! which?  I ,
-  of the social—monger or front};
. political demagogue; ,  ~  

The only hopeful sign in all  this-“ ,  
rate that leave a ﬂoundering ship, the 
in the farming business are being driven in
the congested cities where they belong.»-
ls "going to cut production dowuto  _ y L
the sturdy American businesefarm’ers, I
are proud to labelas suchvva'ud to  ,
are staying by our farm and gwill,  "
of labor saying machinery, produce enough

   
 

  
   

 

  
 
 

 
 
   
  
 
  
 
  
   
  
 
 
   
  
 
 

handy with tools. If some reader of The Busi-
ness Farmer can give us a simple plan for
building a hand bean picking machine that has
provou satisfactory over a. period of years, we
will pay $5 for the suggestion and the working
plan. But we must know that it is practical and

  

they can be assured of a fair proﬁt. 

 

_ IT'S UP TO YOU, HE; BEAN BUYER ,
_ HE national advertising campaign for beans
is being held back bythe reticence or some
Michigan bean jobbers who'lmldn dollar so V
close to their eyes that they cannot see pent—it. 
The sooner this type or been buyer is eliminated.--
in Michigan the better for the grower and the bet-3 ‘ ‘5 ’
ter for the jobber. " n  
In California, where the citrus, 'prumJut, and] 1
other growers have organized to advertise and 
sell their products cooperatively, the associations", ‘
are organized by the, growers themselves and“ 
operated by them. g. ' ' )«E
The present bean plan dimers from this in, ' _
that the advertising and the cooperative selling
effort is carried on by the bean buyers. Whether
or not this will prove a satiisfactory means to the
growers is yet to be proven, and that is up to the“
jobbers themselves. 7 .
The Business Farmer would like to go on   
record right now with the bean jobbers of mem- _
g-an, California, Ooiorado and New York State.
that if they are not big enough to see the light
and go through with the present campaign in a.
manner that will be satisfactory to the growers 
they can look for ‘a national bean growers ,aseoc- __ '
iation which will eventually eliminate the present  ‘
jobbers and bean buyers. '

This is an age of eiﬁciency in business, and if ” 
the present jobbers and buyers can prove that
'they'are the most emcient means of handling this” V
business; that they are alive t resent day Situafwn: 1‘
tion and willing to carry on the necessary-propa- _'
ganda to keep this product before the 110,000,000 ;
food buyers, in America alone, they can hold thekﬁ
job. If they fall short of these requirements 01‘ 
are controlled by a few weak—kneed andiell‘y-r'f"
spined individuals who don’t belong in any busi-J. ; _
nose that requires more brains than making ' r '
change, they might as well get ready to retire
gracefully before they get kicked out. ' '

We have for years watched with interest the
growth and success of the western growers of 1
fruit and other products 'in their advertising cam-
paigns. We see their names on warehouses in ,1
our principal markets and on the doors of city
oﬂlce buildings where their; goods are being push-s , ‘
ed for sale. We contend that the navy basing.
offers the best possible product to be advertised
to the consuming public because it is the cheapest ’
form of vegetable food on the market today and
should be included in the eVery ‘day diet attire A
workingman’s table, and as a delicacy which
would be relished in the best homes lmthe land
at least once a week. Advertising is the great ‘
American panacea for most business ills. Ad-_
vertising will take any legitimate product and
multiply its sales over and over. Advertising
never has and never will "make a permanent suc-
cess of a proposition which is not fundamentall! “
honest and economically worthy. ’ . 5
_ It's up to the bean buyers and bean jobbers of
Michigan, and we repeat that we will follow their
individual actions in connection with this present I
campaign“ and see that the farmers of Michigan";
means carrying on the buying and selling of labor M'O'Dl‘opel‘ly informed 0f their indivmmll “1103'  I
and material at a proﬁt. The ether is the 3.0- in regard to it. ‘ ~ ‘
cumulated value of a property which makes it »' _ I
more valuable as a business as it is improved and INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY MEANS PROSPEBHYE=~
becomes. organized as a going property. _ ' PEAKI‘NG in ,New ~York (recently.  .

This 18 no 1633 “119 0? the farming Miami’s“ J. H. Kracke, U. S. Appraiser, said-that the
then of any other. . What do you think would United States Treasury w‘uwuect this 
happen to automobile stock if a whole bunch of ye”. over a halt billion dollars in ems «dummy-
clamoring pessimists should tomorrow morning which is the largest sum ever animal“ by "
begin to point out that there was a great over: Federal Government. " g, .
production of automobiles, that foreign com-path; we will import close to $‘3;000,000,009V
tion was coming into the American market. that ‘ " of raw materials in twelve months, wales?
the foreigner would no longer pay the price of the - '  ‘ ‘
American car because of his depreciated currency, ‘
and that the companies themselves because of
these facts were nearly bankrupt? ‘

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efﬁcient. . s . 7

There is, of course, the double advantage of
handpicking beans on the farm. The culls are
saved and may be fed to stock with proﬁt. This
subject opens up a line of thought which we
would like to have our readers who have had
practical experience with it discuss freely in these
columns.

     
   
   
   
 
   
 
  
  
   
    
  
   
  
  
   
 
  
   
  
  
   
   
   
  
  
   
  
   
    
    
  
   
  
   
 
   
 
    
   
   
    
    
    
  
   
 
   
   
 
  
  
  
 

THE LABORt-F'ABMER FALLACY
N a rodent statement, Henry A. Wallace, of Des
Molnes, cracks the nut and gives us all the
V milk in the mcoanut at one swallow, when he
says: “The one reason why farm product prices
average only 30 to 40 per cent above pre-war,

there is rsurplus of farm products to be sold on
the European market, whereas Labor, because of
immigration restrictions and tariﬂs, is sheltered
from Europe. The farmer is on the international
market, while Labor is off the international
market.” ‘

That is why we contend that farmers and labor-
ers cannot mix or ﬁght for equal privileges on the
same ground. Their interests are opposed when. »
it comes to an economic condition such as we ﬁnd

 

We are not pessimistic, because although the
agricultural conditions have been slowly recover—
ing,» while labor has taken a quick recovery, large-
ly, due to the conditions which Mr. Wallace
mentions above, it is no less true that the return
of prosperity to agricultural America will be
much more stable and_cn a more lasting founda-
tion. .

The farmers not so many years ago were un-
harassed by ﬁnancial matters and their larders
were well ﬁlled with food products when bread
lines and soup kitchens were being operated in
the centers of population in this country.

The farmer’s business is returning to a normal
and satisfactory basis. Prices are going to be
higher this fall than they have been in several
previous years. The farmer is going to get a
share of the higher prices which the city laboring
man has been receiving. and the city laboring man
is’going to have to take less money because there
is going to be more labor on the market than the
market will absorb. This does not mean that we
are in any fear of a. depression. The best posted
ﬁnancial prophets of America can foresee nothing
but a continuous wave of better times, and our
observation of the farming situation bears out
this same contention.

 

BOWLING DOWN LAND VALUES
E sometimes wonder if the professional poll-
ticians and the gloom-bowlers for the farm-
ers realize that: c.
There are two sources of proﬁt in any business.
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term

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I n ,fépgieur  some, money.

that the picture ~‘en-larse2'1ent
  sharks are againqin Michigan,
magnet want to warn ,ourfreaders
gain,st_them. . g ‘ '
 [gutters cometo your door
ﬂitif you have a particularly
‘thbiOsraphsof'a‘child or ran

,n  show it to“ them they are

, thusiastie over its possibilities and
r. u an enlarged picture in. a
which they agree to deliver

 tor nixed amount, the par-

i instance we have in mind he-

- You'are asked to sign an agree-
am'ent, which, while ’it' does [bind
YO,“ to..accept a picture in. frame,
 it' does'obligaten you to pay for the

"eiriargement. When th e delivery
‘ man, brings the frame and picture
you are asked to ; pay a fancy price

for the picture frame, sometimes as
._ high as $15.00. Some of our readers
 gwh'o have refused to accept the pic-

ture in the frame at this price have
bought it as lowas $3.00.
, ,It‘vis-a' sharper's game, and we,
- warn our readers against dealing
“Twith this kind of an agent. You
.will save money 'by showing him the
door and going to~a reliable photo-
grapher in your own town and ask-

ing himior a price on a suitable en-_

largementxw'
'If any of our readers have had
recent experiences further than we
a have mentioned or if these agents
> are practicing any other schemes we
would like trrhear about them.

THE AMERICAN MUSIC. AND NILE
, 'AR’I‘ COMPANIES
5 Last week I asked for information
treln our readers regarding the
American Music Publishing Company
and the Nile Art Company, both of
whom offered home employment on
receipt. of a certain down payment
from the prospective employee.
‘ I‘said then that I did not know
anything about these companies but
that I am sure from the number of
inquiries we have received that some
of our readers oughf to be able to
. give us the information. Well, they
I ‘ have, and I. am reprinting a few let-

‘SIGN STARTS N0 RUSH T0 FARMS

HERE» is a dusty sign that hangs

Conspicuous'ly but hopelessly in‘

" the front window of the State
Department of Labor’s free employ-
ment bureau in Detroit.
It reads: _ ‘ .
“Wanted farmers!"
It is more than an offer to work,
however, to the hundreds of young
Amen who pass it each day to ask
,)'for an automobile assembling job, a
"‘place‘ at a core-maker’s _bench or

a chance to operate some whirring,
~ screeching, automatic lathe.

. His 8. far cry from hundreds of
deserted farm-houses that are sur-
rounded by ilelds of tall, rank weeds

.‘ “and han cultivated crops, ripening

u and blistering and raining grain for
lack of men to man a reaper.

~ Last March every agricultural
county in the. State was asking for
. men. Forty—one thousand farmer
boys,-according to statistics compiled

1' ,. ~ by tth. .S. Department of Agricul-
' i-ture. had. left Michigan during the
,preceeding year to become residents
or. cities and those that remained
were too few to do the—Spring plow-

 »..ing." Moreover. it was known that

many of the 41,000 were in Detroit

. concesuenuy the “Wanted pm-
.‘ersl-r'f‘sign was stenciledand hung

Itseemed a bit inceng‘ruous,
oki‘nj‘g out, onja busy street in down-
 but there were some

.4 .

 ot Leonor employee who

H thafitj’ronid exert a sort .

  turn the city-
";  bea

mat the _
. H '  noises.

_ _ 9%k’s Editorial

 1ﬁzlusthreading the Publisher's
" Desk in the Michigan Business
Farmer and as I saw your in-

quiry regarding the American Music .

Publishing 00., 1668 Broadway N.
Y...» and-fan I was one that sent in

tyre dollars to get their working out— V

ﬁt. ‘I was very disappointed when I
received itr In the ﬁrst letter I
got from them they wanted me to

send two dollars for the working,
. They said they would give.
100 «for all copies I mailed ’and an

on tilt.

additional 50 to cover mailing ex-
penses. They also told me they
would send me a list of names and
places where I was to send them.
But when I got the working outﬁt
there was no list. I had to make
the list myself.
last letter [with instructions and af-
ter reading it I think you will agree
with me and tell those that have
made inquiries to keep their two
dollars—S. R.

Aw, your article in the M. B. F.
concerning the American Music.

00., N. Y. Some time ago I
sent them the two dollars and in re—
turn received their working outﬁt

'which consisted .of about 20 pieces

of music and about 25 circulars, with
instructions to mail the circulars and
#for every piece of music that was
ordered from those mailed circulars
I was to get about 10 cents. Well,
I mailed the circulars and did not
receive an answer from any of them.
.They will not take back the music
if you can not sell it.—-A. R.

' HELP ME SHOW ‘EM UP

HEN you run across a fake or

somebody hands you a gold

brick, don’t be afraid to write
the Publisher about it. I am even
going to make the exéeptibn and say
that you need not sign your name,
although if you do I" will promise
not to use it if you ask me not to.
No one likes to admit when they are
stung but it ought to give you some
satisfaction ;to know, that you can
warn most of the good farmers in
Michigan. '

 

 

Wooded lanes 'instead of pave-
ments?
. Quail instead of factory whistles?
Farm-house cream instead of cafe-

teria coffee?

Well not by any means! Since
that day last March when the little
sign ﬁrst went up, jaunty and fresh,
there have been only four men in
the State’s employment ofﬁce who
could milk a cow. At least, only
four who would.

To be sure several score have
spoken about the sign, intimatiog
that perhaps they woui-i like to he-
come farmers. But they were not
of the 41,000. They were city boys,
out of work and discouraged, who
did not know oats from rye.

, “The farmer boys who have come
here,” says the employment secre-

' tary at 461 Larned west, “seem to

cling to the city no matter how
roughly the city treats them. They
come back here day after day, ask-
ing for a job in an automobile fac-
tory and when we say no, ‘No, not
to-day, but we can send you up-
state to a farm,’ they leave insulted.”

Moreover the Detroit representa-
tives of the adventuring 41,000 are
invariably reticent when asked about
life on the farms. '

,“Oh, I worked in Grand Rapids

last,” is the usual answer when a
newcomer is questioned about his ag-
ricultural experience. '
Or Petoskey, Saginaw, or Flint- —
And not until cross-examined
closely, 'the employment secretary
says, will it'be disclosed that the
stay in "the smaller city was merely
a, sort of apprenticeship in city life,
 not tar-thy, automobile or
marathon—4mm the boyhood home

where . the, speaker wooded onions,

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Liberal use of Royster's Fertilizer insures the quick
start that winter wheat needs. It makes the wheat
sturdy and vigorous to resist the rigors of winter. It
increases the yield and ripens the crop early. Feed
your wheat this plant food and learn the difference
between fertilizer made to be rich in plant food and
fertilizer made from cheap materials to sell at a price
without regard to quality.

We are proud of the Royster reputation for successful
crops, and anxious that farmers should always use it
correctly. Take pains to use the analysis best adapted
to your land, and for the protection of your fertilizer
investment, insist that it be made by Royster. For
advice, or help, write Farm Service Department, F. S.
Royster Guano Company, Toledo, Ohio.
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,3 it dreamed of June. ' .
whispered in its dream.

11 V e thistlse show beyond. the brook
Duet on their dawn and bloom,

' ‘ ' And out of many a weed-grown nook

The aster ﬂowers look
LWith eyes of tender gloom. '

be. silent orchard aisles are sweet

3 : ith smell of ripening fruit,

Through the sere grass, in shy retreat

’ Flutter, at coming feet,

The robins strange and mute.

There is no wind to stir the leaves,

The harsh leaves overhead;
Only the querulous cricket grieves;
.And shrilling locust Weaves
.A song of summer dead.
——William Dean Howells.

“GOING TO THE STATE FAIR?”
EAR FOLKS—Last week I call-
ed upon Mr. Dickinson and Mrs.
Eis brey, manager and secre-
tary of our State Fair, to ﬁnd out

1'. what the fair had for my women

readers.
There are so many attractions

H that are so educational and useful

b

V ' inYl
purpose because of their better ﬂav--

'. family that comes to the fair.
not fail to use this department and

'this method of cooking

for every one of us.
’ The better‘baby contest is worth
the trip and the folks in charge
say: “‘There is a great underlying
idea' to this contest; it is the State's
effort to do everything in its power
to see that future citizens of Mich—
igan are strong and healthful!“
Naturally the selection" of the
.better babies and the awarding of
prizes will hold great interest for
all parents, but the really big thing

- in this department of the fair is the

careful, scientiﬁc examination which
each baby receives.

Then they have a women’s rest
room, equipped with all modern
conveniences.

The nursery is a blessing for the
Do

check the baby. You will be able
to enjoy the Fair and I feel sure

' the baby would enjoy either play-

ing in the hill of sand or sleeping
rather than go around with Mother
:31. 1Father and this department is
handled by 'compcteut'women who
have had special training in caring
for children.

The sewing exhibit in the wom-
an's building is one of the. most
facinating rooms. Every woman
reader will ﬁnd a good suggestion
to take home. _ I can hardly keep
my ﬁngers off the beautiful articles
on display.

There, too,
canning exhibit.
. The State Fair is one year’s work
being displayed and to me I feel

is the baking and

"every farm woman and husband

owes it to themselves to come down
and see our work well done.

Send your name to Mr. Dickinson
and receive their “Premium List”
and read about the advantages the
Fair holds for you. .

CANNED, AND DRIED
GREEN CORN
HE-half-ripe ears of corn make a
very favorite vegetable ,in this
country. The so-called sweet
varieties, which contain more sugar
and less starch than those grown
primarily for making meal or hom-
are especially prized for this

FREE,

or and more delicate texture, but
the other varieties are sometimes

I used in this way.

Green corn, like many other veg-
etables, is at its best when freshly
gathered.
very convenient to serve or eat, and
it would
doubtless have been abandoned long

 ago if cutting the kernels from the

' ly modify the ﬂavor. ~

cob before cooking did not material-

convenient way of cooking corn on
the cob s ordinarily by boiling, but

‘ in old-fa hioned ﬁreplaces roasting

was a favorite method. This still

:survives as a common household
1 practice in some localities and also
in camp-ﬁre cookery.

The season of fresh corn is more
early limited to the season of ma-
fty in 'a given region than that of
'mmost'any other common vegetable,
can not be stored for any con-

hle" time in good condition,
 modern \appliances, and
grown! in warm climates and

’ .: lag distances to our winter
  very texpensive and rath-

‘ sweet  ’
ted by MR8. ANNIE mm“,

. LABOR DAY ONTBEFARM ' ‘
EAR FOLKS>:—It is hard not to think that everyday is not a labor
We all must work in order to be happy.
this old world of ours; but I was wondering if when our LabOr
Day comes, it would not be a'good thing to plan a picnic for the family
Seeing new and different scenery is a

day.

and get away from the house.

a stream or lake.

wants. and I answer
my letters personally. No
one sees them but me.
I hope you all will make
use of this privilege, and
write. I /

 

Corn on the cob is not

The most '

that many children have
uali‘ty. Corn *

 

great medicine ,for tired, overworkednerves.
work than getting a meal at home,,the effort is not worth it ‘ Tome it
is a pleasure to get together some wholesome food and picnic along
Getting out of the house is a relief sometimes.

Remember our page is for you and me to use for our personal

Address letters: MM. Annie Taylor, care The Buslneu Farmer, Mt. Olemem, Michigan.

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however, may be readily canned eith-
er at home or on a commercial scale,
and when this is properly done the
corn retains many of its desirable
qualities. It is not surprising, there-
fore, to ﬁnd that canned corn is one
of‘ the most popular canned veget—
ables.

Canned corn is used not only by
itself but is also made into a var-
iety of soups, fritters, puddings, and
other dishes.

Corn and Its Uses as Food

The preservation of green corn by
drying has long been practiced in
the household and dried corn is to a
limited extent prepared commercial-
ly. The ears of corn are ﬁrst scald-
ed for about 5 minutes, then cooled
and the kernels cut from the cob.
Unless the corn is very young and
tender the resulting dried corn will
be much morevsatisfactory if only
the tips of the kernels are removed
by the ﬁrst cut and the remaining
pulp scraped out with a dull knife,
leaving the most of the hulls behind
on the cob. Even in the case of
young corn the cutting should not be
so close as to include the base of the
kernel.

The corn may be dried -by any
convenient method. Where a large
quantity is being prepared it may
be spread upon a table covered with
muslin. Of course it must be pro-
tected from ﬂies.
be well stirred from time to time un-
til thoroughly dry.

When wanted for use The dry
corn should be rinsed quickly in cold
water and put to soak for several
hours in a small amount of water in
which it is to be cooked. The cook-
ing should be done slowly and water
added as needed. Cooked dried
corn may be used in any‘of the ways
in which canned corn is served.
Dried corn has a sweet, nutty ﬂavor,
and is especially liked for making
cream of corn soup or in succotash.

Corn is sometimes combined‘with
other vegetables. Succotash, a mix-
ture of unripe corn and beans, is a
dish borrowed, name and all, from
the American Indians and has been
a favorite since colonial times. To

“vary their winter diet, the colonists
often cooked dry'ripe cornand beans

together, but such a dish does not
possess the palatability of that made
from green corn. Corn with toma-
toes is another mixture which many
persons like and which is quite com-
monly served. Small, immature
ears of unripe corn are sometimes
used in mixed pickles, particularly in
Europe, and relishes are also made
in the United States from green
corn, both as a domestic article and
commercially.

PREPARING THE LITTLE TOT
' FOR SCHOOL

0U have heard the‘story, per-

haps, of the little boy Who cried

when informed that he was to

start in school in September. “I

don’t want to go to school,” he wail-

ed, “’cause—’cause I don’t know
anything!”

There are many teachers who will
tell you that that is the very kind of
child they want to greet the morning
school opens——the child who doesn’t
know anything,” meaning, '0! “course.
the child who has not been taught
“‘rbadin,’ ’ritin’ and 'rithmetic” .at
110.111.3-
differ so frqn the .oldf-time‘méth’ods

, . to “un-
ljearn",. ’all they have been

14

' to-date methods.

The corn should v

Modern methods of: teaching .

mt

along those lines at home—and the
“unlearning," according to most
teachers, is nine times harder than
the learning. .

Children go to school to be taught
by a teacher who has been trained
in the best, most approved, most up-
Leave the reading
and writing and arithmetic to her,
but send your child to school-prepar-
ed to take his place as a pupil under
her and to realize why he is there.

Before school starts, impress up-
on him the fact that he is going to
school so he can learn how to read
stories out of books, how to write
letters to Grandma and how to count
the eggs Biddy lays each week. Talk
kindly of the teacher who is to help
him learn these things. See that his
mind is not poisoned against her by
the things other older children tell
him. Give him to understand that
the teacher will be his friend, that he
will like her and that she will like
him if he is good and tries to do
what she wants him to.

Be rather more particular than us-
ual to ee that toys are picked up,
clothes hung up, face and hands
washed clean and little feet made to
walk quietly. Such preparation will.
ﬁt your child for school excellently.

It is for greater importance than the ,

mastery of the alphabet.

 

 

Mothers Problems

 

 

THE VALUE OF 0110le
HE city boy who has no chores to-
to do is a boy to be pitied, not
envied. He is being cheated
out of something that every boyhood
needs. He is sowing the seeds of
idleness and laziness and downright
shiftlessness if time hangs heavy on
his hands. He is growing up with—
out having the habit of work forced
upon him. v
Such is the big beneﬁt derived
from chores—chores that come as
regularly as the sun rises and sets.

.Other work may be eXtracted from a

boy, but it is generally more or less
of a painful job; but chores, once
they are fully established, give the
boy that most-valued of habits—the
habit of work.

I know a farm mother who com—
plained that she never had a drop of
water in the house, a stick of kind-
ling or‘a bed of coal unless she
brought them in herself. Yet she
had boys big enough to keep her
supplied with all three. "I know,"
she said, when the wasted boy pow-
er was suggested, “but I’d rather do
the work myself than to keep con-
tinually after the boys to do it for
me." ‘ \

A mother does feel that way when
she has to be constantly “after” the
children to get work done, but she
shouldn’t 'let the feeling carry her
off her feet.‘ She should face’the
facts and decide on some better
course than constant nagging. In-
variany that course lies along the
path of chores. ' ‘

Ten centsa week to form a good
habit is buying such a habit cheap;
yetten cents, or even a nickel, paid
every Saturday night, is sufﬁcient in-
centive for most boys to perform cer-

tain duties day after day. Even'

though. the boys work about with
Dad; helping him with his‘mornin-g
and evening chbres.‘they should de-
vote a certain period to doing
forMotlIer.‘ Ares _ r of cf.

chores : i "

glorious

' ‘ once 1211039 V duties 5’11an

church-they will have liecjdm _ ' '
-.-and the kind of habits that 

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TO A FLAPPER.
If-she should want a simple thing,
A simple foolish things,
Like a powdered nose, or silken hose,

- Or skirts abbreviated,

If she should want to do a thing,

A simple little foolish thing, ‘

Bob off'her looks or roll her socks,

If that makes her elated;

If I don't get her point cf view,

Because I’m old, and wrinkled too, .’

I'll take a look back through the yeara_

When I was young and gay; -

I'll think just as I used to do, - -'

When sweet sixteen and giddy, too, ~

And I ‘win say, Yes daughter, dear, you
may. .

For youth was made for foolish ways
And happy thoughtless giddy days;
It’s time to sing and have your ﬂingz‘
More sober days are waiting; A

If I indulge her foolishness,

And give her lots of happiness, ' \
She’ll settle down without a frown,
She’ll not be hesitating.

'With years, responsibility

Will come a sit has come to me,
If she accepts it when it comes,
That’s the important thing,
But now I want her to be gay,
And laugh and sing the livelong day!
It’s wise to let the ﬂapper have her
ﬂing!
-—-Anne Campbell, Detroit, News Poet.

Bobbed Hair Beats Bustlesl—To be
sure the problem of wearing bobbed hair
has reached the girls on the farm. I
think it perfectly proper for girls to wear
bobbed hair. A ‘

It is no worse to wear bobbed hair
than to wear bobbed skirts. It is far
better to bob the, hair than to snarl it
then yank and tear at it until it is all
broken and uneven.

Years ago the girls had a fad of
shingling their hair and there was not
much fuss about it as there is these days
over the bobbed hair.

When I was a. girl we were hoop-
skirts and bustles. How we girls would
practice "sitting down” without our hoop-
skirts flopping up in front. " ~

How ridiculous we looked with] (has ,
big bustles,_ the bigger the better.’ ' ’

But it was the style; and one might
as well be out of the world as out of
style. \

Let the girls bob their hair and wear
the short skirts, they look both comfort--
able and sweet—A Farmers Wife. "

A‘YounglLady of Twelve Thinks Bob-
bing Alright——I am only a little over
twelve years old, so you must not ex-
pect much of an opinion from me. But
I will tell you what I think.

If ones hair, is thick leave it alone;
do not have it bobbed, but, as it does the —
hair much good by making it much
thicker, if it is thin, provided you havo
your parents consent. have it bobbed.

When one’s hair is short it is much
easier to comb, brush, wash and keep
in order, than if it were long. Then.
too, the air and sunshine get in it, and
through it, making it more sanitary. .

Lots of girls look more becoming with
bobbed hair than if it were long.

Years ago, it was just as much the
craze to have shingled hair as it is now
to have bobbed hair. Many girls had.
long hair then. But times have changed
and it seems that everything has changed.
With it. , \

I have' long hair,’ and as it is quite
thick, I do not care to have it bobbed.
There are two sides to this question as
there is to every one. Hoping the best
side will came, out ﬁrst, I am your friend.
——-E. I. (3., Fenton, Michigan.

 

 

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Study to be quiet and to do your own
business with your own hands. Thcs. 4:11;

Becausehe thinks he knows best, many
a parent not only dictates the way his
child’s message is to be delivered, but
even the message itself. 1 of which
leads to confusion, discoura ement, and
ﬁnally to failure. Instead the parent
should ever encourage the good in his-
child, patiently removing every obstacle
in its way, remembering that each one's'
message comes from God—is devine; and
that his child’s true self, like his own,
is from eternity—two rays of devine light
of exactly the same value, but pointing
in different directions. 7 "

He that troubleth his own house shall
inherit the wind. Prov. "11:29.  -.

 

 

 

——if you are well bredi;  
You will never discuss the family ' 
your friends .or acquaintances.  1
If guests ‘ are,«at ycun bane; ’ 
them. feel at home by. talking abs
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. t,‘ one tablespoon of ppepe‘r and

grated : nutmeg. Boil until very

ck “‘detween six and eight hours) and

, 8!» two; tablespoonfuls' ﬂne salt. Bottle,
ﬁt. and seal it.

‘Grape Ketchup—Pick over, wash drain
and remave' stems from grapes. Put in
e a.‘ preserving kettle. .add cold water to
' barely cover, bring to the boiling point
and. manner until fruit is soft; then
"pressthru. a, sieve, discarding skin and
“mas. "Put ten pounds. ‘of the fruit pulp
.in a; preserving kettle‘and add ﬁve pounds
sugar, one tablespoon allsplce, two table-

' ,épobns cloves and,» one grated nutmeg.

.3an bathe boiling point and let simmer
  to the . consistency ,of. a
 ketchup. Fill bottle to overﬂowing, ad-
 : just stoppers and seal. .

.Oorn Soup—One can or two cups of
corn. one pint boiling water, one pint
milk, one rslice onion, 0 tablespoons
" butter, two tablespoons‘ﬂour, one teaspoon
salt. dash of pepper, dash of paprika.
Fry the onion in the butter and stir in
the ﬂour. If raw corn is used, place it
in boning water and boil ﬁve .to ten min-
utes. Add‘the milk to the corn and
bring tol the scalding point. Thicken
with the onion and the-ﬂour, and butter
mixture and add seasoning.
- , —"-'—-—t—

Corn Chowder—One cup fresh corn,
one and one-half inch cube salt pork,
diced, one onion, sliced, one quart of
potatoes, sliced, one cup milk or cream,
f 'salt and pepper and eight crackers. Fry

the salt pork and add the onion, and ,
cook until the onion is tender. Boil the‘

potatoes ﬁve minutes in one quart of
boiling water, add the fat, and cook un-
til the potatoes are soft. Add the corn
and milk and bring to the scalding point.
Add the butter and seasonings. Pour
_ over the crackers and serve hot.

stuffed Green Peppers—Six green pep-
pers, two and one-fourth cups fresh corn,
one-half onion cut up ﬁne, one and’one-
half cups of meat chopped or ground up
line, one and one—half cups meat stock
thickened with two tablespoons ﬂour, one
and one-half cups bread crumbs, one-half
teaspoon salt and dash of pepper. Re-
move the tops and seeds from the peppers
and par-boil in boiling water for two min-
utes, .Remove from the watergdrain, and

 put in a. casserole. Stuff the peppers

with a. mixture of the corn, meat, bread
crumbs, thickened stock mixture, and
' seasoning and bake. The mixture may
be varied by using other materials such
as rice and tomatoes.

Corn scuttle—One cup fresh corn, one
cup white sauce (see. following recipe).
Three eggs. one-half teaspoon salt, dash
pepper. Add the well beaten egg yolks
to the sauce and fold in the corn. Fold
in! the stiffly beaten egg whites and place
in a buttered baking dish, et the dish
in a. pan of hot water, and bake in a
moderateovan (350 degrees F.) thirty to
forty minutes.

White dance for Souﬂ‘le—One cup milk,
three tablespoons ﬂour, one-half table-

spoon salt, two tablespoons butter. Melt'

the butter and' stir in the ﬂour and salt.
, Add the scalded milk and stir until the
,mixture thickens and the ﬂour is cooked.
The white sauce may be made in a double
boiler or directly over the flame. If the
‘iatter is used, care must be taken that
the product is not scorched.

Tomato Sauce for Beans—Will you
publish a recipe for tomato sauce, like
that which is on canned pork and beans.
-—Miss M. B. .

-—Tomato. Sauce (without stock)—-One
half can tomatoes or one and three-
fourths cups of fresh stewed tomatoes,
one slice onion, three tablespoons butter,
'three tablespoons ﬂour, one-fourth tea-
spoon salt, one-elghth ' teaspoon pepper.
Cook onion with tomatoes ﬁfteen minutes,
rub thru strainer. and add to butter and
‘ ﬂour" (to which seasoning has been
added), cook together. If tomatoes are
very'acid, add a few grains of soda. If
tomatoes are to retain their red Color
it is necessary to brown butter and ﬂour
together before adding the tomatoes.

Tomato Sauce with Meat Stock—One-
. half can tomatoes, one teaspoon sugar,
eight peppercorns, bit of bay leaf, one-
_ half teaspoon salt, four tablespoons ﬂour,
one cup {brown stock. Cook tomatoes
twenty minutes with sugar, peppercorns,
bay leaf and salt, rub thru a strainer
and add stock. Brown the butter, add
ﬂour, and when well browned, gradually
add to liquid.

.These sauces can be added to beans

V ‘ and canned; also «they can be prepared

~with your canned tomatoes any time in
the winter. .r '
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henna-silent readertler  '
am 17vyearsA-old.’ _ H
the 71:13. It I have a,“twln,_ please. write
me. x I suppose my letter will'go in the
waste paper basket.
both dead and ‘so are my stator: and
brothers. I am living withmy father‘s
mother and his oldest brother. We had
a 'cyclone down here last Saturday. It
did lots of damage.~~ It killed two hordes
for one of our neighbors. Well I- guess
it is about time for me to close. Your
decor-Bella Brown, butler, Michigan.
P. S.—-Hava some of the boys and girls
write to me for I get lonesome.

-—The boys and'glrls who are members
or the Children’s Hour are alwayl glad
to write letters to any member who are
sick or lonesome-and I am sure you may
expect to resolve letters within the next
two or three weeks. _ How about it. boys
and girls?

Dear Uncle Ned:-—~I' have been read-
ing the Children’s Hoar for some time.
so thought\ I would like to join your
merry circle. You seem to be having so
much fun and such a. good time reading
each others letters. Well I -will tell you
something about myself and where I live.
I am 19 years old the 24th day of June.
Am ﬁve feet, seven inches tall, and live
on a farm located eleven miles from
Traverse City. We 'have a sixty-acre
farm. It fronts on Grand Traverse Bay.
There are a lot of large pine trees along
the shore and quite a. wide belch. Just
a dandy good place to go swimming on
the hot summer days when it is about
’0 domes la the shade. The road runs
between the house and shore, so we have
a beautiful view both winter and summer.
There are a lot of trees around the house,
no we are well protected in the winter
and shaded in the summer. We have
about two hundred sweet cherry trees
and between ﬁve and six hundred sour
cherry trees, a few aches and apples.
On the rest of the rm we raise corn,
oats, and beans, and sometime: potatoes
when they are so cheap they won't break
the city folks to buy them. We have
four head of cattle, two horses, 12 sheep,
31x hogs. and about 100 chickens. So
you see we have plenty of work to keep
us busy. Well I think I have said enough
for this time, so will close hoping to be-
come your nephew soon. Hope the rest
of the girls and boys will write to me.—
Selden (2. Fowler, R. 1, Box 79, Traverse
City, Michigan.
———From your description I would say it
is very beautiful around your place and,
as you Seem to be a. lover of nature,
I am sure you appreciate how fortunate
ydu are. I would like to own such a.
home and live there all the rest of my
life.

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Dear Uncle Ned:——-May I join your
merry circle? I have never written be-
bore but always read the Children’s Hour.
One reason I never did write was because
I could not ﬁnd your address. There
hasn’t been anyone who has written you
from Clarkfon, I guess. I think I am
the ﬁrst 0 e to write but I have waited
long enough, don’t you think so, Uncle
Ned? My father has taken the M. B. F.
for several‘ years. I suppose I must be—
gin to describe myself, but I am not
going to tell you my age, you may think
I am too old to join the merry circle.
My age is between 13 and’ 16 years.
Whoever guesses my right age will re-
ceive a letter from me. I have light hair,
dark eyes and light complexion. I am 5
feet tall. I will be in the 19th grade
next year. I live on a farm of 306 acres.
We have nine horses.‘ I milk three cows
every night. I like .to work out doors
in the hay and oats and other crops.
It is like a, circus, don’t you think so?
I have two sisters and one brother. I
wish some of the boys and girls Would
write as I would try and answer all let-
ters received. I like to write letters. I
think a drawing contest is just the thing
to have. 01? course, I am not‘any drawer
but would try. You never can do any-
thing until you try, try agnin.-—Mlls
Helen Bird, R. 3, Clarkston, Mich.
—-You surely did wait long enough
fore writing. I thought every one who
read the Children’s Hour knew my ad-
dress. It is: Uncle Ned, The Children's
Hour, Michigan Business Farmer, Mt.
Clemens, Michigan.

Hello, Uncle Ned:-—-How are you these‘
days? M I join your merry circle?
I wrote before but I guess it went in
the waste paper basket. I am 13 years
old and in the 8th grade. My birthday
is June 2nd. I have a little pet kitten.
It is black and ,whlte. We also have a
black one. I live on a 120 acre farm.
We have 2 horses, 3 cows, 9. heifer, 2
calves and 1 pig. Her name is Peggy.
I have ’3 brothers and 2 sisters. I live
'about 1% miles from a. mall lake. It
iSn’t, very safe though. A boy got
drowned 3 weeks ago. I have been liv-
ing on a farm over two years now. I
llved‘ln the city ‘the rest of the time.
like to live there pre well too. The
answer or Gladys _, . " riddle, is a.
 I will. close with a‘ 
, rWhen is a cow net'acowfi-eaonna Travail,

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My “birthday i. may

My parents are '

\diiferent cities and countries.

inches tall, and weigh .130 pounds“
I,

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eleventh grade at school. 
country. Hoping to hear  b
and girls 300ml roam, I herb. one

, the many cousins—Julia  Sit

wood, Michigan. P. $.-—I will 
all letters written to no. ‘ w 
Dear Uncle Neat—73:79 just 
in: the letters in they-H-113. 8'. 
received today antthought I would 
you 5 few lines and tell-you gramme
place where I live. It is a. Very 
place in winter, but in sumac it 1! 
large. Reporters from all ma , u
here. It is located about thirty miles,
from Straits of Mackinaw and lg on.
Little Traverse Bay. in Lake .
Right across the Bay is Potosky, wh . 
is also a. resom. ﬂooring Brook. We.“
quetonslng, and the other Indian names
are little resort towns and are really a
part of Harbor Springs, but of course - r
are closed in the winter. The rescuers, ’-
sum coming In May and go about the lagt
of October. They say the shore drives
and places connected with Harbor Springs
are some of the prettiest planes in nam-
ica. The shore drive from. Harbor Springs
to "Old Trail Tavern” is one of the most
beautiful drives in America. Old Trail
Tavern is a large lot house and also
tthere are many resort cottages, most of
them c6vered with white birch bark. '
They certainly are pretty. My serve
chicken dinners at Old Trail Tavern, and
it is very lovely out there. Some friends
own a. cottage there and we go’and have
great times, going bathing, etc. It is
right on the shore. The shore drive is
on the hind overlooking the. lake. Well
I must close as I see this letter already
starting toward the honorable waste
basket. I wrote before and described my"-
self and I am now corresponding with
a girl who is sixteen and her birthday
is on the ﬁfteenth or April. the same as
mine. As over, your macaw—Elsie ,L.

- Mamers. B. 1, Harbor Springs. Mich.

—There is a road between Ht. cm;
and Detroit known as the lake Shore
drive and it too is a very beautiful drive.
There are houses along this drive that
cost over a. million dollars to build so
you can imagine that they and the ground
about them would be well worth going"
quite a distance to see. Most of. the
houses cost much less but nearly all of
them are built by rich people.

-

Dear Uncle Nedz—It has been such a.
long time since I have written to you
so thought I would write. I did not
see my letter in print, but wanted to join
the merry circle 11 you will let me. I
went ﬂowering last Sunday and while
I was back in the woods I found two
large mushrooms, and I brought them up
to the house and my folks wanted some
so we all went back in the woods and
picked more, enough for supper. My age
is between 10 and 18. ‘The one who
guesses it will receive a letter from me.
I am fond of writing, so would like to:
receive lots of letters. Well I will close.
with a. riddle: Round as an apple, busy
as a bee, prettiest little thing you other
did see: Answer "A watch.” Your want
to be niece,—Reva, Skinkle, Sunﬂeld,
Michigan, R. 1.»

Dear Uncle Near—It is very warm
here but it is the kind of weather that
we need..to make the can grow. We
have our haying all done and our-wheat

is all cut and shocked. We expect to

have threshers next week. Say. Uncle
Ned, when you were a boy did you like
to watch the big engine and the repara-
tor working? The oats will soon be ready
to out. I had 46 young ducks and I
sold 14. It soon will be time for school
to start again. I will be a. "freebie".
Goodbye everybody until the next time.—
Myrtle L.- Luce, Flushing, Michigan.
-—Yes,wheanasaboyIusedtostand
in awe and watch the threshing machine. I
The threshing machine at that time was
somewhat different than the one: you
see throughout the country now. -

Dear Uncle Near—Here is another /'

cousin trying to squeeze betwem‘ the
others. I‘ have never written before sop. .
I thought I would try it. I always read A
the Children's Hour and I think it is
very interesting to read letters from the‘
_ We live
on a small farm of 60 acres, one mile
from a village and about three miles
from a city "(Calumet). Well I guess
now I shall describe myself. I am a.
farmer girl of 16 years of age. I have"
dark brown hair and eyes. Fair can)» 5 ‘
plexion and am 5 feet, tour. and one—half:-
Do
you think I am heavy andmtalltor: 
age, Uncle Ned? I will be 1’! Years. old.
on the 10th of March. .Have ,I a twin,
Well 'I guess how I shall close." wit
write more the next tune. Honk: all. '
of the boys and  '
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 central sales case where by they can

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“Jhﬁhlo reputation (or their fruit.

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 mins-volume they could control by

“l? working together..

» "the Michigan Fruit Growers is
entirely grower-owned and 'control-
ed. The Michigan State Farm Bur-
eau has given a great deal of help
in its organization, which has been
on the plan offered by the markets
department of the Agricultural Col-
lege. Mr. Tennant has been counv
selling the FruitQGrowers in their
organization work.

When organized the Michigan
Fruit Growers will be a commodity
exchange afﬁliated with the State
, Farm Bureau, like the Potato, Live-
stock, Elevator, and Milk Producers
Wages. ‘

; Marketing trait means reaching
the markets of the nation and for
thin purpose the Michigan Fruit
Growers locals have at» their com-
mand the Federated Fruit and Veg-
etable Growers, organized by the

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tim took over one .0! the best, going
national . trait marketing institu-
tions in America and has tried and
proved manner! selling trait every
day. Just recently 1: mar

v  carioads of cherries for the ﬁart
.‘ Marketing Association at Shelby and
‘ did very well by them.

‘. ﬁembers or the Grand Rapids
Growers Association, a powerful org-
.aniu't'lon, have voted to join the
’Michigan Fruit Growers, Inc. Asso-
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Joseph, Mich., Fruit Growers Asso—

w ciation; Lincoln Walt (ﬂowers As-

sociation; Sodus Fruit Growers As-

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state gasoline tax which wont
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the ﬁrst month it was of-

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was 5325 or about
per cent a! the

objections to the law when it no he-
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  . ,_
 rendered it unproﬁtable to ~harvest ,

the lower grades of “seed: The op-

"eration of the Farm Bureau Bead

Department has, a impressed the
tuner: with the fact that quality

need new, brings the best price. The ‘
-' old owners at atrium price, which

penalised the grower or good and
and- maimed the producer of poor
seed, is be!!! displaced in Michigan
by a more lust system wherein each

. farmer’s lot of seed sells upon its

individual merit.
some”.
Lake Wow building {or

American Legion mosed.
Flint—waldo way. near city

to be restrained. City ranks fourth

in m in home construction.

Weinm-MJOO building per-
nits issued la- June. Western Union
company rebuilding lines between
this point “A Grand Rapids. Con-
struction of new $14,000,000 29-
story hotel on Cadillac hotel site
under way.

Lansing-o—East Lansing road to
be widened. New bridge planned
for M. A. C. campus to connect
staduim with armory, $50,900 avail-
able. I’ _,

Bessemer-Local American Leg-
ion contemplates building new club
house. Skud Goldman & Company
erecting new store building.

Richville—New $12,000 St. Mich-
eals Evangelical Lutheran parish
school completed.

Saginaw—~Eag1es’ home to be im-
proved and enlarged. New school
house on Wadsworth road under
construction. New addition to
Washington avenue Presbyterian
church under construction. Cop-
per Coal Company, organized with
$500,000 capital to sink shafts in
several townships and open three
mines.

St. Louis—Contract for .pavlng
from this point to Breckenridge to
be let. New coal vein discovered
on Dell Bush farm near town.

Ionia -—— New .additions being
made to dining nah at refarmatory.
v (leaﬂet—ﬂood work between Tit-
tabawaesee bridges completed.

Grand Haven —- Extensive im-
provements made at First Reform-
ed church“ 376-it. car ferry to
operate between this city and M11—
waukee.

Mt. Pleasant—Berry and fruit
crop in this county exceptionally
large.

Greenville——Bra.ss foundry, form-
01-17 of Grand Rapids, to establish
business here.

Grand Rapids-«New sewer sys-

' m' to be constructed, $5,000,000

bonds to be towed. Western Union
Telegraph .Compaaiy plans direct
wire between this city and New
York. Butter production in state
tor 1922 totaled 87,161,633 lbs.

Cadillac - Miehigan State Tele-
phone Company completes new
gﬁomatie system at cost of $3,000,-
Gheboyganwblew ﬁsh plant be-
ing constructed on river trout. New
waterworks Wilton proposed.

Lakeviow --—- Has new pumping
plant muting city adequate ﬁre
protection. $15,000 garage under
construction. ‘

WMO have ﬁreproof store
building:

Om —- City’s newest industry,
The Qwosso Garment iactory, grow-
ing .. Didi-y, capacity to be doubled.

m3“ River ~— Bridge across
Indian river to be replaced with
modern concrete structure.

East Lake—«Operations to be roe

at Manatee oil well, new

. all» for mums-~mtauea.

Maser-Storm drains. being laid
in West Ash street. Milk produc-
tion in may» in 1922 aggregat-
ad 3,495,527 59 lbs. an increase or
391.320.073-im over 1912.

‘ morn—1's have new local

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Just another way of saying,
“A stitch in timg saves nine. ”
HE email job soon grows into the big job, while

the roof with a little leak may not be long in
destroying the interior of the home which it was in.

tended to protect.

Sit down and hair: it out for yourself. Every day
theiob is put oﬁaddssomethingtothe costofdohig
it later on. Old fence poles may rot away letting stock
into a ﬁeld of growing grain where the trampling of

., the animals for one night would
ruin the entire crop. The drafty '
hog house may cause the loss of
a valuable sow for the want of
insulation.

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“(YOUR  COUNTIES ' "

NMonday, July 30th, the Tue»

cola ‘County Duroc Breeders

Ass’n. held a “very interesting~

tour through Genessee and Oakland
.Counties visiting the farm of Heines
and Son, DavisonVMich” where they

saw some of the ﬁnest Durocs in the-

state. From there they went to
Moifats Grove. and" enjoyed their
noonday lunch and then to Schaffer
Bros., and inspected the new hog
house.
extension department then gave the
members a talk on Dhrocs and used
Schaffer Bros. new herd boar as a
model for the correct type breeders
should use.
Rush Bros., Romeo, to inspect their
herd and also the Inwood Bros. herd.
Evarybody in the party was more
than pleased with the tour and be-
lieved the day well spent. Mr.
Fred J. Schaffer, sec'y.'of the ‘Mich.
Duroc, Jersey Breeders’ Ass’n., also
attended 'the tour.

Mr. V. A. Freeman of the

The party then left for.

_. . ., cu.
stall looks like ’the "scours
an offensive odor. - ave given
or oil and epsom salts

Wolverine, Mien, , .

From the description» given.” ctr-7W1

case, it sounds very much like» .
calf might be suffering from a. mi?
ticulum of the esophagus. a rampage
of the muscular walls of the at!) ‘
gus, ,allowing a stretching of
mucous membrane “through,
opening and the collection of 

it. I would suggest that you"~'-; ,
your veterinarian make a moron;
examination “of this calf. If diver;
ticulum of the esophagus beﬁth‘b'

trouble, very little can 'be done in V
the way of treatment.——John—P. Hut- ”

ton, Assoc. Prof. of Med. and Burg.
M. A. C. v ~ _ .

SUGGEs'ns CHANGE oF , 

Will you kindly publish a reason
for cattle insisting on eating pieces
or board and old bones?’ What is

{We}; °°c°°‘i"°(°eé'3§ it"im'u no oer insertion
- en a . .
o’r 64.2% per Inch, less 2% for cash If sent with order or paid on or before the 10th
of month foliowlnu date of insertion.
FREE. to you can see how many lines It will ﬁll.

Fourteen agate lines to the column Inch the cause and also what can be "dens /;
to cure them of it? What food

Address all letters value apparently must be supplied? 

1 mung number and weights preferred.

SEND IN YOUR AD AND WE‘ WILL PUT IT IN TYPE   —.

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To avoid conflicting dates we will withotﬂ
out. “at the date of any live stock tale 0
Michigan. If you are considering a sale od-
VIse us at once and we will claim the d ..
for mu. Address. LIVe Stock Editor. M. L.
F.. t. Clemens
t. 18—Holsteins Howell Sales Qompany ,of‘
00 Livinglstohra. hounty. Wm. Griffin. Sec y.
H . ic .
owe . Thumb Hereford Oattjlse

Breeders Ass’n, Bad Axe Fair, '1‘. F. .
Sntham &. Sons, Sales Mgrs.

’c. P. PHILLIPS‘

N RULE AUOTIONEER
Michslgsn my
edigr s a peels .
giro or call for terms and dates.

HOLSTEIN S

OINATION FARM VASSAR, MICHIGAN.
figlssteins. registered fully accredited 32 My lb
sire. Write your want.

3 Fine Holstein Bulls

read for light' service in October from heavy
' y Dams and sired by Romeo King Pontiac
Sezis orndyke. The price is ve reasonable.
Better drive over and see em.
BOHAFFER BR08.. R. 4. Oxford, Mich.

HEREFOBDS

HEREFORD FACTSI

3 Public Sales of Purebred
Resistered Herefords in this
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. ,uring ‘June and July,
consisting of 115 lots. sold for
an average of $150.00 most
I which were yearlm . T
IS THE REASON F0 THESE
tElfiiﬁOCEgEili‘UL SALES? It is

T. F. B. 80THAM J: SONS
(Hereford: since 1939) Saint Clair. Mich.

STEERS FOR SALE -

88 Hereford: 550 lbs;
48 Herefords 500 lbs.
bunch even in size. dark reds, good grass
Also know of other bunches. If in the

' well marked Hereford
Write
Some

10 Herefords 100 lbs.
80 Herefords 800 lbs.

than one load or more your choice.

' pastures getting short.

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Thumb Hereford Cattle Breeders' Ass’n

Hereford Auction

BAD AXE FAIR

At  o’clock. a. In,

Friday, Aug. 313i, 1923

Last day of Fair
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5 'e Repeater heifers one year. old for
$500.00. Also 10 cows With
caives by side for sale. _

f in want of bulls, write us.

ALLEN BROS.

816 30. West St. Kalamazoo. Mich.

We Have Bred Herefords Since 1860

Herd established .by Gov, H. H. Grape. We

have a few chome yearling bulls _for sale at

farmers rices. You are invrted to visit our farm.
ORA 0 FARM, Swartz Creek. Michigan.

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Champion in Class.
1113.85 _“Red Race" I
leading in I}. G. Price for
Buy type and rJn‘oduction.

A. M. S ITH, Lake City, Michigan.
FOR SALE—REGISTERED GUERNSEY HEIF-
ers at reasonable prices. also chalce bull calves of

May Rose breeding.
H. w. WIGMAN. Lansing. Mlch.. Box 62.

FOR SALE: REGISTERED GUERNSEY BULL

lves for $35.00 each. Ms. Rose Breeding.
ca E. A. BLACK, Howard. Ofty, Michigan.

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SHORTHORNS

RAISE SHORTHORNS WITHOUT HORNS
Like Kelley does. U. S. Accredited Herd No.
28945. For description and price write.

L. c. KELLY «I 80M, Plymouth, Michigan.

F0 R 805th: : €193]sz t RtEdGISTEREp
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Bg‘II’ﬂEKIZmA 30mins, East Towns. Michigan.

JERSEYS

ERSEYS POGI8 99th OF H. F. AND
£5ng reeding’. Young stock for sale. Herd
—fully accredited b State and Federal Government.
Write or visit or prices and description.

GUY c. WILBUR. BELDING. Mich.

AYRSEIRES

FOR SALE—REGISTERED AYR_8HIRE
bulls and bull calves. heifers and heifer caiva;
Also some choice cows.

FINDLAY BROS..

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DEPARTMENT

FEED NOT CAUSING TROUBLE

My pigs were about two months
old when I weaned them. Began
feeding ground wheat and sweet
milk. After two feeds of this the
pigs began to act as if their backs
were weak and their hind legs give
way under them when they walk.
One pig died and was opened and we
found some light colored spots on
the liver and some purple spots on
the large intestine.
we11.—J. C. W., Clarksville, Mich.

—I do not think the ground wheat
and sweet milk is causing the
trouble in these pigs. I would sug-
gest that you send one of the sick
pigs to the Animal Pathology De-
partment at the College, East Lans-
ing,\ for autopsy and diagnosis.—
'John P. Hutton, Assoc. Prof. of Med.
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HAVE I VETERINARJAN EXAMINE
CALF '

Calflis two months old and it has
always been hard to get it to drink
milk and when given dry or green
feed it Will eat fairly well but after
it has laid down an’d starts chew-
ing its cud, there is a dropping or

All the pigs eat"

—0. W. S., East Jordan, Michigan.

——The cause of this preverted ap-
petite is not understood. I Would-
suggest a change of feed. See that
the cattle are kept in stables that
are clean and well ventilated. Appo
‘morphine in doses of two to three
grains given'three times daily for
three days in succession has given
good results in some outbreaks,
Keeping cattle out of doors in well
drained pasture and keeping Cattle
from eating food which is spoiled,
will tend. to avert the disease. You
might try feeding to those affected
animals one ounce of Artiﬁcial
Carlsbad Salts night and morning
and continue for several Weeks.—
John P. Hutton, Assoc. Prof. 'of Med.
and Surg., M. A. C.

CANNOT STOP Loss OF MILK

Our cow loses her milk every
night. When we bring her from
the pasture the milk just runs out.
Will you pleaSe tell us what to do,
with her?-——Mrs'. I. K., Bad Axe,
Mich.

-——-I will say that there is nothing
that we know of that you can do‘to
remedy a condition of this kind.——-~-
John P. Hutton, Assoc. Prof. of Mode
and Surg.,.M. 'A. C.

Howl Outwitted the. Crow

HE crows outwitted me for some
time but I believe I have suc-
ceeded in matching them. At

a reasonable estimate they have de-
stroyed and eaten 400 bushels of
corn in the last 10 years on one of
our farms. They pick open the ends
of the upright ears so the water gets
in and they rot. This farm adjoins
timber on the Missouri Rver where
the crows nest and roost and go out
by the hundreds into the cornﬁelds.
The crow is a very smart bird. one
of our neighbors years ago hired
a boy of 15 to come to his home
to shoot crows, agreeing to pay him
60 cents for each crow and for the
ammunition he used. After two
weeks he reported having shot two
crows and went home with one dol-
lar' besides getting his board.

I have taken my shotgun and gone
to our cornﬁelds about a quarter of
a mile away and when I got about
half way, the picketsithat were al-
ways on guard on the fence posts
that surround the ﬁeld, would give
the alarm and up would rise a cloud
of crows out of the cornﬁeld. Later
I conceived the idea that the way to
catch the crows was to place steel
rat traps on top of the fence posts
where‘the guards were in the habit
of taking their positions. . I fasten-
ed the traps to the posts so the
crows would not ﬂy oﬂ.’ with them.

Uses Traps on Posts

Well I remember the ﬁrst crow I
caught. The traps had not been out
more than an hour until I. heard the
crows equalling and I could see at

toast 3'00 crows nircling about that ,

t. at in. one-way reminded me of

x.

tied him by one leg to the end of a
pole and stood the pole in the middle
gf a 40-acre cornﬁeld .near the tim-
or.
feet above the corn. I watchedrjto_
see the results next morning and

early out came a ﬂock of about two

hundred.’ When they came: tosee

the dead crow they circled around it

a few times then went back to the

timber. They kept coming out in.
such ﬂocks until about 11 o’clock
when they began to” move out in
ﬂocks to the southwest and theth
morning there were not more than

50 crows to be seen, in that locality. =
It was about time for them to mi-

grate so this fright gave them an ex}.

cuse to move. -

The top of the pole was three '

Since then when the corn gets to 

be roasting ears, I get out my traps

and keep them _eut until I get my

ﬁelds well picketed with dead crows

on poles .
Crows Garry Disease

I want to tell you something more 

about crows. It is
other animals carry cholera from”
one hog feed lot to another and in.-
that way spread the‘ disease very.
rapidly in a vicinity. ‘
douht‘but that the farmers of this;-
country have lost millions of .ddlla‘rs
through birds and animals convey
ing the disease Iran one I tamer
feed yard to his neighbor’s}  
When I see crows f pickets
posts about my feed yard I _ '
my traps and get "a, few .sn
them on poles onejbyo” ‘ 
the'crows..cc ‘ ' dice

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clamed that -.
crows, other birds, alsp dogs mm :4:- v

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re ,-seeding . are now appre—

’ . never before. ,

mall‘sﬁlsoknow how to cut-

’ 'ﬁgsﬂan Fly by means or de-

  and the majority. at

‘  learned the value of prep-

“ anon. Without fertilizer

aid econ become a crop of

eclfimportance. in (Michigan,

' ‘= time the young wheel: a

start in the tall in spite of de-

“Jeedlng to avoid the Fly. In

‘Iértiiizer really makes late

,_ : pessible. It prevents with

‘ ,iliiug too. large extent, encour—

ages;‘,‘etooliag,” and gives the wheat

cost in the spring that sends 'it

:7 o‘maturity several days ahead

’ vertllized wheat. The yield is

 increased from 5, to 20

 per acre and the quality im-
proved accordingly.

Michigan V

H 2 thattled downfrom. above
 feet. ﬁe glanced upward

.jthe, , ,. __
instinctive caution. 'A pair of dark

eyes, brilliantly, soft. and nerly tender,
encountered and held his own. The most
feaxﬁzl heart and the boldest one in all
the, Rio Brave country exchanged a silent
and inscrutable communication. Alvarita,
still Seated with-in- her vine, leaned for-
ward above the breast-high chaparral.
One hand was laid across her bosom.
One great dark braid curved forward
over her shoulder. Her lips were parted“;
her face was lit with what seemed but
wonder—great and absolute wonder.

.Her eyes lingered, upon Buckley’s. Let

no one ask or presume to tell through
what eulbtle medium the miracle was
performed. As by a lightning flash two
clouds will accomplish counterpoise and
compensation of electric surcharge. so on
that eyeglance the man received his
complement .of manhood, and the/maid
conceded what enriched her womanly
grace by its loss.

The Mexican. suddenly stirring, ven-

'tilated his attitude of apathetic waiting

by conjuring swiftly from his boot-leg a
long knife. Buckley cast aside his hat,
and laughed once aloud, like a happy

.  its   . N
 soon  the %gagement"‘cnded
that disappointment imposed “upon the
rangers warlike ectasy. ‘Insteadggf deal-
ing the traditional downward stroke. the
Mexican lunged straight with "his knife.
Buckley took the precarious chance,“‘and
caught his wrist, fair and ﬁrm. .\ Then he
delivered the 'good Saxon knoclc-outrblow
—always so pathetically disastrous to the
ﬁstless Latin races—and Garcia was
down and out, with his head under 'a.
clump of prickly pears. The ranger
looked up again to the Queen of the Ser—
pants.

Alvarita scrambled down to the path.

“I'm mighty glad I happened along
when I did.” said the stranger.

“He—he frightened me so !" cooed Al—
varita. ’ 

They did not hear the long, low hiss
of the python under the shrubs. Wildest
of the beasts, no doubt he was expressing
the humiliation he felt at having so long
dwelt in subjection to this trembling and
coloring mi recs of his whom he had
deemed so strong and potent and fear-
some;

Then came galloping to the spot the
civic authorities; audio them the ranger

’mwarded the prostrate disturber of the

peace, whom they bore away lintply
across the saddle of one of their mounts.
But Buckley and Alvarita lingered.

delicious shyness.
' The canonpito was growing dusky.
Beyond its terminus in the river 6111mm,
they could see the waning glory of lung .
se . '
A screain—a piercing scream of fright -‘
from Alvarita. Back she‘ cowered, and
the ready, protecting arm of Buckley
formed her refuge. What terror so dire
as to thus beset the close of the reign
of the never-before-daunted Queen?
Across the path there crawled 2. cater-
pillar—la. horrid, fuzzy, two-inch catch
pillar! Truly, Kuku. thou wort avenged.
Thus abdicated the Queen of the Serpent
Tribe—Aviva la reina!

Gave Him a House Voice

“Say, Frank, you knew I was in the
army, didn’t you?"

“Yes. I did George.”

“Well, do you know we had horse
meat?"

“How did you know it was horse
meat?"

“Well, one day we were all eating at
the table, some" one said, ‘Whoa'. and a.
piece of that meat stopped right in the
middle of my throat.”—Boys’ Life.

not. McCool o! the Agricultural
ego reports an experiment which

«  ‘rcondncted near" Goldwater, in
$13.58}! tertllimr increased the yield
bywlo bushels per acre and raised
. he grade from No. 3 to No. 1. In a
"similar test near Vicksburg the yield
‘ ,was increased by 16 bushels per acre
,f}andthe grade raised'trom No. 3 to
‘No..1. In addition to the direct ben-
 eﬁts to the wheat crop there is an
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in the wheat which is usually some-
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dam  MIRACLE
{Continued from Page 11)

Kayalnst his oodylr Soon. very soon the
 Queen would :md him, and he. powerless
* ;al a‘wom in her audacious hands,
 wouid’lle returned to the dark chest in
' -‘ the WW house that run on wheels.
 ' Write. heard a sudden crunching of
l " the gravel below her. Turning her head
she saw a. big, swarthy Mexican, with
f a daring and evil expression, contemp-
platilg her with an ominous, dull eye.-
“W'lnx do you want?’ she asked as
sharply as ﬁve hafl‘rpins between her lips
‘ ‘ would pet-nut, continuing to plait her hair,
and looking him over with placid eon-
telm'l. Tim Mexican continued to gaze
_,at her, and showed his teeth in a white.

agged .
“I no hurt—1 you, Senorita." he said.
“You bet you won’t," answered the
Queen shaking book one ﬁnished, mas—
I sive plait. “But don’t you think you'd
_; better move on?"
j f‘N'ot hurt'éy your—no. But
take" one hoses—one li’l kees, you call
m)-

Fed on Milkmaker—-—
Breaks County Test Record

How to Feed Milkmaker Next Winter
at Summer Prices
You can contract no»r your winter feed rcquirments

of Milkmaker through the Farm Bureau, for delivery in
equal monthly shipments, from September through

 m talked again, and set his
foot to ascend the slope. Alvarita leaned
swiftly and picked up a stone the size .
of a coconut.
\f “Vunoooe, quick,"
torily, “you coon !” _
The rod of insult burned through the

HIS cow belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon T.
Warren of Dimondale, Mich. Last winter
they were feeding their own grains and attempting
to balance them with cottonsoed meal. Having a

she ordered per-

:‘Méxm’ldark skin.
 “ma-Age, " he. shot between his
 “I am not neg-r—ol Diablo hon-
 that you shall~ pay me."
fie-made two quick upward steps this
I tline, but , the stone, hurled by on weak
am, muck him square in the chest.
‘I-Ie staggered back to the toot—way.
swerved half wand, and met another
.sight'that drove all thoughts of the girl
,‘from his head. She turned her eyes to
see- what had diverted his '
man with red-brown, curling hair and a
'meloncholy, sun-burned, smooth-shaver:
 was coming up the path, twenty
yards away. Around the Maxim’s
g at, .was buckled able-tel belt with two
  He had laid aside his
 in the jacal of the fair
War—and had forgotten them when
the passing of the {aim Alvarita had
 him to her trail. His hands now
._ instinctively to the holsters, but

tiring. .

‘  a rock. Seeing his plight'ﬂie
_ unbuckled his own belt ocu-
 rmlm threw it upon the
"and continued to “Vance

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few cows on test and looking for the best food,
they started feeding Milkmaker, with a result that
the cow shown above broke the Eaton County
Cow Testing Association record by producing
93.53 lbs. of butter-fat in 30 days. The whole

“Soon after feeding Milkmaker we discovered we
Were getting better results and saving money. If we
had fed it throughout the entire test period last
winter, I am convinced our records would have
been better. We plan to depend entirely on Milk-
maker next winter.”

What Mitkmaker Is
Michigan Milkmaker is a 24% protein, public
formula dairy feed made by the Michigan State
Farm Bureau. It is the best dairy ration for
 Every one of the 10 milk-making in—
gradients is‘listed on everylbag, pound for pound.

You know exactly what you are buying. Not an-

ounce of ﬁller in Michigan. Milkmaker.
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healthier and  “Malay—«and your feed

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$12.18ch a

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March at summer feed prices. The price to you is
guaranteed.‘ Last February many wise buyers were
feeding Milkmaker at September low prices and saving
from $10 to $12 per ton. Last year Michigan farmers
fed more than 8,000 tons of Milkmaker.

Pay for Milkmaker as You Get It

Under this plan the Farm Bureau buys Mﬂkmaker
ingredients in huge volume at summer low prices, mixes
them at the best mill in the country and delivers Milk-
maker fresh to you every month as you want it. You
pay for the feed as it is delivered. This plan enables you
to buy your winter feed at the lowest prices; it relieves
you of a big cash outlay, storage expense, and insures
fresh feed. .

Your local co—operative association will contract your
Milkmaker requirements, same as last year. See your
local manager at once and arrange for your supply.
It‘- you have no co—operativc association, write our Pur—
chasing Department for information on' how to co~
operate with your neighbors in buying car-lots of m—
makerfor car-door delivery. Write for our booklet on
Milkmaker and feeding suggestions.

The time for this
0391‘ is limited. Later
Milkmaker must be
bought at prevailing
market prices. Glider

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two pailfuls (Ii-gallon pails) at,
a time, lugged them 100 feet, and
trudged back to‘ do it over again
——and over and over and over
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toted 250 gallons of water "a
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HEER amazement made Aldous hold

his ﬁre in that ﬁrst moment. Marie
had said that two men were after Mac-

, Donald. He had heard three shots nearly

a mile away, and she was still sobbing
that DeBar was dead. That accounted
for three. He .had expected to see only
Quads, and FitzHugh, and one other be-
hind the tcpee. And there were six! He
counted them as they came swiftly out
from the shelter of the rocks to the
level of the plain. He was about to ﬁre
when he thought of Joanne and Marie.
They were still behind him, crouching
upon the ground. To ﬁre from where he
stood would draw a fusillade of bullets
in their direction, and with another warn-
ing cry to Joanne, he sped twenty paces
to one side so that they would not be
within range. Not until then did the at-
tacking party see him. '

At a hundred and ﬁfty yards he had no
time to pick out Quadeor Mortimer Fitz-
Hugh. He ﬁred ﬁrst at a group of three,
and one of the three crumpled down as
though his skull had been crushed from
above. A riﬂe spat back at him and the
bullet sang like a ripping cloth over his
head. He dropped to his knees before he
ﬁred again, and a bullet clove the air
where he had stood. The crack of riﬂes
did not hurry him. He knew that the
six had cartridges, and only six, and he
aimed deliberately. At his second shot
the man he had ﬁred at ran forward
three or four steps, and then pitched ﬂat
on his face. For a ﬂash Aldous thought
that it was Mortimer FitzHugh. Then
along his gun barrel, he saw FitzHugh—
and pulled the trigger. It was a m ss.

Two men had dropped upon their knees
and were aiming more carefully. He
swung his sight to the foremost, and
drove a bullet straight through his chest.
The next moment something seemed to
have fallen upon him with crushing
weight. A red sea rose before his (yes.
In it he was submerged; the roar if it
ﬁlled his ears; it blinded him; and in
the suffocating embrace of it he tried to
cry out. He fought himself out of it,
his eyes, cleared and he could see again.
His riﬂe was no longer in his hands, and
he was standing. Twenty feet away men
were,rushing upon him. His brain re—
covered itself with the swiftness of light-
ning. A bullet had stunned him, but he
was not badly hurt. He jerked out his
automatic, but before he could raise it,
or even ﬁre from his hip, the ﬁrst of his
assailants was upon him with a force
that drove it from his hand. They went.
down together, and as they struggled on
the bare rock Aldous caught for a frac-
tion of a. second a scene that burned it-
self like ﬁre in his brain. He saw Mor-
timer FitzHugh with a revolver in his
hand. He had stopped; he was staring
like one looking upon the ghost of the
dead, and as he stared there rose above
the rumbling roar of the chasm a wild
and terrible shriek from Joanne.

Aldous saw no more then. He was not
ﬁghting for his life, but for her, and he
fought with the mad ferocity of a tiger.
as he struck, and choked, and beat the
head of his assailant on the rock, he
heard shriek after shriek come from Jo-
anne’s lips; and then for 5 ﬂash he saw

. them again, and Joanne was struggling

in the arms of Quade!

He struggled to his knees, and the man
he was ﬁghting struggled to his knees;
and then] they came to their feet, locked
in a death—grip on the edge of the chasm.
From Quade’s clutch he saw Joanne star-
ing at Mortimer FitzHugh; then her eyes
shot to him, and with another shriek she
fought to free herself.

For thirty seconds of that terrible
drama Mortimer FitzI—Iugh stood as if
hcwn out of rock. Then he sprang to-
ward the ﬁghters.

In the arms of John Aldous was the
strength of ten men. He twisted the head
of his antagonist under his arm; he brac-
ed his feet—in another moment he would
have ﬂung him bodily intb the roaring
maelstrom below. Even as his muscles
gathered themselves for the ﬁnal effort
he knew that all was lost. Mortimer
FitzHugh’s face leered over his shoulder,
his dcmonias intention was in his eyes
before he acted. With a cry of hatred
and of triumph he shoved them both over
the edge, and as Aldous plunged to the
depths below, still holding to his enemy,
he heard a last piercing scream from.
Joanne.

As the rock slid away from under his
feet his ﬁrst thought was that the end
had come, and that no living creature
could live in the roaring _maelstrom of
rock and 'ﬂood into which he was plung-
ing. But quicker than that he dashed thru
space his mind worked. Instinctively.
reasoning, he gripped
at the fact that his one chance lay in the
close embrace of his enemy. He hung.
to him. It seemed that they turned over
and over a hundred times in that dis-
tance of ﬁfty feet. ’ Then a. mass of twist-’
ing foam broke under him, and up out
of it shot the head of one of the roaring
monsters of rock that, he and Joanne had
docked upon“ They struck it fairly, and

 

Aldous was uppermost. He felt theiter-
hora/ct of»  mars-

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foam boiled upward again, and they slip.- .

ped off into the ﬂood.

Still Aldous held to his enemy.‘ He
could feel that he was limp; he no longer
felt the touch of the hands that had
choked him, or the embrace of the arms
that had struggled with him. He be-
lieved that his antagonist was dead. The
ﬁfty-foot fall, with the rock splitting his

back, had killed him. For a moment 4

Aldous'still clung to him as they'sank
together under the surface, torn and
twisted .by thewhirling eddies and whirl-
pools. It seemed to him that they would

'never cease going down, that they were

sinking a vast distance.

Dully he felt -the beat ,of the’ rocks.’
Then it ﬂashed upon him that the dead
man was sinking like a weighter thing.
He freed himself. Fiercely he struggled
to bring himself to the surface. It seem-
ed .an eternity before he rose to the top.
He onenedmis mouth and drew a. great
gulp ,of air into his lungs. The next
instant a great rock reared like a living
thing in his face; he plunged against
it, was beaten over it, and again he was
going down——down—-in that deadly clutch
of maelstrom and undertow. Again he

fought, and again he came to the surface. '

He saw a black, slippery wall gliding
past with the speed of an express train.
And now it seemed as though a thousand
clubs were beating him. Ahead of him
were rocks—nothing but rocks.

He shot through them like a piece of

driftwood. The roaring in his ears grew
less, and he felt the touch of something
under his feet. Sunlight burst upon him.
He caught at a rock, and hung to it.
His eyes cleared a little. He was within
ten feet of a shore covered with sand and
gravel. The water was smooth and run-
ning with a musical ripple. Waist-deep
he waded through it to the shore, and
fell down upon his knees, with his face
buried in his arms; He had been ten
minutes in the death-grip of the chasm.
It was another ten minutes before he
staggered to his feet and looked about
 ’
His face was beaten until he was al-
most blind. His shirt had been torn
from his shoulders and his ﬂesh was
bleeding. He advanced a few steps. He
raised one arm and then the other. He
limped. One arm hurt him when he
moved it, but the bone was sound. He
was terribly mauled, but he knew that
no bones were broken, and_a gasp of
thankfulness fell from his lips. All this
time his mind had been suffering even
more than his body. Not for-an instant,
even as he fought for life between the
chasm walls, and as he lay half uncon-
scious on the rock, had he forgotten .l0'~
anne. His one thought was of her now.
He had no weapon, but as he stumbled
in the direction of the camp in the little
plain he picked up a club that lay in his
path. '

That MacDonald was dead, Aldous was
certain. There 'would be four against
him—Quade and Mortimer FitzHugh and
the two men who had gone to the moun-
tain. His brain cleared swiftly as a part
of his strength returned, and it occurred
to him that if he lost no time he might
come upon Joanne and her captors be-
fore the two men came from killing old
Donald. He tried to run. Not until then
did he fully realize the condition he was
in. Twice in the ﬁrst hundred yards his
legs doubled under him and he fell among
the rocks. He grew steadily stronger,
though each time he tried to run or
spring a distance of a few feet his legs
doubled under him like that. It took
him twenty minutes to get back to the
end of the plain, and when he got there
it was empty. There was no sign of
Quads or FitzI-Iugh, or of Joanne and
Marie; and there was no one coming
from the direction of the mountain.

He tried to run again, and he found
that over the level ﬂoor of the valley he
could make faster time than among the
rocks. He Went where he had dropped
his riﬂe. It was gone. He searched for
his automatic. That, too, was gone.
There was one weapon left—a long skin-
ning-knife in one of the panniers near
the tepee. As he went for this, he passed
two of the men whom he had shot. Quade
and FitzHugh had taken their weapons,
and had turned them over to see if they
were alive or dead. They Were dead. He
secured the knife, and behind the tepee
he passed the third body, its face as
still and white as the others. He "shud-
dered as he recognized it. It was slim
Baker. His riﬁe was gone.

More swiftly now he made his way into

the break, out of which the assailants_

had come a short time before. The
thought came to him that he had been
right, and that MacDonald, in spite of
all his years in the mountains,- had been
fatally wrong. Their enemies had come
down from the nortl}, and this break led
to their hiding-place. Through “Joanne
must have been taken by her captors.
As he made his way over tire rocks,
gaining a little more strength with each
stop, his mind. tried to picture the situ-
atiOn that had new ansenpbetwsen Quads
and Mortimer {FltzI-Iugh. How» would

Quade’s throat then.

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he . was willing to. sacriﬁce

As Aldous asked himself press
tions his b100d ran hot‘dnd cold by
And the answer to them drew a’ ,
breath of fear and of a is]: from
a he tried again to run a , ng'theﬁzmg,
There could be but one answer." 
would ﬁght. He would [ﬁght liken
man, and if this ﬁght had'happened
FltzHugh had been killed Joanne, ,
already gone utterly and helplesslyjnto ‘
his power. He believed that manual

had not revealed to Quade his. man

'ship to Joanne‘while they were on

plain, and the thought still more \

rible came to,him that he might not, ..

veal ‘it at all, that he might repudi to“
Joanne even as she. begged upon 11 ..
knees for him to save her. What, a. re-
venge it would be to see her helpless n:
and broken in the arms of-QuadeLAnd ‘
then, both being beastS—¢— . ' ‘

'I—le could think‘no farther. The  t“.
broke out on his face as he hobbled faster
over ’a level space. The sound ‘of the I
water between the chasmwalls was ﬁd’w 
a. thunder in his ears. He could not
have heard a. riﬂe-shot or a. scream a
hundred yards away. The trail he. was
following had continually grown nar-
rower. It seemed to end a little ahead
of him, and the fear that he had come
the wrong way after all ﬁlled him with
dread. He came to the face of tho moun-
tain wall, and then, to his left, he saw
a. crack that was no wider than a man’s
body. In it there was sand,- and‘ the
sand beaten by footprints! He wormed
his way through, and a moment later
stood at the edge of the chasm. Fifty
feet above him a natural bridge rock
spanned the huge cleft through which
the stream was rushing. He crossed this,
exposing himself openly to. a. shot if it
was guarded. But it was not guarded.
This fact convinced him that MacDonald
had been killed, and that his enemies
believed he ' was dead. If MacDonald
had escaped, and they had feared a pos-
sible pursuit, some one would have
watched the bridge.

The trail was easy to follow now.
Sand and grassy earth had replaced rock
and shale; he could make out the im-
prints of feet—many of them—and they
led in the direction of a piece of timber
that apparently edged a valley running
to the east and west. ,The rumble of the
torrent in the chasm grew fainter as be
advanced. A couple of hundred yard
farther on the trail swung to the left
again; it took him around the en] of‘a
huge rock, and as he appeared from,he‘-
hind this, his knife clutched in his hand,
he dropped suddenly ﬂat on his face.
and his heart rose like a lump in his
throat. *Scarcely ﬁfty Ayards above him-
was the camp of enemies! There Were
two tepees and piles of saddles and pan-‘
niers and blankets about them, but a.
soul that could he see. And then, sud-
denly, there rose a. voice bellowing with
rage, and he recognized it as Quade’s.
It came from beyond the tepee, and he _
rose quickly/from where he had thrown'
himself and ran forward, with the tepee
between him and those on the other side.
Close to the canvas he dropped on his
knees and crawled out behind a pile of
saddles and panniers. From here he
could see.

.So near that he could almost have
touched them were Joanne and Marie.
seated on the ground, with their backs
toward him. Their hands were 'tiedr‘ben
hind them. Their feet were bound with
pannier ropes. A dozen paces beyond
them were Quade and Mortimer Fitz-
Hugh. ‘.

The two men were facing each other,“
a yard apart. Mortimer FitzHugh’s face

was white, a deadly white, and he was , * '

smiling. His right hand rested carelessly
in his hunting-coat pocket. There was a.
sneering challenge on his lips; in his
eyes was a look that Aldous knew meant
death if Quade moved. And Quade was
like a great red beast ready to spring.
His eyes seemed bulging out 'on his
cheeks; his great hands were knotted:

' his shoulders were hunched forward, and

his mottled face was ablaze with passion.
He was alone with Quade and Mortimer
FitzHugh.

Then FitzHugh spoke, very quietly, a
little laughingly; but his voice trembled,
and Aldous knew what the hand was
doing in the hunting—coat pocket.

“You’re excited, Billy,” he said. I’m
not a liar, as you've very impolitely told
me. And I’m not playing you dirt, and *‘
I haven’t fallen in love with the lady' ' 4
myself, as you seem to think. But she
belongs to me, body and soul. If you 
don’t believe me——Iwhy, ask the lady her~ ‘7‘
self, Billy l” ‘ y 

'As he spoke, he‘turn‘ed his sneeri ‘
eyes for the fraction of a second few 1 
Joanne. The movement was fatal.._Qh " '
was upon him. The hand in the”: 
pocket ﬂung itself upward, there: fol “

a muffled report, but the bully: new
In all his life Aldous had neveriuhear‘
sound like the roar that came
He saw; 
FitzHu'gh's hand appear with}. ‘ 
in it, .\and then the pistol was
did‘not see where it went to,

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e glared at his ‘helpless prey, As

, us “crouched” lower his boulder
ti Nations" ‘of‘ the saddles. It slipped
penile. One of the panniers followed

' and Quads saw him. There was no
..eason' "forgconoealmerit, and as .Qua‘de
st” paralyzed; for a moment Aldous
T‘vforth-into the spacebetween him

and canne. Ina heard the cry' that broke
 e1! "from her. lips but he did not
his head. He advanced upon Quade,

  lowered, the long skinning-knife
 in his, hand. ' '
 Aldous. knew that words would
.avail nothing in these last few minutes
’_ between him and Quads. The latter had

-' .- ialready hunched himself, forward, the
red knife in his hand poised at his waist-

'line._I-Ie was terrible. His huge bulk,

:; ,"i his red face and bull neck, his eyes pop-
- j ping from behind their ﬂeshy lids, and the

.dripping blade in the shapeless hulk of
’ his hand gave him the appearance as

" he‘ stood there of some monstrous gar-
'30er instead of a thing of ﬂesh and

A ' 5: blood- And Aldous was terrible to look -
  from _ Joanne.

at. but in, a way that wrung a moaning
 His face was livid
1mm the beat of the rocks; it was crusted

V with blood: his eyes were partly closed,

“and what remained of his shirt was
drenched-,with blood that still ran from
the deepvcuts in his arms and shoulders.

' But it was he who advanced, and Quads

'Who stood and waited.
..Aldous knew little or nothing ‘oﬁ-knife-

I  V fighting; and he realized, also, that there

was austrange weakness in his arms and
body caused by his battle with the mael-
stroms in the chasm. But he wrestled a
great deal with the Indians of the north,
who fought as their half-wolf sledge dogs
fought“ and he employed their methods
now. "Slowly and deliberately he began
to circle. around Quade, so that Quads
became the pivot of that circle. and as

g he circled he drew nearer and nearer to

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his enemy; but neVer in a frontal ad-
’ vanes. He edged inward, with his knife-
arm on the outside. His ..deadly deliber-
ateness and the steady glare of his eyes
'discomﬁted Quade, Who suddenly took a
step backward. v

It was always‘when the Indian made
this step that his opponent darted in;
and Aldous, with this in mind, sprang
to the attack. Their knives clashed in
midair. As they met, hilt to hilt, Aldous
threw his, .whole weight against Quade,
darted sidewise, and with a terriﬁc lunge
brought the blade of his knife down be-
tween Quade's shoulders. A straight

. blade would have gone from back to
chest throughmuscle and sinew, but the
knife which ’Alclous held scarcely pierced
the other-’s clothes.

Not until then did he realize the tre-
mendous odds against him. The curved
blade of his skinning-knife would not

His one hope was to cut with
it» He ﬂung out his arms before Quade
had fully. recovered, and blind luck car-
; ried the keen edge of the knife across
his enemy’s- pouchy check. The blood

i~came out in a spurt, and with a terrible

..c

i. four-foot length of a tepee pole. _
:,moment he hesitated while the blood ran

 quads leaped back toward the pile
,of saddles and panniers.‘ Before Aldous
. could follow his advantage the other had
dropped his knife and had snatched up a
For a

'1 in a hot ﬂood-down his thick neck Then

' Aldous

_' with a. bellow of rage he rushed upon
. (Continued September 1.)

 

 fCH-A‘NGING TIMqu

sy Jean 1: scans-n-

 TB‘ZEIFA’IILACY 0F CHEAP LAND
 ON’T be sad—when you go to

 buy a farm in your section——
that good land costs real money.

" t-Be glad!

Anyone can react, humanly, to the
lure of a cheap price. , It is easy to
 see the “bargain” there. What re-
1 quires keen, business. judgement is
' the ability to see a bargain in land
"thatishigh in price. The men that

? do nowadays, are often the farm-

. ,ers who prosper most.
' I have just had, in mountain sec-
tions of Colorado, visited by auto-
-obile,‘ a text and a whole sermon
in "the fallacy of cheap land, and
human frailty before the lure of it.
n‘ mountain valleys, there are, scat-
d here .and there, patches of
 " ng area of excellent agricultur-
v (1. Available, free, under a
f“ ‘ the. land—hungry
ed in, to occupy it. Some exit

I

i

  I orit.

cat sired H  u 11 many corners
Rockies new are - abandoned
h/omesteads, the log cabins rotting,
which became the property ,of the
homesteader FREE. The land cost
the settler: nothing, yet he could not
'make a living. And on similar such
land, because it would be FREE,
people constantly areﬂclamaring to
go, storming the government offices

writing letters.' In all literature, s’o.
, advertisers say there is no word that

pulls like FREE. FREE land to
most people is as loco to livestock.

“Bargain” land in the older farm-
ing communities has something of
the same appeal, and inherently it is
usually just as treacherous. -

We buy land for what we can
make out of it. And farm real prof-
its, you’ll notice if you will observe,

have a way of lurking in land which ~

costs real money.

“A GREAT PLACE TO GROW UP”
MEET three kinds of people as re-
gards the farm. One kind has
always lived on the farm, still
does. Another kind came to the
farm after life in the city. Still an-
other kind now lives in the city, aft-
er living for years on the farm. Some

iv ester-tors- .nd 33
,A big city bank pr

ed to me last weeb’actually _w1th

wistfulness in his v’oice, "The farm
is a great place for, chi drenvto grow
up. I wisn mine were" growing up
on one!” ‘

'He knew of the desirable farm
things that his own children were
missing—and of undesirable .City
things which they were getting.

The farm is a mighty good place
for growing children—especially if
we take pains to make it just as
good as we can make it.

And it is true whether you plan to-
have your boy grow up a farmer or
to enter a town business or profes-
sion. Many of the country's most
successful and wealthy business men
were farm b‘oys. There is a reason.
There is, no place like the farm,
where Father and Mother are con-
stantly trading in ﬂuctuating mark-
ets, to teach youngsters from the
bottom up the fundamental princ-
iples_ of trade. They are bound to
pick up a lot, hit or miss. They’ll
pick up much more if you’ll take
pains to talk to them at opportune
moments on the subject».

The farm is a great place for our
boys and girls to grow up. And
while we’re about it, let’smake it
better still!

 

 15 our,‘ I ‘ork {who
. ‘ ,ool of Hard nooks .,
have tholr‘dlp cm», from the Cell _. of:
pupal-lance. all you don't want our tor's
, vice or an expert'; advice. but lost plaln,
everyday bouncer-ferment advice. send in
n here. we will publich one
ouch week.» if you can answer the other
fellow's question, please do so, he may ‘ ’5‘
wer one ofxyoun some day! Address 21:2?-
Ienoc Pool we The Buslness Farmer, NM.
Clemons, Mich. - v -

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“sme IN SEPARATOR”

READ this article in M. B. F.

July 21st issue and as I have an

easier way I’m sending it along.
I have to use hard water but I nev-
er use soap or any kind of soap.
powder on‘milk dishes. I 'use one
tablespoon of common baking soda
in the Warm wash water suﬂicienti
to wash separator clean, and never
bother to rinse it before washing. I
have no trouble whatever with
slime forming on dish cloth or in
wash water. It is best for rinsing
the strainers. It also keeps them
White and soft, using a small wash
board just large enough to use in
the milk pail if you can buy one. I
would like to get one about % size.
If some of the readers can give me
information at to Where I can pur—
chase that size I will be very grate—
fu1.—Mrs. L. S., Pierson, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIRE EXTINGUISHERS

FREE

 

For All New Gleaner Fire Insurance Members

Insure your farm buildings and personal property
with the Gleaner Fire Insurance Company, Detroit. This
company is operated on the plan of paying assessments
in advance. All members must pay three months in
advance, but if they prefer they may pay, six, nine or
twelve months. That is optional with the members.
The highest rate we ever assessed in the Rodded Class
was $3.30 per $1,000 and the lowest $1, and only six
assessments were made in seven years. The advance
rate as established, which may be paid every three
months is at the rate of 82 cents; six months rate
$1.63; nine months rate $2.45; one year $3.26 for each
$1,000 insurance carried. Any member can pay as far
in advance as he prefers. \Ve hope Mentuylly to de-
crease this rate.

In placing the business on the advance assessment
basis we get rid of those who insure their property and
then sneak out leaving their assessments for others to
pay. All the “deadwood” is eliminated. \Ve shall have
less losses because the fellows who insure and then don’t

pay their assessments

" oi) the company insuring
them. We have cleaned house and have made room for
the honest farmer who wants full blanket policy protec—
tion at the lowest possible cost; who wants to be asso—
ciated only with those who are insured for an honest
purpose and pay their honest obligations.

The Gleaner Fire Insurance Company insures per-
sonal property anywhere or in any building on the farm
described in the application and livestock anywhere in
the State. Losses are paid just as soon as adjusted
in the full amount agreed upon by the insured and ad—
Juster. We have no interest to pay on borrowed money.
Assessments being paid in advance keeps plenty of
money on hand to meet all losses and expenses promptly.

“’0 have built a reserve fund of over $9,000 ~from
the membership fees paid the company by new members.
Other mutual companies insuring farm risks give all
this to the ofﬁcers and agents of the company. This
money is in the Savings Department of the National
Bank of." Commerce, Detroit, drawing interest. It is
growing and when it reaches the amount‘of one yearly
assessments, thereafter all money received from new
members will go toward leesening the assessments of
the members.

The ﬁnancial condition of the company is the. best
since it was organized. All losses paid and plenty of
money to meet all obligations as they occur. Our losses
are ,much lower than during years previous which means
that assessments will eventually be lower.

/

Our plan of going on the cash in advance bodis has
been commended by the, State Insurance Department,
and the laws governing the company was submitted to
them for suggestion before adopting by the Board of
Directors. We should be pleased to have any prospec-
tive member to make lull inquiry as to our standing in
every respect before Joining if he so desires.

The cost of Joining our company~is small. The policy
and,membersbirp fee, also cach’ member pay a small
amount into the reserve fund, the amount being based
upon the amount of insurance taken. Now that we have
.over $9,000 laid away at interest, in our reserve fund,
it would be unfair to let new members come in and
share this splendid reserve fund start without also con-
tributing something to the fund. But remember that
new members have only one—fourth of a years advance
assessment to pay. This plan is original with us. It
sometimes comes mighty hard to pay for a full year at
one time. Anyone can always pay his assessments when
it is split up in four payments. It is easy to pay our
way.

'VVe insure buildings for three-fourths of the value as

they stand today, with due allowance for depreciation
and use since built. We do not insure old buildings
for enough to replace them new. \Ve are always glad
to- carry full value on all personal property. Only farmers
With a good standing in their community as to honesty
and integrity may become members. We have two
classes, rodded and unrodded. Only one policy fee is
charged—A where the property is insured in both classes.

\Ve want every insurance risk we are carrying pro-
tected against the ravages of ﬁre in every possible
manner. Farmers are outside the reach of ﬁre depart-
ments. \Vhen a ﬁre starts in or about any farm build-
ing, unless it is checked immediately, such headway is

. gained that the building and contents is soon reduced

to a. heap of smouldering ashes. No help at band to

save the buildings.

Thousands of buildings are equipped with lightning
rods to save their destruction from lightning. Few
buildings have fire extinguishers. They are fully as
essential as lightning rods. “'0 want our members to
own them that our losses may be reduced and asst-ss-
ments be lessened. We can say unbesitat-ingly that fully
ﬁfty per cent of the ﬁres for which we pay thousands
of dollars to settle. might have been prevented bad a
good ﬁre extinguisher been near by. All ﬁres are small
when they start. No farm should be without a. few (le-
pcndable extinguishers placed conveniently about the
buildings so that they may be quickly put into service
in case of ﬁre.

After a long and thorough investigation of the differ-
ent makes and the prices. charged we have ﬁnally dc-
cidcd on the” “Safety—First” extinguisher using dry pow-
dered chemical. It is the simplest and most reliable
extinguisher we have seen. It can be used by women
and children, and is positively guaranteed to put out ﬁre.
It does not deteriorate but retains its strength forever.
Is not affected by the weather. Does not destroy fabrics
and is perfectly harmless to persons. No acids, no gas
or chemicals. Will extinguish gasoline, oil, naphtha
and other ﬁres instantaneously.

The “Safety-First" extinguisher is 2x22 inches and
weighs three pounds. Hang anywhere in the house or
burn. The top has a ring attached. The ring hangs
on a nail or hook. When wanted for use, simply pull
the extinguisher down and the top bangs to the ring
and null or book and is thus automatically opened and
ready for instantaneous use. The extinguisher is metal
and can be reﬁlled.

The price of this extinguisher is $3.00. “7e will send
every new member joining this company one of these
extinguishers absolutely free of charge for every $2,000
insurance taken out. If you take out $4,000 you gel:
two extinguishers, and $6,000, three, and so on. The
Gleaner Fire Insurance Company is interested only in
furnishing its members with these extinguishers for the
sole purpose of better protection of its risks and not
for proﬁt. We want to cut down losses and save the
buildings of our members. It will mean a. tremendous
saving to our company. It will lessen our losses and
your assessments greatly.

Join our company now. It is in the best condition
ﬁnancially and otherwise that it has ever been. It is
getting better every day in every way.
terested, ﬁll out the enclosed coupon and mail to us
and we will have our nearest agent call on you and
more fully explain the advantages of our ﬁre insurance
protection.

—-_—p——-———.———————--————_

JAMES SLOCUM, Secretary:

I am interested in Gleaner Fire Insurance and
would be pleased to have further information. My
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property is located in the Township of.... .................. ..,
dounty of ...................... .., Section No. ........... 

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From the er SM”
10 vary may in
farming sections, .the'nroet un-
, Satisfactory reports ’Coming
from districts where wheat is the
principal crap grown, although
prices for hogs have undergone a
mighty fall, due to overproduction.
There does not appear to be much
probability that the We will
materially lower their numbers oi
sows bred although some reduc-
tions may be expected, and there is
danger of another year. of large
production, with promise of a fine,
.large crop of corn and fodder in
most of the corn states. There is
reason to believe that less acreage
_ will, be devoted to wheat owing to
the ‘fall in. prices to, a level that
leaves no proﬁt, but most farmers
:' will doubtless devote a fair number
of acres to this grain. In most
; parts of the. country crops are doing
" i ﬁnely, favored by the weather, and,
' making due allowance for the dam-
‘ age to crops in some sections, the
outcome looks promising. It can-
not be too often repeated that di-
versiﬁed farming is the way to
, avoid disastrous years, the one crop'
farmers being always in danger of
entering severe losses. In several
states farmers have: good reason for
regretting that they bought tracts
of land at greatly inﬂated war
prices, such land having declined
materially in value, while taxes
have increased. Dairy industries
are doing well, and large lines of
prime creamery butter have been
sold at good prices and" placed in
cold storage for later consumption
at high quotations. The govern-
ment reports a great falling OK in
honey production, the yield up to a
month ago having been little more
than half of that of'a year ago for
the same time. The poultry indus-
try is growing in importance, and it
is bringing in- lots of money, the
consumption of chickens and eggs
being greater than ever before.
Grapes are in the largest demand
by far ever knOWn, and California
growers of wine grapes report
sales at $50 to $90 a ton. Mich-
,igan farmers are producing large
quantities of». fruits and berries, and
there is a ready market in Chicago.
A message from Topeka, Kansas,
says: “Middle west retailers hand-
ling the line of Hart Schaffner &

'Marx are accepting wheat elevator‘

receipts at $1 a bushel in exchange
for merchandise here. The arrange—
; ment is reported to be popular.
5 Barter is limited to 100 bushels to

Reductions in live stock commis-
,Bion, rates at the Chicago, Omaha,
(Kansas City and St. Paul markets,
E estimated to mean a saving approx-
.imtely of $750,000 annually to
{V live stock producers and shippers,

I . :15 announced by arbitrators of the

;packers and stockyards administra-
" ﬁrm at the Department of Agricult-
ure. The new rates on cattle for
Kansas City, Omaha, and St. Paul
 represent a reduction of from $1 to
$2 a car and from 10 to 15 cents a
‘ head and to: Chicago irom $1 to $3
a car and 15 cents a head. The re-
- jdnction on calf rates at the tour
.‘ (markets ranges from $1 to $4 a car
{and from 5 to 10 cents a head, and
,on hogs from. $1 to'Si a. car and.
. 13 to 15 cents a. head. The sheep
"rates at Kansas City and St. Paul
are made the same as those now ob-

'taining at Omaha and Chicago,
which are unchanged.
The Wheat. Outlook

‘It seems to be generally admitted
that further extension of credits
will tail of improving the.European
market for American wheat, and
until things”‘undergo a change for

the better over there our farmers,

must depend mainly upon the home
demand. Speculation has become

far smaller than it was before fed- "

era] legislation. .was enacted con-
trdling' and? trading, and “the
“market‘most at the time  been,
 bearish than bullish." Our
population ' is growing. steadily

$7.65.

.' they fell far below those for“
previous week,

’. lo.

Oats unchanged. Beans advance. Potatoes  Don-and

good tor-butter aid eggs and market It... We” and
scarce. may easy. M calves in  An" 
live “stock active on opening of current week and prices  '

 

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through births and from

v and in time this is.ch a. tell in
' increasing home

. consumption of
wheat and other farm crops. Mean-
while 01131382,.” foreigners except
in England is expected to be mainly
for current requirements. econo-
erable what to being fed to hogs in
severable states, its chcaspness be-
ing the reason. Marketing the new
crop or wheat goes on‘ actively, and
the visable supply is growing at a
rapid pace. During a recent. week
there. was an increase of 7,884,006
bushels in the wheat stocks in sight
in the United States, running the
supply up to 36,693,000 bushels,
comparing with 22,433,000 bushels
a year ago. Fair amounts oi." wheat
and ﬂour are being exported, and

'constda'able'quantitics of acts are

going out of the country, but corn
experts have almost ceased as the
supply of old corn is about exhaust-
ed. Rye is so low priced that it is
being exported extensively to Ger-
many and Scandinavian countries
In parts of the country farmers are
planning on raising a better grade
of Wheat, one that will grade high-
er and yield more grain to the acre.
The government crop report for
August makes a ﬁne showing for
corn, and the combined crops of all
grains are estimated at 5,358,000,-
000 bushels comparing with 5,243,-
000,000 bushels harvested last
year. The wheat crop is given as
793,000,000 bushels, being 99,000,-
090 bushels less than last year. The
rye crop is the smallest in ﬁve
years, while the barley crop is
larger, and the oats crop is 115,-
000,000 bushels larger than last
year. The corn crop is estimated
at 2,982,000,000 bushels, compar-
ing with last year’s crop of 2,891,-
000,000 bushels. Business in alfalfa.
meal is much larger than a year
ago, sales extending to~ all over the
country.
Boom in Cattle Prices

Although the receipts of cattle in
western markets of late have been
fairly large, the local and shipping
demands have been so unusually
large for well ﬁnished. beef cattle
that prices have undergone a rath-

. er, unexpected boom quite recently,

landing prime beeves carrying
plenty of weight at the highest
prices paid since December, 19-22.
Barring war time period, prices.
have been unusually high, with
choice to prime steers selling at $11
‘to $12.45 and the \best yearlings at
$12.15, while steers grading as
good sold at $10.25 and upward
and medium grade steers at 39' to
$10.20. A common to fair class of
steers sold at $6.50 to $8.95, and
interior littleisteers‘brought $4.50
to $6.40, the bulk of the steers
bringing $3 to $12. Advances in
prices did not include the multitude
of grassy lots, these selling slowly.
Butcher stock shared in the ad-
vance, cows and heifers going at
$3.40 to $10.65, with earners and
cutters selling at $2 to $3.35 and
bulls at $3 to $7.50. Calves oi the
better class advanced Vsharply, com-
mon to' prime lots bringing $5 to
$12.75. Stockersv and feeders- av-
eraged 25 cents higher, although
buying was not at all. brisk, com-
mon to choice lots going at $3.50 to
Fair numbers of northern
range cattle sold at $6 to 38.25, the
commoner lots selling as leaders.
Some goodlfecders brought :7, and
range cows and heifers sold at
$3.50 to $5.25. .
1 Good Demand for Hogs

While recent Chicago receipts of
 ran tar ahead of a yearnso,
the
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weakness in prices. as there  I»
, good demand. The choices lots
showed greatest ﬁrmness,

were the most wanted .by local

packers and» eastern shippers, and.
' there was a wide range in prices,

the best prices being. paid for light
hogs, with the best heavy butchers
selling 30‘ cents below them. Chi-
cago receipts average around 2.40
pounds in weight, and many heavy
old sewn sell around bottom prices.
The consumption of fresh end cur-
ed hog meats was never larger, and
lard is particularly active, with
large recent. exports to Germany
and Holland. Recent Chicago re-
ceipts ot hogs were much
than" a week earlier, while far larg-
er. than a year ago. Good local
and outside buying made a little-
highcr prices, with late when at
$5.75 to $8, comparing with $7 to
$10.50 a year ago. Combined re-
ceipts in tw'e‘nty markets for the
year to late date amount to 25,248,-
000 hogs, comparing with 20,278,-
000 a year ago. At this time in
1915 hogs sold at $5.75 to $7.75.
If your hogs are doing well, make
them good before selling, provided
you have feed.
Breeding Ewes We“

There is a big call in the Chicago
market. for teeding lambs, with. no-
where near enough to go around,
and sharp advances in prices have
taken place, country buyers paying
about as high ﬁgures for the best
feeders as were paid for prime kill-
ers. The demand for breeding ewes
is greatly increased, and prices are
soaring because of their scarcity.
Heavy lambs are selling at a sharp
discount, some of them weighing
over 100 pounds. La'mb and sheep
receipts last week were unusually
small, but late sales of lambs were
made at $11 to $12.75, the top'
comparing with- $13 not long back.
Feeding lambs sold at $12 to $12.75
and breeding ewes at $6 to $11.

WHEAT

Wheat prices continue to remain
around to dollar mark, but in the
majority of cases it is above instead
of below as two weeks ago. Most
markets show a gain of around 2
cents. Wall Street is becoming
alarmed over the fact that wheat. is
selling for a dollar and below and a.
careful study of the situation is be-
ing made. ., ,Wall ‘ Street. knows that
the farmers as\a whole have not
made any money since 1919; that
many of them lived on the surplus
accumulated during the war period
when their products found a ready
market at a good price; that when»
this surplus was gone many of them
secured loans from their banks, and
in many states these loans have not
been. paid; that conditions indicate
that the wheat farmer will not get
enough out of his crop this year to
pay his debts. Of course all of this
would not apply in all states where
wheat is raised because the banks in
several states, Michigan included,
state that farmers have paid their
notes as they came due and in only
a. few cases have they been asked to
renew notes. The price turned up-
ward slightly toward the end of. last
week owing to reports of consider-
able damage to grain standing in the
shock in one oi the largest wheat
producing states in the Union.
Whether the damage is enough.to
eﬂeet the market to any extent re--
mains to be seen. ,. The domestic
cash wheat situation is'strcngiat
present. Millers are the most act-
ive bidders  m oi
wheat because of its quality. Conn-g .

checked; try offerings ’to arrive are light; and 

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com. Solo Wyn; b m but

than were moustallento' also: 
any mmth   in _ 
market. Country  to 
have been nil. Gran  
able in. general but some: 
reported to haw-realized tron, re—'
cent heavy rainfall. * ‘ .' "

Prices. ' ' ‘ 9
2 yellow, 03¢: ’ ., '~

"* Deanna-Gash No.
No. 3, 92c; No. 4, 90c. ,
Chicago—cash No. 2  r '
gigantic; No. 2 yellow, 13136 . ~‘

’ c.  ~
New York-.0351: No. 2 yellow.“ '
No. 2 white, 31.95%;100. 2 mixed,
31.04%. _ >‘ ' ‘
Prices one year  ‘ " 
Cash No. 2 yellow, 76c; No. a, sac; * _ i'
No. 4, 68¢. , I -.

 

OATS . ~ x _ .
Oats have tollowed the tread at . -
other grains and them has been‘lit- : '
tle change in prices at some points a
while at others prices are’the "same
as they were two weeks ago. Domes—-
tic shipping demand has been fair
at. Chicago and country “cringe to .
arrive nil. Liberal receipts are ex: “
pected this week which will have a ‘
bearish inﬂuence on “the trend of
the market. - _ » .

Prices '
Detroit—Cash No. 2 white, 480-:
No. 3, 46%c; No. 4, 45c. . » '
Chicagoh-Cash No. 2 white, 37%  ,,
@38‘5éc; No. 3-, 36%@37’%c. Are“
New York—Cash No. 2 white, 52c.
Prices one year ego—Detroit,
Cash No. 2 white, 35c; No. 3, 33¢.

 

RYE ~ . ' 
The demand for rye increased dur~ 
ing the two weeks ending August! If
11th and prices advanced for the
ﬁrst time in some weeks and advan-
ces held in each case. Gates at De-
troit last week amounted to 2‘ cents. 

Detroit—-C‘ash No. 2, 71%:7.

Chicago—atlash No. 2, €5@£Kc. '

Prices one year
Cash No. 2, 75¢.

  

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BEANS w 1.“

Michigan beans occupy an units? '
ually strong position in the Nation’s '_ :.
crop this year, according to the Au;  r
gust report issued: by Verne ' 
Church, Agricultural Statistician 
L. Whitney Watkins, Commissioner :35 I
of Agriculture. Our state is credited 
with 45 per cent of the total crop“ 2"
of 15,270,000 bushels, or 6,835,060  
bushels. California is second with'~""
4,359,000; Colorado is. third with 1,- "'
486,000; New York is fourth. with.
1,479,000; Idaho is ﬁfth. with 607,- 33""
000; New Mexico is sixth with 313;  '
000; and Wisconsin is seventh withkéﬂ'
143,000 bushels. ‘

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western states is. made up of wrist "a‘. 9‘
ice other than the white pea been, ‘2“
and it is probable that about 65 per-
cent ot‘ the entire production of this
variety will come from Michigan this.
year. With orderly marketing ,d
moderate prices the competition ,_ obi:
foreign beans will be largely elinitn
ated and a‘strong domestic consump-
tion created. 'Such,’ a. :condi: 
should warrant fair prices thro‘nﬁ
out the marketing season's} 7' _,
The; average priceyﬁd To 
15, for the country as a w
$3.87. New Yorktar, ‘
an average price  
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‘ 10M: “lg”, 25,945,900:

sins its . . . v r '
: b68841 feeding their potatoes
g-stockwhtch also beneﬁted the
's ' These conditions

,, growers in the Western states
ﬁlmed them to reduce the acreage

ted and Michigan and Wisconsin
powers made a moderate reduction
. , in. their acreages. While the crop
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ﬂgﬁ 'tair with moderate temperat-
 ,ures_;¢s.!in5 the day but cool
fﬁts an! m. '
* ,AbouL
*Iwmd unm'mmm
winds mm in evidence.
- .ﬁOut the middle of the week
‘ a 7 tnres will take a sudden
y ».in this state with a possibility
~ Slht frosts‘in northern lower
 oI‘Michigan. Last halt of
week more” bright. {3,1-
" a ' _ Weekdm ~ I
 halt arm week will he
 atom in: mm to
 1' aunts in large local sec-
" ,(K‘Coupled with these rain
I will be high and dqtructive

 middle of this week an
of . high barometric pressure

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‘ '3,  the "weather conditions

lysihecomingsixmonthshssem‘

‘  , we believe, that from

I m a!  as ‘
EHLY days of this week will he

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With. 31,842, on grown last Veal" W

fwrmng'to" he August report issued
 by 1... Whitney Watkins, Commission—
“- “95: Agriculture and Verne ‘11.;
 Agricultural Statistician ,
, . _r Michigan,

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, Markets Show a decidedly armor
tone .due to lighter receipts. The ‘

supply of good merchantable hay is
below requirements in most markets

and prices are steady and arm. ;
Trading is mirly steady With seed ;
mm immaiateiy en ar- '

cm pu .
rival. War grades move slowly
except where better sorts are in
wt Sunnis. . -
Prices .
Detroit No. 1 timothy, $19.50@
20; standard, $18.50@19; No. 2 tim—
othy, $17.50@18; No. 3, $13@1'5;
Light clover mixed, $18.50-@19; No.
[clover mixed, '$ 17 @18; No. 1 clov-
er, $15@ 16.
Chicago—No. 1 timothy, $25@
No. 2, $‘21@24;-,No. 3, $15@
, No. 1 light timothy & clover
mixed, $21@24; No. 1 clover, $18@
20.

New Yerk—No. 1 timothy, $29@ .
30; N0. .2. $27@28; NO- ,3, $34-@25; ‘l

No. 1 light clover mixed, $28; No. 2,
Suﬁ 27.

Prices one year ewe—Detroit,
standard timoth‘y. §2_0@2.1; No. 2
timothy,x‘$l91@'2 ; light mined, 62:0
@21; No. 1 clover, $14@15.

(09mm from  8)

as well as the bean growers of
en mer- _

promise you mate in 2

Michigan will be very mu
elated ill the _
the last paragraph of your article
to print the names 01 those who
have not signed a. won as the
nama of those who have and if
there is anythiﬁi you want us to do

by misting you to secure any data ,
or Matias that will be of as?
m to you, please tee! tree to ;
call on us.-—Art Goulet, Mgr., Orr?
m and Grain company, Midland, '

Hick.

BUISCH COMMENDS M. B. F.
8 one 9! the committee rep—
resenting the
ests in the proposed nationai
advertising campaign to help and
 the consumption of do—
megtic grown beans, I want to
oomﬁiment you on the thorough—

ness   mover in 'whieh'
we expressed the sentiment of the ,

majority in your recent editorial.

 suggestion. 4'» print the
 ,contiibntors
- per in a very good one. Person-
ally I can think of no good reason
«why a Michigan W should to:
aim to sign the germ 
as a matter of fact, the cost comes
out A! the consumer and the dealer
acts only as an agent handling the
mas and at the sum time beneﬁts
by in   e—v christian
Buisch, using, Mich.

m Ms

W are busy thresh-
ing “I w W Oats are turning
Out good. “the second cutting of
ins not been very heavy. Corn
is MW at this time. There is
an ext-w, ’ hm, acreage of beans
planted as yea: but the crop is only
look“: 1‘! to and m the average farm.

m mm

V as

uoN'l'OAW—Farmers are nearly done
with the on harvest now and some
drawing is being done. We have cool

New :

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Every sackfui of lat-re is exactly
ﬂu same. Tb: Larro you feed to-
day is just like the Larro you’ll feed
_ a year from now —— just like the
Larro in a million other sacks.

Latte results areas  u‘Larro
quality. And like Larro quality, the
results are guaranteed. Larro satis-
ﬁes you or you get your money back.

There are no ﬁllers in Larro. Weed
seeds, oat hulls, oat clippings and all
other ﬁllers are absolutely barred.

Each Lari-o ingredient is separately
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The Larrowc Milling Company --De.troit, Michigan

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Look for the feed-
ing instructions
‘in every “31:. ,

mixing. Every pound of ﬁnished
Larro passes over clectro-magnets,
safeguarding the cow against the
danger of nails and wire in feed.

" Lame is made by spedaiists whose
sole work is to make thisanc brand
of dairy feed. Its results and uni-
formity are being constanﬂyichecked
at the Larro Rewards Farm.

Feed Larro and make a greater
proﬁt from your cows. For many

' years Larro has been the year-round
ration for thousands of feeders. Let
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Sugar Beet; are sold
by Mir weight,

You «can make consmexably
more money by muting
beets so that they are not left
exposed to the ﬁ‘ost, and are
protected so that the sun can-
not  them out. Remember.
you sell beets by weight. You
get extra tons of beets fnom the
Same ﬁeld by usipg

JOHN WERE

No.20Riding 

, Lifting blades shaped so M th do
not injure the beats, hut 1 59.3153;
them, leavingthemupjg
where they are essilygnd ‘ hand—
led for topping. The John ~ Beet
‘ Lifter gets all the bee’, even in crooked
rows, because: push fthefoot ca , ‘
littododxs quickly. 0 best: are! t
in theﬂeld by your, ed help
too hard to pick up. This
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on horses. because it as only“
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’ the frictional parts are amply protected by a cushion of good lubricat-
ing oil, thus permitting free, easy, noiseless action.

TraCtor  Of It would tell you that the wrong oil almost invariably causes excessive
Recommendatlons carbon, loss of power, transmiSsion troubles, fouled spark plugs, and
overheating. The right oil for your tractor—the grade of Polarine

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parts, greater ﬂexibility, and Vm’ore power.
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and ﬁll up with the correct grade of Polarine. Your tractor will give
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