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NE more step in the movement
to form a state cooperative or-'
ganization for selling of poul-

. try“ and eggs was accomplished last
week at the Michigan Poultry Ex-

position, Grand Rapids, when a
committee was named to draft a
plan which will be presented to
local groups.

Those on the committee are 0. L.
Miner, at Dowagiac; Alex Klooster,
of Byron Center; J. B. Devereaux.
of Hastings; Charles Highbach, of
Big Rapids; Mrs. Dale Jenkins, of

~Clinton; W. C. Eckard, of Paw Paw,

and George Cabell, of Hudsonville,
president of the Michigan Poultry
Producers' Association.

This action followed addresses by
Hale Tennant, director of 'markets
for the Michigan Agricultural Col-
lege; E. B. Heston, dairy marketing
specialist with the American Farm
Bureau Federation, and Gifford,
of the college’s market department,
and on open discussion in which 
feasibility of various plans was con-
stdered.

The poultry men realize that
their position is dimcultl Any
organization which is effective must
include a fair proportion both of
the farmers with poultry ﬂocks and
of the commercial growers. The. plan
presented by Mr. Patch calls for the

’ signing by members of a contract

to sell all poultry and eggs, except
those needed for home consump-
tion and for hatching and breeding
purposes, through the exchange, for
a period of four years.

WASHTENAW COUNTY HURT!-
CULTURAL seen. some
BOUT one hundred of the lead-

ing fruit growers of the county
gathered Thursday noon, No—
vember 23rd, at the Chamber of

Commerce, Ann Arbor, and- par-

' took at a substantial dinner which

was followed by remarks on the
formation of a horticultural associa—
tion for Washtenaw county; also
remarks were made regarding
spraying, packing, cold storage. etc.
The following ofﬁcers were elect-
ed: President, Thomas Applegate,
Milan; Secretary, L- A. Seamans,
Ypsilanti. A committe on constitu—
tion and try-laws was appointed by
chairman as follows: B. W. Man-
waring, Ann Arbor; George Engl-
ish, Chelsea; A. G. Stein, Ann Arb-
or. .
The chairman appointed a. com-
mittee consisting of Henry Bre—
dernits, Saline; A. C. Stein, Ann
Arbor; F; J. Simone, Ypsilanti;
George English, Chelsea; Arthur
Intz, Saline, to report on a list of
nine directors. The following were
recommended and accepted:
Thomas Applegate, Milan; How-
ard Boyd, Chelsea; B. W. Manwar-
ing, Ann Arbor; William Austin,
Saline; F.'J. Simona, Ypsilanti; D.
A. Biker, Chelsea; Bruce Rembach-
er, Saline; A. C. Stein, Ann Arbor,
and Gustave Uphans, Manchester.
The time and place for holding
the next meeting was left to chair-
man Applegate who indicated it
would be in about three weeks when

speaker present. Prof. Gardner was
to have been present at this meeting
but another engagement prevented.
———J. W. Sanders.

FARMERS ESTABLISH BEAN
. HGKING PLANT

HE Michigan Elevator exchange

made public last Week the fact

that it has established a bean-
picking elevator and warehouse at
Port Hn‘ron'capable of handling, a
carl’oad of beans daily startling
warehouse and picking facilities for
the bean-handling cooperative elev-
ator associations of its string of
some 1-60 local organizations which
have not had such service hereto-
fore.

The plant, which has been leased
by the elevator exchange and which
will operate under" the name of the
Michelex Elevator and Warehouse
00., is equipped with the latest de-
vices for economical and emcient

-- handling of beans. The equipment

consists of automatic loaders and
unloaders, a polisher, three giant
pickers,'a dryer and about 100 band
pickers which will enable‘the ex-
change to add . the “ﬁnishing
touches" to its product.

Arrangements have been perfect-
ed for picking 130 cars of picking
stock within the next 90 days, the
exchange declared.

The plant has a storage capacity
of 60,000 bushels with a warehouse

capable of holding to or 19 cars of ;

beans in storage.

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IN mu HOURS
Thomas Monroe, of Pana, Illinois,
broke all Central Illinois records for
corn banking on the John Butcher
farm near Blue Mound recently

when in nine hours he hushed 149 -

bushels and 50 pounds.

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December 11—“News ﬂrom the
Fifth Annual Meeting,” by Silas L.
Strivings, Former ,member Execu-
tive Committee, American Farm
Bureau Federation.

CHURCH SERVICE BY RADIO

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in Shiawassee county receiving

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garding various churches following
their example. The latest one to
come to my attention is a Presbyter-
ian church at Woodhull, Illinois.

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church but he was called to Daven-

port, Iowa, to deliver a sermn. Not 3
wanting to miss the sermon they;

placed a receiving set on the pulpit,
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ual, and a loud speaker ampliﬁed .

the voice so that every word could
be understood in the furtherest
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» State Fruit Growers Hold 53rd Annual Meeting

, Striking Results Secured Through Investigational Work During Past Year and Common Sense
‘ ‘ Analysis of Marketing Situation are Outstanding Things at Convention

l PIONEER must be a trail blaz—
er. He must ever be in ad-
vance, ﬁnding the best route

to travel and marking it for the

beneﬁt of those who are to follow
him. This has been the mission of

Michigan's pioneer organization of

fruit growers, the State Horticultur-

al Society, which held its 53rd An-
nual Convention at Grand Rapids,

November 20—22, 1923. During its

more than halfzcentury of activity

this Society has shown the great ad-
vantages of Michigan as a fruit grow-
ing state, has championed every-
thing which would develop the fruit
industry, and has been the guiding
force behind the Horticultural De—
partment of the Michigan Agricul-
tural College with its wealth of ex—
perimental and investigational work.

Two outstanding things character-
ized this 53rd annual meeting. One

~ was the clear and common sense an-

alysis of the marketing situation.
The second was the striking results
secured through the investigational
work carried on this year, under the
direction of the M. A. C. Horticul-
tural Department.

Raspberry Results at South Haven

S. E. Johnston, Supt, of the South
Haven Experiment Station, reported
on the work done there with black
and red raspberries this season.
Ordinarily the results of experiment-
al work are not made public until
conﬁrmed by several years’ tests but
the 1923 information was so con-
clusive that it seemed best to give
it to the growers at once.

The work with black raspberries
was to determine how many canes
should be left per hill and also just
how the lateral branches should be
handled. In some plots the lateral

branches were trimmed back to 4A

buds each, in others the laterals were
left full length but some were thin-
ned out, and both of these were
compared with plants where all of
the laterals were left full length.

To show how carefully and pains-
takingly the work was done, each
cane and each branch was divided
into sections of ﬁve budseach and
the divisions were marked with
strings. A record was kept of the
kind of buds which developed in
each section and also the number
and weight of berries produced on
each section. Work done as care-
fully as thls 'gives both accurate and
dependable information.

Two plots outyielded all of the
others,‘ one where the laterals had
been cut back to four buds each and
the other where the laterals were
left full length but had been thinned
out. The comparative yield of these
two plots to an acre basis was as
follows;

Four-bud laterals—210 cases con-
taining 1,819,727 berries. .

Full-length, thinned laterals—220
cases containing 2,372,241 berries.
While the full length laterals yielded

the most cases and the most berries.

yet the berries were much smaller
and it was found that a-person
would earn only three-fourths of a
cent for picking each extra quart
from these canes. The conclusion
was that the most practical method
of handling the lateral branches is

to cut them back to four or more_

buds. This method‘results in.better
berries, earlier berries, and easier
picking. ‘ '

A great difference in yield was
noticed between the canes with dif-
ferent sizes of stems. Carefnl'mew

*urements‘ .were . taken, which, when

compared with yield, showed plainly

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By CARL H. KNOPF

(Special Correspondent of The Business Farmer.)

that the main canes be alloWed to
reach 24 to 30 inches in length be—
fore being pinched back. This is
recommended because it was found
that the buds on the stalks of the
canes and the lateral branch buds
which were nearest the canes, pro-

duced the largest yields of berries,

Prune Reds Higher

As red raspberries have only about
one-third as many buds per root
length of cane as do the blacks,
‘Supt. Johnson recommended leaving
the red raspberry canes quite long.
It was found that the yield per acre
increased with the length per cane
but that the limit was reached at
about shoulder height. Canes which
are too tall break over more easily
and another difficulty was found in
the fact that the berries on the top
laterals have a tendency to run
small.

Mr. Johnson stated that the ﬁrst
ﬁve buds nearest the cane on the
red raspberry lateral branches are
usually vegetative buds and for that
reason any laterals on such canes
should be left at least twelve buds
in length.

Supplementary Cash Crops for
the Grower of Small Fruits was the

topic discussed by Prof. Geo. E.
Starr of the M. A. C. Prof.
Starr recommended, among others,
sweet corn, asparagus, chicory, and
melons.

Cherry Spraying for 1924

These recommendations were pre—
sented by Prof. H. M. Wells, also of
the M. A. C. Horticultural Dept. who
has been carrying on the work with
the assistance of Prof. Dutton.

To date they have found lime sul—
fur to be about equal with Bordeaux
mixture as a spray to control the
cherry leaf spot. Their observation
has been that more leaf injury is
caused by the Bordeaux spray and
also that it tends to reduce the size
of the cherries. Special warning
was given not to attempt alternating
the lime sulfur and Bordeaux sprays
during the season. Pyrox sprays
during the 1923 season gave con—
siderable foliage injury.

The results to date indicate that
lime sulfur, used at the rate of 11/;
gallons to 50 gallons of water, is
the most satisfactory spray for cher—
ries. Applications of this spray are
recommended as follows;

First application, just as the petals
fall. Second, 10 days later. Third,

Michigan “Going Strong” At International

EICAGO, Dec. 3.———Michigan has
always been a big winner of
prizes at the International Hay

and Grain Show held during the In—
ternational Live Stock Exposition
each year at Chicago and this year
our farmers are going to try to win
more than ever. They started off
by winning two prizes on their hard
red winter wheat, and this is the
ﬁrst year they have ever exhibited
in this class. Only two samples were
entered from Michigan and they
won twentieth and twenty-ﬁrst
places in a ﬁeld of eighty entries
from the wheat belt of the United
States and Canada. Arnold Callan,
Caro, won twentieth place and John
Shoemaker, Hudsonville, was the
other exhibitor. The samples shown
were of Berkeley Rock, the new
variety developed by Prof. Frank
Spragg of the M. A. C., by mixing
Red Rock and Berkeley Rock.

The Michigan growers who placed
in the soft red winter wheat class
are: First, A. W. Jewett, Jr., Ma-
son; second, L. H. Laylin, Mason;
third, John C. Wilk, Alma; fourth,
D. C. Seaman, Jackson; ﬁfth, A. F.
Hilliard, Mason; sixth, C. D. Fink-
beiner, Clinton; eighth, L. T. Lasen-
by, Mason; eleventh, T. J. Wilk, Al-
ma; twelfth, J. A. Wilk, Alma;
fourteenth, J. I. Hazelitt, Ionia;
sixteenth, Ralph Jewett, Mason;
twenty—third, F. L. Houghton, Alto.

For the ﬁrst time Michigan made
a strong showing in ﬁeld peas when,
in the class other than-yellow, Mar—
tin Peterson, of Bruce \Crossing,
took ﬁrst; Adolph Trousil, of Ewen.
took second, and L. H. Laylin, of
Mason, third. The ﬁrst two are
members of a group of Ontonagon
county farmers whom W. N. Clark,
county agricultural agent, has or—
ganized for intensive seed work.

In ﬁeld beans, Arthur W. Jewett,
Jr., of Mason, took ﬁrst;’Melvin J.
Smith,- of Springport, second, and

'L. T. Lasenby, of Mason, third.

. Six out of ten places in yellow
soy beans went to Michigan men. G.
C. -Wilk, of Alma,’ was fourth;
Daaville, ﬁfth:

Charles Ashbaugh, Luther, seventh;
L. H. Laylin, Mason, eighth, and H.
C. Owen, Ovid, ninth.

In soy beans and other variety,
Arthur W. Jew-ett, Jr., of Mason,
was ﬁfth, Lynn Jewett, of Leslie,
ninth, and L. H. Layin, of Mason,
tenth.

Harold Goetz, of Blissﬁeld, was
second in the junior class in yellow
corn . In the collegiate live stock
judging contest, held Saturday, the
M. A. C. team placed eighteenth.

Judging in the other crop classes
and live stock is going on as we go
to press and a list of the winners
will appear in our next issue.

Michigan Stock At Show

Exhibitors from Michigan in the
live stock show are Carr Bros. &
Co., of Bad Axe, with Shorthorn
cattle; C. H. Prescott & Sons, of
Tawas, also with Shorthorns; Wood-
cote Stock Farm, Ionia, with Aber—
deen Angus cattle and carcass en-
tries; Willian E. Scripps, of Orion,
with Aberdeen Angus cattle and
Belgian horses; Dwight Cutler, of
Ionla, with Aberdeen Angus cattle;
Harold J. Harwood, of Ionia, with
grades and crossbreds; Cliff Middle—
ton, of Clayton, with Shropshire
sheep; Harry T. Crandall, of Cass
City, with Oxford, Lincoln and Cots-
wold sheep and Chester White hogs;
Detroit Creamery Farm, of Mt.
Clemens, with Poland China, Duroc
Jersey and Chester White hogs;
Fred B. Hill, of Flat Rock, with
Duroc Jersey hogs; Andrew Adams,
of Litchﬁeld, with Chester White
hogs and swine carcasses; W. F.
Adams, of Litchﬁeld, with Tam-
worth hogs and swine carcasses, and
J. L. Miller, of Caledonia, with
Percheron horses.

The Michigan Agricultural Col-
lege is exhibiting Herefords and
Aberdeen Angus cattle, Hampshire,
Shropshire, Oxford, Cotswold, Dor-
set, Southdown and Rambougiller
sheep, Berkshire, Poland China,
Duroc Jersey, Chester White, .Hamp-
shire. Tamworth and Yorkshire
hogs, Clydesdale, Percheron and
Belgian horses and swine, sheep and

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after another 10 Fourth,
just after harvest.

For the poison, 1 pound of pow-
dered arsenate of lead should be
used for each 50 gallon of spray
mixture. .

Discussing the effects of the leaf
spot infection which defoliated so
many cherry'orchards in 1922, Prof.
Wells said that in the yields on the
experimental blocks in Grand Tra-
verse county had been reduced from
41/2 crates on the protected trees to
21/2 crates per tree in the check
block which was defoliated by the
disease.

Michigan fruit grading laws were
discussed by Director Wm. P. Hart-
man, Bureau of Standards, State De—
partment of Agriculture. Mr. Hart—
man stated that Michigan’s stand—
ards for apples have received wide—
spread recognition and cited, as
proof, the fact that 17 states now
use the Michigan apple grades.

Mr Hartman stressed the import-
ance of standardizing as being fully
as important as advertising. He
stated that two billions of dollars
spent in this country every year for
advertising would be of little value
unless the advertisers followed it up
with a constant supply of standard
products. He stated that the prac—
ticc of dumping an ungraded pro—
duct on the market is causing Mich-
igan potato growers a loss of atm.
[cast $1.000.000.00 annually.

Mr. Hartman cxhibiied four full’
page ads taken from a single issue
of the “Ladies Home Journal."
'l‘hcsc, {ids from cooperative organiza—
tions in California, advertised Cali—
fornia fruits and canned goods, in
colors. to the American public. The
cost of a single month’s insertion of
each of these ads. in colors was giv—
on as $11,000. These four pages
three in colors and one in black,
therefore cost $39,000. By reason
of having a large quantity of stand—
ard- goods to follow up these adver—
tisements. Mr. Hartman stated that
the California growers were able to
realize a proﬁt, even from an ad—
vertising bill of nearly 40,000 per
month per magazine.

It was stated that the raisin
growers alone, spent over two mil—
lion dollars in advertising in 1922.
With the increased market for their
product they are able to realize a
proﬁt on their advertising invest-
ment.

Everbearing Strawberries

This subject was discussed by A.
L. Watson, of Grand Rapids, who
has become widely known through-
out the state as the proprieter of
Strawberry Acres.

The overbearing variety, accord-
ing to Mr. Watson, was a sport from
the Bismark variety and was ﬁrst
known as the Pan American. It
was discovered and propagated by a
MgrésCooper in New York state, in

There are two distinct types of
everbearers, the Superb and the
Progressive. 'The former has the
larger size but the latter has the
superior ﬂavor and sweetness and
so is becoming the most popular
market variety.

Michigan marketing problems
were discussed at length by F. L.
Granger of Benton Harbor. Mr.
Granger stated that he had become
convinced that production, and not
advertising, is Michigan’s ﬁrst mar—
keting problem. For example, ap-
ples should be in cold storage with-
in 72 hours after being picked from
the tree. Under the present system.
several weeks may elapse before the
fruit reaches cold storage. 7

Mr. Granger advocated selling:

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Aren't They Beauties ‘1’

ITH a large apple crop in many

sections of the state farmers

are wondering how they can
market them to the best advantage.
Considering the prevailing price of
apples, the scarcity of labor and
also the high price of labor when it
is possible to get it and ﬁnally the
high freight rates where they have
to be shipped by freight, makes the
.apple crop a mighty poor paying one
this year.

However, there is a way of turn-
ing your apples into a real proﬁt
with a minimum returns. The way
that is described in this article.
doubtless, is familiar to most farm—
ers only they have not realized its
possibilities.

It takes about eight bushels of
good juicy apples (ten or more
bushels if they are dry) to make a
barrel of ,cider. This cider then
can be fermented by yeast and bac-
teria and changed into acetic acid.
When it has reached this stage. We
call it vinegar. Vinegar can be
sold any time of the year for from
thirty to ﬁfty cents per gallon. To
take a concrete example, say that
apples are selling for one dollar a
bushel and it takes eight bushels to
make a thirty-two gallon barrel of
cider. The cider when converted

cents per gallon. The eight bushels
of apples if sold on the market
would bring eight dollars and the
vinegar made from those apples
would sell for one and one—half
times as much or about thirteen
dollars. The actual proﬁt on the
Whole orchard would be a great
deal more than this for apples pick—
ed for cider need not have near
the care in picking and handling as
those sold on the market. Further-
more all the cull apples can also be
turned into a proﬁt in this way
' while in many cases they are allow—
ed to lay on the ground and rot.

Vinegar a Long Time Investment

One of the chief objections that
the farmer has to making vinegar
is the length of time it takes to con:
. vert the cider into vinegar. He
7 places the cider in the cellar at a
low temperature and allows it to re—
main there until spring or the fol—

ING Apple and his royal concorr

Potato held undisputed sway at
~ Grand Rapids during the week
of November 20 to 23, when the
Second Annual Apple and Potato
Show was held in the Klingman
,~bui1ding. With the leading grow—
ersrof apples and potatoes in keen
competition for state honors the
1923 Show proved to be the largest
and ﬁnest exhibition of its kind ev—
er held in the state.

, «Some two hundred exhibitors ent—
ered displays, making the Show
considerably larger than last year.
There was also a marked increase
in the quality of exhibits, thus. prov-
, ing that the Show is ﬁlling its mis-

sion of teaching quality and selec-
‘ tion. _

Apples were shown in all quanti-
the from the ﬁve—apples-per-plate
exhibit up to the big ﬁfty—bushels
exhibit. ‘All sections of Michigan
Were represented by their choicest

classes afforded the most
60mpetition. One large room was
nearly ﬁlled with tables bearing the
hate exhibits while the tray exhib-
 were'banked along the side of
. Iat'same room. Apples packed 1n
2‘ bushels and barrels, occupied over
 Kilt of the display space alloted to
V “uit, with i the seven ﬁfty-bushel
é‘xhibits "predominating. _

"A toatute'ot’the Show was the

     
 
  
  

  
  

    

     
    
    
   
   
  
    
   
   
  
  
  
   
  
  
   
     
 
 
   
    
    
  
    
   
  
    
    
 
  
  
  
    
   
  
    
  
 
  
     
   
 
   
    
 
  
 
   
 
 
   
  
 
 
  
  
  
   
 
   
   
   
     
   
   
    
     
    
   
  
  
     
    
   
   
   
   
  
  
    
   
 
   
 
   
  
 
  
  
 

into vinegar will sell at say forty

   

Associate

lowing summer be-
fore it turns into vine—
gar and is ready to
sell. It takes so long
when nature, unaided.
is allowed to take her course
that the farmer would’rather sell
the apples for a great deal less in
the fall and realize on them quick—
ly. Then too when spring or the
next summer comes around he oft—
en ﬁnds that the cider has not turn—
ed into vinegar and in some cases
has spoiled so that his apples are a
total loss.
er with the long wait for the money
has reduced the amount of vinegar
made on the farm to a minimum.
In most cases the farmer only
makes enough for home consump—
tion and in many cases actually
buys vinegar. ‘

Making Vinegar Scientiﬁcally

However, by making vinegar
scientiﬁcally all the trouble and ob-
jections usually encountered could
be avoided. Furthermore the cider
could be converted into vinegar,
sold and the money in the bank in~
side of two to three months. All
this is made possible by the use of
pure cultures of yeast and bacteria
isolated and growu in sterile cider.
These cultures are added to the
cider as soon as possible after mak—
ing and does the work quickly and
well. The Bacteriological Labora-

This uncertainty togeth-,

 “sang “rout-Avis  R‘ '

Make Money 0.1 Large Apple .Crop by Making Into Cider

    

and Then Converting Into Vinegar '

By F. ‘W. FABIAN

Professor Bacteriology and Hygiene, Michigan Agricultural Collego'

(Written Exclusively for TheBusiness Farmer.)

tory of the Michigan Agricultural
College, East Lansing, Michigan,
has been sending out these cultures

A for years to the farmers of not only

Michigan but all over the United
States and Canada and in fact to
all parts of the world. It is one of
the few places in this country where
these cultures can be obtained and
as a result the demand is yearly in‘
creasing. Not only farmers, but
many people living in the cities lik-
ing the ﬂavor of good cider vinegar
buy cider when possible and send
for the cultures and make their own
vinegar. Many vinegar factories.
also, send for pure cultures with
which to start their initial fermen-
tation. The cultures are furnished
at cost, twenty-ﬁve cents, and is
done not as a money—making
scheme but as a real service to the
people of the state.

In the scientiﬁc process of making
vinegar, two cultures are. necessary.
The ﬁrst culture used is a yeast,
(Saccharomyces ellipsoideus) which
converts the sugar present in apples
into alcohol. The cider is then
known as “hard cider.” The second
culture necessary is a bacterium.
(Bacterium aceti) which converts
the alcohol made by the yeast into
acetic acid. The cider is then call-
ed “vinegar.” The ﬁrst process
takes about two weeks and the sec-
ond process about six weeks or
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“'hf'n labor is vlelltiful' and one has the time the most proﬁtable way to market
the ample crop is to grade the apples and sell according to grade. using the culls for
cider vinegar. But when labor is scarce and wages high and there is an abundance
of fruit by making your whole crop of apples into cider vinegar you can market
the crop at a proﬁt where you could not otherwise.

By CARL KNOPF

(Special Correspondent of The Business Farmer.)

ﬁfty—bushel exhibit of apples which
won ﬁrst prize. This was grown by
Wm. Weckler, of Ludington. Mason
county. Composed of Northern
Spies, :Snows, Johnathans, Grimes
Golden, Wagners, and Canada Reds.
with fruit of wonderful size and col—
oring, and skillfully packed, this
exhibit made a picture which alone
was worth a trip to the Show.
Second prize in this same class
was won by W. H. Roach & Co.. of
Hart, while third and fourth hon—
ors, respectively, went to Crystal

Lake Orchards of Beulah and to the .

Benzie county exhibit.

The South Haven Fruit Exchange
won ﬁrst place in the ﬁfty-bushel
exhibit, commercial pack, with a
display showing remarkable uni—
formity and excellent skill in pack-
1n .

gPrizes for the best barrels of the
different varieties were awarded as
follows: Greenings, Jesse Pickett of
Dutton; Johnathans, H. Schaefer &
Sons of Sparta; Wealthys, L; F.
Waid of Byron Center; Wagners,
A. J. Dowd of Hartford; Snows, H.
Schaefer & Sons of Sparta; Grimes

Golden,- vFridasyanFOB? “girdeaiomiﬁy; 
McIntosh, W. H. "Roach‘="&“.Co.g of "

Hart; Northern- Spies, Oscar Bra-

 

 

man of Grand Rapids: Steele Reds.
Farley Bros. of Albion.

Son. Beats Out His Dad

The individual bushel classes
brought out splendid displays of
the various varieties. Very sharp

competition marked every class and

the placings were close.

Those following the judging were
much amused when competition in
the Northern Spy section narrowed
down to a contest between Oscar
Braman, well known representative
from Kent county, and his son.
Russell. The bushel selected by
the sen was ﬁnally awarded ﬁrst
place and the dad had to be content
with the second prime. When all
of the premiums were totalled it
was very certain who had done the
most careful work, as Russell won
a total of 27 prizes while all Mr.
Braman could muster was 7‘.

For purposes of competition in
the plate displays the state is divid-
ed into four sections. The Upper
Peninsula was not represented this
year but the sweepstakes winners
for the best plates of apples from

I'thewothar; sectidns were. ;, .3 Southwest,a 
ern;.Michigan,' :Steele Reds 'exhifgltted ~,
em - «

by Farley Bros. of Albion; NM
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glgwhat’ .“qua

or four at the most, ’it is possible
by using pure cultures to produce a

good saleable vinegar. This is quite

different from six months or a year.
In addition to this you are always
sure of getting vinegar.

Speciﬁc Directions for Making

1. Use good clean juicy apples.

2. Wash and scald the cider
barrel thoroughly.

3. Fill the barrel about three-
fourths full of cider.

4. Inoculate with vinegar yeast
as soon as possible.

5. Store the cider at a tempera-
ture of 65 to 75 degrees F.

6. Allow it to ferment until no
more gas is given off.

7. Inoculate with vinegar bac-
teria.

8. Allow to ferment until 4 per
cent or more of acetic acid is pro-
duced.

9. It is now ready for sale. If
you keep it for home use, ﬁll the
barrel full, cork tightly, and store
in cool place.

\Vhat Is Vinegar?

“Vinegar is a condiment produced
by the successive alcoholic and acet—
ic fermentation of a watery solution
of sugary or starchy substances by
certain yeasts and bacteria.”

The Michigan Dairy and Food
Laws (1917) deﬁne vinegar as fol-
lows: (Act No. 384, Session Laws
1913), paragraph 67, section 2:
“The word ‘vinegar’ as used herein
is limited to a water solution of.
acetic acid derived by the alcoholicl
and subsequent acetous fermenta-.
tions of fruits, grain, vegetables.
sugar or syrups, and if not distilled
must carry in solution the extract-
ive matter derived solely from the
substances indicated on the label as
its source.”

Law on Sale of Cider Vinegar

Paragraph 68, Section 3 of Act
No. 384: “No vinegar shall be sold
or exposed for sale as apple or cider
Vinegar which is not the legitimate
product of pure apple juice. The
term ‘cider vinegar’ as used herein
shall be construed to mean vinegar:
derived by the alcoholic and sub-
sequent acetous fermentation of the
expressed juice of apples, and which
contalns not less than four per cent
of absolute acetic acid. Cider vine-
gar which during the course of
manufacture has developed in excess

(Continued on page 19.)

1923 Apple and Potato Show Finest Exhibition of Kind Ever Held in State

Michigan, McIntosh e ' '
Rogbothen of Beulah.xmblted by R.
. he plate of Delicious 5
Pickford Bros. was ﬁnally gxidgi
the championship ribbon.
Other exhibits worthy of mention
were as follows: Individual plate
display, won by L. A. Spencer of
Klbble With 105 different varieties
in the collection; Best collection of
pears, shown by Taylor and Jager of
Douglas; Ten bushel exhibit of
apples, won by H. Schaefer & Sons
3f Slpartg; Fine lgushel apple exhib-
, )y v usse
Rapids. raman of Grand
Some comment was heard through

~the show rooms that an exhibit

from a single orchard which con-
tained over 100 different varieties
demonstrated very clearly the need
111 Michigan of st ndardizing on a
few varieties. '
‘fWonder Show” of Potatoes
The- potato exhibit vied with the

(apple display in extent, quality, and

in interest.- Probably thousands of
people who thought they knew all
about potatoes, learnedfor'the ﬁrst
time. at the Show, what»;‘p0tatoes
really are; .Lbng lines of?‘"‘tables,-
each bearing piles of uniform and
smooth tubers, ‘waswa rev

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AIADE FROM DRIED APPLES—Types
taken from the southern mountain district
and immortalized in these dried apple dolls
by Isabel Million of Knoxville, Tennessee.
Every type of mountaineer is found in her
collection which is the most unique in the
wOrld.

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ALIERICAN CROSSES ATLANTIC OCEAN ON YACHT.—Dr.
Paul Morgan, an intrepid young American who was snapped upon
his arrival in Budapest from New York. Dr. Morgan braved
unheard of perils crossing the Atlantic in his small yacht “Beat-
rice” and his successful negotiation of the “drink of water” may
lead other adventurous souls in following his trail. He plans to
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NO REASON FOR DYING

 

0F DIA-
BETES—Prof. Ralph ll. )lch’ee of (‘olum-
bin. I'niversity, N. Y., says a remedy for
suﬁ‘erers of diabetes is within reach of all.
Through the new discovery, lntravin, relief

can be had at about $3 a week, and in some
cases the cost is less. ,

 

 

_ EDUCATORS RECEIVED BY PRESIDENT AT WHITE HOUSF.—Left to
right is Chief Justice “’m. H. Taft, President Coolidge and Wm. Mather Lewis,
new president of the George Washington University, Washington, D. C. A

large gathering of Educators assembled at the “’hite House before the in-
auguration of Mr. Lewis.

 

 

 

“ADOLPIIUS” SM’OKES A PIPE.—Hundreds of pipes have “'ORLD’S LARGEST FL

into condition. 600 pounds.

 

SNAPPED AT THE TOP ’0 MICHIGAN POTATO SHOW, NOVEMBER 7th, 8th, tuba-T
county, while in the background ‘you see the exhibit of the State Department of Agriculture.

 

 

 

 

   

GERRIAN
German mark is dain falling comes this one showing that the mark is
However, we hasten to explain that the German boys ﬁnd it cheaper to make
kites from the currency than to buy them—and in this way is sending the
mark ﬂying Skyward.

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of the statements that the
rising.

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AG.— BEATS THE LADIES AT THEIR OWN WORK.-——John

been sold by the suggestiveness of this clever machine nick- This ﬂag, 90xl50 feet, was unfurled Myers. aged 19, of Blackburn, England, who engaged in
named. “Adolphus”, and used in the shop of a. London to- on the front of the building of J. the “Hook, click" clash which animated London. Ranged
bacconist, who invented it some. years ago. It is not merely' L’ Hudson (‘0‘, Detroit, November against him were seven of the cleverest women knitters.
a toy but a working member of his staff for it puts a pipe lith, Armistice Day. It weighs but they were vanished in the semiﬁnals. The contest

took place in Sell‘ridge’s, London's biggest department store.

   
    

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be view at the left shows a ﬁne display of potatoes from Crawford
At the right is a close-up view of one corner of the State Depart-

ment of As‘rieulture exhibit. The show was such a success that it is planned to make it an annual event. .

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 J Loans For Farel‘s’

" Agricultural Credit Act—is Connecting Link Between Short Time and Long Time. [Mrlrge

‘ ually increased until the sows were 1
-' they could consume- "

   

Agricultural Credit Act oi
1923, passed by our last Con-
gress, supplies a very necessary

credit link between short time loans

necessary to farmers and the long
this loans made under the Federal
Farm Loan Act. It has been stated
by those not quite familiar with

' agriculture and agricultural ﬁnanc-

ing that this Act would be instru—
mental in bringing the farmer
further into debt. This is not the
case; as a matter of fact, this Act

' provided instrumentalities to be us-

ed by the farmer in pulling himself
out of debt. Through the banks
established by this Act the country
banks are furnished with the nec-
essary capital for economical and
successful crop production and can
furnish to cooperative organizations
the credits needed to orderly market
the farm products of their member-
ship.

The Senate in February passed
two bills, known as the Leroot and
the Capper bills. The House, about
the same time, passed a bill known
as the Stone Bill. Later, the prin-
cipal feature of these bills were
combined, some few additions made
and passed as the Agricultural
Credit Act of March 4th, 1923. This
Act created the Federal Intermedi-
ate Banks and National Agricultur-
al Credit Corporations.

The purpose of these two types of
institutions is the same. The meth-

v ods of organization and operation

differ somewhat, however.

The National Agricultural Credit
Corporations are privately owned
and are limited in proﬁts to a point
where it is very doubtful as to
whether any of these institutions
will ever be chartered by the Na-
tional Government.

The limitations placed by the
Act are such that an investment in
these institutions would not look at
all attractive to an investor. The
business transacted under this Act
Will undoubtedly be transacted thru
the Federal Intermediate Credit
Banks.

I will give a brief digest of the
organization and powers of these
Banks:

The Act provides for the estab—

. lishing of twelve Intermediate Cred-
‘ it Banks.

One to be lecated in each
of the twelve Federal Land Bank
Districts in the United States. The
capital stock of these banks is all

' owned by the United States Govern-

ment. Each bank has an authoriz-

1' ed capital of Five Millions of Dol-

late on which there has been paid

By JOHN H. KRAFFT

 

THIS is the third of 'a. Series of four articles by John H.

Krafft on ﬁnancing the farmer.

In the ﬁrst article Mr.

Krafﬂ discusses rural credit conditions in general; in the
second, short time loans; and in this article he takes up
Intermediate Credit Loans. The fourth article will ap-

pear in the near future.

 

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up to date One Million dollars.
These banks are authorized to dis—
count paper, or purchase paper,
from any national bank, any bank
or other ﬁnancial institution or
agricultural marketing association,
organized under the state laws or
any other Intermediate Credit Bank,
provided the original loans were
made for agricultural purposes in-
cluding the raising, breeding, fat-
tening or marketing of live stock.
The credit banks may also loan dir-
ectly to cooperative associations
composed of persons engaged in
producing or marketing agricultural
products—such loans are to be se-
cured by shipping documents, ware-
house receipts or mortgages on live
stock and may.uot exceed 75 per
cent of the market value of the pro-
duct, or of the live stock. There
must be made provisions for main-
taining this margin.

The law provides limitations on
the amount of paper which can be
purchased from or discounted for
any individual organization. The
loans made must have a maturity at
the time of purchase or discount of
not less than 6 months or more
than three years. For the present
the Federal Farm Loan Board has
made a ruling not to accept loans
with a maturity of over nine
months. However, as these banks
progress this time limit 'undoubted-
ly will be extended materially.

The Federal Farm Loan Board
sets the interest rate to be charged
on these loans. The interest rate,
however, may not exceed by more
than one per cent the interest rate
on the last bonds issued by the
bank. These banks are not allow-
ed to purchase loans where the rate
charged to the borrower is in ex-
cess of one and one-half of one per—
cent of the rate charged by the
bank. At the present time the rate;
charged by the Intermediate Credit
Banks is 5% per cent, so the bank
will not discount any paper where

the borrower has been charged
above 7 per cent.

The banks or cooperative market-
ing organizations rediscounting
notes with the Intermediate Credit
Banks must guarantee these notes.
Intermediate Credit banks are au-
thorized, subject to the approval of
the Federal Farm Loan Board, to
issue debentures or bonds which are
to be secured by an equal amount of
cash or obligations held by the
bank. Each bank may issue bonds
up to a total of ten times its capital
and surplus.

This makes the, combined credit
facilities of all these Intermediate
Credit Banks Six Hundred Sixty
Million Dollars. The Bonds of these
banks may run from six months to
ﬁve years. The rate of interest is
subject to the approval of the Fed—
eral Farm Loan Board, but may not
exceed 6 per cent per annum. There
is no Government obligations on
these bonds. However, all of the
banks in the system are liable for
the bonds issued by other banks oi
the system.

The whole system is based upon
the same general plan as are the
Federal Land Banks. The Inter—
mediate Credit Banks will go into
the open market of. the Country for
their money and will obtain this
money through the sale of bonds
just as the Federal and the Joint
Stock Land Banks do. The secur-
ity against these» debentures or
bonds will be the notes given by
farmers and which have been guar-
anteed by Banks, a cooperative
marketing organization or a live
stock corporation. This gives the
farmers an organization through
which they can go_into. the money
market and obtain funds. The bonds
or debentures issued by these banks
are by the Act declared instrument-
alities of the United States Govern-
ment and are exempt from all Fed—
eral, State or Municipal taxation.
The capital of these banks is not

.ization which is examined.

. ‘c

taxable, however, any real "estate
owned by these banks is taxable the
same as any other real estate within
the same jurisdiction. -

In order
properly function, the comptroller'
of the currency of the United States
is directed to furnish to such banks
for their conﬁdential use reports re-
garding the ﬁnancial condition at
national banks with which the Cred-
it Banks contempulate dealing, and
also to make examination of organi-
zations through which the Credit
Banks are contemplating making
loans or expecting discount. These
examinations may, however. only be
made with the consent 0! the organ-
The
law provides that- with the exception
of banks, trust companies' and sav-
ings associations organised under
State laws, any organization, before
securing rediscount privileges with
the Credit Banks, must file written
consent to an examination by Land
'Bank examiners. State bank and
trust companies may also be re-
quired to pass this examination.
This gives the Intermediate Credit
Bank ample opportunity to ascer-
tain from ofﬁcial sources the ﬁnanci-
al ability of the organization with
which they contemplate doing busi-
ness. Each one of these banks
must be examined by the Federal
Farm Loan Board at least once ev-
ery year and the results of such ex-
amination shall be made public. In
addition, each Credit Bank must
furnish at least three times a year a
detailed statement of its ﬁnancial
activities and condition. These re—
ports are to be published in the local
papers. Land Bank appraisers at
the request of the Credit Bank and
with approval of the Federal Farm
Loan Board are authorized to in-
spect the condition of products or
live stock which serve as a basis for
loans or discount with a Credit
Bank. There are heavy penalties
provided for in the Act for embez-
zlements, for making false reports
for the purpose of securing credit,
or for accepting fees except as pro—
vided for in the law.

The Intermediate Credit Banks
give a service similar to that «of the
Federal Reserve Bank on agricul-
tural paper with a maturity of not
over nine months and are in addi-
tion allowed to make loans on paper
with a maturity up to three years.
They are also allowed to make loans
to cooperative, marketing and live
stock companies and in a general

(Continued on Page 17’)

Highest Honor In Michigan Ton Litter Contest Won By Poland Chinas

By V. A. FREEMAN

Extension Specialist in Animal Husbandry, Michigan Agricultural College

IXTEEN litters weighed above
the ton mark at 180 days age
in the Michigan 1923 Ton Lit-

ter Contest. They were all fed for
practical economical production
without using any expensive meth-
ods to induce rapid growth so that
the lessons brought out by their reo-

‘ ords are of practical value to every

swine grower in the state.
A summary of the records of the
,winners show in nearly every case——

1. The dams receivml either
some protein supplementary feed
such as skimmed milk. tankage.

middlings, oil meal or legume hay,
along with a limited amount of
corn during the gestation period or

'else the ration was made up of a

very small proportiOn of corn, bar-
ley or rye for several weeks before
farrowlng. This supplementary
protein feed was considered especi-
ally important the last 5 or 6 weeks.

2. The dam were managed so
as to require them to take consider-

 able exercise every day during the

gestation period.

3. A careful record of the breed-
ing date was inept so that special at—
tention could be given at tax-rowing
time to provide a warm, clean, dry

‘penandtobeonhandtocarefcr

 new pies; .

:43. The sows were fed lightly for
two days to one week after {arrow-
ing. but as soon as the pigs could
ore milk, the feed was grad-

   

5. The pigs were encouraged to
take feed by themselves at ages of
three to ﬁve weeks and were well
started on feed by the time they
were weaned at 8 to 10 weeks old.

6. Feeds rich in protin like
skimmed milk, butter milk, middl-
ings and tankage were used for the
pigs before and at weaning time,
along with tempting foods such as
corn, hominy, or ground barley,
wheat and oats. . ’

7. Alfalfa or clover pasture was
used for the sow and litter and for
the pigs after weaning.

8. Several of the litters were
ted on self-feeder from before wean-

while others were required to use
more pasture the ﬁrst three or tour
months, but were full ted during
the last two or, three months. The
litters making the highest average
weight per pig were full fed
throughout the period.

9. The dams of the litters were
larger than the average sow, but of
a medium type, showing plenty of
constitution, feeding capacity and
great length and depth of body. and
showed an active temperament.

The position, weight and breed of
the winning litters are given in the
chart at the foot of the two center
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HOW WINNING 1m STAND
Breeding M Number
Weight of Sire of Du- et pigs puller Address

let—2840* Pohnd QM.......10....._V. I. & Son, Jonesville.
hid—4756 Duroc J J ...... 1......H. M. Bath.
arc-4836 Poland D. J Leonidas.
4H404 Che-tes- P. .

nth—2841 J_...............l

stir—2378 a“...

7th—2 c. ........

Stir—3202 J

9th——2158

loch—2124

nth—~21”

nth—4080

3th 95 3‘

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addresses of owners are also given.
’The ﬁrstﬁve will win in addition

to help these banks

to the gold medal to be awarded ‘
each of the sixteen, the cash prizes ‘
made possible by the contributions 4

of packing companies of Detroit,
which are $50.00, $40.00, $30.00,
$20.00 and $10.00 respectively.
The heaviest litter in the contest
also wins their producers, V. J.
Brown & Son of Jonesville, the
$200.00 oﬁered by The. Poland
China Breed Promotion Committee.
The heaviest Duroc Jersey litter,
produced by H. M. McIlwain of

Bath, wins the $100.00 oiiered by i

the National Duroc Jersey Record
Association.
White litter, produced by Fritz
Mantey of Fairgrove, wins the. $100
oﬂered by the Chester White Rec—
ord Association.

the American Duroc Jersey Ass’n.
It is interesting to note that
while a Poland China litter won

The heaviest Chester 1

V Ray Harold oi;
Glad'win, wins the $50. offered by 3

high honors both in litter weight. .
and average weight per pig, a Duroc 1

Jersey litter stood second, and a
Chester White litter stood near the
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"To put the farmer on a par with the
city manufacturer. To put his pro-
duce factory——for that is what a farm

’ is—on an efficient production basis.”

Spurred by this ideal, Henry Ford brought
the F ordson Tractor into being.

Himself a farm boy, who had followed
the plow for many a weary mile, no one
knew better the need for quicker and
easier. farm power.

Producers in other ﬁelds were harnessing
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farms it increases the [daily work done,
adds to the farm income and allows a
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BEETFIELDS \

N the editorial of your issue of
Oct. 27, entitled, “Child Labor
in the Best Fields,” is certainly
food for thought. '
It is an accepted fact that con-
tract labor brings the whole family
into the beet ﬁeld from the time the

blocking and thinning start until'

the last beet is topped in“th'e ﬁeld.

However, in our opinion this use
of child labor is not in any way
comparable - to the employment of
child labor in the cotton mills of
the south because the season for
blocking and thinning beets usually
starts just about the time the dis-
trict schools let out for summer
vacation and in most cases the har-
vesting is completed not later than
two months after school starts in
the fall. This leaves. about seven
months of school for these children
.and in most cases that have come
under observation they are eager to
make the most of their opportunity,
sometimes excelling their more for-
tunate class-mates whose parents
never think of keeping their child-
ren home to work. Thus these
children of contract laborers cannot
be classed as illiterate. However,
we have found from experience that
their presence in the ﬁelds is ob-
jectionable from quite a diﬂerent
standpoint.

In about nine cases out of ten
their work is unsatisfactory. Hand—
ling beets is too heavy work for
many of them and as their parents,
are bound to keep them going the

Work is done in a very poor man. {

her.

It seems to us that this contract
labor is being paid enough that they
can make a living wage without

driving their children to the very,

limit of their endurance and I be-
lieve it is time that the beet grow-
ers of Michigan who employ con-
tract labor should say emphatically
enough to be heard by every labor
family that no children shall be
brought in the beet ﬁelds to work.
——A. J. Davis, Shiawassee County,
Mich.

APPLAUDS LABOR ORGAN IZA-
TION

DITOR of M. B. F.:—-That Big
Business should try to set
farmers and workingmen by

the ears is “Very natural” as neigh—
bor Pecksniff used to say. That
certain so-called farm editors should
fall for its propaganda is not sur-
prising, but to ﬁnd it on your edit‘
orial page is nauseating. If labor
gets.more than we do because it had
the good sense to organize eﬁiciently
before we began to wake up, whose
fault is it? Instead of being jeal-
ous, why not proﬁt by their ex—
ample? r

To sneer at radicalism is easy and
fashionable, but radicalism varies.
There is not only the careless rad-—
icalism of the puppy who digs up

the pansy bed for fun, and the self— ‘

ish radicalism of the pig who roots
up everything in hope of immediate
personal gain. There is also the
constructive radicalism of the gard-
ener who goes to the roots of things
in transplanting and cultivating.
There are puppies and pigs among
all classes, not excepting farmers.
Every class, including organized
labor, has some who try to follow
the teachings of Jesus and many
capable of following intelligent self—
interest. On these depends the solu—
tion of our problem. Most of them
are farmers or workingmen, not be-
cause these classes are morally su—
perior, but because they are most
numerous and teel'most keenly the
enlightening pinch of circumstances.

The interests of farmers and
workingmen are not all identical.
Even among farmers each commod-
ity group has interests and' problems
of its‘own. So also has each indus-
trial group of workingmen.» No hu—

 

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our legislative
ﬁrst time- in history real, ly represent
the whole people. But just now we
must use the system we have} which
requires political parties. ‘

The strongest argument. against
a new party just now is not the di-
versity of interests among progres-
sive citizens, but the fact that neith-
er farmers nor workingmen see
clearlyxenough yet to know exactly
what they want. This may cease
to be a fact sooner than We think.
Anyhow the time is ripe for earnest
mutual discussion and criticism, not
aimless sneers. To probate such
criticism and discussion every farin-
er should read some good labor
organ and every workingmsn some
good farm paper. My, choice would
be THE BUSINEss Farms and “La-
bor,” the up-to—date weekly publish—
ed at Washington, D. 0., by the
railroad brotherhoods. , “Labor”
costs $2.00 a year because it carries
no advertisements. It you can't af-
ford to subscribe for both, take Tum
tBusINEss FABME: anyhow and ex-
change with some‘ member of any
railway union. But subscribe it
you can and get some union man to
subscribe for M. B. F.—eStacy
Brown, Ionia County, Mich.

DOING BUSINmS WITH BANK
CREDIT

EAR Sim—«Some time ago busi-

ness was done with personal

notes sent thru the mails. Now

banks say that 95% of our business

is done with bank credit. That is,

5

business men take their 30, 66, or:

90 day notes to the bank and the
bank, for a fee of 6 to 10 per cent,
passes on these notes and pretends
they are money on deposit. or

course the notes and the collateral‘
are the personality and property of .

the borrower so it is his credit—mot
bank credit, at all. But it seems
odd to me that the business man
does not take his note to the Cham—
ber of Commerce and for a teen!-
one per cent let them pass on his
credit
Chamber of Commerce and clear or
swap them thru the Chamber of
Commerce clearing house. Then by
making public improvements by
spreading a tax levy and issuing
public improvement scrip we will
ﬁnd our new methods get twice as
much as interest bearing bonds. In
addition to that we shall miss the
periodic panics when bankers tell
the people their borrowers notes are

no good, and refuse to allow them-
to pretend to have money on depos1t 4

and mail out their checks to pay
their debts. We are making pro—
gress, but of course slowly.

The farmer may well consider
this idea, for his business is, not
now,
Averill, Grand RapidsLMich.

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very proﬁtable. —— Ezra R. ‘

SEARS, ROEBUCK PLAN TO GIVE j

FABRIth AID

ULIUS Rosenwald, president of
J Sears, Roebuck .s‘; 00., has an-
nounced the establishment of
the ,Sears, Roebuck Agricultural Re—
search Foundation to determine es-

sential facts relative to farming and v

to study every phase of agricultural
economics. "

Their findings will be presented ‘

to the public as well as the farmers
in order to acquaint the laymen
with the farmers’ problems.

In announcing that the founda—
tion will be headed by the most cap-
able men available in the agricul-
tural research ﬁeld, who will have
a large start of economists and ate.
tisticians, Mr. Rosenwald says: ‘As
business men we feel a direct obli-
gation to do everything we can to
improve the farmers’ condition. A
careful survey has revealed to us
that where the farmer needs help
is in economies in marketing his
product.

“We have, therefore. decided to
establish an agricultural research
foundation to deal exclusively with‘
the economic problems of the term.
The task will be placed in the hands

   

   

 

  

 

 


   
  
    

 

 
    
 

 

 

   
 
 
 
 

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" CHARGES - .

Want to ask a question. A wo-

'man moved her household goods

here twelve years ago and nothing
was said in regard to paying stor-
age. She lives . in another state.
How can I proceed to get these
goods for storage? She is keeping
house and has bought furniture to
furnish ﬁve reorder—D. 10., Hartford,
Michigan. ‘

——-I would advise you to write a
letter to the woman, notifying her
that unless she removed the furni-
ture, it would be sold for storage.
If she does not remove it within a
reasonable length of time you may
sell it and deduct your storage
charge from the proceeds.

Before proceeding to sell you
should consult a lawyer as to the
proper steps to be taken in the sale
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THRESHTNG SWEET; CIDVER

I wish some information concom-
ing threshing sweet clover seed. It
is next‘to impossible to get a regular
clover huller on account of no other
jobs and hilly roads. Can it be
threshed with a grain separator and
afterward sent somewhere and have
prepared for market? I will thank
you for any advice or information
you can give—A. B., Tustin, Mich.

—-—A grain separator is very frequent-
ly used in threshing sweet clover.
When operated carefully no trouble
should be experienced in removing
the seed from the plants. If the
hull is to be removed from the seed
it is essential that the plants be
thoroughly dry, otherwise it is im-
possible to remove the hull. Also
it is advisable to make a few ad—
justments if the hull is to be re-
moved. Alfalfa or red clover rid-
dles should be used. The speed of
the fan should bé‘reduced about half
so that the seed will not be blown
overﬂ Some operators set the con-
cave teeth so that they run closer
to the cylinder teeth than is cps—
tomary when threshing grain. After
these changes, only a very small
percent of the pods will be removed
if they are damp. If the plants
have made a very rank growth, the
machine may clog unless the number
of rows of concave teeth are re-
duced. All Of the larger seed com—
panies have scarifying machines that
are quite efﬁcient in removing sweet
clover hulls.———-C. R. Megee, Associ—
ate Professor of Farm Crops, M. A. C.

HURT WHILE BLOWING STUMPS

I was unable to pay my taxes in
1922, they were payable in March
1922. Until what date must those
taxes be paid to avoid consequences?
I have rented my farm for one year
to a neighbor farmer without ask—
ing any return whatsoever. I made
the arrangement with him that I
furnish the powder to blow out the
stumps, paying his time and labor.
Should any accident happen in stor-
ing or using the dynamite could I
be held liable for the damages to
health and property? Thanking you
for your kind information—O. P.,
Emigsville, Pa.

——-As I do not have a copy of the
Pennsylvania statutes, I would sug-
gest you consult your county treas-
urer on the ﬁrst question, regarding
payment of taxes.

If you are hiring your tenant to
blow out stumps on your farm for
your beneﬁt, and paying him‘ wages
to do the work, you would be liable
for damages done by his negligence
while doing the work. Your liabil-
ity would depend upon the exact
nature of the arrangement or agree—
ment you had with your tenant, and
inasmuch as I do not have the de—
tails of the agreement would not be
able to» deﬁnitely advise whether or
not you would be liable in your case.
——-Asst. Legal Editor.

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WHO 1s LIABLE ‘ FOR DAMAGE?

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stump,  mad and hits horse and
makes it jump and breaks wheel
so A has to order another wheel,

.before he can ﬁnish haying. Would

like to know who is to blame when
horse goes fast enough at all times
so she doesn’t need whip used on
her at any time, and as it was only
carelessness that caused the machine
to be broken. Would appreciate
any advice you can give me.—A sub-
scriber to M. B. F. Lewiston, Mich.

——Liability for damages in a case
like this would depend upon the
negligence of the person who caused
the daniage. If the hired man was
negligent in performing his duty
thus causing the damage, he would
be liable—Asst. Legal Editor.

RIGHT TO BUY BOOKS

Has any two of the school board
the right to purchase books or sup-
plies without the knowledge of the
third ‘member?—-J. 8., Bloomingdale,
Michigan.

——I would say that it is the duty of
the director to purchase the neces-
sary appendages for the schoolhouse

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with the average.

 Check the cost of your farm machines
gainst the rest of your investment—
knd, buildings, labor, live stock, etc.—
md your ﬁgures will probably agree

Now is a mod time to inspect the
condition of your machines. Most of
them have been. used lately. Areany of
them worn out? Are someof them so
out of date thatit does not paytouse
them? Arethere newmethodamdie
market you should be adopting??Have

and repair.   append--

ages's‘hall includesetvor‘ wall maps,
the grand divistons of‘ the United

States and Michigan, a globe, dic— ‘
'tionary,

a reading chart, case for
library books, looking glass, comb,
towel, water pail, cup, ash pail,
poker, stove shovel, broom, dust
pan, duster, wash basin, and soap,
and upon the order of the district
board shall furnish the schoolhouse
with such other apparatus and ma-
terial as may be necessary in doing
efﬁcient work. The director shall
keep an account of all expenses in-
curred by him as director and such
accounts shall be audited by the
moderator and treasurer and on
their written order shall be paid.

No act authorized to be done by
the district board shall be valid un-
less voted at a meeting of the board.
A majority of the members of the
board at a meeting thereof shall be
necessary for the transaction of all
business—G. N. Otwell, Department
of Public Instruction.

MUST HAVE COWS TESTED

Is there a state law to compel
one to let a cow tester test his
cattle?—-G. K., Pinckney, Mich.
—From the address given it is as-
sumed that you live in Livingston
county. Livingston county is one of
those counties in which Area Tuber-
culosis Eradication work is under—
way and the fact has been duly ad—
vertised.

Section 15A, which was added to

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farm equipment is one of the
smallest items in the cost of

. farming, the yearly avers e being
only 4 to 8%.of the tot .

Farm machines are sold for less money,
pound for pound and quality for quality,
than any other similar manufactured
article. Yet in proﬁtable farming there
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Act 181 of the Public Acts of 1919-
by the 1923 legislature, states in
.part that “Whenever the Commis-
sion shall have determined to test
for tuberculosis all the cattle in any
certain cou ty where bovine tuber-
culosis erad, cation has been adopted,
he shall give public notice of his de-
termination by publishing a notice
to that effect in one or more news-
papers of general circulation in said
county at least ten days before such
testing shall commence. C a t t l 6
found to be reactors to such tests
shall be branded, slaughtered when
ordered by the Commissioner and
the owners thereof entitled to such
indemnities as in this act provided.
It shall be unlawful for any person
who owns, or who is in possession of,
or controls any cattle, to prevent,
hinder, obstruct or refuse to allow
the Commissioner or authorized
veterinarian to conduct such tests-
for tuberculosis on such cattle, pro-
vided that this section shall not ap-
ply to steers properly isolated from
other cattle—B. J. Killham, State
Veterinarian.

RAFFLES__

Will you please inform me if it is
unlawful to raffle a car via tickets.
Thanking you, I am, H. L.'R., New-
berry, Michigan.

——-It is unlawful in Michigan toldis-
pose of personal property by means
of raffles, or lottery.———Asst. Legal
Editor.

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STANLEY G. FULTON,

is opposed to these ideas.

worthy one he, through his lawyer,
they will.

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kind of people they are.

country, he starts out.

on the world.

one of the cousins, where he tries to hire bond and lodging.
he meets Miss Flora Blaisdell, another cousin who is a dressmnker.
decide they cannot rent a room to him and supply him board and refer him
to Frank Blaisdell’s, the third cousin.
as a writer gathering material for a book on the Blaisdell family in this
He calls on all of the Blaisdells and as
of a relative by the name of Miss Maggie Duff he decides to call on the lady.
He finds her living with her father, an old man who seems to have soured

STORY TO DATE

R. 60-year .old bachelor and possessor of
twenty million dollars, calls on his lawyer and they discuss the dis-
position of this large fortune after its owner’s death. The lawyer
is in favor of giving the money to colleges or charities while Fulton

He remembers that he has some

and decides to leave the money to one of them, but ﬁrst he determines to

learn which one will use it to the best advantage.

g ves,

Before giving them the money grows a beard and, using the

name of Mr. John Smith, goes to the town where they live to ﬁnd out what

Upon arriving in town he visits James Blaisdell,

distant cousins

To ﬁnd out who is the
each cousin $100,000 to use as

While there
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(Continued from Nov. 24th issue.)

B. SMITH, in spite of his efforts to

himself unable to conﬁne his atten-

tion to birth, death and marriage
notices. Once he almost uttered an ex-
plosive “Good Heavens, how do you stand
it?" to his hostess. But he stopped him—
self just in time, and ﬁercely wrote with
a very black mark that Submit Blaisdell
was born in eighteen hundred and one. A
little later he became aware that Mr.
Duff’s attention was frownineg turned
across the table toward himself.

"If you will spend your time over such
silly stuff, why don’t you use a bigger
book?" demanded the old man at last.

"Because it wouldn’t ﬁt my. pocket,"
smiled Mr. Smith.

“Just what business of yours is it,

anyhow, when these people lived and
died?"

“None perhaps," still smiled good—
humoredly.

“Why don't you let them alone, then?
What do you expect to ﬁnd?”

“Why, I—I" Mr. Smith was plainly
non-plused.

“Well, I can tell you it’s a silly busi-
ness, whatever you ﬁnd. If you ﬁnd your
grandfather's a bigger man than you
are, you’ll be proud of it, but you ought
to be ashamed of it-——'cause you aren’t
bigger yourself! On the other hand, if
you ﬁnd he isn’t as big as you are, you’ll
be ashamed of that, when you ought to
be proud of it—Jcause you’ve gone him
one better. But you won’t. I know your
kind. I'Ne seen you before. But can't
you do any real work?”

“He is doing work, real work, now,
father," interrupted Miss Maggie quickly.
“He's having a. woeful time, too. If you'd
only help him. now, and show him those
papers.”

A real terror came into Mr. Smith’s
eyes, but Mr. Duff was already on his
feet.

"Well, I shan't," he observed tartly.
"I’m not a fool if he is. I‘m going out
on the porch where I can get some air.”

“There, work as long as you like, Mr.
Smith. I lmew you'd rather work by
yourself,” nodded Miss Maggie, moving
the piles of papers nearer him.

“But, good Heavens, how do you stand
—” exploded Mr. Smith before he realized
that this time he had really. said the
words aloud. He blushed a. painful red.‘

Miss Maggie, too, colored. Then, ab-
ruptly, she laughed.

“After all, it doesn't matter. Why
shouldn't I be frank with you? You

couldn't help seeing—how things were, of
course, and I forgot, for a moment that
you were a. stranger. Everybody in Hill-
erton understands. You see, father is
nervous, and not at all well. We have
to humor him.”

“But do you mean that you always
have to tell him to do what you don’t
want, in order to—well—that is—" Mr.
Smith. ﬁnding himself in very deep water,
blushed again painfully.

Miss Maggie met his dismayed gaze
with cheerful amdor.

“Tell him to do what I don't want in
order to get him to do what I do want
him to? Yes, oh. yes. But I don’t mind;
really I don’t. I’m used to it now. And
when you know how, What does it mat-
ter? After all, where is the diﬁference?
To most of the world we say, 'Please do,’
when we want a thing, while to him we
have to say, 'Please don’t.’ That's all.

You see, it’s really very simple—when
you know how." '
“Simple! Great Scott!” muttered Mr.

Smith. He wanted to say more; but Miss
Maggie, with a mulling nod, turned away,
so he went back to his work.

Benny, wandering in from the kitchen,
with both hands full of cookies, plumped
himself down on the cushioned window-
eeat, and drew a sigh of content.

"Say, Aunt Maggie." ‘

"Yes, dear." o

“Can I come ter live with you?"

"Certainly not l”, The blithe voice and
pleasant nulls took all the sting from the
prompt refusal. "What would father and
mother do?"

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ed to the little stand and picked up a.
small box. “Here’s a new picture puzzle.
See if you can do it.”

Benny shifted his now depleted stock
of cookies to one hand, dropped to his
knees on the ﬂoor, and dumped the con-
tents of the box upon the seat before
him.

They won't let me eat cookies any
more at homo—in the house, I mean.
Too many crumlbs.”

"But you know you have to pick up
your crumle here, dear.”

“Yep. But I don’t mind—after I’ve
had the fun of eatin' ﬁrst But they
won't let me drop 'em ter begin with,
there, nor take any of the boys inter the
house. Honest, Aunt Maggie, there ain’t
anything a feller can do, 'seem so, if ye
live on the West Side,” he persisted
soberiy,

Mr. Smith, copying dates at the table,
was conscious of a. slight apprehensive
glance in his direction from Miss Maggie‘s
eyes, as she murmured:—

“But you’re forgetting your puzzle:
Benny. You’ve put only ﬁve pieces to-
gether.”

"I can’t do puzzles there, either."
Benny’s voice was still mournful.

“All the more reason, then, why you
should like to do them here. See, where
does this dog’s head go?"

Listlessly Benny took the bit of pie-
tured wood in his ﬁngers and began to
ﬁt it into the pattern before him.

“I used. ter de ’em an' leave 'em
round, but ma. says I can’t now. Callers
might come and ﬁnd 'em, an’ what would
they say—on the West Side! An' that’s
the way "(is with everything. Ma. an’
Bess are always doin’ things, or not
doin’ 'em, for those callers. An' I don’t
see why. They never come—not new
ones.”

“Yes, yes, dear, but they will, when
they get acquainted. You haven’t found
where the dog’s head goes yet."

“Pa says he don’t want ter gct‘ac—
quainted. He’d rather have the old
friends, what don’t mind baked beans,
an' shirt sleeves, an' doin' yer own work
an’ what thinks more of yer heart than
they do of yer pocketbook. But Ms.
wants a hired glrL An’ say, we have ter
wash our hands every meal now—on the
table, I mean—in. those-little glass wash-
dishes. Ma went down an’ bought some,
an’ she’s usin’ 'em every day, so's ter
get used to 'em. She mys everybody
that is anybody has ’em nowadays. Bess
thinks they're great, but I don’t. I don’t
like ’em a. mite.” .

“Oh, come, come, Benny! It doeSn’t
matter—4t doesn’t really matter, does it,
if you do have to use the little dishes?
Come, you’re not half doing the puzzle."

“I know it." Benny shifted his posi-
tion, and picked up a three-cornered bit
of wood carrying the picture of a dog’s
paw. “But I was just thinkin’. You
see, things are so diiferent——on the West
Side. Why even pa—he’s different. He
isn’t there hardly any now. He's got a.
new job."

"What?" Miss Maggie turned from the
puzzle With a start.

“Oh, just evenin’s. It’s keepin' books
for a. man. It brings in quite a lot extry',
ma says; but she wouldn't let me have
some new roller skates when mine broke.
She’s savin' up for a chaﬁn’ dish. What’s
a chaﬁn' dish? Do you know? You eat
out of it, some we.th mean, it cooks
things ter eat; an’ Bess wants one.
Gussle Pennock's got one. All our eatin’
'3 different, ’seems so, on the West Side.
Ma. has dinners nights now, instead of
moons. She 83.13 the Pennocks do an'
everybody does who is anybody. But I
don’t like it. Pa don’t, either, an’ half
the time he can’t get home in time for.
it, anyhow, on account of getﬂn’ back to
his new job, ye know, an'——"

“Oh, I've found where the dog’s head
goes," cried Miss Maggie. There was a
hint of despeaation in her voice. 'I shall
have your puzzle all done for you myself.
if you don’t look out, Benny. I don’t
believe you can do it, anyhow.”

“Icantoo. Yourustseoiflean‘t!“
retorted Benny, with sudden spirit fall‘hzg
to work in earnest. “I never saw a. puz-
zle yet I couldn’t do i"

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It was half an hour later, when Mr.
Smith and Benny were walking across
the common together, that Benny asked
on abrupt question. . ‘

“Is Aunt Maggie goin.’ ter be put in
your book, Mr. Smith?”

"Why—eruyes; her‘ name will be en-
tered as the daughter of the man who
married the Widow Blaisdell, probably.
Why?" .

“Nothln’. I Was only thinkin’. I hoped

'she was. Aunt Maggie don’t have nothin'
much, yer know, except her father an’
housework—housework either for him or
some of us. An' I guess she’s had quite
a lot of things ter bother her, an’ make
her feel bad, so I hoped she’d be in the
book. ThOugh if she wasn’t she’d just
laugh an’ say it doesn’t matter, of course.
That's what she always says."

"Always says?” Mr. Smiths’ voice was
mildly puzzled.

“Yes, when things plague, an' somethin'
don’t go right. She says it helps a lot
for just remember that it doesn‘t matter.
See?"

"Well, no,-—I don’t think I do see."
frowned Mr, Smith.

“Oh, yes," plunged in Benny; “ ’cause,
you see, if yer stop ter think about it—
this thing that's plaguin’ ye—you’ll see
how really small an’ no-account it is, 811'
how, when you put beside really big
things, it doesn’t matter at all—it doesn’t
really matter, ye know. Aunt Maggie
says she’s done it years an' years, ever
since she was just a. girl, an' somethin’
bothered her; an’ it's helped a lot." '

"But there are lots of things that do
matter,” persisted Mr. Smith, still frown-
lng.

“Oh, yes !" Benny swelled a bit im-
portantly. “I know what you mean.
Aunt Maggie says that, too, 811' she
says we must be very careful an' not get
it wrong. It‘s only the little things that
bother us, an’ that we Wish were different,
that we must say ‘It doesn’t matter'
about. It does matter whether we’re
good an' kind an’ tell the truth an’ shame
the devil; but it doesn’t matter whether
we live on the West Side an' eat dinner
nights instead of noons, an’ not eat cook~
lea any of the time in the house,—-see?"

“Good for you, Benny,—a.nd good for
Aunt Maggie!” laughed Mr. Smith sud-
denly.

Aunt Maggie7. Oh, you don’t know
Aunt Maggie, yet. She's always tryin'
ter make people think things don’t mat—
ter. You’ll see !" crowed Benny.

A moment later he had turned down
his own street, and Mr. Smith was lei:
to go on alone.

Very often, in the days that followed,
Mr. Smith thought of this speech of
Benny’s. He had opportunity to verify
it, for he was seeing a. good deal of Miss
Maggie, and it seemed, indeed, to him
that half the town was coming to her to
learn that something “didn’t matter"—
though Very seldom, except to Benny,
did he hear her say the words. themselves.
It was merely that to her would come
men, women and children, each with a
sorry tale of discontent or disappointment.
And it was always as if they left with
her their burden, for when they turned
away, head and shoulders were erect
once more, eyes were bright, and the Step
was alert and eager.

He used to wonder how she did it.
For that matter, he wondered how she‘
did—«a. great many things.

Mr. Smith was, indeed seeing a good
deal of Miss Maggie these days. He told
himself that it was the records that at-
tracted him. But he did not always copy

records. Some times he just sat in one
of the comfortable chairs and watched
Miss Maggie, content if she gave him a
word now and then.

He liked the way she carried her head,
and the way her hair waved away from
her shapely forehead. He liked the quiet
strength of the way her capable hands
lay motionless in her lap when their ser—
vices were not required. He liked to
watch for the twinkle in her eye, and for
the dimple in her cheek that told a smile
was coming. He liked to hear her talk
to Benny. He ’even liked to hear her
talk to her father—when he could con-
trol his temper sufﬁciently. Best of all
he liked his own comfortable feeling of ..
being quite at home, and at peace with
all the world—the feeling that always
came to him now whenever he entered
the house, in spite of the fact that the
welcome accorded him by Mr. Duff was
hardly more friendly than at the ﬁrst.

To Mr. Smith it was a matter of small
moment whether Mr. Duff welcomed him
cordially or not. He even indulged now
and then in a bout of his own with the
gentleman, chuckling inordinately when
results showed that he had pitched his
remark at Just the right note of con-
trairlety to get what he wanted.

For the most part. however, Mr. Smith,
.at least nominally, spent his time at his
legitimate task of studying and copying
the Blaisdell family records, of which he
was ﬁnding a great number. Rufus Blais-
dell apparently had done no little “dig—
ging” himself in his own day, and Mr.
Smith told Miss Maggie that it was all
a great "ﬁnd" for him.

Miss Maggie seemed pleased. She said
that she was glad if she could be of any ,
help tohim. and she told him to come_
whenever liked. She arranged the
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TEXT: “And he came into all
the regions round about Jor-
dan, preaching the baptism of
repentance unto remission of
sins; * * * * The voice of one
crying in the wilderness, "make
ye ready the way of the
Lord.’ "—Luke 3:3f.

HIS prophet is John the. Baptist.

He makes his appearance as a

new spokesman of God in
wonderful days. A new King has
beenvborn. He receives the recogni-
tion of heaven and the attention of
wise men. The angels are guard—
ing his every movement. So he is
taken to Egypt and returns to Naz-
areth, eluding the jealous and brut-
al Herod. John announces that a
new, free day is at hand,_ and a new
and gracious Ruler. This is the be-
ginning of the great and continuing
revolution of all time; even the
democratising and spiritualizing of
all peoples. This revolutionary

movement is being hopefully felt to-7

day in its onward sweep. It is roll—
ing up billows across the sea, sub-
merging the tyrany of European
Herods. But, how dangerous is all
this spirit and movement unless
guided by Christian impulses!

But let us look at this prophet.
He says, “I am the voice of one
crying in the wilderness.” And, to
think of it, we are yet in the wild-
erness of social, economic, and re-
ligious entanglement. But John is
the last prophet of the old days of
oppression. He is Elijah which was
to come to announce the_lifting of
the ban upon religious freedom and
social oppression. Jesus said so.
In spirit, energy, looks, and man—
ner, he is Elijah. He comes on to
the stage so abruptly and right out
of the desert like Elijah of old. In
the Wilderness We see him struggl—
ing and wrestling with God. From
there, rough and ready, Heaven
sends him as the courier of the new
day. His proclamation is, “The
Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
What a pity, yea tragedy, the world
has been so long appreciating this!
Let us hope that we are in the re-
birth, of Kingdom sureties for this,
Our day.

But the key—note of John’s mes-
sage is repentance. It is the same
olden call. But not having heard
the prophetic voice for four centur—
ies, his generation had grown indif-
ferent and unbelieving. What would
be our state were the churches clos-
ed and the Word unpreached'for
even a twelve-month? A literal hell.
But into this day John comes with
his rousing call to repentance for
the day of the Lord is at hand. And
to him this meant judgement. It
meant cleansing the threshing—ﬂoor
and burning the chaff with un—
quenchable ﬁre. But to his Jewish
listeners, it meant complete domin-

ance of the Gentile world, and that
into

they, the Jews, ,would come
partial inheritances. And many
Jews covet this ideal yet. They are

saying in this new epoch, “Now we
shall soon return to our own Pales-
tine and sit under our own vine and
ﬁg tree to enjoy an exclusive para—
dise on earth.” Even John’s concep—
tion, which is not completely Christ—
ian, would correct this notion. He
says, “By the Kingdom, I mean that
the King has come to establish hlS
rule over your life; your thoughts
Your

and wills. Therefore repent.

outward formal life has become
nauseating, inviting judgement.”
The multitudes said, “What then
must we‘ do?” John said, Feed

and clothe your needy neighbors.”
The publicans said, “What must we
do?” The answer came “Lower the
taxes and cease extorting from your
neighbor.” The soldiers asked hlm,
“We, what must we do?” Said the
prophet, “Cease violent and unjust
oppression.” (see Luke context).
How pertinent for today! “One
hundred and forty-ﬁve thousand
men, women and children, expect-
ant mothers and gray—haired patri—
archs have been deported from the
Ruhr.” France, cease your oppres-
sion. Bring ,back evicted families
to their homeland. Where do you
get your right to starve and terror-
ize the _working population of a

        

whole‘ nation, bringing you 'cicic
stri.£e.,_.-,‘-and revolution? And, 0,
‘ America, there are. many working
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And who of us can say today that
they were not more nearly right?
“Sweet land of liberty,” cease your
opperssion. Hurry with your am—
nesty. And all Christendom, we
need not so much religious garb and
sacramental form, as a robe of pur-
ity, pentinence, and neighborly
goodness.

Surely, this is the great need of
our day. The church is called thru
prayer and service to anchor the
world safely to this heavenly ideal.
Why has it not been done already?
Because church formulas and dog-
mas are being idealized rather than
the spirit of the Book. The spirit
of the prophet would put social
balance and self—denial into our
lives. But we are self~complacent
and refuse such a baptism. More
Johns crying in the wilderness!
Said Jesus, Jerusalem did not go
out to hear a man who was clothed
in “soft raiment.” And no Christ-
ian today can move the hearts of
one or many, if he is given to hank-
ering after the sensualities of life.
There is no place in the world of soc-
ial obligations for a kid glove'd or
soft—raiment religion. It is hypoc-
ri-cy and the ax lieth at the root of
the tree.

. But let us examine the scene
more closely. Were there any
church folks in the audience? Mat-
thew says the Pharisees were there.»
Ah, the church leaders! But John
hated them for their ﬁnely—woven
and self—made religion. Worship-
ers d‘f traditions and rules. Well,
dare not the church have rules?
Yes, but she dare not make rules.
Her rules are already made and to
a social outlook and end. This is
the church that Jesus lived and
died for; and this is the imperative
of churchdom today. And the Sad—
ducees, also were there. They treat—
ed religion lightly and were a fair
sample of the morally clean‘ and
worldly-wise men of our day. When
both of these classes asked for bap—
tism, John says, “Ye offspring of
vipers, who has warned you to ﬂee
from the wrath to come?” His
words were rough and harsh. They
had in them the hot sting of judg-
ment. But the seared consciences
of his audience needed just this. He
wasnot f‘knocking,” but in his vig-
orous way was just tearing oﬂ the
mask of piety that they might see
their sins and repent. John must
have believed that honeyed words
usually reveal no one’s sin, and no
fruit is brought meet, for repent-

ance.
Now, here is a teaching not to be
put off. Judgment comes along

with the new day of redemption. It
is associated with the Kingdom age,
even now. We are suffering under
heavy judgment now because of a
lack of social politics and righteous
living. Does it seem that some of
the chaff must be burned up to save
the wheat? Well, this isthe Bap—
tist’s principle in action. The Bible
says this principle is eternal and
history makes it world—wide in
scope. So, if we, our homes, and
our country would be saved, there
must come into our living that day
of sorrow for sin and an amendment
of our ways.

So here is the prophet’s call. It
is the red lantern of warning
against the spirit of ease, of sensual
comforts, of dollar-chasing, and of
social seclusion and parasitism.
Here is his announcement: “All
ﬂesh shall see the salvation of
God.” Who will help. made ready
“the way of the Lord,” the proph-
et’s new day?

. BleE THOUGHTS

BE KIND TO THE ERRINGz—
Brethen, if a man be overtaken in a
fault, ye which are spiritual, restore
such an one in the spirit of meek—
ness: considering thyself, lest thou
also be tempted—Galatians 6:1.

THE WAY OF ESCAPEz—It shall
come to pass in the day that the Lord
shall give thee rest from thy sorrow,
and from thy fear, and from thy
hard bondage wherein thou wast
made to serve.—Isaiah 14:3.

KEEP THE WORDz—Whoso
keepeth the word, in him verily is
the love of God perfected: hereby
know we that we are in him.——1
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THE LONG LOOK AHEAD

“It seems to me that the long look ahead
for agriculture was never so bright as
it is at the present time. Increasing
living standards are continually broadening
the demand for the products of the farm.
Our national population is increasing by
'more than two million mouths and backs
annually. So it is true that urban popula~
tion is growing more rapidly than rural.
This is not necessarily a matter of alarm.
Rather it is indicative of a healthful devél-
opment. It means that our domestic mar-
kets are growing and that soon—probably
within the next dccade———home consumption
will absorb out troublesome surpluses. Then
should the business of farming be better
than now and country life advance along
lines of permanent well being.

“The present crisis has accomplished one
result for agriculture which is well worth
while. It has called the attention of the
whole country to the farmer and his prob-
lems. It has brought a realization not only
to the hard headed business man of the city
but to the laborer and the housewives that
their interest is closely identiﬁed with the
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. HE man who delivered the above very sens-
ible analysis of the present situation in
which agriculture ﬁnds itself, is none other

than Joseph R. Howard, former president of the

American Farm Bureau, who made a good name

for himself in a hard job.

His opinion has been conﬁrmed by any num—
ber of clear thinkers who are not out for politic-
al posrtion or some other juicy plum which they
hope to reach by stepping on the backs of a de-
pressed class.

“But farmers in my néck of the woods are
still discouraged and many of them are selling

‘ out to go to work in the automobile factories!"

No one knows that betters than we do, neigh-
bor! We don't argue for a moment that things
are right—not by a long ways! But we do
claim, and we can prove, that things are getting
better for the farmer and to get discouraged
now, throw up the sponge and sacriﬁce years of
hard labor in building up a farm is the height
of folly and most of the so—called "farmers" who
are doing it, will be back looking for a job as
“hired man" in the neighborhood which they
left before many years have past. Clip this out,
paste it in your scrap-book and look it up a
year from now—«then tell" me how far we were
wrong in this rather (we cheerfully admit)
amazing prediction in the last month of the year
of our Lord, 1923.

APPLE AND POTATO SHOW A SUCCESS
0 one who visited the Second Annual Apple
and Potato Show in the Klingman Building
at Grand Rapids last week could go away
without being impressed with the progress Which
is being made in better preparation of our prod-
acts for the market.
’ As we have so many times pointed out, Mich-
igan is so located in proximity to the great con-

suming markets and to the enter of population .

that it should be one of the most proﬁtable

.ta‘rming states in the United States.

, The way to proﬁtable markets is through
making products attractive for the market. This
is today an unchallenged fact that has been
orcherdlsu from the great Northwest, when

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rates.

they have so pr cred .e’n  
that they command a" fancy" price from the-con-
sumer in the East which more than overcomes
their handicap. -

The directors. of the Michigan exhibition may *

well be proud of what they are accomplishing,
not only through the growing attendance at this
annual show but also through its inﬂuence 'on
the industry as a whole in our State. The
leading growers in each division here meet in
competition and place before the public the
products of their handiwork and the accomplish-
ment of their year's effort. So long as men
compete with one another for supremacy there
can be no stagnation and only an improvement in
whatsoever line they may attempt.

 

WHY STOP IMMIGRATION? ~

‘N our opinion the farming business in America
would gain greatly by taking down the bars
which limits immigration to the negligible

number who are admitted today. ‘ .
In our opinion an inﬂux of labor from Europe
of the right kind, would bring down the cost of
manufactured goodswhich the farmer buys, and
increase the local-consumption of American
growu farm products. ‘
So far we have not seen any farm leaders 0
organizations stepping forward with such a pro—
gram, which leads one to suspect that they are
more under the domination of the labor unions
than we would like to admit. -
Obviously we believe in a selective system

' which selects the immigrants on the other side

for his capabilities as a worker. We would let
in the entire family of any man who could prove
that he was a worker, in an industry beneﬁcial
to this country. "

Europe is teeming with millions who would
like to come to American. We need them here,
at least, these who are of the type who immi-
grated in the early days, to this country, and
pioneered its progress. ,

We believe that a wide open invitation to the
right kind of immigration at the present time,
would be helpful to American agriculture.

BR'ER RABBIT, HE Ali‘I'T SAYDI' NOTHIN‘

ROBABLY no president who has sat in the
P chair for many years, has been more in
sympathy with or anxious to please the
farmers of America, than Calvin Coolidge, and
yet his record of achievement to date is, so far
as we can see, nil. '

It may be, however, that we are short-sighted,
and as a matter of. fact, the steady hand of a
quiet man who makes his decisions slowly and
will not be lead by radical demands made from
isolated factions, is exactly what American agri-
culture needs to reestablish its equilibrium.

No one can accuse President Coolidge of not
listening at least to their demands, whether or
not he acquiesces to them. During October and
November it is said that the President saw more
than ten oﬁ‘icial delegations from the agricul-
tural districts, covering the whole range of de-
mands, from those presented ofﬁcially by the
American Farm Bureau to those laid down by
Magnus Johnson. 

.Somehow or other Calvin Coolidge in the
White House always reminds us of the old Uncle
Remus story, we used to read in childhood
days, and in which appeared the line we never
forgot, “Br’er Rabbit, he just kept on sayin'
nothin'!”

-We cannot believe that our President is not
capable of arriving at a decision. We do not
believe that he is afraid, as some would have us
believe because of the proximity to a president—
ial election. We know that he must make a
record for himself of actual accomplishments if
he hopes to win at next year’s polls.

We do not happen to be numbered among
those who believe that American agriculture is
headed for the scrap heap. On the other. hand
we think it has been on the mend since June,
1923. The old pendulumis swinging the other
way now, and the farmer is coming back into

his own, but he is not going to do it with the.

help of the labor, or other political parties
which have been riding on velvet while he took
the hard knocks. I

We look for the future adjustment to come
from the reduction in the price being paid union
labor for their manufacture of articles which the
rural community of the United States must pur-
chase, rather than a return of war-time prices
for farm products. . ' '

The average union scale today tsuwell over a
dollar. an hour. in many trades, and yet the.
price of farm products does not measure up to
this level above the .1913 price of labor; It must
be- apparent where the readjustment in the fu-
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any radical move. such segp  ﬁxing.“ arisen

raising, 'or ﬁnancing- exports, would [only react

as a boomerang to the  who ac‘c‘e'pted it as
a solution of the present problem. 

In the meantime, Br’er Rabbit he just keeps
on ssyin’ nothin' and perhaps we would 'be bets
oer pi! if a lot of other would-be champions I
would adopt the same policy. -

COOPERATION IS A SUCCESS
. ECAUSE here or there a local. or state on-
B operative marketing association ,makes a
failure is no reason whatsoever for the in-
dividual farmer to lose conﬁdence in the general

principle of cooperative marketing as a solution .

to his present problems.

Recently a speaker before the Western New
York Fruit Growers Cooperative Association at
Rochester said: “Great strides have been made
in cooperative marketing all over the country.
Cotton growers last year sold cooperatively more
than a quarter of a billion dellars worth of raw
cotton. The tobacco growers are organized in
the tobacco growing states from‘Connecticut to
South Carolina, and a very active campaign is-
on to organize the wheat industry in the West.
Plans are now being made to organize all of the
fruit sections of the country. After these sec-
tions are organized locally, it is planned‘to fed-
erate them, so that each may know what the
other is doing and plan its sales policies accord-
ingly. It is hoped that with such an organiz-
ation it will be possible for one to buy good
apples in every section of the country just as
readily as oranges can be purchased today."

Cooperation in America is a success, just as
it is a success in every civilized country under
the sun and our sons and daughters will scarce-
ly remember the days when their dads and
granddads, each made his own price and sold
1...,- products of his farm in competition with the
whole wOrld! Stand by your cooperative mar-
lwzim association—even if it hurts sometimes.
Stand by it or someday you’ll be standing alone!

SELLING APPLES BY THE QUART
HE orchard is a department which ought to
pay a proﬁt on every farm in the State of
Michigan because we are blessed with a
climate and a geographical location which makes
fruit growing one of the most proﬁtable of our
money crops.

Doubtless some of our readers will question
this statement in view of the low prices paid for
the -run of Michigan apples this ,year, but we
challenge them to prove that any’ apple-orchard
owner who sprayed, cared for his orchard and
properly graded his fruit for market this fall
did not make a proﬁt from his crop. '

Most of the apples which are left to rot on
the trees because the farmer does not think they
are worth picking can be charged to the neglect
of their owner rather than the condition of a
market working against him.

That there is more than one way to sell even
the ordinary run of the apple crop is proven by
Prof. Fabian’s article “Selling Your Apples, at 3
Proﬁt," which appears on page 4 of this issue.
This should be read and preserved byevery man
who has an orchard on his place.

BABIES. WERENEVER OUR ENEMIES
ECAUSE God sees ﬁt to have a human soul
born on German soil does not make that
morsel of humanity our enemy. We doth
if you could tell, if they were laid before you in
a basket, with chubby hands and pink toes up-
turned, which of three was an American, English

or German baby. ~

Hate‘ is not born in babies. We teach hate,
in the later years to children. So if today, when
German babies are dying for want of. proper
nourishment, generous hearted America, comes
once again to the rescue of stricken humanity,
these same babies will be tought not hate, but
love for this country by their grateful mothers.

A- subscriber who read our editorial on this
page in the 'last issue entitled "Help for Ger-
many," sent a contribution with the suggestion
that we starts fund for German babies. This
we are doing, as you will note. on page two of
this issue. ' '5

THANK YOU. MIL, GERKS H _
NOTICED in _Wednesday§s “Christian Science
Monitor" part ef'your editorial of November ~
24th. More power to you. When you 

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v.8]! W OARD'SCHOOL ,
“Since we are not _ fortunate
Chongh to live in the bean district
of Michigan I am asking your advice
on the West Angus Show Card
- Company of Toronto and theiroffer.
Will you ﬁnd out for me if this con-
cern is trustworthy and their offer
worthwhile for one. who might have
a few hours to spare each day?
From a reader who greatly appreci-
ates the ‘farmers' friend.‘ "

WOULD not send the show-card
company any money because
this is another scheme which I
have never found to work out satis—
factorily.~ It you are still (interest-
ed after reading this, ask this com-

pany to tell you of a satisﬁed Stu-I

dent in Michigan, then write or go
and see‘ this person and satisfy
yourself before spending any money
on such a scheme.

ADDRESSING MUSIC CIRCULAR .

"I saw an advertisement in one
of the magazines a few days ago
telling how I could make money in
my spare time by addressing music
circulars at home. I answered the
ad and they agreed to pay me 10
cents per copy for all music that I
addressed and wanted me to send $2
for a Working outﬁt. Well I sent
the $2 and they sent me 80 copies
of music to sell. Isn’t this obtaining
money under false pretenses? .I
wonder if you can do anything
about it. At least you can probab-
ly keep some of our subscribers
from getting stung. I am enclos-
ing the two letters. Thanking. you
for anything that you can do.”

, ES, friend, this scheme has all
the earmarks to us of getting
money under false pretenses,

but it has been worked so long we

presume the post ofﬁce department
has passed upon it as being not
fraudulent. Otherwise they would
have been put out of business long

ago. .

All we can do is to reprint the
warning which your letter gives in
the hope that we can make a know-
ledge of this scheme so common
that none of our readers at least
will ever be taken in by it.

GERMAN MARKS FOR EASY
MARKS!

I'wonld like to get your opinion
about the German money that is be-
ing peddled around this country. Of
course we all know that it isn’t
worth anything now, absolutely
nothing, but if the German republic
stands Won’t that money be redeem-
ed sometime at some price. They
are also selling a bond on the City
of Bremen, a 4% per cent bond to
be redeemed in ten years. Which
would you consider to be the best
gamble, the bond or the marks? If
the German republic falls would not
the bond some day have a value at
some price?

0U can buy German paper mom

ey for the price of waste paper.

Some New York brokers have
had ofﬁces papered with it, and there
are millions of loyal citizens in all
parts of the world_who have lost
probably more- than the entire
Hamount of the German reparations!
To buy either German money or
German bonds at this time with the
idea of ever profiting by their pur—
chase, would be the heighth of spec-
ulation in our opinion.

SEWING GLOVES AT HOME
RE any of my readers employ-
ing their spare time and using
their own sewing machines to
make gloves for any concern? I
have been asked about a company
with head uarters at Avon-hy—the—
Sea, New . which sounds like
tn mums enough place to spend
.he Summer, but does not impress
me especially as a glove-manufact-
ing or distributing center. There
mints at idle hands and more idle
m ln'hfichigan and if
this to make canvass

practical
gloves at home, I would like to know .

more about it.

“THE WAIB OF WOMEN!

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large bust, and it said, “send $10
for a ten days’ free treatment, and
'your bust“ will developelquite a lot
in that time.’ So my friend sent
the $10 and received some tablets
to take inwardly,_also some salve to
rub on her bust. She followed the
directions for two days and was
taken so sick she had to call -a doc-
tor. It had poisoned her’ kidneys
and she could not pass urine for al-
most 24 hours. She was so week
she had to go to bed, and' there she
stayed for three weeks and a half,
and then was hardly able to creep
around the house. During the time
she had to live 'on nothing but milk
and water. That was two months
ago, and she is still sick, and the
doctor says he does not know as she
will ever be well again. And he

- says it is nothing that caused it, but

The medicine was
analyzed, and it con ned two dead-
ly poisons. One kin was to make
your ﬂesh swell up and by rubbing
the salve on your bosom it was sup-
posed to swell the most there.

“Please do not sign my name, as
my friend does not want anyone but
the two doctors that attended her
to know what caused her sickness.

“We like your paper just ﬁne and
always intend to take it. We get so
much good from it.

“Oh! yes, can my friend collect
any damages from this ﬁrm for sell-
ing her medicine that poisoned her.
She is a poorwidow. with several
children to support. And she is very
hard up. Please do not describe
her in your paper, as'quite a few of
our friends take your paper and my
friend is ashamed to let them know
what made her sick.

“Thanking you for all your past,
and future kindness, as you have
helped us so many times, by your
advise, and also by making the col-
lege in Ohio settle for the typewriter
they sent me that was no good."—
L. H.

NE might smile at the above re—
0 cital of one woman’s attempt

to recast herself in the mold of
Venus, were it not for the pitiful
picture which her condition today
presents. When, 0, when, will some
women learn that the qualities which
the right kind of men admire are
not to be found in drug—stores or
contained in bottles or jars! There
is nothing to be added to the moral
which this letter reprinted here will,
I hope, carry to my readers.

the medicine.

MICHIGAN DAIRY AND FARM
PRODUCE COMPANY

EVERAL recent inquiries regard-
ing the above company led us
to an investigation, which dis-
closed the following facts as sub-
mitted by Gideon T. Bryce, its pres-
ident. Mr. Bryce, formerly a resi—
dent of Romeo, Macomb county, op—
erated a large dairy farm and en-
joyed, we believe an excellent repu-

tationjn his community, he says:

‘This company was chartered un—
der the laws of the state of Michi-
gan, with an authorized capital of
$500,000.00, and on June of the
present year the Michigan Securitites
Commission authorized us to sell
stock to the extent of $200,000 for
our ﬁrst issue.

“The shares are in the sum of
$10 each, fully paid, and it may in—
terest you to learn that we already
have subscriptions to the extent of
approximately $80,000 represented
by nearly 1,000 stockholders of
which 90% are farmers, resident
within an area of ninety miles of
Den-cit.

“Three months ago we purchased
as a going concern, the business,
good-will and plant of the Birming-
ham Creamery & Ice Mfg. Company,
and this constitutes the ﬁrst unit in
our plans to establish ourselves in

areas, so that we can take
care of the milk of our farmer
stockholders.

.“In addition we purchased as a
going concern the' business of the
Birmingham Dairy, Birmingham.

“During the summer of 1924 it

open a chain of “Cash and Carry"
stores in Detroit through' which we
shall dhtribute not only milk, but
all other farm produce. Our stock-

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WHO IS SANTA omusz -
H0 is Santa Claus? The mystery
- seems to have no clue; ‘
But I’ll tell you how to solve it.
‘Santa might be you.

If you found some lonely children
With no Christmas tree, '
And gave them one, or shared your own,

You Santa Claus would be.

Some poor children have no Christmas!
It is sad, but true;

So remember! Who is santa?
Well, he might be you!

CHRISTMAS FOR OUR CITY
RELATIONS
must be a problem to think up
something useful and attractive
for- our city relations. We feel
as if it is impossible to buy the de-
sired gift within our means.

I wonder if you have ever though
of sending a lovely box of food—
stuff done up in a pretty package.
You know a nice fat chicken or
goose is one of the ﬁnest gifts to a
city family.

The old law of compensation is
always with us whether we recog-
nize it or not and we who live on a
farm the twelve months out of our
year can hardly realize the wonder—
ful things and sights we see every
day compared to the family of like
circumstances in the city. It is
next to impossible to purchase the
lovely fresh foods that you folks en-
joy every day and just take it for
granted that all the people in town
have the same by just buying. This
is not true at all.

' There are a great many boys and
girls away at school who cannot get
home because of distance and ex—
pense. Can you imagine the real
joy of opening a box from Mother
with a lovely fruit cake and some
homemade jam or jelly? Maybe a
cooked chicken and a box of their
favorite homemade candy. I feel
sure that such a gift would be most
highly prized when opened so far
away from home. \Vhat could be
more intimate or better loved?

A good strong box and each ar—
ticle wrapped in bright Christmas
paper and ribbon would be a very
attractive and most appreciated
gift. There isn’t a boy or girl, or
sister or brother. whose mind would
not wander back to the farm home
and its spacious kitchen, with
Mother walking to and fro prepar—
ing the dainties for them.

It was only a few weeks ago I
had a birthday and the package
came just the day before, timed just
right so I would receive it on the
right day. A pair of pillowslips
with lace crocheted on the edge by
Mother’s own hands. It meant so
much to me to know of the many
times her hands went in and out
making the lace and the pillowslips
more beautiful. I knew of the ef-
fort it must have been for her, and
the care she took to have them just
right. The box was just a plaln
one, but Mother must have found
a large colored rose in some maga-
zine and pasted it on the cover to
make it look more attractive.

It is always the little extra effort
and way you wrap your gifts that
help them count for so much be—
cause of your efforts in making
them more attractive. Let us all
try this year and wrap our packages
up with more thought and care as
to their appearance. .

The bright red tissue paperus
very popular and is giving the white
tissue a race for ﬁrst place. The
ﬁve-and-ten—cent stores all carry the
bright ribbons and cord and seals to
make the gifts attractive.

 

BOOKS FOR THE HOME

OOKS for the home ought to be

choosen with a view to prepar-

ation for a life of American
citizenship and a clean wholesome
mind. Christmas should bring Its
share of good reading for every
member in the family. This would
include religion, government and
what is termed general literature.
A supply should be at hand, not
only as a source of study to furnish
knowledge and information, but for
amusement and entertainment in
hours of relaxation.

Every member of the household
should have some special readlng
that he or she is fond of. Nothing
outside of study, can improve our
minds 'or broaden our vocabulary
more, than good wholesome read—
mg.
, The ﬁrst that Iwould suggest for
the family‘would be to have some
good farm magazine coming regu-

  

  

  
 

has been for me.

every
Women’s Department.

that you will have given.

will send them just as soon
as they arrive. I expect your
cooperation on this very, im-
portant subject.

hesitate to write.
partment is one of service.

 

 

Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR

EAR FOLKS:—This last month has been a. full one for most of

us and I am sure you will all agree with me when I say that it
I want so badly to give you all the new ideas
and holiday suggestions that it has crowed out our personal column
and recipes that you readers have so kindly sent in.
one and hope that you will soon see them on the pages of our

In the last two or three issues have been home-made ideas and
designs for making the work easier and also more attractive.
member that if you have thought up some clever idea, it is very lovely
of you to share it with the rest of our readers.
and give us the measurements and maybe someone among us will be
waiting for just that very article.

I received so many letters asking for the “Hot Lunch Bulletin"
that I soon ﬁnished my supply and am expecting more every day. - I

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lar. Of course we think THE BUSI-
ans FARMER is the best, but after
all this is a matter of‘ personal
opinion. They all are trying to
give you the best they have, and so
it is good reading for any live farm-
er.

Then there should be something
just for mother—for she is the
center of the home. Something for
her individual use, for unless she
is able to enter into the real spirit
of reading books, it is unlikely that
she will ever be able to impart that
taste to her children, and guide
them in that ﬁeld with sympathy
and discretion.

We should probably ﬁnd that the
mothers of most of our great men
of recent times have been devoted
readers of the Bible. If it is pos—
sble that we have a home without
one, be sure that this year will be
the last. When it comes to certain
household problems, like nourish—
ment. which is so important for the
bodily welfare of all, and the man—
agement of children, it is apparent
that instruction on these subjects
ought always to be available: “The
Care and Feeding of Children,” by
Doctor Holt, is one of the best books
out on this subject, and should be
in every home where children are
living. “The Book of Good Man-
ners” is another very ﬁne book to
have in every home. There are
bound to be times when the most
reﬁned and thoughtful of us will
have to use it for reference.

Then there is that splendid book
“What a Young Girl Ought to
Know” full of chapters telling you
110w to answer the most delicate
questions any little inquisitive girl
might ask. “Truth O’Women” with
last words from long vanished

ladies, is a book of short poems in
Which women of all sorts, of all
ages, speak from their graves—
much the same manner of “The
Spoon River Anthology.”

Books on travel are always ﬁne
reading for those of us who can
travel no other way than thu the
pages of books. It is a great school
of learning and very fascinating
past time for some of our winter
evenings. Some good ﬁction for
Dad would be “Dr. Nye.” It is a.
splendid story of a man’s life in a.
small town and most of the, char-
acters can be found among our own
personal acquaintences. “The Mine
with the Iron Door,”. is another
dealing with romance and advent-
ure, laid in the Catilina Mountains
of Arizona. The description of this
part of our country is beautiful in
this book. “The Real Robert Burns”
is a splendid book telling about this
famous character in our literary
world. His poems are known the
world over. “Gardening Under” is
a good practical book, inviting the
pleasures of outdoors by taking
your gardens inside under glass.
“Rimrock Trail” is another regular
“he—man” tale of adventure.

Don’t deny the youngfolks the
many tales that are written for
them in book—form to stir their
imagination for the bigger and bet—
ter things in life. For our boys I
have thought 'of “Lefty 0’ The
Bush,” “The vGo—Ahead Boys on
Smuggler’s Island,” “The Boy Scout
Fire Fighters,” “George Washing-

ton” and famous Americans for
young readers. For our girls: “The
Corner House Girls,” “Polly’s First

Year at Boarding School,” and for
our wee folks: the kneetime Animal
Stories, “Squinty,' the Comical Pig.”

Easily mane (hills Eliot Christmas

 

NYONE that is handy with their needle can make these two lovely gifts

in very little time.

They are beautiful and I am sure would be very

much liked by any lady or child that could be the proud possessor of

them.

its outlined design of the chick pulling the little girl!

Can you imagine any little girl not liking this darling apron with

The ladies’ apron

with its cunning ﬂower-pot design with pretty ribbon ties makes an ador-

able gift.

No. 407—Chi1d’s Combination Apron or .Dress. )
number and comes stamped with patches included for'a. child two to, four ‘

years. Price 50c.

No. .

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té'a‘ apron. Applique “ =net¢ll9a11¥§lil§dé$L . '3?“ 510°?  ' 

This is a very attractive

Full, size

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ing and “School ' Plays’qfor, all. occas-
gonsl: is very‘:.ﬁnevz%for.. a reference

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These are only; a'few of the many'

books to be had for Christmas. 'You
Will \ﬁnd there are always the old
masters like Dickens, Shakespeare,

Holmes, and Longfellow. In our
Book Rev1ew,, you will ﬁnd the
publisher’s name, address, and

prices.

Let this be a Christmas of Know-
ledge and good reading.

 

MOTHER’S PROBLEMS

WHEN PLANNING CLOTHES
WHEN planning and making the

children’s clothes, who de-
c1des what the colors and
styles and materials shall be? Is it
you. you, Mother, entirely? Or do

(3)73; andi the children talk details
ion? an come to a mutual deals-

.There is no better trainin
girl than the training she gaff-)1}:
celve from her mother in the plan-
ning of her clothes. “Decisions”
are hard to make. Some people
reach manhood and womanhood
Without ever having learned how to
make them. In the‘ matter of
clothes, they never know just what
they want, they buy hap hazardly,
and they never are wholly satisﬁed
With. their purchases.

A child does not have to be very
old to have opinions of his own.
Don’t thwart those opinions every
time they conﬂiét with yours. Per-
haps he has as good a right to them
as you have to yours. Perhaps his
ideas are wrong; sometimes the
eaSJest way to show him how wrong
his ideas are is to let him suffer a
bit by following his wishes instead
of ytilur own.

I ave known many mothers
make clothes for their chilggg
Without asking for their opinions at
all, and then, when the children ob—
ject to the style or color of the
dresses or blouses, reply: “Well
that’s what I made. Wear it or
go without!” ,

That attitude is not fair
child. It likewise tends to tgnalﬁg
them careless of their clothes. Many
a child has deliberately torn or soil-
ed a 'dress she dislikes so as not to
have to wear it again.

There is inﬁinite joy in planning
daughter’s dresses with the little
daughter offering suggestions. With
a little tact, Mother can usually
sway her away from decisions. But
If her. heart is set on a color you
know is unbecoming, let her have it.
She Will likely hear an unfavorable
comment some time which will
teach her that she has made a mis—
take.

Work together! That is the key-
note of happy Mothers and children.
Working. with you, the children will
learn th1ngs they are not conscious
they are being taught!

 

 

—if, you are well bred!

4
‘7

Never speak harshly to a child. Never
use disrespectful names. Never use pro-
fane or vulgar words in the presence of a
Chlld. Do net 'be so cold and austere

as. to drive your child from you. Never
misrepresent. If you falsify, the ‘child
Will soon learn to decieve also. Never

. withhold praise when the child deserves

it. Commendation is one of the sweet—
est pleasures of childhood.

 

 

Personal Column

 

 

Play the Game—I would like very
much to know if the story “Play the
Game,” by Ruth Comforth Mitchell, in
the August, September and October, 1920
numbers of “Woman’s Home Companion”,
can be obtained in book form and where.
If not, would like to exchange other
magazines for those numbers—V. E.
Smith, Vanderlbilt, Michigan.

——«Maybe some kind reader has these
magazines; if not, you can purchase it
thru the Appleton Publishing Company,
29—35 W. 32nd St.,' New York City, at $1.75.

Some Hints to Relieve Work—I have
read somany suggestions in the Michigan
Business Famner that have been a. help
to ,me. I ,have one that I want
to pass along. Purchase three yards of
white table oil—cloth and use instead of
table linen that has to be washed and
ironed. Then-»it can simply be washed
and pupalwayyby rolling around a. stick.
Then 'when Silo ﬁlling time comes and

_' bean» threshers, fyou 'wil-llfihave wan ready
V' {or‘usc again. Q‘This hes‘been  a help

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two heaping teaspoons ﬂour;
spoon butter; one teaspoon salt.
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mustard and ﬂour and a little water,
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Chocolate Caramels.—-—Two and one-
half tablespoons butter; two cups of
molasses; one cup brown sugar; one-
half cup milk; three squares of unsweet-
ened chocolate, one teaspoon vanilla. Put
butter into kettle; when melted add the
molasses, sugar, and milk. Stir until
sugar is dissolved, and when boiling point
is reached, add chocolate, stirring con—
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Quilt Pattern—Take pieces of any two
colors that you have or that .harmonize
and set together, following pattern show-
ing you which pieCes to join. It is a
good idea. to have one of the colors plain
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into a buttered pan, cool, and mark in
CHRISTMAS DINNER 1923 Squares-
I will try and give you a Christanas
menu that will help make the ,holiday Peanut Nougat.——One pound sugar,
this year a better one by good things one quart of peanuts. Shell, remove
to eat and still not drain the family skins, and ﬁnely chop peanuts. Sprinkle

purse.

In the November 10th issue was the
turkey roasted and stuffed three different
ways. I think a. Christmas goose is as
ﬁne a dish for our second holiday that
can be had. Chicken is always good
and sure to be liked, but those of us who
can have goose will be in keeping with
the day. The following is a full dinner
and may be too much for some of us,
and so I would suggest that you pick
out of it the courses that you think right
for your particular needs and family

with one-fourth teaspoon salt. Put sugar
in a perfectly smooth granite sauce pan,
place on range, and stir constantly until
melted to a syrup, taking care to keep
sugar from sides of pan. Add nut meats,
pour at once into a warm buttered tin,
and mark in squares. If sugar is not
removed from range as soon as melted.
it Will quickly caramelize.

English Fruit Cake—One pound butter,
one pound light brown sugar, 9 eggs,
one pound ﬂour, two teaspoons mace, two

tasta- ' teaspoons cinnamon, one teaspoon soda,
Tomato soup two tablespoons milk, three pounds cur—
Bout Goose Apple 01' POtatO snifﬁng rants, two pounds raisins, seeded and

Giblet Gravy
Mashed Potatoes Buttered Onions
Celery Apple Sauce
Lettuce and Pear Salad
Mince Pie or Plum Pudding
Nuts—Candy
Coffee

finely chopped, one-half pound almonds,
blanched and shredded, one pound Citron,
thinly slice and cut in strips.

Cream the butter, add sugar gradually,
and beat thoroughly. Separate yolks
from whites of eggs; beat yolks until
thick, and lemon color, whites un-til stiﬁ.‘
and dry, and add to ﬁrst mixture. Then

 

Potato Stuﬁ‘ing.—'I‘W0 cups hot mashed
potatoes, one and one-fourth .cups
soft ’stale bread crumbs; one-fourth cup
ﬁnely chopped fat salt pork; one finely
chopped onion; one-third cup butter; one

sifted with mace, cinnamon,

Put in buttered deep pans, cover with

buttered paper, steam three hours, and
(Continued on page 17.)

AIDSTO GOOD DRESSING

SEND IN YOUR SIZE

Lately some of you ladies have been sending for patterns without giving size.
This means expense and delay for both of us. I hope you all realize the importance
of sending in your size when asking for patterns.

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4455 A Unique sag stylish GWThis is

a. splendid model for eta for Canton ore e or
satin. It is also_ ood for combinations 0 ﬁg-
ured and plain in]. or jersey weaves, or twill
With braid or braiding for decoration. The Pat-
7 Sizes: 34, 36. 38. 4Q 42, 44
built measure. 8 inch size
yards of 40_inch material. For
panel and insert of contrasting material 54
of_ material out crosswise) is required.
Width of the a t at the foot is 2% yards.

4487. A Pretty "Cover All"
‘protecting" apron with
at the side front seams. In
With a iimsh of bias binding
color. this model Will be inexpensive and very
serViceable. Gin _ or sateen, chintz or cham—
bre are also suitsb e. and in damask in blue
an white or silver grey it will be attractive.
o_Eattern is cut in 4 Sizes: Small, 34-36;
mg 8 ; Large, 42-44' Extra Large.
46:48 ucheo bust measure. edium size ro—
quires 5% .yards of 32 or 36 inch materisL

4512. “A New Panel Skirt"—H

model good for twill. broad cloth or its? eis I:
is also nice for linen and other wash '
The packet}; mag be omitted. in Pattern is
out in 7 Sizes: 5, 27. 29 31, 33, 35 and 37
inchesnrissist fm‘10 . ch 29 1.ch size re uires

o in materia '
the foot with plaits extended is 2 yai'ldlzi.a mat at

A Popular St Io for the Growing Glrl.—-—Wool rep and la-d .t.
The blouse 5 'ps over the head. 9 skirt is as t p 1 8m "‘33" hm “untimely
Pattern is out in 4 Sigmz 8:"1183  Iggy 1D29 gang-d to an undeerdy
0 make waist and sleeves of co ‘

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combined.
or: ﬁnished with' a band. The

~muryisrd§5ﬁ yards of 36 inch meteriaL ntrasting material. reqtur‘ a

4565. A Simple Frock for a Small Girl.———Fi ed -

is is also attractive in voile, botistq or silk. an?“ £2§P°ugn$&ﬂrgewgigebg%e combined. This
oil. Thermem is cut in_4 sizes: . 4 B. and 8 years. A 4 your size requires 2% yards or

7 inc material. To make facing. collar. cuka and vent of contrasting material rm 1 “L

4585. A Smart Dresa Style for the Growing Glrl.—-Darted f
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one“than sage. Add to potatoes“
v bread cruinbs. butter, egg. salt and sage;

Apple Stufﬁng—To plain bread stufﬁng
add one cup chopped apple. not too ﬂne

two
eggs, two-thirds cup vinegar and one-

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Aspirin

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on the package or on tablets you are
not getting the genuine Bayer As—
pirin proved safe by millions and

prescribed by physicians over
twenty—three years for
Colds Headache
Toothache Lumbago
Neuritis Rheumatism
Neur-algia Pain, Pain

Accept “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin”
only. Each unbroken package con—
tains proven directions. Handy
boxes of twelve tablets cost few
cents. Druggists also sell bottles
of 24 and 100. Aspirin is the trade
mark of Bayer Manufacture of Mon-
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Never Let
a Cold Get
a Start

Break it up overnigh

THEquickdirecttreatmentforcolds

of children and grown-ups too,
is an application of Vicks over throat
and chest at bedtime. Not only is
Vicks absorbed thru the skin, but its
healing vapors of camphor, menthol,
eucalyptus, turpentine, etc., are
breathed all night directly into the
aﬂ'ected air passages. Relief usually
comes by morning. Just as good, too,
for cats, burns, brubes, stings and
itching skin troubles.

win-to Vick ChomicaICo., Bar 3'31
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SAVE A LIFE

FOR
CHRISTMAS

you are giving, give health.
There are thousands of suﬂerers of
tuberculosis, forgotten by all the
world except the Tuberculosis Association.
11 needs your support to carry on its life-
saving work. You help when you buy
Christmas Seals—the Liberty Bonds in
the war upon consumption.

Buy Christmas Seals! Buy as many
as you am. The Great White Plague
can be stamped out entirely. Christmas
Seals an saving many lives. Buy Christ-
mas Seals, and save a life for Christmas.

 
  
   
  
  
   
   
 
 
  
   
   

 

JUST BEFORE cnms'rms

UST before Chrisunask ,
J Is the meanest time of all!
You have to be so pesky good,
There ain’t no fun at all.

For if you're up to any tricks,
There's someone sure to say:

"You best be careful, Johnny!
Santa may be round today."-

Now if Santa likes a. feller,
As his presents seem to show,

What makes him bother me so long?
That's what I want to know.

This year I just wrote a letter,
Just before Thanksgng Day,
Directed it to “Santa, North Pole,”

And sent it on its way.

And this is what my letter said:
"Oh, Santa, be a. dear,

And please don’t come a-snooping round
A-watching me this year.”

THE JUST CALIPH

NCE, in Bagdad, a. 'Caliph built a
magniﬁcent palace, but, in ord-
er that its main entrance

should be imposing it was necessary
to pull down a small laborer’s hovel.
The vizer was ready to destroy it,
but the Caliph ordered that the poor
old man who dwelt there should be
paid for his hovel.

“I will not sell,” said the poor
man. “My forefathers lived and
died here, I wish to die here. Tell
the Caliph I said so. He is just.”

The Gali'ph considered long when
this answer was brought him, and
then he answered,

“Let the hovel stay. There is no
gate so splendid, that I could raise
to my palace. If people saw a gate
blazing with gems they would say
only ‘The Caliph is rich,’ but if they
should see the hovel, they would
cry, ‘The Caliph is just’.” -

Justice is greater than riches.

 

 

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Address all letters to the Children’s
Hour as follows:

UNCLE N ED,
The Business Farmer,
Mt. Clemens, lVIich.

 

 

Dear Uncle New—Here's wishing you
the happiest birthdays, and hoping you
will have many more as happy. Although
I did not send you anything last year,
I thought of you, and that does just as
well, I think, don’t you? But I am not
going to let this one slip into the past
without showing you that I remember
it. That is why I’m writing to you now.
You may call this your birthday letter.
I am enclosing in this letter a. poem I
wrote. I want to know what you think
of it. Now I will tell you what I re-
ceived for my birthday. My sister gave
me a book and so did my mother. Our
school teacher gave me a book also;
My father and mother together bought
me a dozen blue Amber-cl records. A
friend sent me a tablet and 4 Narcissus
bulbs. So you see I was well remem-
bered. Well I guess I'd better close or
you won’t want me to write again, so
good—bye Uncle Ned. From your invalid
Nephew,——Orville H. Trueblood, Pewamo,
Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned:—As this is my ﬁrst
letter will look for it to go in the waste
paper basket. I have been studying at
my friend’s and reading the M. B. F.
and like the children’s stories very well.
Well, I had better describe myself. I
have light brown hair, blue eyes, baby
doll bobbed hair, and am ﬁve feet one
inch tall. I am twelve years of age and
in the eighth grade at school. I weigh
89 pounds. My birthday is July 12th.
I have two sisters and two brothers and
I am the oldest. We all go to school
but baby, who is four. My father trucks
from home to Detroit and all along the
line. We live to town. It is small, only
has seven stores and one bank. Our
home and lawn covers a quarter of an
acre. Our home is all modern with
electric plant and water and gas and
all bathroom furnishings. Well,’ I will
close my letter with a. riddle. Upon a
hill there is a mill and by the mill there
is a. walk and in the well there is a key,
and if you don’t answer this riddle you
will have to kiss me. Round as an apple
and deep as a cup, all the king’s horses
Gn't pull it up; Will some of my
cousins please write to me. I will gladly
answer. Write tor—Kathleen most, Hale,

 

   

have dark brown hair (bobbed) and dark
blue eyes. I urn-a junior .at Ionia High
School. My birthday is on August four-

~ teenth. Have I a. twin? I ride back'and
~forth to school every day. It is about

a ﬁfteen minute drive. I am taking up
a busines course and ﬁnd it very inter-
esting. I have no brothers or sisters
so I would be very glad if some of the
boys and girls would write to me. I
surely will answer all letters I receive.
At school I belong to' 9. Girls' Literary
club and a parlimentary club. In both
clubs we are going to have a play for
Thanksgiving. In American history class
we have a new teacher from Grand
Rapids. She came last week, to stay
until the beginning of the next semester.
I like her very well as she gives us all

E’s. She is very sociable, and told us‘

all about her family. She said that on’o
of her ﬁve brothers was a doctor. One
day a. lady came into his ofﬁce, who
said that she felt bad all over. By what
she told him he didn’t know what ailed
her so he mixed her up some salt; soda;
and red coloring and gave- lt to her and
told her to come back in 0. week. When
the week was up she came back and
said that the medicine had done her so
much good that she wanted some more
just like it. By that time he had for—
gotten what color he had put in the
former medicine so he put brown in this.
The lady told him of the mistake, so he
mixed up some more with the red color-
ing. As that lady imagined the medicine
wasrgood. Please imagine this letter is
good enough to print. Your niece,~—~Olive
Groves, R. 1, Ionia, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned :——I have never written
to you before. My father takes the M.
B. F. and I like to read the Children's
Hour. I am a farmer girl and live on
quite a large farm. I go to high school
and like it very much. I have a brother
and two sisters going too. My brother
graduates this year. Has any of the
other cousins got “The Song of The Dy-
ing Cowboy?" If they have I wish they
would please send me the words. Well,
I will have to describe myself. I'am ﬁve
feet tall, have light brown hair, but don’t
wear it bdbbed. I want it bobbed
though. I am dark complexioned and am
ﬁfteen years of age. My birthday is the
1st of September. There is no use ask—
ing if I have a twin because I have.
Well, I will have to close for this time.
Your niece, Fay Houtz, R. 3, Montgomery,
Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned:——I have never writ-
ten to you before, but have been very
much interested in the boys’ and girls’
department so thought I would like to
join too. My grandfather takes the M.
B. F. and likes it very much. I am- 16
years old and my birthday is January
12th. Have I a twin? And will she
please write to- me? I passed the 8th
grade this spring. I will tell what Birch
Run looks like. It has a population of
about 900. There are four or ﬁve stores,
oil station, bakery, etc. We live near
the Dixie Highway. Many people go
north of here, for ﬁshing and camping.
I have one brother, he is 10 years old.
He is in the 4th grade. Will some of the
cousins please write to me as I like to
write letters. I remain your niece,—
Kathering Spensberger, Birch Run, Mich.

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—My how lovely it
must be, to have so many nice nieces and
nephews. I think guessing games are
very interesting. don’t you? I have
noticed previously that most every per-
son has been writing riddles. So I am
going to make_ my letter one of mystery.
My age is between 7 and 16. The ﬁrst
letter of my surname is P. Don't you
love to wander out in the woods in the
fall of the year and just study the beau-
tiful trees, and their many colors. I will
close with three riddles (a) What most
resembles a. half cheese? (b) Which is
the best way to raise strawberries? (c)
What two letters are the desting of all
earthly things? Now every one must re-
member that the person who can tell me
the following answers (my surname, my
exact age. and answer two of the three
riddles correctly) will receive a letter
from me composed of 25 pages. Best
regards to all, I remain,-——Miss P. Stroupe,
R. 7, Pontiac, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned 2—1 wrote to you once
before Uncle Ned but Mr. Waste Paper
Basket knew that my letter wasn’t worth
while reading, so he gobbled him up.
Isn‘t that so? Well, how do you like
this weather Uncle Ned? We had a little
snow today. [I will be glad when it gets
cold, so we can go skating. Do you like
to skate? I love to. skate. How many
of the cousins like to skate? I described
myself in my other letter, Uncle, but no
one knows that but Mr. Waste Basket,
and so I will have to”'d0 it all over again,
I am a girl 5 feet 1 inch tall, weigh 102
pounds. I am 13 years old. I have
brown eyes and hair. and for a great
wonder my hair isn’t bobbed. My birth:

day is in October. Will all of the“
’ cousins that have a. birthday in October

write to me? I will answer all letters
I receive: 'Uncle Nod, I would like. to
have arcontest and oftheoousinsdm

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HALF A LOAF IS BETTER THAN
NONE. '
that want to do so just say so. Good-bye

Uncle Ned. From a want—to-«be—n-iece,—-
Thelma Crodby. Edenvﬂle, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—As I was going to
town I thought I would stop a few min-
utes to see you. But mother said I can’t
stay long this time, maybe next time I
can. How are all the cousins? I am
just fine and happy all the time. At
school I aim in the 8th grade. School
started over a month ago. I will picture
myself to all of you if I can. .I am 14
years of age, light complexioned, ﬁve feet
and four'inch-es tall, weigh 115 pounds,
have medium brown bobbed hair. Do you
like girls with bobbed hair? If ‘ you
don’t, won’t you like me at least? There
are twelve in our family, ‘nine girls and
three boys. I was in Saginaw Saturday,
came home Sunday afternoon with sister.
There are some boys and girls from our
town who wrote and I thought I would
write. Hope you will print my letter
for this is the ﬁrst time I have written.
If it doesn’t hit the waste paper basket
I will be lucky—I’ll try to keep away
fromit. I will close with a joke. If a
man has seventy patches on his pants
what time is it? Guess it. Will some
of the cousins write to me. I will close
with lots of joy, from your unknown
friend, “Bobbie”-——Helen S. Janetski, R.
5, Freeland, Michigan. _

Dear Uncle Nedz—I received your
most welcome letter today andlwas very
glad to hear from you. Thank you so
much for sending me the pencils and
pencil‘ box. I_sure will make life miser-
able for the pencils, for I am going to
school every day, and will make good
use of them. The weather is getting
terribly cold out .here. I will be glad
when winter begins, for then I can go
to skating parties. I just love to skate
on ice skates, don't you, Uncle Ned? The
fact is, I love all outdoor and indoor
sports. My friend ,and I went horse back
riding Sunday and had absolutely a swell
time. I am simply crazy about riding
horseback, that is what I 'call enjoying
life. Don’t you, Uncle Ned? My age is
between 15 and 17. Whoever guesses my
age will receive a long letter from me.
Won't the boys and girls please write
to me? I will try and answer all letters
received. At times I am so terribly lone-
some that I would just love to receive
some nice long letters fromthe girls and
boys. As my letter is getting long I
will close with love, your niece,—.—M_lss
Margaret Jackowiak. Sherwood, Mich.

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j  transact abusiness verysimilar
 the business "transacted. by the

War Finance Corporation. The pur-
pose of these banks is to provide
seasonable credit facilities for agri-

7 genuine" and to place the farming

businesses; a parity with manufac-
transportation and com-
merce. . .

The Federal Reserve Banks in
times of necessity issue notes again-
st the short. time leans they hold
and Intermediate Banks issue de-
bentures or bonds. The term of
agricultural paper is long and the
probability of renewal toa great to
use such paper for a basis for notes
such as are issued by the Federal
Reserve~ Banks. Under ordinary
conditions and in time of ordinary
demand for money the local bank
can take care of short time needs of
farmers for money either by their

own funds or through their city
correspondents. In times of very
heavy demand, however, or where

the paper is for a longer period than
the local bank can carry, these
banks can use the facilities avail-
able through the Federal Reserve
Banks and the Intermediate Credit
Banks. This gives country banks a.
very valuable. service as a bank. of
deposit cannot afford to tie up its
deposits in loans of an indeﬁnite
maturity or paper which must be re-
newed over a period of years. This
type of paper' is ordinarily called
frozen assets and may raise havoc
and has raised havoc with agricul-
ture in the last few years. Our pres—
ent system of ﬁnancing loans for
agricultural ’purposes lays the
foundation for the solution of one
of the greatest‘ problems. facing
agriculture—namely the marketing
of farm products. Without the prop-
er system of marketing farm pro-
ducts farming can never come into
the place to which it is entitled.
The saleability of farm lands and
the proﬁts of the farm are depend-
ent upon what the farmer can get
This is not the
problem of politics or sentiment but
of a right system and the introduc-
tion into farming of the same busi-
ness principles and methods of
ﬁnancing as applied” to other busi~
passes. The trouble with farming
in the past has been that 'a large
percentage of the production of any
one crop has been dumped ,on the
market within a very short period,

every farmer jumping against the

other and striking his own bargain.
This is always the result of individ—
ual selling. The only solution is
group production, group,marketing
and group ﬁnancing. Unless we
know what everybody is producing
and also the buying power of our
market we are groping in the dark
and this principle must be applied to
farming before we will have deﬁnite
results. The supply and demand
we know-controls prices. It is nec-
essary, however. to control the ﬂow
and the supply. It is necessary to
have the supply where needed and
also when needed. This is a sim-
ipills question of storage and ﬁnanc-

g.

The Federal Intermediate Credit
Act gives us the credit facilities for
properly ﬁnancing products in stor-
age. Properly managed and prop-

erly organized cooperative market- ‘

ing organizations are having no

trouble to ﬁnance themselves at the

present time. They have had no
trouble for some time, not apy more
than have other businesses. The

fact. however. remains that the co—V.

operative marketing of ‘farm pro-
ducts is in its infancy and that the
foundation for proper ﬁnancing had
to be laid before it could be expect—
ed to have the cooperative market-

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ﬁngthe farmerg'genenlly got‘

“raisin,
' a report; that there was'an over-pro,—

duction of any one crop they got
scared and thought that somebody
would get stuck and tried to sell
their products ﬁrst and thereby
broke the market. Nobody but the
farmer was to- blame for this.

Properly organized and properly
managed cooperative marketing or-
ganizations will accomplish a great
deal of good. One small market-
ing organization thrusting its wares
against many other small organiza-
This
has been tried for the last ﬁfty
years. It is necessary that each
commodity be organized and then
sold. The farmer has not always
listened to sound advice; would-be
leaders have often sold him on such
things as guaranteed prices and oth-
er legislative remedies, which, if
adopted, would make the farming
conditions many times worse than
they ever have been.
farming is organized along business
lines the farmer will be satisﬁed to
run his own business and will run
it successfully instead of having
somebody run downto Washington
every time something happens.
Nearly everybody is with the farm—
er on this proposition. I believe
the farmer is willing to be led along
the right lines it he has the right
leader, and the success of this
movement is dependent upon leader-
ship and management. The farmer
cannot afford to fool with amateurs
in this matter. Credit facilities
have been made available to the
farmer and now it is up to him to
use these facilities. Financing and
marketing are so closely allied that
they cannot be separated. The prin-
cipal value of the. Intermediate
Credit Act lies in the facilities
which it offers for the marketing of
farm products.

RECIPES
(Continued from page 15.)

bake one and one—half hours in a. slow
oven, or bake four hours. in a. slow oven.’
Rich fruit cake is always more satisfac-
tory when done if the cooking is ac-
complished by steaming. This is a splen-
did Christmas cake and you need not
feel it is hard to make.

Bowed Popped Corn..—-’I‘wo quarts of
popped corn: two tablespoons butter;
two cups brown sugar; one-half cup of
water. Put butter in sauce pan, and
when melted, add sugar and water.
Bring to boiling-point, and let boil six-
teen minutes. Pour over corn, and stir
until every kernel is 'well coated with
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I in them. and thou in me, that they
may be perfected in ones—John 17:23.
(E. B. V.)

Christ is in and about us always, but
we make Him appear to the spiritually
blind. only when we do a Giristlike act.
Whose gives us a better understanding
of life, brings us glad tidings. or even
speaks an encouraging word. is for that
moment the Christ to us——“the Word
made ﬁésh"——the most greatly to be de—
sired accomplishment of mankind. We
should look for Him in every one we
meet. even in the most depraved. He is
there, and encouragement will help to
bring Him forth—the Divine Light~—~that
is .to guide us.

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The exhibits on this train, showing the wonderful ad-
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the New York Central and its agricultural patrons.

The New York Central Lines serve some of the richest
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New York and Pennsylvania, and they haul more than
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The Profit from Your Cows

You do not expect bumper crops from your
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The hard-worked milk-producing functions of
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Kow-Kare has such positive action on the
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Dairy authorities say that the average
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Row-Kare. of course. is prim '1
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Fever, Lost Appetite can be successfully
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Spring calves for sale Write us your wants.
A few Chester White Boers and hows for sale.
CRAPO FARM. Swartz Creek. Michigan.

 

 

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we HAVE some FINE YOUNG Anous Bulls
from Internatioml Grand Champion Stock at
Wanable prices. E. H. KERR J: 00.. Addison.
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RED POLLED

—REGISTERED RED POLLED
Cattle. Both Sex.
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A. M. SMITH Lake City, Michigan.

 

FOR SALE. A Few Choice Registered Guernsey
hPIfEI‘S due in Dec. and Jim. at very reasonable
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JERSEYS

REG. JERSEYS, POGIS 99th OF H. F. AND
Minesty breeding. Young stock for sale. Herd
fully accredited by State and Federal Government.
Write or Visit for prices and description.
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, J. E. MORRIS. Farmlngton, Michigan
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FARMERS DISTRIBUTE MILK AT
' .IBONTON

ERE’S a tip to the milkman—

and judging from the trouble

in which he seems to be con-
stantly involved as a result of his
“sliding scale,” he needs it.

The farmers of Ironwood and
Erwin townships, Gogebic county,
in the UpperPeninsula of Michigan
—and of Hurley, Wisconsin, organ-
ized the Ironwood Milk Distribut—
ors’ Association, early in October.
The association will endeavor to
place the industry on a higher busi-
ness basis, and to insure to its
members and patrons a. square deal.

It will endeavor, also, to work to-
wards the production and market-
ing of a ﬁrst class article for which
a reasonable, uniform, price will be
charged, in accordance with the
average cost of production and
marketing. The association, more—
over, will aim to protect its mem-
bers against loss, resulting from re-
moval of customers from the city,
who fail to pay their bills; and to
require of its members, that the
milk ordinance of the city of Iron-
wood be observed in every particu-
lar, in regard to the t. b. testing of
cattle, cleanliness of operation,
cleanliness of production, and bottl-
ing of milk and cream, as well as
methods of distribution.

The city health ofﬁcer of Iron—
wood is instructed by the associa-
tion to report all members or other
parties suspected of non—compliance
with the milk ordinance. They will
be dealt with accordingly.

C. E. Gunderson, Gogebic county
agricultural agent, commenting up-
on the plan says: “Milk, properly
produced and handled, is the na-
tion’s best food, and will become
even more liberally used when its
high food value at low cost is com-
monly understood. But the con—
suming public wishes to know that
it is the good, wholesome, clean
pure food that nature meant it to
be. That is the purpose of the
new organization.

The ofﬁcers of the Association
are:
President, Julius E. Johnson;

Vice President, C. E._Johnson; Sec—
retary and Treasurer, Luther Olson.

ONTONAGON‘ COUNTY COM-
PLETES T. B. TEST

N November 21, the work of

tuberculin testing all the cat-

tle in Ontonagon county, Upper
Peninsula, was completed. Approx-
imately 9,700 head were tested. 120
animals reacted to the test. This
would give an average of 1.25 per
cent reactors. This is a very low
ratio of reactors. Other portions of
the state have sometimes shown as
high as 10 per cent reactors, and the
average for all cattle tested in the
state is 2.2 per cent. Ontonagon
county cows are healthy.

The taxpayers of the county have
reason to be pleased with the ﬁnan-
cial report covering the cost of the
tuberculin test. A year ago On—
tonagon county approproiated $3,-
000 to cover the county’s share of
making the test. The census ﬁgures
of 1920 showed 6,800 head of cat-
tie in the county. The estimate of
expense was based on this number
of cattle. Instead of this number
the veterinarians found 9,700 head
of cattle; and the total expense to
the county, for the county’s share
of making the test, is less than
$2,000.

The increase in the number of
cattle in the county, from 5,800 in
1920 to 9,700 in 1923, shows that
the farmers of Ontonagon county
are rapidly developing the dairy
business. This is a wise step for
the farmers to take, for dairy farm-
ing is the, safest, surest, and most
proﬁtable type of farming for On-
tonagon county. Having all the
cattle of the county free of tuber-
culosis will go a long way towards
increasing the value of, and profits.
from, the cattle. This helps the
farmer. The man in town is also
beneﬁted by having a healthy and
safe milk supply, and even the but-
ter. and cheese manufactured in the /
county will be better for the fact
the, tuberculin‘fgest has, been mode.

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slaughtered locally;
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retest Will be made next year. At'
least all the herds where~reactorsg
were found will be tested again."

The decision in this matter rests
with the State Department of Agri-
cultiire.———W. N. Clark, County_Agri-
cultural Agent.

BREEDS OF DAIRY CATTLE
No. 4—Brown Swiss

HE Brown’Swiss breed originat-I

ed in the Canton of Schwyz, in
eastern central Switzerland.
The cattle are called variously
Brown Switzer, Brown Schwyzer,
and Brown Swiss, the last name be-
ing the one commonly used in the

United States. Conditions in Switer-’

land are such that a" strong animal
capable not only of milk production
but of service as a draft animal ls
desired, and the large frame is
evidence of ﬁtness for these require-
ments.

The ﬁrst importation into the
United States Was made in 186-9,
and although other importations
have been made since, comparative-
ly few animals have been brought to
this country. Quarantine regula-
tions in the United States against
contagious animal diseases on the
Continent of Europe probably have
hindered the introduction of large
numbers of these animals. The dis-
tribution in the United States is not
widespread, the cattle being found
principally in the States of New
York and Wisconsin. The present,
popularity of the Brown Swiss has

been gained entirely by the merits.

of the animals, as they have not
been much advertised.
Characteristics

In color the cattle vary from a
light-gray, mouse‘color, or brown-
ish dun to dark brown. A medium
shade of brown shading into a. light
gray or almost White strip along
the backbone and on the belly is

picferred. The udder is usually
white, switch of tail and boots
black. A black muzzle with a

creamy or mealy ring around it is
characteristic. The horns, of mod-
ium size, are white at the base and
black at the tip. In disposition the
cattle are mild and docile and for
their size are very active; they are

excellent grazers, especially on
rough land.
The cows when mature weigh

from 1,100 to 1,600 pounds (aver-
about 1,250 pounds); bulls
range from 1,500 to 2,500 pounds.
The cattle are compact, smoothly
ﬂeshed over all parts, and when dry
rapidly put on ﬂesh, which is milk-
ed off well after freshenlns.
Straightness of hind legs is a typic-
al characteristic of the breed.

The breed has been criticized be-
cause certain animals have shown
lack of regularity in type of udder
and have had exceptionally large
teats. As the breeders pay more
attention to these points great im-
provement is observed.

Calves at birth are large and vig—
orous and weigh from 65 to 90
pounds. As a rule, animals of the
breed are somewhat slower in ma—
turing than those of other dairy
breeds.

In milk production this breed
ranks well, with a moderate per-
centage of fat. The average of the
228 cbws that have completed year-
ly records of production to January
1, 1918, is 10,931.1 pounds of milk
testing 3.998 per cent, amounting
to 437.02 pounds of butter-fat.

Families of Brown Swiss have
not been developed to any great ex-
tent in this country.

TATTOO MARKS

Would like to ask it any of your
readers have ever used any of these
tattoo ear markers for marking
sheep. If so, is it a success, and
permanent, or will it grow dim after
whila?——B. 8., Ionia, Mich.

—-—The tattoo marks, using black or
blue ink, may be used satisfactorily
with those breeds of sheep having a
white face and ear. A- I. have never
known of tattoo marks being used
with the black cared sheep, al-
though I can see noreason why it

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about pestering cattle” and horses _.

with safetyi—E. M. I.,‘ New. Balti-
more, Mich. ,

-—-There is considerable danger of
' bloat when pasturing cattle on al.-
ialia, especially ‘when it has an!
moisture’on it, such as comes from
a rain or heavy dew, also when the
alialia is real 'green' and growing
rapidly.

We have not made a practice of
[maturing our. alfalfa ﬁelds here un-
til they are three or four years old
and considerable of June grass has
come in. Horses and hogs are not
as subject to bloat as are cattle_ and
sheep and there is very little dang-
er of injury to horses or hogs pro-
viding they are started on the alt-
alta'when it is dry. , I

I would not advise the pasturing
at an alfalfa ﬁeld only one year old,
as there would be considerable
danger of its being pastured too
close and injuring the stand. It
would be much better to see it go
into the winter with a good top to
hold the snow and give it protec-
tion from the cold this winter.—
Geo. A. Brown, Professor of Animal
Husbandry, M. A. C.

PLANS FOR BUILDING BEEF-
CA’IT'LE BARNS

REEDERS and feeders of beef
cattle will ﬁnd in a new Farm—
ers' Bulletin, Beef-Cattle

Barns, just published by the United
States Department of Agriculture,
suggestions of value regarding the
right types of barns for various con-
ditions, the location, arrangement.
ventilation and construction. Sever-
. 8.] plans and alternate plans are giv-
en for general—purpose barns, feed—
ing barns, sheds, and barns for
housing breeding herds. Consider-
ation is given to the requirements
in severe climates and in regions
. where less protection is needed from
the elements. The bulletin contains
16 drawing showing elevations,
ﬂoor plans, and cross sections.

Copies of the bulletin, which is

No. 1350, may be obtained by writ-
ing to the Department of Agricul-
ture, Washington, D. C., as long as
the supply lasts.

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COW POX

-We have acow that has scores on
her bag and teats. They ﬁrst make
their appearance in a lump. This
breaks open and then a large scab
terms. We do not, use the milk as
we thought it might not be good.
These scores have been coming on
for about 4 weeks. Sometimes they
all go away and other times they
number 3 and 4 on the bag. Cow
eats good and is in fair condition.
Once there was a very large one
came on and she did not give hardly
any milk. She does not give as
much now as she ought to. She
gets mostly corn fodder with pump-
kins, carrots, and bran.——P. A.,
Sherman, Mich.

-—-I think this cow is suﬁering from
cow pox. Washing the teats and
udder after each milking with a one
per cent solution of hyposulphite of
soda will bring about a cure in most
cases. The occasional application
of sulphur ointment will help to
softenmp and remove the scabs. The
disease”, is easily spread from cow
to cow in the act of milking, The
affected cows should be milked last
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good disinfectant before milking
another cow.——-—John P. Hutton, As-
soc. Proi. Surgery and Medicine,
M. A. C.

SELLING YOUR APPLES AT A
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(Continued from page 4)

‘ of four per cent acetic acid, niay be
.- reduced to a strength of not less
. -  per cent, and older vine-
" gorse reduced shall not be regard-
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mark or brand as cid-

th‘at whiclris not cider vinegar. Any
vinegar sold or uttered for sale
shall be marked or branded plainly
upon the package or container from
which it is sold and also on the orig-
inal package or container in which
it is sold or delivered, in. a manner

to show its true character and
ource.”
Paragraph 71, Section 6: "No

vinegar. shall be sold or exposed for
sale in which foreign substances,
drugs or acids shall have been in-
troduced. No vinegar shall contain
any artiﬁcial coloring matter, and
all vinegar shall have an acidity of
not less than tour per cent by
weight of absolute acetic acid. It
vinegar contains any artiﬁcial mat-
ter, or less than the required
amount of acidity, it shall be deem-
ed to be adulterated.”

Paragraph 74, Section 9: “Who—
ever violates any of the provisions
of this act shall, upon conviction,
be punished by ﬁne of not more
than two hundred dollars or im-
prisonment in the county jail not to
exceed six months or both such ﬁne
and imprisonment in the descrition
oi the court.”

 and the Words
cider, vinegar,’ and «no» V
.not using good sound fruit.

  

 

. There rre many reasons why
vim gar making in the home is not
a «success.i: The first mistake is as
You
can not make ‘good vinegar from
unsound or rotten fruit. The
microorganisms spoiling ,/ the fruit
will likewise spoil the vinegar it not
properly controlled. The second
mistake is in keeping the older at
too low a. temperature. It will act-
ually take any where from one to
three years to make vinegar if the
cider is kept at a low temperature.
On the other hand it kept at too
high a temperature the alcohol is
evaporated and ' other undesirable
organisms enter and‘ destroy the
food materials necessary for the
yeasts and bacteria in the making of
vinegar. Another mistake often
made is in the choice of variety of
apples. Many apples that make
good cider to drink do not make
good cider for vinegar due to the
small amount of malic acid.present.
Malic acid is necessary in cider to
keep out the putrefactive bacteria
that otherwise would spoil the cid-
er. Again many varieties are low
in sugar content and sugar is neces-
sary in cider for good vinegar. Con-
trary to popular opinion sweet ap-
ples do not as a _rule contain more
sugar than sour apples. They
simply have less malic acid present

 

which makes them taste sweeter.

‘Taking everything into considera-

tion most varieties of winter apples
make the best cider tor vinegar.
Fall apples are the next most desir-
able for vinegar making and sum-
mer apples the least desirable.

In conclusion it might be said
that any one observing a few
simple rules of cleanliness, select-
ing the proper variety of apples, in-
oculating with pure cultures of
yeast and bacteria can make good
cider vinegar conforming to the
laws of Michigan at a small cost}
thus receiving twice as much for
the apple crop and in many cases
converting an unproﬁtable crop into'
a proﬁtable one.

(Editor’s Note:—Anyone inter-
ested in producing better vinegar
send for Special bulletin No. 98,
Bacteriological Laboratory, Michi-
gan Agricultural College, East
Lansing, Mich.)

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banks to the round Irish Cobblers,
the exhibits showedwonderful col-
or, bloom, and ﬁnish, and made a
picturevwhich the average person
could hardly believe possible of the
prosiac potato.

The Russet Rural was easily the
leading variety at the Show. In
fact, this variety had more exhibits
than all other varieties combined.
Next came the White Rurals, with
the other varieties trailing as to
number of exhibits.

In the exhibit of 32 potatoes, Ed-
ward Sutton of Central Lake won
ﬁrst with his peek of Russet Rurals
and the same peck was later award—
ed the championship of the whole
show.

The peck class of Russet Rurals
was really a “contest of the champ—
ions” as it included the exhibits of
Lee Sneathen of Charlevoix who
won sweepstakes at the Internation-
al Potato Show at Duluth this year
and Ernest Pettifor of Gaylord who
won the championship of the 1922
International. Sneathen’s exhibit
placed a close second while Pettifor
was awarded third.

When the visitor saw the dozens
of other exhibits, all of splendid
quality and uniformity, which did
not come within the prize money, it
was easy to appreciate that winning
a place in this competition meant a
real honor.

The Upper Peninsula came in for
its share of the potato, honors as
ﬁrst place in the White Rural peck
competition was won by C.’ R. Mill-
ar of Manistique, while John De—
Longchamps peek of Green Moun—
tains won ﬁrst in its class.

The best peck of Irish Cobblers
was exhibited by George Harrison
of Manton and Wm. Howe of East
Jordan won ﬁrst prize with a peek
of Early Ohios. In the “any other
variety” class, ﬁrst place was award—
ed to Chas. Albert of Vulcan, who
exhibited a splendid peek of Russet
Burbanks.

Otscgo Has Best County Exhibit

A county exhibit consisted of 12
samples of 32 potatoes each, to be
selected from the exhibits made by
individual growers. Otsego county
placed ﬁrst; Cheboygan county,
second; Emmet county third; and
Presque Isle county fourth.

To encourage the selection of
better market potatoes, the Michi—
gan Potato Growers’ Exchange of-
fered prizes for the best exhibits of
market potatoes shown by coopera-
tive marketing associations. First
place in this division was won by
the Central Lake Marketing Ass’n.
with the Lake City Ass’n. second

and the Marquette County Farm
Bureau, third. .
A novel feature of the potato

exhibit was a contest whereby the
housewives visiting the Show ex-
pressed their judgment as the kind
of potatoes they prefer. Several
exhibits, each composed of 150 lbs.
of table stock, were displayed and
were designated by numbers. Each
lady was given a ballot on which
she marked the number of the ex—
hibit which she would prefer to buy.
Interest in this feature was very
marked among the visiting house-
wives. r

A guessing contest, which con—
cerned the number of apples and
potatoes displayed in two piles, also
received much attention.

Potato Producers Hold Meeting

The Michigan Potato Producers’
Ass’n. held two meetings in connec-
tion with the Show. Warehouse
construction and storage conditions
were the two topics especially em—
phasized. Prof. Floyd Fogle of the
M. A. C., Dept. of Farm Mechanics,
described approved types of storage
houses and showed the details of
construction. Prof. Fogle stressed
the importance of proper ventilation
in these houses. He predicted that
potatoes would soon be stored in
bonded houses, similar to other
commodities which now have that
privilege, which would enable the
grower to ﬁnance his business on
the warehouse receipts. The im-
portance of having the best storage
houses, so as to comply with the re-
quirements of bonding; waS‘shown
clearly. '

C. in connection with
eases, »showed that most ‘of ;.i-the '

 

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caused by, insufficient ventilation.
He explained that‘?'the potato is a. "

J. Kotillapwho has been doing‘
. special research work for the M. A.
potato jdis- ‘

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living plant and that the life pro-

cesses go on Within the tuber dur-‘

ing the winter. This makes it nec-
essary that the tuber have a suﬁici—
ent supply of oxygen otherwise
breakdown will occur in the tissues
of the tuber.
Mr. Kotilla

showed how this

breakdown appears ﬁrst as rings 'or "

spots under the surface of the tuber
and later extends to the well known
“black heart.” These conditions
may be caused by lack of proper
ventilation of by too high tempera-
tures in storage. In the later case
‘the result is the same inasmuch as
the high temperature stimulates
the potato and it therefore requires
more oxygen to supply its “breath-
ing” process. ‘

An honor club, which admits to
membership only those potato grow-
ers who obtain an average yield of
not less than 300 bushels of pota-
toes per acre, has been promoted,
this year by the Michigan Potato

Producers’ Ass’n. Those winning
membership this year are as fol-,-
lows:
Yield
PerA.
Name Acres Bu.
A. L. Dunlap, Lurpton ...........  .... ..2 301
E. B. Loehne, Central Lake ...... ..2 322
A. Verschme, Manistique ............ "2% 324
A. N. McDonald, Millersburig....2 395
Arthur Hockin, Kewadin ............ ..4 333
Tony Shocks, Central Lake ........ ..2 318
Irvin Cole, Alanson ...................... ..2 359
J. G. Woodman, Paw Paw .......... ..9 350
C. S. Dearborn, Belleaire .......... ..3 350
F. Schmalzreitl, Levering .......... ..10 342
M. E. Parmelee, Hilliards .......... ..2 363
M. A. Rec-tor, Rockford .............. ..2 322
J. DeLongchamp, Champion ...... ..3 420
Harry Reilly, Belleaire ................ ..2 310
R. Bennett, Alba .................... ..3 308
Lee Sneathen, Charlevoix .......... ..2 390
H. J. Bonnett, Beaverdam ........... "21/2, 305
H. Vandersilk, Central Lake .... "4% 400
W. Bowers & Son, Central Lake 2 350
In addition to the honor of ob-
taining membership in the “300

Club,” each of the above growers
was presented with a very attractive
medal watch fob. The 1923 champ—
ionship goes to John DeLongchamp
of Champion with his average yield
of 420 bushels per acre.

 

 

 

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TRAPPING THE WEASEL

0 animals are more blood-thirsty
and carnivorous than the wea-
sel tribe. »

They are 'well equipped both in,
actual weapons and in activity of
body and have powers [quite out of
preportion to their size. They are
gifted with a magniﬁcant fur which
in the colder climates, turns a snow
white during winter months. Skins
should be cased fur side out. The
fur of the White, Weasel is most
valuable; that of__the brown ~weasel
is only worth a few cents.

Locate runway or place weasel
frequents and hang bait from limb
of tree by piece of string, so that it
is just within reach of the animal.
Bait should hang about 12 inches
from trunk of tree and trap should
be directly under. Always keep
traps used for small animals proper—
ly oiled so they will spring with
very little pressure upon them.
When trapping for weasel as well as
all other animals, great care should
be used to cover traps and remove
all unnatural appearance. Use rab-
bit, bird or liver for bait.

 

MICHIGAN HOLSTEIN BREEDERS
ADOPT PREFIX NAMES

IVE Michigan Holstein breeders,

have adopted preﬁx names
within the past three months
for use in naming their cattle.

These names have been reserved on
the books of The Holstein-Friesian
Association of America for the ex-
clusive use of the breeders.

They are: Security, M. 0. Post-
huma & iSons, Coopersville; Post-
dale, John E. Post, Durand; Mas-

farmco, M. J. McPherson,‘Howell;
'Oshtemo, H. B. McMurray, Kalama-
zoo; Cool Lake, Earl Fairbanks Jr"
Lansing. ‘ '

‘ The use of preﬁx names is of de-
cided advantage to the breeder- It
gives him. the use of, all names in
new combinations, “Evenf thOse in
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- NOT GOOD PLAN TO FORCE
KENS TO MOULT

13 it a good plan to force hens to
moult? About what time and how
should they be fed during that time?
-——Mrs. B. H., Snover. Mich.

——It is not practical to force hens in—
to a premature moult. A number of
experiments have been conducted in
relation to egg production and moult-
ing. Most of the heavier producers
delay moulting until September ﬁf-

' teen or later; in fact most hens that

moult subsequent to this date are
Worthy of being included in the
breeding pen. Such hens usually
moult_ quickly and resembl’e a pin
cushion at certain stages_ of the
moulting period. The early and slow
moulters are undesirable and do not
return to early production as many
people seem to believe.

A good ration for the moulting
would be as follows:

Scratch feed: two parts cracked
corn, one part wheat, 20 per cent
bran. 20 white middlings,
meal, 20 ground oats, 15 meat scrap,
5 old process oil meal.—E. C. Fore-
man, Professor of Poultry Hus-
bandry, M. A. C.

 

MICHIGAN TO HAVE CERTIFIED
BABY CHICKS

Michigan Baby Chick Assoc-
iation has completed its plan
for the certiﬁcation of ﬂocks

and state inspection of hatcheries.
This announcement was made by C.
J. DeKoster, secretary of this A'ssoc-
iation, , This is welcome news to
the chick—buying public and the
Michigan Baby Chick Association is
performing a distinct service to the
poultry industry of the state. It will
put the poultry business on a ﬁrmer
basis. ,

For many years Michigan farmers
and poultrymen, like those of other
states, have been the victims of un-
scrupulous poultry producers and
hatcheries who had the ability to
write ﬂowery advertisements but did
not deliver chicks of good quality.
There were also many good reliable
poultry-men in the state, but buyers
had no way of knowing the good
from the bad. The Michigan Baby
Chick Association saw the necessity
of this move more than two years
ago and immediately laid the found-
ation. Progress was slow but sure.
The work was started ‘in 1922 by
the Michigan Agricultural College
but a shortage of men and funds
made it necessary to drop the work.
This year_ the Association has form-
ulated a plan whereby they can do
the work themselves under the sup-
ervision of the M. A. C. Several
plans were suggested and discussed
and the following was ﬁnally put in-
to use: ,

The certiﬁcation plan provides
that every ﬂock furnishing eggs to
the hatchery must be inspected by
a member of the inspection commit—
tee of the association. The pullet
ﬂocks are carefully inspected for
size, rate of maturity, freedom of
disease, uniformity of type, uni~
formity of growth and productive
ability. The hens are rated for
lateness of moult. size and uniform-
ity, general vigor, freedom of dis-
ease and productive ability. Male
birds are inspected for size and phy-
sical development, character, consti-
tutional vigor and breeding.

Then the inspector is to deter-
mine what the general conditions
around the farm are, such as sanita-
tion, ventilation, over-crowding.
forcing for production and feeding.
These are the points upon which
the score cards will be judged by
the board of directors to whom the
inspector makes his report. Flocks
that do not come up to the standard
requirements will not be certiﬁed.
When a ﬂock fails to pass the in—
spection test. ,the ﬂock owner bene-
ﬁts by the inspection and can gen:
erally improve his ﬂock and within

 a few years, may be .able to have

ti'ﬁed. When a ﬂock, passes
,, on a certiﬁcate is. issued
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Most of the hatcheries in the state
are coming in on this certiﬁed stock
plan. It will mean better chicks,
better satisﬁed customers and a big
boost for the baby chick industry
of Michigan.

Before the 1924 season opens all
hatcheries of members of this As-
sociation will be inspected by a man
from the poultry department of the
Michigan Agricultural College.
Hatcheries will be inspected for san-
itation. ventilation and general con—
ditions. This works hand in hand
with the certiﬁcation plan and un-
less a hatchery has the facilities to
hatch good strong chicks under good
conditions it will not be able to sell
certiﬁed stock. The Association feels
that a man can have the best stock
in the world and if they are not
hatched right the stock will do no
one any good.

Plans of this kind have been used
by the state of Wisconsin success-
fully; Illinois has adopted a similar
plan for next year; and why should
Michigan lag behind? Michigan is
not lagging behind, thanks be to a
few live men. who have put this big
thing across. We say “Big” thing,
because we believe that the certi-
ﬁcation of ﬂocks and a state inspec—
tion of hatcheries is the biggest for-
ward step that has been made in the
poultry industry of the state.

(jNCLERUBESHNAQEjﬁXS

MAN IS HEAD OF THE HOUSE

EST a few days ago or there
J about, a feller Where I work at

———he’d been quite a bit chesty
’bout how he run things out to his
place—~sed he was boss at home an’
run his own place. Well, you [know
how it is when a feller gits that
way? Of course no human bein’
has ever ﬁggered Out ’zactly how
comes—but any way, some fellers
do ’magine they run things up in
their homes an' less they git too
chesty 'bout it I most gen’rally let
’em dream their dreams and say
nothin’ ’bout it. But this young guy
got onto my nerves a little. Oh he
wasn’t a-kid,—r»"»5 or 36 prob'ly—
an’ I argued w..h him ’cause bein’
long in yearswnot old you know,
but well past my twenties—I kinda
sort 0' thought he wasn’t much dif—
ferent from any other married man.
So you see, just to prove I was right
and that he didn’t run his own home
I angled ’round ’til he invited me
out to his house for dinner—4M
Sunday dinner. Well now I have
my Sunday dinners paid for—Athat
is gen’raly speakin, if not. well then
I.wait"’til Monday and I can most
allus git trusted on Monday. But
to continue—or rather git back to
where I wuz at. He invited me to
go out to his place for my Sunday
dinner. Well an’ good! I'accepted
the invitation at once, I wanted to
see a house where the husban’ wuz
boss an' so I sed I’d be glad to go
out.

This wuz on Thursday night an' I
wuz quite proud to think that I, out
of all the youngsters comin’ from the
South. that I wuz the only one in.
vited. An' he invited me ’cause I
had advocated ’at a man should run
his own place. ~

Oh, well, folks, I didn’t go out
there, I’m sorry as I can be. I
know you’re sorry to. Saturday
night—jest the night when I thought
it'll be a short night cause I was
planin' on a free dinner—by the
great horned spoon an’ striped cats
an’ blind pigs—the young teller
came to me an’ sez—in a kinda sin-
ful voice. “Uncle Rube its all off,
the wife don’t want company an’ I
can't take you out to the house with—
out her consent an’ “-—well folks.
he took off his workin' can an'
showed me a bunch. a lump on his
head Jest 'bout the size of a brown
leghorn egg and he sez “you see how
It is, Uncle Rube—Course" he sez,
I run my own home but——-my
wife don’t wantyou out there". Oh

_ I’m so glad I’m free, no woman can
., tell me where to go. and when ..to
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and no_w she is just as ﬁne as ever.

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Advertisements inserted under this

issue.

rates by return mail. Address The
Department, Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

Commercial Baby Chick advertisements 450 per line.
you have to oﬂ‘er and send it in. We will put it in type, send proof and quote
Michigan Business Farmer,

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PULLETS. HEIS MID GOGKERELS

S. C. White Leghorus and S. C. and R. C. Black
Enema. Must make room before cold weather.
About ready to lay.

LAPHAM FARMS. Plnolmsy. Mloh.

a crude Utlllt Cookout: For
1:: White Wyand’ othal. Barred
Whit Moms. C. W. Hoimbaoh.
R. E. Michigan.

LEGHORNS

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FOOTE’S MARKET LETTER

BY W. W. FOOTE
Farming Conditions

ERHAPS never before were

farming more mixed than now,

and while there are many com-
plaints of hard times and forced
economy, numerous reports come
from more prosperous districts
where farmers and stockmen have
been able to meet their obligations
without going heavily into debt.
Naturally, the worst reports come
from exclusively wheat growing dis-
tricts, but many farmers who are in
the habit of carrying on dairying
as well as devoting part of their ef—
forts to raising other‘grains and
feeding live stock are nore than
making both ends meet. In same
farming districts it is reported that
an accumulation of bad paper is be—
ing liquidated, numerous farmers
having been carried by country
banks in the hope of better crops
and better prices, and this tends to
postpone the dawn of a better day.
On the other hand, it is cheering to
learn that less money is needed for
financing farmers than was antici-
pated. The Federal Farm Loan
Board has completed its plan of
ﬁnancing this year’s crops, having
loaned a total of $32,000,000, and
the wheat growers failed to take
advantage of the fullest credit
facilities. Only $2,403,896 of the
total loaned to farmers was loaned
on wheat. All of the loans for
which wheat was furnished as se-
curity were made «in the St. Paul,
Wichita and Spokane districts. Corn
husking has been going forward
steadily in the states comprising
the corn belt, and early sown wheat
is showing up unusually well. Hogs
have been marketed in overwhelm-
ing number, the last crop of pigs
having been a huge one, but low
prices have favored a large con-
sumption of fresh pork,,a‘nd cured
meats and lard have also been eaten
so largely that there are no uncom-
fortable accumulations anywhere.
Fresh pork roasts are retailing in
the Chicago meat markets at 17
cents per pound, and they are affect-
ing the sales of beef and mutton to
a marked degree, as these meats are
not any? cheaper. The return of
Thanksgiving day brought unusual-
ly large supplies of poultry to mar-
ket, and prices for turkeys were
much lower than a year ago, re-
ceipts being larger than ever before.
As farmers know, turkeys are apt
to be difficult to raise, but where
owners are successful and raise
large numbers for the market, prof—
its are liberal. To a remarkable

 

extent farmers are doing their
marketing of poultry and other
farm products by using motor

trucks, and proﬁts are largely in-
creased thereby. ~ North Dakota
farmers are great turkey men, ship—
ping car loads of prime dressed
turkeys to Chicago and other large
markets.

Increased Michigan Bean Crop

The oﬂicial crop report for Mich-
igan says the average yield increas—
ed this year from 11 to 11.5 bush—
els an acre, aggregating a total
production of 6,532,000 bushels,
and probably the largest quantity of
white beans ever grown in any state
in one year. The average pick is
placed at 8 per cent, with approxi—
mately 6,000,000 bushels of mer-
chantable beans.

The Bean and Pea Journal says:
“The demand for soybeans has ex—
ceeded the supply of the better var-
ieties in Iowa, according to a mem—
ber of the farm crops section of
Iowa State college. This condition
olbtains in spite of the fact that the
acreage of soybeans has been doubl-
ing annually, while in many coun-
ties the acreage is estimated at
from 10,000 to 15,000 acres. While
most of this wage is planted with
corn for hogging down a good mm

ﬁelds are planted for the produc— ‘

tion of seal."
Wheat

11130 3E!

m the reportedm
in hummus ' nose to
be holding their wheat for higher
price and even going so far as to
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MARKET, SUMMARY
Active buying gives wheat market strength. Corn unchang-

ed. Oats and rye follow trend of wheat. Beans steady.

Butter

and eggs in demand. Large supply of potatoes weakens market.

Apples easy.
active and prices gain.

Cattle trade slow but steady.

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(Note: The above summarized Information was received AFTER the balance of the mg.
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gages, other farmers are accepting
prices offered, fearing values may
go lower later under heavy offer-
ings. Stocks in sight are growing
in volume rapidly, and a short time
ago it was started on the best of
authority that available supplies of
wheat east and west of the Rocky
Mountains, in Canada and aﬂoat ag-
gregated 247,000,000 bushels, com-
paring with 197,200,000 bushels a
year ago. It is as evident as ever
that unless especial efforts are
made, wheat is not likely to sell
much, if any, higher, the worlds,
surplus being so great as to make
sharp competition between rival ex-
porting companies. The wheat sit-
uation is a. domestic one, and not de«
pendent upon exports, and we are
importing wheat from Canada.
Harvesting wheat is going on in
Argentina, and the surplus of that
country for export is estimated at
170,000,000 bushels, while the Ans-
trailian surplus is placed at 60,000,—
000 to 80,000,000 bushels. Ger-
many, France and other European
countries have growu large crops of
wheat and potatoes, but the"Ger-
mans are so impoverished that com—
paratively few are able to buy food
in a normal way. Corn farmers as
a class are in good shape ﬁnancially,
and undoubtedly they will ship a
great deal of corn to market after
corn husking is over. Stocks of
corn now in sight are insigniﬁcant,
and it is impossible to scrape up
enough to bring exports to even a
moderate amount, although cash
Corn has had a large fall in prices:
Very good exports of oats, rye and
barley are reported, and rye prices
still rule unusually low, with the

[visable supply in this country nearly
twice as heavy as at this time last

year. Corn and other feeds are not
generally regarded as too high for
feeding to stock on the farm, al-
though corn does look high when it
is recalled that ‘a little more than
two years ago new cash corn sold
in the Chicago market for 49 cents
a bushel.

Late sales were made of Decem-
ber wheat at $1.02, comparing with
$1.19% a year ago; December corn
at 72 cents, comparing with 72
cents last year; December oats at
43 cents, comparing with 44 cents
last year; and December rye at 67
cents, comparing with 83 cents a
year ago.

Prime Dairy Cows

The honor list of cows in state
testing associations for October, just
released by the dairy extension de-
partment of the University of Illi-
nois, shows that the highest produc-
ing cow\in any of the 19 groups was
owned by Rock River Farm in the
Ogle county test group. This is
the property of Senator Medill Mc-
Cormick. The cow is a purebred
Holstein, which produced 2,236
pennds of milk and 101.5 pounds
of butter fat.

The next highest cow was owned
by A. D. Machamer of the Jo Dav-
iess group. This cow was a grade
Holstein, which produced 2,164
pounds milk and 84 pounds butter
fat in the month.

The highest producing herd also
was owned by Mr. Machamer. Five
grade hol'steins in this herd averag-
ed 1,458 pounds milk and 46.1
pounds fat. The lowest record was
522 pounds milk and 82.7 pounds
fat for 22 purebred Jerseys in the
WWW group. ,

The Cattle Outlook
Now that the Thanksgiving em-
tensive consumption of poultry in

over. the demand for. beef my be
expected
til the

to be reasonably large un-
. Christmas and New Year
holidays start up another lively

change during the week ending
«December 1 and the grain, was

  

 

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mand for turkeys, geese, ducks and
chickens. Only a moderate demand
exists for heavy beef steers, as has
been the rule for many weeks, and
the local packers and city butchers
as well as eastern shippers show a
marked preference for yearlings;
which have been selling at a liberal
premium over prices paid for heavy
cattle. Prospects appear promis-
ing for well-bred and well fattened
cattle, but it appears to be the pre-
vailing opinion among cattle feeders
that in most instances it will not be
advisable to go in for a long feed.
It also is highly probable that fat
cows and heifers will be good sell-
ers. After a two years comparison
of long and short feeding at Purdue
University in Indiana it was demon-
strated that light weight cattle
which were roughed through the
winter and fed out in the spring
and summer months for marketing
late in the summer have a better
show for profits than heavy steers
fed fer four or ﬁve months in the
winter. The Chicago cattle receipts
for Thanksgiving week were so un-
usually small that prices advanced
25 to 75 cents, the bulk of the
steers selling at $8.50 to $11.60 and
the best yearlings going at $12 to
$12.75, while the best heavy steers
went at $11.50 to $12.25. Common
steers sold at $6 to $7 and cows and
heifers at $3.50 to $10.50. Stock—
ers and feeders were higher at $5
to $7.50. ‘
The Hog Industry

It was demonstrated months ago
that the farmers had greatly over-
done hog breeding, and the expla-
nation of the tremendous declines in
prices is found in the highly sensa-
tional increased shipments to the
leading packing points. The recent
spread in Chicago prices has nar-
rowed materially, but prime heavy
butcher hogs are still selling much

above the best light bacon hogs. Re- '

cent receipts of hogs in Chicago
have averaged 235 pounds, being
four pounds heavier than a year ago
and twenty-one pounds over the
ten-year average. Lard is especial-
ly active at much higher prices than
a year ago. Despite liberal Chicago
hog receipts last week, prices were
not much lower, late sales being at
$6.45 to $7.15, comparing with
$7.30 to $8.60 a year ago. Com-
bined receipts, in twenty markets
for the year to late date amount to
38,793,000 hogs,
30,351,000 ‘a year ago.

, Lambs Promise Well

While many more ﬂocks of lambs’

are being fed this winter in Mich—
igan, Ohio,‘ Indiana, Illinois, Wis-
consin and other states than a year
ago, lamb and mutton are far more
popular meats than in:former years,
and it looks promising for sheep-
men who bought feeders right and
ﬁnish them right. Around Thanks-
giving the consumption of lamb
meats was very small, as usual, but
sellers managed to put price up on
very much reduced supplies. In re-
gard to marketings in the near fu-
ture, it should be noted that cheap
pork causes many families to buy
pork in place of mutton. Poorly
fed lambs are too numerous and sell
badly, as do heavier lambs, especial-
ly lambs weighing from 86 to 100
pounds and over. Lambs sell in
Chicago at $9.50 to $13.25 and
feeders at $11 to $12.35.

WHEAT
,The Detroit market showed. slight

steady owing 'to‘ smallness of re-
ceipts. Demand from the eastern
miller. is on the increase. and any,

grain is said u soon as itsmm 7

comparing with

  

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declare. .
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Offerings of the new crop are
large but the quality of most of the
grain coming forward is poor. Too
much wet weather left the grain
soft and it requires quick handling
to avoid loss. Although driers are
working overtime a lotof the corn
is going hot and sour. This is
keeping the market steady. As soon
as the soft corn has been disposed
of farmers are expected to hold the
balance of their surplus and wait
for higher prices. And if there is
as much poor can; as is reported the

farmer who has some ﬁrst class corn

stored away will make some money
before several months have passed.

OATS
Oats are ﬁrm and unchanged at
Detroit. (Some of the other large'
markets in this country report
prices slightly higher and demand
fair. Country offerings to arrive
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There is nothing doing in the
Detroit rye market and the grain is
easy with a quiet tone prevailing.

BEANS

 

There was a gain of 5 cents in the «
Detroit bean market last Saturday '

but this left the price 10 cents und-
er what it was a. week previous.
Fair quantities of beans are being
shipped to New York from Mich—
igan. The eastern dealers are re-
ported to be well pleased with the
grade of beans they are receiving
from our state this year.

POTATOIE
Potatoes were ﬁirm at Chicago

 

on the market. There islittle de-‘

last week but lower on most other _

markets. At Detroit ,the supply
was plentiful and the market had
an easy tone to it.

HAY

Trade has been rather slow and
eastern markets especially have ‘ a
little easier tendency. Receipts have
been ample and under a light de-
mand these markets have been un-
able to realize top prices for any-
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QUOTATIONS
Wheat
Detroit—Cash No. 2 red and No.
2 mixed, $1.101/2.
Chicago—Cash No. 1 hard, $1.10,
@1.11. '
Prices one year ago —- Detroit,
Cash No. 2 red, $1.33; No. 2 white
and No. 2 mixed, $1.31.

Corn ’
Detroit—Cash No. 3 yellow, 81c:
No. 4,_ 76c. r
Chicago—Cash No. 2 mixed.
761,40; No. 2 yellow, 77%@86¢.

Prices one year ago ——- Detroit,
Cash No. 2 yellow, 760; No. 3, 750.
Oats

Detroit—Cash No. 2 white,
4936c; No. 3, 4756c.

Chicago—Cash No. 2 white, 44%
@45 I;é,c. .

Prices one year ago — Detroit,
Cash No. 2 white, 49%c; No. 3, 480.
Rye

Detroit—Cash No. 2, 73¢.

Chicago—Cash No. 2, 72c.

Prices one year ago —-— Detroit,
Cash No. 2, 890.

Beans

Detroit—C. H. ’P.,
per cwt.

Prices one year ago —— Detroit.
C. H. P., $6.75 per cwt. -

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Detroit—-—$1.10@ 1.20 per cwt.
Chicago—J$1.00@1.10 per cwt.
Prices one year ago —-—- Detroit.

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Detroit—No 1 timothy, $23.50@
24; standard and light mixed,‘$22.-
50@'2‘3; No. 1 clover $2}1@22 per
ton. : "  .

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26; No. ,1 clown. ' "
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fresco to 46“ sei- cent a: the "trial;
crop on futures before the crap is

lilTharvested. Herargafe‘d that such a"
 practice would tend to prevent 'glut-

ted markets and would make a

g-fouudation for the market at har- "
’ ve ng time. ' ' -

vernment inspection of cars of
fruit at loading points was praised
as an excellent“ method of. merchand-
ising as it enabled cars to be sold
in the cities by auction and f. o. b.
loading point.
Merchandising the apple was the

- topic assigned to Prof. V. R. Gard-

ner, head of the Horticultural De-
partment of the Michigan 'Agricul~
tural College. Using numerous,
charts as illustrations, Prof. Gard-
ner outlined the present apple mar-
keting situation with remarkable
cleanses. He showed that over :90

. per cent of the apples are sold and

out of the growers’ llands by Nov-
ember ,ilrst of each year. In con-
trast with this dumping. Prof. Gard-
ner showed that the demand for ap-
ples is practically constant through-
out the ten months from August to
May, inclusive, whereas the bulk of
the marketing is done within a com-
paratively few weeks following the
harvesting. Using data obtained
from chain stores, restaurants, and
grocery stores in Detroit, Lansing
and Grand Rapids, Prof. Gardner
showed how remarkably uniform
this demand is for apples through—
out the year.

Without minimizing the import-
ance of grades, standards, advertis-
ing, cooperative marketing mach-
inery, and the like, Prof. Gardner
showed how proper merchandising
is the key to the apple situation. “If
there -is one principle more basic,
more fundamental, than all others
in merchandising it is that success
lies in being able to sell people
what they want, where they want it,
and when they want it," stated
Prof. Gardner in emphasizing his
point that merchandising the apple
must be‘ made as stable a transac-
tion as the daily sales, of codes,
shoes, and sugar.

Home storage of fruit is rapidly
decreasing and now the greater part
of the apple crop is marketed in
small quantities from week to week.
More storage capacity, especially
cold storage, is a prime necessity in
Michigan today, according to Prof.
Gardner. “With a commercial pro-
duction averaging .more than 1%
million barrels of,app1es annually
Michigan should have storage facili-
ties for at least 1 million barrels,"
stated Prof. Gardner.

A Fight on Futures

The question of whether, or not,
future sales of fruit are, an advan-
tage to the fruit grower was the
most debated, and hotly contested
question of the meeting.

James Nicol, of South Haven,
President of the Michigan Fruit
Growers Inc., the central coopera-
tive fruit marketing exchange of the
state, attacked the present system of
selling fruit on future sales. He

, described a transaction of this past

grape marketing season wherein a
fruit broker in Michigan sold one

‘hundred cars of grapes for future

delivery.’ Having thus sold him-
self “short” the broker proceeded to
ﬂood the grape growing section with
letters telling of a large grape crop
in California. and predicting a glut
on the markets with consequent
In ’ this
way the broker proceeded to ham-
mer down prices and break the
grape market. This whole transac-
tion. enabled the broker to buy
grapes at low prices to ﬁll orders
which had been sold previously at
much higher figures.

Mr. - Nicol advocated government
regulation of these sales of futures
and insisted that each future sale
should be registered. With the
sales thus recorded and available
for inspection, Mr. Nicol believes
that much of this market manipu-
lation will be abolished. "No deal-

' 4 or should have the right to sell 100
. cars of fruit at any price he pleases
1 when: he . doesn’t own 9. dollars

 

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 be recorded and
.published in the.
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" voring”;g0verument reg-
future “sales. of fruit.

/ Asserting that the sale of Michi-
gan apples in car lots in bulk is
working great injury to the reputa-
tion of Michigan fruit and is also a
direct injury to Michigan .fruit
growers who carefully grade and
pack their fruit, the State Hort.
Society passed a resolution demand-
ing that sales of bulk apples incar-
load lets be designated as a nab at
a closed package and be subjected-
to the rules and regulations now ap-
plying to smaller packages.

The Society also passed a resolu-
tion asking for a Truth-In-Frult—
Juices law which will protect both
the fruit grower and also the cou-
sumer of the fruit juices.

Air-cooled Storages For Fans

Storage houses cooled by air are
proﬁtable investments for the fruit
growers and more at then should
be built. according to Prof. Roy E.
Marshall of the M. A. C. Hos-tics!
Dept. Prof. Marshall stated that
there are now about 14 of these air—
cooled apple storages in Michigan
and they have a total capacity of
107,000 bushels. Twelve of these
storages were built during the past
year, showing that Michigan grow-
ers are waking up to the need for
storage facilities.

The advantages of small air-cool-
ed storages were explained by Prof.
Marshall as follows: Require only a
moderate investment, have low op—
erating cost,- allow the grower to
spend all of his time harvesting be-
cause later in his storage he can
sort, grade, and pack. and permit
the grower to hold his fruit until
the market conditions warrant his
selling.

Where the quantity of fruit is

50,000 barrels, or more, a commer~
cial cold storage is desirable. “There
should be ﬁve or ten more cold
storages, with a capacity of from
50,000 to 150,000 barrels each, lo—
cated in our principal fruit produc-
ing sections," declared Prof. Marsh-
all.
Increase in Cherry Crop

George Friday of Coloma, speak-
ing on the subject of Cherry Mar-
keting, stated that within 10 years
the cherry crop of Michigan will
have quadrupled. He recommend-
ed careful preparation in advance
to handle the marketing of this
prospective increase.

Fertilizing

Prof. F. C. Bradford spoke on
“Proﬁtable and Unproﬁtable Use of
Fertilizer In the Apple Orchard."

Careful study of three experi—
mental orchards showed that pres-
ent productiou of orchards is not an
accurate sign as- to whether, or not,
they need fertilizer. By studying
wood growth, fruiting, and bud de~
velopment some orchards are seen
to be deteriorating and should re-
ceive fertilizers. Other orchards,
also in proﬁtable production, may
be maintaining their growth and
hence the application of fertilizers
would be unproﬁtable in such cases.
The point made by Prof. Bradford
was that it is necessary to carefully
study the orchard before applying
fertilizers, also that fertilizer is
most proﬁtably applied during the
season of a big crop in order to
counteract the tendency of the trees
to produce a light crop the follow-
ing year.

Winners In Student Contests
In the apple judging contest, in
which students from the M. A. 0.
take part, W. G. Lensen of Traverse
City won ﬁrst place; Gerald J. Stout
of Cedar Springs. second; Lillian
Lawton of Tacoma Park and H. J.
Wilkinson of Detroit tied for third
place.

The public speaking contest for
M. A. C. horticultural students was
won by E. R. Bristol of Almont.
Lillian Lewton of Tacoma Park was
second and H. J. Wilkinson of De:-

wtroit, third.

Re-elect Oﬂioers

By unanimous vote the present
emcers of the Society were reelect-
ed for another year. The ofﬁcers
are as follows:

President, A. J. Rogers, Beulah.

Secretary, T. A. Farrand. Eaton
Rapids. / ‘ .

Treasurer, J. P. Manson. Grand

,Members of ,Excutiva Committee:
Prof... V. R..Gardner, M. A. 0.: R. J.

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HE early part of this week will
be generally fair in most parts
of Michigan. Any showers or

snow ﬂurries that may appear at
this time will be more the result of

local conditions than a regular
storm.
HoWever, about Tuesday light

rains will occur that may turn to
snow hurries before the middle of
the week. -

These storm conditions will soon
pass and the sky again become clear.

Temperatures will average cold, es-

pecially the nights and mornings
but by, Saturday temperatures will
again moderate.

AWeek of December 16, p
a Radical changes in temperature

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Barred Rock Cookerels. Husky, Vlgorous. Blrds
bred from great layers. Sons of Detro1t and
Grand Rapids lst rim) mules. .

W. O. Coﬁman, enton Harbor. MIch., R. 3.

may be expected in Michigan this
week. The high temperature points
for this week will be reached about
Sunday, Wednesday and earlypart
of next week. Decided changes to
colder will follow each of these high
points, effecting this state about
Tuesday and during closing days of
this week.

During early part of this week
and again about the middle rains,
turning to snow, will be more or less
prominent to most parts of the state.

White Christmas

Christmas, 1923, will be white.
We are basing this prediction upon
the fact that the month in general
will yield more than the normal
amount of precipitation and during
the cold spells this will be in the
form of snow. In those sections (if
there are any in the state) where
the covering up to Christmas has
been very light, the warmer temper-
atures just before the holiday may
cause it to disappear but the white'
mantle will again appear either on
or within 48 hours following De-
cember 25th. Michigan will receive
its" share of sleet and snow before
the arrival of the new year.

  


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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