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Read in this Issue: What the ReQApportionnient, Fight Is All AbOut—Farm-Labor Unity Urged at Gleaner
-- Convention—Farmers’ Clubs F avor'Cas Tax and Salary Cut—Farm Bureau Provides Bean Mar-
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M. A. o. sunburn: smear lit
POULTRY memo
HE REV o. w. "BEHRENS, up.

resenting the M. A. 0.. ranked
ﬁrst in a national intercollexiato
students poultry judging contest at

Chicago last week, according to word

received here. The M. A. C. team
was second. Missouri winning ﬁrst

place. Other members of the M. A,‘

C. team. were: 0. H. Wright, of Wil-
liamston, who was ﬁfth among in-
dividuals and George Allen. .of Rock-
ford, 111., who was sixth. Mr. Beh-

rens-was a chaplain in the U. S.- Navy.

during the World War and later was
a student pastor at East Lansing.

FARM BUREAU AGAINST PRICE
FIXING AT ANNUAL 11mm:
SCAR E. BRADFUTE of Xenia.

Ohio. was unanimously revelect—
ed president of the American

Farm Bureau Federation at the ﬁfth

annual meeting held at Chicago Dec.

10—13. J. E. Reed of St. Paul. Minn,

was elected vice-president.

The convention was addresses by
Secretary Wallace of the U. S. Dept.
of Agriculture, Julius Barnes, presi—
dent of the U. S. Chamber of Com—
merce, and many other national
leaders. who discussed present day
problems as they affect the American
farmers. Strong resolutions were
adopted by the convention.

Michigan State Farm Bureau Mem—
bers were represented by their presi-
dent. W. E. Phillips of Decatur, vice-
president M. L. Noon of Jackson.

Secretary-Manager C. L. Brody of,

Lansing, Mrs. Edith Wager of Carle-
ton, James Nicol of South Haven. E.
C. McCarty of Bad Axe, and other
delegates.

Secretary Wallace told the Farm
Bureau that the packers should keep
their books open' to the public—that
the public had a right to an under—
standing of their great business, not—
withstanding the packers” objections
to the contrary. He was assured of
farmer support in his stand. He con—
gratulated tarm organisations for
their harmonious relations with each
other;

Following, and in brief. is a sum-
mary of the resolutions adopted by
the. Farm Bureau convention:

Government price ﬁxing 0: tom
commodities unsound.

Henry Ford: Muscle Shoals project *

advocated and Congress urged to vote
on question without delay.
ﬁ glass 1 railroads should be elects-i.
e

Amendment urged to intermediate
credit act changing minimum loan
period from 6 to 4 months.

Amendment to eligibility clause of
Federal Reserve Act advocated limit-
ing all re—discounts, including com-
mission and brokerage to 2 per cent
above the base federal reserve rate.

Limitations of immigrants to the
present total, with recommendation
that basis upon which the percent—
age is determined be shifted from
1910 to 1890 or as early period; also
that they be selected after physical.
mental and other tests made over
seas.

Taxes should be progressive—ware

greater the income the higher the.

rate; they should he laid as far as
practicable. so, as to tend to the
equitable distribution of wealth.
General sales tax opposed; issu-
ance of all tax—tree securities should
be stopped; all deductions allowed
in ﬂxuring income taxes should ﬁrst
be set of! against tax-ﬂeeincome.
They urged that steps be taken to
stop leaks in 1921 tax law, and an
amendment passed whereby proﬁts
derived from the sale of stock. re—
ceived as stock dividends, shall be
taxable at the regular surtax rates.

Reduction of income taxes op~.

posed; provision approved whereby
Moral and national banks should be

, taxed the some as any other hard.

or the farm.

blishment o! a co~ordlnatod
at ortation‘reeemmadn
ed. mm~mu roa
the railroads, the construction 0

to—Gulf waterways, and an American
merchant marine.

Immediate action should be taken
by Interstate Commerce Commission

. to slash freight rates on farm pro-
ducts sold at disproportionately low

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Grain futures and posters and
stockyards control acts endorsed.

Cooperative marketing of farm
products approved as offering the
most- prscticahle means of stabilizing
agriculture on a proﬁtable basis.

Adoption of plan recommended for
licensing of all dealers and shippers
engaged in interstate shipments by
the Department of Agriculture under
existing laws or such additional laws
as may be necessary.
, Development of super-power, hy-
dro electric facilities and the storage
and utilization of water for electrical
purposes; development of water-
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ZEELAND POULTRY ASSOCIATION
WILL HOLD ANNUAL SHOW
HE annual exhibition of the Zee-

land Poultry and Pet Stock As-
sociation will be held at Zee—

land December 28. 39. 31. 1923,.
1924. A. hearty
welcome is extended to all breeders
of poultry who care to exhibit their
birds in competition. The special
inducement of- cash prizes. silver
cups and special premiums should
draw poultrymen from considerable
distance. The oiiicers of the Asso-
ciation who are in charge declare
that it is to be a real show and the
best birds will win regardless of who
the owner might be. and to this end
they have engaged two of the best
judges in the country. They have
arranged two classes. standard and
utility. which takes in the farmer as
well as the back-yard poultryman.
All entries must be in by Wednes-
day, December 26th, at 12 o’clock,
midnight. The show will be gov—
erned and conducted under the of—
ﬁcial poultry show rules of the Amer-
ican Poultry Association, and all
prizes will be awarded strictly in ac-
cordance with the Standard of Per-
fection. - Let’s go!

CANADIAN IS WHEAT KING OF
NORTH AMERICA

o GI Lt STRANGE Of Faun AI‘

bbrta. in the new wheat king

of North America. When his
exhibit was awarded. the wheat cham-
pionship at the international Grain
and Hay show, Chicago. it marked
Canada's twelfth win in thirteen
years of international competition
against the best wheat growers of
the continent. ,;

Canada began winning interna-
tional wheat championships 111.1911
when Sensor Wheeler of Rosthern.
8111111.. famous wheat wizard. carried
off ﬁrst prize at the New York Land
Show. The following year the cham-
pionship went to James Holmes of
Raymond, Alta. In 1913 ill-was won
by Paul Garlach of Allan. Sask.
Seager Wheeler won it again in 1914,
1915 and 191-6. Samuel Larcombe
of Birtle. Man., won it in 1917.
Seager Wheeler won it in 1918. J.
C. Mitchell captured in in 1019' and
1920 and R. 0. Wyler of Luseland,
Sash. in 1922,.

The only break in the Dominion’s
record came in 1921. when G. W.
Kraft of Bozeman, Montana, kept the
honor in the United States.

Mr. *Strange’s winning variety this
year was Marquis. Marquis wheat is
the staple spring wheat of Canada
and a large part of the United States.
It was evolved by Dr. Charles Saun-
ders, then Dominion cereallst and
developed to its present pertection
by Seager Wheeler. It has meant
millions of dollars to farmers of
North America. /

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NE hundred and forty poultry,
breeders from Michigan. OhiO.
Illinois. Indiana. Wisconsin.
Pennsylvania and Ontario wm rep-
resented at the Detroit National
l’oultry Show. hold week hetero last
at the Light Guard Armory. About
1,500 birds were exhibited. ' The
Quality at the bird- Ihown in Detroit
was laid to be second only to those
exhibited: at the m Ware
Garden, in New York City.

A Regular Statesman
'A citizen of Nosepaint Gulch was
sounding the praises of Congressmen

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What the Re-Apportionment Fight Is All About

Wayne County Locks Hams With Rest of Senate and Unparalleled Battle Rages at Special
Session of Michigan Legislature
By STANLEY M. POWELL

ARK war clouds have hovered
over the special legislative ses-
slou’nalled by Governor Gross-

beck to discuss problems of legisla-
tive rte-apportionment. The feeling
was mine too friendly when the law-
makers assembled and it seems to
get Worse with each passing day. It
now looks as tho the special session
would prOVe merely a useless ex-
pense with no satisfactory results be-
ing achieved.

The senate. with but one dissent-
ing vote, passed a bill which would
increase the number of Wayne
county senators from ﬁve to seven.
This bill. has been reported favor—
ably by the House Committee on
Apportionment and is now up for
ﬁnal passage. HOWever, the Ab-
,torney General has submitted an
opinion in which he declares that
this measure would probably be held
unconétitutional, so there is little
hope of its being passed. “ Some
members are in favor of redratting
the bill, to give Wayne county eight
senators, but there appears to be lit—

tle probability that such a measure ,

would stand any chance of muster-
lng the 51 votes necessary for its
passage.

Kill “21 for Wayne”

The House Committee on Ap-
pbintments surprised everybody by
reporting -favorably a bill which
would increase the number of Wayne
county representatives from 14 to
21, an increase“ of exactly 50 per
cent. However, even this large in-
crease was regarded by many of the
members as being insufﬁcient to
make the bill constitutional, so
when it came up for ﬁnal passage
it was hopelessly defeatedby a vote
of 32 to 64. The vote was later re-
considered and a recess taken until
an opinion could be secured from
the Attorney General as to its con-
stitutionality.

When the opinion came, it stated
that the bill was unconstitutional in
two respects: ﬁrst, it gave Livings-
ton county, .which does not have even
a moiety of population a separate
representative, and second, there
was a gross inequality between the
populations of the districts as out-
lined. For instance. in the proposed
district to be comprised of Kalkaska,
Crawford, Oscoda, and Ogemaw a
population of 18,195 would be given
a representative, while in Wayne
county one member would be requir-
ed to represent 56,078 inhabitants.
There were other proposed districts
that were only slightly in excess of
the Kalkaska district in population.
With this plain opinion staring them
in the face, not even the Detroit
members could vote for the bill, and
it was defeated 90 to 3.

Since this measure has been de-
feated, re—considered, and defeated
again, under the rules of the House
the subject matter of representative
re—apportionment cannot be brought
up during the present session with—
out a supension of the rules, which
requires a two—thirds vote. To date
every eﬁort in this direction has
been defeated, and it now looks as
though there was small possibility of
getting any rte-apportionment legis-
lation during the present session.

SituatiOn a. Deadlock

Since the constitution makes it
mandatory upon the legislature to
pass mpportionment legislation
this year, there has been . a wide
spread sentiment for some legisla-
tion of this character. Due to the
intense bitterness which developed
between the Wayne county members
and those from the rural districts
at themaiar session‘over the gas
tax inane, it was regarded from the
an: m practically impossible for

to .. passed which *would
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(Lansing Correspondent

has been practically agreed all along
that Whatever was done w0uld be
more or less of a compromise, but
since the Attorney General has de-
clared all or these compromise bills
unconstitutional, it now looks as
though the situation were a dead-
lock.

It was apparent that none of the
representatives wished to be held up
in the light or openly defying a de-
ﬁnite constitutional mandate. On
practically every roll call several
members ‘Teserved the right to ex-
plain their vote and did so at some
length in an eﬂort to justify their
positions. In some cases this was
a little difﬁcult because perhaps
there were -some selﬁsh motives
which prompted some of the mem-
bers in taking the stand which they
did. There are always some mem-
bers who fear that they will be lost
out in the cold and have their hopes
for future political advancement
blasted.

After the House had twice defeat-
ed the re-appointment bill, Speaker
Welsh made a statement to the
newspapers in which he said: “This
is a tearful thing. The members
who oppose re-appointment to— might
openly, brazenly, and criminally
violated their oaths to support the
law of Michigan. If they were just-
iﬁed, the bootlegger, the highway
robber are justiﬁed. What can we
say to private citizens who break
a law when the elected representa-
tives of the people wilfully ignore
the constitution upon which our
laws are based?”

Welsh Speaks Plainly

The next day when his collegues

saw this statement in one of the De—

of The Business Farmer.)

troit papers they were thrown into a.
tumult of resentment. Representa—
tive Fred Ming of Cheboygan de-
manded an explanation of the speak-
er. Speaker Welsh met the situa-
tion without ﬂinching. Calling the
speaker pro-tom to the chair, he left
the rostrum and coming down be-
fore‘the clerk’s desk, in one or the
most dramatic scenes ever enacted
in the House of Representatives de—
livered a forceful speech in which
he not only admitted all that the
papers had said but added to it and
made it even stronger. He conclud—
ed his remarks by saying: "I did
make that statement and I make it
here again that the action of this
House in openly defying, brazenly
defying, the constitution of the state
of. Michigan is the most tragic ac-
tion that has ever taken place with-
in these four walls.”

0n the next day, however, he
slightly »modiﬁed his remarks by
making a. conciliatory speech in

Which he said, “While I did and
still do criticize their judgement, I
have never intended and do not now
impugn their motives."

Shall Citizen or Alien. Count?

Members of the House justify
their positions by declaring that
they never had a chance to vote 011
a constitutional measure and point
out that theAppointment Commit-
tee has stated that it would not be
possible for them to report out {1
bill giving Wayne any more repre-
sentatives than was done in the
measures-which have already been
held unconstitutional. They state
that it would not be a desirable
thing either for Detroit or for the
state at large for Wayne county to

Prize Plan For Home-Made Bean Picker

(Awarded First Prize of $10 in Contest.)

FTER a. very careful examina-
tion and study of all the plans
submitted in our home- made

bean picker contest the judges have

at last announced the winner of the _

money offered. It was a close con—
test several plans being so good that
it was difﬁcult to decide which was
the best. They ﬁnally got the num-
ber down to two, then the battle

- started, some were in favor of one

while the others were just as de-
termined that the other was the
best. One plan was sent in by
Alice Babcock of Sherman, Michigan,
and the other by John Bos Marion,
Michigan, and the one ﬁnally chosen
was by John Bos. After studying
them from every angle his was de-
clared the easiest to operate. How—
ever, all of the plans were good and
we are publishing the best of them.
If none of them suit you, you can
get the ideas as to the good points
of each one and then build one just
suited to your needs. We have sev-
eral plans yet to publish so watch
for them in near future issues.
John Bos’ Plan

“I am sending you a sketch of my
bean picker, that I made and used
since seven years ago, which I wish
you would consider in your picker
contest. It isn’t hard to make as
the necessary dimensions are given
in the sketch, the material required
we all have 611 hand. The main
frame is made from planed 1114 in.
The hopper is made from 1%, in. box
lumber that we have laying around,

’31: provided with a tin slide above

running com to regulate the
thickness of beans suitable. The

running canvas; we made 1110111 an

,_.

'runs are two-

old binder canvas which is 6 inches
Wide. I made my cull bean boxes
from some old sewing machine draw—
ers, the canvas running between.
As shown in the sketch our frame
is well braced as this is always im—
portant and you will notice the hop—
per is built so it will drain empty

 

    

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as it sets quite far over the canvas.
The rollers over which the canvas
inches in diameter
which insures plenty surface contact
with the canvas to prevent slipping.
The machine works smooth and
practically inciseless. Hoping. this
sketch will he of beneﬁt to our read-
ers, we are, Yours truly, John Bos,
Marion, Michigan.

the next two years.

have the greatly increased repre-

sentation which it is demanding.
They feel
were to be distributed according to
population it should be done on
the strictly citizenship basis, with-
out considering the number of
aliens. There are 183,503 aliens in
Wayne county, which is more than
62 per cent of the total alien popu-
lation of Michigan, although Wayne
county has only about one— third of
the adult inhabitants of the state.
25 percent of the population of
Wayne county are aliens and do not
have the right of self-government
even in their own county, yet
Wayne is asking for state represent-
ation in the state legislature for
these non— —citizens.

City Domination a Menace

Then, too, it is granted that one
of the basic principles of our Amer-
ican form of governments is that
areas as well as population totals
should be considered in giving rep—
resentation. This principle is carried
out even in our U. S. Government.
The state of Delaware with 223,000
people and New York with 10,385,-
000 have exactly equal representa—
tion in the U. S. Senate. This pro-
vision was no doubt adopted to pre-
vent the country from being domin-
ated politically by a few congested
centers of population.

To prohibit such a condition aris~
ing in the state government nearly
every state having a large city has
adopted some restriction to keep the‘
city from ruling the state, or as it
is sometimes expressed “to keep the
tail from wagging the dog."

Maryland, for instance, has 1,-
449,661 people of whom 733,826
live in Baltimore. Yet its 27 sena—
tors come one from each county
with but three extra ones for Balti—

more. while in the lower house
Baltimore has but: 24 out of 101
members. Thus Maryland's great-

est metropolis, with over half of the
state's total population. is represent-
ed but, by one—fourth of one house
and one—seventh of the other. Still
more striking is the case of Rhode

Island. where out of a total popula—
tion of 604.397 there are 237,595
who live in Provident? while only
3 pm“ cent of 1111’ stair-‘5 population
is rural. ‘51; 1711.: 'mwvr house. which
has .101." inscrmr-rs react.» city or Town
no 11151121"? l'm‘v $111113. has one mem—
ber 5.11.3 no (113‘ or low: no matter
IlOW barge. (can bale more than one-
rourtb of the whole number. Prov-
idem-o. with 40 per cent of the
state‘s populalion. can elect only

0110411111111 of rho lower and only
one—ibirry—ninth of the upper. More
illuszrations might be given to shoW‘
how these problems are being met
in other states.

Moicty Clause Is Safe-Guard

It is pointed out by those who op-
pose re—apportionn1ent at this time
that whether or not the legislature
does anything at its present session,
the constitution provides that in
1926 the question of revising this

document shall automatically be
submitted to the voters. If they
authorized its revision, 11 constitu-

tional convention would be held in
1927. Because of this situation
many law— makers argue for leaving
the present districts undisturbed for
The constitu-
tional convention is composed of
three members from each senatorial
district, so the more senators De-
troit gets, the more voice it would
have in drafting the new constltm
tion. If given its own way, it
would probably discard the moiety
clause entirely and virtually tube
over the complete control 01 the
state.

Present conditions make it quite __

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_I-IE Gleaners, organized in this
State in 1894, met for the ﬁrst
, time in Detroit, where the Na-
tional Gleaner Temple is located,
eek before last. The convention
as combined with a “home-com-
ng” celebration and more than one
thousand delegates and visitors
“were present on the'opening day.
‘All sessions were held in the big as-
' 'sembley rooms of the Hotel Statler,
and ofﬁcers report the most success-
ful convention ever held by this or-
ganization.

The convention opened on Wed-
nesday and continued through to
Friday evening. On Wednesday aft—
ernoon special street cars too the
elegation to the Ford motor plant.

through the factory. Later a visit
was made to the National Temple.
located at Woodward and Palmer
avenues. Wednesday evening, spec—
ial memorial services and a special
program by Gleaner talent was the
. attraction. Thursday was devoted to
business rotine. Thursday evening
‘ the Gleaners gathered for a banquet
at Hotel vStatler. Four hundred and
sixty seven broke bread together.
Excellent music was provided and
Hon. H. F. Baker, Nathan F. Simp-
son, of the State Tax Commission.
Harry L. Hurlbert, who is in charge
of Michigan Industries and Rev.
., Howard Field were the speakers.
The election of officers took place
Friday morning, all ofﬁcers being re—
elected unanimously and without op—
position.

Ofﬁcers reports showed the society
in a prosperous condition, with as—
, sets of two million dollars and a
membership approximating seventy—
six thousand. ‘

The Gleaners have made a careful
study of public affairs and that they
positively knew what they wanted
was indicated by the report of the
legislative committee.

Legislative Committees Report.

'The question of transportation
and distribution is of utmost import—
ance to proﬁtable farming and, like-
wise, affects every man, woman and
child of this nation. '

Since the war we have tried the
plan of government guarantees thru
the Esch—Cummins Law and this
has been followed by increased
freight and passenger rates until
the charges imposed are inreality a
subsidy, placing a burden upon the
people which must, in some manner
be shifted.

.As a means of reaching this end
we insist that the water should be
squeezed out of the capitalization of
the railroads and the rates arranged
under the Esch—Cummins Law to
" meet its requirements upon the re-

duced capitalization. Unless the
provisions of the present laws are
modiﬁed the only alternative 18
’Government ownership of the Na—
tion’s transportation lines which
are the arteries of trade. We be—
lieve in the principles of government
ownership and operation under a
commission divorced from politics
and fully authorized to so national-
:lze the transportation lines that the
people may receive the beneﬁt of
economic and efﬁcient transporta—

 

where special guides took them!

Disabled Soldiers but, Rejects Bonus

tion service. As organized Farmers
we pledge our support to the St.
Lawrence-Mississippi Deep Water
way Project and recommend that
the Gleaner Organization give its
full support to the encouragement of
this Project.
hIail Service

The citizens of the United States
now enjoy the added beneﬁts to the
mail Service of parcel post for
which the Farmers worked for more
than three decades. The method of
rented cars for carrying the mail
and parcel post of the railroad com—
panies is both unsatisfactory and
wasteful and we are certain that, na—
tionalizing the transportation lines
under Government ownership will
place these cars under the full con-
trol of the Government and will
have the added benefit of placing
the employes under Civil Service.
Under the present plan the periodic
strikes and tie—ups have cost the
shippers of this Nation millions of
dollars and it is our opinion that, in
no other way can this misunder-
standing between capital and labor
be adjusted.
Protecting Out National Resources

Private interests are securing the _

ownership and control of the water
p’ower and thus depriving the people
of a benefit that is rightfully theirs.
We suggest that Congress consider
well the advanced step taken by the
State of Illinois and also of the
Province of Canada to preserve the
water power for the people.

So Strong—Lamentably \Veak

It seems passing strange thata
Nation so strong and powerful that
it may extend its strong right arm
out to every farm and every village
or city home and, knocking at the
door, demand the sons of that
household for military service
across the seas, is strangely, lament-
ably weak when it comes to solving
its own domestic troubles. We re-
fer especially to the fuel problem
which is one of the Nation’s richest
inheritances. For more than thirty
years we have had semi-annual
strikes and tie—ups because of the

troubles between the-- mine owners,

and the miners. Strange to say,
these troubles occur just at a time
when fuel is most needed and it is
evident that there is never a supply
on hand for immediate use at such
times. ,

Your committee does not claim a
conspiracy between the miners and
mine owners but briefly calls your
attention to the fact that these
troubles occur at a time when the
mine owner can get an extra dollar,
the miners a few extra pennines and
the consumer pays the bill. We,
therefore, recommend Government
supervision with power to control
all natural resources and we recom-
mend that it be brought strongly to
the attention of our representatives

at Washington that what this Coun—.

try and its people most need is ac—
tion not the eternal compromises
without any deﬁnite results.

It has been many times said that

,the Farmer and industrial worker
have nothing in common; that they

cannot and will not get together. In
view of existing conditions such a
statement is absurd. To substanti-
ate this it is only necessary to say
that the Department of Agriculture
has given out facts in connection
with the operation of the farms of
the Nation for 1922 which show
that, where the Farmer received
seven billion dollars for his prod—
ucts, the working—man and consum-
ers generally, paid twenty—two bil—
lion dollars for the self same prod-
ucts. With a spread of fourteen
billion dollars between the price the
Farmer receives and what the work-
ing—man pays for the products of the
farm, it would certainly seem that
there is plenty of opportunity, when
conditions are understood on both
sides, for getting together on the
part of these two great forces with
the one thought of the elimination
of those who render but a meager
service to either producer or con-
sumer and, yet, take as their proﬁt
more. than sixty—fi’Ve per cent of the
producer’s and consumer’s dollar.
Care of the Soldier Boys

We condemn the policy of the
Government in its treatment of the
injured soldier boys who were will-
ing to give their all for a principle.
In every locality will be found brave
lads who returned from the ﬁelds of
battle with shattered nerves and
ruined in body and health, who are
eking out a miserable existance,
many of them with families to sup—
port, on a pension scarcely large
enough to keep the wolf from the
door. The Farmers of the Nation
are not in favor of ‘a bonus to all

soldiers at this time but we are in:

favor of giving liberal pensions for
all injured war veterans and these
pensions should be sufﬁcient to keep
the family together" and give every
possible assistance for their future
care and comfort.
Taxes

The Farmers of this Nation are
carrying a burden of taxation al-
together out of proportion to the
earning value of their farms. In
nearly every state the assessed val-
uation is the same as it was during
the war period while the productive-
ness of the farm has decreased one
half. Taxable property owned by
the Farmer is in such condition that
it cannot be covered and. therefore.
the tax collector has the property
before him as an open book while
the more favored classes can put
their holdings in the safety deposit
vault and escape their portion of
this burden.

We demand that the policy of is- '

suing tax—exempt bonds and stocks
be discontinued at once thruout the

entire Nation in order that the

wealthy class may bear their just
portion of the burden for the sup—
port of the Government. We must
remember, as Farmers and tax—pay—
ers, that our responsibility extends
further than simply complaining be—
cause big bond issues are ﬂoated and
thus increasing the indebtedness of
every farm and home in our states.
It is our privilege and should be
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Farm Organization Favors Enforcement of Prohibition Law, (Government Ownership and Operation of
Railroads, Lower Taxes, Discontinuance of Tax Exempt Bands, Approves Aid for 1

against the cenditions of this orgy
of extravagance and reckless bend
issues that are becoming prevalent
thruout the United States.

We deplore the condition which
seemingly exists among the citizens
of this Country that law enforce—
ment is a question for each individ—
ual to decide. Laws are provided
for the protection of the' people; of-
ﬁcers are chosen to administer the

-laws as written—the question as to

the'necessity for the law and the
operation of the law having already
been decided upon by the people
either direct or thru their represent—
ativesu An ofﬁcer sworn to admin-
ister the law either should to the
best of hisability uphold and admin-
ister the law or resign from his pos-
ition. One hundred per cent Amer-
icanism means obeying the laws of
the Nation and, as the prohibition
question has been fully and ﬁnally
settled by a legally enacted amend-
ment to the Constitution of the
United States, the citizen who will
not uphold the law is not true to
the principles of this-Country.

We recommend that the National
Ofﬁcers use the full power of this
Organization and such resources as
are available to wage a ﬁght against
one backward step in the campaign
for the enforcement of the Eighteen—
th Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States.

’ ‘ The Faun Bloc

ThlS Committee can hardly under-
stand why there is all this opposi—
tion to the Farm Bloc in Congress.
Is it not merely putting into prac—
tice the same plan and force that
have instrumental in shaping legis—
lation for all the industries during
the past half century? The organ-
ized Farmers of the Nation should
get soundly back of the so-called
Farm Bloc and put forth every effort
to increase its strength in Congress;
not for selﬁsh interests but to speak
with sufﬁcient power and authority
to be heard.

Daniel Webster, at a critical. time
in the Nation’s history, said: “Noth—
ing will ruin this Country while the
people themselves undertake its
safety and nothing can save it when
the Nation’s safety is placed in any
hands but their oWn.”

As a Nation, we have wandered
far away from this good advice. A
minority of the citizens of the Na—
tion now rule both states and Na—
tion; It is a deplorable fact " and
one which should cause concern on
the part of every forward looking
American citizen that, in this free
Country where every man and wo—
man are soverign rulers, sixty-three
percent of our boasted citizens have-
n’t sufﬁcient interest in state and
national affairs to even go to the
polls and cast their ballot.

In every regular constituted
Gleaner lodge—room the American
ﬂag ﬁnds its place beside the altar

'upon which we have made our

pledge, therefore, let us, as individ—
ual Gleaners, solemnly promise that
we will uphold all that that ﬂag
stands for, pledging to ourselvéS.
our Country and our Order that we
will exercise our franchise as Amer--
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Reilly of New York. doesn’t, need this reducing
machine personally, but she ﬁnds it great to keep in

condition. She was snapped at the electrical

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J. Lacey. rector, standing neur'thc altar of the
tiniest church in the world which has just been
and consecrated on the per '11 of the church of the

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COOK GOES TO JAIL.—Dr. Frederick A.
Cook, noted 'Artic explorer who was sentenced
in Texas courts to 14 years and 9 months'
in jail. and assessed a $12,000 ﬁne for fraud-
ulent dealings in oil wells ‘

IIRST AlR ARREST )lAl)E.—Iloward Culver and

Frank O'Nicl (left to right) have been arrested as Akron. Italian I’rcn: ier was recently madejllon- Amsterdam, llollztnd, are attuc-hrd to the rear of strut
Ohio's ﬁrst sky traﬂ'ie violators. They violated a, city orary Commander of the Italian Air curs, and at the end of their runs. they are enu-tlwl
ordinance prohibiting stunt ﬂying over certain districts. Forces, and he is wearing the regula- and sent to the post otlice. This method sun-s many
’lhey have been sentenced to a. day in a baloon prison. tion 1111it.,_;;1. hours and considerable “Ul'Ii.

HE'S CIVILIZED.——Thts is Mr. 11011, a. cat
owned by a. lady in Youngstown, Ohio.

, of the Soviets come these quaint toys,
a kitten he refused to drink milk from a. saucer, to the bag" of Santa Claus. They have made their ﬁrst.a ap-
so he was given 8- b0tt10. “lumped With a. ' penance in England. and the stores of London are stocking the ﬁrst time we ever saw an elephant doing ,
nipple. Although he is over a. your old the up. as they expect these toys to prove very popular. '~ -
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Here is Miss Katherine Crowley. pretty southern l’a-cilic girl
d1i\ing Gerry, the most obstinate of mules. It is said that
he will not step until his front legs are encased in a. pair
of trousers. Rather modest for a mule.

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automobile. of same horscpowm'. This is due to
its lightness and the shape of the body. it offers
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ESOLUTIONS scoring Gov. Alex

J. Groesbeck, the state admin-

istrative board, and the public
utilities commission, and demanding
the enactment of an adequate in-
come tax law, a gasoline tax of two
cents per gallon, the repeal of the
present automobile license law, and
the enactment of a weight tax of
sixty cents per hundred Weight on
all motor vehicles, were the princi-
pal features of the thirty-first an-
nual meeting of the Michigan State
Association of Farmers’ Clubs,
held at the Michigan Agricultural
College December 4 and 5.

Hitting the policies of the state’s
chief executive, the resolutions ask-
ed that “representative state govern-
ment be restored by the elimination
of the extraordinary power now
possessed by the governor,” and
that the state administrative board
be abolished or decidedly modiﬁed.
The association further asked that
the “useless” commissions appoint-
ed by the governor be discontinued.

The resolutions were drafted by a
committee composed of Edgar Burk,
of St. Johns; Senator Charles B.
Scully, of Almont; CharlesCook, of
Owosso; Alfred Allen, of Mason;
and Herman Hass, of Ann Arbor.
Senator Scully, who is closely con—
nected politically with Herbert Bak-
er, of Cheboygan, former state sen-
ator, and leader of the Farm and
Labor movement in Michigan, was
instrumental in getting most of the
resolutions before the session of the
association.

Resolutions Adopted

The complete resolutions as adopt-
ed by the association were:

Resolved, That we restore repres-
entative state government by the
elimination of the extroardinary
power now possessed by the govern-
or to the end that the Administrat-
ive Board be abolished or decidedly
modiﬁed.

And, further, that the various
useless commissions appointed by
the governor be discontinued, and
such commissions as are necessary,
be made elective by the people to
:vlliom said commissions are respons-
b e.

Resolved, That we reduce the op-
erating expenses of state govern-
ment by removing twenty-ﬁve per
cent of the state employees on the
state payroll.

Resolved, That we reduce the op-
erating expenses of state govern-
ment by reducing twenty-ﬁve per
cent of the major salaries. ..

Resolved, That we ask for a re-
sumption of legislative responsibilo

Michigan Carries

N the opening day of the Hay

and Grain Show at the Inter-

national Livestock Exposition.
Chicago, December 1st, farmers
from Michigan won: 2 places in the
hard winter wheat class; 12 places
in soft red winter Wheat class; 3
prizes on ﬁeld peas; 3 prizes on ﬁeld
beans; 6 prizes on yellow soy beans,
and 3 prizes on soy beans and other
varieties, as stated in our last issue.
The opening day was only an in—
dicator of what the farmers of our
fair state was going to do all
through the show.

In the oat division Michigan
captured 28. of the 35 awards for
Region 2, which includes parts of
Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio,
Ontario, Connecticut, New York and
Rhode Island. The ﬁrst position in
this class by a Michigan man was
fourth and it was won by L. H.
Laylin of Mason, who was a big win-
ner in other classes.

J. C. Wilk, of Alma, was next on
the list of Michigan winners with
6th place. Ralph Jewett, of Mason.
took 7th; R. E. Davis. of Fairgrove,
was 8th, and R. Wooden, of Han-
over, was 9th; Others were G. L.

Dolley, of Kalamazoo, 10th; Douglas

E. Bow, Saginaw, W. 8., 11th; Jesse
W. Pickett, Button. 12th; J. R.

Sub“; Emil-grow, 13th Ed Coler,

111:1:va 14th: David E. Hanson,

'Berlin, 15th; D. A. Geddes, Saginaw,

16th; A. E. Hilliard. Mason, 17th:

Farmers’ Clubs Favor " as ax an

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State Association of Farmers Clubs at M. A. C
By R. c. Gnosssscx /’

(Special Correspondent of The Business Farmer.)

ity for appropriations and disburse-
ments without dictation and "inter-
ference of the executive branch.
Resolved, That the exercises of the
constitutional board of the Univers-
ity of Michigan and the Michigan
Agricultural College, namely: the
Board of Regents of the University
and the State Board of Agriculture
be left to the proper authorities

~without executive interference.

Resolved, That we ask for a re-
turn to the auditor general's depart-

ment the sole responsibility for the -

state’s bookkeeping and accounting.

Resolved, That we ask for the
abolition of all useless and. duplicat-
ing state agencies.

Resolved that we hold every
peace ofﬁcer strictly responsible for
the enforcement of the law, and
welcome and encourage any agency
that stands for statuatory and con-
stitutional rights.

Repeal Auto License Law

Resolved, That the present auto-
mobile license laW be repealed, and
the governor, at the special session
of the Michigan legislature, ask for

.a weight tax of sixty cents per hun—

dred pound weight for all passenger
and freight motor vehicles operating
on the highways, together with ’a
gas tax of two cents per gallon.

Resolved, That it is the sense of
the Farmers’ Clubs that the state
public utilities commission is not
functioning in the interest of the
people, but rather to the interest of
the utilities themselves, and the
cost of operating the same is
around $500,000 annually, which is
money uselessly expended.

Therefore, we would recommend

the repeal of the said act and return

to home rule regulation of public
utilities as far as possible.
Whereas, the fundamental princ—

.ip1e of republican farm of govern-

ment is under three heads, viz.: ex-
ecutive, legislative, and judicial, and
should be held distinctly separate;
therefore we would suggest that as
the governor is the executive
branch, the legislature is the legis-
lative branch, and the courts of the
state the judicial branch, that the
governor and the State Administrat-
ive Board confine their actions to
the executive branch of the state
government, without interference
with the powers of the State Board
of Agriculture or other like bodies.

Whereas, the problem of overpro-

duction has been fraught with less

anal, discouragement to farm people,

an . ‘

Whereas, the advent cf the tract-

or and truck has largely increased

piroduction and decreased consump-
on,

Therefore, be it resolved, that we
are opposed to any more develop-
ment- of public tracts of land for
agriculture at public expense.

Whereas, the greatest force in
America today is organization, and
whereas, our American agriculture
is having a desperate struggle to
unify its farmers, and

Whereas, only in union can the.
farm group ever hope to stem the
tide of special interest, and

Whereas, too much -division still
lurks in the organization of' Michi-
gan agriculture,

Therefore, be it resolved, that the
Michigan State Association of Farm-
ers’ Clubs go on record condemning
as disloyal and vicious any attempt
of those who make bold to arouse in
any way the spirit of antagonism
among our leading farm organiza—
tions.

Resolved, That since the Board of
Agriculture has been acting within
its constitutional rights in dealing
with the funds appropriated to our

state agricultural college, and since,

the said board carried endorsement
of our entire membership, that we
endorse the stand taken by the
State Board of Agriculture in its en—
deavor to give the extension depart-
ment the support it needs in these,
days of ﬁnancial depression.

Resolved, That the legislature en—
act a law making it a ﬁne for a per-
son to trespass upon farms for the
purpose of hunting and ﬁshing if
notices are posted, without the con-
sent of the owner. .

Lower Taxes

Resolved, That we ask- and de—
mand as a substitute for the crush-
ing taxes upon realty and home
owners, an income’tax, to meet all
the operating expenses of state
government.

Resolved, That it is the sense of
the State Association of Farmers'
Clubs that we defer the reappoint-
ment for state representation until
the constitutional amendment in
1926, and then have it passed on
actual citizenship.

Resolved, That ,we endorse the
Farm Bureau in, its efforts to stand—

;ary‘ ut

ardize and establish an adequate
farm organization in cooperation
with local clubs and granges, and
that we commend our farmers’ clubs
for the part they have played in
helping to make its foundation per-
manent.

Several resolutions dealing with
national affairs Were also adopted by
the association. They commended
President Coolidge on his stand in

granting amnesty to political prison-

ers; urged the fixing of prices by
growers' exchanges, such as the
fruit growers and milk producers
operate, rather than by the govern-
ment; recommended the sale of
Muscle Shoals to Henry Ford or to
any other person offering better
terms, in order to provide power for
the electriﬁcation of railways, nit-
rate for the farmers as. fertilizer,
and materials for explosives.
Many Prominent Speakers

A number of prominent speakers
addressed the members of the as—
sociation during the two days’ meet—
ings. Among these were Marion L.
Burton, president of the University
of Michigan; Clark L. Brody, man-
ager of the State Farm Bureau and
a member of the State Board. of
Agriculture; Dr. Eben Mumford, of
the extension department of the
Michigan Agricultural College; and
Lee S. Noble, president of the assoc—
iation.

Herbert Baker, of Cheboygan,
scheduled for an important address,

telegraphed Senator‘Scully that he '

Would be unable to attend because
of the state convention of Cleaners,
being held in Detroit at the same
time. He expressed his best wishes
for. the success of the association,
and stated that he “heartily approv-

red the actions of the State Board of

Agriculture, and was. unalterably
opposed to the actions of the State
Administrative Board."

L. Whitney Watkins, head of the
State Department of Agriculture,
was also slated for an address, but
was unable to be at the meetings be—
cause of illness.

Dr. Eben Mumford, of the M. A.
C. extension department, gave the
principal address at the ﬁrst day’s
session. “The loss of youth is the
greatest loss that agriculture, as an
industry, has suffered in its his-
tory,” he said. “More young people
have left the farms in the past two
years than every before. The great-
est fault with agriculture is its fail-
ure to interest the youth of the na-
tion. ”

Dr. Mumford termed the present

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Off Its Share of Prizes At international Athhicago

sy MILON GRINNELL

L. Bow, Saginaw, W. S., 19th; '1‘. J.

Wilk, Alma, 20th; H. B. Armstrong, .

Highland, 21st; J. A. Wilk, Alma,
22nd; Pliny W. Jones, Black River
Falls, 23rd; Lewis D. Hess, Ceresco,
24th; Lynn Jewell, Leslie, 26th;
Francis Robinson, Watrousville,
27th; Fred Schwaderer, Cass City,
28th; Wood Bros., Rives Junction,
29th; C. D. Graham, Union City,
Blst; Arthur W. Jewett, Jr., Mason,
32nd; Henry Lane, Fairgrove, 33rd;
Rossman Bros., Lake View, 35th;

Then of the 25 awards in the six-
rowed barley division went to Mich-
igan. Henry Lane, of Fairgrove,
headed the list of Wolverine win-
ners. His sample won third place. A.
W. Jewett, Jr., of Mason, took sixth
place. Fritz Mathey, of Fairgrove;
placed seventh. Others were J. A.
Wilks, of Alma, tenth; A. E. Hill-
iard, of Mason, eleventh, and Lynn
Jewell. of Leslie, twelfth. Michigan
farmers won fourteenth, ﬁfteenth,
sixteenth and twenty-first places
also.

Big Winners on Rye

There were nearly 100 entries in
the rye division and as usual Michi-
gan carried at! most of the honors.
First place was Won by Geo. C. Huts-
ler, South Masiton; L H. Lewis,
Mason, took 8rd: Arthur W. Jewett,
Jr., Mason. 4th;- L. T. Lasenby,
Mason, 5th; A. E. Hilliard, Mason,‘

,,,,Lynn Jeﬁeﬂ, of Lexiie, 6th; Ra.
Mail, of Mason, “It. In the '

6th; Lynn Jewell, Leslie, 8th; Ralph
Jewett, Mason, 9th; Melvin J. Smith,
Springport, 10th; H. E. Owen, Ovid,
11th; Mrs. B. Johnson, South Mani-
tou Island, 13th; Allen Schroder,
Caro, 14th; W. H. Warner, Concord,
15th; Douglas V. Bow, Saginaw,‘ W.
S., 16th.

In the alfalfa class of the hay di-
vision, Chas. Laughlin, Dansville,
took 5th place; L. H. Laylin, Mason,
7th; Edward W. Laughlin, Dans-
ville, 9th; A. E. Hilliard, Mason,
10th; Ralph Jewett, Mason, 14th;
Lynn Jewell, Leslie, 15th. On red

, clover ﬁrst place went to Wisconsin

but after that Michigan farmers had
things about their own way. C.
Robert Laughlin, Dansville, placed
2nd; Arthur W. Jewett, Jr., Mason,
3rd; Chas. Laughlin, Dansville, 4th;
E. W. Laughlin, Dansville, 5th; L.
H. Laylin, Mason, 6th: Lynn Jewell,
Leslie, 7th; Ralph Jewett, Mason,
8th; L. :I‘. Lasenby, Mason, 9th; A.
E. Hilliard, Mason 10th. In the tim-
othy class Arthur W. Jewett, Mason,

who was declared hay champion of

the show, won list; A. E- Hilliard,
Mason, 2111!; L. T. Lasenby, Mason,
3rd; L. H. Laylin, of Mason, 4th;

  

ed class, timothy and clover, Mich.

'vigan won the first four positions, A. .
E: Hilliard, of Mason, taking 1",,- L... .:.

T. Lasenby, oerason, 2nd; Lynn
Jewell, Mason, 3rd; and L. H. Lay-
lin, also of Mason, 4th ~

The Michigan Agricultural Col-
lege is to be commended on its ﬁne
display at the hay and grain show.
It was the same as the one made at
the state fair this year and it made
a much better showing than any of
the other state displays.

Live Stock Winnings

In the livestock show Michigan
livestock held its own in all classes
where entries were made. .

In the Aberdeen Angus' cattle di-
vision Queen's Guards, owned by
William E. Scripps, of Orion,- won
fourth place as senior bull calf,
Woodcote Stock Farm, Ionia, placed
fifth. Woodcote Stock Farm also

won second on junior bull’.calf. Wizi- '

liam E. Scripps won first prize for

the best Aberdeen Angus cow with '

calf by side, second for aged Angus
cow, and third in: the junior calves
class. Woodcote Stock Farm plac-
ed. in the junior yearlings and sem-
ior calves classes. C. H. Prescott

and Sons, of Tom” City, were the .

big Michigan winners in the Short-
horn divisiun, placing second in the
junior mmm kick in all

other causes in audit they: had on-

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. suggested.
partment of the Michigan Elevator.

S a reader of THE BUSINESS
FARMER, it is with no little sat—
isfaction that I noted in several

recent issues of your progressive
publication continued reference to
the desirability of having a farmers’

" state- wide cooperative bean market-

ing organization. You have made
the need for this very clear and it
does not need further emphasis.
However, it seems ﬁtting at this
time to call the attention of your
readers to the fact that there is al-

ready in Michigan an organization

which it seems to me is ﬁlling most
of the requirements which you have
I refei to the Bean De—

Exchange, an organization seiving
25, 000 farmers, which is already
well established, which last year
marketed 1,000 carloads of beans
for its 107 member elevators, be—
sides handling 2, 600 cars of grain
and 1, 300 cars of hay bringing the
total business up to $5, 000, 000. The
Exchange is thus a very important
factor in marketing Michigan— grown
beans, grain and hay. It maintains
traffic, organization and auditing
service for its locals
, On a Sound Basis

It is, of course, obv'ous with a
going concern such as he Elevator
Exchange, the costly period of ex—
perimentation has already been
passed through. The truth
of this is evidenced by the

By STANLEY M. POWELL

THE BUSINESS

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One Thousand Carloads of Beans Marketed Last Year Through Bean Department of Michigan
Elevator Exchange, an Organization but One Year Old and Serving 25,000 Farmers

(Lansing Correspondent of The Business Farmer.)

steady and sub-
stantial,’ expan-

sion .01 selling 3

territory is due
to a large extent
to the quality of
beans shipped
by the member
elevators. The
trade realizes
that the Ex—
change ships the
grade of beans
they sell. To
capitalize o n
this asset, the
Bean Dept. of
the Michigan E1—
evator Exchange
has established
the M i c h e 1 ex
t r a d e m a r k
which is used on

all choice hand picked beans market-
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Inasmuch as

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member 4

ors were not

equipped to pick

their beans to

choice, the Mich-

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vice to its bean
producing mem-
bers when it
was instrument-
al in the organi-

PACKED

This trade mark is stamped on zaﬁion Of the
all bags of choice hand picked Mlchelex Elevat-
beans marketed through the Ex- 01‘ and Ware—
change.

house Company

 

 

ed through the Exchange.

trade marked beans have met with
distinct favor on the part of the
bean buyers, as they are always uni—
form and up—to-grade. These brand-
ed beans teach the trade to come
back for more of the beans put up
by the Elevator Exchange farmers.

and the estab—
lishment at Port
Huron of a bean picking plant Wlth
a picking capacity of more than a
car of beans per day.

This means that growers and local
elevators, who in the past have been
entirely without picking facilities,
can now have a satisfactory outlet
for their picking stock. They can
send it to the picking plant at Port

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keting situation in Michigan. All”
Michelex beans are inspected 'and'
certiﬁed by inspectors of the Mich—
igan Bean Jobbers Association be- 3
fore they leave the state. ‘
Has Best Sales Connections

The Exchange’s Bean Department
has splendid connection with some
of the largest and most careful buy-
ers. The bulk of the beans are sold
to the large canners, as Heinz, Ar- '
mour, Van Camp and to the 'whole- .
sale grocers throughout the eastern 3'
and central states. Mr. C. S. Bent— I.
011, the bean manager, has a closef
knowledege 0f the bean business and
the consumer demand in all parts of
the country. He is in constant
touch with the managers of the
member elevators so that he can ﬁll
all orders promptly.

One of the big savings which is
effected by this organization of the
country elevators is the trafﬁc serv— -
ice which it renders possible. Of
course, no local elevator could main-
tain an expert transportation and
rate depaitment but they need such
service. The cost would be prohib-
itive with one elevator, but when
the expense is divided among the
business of 107 local elevators the .
cost is very small and the savings
effected have proved to be very 3
great. ‘

Cars delayed in transit costs the

shipper money. Rates are
ever changing and so are

 

fact that last year the Ex—

  

rules. Someone must pro-
tect the elevators or they '

 

change returned to its
farmer members $8,000 in
patronage dividends and at
the end of its ﬁscal year
had a surplus of some $17,—
868.12, and its business is
growing _ and prospering
rapidly.

The history of this or—
ganization has been one of
rapid growth and substant—
ial development. It was
founded in 1920 as a de—
partment of the Michigan
State Farm Bureau and
started out with a member—
ship of twenty cooperative
elevators. Headquarters have
always been in Lansing-

By the spring of 1921 the
Exchange business had de—
veloped to a point where it
was necessary to employ
separate sales managers for
the grain, hay and bean de-'
partments, for the original
membership of 20 had in—
creased to 80 local associa—
tions. Mr. C. 1S. Benton, a
man who had had long ex—
perience as a bean salesman"
and trafﬁc expert, ws select—

picking and storage plant recently leased by the Michigan Elevator Exchange.
the most completely equipped terminal bean elevators in the state.

 

This is the Michelex Elevator and Warehouse Company plant at Port Huron, the been

It is one or this bean marketing ven-

 
    
 
      
 
  
  
   
   
   
  
  
  
 
   
   
 
  
 
   
 

will experience big losses
tlnough overcharging. The
trafﬁc department of the
Elevator Exchange helps
the members to get cars
and checks their freight
rates and makes claims for
them. This is a service
which the Elexator Ex-
change gives to its mem—
bers free.

The dividends which have
been returned to the mem-
bers have been made possi-
ble through the fact that
the overhead operating cost
of this state-wide sales
agency has been kept down
very low. The Exchange
charges $20 per car for
beans or 4 cents per bag,
and out of this small charge
has been made enough to
make the patronage divi-
dends and the surplus pos-
sible.

Believes In Contracts

Perhaps the success of

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. ed to head the bean depart—

me'nt.

In July, 1921, the Elevator Ex—'

change was incorporated as a sep-
arate organization, although it'is
still aﬂiliated with the Michigan
State Farm Bureau as one of its
commodity exchanges. It , now
serves 107 local associations that
have contracted to sell all their
beans, grain and hay through the
Exchange.
Adopts Michelex Brand

The phenomenal growth in the

quality of beans" “handled and the

While the Exchange has never ex—
perienced any difﬁculty
ing all the choice beans which its
members had for sale,
been times when the question of
moving off- grade beans has been a'
serious problem. The outlet for off—
grade beans appears to be very lim-
ited, and each year ﬁnds this trade
becoming smaller,
declining market, when the trade is
more interested in quality than in
pr1ce.

in market-

there have

': especially .on a.

Huron where there is the most
modern machinery for making it in—
to high grade choice hand picked
stock.

The entire output of the Port
Huron establishment will be mar—
keted under the Michelex brand
which assures a strong demand and
a premium over unbranded stock.
There is every indication that the
organization of the Michelex Elevat—
or and Warehouse Company will ﬁll
a long felt want in the bean mar-

    
   
   
   
    
   
  
   
   
  
    

deﬁnite iron-clad contracts
which have insured a steady
volume of beans and has made pos-
sible a low everhead. The 107 loc-
al associations have all contracted
to sell all their beans, grain and hay
through the Exchange.

However, if the locals ﬁnd that
they have better bids from other
sources than the Exchange, it is in
the Exchange rules that they may
avail themselves of any such better
offer, but they must pay the Michi-
gan Elevator Exchange the regular
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PLANTING HICKORY NUTs

am or would it require small trees
and transpiant them? If nuts will
grow what kind :of soil should they
be. melted in and when, also how
deep? How and when should horse
chestnuts be planted? How deep?
——-Mrs. A. 0., Carsonville, Michigan.
——Hickory nuts may be planted
either in the fall or spring. If they
are to be kept until spring before
planting they should be stratiﬁed,
which may be done by placing them
in a box alternating layers of nuts
with layers of sand. The box should
be placed out doors during the win-
tar where it should be covered with
wire. netting to keep out the rodents.
If the nuts are planted in the fall
many of them may be dug out by
the squirrels during the winter.

The units should be planted about
one and a half inches deep. The
hickory requires rather deep fertile
soil.

Horse chestnuts may be handled
in the same way as hickory nuts,
either stratiﬁed or planted in the
fall. Stratifying is usually consid—
ered the safest.—~—A. K. Chittenden,
Professor of Forestry, M. A. C. -

PASSING OF CHILD UP TO
TEACHER

I’ve got a little sister 10 years
old the 10th of this month. She’s
in the sixth grade and was also last
year. She passed her examination,
her lOWest mark being 78 and the
highest 100. They wouldn’t pass
her on account of her age. Now
can they hold a child back for that?
She’s full of ambition, but the learn-
ing of some things twice has given
her no courage. Would you please
let me know if there is a law that
can hold her back on account of
her age? A. DeV., Dighton, Mich.
~The passing of. a pupil is a matter
which is in the hands of the teacher
or if in a graded school, the super—
intendent. It would be impossible
to pass on the matter at a distance.
———T. E. Johnson, Department of Pub-
lic Instruction.

INTOXICATING LIQUORS

Has a man the right to make fer-
mented liquor for his own use? Has
he the right to treat his friends or
sell it out to friends? What can he
done with a father that gives his 3
year old baby fermented liquor?—
Mrs. A. M. W., St. Charles, Mich
——~It is unlawful for any person to
make, sell, give away or have in his
possession intoxicating liquor. Any
person who violates this law may be
prosecuted, and, if convicted, is sub-
ject to a fine or imprisonmenit, or
both, in the discretion of the judge.
—Asst. Legal Editor.

RED WOODEN UNDERWEAR m
RHEUMATISM
Its it true that red woolen under-

wear will keep aches and pains
away?—Mrs. A. 0., Carsonville,
Mich.

-——Red woolens have no more merit
than any other woolen underwear.
People who are subject to a great
deal of exposure should always
wear woolen—Dr. C. C. Young,
Dept. of Health.

ASPARAGU‘S CULTURE

Will you please tell me about the
care and culture of a new asparagus
bed?———W. A. It, Pet'oskey, Mich.
-——An asparagus bed is usually start-
ed by planting either one or two
year old roots. Onc— —year roots are
preferable. The roots may be grown
from seed or they may be obtained
from a reliable seedman. When
only a few are needed for starting
a bed in the home garden, it is us-
uaily more convenient and antimo-
tcry to purchase the meme?
plants. The roots should? be planted

a early in the spring as the grow

  

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all complaints or requests for Information addressed to thls department. We are here to

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visahle to french the mil to 8. mm
of about two feet and mix sand or
sifted ashescwith the soil_which is
removed to make it .llghterand more
porous. The soil should be well en—
riched with stable manure and all
noxious weeds and grasses thorough-
ly subdued previous to planting.
When preparing the soil it slum‘ld be
dug or plowed and the surface all
made ﬁne and mellow as deeply as
possible. The plantation is then
laid out 'by making mums or
trenches about four feet apart and
eight or ten inches deep to mom
the plants. The roots are set mitt
eighteen inches apart- sin the term.
of the furrow taking care to m m
crown or bud uppeanst and the
roots evenly spread out like 1110’
spokes of a wheel. The 'ohilect of
setting the roots deep is to permit
of digging or working over the sucr-
face of the bed without interfering
with the crowns or ‘mocs. Gritty
enough soil is placed in the furrow
to cover the crowns about two
inches, the balance being gradually
worked in during the season after
the plants start into growth.

The plants should be well culti—
vated the ﬁrst season. In the fall,
after growth has ceased, mow off the

 

 

 

SUGAR TAX TO PAY BONUS

“A ﬂat sales tax of 2 cents a pound
on all sugar consumed in the United
States, as a substitute for the pres-
ent tariff, is advocated 'by the United
States Sugar Association as a means
of providing revenues sumloiemt to
meet a possible sokéiers’ bonus. The
association sent out letters to mem—
‘bers of” Congress and abhor public
emote-ls stating that the proposed
tax weird increase the Gom-
ment’s revenues $1t04,10‘422.,2674 a.
year or enough ‘t‘zo dischamge the en-
tire obligations to he bummed and—
er the bonus 15111111, without tunﬂmr
smashing the cast of new to corn-
somers’.”

AR Mr. Editor—Esme of re-
cent date, melaziﬁm to child hill»
or in like beat ﬁelds, received.
I am still ' the article I poem-
ised you on this su’bsiect into shape,
and will maid it to your paper as
soon as possible. I am mailing unid-
er separate cover, a copy of our beet
paper that we sent out to all mem-
bers of the Michigan Sugar Beet
Gmwers' Association, which 1 am
sorry to say, we were forced to dis—'
continue publishing on account of
the lack of cooperation and funds.
I am enclosing a couple of news-
paper clippings which should be
carefully gone over, as here is a
proposition which not only concerns
the beet farmer, but the factory as
well. This proposition of a sales
tax on sugar, to pay a soldier’s bon-
us is the usual plan to pass it on to
the man least able to defend him-
self, the farmers, as if this proposed
tax goes through all sugar beet con-
tracts will be so made that the fac—
tory will not lose only in perhaps
the loss of business
The organization pushing this
propaganda appears to be the Unit-
ed States Sugar Association, which
in name at least, is the same organ—
ization that has been working ex-
tensively in the west and mailed by
the Scotts Bluff Republican, as be—
ing 8. Cohen organization, and not
an American: organisation, as the
name torches. I am enclosing clip-
ping whim we repudiated in our pap-
er on page 4. Merry mm paper,
emery tam ”grandma and every
War, W the 1mm of. Mich—
ism its industry, amt as farmers,
wheat, SW get busy as this

posed‘taxpf tcems'pcr pound, will
g ' tho: United States beet
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toms and burn them.
of the second” year, a dressing of
well-rotted manure may be applied
and thoroughly worked into the‘ soil
before the plants start to grow. If
manure is not available, about one
ton per acre (or 2 pounds for each
hundred feet of row) of a high-
grade complete fertiliser may be ap-
puffed. Cultivation- 'skuuld' .begin as
soon as the shoots appear and con-
than as long as it is convenient to
get between the rows. Late in the

fall remove the tops and burn as in_

the mending season.

In the spring of the third year
some shouts may be cut but the cut-
ting should not continue for more
than tm weeks. ”After the ‘bed‘ is
well established, cutting may be
Med for six or eight weeks.
Cutting should never be continued
too long as the plants must be given
time after the last cutting to store
food in the roots for the next sea-
son’s crop. The general care of the
bed during the third and each suc-
ceeding season should be about as
follows: (1) Thorough digging or
disking of the soil before growth
starts in the spring. (2) As soon as
the shoots start, cultivate between
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read by the beet growers of Michi-
gan, of any paper in Michigan, and
also has given the most space and
cooperation in the grower’s prob—
lems in the past. Gave us a timid
page on this. I am sure every fam-
er will read every word, whether he
is a best grower or not. Also I
feel com factory wild haste a lilies
mtenest canonically intone chm are of-
fecting 504310 comments. Aline cum
bulk during business in a fanning
community—AC E AW, nee-
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on'Oxmobe-rzztowhénhllnmemt
had any reply...
forbidding the killing of mung
animals?

Editor, _The Detroit Times, Dear
Sir: In your October 18 issue m
say that the reed w-a-y so save loam
and improve the fraud supply M
be to discourage or ﬁenhtd the bim—
ing of young calves or of any beef
animals not full grown.

All right, now who do you expect
should pay for the feeding of the
animals until grown? On our farm
we have about 15 grade bull Hol-
stein calves a year; I will make you
a present of them if you will pay
for the feed and care of them until
they are of age. Don’t you know
that you or any one else in the City,
State or Nation could get an almost
unlimited amountof bull calves for
$5 a head, and that the farmer
makes more money to sell them
when a week old at $5.00 than he
can get any time afterwards.

I will sell you six yearling pure
bred Holstein bulls right now for
just what their feed costs and not
ask one cent for labor or proﬁt.

Believe me as far as I am con-
cerned bull calves, especially not
pure bred, are going to get the ax
if they are not Wed of within
two weeks after birth. It coats; 2M

 

 
 

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work into the soil. (4) Cultivate fre-
quently during m summer as long
as MW to mehotween the
rows. (5) After growth ceases in the
fall, mow d! the old tops and burn
them to destroy insects and diseases.

If the asparagus beetle becomes
troublesome during the cutting sea-
son leave a few shoot-s ”here and
there uncut. These Wm serve as
trajp plants on which the Ibeetles
will collect. They may then ‘be
poisoned with arson-ate of lead; 3
mMespooufuis of powder "in .a. gallon
of water or 1%pounds in 50 gal—
lons. After the cutting season is
over the plants may be protected
from beetle injury by two or three
spa-mugs with arsenate of lead as
directed. above.

The Talmetto is the leading var-
.iecty grown and is usually recom-
mended—R. E. Lures, Department
of Horticulture. M. A. C.

 

MARKET FOR PEPPEREIGZE
TREES

I have some pepperidge trees.
They run small in timber. When
can I sell same, or is there not
much value on that kind of timber?
Some told me it is valuable. I have
an order of $13 cord——W. H. H.,
Manges, Michigan.
—-—The pepperi’dge, more commonly
imam as the black gvum (Nyssa

sylvatica) is not found to much ex- «

tent in Michmgan and is therefore

not listed on Michigan markse's. In ‘

the south where it occurs with red
gum (Liquidamrhar styraciﬂnua) and
the Main (Nyssa aquatics.) it is
considered as inferior in Mae to
either the red gum or the tuspebo.

The red gum, with which many
people confuse the black gum, is in
demand by many veneer factories
because it makes a passable intim-
tion of Circaseimi wolnm or mahog-
any, dependa'ng upon the stain ap—
plied; vbuyt the black gum lacks the
necessary gain for this market.
Most of it is sold with tupeln but it
lacks the broad clear widths of the
latter.

The black gum or pepponidge has
one characteristic which gives it a
special value and that is that it is
very dancer-Lt to split. This quality
brings it into use consickarahly in
benry boxes, hubs, table legs, crates,
bar-rel veneers and easelsoir.

The problem of, whether to sell
timber as logs or as cordwood has
to ‘be settled according to the con-
ditions existing in each particular
stand. In general, it is‘best to sell
the logs, if a. suitable market can be
foumd. The Forestry Department at
the Michigan Agricultnral College is
endeavoning to help the farmer in
getting a better ﬁnancial return- out
of his modlot by keeping a list or
timber buy-ens in the State who use
woodlot timber in logs or sawed to
dimension. We Will be glad to send
to anyone interested a. list of such
buyers in their locality.

' The price obtained for logs or
standing timber varies with the
distance from market and quality
and siZe of the product, as well as
the kind of timber. In this partic-
ular instance it would probably cost
about $1.25 a rick for cutting the
timber into fuelwood. Since there
are three ricks of 16—inch wood to
the cord, it would cost $3.75 per
cord. With a sale price of $10 per
cord, and a cutting cost of $3. 75,
the difference ($6. 25) would repre-
sent the value of the standing tim—
ber, per cord. Figuring two full
cords per 1,000 feet, board measure,
of logs, the value per 1,000 feet of
standing timber for cordwood would
be twice “.25 or $1L5~6.. (line would
need to get at least $12.50 a thou-
sand m m the logs in order to
equal the mice received far fuel-

Kmow’mg the cost of manufactur—
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produce twelve hundred ton: of

molten Iron a day.

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Thereis a giant who works tirelessly
to lighten the laber on the Anaer—
ican farm, to make the farm more
productive, and farming more

profitable.

He is personiﬁed b the vast re-
soiirees of the For organization,
whose herculean Iabors are directed
primarily toward lowering the cost
and increasing the efﬁciency of Ford
cars, Ford Trucks, and the Fordson
Tractor.

The iarger this giant has rown the

lower the prices of For products
have tallen, and the more valuable
they have become from the invest-
ment standpoint as farm equipment.

To the farmer this has meant lower
and lower farm costs, better arrange—
ment of farming activities, more
money crops, all with less effort and
therefore with greater net proﬁt—
proof enough that it is to his interest

" to standardize on Ford equipment.

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1.2139 supposed to be showing,
,' sorry a tale as Miss Flora had been tell-.

(Continued from December 8th issue.)

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T was while at work in the corner
, that he came to learn so much of
Miss Maggie’s daily life, and of her
visitors.

Although many of these visitors were
strangers to him, some of them he knew.

One day it was Mrs. Hattie Blalsdell,
with a countenance even more ﬂorid than
usual. She was breathless and excited,
and her eyes were worried. She was
going to give a luncheon, she said. She
wanted Miss Maggie’s silver spoons, and
her forks, and her handpainted sugar-
and creamer, and Mother Blaisdell’s cut-
glass dish.

Mr. Smith, supposing that Miss Maggie
herself was to be at the luncheon, was
just rejoincing within him that she was
to have this pleasant little outing, when
he heard. Mrs. Blaisdell telling her to be
sure to come at eleven to be in the
kitchen, and asking where she could get
a maid to serve in the dining—room, and
what should she do with Benny. He’d
have to he put somewhere, or else he’d
be sure to upset everything.

Mr. Smith did not hear Miss Maggie’s
‘answer to all of this, for she hurried
her visitor to the kitchen at once—to
look up the spoons, she said. But in—
directly he obtained a very conclusive
reply; for he found Miss Maggie gone
one day when he came; and Benny, who
.was in her place, told him all about it,
even to the dandy frosted cake Aunt
Maggie had made for the company to
eat. ‘

Another day it was Mrs. Jane Blais—
dell who came. Mrs. Jane had a tired
frown between her brows and a despair-
ing droop to her lips. She carried a
large bundle which she dropped uncere—
moniously into Maggie‘s lap.

“There, I’m (lead beat out, and I‘ve
brought it to you. You’ve just got to help
me,” she ﬁnished, sinking into a chair.

“Why, of course, if I can. But what is
it?" Miss Maggie's deft fingers were al—
ready untying the knot.

“It’s my old black silk.
over.”

“Again? But I thought the last time
it couldn’t ever be done again."

"Yes, I know; but there's lots of good
in it yet,” interposed Mrs. Jane decidedly;
“and I’ve reached a point where I just
have got to have help. So I came right
over.”

"Yes, of course. but”——Miss Maggie
was lifting a half—finished sleeve doubt-
fully——-“why didn't ' you go to Flora?
She’d know exactly "

Mrs. Jane stiffened.

“Because'I can’t afford to go to Flora,”
she interrupted coldly. “I have to pay
If I had the
money I should be glad to do it, of
course. But I haven‘t, and charity begins
Besides, I do go to
her for new dresses. But this old thing
—1 Of course, if you don’t want to help

“Oh, but I do,” plunged in Miss Maggie
hurriedly. “Come out into the kitchen
where we’ll have more room," she ex-
claimed, gathering the bundle into her
arms and springing to her feet.

“I’ve got some other lace at home—
yards and yards. 1 got a lot, it was so
cheap," recounted Mrs. Jane, rising with
alacrity. “But I'm afraid it won’t do
for this, and I don’t know as it will do
for anything, it’s 80—”

The kitchen door slammed sharply, and
Mr. Smith heard no more. Half an hour
later, however, he saw Mrs. Jane go
down the walk. The frown was gone
from her face and the droop from the
corners of her mouth. Her step was
alert and conﬁdent. She carried no
bundle.

The next day it was Miss Flora. Miss
Flora’s thin little face looked more
pinched than ever, and her eyes more
anxious, Mr. Smith thought. Even her
smile, as she acknowledged Mr. Smith’s
greeting, was so wan he wished she had
not tried to give it.

She sat down then, by the window, and
began to chat with Miss Maggie; and

“No, Maggie, I don’t know. really, what
I am going to do truly I don’t. Busi-
ness is so turrible dull! Why, I don’t
earn enough to pay my rent, hardly, now,
ter say nothin’ of my feed."

“But I thought that Hattie—isn’t Hat-
tie having some new dresses—and Bessie,
too?”

A sigh passed Miss Flora’s lips.

“Yes, oh, yes; they are having three or
four. But they don’t come to me any
more. They’ve gone to that French W0-
man that makes the Pennock‘s things,
you know, with the queer name. And of
course it’s all right, and you can’t
blame ’em, livin’ on the West Side, as
they do now. And, of course, I ain't so
up ter date as she is. And just her
name counts."

“Nonsense! Up to date indeed!” (Miss
Maggie laughed merrily, but Mr. Smith,
copying dates at the table, detected a
note in the laugh that was not merri-
ment.) ”You’re up to date enough for
me. I’ve got just the job for you, too.
Come out into the kitchen.” She was al-
ready almost at the door.

“Why, Maggie, you haven’t, either!”
(In spite of the ineredulity of voice and
manner, Miss Flora sprang joyfully to
her feet.) ”You never had me make you
a—” Again the kitchen door slammed
shut,‘ and Mr. Smith .was left to ﬁnish
the sentence for himself.

. But Mr. Smith was not ﬁnishing sen-
itencesu Neither was his face expressing
. just. then the sympathy which it might
after so

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THE STORY TO DATE

STANLEY G. FULTON,

50-year old bachelor and possessor of

R.
1‘1 twenty million dollars, calls on his lawyer and they disguss 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 .

is opposed to these ideas.

He remembers that he has some distant cousins

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.
. gives, each cousin $100,000 to use as
Before givmg them the money grows a. beard and, ,using the

Worthy one he, through his lawyer,
they will.

To ﬁnd out who is the

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

kind of people they are.

one of the cousins, where he tries to hire board and lodging.
he meets Miss Flora Blaisdell,-another cousin who is a dressmaker.

Upon arriving in town he visits James Blaisdell,

While there
They

decide they cannot rent a room to him and supply him board and refer him

to Frank Blaisdell’s, the third cousin.

He gets a room there and, passing

as a writer gathering material for a book on the Blaisdell family in this

country, he starts out.

He calls on all of the Blaisdells and as they all talk

of a relative by the name of Miss Maggie Duff he decides to call on the lady.

He ﬁnds her living with her father,
on the world.

ing. On the contrary, Mr. Smith, with an
actual elation of countenance, was scrib-
bling on the edge of his notebook words
that certainly he had never found in the
Blaisdell records before him: “Two
months more, then a hundred thousand
dollars. And may I be there to see it !”

Half an hour later, as on the previous
day, Mr. Smith saw a metamorphosed
woman hurrying down the little path to
the street. But the woman to—day was
carrying a bundle and it was the same
bundle that the woman the day before
had brought.

But not always, as Mr. Smith soon
learned, were Miss Maggie's visitors wo-
men. Besides Bcnny. with his greivances,
young Fred Blaisdcll came sometimes,
and poured into Maggie‘s sympathetic ears
the story of Gussie I’ennock's really re-
markable personality, or of what he was
going to do when he went to college—
and afterwards.

Mr. Jim Blaisdell drifted in quite fre-
quently Sunday afternoons, though ap-
parently all he came for was to smoke
and read in one of the big comfortable
chairs. Mr. Smith himself had fallen into
the way of strolling down to Miss Mag-
gies almost every Sunday after dinner.

One Saturday afternoon Mr. Frank
Blaisdell rattled up to the door in his
grocery wagon. His face was very red,
and his ' mutton-chop whiskers were
standing straight out at each side.

Jane had collapsed he said, utterly
collapsed. All the week she had been
house-cleaning and doing up curtains;
and now this morning, expressly against
his wishes, to save hiring a man, She had
put down the parlor carpet herself. Now
she was ﬂat on her back, and supper to
be got for the boarder, and the Saturday
baking yet to be done. And would Mag-
gie come and help them out?

Before Miss Maggie could answer, Mr.
Smith hurried out from his corner and
insisted that “the boarder” did not want
any supper anyway—and they could live
on crackers and milk for the coming
few days? ’

But Miss Maggie laughed and said,
“Nonsense!” And in an incredibly short
time she was ready to drive back in the
grocery wagon. Later, when he went
home, Mr. Smith found her there, pre—
siding over one of the best suppers he
had eaten since his arrival in Hillerton.
She came every day after that, for a.
week, for Mrs. Jane remained “ﬂat on
her back” seven days, with a doctor in
daily attendance, supplemented by a
trained nurse peremptorily ordered-by
that same doctor from the nearest city.

Miss Maggie, with the assistance of
Mellicent, attended to the housework.
But. in spite of the excellence of the
cuisme, meal time was a most unhappy
period to everybody concerned, owing to
the sarcastic comments of Mr. Frank
Blaisdell as to how much his wife had
“saved" by not having a man to put
down that carpet.

Mellicent had little time now to go
walking or auto-riding with Carl Pennock.
Her daily life was, indeed, more pleasure-
starved than ever—all of which was not
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an old man who seems to have soured

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cent were fast friends now. Given a.
man with sympathetic understanding on
one side, and a girl hungry for that
same sympathy and understanding, and
it could hardly be otherwise. From Mel-

‘ licent’s own lips Mr. Smith knew now just

how hungry a young girl can be for fun
and furbelows. _

“Of course I’ve got my board and
clothes, and I ought to be thankful for
them," she stormed hotly to him one day.
“And I am thankful for them. But some-
times it seems if I’d actually be
willing to go hungry for meat and pota-
toes, if for once—just once—I could buy
a ﬁve-pound box of candy, and eat it all
up at once, if I wanted to! But now,
why I can’t even treat a friend to an
ice-cream soda without seeing mother’s
sho‘cked reproachful eyes over the rim
of the glass!”

It was not easy then (nor subsequently)
for Mr. Smith to keep from asking Mel-
licent the utterly absurd question of how
many ﬁve—pound boxes of candy she sup—
posed one hundred thousand dollars
would buy. But he did keep from it—
by heroic self—sacriﬁce and the comfort-
ing recollection that she would know
some day, if she cared to take the trouble
to reckon it up.

In Mellicent’s love affair with young
Pennock Mr. Smith was enormously in—
terested. Not that he regarded it as
really serious, but because it appeared
to bring into Mellicent’s life something
of the youth and gayety to which he
thought she was entitled. He was al—
most as concerned as was Miss Maggie,
therefore, when one afternoon, soon after
Mrs. Jane Blaisdell’s complete recovery
from her “carpet tax” (as Frank Blais-
dell termed his wife’s recent illness),
Mellicent rushed into the Duff living-
room with rose—red cheeks and blazing
eyes, and an explosive:—

“Aunt Maggie, Aunt Maggie, can’t you
get mother to let me go away somewhere
——anywhere, right off?"

“Why, Mellicent! Away? And just
to-morrow the Pennock’s dance?"

“But that's it—that’s why I want to
go,” flashed Mellicent. “I don’t want to
be at the dance—and I don’t want to
be in town, and not at the dance."

Mr. Smith, at his table in the corner
glanced nervously toward the door, then
bent assiduously over his work, as be-
ing less conspicuous than the ﬂight he
had been tempted for a moment to essay.
But even this was not to be, for the
next moment, to his surprise the girl
appealed directly to him.

“Mr. Smith, please, won’t you take me
somewhere to-morrow ?”

“Mellicent!” Even Miss Maggie was
shocked now, and showed it.

“I can’t help it, Aunt Maggie. I've
just got to be away!” Mellicent’s voice
was tragic.

”But, my dear. to ask a gentleman~—"
reproved Miss Maggie. She came to an
indeterminate pause. Mr. Smith had
crossed the room and dropped into a
chair near them. ‘

“See here, little girl, suppose you tell
us just what is behind—all this," he be-
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JUNK PLUS IDEA EQUALS LIGHTING PLANT
CARL HELBER, a dairy farmer living near Ann Arbor made

a lighting plant for his barn for around $2.

Mr. Hclber, who

has a large herd of cows, uses a gasoline engine to operate his
milking machine and he decided that the engine could do double

duty with a little extra cost.

He went to a garage and in a pile of

old parts of automobiles that had been discarded as junk he found

part of an engine and six headlights minus the bulbs.

$2 for these.

He paid

In the barn he inverted the crank-case and generator that had
been salvaged from the junk pile and installed them above the

gasoline engine used to run the milking machine.

The engine

below was connected with the generator by a belt in such a way
that the milking machine and generator could be operated simul-

taneously.

ened in strategic positions about the barn.
_ ranged leading from the generator, one to carry the current to the
lights and the other to connect‘with the ground. While the cows

The six headlights were equipped with bulbs and fast-

Two Wires were ar-

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?Melllcent shook‘her head stubbornly."
“I can’t. It’s too silly. Please let . it

go that I 'want- to .‘be away. That’s all."

"Mellicent, we ‘can’t do that." 'Miss
Maggie’s voice was quietly ﬁrm. “We
can’t «lo—anything; until you tell us
what it is.”

There was a brief pause. ‘Mellicent‘s
eyes, still mutinous, sought ﬁrst the
kindly questioning face of the man, then
the no less kindly but rather grave face
of the woman; Then in a little breath-
less burst it came.

-“It’s just something they’re all saying
.Mrs. Pennock said—about me.”

“What was it?” Two little red spots
had come into Miss Maggie’s cheeks.

“Yes, what was it?” Mr. Smith was
looking actually belligerent. .

“It was just that—that they werent
going to let Carl Pennock go with me
any more—anywhere, or come to see me,
because I-I didn’t belong to their set.

Miss Maggie said nothing, but the red
spots deepened. _

’ “Yes. It’s just—that we aren't molt
like them. I haven't got—money enough.

“That you haven’t got—got—:— Oh, ye
gods!” For no apparent reason what-
ever Mr. Smith threw back his head
suddenly and laughed. Almost instantly,
however, he sobered: he caught the ex—
pression of the two faces opposite.

“I beg your pardon,” he apologized
promptly. “It was only that to me—
there was something very funny about
that.”

“But, Mellicent, are you sure? I don’t
believe she ever said it," doubted Miss
Maggie.

“He hasn’t been near me—for a week.
Not that I care!” Mellicent turned with
ﬂashing eyes. “I don’t care a bit——not
a bit—about that!”

“Of course you don’t!
even thinking of, either.
matter if she did say it, dear? Forget it

“But I can’t bear to have them all
talk—and notice,” choked Mellicent.
“And we were together such a lot before;
and now—I tell you I can’t go to that
dance to-morrow night !"

“And you shan’t, if you don’t want to,”
Mr. Smith assured her. ”Right here and
now I invite you and your Aunt Maggie
to drive with me to-morrow to Hubbard-
ville. There are some records there that
I want to look up. We’ll get dinner at
the hotel. It will take all day, and we
shan’t be home till late in the evening.
You’ll go?"

“Oh, Mr. Smith, you—dear! Of course
we'll go! I’ll go straight now and tele-
phone to somebody—-everybody—that I
shan’t be there; that I’m going to be
out of town !” She sprang joyously to
her feet—but Miss Maggie held out a.
restraining hand. ..
“Just a minute, dear. You don’t care
you said you didn’t care—that Carl
Pennock doesn’t come to see you any
more?”

“Indeed I don't!”

”Then you wouldn’t want others to
think you did, would you?"

"Of course not!” The red dyed Mel-
licent's forehead.

“You have said that you’d go to this
party, haven’t you? That is, you ac-
cepted the invitation, didn’t you, and
the people know that you did, don’t they?”

“\Vhy, yes, of course! But that was
before—Mrs, Pennock said what she did.”

“Of course. But—just what do you
thing these people are going to say to-
morrow night, when you aren’t there?”

“Why, that I——-I—-" The color drained
from her face and left it white. “They
wouldn’t expect me to go after that—-
insult." ,

“Then they’ll understand that you—
care, won’t they?”

“Why, I~—-—I— They—I can't" She
turned sharply and walked to the win-
dow. For a long minute she stood, her
back toward the two watching her.
Then, with equal abruptness, she turned
and came back. Her cheeks were very
pink now, her eyes very bright. She
carried her head with a proud little lift.

“1 think, Mr. Smith, that I won’t go
with you to-morrow, after all,” she said
steadily. “I've decided to go —to that
dance.” -

The next moment the door shut crisply
behind her.

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CHAPTER VIII
A Santa Claus Hold Up

It was about ﬁve months after the.
multi-millionaire, Mr. Stanley G. Fulton,
had started for South America, that Ed-
ward D. Norton, Esq., received the fol-
lowing letter:—

Dear Nedz—I’m glad there’s only one
more month to wait. I feel like Santa
Claus with a box of toys held up by a.
snowdrift, and I just can’t wait to see

the children dance—when they get them.

And let me say right here and now how
glad I am that I did this thing. Oh,
yes, I’ll admit I still feel like the small
boy at the keyhole, at times, perhaps;
but I'll forget that—when ‘the children
begin to dance.

And, really, never have I seen a bunch
of people whom I thought a little money
would do more good to than the Blais-
dells here in Hillerton. My only regret
is that I didn’t know about Miss Maggie
Duff, so that she could have had some,
too. (Oh, yes, I’ve found out all about
“Poor Maggie” novt’,‘ and she’s a dear——
the typical self-sacriﬁcing, self effacing
bearer of everybody’s burdens, including
a hugs share of her own!) However,
she lian’t .a; Blaisdell. of course, so I
couldn't have werked her into my scheme
very,'well, I suppose, even if Ihad. known

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TEXT: “Behold, the virgin
shall be with child, and shall
bring fourth a 'son, and they~
shall call his name Immanuel;
’ which is, being interpreted,
God with us.”—Matthew 1:23.

A‘RlRY Emerson Fosdick says,
“Not often in the Bible are we
invited merely to agree with an
opinion; we are everywhere called
to trust a Person.” And that Per-
son makes his advent in our text.
“And they shall call his name Im-
manuel,” or “God with us.” But
what a disappointment! The Jews
had so. disregarded the Messianic
expectation as to externalize their
salvation. They longed to be sav-
ed from the Roman yoke. And
when the angel announces the de—
liverance to be internal; a salvation
from sins, then, to them, this Per-
son was not the Messiah. ,
Soon, we shall be memorializing
that day when God made himself
present among men in Jesus, the
Immanuel man. But, do we discern
better than the ﬁrst century folks?
Is our Christmas faith a Christian
faith? A great psychologist has
said, if we are truly Christian, we
shall see the universe to be, not an
IT, but a THOU. Certainly, God is
with us, but how difficult to realize
his presence, notwithstanding. This
is such a real, a throbbing world; a
world in Which the things of sense
and the achievements of‘men are
so real, so everywhere present, that
the masses seem to have been made
insensible to the presence of God.
Sensations of the marvelous things
men about us are doing, are so
ceaselessly crowding in upon our
mental horizon, that the presence of
God is well-night lost sight of or
forgotten. How many Christmas
shoppers ,take thought of the real
meaning of the Christ—mass?
“White Christopher” appeared be—
fore a company of profane men one
day While they were at work. With
his arms outstretched, he looked so

awe-inspiring, so Cross—like, that
the/ men stopped swearing. Just
this is the value of religion, to

pledge to us the presence of Jehov-
ah that we might have correction
for our evil ways. The presence in
the life'of men of a supreme being
is fundamental. .280 the most prim-
itive peoples were animists; later
heathenism localized their divine
being in sacred places and idols;
and in the Old Testament revela—
tion, God is present in the pillar of
cloud, the burning bush, and the
ark. But gradually, a more moral
View began to prevail, and God was
at hand Without these material as-
sociations. Early and late, the
prophets are pleading for a recog—
nition of God’s presence thru a spir-
itual awakening and moral reforms.
But the Jew was unimaginative and
unspiritual, and So the prophet’s
message did not take. And the
Greeks were expectant and longing;
so it remained for the great Jehovah
to give a pledge in reality, to both
Jew and Gentile, of his redeeming
presence. Therefore our text an—
nounces the coming of Jesus, the
“God with us” man.

Said the sick little girl to the
nurse who was manifestly selﬁsh,
“Didn’t you know Jesus was born?”
Friends of the yule-tide, are your
hearts warm and tender toward the
Babe of Bethlehem? Thru your
Christmas spirit will your children
recall that Jesus was born to save
us from a hell of covetousness into
which so many are falling? But the
Founder of our religion came, lived,
and lives that we might keep near
God. Men heard him speakrand
tho not college bred, no man ever
spake as did he. They saw his
eyes ﬂame with indignation and
weep with tears of grief. They felt
his soul in action as a furious tem-
pest, and then as a calm summer
breeze. They saw his hand impart
the tender, healing touch, and then
with a scourge, the same hand
cleanses the temple. They saw him
go to the Cross because he would
not save himself. No, their eyes
could not be cheated, this was truly
Immanuel.

And this reality istoday to every
Christian the great “I AM.” He
says, “I am the door, you can get
to God ,thru, me. Imam the Bread
of Lites feed daily upon...me. . lam,

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season, will we reﬁnd our Christian

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MAN
DAVID F. WARNER ‘ . ,

I am the Ressurrection and the Life,

,you may have a glorious future
in me.” And doesn’t this Jesus
bring God so close as to make heav-
en to be ‘the atmosphere of Christ
about us, rather than 'a place in the
ﬁrmament above? I wonder. Think
it over. An eccentric, Southern
preacher said, in approaching a
large forest ’tree, “0 tree, .I love
thee because Jesus made thee.” Cer—
tainly, this man was immersed and
overwhelmed in the spiritual pres-
.ence of Christ. And the amazing
thing is, this is the heritage of every
Christian. And this is that which
enables us to put God into our
farming. “Thanks be to God for
his unspeakable gift.” How friend—
ly, warm, and vital should this
make our every day living!

And, now, did We walk in the
companionship of Christ, what
would it do? To the church folks,‘
I may say, it would spiritualize our
prayer and worship. A vision of
God is fundamental here. Moses
saw him sitting on a paved work of
sapphire stone. Jacob and Isaiah
had marvelous visions of him. But
to us he may be many times more

real. And our vision of him is to
conform to that ideal of life as seen
in the personality of Christ. “The
pure in heart shall see God”. This

correct attitude of heart is impera—
tive. Together with another minis—
ter, I Visited the institution of Jane

Adams in Chicago. This minister
inquired. ‘fMay We see Jane
Adams?” The answer came, “Do

you have a message for her?” And
to my humiliation, this minister ex—
claimed, “No, we just want to see
her.” What puerile curiosity! For
this woman is great in works of

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childish attitudes and hearts un—
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“It is my custom at this time to
read a portion of scripture and
pray. :Shall- I do this audibly?”
The drummer graciously yielded, for
here was one Who made it the prac—
tice of his life to pledge to others
the presence of the Unseen.

Immanuel-Jesus to Santa Claus.
This, we are reminded at this season
of the year, has been our descent.
And 110W many good folks have
helped to make it so! We talk
about the Christmas spirit as if it
came from a red—faced, bewhiskered
old hobgoblin that comes out of the
frozen North and sweeps down our
chimneys to give us a gay holiday
for exchanging gifts. What un-
worthy imagery! How different from
the reality of that Babe in whose
character we are to learn the life of
service and sacriﬁce. The myth of
Santa Claus has led to an orgy of
commercialism and a
dinners and gay feelings. Is it not
time that “In chastened mood and
with humble heart we gather once
more around the Babe in the Mang—
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ence of One who came to save us
from our sins. .

It is time. And only this indwell—
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of all right living. We look with
disgust at how often religion is used
for an handmaid; as in the lodge,
in our businesses, our pleasures, and
often in the churches. Whereas,
religion should be our mistress, to
be served in all the avocations and
ways of life. Jesus says, H‘Without
me ye can do nothing.” And who of
us Wants to fail? -

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twilight. Stealing unnoticed upon
them, he was listening to his two
small children at play. Said the
little sister to her brother, “I can
kiss God.” “0, no you can’t,” said
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, L923

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DRAWING CAPITAL

“Section 1. In the event of a declara-
tion of war, the property equally with
the persons, lives, and liberties of all
citizens shall be subject to conscription
for the defense of the Nation.”

has always appeared to us that in the time
of. war, a democracy such as ours, should be
put entirely on a wartime basis. If the gov-
ernment has the right to conscript young men

for military service, then it has an equal right\

to conscrlpt property and materials used in the
continuance of that war.
Representative John M. Evans, of the First

iDistrict, Montana, recently introduced a bill or

which the above is a section, for exactly this
purpose. It is a. bill calling for an amendment
to the United States Constitution which would.
after having been ratiﬁed by the legislatures of
three—fourths of the several states, make the
conscription of property mandatory, as is the
conscription of individuals.

Surely the experience of the last war should
be of some value to us to lay for the guidance of
future generations and if the lessons learned
cannot be used for that purpose we must admit
that it was largely fought in vain.

Wartime becomes an emergency in which
every man and every industry should be on an
equal footing and serving only one end. The
sight of proﬁtecrs, whether in labor or capital.
making unheard-of proﬁts, while young men
were being put up before the merciless slaughter
of the front-line trenches for a. pittance is a.
picture not to be repeated.

Here is something for the American Legion.
the many womens organizations and every sane
and loyal citizen to get behind and make a real-
ity. As a. matter of fact, it would probably be
the best possible insurance against another war!

RE-A I’PORTI OW T

EHIND a smoke screen carefully laid by
Detroit politicians and largely fanned by
the city newspapers, the population of Mich—

igan is being divided and arrayed against itself.

If one were to believe all the metropolitan
newspapers said it would be a one—sided issue
with the rural delegation at Lansing making a.
scrap of paper of the state constitution and de-
nying to a large proportion of our citizenship
equal representation in making the laws which
govern them. It is easy from this point to fan
the ﬂamers.“- they were back in the days of the
famous "Boston tea—party” which ended in sever-
ing the ties between England and the thirteen
struggling colonies.

The present state constitution as we under-
stand it, provides for representation in the legis-
lature on the basis of population, taking into no
consideration the number ot citizens or the
amount at territory thus represented. Probably
those who made this constitution did, not fore-
cast the growth of a. metropolitan city in which
1 very large percentage. of its population are
anon: who have not accepted the responsibilities
or who apparently do not care for the privileges
at um States citizenship. No man could ed-
vaneo a sound argument that it was the inten-
tion or the mien at our constltntlca to protect

Imeﬂghtsal’thwevlsltorswhocomehere only to
'5 ilk-advance of American «nations, accumu-

Iefe enough. American dollars and eat! any to
ﬁne bind-nae where their Willem Is on-
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‘ eats am and immuny'oummsasm'

of the re-appectlonment ﬁght, whlehﬁ Ans knew
will be read with great interest by die mm or
think-lug farmers in Michigan but which we hope;
might be read by the misguided citizens of our
metropolitan cities. ' ,
Detroit newspapers would have their readers

-- believe that the rural districts of Michigan do not

appreciate what the growth, 04: Detroit has meant
to the prosperity of the state. This statement is
a malicious slander because there, is not a. citi-
zen of. Michigan: who does not hold in the utmost
respect and the greatest pride the growth and
prosperity of our great metropolis.

There is every reason why all sections of Mich.-

lgan should be allied for their common good and ~

we hope and pray that the present adjournment
will result in clearing the muddy waters and al-
low. calm judgment and clear thinking to
be applied to the present situation, which is by
no means a one-sided proposition. Theinterests
of the state as a. whole, including Wayne county,
are greater than, and must be given prefprence
to, the selﬁsh interests of. any single city in the
state.

THE. GASOLINE TAX AGAIN

T probably goes without saying that the pro-
1 posed gasoline tax of two cents per gallon,
which would meet favor with the rural ele-
ment of Michigan, will have to wait until the
matter of re-apportionment is settled and may
even be used as a compromise in securing a seb-
tlement satisfactory to both sides.

The gasoline tax is not something to be traded
in, neither is the matter of state apportionment.
Roth should stand or fall on their respective
merits.

What we do know is that Michigan has an ev—
er-increasing highway expense to meet and that
the most direct way to secure enough money to
build new roads and to keep those already built
in repair is a gasoline tax, such as is now in
force in most of the states in the Union.

A year ago when the Governor vetoed the gas-
oline tax it was a novelty, but during the past
twelve months it has been voted on, and with
success, in practically every state which ranks
with Michigan in total annual registration of
automobiles. This means that when a resident
of our state goes into any other state he contrib-
utes to their good roads fund in every gasoline
purchase he makes. but when the hordes of sum—
mer visitors from other states come to take ad-
vantage of our lakes and rivers they ride over
roads which have been paid for and are main—
tained exclusively by citizens oﬁ. Michigan. The
moral is obvious.

 

FORGOTTEN !

FTER you have studied the picture by Tom
L May which has become world famous, al—

though ﬂrst printed in the Detroit Journal
several years ago, you will be interested to
know that it was inspired by the tale of a Ger-
man washorwoman who came the -morning fol—
lowing Christmas to tell Mr. May that she had
watched all. day long a child who came to the
window of n hovel facing her own home and
kept peering out as if looking for someone. Late
in the. afternoon when this good woman went
over to make inquiry she found that the child
had been looking tor Santa Claus and she added
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girl. claim he, we‘ll! not.“ 1*, ‘
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We hope there ls no child In Michigan who is
going to be {ﬂatten by Santa Claus this Christ-‘
mas. It may be that in the cities Where there
are more organisations casing for, the needy.
there is less possibility of. overlooking some

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.than there is in the country, particularly aster

a trying period such as we have been experienc-
ing the past two or three years.

If you know ,of a poor family near you where
there is even a possibility that. Santa Claus my
not come with his pack of good cheer, by all
means go to them at once. Do not rat
the risk of this catastrophe happening ‘ 1
your neighborhood. It takes so little to
please the heart of a child and toys on- the mar-
ket are so cheap that under no condition must
any child, anywhere in Michigan. this Christmas,
be “forgotten!”

 

STATE OWNED amour PLANT

IT is rumored that the state has taken an option
of 453 acres of land two miles southwest of

Charlevoix with the intention of erecting a
state—owned cement plant to supply the highway
requirements of Michigan.

We hope this statement is true. One need not
be a radical to comend the ownership by the
state of the manufacture of basic raw materials
which it uses in such large quantiﬁes and in
which the employﬁent of penal labor could be
so economical a feature.

There is no question but what cement is one
of the best and most economicalof road-building
materials. It is equally true that in the repair
and maintenance of the roads already constructed
and the hundreds of miles to be constructed.
many millions of dollars worth of cement will
be required every year by this state. Fortunately,
Michigan is well supplied with marl and there is
no reason why we should not put ourselves in a.
position to take advantage of this gift which
nature has apparently placed at our doors for
this speciﬁc purpose.

GOOD BYE, 1923! e

ERE another issue reaches your hands, 1923
will be but a memory and 1924 with all the
promises and opportunities of a New Year
will be in your possession.
It would be easy to preach a sermon on what
you can make of your vast opportunities which

“nnroll themselves before you, but farmers as a

general rule have had about all of the'preachin'
and sympathy they need during the past two
yours—lets hope for less of it next!

The fact is that 1924 presents a. rosy picture
for the farmer who has stuck to his knittin’ and
kept puttin’ the manure back on his land. Who
has .kept building up his herd and the rust all
his machinery. This type of farmer needs no
sympathy and the amazing (to some) fact is
that he is the type who asks none. He has been
fed up on the wind- jammer type of politician
who can weep nice, large tears for everyone who
will vote him into a nice, fat job.

1923 Was a. shake— down for the farming busi-
ness—thousands of farmers left the terms, but
everyone that left crowded the farmer who re-
mained nearer the top. Thank God, neighbor.

you were one who stuck to the farm!-
You are assured of a Happy and Prosperous
New Year!

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mum noon Assemnon
“Here I am again asking your

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- valuable advice in . this my trouble.

You will remember me writing to
you in regard to the Standard Food
Association of New York, of which I
was supposed to get thoroughbred
Belgian hares, which I never got as
their oﬁspring were all the way from
spotted white to blue and I would
like to send back the four breeders
which I purchased of them at.$25,
it I could get my moneybwck to say
nothing of express charges. I had
no luck with the young which I gave
the best of care. What would you
advise me to do? I am a poor wo-
man and need the money and can’t
stand such deals.
send purebred stock. Please give me
your advice.-——Always a reader of the
H. B. F.”

. E above is a Sample of letters
we get from folks who try to
raise Belgian hares for resale

to the company from whom they buy
the original breeding stock. Per-
haps somewhere in Michigan there
is someone doing this successfully
and making money from the scheme.
If there is we would like to hear
from them. But what letters we re-
ceive arevexactly along the line of
the above, which ought to be sufﬁc-
ient warning to our readers.

If, however, there are any still
beguiled by the amazing proﬁts to
be made by the simple procedure as
outlined in this or similar circular

‘ matter, we might repeat some of

 

the stories as told to the vigilance
committee which has been conduct-
Ing an investigation:

A gentleman from Arkansas
writes that he paid the company $22
for a. pair of rabbits after he had
seen their advertisement and after
the company had written “continual-
ly even urging me to borrow money
to get them with.” He points out
that the company was very prompt
in writing to him before he paid his
money. Read the balance of his
story as he himself writes it.

“On December 23, I wrote to them
that I had four pairs of rabbits to
ship, all of the same litter and to
please send shipping instructions. I
waited almost two weeks and got no
reply—so I wrote again and after
waiting twa weeks longer with-out
result, I thought it strange—they
had always been so prompt in answ-
ering me. I was determined to get
an answer so I send a registered let-
ter and got an immediate reply.

"they told me to ship my rabbits

HER DESK

 

They agreed to

    

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and pay'exprecsage, as they had no

funds at shipping point to pay for

’expresaandaslhadtheconu'act.

I supposed, of course, that they
would refund the money.

“I shipped them in two lots. The
ﬁrst lot consisted of two (2)' does
and two (2) bucks. They said that
they had received all 0. K., and that

’I was to send my contract back and
get a renewal'before I could get my ’

check. I had a true copy of the
contract made, then I sent the orig-
inal to them and kept the copy. In
answer they told me that I had ship—
ped Flemish Giants instead of Black
Siberians and they were under
weight; New I have proof that I
have never had or owned another
kind of hares but the ones purchas-
ed from the company, and their
young, so if I shipped them Flemish
Giants, they misrepresented them to
me as Black Siberians.”

Another typical story comes from
Pennsylvania, from a gentleman
who paid $92 to prepay an order.
He writes as follows:

“After waiting ﬁve months for
delivery, on September 17, I sub-
mitted a letter to the Standard Food
& Fur Association in which I can—
celled my order. On September 25
I received ‘a crate in which were
three rabbits shipped via the Amer-
ican Express Company, express bill
on end of crate was dated Septem—
ber 20——-plea;se note ,ﬁve days ex—
press live stock two hundred miles
-—and was marked ‘Four (4) live
rabbits.’ On September 26 I re—
ceived a letter written under date of
September 24 from the Standard
Food & Fur Association advising
‘that we have this day forwarded
you an exceptionally ﬁne consign—
ment of Imported Spotted Giants.
etc.’ On September 27 I received
another letter dated September 24
from the Standard Food & Fur
Association saying ‘We have this day
forwarded you 3 does and 1 buck
of French Argent de Champagne via
the American Railway Express Com—
pany.’ Both letters were signed by
the Secretary but his signature was
undecipherable so that his name re-
mains a mystery.

“We placed the rabbits in pens
and, of course, have been feed-
ing them. Today we made an
investigation with the purpose of
determining their sex and there was
revealed the exceedingly pleasixg
(1’) fact that each of the three rab-
bits were in complete possession of
all the essentially masculine facul—
ties."

 

 

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11' is too early to publish a full report on the generous contribu-
tions by readers of The Business Farmer to the German Babies
Feeding Fund which we announced in the last issue.

We will remit the amount received up to December 20th., to
the American Red Cross and specify to that splendid organization
that every penny contributed by our readers is to be sent. direct
toGermxny,i£possiblebycablotoreachtherebeforetheOhristp
mas season, to buy milk for the needy children.

We acknowledge to December 17th, the time of going to
pms, the following contributions:

Edwin P. Harm‘s $10.00
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‘ Mrs. Grant Slnmm 10.00
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Adam Fa“! 3.00
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SANTA CLAUS

Ecomes in the night! He comes
H in the night!
He softly, silently comes,
While the Little brown heads on the pi]-
lows so white
Are dreaming of bugles and drums.
He cuts through the snow like a ship
through the foam.
While the white ﬂakes around him
whirl.
Who tells him I know not, but he ﬁndeth
the home
Of each good little boy and girl.

His sleigh it is long, and deep, and wide;
It will carry a host of things,

While dozens of drums hang over the
side,
With the

strings.
And yet not the sound of a drum is heard,
Not a bugle blast is blown,
As he mounts to the chimney-top like
a bird,
And drops to the hearth like a stone.

sticks sticking under the

.The little red stockings he silently ﬁlls,
Till the stockings will hold no more;
The bright little sleds for the great snow
hills
Are quickly set down on the ﬂoor.
Then Santa Claus mounts to the roof
like a bird,
And glides to his seat in his sleigh;
Not the sound of a bugle or drum is
heard
As he noiselessly gallops away.

He rides to the East, and he rides to the
West,
Of his goodies he touches not one;
He eateth the crumbs of the Christmas
feast
When the dear little folks are done.
Old Santa Claus doeth all that he can;
This beautiful misson is his;
Then, children, be good to the little old
man
When you find who the little man is.
' —A.\70N.

PREPARATION F0 R MATE R NITY

“ E didn’t have children when
Vii we should and then when We
wanted to everything seemed

to go wrong.” How many a bitter
tragedy of modern life is summed up
in these words. The story, which un-
fortunately is being enacted every
day, brings into vivid relief the fact
that preparation for maternity and
the care of the infant are necessary
if serious dangers are to be avoided
and the greatest joy of life is to be
consumated. We no longer lead a
primitively natural life; our food
and habits are modiﬁed by social
conditions; our intelligence brings
with it greater sensativeness and the
ability to forsee and apprehend suf-
fering and responsibility as well as
the capacity for greater joy and
pleasure. Maternity means some
sacriﬁce of comfort and pleasure,
but at the same time the fulﬁllment
of the greatest happiness that life
affords. Medical progress has kept
pace with the needs for special care
and precaution incident to the
changed conditions of life, and the
risks and dangers of maternity are
today less than ever before. Some
may resent or scoff at the need of
such precautionary measures, but
neglect of them ends with the recog-
nition “VVe’ve found out that there’s

something to being prepared and
that prevention saves a lot of
trouble.”

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THE N E \V HEA LTH E DUCA ’1‘] ()N

HE ﬁrst idea that is often found
1 at work in the health movement

hat health is primarily a physical
matter. This idea is predominent
in the emphasis of brushing one’s
teeth, in masticating one’s food and
in exercising one’s muscles. Con-
trariwise, health is not only physic—
al but also mental and social. Ono’s
teeth are more dependent on what
one’s mother eats duringr pregnancy
than on teeth—cleaning habits; one’s
digestion is related as much or
more to mental attitudes than it is
to mastication; and exercise that
neglects the satisfactions and an—
noyances in the nervous system is
making false claims for wholesome-
ness. The teacher of health edu-
cation must recite as one of the
ﬁrst principles: Mind and body are
one. Health and happiness are not
built up; they come from activities
that produce them as by-products.
The important consideration in this
connection is to teach boys and girls
to live correctly, to establish whole-
some habits, and to farm socially
useful attitudes. The school by its
sterile program of calisthenlcs may
delude itself about “building up
health,” but boys and girls go to
college seeking to be excused. from
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should be light and our heads held high with happiness m

and gladness for all who come within our sphere.

- wonderful day for our loved ones and those of you who have the 63%
family complete at this time of the year are indeed fortunate.

I want to thank you all for your splendid help and cooperation e)";
in bringing before our readers the many new and useful sub- “
gestions that you have so willingly sent in to me.
hard to make ,our department a family affair where we could
discuss all the problems that confront the average woman on the

The recipes have been ﬁne and I know a great many

Below you will ﬁnd a few articles that are more or less per- .
sonal with every mother, and I hope you will read every word in

Don’t just read it
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tion. It is far more important that
the schoolseek constantly to devel—
op a skill in and a love for some
form of physical activity that they
will carry .with them throughout
life. In an article that is full of
sound common sense, Dr. J. F. Wil-
liams of Teachers’ College, Colum—
bia University makes the above ro—
marks and brings home forcefully
the need for interest and satisfac-
tion in work and play if a real hy—
giene is to be taught.

The hotter a man gets under the
collar the higher the blood pressure.
——Hygeia.

 

Tm} NERVOUS CHILD
“ HE so—called nervous child is

frequently an untrained child

of untrained and weak par-
ents. It has been estimated that 50
per cent of the nervous children be-
long in this group. The children
may be over-stimulated by excessive
attention, as by. rocking and cod-
dling. The young, inexperienced
mother is frequently confused by
her task. Her) new responsibility
may make herl extremely nervous.
She shows anxiety if he does not
sleep, or she becomes frenzied if he
does sleep. She over—clothes him
lest he catch cold. She picks him
up the moment he cries. She paces
the ﬂoor with him or sings to him.
She fails to feed him regularly. In.
short, she fails in the normal train-
ing process.” Dr. Isaac A. Abt, in
the December issue of Hygeia,
stresses the importance of the in—
ﬂuence that the attitude of the
mother has on the temperament of
the child. He readily imitates her
anxiety and is unconsciously im—
pressed by the air of confusion that
reigns when she fusses and worries
over him. As the child grows up
he becomes more and more imitat-
ive and susceptible to the atmos-
phere around ’him. He learns that
he is delicate or that he is naughty;
he listens to the stories told of his
pranks and nerves. The feelings of
personal inferiority that may be
thus engendered often have the
most serious consequences in after
life. A child’s toys should be sim—
ple. Elaborate and complicated
playthings teach him extravagence
and selfishness and he becomes dis—
contented and begins to demand
more and more in the way of excite—
ment and variety.

Fear is a normal part of child—
hood, but it should never be played
for discipline; childhood fears are
a potent course of nervousness in
later years. In addition fear is a
shock that jars the whole nervous
system and its «effects last a long
time. To avoid and remedy nerv-
ousness, one of the greatest essen-
tials is healthful occupation. Every
normal child should have a certain
amount of work assigned to him.
It produces a feeling of satisfaction
and self-appreciation, keeps the at-
tention ﬁxed and avoids fanciful
dreaming. This of course must not

assessasssssdsssssss.

go to the extent of fatigue, but reg—
ularity of well chosen and interest-
ing work is one of the best safe-
guards against nervousness.

 

 

HOW TO REMOVE STAINS

To remove hot—water marks from
polished furniture, dampen a cloth
in denatured alcohol and rub lightly
over the spots. Let stand for half
a day to dry. If all the marks are
not removed, apply again after the
furniture is dry.

To take marking—ink out of linen,
use a saturated solution of cynid of
potassium, applied with a camel’s
hair brush. After the marking dis—
appears the linen should be washed
in cold water.

If ink is spilled on your hand, wet.

the end of a match and rub over the
ink. Wash in cold water and the ink
will come off.

To remove dirt or stains from a
colored hat caused by the grease of
the hair or by your collar rubbing
against it, try rubbing the hat with
a cloth soaked in benzin. The dirt
will disappear instantly.

To remove grease spots from wool-
en cloth, use vinegar instead of gas—
oline, as it removes it much quicker,
and does not leave a ring.

To clean silver purses, cover with
butter—milk and let stand all night.
Then rinse in tepid water.

Sometimes when you remove a
spot with gasoline you leave a ring
about the part cleaned. You can re-
move this hy holding it over the
steam of the teakettle.

Rub steel blades of knives with
emery paper before puting away for
any length of time, and they will not
rust. ‘

After squeezing the juice from a
lemon, use the remains for cleaning
brass, by ﬁrst dipping in salt and
powdered brick dust. This is excel-
lent also for securing copper cooking
vessels.

 

 

MOTHER’S PROBLEMS

A Word of Praise
HAVE known parents who never
1 praised their children, no matter

110w deserving of praise they
were. They were, they said, “afraid
to praise them” afraid lest they
get “big—headed,” and over-pxoud of
their accomplishments. And I have
known children who developed a
deplorable “don’t care” attitude,
merely because no favorable men-
tion was ever made of theirefforts
when they were best, so that it
seemed to the child that it mattered
little whether work or studies grad-
ed high or low. _

A bit of praise honestly given may
spur a child 'on to untold heights.
Many a child’s big ambition is to
please Mother or Daddy, and ,it is
nothing short of. cruel to withhold
the word of praise the childish ears
are open for. Even if the work is
not Worthy of praise, criticism of it
should be friendly, constructive and

 

 

~ careful. --..--:’I‘o--t crush- all..'the—vjoy‘,. and .
expectancy out of an accomplished

task, may crush something vital out.

of the child. "

I know a' successful woman who
delights in telling 'to what she owes
her success. “As a little girl,” she
has often said, “I was told by a
neighbor woman that I had worked
a bit of embroidery exceptionally
well. ‘But I might have known you
would have,’ she added, ‘for every-
thing you undertake to do, you do
well!’ After those words of praise,
I just had to work hard, and do my
best. I had to live up to that wo-A
man’s bit of praise. I am still guid-r
ed by it.‘ Whatever I do, I try my
best to do well!”

Let’s all remember that. A bit
of honest praise may give a child a.
mark to live up to that will affect.
the whole of his life. If you are
raised on a throne, so to speak, you
are not going to give up your place
of power without putting up a good.
stiff ﬁght. Whenever the chance
occurs place your child on a throne
and watch'the gratifying way with
which he ﬁghts to maintain his
lofty perch in your eyes.

 

 

Personal Column

 

 

I am enclosing a letter on my experi-
ence of picking beans. Hoping it will
be of some usez—Notieing the request for
more plans and letters on bean pickers
I thought I would give some of my ex-
perience with picking beans. For nine
winters we have had bean pickers in the
house. My sister and myself always did
the picking. My mother was unable to
do the work all alone, so we would do
the washing, ironing and scrubbing. Then
we could sit down and pick beans] We
never raised many beans ourself, but
would pick for the neighbors, and some
for the elevator. The winter of 1921 we
hand picked 363 bushels. For the culls
we got 90 per pound. When we would
be busy with other work, my small sis-

’ ters would pick awhile, and in that way

they earned their own spending money.
I think it pays better for farmers to hand
pick their own beans, then they have
their culls which are very good for feed-
ing purposes, and the- hand picked beans
can be sold for ﬁrst class beans. The
name of the picker we used is “The Clip-
pe'r”, made by A. T. Farrell Company.
I have tried others, but like this one the
better. This is not an expensive machine.
One could not be made mueh cheaper.
Hoping this will be of some use to our
readers—Miss Schoof, Michigan.

My Letter of Thanks—My Dear Mrs.
Taylor:_ Here I am again after many
Weeks of silence. " I had intended to write
you a letter of greetings to be published
in our paper for my dear friends over the
state who have taken an interest in us.
My family were all sick at Thanksgiving
time, so had to let it go by. Now as I
can only reach my thanks to you, I wish
you to put before them all my greetings
for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year. I have not forgotten any one of
them, but am not in a position this year
to remember them all personally, so take
this method of wishing them the seasons
greetings. Forever grateful.—-Mrs. Jennie
Hains, R. 4, Box 40, Harrison, Michigan.

Re-Silvering a Mirror.-———As I am a. sub-
scriber of the Michigan Business Farmer
would like to know if some of our readers
could tell me what to use and how to
re—silver looking glass or mirror, and if
I could silver a glass that has never
been silvered before and where could I
get the material to re—silver it with. We
like the M. B. F. and get many good
ideas out of it.—Veronica C. Paul.

 

Knitting Done at Homer—Seeing the
inquiry for a mitten knitter in your paper
of November 10th, would be glad of any
work that I could do at home, as I am
not able to get out to earn anything.
Would knit, crochet, piece quilts, or quilt
them. Will be glad to correspond with
anyone desiring work done. Mrs. Minnie
Driscoll, R. 2, Kingsley, Michigan.

 

Three Splendid Suggestions.—I am very
interested in the Farm Home Department
and would like the opportunity to help
some of its readers, if possible. _

Raspberries and I-[uckleberries——Mako
a good combination for jam. Yellow
transparent apples and huckleberries are
excellent for spreads. '

Washing Windows.~Use a soft sponge
or cloth and clear warm water to wash
the glass, and then go over it after it
is rinsed with a rubber window cleaner
which can be purchased for the small
sum of 19 cents. This method is much
easier and more satisfactory than using
cloths.

Varnish—Applied to the linoleum dries
over night leaving a smooth, glossy, easy-
to-olean surface, which protects and pro-
longs the life of the linoleum..—Harriet
C. Reeves.

Hearty Dishes—Let us hear from some
of our readers that know good whole-
some, dishes that may be served to the
men folks. ' ' .

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, letter regarding the painting of my walls
and thank you so much for all your
trouble.

I am sending a few recipes of things
that my family like especially well. I
patented most of them myself. They can
most likely be standardized and improved
as I have had no domestic science les-
sons and only know what I have learned
for myself. I hope you may ﬁnd some
of them useful for the cook-book. I am
interested in hearty dishes for supper
and hope the boOk will have some good
ones. Thanking you for your help, I am
sincerely—Mrs. V. C., Cass, City. ‘

 

Knitting Done at Home—Anyone de-

siring knitting done, write Mrs. F. Fuller,
Wolverine, Michigan. I love to knit these
long evenings. I knit double mits for
men, also single ones for children.

 

‘ Buchrum Substitute—If you are in need

of some and can’t get to town, ’use bed
ticking starched very stiff, let dry, then
sprinkle and iron smooth—Mrs. M.

 

Quilt Pattern—Sometime ago I received
a splendid quilt pattern, drawn and the
directions given. I sent this to one of
my readers and I am wondering if I
might have it back, so I can print it for
all of us to use. If there are any read—
ers who have patterns, I would like to
have them and would appreciate it if
you will send them to me real soon.
——-Anne Taylor.

 

 

—if you are well bred!

 

 

Duty to Your Chaperon.—-At school re-
ceptions, sleigh-rides, class meetings at
private homes, and so on, there is al-
ways a chaperon, who is giving her time
for your enjoyment. Her kindness should
be repaid by your courtesy.

1. As soon as possible after greeting
your hostess, greet your chaperon.

2. Also, just before leaving, speak to

. her again cordially and gratefully.

3. See that your chaperon is not left
alone. If the function is a dance, in-
vite her to dance; or sit out a dance with
her, sometimes. Make her enjoy being
your chalperon.

4. Never tease to stay when the time
comes to go.

5. Don’t hinder your chaperon by loit-
ering over your wraps; be ready when she
is, and leave the building with her.

 

 

RECIPES

 

 

Tomato Soup—One peck ripe tomatoes,
one dozen large onions, one bunch celery,
one bunch parsley, six whole cloves,
eight bay leaves. Cook and strain then
add to the juice, one-half cup ﬂour, one-
half cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one-
half teaspoon black pepper then bring
to a boil and can or bottle and seal.—
Mrs. Egbert Hall.

Quick Oatmeal Cookies—Four cups of
rolled cats or oatmeal (raw), two cups
white ﬂour, two cups brown sugar. Mix
together then add one cup 'shortening
and one teaspoon salt. After this is
thoroughly mixed add one—third, cup of
water in which is dissolved one scant
teaspoon of soda. I usually add a little
lemon extract. Roll quite thin and cut
into squares with a knife. Bake in rather
hot oven. Let them partially cool in
the pan or they will break up badly.

I have received many helpful sugges-
tions from our page and hope that some
one will like these.-———Mrs. Elmer Van
Antwerp.

Crab Apple Button—Four quarts of
crab apples, wash and quarter them but
do not pare or remove cores. Put in a
preserving kettle with four cups of water
and cook until well done. Mash through
a collander and add three cupfuls of
granulated sugar, two tablespoonfuls of
ground cinnamon and two teaspoonfuls
of salt. Cook about three—quarters of an
hour or until thick. This will keep in
«jars with pariﬂ‘in.—Mrs. W. E. Fitzgerald.

Candied Citron.—~One of our readers.
asked for this recipe and I am sure you
will ﬁnd this one sent in by a reader
very ﬁne. Use mature citron. Peel melon
and remove center; then cut into squares;
allow one pound of sugar for every pound
of citron, using the least water possible
to prevent burning. Cook sugar and
water until the syrup is thick. Put citron
and thinly sliced. lemon into and cook
thoroughly. When done remove citron
from kettle and strain. Then place on
an enamel or earthen pan and put into
a hot oven. Turn frequently to prevent
sticking and to make it dry evenly.
When nearly dry sprinkle heavily with
sugar and return to oven ; when thorough—
'ly dry wrap in oiled paper. This syrup
makes nice jelly by adding sugar. We
raise our citron in summer, gather be—
fore the frost and lay away until we
have plenty of time to candy them which
may be any month of the year.——-Alma
Becker.

 

Canned Sausage Meat.——-Sausage or
fresh pork may be fried only partly done,
put into cans. and the grease poured in.
Seal and invert the cans until cold so
the grease will form a seal over the top.
This keeps finer—«Mrs. W. E.‘ Fitzgerald.

vegetable Sonya—One peek of ripe tom—
atoes, twelve? ears of sweet corn (or

three pints canne’d) six stalks celery, six

 

onions, "two quarts chopped carrots. two
small or one large head of cabbage, six.
peppers, three.- red and three green, ﬁve
quarts of soup stock. Mix all together,

_ bring to boil, pack in hot sterilized cans
and boil three hours. Makes about ten
quarts and is ﬁne.

 

Highs—Be sure ﬁsh is fresh, scale, clean,
and wash, and cut in pieces suitable for
serving, being sure they are small enough
to put in the cans. Pack in sterilized
cans, putting in one,'teaspoonful of salt
to a quart can. Put on rubber and cover.
Screw tight as possible, then give one-
half turn back, "put cans on rack in
canner and ﬁll canner with cold water

‘ up to- the shoulder of the cans, cover
canner and bring to boil slowly. Boil
three hours. After the water begins to
boil lift cans out and tighten cover;
turn upside down and if any of the cans
leak, put on a new rubber quickly. Put
can back in canner and boil fifteen min-
utes; tighten and set aside; before they
are cold tighten again. The ﬁsh can be
fried or baked after taking from cans and
is like fresh ﬁsh.

Meat.—I have canned pork, beef, mut-
ton, ﬁsh, liver, hearts, and tongues, and
chickens like I do ﬁsh and have never
had any spoil. In canning meats it is
best to kill them yourself or otherwise
be very careful they are fresh. Have
everything ready to work quickly. Cans,
covers and rubbers thoroughly sterilized.
In canning chicken the rib pieces can be
left for other purposes as they take lots
of room and not much meat. The bones
in the beef and mutton can be broken
into small pieces; put in lots of water
and boiled for soup stock, can and you
may have soup any day. I put the soup
stock in cans hot; put cans in hot water
and boil three hours. It will keep in—
deﬁnitely—A subscriber.

Filled Cookies—One cup melted lard,
one cup of sugar, one teaspoon baking
powder, one-half teaspoon soda, two—
thirds cup of sweet milk, flour to make
dough which will roll out thin, out with
any shaped cocky cutter, place in the
center of each cocky a spoonful of tin-
ﬁlling, place another cooky on top with
edges even, press the edges together and

Filling—One cup chopped raisins, one—
half cup of sugar, two level tablespoons
of ﬂour, one—half cup of boiling water.
mix the sugar and ﬂour, stir it into the
hot water (not boiling) when thoroughly
blended, allow to boil, add the raisins,
stir well and allow to get cool before I
using. Add a sliced banana to the VVlllll'
of one egg and beat until stiff. The ]
banana will entirely dissolve, and a do— i
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MY FAVORITE RECIPES

 

 

Mocked Bisque or Cream of Tomato
Soup—One quart of stewed tomatoes;
one quart milk; one teaspoon salt; one—
eighth teaspoon pepper; one-fourth tea-
spoon soda; two and one—half tablespoons
butter; two tablespoons corn_ starch.
Heat the tomatoes till soft, strain and
add soda. Heat the milk in a double
boiler. Rub the butter and corn starch
together, adding slowly, enough hot milk
to make it pour easily. Stir slowly into
the scalding milk and cook ﬁfteen min—
utes. Add seasoning and strained tom-
atoes. Serve at once. The soda prevents
the acid in the tomatoes from curdling
the milk. This is my old recipe from
my high school book and I use it all the
time. It is very delicious.

 

 

Plum Pudding—One cup suet, chopped
ﬁne, one cup sweet milk, two cups seeded
raisins, one cup molasses, two cups ﬂour,
one teaspoon soda, one cup currants, one-
fourth cup each of citron, orange, lemon
peel, one teaspoon cinnamon, one—half
teaspoon each of cloves and nutmeg.
Steam it two hours and serve it with
hard sauce.

 

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The Runner’s Bible

 

 

How beautiful upon the mountains are

the feet of him that bringeth good tidings,
that publisheth peace, that bringeth good
tidings of good, that publisheth salvation,
that saith unto Zion, Thy God rcineth.
Isa. 52:7.
. Be sure you carry happiness and glad
tidings about with you. If in a solemn
and‘serious manner you say to a man,
“Let me prepare you to die that you may
live after death,” you will hardly be able
to get his attention. ,But if, with en-
thus1asm you will tell him that you have
good news for him, that it is possible
for him to have perfect health, to be
prosperous, and happy here upon this
earth, he will eagerly listen for every
word. Man longs for help, he wants it
now—to—day.

 

 

 

WOMEN’S EXCHANGE

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go, we will
I grim. It FREE under this heading provldln :
Inst—It appeals to women and is a boniﬁ o
exchanges. no cash Involved. Second—lt'wlll
no In three lines. Th You are a paid-u
subscriber to The Business Farmer and attach
your address label from a recent Issue to rave
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‘ istinas, what a wonderful wood
that is to both ad old. The
moment you hear it from the lips
of some of your friends, or you
read it some where, so many things
spring up in your mind. Maybe you
think how last year Santa Claus tor-
got to bring some of the things you
wanted. Or possibly you are wor-
rted‘about what to ask for this your.

guns. gm- “ m:—M a 1m

And I hope you think of the little

hey or girl living down the road a
little way from you who was forgot-
ten entirely last year. Resolve that
this year she or he will not be for-
gotten and to be sure that she or he
is not send a present yourseﬂ. Even
though it may be a doll or toy that
you received last Christmas, that
you are tired of, it will be new to
this girl or boy and both you and
the receiver will be happy. Some
times you may think that you have
so few things and have none to
spare but if you will stop and think
for‘ a moment you Willi realize that
you have much to be thankful for
and that there are many that are
worse off than you. Make Christ-
mas a real merry Christmas by
bringing some happiness into at
least one other home besides your
on. Your Christmas will seem
much pleasanter if you do.

A very merry Christmas and
happy, prosperous New Your to all
of you—UNCLE NED.

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OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle New-akin: I jelgirlymll:
. ircle? I am a. armor

3:23.30: age, and am in the 8th grade
‘ I am 5 feet 2 inches tall, and
ark bobbed hair, and 9.
Have I a twin? We
0 weeks vacation. Everyone ex-
;zgfstt‘: get their potatoes dug before
school starts. I have both mother and
dad and have ﬁve sisters. Qur baby is
two years old. The one which guesses
mv correct birthday will receive a nice
long letter. Just the month, not the date.
Uncle Ned, try also. As my letter 18
getting towards the basket I’ll quit be.-
fore it gets there. Here are 3 riddles.
What was the first bet ever made? Ans.
The alphabet. If you court a young wo-
man, and you are won, and she IS won,
what will you become? Ans. One, of
course. What trade would you recom-
mend to a small man?.Ans. Grocer
(Grow—Sir). Your loving mece.—-—Miss M.

I. 8., Reed City, Michigan.

fair complexion.

d:———I have never written
to you before so I made up my mind I
would write to you. My father is a
reader of the M. B. F. and likes, it very
Well. I always read the Children 5 our.
1 will describe myself. I have brown
hair, brown eyes. Am about 4% feet
tall and am ten years old. My birthday
is November 27th. I live about 9 miles
from Allegan. or 11/; miles west of Hop—
kins, Michigan. Do you like to pick up
potatoes, Uncle Ned? I don’t. I live on
the main road between Allcgan and Grand
Rapids, Michigan. I think the answer
to Ermalce Lockwood’s riddle is a stove.
I live on a farm of 105 acres: We have
8 cows, 4 horses, 5 cats, 6 pigs and 250
chickens. For pets I have a calf named
Jack, and a cat named Cottontail. Well
my letter is getting long so wxll close
with a riddle: Why is a postage stamp
like a little boy? The one who guesses
this riddle will receive a nice long lot-
ter from me. Your loving nephew.——Ld-
win C. Nicolai, Allegan, Mich, R. 6.
——Well Edwin, your birthday comes'on
the same day in the same month as mine.
I never thought picking up potatoes was
such hard work. It isn’t near as hard as
picking ‘up stones.

Dear Uncle Ne

Dear Uncle Nedz—As I have been a
silent reader for over a year, I thought
I would like to join your merry circle.
No one ever wrote from this part of the
state that I know of, so I will start if
my letter doesn't go in the waste paper
basket. I am a girl with bobbed, blondc
hair. I have it bobbed with bangs. Am
59 inches tall, 14 years of age, 8th grade,
light complexion. I‘m living in a city
with about 3,000 population. It is quite
a nice place. It is right in the thumb
of Michigan. I live about 18 miles from
Lake Huron. altho I go to the lakequite
often. I love to read the Children’s
Hour very much. There is one girl that
wrote to the Children’s Hour, she lives in
Argyle. That's about 20 miles from
here. I’ve been there quite often. We
went to Port Huron about 3 weeks ago,
and next Sunday I think we will go
again. I do quite a bit of traveling. I

can't ever stay at home. Port Huron.
is about 80 miles from here by road. I
think I will close for this time, so good-
bye. From your “smite-be
Elizabeth Eherte. 308 S. Silver St, Bald
Axe, Michigan.

Dean- Uncle Ned:-——I have read the M.
B. F .and enjoy it. I havewrirtten be—
fore. but I guess it reached as m
basket. I live near Clear liaise. It cer-
tainly is a pretty lake. Gm the north
shore is the. Mcceola Golf Links, and by
the side of that is the Lakcwm Associa-
tion. There is 28 cottages them. (an the
west side is a hotel; The“ is a high.
dive and some boats to rent. The east
side an association owns to, by the name
of "Seven Oaks”. This summer I went
swimming every (by. I can swim, dime
and float some. I am 5 feet and 8 inches
tall. My birthday in €110,7th of Novem—
ber. I have a light complexion and light

niece,.—— "

brown hair. I will close with a riddle:
Why is a green back more valuable than
aﬁﬂyer dollar? Lovingfyz~Faybeﬂe Rob-
inson, R. 2, Box 18,-]!!ng Rapids, Mich.
Dear Uncle Neda—Tap! Tap!
May I come‘in? I won’t stay long but
just long enough to take off my hat. I
am altogether a new bird. I live on a.
farm four miles from Stambough. I go
to school and am in the 8th grade. I
guess I Wm describe myself. I am 1‘!
years old; Have I a twin? I am 5 feet
and 9 inches tall,‘ha»ve b‘hre eyes, brown
hair. (01:, yes, I bobbed it‘the ﬁrst of»
August.) The weather here has been nice
and warm. I have been to Iron Moun-
tain andhadaverygood umandth'e
trip was just dandy. Have you been in
Iron Mountain, Uncle Ned“? Guess I will
close and-leave some room for the not.
Win the ammo 'wrue ' 3 Ian--

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“ O‘W many men there are today
who have lost the respect of
their speculum and made fail-

ures of themselves merely because

at one time or another they were
afraid to say ‘No’.”

When Sam Q’Hoorn had» heard
these words from the lips of Pro-
fessor Simmons, principal of Co-
lumbia High School, one morning
in assembly, he wondered to him-
self if he wasn’t one of those per
sons who can‘t say “No.” He was
afraid so.

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here’s the proposition,

O’Hearn. You're the star man of

Columbia’s basketball team. The

whole team swings around your

playing at center. it would be the
simplest matter in the world for
you to throw the game to Parker

High next Thursday night if you

just wanted to, and if you will we

fellows’ll make it worth your while.

What d’you say?” It was Pinky

Pinkerton of Parker High.

had the reputation of being the

leader of the betting students of his
school, and inasmuch as betting on
any games between the two institute
tions was forbidden by the faculties,

Pinky took great delight in his rep-

utation.

Sam O’Hearn listened to Pinky’s
words with a throbbing heart.

“What’s it worth to you guys?”
he eagerly questioned. ~

“Well, twenty-ﬁve dollars
good price, I guess.”

Twenty-ﬁve dollars! What would-
n’t Sam O’Hearn do for that sum.
Especially right at that moment for
he was in dire ﬁnancial straits. He
had been working every evening aft-
er school and all day on Saturdays
at Johnson’s Corner Drug Store.
where he and Pinky Were now con—
versing during a spare moment,
“helping out,” in an attempt to earn
sufﬁcient money to purchase his
motherland dad a Christmas present
in the form of a talking machine
that he had seen standing in the
window of the Music Shop dowu—
town.

But even though he toiled hard
and long in Johnson’s he was posi—
tive he could not get enough money
together to purchase the machine.
It was priced at 35 dollars and to
date, just one week before Christ-V
mas he had but 25 of these. Ten
dollars short.

“Twenty-ﬁve dollars,” murmured
Sam O’Hearn as the scheming,
crafty Pinky Pinkerton from Parker
High, stood by with a half. sneer on
his face.

Sam leaned farther over the
counter in the rear of Johnsonfs
Drug Store, where Pinky had come
to make his offer, and thought.
That twenty-ﬁve dollars added to
the twenty—ﬁve he already had
would not only give him enough to
purchase the talking machine as a.
Christmas present for his folks but
would leave him ﬁfteen dollars more
which would provide him With
spending money for many weeks.
What an opportunity!

Then suddenly it came to Sam
that by selling the game to Parker
he would not be playing square With
his school, Columbia. What
his classmates think if they ever
found out that for a measlybld
twenty-five dollars he had ,“thrown”

“Now

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would~

\ voice of Mr. Parks,

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rival? m would Peggy Hartman
think, especially?

But, shacks, why be so foolish,
Sam thought. Cannabis High had
never done him any especial good
that he could see-— why should he
deprive litmus?! and his talks of
something that wourd give them no
end of pleasure just because he was
a runny and afraid to take a chance?
It would be easy for him to "ﬁx" it
so that Parker would win—hut,
then, maybe somebody would ﬁnd
on. . .

As if he knew what Sam was
thinking about, Pinky Pinkerton
broke in‘on Sam’s thought. "None of
your friends’ll ever get wise; All
us guys at Parker will keep the
whole business under our hats, and
nobody will ever know.”

“That was the straw that broke
the camel’s back. Sam O’Hearn
cast aside his honor and, "I’ll take
you up on that, Pinky,” he said, de-
liberately. “How’ll we work it,
now?” And then Pinky, realizing
that he had poor Sam—Sam whom
all had though so highly of, of whom
his parents were so proud—under
his inﬂuence, leaned his crafty head.
forward, and laid the plans for the
“throwing" of the Columbia-Parker
game on the following Thursday
night, the night before Christmas
eve. .

It was the night of the Columbia—
Parker basketball game. Sam 0’—
Hearn, in his basketball tags, stood
leaning against a locker in the gym-
nasium of Columbia High where the
game was to be played, deep in
thought. He Was thinking of the
agreement he had made with Pinky
Pinkerton of Parker several nights
before. Had he done right in
promising Pinky he would “throw”
the game to Parker for twenty-ﬁve-
dollars just to favor some of those
crafty betting Parker students?
Somehow he felt guilty of having
committed a great wrong. “Non—
sense,’ ’he tried to tell himself, “I
haven’t dcme anythiang I shouldn’t,”
but this thought had no effect. He
still felt guilty. .

“Better hurry out on the ﬂoor‘
and get in a little practice before
we commence, Sam.” It was the
the Columbia
coach. Sam stirred himself from his
deep meditation. He looked up.
Mr. Parks stood in front staring
hard at him. "Something wrong,
Sam?"

Sam’s eyes fell. He couldn’t
force himself to look the coach
.squ-arely in the eye. It was that in-
fernal guilty feeling.

“NaW—no, sir,” replied Sam, and
with a couple of words of advice
from the coach on how to get the
jump on Parker’s center, Sam strode
slowly and thoughtfully through,
the swinging door and onto the
ﬂoor of the big gymnasium where
already the other men of Columbia
were practicing. '

Sam saw that the balcony of the
gymnasium was crowded to over-
ﬂowing with eager spectators.

Leaning far over the railing of

. the balcony Sam saw Peggy Hart-

man with a host of her girl friends.
She waved. Sam waved back. Par-
,ther hack in the crowd Sam lair his
pal Irma? " old Jun.
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surged through him with greater
force. What—oh, what would they ’
say if they ever found out? And
ithey might—there was a chance of»
't. . .
Columbia High had ﬁnished her
preliminary practice. Parker had
taken hers. The referee was step-
ping out from the locker room.
whistle in hand. The gamewas
about to start.

Sam O’Hearn had returned to the
locker room. He was in a quand-
ary. He was positive now that he
wasn’t doing the right thing. to
take that filthy money from Park-
er’s betting crowd.

“And I'm not going to do it.”
Sam’s lips compressed. in a straight
line. His jaw tightened. .

He hurried to his locker. Tak—
ing from it his big brown dressing
gown, he threw it over his shoul-
ders. Then with a quick stride he
dashed up the circular stairway
and onto the balcony of the gym»- ‘
nasium. Getting his bearings, his
quick eye hunted out Pinky Pinker—
ton and his group, of boisterous foi-
lowers. He wormed his Way quick-
ly through the crowd to where they
were. ,

“‘Pin-kertbn.” he called.

Pinky turned, looking erossly and
questioningly. ”VVhat d’you want
now?”

“I’m here to tell you that I'm not
going to take your money and I’m
not going to throw the game to
Parker.” With these words, sharp
and pointed, Sam quickly turned,
leaving the startled Pinky staring
open-mouthed after him, and made
his .way back to the locker room.
How much better he felt! “I’m go-
ing to play harder than ever in this
game,” Sam told himself. He, did.

Sam, feeling light of Mart and
happy, hurried home through the
snow late that night. The spirit of
Christmas was in the air. He'felt
cheerful.

San’s'dad, Mr. O’Hearn, was read-1
ing his evening newspaper when
Sm stamped into the house. Mrs.
O’Hearn had gone to bed.

“Dad, I want to tell you some-
thing,” announced Sam as he pulled
a chair up to the cheery grate ﬁne.
And then he went into detail about
the offer from the betting students
of Parker, how he had said he
would accept it, and then later how
he had declined. He told about the
talking machine he had been in—
tending to buy and how now, with-
out the funds, he‘d have to give it
up.
"Son,” said Mr. O’Hearn, “never
mind about the talking machine—
I’ll go ﬁfty—ﬁfty with you, and we’ll
make it a joint present to mother.

‘You have given me enough Christ.-

mas present tonight. I’m glad to
see you’re a man, my boy. Accept
my thanks and congratulations. I‘m
proud of you. Now then, let’s pile
to bed, shall we?“ '

 


   
  
 
  

   

f $E‘RIES ~01 mscrub bull tuner-

als”, scheduled to occur in
each of the ﬂtteen counties

' comprising the Upper Peninsula of .

Michigan is an outstanding. teatime
at the better livestock campaign
to be conducted during the season
of L924; by the Upper Peninsula De—
velopment Bureau of Michigan, an
«Mutton devoted to the indus-
trial growth and progress of that
region. -

The ﬁnaldetalle of the plan Where-
hw the Development Bunsen will dis-
tribute one thousand dollars in cash
prizes, to various live stock associa-
tions throughout the ﬁfteen counties
on tho end or the year 1.924. were
«discussed at length during the re-
cent county agricultural agents‘ con-
tsmoe. held at Marquette. Michi-
gan... and deﬁnite rules and regula-
tions governing the contest were
drawn up.

The campaign is the climax of an
energetic effort conducted, during the
past few years tlmoughout the Upper
Peninsula 0: Michigan to encourage
dairy farming as the branch of ag-
riculture best adapted to the soils,
economic and climatic Conditions ex-
isting throughout that section and
spurned on by the extension depart-
ment of Michigan Agricultural Col-7
lama, the State Department 0! Agri-
cultune, the Upper Peninsula Devel-
ogmmt Bureau, and other co-oper-
ating agencies, a. deﬁnite plan is now
in progress for the immediate up-
building or upper Michigan’s dairy
livestock. population. .

Practically every community in the
several counties throughout the pen-
insula is showing an active inter-
est; and in tact. a keen rivalry ap-
parently exists.

The particular plan to which this
article refers involves primarily the

substitution of pure bred bulls tor '

“scrubs”, rather than just the slim-
ination of “scrub stock."

Art the recent county agricultural
agents’ contenence, a central com-
mittee was named, its members rep-
resenting the Michigan Agricultural
College, the railroads of the Upper
Peninsula. and the Upper Peninsula
Development Bureau. The commit-
tee follows: ,

D. l... McMillan, superintendent,
U. P. Experiment Station, Chamam,
chairman; E. G. Amos, assistant
starts leader of county agents, Mar-
quette, secretary; G. E. Bishop, sec-
retary manager Upper Peninsula
Development Bureau. Marquette; J.
A. Jeffery, land commissioner D. S.
S. & A. Railway, Marquette; and O.
E. Reed, department of dairy hars-
bemlry, Michigan Agricultural Col-
lege, East Learning.

In addition, central committees
will be organized in each county to
work directly with the county agri-
cultural agents among the farmers
of their respective districts.

Mowing are a dew of the more
mutant rules governing the cen-
tth':
”The awards won by the various
counties must he spent under the
direction of the committee that was
in charge or the contest in the

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WASHTNGTON. Patents have been
granted by the Government to a
ﬁghting engineer by the name of
Johnson, on a new lamp tor burning
ordinary kerosene oil. This lamp
produces a vapor tram the or] which

makesa blue ﬂame that incandesces

a mantel, and thus creates a very
anon-g, soft, pure white light. .As it
consumes only 6% oil mixed with
"94% air, it is exceedingly economi-
cal. Said to 118 very simple to oper-
ate, odorless, no‘is'less, and danger-
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county, with the one» stipulates! that
the may be spent in. 1:41va the
dairy industry in the county. .

“The tollwl-ng‘ ways ed spending
the money are suggested: '

1. Promotion of calf cl-u'b work;
Rebate on bulls bought;
Dairy tours: -
Scholarships;

35. Revolving fund for purchase
or improved dairy cattle.

"Awards will be made on the
basis of the number of scrub balls
of breeding age replaced by regat-
erod bulls.

“Any county, which at any time
during the mt completes its work
with one hundred pm cent pure
bred, registered hulls, will be entitl—
ed to ﬁrst place. Show any more
than one county show one hundred
per cent registered Mills, any will
be entitled to ﬁrst. second. third
and. fourth pieces, respectdverly, in
the order in which they have com-
pleted the work, remdless of the
number of scrubs semi-seed.

“No less than eight counties met
compete in this contest, before prize
money is available, and no county
is ligdbzle to a prize unless at least
twemybﬁve scrubs are replaced.

“All entries must be made to the
chairman of the Central Committee
lie-tore January 1, 1924. After this
date, the entries may be accepted at
the discretion of the committee. All
replacements are counted from Jam-
uary 1, 1924, to December 31, 1924.
inclusive, provided that pure bred
registered bulls calves purchased
after July 1, 1923, that replace
scrub bulls of'breedihg age after
January 1, 1924, shall count as 1e-
gitimate replacements.

“Any question which may arise in
this contest will be referred to the
Central Committee. This commit-
tee shall consist ot a representative
of the Upper l’eninsuia Development
Bureau, 0.! the Michigan Agricultur-
al College, of the Upper Peninsula
Experiment Station, of the railroads
operating in the Upper Peninsula,

2.
3.
4.

and of the supervisory extension

force, making a total of five mem-
bers on the committee.

“A monthly report showing date
or replacement, address of the own-

er .ol the scrub bull replaced, the»

age of the scrub bulls, age and
breed and registration ‘number of
registered bull in which an interest
has been purchased, and the name
and address of the men who have
agreed to use the service of the pure
bred bull owned in the community,
will be forwarded on the ﬁrst day of
each month to the chairman of the
Central Committee."

The interest being emphasized in
the better livestock and dairying
campaign throughout the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan is by no
means limited entirely to the agen~
cies named above, for it has extend-
ed also to the banks, manufacturers,
and other business interests in the
various districts. In fact, so keen
has this interest become that prac—

tically every bank throughout the ,

Upper Peninsula of Michigan now
stands ready to loan money to
worthy farmers for the purchase of
pure bred livestock, and during the
past year alone, the pure bred live-
stock population has been consid—
erably increased through this means.

The past two years have indeed
brought about a marked transition
in the agricultural status of the Up—
per Peninsula of Michigan, and it is
the prediction that with the success—
ful achievement of the goal set for
the year 192-4, dairy farming will
be deﬁnitely established as a thriv-
ing and proﬁtable industry through;
out the Upper Peninsula of Michi—
gan. That, at least, is the aim of
the various agencies which are 00—
operating in this effort.

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seed oil to' the affected parts of the

body and brushing it in with a body
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. STERILITY IN CATTLE

. Wish to ask a. question concern-
ing cows that won't ketch when they
are drove three or four times. We
have some that are~ Holstei:s. , They
'look -well, ~ eat well,“ ana- hold '01)
fairly well in their milk and cream
tests, but won’t getwith calf. Have
been drOve three times-each - and let
run with bull for one‘inonth, and
still they don’t ketch.-—-Mrs. J. B. L.,
Pentwater, Michigan.

——It is impossible to determine the
cause of sterility in cattle without a
personal examination. In most cases
of sterility failure to breed is due
to disease of the reproductive or—
gans. Ocassionally it may be at-
tributed to faulty nutrition or a con-
stitutional disease. Furthermore,
the cause of sterility may be found
in_the bull. If a qualiﬁed veterin-
arian is not available for making a
personal examination, I would sug-
gest that you ﬂush the vagina of
each cow about three times a week
With a. solution made by adding four
ounces of borax to one gallon of
clean warm water using about one-
half gallon for each animal. If
there is reason to suspect that the
bull is the fault, I would suggest
trying another bull.——E. T. Holl-
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MICHIGAN CARRIES OFF ITS
SHARE AT INTERNATIONAL
(Continued from Page 6)
on hogs, and much credit is due the
Detroit Creamery Farm, Mt. Clem—
ens, especially in the Duroc Jersey
Chester White and Poland China di—
visions. On Poland Chinas the De-
troit Creamery Farm won: 4th on
junior boar pig; 1st, senior sow
pigs; lst, junior sow pigs; lst,
young herds; 1st, produce of sow;
lst get of boar, and junior champion

sow. On Duroc Jerseys the Cream-
ery Farm won: 2nd junior yearling
sow; 3rd and 4th, senior sow pig;

2nd, young herd bred by exhibitor;
1st, produce of sow; 3rd, get of
boar, and junior champion sow. In
the Chester W'hite classes the
Creamery Farm won: lst, junior
boar pig; lst, aged sow; lst, senior
yearling sow; 1st, junior yearling
sow; 1st, 3rd, senior sow pig; 2nd,
4th, 5th, junior sow pig; lst, young
herd; junior champion boar; senior
champion sow; junior champion
sow; reserve champion boar, grand
champion sow, and reserve champ-
ion sow. Andy Adams, Litchﬁeld,
was not far behind the Creamery
Farm in nearly all classes of Chest-
er Whites. .
M. A. 0. Wins On Hogs

The animal. Husbandry Depart-

ment of the M. A. C. won signal‘

honors with its hogs. While the
barrow show was the strongest in
the history of the Show, there be-
ing an increase of 20 per cent in
entries- in these classes over last
year, the college hogs succeeded in
winning forty—six prizes. Among
the premiums won were ten ﬁrsts,
seven seconds, ﬁve thirds, four
fourths, ,two ﬁfths, three sixths,
two sevenths and seven'eights, and
in addition to this two campion-
ships, two reserve championships,
one :grand championship and one
reserve grand championship. ‘ i
Seven breeds of hogs were shown
by the College, the premiums in the
”on foot” classes being distributed
among the different breeds as fol-
lows: Duroc Jerseys, 4; Poland
Chlnas, 6; Chester whites, 4; Berk-
shires, 6; Hampshir'es, 4; Tam-
worth, 5; and Large Yorkshires, 7.
It was in the Swine Carcass
classes where the outstanding hon-
ors were won. In the 100-200 'lb.
class with sixty-two entries, second
prize was obtained with “Michigan
Laddle,” a Berkshire barrow. In
the 200-300 lb. class with ﬁfty-eight
entries, ﬁrst premium was won with
“Michigan-Repeater," a. Berkshire
m‘,w.,,.A‘._ Berkshire,
0. K.‘,"J also won ﬁrst premium'ln
the ,300-400 1b. class,,against forty-

‘st entries, While in the 400 lb.‘,_all‘dj

over class .with twentyuﬂvs entices.
the College wont wllrst » place width

' in the 250,350 pOund class.

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December, 22, 923
“Michigan Col.,.’"a Chester White,
and fourth prize with “Michigan
State,” a Duroc Jersey. .

’In addition to these honors, the '
carcass produced by “Michigan 0.
K.” was made grand champion of'
the entire show, while the carcass
produced by “Michigan Repeater"
was given the reserve grand champ-
ionship ribbon.

W. S. Adams, Litchﬂeld, was the
big Michigan winner in the Tam-
worth division and his animals plac-
ed well in nearly all classes. In the
Tamworth division the M. A. C.
took ﬁrst, second and third in the
class for fat ‘ barrows, 350-450
pounds,‘ and ﬁrst on a pen of three
barrows of the same weight. An-
.other Tamworth barrow won fourth
High ‘
awards went to the college in the
fat Yorkshire division also. One
barrow won the Yorkshire grand
championship and ﬁrst in the 150-
250 pound class. Second place in
this class likewise went to the col—
lege, as did ﬁrst in the 250-350
pound barrow class, ﬁrst and second
in the class for pens of three bar-
rows, 150-250 pounds, and ﬁrst in
the class for pens of three barrows
250—350 pounds. .-

The M. A. C. did all of Michigan’s
winning on sheep. In the Hamp-
shire division the college won 5th
on ewe lambs, association special;
5th, 3 ewe lambs; 4th, 3 ewe lambs,
association special. The college 8.1—
so won prizes in the Shropshire and
Oxford divisions.‘

Pervenche, owned by the Michi-
gan Agricultural College, was nam-
ed grand champion mare in the Bel-
gian division of horses. She was
also junior champion mare. In win-
ning' the grand championship, Per-
venche exceeded her achievement of
a year ago, when she was named re-
serve champion.

William E. Scripps, of Orion,
took several places in the Belgian
division, winning ﬁrst in the class
for two animals, produce of one
dam, second in the class for stallion
and three mares, and third in the
three—mare class. The college took
second place in the last-named class.

In the Percheron division the M.
A. C. won several places. J. L. Mill-
er, of Caledonia, was another from
Michigan to win prizes on this breed
of horse.

The International Livestock Ex-
position was a decided success from
Michigan’s point of. view. As I
~heard one man from this state say,
“The way the M. A. C. and individ-
uals from old Michigan are taking
prizes, it makes me want to tell the
world where I’m from.”

OH MONEY! LIONEYI
(Continued from page 10.)
sympathies abominably. But I reckon
she’ll get some of the beneﬁts of the
others’ thousands. Mrs. Jane, in partic-
ular, is always wishing she could do
something for “Poor Maggie,” so I dare
say she’ll be looked out for all right.
As to who will prove to be the wisest
handler of the hundred thousand, and
thus my eventual heir, I haven’t the-
least idea. As I said before, they all
need money, and need it badly—need it
to be comfortable and happy, I mean.
They aren’t really poor, any of them, ex-
cept, perhaps, Miss Flora. She is a. little-
hard up, poor soul. Bless her heartl
I wonder what she’ll get ﬁrst, Niagara.
the phonograph, or something to eat
without looking at the price. Did I ever
write you about those “three wishes" of

hers?
(Continued in January 5th issue.)

Second Sight

The young lady palmlst or the church
bazaar said’to one of her girl clients:
“I see by your hand you are going to be
married.” .

“.Wonderful,” said the girl.

“You are engaged to a man named
Wilkins,” continued the amatuer seer.

“How amazing,” gasped the girl,
"surely the lines on my hand can not
reveal the name—”

“Lines,” sniffed the palmist. "Who
said anything about lines? You are
wearing the ring I returned to Mr. Wil-
kins three weeks ago.”———Argonaut.

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HOW I 601' INTO THE MOVIES
_ RE’S been times, quite a few,
‘ when I wanted to lire the quiet
life. I was on the farm then
an’ the quiet life sort of appealed to
me.” But you know I hankered for
somethin' different. I wanted ac-
tion—went to movin' pictnr’ shows
an’ such an’ ﬁnally come to think
I'd like to be a movie actor myself.
Well folks I'm it—a movie actor, I
mean. I'm a real actor now. I’m it
every minute of my life ’ceptin’ when
I'm slee‘pin'. An’ even then my land-
lady sez I'm movin’ some. She sez,
which’s neither here nor there, ’at
'I sleep not only long,_ but loud.
Well mebbe so—«that don’t bother
me none. Anyway, I don't play the
phonograph, the ukalele, nor the sax—
aphone, when I‘m sleepin’. Well as
I sed, I’m into the movies now an’
course you‘ll want to know how it
all happened. An' while I don’t like
to brag 'bout myself, yet as nobody
else does it,- I’ve got to do some-
thing for myself, so I’m jest goin’
to bust out an’ tell you all about
the hull thing.

My ﬁrst introduction wuz jest a
few days ago. I went up town an’
wuz kinda lookin' into windows an'
at things on the street. Long skirts
an’ such, you know, an’ a cop, a
police, come up just behind me,
tapped me on the-shoulder with a
little stick he had in his hand, an'
told me to git movin'. I guess he
wuz surprised to see me move so
swiftly. You see lately, well since
I went to bootieggin’, I've been kinda
s’picious of any man what wears a
bluecoat with buttons, brass buttons,
onto it, so I moved with alacrity, it
you know what that means, an' I
wuz out of his sight in less time ‘an
I can tell it. That wuz my ﬁrst ap-
pearance in the movie art.

Well, since I got hit jest a few
days ago, by one of Hank Ford’s
oﬁspring, I’ve been kinda movin’
every time I hear an auto honk. I

move in sever’l an’ various direcr

TURKEYS AFFECTED WITH
POISON IVY

I am now treating my turkeys for

poison ivy. They are not getting
any better but thought before I neg-
looted any longer I would inquire
if you- have ever known 01 fowls
getting poisoned. There are several
patches of poison ivy around where
the turkeys roam. It you know or
any treatment better than the one I
am using will you please send it. to
me. I am using two teaspoonfuls
of Epson salts with one cup of boil-
“ing water, and when cooled enough
to use I put in one teaspoontul of
baking soda. and wash their heads
twice a day—Mrs. L.‘ A. H., Harbor
Beach, Michigan. '
—-—-This is a new experience to all
members of the department. The
baking soda which you have used
is probably the most effective method
of combating this-trouble, providing
of course, you have made a correct
diagnosis. There is a possibility that
this particular ﬂock of turkeys has
become affected with Chicken Pox,
in which case the skin erruptions
would occur.-——-E. C. Foreman, Prof.
of Poultry Husbandry, M. A. C.

SEND AFFECTED HEN To M. A. C.

I know I am safe to tell you its
Roup trom what I have read of this
disease although during past year
is ﬁrst I had it in my chickens. At
ﬁrst eyes and nose seemed to water,
then later on the left side of the
eye, appears a lump that looks like
it contains matter, swells around the
eye and sometimes over the eye till
blind. Will eat until they die. It
is hard for me to see a case of it
among chickens until lump appears.
I have always caught the ones af-
fected and cooped them away from
the rest. They live for along time
in this stage and I ‘tryjto doctor
them rimming a proposed medi-
cine to bg‘EMd’flﬂl' (9813,59 drinking
‘ mammal “stagecksnasm. he

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'tions. sometimes I ﬁnd mysell

.Give Epsom salts occasionally.

_. .. W Write"! 1
;lt today. me‘ntionlng‘this fawr.,,(§.dv. If
‘ I

hit
the top of a tree before I know ”at
I've left the ground. The song of
the siren mebbe is alright, but I’ll
be darned if I like to hear it come
in from an auto behind me.. So you
see that put me right into another
movie act, in tact, makes me purty
nigh a star, 'cause I move so thick
an' last. .
_ An' then you know, bein a wid-
ower, without a wife, an’ there bein’

I

sev'ral widows without husbands—w.

well ’course this is another story-—
an’ yit I’m jest as 'fraid ot,-:em as
can be, an’ that makes me a real
movie actor. I move whenever I
see one of 'em comin'. They mean
alright—iguess mebbe they do—~
mebbe solicitin’ for the Japs or
somethin’, but anyways it means
danger an’ so I move—~git into the
movies anf am a reg’lar actor in self
defense. Yes, an' there’s the teller
I owe money to—a cash customer,
so to speak. Gosh, I move when I
see him comin'.

An' then sometimes, with jest a
little money in my suit case, or
wherever 'I happen to have it, I go
into a department store an' ask for
some socks. The lady clerk shows
me some for 80 cents or a dollar a
pair, an’ I sez: “Ain’t you got some
for ’bout 10 cents apiece." She looks
at me with nose in the air—to git
more wind, I s’pose—an’ sez ”Oh,
you wear the cheap kind?” Well
I move—she ain’t my kind of girl
any way, 91’ bein’ ’at I hardly ever
don’t wear socks and how, I jest
take my hat off'n my head for—a
minit, or maybe less, an' think of
holy words or Whatever it is an“ I
come away.

A movie actor in fact if not in
name. Yes, since I’m in the movie
class all right, you may never see
me in pictures ’less I throw my hat
in the ring, for pres’dent, then you
wouldn’t see me prob’ly, but you
might see a pictur’ of the hat.

Cordially yours—UNCLE RUBE.

anyway they ﬁnally die. Please tell
me if. there is anything that can be
done for them in this stage? For
the lones who seem well I clean
everything best I can; hen house and
drinking pans, spray with Creolin
and put a drop in the drinking'water.
Any—
way this don’t prevent well ones
from getting the disease, and I don’t
know what to do next. I have sev-
eral hens that look nice, but cannot
tell how soon before they will have
the disease. I now have four and
have lost several. I always put the
dead ones where no other chickens
can ever get near them, and always
coop the ones aﬁected as soon as I
see it. I sure would like to do.
something to save the ones that look
well” now.———0. McC., Mancelona,
Michigan. ‘ a
—Conditions like those described
are very apt to be due to intestinal
parasites such as tape worms or
round worms. Coccidosis is also apt
to be responsible for such symptoms.
It will, therefore, be evident that
nothing can be prescribed in the line
of treatment until the real cause of
the trouble is uncovered.

My advice is that you either have
some of these chickens examined by
a veterinarian or that you send a
few of the altected ones to the Vet-
erinary Department of the Michigan
Agricultural College for diagnosis.
H. J. Stafseth, Res. Assoc. in Bac~
teriolog)’. M. A. C.

——

Last Shall Be First .
The man who puts safety last usually
goes to the hospital first.-—-Two Bells.

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See to it that there is song and
cackle, scratch and action, gomg on in

your poultry yard.

That’s when the eggs come.

Feed

Dr. Hess Poultry

PAN-A—CE-A

See them get busy. It gives hens pep.
Nux Vomica is what does it—that greatest

of all nerve tonics.
hold still.
her hop around.

A Pan-a-ce-a hen can’t
It’s her good feeling that makes

Panaa-ce-a has Quassia in it to make hens
hungry. Great combination! One makes them
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eat.

No dormant egg organs when that com-
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just get eggs—eggs.

A Pan—a-ce-a hen is always a hungry hen—-

an industrious hen.

She gets off the roost

Winter mornings, ready to scratch for her

breakfast.

Tell your dealer how many hens you have.
There’s a right-size package for every ﬂock.
200 hens, the 25-16. pail
500 hens the 100-“). drum
For fewer hens, there is a smaller package.

100 hens, the 12-11). pkg.
60 hens, the 5-Ib. pkg.

GUARANTEED
DR. HESS & CLARK

I spent 30
years in perfect-
irng Pan-arce-a.

GILBERT HESS

M.D., D.V.S.

Ashland, 0.

 

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BARRED AND WHITE PLYMOUTH
. A. L‘. strain. l‘crilgreed
sires used irom 2587302 egg liens“ Have good
size and 0.3er maturity. Get my circular.

J. V. SHEAP, 1115 M. Adams St... Owosso, Mich.

CHICK 8.
Racks Bred-today M.

 

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' you have be odor and send it in.
rates by return mail. Address
J Department. Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

 

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The Michigan

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FOR LIVE AND

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HIGHEST PR etc. A square

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S. C. White Leghorns and S. C. and R. C. Iiiack
Minoreas. make room before cold weather.
About ready to lay.
LAPHAM FARMS, Plnokney, Mich.

do, Utility Coolants For Sale—April
It's .hedG-T—aWhlm Wyuulotoes, Barred Rocks and
White Leghorus. e. W. Holmbach, Big Rapids.
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LEGEORNS

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B if Le horn Hens, Pallets and Cookers-ls.
s. C" “ Faucets 32.59 each; cockerels $3.00 to
$6.00 each. Show birds a matter of correspond~
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FOR Mu—4IRGI IMPORTED COTOH

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RHODE ISLAND REDS TOMPKIQS STRAIN
to make room for young stock. I Wlll scli after
November 1. 1923, 50 2 year old hens at $2.00
each; 25 1 gears old hens at $8.00 each: web
crels at $2. 0 and up. All these cockerels are
from my best 8 year old hens that iaycd 205 .
eggs or better in their pullet year. Quality
breeder of Rhode Island Rails.
"M. H. FROM". New Baltimore. Mich” R. 1.
RED

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G O 0 K E R E L 8 .
Have size. t color and breeding G W. VII
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"new. $1., musaatefmmgan.

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3. c- 8 £03: Cookerels $3 and $5 each.

am. can Learuzas. m. dams, mm. R. 1.
WYANDOTTES

Silver Wyandouu. Prlu Winning Strain ge—
troit and Chicago. Some ﬂue stock now $1, 5,
and $6 each. Alvah steaenga. Portland. Mich.

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ocks, dark matings, April Hatched, weight 8 lbs.

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'bred from great layers. Sons of Detroit and
Grandc Ra ids 1st Brlze males ,
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from extra selected stock headed by

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more S3. 50 each.
on orders received before December
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line for a farm.

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We pace 100 breeders in Michigan e111l1 ye1.1r
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Buttercups, S. C.
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FRUIT AND ORCHARD

Edited by FRANK D

WELLS

 

 

MICHIGAN vs. WESTERN

T a meeting of men interested in

Michigan fruit, recently held

in Detroit, the apple was the
subject of discussion. The western
product was matched against home-
grown fruit and the result was—
well, let the reader decide for him-
self.

Apples were there from Washing-
[ton, such as can be obtained on the
market. Apples were there from
Michigan, the best that could be
procured. They were compared in
the package and out of it. They
were eaten raw and cooked. They
were baked and made into pie and
sauce. Certainly the test was a fair
way of trying the fruit. It was not
color, but the really important qual-
ities that counted. The results were
of interest, not only to every apple
growed, but to everybody who takes
pride in the Great Lakesapple dis-
trict.

First to be considered was the
packing. The western stock was of
a. uniform grade and so closely
packed that there was no shaking,
even after coming on the railroad
from the Paciﬁc coast to Detroit, a
journey long enough and rough
enough to loosen the fruit if any-
thing short of an earthquake could.
The Michigan packages were all
loose and shaky. The fruit varied
from medium to large and very
large in the same package. As
might be expected the weight of
such loosely packed cases was not
uniform. Some were several pounds
too light. The closely packed west-
ern fruit was up to standard in
weight.

Some of the home—grown fruit
was ripe, some half ripe, some do-
cidedly green, so the ﬂavor varied
from good to indifferent and from
indifferent to bad. The rivals from
the Paciﬁc coast were uniformly
ripe, so similar in ﬂavor. Score
again for the letter.

In every way the West equalled
Michigan and in some respect was
so far ahead that it was hardly
worth while to make a comparison.

It may be objected that these men
were interested in western apples,
so were not fair judges,.but such
was not the case. They were in re—
ality prejudiced in favor‘of their
home state, and came to the meet—
ing expecting that Michigan would
have the better of the contest. But

 

FUR DEPARTMENT

 

the evidence was there and it was
too strong for denial.

This is not saying that the west-
ern ﬂavor is equal to that of the
Michigan apple at its best. These
judges did not say that fruit could
not be grown here which would dis-
count the best of Western apples, but
they did not and could not get it.
So it should be expected that they
.and consumers generally will buy
something that they know and can
depend upon, rather than invest in
uncertainties.

Michigan can produce as good
apples as are grown and that is be—
ing done every year, but such fruit,
when properly packed, does not
need to depend upon the general
market. There is a place for all of
it and more like it.

But the fact remains that the
packing and grading of Michigan
fruit is deplorably poor. When will
it be better? The subject has been
discussed and agitated for years, yet
little progress towards reform has
been made. When will the time
come that the name Michigan will
stand for what it ought to on a
package of apples?

(Rather severe on our home-
grown fruit. Have any of our read—
ers a word to say on the subject?—
Editor.)

NOTES AND COMZMENTS

If the orchard hasn’t a cover crop it
ought to have one. Weeds are better‘
than nothing.

1|: It It

An orchard long in sod becomes root-
bound. The sod can be flopped over un—
til the ground freezes. A sod upside

 

down is still a cover for the groumb
# O t

A few years ago I had to make cider '

of my russets, said an apple grower}
Now I pick them for tlie auto trade in
the Spring. Wish I had more of them.

II! II! it

There is one mistake to which the
novice is liable. The strawberry bed is
covered too early. A mulch is important,
but it should not be applied till the
ground is well frozen. It is the thawing
and freezing that plays hob with the
plants. Put on the straw so as to keep
the ground frozen untll spring.

Plant a. mulberry ”for the birds. They
like the fruit and will spare the cherries,
or some of them. The Russian variety
grows quickly and bears abundantly.
The fruit is not so good as that of» some

 

other kinds, but the birds don’t care.
Do they eat the fruit for what it is, or
do they think they are getting a nice
fat black worm? i

 

 

THE MINK
HIS animal is of the
1 tribe. It is 11
‘ birds, ﬁsh, rabbits and other
fsmall animals form its principle
gfood, it being particularly fond of
imuskrats will also, if given the 0p-
lpmtunity, raise havoc in the chick—
on house. Because of the value of
his pelt the Mink is rapidly being
exterminated in the more thickly
settled districts and while some of
his traits are not admirable, he is
too valuable an animal and has paid
too many hundred times the dam-
age he has done in his occasional
raids to deserve total extermination.
His favorite haunts are along
streams, around lakes and in settled
districts, ditches and drains. His
pelt becomes prime in early Novem—
her and is too valuable to be des-
troyed earlier than that. He also
loses quality early and- by breeding
season in February should be left to
produce more good dollars for the
next season. The mink furnishes
about the hardest proposition the
amateur trapper has to contend with
as more skill and a better knowledge
of its habits is necessary to be suc-
cessful than of the other com-
mon fur bearers. There are many
good mink sets but the amateur will
ﬁnd natural water sets the most
proﬁtable. I will try to describe a
few for you. A log laying along
the bank so part of it is in the wat-
er forms a. base for one of the best.
Place your trap, I prefer No. 1 or
No. 1% Newhouse, in about two
inches of water and securely stake
a. bait of bird or ﬁsh just beyond

weasel
ﬂesh—eater—

 

 

 

i

 

—-it will usually catch any but the

.wisest'that pass that way. Any na-

‘ finest kind of mink boards, and will

turn] looking hole under a bunk or
a hollow log at the edge of the wat-
er or a drain tile coming into the
creek or ditch will be thoroughly
investigated by every Mink that
passes and a trap carefully placed
in the approaches to these points
will be successful. The less you
disturb the surroundings the more
success you may expect. Don’t set
several traps in poor places but
look for the spot the mink has got
to step in, in his investigations and
you will be surprised at the ease
with which this clever animal is
caugh- They are great travelers
and while they may not pass the
same spot once in several days they
can usually be counted on to return.
I have followed mink signs long dis-
tances looking for just the right
place to make a set and my pa-
tience has usually been rewarded.
Always case handle your skins and
take the bone from the tail and
open the tail to the tip. Remove
all fat and see that the fur is clean
and dry before stretching. Time
spent in making suitable boards is
as productive of good returns as
time spent in properly setting your
trap. A long narrow board slight-
ly narrower at the shoulders than at
the'base and tapering to a point at
the nose with edges to 1—16 of an
inch varying in width at the base
from two to four inches and made
from 3—8 inch box lumber make the

turn out a skin that the buyer will
call “trapper handled.” In stretch-
ing have back in middle of board,
pull on evenly and don’t try to over

 

stretch. Tack tail , open and hang
in a cool dry place. Never turn fut
side out. ’

        

 

    

  
  
    
   
   

   

Puts this Olde- Tan 1'
Metal-to-Metal

Harness on Your Horses

We trust $0 11 wherever you live. Only
$7. 60 down. 11y the rest monthly. Write for tree
harness book. Learn all about this improvedmom

to—metal harness construction. Metal wherever
there in wear or strain. No old- fashioned buckles.

5H1 ‘

First Gide-Tan leather produced 70years ago. Now
known throuh hout Amer-ice for ts pronounced
Iuperiorit. Ida-Tun harness is mudeb y a tan-
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the raw- -bide to the completed harness.

Write for Free Book

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MILL on YOUR

Albion steel and wood mills are quiet
5nd powerlul. One- third the work-
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Only main Piiman bearing sublCCI lo

wm This 11 mile", and easily 1e-
piaceable.Gove1-n1 by dependable
wcigiu wuihoui spnngu. Fm any 4- post
slcellower. Why noishoncn ourchore
hours now with n goo {Vindxmliiv
This in your chance—F. O. B.
Albion. Exec! 11 younclL Asii you!
dealer or Mile direct to

Union Steel Products Co. Ltd.

Dept. 34
Albion, lilich.,

 

 

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And manufactured into any size or style of cost, neck
piece, cap, mittens robe. Heads mounted. We make
up your furs as you want them. Finest workmanshis
guaranteed by reliable house —— with an experience an

reputation of 42 years. Write for illustrated price list.

- Reading Robe & Tanning Co.

216 East Street Reading, Michigan

 

 

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and make to your order from your
(‘ 1ttle, Horse and all kinds of Hides
11nd l‘nrs, Men’s Fur Coats, Robes,
(ups, Gloves and Mittens, Ladies’ F1111
(‘oats 11nd Fur Sets. Remodeling and
Repuuing latest styles. Shi us your
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for s.1le. \Ve are the oldest Galloway
Tanners: 36 years continuous busi-
11ess.l‘ree style Catalogue, prices and
s1mples.Don’t ship your hides and
furs elsewhere until you get our proposition

HILLSDALE ROBE & TANNING co.
Hillsdale. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

Printed Ruled Stationery

For Business Farmers $1.00

200 sheets good quality ruled letterheads,
51/2 by 81/», with 100 envelopes printed
with farm name, owner’s name and ad-
dress, or any three lines desired. Paper
put up in tablets. Sent to any address
on receipt of $1.00. Write plamly name
and address. ,

ALLEGAN STATIONERY COMPANY
Department M Allegan, Michigan.

 

   

82 page book—how tokeep your
dog well — how to care for him
when sick. Result of 35 years’ experi-
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Mailed REE Write today. Dept. 1 09 1 2
FCLAY GLOVER. V. S.
129 W...” 24th St. Ner ork

  
  

   

 

LAKE LAND FUR EXCHANGE
Salem, Michigan.
Write for four ade list. No complaint from
shipper in over years. Good treatment given
pays 1n01e than high prices.

W
’I‘HE MICHIGAN
BUSINESS FARMER
“The Farm' Paper of
Service”

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. Features in the agricultural, situation this past month have been the decline
In .wheat, ‘corn and hog prices, and the rise in cotton prices.

Wheat at Chicago is off 6 cents from a month ago.
coming in over the 30-cent tariff wall.

Canadian wheat is

This is due to the high milling qualities

of Canadian wheat, which is demanded at a premium, and to the scarcity of
high grade hard wheats in the United States. With the low supply of domestic
wheat east of the Rocky Mountains, a higher tariff would without doubt be
effective in raising the price in this territory.

The Wheat Council of the United States is recommending a reduction of
wheat acreage from 62 million to about 50 .million acres as fast as alternative

crops can be proﬁtably introduced.

e

purpose is to take American wheat

prdducers off the world market and raise the domestic price to proﬁtable levels.
The ultimate effectiveness of the proposal is dependent upon a prohibitive
tariff and the holding down of production in face of the price incentive to

increase it.

Estimated cotton production was reduced three-fourths of a million bales

by the November Government forecast.

Prices have gone up another 5 cents,

now standing at about 35 cents per pound.

Prices of fat hogs at Chicago are now around $6.85, compared with $7.00
Since September 1 combined receipts of
hogs at eleven leading markets have been about 30 per cent greater than in

a month ago and $7.70 a year ago.

the same peniod last year.

This has been caused partly by the unfavorable

corn-hog ratio (7.9 bushels of corn now equal in value to 100 pounds of pork

compared with the average of 11.2 bushels).

Another influence is the growing

prevalence of cholera, which the Department of Agriculture reports more
serious than in any year since 1914, when the last extensive outbreak reached

its height.

Owing to low prices, the cost of immunizing and relative freedom

from disease for a number of years, the percentage of susceptible animals is

extremely high.

Corn has dropped over 15 cents a bushel at Chicago during the last thirty

 

 

outside» benirdeblts. . . . . . . . . . .

Of the corn

 

 

D“ e e eeneeeeee-eeeeesesess. ‘28

ural and Business Situation

quoted at $1.01 at Chicago, farmers had little or none to sell.

    

Revised Monthly by the

be-
of t
Bureau F

pertinent f Re
American (lihrm search

oration.

 

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The supply of

corn. this year. counting the crop and carry-over, is slightly larger than last,‘
but its quality is low and feeding value per bushel is below normal.

INTEREST RATES:

In August, 1920, at the beginning of the depression of 1921, interest

rates on.four to six months’ commercial paper were 8.25 per cent. They
had declined to 4.25 per cent by July, 1922. From this low point they
reached 5.25 per cent last spring and now stand around 5.12 per cent. This

fall, when the seasonal demand for money would ordinarily cause an increase
in the rate, there has been a slight easing off. The belief is fairly general
that it will continue to decline moderately the balance of this fall and winter,
and that a plentiful money supply at low rates will provide a sound basis
next spring for expanding business activity.

GENERAL BUSINESS:

Industrial production has declined since last spring.
fear that another business depression is starting.

This has led to the
'The National City Bank of

New York points out that We have never had a serious business depression in

this country which began in an easy money market.

“it is inconceivable,"

says the bank, “that the conditions which ,create a real crisis can develop
without the pressure which results from an over-extended credit situation.”
Moreover, there is no accumulation of goods which should cause factories

to further reduce activity.

Demand for the products of factories due to full

employment at high wages continues unabated and farm purchasing power will
probably be almost one-half billion dollars more this crop year than last.
Construction work has not caught up with the demand for buildings and

promises to proceed at a

without congestion and are placing large orders for new equipment.

Railroads are handling big -trafﬁc _volume

high rate.
The

depressing influence of the European situation has probably spent its force.
The memory of the 1921 collapse, still fresh in the minds of business men,
will tend to hold overexpansion in check and should be an important factor
in assuring a comparatively long period of even activity.

days. It is now 83 cents, compared with $1.01 a month ago.
1. Production and Trade. 8- “a" 0”" 5"“: Ten MonmsEndmg
I. Agriculture: U. B, Production—000.000 omitted. October, October,
' November, 1923 Average 1923. Montgomery 1923 1922 1923 1922
Estimate 1922 1917-1921 Per Cent Ward ....$15,165,652 8102887916 $105,469,141 $ 69,851,140
Com, bu. . .... . . . . 3029 2891 2931 103 Sears Roebuck.. 22,576,793 19,933,164 174,326,540 141,212,969
Wheat, bu. .......... 782 862 835 94
Oats, bu. ............. 1302 1201 1378 94
Barley, bu. . 199 186 192 1334 H F T (1
Rye, bu. .. .......... .. . 65 95 70 . ' e.
Buckwheat, bu. .......... 414.5 41? 3%; 137 orelgn ra
Potatoes, white, bll ........ 17 5 ' .
Potatoes, sweet, bu ...... . 97 110 94 103 " Exports (000 omitted) ‘ Nine Months Ending
Cotton, bales ......... . . 10. 9.8 11.2 91 s t mber September
Tobacco, pounds ... . 1437 1325 1361 106 _ 99° ’ '
FlEXSGOd bu' _______ 19 12 10 190 Commodity. 1923 1922 1923 1922
Rice, bu.’ ........... 33 42 41 81 ﬁ’al‘d tgtal .1 ...... . ...... 937%,191 $303363 $2,881,252 $26223;
P h , b . ............. 46 57 43 107 68 an vea , lb... ....... ,256 , o .. ,7 1.
Agile? tot‘lil, bu. ........ 194 201 160 121 Pork, 1b. ................ 85,462 57,406 676,847 506,267
Apples. commercial, bu. 38 31 26 127 Lord, lb, ............... 83,630 61,120 786,174 559,700
Sugar beets, tons .......... 6.7 5 7 96 Butter, 1b. .............. 468 1,077 4,597 ,488
1‘ As per cent of average of 1917-1921. allgese. 13. id ............ 3 338% 3;: $333 $333
1 es an 8 HS .......... t .1 ,
_ Wb a ' uat' ; N t c, M , Cl 1 c rti 5, Co. Corn, bu. ................ 1,136 9,608 38,660 141,881
2 ' ° t 8" '°" ( 3000 000 usgifmmemw u ’ ) 1111111111 tand ﬂour, bbl ....... 39 40 514 126 1141;?
’ . W ea . bu. .............. 15,408 25,987 80.19 , . l
. Eastof Westof Flour, bbl. .............. 1,568 1,300 10,651 10,458
81199”: Rockies Rockies Total Oats, bu. ................ 272 4,379 '2.826 24,024
Carried over, July 1, 1923 ..... 91 10 101 Meal and rolled, lb ...... 18,590 9,425 101,888 75,650
Production, 1923 crop ....... ........ 645 137 782 Fruits and “mtg ......... $ 6,327 7,311 37,611 43,610
Total u D] —-736 T47 H883 Vegetable oils ........... $ 655 1,024 7,793 1 8 3’8in
,. 8 P Y ------------ Sugar, lb. ........... 9,616 28,824 426,851 , 0 ,
Dmmuﬂom . Tobacco, lb. ............. 37,646 33,102 330,635 295,814
9011181130 Tequlremcnts for food- feed Cotton, bales ...... . 689 368 1,892 3,849
and s _ ........................ 583 51 634
Excess feedlng .............. 28 7 35 2. Imports:
Total domestic requirements ....... 611 58 669 (000 omitted)
WM ‘0 date, No“ 17- “b0“t------ 72 15 37 Grand total .............. $252,625 92349: $2,904,196 $2,182,332
"' ”' Beef and veal, 1b ........ ,5 , . 1 , 26, .
Tlgtal - e nnnnnnnnnnnnn a ...... I:t I... 62% 73 756 Pork, 1b. . ............. 189 76 912 582
30"” der 1"" “"70"" a“ “DO 7‘ 127 Bgtter, lb. ............... 1,3;2 3 89 15,669 2.73.:
. _ . C 8656, lb. .............. 5, 3 ,037 39,631 26,2
8. Mining (Federal Reserve Bank of New York). Hides and skins.. 5,918 9,143 100,380 68,428
Figures express production as a percent of normal. In estl- Corn, bu. . .. ............. 8 2 1.9 9
mating normal production, due allowance is made for seasonal Wheat, bu. .. ........... . 1,235 782 8,353 14,320
variation end year to year growth. Flour, lb. ............... 2,665 8,197 41,026 108,154
Sept” 1923 Aug” 1923 Sept., 1922 Oats, bu. ................ l 37 7 8 1,27
Anthracite coal . 35 104 61 Fruits and nuts .......... 3 8,537 3,621 47,323 48,979
Bituminous coal 9919 105 33 Vegetable oils .......... 3,386 3,20 53,183 45,821
gugar, lbl.b . ......... .. 44;,354 39%,;50 6,161,231 8,434,01‘1
3.. Manufacturln I o acco . .............. , , , 9 5155
Wheat ﬂour ..... G ...... .. ...... . 109 116 114 Wool, lb. 7,883 27,892 863,073 278,634
8 1' . . .................... 102 74 110
0%,, _ , . _____________________ 33 89 92 3. Prices of Foreign Drafts: PriceofDemsndDrsfts
Wool . . ....................... 981' 98 99 Nominal Gold Value Nov. 19, Oct. 23, Nov. 20,
Pig ire ............ . ........... 13% 1(1)? 3? Par of Exchange 1923 1923 1922
8:324“? 103], 111 79 England ......$4.87to1£ sterling...$4.33 $4.50 $4.49
Gasoline """"" . 108 102 France ........19.3cto 1mm: ..... 5.350 5.83c 7.41c
Cement ' """"""""""" 136 130 121 Isiwllidel:l . . Unﬁggctgigrovivn .. 326.220 326.2% 33.3811:
" """""" ‘ """" oan .. .c orn ..... 7. c 8.71c .5c
31111710111139.1108 --------------------- 110., ﬁg 18; Argentina . . ..42.5ctolpeso ...... 30.636 32.10c 36.6c
,No, ”511111116."11516111111588? Japan . . .....49.9ctolyen .......48.13c 48.750 48.350
4. Bulldins Expond‘tures (Bradstmets): 4. Discount Rate of the Bank of England:
(000,000 omitted) Noveniléer 14 Month Ago Year Ago
Per cent a 4% 3%
1928 1922 Increase
first quarter ...................$794 $522 52.3 -
eecnd qUarter _ 830 718 15.6 “L Money and Credit.
Third quarter .............. 690 629 9.5 .
October , , , , , 270 205 31.8 I. Gold Movement (000 omitted):
Nine Months Ending
5. Transportation (000 omitted): September
Week Same sung Week Sept, 1923 Sept., 1922 1923 1922
Ending Week Woek Ending Exports of gold.......$ 1.023 8 1.398 8 26,039 8 13,142
Nov. 3, Month Year Nov. 3, Imports of gold....... 27,803 24,464 220,521 209,555
freight car loadings: 1923 Ago Ago 1923’
Total .. .......... .d ...... 103.3 1083 9:12) 106 2- Federal Reserve Ratio: Nov. 17, Oct. 20. Nov.15.
Grain and grain pro ucts.. .1 . ~ 92
Livestock ............. 44 42 39 118 n I 1923 1923 1922
Coal . . .................. 180 192 191 94 8:13] $633881! 82:13“ ﬁst «1431:0313
. . . o n o a. -
01m -- --------- 31 1.2. 11 19° ‘lties. ..... 75.6% 75.3% 75.2%
Forest products .......... 43 67 2(7) 152
Ore . . ........ .r.....
Merchandise . . .252 254 232 109 3. Interest Rates: Oct., Sept, Oct.,
Miscellaneous . . . $82 889 343 no 1923 1923 1922
‘As percents“ of 1leek year s48°- 4~6 mos. commercial paper.......... 535% 5.41% 4.62%
60-90 days commocrisl paper........ 5.12% 5.12% 4.40%
0. Employment: 00‘” Sept. 0
1923' 1923- “cat; 4. Stock and Bond Prices: 11011.9, Oct. 11, Nov. 10,
Out of 63 industrial centers employment: 20 R 1923 1923 1922
Increased over previous month in ......... . 31 27 54 allroad stocks ................$80.28 $79.23 $89.50
. 1 month 111,, ,,,,,,, 32 36 9 20 Industrial stocks ............... 91.14 87.16 97.50
9mm“ ‘m’ ”m‘ms 4o Bonds . . 86.79 86.31 89.30
1. Bank chltr:
“ (Units or 51.900.000.000) 5. Business Failures: —-——WeekEndi _
(got.{15923 8319,89928 08.2.2 $222 13 , NOV. 8, 1923 Oct. 11, 192 Nov. 9, 1922
York City........'........ 19.1 . . rsdstreets . . ............... 383 826
NW * - 19.75 17.28 18.42 ‘ 293 3”

887 '

IV. Prices.

Wholesale Prices of Farm Commodities:
Quotations at Chicago except as noted.

I.

Nov. 20, Month Year

1923 Ago Ago

Fat hogs, cwt., average ............. $ 6.85 $ 7.00 8 7.70

Beef steers, good native, cwt., (N... 9.90 10.25 9.85

Fat lambs, (‘wt., average ............ 12.25 12.70 14.45

Fat sheep, owl... average ............ 7.25 6.00 7.40
Wool, Ohio Dclallle unwashed, lb.

(Boston) . .................... .54 .535 .565
Rutter, 92 score, lb ................ .525 .465 .505
Cheese, No. 1 twins. lb ............. .24 .24 .2425
Eggs, fresh ﬁrsts, doz .............. .50 .37 .525
Poultry, hens, lb ................... .1725 .215 .18
Wheat, No. 2 hard, bu ............. 1.045 1.1025 1.20
Corn, N0, 2 mixed, bu ............. .835 1.0125 .7‘5
Oats, No. 2 white, bu ............... .44 .4375 .4475
Rye, No. 2, bu .................... .71 .7075 .89
Barley, hu. ....................... .605 .655 .67
Kaﬂl‘, No. 2 white, cwt. (K. C.) ..... 172.1 1.80 1.89
llzly, No. 1 «timothy, ton ............. 7.50 2650 23.00
Flax, N0. 1, bll. (at Minneapolis)... 24125 2.38 2.45
Cotton, middling, lb. (New York).... .3535 .3085 .254
Beans, white, (:wt. (1’, o, b. Michigan) 5.35 ' 5.75 6.90
Potatoes, northern whites, cwt ...... .00 1.00 .95
Onions, midwest yellows, ('wt ......... 2.65 3.25 1.90
Apples, winter varieties, bh1 ........ 5.25 5.00 5.00
Hides, No. 1 native, heavy (Chicago) .14 .15 .23
Sugar, ﬂue granulated, lb. (N. Y.).. .0885 .0935 .07

U. 8. Department of Labor Relative Wholesale Prices:
Prices in year 1913 equal 100.
Oct., 1923 Sept, 1923 Oct., 1921

2.

All commodities (weighed average

or general price level) ......... 153 154 154
Form products ................... 144 144 133
Food products .................... 148 147 140
Cloths and clothing ................ 199 202 188
Fuel and lighting: .................. 172 176 226
Metals and metal products ......... 142 144 135
Building materials ............... 182 182 183
Chemicals and drugs .............. 129 128 124
House furnishing goods ............ 183 183 176
Miscellaneous . . ................. 120 121 120
3. Prices of Farm Products at the Farm Relative to IBIS:

(U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics)
Prices in year 1913 equal 100.

Commodity: Sept., 1923 Aug, 1923 Sept., 1922
Cotton . . ........................ 219 194 161
Corn . . ......................... 144 146 104
Wheat . ........................ 119 113 115 ,
Hay . . .......................... 113 1 110 98 1
Potatoes ..................... 156 185 108 I
Beef cattle ...................... 97 95 92 ,
Hogs ......................... 104 92 110 1
Eggs . . .......................... 167 137 158 ‘
Butter _. ....................... 153 145 134 1
W001 .......... . ...... . ...... 222 221 189 ]

 

Relative Purchasing Powcr of Farm Products:
(U. 8. Bureau of Agricultural Economics)

The quantity of various commodities which s given amount of
each farm product would purchase at prices prevailing in 1913 is
put equal to 100. The ﬁgures given represent the percentage of
this quantity which the some amount of farm products would
purchase in September, 1928. Prices at the form are used for
agricultural products, and wholesale ”prices at central markets for

4.

other commodities.

All Com- Cloths, Fuel, Metals, Building House

modlties etc. etc. etc. Mtls. ll‘urn'g's
Cotton ....... 142 108 124 152 120 120
Corn ........ 93 71 82 100 79 79
Wheat ....... 77 59 68 83 65 65
Hay ......... 73 56 64 79 62 62
Potatoes ..... 101 77 89 108 86 85
Beef cattle. . .. 63 48 55 67 53 53
Hogs ........ 68 52 59 72 57 57
Eggs ......... 108 83 95 116 92 91
Butter ....... 100 76 87 106 84 84
Wool ........ 144 110 126 154 122 121

Average purchasing power of all farm products in terms of all

other commodities. Same basis as above table.

    

 

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1914 112 July. 1922 ...... 69

1915 106 August ..

1916 80 When ...64

1917 106 April, 1923...“

1918 112 Hey . .

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FOOTE’S MARKET LETTER

. BY W. W. FOOTE

Improved Farmer’s Outlook

INETEEN hundred and twenty-

four promises to be an improve-

ment over the closing year, and
in various farming districts the
present year has not been so bad.
Much depends upon the lines of
farming followed, and the most un-
satisfactory returns have followed
wheat farming, this affecting many
of our Michigan farmers. On the
other band, the many Michigan
farmers who are fruit and berry
specialists have come out well
ahead, the marketing of these, as
well as of grapes, reaching vast to—
tals. The Chicago market for Mich-
igan grapes, apples, peaches, cher—
ries, plums, etc., is quickly reached,
being across Lake Michigan, and it
uses a large proportion of these fa-
mous ' products. Since prohibition
became a law of the United States,
for some reason, the consumption of
grapes has reached hitherto un-
dreamed of proportions, and this
applies to the grapes of California,
New York and other states as well
as to the Michigan grapes. Michi-
gan beans too have had a widening
sale and '"brought liberal returns, as
have the products of dairies, butter,
eggs and poultry having larger con—
sumption than ever before. Recent-
ly butter has undergone a further
advance, and tub butter is selling in
Chicago retail markets around 60
cents a pound. .Eggs come high at
this season when the hens can
hardly be coaxed into attending to
business; but the cold storage eggs
help out a lot, October, November
and December being the low pro—
duction months. According to the
Department of Agriculture, about
one-half of the eggs are laid in the
four months from March' to June,
and if it were not for the placing
of eggs in storage there would be an
enormous shortage in the winter
period. There is a serious honey
shortage this year, but the bees at
any rate provided the farmers
plenty of the delicious sweet. The
turkeys did unusually well this
year and brought in good proﬁts,
even' if they sold lower than last
year. A small ﬂock of turkeys is a
good thing, and so is a supply of
geese and ducks, even if you fail to
market many. Then there is the
onion, which the truck farmers ﬁnd
extremely proﬁtable, as was pointed
out during the recent convention of
the National Onion Association held
in Chicago. About a million bush-
els of onions are brought from
Spain to this country every year,
while the annual consumption of
home grown onions is about seven-
teen times this amount. Onions are
good for the health, as well as pleas-
ant to eat, and no farm should be
without its garden, in which there
should be a well kept onion patch.

Increased Trade in Corn

The greater part of the interest

of the Chicago grain trade is center-
ed in corn at the present time. The
wheat and oat markets are in a rut,
and speculators are not trading at
all freely in the two cereals. Coun-
try offerings of corn are not large,
and farmers continue to be dissatis-
ﬁed with prevailing prices. The
visible supply of corn in the United
States is insigniﬁcant as are exports.
Within a short time corn has sold
lower than a year ago, but a little
more than two years ago it sold
down to 46% cents.

Increased Movement in Rye

Millers are doing a good business

in rye, tWo Chicago mills making
around 2,000 barrels a day, while a
number of outside millers are also
busy. The rye ﬂour is mostly ship—
ped to Germany, one of the Chicago
mills having sold around 5,000 bar-
rels within a week. Rye is being
shipped from Chicago, all rail, to
eastern mills, one mill taking 5,000
bushels a few days ago. Exports of
rye flour are being included in the

5 reports of. wheat ﬂour .which swells
: "clearances and has created the im-

pression that wheat ﬁbur clearances
are on a large scale. 'Rye has been
marketed freely, the liberal offer
ings having ran the visible supply_1n

,the largest gains are those having

 

 

 

MARKET SUMMARY

All grain quiet after small gain. in wheat and rye.

ﬁrm after small advance.
exmctins large supply «I poultry

Beans

Eggs 1m. Butter ﬁrm. Dale"

for Christmas. Potatoes slight-

ly ﬁrmer. Dressed calves and hogs easy. Cattle steady. Hogs

higher. Sheep lower.

 

(Iota: no shot. amino mm
but one was at in type. It contains last minute
90an to press —Edl‘tor.l ,

this country up to 18,266,000 bush-
els, comparing with 8,713,000 bush-
els a year ago. Recent sales were
made of rye in the Chicago market
at 68 cents, comparing with 90 cents
a year ago.
The Wheat Outlook

Wheat farmers are waiting de-
velopments before selling freely, but
prospects do not look very bright
for government help in putting
prices on a higher level, and de-
clines follow after rallies in prices.
Prices are much lower than a year
ago; and the visible supply in the
United States reached a total a
while ago of 72,547,000 bushels,
comparing with 33,516,000 bushels
on the same day in 1922. It turns
out that a great deal of wheat has
been fed to live stock owing to the
low market price, and a short time
ago Secretary of Agriculture Wal—
lace reported that around 90,000,-
000 bushels had been used in this
way, a much larger quantity than
was supposed. At the present time
the leading wheat exporting coun—
tries ot‘ the world are the United
States, Canada, Argentina and Aus-
tralia, and fair exports are being
made by this country, although not
enough to put prices higher. De-
cember wheat sold recently in the
Chicago market at $1.05, comparing
with $1.23% a year ago. Corn sold
around 72 cents, comparing with
74% cents a year ago. Oats sold
around 43 cents, comparing with‘
451/2 cents a year ago.

The Hog Outlook

Stockmen throughout the corn
belt states are hoping for higher
prices for hogs after the last crop
of pigs matures and is out of the
way; and it is estimated by men
who are well informed that breed-
ing of sows for next spring’s pigs
will show a falling off or from 20~
to 25.per cent, but this is merely a
guess. At any ‘rate the wise course
seems to be for farmers to do less
breeding. Of course, corn and hogs
will always be among the staple
farm products in this country, for
our domestic consumption of fresh
and cured hog products reaches
enormous proportions, while this
country does a large part in feeding
the world. There are many com-
plaints regarding our foreign trade,
but somehow European countries
manage to buy liberal quantities of
lard and cured hog meats in this
country, and weekly exports are ex-
tremely large. Lard is selling at far
higher prices than a year ago, be—
cause Qf the enormous demand, but
prices for fresh pork are oh and re-
tail meat shops in Chicago are sell-
ing roasts and chops for 10 to 15
cents a pound. Overwhelming mar—
keting of hogs explains the tremen-
dous decline in their prices, and
within a short time average prices
for hogs were the lowest since 1915.
Up to recent date the combined hog
receipts in twenty markets‘ for the
year amount to 40,802,000 head,
comparing with 32,001,000 for the
same time last year and 30,829,000
two years ago. The spread in hog
prices has greatly narrowed, bring—
ing light and heavy kinds much
closer together. Hogs sold in Chi-
cago recently at $6.50 to $7.25,
comparing with $7.25 to $8.30 a
year ago.

Increased Cattle Feeding

An increase of. 2 per cent in the

number of cattle on feed in the

eleven corn belt states is shown by a

preliminary Department of Agricul-
ture report. The states showing

either a large amount of soft corn
which must be utilized within a few
months or a big increase in, corn
production. As compared with 1922‘,

   

'170,000

» year.

in. Mad A"!!! m Dov-no. of the ma»
Infmbn up to within when but of

a

there is an increase of 10 per cent
in the number on feed in South Da-
kota and Minnesota, and 5 per cent
in Illinois, Nebraska, Indiana and
Wisconsin. Ohio is of! 10 per cent
and Kansas 5 per cent. It is esti-
mated that the average weight of
fed cattle will be somewhat less
than last year.
. Yearling awe Wanted

Seldom, if ever, has the demand
for well fattened yearling steers and
heifers been so good as during re-
cent weeks, and in the Chicago
.market killers have discriminated
severely against fat heavy steers.
For a short time after Thanksgiving
the demand for beef was so lively
that despite unusually large receipts
of cattle. in the Chicago market,
prices advanced materially, but lat-
er on the demand fell of so much
that a big drop in values took place
on all except choice yearlings. Re-
cently the bulk of the steers sold at
$8 to $11.50, with prime cattle tak-
en at $11.75 to $13.25, and sales all
the way down to $6.40 to $7.50 for
the commoner light weights, and in-
ferior little steers salable at $4.25
to $6.35. Approaching cold and
stormy weather made farmers dis-
posed to hasten marketing their
short fed cattle, and the offerings
averaged poorly in grading. The
best beeves Were taken at fancy
prices for the Christmas trade and
comprised but a small share of the
transactions. Cows and heifers
sold at $3.25 to $10.50, while calves
sold at $5.75 to $10.65 and stockers
and feeders at $5.75 to $10.50. A
year ago common to prime beef
steers sold at $6.65 to $14. Com—
bined receipts in twenty markets for
1923 to late date amounted to 14,—
058,000 cattle, comparing with 13,-
610,000 a year ago.

Sheep and Lambs on Feed

There were about 3 percent, or
head, more sheep and
lambs on feed for market in the
Corn Belt and Western states on De—
cember 1, this year than on the
same date last year according to an
estimate given out by the United
States Department of Agriculture.
The total estimated number on feed
this year is 5,170,000 head of which
2,838,000 head are in the Corn Belt
and 2,332,000 head are in the west
as against 5,000,000 head on feed
last year of which 2,624,000 head
were in the Corn Belt and 2,376,000
head were in the west.

In the Corn Belt states there are
about 210,000 head more on feed
this year than last. Of this increase
over 40,000 head are in the states
east of the Mississippi and 170,000
head in those West. The states
showing considerable increases are
Indiana with 55.000 more and Iowa
with 117,000 more while the two
largest feeding states, Michigan and
Nebraska, show little change. The
farm feeding in Illinois shows an
increase of around 60.000 head but
this, is more than offset by a de-
crease of 70,000 head at feeding.
stations adjacent to Chicago. ,

The western feeding areas show a

decrease of some 40,000 head from
last year. Colorado. however, shows.l

an increase of 40,000 head from 1,-
400,000 last year to 1,440,000 head
this year. This, increase is due to
150,000 head more in Northern Col-
orado, the Arkansas valley showing
a decrease of 110,000 head and the
San Luis Valley practically the same
number as last year. Idaho shows
a decrease of 70,000 head. while
Utah shows the same number as last
California and Nevada show
decreases of 50,000 and 35,000 head
respectively while Montana and
Wyoming show increases of 20,000

‘ and 15,000..

94¢@}$~1‘.0‘0‘} per. = cwt. ,.

   

While the total market movement
of sheep and lambs from Corn Belt.
pastures and western ranges this
year shows an ' increase, of around
300,000 head over last year. Thii
increase has been due to the increas-
ed marketings of . western lambs.
The marketings from the Corn Belt
states during the months when the

‘ native grass stock loves show a de-

crease of over 500,000 head from
last year and every state shon,a,ﬂl-
crease; the marketings of’ western
lambs from July. 1, to November 1,
show an increase of over 800,000
head. The shipmentsjof Wand
feeder sheep and . lambs into the

/

Corn Belt throughmarkets show an ~

increase of around 300,000 head
from August 1, to November 1. This
decreased marketing of native stock
may indicate either an expansion of
the sheep industry in the Corn Belt
by holding back e‘wes and ewe lambs
or the possibility of an increased
marketing of natiVe stock this win-
ter; in which latter event the Corn
Belt marketings will be larger than
above indicated. ‘

The movement of feeding stock
both into the Corn Belt and Western
areas was earlier this year than last
and the movement during November
showed a sharp falling off. The
weight of feeding lambs was proba‘b- "
ly about the same in all areas this
year as last.

The indications are that the sup-.
ply of- fed sheep and lambs for
slaughter coming from areas that
usually ship to Corn Belt markets
during the next ﬁve months willbe
somewhat larger than-last year but
that the supply in the areas ship-
ping to the Pacific Coast. markets
will be smaller. But since there are
always considerable numbers of
lambs put on feed after December 1,
if this number this year shows a
marked falling off the total market
supply of fed stock from now to
June 1, may be no larger than it
was, last year. ‘

The ﬁrst Colorado lambs of the
season have arrived in Chicago and
sold at $13. ‘

 

BEANS '

Reports from the eastern markets
show the demand for pea beans is
very good and good quality stock is
ﬁnding ready market. In the east
most Michigan choice pea beans are
put in cartons and sold at a nice
proﬁt. Why not put them up in car—
tons here in Michigan and keep the
proﬁt at home where it belongs?
Prices at Detroit are up 5 cents but"
the market is unchanged.

 

POTATOES >
The supply of potatoes is ample

 

at Detroit to care for all demand
and the market is steady. Prices
are unchanged.

A WHEAT -

Detroit—Cash No. 2 red & No. 3
mixed, $1.105é.

Chicago—-—Cash No. 2 red, $1.-
09%..
Prices one year ago—Detroit,
Cash No. 2 red, $1.42.
CORN

Detroit—Cash No. 3 yellow, 780;
No. 4, 74c.
Chicago—Cash No. 2 yellow, 72%

@721/2c.

Prices. one year ago—Detroit,
Cash No. 2 yellow, 80c; No. 4, 780.
OATS
Detroit —— Cash No. 2 white,

501/2c; No. 3, 480.
Chicago—Cash No. 2 white, 43%
@451Ac; No. 3, 41%@43%c.
Prices one year ago—~Detroit,
Cash No. 2 white, 52%c; N033, 51c.
RYE. .
Detroit—Cash No. 2, 731/2c.
Chicago—Cash No. 2,70c.

 
 

Prices one year ago——-—Detroit,
Cash No.2, 94c.
BEANS .
Detroit—C. H. P., $4.85@‘4.~9.0.
per cwt. , -. '~ .
Prices , one year age—Detroit, ;
C. H. P., $7.50 ,per cwt. - -- 1.":
POTAT01E« ' ‘ .. "

"DetrOit-«—$1,16@’1.33' per cwt.
ChicagoL—$I}@rig.‘16 per th. »,
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-Week of December 28

IGHT showers or snow ﬂurries
are probable during early part
of this week in Michigan and in

some sections it may be just enough
to get by with a “White Christmas."
The temperature about Sunday will
be cold for the season but by Christ-
mas day will be moderating.

About Thursday there will be -an
increase of storm indications with
more rain or snow, if not some sleet
and.wind, in the state but the week
goes out with a brief change to cool-
er and mostly pleasant weather, ex-
cept for some local storms.

Week of December 30

Light rains over southern coun-
ties of Michigan with rain, sleet or
snow in sections farther to the
north are the conditions to be ex-
pected during first half of this week.
The Winds will be brisk to high with
the probabilities that with any great
amount of snow after Monday,
drifts will be common. These con-
ditions may last through Wednes-
day

Following the middle of the week
temperatures will drop decidedly
and the sky clear off. Bright days
and clear star-light nights will
probably hold out during the bal—
ance 0: week Temperature. how-
ever, will moderate during closing
days of this week

January Warm

The average temperature for Jan-
uary in Michigan is expected to be
above the seasonal normal. The
precipitation for this sameperiod is
expected to average about or possib-
ly a little above the normal. We
would interpret this that January
will not see heavy snow fall in Mich—
igan for the month as a whole.

Summer Forecast 0. K.

Latest government ﬁgures show
Michigan experienced temperatures
three degrees below normal during
the summer months and that no high
temperature marks were made.
These facts agree with our forecast
of last June. We also stated at
this time that "October and Novem-
ber moisture conditions will tighten
up," a forecast that has been re-
markably proven by the disasterous
forest ﬁres in October due to dry
weather and the ideal weather for
out-door work and sports in Nov-
ember.

WHAT THE RE-APPORTIONMEN T
FIGHT IS ALL ABOUT

(Continued from Page 3)

evident that the only safe-guard of
the rural districts in this re-ap-
pointment struggle is the moiety
clause in the state constitution
which provides that any county hav-
ing more than half of an exact

. mathmatical ratio of representation

should be entitled to its own repr eg-
entative. The population of Mic

igsn according to the 1920 census
was 3, 668, 412. There are 100 rep-
rosentatives in the state legislature,

” so an exact ratio would be 36,684.

A. moiety would be one-half of this
at 18. 342.
While the constitution specifical-
11 provides that any county having
(moiety of population is entitled to

_ independent representation. it does

not make clear whether or not this

we should apply to a group of

liar co'u ties. In other wards
:Mﬁstors are at a lhss. to know

,‘1 Whetw ‘0 ' “~.i.~.- c._.: .
counties wﬁ the c-district tints

Mk! ﬁtmﬂﬂ ‘ form has a moiety? 01‘ whether

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they shduld continue until the total
population has reached a full ratio.

" The Attorney General has ruled that
the moiety clause does not apply to

districts. but only to individual
counties.

Regarding the senatorial reap-
portionment the condition is some-
what different. There is no moiety
clause covering this situation. but
the language of the constitution is
regarded by some as being signiﬁ-
cant, for, while it says that the rep—
resentatives shall be apportioned
anew every ten years, it says that
the senatorial districts shall be “re-
arranged."_ The Detroit members
‘.nsist that the new senatorial dis-
tricts should be formed strictly on
the basis of population, which would
give Wayne ten senators. However
up-state senators insist with equal
ﬁrmness that there is nothing in the
constitution that provides that the
senatorial districts shall be arrang-
ed solely on the population basis.
They maintain that the legislature
is perfectly at liberty to take into
consideration anyand all other fact-
ors.

Bitterness Still Lingers

It is apparent that some bitter-3
ness still lingers in the minds of the
up—state members as a result of the
gas tax ﬁght in the regular session.
These members are none too friend-
ly to their Detroit colleagues or to
the administration in general. They
are not in favor of relinquishing'any
of the control which they now en—
joy. As one senator expressed it.
when testifying before the Senate
Apportionment Committee, “Let De—
troit learn to govern itself before it
tries to govern the whole state."

Before the session convened it
was deﬁnitely reported that the
“Give Detroit nothing” sentiment of
the up—state representatives would
make it impossible to pass any sort
of a constitutional re-apportionment
bill. When the governor and De—
troit members moved heaven and
earth to defeat the gas tax at the re-
gular session they “sowed a wind
and they now reap a whirlwind.”

Itch for Gas Tax

Probably nothing will restore a
complete friendly feeling among the
members of the state legislature un-
til the Governor submits a message
to them permitting them to enact
the long desired state two cent gas—
oline tax. If he permits the legisla-
ture to consider the problem of
highway ﬁnance there will probably
be very little opposition to the gas
tax. The only question will be re—
garding the best form of such a tax
and whether or not the present 1i-
cense fees shall be reduced or dis-
placed by a weight tax. .

A wail is going up from certain
cities in Michigan that if the gas
tax is enacted, provision should be
made for the return of a portion of
the revenue to the cities from
whence it came. However, some
leading representatives have a
scheme which they believe will quiet
this opposition. They are going to
urge the passage of a law to require
the state to take over the entire
burden of a trunk-line construction
and maintenance. This would ap—
ply equally to trunk lines whether
passing through a city 'or the open
country. They believe that such a
bill would be fair and would receive
the support of the city people who
are now objecting to all the revenue
of the gas tax going directly into
the state treasury.

It now looks as if the governor
would not give the legislature a
chance to even consider the question
of-a gas tax.

 

FARMERS’ CLUBS FAVOR GAS
TAX AND SALARY CUT
(Continued from Page 6)

day as the most critical in the his—
tory of agriculture. “Farm equip-
ment throughout the country has
been wearing out. and has not been

replaced ” he said, and estimated

that from ten to ﬁfteen billion dol—
lars would be required to restore
America’s agricultural equipment to
its former place.

He added that the equipment of
the farmers is new in much the
same shape that the railroad sup-
plies were at the close of. the World
War, and urged the farmers to take
deﬁnite and united action to remedy
the situation at once.

In speaking of the work oi the

  
 

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as “r5 :1. an! 311% -

‘ pill: aaicuitural colleges of the eonntrn
- Dr. Mumford said. “The agricultural

colleges and their experimental sta-
tions are the great laboratories
working for the farmers, and play a
very important part in the success
of the industry. The value of Ros—
en Rye, developed by specialists at
the Michigan Agricultural College,
to the farmers of this state has been
more than the total cost of main-
taining the institution since its
foundation 66 years ago."

The early history of farm organ-
ization was traced by Dr. Mumford,
and the advantages of its present
day form pointed out. Each farm-
ers' association, the grange, the
farm bureau, and the farmers’ clubs,
has its own service to perform, ac-
cording to Dr. Mumford. and these
organizations should cooperate rath—
er than compete.

“Through complete federation, all
farmers’ organizations of the coun—
try can work together on their prob-
lems, and can speak in a uniwd
voice that will bring results. Com-
plete federation is the next step.”
he declared.

Clark L. Brody, head of the State
Farm Bureau, gave a short address
at the annual banquet, held in the
evening of the ﬁrst day’s sessions.
In urging greater organization
among the farmers of the state, he
said, “It is necessary for each group
of producers of various farm pro-
ducts to organize separately if. they
are to market their products in the
best way. Each organization can
market their own products, and by
cooperation among these organiza-
tions, the greatest good to the farm-
ers of the state can be accomplish-
ed.”

Mr. Brody pointed out that mar—
keting organizations gave the farm-
ers the best sales and distribution
ability that can be obtained, and
urged that the associations demand
greater ability when selecting their
managers, and that they stand
ready to pay these men adequate
salaries.

Dr. Marion LeRoy Burton, presi-
dent of the University of Michigan,
was the principal speaker at the
ﬁnal session Wednesday afternoon.
“Brains plus character is the na-
tion’s need today,” he said. “The
thing that America needs is to stop
guessing and base her decisions on
genuine thought.”

President Burton spoke on “The
Mind,” which he said he considered
to be of far greater importance
than any of the social, economic, or
agricultural problems that he might
discuss.

There are many kinds of minds,
according to President Burton, but
the ideal type is the thinking mind.
“We must train our people to think
if we are to have real progress,” he
said. “Three things are necessary
for a thinking mind. First, you
must get rid of all prejudices; sec-
ond, forget all about p0pularity;
and third, do not ‘shy’ at the prob—
lems which confront you.”

He mentioned the taxation prob—
lem only in passing, but said, “I am
profoundly in sympathy with the
farmer when he says that land is
taxed far too much.”

Robert S. Shaw, acting president
of the Michigan Agricultural Col—
lege and director of the college ex—
periment station, and L. Whitney
Watkins, head of the State Depart-
ment of Agriculture and a member
of the State Board of Agriculture,
were made honorary members of the

> association at the ﬁnal meeting.

FARIVI BUREAU PROVIDES BEAN
DIARKETING AGENCY

(Continued from Page 7)

handling charge. It is remarkable
that not more than one per cent of
the total sales made by member as—
sociations are made to parties out-
side of the Exchange.

.After joining the Michigan Ele—
vator Exchange the local elevators
have the privilege of using a crop
contract between themselves and
their farmer members. This con-
tract permits-the farmer to sell out-
side of his local association if he
can get a better price, but he must
pay his local co—op the regular hand-
ling charge to which it is entitled
on his business.

The Michigan Elevator Exchange
is a non-proﬁt organization and any
surplus accumulated after the actual
overhead expenses are paid is re-
turned to the members as a patron-
age dividend.

 

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Beware Of Imitations!

 

Unless you see the “Bayer Cross"
on the package or on tablets you are
not getting the genuine Bayer As—
pll‘ln proved safe by millions and
prescribed by physicians over
twenty-three years for

Colds Headache
Toothache Lumbago
Neuritis Rheumatism
Neuralgia 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-
oaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. (2

 

 

Detroit Beef Company

offers its services to the Farmers of
Michigan as a high class, reliable
commission house for the sale of
Dressed Calves and live poultry.
Write 115 forinformation how to dress
and ship valves to market. $250,000
capital and surplus. 34 years in bus-
iness in the same place and same
management.

Address
115111011 BEEF co., Detroit.Mich.

 

 

 

 

GARLOCK - WILLIAMS C0., Inc-

2463 RIOI’ELLE ST., DETROIT, 1111011.
WE SOLICIT YOUR SHIPMENTS
of live poultry, veal and eggs.
Our commission is 5%.

References: Wayne County and Home
Savings Bank, Bradstreet.

 

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desired and name and address.

ALLEGAN STATIONERY COMPANY
Department M Allegan, Michigan.

GLOVE R 2%?

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supply limitcd- -ma.rket minim-1111.. Buy now- -your grass seed--
our; 111 1. :1 subject to change. ll ave wonderful values in mam
teed high grade tested Iowa grown ( lov ver Also Sweet Clover
Timothy Aliuifn. H and all farm and garden seeds. 0
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special prices 3land 1.16—9.30 catalog.

A. A. Berry Seed 00., Box 127 . Clarinda, Ion

 

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AYRSHIRES

To make room for winter we are offering bred
cons and heifers also some well bred young bull.
Look up our winnings at leading state fairs

W. 1". SH HUTTLEWORTH, Vpsllantl, Michigan.

 

 

FOR SALE—Two Registered Holsteln Hakim
One born Dec. 20, 1922 and the other May 28
19123 from good inducing stock and well do
lo.ped Price $1 4. 00 for both. Geo. Church
1e mile south aend 1 mile west of Imiay cny, Mm].

WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS: coo 1

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BARRED ROCK COOKERELS BR
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