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Meeting, Speeches, Parades, Exhibits, Concerts, Shows and- Sales Will Make It a Busy
' Week for Farmer Visitors
By R. c. GROESBECK

(Special Correspondent of The Business Farmer.)

» 0
annual Farmers' Week pro-'
gram, to be. staged at the Mich-
igan Agricultural College from
February 4 to 8 this year, is to be
ﬁlled with the largest list of special
features and attractions” of partic-

r ular interest to the farmers of the

state that has ever been offered.

Men and women of prominence in
the agricultural, business, and pro-
fessional life of the state and nation
have been engaged for addresses on
subjects of vital interest to the
“practical” farmer. These speakers
will make up the greatestarray of
platform talent ever offered Michi-
gan farmers. _

The list of speakers includes:
Walton Petite, secretary of the Na-
tional Council of Cooperative Assoc-
ietions, Chicago, Illinois; L. J. Tab—
or, Master of the National Grange,
Columbus, Ohio; H. R. Smith, Na-
tional Livestock Commissioner, Chi-
cago, Illinois; Dr. Hugh Cabot, dean
of the School of Medicine, Univers-
ity of Michigan; F. G. Ketner, Ohio
State Farm Bureau, Columbus,
L. Whitney Watkins, State
Commissioner of Agriculture, Lans-
ing; Robert S. Shaw, Acting-Presi-
dent of M. A. 0.; W. T. Hartman,
Director of the Bureau of Markets,
Foods, and Standards, State Depart—
ment of Agriculture, Lansing;
Verne Branch, Director of Municipal
Markets, Detroit; J. W. Nicolson,
Michigan State Farm Bureau, Lans-
ing; 0. E. Reed, head of the M. A. C.
Dairy Division; J. T. Horner, Assoc-
iate Professor of Econbmics, M. A.
C., and many. other specialists from
the Michigan Agricultural College.

Thirty different state agricultural
organizations and associations will
hold their annual meetings at the
college in connection with Farmers'
week. These will include practical-
ly all of the larger agricultural soci-
eties in Michigan.

Among the associations to hold
their annual meetings will be: the
Michigan State Farm Bureau, Mich—
igan Crop Improvement association,
Michigan Breeders and Feeders as-
sociation, Michigan Potato Produc-
ers aesociation, Michigan Beekeepers
association, Michigan Soils associa-

tion, Michigan Poultry Producers
association, and various other spec- ’
ial groups.

The annual livestock parade,

more than a mile in length, will be
one of the features of the week. At
this time the registered blue bloods
owned by the college, which won
state, national, and international
prizes, will be displayed to the farm-
ers of the state. The visitors will
also have the opportunity of inspect-
ing these animals in the college
barns and stables throughout the
week. .

Special agricultural exhibits on
various phases of rural life will be

shown in the agricultural show iin
the new library building. The entire
ﬁrst ﬂoor of the new structure will
be devoted to this display.

The annual fruit and ﬂower show,
promoted'by the M. A. C. student

horticultural club, will be another
feature of the week. Prize Michl-
gan apples and fruits as well as
ﬂowers are being brought together
for the annual display, which is al—
ways one of the most attractive d1s—

 

 

Monday, February 4
1:00 .P. M. Sale of Holstein
cattle (Pavilion, Agr’l. Bldg).
6:30 P. M. Motion Pictures.
7 :30 P. M. Musical Program.
8:00 P. M. Debate: College
teams. ‘
Tuesday, February 5
:30 P. M. Band Concert.
:00 P. M. Address—F. G. Ket—
ner, Ohio State Farm Bureau.
:45 P. M. Address—H. R. Smith,
National Livestock Com’r.
:30 P. M. Music.
:45 P. M. Address~—O. E. Reed,
Prof. Dairy Husbandry, M.A.C.
5:30 P. M. Formal opening of
new Home Economics Building
- and reception.
Wednesday, February 6
1:30 P. M. Band Concert.
2:00 P. M. Address—J. W. Nic-
olson, State Farm Bureau.
2:45 P. M. Address—Walton Pe—
tite, Sec. National Council of
Coop. Assn’s.
3:00 P. M. Music.
3:15 P. M. Address—~L. J. Tabor,
Master, National Grange.

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Tuesday, February 5, 9:00 A. M.
Recital-—Music Department, M.
A. C. “Value of Salads in the
Diet,” with demonstration, Miss
Adele Koch, Ass’t. State Leader
of Extension. “What Hats Make
W’ of Us,” Miss Emma P. Garrison,
l Assoc. Prof. of Home Economics.
“Financial Arrangements,” A
Play by the Columbine Players.
Wednesday, Flame 6,
9:00 A. M. .
Recital-—Music Department, M.
A. 0. “How to be Wise when
One Buys,” Miss Julia Tear, As-
sistant Prof. of Home Economics.

“Step-Saving Suggestions,” Miss
Marion Rogers, Extension Spec—
ialist in Home Economics. “Ar—
rangement of Furniture and

 

 

PROGRAM 0F FARMERS’ WEEK
GENERAL SESSIONS
(College Gymnasium)

HOUSEW’IVES’ CONGRESS

(Auditorimn of New Home Economics Building)

7:30 P. M. M.A.C.—U.of M. bask-
etball game. Motion Pictures in
Home Economics building.

Thursday, February 7

1:00 P. M. Parade of college

Livestock.

:30 P. M. Band Concert.

:00 P. M. Address—W. P.

Hartman, director, Bureau of

Markets, Foods and Standards.

2:45 P. M. Address—J. T. Horn—

NH

er, Assoc. Prof. of Economics,
M. A. C.

3:00 P. M. Address — Verne
Branch, Director, Municipal

Markets, Detroit.

6:30 P. M. Motion Pictures.

7:30 P. M. Music.

7:45 P. M. Address—Robert S.
Shaw, Acting—President of M.
A. C. A

8:30 P. M. Music.

8:45 P. M. Address—Dr. Hugh
Cabot. Dean, School of Medi—
cine, U. of M.

ll‘riday, February 8

10:00 A. M. Sale of registered
Shorthorn cattle (Pavilion,
Agr’l. Bldg).

Furnishings,” Miss Winifred Get-
temy, Assoc. Prof. of Home
Economics.

Thursday, February 7, 9:00 A. M.

Recital—Music Department, M.
A. C. “Rickets, the Most Uni-
versal Disease of Infancy,” Dr.
Mario Dye,~Assoc. Prof. of Home
Economics. Play—“From Dang—
er Valley to Healthy Hill.”
Friday, February 8, 9:00 A. M.

Recital Music Department, M.
A. C. “Fancy Work vs. Art
Needle Work,” Miss Eunice Ry—
an, Extension Specialist in Cloth-
ing and Textiles. “Home Eco—
nomics Here and There,” Mrs.
Louise Campbell, State Leader of
Extension. “Round Table Dis—
cussion.”

 

 

 

 

 

plays showu during the week. All:
Michigan farmers are
compete, and entries may be made
until noon on February 4, the open-
ing day of Farmers’ Week.

Something new in livestock judg-
ing will be staged this year. A spec—
ial livestock judging contest for the
practical “practicing” farmer is to
be held, open to everyone, and of the
informal type.

College students, high school
students, boys and girls club mem-
bers, and practically all
classes of novices at the farming
game have been engaged in livestock
judging contests for years. Teams
have met at county, state, national,
and international events to decide:
the best pickers of blue ribbon
stock, but the events have always
been listed for students.

This year, working on the idea.
that the farmer himself knows-
something about livestock, this spec—
ial feature will be staged. The-
event will cover many classes, and;
any farmer particularly well ac-
quainted with one class of livestock
may try his hand at picking the
blue ribbon Winners in that class.
Winners at last year‘s International
Livestock Show will be included in
the list of stock to be judged.

Other livestock judging contests
for high school students will be held
during the week. More than 500
Smith—Hughes high school agricul—

   

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eligible to» '

other ‘

lural students from the state, repreuw

sonting more than seventy schools,
will be at the college for these con—
tests.

An auction sale of registered cat—
tle owned by the college will be held
during the week. At this time Nigh—
igan farmers will have an opportun-
ity to purchase purebred cattle at
their owu prices. These annual sales
of registered cattle. have been Very
popularzwith the state farmers, and
it is expected that many thorough—
bred cattlc will be taken out in the.
state from these sales.

individual conferences between
farmers Who have special problems
and college specialists will be held
throughout the week. Various col-
lege staﬁ men, including specialists
in every branch of agriculture, will:
be in their oﬂices during the week to
meet the farmers and confer with
them on their individual problems.
These conferences will give the
farmer an opportunity for expert ad-
vice wilhout cost to him.

A number of entertainment feat-v
ures have been provided for the
crowds. Motion pictures, debates,
plays, and band concerts will be pro-
vided. The annual Michigan Aggie-
University of Michigan basketball
game will be staged in the college
gymnasium on Wednesday evening,
February 6. A special block of re-

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Valuation of State is Increased Over One Billion and a Hall Dollars

, NE of the outstanding features-
of the state tax situation in
1923 was the increase in the

equalized valuation of the state for

the purpose oil-levying the direct
state property tax from $5,000,000,-

000 to $6,_540,.000,000. This increase

was authorised by the: state board of

equalization, composed of the three
state tax commissioners, the auditor
general and. the director of the de-

. pertinent of agriculture.

_ ~  was $i5~.5-4*5a085.
’ 

By thus making this big increase
in the valuation, the board practice
ally accepted the recommended vols:-
atien of the state tax commission,
Ln forms-r
my the. uncommon. board. has
 " reduced the actual assessed

The year’s work relating to taxation
has been summarized by the board
of state tax commissioners in the
following statement: ,
“The primary purpose for which
the board of statetax commissioners
was created is to see that the provis—
ions of the tax laws of the state are
enforced and that all property sub-
ject to taxation under that law shall
bear its just proportion of the tax
burden. To that end the board is
given mpervisio‘n over all local as-
sessing smears throughout the state,
and; each year greater eiforts are
made to secure. the full. and hearty
 or ﬁtness embers in
magnitproperty to the assess—
ment mm at its“ true cash value as.
required  «the .. constitution and

laws of the state. During the as—
sessment period the entire force of
appraisers is at the disposal of local
assessing oﬂ‘icers, and great‘assist—
ance is rendered by appraising for
them property with which they are
unfamiliar and whose actual value
they are therefore unable to deter—
mine. Assistance of this character
has been of special value in the as-
sessment of public utilities, manu-
facturing establishments, and stocks
of merchandise. This service is
greatly appreciated by local assess-
ing ofﬁcers and the board each year
receives an increasing. number of ap-
peals for help of this character.
Review Local Assessments
“The board, in order that it may
act in runs than. an. advisory capac-

ity, is given power by the low in re—
view any assessment made by a local.
assessing ofﬁcer. ill the U.\\,l‘i.l.. of
this power, many reviews are held
each year and the scope of these re-
views extends from that of a single
assessment to reviews of all the
property within a‘ county. During
the past = year complete reassess~
ments were made of the counties of
Macomb and St. Clair. The review
of the assessments of an entire
county requires the examination and,
appraisal of every piece of property
within the county subject to assess--
ment. under the provisions of, the
tax laws of the state and in the two;
counties. named the examinations
and appraisals covered many thou-v

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HE ice crop is the only one the
farmer harvests that does not
,1 rob his soil of fertility and,
{considering the advantages of a
'-‘good home supply of ice, no im—
provement is more satisfactory than

.13 good ice supply. -

* “Keep cool” is good advice to the
farm family on hot summer days
when the thermometer registers
'around ninety in the shade, when
‘fruits and vegetables must be pres-
erved, when cool drinks are so de-
licious, and when there is the milk
and cream to be cooled and kept
cold until ready for market.

Eighty per cent of the dairy pro-
ducts of the farm require artiﬁcial
cooling before they are ready for
market or home use, while 30 per
cent of the value of dairy products
is lost through failure or inability to
*cool to a low temperature quickly.
Abundant testimony can be given
by the manager of a milk plant,
cheese factory, or creamery_, as well
as buyers of cream and eggs.

Ice on the farm is not a luxury;
it is a money saver and, at the same
time, adds to the comfort of living
,during at least three months of the
~pear. Six months is a long time to
look ahead and these'winter days
do'not suggest the added heat of
June, July, and August, but now is
the time to “can next summer’s
cold.” .

When Jack Frost snaps away in
January or February, it is a sign
for the farmers to prepare for next
jsummer’s heat and the ice season
is at hand. There is no crop that
. is produced as cheaply and bri, s as
' high returns as the ice crop. In—
- . stead of depleting the pocketbook it
‘ enriches the farmer and makes life
more attractive to his family, be—
cause it supplies a wider variety of
high-grade foods in summer.

Cooperation in ice harvesting is
more important perhaps than the
common community get-together at
threshing time. It is best that the
' ice be cut and hauled to the storage
house as soon as possible to permit
-the ice to form while it is yet cold
and prevent waste if freezing weath—
'.er is passing. Then, too, the work
’can be done much more efﬁciently
,when there are enough men and
teams to do all the operations at the
same time.

To harvest ice efﬁciently a few
 ice tools will be needed. A steel
_. scraper is desirable; some types of
road scrapers can be used for this
work or a. very good home-made
scraper may be fashioned of wood
and faced with an old crosscut saw.
An iceplow is almost essential if any
great quantity of ice is to be har-
vested. This facilitates the removal
of the porous surface ice and simpli-
ﬂes greatly cutting into blocks. Half
a dozen pike poles, bearing vertical
points and horizontal hooks, are
needed in ﬂoating the ice to the
loading platform. An ice saw may
,,.be:useful, or an ordinary crosscut
 saw may be used by removing one
., handle. .
Ice cutting is best conducted by
three squads of men, each with a
team. The ﬁrst squad removes the
 orspongy ice from the surface
{it the ﬁeld and plows, saws, and

. the ice into blocks of a size
ﬁdst'convenient to handle.
‘ ' is” ,more _' than twelve
i'ck blocks two feet square on the
('rffac'eﬁwould' be most convenient;
' it is; thinner than this, blocks three
" 1 square 'can be packed cenven—
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Clearing Away the Show on the Ice.

arvesting Crop Farmers Do Not Have to Plant;

Farmers will Find It to Their Advantage to Work Together in Harvesting and Storing Their ice

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Cutting the Ice.

 

By EARLE W. GAGE

should be cut in proper size blocks
so as not to call for undue lifting.

The second squad of men cut
loose the blocks and ﬂoat them to
the side of the open water where
they are ready to be loaded on the
sleigh or wagon. Here a tramway
with a pair of hooks attached to a
rope will make loading a relatively
easy task. Let the ropes extend
across the load from the tramway;
hitch a horse to it and drag the
blocks from the water onto the load.

The third gang of men should be
at the ice house to place each load
in position and pack sawdust around
it as rapidly as possible. Eight men
with three teams can work rapidly
ﬁelds, especially if the snow is deep,
in harvesting a crop of ice by this
cooperative method.

Where the ice is not quite thick
enough to meet the need the snow
should be scrapped off the surface
the day before cutting is started if
indications are that the night will
be severely cold. The snow acts as
an insulation and retards freezing,
and when it is removed not only is
the entire mass of ice better frozen
but a few inches in thickness is add-
ed. '

On small ponds the snow may be
removed to the shore but on large
it is impracticable to scrape the
snow entirely off the ﬁeld. It be—
comes necessary, therefore, to pile
it in windrows.

After the snow is off the ﬁeld is
ready to be marked for cutting. ‘The
marking must be done carefully so
that all cakes will be rectangular,
which aids in economical handling
and packing in the ice house. It
the proper start is made in marking
oﬁ the ﬁeld no trouble will be ex—
perienced; otherwise subsequent
cuttings will be difﬁcult.

Success in marking depends large-
ly on getting the ﬁrst line straight,
which may be done by placing a
stake to serve as a guide at each
end of the proposed line. A straight—
edge, consisting of an ordinary
board about 14 feet long, is then
aligned with the two stakes and the
cutting tool or hand. plow run along
its edge, after which the board is

pushed forward and again aligned'

with the stakes. This is continued
until the entire distance between
the stakes has been covered. Anoth-
er way is to stretch a line between
the stakes and do the marking with
a handplow although this is not so
satisfactory'as the handplow can not
be operated in so straight a line
with the board. After the ﬁrst line
has been cut it can be used as a
guide for the horse marker if this
is used.

After the ice ﬁeld has been lined
off in one direction, the crosslines
should be made. Care should be
taken to have these at right angles
to those ﬁrst drawn, which is ac-

Jackson Livestock Man Honored by France

HERE are many tillers of Michi—
gan soil that won medals of
henor from the French govern-

ment for bravery on the battleﬁeld
during the World War but there is
perhaps ‘only one from our fair state
that has been honored for helping
that country get back on its feet.
This man, known from one end of
the state to the other, Corey J.
Spencer, Jackson, owner of'Gurand
River Stock Farm and breeder of
some of the ﬁnest pure bred Hol-
steins in Michigan.

It was a little over two years ago
that Mr. lSpencer learned that agri-
culture in France was suffering
from the lack of high quality dairy
sires. During the war the livestock

in the war zone was driven away, .

an, while the Germans had to make
restitution with respect to cows,
the farmers of France were without
good herd sires. 'Mr. Spencer,
wanting to help in the post-war re-
construction, shipped overseas two
choice pure—bred herd sires, author-

' izing the French‘government to dis-

pose of them as it Saw fit.. I
- Time passed and his .time and
mind being taken up with other
matters about forgotten his gift
when he received a letter from
Paris. The letter was written in

French and Mr. Spencer not being'

able to read it, placed it in his pock- "

et'planning to call on a. friend with-
in'a few, days who could translate

'it for him." Three or four days later
the letter was, still in~his pocket un-_
And then he received ‘an- ~
'other letter written in French, but —-'
it ‘came from Antoine Barthelemy,
'the consul' at .Chicago.‘
the straw that broke the camelfsﬁ.
He could not restrain’,’ his-
curiosity, no longer and {he immedj' ing; 

read.

This was

.,..

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iately called upon his friend Lewis
Atherton, a‘former major in the U.
S. Army who had fought during the
recent war in France, and could
speak and read the French language.
The letters contained the informa—
tion that Mr. Spencer had been
awarded the Croix de Chevalier du
Merite Agricole, in gratitude for his
generous act. ..

“I was amazed,” he said in relat-
ing the incident. “I could not be—
lieve it at ﬁrst. When I sent the
two sires overseas, I was simply try-
ing to help a little. I never dream-
ed the gift would be esteemed so
highly.” .

Formal presentation ceremonies
will be held in honor of Mr. Spencer
after the badge arrives, it is an—
nounced by C. E. Linabury, secre-
tary of the Jackson Chamber of
Commerce. A. Barthelemy, French
consul at Chicago, and Joseph ,.Be‘l-
anger, consular agent at Detroit, as
well as 'Gov. Groesbeck and state
agricultural leaders will be invited.

Mr. «Spencer was recently elected a
member of the board of directors
and vice-president of the newly or-
ganized Farmers’ and Workingmen’s
Savings ‘Bank in Jackson. He is
also president of the Jackson County
Holstein-Friesian Association.

‘ 'Mr. Spencer was born on a farm
in Ontario. He Was the eldest of
six children. He came to Jackson
at the age of 18 to enter business

college. Afterwards he entered high?

school at 21, paying his'expe‘nsesgby.
o‘dd jobs. 7 He spent several years in'

‘california'and returned "to Jackson
1915145118 boughththe farm at:
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to- his om‘ce'in Jackson each morn-
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Floating Large Cakes to Shore for Becutting.

complished by the use of a square.
A suitable square may be made easi-
ly by ﬁrst nailing the ends of two
boards together with a single nail.
Measure a distance of eight feet on
the outer edge of one board and six
feet on the outer edge of the other
board, then nail a third board diag-

. onally across the two, adjusting it

until the two marks are exactly ten
feet apart on a straight line. Nail.
the Boards securely, forming the
desired square.

To estimate the amount of ice
needed on a dairy farm, use as the
basis the number of cows kept. If
the average cow produces 3,500
pounds of 3.7 per cent milk per year
(which is equal to 431 pounds of
30 per cent cream) it will require
431 times 1.16 pounds or about 500
pounds of ice, to cool the cream pro—
duced by each cow and keep it in
good, sweet condition until deliver—
ed to market. In addition, it is best
to store 500 pounds of additional
ice, or a total of 1,000 pounds per
cow. This is sufﬁcient to cool the
cream needed for household uses
and allow for reasonable waste.

Therefore, the 20-cow dairy should.

have 100 tons of ice stored. These
ﬁgures are for cream; if the milk is
to be cooled it will take between two
and three times as much ice, or
about 30 tons for the 15-cow dairy.

It is necessary to store more ice
than is seemingly needed, as there is
sure to be a waste, even in the best
houses. Sometimes this averages
25 per cent of the whole amount of
we put up.

The number of square feet of ice
required per ton of ice in blocks
22 inches square, and of various
thickness, is shown in the following
table: »

Thickness No. Cakes Cutting space

 

of ice required required per
inches for one ton ton—sq. ft
4 31.3 105.4
6 20.3 ‘ 70.2
8 15.6 52.6
10 12.5 42.1
12 10.4 35.1
14 8.9 30.1
16 7.8 26.3 '
18 6.9 23.4
20 6.3 21.1

 

Not only will you [save much
space, but ice as well, by properly
packing the ice in the house. You
can get only 35 to 40 pounds, of ice
in a cubic foot of space when the
ice is thrown in at random, while
about- 50 pounds can be packed in
the same space with a little care.
This means also .that the air can-
not circulate through the ice and
melt it, therefore pack it carefully.

About a fo’otlof sawdust should
be placed on the floor of the ice
house, with less in the center to per—
mit the cakes to lean inward. The
sides of the ice should be smooth.
Any projecting pieces. should be
trimmed off before insulation is put
on. If sawdust or mill shavings are
used a space of at least twelve
inchesshould be left between, the
outer walls and theme stack. 9..

-’ It, is easy to calculate how, much
ice. the house will held. “Allowing
45 cubic feet per.ton,,' an uninsulat:
ed house ~18“by- .12 by 10 feet, with
One foot around for insulation, will
hold about 38 tons, while the same

sized house itrriins‘uiated. will hold 7

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GRAND DUKE STARTS NEW CULT.

—Grand Duke

Alexander Michaclvitch of Russia has startled London
by founding a new religion called the Union of Souls.

The cult is devoted to beauty,
churches‘and is open to all creeds.

       
    

PREDICTS TIDES FOR 1926.——F. J.
Height of the U. S. Con-st and Geodetic
Survey operates a machine that pre-
dicts tides in any part of the world at
any future date.

....AUTIIOR, DESPITE INFECTED ARM, “()ARRIES
0N".—Louis Joseph Vance, noted writer, who on be—
ing forced by an infected arm to suspend work, “cra—
ried on” with the assistance of a. dictaphone. No
chance to get writer’s cramps here.

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NEW SORT OF "DR. COUE.”——
Swami 'Yoganada, A. B. of India, is in
New York" lecturing on physical per-
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KLAN BIOVEMENT SPREADING IN “TESL—Even the women
have formed an auxiliary to the Ku Klux Klan.
of them gatheredvat the Konclave held in Youngstown, Ohio, to cele-
brate the election of a Klan endorsed mayor.
three states were there.

BRYAN'S FORMER. SECRETARY IN CON-
GRESS.—Left to right: Edgar Howard, Ne-
braska, and “’illiam Jennings Bryan. Howard,
who is a. representative from Nebraska, once
was pri'ate secretary to Bryan.

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MEXICANS READY, FOR-BATTiEr—What has now become an every-day
scene,- is this oneshowin‘g Mexican troops marching through towns and villages,
for-“battle- at a ‘mpments notice.

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BRITISH ADMIRAL TOURS \VORLD IN
CAR.—-Admiral John \Vesion of South Africa, well known
member of the British Admiralty, is making a tour around
the world with his family inra. specially made motor car.
The photo was snapped in Budapest, Hungary.

       
     
 
  

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HIS FIRST INTRODUCTION TO RADIO.—-Anton Lang, who heads the *
Passion Players, from Oberammcrga'u in Bavaria, now in this country, listened
in for'the ﬁrst time in his life and enjoyed it very much.
Played :the part of: Christos in the Passion Play, and with fellow players, is

disposing.ot_their bits of pottery,sculpture, etcg, in this-country. ‘

    

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“'EGIAN KlNG.—I’rince
who upon coming of age
next spring will visit America, taking in New
“'ashington, and other large cities.

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RETHREN is a "2x4 town” up
in the Cutover with three or
' four stores, a big consolidated

school that half her people think
‘ she can’t afferd,
“spirit of co-operation” than the av—.

with no more

erage, with no factions on opposite

' sides of Main Street, and the usual

allottment of knockers.

With all this to contend with, she
has held a Community Fair, on a
rainy day, with howling success. The
moral, for the beneﬁt of villagers
moved to do likewise, is-——“Nothing
is impossible”!

Two years ago Brethren had a
fair, sponsored by a committee of
farmers and business. men. No
prizes except ribbons were given, but
the farmers came in out of the chop-
pings with their big pumpkins and
cabbages, their wives and children,
and that fair was so much of a suc-
cess that there was talk at the time
of making it an annual event. But
a year passed, and another, and no
plans were laid.

In the meantime 25 women of the
community had organized a Ladies’
Aid Society, and were stepping at
nothing legitimate to earn the
where—with-al to build Brethren a
church where all good people can
freely commune together. Farm
sale dinners, chicken suppers, oyster
stews, and outdoor pageants had fol—
lowed each other in rapid succession.

“If Brethren would have a fair,”
some member suggested, “we could
serve dinner to the crowd.”

“If we have our own fair,” was
the ﬁnal decision, “we can keep out
the concessions discountenanced by
church folks, and We can keep all
the profit.”

Four committees of women were
appointed, a dinner committee, a
prize and premium committee, a pro-
gram and a White Elephant commit—
tee.

Using the premium list of the
county fair as a pattern, the pre-
mium committee drew up our pre-
mium list, and then solicited and
collected premiums for over 100
awards. These prizes ranged all the
way from a pearl handled carving
set donated by a merchant for the
best rooster, a sack of ﬂour donated
by another merchant for the best
loaf of bread, to a pint of pickles for

Ladies’ Aid Society  on C, a”      , 

  
   
  

   

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" in Manistee county, in ‘the little town of Brethren, the people
wanted to build a. church, one where an might go, and they had
about exhausted their supply of ideas for making money to start

the building, when one of them thought of the community fair. Only

a few believed it could be done.

The others said, “It's a good idea all '
- right, but Brethren isn‘t large enough to make it a success.”
it was ﬁnally decided to make a try at it anyway.

However
‘Did they succeed?

Over 250 peOple attended the fair and the Ladics’A Aid Society served
dinner to 110 of them. The ladies back of the fair reported a proﬁt of
$100.00 for the church building fund. And they would have done better

if it had not rained all day.

the homliest man, and a carton of
rolled oats for the best fried cakes,
and a pair of socks for the largest
pumpkin.

THE BUSINESS FARMEB and several
other publishers gave us from 10
yearly subscriptions to several six
month’s subscriptions to be used as
premiums. These_we put on the
grains and poultry exhibits.

The local merchants all gave
merchandise for premiums, the
farmers gave half bushels of winter
apples, strawberry and raspberry
plants. Aid members gave dahlia
bulbs, needlework, and dishes, and
a sugar shell for the best plate of
candy.

The county paper printed the
prize list, and the calls for entry
tickets, there was no charge, began
to come in.

The committee women requision-
ed the men—folks and an implement
shed behind the town hall, built to
house the road graders and other
road tools, was cleared out and used
for fruit, vegetables and poultry.
The parsonage a few rods from the
town hall, was ﬁlled with needle-
work, and cookery. .

The White Elephant committee
had spread broadcast a small card
bearing the outline of an elephant.
This asked the people to give us
their White Elephants for our White
Elephant booth at the Community
Fair, and explained that a White
Elephant is anything which is too
good to throw away, but which the
owner does not want or need.

As a result of this publicity White

Elephants began to accumulate:
Suits of men’s clothing, Shoes,
dishes, bed—quilts, apples, aprons,

Indian baskets. A local auctioneer
gave his services, and when the sale
began many of the people who had
brought in produce gave that to be
sold. There were feather clad carn-
ival dolls from the last city carnival,
cooking utensils, books, things new
and second hand.

In the meantime the dinner com-
mittee had planned a dinner 'o‘f
chicken and noodles, mashed pota-
toes, baked beans,‘ pickles, codes
and pie, and set the price at 25
cents per plate.

So the day was set, and a week of

ﬁne fall weather preceeded it.
“What if it rains?” inquired the
pessimists.

“But it won't rain,” said the

boosters, “At least it never has rain-
ed when we have had suppers, or
sale‘dinners, ever.”

But it did rain. Beginning the
night before with lowering clouds,
it rained all night and was ,coming
down steadily at 7:00 a. 111.

“They can’t have it!” said the
knockers. “Will they try?” enquir-
ed the doubtful ones.

The chairman on premiums,
perched in a farm wagon, under an
umbrella, with ’her private collec-
tion of needle-work in a suit case,
and her house plants in behind, with
her pies and noodles and potatoes
for the dinner carefully protected
from the weather, arrived in the

\reporter,

ition '—

“. er‘tainlyll” shed/said »:tledi:dly and ~r 

led .the way to the parsonage ineedla-
work show reom. -' v
“We’ve got to,” said
chairman, and ‘went after. smother
batch of noodles with her rolling

n. ' _ .
“Surest thing you know,” said the
Chairman ~on Poultry and Farm
products, he was an Aider’s hus-
band, and he fell to tacking building

.paper on the rainy side or the /Im— ‘_

plement shed. R

“But nobody’ll come!” said, the
head shakers. - ’

Two farmers from four miles out

were already unloading— their exhibi
it out of their Fords. Two cars
from the County seat, appewspapar
two Fair judges, and a,
wagon load of Sightseer-s were al—
ready there. '
. One hundred and ten people sat
down 'to dinner. Some of them had
not the heart to eat it all and pay
only 25 cents, so we received ﬁfty
cents and a dollar for manyr plates.
There were more than .250 people on
the grounds. The exhibit-s were of
excellent quality and -fair quantity.”
The dinner and White Elephant Sah
netted better than $100. ,

The county agricultural agent wu
present and acted as a judge, and
the day was so full that there was
no time for a musical show :schedu'l-
ed for the afternoOn.

Everything was carried out as
planned except the baby show, and
that was cancelled because the
schools were closed the day before
when a dy’phtheria scare had devel-
oped. ‘

Disease, knockers, and inclement
weather, and the Fair was a success.
“I’m so glad it rained,” said a tired
dinner committee lady at the end d!
the day, “Because it it hadn’t we
never could have fed the crowd. The
dinner was eaten up clean.”

Next year the Ladies’ Aid hopes
to plan for a two-day Fair, with
priZes for ﬁeld athletics as well as

‘farm crops and will plan to. feed

twice as many people.

Everybody was most kind. Nona.—

whom we asked for prizes refused to
help. But the real success .of the
(Continued on page 19.)) '

Some Helpful Information on Making Out Year lncomc Tax Return

0 the farmer the problem of cor—
rectly making _out an income
tax wturn for the year 1923

should present no unusual difﬁcul-
ties, notwithstanding he is required
to use the larged form, 1040. Care-
ful study of the instructions on this
and the accompanying form 1040F
———schedule of farm income and ex-
penses—will be of material aid in
this connection.

Heretofore Form 1040 was used
only for reporting net income in ex-
cess of $5,000. Its use for report—
ing net income for the year 1923 is
required when the net income, re-
gardless of the amount, was derived
from “a business or profession, in-
cluding farming,” and in all cases
where the net income was more than
$5,000. The smaller form, 1040A,
heretofore used for reporting net
income .of $5,000 and less from
Whatever source derived, is to be
used for reporting net income for
the year 1923 of $5,000 and less de-
rived chiefly from salaries and
wages. Taxpayers will receive both
forms, it being impossible for the
Bureau of Internal Revenue to de-
termine at this time the class of
form desired.

The farmer who keeps his ac-
counts on the cash receipts and dis-
bursement basis—~—-which means a
record of the amount actually re—

_ ceived and the amount actually paid

for expenses—must ﬁle his income
tax return for the year 1928 on that
basis. He must include in his
gross income for the year the
amount of cash or the value of. mer-
chandise or other property received
from the sale at live stock and pro-
duce, which were raised on the
farm, proﬁts from the ale of live
stock or any other items were pur-
chased, proﬁts lira-i. the sale or

 

 

HIS is a story of informative value to Business Farmer readers in
the preparation of their income tax returns for the year of 1923.
Taxpayers, any part of whose net income regardless of the amount

was derived from farming, are required to use the larger form 1040,
which heretofore was used only for reporting net income in excess, of
$5,000. The article explains how to ﬁgure your income and exemptions

so that you can ﬁle a. correct report.

 

 

rental of farm lands, and profits
from all other taxable sources. The
farm expenses will be the amount
actually paid out during the year.
For farmers keeping their ac-
counts on the accrual basis, inven-
tories at the beginning and end of
each' taxable year are necessary.
For those reporting on the accrual
basis, the gross proﬁts are obtained
by adding to the inventory value of
live stock and products on hand at
the end of the year the amount re-
ceived for the sale of stock and
products and other miscellaneous re-
ceipts, for hire of teams, machinery,
etc., during the year, and deducting
from this sum the inventory value

of stock and products on hand at the

beginning of the year plus the cost
of stock and produce purchased dur-
ing the year. The farm expenses
will be the actual expenses incurred
during 1th year, whether paid or
not. '

Farmers who keep their accounts »

on the cash receipts and disburse-
ment basis [are required to me a
schedule to! {arm income and ex-
penses on m 1042610.. which must
be attached to the individual return
on‘ Form 104.0.
keep their account on the accrual
basis, the ﬁling of Form 104W 1!
optional. 7 . y _, .l V
All necessary expenses paid or in-

With farmers {who .

 

curred during the year 1923 in the

'operation of a farm as a business

enterprise may be deducted from
gross income in ascertaining net in-
come, upon which the tax is assess-
ed. These include the expense of
harvesting and marketing of crops
and the cost of seed and fertilizer
used. Amount expended~ for the
purchase of feed for live stock may
be deducted, but the value of a
farmer’s own prod-nets used for such
purpose is not a deductible item.
The farmer may deduct the cost of
small tools used up in the course of
a year or two, wages paid to farm
hands (other than domestic serv-
ants) and rent paid for farm land
md‘buildings (other than the dwell-

ing) cost of repairs to fences, wag— .

.ons and machinery, also bills paid
tor horseshoeing, stock powders,
:rock salt, veterinary service, insur-
ance (except on the dwelling), gas-
oline for operating power, and sun-
dry minor expenses.

m value of produce raised on
the term and used in the board or
m laborers may not be deducted
as an,» expense. The farmer may,
however, deduct the cost or food
misused tor his laborers. The n1-

mlt the mice: or the tarmac.

W. his wife ordependent min-

]. or children, cannot be deducted «our
legs theamouut is reported 

recipients as income on Form 1040.

The purchase price ‘of an auto-
mobile even when used wholly in.
farm operation may not be deducted,
as it is regarded as an investment
of capital. . The cost of (gasoline, ro-’
pairs, and upkeep of an automobile,
if used wholly in the business of
farming is deductible as an expense;
if used partly for business and part,-
ly for the pleasure and convenience
of the taxpayer or his family, small
cost may be apportioned according-'-
ly, and that proportion of cost at-
tributable to business deducted.

General deductions such as for
taxes, losses, interest on indebted-
ness, bad debts, contributions, etc.,
are explained in instructions on the
forms. ‘

Every single person whose net in-

come for 1923 was $1,000 or more

or whose gross income was 5,000 or '

more, and every married couple
whose net income was $12,000 or
more, or whose «gross income was
$5,000 or more mdst ﬁle a return.

The exemptions for the year 1928
are. $1,000 for single persons, $2,,-

' 500 for married couples whose net

income was $5,000 or less, and $2..-
000 for married couples whose not
income was in excess of $5,000. In
addition the taxpayer is allowed at
credit of $400 for each moon ' de—
pendent upon him for chic! support.
if such person is under dimmers of

village at. 'i'zi320'fit9"‘_ahswer‘ “ti-ifs dds? 

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 A  yith,‘ dear M.. RF...
  mam, favor ot you .
‘ Will you try and ﬁnd Gal-vs.
Jones and his . wife, Jessiov
'whose‘ address on: ,Mity 14th
z: 229 E. Wall'Street, Isms-

, ‘ Michigan’ ’ 'P. If antiperson
mite teens,- I would: thank.
them: very: yachts; E 
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OPERATING.
1  win you please give me the facts
' as to how a pm can obtain a
I ‘ junchi'se on a. certain road. for
 _ p g  for service on for hire? A.
'  , . man has. obtained: such: a- franchise
g ‘ M.MtMsrsoesn;emiw:beextra
, K him. H's tells us‘ we cannot hire
,  .3117 other ﬁnch. Is this legal? If
' ~ I» anywhere.  danish—A. R9
 ' Anyone: 
 - - buck freight Ifnes for hire over illo-
qd' routes or“ between fixed termini.
may be. permitted to do so upon
. ’ application to- the. Locum,
3 > Utilities- Oommissionf and
. ~  with the provisions on
5- .5m 20s of the Public acts of the
.- ihte  the year 1923.
n—ﬂare E‘etan, Deputy Attorney
amoral: _

on

W PATRONS' ON ONE

~ ‘ TELEPHONE'LINE
In there anything: that can be done
about the way the telephone com-
pmy does with its patrons? Several
years ago when they ﬁrst raised the
rates they promised to give us party
ﬁnes with only 8 on a line. tour on
v -. each side, but they now have as high.
as 18 and 20 on these lines. 0111'
J line has nine rings on the W-side
 'tnd the same on the J—slde. Only
‘ instead of ringing nine rings on the
Hide, they ring 1 long and 1 short.
and call it one-one. Some of the
* other lines have what they call one-

twe (rings one long and two short)-

It is. almost impossible to get the
Iinei‘fyouwantitinahmyr—M.
1L. Flint, Mich.

This Commission has made an
order and it has been the. general
me not to place more than ten

nee upon one country line.

However, there are places in which

the parties insist that they ought to

be. one. general line and they are

r willing to be put to the inconvenv

lama; having a large number of
 personsonthelinesinorder to Visit

 ‘ with their neighbors without going

7: . ﬁtmngh the central since. Usually

 r m there are eighteen or twenty

inmate 'wtrs for taking care of
them, because it is not regarded as
good telephone minutiae to have
 eighteen or twenty telepbxmes on a
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cannon:

_ . \ Can anyoﬂicarcollecbfm‘csr‘
a ,. ureterser'ving.dvilcasesummuns
~ - histommtsamﬂexmvel

serve sushi—H. ht. Moran. Mich.
.Mashm'iﬂshallbeaﬂwedlou
pumﬂeforuavelingexpenseein
ﬂoundehargetorcarhirswonidnot

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mm,momen

wnatcanraon’ahankm-charges'

l
l are any'lawtplprotect a farmeﬁ
, 3 Can the bankers. charge ten to. six-
'. ‘ teen per cent‘ on notesT—A. T..
' ,-  Mich. j .7
‘ 1 -—We assume that you refer to the
3 interest rates which may be charged
5' by state. banks. Under the provis-
 ot Section 1970. of. the Compil-
, Lowest 1915, a state. bank. may ,
, seven per; cent interned, with,
"  for means, or
magenta:- “if! bank,"
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any interest on its loan, if‘ the ' bor-

bo operate motor

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, , I Wont-for far
tune. or. requests for Info
 (inquiries mm

rower raises that question.

Section 5998 of the Compiled
Lawaof 1915 provides that where
usury is charged on notes, commerc-
ial paper, etc., the- party making the
loan shall lose all his interest and
can only collect the principal. 01
course persons or associations loan—
ing money under the provisions of
Act 3177' of the Public Acts of 1921
in some of not more than $300 may
collocLintenest up, to threeper cent
a month; We take it. however,
that you are not referring to associ-
ations of this characterr-Clare RA-
ta-n, Deputy Attorney General.

HUNTING AND POSTING

1. Can hunting be prohibited on
your .own farm‘I- 2. How should
signs read? 3. How class should
they be posted? Is more than one
notice or sign necessary? 4. What
course of action if oﬂenders are
found? 6. What if offenders re-
fuse to leave if ordered off farm?
6. Are offenders liable: for tres-
passing or only if damage has been
done?—- . D., Ada, Michigan.

-—~1. Hunting may be prohibited
on your own, farm.

2’. "No hunting,” or whatever
words will best inform the public
that you do not want anybody to
hunt on your farm. 3. They should
be posted close enough to be easily
read. and as many, used as required.

4. An action for damages could
be brought against the trespasser, or
he could be prosecuted in a criminal
action. 5. Report the matter to
the prosecuting attorney, 6.. Nomr
inal damages might be awarded
where there were no actual damages,
in the descretion of the court——
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ENTITLED TO HALF OF STRAW

I am working on shares a farm
which adjoins my own. My contract
reads, “each; to get one—half the prov
ceeds derived from the sale of all
grain, produce, etc., taken off said
farm.” Have. I a right to bring half
the straw down on my farm when I
thrash? First party did not reserve
straw. The only thing ﬁrst party
reserves is the house. Please let me
know as soon as possible, I always
supposed that straw was personal
property the same as the grain. I
enjoy reading your paper very
mocha—J. C. P.. Concord, Mich.
——Straw would be considered pers-
onal property as well as the other
crops, such as grain, etc. If the
lessor did not reserve the straw, I
no of the opinion you would be en-

MICHIGA

GOING TO SOW SOY BEANS

I would like to sow some soy-
beans, some with corn and some
broadcast. How many should I sow
and when? What is their average
:yiaid? Also price? When sowing
:11me on light sand should I sow
with or without nurse crops?—-—M.
A. Minden City, Mich.

-—'-When planting soybeans with
cornttlsusualtoplantsixquarts
parame'withsixor eight quarts of
m 5035 should be planted
through a special soybean planting
attachment on drill, if corn is drill-
ed. When planting says broadcast,
from two to three bushels per acre
should be used. “
In. southern or central Michigan

northern Michigan, the Early
Blacks. Planting should be made
from the middle of May to mid-June.
May plantings give best results.

Present prices on soybean seed _
are as team Certiﬁed—-1 to 10
bushels—jail); Certiﬁed—10 bush-
els and overs-@336. '

When ted With corn. soybeans
“311837 ‘ e the yield by one-

‘ . ton to one ton, rof.,green materi-

   

al. The average yields! hay from
soyso broad ,  1mm two
' ‘ 1133110381? dry

       

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such a dressed ,
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titled to one—half the straw along
with the other produce.—‘—Asst. Leg--
a1 Editor.

CAN THEY INSTALL FURNACE IN
SCHOOL? ‘

We have always had stoves in our
school house and one has broken, so
the school board bought another,
and the county commissioner has
forbidden us to put it up. Is there
any law compelling us to buy a
furnace for the school?-——G. F., Ta-
was City, Mich.

—According to the law, all school
buildings and repairs over $300 in
value, must be approved by the sup-
erintendent of public instruction. I
do not know of any law that would
compel you to buy a furnace, al-
though that would probably be the
best way of heating your building,
especially if it is of any size—Dept.
of Vocational Teacher Training,
Michigan Agricultural College.

LEGAL! WIDTH 0F SLEIGHS

Would you please tell me if there

is any new law concerning the
widths of sleighs? Have they got
to be 4—feet wide or moral—E. M.
S;, Dryburg, Mich.
—-'l‘he last legislature enactment for
standard gauge for vehicles is Act
number 73 of the Public Acts of
1919. This Act ﬁxes the standard
gauge, except such vehicles as are
inches from center to center of tread
and makes it unlawful to use on‘ any
of the public highways of this state
any vehicle. other than standard
gauge, except such vehicles as are
used for extraordinary purposes. For
the purpose of construing the act,
motor trucks, moving vans, logging
sleighs with a wider draft than
ﬁfty—six inches, cutters, and light de-
livery sleighs are conclusively pre—
sumed to be vehicles used for extra—
ordinary purposes.

Therefore, in direct reply to your
inquiry, you are advised that sleighs
that may be classed as “light deliv—
ery sleighs” need not be of standard
gauge—H. Victor Spike, Assistant
Attorney General.

IS DOG TAX LAWFUL?

I would like to know if dog tax
is lawful and if you don’t pay your
tax could they kill your dog and im-
prison anyone for any length of
time? What is the value on a. dog?
—D. G. M., Harrison, Mich.

-—-Yes, a tax on dogs is lawful, the
same as a tax on automobiles, farms,
or other property, and if you did not
pay the tax, they could come and
take your dog and imprison him for
life, or kill him, by giving him gas.

N CROPS

When sowing alfalfa on sandy
land, it is usually advisable to use a
companion crop in order to prevent
injury as a result of blowing. Buck—
wheat, planted at the rate of one or
two pecks per acre, or barley at
the rate of three peeks, furnishes
excellent nurse crops for spring
planted alfalfa on light soils.—J. F.
Cox, Professor of Farm Crops, Mich.
Agricultural College.

SHREDDED CORN FODDER
SWEATS ,
I would like to know what to do
wih my shredded corn fodder- Was
shredded a week ago. This A. M.
I discovered it was getting hot. It
is about 16 feet deep in the center.

* Have not much chance or room to

turn it over. W'ould like to save it
with as least work or trouble as pos-

» sible, as I am alone with three small

children—Mrs. ,McC.,
Mich.

-—Corn fodder when ﬁrst shredded
usually goes through a sweat and
heats. If the fodder was reasonably
dry when shredded, it is not likely
that it will heat sufﬁciently to cause
decomposition. On the other hand,

Breedsville,

. if it was quite wet. it will become

hot and .dewmnosH. R. Moses.
 Prat. 0: Earn Crops. M. A. O. ‘

 

      
  

~will get approximately $800 more

   

., But they could. not imprisbii you. the: 
“perhaps if. they took your, dog you; I,
would want to go too. ' . ‘ ‘

You ask what is the value on a.
dog, and that is a very difﬁcult ques-
tion. Dogs are like men; their~valo
us is not easily determined. I know
of a dog whose life is insured for_'
$10,000. Obviously a very high.
priced dog. Many a small boy
would not take that much for the
little yellow mongrel that pals with
him, and is found with him wherev-
er he goes. Some women are very
devoted to little wooley dogs, and
value them more highly than child—
ren. 0n the other hand, the farm-
er's faithful shepherd or watchdog
that guards his property could proh— f
ably be bought and sold for the-
small sum of ﬁve to ten dollars.

A United States Senator omens:
made a famous speech in the Senate
on the virtues of the dog. Much:
has been written about the value of
dogs, and much more will likely be-
written, and after you have read it
all you won’t know any more about.
how much your dog is worth than
you did before. But if you have a
good faithful dog and he doesn't
chase chickens or kill sheep, you-
would better pay the tax and keep ,
him. Every boy ought to own. aw
good dog.,There are many things be: :
can learn from a faithful dog, which ,
will make him a better man when“,
he grows olden—Asst. Legal Editor. :

    
   
 

       
      
   
      
       
 
        
     
     
     
   
 
     
    
   
  
 
 
   
  
  
    
  
  
    
    
     
    
   
    
   
  
  
    
   
   
 
    
   
   
  
    
  
   
   
   
     
   
  
    
  
  
  
 
  
      
 
   
  

ASSmSING BANK STOCK

I have a few share of bank stock
of a bank in a nearby village, but I
live in a township located in an ad-
joining county. Is this stock ass»-
essable in the village where bank is: ‘
located or in the township where I"
live?———R. A., Lakeview, Mich.

—-Sub—division 3 of Section 4008 of
the Compiled Laws of 1915 is as fol-
lows: “All shares in banks shall be .‘
assessed to their owners in the town~

ship, village or city where the bank

is located: Provided, That the
shares owned by a person residing

-in the county where the bank is 10- >
cated shall be assessed in the town— '

ship or city where he resides." If

you reside in another county from

that in which the bank is located, it ,‘ . u
is clear that your stock should be 1
assessed in the village in which the .
bank is located—Clare Retan, Dep— ,
uty Attorney General.

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ARE BUYERS GIVING A FAIR
TEST?

Will you please inform, if in your
opinion, a price of 640 can be paid
for butter fat, together with 11,60
hauling, a total of 65%0, When New
York extras quoted at 54c and given
an honest test? In other words,
would not a 65%c price on a 540
market indicate a condition quite
out of the ordinary? Frankly we
believe this situation means that
something is being taken out of the
test to admit this price—F. A.,
Sears, Mich. I
question as to Whether a'

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—The ,
creamery can pay 651/; cents for j ,
butterfat depends entirely upon .

What price he is selling his butter.
I don’t know as the price he pays for
butterfat necessarily has to be based
upon What New York extras are
worth. This is generally true but
we happen to know of several
creameries that are getting a much
better price than New York extras
for their butter. I know of one
creamery that has sold butter at 506
a pound and has paid the patrons
better than 60c a. pound for butter.
fat, but they had a big volume of
business and their overhead was
very low. ’

In the instance that you mention-
ed here, if a creamery is making
40,000 pounds 'of butter 3 month
and paying 65c for their butterfat
and selling their butter at 54c, they

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for their butter than they will pay
for their butterfat. In a small
creamery this will take care of the
overhead, but if they didn’t have
this volume this margin would be
very close.

But answering your question to
the point, will say that we would 3
have to know what the creamery in
question is obtaining for their but-
ter before we could tell what their
spread was Wbetween their buying
and selling price. But even on- the
ﬁgures that you have given here we
would hesitate very much and think
any one should hesitate to say that
the...b.uyers are not giving an honest
test.TProf. 0. E. Reed, M. A. C. l

   
   
  
 
  

   
  
  

  
   
         
      

    
  
  
   

    

       
  

 
 

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“ OR shame, Bessie!" spoke up ,Mlss

Flora, with unusual sharpness for

,her. “I think your mother is just

right. I’m sure the least we can
do in return for this wonderful gift is to
show our respect and appreciation by go—
ing into the very deepest black we can
I’m sure I’d be glad to."

“Wait!” Mrs. Harriet had drawn her
brows together in deep thought. “I’m not
The
letter did not say that dear Cousin Stan—
ley had died he just hadn’t been heard
from. In that case, I don’t think we ought
to do it. And it would be too bad—that
Gaylord dance is going to be the biggest
thing of the season, and of course if we
were in black No; no the whole, I think
we won’t, Bessie. Of course, in two years
from now, when we get the rest, it will be
different.”

.“When you—what?”
startled question from Mr. Smith.

“Oh, didn’t you know? There’s an—
other letter to be opened in two years
from now, disposing of the rest of the
property. And he was worth millions,
you know, millions !"

“But maybe 11e———er——-Did it say you
were to—to get those millions then ?"

“Oh, no. it didn’t say it, Mr. Smith.”
Mrs. Harriet Blaisdell’s smile was a bit
condescending. “But of course we will.
We are. his kinsmen. He said we were.
He just didn‘t give it all now because he
wanted to give himself two more years to
come back in, I suppose. You know he's
gone exploring. And, of course, if he
hadn‘t come back by then, he would be
dead. Then we‘d get it all. Oh, yes, we
shall get it, I’m sure."

"Oh-h!“ Mr. Smith settled back in his
chair. He looked somewhat nonplused.

“Humph! Well, I wouldn’t spend them
millions———till I‘d got ’em, Hattie," advised
her brother—in-law dryly.

“I wasn‘t intending to, Frank,” she re-
torted with some dignity. “But that’s
neither here or there. \Vhat we’re con—
cerned with now is what to do with what
we have got. Even this will make a
tremendous sensation in Hillerton. It
ought to be written up, of course, for the
papers, and by some one who knows. We

 

 

It was a rather

want it done just. right. Why, Frank,
do you realize? We shall be rich—rich—
and all in a flash like this! I wonder

What the Pennot-ks will say now about
Mellicent's not having money enough for
that precious son of. theirs! Oh, I can
hardly believe it yet. And it’ll mean
everything to us. Think what we can
do for the children. Think—“

“Aunt Jane. Aunt Jane, is ma here?”
Wide open banged the front door as
Benny bounded down the hall. “Oh, here
you are! Say, is it true? ’l‘ommy Hook-
er says our great-grandfather in Africa
has died an’ left us a million dollars, an'
that we‘re richer ’11 Mr. Pennock or even
the Gaylords, or anybody! Is it true?
Is it?"

His mother laughed indulgently.

“Not quite. Jenny, though we have
been left a nice little fortune by your
cousin, Stanley (1. Fulton. And it wasn’t
Africa, it was South America."

“And (lid you all got some, too?" pnnied
Benny, looking eagerly about him.

“We sure did," nodded his Uncle Frank,
"all but poor Mr. Smith here. I guess
Mr. Stanley G. Fulton didn’t know he was
a cousin, too," he. joked, with a wink in
Mr. Smith's direction.

“But Where‘s Aunt Maggie? \th ain‘t
she here? She got some, too, didn‘t she?"
Benny began to look anxious.

His mother lifted her eyebrows.

“No. You forget, my dear. Your Aunt
Maggie is not a Blaisdell at all. She’s a
Duff—«a very different family."

“I don't care. she‘s just as good as a
Blaisdell,” cut in Mellicent; “and she
seems like one of us, anyway."

“And she didn‘t get anything?" be-
moaned Benny. “Say,” he turned valiant-
ly to Mr. Smith, “shouldn’t you think he
might have given Aunt Maggiie a little of
that money?"

"I should, indeed!" Mr.
with peculiar emphasis.

“I guess he would if he'd known her!"

“I‘m sure he would!” Once more the
peculiar earnestness vibrated through
Mr. Smith‘s voice.

“But now he’s dead, an’ he can’t. I
guess if he could see Aunt Maggie he‘d
Wish he hadn‘t died ’fore he could ﬁx
her up just as good as the rest.”

"I’m very sure he would!” Mr Smith
was laughing now, but his voice was just

 

Smith

5} who

as emphatic, and there was a sudden
ﬂame of color in his face.
“Your Cousin Stanley isnt dead. my

dean—that is, we are not sure he is
dead, spoke up Benny's mother quickly.
“He just has not been heard from for six
months.”

“But he must be dead, or he'd have
come bac ," reasoned Miss Flora, with
worried eyes; “and I, for my part, think
we ought to go into mourning, too."

“Of course he’d have come back,” de-
clared Mrs. Jane, “and kept the money
himself. Don’t you suppose he knew what
he'd written in that letter, and don't you
suppose he’d have and those three
hundred thousand dollars if he could?
Well, I guess he would! The man is
dead. That’s certain enough." '

-Wtell, ’ anyhow. we’re not
morning till we have to." Mrs. Harriett’s
lips snapped together .with ﬁrm de-
cision.

“Of course not,

‘ muted Bessie. .. .,

“Are We rich, ‘  ﬁlmy, ma?“ de-

   

 

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I’m sure I don‘t see
any use in‘having the money- if. we've" ‘
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THE STORY TO DATE

STANLEY G. FULTON,

50-year old bachelor , and . possessor of

R.
M twenty million dollars, calls on his lawyer and they discuss the dis-

position of this

large fortune after

its owner’s death. The lawyer

is-in favor of giving the money to colleges or charities while Fulton

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
Before giving them the money grows a beard and,

Worthy one he, through his lawyer,
they will.

To find out who is the
$100 000 to use as
using the

cousin

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

Upon arriving in town he visits James Blaisdell,

\Vhile there
who is a dressmaker. They

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

a

country, he starts out.

to Frank Blaisdell’s, the third cousin.
as a writer gathering material for a book on the Blaisdell family
He calls on all of the Blaisdells and as they all talk

He gets a. room there and, passing
in this

of a relative by the name of Miss Maggie Duff he decidemto call on the lady.
He ﬁnds her living with her father, an old man who seems to have soured

on the world.

110 secures what information he can from her and her father.

He then writes a letter to his lawyer discussing the various relatives he has met.
The members of the Blaisdell family that each cousin of Stanley G. Fulton
has fallen heir to $100,000 and there is much excitement.

 

 

 

 

 

“We certainly are, Benny."

“Richer than the Pennocks?”

“Very much.”

"An’ the Gaylords?"

“VVell—hardly that”-——her face clouded
perceptibly— “that is, not until We get
the rest—in two years." She brightened
again.

“Then, if we’re rich we can have every—
thing we want can‘t we?” Benny’s eyes
were beginning to sparkle.

“Well ” hesitated his mother.

“I guess there’ll be enough to satisfy
your wants, Benny,” laughed his Uncle
Frank.

Benny gave a whoop of delight.

“Then we can go back to the East
Side and live just as we’ve a mind to,
without carin’ what other folks do, can’t
we?” he crOWed. “’Cause if we are rich
we won’t have ter keep tryin‘ ter make

 

folks think we are. They’ll know it
without our tryin’ ” '
“Benny !” The rest were laughing;

but Benny‘s mother had raised shocked
hands of protest. “You are incorrigible,
child. The East Side, indeed! We shall
live in a house of our own, now, of

course—but it won‘t be on the East
Side.”
“And Fred‘ll go to college," put in

Miss Flora eagerly.

“Yes; and I shall send Bessie to a
fashionable ﬁnishing school,” bowed Mrs.
Harriett, with a shade of importance.

“Hey. Bess, you’ve got to be finished,"
chuckled Benny.

“What’s Mell going to do?" pouted
Bessie, 10oking not altogether pleased.
“Hasn’t she got to be ﬁnished, too?”

“Oh, I don’t know what I'm going to
do," breathed Mellicent, drawing an
ecstatic sigh. “But I hope I‘m going to
do just what I want for once!"

“And I’ll make you some pretty dresses
that you can wear right off, while they're
in style." beamed Miss Flora.

“But what are you going to do, Flo?
Here you'vo been telling what everybody
else is going to do with the, money."

A blissful sigh, very like Mellicent’s
own, passed Miss Flora's lips.

“Oh, I don‘t know," she breathed in an
awe-struck voice. “It don‘t seem yet——
that it’s really mine.”

“Well, ’t isn‘t," declared Mrs. Jane
tartly, getting to her feet. “And I, for
one. am going back to work—in the
kitchen, where I belong. And—Well, if
here ain’t Jim at last," she broke off.
as her younger brother—in-law appeared
in the doorway.

“You‘re. too late, pa, you’re too late!
It’s all done,” clamored Benny. “They’ve
got everything all settled."

The man in the doorwoy smiled.

“I knew they would have, Benny; and
I haven't been needed, I‘m sure——your
mother’s here."

Mrs. Harriet bridled, but did not look
unpleascd.

“But, say, Jim,” breathed Miss Flora,
“ain’t it wonderful—«ain‘t it perfectly
wonderful?”

“It is indeed—very wonderful," replied
Mr. Jim.

A Babel of eager voices arose then,

but Mr. Smith was not listening now.
He was watching Mr. Jim’s‘face, and
trying to fathom its expression.

A little later, when the women had
gone into the kitchen and Mr. Frank
had clattered back to his work down—
stairs, Mr. Smith thought he had the ex-
planation of that look on Jim‘s face. Mr.
Jim and Benny were standing over by
the ﬁreplace together. ’

“Pa, ain't you glad—about the money?"
asked Benny.

“I should be, shouldn’t I, my son?"

“But you look—so funny, and you
didn‘t say anything, hardly."
There was a moment’s pause. The

man, with his eyes ﬁxed on the glowing
coals in the grate, appeared not to have
heard. But in a moment he said:—

“Benny, if a poor old horse had been
climbing a long, long hill all day with
the hot sun on his back, and a load that
dragged and dragged at his heels, and
if he couldn’t see a thing but. the dust
of the road that blinded and choked
him, and if he felt as if he couldn’t go
another step, in spite of the whip that
snapped ‘Get there—get there i" all day
in his ears—how do you suppose that
poor old horse would .feel if suddenly
the load, and the whip, and the hill, and
the dust disappeared, and he found him-
self in a green pasture with the cool
gurgle of water under green trees in his
ears—how do you suppose that poor
horse would feel?”

“Say, he’d like it great, wouldn‘t he?
But pa, you didn‘t tell me if you liked
the money."

The man stirred, as if waking from a

trance. He threw his arm around Ben-
ny's shoulders.
“Like it? \Vhy, of course, I like it,

Benny, my boy! Why, I‘m going to have
time now—to get acquainted with my
children !”

Across the room Mr. Smith, with a
sudden tightening of his throat, slipped
softly into the hall and thence to his own
room. Mr. Smith just then, did not
wish to be Seen.

CHAPTER X
“'hat Does It Matter?

The days immediately following the
receipt of those three remarkable letters
by the Blaisdell family were nerve-
racking for all concerned. Held by Mrs.
Jane‘s insistence that they weren’t sure
yet that the thing was true, the family
steadfastly refused to give out any deﬁ-
nite information. Even the eager Har-
riet yielded to Jane on this point. ac-
knowledging that it would be mortifying,
of course, if they should talk, and noth-
ing came of it.

Their enigmatic answers to questions,
and their expressive shrugs and smiles,
however, were almost as exciting as the
rumors themselves; and the Blaisdells
became at once a veritable storm center
of surmises and gossip—a state of af-
fairs not at all unpleasing to some of
them, Harriet in particular.

Miss Maggie Duff, however, was not
so well pleased. To Mr. Smith, one day,
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MAPLE-SUGAR MAKERS, DO YOUR TAPPING EARLY

MAKERS of maple sugar have lost half and even more of their crops
many seasons by not being prepared for the ﬁrst runs, says the

United States Department of Agriculture.

_It is a good policy

to tap early in the season, not only in order to obtain the earlier runs
of sap but also because these early runs are generally the sweetest and
therefore the best sugar producers.

All sugar makers are familiar with “sugar weather."

In general,

the season. is ready to open during the middle or last part. of February
» in the southern sections and later in the northern ones, when the days
are becoming warm, the temperature going above 82 degrees F., and

the nights are still frosty.

If the days are very bright, warm, and

 sunny, the sap starts with a rush, but soon slackens. ' A high wind.
, warm spell, or a heavy freeze checks the ﬂow, but the return of season-
able weather causes it to start again.

Records of opening and. closing

dates kept in an.0hio sugar;  

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if.
come and-get done "with it! certainly
the present. state of affairs is , almost
unbearable.”. ’ _ ., .  v ‘t
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you, to havevit 7, drag along like this,
doesn’t it?” murmured Mr. Smith un-
easily.

“For—me?” , - .

“That you are not included in the be-
quest, I mean.”

She gave an, impatient gesture.

“I didn’t mean that. I wasn’t think-
ing of myself. Besides, as I’ve told you
before, there is no earthly reason why
I should have been included. It’s the
delay, I mean, for the Blaisdell’s—for
the whole town, for that matter. This

- eternal ‘Did you know?’ and ‘They say’

is getting on my nerves !” _ ,
“Why, Miss Maggie, I didn‘t suppose

you had any nerves,” bantered the man. ’

She threw him an expressive glance.
“Haven’t I!” sho‘etorted. Then again
she gave the impatient gesture. “But

even I the gossip and the questioning
aren’t the worst. It's the family them-
selves. Between Hattie’s pulling one

way and Jane the other, I feel like a.
bone between two quarrelsome puppies.
Hattie is already house-hunting, on the
sly, and she‘s bought Bessie an expensive
watch and a string of gold beads. Jane,
on the other hand, insists that Mr. Ful-
ton will come back and claim the money,
so she’s running her house now on the
principle that she's lost a hundred thou-
sand dollars, and so must economize in
every possible way. You can imagine it !"
“I don’t have to--—imagine it," mur-
mured the man. Miss Maggie laughed. ~
“I forgot. Of course you don’t. You
do live there don’t you? But that isn‘t
all. rFlora, poor soul, went into a restau-
rant the other day and ordered roast
turkey, and now she's worrying for fear
the money won’t come and justify her
extravagance. Mellicent, with implicit
faith that the hundred thousand is com-
ing, wants to wear her best frocks every
day. And, as if she were not already
quite excited enough, young Pennock has
very obviously begun to sit up and take
notice."
“You don‘t mean he is trying to come
back—so soon !” disbelieved Mr. Smith.
“Well, he’s evidently caught the glitter
of the gold from afar,” smiled Miss

Maggie. “At all events, he’s taking
notice.”
And—Miss Mellicent?” There was a

note of anxiety in Mr. Smith‘s voice.

“Doesn't see him, apparently. But she
comes and tells me his every last move!
(and he’s making quite a number of
them just now!), so I think she does
see—a little."

“The young rascal!
———care?"

“I think not—really. She’s just ex—
cited now, as any young girl would be;
and Phi afraid she’s taking a little wicked
pleasure in—not seeing him.”

“Humph! I can imagine it," chuckled
Mr. Smith.

“But it's all bad—this delay," chafed
Miss Maggie again. “Don't you see?
It‘s neither one thing nor another.
That’s why I do wish that lawyer would
come, if he‘s coming.”

“I reckon he’ll be here before long,"
murmured Mr. Smith, with an elaborately
casual air. “But—I wishyou were com-
ing in on the deal.” His kindly eyes
were gazing straight into her face now.

She shook her head.

“I‘m a Duff, not a Blaisdell—except
when they want—” She bit her lip. A
confused red suffused her face. “I mean.
I’m not a Blaisdell at all,” she ﬁnished

But she doesn't

hastily.
“Humph! That’s exactly it!" Mr.
Smith was sitting energetically erect.

“You’re not a Blaisdell—except wheﬁ
they wantssomething of you !"

“Oh, please, I didn't mean to say—I
didn’t say—that,” cried Miss Maggie, in
very genuine distress.

“No, I know you didn't, but I did,"
ﬂared the man. “Miss Maggie, it's a.
downright shame—~the way they impose
on you sometimes.”

“Nonsense! I like to have them—I
mean, I like to do what I can for them,"
she corrected hastily, laughing in spite
of herself.

“You like to get all tired out, I sup-
pose.”

“I get rested—afterwards.”

“And it doesn’t matter,
course,” he gibed.

“Not a bit,” she smiled.

“Yes, I suspected that.” Mr. Smith
was still sitting erect, still speaking with
grim terseness. “But let me tell you
right here and,,now that I don’t approve
of the doctrine of yours."

“ ‘Doctrine.’?”

“That ‘It-does-n’t—matter’ doctrine of
yours." I tell you it’s very pernide—
very! I don’t approve of it at all."

_There was a moment’s silence.

“No?” Miss Maggie said than, demure-
ly. "Oh, well—it doesn’t matter—4f you
don’t."

He caught the twinkle in her eyes and
threw up his hands desparingly.

“You are incorrigible!”

With a sudden businesslike air of de-
termination Miss Maggie faced him.

“Just what is the matter with that
doctrine, please, and what do you mean?"
she smiled. ‘

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Sharood has knocked the very bottom out of prices—everything sacriﬁced to
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Manchurian
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For Girls and
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u up- you see how smart and stylish
poar- our little irl looks in this Fur
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yet V817 keep her warm and _comfort-
economi- able, andéiositively give satis-
cal"? 9"“ faction. ollar of warm Cone
is this soft.

Fur. Two novelty pockets. A 1
around belt. Novelty buttons
trim pockets and belt. Really
an amazing value at our special
Clearance Sale Price. Sizes 7
to 14 years. State size.

Order Navy by No. 5F7308.
Brown by No. 5F7310. Send
Sale Price, $3.98,.and 10c postage
for either color. .
Same quality coat forcbildren furnished
in sizes 2 to 6 years. \
Order Navy by No. 5F7458. Brown
by No. 5F7460 Send Sale Price,
$2.98. and 10c for postage. Satis- . ,_
faction Guaranteed or Money Back ‘1; g 
Instantly. * “*8

Wmen ’8
Popular
Stitclnlo wn

Oxfords

warm Man-

about 13 in., longand
bushy. You'll still
get plenty of wear
out of this scarf this
season if you buy It
right now , and you’ll
make a genuine sav—
ing because of our
special Clearance .
e Price.

Order Black byNo.8F9000. Brown by No. 8F9001.
Send Sale Price, $3.69, and 6c for postage. Satis-
faction Guaranteed or Money Back Instantly.

    
    

In these ﬁne Stitchdown
Oxfords Sharood comblnes
real comfort with snappy
style. Uppers of Brown
Calf Finish, or Patent
Leather. Smooth leather
'iusoles. Flexible stitched

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Men- apringy rubber heels. _ A
“.39 '19 . rare opportunity to save real money. Sizes 2% to 8. Wide
""3 “DEM”! widths. Order Brown by No. 9F273. Send Sale Price.
“313 “96‘3"” ‘f you $1.98, and 8c for postage. Order Patent Leather by
want to make I ~ - No. 9F274. Send Sale Price, $2.43, and SC for post-
ggldazitngéuggazﬁnﬁnbm age. IState stilze. Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money
Iii-cut 4-buc_kle arctic, built for real wear. Double thick Back “at” y‘ a  ' '
soles and reinforced seams. Snow excluding tpn e. Sizes G d l .
6 to 15. Wide Widths. Buy now, while the big ale Is on! 00 o =
Order by No. 1F990. Send Sale. Price $2.49, and
1132c for postage. Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Ing’

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Women’s
Fleece Lined
Extra Soft Black

Kid Finished

Comfort

DressShoo

for wimen

Choice of Black or

There's real com-
fort for your feet
in these splendid
shoes. and re

comfort for your

ancy perfora-
ted stitched tip

' With medallion . ' Hi-Cut Lace
$111319 3: 3:123. ontoemeat per- , Bootsarereally
Clearance 9 1'0 rat 1 0n 3 at ' worth much more
price U poi-s State vamp and lace than we ask for them
of sdft iable 5'20 WW- . 'llm now. The soft Kid ﬁnish

d tiblshed extension oak leathers are comfortable,

sole with walk-

leather; heavy ﬂeece liningthat keeps feet warm in coldest Nimble f0? dress 01' Street Wear-

weatber. Excellent natural oak leather soles; low rubber in ﬂight heel- . . . '

been. . memes      artistes- snare-asses.-airman

gandgalesgﬂﬁce. $15.29: :33  tor pgigob?F88t§& No“ 9F194- gem! Sale Price, $1.98. and 10c postage
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Child’sTwo-Tone 

Middy Dress
. $12;

one of the biggest bargains in
children 's dresses ever offered.
arm, serviceable, and pretty
2- iece Middy st le With smart
B ken blouse.o all red ﬂannel ,
cotton warp. and blue Se
Blouse has round col at
an cuifs. Front, collar, cuffs,
and Balkan bottom embrOidered
in contrasting colors. _Rope 
die With tassels at waist. S
hangs in clustered plaits from
white muslin underwaist. Fur-
nished 9nly with red blouse and
blue skirt combination. Sizes 7
to 14 years. Order by No.
7F8326. Send Sale Price,
$1.98,and5cforpostage.State
size. Satisfaction Guaranteed
or Money Ba k Instantly.

    

Sizes
7 to 14
Years

Embroiered
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mirror when you try on
this excellent quality Em-
broidered abardine
dress, and see the trim,
slender, smartappearance
you’ve attained. A dress
guaranteed to give long,
satisfactory wear. Skirt
is ﬁnished with two wide,

oose panels attached at
waist and bottom. Edges
bound in black, and em-
broidered in contrasting
color. Newlongrollshaw
effect collar, vestee, and
latest bell shaped sleeves
all embroidered to harmo~
nize with skirt panels.
Slightly shirredat waist-
line in back. Sizes 44 to
. bust measure. State
Size and length.

Order Navy by No. 5F7610.
Brown by No. 5F7612. Send

   

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Size postage. Satisfaction Guaran-
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Mid-winter Bargain

Sale Book

Get Your Go yNow
Your order from this a vertisement
brings you our beautifully illustrated
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fresh from the presses, and listing

nearly a thousand matchless bargains in
everything to wear for every member of the family.
so send you, regularly, every

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Side-Tie Fur Trimmed

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Designed alon . the
season’s newest mes. .-
Excellently made of
serviceable W901
MixedVelour With
Genuine Brown
Coney Fur Shawl col-
lar. Excellent tWilllining.
Embroidery adorns the back
and also sleeves which are
stylishly fashioned. With sepa-
rate cuti's. Len h_ about 48
inches. Women s_ sizes 34 to
44 bust. Misses' Sizes 32 t038
bust. Order Brown by No.
5F7130. Navy by No.
5F7 132. Send Sale Price,
$9.98, and 16c postage.
tate size. Satisfaction
Guaranteed or Money
Back.

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Bargain!
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this low price—qualit con-
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and sit are prettin tr; in
With gay co ored cretonne.
The pockets are ﬁnished with crepe
applique edged With piping. Sizes.
small, medium and! e.
Order No. 7F6001. Send Sale
Price, $1.49,a.nd 5cforpostage.
State size. Satisfaction Guaran-
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of sending you smaller books fre

touch with the latest

fashions and the most attractive

can readily see the advantages of Sharood’s plan
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often fails to reach you until its styles and its prices are entirely out of date.
You Will even more 1\Euickly see the beneﬁts of the Sharood plan when you receive

your cop of this
through it to convince you that

id-Winter Bargain Sale Book; for it will take but a glance
Sharood’s offerings are the very newest—their

prices the very lowest in America—bar none!

Send Quick!

them on approval—even before you get our book“.

through these offers—don’t overlook a single one.
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because they are sure to be snapped up qu1ck. .

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gs you this Sale Book, and also puts you on our.

they have ever gone before!

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Help Farmers  

* HROUGH membership in a miﬁlty co?rative loamsysv

tern, nearly farmers: are m: -. their mortgages»
' ‘thetwelve  ‘ thesefamasue
borrower ‘shares in the proﬁts earned Already, more than
$7,000,000 has been paid as dividends.

Money for. these mortgage loansis- . thesdeof

' mm «hands
Fuleral Land BankBonds. Moneyinwested in these Bomﬁ helps

m- build up the farming Elsinva providing needed 
Federal Land Bail: Bonds have all: the safqu ﬂood farm

macs, plus adcﬁtional guarantees. .

LandBank  sacrament
inheritancetaxes. Interestreceivedfromthemicfrecﬁom
income taxes. ,, "

You can turn FederallandBankBondshwcaoh onshort
notice or use them as security for a bank loan. _

Federal Land Bank Bonds yield a regulu income, myabl'e
twice a year. Price and interest rate on request.

Federal Land Bank Bonds may be had in denominations
to ﬁt your bank account: $40, $100, $500, $1,000, $5,000 and
$10,000. Your choice of coupon or registered form, delivered

by registered mail. Correspondence conﬁdential. Remember,
the words “The Federal Land Bank” appear at the top of

' every bond issued by a Federal Land Bank.

Should you desire a Federal Farm Loan, apply to the Secrev
tary'Treasurer of the nearest National Farm Loan Association.
Your County Agent can give his name and address.

Write today for free pamphlet, “Getting
Together To Get Ahead.” Address the nearv
est Federal Land Bank or the Fiscal Agent
at Washington, D. C. Support your only»
national cooperative lending and investing
system, by putting your surplus funds into
Federal Land Bank Bonds.

Bu)
11 :i. ran  Back
Don-i}

Federal Land Banks are located at
Spri'ngﬁeld.Mau. 8:. MMO. Louisville. Ky. Cdunbhyac.
Mod-ans, Ln. Berkeley, Cal. St. Paddling Houston-{I‘m
 Kansas mmbr. Baldmode. Spokane.“
Fiscal Agent
FEDERAL LAND BANKS
Washington, D. C.

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WelmondWmdmgn
ﬁnd the remedy very simple and M
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the ﬁrst m or  the

can W m‘ am also for
surmise; mmmmmauasw
disarm! their: term alarm at
it. motor toilets we the New 0!
their tile and for  as: W
text or ﬁfteen years W
This would be It!!! to all Ind: special
privileges to 110116». Each one Would
decide  own tate- ald the: public.

‘wo‘ul‘d. be much. surfer and would

soon  a; great reduction. in lives
lost and the hospital bills”. Extrem-
tag the speeder I would like to know

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The Michigan

Business Farmer $ -2 5
(Bi-Weekly) ‘ . '
AND __
Detroit Times 4 
(Daily Market Edition) Regular Price $6.00

E believe this to be the greatest oﬂer ever made to residents or rural
routes in Michigan.
you abreast of state and international news of thekday and Michigan's

e, to cop you posted on

farm news. the trend of the markets and what farmers and farmers’ organi-

zations are domg. This is an offer that should appeal to all real business
farmers and we are proud to be able to make it at this time.

It gives you a great metropolitan‘ially,

only home—owned and edited farm ma

GEO. M. SLOCUM. Publisher

This phenominai low price is made to R. F. D. addresses only. Use this
blank and send check, money order or registered letter to order

The Michigan Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Michicnn

BOTH ONE FULL 

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IKE MICHIGAN BUSINESS EARLIER,
Mt. Clemens, Michigan.
Dear Sir:—
Enclosed ﬁnd $3.25 for which you are to send The Detroit Times
égfgnﬁdayglgt Edition) and the 1mm Business Farmer. both

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Years ago “we   prohibit
saloous by high license which favor-

. ed the  that had the“  We

have had the same experience with
the automobile.

With, the experience we are hav-
ing trying to regulate the speed- of
automobiles I think it is time that
we applied something more erect-I
ive. Therefore. I have submitted the
above remedy and believe it might
be a beneﬁt to the public.-——-E. R.,
Greenville, Mich.

 

MORE ON RECORDING LAND
TRANSFERS

N a recent issue the Caro party
says he does not like the Mt
system or recenﬂng land: trous—
fers. I have never talked: to at prac-
tical farmer that did! ‘When J. W.
Heime was a legislator he tried hard
to have a. state—wide system at land
registry adopted by general: law.
along the lime of- “state guaranteed
lend titles” much in use in ‘other
states and Ontario—~0pﬂonal‘ with
interested owners whether or not
used. What happened? Every 'ab4
stract clerk and most of thereg—
istrars with their whole omce force.
halt the real estate men, all the tax
title beneﬁciaries in; the state, took
issue with the claimed advantages in;
the bill, caused its: defeat and have

- ever. since taken a: ﬁlms at Mr.

Hel‘me.

Since, a Mr; King of Esoaneba
proposed a change by‘ the indexed
register route, so simple that a grad-

' er from High School. could. drop in

the Register of Deeds’ oﬁce and tell
the parents what was to be found on
such a page, of such a date, of the
property they had need of knowing,
just a. matter oi! public history,—-a
text—book, it you please. What was
the result? He fared the same as
Mr. Hel‘me before him, and the same
afterward! He has had no friends

‘ among abstr'actors.

In another issue of Tm: anmss
me, a Michigan man complains
of our line fence law, the issue be—
ing “The obligation of a non-stock-
grower, a non-poultry—raiser is und-
er to maintain- half- a division
fence,” when said. owner cannot
possibiy beneﬁt. This is a very na-
tural feeling” just now when fence
motorist is so costly and so perish-
able, (light wire and thick sap posts
lasting but 12. years here) every
person hr. the» state with. like exper-

f. fence can so testify with. sympathy.

Our 30M lava are the cause of
this? miracles—a; state wide. law used
to‘ 3on owners of real estate
where as local not should be used.
The reason for this backward condi-
tion or government of Michigan is
largely owing to our extrema con-
servatism. We regularly elect poli—
m.

court decision resound; cow

   
 

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row

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Wm“ ‘M at 1915 “2‘39
date with. modern aﬁeﬁ or con-
ﬁrms—“Wreath: a' living m the
miscr’ly grasp of the new? I,
If there m m  tidy
mu- ni‘ I“. ﬁll

~owning, and earning argued living

from form. J and orchard m in
mm (the other elm ottom-
ers are always. radical: or progress-
ive) to, such do I. appeal tors ram—
053‘. uterine a few mﬁesﬁ‘ow .

Amend the Constitution. when it
m with new . .. We
write our normalise act. in Constitu-
tion, why not; write our primary and
registrations act as well; in Basic law!
Require prospective elector} from
other staccato register with Wt
m, ﬁlthy. full particular and
taking. a transcript of am to be
produced wherever they desist to
vote one year swarm, w or
six We;  m mid
greatly said police. Provide for a
public We  law instead a! a
nominating petition. The My of
ﬁrst em to qualify under his
party choice within a speciﬁed time,

or automatically leave- th-c some in 1

column. ﬁrst at left of  to
be done at spring election. No sep-
arate primary! Leave the necessary
elimination to the party or parties
listed. Provide for a larger town-

ship unit. for governing. locally by ?

consolidating two or more townships
of like topography and habit. of
farming with more power to enact
bar—laws than now. Provide: for a
vote of interest on petition- for pub—
lic work having for its object special
or frontage- taxes for beneﬁt. Pro-

vide oﬁcfal ballot at all school met- '

inns with voters resists
rector at. taking. census ‘ rty‘ days
prior to annual school meeting with
but two classes of voters eligible:

hrdl-;

those with children and? those with '
property assessed. Also mm hal- .

lot at Township primary for nomin-

ation; after the annual reports! the

Township is read instead a! before,
as now. Give local boards of review
more consideration in determining
what is land value for W'pnr-
poses. and eliminate staw: tax: from
agricultural and forest loads.

You now have speciﬁc tat: on can-

ines,.———-an. honest tax! Why not on

all animals including flair-bearers?
This would be a; boon to. assessors
and Boards of Review. If you Would
save the roads, tax the tires instead
of the gas! If you would save the
woods don't tax them-tax the» sec-

ond growth legs at the licensed'saw- .

mill.
A good dicpensirry law would: beat

'our present beverage controlr-it
,might not the bootl‘egger out or

business with  competition and
take. the money into the palms till.
We have not stopped eﬂectusﬁy the
consumption 01! alcohol—dined chang-
ed- the‘ vendors, taken them from lie-

bind“ the screen and placed them be- ,
hind the bush near the road—1E. .

R}, Port Hope" Mich.

 

_ True Chivalry
The genius of a certain Arkansas- editor

showed itself recently when be5 printed '_

the following news item in the local
column of his paper:

"Miss Beulah Blank, a Batesvillo belle '
of twenty summers. is visiting her twin ;
brother, age“ thirty-two.”—-Arkansu Tax- ,

p ayer.

Lawless Proceed!”
The teacher was giving, the class a.
lecture on j‘gravity." '
"New, children." the said, "it is the

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laWofmvirythwtk-eopsusonesrth.”'

“But please. teacher,"  One
small m “how did we stick on" carers
the )law was passed?’-~The= Tm (Lon-
don .

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I Belly-“Dims mm m When
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 $242,472,094). as compared wiﬂi
' 32.14.899.000 in 1922. and (183,-.-
‘885,000 in 19:21. This represents a
gain or nearly 13 per cent over 1922
and 30 per cent over 1921. The

valuations were computed on the .

basis of the December 1 price except
for such fruits as were out of season.
In those cases the price was that re-
ceived in the marketing .season.
Wheat, barley, ,rye .and beans com-
mander lower prices on December 1
than on the same date in'1922, all
other crops showing a higher price.
Corn, oats, hay, beans and apples
brought a larger total monetary re-
turn than in 1922, and Winter wheat,
corn, buekwheat,‘ potatoes and hay
returned a larger value per acre than
in 1922. These larger‘returns were
mainly due to better prices rather
than larger yields as only winter
, wheat, barley, beans and apples
shewed a greater production, as
shown by the annual report prepared
by L. Whitney Watkins, State Com-
missioner of Agriculture and Verne
. H. Church, U. S. Agricultural Statis-
tician. ‘ '
Notwithstanding this apparent im-
provement in the general agricul-
tural situation, Michigan farmers
were compelled to pay approximately
20 per cent higher wages to!- their
. hired labor than in 1922. On Octo-
ber 15, the average farm price for
crops and live stock was 21 per cent
higher than in 1913, but the whole-

  

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23 have a total estimated value

 

sale cost of all commodities was 53
per cent higher than in 1913.
Therefore, the purchasing power of
farm products: on that date was only
75 per cent of that in. 1913. This
is seven per cent higher than it Was
at the beginning of 1923 and 11 per
cent higher than the lowest point,
which was touched in August and
September, 1922.’ The trend being
upward, conditions may be said to be
improving but the increase has been
discouragingly slow' especially to
those farmers having heavy ﬁnancial
obligations. The farmers that se—
cured better than average yields '
generally realized a little proﬁt this
year, but practically all whose yields
fell below the average received no
adequate return' for their labor and
investment, and many suffered a
direct cash loss.

The spring was backward and the
planting of early crops thereby de—
layed. A heavy snow covering over
the northern half of the State de-
layed the arrival of warm weather.
Freezing temperatures occurred 'on
several dates during May. However, '
extremely warm weather in June
hastened growth and nearly all crops
attained a normal development by
the middle of July. The low tem—
peratures in May did some injury to
fruit in the southwestern counties
where a. portion of it was in bloom
at the time, but practically no harm
was done elsewhere in the State and
there was a good crop of nearly all
kinds of fruit. The season was un—
favorable for the development of
tungous diseases, and all fruit and

roots crops were unusually tree from \

them. Drought was particularly
severe in Mason and adjacent coun-
ties during July and August, causing
considerable damage to crops in that
region and lesser injury in other
localities. Good rains in September
helped late crops, and'the absence
of a general frost until October per-
mitted practically all crops to mature
well. The fall was mild and pleas-
ant which enabled farmers to com-
plete the harvesting of crops and to
do more than the usual amount of
plowing for next year’s planting.

For 1923, the State ranked 17th
among the states in the production
of all crops. Last year it held 22nd
place althbugh it usually holds 18th
place.

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Vanishing Ancestor
"How far do they trace their ancestry?"
"The grandfather, a City Bank Direc-
tor, was traced as far as China; there
all" traces were lost.”—London Opinion.

In and Out:

A taxi-driver recently got the Worst of
arordy bout. ~
4  old man with a wheelme would
.not‘ get out of the way, and the taxi-
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the market, PRICE was the
magnet that drew buyers be—
cause low price made automo'
biles possible for millions hith'
erto debarred from the advan—
tages of motor transportation.

Time and experience have de-
veloped the fact that purchase
price ——- although an important
factor—must always be con—
sideredinconnectionwithoper'
ating, and maintenance costs.

Chevrolet prices are not the
lowest on the _market, yet
Chevrolet economical trans—
portation averages lowest in
cost. This average cost con—
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maintenance costs.

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SUPERIOR Utility Coupe . 640
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TEXT: “What. is, old is gone. -
the new has come.”— Cor.
5:17 b. (Moffatt). I "

THIS new day of 1924 is one of
change. It is a day of exit.

The old is going and the new is
coming. This is a day of scrutiny;
of comparison, selection, and clini—
ination. It is a day when the prinA
ciples of cooperation and coordina-
tion are coming under critical obser-
vation. This day is seeing the lea-
ven of Christ doing some intense
work. We feel that world-wide, un-
iversal ideas, plans, and goals are
having their birth, tho in great tra—
vail. So, we may yet hope that the
twentieth century is yet to be bless-
ed thru a religion of international
good—will. “Go ye * * * and make
disciples of all nations,” says the
Christ.

When the apostle uttered the
Words of Our text, he was interpret-
ing.the realism of Christ. But re—
ligion, that is, Christianity, is still
in the crucible, because the world
has not understood. Faith yet
holds, that when we teach and live
all things whatsoever Christ has
commanded, then tomorrow will
have exchanged its provincialism,
nationalism, and radicalism, for in-
ternationalism and 'interracialism;
for human brotherhood. It will
have come up, or got back, to 3.
Gospel that is universal in its reach
and adaptation; back to Christ and
the apostles, Where there is neither
bond nor free, Jew nor Greek.
Chinese nor African, working-man
nor capitalist, klan nor anti—klan,
high caste nor low caste, but all are
one in Christ. The apostle Paul
says, further, that all creation is in
travail waiting the revealing of the
sons of faith. We all shall be glad
to hail the rising star of orthodoxy
thru a simple trust in Jesus Christ.
This is to be the sole seal of legit-
imacy in true religion.

What are some of the signs? {11
the home land there is hope that the
give Christ of denominationalism is
to give way to the Christ of the Gos—
pels. Church federation is growing,
and union and community churches
are becoming more numerous day by
day. In foreign lands, denomina-
tional and comity federation are
recognized as a fundamental need.
National churches are now in the
process of formation. S. D. Gordon
universalizes and well—nigh unsects
the Christian religion by saying that
the day is coming when you will not
be saked to what church you belong,
but what are you doing. (Cf. Matt.
25:31-46). And so it seems that a.
sacramental religion is to ﬁnd its
only justiﬁcation in a positive, ethic—
al Christianity.

Now, is the conventional church
meeting modern demands? As an
instance of failure, the Russian

church has all but gone to pieces,
spiritually and corporately. A na—
tive minister writes that the people
looked to her in this day of new
demands, “earnestly to direct the
life of’the nation in new and right
channels.” But in her conventions
the main topic of discussion was:
“what form of clothing should the
clergy wear?” This formal and rit—
ualistic church once dominated the
land. It satisﬁed the spiritual con-

ception and desires of the masses.

How we have hugged to our bos—

roms the historical signifance of the

Greek church still practicing apos—
tolic ordinances! This is the church.
that, not because of these ordi—
nances, but in spite of them, has, in

the crucial test, gone spiritually
bankrupt. It was a blind leader of
the blind. When it ought to have

been the spiritual solace and power
of Russia’s confused masses; when
it ought to have been ready to make
itself felt and heard, it was helpless
and impotent. It was tied down to
customs and traditions of the dead
ast.

D And we shall have to continue to
wonder for some time yet, how it is
that the Christ of Luke 4:18 is not
giving us economic comfort and po-
litical peace. But the new Christ-
ianity is to demonstrate that there
is a rational, a spiritual”, way to
solve human problems.' Former
President LWiison dared attempt to

" lead us. into’ftliis high road in intere‘

national.- politics. A magazinefwrit‘»
er wrote. at the time, “The human
familyiwill have to set. rightyasout

A" SERMON BY envy DAVID F- WARNER ‘,

.their inglorious reign.

 

» the work of reforming and master-

ing themselves, getting rid of their
prejudices and .ﬁxed ideas, and enter

. upon the task of judging everything

by the standards that Jesus laid
down, if it is going to fulfill the
President’s demands.” But let old
'men wail, women be “raped, "and
Smyrna burn; partisian politics and
industrial imperialism must have
Why? Ask
denominational church leaders who
are content in ofﬁcial smugness. Ask

I the capitalist who sits in the front
What christian is not ashams ,

pew.
ed of the pacts of
Lusanne?

It is but reasonable that the
church should urge unity, harmony,
and justice in all the domains of
human living.
God can come' on earth only by
writing the King’s teaching on the
hearts of nations, as well as individ-
uals. Today we are living under a
nervous peace and civilized human-
ity is falling back into social dis-
order and unhappiness. Thus, we
may know we are indiﬁerent to a.
democratic and ethical Gospel. We
are_to believe in Christian ordin~
ances, 'worship,iand prayer: but the
churches have yet to prove that
these things are creative of spiritual
power and life. Will it take an-
other period of war and .red 'gore of
battle to bring the church to her
knees?

I wonder if the church has ever
had such an opportunity as today,—
in China, India, Russia, Japan, and
elsewhere? In the great convulsive
condition of the world, all peoples
are groping for an articulate faith

Versailles and

in God. Chas. E. Scott found a
Chinese village where they had
thrown away their idols, forsaken

heathen priests, and had formed a
society to seek after the true God.
Is Christianity ready enough, united
enough, powerful enough, to bring
to the heathen world, the only true
Mediator of faith, Jesus Christ?
Life is being aroused everywhere. Is
the church able to direct it so that
it will not get lost?

Surely, this is a day of Kingdom
opportunity! To save it we must
have" a church outwardly federated
and inwardly generated. The times
are demanding vital religion, spirit-
ual religion, spiritual reality. A
convention of the South India Unit-
ed Church adopts the following:
“We face together the gi’gantic task
of the winning of India for Christ——

one—ﬁfth of the human race. Yet
confronted by such overwhelming
responsibility, we ﬁnd ourselves

rendered weak and relatively impots

ent by our unhappy divisions—di—
visions for which we were not re-
sponsible and which have been, as
it were, imposed upon us from with-
out; divisions which we did not
create and which We do not desire
to perpetuate.” When will we un-
derstand‘that, as another has said,
“The mission of Christianity is to
transform civilizations, not to trans-
fer them.”

Now, the world needs to know
that it is on the wrong road, that

it is staggering to ruin in its own'

self—righteousness. This declaration
must be the unceasing cry and pray-
er of the church. And it is, but
the world has not minded. Why?

.Well, on the church’s side as an in-

stitution, she has not met funda-
mental human needs and instincts.
So, the present crucible of affliction,
methinks, is pressing the church to
purge religion of unholy divisions
and dogmatical bickerings, and to
give the world a simple, practical
Gospel that meets the needs and
longings of a travelling humanity.
I wonder if the church could not
heal more souls if it would serve
more bodies.

BIBLE THOUGHTS

DO WE?—Jesus said unto him,
thou shalt love the Lord’ thy God

with all thy heart, and with all thy .

soul, and with all thy mind.—Mat-
thew 22:37. - ,

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have chosen? to leese the bands of
wickednelss, to undo the heavy but;-

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free, andthat ye break eyery yoke?

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OVER 500,000 WAYSIDE FARM
MARKETS IN 1924 \

HE summer of 1924 will see
more than 500,000 wayside mar-
kets in successful operation

throughout the United States.

While such a 'vast number Seems
almost incredible it is said to be
borne out by an investigation made
by the National Farm Market Bu—
reau, of Toledo, 0., an organization
devoted to statistical research and
in aiding the farmer in ﬁnding a
proﬁtable market for his produce of
whatever nature.

For the past year the Bureau has
has been conducting a campaign of
research into the extent and import-
ance of rural roadside markets, and
is authority for the statement that
1924 will ﬁnd half a million front-
yard markets doing business thruout
Uncle Sam’s domain, and—making
money.

It bases its enlightening declara—
tion on a thorough investigation
made in a dozen scattered states,
one of the surprising features of
which was that in 90 per cent of the
replies received from “wayside farm
marketers” the writers credited a
large share of their success to the
intelligent use of bulletin boards.

“Not only is the bulletin board
unfailingly an economical method of
adi'ei'tising for the farmer, but it in—
variably hits the nail on the head."
says the statement. “It is the
farmer’s ‘silent salesman’, summer
and winter, always on the job, con--
serving time and money, and in-
directly causing a stream of Shekels
to pour into the coffers of the road-
side market merchant, be he farmer
or gardner.

“To obtain a bulletin board is the
easiest thing imaginable. One way
is to take several smooth boards and
nail them together. Paint the sur-
face a dull black, and there you have
your blackboard bulletin board; or
cover the surface with blackboard
\ cloth, which takes chalk rapidly and
is inexpensive. Maybe the children
have a playroom blackboard, and if
so it can be used during the vaca-
tion season at least.

“Yet another way is to purchase a
board ready-made ‘in town’, or have
some carpenter make you one. Bet-
ter yet, in some communities enter-
prising merchants or banks, or man-
ufacturing concerns, give away neat
bulletin boards to their rural friends
or patrons conducting wayside mar—
kets. These are always excellently
made and are preferable to any other
sort. So if you want to succeed in
the wayside market business use a
bulletin, board.”

Here are some interesting facts
in connection with the investigation:

Number of questionnaires sent out,
21,592; replies received from persons
conducting bona ﬁde wayside mar—
kets, 5,481; percentage reporting
f ﬁnancial success, 94; percentage re—
, porting net annual proﬁt of $1.000.
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percentage of markets conducted ex-

clusively by women, 21; percentage
I of markets selling some commodity
, in winter, 34; percentage farm mort—
igages raised by proﬁts from mar-
kets, 18.

Average number of customers per
market daily (estimated), 38; great—
est number of customers, reported
in a day by any one market, 1.436;
earliest crop marketed, strawberries:
latest, apples; number buying autos
with market proﬁts, 2,214; number
installing radio sets, 708; number
buying musical instruments, 2,612:
number spending winter in Florida
or California on market proﬁts, 312;
number selling all farm products
through the market, 3,168; average

'I sellinaseason, June 15 to Oct. 1.

g "It s_ impossible,” states the re—
port, ,“to make any deﬁnite declar—
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Other Important Features

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SATURDAY. JANUARY 19, 1924

Edited and Published by
THE RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, Ino.
GEORGE M. SLOOUM, President
Mt. Clemens, Mlchlgsn
Detroit Ofﬁce—Washington Blvd. Building
Represented in New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Minneapolis by
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FRIDAY PREDICTS PROSPERITY

R. DAVID FRIDAY, economist, .and former

president of Michigan Agricultural College

spoke on three occasions in Detroit last
week, and in each, predicted that 1924 would
see a continuation of the prosperity which com-
mercial centers of the country are enjoying and
8. distinct improvement in the position of the
farmers.

Regarding Michigan and the agricultural situ—
ation, he said: “Notwithstanding reports to the
contrary, agriculture, outside of the northern—
most districts of the wheat belt, has experienced
a not unfavorable year. Michigan farmers
should have been pretty well satisﬁed with their
returns from sugar beets and beans. The most
discouraging outlook is that of the wheat farmers
of Montana, the Dakotas and perhaps Nebraska.
The process of ﬁnding relief in these regions
through diversiﬁed farming, must be slow, and,
unless Canada’s wheat crop fails, our wheat
growers must suffer from keen competition.”

These words are doubly effective coming from
Dr. Friday because his reputation as a prophet
have been pretty well borne out, since he made
his statements at Farmers’ Week at Lansing, a.
year ago, that the year 1923 would see a con-
siderable improvement in farm conditions, especi—
ally here in Michigan, and that the exodus of
farmers to the cities,‘ could only result in an im-
proved condition for those farm )I‘S who remain
on the farm. Further that lessened produc-
tion always resulted in higher prices, whether
it be in raw materials, manufactured articles, or
in farm produce.

At least most of us will hope Dr. Friday is
right about 1924. * We believe he is!

HOWARD SAYS SO, TOO!

AMES R. HOWARD, former president of the
American Farm Bureau, is the ﬁrst agricul-
turist in the public eye to support our conten-

tion that the restriction of immigration is a dis-
advantage to the farming business in America.

Mr. Howard, however, takes it up from the
viewpoint that our restriction of immigration is
causing the colonization of many new agricultur-
al territories in other lands which will be com-
petitors of America, if not immediately, in fu-
ture generations.

It is our contention that if the right kind of
emigrants, real workers and their families, are
allowed to come into the United States freely
and be absorbed by industry ,and agriculture,
they would of themselves offer a sufﬁcient con-
suming market to more than merit their admit-
tance, and that in the name of humanity there
is no reason why we should close the gates to
this land of prosperity!

We do not wish to be construed as commend-
ing unrestricted immigration, but we do believe
that it is pessible for the American consuls
abroad to separate and segregate undesirable ap-
plicants and not to allow any prospective immi-
grant to set out from his native land without
credientials in his pockets which would, when
he had proved himself worthy, admit him to cit-
izenship here. ’ .

The present situation only means that the
dehudforlaborinthecitieshascurtanedena
tirer the supply of labor to the farms and the
“ farmer'mnet. look to, immigration if he lsgto be
supplied. There are millions of peasants who

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TEE 1924no-An’ 

VERYONE interested in good roads in Michi-

gan will praise the present plans of the
state highway department to complete 500
miles of concrete roads and such" additional

gravel roads as the state can pay for from the -

funds derived from license tax receipts and the
sale of road bonds, during 1924. ‘ .

The Governor ﬁgures that not less than 100
miles can be built entirely by the prison labor
already organized for road work, and in addition,
every available prison "trusty" will be applied
to the construction of the paved highways if the
Governor has his way. >

Already the State Highway Department en-
gineers have disclosed that on 10.4 ‘miles of pave-
ment laid on Grand River Avenue by both-free
and prison labor, the state saved over $36,000,
or nearly $4,000 per mile, less than the estimates
of the lowest bidders. ' ‘ .

THE BUSINESS FARMER has commended from the
ﬁrst the use of prison labor on the roads in
Michigan, both for building new roads and the
maintenance of the hundreds of miles of good
roads we already have in condition. We have
also commended the Governor on the establish-
ment of the state—owned cement plant, because
the requirements this year are estimated at
1,000,000 barrels of cement for road construction
in Michigan alone. This does not mean that the
state can make all of the cement they use, but
that with this factory in operation it will set at
rest any of the many rumors that the state is
being gouged by the organized cement manufac-
turers.

Michigan has a right to be proud of the pro-
gress,.made in road building during the year 1923,
but from all indications 1924 will out—distance
that record. Good roads are expensive, but in
the long run good roads will show a proﬁt to
every citizen who helps to pay for them.

THE BOK PEACE PLAN

OME months ago that public-spirited individ-
ual, Edward Bok, former editor, offered
under certain conditions a cash prize of

$100,000.00 for the best plan submitted for
world peace, .and the winning plan has just been
awarded the prize. The name of the winner has
been withheld, however, because it is desired to
take a national referendum as to whether the
people of this country want a permanent peace
plan and whether the suggested plan is satis-
factory. It is felt that if the winner's name
Were announced before the referendum was made
it might be construed as a political move from
one side or the other and thus the whole value
would be lost.

The plan briefly proposes as follows: .
I. That the United States shall immedi-

ately enter the Permanent Court of Inter-

national Justice, under the conditions stated
by Secretary Hughes and President Hard-

ing in February, 1923. V
II. That without becoming a member of

the League of Nations as at present consti—

tuted, the United States shall offer to ex-
tend its present cooperation with the League ‘
and participate in the work of the League

as body of mutual counsel under conditions

which ,

1. Substitute moral force and public
opinion for the military and economic force
originally implied in Article X and XVI.

2. Safeguard the Monroe Doctrine.

3. Accept the fact that the United States
will assume no obligations under the Treaty
of Versailles except by Act of Congress.

4. Propose that membership in
League should be opened to all nations.

5. Provide for the continuing develop-
ment of international law.

This plan would seem to place the United
States in the position which we have always felt
it should occupy as the leader in the progress of
world peace and democracy. It should be ob-
vious to every thinking American that we can-
not stand isolated from the rest of the world and
serve the useful purpose to humanity for which
we are dutybound.‘ If any of our readers have
not read the Bok Peace Plan we will be glad to
secure for them copies which can be passed on to
your local farm organizations or churches, as it
to voluminous for reprinting completely in these
columns, although we would like to.

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A GOOD JOB WELL DONE

OHETIMESV we think the ﬂowers given the
living are much more 'cherished than those
placed on the caskets of the dead and a

dainty nosegay 'on our way to Work some morn-
ing may be more inked than the ﬂoral horseshoe
Von ore-planning to “send us!

All of  lemons-co out We 

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hazardous and general

'one that we certainly do notenvy them. Mery-

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one wants‘hia taxes reduced and yet‘it- is-.’ob¥-""."
vious that some taxes are too low and must the "Li
You can well imagine the grief that..5

such a job brings with it. ’ ~‘ _

This Commission has-worked nightsnd day/1,7

during the past year trying to relieve the to: sit-

uation which exists in Michigan and ‘we~ have I‘

heard few Words of commendation. ,,

We hope, theCommission will accépL‘thls as
,a slight token of our appreciation of work well
done by faithfulpublic servants, in which we
hope we will be joined by the many thousands
of farmer-readers of THE BUSINESS FARMEE.

COREY. SPENCER, A onEVALIER
IF you happen to meet Corey Spencer, of Jack-

son, owner of the Grand River Stock Farm,
at an auction sale in the near future, hesitate

before you step up and slap him on the back and—-

call him by his ﬁrst name. .

As told on page 4 of' this issue, Mr. Spencer
has been awarded the Croix' de Chevalier du
Merite Agricole and that he should speak to come
mon folks in the future will be only because-of
his generous good nature andlis desire not to
show a swollen cranium simply because of the
deep honor which the French government has
conferred upon him.

Mr. Spencer is famous—in Michigan not only
for this signal honor but for a good many years
of conscientious work in building up the live-

stock industry in Michigan, particularly in the'

Holstein breed and for which, we doubt, if he
will ever receive any especial badge of merit
from our state or government. We are rather
lax in this country in acknowledging obligations
of this kind and we could well follow the example
set by the French government in this regard.
There are any number of men who have con-
tributed unlimited advantages to agriculture who
have never received a pittance for their toil or
any recognition from their government.

We are glad that this signal honor has come:

to Michigan and particularly to Corey J. Spencer
because he deserves it.

HAVE YOU A RADIO?

“ HEY don’t know what they’re missing,”
said a good farmer friend of mine from
whom I inquired as to the reason why so

few farm homes are equipped with a radio re-

ceiving set.

The second reason which we found for the ap-
parently cold reception which farmers are giving
radio was the fear of lightning traveling down
the aerial and causing damage to the home. This,
however, can» be easily prevented either by a
knife switch or a special lightning arrester which
costs only a dollar or so and offers automatic
protection, besides being approved by the insur-
ance underwriters s0'that it does not affect ﬁre
insurance any more than telephone or lighting
wires coming into the same house: ‘ g

It is a fact, friends, that you who are isolated
from towns and cities do not know what you
are missing by not equipping your home with a
radio receiving outﬁt. You can build a. set
yourself that will give excellent results or you
can buy one at a. comparatively low cost when
the daily pleasure and profit to be derived from
a radio is considered.

Next to the automobile I consider the radio
the greatest advantage which the farmer has
achieved in our lifetime. Think it over and we
believe you will want one!

A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT
SECRETARY of State Hughes setup a very
dangerous precedent when he decided to
sell arms to the present constitutional gov-
ernment in Mexico and refused to sell them to
Huerta and the rebels who are opposing President

Obregon. _
No matter which side is right we must keep
in mind that our own George Washington was
a rebel in the eyes of the British monarchy, and

while Secretary Hughes and the administration“

may be perfectly justiﬁed in the present situ-
ation, there is a precedent being set up here of
discrimination on the part of our government
which might in time lead to most serious con--
sequences.

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 IS is a title of a circular which

Landon 8; ~Werling, 1307 Perry
‘   Street, Detroit, Michigan, sent
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 least, because they not only wanted '

 the goods but after they got them
ugﬁthey forgot tops: for them!

Their circular offered fancy prices
. for dressed veal and hogs and chick-
' 011. turkeys and ducks. ‘ One of our
« readers sent them 20 hens,» weigh-
' 1118' 110 pounds, and another reader
,_ shipped two mates of Barred Rock
» hens, 84 in all, weighing 175
. (pounds, and they are still “waiting
V at the church” for their money.
 We not only made an investiga-

tion, but on ﬁnding that we could
not locate the parties, turned the

matter over to the local post omce .

‘ inmctor, who under date of Jan-
uary 10th returned our. ﬁle stating
as follow: “In reference to enclos—
ed correspondence, I have to advise
that the concern complained of are
out of laminae, left no' change of
address, and all eilort to locate eith-
er of the persons has been without
result. It appears to have been a
case of a couple of ﬂy—by—night op—
erators who gathered in what they
could get and then disappeared.

“It would appear to me that your
paper could accomplish great good
by advising all of your patrons to
not ship products to any strange
concern without ﬁrst making some
inquiry regarding their rating. If
they would do that there would be
fewer losses and complaints."-—— .
E. Fraser, Post Ofﬁce Inspector.

The Inspector is quite right and
we have for several years pointed
out to our readers of this page, that
we would be glad to investigate any
commission house which oilers them
an outlet for farm products, at no.
expense to our subscribers, and ad-
vised our readers not to ship to any
concern which they have not had
previous experience or which was
not recommended by this publica-
tion or some other reliable source.

Apparently some peole never will
learn and all we can do is to keep
the facts before those who will.

SHE MAKES IT G0!

I have a heavy simplex auto
knitter and I certainly make good
with it and when these people com-
plain they don’t make good, the
fault surely lies mostly with them-
selves. Just the other day I sold
$6.00 worth to one family alone. I
wish you would give me the address
of the lady having the Auto Knitter
for sale. Maybe I could buy the
medium or ﬁne cylinders for making
medium and fine socks. Also her
bobbins and hose boards. The Auto
hitter instruction book is just full
of various things one can make. The
directions are plain yet some I can’t
pick out. I know its my own fault,
not the little machines fault. I tried
to make mittens ‘and all at once it
seamed clear to me. I stick to one
thing, making gentleman’s socks. I
bought a 6 cylinder Saxon 1918 car

‘ and have a bank account. My car,
thHe not now, runs splendidly and
we surely enjoy it. That and little
expenses incurred with-a car, I have
kept up with my knitter. Also num-
: erous other things around the house
- and daintles for the table. I sell at
home, 73¢ per pair and I, take care
of a large home, besides cooking for
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 of mine, who are
‘ delighted with my socks. Yet I sold

‘ aiiother lady a machine who sits
down with her hands folded and says ,

she simply cannot learnto knit with
it. I tell her she don’t apply

herself. You, who. read this, could '

not have the responsible position
with the magazine if you had sat
back and said I simply can’t. Now
that’s the trouble with these unsuc-
cessful Auto Knitters. I quit playing
at our little country dances, because

I made more and shorter hours, and _

not out in all kinds of weather. One
can average from $2.00 to $3.00 a
day. I sold $6.00 worth one day. So
you see I madeand, sold 10 dozen
pairs. Paid off our potato diggers,
part money; $50200, sold 3‘ pair
socks to them besides all that the
people had me make for their sons
living in the cities, for Christmas.
Also there was my own dad and
brother, one a railroad engineer in
Chicago. All say nothing could have
been niéer than my socks,‘even jel-
lies or chickens sent them for
Christmas. - .

From now on I think I shall
charge 85¢ per pair. Even then, at
the stores' they are $1 per pair.

I was so angry at all the slams
directed at this concern. I just had
to tell you a few facts in their favor.
Respectfully, Mrs. Chas. Cudway,
Benzie County, Mich.

P. S. My folks take your paper
and I live with them, as they are
getting old and need me, so you see
usually half days is all the time I
have to devote to my machine, and
as we all read your paper I feel I
am one of the Michigan Business
Farmer family, too. "

AM printing the above letter be-

cause it seems to prove that the

successful ope ations of these
hand knitting ma ines is largely a.
matter of the severance and dex-
terity of the operator. '

Here is a woman who writes us in
apparent good faith that she has a.
machine and would like to buy an-
other, because she ﬁnds that she can
make a comfortable living knitting
socks at home, a large market for
which she ﬁnds among her friends
and relatives.

Within the past two week I have
had an inquiry from a woman with
two children and an invalid hus-
band, who would have to borrow
part of the $60 or $75 necessary
to purchase a knitting machine. She
wanted to know if I would advise
the purchase, and of course I had to
tell her that it would be too great a
risk until she had tried the work
and that my advice was that she
should put her situation up to a
knitting machine manufacturer and
ask him if he would not ship her
a machine on trial, with the under-
standing that she would purchase it
if she found she could operate it
satisfactorily, and make a living by
so—doing.

There is such a demand in the
farm homes for work for the women
to do in spare time that it is indeed
too bad that there is not some kind
of home employment which we can
recommend, and it has been our de-
sire to ﬁnd such employment for
our readers which has prompted us
to make a state-wide investigation
of the knitting machine proposition.
We are glad to publish any infom-

ation on either side of the case which ~

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OO-OPERTIVE LAND COMPANY

Do you know anything of the,

standing of the “Co-operative Land
Company, 1328 Chemical Bldg., St.
Louis. No.1” We received a circular
wismng us to list our farm with
them and requested a deposit of one-
half of the usual fee of $35.00,
($17.50), and they guarantee a sale,
or rather guarantee to furnish names
and addresses until we make our
own sale—W. V.

ill have had some . correspond-
ence regarding the Land Com-
pany at St. Louis, you mention.

Our advice is to send them no money,
as they work on the same scheme
that we have written up many times
in our columns. Ask them to give
you a name and address of any farm—

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HEALTH FACTS ON FRUIT
RUIT is not concentrated nutri-
ment. Most fruits’ contain from
75 to 95 per cent of water. The
balance 'is largely woody ﬁber or
cellulose, fruit sugar and minerals.
The. cellulose supplies the waste
which is so frequently lacking in
modern diets. _ ,

Cellulose furnished no nutriment;
it affords simply bulk and a me-
chanical stimulation to the move-
ments of the digestive organs. They
are built to receive this bulk and
their proper functioning requires it.

Thus the free daily use of fresh
fruit incidentally insures a. regular
supply of water and a certain bulk
to the food which prevents constipa-
tion, allays thirst, and, according to
some, diminishes the desire for stim-
ulating drinks.

Pure water should of course be
taken in addition to that supplied
by fruit in the diet. '

These‘reasons alone render fruit
a valuable addition to the diet, :but
there are other equally important
reasons for using it.

There are found in fruit, fresh
vegetables, fresh milk, fresh meat
and Whole cereals, certain chemical
compounds termed “vitamins.”
These protective food constituents
are not organisms but chemical sub-
stances present in minute quanti-
ties, but extremely important ‘in
maintaining the bodily health. Their
absence has been held responsible
for such diseases ‘as scurvy, beri,
beri, possibly pellagra, as well as
lesser degrees of ill health and faul-
ty growth.

Acid fruits, such as oranges, lem-
ons, limes and probably most ber-
ries, seem to contain these vitamins
in a very stable form. Heating to
the boiling point apparently does
not destroy the vitamins of such
fruits to the extent it does the vita‘
mines of most other foods.

Vitamin deﬁciency arises from the
use of pasteurized or sterilized milk,
white ﬂour, milled rice or cereals,
sterilized or highly cooked non-acid
foods, and cured meats. Fresh
meat, even when roasted, appears
not wholly to lose its vitamins.

Vitamin deﬁciency in one of its
most pronounced forms, scurvy, is
often present in infancy, due to the
use of pasteurized or sterilized milk
or too little milk. The child at
birth apparently has enough vita-
mins stored in its body to keep it
going, but after the ﬁrst month or
two it requires either fresh milk,
orange juice, or tomato juice, or

The Burden of Tax

ANY inquiries received from
various sources and some art-
icles written for farm papers

show that the effect of the proposed
constitutional amendment restricting
the issuance of tax exempt securities
is often misunderstood and the evils
of tax exempt securities is not ap-
prehended. I also ﬁnd that some
inquire why it is necessary, and
others as to what beneﬁt will result.
Some also do not understand what
the term “tax exempt securities”
covers. To make these matters
clear to persons who do not have
time or opportunity‘ for independ—
ent investigation I have summarized
the questions most commonly asked
and will answer each separately.

Question. What securities are ex—
empt from taxation? ‘
Answer. The bonds of the Na-

tional government are exempt both
as to principal and income from tax-
ation by the several states or any
subdivision of them. Part of them
are entirely exempt from any tax by
the Federal law which created them,

'but most of the mare not entirely.

Certain issues authorized.by the Fed-
eral government, such as the farm
loan bonds, are also entirely exempt.
The bonds of the states or any divi-
sions of them are exempt from Fed-
eral taxes, and are generally made
exempt from taxation by or within
the state that issues them. Other
states, however, may tax both prin-
cipal and interest.

Question. What is proposed by
the amendment?

Answer. To permit thevNational
government to tax the income only
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the deﬁciency.

Even though adults rarelysui'fer
from scurvy except on Artie voy-
ages or under conditions of priva-
tion, when fresh vegetables, fruit
and and fresh milk or meat are not.
available, it is not impossible that a.
partial lack of vitamins is respons-
ible for much ill health in those who
live largely on sterilized or cured
foods, or on a restricted diet.

The daily use of fruit is a safe-.
guard against vitamin deﬁciency. ,

There are still other important
reasons why fruit is a dietetic safe-
guard. /

It has been found that our foods
may be classiﬁed into those that on
burning or assimilation leave an
acid ash, and those that produce
bases, or alkalies. All foods are
burned or oxidized in the body, and
whether their ashes furnishes acid
or base is an important matter to
know.

The foods most favorable for
base-forming purposes are potatoes.
apples, bananas, raisins, oranges,
cantaloupes and tomatoes.

The strongly acid-forming foods
are meats, ﬁsh, eggs and cereals.

It is easily possible unduly to de-
crease the reserve alkalinity of
blood by dietetic errors, but not pos-
sible unduly to increase it.

The general tendency is to over-
acidity, and against this tendency
fruit is a safeguard.

Strained fruit juice is often ac-
ceptable, both to bowels and stom—
ach when the fruit itself is not.

Fruit should be eaten fully ripe
but decayed or moldy fruit should.
of course, be avoided. Bananas are
usually eaten underripe. They are
not ﬁt to eat until the skin is brown
and the pulp is mellow like a ripe
peach. Their starch is then chang-
ed to sugar. .

Bananas are more acceptable to
delicate stomachs as a puree made
by passing through a ﬁne strainer,
also when baked.

Cooked fruits, especially peaches
and pears, are often more acceptable
than raw fruits, _and as the acid
seem not to lose their vitamins in
cooking, one of the most valuable
properties is thus retained.

The acid ﬂavor of fruits is rend-
ered much more pronounced by
cooking, and thus sugar is required
to make them palatable, and in-
creases their fuel value. It is a
good plan to cook with sour apples,
sweet apples, raisins or other sweet
fruits.

Exempt Securities

to tax the income from the National
securities, in each case only to the
same extent as the government or
state taxes its own bonds.

Question. Does the amendment
apply to securities already issued?

Answer. No, only to those issued
after its adoption.
Question. Why ought such an

amendment be adopted?

Answer. To equalize the burdens
of taxation. As some escape tax-
ation by investing in tax exempt
securities this must be made up by
increasing the taxes of others. The
amount of state and municipal se-
curities in existence is now over ten
billion dollars, the income from
which is entirely exempt from Fed—
eral tax, and about twenty billions
of government bonds partially ex-
empt. The loss to the government
thereby has been variously estimated
at. from three hundred millions to
four hundred millions a year. The
eﬂect is to nullify the provisions of
the graduated tax and increase the
taxation of the ordinary individual.

Question. Who are most favored
by the present system?

Answer. The extreme wealthy
who have invested in tax exempt
securities. Under our graduated in-
come tax a. person having a not in-
come of one million from property
like .‘ railroads bonds, corporation
stocks, farms,” or business of any
kind, is required to pay a Federal
income tax of $550,800 per year,
while if he has'this amount of in—
come from tax exempt bonds he does
not pay a cent thereon. The gain,
is not large to those having small

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' Question. It is sometimes‘claim-
ed that those who buy tax exempt
securities pay enough more for them
to buy securities upon which the
interest is so low that the govern-
ment substantially makes up itsloss
in taxes and the purchaser derives
little gain therefrom. Is this true?

Answer. Only to avery limited
extent. There is always such a large
amount of tax exempt securities be-
ing oﬂered that there is little com-
petition for those having heavy in-
comes. For those having an income
of a million dollars the purchase of

a tax exempt bond paying 4.50 per'
cent would net as much as a taxable
bond paying 10.00 per cent, but the
same bond could be sold at the same
price by making the-rate of interest
slightly higher. The government
loses what the buyer of tax exempt
securities makes according to his in-
come. Tax experts and political
economists all agree that under a
graduated system of income taxes the
exemption beneﬁt to the wealthy in-

vestor is not passed on to the bor-

rowing municipality or state.

. Question. Is it necessary to
amend the Constitution when we al-
ready have what is known as the
Income Tax Amendment?

Answer. Yes. Although it was
generally believed when that amend—
ment was passed that Congress
would have the power to tax in-
comes from any source, the Supreme
Court has since held that it does not
extend the objects of the tax, and
only made it necessary to apportion
the tax among the states.

Question. Will conditions change
so as to make such an amendment
unnecessary?

Answer. 0n the contrary, condi-
tions are getting worse as the state
and municipal indebtedness is in—
creasing at the rate of about a bil-
lion dollars a year. This enlarges
the amount of property exempt from
taxes and places a heavier burden
on the salaried man and the man
who has only a small income as well
as on all incomes derived from in—
dustry, agriculture and commerce.

Question. Does the issuance of
tax exempt securities make any dif-
ference to the man whose income is
not large enough to require him to
pay an income tax, such as a small
farmer or a laborer?

Answer. Yes, because it increases
the cost of living. .

Question. How does the exemp-
tion of bonds increase the cost of
living?

Answer. By withdrawing money
from active business, thus decreasing
competition, and by increasing the
cost of capital to manufacturing
corporations, railroads and mer-
chants, thereby raising the cost of
manufacturing goods, making freight
rates higher, and generally increas-
ing the cost of doing bpsiness. Capi-
tal for building has been scarce and
high, making rents higher, and caus-
ing workmen to demand higher
wages. When dead capital is tied

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Question.‘ Does the amendment.
permit the Federal government to
tax the principal as well as the in-
come of bonds now exempt?

Answer. No. The amendment in
express terms applies only to income,
and provides that neither the govern-
ment or the states- shall discriminate
against the bonds of the other.

Question. Would farmers have to
pay a higher rate for land loans if
tax exempt securities were not per—
mitted to be issued?

Answer. . No.~ Investments in tax
exempt securities have withdrawn
immense sums which would have
been‘ used for farm loans, and there-
by reduced the rates of interest.
Many farmers were required to pay
their loans when money was hard
to get because the holders of the
loans wanted to put their money into
tax exempt securities. Farm loans
were formerly a favorite investment
for large estates. These estates are
now getting rid of‘ them as fast as
possible. If no more tax exempt se-
curities were issued the rate on farm
loans would fall for there would be
more competition for them. So, also,
if no more tax free issues were pre-
mitted the Federal farm loan bonds
would sell at substantially the same
rate. They would enjoy a prefer-
ence on account of the security, and
security has more to do with the
market price of bonds than the tax
free provision. There are now great
amounts of tax free bonds in exist-
ence that can not be sold on as fav—
orable terms as some of those which
are taxable. Moreover, as before
stated, the quantity of tax exempt
bonds is so immense that there is
more than there is demand for

a among the large income tax payers.

A considerable portion must be
taken by those whose income tax is
assessed at only a small percent.
The price these parties will pay ﬁxes
the pi‘ice of the whole issue an they
will pay only a very little more than
for a taxable security of the same
grade.

Question. Is this a political or
local question?

Answer. It is not. Neither is it
a question of occupation. Members
of both political parties voted for
the amendment when the resolution
passed the House of Representatives
in January, 1923. Two democratic
Secretaries of the Treasury and one
republican Secretary have recom—
mended the adoption of the amend—
ment. It was approved by President
Harding, who earnestly urged its
passage, and passed the House in the
last session of Congress. So many
organizations have approved it that
there is no space to mention them
all, but among the more prominent
are: the National Grange, Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation, the
American Bankers Association, Na—
tional Association of Real Estate
Boards, the United States Chamber
of Commerce, the American Econ—
omic Association, and the National
Tax Association. Economists and
tax experts, with practically no ex—
ceptions, favor it, and the legislature
of several states have already en-
dorsed it. ~/

How to Make Cooperation 3 Success

T is always easy enough to tell the
I other fellow how to do it, no mat-
ter What it is, but the number of
failures in co-operative effort would
seem to justify the following advice.
It is given by Lloyd S. Tenny, who
has made a study of the farmer or-
ganizations for the U. S.‘ Department
of Agriculture. He outlines there
seven factors of success:

1. The association must have a
definite object in view. Interviews
with farmers disclose that they fre-
quently do not know the purpose for
which the organization is being
formed.

2. The organization must be
formed on a commodity basis. Beth
at home and abroad and the out-
standing successes in co—operative
marketing have almost invariably
conﬁrmed their operation to a single
agricultural product or to a group of
products very closely allied.

8. There must be a sufﬁcient vol-
ume of business to cover Operating
costs and the business-should be con-

v- trolled or under contract by thepas-
Many efforts- in co-oper-

ers were willing enough to promise
to sell their products through the
association but, when the time came
to deliver these products, there ap-
peared to be equally good reasons
why the promises should not be ful-
ﬂlled. It is not good business for a
commercial organization to attempt
to proceed without contracts.

4. No business can succeed with-

out good management. The man-

agement is not only concerned with
selling the products profitably, but
must also recognize the individual
member in the association and must
function in such a manner as to
satisfy this human element.

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organization. -

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HE kangaroo baby is a very tiny

creature when he is” born. In-

deed he is Only as big as your
thumb, and would get lost if his
mother didn’t keep him in her pock-p
at until he grew larger. He is born
blind, naked, and so helpless that
his mother holds him betWeen her
lips while she uses her paws to open
the pouch so that she can put him
inside. She then sticks her mouth
into the pocket, being very careful
not to let the baby slip, and places
his mouth against a nipple. The
queer baby clings to it tightly and
does not let go for several weeks.
Even then he would die of hunger if

Mother Kangaroo did not force the

milk down his throat.

By working certain muscles in her
body, the mother pumps the milk
into her baby. Then she closes up
the pocket and the queer little mite
takes care of himself by clinging to
the nipple, his mother pumping milk
into him as he needs it. This is all
the care he gets for several weeks.

The tiny baby inside the nice fur-
llned cradle is slowly growing to
look like his father and mother. He
can see, hear, and move. He has a
soft fur coat on his body. Mother
Kangaroo now opens her pocket and
ﬁnds that the ugly mite has grown
to be a very nice baby. He is, per-
haps, the size of a big kitten. He
looks at her with his beautiful soft
eyes full of wonder. It is the ﬁrst
time he has seen his mother, but he
isn’t afraid of her. She is very
proud of her baby and coaxes him
to put his head outside the cradle.
The little fellow is too shy at ﬁrst,
but at last he grows bolder and peeps
at the queer world where his mother
lives. He looks very funny with his
small head and big ears poked
through the pocket.

For weeks he is content to remain
in the cradle, poking his head out
from time to time. If he attempt
to push his way out, however, his
mother’s paw quickly pushes him
back again. He is too small to be
allowed outside. Mother Kangaroo,
leaping and hopping from place to
place, carries him with her, his little
head sticking out of her big pocket.

Thus he lives and sees life from
his cradle until he is the size of a
big hare. Then he is allowed to come
out, but if there is the slightest
danger, he climbs into the pocket

and hides himself.

When Little Kangaroo is seven or
eight months old, he is too large to
get in his old cradle, but he sticks
his head inside to get his milk. He
is now. learning to care for himself.
He hops and leaps and kicks his feet,
which are growing big and strong.
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DOG
SHEPHERD’S dog, one day, at
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Hunting Dog.

“Come, Cousin," said the Hunting
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sport. Not far from here, a Wolf
has his lair. We will hunt him out.
you and I, and chase him over the
mountains. Maybe he will show
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my sheep, and I killed them alone,
my Hunting Cousin. Go, hunt for a
ﬁght if you wish, I will wait until
the light comes to me.”

It is no sign of cowardice to de-
fend instead. of attacking

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Dear Uncle Ned:—-—My father takes m.
ILB.F.sndWea.lllikeitvex-ymnch.

Imagirloftwelveyearsofage.and.

am in the seventh grade at school. I
like my studies real Well this 1ea.r. I
will deseribe myself. I are four feet ten
inches 1811 about seventy Pounds.

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six horses. 618M! thchess, Jud two

ducks. For pets I have a'ddg mid a cat.
The dog's name is Ted and the cat’s
name is Tony. My, sister went hunting
with Ted the other day and he chase-1 a
rabbit. The rabbit went into a hole and
be dug right in after it, and she had to
wait about a. half an hour before they
could get him out. I have two sisters

and one brother. My oldest mm win:- '

teen, and I have a little sister, nine years
old. My brother is only two years old.
I hope my letter isn’t too long to be pub-
lished. Bye-bye, your niece—Miss \Eva
Calhoun, R. 4, ﬁakeview, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned :-—-I haven’t noticed
any letters from Harbor Springs, which
is my town. I am about four feet, ﬁve
inches tall. I have medium brown hair
and blue eyes. I am rather fat. I am
between ten and ﬁfteen years of age,
and the one who guesses my correct age
will receive a letter. I am, in the seventh
grade. It is stormlrfg here today. I like

 

to slide down hill. Well goodbyes-Veda

Wheaten, R. 1, Harbor Springs, Mich.

Dear Uncle Ned:-—-I have writtenjou
before and saw my letter in print and
I thought I would write again. I thought
Christmas day would be without any
snow, but I was very much ' ,
wasn’t I? Did you have a lot of fun on

' Christmas? I did and hope you and all

the cousins had a lot of fun. There was
a program at the school I go to. on Fri-
day night the let. I was in a few songs
and a dialogue, and had a ﬁne time.
Well, Uncle Ned, do you like. to so to
parties? I do, and go to quite a few of
them. I am in the seventh grade at
school and was twelve years old the 18th
day of December. I was born in the cold
and stormy month of December. Well I
guess I will close for now. I hope “Old
Mr. Wastebasket" does not get this letter.
Your nephewr—L. D. Biddle, R. 2, Lake
View, Michigan. 4

Dear Uncle Nod:—I am going to write
a letter again. I haven’t written a letter
to the children’s Hour page slnce..last
spring. ,Well, did you have a good time
Christmas? I did. We had a tree at
home and a tree and program at the
church. My little sister Ethel spoke for
the ﬁrst time and she did ﬁne. She is
ﬁve years old. We all got a bag of candy
and nuts at church. My sister, brother
and cousin, went to Traverse City today
for a couple of days visit, with my aunt
and uncle. I guess they will have a good
time. I wish I could have gone with
them, but I have Just been up there
recently, so I could not go this time. I
will send in a. few riddles. Who guesses
them will receive a letter from me. If
I place a dime on the table in a room
full of people, what is the ﬁrst thing it
does? How many peas in a pint? What
grows in winter, dies in summer, and
grows with its roots upward? I think
the answer to Faybella Robinson’s riddle
is, when you put it in your pocket you
double it, and when you take it out, you
ﬁnd it increases. Am I right, Faybella?
I will close for this time, wishing Uncle
Ned and all the cousins a happy New
Year—Gladys Carlson, Box 49, Omena.
Michigan. -—————-——-—

Dear Uncle Ned :———I have been a silent
reader of the M. B. F. and ﬁnd the Chil-
dren’s Hour very interesting myself. I
have light eyes, black hair (which is
bobbed) and weigh 148 pounds. Can
anyone guess my age? Try it. There is
hardly any snow on the ground in Glad-
winoounty.butwecansaywehada
white Christmas. I love snow and I
think perhaps every boy and girl should.
I am very sorry we have no snow and
ice for I remember last December we had
many skating and coasting parties. We
sure enjoyed them. They made our
cheeks may and our lips red. I noticed
my letter is getting somewhat long and
the waste basket is wondering, but never-
theless I am thankful and appreciate the
privilegeofwritins. Iwiﬂdmwishinz
some of the nieces and nephews would
write to ma. From your want—to—be
niece—Miss Dorothy Foote, Star Route.
Gladwin, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Noah—4 thought I would
wntealettertothoChildren'sHom-but
Idon’twnnthi‘azwmbaokottngetmy
lotterw‘hinhlthinkhowill. Innistde-
scribe myself. My use is twelve years.
My birthday is February eighteenth. I
have bobbed hair and my height is four
feet ten and one-half inches. I have six
Mothers and two sisters. M of my
brothers are married. I am in the
seventhgndoatschooi. Igotomy
brother’s school. Both of my sisters
teach and two of my brothers. One isn't
teaching this year. Did you have a,
Merry Christiana? I did; I play the
piano although I haven‘t taken my les-
sons. My sister plays the piano also.
Well, I guns I will say goodbye for this
time—Ursula Byrne. 3- 5. Lowell. Mich.

 

 

 

Dear Ebola Hedi—I have been a silent
reader of the Children's Hour for some
tuna—Wen, I autos-cribs myself. Ij
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three sisters and one brother. I will close
with a few riddles. The person that
guesses these riddles right will receive
a letter from me. Black upon black and
black upon brown, three legs up and six
legs down. Upon the hill there is a green
house, in front of the green house there
is a white house, in that white house
there is a red house, in that red house
there is a lot of little names. Well I
must close and leave room for someone '
else. With love to Uncle Ned and con-his.
your want—to-be niece,-——I.mogene Hibberd. '
R. 2, Box 22, Remus. Michigan.  A

Dear Uncle Near—I I wound
join your merry circle. Hy father takes
thou. Enandweenjoyitverymaeh.
IamagirlandunlOyou-sold...“
am in the fourth grade. I live in the
country. I go to the country school.
Now I will describe myself. I an t
feet ,3 inches tall and weigh 63 pounds.
I‘ have black eyes, and brown curly hair.
I wish some girls and boys would write
to me. I like to get letters—Miss Jedo
Mity, Mlllsrsburg, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Nedz—May I join your
merry circle? I have never written to
you before. I will try to describe my-
self and our home. I have brown eyes
and light brown bobbed hair. I on: four
feet six inches tall. Our home is one
and three fourths miles east of the vil-

 

 

, lags of Westphalia. Our form contains

about one hundred and twenty acres.
We have a number of cattle. As a pet
I have two cats and one dog. My father
takes the M. B. F. and likes it very much.
I like to read the Children’s Hour. As
my letter is getting long I will stop and
let the boys and girls guess my age.
Good—bye to all.—Marga.ret Bingel, West-
phalia, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned :—-I have read the
page of the Children's Hour many times
and was greatly interested in the letters.
I guess I will describe myself before I
write any more. I am 4 feet 6 inches
in height. and weigh 116 pounds. I am
13 years old. I have brown eyes, light
hair and I am light complexioned. I am
in the 7th grade at school. I greatly
love music and I play the piano lots,
but only by ear. I have three sisters
and they are all married. I am the
only one left now. I live on a 120 acre
farm and ‘we have 2 horses, 1 cow, 90
chickens, and 4 cats. I was in Muske-
gan this summer. I have two sisters
that live there. I certainly had a. glori-
ous time. Well, Uncle Ned, I hope to
see my letter in print and would very
much like to have some of the cousins
write me. I had better leave space for
some of the cousins to write, so will
close—Helen Carey, R. 4, Box 149, Tra-
verse City, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I have light brown
bobbed hair. my eyes are light brown.
I weigh 50 pounds, and am in the ﬁfth
grade at school, and I am ten years old.
I have no sisters orr brothers. I live, on
a25acrefa.rm,a.nd1havelotsoff1min
the summer. Will some of the girls and
boys write to me? Write to—Doris Bush.
Silverwood, Michigan.

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given sufﬁcient attention to the rap—
idly ‘ changing conditions I in * the
counties with the result that the tax
ban-den was not equitably distribut-
e . . ’ ,~ -
“For several yearsthe board, co-
‘operating with the state geologist.
has made an appraisal of \the iron
mines of the state and has commun-
icated the result of such appraisal
to the assessing officers ot—the town-t
ships and cities "in which such prop-
erty is located, with the reSult that
no Class of property in the state is
more equitably or evenly assessed
-than are the iron mines. A similar
appraisal is now being made of the
copper mines and it is expected that
'.the result of the appraisal will be

reﬂected in the assessment of this ‘

class of property.
Survey Exemptions

“Believing that it will be of great
interest to the people of the state
the board is now securing informa-
tion as to the value of all property
in the state which is exempt by law
from taxation. This information
will be made public and it” is be-
lieved will
those interested in the subject of
taxation.

“To the end that the state tax
may be distributed to the several
counties in proportion to their tax-
able value, the board is required by
law to prepare for each meeting of
the state board of equalization an
estimate of the true cash value of all
taxable property in each country in
the state. The preparation of this
report demands the utmost care and
consumes as much time as any other
activity in which the board is en-
gaged. In order to prepare an esti-
mate of the value of taxable proper-
ty, it is necessary that examinations
be made in each county to ascertain
whether or not assessments are
made in compliance with law, and
whether or not all property Subject
to assessment is actually, upon the
assessment rolls. In the earlier
history of the tax commission the
members were not represented on
the state board of equalization and
its recommendations did not always
receive the attention to which they
were entitled. Un r the present
law, however, all embers of the
commission are members of that
board and the result is that the rec—
ommendations made are given most
careful consideration,,and it is con—
ﬁdently belieVed that the tax burden
is now distributed to the several
counties of the state more equitably
than ever before. /

“To insure further the proper dis-
tribution of the burden of state tax-
ation, the board was given power in
1913 to review ,,the equalization
made by a board of supervisors.
When any supervisor believes that
his assessing district has been dis-
criminated against by the board of
supervisors in equalizing the assess-
ment rolls of the county, he is priv-
ileged to appeal to the board of
state tax commissioners to review
the equalization. In such cases
careful investigations are made in
every assessing district in the coun-
ty; and after holding a hearing, at
which every supervisor is permitted
to give information relative to the
assessment of property in his-dis—
trict, a new equalization is made by
the board and state and country
taxes must be apportioned upon the
eoualization so made. In this man—
ner, each assessing district in the
state is insured against being called
-upon to pay more than its proper
proportion of the burden“ of state
and county taxation. Such reviews
of equalization were held during the
past year in the counties of Gen-
esee, Lake, Macomb, Oakland, Os-
coda, St. Clair and Shiawassee.

“The members of the/board of

a state tax commissioners, together
i, with the governor of the state, con-
. stitute the state board of assessors.
It is the duty of this board to assess
for purposes of taxation the proper-
ty of railroad, express, sleeping car,
private our line, telephone and tele-
v graph companies operating within
the state. i To make this assessment

 .sdetaﬂed‘ reports from approximateiy
  fantasies must be compiled
A and carefully studied. Assessments

  

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 the. local assessors had not .
.less than $500 per annum are not

prove enlightening t0'

-ers of large families, none rich, all

in: Mt]: theduk, and Pa

_ 'j'e'y' , "/4 ' '
o __ _ “530 car companies as
300 telephone companies. Telephone
campani‘es Whose gross receipts are

subject .to assessment. There are
741 companies whose receipts are
too small to warrant an assessment.
The aggregate value‘of this prop—
erty assessed for the year 1922,
taxes upon which were payable in
1 9 2 3,, was $213,097,750. ‘ The
amount of taxes assessed against
this property was $8,921,604.02.
Tax Mortgages

“Under the provisions of the
mortgage tax law, the board of state
tax commissioners is required to de-
termine the amount of tax to be
paid in the state of Michigan upon
all mortgages covering property in
Michigan and other states. Ten such
mortgages were submitted to the
board during the year and taxes
amounting to $47,948.50 were col-
lected thereon. -

"In investigating the operation of
the mortgage tax law, it was discov—
ered that owners of land contracts,
by their failure to place such con—
tracts upon. record, were evading the
taxes thereon. Inasmuch as all
mortgages and land contracts upon
which the speciﬁc tax is not paid are
subject to assessment under the gen-
eral tax law, the board was obliged
to take steps toward forcing the pay-
ment of either the speciﬁc tax or
the general property tax upon this
class of property. Owners of mort—
gages, because oi' the fact that it is
important to record the mortgage to
protect the mortgage interest, have
almost universally complied with
the law and have paid the speciﬁc
tax; the owner of a land contract,
however, still retains title to the
property until the payments on the
contract have been completed and
has therefore, not been interested in
placing the contract upon record.
thus evading the tax.

“Through activities of the board,
thousands of land contracts upon
which no tax has been paid have
been uncovered and during each of
the past two years it is conservative-
ly estimated ’that $1,000,000 has
been paid on these securities which
would not otherwise have been paid.
One-half of the amount so paid goes
to the general fund of the state, and
the other half goes to the general
funds of the counties in which the
taxes are paid, thus relieving the
owners of general property from
taxation to that extent.

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Simpson, of Hartford; and George g
Lord of Detroit. Mr. Linton, being
the senior member of the board, is I
the chairman. The secretary is B.
F. Burtless, of Lansing.”

HOLDING A COMDIUNITYlFAIB IN
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(Continued from Page 6)

venture is due to the women of the
Aid. All busy women, several moth—

Workers, not one caring a whit for
criticism or knocks, or p ty jeal—
ousies. Everyone with a layer in
her heart and determination on in
her mind. '

They see already their aim mater-
ializing in a large hole on a lot on
Main Street. The excavation for
the basement of the new Church,
the Ladies’ Aid kitchen of the new
Church if you please.

Can it be done? Certainly.
est thing you know.

Given a Ladies Aid Society, or a
Committee or anything you want to
call it, like ours, and any Commun-
ity can have a Fair, or a new
Church or anything.

Sur—

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‘ ' I mean to be good. 1
I try to sit quiet _
As little boys should. ‘

I stay by my mother
And try not to squirm,
An’ wish 'I was baitin’
A hook with a worm! }

I think while I’m sittin’ "
Of all kinds 0‘ things.

How funny a snake looks
With butterﬁy‘s wings!

0f shootin’ an' skatin’
An’ runnin’ all day!

It’s awful hard keepin’
So quiet this way!

I plan that I’ll holler
When they’ve done their stunt.
My ma wouldn’t like it,

So mebbe I wunt! '

They'll put me to bed now,
But I’ll never peep!
That church entertainment
Was lots worse than sleep!
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HOME-MADE SOAPS

OME time ago one of our readers
asked for a good recipe for
soap-making. I sent her a book

with the information in it. In the
meantime I wrote to Washington
and they sent me these splendid di-
rections and also a list of reference
books that may be obtained at your
local or some library near.

When necessary, soaps can be
made at home by treating melted
animal fats or vegetable oils with a
strong solution of caustic soda dye.
Originally caustic lye with fresh
slaked lime, allowing it to settle,
pouring off the clean solution, and
concentrating it by boiling. Com-
mon lye, which can now be obtained
from practically all drug stores,
grocery stores, and dealers in house-
hold goods, is caustic soda or soda
lye and has chemical properties very
similar to those of potash lye. Soaps
made with potash lye are always
soft, while those made with soda
lye, under proper conditions and
treatment, are hard. Directions for
using soda lye in home-made soaps
are usually given on the labels or
wrappers of the cans in which the
lye is sold.

The home preparation of soap is
rarely practicable except when in-
edible, or an excess of edible, fat,
grease, oil, or tallow is available
and can be disposed of advantage-
ously in no other way. It is largely
a hit—or-miss business. As some
free alkali or uncombined grease, or
both, is usually present in home—
made soaps, they are seldom suit-
able for toilet use. Careful chemic-
al control and special manufacturing
equipment are necessary to make
soaps having the desirable proper—
ties commonly associated with a toi-
let soap.

Laundry Soaps

A small quantity of laundry soap
may be prepared by the so—called
"cold process,” as follows:

Empty the contents of a small can
c o n t a i n i n g approximately 5 1/2
ounces of household lye (which
should be at least 94 per cent caus—
tic soda) into an iron kettle, add 1%
pints of water, stir with an iron or
wooden rod until all of it is disolv-
ed, and allow the solution to cool.

In another iron kettle melt 2%
pounds of clear grease consisting
largely of tallow. After this has
cooled, pour the solution of lye
slowly into the melted grease; stir
for about 10 minutes to mix thor—
oughly; and then pour into a black-
iron pan. Cover and leave it in a
warm place for a day or two, after
which the soap can be cut into
cakes.

The grease used must be clean
and free from salt. After being
melted over the ﬁre it must be allow-
ed to cool until it is just warm to
the hand. The solution of lye must
also be just lukewarm. Care must
be taken to stir the lye into the
grease, not the grease into the lye.
If the soap is streaky, with grease
layers, showing that it is not thor-
oughly combined with the lye, put
it back into the kettle, with one pint
of water, and heat until the soap is
melted and clear. Pour, into a black-
iron pan, cover, and set aside for
two or three days.

Because of the glycerine liberated ._,

-from the‘grease and the large quan-
tity of w’atenpreee‘nt, ‘thersoap made
inthis way will not be. very hard. As

,«4 of cburs‘é‘,’ weatherman material.

   
 

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

EAR FOLKS:——These coming
us this spring if our winter

community work to be done and
your neighbor.

knowledge.
munity nurse.
enjoy an afternoon spent in this

are some new ideas for such
a day. Let’s pass them on.
For every letter published 1
will send $1 to you. Letters
should be in not later than
February Ist.

Address letters:

 

 

Edited by MRS.  TAYLOR-

ing your best to get the right start?

of Michigan are. trying and are doing a great work. (Jo-operate with
The sewing club should be formed right now.
are so many ideas to be exchanged, in this department.
How about having some lessons in. ﬁrst-aid by the com-
I feel sure that every mother would appreciate and

shut-in days ahead. and you know how hard it is to plan such a day
to make it a happy one for both you and the kiddies.

m ,'

Mrs. Annle Taylor, care The Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Mlohlgan.

 

months are the ones that will tell
has been well spent. Are you try-
There is a, great deal of
I know personally that the women

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it dries out, however, \it will harden
to some extent.

List of Reference Books

Soapmakers’ Handbook, by Wm.
T. Brannt, published by H. C. Baird
& Co., Philadelphia, Penna.

Modern Soaps, Candles and Glycer-
in, by L. L. Lamborn, pub. by D.
Van Nostrand 00., N. Y.

Textile Soaps and Oils, by C. H.
Hurst and Wm. H. Simmons, 2nd
Rev. Ed. Pub. by Scott, Greenwood
& Son, London.

Simmons and Appleton’s
book of Soap Manufacture. I

Deite’s Manual of Toilet Soap
Making. .

The last two books listed can be
purchased from D. Van Nostrand
00., 25 Park Place, New York, N. Y.

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Hand-

GETTING THE B‘ABY TO SLEEP

ROPER habits of sleep are al—
most as essential to the 'good
health of an infant as is the

right diet or sufﬁcient exercise in
the open air. Unless a baby gets
plenty of sleep, he is certain to be
nervous, irritable, and to grow more
or less debilitated. During the ﬁrst
year, as a general rule, the more
babies sleep the better. During the
second year fourteen hours is the
ideal amount and, in order to get
this in, a twelve-hour night must be“
supplemented by a nap of two hours
during the daytime.

To encourage Sleep the infant
should be placed alone regularly at
the same hour each afternoon and
evening in a quiet, partially dark—

vened room or in a protected situa-

tion in the open air. Regularity is
of the utmost importance. A baby
put to bed late one evening cannot
be expected to go to sleep promptly
the next. Nor should a baby be
rocked, fussed over, or otherwise
pampered at his bedtime hour. Such
a practice, if indulged in, is certain
to become habitual and to react to
the detriment of the infant.

Not only is it important for a
baby to sleep a sufﬁcient number of
hours out of the twenty—four, but he
should sleep soundly while he is at
it. To insure this he should be pro-
tested, so far as possible, from loud
sounds, strong light and tactile sen-
sation of every sort. Young moth-
ers are liable to make the mistake
of disturbing their babies by unnec-
essary attentions. The less done to
a baby while he is asleep the better.
Very often babies are kept awake by
the mistaken ministrations of soli-,
citious mothers, who fail-to appre—
ciate the fact that their babies'
whimpering is in reality an appeal.
for sleep. A point, too, well worth,
emphasizing in this respect is that
water given just before bedtime re—
sults in bed—wetting and consequent-
ly an unnecessary disturbance.

Altogether, a maxim well worth
bearing in mind at bed’ time is:
“Let well enough alone."

EMBROIDERY MUCH USED ON
HATS THIS SEASON

MBROIDERY is used a great.
deal‘ this season, on hats. The.
hat may be made. of"embroider-.

ed material or it maybe constructed
ﬁrst. of. plainmaterial and then liter--
ally embroidered - all over. ,zTheg-me-
terial ~used .for :emhmi-dery dependsi-ue

-ago,';-ril,zor’ the little town 0 ,,
5,, ,R. ancestries; »- Michigan.

in other words, the goods of which
the hat is made. Chenille is a very
popular material for embroidery, al-
though nearly everyone knows that
chenille has to be couched on.
Couching is a sort of occasional go—
ing over and over stitch, usedto
hold heavy braid or cord in position.
Couching is employed when the
thread cannot be sewed through or
into the material. The chenille of
the present season is a great im—
provement over the crawly, perish-
able material we have been acus-
tomed to heretofore.

Another material used in em-
broidering hats is a narrow ﬂat
braid of artiﬁcial silk, which may be
easily threaded into a longeyed
needle. This is sold under a number
of different names, the most com-
mon of which are ribbizene, or ﬁlo
braid. This material may be used
in any number of simple decorative
stitches in carrying out all-over de-
signs.

Narrow ribbon either plain or
shaded in color is also used. The
ribbon is ﬁrst laid over the stamp-
ed design and held in place by pins
stuck straight in, folding the rib—
bon neatly at corners, or gathering
one edge of the ribbon and drawing
up to ﬁt around curves. In some of
the narrow ribbons, it is possible to
draw up the cord at the edge as in
many of the lace edges. In sewing
this ribbon onto the hat or onto the
hat materials, take occasional tiny
stitches over extreme edge of ribbon.
The term “occasional stitches” 'in
this case would mean stitches at in-
tervale, near enough together to
hold the ribbon to the line of the
design, yet far enough apart so that
the ribbon will not look as though
it were glued to the hat, but instead

will have the appearance of being'

embroidered. Yarn or worsted, and
ﬁber silk are also used for hat em-
broidery.

 

 

Personal Column

 

 

Can Anyone Help by Sending In These
Songs?—e51 am a poor girl. My mother
died a year ago. My father is alive and
I have two brothers and no sisters. I
should like some songs that my father
and mother used to sing. The songs are
as follows: “There’ll Come a Time";
"After the Ball Was Over”; “The Little
Girl that’ Played Upon My Knee”; “Break
the News to Mother” and “When Maggie

and I Were Young."—-—A subscribers
daughter.
Has Anyone this Information ?—Will

you please publish the following request
in your valuable paper? Would like to
know where I can purchase the book
entitled, “My Opion and Betsy Bobbits”
by Josiah Allen’s wife or Marietta Holly.
Thanking you. in advance—Mrs. Wm.
Krause, Jr., R. 1, Box 53, Washington,
Michigan.

 

Home for the Right Boy—Will you
please locate. for me through your paper
some homeless unfortunate boy who
wishes a home. Excellent schooling, op-
portunity as we live in a district Sohool
and also access to a. high school free of
charger—A subscriber.

 

\ Words Wanted—J wonder if some
reader of the M. B. F. would please send
me the words of- the song, "I Wantrto Go
to Morrow." The ﬁrst few lines of itiiaf
“r mod on a journey just‘abou-t aw’eek
Morrow, in
Waterman; '

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thej's’t'nte.¢of .Qi-ht-Or—Miss'

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av; [up - 7W - ' ‘ .3

  

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not give ' it the

 

me the ' poem.

Still sits the school-house by the road,
A ragged beggar sunning; '

Around it still the sumachs grow,
And blackberry-vines are running.

Within, the master's desk is seen,
Deep-scarred by raps ofﬁcial;

The warping ﬂoor, the battered seats,
The jackknife-carved initial;

The charcoal frescos on its wall;

' Its door's worn sill, betraying

The feet that, creeping slow to school,
Went storming out to'playing.

Long years ago a Winter sun
Shone over it at setting,

Lit up its western window-panes
And low eave's icy fretting.

It touched the tangled golden curls,
And eyes with grief o’erﬂowing,
Of one who in her steps delayed
When all the school were going.
For near her stood the little boy
Her childish favor singled;
His cap pulled low upon his face
Where pride and shame were minlgled.
Pushing with restless feet the snow
To right and‘left, he lingered
As restlessly her tiny hands
The blue-checked apron ﬁngered.
He saw her lift her eyes; he felt
The soft band's light caressing, .
And heard the tremble of her voice,
As if a fault confessing.
“I’m sorry that I spelt the word;
I hate to go above you,
Because"—the brown eyes lower fell——
“Because, you see, I love you.”
Still memory to a gray—haired man
That sweet child—face is showing.
Dear Girl; the grasses on her grave
Have forty years been growing.
He lives to learn in life’s hard school
How few who pass above him
Lament their trimph and his loss,
Like her, because they love him.

 

 

—if you are well bred!

 

 

Personal Habits.-—The power of winning
love and friends, which is such a precious
possession to all young people, especially
girls, will, in connection with good be-
havior and good manners, depend very
largely upon certain personal habits, chief
among which are order, neatness prompt-
ness, and cheerfulness.

The girl or woman who is personally
disorderly and untidy in her room and
dress put a great strain upon the patience
and affection of all those associated with
her who are possessed of reﬁned and cult-
ivated tastes. In fact, I believe there is
nothing so disenchanting, so contrary to
ideal young womanhood, as a lack of
neatness and tidiness in person and dress.

 

 

Menu for January

 

 

Tomato Bisque
Pickled Peaches Celery

Roast Rabbit Currant Jelly Sauce

Hominy Squares
Riced Potatoes Boiled Onions
Cranberry Salad

Apple Tapioca
Coffee

Roast Rabbit—6 tablespoons bread-
crumbs, 3 tablespoons chopped cooked
ham, 3 tablespoons lard, 1 tablespoon
chopped parsley, 1 teaspoon grated lemon
rind, $5 teaspoon powdered herbs, 3 chop-
ped mushrooms, 3 beaten eggs, 1 rabbit,
salt, pepper, and red pepper to taste.
Beat up eggs, add mushrooms, lard, ham,
breadcrumbs, parsley, and seasonings, and
mix well. Wipe rabbit, and season inside
with pepper, salt, and powdered cloves.
Lay force-meat inside rabbit and sew top;
skewer head back and legs on each side;
roast 1 hour, basting well with melted
lard. Serve hot with currant jelly sauce.

I

 

 

RECIPES

 

 

Gingerbread—1 cup sour milk, 2% cups
bread ﬂour, 1/4, cup shortening, 1 egg, 1
teaspoon soda, ‘76 teaspoon salt, 1% tea—
spoon baking powder, % cup sugar, 1 cup
molasses, 1 teaspoon ginger, 56 teaspoon
Cinnamon.

Mix and sift the dry ingredients. Mix
the molasses with the milk and slightly
beaten egg. Add the liquid to the dry
ingredients, then add the melted shorten-
ing. Bake in a large shallow pan 35 to
40 minutes in a. moderate oven (375 deg).

If sweet milk is used, leave out the-soda
and use 5% teaspoons baking powder.

 

Chocolate Fudge—Two cupfuls sugar,
one cupful »--milk, two squares baking
chocolate, one mblespoonfudo butter and
one teaspoonful vanilla. Boil. the ﬁrst
three ingredients. together-mlle until a
soft ball is» formed when tried,.in cool
water. Do not  the fudgeiﬁft'ér, tak-
ing it from the stove, but gadd ’the'bu‘fter,
and let cool. Be'euro the fudgeis ed‘ol

 
  
 

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of the  cecal, f'add‘,.-:van_illa and

I have tried to ﬁnd the, Duh-I
scriber and send the poem to her‘but my
letter has been‘ returned; I will thank-
two, of our readers, Mrs. Carl Moecke}
and ’Mrs. Geo. F. Baggett for sending

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beating, ‘ the fudge
cky. add One ‘
of warm water, being careful not to add
too much._ Good fudge requires a lot of
beating.—-'-Margaret L. Millin, Lake Shore
Road, Mt. Clemens.

Meat Pie.——1 large bunch of celery, 1
large onion, 1 pint water or meat broth,
%, pound cooked meat cut up, 1 cup
strained «tomatoes, 1 teaspoon salt and
pepper, 6 tablespoons ﬂour mixed, with ’A
cup water for thickening.

Cook the celery and onion in the water
or broth. add the meat, tomato juice, salt
and pepper, than the thickening slowly
and loll live minutes. l’our this mixture
bot into a casseiolc C)\wr with a crust
made from the following directions: =54,
cup milk, 2%, cups bread. flour or 2
cups pastry ﬂour, 6 tablespoons shorten-
ing, 4% teaspoons baking powder, 17.; tea.-
spoon salt.

Mix and sift the dry ingredients, cut
in the fat thoroughly with a biscuit cut-

.ter, then add the milk slowly. Pat the

dough out on a ﬂoured board. _Make the
crust about one inch deep. Place this on
top of the mixture in the baking dish.
The dish should be deep enough so that
the liquid will not boil over the sides.
Bake in a hot oven 20 minutes.

Cocoa Bread—1 cake compressed yeast,
2 cups milk, scalded and cooled, 1 table-
spoon sugar, Elé cups sifted ﬂour, it .cup
sugar, lyé cup cocoa, 1/, cup butter, 1/2
tablespoon salt. .

Dissolve yeast and one tablespoon sugar
in lukewarm milk; add 3 cups of ﬂour
and beat until smooth. Cover and set
aside to rise in a warm place until light
——ab0ut ‘24 hour. . Add sugar and butter
creamed, eggs well ,beat'en, cocoa, re—
lnainder of ﬂour, or enough to make a
soft dough, and salt. Knead lightly; place
in a greased bowl. Cover and let rise in
a. warm place until double in bulk—about
two hours. Mould into loayos; place in
well greased bread pans, filling them half

-half -aspoon

all, ll to ,
41:3. in) ﬁrst.“

   

 

 

4' Honey Dew Cake—Four yolks of eggs.
One‘ white'of an egg. Butter size of two
eggs. One and one-half cups sugar.
Three cups ﬂour. Two, and one-fourth
teaspoons baking powder. One-half tea-
spoon salt. Milk. Five teaspoons of ex-
tracted honey. Cream eggs, butter and
sugar. Add ﬂour, baking powder and
salt, sifted together. Add enough milk
to make soft batter. Beat in honey and
ﬂavor with vanilla, (one teaspoon). Bake
in moderate oven. This will make loaf
cake 12 1/5119 1/5 inches. Also six cup cakes.
J. B. Pewamo, Michigan.

 

 

The Runner’s Bible

 

 

(Copyright by Houghton Miiﬂin Co.)

Let each man prove his own work,
Gal. 6:4.

In our efforts to be kind we must be
careful not to perform another’s duty for
him, thereby to deprive him of needful
experience. Neither must we allow our-
selves to dictate by over-advice or undue
inﬂuence.

Lot none of you suffer " " * a. meddler
in other men's matters, 1 Peters 4:15.

Remember you can shine upon your
brother, but not‘for him.

 

 

WOMEN’S EXCHANGE

F you have something to exchange, we will
rim. it FREE under this heading providing:
girst—lt appeals to women and is a bonlﬁde

exchanges, no cash Involved. Second—It will
go In three lines. Third-You are a paid-up
subscriber to The Business Farmer and attach
our address label from a recent issue to rave
t. Exchan 0 offers will be numbered an in-

—MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR. Editor.

 

 

110.——-Plush. Percale and gingham. Quilt
icces, for anything useful. hrs. (ieo. Morgan,
gt. N0. 3. Vicksburg, Mich.

AIDS TO GOOD 

BE SURE AND SEND IN YOUR SIZE

4593. A Popular House Dress for Slender or Mature Figures.

with white pique.
and voile.
3.6. 38. 40 .

size .w111 require 4 37.; yards of 36 inch material.
require 1/2 yard.

4587.
may be cifectell zit the side of the panel.

46-48 inchesbust measure.
br0idei‘y reqmres 1/4 yard 9 inches wide.

4516. A Stylish Gown.—Figured silk was used for this model with crepe trimming.

good style for moire or satin or broad clotii.

. : . ediuin, 38—40
A Medium size requires 2% yards of 36 inch material. Panel of Em-

 

Striped permile is here combined

, T1118 15 it HOOd S_t.v1e for ratine, for wool rep. or serge, and also for linen, gingham
I‘lge sleeve may be finished in wrist or elbow length. ' '
, 4.2. 44, 4G and 48 inches bust measure.
Collar. vest and pocket ﬂaps of contrasting material,

,-

The I'iittci‘ii is cut in l Sizes:
The width at the foot is 2 yards. A 38 iinch

A ~Practical Un_dergarment.—-Tliis. pretty model com rises a vest and “step-in" drawers.

The vest portion may be finished With “cainistge” top or with Siaped shoulders.
re e,

' design. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: Sinall, 341336

If desired a closing
cre e de chine or nainsook is suitable for this
; Large, 42-44 and Extra Large

This is ii

The neck edge may be ﬁnished without the collar.

eige and blue would be a good combination for this design. The ’uttern is cut in 6 Sizes: 34, 3o,

88, 40, 42
with plaits extended is 2% yards.

. . , and 44 inches bust measure. A 38 inch size requires
trim as illustrated requires (1 ‘76 yard of material 40 inches wide.

84, yards of 40 inch material. To
The Width of the dress at the foot

4586. A Pretty Night Dres's.—-Nainsook, crepe or crepe do chine are attractive materials for

this design.

-bust measure. A Medium size requires 4%

38-40‘ Large, 42—44:
rds of 36 inch mateiial.

. ‘ce or insertion or, a Simple finish of hem-stitching will be suitable for trimminr. "
Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: Small, 34—36; Medium. 5 [he

Extra linruc.‘ 4648 i'm-lws
To trim “’ltll l‘lilitl‘liﬁllllg

. a.
material requires ‘3’; yard 36 inches wide or 2% yards of lace 3 inches wide if trimmed as illustrated.

Pattern is
rs An

ation. The
and yea
yards of 36
trusting material
quired, cut crosswise.
4534.

this model.

of 54 inch material.
Wide.
4601.

 

ated with

very pleasing. e
b‘ , 10 and 12 years.

 

I.on
the popular
6 Sizes: 34. 36,

4 0 inch material.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.4803. A Dainty Frock for a Little Girl._——
Figured and plain silk are combined in this iii-
stance. The model is also attractive for wool
rep, or wool crepe, and for all wash materials.
Voile and embroidery would be a good combin-
cut in 4 Size32'4. 6.

your size requires 2%
rial. Eor godet of. con-
yard 27 inches Wlde is re-

i'ncli mate

.A GoodStylo for A School Frock.—
(‘lliecked ginghum‘in brown tones was used for
is good for wool jersey, twill
and serge also for taffeta and velveteen. The
Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 6. 8.
years. A 10 your size
. Collar and cuffs *of con-
trasting material W111 require $6 yard 36 inches

A Simple Frock for the Growing Girl.
-—~Wool crepe was selected for this model, decor-
_ cross. stitching
The lines are Sim lo; the sleeve and neck hue are
Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes:
, A l0 year size requires
2% yards of 32 inch material.

4582. A Smart New
5 lines and u. stylish_ collar make this blouse
as eSimble and attractive, It is ﬁnished with
bands, and is becoming to youth-
ful and mature ﬂ ures. The Pattern iis cut in
8 49, 42 and 44 inches bust
measure. A 38 inch also requires 2% yards of

ALL PATTERNS 12c EACH—
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Order from this or former» Issues of The Business
Farmer, giving number and sign your
name and address plainly.

ADD 100 FOR FALL AND WI
FASHION BOOK "TER

Address all order: for pattern: to
Pattern Department

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and 12
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: “Search for the true secret
that has brought sateess to
the hest livestock 'man you
know. .You will ﬁnd it is
nothing more or ‘less than
that, his animals are always
well, always in good condi—
tion, always working, always
returning proﬁt; never sick,
never in poor condition,
never loaﬁng, never running
up a large expense for medi-
cal treatment.”

‘\

That Describes _e_1 Lorre-fed Cow!

People often wonder about the success achieved
by Larro users. Mr. Van Pelt’s words tell the a
story. , '

Larro users succeed because -Larro-fed cows are
always well, always working, always returning a
proﬁt. They produce heavily when fresh and they
continue producing heavily for a longer period of
time. VVhat’s more, they produce economically.
One pound of Larro yields from three to four
pounds of milk. The exact amount, of course,
depends on the kind and quality of V roughage and
on the length of time the cow has been in'milk.

When a cow goes “off feed’.’ you can sometimes
bring her back part way, but she will never be the
same in that lactation period. Feed Larro and she
doesn’t go off feed.

The Larrowe Milling Company, Detroit, ‘Mich.

 

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‘ Fresh lCow” is 53 Larrowe Bldg., Detroit, Mich.
the tltlc of. an article that Gcntlemem
appears "I the Current I am now feeding . . . . . .cows and I want to receiVe, with-

“.uc 0f the Lam-0 Dairy‘ out-cost, your magazine—“The Larro Dairyman.”

man. If you are not
receiving thin excellent,
free magazine for COW-
owners, ﬁll out and mail
this coupon now, or take
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Fourth Michigan State Sale!

—— Monday Afternoon, February 4th ——
In the steam heated Stock Judging Pavilion at the Michigan Agricultural College

40 Young Cows———6 Young Bulls

Carefully selected for good individuality, good records of their own or demo
from herds under supervision for T. B.

MICHIGAN HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION v

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' OUGH  ‘uiiited’smes is the
third country in wool produc-

tion and has produced an aver-_

age of 300,000,000 poundsra year
for the, last 35 years, it has never
met the home demand. Imports for
some years prior to the war aver-
aged 200,000,0,00 pounds.
reached a peak at
pounds in 1918. Probably a norm-
al annual amount which must be
imported is- around 300,000,000
pounds. American sheepmen“ have
therefore no need to be afraid of ov-
ershooting,the home demand for
W001. Since 1921 wool prices have
more than doubled. The problem
of selling wool is not to create a.
market but to take the best advant-
age of the one that exists.

This has been attempted in the
last few years by considerable ex-
tension of cooperative marketing.
Great quantities of wool are now
assembled annually ,by wool pools
and held at central points for in‘
spection by wool buyers. Cooper-
ation, however, has seen its greatest
development in the farm ﬂock're-
gions. “ On the range, cooperative
marketing is comparatively new,
and effects only a small portion of
the wool sold by large ranching out-
ﬁts. It has, however, achieved some
success. Results indicate that co-
operative selling stimulates compe-
tition among buyers, faicilitates busi-
ness-like transactions, and tends to
check overloading of markets.

The ratio of the number of sheep
to population in the United States
has declined since 1884. From 1899
to 1903 there were about 5 sheep
for every 8 people. Ten yearslater
there were only 4. From 1919 to
1923 there were only 2.8 sheep for
.every 8 people, or about 1-3 of a
sheep per person. Nevertheless the

  

total production of wool has remain»

ed practically constant owing to in-
crease in the weight of the ﬂeeces.

Per capita consumption of wool has

been maintained by great increases
in imports.

REPORT OF N.E\VAYGO COW
TESTING ASSOCIATION
HE Newaygo county cow testing
association, oldest association
of its kind in the United States,
has just completed a very successful
year, with 223 cows completing
their records for the entire year, 25
cows having been sold as undesir-
able, 16 purchased and four pure
bred sires purchased during the
year.

The results of the work show a
great improvement over 'that of
1922 according to ﬁgures below:

The average production of all
cows in the association for 1923 is
6,755 lbs. —milk, 321.0 lbs. butterfat,
while that for 1922 is 7,112 lbs.
milk, 302.3 lbs. buttertat. Also the
average proﬁt per cow in the assoc-
iation was $104.61 over cost of feed
for 1923, While the average proﬁt
for 1922 wa’s $53.87 over cost of
feed. The average cost for feed in
producing 100 lbs. of milk was
$00.99, and $00.24 per lb. for but-
terfat.

Forty-eight cows in the associa—
tion made over 365 lbs. of butterfat
during the year, while seventeen out
of the twenty-seven herds averaged
over 300 lbs. and four over 400 lbs.
of butterfat. '

The high cow in each herd aver-
aged 8,482 lbs. of milk’ and 404.3
lbs. of fat, returned $140.18 above
feed cost, and produced milk for
$00.80 per 100 lbs., butterfat for
180 per lb. for cost of feed, and the
average return for every dollar ex-
pended for feed was $3.14.

The low cow in each herd aver-

aged 5,159 lbs. milk and 238.6 lbs. _,

butterfat, returned $67.55 above
cost of feed, produced milk for $1.-
116 per 100 lbs., fat for 260 per lb.
for feed, and the average return for
every dollar expended for feed was
$2.11. ,
Pure bred cows have appeared in
the “high ten" each month 2.1 times
as often as did the grades, and
“Grandfather’s Pride” (the scrub
with no pure bred breeding) has not
appeared once. ’
six members have completed rec-
ords In two years and their arrange

production  547 lbs.’ '01 ﬁll and

They ,
453,727,000,

52. ‘ “pita 

°n° : yea? . ‘ This 

the tact that, cow. testing~iassociaa
tion is a beneﬁt and a business "prop

osition for the dairy-man extend! he»

thinks he knows what his cows are
domg after one year's membership
in the association. ‘ .

The high cow in the association 5?
for 1923 is a registered Jersey own-L, f '
ed by A. 0. Nelson, of Holt'on, and is . A

one of the most efﬁcient "cows in the

association, her average production, :
for the year being 8,787 lbs. milk ’-

and 587.7 lbs. butterfat. whichds
932 lbs. milk and 131.7 lbs. cilat

above her production for 1922. Dara “
'ing the past year this cow consumed ~ 
$41.28 worth of roughage and $59»- ‘
72 worth 'of concentrates, or grain",,

and produced at a proﬁt of $234.95
above cost of, feed. Mr. Nelson’s
neighbors have predicted disaster
for the practice he has been follow-
ing, stating thathe 'would burn out
his cows by_ overloading, and that

he could not make money by teedi

ing so heavy, while as a matter of
fact he has at no time fed offer one
lb. of grain to three lbs. of milk,
and his cows have not been “01!

their feed” once during the year.-'

His herd average on ﬁve cows is
8257 lbs. milk and 464.5 lbs. ,fat.
with an average proﬁt of $173.65
above cost of feed, which is the
highest, in the association—Clair
Taylor, County Agr’l. Agent. _

HOLSTEIN MEET DURING FARM-
ERS’ WEEK

N our last issue we published a
I short item regarding the meet—
ing of the members of the Mich-
igan Holstein—Friesian Ass’n. during
Farmers‘ Week at the Michigan
Agricultural College, February 4th
to 8th. For the beneﬁt of those
who might have overlooked it we
are publishing something about it
again in this issue. "

The annual banquet will be held
at Lansing on the night of Monday
February 4th. The annual meeting
will be held the following day, Tues-
day, February 5th, at the M. A. 0.,
East Lansing. William Moscrip, of
Minnesota, probably the best known
dairy cattle judge of the Us S. A.,
will be present to demonstrate Dairy
Type and to hold a judging
“school.” The fourth annual sale of
selected_Holsteins will be held Mon-
day afternoon, February 4th.

. DHCHIGAN’S SECOND 40-POUND ' '

HOLSTEIN cow

NLY three other" junior four-
year—old Holstein cows in the
United States have exceeded the
seven-day production record of Eco-
Sylv Belle Pietje of the Carl E.
Schmidt herd at Oscoda. Under the
constant supervision of the Mich-

igan Agricultural College this-cow,

recently produced in one week 682.2
pounds milk and 33.014 pounds but-

terfat—equal to 41.267 pounds but?

ter, according to the advanced reg-
istrydlepartment of The Holstein-
F‘riesian Association of America.
Among the three other cows with
higher records is Michigan’s champ-
ion producer in this class, Wanda—
mere Belle_Hengerveld, whose rec—
ord is 42.65 pounds butter. This
cow is owned by E. L. R. Pelletier of
Pontiac. ,

Eco-Sylv Belle Pietje dropped her
second calf at the time of her last
freshening. She is a large cow,
weighing around 1900 pounds short-
ly before freshening a. few weeks
ago. Her sire is Avon Pontiac Echo
and her dam, Belle Model Pietje 3d.
Albert E. Jenkins, manager of the
Schmidt herd, states that she is be-
ing continued on strictly oﬂicial test
under the supervision of the state
college representatives and is pro-
ducing over 100 pounds ilk and
around 4.2 pounds butterfat daily.

CASTRATING AND BOOKING IN-
CREASE PRICE OF LAMBS
RODUCING desirable lambs for

the market is dependable to a
large extent on the three £91-
lowlng principles of ‘management.
namely, good breeding, proper Iced-
ing, and castration, “and dockinguot

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7. "The farmer does not market his é
hull calves as balls, nor his bear

Digs as boars, says the department. , ‘

Why, therefore, should he market ,

than as wethers? The correction of
this neglect by castrating and deck)

cess. It is conservatively estimated
that 80 per cent of the native lambs
-—those marketed tron! farm ﬂocks
~which reach the markets come un<
docked and uncaetorated, and that.
the percentage of ram lambs among
the altering dnrlnx the. last year has
been,“ large as ever before.

05 the otherhand, the custom of
decking nil lambs and eastrsting the
males is almost universal in the
range docks, and to this practice in
a large measure may be attributed
the tact that lambs produced on our
western ranges outsell native or
farm-raised lambs at the market on
the average of from $1 to $1.50 per
1000 pounds. These operations have
been found proﬁtable, and that is

come so commonly practiced on the
western range. They are likewise
applicable to the farm ﬂock and Just
as necessary for the production of
the best lambs and consequently the,

most pro ﬁt. _

IT PAYS TO CONTINUE TESTING
OF DAIRY COWS.

S a result oi the study of records
of cow—testing associations in
all parts of the country, the
United States Department of Agri-
culture has showu that in well—man-

the average yearly production of
cows from year to year. In other
words, even though the poor cows
are culled out at ﬁrst, it pays to
keep everlastineg at it, as there is
always an opportunity for proﬁtable
improvement.

To illustrate this, ﬁgures of but—
.terta’t production for three associa-
tions one each in Michigan, Ohio,
and Pennsylvania, show that for the
ﬁrst year the average per cow was
237 pounds, for the second year it
was 255 pounds, for the third year
278, for the fourth 292, and for the
am: year 305 pounds. The last
.year in the series showed an aver-
age production of 6-8 more pounds
of jet than the ﬁrst year. At 40
cents a pound this amounts to $27.-
20 a head, and for a. herd of 20 cows
the increased value would be $544
a year. ‘ ,

Production records of 17.405 pure-
bred. grade, and scrub cows showed
that in milk production the pure-
breds and grades excelled the schubs
by 12.42 per cent, and in butterfat
production by 17.86 per cent.

______.——————-—-—‘
NEW STATE HOLSTEIN BUTTER

CHAMPION
. ICHIGAN’S new Junior two—
year—old champion Holstein
cow for 30 days production of
'butter is Charlevoix Ormsby Zwelle,
owned by Loeb Farms at Charlevoix.
Her ofﬁcial record as announced by
the advanced registry department of
The Holstein-Friesian Aesociation of
America, is 1,842.2 pounds milk and
82.395 pounds butterfat equal to

102.9 pounds butter. -

This cow displaces the former
champion in this class, Traverse
Edie Sylvia Walker, of the State
Hospital herd at Traverse City,
whose record is 100.5 pounds butter.

KEEPING MILK GOATS

Recently I read an article from a
lady in Colorado on raising goats
for milking, and the ready sale, and
proﬁts from this industry. Will
you kindly give me your opinion: on
the advisibility oi! my going into it
in this section? What breed should
I get?. What is the» prospect or sell—
ing milk in cities like Bay City, Sag-
inaw and Detroit? 1' could ship to
any of these places, What is the
usual price per quart? How could
Iworkupamarket? Ihavean

 

'f idea-I place to lssep them. What is t
7-  usual fer themr—C. n. ‘

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It is not enough to

‘ Separator that skims fairly clean
and that runs fairly easy—you

want onethat gets a

fat down to the last drop and that

runssoeasilythat

turn it. In addition, you must get
construction that makes many
years of good service possible.

In recent tests, the Illinois Cow
Testing Association found it a
common occurrence, on average
farms, for out-worn, poorly con-
structed, poorly cared- for separators

to waste $25 worth
every month. Think

wasted in a single pearl If the
machine you are using is failing
you in such a manner, you can-
not allord to operate it a single
week longer, regardless of the

so-called “bargain

may have paid for it.

1  mnkg About!

It is unnecessary for you to suﬁer
such butterfat losses. You can
escape them by throwing out
the wasteful machine now and
replacing it with a new, efﬁcient
McCormick-Deming Ball-Bear-
ing Cream Separator. These
modern, easy-running separators

buy a cream

II the butter-
a child can

represent
From the

of butterfat
of it, $300

proﬁts for

price” you

genuine economy.
viewpoint of long

' I life,easy-turning, and close-skim-
ming, they outrank all others.
You need one on your farm!

If ready cash is not plentiful,
ask our- dealer for his liberal

terms. Let a McCormick-Deer-
1ng Primrose earn bigger cream

you and apply the

extra dollars on the easy pay-
ments the McCormick-Deering
dealer will offer you.
There are ﬁve popularsizes—all of standard
McCormick—Deming ball-bearing design. .

ﬂak the McComzick-Deering dealer about
the size best sailed to your herd. l

INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY

of America
(Incorporated)

606 sq Nlichigan Ave.

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To make room for winter we are oﬂ’ering bred

m and heifers_n1so some well_bred young bulls.
up our Winnings at lending state fairs.

W. 1'. SHUTTLEWORTH, Ypsilantl, Michigan.

 FORDS

HEREF ORDS

Registered Breeding Cattle, T. B.
Tested _at practical prices for
groduction of Ilereiord Baby
eevu proﬁtably all ages.

T. F. B. SOTHANI a SONS.
(Herefords slnce 1839.)
St. Clair, Illch.

Steers For Sale

72 Herefords 750 lbs. 76 Hereford: .660 lbs.
86 Hercfords 6501113. 48 Herefords 5001M.
Can also show on other choi e us

All are dehomed. deep 2003 am 
Wen marked and show th breeding. in the
market for real gimlity._one car load or more
Iy,g;i.renchoice. Write stating number rnd weinht

'V-. V. BALDWIN. Eldon. Wapollo 00.. Iowa.

We Have Bred Hereford; Since 1860

Spring calves for sale. Write us your want;
A few Chester White Boers and Sew for ﬁle.
GRAPO FARM. Sum: creek. Mlchlaan.

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WE HAVE SOME FINE YOUNG ANGUS BULL.
from lritemamomi Grand Champion Stock at
reasonable prices. E. H. KERR & 00.. Addison.

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REG. JERSEYS. POGIS 99th OF H. F. AND
VMiLJCBty breeding. Young stock for sale. Herd
fully accredited by State and Federal Government
Write or Visit for {moss and description.

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caniy Every Cow
Can be made a gig Milka

Cow owners have learned that no effort
on the farm pa 8 so handsomely as the drive
for more mil . Over 90% of the so-called
poor milkers are capable of much better
results than is obtained from them. An im-
proved health standard» is a sure booster of

milk proﬁts.

No wonder. Dairy experts say that under average
conditions a yield-increase of only 10% will double
the net proﬁt of dairying. The fixed cost per cow of
feed and care is about the same regardless of yield.
After this cost is met, every pint of milk is added proﬁt.

Perfect health has more to do with big milk yields
than breeding or feeding. “Forcing” the milk-making
organs to greater efforts ends disastrously unless extra
demands are met with extra support of the cow’s

vitality.

Kow—Kare is invaluable to cow owners. It increases
the activity of the milk-making function by promoting
vigorous health in the genital and digestive organs.
It prevents or relieves cow diseases and disorders by
helping these organs to function as nature intended.
Its beneﬁts are widely recognized for the treatment of
Barrennees, Abortion, Retained Afterbirth, Scours,

Bunches, Milk Fever, Lost Appetite.

Let Kow-Kare help you to greater milk proﬁts. Your feed
dealer, general store or druggist can supply you — large size
can “.25; medium size 65c. Order direct from us if your

dealeri does not have Row-Kare. We pay postage.

Write for copy of our free 82 page book, “The Home
Cow Doctor." It will show you the way to greater
proﬁt from your cows.

DAIRY ASSOCIATION CO., Inc., Lyndonville,Vt.

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Here are just a few
extracts from letters
such as we receive in
ever! mail from cow
owners:

Wm. E. Starkey.
Austin Ind: “I have
found kovwxhnn is
the best medicine for
milch cows that there
is. I found that it al-
ways paid to feed it
whenever my cows
went . down on the
quantity of milk they
were giving. I have
cured several cows
that were down and
could not get up.

James H. McClintick,
Solon Me.: “I had a
e

cow that retained th ’

afterbi'rth for ﬁve
days, when I decided
to try your Kow—Kare.
Three doses removed
the afterbirth com-
pletely and she is now
all right. After that I
decided to feed KO W~
hARE to two other
cows for experiment.
ltyincreased the ﬂow of
milk of one of them
nearly one-half ; the
other gave more milk
than formerly and
ained Iii ﬂesh. KOW-

ARE is all “13'; is

claimed for it.
Stott, Nor-
th t b 'vi: “I?!”
s y n a
ﬂow“.

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doses of KARE
it WlII keep cows in a
healthy state, and
result Will be more
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‘ DUROCS—A REGISTERED,
(conunued from Page 23) Gilts at $30. Fine breeding. Mahon’s American
Farm R. 1, 4 Mt. Clemens, Michigan.
DUBOCS AT THE STATE FAIR we snowso one
of the largest boars. He won 3rd in his working
' clothes (no ﬁtting). .He is back home and we
want you to havo a. gilt or sow bred to this ﬁne
RAISE A TOPMAST SENSATION comma:  wme us.
SCHAFFER BROS... R. 4, Oxford. Michigan.
LITTER
"'6 raise the best- HAMPSHIRES

bred sows and elite. Let us

 

ote you prices on a real boar pig sired by
OPMAS'I‘ BENSATION. Write us your wants. must-actor

. Ask
LUCKHA D'S MODEL FARM. Bach.

WE GUARANTEE OUR REG. HAMP_SHIRE8
price.
Michigan.

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LOEB FARMS

Vlmll Davis. Superintendent Swine.
Char-levelit, Michigan.

 

BEG. HAMPSHIRE

JOHN W. SNYDER. St. Johns, Michigan.

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MT. CLEMENS, MICH.

Tuesday, February 5th

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ever offered in this state, bred to

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, _ In acme, exper me " . 
carried" on in Western experiment. ~

stations it was sh‘OWn that goa‘ts are
very economical milk producers. In
some cities goats’ milk ﬁnds a ready
demand for infant feeding and use
in invalid diet. This is because of
the composition of the milk of the
goat. It is claimed by some to be
nearer that of human milk than any
other animals.

Before one establishes a business
of raising goats it is necessary to
ﬁnd out something of the require-
ments and demand for the milk. It
is not safe to count on making a
success of milk goats in your sec-
tion of the state simply because suc-
cess was made by a lady in Colo-
rado. Some people make a success
of anything if they apply themselves
and have enough enthusiasm and
energy to carry out well defined
plans. I believe that this is quite
true in raising goats. '

There are several breeds of milk
goats. Perhaps the most important,
one and at least the oldest and best
known is the milk goat that origin-
ated in Switzerland. Other breeds
are the Nubian and Maltese.

We do not know of any great de-
mand for milk in the cities that you
mention, but it would seem that the
demand for special milk of this kind
would came\naturally from the larg-
er cities and in this event it would be
much better to engage in this busi-
ness closer to the place where you
expect to ﬁnd a market than to en—
gage in it at such a great distance.
We have records showing that goat
milk has sold at from 25c to $1.00
a quart. The price of milk goats
would depend to a great extent on
how well bred, if pure breds, and if
grades, how much milk they will
give. We cannot tell you the aver-
age price of milk goats at the pres-
ent time—0. E. Reéd, Professor of
Dairy Husbandry, M. A. C.

*iD/cterinaru Department M

HORSE EA’IS SAND

I have a horse six years old that I
have trouble with. He has been
eating sand. I have given him lin—
seed oil and turpentine. There has
been considerable of sand passed
from him. He cats and drinks good,
but every two or three days has a
running of the bowels. I would like
to know what causes this and what
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and conﬁdence is a big factor in
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Jr., a disabled ex-soldier living at
1080 Concord Ave., Detroit.

Before entering the service Kin-
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France he was wounded in the chest
by a machine gun bullet. The na-
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from returning to the heavy work of
a laborer. So, after spending six
months in the hospital, he was dis-
Knowing that it would be
foolish for him to attempt to “carry
on” at his pre-war occupation, Ken-
nick applied to the U. S. Veterans’
Bureau for a course in vocational
training, which was given him.

For thirty-one and a. half months
he received “replacement training,"
training on the job, in one of De-
troit’s large jewelry shops. At the
end of this period he had. become
proﬁcient, whereupon he was given
suitable employment and declared
rehabilitated. . _

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vocation. Furthermore. he is now;
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Y good friends, this seems to be
'Sunday night an’ yet I have
jest come from a. dance. Went

in' an’ things wuz goin’ wild dowu
there. An’ say, good fOIkS,‘ while
I’m kinder glad I’m American, like
Andy Gump, 100 per cent for myself
an’ the rest for the folks, yet—well,
the hunkies ain’t so bad—everybody
wuz havin' a good time. Elderly
ladies weighin' ’round 200 pounds,
younger wimmin not so heavy but
good an’ plump, little kiddies from
3 to 5 years of age—all an' every-
body danced. Folks, it wasn’t just
a regular two, one or three-step, it
wuz a dance. The music wuz string-
ed instruments, all ’ceptin’ one, be-
in’ played by pickin’ with the 'ﬁng-
ers. One feller sawed a bow ’cross
a ﬁddle. Mebbe you like the name
of violin better. No matter, that’s
what the feller ﬁddled onto, an’ tak-
en here an’ there, the music wuz
purty durn good.

They wuz a policeman there to
keep us—well, to keep the crowd
quiet, so must of us kept still. It
sure wuz a great dance. I ain’t a
“hunkey” yet, but, well, seein’ how
happy they wuz——little kiddies not
mor’n 4 or 5 years old, ho-ppin’ in
an’ havin’ just as good a time as
anybody? Folks, friends, why don’t
we, you an’ us, have just such
times? We used to heve ’em. We
liked 'em, didn’t we? But now you
know if we heve a dance or party
we’ve got to ﬁx up for it. Men has
to overdress, you know what I

mean, put on a lot of things he
don’t like, high collars, cuffs an'
whatnots, What ever they may be,

an’ wimmin heve to take off a lot of
things they should ort to wear. I
don’t hardly know jest how to name
the things—but corset strings an’
sich, an’ other things—you know
how it is an’ when you go to a dance
it ain’t a dance but it’s a ball—
“bawl” maybe would hit it nearer.
An’ so that’s why I’m writin’ this
little letter. I went to a dance——
jest a reg’lar dance—~yes, Sunday
night, too. Folks, there wuz jest
as much religion there as you or I
can ﬁnd in any church anywhere.
Everybody wuz sober an’ every-
body seemed glad. There were no
long faces, you do see long faces in
church sometimes, don’t you? Well
I didn’t see any of ’em there tonight
an’ so if you hear that I’ve come to
be a “hunk” it’s ’cause I’ve joined
the dance—I’ve shed the sour face,

heve learned to live the life! Cordi-
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MUT'I‘ON CONSUMPTION IN-
CREASES

MPROVED methods of slaughter
and the development of artiﬁcial
refrigeration and refrigerated

transportation have greatly increas-
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year period 1912-1921 in the United
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pares with a per capita consumption
of 9 pounds in Canada in 1910; 26.7
pounds in the United Kingdom from
1895 to 1908; 9 pounds in France in
1904; and in Germany of only 2.2
pounds a year for 1904—1913.

In these periods the consumption
of lamb and mutton in these Coun-
tries constituted the following per-
centages of the total meat consump-
tion: 4.35 per cent in the United
States; 5.57 per cent for Canada;
22.25 per cent for the United King-
dom; 11.25 per cent for France;
1.91 per cent for Germany.

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; him most. Yet there are severed
 causes: for even the strongest chicks
: dying in the shell.-

First, take the case of eggs set”
It often happens that

Often Bidd'y gets hum-

are allowed to set in the chicken
house. or steal their nest around the
But if no» one: hap-

come on to feed; they may go. back

' to their nests with only a half-ﬁlled
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crop on the nineteenth or twentieth

: day, which. will force them tor leave

the nest again before the hatch is
Then as the warm
in the ﬁring,
vermin may worry a. hen into leav-
ing her nest. Rats very often scare
a hen into leaving her nest when
she is sitting outside, or another
hen may frighten her while trying to
claim the nest to lay in. In fact,
are numerous accidental

nest in the last forty—eight hours,

; when she should sit undisturbed.

‘Perhaps the most frequent cause

; for chicks dying in the shell when

eggs are set under a. hen, is the own-
er’s anxiety to help things along.
During the last thirty-six hours, it
imperative that all the

the developing chicks and, the body
of the hen should be retained in the
nest, and if someone is perpetually
lifting the hen partlyfrom the eggs
to take away the hatched chicks or
to see what is going on. much of
the moisture is allowed to escape.
therefore, the last two or'three eggs
fail to hatch, though they often con—
tain fully developed chicks. An
extremely dry season generally

causes lots of chicks to die in the

shell. The best way to combat ad-
verse conditions is to remove broody
hens from the chicken house or shed
and set them in clean nests which
can be closed so that a. quantity of
whole corn and clean water can be
left in readiness for Mrs. Biddy, to
feed herself with when she comes
off the nest. I keep a shallow box
of ﬁne coal ashes in the house where
the hens are sitting, so that they
can dust themselves every time they
leave the nest. If it is a dry sea-
son, it is a good plan to sprinkle
water on the ﬂoor of the house ev—
ery two or three days.

Watch the dropping of all chick-
ens, both brooder and those under
the hens, and at the slightest indi-
cation of looseness of the bowels,
remove drinking water and replace
with cold tea, or rice water. I find
it a good precaution to feed boiled
rice two or three times a week while
the chicks are little, and if they de-
velop any serious trouble, keep them

‘under cover; or if with a. hen, keep:

the hen shut Into the broader coop,
for then she is much more likely to
brood than if allowed to run at

\ large.

How to Avoid Leg Weakness
Leg weakness rarely develops if

9 the chickens are properly fed. Green
.tood and animal- food must form

part of their ration. It is usually
better for the ordinary farm to de-
pend on curd cheese and an occas:
chopped up

And for green stuff I don't think
there is enything as good? as young
sprouts of onions, of course, ﬁne
enough for the little chicks. Beef
liver is mighty good. It is the 'best
of all animal food when about half
boiled and chopped ﬁne and fed in
small quantities. An old rusty nail
or two, or a ‘few drops of tincture
of iron in the drinking water, is. a.
good tonic, especially if the chicks
commence to look pals around the
bill, or droopy in any way. I
Stale wheat bread crmnbled ﬁne
and mixed with hard-boiled egg,“
shell and 311,. is hard to beat; about
two tablespoonqu of the latter in a“
cup of crumbs; the combination. justw
moistened with.  milk and 
for breakfast and supper. When

  

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meal3 and wheat equal". parts of each,
steamed ﬁcrthree 9e ,W’hours. ’
each cupf-‘u-F of two: edfd‘l just before
feeding a teaspoonmi of bone. meet:
and mix well. I feed three three- a
day: all: they will: clean up in ﬁve
minutes. If you haven’t a steamer,
a very good substitute may be. made

by getting a two-quart tin. pail with. z

a closeuﬁttlng: 1id:-——u lard pail will
do; put the: meal in it, pour in sun-

ﬁciem boiling- water'to just moisten» :
it ; close: down lid- and: stand in four
or aye—quent pail. with'a. tights-ﬁtting z

lid; put in- enough boiling water to.

reach half way up the sides of the 

smaner one. After the little chicks
are about two weeks: old the lien
may be allowed; to wander with
them, after the dew is oil' the gone
in the» morging, until about 4 in the

afternoon. The. pain; o0 mixed seed: 

can: be removed. and bone and meal
omitted (except at supper time,
when it is been to continue the been
for another two, or three weeks) :1
vary this at noon by' feeding put

green. onions. I]: you have very low
chicks and they are allowed free-
range with a mother hen— they will
be able. to pick up all the animal

food, they want in the way of gruzbs‘

and other insects—Farm and

Ranch.

WANTS TO Go INTO 9001mm:
BUSINESS

We have ten acres 08 land a. quan-

ter of a. mile east of OxBow Lake,
about four of hard ground, the rest
marsh. The Huron Rimes is the
north' line. There is an. old house
and a chicken coop, and old: shed: or
two. What I Wantto know is do
you think. it would pay to remodel?
the house, buildings and fence. We
think we can do it all. for $2,000,
and plant berries. There'is a. very
small huckleberry marsh. Could we
make a living—by a living I mean.
comfortable clothes, plenty to eat
and the expenses one incurs. We
have no children to educate and we
are not extravagant, our society is
our church. We are nine miles
from Pontiac on improved road,
nearly everything could be sold at
the door. We would also keep
chickens and geese—Mrs. H. 0.,
Pontiac, Mich.,
-—-It is ‘rather difﬁcult to make a
deﬁnite answer with only the in-
formation at hand. However, if
you are experienced in the care of
poultry you, no doubt, could keep a
ﬂock sufficiently large enough to
make a living with what garden
stuff you will be able to grow.

As to spending $2,000 on im-
provements it will depend on the fu-
ture possibilities in the way of ex—
pansion and increasing. the income.
If you have not had’ any experience
in poultry raising, I would suggest
that you rent some small place well
located that has adequate buildings
and start in gradual. In this way
you can ﬁnd out whether you like
the work and can make it a. proﬁt-
able business or not. Then if you
feel satisﬁed you could go ahead
and improve your own place or buy
one perhaps better situated—F'xT.
Ridden, Research Asst. in Farm
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Are potatoes good for chickens? It
so, which. would he the best cooked
or raw one for. laying hens?-——Mrs.
W. T., Romeo, Mich.

LExpeﬂenced. poultrymen ﬁnd that;

excellent results can be obtained by
feeding cooked; potatoes to their lay-
ing otmis. The cooked petal-n 13.
more palatable than the raw, and
the most practical method of feed-
ln them is in the form of a.
moistened mash. The potatoes
should Constitute 40 per cent of the
mash mixture. Ordinarily the
standard dry mash which consist of

equal parts by weight of bran. mid: .

(mugs, com  ground. outs, and,
meat scrap can be mixed with the
boiled potatoes and. excellent results
secured. The cooked potato 
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ing,‘ rough handling, improper, pack-

.L"'1i‘~ng,‘tfailure to time shipments :ado-

Nantageously, and other causes. At-

 ig-jteut'ion too. few simple rules, says
7 ' the department, will eliminate many
’ “of ‘these troubles.

Live poultry Should be graded by
age and kind, and the different
:classes shipped in separate coops, it
is pointed out. Dressed birds should
,nevm‘ be scald picked for a market
which prefers them dryypicked. They
should be chilled to remove body
heat before shipping, and should be
packed in barrels or boxes lined
with clean paper, and farm dressed
birds in warm weather must be
packed with alternate layers of
cracked ice.

The best time of day to forward a
shipment depends on the length of
‘the journey and the time the ship-
ment will arrive on the market. Live
poultry should never arrive late
Saturday afternoon, for they may be
held over until Monday, and in that
_' case will suffer heavy shrinkage. It
“Is always desirable to have ship—
ments arrive on the market early
enough to be weighed the same day.
Actual shrinkage on poultry ship-
ments varies according to the condi-
tion of the birds, the weather, and
~‘th6 length of the journey. Several
lots of broilers which were on the
road 6 to 8 hours showed a shrink-
.age of 5 to 15 per. cent, and a gener-
al average of 11 per cent.

Producers are advised not to feed
‘ poultry before shipping unless the
birds will not arrive until the follow-
ing day. It is desirable to have
poultry arrive with empty crops.
When it arrives with full crops, it is
said to be “croppy” and the receiv-
er may hold it overnight before
weighing_or may make a deduction
“in the weight to allow for the croppy
condition. In marketing dressed
\poultry, says the department, it us-
ually pays to fatten the birds before
~marketing.
. In cooping poultry for shipment,
the birds should be graded so that
ea.ch lot is as uniform in color, size,
Uui-
form iots, says department special-
ists, are more attractive, .and sell
more readily and for a better price.
Gulls, weaklings, and cripples
should not be mixed with better
quality stock, because they may die
{on route, and in any case will lower
‘the appearance of the entire lot.
Crowding should be avoided not
only to prevent killing of the birds,
but to prevent bruising, which
causes poultry to dress out poorly.
Raising market poultry is not yet
“much specialized in this country.
There is some specialization in pro-
ducing chickens ,near Philadelphia
and Boston and on Long Island, but
the great bulk of mar‘ketpo‘ultry is
a by—product incidental to the pro-
duction of eggs. On general farms,
poultry is kept to supply eggs and
poultry for the table, and to produce
eggs for sale. Poultry is likewise
.a secondary consideration on special-
ized egg farms.
iOhickens are reared and market-
ed in considerable numbers in var-
ious areas in the East and on the
Pacific coast, but the greater supply
is produced on general farms in the
East North Central and West North
Gentral States. According to the
census of 1919, :Iowa led in the
number of chickens raised, with 31,-
076,91, followed in order by Illinois,
Missouri, Togas, Indiana, Kansas,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Pen-
-nsylv.ania. Total value of the poul—
try raised in this country in 1922
was $381,178,000, of which amount
chickens accounted for $354,199,-
000. ,
Since the States of the Middle
West not only raise more poultry
that have a greater surplus above

their own needs than any other see- ~

ﬂan. the "poultry marketing problem
is one of moving birds from the
sources of production to the con-

comters in the best possible
condition and at the lowest cost. In
the «shipment of poultry to New
101k therein on mouse haul of
For eﬂiciency and
my in handling, the poultry
anal his cum mmr
at central-

on . 9.1:; t o-- 1’ , ,_ .
W p y,  tee Department of Agri-g-«auV-m(bnnds of dealers.
culture- Losses Occur from-.crowd-g  '— “

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IRT,Y eggs on the market sell

for a’ low price. ‘Usually they

do not bring more than half
the price of fresh clean eggs- Dirty‘
eggs, which have been washed, are
considered by the trade poorer in
quality than dirty eggs, due to the
fact that in washing the protective
’albuminous covering on the egg is
destroyed causing the egg to dry out
more rapidly. .

A few soiled eggs in a “case of
fresh eggs detract greatly from its
appearance, and appearance is one
of the most important qualities in
the sale of any food product.

Very frequently eggs, which are
only slightly soiled, can be cleaned
with a stiff brush. Others can be
cleaned by wiping the soiled part of
the egg with a damp cloth, and al-
lowing it to dry naturally. Eggs
which are very dirty, or badly “staina
ed, should not be shipped. Such
eggs should be used at home, or
sold locally.

The most important thing, how-
ever, ‘is to produce only clean eggs.
Eggs become dirty generally because
the hens’ feet are dirty. The hens’
feet become dirty because they are
not provided with sufﬁcient clean lit—
ter, when they are allowed out in
muddy yards on wet and stormy
days, and when the dropping boards
are not cleaned off and the hens are
allowed to track over them on their
way to the nests. The lack of
nesting material and too few nests
cause eggs to become broken and,
other eggs smeared. ‘

How to‘overcome most of these
conditions is obvious. To keep the
hens off the dropping boards, poul—
try wire may be tacked on the und-
er side of the roosts, and out to the
edge of the drooping board, a
scheme frequently used by commerc-
ial poultrym-en.

Since eggs are the principal pro-
duct. that poultry keepers are try-
ing to produce, it is essential, as a
business proposition that they be
produced under conditions which
will insure their full value.

DO KENS GET T00 FAT?
7 «ﬁrst-class layers, no! Not in-

frequently owners get worried
about their hens, particularly Leg-
horns, getting too fat. We have
yet to see any considerable number
in a given pen that could be consid-
ered overfat for egg production. As
a matter of fact, the moderately fat
hen is most always the laying hen.
And more often than not the prime
cause of a low eggdyield is the ex-
cess number of underfa‘t hens in the
ﬂock. There is no use expecting or
trying to get a satisfactory lay from
thin hens or those not well supplied
with surplus body tissue. The egg
is an overproduction and not form~
ed where the body requires for
maintenance all of the nourishment
supplied through the daily“ food
stream.

Unhappily We are too apt to deal.
in excesses. ‘We get the idea that
if a little is good a whole lot must
be better, and vice versa. Some one
started preaching that fat hens don’t
'“lay and then the idea spread like
wildfire even to the feeding and
management of the young stock and
pullets. True, one might feed a
lop-sided ration and lay on a soft,
ﬂabby fat, but it is not commonly
done. We have found the lop-sided
ration at times, but usually thin
stock rather than fat on account of
it. There is a great difference in
ﬂesh that is worked on the frame by
exercise and liberal feeding and the
ﬂabby fat accumulated by heavy pen
feeding. The former is very much
to be desired—ﬁne, solid, plump
bodies, with 'a good blanket of fat
just under the skin does much to
make comfort and egg records dur-
ing winter “months. Haphazard pen
feeding is not the my to pnoﬁtable
 keeping.

A hen Ila/m like a machine“
gm amp to .1 contain production.
a talus enough he! an «the hopper
a Melina mwumﬁty. We

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your poultry yard.

Feed

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

eat.

just get eggs—eggs.
an industrious hen.

breakfast.

100 hens, the lZ-lb. pkg.
60 hens, the 5-lb. pkg.

 

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

That’s when the eggs come.

Dr. Hess Poultry

PAN-A-«CE-A

See them get busy. It gives hens pep.

Nux Vomica is what does it—that greatest
A Pan—a-ce-a hen can’t
It’s her good feeling that makes

Pan-a-ce—a has Quassia in it to make hens
hungry. Great combination! One makes them
eat—the other helps them digest what they

No dormant egg organs when that com-
bination gets to work on a hen’s system. You

A Pan—a—ce—a hen is always a hungry hen——
She gets off the roost
winter mornings, ready to scratch for her

Tell your dealer how many hens you have.

There’s a right-Size package for eVery ﬂock.
200 hens, the 25-lb. pail
500 hens, the lOO-lb. drum
For fewer hens, there is a smaller package.

GUARANTEED

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M.D.. D.V.S.

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PLYMOUTH ROCKS

 

Barred Rock Cookerels. Husky, {
bred from. great layers. Sons of Detroit and
Grand BaéJIds lst nze males. ‘

W. o. offman, enton Harbor, Mich., R. 3.

BARRED ROCK COOKERELS BRED FROM

Holtermsns Ped ed. Aristocrats direct. Both

Light and Dark. Price $4.00, two for $7.00.
N. AYERS & SON. Silverwood, Michigan.

TURKEYS

WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS. _
right and have success. We have been shipping
from this one farm for 38 ears and have de
veloped a large hardy strain t at stands the test.
Address stunt ed envelo ie for quick reply.

ALDEN W ITOOMB, yron Center, Michigan.

GIANT MAMMOTH. BRONZE T U R K E V 8.
Very lar e birds. ’l‘hclr sire weighs 40 lbs. Toms,
$10.00- 1200—$15.00- Hens, $7.00»$i).00.

MRS. WILL DILLMAN, Cassopolis. Mich., R. 5.

 

 

 

 

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PURE BRED WHITE HOLLAND TURKEYS
For Sale. Youn' Toms, $10; liens, $8. Two
year old Torus, $15 each. Early hatched birds.
MRS. ED. COLLING, Mayville, Mich., R. D.

Highest Quality. White Holland Turkeys.

hardy, home-lovmg birds. Real producers.

$11.00~$14.00, liens, $10.00-$12.00.
Alvah Stegenga, Portland, Michigan.

 

Large,
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ca 8 best strains Vigorous breeders, both utility
and fancy. Extra good values 1n 'oung toms.
N Evalyn Ramsdeii, IonIa, M chigan.

 

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  GIANT Red Turkeys

MRS. RENA MEEK, Belmont, Michigan.

 

Pure Bred Mammoth Bronze Toms One 2 Year
old hardy beautiful well marked birds. Write for
prices. Mrs. Grifﬁn, Riverdaie, Michigan.

GI_AN_T BRONZE TURKEYS FROM PRIZE
\V1n_ g birds. Large, healthy, unrelated stock
furms ed. Mrs. La Verne Browneli, Belmont, Mich.

BRONZE TURKEYS, LARGE

 beautiful birds. Write for prices.

MRS. BEN JOHNSTON. Onaway, Mich., R. 1,

 

 

 

Mammoth Bronze Turkeys. Goldbank strain.
Unrelated stock. Vigorous healthy birds. \Vrite
for prices. Mrs. Perry Stebbins, Saranac, Mich.
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Dressed Poultry, Teal. Rabbits, etc. A square
denl always. \Vr1tr to,
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 i ‘.  use 77
hens than there ,arewg'ood. feeders.
And the. conviction applies 'even
more strongly to pullets. Too many
pullets start into production with
the severe handicap 0f being under
weight, with not enough surplus
fatty tissue to maintain bodily re-
quirements, energy and heat, and
make eggs at the same time.
they come into maturity a certain
reserve is stored up and this enables
egg production to begin, but unless
the feeding program is such as to
maintain this reserve the task of
completing growth, feathers and lay-
ing eggs is so great that they cannot
carry the entire load. Self-preser-
vation is the ﬁrst law of nature,
therefore egg production stops, and
usually a molt begins, the extent of
which depends on how severe the
strain on the system has been—or,
in" other words, how deﬁcient the
feeding schedule.

One might as well attempt to
build a house on a foundation of
sand and expect it to stand as to try
to maintain production with unde-
veloped or under nourished pullets.
It can’t be. done.

While we accept a good mash as
the maturing feed, it can be and fre-
quently is used with lack of judg-
ment. A narrow ration will tend to
force the ﬂock and may develop
some that will lay in four, to four
and one-half months, but it does not
supply the frame and foundation to
stand the strain of heavy produc—

As-

, ' ea  rge. n » ”
' but alsoremeuiber the whole gr
The ‘ old-fashioned homily I still

works wonders. “Take one pail of!

feed and tWO pails of hard common
‘sense into the poultry yard and feed
both at the same time.”——'Joseph E.
Davis in the Utah Farmer.

 

ADVANCE IN FARM WAGES DUR-
ING YEAR

ARMERS were required to pay
higher wages to male farm lab-
or during 1923 than in the two

preceding years, the United States
Department of Agriculture reports.
The average rate per month with
board in 1923 was $33.18, in 1922
it was $29.17, and in 1914 the rate
was $21.05. The average monthly
rate without board in 1923 was
$46.91, in 1922 it was $41.79, and
in 1914 the rate was $29.38.

Day wages for harvest labor, with
board averaged $2.45 in 1923, as
compared with $2.20 in 1922 and
with $1.55 in 1914. For farm labor
other than at harvest time the rate
per day with board was $1.93 in
1923, as compared with $1.65 in
1922, and with $1.13 in 1914.

The peak year in wages of farm
labor in recent years was 1920, the
department points out. The deﬂa-
tion of general prices then began
and farm wages continued to decline
until the fall of 1922, when an up-
ward trend developed.

RADIO DEPARTMENT

INFORMATION ON AERIAL

I am planning on purchasing a
a radio receiving set soon and am
writing to you for information on
the aerial. I have read that one
should have 100 feet of wire in their
aerial and I have noticed that some
fellows have four wires, others
three, still other two and many only
one. Which do you consider the
best? Can one use insulated wire?
Can more than one set be operated

on one aeria1?—R. B., Saginaw
County, Mich.
—There is some misunderstanding

about serials. Some believe that an
aerial composed of four wires 25
feet long is just as good as one wire
100 feet long. This is not true, the
latter being by far the best, and for
the average set the one Wire 100
feet long is better than an aerial of
two, three. or four wires of that
length. The single Wire permits of
more selective tuning. Yes, you can
use insulated wire and get as good
results as you can from a bare wire.
Two receiving set cannot be used on
one aerial with any degree of satis-
faction as tuning one set puts the
other out of tune; also the signal
strength is reduced when two sets
are used on one aerial. We have
heard of cases where two sets have
given good' results on one antenna
when near a powerful sending sta-
tion. However such results are to
be classed as freakish.

RADIO AN IMPORTANT FARM IM-
PLEMENT, SURVEY SHO‘VS
HE importance of radio in the

T production and marketing of

agricultural products is brought

out in a special survey of about 1200
representative farmers, just com-
pleted by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. More than 50
per cent of the 1200'farmers reply—
ing reported that they owned tube
sets employing three or more tubes,
while approximately 50 per cent of
the farmers reporting have home-
made sets ranging from simple crys-
tal detectors to tube sets.

More that 75 different makes of
seas were found among the manu-
factured sets purchased, although
the bulk of the sets were conﬁned
to about 15 of the leading makes
that are more or less widely adver—
in radio and general maga-
zines. The average costot the man—
ufactured sets was $172.

Comparatively few of the OWners
of home-made sets operate crystal
receivers, the survey revealed. The
average cost .of the crystal sets was
$11. The average cost of-.~the5h9me-
made tube sets.w=as'$83.’ W ' / .‘

Eighty pet” cent? of thesej farmers
said’insrrrerg' rammed “.tﬂ‘rvwre
ing 'both wedther"and "market re:

9001', etc. ,

ports. The survey was made in
practically every State in the Union,
the most numerous replies coming
from Illinois, Iowa, Texas, Kansas,
Ohio, New York, Missouri, and Indi-
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KEEP AERIAL AWAY FROM
ELECTRIC LIGHT WIRES
HRISTMAS radio sets, given

with wishes for health and hap-

piness, may become messengers
of death unless care is used in erect-
ing serials.

Aerials should not be strung
across electric light wires, either in—
doors or out. The ends of the an-
tenna. should be securely fastened
against wind and also against the
added weight of ice-covered wires.
One end broken loose, may be car—
ried against a heavily charged elec—
tric line and lead a dangerously
high current into the house.

A warning similar to this one,
Sent out last year by the Michigan
Committee of Public Utility Infor-
mation met with instant response
but during the past few days the
Christmas radio sets have been call-
ed upon to provide a means of for-
getting real winter weather. Out-
door antennas have been carelessly
erected, and in some instances the
“Best Wishes” will be enjoyed only
by the “heirs and assigns.”

DID YOU KNOW THIS?

It is a good idea. to mount your
tube sockets so that if anyone walks
across the room the vibration will
not cause your set to ring or get it
out of tune. This can be done by
mounting each one on a piece of in—
ner tube. Take one of the old tubes
you have thrown away and cut out
pieces to the same size as the base
of the tube socket. You can use
two pieces under each tube if you
wish but one Will do the trick very
satisfactorily. If you have no auto-
mobile maybe your neighbor will
give you a good size piece from one
of his old tubes.

* It It

To get the best results from WD-
12 tubes it, is desirable to use two
dry cell batteries connected in mul-
tiple for each tube. Thus, in con~
nection with a. 3 tube set best re~
sults will be obtained when 6 cells
are used, all connected in multiple.
And it is also cheaper than one cell
for each tube.

FREE BOOK ABOUT CANCER

The Indianapolis. Cancer Hospital,
Indianapolis, Indiana, has published
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' j FARM INCOME: I ‘ . , . ’

’ Cash receipts of farmers in the United States from sales of all products
were fourteen billion dollars in the crop year ending June 30, 1920.
years later the income had fallen almost to. one-half this amount. The following
year it showed a gain of one and one-half billion dollars and this crop year

another gain of one-half billion dollars.

Farm cash returns come from crops, 50 per cent; livestock, 26 per cent;
and animal products, 24/per cent. This year cotton is yielding the most money,
followed in order by dairy products, cattle, hogs, wheat and poultry. ‘

in the decline from the peak of prosperity crops showed the greatest loss
and animal products the least, the decline in crop sales being 53 per cenrg,
livestock, 50 per cent, and animal products, 20 per cent.

' WHEAT: ‘

Wheat is the only important product returning less money each year since
It promises to yield this season only one-

Acreage sown to winter wheat this fall
After allowing for probable

the break in general prices in 1920.

third of the income of the peak year.
is estimated to be 12 per cent less than last fall.
domestic requireiﬁrents for the full crop year, and exports to December 1, wheat
east of the Rockies remaining for carryover and export is estimated at 65
With seven months remaining for exporting, this represents
a small amount for this territory which must be supplemented by wheat brought
from the‘west coast or imported from Canada, or domestic consumption must
be further reduced. Consumption is already at low ebb, the average per capita
for the last three years being 4.22 bushels, compared with 5.06 bushels for the

million bushels.

ﬁve-year pre-war period.

1. Production and Trade.

I. Agriculture:
December, 1923
Estimate 1922

Corn, bu. . _. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3054 2906

Wheat, bu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 786 868

Oats, bu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1300 1216

Barley, bu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 182

Rye, bu.  . . . .  63 103

Buckwheat, bu. . . . . . . . . . . . 14 15

Potatoes, white, bu . . . . . . . . 412 453

Potatoes, sweet, bu . . . . . .. 97 109

Cotton, bales . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.081 9.8

:l‘obacco, lb. . . . . . . . . . .  1475 1247
Flaxseed, bu.  17 10
Rice, bu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 41
Peaches, bu. . . . . . . . .  . .. 46 56
Apples, total, bu . . . . . . . . . . 197 203
Apples, commercial, bu. . . . 34 32
sugar beets, tons......... 6.9 5.2

‘As per cent of average 01' 1917-1921.

I. Wheat Situation: (Nat C. Murray. Clement Curtis 6: Co.)

(000,000 omitted)

U. B. Production—000,000 omitted.

Average

1917-1921 Per Cent

2931
835
1378
192
70

East of West of

Supply: Rockies Rockies
Carried over, July 1, 1923 . . . . . . . . . . . 91 10
Production, 1923 crop . . . . . . . . . . . . . ._ . 645 137

Total supply  . . . . . .  736 147 A

Distribution :

Dometisc requirements for food, teed -
and seed .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 583 51
Excess feeding  . . . . .. 28 7
Total domestic requirements. . . . . . . 611 . 58
ExportedtoDecember  60 30
Total..  . . . . . . . . . . . ..67 88
Remainder for carryover and export. . . . 65 59

I. Mining (Federal Reserve Bank of New York):
J'igures express production as s percent of normal.

mating normal production, due allowance is made for seasonal

variation and year to year growth.

Anthracite coal .............. .. ..
Bituminous coal

................ 99

8e. Manufacturing:

Wheat ﬂour  . . . . . .104
Sugar . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 137

Cotton . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . .. 94

Wool..  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1011'

Pig iron  . . . . . .. 98

Steel ingot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 101

Copper.. . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1071'

Gasoline.. . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . .. '

Automobiles. .  . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 159i

0 Not available. iPrellmlnary.

4. Building Expenditures (Bradetreets):
(000,000 omitted)

 
 

1928
first quarter 
Secnd quarter  830
Third quarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690
October . . .. . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . .. 276
November. .    .254
5. Transportation (000 omitted) :

Week Same
Ending Week
Dec. 1, Month
l‘retgbt car loadings: 1923 Ago
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835 1035
Grain and grain products. . 46 48
Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 44
Goal...  157 180
v due . . . . . . . .
'“'°‘f‘."'.°....“.’...  12 2;:
Merchandise . . . . . . . 215
‘ Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . 298 882
fAs percentage of week year ego.
: men ':
6.“ Enelov t A I f

    

r

h

99

.. 
. 81

Oct., 1923 Sept, 1923 Oct, 1922
95 35 95

v

ov.. Oct.
928 ’- 19” t '

31 '
a:

1923‘

104
94
94

103
90
93

106

103
89

108

170
81

107

123

131
96

Total
101
782

883

634
35

669
90

759
124

in esti-

91

Per cent
Increase

Nov.,
1922 :?

Two

HOGS:

last.

PRICES:

7. Bank Debits:

New York City..................$19.93
Outside bank debits...;......... 18.52
8. Mail Order Sales:

November,
Montgomery

ar ..
Sears Roebuck... 20,416,166 20,196,559

I. Exports (000 omitted):

October,
Commodity: 1923 1922
Grand total . . . . . . . . . . . . .339. .814 $366,186

Beef and veal, 1b . . . . . . . . . 2,535 2,978

Pork, lb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80,551 57.62

Lard, lb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,378 66,332

Butter, lb. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 344 524

Cheese, lb. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 331 308

Hides, skins . . . . . . . . . . . ..$ 650 380

Corn. bu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 528 10,149

Meal and ﬂour, bbl . . . . . . . 40 41

Wheat, bu. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9,239 18,282

Flour, bbl. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2,092 1,510

Oats, bu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 258 3,042

Meal and rolled, lb . . . . . .. 17,275 13,036

Fruits and nuts . . . . . . . . ..8 12.130 10,162

Vegetable oils . . . . . . . . . ..$ 751 1,011

Sugar, lb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,209 13,200

Tobacco, 1b. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 44,958 58,353
Cotton, lb.  405,940 418,367
2. imports:

(000 omitted)
Grand total . . . . . . . . . . . . $308,366 $345,104

Beef and veal, lb . . . . . . . . 3,174 4,504

Pork, lb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 54

Butter, lb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,202 232

Cheese, lb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,609 6,776
Hides and skins. . . . . . . . .8 6,507 13,487
Corn, bu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3

Wheat, bu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,834 2,566

Flour, bbl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 51

ate, bu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 8

Fruits and nuts . . . . . . . . . .6 7,375 8,724

Vegetable oils . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3,860 5,166
Sugar. lb.   623,976 432,456
Tobacco, lb. . . . . . . . . , 6,295
Wool, lb.  9,566 25,260

3. Prices of Foreign Drafts:

  

6. )Btlsliidss Failures: -'

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COTTON:
Cotton shows a small production gain and large price gain, with additional
income of something like 30 per cent over last year.
Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Arkansas, have decidedly smaller crops than
last season and the higher price will not make up for the reduced. output. Texas
and the Carolinas have had big yields. .

' (Units of $1,000,000.000)
Nov.,1923 0ct.,1923
5

$191
19.75

Eleven Months Ending
November,

923 1922 1923 2

.....814.112,312 $11,003,750 $119,581,453 $ 80,854,890

ll. Foreign Trade.

194,742,706 161,419,528
Ten Months Ending
October,

1923 1922
$3,275,804 $3,051,292
24.246 28,224
757,354 563,887
862,552 626,033
4,941 10,012
7,696 4,367
3,349 3.278
39,188 151,330
554 534
89,435 144,438
12,743 x 11,968
3,084 27,066
119,164 88,686
49.741 53,772
8,544 10.793
433,910 1,822,041
375,594 354,167
1,911,058 2,392,148

$3,212,520 8
3

57,043
7,096,618
50,605
372.639

Price of Demand Drafts

Nominal Gold Value Dec. 18, Nov. 19,

Per of Exchange 1923 1923
England . . . . . $4.87 to 1 £ sterling. . .6437 $4.33
France ........19.3cw 1 franc . . . . .. 5.20%c 5.35c
Sweden . . ....26.8c to lcrown .....26.32c 26.350
Holland . . . . . .40.2c to 1 ﬂorin . . ..38.11c 37.64c
Argentine . . . .42.5c to 1 peso .. . . . . .32.25c 30.63c
Japan . . .....49.9cw1yen .......46.80c 48.13c

lll. Money and Credit.

Ten Months Ending

I. Gold Movement (000 omitted) :
‘ Octob
Oct., 1928 Oct, 1922 1923
Exports of gold. . . . . . .8 1,307 $17,591 . 8 27,185
imports of gold . . . . . . . 29,858 20,866 250,379
2. Federal Reserve Ratio: Dec. 15, Nov. 17,
1923 ‘ 1923
Ratio of total reserves to deposits
and Federal Reserve note liabil-
ites..  75.3% 75.6%
3. interest Rate: Nov., Oct.
1923 1923
4-6 mos. commercial paper. . . . . . . . . . . 5.19% 5.35%
60-90 days commercial paper. . . . . . . . . 5.09% 5.12%
4.‘ Stock and Bond Prices: Dec. 7. Nov. 9.
r 1923 1923
   see-IOIIOOII  
.0 Industrial stocks . .' . . . .. . .. ... 93.80 91.14
40 Bonds . .  86.80 86.79

‘ ’ é—Week Ending— ,
Dec. 6,1923 Nov.,s. 1923 Dec. 8, 1922

383 7.

Nov., 1922

Sales

$19.03
17.13

2,527,153
31,502
639

2.967
33,019
81,915
100
16,886
603

1,279
57,703
50.987

8,866,467
57,823
303,894

Dec. 19,
1922
$4.61
6.83c
26.89c
39.82c
37.90c
48.95c

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"1922 this quantity which the same~ amount of farm products would
3 30,734 purchase in October, 1923. Prices at the farm are used for
230 422 agricultural products, and wholesale prices at central markets for
' other commodities.
All Com- Cloths, Fuel, Metals, Buildin H

Dee: 13' modlties etc. etc. etc. Mtls. 
1922 Cotton . . . . . . .152 117 135 163 127 127
Corn . . . . . . . . . 92 71 82 100 78 - 77
Wheat . . . . . . . 79 61 70 85 67 66
75.1% Hay . . . . . . . . . 74 57 66 80 62 62
. Potatoes  . 84 65 75 91 71 71
Beef cattle . . . 61 47 54 65 51 51
Nov., H 63 49 56 68 53 ‘ 53
1922 100 115 139 109 108
438% 80 92 112 87 87
432% 111 129 156 121 12'
Average purchasing power of all farm products in terms of all

Dec, 3, other commodities. Same basis as above table.
1922 1918  December. 1921  62
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Certain states, including

Marketings of hogs have been 25 per cent larger this calendar year than
These enormous sales brought in 1 per cent more cash.

Low prices of corn two years ago gave impetus to pork.production.

Contrary inﬂuences now working to check production may be expected to have

a marked effect on'pork prices by the latter part of 1924.

CAI ILE:

The range cattle industry is still confronted with an unproﬁtable and
declining market.
around 12 per cent of total sales of cattle.
fat cattle have been sold this year than last at slightly higher prices.

GENERAL BUSINESS:

Last spring business was headed toward a boom, which was checked and
followed by a small decline.
general that 1924 will be a moderately good business year.

of feeders coming mainly from the range make up
Three per cent more pounds of

This in turn has been checked. The belief is

The general price level, as computed by the U. 5. Bureau of Labor
Statistics, has declined 3 per cent since a year ago.
Farm purchasing power, on the basis figured by the U. S. Bureau
of Agricultural Economics, is 10 per cent above this date last year,

Farm products have gained

IV. Prices.

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

Dec. 18, Month Year
1923 Ago Ago
Fat hogs, cwt., average . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.95 68.’
Beef steers, good native, (‘wt., uv....s 9.50 $ 9:00 3 
Fat lambs, cwt., average , . . . . . . . . .. 12.50 12.25 1395
Fat sheep, cwt., average . . . . . . . . . . .. 6.75 7.25 720
Wriiﬁl, tChi? Delainc unwashed, lb. '
05 on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .545 . .

Butter, 92 score, lb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .53  

Choose, No. 1 twins, lb . . . . . . . . . . . .. .22 .24 .2675

Eggs, fresh firsts, (107. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .40 .50 '51

Poultry, hens, lb . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .18 .1725 '175

Wheat, No. 2 hard, bu . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.08 1.045 128

Corn, No. 2 mixed, bu . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .7223  :7675

0:113, No. 2 white, bu . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .45 .44 475

liye, No. 2, bu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .70 .71 I915

Barley, bu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .67 .605 .672
Kaﬁr, No. 2 white, cwt. (K. C.)..... 1.295 1.725 1.68
Hay, N0. 1 timothy, ton . . . . . . . . . . .. 26.00 27.50 21.00
Flax, No. 1 bu. (at Minneapolis) . .  2.445 2.4125 2.72
Cotton, middling, lb. (New York) . . .. .355 .3535 .262
Beans, White, cwt., f. o. 1). Michigan. 5.05 5.35 7.75
Potatoes, northern whites, cwt . . . . .. 1.10 1.00 1.00
Onions, midwest yellows, cwt . . . . . . .. 2.15 2.65 2.50
Apples, winter varieties, bbl . . . . . . .. 5.10 5.25 5.25
Hides, No. 1 native, heavy, ll) . . . . . .. .135 .14 .2025
Sixgar, ﬂue granulated, lb. (N. Y.) . .. .089 .0885 .0705

2. U. S. Department of Labor Relative Wholesale Prices:
Prices in year 1913 equal 100.

Nov.,1923 Oct.,1923 Nov.,1922
All commodities (weighed average

or general price level) . . . . . . . . . .. 152 153 156

Farm products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 146 144 143

Food products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 148 ~ 148 143

Cloths and clothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 201 199 192

Fuel and lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 167 172 218

Metals and metal products . . . . . . . .. 141 142 133

Building materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 181 182 185

Chemicals and drugs . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 130 129 127

House furnishings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 176 183 ', 179

Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 118 120 122
3. Prices of Farm Products at the Farm Relative to His:

 

(U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics)
Prices in year 1913 equal 100.
Commodity: Oct.,1923 Sept, 1923 Oct., 1921
Cotton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 232 219 181

Corn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 141 144 106

Wheat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 121 119 125

Hay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 113 113 100

Potatoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 129 156 98

Beef cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 93 97 93

Hogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 97 104 111

Eggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 198 167 . 195

Butter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 159 , 153 143

Wool. . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . .. 221 222 193

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

The quantity of various commodities which a giVen amount of‘
each farm product would purchase at prices prevailing in 1913 is
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Foors's MARKET 

BY W. W. FO'O’TE
The Year's Business

HE year just closed was a good~

one for business in most re—
‘ spects, with farmers sharing in
the prosperity, but one crop farmers
failed: to make good, this applying
especially to those who devoted. most
of their eﬁorts to growing. wheat and
raising hogs. Obviously, what is
needed in the wheat states is a di-
versiﬁed system of farming, and" it is
gratifying to hear that wheat farm—
ers in lowa and other states are re-
ducing their wheat acreage. The
domestic trade of the“United States
has expended rather surprisingly,
largely as a result of employment of
labor at high wages and a-fair in-
crease in our population through
births and immigration, despite the
restrictions placed by the govern-
ment on bringing in foreigners. We
exported large quantities of farm
products to foreign countries, but
the Department of Agriculture an-
nounces that for the ﬁrst time in the
history of the country the value of
agricultural products imported ex-
ceeded the value of exports for the
ﬁscal year ending June 30, 1923.
The imports consisted chiefly of
silk, sugar, rubber, wools and coffee.
It would appear that we should pro-
duce more wool and sugar; yet in
the year mentioned we imported
$396,000 000 worth of sugar and
$167,000,000 worth ofwool. These
are crops which our farmers could
raise proﬁtably. While it is not
likely that Congress will adopt a
course letting in foreigners indis—
criminately, it is probable that a law
will. be enacted by which desirable
workers will be allowed to enter the
country and allowed in due time to
become American citizens. It is ex—
tremely unfortunate that affairs in
European countries are slow to im—
prove, yet we are exporting large
amounts of grains and ﬂour, while,
strange to say, our exports of pro-
visions have exceeded all former re—
cords. Agricultural productiOn in
Europe has improved materially, and
the betterment in industry is mani-
fest in the increased volume of for-
eign goods sold to this country, tend—
ing to restore the balance of the
world trade. Looking to the future,
we are confronted by the credit in-
ﬂation because of the abnormal gold
holdings and by presidential election
year. This country holds about
half of the monetary gold supply of
the world. Farmers who are out of
debt and own fertile lands face a
promising future, and they hardly
need advice, the important things
being well maintained, soil, a variety
of crops and avoiding unduly spread-
ing of their acres. '
Better Feeling in
While much higher
those now prevailing for wheat
seems hardly probable in the near
future, it must be admitted that the
market has got into better shape,
with sales at well above prices pre—
vailing several weeks ago, although
they appear low when placed in com-
parison with those paid two years
ago. It is evident that advances of
a permanent nature must be brought
about by enlarged consumption, and
this is as yet not sufﬁciently liberal
to cause traders to become bullish
in sentiment, although choice wheat
is selling at a good premium, with
no excessive amounts in store. The
export demand is fair, with Mani—
toba wheat much wanted. Reactions
follow decided advances, but they
leave prices higher than early in the
season, although a short time ago
there were 145,377,000 bushels of
wheat in the United States and Can-
ada in the visible supply and in
bonded stocks in this country. Many
farmers are sending in inquiries ask-
ing what course to follow regarding
disposing of their wheat, and’ it may
he replied that it appears to be good
Judgment. to sell in moderate quan-
tities from time to time, taking ad-
vantage of any bulges in values.

Wheat
prices than

’Later on there will be general in-

terest felt in the. spring: wheat acre-
age, and all of us hope that farmers
will realize the great importance of
curtailing their acreageand thereby
help in restoring prices to a proﬁt—

MARKET summers:

Wheat steady. Com. strong; ' Oats ﬁrm. Rye  hr ’d‘emand.

Bems uncharged. Eggs wanted. _
Poultry slow! and easy. “Potatoes unchanged.
y Dressed calves  and hogs inactive. Cattle lower.

than supply.

ket active. Sheep steady.

Demand for butter‘ greater~

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(Note: The above summarized Information
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some to press —Ed|tor.)

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able basis. Fair interest‘i‘s shown in
the oats and rye market-s, oaks: sell-
ing around the ﬁriCes of a» year ago,
with a visible supply of 20,591,000
bushels of oats in the Unites States,
comparing with 32,122,000 bushels
a: year ago. Rye is in. far larger
supply than a year earlier, and with
prices far lower than a year‘ back,
it is strange that the export trade
is not much greater. With 54,-
613,000 bushels of wheat in the
United States and Canada in excess
of a year ago,~farmers with wheat
for sale will see the need of going
slow in marketing. Late sales were
made of May wheat in Chicago at
$1.09, comparing with $119 a year
ago.
Bull Market in Corn

In former years wheat was usually
the bigitem in speculation, and ex-
cept occasionally, less interest was
shown in corn and oats; but for the
last few months corn has come into
much greater prominence 0;. the
Board of Trade and is now far ahead
of wheat in active trading. The ad-
vent of winter weather has resulted
in much increased consumption of
corn on farms, whereas heretofore
it was so unusually mild that much
less corn and other feeds were re-
quired for fattening live stock than
in normal winters. Farmers a.
while ago were apt to take a rather
bearish view of the outlook for corn
prices, and they were beginning to
market their surplus, anticipating
much increased sales throughout the
corn belt states and a consequent
drop in prices. Now, however, they
are much more optimistic in their
views as a general rule, and this
is natural in view of the fact that
recent prices reached the highest
level of the season. / A corn special-
ist says the grain trade seems to be
at last awakening to the fact that
the stocks of old corn were exhaus-
ted when the new crop started to
move, and that it has been ﬁlling
holes and has disappeared. This is
why stocks have not accumulated,
the visible corn supply in this coun—
try being only about 10,000,000
bushels. Iowa andlllllnois fammaers
have sold little corn so far, but on
recent advances they have shown a
disposition to sell some, and around
80' cents a bushel for May corn they
may be expected to sell more, freely.
Prices are well above those of a. year
ago, and far higher than at this
time in 1922, May corn having sold

‘company as follows:

at. that. time as low as 5.2 cents. Of
late the. west and southwest have
received. considerable corn. from. the
Missouri River markets. Late sales
of May delivery were made on the
Chicago Board; of Trade of corn at
7 7%, cents, comparing with 72
cents a year ago; oats at 46 cents,
comparing with 44% cents last
year; and rye at 75 cents, comparing
with 88%” centsa year ago.
Embargo on Grain ,

A, special from Winnipeg to the
Chicago Tribune saysz—An embargo
on grain shipments to Fort William
and Port Arthur by the middle of
next week is. a; certainty, according.
to grain exchange» students of mar-
ket conditions. They argue that the
50,000,000 bushels of Canadian:
wheat at lower lake ports, 40,000,—
000 bushels at Fort William and

Port Arthur, and 45,000,000- in the ‘

country elevators, with, it is esti-
mated, 100,000,000 bushels still in
the harfds of farmers, will mean vir-r
tually paralyzing grain trade. They
say Canada will have to export 2,—-
000,000 bushels of grain a day from.
the opening of navigation to get free-
of this crop before the opening of
the new grain year on Sept. 1 next.
Lower lake terminal elevators are
crowded to capacity. All rail ship—
ments will have to be stopped, it is
said. Upper lake ports have a ca-

pacity of 63,000,000 bushels and»

they cannot take more than 80' per
cent of that. '
Canadian Wheat Flour

The department of commerce at
Washington writes Uhlmann Grain
“We regret
that your suggestion that this de-
partment report ﬁgures of exports
of wheat ﬂour made from Canadian
wheat separately from ﬂour made
from United States wheat cannot be
put into effect. This Canadian ﬂour
is entered into a bonded mill for
grinding into. ﬂour, all of the pro-
duct of the bonded mill to be ex-
ported. Under section 3-11 of the
tariff law, wheat is admitted free of
duty. The ﬂour produced is a

blended product made partly from .

United States and partly from Can-
adian wheat. The soqu when ex-
ported‘ is regarded as a domestic pro-
duct because it is made in the United
States. Whether the material is of
domestic or foreign, origin is imma—
terial. The export declaration ﬁled
with the collector of customs at the
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A. B. COOK APPROVES OF NEW BRET CONTRACT

BELIEVE the principle of the new sugar beet contract is right.
Both parties are, under its terms, interested; in the ultimate out-

come of the joint enterprise.
the contracts until the last sack of
enterprise.

From the time of the securing of

sugar is sold in sholﬁd be a joint

I can see no future for the industry on any other basis.

1' can see a brilliant future for it on the basis of cooperation and a

mutual interest in the ﬁnal results

of the year’s operations.

My personal opinion of the contract after a kind of a “once over”

was that it was a fair proposition.

I submitted it: to the gentleman

who originated; the “50-50” idea and who is a Careful student of beet
sugar affairs and who while a former has the respect of- all classes and
he said “it is a fair proposition und'ér present conditions."

I think the manufacturers missed an opportunity when they failed
to invite in representative growers to discuss with; them the terms of
the proposed contracts» before it was printed. However fair it may be
to the grower, had he by Ms'rcpresentattwés accepted it without am-
mendment it would have placed the proposition before the growers» in

a better light.

The signing on. the dotted line is a much simpler and

pleasanter transaction and conﬁdence much more easily secured u? the
signee has had. a part in the preparation of the literature wlich pro-

ceeds that dotted line.

If all the growers were of a was mentioned in

connection with the 50-50 contract above and all of the manuﬂactnrers

'of the type of mama alwme Sugar

the «WA

ment of satisﬁactory relationship. in ﬁlls. industry would be pmible
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$13-15 to $13.
‘ Numeric“. m”

    

   

give the
Canadian
from; Separate statistics are kc.
the amounts: of“ Chum-ism ms: _. ,
terede im bonded. mills for 
into ﬂour for export. During”. 

proportion or  .'

   
  
  

nine monthspnding with. Sequ -  
30. 1923, 6.548.193 bushels kayo’“

been entered. No information. is

available as to when the ﬂour ground” '
Calls?

from this wheat or partly from
adian and partly from United." States

wheat will be exported. Beginning 

with January 3, this ofﬁce will issue:

weekly statements showing the iI’n-vfi v

port's into eight; principal northern.

border districts or Canadian wheat: 
entered: for consumption (duty paid) ' "
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Those statements will be issued to ' 

the press and! to, interested parties-
on Tuesday as}! each week." ' .

The restricted demand for ‘7

cattle at Thanksgiving, Christmasi‘i 

and New Year's- has given place to
improved conditions, with marked in“—
crease in the consumption ofgbeef,
pork and mutton. Even rather or-
dinary cattle have shown advances.

in prices in the Chicago market at~ ,
times, and on days when common. .
cattle Were not plentiful killers paid. .

higher prices for steers with a little
ﬂesh on them than feeders were pre-
pared‘ to pay.

While the cattle re- I

ceipts have increaSed in numbers, I

relatively few choice ﬁnished lets

have been offered, and the bulk of 2‘

q

the steers marketed» sold at $8.25 to. 'v'

$10.75 per 1'00 pounds, the better
class of the yearlings selling at $11
to $12 and the best heavy long fed’
steers at $10 to $11.25. Killers
have continued to descriminate
against heavy cattle-and it does not
require a great many to satisfy the
trade requirements. Steers grading
as good ﬁnd. buyers at $10 and mr,
and steers selling below $9 do not
grade very high.
grade sell for $6.75 to $7.75, with
inferior little steers selling at $4-50
to $6.65 in a small way. Butcher
stock has a fair outlet, cows and

heifers selling usually at $3.75 to ‘

$8.25, while bulls bring $4.25 to $7

Steers of ordinary f --

and calves $5 to $12.50. The stacker ‘~

and feeder trade is only fair at $4.50
to $7.85, sales being. mainly at $5.25-
to $7.50. Milch cows sell at $35 to
$90 each.
their cattle as soon as ready, but it
is not well to let well bred cattle
go until properly ﬁnished- Ruling
prices for fat stock are. extremely
good.
Sum-foil? a! Hogs '
There has been no end to the hog
supply, and prices have had. many
breaks because far more were mar-

Farme‘rs should market, 

I

keted than needed, despite the un- -‘

precedentedly large consumption of
fresh and cured. hog products, 

I

i’mg goo‘d‘ exports to European coun- .

tries. The best strengthened rump.
ence all along has been the unusually

liberal demand for the better class '

of hogs offered on the Chicago mar-

ket to ship to eastern packing. pom '

The hogs offered average well! in
quality, and the bulk of the sales are.
Within a range of 30- cents, with
prime heavy butchers going highest
and 25 cents above best bacon hogs.
Recent Chicago receipts of hogs have
averaged 231 pounds in weight, bow
ing four pounds less than a year ago
and eleven pounds above the ten-
year average. Recent markets have
changed greatly for the better, due
to a marked improvement in the
local and eastern shipping demand.
Late Chicago hog sales were at a
range of $6.50 to $7.50, er sub-
stantially the prices of a ‘week
earlier.
7 Active Lamb Market

There has been of late an ex“
tremely liberal demand for lambs in
the Chicago market at a high scale of

prices, although the materially   :57,»

creased? receipts have brought. 
some reductg ions in

ive at fancy prices, with Icarus/ax;
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OATS ,

The out market showed a steady
impmmem during the week end-
tg  12th and high price lev-
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a slight decline over two weeks age
although  market remains steady
n tone. ‘

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The  bean market is
steely to mining. Demand is not
heavy but enough to keep the mop
movm steadily from the state.
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Potatoes are fairly steady and the
ﬁnest grades are moving at ﬁrm
prices. mm are teddy large al-
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been ﬁght and more strength has
been shown both in the east and
west under increased activity. The
demand for good hay is urgent with
offerings of the better grades very
small. Accumulations have been
cleaned up and there is very little
hay unsold :at any market. The ear-
erage of prices has increased, the
west showing a dollar increase and
r the east not quite as much but tend—
ing toward more strength. .Country
loadings are small and weather con-
ditions uncertain.

MARKET QUOTATIONS
Wheat

Detroit—:Cash No. 1 red, $1.14;
No. 2, $1.13; No. 2 white, $1.14;
No. 2 mixed, 11.1.8. ,

Chicago—"Gash No. .2 red, $1.13:
No. 2 hard, $109,115 1.12%.

New York—Cash o. '2 red, $1.-
26; No. 2 hard, $1.25%; No. 2 mix-
ed, $1.15IA.

Don
Detroit—Cash .Nc. .3 yellow, 83c;
No. 4. 79c.
Chicago—Cash No. 2
72%@’18%c; No. 2 mixed, 76%c.
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January!!! to ‘25, in the third annu-
all Sugar Beet Institute held under
the auspices of like millage.

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have been invited to the meeting.»
amd it is predicted that last year’s:
attendance 0‘! 260 will be equalled»

or battered.

Problems of prosthetics. with em:
plhasis on the cultural end, will be .

(ﬁscussed at the conference, accord-
ing to acting-dean E. B. Hill, of the
M. 'A. C. agricultural idlllvisian, who

is arranging details of the institute“

Fertilisation. disease problems, in-
sect control, and general cultural
methods will be taken up.

The list of men who are to lead
discussion at the various meetings
includes :ﬁve men from the U. S.
Department of Agriculture at Wash-
ington, D. 7C. Prominent state man-
ufacturers and growers, and special-
ists from the agricultural college,
will also take part in the program.

 

'MICHi-GP " l! LEADER IN PRO-
DUCING WOOL

ICHIGlfiN, one of the big lamb—
M feeding states, of the nation,
p r o d u c e s about 8,000,000
pounds of wool annually. ‘
ﬂmcial» Government
placed the Michigan sheep popula—
tion in 1923 at 1,171,000, a marked
increase over the total. for the prev-
ious year.
In additionthere is a decided in-

estimates ,

crease in the number of lambs being ‘

sted this winter in Michigan. Many
of these will be shorn before leaving

lithe farms, thus helping to .boost the ? -

Michigan wool clip.

Among the reasons for the pres—
ent increase in the number and pop-
ularity in sheep in Michigan are the
following:

The educational activities of the

Michigan Division State’ Grange and

of the Extension of the Michigan
Agricultural College, the
economic and labor conditions and
the inﬂuence of the wool pool con-
ducted by the Michigan State Farm
Bureau.

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FARMERS” WEEK
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served seats has been held for the

Farmers’ Week guests, and these
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prices at the registration booth.

The annual Housewives Congress
will “be held in the new home eco-
nomics building during the week as
a special feature for the women at-
tending Farmers’ Week. Talks on
various phases of home economics
as applied to farm homes will be
given by college specialists, and
specialists, and special exhibits will
“be shown.

natural ,

The new home economics build—-

ing.
country. has just been completed at
at cost of $400,000, and will be op-
ened to the»public for the ﬁrst time
on evening, February 5, as
one of the dentures of zt‘ihe week.
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state m like Farmers Week crowds.
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