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The Time is Ripe for Tax Reform 1n Michigan

Reports Show Not Only Tax Totals Are Too High but Tax Burden is Not Equally Distributed
OverEntire Wealth of the State

By STANLEY M. POWELL

(Lansing Correspondent of The Business Farmer.)

EAL ESTATE, which consti-
tutes but 35' per cent of the
wealth of Michigan, is today
paying 80 per cent of the total
taxes, while the other 65 ‘per cent of
Michigan’s wealth escapes .with but
20 per cent of the tax burden,” said
Representative Fred B. Wells, of
Cassopolis, discussing Michigan’s
taxation conditions recently. Mr.
Wells ought to know what he is
talking about, for he was one of ﬁve
senators and representatives chosen
from the 1921 Legislature to make
a two-year study of taxation condi—
tions in Michigan and other states.
We hear a lot of talk about taxes,
especially along about this time of
the year. Many hair-brained ideas
are advanced as to what should be
done about the situation, but it
seems evident that the solution of
our present difﬁculties is suggested
by the startling ﬁgures presented by
Mr. Wells. If those ﬁgures are
true, the difﬁculty is not mearly

that the tax totals are too high, but _

that the tax burden is not equally
distributed over the entire wealth
of the state. To talk blindly of tax
reduction may be to oppose good
schools and other desirable projects
but to advocate the placing of a
larger proportion of Michigin’s
wealth on the tax rolls as a method
of reducing the tax rate is a propos-
al to which no fair minded citizen
should take exception.

Taxes Sky-Rocket

Taxation seems to be a chronic
disease afflicting the body politic.
We are annually reminded that it

’ seems tp be a necessary evil that is
always with us. But during recent
years it has seemed to go from bad
to worse and the unfortunate indi-
vidual who owns farm or town real
estate in Michigan today is suffer—
ing from intermittent chills and
fever and a very unsteady pulse as
he faces a tax burden which in
many cases is already becoming con-
fiscatory.

The alarming increase of tax tot-
als in Michigan is revealed by the
following ﬁgures: In 1901 the total
tax levied on the general property
of the state for state, county, city,
village, township, road, school and
drain purposes was $23,350,000.
By 1921 this ﬁgure had increased to
the staggering total of $158, 389,—
000, an increase of 700 per cent in
20 years. It is interesting to note
that during this 20-year period the
assessed valuation of the property
bearing these taxes increased only
about 410 per cent. The result was
inevitable. ,The rate oi‘. taxation
had to go up, which it did, mount-
ing from $17.49 per thousand in
1901 to $28.88 per thousand in
1921. .

Tax Payers Can‘t Pay

This tax burden on real estate is
proving too great. Present condi-
tions show that such a high general
property tax is neither safe nor ad-
visable. As this rate of taxation
on the general property of the state
has increased so rapidly, it is very
signiﬁcant indeed that the delinqu-
ent taxes returned to the Auditor
General have increased likewise. In
1919 the assessed valuation of the
property returned delinquent for
taxes was $187, 349, 683. In ‘1920
this total was nearly doubled to
$363,350,009. 1921 revealed an-
other husky jump, bringing the tot-
ai'up to $449, 474, 231. This was

gpractically one- -tenth of the total as-
sessed valuation of Michigan real

. ate for that year. The taxes re—
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YEAR after year you have found your taxes a little high—
er than they were the previous year until all taxpayers
are now anxiously asking Where all this money is going to,

’ what is it being used for.

Mr. Powell answers the ques—

tions in this article which is the ﬁrst of a series on taxation

in Michigan and how to solve the present dilemma.

ation is one of Mr. Powell’s

Tax—
favorite subjects and he has

made a very careful study of it so he knows thoroughly

what he writes about. Let

any one, or all, of the articles.

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257. The total unpaid taxes for
this year are not yet available, as
the staff of clerks in the Auditor
General’s Department have not yet
ﬁnished the tremendous task of tot-
aling them. Not only have many
tax payers allowed their property to
return to the state rather than pay
these high taxes, but unquestion-
ably there have been three or four
times as many more who have had
to borrow money at 6 or 7 per cent
rather than pay the heavy penalty
of delinquent taxes.

Still Bonded Indebtedness Increases

This tax increase would have been
bad enough if we. had been observ—
ing a “pay—as-you—go” policy, but
that was not the case. On top of
this increase in the taxation on gen-
eral property, the public bonded
debt has been increasing by leaps
and bounds. During the ten years
from 1911 to 1921 the bonded in—
debtedness of the cities of Michigan
increased 550 per cent, while that
of the counties increased 800 per
cent. The State, which in 1911 had
no debt at all, by 1921 had $65,-
000,000 of bonds outstanding. In
other words, the bonded indebted-

ness‘ of Michigan and its various
subdivisions had increased in ten
years 830 per cent. Bear in mind
that even,these ﬁgures do not in-
clude Covert road, drainage and
other district bonds, which would
make this increase much larger.

To make the situation real plain,
let’s restate in a little different way.
Each man, woman and child paid in
general property taxes in Michigan
$10 in 1901 and $43.02 in 1921,
and over and above this for each
man, woman and child there was an
increase in the bonded indebtedness
outstanding from $13.46 in 1911, to
$82.95 in 1921.

Can’t Economize Greatly 011 State

In this increase in the tax burden
in Michigan, which is seriously dis-
couraging the ownership of real
estate and homes, as is known by
all who have given taxation any ser-
ious study, it is interesting to note
that only about 11 per cent of the
taxes are levied for state purposes.
while the remaining 89 per cent are
for local purposes, which the tax-
payer has the power to vote upon
himself. However, this fact does
not make his burden any lighter.

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are economy in government and
equitable distribution of the burden.
As far as economy is concerned, we
can never expect 100 per cent eﬁlc-
iency when our public ofﬁcials are
elected by popular-vote, and surely
no citizen of Michigan wishes to
give up the privilege of franchise.

even through the average citizen
neglects the privilege.
Regarding state expenditures.

when one considers that about 20
per cent of the expenditures must
go for interest and sinking fund for
bonds issued; about 30 per cent to
support our state educational insti—
tutions, (containing about 18,000
students, the necessity .for which is
readily seen for a people who must
be enlightened and educated to bet—
tcr govern themselves); about 15
per cent for hospitals, housing 8,100
insane people; about 11 per for cor—
rectional and charitable institutions

and prisons housing about 6,000
people; and the courts, legislature,
all state departments, boards and

commissions involving not over 20
per cent of our state expenditures,
it is plain to be seen that if any ma—
terial cuts are to be made in state
expenditures, they cannot be made
on boards, commissions, etc.

The strictest of economy should
be exercised in making appropria-
tions for these boards, commissions
and departments. but if they were
all abolished and the whole state
capitol and Lansing government,
blown up, it would only have reduc—
ed the taxcs of the people of Michi—
gan hciwecn 4 and 5 cents on the
dollar during the past your or two.

How ’l‘hcn licducc 'l‘uxcs

State cxpenditurcs can not be:
grcui‘ly rcduccd. if we arc to main—
tain the standards the people of
Michigan demand for their colleges
and state institutions. It is very

plain that there is a greater oppor-
tunity to economize on the expendi-
tures of $138,000,000, for local pur-
poses than upon the expenditure of
less than $20,000,000 for state pur-
poscs.

Some system of taxation must be.
devised which will not only relieve
real estate somewhat, but that will
have a tendency to bring about
more economy in local expenditures.
and that will be so devised that
there will be sufﬁcient people con-
tributing to the support of all
branches of the government, includ‘
ing the State, so that the oiﬁcialsr‘
elected will feel responsible to the
people electing them.

If it would be possible to remove
all state tax from the general prop-
erty of the State, every taxpayer
would soon realize that if he desires
lower taxes on his home, his busi-
ness or his farm, then he must in-
terest himself, in the management of
his schools, his city or township and
the building of the roads in his com-
munity.

To bring about more economy.
the people of Michigan must get rid
of the tendency at “voting time" to
vote large expenditures for schools.
roads, cities, etc., and at “tax paying
time" to point with disgust and bit-
terness toward the state as the
Cause-for the large ﬁgures on their
tax receipt. If the entire state tax
were removed from general proper~
ty (which in 1921 was 78 per cent
real estate) every general property
taxpayer’s mind would be forced to—
ward the extravagance in local ex-
penditures.
‘ Proposed Solutions

To meet these requirements it is'
being strongly urged that we adopt
a state income tax in Michigan
which would raise sufﬁcient revenue '
to entirely remove the necessity for

the general property tax for state 1.,

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Education and Entertainment Both Have Place on F riday Night Programs of Community

’ WOimiles west of the reCently

incorporated city of Manton, in

. Wexford county, Michigan, is
located the Carpenter school house
1921, was or-
ganized The Carpenter Community
Meet.

The Carpenter district is one of
the oldest settled parts of this sec—
tion of Michigan, the Carpenter
school being district number one in
Cedar Creek Township. Many of
the people in the neighborhood are
sons and daughters orgrandchild—
ren of the early settlers. Some of
them are living with their families
on the same farms where they were
born and in the same houses. The
oldest residents still remember the
days when each house stood in its
own little clearing, made by cutting
down, rolling into a heap, and burn-
ing the big maple, heech, etc.; and
the provisions were carried down
from the new town of Traverse City
on horse—back or often on the back
of the early settler himself. A
short time after the towns of Man—
ton and Clam Lake (Cadillac) were
started.

It is a quiet country place, too
near Manton to be a backwoods set-
tlement and too old to be consider—
ed such by its inhabitants, and too
far from town to take a very active
part in the social life of the village.

It is comparatively easy to hold
almost any sort of a meeting or to
organize a society in a settlement
far from town. People in such com-
munities feel the need of getting to-
gether and depend upon each other
for their social life. But in a place
like Carpenter district they are not
so united, and any such undertaking
to be a success must have behind it
a united effort.

Beginning in the fall when the
crops were mostly harvested and
farm work not so strenuous a few
of the neighbors began to discuss
plans for some kind of a country
club. An opening meeting was an-
..nounced for November and a notice
published in the Manton Tribune-
Record.

About thirty people came to this
ﬁrst meeting, old, young and those
who were neither; and every one
was given an opportunity to tell
what kind of meetings he wanted.
Entertainment seemed to be the
leading idea though some were for
organization with a view to com—
munity betterment. and some wish—
ed to enlist outside aid in solving
the problems common to all, such as

Meeting in Carpenter Schoolhouse

By EVA HENDERSON DAVEY

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“ COMMUNITY SONG
(Composed b‘yione of the men while he milked)

N Friday night it’s my de-‘

light, .
And a pleasure, don’t you
see? .
To mingle with the boys and
girls

01’ the Carpenter Connnunity.
There’s an organ in the corner,
There’s music when you come,
And you’re welcome every Friday
night ’
To the Carpenter Community
Meet.

On Friday night, be it dark or
light,
You’ll ﬁnd me right on hand,
My part to ﬁll with hearty good-
Will,
And by the Cormnunity stand.
There’ll be many neighbors pres-
ent, .
And real old friends to greet;
So, you’re welcome every Friday
night
To the Carpenter Community
Meet.

 

 

restoring soil fertility, breeding up
live stock, lowering taxes, etc. But
all were agreed that they wanted
meetings of some kind and all de-
clared themselves willing to help.
A chairman, a sec’y-treas. and
an organist were elected and the
name Carpenter Community Meet
chosen. A vote to meet once each
week on Monday nights carried. The
chairman appointed two committees,
one to provide a program for the
following week and one to choose a
topic for debate and appoint debat-
ers to argue it at the third meeting.
That was the beginning and each
week throughout the winter a com-
munity meeting was held. Some-
times the roll-call numbered ﬁfty or
sixty and even on several occasions
as high as seventy-ﬁve or eighty,
and sometimes on a stormy night
only eight or‘ ten would be present.
The chairman and his Wife and the
secretary never missed a meeting.
The meetings were opened by
community singing and prayer, fol—
lowed by re-citations, readings, talks,
discussions. Special features were:
debates, talks on given topics,
speaking by someone from outside.
special music, mock trials, suppers.
The notice regarding the opening
meeting brought a letter from the
county agricultural agent, Mr. Wm.
F. Johnson of Cadillac, to the chair—
man, Mr. Walter E. Davey, congrat-
ulating the community on its effort
and offering his help. During the
winter he spoke one evening answ-
ering questions and making sugges-

tions for community welfare, and
gave a short demonstration of poul-
try culling on some hens brought in
from the nearest poultry house. In
the spring he made another visit
and spoke on soil fertility, crop ro-
tation, etc. In the summer Mr.
Johnson held a poultry culling dem-
onstration at one of the farms with
Mr. C. M. Ferguson, poultry expert
of Lansing, as demonstrator. Since
then poultry raising for proﬁt has
been on the increase and more farm-
ers are raising pure-bred stuck and
buying setting eggs and cockerels
with a view to increasing egg pro-
duction.

Wexford county has in former
years been a great potato raising
center and much of the soil will no
longer produce potatoes enough per
acre to yield a proﬁt but instead
give the grower a money loss while
decreasing the fertility of his soil.
The answer to the question as to
What he shall do to bring back the
fertility of the soil and at the same
time turn the loss into gain lies in
the raising of alfalfa, sweet clover,
soybeans, etc. and letting some one
else raise the potatoes until he has
rebuilt his soil so that he can pro-
duce them at a proﬁt.

Quite a number of debates were
held during the winter after the
Community Meet was organized.
Men and women consulted histories,
geographies, maps, not to mention
dictionaries, in looking up forgotten
facts. Some who had never before
heard a debate took part and learn-

ed to enjoy the battle of argument}
followed by the matching of wits
and knowledge in rebuttal,

In the spring a debate was ar+
ranged with a near-by debating
society and the Carpenter Commune
ity debaters were the victors. -

At Christmas time the community
united with the school in a tree and
program. The community ﬁlled
one hundred sacks of candy, nuts,
and pop corn and one was given to
every person present at the tree and
one‘ sent to absent ones who had at-
tended former meetings and to peo-
ple unable to come. This has been
done each of the three Christmases
since the Community Meet was or-
ganized. - .

With the coming of spring the
question of keeping up the meetings
was discussed. One man who had
been a regular attendant always
ready to do his part declared that if

an attempt were made to hold meet- '

ings during the busy season, the
Community Meet would be so dead
by fall that it could not be resur-
rected. Quite a number shared this
opinion. Others felt they needed
recreation in summer as well as in
winter. ‘

It was ﬁnally decided to hold a
meeting once a month, the programs
to be voluntary. No committees
were appointed except when suppers
were served. The chairman was at
liberty to call upon any one present
to contribute something to the pro-
gram. Very few failed to respond.
Sometimes the response was hesi-
tant. More than one person rose
slowly and made his way still more
slowly to the front deciding on the
way he would do but ready to do
something when 'he faced the audi-
ence.o And the meetings were as
enjoyable as those of the winter and
fully as well attended, one of the
usual attendants being the man whb
thought summer meetings would
kill the Meet. His little daughter
liked to speak pieces and she
brought her father and mother
along to keep her company. .

When work slacked down in the
fall requests for more frequent
meetings ended in a decision to hold
one every other week. At the be-
ginning of summer the night had
been changed from Monday to Fri-
day so the children could come with
less interruption to their school and
their sleep.

The second winter the Superin-
tendent of the Manton Consolidated

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Are Fruit Growers Willing to Pay 5 or 10 Cents More for Certified Trees?

By E. A. KIRKPATRICK

TN the past year and three months,
I have asked 97 people whether,
if they were about to plant an

apple orchard, they would be will-

' ing to pay ﬁve or ten cents a tree for

certiﬁed trees—that is, certiﬁed as
to variety.

In 83 of the 97 cases, the answer
was “Yes." In the other 14 cases,
the answer was not always “No,”
but it amounted to that; there was
a lukewarmncss that indicated little
or no interest.

My list included a dozen profess—

ors of horticulture, ﬁfteen profes—
sional and business men, and the
rest were farmers with orchards.

And would you believe it, the most
enthusiastic about this matter were
the farmers.

. “Yes, siree." said one man at the
meeting of New Jersey Horticultur—
al Society. ‘And here’s the reason:
“Fifteen years ago I planted an or-
chard of 500 trees, supposed to be
Grimes Golden and Jonathan. They
came into bearing a few years ago
and turned out to be‘Ben Davis, ev—
’em. See what I
would have gained by buying certiﬁ-
ed trees? But they didn’t have

' them then.”

The 'most striking thing brought
out by my nosing around was this:

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ﬁes the trees tell the different vari—
eties. and how does he mark them

so that the mark will stick to the

Stress?” The folks I tackled got

'.with me and, after answering

" ‘ ﬁnes on, . asked , me. the 0116331191;
than belt of thy, goats,

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wanted to know those facts. I take
it that the others already knew.

The answer to those questions is
really a short history of tree certi-
ﬁcation. It is a new thing———only a
few years old, to be exact. It is the
brain child of Dr. J. K. Shaw, Mass-
achusetts Experiment Station, who
has been working on the problem
since 1915. Dr. Shaw, in tests, show-
ed 'that he could register a 99.99
per cent “guess” on varieties, by the
system of identiﬁcation he has work-
ed out. Up to the present time, the
identiﬁcation is based on the leaves,
but Dr. Shaw is now working ahead
on tree form and appearance of the
bark as additional “ﬁnger print”
material. _ '

~The Massachusetts Fruit Growers

Association took up with the idea
and now offers certiﬁcation of
twelve leading varieties of apple
trees to any nursery in the state, or
of any trees to be purchased by
growers or dealers in the state. A
representative of the Experiment
Station examines the/ trees, and if
they are found true to name, a hole
is drilled in the branch of each tree
and a small lead seal is attached
with a press. The seal bears the

letters “M. F. G. A.,” and the date

of year in which inspection is made.
On the other side are the words
“Certiﬁed to be Baldwin,” or what-
ever variety it happens to be. The
cost of this work has been between
2 and 3 cents a tree. In 1921,
about 3,000 trees were examined

  
  
  
  
  

  

  

  

  
  

  

, er. They would have to pay
certiﬁcation whether they wantediit'.

and 10 per cent were untrue to
name.’ In 1922, 10,000 trees were
examined and the percentagewas
much lower.

Massachusetts is the only state
that is putting this idea to .Jvork,

and since the nursery business is an ,

interstate business, the work in
Massachusetts doesn’t begin to solve
the problem, for fruit growers in
the other states,

Are the nurseries in favor of this
plan? Well, some of them are, and
some are not. I suspect they
would be in favor of certiﬁcation if
it were required, or in use in all
states, just as they are in favor
(publicly) of the present quarantine.
laws. I have put this matter up to
a half dozen or more nurserymen,
and ﬁnd there are a few reasonable
objections, as follows: '

1. The expense of certiﬁcation. '

which would, as a matter of course,
be paid by the buyer or the trees.
If 10 per cent of the trees were re-
jected, that would increase the cost
of the ones certiﬁed, and there
would also’be the actual cost of the
work of certiﬁcation. ,

2. Small—order'buyers (and about
85 per cent of the nurserymen’s
business comes from this class) do
not care so much about getting a
particular variety; many of them».
don’t know one ,variety'from anothr‘

  
 

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CLAIMS CURE FOR CANCER.—Dr.
Naame, a Syrian, who has been reported as
having perfected a sure cure for cancer. He
has worked for years, watching causes of the
disease, experimenting with results, and at
last his efforts have been rewarded.

   

 

 

 

 

FIRST “MUNICIPAL GOLD SALE BUREAU IN GER-
}IANY.-—Scarcity of money in Germany is causing the middle
class to sell its gold, Silver and precious jewels. To prevent
unscrupulous dealers from cheating the people an Appraisal
Bureau has been started by the government where experts
give free appraisals. The experts work without salary.

    

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stone ﬁgures. dug up from a tomb in the

China, are now on

eum.
. to provide music for the departed soul as he
his way to the next world.-

CHINESE JAZZ BAND OF 600 A
exhibition

managership of all of his father’s 33 different

the place of Stephen B. Members, who has been at the job for the

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CLAIMS 20 MILLION GERMANS MUST EMI-
GRA'I'E OR STARVE.——Prof. Gustav Cassel of
Stockholm University, claims twenty million Ger-
mans must emigrate at once or starve in the next
few ’months. ,This picture of Prof. Cassell is
gate}: made- of him by his son. who is a we
own artist. V .

 

    

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interior of
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EDISON’S SON TO TAKE OVER CONTROL OF DAD’S PLANTS.
K —Charles Edison, son of Thomas Alva Edison, has taken over the

BIEIWORIAL STATUE 0F LINCOLN.—
This statue of “The Great Emancipator”
is the work of Daniel (‘hester French,
well known sculptor, and has won the
admiration of thousands. It is considered
a wonderful likeness.

been
of that city.

“'INNER OF BOK

_ . PEACE .-\“'ARD.--I)r. world and has been
industries. He took Charles Herbert Lev- York City, recently.
ermore, winner of the

Bok l’euce Award. ling bombing planes.

  

LONDON BRIDGEr—Every time the Tower Bridge of
London is raised for river boats to pass it costs the
City $15. It isn't often that the Thames rises so high
that the bridge must'be raised, yet every part of the
machinery must be kept in perfect condition at all times.
The bridge is almost 80 years old. The London chil-
drcn~ consider it a great treat to see the "bridge go up.”
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LEADS CRUSADE AGAINST DIVORCE.—
Jenn N. Penﬁeld, noted feminist, is
crusade
She shows that divorces should
a minimum to avoid future chaos, but it' neces—
sary, grant, and make valid in every state.

 

“GIVE ME A SHAVE, HAIRCI'T AND SORIE
)IUSIC".—No
when they go to this “'ushington, D. ('., tonsorizll parlor,
where the new
installed.

doubt

  

“'ORLD’S LARGEST BOMB.—This is the largest bomb in the

The bomb weighs 2 tons.
long and was developed by army experts to be carried by Bar-

 

SEEKS ARMY DISCHARGE—James ‘V. West<
cott, 90 years old, of Brooklyn, N. Y., is seeking

an honorable discharge from the U. 35‘. Army.
in the Civil \Var,
were unable to ﬁnd room for him in the hospital ‘
so he was so
the governm nt forgot about him.

       

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MY minimalist the mums

bean market depends entirely

on the grocer. If they will in-
sist on a fair return for their labors,
which they are justly entitled to,
they can get do or 7c 9. pound just
as readily as they can 5c and the
trade will take them just as readily
as they do now.

The idea that a 7c pricein Michi-
gan attracts imported beans in com-
, petition is disproven this year by the

large imports that have come in and
are still coming from both Japan
and Europe. With a Pea bean mar-
ket of $5.00 in Michigan. we have
brought in as many beans to date
and contracted for their importation
as we ever have. ‘

My personal opinion of the market
is that it will be a steady, ﬁrm mar-
ket, and that While ﬂuctuation might
run over a range of a dollar a bag,
nevertheless, Pea bean accounts will
show a good proﬁt if they trade from
day to day and leave the future
alone.

If Michigan had entered the adver-
tising campaign, I am sure that the
demands for beans would have been
so stimulated that never again would
the thought of manipulation as a
means to create demand, enter into
the minds of the Michigan people
and that bean prices would range
today from $6.50 to $7.50 instead
of $4.75 to $5.25.

I have had proven to me by actual
experience that the consumer will
pay 20c a pound for beans and be
glad to get them, if they are given
a reason for buying them. The ma-
terial which the advertising com-
mittee gathed during the sum-
mer contained every reason why peo-
ple should eat beans, and it is unfor-
tunate that through Michigan's fail-
ure to come in this campaign that we
were unable to broadcast to the
American people the advantages of
beans over any other food product
that they might use. Think of
Henry Ford trying to stimulate the
demand for Ford automobiles by
going around to his agents and plac-
ing dummy orders. This is the policy
the bean men have followed in the
past.

It might interest you to know that
I run an add every Friday in the
Christian Science Monitor on the
household page, offering 5 pounds
of beans for $1.00, and I am doing
a very satisfactory business. I would
suggest that you get one of these
Monitors. This proves to me that
the consumer will pay a fair price
for a good product—Benjamin
Gerks, New York.

      

BEST FARMERS CONTINUE TO
MOVE TO CITY
EAR EDITOR:—As one of your
readers I again wish to express
my opinion on one of your ar—
ticles appearing in the Feb. 16th
issue, entitled “The Return of the
Prodigal."

Prosperity has not returned to the
U. S. or Canadian farmer. Nor will
it soon. Auctions are being held
daily in all parts of the country
even now. Many more will follow
in the spring. Yes, the doors and
windows will be boarded up for
those leaving do not intend to re-
turn soon, if ever. It is not the
ﬂame of city lights that is calling
the farmer. Not so, but it is the
light of desire for better conditions,
less hours of toil and the night to
enjoy some of the good things that
the'average farmer is denied. Then
again you are mistaken when you
say its the weak ones who leave the
poor conditions and absolute slav—
ery of the farms. _ '

Only the strong, determined 'and
better class of farmers are leaving
the poor conditions behind. It is
the rats or farmers who are mis~
lead by articles in their daily papers
or farm journals who stay and live
and hope for the prosperity that you
tell them year after year is just
around the corner, and never comes.

Yes, the farmer who becomes a
worker in one of the large modern
shops does punch a clock. At the
end of a day his card shows a total
of from eight to ten hours work. If
the poor devil had remained on the
farm and had punched a clock his
hours would have registered nearer
18.
Yes, he does ride to work in an
electric vehicle called street car.
This is just one of the modern
«means of conveyance at his com-
mand. And he gets home from his
" work sensation“ before dusk ex-

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the» everage farmer is doing up his
evening chores by lantern light.
While the city worker has his Sun-
day for pleasure, rest or education
the farmer has hours of necessary
labor to perform.

Yes, back on the farms of Mich-
igan are men and women who have
stuck. Why? Well, for various
reasons. Some are too young to
leave for the better conditions offer-
ed them in the city yet, others dare
not leave the old parents worn out
by years of slavery and misery, and
others are only waiting. for some
poor boob to come along and buy or
rent their place so they can leave.
Then you have the class of easily
satisﬁed farmers who are satisfied
with a living and nothing more.
This class is largely responsible for
the rut and slave-like conditions

that the average farmer is forced to.

live in.

But again I say the farmers are
waking up and the articles such as
you like to hand out are turning
many into deep thinking men and
women. I might suggest to you
that it would be wise to tell your
readers of the paper published in
Chicago called Farmer—Labor Voice.
Will you do it?—Ralph Jordan,
Petoskey, Mich.

VOTE DOWN BEET CONTRACT
OFFERED

EAR EDITOR:——At a meeting-

of the Durand Local of the
Michigan Sugar Beet Growers
Assn. it was unaminously voted that
the present sugar beet contract for
1923 offered by the Mich. Sugar
Factories, consisting of a 46-55
proposition with a $7 guarantee be
turned down and not taken up for
the reason that the 45-55 basis is
unfair to the grower besides it gives
the factories absolute monopoly of
the contract labor or beet workers
the wages of which the grower pays.
It was resolved by a unanimous
vote that the growers will consider
a contract based on a 50—50 propos-
ition and average sugar price or
sales, with “ﬁeld” or labor supervis—

cept in a few winter months, while '

It was also unanimously voted to
cause, a copy of these proceedings
to be mailed to the sugar companies
doing business in this section and
also that copies be mailed the farm

organizations and the newspapers
Signed: C. E. Acker--

of the state.
man, C. S. Reid, F. Mikan, ofﬁcers
of The Durand Beet Growers' Ass’n.

P. S. The ﬁnancial statement of
the above organisation shows a sub-
stantial balance on hand and the
organization stands ready ‘to cooper-
ate in any way to beneﬁt the indus-
try represented.

FABM 0R FACTORY

T is a great mystry to me why the
majority of the farm boys would
rather leave the farm and work
in the factory, than go to high

school and house college.
The eighth grade seems to be the
limit of the farm boys education.
At this period they are not ﬁtted

for a special vocation, and they are

too young to own or manage'farms.
They become discouraged. To the
boy just ﬁnishing the eighth grade
the farm looks like a poor paying
proposition. The boy measures
wealth, at this time, by actual cash.
So our boy goes to the city, procures
a job in the factory and becomes a
slave to command.

I cannot understand why a boy
would rather be a factory worker,
than the monarch of his own farm.
Have they no pride in being a land-
owner, and managing their own af-
fairs, instead of being a machine in
a factory. You .will say, of course,
that the boys make more money in
the factory. But the factories close
down or our boy is ﬁred. Then the
money he has saved must go to
tide him over until the factory
opens, or he succeeds in getting a.
new job, and of course there is al-
ways the possibility of a failure. The
crops on the farm may fail—-—but one
has a home and enough to eat, and
there are always the cows and
hens to fall back upon.

In the country one has a play of

MICHIGANQCROPS

KNO‘V THE SOURCE OF YOUR
SEED
N nearly every community in the
State there is an unsuccessful
ﬁeld of alfalfa and frequently of
June clover that stands out as a
warning against the disasterous ef-
fect of sowing unadapted seed. It
would be very difficult to ﬁnd a
farmer who would consider planting
Southern Illinois corn in Northern
Michigan for grain purposes and yet
there are quite a number of farmers
who do not hesitate to sow Arizona
common alfalfa seed in Michigan.
The results are usually more disast-
erous than planting Southern Illin—
ois corn in Northern Michigan be-
cause alfalfa usually does not pro-
duce a crop the ﬁrst year and Ariz-
ona common alfalfa frequently win-
ter kills so badly that the crop the
second year is unproﬁtable. It may
be mentioned here that the Arizona
section produced more than 2,500,-
000 pounds of alfalfa seed this sea-
son andthis seed is being distribut-
ed qulbe rapidly.

A careful study of the adaptabil-
ity of alfalfa and clover seed has
been made by the Farm Crops De~
partment of the Michigan Agricul-
tural College. More than 400 plats
of alfalfa and clover sown from seed
of many sources are available for
study. The following table shows
very briefly some of the results se-
cured.

Experiments carried on at the
Michigan Agricultural Experiment
Station show the following yields
for the various strains of seed:

 

Strain of Tons per'A.

Alfalfa State ”Air dry hay
Hardigan Michigan 7.21
Grimm Idaho 7.09
Common Montana 6 89
Common 6 06
H. Perivian 1 11

Common Arizona ,
The above plats were seeded the

- same day and given the same care

in every way so that the‘“m1erence

     
  
  

in yield is a difference in adaptabil-
ity to Michigan conditions.

What of the value of' Hairy Peri:
vian seed in Arizona? It is excel-
lent for the southwestern part of
the United States. This is just the
point we wish to bring out. Seed
adapted to one section may not be
adapted to another section. Then
keep the seed in the section where
it is adapted and this can best be
done by the farmers demanding
adapted seed.

Data very similar to that secured
with the adaptability of alfalfa has
been secured with the adaptability
of June clover seed. Seed from It-
aly and Southern France produces
stands that are much less produc—
tive than our own Michigan grown
seed. On the plats at the college
those seeded with Michigan seed
produced 1.7 tons more air dry hay
per acre than plats seeded the same
day with Italian seed. This is very
important at the present time due to
the fact that the clover seed crop in
the United States is about 45 per
cent normal and large lmportations
of seed from Italy and Southern
France are being made into this
country.——C. R. Megee, Dept. of
Farm Crops, M. A. C. ‘

SERRADELLA

We wish to learn if you known!
a grass seed by the name of Serra-
della. We understand this is a
foreign grass and is used for build-_
ing up soil, also for feeding cattle,
sheep, etc. The seed is a yellowish
seed, very nearly the same size as
clover seed—D. M. a 00., Remus.
-—Serradella is an annual legume
with a much branched, slended
stem. It is cultivated for forage
and green manure in France, Gore

1 many, Portugal and Spain. It ha!

been carefully tested here at. the

college, and due to the opera. M'- ,-

th produced. cannot be, recommend-
ed for Michigan conditions“. Sever-
1(Gontinued o , * , '-

ion basedi‘épiptfh'e acreage basis in-
stead. of‘the percent of sugar basis.

 
     
  

prefers the city. use a a {that

or. take up a profession.

the" essay. at college his ﬁght- fise’:
able to ﬁt himself for 'a'husiness' lit

    

 

In a factory the young ' man‘s

mind is cramped. He has no outlet
for his imagination or, inventive

the common routine of factory work?

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ability. Who could have ideas'about‘. -. i. H

 

He might be able to write an ode ‘

“On Dipping a Wire Frame 'in
Gasoline,” but I doubt it.

Now, if the country boy goes to". '

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high school that-would occupy the-

time, at which he would be diacour-
aged With the farm, His mind be-
ing inquiring, he. will form many
new ideas, and by the time 'he has
ﬁnished high school, he will havg
decided whether he wishes to re-
main a farmer or take up a profess-
ion. He ‘will then go to college-—
take acourse in extensive farming.

are. business or professional course”

and become his arm boss. and: much
respected citizen.-—- Dorothy
Traverse City, Michigan. "

 

LOW VALUES REDUCE CATTLE
PRICES

DITOR, Business Farmer—Cattle
prices, with their up and downs,

mu, ‘

depend on many different faet- ,

ors other than the price of beef.
Some livestock producers watch the
beef market closely, but pay little
attention to the price of hides and
other by-products.
hide and by-product prices largely
affect the price received by the pro-
ducerd'af the live animal.

As an example, the decline in hide
prices alone, since the peak in 1919,
has. reduced the value of an average
native steer about $22.00. When
hide prices fall, the packers. cannot
make up the loss by charging more
for meat, because if this were done
the demand for beef would be re-
stricted, and the whole supply could
not be sold. ' . '

Therefore, the immediate effect of
the drop in hide prices is to lower
cattle prices. Over long periods of
time, however, low hide prices make
for higher beef prices by disCourag-
ing cattle production. At the pres-
ent time, hide prices are consider-
ably below the pre—war level and
consequently are a depressing inﬂu-
ence in cattle prices.

Conditions 'in the leather market
have been such as to cause very wide
ﬂuctuations in hide prices during 're-
cent years. From a peak of about
53 cents per pound in 1919, heavy
native steer hides fell to about 10
cents early in 1921. From this low
point, hides moved gradually upward
until they reached a price of 23
cents in November 1922, which was
fairly comparable with the pre-war
level of prices. But they did not
remain there very long. In Decem-
her there was a sharp decline fol-

‘lowed by a continued drop which

reached a level of a little below 15
cents in July 1923, a price which
has been maintained sinCe then with
only slight ﬂuctuations either way.
The following table shows the effect
of these ﬂuctuations on the value of
a 60-pound hide:

August ............ 1919 ........ $31.80
April ................ 1921 ........ 6.00
November ........ 1922 ........ 13.00
January ............ 1924 ........ 9.00

Yet these same '

The above table shows that the,

decline in price from the 1'919 peak
to the 1921 low pointamounted to
over $25.00 per head. The decline
since November 1922 amounts to
about $4.00 per .head.

The drop in prices of the cheaper
grades of hides has been even more
pronounced than in the case of good
mative steer hides. For this rea-
son prices of poorer grades of cattle
from which such hides are obtained.
have been affected even more in pro-

portion, than good’ native beef
'steers. »

The extremely low prices of pract- .

ically all grades of heavy hides are
merely a reflection of a condition
existing .in. the leather industry.

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‘improvement’in the leather businw 1..
advance

will be accompanied by an
in hide prices. < .
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1"Petoek‘ey, Mich.

ICE—The duties of a justice of the,
- peace of a township are so many and
' .varied, that it is not possible to give

them in detail. In a general way, a
justice of the peace is a member of
._the township board during the last
‘two years of his term of ofﬁce. He
may also sit on the board \during
any period of the ﬁrst two years of
his term of ofﬁce when by reason of
a vacancy in any other oﬁce on the
board, there are not three other
members to act thereon. He may
also try civil cases in tort‘ where
‘the amount involved is not more
than $100 or actions on contracts,
where the amount does not exceed
$300. He also has original jurisdic-
tion in cases of misdemeanor. That
is, where the punishment is by ﬁne
of not exceeding $100 or imprison-
mént in the county jail not to ex-
ceed ninety days. He may also
hold examination in criminal cases
involving crimes to be tried by a
court ‘of record.——-Clare Retan, De-
puty Attorney General.

MUST GET LICENSE FROM STATE

I have a: recipe, for jam which
everybody seems to call delicious.
I have thought of trying to put it up
in cans for sale. I did not make up
the recipe myself. Could I can it
in ordinary mason jars and sell it,
' or would I have to get permission
from the state to do sci—F. D.,
Nessen City, Michigan.
—You would be required to obtain a
license from the Food and Drug
Commissioner of the State, at Lan-
sing, Mich., in order to make and
sell your jam. License fee is $25.00.

' —Asst. Legal Editor.

FUR RAISING
Do you know where I can purchase
a pair of muskrat? How large a
space should muskrat have? Which
is the easiest to raise coon, skunk
or muskrat?-—A Reader, Lenox, Mich.

—Perhaps by paying trappers about
double the for value. There are
also dealers who have them for sale.
Might write B. F. Tarman, Quincy,
Pa. A pond of an acre if well eup-
plied with vegetable growth such as
cattails is sufﬁcient for six or eight
females and a couple of males if .put
in before breeding season. Muskrat
have two or three litters a year and
six females if they do well would
mean well up towards one hundred
muskrat by fall. If you have a place
of only a few square rods they can
be raised but would require food
perhaps towards fall when with the
young the numbers increased. Musk-
rat are the easiest raised for they
will practically raise themselves if
conditions are right, that is, water
and food. Not only muskrat rais-
ing but coon, skunk and mink rais-
ing is only begun. The fur catch
for the season of 1923-24 is only
about half of an average crop and
points to the raising if the supply
is going to equal the demand from
this on.—-——Fur Editor.

LAWFUL LINE. FENCE

What should a lawful line fence
between two pieces of property‘be
constructed of? How high: Are
sheep, goats and hogs classed as
stock?—M. J. 8., Turner, Michigan.
—Sec. 2206, C. L. 1915 provides that
“All fences four and one—half ._ feet
high and in good repair, consisting
of rails, timber. boards, wire, or
stone walls or any combination
thereof, and am brooks, rivers, ponds,
creeks, ditches and hedges, or other
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. heabeen surveyed, but not graded.
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of the fence viewers, within whose
{grisdiction the same may he, shall

deemed legal and
fences." Sheep, goats, hogs, etc.,
are livestock, but a fence may be
legal and still not be, sufﬁcient to
restrain such animals.——Asst. Legal
Editor. .

CAN OUT TREES

I have some valuable timber such

as black walnut, white ash, elm and
hickory, along the highway, adjoin-
ingmy farm. This highway is call-
This road .

. stake this timber stands
of feet'fro‘i‘n'the‘ center of
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shade trees along my farm without
the consent of the road boss?—H.
W.,. Cioverdale, Mich. .

——The timber growing in the high-
way adjacent to your. farm belongs
to you, and you may cut it or do
whatever you wish with it so long
as you do not interfere with travel
on the highway. You may trim
the trees along your premises with-
out‘consulting the road boss—Asst.

, Legal Editor.

GIVING TOBACCO TO oWN
. CHILDREN

Is there any law to prohibit a man
from giving his oWn children tobac-
co?—-—Reader, Saginaw County.

—There seems to be no statute
which prohibits a father giving to-
bacco to his own children. Section
15277 of the Compiled Laws of
1915, makes it unlawful for a per-
son or his clerk or agent to sell,
give or furnish tobacco in any form
to a child under seventeen years of
age without the consent of the par-
ent or guardian. It implies, there-
fore, that tobacco may be furnshed
to a child with the consent of the
parent or of course, by the parent.
—Clare Retan,
General.

WHO PAYS TAXES ?

I have sold 40 acres of land this
fall, and had an argument regarding
taxes. Sold it in October. By law
who should pay the taxes?—J. A.,
Grant, Michigan.

—If you sold your land at any time
prior to December 1st, the purchas-
er is boundto pay the taxes for the
current year. Where the land is
sold after December let, the seller
pays the taxes for the current year.
——Asst. Legal Editor.

 

CULTURE OF MUSHROOM

Would you please give me full in-

formation concerning the cultivation
of white mushrooms? What is the
usual market price, also how long
does their season last by raising
them in a hot bed and where could
I obtain the spawn or seed?—W. H.,
Flint, Mich.
-——The common cultivated mushroom
is knoWn botanically as Agaricus
campestris and grows wild during
the months of August and Septemb-
er. Any cellar of outbuilding which
will maintain a uniform temperat-
ure of 45 to 65 degrees is a satisfact-
ory place for growing mushrooms.
Fresh horse manure is fermented for
three or four weeks, turning it every
three days so that the pile will not
burn in the center, and placed in the
beds eight or ten inches deep. The
manure should be moist but not wet.
Level and tramp well and leave until
the temperature recedes to 70 de-
grees, at which time it is ready to
spawn.

Good spawn may be secured in

Deputy Attorney '

brick form from any reliable seeds-
man. Each brick is broken into ten
or twelve pieces and each piece
spaced ten inches each way and cov—
ered one or two inches deep in the
manure. About ten days after spawn-
ing the bed is cased to prevent evap-
oration: .that is, covered with an
inch of ﬁne loam soil.

«Success depends largely on the
condition of temperature and most-
ure existing in the cellar or build-
ing. Excessive moisture causes
growth of foreign fungi and on the
other hand the atmosphere should
be moist enough to prevent evapora-
tion from the bed. A temperature of
55 degrees gives best results. Growth
is more rapid at higher temperatures
but the period of production is short-
er and the crop lighter.

The beds begins to produce in
eight to ten weeks after spawning
and will continue to produce for
two to four months.

The price of mushrooms varies
considerable. Very often a dollar
a pound is realized and sometimes
they sell as low as twenty—ﬁve cents
per pound. Probably forty to sixty
cents a pound is an average price.
A square foot of bed space should
yield a pound of mushrooms—E. P.
Lewis, Instr. in Vegetable Garden-
ing, M. A. C.

 

CHARGE FOR FOOD AND KEEP

I would like to know how long I
would have to keep and feed a stray
dog which has no tag to claim own-
ership. Can I claim ownership? I
have watched for an advertisement
claiming her. Would I have to ad-
vertise her? If so, how long? If
I find the owner Can I get a reward?
—H. R., Holton, Mich.

——If the owner of the dog calls for
it, you may charge him for keeping
and feeding it, and hold the dog un-
til he pays you. However, I would
advertise in the local paper for
three or four issues and, if nobody
calls for it, keep it.—~Asst. Legal
Editor.

GO INTO BANKRUPTCY

Two persons agree to go into part—
nership in farming and draw up an
agreement to that affect. The part-
nership borrow money and the two
partners sign as securities. The
partnership does not prosper and
they decide to cease operations. One
of the parties is willing to, as the
other has lost his all in the partner—
ship, but desires to save a little out
of the wreckage, at least not to be
held responsible for anything,
should the assets of the partnership
not be equal to the liabilities. Will
it be necessary for him to take the
bankruptcy law to protect his earn—
ings in the future? And What can
he save by taking the law?—O. F. F.,
Pavilion, Mich.

———Each partner would be liable pers-
onally for the debts of the partner-

'Farmer Putnam’s Philosphy

GUI‘ home from Grange meetin'

the other night mad and ready

fur a ﬁght. Josephine noticed I
had a bad look in my eye and it
made her bristle up and she sez:
"What’s the matter Tom; didn't
they elect you to oﬂice?"

“Woman," sea I, “let me be. We
didn’t have no election; we had a
debate on agricultural conditions. I
tell you things is in a turrible state
and I believe this country is goin’
to have a revolution before long, if

,the farmer don’t git more prosper-

ous soon."

“Tom,” she sez, “you go on to
bed and stop talkin' nonsense, or
there’ll be a revolution right here
at home."

I was so mad I couldn’t talk back
and I didn’t know a thing till next
morning when it all come back to
me that‘I'had been over in Euro
where I took, ups ﬁve acre patch 0
rocky land. I hadgone. cow instead
of a work horse and .I used her to
plow with. After I gotfmy plowin'
done I~ planted apotetoes by hand

handlmedw‘i:l ‘em

  

Specialist in laurel “Deviiment.

have no cultivator or any other tool
to work with exceptin’ the hoe. Well
the next trouble was dry weather.
The neighbors told me to go and
pay the priest to pray fur rain. I
done so and then it rained so hard
that half my crop washed away.
Then the neighbors blamed me fur
payin’ the priest too much; they
said us Americans was too liberal
with our money. .

Well, I ﬁnally got to harvest my
potatoes and they made a big cart-
load. I hauled 'em to tOWn with
my cow hitched to the cart and sold
’em, gettin’ two cartloads of paper
marks fur the load. ~ '

When I got back to my patch the
neighbors had the laugh on me, be-

-cause they said the money wasn’t

worth the paper it was printed on
and that the two loads of marks
wouldn’t buy a'suit of clothes. After
I woke up and thought this here
dream over it took all the ﬁght out
of me and nowI’m goin’ ahead plan-
nin’ my spring. work-and thankful
that conditions is as good as they is.

and that :I don't have to farm in

Europa—Thea. Jeiferson Putnam,

 

 

 

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ship in the event the assets did not
, equal the liabilities. In order to
protect your future earnings from
liability for the payment of the debts
of the ﬁrm, it would be necessary to
ﬁle a. petition to be adjudged a bank-
rupt. Bankruptcy would not save
your present assets from liability,
however.——-—Ast. Legal Editor.

mOCULATING SHOOL CHILDREN

They inoculated my sister some
time ago for diphtheria, injecting
the virus into the abdomen without
painting the abdomen with iodine.
She was very ill afterwards as were
all the children in the school. Now
they are going to inoculate the
children again, in 'the arm. Have we
a right to forbid this being done?
This second inoculation is also for
diphtheria—D. M., Ossineke, Mich.

—-It is not always necessary to ap~ ’

ply iodine before administering
toxin antitoxin. In fact our physi-
cians often use other cleansing

agents such as alcohol.

There is no law to compel school
children to be inoculated against
diphtheria. Any parent who does
not wish his child to have the treat-
ment has the right to request of the
school authorities that it be not
given.

Of course, it is much more advis—
able that this case who has been
inoculated once should receive full
immunization, which would re-
quire three inoculations.—R. M.
Olin, Commissioner of Health.

LIABLE FOR BREACH OF CON-
TRACT

A sells B forty acres of land. B
signs a contract to pay interest an-
nually for ﬁve years and then pay
for it. B has one hundred and
twenty acres valued at twelve thous-
and dollars free of incumbrance.
Now after B has had possession of
the forty awhile can he back out
and not pay for the forty or does
his property stand good for the
debt?-——M. H., Snover, Mich.

—If B breaks his contract and re-
fuses to pay for the land, he would
be liable to you for damages for
breach of contract. B’s unencumb-
ered land could be levied upon to
collect the damages after a judgment
had been obtained—Asst. Legal Ed-
itor.

CAN COLLECT RENT FOR HALL

I rented a hall to an organization
and received no rent. Can I collect
same and who would one serve pap—
ers on? Or how would you go about
collecting it?—W. J., Gilford, Mich.

——You could collect rent. for the use
of your ball. The proper person to
serve would be the secretary, presi—
dent, or other ofﬁcer of the organi-
zation.~—Asst. Legal Editor.

LICENSE TO PEBBLE GLASS-
WARE

Do you have to pay a license to
sell glass ware on the road? If you
do how much is the license for a
team of horses or a car?——D. N. B.

——I am of the opinion that one would
have to secure a state license to ped—
dle glassware and if on foot the fee
is $5.00; of with one horse, $10.00;
two horses, $40.00; a small car
$20.00 and a large car $40.00. Ap—
plication should be made to the State
Treasurer.-——C. J. DeLand, Secretary
of State.

 

BEST TEIE TO PRUNE TREES

When is the best time to trim
black walnut and fruit trees?——C.
H., Boon, Mich.

—Fruit or other trees may be prun-
ed at almost any time during the
dormant season when the tissues
are not frozen. This means any
time when the temperatures do not
go below twenty degrees above zero.
as a‘ few degrees of frost usually
does not serve to freeze up the tis—
sues. This, of course, means that
the bulk of the pruning is done dur-
ing March and April, as it is at that
time of the year that weather con-
ditions are most favorable for the
work.——V. R. Gardner, Professor of
Horticulture, M. A. 0.

MORE CONTRIBUTIONS T0
FEEDING FUND

Two contributions to the German
Babies Feeding Fund have been re-
ceived since we published our state-
ment of total received. These were
for $1 each and came from William
Baum and Andrew Baum, both at
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(Eontinued from February 16th issue.)

RS. J‘ANE laughed'a‘bit ruefully.

Well, I don’t see but what I shall

have to, with everybody against me

like this," she sighed, getting slowly tc

' her feet. “But if you knew—if either of

youknew—how really valuable money is,

. and how much it would earn for you, if

you'd only let it, I don’t believe you’d

,be quite so fast to tell me to go. and
spend it."

"Perhaps not; but then, you see, we
don’t know." smiled Miss Maggie, once
again her cheery self.

Mr. Smith said nothing. Mr. Smith

had turned his back just then.

When Mrs. Jane was gone, Mr. Smith
faced Miss Maggie with a. quizzioal smile.

“Well?” he hazarded.

“You mean—"

"I’m waiting
boarder."

“Oh! They’ll not be alarming, I assure
you. Do you really want to come?"

"Indeed I do! And I think it’s mighty
good of you to take me. Bub—should
you, do you think? Haven’t you got
enough, with your father to care for?
Won't it be too hard for you?”

She shook her head.

“I think not. Besides, I’m going to
have help. Annabelle and Florence Mar-
tin, a farmer's daughters, are very anx-
ious to be in town to attend school this

orders—as your new

winter, and I have said that I would
take them. They will work for their
board."

The man gave a disdainful sniff.

"I can imagine how much work you'll
let them do! It strikes me the ‘help’ is
on the other foot However, we'll let
that pass. I shall be glad enough to
come, and I'll stay—unless I ﬁnd you’re
doing too much—about your father?”

"Oh, he won’t mind. I’ll arrange that
he proposes the idea himself. Besides,"
—~she twinkled merrily—“you really get
along wonderfully with father, you know.
And. as for the work—I shall have more
time now: Hattie will have some one
else to care for her headaches, and Jane
won’t put down any more carpets, I
fancy, for a while."

"Well, I should hope!” he shrugged.
"Honestly, Miss Maggie, one of the best
things about this Blaisdell money, in my
eyes, is that it may give you a little
rest from being chief cook and bottle
washer and head nurse combined, on tap
for any minute. But, say. that woman
will spend some of that money, won’t
she?”

Miss Maggie smiled signiﬁcantly.

"I think she will. I saw Frank last
eveningathough I didn’t think it neces-
sary to say so to her. He came to see
me. I think that you'll ﬁnd that they
move very soon, and that the ladies of
the family have some new clothes.”

"Well, I hope so."

“You seem concerened.”

“Concerened? Er—ahmwell, I am," he
asserted stoutly. “Such a windfall of
wealth ought to bring happiness, I think;
and it seemed to, to Mrs. Hattie, though,
of course, she’ll learn better, as time goes
on, how to spend her money. But Mrs.
Jane—— And, by the way, how is Miss
Flora. bearing up—under the burden?"

Miss Maggie laughed.

“Poor Flora!"

“ ‘Poor Flma’! And do I hear “Poor
Maggie‘ say ‘Poor Flora’?”
“0h, she won’t be ‘poor’ long," smiled

Miss Maggie. “She' ll get used to it—this
stupendous sum of money—~one of these
days. But just now she’s nearly fright—
ened to death "

“Frightened!”

“Yes—both because she‘s got it, and
because she’s afraid shell lose it. That
doesn’t sound logical, I know, but Flora
isn't being logical just now. To begin
with, she hasn’t the least idea how to
spend money. Under my careful guid-
ance, however, she has bought her a few

new dresses — though they' re dead
black—”

“Black!" interrupter the man.

“Yes, she’s put on mourning,” smiled

Kiss Maggie, as he came to a dismayed
stop, “She would do it. She declared
the wouldnt feel half decent unless she
did, with that poor man dead, and giving
her all that money.”

“But he isn't dead—that is, they aren’t
sure he's dead," amended Mr. Smith
hastily.

“But Flora thinks he is. She says he
must be, or he would have appeared in
time to save all that money. She’s very
nmch shocked, especially at Hattie, that
there is so little respect being shown
his memory. So she is all the more de-
mrmined to do the best she can on her

“But she—she didn’t know him, so she
m’Hn—rwlly mourn for him," stam—
mered the man. There was a most cur-
ious helplessness on Mr. Smith’s face.

“No, she says she can’t really mourn,"
mulled Miss Maggie again, “and that’s
what worries her the most of anything
.-—because and he with neither wife nor
dud: nor child to mourn for him, she
says. But she' 8 determined to go through
the outward form of it, at least. So she’s
M31111 a. veil. She’s taken Mr. Fulton’s
picture (she had one cut from a maga-
ﬁne. I believe). and has had it framed

and hung on her wall. On the mantel
beneath it she keeps fresh ﬂowers always.
Hie guys it's the nearest she can come
to putting ﬂowers on his grave, poor
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ailing timely more
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whmmm

“That explains why I haven' t seen her.
I had wondered where she was.”

"Yes. She's very conscientious.
she is going later to Niagara. I’ve per-
suaded her to do that. She’ll go with a
party, of .course,——one of those ‘person-
ally conducted’ affairs, you know. Poor
dear! she’s so excited! All her life she's
wanted to see Niagara. Now she' 5 going,
and she can hardly believe it’s true.
She wants a' phonograph, too, but she’s
decided not to get that until after six
momths’ mourning is up—it’s too frivolous
and jolly for a house of mourning.”

"Oh, good Heavens!” breathed Mr.

Smith again.
‘ “It is funny, isn't it, that she takes
it quite so seriously? Bessie suggested
(I'm afraid Bessie was a little naughty!)
that she get the phonograph, but
not allow it to play anything but dirges
and hymn tunes."

“But isn’t the woman going to take
any comfort with that money?” demanded
Mr. Smith.

“Indeed, she is! She’s taking comfort
now. You have no idea, Mr. Smith, what
it means to her, to feel that she need
never want again, and that she can buy
whatever she pleases, without thinking
of the cost. That’s why she’s frightened
——because she is so happy. She thinks it
can’t be right to be so happy. It’s too
pleasant—to be right. When she isn't
being frightened about that, she's being
frightened for fear she’ll lose it, and thus
not have it any more. I don't think she
quite realizes yet what a big sum of
money it is, and she’d have to lose a great
deal before she lost it all."

“Oh, well she’ll get used to that, in
time. They' ll all get used to it—in time, "
declared Mr. Smith, his face clearing a
little “Then they’ll begin to live sanely
and sensibly, and spend the money as it
should be spent. Of course, you couldn’t
expect them to know what to do, at the
very ﬁrst, with a sum like that dropped
into their laps. What would you do your-
self? Yes, what would you do?" repeated
Mr. Smith, his face suddenly alert and
interested again“What 'would you do if
you,should fall heir to a hundred thou—
sand dollars—to—morrow ?”

“What would I do? What wouldn’t I

But

do?’ laughed Miss Maggie. 'l‘hcn ab-
ruptly her face changed. Her eyes be-
came luminous, unfathomable. ”Phone is

so much that a hundred thous 1nd dollars
could do—so much! Vi'hy, I \xould——"
Her face changed again abruptly. She
sniffed as at an odor from somewhere.
Then lightly she sprang to her feet and
crossed to the stove. “What would I do
with a hundred thousand dollars?” she
demanded, whisking open a damper in
the pipe. “I’d buy a new base-burner
that didn’t leak gas! That's what l’d
do with a hundred thousand dollars. Are
you going to give it to me?"

"Eh? Ali—~what?” Mr. Smith was vis-
ibly startled.

Miss Maggie laughed merrily

“Don’t worry I wasn’t thinking of
charging quite that for your board. But
you seemed so interested, I didn’t know
but what you were geing to hand over
the hundred thousand, just to see what
I would do with it." she challenged mis-
chievously. “However, I'll stop talking
nonsense, and come down to business.

. If you ll walk this way, Mr. New Boarder,

I’ll let you choose which of two rooms
you'd like.”

And Mr. Smith went. But, as had oc-
curred once or twice before, Mr. Smith’s
face, as he followed her. was a study,

CHAPTER XIII
The Dancing Begins

Christmas saw many changes in
Blaisdcll families.

The James Blaisdells had moved into
the biz,' house near the Gaylord place.
Mrs. Hattie had installed two maids in
the kitchen, bought a handsome touring
car, and engaged an imposing-looking
chauffeur. Fred had entered college, and
Bessie had been sent to a fashionable
school on the Hudson. Benny. to his
disgust, had also been sent away to an
expensive school. Christmas, however,
found them all at home for the holidays,
and for the big housewarming that their
parents were planning to give on Christ-
mas night.

the

The Frank Blaisdeils had also moved.
They were occupying a new house not
too far from the grocery store. They
had not bought it yet. Mrs. Jane said
that she wished to live in it awhile, so
as to be sure she would really like it.
Besides, it would save the interest on
the money for that much time, anyway.
True,
when her husband reminded her that
they would be paying rent meanwhile.
But she said that didn’t matter; she
was not going to put all that money
into a house just yet, anyway,—-not till

she was sure it was the best they could

do for the price.

They, too, were plann'ing’a house-
warming. Theirs was to come the night
after Christmas. Mrs. Jane told her hus-
band that they should’ not want theirs
the same night, as Hattie’s, and that if
she had hers right away the next night,
she could eat up any of the cakes or
ice cream that was left from Hattie’s
party, and thus save.buying so much
for herself. . But her husband was so
indignant over the idea of eating “Hat-
tie’s leavings” that she had to give up
this part of the plan, though she still
arranged to have her housewarming on
the day following her sister-in—laws.

Mellicent, like Bessie, was home from
school, though not from the same school.
Mrs. Jane had found another one that
was just as good as Bessie’s, she said,
and which did not cost near so much
money. Mr. Smith was not living with
them now, of Course. He was boarding
at Miss Maggie Duff’s.

Miss Flora was living in the same little
rented cottage she had occupied for many
years. She said that she should move,
of course, when she got through her
mourning, but until then she thought it
more suitable for her to stay where she
was. She had what she wanted to eat,
now. however, and she did not do dress-
making any longer. She still did her own
housework, in spite of Harriet Blaisdell’s
insistence that she get a maid. She said
that there was plenty of time for all
those things when she had finished her
mourning. She went out very little,
though she did go to the housewarming
at her brother Jame’s—“being a relative,
so,” she decided that no criticism could
be made.

It seemed as it‘ all Hillerton went t0'

that house-warming. Those who were
not especially invited to attend went as
far as the street gate, and looked on
enviously. Mrs. Hattie had been very
generous with her invitations, however.
She said that she had asked everybody
who ever pretended to go anywhere.
She told Maggie Duff that, of course,
after this, she should be more exclusive
——very exclusive, in fact; but that this
time Jim wanted to ask everybody, and
she didn’t mind so much—she was really
rather glad to have all these people see
the house, and all—they certainly never
would have the chance again.

Mr. Smith attended with Miss Maggie.
Mrs. Hattie had very kindly included
him in the invitation. She had asked
Father Duff, too, especially though she
said she knew, of course, that he would
not g0-~he never went anywhere. Father
Duff bristled up at this and declared
that he guessed he would go, after all,
just to show them he could, if he wanted
to. Mrs. Hattie grew actually pale, but
Miss Maggie exclaimed joyfully that, of
course, he would go—he ought to go,
to show the proper respect! Father Duff
said no then, very decidedly; that noth—
ing could hire him to go, and that he had
no respect to show. He declared that he
had no use for gossip and gabble and
unwholesome eating; and he said that
he should not think Maggie would care
to go, either,—unless she could be in the

kitchen, where it would seem natural
to her !
Mrs. Hattie, how'ever, smiled kindly,

and said, of course, now she could afford
to hire better help than Maggie (caterers
from the city and all that), so Maggie
would not be in the kitchen, and that
with practice she would soon learn not to
mind at all being ’round among folks in
the parlor.

Father Duff had become so apop-
lectically angry at this that Mr. Smith.
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his Own wrath in his desire to make the
situation easier for Miss Maggie.

He had not supposed that Miss Maggie
would go at all, after that. He had
even determined not to go' himself. But
Miss Maggie, after a day’s thought, had
laughed and had said, with her eyes
twinkling. “Oh. well, it doesn’t matter,
you know.——it doesn’ t really matter, does
it?” And they had gone.

Itwas a wonderful party. Mr. Smith
enjoyed it hugely. He saw almost every-
body he knew in Hillerton, and many
that he did not know. He heard the
Blaisdells and their new wealth discussed
from all viewpoints, and he heard some
things about the missing millioraire bene-
factor that were particularly interesting
—to him. The general opinion seemed to
be that the man was dead; though a
few admitted that there was a possibility,
of course, that he was merely lost some-
where in darkest South America and
would eventually get back to civilization,
certainly long before the time came to
open the second letter of instructions.
Many professed to know the man well,
through magazine and newspaper ac—
counts (there were .times when Mr. Smith
adjusted more= carefully the smoked
glasses which he was still wearing),
and some had much to say of the million»
aire’s characteristics, habits, and eccen-
tricities; all of which Mr. Smith enjoyed
greatly.

Then, too, there were the Blalsdells
themselves. They‘were all there, even to
Miss Flora, who was in dead black; and
Mr. Smith talked with them all.

Miss Flora told him that she was so
happy she could not sleep nights, but that
she was rather glad she couldn’t sleep.
after all, for she spent the time mourn-
ing for poor Mr Fulton, and thinking
how good he had been to her. And that
made it seem as if she was doing some-
thing for :him. She said, Yes, oh, yes.
she was going to stop black mourning in
six months, and go into grays and lav-
enders: and she was glad Mr. Smith
thought that was long enough, quite long
encugh for .the black, but she could not
think for a moment of putting on colors
now, as he suggested. She said, too, that
she had decided not to go to Niagara.
for the present. And when he demurred
at this, she told him that really she
would rather not. It would be wanner
in the spring, and she would much rather
wait till she Could enjoy every minute
without feeling that—~well, that she was
almost dancing over the poor man’s
grave, as it were.

Mr. Smith did not urge her after that.
He turned away, indeed, gather percipi—
tately that Miss Flora wondered if she
could have said anything to offend him.

Mr. Smith talked next with Mrs. Jane
Blaisdell. Mrs. Jane was looking par-
ticularly well that evening. Her dress
was new, and in good style, yet she in
some way looked odd to Mr. Smith. In
a moment he knew the reason: she were
no apron. Mr. Smith had never seen
her without an apron before. Even on
the streetshe wore a black silk one.
He complimented her gallantly on her
ﬁne appearance. But Mrs. Jane did not
smile. ‘She frowned.

“Yes, I know. Thank you, of course,"
she answered worriedly. “But it cost an
awful lot—this dress did; but Frank and
Mellicent would have it. That child!——-
have you seen her to—night?”

“M1345” Mell1oent" Yes, in the distance.
She, too, is looking most charming, Mrs.
Blaisdell "1

The woman tapped her foot impatiently. '

"Yes, I know she is—and some other

folks thing 50,- too, I notice. Was she
with that Pennock boy?”

"Not when I saw her.”

“Well, she will be, if'she isn't now. He

follows her everywhere."

“But I thought—that was broken up."
Mr. Smith now was frowning.

“It was. You know what that woman
said—«the inSult! But now, since .this'
money came—” She let an expressive
gesture, complete the sentence.

Mr. Smith laughed.

“I wouldn‘t worry, Mrs. ,Blaisdell. I
don't think he’ll make much headway——
now.

“Indeed, he Won’ t—«if I can help my-

self!” ﬂashed the woman indignantly.
”I reckon he won’t stand much show
with Mellicent—after whats happened."
“I guess he won’t," snapped the wo-
man. "He isn’t worth half what she is
now. As if I'd let her look at him!"

“But I meant— Mr. Smith stopped
abruptly. There'was an odd expression
on his face.

Mrs. Blaisdell ﬁlled the pause. .

“But, really Mr. Smith, I don’t know
what I am going to do—with Mellicent.”
she sighed. 3

“Do with her?”

“Yes. She's as wild as a hawk Ind
as—as ﬂighty as a humming-bird, since
this money came. She's so crazy with
Joy and excited."

“What if she is?" challenged Mr.
Smith, looking suddenly very happy him-
self. “Youth .is the time for Joy and
laughter; I'm sure I'm glad she is tak-

. ing a little pleasure in l’ife.’

Mrs. Blaisdel frowned again. ‘ ‘

"But Mr; th, you know as well u
Ido that-life isn’tallpinkdressesand,
sugar-plums. ~-It is a: serious business,
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O doubt many of our readers

are contemplating the purchase

of a new tractor for spring
work. To those who are I want to
pass on to you a word of caution
about breaking it in. -

It is not advisable for you to wait
to get the tractor until you want .to
use it and then put it to work right
away pulling a plow. It wants to be
worked in gradually at not‘too heavy
a load. —

You are familiar with the notice
pasted on the windshield of practic-
ally every new car, cautioning pur-
chasers not to drive the car over
twenty-ﬁve miles an hour for the
ﬁrst ﬁve hundred"miles. You would
not think of loading seven or eight

’heavy persons into a ﬁve-passenger
car and .try to see how many miles
you could-caver in a given length of
time‘or how steep a grade it would
pull on high with that kind of a load.

That robably would not do as
much damage to the car as putting
a new tractor to work plowing ten
or twelve hours a day the ﬁrst thing
would do to a tractor. There is
just as much reason for “easing in”
the tractor as there is for driving
a. car carefully for the ﬁrst ﬁve-hun-

. dred miles, or starting in a team of

horses at is soft after three or
four months of idleness-

The reason why “is necessary to
work in a new tractor gradually is
because it takes time to wear down
the wearing surfaces of bearings,
pistons and cylinders. All tractors
are run for several hours at the fac-
tory, but not long enough so that
the wearing surtaces of the pistons
and cylinders are worn down smooth
enough so there will be no danger
tom scoring when the machine is
put to heavy work.

If the tractor is started 011' at
light work the wearing parts of
pistons, cylinders, and bearings at—
tain a working surface gradually
and do not become overheated or
scored. As they become worn in it
is easier to lubricate the' various
working surfaces properly so that
when the machine is called upon to
do heavy work it will handle it with-
out serious injury.

A tractor, or any machine in fact,
will well repay the owner for the
care taken in seeing that it is worked
in gradually. It will avoid a lot of
trouble and enense. Many a trac-
tor has been practically ruined by
tadlm to observe this caution, thus
bringing the wrath of the owner on
the tractor and its . manufacturer
when the fault is really his own, in
not observtng a tow simple precau-
tions that were, or should have been

.7 at least, explained to him by the
1 ‘maznufactnrer's representative.

I would, therefore, advise that
ﬂmse readers who have deﬁnitely
decided to buy a tractor this spring
get delivery as early as possible so
that they will have an opportunity
to give it as much use as possible
before they are ready for the heavy
work of plowing. It you cannot do
any better, let it run idle for sev-
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gets plenty of lubrication. There
may be light belt work that you can
do with it such as sawing wood,
grinding feed, etc., or it can be used
for hauling manure, or harrowing.

If you haven’t any work for it to
do until you get ready to plow, spend
a few hours as often as you can
playing with it—just drive it-up and
down the lane or out in the ﬁelds
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operating it. It will not only be
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gross whiohxmet in, Duluth recently,
and received the‘ major portion of
attention. 200 delegates represent-
ing Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Mich-
igan listened to Dr. R. L. Ely, noted
authority on. agricultural economics,
Mr. J. C.Watson of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association, and E. G.
Quamme, President of Federal Land
Bank, _\ discuss this all important
matter of taxes. Dr. Ely said, “Un-
less the present tendency toward
governmental agencies and commis-
sions, toward greater bond issues,
and toward continued issuing of tax.-
exempt securities, ceases, land taxes
will soon reach the point of conﬁs—
catiothhe government will own all
the land and farmers will be ten-
aunts. 66 per cent of the annual
value of land is now going toward
taxes. The farmers and the rail.-
roads enjoyed the highest rate of
taxation in Wisconsin during the
past two years. Every attempt to
"swat the rich" by dlrcet taxes re--
sult in a greater ax for the land—
owner and consumer. Disaster awaits
us unless we begin to practice real
economy in government, unless we
stop asking the government to do
more things for us—creating this
paternalistic attitude—unless we re—
turn more to the indirect tax. In
-1910 only 3 per cent of our revenue
was derived from direct taxes, but
in 1920 it was 20 per cent. Dema—
gogs and politicians have been prom-
ising us from time immemorable
that they will reduce taxes if elected
but not a one of them has ever done
so. We, ourselves, are at fault be-
cause we are continually urging some
new commission or agency. The in.
come tax is a fair tax and should be
retained.” -

A resolution was drawn. up and
heartily endorsed, pointing out the
impending danger as taxes on land
approach the point of conﬁscation,
urging the research‘to discover ways
and means for more equitable dis-
tribution of taxes, and questioning
the wisdom of further issuance of
tax—free securities. .

In the discussion on the utilization
of the idle lands in northern Michi~
gan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, Mr.
Herman Lundin of Michigan sounded
the keynote when he said, “The hope
of these statessand the hope of the
nation lies in the' reforestation of
idle land, preferably by private capi-
tal but by governmental agencies it
necessary. Without more adequate
ﬁre protection or without a better
system of taxation, however, we will
never realize this hope.” In this
sentiment he was echoed by all
prominent men present such as the
deans of the three Agricultural Col—
leges, Dr. R. T. Ely, an authority
on agricultural economics, and Raph-
eal Zon, Director of Lake States
Forest Service Station. Mr. Zon
said, “With only three states east
of the Mississippi River showing an
increase of acres of land put into
farms over those abandoned, it is
useless to talk of putting these acres
of marginal land to better use than
forestry. Rather than permit them
to be idle let them produce a crop
of lumber which will be valuable
enough in a generation from now."
Another speaker pointed out that
even in Wisconsin, the foremost in
colonization methods, last year
90,000 acres .of farm land was
abandoned while 100,000 acres were
being incorporated into farms. In
most cases this better farming land
was found in so-called cut-over
country. He pointed out that all
lands could be classiﬁed as good ag-
ricultural land. as marginal, or sub-
marginal. During emergencies, such
as the World War, the marginal

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lands are brought under cultivation .

and are made to pay because of the
high prices, but it is an economic
'waste to work them during periods
like those we are in now. The sub-
marginal will probably never be
used for agricultural purpohes and
should utilised for permanent
forest while the marginal should .pro-
duce a crop of early maturing timber
and may. be returned for agricultural
purposes .. if conditions are favorable.

Dr. Ely said. “We deplore the
present paternalistic
government—s government that-1s
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cease to‘ .- penalise", by severe taxes;
the growing of timbers! )
fully prepared speech Mr. —Lundin '.
described the plan (if taxation of‘
forest lands as incorporated in the
bill which he introduced in the» Mich-
igan Legislature of 1923. He “pro-3
pose that the land be taxed at So an
acre but that no tax be levied
against the growing timber until'it
was harvested when'the tax would: be
as many per 'centums as the years the
forest had been exempt. In other.
words, if the timber was harvested
26 years later, the tax would be 25‘
per cent of the value. To ”some
pause the townships for the loss in
taxes the local townships could bor-
row, the money to be returned when
the taxes from the lumber harvest
came ' in. “Such a system of tag-
ation,” said Mr. .Lundin, “is being
used in the soundinavi'an countries .
with great success. It brings about

reforestation by private individuals;
as a regular crop, it provides wealth
for the townships in later years, it
preserves our game and ﬁsh, it pro-
vides places for recreation and rest,
and it beneﬁts agriculture by ,brin‘g-
ing about a better distribution of
the rain-falls.” “But”, he conclud-
ed," We must have fire protection.”
His plan met with the approval of
those present and will probably be
advocated in all three states as the _
uniform law for taxing lands devot- '
ed to forestry. , ,

Dean R. S. Shaw of Michigan Ag—
ricultural College took a prominent
part in the discussions. In a splen-
did discourse at the banquet he said,
“There never was a more critical
period ahead of the American people
as far as agriculture is concerned.
The success of this great industry
in the past gained through exploita-
tion of the soil. The three things
that will contribute to the success
of the nation or any nation in the
future are the fertility of the soil,
adequate transportation, and busy
workshops. We must see to it from
now on that real farming keeps away
from the undesirable system of ex-
ploitation."

Dean Coffey of Minnesota sees. a.
great industrial development in Lake
States provided the raw materials,
particularly forest products, remain
available. He said, “Agriculture and
forestry are basic to future prosper-
ity and greater development of the
three states. They should supple-
ment each other; the settler should
grow, utilize and market timber the
same as he does other crops. We
foresee a great industrial develop-
ment for the region, but in order to
achieve this development the intelli-
gent utilization of land is necessary,
for industrial development is con-
tingent upon a supply of raw pro-
ducts, and at least half of our raw
products for manufacturing in the
United States comes directly from
farms and forests.

“We are the great playground of
the Middle West. To be permanent-
ly successful in attracting tourists
we shall have to make intelligent
utilization of land.”

Dean Russell of Wisconsin pointed
out the relations between industry
and agriculture. He said, “Fat cities

. cannot, build on a lean countryside."

It seemed to be the consensus of
opinion that a great” future awaits.
the Lake States if (1) taxes on land
can be reduced, (2) our idle lands
utilized by growing timber crops,(3)
continued adequate rail transporta-
tion coupled with increased water
route facilities.——-E_. J. LeenhoutsL

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_~ "me8 Hours, ETC. -< ‘
«OMETIMES I git letters. trom

sev’ra'l an’ var’ous‘ women askin’,

’bout Women’s rights an' vice
\versa, or what ever they call ’em——

have they got all their rights, what.

are they, how’d they git ’em an’

what are they for; in fact, lots of

women don’t seem to know what
they want nor what rights they’ve
got; . " .

,You know there’s mightly few W0?
men. if they’d stop an" consider the
matter, that’d want to have jest the
rights: that. more ‘men have got.

.Fact is, if we’d pin women down to
men’s rights they'd raise—-well the
(lichens, blazes an’ everything. Why
folks, if women was pinned down to

joint the rights men has you an’ I,
an’ mebby'Bill Bryan an’ Coolidge
’ud be ’bout the only ones that

; could live with ’em or nigh ’em now
’an forevermore.

Jest cut ’em right down to our

’ rights—well, jest make ’em pay ali-

' many for 26 or 30 years, let ’em pay

‘ preacher?

' a. few breach of promise things, give

’em a ﬁne of ten thOusand or more
dollars for kissin’ one of us unpro—
tected male men, send ’em to jail if
they speak to us on the street ’thout
a pleeceman’s introduction. put ’em
in a padded cell ’thout pads if they
cast vampy eyes onto us—well they
do them things to men, yes even for
less'n anything like what I’ve men-
tioned. Why a man can’t even slap
a woman’s face ’thout bein’ haled
Tom a Justice an’ ﬁned or sent to
prison for life or longer. Now you
know a woman can slap a man rag-
ged ‘thout no provocation a tall
hardly—jest in defense of her honor
or whatever it is she slaps him for
an’ he ain’t got a Word to say ’bout
it—he has no honor to be mussed
up or whatever they do with what
a man ain’t got. A woman can git
excused from jury duty on ’count of
sex—a man can’t do that. Women
can run away from their husbands
an’ the law can’t touch ’em for it.
Let a man try runnin’ away from his
Wife and he lands in. jail. Wife can
hold one-third interest in her hus-
band’s property—a man can hold
nothin’ but his temper an’ hardly
that. '

Women can sue for divorce an’
man has to pay all expenses—even
in the marriage game itself. Who
pays for the license? Who pays the
Who buys the weddin’
ring? Who keeps it if the thing its
for busts up? Equal rights! Equal’ty
of ,the sexes! Dear folks, there
ain’t no such animal known——there
couldn’t be—not in ten thousand
years. An’ if women ’ould only
study the matter jest a little while
they'd see it wouldn’t be good for
’em to have any such thing. Fact
is, they wouldn't want it at all.

Sad indeed 'ould be the'day for
this 01' world if men and women
could be on an equal mount—Wo-
men would have to come down oﬂ'n
the high pedestal; (what ever that
is) they’d have to lower themselves
by a good many degrees from where

amen themselves have placed ’em.

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FOR THE BABIES! '

Detroit, January 18, 1924.1l
Michigan Business Farmer,
Mt. Clemens, Michigan. ,

Attention Mr. Geo. M. Slocum.
Gentlemenz—e
A few days ago I had the
pleasure- of receiving your
check for $189.00 through Mr.
Richard Koehler, which, by
‘ your noble efforts, you collect-
ed” for the German babies feed-
.ing fund. The same was im-
mediately forwarded to Germ-

any for the purpose indicated.

On behalf of the committee

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In all the ﬁner things of lite woman
is at the top. She makes the home
bright, she is-the joy of. life, she
has mere nerve, more hope, more
love than any man can ever have.

Yes by gravy, she has more privi-
leges than men an' she should o’rt
to have ’em for she is the maker an’
the ﬁnisher of all that is good an’
noble in man’s life! An yet I'm
kinda sorry to say, lots of our ﬁne,
nice women ain’t satisﬁed with what
they’ve got—they seem to want to
come down to men’s level, to be on
an equality with them. Oh‘ my dear
women friends, jest thank our good
God that you are not man’s equal—
that you are so much above him in
all that1 is good an’ lovely that he
can never hope to reach your level.

I am not Writin’ this in any senti-
mental mood—I don’t like women
’specially well myself, but I know
somethin’ oi' the lovliness of ’em—-
of the mother heart that’s in ’em,
an’ I am ,sayin’ to you an’ every lady
'at I never want to see women on an
equality with men unless.men get
on a higher plane than they’ve ever
been an’ I guess mebbe higher ‘an’
they ever will be.

' Womans rights mebbe is a nice
thing. I’ll say its all right an’
they’ve got a lot more’n we poor
cusses’ll ever have. I’m glad they
got ’em—but equality! No my dear
women of the she sex, I don’t never
want to see no such thing as that,
least—wise not into this world as she
is today. Cordially yours.——UNCLE
RUBE.

 

ARE FRUIT GROWERSV WILLING
TO PAY MORE FOR TREES?

(Continued from Page 4)

and, if he is making an honest pack,
he would have to pay for service not
needed. Mixing of varieties needn’t
occur where experienced men do
the packing.

4. What about replacement of
varieties, if. under certiﬁcation some
should slip through that were not
true to name?

5. If the inspector were the least
bit in doubt, he would err on the

‘side of safety and throw out some

trees of known variety.

Last winter at a meeting of the
Ontario fruit groWers, it Was stated
that some nurseries in that province
as well as some in the states, used
to practice substitution of varieties;
if they had not the variety asked
for, they would give what they con-
sidered the next best thing.

That there was truth in this
statement is evident from the exper-
ience related by one of the Ontario
men present. He said that in 1912
he bought 1,000 Morello cherries,
and when they came into bearing,
there were only 800 Morellos; there
were 100 Early Richmond trees and
100 of other worthless varieties. In
1913, 200 Monarch plum trees were
bought, and 120 turned out to be
Green Gage. In 1916, he bought
500 Bartlett pears, and 75 turned
out to be Bosc.

Protessor Macoun, horticulturist
at the Ontario agricultural college.
says they have been studying identi-
ﬁcation of apples for several seasons
and have made application for a
man to go into- growers' orchards
and pick out trees not true to name.

Can this work be extended to oth—
er fruits than apples? Yes--and it
is just as essential with other fruits.
if not more so. It apples turn out
to be worthless they can be top-
worked, but this is not true of
peachesypears, plums, cherries.

In, view_ of all these facts, it I
were a fruit grown (and I used to
have a large orchard) I would want
certiﬁed trees. I believe other
growers would pay the extra cost
for them, too. And it I ‘were a nurs—
eryman, I would try to give the
growers what they want” A satis-

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E will now tell you how to

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be connected to the receiving
set previously described. This will
enable several people in a room to
hear what your radio brings in.

The type of ampliﬁer that we are
going to describe is one that’s called
an audio- -frequency ampliﬁer; this
is because it ampliﬁes or increases
the audible sounds that your detect—
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that it will pay to build a two step
ampliﬁer in preference to a one step.
Directions will be given for both,
(and as we realize that the pocket
book is a governing factor) that if
you cannot build a two step by all
means build a one step.

List of Parts for One—Step Ampliﬁer

_ 11nd Approximate prices
1 Socket for \1’17-12- tube .................... $ .75
1 VVD~12 Vacuum tube ........................ 6.50
1 6—ohm rheostat .................................... .75
1 Audio frequency ampliﬁer ................ 4.00
6 Binding posts ...................................... .50
1 221/2 volt “B” battery ...................... 1.50
1 N0. 6 dry battery .............................. .50

(three of these are better)

$14.50'

For a two step ampliﬁer you will
need 2 or each of the above items

except the binding posts. “B” bat—
tery and the No. 6 dry cells. .
Remember that on- your detector

you are only using a “B” battery of
221/; volts, whereas the ampliﬁer
will need at least 45 volts. The
battery you use for your receivmg
set is also used in the ampliﬁer,
both the “A” and “B” batteries.

You will also need some short
pieces of “bell wire” for making
connections and a piece of Wood for
the base and another for the front
panel.

We are showing two diagrams

.with this article, so that if you have

ordered the parts for your ampliﬁer
you can build either one-step or

 

 

two- -step ampliﬁer to add to your

HOW TO BUILD A ONE OR TWO
- SEEP AMPLIFIER receiving set.

As stated before, we wish to em-
phasize it, a one-step ampliﬁer adds
very ,little more volume to the re-
ceived signals, whereas the second
step adds a very great deal more in
proportion. The one—step will'make
"music and voices that ordinarily are
barely hearable loud enough to und-
erstand perfectly in the telephone
receivers. The addition of a second
step will make everything too loud

for the telephone receivers, but will,

enable you to use a horn attachment-
to your receivers so that a roomfull
can hear what is going on. It also
will enable you to attach your re—
ceivers to your phonograph so that
you will get the beneﬁt of the spec-
ially designed horn that all talking
machines have. You can buy (if
you Wish to spend the money) a
regular loud‘ talker (or speaker)
and get volume enough to ﬁll a hall
or church or school. -

In. the list of materials given for
the ampliﬁer, we have only given
one “B” battery, stating that with
the one you have for your detector
that you will then have 45 volts in
your B battery. A11 ampliﬁer will
give good results with only 45 volts,
but 67 to 90 volts will give much
greater ampliﬁcation in volume of
sound received. .80 for loud results
you will need three or four B bat—
teries.

Do not buy 45 volt batteries or
90 volt batteries, for the reason
that if any part of it proves defect-
ive the whole battery is ruined. If
you buy separate units of 22%
each and connect them in series, you
can see that if one set goes bad you
have only lost one battery of. 221/3
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is much easier on-the pocket book.

Now to work!

Look over the diagram carefully,
arrange all the parts approximately
as shown, then make each connec-
tion from the binding posts to the
instruments in turn. Solder all
jomts or if placed under nuts or
screw heads be sure that the wire is
clean and the screw head is clean
and then tighten down good and
tight. Good contacts depend upon
the thoroughness with which you
keep the parts clean, the care taken
and soldering wherever possible.

It is not necessary to tell you 110w
to make each connection, but it is
necessary that'you follow the. dia—
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be is.
The binding posts mid the {rheo-

@panel and base should be treated
with parrafin or shellac as previous-
. 1y used on your detector set. Hard
rubber or bakelite is much better.
The exact position of the binding
posts and other parts is not ﬁxed
but should be followed fairly close-
Jy. The shorter the wire leads are
the better the results.
To connect this ampliﬁer to your
receiving set do as follows: Con-

  

nect your A battery to the posts
marked A, the positive to the posi-
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“'ith this receiving set, which was de-
scribed in our issue of February 2nd,
I have heard stations 1,000 miles away.

   
 

negative post. The B battery is con-
nected next to it’s posts. Your tele-
rphone receivers are removed from
your receiving detector set and at-
tached to the ampliﬁer post marked
“Phone” and two wires are run
from your detector from the posts
that you just took the telephones
from and connected to the 2 posts
marked “imput.”

To tune in, turn on the current
j; with the rheostat of your ampliﬁer
about one half way and then tune
your detector set as you previously
did before adding the ampliﬁer. You
should now hear any broadcast
much louder than before, it may be
a little “mushy”, but by adjusting
the rheostat of the ampliﬁer up .or
down a little you will clear up the
voices so that they Will sound na—
tural.

Always burn your bulbs as low as
possible, just so that you' get the re—
sults, it does not pay to force them
too high as the life is shortened and
the batteries are used up sooner
and above all the results in tone or
sound are not satisfactory.

GOOD NEWS FOR YOU
The price on vacuum tubes for
detectors and. ampliﬁers have come
down and instead of paying $6.50
each they can be bought for $5.00
to $5.50 each. -

A VOICE FROM OUT OF THE
SNO‘VBOUND NORTH

We are buried under about four

feet of snow up here and if it wasn’t

<1 ' for the Radio we would just about

$4 give up living on the farm as a bad

31' job, but since we got it we do not

9“ , care whether the snow gets to the

§ eaves or not so long as it does not

'1 i cover our wires—Mrs. C. A. B.,
5 Hiawatha, Mich.

 

 

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, . I recently read a report that
l k farmers were not taking much inter—
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{ letters that pour into my oﬂice each
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not refer to the farmers of Michi—
gan. So far we have been able to
publish only a. few questions and
answers due to shortage of space,
but every question that comes in re—
ceives my best attention and a per-
1. sonal reply without charge to ’the
.‘ei reader. We hope to have room for
more of these in our department in
1 the future as many ask questions
that are in the minds of many who
are interested and the answers will
q .prove of general interest. ’ Send
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can help you.

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. Will you please purchase for me.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 1,1924

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Advertlslng Rates: 14 lines to the column
7 lines to the page Flat

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Live Steel: and Auctiong Sale Advertising: We oﬂer speech] low
rates to repntsb ll.- breeders of live stock and poultr

RELIABLE ADVERTISERS
We will not knowing accept the advertising of any person or
ﬁrm who up do not bel are be thoroughly honest and reliable.
Should r‘iiiy render have ecause for complaint suinst any ad-

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KEEP COOL-IDGE!

HERE is little doubt but what the Republican
rallying cry for this year’s campaign will be
“Keep Cool-idge!" Calvin Coolidge is fam-

ed for his especial characteristic of immunity to
the popular hysteria of the moment and al-
though small in stature he has a David-like ca-
pacity for aiming straight with a single word at
the vulnerable point of his opponent.

Into a calm political sea. in which the bark
which bore his colors was riding peacefully to a
harbor of certainty for re-election which seemed
ahead only as far as November, came a veritable
typhoon in the shape of the Teapot Dome oil
graft exposure. The Democrats looked on while
the ﬂeet of Republican cabinet oﬂlcers were be-
ing tossed high on the waves of public opinion
and ﬁnally dashed one by one on the rocks of
sacriﬁce, but their contentment was shortlived
when the cyclone switched its tail, as cyclones
will, hitting the Democratic pride of the ﬂeet so
hard a blow that it is doubtful if the most able
politicians of that party will be able to resurrect
the good ship “McAdoo” from the dephths where
it now lies. .

Michigan had something at stake in all of this
because Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, is
one of the national ﬁgures whom we are proud
to point to as a son of this state. That he has
been the “goat” in the present controversy is
easily apparent to any man who knows the polit-
ical game and how it is played, and that Calvin
Coolidge should have defended his cabinet oﬂlcer
against the unwarranted attacks without the op-
portunity of a fair trial has only added to his
standing with the sane thinking element in this
state.

Calvin Coolidge, himself 21 Vermont farmer
boy, with a. keen knowledge of the hardships of
his people on the rocky hillsides of that state,
has shown an appreciation of the agricultural
situation and a desire to remedy it which have
been noted with growing approval by the farm-
ers of this country. That he has not been led
astray by radical senators who claim to represent
the farming interests ofthis country is a proof
that he can keep cool and areason Why the vot—
ers next fall are quite apt to rally to the banner
“Keep Cool-idge!"

RADIO MAKES WINTER FLY

LETTER just received from a lady reader
at Hart, Michigan, closes with these lines:
“The snow is piled high here but it doesn’t mat-
ter so long as it does not cover the wires to our
radio. With it the whole world is brought
through storm, sleet, and snow into our living
room, last night we listened to our President as
plainly as if he had been on our own telephone."
One by one the terrors of farmisolatlon are
being eliminated by science and invention. We
have continually stated in these columns that
radio was destined to be one of the greatest de-
velopments for improving farm life and keepinx
the boys'snd girls on the farm that bu ever been
divised. We considered that the radio ranks
only second to the automobile and truck in its
1W to agriculture.

It is any to see from the correspondence saw
dressed to the radio editor of T8: Bum”
I‘m tint the interest In radio hos jumped
foreword by leaps and bounds this winter. We

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the form-it becomes the
brings any number of outﬁts int
ity. ‘ ' ‘
A radio set may be purchsséd at 10w cast and
assembled by the men and boys on the farm. J.
Herbert Ferris, our radio editor has promised to

help any reader of Tm: Busnmss Fauna who ss-V

sembles such a set to make it work satisfactor-
ily; in other words, if you build a. set according
to his suggestions and it does not work satisfact-
orily, you may send it for him to test it out and
tell you where the trouble is or correct it for
you. This is a very generous offer and is made
simply because there is no man in our state
more keenly interested in or who will have had
more to do with the development of radio on the
farm th. .. our own radio editor.

Do not hesitate to write him on any subject
regarding radio. No matter how simple your
questions or how intricate, we want to continue
this publication as the leader in the development
of this wonderful boon to the farm home which
we from the ﬁrst have pioneered.

THE WILLIAMS BILL

EPRESENTATIVE ARTHUR B. WILLIAMS of
the Third District, Michigan, has undertak-
en a task which is to be commended and

the plans under which he proposes to secure the
results will well bear the scrutiny of every man
interested in the greatest problem in American}
agriculture today, namely, that of safe market-
ing. *

That Representative Williams has a keen con—
ception of what is most needed is proven in his
recent statement that:

“The critical phases of the farm situation are
dealt with by a number of bills now pending in
congruss designed to give temporary and immed-
iate relief. The bill that I have introduced is
one intended to correct an underlying difﬁculty
and to assist in affording permanent relief to the
farmer.

“If the farmers of the country in 1920 and
during the period since then had been thorough-
ly organized they would have been in a position
very largely to have protected themselves. In-
stead of continuing on a war basis of production
they would have curtailed to the probable needs
for domestic consumption and export. Instead
of doing that with reference to certain products
at least, they have kept right on producing re-
gardless of the market available to them.

“The ﬁrst step in the matter of governing pro.-
duction is to have a. well organized sales agency
that is constantly in touch with the nature and
volume of demand. A good sales organization in
any business directs and has everything to say
with reference to the kind and quantity of pro-
duction. In this the farmers have been lacking.
Their business, by and large, should be viewed
from the same standpoint as that of the manu—
facturer. In times of lessened demand the man-
ufacturer usually cuts down his production,
when a lesser volume will bring more net proﬁts
than a larger volume will at ruinous prices. .

“The bill that I have introduced has two gen—
eral aspects. It provides a well balanced federal
board to supervise and encourage the develop-
ment of cooperative marketing organizations and
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products that should be produced by the farmersnrr

in any given year.

“This bill covers new ground, and I am quite

aware that no doubt many valuable suggestions
can be made with reference to'lt. I invite these

and later may ﬁnd it necessary to amend th'e " '

bill to embody some of these ideas.”

Cooperative marketing by the various branches
of agricultural production is to ay 9. success.
The apparent need now is a closer co—relation be-
tween the producers, in the various states; in
other words, there is no need for the bean grow-
ers in Michigan to proceed along individual lines
if they can secure the cooperation, of the other
bean-growing states. although it would probably
be advantageous for them to maintain their ow‘n
individual selling relations and the matters of
production discussed and mutually agreed upon
between the various state units.

The Williams Bill coming trom a. Michigan
representative deserves especial attention from
us, and we feel that th farmers of the state and
the farm organizations who represent them
should go on record regarding this bill immedi-
ately and either give Representative Williams
their hearty support /or point out to him where-
in this bill does not meet the needs as he has
expressed them. ’

WEXFORD FARMERS POINT THE WAY

F you have been wondering how to get the
folks in your neighborhood into a. spirit of
neighborllness which would make your life

happier and more contented turn to page 4 of
this issue and read the story of what they hove
done over at Mouton.

There is not a community in Michigan where
there is not a school houSe, and there is not a
school house which is not available for the very
purpose to which this one has been put. A com-
munity proposition such as this breaks down all
the barriers of creed, secret fraternity or clanish
organizations and leads all to a common footing
through which to enjoy and proﬁt by their social
intercourse.

We heartily commend these Wexford County

farmers for having helped to blaze a way.

 

THE TAX TUG 0’ WAR

NE does not need to be a political diagnostic-

“ *r‘ determine that the real reason why

the Democrats and Republicans are enjoy-

ing such a merry tug 0' war over the tax situa-
tion is because 1924 is an election year.

The one thing which all classes, including the
farmer, capital, labor, and all other divisions of
society, are solidly behind is a program which
will reduce taxation in this country.

It should also be 'easily apparent that the One
sure way to reduce taxes is to lower the cost of
government operations. It is encouraging to
know that this has been carried on more or less
successfully, not only in the state, but in the
national government during the past two years
and we should not pass in this discussion without
giving some credit to the men who have been act-

'ive in making the preSent tax reduction plans

even possible. The budget plan is largely re-
sponsible for these economies and that the na-
tional government should ﬁnd itself with a sur—
plus of funds with which to carry on the work
01,1924 and, therefore, the possibility of elim—
inating the so—called “nuisance" taxes and to re-
duce the income tax is indeed commendable.
We doubt if the present war over the exact
percentage of reduction in income and surtaxes
will seriously affect the average farmer in Mich‘
igen. It is our opinion that there are many
taxes which the farmer pays directly or indirect-
ly which affect him much more seriously than
that of the so-callod income tax, which is applic-
able to so small a. percentage of the men who till
the farms of this country. .The farmer would
be quite willing to pay an income tax if his ill-
come were large enough to make such a foot

. possible, but during the last two or three years

this perticulsr tax has been the least of his
troubles.
From our standpoint our chief interest in is a

direct taxation of some sort Which will spread. -
the load evenly. We feel that agriculture wee
'.'unduly burdened under the present system of 7'
taxation, and whether it MW at. «to: tax.
or income tax. the” masters“ new
plan must be devised which we: om pure~

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M. B. n. READERS nor some!
Dear Mr. Slocum:—-—I am not con-

sidered a very stingy person and I
am going to live up to my reputation.
I have just received something that
promises something. good and I want
to pass it along. I know you, are
after the frauds and I should think
they would ﬁnd out that the readers
of old M. B. F. are not suckers.
Enclosed you will ﬁnd some good
bait from Mr. Moriarity, of Chicago.
I enjoy reading the M. B. F. very
much. It is certainly clean in ad-
vertising and everything else. Very
Cordially yours, W. G. Winslow, Sel-
kirk, Michigan. .
HE circular enclosed by Mr. Win-

slow, offered him a wonderful
proposition if he would simply
return a printed card to the address
in Chicago. We are glad to know
that he, with other readers of our
page, is turning the tables and laugh-
ing at the city “robes" who-think
they can sell gold—bricks to readers
Tan Busmnss Fauna. Sooner or
later we'll have them black-listing
Michigan as a poor state in which
to sell patent medicines, gilt picture
frames, oil stocks and canvas auto‘
mobile tiresmthen what will we have
to smile over?

OFFER SHUT—IN $100 A WEEK

Dear Sirtw—Am certainly inter-
ested in your articles of the Pub-
lisher’s Desk and in fact the whole
of THE Business Fannie: which my
father takes. Have been on the sick
list for the past two years with op-
rations and other trouble, but am
gaining fairly well now. So I am
writing you if you would advise me
to write show cards for-the Sho-
Rite Sign System, which is located
in Detroit. I have circulars from
them and they want me to take their
course, which is $35 cash or $45
on easy payments, and they guaran-
tee steady work at home or get one
a job as show card writer,,and they
say I can earn from $15 to $50 a
week spare time, and also that a
person‘can in timelearn as much as
$100 a week. It sounds ﬁshy, so I
am asking you about it. They have
sent me a design to work out which
I did, which they sent free. You
will ﬁnd the letter enclosed what
they say about it.- If anyone in-

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quires about the Nile Art Company, '

Fort Wayne, Ind., don’t recommend
this company to them for they only
got $7.75 out of me for their paint-
ing outﬁt with which to paint pillow
tops and lamp shades. I painted
two pillow tops and three lamp
shades for which I was supposed to
get $6.25, but instead they returned
the pillow tops and shades. The
way they ﬁrst explained to me was
that I was to buy the paint from
them and they would furnish the
goods to paint, but.when they re—
turned the pillow top and shades
they wanted me to buy the designs
from them at 60c a piece, and all

-the proﬁt that ,I would get out of it

would be the :work. Well I guess
a person has to be a fool ﬁrst in
order to get wise. Put this in your
paper so others can read it. What
kind of work would you recommend
for me, as I am unable to do farm
work and am only 20 years old, but

, would like something with a future.

A subscriber and always will 'be.-—-
F the Publishers Desk can just
once in a while save a few dol-
lars for some unfortunate who

without its help might have been '

victimized, we shall be mighty well
pleased with our Work.

This sign-writing scheme was at
one time worked entirely from Can-
ada, now it has been taken up in

Detroit and other cities. There is

  

 

no question but what someone with
latent artistic ability might learn to
write signs, but the trouble with
those schools, like most of their
kind, is that they will take anyones
money,and promise them jobs at un—
heard-of wages just to get their
tuition fees. ’

Sometime we want to ﬁnd a cor-
respondence school which offers the
entire course and. agrees to take
their pay out of the ﬁrst weeks sal-
ary which they so glibly promise the
would-be student! If you ﬁnd one,
no matter whether they promise to
make you play a violin like Fritz
Kreisler or Write songs like Irving
Berlin, we advise you to take the
course, because you have nothing to
lose and much to gain.

Our advice to this ambitious
young unfortunate is that he take
up book-keeping or typewriting at
some nearby business college.

 

MAKING APRONS AT HOME

Dear Sim—I would like to have
you tell me if you consider the
“Rosemary Apron Company” whose
address is “Ashury Park, N. J." a
reliable firm. I am in need of work
which I can do at home, and am a.
good needlewoman of ordinary kinds
of sewing. This is their offer: They
agree to furnish materials, patterns,
thread, pay postage and all essen—
tials for bungalow aprons which I
am to make at home. For this ser-
vice they agree to pay $6.50 to $8
.per dozen when the aprons are sent
to them ﬁnished. But ﬁrst I am re-
quired to send them $1.50 for which
they will send me material for one
apron to make up, and send back
to them, so they will have a sample
of my work. Do you know anything
about them, and does it sound "On
the square” to you? If their offer
were genuine I would be able to do
a great deal to help myself the re-
mainder of the winter.

D0 not have very much faith in
I any of these “work at home

schemes" and I wrote of. this par-
ticular one in this column some time
ago, but had no comments on it. My
suggestion is that you write this
company and ask them to give yen
the name of a satisﬁed worker here
in Michigan. If they were really
anxious to secure your services, they
would not ask you to make a. remit—
tance in advance. I would not send
them any money.

WRITING “MOVIES"

Dear Sirz—I have been a sub-
scriber to your paper for two years
now and am coming to you for some
advice. We moved down here from
our farm at Chief, Michigan, last
spring, and just before coming here
-I wrote to the Palmer Photoplay
Corporation for their questionnaire
and test to see if I was qualiﬁed to
write scenarios. They sent me the
questionnaire which I ﬁlled out and
sent back to them, and I am enclos-
ing the letter and rating they sent
me, inviting me to enroll for their
course of training which would en-
able me to successfully write photo-
plays, and they were selling agents
for any plays I might write, good.
enough to sell to some producing
company. They want $160 for their
course of training and I could pay
it on the basis of $10 down; and $10
per month. What I wish to know,
is the Palmer Photoplay Corporation
a reliable concern and would I be
the "loser if I enrolled for their
course? I would like to take up
this kind of work and I know of no
other way to obtain the desired in-
formation concerning photoplay writ-
ing. 0011“ you please inform me

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Post, Texas,
January 17, 192/1.’

Mr. G. L. Kirven.

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he- that death the will of 'God
abideth forever." 1 John 2:17.

ORLDLY things pass away to
make room for the things that
abide. Our childhood- days

are no more. Father and mother
are gone, or are seen to go. We
have lost the friends of other times.
All our yesterdays are over. Many

of these things have been sweet and

fragrant, but they have decayed and
died. .

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lions of men, large fortunes, cities,
homes, and churches, have passed
away never to be again in a meter-
ial world.
events and judgements speak of a
transitory existence here! And it
seems the apostle means this lesson
for all ages: fathers, children, and
young men.
danger of being drawn away with a
perishing world.

This transiency has a twofold as-
pect. “The fashion of the world
passeth away.” 1 Cor. 7:21. Why?
Because, “The whole world lieth in
the evilione." 1 John 5:19. Every-
thing visible and material, of course,
passeth away. But also, things im-
material: tendencies, notions, and
aspirations which are divorced from
God. And here is a nice, ﬁne sense,
in which your possessions, when
connected with the purpose of God,
will retain their value for you over
there. Because you have used what
Jesus called the “mammon of un-
righteousness” (wealth) to promote
Christian fellowship and good-will
on earth, you are accepted into holy
habitations which are to abide.

In a. tragic sense, the Eternal God
has been proclaiming to all peoples
and nations thru recent years, that
the world is passing away. But this
was divinely ordained from the be-
ginning, and the only mournful
thing about it is, that men and wo-
men choose to perish with it.
“Demas has forsaken me, having
loved this present world,” says
Paul. Well, there is a man near
you that sacriﬁced home and loved
ones for a moment’s gratiﬁcation in
sensual pleasure, and you said,
“What a fool!" But the man, who,
not momentarily or grossly, but con—
tinually and in a more respectable
sense, sets his affections on this
world and its ﬂeeting gains and
pleasures, is the bigger fool. The
Bible says so, and I wish it might
burn into our hearts.

“And the lust thereof.” Here we
are reminded that evil desires and
propensities, even, are ﬂeeting and
ever changing. Human experience
proves this. To take it in a world-
ly sense, those things we once loved
are no more pleasing. We are con-
tent to let them lie in the past
while we go to greater indulgences.
The ﬁrst transgression or sensual in-
dulgence does not satisfy. ,It is ev-
er so with sharp business deals and
all the questionable practices of
life.

This is the/nature of “the lust of
the ﬂesh and-the lust of the eyes and
the vainglory of life." There is a
heart longing to strike up intimacies
.with the world. Our text condemns
not the material world, but the love
of it and the lust for it, since it
(the world) is to pass away. World-
liness is a lustful state of mind. It

does not have reference, primarily,

to what you do Or where you are,
You
may be in the most worldly places
and yet be spiritual. The place is
revolting to you and you ’long to
get away. You may be in a spirit~
ual‘atmosphere, listening to Gospel
music and message, and yet, in-
wardly, you do not react to your in-
vironment. You are hostile. As
the arr-owe of truth ﬁnd their mark,
you rebel angrily. '. This is worldly
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the sacriﬁce! And because of it.
the lust of the world is condemned.

It ought to be repeated. This
lust is a state of theheart. It is
setting your affections on things
that perish. It is the sensual and
temporal attitude of life. The iNew
Testament tells us of a rich young
man who left Jesus sorrowfully, be-
cause he wanted to keep his riches.
His affections were set upon- them.
Again it tells us of a big farmer who
had barns and possessions. The
Lord blessed him with big-harvests.
He tore down barns and built larg-
er to take care of the increase. Now,
as’ far as we know, this man was not
vicious, had a good home life; and
made his money honorably; A-But
just as soon as .he said; s-“Soul thou
hast~much goods laid'up \forwmany
years; take thine ease, eat,‘drink,
and be merry;” that soon thévoice
of 'the Eternal said, “Thou ffoolish
one, this night thy soul shall be re-
quired of. thee." What a big fool
and worldling, this farmer was, to
believe that he could feed soul and
mind on perishing things! His at-
titude was temporal and“ selfish.
And not a few today, spend'the in—
creese of the Lord in taking their
ease at winter resorts, the while
their neighbor at home or across-the

: seas is in dire need. And I‘ hear the

inspired writer saying, “Whoso bath
the world's goods, and beholdeth his
brother in need, and shutteth up his
compassion from him, how dothrthe
love of God adbide in him?” This
is 1 John 3:17. Now, compare it
with John 3:17. Verily, “the ser-
vant is not above his Lord." How
persistent and fatal is worldly lust!

You may have position and power
today, but not tomorrow. 'Yester-
day Nicholas Romanoff was Czar of
Russia, all powerful. Then came
dethronement, hatred, and death.
And the Kaiser! You may have
wealth today, but poverty tomorrow.
The money can ﬁll the belly, how
foolish to live as tho it could ﬁll the
heart! How we ought to pack every
day with noble aspirations and right
decisions!

“He that doeth the will of God
abideth forever." We have discov-
ered the folly of the worldly life be-
cause it is attached to perishable
foundations. But the -life that is
centered on DOING the will of God
is to abide forever. Thruout the
epistle the author plays upon the
DOER of sin and the DOER of right-
eousness. Here are two men. One
has used his time and though, whol-
ly, on the getting of worldly things. .
He has a splendid home and no ma.-
terial needs that he cannot supply.
Life goes on like a song as he lays
up for himself and his children.
You would like to be like him. But
listen! Quickly one day he sends for
a minister, who hurries to his side.
He ﬁnds him lying in a richly furn-
ished room, with costliest bedding
and pillows. Doctors, nurses, wife,
and children are bending over him.

He is going—and gone. He is
dead. And now, what is he? A
dead fool. What does it proﬁt to

gain the things of a perishing world,
while losing your own soul? That
is what the minister told him again
and again, but he would not listen.
But the other man? He lives in a
plain humble home. He works hard
thru long days. He foregoes sens-
ual pleasures; is busy practicmg the
gospel of othering; and is faithful to
the will of God. One day the past-
or-is hurriedly called. He finds this
man lying on a plain bed in a plain
room. He is attended by plain
folks. He thanks the pastor for_his
encouragement to live the non"-
worldly life, and his soul slips away»
from earthly ken. He is dead. But
is he? No, he went away in visions
of a. mansion not made with hands.
and he has just begun to live in that
newer; better, land that stretches
out before in ever satisfying vistas.

What are you going to do when
you die? But what are you doing
now? Are you squeezing this world
as you would a great sponge to get

Are you taking. the road that yield's
up‘ sensual delights?— Or, will you ‘ ‘
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many of you know there are'
._ two uses for spider webs—be-
__sides the purpose for which the
spider spins it? I am sure that
there are many of you who do not
so I am going to tell you what they
are used for. The manufacturers
of surveyor’s telescopes use it to
mark the exact center of the object
lens in the telescopes. Spider web
.is the only suitable material yet
discovered for this purpose. I re—
cently read an article that stated
that in one large English factory
where surveying instruments are
made, spiders are among the“ most
indispensible workers. They produce
during a two-months’ spinning sea—
son thousands of yards of web which
is wound upon metal frames and

put away until needed. When these‘

spiders are not spinning they are
kept in a large wooden cage under
the care of several girls. They are
fed and given very good care, but,
they die in the winter, making it
necessary to secure more spiders
each year.

Recently a new use for spider web
was discovered. It has long been
known that the web of the spider
was many times finer than the ﬁnest
ﬁlament spun by the silk worm, but
the difﬁculty of obtaining silk from
it was very great. Some years ago
a Frenchman attempted the making
of silk and was successful to a cer-
tain extent. He collected 10,000
spiders, kept them in separate cells,
and produced wonderful silk. How-
ever, it is said that the spiders got
together one night and the next
morning there were only a few left,
and the man was discouraged and
quit. As you know it is the nature
of one spider to try and destroy an-
other and it was not until recently
that a certain species from Brazil
was discovered that is not so fer-
ocious. And now this Brazilian
spider is helping to make some of
the finest silk in the world. How
many of you knew that?——UNCLE
NED. '

BUDDHA AND THE WHALE
HE Buddha of Kamakura, in Ja-
pan is very big, so big that a.
man may sit on his thumb. In
the Sea there is a Whale who is also
big.

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Buddha, and the Whale ordered the
Crab to measure the idol. The
messenger found the idol was sev-
enty thousand paces of a Crab. Then
the Whale went to visit Buddha and
Buddha bade the priest measure
both him and the whale with a ros-
ary. The whale was found to be
two measures greater than Buddha.

“Then,” said Buddha, “hereafter
in Japan there shall be two meas-
ures, one for hard things like my
image, one for soft things like the
Whale. And the soft things shall
be two measures larger, yet equal."

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OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle Nedz—My father takes _the
M. B. F. and we ﬁnd it very interesting.
I am nine years old and am‘in the fourth
grade. Last Sunday we had a swell time
sliding down hill. We took the Sides
out of large card—board boxes. Then
we would sit on these at the top of the
hill and then let ourselves go. We were
lucky if we got to the bottom of the
hill without running into snow banks a
couple of times on the way down. Have
any of you ever tried it? Have you,
Uncle Ned? It's loads of fun. Maybe
you would be interested in an experience
I had once. When I was coming from
school I had to pass a hotel where a.
man was staying with a police dog. The
dog saw me and came bounding up. Be-
fore I knew it he had knocked me down
on the sidewalk, and was on my beck
with his claws dug into my clothing.
But I can’t tell why he picked me out
of the many people who pass every day.
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When are potatoes like gate-posts? Ans.twin? We have twelvecows, and eleven

When they are put in the ground to
(propogate). What chasm‘is there that
separate friends? Ans. Sarcasm. Why
is an average sermon like asparagus?
Ans. Because the end of it is the best
part. What three letters are expressive
of excessive joy? Ans. X, T, C. Now,
won’t you boys and girls please write
to me and I will answer all your letters:
and send some pictures of yourselves
when you write if you can. Your friend.
——Ruth Weifenbach, Box M, Beulah, Mich.

Dear Uncle Nedz—Ever since’ Daddy
has subscribed for the M. B. F. I have
been an interested reader of the Children’s
Hour. During all this time I have not
noticed any letters from Caledonia, so
decided to let you know we were on the
map also. I don't know whether or not
it is the rule for each writer to send

' a description of themselves, but I notice
the rest all do, it, so I will follow. I
am eleven years old, and weigh eighty
pounds. I have brown bobbed hair and
brown eyes. I am in the sixth guide
and like to attend school. I missed about
a year and a half because of a double
mastoid operation and complications. I
am going to try to answer Gladys Carl—
son's riddles which were in the January
19111 issue. The dime looks round. There
is one P in pint. And the answer to her
third riddle is an icicle. I think the
answer to Imogene Hibberd's second, rid-
dle in January 19th issue is a water-
melon, but I can’t guess the ﬁrst one.
We have a Girl Scout organization here
and we certainly enjoy the work. It is
instructive as well as pleasant. I am

first patrol leader now, and I was presi- .

dent last year. With best wishes to you
Uncle Ned, and to all the cousins, I am,
most cordially yours—Muriel Frey, Cal-
edonia, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned :—-As I haven’t written
for a long time, I thought I would try

again and see if my letter would escape ‘

the waste basket. My father takes the
M. B. F. and we all like it real well. I
can hardly wait until it comes, and my
father is always anxious to read what
Uncle Rube Spinach has to say. I sup-
pose you have forgotten what I said I
looked like, so I will tell you again. I
am about four feet eleven inches tall,
weigh ninety—eight pounds, and have light
hair, dark blue eyes, and fair complexion.
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calves, and four pig's. For pets we have
two cats and a rabbit. The rabbit will
eat out of our hands (all but when he's
mad). Well Uncle Ned. how do you like
the weather? It's pretty cold here.
How many of the cousins like to slide
down hill? I certainly like to. We have
a good hill to slide on here, and we
have quite a few sliding parties. I live
about one-half "mile from school. How
many like school? I like it when I like
my teacher, and I like her this year.
Her name is Beulah Preston. I am in the
seventh grade at school. I like all of
my studies but history. Did you like that
Uncle? Helen Cary you are about like
me. I like music, but can only play by
ear, and not that very good. How many
of the cousins like to sing? I do, but I
mn’t very well. I sing alto. Now be-
cause I sing alto don't think that I can
sing good. because if you heard me you
would think it- was a rooster crowing.
The answer to one of Imogene Hibberd’s
riddles is‘ a (watermelon), but I don’t
know the carer one. Now couldn't, you
write to me for answering that one? I
will close with a riddle. As I was walk-
ing over London bridge I met a London
crawler. he took off his hat and drew

. 'oif his gloves, what was the name at the
Laredo

11 sdmlar? I Wish some of the
boys and girls would write to me. Your
want—to—be—niece,—Beatrice Campbell

Dear Uncle Ned:——I thought I would
write you a letter tonight. I wrote once
before but I guess the waste basket got

it. I hope he doesn’t get this one. 'Well '

I will describe myself. I am about ﬁve
feet three and one—half inches tall, and
am thirteen years of age. I was thirteen
on the 11th day of February. Have I a
twin? I have dark brown bobbed hair
and blue eyes. I am in the seventh
grade at school, and like going to school

very much. I think the answers to
Gladys Carlson’s riddles are: (1) Looks
round. (2) One. (3) Icicle. Am I right

Gladys? If I am I am waiting for your
letter. I will close or Mr. W. B. will
sure get this. Your niece—Mabel War-
ren, R. 3, Box 81, Sault. Ste. Marie, Mich.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I wrote to you be-
fore but my letter did not escape the
waste basket, but I hope it does this
time. I read the Children's Hour every
time the paper comes, and I think it is
the most interesting part of the paper.
I stay with my grandmother and grand-

When Spring Comes Dancing Down the Hill

T was Springtime, the sweetest
time in all the year. The time
when growing things stirred un—

der the ground, as if to say, ”Let
me out! Let me out! I love the
Spring, too.”

The baby buds were coaxing to be
freed, and the bluebirds built their
tiny nests and sang little wistful
notes. The wind was scented with
blowing wildﬂowers.~

One of the wildﬂowers, which
gloried in the happy Springtime,
was Li'l’ Miss Arbutus, who,
her‘bronze leaves and white and
pinkish blossoms all a-glow, called
to every bird and. ﬂower-friend she
saw, “Aren’t you happy that Spring
is here?”

A month after Li’l’ Miss Arbutus
had carroled, “Aren’t you happy
that Spring is here?” a little gipsy
camp moved its wagons and tents
-a mile away from the grassy spot
where Li’l’ Miss Arbutus played.
They were a happy little family who
loved the ﬂowers, and the birds,
and the trees, and all the wild
things under the great sea of skies.

The youngest member of the little
gypsy family was a brown-eyed girl
whom all the gypsies called little
“Princess Gyp."

One day Li’l' Miss Arbutus heard
voices, and, lifting one eye above
her bronze leaf, she spied a small
boy and girl.
to her. Fair little strangers;
with bright yellow curls.

“H’m-m! They’re not playmates
of little Princess Gyp. Wonder
where they came from. an i”
crooned Li‘l’ Miss Arbutus. ”I
s’pect they———." But suddenly she
stopped speaking. Why, what was

one

that curly-haired little girl saying?»

“Come on, Bobby! Let’s pull up
a whole armful of these woodsy
ﬂowers." And she waved one chub-

by white erm toward poo'r frighten- ~

ed Li'l’ Miss Arbutus. the nodding
white and yellow dog-tooth violets,
dainty Miss Blue Flag, Jack-in-the—
Pulpit, and all the .restof the little
tl‘ower"~'eolen'y. ‘ ~ ~ 7 .» '
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was. ﬂat ‘ newer—bout slum

    

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stopped beating. Surely, surely that
curly-haired girl wouldn’t do that!
But yes! She and the boy called
Bobbsy were bending low, grabbing
Miss Hepatica and pulling poor
Jack-in—the-Pulpit up by the roots.

“Oh, dear me! I’ll come next!
Oh, dear, all my poor ﬂower-friends,
and—3’ But by this time Li’l’ Miss
Arbutus was crying so hard she
could not speak. -

And suddenly she hearda voice,

“Oh, you horrid children! Go
’way! Go ”way!" And Li'l’ Miss
Arbutus’ wee, ﬂuttery ﬂower-heart

gave a merry ﬂip-ﬂop.
Princess Gyp scolding,

“Tearing up those
ﬂowers!” ,.

The little boy called Bobbsy and
the owner of the yenow curls turned
and ran. They were afraid of.that
ﬁrey-eyed little Princess Gyp who
stood glaring at the little culprits.

“Oh, to think that next they
would have ruined you, Li’l’ Miss
Arbutus—the sweetest ﬂower that
grows.” And little Princess Gyp
stooped over Li’l’ Miss Arbutus as if
to gather her in her protecting
arms. -

Now, my dears, at the time of this
little story, Ll'l' Miss Arbutus was
not called the Trailing Arbutus. She
was only ”'1’ Miss Arbutus. Just
plain Ll’l’ Miss Arbutus.

But when she looked up to thank
the little Princess Gyp, and found
that she had gone as quickly as she
had come, she started as fast as she
could go, to ﬁnd dear little Princess
Gyp. ’
. She crawled this way and that,
searching, searching, searching. But
she never found the brown-eyed lit-
tle gypsy who so understood the
heart of little ﬂower-persons. '

But every year when growing
things are stirring under the
ground, and baby buds are coaxing
to be freed, bluebirds build their
nests and sing little wistful notes,

It was little
brave little

and, the wind ls._scentedtwithhloyv-
‘ lug wildﬂowers, and spring domes

dancing down" the ”Miles. mum
Arbutus is always spoken at as m

on? undue them quiteoften. I, ,

155‘ w”
liyo. a mile somehow and I “

deem-me myself. I am tourism years
old, the seventh of April. ‘Bave I .c.
twin? I am five feet tall. Have it“:
eyesauddsrkhuinbobbedofm
AndweighSOpounds. Igototheoeun-
try school and cm in the ‘8th grade.
Well I think I had better stop for this
time. Some of the girls and boys please
write to me. Your loving niece—Lesa
Wilcox, R. 5, Brown City, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Nam—May I Join you
merry crowd too? I have joined one and
think it is more fun than anything else.
Well, I will tell you of my favorite
sports. I like horseback riding, do you,
too? I bet. if you don’t know anythhig
about it and get on a horse once you'd
think there was nothing like it. Well
now I will ' describe myself. I am 12
years old. and in the 7th and 8th grade.
I am 5 feet and 1 inch tall, have blue
eyes and light hair. We have been tak-
ing the Michigan Business Partner for a
year and I like the Children’s Hour very
much. Well. I think my letter-is getting
rather long so I’ll ring oar—Miss Dorothy
Radian, Owendala. Michigan, 130: 64.

Dear Uncle Ned:—-I would like to Join
your merry crowd. It seems rather
strange that of all the names mat have
been signed to the letters that have been
written in this section of the paper dur-
ing the last year. there hasn’t been any
from the big city (‘1) of Burma, or omen
from any near-by towns. Possibly be-
cause some of them are too bashful to
write, and maybe it is because they just
simply can’t find the time to write. I
have noticed that personal desmdption has
beenapcrtef most of theletterl. emac-
om-dingtoousmIQIwilltrytogiveyou
a faint idea of myself. I have dark
brown hair and darlr brown eyes. I am
18 years of age and a senior in high
school. I think I have written enough,
so I will ring of! for this time. promising
to write all those who write to me, pro-
viding that they write soon. From your
nephew,--Lynford Pulling, Par-ma, Mich.

 

 

 

Dear Uncle Ned :—~Helre is a new
cousin. I have never written before so
I hope my letter doesn’t reach Mr. Waste
Basket. Well I better describe myself.
I am a little girl of ten years, have light
brown hair (which of course is bobbed),
light brown eyes. and pretty pink cheeks.
We have on our farm ﬁve horses, two
cows, two calves, eighteen chickens, ﬁve
ducks, three cats and two dogs. I have
two brothers, and one sister. The sister
is fourteen years of age. My oldest
brother is twenty—one years of age. my
youngest is sixteen. Who ever guesses

— my ﬁrst name will receive a. letter. Good-
night.~—B. Din-fee, Alger, Michigan, R1.

Dear Unclez—As I have a little time
I will write you a few lines. We inks
the M. B. F and we all like it ﬁne. I
wrote once before and saw my letter in
print so thought I would write again.
I hope old Mr. Waste Basket doesn’t get
this letter. I am a. farmer’s girl and
like the farm very well. I cam 13 years
old and in the 7th grade at school. I
have about a half mile to go to school.
My birthday is March 31. Have I a.
twin? We built a new house this summer
and it is sure nice. We have an 80
acre farm We have 8 calves, 5 cows,
2 mules, one horse and 4 pigs. We have
one cat and one dog. I am glad when
winter comes and there is snow on the
ground. We have a lot of fun at school
on the hills, and there is two or three
hills. Well as my letter is getting a
little long I will have to close. Will
some of the boys and girls write tome?
«Miss Ernestine Frlck, R4. Box 46, Cole-
man, Michigan.

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wires out through? Could the light-
ning arrester ground ' and the
ground from binding post “G” be
the. same? Please send complete
equipment including lead-in wire.
ground wire, wire for wiring set,
spaghetti, porcelean tube, etc., if I
will need them. If I haven’t sent
enough money and you’ll let me
know how much, I am short I will
send it right away. Thanking you,
I an, E. J. Delamarter, Cheboygan
County, Mich.

—-Yesterda_y I shipped you by insur-
ed parcel post a package containing
all the parts for your radio set, with
the exception of an A battery which
you can buy in Cheboygan for 50¢
(better use 2 in multiple) and so
saved a few cents postage.

I am glad to be able to say that in
this assortment of parts I have se-
cured tor you‘more parts than given
in. the article in THE BUSINESS
FARMER which will help out and
make your set more emcient and
add to appearance as well.

Additional parts included as ex-
tra, ground-clamp, knobs for run-
ning ground wire, wire for wiring
up set, (you do not need spaghetti).
ground wire and a hard rubber

panel for the front of your set, and '

grounding switch.

I am. retunring you herewith my
personal check for $1. 00 which is
the balance due you, and from out
of which you will need to buy your
A battery.

You can use the same wire for
ground of your set as you do for
the ground of the lightning arrester.

I would suggest that you make a.
plan of your set on paper and mark
each hole . carefully, then prick

thru to your panel and then drill ‘

the panel. In working the panel
start all holes thru the side that is
to be the front and then the chipped
part will be in the rear.

I am enclosing a photo of a Set
built from parts like yours which
will give you an idea.

WANTS BEST RADIO EQUIPMENT
0N MARKET

PleaSe advise me where I can
buy the best radio equipment on the
market. I am going to buy a radio
receiving set and I want the best to
be got and one that will give good

service and a plain and loud speak-

er.——Clarence Chadwick, Tuscola1
County, Michigan.

—You ask us as to where you can
buy the best radio equipment on the
market. This, of course, will de—
pend upon whether you are near a.
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standard and reliable makes of re-
ceiving sets.

Both Montgomery Ward and
Sears Roebuck handle sets under
their own name and guarantee them
to give satisfaction or your money
back.

The names of makers, who make
sets that you can depend upon, are

Westinghouse, Radio Corporation,
Clapp—Eastham, C. D. Tuska, Col-
lins-Kennedy, Grebe, Crosley, At-

water-Kent, and Adams-Morgan.

Telephone receivers are Brandies,
Federal, Baldwin, Stromberg-Carl-
son and several others. In buying
receivers to go with your set ask for
a standard make and do not buy
the cheapest as they are seldom as
good as those mentioned above.

As you intend to buy the best, I
would make a trip to Detroit if pos-
sible and go to different stores and
have them show you 'the different
makes and see them work and then
let your pocket book be the limit-
ing factor on what you buy.

Beware of sets for which remark-
able periormances are promised,
buy any of the sets made by the
above mentioned makers and you
will not be disappointed.

Let us hear from you when you
get your set and the results you
have from it. We are interested in
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THE mm 18 RIPE FOR TAX RE-
FORM IN MICHIGAN

( Continued from Page 3)

purposes. If this»? might be done,
general property taxation would au—
tomatically become entirely a local
proposition. Thus the beneﬁts of
such a tax reform would be both
direct and indirect in that the tax
payer would no longer have to pay a
general property tax for state pur—
poses and local governmental econ—
omy would be promoted.

Perhaps, after all, the most log—
ical way to reduce the oppressive
tax burden in Michigan today is by
placing more of our wealth on the
tax rolls. This might be done not
only through an income tax, but
also through the adoption of a
“compulsory listing” law, such as
has already been adopted in several
other states and has proved effective
in uncovering hitherto hidden
wealth. The abolition of tax—exempt
securieties is also recommended as
another step in the right direction.

These and other solutions of our
present Michigan taxation dilemma
will be discussed in future articles
in this series to_appear from time to
time in THE BUSINESS FARMER. Per—
haps we may have a word to say
about one of the most interesting
aspects of the whole subject—the
two cent gasoline tax.

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the cleanest, most convenient, most
beautiful oil range ever seen. At state
fairs thousands saw it pass tests out of
the question for ordinary oil stoves.
Any Vapo will,duplicate these tests.

Burns gas made from kerosene

Each Vapo burner is a miniature gas
plant. It generates hydro-carbon gas
from kerosene and burns it with a hot,
clean, blue ﬂame ideal for cooking. Good
baking and roasting are easy with the
Vapo because the ﬂame can be regulated
from a low simmering heat to a heat in-
tense enough for quickest cooking needs.
Vapo has lever valves like a gas stove
and these are provided with automatic
safety locks preventing accidental shift-
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If kettle boils over, the liquid can’t get
into the burner and choke the ﬂame.
The Vapo burner is guaranteed for the
life of the stove. Vapo heat does not
smart the eyes nor soot up utensils.

Bake slow and fast at same
time in 8010 oven

Adjustable Bolo plate makes oven big
or little as you wish. It concentrates the
heat and gives you two ovens in one.
Odors from one oven do not permeate
the other oven. Perfect ventilation in-
sures light baking and pastry. Vapo is
the onIy oil range with the built-in
Bolo oven. You can have right or left
hand oven. Ask dealer to show you Vapo.
Write for booklet.

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. . HE called
. ,"',Sl.ﬂ”
And though I never saw 'em kiss

{ET-"hug, I kinda felt he thought
.‘Bigjht well o’her the way he bought
Her sweets and tuk her to the shows— ‘

But she’d a dozen country beaux
And he was backward like and years
Too. .old fer her and so my fears

- Jes drapped away and I opined

 

The thing was just as he outlined,—
The only child he was, bedad,

My little gal was all I had,

And so they kinder ﬁxed it out

In fun, the while they worked about,
That he would be her brother Kris-
And she would be his little “Sis.”

80 years rolled by, but yesterday

I caught ’em in a serious way.

Bays she, “I don’t know who to love.

Which one of them to give the glove.

Taz Cook is ﬁne and Jim’s got land—

To which one, Kris; shall I give my
hand?"

But Kris he’d sorto lost his voice

Er didn’t want to say his choice

Too quick, fer there he set a while

A—lookln’ down the road a mile

and then he kinder turned his

“Why,——neither one—fer I’m the boy

That wants to ﬁll your life with joy,"

"Dear Jane,” he sez, and she, “Dear
Kris,”

And then I saw ’em hug and kiss.

FOR SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS!
The Ten-Point Success Creed

Work and Earn.

Make a Budget.

Record Expenditures.
Have a Bank Account.
Carry Life Insurance.
Own Your Home.

Make a Will. .
Invest in Safe Securities.
Pay Bills Promptly.
Share with Others.

OCDOO-JGOIW-WNH

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A MOTHER T0 HER SON
HE message below came to me
and I think it one of the ﬁnest
and sweetest stories I have read
in some time. I am giving it to
you to use as you see ﬁt. I wish
that every Mother reader will ﬁnd
time to read it to her boy: .

We have been asking a few men
and women who have made good in
life to tell us the biggest inﬂuence
that contributed to the shaping of
their characters. .

We believe that in such bits of
obscure history there lies the con-
soling proof that every honest ef-
fort bears fruit in life, every sincere
thought becomes an inﬂuence. Pray—
er is answered.

There is a young man in New
York who is making good. He has
a keen mind and a strong character.
He is becoming an inﬂuence for good
in his community.

Recently his mother was cleaning
out his pockets to help him change
his clothes quickly.

“That letter will interest you,
Mother,” he said, referring to a let-
ter about his work. But it was an-
other paper she opened——-a yellow,
rumpled sheet a note she had writ—
ten him when he was eight years
old, the ﬁrst time he had been separ—
ated from her. It breathed the
same thoughts and prayers that lie
in the hearts of all mothers. She
had forgotten she had written it.‘

The young man yvas embarrassed
for a moment when he saw what she
held. Then he said: “That is the
most priceless possession I have. I
am going to carry it in my pocket as
long as I live. I have been tempted
to do some rotten things in my life,
and just the consciousness that I
had that message in my pocket, and
that it came out of your heart, "has

 

steered me straight most of the
time.”
Here is that Mother’s message

which a boy carried in his pocket
until he became a man:

Get up when called in the morn-
ing. ’

Wash before dressing.

Wash your teeth. A clean mouth
belongs to a clean heart.

Be obedient. Remember the world
Would be crushed into pieces if it
did not obey the law of God. And
you must suffer if you do not obey.

Be truthful. Only cowards lie.
You are not a coward.

,Be kind. It is the greatest gift.
in the world.

.Don't forget that you have promis-
ed to do some kind not every day.

Wash your face and hands before
going to the table.

' Remember that your father is a

,‘Vgentleman. iln his absence it is up.
to you to proveit. Agentleman is

nun "Bud," he called her;

    

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EAR FOLKS z—March!

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that need freshening up a bit.
onal touch in every home.

to have a. fim-day or evening.

in these last few weeks.

lots of vegetables.
spinach that you canned
last year. Feed the family
less meat and rich foods ..
and I feel that a. great deal
of this evil can be eliminat-
ed.

.43.: Allevarhnent for'the‘ Women
’ Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR

A month that means ‘a great deal of,
thinking and planning for the coming spring. ‘ .

- The house has been getting shabby and on our nerves. Why

not plan with the spring cleaning to change the looks of those rooms

Now is the time to make a few of the articles that put the pers-

St. Patrick’s Day is comingland it gives us a. splendid opportunity
am
and have to eat on this day and will be glad to send. a copy to any
of our readers who are thinking of a St. Patrick’s Party.
I want to thank you all for the many splendid letters you sent
I remember last year receiving so many
letters asking-about exzema. 'Do not let this happen this year. Eat
Some of those wonderful carrots, peas

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raw

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

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quiet. ‘

Be interested in everything. Have
a good time.

Remember that I love you with
all my heart.

' Say your prayers. Ask God to
keep your heart clean and brave and
true and your body well for

YOUR MOTHER.

 

MY IDEAS FOR WINTER
EVENINGS

KNOW of no better way of pass—
1 ing these long winter evenings
than in good reading, and as there
is so much such material nowadays
practically in reach of everyone’s
pocket-book, that it is not doing
justice to ourselves or family to be
deprived of it. For it is new con—
ceded by everyone that good read-
ing is not a luxury, but a necessity,
both from an educational and enter-
taining point of view, and we cannot
have too much of it in our homes
especially where there are children.

We often hear people 'say. “My
children do not like to read" which
no doubt is true if they have never
gotten in that habit or formed a
taste for it, which I think is usually
the fault of the,parents who them-
selves do not care for reading, or
else have never taken the trouble
to read to them or tried in any way
to get them interested along that
line.

If parents will take the time each
day or evening to read a story that
will arouse the child’s interest and
occasionally letting him read a part
of it himself he will soon be looking
about for something more to read

and then is the time for the parents-

to‘sacriﬁce in other ways, if need be,
to provide that child with good
reading and plenty of it. There are
many good books and magazines
now for both boys and girls which
they should have.

I have heard people say they
could not afford to take magazines
for their children when at the same
time more money was being spent
for fancy work material and tobacco
in that home than the very best mag-
azines would cost.

Now I do not like to think these
people are selﬁsh but rather do not
realize the value of good reading to
the growing generation.

I have been in homes where my
heart really ached for the children
there, as they had nothing to do all
the long evenings and if they be-
came a little ,too noisy were sent at
once to bed or compelled to sit
“quietly” in the corner, which we
all know is torture to a healthy, act-
ive child. For we know most child-
ren want something doing every
minute and if'no entertainment is
furnished in' the home like reading
or games they will be going outside
to get’it and then your worries be-
gin.

I think it’s nice for some member
of the family to read aloud evenings
some good story and funny ones the
children always enjoy. And there
is nothing makes them quite so
happy as having their parents enter
into their games and it makes the
parents feel that much younger as
well. There are many educational
games that all ages can take part in
and enjoy. - , ,

   
   
 

Now parents, your children are
going from the home in a few short
years to take up their various call-
ings and What sort of memory will
they carry with them of the winter
evenings spent in the old home. Will
they be happy memories? We trust
through your efforts they will be.———
Mrs. Manley Brown, Hillsdale Co.

COLLEGE VISITORS SEE FARM
HOT WATER SYSTEM

OT water in the country home

bath room at an installation

cost of. approximately $75 is
made available through a unique
system devised by the agricultural
engineering department of the Mich-
igan Agricultural College and which
was put on display for the ﬁrst time
in the new college library building
for inspection by Farmers’ Week
visitors.

The outﬁt consists of a. pressure
pump, pressure tank, a kerosene
bath water heater, lavatory, bath
tub and all piping and appliances
necessary within a modern bath—
room, with the exception of a show-
er spray nozzle.

To display the outﬁt a model
bathroom has been set" up in the
reading room of the library building
by college students with an attend-
ant on duty to demonstrate every—
thing but actual taking of the bath
and to answer all questions and ex-
plain the proper methods of “setting
up” the system.

A great many_of us did not see
this system and I feel sure that the
college will be glad to help you if
you will write them in care of the
Engineering Department.

 

 

Personal Column

 

 

Can Any Reader Supply or Suggest a
Way for this Talking Maohine.—-I am a
reader of the Business Farmer, and I
have an Edison Talking Machine of the
old make, in good condition, all but the
four minute reproducer. I was wonder-
ing if you would put an article in the
M. B. F. and see if any of the readers
had an old reproducer for this make of
machine that they would care to sell.
Model C, No. 429017 Edison Standard,
as the company has stopped making them,
and we tried to repair it and couldn’t.—
Mrs. Sarah Wright, R1, Middleton, Mich.

From One in Noemi—AS there are so
many helped by using the department
for woimen, I thought I would use it
again. I have quite a few handkerchiefs
with crocheted lace on, and embroidered
guest towels, bath towels, with crocheted
lace on, and I can make most any kind
of fancy work, and I was wondering if I'
put an ad in your paper if I couldn’t get
some help, as I live on a farm and can
use lots of clothing or things others can’t
use. Have three children, 4, 6 and 9
years old. I have now some handker-
chiefs with crocheted lace on, some fancy
doilies, embroidered guest towels, and
bath towels, with crocheted lace on. Will
exchange for quilt pieces or anything I
can use. Would like to get pattern for
refooting stockings for children and my-
self. Will be yery thankful if you will
do this, as it will help me out a lot—A
Subscriber, Turner, Michigan.-

 

Directions for Knitting Socks.—_—I have
been a silent reader of M. B. F. for a
number of years and enjoy it all. especial-
ly the Farm Home Department. In the
last paper, I noticed some reader asked
for directions for knitting Bonita. and "as

I have directions for makingtnem as

- in all.)

  

‘A. an . .x ,..' >1- .‘ “a,
, cast on 38 stitches? knit '8 plain, put! 3

to:- 4 inches,‘k‘:_nit main 7' inches (11 inch“

   

Heel—knit plain 28 stitches -',on."toono
needle, turn, purl back these 28 stitches,
turn, knit plain, repeating these “70 rows
(always slipping the ﬁrst stitch) for 28
rows. making heel about 3 inches“ 'Wlth
the inside of the heel toward you, purl.
16 stitches. purl 2 together, purl 1.. Turn,
knit 6 stitches, slip 1, knit 1, pull slipped
stitch over, knit-1,-turn, purl 7 stitches,
purl 2 together, purl 1. Turn, knit 8
stitches, slip 1, knit I, pull slipped stitch
over, knit one, turn,. purl 9 stitches, purl
2 together, purl 1. Turn, knit 10 stitches,
slip 1, knit 1, pull slipped stitch over.
knit 1, turn, purl 11 stitches, purl 2 to-
gether, purl 1. Turn, knit 12 stitches.
slip 1, knit 1, pull slippedstitch over,
knit 1, turn, purl 13 stitches, purl 2 to-
gether, purl 1. Turn, knit 14 stitches,
slip 1, knit 1,,pull slippe'd stitch over,
knit ‘1, turn. purl 15 stitches, purl .2 to-
gether. Turn, knit 15 stitches, slip 1,
knit I, pull slipped stitch over. Now
pick up and knit the 14 stitches down
the side of the heel piece. Knit the 28
stitches of the front needle. Pick up
and knit 14 stitches at the other side of
the heel piece. Divide the heel stitches
on the 2 side needles, and knit right
around again to the center heel. First
needle, knit to within 3 stitches of the
front end of the side needle, knit 2 to-
gether, knit 1. Knit front needle plain.
Third needle. knit 1, slip ‘1, knit I, pull
slipped stitch over, knit plain to end of
needle. This reducing to be done every
other row until there are 56 stitches on
the needles (front needle 28, side needles
14 each). Knit plain until the foot from
the back of the heel measures 8% inches,
or 9 inches, if a longer sock is desired.
To narrow for toe—Begin at the front
needle; knit 1, slip I, knit I, pull slipped
stitch over, knit plain to within 3 stitches
of the end of the needle, knit 2 together.
knit 1. Second needle—Knit 1, slip 1,
knit 1, pull slipped stitch over, knit plain
to end of needle. Third needle—Knit
plain to within 3 stitches of the end,
knit 2 together, knit 1. Knit two plain
rounds, then narrow as before every other
round until you have 20 stitches on three

needles, 10 on front needle and 6 on
each side needle. Then knit two plain
rounds Slip stitches on side needles

all onto one needle, giving you 10 stitches
on each of the two remaining needles.

- Intake of toe—Having 10 stitches each

on front and back needles, break off wool
leaving 12 inches with which to ﬁnish
off sock and thread it into a darning
needle. Put darning needle into ﬁrst
stitch of the front knitting needle as if
to knit, pull wool through and take of!
stitch. Put darning needle in next stitch
of front needle as if to purl, pull wool
through but leave the stitch on. Go‘to
back needle, being particularly careful
that the wool is taken under the knitting
needle each time and not over. Put the
darning needle in ﬁrst stitch of the back
needle as if to purl, pull wool through
and take off stitch; put darning needle
in next stitch of the back needle as if
to knit, pull wool through but leave
stitch on. Return to front needle, put
wool in ﬁrst stitch (the one previously
purled) and repeat, In ﬁnishing of]! end
of yarn, run yarn once down side of too.

Will Send Poems.—I’m only 11 years
old but I read your paper and saw where
a girl wanted some songs. Among them

were “When You and I Were Young
Maggie” and "Just Break the News to
Mother." Will you please publish this in

the paper and tell her if she’d care to
have those two mentioned above, I‘ll
gladly send them. If she would just
write me a letter (I like letters very
much. My address is Miss Helen Smith.
Box 51, R. F. D. No. 1, East "Lansing,
Michigan.

 

 

—if you are well bred!

 

 

Where there is a guest of honor, like
a wedding, coming out, and so on, every
guest should make it a point to meet
the guest of honor. It is extremely rude
to have been invited to such an affair
and then leave without having been intro-
duced to the main attraction.

 

'7 Menu for March 1

 

 

Toadin the Hole
Creamed Potatoes
Jelly
Beet and Lettuce Salad, French Dressing
Baked Apple Whipped Cream
Coffee or Tea

Toad in the Hole—Two cups ﬂour,
one—half teaspoon salt, one pound link
sausage, or use fresh sausage meat and
make a. circle of it. Two eggs, two table-
spoons melted fat, and three cups milk.
Sift the ﬂour and salt into a-basi‘n; beat
up eggs well, and after mixing them
' ith the milk and melted fat pour grad-
ually on ﬂour, beating it well with I
wooden spoon. When quite smooth pour
it into a. well greasel "ﬁre-proof dish;
skin the sausages and lay}, them in the
batter and bake in a moderatefov‘e‘n‘gor
three-feurths of an hour. , serve in snail
squares arranged .n‘ea .1overlapp'inx'eaoh
other one. hodgdish. ' ,f ' '

 

 


 

 

  

 

 

STE your food whileﬁyoueat it and
you won’t have to taste it after-
wa. ,’l says Horace Fletcher. the

philosopher and dietician. Palatability,

‘has much to do with digestibility. The
food we like usually agrees with us.
Moderation is. the safest rule.. It is prob-
ably .true that many .shrewd farmers
know how to feed steers, hogs, sheep,
and‘horses, but do not know how to feed
hum-ans. --

 

Pumpkin Osaka—One cup light-brown
sugar, one-half cup granulated sugar, one-
half cup fat, yolks of two eggs, three-
fourths cup sifted pumpkin, one-half cup
sour milk, two tablespoons caramel, one-
fourth teaspoon soda, four teaspoons bak-
ing-powder one—fourth teaspoon salt, two
cups ﬂour, two-thirds cup chopped, ﬂouder
‘ walnuts. ‘

Cream the sugar and fat and add the
other ingredients in the order given. Bake
in loaf or layer tins. Frost with a boiled
or a marshmallow icing.

.Peanut Butter Fudge.~—Two ,cupfuls of
sugar, one-half cupful of milk, two heap-
ing teaspoonfuls of peanut butter. Mix
all ingredients and let boil hard for ﬁve
minutes. Test in cool water until it
forms a soft ball. Beat, pour in buttered
pan, and cut in squares—Margaret L.
Millin. Lake Shore Road, Mt. Clemens.

Egglees Rye Mufﬁns—«Two cups of rye
ﬂour, four teaspoons baking powder, one-
half teaspoon salt, four teaspoons sugar,
one cup of milk, one tablespoon melted
fat. Mix and sift ingredients, add milk
and fat. Mix quickly, do not beat. Bake
in greased muffin pans twenty minutes.
This makes twelve muffins—Alma B,
Augusta, Michigan,

Filled Cookies.——1 cup raisins, one-half
cup sugar, one teaspoon ﬂour. Chop the
raisins and mix into the other ingredients.
cook these together until thick, stirring
to prevent scorching. Place plain cooky

.roil hilt! out out in buttered pans. '
and spre“ one teaspoon of the raisin'
.tliling‘,m on top .of every cooky, cayer with

mother cooky and bake in slow oven.

--Miss Alma. Becker.

 

Grandma's Gingersnaps.—-One cup of
molasses, one teaspoonginger ﬂour, one—
half cup shortening to make a stiff batter,
one teaspoon soda. Boil. molasses ﬁve
minutes and add the shortening, soda and
ginger. Cool lightly and add ﬂour enough
that the dough may be rolled very thin,
out and bake in a hot oven. Don’t let
it burn.

 

 

WOMEN’S EXCHANGE

F you have something to exchange. we will
print It FREE under this heading providing:
Irst—lt appeals to women and Is a onlﬂ e
exchanges, no cash Involved. Second—It will
go In three lines. Third—You are a paid-u
subscriber to The Business Farmer and attac
our address label from a recent Issue to rove
t. Exchan e offers will be numbered an In-
serted in t e order received as we have room.
—MR8. ANNIE TAYLOR. Editor.

 

 

111 .—Assorted hulbs of dahlias and gladiolus
in exchange for wool and cotton pieces for patch—
work:—-Mrs. Arthur Palmer, Paris, Michigan.

 

 

The Runner’s Bible

(Copyright by Houghton Mifﬂin Co.)

 

 

By this shall all me know that ye are
my‘ diciples, if ye have love one to an-
other. John 13:35.

Knowledge puffeth up, but love bulld-
eth up. 1 Cor. 8:1.

Hatred stirreth 11p strifes;
covereth all sins. Prov. 10:12.
-—If a brother has in penitence cast aside
sin you will speed him into happiness
by veiling his past from the world, with
your own loving silence.

No one deserving the name of Christ-
ian ever resurrects another’s sinful past
to his shame.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger
and clamor, and evil speaking. be put
away from you, with all malice. E1111.
4:31:

but love

AIDS TO GOOD DRESSING

 

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FASHION BOOK NOTICE

Send
FASHIONS, showing coin or plate nd
thermlHE. a CON OISE and COMI’llEI—IENSIVE

NEEDLE (Illustrating 30 of
dressmak er.

4853.

ICLF
the various, simple stitches) all valuable h111tsoto the home

A Stylish Blouse. —Ilere is Fashion’ 3 latest ex ressian in blouses.

10c in silver or stamps for our IT- -TO- DATE SdPRING AND SUMM’FRe 1924 BOOK OF
con ainin
AR

500 us of s' and Children’s

dPSl
RESSMIAKINE, ALSeQ s OME POINTS

0\'

It may. be ﬁnished with

square necdk outline or with the little band collar at 111; 11 neck 11.ne The sleeve is sn11rt in wrist
longéch, and pgopulnr and very comfortable in the short length of the small view. This Pattern is cut
in Sizes: '38, 40. 42 and 44 inches bust measure. A medium size requires 2% yards
of 20 inch material.

4687.

well, as would also pongee and crepe. The P

8 year size requires 21/

A Good Dress for School —F1gured woolen and serge are here combined.
or taffeta and vehet are also a good combination for this model.
attern is cut. in 4 Sizes: 6, 8,

yards of one material 40 inches wide.

Velvet and crepe
Gingham and linen would combine
10 11nd 12 years. An
To make as illustrated requires %

yard of plain material sand 1%. yard of ﬁgured material.

4647. A Stylish Coat Dress. ——Here 1311. ver
out the ﬂounces. It is a 31§ood0 style for broa cloth, mohair, serge
cut in 6 Sizos: 34, 36 0. . an hes bust
yards of 40 inch materml, if made with ﬂounces.
qun' ed. The width at the foot is 1% yard.
4681.

washable satin could be used for this style.
tucks or tiny plaits.
attern is cut in 6 Sizes: 6, 8, 10, 12,
inch materia
485 5.8 A Popular Play Sult.~—Pongee,
convenient. This Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes:
of 27 inch material.

4660. A Practical
This handy
other toilet articles
on boat or train.

  
   
   
 
   
 
  
 
 
  
   
    

(-Iotl1.cretonne,
for this model.
It requires 11/2

4654.

be developed in linen
dergarten cloth as we

blouse of wash
4 Sizes: 2, 3.

4859. A

“barrio”
could be of
barrie coat of ﬂannel
includes both designs.

the barrie coat.‘

To
the "barrio”

 
 
 
 
 

Farmer,

   
 
 
  

 

    
 
 
 
 
  
  
  

linen, wool rep.
this model. The sleeve may be finished short, or in wrist

3. 4. 5 and

“Traveling Accessory."—
receptacle for comb
will be found very useful
It may
or folded up like a. pocket or bag.
ticking g, or denim could be used
The pattern is cut in One Size:
yard of 27 inch material

A Smart Suit for the Small
This is a. practical play or school suit.

pong-ea, seersucker or kin
as in ser e.
r, one may have the trousers o
mateiniaL
requires 2% yards of 36 mch material.

Set of Two Practical Garments for
Infants. ——A dainty yoke dress and a comfortahlo
or petticoat is here depicted.
lawn, batiste or ﬁne nainsook.
or cambric.
It is cut in (me S170-
and requires 2 yards for the Dress and 1%

Address all orders for patterns to.
Pattern Department
THE BUSINESS FARMER
Mt. Clemens, Mich.

attractive model, than may be ﬁnished with or with—

twill or kuslm The Pattern is
measure. A 38i-111h size requires 61/1
It made without ﬂounces 473 yards will be re-

A Comfortble Under- Garment for ('l‘hls'ﬂl‘lnd Juniors. —Nainsook, crepe, crepe de chine, or
e
Hemetitching ribbon binding or embroidery may be used
14 and 16 years. A 12

ness of the front may be dis osed of in gathers,
or decoration. The
your size requires 2 yards 36

jlersey and hgingham would be good for
ength. The closing is comfortable and

years. A14 year size requires 31/8 yards

brushes. and

be worn like an 11111011
Rubberized

Boy.—
It may
or ﬂannelw
cloth and tln

Ther Pattern is cut 11.
you A 3 year sin

The d
The Putts-1 11

f01

make the waist poitions 111
of cambric will require 1/4

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name— and address plainly.

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— for neighborhood parties

You can make your tea parties, lunch parties,
and supper parties always a sparkling suc-
cess if you top off your menu with Jell-O.
There is a smartly festive look about a Jell-O
dish, and it tastes just as nice. It is pre-
pared in a few minutes and set away several
hours before your company arrives. You Can
make all sorts of fancy salads and desserts

with Jell-O. Ask for a Jell-O Recipe Book.

RECIPES
Imperial Salad.

Drain juice from half a can
of pineapple, add one table-
spoonful of vinegar and
enough water to make I
pint. Heat to boiling point
and add one package of
Lemon Jell—O. Just as
1111er begins to set. add
three slices of canned pine-
apple, cubed, one—halfcan
Spanish pimcntos, shredded.
and one medium size cucum-
bet, salted and cut ﬁne.
Mould in individual mould.
or in one large mould and
slice. Serve with cream
salad dressing.

 

New Manhattan
Salad

Dissolve a package of ’
Lemon JcllaO in a pint of
boiling water and one tea-
spoonful vinegar. While it
is cooling, chop one cup
tart apples. one cup English
walnuts, one cup of celery.
Mix these ingredients, scao
son with salt, and pour over
them the Jell—O. Cool in
individual moulds. Scm
with mayonnaise 0; French
dressing.

 

"America’s most famous dessert"
THE GENESEE PURE FOOD COMPANYJA Roy, New York

 

 

 

Aspirin

Beware of Imitations!

  

Unless you see the “Bayer Cross”
on the package or on tablets you are
not getting the genuine Bayer AS-

Dirin proved safe by millions and
prescribed by physicians over
twenty-three years for
Colds Headache
Toothache Lumbago
Neuritis Rheumatism
Neuralgia Pain, Pain

Accept “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin"
only. Each unbroken package con-
tains proven directions. Handy
boxes of twelve tablets cost few
cents. Druggists also sell bottles
of 24 and 100. Aspirin is the trade
mark of Bayer Manufacture of M011—
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An 'Ad in The M; B. F.

 

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at

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offers its services 10 the Farmers of

Michigan as
commission

Dressed Calves and live poultry.
Write us forinformation how to rses
and ship calves to market.
capital and surplus. 34 years in bus-4

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management.

DETROIT B

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Address
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the rupture has never returned, although
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FARM LANDS

Oil-Ac!!! MICHIGAN FARM WITH S cows,
tools, crops; 81650 euh. Grows biz crops sugar
beets, corn, oats, potatoes, rye, beans. hay: lll'l-
wte milk route yields biz returussgood schools,
stores. churches; 48 acres loam min 9., ily-cow
pasture, woodlot. 55 fruit trees; (-oin ortable 5-
room cottage, biz barn, poultry house, aura c,
fraiiar . Age forces nick sale, $5000 sets a l.

as i an 1—3 cash. tails page 38 Big Illns
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AGENCY, 427KJ

 

 

 

 

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FOR SALE. 0. TRADE: 400 ACRES III
heart of Illinom Corn belt all under cultivation.
near school and town. New house, nace, electric
light, bath, tenant houses, Windmill. tractor, barns
Silly equinned. F. MASON. 6468 Gratiot Ave,

etrcit, Michigan.

 

FOR SALE, 40 ACRES. GOOI? .OEMENT
block house. large burn, all other buildings, land
all olearedand fenced, could not put the build-
ings on this lace for Elﬁi‘e asked, $4250. terms.
A dress, JA S 8. Bl JKNELL, Clare, Michigan.

 

FOE SALE. 88 ACRES ALI. OLElRED
and tiled. only. half mile to sugar beet station
Will‘ sell for Just about what buildings would
cost which are all in good repair price $12,000,
only $4000 down. Balance 32 years. time.
Address JAMES S. BICKNELL, Clare, Michigan.

 

FOR SALE. 40 ACRES 8 MILES WEST OF
Clare, on M. 20, good house small barn, 15
acres hardwood timber. rice £2,000, terms.
Adar-’85 JAMES S. BIC NELL, Clare, Michigan.

 

.FOR RENT 0R WILL SELL—200 ACRE
dairy or stock farm. thood buildings fertile soil.
. \. DERNBERGER, Oxford, Michigan, 40
miles north of DetrOit.

 

FOR SALE—80 ACRES, 35 CLEARED,
running water, repairable buildings, 50 fruit trees
well fenced, acres sweet clover. consolidated
school system. ' On rural route. $1 200.00 cash
terms if desired. EARL . BUTTON, 155
Washington St" Traverse City, Michigan.

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. SAW MILLS

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FOR SALE: SECOND HAND 8 TO 10 M.
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Community Meet quite often and he
and others gave talks on balanced
rations for dairy cows, making a
good ration by using the crops you
raised and adding the lacking ones,
thereby keeping expense down:
adaptability of soils, fertilizers, etc.
The pastor of the Mauton Method-
ist Episcopal church made an ad-
dress emphasizing the importance of
get together meetings in the creat-
ing and fostering of cooperation
among farmers.

The second summer started like
the ﬁrst with monthly meetings but
people seemed unusually busy even
for farmers, and farmers are the
busiest people there are. In the

months since the opening meeting a‘

number of the most useful helpers
had left the community. The teach-
er who helped start the meetings
was gone and another teacher whose
home was in the neighborhood had
moved to the district where she
taught and opened similar meetings
there. Several of the young men
had gone to the cities, in the general
exodus from the farms 3. number of
families had gone away. Some of
the evenings were too hot for com-
fort. The chairman tried to inter—
est the farmers in a milk testing as—
sociation and borrowed an outfit
with which he tested the samples
brought, but in August it was decid-
ed to discontinue the meetings for
the summer.

In the fall the Community Meet
was reorganized. A new chairman,
Mr. G. W. Brown, was elected as
well as a new sec’y—treas. It was
again voted to hold weekly meet-
ings.

Some of the new things we have
had this year are: a penny march to
take care of the expense of christ-
mas next winter, an auction sale of
articles no longer wanted by their
owner but of value to others which
resulted in putting a tidy little sum
into the treasury, and a resolution

a... page.) .
on the part Of the men "to make a a.

quilt. _ . ,
At one of the earliest meetings
it was decided that ,,the Community
Meet needed a good lamp and some
song books. These were paid for.
by collections. But when it was
decided to buy'an organ'collections
would have been too slow so a Com-
munity Ladles’.Aid was organized.
Meetings were held on alternate
Wednesdays with a pot luck dinner
for which ﬁve cents was charged.
Any man who took a sleigh load
of women'to the aid got a free (2)
dinner. There was some argument
among the men as to whether the
dinner was worth the trip but there
was usually one man at least who
though it was or was willing to sac—
riﬁce himself for the good. of the
cause.

Quilts were made and sold and
carpet rags sewed. If the .hostess
desired the ladies’ worked for her
as well as for the community. The
organ was bought also a huge cof-
fee pot. Now that the men are
planning a quilt pei'haps they'll
start an aid. Who can tell? They
have already promised a dinner of
their own cooking to the woman
who will take a load of men to their
quilting. ’

SERRADELLA
‘(Continued on Page 6)

a1 other Agricultural Experiment
Stations have also tried it out, but
so far it has found no place in Am‘
erica. Sweet clover, hairy vetch,
and soybeans may be successfully
used for building up the soil. Sweet
clover is quite sensitive to soil acid—
ity, but has the ability to produce
better than most other crops on
soils that are low in organic matter
and available fertility. Soybeans
are not so sensative to soil acidity
as sweet clover and are adapted to
sandy soils—C. R. Megree, Associ-
ate Pgrof. of Farm Craps, M. A. C.

DAIRY and LIVESTOCK

BREEDS OF BEEF CATTLE
N OUR January 5th issue we con—
1 eluded a series of articles on the
leading breeds of dairy cattleun
the United States and starting With
this issue we will publish a series of
articles on the leading breeds of
beef cattle.
The breeds of beef cattle in the
United States are the Shorthorn
(both horned and polled), Hereford

- (both horned and polled), Aberdeen

Angus, and Galloway. Each of these
breeds has been carefully selected
and bred for a long period of years,
with the result that individuals
transmit their breed characters very
readily; hence their value and im-
portance for use in improving or
grading up native or scrub cattle.

With frequent exceptions, espec-
ially the Shorthorn, the cows of the
beef breeds are not heavy milkers,
and in this point lies their success
as desirable and economical produc-
ers of beef. The heavy milking
tendency, as with the dairy breeds.
is associated with a conformation of
body which prevents the animal
from yielding the greatest quantity
and the best quality of beef.

1.-—-Shorthorn

Of the breeds of beef cattle in the
United States, the Shorthorn is the
most extensively grown. . The first
importations where made in 1783 by
Miller and Gough, of Virginia and
Maryland. respectively. These cat-
tle were brought from the Tees Riv-
er Valley, in northeastern England,
where they were sometimes spoken
of as Teeswater, or Durham, cattle.
These names are practically obso-
lete, and now only the name Short-
horn is used. Such men as Colonel
Lewis Sanders, of Kentucky, who
imported Shorthorns in 1817, Sam—
uel Thorne, of New York, who in
1853 imported Duchesses and the
famous Cherry, Abram Renick, who
produced the famous bull Airdrie,
and R. A. Alexander, of Kentucky.
may be considered the founders of

the Shorthorn breed in America...

Later, the Ohio Importing Company
iwas organized by some of these men
and others to promote the, industry.
' The Shorthorn is the largest
the beef breeds. As‘.a.,sruie~ when

  

  

raised under favorable conditions
the mature bulls weigh between
1,800 and 2,400 pounds, and the
cows usually weigh between 1,300
and 1,600 pounds. These cattle-
have' great adaptability and do well
almost everywhere. They may vary
in color from all red or 'all white to
any combina’tioniof red and white,
and a blending of the red and white
hairs (roan) is a popular color. The
Shorthorn crosses well with scrub
and grade cows, the calves of such a.
matings developing into desirable
beef cattle. The bulls are very pre-
potent and have been used freely in
grading up the scrub cattle of the
plains, in both this country and
South America.

Some of the other breeds excel the
Shorthorn in grazing ability where
feed and pasture conditions are fav-
orable. The Shorthorn thrives best
where grasses are abundant and
feed plentiful. Under these condi-
tions it is not equaled by any other
breed. The Shorthorn is early ma‘
Hiring, “growthy,” and fattens read-

y. ‘ . -

Of all the beef breeds the Short-
horn excels in milk production, the
large milk ﬂow insuring a good calf.
For this reason the Shorthorn cow is
favored on many small farms to sup-
ply milk for the family in addition
to raising a calf for beef. The steers
sell readily as feeders and produce a
very high-class beef with a thick
loin and full hind quarter which
furnish proﬁtable cuts.

In conformation the Shorthorn is
Wide, deep, lengthy, and' thickly
ﬂeshed—a good beef type. The
great width of back and the‘ straight
lines of the Shorthorn, together with
its depth, give a more rectangular
form than that of any of the other

breeds, although the wide distribu-

tion of the breed has caused a
slightly greater difference in this re-
spect to be recognized than in oth-
er beef breeds. " _
In‘the cow the following points
should be noted: The horn is us~
ually small and curved kforward,
with the tips pointing” in ard '

      
 

  
 

          
         
 
   
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
  

 

 
    
   
             

 
  
   


 

 

  
   

 

 
   
   

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its no: “En-

ﬁo . Cam-Karen.
directly on the active and 8":th cream
«the emilk function. By
mantis-ionisativovborthemilkdow

is increased and disease h guarded against.
m Abortion. Retained
Secure. Bunches. Milk Fever. Lost
and shits: new troubles always result from
lowered “-3: e! these/important organs.
h m dbenoes Korn- . strikes at
theheortofthotrouhisandsssists nature
in the rebuilding prom
rewsueesssfnldairymen nowtrytosb
maths winter months without the
use of Kev-Kare. Fed one week
out of each month or for a month at calving

time. In Karo his returns in b
milk yield and 1m from disease. ettel
[oxidation

stun-

Iell Row-Kore.

line “.8: medium

Iiic. Send for free
w book “The Hans
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DMRYASSOCIATION
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BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY

Ads under this heading 30¢ per
agate line for 4 lines or more.
$1.00 per insertion for 8 lines or
less.

 

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$135M:
To avoid conﬂicting dates we will without

.00“ list the dots of any live stock sale in
Michigan. If you are oonslderln n eels eo-
Vise us at on and we will oinm ths'date
fat man. Add . Live Stool Editor. M. 3.
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Clark St. Louis. Michigan.
land C ' 3. Detroit Creamery
[ Clemens. Mic n.
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Creek. Mich.. W. R. Harper,
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25—-Holstems, Fred H’. Lee, Ply-
mouth. Michigan.

ﬂ ' CATTLE
' " HOLSTEINS

F O R S A L E
My’Entire Herd of Holstein Cattle

One 81 lb. herd sire, 10 females. Among them

are c0 n 20 lb. 2 yr. old and a

gay! cowhﬁgd s 1
spun

sold under a. retest. if late

for pedigrees. Time

H. W. MOI-IR, Pigeon.

March
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HEREFORDS
HEREFORDS

Registered Breedin Betti , T.
Tested at practigal prices {in};

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ﬁeeves proﬂgbly all angles}; a b y

T. F. B. BOTiIAM O SONS.
(Hemords since 1888.)
'St. Clair. Mich.

BREED HEREFORDS THAT T'l'E

. Eleven choice two-year-old heii‘e‘rs 1mg

severe year bulls ed bylntornstional P s

W mBiggders 0 Here! date "I forlsuill) on.
or since .

anPO FARM. Swat-ts Creek. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

AYBSHIRES

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and bulhcalves. heiiers
some choice cows.
FINDLAY BROS»

snobs
natives Irina-o ' ‘
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and better eslua

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, to - the muzzle,_w11ich

,_ih large, 'open nostrils. A black
muzzle is objectionable to most

breeders. The neck should be short.

and full, blending well into head and
shoulder.
smooth and well covered with ﬂesh.
The crops should be full, the heart
girthlarge, and the foreﬂank low.
The chest should be wide and deep,
with the brisket thick and well to
the front. The ribs are usually well
sprung and the barrel well develop-
ed. In good individuals the back is
broad and the loin is wide,rdeep, and
thickly ﬂeshed. The hips are wide
and should be well covered with
ﬂesh; the rump is long, wide, and
level, carrying an abundance oi
ﬂesh. The hind quarter is well ,de—
veloped in the Shorthorn, and it is
characteristic in that it is almost
straight from the root of the tail to
the books; it is wide and thick, car-
rying ﬂesh well down, time giving a
maximum quantity of ﬂesh. The
ﬂank is low; the adder is usually
well developed, extending well for-
ward, with prominent milk veins.
Tests of medium size are perferred.

The hull should possess the same
desirable features as the female,
without her feninine qualities. He
should show masculinity by develop-
ing a heavier horn, a larger and
thicker neck, a heavier bone
throughout, and greater depth,
thickness, and scale. His horns are
heavier and less curved than the
cow’s, but they should not show un-
due coarseness.

. VETERINARY
,DEPARTMENT

PARALYSIS

I have a pig Weighing around 75
pounds which is unable to walk on
its feet. It rolls or boundsaround
in the straw to get to the teding
trough to drink milk. It has good
appetite and is O. K. except it can
not stand on its feet and walk. The
hog house ﬂoor is partly cement and
part hard wood ﬂoor, is kept clean
and as dry as possible with good
dry straw. I have feed this pig sul-
phur and condition powders but it
seems to stay in the same condition.
What can be done?——G. H., Sand
Lake, Mich. -
—-Para1ysis of the hind quarters of
swine is quite common and is at-
tracting considerable attention. In
the majority of cases the cause is
bbscure and the treatment is very
unsatisfactory. Various theories of
the origin of the disease are given.
A lack of mineral matter in the food
of growing pigs may affect the joints
and bones and cause paralysis. Pa-
ralysis sometimes follows partura—
tion in sows that are in a run down
condition and are being nursed heav-
ily. In all probility some cases are
due to lesions in the spinal cord,
such as tuberculosis, tumors, ab-
scess and diseased vertebrae. Con—
ﬁning pigs in small inclosures with—
out exercise for a long time may
cause paralysis. If there is consti-
pation the pig should be given a
dose of Epsom salts about two ounces
as a drench in water. Give a light
diet such as slop made of bran and
milk. Make the animal as comfort—
able as possible, keep them in a clean
place with clean bedding and plenty
of fresh water. The daily adminis-
tration of about four drams of cod
liver oil in the feed sometimes gives
good results.———John P. Hutton,
Michigan Agricultural College.

 

 

 

Testing of seed corn can be done
by any farmer. Why take a chance
with untested seed when a little
time will tell the story before the
crop is planted?

  

 

 

CHANGE'IN DATE OF
OLABK’S SALE

N our February 2nd issue we
published an advertisement
regarding the sale of pure

bred Poland China \ hogs and
Aberdeen Angus cattle to be
held on Februhry 20th. Thru
an error the place where the
_sele wastnbe held was not,
mentioned. Mr. Clark postw-
poned. the sale, until Friday.
March 7111,1984. and itpwill
be held slam farm at St.
mulch. will! attend.

  

 

 

     
 
 
    
   
 

  
  

 
 

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wanna-feet.
the this Tonic.
Guam Bass

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an cubofdoors is ﬁlled with the bloat or
the lamb, the bawl of the calf, the grant oi
the pig, and the whinny oi the colt.

Youth asserting itself everywhere!

Keep their bodies healthy, and stomachs full.

You can then count on good growth—quick
development—4nd begin to cash in on them
before the summer-end.

DB. HESS STOGK TONIC

against disease, insurance of good appetite,
good digestion.

Then, there are the mothers:

Your COWS need it for its system-toning,
bowel~c1eansmg, appetizing effects. Puts them
in ﬁne condition for calving.

Your BROOD SOWS will be relieved of con-
stipation and put in ﬁne fettle for farrowing.

Excellent for MARES in foal—and EWES
at lambing time.

It makes for good appetite, and more milk
to nourish the oﬁ’spring.

Tell your dealer what stock you have.
has a package to smt. GUARANTEED.
25 lb. Pail, $2.25

Except in the for West, South and Canada.

Honest goods—honest price—why pay more?

DR. HESS &. CLARK

    
 
  
 

    

     
    
   
    

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It keeps the worms away.

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100 lb. Drum, $8.00

   

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21 head by 30 to 34 lb. bulls.

to 30,1b. bull.
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DlSPERSALSALE
HEAD REGISTERED HOLSTEINS

Strongly bred in Pontiac Appollo, Pontiac Burke and King of the Pontiac;

Wednesday, March 12, 1924,

of a 33 lb. cow with a 1082 lb. butter record.
Catalog ready March lst.

25

Sale starts at
1 o’clock

One 24 lb. 4-year-old daughter
16 bred

Washington, Mich.

 

 

 

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REG. JERSEYS. POGIS 99"! OF H. F. AND
Ma'aty breeding. Young stock for sale.‘ Herd
f accredited b State and Federal Government.

 

 

 

GUERNSEYS

GUERNSEY BULL CALVES $50. A. R. BREED-

ing. 50"] to 75W breeding of Norman’s Mis-

saukee Red) Rose. Bull soon ready for service 8100.
A. M. SMITH Lake GItY. Michigan.

 

 

 

v' ' or race and description.
wnt‘iauoi diltWiLBIiJil. BELDING. Mich.
# l ft‘iUER‘i‘StEYTPUlg‘E inREfD BIULL CALVES
mm 0 ' mun is r _ p'
SHORTHORNS quick sale. llcrd . Bi) teasedme need for
RAISE suonriionus WFI'Hour Mann‘s“ F- NELSON: 3- 1. MCBi‘idGS- Mlohlaan.
Like ﬁxenﬁ‘i; dices._ P. S. dAccfedltﬁndteHerd No. i
. escn ion an pr ce ,
28?: O. KEYLLY &pSON, Plymouth. Michigan. (Cont nued on Page 31)

 

Dispersion Sale Registered Holstein Cattle

at Battle Creek, Mich, on
Thursday, March 20, 1924

The entire herds of T
Holstein cattle

. W. Spmzue and John Rolfe comprising about 75 head f 11—
will be dispersed at the John Rolfe farm near Battle CTOOk?,MYcehiﬁtdrI§d ordained

THURSDAY. MARCH 20. 1824.

In‘thk sale will be:

The til-lb. oow- Princess Vale Pierte ‘e
The 31-11:. Kuhn; bull. Wei 0 pit... Echo
The 80—lb. oIon old herd b Traverse Echo
A doubts! th 80-1b. bull, Korndyke
Twodsughrsotheonyuving _
Eleven daughtars o of The Pontmcs.
Eli: dough ten 30 Judge

ear

Kink Seals. i_

'gylvia
mm eld Ormsb

ntunry Sire. Maple Crest Koihdyke Hengerveld,

of the - 6.
tighten and six heifer calves. out of e 30-11:. hard sire. Traverse Echo Sylvia

Also numerous well-bred animals that space do. not permit us to mention.
If interested. write for a sale catalog to
JOHN w. ROI-FE. R. F. D. No. O‘BATI'LI GREEK.'MIOHIGAII_
WILBUR SPRAGUE. R. F. D. No. 9, BATTLE GREEK, MICHIGAN, or to
w. B. HARPER. MIDDLEVILLE, MICHIGAN.

OOLONIL D. I... PERRY Auctioneer.
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'1‘ *UPP'ER PENINSULA ‘ 2!... 32;,
OTHER} h'eretp'fore‘dn‘ an indus-
trial way—unléss it be the, al-
most rocket-like ascent of: the
tourist: industry—shes caused the
wave of enthusiasm and concerted
effort which, is attending the pure-
bred dairy sire campaign now in pro-
gress throughout the Upper Penin-
sula of Michigan. It is-a. movement
which, born almost-over—night, and
wholly as the result of a. happy in—
spiration, has swept the peninsula.
from stem to stern, and left it rock-
ing with the impact and reeking
with the spirit of pure-bred bulls,
pure—bred cows, better farms, and
more creameries and bigger proﬁts.

Probably the most important phase
of the better-dail‘ying campaign
throughout upper Michigan is the
pure—bred dairy sire campaign which
officially opened January 1, 1924,
and will formally close on the same
date, 1925. It is the plan launched
under the joint direction of the ex—
tension department of the Michigan
Agricultural College; the railroads
operating throughout 'the peninsula
and the Upper Peninsula Develop-
ment Bureau. It is a plan whereby
the sum of $1,000 donated by the
development bureau will be paid out
in cash prizes, January 1, 1925, to
the organizations in the various dis-
tricts which have been most success—
ful in the work of substituting pure-
bred bulls for scrubs.

The plan involves, briefly, the
organization of separate committees
in each county, averaging about ﬁf-
teen members for each district.
These committees direct the work in
their respective districtsand are, in
turn, responsible to a central com-
mittee composed of representatives
of the three directing agencies'._
Among the co-operating organiza-
tions and institutions are the State
Farm Bureau, the State Grange,
banks, lumber companies, mining
companies, individuals, c'orporatiOns
and the press, in each of the twelve
counties which are entered to date.

Thus, some 180 or more live-wire
citizens of Cloverland are today
united in the one big effort to chase
out the “scrub” and to establish, in
his place, the pure-bred animal
which is to build and improve every
dairy herd throughout the region.
That is, these 180 men represent
only those who have pledged their
time and effort as comniittemen, to-
ward the campaign in their respec-
tive districts. If we were to count
every individual in upper Michigan
who will have had a hand in it be-
fore the year is out, the total would
be considerably in excess of that
ﬁgure.

That, briefly, is what we mean
when we say“ the $1,000 bull cam-
paign”. But that isn’t all.

In addition, to this carefully plan-
ned drive, there is apparent, all
throughout the upper peninsula, a
determined effort to improve and de-
velop the diary industry with all
possible speed, and yet, with every
thought and consideration for the
consistency and practicality of the
plan.

Live—stock associations, cow-test-
ing organizations, better dairying
committees and other similar bodies
are seeking, conscientiously, to make
dairying an established and ﬂourish-
ing branch of agriculture through—
out the peninsula. Already some
communities have formulated deﬁn-
ite plans, aside from the $1,000 bull
campaign, for the immediate im-
provement of their dairy industry.
This is true of Escanaba, at Onton'a.
gan, and in the Gogebic range dis-
tricts, particularly, where associa-
tions have been formed for the im-
mediate purchase of pure—bred stock
for distribution among the farmers.
Such action has been made possible
largely through the action co—opera-
tion of the banks in each district,
which, after all, is the most grati-
fying feature of the whole situation.

,When the banker is “sold” the plan

——wher'ever it may be—savors of
practical merit. And that is surely
true of this new movement in Clover-
land. ,
But—when all is said and done;
when every phase of the ‘variphased’
campaign is considered, there looms
out of it all the one big issuee-
Better Dairying. And upper Mlchl-e.
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“AND in .hand with the better-

dairying campaign in Clover-

land, comes the announcement
by Dr. F. K. Hansen, assistant state
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ties in upper Michigan are signed up
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ties before next winter. A group
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peninsula during the winter to make
re-tests of suspected cases and to
wind up the season’s activity.

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which make application for this
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counties of upper Michigan enroll
for the T-B campaign during this
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resent the largest single area thruout
the United States in which the work
will be in progress, according to Dr.
Hansen—L. D. Tucker.

ALLEGAN COW TESTER. ISSUES
ANNUAL REPORT

ARL S. KING, cow tester for the
I East Allegan Association, re—

. ports in his annual summary
that 302 cows were tested for the
year, averaging 5623 pounds of milk
and 242.1 pounds butter fat. Mr.
Wm. Knobloch, one of the members
of this association, of Otsego, Mich.,
had the high herd in butter fat pro-
duction on 17 cows averaging 8997
pounds of milk and 479.9 pounds
fat. .His herd is made up of pure
bred and grade jerseys. The high
cow in butter fat production was an
eight-year old grade jersey in Mr.
Knobloch’s herd. This cow made
13718 pounds milk and 715.3 pounds
fat for the year. It is believed this
is the highest cow testing association
record made to date in Allegan
county.

It is further interesting to study
the records of production in the off-1
spring from this cow. A three-year
old grade jersey and a two-year old
grade Jersey, both daughters out of
this eight year—old cow, made 479.3
pounds fat and 476.4 pounds fat,
respectively. The fat test on these
three individuals for the entire year
was 5.21, 5.23 and 5.27 per cent.
This is a remarkably uniform test
and uniform production for these
high grade Jersey cows, all of them
sired by purebred bulls.

The high herd in milk production
belonged to Oliver Brothers, Plain-
well, Michigan. In this herd of 10
purebred and grade Holstein cows
averaged 9963.4 pounds milk and
350.9 pounds fat. Among the ten
high herds in this association two
Jersey herds averaged higher than
400 pounds tat annually. Mr. Kno-
bloch’s and Mr. David Anderson's:
Mr. Martin Reed and Mr. John Smith
also with purebred and grade Jersey
herds, made an average above 350
pounds of fat. There were four
Holstein herds that made better than
340 pounds tat average for the as-
sociation year. Among the high
cows listed 9 cows made over 500
pounds of fat and 24 cows made be-
tween 400 and 500 pounds of fat.

This is the second year that the
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EAR Editor—Will yen please ask
your readers to tell me through
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experience in raising Kudzu grass,
in Michigan? If so, what kind of
luck did they have? We have two
seed catalogues in which it is adver-
tised very highly. They say if you
set out the roots 5 ft. by 10 ft. apart,
that the seeohd year, the vines will
cover the ground. And you can out
two crops of hay from it each year
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richer every year. And that it is
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stock and chickens. I bought some
Dasheens, and they did not turn out
good at all. In fact, they were a
complete failure for me; Have any
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that is being advertised. Do you
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something extra nice?

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readers would write to your paper
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that they have, in buying some new
varieties of seed, and their luck in
growing them. The seed catalogues
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. which to buy and which not to buY.

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CURING RING BONE

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HOW I RAISE TURKEYS

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cular and sub - acute
(Swelling at the joints)
rheumatsim, to try the
great value of my im-
proved “Home Treat-
ment” for its remarka-
ble healing power.
not send a cent; simply
mail your name and ad-
dress and I will send it
free to try. After you
have used it and it has
proven itself to be that
long-looked-for means
of getting rid of such
forms of rheumatism,
you may send the price
of it, one dollar, but un-

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longer when relief 18
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setibirif 5-.$1 26 or 100-

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A. PAGE. Mariette. Michigan.

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and $12.00. Hen Turkeys $6. 00 and $7.,0
some line pure old stock. nice Toulouse

ome
Geese. Mrs. ThomasE. Wilson. Plymouth Mich. R4.

MIOHIANG’S BEST GIANT BRONZE TOMS
for sale Large beautifully marked birds Price
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Pure Bred Mammoth Bronze Toms One 2 Year
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MRMMOTH BRONZE TURKEVB, “no:

beautiful birds. Write for Krices.
MRS. BEN JOHNSTON, Onnway, Mich.,1,

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Unrelated stock. Vigorous heelt by birds. Wn to
for prices. Mrs. Perry Stebbins, Seranao. Mich.

G'A'T BBDNZ TURKEVS FOR SALE.

Toms $10 and $12 each.
MRS. ALICE WATERS, R2, Whittemore. Mich.
AFEW OHOIOE PURE BRED GIANT BRONZE

Turkeys for see.

6. H. HOLSTED. Weidman. R1. Michigan
Giant Bronze Turke s from Prize Winening Birds.
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$11 breed with black
1‘ trialled

old I gradually Change to

Wheat and feed them wheat till they
' are grown.

01! course, almOst any
kind of grain will do, but I think
they grow ‘01! better when fed
wheat. Wheat makes bone and
muscle, and corn makes fat.

I feed my laying hens a laying
mesh in the morning and boiled cats
at night and plenty of. oyster shell
and charcoal. Also try to have
plenty of green stuff. Turkeys any
size need shell or ‘grit and plenty of
charcoal, and clabber or sour milk
is good for them at all times.

Lice cause a great many deaths
among little turkeys. Sometimes
they are so small that they cannot
be seen with the naked eye. I
powder the turks and the mother
with a good powder when I take
them off and once a week for six
weeks afterward, and when they
are a little older I put sodium ﬂuor-
ide on them, using the pinch meth-
od. I mention these powders, as I
have had such good success with
them. There may be others just as
good.

I have the very ﬁnest, big-boned,
healthy breeding stock that I can
get. It is just as easy to. raise a
thoroughbred turkey as a scrub
turkey and there is so much more
pleasure and proﬁt in raising the
thoroughbred. At three months old
my pullets are as tall as their moth-
er and the toms are much taller.

How to Combat Roup

So many peOple have roup among
their turkeys. It is a disease to be
dreaded if not taken in time. The
ﬁrst sign 01' roup is a little foam in
the eye and a wet nose. Just get
the turpentine and a feather and put
a drop up each nostril; wet the
feather good and put it through that
slit in the roof of the turkey’s
mouth and then down his throat;
rub a. little between his eye and nos-
tril.

If he is puffed under the eye, slit
that with a knife or small scissors,
gently press the phlegm out and put
a few drops of turpentine in the
wound. A few applications will
cure the worst cases. Some salts or
copperas in the drinking water will
be good, and if they have had roup
long, some good tonic in their food
for a few days is needed. Don’t
keep them up; doctor them and let
them go.

‘ If any turkey has the big—crop,

don’t operate, but use a funnel and ,

tube and wash the crop out with
creolin,‘ a teaspoonful to a cupful of
water. Wash it out twice with this
solution and then twice with clear
water. Of course it must be empti-
ed ﬁrst 'and this should be done
early in the morning when there is
least solid food in the crop.
the turkey up a'tew days, feeding it
soft food and not much water.

For sorehead or chickenpox I
scrape off the top of the bumps and
paint them with iodine, then skip
one day and paint again and then
grease with axl‘e grease or any good
ointment and put salts in drinking
water.

For cholera or black-head in tur-

‘keys, some have found that a child’s

dose of liver regulator and some
copperas given every other day is
very good. Give them water mixed
with prepared chalk and scorched
ﬂour. ‘

I have my turkeys all vaccinated
against diseases. which is the easiest
and best way of all, but you can’t do
that till they are about eight weeks
old.

Turkeys are a great help on any
farm in keeping down insects of all
kinds, especially in the cotton. They
can almost ﬁnd their entire living
in the ﬁelds and pastures without
bothering the grain crops. We have
raised turkeys for many years and
they have never bothered anything
but the melons. They have never
hurt our fruit and we have most all
kinds. ——Mrs. J.

I

A schoolboy at lunch time entered a
grocery store and said to the clerk:
“Take this“ order: 10 pounds of sugar
at 6 cents; 11 pounds of coffee at 25
cents; 8 pounda of tea at 30 cents. Add
that up. How much is it?"

The clerk replied, "$6. 76.”

“Are you sure?" asked the boy.

“Of course I am sure.”

The boy thanked him and said: "'I'het' s
:1“qu arithmetic lesson for tomerrow.—”

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White 8. C. a R. C. Brown a. Buff Leghorns $7. 00 $13.00 $62.00
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If you

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Varieties

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EGG-BRED CHICKS
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Pure Bred Chicks huggdﬁgtgy
Broiler Chix ........ 11 '/2 G White Rocks .......... 16c
W. or B. Leghorns--180 W. W andottes.. ..16'/2c
B Rox or Reds..15'/2c Buff rplngtons. .16'/2c
Sheppard's Anconas 150 Black Minorcas ...... 16c
4. 00 per

Extra selected standard bred chicks
100 more. dd 35c if less than 10
Good bank reference. Circular free.

lawrenoe Hatchery, BF. R. 7, Grand Rapids, Mich.

ordered.

TESTED BABY CHICKS

Feb March prices. Hes. broiler chicks 12c.

or Reds 17c nconas Black Min-
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White Rocks. White Waindottes, OrpI 11-?
tons 17550. Emlxmtra selec built directy
from con to dd
80c if less than 100 wanted. Hatching eggs.
Catalog Good reference. Beckmann Hatchery,

F. 26 Lyon St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Select Quality Chicks

winter-laying purebreds.
mated, thrifty ﬂocks of

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Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Chilson, R1, Orandvlile, Mich.

Whittaker-'8 Red Chicks and E gs for Hatching.
Rose and Single Comb s. Bre from Fourteen
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C‘italog of Michigan's Greatest Color and hgg
Strain. lnterlakes Farm, Box 4, Lawrence, Mich.

Chhks are produced under my personal supervision.

Brown and Buffs. Legharéidss
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Wh lto Wyandottes, Black nor

Silver Wyandottes ................ 9.00

Mixed, all varieties, $12 per
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Reasonable prices. Leghorns, A11-
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Prices on 50100500
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8. Rock Reds ...... 8.00 $15.00 72. 00

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Geddes Rd. Ann Arbor, Mich.

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In Contest
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COCKERE LS—A few Barred Rocks
STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION
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(Member International Baby Chick Association)

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BABY CHICKS NEED VITAMINS
HEN a few years ago it was
learned that the baby chick
could live for the ﬁrst three

days of its life without food, the
commercial hatchery had its begin-
ning, and one has only to look
through the pages of the farm press
of today to get an idea of the mag-
nitude to which this industry has al-
ready grOWn. In nearly all parts of
the United States the hatcheries
ﬂourish and plants of immense size
are not uncommon—some of them
boasting a. capacity of upwards of
million eggs. Shipments of baby
chicks over a radius of 1,000 miles
are frequently found.

Two distinct movements are ap-
parent in the American poultry in-
dustry: A very marked trend toward
the use of centralized hatcheries,
and a quite general tendency to-
ward more Winter egg production.

With the development of the baby
chick business a number of wide-
spread adjustments are coming. It
makes possible a. higher degree of
specialization and an increase in
efﬁciency. It is no longer necessary
for the rank and ﬁle of poultrymen
to suffer losses that have always
been incident to unsatisfactory
hatching—the baby chick men are
assuming that risk and overcoming
it largely by more expert methods,
thus leaving the average poultryman
free to turn his efforts to greater
production.

But the success of the commercial
hatchery, as well as that of the
small poultryman is dependent
largely upon the quality of eggs
available for incubation. Where only
eggs from vigorous, well-bred birds
are used a rapid improvement in the
type and production of the ﬂocks is
possible. In some states plans are
already in operation whereby a sys-
tem of accredited forms is establish-
ed to supply high-class eggsto the
hatcheries.

The vitality of the eggs incubat—
ed spells success or failure to the
commercial hatchery. The percent-
age of hatchability of the eggs used
determine whether the hatchery can
succeed on a large scale, and to ob-
tain highly hatchable eggs has been
one of the biggest problems in the
business.

Recent experiments have shown
that the ration of the hen often de-
termines whether or not an egg will
hatch. It has been well establish-
ed that animals ordinarily store up
a. supply of vitamins in their bodies.
The good laying hen like the high
upon
the body- supply of vitamins with
the result that unless it is constant-
ly replendished it may become de-
pleted.

Work at the Wisconsin Experi-
ment Station with White Leghorn

-pullets shows that when a ration

10W in the fat soluble vitamin, and
consisting largely of white corn, was
fed to hens the eggs produced were
very low in hatchability—15.3 per
cent. When yellow corn was sub-
stituted for the wh to, the hatching
quality at once rose 0 23.6 per cent.
When vitamin-rich feeds, such as
pork liver, cod liver oil, or broken
eggs were added to the ration, eggs
hatching from 53 to 62 per cent
were laid by the same birds that on
rations low in fat soluble vitamin
had produced largely non- hatchable
eggs. The difference in the hatch-
ability of the eggs produced from
various rations is more pronounced
toward the end of the laying season,
because at that time the body re-
serves of vitamins are less of a. fact-
or.

Many successful poultrymen have
held the belief that their hens
should rest in the winter 11‘. they
were to produce eggs high in vital-
ity. Figures based on careful rec—
ords and extending over several
years have shown that with the
proper ration hens can produce high
priced market eggs all winter and
then lay good hatching eggs in the

spring. 4
November and December eggs
bring the highest prices. Less stor-

age eggs are now sold as fresh than
formerly. People want quality and
are willing to pay for it. The re—
sult is that fresh eggs have a. good
price in the season of low produc-

  

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' eal bargain at 813.25
Shipped complete,e set up ready to use.
140 Egg Incubator and Breeder
180 Egg Incubator Alone - -
180 Egg Incubator and Breeder
250 Egg Incubator Alone - - - ’ -

250 Egg Incubator and Broader - 31.00
Made of California Redwood—lastnl' fetime. Pos' tively i
the best value on the market today. IOrder the siie you ‘
want direct from this ad. ad00 days trial—money M '
not pleased. If not ready to order now, don't buy

until you get our new 1923c: (
0.151.138 Rachelle.

WISCONSII llclIBA'l'oll co.
1...... iNCiiBATOR140 m
Alllance CAPACITY
Has all the features that insure big hatches—
doublewalls, copper tank, complete nurse
erfect heat control through automatic tr 9
urner, “Tycos” thermometer
held so chicks can 't break it
when hatching. Dotrolt Brood- , , _
on, too. Write for low combl- ‘
nation price today! ‘
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—-Inspected and Approved

Baby Chicks

From Best Egg Layin

Strains In the World 3
Tancred, pedigree‘sired
and Tom Barron. S.‘ C.
White Leghorns, S. C. &. R.
C. R. R.eds Parks' Barred
Plymouth Rocks.

Our ﬂocks are all on free

 

treks: v I E w
range, closely culled. inspected and approved by
Michigan Baby Chick Association. Every bird is

healthy. has size, type and color.

Hatched in World’s Best Incubator

Our chicks are strong sturdy and healthy. They
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live and grow because t y are hatched In the best In-
cubator made. 1001 live delivery to your door. Illus-
trated catalog sent FREE.

LAKEVIEW POULTRY FARM. R 8. Box 3 .llollnd, Hick.

 

 

 

 

Early Maturing Baby Chicks

These chicks are from florks headed

by cockerels of high pioducing
blood lines Pulled by cxprris.
Em h ﬂm k peJI' sonally supervised.
Pure bred. 13. 00 [er 100 11nd
111).Spe<ml\Ve have a limited
numbei of supuior gran; Clll(kb‘
from sperial 111:1t111gs.\\rite for

dcscriptlon and piices.10()% .live
delivery. Ref. Milan State Savmgs
Bank.

MILAN HATCHERY. Box 5,

 

Milan, Michigan.
HOGAN TESTED GUARANTEED
('hn limks .11c from ﬂocks on free
ran-51 They will live and grow and
make a moﬁt. EN(‘ 11811 WHITE
LECHOI’n S and BROWN LEG-
IIORNS. llcavy laying Extra Good
BARRED ROCKS. I’ostpaId to your
door and full live delivery guaran

teed. Our ﬂocks rue (arefully su er-
vised and Hogan tested. Bank 61--
, ~ erence furnished Write for price:
‘ nd dismiptivc matters.
HILLVIEW HAT

CHICKS:

 

C. Boven. Prop.
R..12, Holland, Mich.

S. C. White Leghorn

Chicks. Wishbone Hatched, from Demonstration
Farm Flock, culled under the supervision of the
Poultry Dept. of Michigan Agricultural College,
mated with males from the same stock that ro-
lace at the chi-

OHEg Layinog Contest, 19 3 Price $1 per

for2 0, for 25. Safe dehver guar-

antoeed. ,, sdeposit books your or or for

April Bor “Maﬁﬁ eliveryM Ref. Hudson State Sav-
udson. Mich

wkuaLPH 8. TUTTEN, Plttsford, Michigan.

 

Our Own Breeding
flock of l a r g e

yp e American
W111te Lley horns.

Laying and standard qualities combined.

experience in breeding, hatching and marketing.
Also high quality Barred Rocks and R

All ﬂocks culled and msper ted Modern hatching
plant, 2 hatches weekly. Quality chicks at com-
mercial prices. Write for prices and circular.

DEAN Egg Farm 8: Hatchery, Big'Beaver
_ Mail address Birminghan Mich. , R-4

BABY 0|]ch BARRON s. c. w. LEG.

horns. Special low prices.
100% 81176 deliver guaranteed. Write for rice
list. 'HENRY WA ERWAY. R4, Holland, ich.

LEES LICE KILLER

The Old Reliable 3“ Willi-01!”!!! chem-r

our. way to rid poultry
oﬂleo.1nltes. body “com and"1 such vermin. Paint or spray
on Moots, etc. No II dlpp

sing. handling. Get it at
£011: ourdrug our-ed store, gr wrigous “LEM

DON’T LOSE BABY CHICKS“:

MI. was menus”. Isl-mama“ Ille-
dupes. (bids. Honourable, «11., new than «buy. "A
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289 eg per ydear . and grand dainbs
298 tow04 eggs. (2 10
delivery. (3 Chicks guaranteedto
healthy. 4) Absolutely pure bred.
5) AbsoluteLy no culls. (6) Stock
t withstands Winter cold as well as
summer heat. ( Free entry in
our animal ﬂock performance contest.
whereby you may 118obtii.in_20
best Barron Englis _
free. We know the $11111? of our
stock because we main
ery farms 0 our own. instead of
buying eggs wherever available.

Sired by Hollywood and Funk
Farm Males.
White and Brown Leghorns.
' Anconae.
Send for our catalog and read
full particulars or the Wyn-
garden Strain.

Wn__ll arde ZEELAND.MICH.
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Baby Chicks

Infamous strains

'lhlnBarI-on and mHollywoodWhite
Iﬂh trogn ,healthy, vig-
woos b8 Mmhicks. hatched In
hery in Michi-

a— dellveria guaran-
-ebsolnte satis-
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Low
Prices

Capacity of 150,000
eggs to a setting Eg-

mits us to quote t
priceefor pure
bred baby Alsoletus
quote you rises onBarred
Rock Baby hicks and other
popular breeds. Send for Free
catalog-Ind prices. Writctoday.

SIIBERIOR POULTRY FARM.
mpg-m “Mich" .H. .

MEADOW BROOK

HENRY DOPREE & SONS.
One of the Founders of the Chick Industry

21 Years in Business

Sure-bred stock carefully developed for years.
rder from this ad and get chicks just when ou
want them. Prepaid rises on 50 100 5 0
White and Brown Leg orns $7.00 $13.00 $62.50
Btuff Legh orns 8.00 15.00 72.00

20. 00 95. 00

Mixed ch cks o(an varietiesii'....$10.00 per 100

You take no chances. Ref: First State
Bank, Holland. 97% live delivery guar-
anteed. White Leghoms headed -
by male birds of~285~303 egg
record strains. Other breeds
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Hatched in the latest improved
Mammoth Incubator. English S.
C. W. Leghorns. S. O. Anconas.
Barred Rocks, R. I. Reds from
heavy laying free range organized
ﬂocks. 100% alive. Parcel Post
paid. Send for catalog. Reference.

Timmers Hatchery, R8, Box M, Holland. Mlch‘.

 

 

Breckenridge Chicks Are Winners

Day old chicks from stron, vi
ﬂocks which have been care ull 883%
and extra selected standard mae birds
-—-Barred Rocks. R. I. Reds and
White Leghorns. We guarantee 100%
safe arrival. Write us for price list
and circular.
BRECKENRIDGE HATGHERY,
J. c. Barnse, Prop.

Breckenridge, Michigan.

 

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Our Baby Chicks

Mammoth machines from h lth ,
min ﬂocksted that know no disease. Audaciir y
ﬂocks are genuine egg machines. Order from this
ad or write for catalogue

will insure your
next yeais ﬁroﬂt
been men; we

..70.
00% DollverxI (luarsnteed
PROGRESSIVE P U!
Box 2, Holland, Mich.

 

OHIOKS FROM LARGE SINGLE COMB WHITE
horns bred for Win; vinter egg production. Blue
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den an progressive poultrymen try
to Iidte their chicks early enough
so at) to have them well grown and
ready to start laying in- these
months of premium prices.

As the .dairy industry has grad—
uslly become one in which a very
large part of the production occurs
in the winter months so the poultry
business is turning more and more
to the production of winter eggs.
Many of us can recall the days back
on the farms of our boyhood when
there was scarcely a cow in the en-
tire neighborhqod that gave milk in
the winter time, and, of course,
chickens did not ordinarily lay eggs
in winter—we really did not expect
them to. Yet large numbers of just
such communities are now produc-
ing as much milk in January as in
July and the egg production is often
corresponding.

As in the dairy industry, poultry
methods have changed greatly. The
buff or speckled hens that used to
hatch their summer broods under
the woodpile or behind the dem-
ocrat wagon in the implement shed
required little attention. They roam-
ed about in the open and nature
supplied them with enough variety
of food to provide for their mainten-
ance.

But the question of raising large
number of chicks in late winter or
early spring so as to have them well
grown and ready for winter laying
is a complex one. Growing the birds
in conﬁnement without green or
scratch feed has always been difﬁ—
cult, on a large scale, because leg
weakness, a term which may cover
a variety of troubles, often develop—
ed and there seemed to be no way of
overcoming it.

Recently, hOWever, investigators
at the Wisconsin station found that
chicks can readily be grown under
conﬁnement without scratch feeds
or green feeds. Again the problem
seems to be one of supplying the
proper vitamins in generaus quanti—
ties. When the vitamin element of
cod liver oil is abundant in the ra~
tion, no leg weakness develops, and
the indoor birds grow to be healthy,
normal speciment, often above the
average of those grown under the
best of outdoor conditions.

In fertile eggs from the incubator
which have often been discarded as
worthless can be used as an inex—
pensive solution of the baby chick
vitamin problem. It has been shown
that a small quantity of egg when
added to an ordinary ration of 60
parts cornmeal and 40 middlings
will give excellent results. When
skimmilk is available the eggs can
be beaten in it until thoroughly
mixed, and the whole used to moist-
en the mash of the chickens.

Eggs alone with the ration can be
used if no skimmilk is available.
About one egg to each 30 chicks is
recommended for the ﬁrst two
weeks, and after that a gradual in-
crease in the amount of egg used
seems desirable in order to accom—
modate the needs of mire rapid
growth. Whole milk can, of course,
be substituted for eggs, as the but-
ter fat supplies the necessary vita-
mins.

That the poultrymen who concen-
trate their efforts upon production
will in the future be in a position
to harvest increased prOﬂts seems
probable. The industry tends more
and more to become specialized and
the specialization in winter egg
production promises the most hand-
some returns—Wisconsin Farmer.

After Thought

A lady who kept a little curly poodle
dog lost her pet and called on the police
to ﬁnd it. The next day one of the force
came with the dog very wet and dirty.

The lady was overjoyed and asked a
lot of questions, one being:

“Where did you find my darling?”

“Why, ma'am," said the ofﬁcer “a.
fellow had him on a pole‘ and was wash-
ing windows with him.”—Selected.

 

 

FARM PAPER SAVES WOMAN’S
LIFE

HE Value of farm papers from

many angles has been feat-
ured. But it may be news
to know that a. farm paper actually
saved the life of Mrs Frank Rose-
bough, Brockport, New York. _.Mrs
Rosebough was reading her paper
when a disgruntled hired man fired
a. shotgun through the window at
’ her husband; The charge missed
the latter and would have. killed
~Mrs. Rosebough except that the
super which was spread: be-
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-BABVI“ON’S QUALoITsY CHICKS

repaid proesl 100 o
> Pure °“English OWhIte, Brown nendP eurr Leghorns "$4. 200 $7. 5000 $13. 00 362%0011200030
wIBrred oolII, Reds, Anoo ............................ 15. 00 72. 00 140.00
b. and Buff Rock 3, sWh. Wyandottes,
Min ........................................ 17. 00 82.00 100.0

map 4.75 9.00
gi'licesnyntdgitus' Prpl%q‘-h '_i'1"'t'31"'d"'t'""""()'ﬁ'i'i G%%D1g'l?I‘IITY” FLOCK 92'
(hoe are orcic ace rom 1 S.
€31?! 1%ng SELECTED FLOCKS will be $3. 00 per 100 higher and 1Chicks
ntcedo BLUE RIBBON PENS will be $5. 00 per 100 higher. Postpaid. 100% live deliver guar-
. ank references. You cannot go wrong. Order from this ad Thousands satisﬂe. Ten
Our Slogan. the best chicks are cheapest, not the cheapest chicks best.
BABION'S FRUIT AND POULTRY FARMS, Flint, Michigan.

LARGE, HUSKY CHICKS

Purebred, lhigh quality chicks from certified, tested 1ﬂ$€ks on free range.

years experience.

 

' Va I‘tle Prices 25 50 500 1000
Is‘hcghagvmte and Brown Leghorn: 058. 3.5% $8. 75 $13 00 $621.38 $120.33
Barred néé'ii's """"""""""""""""""" s. '50 16. 71. 0.
Assorted ohic’ks 5.50 10.§§ 5o :53 1.5...02
Extra Select Stock 52. 00 per 100 higher. Well batched in m d machinea
Each order carefulbi packed under our personal attention. PgstEIaXid.W100%

 

live delivery. Bank reference. 1924 catalog ready.

Winstrom Poultry Farm and Hatchery, Box A-S, Zeeland, Mich.

 

We can save you money on
Ancona and White Leghorn Chicks

Send at once for catalog and prices. We insure

your Chicks for one week.

M. D. WYNGARDEN
Route 4, Box 81 Zeeland, Mich

HIGHEST QUALlTY CERTIFIED BABY CHICKS

 

 

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l’ure Ried 'l‘om Barron En dglish and American While l.,eghorns Anconss Barrel
Plymouth Rocks and Rh 0d e Island Rods. Strong, \Vell-hiitched Chicks from
tested Hoganized F-ree -range stock that make wonderful winter layers.

(”hicks sent by Insured Parcel Post prcpiid to your door. 100% live de-
liveiy guaranteed. Sixteen years of experience in prodmiiig and shipping Chick.
giiing absolute satisfaction to thousands. Write for v.iliiihle illustrated ire.
:stalog (£11111 price list. Get lowest pritc on best quality Chicks before placing
your or cr

HOLLAND I-IATGHERY 8: POULTRY FARM, R, 7, Holland, Mich.

Pure Bred Selected F locks,

, “r ‘ '-'— " 100 Per Cent Live Delivery
Strong sturdy nth-them” grown Chicks. Sela-,tcd pun Inul stm k. Healthy ﬂock-
on free mngc iiisui e strength in eye ry (‘ lll( k (63ch 1mm this -\<

 

 

 
  
 

 
   

 

    

Varieties Prices on 5015001000
,. _ Leghorns (811.36 White and Brown) $7. 00 $13. 00 $38. 00 $82. 00 $120. 00
V H V Barred ROCK ' """"""""""""""" 9. egg 11 8. 5'8?) 333'. 0?) 335'. 30 135100:
White Rocks ‘‘‘‘‘ 0
Mixed Broiler chicks. , . ----------------------------------------------- $10 per 100 SWIM?“
IIiitihed iiiulcr host, conditions in .\(‘\Vi()ll incubatms. luv cry (‘ hick (zirefully iiispccted.100_% 11"
Stale (‘ommcrciiil Savings Bank this (it). \\ rite for prices on

delivery guar. 1 n teed.

special matings NORTHERN HATCHERY, Box 50 Zeeland,

Rafe-Elena
GREAT Michigan.

B&R CHICKS

ARE THE GOOD KIND

fem Bemn Imported We hatch chicks from ﬂoch

 
    
 
    
    

and Hollywood strains
which have had our own
ShC White LnghorIIs Soiml attention. Every gird
OPP-f ' mucus is (‘l‘lltf'lllU selected by us for

S. C. Mottled Anconss
and Park’s Bred to
Lay Barred Rocks. All
Fr ee range ﬂocks,
carefully culled and eel-tilled
by experts and bred many years
for high egg production. Ped. -
greed males from 250 to 280
can strains and from hens that
produced leading pen in Michigan’s Inter-
national Laying contest, head our ﬂocks. Eggs
from these lemons strains hatched with scrupulous
care in our Mod ern Mammoth Incubators produce
strong, husky, peppy chicks that are easy to raise
and become mansions layers. Chicks are shipped
‘ postnaid.100% live delivery guaranteed. Write for
, our big tree Illustrated catalog

Silver Ward Hatchery, Box 30‘Zeeland.Mleh

lust production. A pure— bred
(hick 11pm us has the breed-
ing to grow into a ﬁne mone
mikiiig low.l. Sand for f

iutoiniiilioii 100% live d0-
llVOl‘y guaranteed. All pop-
. . llllll‘ Imeds. “8 hope you
Will give us a trial order foi that will mean a
permanent customer, we are sure. Write todsaL

Borst & Rock, Box 10, Zeeland, Mich.

Quality Chicks at Reasonable Prices

E n g l l s h White Leghorns, Parks'
Strain Barred Rocks, S. c. Black
Minox c215 Reds and Anconas. My
po-ii in)» .it the 1923 Mich. Con-
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, h oiei 1:00 lugs ouli, and one with a

1m roved S C Ite eg orns li'llllll of ;. ii 1.41.5 was seventh high-
p e e mi imliiid iil foi the entire contest.
mm liiids ioiiipilmg.i‘:ita108 free.

BRED FOR EGG PRODUCTION SINCE 1910
PINE BAY POULTRY FARM

 

 

'H l (' K H fioiii this high
Lil :‘ill (‘Lﬂh l:l\llIL',’ hil': llil \\'1 Holland
Lille \ou :1 bigmi piolit. :nul M‘Ch'gan-
absolute sutistuctiotii. 111ch1
have 13 years o care 11
:iilciting iind liiceding direit c & 99$
lltlllnd them, and mature in

45 I000 PURE BRED BREEDERS 15 varieties. BOII
laying strains. Incubatc25 000 eggs daily. Catalog Fro;
Prewer prloes. Free live delivery.

Missouri Poultry Farms, Columbia. Mo

(Other Chick Ads on Page 19)

For Asthma
During Winter

A Remarkable Mcthod That Has Come
to the Rescue of Asthinntics and
(‘liccks the \Vorst Attacks—

the shortest possible time.
)ou beneﬁt by our 13 years .-
iii hatiliing and shipping
(lll(1(S ’I‘liese chicks possess
great vitality and grow up
uniform 1n Size.100% safe
Let us mail you our cats-

 

 

arrival guaranteu]
logue with prices.

WOLVERINE HATCHERY, Zeelsnd, Mich, R.2
C H I C K S — Investigate

Our chicks are the kind
that make good. Every
ﬂock is carefully culled and
mated. We have been in
business seven years and
have been building care-
, fully and consistently to 8.
hi I: tglace where hwe can offer
0 c s more an wort t e money we g 5
ask. SINGLE COMB ENGLISH srauN, 6"? TOM." for
XV§ICIEEALEGFORNS BARRED ROCKS, 1m? Tm”

N S 00% live delivery guaran- If you suffer with th _ _
teed. Investigate our proposition before Lacks Of Asthma when Gite £61331)? aiitd
buying. A postal will bring full infor- damp; if you choke as if each gaSp of
mation. . breath was the very last, don’t fail to
STAR HATCHERY, Box 23,Holland, BIIclI. Send at 0112.. to the l‘lOiltlf‘l‘ ASthma Co

DUNDEE CHICKS .

method. Noe matter wheie you live or
PURE BRED CULLED FLOCKS

whether you have any faith in an
y reim-
edy under the Sun, send for the free trial.
g1 yiou lﬁve suffered for a lifetime and
e W1 on
Our chicks are from pure bred ﬂocks carefully known to chine gvliIligFlIewrﬁgsihf befﬁ Ski“
culled b experts. Anconas are direct fromS Shep tacks of Asth f erri e at-
pard. e horn ﬂocks headed by males2 from Mic « ma i YOU are dlSCOUI‘S-ged
Igan Ag. cell e.ge Rocks are from a 2-30 302 egg
strain. Reds are Liddicoat’s best. Write for cat-
alo e and price list. save you money.

beyond hope send for this free trial.
It It- is the only way you can ever know
Re erence, Dundee State Savings Bank. this city.
Dundee Hatchery, Box B, Dundee, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

what progress is doing for you in s ite
of all your past disappointments in ylhur
search for freedom from Asthma. So
send for this free trial Do it now. This
OHIGKS WHITE LEGHORNS $12 PER 100, notice is cpublished that every sufferer
$6.25 for 50 and $3 25 for 25. may parti te in this progressive meth—
Barred Rocks and Reds $16 per 100. $3.50 for 0d and ﬁrst try the treatment free that
50'kiind $4.25 for 2538 \g'hifte \y andottes§4anil is now known to thousands as the great
Buc p _, . or o . an . est boon that ever cam -
for 25. Buff Or ingtons 18 er 100. 9.25 8 into their lives
for 50. and $4.6 for 25$ SE; n ”h 100 Send coupon today. Don’t wait
chicks with order will book your order. B use
two weeks before delivery. live (is very
gusts rat.need Refer r:ence Bank of Morr
Meadow Brook Hatchery. R1. Mt. Morris, Mloh.

 

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FRONTIBIR AM
new rd. ......

Said tree 1:th of your method to:

 

BABY CHICKS From Best Produoln Free Range
ﬂocks. Hi heat utiﬂty qualitéw beggfo (fwd
purposes ent post lpaid 1 0% live sliver!
guaranteed. Write .
HOMER NATO“ rRY, Homer, Michigan. ‘

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Foors's MARKET 1.st

BY W. w. FOOTE
Plans of Farmers

RMER'S are looking into the

future and laying their plans

for next spring, trying to learn
from the past how best to avoid such
mistakes as they have made. Mich-
igan farmers are as a rule less in—
clined to devote too many acres to
one crop than farmers of several
other states, and agricultural and
live stock are carried on in a con-
servative way generally, but it is a
fact that in growing wheat many
farmers have overdone it and have
suffered ﬁnancially in common with
farmers in other important wheat
It is almost a foregone con-
clusion that they Will diversify their
farming from now on, and some of
them are preparing to utilize tracts
not well adapted for raising crops to
setting out forest trees, while others
are making arrangements for set-
ting out young fruit trees, as well as
grape vines and berries. Just now
there is quite a spread in the culti-
vation of orchards of apples and
peaches, and the cherry tree is be-
coming highly popular in parts of
the state. Cherries are much util-
ized in making pies and beverages,
and every year the demand for them
increases. Farmers are apt to be a
little impatient about waiting too
long for the trees to bear fruit, and
nurserymen are called upon to pro—
duce a quick maturing, low grow-
ing cherry tree that will bear fruit
within two or three years. Dairy

 

interests are coming to the front

in Michigan, as well as in other
states of the middle west, and H01—
stein dairy cows are in increasing
demand, with sales in the Chicago
stock-yards at $50 to $90 per head,
and some cheaper cows around $35.
It is always interesting to learn of
big achievements in dairying, and
the 150 high producing herd of
purebred Holsteins owned by the
Iowa State Hospital for the Insane
boasts of a cow that made 150
pounds of butter in thirty days.
High-bred dairy cows sell high, but
if a farmer can pay the price, the re—
turns justify what seems perhaps
rank extravagence. Michigan is a
famous state for the sheep industry,
and lots of money is gathered these
times on ﬂocks of sheep and lambs,
the wool item being a highly lucra-
tive one. And yet the sheep indus-
try of this country is falling serious—
ly below the actual requirements,
while the relatively small number of
sheepmen are making all kinds of
money, with recent advances of as
much as $1 per 100 pounds in a
week in the Chicago market. The
Chicago Board of Trade is to assist
the bankers in getting the ten mil-
lion dollars needed for the farm
credit corporation recently organiz-
ed. The money market is steady,
Chicago banks loaning at 5 to 5%
per cent.
What Will Wheat Do?

There are differences of opinion,
of course, on this extremely import-
ant question, but there is a pretty
general belief that startling changes
in prices are not likely to occur in
the immediate future and the ulti-
mate valuation will be largely gov-
erned by the course of action adopt-
ed by the federal government in
legislating on the tariff and other
matters affecting wheat. Of late
any fair advances in wheat prices
have been followed by moderate re-
actions, and from one week to an-
other quotable alterations are usual-
ly comparatively unimportant. Na—
turally, increasing the duty on im-
ported wheat would put a check on

our exports, and for weeks past the

exports of wheat and flour have
been quite ,moderate in volume. The
way it looks now is that we are ap-
proaching the time when we must
consume at home such wheat as our
farmers raise. The high cost of
wheat production may be expected
to result in considerably curtailing
the wheat acreage, and it is hoped
that ultimately there will be read-
justment in prices between farm

products and commodities purchased

by farmers.‘ Statistically, there is

Vno marked change, and the visible

‘ f

 

 

 

MARKET SUMMARY
Slack demand for wheat turns prices slightly lower. Corn,

oats and rye unchanged.
trading inactive.

and ﬁm. Good demand for dressed Calves.

Sheep aﬁd hogs higher.

Butter in demand. Eggs easy.

Beans steady after small decline,

Poultry scarce ,
Cattle trade active.

 

I
(Note: The above summarized Informatlon
list page was set In type. It oontalm lest mlnute
going to press -—Edltor.)

was received AFTER the balance of the mar-
lnformstlon up to wlthln one-ball hour of

 

 

wheat supply in this country, while
showing weekly reductions, is still
much larger than a year ago. It is
practically certain that marketing of
wheat for the near future will show
gains, as farmers will want to avoid
paying taxes on their holdings. State
taxes in North Dakota are. so high
that farmers are allowed two' per—
iods for payment. Many bills have
been introduced in Congress for
helping farmers in marketing their
wheat, the most. important one being
the McNary-Haugen bill for approp-
riating $75,000,000 to aid in divers-
ifying farming. May delivery wheat
sells around $1.10. .

A Minneapolis grain man ﬁgures
that there is enough spring wheat
to supply northwestern mills with
280,000 bushels a day until the new
crop is harvested. He says mills are
actually grinding 400,000 bushels
per day, adding that “an increased
tariff would insure the northwest
taking wheat from the west and
southwest, and perhaps our suppos-
ed surplus will look like a deficiency
later in, the season.”

Corn, Oats and Rye

Corn and cats have continued to
sell in the Chicago market at con-
siderably higher prices than a year
ago, while rye has sold much below
prices paid at that time. As for
corn, many farmers are quite bullish
in sentiment, realizing that very lit—
tle old corn was carried over from
the 1922 crop. At the same time
many farmers will sell part of their
surplus corn early to avoid paying
taxes on their grain. The Visible
corn supply is now increasing con—
siderably, and prices in the future
will be governed very largely by the
volume of farm marketing. At the
same time farmers are now asleep,
and they have held a meeting in Des
Moines, Iowa, where more than one
hundred farmers of several. states
perfected an organization to be
knowu as .The Corn Growers’ As-
sociation. The farmers were large-
ly from Iowa, but also came from
Illinois, Kansas and South Dakota,
and those present were determined
to obtain at least production cost
for their corn, ﬁguring this at over
$1 a bushel. Although the corn in
sight is growing in volume, it is still
not much over half 'as large as a
year ago, and very little is being ex-
ported to foreign countries, where-
as a year ago it was exported with
fair freedom. A great deal of corn
has gone from the northwest to Du-
luth. The visible oats supply in
this country is down to 17,526,000
bushels, comparing with 30,296,000
bushels a year ago, and exports are
not large. The rye visible supply is
up to 20,538,000 bushels, compar—
ing with 12,946,000 bushels a year
ago, while prices are unusually low,
and yet exports are meager, compar-
ing with fair exports a. year ago.
May delivery corn sells around 81
cents, May oats at 49 cents and May
rye at 72 cents.

Bullish Factor in Corn

“The most brilliant factor in the
corn situation is the failure of coun—
try elevators to accumulate a stock
of winter shelled grain,” says Bur-
ton Hungerford, the Logan & Bryan
crop observer. “Central Illinois ele-
vators probably have an average of
4,000 bushel on hand or about 20
per cent of normal at this season.
Movement is likely to fall off sharp-
ly, as farmers have already delivered
75 to 80 per cent of the grain that
had been sold to country dealers.”
Successful Farmers’ Creamery
C. B. Moody, secretary of the lone
Farmers’ Creamery association, .. of
Iowa has just issued his-annual re-

. port-gfor 1923. The'repo-rt was set- "

  

heavy butchers sellin

isfactory to the patrons who realized
a large sum or money for their dairy
products. .

The creamery received 259,392.9
pounds of butter fat and paid $115,-
304.82 for it; hauling cost, $8,347.-
99; labor and salaries, $3,411.86;
coal, salt and other items, $6,073.37,
Ilngaskiﬂg the amount paid out $133,-

The creamery made 320,473
pounds of butter and shipped to
eastern markets 293,195 pounds, for
which it received $120,519.66. But-
ter sold to patrons amounted to $6,—
580.59 and that sold at retail
brought $4,139.04. The average
overrun for the year was 23 per
cent; average price received for all
butter, 42 cents. "

Choice Cattle Sell Higher

There has been a marked improve-
-ment in the consumption of beef in
the United States \recently, and de—
spite the largely increased cattle re-
ceipts in the Chicago market, the
choicer beeves, long-fed heavy steers
especially, have sold higher. Only
a few weeks back the 'local packers
and eastern shippers greatly favored
the better class of yearlings and
readily paid a handsome premium
over prices for the choicest heavy
steers; but of late this rule was re-
versed, and yearlings sold much
lower than weighty cattle of the
best class.» The bulk of the beef
steers sold recently at $8 to $11,
with the best weighty steers pur-
chased at $10.70 to $11.70 and the
best yearlings at $10.50 to $11.50.
Steers of good grade sold at $9.50
and upward, with sales ' down to
$6.25 to $7.50 for the cheaper class
of light steers, and inferior little
steers selling at $4.50 to $6.20. A
few light weight cattle have sold
especially well, and the other day
a sale was made of 29 steers and
heifers averaging 724 pounds at $10-
50, while a little later the best steers
and heifers mixed averaging 873 lbs.
sold at $11. Fair to prime cows
and heifers found buyers at $3.50 to
$8 mostly and canner and cutter
cows at $2 to $3.40, with bulls sell-
ing at $3.50 to $6 and calves at $5
to $13.50. A small winter trade is
witnessed in stockers and feeders,
sales being mainly at $5 to $7.50
and a few sales of ﬂeshy feeders for
a short finish at $7.75 to $8.25.
Farmers wanting cattle for feeding
are able to pick up good bargains. A
year ago common to prime beef
steers sold in Chicago at $6.25 to
$10.25 and two years ago at $6.25
to $9.20. Well ﬁnished beef cattle
are bringing good proﬁts. Last
week's large receipts resulted in'-a
moderate decline except in the best.

Hogs Plentiful and Wanted

The huge production of hogs has
stood in the way of placing the mar-
ket on a higher price basis. although
the trade requirements beat all past
records. The really surprising thing
is that the shrinkage in prices has
not been even greater. The large
decline which has taken place in
hogs is reﬂected in corresponding
declines in prices for hog- products,
especially fresh meats, and reduced
values account for the enormous ex-
ports of provisions.
heavy purchases of hogs by Chicago
packers, there has been about the
largest demand in that market for
hogs to ship east ever known, and
this makes lively competition at
times. At the present time the high
price of corn is causing increased
marketing of young hugs, and re-
ceipts averaging 229 pounds, being
ﬁve pounds less than a year ago.

The bulk of. the hogs sell within a.
,_ ”with the» best :1
5*,csnis’ihave, “ m

range of 20 cents,

In addition to .

   

as

prime light bacon weights. Late

sales were made in the Chicago mar-4

hot at $6 to $7.15,‘the top being -

25 cents lower than a week earlier.
Combined receipts in twenty markets
for the year to late date. aggregate

7,942,000 hogs, comparing with 7,»

003,000 a year ago.

Great Boom in Lambs

Months ago predictions were made
that much higher prices were in
store for prime lambs because of the
short supply, and toda ythe prophets
are surprised by the great boom
which has taken place, the best ﬂocks
haying sold in the Chicago market
Within a short time as high as $15.75
per 100 pounds, with sales down 'to
$15 for the next best class, and
feeder lambs bringing $13.50 to $14.4-
25. Looking backward, it ,is recalled
that at this time in 1915 lambs said
at $9.25 to $9.75. The best year-
lings sell for $13.75, the ,best ewes
at $10 and the best wethers at $11.-
75. Many farmers regret that they
did not engage in the sheep industry
months ago when urged to do so,
but there is yet time and wise ones
$3112ng th$eli11‘ luck. Wethers sell at

. o and earlin s a
to $13.75. y g t $12

 

WHEAT
Trading was quiet in the wheat
market at Detroit last week andthe
general tone ”was easy until the clos-
ing day when a slight ﬁrmness de-
veloped. Prices declined and then
advanced leaving them at the same
level as quoted in last issue. De-
mand and receipts remain about as
they were two weeks ago,
southern millers the best buyers and
farmers not ready sellers. Some ex—
port demand is reported but not

enough to effect prices.

 

CORN

Contrary to expectations receipts
of corn from farms increased during
the fortnight closing Saturday of
last week and the market showed
some signs of weakening. ‘ Many

dealers continue to believe in higher *

prices and if receipts again decline
there is no‘ doubt in the minds of
many but that there will be an ad-
vance. Buyers complain about the
quality of receipts declaring that
very little good corn is being sent to
market.

 

OATS
The oat market at Detroit continu-
ed unchanged in tone while prices
declined a cent under two weeks
ago. Demand is not active.

 

RYE ,
Rye followed the trend of oats
during the two weeks ending Feb-
ruary 23rd and is quoted a cent

 

under two weeks ago. A dull tone
prevails.
~ BEANS

Beans are inactive and steady
with prices slightly lower at most
of the larger markets. Detroit
quotations show a decline of from
20 to 25 cents per hundred pounds.
Demand is slow and mostly of a loc-
al nature at present. Anyone in-
terested in Michigan beans should
read the letter, “The Future of the
Bean Market” by Mr. Benjamin
Gerks on page 6 of this issue.

’ POTATOES
The potato market is steady at
most points with trading from

steady to dull. Detroit market has
a fair demand and trading moderate.
At‘Chicago the market is slow with
demand light and eastern markets
are in about the same condition as
the Chicago market.

' HAY .

Eastern markets are lower due
principally to the large amount ‘of
poor hay. arriving. Some markets
are overstocked with this descrip-
tion and it drags 'atfirregular and
uncertain ﬁgures. The demand for

approachfof-Vsprln is weaken! ' the

with .

the best grades continues steady but f
offerings of misnomer? smith?“

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_ “201' this time of year.

"-111. A. o.

2..1.14% No. 2 White, $1.15?
‘; N6. 2- mixed, 31.14%.
. Chicago—Gash No. 3 red, $1.10;
.No. 2 hard, 3.1 10@1.14.

Prices one year agw—Detroit,

.13th No.2 red, $1.35; No.2 White,

31. 35; No. 2 mixed, $1. 83.
Corn

Detroit—Cash No. 3 yellow, 82c: .

No. 4, 80¢.

Chicago—Cash No. '2 yellow,
8239c; No. 2 mixed, 80c.
Prices one year ago—Detroit,

Cash No. 2 yellow, 79c; No. 3, 770;
No. 4, 75¢.
Oats

Detroit—~0ash No. 2 white, 58c;
M6113. 5136c. -
hicago—-Cash No. 2 white, 49@
'06; No.3, 47%0‘9c.
Prices one year ago—Detroit,
Cash No. 2 whiteﬁu‘ﬁc; No. 3, (Bo.

ye
Detroit—Cash No. 2, 73¢.
Chicago—MN o. 2, 71¢.
Prices one year ago—Detroit,
Cash No. 2, Bio.

Beans
Detroit—C. H. P., $4.75 per cwt.
, Prices one year ago—Detroit,
0. H. P., $7.80 per cwt.
‘ Potatoes
’ Detroit—$1.60@1.66 per cwt.
Chicago—$1.20@1.40 per cwt.
Prices one year ago—Detroit,
$1.07@1.‘13 per cwt.
Ha

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Detroit—No. 1 timothy, $23.50@

24; No. 2, $21@22; No. 1 clover,
$20.50@21; standard and light mix—
ed, $22.50@23 per ton.
‘ Chicago—No. 1 timothy, $26@
27; No. 2, $.25@26_; No. 1 clover,
322@23; light timothy & clover
mixed, $24@25 per ton.

Prices one year ago—-—Detroit,
No. 1 timothy, _$16@16.50; No. 2,
314@15; No. 1 clover, $13@14;
standard and light mixed, $15.50@
16 per ton.

 

 

 

 

Week of March 2

OLLOWING the generally fair
weather which we are expect-

_ .ing at beginning of. this week
the weather will become unsettled
and 'mild; maximum , temperatures
ranging between 50 and 55 degrees.
During Tuesday, Wednesday and
probably Thursday there will be

storms of rain er snow and gales in ‘

Michigan. We are not expecting
precipitation to be as heavy as last
week but the high winds may do
more or as much damage as the
snow or rain itself in many parts of
the state. ,

About Friday and not later than
Saturday temperatures will drop
rapidly to a minimum between 18
and 23 degrees. The weather at

.end of this week will average clear

although there may be some local
snow ﬂurries.
Week of March 9

This week opens in Michigan with
a very severe storm of rain or snow
and wind. Because of the high tem-
peratures expected during early
part of week, most of precipitation
will be in form of rain during ﬁrst
part of storm period.-

Following this storm period tem-
peratures will fall and continue on
the downward trend until Friday.
There may be a reaction to warmer
and some storminess within a day
or so of the storm period of early
part of week but this will not last
long. Eventually temperatures will
drop to readings close to the 20 de-
gree mark and the skies about
Thursday and Friday will be clear.

Balance of March Wet, Windy

'The last half of March is expected
to show precipitation above the nor-

mal in Michigan and the wind move- ‘

ment will also be above the average
Nevertheless,
we .are expecting that the month
will‘ go out like a lamb in most parts
of the state.

 

COW SETS WORLD’S
PRODUCTION RECORD .
“ BAYURA IV, " a two-year—old

 

 

brown Swiss cow bred and
by- the m:

 

  
 
  

The neweSt addition to the M. A.
C. family of recdrd breakers is a

' daughter of Bravura III, which pre-

viously held the world’s record for

atwo- year—old brown Swiss. Furth-
er right to the title of queen is ad-
duced from the fact that Bravura
III is a double great granddaughter
of College Bravura II, a cow that for
many years held the brown Swiss

’ production record for all ages. The

present record holder, Bravura IV,

is a descendent from maternal an-

cestors, which tor ﬁve generations
have been bred and raised by the
college.

The new record was made by per-
sistency of production. Her largest
milk ﬂow for a month was 1, 694. 7
pounds, with a milk production for
the last full calendar month of 1, -

238. 2 pounds and for the last day.

on test of 41 pounds of milk. The
average butter fat test tor the year
was 4.10 per cent tat.

WRITING “MOVIES"
(Continued from Page 15)

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ity—-serviceability--to make a low price.

Look Through this Catalogue Again A

You buy something every week. This
book, therefore, offers you a saving every
week. Before you buy, look through your
Catalogue—compare prices. Remember our
Guarantee of Quality. Remember our Guar-
antee of Satisfactione-“Your money back if
anything does not please you.”

Use your Catalogue. Study every de-
partment of this book. There 18 a saving for
you in everything you wear and use. There
is a saving for you ‘on everything for the

Home, the Farm and the Family.

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FOR WOMEN AND MISSES: Newh York 1:
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Fashion. Therefore W,a.rd' a Fashion ngpeerts
live in New York to select all of the best styles

’ for you And when you buy your clothes at

Ward's you get the newest. most beautiful
gylgs without paying the usual “Fashion
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HOME FURNISHING: was}: a delightful

select from
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choose everything! on: his big Catalogue.
the saving you make enables you to buy many
more things than you expect.

 

FOR MEN AND BOYS: This Catalogue will
interest you for

hours if you will study the hundreds of articles

for men. young men and boys Everything yea

wear. or like. or use. from 'suits to spo

goods. from a knife to all kinds oi tools are

0 tiered. always at a saving.

 

FOR THE HOUSE: Rooting. fencing. oul-

try supplies. 111111 ing.
electric ii htlng. furnaces. stoves. an the most
wonderful bargains in furniture. yes. even to
doors and mill work and the house itself All
can be bought at Ward's with certain satisfac-
tion and at a big saving.

 

FORMAUTOMOBILE: Riverside Ovesb -

guaranteed! mil '31 C1°MToi1mm
or 10,000 es an as
than that. will save you one-third.uw1myg:'y
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mobile 0! standard make and quality. andm with
a big saving for you.

 

FOR THE FARM. For Fifty —one years we

have studied the farmer' s
needs. For ﬁfty-one years we have been friends
with the American farmer. We have experts in
every branch of farm work to study what lasts
longest. what gives the best satisfaction in
actual use. ality ﬁrst for the Farmer is our
policy. but a ways we offer a sa

24-Hour Service
We have perfected our service for
you. After much study and testing
new systems and employing experts
we have perfected a system that:
makes certain your orders will be
shipped promptly.
records prove" that during
the past year most of our orders
were shipped in 24 hours—nearly all
of our orders within 48 hours.

   

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