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* Could Our Tax Totals Be Held Down By Law?

Michigan Real Estate Association Advocates Fixing by Law Absolute Maximum Amount of Money
to be Raised by Taxation During Given Period

By STANLEY M. POWELL

(Lansing Correspondent of The Business Farmer.)

i

has been our purpose in prepar-
ing this series of taxation arti-

cles not merely to call attention '
'to taxation conditions already too

well realized through very bitter ex-
perience, but to point out as accur—
ately as possible the conditions as
they exist and then to discuss some
of the proposed remedies frankly
and fairly and from an unprejudiced
view—point. ‘

We loathe and despise the cheap
and shallow clap-trap of political
demagogues, but we feel keenly that
there is a tremendous need for more
education and popular understand—
ing on this great matter of an equitd
able distribution of the ever—increas-
ing cost of governmental support.

The subject of taxation is alto-
gether too broad, too deep, too com—
prehensive, too far-reaching in its
eﬂects and ramifications to be treat-
ed adequately in any one article—
or even in any few articles. From
the standpoint of citizen ship and
self-government there is no more
pressing problem confronting the
American public today. This truth
was recently uttered with remark—
able emphasis by our President.
His statement comes to us with un-
usual force and signiﬁcance.

Taxes and Freedom

“Taxes,” said Calvin Coolidge,
“are fundamental. They mean more
than money. A dollar belongs pri-
marialy to the man who earns it.
We work for the government to the
extent of the taxes we pay and to
that extent do we give up our free—
dom. The history of the struggle
for freedom is largely a history of
a struggle against taxation.”

Again in a public speech, the
President declared, “As the stand—
ard of civilization rises, there is
necessity for a larger and larger
outlaygto maintain the cost of ex—
istence. As the activities of gov-
ernment increase, as it extends its
ﬁeld of operation, the initial tax
which it required becomes manifold-
ed many times when it is ﬁnally ap-
plied by the ultimate consumer.
When there is added to this aggra-
vated ﬁnancial condition an increas-
ing amount of regulation and police
control, the burden of it all becomes
very great." ,

More Than One Remedy

We have already discussed in this
series of articles a few of the pro-
posed remedies for the present dis-
tresing tax situation which exists in
Michigan today. We have told how
the proposed state income tax might
largely or entirely replace the gen—
eral property tax for state purposes.
We have discussed the justice and
feasibility of raising» the necessary
revenue for highway construction
and maintenance through a state
gasoline tax. We have pointed out
that what funds are spent must
ﬁrst be raised and have conse—
quently pled for economy. We have
shown the fundamental importance
of assessment and the absolute nec-
essity of a fair deal between farms
and city property. We have called
attention to the growing menace of
tax—exempt securities and have ar-
gued for the abolition of this gross
class privilege. We have stressed
the importance of having our for-
estry tax adapted to a long—time
crop like timber.

These several remedies taken col—
lectively constitute a fairly compre-
hensive program of taxation reform.
But let no one think that these are

1 the only planks which might be in-

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cluded in a tax revision platform.
Many other proposals are being en-
thusiastically advb’cated by. various
groups and organizations. For in-
stance, the Michigan Real Estate As-
sociation feels that the way to keep

l, taxes down is to ﬁx by law an abso-

lute maximum amount of money
which might be raised by taxation
during any given period. They be-
lieve that this is the most effective
way to approach the problem. Ac-
cording to their scheme it would be
necessary for budget makers to ﬁx
their appropriations according to
the funds available—to cut the gar-
ment according to the cloth at hand,
as it were.
Limiting Taxes By Law

Now tax limitation is not wholly
a new and radical innovation in tav—
ation practice. At least one state,
Ohio, has ﬁxed a maximum tax
rate. However, the results of rate
regulation have not been wholly
satisfactory. The reason for this
condition is not diﬂicult to ﬁnd.
When the maximum rate as estab-
lished under such a system failed to
bring in the desired amount of rev-
enue it was too easy to increase as-
sessed valuations and thus destroy
the entire purpose of the tax limita—
tion statute.

The Michigan Real Estate, Assoc—
iation proposes to get around this

difﬁculty by limiting not the rate
which might be levied, but the
amount which might be raised.
While no state has as yet enacted a.
law following this so-called Mich-
igan idea, it is not, however, with-

out high oﬂicial endorsement. For
instance, John A Zangerle, county
auditor of Cayahoga county, Ohio

(the county in which Cleveland is
located), in a scholarly and compre~
hensive address delivered before the
National Tax Association declared:

“For a number of years I have
favored tax rate limitation laws as
tending towards public cooperation
in securing more vigorous assess—
ments. Not the ﬁrm, drastic, inﬂex—
ible kind, but limitations subject to
change by popular vote. Popular
votes on tax increases serve to edu—
cate the public as to public needs
and budgetary requirements and in-
vite support to the assessor’s activi-
ties.

“However, such laws tend to de—
press assessments when ‘rates’ are
authorized. When, for example,
with a limited tax rate of $1 per

About 200 Attend Feeders’ Day at M. A. C.

IVESTOCK Feeders’ Day at the
L Michigan Agricultural College,
Wednesday, June 18th, was at—
tended by about two hundred farm-
ers and feeders, which is a very
good number for the busy season of
the year. At about 10:30 those in
attendance assembled at the hog
plant where eight lots of hogs
which had just been ﬁnished for
market were discussed by Prof. G.
A. Brown.

From there a visit was made to
the work hose barns where nine
teams of farm work horses are be-
ing fed experimentally on two dif—
ferent rations, one horse in each
team receiving corn and alfalfa hay,
and, the other horse corn, oats, and
timothy hay. Prof. R. S. Hudson
discussed the horse work.

The horse breeding barns and
paddocks were next inspected. The
international grand champion Belg-
ian mare, Pervenche, the junior
champion Belgian stallion, Range
Line Phoenix, and other prize win-
ning horses of the Belgian, Perch—
eron and Clyesdale breeds were seen
under home conditions.

The calf feeding pens were visit-
ed last, where three lots of Texas
bred calves, had just finished a feed—
ing trial of 190 days length.

At two o’clock the visitors as-
sembled in the Agricultural Build—
ing, where Dean J. H. Skinner, of
Purdue University, gave a very ex-
cellent summary of cattle feeding
results at that institution. Their re-
sults of~2_Q years experimental work
show some very deﬁnite things of
value to cattle feeders.

He showed how the ration of corn
and timothy, or prairie hay had
been eliminated from the practical
cattle feeder’s farm. The addition
of silage to the corn and legume
hay ration cheapens the cost of
grain. A protein concentrate, cot-
tonseed meal, or linseed meal, also
increased the profits.

Some dry roughage was found to
be essential in the silage ration. A
full feed of corn was found to be
more proﬁtable than either no corn
feed or a half feed of. corn with
gilage, cotton seed meal and clover

ay. _

He also gave a summary cost of

production of beef covering sixty—
two hundred cattle under various
conditions in which the original cost
of the cattle and the feed cost com—
prised 87.7 percent of the total
cost; the other factors such as lab-
or, interest, taxes, etc., each made
up only a small part of the cost.
This fact shows that While these
smaller items of cost are important
in themselves, the most fundament—
al essentials are to buy right, to
feed most economically and to sell
well.

Mr. Charles Stewart, Executive
Secretary of the National Livestock
Producers Associate, Chicago, set
out some principles on which that
organization stands.

The Producers believe in the
terminal market as an agency for
marketing livestock and are oppos—
ed to direct buying from the farm
by the packers. They do not propose
to eliminate the middleman, but do
believe that some of his methods
might well be changed.

They do not depend too strongly
on legislation as a means of reform
in marketing, except in so far, as to
give the farmer and stockman an
equal chance with other business.
They believe in the National Pack-
ers and Stock Yards act. They are
willing to give credit to the present
marketing agencies for the good
they accomplished, but believe their
selﬁsh interest will prevent their
accomplishing some reforms that
the cooperation agencies can bring
about. They are depending upon
the law of supply and demand as
the strong stalilizing force, subject
to inﬂuence of certain outside facts
and believe that through extended
organization producers can control
the marketing of cattle to the ad-
vantage of both the producers and
to trade: >

Through charts he showed the
ﬂuctuations of receipts, top' prices
and average prices, both by months
for 1923, and by years for the past
twenty-ﬁve years. The September
decline in average prices is due to
increased receipts of western cattle,
he said. It is impossible for feed-
ers to market half-fat steers at that
time at year at a proﬁt.

$100 the people vote an increase of
5 to 15 mills for 1 to 5 years on the
existing duplicate, levied on 50 per
cent values, where is the assessor in-

sane enough to suddenly increase
real estate assessments 10 0 per
cent. It is obvious, when tax-

spending authorities have their av-
enue of escape, by means of public-
ly authorized rates, assessment in-
creases must suffer. Under rate
limitation laws, amounts only
should be authorized, not rates.”
Here Is the Plan

To get a clearer understanding of
the desires and plans of the Mich—
igan Real Estate Association, let
us consider some rather extended
extracts from an article which ap—
peared in a recent issue of the Mich—
igan Property Owner, the ofﬁcial
publication of the/Association:

“To write into the constitution of
the State of Michigan a limitation of
the amount of taxes that may be
levied against real property for
state purposes, is a task to which
the Michigan Real Estate Associa-
tion, through its executive commit—
tee, has re—pledged its service. Tax
limitation will be the major legis—
lative objective of the association
before the 1925 session of the legis-
lature. Tax limitation will be the
dominating note of the association’s
tax discussions until the opening of
legislature.

“Study (and the study has not
been superﬁcial) gives convincing
support to the conclusion that the
present gross discrimination against
real estate in proportioning tax
burdens never will be appreciably
lessened until real estate is shielded
by the state constitution.

“It is against this discrimination
toward real estate—~21. discrimina—
tion that levies 79 1/é per cent of the
taxes upon a class of property repre-
senting only 35 per cent of the
wealth; a discrimination that re-
tards thrift, dwarfs the ambition to
own and defend home and falls with
blighting severity upon thousands
unable to pay—it is against this
discrimination that the Michigan
Real Estate Association voices a. de-
termined protest and pledges anew
the vigor of its services. When the
discrimination is removed and the
proportions of the burden are equit-
ably distributed, the amount of the
burden will not be especially
troublesome.

“Study seems to indicate that real
estate's proportion of the tax bur-
den will not be very satisfactorily
adjusted by the remedies most fre-
quently suggested. Economy is ad~'
vocated and economy should be ex-
ercised but lessened expenditures
will advantage all classes of import—
ant tax payers in about the same de-
gree and will not tend to equalize
the load. New sources of revenue
are suggested as a relief to real
estate but we ﬁnd little in the ex-
perience of other states to support
this hope. Almost without excep-
tion new incomes have prompted
new or greater expenditures. The
new income has been consumed and
property taxes have continued up—
ward.

To Hobble Taxes

“The Michigan Real Estate Asso—
ciation believes that as a ﬁrst step
property taxes should be hobbled—~—
tied down so that they can’t leap.
The association would accomplish
this by limiting them—-—by writing it
into the state constitution a provision
that would say to members of the
legislature, ‘Gentlemen, you shall not
command the real estate of Michigan
to pay more than a certain amount
in taxes.’ The amount would be fix-
ed in dollars. With such a. provision

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By E. c. FOREMAN

Professor of Poultry Husbandry, Michigan Agricultural College

'UCCEISSFUL poultrymen apprec-
iate more and more each year
the real value of systematic

culling and selective breeding, as a
factor of major importance in the
economic production of eggs.

Trapnest records show a wide
range of production among individ-
uals maintained under identical con-
ditions of housing, feeding, and
general management. Thirty per
cent of the farm hens lay less than
seven dozen eggs per year. Such
hens are unproﬁtable and should be
eliminated at this time, thereby
saving a seven months’ feed bill, be-
cause their productive season is
limited entirely to the spring and
summer months or the low egg
price season.

A well bred hen 'with ability to
lay from 180 to 200 eggs per year
will produce one dozen eggs on ﬁve
pounds of feed, at a cost of twelve
cents per dozen. She not only ex-
cels as an economical producer, but
,the generous distribution of eggs
during practically every month of
the year enhances her earning ca—
pacity because many eggs are laid
during the high price season.

Fortunately the ‘accumulated
knowledge resulting from a careful
study of individual hens with high
and low ofﬁcial trapnest records
makes it possible to accurately
weed out unproﬁtable stock and seg—
regate the [most productive individ—
uals for foundation breeding stock.

Intelligent culling at this time.
means as many eggs from fewer
hens. Selective breeding results in
more eggs from the same number of
hens. Production costs are reduc-
ed in either case, but maximum ef-
ﬁciency calls for the application of
both.

The two terms, culling and selec-
tion, should have ascribed to them
somewhat different meanings, ac-
cording to their general application.
‘Culling of poultry is usually based
upon physiological changes that the

. hen undergoes as a result of produc-
tion. The weakness of the common—
ly advocated systems of culling is
that the fowls must be retained
from six to eight months, sometimes
at a loss, before the tests become
valuable. .Selection for egg produc-
tion requires a little more skill but
also has greater possibilities. Selec-
tion involves a close study of type,
conformation, temperament and
head character.

A comparatively simple but prac-
tical method of culling hens at this
time calls for the application of the
combined capacity, pigment and
moulting tests.

The capacity test, commonly used,
reﬂects ovarian activity and has its
greatest value in determining pres-
ent production. Capacity is measur-
ed perpendicularly from the tip of
the keel to the pubic bones, which
are located on each side of the vent.

The contracted condition illus-
trated in Fig. 1., showing a two
ﬁnger measurement, indicates the
ovary is not functioning and the hen
therefore is not in a laying condi-
tion. This does not however, indi~
cate the hen has never laid nor that
she will not return to production as
interputed by the ardent “Hogan
Test" enthusiast. For this reason
it is necessary to use supplementary
tests in order that the real value of
such a hen can be properly deter-
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Fig. l—This hen with two ﬁnger measurement is not in laying condition as the ovary

is not functioning.

Fig. 2—The laying hen with active ovary shows a spread of

from four to six ﬁngers.

The laying hen, illustrated in Fig.
2, shows a spread of from four to
six ﬁngers, depending somewhat in
the breed, size of hen and conforma-
tion of the individual. This pelvic
region, referred to as the egg sack,
should feel full and pliable, and the
skin should be ﬁne, elastic and mel-

 

Fig. 3—This reveals the active and dormant ovary common to all hens.

limited capacity measurement, may
possess a normal healthy ovary but
may not be laying due to a restrict—
ed and unbalanced diet; she may
have recently been broody or raised
a brood of chicks or she may be a
typical cull. The ovary will, in any
case, reveal the dormant condition

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When a. four

ﬁnger capacity exists, yolks will be found in various stages of maturity, with ﬁve
or more yolks well developed.

low, indicative of good condition
and quality.

Figure 3 reveals the active and
dormant ovary common to all hens
showing measurements similar to
those described above. When a four
ﬁnger capacity exists, yolks will be
found is various stages of maturity,
with ﬁve or more yolks well devel-
oped. Such a hen is usually in
heavy production. The hen with

as illustrated by a grape-like clus-
ter of immature ovules, none of
which are larger than peas.

A better estimate of the value of
such a hen can be quickly deter-
mined by the application oftheopig—
mentation test, which is the bleach-
ing process, that occurs during dif-

ferent stages of production in all
yellow skinned breeds including
Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island

 

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Reds, Wyandottes, Leghorns, An-
conas and a few other less popular
breeds.

The yellow pigment which is evi-
denton the shanks, beak, ear lobes
eye ring and vent gradually disap:
pears as the individual egg record
increases. The pigment leaves in a
dlﬁnite order disappearing from
sections of most rapid blood circu-
lation. This yellow pigment. known
as xanthophyll is absorbed and used
to color the yolks in the manufac-
ture of the egg.

. The yellow ring present or the
inner margin of the vent usually
disappears after the hen has laid
three or four eggs. The creaminess
of the ear lobes in the Mediterran—
ean breeds such as the Leghorns
and Anconas, will bleach to a White
when two dozen eggs have been pro-
duced. The horny structures such
a". the beak and legs release the pig-
ment more slowly, requiring in most
cases three/ dozen eggs before the
yellow ﬁnally leaves the upper por-
tion of the beak, and from 80 to
1102 eggst belfore the shanks have
as pracical all of

coloring matteyr. this yellow

'This bleached condition remains
only as long as the hens are in reg—
ular bprodluction and may return
WI 1 mo eri
tions. y p ods or longer vaca-

The possibilities of error ar
slight if the hens showing :nl‘yerg
two or three .ﬁnger capacity, 'with
yellow legs are culled out. About
twenty percent of all farm hens can
be eliminated by this very simple
culIl‘lhng practice.

. e time and rate of Imoult i
third test that can be accuratelys’ :11:
plied in determining the proﬁtable-
ness of every hen in the ﬂock. We
no longer labor under the delusion
of the early moulter ﬁlling the egg
basket during the winter months.
Big records are impossible when
production is limited to a few
months in the year. It usually re—
quires from ten to twelve months of
conSIStant laying to cover the dis-
tance of two hundred eggs or better.
. Late moulting and quick moult-
ing are policies of the heavy layer.
This type of hen will, as a rule,
return to production in from 4 to 6
weeks after the completion of her
ﬁrst year record. The moulting
period is usually delayed until the
late fall months or subsequent to
October ﬁrst. When the moult is
delayed until the latter part of Nov-
ember or early December, special at-
tention should be given such hens
for a few days until their bodies
are better protected by more com-
plete feathering.

The early moulter usually in-
dulges in a prolonged vacation and
seldom returns to .production until
to long warm spring days return.

For this reason it is advisable to
market such hens in July or August,
because the few eggs produced the
following spring will not pay the
previous fall and winter board bill.

The three methods of culling
briefly described will enable every
poultryman to eliminate all nom-
productive or unproﬁtable stock at
this time. The feed bill will be re-
duced one third, eggs more econom-
ically produced, and the proper hens
marketed.

A careful practice of selective

-breeding will on the other hand,

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OFFICIAL U, S. SEAL—Here is the great ofﬁcial U. S. PRIEST 0F THIBET.-—This nndoubt-i SOME EXPLOSION!—H. W. Smith had a new 'car' »

seal which is attnched to all treaties, passports, Presi- edly is the first picture to be taken of a which he left in front of his ofﬁce building. \Vhen he 3

giential proclamations and other government papers. It priest of the Cult, Thibet, Asia. The lady entered the building there was an explosion in one of the
ls kept in the State Department. snapped with him is a. tourist. ofﬁces and half of the wall fell on his auto.

 

   

USE SUN’S RAYS T0 HEAT WORLD.—,— REDUCING THE FIRE HAZARD IN UVCLE SAM’S FORESTS “YOU’RE GOING THE WRONG WAY‘
Marcel Moreen. inventor of San Francisco, -—’l‘o reduce the the hazard, brush resulting from the cutting of FOR THE CEMETERY”—Says the London
Calif. who claims with his recent invention timber on National Forest sales is piled and burned. This work “Bobbie” to this student of St. Mary's Hos-
;‘ the suns m. s can be used to heat the world. is done either in winter or following rains, when there is little pita] who wore this costume while soliciting
- He can pro nee 15.00 degrees of heat. danger of setting the forests on ﬁre. funds for the institution. -

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CHAHTER IX

1 got along ﬁne till about the: .

middle of the summer, when I,

began to get kicks from cus-
tomers. One fellow wrote that his
Black Langshans were full of red
feathers, and another fellow said his
Barred Rocks looked more like fight-
ing cocks than anything else. Well,
I was not surprised, for I knew what
my hatchery was buying for setting,
but I stalled along and tried to tell
the customers a lot of stuff about
heredity. But it was too much
work. I had made an honest living
that summer, and all the customers

had got baby chicks that ordered,

them, and I couldn’t see why I should
worry further, so I decided that the
easiest way out was to pack my trunk
and move.

Anyway, I had my eye on a big
deal. Two safe moves on my part
and I was getting back my nerve,
and the new scheme had the makings
of some real cash.

Tracing Back Old Estates

It happened this way. One day
while I was loafing in the office, I
happened to be reading a New York
paper which told of the trouble the
Astor Estate was having over an old
claim someone had against them in
which the original Indian title was
being put up as evidence that the
Astors were not entitled to the big
bunch of property they had.

At the time I commented to a fel-
low by the name of Rasmus Smith
about the matter, and he began to
tell me how he was distantly re-
lated to Captain John Smith, of Vir-
ginia, and how he had an old trunk
that was ﬁlled with old deeds that
had been handed down thru his fam-
ily for hundreds of years. I asked
him if he would bring the trunk of
stuff down to the ofﬁce, as I was
curious. and he agreed. As long as
the trunk was small, I drove up to
his place and loaded the thing into
my car and we came back to the
ofﬁce and the inspection began.
These papers were sure interesting.
They were so old a fellow could
hardly read them, and they were
decorated with seals that made our
diplomas look sick. Late that night,
after I had looked them all over, I
got an idea. It was a dandy:

It probably might be wise to state
at this time that Mr. Rasmus Smith
was the type that was easy to work
on. When I got thru talking to him,
he was of the opinion that he was
the direct heir to most of Virginia,
and when I asked him if he would
help me in establishing the titles and
would let me keep the records he
had, say, he fell for the game im—
mediately. So I organized right then
and there the “John Smith Heirs’
Association.” I was the president
and Smith was the secretary, and we
agreed that if I could establish his
title, which I was sure I could do,
he was to get one—third interest. I
was to get a third for my work, and
We then decided to sell the other
third to any of the multitude of
Smiths that were scattered all over
the United States. Rasmus Smith
as secretary was to travel around
later on and tell the people about the
scheme, and of course I was prepared
to ﬁx up the facts regarding the case
which would help us. I might add
that Smith was so sold'on the deal
that he began to spend the money
we were going to get long before I
was ready to begin operations.

llziving plrnty of money, I did a
little inw. tiguting I first looked up
the history of old John Smith and
made a. few trips to Virginia, gather-
ing details and posting myself on the
section Smith lived in back in 1500.
I also checked up the land grants he
received from the English king, and
found that there was plenty of land
to talk about.

About six months after the hatch-
ing of the plan we were ready to be-
gin. I placed a few ads-in various
city papers and a few with big rural
circulations, asking that any Smiths
who had formerly lived in Virginia
get in touch with me. Replies came
in from all parts of the United
States, and I’ll bet that if Virginia
had all those Smiths back again,
New York would lose her rank as
the leading state in population.
Many of them gave me facts regard-
ing their families which helped us a
lot, and after we had the lists made
up, I addressed them with a circular
letter.

I told them of the important dis-l

covery—how I had chanced upon the
trunkful of records in the possession
of Rasmus Smith, and how I was

 
  

-. The Memoirs of a Chatter—By Himself

HE master grafter, Pete Dexter, has run his course. Just like the

calf that hanged itself when it got too much rope, Pete has gone

ﬂielimitandthenisjerkedupwithabangthntendshiscareer.
Buthepullsagoodonebeforehegoesdownwithallonboard.

InstissuePetetoldhowhegotintoapopulargameofmaking
money of! of anxious inventors. He made good. thanks to the assist-
ance of a doubtful lawyer, and got away without Mable. 'lhen he
noticedwhatagoodthingtherewasinthebabychickhusiness. He
was just getting nicelystartedand wasmakingmoneyagainatthe
close of the installment. But Pete was working on an excellent deal
atthelastwhenheranupagainstthelaw. Youwillenjoyreading
how he ended his famous game and and life of crime.

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sure, after careful investigations, that
we could establish a title to then-
sands of acres of Virginia land and
a large part of the city of Richmond.
I made it good and faked a story of
how old John Smith had been un-
lawfully deprived of this land, and
that with the records I had on hand
I was prepared to prove absolutely
that the present heirs were entitled
to the titles of this valuable prop-
erty. Then I told them that it
would take a lot of money to ﬁnance
the court actions and investigations,
and while we were sure we could
eventually prove the titles, we
would have to do a lot of work.

I told how I had arranged with
the direct heir for the shares, and
how any Smiths, who would come to
our aid, could get in on a third of
this vast estate by subscribing $25
to our association. Of course the
people who established a direct line
of heirship would have an interest
if we won the case. But I thought
it would be a good plan to help de-
fend the titles and then there would
be no chance for disputes. Believe
me, the Smiths came thru.

As soon as we could arrange for
the matter, we started in to form
John Smith clubs in the cities. May—
be you belong to one. I ﬁxed up a
speech; had Rasmus Smith learn it,
and gave him a few of the old
weather-worn, worm-eaten records
out of that trunk and sent him out
to lecture to the clubs. I took care
of the ofﬁce work till he got back,
and every time Smith went to a city
more members joined the association.
I also hunted up an attorney I had
met in Washington and hired him.

He was sent out to lecture, and while
we worked quietly, we sure had the
Smiths organized like the
were before. I studied genealogy
pretty hard that year, and in the
spring I was able to go out to the
Smith clubs and report on the case.

Of course we were making pro-
gress, but it took a lot of money,
and at the close of every meeting I
passed the hat for funds to help the
cause, and I sure took up generous
collections.

Then I started to sell interests at
$5 each to friends of the Smiths, and
promised them that one million dol-
lars of the estate, when we got it,
would be divided among the holders
of these “participants' interests,"
and it was easy to show that a 85
share would pay about a hundred for
one.

Keeping the Smiths Enthused

When I got back to the home of-
fice, business was so good I had to
hire more help, and I spent three
months organizing the business.
Once a month, I would send out a
circular to our mailing list and give
a report, and I went down to Vir-
ginia and actually ﬁled a suit in a.
small town and gave the local paper
a big check to write it up our way.
Then I had these papers sent to
every interested member of our as-
sociation. Soon the city papers
copied the story, and I had reprints
of the favorable articles made and
sent them out. This kept the Smiths
enthused for over a year, and gave
me a chance to get the money in the
bank.

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require fees in a different system to ‘

ours.

attached a coupon which

gave every person who contributed ,

to this fund an additional share in
a tenth part of the other one-third

which was being set aside at this,

time for such an emergency. Eati-
mates prepared by me showed the
estate to be worth around seven hun-
dred millions, and most of these cou-
pons came back. Shares in this divi-
sion sold for 86 each. and we sure
had the money.

I was planning a trip to England

with the idea of settling over there, .
and had the funds of the association ,

converted
could handle easily when things b
gan to happen. How I hate to th
of that day! One morning a to ow
arrived at my office. He

   
   
  

 
 

so I began. He wanted an interest
in the association, and I sure gave
him the stuff. When I got thru. he
coughed a bit and smiled funny and
left. I wondered who he was and
no one in town that I met later in
the day seemed to know what train
he came on or when he left.
afternoon when I went to getmy mail
I asked the postmaster if he had seen
the fellow who called on me. Some
how, I was feeling shaky.
was shakier when the postman right
quick says,
what did he want?" I smelt smoke
and that night I threw all my bonds,
which I had safely kept, in my strong
box and took the 2 a. m. train for
Boston. I figured I could leave a
few thousand in the bank and if I
could get to Montreal I could get a
steamer for England and would not
have to worry further.

I got to Boston all right and got
a train shortly afterwards for Mont-
real and thought I was safe. About
10 o'clock the next morning when
the train stopped in a little town,
two fellows got on the train. One
of them was my caller of the day be-
fore and as pleasantly as before he
asked me, “Whither bound?" Well,
I got off at the next station, and back
we went. He was a federal agent
and I was nabbed again for using the
mails to defraud.

I spent a lot of money for lawyers.
I had enough bonds to go my own
bail but nothing worked out right;
After a few months, in which I tried
once to get away again, a judge
looked hard at me and quietly said,
“Five years in the prison at Atlanta."

The rest doesn’t amount to much.
The Smith Heirs Association ﬁzzled.
The funniest part was that Rasmus
Smith, whom I thought was the
“dub,” managed to escape with a big
roll. He had been collecting on his
own hook and when the evidence
was shown in court Rasmus had
cleaned up a nice $75,000 and beat it.

I went to prison. My career there
was like othels who happened to be
stopping at the institution during my
visit.

The only good luck I have had
since I landed in prison was the ap-
pearance of my almost forgotten
friend Blake.
the end of my second year in prison
and everyone, including myself,
thought I was going to die. One day
I wrote a letter to Blake and asked
him if he would take care of some
affairs for my old aunt. He did it
and best of all he started the ball
rolling which got me freed. Blake
was now a congressman. He had
stepped out of the patent business
and got into politics and when he
heard from me he came to my rescue.
Blake got me a job as a gardner and
when I am well enough I manage to
dig around the plants enough so I
can at least get my board. I have
to report to a federal judge once
every six months and it’s quite a dif-
ferent life than I have been used to
living. I am old and worn out and
I can’t believe that I am the same
fellow who used to live so easy.

Once I was rich, in fact I was rich
many times, but I just can’t get any
ideas any more. No use anyhow as
the judge keeps pretty close track
of me. So I dig away and it’s a
pretty tough layout at the best. But
I have learned that a fellow can
fool ’em all part of the time but not
all of ’em all the time and I hate to

think that after my forty years of

prosperity I am down and out. After
all I guess I got what’ as coming to me.
(The End). .‘ .

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NO SCHOOL ON SATURDAX

My boy has passed all the lower
grades and is now in the 8th grade
and is doing good work by his re-
port card. Can the teacher make
him take 6th grade arithmetic? She
made them (the eighth grade) take
7th grade history and now they are
nearly thru the 8th grade history
and she says she is going to review
them in the 6th grade history yet.
They have so many studies that they
have to do their arithmetic nights
at home. She is going to have
school on Saturday for the 8th grad-
ers to do arithmetic. I do not want
Imy boy to go to school on Saturday.
We have spoken to the county com-
missioner several times about it. He
said they had not ought to have
those extra studies but he has not
done anything yet. Would it be my
place to interfer?—Mrs. 'S. A. R.,
Mullet Lake, Mich.

IGHTI—I grade pupils should
thoroughly review work of pre-
vious grades when such review

is necessary. The teacher should
be the judge of the necessity of the
review. The school law provides
that no public school shall be main-
tained on legal school holidays nor
on Saturdays—G. M. Otwell, Supt.
of Rural Education, Dept. of Public
Instruction.

 

CHILDREN LIABLE FOR
MOTHER’S SUPPORT

A husband and wife in Michigan
were divorced in 1887. Neither re-
married. In 1915 the husband died
and his property was divided by law
among his children. The wife still
survives and has a little property of
her own. She is extremely childish
and unreasOnable and a guardian is
being asked for her as she is unﬁt
to do business or attend to her own
needs. If she becomes dependent
will any of her children be obliged
to support her? Her state of mind
is such, none of them can live with
her, though the only daughter has
done all a daughter could. All are
in moderate circumstances and very
hard working people. Some reside
in the west.—~—F. H., Petersburg,
Mich.

F the mother becomes unable to
I support herself, her children
would be liable for her support.
An arrangement should be made
under which each child Would con-
tribute equally to her support.—
Asst. Legal Editor.

 

LAW IS SILENT AS TO WHO
PAYS BILLS

In case of a strict quarantine as
in scarlet fever where both parents
are in the quarantine who is oblig-
ed to pay the bills for food, fuel and
doctor? Is not the county obliged
to pay these? Our health ofﬁcer
tells us the county will pay these
bills and now our supervrsor says
that Our county has a new rule and
we will have to pay our own bills
and living expenses—M. C. K.,
Clinton County, Mich.

HE law is silent as to who shall

-pay for supplies furnished per-

‘ sons in quarantine. The law
provides that no person shall be per-
mitted to suffer for the necessities
of life by reason of quarantine, but
there is no direct provision as to
who should pay for the same—W.
J. V. Deacon, (M. D., Michigan De-
partment of Health. .

INDORSER MUST RECEIVE
NOTICE

On February 1921 was a public
auction sale by A. \B bought some
things and asked C to sign his note.
Now C was sure the note was paid
as he never received notice about it
not being paid. The note was for
one year. About two months ago
C was told by A that the note was
not paid. Now can C be made to
pay the note as a signer although
not being notified when the note
was due?-—«S. D., Perrington, Mich.

HE indorser on a note is not
! liable for the payment of the
‘ amount of the note, unless he
is given notice of the maker’s fail-
ure to pay it when due, provided,
however, notice is not waived.—
Asst. Legal Editor.

IS PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM
TAXATION
May I ask for a little information
through your paper? I am arwidow,
in the sixties, my health is not good.

 

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day troubles. Prompt. careful attention lven to

here 0 serve

you. Al inquiries must be accompanied by full name and address. Name not used if so requested.)

I have a farm of about ﬁfty acres
with a mortgage. Because of the
mortgage I have to work for my
living. I have children and they
have their own loads tocarry and I
cannot burden them and have no
will to do so. I was‘ told 'recently
that the party speaking knew of sev-
eral widows whose property was ex-
empt from taxation and she thought
I needed and deserved the exemp-
tion as much as they. If I was ex-
empt from taxation it would be a
great help to me. Will you please
tell me if it is possible and how I
should do to bring it about? Thank-
ing you, I am Mrs. V. T. W., Char-
lotte, Mich.

HE statute provides for the ex-
emption from payment of
taxes, persons who, in the opin-

ion of the supervisor of the board of
review, are too poor to pay taxes. It
also provides for exemption from
payment of taxes on a homestead,
up to the value of $1,000.00, of
widows of soldiers or sailors who
served in the Spanish American,
{or Civil Wars—Asst. Legal Editor.

CAN VOTE ONLY IN DISTRICT
WHERE RESIDES

I live in one school district, own
property and pay taxes. I send my
child to a school in adjoining district
where I own property and pay tui—
tion. Have I a vote in the district
where my child attends school?”
Mrs. M. C., Custer, Michigan.

HE parents or guardians of chil-
dren of school age who own
property and pay school taxes

in more than one district may send
their children to the school in any
district in which they pay taxes.
However, a school elector has a vote
only in the district in which he has
an actual residence. One of the qual-
iﬁcations for electors in all school
elections is three months actual resi-
dence in the district immediately pre-
ceding the election.———G. N. Otwell,
Dept. of Public Instruction.

PAYS MORTGAGE TAX

In 1919 I bought a city lot of A
on contract. Last December the
state tax commissioner notiﬁed A
that there was a mortgage tax due
on this contract of V2 of 1 per cent
which A paid. A has notiﬁed me
that he paid the tax for me and I
am to pay him. The clause in the
contract under which A claims it is
my tax reads as follows: “The buyer
also agrees to pay all taxes and as-
sessments levied or assessed upon
said land all special revenue or de-
ﬁciency tax of any nature whatso-
ever after date hereof; and the

buyer agrees to exhibit. receipts
therefore to seller whenever so re-
quested; and the buyer hereby pur-
chases said real estate upon these
terms and agrees to pay said sums
when due and perform all the condi-
tions of this contract.” The date of
this contract is July 9, 1919. The
contract is not all paid up yet but I
am making payments when due.
Who should pay this tax?—-—-J. R. L.,
Tecumseh, iMich.

HE question as to who should
pay the mortgage tax would be
determined by the interpreta-

tion of the tax clause in the con-
tract. If the vendee merely agrees
to pay all taxes of whatever kind on
the land, the vendor would have to
pay the mortgage tax. If the vend—
or desired the vendee to pay the
mortgage tax, it should have been
so stipulated speciﬁcally in the con-
tract.-———Asst. Legal Editor.

DID NOT F‘IX WEL-L

Last fall we had a man here to
ﬁx our well and he ﬁnally gave it up
and said the screen could not be
set as there was a hole in the pipe.
He drove the pipe down 8 inches
and left it there. He really did
harm to the well. In a few days an—
other vwellman came and inside of 5
hours he had Water for us and the
well has Worked good ever since.
We have four witnesses that the
rwell was'Vﬁxed in this length of time.
We have paid the ﬁrst man $10.25
and still owe him $17.75. Can he
collect this balance? The second
well man claims that the ﬁrst well
man cannot collect the wages at all
as he failed to ﬁx the well. Please
give us your advice on this matter.
——Reader, Grand Traverse County,
Mich.

NDER these circumstances, I am
U of the opinion you would not be

required to pay the ﬁrst man
the balance which he claims, in
view of the fact that you say he did
the work improperly and did harm
to the 'we11.—Asst. Legal Editor.

\VOULD \VIFE HAVE TO SIGN
DEED?

My brother and myself have a
joint deed of forty acres of land.
Now he is married and I am to buy
his half. Does his wife have to
sign off too? If he should die
would his half go to his wife? Can
I will my half to some of my rela-
tives?——R. C. 0., Arcadia, Mich.

WIFE has no right of dower in
her husband’s interest in an
estate held by joint tenancy,
he therefore could convey his inter-
est without the necessity of her

()UR READER‘S’ NEW BUILDINGS

Have you built any up‘tmdate farm buildings lately? If you have seiidd us a‘ picture of the new

building and we will print it in this new department. It will show the
distant neighbors are domg to change the scenery.

. _ B. readers what their
And, incidently, you may be able to help some

farmer decide the type of house, or barn, or other buildings he desires to put up. ~llc may like the

appearance of your building and will want the plan of 1?.

Kodak pictures are all right if the details

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ON THE FARM 0F MRS. MATTIE ELLISON, SPARTA, MICHIGAN
This looksﬂlike a. new burn but it isn't; and it is. It was started in 1860, and ﬁnished,
in 1923. The timbers for a. 30 ft. by 40 ft. barn were hewn but the builder’s work
was interrupted by the Civil War,” writes Mr. Fred Ellison of Sparta, Michigan.

“He did not return after the war so others ﬁnished. thowork.

In 1911 the barn:

was moved about 15 rods and placed on a concrete basement. In 1917 an addition!
of 20 ft. was made on one end and the old structure was resided. Then last year;
or 1923, the old root was taken of and a. new gambrel root built. The present
dimensions are 30 ft. by 60 ft. with 16 ft. lower posts and 16 ft. purline posts. The.
basement has a. concrete ﬂoor and stalls, box stalls and stanchions installed. Thel
cost of the work done since 1911 has been about $1,500." The barn is located on the
. farm of Mrs. Mattie Ellison, of Sparta, Michigan.

  

        

  

signing the deed of conveyance.
your brother and yourself hold a
deed to the land which conveys it to"
you as joint tenants; upon his death}:
you would be entitled to all the ,
property as survivor.

  
 
 
 
  
  

  
 
 
 

   
  
 
  
  
  
 
  
   
  
  
  
  
   
 
  
  
  
  
 
  
  
 
  
   
  
 
 
 
   
  
 
   
  
  
  
 
     
 
 
  
 
   
  
   
   
 
 
    
    
    
  
    
 
 
   
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
     
  
     
    
 
   
   
   
     
   
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
 
  
 
  
  
 
     
  
   
   

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METHOD OF VOTING WAS LEGAB

On election day at the township 1'
meeting a motion was made andi
supported, for a township nurse. It
was decided by the chairman of the : ,
board to have the people ﬁle pastigj
the election board and they count 1 ’
those for or opposed. It carried byi
two votes. I understand there were '
several people that would not wote
when they saw how it was to be
done; Was it a lawful method 0:
voting on such a question?—W. H. g
P., Northport, Mich. i

NDOUBTEDLY the question was i
one on which a viva voce vote
could be taken. Section 2157-, i;

of the Compiled Laws of 1915 auth- 2
orizes the moderator to have the ‘
voters polled or divided when any}
seven or more of them object to his
determination of a question decided!
by a viva voce vote. In the absence
of proper objections made by the
electors at the time of voting, we be-
lieve the method of taking the vote
would be at most an irregularity
concerning which no question could!
be legally raised after the meeting
adjourned. The electors might
have determined to take the vote in
some other manner had they so de—
sired by making a motion to that
effect.——Clare Retan, Deputy Attor-
ney General. ‘

 

MORTGAGE GOOD FOR 15 YEARS

Kindly give me information
about a personal note given with a
mortgage. I bought a team oﬂ,
horses, wagon, 2 sets of harness,-
plow, wagon-box and few other.
articles amounting to $100.00 plus‘
interest at 7 per cent. I gave as
security on mortgage for above ar-
ticles a. cow. Nothing paid down. I
gave personal note for $100.00 '
drawn for 11 months. I was never?
notiﬁed by holder of the note andi‘
mortgage being due or past due. Is
the personal note valid after 11;
months expires and how long is it
good for? How long is a mortgage
good for, three years?——H. 0., R099
City, Mich. - ‘

OU, as maker of the note would

, be liable on it for a period of}
_ ‘ six years from date of matur-
ity. A mortgage is good for 15,I
years—Asst. Legal Editor.

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TO APPEAR IN COURT

I am a subscriber to the M. B. F.‘
and have been for several years and ..
will give it a boost wherever I can.
Would like to have you answer the
following questions. Would you‘ '
send me a copy of a legal summons
to appear in Circuit Court Where a‘
person sued anybody for damages?,
HOW soon would papers have to be
served before date of court? Would.
date of hearing have to be set when.
to appear? How must be ﬁlled out,
signed, dated and sealed? Who is .
to serve the papers and must he Sign 1'
the summons? Where they are ‘=
served on man and wife rmust they .1;
be dated the same to be legal?,
Please let me hear from you at;
once—F. J. L., Ceresco, Mich.

HE party served is required to‘

appear within ﬁfteen days after;
service of the summons. The sum-
mons must be signed by the clerk
and given to the sheriff who serves
it and makes his return on the back
of it as shown on the blank sum;
‘mons enclosed. If man and Wife
are sued jointly the summons
should be dated the same for each;
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I bought a place three years ago“
and when I took the place there was .
a pile of posts on it. They are;
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took advantage of me
bought from him.—J. H. M.. Dam
and, Mich.

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EAR EDITOR:-—-— Why are we

farmers forced to pay county

agents and nurses? 'Whlte col-
lared farmers who ride around in
autos and tell us what to raise; who
never farmed any and learned tarm-
ing through books and college. It
the supervisors had anygteellng for
the farmers in their districts, they
would say, "Let farmers vote on it
and help us lower our taxes."

It is the women and children on
the farms who are denied things
that are needed, because it takes
everything to pay taxes. Yet tarm-
ers wives are in need of what is paid
to county agents and county nurses.

We use to live without them and
could dress respectable and ﬁx up
our homes. Now it is pinch, pinch,
pinch and give up every penny to
pay taxes.———F‘armerette, Kalamazoo
County, Michigan.

STICK TO THE FARM
O the Editorz—I read the article
by Ralph Jordan in your March
lst issue. He says it is not the
bright lights of the city that is call-
ing the farmers from their farms,
but better conditions. Is it better
conditions to work in a stuffy fac-
tory, cooped up like rats, than to
_WOl‘k out in God’s free air? He says
it is only the strong, determined
farmers that are leaving the farms
for better conditions. That does
not apply to this territory. He
says others cannot get away be-
cause they can’t leave their old par-
ents that are worn out by years of
slavery and misery. Who is the
slave? The man that works for
himself and can go to work and
stop when he gets ready, or the man
that must be on the job when the
whistle blows, and must do just as
the boss says, and has no say of his
own. He says the farmers are wait-
ing for some poor boob to come
along and buy their farms, so that
they can go to town. It the poor
boob is the right sort of a man, he
will be a successful farmer 10 years
from now, and the man that goes
to town will be the poor boob, work-
ing under a boss and will be just
where he started.

Let me give you the history of
two men here about 20 years ago.
One of them lived in town, was a
mechanic and always got the largest
wages, he owned a good house and
lot. The other man had worked
and got about $300. If he had
gone to town he could not have got
over half as much wages as the oth—
er man, but instead he went in debt

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for a term, and he and his-wits have
worked hard to get along. Today
they own a good term, good bulld-
1ngs, good stock, and good machin-
ery, and if he was to sell all he has
he could clear up about $10,000.
The other man has eaten up his
house and lot, and is living in a
rented house. If he was to sell
their home and furniture and cloth-
ing, they could probably get $800,
but he has a little advantage over
the other man, as one has a. his tax
to pay. and the other has nothing to
pay taxes on. What is the matter

iwlth a good many of our men?

They want ﬁve and six dollars pay
for one dollar’s work, and they
can’t work for themselves, but must
have a boss over them.-——Harold
Johnson, Barry County, Mich.

 

WE! HAVE COUNTY AGENTS?

EARKEditorh—Mr. H. E. Cob-

lentz asked this question in.

Tar. BUSINESS Fumes of April
12th. I would ask Mr. Coblentz
why is an efﬁciency expert necessary,
to big business? He would probab-
ly answer, that it is vital that work
should be done with the least poss-
ible expense, and the efﬁciency ex-
pert can point out the remedy. So
with the county agent. He is the
eﬁiciency expert of the farm.

The county agent is better edu-
cated along agricultural lines than
the majority of farmers. The na:
tional and state agricultural depart-
ments keep in touch with him. He
is up in the latest along farm lines.
You will say, of course, that the na—
tional and state agricultural depart-
ments will send their literature to
the individual when asked. But
does the individual stop to read and
study this literature?

Business progresses and changes
their methods. Sometimes the new
method proves unproﬁtable, so they
change again. So with farming.
Potatoes did not prove proﬁtable
during these last few years, but
dairying doubtless will. Dairying
is more stable than potato raising.
It is not only the county agent that
advocates this, but all the big men
on farming.

Probably the farm agent does
wear a white collar, and doesn’t as-
sist you during potato digging, but
this is worth listening to. Mr. Cob-
lenz says: “We are paying too many
white-collar fellows, running around
at our expense." No clothes don’t
make the man, nor do overalls maka
the man.—-Dorothy Dill, Traverse
City, Michigan.

 

 

“THEY’RE NOMINATIN’ ’EM
NOW"

HIS is the season of the year
when they nominate pres’dents,
leastways tellers ’at want to “be

pres'dents, an' up to now (June
21) they’ve got jest two—one for
pres’dent an’ a vice. Now a vice
pres’dent cuts ’bout as much ﬂgger
as a rat in a mouse trap, but we
have to have one to make the ticket
look good, so the ’Publicans (an’
sinners) have nominated Coolidge
and Dawes, Hell & Marias Dawes.
Well there’s more conventions com-
min’ on? an' more men'll be nominat-
ed. There'll be more candidates ’an
any one, men or women, can vote
ton—fact is there’ll be more’n any
one would want to vote for.

No matter who they nominate,
none of 'em’ll be any to good [or the
job 'cause its quite an important
positon, as a presfdent has full
charge of the White House—when
his wife ain't home, an’ the May-
ﬂower, which means the pres'dential
yacht, an' has a chance to talk to
congress once or twice a year an’
draws a purty fair cash salary, an’
has egg rolling on the lawns, an’
some times keeps a goat—it he
don’t have one, he makes his score-
tary take his place, or somebody
else takes it—there always has to
be a goat, you know.

However, now that conventions

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always kinda hankered for the job,
an’ then there’s LaFollette from
Wisconsin. No I wouldn’t want
him runnin' mate—rather see 'him
go alone—but McAdoo kinda want!
a. chance, or Al Smith, he’s a demo~
crat with a wet tongue—«he would
like to get a few votes. Oh I guess
there’ll be plenty of cand’dates an’
so I ain’t argin’ my case none. Fact
is I’ll withdraw if they’ll give me
the salary or Muscle Shoals, or
somethin’. _

I guess its quite an honor to be
president, cause a pres-dent can
ride all over the country in a private
car, an’ make speeches, when he can
ﬁnd people to listen to him, an' his
wife is head lady of the land, an’
can boss him around, an’ dress in
beads an’ jewels, an wear bobbed
hair, or otherwise, jest as she
wishes, an’ make him take a bath
twice a month or more, as occasions
require. An’ he can have oyster pie
or not, jest as he sees ﬂtr—an’ once
in a while he sends a. message to

the people that all is goin' well, an',

he's boss in gen'ral .of most every-
thing he knows or don’t know, an’
so forth.

So that's why I've thrown my
hat into the discard on trust that
folks will rest easy as I don’t hard-
ly expect to get anywhere near the
I’ll stay With Uncle
you all a

an'-outers, an’ wishin’

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STATIo AND sumn RECEIV

HERE are many nights that the

l atmospheric electricity is so
‘ strong that it spoils all recep-
tion of broadcasts. This is due to
the fact that every discharge of
electricity sends out electrical
waves and your receiving set picks
them up and you hear them as
crackling or roaring noises in your
receivers.
. With a little patience you can
soon take advantage of these
troublesome noises and forecast the
coming weather sometimes two days
in advance. Certain sounds always
preceed coming rain or thunder
storms. It is a pleasant way of
spending a few minutes each day
by listening to these discharges and
then watching the coming weather,
and after a few times you will be
able to tell the kind of weather to
expect on the following day. ,

A short aerial, an inside aerial
(in your attic) or a loop will do
away with a great deal of this at-
mospheric or static trouble. It is
surprising what a little difference
there is in volume of received sign-
als by using an inside aerial, and a
great diﬂerence in the amount of
static disturbances that spoil your
reception.

It might be well to mention here
that the large radio manufacturers
will pay a big price, yes up to a half
million dollars, to the man who in-
vents a real static eliminator that
will sell at a reasonable price. All
the big men are working on this
problem and as yet no satisfactory
method has been discovered.

WEEKLY BARN DANCE

0U radio fans who like the old
[ fashion barn dances, the dances

where we used to have the time
of 0m lives and danced till darn
near daylight, can live those old days
over again and have as good a time
as ever. Have your neighbors come
over Saturday night and then take
your receiving set out to the barn
and tune in on the Sears—Roebuck
Agricultural Foundation Broadcast-
ing Station VVLS any time after 9: 10
P. M. Eastern standard time. You’ll
hear the 01d tunes come through the
air, the same old tunes We used to
“step” to. And you can dance till
1:00 o’clock in the morning.

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of this country
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July Sw“Hot Weather Special-
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Economics Specialist, National Live

Stock and Meat Board. “Enriching
Country Life Through Recreation.”
by Eugene T. Lies, Playground and
Recreation Association of America.

July 11-~"Youth Now--—Leaders
Later," by Margaret R. Filkins, Re-
search Department. Montgomery
Ward & Company. “Among Our
Neighbors,” a regular weekly feat-
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Illinois Farmer—L. C. Brown,
Author of Brown's Cr0p Talks, on
“A Ten Minute Crop Talk."

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Steak," by W. Hardenbergh, Bur-
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American Meat Packers. "The Horse
in the Horse Market," by G. E.
Wentworth, Superintendent, Union
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We Encourage Calf Clubs,” by
Frank. W. Harding, Chief Executive,
American Short-Horn Breeders' As—
sociation.

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by Co-operating." by W. H. Hill,
Agricultural Agent. New York Cen-
tral Lines. “What’syDoing in Illi-
nois,” by H. C. Butcher, Director of
Information, lliinois Agricultural
Association.

July 25—“Boys’ and Girls’ Club
Work in the Great Southwest," by
Arthur W. Large. Agricultural
Agent, Rock Island Lines. “Among
Our Neighbors,” a regular Weekly
feature furnished by the Orange

Judd Illinois Farmer—Paul A. Pot- ’

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“ HE doesn’t dare to. Besides, there’s
Hattie. She says Hattie is always
telling her what is due her position,

and that she must do this and do that.
She’s being invited out, to the Pennock's
and the Benson's; and they’re worse than
the maid, she declares. She loves to go to
places and spend the day with her sew-
ing; but that these things where you go
and stand up and eat off a jiggly plate,
and see everybody, and not really see any-
ltaody, are a nuisance and an abomina-
ion.”

“Well, she’s about right there,” chuck-
led Mr. Smith.

“Yes, I think she is,” smiled Miss Mag-
gies; “but that isn’t telling me how to
make her contented."

“Contented! Great Scott!" snapped
Mr. Smith, with an irritability that was as
sudden as it was apparently causeless.
“I didn’t suppose you had to tell any wo-
man on this earth how to be contented——
with a hundred thousand dollars !"

“It would seem so, wouldn’t it?”

Something in Miss Maggie’s voice sent
Mr. Smith's eyes to her face in a keen
glance of interrogation.

"You mean—you’d like the chance to
prove it? That you wish you had that
hundred thousand?”

“Oh, I didn’t say—that,” twinkled Miss
Maggie mischievously, turning away.

It was that same afternoon that Mr.

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Smith met Mrs. Jane Blaisdell on the
street.

‘You’re just the man I want to see,"
she accosted him eagerly.

“Then I’ll turn and walk along with
you, if I may,” smiled Mr. Smith. ‘What
can I do for you?”

‘Well, I don’t know as you can do any-
thing,” she sighed; “but somebody’s got
to do something. Could you—do you sup-
pose you could interest my hus’band in
this Blaisdell business of yours?”

Mr. Smith gave a start, looking curious-
ly disconcerted.

“B—Blaisdell business?” he stammered.
“Why, I—I thought he was—en—dnteres't-
ed in motoring and golf.”

“Oh, he was, for a time; but it’s too
cold for those now, and he got sick of
them, anyway, before it did come cold,
just as he does of everything. Well yes-
terday he asked a question—something
about Father Blaisdell’s mother; and that
gave me the idea. Do you suppose you
could get him interested in this ancestor
business? Oh, I wish you could! It’s so
nice and quiet, and it can’t cost much——
not like golf clubs and caddies and gaso-
line anyway. Do you think you could?”

“Why, I—-—I don’t know, Mrs. Blaisdell.”
murmured Mr. Smith, still a little wor-
riedly. “I—I could show him what I have
found, of course.”

‘Well, I wish you would, then. Any-
way, something's got to be done,” she
sighed. “He‘s nervous as a witch. He

:h’. minute. “And_

.91: He ate such a. lot or
rich food and all sorts of stuff on our trip
that he got his stomach all out of order;

13 sun

and now he can't eat anything, hardly.”~‘

‘Humph! Well, if his stomach’s knock-
ed out, I pity. him,” nodded Mr. Smith.
I've been there.”

“Oh, have you? Oh, yes, I remember.
You did say so when you ﬁrst came, did-
n’t you? But, Mr. Smith, please, if you
know any of those health fads, don’t tell
them to my husband. Don’t, I beg of you!
He’s tried dozens of them until I'm nearly
wild, and I’ve lost two hired girls already.
One day it’ll be no water, and the next
it’ll be all he can drink; and one week he
won’t eat anything but vegetables, and the
next he won’t touch a thing but meat and
—-is it fruit that goes with meat or cere-
als? Well, never mind. Whatever it is, he’s
done it. And lately'he’s taken to inspect-
ing every bit of meat and groceries that
comes into the house. Why, he spends
half his time in the kitchen, nosing ’round
the cupboards and refrigerator; and, of
course, no girl will stand that! That’s
why I’m hoping, oh, I am hoping that you
can do something with him on that an-
cestor business. There, here is the Ben-
sons’, where I’ve got to stop—and thank
you ever so much, Mr. Smith, if you will."

“All right, I’ll try,” promised Mr. Smith
dubiously, as he lifted his hat. But he
frowned, and he was still frowning when
he met Miss Maggie at the Duff supper-
table half an hour later. -

“Well, I’ve found another one who
wants me to tell how to be contented,
though afﬂicted with a hundred thousand
dollars," he gretted her gloweringly.

“Is that so?" smiled Miss Maggie.

“Yes. Can’t a hundred thousand dollars
bring any one satisfaction?”

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Politics and
the Railroads

To the present generation of Michigan Railroad men it is a
grateful thought that this Peninsular commonwealth is appreo
ciative of the fact that Railroad Service is today the best in

Michigan history.

We know this appreciation by actual expressions—spoken and
written—and by the gradual disappearance of that ancient hostil-
ity which featured an era of Railroading long past.

Most people realize that Railroad Service has been re—established
despite laws which restrict management in every detail—laws
which add huge burdens of expense to Railroad operation without
assisting in any way toward Railroad progress or the development
of Railroad Service.

Those who understand these facts give full credit for the achieve—

ment of Michigan’s twenty—four steam Railroads and are prompt

to resent selfish attacks on them.

Before this defense—a defense

based on facts—railroad aspersion is becoming out of date, except

for spasmodic revivals at election time, when ofﬁce seekers,

desperately ﬁghting for votes, sometimes endeavor to turn Railroad
abuse into political capital.

Railroads have small chance to meet such attacks.

Railroad men

are too busy furnishing transportation and conducting negotiations
with the various Government boards and commissions "which so
closely supervise our every act. In this extremity we must rely on
you to protect and defend us, and to insure us a square deal.

18 this- reliance well placed?

Michigan Railroad Association

sol Railroad Exchange Bldg” Detroit, Mich.

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cane-ime‘ mi _\ we twinkle, thli.
Smith had‘learned to watch for.

“Don’t blame the poor money,”
then demurely. “Blame—the way it is
spent!" ,-

CHAPTER XVIII
Just a Matter of Begging

True to his promise, Mr. Smith “tried”
Mr. Frank Blaisdell on “the ancestor bus-
iness" very soon. Laboriously he got out
his tabulated dates and names, and care—
fully he traced for several lines oi? de-
scent from remote ancestors. Painstak-
ingly he pointed out a“Submit," who had
no history but the bare fact of her mar-
riage to one Thomas Blaisdell, and a
"Thankful Marsh,” who had eluded his
every attempt to supply her with parents.
He let it be understood how important
these missing links were, and he tried to
inspire his possible pupil with a frenzied
desire to go out and dig them up. He
showed some of the interesting letters he
had received from various Blaisdells far
and near, and he spread before him the
genealogical page of his latest "Tran-
script,” and explained how one might
there stumble upon the very missing link
he was looking for.

But Mr. Frank Blaisdell was openly
bored. He said he didn’t care how many
children his great—grandfather had, nor
what they died of; and as for Mrs. Sub-
mit and Miss Thankful, the ladies might
bury themselves in the “Transcript,” or
hide behind that wall of dates and names
till doomsday, for all he cared. He
shouldn’t disturb ’em. He never did like
ﬁgures, he said, except ﬁgures that rep-
resented something worth while, like a
day’s sales or a year’s proﬁts. And,
speaking of grocery stores, had Mr. Smith
ever seen a store run down as his old
one had since he sold out? For that
matter, something must have got into
all grocery stores; for a poorer lot of
goods than those delivered every day at
his home he never saw. It was a dis-
grace to the trade.

He said a good deal more about his
grocery store—but nothing whatever more
about his Blaisdell ancestors; so Mr.
Smith felt justiﬁed in considering his ef-
forts to interest Mr. Frank Blaisdell in
the ancestor business a failure. Certainly
he never tried it again.

It was in February that a certain
metropolitan reporter, short for feature
articles, ran up to Hillerton and contrib-
uted to his paper, the following Sunday,
a write-up on “The Blaisdells One Year
After,” enlarging on the ﬁne new homes,
the motor cars, and the luxurious living
of the three families. And it was three
days after this article was printed that
Miss Flora appeared at Miss Maggie’s,
breathless with excitement,

“Just see what I’ve got in the mail
this morning!” she cried tp Miss Maggie,
and to Mr. Smith, who had opened the
door for her.

With trembling ﬁngers she took from
her bag a letter, and a small picture
evidently cut from a newspaper.

“There, see,” she panted, holding them
out. “It's a man in Boston, and these
are his children. There are seven of
them. He wrote me a beautiful letter.
He said he knew I must have a real kind
heart, and he’s in terrible trouble. He
said he saw in the paper about the won-
derful legacy I’d had, and he told his
wife he was going to write to me, to see
if I wouldn’t help them—if only a little,
it would aid them that much.”

“He wants money, then?" Miss Maggie
had taken the letter and the picture rather
gingerly in her hands. Mr. Smith had
gone over to the stove suddenly—to turn
a damper, apparently, though a close ob—
server might have noticed that he turned
it back to its former position almost at
once.

“Yes," palpitated Miss Flora. “He’s
sick, and he lost his position, and his
wife’s sick, and two of the children, and
one of ’eun’s lame, and another’s blind.
Oh, it was such a pitiful story, Maggie!
Why, some days they haven’t had enough
to eat—and just look at me, with all my
chickens and turkeys and more pudding
every day than I can stuff down!”

“Did he give you any references?”

“References! What do you mean? He
didn't ask me to hire him or anything.”

“No, no, dear, but I meant—did he give
you any references, to show that he was
-——worthy and all right,” explained Miss
Maggie patiently.

“Of course he didn’t! Why, he didn’t
need to. He told me himself how things
were with him," rebuked Miss Flora in-
dignantly. “It’s all in the letter there.
Read for yourself.”

“But he really ought to have given you
some reference, dear, if he asked you for
money.”

“W'eli, I don’t want any reference. I
believe him. I’d be ashamed to doubt a
man like that! And you would, after you
read that letter, and look into those
blessed children's faces. Besides, he
never thought of such a thing-——-I know
he didn't. Why, he says right in the let—
ter there that he never asked for help
before, and he was so ashamed that he
had to now.”

Mr. Smith made a sudden odd little
noise in his throat. Perhaps he got chok-
ed. At all events, he was seized with a
fit of coughing just then.

Miss Maggie turned over the letter in
her hand.

“Where does he tell you to send the '

money?" « _
“It’s right there—Box four hundred and

something; and I got a money order.

just as he said." ,_ . , _
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A SERMON BY REV. DAVID F. WARNER

“1. Jehovah saith unto my
Lord, Sit thou at my right hand,
Until I make thine enemies thy
footstool.

“2. Jehovah will send forth
the rod of thy strength out of
Zion: Rule thou in the midst of
thine enemies. '

“3. Thy people offer them-
selves willingly in the day of
thy power, in holy array: Out
of the womb of the morning
Thou hast the dew of thy
youth.

“4. Jehovah has sworn vic-
tory and will not repent: Thou
art a priest forever after the
order of Melchizedek.

“5. The Lord at thy right
hand will strike thru kings in
the day of his wrath.

“6. He will judge among the
nations; He will ﬁll the places
with dead bodies; He will
strike thru the head in many
countries.

“7. He will drink of the brook
in the way: There will he lift
up the head.”

HE Great War is over but the
conﬂict for righteousness is on
in dead earnest. The liquor

men are showing the red eye of de—
ﬁance as their iniquitous business is
doomed. Politicians are 'opposing
an international agreement to min—
imize the probabilities of war. And
many classes and peoples are crying
for justice in this new day of un—
rest. And now the church has no
other and brave choice but to move
forward in vigor and purpose with
her healing and salvation.

But, in this day, when we are the
more yielding to the impact of spir-
itual forces, set loose nineteen hun—
dred years ago by the Man of Gal-
ilee, we are the clearer seeing that
righteousness consists not so much
in claiming and getting justice, but
in giving justice. The late Wood—
row Wilson indicated that every
country, participating in the- League
of Nations, must give up something
of its sovereignty, that is, make con—
cessions to other nations. This is
social righteousness. The key-prin-
ciple of Christianity is GIVING, not
GETTING.

Now, this is a forward moving
principle\and ideal by which to be—
gin to live in this age. How many
ideas there are, but how few the
ideals! An idea becomes an ideal
when we are willing to clothe it
with sacriﬁce and devotion! when
we enshrine it in ﬂesh and make it
live before men; but still more, per-
haps, when we are willing to die for
it. Jesus and St. Paul were moved
by the eternal “must” and there
lives went out as the martyr’s price.
Lincoln yielded to the assassin’s
bullet for an ideal, and Edith Cavall
gloried in death at the hands of her
cruel enemies.

Psalm 110 sets forth the church’s
program. Luther calls this Psalm
“the true, high, main Psalm of our
beloved Lord, Jesus Christ.” In
verse one we have the present and
universal reign of Christ. His atone-
ment is ﬁnished. His spirit has been
released for men; and the conﬂict
for truth shall rage until the restor-
ation of all things. This is a time
to die for others. “Except a grain
of wheat fall into the ground and
die, it abideth alone.” Jesus quotes
this psalm in Matthew 22:44. It is
convincing proof of his Messianic
power on earth,———a sovereignty
which he makes the surety of the
Great Commission.

Verse two represents the church

as waging the conﬂict. “Zion,” t0
the Jew, is the earthly Jerusalem,
or Judaism. But to the Christain,
it is the spiritual Jerusalem, or
church. “The rod of thy strength”
is the rod with which the prophets
and the Revelator saw Jesus smiting
the nations or the Word of God.
The Gospel has gone out to gather
the whole world to its embrace. The
Kingdom of God is to be won by the
church wielding “the Sword of the
Spirit.” Christ must rule in the
midst of his enemies. They must
be subdued by the power of the Gos-
pel thru the church. In this dispen-
sation the world’s sins must be
blotted out by the blood of the

Lamb, thru heralds that are willing
to die to declare the news.

During this dispensation, Jesus is
to remain in heaven. When the
church’s task is ﬁnished he returns
again, but not as a mediatorial Sav—
ior. Then the door of salvation will
be closed (Matthew 25:10). Our
hope lies in present action. And
now is the time to answer Christ’s
prayer for unity, and to join in the
Revelator’s universal chorus: ”Un-
to him that sitteth on the throne
and unto the Lamb.”

And for this glorious consumma-
tion God’s people are willing to
labor, for this is the day of the
church’s power, says verse three.
This psal‘m is the war cry of our

Great Commander, calling the
church to mobilize against the
enemy. These soldiers of Christ

are to have the vigor characterized
by “the dew of youth.” It is a

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It involves every
man and every man’s'aﬂfairs. You
can not be neutral. There is no
God and Mammon in this movement.
Either you are willing or not will-
ing. But the call is to the willing,
—to the volunteers. No drafted
men are wanted. What a wonder-
ful situation! There is no place in
Christ’s army for a conscript. Al-
ready we have too many of such in
the church. When the call comes
for an advance and assault, we are
compelled to send out corporals to
line up the church’s forces.

And what have you when these
church professors are lined up?
Many times, nothing. They won’t
ﬁght. They look like soldiers, may-
be, but they belie the name. With
such an army, defeat is certain.
When Gideon reviewed his thirty-
two thousand men, his close eye de—
tected the fearful and the unwilling,
and he said, “Go home; we can’t
use you.” He had but three hun—
dred left. They were volunteers
that had the splendid conception of.
their leader and the same stout
faith in God. Every Bible reader
knows how the sword of Jehovah

 

and Gideon won. If the-battles of.
the church are lost, they are lost to

the fearful, the neutrals, and the

conscripts. But heaven pity that
soul and that church in the day
when God shall loose the winds of
judgement, if they are not found
bravely ﬁghting! “By the water
courses of Reuben there were great
resolves of heart.” Foch said, “Send
me volunteers whose hearts are hot
for the ﬁght." And this is funda-
mental in the success of our mili-
tant warfare. It is an assured fact
that no conscript or sluggard shall
enter the Kingdom of God.

A guarantee of victory is sound-
ed in verses four to seven. Jesus
has gone into the great Holy of

holies as a “priest forever” to offer "

his life as a moral satisfaction for
the world’s sins. But the world
must know this. The church must
declare it. How long? “How long,
0 Master, the holy and true, dost
thou not judge and avenge our
blood on them that dwell on the
earth” (Revelation 6:10; compare
Luke 1: 8,9,21)? “And the people
were waiting for Zacharias, and
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F ordson plowing was a step in the elimina-
tion of plowing drudgery.
Oliver No. 7—A you will ﬁnd another im-
portant forward move in better plowing,

easily accomplished.

You will ﬁnd the Oliver No. 7-A different
—so simple in construction, so easy to
operate. It will penetrate in hard soils as
in more favorable conditions.

When you see this plow, note the excep-
tional clearance which permits good plow-
ing in trashy ﬁelds. See how a powerful
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even with the plow standing still. Grasp
the handy controls which permits all ad-

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is a power lift, of course.

Wheels, not landsides, carry the weight of
the plow, making lightest draft and even
depth furrows so desirable for 8 00d seed
bed. The hitch can be rigid or exible as
your ﬁeld requires.

As for the work of the plow itself—we ask
you to see it and compare it with you:
exacting standard of quality plowing.

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RECOGNIZING AGRICULTURE
N dealing with agriculture, the Republican
party recognizes that we are faced with a
fundamental national problem, and that the
prosperity and welfare of the nation as a. whole
is dependent upon the prosperity and welfare
of our agricultural population.”

The foregoing is the opening paragraph of the
agricultural “plank” in what is referred to as
the “Coolidge platform” adopted by the Repub-
lican party at its recent convention in Cleveland.

Ordinarily we don’t take much stock in plat-
forms; like New Year’s resolutions, they are easy
to make, but durned hard to carry out. Never—
theless we feel differently about the Coolidge
platform, because it is not the platform of a
group of professional politicians for the main
purpose of corralling votes. It is a platform
of a man whose honesty of purpose and deter-
mination to do the right thing in spite of what
effect it may have on him politically has never
been questioned. Moreover, the President him-
self is a product of the soil, understands the
farmers’ problems, appreciates the importance of
the farming business, and is making a sincere
effort to help the farmers of America. Incidently,
his father declined an invitation to attend the
Cleveland convention because he was too busy
putting in the crops on his Vermont farm.

If you have not read the Agricultural plank
in the Coolidge platform you should do so, and
then compare it with what the Democrats will
offer the farmers after they meet in New York.

This is not a stump speech for the Republican
nominee; we are content to let his record in of-
ﬁce speak for itself. It is not the policy of THE
BUSINESS FARMER to take sides in political cam-
paigns; we merely want to point out to you
what we believe has an honest purpose behind it,
and not the bubblings of a group of politicians,
for obviously Calvin Coolidge and not the pro-
fessional politicians were in the saddle at Cleve—
land. VVe would not under any consideration
take the responsibility of telling you to vote for
Mr. Coolidge, the Democratic candidate, or any
man a third party may put into the ﬁeld, but
we will go so far as to say that if you want to
return Calvin Coolidge to the White House, vote
him a Congress that will work with him, and
that does not block every turn he makes. No
president can give the country the right kind
of administration unless he has Congress behind
him.

THE BOARDER HEN

HE term “boarder”, which is often applied
to cows whose production is so low that it
barely pays their board, applies also to the
hen that “eats her head off." As a matter of
fact, the farmers probably keep more boarder
hens than they do hens that really produce a
proﬁt. As a. usual thing, farmers pay little or
no attention to the productive ability of their
flock of hens, to say nothing of making a selec-

tion of individuals of high productive ability.
This is regrettable to say the least, because
poultry is one of the most proﬁtable sidelines
in farming. No matter what type of farming
is followed, whether it is grain farming, dairy
farming, fruit farming, general farming or what-
not, poultry usually ﬁts in to good advantage.
Did you ever stop to think that the master:—
pensive hen you can have on the farm, is the

 

quires almost as much food as one that produces
from ﬁfteen to seventeen dozen eggs per year.
In other w’ords, the former will require an aver-
age of twelve pounds of feed to produce - one
dozen eggs, while the latter will produce one
dozen eggs on ﬁve pounds of feed.

If you are interested in poultry as a proﬁtable
farm sideline, don't fall to road the article in
this issue by Prof. E. C. Foreman on the value of
systematic culling and selective breeding of poul-
try, as a factor of great importance in the econ-
omic production of eggs. Incidently Prof. Fore-
man is one of the outstanding experts and au-
thorities on poultry husbandry, and we feel par-
ticularly fortunate in being able to present to
readers of THE BUSINESS Fumes such 3. worth
while discussion on this important subject. Prof.
Foreman’s article is based on facts gained from
study and experience that will be exceedingly
valuable to anyone who applies them.

Prof. Foreman points out that systematic cull-
ing and selective breeding results in more eggs
from the same number of hens. The cost of
producing eggs will be reduced in their case,
but a maximum efﬁciency calls for the application
of both. In other words, when you have culled
your ﬂock in accordance with the instructions
given, the job is only half done; you should
follow that up by selective breeding.

Unfortunately hens are just hens to a great
many farmers when they could be made a very
interesting study, as well as a proﬁtable sideline
—and Prof. Foreman tells how it may be done.

We appreciate, however, that most farmers
feel they have so many things to look after,
they are unable to give poultry the attention
it rightly merits. This offers a suggestion.
Why not get the farm boy, or the farm girl, or
both, interested in taking hold of the poultry
department on the farm and running it in a.
scientiﬁc way. It is not only good experience.
for the young folks, but there is no reason why,
in many cases, the poultry end of the business
should not pay part or all of their education.

The poultry on the farms of Michigan is too
much neglected, and we urge THE BUSINESS
FABMER readers to give it more serious attention.
When we read Prof. Foreman’s article we got real
enthusiastic about it. Perhaps that is largely
because we particularly like poultry, but entirely
aside from the fact that, we believe farmers are
making a serious mistake not to go after the
poultry end of their business in a real scientiﬁc
way.

KEEP THINGS IN BALANCE

TIME to keep things in balance” in a few

words sums up the view of the U. S. D. A.

Bureau of Agricultural Economics, in a.
statement issued June 1. In the opinion of the
Bureau, “If reasonable balance is maintained in
the production end, agriculture as a whole stands
to gain the greatest economic leverage since
1919”. These are encouraging words, to say the
least.

Not only in Michigan, but over the country
generally, the Spring has been late, and farming
got away to a slow start, but as each week rolls
by, conditions are rapidly improving, and the
indications are that the season will not be so
bad after all. The labor situation tends to grow
easier, if anything. Also the general level of
prices shows a declining tendency, while farm
products have slightly advanced. What we need,
of course, is more and still more of this balanc—
ing—up process between agriculture and industry.
There is bound to be a balancing up sooner or
later, but we sometimes weary of the long drawn
out process, especially if we happen .to be in the
unfortunate position of hanging on by the skin
of our teeth, as it were.

The Bureau of Agricultural Economics points
out that two underlying factors now color the
agricultural situation. In the ﬁrst place, the
program of agricultural production has arrived
at the best general balance since 1920. The
community at large hardly understands how far—
reaching and skilful a readjustment farmers have
made in the major lines of production. They
have obeyed economic signals as expertly as any
industry ever did. Naturally, however, it takes a
much longer time to bring about a readjustment
in agriculture than it does in the manufacturing
industry. It is pointed out that no board of
directors can shift over night the crop system
and growing animals on six million farms.

Now that the readjustment process is coming

‘ along in good shape, let us watch our step. 'It

is very important to recognize the point when
readjustment in the various lines has gone far
enough. In‘other. words, if you have achieved a
balance, don’t upset it. As a result of this sur-
vey the United States Department of Agriculture
points out, that the teLJency this season is to
overdo poultry, corn, butter, and potato produc-
tion, and it may presently cut down too far on
wheat. cattle and hogs. The real production

tural situation is11 that the annual industrial-boom

of the past few years appears to be slowing down
at the preSent time; what that will probably
result in will be a balancing-up process between
indudtry and agriculture. If the city buys less
of manufactured products, it apparently means,
under present circumstances, some lowering of
prices of things that farmers have to buy. ”and
likewise a. lowering of wages.

Of course, a slowing up in industry may create
a. somewhat narrower market for such products
as lambs, butter. fresh eggs. and semi luxury
fruits and vegetables, but we rather doubt that
this will be serious, and anticipate that it will
be more than offset by the beneﬁt that will ac-
crue to agriculture, as the result of the balancing-
up process. There is nothing toindicate an im-
pending depreciation in industry; it is simply a
slight slowing up that we do not believe is seri-
ous, at least so far as the effect on agriculture
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KEEPING TAXES DOWN BY LAW
OULD Our Tax Totals Be Held Down By
Law?” is the heading on the current in-
stallment of the series of articles on tax-
ation in Michigan by Stanley M. Powell. The
idea of holding tax totals down by law is spon-
sored by the Michigan Real Estate Association,
and the way this can be done, they state, is to
ﬁx by law an absolute maximum amount of
money which might be raised by taxation during
any given period.

This idea is not entirely new. The state of
Ohio has a. law somewhat along this line but it
has failed to work wholly satisfactory. The
Michigan Real Estate Association has made a
study of the Ohio law, has found the weaknesses
and believes it has a law that will work perfectly.

During the past several months we have dis-
cussed tax problems here in Michigan and, in
turn, taken up and explained some of the many
remediesoffered. The state income tax has been
discussed and since petitions have been circul-
ated by the leading farmers organizations of the
state and enough signatures secured to assure
the proposed income tax law being put on the
ballot this next fall. Then it will be up to us
whether it becomes a law or not. A gas tax,
tax exempt securities, as well as several other
remedies have been discussed. The remedy of-
fered by the Michigan Real Estate Association
is not supposed to be a panacea. for all tax 1118
—-they do not claim it is—but it will, they be—
lieve, help solve the problems of real estate tax-
ation. City, school and county taxes would have
to be taken care of but by holding down state
taxes it would be a. step in the right direction,
and it would be up to the counties and cities to
work out their problems. If it will help solve
the problem it is worth considering because
there is much help needed.

IN THE BIN OR IN THE STACK?

T won’t be long before those readers of THE

BUSINEss FARMER who have grain to thrash
will be visited by the custom thresherman.

Are you going to have him put the grain his
machine threshes in the bin or in the stack?
That is a foolish question, isn’t it? No, it isn’t;
it is a mighty serious question. So serious is it
that the United States Department of Agriculture
has recently issued a statement calling attention
to the fact that the careless, inefﬁcient operation
of threshing machines is responsible for a. great
many bushels of wasted grain.

Threshing machines have been built and im-
proved for a great many years, and while none
of them are probably one hundred per cent ef—
ﬁcient in the separation of the grain from the
straw, yet any of them will do their work with
very little wasted grain if kept in good condition,
properly adjusted, furnished with the proper
amount of power, and carefully watched while in
operation. In addition to this of course, the
grain itself must be in condition to be threshed.

If a threshing machine fails to separate all the
grain from the straw, it is usually due to one or
more causes; either the machine is not being
run at the proper speed, the cylinder fails to
thresh all of the kernels out of the heads, the
separating mechanism is not level, or the blast
not properly adjusted.

You can depend upon it that the owner of. the
threshing rig is not so thoroughly interested in
getting every bushel of grain from the straw as
you are, and therefore it is important for the
farmer to be on the alert. It is well to be versed
on the operation of the machine, and to know
whether the separator man has his machine ad-
justed for the most efﬁcient results possible.
Furthermore, it is not so important for you to
watch the grain spout as it is what is oomin‘
out of the wind stacker; the straw pile or stock
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there was an article on blue—sky

swindies and in this article 10
rules for testing an investment were
given. The rules given are very good
and we are passing them on. Read
’em and then paste ’em in Your hat
or put up in some prominent place
where you can refresh your memory
every now and then.

( 1) When a stock salesman tells
you “now or never," the answer is
always “never." Good investments
will be here tomorrow. Get sound
advice before you buy.

(2) Don’t try to combine gambling
with investment. The more interest,
the more risk.

(3) Don’t buy swamp land 1,000
If you buy real estate,
buy right near home.

(4) Watch out for the man who
offers a big stock bonus. It’s cost
many folks their life savings.

(5) Don’t invest in another man’s
dreams. Be especially suspicious of
the man who tells you how much a
8100 investment in original Ford or
telephone or other similar stock is
worth now. For every big winner
many more fail. A man who has
discovered a diamond mine doesn't
tell the world about it. Out of every
100 new businesses started, 87 fail
and only 13 prove successful!

(6) Mining costs big money. Shun
the man who tells of the mountains
of gold that beckon on the blue hori—
zon.

(7) If you must gamble. gamble
on yourself. Don’t play the other
man’s game.

(8) Don’t stay on the sucker list.
If strangers write offering to make
you rich, tell them to remove your
name from their list. Get off the
list. Some of those birds can write.

(9) Crooks take advantage of
every invention. Watch out now for
fake radio stocks.

(10) Most fake promoters use the
money from stock sales paying run—
ning expenses. Buy mahogany fur-
niture for your own house instead
of for a bucket shop.

FOOD AND FUR OFFICIAL GETS
JAIL SENTENCE

E advised in our last issue that
VS ofﬁcials of the Standard Food

and Fur Association had got
themselves in wrong with Uncle Sam
and had been arrested and charged
with using the mails to defraud.
Since then they have been brought to
trial and one ofﬁcial, Nathan D.
Hecht went to jail for six months
and two others, James and Thomas
Vavaro, were acquitted by a jury.
In addition to the six months he must
spend in jail Hecht had to pay a ﬁne

'of $1,000. The other ofﬁcials claimed

that Hecht deceived them in the sale
of the business two years ago. Like
Pete Dexter of “Forty Years of Fak-
ing” this man Hecht ﬁnally got
caught. '

OLIVER OIL-GAS BURNER

“I would like to know whether
the Oliver Oil—Gas Burner gives sat—
isfaction or not and wish you would
advise me. M. ..H, Lenawee
County, Mich."

E have published many letters
from subscribers regarding
the Oliver Oil—Gas Burner,
we are of the opinion that it de—
pends considerable on the -user
whether the burner is a success or
not. It seems that about 50 per

 

 

 

The purpose of this department is to PM-
tect our subscribers from fraudulent dealing!
or unfair treatment by persons or concerns at
a distance.

In every case we will do our best to mall.
a satisfactory settlement or force action. for
which no charge for our services will ever be
made. providing:

1.—-The claim is made by a paid-up sub-
scriber to The Business Farmer.

2.—The claim It not more than 8 mos. old.

a.—The claim is not local or between peo-
ple within easy distance of one another.
These should be settled at first hand and not
attempted by mail.

Address all letters. giving full particulars.
amounts, dates. eto.. eneieslno a your ad-
dress label from the front cover of any issue
to prove that you are a paid-up subscriber.
THE BUSINESS FARMER. Collection Box

llt. Clemens. Mich.
Devon Ending June 28. 1924
Total number claims ﬁled ........................ 2502
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- cent of our readers who purchase
these burners are satisfied, while
the other 50 per cent arevery much
dissatisﬁed, and would not use
them under any consideration.

WYANDO’I‘TE OIL COMPANY

“I am writing to ask you if you
could give me any information on
some oil stock that has come into
my possession. I have 600 shares
at $5.00 a share in the Wyandotte
Oil Company of Venango county,
Pennsylvania. The company was in-
corporated in 1864 and it seems that
their ofﬁces were in Pittsburgh. Is
the stock of any value?"

THOROUGH investigation re—

veals that this company was

organized in 1864 and at that
time owned 21 acres in President
township, Venango county, Pennsyl-
vania. The incorporators were Ed-
ward G. Peabody, A. M. Ross, J. P.
Chandler, W. C. McKibbon and Henry
R. Anderson. Bankers in Oil City
and Franklin, Pa., never heard of
the company and do not know any
of the incorporators. About the
year 1864 there were a great many
of these incorporations organized,
due to the excitement at that time,
and more than likely this company
was one of them. Most of the com-
panies of this kind let their land go
at tax sales when it was discovered
there was no oil under them, and
but few of them still own land.
From the above information we
would conclude that the stock is not
worth much.

MAKING APRONS AT HOME

F any of our readers are making
I aprons and selling them “at a

proﬁt of $6.90 to $15.30 per
dozen” for the Mary Jane Apron
Company of Manitowac, Wis., we
would like to hear from them.

We wrote this company in March
asking them for the names and ad—
dresses of any ladies in Michigan
who made a success of their plan,
but altho they sent a full line of
their circular matter, they sent no
satisﬁed customers’ names.

They ask $1.50 in advance for the
instructions and material, so their
scheme does not cost as much as

 

some of the “work—at—home” schemes .

we have been writing up recently in
this column.

ANOTHER NFAV ONE
HESE fake stock salesmen are
mighty foxy chaps and between
personal calls, mails, telephone
calls and telegrams the average farm—
er has a hard time getting rid of
them. Unless he losses his temper
and uses his boot on that part of the
salesman’s anatomy the little boy
called “the back of his lap”. Down
in Ohio they have uncovered a new
scheme. The farmer is offered “ser-
vice” from a New York concern.
Following a mail campaign the farm-
er receives a telegram stating that a
certain curb stock can be bought at
a very low ﬁgure and will soon ad-
vance to double or more the amount
paid. One farmer stated that this
concern offered a certain curb stock
at $1.25 declaring that it would soon
go to $3.00. Quick action was urged,
and a long distant telephone call
with further urging followed. This
particular stock was iDVestigated and
found to be worth 50 cents. No
doubt they will try to work Michigan
shortly so be on your guard; you
may ﬁnd something in your mail—
box tomorrow. Do not throw the
papers away but send them to us
because .we want to study their meth—
ods. No we are not going into the
business—we want to keep them
from doing business among our
readers.

 

RENEWING INSURANCE
POLICIES

NY of our subscribers who se-

cured accident insurance last

year through THE BUSINESS
FARMER and want their policy re—
newed can have them renewed by
writing to the North American Ac-
cident Company, 208 LaSalle St.,
Chicago, Ill. Your check or money
order should be made payable to
that company.

 

Dear Sir:——-I have just received the
adjustment from and thank you
very much. I surely appreciate your
work very much. Thank you—Mrs. C.
y A. 1.4.. Gowen. Mich. .

 
  

  

 

 

   

 

 

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O matter Where you roam—~01-
Where business or pleasure calls

——you will ﬁnd a telephone near.

Don’t worry about the folks at home
or about your business. Just keep in
mind that every Boll telephone is a
connecting link between you and
home. Call home every evening——
let the folks know you are thinking

of them.

There are special evening and night
rates that make your calls very eco-

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. E" a‘ friend! VYouidon’t need 'money:‘; "

Just a disposition sunny;
Just the wish to help another
Get along some way or other;
Out to one who’s unbefriended;
Just the will to give or lend,
This will make you someone’s friend.

Be a friend. You don’t need glory,
Friendship is a’ simple story.

Pass by triﬂing errors blindly,

Gaze on honest effort kindly,

Cheer the youth who’s bravely trying,
Pity him who’s sadly sighing;

Just a. little labor spend

‘ On the duties of a friend.

Be a friend. The pay is bigger
(Though not written by a ﬁgure)

Than is earned. by people clever

In what’s merely self-endeavor.

You’ll have friends instead of neighbors
For the proﬁts of your labors;

You'll be richer in the end

Than a prince, if you're a friend,

SOME LIEAL POINTERS

HE ﬁrst course for each meal
Should tend to stimulate the
appetite and prepare the diges-
tive tract for the remainder of the
meal. This is especially true of
breakfast, and fruit is generally
used for this purpose. Fruit is also
frequently used for the ﬁrst course
in a luncheon or dinner. Soup has
stimulating qualities and is used for
a ﬁrst course.

The next course should consist of
a mild ﬂavored food, for example, in
the case of breakfast, a cereal.
This bland ﬂavored course is follow-
ed by the main course, which usual-
ly contains the principal building
and repair foods, (protein) and the
energy and heat producing foods,
(starch). The salad course then
follows in case of a luncheon or
dinner, supplying principally body
regulating and body building foods
in the form of minerals, organic
acids, etc.

The meal ends with a desert and
beverage. The physiological reason
for ending the meal with a dessert is
that a pleasant. sensation tends to
continue digestion. A good habit
to get into is less pies and more
fruits for desserts.

For everyday living the meals are
not usually served in so many
courses, as referred to above, and
one or more of the foods mentioned
may also be omitted. The princi-
pal of contrasts, etc., should be car-
ried out somewhat, no matter how
plain or simple the meal is.

ARTI Fl ( Y‘IAL RE SPIRATION

Y, my, but it is warm—no, it is
hot, positively-hot——today. I
have been all over the house

trying to ﬁnd a cool place where I
might do my writing, but there
doesn’t seem to be a breath of cool
air anyplace. After supper tonight
we will drive out along Lake St.
Clair and enjoy the cool breezes,
and where this is a public beach we
will ﬁnd the water alive with bath—
ers.

Everyone, Whether they go wad—
ing or swmming, should know how
to perform artiﬁcial respiration.
Every year there are thousands who
lose their lives while in bathing
and many of them are taken from
the water while their is still life in
their body but they die because of
the immediate need of proper treat-
ment—and not one in the crowd
knows what to do. I am going to
tell you how to treat a drowning
person so that if you are called up-
on some day you will be ready to do
your part.

Lay patient on stomach, face
turned to one side, so that the
mouth and nose do not touch the
ground.

The operator should kneel, strad-
dling the patient’s hips or by either
side of the hips, facing the patient’s
head.

Place spread hands upon the low—
er ribs of the patient and throw
body and shoulders forward so as to
bringweight heavily upon the low-
er ribs of the patient. Continue
downward pressure three seconds
then suddenly remove hands.

Repeat this act indeﬁnitely about
twelve times a minute—the danger
is that in the excitement the rate
will be too rapid.

The efforts at resuscitation should
be continued until the arrival of the
physician. Any evidence of return-
' ing breathing should encourage the
operator to continue his eﬂorts. Art-
, iﬁcial respiration should be contin-
.1 nous for one hour; much longer, if

 

   

  
        
   

 

 

from high school.

according to who discussed them.

advancing. Advance with it."

this fall.
there but it will be money
well invested if you can
send out your boy or girl
well equipped to fight their
way.

 

Address letters:

 

3a.

The F W H
.Aﬂeparhnent for. the W .

Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR

EAR ‘FOLKS:—The other evening I attended high school graduat-
ing exercises here in Mt. Clemens with a dear friend of mine,
who had a seventeen-year-old boy who was receiving his diploma.
As we sat in our seats and watched the boys and girls, one by one,
walk up onto the stage and receive their diploma I could not help
but think how swiftly time passes.
she, my friend, and I had gone through practically the same cere-
monies and now we were sitting there watching her boy graduate
And but a few years, no doubt, and he will be
watching his son or daughter receive their diploma.

When we were young one who had a high school education was
well educated and pointed out as “real smart” or “an educated fool”

training is the ambition of the young generation.
saying I always keep foremost. in my mind that I want to pass on to
you. It is “Slumber not in the tents of your fathers.
So let’s not go to sleep but advance
with this world of ours and send the boy or girl graduates to college
Sometimes it may mquiro “pinching” a little here and

. V fw, ’

Mrs. Annle Taylor, can The Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens. Michigan.

 
    
  
 
 

 

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there are any evidences of returning
animation.

As soon as artiﬁcial respiration
has been started, a second party
may pull the hair, dash cold water
in the face, loosen the clothing and
collar and hold a cloth saturated
with aromatic spirits of ammonia
near the nose.

Spanking the buttocks sharply
may also have a quickening effect;
pulling on the tongue helps bring
the man to. See that the mouth
contains no tobacco nor spittle.

No stimulant nor liquids of any
kind should be administered by the
mouth while respiration is suspend—
ed. Keep back the crowd.

FEEDING THE BABY

HERE is nothing “just as good”
T as mother’s milk. It is the na—
tural and only perfect food for
the infant. Substituting anything
else for it should be considered a
serious undertaking, justiﬁed only
by necessity and carried out only
under the advice of. a physician.
If mother is ill or run down she
should consult a physician before

giving her baby other food or bottle
feeding. The quality of mother’s
milk may be improved by improving
her health. Improper food, irregu-
lar meals, lack of rest and sleep,
too frequent or too prolonged nurs—
ing weaken the mother and injure
her milk, especially in hot weather.

Breast—fed babies often vomit or
have diarrhea because the mother is
sick or tired out and her milk is
poor. So long as the mother keeps
well the breast—fed baby will be
well. '

Tea and coffee do not improve
the quality of the mother’s milk,
and may be injurious to the baby.
A nursing mother should drink
plenty of pure water. There is no
better food for the mother than
good milk; she should drink it
freely.

If breast milk does not agree
with the baby, do not wean him
until you have tried:

Improving the quality of the milk
by attention to the mother’s diet, in-
take of liquids and details of her
daily life.

Feeding the baby at her regular
four—hour intervals.

 

 

TIME-TABLE FOR CANNING FRUITS AND TOMATOES
These time periods are based on the use of quart glass. jars. For pint glass jars
5 minutes less time may lw used, and for No. 2 or No. 3 tins l0 minutes less. When
the fruits are precookcd and packed hot, a 5-minute process is recommended for all
cans or jars to insure keeping and to create a vacuum seal.

Product

Method of treatment before
processing

Processing period, at
temperature of 212° F.

 

Apples ........................ Slice. quarter, 01‘ halve, then Pack in Packed cold: 20 minutes.

and pack hot.

Apricots ...........

 

Pack in jars.
medium simp.

 

Raspberries ..............

jarsand cover with boiling sirup.
()r boil whole in sirup, or'bakc as Packed hot: 5 minutes.
for serving, and cover With sxrup,

Or pack but in form of apple sanec.
. Same as peaches ..........

..............................

Fill with boiling hot, 20 minutes.

Cherries ..................... Pack in hot jarS, COVEI‘ With boiling Packed cold: 25 minutes.

sirup, using thick sirup for sour
cherries, and medium for sweet.
Or remove pits, add sugar as desired, Packed hot: 5 minutes.
bring to boil, and pack.
Currants .................... Same as berries ..........

Goose-berries ............. Same as other berries, but using thick Packed cold: 20 minutes.

sirup.

sired. Fill hot

Or prepare sauce, using sugar as de— Packed hot: 5 minutes.

Peaches ..................... Scald, dip into cold water, and peel. 20 minutes.

Cut into size desired, removing pits.
Fill jars, then add sirup of desired
consistency, in which several cracked
peach pits have been boiled.

Pears .......................... Pare and cook for 4 to 8 minutes in 20 minutes.

Pineapples ..... . ........... Peel, core, remove

Plums ......................... Prick. Fill in jars.
ing medium sirup.

boiling medium sirup.
jars and ﬁll with the boiling sirup.
eyes. Cut into 30 minutes.
convenient sizes. Pack in jars. Fill
with boiling thin sirup.

Cover with boil— Packed cold: 20 minutes.

Pack hot in

Or bring to boil, using sugar as de- Packed hot: 5 minutes.
sired. Fill hot into jars.

Rhubarb ..... .. ............. Cut in half—inch lengths. Add one- 5 minutes.

by measure.

jars.

fourth as much sugar as rhubarb
Bake until tender in
covered baking dish. Pack in hot

Strawberries ............. To each quart add 1 cup of sugar and 5 minutes. :2: ,i ,z‘ _

for 15 minutes.

Fill jars hot.

Tomatoes............. ...... Scald and eel. Pack whole or cut in 25 minutes. ':
over with hot tomato juice. ‘
Add 1 teaspoon salt to each quart.

 

pieces.

2 tablespoons of water. Boil slowly ! ,

Let stand over- 1 it

night in kettle. Reheat to boiling. : 1,:
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Giving one-half of one ounce 'of

boiled water before each nursing.
Giving some cow’s milk diluted

after one or more feedings, if breast

milk is scanty. .

 

HOW VEGETABLES RANKIN"
FOOD VALUE

HE following list of vegetables
arranged in the order of their
value may be helpful to the

home-maker who is eager to secure
from vegetables the greatest contri—
bution they have to offer:

1. Spinach, turnip tops, chard,
wild green leaves, cabbage, lettuce,
string—beans.

Potatoes.

Carrots.

Onions, cauliﬂower, celery.
Parsnips, turnips.

Sweet potatoes, beets.
Asparagus, Brussels sprouts.
Cucumbers, eggplants, pep»
pers, pumpkin, squash.

Leaves, including string-beans,
hold the most conspicuous place
among all the vegetables, because
they are rich in all the materials for
which vegetables rank well. Those
which are eaten raw have no suc-
cessful competitors among any foods
so far as vitamins are concerned.
Although it is true that a. serving of
roots or tubers, leaves have more
than twice as much iron and in
many cases they are much richer in
vitamins.

It is fortunate indeed that the po-
tato has survived the dietary changes
of civilization, because it is a close
second to leaves in the food mater-
ials that it contains. It is fair in
iron and vitamin A and good in vi—
tamins B and C. Carrots also hold
an enviable place among the roots
because they are good in vitamin A
and fair in B and C. Parsnips and
turnips are unusual in their content
of lime and good in vitamin B.

.OO-QﬁCﬂrF-OON

WORTH‘VHILE CURTAIN HINTS

HORT Curtain Defects Overcome
—A relative of mine moved to
a new house where some of the
windows were much longer than the
ones in her former home. At ﬁrst
she thought she would be obliged to
buy new curtains, but, by the ad-
vice of a neighbor this diﬂiculty was
entirely over—come.

Instead of new curtains, she used
the old ones by measuring from the
sill up and letting the rods come
wherever they would. Then she
purchased some pretty drapes with
a valance at the top and placed an-
other rod for these at the top of the
window as usual, thereby concealing
the shortness of the curtains under-
neath.

Beautiful Drapes from old ma—
terial—A friend asked me to step in
her bedroom and see her new cur-
tain drapes. I did so, and saw some
beautiful plain delicate pink ones
with a valance at the top. I examin-
ed the material and decided it was
some kind of voile, but she laugh-
ingly told me she had only taken
the outer portions of some old thin
worn out sheets and colored them a.
dainty light pink color.

This discovery has been of great
help to me, as I know what disposi-
tion to make with sheets that had
worn through in the center yet the
other portions were strong enough
to last a long time—E. M. L. B.

DO YOU KNOVV—

So many housewives make anoth-
er task while doing one? Never un-
cover a frying pan to turn meat
without ﬁrst drawing it back to cool
a moment. Then raise lid on side
towards you and reach under to do
the turning, thus preventing any
grease from spattering the range
for later cleaning.

That you can prevent foods and
fruits from boiling over on your
burner by watching a few minutes
until boiling is reached to see if it
will go higher? Then regulate for
safety.

That soap will spoil the enamel
on your burner? Polish oﬁ each day
with a clean cloth and a few drops
of “3—in-1” oil or “Finoil.”

That navy beans are better soak-
ed over night? Drain, add more
water, and baking soda the size of
a bean, boil 15 minutes. Drain
again, cover with cold water. To
2 quarts beans (soaked) add 1,6
cup sugar (brown preferred)” salt-
and pepper to taste, and several

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make soup if desired.

It beans are boiled in a deep
kettle, dumplings may be cooked in
the soup. For ten small dumplings,
use a full cup Of sweet” milk, one
heaping. teaspoon of baking powder
sifted in with enough ﬂour to make
a. stiff dough and a scant teaspoon of
salt. Drop dough in soup (in
spoonfuls.) One hour before beans
are tender, cover kettle and boil
very slowly.——4B. O. R.

 

 

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MRS. MORGAN’S CHOICE
Here is a. quilt pattern I designed last

night. I call it Mrs. Morgan’s Choice
and it looks ﬁne if pieced of two colors.
Mrs. Morgan.

——The original block Mrs. Morgan was
kind enough to send me is pieced with
the two colors, blue and white, and it is
real pretty. I have several beautiful de-
signs that have been sent in by my good
readers and I will publish them from time
to time. Be on the look—out for them.—
Mrs. Annie Taylor.

Daughter Tries Recipe.—I write to
thank you for the valuable information
I received through your paper and read-
ers. We all enjoy your paper and wish
it was daily. My daughter 10 years old
is the ﬁrst one to the mail box Saturdays
so she can read her parts ﬁrst. She also
tries some Of the recipes and is learning
cooking out of the M. B. F. and has
wonderful luck especially with cakes and
salads. She wishes me to send you a
way to clean a screen milk strainer.
Take a bar of hard soap and rub the
corner of the bar on- the screen. That
forces the dirt through screen, then wash
the screen in hot water to dissolve the
soap. Enclosed please find $2.00 for ﬁve
years subscription—Mrs. C. J. R., Adrian,
Michigan.

Cured Eczema..—I sure enjoy the paper
and I look every issue for pretty apron
patterns. I am one of the victims of
eczema. I have been using the recipe
that was in your paper some time ago——
sulphur Ointment rubbed in, wash the feet
in 1 quart of water in which two table-
spoons of epsom salts were dissolved—-
and I am glad to say my feet are cured.
I told others about the salts for a foot
wash and they said “it worked wonders.”
I am so glad to be free from eczema
I must write and tell you about it.
Thanking you for past favors, I remain
as even—Mrs. J. A. B., Croswell, Mich.

Mistake in Salad Dressing Recipe.—
In regard to the receipt for salad dress-
ing I sent for the beneﬁt of Mrs. J. E. S.,
of Manistee; I think she would be very
much disappointed, if she tried it as the
paper printed it. If you refer to my
letter of a couple of weeks ago I think
you will ﬁnd about half of the receipe
has been omitted. I am sending it again
in case the ﬁrst one has been mislaid.

2 eggs well beaten, 1 cup vinegar, 1
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Paint outdoor ﬂower boxes white as
It makes the most effective background
for the green foliage and the bright
ﬂowers, and keeps their roots cool. All
out-door things should be painted at reg-
ular Intervals to alt-set the forces of de-
struction—sun, wind. rain, sleet and hail.

  
 

 

 

of wain t, 1,4 teaspoon salt, 1» teaspoon
mustard. Set- ‘in hot water and 0001:.
Cool before putting on cabbage or pota-
toes. Thin as needed with cream or milk.
Mistakes will happen with the best of
people. Ever a. friend—Mrs. A. R. I...
Elsie, Michigan.
—I am very sorry that only part of this
recipe was printed because I know how
you feel when you decide to make “some-
thing different" and you follow the printed
recipe in every detail—and then ﬁnd that
it isn’t a success. I will try hard to see
that this never happens again—Mrs.
Annie Taylor. ,

   

 

 

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Little Points :3. Girl Should Take to
Heart—If a, small brother shows himself
a nuisance where men callers are con-
cerned, by tactless remarks, cat—calls, and
obtrusive lingering at tete—a-tetes or other
manifestations inspired by the perverted
sense of humor common to his years, re—
member than an entente cordiale is better
than a state of open warfare. If you
care to exercise tact and friendliness you
can make a friend of little brother in-
stead of a chronic tease.

Young men like to talk about them-
selves. If you wish to be popular with
them, this is worth bearing in mind. Lis-
tening well will make you more sought
after than talking well.

A girl should not be a coquette. Yet,
within limits, she is not unjustiﬁed in
encouraging the attention of several ad—
mirers. A girl whose company others ﬁnd
desirable, is more apt to be sought out
by the one individual to whom her pre-
ferences may incline.

Many young girls are at a loss as to
exactly when they should begin calling
a young man with whom they are ac—
quainted by his ﬁrst name. This is some-
thing which should come of itself and
cannot be established by rule. It is best,
however, when acquaintanceship has rip-
ened so as to make a “ﬁrst name" footing
natural, to let the young man take the
ﬁrst step in establishing it. If you then
allow him to call you by your ﬁrst name
you could quite naturally call him by his.

 

 

Menu for July 5th

 

’Brown Fricassee of Chicken
Boiled Rice Baking Powder Biscuit
Apple and Celery Salad
Mince Pie
Coffee

‘Brown Fricassee of Chicken.—-—-Draw,
singe, and joint chicken. Put 4 table-
spoons fat in sauce-pan; when brown, put
in chicken. Stir until every piece is nice-
ly browned, then add 2 tablespoons flour,
stir again, add 1 pint boiling water or
stock, stir until it boils; add 1 teaspoon
of salt. Cover, and let simmer gently
until tender, then add 1 teaspoon onion
juice, and little black pepper. Put neck-
piece, heart, liver, gizzard, and back pieces
in center of dish; put 2 pieces of breast
on top, second joints on one side of plate,
legs crossed on other, and wing at each
end of plate. Pour sauce over, sprinkle
with chopped parsley, and serve.

 

 

RECIPES

 

 

Sardine Sandwiches—2 tablespoonfuls
melted fat, 1 dozen sardines, 1 table—
spoonful whipped cream, 1 tomato, salt,
pepper, and paprika to taste, lettuce
leaves, slices of brown or white bread.
Bone and skin the sardines, then rub
through sieve, add cream, fat, pulp of
tomato and seasonings and mix well.
Spread mixture between slices of brown
or white bread and butter, stamp out in
rounds, in center of each round force a
row of whipped cream seasoned with salt
and red pepper, place small stamped out
leaves of lettuce round the cream. Suf-
ﬁcient for twelve sandwiches.

Tomato and Horseradish Sandwiches.
—1 tablespoonful fat, 14 cupful grated
horseradish, 1 tomato, bread, 14 cupful
mayonnaise, salt and paprika to taste,
parsley. Mix fat, horseradish, and may-
onnaise together. Skin and slice tomato,
sprinkle with salt and paprika. Spread
thin slices of bread and butter with fat
mixture, and put sliced tomato between,
cut into fancy shapes and garnish with
parsley. Sufﬁcient for ten sandwiches.

‘ I’imiento Cheese Sandwiches.—2 table-
spoonfuls fat, 1 cupful diced cheese, 1
teaspoonful cornstarch, 6 tablespoonfuls
milk, 1 teaspoonful salt, 1 can pimientoes,
paprika to taste, graham bread. Put
cheese into double boiler, add fat, corn-
starch, milk, salt, and paprika to taste
and. stir and cook until smooth, then add
pimientoes cut into small pieces. Spread
between buttered slices of graham bread.
Sufﬁcient for twenty—ﬁve sandwiches.

 

 

The Runner’s Bible

(Copyright by Houghton Mimin Co.)

The Lord will perfect that which con-
cerneth me. Ps. 138:8.

There is a perpetual working of the
Perfect Law of God. Whether one re-
ceives a blessing from it or not, depends
largely upon one’s appreciation and recog-
ni ion.

 

 

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The Spirit of Pioneering

Impatience with present facilities, a restless searching for
perfect thingse—these have driven men to discovery and inven-
tion. They possessed the early voyagers who turned their backs
on the security of home to test opportunity in an unknown land.
They explain the march westward that resulted in this settled.
united country.- And they have inspired the activities of the
Bell System since the invention of the telephone.

The history of the Bell System records impatience with any-
thing less than the best known way of doing a job. It records a
steady and continuous search to ﬁnd an even better way. In
every department of telephone activity improvement has been the
goal—new methods of construction and operation, reﬁnements
in equipment, discoveries in science that might aid in advancing
the telephone art. Always the road has been kept open for an
unhampered and economic development of the telephone.

Increased capacity for service has been the result. Instead
of rudimentary telephones connecting two rooms in l 876, to—day
ﬁnds l5,000,000 telephones serving a whole people. Instead
of speech through a partition, there is speech across a continent.
Instead of a few subscribers who regarded the telephone as an
uncertain toy, a nation recognizes it as a vital force in the
business of living.

Thus has the Bell System set its own high standards of
service. By to-day's striving it is still seeking to make possible
the greater service of to-morrow.

AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

BELL‘éSYSTEM

One Policy, One System, Universal Service

 

 

 

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Oras things which do annoy. »

Let us e’re sow golden deeds

And uproot all oklife's weeds,

Let us plant the seeds of joy

And all evil plants destroy,

Let us make our lives worth while-—
By wearing e’ re a friendly smile.

We can ﬁll this world with joy——

If we would all harsh words destroy,
If we would live like ﬂowers do—-~
Blooming all our lives through,

We could make this earth a Heaven
If we'd use the talents we are given.

But we will try our very best—

To pass every trying test,

And scatter e’re the seeds of joy-—
Uprooting all things which annoy,
Filling our lives with golden deeds—
Which grow forth from little seeds.
-—«Composed by Gladys Classman, R1,
Sebewalng, Michigan. Age 16 years.

 

EAR girls and boys:—Do you

know any girls or boys who are

referred to as “those foreign-
ers”? No doubt you do, and I am
wondering how you treat them. Do
you accept them as playmates and
try to teach them our ways and the
ways of our country? Or do you
avoid them and leave them to play
alone while you and your friends
play together?

If you went to live in a foreign
land, where they talked a. different
language and their customs were
different from those of this country,
you would not want the people to
turn against you, Would you? You
would not learn to like the people
and their country if they did not
help you to understand their ways
and language, would you? You
might but chances are against it.
We should think of this when we
meet children from a foreign land
who have come to our country to
make their home. If they are to
live here we want them to love
America the same as we do and it
is largely up to us whether they be—
come good citizens and good Amer-
icans. Treat them like a friend.
Some people wonder why they con-
tinue to talk their own language
after they are in this country a
while. We must remember that
our language is not their native
tongue and it is hard for them to
learn how to express themselves in
English. I think that if we would
be careful of our speech when talk-
ing to our sisters or brothers from
other shores, speaking slow and dis—
tinct they would learn much faster.
America is in too much of a hurry
and does not take enough time to
train her future citizens.

Girls and boys, let us all decide
to help at least one foreign girl or
boy become a good American with
in the next year. And if you will
help more than one, so much the
better.—UNCLE NED.

OUR GIRLS AND BOYS

Dear Uncle Nedz—Here I am again
with a poem which I hope you will see
ﬁt to print. I sent a poem about ‘Spring’
to you about the ﬁst of May and was
glad to see it in print. I wrote a poem
about “Sowing Joy’ for the M. B. F. but
I lost it so to-day I wrote the one I am
now sending. I will close with love. As
ever your loving niece,-——-Gladys Class-
man, R1, Sebewaing, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned :~——We have been taking
your paper and I always like to read it.
The ﬁrst thing I look for is the boys'
and girls’ page. I have never written to
you before, so I thought I would write
a few lines to. I will describe myself.
I am 13 years old, have blonde hair and
light blue eyes, am light complexioned,
and ﬁve feet and three inches tall and
weigh one hundred and ﬁve pounds. 1
am in the 6th grade at school. I live on
a farm of 170 acres of land. We have

 

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17 head of cattle, 4 horses and -100
chickens and 4 pigs. I have two brothers
and ﬁve sisters. My mother is away.
Uncle Ned is it the style to have your

hair bobbed or have it grow out? 1

never see any letters from Summit CitY.
The weather is very warm up here. We
had a little storm but it went away. I
wish some of the boys and girls would
write to me. I would be very glad to
answer all the letters that I get. I will
have to close before Mr. Waste Basket
get this letter. Good bye Uncle Ned.
Your Want-to-be niece—Valeria Rodeo,
R. 1, Box 42, Summit City, Mich.

——I would say the style is to have the
hair bobbed. It seems you» seldom see
a girl with long hair any more.

Dear Uncle Ned:-I am a lonesome
boy who wants to join your merry circle
of cousins. Well I guess I had better
describe myself. I am 5 foot 7 inches
tall, weigh 143 pounds, blue eyes, black
hair and my age is between 15 and 20. The
girl that guesses it right will receive a
real box of—«well Uncle Ned I won’t tell
what is in that box. Well I must close
or Mr. Waste Basket will receive my let-
ter. From your want-to—be nephew,—
Billy Frank, Box 87, Alabaster, Mich.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I have been a silent
reader of the M. B. F. for a long time
so thought I would write. I hope this
letter does not reach the waste basket.
My, it seems as though it would never
be summer doesn’t it? If it doesn’t warm
up pretty soon we will have to pack our
trunks and go to Florida. Ha! Ha! We
found a few wild strawberries. There
are lots of green ones. We have quite

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a patch and expect to get quite a few
strawberries. We set out the patch last
year. We have our garden planted and
it is up now. We have to weed it. Do
you like to weed garden? Well I guess
I had better describe myself. I am a
girl 11 years old. I have blue eyes,
brown hair (bobbed), and 4 feet 8 inches
tall. I weigh about 84%, pounds, am in
the 7th grade at school. I haven’t heard
whether I passed or not. I will close
hoping some of the boys and girls will
write to me. I will answer all letters.
Yours with best wishes,-—-Doris McBride,
Hopkins, Michigan, R1.

 

Dear Uncle Ned:—I think Mr. Waste
Basket must be pretty fat by now. He
has gobbled up two of my letters to say
nothing of all the others. I hope he
doesn’t eat this one as it might be inter-
esting to some of the boys and girls who
have never seen a ﬁsh hatchery. Mrs.
Frasher, our teacher, invited the scholars
to go home with her at different times,
of course. Reva, a schoolmate of mm,
and myself Went home with her for the
week end. On Sunday we went to Paris
to see the ﬁsh hatchery. It certainly is
ﬁne. The pond is separated into different
parts. ‘The large ﬁsh in one part and
the smaller ones “in another part, and
so on. The ﬁsh are very pretty. Some
of them are blue, and some are green.
I saw one that was yellow. They are
all spotted with black. After we had
looked at the ﬁsh in the pond We went
into the building which is quite large.
There are large tanks inside with ﬁsh in
them. A few of them are quite good
sized, but mostly they are tiny ﬁsh and
the eggs. In some of the tanks there are

Surprises At the Dog Parade

to awaken “Ruffy” who was

asleep on the front porch. The
dog looked up out of one eye, then
seeing his young master sprang to
his feet and trotted down the walk
to where Carter stood. “Come on,
old boy, we’ve got to beat it. The
parade begins at ten sharp.”

Ruffy seemed to understand and
he ran down the street in an excited
manner, his long yellow hair shining
in the sunlight.

Carter could not take the dog on
the street car, so they started on
their three—mile walk to the heart of
the city where, in the large auditor-
ium, all the boys and girls and their
dogs were to assemble before the
great event of the summer—the dog
parade. Many prizes were to be
awarded at the termination of the
procession.

Each child in his own heart knew
that his dog would be a prize winner.

Carter was proud of Ruffy, a bean—
tiful, yellowish-brown collie, with
great, big brown eyes that looked
up into his little master’s face with
admiration every few steps.

As they approached the auditorium
Carter saw a steady stream of chil-
dren and dogs coming from all direc—
tions. Some of the dogs were led
by a leash, some small ones were
carried, others rode in wagons and
one small white ﬂuffy spitz rode in
state, in a baby carriage.

Before Carter entered the big
building, where all the dogs could be
heard barking and yelping at each
other, he put on Ruffy‘s leash so he
could hold him. Ruffy might get in—
to a ﬁght, if not held tight. The chil—
dren struggled to keep the animals
from pitching into each other. One
ﬁght was called off between a Scotch
terrier and a Boston bull terrier,
when it looked as if the two hundred
dogs were all going to join in.

The band struck into a march,
men called, and the line of proces_
sion began to form. First came a
St. Bernard led by a small girl; then
came the tiniest dog, a Mexican hair-
less; then a wonderful white Russian
wolfhound; a bull dog with a pipe in
his mouth and glasses on his nose
came next; following him came Air-
dales, Irish setters, and representa-
tives of all the different terrier fam-
ilies. All the leading breeds were in
the parade. Some of the dogs liked
it, others would not keep in line and
made wild dashes to get away.

Then came Carter’s turn. He was
ready to start, his face shining with
joy, until a woman passed him who
shouted, “Oh, that’s Rex, my dog!”

Ruffy heard her voice and gave
one bound toward her.

Carter stood by, declaring, "He’s
mine. He’s mine, and I paid for his
license with all my own money.”

CARTER gave a sharp whistle to

Carter’s place was ﬁlled in the line
while he tried to claim Ruffy’s owner-
ship.

The lady said that Rex had been .

lost for two months. The dog seemed
bewildered. First he jumped all
over the lady, then over Carter who,
ﬁnding the dog knew the woman, ex—
claimed, “He came to my house two
months ago and whinned to get in,
one cold morning. We tried to make
him go away, but he would not go.
We looked in the ads for a lost dog,
but not any were found about Ruffy.
So I fed him and I guess he loved us,
’cause he stayed.” Carter leaned
over and patted the dog, then threw
his arms around his neck and buried
his face in the mass of Ruffy‘s long
yellow hair. When he looked up
there were tears in his eyes and his
voice trembled. “Take him away,
quick, if he’s yours.”

The lady felt badly and offered
Carter some money for being kind
to her dog, but the lad refused it.
“No, no, please, I can’t take it.”

Manfully Carter and Ruify parted,
and the tears running down each
cheek. He dashed them away be-
fore he thought any one would notice
him. But—-a man had watched the
parting of the boy and dog. The
parade was going down the street.

Some one touched Carter. “Hello,
son, you are the boy I’m looking for!
Will you take this dog in the parade
for me? You seem to have lost your
dog. His name is “Max.” Hold on
to him tight, he is pretty lively.”

Before Carter could speak he had
been given the leash and pushed into
position in the parade. He looked
down at the dog; he smiled; he was
in it after all. The band played, the

people shouted, and the dogs yelped

as they walked through the crowded
streets. Then, at last, the two hun—
dred children and their pets came
back to the auditorium and passed
before the judges’ stand. Here the
prizes were to be awarded.

Five dollars went for the best bred
dog. Then two dollars for the larg—
est dog, the smallest, the best be-
haved. The same amount was given
to the best cared for dog, and Carter
felt a pang grip his heart as Ruffy
was given that prize.

Many more prizes were called.
Carter started looking for the man
whose dog he had. Soon he saw him
standing in the judges’ stand. The
man stood up and made an announce—
ment. “Boys and girls, the big
prize of the day is now to be given
away. It is the thoroughbred Air—
dale, Max. He goes to the most de-
serving boy, Carter Robinson.”

80 Carter went home, in the gen-
tleman’s car, the proud possessor of
Max, who from the very start loved
his new master.

' ' m. is” is . .
Yousay'youwouidmwtokeowrv r
look like? There really isn't much to. .
I am ﬁve feet ﬁve inches tall and weigh .
one hundred and seven pounds. I have '
dark red, bobbed hair, blue eyess and a
fair complexion. I am fourteen years
old, and I will be in the seventh grade
next year. I walk a. mile and a half to
school. Hoping some of the cousins will
write to me, I will bid farewell to Uncle
Ned and Cousins—Miss Avis Smith, as.
Blanchard, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I'have been a. silent
reader of the M. B. F. for over three
years and enjoy the reading very much.
I thought I would write and see if I
could join the Merry Circle. Hold on! I
better describe myself. I have black
hair, light blue eyes, rosy cheeks, am 5
feet 7 inches tall and am 14 years old.
I live on a 40 acre farm 4 miles from
Lake Huron. We have a pair of twin
lambs, we took their pictures the other
day. For pets I have 3 cats and 1 dog. -
I went to school every day and our
school is out now. I am in the 8th grade.
I like school just ﬁne. Will have to ex-
cuse poor writing this time for this is
the ﬁrst time I ever had my name in
print, soIam Iiike to'oto
church and Sunday school. I can man-
orize every book in the bible. I have
lots of friends to play with and there
are lots of children living around here.
My girl friend’s name is Mary B. I will
close with a riddle for the boys and girls
to guess: . Round as 9. apple, round as a
biscuit, busy as a. bee. the prettiest, little
thing you ever did see. The one that
thinks they know this riddle write to me
and I will see if you got the answer right.
-—Maable Toly, Carsonville, Mich, R4.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I have been reading
the M. B. F. for some time and sure
enjoy. reading it. Well I will describe
myself. I have black hair which of
course is bobbed and have fair complexion.
and rosey cheeks. I am "sweet 16” and
my brithday is in October. Do you like
bobbed hair? I was to a dance Tuesday
and sure had a nice time. I certainly
like to dance. I go to a dance twice a
week. There was a dance here at our
place last Saturdaynight and there sure
was a big crowd. I am planning on go-
ing to Detroit in July. I never was out
there yet and am very anxious to go and
see what kind of a city it is. I often
think I will miss the dances'around here,
also my good friends. I got a letter
from my sister in Detroit the other day
and I was telling her in the letter I
wrote about all the dances there are
around here and she said I should not
mention them because it makes her lone-
some and blue. Well I think my letter
is rather long so will close with hopes
of. receiving some letters from some of
the cousins—Mabel Monette, Cathro,
Michigan.

Dear Uncle Nedz—This is not the ﬁrst
time I have written you. I have written
three or four times before but. did not
see them in print so I will try again. I
am in the sixth grade. My age is be-
tween seven and eighteen. The one that
guesses my age correctly will receive a
card and a long letter from me. My
ﬁrst name is Mildred. How many chil-
dren are there Uncle Ned that are named
that name? I am sending some riddles:
Little Miss Ettycoat, in a white petti-
coat, the longer she stands the shorter
she grows. Ans.——Candle. There is a
little white house and full of meat but
no door to get into eat. Ans.--—Egg.
What’s the difference between a hill and
a pill? Ans.——One‘s hard to get up and
the other‘s hard to get down. This is all
for now.—-—-Mildred Lindhurst, R. 2, Cer-
esco, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Nedz—May I join your
merry circle. I live on an 87% acre farm
three and one half miles from Berry.
My father has taken the M. B. F. for three
years. I enjoy very much reading the
Children‘s Hour. I am 5 feet 2 inches
tall, I have dark red hair and hazel
colored eyes. I am thirteen years old
and my birthday is December 8th. I
have two sisters. Mary is seventeen and
Jean is almost three. I go three and
one half miles to school. Hoping to get
a lot of correspondence. As ever your
niece,——-Miss Glenador Hull, R2, Perry,
Michigan.

 

 

 

 

Each picture represents the name
of a citywin Missouri. What are the
three cities?

Answer to last puzzle: The oh-m
jects are: LA, SAW, SI. NINE,‘ LEG.
BOARD and BONES. The names
of the stars are: GLORIA SWAN-
SON and_ BEBE DANIELS.

 

  


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‘to back them, legislators could dis~
charge much more easily the never-
ending procession of individuals,
committees and delegations who be-
siege the state capitol in quest of
appropriations.

"When property taxes are limited
the legislature may choose between
two courses. It may hold expendi-
tures to the revenues placed at its
disposal or it may draw revenues
from other sources.

“With the rapid growth of Michi-
gan and the persistent public demand
for more and better governmental
service, the inevitable increase in the
cost of government must be appar-
ent to all. It is by anticipating in-
creased expenditures that tax limita-
tion promises its greatest service.
After expenditures have undergone
the pruning that would naturally fol-
low controlled revenues, the legisla-
ture would be faced with the task
of producing funds from other
sources. Classes of taxpayers now
carrying less than a fair share of the
cost of government would be asked
to assume an increased load. Some
classes of the property now paying
nothing would be asked to assist.
Real estate’s load would remain prac-
tically stationary; New revenues
would be spent in lieu of rather than
in addition to taxes from real estate.

“The operation by which the pro—
portion borne by real estate would
be reduced, probably is apparent al—
ready. As total taxes go up and up,
real estate’s share (the amount re—
maining stationary) would become
proportionately smaller and smaller.
The percentage of real estate taxes
to total taxes would drop from 79%
per cent to 70 per cent, 65 per cent
and thus on down until it reached a
proper ratio. When the line rep—
resenting real estate taxes dropped
to the line representing real estate
wealth (as it would eventually under
the limitation plan) real estate would
again step into the ranks with other
taxpayers. She has; no desire to es—
capeher fair responsibility to gov-
ernment.

Has High Approval

“The Michigan Real Estate Asso~
ciation’s plan for tax limitation is
not a lately-conceived tax cure-all.
The plan was advanced by the asso-
ciation two years ago and presented
to the legislature of 1923. It passed
the house by a handsome vote and
came within two votes of passage in
the senate. It has been submitted
to the searching scrutiny of econ-
omists, tax students, editorial writers
and legislators of several states. Not
one weakness in the plan has been
pointed out. Not one intelligent
argument against it has been ad—
vanced. In contrast, it has been
complimented from scores of sources.
Many believe that within the plan is
to be found a suggestion that would
clarify discussions that have perplex—
ed" many legislatures. .

“The Michigan Real Estate Asso—
ciation does not say that approval
of the constitutional amendment it
seeks would solve the problems of
real estate taxation. It recognized
that there still would remain the
problems of city, school and county
taxes and that these vastly over-
state taxes. But the legislature and
state oﬂicers are concerned particu—
larly with state taxes and it is to
them that the Michigan Real Estate
Association will present its con-
clusions next January.

“The fact that no weakness in the
plan has been revealed cannot be ac-
cepted as proof that none exists.
The Michigan Real Estate Associa:
tion is interested in results rather
than methods and holds an eager ear
for the one who can improve upon
its plan or offer a better one. The
organization is not bigoted.

“Let there be searching analysis
of the plan advanced but let those
who participate proceed fairly. The
Michigan Real Estate Association
will have small patience with the
person either in public or private
life, who, inspired by insincere
motives, undertakes to divert atten-
tion from an action that threatens
to disturb the blissful repose of some
class of property that now enjoys
tax benevolence, or in fact, tax im-
munity.”

How About It, Folks?

Such, then, are the arguments ad-
vanced by the Michigan Real Estate
Association and we are glad to pre-
. sent them herewith. for the thought-

 

ful consideration of the readers of
THE anrnss FARMEI. It is time
that we thought and thought hard
about this extremely vital question
of tax reduction and readjustment.
It may well be said without exagger-
ation that there is no more important
and timely question before our cit-
izenship today. It cannot be over
emphasized. ,

The insiduous ramifications of the
baneful effects of high taxation are
forcefully pointed out by Professor
Clyde J. Crobaugh of Indiana Uni-
versity in the leading article in the
Kiwanis Magazine for June of this
year. Professor Crobaugh concludes
his plea for tax reduction as follows:

"It has been demonstrated by ex-
perience that high taxes interfere
with the normal course of business,
divert capital into unproﬁtable chan-
nels, and put a brake on initiative
and a damper on enterprise. Ex-
cessive taxes also compel a curtail-
ment of consumption and lower the
standard of living. Tax reduction
will beneﬁt all interests. The farmer
will be greatly beneﬂtted by lower
taxes. Reduced taxes will help bus-
iness by decreasing the cost of pro-
duction. Tax reduction will even
aid the government by removing the
temptation to prodigality, waste, ex—
travagance and corruption. The con—
sumer will be beneﬁtted by lower
taxes through a decrease in the cost
of living.

“Can there be a reasonable expec-
tation for tax reduction in the near
future? This question is no doubt
upon the lips of millions. The ans-
wer depends upon the people them-
selves. The taxpayers must be inter—
ested in their own affairs, for tax
reduction is the people's business."

M. A. C. WILL EXHIBIT SEPTIC

TANK AND DISPOSAL SYSTEM

URING August, September and

October the M. A. C. will send

a demonstration train through
the southern four tiers of counties
in the state demonstrating a septic
tank and water disposal system for
the farm home and outlying build-
ings. Mr. O. E. Robey, extension
specialist of the Agricultural Engin-
eering department, will have charge
of the train.

The new system, which is said to
make possible efﬁcient, cheap and
sanitary sewage disposal, besides
safe—guarding the water supply
from contamination, has been per-
fected by Mr. Robey and Prof. H. H.
Musselman, head of the M. A. C.
Agricultural Engineering (1 e p a r t-
ment, and is the outgrowth of the
experience gained through the con—
struction of nearly 100 systems and
from observations on the operation
of many of these systems under var—
ious conditions, extending over a
period of eight years. ‘

The demonstration train will
travel by truck, giving two demon—
strations each day and devoting two
days to each county. A complete
septic tank will be constructed and
demonstrated at each stop.

CLUB LEADERS HOLD SUCCESS-
FUL MEETING —

IXTY county boys’ and girls'
club agents and leaders attend—

ed the meetings of the ninth annual
training school and club leaders’
conference which was held at Mich—
igan Agricultural College from
June 17—20, according to R. A.
Turner, state leaders of- boys’ and
girls’ club work. The Visitors were
addressed during the conference by
acting-president R. S. Shaw, R. J.
Baldwin, director of extension work,
Mrs. L. H. Campbell, state leader of
home demonstration work, R. A.
Turner, and a number of M. A. C.
department heads and club leaders.

 

M. ‘A. C. INSTITUTES NEW
POULTRY SCHOOL
HE ﬁrst formal school in poultry
judging, breeding and manage-
ment to be offered by a Michigan
educational institution commenced

at Michigan Agricultural College on

Monday, June 30, ends on Saturday,
July 5. The course is designed to
prepare those who satisfactorily
complete the work to become poul-
try cullers on a commercial basis,
in response to a widespread demand
from Michigan farmers, according
to Prof. E. C. Foreman.

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UPKEEP

The great volume of trafﬁc moving over
- the NewYork Central Lines demands con-
stant, vigilant care of tracks and equip-
ment, in order that New York Central
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Eighty thousand New York Central em-
ployees are engaged in repairing and re-
placing things that wear out, and the
cost of this work last year was $2 45,000,000,
an average of $670,000 a day. It took 36
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Since the termination of Government war
operation of the railroads, four years ago,
our expenditures for maintenance (exclu-
sive of very large expenditures for better-
ments and improvements) have aggregated
$752,000,000-—an amount equal to more
than forty per cent of the total invest-
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AND THE NEW YORK CENTRAL AND SUBSIDIARY LINES

General Ofﬁces—466 Lexington Ave., New York

 

WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS, PLEASE MENTION

THE BUSINESS FARMER

 

delivery mranteed.

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ﬁred ﬂ’om Sires vi
250 in 280 £66 ﬁfMINS

BIG BARGAINS
for June and July

I'riccs now within the reach of everybody. Get
chicks in June and July and gather your harvest
next wlnter‘. This is the most economical time to
buy and the most favorable time to raise chicks.
You can got them in the big outdoors at once which
saves labor, cuts down your iced bill and makes the
chicks grow twice as fast. Bright, balmy days bring
splendid development. Our June chicks Will begin

to lay in October and July chicks in November. The BIG SAVING in price gives you
an opmrtunity that you cannot afford to let pass y. .

Chicks but are strong, peppy. from high production, egg bred stock are the chicks that
We have sacriﬁced on prlce but the same standard of supreme quality IS always mam-

a . . '
taipneyd regardless of price. Our breeders are-producing heavily, our incubators working to fqu
capacity and this enables us to give these high grade chicks at such extremely low prices.

EXTRA SPECIAL FOR JUNE AND JULY

 

Varieties 23 50 100 500 1000
Extra Selected Barron or Hollywood S. C. White
Leghorns sired by _250 to 280 egg males ........ $2.75 $5.25 $10.00 $4? 00 $ 90,00
Selected Barron White Leghorns ........................ 9 ‘50 4.7:) 9.00 42.50 80.00
tra. Selected Sheppare Mottled Ancona .. ‘. 0 5.7) 11 00 ~ 52.50 100.00
cted Mottled Auconas .................................... 00 $.75 42.50 80.00
Selected Park’s Bred—to-Lay Barred Rocks ........ 3.75 1.00 '1 . 62 50 120.00
Broiler, Mixed Chicks ....................................... Seven cents straight.

PULLETS AND BREEDING STOCK FOR SALE

After u 0 15?. we oﬁer Selected White Leghorn Pullets. 8 to 10 weeks old at $1.10 each&
e

n
3310 Ancona Pullets at $1.30 each and Barred Rock pullcts at $1.50. Prices reduc
or

 

more.
After July 15th we have 100 choice Tom Barron and 400 Sheppard Ancona breeding hens
d at .26 each. 0

Als , selected cocks of same breeds for $1.25 each. These.

or

must be sold to 'make room for our growing stock. Our space is limited.

OBCDIR I‘I’_OHOE from this ad.
. . D. I! desire

0 d. All chicks sent to your door by parcel post re id. 100% alive
Pallets and stock shipped by express, charges co cc . Catalog tree.

 

 

 

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a New Im prayed

DE LAVAL

Cream

 

with any other you may be
thinking of buying.

If you then still choose
the other machine you will
know What you are doing,
but the chances are a
hundred to one that you
will not and will know why
you do not.

We can make no claims

of De Laval superiority in
every feature of separator
value and practicability
which seeing and trying the
machine itself will not more
than substantiate.

A Cream Separator is
the most important farm
equipment investment any
cow owner ever makes. He
can’t afford to make a
mistake, or at least to do
it unknowingly.

The De Laval Separator Company

NEW YORK
185 Broadway

SAN FRANCISCO
61 Beale Street

CHICAGO
29 E. Madison Street

 

 

 

 

Advertisements Inserted under this heading for ieputaou nreecers of Live Stocx at special nun
rates to encourage the growing of pure-breds on the farms of our readers. Our advertising rate

Is Thirty Cents (300) per agate line per insertion.
less 2% for cash if slent with order or paid on

or $4. 20 per Inch,
of month following date of Insertion.

FREE. so you can see how many lines It will' ﬁll.

Fourteen agate lines to the column inch
or note ore the 10 th
NYOUR AD AND WE WILL PUT IT IN TYPE
Address all letters.

. BREEDERS DIRECTORY, MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER. MT. CLEMENS, MIGH.

 

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To avoid conflicting date: we will withou

0081, list the date of any live stock sale in

Michigan. If you are considering a mi

vise u: at once and we will claim the data

for you. Address, Live Stock Editor. M. B.
F.. Mt. Clemens

ﬂ; CATTLE j

HEREFORDS
VE BRED HEREFORDS SINCE 1880
()qu liiaﬁd bulls are International Prize \Vinners.
Stock of all ages for sale, at Farmers prices. \Vrite
us for further information
lee-d llerefords that fatten quickly.
CRAPO FARM, Swartz Creek, Michigan.

HEREFORD STEERS

84 “it. Around 800 lbs. 70 Wt. Around 750 lbs.
88 Wt. Around 650 lbs. 44 Wt. Around 600 lbs.
46 Wt. Around 500 lbs. 50 \Vt. Around 500 lbs.
Well marked and show splendid breeding, deep
reds good stocker ordlr litrefords are usually
market toppers when ﬁnished. Anxious to sell
your choice one (or load or all. Give number
and weight preferred.

V. V. BALDWIN. Eldon, Wapello Co. Iowa.

 

 

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Reduction Offer No. F-l

The Business Farmer 1 yr. Ali [:0
Pathﬁnder, 26 Issues 6 mos.
Fruit, Garden & Home 1 yr.
Today’s Housewfie 6 mos.
Michigan Business Farmer,
Mt. Clemens, Michigan.
Gentlemen: For the enclosed
..................... send the Michigan

Business Farmer and all Magazines

in Club No

HOLSTEINS

 

FOR SALE REGISTERED HOLSTEIN MILK
l cows and young stock. (7.)

'i‘ ll. 'I‘v'sttd fine (onditions.

VISSER BR0 5., F.

Have soid our farm.
D. 8. Holland. Michigan.

SHORTHORNS

 

 

FOR SALE—ONE RED SHORTHORN REGIS-
teied hull, age ten months One roan shorthoui
registered bull, age eight months. 1150 four red
heifres coming two ears old

Henry J. Lynch.

RED POLLED

ayviile. Tuscoia 60., Mich.

 

 

 

 

RED POLLED BULLS READY FOR SERVICE.
From good millrmg strains. Prices right.
JACOB BERNER a. SONS. Grand Ledoe. Mich.

 

ANGUS

Ill-E HAVE SOME FINE YOUNG ANGUS BULLS

from lnternatioml Grand Champion Stock at

ﬁasgnable prices. E. H. KERR & 00.. Addison,
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JERSEYS

REG. JERSEYS, POGIS 99th OF H. F. AND
Majesty breeding. Young stock for sale. Ilerd
fully accredited by State and Federal Government.
Write or \isit for prices and description.
GUY O. WILBUR. BEL DING. Mich

 

 

 

GUERNSEYS
MAY —— GUERNSEYS —— ROSE

STATE AND FEDERAL ACCREDITED
Bull calves out of Dams up to 877u pounds {211:
Sired b Bulls whose Dams have to 1011
)ounds at. The homes of bulls; Shuttlewick May
lose Sequel, Jumbo of Briarbahk and Holbecks’
Golden Knight of Nordla nd. From Dams pro-
during 1011.18 fat, 772 fat and 610 in t.
GEORGE L. BUR RROWS or GEORGE J. HICKS.

Saginaw. W. 5., Michigan.
B U L L c A L F

PURE BBED GUERNSE so. .11..

c. R. TALBOT, Farmington, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

SWISS

For Sale list of BROWN SWISS cattle and in.
felmation concerning the “BI G R N 00
write SEC. MICHIGAN BROWN SWISS BREED-
ER’S ASS'.N, Sebewaing. Mich.

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MICHIGAN GETS CHOICE WIS-
CON SIN HOLSTEINS

EVEN Michigan Holstein breed-

ers increased their herds with

16 purebred Holsteins purchas-
ed at the dipersal sale of the John
Erickson herd at Waupaca, Wiscon-
sin, recently. This herd was recog-
nized as the leading Holstein breed-
ing establishment in the United
States and the average selling price
of $1,138 for each of the 84 anim-
als sold, over one-third of which
were less than two years of age, is
the highest average attained at Hol-
stein auction sales in recent years.
Cattle were sold to buyers from
Japan, South America, Canada and
15 states.

Those of Michigan listed among
the purchasers and the number of
cattle bought by each are: Detroit
Creamery Company, Detroit, seven;
James P. Jones, Detroit, three; Mrs.

Horace Dodge, Detroit, two; and
John E. Lambert, Detroit; G. A.
Casagranda, Iron River; Martin D.
Buth, Comstock Park, and Wm.

Tyson, Washington, one each.

FARMERS’ CATTLE JUDGING
CONTESTS
CONTINUOUS cattle judging
program for farmers from ev-
ery state is being arranged for
the National Dairy Exposition at
Milwaukee, September 27th to Oct-
ober 4th. Coupled with the contest
will be dairy cattle demonstrations
by national expert judges of cattle.
These two features will afford a.
liberal education to every man who
is a buyer of dairy cattle and wishes

to be informed on how to select
good ones.
Prizes are to be offered at farm-

ers’ Judging Contests at county
fairs and farmers’ picnics in dairy
states. Winners at these contests
wﬂl attend the National Dairy Ex-
position and throw their hats in the
ring. If they do not win they can
step to the side lines and listen to
the experts explaining the points
that are judged in the rings Where
the ribbons are tied on the cattle
and not on the men. The National
Dairy Association is offering special
prizes to the winners of the contest.
The leaders for dairy development
at the agricultural colleges in each
of the states is working out plans
for participation in these contests
by farmers from their state.
Another attraction for farmers
will be the exhibit of grade cows
from Cow Test Associations, all to
go on the auction block during the

week of the Show. These cows will
all be exhibited in the regular
classes of the Show and judged by
the regular judges of the Show,
their sanitary certiﬁcates entitling
them to enter any state and their
record of production certiﬁcates of-
ﬁcially signed will be attached to
the cows.

These contests and exhibits give a.
fellow a lifetime lesson of great
value and are only a part of the
plans to make this year’s National
Dairy Show a farmers’ Show.

CHICAGO ASSOCIATION OF COM-
MERCE OFFERS SCHOLARSHIPS

GRICULTURAL college scholar-
ships will be awarded to the
three contestants making the

highest scores in the non-collegiate
live stock judging competition to be
held in Chicago, November 28th,
during the silver jubilee celebration
of the International Live Stock Ex-
position aceording to an announce-
ment of the Chicago Association of
Commerce.

These’ scholarships, totaling $1,-
000 will be known as the Chicago
Association of Commerce scholar-
ships and constitute a part of its
campaign for the betterment of ag-
ricultural conditions. Competitions
at Chicago is limited to one team of
three juniors from each state. Pre-
liminary contests to select the state
representatives are held in commun-
ities and counties and the prelimin-
ary winners are brought together at
the State Fair or Agricultural Col—
lege to determine the State Cham-
pionship team.

FEEDING VALUE OF SWEET OR
SOUR MILK

I would like to know through the
columns of your paper which is the
best feed for pigs, sweet or sour
mills—J. S., Pinconning, Mich.

XPERIMENTS have shown that
there is no difference in feed-
ing value between sweet and

sour milk. So far as experiments
have been’conducted at this station,
it has been found that where skim
milk has been fed after the foam has
settled off or been removed in com-
parison with skim milk soured by
the use of a pure lactic acid culture,
that there was no difference in feed—
ing value. Sour milk which is al-
lowed to stand around in dirty re-
ceptacles often has other organisms
aside from the lactic organisms
working and may prove very detri-
mental.—Geo. A. Brown, Professor
of Animal Husbandry, M. A. C.

Lucky Farmers At Rives Junction, Michigan

HEY say that farmers won’t get
together, that they won’t stick!
That farmers co—operative en—

terprises ﬁzzle out! Et eetera!

Some truth in these claims, all
right, so it is refreshing to discover
a bunch of farmers that did get to-
gether and are still glued.

They also—they that know the
farming game from the calloused
hand, sweaty—shirt angle—claim
that lady luck seldom tries to vamp
a farmer.

Nothing erroneous about the
statement either. Again, then, is
interest aroused to discover that
luck—“Bull” luck—recently smiled
upon this aforementioned co-operat-
ing bunch of farmers.

The Bunch, alias The Rives Bull

Association. Meet them, off of
Rives Junction, Michigan: A. H.
Perrine, Pres, cows pledged, 15

purebreds; Ben L. Smith, vice—pres.,
cows pledged, 10 purebreds; L. F.
Foster, sec.-treas., cows pledged, 12
(1 purebred); Will Perrine, mem-
ber, cows pledged, 8 (2 purebredsn
Burt Phelps, member, cows pledged,
12 grades; C. J. Cochran, member,
cows pledged, 5 (3 purebreds); Lee
H. Foster, member, cows pledged,
10 (1 purebred); Burt Blair, mem-
ber, cows pledged, 10 (1 purebred);
Clare Darling, member... cows pledg-
ed, 15 (8 purebreds); Total 97 (31
purebreds).

What did they do? Got together
amongst themselves and decided
that what they needed most as
dairymen and breeders of Holstein
cattle was a Real Bull. They ﬁgur-
ed that collectively they could buy

a better bull than any one of them
could afford to buy all by his lone-
some. They allowed that using an
extra high class sire would mean
more proﬁtable cows to milk after
while, would mean that their sur—
plus stock either pure-breds or
grades would sell to better advant-
age if sired by or in calf to a far-
-better—than—ordinary-bull.

_ In completing their organization
1n January, 1923, these men were
assisted by the County Agent of
Jackson County, R. E. Decker, and
by.S. J. Brownell, then with the
Da1ry Department of the Dairy De—»
partment of the M. A. C. and the
Michigan State Holstein Ass’n., also
gave a boost or two toward the last.

King Sylvia Ferndale Aaggie
387538—that’s the name of the bull
the bunch ﬁnally purchased. He was,
born November 14, 1921. They
paid a good sum for him, too, but it
did not come so hard on any one
member because each paid his share
in proportion to the number of cows
he expected to breed to the bull.

As to breeding, just “lookit”
what theybot: Sire: Echo Sylvia
King Model The senior herd sire of
the Traverse City State Hospital.
Dam: 3 records'above 33 lbs... the
highest 36.13 lbs. Her dam a. twice.
37 lb. cow. Dam: Rubertdale Flint
Ferndale Aaggie, 32.37 lbs. butter,
561.1 lbs. milk Dam: 31.05 lbs.
butter, 487.9 lbs. milk.

Now this bull had to have a home,
so the bunch provided him with a.
couple of them. He sojourns with
A. H. Perrine for three weeks and
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these home-makers for the expense
of care and feed.

Sixteen months have rolled
around and all is well with the
Rives Bull Ass' 11. Bull looking bet-
ter every month, stuff getting sate
in call to him, calves starting to
come, straight, stylish rascals, mem-
bers agreeing O. K. All lovely and
then:

Here comes the luck!

Let the trumpets sound and the
Bull Fiddle whang!

C. S. Heeg’ Sons of Howell, Mich-
igan, who sold the bull to the Rives
bunch re-tested the dam, Hubert-
dale Flint ,Ferndale Aaggie. and
made 36.18 lbs. butter from 631.3
lbs. milk!

The Rives bull now has an aver-
age 7 day production for his three
nearest dams of 34.45 pounds but-
ter. What breeder in Michigan
has a sire boasting of better than
that? And don’t forget that the
sire of the Rives Bull, Echo Sylvia
King Model, the Senior Herd Sire at
the Traverse City State Hospital,
has for average production of his
three nearest dams 38.16 lbs. butter
in a week. He has eighty daugh-
ters in the herd, forty-two of them
A. R. 0. records, the highest daugh—
ter with over 32 lbs. as a Junior
three-year old!

So, if any bull in active service
in Michigan beats the Rives bull for
7—1‘1y average of his three nearest
dams it is his own sire!

The boys at Rives are sure happy
at this good fortune. But they are
not leaving the future all to luck,
no indeed. They are asking the
milk-scales, the Babcock test, their
bookkeeper to decide whether their
cows are ﬁt to mate with so good a
sire. For over half the bunch are
members of a cow testing associa-
tion. In fact, Arthur Perrine, L. F.
Foster & Son, Ben Smith and Lee
Foster are working in their fourth
consecutive C. T. A. year!

When the daughters of the fam-
ous bull come into milk they will
undoubtedly have to prove by C. T.
A. methods whether they are better,
more economical producers than
were their dams.

Surely farmers who have suffici-
ent interest in their business to be—
long to a C. T. A.,.who have enough
initiative to get together to buy‘ a
ﬁne sire, who have the right amount
of real neighborliness so that they
hang together, surely these men de—
served this ﬁne piece of luck.

We all congratulate them.-——J. G.
Hays, Dairy Department, M. A. C.

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LUDIP JAVV

I have a two year old heifer that
has a lump on her left .jaw, about
the size of a billard ball. When I
cut it open quite a quantity of pus
comes out. That was a week ago.
On opening it the second time there
is not pus but the swelling remains.
Could you tell me what it is and
what can be done to cure it. It ﬁrst
appeared two weeks ago. Some of
my neighbors say it is lump-jaw.
If this is true is it contagious?“
M. L., Turner, Mich.

HE heifer in all probability has
lump jaw. The SWelling might,
however, be a simple abscess.

If an abscess and it is opened and
drained, it will generally bring
about a cure. Some cases of lump
jaw can be successfully treated by
the internal administration of po-
tassium iodide. Better consult your
local veterinarian about the treat—
ment of this case. If it is lump jaw,
he can supply you with the iodin
together with the directions how to
use it.——John P. Hutton, Assoc.
Prof. of Surgery and Medicine, M.
A. C.

BIGGEST HORTICULTURAL TOUR
WILL COVER 17 STATES
OR years, the Horticultural Soci-
F eties of the different States in
arranging the dates for their
summer meetings have consulted
their own convenience and have not
given a thought to the fact that there
are many horticulturists and orchard-
ists in other States who would prob-
ably attend, if meeting dates did not
conﬂict.
This summer the American Pomo-

    
  

ha tibia .
121‘ the cm they brad {to lay ranged their meetings two or three

‘ ' tates‘. that have ar-

days apart so there will be no con-
ﬂicting dates and so one State meet-
ing follows another. The American
Pathological Society will cooperate in
the program in each State and an
oﬂicial American Pomological Society
speakers’ car will go from State to
State, thus giving the orchardists of
each State an opportunity to hear
some of the leading horticultural
authorities of the United States.
The speakers will go in relays, each
speaker being on the program in
several States—much like the large
chautauqua circuits are arranged.
In the following list where the
name of the State is given, it indi-
cates that the State Horticultural
Society meeting (of that particular
State) will be held on dates printed
before name of State. Where the
word “touring" is opposite dates, it
indicates time going from one State
to another. Although no special
itinerary on these “touring" dates
can be lined up now, opportunity
will be given to visit any interesting
orchards that happen to be on'the
line of travel from State to State.

July 14-15 Kentucky.
July 15-16 Indiana.

July 17-18 Illinois.

July 19—20 touring.

July 21-22 Michigan.
July 23 touring.

July 25—26 Ohio.

July 27-28 touring.

July 29-30 Maryland.
July 31— 1 West Virginia.

Aug. 2 Virginia.

Aug. 3 touring.

Aug. 4~ 5 Pennsylvania.

Aug. 6 touring.

Aug. 7- 8 New Jersey.

Aug. 9 New York (Hud. Val.)

Aug. 10 touring.

Aug. 11-12 Connecticut.
Aug. 13 Rhode Island.
Aug. 14 Mass. (Eastern)
Aug. 15—16 Maine.

Aug. 17 touring.

Aug. 18-19 New Hampshire.
Aug. 20 touring.

Aug. 21 Vermont.

Aug. 22—23 Mass. (Western)
Aug. 24 touring.

The line of tour his been arranged
so that there will be the shortest
jumps possible from State to State.
Furthermore, the general direction
of the route has been arranged so
that most of our tour will be on hard
surface roads where road conditions
will cause the least possible amount
of trouble. ‘All details of the pro—
gram, etc. to be under supervision
of the State Horticultural Society of
each individual State.

All orchardists should endeavor
to attend their own state tour and
meeting—also tour in as many other
States as possible. This is a united
effort to better the orchardists’ c011—
dition and everyone should get be—
hind the movement and boost to
make it a splendid success.

THE ONE HUNDRED TENTH
PSALM

(Continued from page 11.)

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and woman has heard the call to
mobilization. Then the Priesthood
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WEATHER

HE comfort of the chicks during
the hot days that are here has a
great inﬂuence in determining

the extent of'their growth and egg
production during the coming fall
and winter. Eggs in any appreciable
quantity cannot be expected along
other seasons except from strong
healthy hens, full of vigor and vital—
ity. The best way to conserve the
vitality and build up the bodily
strength is by keeping the birds com-
fortable, by providing for their real
needs.

Chickens that are constantly ex—
posed to the direct rays of the hot
sun will be stunted and greatly
weakened in vitality. Plenty of cool
refreshing shade is necessary if the
chicks are to develop in a normal
manner. There is nothing more in-
jurious to the growing ﬂock than to
compel them to remain out of doors
in the sun during the heat of the day,
exposed continuously to the burning
rays of the summer sun. Natural
shades are by far the best, but where
such cannot be grown, then artiﬁcial
shades should be arranged.

Muslin or burlap covered frames
set at an angle so the birds will not
roost on them are good. A shelter
of leaky boughs elevated on crotch-
ed sticks about two feet above the
ground are very satisfactory. The
shade, however, given off by a. green
plant seems to be much cooler and
more refreshing. This is doubtless
due to the large amount of moisture
which is constantly being given off
by the leaves of such plants. Thou—
sands of growing chicks are annually
lost because of wrong methods and
mistakes of shelterings and feeding.
It behooves us to use methods which
insure the lowest loss, most econom-
ical and quickest growth. There
should be continuous growth, uni-
form growth, proﬁtable growth and
still more growth. These are the
aims when caring for the chicks,
cockerels and pullets during the sum—
mer on the range. I ﬁnd that it is
just as necessary to give care during
growth as it is at earlier stages of
chick life. In fact, care and careful
management are required at all
stages if you are to succeed. There
is one need of our chicks that too
often neglected, and that is their
supply of fresh water, in clean ves-
sels.

Fresh, Clean Water

The ﬁrst thing that little chicks
want, or older ones as to that, every
morning, is a fresh drink of water, a
need that should receive our special
attention during the hot summer
days. Chicks need lots of water and
should have it, if we would ﬁnd the
season a proﬁtable one at its close.
It is very essential that pure water
be kept before the ﬂock at all times.
One of the worst things to do is to
neglect to water at a proper time,
and then compel the chickens to get
all the water for several hours at,
perhaps, the close of the day. A
chick should always know where the
water is and be able to get it at all
hours, and if it is not provided it will
suffer greatly for want of it. There
is no use watering chicks one day
and forgetting the next. There is
nothing exhileratiing or exciting
about it but the “chore” of carrying
water, of cleaning the water basin, of
spraying the coops, are the things
which will beneﬁt the birds. Water
goes to make up a large portion of
the bird’s weight.

During the summer, when the ex-
tremely hot weather comes, we
should see that they have plenty of
cool room and fresh air. Chicks
must be watched that they do not
crowd one another into corners, for
smothering will surely follow as a
natural result. Too many bunching
together during the night is very in-
jurious, and getting out in the cool
morning get chilled and contract cold
and roup. This often causes sore-
head. The coops should be well ven-
tilated and dry. They need unlim-
ited fresh air in order to develop
their bodies at the fair rate at which
they are expected to grow. But at
night, when at rest, it is positively
essential that the growing youngsters
must have verminless quarters.

Let us look to the growing of the
chicks this summer, for we cannot

afford to let them get stunted or
checked in any way. Those who
cannot or will not give poultry regu-
lar or constant attention, shelter
them properly, supply proper food in
liberal quantities and at frequent in-
tervals, and pay strict attention to
cleanliness and thoroughness in all
the details of the management, need
not expect to succeed, not even con-
sider the question of proﬁt or loss,
for success and proﬁt here mean
some work in the business. You need
not hang a horseshoe over your door
to bring good luck to your enterprise,
for there is no proﬁt in neglected
poultry. It is true that nature helps
the poultry raisers a great deal dur-
ing the summer months, but it is
equally true the successful poultry
raisers must be watchful and careful
during the warm days, as well as
during the severe days of winter.

A bit of care and forethought will
help to insure better success with the
summer ﬂock. ~

These measures are simply coni-
monsense thought put into practice.

I attribute my success to my in-
terest in the poultry work, and to a.
natural love for my birds. Also, to
good care, housing and feeding. If
you wish to succeed with poultry
you must give some of your time each
day to them.—Farm and Ranch.

CAPONIZE SURPLUS COCKERELS

HE operation of caponizing young
T cockerels is a very simple one

when it is once known. It takes
one who has had some little experi-
ence but a fraction of a minute to
do the work, once the chick is in
hand. The practice of caponizing or
castrating the surplus cockerels is a
common practice in England, and has
been for years. It is also quite com—
mon in many sections of this country
adjacent to the larger cities of the
North and East. If for any reason
you fail to ﬁnd a ready market for
your cockerels during the broiler age
then it is that you can take the
caponizing scheme and get them in
shape to make great big roosters for
the fall and winter markets, bring-
ing good full prices. In fact, in
many sections where they are com-
monly known for their wonderfully
tender ﬂesh, they are always in de-
mand at top prices. True, some sec-
tions of the country need to be edu-
cated to use them. The best mar—
ket for them is at the big hotels
where the guests are of such a class
as to readily appreciate their good-
ness.

When you ﬁnd your cockerels are
not going to sell as high—priced broil-
ers, lose no time in caponizing, for
the operation must be done while
they are small, so that the risk will
not be so great in losses. The ,older
they get the greater the loss of blood,
and necessarily the danger is more.
A set of instruments, simple in their
nature, is required, and these can be
purchased at almost any house hand-
ling surgical instruments, and a good
many houses handling a full line of
poultry supplies. When properly
done the specimen will hardly stop
growing for a day. One can study
the internal conditions of the male
in dead specimens intended for the
table and see the locations of the or-
gans. Then it is a good plan, if such
can be secured, to get the services of
an expert to give a few practical les-
sons in the work. With a clear head
and a steady hand one can soon be-
come expert at the work.

Also explicit directions accompany
the instruments, so that the novice
has but little trouble to understand
the operation. Prices for them usu-
ally run from $3.00 to $5.00. The
best and largest capons usually are
obtained from the Amercian varie-
ties, such as the Rocks, Wyandottes,
Reds, Jersey Giants, and the like.
Sometimes good heavy game crosses
are good. That is the Cornish vari-
ety. Should you live in a section not
educated ‘to the value of the capon,
it may stand you in hand to do a.
little educational work in the way of
visiting the ﬁne hotels and restaur-
ants, telllng them what you have in
prospect for them and asking them
to take capons on as one of their
Sunday dinner specials. Roast capon.
When tried a few times their desira-
bility readily becomes, apparent.

   
   
     

 

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Entomological Section of the
Natural History survey has car-
ried on experiments to test differ-
ent methods and materials for con-
trolling the striped cucumber beetle.
In the course of this work, many
poison and repellent dusts and sprays
have been tested. The best results
have been obtained each season from
a mixture composed of one part cal-

cium arsenate to twenty parts gyp—

sum. This mixture was ﬁrst tried
by the Ohio Agricultural Experiment
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tests at that station, was recommend-
ed by them as the best material of
controlling the striped cucumber
beetle. The Illinois results have con-
ﬁrmed those already obtained at
Ohio. _

Calcium arsenate, or arsenate of
lime can be obtained from any large
dealer in insecticides. Gypsum, in
the form of land plaster, can be pur-
chased from nearly any lumber yard.
In most cases, this will be the burned
gypsum, and will contain some ﬁbre
as it is prepared for use in making
plaster. This may be easily sifted
out and the material then mixed at
the rate of one pound of arsenate of
lime to twenty pounds of gypsum.
Be sure that the two substances are
thoroughly mixed. This may be ac-
complished by running the two thru
a screen several times, or by putting
both substances in a barrel, keg, or
tin pail with a tight cover, and ro-
tating the container for several min-
utes- A screen or partition should
extend part way across the inside of
the container to insure a more thor-
ough mixing of the contents. This
dust may be applied to the young
cucumber plants by means of the
ordinary dust guns, or blower dust-
ers, or by a home made shaker. The
shaker is made by nailing a wood-
en extension bail to the sides of a
half gallon tin pail or bucket hav-
ing a tight ﬁtting lid. Punch holes
in the bottom of the bucket with an
eight-penny nail at the rate of four
holes to the square inch. These
holes should be punched from the
outside in. Fill the bucket half full
of the dust and apply by a shaking
or jiggling motion. The ﬁrst, ap-
plication of the dust should be made
as the cucumber plants appear
above the ground and should be re-
peated at ﬁve or seven day intervals
until the vines have reached a
length of two or three feet. If
heavy rains occur, dust immediately
after the rain ceases, even though
an application may have been made
just before the rain. Be sure the
leaves of the plants and the surface
of the ground around the stems are
kept covered with the dust.

A two per cent nicotine dust has
been included in these tests during
several seasons, and has generally
stood second to the calcium arse-
nate, gypsum mixture—W. P. Flint.

 

BY CULLING THE FARM FLOCK
YOU REDUCE EGG COSTS

(Continued from Page 4)

reduce the number of cull hens pro-
duced each year and moreover will
result in the development of a high
producing family or strain capable
of both heavy winter and annual
production. This calls for close ob~
servation of head characteristics
which can be interpreted in terms of
production and breeding qualities.

The head indicates more accurate-
ly the delicacy and efﬁciency of the
internal mechanism responsible for
egg production than any other sec—
tion.

All hens can be roughly classiﬁed
into one of. ﬁve groups.

The crow head type as illustrated
in Fig. 4, is a certain indication of
low vitality. The long, straight,
narrow beak, sunken eyes, narrow
skull is characteristic of a constitu-
tionally poor producer and a breed-
er of slow feathering deformed
chicks. *

The Overly reﬁned type of hen il-
lustratediin Fig. 5 is comparable to
the Island Type of Jersey Cow. They
possess the desired nervous organ»
ization associated with laying tem-
perment, but lack capacity for heavy
and sustained production. Such in-
dividuals, if early hatched, will us-
ually go through a false moult in
the fall or early winter. This is
caused by a loss of body weight.
which indicates the necessity of a
special feeding practice, for hens of

this 7613331! A high Winter egg yields

result. . .
The Reﬁned; type illustrated in

Fig. 6 reveals the alert, feminine,

expression that is so closely associ-
ated with the responsive and ambit-
ious disposition common to the
genuine egg laying machine. The
head is of medium length, avoiding
the short thick conformation of the
beefy type. The skull is moderate-
ly narrow, ﬂat on top, and the jaw
should not be course and thick. The
skin lining the face should be ex-
tremely thin and delicate, giving the
face a lean dished appearance. The
eye should be prominent, buldging,
expressive and placed well back in
an oval eye socket. This gives a
placid, feminine, and intelligent ap—
pearance to the face. Such hens are
usually solid, well-ﬂeshed, compact
individuals, With a deep wedge
shaped body and broad ﬁat back.
They do not ﬁnd regular production
a physical strain and are able to
withstand heavy forcing.

The fourth group of hens as illus-
trated in.Fig. 7 are distinctly lack-
ing in character and very much in—
clined to put on fat. Frequently
such stock is produced by breeding
from slow growing, coarse boned,
over-sized males.

The last group consisting of mas-

vculine individuals are readily ident-

iﬁed by the long pendulous wattles,
coarse upstanding comb, male
voice and characteristic deep—red
color of face and head appendages.

The male birds usually accord
such individuals the same treat-
ment, dealt to ordinary males. This
group is illustrated by Fig. 8, a typ-
ical specimen.

Hens of the “Reﬁned” group
should be used exclusively as breed-
ers, and will, if properly mated,
solve future problems of economic
production.

 

0H, MONEY! MONEY!
(Continued from page 10.)

”You got one! Do you mean that
you’ve already sent this money?" cried
Miss Maggie.

“Why, yes, of course. I stopped at the
ofﬁce on the way down here.”

“And you sent—a money order?"

“Yes. He said he would rather have
that than a check.”

“I don’t doubt it!
have—delayed any."

“Of course I didn't delay! Why, Mag—
gie, he said he had to have it at once.
He was goingr to be turned out—turned
out into the streets! Think of those seven
little children in the streets! Wait, in-
deed! Why, Maggie, what can you be
thinking of?”

“I’m thinking you’ve been the easy
victim of a professional beggar, Flora,”
retorted Miss Maggie, with some spirit,
handing back the letter and the picture.

“Why, Maggie, I never knew you to be
so—so unkind,” charged Miss Flora, her
eyes tearful. “He can’t be a professional
beggar. He said he wasn’t—«that he never
begged before in his life.”

Miss Maggie, with a despairing gesture,
averted her face.

Miss Flora turned to Mr. .,Smith.

“Mr. Smith, you—you don’t think so,
do you?" she pleaded.

Mr. Smith grew very red—perhaps be-
cause he had to stop to cough again.

“Well, Miss Flora, I—I’m sorry, but
I'm afraid I shall have to agree with Miss
Maggie here, to some extent.”

“But you didn’t read the letter. You
don’t know how beautifully he talked.”

“You told me; and you say yourself
that he gave you only a post—office box
for an address.\ So you see you couldn't
look him up very well."

“I don’t need to l” Miss Flora threw
back her head haughtily. “And I’m glad
I don’t doubt my fellow men and women
as you and Maggie Duff do! If either of
you knew what you were talking about, I
wouldn't say anything. But you don't.
You can’t know anything about this man,
and you didn't ever get letters like this,
either of you, of course. But, anyhow,
I don’t care if he ain’t worthy. I would-
n‘t let those children suffer; and I—I’m
glad I sent it. I never in my life was so
happy as I was on the way here from
the post-ofﬁce this morning."

Without waiting for a reply, she turned
away majestically; but at the door she
paused and looked back at Miss Maggie.

“And let me tell you that, however
good or bad this particular man may be,
it’s given me an idea, anyway," she chok-
ed. The haughtiness was all gone now
“I know now why it hasn’t seemed right
to be so happy. It’s because there are
so many other folks in the world that
aren’t happy. Why, my chicken and tur-
key would choke me now if I didn’t give
some of it t0—-to all these others. And
I'm going to—I’m going to !” she reiter-
ated, as she ﬂed from the room. .

(Continued in July 19th Issue.)

You don’t seem to

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FOOTE’S MARKET LETTER

BY W. W. FOOTE

 

Improved Farmers’ Outlook

future certainly looks bright-
: er for farmers as a class,
especially for those who are so
fortunate as to be out 'of debt "and
whose farms carry no mortgages.
Farmers who always diversify their
crops have suffered much less from
the fall in prices for farm products
than the one-crop farmers, and av—
eraged sized farms where the crops
are corn, oats, and clover are the
rotation and where cattle and hogs
are fed are making good records. So
are the Michigan fruit and berry
farms, and it now looks like a re
turn to good times for wheat farm-
ers, thanks to the reduced acreage.
It certainly is refreshing to note the
recent rising prices for wheat and
other grains after the long period
of cheap wheat, and it is sincerely
hoped that painful experience will
lead farmers to avoid being exclus-
ive growers of wheat in the future.
0n the other hand, there is a possi-
bility of going too far in the other
extreme, and the United States De-
partment of Agriculture a short
time ago announced that agricultur-
al production has arrived at the best
general balance since 1920, but a
note of warning was sounded that
the balance might be upset by the
tendency to overdo poultry, corn,
butter and potato production and to
cut down too far on wheat, beef cat-
tle and hogs. Of course, power On a
farm is important, and both tractors
and horses perform a great part,
while sheep and other live stock
perform great things in maintaining
the fertility of the soil. The banks
are doing a good work by making
loans to farmers and stockmen at
reasonable rates of interest, the
prevailing rates being lower than a
year ago. Our foreign trade is in—
creasing, the exports for the last
eleven months being valued at $4,—
005,769,828, an increase of $369,-
000,000 over the preceding corre—
Sponding period; while our imports
aggregated in value $3,282,206,631,
a decline of $178,500,000.

The Boom in Wheat

It must be admited that even ard-
ent bulls who believed all along that
higher prices were coming before
long have been surprised by the re-
cent steady upward movement in
quotations, subject, of course, to the
inevitable reactions caused by real-
izing by speculative traders. The
fact is, at last wheat has advanced
on its merits, and that means it is
realized that the world production
promises to be so much lowered that
there will be no' large surplus. Ev—
ery farmer who owns wheat knows
that for many weeks the price in
the Chicago market hung around
$1.04 a bushel, with fractional ad-
vances and declines from week to
week. Prices stood far below those
paid two years ago. Now they are
far above those of recent years, with
late sales of July wheat as high as
$11714. The crop reports are
closely watched by traders, and all
accounts agree that the crop will be
short and wanted at good prices.
That there is an awakening of the
public as to the world wheat situa—
tion is indicated by the increasing
outside buying in all markets, in
Canada as well as in the United
States. Meanwhile, winter wheat is
being harvested in the southwest,
and some has been purchased for
export. A year ago July wheat sold
at $1.011/2.

Higher Prices for Corn

The late corn planting is a big
factor in the market, and sharp ad-
vances in prices have taken place of
late, with sales of July corn as high
as 96% @9714 cents. Oats and rye
shared in the upward movement,
and the several grains sold at the
highest prices yet touched. Furth-
er advances are expected, and there
are predictions of dollar corn. Rye
is wanted at last for export, but not
much corn and oats are leaving the
country. Cold weather has kept
corn backward seriously, and farm—
ers are withholding old corn from

 

MARKET SUMMARY

All grains are steady.

supply of strawberries and prices lower.

Bean market quiet.

Potatoes easy. Large
Receipts of butter and eggs

ample to take care of demand. Poultry steady. Cattle dull. Hogs

and sheep lower.

 

(Note: The above summarized information

ket page was set in type. It contains last minute

going to press—Editor.)

was received AFTER the balance of the mar-
lntormation up to within one-hon how of

 

 

the market. Late sales were made
of July oats at 541/.» cents, compar—
ing with 40% cents a year ago,
while July rye sold at 81% cents,
comparing with 62% cents a year
ago.
Recent Decline in Cattle

The cattle market is extremely
sensitive to the dressed beef trade,
and recently the packers have been
unusually careful in their purchases
of cattle on the Chicago market,
buying only about enough for their
immediate requirements, and no ef-
forts were made to increase hold-
ings of beef in their coolers. The
beef trade is highly sensitive to the
weather, and a falling oif in the de—
mand for beef is reﬂected at once in
the live stock ma ket, regardless of
the immediate pply. A short
time ago there was the worst slump
in prices seen this year, due not so
much to large offerings as to the
poor demand for beef. After prices
were forced to a remarkably low
level, a great falling off in the re-
ceipts followed, and the decline was
largely recovered, but cattle were
far below the high time several
weeks ago. Beef steers have sold of
late largely at $7.75 to $9.75, with
the better class of long—fed weighty
cattle selling at $9.75 to $10.60 and
the best yearlings marketed bring-
ing $10.15. Sales were made of a
good class of steers at $9 to $9.70,
and sales were made all the way
down to $6.75 to $7.75 for the
cheaper little yearling steers. Butch-
er stock shared in the ups and
downs of steers, with sales of cows
and heifers at $3.50 to $9.25, while
canner and cutter cows went at $2
to $3.40, bulls at $3.50 to $6.50 and
calves at $5 to $10.50. For several
weeks prices for stockers and feed-
ers have been going lower, and they
are offered at bargains, but the de-
mand is still very poor. Late sales
were made of these cattle at $5 to
$8, mostly at $5.50 to $7.50, while
stock cows and heifers sold at $3.75
to $5.75. Combined cattle receipts
in twenty markets for the year to
late date amount to 6,017,000 head,
comparing with 6,039,000 a year
ago.

Normal Cattle Feeding

Plenty of cattle are being prepar-
ed for the market in feeding dis-
tricts, and nearly every Monday
good numbers of choice heavy
steers arrive in the Chicago stock
yards, these shipments coming
mainly from Iowa, Nebraska and
South Dakota. Most stockmen re-
frain from the practice of long
feeding, but those who are in the
game report that they find it proﬁt-
able, and most of them have been
in the business for years. Of late
the cattle offered on the market
have included increasing numbers
of grassy steers and cows, and they
are discriminated against by butch-
ers, selling at a big discount. Very
few well ﬁnished yearlings are go-
ing to market, and a limited num-
ber sell at a good premium over the
next best grade. The best beef cat—
tle are selling far below the best
time this year, when the top stood
at $12.60, but the call for thin cat—
tle for ﬁnishing purposes has check-
ed the decline in the commoner
light steers. On the whole, cattle
prices have been remunerative for
the farmers who prepared them for
the market, but prices look low if
one looks back and recalls that four
years ago beef steers were selling
for $10 to $16.90. On the other

hand, two years ago they sold at
$7.25 to $9.75, while three years
ago they sold at $6.40 to $9.15.

The packers have been complain-
ing recently of the poor yield in re—

    

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ceipts of hogs, due to poorer quali-
ty and the increased proportion of
common grassy and half ﬁnished
droves. They are discriminating
against these offerings, making a
wider range of prices. Prime heavy
butcher hogs continue to top the
market, with the best light bacon
weights selling about 20 cents below
them. Owners of hogs that are do-
ing well should market them as
soon as ready, but feed should not
be stinted, as that is a losing game.
As to prices, it is simply a matter of
how long the hog supply holds out;
after marketings diminish material-
ly it is safe to look for substantial
proﬁts. Should the weather be un—
favorable for corn, corn prices
would naturally advance, and that
would probably result in larger
marketing of swine temporarily. The
raising of pigs for feeding purposes
is being revived, and this is quite a
help to stockmen in the corn belt.
Combined receipts of hogs in twenty
markets for the year to late date
aggregate 22,307,000 head, com-
paring with 21,565,000 a year ago
and 16,848,000 two years ago. A
year ago hogs were selling at $5.70
to $7.30, while two years ago they
sold at $8.85 to $11. Late sales
were at $6.20 to $7.30.

Lamb Prices Tumble

As happens every year, prices for
spr1ng lambs offered on the Chicago
market started off extremely high
because of scanty offerings, while
later on much larger receipts enabl—
ed buyers to make selections at rap—
idly falling values. The decline
was ﬁnally checked after the best
lambs had fallen to $13.75, compar-
ing with $17.25 two weeks earlier.
Idaho feeding lambs had a good de-
mand at $11 to $12, and there were
increasing calls for breeding ewes,
including yearlings, at $6 to $10.
Turning backward, it is recalled
that one year ago prime lambs
brought $15.50, two years ago
$13.50, three years ago $11 and
nine years ago $10. Fed sheep are
oﬁered for sale. Combined receipts
of sheep and lambs in twenty mar-
kets for the year to late date amount
to 6,110,000 head, comparing with
6,454,000 a year ago and 7,126,000
three years ago.

WHEAT

In spite of a nervous condition in
the market and many sudden
changes nothing new developed at
Detroit last week and prices made
only slight changes. The news
about wheat was not important.
There was a continuation of active
foreign business and domestic mills
were buyers of wheat all the time.
It is intimated that takings by Eu—
rope were greater than appeared in
the dope, and that included a great
deal for future delivery. They were
buying against what appears like a
shortage in the growing crop owing
to reductions in the indicated pro-
duction in all the leading exporting
countries. The needs of Europe are
said to be large and dealers are an-
xious to secure supplies as early as
possible. While some reports are
circulating about army worm and
other injurious things, the general
crop situation in the United States is
favorable. Where harvesting has
been done the outturn has been bet-
ter than expected. he spring wheat
crop has had enough rain to carry
the plant for some t me, but more is
needed and there is some anxiety on
that score.

CORN
Corn furnished some real excite-
ment last week at Detroit and prices
are materially advanced. The new

crop is late and in a bad position.
Weather has been unfavorable on
spring and the plant is backward.
The weeds have secured a good start
owing to the rain that prevented
cultivating operations and a great

deal of the seed rbtted‘ in}? the
ground. It will require the hostel
weather to get the crop 'in ‘gbod
shape. In the meantime the farm-
ers are not active sellers of corn and
the supply is short. The cash'c'orn
is largely in control of one man in
Chicago and shorts appear to be in
a bad iix.

OATS
Oats followed the trend of corn at
Detroit during the fortnight ending
Saturday, June 28, and prices are
higher. Demand is fair while re-
ceipts are small.

BYE

Scarcity of rye abroad is giving
the rye market a decidedly bullish
tone. Stocks in this country are
disappearing rapidly and Europe is
expected to be a liberal buyer. The
Detroit market gained 2 cents on
Saturday of last week making a
total gain of 4 cents for the week.

BEANS

Beans are quiet and steady after
recent declines in prices. After
steadily advancing for over a period
of several weeks it was only natural
that there should be some reaction
and prices take a drop. Michigan
beans are wanted and they are going
higher in prices.

POTATOES

Old potatoes are without friends
and prices took several drops dur-
ing the last couple of weeks. A dull
tone prevails in the market. New
potatoes are coming to market in
fair volume and the demand is good
so there is no accumulation.

HAY -

Hay markets in general show less
strength. Prices are steady in the
markets where receipts are small but
lower where receipts are heavy. De-
mand is for good hay and this is in
very small receipts at all markets.

 

 

MARKET QUOTATIONS

 

 

WHEAT
Detroit——Cash No. 2 red, $1.17;
No. 3, $1.14; No. 2 white, $1.19;
No. 2 mixed, $1.18.

Chicago—~Cash No. 2 hard,
$1.14 431,, @ $1.18 1,4.
Prices one year ago—Detroit,

Cash No. 2 red, $1.14; No. 2 white,
and No. 2 mixed, $1.14.

CORN
Detroit——Cash No. 3 yellow, $1;
No. 4, 95c.
Chicago—Cash No. 2 yellow, 31
@$1.00%; No. 3 mixed, 96c.
Prices one year ago—Detroit,
Cash No. 3 yellow, 90c; No. 4, 88¢.

OATS
Detroit—Cash No. 2 white, 606;
No. 3, 58c.
Chicago—(lash No. 2 white, 5851)
59c; No. 3, 56@57%c.
Prices one year ago—Detroit,
No. 2 white, 48%c; No. 3, 4135c.
RYE
Detroit—Cash No. 2, 82c.
Chicago—Cash No. 2, 80c.
Prices one year ago—Detroit,
Cash No. 2, 680.

BEANS
Detroit—C. H. P., $4.35@$4.40
per cwt.
Chicago-43. H. P., $5.00 per cwt.
Prices one year ago—Detroit,
C. H. P., $6.10 per cwt.

POTATOES
Detroit—$ 1. 26 @ $ 1. 5 0 per cwt.
Chicago—«$2.65@$2.90 per cwt.
Prices one year
$1.07@$1.27 per cwt.

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Detroit—No. 1 timothy, $23.50@'
$24.; No. 2, $21@$22; No. 1 clover,

 

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$15.50@$16.50; No. 1 clover, $12
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Week of July 6
EMPERATURES generally
throughout the week in this

state will remain above the
Ieasonal normal.

Rains and thunder storms will be
ending in Michigan about the time
this week begins but there will
probably be a reaction to thunder
showers and local rains about Tues-
day or Wednesday. Conditions will
again become unsettled and stormy
about Friday and Saturday.

There will be a marked change to
cooler on the last day of this week
or the very beginning of next.

" Week of July 13

Temperatures during the greater
part of this week will be on the
climb starting early in the period to
advance. By Monday or Tuesday
temperatures readings will be con-
silderably above the seasonal norm-
8 .

Sunday will probably be a fair
day but immediately following the
sky will become threatening and
rain and thunder storms will be in
evidence in scattered parts of the
state. Just before or close to the
middle of the week the winds will
increase in force and some small
gales may be reported in and around
Michigan.

The latter half of this week prom—
ises better weather both in tempera-
ture and sunshine but by Saturday
will break down under the strain of
a decided summer storm period.
Electrical storms will be numerous;
rainfall will be heavy and general
and the winds will be strong in
force. The week goes out with
rain, thunder and high winds visit-
ing most parts of the state of Mich-
1gan.

HAVE YOU ORDERED YOUR
PROTECTIVE SERVICE SIGN?

 
   

HE “say .ailnual » Farm‘ers'
“Day at .Michigan Agricultural
College will be Friday, August
1, the committee in charge of ar-
rangements has decided. E. 13. Hill.
assistant to acting president Shaw,
is chairman of the committee. The
special feature to be stressed during
the day has not been picked, but it
is expected to be some phase of mar-
keting. ..

The ﬁrst Farmers’ Day was held
in 1918, when a number of Michi-
gan farmers were called together to
discuss the governments request for
an increase in the acreage of wheat.
With the war ended, the next year’s
session was devoted to soils. With
the third year the day was made a
general “college day." The attend-
ance has been approximately 6,000.

OUR BOOK REVIEW

(Boob reviewed under this heading may
be recur b

all The MichiganBusiness
Farmer, and be promptly. shipped _by
parcel on receipt of publishers price

stated.

Review of the 1923 International.—
This cloth—bound volume not only gives
a. complete history of the last Internation-
al Live Stock Exposition but also con-
tains splendid pictures of the champions,
of the educational exhibits, the boy and
girl trip winners, as well as many other
interesting features. The cost. while the
limited supply lasts, is only $1.00 per
copy, which charge is made to cover
postage and mailing expense, though the
cost to the “International” of these books
is considerable more that that. Published
by International Live Stock Exposition,
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Ill.

 

 

Prices of all breeds of purebred beef
bulls combined during 1923 were steady
with those in 1922 but heifers and cows
were lower, according to reports sub—
mitted by breeders to the United States
Department of Agriculture. Average
prices ranged from $79 per head for
heifer calves to $185 for bulls over three
The breeds included were:
Aberdeen Angus, Hereford, Red polled
and Shorthorn. Bulls, cows and heifers
over one year and under three years of
age brought $30 more per head at auction
than at private sale but in the case of
all other ages auction prices were prac-
tically the same as those received when
the animals were sold privately. The top
price reported for males was $5,000 and
for females $1,560. The .report shows
that some of the prices were very little
if any higher than central market prices
for the better grades of steers, which ac-
counts for the large number of breeders
castrating their bull~calves and selling
them as steers. Such a. period of low
prices usually means ruin for a large
number of breeders but it tends to weed
out much of the poor quality stock, re-
duce the surplus and generally raises the

years of age.

price level of the stock held by the
breeders who survive, the department
says.

Offer Farmers Billion Dollar Grain Business

RAIN farmers would own,
ﬁnance and control ﬁve large
Chicago grain ﬁrms and 5,000
co—operative elevators under a plan
which has been submitted to the
executive committee of the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau which has named
a committee, headed by O. E. Brad—
fute, president, to study the scheme.

The plan includes the Armour
Grain Company, Rosenbaum Grain
Corporation, Bartlett, Frazier &
Co., Resenbaum Brothers, and J. C.
Shaffer & Co., handling more than
$1,000,000,000 Worth of cash grain
transactions annually, according to
estimates of the aggregate business
of the last few years. ,

The proposal contemplates turn-
ing over to the farmers the ﬁrms’ 40
country elevators, terminal elevat-
ors, ofﬁces and ﬁxtures and all other
mechanical equipment, along with
managerical facilities. The ﬁve
ﬁrms involved control virtually the
entire elevator capacity at the Chi-
cago terminal and much of the ca-
pacity in other primary markets and
export bases. The elevators are val-
ued at $15,000,000 and other prop—
erty at about $8,000,000.

Co-operative grain marketing or-
ganizations eventually would re-
ceive the trading privileges of the
Chicago Board of Trade, under the
proposal.

Details of ﬁnancing reaching to
hundreds ‘of. millions of dollars will
be considered by the committee. The
ﬁnancing of the consolidation‘is ex-
be cared for with the

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sinking fund for the amortization of
the consolidation debentures, stocks
and bonds, it was suggested, al-
though the legal and ﬁnancial de-
tails of the plan were not made
public.

The announcement of the plan,
made by the farm bureau, said the
company contemplated would be at
the service of state co-operative
pools, elevator exchanges, farmer—
owned elevators and individuals as
a grain merchandising agency. “It
is understood that the tentative plan
has been submitted to other farm
organizations,” the announcement
said.

Farm bureau ofﬁcials, who have
been considering the plan for some
time, were reported as being friend—
ly toward the proposition. Grain
operators considered it with favor.

“The American farmer has been
groping in darkness,” said John J.
Stream, former president of the
Chicago Board of Trade. “He has
had the cooperative idea, but has
not had the facilities to put it into
execution. Now men who have de-
voted their lives to grain marketing,
and who control ﬁve of the largest
grain companies in the world, offer
to turn their properties over to the
American farmers and offer to de-
vote the next ﬁve years to the pro-
ject, and then stand ready to turn
the entire properties over to per-
sons designated by the farmers to
conduct the business.”

If a ﬁnal agreement is reached
between the farmers and the ﬁve
grain companies, it is predicted that
it will take at least three months
alliter that to complete the unified
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From Monday, July 7th, until Saturday, August 9th, farmers
may contract with the Michigan State Farm Bureau through
their local agent (cooperative association or farmer representa:
live) for fall and winter supplies of Michigan Milkmaker
dairy feed.

For two years past thousands of farmers have thus contracted
for their winter Milkmaker requirements. This plan has proved
itself to be the economical way to buy feed. Delivery is made to
local agents in six monthly shipments, this year between Septem-
ber 1, 1924 and February 28, 1925. Contracting farmers pay
for the feed on delivery.

Milkmaker is 24% protein and manufactured under public for—
mula. Every ingredient is listed on the tag, pound for pound.
It is the best dairy concentrate to be had for economical milk
production. Each ingredient is carefully chosen for its high and
easy digestibility, its palatability and its efﬁciency as a milk pro-
ducer. With ,‘lilkmaker you know what you are feeding.

Milkmaker does exactly what you expect of such a feed—it in-
creases production, lowers feeding costs, keeps the herd in high
condition. Cows like it tremendously.

Positively no applications for contracting 1924-25 Milkmaker
can be accepted after August 9th. ,

Purchasing Department
MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU, Lansing, Michigan

MICHIGAN

ilkmaker

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now _______________ y

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for Milkmuker. He ~ , ~ g , 0“x 1‘
has full information 9‘“ - g M g 3 d W? e . ________
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