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at the M. A. C. Wednesday, Au—
gust 20, to stage “Market Gar-

deners' Field Day“ and a program of

value to those Interested in the pro-
duction of vegetables, commercially
or otherwise, will be presented. Ac-
cording to Prof. Geo. Starr, oi the

M. A. C. horticultural department the

day will be made an annual event.

The forenoon is to be devoted to a
tour of inspection over the gardens
of the college horticultural depart-
ment, together with the exhibition
and explanation of various projects
now under way. Included "among
these projects is a comprehensive
test of extra early varieties of toma-
toes, showing by comparison the most
proﬁtable one for the Michigan
grower: a comparative test of extra
early sweet corn varieties; a number
of plant breeding experiments which
bear on the problems of the truck
gardener; experimental work on
truck crop fertilization, and new im-
proved strains which are being grown
for increase.

Following the basket picnic at
noon, at 1:30 the visitors will as-
semble in the lecture room of the
Horticulture Building, where short
talks will be given by Profs. V. R.
Gardner, R. E. Loree, G. E. Starr
and J. W. Crist, on subjects per-
taining to the occasion.

A tour of the M. A. C. campus and
the college farms will wind up the
day's program.

 

MICHIGAN’S 1924 BEET ACRE-
AGE UP 43,000
‘ N increase of 43,000 in the acre-
age oi sugar beets planted in
Michigan this year is shown in
a United States Department of Agri-
culture bulletin issued by Verne H.
Church, Federal statistician for
Michigan. The acreage in 1923 was
131,000 as compared with 174,000
this year.

The report states that the con-
dition of the crop in this state is
88 as compared with a 10-year aver-
age of 86.4, and the production
promises to be "1,233,000 tons as
compared with 883,000 tons last
year.

The production for the United
States is forecast at 7,344,000 tons,
-with a total increase in acreage
from»: 732,000 to 917,000. The
amount of sugar to be made in the
United States this year is estimated
at 939,000 tons. The 1924 con-
tracts, according to the report, pro-
vide for prices from $5.50 to $7 a
ton, depending upon the locality.

STATE FARMERS SAVE
$2,000,000
American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration has taken such an ac-
tive and leading part in the
ﬁght against the “Pittsburgh Plus"
practice because the farmer is the
greatest consumer of rolled steel in
the country.

James R. Howard, former presi-
dent of the Farm Bureau, testiﬁed
in the hearings before the commis-
sion that the average tar-mar uses
a total of more than a ton of steel
each year. According to Mr. How-
ard's testimony, which was based on
ﬁgures supplied by the Research De-
partment of the American Farm Bu-
.reau Federation, farmers paid be-
tween $26,000,000 and $30,000,000
each year for phantom freight.

As ﬁndings of the commission
show, this practice took an unearn-
ed toll of more than $30,000,000
from the farmers of 11 States, and
probably twice as much from the
farmers of the entire country. It
cost Michigan farmers $2,000,000
annually in extra freight bills.

Itdidotherthingstothetarm-
era. It cramped industrial deveb
opment in the steel industry
throughout the country, except in
Pittsburgh and its neighborhood.
As a result. hundreds oi towns
which. had, many advantages for
steel fabrication were unable to
utilize them advantages.

Farmers realize that a large can.-
mming population near home helps
fnthe sale and stabilization of price
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ocation who should ave
had an assured and stable market.
near at hand, were compelled to
send their products a great distance
and to remain dependent upon a dis- ,
tent and speculative market.

Besides, the farmer, as a taxpay-
er, was actually ailected. The form-
er superintendent of highways of
Illinois estimated that 16% tons oi
steel are used in every mile or hard
roads in that state, for concrete re-
inforcing bars, bridges, culverts and

purposes. These ﬁgures, it
has been shown, apply pretty gener-
ally to all “other road-building
states.

Based upon them, the statistical
department of the American Farm
Bureau Federation has shown that
on the road program of only 10
states of average size in 1921 the
"Pittsburgh Plus” excess cast item
was alone $1,912,850mpractically
$2,000,000.

That sum could well be multipli-
ed by ﬁve, for the total number of
states in the country, to show what
toll ”Pittsburgh Plus” takes upon
the taxpayers in the construction of
hard roads. - That would make
$10,000,000. Thus it is plain how
“Pittsburgh Plus" mulcts the farm-
ers and all other taxpayers.

 

HALLADAY HAS ONLY ONE RIV-
A]. FOR HONORARY TITLE
ERMAN H. HALLADAY, secre-

tary oi the Michigan Agricul-
tural College, and of the State

Board of Agriculture, has a wide

circle of friends but we doubt if

many of them know that he has the
right to sign “D. V. M. (Hon.)” att-
er his name. Mr. Halladay is the
holder of the only honorary degree
of “Doctory of Veterinary Medi-
cine" ever granted by a Michigan
institution, and Dr. Ward Giltner,

Dean of the M. A. C. Veterinary

School, has discovered only one oth-

er person in the United States on

whom a similar degree has been
conferred by any college. The oth-
er honorary D. V. M. is the Dean of
the Veterinary School at Cornell ‘

Universary. Mr. Halladay's honor .

was bestowed upon him in recogni-

tion of his services in the eradica-
tion of the ioot-and-rmouth disease ‘
in Michigan.

 

GRATIOT PLANNING BIG FAIR
HE Gratiot county fair will be
held at Ith‘aca, August 25 to 2
29, and plans are to make it
the best ever this year. Secretary
McCall says "We expect to have a
big iair this year and a ﬁne stock
show. There will be races every
day and for free entertainment each
day we have secured 16 big acts. -
Saturday, August 30, the K. K. K. '
will have a big celebration and pub— ‘
lie marriage on the grounds. Tell
everyone we will be glad to have
them come."

TO PIOI‘URE JAPAN DISASTER
IN SKY AT STATE FAIR
0 of the greatest ﬁreworks
spectacles ever produced are
promised for the State Fair in
Detroit, August 29 to September 7.

- They are "Tokyo—Through Quake

and Fire" and “The Founding of
Detroit.”

These productions are so big, and
necessarily so costly, the program
must be divided between them. The
ﬁrst three nights of the fair, Fri—
day, Saturday and Sunday, “The
Founding of Detroit” will be shown
and the remaining nights “Tokyo"
will have the sky.

The “Founding of Detroit " made
specially for the Seventy-Fiﬁ State
Fair, will tell the story in ﬁreworks
of the old Fort Ponchartrain days,
the battles between the French and
English and Indians for the vantage
point were now stands one of the
greatest cities of the world.

"Tokyo" will show in lines of
are against a black sky the scenes of
horror that gripped Japan in 1923,
the falling buildings, the lighting
and the ﬁre.

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Over 6,000 Farmers Spend Day At M. A. C.

“Old Timers” Hay Cutting Contest is Popular Feature of Seventh Annual F drmers’ Day

RMERS’ DAY at the Michigan

Agricultural College has been

popular with the farmers ever
since the ﬁrst one held in 1918 and
each year the attendance has shown
a gain. This year conservative est-
imates placed the crowd around
6, 000 and others putting the ﬁgure
at from 7, 500 to 10, 000, but even at
the lower ﬁgure all previous attend-
ance records were shattered. Auto-
mobiles began to arrive as the sun
appeared in the east and the num-
ber increased hourly until noon but
long before that hour it was neces-
sary to call the state police to direct
the trafﬁc.

The morning was given over to
observation tours. the college hav-
ing arranged 8 different tours for
those interested in the different
phases of work being carried on.
The feature of the morning program
was the “Old Timers" mowing con-
test which started at 10 o’clock and
lasted for two hours. Here 27 old—
time farmers from 55 to 90 years
old took part in a scythe contest
and they proved to the onlookers
that they could handle the scythe
just as good as they could in the
days when mowing machines were
unknown. Each old timer was giv—
en a stretch of alfalfa and allowed
ﬁve minutes to do his “durndest.”
H. H. Halladay, secretary of the col-
lege, cut the ﬁrst swath, giving the
other ”boys” a mark to shoot at.

Four silver trophies were award-
ed to the “hay cutters” as well as
several honorable mention ribbons.
The judges were -I. H. Butterﬂeld.
father of Kenyon L. Butterﬁeld,
president-elect of the M. A. 0.,
Jason Woodman, former member of
the State Board of Agriculture, Wm.
F. Johnston, agricultural agent of
Wexford county, and H. F. Probert,
of Jackson. The ﬁrst silver trophy
was awarded for the best all around
work and won by P. F. Waldron, 68
years old, of Ionia. I. P. Mosley, 90
years old, of Onondage, won a silv-
er cup as the oldest contestant. E.
Judson, 58 years old, of Durand, cut
the neatest swath and was awarded
a silver cup. The fourth silver
trophy went to E. S. Goodhue, 60
years old, of Bath, who did the most
work of acceptable quality, cutting
737 square feet of alfalfa in his
ﬁve minute period. Those who re-
ceived honorable mention were: D.
P. Ashley, of Dimondale; Wm. E.
Root, of Swan Creek; William Lear,
of Saginaw; Frank Johnson, of Pot-
terville; N. Snyder, of East Lansing.
and A. F. Huntoon, of St. Louis.

TimetoEat

By the time the last contestant
in the mowing contest had cut his
swath the crowd was ready for
something to eat. Most families
brought a basket full of lunch and
it did not take them long to ﬁnd a.
nice shady spot on the campus
where they could eat and rest. After
they had eaten and rested a few
minutes the crowd began working
over to where the afternoon meet»-
ing was to be held and, after look-
ing over the special exhibits on
timely farm subjects prepared by
the different departments of the
College and placed on display in
booths on the campus, they sat
down on the seats that were placed
in front of the speakers’ stand.
Long before 1:30 when the Rec
Motor Car Company band and glee
club opened the afternoon program
all seats were ﬁlled and thousands
were forced to stand as the attend-
ance had passed all expectations.
Second on the program was the par
rade of College livestock, and than
we were entertained again by the
band and glee club. Acting Pred-
dent B. 8. Shaw, who presided, then

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introduced the ﬁrst speaker of the
afternoon, A. M. Brown, of School-
craft. former secretary of the M. A.
0.. who talked on the progress in
agriculture. He was followed by
Prof. J. T. Horner, of the College,
whose subject was “Effective Mar-
keting.” We were again entertain-
ed by the band and glee club after
which Acting President Shaw intro-
duced G. I. Christie, director of the
experiment station and extension
work at Purdue University, and his
talk was on “Agricultural thought. ”
Another number by the band con-
cluded the program.

Sees Marketing Main Problem

In his talk on “Effective Market-
ing” Prof. Horner spoke in part as
follows:

“Science has made it relatively
easy to produce goods. Whether it
be in agriculture or industry the
great problem is that of selling.
Everyone would be happy if all the
things he produced could be sold at
a proﬁt. The merchant, the manu-
facturer, the farmer—all of these
——want to know how to sell. The
farmer wants someone to tell him
how to sell all the things he can
grow at cost of production plus a
proﬁt.

“The ﬁrst essential to proﬁtable
selling is a knowledge of what the
consumer wants. Studies must be
made of the markets to determine
what the consumer wants, how he
wants it, when he wants it, and how
much of it he wants. The success-
ful manufacturer has been making
this study ever since the time ar—

rived when he could not readily sell
all the things he could produce.
With an increase in the facility of
producing goods there has been
an increase in competition and men
have had to struggle to get the con-
sumer to buy their goods instead of
those of competitors. Unless prop-
or selling methods are followed one
is apt to find that his competitors
get all the business.

"But eﬁi'cient production alone
will not bring prosperity. Efﬁcient
marketing must go hand in hand
with efﬁcient production. The pros-
perity of a farmer depends upon all
phases of his business being con-
ducted in the best possible manner.
These two things—production and
marketing—go hand in hand. Suc-
cess can not possibly come unless
due consideration is given to both.
Prosperity is never going to come to
agriculture unless production is ef-
ﬁciently conducted and is in harm—
ony with market demands. No pro-
duction program can be proﬁtable
unless it is conducted with regard
to the market. Likewise, no mar-
ket program can be effective if pro-
ductive efficiency is disregarded.

“Many farmers have recently dis-
credited the counsel of production
specialists. They have said, ‘We
know how to produce. Tell us how
to sell. The two blades of grass
theory has been wrong. We want
to know how to sell one blade. I
trust the time will never come when
farmers earnestly desire to discard
the science of agriculture. Scien-
tiﬁc production is essential to pros-

Can Any Farmer Beat This?

WEET clover 8 feet 7 inches
high! Rye 6 feet 4 inches high!
W. F. Causie, manager of the
Johnson farm at Jackson, Michigan,
gives up these ﬁgures for sweet clover
and rye he grew and has on exhibit
at the Jackson News ofﬁce, Jackson.
Other crops on display and their
heights are as follows: Alsike clover,
6 feet 4 inches; June clover 4 feet
10 inches; timothy hay 5 feet 8%
inches; wheat 4 feet 11% inches;
barley 4 feet 6 inches, and oats 5
feet 4 inches.
“Can anybody beat it?” he writes

THE BUSINESS FARMER., What about
it, friends? Can any of you beat
this record?

Mr. Causie writes “We do not
claim any credit for the growth of
the display. It only goes to show
what will grow if the land is good.
Nothing was used but barnyard man—
ure. The wheat was top dresses
early. The barley and oat ground
was fall plowed and double disked
in the spring.”

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of our readers about their crops. If
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nation. The scientiﬁc specialists

can show farmers how to reduce

costs and how to secure quality.
Better Thinkers

“We need to become better think-
ers. When the American farmer
gets to thinking more clearly on
social and economic problems there
is going to be improvement in these
ﬁelds just as there was in the ﬁeld
of mechanics, plant and livestock
improvement, and other sciences
when the torches of thought and
reason lighted the way.

“The American farmer has at
times been led into the wilderness
of fanatacism and unsound eco-
nomic thinking by those who have
been ignorant or basicly dishonest.
He has been wrong at times not be-
cause he desired to be wrong but
rather because of his faulty guid-
ance. In spite of the fact that he
has occasionally gone wrong never
from under the roof of the farm
home has there come a movement
or aid to a movement which has
been for the moral degradation of
this nation.”

Farmers Appreciating Work

Mr. Christie spoke on the assist-
ance which agricultural institutions
give to the farmers of the state, in
an effort to better conditions of the
agriculturists.

“Farmers are appreciating more
and more,” said Mr. Christie, “the
value of agricultural colleges. They
are receiving most valuable help
from the experiment stations and
the extension service, and as a re-
sult are able to meet in a better way
the big farm problems.

“These institutions which have
developed new and valuable vari-
eties of grains, helpful information
on soils and farm practices, unusual
aid on combating disease of live-
stock and insects of the orchard and
other direct assistance are growing
stronger each year and are meaning
more and more to agriculture and
country life. For every dollar spent
by the agricultural colleges, the
farmers of the state have received
many thousands in return. A con-
servative estimate shows that the
Michigan Agricultural college is re-
turning to the farmers of the state
more than $25,000,000 annually.
This institution then, should have
the active support of all the people
of the state.”

Speaking of the increase in grain
prices, Mr. Christie said:

“The agricultural situation has
changed by the recent rise in prices
for farm products. Farmers are
showing a changed attitude, while
business in general has shown re—
newed activity. It is encouraging
to see this turn in events and I be-
lieve that it means a brighter future
for our agriculture.

“During the past three years,
farmers have had opportunity to
make and have made a study of
their situation. They recognize that
a program must be made for the
individual farm. The market, the
farm and the man must be consider-
ed. They also recognize that mil-
lions of people in our cities must be
fed from the farms and that these
people must eventually pay a fair
price for the producing of these
products.

“Farmers located in Michigan
and in parts of the central west are
in a fortunate position since the
large manufacturing centers and a
large share of the population of the
country is within a short distance of
these producing areas. The Mich-
igan and Indiana farmers have ad—
vantages which are now showingr
and which will make these farms

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The Farm Offers Best Conditions Not Only F or Personal Development but Also for the
Founding of an Ideal Home ‘

HE peace of. an ideal mid-sum-
mer Sabbath afternoon has set-
tled over the old homestead. It

is one of those perfect days which
must have inspired the poet when
he sang, “How good is man’s life,
the mere’living! how ﬁt to employ
all the heart and the soul and the
senses forever in joy!"

How blessed and how welcome is
the peaceful naturalness of this aft-
ernoon hour. I am mentally com-
paring it with the tumult and con-
fusion of certain congested cities
and so—called resorts and recreation-
al regions which I have recently
visited. Verily how hard do certain
people struggle chasing the illusive
rainbow of happiness! Frantic di—
version, high powered automobiles,
long, gruelling motor trips being
only partial satisfaction.

Real joy, peace, contentment,
but from
within. Yet Nature is a potent fac-
tor in effecting this inner conscious-
ness. And so how pleasant is the
porch this afternoon! The breeze
blows intermittently, now and then
bringing the windmill into life—
only to let it relax into idleness once
more. How still it is! And yet
when we listen closely we hear all
the myriad voices of Nature sing-
ing their separate songs, yet blend-
ing them in a harmonious and sub-

, dued chorus.

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W110 can blame me for rejoicing
that I am the “and Son” of one of
those father and son partnerships
which is carrying on an old home-
stead cleared from primeval forests
by my father’s father? \Vho can
blame me if this afternoon I feel a
little selﬁsh regret that some of my
duties and connections cause me to
be away from the farm home so
much?

This afternoon is a gift from God,
intended for happiness and medita—
tion. As I look across the verdant
laWn and undulating acres stretch—
ing away to the horizon, my eyes
half close in thought and my soul is
lost in reverie and contemplation.
Tall elms cast shadows near at hand
upon the lawn. Shade and shadow,
vaguely mysterious, symbols of
life’s checkered path! Yet far away
across the ﬁelds" and on the hills the

sun is shining brightly—Peace
reigns o’er all. Thus do I medi-
tatez—

And “'hat 15 Peace?

Men say that the war is over,
that the armistice is signed, and
that lasting world peace has been
established. Perhaps, politically
speaking, this is true, but taken in
its larger, more abiding aspects,
peace does not yet rule among the
affairs of 'men. Consider the world
today—it is one vast battleﬁeld. It
is not a battle of bombs and bullets,
of subs and aeroplanes. It is the
same old battle of life, the same old
struggle for existance—only anim-
ated and aggravated, crazed and
driven frantic by the restless spirit
of the twentieth century.

Here and there, it is true, we can
ﬁnd isolated and secluded havens
where the spirit of economic and
social conﬂict has not penetrated
with its blighting influences, but
these communities are scarce and
far between. Even these districts,
Where life seems the most free and
unhampered by the pressure of the
outside world, are often the very
communities which are supported
by the ﬁercest economic oppression
of the laboring classes.

If anyone feels that I have over-

‘ drawn the picture, let him only look

. every act.

around him and see. Let him re-
move from his eyes the scales of
custom, of indifference, and of
thoughtlessness. Let him really try
to discover and analyse those
thoughts and emotions which all
unknown and unbidden are stamped
on every man’s face, reﬂected in his
Let him walk down the
busy streets with their hurrying,
jostling crowds. Let him ride on the
crowded trolley, and let him visit'
the factory and workshop. Every—
where let him Study people, their
faces and what they reveal.

Nor would I have you think that
I am conﬁning these observations
merely to the lower classes. It
Seems that the struggle is even

By STANLEY M. POWELL

(Lansing Correspondent of The Business Farmer.)

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IUR readers will no doubt be surprised to read such an article by
Stanley M. Powell after following his series on taxation so per-
haps an explanation is due. 'Stanley is a very busy man and

recently, ﬁnding himself just about worn out, he decided to take a.

brief vacation.

erate an up-to-date farm known as “Inglcside Farm”.

At Ionia Stanley and his father, H. E. Powell, op-

The “Son” of

“H. E. Powell and Son” has duties that keep him in the city most of
the time and his idea of a vacation was to retire to the farm to help
his father and rest. He went to the farm and while there his thoughts,
quite naturally, turned away from facts and theories of taxation to

something more in harmony with his surroundings.

And after a.

few days came the desire to put these thoughts down in black and
white, By Sunday afternoon he could control his desire no longer so
he carried his typewriter out on the front veranda. and—well this is

the result.
like it.
the writer or not.

It contains some very good thoughts and we hope you
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intense among the so—called
intellectual workers. The more a
man has, the more he wants, and
the more society demands of him.
Thus the fairly successful business
or professional man often grows old
prematurely and misses the real
joys of life.

The Advantages of Farm Life

I have wandered thus far afield
from the title of this article, not by
way of digression or useless com-
ment, but that I might restate some
of the fundamental principles of
human experience and conduct and
thus bring to your attention by com-
parison and contrast some of the
reasons why I wish to advocate the
farm as the ideal environment in
which to live the full and complete
life. I would not have anyone
think that I believe that conditions
of life on the farm are entirely un-
like and superior to those found in
the more congested city districts. In
many respects the difference is only
one of degree, but there are several
elements of farm life which are not
found in the city. Let us, there—
fore, consider some of the factors
which contribute toward making

more

life what it is on the modern farm.

In the ﬁrst place, the occupation
of the farmer is both useful and
honorable. Probably never before
has society so valued and appreciat-
ed the basic importance of agricul-
ture and esteemed the farmer so
highly as at present. The war op-
ened the eyes of the general public
to the importance of the farmers as
the producers of the basic necess-
ities of life. The new tendency of
farmers to organize and act collect-
ively has given them a voice which
is accorded respectful attention
both in the halls of legislation and
before the forum of popular public
opinion. A man who takes up
farming may, therefore, command
the full respect both of himself and
of his fellowmen.

One of the features of farming
which has appealed to men of all
times is the degree of independence
which it affords. The farmer is the
entrepreneur—the manager of his
enterprises. While his life may not
at all times be easy, there is always
the satisfaction of knowing that he
is his own master, that he can
choose what is to be done, and that

Putting Alfalfa Seed in Ground at Right Depth

NE problem in sowing alfalfa
0 seed is, to get it in the moist

ground just the right depth and
before the innoculation had been
killed by the Suns rays. Some use
one method and some another, many
of which are good.

Mr. E. H. Black, of Cass County
Michigan, has a rig that does the job
in ﬁne shape. As shown by the ac—
companying cut, it consists of a force
feed seeder bolted to the evener bar
of a 60 tooth spike harrow. In the
cut the outﬁt is shown being used
on a corn stubble that has been
disked for alfalfa. It works well in
spite of the stubble. By actually
digging up seed they were found to

 

be covered to a depth of about one
inch.

The seeder saves seed as with any
deﬁnite feed drill smaller quantities
may be sewn. It sows the seed in
fresh earth back of the ﬁrst row of
drag teeth. It covers the seed be-
fore the innoculation is killed by the
Suns rays. It will work on wheat
and rye ground in the spring, or on
ground that is too rough for seeding
with a drill. It saves Once over the
ground as compared to the ﬁddle
type of seeders. It puts the seed
home to moist warm earth with
a shallow covering above it and

this is what is desired to get good
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he will receive the rewards of his
foresight and industry. This is a
factor which appeals strongly to
every man.

The great drudgery and intense
exertion which was the
bane of farm life in past genera-
tions is rapidly disappearing due to
the extensive use of improved ma-
chinery in nearly all of the farming
operations. Happily these improv-
ed implements have not removed

the farmer from his former close ~‘ '

contact with nature. His is still
the out-of-doors life. He still lives
close to nature—sees all her mys-
terious secrets—from the glorious
beauty of the sunrise until the
many-colored sunset marks the “end
of another day’s labor—from the
wondrous wakening of all life in the
Springtime to the quiet, mellow
days of Autumn when he gathers in
the last fruits of the season. No
other class of men live in such close
natural contact with the Creator,
and no other has such an opportun-
ity to see His character revealed in
the world about and “think His
thoughts after Him.”
The 'Farm the Ideal Home

It is a fact well worth consider-
ing that the farm offers the best
conditions not only for personal de-
velopment but also for the founding
of an ideal home. This is a factor
not to be considered lightly when
we notice that the home life of the
city is rapidly degenerating and los-
ing its potent and sacred inﬂuence.
It does not seem possible to produce
real men and women of high Chris-
tian character and American ideals
in the haunts of the cliff dwellers of
our cities, in appartments or crowd-
ed tenements. It is not a matter of
mere chance that so many of our
country’s greatest leaders have been
:produced in farm homes. Those
forces which operate to disintegrate
and destroy the unity of the city
home do not exist to nearly as great
an extent in the rural community.

On the other hand, the primeval
isolation, which formerly turned the
agriculturalist into an object of rid-
icule, is no more. The rapid settle—
'ment of our country, the develop-
ment of the telephone, automobile,
rural free delivery and radio, have
forever broken down this barrier.
The farmer may now live as an in-
telligent member of human society,
knowing what other men are doing
and appreciating their conditions.
Good roads and the automobile
bring him in close contact with the

city so that he can share all its
social, religious, and educational
advantages, and still enjoy all the

beneﬁts of living on the farm. Or,
without leaving his chair he can
bridle the unseen waves of the air
and make them contribute their toll
of entertainment and instruction.

The farm home need no longer
lack those conveniences and ameni-
ties which add so much to the com-
fort and joy of living. A great
many farm lighting systems have
been perfected. Many farm homes
are also now equipped with water
systems which provide running
water, bath and toilet facilities. The
general use of such household im—
povements is bound to increase rap-
idly in the years just ahead.

The Farm Herizon Lifts

The farmer’s life is not a life of
selﬁsh social and business isolation.
No longer does he think in terms of
“me and my wife, my son John and
his wife, us four and no more.”
More and more the spirit of cooper-
ation and fellowship is spreading
among the. farmers. The great ex-
tension movements, such as the
county agent work, the boys’ and
girls’ club work, the home demon-
stration activities, school and public
health nurses, the «county Y. M. C.
A., etc., all show the increased at-
tention which is being devoted to
this sort of thing.

During these past few years this
cooperative spirit has given birth to
the great farm bureau movement
and today over the length and
breadth of the U. S. A., there are
local, county, state and national
farm bureau organizations which
are fostering and promoting cooper-
ative marketing on a commodity

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mowing contest held on F'armers Day at the Mich- picked the winners in the contest at the M A. G. ters. Left to right: P. 19‘. “’uldron, lonia, best all

igan Agricultural College was the leading event of Left to right: Wm. F. Johnston, \Vexi‘ord county around work; [91. Judson, Durand, neutest swath;
‘ the forcnoon. Here we have a. few of the contest- agent; Jason Woodman, and l. 11. Butterlield, E. S. (ioodhuc, Bath, most work; I. P. ﬁlosley, Ollan-
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Shaw was making a few introductory remarks before introducing the speakers. gram of Farmers" Day was the parade of blue ribbon livestock owned by the
This does not show the entire crowd but it will give you some idea of how! Michigan Agricultural College. Horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry, all had
interested they all were. a. part in the parade.
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ITIES.—Senator Couzens is being criticised DEN .——This is a general view, showing the interior of Madison phone operator of Cincinnati, Ohio, has won 5
by many for his stand in favor of tax-exempt Square Garden, New York (‘ity, where the Democratic national beauty contests since last y".“'" They were in
government securities. It is stated his fortune convention was held. The photograph was taken as the meet- Kansas (’ity, .Salina and L1nnsburg, Kansas,
is invested in these securities. ing was called to order on the opening day. and Cincinnat1.
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school age.

, before the fourth Monday in June.

but since then have decided to move

. out of the district. and the boys will

' not be able to

attend the school
which the application was made for,

. but will still be in the same county

\ but in another township.

Would
the school board of this district still
be obliged to pay the tuition? Or
will we have to pay it ourselves if
we move from the district before
school starts in Septemberf—W. 0.,

. Muskegon, Mich.

GRAPH (621), page 22].,
Revision of 1 9 2 8 General
School Laws of Michigan, reads

1 in part as follows:

“The district board or board of
education of any sch001 district

‘ which does not maintain a high

school shall have authority and is

. hereby required to vote a tax sumo-

ient to pay the tuition to any high

i school which is approved by the

Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion”“"Provided, that the par-
ent or the legal guardian of such
child”"“shall give written notice
to the district board or board of ed-
ucation on or before the fourth
Monday of June, that such child do-
sires to attend any high school dur-

‘ ing the ensuing year."

The law does not require a partic-
ular high school to be mentioned in
the application for tuition. If the
proper application is made the
school board must pay the tuition
to any approved tuition high school
in the state. If proper application
is not made the board may pay it.
The fact that the family in question
moved from the district to another
district not maintaining a high
school does not relieve the first dis-
trict of its responsibility—C. L
Goodrich. Ass’t. Supt. Public In-
struction.

WALL SHOULD GO BELOW
FROST LINE

Would you please answer through
your columns some questions in re-
gard to house building? I want to
build a bungalow, the wall of faced
stone up to the eves which would be
about 10 feet. How deep should
the wall go in the ground? Will
have no basement, as the soil is
clay not very well drained. How
thick should the wall be above

 

I ground, and how thick should the

' better.

foundation wall be below the sur-
face? I think your service depart-
ment is grand. It ’does me good
the way you expose those fur and
land sharks.—L. R., Twining, Mich.

HE foundation wall should go

below the frost line in case
there is no basement. The founda-
tion wall should be at least 14
inches thick and have a footing 24
inches wide and 6 inches deep. I
would suggest that the whole found-
ation be made of concrete.

The wall above ground should be
about 8 inches thick. I understand
that you are facing the stone onto
the frame work or in other words.
that it is what we commonly term
stone veneer building.—-F. E. Fogle,
Assistant Professor, Agricultural
Engineering Dep’t, M. A. C.

HOW MUCH EXEMPTION?
Please tell me just how much one
is allowed by law before he is col-
lectable if his 40 acres is mortgaged
and cows not all paid for besides
other notes'I—A. D. E., Tustin,
Mich.
OU would have a homestead ex-
l emption in your 40 acres of
land if it is the only real estate
you have and you live on it. You
would be exempt in personal prop-
erty to the amount of $250.00.—-—
Asst. Legal Editor.

WAN'IB PRIMARY, MONEY
TRANSFERRED

We have property'in District No.
1 also in District No. 8 where we
live. Now it is nearer for children
to go to No. 1 school also roads are
better and conditions in general are
My mother went to No. 1
and I went to No. 1 and now my
on went to No. 1 one year. They

0 not want to have our ch11
unless we have our property all
transferred to No. 1 so they can get
all the school tax. The board voted
on it and would not let us leave No.

. 8. Unless we pay $1. 50 a month

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tuitiOn we cannot send children

1

We made application
, to the school board of our district.

ﬁg»

mm who?
u M'ﬂ‘ul Mm

there. We have ﬁve and it would
mean a lot of money in one year.
Have heard one can have head ts:
transferred. Is this true? How can
one go about it and to whom apply?
Would the head tax apply on tui-
tion? Have we the right to send
children to District No.1 as we
have property there too. It is over
two miles of mud roads to No. 3
whiletoNo. litis 1% milesinall.
part gravel and remainder will be
concrete. The amount of land is
about the same in both districts
althe buildings are in No. 3.—aMrs.
L. K. 0., Palms, Mich.
i DISTRICT in which a parent
' does not reside is not compell-
ed to accept children of other
districts. The primary money can-
not be transferred from the district
where the parent or legal guardian
resides to a school where he wishes
his children to attend school.-—-W.
L. Coffey, Deputy Superintendent of
Public Instruction.

 

AGAINST

A signs B‘s note. Now both A
and B refused payments for over
two years. After that note holder
put judgement against A and B for
collection. Then A and B promis-
ed to pay so much monthly and then
bothAandBfailed. Whatisthe
law to collect these notes? Kindly
advise me what to do. Your sub-
scriber for many years. S. G., Knox,
Ind.

F you have obtained a judgement
I against A and B on these notes,

you could levy an execution
against their property, or garnishee
their bank account or wages. Go
to the judge who gave you the judg-
ment and tell him you want to get
out an execution against their prop-
erty—Asst. Legal Editor.

CAN IIE KILL ANIMALS
DESTROYING CROPS?

Can a tamer kill any bird or
animal if they are destroying his
crops or animals (turkeys, chick-
ens)? Is it against the law to shoot
a gun on your own property without
a hunting licensei—H. J., Algonac,
Mich.

is impossible to give a speciﬁc
answer to the above inquiries.

Property owners would not be
justiﬁed in killing animals or fowls
trespassing on or destroying their
property except possibly in case an

  
   
   

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animal was vicious and endanger-
ing lives of people on premises or
destroying sheep or cattle thereo
Of course, the property owner woul
have an action for damages against
the owner of animals or fowls tres-
passing on his premises and damagb
ing them. We also have a statute
which permits the owner of prem-
ises to distrain and sell cattle tres-
passing thereon. In reply to your
second question will advise you that
it is not necessary for a person to
have a hunting license to shoot a
gun on his own property unless he
is hunting thereon.—-Clare Retan,
Deputy Attorney General.

CAN GET DIVORCE

If a man's wife is proved mental-
ly unbalanced would ‘that hinder
him from getting a divorce from
her? Could he get possession of
the children. What would be the
proper step as to me ﬁnding out her
sanity? Would like to hear from
you as soon as possible. Just re-
ceived word that my wife has ap-
plied for a widow’s pension—A
{lively Dead Man, Newberry, Mich-
gan.

fact that your wife is men-

tally unbalanced would not

alone prevent you from obtain-

ing a divorce. In order to deter-

mine her sanity, ille a petition with

the probate court to have her ad-

Judged insane. The question will
be determined in a hearing beta
the probate judges—Asst. Le

Editor. ‘-

CAN OFFICER COLLECT MONEY
FROM MOTORIST?

I have been tithing your valuable
paper and would like information
through the service department on
the following subject: Has a mot-
orcycle cop the right to collect mon-
ey on the public highway for what
he calls speeding?—-—-R. J. P., Caro,
Michigan.

MOTORCYCLE ofﬁcer has no

right to collect money from

motorists for speeding. He has
the right, however, to arrest them
and take them into custody. He
usually gives them the privilege of
depositing money with him to in-
sure their appearance at the trial,
instead of taking them into custody.
The motorist should insist on a re-
ceipt to protect himself.—Asst.
Legal Editor.

 

YES THEY’RE LEAVIN‘ THE FARM

0Y8 are leavin' the farm—
B they're goin’ to the city an'
gettin’ jobs an' gettin' mixed up
with lots 0’ thing that ain’t so very
good for ’em. An’ that they‘d be
better off without. I have a lot of
farmer boys workin' with me—I like
them an' I like to be with them. I
like to have ’em tell me their troubles
an' why they left the farm. It‘s
most always the same story—no
chance out there—~just hard work an’
no money. “Oh yes," one young man
said, “Dad did all he could for me—
he works hard but farming don't pay
much an' he couldn’t do much for
me and so I quit."

Now of course the boy didn’t stop
to think of the 19 years that Dad
had been keepin' him, feedin’ an'
clothin' him, lovin’ him an' sendin'
him to school an’ tryin' to make
somethin' of him. No he never
thought of that! It hadn't occurred
to him that he owed Dad anything.

He was just old enough to pay his
way an' help Dad a little, but he
couldn't do it—-—he had to have money
whether Dad did or not—-no matter
’bout Dad, he was gettin' old
way an’ didn’t need much, he woul

t along some way. Well the

Oung man gets good wages here an'
he lives high. He isn’t saving any
money, Jest spends it as fast as he
gits it. He goes out with flashy
girls an' they make him think he's
some great guy—~he feeds 'em on
pricedstuif. takes'emtoshow owe:

Yes the city is a great place for
farm boys—it builds 'em up or down
-—mostly down. Boys I am tellin'
you right now to stick to the farm,
help Dad out an' build a good healthy
body for yourself. There are many
years before you—~years that’ll be
full of pleasure an' happiness for
years if
But my dear young friends, you can
spoil it all in just a short time in
any city. City life is too fast an’
you don’t have much at the end of
the year but regret, just a feeling
that you have made a mistake,—a
dark brown taste so to speak,——an‘
you'll wish you were back on the
farm where all is clean an' nice,
where your folks are an' country
girls are, an' in all this whole big
world there is nothing quite as sweet
an' nice as our farm-raised girls.
Just as sweet an pure as the apple
blossoms—mebbe they ain't the best
dancers. mebbe they don’t use paint
an' lip sticks like our city girls but
they are healthy an' good to look at
—-they make good wives an' mothers
an' they know how to cook an’ bake
an' take care of a home. So. know-
in' what I know, I'm sayin'to my
boy friends all over this big state of
ours, jest stick by Dad. help him out
now an' pay back part of what we
done for you. , You can not ever pay
it all; boys if you could only know
all he an’ mother has done for you
you would realise that a litetime of
service would only pay jest 'bont
half the debt. Gordiany yours,—
UNCLE BEBE,

you raise yourself right. "

can
was top pay $5 '
I opened a grayel pit and Mrs. D.

served a written notice to stop eell- '

ing gravel or pay her up in full for
the place. Now must I do this?
The contract reads that all build-
ingsmustbekeptlnasgoodare-
pair as when I took possession but
does not say anything about taking
gravel or timber from this place.
Also Mrs. D. tried to collect pro-
ceeds from gravel. Did she have
I. right to do this? Must I pay her
in full or have I a right to sell grav-
el and use the proceeds to improve
the placei—L. A. R., Lowell,_ Mich.
the removal of the gravel would
so depreciate the value of the
land as to endanger the seller’s
security, she would have the right
to restrain you from selling the
gravel. It all depends upon~the
amount of gravel removed and its
relation to the value of the farm
without the gravel. I would see a
lawyer. —Asst. Legal Editor.

MUST. PRINT TRUTH IN
ADVERTISEMENTS

I have a beauty secret for the
hair and I would like to advertise
and charge .for it; it is absolutely
true what I would advertise. I have
no medicine to sell, nor would there
be any used. Would it be legal for
me to advertise‘t Also I would like
to sign a Nome do Plume. Is that
all righti—Reader, Arenac County.

ER the provisions of Section

15049 as amended by Act No.

351 of the Public Acts of 1917,

a person is criminally liable for any

false statements contained in adver-

tisements published in a newspaper
or otherwise.

If the statements which you wish
to publish are true and are not mis-
leading. you would probably not be
violating any statute of this state.
It you advertise under any name
other than your own in connection
with your advertisement you might
technically be violating the statute
above mentioned—Clare Retan,
Deputy Attorney General.

TEACHER NOT ENTITLED TO
PAY DURING VACATION
If the School board signs up
with a teacher for a week's vacation
between Christmas and New Year’s
do they have to pay teacher for
same? How many vacations with
pay is a teacher entitled to each
year?—-—J. M. W., Gladwin, Mich.
a school board signs a contract
with a teacher, which provides
for a week’s vacation between
Christmas and New Year’s, the dis-
trict does not pay for such vaca’tion'
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period, that is, any period within
her contract which is speciﬁed as
a vacation. _
The law provides that no school
shall be maintained in any public
school nor shall any deduction be
made in a teacher's wages for the
observance of the following _:days
Labor Day, Which is the ﬁrst Mon-
day in September, Thanksgiving
Day, as set apart by the Governor,
Christmas Day, New Year’s Day,
Memorial Day, and the fourth day
of July. Whenever any of the above
days come within the period of
contract the teacher is entitled to
pay for sauna. When any come
within the period of vacation as
speciﬁed in teacher’s contract the
teacher does not draw pay for same.
Such days are designated as legal
holidays for schoolsr—G. N. Otwell,
Supt. Division of Rural Education.

WIFE WOULD Gm ONE THIRD

Please give me the correct law

answer to the following: When I
married my husband a year ago he

had property which he was selling ,
under contract and it will be some .

few years before it is paid out. Now
if he dies in the meantime, will I
get one-half of the amount left or
would I share equal with three
children by previous marriage?
Thetisif-thereisnowmordeed of
revision made for same.—
Mrs. 8., Jasper. Mich.
Oil! third of an amount due the
h

nsband on the contract would _

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'USE ECONOMY

EAR EDITOR:—-I am sending

$1.00 for two years subscrip-

tion to your paper. I read in
your paper about the proposed gas
tax and for one would favor a gas
tax if we would get a reduction on
auto license, the same as some states
ﬁve. It the state and counties
would use some economy taxes
would be lower. I do not think that
there is need for over fifty mem-
bers on the public utilities commis-
sion and an auto for the department
bought with the taxpayers' money.
The Governor has an auto bought
the same way, as well as others. The
state health department has over
100 persons employed, unnecessary
is it not? The gas tax and auto 1i-
censo ought to retire highway bonds
and state expenses without a gener-
al property tax. That would abol-
ish the state tax commission and
may the Lord speed the time—W.
B. E., Blaine, Mich.

BLAMES FARMERS FOR SHORT-
AGE OF HELP

0 the Editorz—I noticed in a
recent issue of M. B. F. an art-

icle on farm labor, and its in-
efﬁciency and scarcity, and having
worked nineteen years on different
farms in Livingston county, state of
Michigan, I think I discovered some
of the reasons of the present day
scarcity of farm labor. One, and
the most important reason is that
99 out of every 100 farmers hire a
man the same as they buy a piece of
machinery; not to go until he is
started, and then keep going until
he is stopped, and after he has had
fuel put in his tank and water in his
radiator, he is supposed to run until
stopped again, and he isn’t supposed
to get sick, but should be on the job
every day and must hold himself in
readiness to look after thinks Sun-
days, if the boss so desires. An-
other reason is that he isn’t supposed
to have any brains, and is never con-
sulted about the work, just do what
he is told to do. Still another rea-
son is that from the time he starts
working for a boss until he is ﬁred
or quits or his time is out, he has

 

no time for himself, or if he ”is a

married man, no time to be with his
family, only nights, and often then,
only from 10 o’clock at night until 4
o’clock the next morning. Still an-
other reason, is the living quarters
that some bosses furnish for their
hired help to live in.

I know a man in this county that
is a very prosperous farmer and
hires help each season. Has a ﬁne
large house, a large barn, an up—to-
date hog house, and for the hired
help he has a bunk house, just 10
feet from the hog house. This bunk
house is about 10 feet by 12 feet
and there are sleeping quarters for
8 men, a stove, and that is all there
is in it, besides bunks are built on
top of one another around the out—
side. I once helped this man a few
days and it didn't look as if this
bunk house had been swept or clean-
ed since it was built. Of course
these conditions do not always exist
everywhere, and all together, but it
causes a man to think twice before
hiring himself to a man he doesn’t
know. I have done it, so I know.

Now, on the other hand, if a hired
man was to be considered human and
allowed a little time for himself, or
his family, and was to be consulted
about the work on hand, and if his
advice proves to be right, tell him
so, and if he be furnished good clean
living quarters for himself and fam-
ily and paid a good living wage,
there would not be the scarcity of
farm labor that there is today. There
are a lot of men like myself that
rather than be bought as a machine
and considered as such, and herded
together as cattle, would rather go
to the city and rent a little house of
their own, and work in a factory;
8 hours a day are less than 18.
Every Sunday is yours. A house
you rent yourself is better than 99

- percentfurnished you on the farm.

And if a man develops any brains,
he has a chance to use them. One
man out of [every ﬁve is advanced.
Not one out of every thousand can
expect it on the farm.

After reading this you may think
Iamacityman. Notso,1ama
farmer trying to make a living the
same as thousands of others. I have

 

just tried t6 state some of the rea-
sons why help is scarce on the farm,

as I have seen them.——M. Cf, Ros-
common, Mich.

 

PLENTY OF CHANGES ON FARMS
EAR EDITORz—In June 7th is-
sue Thomas T. Ames of Toledo,
Ohio, says "The farmer has
caused most of the present condition
by not recognizing his kinship with
labor."

Allow me to suggest that the far-
er does not lack for a reasonable
market price for his goods, but he
lets the manufacturing crowd de-
mand of him unreasonable prices—-
regular war prices—4m their goods
and force upon our country such
prohibitive tariﬂs that we can't get
foreign goods from European fact-
ories enough to get even one of the
manufacturers four feet out of the
feed trough. '

Human nature is the same as it
has been since Adam, and when the
great farm organizations of Ameri-
ca said, following Harding’s inaug-
uration, to the G. O. P. tariff makers
at Washington, that they knew they
could trust that great party not to
ﬂeece their own pet lambs who had
just voted them back into power:
then wolf said to brother wolf,
“How’ll you have your lamb chops
ﬁxed, partner?" and lo! verily! each
farmer’s goods dropped to half price
but what he buys is bought at the
good old war—prices—C. H. Merri-
ﬁeld, Gobles, Mich.

TOO MUCH ABOUT COOPERATIVE»
MARKETING

EAR EDITORz—In the past we

have taken many different farm

papers and magazines and we
consider yours well worth the price
in a good many ways. But let me
advise you that there is something
lacking in the Farm Press of Amer-
ica in general, that for ﬁve years
they have, most of them, did nothing
to" boost cooperative marketing, and
refused to listen to warnings of
grafters. Now old business heads
like Editors should he, could not help
but see and know, how the farmers
were being imposed upon by a cer—
tain element, that controls most of
farmers organizations. I have tried
to expose the dangers through sev-
eral farm papers for several years
and only one has responded by print-
ing my articles. I am not opposed
to cooperative marketing, if rightly
handled, if such a thing ,could be
done, but as it is there are too many
high-salaried, white-collared, hang-
ers-on in most of our associations
and exchanges and our editors of the
American Press know it as well as

.7 much better off/today it til y had
heen left‘alone, all this ”proposed, ‘

. certiﬁcate to teach.

e7 ‘ ;_ N
as... m

not alone, farmers would

help and advise costs-~ money. ,Why,

pay county agents to learn us to grd‘w
more and bigger crops,.
teach a lot of new beginners from

city and lumber woOds to be farmers, ‘

even urge and spend more time
teaching the greenhorn to farm, then

they spend on the real farmers, why .

do all this at taxpayers expense when
we already grow too much and have
too much tax to pay.
so much food stuffs from foreign
countries? Please find out and tell
the American farmers just: how much
beef and hides, are imported from
South America and see if this is not
the cause of’cheap beef inJJ‘aB. and
also wool and pork. , a" short
time ago that we hang "t‘of South
America 4 billion dollars more than
we exported to that country outside
of coffee and tea. What farm pro-
ducts do we need to buy from South
America that will run up to 4 billion
dollarsl—E. D. Post, Antrim County.

 

CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS

O the Editorz—The writer on

consolidated schools speaks of

“the little red school house”
in the rural districts, must be ignor-
ent of the rural school as there is no
such school building. They speak

Why import .

and also j '

of the poor incompetent teachers in ‘

the rural schools.
aware that as smart men as ever
were in the halls of Congress got
there education up to eighth grade
in these rural schools and if the

Now are they '

teachers in the rural schools were >
so inefﬁcient they could not get a '

to say against the consolidated
schools when you get them. But
the transportation is a problem to
be seriously considered. To get
the children up early and ready for
school and walk one quarter to one
half a mile to the corner at seven
o'clock and wait there in the cold
and storm, sometimes zero weather,
for the carry-all to come, and then
ride one hour and a half around the
district gathering up the scholars and
to the consolidated school is hard
on the children for they often suffer
with cold feet and get so cold be-
ing so long on the way that they are
not ﬁt to work for half the fore-
noon. Now of all articles I have
ever read on consolidated schools I
have never seen any thing on the
transportation part. The consolidat-
ed school is ﬁne, but it is the get-
ting there, that is a problem that
should be well considered before go-
ing into it.—M. B., Berrien County.

 

"Tea or coffee?"

"Coffee without cream.”

“You'll have to take it .sir, without
milk, sir; we’re out of cream.”—Puppet.

Butteriield Talks At Elevator Exchange Meet

SSURANCE that the co—opera-

tive marketing work of the

Michigan Agricultural College
will be increased rather than dimin-
ished under his administration was
given by Dr. Kenyon L. Butterﬁeld,
new president of the college, who
addressed the members of the Mich-
igan Elevator Exchange at their
fourth annual meeting held at Lans-
ing, July 16th.

After the address, the delegates
adopted a resolution commending
Dr. Butterﬁeld for his stand on co-
operative marketing and pledging
the co—operation of the exchange.

The meeting was attended by rep-
resentatives of farmer’s elevator as-
sociations holding membership in
the exchange, representing 25,000
farmers. H. D. Horton, of Kinds,
was elected president; L. C. Kam-
lowske, of Washington, was reelect-
ed vice—president, and Carl Martin.
of Goldwater, secretary-treasurer.

The exchange delegates voted to
change their type of organization
from a membership basis to a coop-
erative stock company, issuing stock
to member elevators in the amount
of their membership fee. They au-
thorized a patronage divident from
the surplus of $10,000 to be distrib-
uted in stock according to the
amount of business done through
the exchange. The total capital
stock authorized was limited to
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The delegates also authorized the,

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Elevator & Warehouse Co. at Port
Huron where the Elevator Exchange
is fostering a farmer controlled
terminal elevator for bean picking
and ,storage service at cooperative
elevators.

The delegates approved the Mich-
igan State Farm Bureau’s plan for
a reorganization on an endowment
plan providing for the establish-
ment of a trust fund for the per-
manent support of the Farm Bu-
reau.

A comprehensive program of tax
reform was adopted, including sup-
port for a state income tax, a two-
cent gasoline tax and a demand for
a fair assessment ratio between city
and farm real estate. , '

The Exchange expressed indebt-
edness to the Michigan Agricultural
College markets department for the
marked success the Exchange had

attained, and for aid in the estab- ‘

lishment of some 700 farmers' co-
operative associations in Michigan.
most of whom are identiﬁed with
live great commodity marketing or-
ganizations.

The delegates re-elected four di-
rectors for two-year periods; L. p.
Kamlowske, of Washington; Carl
Martin, of Goldwater; H. D. Rotten.
of Kinds; John Nicholson, of Mar-
iette. 0, L. Miner. 01 Downsize, lai-
sowaseiectedtothsboardotdl—
rectors. Other directors of the Ex-

        

change are George McCain. e'l, Ypsi-

gnﬁ; ,n. ‘R. Shisler, at
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f1 TELEPHONE receiver consists
of a very small permanent mag-
net around which is wrapped
many turns of very ﬁne wire and
which then is mounted in a metal or
composition case that ﬁts against
the ear, and mounted near the mag-
net but not touching it there is a
very thin piece of iron, called the
vdiaphram, which vibrates with the
varying intensity of the current
that passes through the wire. It is
this vibrating or the diaphragm that
produces sound which you hear.
- . Two receivers mounted on a band

that ﬁts over the head is called a .

“headset."

,Owing to the delicacy with which
the receivers are adjusted for the
best results, it is absolutely necess-

A ary that they be handled carefully.

A'fall on the ﬂoor may riun them
beyond repair.

Receivers are made of varying re-
sistances, such as 2000 or 3000
ohms. This means that the combin-
ed pair of receivers, or headset, has
wire wound on the magnets with
the resistance as stated above. The
higher the resistance the more
sensitive 'the receivers are to weak
signals, .though there is little if
any increase in volume with normal-
ly loud signals.

Most radio outﬁts will operate
two or more headsets. To obtain
the best results the headsets should
be alike, or at least have the same
number of ohms resistance. It two
or more sets are to be used together
connect-them in series as shown by
the accompanying ﬁgure.

Some headsets are equipped with
cords of two diiferent colors and
with such headsets there is usually
an accompanying slip telling you to
be sure and connect the tip of a cer-
tain color to the “positive" termin-
al of the “B" battery. Where such
directions are given they should be
followed, for if they are connected
wrong, the current, will weaken the
magnets. If no such instructions

. came with your headsets, then try

‘ is, reverse

connecting them in both ways, that
the connections and

whichever connection gives the

. loudest response is the way that

they should remain.

Do not remove the ear caps un-
less absolutely necessary, as a very
small dent or injury to the dia—

1' phragm will spoil the correct dis-

tance that separates the diaphragm
from the magnets. No dust should
be permitted to get between the dia-
phragm and the magnet: this will
prevent the free Vibration of the
draphragm and decrease the sensi-
tivity.

Most headsets when used on a
radio set employing two or more
stages of ampliﬁcation will rattle
and not produce as good or true
tones as they do on the detector
circuit alone. If you want volume,
use receivers that are especially
made for loud speaker use. This
type of receiver has a greater separ-
ation between the diaphragm and the
magnet and also a different shaped
interior sound chamber as well as
mounting to prevent the rattle and
to give great volume to the sound.

LOUD SPEAKERS
{ '1‘ the present time there are on
the market many types of loud
speakers and loud speaker
units. The loud speakers are equip-
ped withsome kind of a horn, while
the units are for use with phono-
graphs or to be attached to a horn.

The loud speaker consists of a
special "type of receiver that will
give a greater volume of sound than
an ordinary radio receiver. It is
generally of a sturdier construction,
heavier and larger than ordinary re—
ceivers and will only give good re-
sults when attached to a horn of the
proper shape and material. The
loud speakers use the same type of
unit as are sold separately for at-
taching to a phonograph.

Loud speaker horns should be
made of a material that will not vi-
brats at voice frequencies, or it will
tend to rattle and distort the sound
as received. Metal horns, unless

made of heavy metal or non-vibrat- ‘

13.1.8 metal. W111 tend to give a metal
or “tin nanny" sound to the music

assumptions aims «mimics or voice.

     

. .Wood, ﬁbre and the com-
position horns seem to give the tru-
est tones. _

The shape of the horn also affects
the sound,_ as a straight tapered
horn will not give the volume as one
with a ﬂaring bell on the end. The
‘fgoose neck” type of horn has been
adapted by the better makers as
giving the best results. Every eiiort
has been made to make them of the
same shape as the human throat in
order to reproduce the voice in a
natural manner.

Nearly all of the better loud
speaker units will give satisfaction
on a radio set having two steps of
ampliﬁcation and using from 60 to
90 volts of "B” battery. Such units
are made to ﬁt the standard types
of phonographs now on the market
and will please as well as surprise
you with the great volume that they
will give you.

To get the most out of your radio
for yourself and friends or family,
it will pay you to get a complete
loud speaker unit for your phono—
graph, and in this way you are re-
lieved from the wearing of a head-
set, which is tiresome after a short
time, and all in a room can enjoy
the music or talk.

For great volume of sound, for
use in schools, churches or halls
there is made a special loud speaker
that requires a. separate battery to
excite it, and which will give forth
such a large volume of sound that it
is too loud ordinarily for use in the
home.

Where loud speakers are used
there is a slightly greater demand
placed on the “B" batteries used on
the ampliﬁer than where head sets
are used. This will shorten the life
of the “B” batteries 9. very little
and should not be an obstable in
the way of your having such a loud
speaker for use with your set.

.rv 1 mean“
this safer :91:st , »
their radio troubles. I built ﬁrst
'using' the Cockaday circuit. , Ide-

' L sired-this setfor its unusual select-

   

amateurs with

ivity, unlimited ”range of distance.
ease of tuning, etc., as claimed by
some, but mine has none of those
ﬁne qualities. As compared with the
Haynes circuit which I have been us-
ing it has no place.
local stations, Detroit (loud and
clear) while with the other we list-
ened to Havana, Cuba, with pleas-
ure. ‘

I am using Cockaday coil, Tett and
Kimmel condensers in the stabilizer
and secondary windings. They are
not the makes called for but are good
condensers of the vernier type and
correct capacity (.0005). The other
parts (Bradley Leak and rheostat)
are correct capacity with the excep-
tion of two variable condensers in
the plate and grid circuits which I
made myself and which I think are
correct capacity. My tube is 301-A
Cunningham. Aerial and ground are
good. The aerial is 30 feet high,
150 feet in length, with 30 feet in-
sulated lead-in. I put this set in a
black painted box well shellaced in-
side. Now can you offer any sug-
gestions that will help me? What is
your opinion of the Cockaday cir-
cuit? Do you think my condensers
are at fault? I would not mind the
cost if I was sure the set would work
right.—-—Laverne Wallace, Wayne
County, Mich.

IS is a difﬁculty that many have

with this circuit. There is some-

thing which we do not know that
effects some circuits and not others
in a certain locality. Strange that a
properly made set of one kind of
circuit will give good results, and
a really better circuit will give poor-
er results under exactly the same
circumstances. This is sometimes
due to inherent faults in the pieces
of aparatus used; such as poor in-
sulation, poor dielectric qualities
and poor connections.

It is possible that your grid and

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pie ‘ cuteness-s are of the wrong
capacity, you may have a very'peor
connection that holds» well but at
high resistance. ‘ltﬂ would be well
to trace each wire, resolder each
connection as sometimes the ﬂux
used gets between the wires and
makes a poor high-resistance joint.
See that the contacts on the soket
are clean and make good contact
with the bulb. Try placing your
rheostat in the opposite lead of the
A battery from the one you now use.
Change the B battery conenction so
that the negative is connected to the
positive of the A battery, if that way
now try the negative to negative. '
(Sometimes one tube works better
one way and another tube will work
better the opposite.)

Try each change, one at a time,
and then test for results. Sometimes
it is necessary to reverse the connec-
tions of. the secondary winding, or
the stabilizer winding. Try this ﬁrst
as it seems possible that his may be
your whole trouble.

The “Cockaday" circuit has prov-
ed good for some, but like most cir-
cuits the operator must get accust-
omed to it in order to get the best
results. Let me hear what results
you have after trying some of these
suggestions.

 

 

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Station KYW, Chicago. Central
standard time 8:20. Wave length
536 meters.

August 19—“What’s Doing in
Illinois," by H. C. Butcher, Director
of Information, Illinois Agricultural
Association. “Keynoters,” by H.
F. Jones, Executive Secretary, No.
tional Poultry, Butter and Egg As-
sociation.

August 22—“Club Work, Farm
Prosperity and Business," by Frank
B. White, Agricultural Advertisers'
Service. “A View of the Live Stock
Situation,” by D. C. Waterman, Ed-
itorial Staff of Orange Judd Illinois
Farmer.

 

 

 

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cars have come

into our part of
the country dur-
ing the past two
years equipped with
Fisk tires.

“ Their owners tell me
that they are getting un-
usual service from them;
dealers say they are made
by one o! the largest and
most reputable concerns
in the business; from ex-
perience I know for our
roads it is the best tire I

 

 

 

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her face and looked up wildly, half
‘,' deﬁantly. .

“Mr. Smith, you know Fred. You liked
him didn’t you? He isn’t bad and wicked,
is be? And they Can’t shut him up if—

“if we pay it back—all of it that he took?
They won’t take my boy—to prison?”

“To prison—Fred!"

“Yes, I know, I know." Impatiently
she jerked off the rich coat and tossed
it into his arms; then she dropped into
the chair again and fell to wringing her
hands. “Oh, What shall I do, what shall
I do?"

“Oh, I don’t know—I don’t know,”
moaned the woman, ﬂinging herself into- a
chair. “There can’t anybody do anything,
I s’pose; but I’ve got to have somebody.
I can’t stay there in that house—I can’t
.—-«I can’t—I can’t !”

Mr. Smith sprang to his feet and has-
tened toward her.

“Why, Mrs. Blaisdell, what is it? No,
she isn’t here. I’m so sorry! Can’t I do
:——anything?”

“No, no, of course not. And you shan’t,”
soothed the man. “And she’ll be here
soon, I’m sure—Miss Maggie will. But
justdet me help you off with your things,"
he urged, somewhat awkwardly trying to
unfasten her heavy wraps. "You’ll be so
{warm here.” . ’

“But what is it?” stammered Mr. Smith
helplessly. “Can’t I do—something? Can’t
I send for—for your husband?”

At the mention of her husband, Mrs.
Blaisdell fell to weeping afresh.

“No, no! He's gone—to Fred. you
know."

“To s—Fred?”

“Yes, yes, that’s what’s the matter. 0h, .

Fred, Fred, my boy!”
“Fred! Oh, Mrs. Blaisdell, I’m so sorry!
But what—is it?”

At the look of horror on Mr. Smith’s if

face, she began to wring her hands again.

“You don’t know, of course. I’ll have
to tell you—I’ll have to,” she moaned.

“But my dear woman,—not unless you
Want to.”

“I do want to—I do want to! I’ve got
to talk—to somebody. It’s this way.”
With a visible effort she calmed herself
a little and forced herself to talk more
coherently. “We got a letter from Fred
It came this morning.
money—quick. He wanted seven hundred
dollars and forty-two cents. He said
he’d got to have it—if he didn’t, he‘d go
and kill himself. He said he’d spent all
of his allowance, every cent, and that’s
what made him take it—this other money,
in the ﬁrst place."

“You mean—money that didn’t belong
to him?” Mr. Smith’s voice was a little
stern.

“Yes; but you mustn’t blame him, you

. mustn’t blame him, Mr. Smith. He said
he owed it. It was a—debt of honor,
Those were his very words.

“Oh! A debt of honor, was it?” Mr.
Smith’s lips cametogether grimly.

“Yes; and—~Oh, Maggie, Maggie, what
shall I do? What shall I do ?" she broke
off wildly, leaping to her feet as Miss
Maggie pushed open the door and hurried
in

He wanted some

“Yes, I know. Don’t worry. We’ll ﬁnd
something to do.” Miss Maggie, white-
faced, but with a cheery smile, was throw-
ing off her heavy coat and her hat. A
moment later she came over and took
Mrs. Hattie’s trembling hands in both
her own. “Now, first, tell me all about
it, dear.”

“You know, then?”

“01in a little,” answered Miss Maggie,
gently pushing the other back into her
chair. “I met Frank. Jim telephoned
him something, just before he left. But
I want the whole story. Now, what is it ?”

“I was just telling Mr. Smith.” She
began to wring her hands again, but Miss
Maggie caught and held them ﬁrmly. “You
see, Fred, he was treasurer of some club,
or society, or something; and and he—
he needed some money to-—pay a man,
and he took that—the money that be—
longed to the club, you know, and he
thought he could pay it back, little by
little. But something happened—~I don’t
know what—a new treasurer, or some:
thing: anyhow, it was going to be found
out-that he‘d taken it. It was going to-
be found out to—morrow, and so he wrote
the letter to his father. And Jim‘s gone.
But he looked so—oh, I never saw him
look so white and terrible. And I’m so
afraid—of what he’ll do—to Fred. My
boy—my boy i”

‘ “Is Jim going to give him the money?”
asked Miss Maggie.

“Yes, oh, yes. Jim drew it out of the
bank. Fred Said he must have cash.
And he’s going to give it to him. Oh,
they can’t shut him up——they can’t send
‘him to prison now, can they?"

"Hush, dear! No, they won’t send him
to prison. If Jim has gone with the
money, Fred will pay it back and no-
body will know it. But, Hattie, Fred did
it, just the same.”

“I—I know it.”

“And, Hattie, don’t you see?
will have to be done.
where all this is leading?
gambling, hasn’t he?”

“I’m—I'm afraid so.”

“And you know he drinks.”

“Y—yes. But he isn’t going to,
more. He said he wasn't. He wrote a
beautiful letter. He said if his father
would help him out of this scrape, he’d
never get into another one, and he’d show
him how much he appreciated it.”
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yet."

"Of course 'he will!" Mr. Smith, over
at the window, blew his nose vigorously.
Mr. Smith had not sat down since Miss
Maggie’s entrance. He had crossed to
the window,-and had stood looking out—at
nothing—all through Mrs. Hattie’s story.

“You do think he will, don’t you?”
choked Mrs. Hattie, turning from one to
the other pitteously. “He said he was
ashamed of himself: that this thing had
been an awful lesson to him, and he
promised—oh, he promised a lot of things,
if Jim would only go up and help him out
of this. He'd never, never have to again.
But he will, I know he will, if that Gay-
lord fellow stays there. The whole thing
was his fault—I know it was. I hate
him! I hate the whole family!"

“Why, Hattie, I thought you liked
them !"

“I don’t. They’re mean, stuck-up things,
and they snulb me awfully. Don’t you sup-
pose I know when I’m being snubbed?
And that Gaylord girl—she’s just as bad,
and she’s making my Bessie just like
her. I got Bess into the same school
with her, you know, and I was so proud
and happy. But I’m not—any longer.
Why, my Bess, my own daughter, actually
looks down on us. She’s ashamed of her
own father and mother—and she shows
it. And it’s that Gaylord girl that’s
done it, too, I believe. I thought 1—1
was training my daughter to be a lady;
but I never meant to train her to look

“He'll come out all right,

down on——on her own mother!"

“I’m afraid Bessie—needs something
of a lesson commented Miss Maggie
tersely. “But Bessie will be older, one
of these days, Hattie, and then she’ll—
know more."

“But that’s what I’ve been trying to
teach her—‘more,’ something more all the
time, Maggie” sighed Mrs. Hattie, wiping
her eyes. “And I’ve tried to remember
and «call her Elizabeth, too—Abut I can’t.
But, somehow, to-day, nothing seems of
any use, any way. And even if she learns
more and more, I don’t see as it’s going
to do any good. I haven’t got any friends
now. I’m not ﬁne enough yet, it seems,
for Mrs. Gaylord and all that crowd.
They don’t want me among them and
they show it. And all my old friends
are so envious and jealous since the
money came that they don’t want me, and
they show it; so I don’t feel comfortable
anywhere.”

“Never mind, just stop trying to live
as you think other folks want you to
live, and live as you want to, for a while.”

Mrs. Hattie smiled faintly, wiped her
eyes again, and got to her feet.

You talk just like Jim., He’s always
saying that.”

“Well, just try it,” smiled Miss Maggie,
helping her visitor into the luxurious fur
coat. “You’ve no idea how much more
comfort you‘ll take.”

“\Vould 1? Mrs. Hattie’s eyes were
wistful, but almost instantly they showed
an alert gleam of anger.

“Well, anyhow, I’m not going to try to
do what those Gaylords do any longer.
And—and you’re sure Fred won’t have to
go to prison?”

“I’m very sure,” nodded Miss Maggie.

“All right, then. I can go home now
with some comfort. You always make me

feel better, Maggie, and you, too, Mr.
Smith. I’m much obliged to you. Good-
b§'e.”

“Good-bye,” said Mr. Smith-

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“Good-bye,” said Miss Maggie. “Now,
go home and go to bed, and don’t worry
any more or you’ll have one of your
headaches.”

As the door closed behind her visitor,
Miss Maggie turned and sank into a chair.
She looked worn and white, and utterly
Weary.

“I hope she won’t meet Frank or Jane
anywhere.” She sighed profoundly.

“Why? What do you mean? Do you
think they’d blame her—about this un-.

Miss Maggie sighed again. ’

“I wasn’t thinking of that. I was
thinking of another matter. I just came
from Frank’s, and—”

“Yes?” Something in her face sent a
questioning frown to Mr. Smith’s own
countenance. '

“Do you remember hearing Flora say
that Jane had bought a lot of the Ben-
son gold—mine stock?”

cheS."

“Well, Benson has failed; and they’ve
just found out that that old gold-mine
stock is worth—about two cents on a
dollar." .

“Two cents! And how much—”

“About forty thousand dollars,”
Miss Maggie wearily.

Mr. .Smith sat down.

“Well, I’ll be—”

He did not ﬁnish his sentence.

CHAPTER XX
Frankenstein: Being a. letter from John

Smith to Edward D. Norton, Attorney

at Law

My Dear Nedz—Wasn’t there a story
written once about a fellow who created
some sort of a machine man without any
soul that raised the very dickens and all

said

for him? Frank—Frankenstein ?—I guess
that was it. Well, I’ve created a Frank-
enstein creature——and I’m dead up

against it to know what to do with him.

Ned, what in Heaven’s name am I
going to do with Mr. John Smith? Mr.
John Smith, let me tell you, is a very
healthy, persistent, insistent, important
person, with many kind friends, a deﬁnite
position in the world, and no small de-
gree of inﬂuence. \Vorse yet (now pre-
pare for a stunning blow, Nedl), Mr.
Smith has been so inconsiderate as to
fall in love. Yes, he has. And he has
fallen in love as absolutely and as idiot-
ically as if he (were twenty—one instead
of ﬁfty-two. Now, will you kindly tell
me how Mr. John Smith is going to fade
away into nothingness? And, even if he
finds a. way to do that, shall he, before
fading, pop the question for Mr. Stanley
G. Fulton, or shall he trust to Mr.
Stanley rG. Fulton’s being able to win for
himself the love Mr. John Smith fondly
hopes is his?

Seriously, joking aside, I’m afraid I’ve
made a mess of things, not only for my-
self, but for everybody else.

First, any own future. I’ll spare you
rhapsodies, Ned. They say, anyway, that
there’s no fool like an old fool. But I
will admit that that future looks very
dark to me if I am not to have the com-
panionship of the little woman, Maggie
Duff. Oh, yes, it’s “Poor Maggie.” You’ve
probably guessed as much. As for Miss
.Maggie herself, perhaps it’s conceited, but
I believe she’s not entirely indifferent to
Mr. John Smith. How she'll like 'Mr.
Stanley G. Fulton I have my doubts; but,
alas! I have no doubts whatever as to
what her opinion will be of Mr. Stanley
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I have adopted the Hillerton vernacular.)
But I fear Miss Maggie is indeed “poor"
now. She has had several letters that I
don’t like the looks of and a call from a
villainous-looking man from Boston—one
of your craft, I believe (begging your
pardon). I think she’s lost some money,
and I don’t believe she had any extra to
lose. She’s as proud as Lucifer, how-
ever, and she's determined no one shall
ﬁnd out she's lost any money, so her
laugh is gayer than ever. But I know,
just the same. I can hear something in
her voice that isn’t laughter.

Jove! Ned, what a mess I have made
I feel more than ever now like
the boy with his ear to the keyhole.
These people are my friends—or, rather,
they are Mr. John Smith’s friends. As
for being mine—who am I, Smith. or
Fulton? Will they be Fulton’s friends,
after they ﬁnd he is John Smith? Will
they be Smith’s friends, even after they
find he is Fulton? Pleasant position I
am in! What?

Oh, yes, I can hear you say that it
serves me right, and that you warned
me, and that I was deaf to all remon-
strances. It does. You did. I was. Now,
we'll waste no more time on that. I’ve
admitted all you could say. I’ve acknow~
ledged my error, and my transgression is
ever before me. I built the box, I walked
into it, and I deliberately shut the cover
down. But now I want to get out. I’ve
got to get out—some way. I can't spend
the rest of my natural existence as John
Smith, hunting Blaisdell data—though
sometimes I think I'd be willing to, if it’s
the only way to stay with Miss Maggie.
I tell you, that little woman can make
a home out of— '

But I couldn’t stay with Miss Maggie.
John Smith wouldn’t have money enough
to pay his board, to say nothing of in-
viting Miss Maggie to board with him,
would he? The opening of Mr. Stanley
G. Fulton’s last will and testament on
the ﬁrst day of next November will ef-
fectually out off Mr. John Smith’s source
of income. There is no provision in the
will for Mr. John Smith. Smith would
have to go to work. I don't think he’d
like that. By the way, I wonder: do you
suppose John Smith could earn—his salt,
if he was hard put to it? Very plainly,
then, something has got to be done about
getting John Smith to fade away, and
Stanley G. Fulton to appear before next
November. - .

And I had thought it would be so easy!
Early this summer John Smith was to
pack up his Blaisdell data, bid a pleasant
adieu to Hillerton, and betake himself to
South America. In due course, after a
short trip to some obscure Inca city, or
down some little-known river, Mr. Stanley
G. Fulton would arrive at some South
American hotel from the interior, and
would take immediate passage for the
States, reaching Chicago long before No-
Vember ﬁrst.

There would be a slight ﬂurry, of
course, and a few annoying interviews
and write—ups; but Mr. Stanley G. Fulton
always was known to keep his affairs to
himself pretty well, and the matter would
soon be put down as merely another of
the inulti-millionaire’s eccentricities. The
whole thing would then be all over, and
well over. But—nowhere had there been
taken into consideration the possibilities
of—a Maggie Duff. And now, to me, that
same Maggie Duff is the only thing worth
considering—«anywhere. .So there you are!

And even after all this, I haven’t ac
complished what I set out to do—that is,
ﬁnd the future possessor of the Fulton,
millions (unless Miss Maggie—«bless her!
———says “yes.” And even then, some one
will have to have them after us). I have
found out one thing, though. As con-
ditions are now, I should not want either
Frank, or James, or Flora to have them
-—-not unless the millions could bring
them more happiness than these hundred
thousand apiece have brought.

Honest, Ned, that miserable money has
made more—But, never mind. It’s too
long a story to write. I’ll tell you when
I see youi~if I ever do see you. There’s
still the possibility, you know, that Mr.
Stanley G. Fulton is lost in darkest South
America, and of course John Smith can
go to work!

I believe I won’t sign my name—I
haven‘t got any name—that I feel really
belongs to me now. Still I might—yes,
I will sign it

“Frankenstein.”
CHAPTER XXI
Sympatliies Misplaced

The ﬁrst time Mr. Smith saw Frank
Blaisdell, after Miss Maggie’s news of the
forty—thousand-dollar loss, he tried some-
what awkwardly, to express his interest
and sympathy. But Frank Blaisdell cut
him short. .

“That’s all right, and I thank you,” he
cried heartily. “And I know most folks
would think losing forty thousand dollars
was about as bad as it could be. Jane,
now, is all worked up over it; can’t sleep
nights, and has gone back to turning
down the gas and eating sour cream so’s
to save and help make it up. But me—
I call it the best thing that ever 118.1)!
pened."

“Well, really,” laughed Mr. Smith; “I’m
sure that's a very delightful way to look
at it—lf you can.” - y

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i said, An eye for an eye, and a.
l tooth for a tooth: but I say un-
. to you, Resist not him that is~
l evil: but whosoever smiteth'

l thee on thy right cheek, turn to

' him the other also.” Matthew

5:38, 39.

‘ HAT saith the law? Well, ye
, have heard that Moses said,
“An eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth.” As God’s legis-
lator he was declaring the legal
:punishment due the evil deer. Con-
{stituted legal authority was to
bring punishment upon law-break-
ers that the community might be
protected. And this will always at-
tach to the power of the state. So,
the law of Moses was a friend to
mankind. It was stern; and aimed,
also, to bring men to see wrong-do-
ing and emphasize the wrong of the
doing. Then its work was done. Its
mission was to bring men to Jesus’
way which was creative and regen-

 

erative.
But we are not appreciating the
responsibilities and “privileges of

Christ’s way of life. Under the old
law, social violations were settled
by public judges. Under the New,
Jesus makes each individual his
own judge. As, “If thine hand of—
fend thee, cut it off” yourself. It is
a far step from the old to the New;
from law to Grace; and from bond—
age to Freedom, where a personal
religion of new and brotherly de—
sires works unchecked. “Resist not
his that is evil,” for example, is a
principle that Jesus worked out in
life and on the Cross, in anticipa—
tion of teaching men such a spirit
of brotherhood that the law against
retaliating Will not be broken.
Some folks have been Willing to
make Jesus a drudge to carry their
sins and sorrows, but have refused
to take delight in his ways, which
are social and unselﬁsh. Here are
recent words from a prominent
Christian prophet: “I ﬂing this out
as a challange to the princes and
leaders of the earth, to captains and
leaders of labor and industry, to the
bosses of political parties, old and
, new, to presidents'and governor, to
the average man: Unless and until
this Nation and this World of ours
comes to Jesus’
about life, there will be hatred, sus—
picions, jealousies, strifes, and
wars.”

Christian grace rises so far above
Mosaic Law that retaliation and all
selﬁsh resistance is swept away en-
tirely. And the great question is
not, “An I right in holding to a re-
ligion of non—resistance?” But, “Am
I obeying the way of Christ?” To
resist not evil means as indicated
in the illustrations of the text and
context. Turning the other cheek
and going the second mile, is not
only non-resistance, but it is meet-
ing resistance with love. Jesus is
here advancing to the greatest thing
in the 'world, LOVE. “Love your en-
emies,” saith he. This Love does
not resist, but “beareth all things.”
And bless God, many individuals to-
day, both known and unknown, are
living this miracle way. But the
world is yet waiting for the nation
that will be used of God to form its
ideals and live its life around Love.

The disposition that does not
nurse or coddle the desire to hurt
or seek revenge, is that which keeps

War is entirely for—
eign the ethical teaching of
Christ. It is time we are checking
up on some of this modern philos-
ophy of life. Jesus is saying that
retaliation Will not save men’s souls
or vindicate social righteousness.
“My kingdom is not of this world or
else would my servants ﬁght.” The
kingdom of God is to brought about
by the moral resistance of love and
kindness. Nothing else can pro-
duce character in an individual or
righteousness in a nation. A daily
paper says, “Marching thousands
(of soldiers) show love for their
native land.” We hope so. But,
how be it, that the martial Spirit is
not necessarily synonymous with‘
‘patriotism. And the writer be-

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. lieves that the militaristic temper is

F in obvious contradiction to the tem-
per of Christ; and he here avers,
that the call by our Secretary of
War, for a national Mobilization
Day next September, is seriously

     

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way of thinking

disturbing to the present day eﬁorts
of churches and Christain forces to
bring about the outlawry of war.
When will we come to admire that
sovereignty bf Christain conscience
that‘ does not truckle to Mars, that
religion that does not yield to
worldly policy, and that passion to
put to work the teachings of the
Nazerene, and suffer and bear, until
they are realized in a large and uni—
versal sense? -

Jesus Christ intends that the law
of non-resistance shall hold, not
only between men as individuals,
but between men as groups or na—
tions. This is comprehended in
“Make disciples of all nations,” and
“he made of one every nation of
men to dWell on the face of the
earth.” We shall always believe
that His Gospel is to ‘Christianize
and unify the nations. This ideal
is, even now, the heart cry of the
world. The pending resolution to
outlaw war, introduced in the Unit-
ed States Senate by Senator Borah,
'may be timed to meet this cry. Let
Christian America get back of it.
Men Who are deliberately opposed to
such political organization against
war, are blind to the spiritual tend-
ency of world events; but above all
to the moral purposes of God Which
are eternal and ﬁxed. With the
confusion of peoples and issues to-
day, God has pleased to entangle us
that We might have the responsibil—
ity and high privilege of pointing
the way out, of setting to work the
rule of non-militarism among na—
tions. Then, the writer would urge
our church power to the support of
the Borah resolution. This resolu—
tion lies before me on my desk and
I find it contains some vital princi—
ples. Here is one: “Further use of
war as an institution for the settle-
ment of international disputes, shall
be abolished.” Here is another:
“Every nation should by agreement
or treaty, bind itself to indict and
punish its own international war
breeders, or instigators and War
proﬁteers.” The resolution is reas—
onable in its demands and pacifying
in spirit, and why not return men
to the Senate who will support it?

Again, a few more intimate words.
We are to believe that resisting the

evil-deer is most effectually done
thru not resisting. This acts like
“coals of ﬁre upon the head." We

don’t know just how it works, but it
must start up a ﬂame of ﬁre that
burns up hatred and malice. This
turning the other cheek calmly
takes the threat out of the other
fellow‘s ﬁst. And you will recall
that Jesus in the hands of his foes,
was as “a lamb led to the slaughter,
yet he opened not his mouth,” only
to say, “Father forgive.” We are
to believe that such a reality of love
and non-retaliation is to become ir-
resistible in its power to cover the
earth.

But ought we never to resist?
Well, be sure any limit is found in
the principle itself, which involves
doing good to others. Physical rc-
sistantc which does the enemy good
and protects the helpless and inno-
cent, would seem to be permissible,
But any resistance must not run to
killing.

Now, the challange is, to bring
our hearts under dominion to this
gentle teaching. It is the Golden
Rule way of living, and workable on
the part of individuals or nations as
they yield to the non—violence of
Christain brotherhood. It assumes
a Christianity, not static or at ease
with itself; but dynamic and cap-
able of exalting peace and good-will
toward men.

BE KINDLY AFFECTIONED one to
another with brotherly love; in hon~
our [preferring one another; recom—
tpense to no man evil for evil. Pro«
vide things honest in the sight of all
:men. Be not overcome of evil, but
overcome evil With good—Romans
12:10, 17, 21.

* a: *
THOU ART MY LAMP, O Lord: and
the Lord Will lighten my darkness.
For by Thee I have run through a
troop: by my God have I leaped over
a. wall.-——2 Samuel 22:29, 30.

an ‘ at a: ‘

TRUST IN THE LORD with all
thine heart; and lean not unto thine
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HOW ARE THINGS IN EUROPE?

FOUR weeks in France, Switzerland, Germany,
Belgium, and England do not entitle one to

pass an expert opinion on European condi-
tions that may be considered infallible and yet
we might be quite as well qualified to pass
judgment as are many of the senators who re-
turn from their junkets as members of so-called

. investigating committees.

We arrived in France on the twentieth of J une

; and left England on the twenty-third of July

and, in a nutshell, we were impressed by the

, following facts which we may allude to more

fully in future issues:

All of the countries mentioned appear prosper-
ous. England alone has a great unemployment
problem, and the resulting unrest she is erron-
eously trying to appease with a weekly “dole"
that is building only an army of beggars. Bel-
gium is practically rebuilt and is now engaged in

‘ doubling her forts along the German border to

preclude an invasion, which they assume must
come again. France in attempting to extract
“the pound of ﬂesh” has lost the support of

. England and the sympathy of America. Belgium
. is playing a minor part in this game France has

so stubbornly attempted. Only the happy solu-
tion which seems to have attended the meeting
just held in London to consider the Dawes plan
could have prevented France from plunging
headlong over the abyss of another great war. in
which, who knows, but what Germany would have
had the resources of Russia, that great enigma

‘ nation of the north, for her own.

The people of England are determined to win

I: the friendship of the United States even at the
' cost of some of their self-esteem, knowing that
1 the two great English speaking nations thus

united would stand like Gibralter against the
rest of the world. No American in England this
summer can fail to be impressed with this fact
and his visit to the great British Empire exposi-
tion at Wembley will convince him that such a
merger of resources would not be one-sided.
With the exceptions of France and Belgium,
where the world’s attitude towards them is re-
ﬂected in the low rate of their exchange, the dol-
lar is worth little more in Europe than it is here.
Germany has turned a handspring with her do—
ﬂated currency that has placed it, almost over-
night, where is stood in 1914. We paid two
Renten marks, each worth 25 cents in U. S. cur-
rency, for two peaches in Cologne-on—the-Rhine!
We went over on the "Leviathan," the world’s
largest passenger vessel, which, taken from the
Germans, carried more than a million troops to
France during the war. We came back on the
“George Washington," which bore the same
name when she was under the German ﬂag and
the ship that proudly carried out late President
on his great and ill-fated crusade. Both ships
are well patronized by Americans. It seemed
good to see an American ﬂag ﬂying on the breeze
and to know that the men who manned them
were U. 8. naval reserve omcers ready to place
these great ships in transport service in time of
war. With the great markets in Germany and

elsewhere for our livestock and foodstuffs open-
ed again. the farmers of America will have some-
thing to be thankful for, in the ﬂeet of American
. vessels now available, thanks to the farsighted .

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ested, have more to say about European condi:
tions in other issues, and. for a detailed story of
the trip made by our group of agricultural edit-
ors and publishers, we have arranged for a ser-
ies of articles by Mr. Floyd Flood, a thoroughly
trained farmer and breeder, to begin in the next
issue, with his observations at the Royal Stock
Show in England.

THE GRAIN MARKETING COMPANY

WE will watch with more than passing interest
t

he actions of the Grain Marketing Com-

pany, that, twenty-six million dollar baby,
to which the American Farm Bureau Federation
has just given birth.

The company went into operation on August
ﬁrst with branches at Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas
City, New York, Buffalo, Norfolk, Fort Worth,
Galveston, Minneapolis, and Milwaukee, its of-
ﬁcers are Gray Silver, Martinsburg, West Virginia,
president; Harry L. Keefe, Walthill, Nebraska,
ﬁrst vice-president; G. M. Dyer, Spencer, Iowa,
second vice-president; and John W. Coverdale,
Ames, Iowa, secretary-treasurer.

The man named are not unknown to the
farmers cf the United States and bear good repu-
tations in every instance, so far as we know.
The question is whether they have had the ex-
perience which will enable them to direct the
marketing operations of a company which in
potential capitalization rivals some of the largest
and best known corporations in the United States.

The opponents of the present plan claim
that there has been a large shrinkage in the
valuation of the propertiies which the new com.
pany proposed to take over, and that this is simply
a scheme to unload some unproﬁtable property
on the farmers of the United States who have
been working so diligently the past two decades
to improve their marketing facilities.

The present plan is a stupendous one and we do
not wish to be understood as in the least criticis-
ing the methods of the present organization or
the almost Eutopian aim which its founders have
set as its ultimate goal. We are charitable and
have supported every cooperative proposition
which has been presented to the farmer, but we
must admit that the present one appals us a little.
We feel like the man on the sidewalk in front of
the Woolworth building being asked how he likes
the building. We will have to get off at a per-
spective of several months before we will be able
to give a true picture for the benefit of our
readers, and we have an idea that most of the
sound thinking business farmers in Michigan
will harbor very much the same idea.

FARMERS’ DAY AT M. A. C.

VERY year the number of farmers who at-
tend Farmers’ Day at M. A. C. see a new
record set, and the Seventh Annual affair

held last week was no exception.

This is a good sign. It proves that farmers
have come to see that there is something more
in farm life than the mere gathering together of
more acres and more dollars, which usually bring
with them more trouble to the farmer and his
family.

We have no time for the loafer but we do ad-
mire the man who with the help of his family
works a few hours extra several days in advance
and then hitches up his automobile and takes
the whole crowd to the Farmers’ Day, picnic,
fair or Whatever it is that will contribute to their
lives and well being.

The program prepared for FarmersI Day at
Lansing, this year, was one of the best that the
college has ever given for the beneﬁt of its
guests, and a great deal of credit is due to the
active heads of the college for their good work
and painstaking plans for the success of this
year’s big day.

It would have been worth your while to have
seen the big crowd gathered around the “Old
Timers’ Mowing Contest,” and the beam ,of satis-
faction on the face of the Winner was worth a
trip all the way to Lansing to see.

That there is more occasion for smiles in the
present indication of farm prices and farm crops
was easily seen in the faces of men and women
who came from farms in all parts of Michigan.
They had something to be thankful for, espec-
ially when they passed groups of factory work-
ers standing before the employment windows in
Lansing, looking for “a job.”

MASSACHUSETIS’ LOSS OUR GAIN

HAT the Massachusetts Agricultural College
is genuinely sorry to lose Kenyon L. Butter-
ﬁeld, who comes to the Michigan Agricul-

tural College, as president September ﬁrst, was
expressed by Director John B. Willard on the oc-
casion of Dr. Butterﬂeld's public retiral. “It is

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whole philosophy of country life. , He spoke of
“the pennanen‘t abiding probleum farmers must
always face." Of all these problems, the one he
most emphasized was the lack of study and dis-
cussion among rural groups. He deplored the
decay of the lyceum and the old—fashioned vill-
age store debating society. “There is a tendency

today not to participate in the debate that draws '

out the individual. We have somebody else
think for us and talk for us. The whole tend-
ency of the times is to be so busy that we get
only second-hand fragments of discussion.” He
saw this lack of study and discussion most ap-
parent among farm people.

The farmers' political activity he evidently re-
gards as not deeply significant, because, he ex-
plained, all the farmers cannot come together in
a political party; farm people in different sec-

: tions have interests as diverse as industrial and

mercantile groups. But he believed the farm
group could and ought to unite on certain polit-
ical fundamentals. The chief of these was their
attitude toward the peace of the world. “I
doubt if any group of people in'the world is as
set in the interests of world peace as the farm-
ers. Yet I doubt if in any other group peace
problems are as little discussed.

“If the farmers and the college people do not
look out it will not be long before the labor
group in this country will be the best educated
group in America; because the forum idea of
study and debate is taking hold in this group as
in no other. It is a development that ought to
be at the root of interest in a democracy.”

Dr. Butterﬂeld’s remarks may or may not be
as applicable to Michigan as they are to Massa-
chusetts; this fact he will soon have an oppor-
tunity to determine. Awfully sorry, Massa-
chusets, but we need Kenyon at home now!

A MASTER STROKE

HIS week we are going to hand the palm to
T our good friend A. B. Cook, master of the
state grange, who in a newspaper report
states that if the Wayne County automobile in-
terests .initiate a referendum on the proposed
two-cent gasoline tax, he will for the Grange init-
iate a referendum for a three-cent tax!

It is pretty well admitted that the gasoline tax
in Michigan is an assured fact, and according to
Mr. .Cook the opponents are initiating a referen-
dum simply to stall for time, so he proposes to
retaliate by getting an even larger tax than was
ﬁrst proposed and we have no doubt but that
will be as easy to get three as two cents per
gallon. »

We have always admired friend Cook but we
never knew he had so much sagacity. His pres-
ent ruse would do credit to a Yankee lawyer and
from Connecticut, too!

LI V ESTOCK PRODUCERS W IN,

' CCORDING to a report just published for the
first six months of the year, 1924, livestock
producers at the various terminal markets

have shown a saving to members of nearly ,$400,-

000.00. In the Chicago market alone more than

$13,000,000 worth of livestock was handled and

at St. Paul nearly $12,000,000.

Where are those men who said cooperation never

could succeed in the United States? Coopera-

tion will always succeed When the men behind
it are honest and efﬁcient and the individual
members stick to it through thick and thin.

Gradually the farmers of this country are
learning this fact!

FAREWELL, PITTSBURGH PLUS!

HE old “Pittsburgh Plus” hoax has gone
down to an inglorious defeat and the farm-
ers of America pray that it may never be

re-established no matter what the conditions
were that forced it on an unsuspecting public.
Statisticians claim that the abolishment by the
Federal Trade Commission of this
freight" item will save the farmers in the middle
west “0,000,000.00, and make Gary, Indiana,
the center of the steel industry in America.

Michigan alone it is estimated will save $2.-
000,000.00 each year; Illinois, $3,500,000.000;
Wisconsin, $3,000,000.00: Indiana, $2,600,000.-
00; Minnesota, $2,500,000.00, and most of this is
represented in the added cost of freight on all
articles .nanufactured of. steel which the farm—
er uses in his business.

This is a step in therlght direction and one

which has taken the united effort of the agricul-
organisations and press to

deal the ﬁnal blow. It is all over new and you,

should begin to feel the edectsof it when ’9“

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“NAME AND ADDRESS > _
our June'éi'lth issue -I* wrote

about your signing your com-

plete name and address. when
writing to us or sending in your
subscription-"Our circulation mana-
ger just told me that he continues
to receive letters with ‘ only the
name signed. Some times he is able
to get the post office address from
the envelop and again other times
it is not printed clear enough to be
readable—and then the subscriber
wonders why he doesn’t get his
paper, while we wonder if he will
write in so that we can get his full
address to send him his Busrmlzss

Farms. Please remember we want

YOUR COMPLETE NAME AND

ADDRESS and sign it plainly.

LOOK OUT FOR PICTURE EN-
IJARGEMZENT SHARKS

HE picture enlargement sharks

have been letting the farmers

of Michigan alone since we ex-
posed them and we heard nothing
about them for quite a while but
now we are getting reports from dif-
ferent parts of the state that they
are back again and up to their old
tricks.

They come to your door and ask
if you have a photograph of a child
or relative that you would like to
preserve. They try to learn from
your neighbor if you have lost
through death a child or a close
relative and when they call they ask
you for a photograph of the child
or relative and then proceed to
work on your sympathy. You
bring the photograph and they be-
come enthusiastic over the possibil-
ities of enlarging it and show you
how their company enlarged one
for Mr. So-and-so “and the‘photo-
graph wasn’t near as good as the
one you have.” The picture is in
a frame and they promise to enlarge
your photograph “just like this
one" and deliver it to you for a ﬁx-
ed amount. usually ranging from $3
to $5. .

You are asked to sign an agree-
ment, which, while it does not bind
you to accepta picture. in a frame,
it does obligate you to pay for the
enlargement. When delivery is
made you ﬁnd they have placed the
picture in a frame and you are ask-
ed to pay a fancy price for the
frame. The price for the frame
ranges from $15 to $3; if the pur-
chaser will pay the top price all
right but if he'will not they reduce
the price and even at $3 they make
money on it. -'

If one of these agents calls at
your house sic the dog on to him.
If you want to have a photograph
enlarged go to a reliable photo-
grapher in the nearest town and
have the work done properly and at
an honest price.

OFFICERS OF CHICAGO WHOLE-
SALE SEED COMPANY INDIC'I‘ED

“I woud like to know if you could
help me out with a deal I had last
winter and spring with a mail order
seed house. It was the Chicago
Wholesale Seed Company. They
wanted me to represent them in my
territory and take orders for grass
seed. In the deal I gave them my
order for clover seed amounting to
$45.00 and about $35.00 worth of
this seed wasn’t ﬁt to sow. I had
it retested and one lot was condemn-
ed for sale in this state. I wrote
them about it and they have not

 

 

Th0 purpose of this department is to 970'
toot our subscribers from fraudulent deellnlll
er unfair treatment by persons or concerns at
a lstance.

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

lip—The claim la mode by a paid-up sub-
ewiber to The Business Farmer.

2.—-The claim is not more than 0 mos. old.

8.——The claim is not local or between Doo-

le within our dista i
should be settled at first hand and not

it
Address all letters, giving full particulars.
amounts. dates. etc». enclosing also your ad-
dress lahel fresh the front cover of any issue
to prove that you are a paid-up subscriber.
THE BUSINESS FARMER. Collection Box
It. clement. Mich.
R Endi Au ust 8 1824
Total num er claim":I Mod“.-. ' '

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’made me any reply about the seed.

They owe me $9.00 commission and
say they haven’t the money to pay
up all their debts and want to give
a note for 2 years at 7% interest.
They sent a note to be ﬁlled out and
I wrote them but have received no
answer. I received a letter from
the post oﬁice inspector at Chicago
asking if I had had. any dealing
with this company and if I had
to send the papers to him. This I
did, and I have not heard from him.

0U are “out of luck: as the of-

ﬁcers of the Chicago Wholesale
‘ Seed Company were indicted
on May 29th, 1924, for using the
mails to defraud farmers and
agents. The principal ofﬁcer is Ed-
win L. Rosenberg, who formerly
operated the World Seed Company
of Milwaukee, the St. Louis Seed
Company of St. Louis, Mo., the Law-
rence Seed Company of Kansas City,
Mo., and other seed companies at
Milwaukee, Wis. He has been in
this business for a number of years,
and the banks at Milwaukee suff-
ered a tremendous loss several years
ago because of his manipulations.
For years he has been defrauding
farmers and agents through his seed
companies, the post ofﬁce oﬂiciais
declare. ,

FIGHT OPTICAL QUAGKS
WARNING that the eyesight of
thousands of persons is being
jeopardized by mail order
houses specializing in eye-glasses
has been sent out by the National
Committee for the Prevention of
Blindness. Admitting that there is
apparently no way of prosecuting
these ﬁrms because of the legal tech-
nicalities behind which they can
shelter themselves, the committee
holds that the only way of combat-
ing the menace is a campaign of ed-
ucation, and this has been started.
Widespread sales campaigns are
being conducted by the ﬁrms ac-
cused, according to the committee,
and glasses are being sold “Without
the slightest sort of an examination
of the eye of the prospective pur-
chaser and without even an inquiry

as to the condition of the eyes.

“These optical quacks ask mere-
ly ‘How old are you?’ " the warn-
ing continues, “‘How many years
have you worn glasses, if any?’ and
‘What is the shape of your face,
round or slender?’ and upon this
information they offer to ﬁt any
person with glasses promising ‘the
most perfect vision of any lenses
you can get.’ ‘These splendid
glasses,’ read the circulars which
are being sent out by the tons,
‘will enable anyone to read the
smallest print, thread the ﬁnest
needle, see far or near and will
prevent eye-strain and headache.’

“The mail order houses play up-
on the vanity of their prospective
customers, all of their advertising
emphasizing in particular the beauty
of their product and the improve—
ment in appearance they will bring
to the wearer. The ‘handsome
shell rims' give anyone a ‘younger,
yet more distinguished appearance,’
say the circulars. Cheapness of
price is of course another bait. Pre-
minums, such as sewing shears for
women and leather billfolders for
men are often offered as a special
inducement to buy.

“Investigation has shown that the
glasses which are actually sent are
simply a fair grade of magnifying
glasses mounted in an extremely
poor grade of frame. These are ad-
vertised as ‘scientiﬁcally ground and
curved lenses.’

“The glasses do nothing that the
ekploiters claim for them. They
simply make the print look larger;
as. a consequence many persons re-
ce1v1ng them, particularly old peo-
ple with failing eyesight, will worry
along with them, occassionally feel-
ing satisﬁed because of their own
ignorance of the harm that is be-
ing done their eyes and lack of
knowledge of what proper ﬁtting
of glasses require.”

 

Dear Sir: Received a. card again in
regards to settlement. Have re-
ceived my money at last and a thousand
thanks for your eifort or I would never
received a cent as I had written so many
times. I will close, thanking you again
for your trouble—M. 1)., Woodland, Mich.

 

 

 

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FOR SALE OR TRADE—ENSILAGE CUTTER.
Perfect condition. Sell chen . for cash or trade
for cattle, shoe or our. rite what you have.
G. M. McCOR ICK, R3, Tanning, Mich.

WANTED A JOB AS MANAGER 0N FARM
for wife and self. 35 years experience in farming.
0r want to rent a furnished farm on shares. X
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TIDE BUSINESS FARMER,
Protective Service Bureau,
Mt. Clemens, Mich.,

(_ ) I enclose a dollar for a
two year renewal and 250
for a Metal Sign and cer-
tiﬂcate.

Sign and certiﬁcate.

Name..... ..........................

CULL BEANS $23.00 TON, SACKS INCLUD-
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Mu, Shipped (lir‘l’i't from factory to consumer.

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' am; norm AG'IN‘

     

stylish people go
i’When summer days are br’ilin’ hot,» to
_ spend a week or so; .
Off yonder where the city runs right down
into the sea,
Where everything is noise an‘ fun an”
. style an’ gaiety.

  
 

An' tho I seed a lot of things I never
seed before,

.An’ tho I did a lot of things I mustn’t
do no more,

An’ tho I had a roll 0' cash, an’ freely
blowed it in,

The sweetest part of all my trip was
gettin’ home ag’in. .

An’ now I’m back at home ag’in an’
knockin' ’round the place,

An’ every old familiar spot seems like
a friendly face;

The hogs, the horses, and the cows, all
seem to know me, too,

An’ every rooster on the farm is crowin‘
“How—de-do !”

There ain't no other spot 0’ ground be-
twixt the pole an’ line

That seems to grip the soul 0’ me like
this old farm 0’ mine,

An’ if I make the Golden Gate, an' Peter
lets me in,

I’m 'fraid I’ll even worry then ’bout
gettiin’ home ag’in.

Whitney Montgomery.

GROPING

E are restless creatures, never

at peace with ourselves, never

content with out lot, ever in

search of an abiding-place and ﬁnd-

ing no rest for the sole of the foot.

The birds of the air and the beasts

of the ﬁeld take no though, but

only man searches and questions
and will not he stilled.

“Who is God?” asks the grave-
eyed self. I don’t know. I look
into the sky on a night when it is
deep blue, ﬁlled with swimming
stars. Over my head arches the
Milky Way: a spray of star-dust
shot through with millions of
gleaming stars~a gesture of the
Creator.

Low in the sky rides the cool,
shining moon, ﬂooding the earth
with light indescribable, throwing
shadows purple black under the
trees, creating a fairy‘ world for
lingering lovers. I look with won-
der-startled eyes, but no hint of the
matter comes to me. I would gath-
er and hold to me a glint of this
beauty. But the light wind of morn-
ing watts it away with the promise
of other loveliness. '

Close to the old rail fence stands
a cluster of mallows that glow in
the sun, each huge ﬂower of a text-
ure and sheen beyond the skill of
mortal weaver, of a line and form
that ﬁlls the heart of the artist with
adoration and despair. Gay, taunt-
ing, aloof and bewiching they grow
by the old rail fence. I stand be-
side them in wistful silence. They
are of God. I can know no further.

“True,” says the prodding soul,
“the loveliness of this earth is past
knowing, but why am I here? I
Work and I play; I suffer agony and
again rejoice greatly. I pass away
as I came, a lonely, questing strang-
er, groping endlessly. Why?”

I don’t know. On the plains of
Judea there was born in a manger a
child of poverty. A star lighted his
birth and sank from sight. He
struggled and lived—a man of sor-
rows, acquainted with grief. He
was blameless; there was no fault
in Him—yet He died the death of a
malefactor. Died, and lives always.

Countless hosts of men have
come here asking the same question
and answering it by their eager de-
sire to live high-spiritedy, holding
hard to their deep—rooted faith in
the immortality of their living.

“Ah, but what is life that .we
cherish it so? What is it that deﬁes
time’s effort to bind it; that eludes
pursuit, only to return and return
eternally when we have ceased to
be concerned?”

Once the students of a famous
laboratory pressed their master for
an answer and he set them a prob-
lem: “Take these barley-corns and
analyze them. Now make some
barley-corms complete, perfect, in
their chemical elements.
I shall plant some barley from my
ﬁeld and do you plant the barley of
the laboratory and we shall see.”

From the barley of the ﬁeld came
new barley, but from the scientists'
barley came no sign save silence.
“What, then, did you leave out of
your barley? Certainly no material
element. ’Twas the life germ, the
breath of the Creator.”

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EAR FOLKS :

our own county fair.

“win ﬁrst prize or bust a tug".

next.”
true of grains and produce.
Let’s all boost the fair.
And try to attend the State
Fair this year, Aug. 29-Sept.
7. Plan one whole day at
least and two if possible.

Address letters:

 

 

. -=~ _ The For H '
; ‘ .ADepmmt for. the W- u: s
Edited by MRS.

Before another issue the State Fair will be under
headway, and most of us will be getting our exhibits ready for
The fair is a wonderful institution and We
should all do our part to make our fair (we all attend a certain fair
each year and feel a personal interest in it) better each year.
here that we women enter our best canned fruit, some fancy work,
etc., into friendly competition with our neighbors.
, ﬁrst prize we are determined to do better next time.
special care of a calf that he intends to enter and he says he will

little bit better according to the judge (but not father) and father
loses out, father says to Brown “You beat me this year but you won’t
The result is father improves the livestock, and the same is

ijw,

Mr’ Annle Taylor, care The Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Mlchlgan.

 

 

 

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If we fail- to win
Father takes '

If Neighbor Brown‘s calf is just a

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faith in this breath of life that is
breathed into our souls directly
from the soul of the Creator—and
we know we are here for some des-
tined end and good. For God would
have it so, and God is good—An-
gelo Patri.

(Editor’s Notez—We are indebt—
ed to the Delineator for the above.
I think it is so true, don’t you?)

 

BOBBING HAIR \VILL NOT MAKE
IT GROW

ON’T bob your hair to make it

grow faster! Bobbing the hair

for esthetic reasons is quite
proper, providing your mother, your
husband, or your grandchildren do
not object, but says Dr. Herman
Goodman in Hygeia:

“Cutting the hair (table talk to
the contrary), does not improve its
growing qualities. Under general
conditions, it takes a hair about six
weeks to grow one inch.

“However, not all the hairs of the
scalp, even if uncut, would grow to
the same length. On the crown and
the back of the head, the hair may
grow 40 to 50 inches and be not un-
usually long, while at the sides 18
inches is generally the limit. In
men, of course, such long hair is
very uncommon and with the fash-
ion, it becomes increasingly unusual
among women.”

Dr. Goodman makes another
statement, surprising to the unin-
itiated. The years when the hair
grows most quickly, he says, are
those between 35 and 60.

If you ﬁnd a hair on your coat
collar, don’t get nervous, this hair
specialist advises. The hair is con-
tinually shedding and regrowing
and in the healthiest of persons a
hair grows old, is lost, and a new
one takes its place.

Only when the number of new
hairs runs behind the number of

fallen ones, should one

alarmed.

the scalp to a healthy condition.

 

HANDY TO KNOW

HERE warts trouble as they
often do in the case of young
people, the juice of the milk-

Weed plant frequently applied will
Or the old fashioned
live-for—ever with the thick oily leaf
used in the same manner is also efﬁ—
little baking soda
moistened and applied each night,
being left to dry on will cause their

cure them.

ca‘cious; or a

disappearance if continued.
I I I

If you get a cinder in your eye
take a single whole ﬂaxseed,’and if
left in the eye a short time will en-
mesh the cinder which may be re-

moved with the seed.

become
The thing to do them is
not to consult the barber, the drug
clerk, or the hair dresser, but to go
to a physician who can ﬁnd out the
cause of the falling hair and can
start prompt treatment to restore

 

 

Personal Column

 

 

Wants Clothing for Ladies’ Aid.—-I am
wondering if there are any readers that

have articles of clothing that they do not
use any more, also that have nice pieces
that they do not want and pieces that
would work up into quilt blocks. If there
‘are any such ladies would they please
donate them to the Bethel Ladies’ Aid?
We would appreciate them very much as

we would like to furnish our church and

it is slow work and we live in a new
country and everybody is poor. These
donations are to go towards our church
and please send them to my address.
Thanking you many times and asking God
to bless you all I remain, Mrs. Jennie
Foutch, Gladwin, R4, Michigan.

 

Help!—-—Wlll some reader of the M. B.
F. send in a recipe for scalloped potatoes,
to be printed in the M. B. F?

Does any

 

 

EDUCATION AND THE BALLOT BOX

0 doubt a good many parents living on farms are still debating
whether or not they will send the boys and girls to high schools,
who, last spring, completed the courses offered in the small dis-

trict schools.
decision.

Less than one month remains in which to make this
Upon it rests the future welfare, not only of the boys and

So. Now.

girls, but to a considerable extent; that of the nation itself, for within
a few years these boys and girls will be voters. By means of the
ballot they Will help decide upon the ofﬁcers who shall administer the
laws of our states and Nation and so upon the nature of the laws by
which we shall be governed.

On the Fourth of July President Coolidge said in an address before
the teachers of the United States, meeting in Washington, “. . . Amer-
ica has . . . placed the power of government squarely, securely, and
entirely in the hands of the people. For all changes which they may
desire, for all grievances which they may suffer, the ballot box furn-
ishes a complete method and remedy. Into their hands has been com-
mitted complete jurisdiction and control over all the functions of gov-
ernment. . . . The body politic has little chance of choosing patriotic
oﬁicials who can administer its ﬁnancial affairs with wisdom and
safety, unless there is a general diffusion of knowledge and informa-
tion on elementary economic subjects sufﬁcient to create and ade-
quately to guide public opinion.”

Practically every President from Washington to Coolidge has
warned us that the improvement of American institutions depends
upon the intelligence of the voters. Think of this mothers and
fathers, living on the farms. before you decide not to give your boys
and girls and the nation’s future voters the advantages of a high
school education.

biscuits.

 

 

reader more: anything that can be
" burned in a soft «:‘soal~ range to prevent

the soot from gathering and ﬁlling up

‘the stove pipe and chimney'I—A. K. G.. ‘

Weidman', Michigan.
—Have you ever tried burning a dry cell

battery in your range? I have a friend "

that uses nothing else and she has little
trouble with soot. She takes old dry cell
batteries that are worn out, and burns
one in .her range and one in her heater
every week or so.—Mrs. A. T.

 

This beautiful quilt block design is the
work of Mrs. J. VanAntwerp of. Mayville,
Michigan. The original block is made up
in three colors, brown, green and white,
and it is very pretty. I have this block

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and if you wish a pattern I will be pleased
to loan it to you so that you may cut
a pattern. I have several other designs
to publish in the near future. Watch
for them.

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Canning Pickles.——Please let me know
how to can pickles in wooden containers
so they will be sour like those you buy
and will keep indefinitely—E. B., Beaver-
ton, Michigan.

 

Here’s Pickle Recipe.—In the issue of
July 19th C. K. asks for a pickle recipe.
Here is one we use and we are fond of
the pickles and they keep ﬁne. 1 cup of
salt (barrel), 1,4,, cup ground mustard, 1
gallon vinegar. Mix good. Add cucum—
bers as picked and stir every day, and
for three days after last cucumbers are
added. This makes two gallons of pickles.
——I. F.

 

 

—if you are well bred!

 

 

More Finger Foods.—Apricots, nectar-
ines and mandarins are ﬁnger foods-
Bananas are stripped, laid on a plate and
cut in mouthfuls. Fresh peaches, apples,
pears (avocado and others), large plums
and oranges should be quartered, the
quarters peeled in _turn, out into portions
and carried to the mouth by the ﬁngers.

At the dinner-table (where fruit lmife
and fork are supplied with fruit) the
orange may be speared with the fork,
outer and inner skin cut away with the
larife, and while the fruit is held on the
fork, mouthfuls may be lopped from the
heart and in the end carried to the mouth
by the ﬁngers.

Cherries, served with fruit shears, as a.
rule are. eaten with the ﬁngers; but
watermelon (cut in wedges) is always
served with fruit-knife and spoon.

Ginger in syrup, stuffed or stoned
prunes, pineapples, and fresh ﬁgs call for
a fork and spoon or fork and. knife.

When any small fruits (including
grapes, dried dates and raisins) are eaten,
pits or seeds must never be spit out into
a plate. The cupped hand should be un-

ostentatiously raised to the mouth, the '

pits or seeds dropped into it close to the
lips, and then noiselessly placed on tho
fruit-plate. .

The rule for pits and seeds applies as
Well to terrapln and ﬁsh bones, which
may be removed one. at a time from the
mouth by thumb and ﬁrst ﬁnger.

Fruit stains are indelible, so a ﬁnger
bowl should always be used before ﬁngers
wet with juice are wiped on a napkin.
If the ﬁnger bowl is lacking, wait to
wipe your ﬁngers until they dry.

 

 

Menu for August 16th

 

 

Cream of Asparagus Soup
‘Lalmb Fricassee with Dumplings
Mine Jelly Green Peas
Romaine Salad
Cheese
Toasted Crackers
Watermelon
Coffee

‘Lamb Frieassee with Dumplings.—Cup
and dice enough cold lamb to make 1
quart. Season with salt and white pep-
per, put into greased baking dish and pour
over following sauce: Blend 2 tablespoons
fat with 2 tablespoons ﬂour, and cook
until brown. Now add 2 cups water and
when it boils season with salt, pepper.
onion‘juice to taste and pour over meat.
Cover and bake in moderate oven 20
minutes. -

To make dumplings. sift together 2 cups
ﬂour, 1,5 teaspoon salt, 54 teaspoon sugar,
and 2 teaspoons baking powder. Add 1
tablespoon fat and rub it with tips of
ﬁngers, then add sufﬁcient milk to make
soft dough. Roll out and cut into small
Place on top of lamb and bake

‘; in hot oven for 12 minutes! Serve hot.

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
 
 

 

 

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Cheese Soup.—-4 tablespoonfuls grated
cheese, 3 quarts clear soup stock, 1%
oupfuls ﬂour, 4 twblespoonfuls fat, 2 cup-e
fuls cream, 2 eggs, salt, pepper, and pap-
rika, to taste, finely grated cheese. Put
ﬂour into double boiler, add gradually
cream, fat, 4 tablespoonfuls of grated
cheese and paprika to taste, stir over
ﬁre till a smooth paste.
mix Well, cook tWO minutes longer and
allow to cool. Roll into balls, when they
are all formed, drop into boiling water
and cook gently ﬁve minutes Drain and
put into soup tureen. Pour over boiling
stock and serve with dish of ﬁnely grated

‘ cheese.

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Green Peas a. la Maitre d'Hotel.——-4
tablespoonfuls fat, 1 quart .peas, salt and
pepper to taste, 1 taiblespoonful lemon
juice, 2 sprigs mint, 1 tablespoon chopped
parsley, 1 teaspoOnful sugar. Shell peas
and throw into plenty boiling water con-
taining teaspoonful salt, sugar, and mint,
boil fast until tender, then drain. Mix
lemon juice with fat, and parsley; stir
this among peas, reheat them and serve
at once.

 

Lunch Rolls.—1 yeast cake, 1% cupfuls
milk, 2 talbles'poonfuls sugar, 2 table-
spoonfuls fat, 4 culpfuls ﬂour, 1 egg, 1
teaspoonful salt. Scald and cool the milk,
then add yeast and sugar. Now add fat
and 2 oupfuls ﬂour. Beat thoroughly,
then add egg 'well beaten, remainder of
ﬂour and salt. Mix and turn out on
ﬂoured board and knead lightly and
thoroughly, using as little ﬂour as pos-
sible. Place in greased bowl, cover and
set aside in warm place to rise. two hours.
When light, form into small rounds, place
one inch apart on greased pan. Allow
to rise half an hour. Brush over with
fat and bake in hot oven ﬁfteen minutes.
Sufﬁcient for twenty rolls.

.———4——-—-——-

A Fruit Cookie Recipe that Some Farm-
ers “'ife May Likc.——2 cups brown sugar,

AIDS TO

119 cup or sour cream, 1 cup lard, ‘2‘cups
raisins, chopped ﬁne, 1 cup walnut meats
shoppe-11,1 1‘

Break in eggs, 1

teaspoon soda dissolved in
a. little warm water, 3' eggs Well beaten,

,2 teaspoons lemon extract and enough

ﬂour to make a. soft sponge not too much
ﬂour as it will make cookies dry and
brisk, 3% cups preferred. —Mrs. A. ,C.

 

Columbia Mufﬁns—3 tablespoonfuls of
sugar. 3 tablespoonfuls fat, 1 egg, 11/2
cupfuls milk, 1 teaspoonful salt, 31/; tea-
spoonfuls baking powder, 31/2 cupfuls of
sifted ﬂour. Sift ﬂour, salt, and baking
powder together. Cream fat and sugar,
add egg well beaten, then milk and ﬂour
mixture. Divide into» greased and ﬂoured
gem pans and bake twenty-ﬁve minutes
31 hot oven. Suﬂicient for twenty muf-s

ns.

 

 

The Runner’s Bible

(Copyright by Houghton Miﬂlin Co.)

But they that wait upon the Lord shall
renew their strength; they shall mount
up with wings as eagles; they shall run
and not be weary; and they shall walk
and not faint. Isa. 40:31.

Fatigue is the result of a lack of under-
standing, as ignorance .of the Truth, a
punishment for not observing the law of
the Spirit. If before you begin your
labors you would “seek the Kingdom of
God” you would ﬁnd your way made
plain, your work made easier and much
of it done for you.

 

 

 

 

WOMEN’S EXCHANGE

rlnt It FREE under this heading providing:

irst—lt appeals to women and Is a bonlﬁde

exchanges, no cash Involved. Seco nd—lt will
go in three lines. Third d—You are a paid- -up
subscriber to The Business Farmer and attach
your address label from a recent issue to prove
1.. Exchange offers will be numbered and in-
serted in the order received as we have room.
—MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR. Editor.

IF you nave something to exchange, we will.

 

 

119.—En1l1roidered doilies for 10 in. blocks of
bleached muslin 11'1111 ilo11'11's appliqued on —-v\Iis
Mae Mattinson,Tu1ner, Michigan.

GOOD DRESSING

FASHION BOOK NOTICE .
end 10c in silver or stamps for our UP— 'l‘O- DATE 1‘ AL I. AND WI N'I‘T‘R .1021 1925": I‘OOK 011
FASIIIO\S, showing color plates, 111111 czollllinng 500 designs of l.-1lis’, Blis‘s‘os’ mm 1 1.11.11911‘8 1 1tt1rns

3 (,ON ISF. and COMI’REGIII NSIVI‘. AR’

1“](I.1E ON Illtlu. qSM. \l\11\'(‘,

ALSO SOME I’l)l\'1‘S 10“

THE NEEDLE (illustrating 30 of the various, simple stitches) 1111 valuable hints to the home dross-
BE SURE AND SEND IN YOUR SIZE

4814. A Stylish Youthful Frock. -—-Printed or emlnoidered voile, ﬁgured silk or linen Would be
0011 for this model. Organdie, linen 111' other 11121111 111:1t11'1111 in controls is 1111-12 for tri1111n1'11g.'I‘he

maker.

attern is cut in 4 Sizes: 14, . 1,18 11nd

4815. A Popular Style.———'I‘his sleeveless dress is simple, and easy to develop
r1‘11e guimpe may be of contrasting material or may be overlaid

silk, pirnted voile, crepe or gingham.

20 years.
material. The 11idth of the dress at the foot is 1% yard.
trasting material % yard 32 inches wide is required.

16 y1 or size inquires 31/1 yards of 40 1111-11
For collar, vestce and facings of con-

It may he of wash

with material to from a V1st as illustrated. The Inttcrn is cut in 4 Sizes: 8, lli,1§2 111111 14 years
2 your size requires 3% yards of 32 inch material The Guimpe of contrasting 111at1rial requires

A
1% yard 40 inches wide.

4801. A Pretty Draped Frock—Figured _f0u111rd is here portrayed. Pipings in a plain color

form a suitable ﬁnish.
popular. The Pattern is cuti in 3 S1z-1vs: 16,

1.1111.th The 1’ attcrn

L xtru Large.

this model.

 

(omfomahle.
for this style.

for Miisses.
36 inch material.

yard.

 

 

4791. A Comfortable Undergarment.—'l‘ his
model may be developed
crepe, silk or washable satin.
lower edges may be gathered in knick1-r style, or
ﬁnished with a hem in straight line.
is cut in 4 Silos: Sillall\ Medium Lame and

To make tins style for 11 Medium
size requires 1% yard of 36 inch material.

4818. A Pleasing Dress Style for the Little
Miss—Cotton repp or linune would be good for
The collar,
pockctr 1121p could be of contrasting color
121111 atine and pongie me also nice fox (bosses
of this kind The l'nttcrn is cut in 4 Sizes:
, and 10 years.
2 14 yaids of 27 inch material.

4196. A Good Corset Substitute for Slender
Figures. ——This lnussnrc
The closing
side front or under .11‘111
brocade, linen, mesh, or sateen are good 111at11'1.11:~1
'1‘11e Paltclll is cut in 4 Sims:
Medium for Ladies, 11nd ,
year size requires % yard of

4803. A Pleasing Morning Dress
good model for 11'o111en
closing is effected under the panel 1'11 f1ont. I“i'—
urcd pcitalc would be nice for
Pattern is cut in 7 Sizes. 38

and .10 inches bust
size requires 5 ‘4 yards of 36 1111-11 1111191141. The
width at theo foot 1v1th pluits extended is 2%

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3 FOR 30c POSTPAID

Order from this or former issues of The Business
Farmer, giving number and sign your
name and address plainly.

ADD 10c FOR FALL AND WIN
19241925 FASHION BOOK TER

Address all orders for patterns to
Pattern Department

THE BUSINESS FARMER
Mt. Clemens, Mich.

 

One could have this 111 crepe, pongee or in the new piintud voiles now so
and 20 years.
The width of the dress at the foot is 1 1/1 yard.

4802. A Pretty Bathing Suit. —\\l1ite 111111111
with bands of black s:1t1c11 1s 111111 51101111. This
style is also .1ttr111tive for satin, cr1pe jersey and
is out in 4 Sizes: Snuilh
34— 36, 111111111111 38- 40, Large 4.2— 44, E\tra Large
46- 48 inches bust measure
quires 3% yards of 36 inch material.

your size requncs 11% yards of

A Medium size rc-

in (‘11111111'ic, nuinsook,
’l‘hc fulness at the

The l'uttorn

belt, sleeve fucings and
ling~

A (3 year size requires

has good li111-s.lt is
may be eff1 -'1 ted at the
scam. Je.111,1'.1111bri1',

.ind ’ 20 1 cars

 

This is a
of matuic ﬁgure. The

11113 style The
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1 Safety at the Crossing

ROTECTION of life at railroad crossings is a

work that the New York Central .Lines,
through its Safety Bureau, has been aggressively
iengaged in since the coming of the automobile.

:While the records show that only a small pro-
portion of automobile accidents occur at railroad
crossings, loss of life at crossings is a cause of deep
concern to railroad managements.

When it is realized that 7000 of crossing acci—
dents occur in daylight, that 63% are in the open
country where approaching trains can easily be
seen, and that the majority are at crossings with
which drivers are very familiar—it is plain that
the number of crossing accidents can be greatly
‘ reduced if automobile drivers will not attempt to
cross the tracks until they are sure that it is abso—
lutely safe to cross.

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GALLON OF GASOLINE

A new automatic and self—regulat<
1115:, device has been invented by
John A. Stransky, 2872 Fourth St.,
l’uszinn, South Dakota, with which
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spark plug trouble and overheating.
It can be installed by anyone in ﬁve
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the sky‘s not al
' 't do What-you'd

' tedo
‘Foritisatrialofyou

If you work. the sky will clear
Keep working
For it moves you have no fear
Keep working
'Aml always when the sky looks black
ngsin the test is on your track
80 be moored for the attack
Keep working. .
--Orville H. Trueblood.

 

, EAR girls and boys: ——-How
‘ many of you like to perform

tricks of magic? I am going
to tell you how to do I. very good
trick but do not attempt to repeat
your performance if you do not wish
them to know how it is done.

This trick is knocking a. tumbler
through a table. You sit on a chair
.. behind a table. keeping your aud-
ience in front of you. Place an or-
dinary tumbler upside down on the
table. Cover the tumbler with a
newspaper and press the paper down
around the glass so it takes the
form of the tumbler. Hold the
paper to the edge of the table, let
the tumbler drop into your lap,
quickly returning the paper to the
,center of the table. The stiffness
of the paper will preserve the form
pot the tumbler. Hold the paper
form with one hand and with the
other strike it a heavy blow. At
the same instant let the tumbler roll
easily from your lap onto the ﬂoor.
It looks like you have positively
knocked the tumbler through the
table. Smooth out the paper before
anyone can examine it.

But remember, once is enough for
this trick, that is if you wish to
keep it a secret.—UNCLE NED.

 

OUR GIRLS AND BOYS

Dear Uncle Ned's—I was just reading
the Children's Hour, and I thought I
would try my luck at writing. I have
never written to you before. I see all
the cousins are describing themselves so
I will too. I have dark brown bobbed
hair, blue eyes, am 5 feet short, and
weigh 100 pounds. I am a. store-keeper’s
girl, 13 years old. I have one brother
and one sister. I hope Mr. Waste Basket
does not get my letter. I hope some of
the cousins will write to me. Your niece,
e—Evelyn E. Crosby, R4, Merrill, Mich.

Dear Uncle chz—May I join your
merry circle? I have been a silent reader
of the Children’s Hour for a long time.
I will describe myself: I am ﬁve feet one
inch high, weigh 114 pounds and have
dark blue eyes and brown hair and fair
complexion. My birthday is the 6th day
of November. I live on a farm, 83 acres,
with my parents, and one brother. I am
12 years old and in the 7th grade. For
pets I have 1 dog and 1 eat. We have
8 head of horses, 7 cows. 4 calves and 75
chickens. One of the riddles Agnes
Posey. Marine City put in the paper was:
What is the last hair on a dog’s tail
called? Answer. dogs hair. Now Agnes
I an looking for a letter from you. and
Agnes you send me your picture too.
Now for a riddle: What side of a horse
has the most hair an? Answer, Outside.
Will some of the boys and girls please
write to me? I will ladly send a letter
to them. I hope Mr. ante Basket does
not get his hands on me. Your niece,—
Gertrude Angel. Standish, Mich, R 1.

Dear Uncle Ned :—-—May I Join your
merry circle? I have written before but
Mr. Waste Basket got my letter. This
tune I hope Uncle Ned gets it. I am s.
more girl eleven years old and am four
feet and six inches tall. I m in the
sixth grade at school and we have already
had our picnic I have two sisters and
two brothers. My sisters are ﬁfteen and
thirteen years old, my brothers are six
and two years old. There were some vio-
lets in our woods and in one place there
were so many you could not step with-
out stepping on them. I got a pretty
bouquet. As my letter is getting long I
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Dear Uncle Ned :—-I was just reading

the Children's Hour and thought that I
would write I. letter too. I hardly ever
see any letters from Ithaca. I live on a
farm (80 acres) north east of Ithau. I
five feet four inches tall and I am
fteen years old. We have two anary
birds which I enjoy very much. I have
four brothers. Their names are Wayne.
Clark. Theodore. and Esrar. We have an
Overland car and I drive it. We have a
dog and his name is Mack. I go to town
school and I will be in the eighth grade
next year. I hope to get lots of letters
from the girls and boys. I will close
as it is into. Your niece—Margaret
Deveraux. Ithaca, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned:~—I have Just been
reading the M. B. F. and the Children's
Hour. Say Uncle Ned, I think that Ilene
Wingard and Helen Goodrow has some
good ideas, don't you? Well I believe I
had better describe mySelf. I am real
short for my age but I weigh 103 pounds.
Can anyone guess my age? I have blue
eyes, dark hair (and it is not bobbed).
Well my letter is getting a little long
so will close hoping that you have moved
the waste paper basket 3. little way off.
I will answer any letters from those who
try to guess my ago. Your long-haired
niece—Kathryn Seaton, R. 8, Fenton,
Michigan.

Oh you dear old Uncle Ned:———How glad
I was today to know you were still among
the living. Do you remember me? You
surely do. It has only been two or three

' years (but it seems ages) since I was a

friend among the cousins I made many
dear chums during my stay. I think I
received letters from nearly 50 boys and
girls. . ‘

If you remember when I last wrote my
daddy was very sick and was in the
hospital several weeks during which time
I was away from home. Many letters

 

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cane to me during that tune and when
I came home papa»wasvso very sick
yet—well it Just seemed some way after
Dana's trouble things” —--I didn't
answer all of my big stack of letters,
partly for lack of post and Stationery
and partly because I we. too sad to sit
and write I guess, then our M. B. F. ex-
pired and we failed to renew and I got
completely lost from you. But we have
again subscribed for our good old friend.
We 'got our ﬁrst copy today and I was
real surprised to see our page still lived,
as a friend had told me the Children’s
Hour had been taken out.

Although it has only been two or three
years since you heard from me (as I
said before) I have changed quite a bit.
1am now 16 years old and have changed
my long curls for "bob" but I am still
the same old "farmer John" helping daddy
out of doors, ride horse-back. hoe—yes
"Whistle and hoe, sing as I go". I am
as busy as a bee all week but I go to
church every Sunday. Our minister is
just the loveliest old gentleman you ever
saw Uncle Ned. We had a Sunday school
picnic at the beach on the 4th. We sure
all had a lovely day. I won second prize
in the girls' foot race.

My! Did I hear you say you did not

. remember me? Why don’t you remember

Eathel Fay Sharp that sent you the hand-
made string to wear around your neck?
The “kid" that won the ﬂashlight for the
best letter written about the fair they at»-
tended? I knew you Just couldn't for-
get her. Ha! Ha!

I will send you a picture of myself
taken the day I graduated as soon as they
are finished. Guess I must close now.
Am glad I found you and hope we will
meet again. Your want-to-be niece,—
Eathel Fay Sharp, R3, Akron, Michigan.
——Well, well—and. a. couple more wells.
if here isn’t Eathel back. It's about time
you came back young lady and I don’t
want you to neglect writing for such a
long period again. If you do———-well. And
you, an old friend, even thought the Chil-
drens’ Hour had been taken out of M. B.
F. Why the very idea. Tell your friend

Why the Ostrich ‘Hides Head

“ Y dear,” said Father Ostrich
to the tallest and ﬁnest of his
four wives, “it is your turn

white

eggs."

And Father Ostrich, who was very
tall, craned his neck and looked
proudly toward the nest of eggs
which were snuggled away in a pit
in the warm sand.

The eggs were as large as cocoa-
nuts, and the shells pure white and
very thick. About the thickness of
8. china cup. And, of course, Father
Ostrich was very proud of them.
For soon tiny, fuzzy-uzzy baby os-
triches would peep through, and they
would grow bigger and bigger and
some day their feathers would be
sold for a great deal of money.

Mother Ostrich waved a. fond fare-
well to Father Ostrich, declaring she
would take care of the beautiful,
white eggs. But no sooner had
Father Ostrich left, than Mother 08-
trich happened to think of a lovely
little spring of water a short dist-
ance away. Now in the Sahara
desert where the Ostrich family lived,
there are very, very few springs of
water. And mother Ostrich dearly
loved a cool bath, and a fresh drink.

She looked at the twenty new eggs,
which were pure white with very
thick shells.

“Surely nothing will harm them”,
thought Mother Ostrich, thinking of
the bath she loved so well and the
cool, fresh.drink. And slowly, al-
most without realizing what she was
doing Mother Ostrich paddled over
the ocean of sand toward the cool
spring. '

The more she thought of the cool
spring and the fresh drink, the faster
went her long, strong legs. Soon
she was goingfaster. than a horse
could trot. Her little blue bonnet
bounced as she ran.

True, my dears, she was a little
worried about those twenty white
eggs, from which twenty little fuzzy-
uzzy heads would soon peep.

“Oh well, I am sure nothing will
harm them”, she reasoned with her-
self. “And perhaps one of the other
ostriches will return and guard
them." You see, Mr. Ostrich always
has four or five wives.

Well, while the neglectful Mother
Ostrich was running very fast to-
ward the cooling oasis which was
very far away from her home, Mr.
Jackall was hunting, hunting for a

feast of ostrich eggs. Just think of
that!

Mr. Jackall was becoming very
much discouraged. For you see,
wild ostriches have become very,
very scarce. Of course, my dears,
many tame ones are raised on ostrich
farms.

But there, I must tell you about
that horrid old Mr. Jackall. Be—
cause of course you are wondering
about those twenty white eggs.

About the time Mr. Jackall had
decided to give up the search he
happened to spy those beautiful,
pure white eggs, which Father
Ostrich had guarded every night so
proudly for such a long, long time.
And which Mother Ostrich had
neglected.

“Oh my, oh me!” snapped Mr.
Jackall, putting one lean paw over
his empty stbmach. “Such a ﬁne
meal!” Um-m-m-m!”

And, my dears, before you could
say “Jack Robinson” that horrid old
Mr. Jackall had gobbled up those
twenty beautiful, white eggs which
were as big as cocoanuts.

Then very, very quickly and quiet-
ly he stole away.

At just this time the Mother Os-
trich was hurrying, hurrying home.
It is true she was very much worried,
and why should she not be? She
had shirked her duty! '

As soon as she reached the nest
which was in a pit in the warm sand.
she started running Wildly around in
a circle, for, goodness gracious me!
every one of those snowy white eggs
were gone! Even the few eggs which
had been laid outside the nest for
food for the young fuzzy—uzzy os-
triches was gone. Just think of that!

Mother Ostrich’s heart sank. And
there came Father Ostrich!

Mother Ostrich was so ashamed.
What would she do? Suddenly, in
desperation, she dove her long neck,
little blue bonnet and all, into the
sand, thinking that Father Ostrich
would not see her.

And whether he did or not, my
dears, you may guess. And what
poor, sad Father Ostrich said to
Mother Ostrich you may also guess.
For, of course, Mother Ostrich could
not expect‘mercy when she had neg-
lected her duty. _

And ever since the Ostrich family
has had the sly little trick of burying
their heads in the sand, when they
do not wish to be seem—Helen Gregg
P'pen.

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better describe' " nasal!"

"hold on! ‘17

before. . on.
am 18 years old and chin the .mth
grade of school. Do you think that is
very good? My hair is Quite dark and of
course it is bobbed. I wouldn’t have long

hair, would you Uncle Ned? Say Uncle

Ned why couldn't we have a drawing can-
test on some things? I think it would be

fun. Well I' think Mr. Waste Basket has-

got his eye on this letter. Your want-to-

be niece,--Mlss Belma Hogan, Muir. Mich" '

in care of Hogan Bros. . . . .

-—No I would not have long hair, in foot

I believe long hair would not be very
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Dear Uncle Nedz—As you see from my
address I have moved since you last
heard from me. I moved ten miles, on
the 17th of January, 1924. Some cold
day to move. too, especially a long one.
We did it in a sleigh and it did not
seem very long to me. Well Uncle Ned,
I am sending you another poem which I
hope you will see ﬁt ,to publish. Not
very long ago. I saw a poem at the head
of our page and itllookod so nice I de-
cided to try my luck again. Well, as I
don't want to take up too much space;
I guess I will close for the present. Good-
bye, Uncle Ned and all the cousins. From
your poetic nephew—Orville H. Trueblood,
R2, Muir, Michigan.

——Your poem is very good, Orville, and I
am publishing it at the head of our page.
Send in more of your poems.

Dear Uncle Ned :—Oh! now don’t say
you don’t want me to come in because I
come so often.
won't come again for a long while.
Cousins don’t you think that would be all
right? I think Billy Frank is 17. Am I
right? What did all the cousins do on
the 4th? I had an awful good time. We

went to a lake, it is a resort. Went in ,

bathing in the forenoon and danced in the
afternoon and there were ﬁreworks at
night. I will close with a riddle. What
is it goes all over the ﬁelds and through
the woods and comes to the doorstep yet
never comes in? I would like all the

‘ cousins to write to me, girls and boys,

old and young. Your loving niece—Beat-
rice Campbell, R No. 5, Box 89. Hesperia.
Michigan. .

--Sure I will let you in. There is not
limit to the number of letters you may
write to me:

Dear Uncle Ned :«May I. join your
merry circle? I have been a reader of
the M. B. F. for a long time. I live on
a farm of 90 acres. We have 3 horses,
13 head of cattle, 18 head of sheep and
200 chickens. For pets we have .8 cats
and a collie dog named “Jiggs”. -Jig‘gs
is a regular playfellow. Ifthe cows are

in sight he will go after them and does

many other things. He likes to play ball
and if he catches the ball sometimes runs
away with it and sometimes takes it to
someone not playing. I think I had better
describe myself or you will be wondering
What kind of a "chicken” I am. Ha! Ha!
I am 5 feet 3 inches tall. weigh 125
pounds, have medium brown bobbed hair
and grey blue eyes. I will be a junior
in Hillsdale high school next year. I
wear glasses which are a lot of bother
when I’d like some fun but cannot see
very good without them. I am a Girl
Reserve. our club is called "Honembro”,
it was organized last talk—four district
schools going together, we have lots of
fun. Oh yes, I will let you guess my age
and birthday. My age is between 15 and
20 and my birthday is between July 2nd
and 10th. Those who guess my birthday
and use right or nearly right will receive
a letter from me. I like English, history
and domestic science. I have enrolled in
English XI, modern history, economics.
music and cooking. I have had 2 years
of sewing. I like csznping and horseback
riding best of all morts. Well I must
close for this time as the catchall waste
paper basket will surely catch this. I
wouldlilmtohearfromsomeoftheboys
and girls between the ages of 15 and 80.
From a want-to—be niece——Ruth Brown.
R. 1, Box 71, Hillsdale, Michigan.

-—I enjoyed all of my studies when I
went to school and especially reading.
As for sports I like to skate, swim and
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Too much rain in some seeti'ons.

CORN

Present conditions point to another good
Michigan, the present condition
percent representing a production
the ﬁfth crop in
succession to exceed 00,000,000 bushels.
the sungsthue 31(1):le
the growth is large. an e s are
caring well. Dry weather has mused
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ive damage is

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grainb’ehg‘thresheddirectfromthe ﬁeld
became of We labor shortage. Be-
turns to date indicate an average yield
‘ per acre or s. total winter
wheat crop of 16,450,000 bushels. The
average yield in Michigan is 10.7 bushels ‘
per acre. The quality 0! the grain is
excellent and is rand at 90 per cent. two
per cent better than last year and the tone

your average.

The condition of spring wheat is similar
to that of other mine sown grains, the
early part of the season being too dry.
The present outlook is 80 per cent, repre—

senting a production of 126.000 bushels.

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OATS

Oats continued to improve up to the
time of cutting, and on heavy soils is a
generally good crop except in localities
where drought has prevailed. On the
rolling and light lands the straw‘is very
short but a good yield in DYOPOrtlon to
the quantity of straw is expected. The
probable production is estimated to be
48,043,000 bushels, or slightly less than
that of last year. The protion of last
year’s crop still remaining on farms is
reported as 7 per cent.

.BABLEY

Beneﬁcial rains occurred in some of
the best counties. and the estimate is in-
creased to 3,483,000 bushels which is
about the same as that of last year. The
condition is 82 per cent or three per cent
below the ten-year average.

BYE

Threshing is in progress and early re-
turns indicate an average yield of 14.0
bushels per we. The average for the
last ten years is 14.3 bushels. The pro-
duction is estimated to be 7,252,000
bushels the least since 1917. The quality
of the grain is generally good, averaging

92 per cent.
BUOKWHEAT
The preliminary inquiry regarding the
acreage sown this year has been complete
ed and resultedin an estimate of 60,000
acres as compared with 62,000 last year.
There was a considerable increase in
some sections, but the general shortage
of labor and heavy farm abandonment in
many of the principal counties caused the
smaller total. The crop is generally do—
ing well and shows a condition of 87 per
cent or three per cent above the ten—year
average. This represents a production of
887,000 bushels.
- POTATOES
The condition of the potato crop is
slightly above the average being 83 per
with 87 per cent last
month and last year. Some of the seed
was d by extreme heat following
planting causing poor stands. Dry
weather has also caused a. spindling
growth in some localities, but there are
marry ﬁelds in excellent condition. The
present outlook is for a crop of 29,297,000
bushels on the 318,000 acres planted.
Last year’s ﬁnal estimate was 37,842,000
bushels. The rainfall during the next
four or ﬁve weeks will be the principal
factor in enablishing the actual yield.
HAY
Clover and timothy hay was a light
crop except in a few eastern and northern
counties where ample rainfall produced a.
good yield. Amalia yielded well in most
section although not quite up to the av-
erage. The total prodmtion of tame hay
is estimated at 3,408,000 ions or a. little
over one million tons less than last year.
Considerable hay was damaged by rains
in eastern and northeastern counties.
FIELD BEANS
The crop is exceedingly good in nearly
all section. There has been a little local
damage by dry weather, and there are
some complaints of disease and failure
to set pods. This has lowered the av-
erage condition two points from last
month which was less than the average
decline in July, hence the estimated pro-
duction is greater than that of
July 1 being 6,825,000 bushels.
SUGAR BEETS
Fields present a varying condition,
ranging from stands of 50 per cent or
less Up to perfect stands. Moisture has
been insufficient in some sections but on
the whole the growth is satisfactory and
the mndition is 85 per cent. one per cent
higher than last month.
TRUCK CROPS
Tomatoes have maintained the same
condition as one month ago. 86 per cent.
Cabbageshowssdeclineofonepercent
to 85 per cent. Early varieties are being
harvested and marketed. Onions now show
acouciiﬂonofﬂ‘lpercenthavingim—
pmvengeoentasaresultotr-ainsin
the main eommemial districts

as with a total production last
year of 11,850,000 bushels.

The peach crop is. maintaining its
earlier favorable prospect, the present in-
dications pointing to a cr0p of 1, 172,000
bushels as compared with a production
of 1, 440, 000 bushels last year. The
early varieties are being harvested and
marketed.

 

CROP REPORTS BY COUNTIES

CALHOUN—crops very good except
cornwhichwillbeasgoodsseverif
frost will hold oi! till Oct. let—B. B'. 0.,
County Agent.

MUSKEGON—Corn about 4 weeks be-
hind calendar hut improving. Poutoes
are good, also oats and wheat. Small
fruits, good yields. Apples fair set.

JACKSON—Oat crop very good. corn
way behind. abundance of hay, new seed-
inge and some wheat be-
ing thrashed with fair yields reported,—
R. E. Decker, County Agent. .

IONIAr—Wheat in shock being quite
badly damaged by too much rain-yield
heavy. Corn very short and poor stand.
Hay fair crop-badly damaged in making.
Beans very good. Oats unusually heavy
cropshdown badly—R. L. Helm, County
Agent.

CRAWFORD—Abundant and timely
rains making corn, oats and potatoes
splendidly; also bringing on good second
cutting of alfalfa and clover, as well as

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slate start this spring. ‘Willfbe little
or no hard corn in this count—R. D.
Bailey, County Agent.

MANIs'rEE—Cherries. cracked and
brown rot developed due to excessive rain.
Drop 60 per cent. Berries heavy crop-
bad rain damage. Potatoes, cucumbers,
beans—good prospect Grain-weather in-
terfere with; heaviest prospective yield
good. Corn-very late-poor prospect—H.
M. Vaughn. County Agent.

VAN BUEEN—Corn poor stand, back-
ward. alfalfa heavy ﬁrst cutting, second
cutting good but poor weather to get it
up. Grapes fair crop, quality promises
good at present Apples light crop, lots
of scab. Wheat fair crop, poor weather
for harvesting. Peaches but very few
nrmmd S. Haven, fair emu—W. C. Eek-
ard, County Agent.

orsnoo-Com very backward; oats
normal crop; rye about 6 year average;
potatoes showing fairly well for this date.
Pasture continues good on account abun-
dant rains; hay exceeding June promise
and feed supply; excellent com seem as—
mrcd, alfalfa again stepping out in front
as a champion producer of quantity hay.
Excellent year for seedingap-A. C. Lytle.

NEWAYGO—Com three weeks late.
Wheat 75 per cent damp from exces-
sive rains during harvest, growing in
shock. Beans suﬂerlng from too much
rain. Potatoes fair but above cause
damaging crop. Oats getting over ripe
and storms have caused them to lodge
badly. Apples fair average with light
crop of winter varietiese—Clair Taylor,
County Agent.

OGEMAW—Crops appear the best all
around that they have appeared at this
time of year for several years. Hay crop
has been at least normal, potatoes never
looked better, cats have overcome their

   

 

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late start, wheat is the best In N.
years, rye is a. normal crop, and can has
gained much with a late start.’ Comiis"
perhaps the one crop that is below normed
for this time of yearn-«W. C. McCarthy,
County Agent. '

TUSCOLA—Wheat a. ﬁne yield but
much sprouting in shock. Oats average
down very much. Barley good if wet
weather does not continue. Beans—rains
did great deal of damage, many ﬁelds
look as if they will not be worth har-
vesting. Potatoes late blight starting,
potatoes set heavy. Corn very uneven
much will not mature. Alfalfa good but
bad curing weather. Rye good but some
sprouting. Beets fair to good. Clover
as with alfalfa—County Agent.

81‘. CLAIR—The incessant reins of the
past two Weeks have been very detri-
crops being harvested.
Much hay is still uncut, also many
of wheat. Wheat in the shock is
ning to sprout Oats are down badly
though will undoubtedly ﬁll all!!!
on account of the moisture in the
Corn has picked up in the pest ‘
weeks. Corn and beans very woody on
the average. New seeding ucqwtionany
good, although much mildew on the clover.
C. M. Kidman, County Agent.

OTTAWA—Wheat was best looking
crop ever, but continued reins have
sprouted considerable. Early potatoes

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on light soil is coming satisfactoraly.
Oats ripe and being out.
seedings of alfalfa and clover are lino.
This is also an exceptionally good season
for development of weeds. Farmers felt
line about conditions of crops, but unless
warm clean weather prevails they will
feel pretty bluea—C. P. Milhan, County,
Agent.

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This Year and Will Celebrate with our
43rd Anniversary Sale

Beginning Tuesday, September 2,z this great
annual sale will oﬂer you the opportunity to
supply yourFall and Winter needs in merchandise
of good quality for home and family at very

The Hudson 4nnioer8ary Sale Starts
During State Fair
Visit the fair (August 30 to September 6). Do
your buying for Fall and Winter at the same time
at the Anniversary Sale, (beginning September 2).

You will ﬁnd every convenience of this great

store at your service while in the city and you

are cordially invited to make full use of it.
Further Details of tbeAnnira-sarySale will

qppearin the Augudlm rseue' of this
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Detroit and Michigan one of the largest and
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$2.50 a bottle, delivered. Describe your case
for special instructions and Book 5 R free.
ABSORBINE. JR. antiseptic linimem for mankind, re-
lncel 81mins. Painful. Knotted. Swollen Veins. Concen-
rased—only : few drops requir—ed at an application. Price
[1.25 per bouie at dealer: or delivered.

N. F. YOUNG, inc., 369 Lyman $1.,Springﬁeid, Mass.

BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY

Ads under this heading 30c per
agate line for 4 lines or more.
SLOO per insertion for 3 lines or
less.

    

 

 

 

 

To avoid conflicting dates we will without

list the date of any live stock 0 in
loan. If you are considerin a at. ed.
as us at once and we will oiam the date

mi. Address. Live Stock Editor. M. B.
I. Clem

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Oct. 16———Holsteins. O. 8. Berg and .
Howell Michigan. F. . ' Sheena;
Sale Manager.

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' Hereford Steers

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HARNESSING FENCE JUMPERS
contrivances have been

MANY
devised to prevent horses

from jumping fences. Yokes
of all descriptions have been con-
structed with the central thought of
punishing the animal when he ap-
proached the fence, with the result
that horses are often injured by
such contrivances. A contrivance
free from such dangers, and equal—
ly, if not more efficient, is made as
follows: Procure a surcingie with
a ring at the bottom, a short piece
of rope, and two leg—straps provided
with rings. Place the surcingle on
the horse and buckle the straps
about the forelegs just above the
knees. Tie one end of. the rope in
the ring at‘ the back of the left
knee, then pass the free end up
through the ring at the bottom of
the surcingle, then down, drawn
medium tight, and tie in the ring at
the back of the right knee. This
will permit the horse to walk natur-
ally, lie down, get up, and in fact,
do almost anything except run or
jump, which it most effectively pre-
vents. The principal advantages
are that there is no risk attached to
its use and the horse’s head and
neck are perfectly free.——N0r’West
Farmer.

STATE FAIRS WILL A‘sVABD
HOLSTEIN PRIZES

THE two leading fairs to be held
in Michigan this year will re-
ceive special prizes from The
Holstein—Friesian Association of
America in addition to those award—
ed by the fair associations. The
Michigan State Fair, Detroit, Au—
gust 29 to September 7, will receive
$718.50 and the West Michigan
State Fair, Grand Rapids, Septem-
ber 15 to 19, $107.40.

To be eligible for receiving this
money the following requirements
prevail:

1. All animals must be register-
ed before exhibition and must stand
on the records of The Holstein—
Friesian Association of America in
the name of the exhibitor.

«2. The awards must be placed
by one of the ofﬁcial judges of the
Association who will award no
prize except where the animals are
strictly ﬁrst—class.

3. The judge or the superin—
tendent of dairy cattle shall ex-
amine the certiﬁcates of registry
and transfer to see that the provis-
ions of the ﬁrst requirement have
been complied with.

4. The Association’s share of
the prizes will be paid direct from
the Secretary’s ofﬁce and not by the
fair management.

5. All animals over six months
old must have been tested for tu-

 

berculosis within six months by a
duly accredited Federal or State
veterinarian. The certiﬁcate show-
ing freedom from this disease must
be exhibited to the fair authorities.
Grounds and barns must be disin-
fected in accordance with Federal
or State requirements.

Special prizes to boys and girls in
calf club work will also be awarded
at state fairs and national dairy
shows by the national Holstein As-
sociation. The‘ amount offered at
each show is determined by the
number of Holstein calf club mem-
bers enrolled by the state college

\ boys and girls club leader.

DETROIT CREAMERY OWNS
NEW HOLSTEIN CHARIPION

ICHIGAN’S new Holstein
M champion cow for ten months'

production as a junior three-
year—old Traverse Duchess Korn-
dyke, owned by the Detroit Cream-
ery Company at Mt. Clemens. Her
record is 20,456.4 pounds milk con-
taining 671.43 pounds butterfat,
equivalent to 839.2 pounds butter,
according to the advanced registry
department of The Holstein—Fries-
ian Association of America.

As a consequence of this record
she displaces the former state
champion in her class, Flint Maple
Crest Crown De K01, who in the
herd of D. D. Aitken of Flint, made
a record of 17,849.1 pounds milk
and 743.5 pounds butter.

GOAT TO PROTECT SHEEP FROM
DOGS

Could you tell if goats were used
as a protection in large ﬂocks of
sheep against dogs? If so is it the
buck or ewe goats that are the best?
I am a reader of your paper and
have a large flock of sheep and would
like to protect them against dogs.—
E. J. F., Lambs, Michigan.

HE goat is not as timid an animal
T as a sheep and consequently not
as easily frightened and will in
many cases turn to ﬁght a. dog rather
than ﬂeeing from it.

Sheep on the other hand are very
timid and easily frightened, and once
they are running it is of course sport
for the dog to catch them.

Billy goats are, therefore, a. slight
measure of protection against dogs,
as the sheep are not nearly as apt to
be stampeded and it is extremely
doubtful if a dog would commence a
sheep killing career in a. ﬂock Where
there were several goats. On the
other hand, a dog which was a. real
sheep killer, or especially savage,
would not be in the least deterred
by goats—Geo. A. Brown, Professor
of Animal Husbandry, M. A. C

 

 

HIGH COWS IN TESTING WORK IN MCHIGAN DURING JUNE
The following tables show the 5 high cows in the respective age classes in

the Michigan Cow Testing Associations reporting for the month of June.

These

are the highest butterfax producers in the test work in the seventy—eight as-
sociations reporting. There were eighty-nine associations in operation.

Mature Cows—Five Years and Over

  

..Mich. Reform. ......PB.H

Date Lbs. Lbs.

Association Owner Breed Fresh Milk Fat
Ionia~Beldin§MWW.......State Hospital ......PBH 4/25/24 2490.0 ‘89.6
Genesee No. ..... ................John P. Eddy ........Gr.H 4/10/24 2058.4 88.4
Genesee N0. 7 ............. .. ...J. E. Post ........._....PBH 3 28 4 2397.0 "86.29
Muskegon-Ravenna...........1. J. Bennett ........Gr.H 8/26/24 1725.0 86.25
Washtenaw-Cheises, ........... R0 land Waltroua -Gr.I-I 5/25/24 2135 0 85.4

Under Five Years

Gratio - ortn ...................... George Davis .........Gr. J 5/16/24 1581.0 98.0
M No. 1................ ..... Frank Wilcox ........PBH 5/15 24 1680.0 89.0
t. C rNo. 1.....................L. G. Meharg ._.....PBH 5/25 24 22338 ’83.};
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REMEMBER, it’s but a short dis-
tance from your cow’s udder
to the cream pitcher—the but-
ter plate—the nursmg bottle.

Keep her surroundings
healthful, free from d1sease
germs, and clean smelling,
with Dr. Hess Dip and D18-
infectant.

_ Provide a wallow for your
hogs. To each 25 gallons of
water, add about one art
of Dr. Hess Dip. Your .ogs
will do the rest. Good mght
lice and disease germs!

Use the sprinkling can—in
the poultry-house for lice and
mites, wherever there is ﬁlth
or a. foul odor.

DR. HESS & CLARK, Inc.
Ashland, Ohio

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At your dealer's today
-‘you can carefully
examine it before buy-
ing-also other styles.
REMEMBER, you are
trading with your local
responsible h a r n o s 3
dealer who guarantees
and stands back of this
harness. N0 freight or
express to pay. - .

Only the finest heavy leather. high”:
grade workmanship and best hardware ovor
goes into Everwou' neg...

Thousands of farmers have been using
Ever-wear harness for a long time—they
know its quality and have proven it pays to
buy Everwear brand. Your dealer
Everwear harness and collars—or can not
them for you-

     
 

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Green Bay, Wis.
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GUERNSEYS
MAY _ GUERNSEYS — ROSE

STATE AND FEDERAL ACCREDITED
to 877 pounds (It.

 

Bull calvm out of
Sire by Bulls whose Dams to 1
ﬁnds at. The games (i; bulls, Shutdlewick
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.ng 101 18 fat, 772 int and 61 f

GEORGE L. BURROWS or GEORGEO J.ati-IIOK8.
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Macomb No.1...” ................. Frank Wilcox ........Gr.H 3/2/24 164 c. n. TALBOT, Farmlngton, Michigan.
Under Four Years .

St. Clair No. 1 ...................... Dunning & Nolan PB H 5/18/24 2646 0 '97,0

Washtenaw~Ann Ar‘bor ..... J. G. Lewis ...........PBH 8 7124 2016.0 ”6.6

Mammb No. 1......................Frank Wiles; ......Gr. H /3/24 1816.0 72.6

Weds ........... .......... . B. Duets .._....PBG 4/5/24 1173.0 ”71.0 HAMPSHIRES

Van uren-North................ . C. Tiedebohl ......PB H 3/25/24 1905.0 "(0.4
Under Three Years wgfsglﬁggg—Bn‘gnt GILTs AND Bonus.

Livingston No. 1.................J. n. Grouse mpnn 3/24/24 1350.0 64.8 writ vli’. suvozél sii°ﬁnlintﬁncﬁ2i€

Genesee No 1............. - E. Parsons .......Gr. J 6/2/24 828.0 63.7

”gulpCen ..... John Tobin ............PBH 5/13/24 1584.0 61.8 E

Malgmtte...muW-J. B. Duetscn ........PBG 12/17 23 1281.0 ”59.0 .DUROO

Be an ............ ...................P. F. Schriner .......Gr. G 5/12 24 1180.0 57.8

 

The following table shows the ten high

we in milk production in the seventy.

eight Cow Testing Associations reporting in Michigan for the month of June.

 

Date Lbs. Lbs.

Assoc1ation Owner Breed [Fresh M111: Fat

nia—Lake Odessa..............Fred Reahm ........PB 6 14 24 8069.0 79.8

gent- .Alpine....................J. N. Lamar-earn g 4 27 4 2724. 73.8

ton uth....... F. Reynolds H 4/19/24 2691. .7“)

1:. Cl No. IWIDunning a; Nolan H 558/24 2646.0 98112
oun. ....... .........................JJakevwo Dairy H [2/24 2526.0 ”s

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We Can omi- Real Bargains in

High Class Durocs

Prices delivered your station on request.

LOEB FARMS

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connodidealugn labor-locate. and

on is a question that will

not be discussed here.
The American dairy farmer is
protected by a tarii! which in round
ﬁgures is 32 cents on 100 pounds of

« milk or its products. This does not

prevent the importation of dairy
goducts from eight or ten countrifﬁ

t consumption has taken it
Md prices are still pretty good.

In my opinion the time is com-
in when we will have a surplus of
d products and turn from an
importing to an exporting country.
This will mean a lower price which
we must be prepared to meet. The
principal expense in dairy produc-
tion is the cost of feeding the cows,
and we are fortunate in being able
to compete with any country on this
score. We who live in the land of
clover. alfalfa and corn are favored
and should be able to compete with
any state or country. If we have to
go out of the dairy business because
we cannot compete, then I say we
ought to quit, for it shows we are
lame ducks on the essential econom-
ic factors of dairying.

Keep in mind there are a lot of
states doing great work in the dairy
business, and are increasing their
output at a rapid rate, the govern-
ment ﬁgures show that the state of
Michigan has doubled her output of
butter during the past seven years;
Minnesota and Wisconsin have in-
creased from 40 to 50 per cent; Cali-
fornia, Ohio, and Indiana have shown
a marked increase. The Dakotas and
Nebraska are also increasing rapid-
ly. Idaho and Montana are putting
on dairy.campaigns, and Nebraska is
preparing to double her dairy bus-
iness in. the next ﬁve years. The
southern states are encouraging
dairying, and Kentucky has a Better
Sires—Better Breeding campaign,
which beyond question will result in
a big increase. The dairy farmer
has prospered and has come through
this agricultural depression with ﬁy-
ing colors. Dairy districts are not
complaining of hard times. The
country banker will tell you in short
order that his patrons who milk cows
have good credit in his bank.

We can stand over—production pro-
viding we are producing with econ-
omy. States keeping cows that pro-
duce from 100 to 150 pounds of but-
terfat cannot compete with states
keeping cows that produce 200 or
250 pounds per cow. Neither farm-

ers compete who feed ineﬁiciently,.

who ignore the economic value of the
silo or the value and use of legume
hay. . .

While we are building our dairy
industry let us understand the im-
portance of laying the foundation on
a substantial basis so we can turn
from an importing to an exporting

country without suffering a loss.-—_-

A. L. Haecker.

‘ TESTING WORK COMING ALONG
FINE

OR many years Huron county
has been known as the center
for excellent beef cattle. A
gradual change has occured and the
nearness of large cities has necess-
itated the using of dairy cows in
place of the beef cows. In June,
1923, work was started in Huron
county to put these dairy cows on a
better paying basis. Twenty-six
dairymen went together and organ-
ized what was known as the Huron-
Ubly Cow Testing Association. In
June Otto Vestergaard cow tester
reported that the average produc—
tion for the 229 cows owned by
these 26 dairymen averaged 267
pounds fat and 7788 pounds milk.
One of the outstanding herds was
owned by Mr. Donald Gordon. His
seven cows were high in both milk
and butter fat, producing 11,313
pounds milk and 420.3 pounds fat.
Hr. Gordon's cow Diana, a grade
Holstein nine years old, made
14,418 pounds milk and 650.1
pounds fat, highest cow in milk and
butter‘fat production in the assoc-
iation. '

Other herds that did well were
owned by Ernest Hagen, Chris
Krug, Frank Bensinger and Howard
Nugent. That there is still plenty

 
 
 

putter-tarsus 5,039 ,
The four highest herds averaged

 

’ pounds
865.9 pounds fat and 10,880.5
pounds milk. Sixteen cows made
better than 865 pounds fat for the
association year. The four poorest
cows in the association averaged
3,948 pounds milk . and 144.9
pounds fat. Not more cows but bet-
ter cows are needed.-—-A. C. B.,
Dairy Ext... M. A. O.

 

,MONBOE FARMERS CONTINUE
00W TESTING WORK

YN’N DEXTER, tester in the

Monroe Association, reports

that George Ihrig & Son had
high herd in butter fat and milk
production in the Monroe C. T. A.
Ihrig & Son’s nine purebred Hol-
stein cows averaged 11,524 pounds
milk and 357.1 pounds fat.

Guy Doty had high cow in milk
and butter fat production. His sev~
en year old purebred Holstein cow
Flossie made 15,758 pounds milk
and 532.6 pounds fat. Three hun-
dred ﬁfteen cows averaged 232
pounds butter fat and 6,590 pounds
milk. The four poorest herds av-
eraged 162 pounds fat and 4,940
pounds milk. Twenty-four cows
made better than 366 pounds fat.

All members in this Association
are using purebred sires. Mr. Dex-

  
    
 
 

 

The Monroe Association is carrying
.on the work and Mr. Dexter- is con-
tinuing the testing.—-A. C. 3., Dairy

 

FLY ‘REPEIJANT

Can you give us a recipe for a
spray mixture as a ﬂy repellant on
stock?—-J. N., East Jordan, Mich.

send you two formulae for

ﬁy repellants which we ﬁnd

pretty fairly satisfactory: 12

oz. oil of tar, 12 oz. turpentine. 12

oz. crude carbolic acid, 10 or 15

cents worth of tannin. Make up to 5

gallons with kerosene. Apply lightly
with atomizer.

Another formula: Coal oil, lard,
carbolineum. Mix equal parts.—-—B.
H. Pettit, Professor of Entomology,
M. A. C. '

VETERINARY
DEPARTMENT

ONE QUARTER OF UDDER
HARDENS

 

 

 

"I am writing to ask advice about '

one of my cows. About once a month
one quarter of her udder will swell
up hard and I will be unable to get
but very little milk and then the next
milking that quarter will soften up
and I will milk out a lot of ropy
milk and then that quarter will be

,. tit-she tester. raports that men- . .:11 right. sometimes it will can:
1 been without silos had a higherteel
cost than members who used silos.

twice in the quarter then in some
other quarter. Now this is a good
cow and I would like to cure‘ her.
Is this a sign of T. B.?—-F. B”.« T.,
Midland, Michigan. \

HE symptoms would indicate that >

your cow is suffering from mast—
‘ itis. The cause of mastitis is in-
fection. The infection may gain en-
trance into the udder through the
teat opening or through the blood
stream, more often the former.

The only way to ﬁnd out if your
cow has tuberculosis is to have the
tuberculin test applied. Better have
your local veterinarian examine your.
cow. He can prescribe the necessary
treatment for mastitis, and, if he
thinks it advisable, you can have him
apply the tuberculin test.—-—John P.
Hutton, Assoc. Prof. of Surg. &
Med., M. A. C.

COW IS ALL RIGHT
Since my cow has been let out on
grass her bowels are very loose and
keeps very dirty. Can I do anything?
It I salt her she is worse—I. H.,
Edmore, Michigan.

is not at all unusual for a

cows bowels to be quite loose

- when she is on good pasture. I

think in all probability it is a per-

fectly physiological condition with

the cow—John P. Hutton, Assoc.
Prof. of Surg. and Med., M. A. C.

 

 

  

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5 hand work of ﬁve to seven men, and at the
[I same time they do the cleanest kind of job.
: They pick up tangled and down corn. They
" can be adjusted for tall and short corn and
l they make easily handled bundles.

I Both McCormick and Deering Corn
, Binders have been popular with owners for
l many years but they are of diﬁerent design.
3 The McCormick binds the bundles while
they are in the upright position, and
the Deering ties them as they lie ﬂat.
Both binders have roller bearings. Both

a
. l have channel steel frames,
’ securely bolted and rivet-
i ed together. Sensible con-
: structionforavoiding ﬁeld
. difﬁculties. Can be equip-
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; awagon. Be ready for corn
' harvest. Ask the McCor-
; mick-Deering dealer
[ about these binders and
.. any of the modern corn,
[. machines mentionedhere,
' or write us direct “for
I complete catalog.

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J 606 So. Michigan Ave.

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McCormick -Deering Corn Pickers

HIS is the day of the- corn picker. The McCormick-
Deering goes through a ﬁeld and picks, husks, and loads
onto a wagon the crop on a half—dozen acres a day with-
out anybody doing any unusual work. The husking
‘ is cleaner than average hand
husking and many times as fast.
This big-capacity machine is of
suprisingly light draft; it has 37 4
roller bearings. One man and a E
tractor or 4 or 5 horses handle it. ‘
Ask the dealer or write us for 5
information about the McCor- i
mick - Deering corn picker.

These Machines Save
Corn, Time,
Labor, Money

McCormick - Deering
Ensilage Cutters

R years these binders have made fast FILL your silo easily, economically, and at

just the right time with a McCormick-
Deering ensilage cutter. Built in ﬁve sizes.
Capacities from 3 to 25 tons of cut fodder
an hour. All sizes have reliable safety de-
vices, force-feed, large throat, and heavy ﬂy-
wheels of boiler-plate steel. Cutting and ele-
vating done in one operation, saving power.
Power required from 6 to 25 h. p.

If you want to husk the corn and shred
the fodder, look over the line of McCormick-
Deering huskers and shredders. Made in
in 4, 6, 8 and lO-roll sizes, for individual
and custom work.

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Stock for hatching and Baby. Chicks. May
chick 3 .00 r hundred. Hate 01111: as $8.00
Ear hundred. une Chicks 1 per undred.
m 87. 00 per hundred. en hatched chicks
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=DIRECTORY=

Advertisements inserted under
this heading at 3011 per agate line,
I per issue. Commercial Baby Chick
ldvertiscments 45c per agate line.
Write out what you have to odor
and send it in. We will put it in
type, send proof and quote rates by
return mail. Address The Michigan
Business Farmer, Advertising De-
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Rocks, Reds, Wyandottes, Orpingtons,
Anmmmnorcas. Also Geese Turkeys. Ducks.
All heads.

Band for complete circular with full description
of stock sud price list.

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DETERMINETIIIIE'I‘OCAPONIZE

ITHJN the last few years the
business of producing capons

son

has grown rapidly in this
country, and increasing numbers of
capons are being raised in the Mid-
dle Western States. During 1 the
winter months capon is regularly
quoted in the markets of the large
eastern cities. Massachusettes and
New Jersey are the great centers
for the growing of capons, while
Boston,
are the important markets.

The time of year when caponizing
should be performed, so far as the
eﬁects of the operation and the
rapidity and ease of healing are
concerned, is of little importance.
The capons seem to recover and do
Well at any time. Certain other con-
siderations, however, do inﬂuence
the time, says the United States De-
partment of Agribulture. The age
and size of the cockerel are very im-
portant. As soon as the cockerels
weigh 1% to 2% pounds, or when
2 to 4 months old, they should be
operated upon. The lower age and
weight limits apply particularly to
the American breeds, While the
higher apply to Asiatics. If small-
er than this, their bodies do not
give room enough to work handily.
On the other hand they should nev-
er be over 6 months old, as by this
time the testicles have developed to
a considerable extent, the spermatic
arteries carry greater amounts of
blood, and the danger of pricking
these arteries and causing the fowl
to bleed to death is greatly increas-
ed.

The fact that capons are in great-
est demand and bring the best
prices from the Christmas season
until the end of March, and that it
takes about 10 months to grow and
ﬁnish them properly, makes it im—
portant to hatch the chicks in early
spring so that they will be of the
proper size for caponizing in June,
July, and August. These are by far
the most popular months for the
operation, though in some cases it
is performed still later.

CHICKS NEED SUNLIGHT AND
YELLOW CORN

HE importance of sunlight and
yellow corn in the growth and
development of chickens is

strikingly showu in a. series of inter-
esting experiments made at the
Wisconsin University Experiment
Station.

It has long been known that sun—
light plays an important part in the
development of all green plants, but
the direct relation of this form of
energy to animal life has but recent-
ly attracted attention. Nutrition
studies during the past few years in-
dicate that in some cases at least
light may be almost as important a.
factor in the normal development of
certain animals as it is in the growth
of green plants.

Four groups of birds, each group
consisting of ten White Leghorn baby
chicks, were used in the experiments.
. Group 1 received a ration consist-
ing of 97 parts of White corn, 2 parts
of ground limestone, and 1 part of
common salt, and had free access to
skim milk. The birds were conﬁned
in a runway in the basement of the
poultry building with the windows
closed. Group 2 received exactly the
same ration as the ﬁrst, but the birds
were placed upon a board ﬂoor out
of doors and exposed to sunlight dur-
ing the day.

Group 3 received yellow corn in-
stead of white corn and like the ﬁrst
group were conﬁned in the basement
of the building. Group 4 received
the same ration as Group 3, but the
birds were placed out of doors on
board ﬂoors and in the sunlight in
the same manner as Group 2.

Comparative Growth

Growth in all four lots for the ﬁrst
two weeks was apparently normal,
due to the fact that the vitamins
factors had been stored up in sufﬁc-
ient quantity in the egg yolks and
the hatched chicks. After that time,
however. the Group 1 birds practic-
ally ceased to grow, and all of the
chicks soon died. The birds that re—
ceived yellow corn instead of white
corn and were conﬁned to the base-
ment made somewhat better growth,

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but at the end of ﬁve weeks all but
two of the chicks had died. The
remaining two reached a live weight
of 340 grams, but from then on lost
weight and died at the end of twelve
weeks.

Both groups of chicks that were
exposed to sunlight made remarkable
grthh. The chicks on white corn
did unusually well at ﬁrst, but ceased
to grow after reaching a weight of
600 grams. At this stage they de—
veloped eye trouble and an unsteady
gait accompanied by more or less
dizziness. It became apparent that
it would be impossible to raise chicks
even in the sunlight with such a
ration as white corn and skim milk.

The birds in Group 4 which lived
on yellow corn, skim milk, and sun-
light were in good condition through—
out the experiment and showed every
prospect of continuing their growth
to complete maturity. All of the
necessary factors of growth were
available, a good protein mixture,
ample ash, and the necessary vita-
mines.
the age of four months.

Overcoming Leg Weakness

The experiments showed clearly
that diseases in chickens, such as leg
weakness, which is a form of rickets,
may be overcome by supplementing
with sunlight and otherwise satisfac-
tory ration. This is due to the cura-
tive er preventive power of the ra-
diant energy of sunlight.

Other experiments showed that
cod—liver oil, eggs, milk, and green
feed are active agents in preventing
leg weakness in chickens when fed
during the early growing period. A
number of groups of chickens fed
separately with a ration consisting
of 80 parts of yellow corn, 20 of
middlings, 5 of lime rock, 5 of bone
meal, and 1 of salt together with
skim milk as a drink, made satisfac-
tory growth although conﬁned on a
cement ﬂoor during the ﬁrst six
weeks of their lives.

It was found that no difference
occurs in the time in which leg weak-
ness develops as between chicks
hatched from a ration of white corn
plus pork liver, placed in the same
brooder with chicks of the same age
hatcher from a. ration of yellow corn
plus pork liver, and both groups fed
on a ration known to produce leg
weakness. The chickens fed on yel-
low corn made better growth than
did those on the white corn ration.
Most of the chicks from the white
corn casein ration died within forty-
eight' hours after hatching, thus in-
dicating the necessity of vitamine-
rich feed (as found in the yellow
corn) in the poultry ration to main—
tain the hatchability of the eggs.

Further experiments showed that
whereas white corn and similar feed
produce white yolks, and that yellow
corn and green feed produce yellow
yolks, a slight yellowness in egg
yolks can be obtained by the feeding
of yellow carrots.

The experiments proved conclus—
ively that diseases such as rickets
are the result of a deﬁcnency of cer«
tain factors in the diet of animals,
and that the substitution of yellow
corn for white may overcome difﬁ-
culties which have been encountered
because of the lack of the fat—soluble
vitamins in the grain. Further, that
the use of green feeds of cod-liver
oil has a pronounced inﬂuence upon
the health and growth of various
animals when fed on ricket—produc-
ing rations.

The production of hens, as well as
the hatchability of their eggs, may to
a very large extent be dependent
upon the supply of vitamines in their
food and the same factors have been
found to be of particular importance
in the normal rearing of young chicks
which, because of their early matur-
ity and relative sensitiveness, make
splendid experimental animals for
such studies. Wisconsin University
ofﬁcials feel that the practical ap-
plication of these ﬁndings will have
an important bearing in the chicken
industry—Farm and Ranch.

N O INTERNAL INSEUEICIDE
CURE FOR EXTERNAL PESTS

ANUFACTURING and selling
M preparations for controlling
lice, mites, ticks (blue bugs)
and other external parasites of ~

poultry by serving to the fowls in

The birds produced eggs at-

    

and one which the United States
Department of Agriculture says

should not be tolerated. A‘number

of mixtures advertised for use in
controlling external posts by admin-
istering in the food have been test-
ed by the Insecticide and Fungicide ,
Board of the department and all
have been found to be ineffective.
Among the products which were of—
fered as powders to be mixed with
the feed are several containing mix-
tures of sulphur, charcoal, mag-
nesium sulphate, ferrous sulphate,

nux vomica, capsicum, sodium ‘cér-
bonate, napthalene, lime salt, and
sand. Some of the mixtures were

lime-sulphur solutions to be added
to the drinking water; some cal-
cium sulphide tablets of various
percentages and having quantities
of other chemicals as well. All
were tested and found to be inef-
fective for the purpose advertised.

In view of these numerous tests
the board has served notice on the
manufacturers who may be selling
or contemplate selling the above
mentioned products to be used in
this manner for controlling extern-
al pests of poultry that they are
guilty of violating the provisions of
the insecticide act of 1910, and that
the products are misbranded. The
board is of the opinion that these
tests are suﬂicient to strongly indi-
cate that such a method is inffective
and further that it is extremely
doubtful if any substance will be
found which will be effective when
used in the feed, or drinking water.
Tests have not been made of all of
the mixtures advertised against all
of the pests named, but, taking into
consideration the tests which have
been made and the anatomy and
physiology of chickens, it is believ-
ed that it is unlikely that any of the
substances proposed, or any combin-
ation of them, when fed to chickens
will control any of the external par-
asites infesting them. These prep-
arations are sold for the most part
directly to consumers by parcel post.

BUMBLEFOOT
I have some hens that have a
swelling in the foot. The ﬁrst one
I thought had hurt the point above
the foot but upon looking at it found

_ it was a large swelling and there was,

a scab on it nearly as large as a dime.
That hen I killed. Then a. few days
afterward found two others had it.
Can you tell me what it is and What
I can do for it? I hate to lost all
of my chickens and would sure be
glad to get information on it.——-L. H.,
So. Rockwood, Michigan.

HE swollen condition of the foot
is undoubtedly a condition re-
ferred to as Bumblefoot. The

cause of Bumblefoot is usually at-
tributed to a mechanical injury, such
as walking on gravel ﬂoors or runs,
roosting on too Wide perches or high

' roosts, combined with narrow build-

ings, necessitating the birds to jump
and alighting heavily on their- feet.
The symptoms reveal a swollen con-
dition below the foot, and between
the toes. This swelling should be
lanced and the pus removed, after
which the foot should be treated
with carbolated vaseline having been
thoroughly cleansed—E. C. Fore-
man, Professor of Poultry Husband-
ry, M. A. C.

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looks like the day after a cyclone! What
have you been doing?”

Mary—"Well,ma'a1m, blessed if it be my
fault. The young ladies has Just been
showing me how they bile a. per-tater at
their cooking school.”

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cruise in the central purchasing of
farm supplies and giving to the
widly scattered farmers a united
voice which is beginning to speak
for them effectively in transportar
tion, legislation, taxation and other
great matters where the interests of
the farmers are vitally at stake and
where individual action is futile but
collective pressure is extremely ef-
fective.

All this is most encouraging as it
indicates better social and economic
conditions for the farmer, for once
the agricultural interests learn to
work in harmony they will ﬁnd that
they are the strongest class in the
world. The bane of the past has
been that the farmers have not real-
ized the importance of cooperation.
At best they have worked independ-
ently, and in many cases they have
actually entered into competition
with each other. This day is past,
and everywhere we see evidences of
rural cooperation —— cooperative
creameries, live stock shipping as-
sociations, fruit associations, potato
exchanges, grain elevators, etc.

Now that the farmers have found
their power, they will not relinquish
the advantages which they have
gained, but will continue along the
lines which have already proved so
successful. Thus they will come
into their own and secure those ad-
vantages to which they are entitled
as one of the greatest classes of
producers of the basic wealth of the
nation.

The brief review of agricultural
conditions given above is merely
suggestive and no attempt has been
made to be exhaustive. Undoubted-
ly, anyone who is at all familiar
with rural life can think of many
other factors which might be in-
cluded in even an elementary sur-
vey of this subject. However, the
purpose of this article is merely to
point out some of those factors
which contrast so strongly with con-
ditions in- the restless, throbbing
city, and which make the farm such
an ideal place in which to live the
full life.

Heading the Farm Call

May the young manhood and
womanhood of this generation hear
the call and feel the lure. It were
indeed a catastrophe if they did
not. It were little short of a tra 'c
and ironical “trick of fate if t e
young men who went forth and en-
dured the terrible din and roar of
cannons and all the hardships of
wan—all for liberty and better liv-
ing conditions for mankind~
hould, now that they are back and

ghting the battle of peace, volun-
tarily choose to live amo the un-
nerving conditions of mo ern cit

when all the advantages of

the country are before them.

Let them select that occupation
whose usefulness and dignity is un-

Good-Bye Mr.

ICHIGAN is receiving the atten-
tion of a beneﬂcent worm this
summer, according to Prof. R.

H. Pettit, head of the Michigan Ag-
ricultural College entomology de-
partment, who warns the farmers
that they have nothing to fear from
an inch and a half caterpillar with
10 forked spines in rows down its
bac . Numerous specimens of this
caterpillar have been sent to Prof.
Pettit by alarmed farmers and he
states that examination reveals it to
be the larvae of the thistle-butterﬂy,
an insect fairly common during
most summers, but occuring in
large numbers this year.

This insect, conﬁnes its feeding
habits almost entirely to thistles
with the Canada thistle as first
choice at all times, according to
Prof. Pettit. The insects occasion-
ally will feed on burdock, elm, net-
tles and plantain, but never on any
crop of value unless driven to it by
starvation, in which case they may
do some slight damage to soy beans
and to peppermint.

“However, the coming of this
creature in Michigan is really a
blessing rather than a menace,"
Prof. Pettit said. “I think we can
rest secure and watch these butter-
ﬂy larvae destroy our bad , _ ,
without incurring any expense. ‘_ ‘

, lithe run me {n'ihérml

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questioned. Let them choose that
life which makes them independent
-—which raises them above the posi-
tion of mere cogs in the wheels of
industry. Let them establish their
homes where their children will
grow up under their own careful
guidance and training and not be
away all day and use the home
merely for a boarding place.

Let them choose their environ-
ment where the birds sing and all
nature buds and blossoms, where
God’s power is daily revealed as the
farm animals and crops grow and
bring forth their increase, where
the beams of the sunrise each morn-
ing light up a golden pathway of
duty, where each sunset and peace-
ful twilight brings a benediction
upon the day’s labors, where each
rainbow is a reminder of God’s con-
tinuing mercy and favor.

Let them live where they daily
catch inspiration, and where those
wondrous thoughts come to them
which slip through more words and
cannot be uttered but are no less
deep and potent in their meaning
and inﬂuence. Let them do all this
and forsake the city streets where
the sun beats down relentlessly and
is reﬂected back from the pave—
ments, where the dust laden wind
sweeps down the canyon between
the skyscrapers, where the beauty
of the sunrise and sunset is ob-
structed by buildings and obscured
by smoke clouds, where the wonder-
ful verdure (God’s covering for His
creation) has been displaced by
concrete and buildings, and where
all the myraid voices of Nature are
drowned in the road of the city’s
bustle and trafﬁc. '

’Tis thus I meditate as I sit here.
The breeze stirs. A bird sings. The
shadOWs begin to lengthen, reaching
out hungry hands toward the east.
The sun declines. I hear a whir, a
roar. A motor car goes roaring
past in a. cloud of dust. Why, young
man, are you in such haste? Do
you seek happiness? Look about
you. It is yours for the taking. The
old motto comes home to me, “I
would rather be able to appreciate
things I cannot have than to have
things I am unable to appreciate.”

Let us learn to count our bless-
ings, to look upon the bright side,
to appreciate the distinctive joys
and privileges of farm life and to
take heart to ﬁght the battle which
each day may bring. Let us not be
so busy attempting to earn a living
that we fail to really live, to feel, to
appreciate, to love.

And this is the thought which I
would bring to each of the thous-
ands of farm homes in THE BUSI-
NEss FABMEB family.

 

Isn’t It So?
Teacher—”Jimmy, what is a fortiﬁca-

tion?"
Jimmh— twentiﬂcations make one
fortiﬁcation' _---School Journal.

Canada Thistle

any case the larvae are due to pu-
pate very soon, and change into
beautiful butterﬂies, so no one
needs to worry about this very un—
usual invasion."

And now, apparently unheedful
of the ravages already suifered this
year by the Canada thistle from the
thistle-butterﬂies, Howard C. Rath-
er, M. A. C. farm crops specialist,
announces that the growing of al-
falfa is one of the best ways of
eradicating Canada thistles.

If the infested ﬁelds are not seed-
ed in the spring, are then plowed,
and ﬁnally Seeded to alfalfa during
the first week in August or at the
end of the droughty season, the
thistles will be held in check until
the alfalfa has made a start.

In the next year the thistles will
be killed out by the frequent cut-
tings of alfalfa, Mr. Rather states,
adding, however, that “the alfalfa
will do little toward the eradication
of the thistle the ﬁrst season.

“In securing a seeding of alfalfa,
only northern grown seed should be
used,” he advises. “The Grimm and
other varigated strains are well
adapted to Michigan conditions. The
seed should be inoculated and the
’5 ed bed should be well ﬁrmed. If

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A Personal Word of'Warning
before you buy your Fertilizer

In mom years «perform. conditions (n lhsferllllzerﬁeld have
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Too much talk is bein given to whet fertilizer costs and not enough

tow tgoesinit. pf " canbeuexpensiveuncheep

lawyer in n big lawsuit. l have 'ven the best years of my life to the

development of high grads fertilizer. and these years have tnught me

one foot I wont to pass on to you; and that is. that I can males 1 given

Endy'tntoto o’cll pretty nearly as cheaply as I want. if that's what
won 0

In the early stages of the fertilizer business I saw that the real future
lay in trying to nuke the fertilizer I could. and that there were
nlwn enough good farmers willing and anxious to pay a fair rice
for to best. Because. after u few seasons of experiment with C en
fertilizers. the sensible farmer realizes thnt fertilizer is cheap or hig
only accordanf‘g the results it brings. and that therefore. any fer-
tilizershort 0 very best is dearly expensive in the long run. My
nmbinon. therefore. became fixed .on working out formulas and proo-
oues that would every year improve the quality of my 2 .

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Evert year my business w. More and more farmers discovered
the c cnpness of high qunYirtey fertilizer. Some of m customers have
using nothing else but my "Roylter" fertilixr or 30 odd years.

any season I have been unnhle to nuke enough to supply all my
orders. Last season I had n record-breaking sale. yet in some states
farmers who wanted "Roystzer's" high grade fertilizer had to 5:
without it, even tho they were glad to pay more for it than for or '
nary fertilizer.

It takes time. care and experience to make "Royster's" fertilizer.
For instance. eve ton of it is "cured" or aged for at least three
months. after mixing. to insure perfect chemical and physical con-
dition, and no preserve of orders on hand will make a: shorten this
curinngerlod just in order to sell more goods. This sort of core for
the ' oyster" reputation for unsurpassed quality has won me the
conﬁdence and trade of millions of farmers, which I value and esteem

zealously.
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This personal word of warning is written to tell you that i am out
of the com tition now going on to see who can make the cheapest
fertilizer. am going to plug along making the ﬁnest quality goo

I can. to sell at a few cents a. ton proﬁt above cost of manufacture.
Before I consent to change the quality standards of the F. S. Royster
Guano Co.. l would shut every door of my factories, ay OE every
Employee, and see the buildings rot away in idleness. or your own
sake. deliberate carefully this season before you buy your fertilizer-
If you decide to invest in "Royster's" quality fertilizer. you have my
personal promise that you will never regret the purchase after you see
the results. It isn't so much what you put into it, but what you get out
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If Farmers Increase, Wheai Average, Lower 1925 Prices
Will Resulta Future Bright For LiveStock Market
By W. W. FOOTE, Market Editor.

ORECASTING the future of the
grain markets is a delicate mat—
ter always, and trying to ﬁgure

out the wheat market a year ahead
is obviously some job; but this is
involved in the question put by a
Michigan farmer who writes asking:
"Will you please advise me when to
sell my wheat? Also, would you ad-
vise sowing a large wheat acreage
this fall?" To be frank, I will say I
do not know whether it is best'to
sell now; but it is an old saying that
it is a good thing to accept a good
price when it is offered, and ruling
market prices look good to many
old-timers in the leading wheat grow-
ing districts. However, there has
Been a quite recent reaction in prices
for wheat for future delivery, and

. perhaps it would be well to wait for

advances of a few cents a bushel be-
fore selling; and it might be a good
thing to sell from time to time, and
take only moderate chances of lower
prices. Personally, it seems best not
to look for the highest possible prices
and taking chances of reduced values
in the end, for there is always a
limit, and “a bird in the hand is
worth two in the bush,” you know.
Now as to sowing a large acreage in
the coming autumn. Every farmer
knows that high prices for wheat or
anything else are sure to result in
an enlarged acreage, and should the
crop do well, the ultimate outcome
would naturally be a corresponding
fall in prices. Therefore, would it
not be the safer policy to devote only
a fair average number of acres to
Winter wheat, and thereby avoid the
danger of too much less from a pos-
sible fall in prices? In short,“ don’t
put all your eggs in one basket.”
which is just as true advice as was
ever given by wise men. To a cer—
tain extent every farmer is a specu-
lator in raising crops, and diversify—
ing his crops has always proved a
good safety valve. Specialists in
single lines often make large proﬁts,
but diversiﬁed crops offer to the aver-
age cultivator of the soil the surest

. returns, and it is a mighty good thing

to look to the farm for raising most
of the food used by the family.
August Crop Report

The crop report for August made
by the Department of Agriculture
was a surprise, as it made the wheat
and oats crop larger than we ex-
pected, and the corn crop much
smaller. The wheat crop this year
will total 814,000,000 bu. compared
with 786,000,000 bu. last year,
the department of agriculture esti-
mated. This is an increase of 74,-
000,000 bu. above the department’s
July 1 estimate of the crop, which

‘ was followed by sky-rocketing prices.

Winter wheat, with an estimated
yield of 16 bu. per acre from 36,-
898,000 acres under cultivation, will
account for 589,000,000 bu. of the
total. Spring wheat condition, which
on Aug. 1 was 79.2 per cent of nor-
mal, will, on the basis of a yield of
13.2 bu. per acre from 16,920,000
acres sown, produce 225,000,000 bu.,
the department estimated.

The average price of all wheat on
farms July 15 was $1,058, against
89.6 cents last year.

The corn crop will amount to only

.‘ 2,576,000,000 bu., against 3,046,000,-

000 bu. Aug. 1 was 70.7 per cent of
normal, against 72 per cent on July
1. Yield per acre was estimated by

' the department at 24.4 bu. from 105,-

604,000 acres in cultivation, with a
farm price of 98.3 cents per bu.
An oats crop of 1, 439,000,000 bu.

‘ is promised, which will compare with

1,300,000,000 bu. last year, and is
the largest yield since 1918. Stocks
of oats on United States farms Aug.
1 were only 65,256,000 bu. compared

1‘ with 92,982,000 bu. on the same date

last year.
Farm Products Go Higher
Better times have dawned for

i farmers at last, and substantial ad-

‘yances in prices have taken place

during recent weeks, the upward
movement including fat cattle, as
Well as hogs, the rise in swine being
unexpectedly large. Lambs have sold
satisfactorily on the whole when they

' were well fattened, but owners have
been apt to glut the market and»

thereby enable the packers to force
prices lower. The future certainly
looks much brighter for live stock,
While the grain markets have been
placed in the strongest position ex-
perienced in a long period. There
is no longer any good reason to re-
sort to unusual methods for putting
wheat on a higher basis, and this
is also true of corn, oats, rye and
barley. It is simply a matter of
supply and demand, farmers having
curtailed their Wheat acreage, while
nature did the rest, the crop in some
districts having been reduced by bad
weather. Fortunately, there is a
ﬁne, large crop of cats, while the
rye crop is fairly good, but it is gen-
erally admitted that the corn crop
is bound to turn out a short one
owing to the unusually late start be—
cause of cold and rainy weather and
a repitition of this since then. Look-
ing into the future so far as is possi—
ble, it may be said that some farm-
ers face a partial crop failure, while
others will probably harvest a good
crop. Those who have good crops of
corn may be expected to have their
wealth much increased, While the
others will fare poorly in spite of
high price. Corn looks spindly on
untiled ﬁelds around Chicago, but
plenty of drained ﬁelds present a
good appearance. The many gardens
of vegetables are turning out ﬁnely,
and the wayside sellers are doing a.
thriving business. Farmers have
been busy as a hive of bees, making
hay and plowing their corn ﬁelds,
and to a much greater extent than
ever before farm machinery is taking
the place of expensive hired farm
workers. Farmers are also using
large numbers of motor trucks, and
apparently the <farmer who owns no
automobile is an exception. Not
many farms are being sold, and fewer
farm mortgages are being made
than in past years.
Great Market for Wheat

In every way the wheat market
has been a big one, including the
volume of business and the boom in

prices. During a recent week sales
of wheat -on. the Chicago Board of
Trade aggregated considerably more
than 331,000,000 bushels, and in the
same time prices advanced 9 5’3- cents,

with July taking the lead. Prices a
short time ago reached the high
point this year, with reactions later,
as was natural after ‘such a sudden
boom. The advances in prices which
have taken place were due to world
conditions, and the improvement is
legitimate, with much larger trading
in cash lots than last year. Prices
have been raised to the highest ﬁg-
ures of the year, and sales were the
largest of the year. Winnipeg has
taken the lead in the advance, that
market having gone up as much as
12% cents in the course of a week.
It is natural that the Canadian mar-
ket should attract a great deal of at-
tention at this time, as Canada, Aus-
tralia and Argentina are the largest
surplus growers of wheat, and a re-
duction in the wheat crop of Canada
means much to the European coun-
tries which are short on home crops
of grain. Foreigners are good buy-
ers in American markets, and large
purchases for export are reported.
Active movement of new wheat from
the southwest is increasing the vis-
ible supply materially, and at last
stocks are much larger than a year
ago, while exports of wheat and ﬂour
are making a. good showing. The
oats crop is turning out ﬁne, but
corn promises to be a short crop,
and startling advances have taken
place. Very little corn is being ship-
ped out of the country, but good ex-
ports of oats and rye are reported.
Late sales were made of wheat for
September delivery on the Chicago
market around $1.30, September corn
at $1.15%, September oats at 52%
and September rye at 95 cents.

Chicago's Cattle Market

The recent greatly delayed ap-
pearance of summer hot weather ex-
erted a depressing inﬂuence in the
cattle market, the consumption of
beef being checked temporarily, and
prices averaged lower for steers and
other beef cattle, although some
prime heavy cattle and tip—top year-
‘lings went at comparatively high
values. Choice heifers also made
some high proﬁts for their fortunate
owners, and among the most note-
worthy salesman may be mentioned
those of 52 heifers averaging 884
pounds at $9 and $12 heifers aver-
aging 1002 pounds at $10. But it
is the rank and ﬁle of the cattle that
comprise the real market, and these
sell far below prime lots. The oth-
er lots of cows and heifers have
been selling at $4 to $8.75, with a

 

 

THE BUSINESS FARMER’S MARKET SUMMARY
and Comparison with Markets Two Weeks ago and One Year ago

 

 

 

 

 

Detroit Chicago Detroit Detroit
Aug. 13 Aug. 13 July 15 1 yr. ago
WHEAT—
No. 2 Red $1.32 $1.31 $1.21 $1.05
No. 2 White 1.34 1.23 1.05
No. 2 Mixed 1.33 1.28 1.22 1.05
CORN— ‘
N o. 3 Yellow 1.20 1.15 1.12 .92
No. 4 Yellow 1.15 1.13 1.07 .90
OATS—
N o. 2 White .59 lé .51 @ .53 .60 .48
N o. 3 White .57 K .50@.52 .58 .46 $5
RYE—
Cash No. 2 .96 .95 )5 .83 .71 3g
BEAN S—
C. H. P. th. 4.95 4.55@4.60 5.00
POTATOE. -—
Per th. 1.20 @ 1.30 1.66@ 1.83 1.30 @ 1.35
HAY— I
No. 1 Tim. 23.50@24 25@27 23.50@24 19.50@20
No. 2 Tim. 21 @23 22@24 21 @22 17.50@18
No. 1 Clover 19 @20 ' 20@22 19@20 15 16
Light Mixed m.50@23 24 @ 26 22.50 @ 23 16:50@ 19

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, Aug. 13.—-—Wheat off because of better reports from Southwest and Win-

netpeg. Corn steady.

Beans. dormant. Oats off. Chicago butter, 36%. Eggs 286nm,

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.cenner cows at $2.25 to $3.50, bulls
going at $3.50 ot
$4 to $11. Best steers sold at $5 to
$7. for interior light weights up to
$10.75 to $11.40 for the better class
of long fed lots, no good steers sell-
ing under $9 and the best yearlings
taken at $10 to $11. The stacker
trade was slow at $5.50 to $6.50 for
the greater part of the oﬂerings,
with inferior stock steers salable at
$4.25 and over, the demand being
mainly fer cattle for grazing, ear
corn checking grain feeding.

A year ago beef steers sold at
$5.50 to $12.25. Combined receipts
of cattle in twenty markets for the
year to late date amount to 7,420,-
000 head comparing with 7,568,000
a year ago and 7,130,000 two years
ago. Within a week cattle prices
declined 50 to 75 cents.

The 'Advance in Hogs

Big advances in prices during re-
cent weeks were Wholly legitimate,
due to greatly reduced receipts in
Chicago "and other markets as com-
pared with supplies earlier in the
summer packing season and a year
ago. Not only were the Chicago
packers liberal buyers, but buyers
for shipment to eastern packing
points also bought many of the
choicer class of hogs, and this made
keen competition in the market.
Better grades of heavy butcher hogs
were the favorites with buyers and
topped the market, going away
above prime light bacon hogs. The-
boom in hog prices has caused sub-
stantial advances in fresh and cured
hog products, and exports of cured
hog meats have been running much
smaller than a year ago, while lard
exports were —much higher. For
1924 to late date combined receipts
in twenty markets amounted to 26,-
334,000 hogs, comparing with 25,-
859,000 a year ago and 20,038,000
two years ago. A year ago hogs
sold on the Chicago market at $6 to

$8.15. The past week’s receipts of
hogs amounted to only 134,775
head, comparing with 146,871 a.

week earlier and 179,024 a year
ago. Active buying put prices up
to $8.25 to $10.35, comparing with
$7.85 to $9.90 a Week earlier, heavy
butchers and light bacon lots going
at the top. ' '

The Sheep Industry

Most of the time well ﬁnished
lambs oﬁered on the Chicago mar-
ket are in good demand at rather
high prices, selling well above prices
paid one, two and three years ago;
but now and then the market is ov-
erstocked after advances in prices
resulting from small receipts, and
this causes declines in quotations.
Breeding ewes are much wanted,
but not many are offered, and prices
are high, with sales at $7 to $11.25,
yearlings selling highest. Feeding
lambs have been selling at $12 to
$13, nowhere near enough being of-
fered. Ayear ago $12.70 paid for
the best killing lambs. Despite
greatly increased Chicago recepits
of lambs last week, prices advanced,
lambs selling at $8 to $13.90.

/« The Bean Crop 7

As summed up by the Bean Bag
and Pea Journal, pea beans are
strong, and the price outlook looks
promising for higher prices. This
is in the face of surface indications
of another bumper Michigan crop,
but there are a number of contribut-
ing causes. The Michigan crop will
be later than usual, probably two to
three weeks later. There come dis-
quieting reports of heavy damage
from the bean maggot. The gov-
ernment crop report just issued
gives a condition of 87 pe cent
against 91 per cent a year ago at
this time, but many observers say
the maggot damage will astonish
the nation When its ravages ﬁnally
become known. California’s white
bean acreage and estimated produc-
tion are cut to an alarming extent,
so much so that Michigan’s pea
beans will form'practically one—half
of the entire production. of beans in
the country this year. Colorado
and New Mexico are about to pro-
duce a crop half again. as large as
last year, but these are pinto beans.
and not strictly in competition with
the white beam. New York will

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astounded at the high moisture content of wheat deliveries. The

   
  

grain, in many instances, gives evidence of having been threshed be-
fore it was given an opportunity to properly dry in the shocks. The
moisture content of wheat, “as well as other farm products, is higher
than normal this year because of the heavy rains.

“Millers are ﬁnding an alarming condition in this year’s wheat

crop,” said Lee H. Higgins.

‘ﬁecroppassedallexpectationsasto

quality and quantity, but in their haste to market some of the crop or,

in many cases, to

threshing crews, farmers have hauled

accommodate
and threshed wheat that was not thoroughly dry. Much of this wheat
will heat in storage and We almost a total loss. ,Even in cases in
which farmers have made an eﬂort to dry the grain after threshing,

they have had trouble saving it.

“Theonlyproperplacetodrywhutcaughtintherainaiterit
hasbeencutisintheshock. muimmediatelyandminpt-
.ingtodryitlateris'agreatﬂsh” handmummoismre content in
new wheat, it is said, should not be more than 14 per cent, but Eig-
gins says three samples taken recently showed 1714,1836 and 20%

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Michigan interests are working
on a plan to inaugurate an advertis-
ing campaign of their own. It is
planned to get the growers to spend
one cent per bag and the elevators
another cent a bag. If this goes
through an enormous fund can be
created and if judiciously used, not
only Michigan but all the bean
states will see a. direct beneﬁt.

 

BEANS

The latest ﬁgures place the crop at
13,688,000 bushels. Michigan leads
with 6,242,000 bushels, followed by
California with 2,059,000, Colorado
with 2,010,000, New York with 1,-
746,000, Idaho with 775,000, New
Mexico with 704,000, Wisconsin
wiht 117,000, and Arizona with 35,-
000. The total crop in 1923 was
15,740,000 bushels.

POTATOES

The estimated potato crop of the
United States is 398,821,000 bush-
els, which is only thirteen and one-
half millions less than the ﬁnal pro-
duction ﬁgures for last year. Min-

 

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Week of August 17
MPERATURES in Michigan
, will average below normal for
the week of August 17th while
we are expecting the rainfall to av:
erage above the normal quantity. .

During the ﬁrst part of the week
many electrical storms will visit
numerous sections of the state.
These storms with heavy local rains
and moderately strong Winds will be
more noticeable about Sunday and
Wednesday. .

On or immediately after the mid-
dle of the week the temperature will
take a. sudden drop and fail to rally
much before the end of the week.

About the last day of the week
temperatures will rise somewhat
above normal and storm conditions
will increase. The rainfall period
will run into next week but it Will
not be general nor plentiful.

Week of August 24

Following the threatening and
showery conditions of last of last
week and ﬁrst of this, the weather
will become pleasantly cool and
fair. The week, as a. whole, will be
clear and cool yet there may be ex-
pected the usual summer thunder
storm. We look for no hot, sultry
weather in Michigan this week.

This week ends with the weather
becoming unsettled and theatening.
During Friday and Saturday follow-
ing a sudden rise in the tempera-
ture, atmospheric conditions will de-
velop into moderately heavy rain
and thunder stems,

June Forecast Correct

With only 12 hundredths of an

inch or ramtau above the normal in

'Wan £01.33” our forecast
, ‘ttdn win not average far .,

_ 'normal” was again-correct.
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:1 correct when: temperatures averaged ,

W6 degrees - below normal.

With 37,662,000 and Michigan is
39,196,000; New York is second
third with 31,611,000. Other im-
portant states report as follows:
Maine, 28,276,000; Pennsylvania,
24,595,000; Virginia, 18,720,000;
Ohio, 10,055,000; Wisconsin, 28,-
125,000; North Dakota, 13,845,000;
Colorado, 11,314,000; Idaho, 10,-
613,000; California, 6,594,000; and
Washington, 6,248,000. The Mich-
igan crop is in excellent condition in
all except a few counties, and eight
per cent above the ten-year average
and six per cent better than one
year ago on August 1, according to
the ofﬁcial reports.

LIVE STOCK MARKETS

DETROIT, Aug. 13.—Cattle~—Receipts
878; market steady but slow. Fancy year-
ling, $8.50@9.25; best heavy steers, $8.25
@8.75; best handy Weight butcher steers,
$7@7.75; mixed steers and heifers, $6017
6.50; handy light butchers, $5.50@6;
light butchers, $4.75@5; best cows, $5@
5.60; butcher cows, $3.75@4.50; common
cows, 33; cannons, “@275; choice light,
$535.50; bologna bulls, $4.50@5.25;
stock bulls, $8.50@4.50; feeders, ”@6150:
stockers, “@550; mllkers and springers,
$45@85.

Veal calves—Receipts, 345; market
higher; best, $11.50@12; others, $5@11.

Sheep and lambs—Receipts, 439. Mar-
ket opening as 'i’ollows: Best lambs, $13@
13.26; fair lambs, $10.50@12; light to
common lambs, $7@8.50; fair to good
Eggep, $5@6.50; culls and common, $1.50
Hogs—Receipts, 781. Market prospects:
Mixed hogs and heavy yorkers, $10.15;
pig's, $9.25.

CHICAGO, Aug. 13.——-Hogs—Receipts,
56,000; market 10 to 15 cents lower.
Bulk, $8.90@9.90; top, $10.15; heavy
weight, $9.50@10.15; medium weight,
$9.60@10.15; light weight, $9.45@10.10;
light lights, $9@10; heavy packing sows,
smooth, $8.40@8.90; packing sows, rough,
”@840: pigs. $8.25@$9.60.

Cattle—-Receipts, 21,000: market 15 to
25 cents lower. Beef steers: Choice and
prime, $10.50@11.50; medium and good,
$8.50@10’; good and choice, $10@11.25;
common and medium, $7.50@9. Butcher
cattle, Heifers, $5.50@9.50; cows, $4@8;
bulls, $4@7. Canners and cutters: Cows
and heifers, $2@4; canner steers, $5@7.
Veal calves, light and handy weight, $8
@11; feeder steers, $5.50@8.25; stocker
steers. $5.25@8; stocker cows and heifers,
$3@5.50; stocker calves, $5@8. Calves

’~—Receipts, 3,000.

Sheep and lambs—Receipt, 2,000; mar-
ket steady. Lambs, fat, $12.50@14; culls
and common, $8@9; yearlings, $10@
11.50; ewes, $6.50@8; culls and common,
$2@4; breeding, $4.50@11.50; feeder
lambs, $12@14; wethers, $7.50@9.

BUFFALO, Aug. 13.--Cattle——Receipts,
2,700; market active. Prime steers, $10
@10.75; shipping steers, $8.25@10.25;
butcher grades, $7.50@9; heifers, $5.50@
8; cows, $2@6.50; bulls, $3@6; feeders,
ﬁ.50@7; milk cows and springers, $30@

5.

Calves—Receipts, 1,500; market active.
Cull to choice, $3@11.50.

Sheep and lamhb—Reoeipts, 3,000; mar-
ket slow. Choice lambs, $13@13.50; cull
to fair, 8'8@12.50; yearlings, $7@10.50;
sheep, $3@9.

Hogs—Receipts, 12,800; market active.
Yorkers, $10@10.75; pigs, $10@10.25;
mixed, $10.65@10.75; heavy, $10.65@
16.75; roughs, $8@8.50: stags. $4@5.

 

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Yes, potash pays. And in your rota-
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Trade Name Motor Oil Mogul ..................... S. H.
Adaptable. ................ H. Moline ..................... S. H.
Allis-Chalmers, (3-12 .......... H. Monarch ................... H.
Allis-Chalmers, Other ModelsS. H. Nilson ..................... S. H.
All Work ................... S. H. Oil-Gas ..................... E. H.
Andrews-Kincade ............ 1.). H. Peoria ...................... E. H.
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Avery, C. & Road Razor ..... H. an 20-40 ................. E. H.
Avery, Track Runner ........ S. H. Rumley, Other Models ....... E. H.
Avery, Other Models. . . . . . . . .E. 11. Russell ..................... S. H.
Bates Steel Mule, Midwest Samson ..................... S. H.

Motor .................... S. H. Shawnee .................... H.
Bates, Other Models ......... II. Square Turn ................ E. H.
Bear ....................... S. H. Stinson ..................... S. H.
Best Tracklayer ............. E. H. Titan ...................... S. H.
Big Farmer ................. l}. H. Topp—Stewart ............... S. H.
Case, 10-18, 12-20 and 15-27. .11. Tom ....................... H.
Case, 22— ................. S. H. Townsend .................. E. H.
Case, Other Models .......... E. H. Traylor .................... H.
Cletrac, F .................. H. Trundaar ................... S. H.
Cletrac, W .................. S. H. Twin City, 12-20 and 20-35. . .S. H.
Coleman ................... l]. H. Twin City, Other Models... . .E. H.
Dart ....................... S. H. Uncle Sam .................. S. H.
EagIeS H. Wallis ...................... S.H.
l-B ........................ S. H. Waterloo Boy ............... S, H.
Ellwood .................... ll. Wetmore ................... S. H.
gang Horse ................. i. g. Wisconsin .................. S. H.

itc ....................... E. .
Flour City, Junior and 20—35. .S. H. Acme CULTIVATOHS. . _ .H.
Flour City, Other Models ..... l}. H. Aro ""”'” ' ' " ....... H.
Fordson .................... S‘. H. Avg”; _ ......... H.
FO'X ........................ 11:. H. Bailor _____________________ H-
Fuck ...................... S. H. Bccman ___________________ H.
Gray ------------------ S. 11‘ Bolens ..................... H.
Hart-Parr .................. In. H. Boring ________________ H.
Heider.....................S. H. Centaur-U _________ H.
Holt, 2-Ton ................. H. DO—It-All ............... S. H
H0”! Other Models -------- E' B International... ........... H.
Huber ...................... S. H. Kineade .................... H_
Indiana... ................... H. Merry Garden. ‘ . ' _ _ . _ . _ _ . _ .M.
International ---------------- H' Motor Macultivator ......... S. H.
J» ----------------------- F- E New Britain ........... . ..... H.
Klumb ..................... E. H. ed E ..................... H.
La Crosse .................. E. H. Spry Wheel _________________ E. H.
1Iiauson ..................... g. g. Utilator ............. ,...H.
Buef......... ............ - -
Leonard .................... S. H. KEY
Liberty ..................... g. g. l..—Polarine Light
Smash; ................. S‘ H' M.—Polar|ne Medium
McCormick-Deering ......... H. H.—Polarlne Heavy. ll
Minneapolis, 12-25 and 17-30.S. H. S.ﬂ.—-PolarlneSpec al envy
Minneapolis, Other Models. . E. H. E.Il.—Polarine Extra Heavy

 

 

N. B.—-For recommendations of grades of Polarine to
use in automobiles and trucks consult chart at any

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Merriman Brothers ‘ of Deckerville, Michigan, write:

“We own and farm over 500 acres of land, and we have
used F ordson tractors during the last 4 years.

“We have done a great deal of shopping around on
tractor oils, trying all of the well-known brands, and
have now proved to our satisfaction that your Polarine
Heavy is the best oil obtainable for the lubrication of
the Fordson Tractor.”

There is a correct grade of Polarine for your car, tractor or truck,
no matter what make it may be. And when you use this grade,
you will note both a marked saving in fuel and a marked drop
in repair cost and renewal of parts.

Polarine actually makes tractor fuel go further. This is because
Polarine is scientiﬁcally made. It forms .a perfect seal about
the piston to conserve the power your engine develops. /

Polarine saves parts because it reduces friction to a minimum.
It maintains its body under all working conditions. It does not
break down.

Don’t experiment. Don’t risk layoffs in your busy season. Use the
correct grade of Polarine throughout the season. Then compare
your tractor’s performance under these new conditions with its
performance last year. You’ll be pleased with the improvement.

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