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/‘ Reduction at this Time Would 'Imperil Beet Growing ‘in America—F arm Bureau, Dairy Interests
A and Others Rally for Defense

By STANLEY M. POWELL

(Iansing Correspondent of The Business Farmer.)

UGAR beet growers of Michigan
possibly do not all realize that
there is a movement on foot

which if carried out would be any-
thing but beneﬁcial to them. There
is a menace not generally appreciat-
ed in the recommendation recently
made to the ,President by three
members of the Tariff Commission
that the duty on sugar be reduced.

Michigan sugar beet growers do

not need anyone to tell them that if
the tariff on foreign sugar is mater-
ially reduced it will undermine the
price of sugar in the United States
until beet ﬁelds which now bring in
a little proﬁt would actually be op-

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Especially now that such a large
proportion of the Michigan beets are
being grown under a participating
contract, sugar beet growers are
vitally interested in everything
which affects the price of sugar.

Means Much to Us

The sugar beet growing industry
is just getting nicely established in
Michigan. In 1923 there were 131,-
000 acres planted to beets, of which
109,000 acres were harvested. This
season 174,000 acres were planted.
Thus the industry is on the gain
and if it receives no serious set-back
it appears destined to become an. im-
portant factor in Michigan's agricul-
ture.

It might be timely to state that
sugar beet production in Michigan
is a far more important factor in in-
ﬂuencing the cash incomes of our
farms than is commonly realized.
During 1923 Michigan farmers re-
ceived $8,240,000 for their sugar
beet crop. This is more than one-
eighth of the $62,333,000 which
constituted their total cash income
from the sale of all farm crops, ex-
clusive of fruit and truck produce.

The total value of all farm prod-
ucts produced in Michigan last
year was $242,472,000, but as stat-
ed above, only $62,833,000 of these
crops were sold as cash crops, while
the balance was consumed on the
farm. ted to live stock, etc. How-
ever, 109 per cent of the sugar
beets produced were sold directly so
the price of sugar beets is a big fac-
tor in determining the cash incomes
of our farms today. and promises to
be mere so in the years to come.

Last year Michigan forged ahead
to second place among the several
states as a producer of ugar beets.
Colorado had a production of 2,360,-
000 tons, Michigan 1,273,000 and
Utah 700,000 tons. Thus Michigan
grew more than one sixth of the
7,439,000 tons of sugar beets which
were produced in the United States
last year, and which are reported to
have yielded 961,000 tons of beet
sugar. These few ﬁgures prove con-
elusiver that Michigan farmers are
profoundly interested in the reten-
tion of the present sugar tariff
schedules.

Manufacturer

Commenting of the present situa-
tion Mr. W. H. Wallace, General
Manager of the Michigan Sugar
Company. says.

“Michigan farmers and farm or-
ganizations can consistantly ask
that no change be made in the tariff
on sugar, considering the fact that
now under the present contract they
are just as much interested in the

price received for sugar as the
manufacturer.
"Why the -Commission would

spend days listening to the Cuban
planters, and not offer to give the

~United States beet grower an oppor-

tunity, is beyond me.

';’V‘;t‘;;‘:Just following the War we had
an e

V  of what the, Cubans
 do to us. if they had an op-
With worlds of sugar in
warehouses.‘ they raised the

 

FARM BODY SPEAKS
ECAUSE of the situation outlined, the Michigan State Farm Bu-

reau has been watching developments with great interest.

Ithas

ﬁled formal protests to the proposed tariff revision with both its

Washington ofﬁce and with C. Bascom Slemp, Secretary to President

Coolidge. At the August meeting of the State Farm Bureau Board
of Directors, the following resolution was adopted:

' WHEREAS, it appears that a determined eﬁ'ort is being made by cer-

tain interests to secure a reduction in the tariff on sugar being import-

ed into the United States.

AND WHEREAS, three members of the Tariff Commission are reportn
ed to have recommended to the President that the duty on sugar be

reduced,

AND WHEREAS, any such action would be detrimental to the farm-

ers of Michigan who are engaged

in sugar beet production, and espec-

ially so because of the participating contract which is now in operation

between the beet growers and the

manufacturers in this state.

AND WHEREAS, we regard a healthy and prosperous domestic sugar

producing industry as the best

possible protection and insurance

against exhorbitant prices being charged American consmners by in-

terests which might be in control

of the cane sugar industry,

AND WHEREAS, since both labor and industry are today given the
beneﬁt of a system of protective legislation, it, is only equitable that
farmers should be granted a reasonable tariff, especially an these pro-
ducts—rot which there are substantial imports, thus making possible
that such tariff wall shall provide real protection,

AND WHEREAS, we further roalize that the growing of sugar beets
efﬁciently utilizes a large acreage which would otherwise be produc-
ing other crops of which we already have a distressing surplus.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that we strenuously oppose
the above-mentioned reduction in the sugar tariff and strongly urge
that no action be taken until the sugar beet producers of this and oth-
er states and the sugar cane growers of the Southern states have been
permitted to appear and present their arguments against the proposed

change.

MICHIGAN STATE FARM BUREAU BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

 

 

price of sugar to 24¢ to 300. Still
the Democrats would turn over to
them absolute control of the Sugar
market, if they could. The fact
that the United States was produc-
ing a large amount of beet sugar
saved the people millions of dollars
during the War.

“It is just a question between
beet growers and manufacturers of
the United States on one side, and
the Cubans with Wall Street, and
the Sugar Trust behind them on the
other side.

"Wall Street has invested a lot of
money in Cuban sugar plantations
during the War, and they are mak-
ing extraordinary efforts now to get
the matter into their own hands
and get another wallop at the
American people, and get their
money back."

Michigan sugar beet growers do
not stand alone as parties interest-
ed in no downward change in the
present tariff. They have been
joined in their protests by producers
of sugar beets and sugar cans in all
parts 'of the United States. Nor is
that all. Now the corn growers in
the midwest states are adding their
protest to that already voiced by
western and southern cane and
sugar beet growers that the sugar
tariff be not lowered. This demand
has become insistent since the rec-
ommendation of the three members
of the Tariff Commission to the
President that duty on sugar be re-
duced.

Corn and Sugar

The corn growers are interested
in the sugar tariff because molasses
is on an interlocking schedule and if

 

 

“Come and Camp on the State

EORGE W. DICKINSON. man-

ager of the State Fair is a busy

man these days getting ready
for what, he admits, will be the
greatest exposition eyer held in the
state of Michigan, but he had time
to talk to a representative of. The
Business Farmer who interviewed
him Friday.

When asked if there would be a
camping site again this year for
farmers and their families who
drove down to the fair, equipped
with tents to stay over one or more
nights, Mr. Dickinson replied, “Sure
thing, tell as many to come that

wayaspossibleandwe’lltryour

Fair Grounds!” Says Dickinson

level best to make them feel at
home on the grounds. There are
plenty of toilets, running water and
good restaurants right handy to our
camp site. It will take more than
one day to 'do the state fair this
year in the r'g‘ht way and those who
come a long distance do not want to
drive home after the night shows.
Everybody is welcome and you
know everybody comes!"

It was The Business Farmer
which ﬁrst suggested a free camp-
ing site on the state fair grounds
andwehopealotofourfolkswill
accept the invitation this year. Why
not get your friends to join you?

 

 

sugar is lowered, molasses will also
come down and molasses will enter
into direct competition with about
ﬁfteen per cent of the commercial
corn.

A great amount of soft corn this
year promises to add a good prem-
ium to the corn growers' price on
the 400,000,000 to 500,000,000
bushels which make up commercial
demand of corn in the United
States. But if the sugar tariff is
lowered the corn growers see part of
this anticipated proﬁt fading.

About 30,000,000, bushels of corn
are used in making glucose and
about 40,000,000 bushels are used
in distilling and in mixed feeds. It
is evident that the importation of
sugar and molasses come in comp—
etition with about 70,000,000 bush-
els of corn, or ﬁfteen per cent of the
commercial corn movement. This,
of course, is large enough volume to
aﬂect the entire corn price.

Ordinarily the dairy interests
would be eager for a reduction in
the molasses tariff from the advant-
age they would have in reduction of
mixed feeds. However, this year it
is becoming apparent that the dairy
interests are wanting the tariff kept
on sugar since they are after an in-
creased protection on casein and
butter.

The American Farm Bureau Fed-
eration has pointed out in state-
ments that the proposed reduction

on sugar tariff would seriously
handicap sugar cane growers in
Louisiana, Mississippi, and Ar-

kansas, as well as large sugar beet
areas of Colorado, Utah, Nebraska,
Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Nevada,
California, Oregon, and Washing-
ton, and in addition to these west-
ern areas sugar beets are becoming
an important crop in Michigan,
North Dakota, Wisconsin, Ohio, In—
diana, and Minnesota.

Farm Bureau ofﬁcials have also
pointed out that the sugar beet in—
dustry is just reaching an import-
ant size in states where diversiﬁed
farming is being urged, and that in
Utah and Idaho alone this year a
$15,000,000 crop is anticipated.
This crop ‘has been produced at
great cost and if anything occurs
that materially reduces the return it
will cause serious economic suffer-
ing in those states.

To Protect Americans

The question seems to be pretty
fairly set that our domestic sugar is
raised on lands which pay American
taxes and command American
prices, and by people who maintain
American standards of living. If
the sugar tariff is lowered this sugar
industry will be very seriously
handicapped.

As to the actual ﬁgures in the
case, farm bureau statistics show
that the United States consumes
about 30 per cent of the world's
entire production of sugar. About
one—ﬁfth of this is produced in con-
tinental United States; almost one-
fourth is produced in the territories
of the United States and enters
duty free. This leaves something
over half of the United States con-
sumption to 'be imported under
duty. About 90 per cent of the im-
ports under duty comes from Cuba.

The full tariff duty on sugar on
speciﬁed grade is 2.2 cents per
pound for the speciﬁed grade.

In a study made by the Research
Department of the American Farm
Bureau Federation in 1922, it was
estimated that producers of sugar in
the United States receive an advant-
age from tariff duties of about $50,-
000,000 per annum. The sugar
tariff is a vital matter to them.
Michigan growers, who produce one
sixth» of the sugar beets of the na-
tion, are especially interested.

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Mr. Flood holding a box of giant prize-
,winning strawberries at the Horticultural
Exhibit of the English Royal.

VERY Englishman, from the
humblest dairy hand to the be-
medalled commander of the

King’s Royal Horse is personally

interested in England’s livestock.

The eighty-third annual Royal
Livestock Show held this year in
Leicester, England, was a great
success, and the writer, coming
from America’s middle west which,
according to popular superstitution,
is distinctly a cattle country itself,
the great show was a revelation of
England's mastery in the ﬁeld of
livestock.

This over—crowded little island
with its millions of people bulging
out over the stonewalls and hedges
into the pasture lands of cattle and
sheep, and with its thousands of
towns and large cities denying space
for the cultivation of forage crops
has, in spite of all this, a denser
livestock population than any. of our
own great cattle raising states in

- America.

A mutton chop and a mug of ale
are as distinctly English as pretzels
and beer are German, and the
“Roast Beef of Old England” is a
fact and not a fancy. For with all
her industries, people, monuments
and premiers Merrie England is
jolly well holding her owu in her
pastures as well as on her seas.

The Royal Livestock Show, as
everything else in England, is as old
as our own great country is young.
It began eighty-five years ago and
has been held annually ever since
except for two years during the war.

The show is nomadic and is held
in a different place each year. It
was last held in Leicester in 1896.
The Englishman is appalled at our
method of wasting the great acre-
age which we set aside in each state
to be used for no other purpose than
to stage our state and county fairs
each year. The buildings and equip~
ment used in connection with the
English Royal Livestock Show are
temporary and can be taken down
and moved, as the Arab does his
tent, to a new place each year, with-
out permanently wasting any valu-
able ground.

The foot and mouth disease, now
'so prevalent both on the continent
and in England, seriously threaten-
ed the holding of the show this
year, but with strict examinations
rigidly enforced the show was held
as usual although the entries were
considerably curtailed.

‘There were twenty-one breeds of
beet and dairy cattle numbering
1302 individual entries in all. Most
of these were dairy breeds with the
familiar Milking Shorthorn the
most numerous. The British Fries-
ian, which we call the Holstein-
Friesian in America, was next 111
numerical popularity with the beau-
tiful Jerseys a close third.

Friesians, but not Holsteins!

The big, black and white British
Friesians are as nearly identical
with our heavy milking Holstein—
Friesian as can be expected with
3,000 miles of water between, but
the “Holstein” and the "‘Schleswig”
part of it-is left entirely out of the
name. Certainly those two families
égiithe, same stock are much more
ﬂint-lap to each other than we, our-

. 3.18.136 'like our British cousins.

(Yes, we are certainly different, but

fI will be charitable to them and not
record here which branch makes the
better showing today. ' ‘

The numerical balance of these
entries seems to represent fairly ac-
{curately the popularity of the dif-
ferent dairy breeds actually on the
English farms as we observed them
after driving over most of the
southern and central shires. The
Friesians have supplied the only
British cows, sixteen in number,
that have produced 1,000 pounds of
butter in one year; they have sup-
plied the ﬁve 3,000 gallon cows in
Europe, the only 2,000 gallon heifer
in Europe and 134 of the 146 Brit-
ish 2,000 gallon cows. It must be
remembered that in these measure-
ments the British Friesian operates
under a handicap for the English
gallon is about oneaﬁfth larger than
our own gallon. Start her gallons
from scratch and her records com-
mand respectful attention. But in
spite of these records the \Milking
uShorthorn is still the ranking favor—
ite of the English dairy herdsman,
partly perhaps, because it is dis-
tinctly of English origin, but no
doubt mainly because he knows the
milking shortly is just naturally the
best cow for his job.

Interesting Types

The little black Dexter cows
which except for their short legs
and mature form look more like

yearling calves than milking mat-
rons are quite common on the Eng-
lish farm and an'interesting type to
study at the show.

There were twenty-seven breeds
of sheep totalling 633 individual
entries, most of which were mutton

type. The Oxford Down, Shrop-
shire, Hampshire Down, Suffolk
Lincoln, and Romney Marsh were

the “most numerous. We were dis-
appointed in driving for three hours
through the heart of the famous
Southdown district before seeing a
single band of these sheep, and we
wondered if they were disappearing.
The fact that only seven South-.
downs were exhibited at the Royal
Livestock Show would support this
conclusion.

’The Englishman loves geod
horses! It isn’t necessary to attend

. A , Visit to England’s Reyal Livestock Show, the First of a Series ofArticles

sy FRANClS‘ A. FLOOD '

 

 

HIS is the ﬁrst of a series of
articles by Mr. Flood, who
‘ is a. member of the Agri-
cultural Editors Association
party which went to Europe this
summer to study conditions.
(See picture on opposite page.) ,
Mr. Flood is a thoroughly
trained agriculturalist and has
made a wide circle of friends
in the west, where for several
years he has contributed art-
icles of travel to the leading
publications. You can follow
this series-“with the assurance
that your time will be well and
interestingly spent—Editor.

 

a stock show to see that trait of the
Britain for it is in evidence through—
out the island. There is a great

deal of horse traﬂiic in the crooked '

streets of London and no matter
whether they are a team of slapping
Suffolks pulling a beer wagon over
London Bridge, or a solitary Shire
hitched to one of those monstrous
twonwheeled carts, the proud Hunt—
ers along the bridle paths through
Hyde' Park or drilling with the
King’s Horse Guards in St. James’
Court, or the Countless Hackneys
and Coach Horses still competing so
efficiently and impressively with the
taxicabs in London—no matter
what the job or the breed of these
British horses they are English bred
and English groomed and reﬂect the
Englishman’s pride in good horse—
ﬂesh.

There were eleven breeds of hogs
shown at the English Royal, total—
ling 1212 in allyand they were all
of the bacon type. The middle
white seems to be the most common
110g on the English farm.

Interest Increasing

It is interesting to note the pro-
gress that has been made even in
recent years by these pioneers of the
livestock industry. When the show
was held last in Leicester 28 years
ago, there Were only eleven breeds
of horses shown, eleven of cattle

 

 

 . Top—Prize winning Dexter Bull English, Royal Livestock Show.
'Middle-Q—A class of Su'ﬂ‘olkl Draft Horses at the English Royal.

Bottom—A string of hunters in the show ring of the English Royal.

Note the tab-r

sence of spectators in the ring. The rules of the show prohibit people in the ring,

and ﬁfteen of sheep. Since that time
then, there "have been six more
breeds of horses, ten of cattle and
twelve of sheep added which have
evidently been developed to a. show-
ing stage since that. time and each
one is designed to ﬁll a particular,

* deﬁnite place in that ﬁne art of

English livestock culture. If the
Englishman wants a cow or a horse
or a sheep that will ﬁt in with his
local scheme of things and be exact-
ly suited to the possibilities and vi-
cissitudes of his own Shire he gets
to work and develops it. They have
learned that it is almost as easy to
design livestock and make them to
order as it is machinery. '
Thus it is that the British Isles
and mainly England alone, originat-

ed all but feur of the seventeen

breeds of horses entered at the
livestock show. All but four of the
twenty-onelbreeds of cattle came
from England or Scotland and of
the twenty-seven breeds of sheep
shown in Leicester all but two orig-
inated right in England.

The great show itself quite apart
from the livestock end of it deserves
mention and commendation in sev-
eral instances. Every member of
our party declared that the horticul~
tural exhibit was the best they had
ever seen. ‘The English garden,
front and back, is a sacred institu—
tion and the best of it’s products
were most effectively displayed. The
strawberries were delicious in spite
of their enormous size and the dis-
play of ﬂowers of every variety was
most ingeniously and elaborately
arranged.

There was no midway! Raising
and showing livestock is one thing
with the Englishman and he takes
it as an art, seriously; and a howl-
ing carnival is quite another. The
British plunges into each so thor-
oughly that he can’t take them both
at once without seriously slighting
one—and he would never slight
either. He will not profane his
Hunters and Hackneys by throwing
them in with some wonders of the
world. A Suffolk sheep is one
thing and a no chance machine is
another. The whole atmosphere
suggests the intelligent dignity and
the solid thoroughness upon which
England's greatness in the livestock
industry has stood and will stand
where others fail.

FALIOUS CO‘V DONATED FOR
SCIENTIFIC STUDY 7
entiment prevented the famous
S cow, Sophie Nineteenth, of
Hood farm, from falling into
unfeeling hands when the herd of
which she was a member was dis-
persed a year ago in April. .Her
owner, Mrs. C. I. Hood of LOWell,
Mass, preferred instead to ‘let this
world’s champion Jersey cow, con-
tinue to add to the world’s good
through her contribution to scien-
tiﬁc research, and, accordingly, do—
nated her to the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. Her car-
eer as an active producer of dairy
products had ‘ ceased.
She arrived at the department ex—
perimental farm on May 13; and on
June 19 she was chloroformed «and

prepared for study. Outward meas-.

urements were made of her body
while she was still alive; and after—
ward the size and weight of her var-
ious internal organs were secured.
Her wonderful record in production
of milk and butterfat over so long
a period of time makes the data se-
cured from her an especially valu-
able contribution to the study that
is being made by the Bureau of
Dairying of the relation between
conformation of dairy cattle and
their producing ability. Her skele-
ton will be prepared and mounted
by an expert from the Smithsonian
Institution.

Sophie

Nineteenth h e l d the

_ world’s record for butterfat produc-

tion in» the Jersey breed from Jan-
uary, 1914, to November,
with a production of 17,557 pounds
of milk and 999 pounds vat-butterfat,
in a year.» 1 During 11 lactation perée
iods she produced over 7,600.
poundsot‘. butterfat. This is. the

"long-time production record, for all;

breeds.

 

 

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THE FARM PRESS A'l‘ SEA.—You may have suspected it before, but. here
is the actual proof. This picture shows the Agricultural Editors' Association
aboard the U. S. S. “Leviathan” sailing for Europe last June. Evidently our
- own publisher, Mr. Slocum, is taking no chances, as he'is the one at the extreme
Eight in the picture, leaning on the rail. Mrs. Slocum is the lady standing

eside him.

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IN FAR OFF BURMA.—IIerc is a peaceful scene far from the maddening
crowds, on a peaceful river in Burma. The boat in this picture is a house
boat and is waiting while an agricultural explorer of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture is away on a trip into the hills of the surrounding country,
where he is making researches primarily of interest and value to American

 

CUTS DEATH RATE.—Dr. Deets Pickett,
research secretary of the “’orld Service
Commission, proves prohibition has cut
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FINEST CIVILIAN SOLDIERS.——The \Vithington Zou-

aves drill teani of Jackson, Mich., giving exhibition at the BIL—S. S. Smith, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
Ellis convention at Boston. They are finest body of uses his vacuum sweeper to get rid of
cwihan soldiers in the United States.

the potato bugs in his garden.

A WALKER OF THE WORLD.—John Caves,
is the only survivor of eighteen who started to walk four times
around the world five years ago. He claims he
walking ability from his uncle, Edward I’ayson “'eston.

inherits his

NE“? USE FOR VACUUBI CLEAN-

COUNSEL 0N BIARRIAGE QIWCSTIONS—
Miss Joanna C. Coleord, of the Am. Ass’n. for
Organizing Family Social “'ork, believes in ad-
Vicc on marriage.

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GREATEST SUBDIARINE.-—-This U.  submarine,
shown here in the act of being launched, is the greatest
in the world. It will cross the Atlantic and return with
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“WHITE? INDIANSa—Thebthree
San Blas “\Vhite” Indian children can
hardly be distinguished from the white

A FAMOUS RACE HORSE.—This picture shows Epi-
nard, the famous French race horse, with his trainer
at Belmont Park Stables, New York City. He will

compete against America’s greatest race‘ horses. _ race.‘ They are Panamanian Indians.

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FAMOUS ENGLISH RELIC.———This famous relic of old
English days, which is falling to ruin, is \tif Hall, where
King Henry VIII was married to Jane Seymour, while his
wife was being beheaded at Windsor Castle.

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marriedkiund
ing out y the,

says he. must pay 05 for each can,

making 12 trips $60 in all. If he
does not my doctor says the parents
ofthismanmustpavforthetreat—
meats. Can the doctor make the
parents .pay this bill? If so what
are the regular charges for a doctor
in city and out of city per mile.
The couple has been Jhut up for
9 weeks and no other special atten-
tion has been paid to them while
under quarantine. Could you
please furnish particulars to us in
this case. I thank you for kindness
shown to me.—-A Subscriber, Mill-
ington, Mich.

ER the circumstances, I am
of the opinion the parents of
the man would not be liable

for the payment of his doctor bills.
That family relationship, which
charges the father with the support
of his minorrchild and entitles him
to its earnings, ceases to exist upon
the marriage of the child, when he
takes upon himself the responsibil-
ity not only of supporting himself
but a family of his own as well;—
Asst. Legal Editor.

HAVE ADMEISTRATOR
APPOINTED
I would like 'to know whether I
could do anything about this mat
ter: My father died some time ago
and had 120 acres of land and per-
sonal property. Mother died last
November and last January 1924
father sold the farm to my brother.
all the money was paid but two
thousand dollars and father took
mortgage for the two thousand dol-
lars and he was supposed to hold
the mortgage until it was paid. The
mortgage is supposed to be paid in
ﬁve years time. Will you please
tell me what I can do about this
matter? It is now in a bank in safe
keeping; that is where father put
it. Does this have to be probated,
if it has will you please tell all
about how to have it probatedf
When the mortgage was drawn up
it was agreed that there was to be
paid $140 a year. How would that
money have to be divided up, and
who would hold this mortgage until
it is paid? Could my brother draw
any wages for staying at home? He
is now 25 years old and has stayed
at home for ﬁve years. Would the
law permit him to draw any salary?
L. M., Michigan.
00 should make application to

the probate court to have an

administrator appointed to set-
tle the estate. The mortgage could
be held by the administrator or a
trustee until the debt is paid. or it
could be sold and the proceeds di-
vided among the heirs. The brother
could not collect wages unless there
Was some agreement, expressed or
implied. to that eifect.'—-Asst. Legal
Editor.

THEE T0 FORECLOSE

What is the shortest length of
time to foreclose a land mortgage
when taken through the Court of
Chanccry? Could holder of morb-
gage take this year's crops? Under
what conditions may a farmer go in-
to bankruptcy, husband and wife
owning property jointly‘P—A Read-
er, ()gemau County, Michigan.

HE land could not be sold under
T chancery foreclosure until 6

months after the decree.’ The
purchaser acquires title to the
growing crops on the land at the
time of the sale. A farmer may go
into bankruptcy if his assets are not
sufﬁcient to, pay his debts, by ﬁling
petition with the referee in bank-
ruptcy. This would not affect
household goods.-——Asst. Legal Ed-
itor.

 

KILL OUT DAISIm

Would you please tell me how to
kill white ﬁeld daisies? I have a
ﬁeld with a lot of them in. And
could you tell me where to write to
ﬁnd the name of a mineral I found
while digging post holes and would
like to ﬁnd out what it its—E. C. Q..
Lachrine. Mich.

F: the ﬁelds are badly infested

' with the white daisy (Ox-eye

_[ daisy) they should be plowed up
and put into a short rotation of
crd‘ps for a number of years. .The

plowing and cultivatingt’hnt will be year. no but still on not get the ’
given these m

weeds during the per-
iod of rotation will kill them out.
Scattered weeds will be killed by
cutting them off and then said!!!
them. which will lead stock to eat
the plants as they send up new
leaves. Where there are but a few
it is desirable to hoe them‘ out.
Under no circumstances should they
be allowed to go to seed, as they are

among the noxious weeds speciﬁed.

in the state law which must be pre-
vented from seeding.

The mineral found in digging
post holes might well be marl. Send
a sample of it to the Soils Depart-
ment of the Michigan Agricultural
College, giving the details as to
where it was found, etc.——-E. A.
Bessey, Professor of Botany, Mich-
Agricultural College.

 

HAVE CAUSE FOR ACTION T0
RECOVER MONEY

It seems when we farmers get
skinned or otherwise badly used we
just naturally turn to the M. B. F.
to help us out, and I think it a good
thing that we can. I am enclosing
a stock breeding certiﬁcate that was
given to me March 1st, 1922, with
the understanding that I was to
have the service of this bull for 3
years. Shortly afterward I drove
my cow over to where this bull was
kept and was refused the service
and still am refused the service.
You will notice by the enclosed note
that I paid for the 3 years about a

State Fair Ready

stage is all set in Detroit for
the opening of the Seventy-
Fifth Annual Michigan State
Fair Friday and from the exhibits
in place and the entries on the
grounds it is a safe bet that when it
closes the night of September 7 this
year's fair will go into history as
the greatest of them all.

More contests are on for every
prize than ever before, the contests
promise to be closer, new machinery
is in place for its ﬁrst showing, a
mighty educational program is
ready and against this constructive
side of the fair the entertainers are
on the ground for the most elabor-
ate program‘ ever offered at a fair.

State‘s Progress Shown

One big thing this fair will show
thousands of people is already evi-
dent before it opens and that is that
Michigan is making trembendous
strides in agriculture and particu-
larly-in the raising of blooded stock.
Exhibits now in place and stock in
their stalls in the great new cattle

palace overshadow anything of
other years.
The “million dollar parade" of

livestock, which begins Monday ev-
ening, September 1 and continues
through Friday, will be little short
of a revelation to those who began
pushing blooded stock in Michigan a
comparatively few years ago.

More than $100,000 in cash prizes
will be awarded in this fair and
judges already on the grounds say
competition Will be keener in every
classiﬁcation in all departments this
year than it has at any time in their
experience.

New Buildings Opened

The $600,000 new buildings, the
ﬁnest fair buildings in America, are
being thrown open for this exposi-
tion and without them the fair
hardly could have been housed.
Three miles of pavement in the fair
grounds are making easier the trav-
el between the great buildings.

The active educational program,
aside from the _ education a visitor
can get walking through the exhib-
its, includes more intensive work for
the boys in the Boys' State Fair
school, in a tent city on the grounds.
lecturers in every department repre-
senting‘ both state and nation and
experts in charge of new machinery
that manufacturers are showing for
them-st time." p -

The entertainment program for
the fair balances the serious side

:4 and; represents. an outlay 'of money "

undreamed of a few years ago and

AA .~-.

’ can be left to See.

V . Is there any way I can set
a return of this motion-11. G. p"
North Star. Michigan.

you had an agreement by the

‘toe high nowa—F. 13., «3.3mm 

terms of which you were to ve -

the services of the bull for t ree
years. and these services were refus-
ed you. you have a perfectly good

cause of action to recover the.

amount you paid under the agree-
ment—Asst. Legal Editor.

'wnorsmnnnnon'ram

A accepted a school once, claim-
ing that he was the owner of land

. bought on a land contract and on

that ground could hold office.

Though he has claimed to own this

land for six years there is no record
of transfer in our county oﬁice. Who
is guilty. of dodging the taxes, ’ A
who bought the land or B who ’sold
the land? — Reader, Greenville,
Mich.
H0 is liable for the tax on land
sold under a contract. the
vendee or the vendor? The

vendor would be primarily liable

for the tax, unless the contract dis-
closes that the vendee is to pay it.——-
Clare Retan, Deputy Attorney Gen-
eral.

SUPERINTENDEN‘I‘ CAN CON-

DEMN SCHOOL BUILDINGS

We have a- one-room schoolhouse
in our district built in about 1900
and has been a standard school with
from 45 to 70 children attendinx-

for Banner Year

not in the sense of excessive costs
but in the quantity of fun talent ob-
tained. ,

One of the big features of the fair
will be the presentation of “Hia-
watha” by a company of full blood-
ed Indians from the Garden River
reservation. There are more than
ﬁfty of them and they are quartered
on the grounds in a regular Indian
village.

Big Thrill for Young

The play will be presented every
day and leading educational author-
ities say that it will be one Of the
greatest single things ever done for
Michigan children and that they will
carry back home a lifelong impres-
sion from seeing Longfellow's fam-
ous poem enacted by the very people
he wrote about. Thrilling music
will add the last touch of realism.

Two of the ﬁnest ﬁreworks spec-
tacles ever produced have been
made for this fair. The ﬁrst is “The
Founding of Detroit" and the sec-
ond is "Tokyo." The ﬁrst will be

 

according to their plan.

1“

me, is therea law that estimate is
build a two-room" school if itis vot-
ed down in the district? Tased 

Mich.

or 11 of the Public Acts "or 1915 , 

as amended by Act 189 of the

Public Acts of 1910, gives the
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion the authority -* to“ condemn
school buildings. Under this act, all
plans and speciﬁcations for school
buildings in Michigan must be ap-
proved by the Superintendent of
Public Instruction. ‘ '

If this school has the number of
children mentioned in the letter. the
people should provide for s two-
room school because no teacher
can render best services for the
community under such conditions.
—-W. L. Coffey, ‘ Deputy Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction.»

 

GOING TO Bum: MANURE rrr
How large a manure pit would it

' take to store the manure frpm :4

given Friday. Saturday, and Sunday .

evening and beginning Monday ev-
ening, September 1, "Tokyo" will
ﬁnish a big program of ﬁreworks.

The “Founding of Detroit" will
show in lines of ﬁre against the inky
sky the history of old Fort Ponchar-
train, the battle between the French
and English and Indians for the con—
trol of that point of advantage
where three Detroit skyscrapers now
rear their marble heads above one
of the greatest cities of the world.
It is a special picture for Michigan,
interesting and entertaining.

The other big picture in ﬁreworks
is a brilliant record of the disaster
that struck Japan in 1923. It shows
Tokyo in ﬂames, its buildings top-
pling and its inhabitants running
wildly here and there, bewildered
and then in a panic to escape what
followed the quake.

This picture in ﬁre, high over the
race track, will amaze its watchers
in the big new grandstand by its
detail and accuracy. Many actual
photographs of the Japan disaster
were used in its making.

Automobile races daily, aeroplane
rides for those who have the nerve,
a great cowboy carnival of fancy
riders and bull-daggers, Austrailian
axe men who cut through a tree
quicker than any one else ever has,

and the carnival features on the-

Midway are a few of'the things that
will keep the fair visitors thrilled:
laughing and wondering what there

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head of stock. 18 cows and year-
lings and six horses? What is the
estimated cost of this pit, including
a good roof over the same? Would
the value of this manure so stored
in a good pit be enough to barrow
the money and pay seven per cent
interest and about four per cent
taxes. (because it will be taxed at
its full valuation) and allowing for
the depreciation? The manure
would be stored about six or seven
months from all of this stock—L.
8.. Sears, Mich.

HE else of the manure pit that “
would be required would de-
pend upon the amount of bed-

ding that was used in the stable. A

pit 18 by 84 feet with manure piled \,

0 feet deep should be large enough.
or a pit 20 by 30 feet with manure
piled 4% would'he a good size.

I would estimate that the cost of
a concrete pit with wooden posts
and roof and three ply roofing
would cost from $500 to $600. It

is impossible however to accurately '

estimate thecost of a building in
any given community. as the cost of
material and labor would differ
greatly and the efﬁciency of the
builder would vary greatly. '

The value of the manure is est-
mated as follows: 6 horses @ $25
a year, $150.00; 18 cows‘ $20
per head. $360.00: Total. 351 .00.

The loss in value of manure when
piled out of doors is variously esti-
mated from 45 to 60 per cent. The
amount of loss will depend upon the
shape and size of the manure pile
and upon the amount of rain dur-
ing the time the manure is stored.

In the vicinity of Sears where'
manure would be frozen possibly for
several months, the losses would be
less.

For the purpose of calculation.
we will use 60 per cent as the aver—
age loss. There will, of course, be
some loss in manure when put in a
pit. This is estimated from 10 to
20 per cent. For the purpose of
calculation we will use 15 per cent,

50 per cent of $510 ....$255.00
16 per cent of $510  76.60

difference $178.50
saving in favorof the pit.

The cost of the manure pit per
year is estimated in the following
table:

Interest on 3600 @ 7% ......$42
Taxes on $600 @ 4%  24
Depreciation on build-

ing 5%  .........  30

—————-—-

Total............$ 96

Perhaps the ,best way to handle
barnyard manure is to haul it to
,the ﬁeld each day of‘ﬁ‘ﬁry other
day as it is made. This method.
where it can be used. not only saves
the value of the manure. but turn-
ishes exercise for. the horses and
distributes- the farm labor.
method can not, of course. be used-

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TEXT: “Enter you in at the
straight gate: for wide is the
gate and bread is the way, that
leadeth to destruction, and
many are they that enter in
thereby. For narrow is the
gate and straightened the way,
that leadeth unto life, and‘few
are they that ﬁnd it.”—-«Mat—
thew 7:13, 14.

STERDAY we dedicated our
l g remodeled church-house. The

Narrow way of living chosen by
our folks demanded more room.
Rather paradoxical, isn’t it, that
narrowness should make for more
room? But it does, and so we had
to build larger. Dr. C. 0. Ellis,
Christian educator and preacher,
splendidly emphasized the need of
the Sanctuary of God to interpret
aright the things of life. Yes, it was
a bit narrow in view-point; but
then, that other and Matchless
Preacher, many years ago in that
great consecration address on the
New Sanai, gave us the warrant for
the narrow life. He said that the
narrowness of faith and obedience
leads to life; and the breadth of un-
faith and disobedience leads to
death. Do you believe it? How
emphatic this is made in the two
outlooks of our text, which is found
in the conclusion of the Sermon on
the Mount.

Here are the two gates. Look at
them. One is very narrow; the
other is broad. One is difﬁcult to
enter; the other easy. But we are
entereated to enter the narrow, the
straightened gate. We are asked to
do the diificult thing. We can be
sure that our. Savior- meant to fore-
warn us that we might be fore-
armed. Some years ago, the writer
with a company of friends, climbed
one of the high sand dunes along
Lake Michigan’s shores. With the
aid of shrubs, we ~crawled up with
effort. But the summit view was
sublime. There are diﬁiculties in
the narrow way, but the end is
glorious.

Now, how shall we enter? The
introduction to this mountain dis-
course, would have us enter by
way of the Beattitudes. Is that gate
narrow? Listen, “Blessed are the
poor in spirit.” "Blessed are they
that mourn.” Yes, you know them.
Well, these are .the steps in the
celestial stairway. And like the
lawa of health, we suffer if we omit
even one of them. Rather restricted,
you say. But they lead us high up-
ward to the tablelands of the King-
dom. Yet, it is this confession of
one’s emptiness and need that the
world calls too narrow. And why
does this narrow gate make it hard
for the rich man to get thru? But
why is it hard for the camel to get
thru the needle's eye? He is bulk-
ed out with the traﬁic of earth. The
selﬁsh richman would vulgarize
heaven by carrying along the
world's junk. But the narrow gate
sloughs off all our reputation, self-
conﬁdence, dignities and honors.
Christ must ﬁnd us “meek and low-
ly,” naked and helpless. Alone and
unclothed with the habiliments of
earth, we came into this world. So,
shall we enter the next. But the
point of the text is, that while citi-
_ zens of this world, the King’s high-
way is narrow. A throughful read-
ing of Christ’s great sermon will
convince the simple and unselﬁsh
in mind.

But it is easier to enter the broad
gate. Of course. This requires no
serious effort, no lofty decision, no
long purpose in life. This broad,
easy gate is catching all the indif-
ferent, all the selfrighteous, and all
the ﬁlth and scum of humanity. At-
tention! If you are not a Christain,
you are in the broad and downward
drift. And if you are but a nega-
tive, lazy, disobedient, and nnsociai
-church—member, you are also there.
Take your worldliness in possess-
ions and longings and set out if you
will, you will ﬁnd no narrow iamb-
ways to catch on to your earthly ac-
cretiens. But to enter is to go the
way to destruction.

Yet, the narrow gate is also wide.
It admits of no sin, but it does ad-
_ mit sinners“ Sinners, high and low,
; rich and poor,'cnltured and uncul-
‘ tured, when they permit their pride
‘ and yworldliness to be torn off by its

 

A SERMON BY REV.

 

. singiiig.

Warner,

You see, a gate

narrow conﬁnes.
that admits all peoples and classes,
is socially and racially wide, as
wide as the oceans and the poles;
What hope for a lost world!

And here are the two ways. One

J esus.”

way is “straightened.” Have you
found it so, Christain friend? So
did Israel when going thru the Red
Sea gate. Then, there was a wild-
erness thru which to travel; but
there is yet, and so we go on as
pilgrims and strangers. But, now
as then, God builds the highway.
This is narrow, because it is the
highway of holiness, and deﬁnitely
set apart to spiritual purposes and
social aims. This is the way that
St. Paul discovered when he said,
“This one thing I do," and “What-
soever you do in word or in deed,
do all in the name of the Lord

this

helpless.

tides rises high,

Jesus.” This scribe used. to teach
public school in Michigan. The in-
cident is fresh in‘mind. We are

 4nd " there comes ,-Mary
Sanders up to my desk.- ‘,Now,‘what
does Mary Want? But soon she was
making this pious request,
may I be excused from
singing this song?” “You may.” But
afterward I said to Mary, "And why
did you ask such a thing?”
answered quietly, “I can not sing
that song in the name of the Lord

And Mary Sanders became the
wife of a minister. How ﬁtting! I
wonder if she is yet as sensitive
about that narrow way as in the un-
spoiled years of her youth.
“one thing I do”
life, after Pauline fashion, constitu-
tes the narrow way.
spread itself to the Wide tracts of
desert land on either side where the
crowd is wandering,
Yet, how roomy is this
way to the Christain!
Fundy --is narrow. There the ocean

bosom may be lifted far inland to a
safe resting place. The tide of God's
ocean of love in this narrow way,
lifts us up and bears us out into the

  

   

freedom and rest (if his spirit. This
is life.

I know our text says there are
few on the way. And the propor-
tion yet, I believe, is as the few are
to the many. But you will not be
lonesome. The Revelator climbs
the Mount of Inspiration and see.
one hundred forty—four thousand;
farther up and he cries out, “ten
thousand times ten thousand”; and
when he reaches the summit he ex-
claims, "Behold, a great multitude
which no man can number.” Now
come on, with such companionship
and Jesus your heart will burn
within “you.

But, what of the “broad” way?
Well, it is the way of “do as you
please.” There are no barriers. It
is the way in which the serpent
found Eve. And there are yet
plenty of refreshment stands, gaiety

“Mr.

She

Now,
purpose in

It does not

aimless and

parlors, and retreats of lust. Go
The Bay or that way if you want to. It is easy
and boats on its and attracts and pleases. But after

it has fast hold of you, it ceases to
have attraction. Many a person has
plunged into sin thinking to quit

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More Milk now .. '   r

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the long time results will be.

geography.

Cow No. 241 is an ordinary barn Holstein bought
by the Lane Research Farm in 1922 for $125.
She had been milking 150 days when she arrived
at the farm. Her production during the ﬁrst 30
days thereafter was 724.5 pounds of milk. In her
next lactation, during the corresponding 30 day
period, she produced 1,173.3 pounds of milk-—
more than 50% increase. Her total milk produc-
tion in the ﬁrst full lactation period at the Larro
Research Farm was 13,646.4 pounds-more than
three times the average for all cows in the United
States. Leno—maintaining health and condition
——plus proper care, did it.

Prince’s Rose of Meadowbrook is a jersey who
broke the Pennsylvania state record {or 2—year-

for proﬁtable milk production.

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Too many dairymen judge a dairy feed only by the immediate results
produced in the milk pail. It is just as important for you to know What

Right from the start LARRO lays a sure foundation for consistent
heavy milk production by ﬁrst building up the health and condition of
your cows. Continuous feeding of LARRO maintains health and

‘ condition, thus guaranteeing peak milk production, not only now, but
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Actual ﬁgures prove this true in thousands of cases—among grade
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A feed that accomplishes such long distance results must be a feed that ﬁrst builds
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Your cows should be on a grain ration now. There is no feed that will more surely
guarantee future production and future proﬁts than Larro.

THE LARROWE MILLING COMPANY
DETROIT, MICHIGAN ‘“’

olds in 1922 with 9,810 pounds of milk and 462.79
pounds {at In 1923 she again became state
champion with a record of 14,292 pounds and
639.05 pounds fat. As a calf she was started
on a Larro grain ration and kept continu-
ously on Larro throughout the milking periods
mentioned. ‘

Down in Florida, Ferndell, of the famous Lemon
City White Belted Herd, produced 13,4773
pounds of milk and 585.64 pounds of butter fat
in her twelfth year—ﬁve or six years past the
age of peak production for most cows. The herd
she leads has been fed Larro for thirteen years
and averages 9,998 pounds per year.

  
 
 
 
 
 

 

  

  


  

  

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Blades of special design loosen
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The roots are not jerked out an!
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You can secure the highest prices
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_ would like to exchange ideas
with other farmers." If this could
be done the farmers problems could
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——J. 0., Shelby, Mich.

DOESN'T LIKE SECURITIES
COMMISSION
EAR EDITOR:——I see in your
July 19th issue an article by
Mr. Powell and your editorial
in which you give the Michigan
Securities law a great boost. But
how about the Commission? It
seems so strange in face of “all the
facts. The generally accepted esti-
mate that 90 per cent of the com-
panies organized for the sale of
stock fail within 3 years and that 90
per cent of the investors in this
stock lose money, as reported by Mr.
Powell, is true in Michigan.

I have never bought any stock
nor lest any money in this way, but
many of my neighbors have, and I
cannot see that the securities com-
mission has offered any protection
at all. In fact the losses seem to
be greater because the people de-
pend on the commission for protec-
tion.

And I have never known a stock
or bond salesman to alter anything
to us folks in the country that I
thought was good. I have been ap-
proached many times but nothing
has ever been offered to me that I
would have approved it I.had been
a member of the securities commis-
sion. In my opinion, as an observ-
er, the biggest fake in the securities
business is the Securities commis—
sion.

There is a man now, operating in
eastern Michigan who ﬁrst, for sev-
eral years, sold stocks which were
a. loss to the investors. He is now
selling bonds, and effects the sale
by having one of the local banks
pretend to have bought the bond by
placing their “C D” on the bond.
When the bond is sold to a real pur-
chaser and paid for, with accrued
interest, the accrued interest is paid
over to the bank. That is the banks
reward for okehing the bond. The
bank does not purchase the bond or
pay one cent on it. The salesman
told me this himself and appeared
to see nothing wrong in it.

The securities commission looks
like the big factor in assisting the
fakes in getting money hum half-
baked suckers who want to get
some "Easy Money," and some “big
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EAR EDITORf—Will you allow
for a few thoughts about the
present expression of Agricul-
ture, and the attitude, thoughtful
farmers should take in regard to it?
During the war we produced food—

suils to our greatest possible apoc- '

ity, not only for our own army, but
for the allied nations as well.
left us with a large supply on hand

etthedoeeofthewsrwithamseh‘

W demand. During the war
countries like Australia, New Zea-
land and other far away agricultural
countries, could not market their pro-
ducts on account of the submarine
muses and lack of shipping. The
close of the war released all this
supply for the world market. As a.
natural consequence, the price went
to a very low level. The price of
farm products is ﬁxed either directly
or indirectly by the world market.
This I think is proved by the fact
that we are importing agricultural
products to a greater value than we
are exporting them. '

In view of this fact, I can see no
prospect of any considerable rise in
price. But low prices for what he
sells is only one of the farmer’s prob-
lems. Wages for farm labor are so
high as to be almost prohibitive.
He must pay for everything he buys
at exorbitantly high prices. Taxes
are almost if not quite conﬁscatory.
While the close of the war found us
with an abundant supply of agricul-
tural products, it was quite different
as regards manufactured articles.

Stocks in our stores became de-
pleted, no houses or other buildings
were built and at the end of the war,
there was a great demand for manu-
factured products at very high prices.
Our war debt was something like 26
billion dollars. We foolishly and ex-
travagantly added to this debt until
the total was something like 35 bil-
lion dollars. Taxes throughout the
country approximate $7,500,000,000,
or about $70 for every man, woman
and child in the country. These sums
are staggering and would be bad if
evenly placed, but the fact is the
farmer bears a much too large pro-
portion of the burden.

The public oﬂicial the salaried
man and the union worker, all de-
mand increased compensation on ac-
count of the high cost of living.
Now if these different persons get
increased pay so that they can live
just as well and easily under this
burden of debt, and taxation, then
they are not hearing their part.

With the farmer it is quite differ-i

ent, he gets less pay and is hearing

This -

costs come down, why swine
work cheaper, so well. as the tumor,

and help beer the country’s Men. -

The farmer helped wt through the
highest tariff ever known and was

told it would help him out of his.
difﬁculties. Itho‘sbeessfsnsrses-

far as helping him is concerned but
it has mainltained prices for manu-
factured articles that are almost pre-
hibitive, as far as he is concerned.

. If the farmer must compete in the

world market, why not the manu-
facturer?" ..

The farmer should demand a re-
ductionolteriﬂ ratestoareaeonehly
low ﬁgure. As regards, our public
indebtedness, we must bear that Mr-

. den until it is paid, but we should

initiate a, policy of “pay a you to”
atoneeendrotueotosddtooueb-
ligation. There are two phrases to
the taxation question. We execs-
scively big amount and its unequal
distribution.

Much of our taxation is caused by
inemciency, extravagance and even
dishonesty and graft. Retrenchment
all along the line should be the watch
word. Too much money is spent
foolishly or seemingly just to make
jobs.

Soil survey has been an excuse for
some ﬁne vacation and many good
jobs at the expense of the people.
The cases could be multiplied almost
indeﬁnitely. The farmer should ap-
point a committee to be on the job
continuously, to go into the matter
of public expehdit‘ure of money. As
regards distribution the proposal gas
and income taxes should help.

As regards tax exempt bonds, if
we didn’t go in debt, the question
wouldn’t bother us. As regards our
National Government, if it wouldn't
Sell tax exempt bonds in times of
great crisis, it might prove very en-
barrassing and put the government
at the mercy of local taxing bodies.
As regards inﬂation of the currency,
it requires more money to do the
business of the country during a time
of intense activity, as during. the
war period, than in ordinary times.

It is the function of the Federal
Reserve System to provide their
money as needed. "

Deflation of the currency to the

extent of depressing prices will at-
fect all values and prices alike, and
not to the detriment of one industry
as at present. Deﬂation is not the
cause of the present plight of the
farmer and inﬂation of the currency
would not solve their difﬁculties, but
if carried to any considerable ex-
tent, would result disastrously.—K.
S. Wood, Chariévoix County.

The Hydraulic Ram on the Farm

HE hydraulic ram is an ancient
invention, still new to the
minds of many people. It is

a. simple machine which when in—
stalled under a head of water will
lift a portion of that water to a
heighth much greater than the
source.

The machine in simple form cons-
sists of a plunger, 3. cylinder, a valve
and an air or pressure chamber..

The water running from the drive
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the plunger drop back of its own

weight. As the plunger reaches the
top of its stroke a powerful impact
is created which lifts the valve in
air chamber and forces some of the
water through. The air in the
chamber acts as a cushion, making
the ﬂow of water from the delivery
pipe 3mm in m

For a small or average else rm
one should have a. driving ﬂow of
11/3 to 8 gallons of water per minute
and a. fall of 1 foot or more. Unless
the water is to be lifted a. very great
heighth one must not have too
much fall else the ram- will stop on
the up stroke.

For example: A ram“ working
under 18 inches of fall and using 4
gallons of water per minute will
lift a barrel of water 40 feet in
about 4 hours.

The ram is inexpensive, will last.

for years and requires no attention
when properly installed.

It is well to remember that 3 bar-
rels of water per day will supply a
complete bath room and running
water in the kitchen for an average
sized family.——-Fred Ellison.

On our farm“ we have a spring
that ﬂows about 5 gallons of water
per minute. It is located about 16
rods from the house and 40 feet
lower; and 6 rods from the barn
and 12 food lower. A small ram in
this spring furnishes hot and cold
water for the kitchen and e com-
plete bathroom. At the burn it
pumps theiwator  10 cows and I
horses, and usually there-is an ov-
erdow.
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I  inhumane seven wondsrs a ‘

' the world has been a popular
pastime the early days of rec-

” orded' history down to the present.
The ancients got almost as much ‘

kick out of choosing them as nod—
ern sporting writers do from pick-
ing an ail-American football team.
And they had equally hitter argu-
ments in deciding which objects and
phenomena to include and which to
eliminat

e.

, The earliest list of the “Seven
Wonders of the World” included:
The Hanging condone of Nebuchad-
nezzer, the Colossus of Rhodes.
Phidias’ "Statue of Jupiter, the Pyra-
mids. the Temple of Diana at
Ephesus, the Tomb of Mausolus and
the Palace of Cyrus.

Galloping along down the paths
of history the United States got into
the Seyen Wonders game with such
entries as Niagara Falls, the Wash-
ington Monument, the Grand Can-
yon, and the Woolworth Building
listed along with foreign sights like
the Wing Tower of Pisa, the
Great Wall of China and the Eifel
Tower.

But today nobody gets very much
excited over the Seven Wonders.
The whole world is much more in-
terested in the Eighth Wonder!

By common consent, the title of
the Eighth Wonder of the World
goes to radio. The, marvel of wire-
less communication has a universal
appeal. It amazes, thrills and
serves every country and clime.

The eﬂect of this new art and
utility cannot even yet be measured
or fully forecast. Certain it is that
thismodern method of communica-
tion already is profoundly affecting
industry, religion, entertainment,
political life, industry and home life
everywhere. And the real romance
of radio is not alone the spectacular
fact of communication through the
ether between points thousands of
miles apart but the speed and com-
pleteness with which the new utility
has made a place for itself in the
daily life of millions of people.

In fact, the development has been
so rapid that the general public has
scarcely given a thought to what
makes this wonderful source of edu-
cation and entertainment possible.

What is the essential principle-—
what really ‘accounts for it?

Ampliﬁcation is the real explana-
tion. Without ampliﬁcation, radio
of today would be impossible.
Charging electric waves to sound
waves wouldn't mean much if they
couldn't be heard plainly. Ampliﬁ-
cation builds them up so that they
are clear and easy to hear. Am-

pliﬁcation is used at the transmit- ~~

ting station as well as at the receiv-
inor instrument. Whispers thou-

sands of miles away become clear, -

living voices in the homes of mil-
lions.

Ampliﬁcation is muitli-plcation.
The small amount of sound energy
generated by the voice or an orches-
tra at the broadcasting station is
changed to electrical energy and
then multiplied or ampliﬁed millions
of times. This large amount of en-
ergy is then put into an antenna
and radiated out into space as an
electromagnetic wave. When this
wave strikes a similar antenna miles
away it gives up to it a small
amount of this energy to be ampli-
ﬁed again so that a whole roomful
of people at the remote point can

listen and understand. ._,

Successful ampliﬁcation is one of
the most difﬁcult as well as one of
the most important phases of radio
production. To amplify is easy, but
to amplify so that no distortion or
change in the sound-is made re-
quires apparatus designed and con—
structed by specialists in ampliﬁca-
tion. ’

In all good ampliﬁers there are
transformers and vacuum tubes.
The transformer is the heart of the
ampliﬁer. Unless the proper trans-
formor’is used the singer’s voice in
Pittsburg will sound like cat, calls,
in Boston. The voice will be am-
pliﬁed, but the tone and the rich

fr,..natnral quality will not be preserv-
 ‘withent a proper transformer.

is s very real and vital-sense. the

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so thatquality as well as volume of
sound is obtained e ampliﬁcation
without distortionr—LSeuthern' Rur-
aiist.

WEE! TO__ THE!)

Radio Editor: I notice in Ta]:
BUSINESS Fumes. that you otter to
adiust radio sets that do not work
properly. I built one. a short time
ago, about two months, that has not
worked very well. It is very squeal-
ly and noisy, also of late does not
bring in many stations. I have a
six volt storage battery to light the
ﬁlament, but perhaps the plate bat—
tery is getting weak. I am sending
the entire set to you, with the ex-
ception of the storage battery, also
my check for $6.00. If the plate
battery is exhausted, please re-
place it from this money. I think
perhaps that the vario-oonpler is not
very satisfactory either. I bought
a forty-three plate variable condens-
er, but removed part of the plates,
they are in an envelope in the box
with the set. If the amount enclos-
ed does not cover expense of ﬁxing
and returning the set please let me
know and I- will send the amount
needed immediately. I have been
using this set on a single wire
aerial, about thirty feet above the
ground. Thanking you in advance
for this very great favor, I am—O.
M. C., St. Johns, Michigan.

OUR set goes forward to you to-

day by parcel post. Last night
I listened to the different sta-

tions on your set and they all came
in clear and strong, from Omaha,
Neb., to Springﬁeld, Mass. In the
daytime I got KYW and WJ ﬁne
and clear.

I believe it will give you many
months of' service from now on.

 

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M condenser... [on ,m. w

Vi‘nee'd to use this condenser as the
telephone cords have 5mm: am-

pacity in themselves and take the
place of the condenser.

Your package arrived in such bad
condition that one of the B batteries
was all broken to pieces and was un-
usable. The battery that is left, the
ABC battery, is perfectly good yet.
You should not use more than 22%
volts on this set or bulb. Do not
burn the bulb very bright.

The grid leak was broken and so
I replaced that at a cost of 50c; it
is a RCA make. The condensers
are OK also the varlo—coupler which
ought to give you lots of service. I
would not advise spending any mon-
ey on a new one unless this one
breaks for you. You used acid
solder and that is liable to cause
trouble. It should never be used on
a radio set.

The total cost to you is the post-
age plus the cost of the grid leak,
50c and leaves you from your $6.00
check, $5.03 which I am enclosing
in the form of a check.

KDKA BROWNS OUT OTHER
STATIONS

I am sending you my foreign
bulb and also my grid leak. When
I bought the grid leak, I understood
that I had condenser and leak com-
bined but I have made up my mind
that it is only the leak, and there-
fore I wanted you to test these out
for me. I tried the bulb out as a.
plain detector without grid leak or
condenser and I have hear KDKA
and WGY but not very good. The
tube seems to plug up and I had to
use the variable condenser in the
ground lead instead of the aerial.
Would a 43-plate condenser be bet—

ter on a Set with an aerial of 200

feet like mine, than a 23-three plate
one? Would it shorten my range
to cut the aerial down to 125 feet as
I read a shorter aerial gives more

.3an ‘

nun mtg! Hi did not! 
have a shorter and more directional
to my set? [a a 0-1! tube “signed
as e W134: tube? could {use one
stage of amplification “with my

crystal? 1 do not hear KDKA in the '
daytime on the crystal. We do hear
WABM at Saginaw and also Detroit
Stations on some days but every
night KDKA comes in, and some-
times so loud as to drown every-
thing else out and no matter how
you tune, they are there. Could this
be helped? I use a’ loose coupler
with a variable condenser in the de-
tector circuit? We shall be very
grateful to you if you can help us
and thanking you for your kindness,
I am J. M. T., St. Charles, Michigan.

N today's mail I am returning to
I you the “Te-lefunken" bulb and
grid resistance. The grid re-
sistance does not have a condenser
attached and in itself seems to be
broken internally as I could not get
it to work with either your tube of
with any of my sets. It is defective
I believe and should be returned to
the store for another one.

The vacuum tube needs nearly 90
volts on it to work as a detector and
then it is not at all sensitive and
does not compare with the WD—12
tube. As an amplifier it works
quite well on 90 volts or more of
B battery. I do not think that it
will give you satisfaction except as
an amplifying tube and then it is
not as good as our American tubes.

Yes the 0-12 tube is as good as
the WD-12 tube, they are exactly
the same and made by the same
people, under the same patents.

No, a 43 plate condenser would
not be as good as a 23 plate one on
a long aerial.

You will get much better selectiv-
ity, sharper tuning, and better re-
sults on the Whole if you cut the
aerial down to 125 feet instead of
200 feet. The long aerial is one of
the reasons that you have trouble in
tuning out KDKA on your present
set.

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day in and day out. ”

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., _ - -—,~b‘ehind the‘eoimter of-a grocery-
,ltore. I've bought out the old stand. Oh.
'I had enough left for that, and more!

Closed the deal last night. Gerry but I
was glad to feel the old ﬂoor under my
feet .againi’", t r

» "But I thought you—you were tired
ofwork. and—wanted to enjoyyouﬁelf,”
stunmered Mr. Smith.

Frank Blaisdell laughed. v

“Tired of work—wanted to enjoy my
self. indeed! Yes, I know I did say some-
thing like that. But, let me tell you this,
 ﬁnith. Talk about work !——I never
worked so hard in my life as I have the
last ten months trying to enjoy myself.
How these folks can stand gadding 'round
the country week in and week out, feeding
their stomachs on a French dictionary
instead of good United States meat and
potatoes and squash, and spending their
.days traipsing off to see things they
ain't». mite interested in, and their nights
trying to get rested so they can go and
see more the next day, I don't under-
stand."

Mr. Smith chuckled.

"I’m afraid these touring. agencies
wouldn’t like to have you write their ads
for them, Mr. Blaisdell!”

"Well. they hadn't better ask me to,"
smiled the other grimly. “But that ain’t
all. Since I come back I've been working
even harder trying to enjoy myself here
at home—knockin’ silly little balls over
a ten acre lot in a game a healthy ten-
year-old boy would scorn to play.”

“But how about your new car? Didn't
m enjoy riding in that?" bantered Mr.

ith.

"Oh, yes, I enjoyed the riding well
enough: but I didn’t enjoy hunting for
punctures, putting on new tires, or bur-
rowing into the inside of the critter to
ﬁnd out Why she didn't go! And that’s
what i was doing most of the time. I
never did like machinery. It ain’t in my
line."

He paused a moment, then went on a
little Wistfully:—-—

“I suspect, Mr. Smith, there ain’t any-
thing in my line but groceries. It’s all
I know. It’s all I ever have known. If
—-—if I had my life to live over again, I'd
do different, maybe. I‘d see if I couldn't
find out what there was in a picture to
make folks stand and stare at it an hour
at a time when you could see the whole
thing in a minute—and it wa'n’t worth
lookin’ at, anyway, even for a minute.
And music, too. Now, I like a good tune
what is a tune; but them caterwaulings
and dirges that that chap Gray plays on
that ﬁddle of his—gorry, Mr. Smith, I'd
rather hear the old born door at home
squeak any day. But if I was younger
I’d try to learn to like 'em. I would!
Look at Flora, now. She can set by the
hour in front of that phonygraph of hers,
and not know it !"

“Yes, I know," smiled Mr. Smith.

"And there’s books, too," resumed the
other, still wistfully. “I'd read books—if
I could stay awake long enough to do
itr—and I’d ﬁnd out what there was in
’em to make a good sensible man like
Jim Blaisdell daft over 'em—and Maggie
Duﬂ, too. Why, that little woman used to
go hungry sometimes, when she was a
girl, so she could buy a book she wanted.
I know she did. Why, I’d'a’ given any-
thing this last year if I could 'a’ got in-
terested—really interested, readin'. I
I could 'a' killed an awful lot of time
that way. But I couldn’t do it. I bought
a lot'of 'em, too, an' tried it; but I ex~
pect I didn’t begin young enough. I tell
ye, Mr. Smith, I've about come to the
conclusion that there ain't a thing in the
world‘ so hard to kill as time I've tried
it, and I know. Why, I got so I couldn't
even kill it eatin'-—though I ’most killed
myself tryin' it! An’ let me tell ye an-
other thing. A full stomach ain’t in it
with bein’ hungry an’ knowing a good
dinner’s coming. Why, there was weeks
at a time back there that I didn’t know
the meaning of the word 'hungry.’ You’d
oughter seen the jolt I give one o’them
waiter—chaps one day when he comes up
with his paper and pencil and asks me
what I wanted. ‘Want?’ saysl. ‘There
ain't but one thing on this earth I want.
and you can't give it to me. I want to
want something. I’m tired of bein' so
blamed satisﬁed all the time!’ "

“And what did—Alphonso say to that?”
chuckled Mr. Smith appreciatively.

“Alphonso? Oh, the waiter-fellow, you
mean? 0h, he just stared a minute, then
mumbled his usual «‘Yes' sir, very good,
sir,’ and shoved that confounded printed
card of his a little nearer to my nose.
But, there! I guess you've heard enough
of this, Mr. Smith. It's only that I was
trying to tell you why I’m actually glad
we lost that money. It’s give me back
my man’s job again."

“Good! Alright. then. I won't waste
any more sympathy on you," laughed Mr.
Smith.

“Well, you needn’t. And there's another
thing. .I hope it’ll give me back a little
of my old faith in my fellow-man.”

“What do you mean by that?"

“Just this. I won't suspect every man.
woman, and child that says a civil word
to me now, of having designs on my
pocketbook Why. Mr. Smith, you wouldn’t
believe it, if I told you, the things that’s
been done and said to get a little money
out of me. Of course, the open gold-
brick schemes I know enough to dodge,
host of ’em (unless you count in that
darn Benson mininm stock), and I spoo-
ted the blackmailers all right, most gen-

erally. But I was ﬂabbergasted when a
woman tackled the job and began to make
love to me—actually make love to moi—-
one day when Jane's back was turned.
Gerry! Do I look such a fool as that.
Mr. Smith? Well, anyhow, there won’t
be any more of that kind. nor aanody
after my money now, I guess," he ﬂn-
ished with a sage wag of his head as he
turned away.

To Miss Maggie that evening Mr. Smith
said, after recounting the earlier portion
of the conversation: “So you see you
were right, after all. I shall have to own
it up. Mr. Frank Blaisdell had plentyto
retire upon, but nothing to retire to. But
I'm glad—if he's happy now."

“And he isn't the only one that that
forty-thousand-dollar loss has done a good
turn to." nodded Miss Maggie. “Mellicent
has just been here. You know she’s home
from school. It's the Easter vacation,
anyway, but she isn't going back. It's
too expensive." ~

Miss Maggie spoke with studied casual-
ness, but there was an added color in her
cheeks—Miss Maggie always ﬂushed when
she mentioned Mellicent’s name to Mr.
Smith, in spite of her indignant efforts
not to do so. '

"Oh, is that true?"

“Yes. Well, the Pennocks had a dance
last night, and Mellicent went. She said
she had to laugh to see Mrs. Pennock's
efforts to keep Carl away from her—the
loss of the money is known everywhere
now, and has been greatly exaggerated,
I’ve heard. She said that even Hibbard
Gaylord had the air of one trying to let
her down easy. Mellicent was immensely
amused."

“Where was Donald Gray?”

“Oh, he wasn't there. He doesn‘t move
in the Pennock crowd much. But Melli-
cent sees him, and—and everything’s all
right there, now. That’s why Mellicent
is so happy."

“You mean— Has her mother given
in?”

"Yes. You see, Jane was at the dance,
too, and she saw Carl, and she saw Hib—
bard Gaylord. And she was furious. She
told Mellicent this morning that she had
her opinion of fellows who would show
so plainly as Carl Pennock and Hibbard
Gaylord did that it was the money they
were after." .

“I’m afraid—«Mrs. Jane has changed
her shoes again," murmured Mr. Smith,
his eyes merry.

"Has changed—oh!" Miss Maggie’s
puzzled frown gave way to a laugh.
"Well, yes, perhaps the shoe is on the
other foot again. But, anyway, she doesn’t
love Carl or Hibbard any more, and she
does love Donald Gray. He hasn't let
the loss of the money make any difference
to him, you see. He's been even more
devoted, if anything. She told Mellicent
this morning that he was a very estimable
young man, and she liked him very much.
Perhaps you see now why Mellicent is—
happy."

Good! I’m glad to know it," cried Mr.
Smith heartily. "I'm glad—" His face
changed suddenly. His eyes grew somber.
"I'm glad the loss of the money brought
them some happiness—if the possession of
it didn’t." he ﬁnished moodily, turning to
go to his own room. At the hall he
paused and looked back at Miss Maggie,
standing by the table, gazing after him
with troubled eyw. "Did Mellicent say—-
whether Fred was there?” he asked.

"Yes. She said he wasn’t there. He
didn't come home for this vacation at alL
She said she didn’t know why. I suspect
Mellicent doesn’t know anything about
that wretched aﬂalr of his." ‘

"We’ll hope not. So the young gentle-
man didn't show up at all?"

“No, nor Bessie. She. went home with
a Long Island girl. Hattie didn’t go to
the Pennocks' either. Hattie has—has
been very different since this affair of
Fred’s. I. think it frightened her terribly
——it was so near a tragedy; the boy
threatened to kill himself, you know, if his
father didn’t help him. out.”

' “But his father did help him out!”
flared the man irritably.

“Yes, I know he did; and I'm afraid
he found things in a pretty bad mess—
when he got there,” sighed Miss Maggie.
“It was a bad mess all around."

“You are exactly right!" ejaculated Mr.
Smith with sudden and peculiar emphasis.
“It is, indeed, a bad mess all around," he
growled as he disappeared through the
door.

Behind him, Miss Maggie still stood
motionless. looking after him with troub-
led eyes.

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As the spring days grew warmer, Miss
Maggie had occasioned many times to
look after Mr. Smith with troubled eyes.
She could not understand him at all.
One day he would be the old delightful
companion, genial, cheery, generously
donating a box of chocolates to the cen-
ter-table bonbon dish or a. dozen- hot
house roses to the mantel vase. The
next, he would nervous, abstracted
almost irritable. Yet she could see no
possible reason for the change.

Sometimes she wondered fearfully if
Mellioent could have anything to do with
it. Was it possible that he cared for Mel-
licent, and to see her now so happy with
Donald Gray was more than he could
bear? It did not seem credible. There
was his own statement that he had de-
voted himself to her solely and only to
help keep the undesirable lovers away
and give Donald Gray a chance.

Besides, had he not said that he was
not a marrying man, anyway? To be
sure, that seemed a pity—a. man so kind
and thoughtful and so delightfully com-
panionable! But then. it was nothing to
her, of course—only she did hope he was
not feeling unhappy over Mellicent!

Miss Maggie wished, too, that Mr.
Smith would not bring ﬂowers and candy
so often. It worried her. She felt as if
he were spending too much money—and
she had got the impression in some way
that he did not have any too much money
to spend. And there were the expensive
motor trips, too—she feared Mr. Smith
was extravagant. Yet she could not tell
him so, of course. He never seemed to
realize the value of a dollar, anyway, and
he very obviously did not know how to
get the most out of it. Look at his fool-
ish generosity in regard to the board he
paid her!

Miss Maggie wondered sometimes if it
might not be worry over money matters
that was making him so nervous and
irritable on occasions now. Plainly he
was very near the end of his work there
in Hillerton. He was not getting so
many letters on Blaisdell matters from
away, either. For a month now he had
done nothing but a useless repetition of
old work; and of late, a good deal of the
time, he was not even making that pre-
tense of being busy. For days at a time
he would not touch his records. That
could mean but one thing, of course; his
work was done. Yet he seemed to be
making no move toward departure. Not
that she wanted him to go. She should
miss him very much whenhe went, of
course. But she did not like to feel that
he was staying simply because he had
nowhere to go and nothing to do. Miss
Maggie did not believe in able-bodied men
who had nowhere to go and nothing to do
-——and she wanted very much to believe in
Mr. Smith.

She had been under the impression that
he was getting the Blaisdell material to-
gether for a book, and that he was intend-
ing to publish it himself. He had been
very happy and interested. Now he was
unhappy and uninterested. His book
must be ready, but he was making no
move to publish it. To Miss Maggie this
could mean but one thing: some ﬁnancial
reverses had made it impossible for him
to carry out his plans, and had left him
stranded with no deﬁnite aim for the
future.

She was so sorry l—but there seemed to
be nothing that she could do. She had
tried to help by insisting that he pay less
for his board; but he had not only scouted
that idea, but had brought «her more
chocolate and ﬂowers than ever—-for all
the world as if he had divined her sus-
picions and wished to disprove them.

That Mr. Smith was trying to keep
something from her, Miss Maggie was
sure. She was the more sure, perhaps,
because she herself had something that
she was trying to keep from Mr. Smith
—and she thought she recognized the
symptoms.

Meanwhile Axpril budded into May, and
May blossomed into June; and June
brought all the Blaisdells together again
in Hillerton.

CHAPTER XXII

With Every Jim 3 James

Two days after Fred Blaisdell had re-
turned from college, his mother came to
see Miss Maggie. Mr. Smith wes rear-
ranging the books on Miss Maggie's
shelves and trying to‘ make room for
the new ones he had bought her through
the winter. When Mrs. Hattie came in.
red—eyed and ﬂushed-faced, he ceased his
work at once and would have left the

 

 

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tan. .-;  . Judd-won
 the rest. So You can keep,
to Work. I just came down to talk

over with Maggie. I—rm sure I don‘t

know w-what (I’m ﬂint to do—when I
can’t.” ’ '

 

“But you always can, dear,” 

Miss Maggie cheeriiy, handing her visitor
a fan and taking a chair near-her.

Mr. Smith, after a moment's hesitation,
turned quietly back to his bookshelves.

"But I can't,” choked Mrs. Hattie. “I
—I'm going away.”

“Away? Where? What do you mean?"
cried Miss Maggie. “Not to—live!"

“Yes. That' what I came to tell you.”

"Why, Hattie Blaisdell, where are‘you
coins?"

“To Plainville—next month."

"Plainville? 0h, wall, cheer up! That's
only forty miles from here. I guess we

' can still see each other. Now, tell me,

what does this all mean?"

“Well, of course, it began with Fred—n
his trouble you know.” ‘

d “But I thought Jim ﬁxed that all up.
ear."

“Oh, he did. He paid the money. and
nobody there at college knew a thing
about it. But there were—other things
Fredtold us some of them night before
last. He says he's ashamed of himself.
but that he believe’s there’s enough left
in him to make a man of-him yet. But
he says he can't do it—there." , ,

“You means—he doesn't want to go back
to college?" Miss Maggie’s voice showed
her disappointment. - ' ' ~ '

“0h, he wants to go to college—but
not there." V .

“Oh,” nodded Miss Maggie. "I see."

“He says he's had too much money to
spende that ’twouldn’t be easy not
to spend it——-if he was back there, in the
old crowd. So he wants to go some-
where else."

“Well, that's all right, isn't it?”

“Y-yes. Jim says it is. He’s awfully
happy over it, and—«and I guess I am."

“Of course you are! But now, what is
this about Plainville?" '

“Oh that grew out of it—«ail this. Mr.
Hammond is going to open a new ofﬁce
in Plainville and he’s offered Jiim——James
no, Jimr—I'm not going to call him
'James’ any more !.—-the chance to mane
age it" '

“Well, that's ﬁne, I’m sure."

"Yes,°of course that part is fine-—
splendid. He’ll get a bigger salary, and
all that, and—«and I guess I’m glad to
go, anyway. I don’t like Hillerton any
more. I haven't got any friends here,
Maggie. Of course, I wouldn’t have any-
thing to do with the Gaylords now, after
what’s happened—that boy getting my
boy to drink and gamble. and—and every-
thing. And yet—you know I’ve strained
every nerve for years, and worked and
worked to get where my children could
—could be with them!"

"It didn’t pay. did it, Hattie?”

“I guess it didn’t! They're perfectly
horrid—every one of them. and I hate
them!”

“Oh, Hattie, Hattie !"

“Well, I do. Look at what they’ve
done to Fred, and Bessie, too! I shan't
let her be with them any more, either.
There aren't any folks here we can be
with now. That’s why I don’t mind :0-
ing away. All our friends that we used
to know don't like us any more, they're
so jealous on account of the money. Oh,
yes, I know you think I’m to blame for
that," she went on aggrievedly. “I can
see you do, by your face. Jim says so,
too. And maybe I am. But it was just
so I could get ahead. I did so want to
be somebody!"

"I know, Hattie." Miss Maggie looked
as if she would like to‘say something
more—but she did not say it.

Over at the bookcase Mr. Smith was
abstractedly opening and shutting the
book in his hand. Hisgaze was out the
window near him. He had not touched
the books on the shelves for some time.

“And look at how I’ve tried and see
what it has come to——Bessie so high-
headed and airy she makes fun of us,
and Fred a gambler and a drunkard.
and 'most a thief. And it’s all that hor-
rid hundred thousand dollars !"

The books in Mr. Smith’s hand slipped
to the ﬂoor with a bang; but no one was
noticing Mr. Smiith.

"Oh, Hattie, don’t blame the hundred
thousand dollars,"‘cried Miss Maggie. .

“Jim says it was, and Fred does. too.
They talked awfully. Fred said it was
all just the same kind of a way that I'd
tried to make folks call Jim ‘James.’
He said I'd been trying to make every
single 'Jim’ we had into a ‘James.’ un-
til I'd taken away all of the fun of livu
ing. And I suppose maybe he’s right.
too." Mrs. Hattie sighed profoundly.
“Well' anyhow, I'm not going to do it
anymore. There isn’t any fun in it, any-
way. It doesn't make any difference how
hard I tried to get ahead, I always
found somebody a little ‘aheadier,’ as
Benny calls it. So what's the use?"

“There isn’t any use—in that kind of
trying, Hattie."

“No, I suppose there isn't. Jim said
I was like the little boy that theyasked
what would make him the happiest of
anything in the world, and he ansWered.
'Everything' that I haven’t got.’ But I
don’t see as I‘m any worse than other
folks. Everybody goes for money: but
I’m sure I don’t see why—if it doesn’t
make them any happier than it has me!
Well. I must be going." Mrs. Hattie rose
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(From The Detroit; Free Press, Aug. 1-5th, 1924.),

 

GRANT H. SLOCUM
October 12, 1864
August 14, 1924

 

 

 

RANT H. 'SLOCUM, who organ-
ized the Ancient Order. of
Gleaners in 1894, and had been
head of that order for 30 years, died
at his home near Mt. Clemens, as a
result of apoplexy suﬁered May 16.
He was 59 years old.

For nearly a third of a century,
Grant Slocum had been one of the
political leaders among Michigan
farmers, and, aided by his organiza—
tion, was credited with controlling
large numbers of votes, but, despite
his political strength,‘ he never held
ofﬁce of any kind.

He was born on a farm near
Holly, October 12, 1864, where he
remained until he was a young man,
when he went to Caro, Tuscola
county, to learn the printing trade.

Published Tuscola Paper

There he acquired the Tuscola
County Courier, which he published
for many years. While engaged in
this enterprise be conceived the idea
of a great fraternal insurance order

to be built up among the farmers,
and in September, 1894, the Glean-
ers came into being, with 25 mem-
bers.

The organization grew until it
had 75,000 members, principally in
eight middle western states, and
1,400 lodges, In 1909 headquarters
was moved to Detroit, and Mr. Slo-
cum came here to live, but 12 years
ago he built the home where he
died, near Mt. Clemens.

His entire life was devoted to
farm enterprises. He organized the
Gleaners’ Clearing House associa-
tion, which uniﬁed a group of co—
operative elevators throughout the
state and which was operated suc-
cessfully for nearly a quarter of a
century until the depression follow-
ing the war sounded its death knell.

l

Promoted Prison Twine

Through his initiative, during the
time in which Nathan F. Simpson
was warden of Jackson Prison, the
Gleaners purchased the entire out-
put of binder twine, and retailed it
to members of the order through-
out the state.

He was president of the Peoples
State bank of Middleton, which has
branches in several neighboring vil-
lages, vice-president of the State
Savings bank of Caro, and a direct-
or of the Commercial bank of Caro.
He was a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a
Gleaner, a Yeoman, and a Wood—
man. .

Mr. Slocum was married in 1886
to Miss Ada Mertz, of Caro. Two
children, Mrs. Ford Gargett, of
Ionia, and George M. Slocum, of
Mt. Clemens, and James Slocum, a
brother, survive.

Funeral services were held at the
residence at 2 o'clock Saturday af—
ternoon and the body temporarly
placed in a vault at Mt. Clemens.

Active pallbearers included R. L.
Holoway, J. J. England, John Hud-
son, F. C. Goodyear, George L.
.Strachan, Nathan F. Simpson, Her-
bert F. Baker and H. I. Zimmer, all
members of the board of directors of
the Gleaners. There were 20 hon-
orary pallbearers.

Floral tributes numbered more
than 500 and -when the residence
became ﬁlled with blooms shortly
before. the services several hundred
designs had to be placed in the
yard and on the porches.

Note: Mr.
tribute to the memory of his father
appears on the editorial page of this
issue.

()U_R_ READE_RS’ NEW BUILDINGS

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

farmer decide the type{ of house, or ham, or other buildings he desn‘es to
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It wi ~show the M. F. readers what their
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It stands on the farm of Charles Bissell, Marcellus, Mich,

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—T0 “GRANT,” MY FAME

R as far back as I can remember, I had

called him “Grant,” just as did those with

whom he worked or played. And when the
grandchildren came he would not have the bar-
rier of "grandpa" raised between. their little
hearts and his big one, and so they were taught
at his very knee to call him “Grant” too. Such
simple humility of spirit as this expressed, is
the key by which to read the memories of this
hour. Sympathy welled up in his heart with
every pulse-beat and, whether he would or not,
it must ﬂow in some direction or burst its
bounds. '

Thus it is easy to see, from whence came his
life’s greatest desire; to better the condition of
the men and women who tilled the soil. For had
not his very ﬁngers picked the endless stone
from the ﬁelds of his father’s farm? Had he not
seen his own father, a rugged pioneer of that
type who could not know defeat, forced to toil
as a carpenter because that same farm could not
even barely feed and clothe his family of two
girls and four boys, of whom Grant was the

youngest?
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It is not strange then, that the farm held
small attraction for these children. They had
seen its seamy side. So when his turn came,
Grant too, left it and followed two older broth-
ers into the country newspaper business, where
by diligence and creative ability he soon laid
the foundation of a comfortable business career.

But the memory of his mother’s struggle and
his father’s toil on that rocky farm would not
be stilled. Grant saw the injustice of it all.
The farmers' helpless position haunted him.

Finally the bounds of his sympathy broke and
its ﬂood carried before it all the selfish aims
and ambitions which otherwise might have
marked a life devoted only to personal gain. No
Moses or Joan ever dreamed more clearly a vis-
ion of leadership out of an intolerable condition
for a part of God’s children than did Grant
Slocum, when from printed page and platform
he preached the salvation of the individual farm-
er through organization and co—operation.

C I .

Only the rugged constitution of a countrybred
boy could have endured the struggle of the years
after be seen the vision. Country schoolhouses,
dimly lit and crowded to suffocation, resounded
to his pleading and his battle cry. Long, frees-
ing drives through snow piled high over fences,
until the way of the road itself was lest. he
made to get back to the'home that was his haven
of refuge and his shrine of devotion.

But such inspiring labor as was his, soon
found reward and others, fired by his enthusiasm.
lit their torches from his own and in turn
kindled more until thousands of faces were
lighted by its glow and countless hearts took
courage from its promises.

Grant Slocum was one of the pioneers of farm-
erl‘ organization and co-operation in America.
And he. would not, couldhe speak today, 

 
 

 

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who  personal following  his
Nth,  have tempted, him with the pos-
 of public one.  the honors of cow
erumeht position. are obvious. But that in an
active lifetime he. never accepted such honors
must bespeak more than more words could. how
unflinchineg he held to the single purpose on
which he‘had marked his goal.

0 O O

In later years when the fruits of frugality had
made it possible for him to lay down the battle
and enjoy the rest which was his reward, how
he struggled to do it! Yet the tire of youth's
purpose burned within his now worn body,
fanned, it seemed, to an even brighter intensity
by every report of victory in the emancipation
of the farmer.

But while the battle still waged, he who..had
been one of its generals was carried from the
ﬁeld wounded, and when the passing of hours
into days, days into weeks, and weeks into
months told him he could never again pick up
his beloved banner and carry it forward, he gave
up. 1

His last words, when only power of speech
remained, for he had poured out his last ounce
of strength, were

“Come on now, boys, all together, over the
top!"

And that challenge will remain, engraved in
the hearts and burning in the breasts, of the
great circle of those who loved him so well and
who called him “Grant.”—-G-men M. Swami.

-
SILVER LEN'ING T00 BRIGHT

might have been just as well for the newly

, organized Grain Marketing Company if Gray

Silver, its president, had not painted so rosy
a picture of its future when he talked to the ag-
ricultural editors, who accepted the invitation
sent out by that company to “come to Chicago
at our expense.”

Altho we were not in attendance, we under-
stand that among other things, Mr. Silver, in the
style which has already won him some fame.
stated:

“It is estimated—ind the estimate is con-
servative——that a saving of ﬁve cents per
bushel will be effected in the cost of handl-
ing grain from the time it leaves the farm
granary until it reaches the mill or the
manufacturer. Applied to the whole wheat
crop, this would reach the -enormous total
of $40,000,000 a year. Applied to the
volume of corn moving through commercial
channels, it would be' approximately as
much, with the other grain contributing to
the grand total applied to the wheat and
corn leaving the farm, certainly $70,000,000
would be conservative. The entire capital-
ization of the Grain Marketing Co. is $26,—
000,000. In other words, if about one—third
of» the savings which it is estimated can be
made for the farmer on the cost of handling
his wheat and corn surpluses during a single
year could be so employed, the capitalization
could be obtained and a tidy little sum could
be saved. If a considerably lesser propor-
tion could be employed to pay for the prop-
erties that have been leased, the farmers
would quickly be in complete ownership of
all the elevators and other machinery com-
prised in those properties."

Of course, we could not have swallowed 30
large a lump without choking and we certainly
do not expect our readers to. Promoters are
not allowed under the “blue-sky" laws of Mich-
igan to burn so much gas when they are talk-
ing to their prospect about the purchase of stock,
but perhaps Mr. Silver knew well enough that
none of the farm paper editors present would
buy anyway. so he mi ht as well go the limit,
and apparently he di .

- In our last issue, on this page, we had some-
thing to shy about this $26,000,000 proposition
which is to be sold to the farmers of America.
Now, as we read over what we wrote two weeks
ago, it sounds very mild indeed. We said we
were charitable towards any farmers cooperative
movement and we are. We can overlook mis-
takes, when honest eﬂort prompted them. but
we cannot and will not stand for anything which
appears to us a misrepresentation of facts.

Too many honest men with honest purposes
have toiled into the night and sweated their very

life’s blood to give farmers! organintion and eo-v

operative .move'ment's - the impetus which they

have earned today: We know their problems i
 thefrightful loss which the failure 031'

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certain  “"s, therefor-ewe.“

 
  

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gate thoroughly" before- investing in the  

Marketing Company "of’Chlcago. '

We shall be interested to learn when they 

gin discourses of Michigan for the  of stock
in this company. We hope our readers will lied
us informed and‘also mail us copies of circular
matter which they receive regarding it. This
proposition will well v beer watching and we be.
iieve it is the duty of every manintoreeted in
the future of cooperative marketing to be alert
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A GREAT 1088

ITHIN sight of the home he loved. Protests

or Frank R. Spragg, assistant professor of

farm crops at M. A. 0., with his beloved
wife and ten year old boy. were struck by a train
on August 13th, and hurled‘into the great un-
known. So sbocking a loss hasnot been felt at
the college in a great many years and gradually
as the importance of this man to agriculture is
known, will the loss be keenly felt‘all over the
country, if not the world.

Our OWn readers have been following for
months a series of articles by Professor Slim.
in which he has covered the inovations in plant-
life which he will, as time passes, be given full
credit for. Even now, we have yet to publish
one or two articles which were awaiting publica-
tion when he was taken away from us.

Rosen rye, Wolverine oats, Hardigan alfalfa,
Berkley Rock wheat and other improved vari-
eties of seeds‘ were discovered by this modest
man who toiled with so little recognition and
such great results at East Lansing. Who then
can fathom the depth of the loss in which this
one man's death has placed agriculture not only
in Michigan, but in the whole world?

God grant, that somewhere there are hearts
that know no fatigue and brain that dream of
things yet unknown who can carry on the work
which Frank Spragg had so well begun!

 

DETROIT WEWMFS STAR FAIR VISITORS

ECAUSE Michigan's metropolis has put on
long—pants since becoming the fourth city,
in point of population in the United States.

is no reason for assuming as the politicians
would some times have us believe, that Detroit
is not friendly to visitors from up—state.

As a matter of fact, the better part of Detroit's
population came from "somewhere in Michigan!”
Most of her leading business men, manufactur-
ers, merchants and public officials are tip—state
boys. '\‘ I

They want you folks to drive in‘the week of
the state fair and make yourselves at home,
They feel disappointed if you stop at the Fair
Grounds and do not come down-town. Check
your car somewhere near the grounds and take a
trolley downbtown. Better still, climb on top of
a Second Avenue bus and get a bird's-eye view
of the city, all the way to the heart of town. for
a silver dime.

Come to Detroit and enjoy all that great city
has to offer you, because. you have been invited
and because back of the invitation is a sincere
“do come!“

HOW TO SEE A FAIR

TWO men go to a state fair and what each
sees is almost entirely different. One re-

turns home smelling of the midway and
ﬁlled with a conglomerate mixture of pop—corn,

taffy, red—hots and ginger-ale—but a mind- as.

empty as his pocket—book.

The other man looks first for the exhibits of
the special farm product in which he is most in-
terested and, be it bees or bulls, he ﬁnds the
best which the state or county affords displayed
for his approval. He finds men and women in
charge of these exhibits who are the best posted
authorities on their subject; he asks questions
and often he makes acquaintances which stood
him in good stead for years to come;

Next, he takes in the educational exhibits of
the fair in which he or his family are most inter.
ested. He goes with mother through the we-

mens building and even stands with daughter V  '
before a beautiful painting in  building 

with son he  into the intricacies, of 
scouts’ work. if he can spend more than ~ouo-_,

day at the fair-he finds ample things of interesig

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\3 month and receiving no reply we

that the Home Proﬁt Hooter!
Company was in the, reeeivers’

hands, I immediately took steps to _

have an investigation made and our
representative Mr. Fletcher, from
our New York since went directly to
Rochester and made me the follow
ing report:

-“If you have any complaints from
oeedings in Rochester on the 28th
of July. It was established that
there are between seven and eight
thousand creditors, and it is-expect-
ed that the assets. will not reach the

10,000 mark. The chances, there-

are very remote.

“If you have any complaints from
readers who have paid money on
machines and have not received
them, I would suggest that you ﬁle
proper claim and mark them “Prior-
ity Claims.” This was the advice
given me by the secretary of Judge
Sanford, who is Referee in Bank-
ruptcy.

“Mr. E. V. Cleary, attorney at
Rochester, is handling most of the
claims for creditors and it might be
advisable to get in .touch with him.”

We suggest that all readers of
TE: Busmnss FARMEB who have
claims of any nature, should present
them to Mr. Cleary, whose address
is 906 Wilder Bld., Rochester, N. Y.,
who will present them to the referee
in bankruptcy and we expect, charge
only a nominal commission on what
he collects for you.

So far as we can learn this com-
pany lived up to all their promises,
so far as buying back the work, etc.,
but apparently they were not on a
sound ﬁnancial basis and could not
stand the strain. There is a ray of
hope in the fact that the machine is
a good one and will do the work, but
under the present circumstances it
will not, of course, be possible to
hold the company to their promise
to buy back the completed hosiery
and it will be necessary for those
who own them to sell their product
in their own neighborhoods.

It has come to our attention that
twenty-ﬁve women in the city of
Minneapolis have formed themselves
into a cooperative knitting club,
buying their yarn and needles at
wholesale and selling the socks they
knit to either the local retail trade
or to friends. This permits them to
not only work out the cost of the
machine, but also gives a larger
proﬁt as such local sales are seldom
enacted by the present depressed
condition of the wholesale market.

We understand that Mr. H. B.
Watson, 21 Marlborough Road,
Rochetser, New York, in answer to
the request of these women in Min-
neapolis, has made it possible for
them to purchase needles and yarn
at wholesale prices, and we take it
for granted that he is willing to ex—
tend this same cooperation to others
who may desire it.

NEWSWRITER TRAINING
BUREAU
“I would like to ask you if ‘The
ﬂewswriter Training Bureau,’ Buf-
falo, New York, William A. He -
cock, managing director, is hono
able and trustworthy.”———G. L., St.
Clair County.

wrote this ﬁrm requesting
information regarding their
course and after waiting over

     
 
  
   
   
   

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to reply in any way. The" closing
. paragraph in our last letter was "If
you are doing a strictly legitimate
business and want more students
you should be anxious to volunteer
all information desired.” Perhaps
they do not want more students, so
would advise our reader to look
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WATCH OUT FOR BAD CHECKS
URING the summer there are al-
ways strangers going about the
country buying loads of vege~
tables, apples or poultry from the
farmers. Most of these strangers
pay cash for what they buy but we
have heard recently of several cases
where farmers accepted checks and
'then when they went to cash them
found they were no good. I have a
letter from a "victim" before me
that reads as follows:

"I wish you would publish a piece
in your valuable paper warning peo-
ple not to accept checks in payment
for their farm produce it they don’t
positively know the person who
gives the check is reliable. We were
unlucky enough to get stung $44.00
worth by a man from Jackson who
gave us a check in payment for po-
tatoes, check being no good as we
found later when we tried to cash
it. He stung four other farmers
here the same way. There seems
to be quite a number of his kind
swindling the people out of their
money with worthless checks."

Insist on the cash unless you are
well acquainted with the man and
know him to be honest. "A bird in
hand is worth two in the bush.” Ev-
en though prices are not very high
it is better to keep the produce
yourself than to give it away to
some stranger.

WEALLMAKEMISTAKEB ONCE
INAWHJLE

HEY say the reason rubbers are
put on the end of pencils is
that we all make mistakes now

and them—none of us are perfect.
Well, we buy pencils with rubbers
on them and sometimes have to use
the end with the rubber on. But
once in a while we fail to catch a
mistake and the result is your name
may be misspelled on your label, or
there is some other little error.
Then it is up to you to call the mat-
ter to our attention and we are al-
ways thankful to you for doing it.
The mistakes are not always ours
remember. Some send in their sub-
scription and fail to sign their name
plainly or leave of! their address
and in a few cases we have been un—
able to ﬁnd the name any place al-
though we have read the letter over
two or three times searching for it.
Whether it is our mistake or yours
write in and tell us about it. We
are always glad to hear from our
readers. If your letter is about
your subscription address it to the
attention of the Circulation Manag-
er, if you want the Editor to get
your letter address it to the atten-
tion of the Editor, and if you want
to get your letter into the hands of
the Publisher address it to his at-
tention. This should apply also if
you want your letter to go to any
certain department such as Farm-
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Dear Srs:—I received the money from
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Sire: Will let you know I have
a check from the com-
pany and thank you very much for your
prompt attention toward my other letters
and helping me to get my pay. Thank-
ing you again, I am—-—Mrs. F. 0., Merrill,
Michigan.

 

 
   
  

 

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' ‘ EM. L » 1;:  ‘
V  darned a desertisz 
me- woreneve‘r theyp ’ a . "
1f  like alligator jaws, ,
V  the ,
7: hat (“new Fedora was—-
‘ when no mortal knows.
sweaters all a' ribboned wreck.

V i3 wear it all‘I can,

" ,no one minds.‘ for I am just
e tattered hired-man.

he hired out for many ye
wages great and small;
ough I haven't saved as misers do,
haven't spent it all.
t with all my expenses met,
e put a little by
a tide me over troublous times,
d that's the reason why,
With such a carefree countenance
M humankind I scan,
And nothing worries me, for I’m
The happy hired-man.

 when the hoppers eat the wheat
.. The boss has tried to grow.

And rust and hall and drought and frost,
“Those harbingers of woe.

'Come helter—skelter on his head

That’s getting grey with care;

 And dunners chase from off his face

 

The smile he used to wear;
I sympathize with all my heart
And thank the Mighty Plan
That made me what I am, and that's
The lucky hired-man.
.——Nor’-West Farmer.

SEPTEMBER IN THE COUNTRY
, FEW more days and then the
call to return to the school-
room will be answered by over
300,000 rural boys and girls
throughout the land. Most of them
will enter buildings freshly cleaned,
some redecorated, to make them
more pleasant and suitable “temples
of learning." A few will enter new
buildings dedicated “ to the service
of the community and to the com-
mon cause of a better life for all."
Most of this youthful throng are
eager to return and join their school
friends. Most of them will enter
advanced grades with new ﬁelds of
study to explore. Most of them will
have new teachers. About one-ﬁfth
of them will be entering school for
the ﬁrst time. A few of them will
be entering schools in new commun-
ities into which they have moved or
to which they must go for advanced
educational instruction.

Everything possible should be
done to make the ﬁrst week a red
letter week for the beginners and
the newcomers, to be remembered
by them for the remainder of their
lives. First impressions are lasting
impressions. A favorable attitude
towards school and community gain-
ed during these ﬁrst few days will
largely determine the wholehearted-
ness with which these pupils will
enter into cooperation with the
school and its enlarged society.

Just as ﬁrst impressions largely
determine the attitude of the pupils
so do they sheet the teacher. The
teacher should become an integral
part of the community during her
period of tenure. Most teachers
realize this and are glad to respond

"to the welcome extended them by

the community. The teacher will
not only be happier but she, in in-
creased service, will repay the com-
munity for any efforts expended in
her behalf.

 

THREE TYRES OF SLEEVES AND
HOW THEY ARE MADE

RACTICALLY all sleeves may

now be divided into three types,

the kimona sleeve which is cut

in one with the waist section, the set-

, .in sleeve and the raglan sleeve. The

ﬁrst two types take their names from
the manner in which they are at~
tached to the garment and not from
their shape.

The advantage of the kimona
sleeve is that one is saved the work
of cutting and putting in a separ-
ate sleeve. A kimona sleeve should
never be made of material which
has not enough body or weight in
itself to hang well. A kimona
sleeve in organdy is not attractive
because of the stiffness of the ma-
terial which causes it to stick out
instead of hanging in proper posi-
tion. People inclined to stoutness
should not wear kimona sleeves.

The advantage of a set-in sleeve
is that it breaks the line of the gar-
;ment at the shoulder, and allows the
waist to conform somewhat better
to the lines of the ﬁgure under the
" rm. Its only disadvantage is the

labor necessary to put it in so that.

will hang correctly. , .,
A raglan sleeve is outwith the

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right?

No matter where y o u r
boys or girls are going
to school they should be
ready when school opens.
Think this over.

2  .. ..
apartment for the Women  ..
Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR
 nan some: Are your boys and girls ailmeady forschool‘i", It ,
will only be a few days before school starts in the country and
now is the time to check up-to see if they are ready. And’by
“ready” I do not mean Just if you have clothing for them and if they
are in the right frame of mind—no indeed.
of headaches or tired eyes have you had their eyes examined and
ﬁtted with glasses if needed? Have you taken them to the dentist
to see if their teeth are in ﬁrst class condition? Are they feeling all
If you want them to do their best in school and get the most
out of their studies they must be physically and mentally ﬁt.

, vim ,

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

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top extending to the neck. It is
easy to adjust and comfortable, but
is apt to make the wearer look
round shouldered. It should not
be used in thin materials.

It is generally advisable to pin in
the sleeve carefully before basting,
matching the notches.
terations are necessary remember
that at the present time most pat-
terns require the highest part of the
curve at the top of the sleeve to be
placed at the shoulder seam, which
:18 now directly on top of the shoul-

er. /

Hold the sleeve toward you in
pinning and basting it in, and if
there seems to be too much fullness
to ﬁt into the armseye, try to "ease"
it in by pushing it along with the
thumb of the left hand during the
basting. If, perchance, the shoul-
der and underarm seams have been
taken up so that the fullness in the
sleeve cannot be “eased” in, it may
be necessary to slip it up into the
armseye a little more. If this is
done be sure that the sleeve is slip-
pedped up all around, else it will
pull and wrinkle around the outside
of the arm just below the shoulder.

The top of the sleeve should be
a little larger than the armseye to
allow for the fullness and movement
of the upper part of the arm.—
Blanche E. Hyde, Clothing Special-
ist, Colorado Agricultural College.

'ASPBE'ITYASAPIOTURE

0 one knew that Mother had
bought a camera with her
birthday money. It rather

amused her to consider the remarks
that such a knowledge would have
evoked.

“Thought you were crazy about
new aluminum saucepans?" father
Would suggest wonderingly.

“Oh. mother, why didn't you get
something for the house?" would
be daughter’s tragic wail.

"What do you expect to make a
picture of in this forsaken burg?”
son would neroif rebelliously.

Mother loved the farm. Father
had loved it until the discontent and
dissatisfaction of his children began
to corrode his pride and happiness
in it. “What's the use of making
plans or improvements?" he do-
manded of mother. “Our working
days will soon be over and John des-
pises the farm and Mary is ashamed
of it.”

So mother secretly took her
birthday money and bought a cam-
era. “I ought to have done it long
ago,’ ’she chided herself,“ but may-
be it isn't too late."

Mother spent unaccustomed hours
in unaccustomed places. Her sub-
sequent visits in town each held a
secret mission. One day she return-
ed with a long, ﬁat package”.

“A picture,” exclaimed daughter
a little doubtfully. Then as the
picture was unfolded, a beautiful
scene in sepia tints encircled by a
dull brown frame: “0h, mother.
how lovely! W-why, it looks like—1’

"It is,” said mother pleasantly.
“Our own woods in the background
with the cows gathered about the
spring in the pasture. Doesn't
Molly N look like the prize-winner
she is?"

Well, Well! It was undeniably e
beautiful «stare—everyone who
came into room noticed and ed-
mired it. "Yes, indeed, it was taken

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In case al-'

’ permanent ﬁxture.

right here on our farm,”-mother in-
variably exclaimed.

Other pictures were forthcoming.
That bend in the lane where the
clump of thorns grew and father
driving home the big team. The
old stone wall, vine-draped monu-
ment of an older generation’s toil
and perseverance.

“Finest piece of oats I’ve seen,"
declared the visiting county agent.
So mother took a picture with John
standing in the midst to emphasize
the height and the picture came out
in the Farm Bureau News.

The old trash pile at the end of
the shed seemed to have become a
But mother per-
sisted until her reluctant menfolks
cleared it away and repaired and
painted the shed. When she sprang
her “before and after” pictures,
father admitted: “Well, it certainly
was worth while. I had no idea it
did look quite so bad!”

It really was surprising how
much ﬁner and more interesting the
old place looked in a picture than
one had supposed. It was surpris-
ing what an improvement each
slight innovation made—for mother
was unrelenting in her “before and
after" campaign.

In fact, there is no denying that
a new love and appreciation and
pride in the old farm followed
mother’s unexpected purchase of a
camera.

DOCTOR TELIS WHAT TO DO
FOR PDIPLES
CURE for pimples and black-
heads is one of the commonest
health questions put to Dr.
Lydia Allen DeVilbiss, Chautauqua
and lyceum lecturer on health sub-
jects.

Dr. DeVilbiss suggests as a cure a
good course in skin treatments at a
competent beauty parlor, accom-
panied with supervision of diet and
general health by a physician.

If this is impracticable, she de-
clares, much may be done at home
by keeping the skin clean, watching
the diet and elimination. As a rule,
soap should not be used daily. Not
that soap and water hurt the skin,
the doctor points out, but the trou-
ble is that the careless person no-
glects to rinse the face properly.
The result is that tiny particles of
soap adhere to a sluggish skin;
these clog the pores and the black-
heads result. When the blackheads
become infected, they form very
disﬁguring pimples.

“The distressing disﬁgurement of
pimples and blackheads occurs at
the age of puberty and has a tend-
ency to remain until about 25 years
of age," Dr. DeVilbiss says. “This
is Just the age when a good skin
counts for most. A sensitive young
person may suffer severely in mind
and body if these blemishes are not
removed."

HANDY To KNOW

0 brush the teeth once a day is
the least that should be consid-
ered. Morning and night are
much better. The cleaning process
should be up and down to get be-
tween the inner spaces of the teeth
and inside as well as outside. After
the teeth are thoroughly cleaned—
et least ﬁve minutes being. taken,
the mouth should be rinsed to re-
move portions of food and germ

which may” be lodged.



selv- -.
self, and most people require‘eight
or nine hours to be efﬁcient and to
feel well. Ample sleep with, wide
open windows heads on nervous
trouble and; keeps the individual
sweet-tempered. . .

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Personal column

 

 

Another Reproducer Wanted—Wonk!
you please print this in your paper on
the Farm Home page? If any reader
has a four minute reproducer for an
old Edison phonograph which they would
like to sell. please write and give price
wanted to—Mrs. John Blatt, R. 6. Brown
City, Michigan. *

 

Poem for Golden Wedding.——Will you
kindly put this request in your paper.
Will some one please send a good poan
for a Golden Wedding.—-4Mrs. E. L Pur-
dy, Harbor Beach, Michigan.

Getting Rid of Bugs and MMP‘
I am sending a recipe for getting rid of
bugs and little miners which are so tan-
talizing around our lamps in the evening,
also the large June bugs which make
such noise around the screen. I take

the wash tub. put in a pailful of water,

and suspend a lighted lantern in it, in
the evening, on the porch. I leave it all
night, the bugs and millers are at

to the light and fall into the water in
the tub. The water will be well coated
with the bugs before daylight. I some-
times place this near the cabbage plants,
for the benefit of cabbage miliers. The
light can be turned low after the home
lights are put out—Mrs. L. 8.. R1. Pierre
son, Michigan.

Have You Sweet Pickle RecipeH
would like to ask if any of the reader!
could tell me how to make mixed sweet
pickles like you buy in the stores. I
would like to make some—Mrs. H. R.

¥

—if you are well bred!

 

 

More Finger Foods.——-Asparagus is not
held at the extreme and of the stalk and
the end dropped into the mouth in the

manner employed by the Neapolitan laz--

zaroni when eating macaroni. The most
comfortable way to eat asparagus—end
one entirely correct is to use a knife and
fork cutting the stalks in half and cab
ing the tips like any other fork food.
But if you must eat them with your
ﬁngers, lift the woody end carefulLy.
dip the head of the stalk in the sauce
and—taking care not to squeeze or hold
your hands so that the juice will trickle
down your arm—raise the edible tip to
your mouth.

In the case of the artichoke the ﬁngers
are always used. A leaf at a time is
pulled from the heart, the edible end
dipped in the sauce and then raised to
the mouth. '

Corn on the cob is usually a. family
dish and seldom appears at a more formal
affair. It should, in fact, not be served
at a formal luncheon or dinner. The
ear is held lightly in the ﬁngers at each
end (sometimes a napkin is used). and
a. sharp steel knife may be provided to
facilitate cutting the kernels from the
cob.

Though birds are not ﬁnger—food in
company, it is not a social crime for
one thus to eat a squab or chicken-wing
at his own home table. At a formal
dinner the strict rule is to cut off as much
meat as is conveniently possible. and
leave the remainder. Hence, meat and
bird bones should not be taken up in
the ﬁngers. though the ﬁngers may be
used to pull apart lobster claws.

Shrimps are served whole in the shell,
and are peeled with the ﬁngers.

Only a few hard cheeses are ﬁnger-
foods. Ric’h, soft or crumbly ones, such
as Camembert, Roquefort, Stilton, Brie,
Cream, Canadian Club, etc, are eaten
with a fork or transferred to bread or
biscuit with the knife, and then raised
to the mouth.

Tongs are usually provided for ‘mints
and bonbons but ﬁngers—where tongs
are not provided—are not barred,“ and
this applies as well to lump sugar.

 

 

Menu for August 3lst

 

 

‘Country Club Chicken
Sweet Potatoes Green Corn
Tomato Salad Apple Whip
Chocolate wafers
Coffee

‘Country Club Chicken—Wash 2 broil-

ers or quite young chickens, cut them in
halves or quarters if they be large
enough. wipe them and dip pieces in
beaten egg, well seasoned with salt and
pepper and mixed with cream. Boll
pieces in breadcrumbs and place them in
greased pan, dot generously with fat and
place in hot oven for 15 minutes. Now
put chicken in hot kettle. cover and let
smother and steam for 30 minutes or
until tender on a. slow ﬁre. Place chicken
onhotplatterzaddhalfcuphotcream
to gravy in kettle-1nd  it "ova
chickens. ‘ ' _ \

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favorite pickle recipe. and I am sure
others will be ready to say the same

, after their ﬁrst batch providing they

make them after this rule. Oh yes. I
must not forget the name as it is the
"best part of it; “Last of the Garden.”
One gallon green tomatoes, chopped ﬁne.
sprinkle a litle salt over and let stand
a few hours, then drain one gallon cab-
bage chopped ﬁne. 1A. gallon com cut of!
cob, after it is cooked. 1 gallon string
beans cooked, 1 gallon hulled beans
cooked, 12 mango peppers chopped ﬁne,
1! onions chopped ﬁne. 4 ripe cucumbers
quartered and cooked a little. 6 carmts
cooked, 1 gallon small cucumbers. 1 gal-
lon vinegar. 2 tablespoons mustard seed.
8 pounds brown sugar. ginger and pepper
to suit taste. Add all together and cook
twenty minutes. then seal hot. ——Mrs.
C. N.. Valley Centre, Michigan.

 

Caramel Bread Puddlng.——3 cupfuls
breadcrumbs. 1 quart hot milk. 2 eggs,
1 teaspoonrul- lemon extinct, grated nut-
meg to taste, 5‘ teaspoonful salt, 1 cup-
tui sugar. 4 tablespoonfuls fat. whipped
cream. Put tat. crumbs, and salt into
a basin, add hot milk and soak ten min-
utes Melt sugar and brown it lightly
In a small pan over ﬁre, then add it to
the bread, with eggs well beaten, and
ﬂavorings. Pour into greased pudding
dish and bake in moderate oven till ﬁrm.
Serve with whipped cream.

 

Sour Cream Cookies.——-1 cup butter, 2
cups sugar. yolk of 2 eggs, creamed
until very light, add 1 cup sour cream
in which has been dissolved one level
teaspoon of soda. whites of eggs beaten
stir! and mix with ﬂour. Cream ﬂour
to make stiff to roll, 1 teaspoon lemon
exam—Alma Becker.

   
  
 

Favorite Pickle Wiper-This is 'my ’

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s‘urriespoonruuﬁmened fat. -2 eggs. 2

  2’1/8 teaspoonful‘ salt.
1,5 Qllpflll ﬂour.- 1 cume chopped English
walnut ts, 1 teaspoontul vanilla ex-
tract, 8- blespooutuls boiling water.
Cream fat and sugar together. and eggs
well beaten. chocolate dissolved in boil-
ing water. salt. flour, vanilla, and nuts.
Divide and spread thin in 2 greased square
pans and bake in slow ovon from twenty
to twenty-ﬁve minutes. Cut in strips
and serve with ice cream. There are a
cross between cookies and heavy cake.
Sufficient for ﬁfty brownies.

 

 

The Runner’s Bible

(Copmsht by Houshton minis Co.)

 

 

Cast they burden upOn the Lord, and
he shall sustain thee; he shall never
suffer the righteous to be moved. Ps.
55:22.

Know that in time of trouble. “it is
in the Lord’s hands,” your relief will be
great, help will come. You cannot be in
health and bear burdens of any kind.

To declare that a__thiiig is perfect is
to recognize the real, though the unseen
truth, concerning it; and to declare the
truth over and over is to make it ﬁnally
manifest as reality.

 

WOMEN’S EXCHANGE

F you have something to exchange. we will
rlnt it FREE under this heading providln :
lrst—it appeals to women and Is a bonlﬂ e
exchanges. no cash Involved. Second—It will

so In three lines. Third—You are a paid-u
subscriber to The Business Farmer and attao
our address label from a recent Issue to rove
t. Exchan e offers will be numbered en in-
serted in t e order received as we have room.
-—-MR8. ANNIE TAYLOR. Editor.

 

 

120.——-Lovsly percale, gingham and plush
eces to exchange for anything useful._—Mrs. Geo.
organ. R. F. D. 3. Vicksburg. Michigan.

AIDS TO GOOD DRESSING

 

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The Bushels
That Made Me Money

You should read this inter-
esting story before you
plant your Win fer Wheat.
Your copy will be sent free
ofsll cost. Simply ask for
booklet. " The Bushels
That Made Me Money. ”
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Does potash pay on winter wheat? De-
cidedly yes 1

Right here in Michigan $1.75 worth of
potash increased the yield nearly 4
bushels per acre—and at $1.10 a bushel
the potash not only paid for itself but
brought in a $3.00 extra profit. The for-
mula used was 3-9-10, and it was tested
out by your own Michigan Agricultural
Experiment Station, against no fertilizer at
all and against 3-9-0, a no-potash formula.

Yes, potash pays. And in your rota-
tion system potash that you apply to
wheat also increases the yield of succeed-
ing crops. The potash that gave $3.00
extra proﬁt on wheat also brought in 160
pounds more clover and 36 bushels more
corn than the no-potash formula.

A11 from $1.75 worth of potash!

Potash strengthens the stalk and prevents lodg-
ing of the grain under high winds and heavy
rains. Your wheat will be harder, plumper and
the shrinkage will be less. Your grade will be
improved with potash—adding still more proﬁt
per acre to your income.

Make money on winter wheat. Insist upon
having 6% to 10% of Genuine German Potash
in the fertilizer you buy. The extra bushels you
get take no more seed. You’ll be glad to pay the
slightly increased. threshing charge.

 

 

    
  
 
   
     
    
   

   

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‘ If you wish you
may print this poem. I made it up some
'.time ago. Will close and give the other
boys and girls a. little room. Wishing to
be your niece will sign this—'Tiny",‘Cau
City, Michigan. /
Happy Days of Long Ago

I am sitting here and thinking

or the days so long gone by.

When father, mother. my two sisters and I

Were happy and contented living in that
dear old home.

There's been many trials and troubles
Since those happy days of yore

And the tears still come unbidden
As I sit and think them o’er.

I am thinking now of father,
Andthedsysthatusedtobe

When we as little children
Clamored there upon his knee.

Father has left us now
For that happy golden shore,
Where there will be no more sorrow,
And the parting days are o’er.

And the rest? For We have wandered
From that home of long ago

But still our memory reaches back

To the home that we loved so.

And now, my little children dear,
How happy you should be.
All living there to-gether
In that little homel. You see?
—-—"I‘iny", Cass City, Mich.

Dear Uncle Nedz—Your circle of boys
and girls is a very friendly one. May I
come in? I like to read the letters in the
Children’s Hour. I am fourteen years of
age, weigh 120 pounds or more, have light
brown hair, brown eyes, light complexion
and am 5 feet 4 inches in height. Will
be 8. freshman in high school next year.
I would be glad to hear from some of
the young folks, I will answer all letters
even though I am a busy farmer girl. I
spent the fourth in the usual way, “mak-
ing noise." We had a. young Jersey calf
born on "Independence" and that became
her name. A good one, eh? One third
of our summer vacation is gone already
and soon another and the—Oh dear! Well
maybe it will seem good to get back to
school after our three months is really
up. I guess it most always does. It is
pretty early to begin to dread it anyway.
Summer certainly goes fast but we have
a good time while it is here. Well I must
ring off. Good-bye and good luck. An-
other niece—Eunice McBride, Hopkins,
Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned:>——My father takes the
M. B. F'. and we enjoy it very much. I
thought I would write. Billy Frank said
every girl that would guess his age which
In between 15 and 20 would receive a
real box of . Well I think his age
is 18. Is that right? Well I had better
describe myself. I am 6 feet 1 inch tall,
weigh 104 pounds, am 11 years old and
my birthday is the 16th of August, have
brown bobbed hair. For pets I have 2
cats and 1 dog. We live on an 80-acre
farm. I have 4 brothers and 6 sisters.
Well I hope Mr. Waste Basket don't
gobble my letter up. Your niece,——Ar-
dith Jordan. R1, Turner, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned :-—May I join your
merry circle? I wrote but my letter was
not in print. Well I will describe my-
self. I am 5 feet 2 inches tall and weigh
115 pounds, have black hair and blue
eyes. I am 14 years old. I live On a.
lSO-acre farm and we have 6 cows. 5
horses. 41 sheep. 26 lambs and for pets
I have a. dog and a cat. I think Flor-
ence Coleman is 14 years old. Well I
will close with a. riddle. Why do girls
like to look up at the moon? The one
who guesses the answer correct will re-
ceive a letter from me. Only two
chances, remember. Will close. I am—
IAgnnie Bankel, West Branch, Mich, R2.

ox 23.

Wide 9 int: bio garb which
backwshall be cgual to 10.
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A surprise For Uncle Ned if

EAR, Young Folks:—-— el even
vacation!

And where do you suppose he is?
Why, maybe he passed right in
front of your gate, because the last
we saw of him-he was heading right
up into northern Michigan, with a.
camping outﬁt snuggly packed in
the rear seat of his Ford sedan. If
you see a. Ford sedan with a. tall
man wearing shell-rim glasses and
driving like the wind. just shout "0,
Uncle Ned, I know you!" and ten to
one he will stop and say "Howdy!"
But don’t tell him that I told you
where he was going, or what he
looked like or he might cut off his
whiskers just so you could not rec-
ognize him.

Now let’s have some fun while
he’s away!

Do you ever read the advertise-
ments in THE Bosnmss Farm?

Well, it will pay you to read them
all this week, because I am going to
offer

FIVE WHOLE DOLLARS IN
PRIZES!

I want you to write me answers
to the following questions ﬁrst:—

1.—What store in Detroit is go-
ing to have a big sale and
Why are they going to have
it?

2.-—What state does Ferndell;
a cow which produced 13,-
477.!) pounds of milk come
from and what has the

 

old Uncle Ned had to have a.

herd she comes from been

fed for 13 years?

3.—--What is the secret of one
tires ability to stand hard-
knocks and what tire is it?

4.—How should sugar-beets be
lifted?

5.——What is a. savings bank for
corn? ‘

6.—How can you save 34, to 1,5
on a stove. range or fur-
nace!

7.—What bonds pay 7%?

8.—-—What did 81.7.5 worth of
something do and what
was it?

9.——What is the name of a new
cord fabric?

10.-——What advertisement in the

August 30th issue did you

like best and why? (Not

over 50 words.)

  

When you have answered all of
these questions, send in your let-
ters to Uncle Ned, so he will ﬁnd
a great big job waiting for him to
decide which letter is best. Be sure
and write on only one side of the
paper and sign your full name and
age on the top of each page.

$3.00 IS THE FIRST PRIZE, for
a full list of correct answers and the
best letter in answer to Question No.
10. $1 is the Second Prize and 50c
each to the next two best.

All letters must be mailed not
later than September 10th.

Your friend till Uncle Ned gets
back!

THE PUBLISHER.

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—It has been quite a
while since I wrote I just wondered if you
would print this. I wonder what all the
cousins are doing this summer. I am
staying at home as I had an operation
for appendicitis a. short time ago and I
am not strong enough to work. Say
Uncle, do you ever get the blues or do
any of you cousins? If you do please
write to me as I get them too. I was
vaccinated yesterday. There is no need
for me to describe myself as I have writ-

ten before. We are soon going to move
out of the lovely country into the horrid
town. Don‘t you pity me? I do love the
farm don’t you Uncle Ned? It is rain-
ing to—night and I was lonesome so I
thought you would give me a small place
in the corner for this letter. Won’t you
Uncle? I will watch for it anyway. I
guess it will ﬁll quite a corner. Ha! Ha!
Hoping to hear from some lonesome
cousins I will close. Your niece,—Lena
Ables, R3, Montgomery, Michigan.

Why Mr. Horse and Mrs. Giraffe Are Enemies

RS. Giraffe and Mr. Horse were,

long, long ago, fast friends.

But Mr. Horse became so

boastful about his ability to run

fast, that Mrs. Giraffe grew very
weary of hearing him boast.

"I can run faster than any other
animal,” Mr. Horse told Mrs. Gi-
raife.

“You can not run faster than I,”
challenged Mrs. Giraffe.

"Ho, ho, haw. haw,” laughed Mr.
Horse. ‘_‘I can run much, much
faster."

At this Mrs. Giraife became very,
very angry and pulled out a long
hair from Mr. Horse’s mane and two
from his tail and swallowed them.
No very easy feat, as they were
several feet long.

“Well. Friends,” Mr. Camel spoke
up, “suppose tomorrow at nine
o’clock you run a race and that will
settle the argument.”

“Very well," Mrs. Giraffe agreed,
“we shall run a race and we shall
see what we shall see."

“Indeed, yes," Mr. Horse snoifed,
“we shall see what we shall see.”

“You think you can win but in-
deed you can not, Friend Horse.”
Mrs. Giraffe scoffed.

“I will win this race by several
miles” Mr. Horse boasted.

At this remark Mrs. Giraffe sat
back on a big rock and laughed till
the tears ran dowu her long, very
long neck.

“Look here, old Spotted Face,"
Mr. Horse crossly spoke, “you laugh
too soon."

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The next morning at exactly nine
o'clock Mr. Camel, Mrs. Giraffe, Mr.

-Horse and many of their friends

not for. the race.

When Mr. Camel said “Go!” Mr.
Horse and Mrs. ' cum started.
They were both seq swift: Mrs.

 

Giraﬂe always gaining when it came
to broken ground and rocks, as she
could hop over these like a huge
frog. When Mrs. Giraffe was ahead
she would turn her very long neck
and laugh very loudly at Mr. Horse.

This made Mr. Horse quite "angry,
and he would run faster than ever.

All the animals were excited over
the race. The ones who were
friends of Mrs. Giraffe wore large
blue-ribbons and the friends of Mr.
Horse wore scarlet ribbons.

Toward the end of the race there
was much yelling and cheering for
the two runners.

Faster, faster, faster, they came.
All the animals were wondering who
would win, and were cheering.

Almost had they reach their goal!
The animals were all pushing to get
a good view of the best part of the
race. Mr. Horse was running as
fast as a horse ever ran since the
world began and Mrs. Giraffe was
leaping as she had never leaped be-
fore. ‘

They came faster, faster, faster.
But my, oh me! neither one was
ahead. They were side by side. The
animals were very worried.

“It will be a great disappoint-
ment to all of us,” Mr. Camel moan-
ed, “we want a winner.” -

Faster, faster, faster came Mr.
Horse and Mrs. Giraffe. At last
they reached their goal, but my, on
me, they were still side by side.
Neither had won.

Mr. Camel was ready to call the
race a tie when Mrs. Giraife craned
her long, long neck as long as she
could and—stuck out her long, long,
tongue.

Mrs. Giraffe’s friends yelled and
shouted with glee. Mrs. Giraffe
had wont. But ever since then Mrs.”
Gircife and Mr. Horse have been
bitter, bitter amnion—Helen Gregg

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niece—«Men b C. Colwell,
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A Bill’s Life

I come from a. little spring,

I bobble over stones—and sing:
I am a. little rill, ,

I love to race down bill.

I run under stars and sun

I gush over boulders weighing ton;
I go by a town.

But always run down—down

My life is a pleasure
I wish for nothing better,
I have a. sand, bed
On my banks are ﬂowers 'red.

I ran into a little creek
Over boulders bound to creep;
In and out I turn and leap .
I always have a song so meek.

In and out of shady necks,
Now I run into a. brook;

But still I laugh and play
Thinking I am on my way.

Into a river now I swing
Over mmnyalls I ring.

Now I come unto a mill

" But I keep running still.

Now I. run into the ocean,
Now I make much more motion:
But still I laugh and play,
Thinking now I am all the way.

Now I join many others,
They are all my brothers:
And now we foam
And on us great vessels roam.
—By Merab C. Colwell,
32, Petoskey. Mich.

Dear Uncle Ned:-—-I am 5 feet and 8
inches tall and weigh 122 pounds. The
one that guesses my right age will re-
ceive a letter from me. I am between
12 and 16 years old. Billy Frank’s age
I will guess is 17 years. Is that right?
Will have to close. Would like to hear
from some of the boys and girls. Want-
to-be friend-4’er Brocker, R1. Way-
land, Michigan. ‘

Dear Uncle Nedz—My father take the
M. B. F. and we like it very much, or
I do anyway and I read the Children’s
Hour every issue. Well summer is here
again and with it the birds and ﬂowers.
I like summer better than any other
time of the year. Don’t you too Uncle
Ned? Well I shall have to describe my-
self.. I am 6 feet 1 inch tall and I have
medium brown bobbed hair and blue
eyes and I weigh about 97 pounds. I
am twelve years old and my birthday
is the first day of May. Have I a twin?
Well I will take 9. guess at Billy Frank's
age. I think he is about 17. Am I
right Billy? This will have to be all
for this time or the waste basket will get
my letter. Your want-to—be niece—
Esther Shively. Cook, Michigan.

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hall and hadyclosedgths door behind
them. But when. Miss ,Meggie returned.
m. smith was poems on, and down the
room nervously. ‘ '

'ww.” he dananded with visible ir- 
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ritation, as soon as she appeared,

‘you kmdlyullmeitthereisanything

desirable that that confounded money
bl. done?" ‘ .
Miss Maggie looked up in surprise.
“You mean—Jun Blaisdell's money?”
die asked.

“Imeanallthemoneyb-Imeuthe
three hundred We} dollars that
thosethreepeoplereceived. 'Haeltever
brought any good or happiness—any-

~ where?”

"Oh. yes. I know,” nailed Miss Mag-
gie. a little sally. "But—J Ber count—
enance changed abruptly. A passionate
earnestness same to her eyes. “Don’t
bhme the mum-blame the ﬁnding of
it! The money isn’t to blame. The dol-
iarthatwinhuytldretetethemvies
willinstasquioklyhuyagoodbook:
and if you're hungry“ it’s up to you
whether you put your money into choco-
bteeeelairsorroestbeet. Isthe money
to blame that goes for a whiskey bill
or a gambling debt instead of for shoes
and stocking for the family?” ~

'Why, n—no." Mr. Smith had amarently ~

lost his own irritation in his amazement
at hers. "Why. Miss Maggie, you—you
seem worked in: over this matter."

“I am worked up. I'm always worked
tip—over money. It’s been money, money,

~money. ever since I could remember!

We're all after it. and we all want it.
and we strain every nerve to get it. We
think it‘s going to bring us happiness.
But it won’t—unless we do our part.
And there are some things that even
money can't buy. Besides, it isn’t the
money that does the things. anyway.—
it’s the man behind the money. What
do you think money is good for, Mr.
Smith?"

Mr. Smith. now thoroughly dazed.
actually blinked his eyes at the question,
and at the vehemenoe with which it was
hurled into his face. « ‘

"Why, Miss Maggie, it—ib—L—I—F

"It isn’t good {or anything unless we
can exchange it for something we want.
is it?”

"Why. I—I smose we can give it——"

“But even then we’re exchanging it
for something we want. aren’t we? We
want to make the other fellow happy.
don't we?“

"Well, yes. we do.” Mr. Smith spoke
with sudden fervor. "But it doesn't al-
wayeworkthntway. Lookatthecase
right here. Now. very likely this——er—
Mr. Fulton thought these three hundred
thousand dollars were going to make
these people heavy. Personalisation of
happiness—that woman was, a few min-
utes ego. wasn’t she?” Mr. Smith had
regained his air of aggrieved irritation.

"No. she wasn’t. But that wasn’t the
money's tanlt. It was her own. She
didn't know how to spend it. And that’s
Justwhatlmeanwhenlsaywe’vegot
to do our part—money won’t buy happi-
ness, unless we exchange it for the things
that will bring happiness. If we don't
know how to get any happiness out of
ﬁve dollars, we won’t know how to get
it out of ﬁve hundred. or ﬁve thousand.
or ﬁve hundred thousand, Mr. Smith. I
don't mean that we’ll get the same
amount out of ﬁve dollars, of course.—
though I’ve seen even that happen some-
timesl—but I mean that we’ve got to
lmow how to mend ﬁve dollars—and
make the most or it.”

“I reckon—you're right, Miss Maggie.”

"I know I‘m right. and 'tisn’t the
money‘s tault when things go wrong.
Money's all right. I love money. Oh,
yes. I know—we're taught that the love
of money is the root of all evil. But I
don’t think it should be Ego—necessarily.
I think money’s one of the most .wonder-
tul things in the world. It’s more than
a trust and a gift—~it's an opportunity,
and a test. It brings out what’s strong-
est in us, every time. And it does that
whether it's ﬁve dollars or ﬁve hundred
thousand dollars. If— we love choco-
late eclairs and the movies better than
roast beef and good books, we’re going
to buy them. whether they’re chocolate
ecclairs and movies on ﬁve dollars, or or
y—champagne Suppers and Paris gowns on
ﬁve hundred thousand dollars !"

"Well, ivy—by Jove!” ejaculated Mr.
ﬁnith, rather ieebly.

Miss Maggie gave a shamefaced laugh
and sank bad; in her chair.

"You don‘t know what to think ,of me,
or course: and no wonder," she sighed.
“But I‘ve felt so had over this—this
money business right here under my eyes.
Ilovethemameveryoneotthem. And
you lmow how it's been. Mr. mm.
Hasn’t it worked out to prove Just what.
I say? Take Hattie this afternoon. She
said that Fred declared she’d been try-
ing to make every one of her ‘Jlms' a
'James,’ ever since the money came. But
he forgot that she did that vu'y same
thing before it came. All her life she’s
been trying to make ﬁve dollars look
llketen':sowhenshegotthehundred

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and never uses them except for company.
She doesn't take any more comfort with
them than she did with the ingrain car-
pets and cheap chairs. or course, that’s
a little thing. I only mentioned it to
illustrate my meaning. Jane doesn’t
know how to play. She never did. When
you can't spend ﬁve eents out of a bun-
dred dollars for pleasure without winc-
ing. you needn't expect you’re going to
spend ﬁve dollars out o! a hundred thou-
sand without teehg the pinch,” laughed

Miss .

“And Miss Flora? You haven't men-
tioned her," observed Mr. Smith, a little
grimly.

Miss Maggie milled: then she sighed.

“Poor Flora—end when she tried so
hard to quiet her conscience because she
had so money! But you lmow how
that w You helped her out e! that
scrape. And she's so grateful! She told
me yesterday that she hardly ever gets
e. begging letter now."

“No; and those she does get she in—
vestigates.” asserted Mr. anith. "So the
takes don’t bother her much these days.
And she’s doing a lot of good, too. in a
small way." .

“She is, and she's happy now,” de-
clared Miss Maggie, “except that she
still worries a little because she is so
happy. She’s dismissed the maid and
does her own work—I’m afraid Miss
Flora never was cut out for a ﬁne-lady
life of leisure, and she loves to putter
in the kitchen. She says it’s such a re-
lief, too, not to keep dressed up in com—
pany manners all the time, and not to
have that horrid girl spying 'round all
the day to see it she behaves proper. But
Nora’s a dear.”

“She is! and I reckon it worked the
best with her of any of them."

"Worked?" hesitated Miss Maggie.

“En—that is, I mean, perhaps she’s
made the best use of the hundred thou-
sand.” stammered Mr. Smith. "She’s
been——-er—the happiest."

"Why, y—yes, perhaps she has. when
you come to look at it that way.”

"But You wouldn't—er—advise this Mr.
Fulton to leave hen—his twenty mil-
lions?"

"Mercy!" laughed Miss Maggie, throw-
ing up both hands. "She'd i'ain-t dead
away at the mere thought of it.”

"Humphi Yes, I amuse so.” Mr.
Smith turned on his heel and resumed his
restless pacing up and down the room.
M' time to time he glanced furatively
at Miss Maggie. Miss Maggie, her hands
idly resting in her lap, palms upward,
was gazing ﬁxedly at nothing.

“or just what—are you thinking?” he
demanded at last, coming to a pause at
her side. ~

"I was thinking—wt Mr. Stanley G.
Fulton." she answered, not looking up.

“Oh. you were i" There was an odd
something in Mr. Smith's voice.

“Yes. I was wondering—about those
twenty millions.”

“Oh, you were i" The odd something
had increased. but Min Maggie’s eyes
were still dreamiiy fixed on space.

“Yes. I was wondering what he had
done with them."

"Had done with than!

“Yea in the letter, I mean." She
looked up now in faint surprise. “Don’t
you remember? There was a. letter—4
second letter to be opened in two years‘
time. They said that that was to dis-
pose of the remainder of the property
—his last will and testament."

“Oh. yes, I remember," assented Mr.
Smith. turning on his heel again. “Then
you think—Mr. Fulton is—dead?" Mr.
Smith was very carefully not meeting
Miss Maggie's eyes.

"Why, yes, I suppose so." Miss Mag-
gie turned back to her medatative gazing
at nothing. "The two years are nearly
up, you know,———I was talking with Jane
the other day—just next November.”

“Yes, I know." The words were very
near a groan. but at once Mr. Smith
hurriedly repeated, “I know—I know i"
very lightly. indeed, with an apprehen-
sive glance at Miss Maggie.

“So it seemes to me if he were alive
thathe’dbebaokbythistime. Andso
I was wondering—about those millions,"
she went on musingiy. "What do you
suppose he has done with them?" she
asked. with sudden animation. turning
full upon him.

“Why, I-—-I—-How should I know?"
stutter-ed Mr. Smith. with a swift crimson
dyeing in his face.

Miss Maggie laughed merrily.

"You wouldn't, of course—but that
needn't make you look as it I‘d intimated
that you had then! I was only asking
tor your opinion. Mr. with," she
twinkled. with mischevious eyes.

‘12:} course!" Mr. Smith laughed now.
I. e precmitately. “But. indeed. Miss
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 FEVER

ILE the exact cause of ‘milk

fever has not yet been worked
out, it seems more common

just before a. storm, or fall of the

barometer. Just what effect this
has is a puzzle, but it is a fact, nev-
ertheless. Another thing, the kind
of care or feed or amount of exer-

cise has very little to do with the.

occurrence of milk fever. The cur-
ious part of the disease is that it
seems to run in cycles and just
about the time one thinks he has a
sure preventive, up it, pops. Some
experienced dairymen think that
only milking about half the ﬁrst day
or two is good; others that with
holding feed before calving; others
that exercise is necessary. Not a
single “sure cure” has yet been
worked out that is satisfactory, so
the best thing we can do, as cow
owners, is to be prepared for it and
to know what to do when it does ap-
pear.

Symptoms—Did you know there
are two different kinds of milk fev-
er, as radically different as winter
and summer? The ﬁrst or common
type is the “quiet” form. About a
day or two after an easy calving the
cow begins to act “queer.” She quits
eating; her muzzle gets dry; her
eyes have an anxious expression,
and she ceases to worry about the
calf. The next thing that is notic-
ed is that she gets weak in her hind
parts. Then she staggers and
ﬁghts to keep from falling down.
Pretty soon she lunges forward, and
either lies on her side with the head
stretched out, or up in a natural
position with her head curled
around to her side.

After more or less struggling she
seems to become drowsy, then un-
conscious, and passes into a. pro-
found coma. Without any aid she
will usually die in from six to ten
hours, depending on the severity of
th eattack.

The second or nervous type is the
so-called “eclamptic” form, when the
animal acts almost like wild. The
muscles all over the body become a.
twitching mass of tissue, and the
eyes assume a wild aspect. She grits
her teeth, often bellows and slobbers.
Finally when she goes down she
keeps up the convulsions and kicks
and struggles. If the temperature
is taken it will be found to be 105
or more. Unless promptly treated,
a funeral will soon occur in this type.

Treatment —— Under treatment
comes the most important thing
about milk fever. How to tell it is
milk fever, and what not to do!
Suppose you have a. ﬁne cow and she
calves in a very normal condition.
Everything seems ﬁne, and you
breathe a sigh of relief. The next
morning you notice she acts sort of
dumpish and does not eat very well.
Later she pays little attention to the
calf and begins to reel around. Be-
ing utterly ignorant of the true dis-
ease, you call in your next door
neighbor, who thinks she «“is bound
up" and needs a physic. So you
prepare a pound‘of salts in a quart
of water and, with much exertion
and effort, you pour the contents
down the animal’s mouth. Due to
the paralyzed condition of the
throat muscles, some of the salts go
down the gullet and some down the
windpipe. In this case, you have a
dead cow in from two to 24 hours
from mechanical pneumonia.

In other words, due to ignorance
and with the best of intentions, you
have done more harm with you;
treatment than had you done noth-
ing.

Then again, suppose you are an
experienced dairyman and known
what milk fever is and how to treat
the uncomplicated form yourself.
But your very best cow gets the
nervous type, and inﬂating the ud-
der and giving stimulants only
makes the patient worse. As she
rapidly goes from one convulsion to
another, you get alarmed and sum-
mon a. veterinarian, but too late, as
the toxins or poisons have hit the
head and brain, and soon Bossy
gives a spasmodic kick and all is
over. Due to your mistaken diag-

nosis you have a dead cow; the vet-
ernarian gets the credit for the fun-
eral and you swear he is no good.
While experienced car drivers can
grease their autos and 11: little

Nthings about the.,.‘ca‘r, when some-

thing goes wrong with the'engine or ’
electric ’elfstarter they immediate-
ly summon expert assistance. So it

is with a; cow or mere during the

period of giving birth. She is al-

ready overburdened with poisons;

the least thing may cause her death,

that at other times, would be

thrown off without any treatment of

any kind. '

The writer, in his practice, sees
so much of this that he emphasizes
calling expert assistance right at the
start. It is cheaper in the end. The
price of a good cow will pay for a.
good many veterinary calls, and it
will save you a lot of home doctor-
ing that may result in total loss.

A cow with milk fever, therefore,
can have two different types, each
utterly dissimilar and requiring the
opposite treatment. Then she, may
develop blood poison or a total or
partial paralysis of the hind quar-
ters. She may be impacted in either
the ﬁrst or third stomachs. She may
get garget or an inﬁammed udder.
She may get chilled during calving
and develop pneumonia. Her milk
supply may be paralyzed for some
time, and the] producing tissues need
stimulating. She may develop a
blood clot that starts in one of the
vessels from the womb, and when
this clot works its way through the
circulation to the brain or heart she
dies from apoplexy. Her womb may
be thrown inside out, and in con-
junction with this she may bloat,
due to fermenting food. In fact, not
long ago the writer was called to
see a ﬁne black Jersey, down, dead
to the world with milk fever, her
womb totally prolapsed and both
sides of the abdomen almost tight
as a. drum from bloat. What would
an owner, without any instruments
of any kind, or lacking experienced
skill, and to replace an averted
womb is as hard 3. job as any we
run against.

As we do not know the exact

.cause of milk fever, neither do we

know what effect blowing air into
the udder does. We ﬁnd that if we
give heart stimulants with a hypo—
dermic syringe and leave medicines
given by the mouth su-ictly alone
until she can get up, and cover the
animal with blankets, that she us-
ually gets up in from two to six
hours. In the nervous type we in—
ﬂate the udder, but give narcotics,
such as morphine hypodermically,
or chloral hydrate by the rectum.
The mortality in the simple, com-
mon cases is about three to ﬁve out
of a hundred; in the nervous or
eclamptic form about 20 to 40.

Suppose you get up early one
morning and ﬁnd your cow, recently
fresh, stretched out with milk fever,
what should you do? First of all
phone your veterinarian. Tell him
the history, so he will be prepared.
While he is on the way ﬁll a. couple
gunnysacks full of straw or hay,
like pillows, and prop under head
and try to get her up on her brisket.
Milk out the udder and then cover
her with blankets. Do not give any
medicines by the mouth.- If she is
in a mud hole or snow drift or mix-
ed up in a barb wire fence try to
move her away from these. If you
are away from expert assistance in-
ﬂate the udder and tie inch band-
ages around each teat as far up to
the udder as possible. Keep her up
on her brisket with sacks and keep
well covered.

But whenever possible get a. vet-
erinarian as quick as you can. Tell
him it is a. fresh cow and that she
is down or staggering, and he will
be prepared for milk fever, and you
can have everything ready.

By doing this you will run a. far
better chance of saving your cow
than by trying to save a few dollars
and lose hen—Washington Farmer.

BUTTER WILL NOT GATHER ('

I have a nice Holstein cow, ﬁve
years old that came fresh eight
weeks ago and is giving ten quarts
of. milk twice a day. I only keep
one cow and set the milk in pans, it
raises nice thick cream, could al-
most lift it with a fork but we can
not make butter out of it. We churn
with-adash churn an hour or more
it breaks and shows plenty of but-

inothing With it.

  
 

   

  
   

 

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ei  I - = outrun :the; in
out,» put water on ’it and it will
spread and float ‘all 0761‘.’
tried diiferent‘weys and can do
It' did the same
last summer. The cow is on grass
all day and stabled nights, has hay
and some ground oats—J. M., Cer-
sonvil‘le, Mich.

REAM that is too thin and
cream that is too warm at the
time of churning is a cream

   

all

that churns only with difﬁculty. If

you will place the milk in a deep
bucket, cool at once after drawn and
let the cream rise in this deep con-
tainer the cream skimmed 'will be
richer. Churning the cream at a
lower temperature will also cause it
to come in larger grains, about the
size of corn kernels. When this
size of grain is reached, the butter-
milk is best drawn and tin-equal
amount of cold water added. The
churn~ can be given a couple of turns
in the wash water and the water
drawn off.—.P.v S. Lucas, Associate

Professor of Dairy Manufacturers.‘

M. A. C.

 

TESTS REQUIRED TO FEE.
HERBS FROM TUBERCUIABIB

HE number of tuberculin tests
required to free herds of tu-
berculosis is a subject being

studied by veterinarians of the Unit-
ed States Department of Agricul-
ture. Records on nearly 25,000
herds show that 15,000 of that
number were entirely free from tu-
berculosis on the ﬁrst tuberculin
test, accompanied, of course, by the
removal of reactors. The second
test “cleaned up” more than 4,600
additional herds. In other words,
more than four-ﬁfths of the herds
tested were freed of the dread dis-
ease in not more than two tests
made from six.months to a. year
apart.

Occasionally, herds are found
where the disease is extremely deep-
seated, and as many as eight tests
are necessary to insure that all in-
fected cattle have been removed.
But such cases are extremely rare.

VETERINARY
DEPARTMENT ’

HORSE KICKED ON HOOK JOINT

I have a. horse that got kicked on
the hock joint and the joint is en-
larged some. Now I would like to
take it off. Can you tell me what
to do and the remedyf—L. W..
Sterling, Mich.

0U do not say how long ago

your horse’s hock was injured
nor just where the enlargement is
located on the joint. These would
be important things to know before
giving any prognosis or prescribing
treatment. There are several chron-
ic conditions affecting the hack
joint that are incurable. Better
have your local veterinarian make
an examination of your horses hock.
He will then be able to tell in all
probability what the chances for re—
covery will be.—John P. Hutton.
Assoc. Prof. of Surgery and Med-
icine, M. A. C.

 

 

 

 

 

 

PIGS ROOT EACH OTHER

We have some young pigs 2
months old. They are out on grass
and get all the milk they want, but
they root each other constantly. Can
you tell us cause and a. curef—A.
H., Caro, Mich.

HE rooting of one another of
these pigs is doubtless due to
some deﬁciency in their ration.

I would advise that they be given
access to a. good mineral mixture.
Either one of the following would
be good: 30 lbs. bone meal, 30 lbs.
ﬁnely ground lime stone, 30 lbs.
salt, 10 lbs. sulphur; or a. mixture
of 10 lbs. 16 percent acid phos-
phate, 10 lbs. ﬁnely ground lim

stone and 1 1b. of salt. - \

This trouble is occasionally caus-
ed by skin trouble. To overcome
this the pigs should be sprayed oc-
casionally. '

It would also be advisable ‘to give
these pigs some  or barley
along with their ,m’ilk.—.—_G‘eo. A.
Brown, Professor in Animal "Hue-
bandry, M. A. O. ‘

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- ',.W-.Potatoil v
. g. ' exchange closed its sixth .s‘nnu-
__», ' al. meeting. at Cadillac August
,. dist with the unanimous re—election
' .. of FredSmith, of Elk Rapids, to the
board of directors. '
V E. A. Rasmussen, of Greenville,
was elected for three years to sue-
ceed Ernest Snyder, of. Lakeview.
The board of directors re-elected’ its
present odice‘rs: Henry Curtis, 'Cad-
"lilac, president: Fred Smith, ' Elk
, -‘ Rapids, vice-president: S. E. Rogers,
'- East Jordan, secretary and treasur-

1 er.
To Sea]: Change in Law
_ The most important action by the
. ‘ ’ delegates ‘was adoption of a resolu-
f i‘tion‘by which the central Cadillac
‘ - ’; enchange oﬂicers will work to get a
‘bill through the legislature provid-
‘fing “standard potato grades, similar
"tothe apple and grape code, with

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:gnalties .for violation, and an ap- _

op‘ria-tion for its enforcement. The
’ board also was instructed to abolish
the system whereby cars are insur-
ed by the central exchange, leaving
the risk to the locals interested.
‘Hfi'he campaign for” ﬁve-year ~crop
contracts ‘Was supported strongly,
R. A. Wiley, organizatiOn manager,
reported. There now are 1,368
growers signed in the contract, with
_ 298 seed dealers and 424 growers of
certiﬁed seed also signed up 77 per
acent of-the growers called on.
Herbert F‘. Baker, Cheboygan gu-
bernatorial candidate. who was once

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Dons DEIII'A COUNTY WIN?

I decided I would ansWer
your article of August 16th on-
titled “Can You Beat This?”

We have corn 10 ft. 8 in.
Robust beans 1 ft. 6 in. high
and vines cover meadows so
you can not walk through

The corn ground was alfalfa
sod fall-plowed and top dressed
this spring. It is nearly in
‘ roasting ears. The bean ground
is alfalfa sod plowed this
spring. — D. R. Kirkpatrick,
Rapid City, Mich.

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2,”.

a president of the exchange, was the
principal speaker at the annual ban—
quet.
Says Standardization Paid
W = Hartman, director of the
state food bureau, declared. stand-
ardization paid. Michigan potato
, gl‘l w. .. a million and a quarter dol-
" lars last season by making a mar-
ket for Michigan spuds and bringing
a premium of from 15 to 40 cents a
'hundredweight for the branded
chief Petoskey stock. The year be—
fore Michigan potatoes, poorly grad-
ed, sold for from 10 to 90 cents a
bag lees than those of other import-
ant producing states on all markets,
including those of Michigan itself.
. Professor R. J. Baldwin, of M. A.
h 0., and Postmaster Perry F. Powers,
' ‘ of Cadillac, were the other speakers.

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COUNTY CROP REPORTS

_ Monomlnee.——Cl‘o~ps here are excellent
. . egcept com which is two weeks or more
behind the season—Karl Knaus, County

Agent. .
Sanilae.—Due to heavy rains about one
third of the hay is still in the ﬁelds.
Wheat sprouting, possibly one ﬁfth beans
drowned out. Oats are down badly.—

- John D. Martin, County Agent.
 Gogeblc.——Hay crop good. Grains fair
I ‘to poor. Corn will make poor ensilage.
Potatoes slow, but promising. Unseason-
a.ny cool weather. Poor harvesting
‘weather.—C. E. Gunderson, County Agent.
F Lapeer.-—-—Wheat good average 20-25
; bushels. Oats good also barley. Beans
- k and potatoes are fair. Corn poor needs
lots of warm weather. Beets fair. Sec-
ond cutting alfalfa fain—A. J. Patch.
County Agent.

Diekinson.—Potatoes looking good. 150
bushels per acre. Oats, barley and rye
are good. Grass also is good. Not quite

.‘km

«ewes».

corn, but hope for silage. Alfalfa better
than eleven—Art Lonsdorf. Coun ty
Agent.

lehooloraftwamsiderable haying still
 be done, wet weather caused much
alt) lved hay.- Oats and barley looking
m promising. Potatoes seem to be
lam heavily generally in good will”-
tien: we are afraid of considerable‘late
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(harvest in program with
toss an promising out-
loélr. .Wot weather disease do-

many ﬁelds of beans.
hope for nature corn. ‘ Pickle
growers seriously troubled with anthrac-
nose with. losses heavy. Raspberry ship-

~ ping season will close next week—H. M.

Vaughn. County Agent.

Presqus bier-«All crops look fairly
good except corn which is ‘ d and
hay also was a short crop. Grasshoppers

doing a lot of damage to cats in places.
Mes-s are busy (hitting winter wheat
and rye. Fall apples are quite abundant
but winter varieties are a light crop.
Lots of rain here lately. New seedings

.fairp—Fred 'l‘ulyetske, County Agent.

'meeeFWheat good with average
yield 23 bushels and highest reports 48
bushels. Barley good with small amount
being thrashed. Oats excellent with
small amount being thrashed. Hay good
and second crop alfalfa now being har-
vested. Corn good where good seed used
or well prepared soil. Feeder lambs and

. steers beginning to come inf—C. L. Cof-

feen, County Agent.

Mukegonz—Oorn improved but still

. only 60 per cent of crop. Potatoes good

yield’ of early "crops, late crop looks good.
Grain good crop ' some damage to grain
in shock. Hay and pastures good and
looks like good prospect for clover seed.
Beans making good growth. Some dam-
age from anthracnose. Most crops on
low ground damaged to some extent by
steady rains—County Agent.

bean crop late and drowns beans in many
places. Beans podding heavily but show-

 

NINE FOOT CLOVER IN
LENAWEE

I have sweet clover on limed
land that measures 9 feet 1%
inches. After cutting a ﬁeld
of alfalfa I found a stalk that
was lodged so only the top was
out OK, how much I don‘t know,
and what was left measured 5
feet 4 inches.—H. 8. Fish, Tip-
ton, Mich.

 

 

lng considerable disease in places. Pota-
toes and sugar beets looking very good.
Threshing progressing rapidly. Wheat
good quality and good yield but too wet
to put in storage. Barley threshing be-
ginning, with yield good. Oats all in
shock and some in barns. Second cutting
alfalfa being made. Good crop.—Roy W.
Weinberg, County Agent.

  

perous times are ooming. Some wheat
is threshed and is yielding a .ittls better
than average. ‘ ~

8t. JOIO’hr—that acreage somewhat
reduced from that harvested last year,
but yields range from 20 to 30 bushels
and over on good soils. Mostly being
th‘reshed from the shock and sunning

on the poorer soils. Oats, reduced acre-
age but a.good crop despite late sowing.
Now being harvested. Corn, about ual
meage, growing well and cared w ell
where it has a chance. but many thin
stands and some ﬁelds being abandoned
to the weeds. Hay, about 12,000 acres
of alfalfa a big crop ﬁrst cutting, second 
cutting about ready and looking ﬁne.
A few good ﬁelds of clover Wd. 1‘-
not much other hay. Around 4,000 MB
of alfalfa will be sown this year. Pota-
toes reduced but growing well. >
acreage is unimportant in this enmity,
but what there is are growing and nodded
well. Some Anthracnose presentln than.
Pastures are good and growing conditions
good for all amps. What unfavorable I
outlook there is has resulted from too
much wet weather, which has prevented
taking proper care of crops—L. R. Bind— .
ing, County Agent. '

 

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35 mile speed limit.
headlight fool refuses to dim his lights.
railway crossings—“Stop, Look and Listen! ” will save you if you do it

WARNING!

Do Not Drive Your Automobile

to the Fairs

Unless it is insured against Fire, Theft, Liability and Collision in the 4
Citizens’ Mutual Auto Insurance Company.

When full protection against the risk of what may prove a large ﬁnan-
cnal loss may be had at so small cost.

Not Park Your Car on City Streets

Take it to a garage where you will be sure to ﬁnd it on your return.
Thieves watch for unsuspecting visitors and pick out their cars as easy
The small amount you pay for storage will be well earned.

Drive Carefully; Take No Chances

Most accidents can be avoided. Watch out for loose gravel at the new
Stop at one side of the road when the glaring
Don’t take a chance at the

Before you start for the Fairs—call up the Citizens’ Mutual agent in
your locality—don’t be satisﬁed with any other company—make them
show their statements; your insurance is only as good as the company

Almost any auto owner can tell you who your local Citizens’ Mutual
agent is—-or write, phone or wire us and we will have our agent call

~ AT ONCE, before you start for the fair.

W. E. ROBB, Secretary

— Citizens. Mutual Automobile. _
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his heading at 80o per ogste line,
per issue. Commercial Baby Chick
advertisements 45o per ogato line.
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PREVENTION or manner: IN ,
. ‘ POULTRY '

V S has been previously mentioned

prevention is easier than cure.

The ﬁrst thing to be done in
any case is to ascertain the cause

- and remove it.

Probably one of the most common
troubles among ﬂocks is that of
colds, roup. etc. Chickens will
stand a lot of cold it it is dry and
free from draughts. ’ One of the
big problems of poultry raising is to
solve the problem of keeping the
poultry house dry. ‘

This is best done by having the

poultry house located on well-drain—
ed land, have the ﬂoor of the house
at least eighteen inches above the
outside ground level and ﬁll in with
coarse gravel or cinders.

Then see that the house is ventil-
ated without draughts. H o u s e s
should face the South and have
some sort of an opening on the
South side. The house should be at
least sixteen feet from front to
back, and we would prefer it twenty
feet. Then, with your roosts in the
rear, the fowls are back away from
the opening and not in much daug-
er of draughts from the front or ex-
posure. " If your houses are more
than twenty feet long, put in a solid
partition as in spaces longer than
twenty feet draughts are apt to de-
velop. A house or pen twenty feet
square is ideal for one hundred
birds or four square feet of ﬂoor
space per bird is about right.

To properly act for prevention of
diseases it is necessary to know
something of the things that cause
the trouble. As explained above
dampness and draughts are the
main causes of colds in their various
forms. If the digestive organs are
affected the kind, quality and quan-
tity of feed should be inspected.
You should know whether there is
any mold in the litter or feed;
whether or not they have access to
grit, shell and charcoal: whether or
not they have been infected with
parasites or germs that might cause
disease.

If the fowls become lame it might
be caused by rheumatism, injury or
liver trouble.

Over—fatness causes trouble with
the heart, liver and reproductive
organs. ’

Build your houses so as to be dry
and free from draughts. Feed sane-
ly which means with good food fed
right. Supply fresh, clean water,
grit, shell, charcoal and green feed
and there should not be much
trouble from sickness.

Use plenty of disinfectants. It
is one of the best investments you
can make. If the fowls are kept on
the same ground for any length of
time, sprinkle it with lime, spade or
plow under and sow some quick
growing green crop such as cats or
rape.

Remedies may remove or destroy
the cause of the disease; remove or
offset the symptoms, and help to re-
pair the affected tissues. They have

their place but if proper methods of ‘

prevention are used there will be
little use for them. However, they
have their place and we do not be—
lieve it necessary to always use the
hatchet as many advise.—“Those
Nine Fox Brothers."

BUILDING STONE AND CEMENT
POUIII‘RY HOUSE

Kindly furnish me with informa-
tion and details for building a stone
and cement poultry house large
enough to house two hundred hens.
How many stones and sacks of ce—
ment would it require? Is a near-
ly square house practical now days?
I see some are advocating that
style. What should the proper di-
mentions be, also the right amount
of light? The house I am about to
build is to face the south—A. W.,
Stockbridge, Michigan.

N order to accomodate 200 layers,
we would suggest a building 40
feet long and 18 feet deep. {Ibis

will provide ample room for ,the
larger American breeds. A house

'of these dimensions will require ap-

proximately six cubic yards or six
loads of stone, and twelve cubic

yards of gravel. in addition to eight .'

barrels of cement. This ratio per-
mits the use oftbirty-three per cent

 

stone in. constructing his founda-
tion and six inch-wall. ‘ . ‘ ,

The .Michigan‘ 'poultry house plan—
ned by the M. A. 0. seems to be
giving the 0st, satisfactory results
in this sta es. It has been design-
ed, lighted. and ventilated to pro-
vide the greatest amount of com-
fort under the variable weather con-
ditions of this state—E. C. Fore-
man, Professor of Poultry Husband-
ry, M. A. C. r

(Editor’s Note: — Any person
wishing a copy of this plan can se-
cure one by writing to Tm: BUSI-
mzss Fumes or the Department of
Poultry Husbandry, M. A. C.)

HENS HAVE TUBERCULOSIS

Would like advice on how to dis-
enfect our poultry house. Our vet-
erinarian said the hens had tuber-
culosis and I have disposed of them.
He said I should dispose of all my
chickens as soon as they were large
enough for broilers. How long be-
fore I can put new chickens in my
houses‘i—Mrs. C. H., Byron, Mich.

so-called normal mortality in
I commercial laying units varies
from ten to ﬁfteen per cent
each year. Before disposing of your
entire ﬂock, I would suggest for-
warding one or two speciments to
Doctor Stafseth of the Bacteriology
Department, East Lansing. Ordin-
arily, the severe losses occur among
the older stock, and if young chicks
are raised on a clean range away
from the parent ﬂock, the danger of
transmitting tuberculosis from old
to young stock is not so great. To
our knowledge, this disease is not
transmitted from the adult to the
offspring through the egg, and if
you have a highly bred ﬂock and
wish to continue this same line of
breeding, by proper precaution the
young stock could be matured with
the assurance that they 'are fairly
clean and free from this disease.

If your mortality among the older
birds is extremely heavy, it un-
doubtedly would be advisable to dis-
pose of practically the entire ﬂock.
We have found a higher percentage
of tuberculosis present in poorly
lighted and poorly ventilated bulld-
ings, with dirt ﬂoors, and not hav-
ing dropping boards which permits
of better sanitation. These hous-
ing conditions should be corrected
and the house given a thorough
cleaning and disinfecting. This
calls for a thorough scrubbing of
the walls, and ﬂoors which should
be followed by an application of
some good coal tar disinfectant.
—E. C. Foreman, Professor of Poul-
try Husbandry, M. A. 0.

FOOD VALUE OF EGGS
N these days of the popularity of
vitamines and calories in the ev-
ery day scheme of eating, eggs
as body builders are not to be ig-
nored. Eggs contain so much of
fuel, energy and tissue building ma-
terials as to be almost a perfect food
in themselves. Protein in the form
of albumin is found in the white.
Fat in a ﬁnely emlusiﬁed form,
similar to the fat_in milk, is found
in the yolk. The protein contains
sodium chloride, potassium salts
and sulphur, all necessary to per-
fect health. The iron compound
forms the material from which the
haemoglobin of red blood corpus—
cles is made.

Few feeds are as rich in vitamins
as are eggs. Fat soluble A, essenti-
al for growth, and water soluble B,
valued for its curative properties as
well as for body development, are
found in abundance in the yolk. On
account of the richness of iron in
eggs, they are one of the ﬁrst foods
to be added to the diet of the grow-
ing child. In hospitals eggs are
found to be almost indispensable in

’the diet of undernourished, anae-

mic, convalescent and tubercular
patients.

Many people have been of the
opinion that brown-shelled eggs
have a higher food value than those
with a white shell. Extended study
of the physical properties and chem:
ical composition of eggs to deter-
mine whether or not this was true

,has proved that there are practically

no differences, so far as food value
is concerned, between the white-
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mine the digestibility of eggs cook-
ed under different-conditions. Re-
sults indicated that while the meth-
od of cooking has some effect upon

the rate of digestibility, it’does not

materially affect the total digestib
ity. ‘1

CHICKENS TRESPASS

I would like to get a little of your
advise in regards to chickens. Has
a person a right to raise about 800
chickens on a small piece of ground,
a lot and a half, in a village and
then turn them right out to the pub-
lic and let them run and destroy
people’s gardens? My neighbor, is
raising 800 chickens on a small
piece of ground. has no park, don’t
intend to shut them up and there
is a ﬁfth of them that stay over on
my ground and destroy my lawn
and garden. I do .not keep any
chickens and would like to have a
garden and have more use of my
ground for my own beneﬁt. Have
stood for this for four years. This
is a small village and is not incorp-
orated. Now what I want to know
is there any way that she can be
made to take care of her poultry!
———«M. W., Middleton, Mich.

HERE is no state law regarding
trespassing chickens. If the
village is not incorporated

there should be a township by-law
to take care of this. See the super-
visor. If there is no township reg-
ulation preventing this annoyance,
you will have to put a good fence
around your garden and if the
chickens continue to get in, put
them up and hold them until the

owner pays the damage they did.—

Asst. Legal Editor.

CHICKS G0 BLIND AND DIE

I sent for ﬁfty day—old chicks and
received them all in good condition.
After I had them for a week or two
they began to go blind and then
their wings would droop, some would
shake until they could hardly stand
up and they would go blind and die.
Could you tell me what causes this?

I feed them and water them every'

day.—F. 0., .Cathro, Michigan.

HE ﬂock of chicks referred to
were evidently free from Bacil-
lary White Diarrhea, which to

our knowledge, is the only disease
that might be introduced in purchas~
inging day old chicks.
to believe that the blindness. droop-
ing wings, and the paralyzed con-
dition of the chicks are largely the
result of faulty nutrition. Similar

conditions have resulted when chicks

were kept on a very restricted diet
containing insufﬁcient quantity of
these new food factors referred to
as vitamins. Ordinarily, such chicks
will respond to a treatment which
includes a combination of tomato
juice and cod liver oil. The cod liver
oil should be given at the rate of
one half pint to each 500 birds and
can be evenly distributed by mixing
it in rolled oats and bran. Cod liver
can be emulsiﬁed with either boil-
ing water or tomato juice without
its value being destroyed. This may
be necessary in order to get a suf-
ﬁcient liquid for proper distribution
so that the chicks will get a sufﬁcient
amount to' correct this nutritional
disturbance. These chicks may also

.. be given hard boiled eggs with very

beneﬁcial results—E. C. Foreman,
:roéessor of Poultry Husbandry, M.

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’ ONGBETE is a material which is
so satisfactory for many' kinds

_ of construction work that very
poor work may be done in its prep.
tion and a degree of success still
nit. Time is an important factor
determining results under actual

Other comparisons can be made.
The tests were not extensive enough
to .be conclusive. nor are the break-
ing load ﬁgures of value any more
than for showing diﬂerences. The
results indicate however, that it is
possible to onset the strength 0! the

assume 0]? TESTS or WHOM MIXTURES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Avon”
Ase No. or load in lbs.
No. m: Slump in days Curing beams breaking Beinth
1:2 :4 0.8 85 Sprinkled daily 10 920
1:2:4 1.0 J5 Sprinkler! daily 1 9.50
1 :2 :d 1.5 B5 Sprinde daily 1 896
1:4 5 1.0 25 Sprinkled 10 810 
1:4 1‘, 1.0 25 Bprinkled daily 10 501 Fine 1
1 :1 :2 1.0 25 Sprinkled daily 10 935
w, 1:4 :8 1.0 25 Sprinkled daily 10 527
. 112:4 1.0 a 29 Dry 9 698
1:2:4 1.0 29 Dry 5 540 5 hrs. set before
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vements come slowly. For this

on studies of the materials in
the experimental and testing labora-
tory show in what ways better con-
crete may be produced. They also
indicate that better work can often

produced at less cost of both ma-
terial and labor.

Tests of small beams 3%” x 356'
x 16” were made by supporting the
ends of the beams on parallel sup-
ports 16” apart and applying a load
on the top of the beam, exactly at
the center, until breakage occurred,
with the results given in the follow-
ing table. The testing machine was
so devised that a jack was used to
apply the force necessary to break
the beam, and platform scales were
used to weigh the breaking load.

The beams were made and tested
under similar conditions insofar as
possible. Ten beams of each kind
were tested so that extreme varia—
tion, due to ﬂaws in the beam or
other unusual causes, could be elim-
inated. An average of the break-
ing load was taken of the ten beams
as representative of the group. It
should be added that strength is
considered by engineers as one of.
the best criterions of good concrete.
Strength is at. the same time a
measure of water-tightness and
Wearing qualities. _

When put in forms, the wetness
was indicated by the slump or rel—
ative amount of settling. This was
measured, when the concrete was
ready for the forms, in a tapering
circular form 12 inches high, 4
inches in diameter at the top, and
8 inches in diameter at the bottom.
Slump shows the tendency of the
material to ﬂow as a liquid. A
slump of 1.5 is a wet concrete
which will ﬂatten out to less than
6' when the form above described
is removed.

The mix, when indicated as
1:2:4, means 1 part cement, 2 parts
sand or material which will go
through a 1A” screen, and 4 parts
gravel, which is the material which
will not go through the same screen.

Enztruction conditions, and so im-

Note that in every case except the~

bank run, the volume of; sand was
one-half the volume of gravel used.
Bank run averages perhaps 2 to 3
parts sand to 1 of gravel.

Some variation in time of setting
was permitted on account of sched-
ule, but beams tested at the same
age are comp able, Curing was
done by sprink ing daily with the
beams in piles of ten, except in case
of beams listed as No. 8 to which no
water was added after placing in
the forms. The breaking load rep-
resents the weight necessary to
break the beam when applied at the
center of the beam on top.

Outstanding results are shown in
several cases. Beams (7) contain-
ed practically one-half the amount
of cement as (5), yet showed a
greater breaking strength, a direct
comparison of ﬁne sand concrete
and sand and gravel concrete. (9)
contained practically the same
amount of cement .as (8) but show
nearly a 6 per cent higher breaking
load. This indicates that water is
a cheap ingredient to use in con-
crete while curing. (2) indicate
best wetness of mix, or slump of 1.
This-corresponds very closely to a
cooking 'mix or, one which will
shake “slightly. when [patted-  a

' shovel. (3) indicate too much web
_er in mixing, the __ __
«much less than (2), I ‘

product greatly in the wetness of
the mix, the proportions, grading of
material, and method of curing.

 

THE TWO ou'rLoons ON LIFE
(Continued from Page 7)

when he wanted to. But he couldn't.
The tyranny of evil increased and
he is swept on and on. Pathetic as
it is, “Many are they that enter in

 

“Seek and ye
shall ﬁnd.” ‘The narrow way is
found by that one who seeks and
desires it. . ' _
.Now, we have come to the two
ends. “Destruction.” . “He that
pursueth sin, pursueth it to his own
death.” That ought to be warning
enui. So, let us look now to that
other end of life, “eternal life."
This is found thru traversing the
narrow way. Press this home to
your heart: The main thing about a
road is not the diﬂiculties of travel,
but the end toward which it leads.
The narrow way leads home. Every
step in Grace and holy purpose
brings us nearer. This comfort of
our text swallows up the pangs and
travails along the way. Jesus went
that way and so he knows. And he
yet declares, “I am the door,” “I
am the way.”

 

KDKA BROWNS OUT OTHER
STATIONS

(Continued from Page 9)

Looser coupling between the pri—
mary and secondary of your coupler
will also help you tune out undes-
irable stations.

You can add one or two stages of
ampliﬁcation to a crystal set. The
output terminals, where you new
connect your phones would be con-
nected to the imput terminals of the
ampliﬁer.

thereby." Why! Because the. 
, driit. The few seek.

  
  

WOULD m NEIGHBORS 
I have a Babcock milk and
tester and am thinking of ’ 
some of my neighbors' cows.
would be the proper charges to
make per cow? I am a member at
the Protective Service Bureau—'11
J. B., Allegan, Mich.

DO not know oi! any other way 0:

getting at the charges tor test-

ing cows than to make a straight
rate according to the amount at la-
bor and supplies that you use ill
testing. This can easily be ﬁgured
out when put on the time basis.
There is none ot this sort of work
done at the present time. It farm-
ers want their cows tested, the
creameries or milk stations usually
do the testing tree in order to enr-
courage the keeping of records.

The only other way that testing i.
done for the farmers is through cot
testing associations where a number,
of farmers go together and hire A
man to do the testing by the month.
This usually costs an average at
$3.00 a day for one day out oi each
month. This kind of work not only
includes the butteriat record but the
milk records and the feed records.

If you are interested in a position
for testing cows through cow test-
ing associations we will tell you
more about the work as we have op-
portunity to use men in this work
since we have nearly 100 associa-
tions now in operation in the state.
—0. E. Reed, Professor of Dairy
Husbandry, M. A. C.

 

 

 

 

The ﬁchools and
The Railroads

Teachers in Michigan’s primary schools are being‘ supported, to a
large degree, by tax-es paid by the state’s steam Railroads. In many
counties, the Whole cost of these schools is carried in this way.

Michigan in justly proud of these schools, and of the capable
teachers who preside over them.

And Michigan's  Railroads are proud of the result which their-f
tax payments have made possible.

These primary school taxes have become a part of the delicate
balance which lawn [have established between Railroad receipts

and expenditures.

This balance can be preserved with a steady and continued
improvement in Railroad service, as the past two years have;

amply prayed.

To destroy this balance by increasing Railroad taxes, or by impoai
ing any additional burden on your carriers, would be a calamity
for the Railroads and a severe blow at; Michigan prosperity.

All we ask is a fair chance to keep on making good for you.

Write us freely about any phase of this matter that interests you.

Michigan Railroad Association

 

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Foote  Says Business Is ~ Impmving
, Good Demand For Hogs—Less Cattle From West

——High Prices

or Grain and’Corn

By W. W. FOOTE, Market Editor.

N all respects general business has
been growing in volume for sev-
eral weeks, and further improve-

ment is expected, especially in the

foreign trade of the United States,

now. that the serious differences be-
tween France and Germany have
been amicably adjusted. Of course
considerable time will be required

to bring about a return to normal”

conditions in the war stricken coun-
tries of Europe, but it is'encourag-
ing to see the beginning of better
times. Our domestic trade is mov—
ing along satisfactorily on the whole,
and although the purchasing power
of the dollar is much less than be-
fore the European war, farmers are
obtaining as a rule decidedly better
prices than a year ago. The banks
are well supplied with funds, and
rates of interest are unusually low,
the Chicago banks making loans at
4 to 4% per cent. All the grains
are bringing much higher prices than
in recent years, with corn showing
far the greatest advance, due to the
promised unusually short crop. In
a recent review of conditions by a
leading Chicago bank, it is shown
that an analogy exists between 1879,
1896 and 1924. In those former
years short crops and distress in
Europe created a demand for wheat
which brought prosperity to this
country. This year only average
crops on in Europe and a reduction
of 40 per cent in the Canadian wheat
crop will leave this country as the
chief source of the world’s wheat
supply. During the last season Cau-
ada led the world in Wheat exports,
with Argentina second. Of late
European stocks of Wheat have been
lowered, and Germany and Italy are
eating war bread. The writer of
this review ,points out that the Amer—
ican wheat crop of 589,000,000
bushels of Winter wheat recently
harvested and 235,000,000 bushels
of spring wheat promised will supply
the demand and bring better prices
for farmers, so that there will be a
fair proﬁt. As for corn, conditions
are made rather unusual by the
promise of a small crop in a large
extent of territory and a good yield
in more favored .districts. Evidently,
this will greatly enrich the relatively
few fortunate farmers and bring in
little proﬁt for the many with poor
crops. Live stock interests are
largely proﬁtable so far as well fat-
tened cattle and hogs are concerned.
while lambs are a great source of
proﬁt. Farmers generally are not
putting mortgages on their farms,
and intense and diversiﬁed farming
is the rule.
Important Warning

The Chicago Live Stock Exchange
has issued the following statement:
“The big hold-over hog supply shown
every night consists of fully ten
thousand thin, skippy sows that are
almost unsalable. Some of these
sows have been in the stock yards
for a week without any bid better
than $6. The country should be
warned against shipping any of these
sows at this time, and they should
also understand that the big hold
over reported by the government
each night does not consist of good,
merchantable hogs, as the supply of
good hogs is bought up very quickly
each day."

High Prices for Grain

All the grains are selling at un-
usually high prices owing to matural
causes and not to legislation. By
simply carrying out the advice of
the Department of Agriculture to
curtail the wheat acreage, the crop
is much reduced andsthe law- of sup-
ply and demand makes proﬁtable
prices once more. With com the
case is quite different as tumors in
the, corn belt states generally devoted
. about the customary number of acres
to this‘cereal, but weather conditions
were against them, and a short crop
' is promised an a natural result of a

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weather much of the summer. Re-
cent sales were made on the'Chicago
Board of Trade of September wheat
at $1.29, comparing with $1 a year
ago; September corn at $1.17, com.-
paring with 83%‘cents a year ago;
September cats at 54 cents, compar-
ing with 39 cents a year ago; and
September rye at 92%] cents, com-
paring with 65 cents a year ago. A
little over two years ago September
corn sold as low as 57% cents, while
September oats sold down to 30
cents. Oats having been selling rel-
atively much lower than corn and
this naturally leads to the extensive
substitution of cats for corn on
farms and selling of old corn, al—
though oats have sold 16 cents above
the low time of this season. Fluc-
tuations in corn are unusually wide
frequently, and ﬂuctuations have
been in some days as much as ﬁve
to ten cents a bushel. An early
frost would do a world of, injury to
the corn crop of this country, and
that would mean a great falling off
in the supply of merchantable corn.
Corn is too high to export freely,
but oats, rye and barley are exported
fairly, as is wheat. Marketing the
winter wheat crop goes on actively,
and the visible wheat supply is in-
creasing at a lively pace, the Wheat
in sight amounting a short time ago
to 58,107,000 bushels, comparing
with 48,752,000 bushels a year ago.
Spring wheat is now moving to mar-
ket, and in a short time there will
be a combined marketing of winter
and spring wheat and not unlikely
lower prices. Probably, it ,will be
well for the Michigan farmers to not
wait too long to market their wheat.
At thegsame time good prices are ex-
pected, and a SIM time ago Decem-
ber and May when! lrought the high-
est prices paid this year.
Western Cuiilc Supplies

There will probably be around
500,000 head less cattle marketed
from the Western region during the
last half of 1924 than were marketed
during the similar period last year
according to an estimate made by the
United States Department of Agri-
culture. The number to be shipped
this year is estimated at 4,300,000
compared to 4,800,000 marketed
last year.

-- This estimate is based, upon “re-
ports from the afferent states cover-
ing the situation as of August 1,

_ giving information as. to range and

feed conditions, ﬁnancial situation of
cattlemen, estimated supplies of cat-
tle and expressed intentions of pro-
ducers as to the numbers to be mar-
keted. Changed conditions subse-
quent to August 1 may alter the situ-
ation and the number that will be
actually marketed may be larger or
smaller than this estimate depending
upon the prices, of cattle, supplies
and prices of feed and ﬁnancial de-
velopments. .

The region covered by the esti-
mate includes the states of North
Dakota, Oklahoma and Texas, the
areas in South Dakota, Nebraska
and Kansas west of the 100th meri-
dian and all other states west of
these. A different situation is indi-
cated in various areas of this west-
ern region. In the seven states west
of the Continental divide the greater
part of whose cattle usually move to
the Paciﬁc coast or local markets,
the number of cattle to be marketed
is indicated as larger than last year,

the ﬁgures being 860,000 this year -

and 780,000 last year. This situa-
tion is due to the drought condititon
prevailing in nearly all of this area
and the prospective high prices of
feed and low prices of cattle. «Be-
cause of this feed situation it is
probable that fewer cattle will be
Winter fed for market this coming
winter than were fed last and that
considerably more cattle, especially

,feeder stock, will be shipped to

middle-western markets this fall
than last.

In the area including the western
parts of South Dakota, Nebraska
and Kansas and the states of North
Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and
Colorado it is estimated that 180,000
less cattle will be shipped this year
than were marketed last, 1,640,000
head this year against 1,280,000
last. In most of these states winter
range feed promises to be fairly
plentiful and supplies of hay and
forage sufﬁcient for Winter needs.
Financial conditions in several of
these states,. however, are quite
serious and may force considerably
larger shipments than have been es-
timated. 

In the southwestern area, covering
the states of Oklahoma, Texas and
New Mexico, the estimated market-
ings are about 365,000 less than
those of last year, 1, 838,000 com-
pared to 2,203,000. Range and pas-
ture conditions in most of this area

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Detroit Chicago Detroit Detroit
Aug. 27 Aug. 27 Aug. 18 1 yr. ago '

WHEAT— ‘

No. 2 Red $1.25 $1.28 $1.82 $1.05

No. 2 White 1.27 1.34, 1.06

No. 2. Mixed 1.26 1.83 1.05
CORN—-

No. 8 Yellow 1.23 1.10 1.20 .95

No. 4 Yellow 1.18 1.15 1.15 .94
OATS— ‘

No. 2 White .62 “g” .5935 .48

N o. 8 White .00 45 46 .57 K .41
BYE——

Cash No. 2 .94 80% .96 .75
BEANS—

C. II. P. th. 5.85@5.00 4.95 6.40
POTATOES——

Per-Curt. 1.30@1A0 1.15@ 1.80 1.29@1.80 1.25@1.81
HAY-—

No. 1 Tim. 19020 2.1 26 28.50624 19.50@20

No.2'l‘im. 17 18 u 25 21028 _17@18

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were unite'favorable upuntil‘ July I ”

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siderable deterioration because ‘of
drought. The supplies of forage.
however, will be considerable and
winter pasture, ,while of shbrt
‘growth, promises to be ofgood qual-
ity and the large wheat crop and
prospective cotton crop are helping
considerably the general ﬁnancial
situation. 7,

Since such a large part of west-
ern cattle are stockers and feeders,
the demand for- such cattle in the
‘corn belt this fall will be a big fab
tor in determining the actual mar-
ketings of western cattle. The ex-
tent and character of this demand
is at present very uncertain and will
remain so until the outcome of the
corn crop‘ can be more deﬁnitely de-
termined. Supplies of pasture, hay
and roughage are quite large
throughout most of the corn belt
and cattle will be needed to utilize
them. If there is a large amount
of unmarketable soft corn, as now
seems probable, in most of the
states east of the Missouri river a
big demand for feeder cattle for a
short feed will presumably develop.
But the high prospective market
price_for sound corn will tend to
reduce the demand for feeders in
the states that produce it. The
best corn prospects at present are
west of the Missouri river and these
states were very large purchasers
of feeding cattle last year.

Prices of both stocker and feeder
cattle are a little lower now than
at this time last year and the trend
of prices during the next three
months is very uncertain- The effect
of low prices upon shipments is also
uncertain. They may reduce ship-

ments in the case of growers who

are ﬁnancially able and have the
feed to hold back cattle but they
may increase them by further dis-
couraging growers and ﬁnancial in-
terests that have been staying in the
business in the hope of better prices
or where money Will he needed to
purchase high priced feeds. " '
Fat Cattle Sell -Well

At this season of the year prices
for cattle always widen out much
more than at other times, due to the
marketing of numerous consign-
ments of grassy cattle from farms
and ranges. Of late this has bean
an important feature of the Chicago
market, and grassers have been
quick to sell lower on days when the
relatively few offerings of corn—fed
cattle sold readily at steady values.
Fat yearling steers and heifers have
sold best of all, instead of going at
a discount, as was the case with
yearling steers several weeks ago.
The tendency at this time is for
country shippers to send in more cat-
tle than are wanted to meet the re-
quirements of the packers and east-
ern shippers, and(, they stick to the
old plan of overstocking the Monday
market, thereby depressing prices on
that day, the arrivals on the open—
ing day last week aggregating 25,457
head. As compared with a year ago,
the better class of beeves have been
selling at lower and the commoner
lots at better prices. Limited num-
bers of prime ﬁnished heifers are
taken at extra high ﬁgures, and the
other day a sale was made of 90
fat heifers averaging 778 pounds at
$10.50, but such sales are exception-
al. Canning cows are selling ex-
tremely low, and they are very un-
proﬁtable cattle for farmers to
handle. Choice veal calves have
been high sellers, selling at $12 to
$14 per 100 pounds, with common
kinds at $6 and over. Because of
the high price of corn, farmers are
not favorably disposed toward feed-
ing cattle, and’the demand is mostly
at $5 to $6.50. Western range cat-

tle coming on the Chicago market? ~<~-'

‘ are running very largely to the
stacker feeder order, and sales were
made of such at $5.75 to $7.25, but
mainly at $5.75 to $6.75. Prospect:
are that less corn will be fed to
cattle than usual owing to 'itsv'v'dearn

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desirable  etch .. . .
were well emaintaihed? but the mar-
ket for grassyicattle wason a lower
scale, fwhiie“"b1eavy~ steers were
largely .50 cents lower. In short,
most cattle except good and choice
yearlings were from 25 to 75 cents.
lower. Cows and heifers with any
quality sold at $8.25 to 810, while
bulls sold at 84.50 to 37.50.
ago beef steers sold at $6.25 to $10,
while bulls sold at $3 to 87 and can-
ner and cutter eows at $2 to $3.15.
Stockers and feeders sold at $4.50 to
$7.50. A year ago beef steers sold
at $6.25 to $13. Combined cattle
receipts in twenty markets for one
year to late date amOunt to 8,031.-
000 head. comparing with 8,257,000
a year ago and 7,808,000 two years

ago.-
Outlook For Hogs

So. long as owners ship in large
supplies of hogs, bad breaks in
prices must be expected, but later
on much reduced supplies may be
looked for. Recently the receipts
in the Chicago market have been
much too unevenly disturbed caus-
ing large ﬂuctuations in prices. For
instance, on Monday oi a recent
week the arrivals reached 49,635
hogs, followed by 24,000 on Tues-
day. Unfortunately, large numbers
of sows are included in the arrivals.
and a short time ago fully 10,000
thin, skippy sows that were almost
unsalable were included in the held—
over supply. Despite excessive sup-
plies at times, prices continue to
rule far higher than in recent years,
with eastern shippers very fair buy-
ers. Recently supplies have fallen
off, and prices advanced under good
buying by local packers and eastern
shippers, heavy butchers topping
the market. Combined receipts in
twenty markets for the year to late
date amount to 27,765,000 hogs,
comparing with 27,395,000 a year
ago and 21,271,000 two years ago.
A year ago hogs sold at $6.35 to
$8.95 and two years ago at $6.25
to $9.55. High prices for hogs have
brought about much higher prices
for fresh and cured hog products
and lard, and their sales are falling

 
 

 

  

I 4—4- I‘ J.

Week of August 31
l 'l‘ the very beginning of this

week thunder showers and

moderately heavy rains with
local wind storms are expected in
Michigan but these conditions will
soon pass bringing generally clear
weather but slight temperature var»

 

iations. ,
About the middle of the week
weather conditions will become

threatening and cloudy with many

. sections receiving scattered rainfall.

The storm, itself will not be severe
at this time but the temperature
change following the storm center
will be radical. Minimum tempera-
tures at the end of the week will
range in the forties. .

It is expected that sections of th
upper peninsula and some interior
counties of the northern lower pen-
insula may be visited with frost

during this or next week.

Week of September 7

Unseasonably cool weather is ex—
pected in Michigan at very begin-
ning of this week. Change to much
warmer will be felt in the state
about Monday or Tuesday and con-
tinue warm until after the middle
of the week.

During the middle days of the
week there will be numerous thund-
er showors but these will be well

tered throughout the territo
caving much room for sunshine an
fair weather during the some dates.

During the latter part of the
week temperatures will take a sud-
den drop to readings below the seas-
onal normal. .

‘ The average temperature trend
for this part of the country during
most of September will be down-
ward until ’ near the close. The
most noticeable warm spells for the
month will be near the 11th, and

-. 10th to 20th.

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aTn'u' Baum! “Emma whether be

«best lambs sold at $9.50.

hep-oi jasmine}: of fat cattle asks

 sell. them now. or hold them
longer, giving' them a chance to get
fatter. He says he. cannot hold
them any longer then up to the first
of November, as he has not the barn
room. In answer,1 it may be said
that no one can tell how cattle will
sell in the future, but it seems a

- good. policy to market them when

they are fat and bring good prices,
taking advantage of any advances in
values. At the present time feed is
dear, as every farmer knows, and
heavy steers are declining in price,
although still selling at high ﬁgures.
In feeding cattle it is well to keep
track of the cost in fattening and
the ruling market price. It is an
old saying that no farmer ever went
broke in selling at a good price.
Just now handy weights are the
favorites.
The Lamb Market

The number of sheep and lambs
that will probably be shipped from
western sheep states from August 1
to the end of the year is estimated
by the Department of Agriculture at
around 775,000 head more than the
number marketed for the same per-
iod last year. Fat lambs have been
selling very very high in the Chicago
market, common to prime offerings
going at $9 to $14.35, with feeding
lambs much wanted at $12 to
$13.25. 1 At this time in 1915 the
’ Sheep
and yearlings' are bad sellers at a
big decline in prices.

(Mr. Foote will be glad to give his best
advise on Markets at any time. Write
him in care of The Business Farmer, no
charge to subscribers.)

LIVESTOCK MARKET

DETRIOT, Aug. 27.—Cattle——Recelpts
199; market steady but slow. Fancy
yearling, $9@10; best heavy steers, $8@
8.50: best handy weight butcher steers,
$7@7.75;‘mixed steers and heifers. $5.75
06.50: handy light butchers, $5.25@
5.50; light butchers, $4.25@4.75:- best
cows, $606.25: butcher cows, $3.50@
4.25 common cows, $2.75@3; canners,
8262.50: choice light, $4.75@5.25; bol-
ogna. bulls, $4.50@4.75; stock bulls, $3.50
04.25; feeders, 8566.50; stockers. $4@
5.50: milkers and springers, $45@95.

Veal calves—Receipts, 402 ; market
111m”; best. 813013.50; others, $4@
8.50.

Sheep and lambs—Receipts, 794
Market opening as follows: Best lambs,
813.50: fair lambs, $10.50@12.60; light to
common lambs, $7@8.75; fair to good
sheep, 85.50@6.50; culls and common,
$1.50@3.50.

Hogs—Receipts, 1,086. Market pros-
pects: Mixed hogs and heavy yorkers,
$10.15; pigs, $8.50

CHICAGO— H o g s -—Receipts, 23.000 ;
market strong. Bulk, $9.55@9.~90; top,
$10.20; 2”»0 to 325 pounds weight, 89.55
010.20; medium weight, $9.75@10.20;
light weight, $9.10@10.10; light lights,

85009.90; heavy packing sows, smooth,

8.5060: packing sows, rough, $8@8.50;
pigs, 8868.25.

(hale—receipts, 11.000; market steady
to weak. Beet steers: Choice and prime,
810611; medium and good, $8@9.50;
good and choice, 8102561125; common
and medium, 875068950. Butcher cattle:
Heifers, $5@10; cows, 88.50@8.00; bulls,
83.5007. Canners and cutters: Cows
and heifers, “@450; canner steers, $6
@7. Veal calves, light and handy weight,
$10@13; feeder steers. $5.50@8.25;
stocker steers, 8568: stodrer cows and
heifers, $3@$5.50; stocker calves, $5.50
@ 8. Western range cattle: Beef steers,
“@935; cows and heifers, $3@7. Calves
—Receipts, 2,000. -

Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, 22,000;
market steady. Lambs, fat, $12.75@14;
culls and common, $8.50@9.50; yearlings,
$10©11.50; wethers, $8@9; ewes, $6.50
67.75: culls and common, $2@4.50:
breeding, $6.50011.50; feeder lambs, 812
013.25.

BUFFAID—Cattle—Receipts, 400;
market steady. Shipping steers, 88.506
11; butcher grades, $7@9; heifers, $5.50
08; cows, 82@6.50: bulls, 82615: feeders,
55122560650: milk cows and springers, $25

Calves——Receipts, 300 ' market .
Cull to choice, $3.50@1'3. M

Sheep and lambs—receipt; 100; mar-
  .srm m..m....s,.m-75:

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shgfp. 8&9. y "010‘
egs— ceipts, 8,200: market stea .
Yer-item 808501075: heavy, 310.51%
10-60: muons. 88m“; steal. 34.5005.

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Pontiac Strain Ranches
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