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Between the American farmer and the Ford
organization, there has always been the
closest understanding.

By continuing its service to the farmer from
year to year, the Ford organization is realizo
ing the Ford ideal—“greatest service to the
most people”.

To accomplish this, the Ford organization has
acquired and controls vast timber lands, coal
and iron mines, transportation routes, and
channels of distribution; built giant factories,
mills, foundries, furnaces, warehouses, docks
and power plants. Without these vast Ford
resources, the Fordson Tractor could not be
sold for so little, could not give so much in
superior quality and service.

The Fordson Tractor does more, for less money,
than any other farm power unit. It is a prac—
tical, time-saving aid in plowing, harrowing,
planting, mowing, harvesting, threshing, road—
mending and scraping, timber-cutting and
sawing, hauling, pumping, excavating—in fact
every duty the farmer must perform which
requires power.

The Fordson Tractor makes farming easier and
more proﬁtable. The Fordson Tractor enables
more work to be done in less time, thus
permitting the farmer to have more leisure for
making his life and the lives of his family hap-
pier and more abundant. By thus lightening
the farmer’s burden, the Fordson Tractor
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to Worse

David Friday, Former President of M.  C. Says “American Agriculture Has Seen Progress
I Which Never Before Was Witnessed [By Any Group Which Tilled the Soil”

MERICAN agriculture has just
A turned a corner, Dr. David Fri-
day, Washington, D. C., econ-
omist and former president of Mich-
igan Agricultural college, declared
in an address before the American
Association of joint stock land
banks. -
“It is the ﬁnal turn to the right
that leads out of the slough of de—
pression onto the high road of pros-
perity,” he asserted. “It may be that
we are facing a decline in the gen-
eral price level of all commodities
during the next decade or two. It
is certain that we will not again see
the general up-swing of prices which
occurred between 1897 and 1914.

“In 1879, in consequence of des—
tructive frosts in the spring, and
heavy rains all summer in England
and France, the price of wheat rose
rapidly and our export surplus, un-
precedented in volume, sold at a
good price. The result was prosper-
ity for the farmer, and a revival in
American industry generally. The
good fortune for the American
farmer continued through 1880.

“But the price increase could not
hold, because agricultural produc-
tion in America was outrunning this
country’s ability to consume it. In
1906 the improved land had more
than doubled in area compared with
1870.

What History Shows

In 1891 the wheat crop had ex-
ceeded more than 600,000,000 bush-
els. When the depression of 1893
reduced purchasing prices went to
ruinous levels.

“Prices began to rise after August
of 1896, when news came of a crop
failure in India. The next year a
scorching drought in France and a
Wet harvest in Russia and in the
Danube valley cut the Europen crop.
America had a good yield and prices
advanced still further.

“The resultant business revival
was arrested for a brief space in
1907-08, but the general trend of
prices was upward until 1910. This
year initiated an era during which
the number of farms actually de-
creased.

“There are today fewer farms and
fewer persons farming than there
were 14 years ago. The acreage of
improved land is only slightly larg—
er. The farmers who fed 60,000,-

000 city folk 14 years ago must feed

80,000,000 today.
Supply Boost Seen

“The likelihood is that the supply
of. their products will increase bare-
ly as rapidly as the mouths to be
fed. We will therefore, have a dup-
lication of the situation which pre—
vailed from 1897 on‘. In that per-
iod the prices of farm products rose
more rapidly than those of others
commodities. . 

“If the general price level of com-
modities should decline, what has
been said here will lead to the con-
clusion that farm prices will decline
less than other prices. There is al-
ready some evidence that this is tak-

ing place.
“In April, 1923, farm products.
stood at 141. In July, 1924, the

latest month available, the price for
all commodities stood at 147,‘ a de-
cline of 12 points from the highest
level reached since the depression of
1922: but farm products are still at
141. .Every single group of com-
modities except farm products has
declined. -
  Values Increase
"Ainerican agriculture has seen
progress which - never before was

' witnessed by any group which tilled .

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“ MERICAN agriculture has seen progress which never. before was
witnessed by any group which tilled the soil,” says Dr. Friday.
.“The impression that the American farmer has been going from

bad to worse is arr-ant nonsense.

“The I. C. C. has valued 'our railroads at about $20,000,000,000;
but the value of farm lands exclusive of buildings is today $28,000,-

000,000 higher than it was in 1900.

“The American farmer does not belong to an impoverished class.
He is a member of an industry that has done well by him in the past
and which promises him increased progress and well-being in. the

future.

“Agriculture has now been in a state of depression for almost four

years.

Crop and weather conditions here and abroad have once. more

produced a phenomenal rise in the price of cotton, wheat and corn.
It is a hopeful Sign for the future of agriculture that this increase has
not come about as the result of any political action, but of more funda-
mental causes which are likely to continue for some years."

 

 

from bad to worse is arrant non-
sense.

“The I. C. C. has valued our rail-
roads at about $20,000,000,000; but
the value of farm lands exclusive of
buildings is today $28,000,000,000
higher than it was in 1900.

“The American farmer does not
belong to an impoverished peasant
class. He is a member of an indus—
try that has done well by him in the
past and which promises him in-
creased progress and well-being in
the future.

“Agriculture has now been in a
state of depression for almost four
years.

Crop and weather conditions here
and abroad have once more produc-
ed a phenomenal rise in the price of
cotton, wheat and corn. It is a
hopeful sign for the future of agri-
culture that this increase has not
come about as the result of any po-

litical action, but of more funda-
mental causes which are likely to
continue for some years.

“That the farmer’s purchasing
power for 1924 will be vastly great-
er than for 1922 is no longer a mat—
ter of dispute. In the cotton—grow—
ing sections revival came last year.
In the Wheat, corn and hog areas, it
has just arrived. The most difficult
problem is to decide how long it will
continue.

“The revival of 1879 lasted a
comparatively short time. After
1881 the price trend of Wheat and
other farm products was deﬁnitely
downward once more and continued
to fall until 1896. But after 1897
the upward movement continued for
17 years. Then war swept across
the current of our industrial life and
carried prices to high heaven. What
prices will the future bring for farm
products?

Feeding Silage Made From immature Corn

CCORDING to present prospects
unless frost holds on much
longer than usual there will be

many ﬁelds of corn that will not ma-
ture this year. Suitable prepara-
tions should be considered and
made now by farmers who are like-
ly to face the problem of disposing
of a crop of corn that has not ma-
tured.

The farmer who has livestock to
feed and can convert his immature
corn into silage is perhaps in a posi-
tion to obtain the greatest value
from his crop.

The results of an experiment con-
ducted by James W. Wilson and
Arthur H. Kuhlman at the South
Dakota Experiment Station should
be of interest at this time. ’ A

At silo ﬁlling time this corn was
just beginning to tassel. After a
silo had been ﬁlled with well matur—
ed dent corn, another silo was ﬁlled
with this very green immature corn.

A lot of four yearling range steers
was fed a ration of mature corn sil—
age, oil meal and eat straw for a
period of 120 days while a similar
lot received a ration of silage made
from the immature corn oil meal
and eat straw. While the steers in
the ﬁrst let made very satisfactory
gains it was rather surprising to ﬁnd
that those in the second lot made an
average daily gain of 2.09 pounds
during the 120 day feeding period.

The accompanying table summar-
izes the results obtained in these 2
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few years ago it was necessary, be— silage and oilmeal and ,lot II im-
cause of a very wet season to re— mature corn silage and oilmeal:
plant a ﬁeld of corn on July 15. (Continued on Page 19)

FEEDING VALUE OF IRMATURE CORN SILAGE COMPARED WITH

‘ li/[ATURE SILAGE
‘ Lot I Let II

Number of Steers in Each Lot   4 4
Number of Days Fed   1.20 120
Average lnit. Weight Per  1,008 983
Average Final Weight Per Steer 1,287 1,234
Total Gain Per Lot ..................... ... 1,117 1,005
Ayerage Gain Per Steer ........ .. 279 251
Average Daily Gain Per Steer 2.33 2.09
Total Silage Consumed .... .. 81,074 39,827
Total Ollmeal Consumed .  1,368 1,368
Total Oat Straw Consumed, 90 days ............................... ..... 855 1,366
Average Feed Required for 100 pounds of Gain:

Silage 8,781.91 3,962.88

oumeaj 122.47 136.12

Straw 76.54 135.92
Average Daily Feed Per Head:

sum .- 64.74 82.94

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“It is not given to any man to
look into the future and foretell ex-
actly what will happen. But we do
know that the prices ~of the future
will be determined by the supply of
farm products, and by the demand
for them. The law of supply and
demand still holds, and is more ac-
ceptable today than it was six
months ago. It is possible at this
time to set down some of the chang-
ed conditions which govern the sup-
ply of farm products; and to fore-
cast the course of demand for them.

Just “Turned Corner”

“The text of this address tonight
is ‘l'ilessed is the man who knows
history, for he shall be sized with
llysteria.’ American agriculture has
just turned a corner. It is the ﬁnal
turn to the right that leads out of
the slough of depression onto the
high road of prosperity. This sounds
like bold prophesy, after the exper-
ience of the last four years. But any-
one who has read history knows
that the same thing has happened at
least twice before in this country
within the last 50 years. It happen-
ed in England in 1816 when after a
year of debate and legislative en-
deavor prices were set right by na-
tural forces.

“The forces which underlie the
supply of farm products consist of
the land in cultivation, the number
of persons engaged in agriculture.
and the efficiency of the methods
which they employ. The number of
farms and the people engaged in ag—
riculture have actually declined
since 1910. The number of acres of
improved land is only slightly larg—
er.

“Someone will ask why supply is
not certain to lag far behind de-
mand throughout this period. The
answer is that the improvements in
agricultural methods which have
been brought about by the scientiﬁc
research of the department of agri-
culture, of the agricultural colleges,
and of the experiment stations
which they maintain, have greatly
increased the efﬁciency of the farm—
ing industry.

Can Boost Output

“There are today only 15 per cent
more people engaged in agriculture
than there were in 1900, yet they
bring 40 per cent more product
measured in actual physical units, in
bushels, tons, gallons and dozens.

Anyone who is conversant with

the possibilities of improvement in

the ﬁeld of agricultural production
knows that the number of people
now emgaged in farming can in-
crease their output to meet the
growth of urban population for a de-
cade or more to come. The increas-
ed price of agricultural products
will stimulate the use of fertilizers,
machinery, and better methods.
Such an increase naturally comes
about only gradually, so that there
is no danger of a supply in excess of
demand at proﬁtable prices.

“One of the reasons why a com-
parison of mere price levels for ag-
ricultural in this year with 1913 is
deceptive is to be found in the fact
that the output per person engaged.
and therefore the number of units
of farm products sold at these prices
is more than 10 per cent greater
than it was before the war.

“In 1923 the price level for farm
products was only 41 per cent above
that of 1913, but the value of farm
products exclusive of crops fed to
livestock was 71 'per cent larger
than 10 years ago. That output per
person will continue to increase. At
the higher prices which will prevail
the prosperity of. our agricultural
classes will
coume.”

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Herman \Vilcox (left) and his son,
Frank in their working clothes.

STEPPED into the ofﬁce of Wil-
liam Murphy, county agent of
Macomb county, just in time to
hear him conclude a telephone con—
versation with “Will you drive over
V to ‘Alfalfaland Farm’ with me in
 the morning and let me prove to
‘ you it can be done? You will? Al-
right, I’ll be along about 8 o’clock.
Goodbye.”
“Hello,” he said as he hung up
- the receiver and motioned me to a
chair, “Say, have you ever been out
ito ‘Alfalfaland Farm’?” I confess-
jed I hadn’t and asked for more in-
'formation about the place. His re-
_ 4ply was, “Let’s 110p into the ﬂivver
and run out there and then you can
see for yourself. It isn’t very far.”
So we hopped into the ﬂivver and
was on our way. As we “ﬂivvered
along" he told me that when I came
into his ofﬁce he was talking to a
farmer who declared his land was
 too sandy to grow alfalfa. He had
; tried it once and he knew it couldn’t
' be done. However “Bill,” as
;County Agent Murphy is known to
his friends, knew he could raise it if
_he went about it right and had fin-
ally got him to consent to visit a.
:Qarm where sandy soil was produc-

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‘ "A Visit

Where. Light Sandy Soil Produces Bu

ing as ﬁne alfalfa as any land.
“Whenever a farmer in this county
says he can’t grow alfalfa on his
land because it is too sandy I take
him to this farm, he said “and near-
ly every one I have taken up there
has decided to grow some alfalfa.”

We drove to Washington, turned
to the left and drove west a half
mile and then turned to the north.
After driving about a mile and a
half in that direction “Bill” inter-
rupted our conversation on general
matters with “Here we are. It’s this
[place on the left.” Well he didn’t
need to tell me which side of the
road it was on. It was like an oasis
in the middle of a desert. One
could look across a ﬁeld of alfalfa
and it reminded them of the ocean,
as the‘alfalfa swayed gently in' the
breeze. on the other side of the
road it was a different story, about
the only crop being mullen with a
few spears of grass here and there
trying to exist in spite of the drift—
ing sands.

At “Alfalfaland Farm”

As you turn in at the gate and
notice the ﬁne buildings and well-
kept appearance of the farm the
thought comes to you that this farm
is the hobby of a rich man and is
maintained at a loss. The farm is
owned by William Hart, of Detroit,
3. man who has plenty of money, but
he is a business man and bought
the farm with the idea of making it

a business proposition that would \

pay its way. And it has.

The farm contains 266 acres and,
12 years ago could have been pur-
chased for $30 per acre and until 7
years ago the value showed little
change. It was at that time that
Mr. Hart rented his farm to Herman
Wilcox and his son Frank, and from
then on it improved each year until
not where once only .mullen grew
ﬁne crops of clover, corn, oats and
alfalfa are produced.

It takes them four years to get a
ﬁeld up to where it produces a good

 
    
 
 
       
         
    

By MILON GRINNELL

crop. The ﬁrst year the ﬁeld is test-
ed and limestone put 011- according
to needs and the ﬁeld is sown to
sweet clover. This clover makes
ﬁne pasture for the cattle during
the second year, then the following
spring barnyard manure is put on.
the ground plowed and planted to
corn. The fourth year fore lime-
stone is sown, according to the
needs 'of the soil, and alfalfa sown.
They harvested 60 acres of alfalfa
this year and sowed last spring.
Other crops on the farm this year
include 70 acres of oats and 45
acres of corn.

The work of building up the land
has gone forward steadily until they
now have only 14 acres to improve.
Their work this year was quite ex-
tensive, a total of 80‘tons of lime-
stone being used. In one ﬁeld they
are experimenting with different
fertilizers to determine whether
there is anything that they are over-
looking. County Agent Murphy has
encouraged them very much in the
work and has conducted soil tests.
The work on the farm is done with
both horses and tractor.

Dairying Plays Part

Three huge silos at the end of the
barn indicate that dairying has its
place in their program, and an in—
spection of the basement of the
barn reveals that the latest equip-
ment has been installed within. the
last year. They have 70 head of
cattle on the farm, 40 of which are
milking cows. While they have only
15 head of purebred registered cat—
tle at present "they are discarding
the scrubs and replacing them with
purebreds as rapidly as they can.
They have been members of the Ma-
comb County "Testing Association,
No. 1, for two years and they have
several cows that place well up to-
ward the top as producers. Most of
the milk produced by these 40

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1" EW farmers ask the question
. why a variety of wheat, oats or

i ‘ barley runs out. It the vari-
ty is truly pedigreed, it has origin-
ted from a single seed, and because
these crops are self—fertile all the
 ' lants in the ﬁeld have the same
7 ' ualities as the original ancestors.
, If the pedigreed variety is the pro-
; ‘duct of an Experiment Station, it is
a, superior to the others at least in
.a y yield and undoubtedly also in cer-
‘ tain qualities. For instance, a wheat
must be a better milling and baking
variety as well as a superior yielder.
Too often, when a farmer gets a
new variety he forgets to clean his
drill and probably also forgets to
turn his sacks inside out and shake
them when he went to get the new
seed. The few seeds of another
variety that Were left in the drill or
'sack_ cause the grain to be mixed
from the beginning. Perhaps there
"may also be some seeds from the
esame grain on the land. The man-
:ure may bring in other grain. Thus
the crop is-mixed. The farmer that
i. v is careless with these things will no
"0th be' careless in harvest and
hreshing. The binder goes to the

 

 

eld with a half a bundle from some
This is bound in with,

' tether ﬁeld.

the new variety. The new grain

ay‘ be carefully handled separate-
yaa-nd stacked on top of the .old

 

Part of the dairy herd kept on “Alfalfaland Farm”.
Sweet clover pasture helps ﬁll the milk pail.

Do Not Let Your Varieties of Pedigreed Seed Lose Their Identity

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They believe in feeding plenty of ensilage to their stock
and the three silos keep them well supplied.‘

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By FRANK A. SPRAGG

Late Research Professor in Plant Breeding, M.  C.

 

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E recently pu lished a series of articles by the late Prof. Spragg

9‘ 0n the varieties of seed bred for Michigan soils and in this art-
icle he explains how varieties run out and how you can prevent

it. If not given proper attention a variety will run out in from three
to four years and them you must start all over again, that is if you

want to raise the most proﬁtable crops.

This is perhaps the last

article for publication written by the late Prof. Spragg‘.

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variety, but the wagon bed may
bring in several straws from the old
variety which has just been hauled.
When a threshing machine ﬁnally
comes, the grain is threshed ﬁrst
but without cleaning the machine.
All the foreign grain that the ma-
chine contained is mixed with the
new. Perhaps the men feeding the
machine found it hard to tell where
the new grain left off and the old
variety began. Thus two or three ex-
tra bundles of the old variety were
mixed in.

Let this process go on for three
or four years. The farmer has
changed works with different farm-
ers each year, and few scattering
straws have brought in new vari-

- etie’s." The new variety 'ﬁnally loses

its identity and one may well wond-
er what to call it. At last there is
very little of the new variety in the
mixture, and the farmer decides
that the grain has “run out.” He is
right about it.

If you have been guilty of letting
your variety of grain “run out" or
lose its identity as above, I can tell
you a better way. In the ﬁrst place,
if you are going to buy an improved
variety be sure to turn your sacks
inside out and shake off whatever
they contain. Remember to do this
always when handling high grade
seed, as this is a fruitful source of
trouble.

Clean Out Drill

When you are getting ready to

drill in‘any grain"‘be"7s'ii're' to pick

mper Crops of Alfalfa

Hogs too are raised but only on a
small iscale at present. Plans are
under way to increase their herd as
they have found there is money in
hogs if handled'right. Their hogs
are being fed stale fried cakes and
cull beans. I do not know how many
of our readers are feeding such a.
ration but the condition of the hogs
on “Alfalfaland Farm” would indi-
cate that farmers who raise hogs
and are in a locality where they can

'pur-chagse stale fried cakes by the

barrel from a baker at a reasonable
ﬁgure would be making a wise move
if they arranged with the baker for
all the stale fried cakes he had each
day for pig feed. '
Paid Its Way

I asked Frank Wilcox how much
it had cost them per acre to put the
soil in ﬁrst class producing condi-
tion and his reply was “Nothing,
and it has not only paid its own way
but has turned a proﬁt. 1

“Of course we have made our
mistakes and had out set-backs,” he
continued, “but we have wonderful
cooperation from Mr. Hart and this
is a great help. If every farm own-
er cooperated with his tenant like
Mr. Hart cooperates with us there,
would be less trouble about renting

farms.” And a talk with Mr. Harts
revealed im to be very enthusiastic
over He man and Frank Wilcox ,

and gave them most of the credit
for what is being done on the farm. ‘
Barn Dances

I was decided that the barn was
not large enough so last spring an
addition was built. Upon the com-
pletion of the work invitations to
attend a barn dance were sent to the
neighbors in the surrounding terri-_
tory. The barn was lighted with
electric lights and the music furn-‘
ished by a four-piece orchestra and
around two hundred people turned
out. The space on the barn ﬂoor
was not needed until they started
putting up hay so the ﬂoor was kept,

(Continued on Page 17)

    

0n the other side of the fence the soil has been built
up and on this side it has not.

Note the bare spots.

last grain out of your drill.
These grains are apt to be lodged on
ledges or tucked into cracks around
the box. Then when all the grain
is down into the tubes, run it until
the last grain is out. You can now
put your pure grain in the box and
drill it without danger.

In ﬁtting the ground to plant the
crop, think what grew on the ﬁeld:
last time. Is there any danger that‘
it will grow again.
and you are ﬁtting the land to sow
oats or barley, did that piece of
land grow any rye or winter wheat
last year? If it did, you had best
begin ﬁtting the ground in the fall
before plowing or disking. Be sure
that the wheat or rye iskilled be-
fore drilling in the spring grain be-
cause if they grow they produce
seed that will cause much trouble in
after years. When you haul man-
ure out onto the ﬁeld that you are
ﬁtting to plant, consider whether

there is any grain in this manure‘

that will trouble your crop. Per-
hapsyou could put the manure con-
taining grain on a. piece that is go-
ing into corn and. give yourself a.
.chance to cultivate it out and con;
trol it in that way. If, yOu “wish to
fertilize for-spring grainiand have
no manure that is free of grain, per-

haps you can manage t9. scatter the,

(Continued on Page 21)

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- ELECTED FELLOW OF ROYAL SOCIETVY PREMIER IIERRIOT VISITS PREMIER MACDONALD.— FROIVI ILLITERATE TO PRINCIPAL IN
01? ENGLAND.—I’rof. C. V. Raman, famed This informal photograph of Premiers IIerri t of France and 10 YEARS.—Ten years ago at the age of 21
East Indian, is the third of his race to be -Ma.cDonald of England was taken at; the latters country home 0. McCoy Franklin ﬁrst attended school and
elected a. fellow“ of the Roy‘al Sooiety of where he entertained the head of the French government. They today he is principal ‘of the‘Crossmore,
[England. ,were snapped while resting from a. long walk. ’ iNorth Carolina school. ’ '

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/ PERRIANENT LIP “ROUGE”.—-Dorothy lifackaill, THE “LADY EDISON”.-—-Miss Buelah BULL TAKES RIDE IN AREOPLANE.——\Vith the per:
well known stage and screen star, has consigned her Louise Henry of Raleigh, North Carolina, mission of the French government a Dutch breeder sent;
lipstick to the world of yesterday and has had her lips is holder of more :patents than any other this six months old bull for breeding purposes from the
made a permanent vermillion through a delicate tatoo woman in the world. She holds 47 ﬂyingﬁeld at Rotterdam by areoplanc‘to France. _A case
process. of livestock coming rather high.

patents.

CLAIMS GLAND TREATMENT WOULD AN ARMLESS WONDER.-———One 'of the main attractions TUBERCULOSIS CURF.—Dr. Robert Dah-n
LOWER CRIML.—Dr. LI. G. Schlapp, of New at the Winter Garden in Berlin, Germany, is “Elroy”, the mer, of Berlin, claims he has a cure for tuber-
iYork City, claims that ‘50 per cent of all crime man without arms. lIe is very clever with his feet, how- culosis. The remedy is twu separate innocu-g
could be abolished if the malefactors were given ever, shooting a riﬂe, playing musical instruments, cards, lations of different gases, the ﬁrst; opens the
813m! treatment- and doing many other things. bronchial tubes, the second attacks the germs.

GERMANYS FIRST TURBINE LOCOMOTIVF —This is SIAM PRIFST A

. i. . .—- priest INVENTS TRAILER FOR HIS BICYCLE.—Harr .
ghotﬂrstl lglrbii‘ie locorinotive to be used in ’Germany. Manu- standing at the door of a temple Grandin, of Winthrop, Mass., invented this “turnout” syo in‘
21“: useh yi .mpp. t is on the Berlin line, and it is de— in Cheingmai, N. Siam. We are could take his two little friends riding. All it is‘Js a pair
rare 1; at ts advantages over the old boiler system is that indebted to the U. IS. Dept. of of wheels and a few pieces of wood. M‘ost any farmer boy
“Keach at least 20 per cent on coal. A riculture for this photograph. could make it in a half hour or so. ' ‘

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PLANT WHEAT
AGAIN

After harvesting a record crop of wheat this
5;, season with prices at high levels, you now.
 can plant your Wheat proﬁts where they
 will be safe and producing more income.

Then you will have an income independent
 of crop and market conditions. Every

month will be an income month with your
harvest of dollars safe and sure.

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Combining safety, freedom from taxes and
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LAND sou) FOB DELINQU’EN‘I
TAXES

I have in mind' to buy a piece of .
land advertised for taxes and would
like some information. This sale is
to be conducted in Alpena. After
you bid a piece of land in and pay
the taxes listed how long before you
can use the timber on the land?
How long before you can apply for
title to same and where do you ap-
ply? Please give me any informa-
tion you may have covering the pur-

advance, I remain, D. M., Ossineke,
Mich. I ‘

N the ﬁrst Tuesday in May fol-

lowing your purchase of the

land sold for delinquent taxes,.
you could present your certiﬁcate to
the auditor general and he would
furnish you with a deed to the land.
—Asst. Legal Editor.

 

EACH MAN RECEIVES HALF
OF SHEEP

I would like your opinion 0n the
following proposition: A and B in-
vest an equal amount in a ﬂock of
breeding ewes. A assumes all care
of the ﬂock during the year and
furnishes all roughage while the
ﬂock is housed in the winter. B
furnishes pasture during the pas-
ture season. Any grain fed during
lambing period is furnished equally.
How should the proﬁts be divided?

——-H. F., Manchester, Michigan.
this case the investment has
been near enough equal that the
returns shquld probably be bas-
ed on each man receiving one-half.
However, the cost of wintering the
ewes and caring for them through-
out the year would be much greater
than the cost of pasture, and prob-
ably the best way would be to esti-
mate the value of the roughage con-
sumed during the winter, and the
labor required in caring for them,
including lambing time. The value
of the summer pasture should be of!
set against the value of the winter
roughage and labor, and A should
receive from B’s share of the re-
turns one-half of the difference.—
V. A. Freeman, Extension Specialist

in Animal Husbandry, M. A. 0.

CAN NON-TAX PAYER VOTE? -

Will you kindly tell me through
the columns of your valuable paper
if it is lawful for a person paying
no taxes whatever to vote at a reg-
ular election on a question of spend-
ing money that belongs to the city?
—-A Reader of THE BusINEss Fann-
EB, Hillsdale, Mich.

NON-TAX payer would not be

disqualiﬁed to vote on such

questions unless prohibited by
a city ordinance.—-Asst. Legal Ed-
itor.

COMPENSATION A013

I would like some information re-
garding the Michigan Compensation
Act. Am a farmer 65 years old, and
use my spare time working on the
road for the township. Five weeks
ago while in their employ I got a leg
broke. How would I proceed to get
my claim before the proper author-
ities? I have not done anything
about it yet, as I am unable to get
around, and it will be another
month before I will be able to work.
—-M. M., North Star, Mich.

F you will communicate with the
Department of Labor and Indus-
try they will give you proper "ad-

vice as to how to proceed and will
send the necessary blanks on which
to make your application for com-
pensation.-——Clare Retan, Deputy
Attorney General.

 

FAWTONUTIFY

I have always been a subscriber
to Tm: 'Busnvnss FABMEB and have
seen lots of advice given in your
columns. I signed my name on a
note for a man once and it was due
and we renewed it but the next time
it came due was August 2, 1928.
and not even the interest paid nor
even I was not notiﬁed till a ’long
time after. Now the holder has

some on and served papers on me.
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chase of tax land. Thanking you in .

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mine I:.would pay it but can snot'pay

others. * The hotels for about $600.
What advice Would you give me if
they can collect it? Could I give
my things away or give a bill of
sale to some one'or deed them to
some one or how would be best,“
I sure can not pay it“!——J. T., Evert.
Mich. '

ROM your letter. I assumeyou
signed the note as an accom-
modation indorser. An accom-

modation indorser of a note is en-
titled to notice of non-payment by
the maker, and if he. is not notiﬁed
of the maker’s non-payment immed-
iately, he is discharged from liabil-
ity as endorser, provided, of course,
notice was not waived—Asst. Legal
Editor.

ABE LEGAL VOTERS OF
DISTRIUI‘

Two persons who own land in the
country in a certain school district
have moved to the city and send

their children to the city school.

They both go back to the farm, on!
for, a visit, and the other for three
or four months. The question is,
are they legal voters in the district?
-—-Mrs. S., Hesperia, Mich.

is not a question that can be
answered without having all

the facts which might be pre-
sented. It is the general conclus-
ion that person's residence is a mat-
ter of his intention, and if these peo-
ple have done nothing to show that

they intended to establish a legal.

residence elsewhere. it is very like-
ly that they would be legal voters
of the district—W. L. Coffey, Dep-
uty Superintendent of Public In-
struction.

IS AMERICAN CITIZEN '

A man now more than 60 yeard
old was born in the U. S. and when
two or three years old was taken to
Canada and brought up there by
those not his relatives and was mar-
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REV. WARNER TAKES
VACATION
UE to over work our re-
ligious editor. Rev. David
' F. Warner, has been forc-
ed to take a vacation. His
health has not been the best for
some time and it has kept get—
ting worse until his physician
ordered him to put aside his
work for a couple of months.
He had sermons prepared in
advance for our readem to take
care of one month but not
enough for the other so our
September issues will not con-
tain a eennon but we hope for.»
a speedy recovery and expect to
have him luck with us in time
for the ﬁrst October number.

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family (parents and 4 children).
moved to Michigan where they have
since resided, about 29 years. It is
not known whether or not this man
voted or was naturalized in Canada.
Is he or his wife, either or both of
them, new legal voters in Michigan?
———F. R., Macomb County, Michigan.

F the man was never naturalized
in Canada he is still a citizen of
the United States. If he was

naturalized there he would have to
become naturalized here again be-
fore becoming a citizen. If no ree-
ord exists of his naturalization in
Canada, I am of the opinion his
vote here would be legal and valid.
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Wood collapses at a bending stress of
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0 the Editor:——Of all the great
nations of the world only Great
Britain and the United States

fail to produce their sugar at home;

the former because of her free-trade

proclivlties, and the latter because-

ot the almonds of a ﬁxed govern-
mental policy concerning domestic
sugar production.

Prior to the world war, Great
Britain was satisﬁed to import a
million and a. half tons of sugar 1.
year from countries which were able
to produce it more cheaply than it
could be produced at home. They
had one beet-sugar factory which
was a virtual failure because of the
fact that the internal or excise tax
levied on home produced sugar was
equal to the import duty and hence
domestic eager enjoyed no protec-
tion; but the world war showed
Great Britain the folly of depending

.upon other countries for her sugar

supply and now has reversed her
sugar policy with a view of building
up a great home industry.

Under this new policy the Kelham
plant, now in operation, was organ-
ized with 500,000 pounds capital, of
which the British Government sub-
scribed for one-half and guaranteed
ﬁve per cent interest for 10 years on
the remaining half which was taken
by the public. The Government al-
so loaned the company 125,000
pounds on Second mortgage. The
Government also abolished the ex-
cise tax on sugar, thus according
the industry a protection of 2%
cents per 1b., the full amount of im-
port duty which it collects on im-
ported sugar. Experiments are be-
ing conducted in various portion of
England and a number of new
plants are contemplated.

Beets grown in Great Britain are
of a higher purity and sugar content
and as the tonnage peracre also is
greater, if the present fiscal policy
is continued, the United Kingdom
soon should be independent of the
world for its sugar supply, thus
leaving to the United States the
questionable distinction of being the
only great nation in the world
which does not produce all its sugar
at home—Truman G. Palmer, Sug-
ar Statistician, Washington, D. C.

HAS THE AUTOMOBILE BECOME
A CURSE OR A BLESSING?

EAR EDITORz—Has the auto-

mobile not taken more out of

life than it has given to it? It
has taken away intimate home life
and simple social pleasures. It has
made the sabbath a gala. day instead
of a. day of rest and worship. It
has developed a speed mania. and
lower morals. It has given us empty
purses.

The family used to gather in sit-
ting rooms or kitchen at evening
time, to pop corn, make tatfy, eat
apples, play games and read. Then
after a chapter from the dear, old
Bible and a prayer of mingled praise
and suppdication retire at reasonable
hour so they were clear eyed and
refreshed ready to rise at early dawn.

How is it now? If there is a. son,
the chances are he will take the auto
and no one knows where he will go
or when he will return. Daughter
dons her best and goes in another
auto with another man’s son. “Young
folks must have a good time.”
Father does the chores, mother
washes the dishes. Then if not too
tired, they sit in the twilight awhile,
life. Next morning son is cross and
irritable at being routed out to work
after father has again done the
chores. Daughter is “tired” and
sleeps until 10 o’clock.

Or the children being younger, the
whole family will drive several miles
to see the show. Next morning,
sleepy eyed youngsters must be
hustled off to school when theynwill

.think and talk largely that day of

the things they saw last  .

There is nothingeducational about
the average show either. Its moral
tone is low and suggestive. ,1; gives
young people false and 
ideas of 1118.

There is seldom an afternoon or an
evming spppt at thg home of a neigh-
her as in the larger days. They

    

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and—4.218? would not be at home any
"yl . i

‘ A’ young nun used to work and lay
up money to buy a home.
works for a. Ford, gasoline and cigar-
ettes. Now is this conﬁned to the
unmarried class alone? There are
countless numbers of the married
working by the day or the month.
who must have “a car, who drive
hither and you. take in every show
that comes along and have a grocery
bill they will never pay because they
can not. ' ~

When a large truck plant in a
small city shut down a tow rem
ago. men who had been receivins
the hithest wages, were soon “on the
town”. Not only had the? run an
auto but the choicest call of meat,
and the earlielt (therefore the most
expensive) shipments of fruit and
Vegetables were theirs. Their wlves
did no baking; Thefwore the most
expensive clothing also. Not a penny
laid up for time of need. Wu it
fair to tax the thrifty in order to
care for these who had lived sump-
tiously? .

“Remember the Sabbath day to
keep it holy" should thus read: “Re-
member the Sabbath day. have your
auto ready and its tank full and drive
as far and as fast as you cam—show

, yourself a goed sport."

There is more money spent for
ice cream, candy, etc. than ever be-
fore because when people are in town
they must buy something.

Give the modern child a penny,
a. nickel, or a dime and what does
he do? Put it in a tiny bank? Not
he. He buys gum, ice cream, or
candy at the earliest opportunity.

Generally speaking, isn’t this na-
tion money mad and automobile
crazy? Are we not fast becoming
a godless people? Isn't the auto-
mobile speeding us on to our down-
fall? Isn’t the old saying “The love
of money is the root of all evil" be-
ing veriﬁed daily?——-Farmer’s Wife.

_MICHIGAN CROPS

PLANT ALFALFA ON WHEAT

I have some alfalfa I wish to sow
on winter wheat and would like to
know the best way to do it. Should
it be dragged in? It is on river
ﬂRtSr—J. H. 0., St. Charles, Mich.

ICHIGAN farmers are quite
M generally meeting with suc-
cess in planting Grimm alfal-
fa on wheat in the spring. Best re-
sults are secured by drilling ten to
twelve pounds of seed as early in
the spring as the ground is in con-
dition to receive the drill, or the
seed may be broadcasted and dragg—
ed in with a spike tooth harrow.
Alfalfa seed should be inoculated
with culture which may be secured
from the Department of Bacteriol-
ogy of the Michigan Agricultural
College, E. Lansing. The price is
25c per bottle and one bottle con—
tains sufﬁcient material to inoculate
a bushel of seed. Directions for
application accompany the material.
In case your ﬁeld is in need of
lime, I would suggest that a proper
application be made. If you will
send a sample of your soil, tightly
enclosed in a baking powder can, to
Dr. M. M. McCool of the Soils De—
partment, E. Lansing, he will test
same for lime determination—J. F.
Cox, Professor of Farm Crops, M.
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SAVE SOME OF YOUR OLD ’OORN

HE spring of 1924 was unusual-
ly backward in many sections.
Following this, the growing

conditions were not good, with the
result that the bulk of the corn is
extremely late throughout the Corn
Belt and northward. It is so late
that most of the crop will be unﬁt
for seed unless frost holds 01! longer
than usual. 7 .

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Agriculture is calling attention to
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“ ND now,” said Mr. Smith, when Miss
Maggie had done laughing at his
little story, “suppose I turn the

tables on you? What do you think Mr.

Fulton has done—with the money?”

“I don’t know what to think." Miss
Maggie shifted her position, her face
growing intently interested again. “I’ve

been trying to remember what I know of
the man."

“What you—know of him!
Smith, with startled eyes.

“Yes, from the newspaper and maga-
zine accounts of him. Of course, there
was quite a lot about him at the time
the money came; and Flora let me read
some things she’d saved, in years gone.
Flora was always interested in him you
know.”

“Well, what did you ﬁnd?”

“Why, not much, really, about the man.
Besides, very likely what I did ﬁnd was
not true. Oh, he was eccentric. Every-
thing mentioned that. But I was trying
to ﬁnd out how he’s spent his money
himself. I thought that might give me
a clue—about the will, I mean.”

“Oh, I see."

“Yes; but I didn’t ﬁnd .much. In spite
of his reported eccentricities, he seems
to me to have done nothing very extra-
ordinary.”

“Oh, indeed !" murmured Mr. Smith.

“He doesn’t seem to have been very
bad.”

“No?” Mr. Smith’s eyebrows went up

“Nor very good either, for that matter."

“Sort of_ a nonentity,
Smith’s lips snaipiped tight shut.

Miss Maggie laughed softly.

“Perhaps—though I suppose he couldn’t
really be that—not very well—with
twenty millions, could he? But I mean,
he wasn’t very bad, nor very good. He
didn’t seem to be dissipated, or mixed
up in any scandal, or to be recklessly
extravagant, like so many rich men. On
the other hand, I couldn’t ﬁnd that he'd
done any particular good in the world.
Some charities mentioned, but they were
prefunctory, apparently, and I don’t be-
lieve, from the accounts that he ever in-
terested hiimself in any one—that he
ever really cared for—any one.”

“Oh, you don’t!” If Miss Maggie had
looked up, she would have met a most
disconcerting expression in the eyes upon
her. But Miss Maggie did not look up.

“No,” she rproceeded calmly. “Why,
he didn’t even have a wife and children
to stir him from his selfishness. He had
a secretary, of course, and he probably
never 531W half his begging ters. I
can imagine his tossing them aside with
a languid ‘Fix them up, James,-——give the
creatures what they want, only don’t
bother me.’ ”

"He never did!” stormed Mr. Smith:
then, hastily; “I’m sure he never did.
You wrong him. I’m sure you wrong
him.”

“Maybe I do,” sighed Miss Maggie.
“But when I think of what he might
(10— Twenty millions! I can’t grasp it.
Can you? But he didn’t do anything
——~worth while with them, so far as I
can see, when he was living, so that’s
why I can’t imagine what his will may
be. Probably the same old perfunctory
charities, however, with the Chicago law
ﬁrm instead of ‘James’ as disburser—
unless, of Course, Hattie’s expectations
are fulﬁlled, and he divides them among
the Blaisdells here.”

“You think—~therc's something worth
while he might have done with those
«millions, then?” pleaded Mr. Smith, a.
sudden peculiar wistfulness in his eyes.

"Something he might have done with
them!” exclaimed Miss Maggie. “Why,
it seems to me there’s no end to what
he might have done—with twenty mil-
lions.” .

“What 'Would you do?”

“I?—do with twenty
breathed.

“Yes, you.” Mr. Smith came nearer.
his face working with emotion. “Miss
Maggie, if a man with twenty millions-—
that is, could you love a man with
twenty millions, if—if Mr. Fulton should
ask you—if I were Mr. Fulton—if—”
His countenance changed suddenly. He
drew himself up with a cry of dismay.
“Oh, no—no no—I’ve spoiled it all now.
That isn’t what I meant to say ﬁrst. I
was going to ﬁnd out I mean, I was go-
ing to tell— Oh, good Heavens, what a——-
That confounded money—again !”

Miss Maggie sprang to her’ feet.

“Why, Mr. Smith, w—what—” Only
the crisp shutting of the door answered
her. With a beseeching look and a. de-
spairing gesture Mr. Smith had gone.

Once again M‘iss Maggie stood looking
after Mr. Smith with dismayed eyes.
Then, turning to sit down, she came face
to face with her own image in the mirror.

“Well, now you’ve done it, Maggie
Duff," she whispered wrathfully to the
reﬂection in the glass. “And you've
broken his heart‘! He was—was gomg
to say something—I know he was. And
you? You’ve talked money, money to
him for an hour. You said you loved
money; and told what you’d 'do—if you
had twenty millions of _ dollars. And

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As if that counted against—~”

With a ttle so’blbing cry Miss Maggie
face with her hands and
sat down, helplessly, angrily.

  
  

CHAPTER XXIII
Reﬂections—Mirrored and Otherwise

.Miss Maggie was still sitting in the
big chair with her face in her hands
when the "door opened and Mr. Smith
came in. He was very white.

Miss Maggie, dropping her hands and
starting up at his entrance, caught a.
glimpse of his face in the mirror in front
of her. With a. furtive, angry dab of
her ﬁngers at her wet eyes, she fell to
rearranging the vases and photographs
on the mantel.

“Oh, back again, Mr. Smith?" sho
greeted him, with studied unconcern.

Mr. Smith shut the door and advanced
determinedly.

:‘Miss Maggie, I’ve got to face this
thing out, of course. Even if I had—
made a bench of things at the very start,
it didn’t help any to—‘to run away, as
I did. And I was a. coward to do it. It
was only because I—I——- But never mind
that. I’m coming now straight to the
pomt. Miss Maggie, will you—marry
me?"'

The photograph in Miss Maggie’s hand
fell face down on the shelf. Miss Mag-
gie’s ﬁngers caught the edge of the man-
tel in a convulsive grip. A swift glance
in ‘the mirror before her disclosed Mr.
Smith's face just over her shoulder,
earnest, pleading, and still very white.
she dropped her gaze, and turned half
away. She did not want to meet Mr.
Smith’s eyes just then. She tried to
speak, but only a. half-choking little
breath came.

Then Mr. Smith spoke again.

“Miss Maggie, please don’t you say no
———yet. Let me—explain—about how I
came here, and all that. But ﬁrst, be-
fore I do that, let me tell you how—how
I love you—how I have loved you all
these long months. I think I loved you
from the ﬁrst time I saw you. What-
ever comes, I want you to know that.
And if you could care for me a. little—-
just a. little, I’m sure I could make it
more—in time, so you would marry me.
And we would be so happy! Don’t you
believe I’d try to make you happy—
dear?”

"Yes, oh yes," murmured Miss Maggie,
still with her head turned away.

“Good! Then all you’ve got to say is
that you’ll let me try. And we will be
happy, dear! Why, until I came here
to this little house, I didn’t know what
living, real living, was. And I have been,
just as you said, a. selﬁsh old thing."

Miss Maggie, with a. start of surprise,
faced the image in the mirror; but Mr.
Smith was looking at her, not at her re-
ﬂection, so she did not meet his eyes.

“Why, I never—” she stammei‘ed.

“Yes, you did, a minute ago. Don’t
you remember? Oh, of course you didn’t
realize~cverything, and. perhaps you
wouldn’t have said it of you’d known.
But you said it—and you meant it, and
I’m glad you said it. And, dear little
woman, don’t you see? That’s only an-
other reason why you should say yes.
You can show me how not to be selﬁsh.”

“But, Mr. Smith, I—I‘—” stammered
Miss Maggie, still with puzzled eyes.

“Yes, you can. You can show me how
to make life really worth while, for me,
and for—for lots of others. And now I
have some one to care for. And, oh,
little woman, I—I care so much, it can’t
be that you—don’t care—any!”

Miss Maggie caught her breath and
turned away again.

“Don’t you care—a little?”

The red crept up MiSS Maggie's 1190K
to her forehead, but still she was silent.

“If I could only See your eyes.” Pleaded
the man. Then, suddenly, he saw Miss
Maggie’s face in the mirror. The next
moment Miss Maggie herself turned a.
little, and in the mirror their eyes met

-—and in the mirror Mr. Smith found his

answer.

“You do care—a. little!” he breathed,
as he took her in his arms.

“But I don’t!” Miss Maggie shook her
head vigorously against his coat—collar.
“What?” Mr. Smith’s clasp loosened a.
little. ‘ '

“I care—«a great deal,” whispered Miss
Maggie to the coat-collar, with shameless
emphasis.

“You—darling!’ triumphed the man, be-
stowing a rapturous kiss on the tip of a
small pink ear—the nearest point to Miss
Maggies ‘lips that was available, until,
with tender determination, he turned her
face to his. '

A moment later, blushing rosily, Miss
Maggie drew herself away.

I “There, we’ve been quite silly enough
——old folks like us.”

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I don’t. I’ve lost—years since this morn<
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what I have," retorted- Mr. Smith, draw-
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what a batch I made of it, to begin with
-—You see, I didn’t mean to start off
with that, ﬁrst thing; and I was so afraid
that—that even if you did care for John
Smith, you wouldn’t for me—just at ﬁrst.
But you do, dear!” At arms’ length he
held her off, his hands on her shoulders.
His happy eyes searching her face saw
the dawn of the dazed question.
“Wouldn’t care for you if I did for
John Smith! Why, you are John smith.
What do you mean?” she demanded, her

‘eyes slowly sweeping him from head to

foot and back again. “What do you
mean?”

“Miss Maggie i” Instinctively his tongue
went back to the old manner of address,
but his hands still held her shoulders.
“You don’t mean—you can’t mean that
-——that you didn’t understand—that you
don’t understand that I am—Oh, good
Heavens! Well, I have made a mess of
it this time,” he groaned. Releasing his
hold on her shoulders, he turned and be-
gan to tramp up and down the room.
“Nice little John—Alden-Miles-Standish
affair this is now, upon my word! Miss
Maggie, have I got to—to propose to you
all over again for—for another man,
now?”

“For—another man!
I understand you.”
grown a little white.

“Then you don’t know—you didn’t un—
derstand, a few minutes ago, when I—I
spoke ﬁrst, when I asked you about——
about those twenty millions—”

She lifted her hand quickly, pleadingly.

"Mr. Smith, please, don’t let’s bring
money into it at all. I don’t care—I,
don’t care a bit if you haven’t got any
money.”

Mr. Smith’s jaw dropped.

“If I haven’t got any money!” he
ejaculated stupidly.

“No! Oh, yes, I know, I said I loved
money.” The rich red came back to her
face in a ﬂood. "But I didn't'mean—
And it’s just as much of a test and an
opportunity when you don’t have money
——more so, if anything. I didn’t mean it
-——that way. I never thought of—of how
you might take it—as if I wanted it. I
don’t. Indeed, I don’t! Oh, can’t you-—
understand ?” _

“Understand! Good
Smith threw up both his hands. “And
I thought I’d given myself away! Miss
Maggie.” He came to her and stood
close, but he did not offer to touch her.
“I thought, after I’d said what I did
about—about those twenty millions that
you understood—that you knew I was—
Stanley Fulton himself."

“That you were—who?" Miss Maggie
stood motionless, her eyeslooking straight
into his, amazed incredulous.

“Stanley Fulton. I am Stanley Fulton.
My God! Maggie, don’t look at me like
that. I thought—I had told you. Indeed,
I did!” r

She was backing away now, slowly,
step by step. Anger, almost loathing, had
taken place of the amazement and in-
credulity in her eyes.

"And you are Mr. Fulton?"

“Yes, yes! But—”

“And you’ve been here all these months
—yes, years—under a. false name, pre—
tending to be what you weren’t—talking
to us, eating at our tables, winning our
conﬁdence, letting us talk to you about
yourself, even pretending that—Oh, how
could you?" Her voice broke.

"Maggie, dearest,” he begged, spring;
ing toward her, “if you’ll only let me—”

But she stopped him peremptorily,
drawing herself to her full height.

“I am not your dearest,” she ﬂamed

I—-—I don’t think
Miss Maggie had

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" aggie!” he.‘implored.

But she drew still farther. ‘

“No! I gave it to John Smith—gentle-
man, I supposed. A man—poor, yes, I
believedvhim poor; but a man who at
least had a. right to his name! I didn’t
give it to 'Mr. Stanley G. Fulton, spy,
trickster, who makes life itself a mas-
querade for sport!, I do not know Mr.
Stanley G. Fulton, and—I do not wish
to.” The words ended in a sound very
like a sob; but Miss Maggie, with her
head still high, turned her back and
walked to the window. '

The man, apparently stunned for a
moment, stood watching -her, his eyes
grieved, dismayed, hopeless. Then, white—
taced, he turned and walked toward the
door. With his hand almost on the knob
he slowly wheeled about and faced the
woman again. He hesitated visibly, then
in a dull, lifeless voice he began to speak.

“Miss Maggie, before John Smith steps
entirely out of your life, he would like
to say just this, please, not in justiﬁca—
tion, but in explanation of—Stanley G.
Fulton. Fulton did not intend to bc'a
spy, or a tricksater or to make life a
masquerade for-——sport. He was a lonely
old man—he felt old. He had no wife
or child. True, he had no one to care
for, but—he had no one to care for him,
either. Remember that, please. He did
have a great deal of money—more than
he knew what to do with. Oh, he tried
—various ways of spending it. Never
mind what they were. They are not
worth speaking of here. They resulted,
chieﬂy, in showing that he wasn’t—as
wise as he might be in that line, perhaps.”

The man paused and wet his lips. At
the window Miss Maggie stood still, with
her back turned as before.

“The time came ﬁnally,” resumed the
man, “when Fulton began to wonder what
would become of his millions when he
was done with them. He had a. feeling
that he would like to will a good share
of them to» some. of his own kin; but he
had no nearer relatives than some cousins
back East, in—ﬁHillerton.”

Miss Maggie at the window drew in
her breath, and held it suspended, letting
it out. slowly.

“He didn’t know anything about these
cousins,” wont on the man dully, wearily,
"and he got to wondering what they
would do with the money. I think he
felt, as you said to-day that you feel,
that one must know how to spend five
dollars if one would get the best out of
ﬁve thousand. So Fulton felt that, be-
fore he gave a man ﬁfteen or twenty
millions, he would like to know—what
he would probably do with them. He
had seen so many cases where sudden
great wealth had brought—great sorrow.

“And so then he ﬁxed up a little
scheme; he would give each one of these
three cousins of his a hundred thousand
dollars apiece, and then, unknown to
them, he would get acquainted with them,
and see which of them would be likely
to make the best use of those twenty
millions. It was a silly scheme, of course,
—a silly, absurd foolishness from begin-
ning to end. It—”

He did not ﬁnish his sentence. There
was a rush of swift feet, a swish of
skirts, then full upon him there fell a
whirlwind of sobs, clinging arms, and in—
coherent ejaculations.

“It wasn’t silly—it wasn’t silly. It
was perfectly splendid! I see it all! I
understand. Oh, I think it was wonder-

 

ful! And I—I'm so ashamed!”

Later—Very much later, when some-
thing like lucid coherence had become an
attribute of their conversation, as they
sat together upon the sofa, the man drew
a. long breath and said:—~

“Then I’m quite forgiven?”

(Continued on page 17.)

OUR READERS’ NEW BUILDINGS

Have you built any un-tp-date farm buildin 3 late] 1? If
building and we will print it in this new depagtmenty It wi
distant neighbors are doing to change the scenery. '
farmer deczde the type, of house, or burn, or other buildings he desires to put up.
appearance of your building and will want the plan of it
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show the M. B. F. readers what their
And, incidently, you may be able to help some
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own as “Pleasant View Fart” ht Crystal, Mich.
It Is built semi-bungalow style, contains 7 rooms and cost:
The View shows the front and east side.
With enclosed porch in your 8x22 and washroom 10x22 in rear.
1422: with two 10110 sleepingrooms on the west.
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WE HAVE TURNED A CORNER

U who have followed this page for the the

1 past year or so will probably recall that in

practically every issue we have tried to give

a word of encouragement to the men and women

who were sticking to the farm and we have un-

failingly held to the high hope, sometimes it

appeared even in the face of the facts, that the

wave must turn and the pendulum swing back
to a better farming condition.

We have noted every change in the agricul-
tural situation and heralded it to our readers
for two very good reasons: First, because we
believed the exodus of our farm families to the
city would be a national calamity, and, second,
because we knew there was nothing to be gained
by preaching depression and spreading despond-
ency.

We have even had letters from some of our
readers challenging our lack of appreciation of
the actual conditions as they existed on the farms
of our state, while as a matter of fact we doubt
if anyone in Michigan could have been put in
closer touch with the actual conditions in every
section of this state than came to us on every
mail from our loyal readers.

Now comes Dr. David Friday, former president
of M. A. C.. and a man with a host of friends in
Michigan and throughout America who rank him
as an agricultural economist without a peer, who
makes the broad statement in a recent address
which we are reprinting in this issue, that agri-
culture has “turned the corner."

If Dr. Friday is right, (and he certainly pre-
sents an array of ﬁgures to prove his contention)“
this simple fact means that the pendulum is now
swinging upwards again and that every man,
woman, and child who has clung to the farm
can have his place in the line as it swings down
through the victory arch. It means also that
every acre of land in Michigan will become
worth more with each passing day and year, be-
cause as Dr. Friday points out, there are more
people to be fed in the United States than ever
before and less acreage being tilled today than
was tilled during the high priced time of the war.

European conditions too, have tinned a corner
and it probably will be only a matter of weeks
now before Germany, which was one of our
largest buyers of cereal and livestock products
prior to the war, will come into the market
where her demands have been missed so long.

There ought to be a harvest festival in every
community in Michigan this fall. It ought to
be a real celebration and you might as well get
ready for it because it is headed your way and
if you do not want to take our word for it please
read the endorsement of our theory by Dr. Friday
which appears on page three of this issue.

WELL, IT’S ALL OVER BUT THE SHOOTIN’

editor will not have the opportunity of ad-

, vising our readers the names of the success-

ful primary candidates for the various state

and county ofﬁces in Michigan, because whenthe

polls are being counted this issue will be grind-

ing from our presses at the rate of ﬁve thous-

and an hour.

Perhaps it is just as well!

Political bunkum, high-sounding promises and

v personal mud-slinging during the present prim.
, ery campaign have just about sickened the think-

ing farmers of Michigan. This paper should
have been somewhat of a relief, from‘ the city

v ills 3,101?me With ‘dmfll'ﬂled: editor

ing, much of which strained and broke the bar-
riers which the law lays down to regulate such
expenditures.

TEE Bosmnss Fm went on record some
years ago that unless it. was convinced by an ex-
traordinary situation that the farmers interests
were in jeopardy, it would not enter into politics.
This year we went a step further and did not
solicit any political advertising prior to the pri-
mary. We believe that the farmers of Michigan
have a right to judge for themselves the merits
of the men who are applying to them for a job,
and the primary is nothing more nor less, than
this. ‘

Every political aspirant is a potential Moses
who stands ready to lead a long-suffering public
out of its slough of despond and it is often the
one with the most money and inﬂuence behind
him who wins.

For some time we have sort of harbored the
notion “that if more credit were given, when hon-
estly earned and justiﬁed, to the men who were
doing a good job for us, even though in a polit-
ical position, we would attract other men with
character and intelligence, who will not new risk
the gruelling injustices of the primary cam-
paign.

Well, now its all over but the shootin’, but
that looks rather promising of excitement be—
tween now and the ﬁrst week in November.

Tune-in, neighbor and enjoy the fun!

INVESTMENT IN LAND

HERE are always some people who have
money to invest. They inherit it or save it,
and in the majority of cases don’t know how
to invest it wisely. Government bonds are as
safe as the country itself. Next to them land is
undoubtedly the safest investment. Its value
can’t be dissipated by mismanagement or mis-
fortune on the part of others, as may happen in
the case of industrial stocks and bonds. In this
one respect people who live in the country have
some advantage over those who live in the city.
The city man who gets hold of some money can’t
invest it in land very well. He is not in position
to watch and take care of land, as is the farmer.
Some folks may not be inclined to agree just
now that land is a good investment. It wasn't
a good investment in 1918-19, but generally
speaking it is selling now at a price level that
promises to increase as the years go by. It is
the habit of land prices to increase as be food
requirements of the human family increase, and
we see no reason to suppose that the history of
the past will not be repeated. It is true that
there is usually too much speculative value in
farm land. But we are not talking about buy-
ing and selling on quick turns. We aretalking
about buying land at what is judged to be a fair
value and holding it for a long period as an in-
vestment. Go back not ﬁve years but twenty-
ﬁve years and see what has happened. No matter
whether land looks good to us or bad to us right
now, the fact remains that the great majority of
city people who have made investments the past
two decades would be better oi! today if they
could have put their money into land. And that

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FARM DOLLAR GOING UP
THEE you have felt it or not, that dollar
in your pocket here in Michigan has been
getting larger, and the surprising thing
about it is, that as it gets larger for the farmer
it gets smaller for the city worker.

Taking 1913 as an average year and reckoning
the purchasing price for the farmer’s dollar at
100 cents that year, the State Department of Ag-
riculture ﬁgures show that it dropped to 67 cents
in 1921, was 69 cents in 1922, 72 cents in 1923,
and today the farmer's dollar stands at 79
cents, with every indication that it will climb up
steadily between now and a year from now. If
this is true it is quite easy to believe that the
farmer’s dollar will be worth a full 100 cents
before the end of another twelve months.

Whether you want to believe this or not, the
fact is as we have \stated it and you will feel the
effects on the upward climb just as you did when
it was dropping. except that the sensation will be
more pleasant. Like the father who told his son
that it hurt him as much to give a spanking as it
did the son to receive it; “Maybe it does,” the
boy cried, “but not in the same placei."

PROHIBITION IN EUROPE

0 letters have come to our desk since our
return from Europe this summer asking
about the liquor condition» as it exists to-
day on the other side. One of the letters asks
speciﬁcally whether or not, in our opinion,
Europe, will soon accept a prohibition law, such
as exists today in the United States. -
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the saloon~probleni which .m-ahe real cause of
the present drastic prehibiﬂon lawsVin America. ,
Strong liquor is practically an unknown quantity

in these countries. They depend on wines and
beers which contain a small quantity of alcohol
and use them, apparently with as little concern
and with as much moderation as do we in Amer-
ica, use our tea, coffee and other mild stimulants.
No working man, be he a street laborer or a bank
president in these countries goes without his sip
of wine with his noon and evening meal, yet if
it is used to excess, We must be honest and re-
port that its misuse is not apparent to the casual
tourist.

’When one approaches England, Scotland and
Ireland however, we run squarely into the old
bar-room saloon, once so common in this country,
with its “treating”, ﬁlth and hangemn. Whisky
is here the common drink and altho the govern-
ment has laid heavy levies on it which makes it
almost prohibitive in cost, there is a tremendous
consumption. Here too, because of the heavy
government tax, there is a thriving “boot—leg"
business carried on by illicit makers of poison-
ous whisky.

‘ So if we were to answer, from our own ob—
servations, we would assume that the‘ better
class of people in the British isles must event-
ually take steps to stamp out the saloon and with
it the whisky blight, but as for continental
Europe it would appear that there is less need
and therefor practically no demand for any such
dractic action.

Naturally, the reports of our own experiment
in nation—wide prohibition have been some-
what exaggerated and the typical Englishman
smiles at what he believes is a national failure
in our being unable to stop the sale of hard
liquor, especially in the large cities and the
home-manufacture in rural communities. But
he must admit that conditions are far better
here than in England and our Anglo-Saxon race
cannot learn moderationthere is only one an-
swer and that is, prohibition.

RADIO ON THE FARM

ERE could be no better time than now, for

you to purchase a radio set for your farm

home this winter. We do not say this to
boost the sale of radios, so if you do not have
one to enjoy the long winter evenings you can
blame no one but yourself, because radio is one
of the things for which every farmer in Michigan
can be thankful. ’

There are few investments which can be used
or which can be enjoyed by every member of the
household, young or old, and yet this is true of a
radio set.

If you are ingenious you can construct most of
your radio set, but after all this is only as satis-
factory as any other piece of homemade machin-
ery, that is, unless you buy complete parts and
simply assemble them.

It is no longer necessary to use a storage bat-
tery or to have any electrical connections in
your home, because the dry-battery sets are per-
fectly practical and only yesterday one of the
boys in our ofﬁce here made the statement that
the set which he has used almost continually
every evening since May is still running on three
dry batteries which cost him a total of 81.20, so
the maintenance cost of radio is too small to be
mentioned.

A way in which we suggested that any farm
family could purchase a good set was to make it
a Christmas present for all the family; in other
words, let all chip in and get a radio for this
Christmas as one present to which all of the
household contributes instead ofgiving individu-
al presents to each.

If you are going to do this buy your radio set
early so you can enjoy it the three months be-
tween now and Christmas. If you have any
questions to ask about radio we suggest you
write our radio editor, who will be glad to assist
you in any way. Mr. Ferris, is one of the pioneer
radio fans of Michigan, he lives on a fruit-farm
in Benzie county and is as keenly interested in
seeing a radio set in every farm home in Michi-
gan as we are. -

A Republican is a person who thinks a Dean-
ocratic Administration is bad for business; a
Democrat is a person who thinks a Republican
Administration is bad for business; both are
right.”——Prise-winning deﬁnition in a compou-
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MADDEN SILENT WHEEL
CORPORATION ‘

What about the Madden Silent
Wheel Corporation, at Room 2211-
1819 Broadway, New York, N. Y.
are they really doing anything, and
are they reliable?

ON investigating, we ﬁnd the

Madden Silent Wheel Corpora-
‘ tiom is, apparently, still doing
business. Our. New York represent-
ative talked with the inventor him-
self. He frankly admits that, as
yet. the invention itself has not been
perfected. They are still experi—
menting in Portland, Maine.

From what the inventor tells our
representative we feel you have
some stock ,upon which no dividends
have been paid.

The company has really done no
business for ﬁve years. The invent-
or has been ill for ﬁve months,
which, he claims, has slowed them
up, although they are progressing,
and he hopes they will come out all
right. They can promise nothing.

NEW MOTOR STOCKS

READER asks regarding the
stock of a new automobile com-
pany which was organized in
Detroit 9. year or so ago and the
stock for which has been peddled
all over the state. In reply to my
inquiry our correspondent at Detroit
who is close to the stock situation
in that city, gives some valuable ad-
vice which may be applied not only
to this, but to other new companies,
he says in part: ‘
"This company is now conduct-
ing a campaign to sell more
stock and I personally can see
only failure for the smaller
stockholders of the company.
They are manufacturing an
eight cylinder motor with some
kind of a trick valve arrange-
ment that has never proven a
success, and with Columbus,
Liberty, and several other of
the smaller motor companies
going out of business I believe
it hardly time to purchase
small motor stocks.
“On the contrary I believe that
your subscriber would be furth-
er ahead if he could sell the
stock for what he can get for it
regardless of what he paid and
take its loss. I might add that
inasmuch as the company is
conducting a campaign to sell
additional stock, during the
campaign there would probably
be some market for the same.”
We sometimes wonder where the
money comes from which farmers
have to invest in companies like this
which are so foreign to their own
line of business and in which they
can have not the slightest interest
or control. The securities com is-
sion was organized for the spe ﬁc
purpose of making it impossible to
sell fraudulent stock in this state

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and yet there is no possible way of a
commission knowing in advance
what is and .what is not a certain
failure. Henry Ford paddled his
stock to every capitalist in Detroit
and few bought it; those who did
made millions, so the stock-sales-
man has been using this story ever
since. There would have been no
more reason for the Securities com-
mission having more faith in the
new .company being organized by
Henry Ford than they had in any
one of a dozen automobile manufac-
turing companies which are now
" only memories for their stock-hold-
ers.

That is why there is no need of
blaming the Securities commission
for passing a. company which later
proves a failure. -They can only in—
vestigate and then regulate the sale
of a security, but the gamble 'of
whether a proposition is a commer-
cial success or a failure rests on-
tirely on the man or woman who
buys the stock. There is no need
of avoiding the issue, buying stock
is just as surely a gamble as play-
ing the wheel and guessing whether
red or black will come. Sometimes
we think its safer!

HOME PROFIT" HOSIERY
COMPANY
understand that some of
those who bought outﬁts from
the Home Proﬁt Hosiery Com-
pany have still unpaid balances and
that remittance which they have
sent to Rochester have been return-
ed by the postoﬂice marked “In
Bankruptcy." Our suggestion is
that all payments be withheld until
such time as the receivers in charge
can prove their ability to meet the
guarantee which the company made
to take the product of these ma—
chines. In other Words, it is not
our opinion that further payments
can be demanded for a proposition
where part of the service is not now
available.

We assume that our readers
bought not only the machine in
question, but a market for the
product of that machine, so we can-
not see how further payments can he
demanded for something which is
not available.

We hope our readers will keep
this desk closely in touch with any
developments, as we are anxious to
be of the utmost service to you, and
believe this can be worked out with
little loss to any individual.

REMOVES SUPERFLUOUS HAIR

“I have noticed in your columns
so many requests for advice in re-
gard to certain ﬁrms that I wonder-
ed whether you could tell me wheth-
er the one whose advertisement
(Annette Lauzette, Chicago) I am
enclosing is reliable or not. I have
sent for her free book and ﬁnd that
for $7.50 she promises to send a
remedy which will permanently re-
move superﬂuous hair without in-
jury to the skin. She gives one the
privilege of using it for 30 days and
if it does not remove it to one’s sat-
isfaction the money will be refund-
ed. They have made me a special
oﬂer.”

E do not put any faith in rem-

edies of this kind but if you

are desirious of trying this
preparation, we would by all means
advise you to request the company
to supply you with the complete
names and addresses of several of
their satisfied users here in Mich-
igan, and then you could write to
each customer to learn if the pre-
paration was satisfactory. If it is
anywhere near satisfactory they
should have several customers here
in Michigan whom they would be
pleased to refer you to, but if it is
not, they would undoubtedly ignore
your request for names and ad-
dresses, or discontinue correspond-
ence with you.

Ask them for bank references,
and so forth, to make sure that you
are not throwing your money away.
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TEE TM OF MAN
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The grit that‘he daily shows;
The way that he stands on his feet and
takes ' , v
 Life's numerous bumps and blows.
A coward can smile when there’s naught
to fear,
When nothing his progress bars;
But it takes a man to Stan up and cheer
While some other fellow stars.

It isn’t the victory after a .
But the fight that a brother‘ makes;

The man who, driven against the wall,
Stands uzp erect and takes

Theiblows of fate with his head held high,
Bleeding and bruised and pale,

Is the man who'll win in°the by and by,
For he isn’t afraid to fail.

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And the shocks your courage stands,
The hours of sorrow and vain regret.
The prize that escaped your hands,
That test your mettle and prove your
worth
It isn't the blows you deal,
But the blows that you take on this good
old earth
That shows if your stuff is real.
V ——Car1yle Falhworth Straufb.

WISDOM TEETH NOT GIVEN
T0 EVERY ONE
ON’T worry if you have no wis-
dom teeth, says Hygeia, to a
85 year old inquirer who thinks
it high time his "wisdom" had be-
gun to assert itself.

A fair percentage of persons nev-
er have any wisdom teeth, the mag-
agine declares. These teeth gener-
ally erupt some times between the
eighteenth and the twenty—ﬁfth
year, although in many cases erup~
tion is delayed.

Frequently Wisdom teeth form
but remain within the jaw bone and
never erupt. The majority of such
teeth do no harm, although occas-
ionally it is necessary to remove
them if there is pain or some sign
of infection.

 

MEX FOR HEALTH
Y family drinks milk because

it supplies nearly all the ele-
ments needed for the growth of the

human body. What it lacks, is
found in fruit and vegetables. This
makes simple, easily prepared

meals, which to a busy farm mother
means a few minutes for rest or for
some of the other numerous tasks
which fill up her day.

Milk is an easily digested food,
and for little children this means
that an abundance of milk provides
the needed nourishment without ov-
er-taxing delicate little stomachs.
For older children and for those
who are working, it means that
their extra energy is not utilized in
digesting a heavy meal, but may be
applied to their work.

Milk is a delicious food and lends
itself to so many different methods
of preparation that one need not
tire of it. To one who does not
care for milk to drink, it may be
served in so many ways that the
“quart a day," which is advocated,
need not be an impossible thing.

A breakfast seems hardly com—
plete without some cereal served
with milk and sugar. In our fam-
ily there is always a cooked cereal,
which, I think, provides more nour-
ishment for the money spent than
the prepared ones which are not
hearty enough for active boys and
working men.

Custards and milk puddings,
vegetables served with a white or
cream sauce, are liked by most ev-
eryone, and children can be served
all they wish without any harmful
results. And I have never found
the child that does not like milk
toast, even to the small nephew who
cannot be hired to drink a glass of
plain milk.

I, myself, do not like mil‘k plain,
I do drink quite a lot of it, slightly
sweetened and ﬂavored with vanilla
and a dash of nutmeg. Milk is one
of the cheapest foods which the
farm supplies us. Comparing the
cost and the amount of nutriments
contained, no food gives us so much
for so small a cost.

I cannot offer suggestions on
feeding milk to the family that does
not like it, for the one big all-im-
portant reason why my family

drinks milk is because they like it.
My problem is not to increase the
home consumption of milk, but to
have any left to sell after the prodi-
gious appetites of five youngsters
are shunned.  .. .
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spend the evening.

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get your age and be a
good pal. You will live
longer—and every one will
be happier.

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, :.ADepartIneut for the Mamet;
Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR

EAR FOLKS:—’I.‘here are many things that can be, done to make
life more attractive for the boys and girls on the farm, that will
make them more contented and interested in their work, and one

thing I believe that would play a big part is a room of their own. I
believe that every boy or girl wants a room that they can refer to as
“my room", a place where they keep their treasures, their books and
pictures, and a place where they are proud to take their friends to
And What mother or father doesn‘t like to have
their children prefer to spend their evenings at home instead of going
away for their pleasures. When I was a young girl I had a room all
to myself and I put pictures I liked on the walls, and kept my treas-
ures in this room. Many were the happy hours I spent in that room,
hours that years will not blot from my memory. Perhaps I did not
become so worldly wise as some of the girls in our neighborth who
but spent their evenings away from home

think I was more contented and mother,
greater pals. Let your girl

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dairy farmer to boost his own prod-
uct. This is best done by a liberal
consumption of that product at
home, and no dairy farmer should
serve any substitute for dairy prod—
ucts on his own table. Butter and
milk Without stint, used at home,
and their use advocated and encour-
aged elsewhere not only makes a
better price for these things but
builds strong, healthy bone and
muscle in the bodies of our growing
children, and health is the one
thing on which we can set no money
value, for it is above price. There—
fore, we drink milk—Mrs. R. E. N.

DRY (ILEANIN G

Dear Madamz—I am a reader of
THE BUSINESS FARMEB and ﬁnd very
helpful suggestions in it. Now I
have a silk crepe dress I would like
to dry clean at home if possible.
When it is wet it stretches out of
shape, so I do not want to wet it. If
you know of any way to dry clean
silk at home please let me know.
Thanking you in advance I am—
Mrs. E. L., Kingsley, Michigan.

BEAT danger is involved in the
G the dry cleaning process. For

this reason the utmost care
must be exercised. It is essential
that there be no heat, either of a
heated room, or that there be no
ﬂame, as benzine and benzol are
highly inﬂamable in a liquid state,
and they have such a low boiling
point that they give off large fumes
of vapor at ordinary temperatures.
This vapor mixes with the air, and
forms a dangerous and powerful ex-
plosive. Two conditions must exist
before combustion or explosion can
take place. One is that the liquid
or vapor come in contact with oxy-
gen, and the other is that there
must be sufﬁciently high tempera-
ture. If neither of these conditions
is present there is no possibility of
the gasoline burning or exploding.
For the housewife to use gasoline it
should be done out of doors. in the
shade, and for safety’s sake, a cool
day should be chosen. Benzine or
gasoline is used with great risk in
one’s bed room, bathroom, or kitch-
en, and only by the person ignorant
of the danger. Carbon tetrachloride
may be used with greater safety, be-
cause its burning point is higher,
hence it is not inﬂammable.

Before emersing the entire gar-
ment, all stains and spots should be
removed. On some woolens and
silks, grease spots may be removed
by gasoline, naptha, alcohol, ben-
zine—all of which are grease solv-
ents, or by fuller’s earth, paper
The
above solvents are inﬂammable.

The solvent method means that
the gasoline, etc., dissolves the
grease, setting it free in the gaso-
line, and it is free to run where it
will, perhaps spreading, making a
“gasoline ring.” Much of this can
be avoided by the use of clean white
blotting paper or soft white cloth
under the stain when it is rubbed
by a- cloth, perferably of the same
material) on top, As fast as either
cloth is soiled, a new pad and a new

rubber should be used. Rubbing
these stains until they are dry also
helps prevent the gasoline ring.
After the spot has been removed, it
will be found that dipping the whole
garment in gasoline or naptha will
remove the traces of spots. Alcohol
is a grease solvent, but like ether, is
a solvent of color as well. The ab-
sorbent method is best used when
the stain is fresh and so easily ab-
sorbed. As fast as the absorbent
agent shows greese or color, a new
covering should be used.

Then following the careful re-
moval of all spots, emerse the Whole
garment.

To remove spots by benzine they
should be done according to the
above, that is, ﬁrst remove the spot,
and then it will be found better to
emerse the whole garment. This
will avoid the rings which often re-
sult from dry cleaning of spots.
Pearl buttons should be taken off.
as benzine destroys the ﬁnish of the
pearl. Rubbing with oil may return
the polish.

The main thought in cleansing
with benzine is to use it like water
in quantity and to rinse the gar-
ment in benzine as is done in water.
A soft brush may be used on very
badly soiled parts of the garment.
Always do the lightest goods ﬁrst
and the rinsie benzine may be used
as wash liquid for the next lot.

Do not store quantities of 'gaso-
line in the house, and when the
cleaning work is ﬁnished, hang gar-
ment in air; pour left~over benzine,
if dirty, on some absorbing soil or
gravel, or, if clean, bottle it. Every
time gasoline 1p used and bottled it
loses its good volatile quality. Do
not pour these volatile liquids in the
drain pipes to run to the sewer.

HANDY TO KNOW

The hair grows much faster, it is
said, in summer than in winter. This
is due largely to the heated atmos-
phere of our houses and heavy head
covering. Keep the hair healthy at
all times of the year by using a suit-
able tonic whenever it is noticeable
that the hair comes out over-freely,
the scalph itches, or feels tight and
drawn. Having nice hair is large-
ly a matter of taking care of it.

0 O t

The old-fashioned idea that a full
bath once a week was sufﬁcient has
now been superseded by the more
modern and sanitary regime of a
full bath two or three times a week,
and the daily bath of such portions
of the person as require attention.

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If your small rugs curl up at the
corners, lengthen the stitch on the
sewing machine and sew a strip of
webbing from an old pair of sus-
penders, along the ends, on the
wrong side. The stitches will not
be noticed and the rugs will lie

smoothly.
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Old sweaters may be 'converted
into very satisfactory and attractive
bathing suits. for the youngsters. A
good pattern should be used and

 

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,When someone suffers a painful
burn, a handy and helpful treat-
ment is to moisten baking soda.
making a thick paste with it. This
is then bound on soas to exclude
the air. Carron Oil is an excellent
remedy to‘ have on hand for a burn.
It is made by taking equal parts of
lime water and linseed oil. Do not
ﬁll the bottle full. When required
for use shake vigorously to emulsi-
fy the mixture. Apply to the burn-
ed surface and cover with absorb-
ent cotton. Bind on with a band-
age. This will exclude the air and
is both soothing and healing.

 

 

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Personal Column

 

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No Tobacco Leaner-Although I l-
a man I have enjoyed reading your
household pm in the M. B. F. Perha-
it‘ is because I am an invalid and take n
hand at housework occasionally. Bu
what I am writing to you for is to lend
you some of the No-Tobacco literature
and make you acquainted with our league.

Several weeks ago you published In
article containing rules ‘set forth by San
ator Copeland and because he classes
candy and tobacco together in the ﬁfth
paragraph I decided to write and can
your attention to it and give you the
proper information regarding the use of
tobacco by humans.

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Nicotine the principal ingredient that '

effects the bocbr is a habit forming

and a poison. Nicotine is deﬁned as e.
narcotic stupifying and poisonous while
candy is a food, a confection made fun:
sugar. Candy is harmful only what
taken to excess. Tobacco is poison al-
ways to everyone.

Of course a strong man may use to-
bacco and poison himself and still 11v.
to be fairly old but the weed kills thou-
sands annually, and besides this it stupi-
ﬂes the finest God given instincts.
knowforIwasavictimforyear-s. The
man who published the enclosed '
was a so bound b miserable
Slavery. y the weed to

Hoping I have made the mat
I remain ly—Frank Hawitgapu

—-————o——___

Pinch of Ginger in Beet W
ladies will be pleased to 1:11:33“ M
beet pickleswill not spoil if thq wﬂ
put mtabpinch of .

Frui are that can be stirre
night before and baked in the 
5eggs,30upsbrownsugar,lcupmo-
lasses, 8 tablespoons of soda. 156m
lard, 1 pound ground raisins, 1 teaspoon
Cinnamon and 2 quarts of flour. I may
the paper.—-Opa.l D.

 

 

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Table Details All Should Known—«Soup
must never be blown upon when too hot
to take into the mouth; and this applies
to any hot food or beverage which up
pears on the table.

You are no more entitled to drain I.

tracts '

giassofwaterataguipmgntou-yto.

ﬁlmmss a plateful of food in one month-

The absence of a salt-spoon permiss-
ible. when taking salt from a cellar. he
use of ﬁngers, of course, is out of the
question.

Atastysauceordressingasaccndi-
ment, not a food. and does not justfﬁ
the use of an improvised bread-sponge
to convey it to the mouth.

If some particular dish or ﬂavoring is
distasteful, do not refuse it. You need
not actually eat it, and the well-bred
hostess will not question you.

There is a courtesy, of course, whid
arises to sublime heights, like that of the
gallant elderly bachelor who bravely
swallowed a hairy caterpillar with hi
lettuce leaf when he caught the agonized
glance of his hostess, rather than embar-
rass her. But in the event of your tak-
ing some spoiled food into your mouth.
quietly eject the food on spoon or fork.
and place it under other food on your
plate.

Potatoes and bread should never be
taken from dish to plate with me fork
used to whaling style, as a harpoon.

 

 

Menu For September 14th

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‘Chantilly Potato.
Turldah Salad
Fruit Ice Cream
Coffee

'Chantilly Potatoeu—Prepare
seasoned. lightly mashed potatoes
mound on a hot platter. Beat 5‘
cream until stiff. add 1 teaspoon
fat. 55 cup grated cheese, season to M
with salt. pepper and red

Peas

lightly on the potato and patio ovu-

tobrown. Beenretbattheovmiem
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Cucumber Fiction—Here is the recipe
tor the best and easiest made cucumber
pickles. that I know or and I would like
to pass it on to the housewives, who
fourths M. B. F. It is as follows: Wash
mcumbers and place in cans. To 1 gal-
lon of cold vinegar add 1 teacup of salt
and 1 level teaspoon of saccharin. mix
and pour over cucumbers and seal. The
sooner the pickles are made after cucum-
bers are picked the more crisp will pickles
be. If a can or these pickles are opened
during hot weather and are not all used
at once the vinegar will not sour on

then but will keep perfectly till all are .

used. At‘least this has always been my
experience. By my friends. who have
eaten at these pickles they are pronounced
the best ever tasted. We receive much
mdfrmntheMRF.andaregladto
contribute our bit—Mrs. F.. Elsie, Mich.

 

Baked Boone—2 cups beans. soak over
night. heat. drain water ad. add 1,5 cup
molasses. 1,5 teaspoon mustard. 1 tea.-
spoon salt. 1,5 teaspoon soda. 5‘ teaspoon
pepper. cover top with slices of bacon
or a large cook spoon lard or meat try-
ings. bake three haunt—Mrs. W. M. R.
Gration.

Whistle and Hoe.—Try recipes more
than once before you say you don't like
them. When at work try to be pleasant
and happy and you will miss the hard
part of its—le W. M. R. Gmtiot.

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Chunk Pioklea—7 pounds cucumber cut
in chunks. soak in strong brine 5 days,
change in fresh water 3 mornings. Then
simmer slowly for 35 day in vinegar not
very strong. drain. then pour over the
pickles, 1 quart vinegar, 21,5 cups sugar,
1 ounce cassia buds. IA ounce celery seed.
1,5 ounce auspice heat very hot. then
next day drain and reheat vinegar ﬁne.
.-—«Mrs. W. M. R... Gratiot.

 

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Boiled Salad Dressing—$5 tablespoon
salt, 1% tablespoon sugar. $4 tablespoon
ﬂour. 1 teaspoon mustard. 3‘ cup vinegar
(not too strong). a cup milk. few grains
cayenne. 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon butter. mi:
dry ingredients cook in double boiler till
thick and take from ﬁre add the white
of eggs beaten sum—Mrs. W. M. 11..
Graltlot.

 

Meat Roll and Tomato Sauce.—-2 01m
ground meat. 2 cups hot meat stock. 1
cups dry bread crumbs, 3 eggs. 1 teaspoon
salt. 1,5 teaspoon salt. '5 teaspoon pepper.
mixputinpanthensetpanlnanother
with hot water bake till ﬁrm. Tomato
Sauce, 2 tablemoons tat. blend with 2
tablespoons flour, add a. slice of onion
and a, cup of stewed strained tomatoes
stir smooth while cooking—«Mrs. W. M.
GTBIUOL

 

 

The Runner’s Bible

(Copyright by Boughton Miﬁ‘iin Co.)

The eternal God is thy dwelling place.
and underneath are the everlasting arms.
Duet. 83:27. (E. B. V.)

No one is daring to deny that there is
a power protecting and caring for him.
This much is universally admitted. But
more is revealed to the seeker after
Truth ; he knows that this power is from
the Creator, the One. the only power
(Rom. 13:1), therefore limitless; and be
ﬁrmly believes—one must believe. must
know. that as easily as the river carries
the little bark down the stream. so will
the Spirit carry him on its bosom
throughout all of his experiences.

 

 

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again and glad to get back!
out of "us are glad to go away from

‘ home for awhile but after a short.

absence we are anxious to ,return.
Isn’t it true? But I had a nice trip
and I saw many of you helping your
father in the ﬁelds, or playing
about in the dooryard—and I’ll bet
none of you knew me. If I had not
been in such a hurry I would have
stopped a few moments to chat with
you but my time was short. ‘

Of course, you all know of the
surprise that awaited me when I re-
turned to the ofﬁce, and the way let-
ters are coming I think I will have
to hire some assistants to help me
judge the letters. Even the boys are
out to win. The ages of the contest-
ants so far range from 8 to 18 and
all letters are so good that I wish I
could give each one a prize. But I
am going to have more contests like
this because you are proving to me
that you want them and maybe I
will be able to offer a greater num-
ber of prizes. By next issue I will
be able to tell you who the prize
winners in this contest are and pub-
llsh their letters. Also I hope to
have room for some of the answers
sent in that did not win a prize.

Here comes the mailman with an-
other big pile of letters for me so I
will have to stop writing and get
busy.—-UNCLE NED.

OUR BOYS AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle Nedz—Well I guess I will
try and write a letter. We have taken
your paper for nearly three years. We
have 2 horses, 7 cows and 8 calves. Do
you like the river Uncle Ned? I live
80 near one that you can almost ﬁsh
out of the windows. Ha! Hal. The
answer to Anna Bretanus riddle is a
watermelon. Write me your letter Anna.
Well I will close. Iﬁ‘om your new niece
——-Mabel Sanels, Milo, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—May I join your
merry circle? I am 5 feet 1 inch and have
dark brown hair which is bobbed. My
age is between 10 and 18 years. I will
be in the eighth grade next year at
school. I think the answer to Anna
Bretanus riddle is a watermelon. I live
in town and my father runs a paint
store. We are going up north next week
to see one of my brothers. I have three
brothers and three sisters. Your want-to-
be niece—«Agnes Crothers, Box 183,
Diamondale, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Neda—We have taken the
M. B. F. for a long time and I always
like to read the girls and boys page. I
wrote to you once before but did not
see my letter in print, guess it must
have found its way to the waste basket.
I am 8 years old, am 4 feet 1 inch tall,
and weigh 53 pounds. I have blue eyes,
blonde hair and light complexion. I am
in the 5th grade at school and have
about a 5 minute walk to get to school.
I am going to take music lessons this
summer. We live on a loo-acre farm
and have 3 horses, 8 cows, 8 calves, 4
D183. 15 sheep and 11 lambs and 150
chickens. For pets I have 3 cats and 1
dog. I have 2 little turkeys and 1 sheep
and lamb of my own. I will send a
riddle and the one guessing the answer
will receive a letter: What can go up
the aimey down and down the chimney
down. but can not go down the chimney
up or w the chimney up? Your want-
to-be niece—«Ruth Allyn, Gregory, Mich.

Dear Uncle Ned:——We have just re-
ceived the July 5th copy of the M. B. F.
and I was glad to see my letter printed
but the address should be Perry, New
York. Hoping to hear from some of the
boys and girls. Your niece--Glenador
Hull. Perry, New York.

r—I am sorry Glenador and will try not
to let it happen again.

Dear Uncle Ned:—-—How do you like
this weather? Well Uncle Ned are you
going to let Mr. _Waste Basket get my
letter? I’ll take a chance on his not
being very hungry. Did all of you boys
and urls pass? I did and am mighty

' glad of it.. I am in the 10th grade now.

Say “kids” don’t you think it would be
nice to have a poem contest? I do. I
wonder what Uncle Ned thinks about it?
Let's ask him and see. What about it
Uncle Ned? Say, did I describe myself?
I have “red” curly hair; bobbed? Yes,

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of course it is. Blue eyes, few freckles,
5 feet 7% inches tall and weigh 110
pounds, fair complexion and 13 years
old. My birthday is June 12th. How
many like nature study? I love it. Well
I imagine Old Mr. Waste Basket is get-
ti 3‘ hungry. Is he Uncle Ned? So I
wil close, but hold on, ﬁrst, about that
poem contest. If we have one will it be
limited to a certain subject? If some of
the cousins will please write to me I
promise faithfully to answer every letter.
Love to all—Pearl Nelson, 125 So. Union
St, Summit City, Michigan.

—-I am planning on having several con-
tests in the near future and it would be
no more than fair to have one for those
who write poetry.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I have never written
to you before but after reading Billy
Frank's letter I thought I would write
for I often get lonesome myself. If he
is anything like my brother it will be
hard to guess how old he is. My brother
is only 15 and is 5 feet 8 inches tall.
My guess will be that Billy Frank is 16.
Now I'll describe myself. I am 5 feet 1
inch tall and, weigh 118 pounds, have
dark blue eyes, and long dark brown hair.
Oh yes, and I don’t wear knickers either.
I am between the ages of 15 and 20.
Now Billy, here is a chance for you to
guess. The one who guesses my right
age will get a letter from me. I hope
that popular Mr. Waste Basket doesn’t
turn into a whale and swallow this letter.
I hope he doesn’t get a look atit for he
sure would want it. As this letter is get-
ting long l’ll ring off wishing you all a
happy vacation. Your want-toabe—niecer—
Gladys Maxson, R. 1, Wilmot, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned :—I have been a silent
reader of the M. B. F. for about three
years. Of course, I must describe my—
self. I have dark hair (shingle-bob) fair
complexion and a few freckles. I am
fourteen years old and weigh one hundred
and six pounds. My birthday is in Jan-
uary. I will be in the ninth grade next
year and will take the college prepara—

ubecs

DID YOU SEE MARS?

ELL folks, I’ve seen Mars—
Mars is a sort of plennet
somethin’ like our own you

know an’ it’s claimed by some that
folks live on it. Maybe they do,
mebbe not—I ain’t so very well ac-
quainted .with Mars or its folks.
This is ’bout the only think I know
’bout it—comin’ from up town to—
night, Aug. 27, I run into a crowd
at the City Hall corners an’ a man
was there with What looked like a
young cannon pointed up into the
skies or there’bouts an’ he‘wuz jest
hollerin’ himself hoarse—or horse
as you like to take it, “Take a look
at Mars, only thirty-ﬁve millionsof
miles away," he sez, “an’ won’t be
so nigh again in a hundred and 20
years.” Well not bein’ much inter-
ested in a neighbor, so far away an’
’at comes so seldom, I started to
pass along. The 01’ man kinda
grabbed onto me an’ wanted me to
take a peek through his machine.
"What for?" I sez. “\Cause” he sez.
“you won’t have another chance like
this for a 120 years,” he sez.

“Well what will I care in a hun-
dred and 20 years—let ’er go on ’er
way” I sez. But the 01' man wanted
me to look—wanted me to pay 10
cents to look through his cannon an'
I though of how long I had to work
for ten cents an’ I sez, “Now, Dad,
I’ll jest split the difference—you
give me a nickle an’ I look. Well
after a little bickerin’ he sed “Well
look anyway” an' I did. Folks don’t
ever be taken in by no such thing!
With them little traps you can’t see
as much as you on nsee with your
undressed (naked) eye. Mars travel-
in’ 40,000 miles an hour, 15 miles a
second, can’t be seen through no
little gun like these street tellers
has. An’ suppose you see it—you
can see it jest as well without the
help of these 01’ takers—suppose
you see it as I did tonight—it ain’t
goin’ to help you none nor do you
no harm. Its 35 millions of miles
away and goin’ faster every minute.
Friends any thing that far away
don’t worry me—if it wuz headed
right my way ,an’ only goin’ 40
thousand miles an hour it couldn't
reach me ’til my youngest grand
child, yet unborn, would be too old
to care whether it hit him or not.

Its the things whats right near us

   

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tory course. I lived' on a large farm.

about 18 years, then moved to the city.
I have four brothers, one sister and a
niece. I will guess Billy rank is six-
teenyearsold. IhopeIlmright. I
see thatnoenemeweredtheriddlethat
Anna Bretanus asked so I will. I think
it is a watermelon. Well, I think my
letter is long enough to ﬁll the waste
paper basket so I will close now. Your

want-to—be Meow—Marian Kimball, 436 ..

E. Main St, Ionia, Michigan. -

Deer Uncle Nedz—We take the M. B.
F. and the ﬁrst thing I look for is the
Boy’s and Girl’s page. I read that page
every time the paper comes. We live
on a farm but I think I would like to
live in the city although I like the horses,
cows and the chickens._ Well Uncle Ned
I guess I had better describe myself. I
have dark brown hair (which is bobbed)
dark brown eyes, am 4 feet 9 inches
tall, weigh 65 pounds and am 12 years
old and am light coanplexioned Well
as my letter is getting quite long I will
close and leave room for the rest of the
cousins. I hope that some of the cousins
will write to me and all that writes to
shell hear from me. Your want-to-be
niece,—-Georgene Carnogon, Bl, Box 61,
Chase, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Nedz—May I join your
merry circle? I have read the M. B. F.
for a long time and enjoy it very much.
I think I will describe myself. I am 5
feet 1 inch tall, have blue eyes, brown
curly hair, which is bobbed, and will be
17 years old the 24th of July. Last Sun—
day a missionary from Africa Was to our
church and told us about the natives in
Africa. He sang a song in one of the
native languages. I think that Gladys
Glassman's poem “Sowing Joy" is just
ﬁne. Billy Frank, I think you are 18
years old. I think I had better close or
Mr. Waste Basket will get my letter. I
would love to hear from some of the boys
and girls. Will answer all letters re-
ceived. Your want-to-be-niece,——M a r y
Cheebro, Copemish, Michigan.

_ . .é;

. 
’at we’re most int’rested in——’lec-
tions —— primarys -—— somethin’ that

comes today or next week or in the
near future. What happens 120
years from now don’t concern me at
all. I may not be here then, but
I am here now. I know but little
’bout Mars an’ I care a darn sight
less. Mebbe its got men-an’ wim—
min onto it—if so its all right with
me———we’ve got enough of both right
here, if we ain’t Europe an’ all the
01’ countries can furnish ’em for us,
or if all of us get right down to
business We can furnish our own.
Let Mars travel 40 thousan’ miles
an hour-—we’re goin' right along
with her an' with lots of our young
folks, out in autos, 40 thousan'
miles an hour don't seem so much.

About the only thing I can see
from my little look at mars tonight,
she’s settin’ a bad example. 40
thousand miles an hour is too fast.
An' yet lots of our young folks are
tryin’ to keep up with her—yes ev-
en in Ford cars. She's goin’
at a ripid gait and we're right
next to her in that an’ ever’day we’-
re gittin’ faster. Mars holds her
course——there’s no record to show
she runs over anybody—mebbe
that’s why so many was out to
see her tonight. Its a good record
folks-40 thousand miles an hour
and nobody killed by her.

Oh yes, Mars is 35 millions of
miles away. Well d’you know I am
jest wishin’ right now 'at every
reckless an’ careless automobile
driver wuz right with her an’ would
stay with her ’til she came this way
again? But now 'lections, primarys,
every thing is before us—it’s goin’
to be fast times for awhile—let
Mars go her way—she will anyway
——let the fast ones speed—they will
anyway—you know Shakespeare or
somebody sed— “Together they
whirl, onward they rush—with an
arm full of girl and head full of
mush.”

But seriously speakin’ folks, do
you know this is the year we ’lect a
Pres’dent of these United States?
We ’lect congressmen, governors,
county oﬂlcers, every thing. Now
jest ’cause Mars has made her near-
est call in ’bout 2 hundred years,
don’t forget your duties as citizens
of thi State nor of our great U. S.

A.—Cordlally yours, Uncle Rube.

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to you, which was in the June issue.
It will soon be time for school to begin

fancy. Uncle Ned, would you please be
kind enough to hem another drawing
contest? I am sure the cousins would be
as anxious as I am to have a drawing
contest. I won 3rd prize in your drawing
contest and would like to try again and
see if I could do better. I have drawn
several pictures for drawing contest:
around here and always won let prize.

Don't you think it would be nice to have .

another contest? I described myself in
my last letter so will not.do it this ﬁne.
Anybody over 15 years old may write to
me. I am a sophomore and will be glad
when~school begins. I think Elizabeth
Eberle’s letter was thrilling. Your loving
niece, Miss Margaret Jackowiak. Sher-
wood, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned:—-—-Please find a, tiny
corner for this tiny letter. I’ll call it
tiny and hope I’ll haVc the pleaSure of
seeing my letter in the next issue. New
for my description. I am 16 years old,
a brunette, with light brown eyes, and
bobbed hair of course. I look like a—
well never mind that part. I attend the
best school built in-Bay City and that is
Central High School. I am to be grad-
uated from the 12th grade in February,
1925. Oh I almost forgot, my face isn't
round and it isn’t long, it has a fair
complexion; It would give me great
pleasure to receive a letter from all the
boys and girls who read this tiny I“.
I must close and so withdraw my—-best
regards and hopes of receiving a letter
from my newly—made friends—Irene
Miller, 1606 So. Wenona Ave, Bay Qty,
Michigan, West Side.

Dear Uncle Nedz—While I was in
school I was too busy to write but. I will
try and make up for lost time. I am 5
feet 2 inches tall, weigh 120 pounds, have
blue eyes, brown hair (light), light com-
plection and my age is between 14 and
18. The boy or girl guessing my age
ﬁrst and who writes to me will receive
my picture sometime. I am almost dis-
couraged about writing any more letters
because they always ﬁnd the waste has-
ket. I am sending a poem I made up
while I eat here watching the cars go
by. I am trying my luck at gardening
and hope I succeed. Hoping to see my
poem and letter in print and to receive
some letters from the boys and girls. I
will guess that Billy Frank is 17 years
old. I am a junior in high school. Best
wishes—-Helen Hixson, Grand Ledge.
Michigan, R. 2.

Johnny's Scare
When stealthy shadows are falling
Upon the earth below, '
And the nightingale is softly calling.
As I go past Tuttle's Hallow
I begin to feel rather queer,
It seems as tho' the next minute
I'd face a. big black bear.
And then the old owl calls out-—
Who? Who? Who?
As‘tho' he were a sentinel looking for a
SPY.
And he wonders where rm going and
just why!
I hear a treading in the bush
And I‘m sure the bears are 00min!
So I Lake’s to my heels with a. rush.
Without any explaining.
The next day, upon exeploration, '
I found “my beer" to be a. friendly cow
That had caused that great sensation.
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WINTER APPLE CROP ABOUT

- HALF THAT'OF 1928

About what does the winter crop
of apples compare with that of last
years and in what part of Michigan
are the best cropsto be had?-——D. 8.,
Wayne County. "

v E commercial winter .crop of

apples in Michigan will certain-

ly not amount to more than 60
to 71) per cent of last year's crop.
Furthermore, scab is quite bad in
many orchards this year, so that the
percentage of A grade apples will
gimbany run considerably lower
than they  last year. These two
tasters combined then, should result
in much less quality of A grade
winter apples for this season. In
the western part of the state the
trees of many varieties have only
one or two branches that are carry-
ing fullcrops with the balance of
the trees practically barren. This
also holds true to a considerable ex-
tent throughout central Michigan.
In the eastern part of the state,
however, the crop of winter apples
is very good——possibly larger than
last season.

I do not believe that the crop of
winter apples for the country as a
whole, will amount to more‘ than 80
to 85 per cent of last season's pro-
duction, in spite of some reports
'which would indicate that the 1924
crop would be nearly as large as
that of last year‘s crop—Ray E.
Marshall, Assoc. Prof. of Horticul-
ture, M. A. C. '

PIAN’I‘ BEBBIES IN SPRING

Can you please inform me as to
whether it is advisable to set out
strawberries, raspberries, and cur-
rents in the fall of the year, and if
so at what time, and what kinds are
advisable to plant? Should straw-
berries, and raspberries be mulch-
ed in the tall, and at what time
should it be removed in the spring
it they are mulched? Do raspber-
ries do better it kept cultivated?—
!t. B. A., Merrill, Mich.

 do not advise the setting of
strawberry plants in the fall.
Red berries and currants
may be set in the fall of the year
but we usually advise early spring
planting. Black raspberries are
practically always set in the spring.
Raspberries are usually kept well
cultivated. However, they often do
very well i! mulched with straw or
some similar material to hold the
moisture in the soil. It is usually
best to keep a. raspberry plantation
well cultivated until two or three
weeks utter the close of the harvest-
ing season, then sow a cover crop,
preferably oats, between the rows.
This may be turned over in the
spring and will furnish organic mat-
ter which otherwise would have to
be supplied in the form of manure.
—R. E. Loree, Horticultural Depart-
ment, M. A. C.

on. MONEY! MONEY!
(Continued from page 1L)

“There is nothing to forgive."

“And you consider yoursel! engaged
to both Jolin Smith and Stanley G. Ful-

9"

“It sounds pretty bad, bub—yes,"
blushed Miss Maggie.

“And you must love Stanley G. Fulton
just exactly as well—no, a. little better,
than you did John Smith.”

“I’ll—try to—i! he’s as lovable." Miss
Maggie’s head was at a saucy tilt.

“He’ll try to be: but—it won't be all
play, you know, for you. You’ve got to
tell him what to do with those twenty
millions. By the way, what will you do
with them?” he demanded interestedly.

Miss Maggie looked mp. Plainly startled.

“Why, yes, that's so. You—you—At
you're Mr. Fulton, you have got- And
I forgot all about-4.11039 menty millions.
And they're yours. Mr. Smith 1"

anything but that abominable ‘Mr.
smith? My name is Stanley. You might
Wbbreviau it to—er 'sum,’ m,"
“Perhaps so—but I shan‘t." Wed
Maggie. ~“not yet. You may be
thankful I have Wits enough left to call
you anythmg—mr becoming engaged to

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a twuty mﬂnons. too.“

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"But see here. aren't you coins to

and some 91 that money on muse!!!”
he' demanded. "Isn't there something
you want?’

She gave him a merry glance-

“Myself? Dear me, I guess I am! I’m
goingtoEgypaandChingandJapan
—-oriath you, of course; and books—oh
you never. saw such a lot of books as I
shall buy. And—oh, ,I’ll spend heaps on
just on my own selﬁsh self—you see it
I don't! But, ﬁrst—oh, there are so
many things that I’ve so wanted to do.
and it's just come over me this minute
that now I can do them! And you know
how Hillerton needs a now hospital."
Her eyes. grew luminous and earnest.
"And I want to build a store and wit
so the girls can live, and a. factory, too.
and decent homes for the workmen, and
a big market, where they can get their
food at cost; and there’s the playground
for the children, and—-"

But Mr. Smith was laughing, and lift-
ing both hands in mock despair.

“Look here," he challenged, "I thought
you were marrying me, but—are you
marrying me or that confounded money?"

Miss Maggie laughed merrily.

"Yes I know; but you see——-" She
stopped short. An odd expression came
to her eyes.

Suddenly she laughed again. and threw
into his eyes a look so merry, so whim-
sical. so altogether challenging, that he
demanded:— '

“Well. what is it now?"

“Oh. it’s so good, I have—halt a mind
to tell you."

"01 course you’ll tell me. Where are
you going?" he asked discontentedly.

Miss Maggie had left the sofa, and was
standing, as if half-poised for ﬁght, Inid-
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the call tom the Boston lawyer, that I
.——I womdn’t tell you about?"

“I should say I did!”

"Well; you know—you thought they—
thoy had something to do with—my
money; that I—I’d lost some.”

“I did, dear."

"Well, they—they did have mocan
to do—«with money."

"I knew they did i” triumphed the man.
“on. why wouldn’t you tell me then—
and let me help you some way?"

She shook her head nervously and
backed nearer the door. He had halt
started from his seat.

“No, stay there. I! you don't—I won’t
tell you.”

He fell back. but with obvious reluct-

anoe.
“Wdl, as I said, it did have something
to do—wi-th my money; but just new,
when you asked me it 1—1 was marrying
you for your money—2'

“But I was in tun-you know I was
in fun!” defended the man hotly.

“Oh, yes, I knew that." nodded Miss
Maggie. "But it——it made me laugh and
remember the letters. You see. they
weren’t as you thought. They didn’t tell
ot—of money lost. They told me of
money—gained.”

[(Gamed?’U

“Yes. That father’s Cousin George in
Alaska had died and left inc—ﬁfty thou-
sand dollars.”

“But, my dear woman, why in Heaven's
name wouldn’t you tell me that?"

“Because.” Miss Maggie took a step
nearer the door. “You see, I thought you
were poor—very poor, and 1—1 wouldn*t

 

you wouldn't—aska to—to—P ' ~
She was blushing so adorably now that

the man understood and leaped to his

toot.

' (Continued in Sept. 27th issue.)

A VISIT 'ro “ALFALFALAND
FARM"

(Continued from Page 4)

clear and several other dances werd
held during the spring and early
summer. No wonder they do not
ﬁnd it hard to get hired help. Evh
ery so often the Washington Farm-
ers’ Club meets at "Alfalfaland
Farm” to spend the afternoon as the
Wilcox family are members. Often-
times Mr. Hart will drive out from
Detroit to attend the meeting.

“In spite of the stories you read
and hear to the contrary, there is
money in farming,” said Frank Wile
cox, as “Bill” and I climbed intoj
the ﬂivver, “Or at least we found
farming proﬁtable, but it must be
made a business and not just an oc-
cupation. Marketing must have an
tention as well as the producing id
you want to come out on top of the‘
heap. And, where the owner rents
his farm—like in this case—there
must be 100 per cent cooperation all
around."

It is not to be wondered at that
County Agent Murphy take the
farmer who cannot raise 8.11th 011'
sand to “Alfalfaland Farm” instead
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E “world’s largest dairy cow,"

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its doors in Milwaukee, Wis, on
Sept. 27. This animal is a “tonner”
which tips the beam at 2,240
pounds. She is one of the attrac-
tions at the Murphy farms, owned
by E. N. Murphy of Green Bay, Wis.
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mark of 1079.01 pounds in 305
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ON GOOD RECORD

R. C. E. GEORGE of Union City,

Michigan, is the owner of Sue’s

Oxford Amelia 471745 a senior

three—year—old Jersey that recently

qualiﬁed for a Silver Medal on her
production record.

Amelia started on this test at three
years eleven months of age and in
305 days produced, with calf, 548.86
pounds of butter-fat and 9521 pounds
of milk, on two milkings a day. Her
milk averaged 5.76 percent. butter—
fat for the ten months. In the ﬁrst
complete calendar month of test her
yield reached 85.50 pounds of but-
terfat.

This Amelia’s second test. On her
ﬁrst one, started at two years one
month she produced 571.18 pounds
of butterfat in 365 days. Her sire is
Sue’s Oxford Lad 153409, and her
dam is Jacoba‘s Golden Malia Ann
374745, a Gold and Silver Medal
cow with three very good records.
These three records are: 554.13
pounds, 730.10 pounds and 767.46
pounds of butter—fat.

WITHTHEOOWTESTERS

YEAR ago County Agent C. P.

Milham of Ottawa county sent

in his request to the dairy ex-
tension oﬁice for a cow tester to be
sent him to carry on the duties of
the ﬁrst Ottawa county cow testing
association. This tester, Myron Mc-
Carn, has now ﬁnished the assicia-
tion year and reports that 277 cows
have averaged 7,609 pounds milk
and 305.8 pounds of fat for the as-
sociation year. The high herd in
fat production is owned by George
Taylor. His 17 grade Holsteins and
Jersey cows averaged 8,084 pounds
milk and 398.4 pounds fat. Thir-
teen other herds averaged above 300
pounds of fat.

This association is continuing the
work and the extra members that
wished to get into an association
have been organized into a second
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The Shiawassee County Cow Test-
ing Association has completed its
ﬁrst year’s testing work. Bernard
Hice, the tester reports that 199
cows have averaged 298 pounds of
fat and 7,674.8 pounds of milk for

' the association year. The high herd

in milk and butter fat production
was owned by F. Martin of Owosso.
His ﬁve purebred Holsteins averag-
ed 11,3395 pounds milk and 416.8
pounds fat. The highest butter fat
producing cow for the entire as-
sociation was owned by George
Winegar and Son of Morrice.
County Agent Sheap has success-
fully reorganized the association
for a second year's testing work. Mr.
0thal Kimmel has been sent to the
Association by the Dairy Depart-
ment, M. A. C., and is doing the test-
ing work during the present year.

Leo Ashley has completed a year‘s
testing duties in the South Van
Buren county cow testing associa—
tion. The 204 cows that ﬁnished
the year’s testing work averaged
7,923 pounds milk and 348.4 pounds
fat. The high herd in butter fat
production was owned by Mr. D. M.
Poorman. C. H. Steuart had both
high herd and high cow in milk pro—
duction.

One hundred eighty cows. were
tested for T. B. and only four ro-
aeteis were found. Every member
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purebred Brown Swiss, one pure-
bred Red Poll and one purebred
Durham in use. This association u‘
continuing the work and Mr. I.
Hyman is carrying on the testing.

C. M. Wagner has ﬁnished a

year’s testing for the Bad Axe-Huh
on Cow Testing Association and re-
ports that 275 cows averaged 278
pounds fat and 7,313 pounds milk
for the association year. Su‘
8. four year old purebred Holstein
owned by A. B. Pangborn was the
high cow in both milk and butter
fat production for the association.
Sunlight made 13,163 pounds milk
and 495.7 pounds fat.

Nine herds produced better than
300 pounds of butter fat, while the
three poorest herds averaged 5,965
pounds milk and 211 pounds fat.

H. T. Stanton, Tester for the
Genesee No. 6 Cow Testing Associa-
tion, reports in his annual summary
that Ed. Woolﬁtt had the high cow
in both fat and milk production.
This cow, Topsy, a grade Holstein
ten years old, made 12,319.6 pounds
milk and 498.2 pounds fat. Fred
Boyse with a mixed herd had the
highest butter fat average. ~ His six

, cows produced 350.9 pounds fat and

8343.8 pounds milk. E. L. Powers'
eleven purebred and grade Holstein:
had the best average'in milk pro-
duction.

The Genesee No. 6 Association is
planning to continue for a a
year. It is the sixth Genesee counw‘
association that is continuing the
work at the completion of its ﬁrst
year.

The Elsie-Ovid Cow Testing As-
sociation was organized in J .
1923, through the eﬁorts of Co
Agents H. V. Klttle of St. Johns and
J. V. Sheap of Owosso. fl‘he cow
tester was secured through A. O.
Baltzer, Extension Specialist, M. A.
C. «The association started operv
tious early in July. It was recognis—
ed that many excellent cows were
owned by members in this associar
tion and this recognition was not.
amiss, considering this high milk.

production average that has been ‘

made during the year.

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DEPARTMENT l

OONTAGIOUS ABORTION

We have a. neighbor who has con-
tagious abortion in his herd of
cows. Is it really contagious from
one herd to another where they run
in adjoining pastures? What
can or should I take in regards
it?——J. L. S., Middleville, Mich.

is possible that abortion-tree
cattle running in a pasture ad-
jacent to one used by abortion-
infected cattle may acquire the tar
faction by licking the soiled parts of
infected cattle across a. llnefenoe.
There is also danger of the pasture
becoming infected with the dis-
charges from infected cattle if sur-
face drainage is from the infected
pasture to the uninfected pastures—-
E. T. Hellman, Assoc. Prof. of Ani-
mal Pathology, M. A. C.

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EMPERATURES will be low for
| the season at the very begin-

ning of this week in Michigan
but will begin early to warm up.
There are expected to be two high
temperature periods during the
week, one about the middle and the
other at the end of this week. At
these times the temperatures in
Michigan will be more in keeping
with mid-summer months. There

'will be a slight falling of the tem-

perature about Thursday or Friday.

There will be two storm period
centers this week in Michigan, one
about the 17th and the other near
the 20th. At these times most sec-
tions of the state may expect heavy

rains, strong winds and some elec-

trical storms.
Week of September 21

Temperatures will be rising dur-
ing ﬁrst part of this week in Michi-
gan reaching top notch about Tues-
day or Wednesday. Following this
date there will be a sudden change
to cooler with temperatures reading
close to the 60 degree mark. There
will, be a reaction again about Sat-
urday.

There will be fair weather at the
very beginning and end of this week
but from about Monday or Tuesday
and through the middle of the week
cloudiness.
rain storms and high winds,

Plow this Fall

Because the spring months are ex-
pacted to be stormy with late sleet,
snow and strong winds and the tem-
peratures will not warm up to sea-
sonal conditions much before the
middle of June, we believe this fall
will be the best time to plow. The

‘sooner, the ,better. we believe, be-

cause we expect October to be wet
and November cold.

'Questions and Answers

We are glad to answer any ques-
tions‘ pertaining to weather that
readers of this paper may ask but
as this all takes extra time, labor
and material the least one can do in
appreciation is to enclose a stamp
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Questions and Answers

 

GOOD WHEAT WEATHER
COMING
I am writing for information in
regard to what I have in the west
(South Dakota). It has just been
thrashed and is stored in the elevat-
or. Would you advise selling at
once or will the price go up before
spring? How about planting wheat

there in Michigan this fall? We read

your forecasts in Tm: Buernss
Fnam with great interest.—Mrs.
F. M., Elsie, Mich.

ATHER conditions wiIl be

favorable in Michigan for win-

ter wheat this fall and winter.
Both September and October will
give plenty of moisture but we be-
lieve wheat will take better and
more rapid root in the latter month.
Planting late in September will
dodge most of the coolness of that
month, takes advantage of the mod-
erate temperature in October and

- ﬁts a good stand before the cool

mperatures of November take ef-
fect. Probably the best time
around Elsie to plant wheat in ac-

cordance with Michigan Agricultural

College rules is about September 20
to 25. In most parts of Michigan
we believe this will be a period of
good planting weather.

The winter season will average
wet and moderate and while there is
a probability that some southern
counties of the state may not have a

good covering of snow all winter, we

.are not looking for any serious
thaws and freezes in January, Feb-
ruary or March. During the spring
months temperatures will run more

 extremes: especially win this be
11“ can about April, 

 wheat in Michigan will
come to a head during May, 19:6.

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We do not predict the price of
wheat. However, present market
indications (middle of August) hint
at - higher. prices, according to those
close to the pit, This may or may
not reach into the late winter
months. February to April are us-
ually the' months of high wheat
prices but that does not mean it
will be at that time for the general
farmer during ﬁrst six months of
1926 will occur during late winter
or early spring.

The price of wheat depends much
upon- the harvest both in Australia
and Argentine Republic at the end
of this and beginning of next year.
Latest unoﬁicial reports from these
countries declare there is an in—
crease in wheat acreage and that at
sowing time the weather was favor-
able.

FORECAST FOR NEXT YEAR

Please send me the weather fore-
cast for Michigan in accordance
with your oﬁer in THE BUSINESS
FABMEB.——F. M., Mt. Morris, Mich.

E oﬁer to help any reader of

this paper in their farm work

in so far as the weather is
concerned whenever a deﬁnite ques-
tion is asked. The above question
is rather vague and far reaching
but we will attempt to answer it.
The weather forcast from week to
week appears in THE MICHIGAN
Busnvnss Fm for Michigan
farmers and very often is supple—
merited with monthly and seasonal
predictidns.

Looking forward for the next 13
months we ﬁgure the weather for
Michigan will average cooler than
normal. That is, the cool and cold
spells that will occur between now
and next July will off-set the warm
spells that will occur during this
same period. Never-the-less, we
look for generally good crop weath-
er with plenty of sunshine.

The ﬁrst three months of next
year will average moderately wet
but not severely cold and as the
year progresses, storminess will in-
crease and the mid-season will bring
on more than the usual amount of
precipitation.

This forecast covers only the con-
ditions expected in the state of
Michigan and as such is very deﬁn-
ite and speciﬁc. On the other hand,
these forecasts are necessarily
broad because they cover an entire
year’s time. The daily and week-
ly changes in the weather for the
next twelve months will be found
in this paper and these will all av-
erage up to conditions very close to
the averages we have predicted
above.—Pritchard’s Weather Fore—

FEEDING SILAGE MADE FROM
IMMATURE FORN

(Continued from Page 3)

While the analysis of the silage
made from immature corn showed
that it was very high in moisture.
the results obtained in this trial in—
dicate that there is much feeding
value in corn even before the ears
have formed and that the feed ele-
ments are easily assimilated by cat—
tle. While such a ration cannot
be expected to produce very fat cat-
tle it is signiﬁcant that when these
steers were sold on the Sioux City
market the lot that was fed imma-
ture corn silage brought only 30
cents per hundred pounds less than
corn fed steers and only 20 cents
less than those fed choice silage
from mature corn.

The feeding value of silage ordin-
arily increases with the naturity of
the corn and even in years When
corn does not ripen, most ﬁelds are
well beyond the tasseling stage and
should therefore be worth even
more than the corn used in this ex-
periment which was worth approx-
imately 70 per cent as much as sil-
age from mature corn.

Corn that cannot be stored in
silos and is not mature enough for
picking will furnish very palatable
feed if cut and cured in large
shocks.—-A. H. Kuhlman.

Expenslvdy Good

A mtter-of—fact father of an embroyo
poet handed some of the lad’s efforts to
a distinguished author of verse. and ask—
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“Well, what’s the answer?" queried
the successful stockman.

"Alas!" sighed the real poet. “those
things are so good. I'm afraid you'll
hawtompportﬁenrytherestofhis
life."-—w\ritsr‘s Monthly.

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. READY son wrN'mn

0W is a good time to make

plans for improving the hous-

ing of the farm poultry during
the coming winter. The ﬁrst step is
a complete renovation of the poultry
house. It should be thoroughly
cleaned out, removing if possible all
the interior ﬁttings such as .roosts,
nest boxes and any' other parts that
can be removed without too much
labor or expense. Then the interior
of the house is to be scraped with
hoe or spade so as to tree it from all
dried accumulations of manure and
other ﬁlth. After this has been
done, the entire interior including
the ﬂoor, walls, and ceiling should
be thoroughly sprayed, using for the
purpose a solution of compound
cresol, 12 tablespoonfuls to each

"gallon of water. The compound

cresol may be secured from any
drug store and it should be prepar-
ed of the strength just indicated to
insure its efﬁciency as a disinfectant.
If a' barrel spray pump is available,
the best means will be provided for
applying the disinfectant. If a bar-
rel spray pump cannot be provided,
then a. smaller spray pump such as
is in a. pail may be employed. A
small hand sprayer will answer, but
the force required to drive the dis-
infectant into every crack and corner
is difﬁcult to secure when a pump
of such small size is employed. Af-
ter the house has been sprayed, it
should be opened and well aired for
a week or ten days after which it
should be sprayed a second time in
a manner just as thoroughly as the
ﬁrst. After again airing and drying
for ten days the interior of the
house should be covered with a coat
of ordinary lime white wash which
may be applied either by means of a
spray pump or a white wash brush.
Every crack and corner should re-
ceive a thorough coating so as to
render the entire interior of the
house not only thoroughly sweet and
clean, but also light and sanitary.

If the house is not provided with
ample window space so that the en-
tire ﬂoor may be well lighted even
during the winter days, additional
windows should be put in. The
work connected with this can usual-
ly be taken care of by the ordinary
farm labor. In addition to the
lighting, provision should be made
for ample ventilation without the
injurious draughts that are so fre-
quently the cause of colds and roup
during the winter months. The
muslin curtain ventilators are prob-
ably the best and least expensive
and can be readily installed.

By following the above directions
the poultry house will be placed in
proper condition to receive the fowls
again, and it will be free not only
from disease germs, but the lice and
mites that are usually quite numer-
ous and troublesome will have been
eradicated to a very large extent.
Work of this kind can be undertak-
en during the late summer and early
fall months without seriously inter-
fering with the progress of other
farm work and no effort should be
spared to adopt the plans needed for
putting these directions into effect.

At the same time that the
poultry house is receiving the treat-
ment outlined above, the poultry
yard should come in for attention.
It should be freed of all loose man—
ure and rubbish of all kinds. Then
it should be plowed or spaded so as
to turn under the surface and ex-
pose the clean earth beneath. Dur-
ing the remainder of the summer
and fall frequent cultivation should
be employed so as to keep down
weeds, and keep the soil loose to al-
low the penetration of air and light
which will further improve the con-
dition of the soil to receive the
fowls when they are returned to the
poultry home. In addition it will
be the means of removing from the
reach of the fowls many of the eggs
of various parasites, both external,
as well as disease germs of various
kinds that are always harbored in
the poultry yard, .as is frequently
the case on many farms, of course,
this means of preventing and erad-
icating disease cannot be applied. In
the latter case the places frequented

by the farm poultry should be»
cleaned by scraping and the removal r

of all rubbish so as "to expose. the

 

surface of the soil to the— action“oi
the sun and air during the remain-
ing part of. the year before the
ground is covered \wlth snow.

Another point that requires at-
tention at this time of year is the
making of plans looking to the rear-
ing of chicks next spring. It has
been demonstrated in a most satisp
factory manner that the chicks rais-
ed next spring should be kept_ on
ground that was not occupied by
chicks this year. This will mean
that a separate yard should be pro-
vided of suitable size and near
enough to the farm buildings to re-
duce the labor problem to a. min-
imum. This yard should be suit-
ably fenced and provided with the
necessary equipment that will be re-
quired next spring in the form of
coops, colony houses and other
forms of shelter. The coops and
colony houses must be thoroughly
cleaned and disinfected in the man.
ner already described. If this work
is given attention at this time of
year while the weather is mild, the
tearing of chicks next spring will
not be delayed until warm weather
arrives and the shelters prepared.
In addition, the rush of spring work
often interferes with the proper
preparation of yards and poultry
houses if it is delayed until that
time.

While the measures outlined
above may seem somewhat arduous
from a. labor standpoint, they are
well worth their cost because they
result in a healthier ﬂock during the
winter time and consequently a
larger egg production. They will
also result in a larger crop of chicks
next spring with reduced losses from
diseases of both bacterial and par-
asitic nature.

FEED FOR BENS IN WINTER

Please give me information on
good feeding for laying hens in
winter, warm or cold water method
of feeding—C. C. T., Flint, Mich.

would suggest for winter
equal parts by weight of
equal parts by wieght of
cracked corn, and wheat, fed in deep
litter twice a day. A mash should
be kept before the birds at all times,
I would suggest for winter feeding,
a mash consisting of thirty parts by
weight of ground corn, twenty of
bran, twenty of middlings, twenty
of ground oats, and twenty of meat
scrap. Where milk is available, I
would suggest reducing the meat
scrap to ten parts. We also add
to the above mash three per cent
Calcium Cailiouate and one pound
of salt.

Warm water may be used, but we
have had practically as good results
from feeding cold water. In very
severe weather the water would
freeze quickly, and we have had ex-
cellent results from feeding snow
for a part of the day.—-C. M. Ferg-
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this'in, so as to start any oats or
barley and let them be killed by the
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have your land free of volunteer‘

grains.
Everything Clean

The grain is planted safely with a
clean drill on clean ‘land out of
clean sacks. If by any chance some
rye has still gotten away from you,
you can pull it out of the growing
crop before heading time. Be sure
to take hold of the rye plant near
the root and get it all, as a little
root left in the ground will give you
trouble. It will send up a head.
Remember that most of these things
(if not all of them) should be killed
in preparing the soil for planting as
the pulling must ﬁnish them.

When the crop is ripe clean out

ur binder. Don’t leave even a
ead of another grain sticking to
the canvas, or around the binder.
Haul the grain on clean wagon beds
to the machine. How are you go-
ing to take care of the grain lodged
on inside and in the elevator of the
threshing machine coming from
your neighbor's ﬁeld? Open up the
back so that nothing gets into the
elevator, and do not allow the con-
tents of the elevator to go into the
cylinder. When the machine is
nicely started that way and loose
stuff is out, close up the elevator
and point it toward the cylinder.
Begin on the new variety. Set the
first three or four sacks aside and
make sure that they are not used
for planting. They will contain
nearly all of the foreign grains that
were in the machine. Save your
seed after these sacks of mixed
grain have been set aside. If you
have gotten a bushel of oats, you
.probably have half an acre. This
should produce 25 or 30 bushels at
least. After setting aside six bush-v
eis as mixed, you should still have
20 bushels of seed for next year.
This should plant ten acres.‘ If you
have gotten a bushel of wheat, that
may easily be spread over an acre
and produce 25 or 30 bushels. Af-
ter setting aside the mixture (say
ten bushels) you should still have
ﬁfteen bushels of wheat. Fifteen
bushels will plant ten acres next
year. This is about enough for the
farmer anyway. Be sure to set
aside all that is liable to be mixed
at threshing each year. There is no
excuse for letting the variety run
out.

The second duty of the farmer in
regard to improved varieties of
grain, is to reclean it if it is to be
Sold for seed purposes. It is worth
twice the market price to anyone
who wants seed as it will produce
more and the quality will be better
Every farmer who has been beneﬁt-
ed by improved seed should not only
save it pure for his own use but pass
the good thing along. Let others be
beneﬁted also. Get your neighbor
to plant it even if you have to give
him the seed, Beneﬁt Michigan.

Saving Original Variety
If you did not realize the import-
ance of keeping the seed pure until
on have gotten into trouble, I
Want to help you out of trouble.
Stray heads may be picked out. Sup-
pose the ﬁeld contains wheat and a
considerable mixture of other var-
ieties, the problem is: How can the
original variety be redeemed? If
you can’t buy pure seed there is still
a way. Study the heads of the pure
variety carefully so you will make
no mistake. Rub out a few heads
to make sure you know the right
type of head. Take a galvanized
pail. Support it in front of you by
a tape around your neck and
shoulders. Just before time to cut
your wheat, go into your wheat
astride one of the rows. Pick the
nicest heads of the variety in ques-
tion and no others. You can gath-
er four':pails in two hours or less.
Put the heads in a gunny sack and
hang them up in the dry and away
from the mice where the air cir-
culates. When the heads are dry,
put the sack on a bench or smooth
hard surface and pound it with a

stick. The grain may be thorough-'

1y thresh'ed in that way. Look over
your fanning mill to make sure that
1': .containsvno other grain. Fan out
7m..samnle and plant it in, small
mace away from other.
harvested. you had best ﬂail it

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for if you attempt to put‘ it in an
ordinary thresher, you have lost
your work. The product of this
ﬂailing should give you enough to
plant an acre and a half or two

acres. This can be threshed with
a machine, setting aside the ﬁrst
few sacks.

In conclusipn it would be well to
say something regarding the value
of the fanning mill. One should
be accessible to every farm if not
actually owned by every farmer. In
no other way can the farmer control
his weeds as well as by means of
the farming mill. If you sow weed
seed you can expect to grow weeds
and have them to ﬁght. The fewer
weeds you sow the less your trouble
further on. By means of the fan-
ning mill the farmer can select out
the largest and nicest grains of his
seed for planting. The large grains
have more food for the young plant
which like other young things, will
do better if fed well at the start.

While the fanning selects seeds
that will insure vigorous plants, do
not be deceived by thinking that
you can breed grain with, a fanning
mill. That is another thing. I have
told you that a tribe originating
from a single seed is very constant
in its type. The grains of any tribe
are not all the same size. They vary
considerably. Imagine a lot of these
tribes mixed together. The size of
the grains vary considerably in all
the tribes. If you fan out the
largest grains, it may be possible
that you will fail to save any of a
very small tribe and thus get rid of
it, but you will get large grains rep-
resenting many tribes and next year
your grain will be almost the same
so far as heredity goes.

High yielding pedigreed varieties
can be obtained thru the Michigan
Crop Improvement Association, an
organization of farmers who take
the trouble to keep the grain pure.
The Secretary’s address is East
Lansing. ‘

DATES FOR POTATO SHOW SET
HE second annual Top 0’ Mich-
igan Potato Show will be held
at Gaylord on November 5th,
6th and 7th according to Mr. A. C.
Lytle, the Secretary. The Board of
Directors proposed several changes
for improving and enlarging it. The
premiums will be naturally increas—
ed, among the additions being a
sweep-stakes for each county, thus
making it possible for the best man
in each county to gain recognition
as well as the man Who gets the
grand sweep—stakes in the district.
Orders for a couple of carioads of
fancy stuff at fancy prices will
again be offered to the growers who
win in certain classes.

Another feature which should at-
tract considerable interest is the of-
fering of $60 in prizes to the school
children in the district who write
the best essays on growing potatoes.
The rules for the contest will be
published later. These winners will
also be the guests at the annual
banquet held during the Show.

Up—to-date machinery is almost
essential for eﬁiciency in potato pro-
duction as cultural methods and for
that reason it was decided to invite
several important implement deal-
ers to exhibit their latest types of
machinery used in connection with
potato culture.

Financial Support
This Show obtains its ﬁnances

 

' from the Board of Supervisors of

the various potato counties. Each

quota is based on thepotato produc— 5

tion of the previous year, and the
distance from the seat of the Show
——Gaylord. The State Department
of Agriculture, the M. C. R. R., and

other organizations also contribute V
No country can make .

toward it.
entries unless 75 per cent of its
quota is appropriated. Thus far,
the following counties have either
appropriated, or have given assur-
ance of doing so:——Cheboygan, Ot-
sego, Alpena, Montmorency, Craw-
ford, and Antrim. Presque Ile, no
doubt, will also see ﬁt to join in
soon. The Top 0' Michigan is al-
ready famous for the quality of its

potatoes and the Show this year will‘

be another factor in raising. this
quality and making uninformed
folks aware of the superiority of
Michigan's .Product—E. ~ J. Leen-
houta. ‘

arieties of? seed Lose identity

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helps your moulters 'moult
“ Moulting saps a hen ’s vitality-

JUST remember that forcing out
the old quills and growing a new
plumage of a thousand feathers is
a serious business.

It requires just so much feed, so
much grain converted into nutri-
tion to do that job.

~ Now, the more you can get your
ﬂock to eat and assimilate each
day, the quicker your hens will get
back to laying.

Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce—a‘
keeps your moulters from getting
into that run-down, unhungry
stage.

It contains tonics that tone up'
the appetite—tomes that promote
digestion. .

It contains Iron-—so essential
to a moulting hen—Iron that
keeps the paleness away. '

Pan—a—ce—a your hens. See them
begin to eat. See the old feathers
let loose—see the new plumage
come.

Costs Little to Use Pan-a-ce-a
The price of just one egg pays for
all the Pan-a-ce—a a hen will eat in six
months.
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your investment is a, proﬁtable one. Otherwise, return the
empty container to your dealer and get your money back.

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Improvement in All Lines of Business
Grain Prices Highest Since 1920-Cattle Market}

 
 

Expected to Improve Soon
By W. W. FOOTE, Market Editor.

ILE there are several factors

Which would not indicate the

best of promises for some in-
dustries, the farming industry and
agriculture generally, whether it be
dirt farming or live stock farming,
is seen in much better light than it
has been for several years. A year
ago agriculture did not keep pace
with the expansion of other indus—
tries but this year it is the farmers'
inning.

Six months ago the grain belt was
in the grip of depression, loaded with
indebtedness and confronted with
market prices nearly equal to a pre
war basis. Since good times in trade
generally are dependent on the pros—
perity of the farming districts, all
industrial circles were handicapped.

As business has entered the fall
Season however. improvement has
been noted in all lines and optimism
runs rampant. Stocks and bonds
have advanced to the highest levels
for several years and grain prices
have risen to levels higher than any
time since 1920.

While the new corn crop is of un-
certain outcome and promises to be
around three-fourths of a normal
crop this year owing to the back-
ward spring and wet cool weather
all summer, the market on this grain
has advanced rapidly. All small
grains have gained over a year ago
but corn has outdistanced the entire
list. Recent quotations at around
$1.20 for cash corn stands 30c above
a year ago and on December corn
at $1.14 around 56c above a year
ago. The new crop looks good and
is still growing. but it is in danger
of frost. There has been far too
much moisture for the crop to ma-
ture and although ears are well
formed the grain is soft. Reports
from most corn belt sections say
that the crop is from two to four
Weeks late. West of the Missouri
River however, it looks more favor-
able and a bumper yield is looked
for. Recent hot winds throughout
northern Kansas and Southwestern
Nebraska however have done some
damage to the grain.

Corn Important Crop

At a meeting of the managers of
joint stock banks, Guy Huston, presi—
dent of the Chicago Joint Stock
Land Bank, expressed great conﬁ-
dence in the future of corn belt
lands. He stated that the value of
corn belt land was going to increase,
his judgment being based on the
value of the corn crop itself. Corn
is becoming more and more import-
ant as a commercial product. Most
of the grain, of course, is marketed
through meat animals but during the
last several years the grain has been
used more extensively for other
edible products. Corn syrup, for ex—
ample was exported in small quanti—
ties, quarts and gallons a decade or
so ago, while now it is shipped in
great tank steamers. Corn oil, corn
starch, corn sugar and other corn
by—products are being manufactured
in large quantities and consequently
utilizing a large amount of the year's
production. During the last four
years, bumper crops of corn have
been used without any surplus re-
maining. This year with a short
crop in sight, the market has almost
gone into a panic. Corn is coming
into it’s own and the corn belt ecc—
tions are goingr to increase in value,
according to this close observer of
agriculture.

On Tuesday of last week, grain at
the Chicago market. shattered re—
cords for the last six years without
much change in prices. Around
5,832,000 bushels of grain arrived
at that great terminal market, wheat
being in the lead at 2,536,800

bushels the largest since 1918. Oats
were offered in nearly as large a
quantity and corn receipts were more
than three-fourths
bushels. 4

of a million

“Remarkable efﬁciency of the mar—
keting machinery was never more
sharply evidenced,” said L. L. ‘Win-

ters, economist and member of the'

Chicago Be“ ‘ of Trade. “With no
material price recessions, the market
has absorbed a tremendous amount
of grain in a natural and normal
way.”

If such heavy receipts had been
rushed into the market on a single
day a few months ago, the trade
would undoubtedly have been de—
moralized. Conﬁdence isfelt gen-
erally in the grain business and high
prices, based on supply and demand
are being maintained. This means
inevitable prosperity for the farmer.

Wheat has sold at $1.50 recently
on a cash basis with December wheat
quoted up to $1.29. Cash corn is
quoted at $1.20 with December corn
at $1.14. Oats sold at 490 with De-
cember oats at 530. Cash rye prices
have been up to 91c with December
at 96c.

Europe Buys Grain

The signing of the Dawes repara—
tions plan by the leading European
powers has paved a way for Europe
to become a big buyer of cash grain
in the United States. Recently huge
grain purchases have been made on
export account of this reparations
plan. Over 6,000,000 bushels of
wheat, 2,000,000 bushels of rye,
around 1,000,000 bushels of oats and
600,000 bushels of barley have been
sold to Europe during the last week.
The immense cash business has
dwarfed the speculative interest in
the markets as purchases of all
futures of wheat, corn and rye were
only 82,000,000 on a certain day
when the cash business was very
much greater.

Live Stock Situation
While the grain farmer is enjoy—
ing a gleam of prosperity, the live
stock man has not had a thrill as
yet. However prices for cattle have

maintained a fair price level
throughout the year. Hog prices
were low until this summer. Sheep

and lambs were on a money making
basis most of the time. Hogs have
advanced but not in proportion to
corn prices. Corn is over 50c above

a year ago. Hogs are around $1.00
higher than a_year,'two and three
years ago.

Using the old ratio of 10 bushels
of corn to 100 lbs. of pork, hog:
should be selling for $4.00 higher

than they are now in comparison.

with present corn prices. The cattle
situation even looks worse. Prices

'are new around $2.00 below a year

ago on beef steers. Sheep and lambs
are 50 to 75c higher than a year ago.

Receipts of hogs were the largest
on record during the early part of
the present year and total receipts
at eleven leading markets during
the ﬁrst two months at 8,161,000
showed an increase of 1,040,000 over
the corresponding period a year pre—
vious. Receipts had a 1,040,000
lead on the previous year but by
June reductions in marketings had
diminished this lead to 836,000 head.
Recent total receipts show still fur-
ther reduction and the year’s total
to date is only 497,000 more than
last year, the 1924 total being
around 26,050,000 against 25,553,-
000 for the same period in 1923.
Since March, the reduction has aver-
aged 90,000 head a month. This
shows to some extent why the pros—
pects for the hog market is good
and what the trend will be if re-
ceipts continue to decrease.

The price range on mixed packing
hogs recently at $8.60 to $10.25
stood from $1.15 to $1.50 above a
year ago. Heavy packing and se—
lected shipping hogs ranged from
$8.35 to $10.15 recently against
$6.75 to‘ $8.75 a year previous and
light packing and shipping grades
at $8.50 to $10.35 showed an ad—
vance of as much as $1.25 over a
year ago.

Erratic Cattle Markets

Cattle markets have been very
erratic this year and especially so
during the past two or three weeks.
Good and choice heavy steers have
touched the lowest levels of the year
recently and also some of the best
prices of the year. Advances and
declines of $1.00 or more have been
made within a few days.

Under weight of burdensome sup-
plies, buyers were unable to break
the market sharply but when re-
ceipts were curtailed they were
forced to increase their bids 50c or
more a day. At the close of last
week prices on yearlings and heavy
steers were virtually as high as any
time since the peak last April when
$12.60 was paid. However, the
market still stands around $1.00 be-
low that high mark. Tap yearlings
sold at $11.50 with heavies reaching

 

 

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

 

 

 

Detroit Chicago Detroit Detroit
Sept. 10 Sept. 10 Aug. 27 1 yr. ago

WHEAT—

No. 2 Red $1.26 $1.28 311 $1.06

No. 2 White 1.28 1'26 1.07

No. 2 Mixed .27 1.20 - 1.06
CORN— 1 23

No. 3 Yellow 1.25 1.21 1-18 .95

No. 4 Yellow 1.% 1.20 ' .94
OATb-— 62

No. 2 White .62 48@49 -60 .42 1,4

No. 3 \Vhite .60 46@47 ‘ .40 is
RYlu—-« 94

Cash No. 2 .93 861,5 - .75
BEANS— .. _

C. H. P. cm. 5.75 @ 5.80 3.00 5-80 @ 0-90 5.50
PO’I‘ATOES— _

Per cm. 1.50 @ 1.60 1.15@ 1.20 1-30@1-40 2.83 @800
HA 1(—

No. 1 Tim. 22 23 24 @25 1_9 @20 20.50@21

No. 2 Tim. 20 21 21 2523 17 @.18 18@ 19

No. 1 Clover 19@20 18 20 19 @J0 15@ 18

Light Mixed 21 @28 23521124 18@ 19 19.50@2o

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 10.———Wheat holding steady with receipts large. Frost re-
ports send ‘corn up. Oats steady and inactive. Rye and beans called ﬁrm.

 

 

-‘ Detroit. Chicago ﬁnd Buffalo Wednesday Live-Stock Markets Next Page.

 

$11.25. Scarcity of corn in the
country has forced many‘cattle to
market which might have been dis-
tributed throughout the fall months
had corn been more plentiful "or the
price not so high, as to keep feeders
from replenishing their bins.

The high price of corn also has re-
sulted in a slow stacker and feeder
market, and slightly more than
14,000 feeders left the Chicago mar-
ket during August against 24,310 in
1923. The bulk of stockers and
feeders have been selling from $5.50
to $6.75, while fat cattle price!
ranged mostly from $9.00 to $10.75.

The marketward movement of west--

cm range cattle has been steady for
the past month but prices have gen-
erally been lower than a year ago.
Most western steers good enough for
slaughter have been selling from
$6950 to $7.50 with those .in stocker
and feeder ﬂesh mainly from $5.25
to $6.25. A few lots of well bred
meaty western steers however, have
found country outlet at $7.00 to
$7.50, and better during the past
few weeks.

The numerous offerings of range
steers has had a bad effect on native
cows and heifers of grass descrip-
tion. Good corn fed cows and fat
baby beef heifers are maintaining
their position along with corn fed
steers but grassy cows and heifers
are selling downward to $3.50 and
$4.00 for beef purposes. Canners
are of quality and condition to sell
within a spread of $4.25 to $6-50
with heifers frequently going at
$6.00 to $8.00 and a few of the best
up to $10.00 and above.

Other classes of cattle, Inclmﬂnc
bulls and calves have shown strength
recently owing to light supplies. Bo—
logna bulls sold up to' $5.00 for best
kinds recently but commoner grades
ranged down to $4.00 and $4.25
veal calves have been in light supply
for a month or two and prices can-
tiue to hold around $12.50 to $13.50
and even up to $14.00 for best of.
ferings.

With corn values at high levels,
and general business improving, the
cattle market is expected to improve
as the season advances. Hide markets
have been active and advancing re-
cently, this being a factor directly
connected with the market on live
cattle. A year ago the year’s peak
was reached while two years previ—
ous the high time was on October.
So far this year the high time of
cattle prices was in April.

Lambs Hold Up

The feature in the sheep and lamb
market recently has been big receipts
with bread shipping demand with
very little price change. A large pro-
portion of the receipts late have been
western range sheep and lambs.
Breeding and feeding demand has
absorbed a good share of the supply
at prices almost in line with fat
stock. A year ago feeder buyers
outbid killers on range lambs butvso
far this year, such has not been the
case. ~

Choice native lambs have sold up
to $13.50 to $14.00 recently with
fat western lambs at $14.15. Medium
to good grades have cleared from
$13.00 to $13.25 with common nat-
ive down to $12.00 and $12.25.. Culls
were listed at $8.00 to $10.00. Feed-
ing demand for lambs has taken
many good qualitied offerings st
$12.50 to $13.00. Breeding ewes
sold from $6.50 to $8.00 for full
months with some of the best going
up to $9.50. 'iood breeding year—
ling ewes were quoted above the lat-
ter ﬁgure with some at $11.00.
Feeding ewes were quoted from
$5.00 tov$6.00 with yearlings at
$9.00 to $10.00 for feeding pur-
poses.

A recent adverse inﬂuence fn the
live stock market which was more
or less over done was the ﬁnancial
diﬂ‘iculty connected with Wilson «I:
C0,, the big meat packers, when they
went into the hands of receivers.
Wilson was out of the market one
day when reorganization of the
company was being made but there-

after they are aetive purchasers of

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tired. Believers in higher prices are
expecting an increase of speculative
buying in the near futrue, which will
support prices, but I the bears are
ngch’inclined to think that s’pec-
. plators are rather skeptical as to the
future of the market, and will pur-
chase only small amounts of wheat,
Illuming that “prices might take a
drop and give them a heacy loss.
Farmers have been very anxious to
market their wheat and as a result
there has been rather a large supply.
which has weakened the market to
I certain extent. During the fore.
of last week wheat was bought
vily for expert, but there was
some decrease in the demand during
the latter part of the week, although
at. price advanced. According to
Detroit dealers Michigan wheat is
not pressing on the parket, and the
demand is active.' This wheat is
wanted for milling and export»

CORN

Corn has ﬂuctuated so widly that
dealers have steered clear of it be-
ing afraid to handle deals. Reports
from the country show the crop pro-

ossing nicely, but there is constant

r of a frost that will cause great
damage. This constant fear hanging
over the market will prevent prices
from declining very much. It is all
a matter of weather. and there is
no telling how high prices will go
if there is a genuine frost over the
corn states within the next week
or so.

 

OATS

The Detroit oat market has been
without life, and prices are unchang-
ed. Most of the cat crop was harv-
ested and threshed in good condition,
and the farmers are storing the cats
in their granary instead, of rushing
them on the market.

 

RYE

About the same tone prevails in
a the rye market as in oats, although
the price has declined some during
the week ending Saturday, Septem-
ber 6th. Where a former was able
to have his rye threshed when it was
thoroughly dry, and can place it in
bins, and have it keep in good con-
dition. we believe that it will proﬁt
him to keep his rye until later, be-
cause the foreigners are bound to
be in the market for it and will pay
a, very good price if the farmer is
not overly anxious to sell.

 

BEANS

The bean market has acted rather
queer during the past week or two,
prices declining from ten to ﬁfteen
cults at Detroit. while indications
are that there will not~be as many
beans this year as last. The outlook
is that Michigan will have a good
size 'crop nearly as large as last year,
although serious damage has been
reported from many sections. Re.
ports come in of many ﬁelds ‘that
are not ﬁlling well, the beans blos-
somed but failing to pod; however,
this condition is not believed to be
very general. According to reports
Californiia will produce only a few
white beans this year, and Colorado
reports serious damage from contin-
ued drought. However New York
and Wisconsin both report they will
have better than a normal crop.
All indications are that Michigan will
be able to control the price of pea
beans the coming season than for
several years, and the price should
not decline much below present level.

POTATOES
There has been a oetter demand
for potatoes during the fortnight
ending Saturday, September 6th,
and as a result prices show a sub-
stantial gain. The m rket has a
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the situation of the wool traders
“em to be directed toward the
Brisbane auction Where prices still
show signs of yielding. Most of the
dealers, in view of the volume of
foreign buying at Brisbane are held-
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allowed considerable hay to accum~
ulate at all markets and this large

‘oifering tended to weaken prices.

The demand for choice hay con-
tinues good but damaged and low
grade stock is selling at a discount.
Some western and southern markets
show exception to the Beneral con-
dition by a display of strength, due
to small arrivals, but at most cities
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DETROIT PRODUCE

APPLES-usupplios liberal, demand and
movement light. market slightly weaker:
Michigan bushels, Duchess, No. Is, fancy.
100,1.15; fair, 05-860; mostly 760: New
York bushels, Duchess. No. is. fair to
good, "-1.00; Ill. bushels, Maiden Blush,
mostly 1.60; 111. bushels _ Wolf Rivers
mostly 1.75; Calif. boxes Grovenstoins,
large, 3,604.00 ; modim-2.50~l.25: mall,
1,504.00.

BERRIES-mﬁuokleberrles, supplies lib-
oral, £13de and movement light, market
weak, Michigan 16-pt. crates, 2.25-3.25,
according to quality and condition.

GRAPES—Supplies liberal, demand and
movement light; market slightly weaker
on Thompson Seedless and Malagas; weak
on other varieties; Thompson Seedless.

Calif. crates, LOO-1.15; few inferior low
as 85c; lugs, 65-900; Malagas, Calif.
crates, fancy, 1.60-1.75; fair, 1.35-1.50;

Tokays, Calif. crates, mostly 2.75; Mus-
cats, lugs, 854.00; Zinfadels, quoted, 1.75-
1.85; Blue Grau, lugs, 1.75-2.00; Rose
Peru, none reported; Ark. Climax, bas-
kets, Concorde, 4—qt. 33-85c.

PEACHES—Supplies moderate, demand
and movement good on good stock; light
on inferior; market steady; Illinois, none
reported; Deleware, bushels, Eibertas,
fair, 2.50-2.75, few 3.00; ordinary, 2.00-
2.25; Maryland, bushels, Elbertas, 2.50-
2.75; Champions, 2.00; crates, Elbertas,
last sales reported, 2.50-2.75; Oklahoma,
bushels, Elbertas, 3.00; Maryland bushels,
Hales, fancy, 3.25.

P E A R S—Supplies moderate, demand
and movement slow on bushels, moderate
on boxes; market weaker on bushels,
steady on boxes; Mich. bushels, Clapps
Favorite, windfalls, 1.00; New York, bu.
Clamps Favorite, No. Is, mostly 2.00; No.
2s, 1.50. Flemish Beauty, mostly 2.00;
Colorado bushels, Bartletts, No. 15, 3.00-
8.25: Calif. Oregon, ColeradO. boxes
Bartletts, large, 3.90-4.25.

PLUMS—Micbigtan. New York, bushels,
Burbanks, mostly 1.00, slow; Ohio 4-qt,
baskets, Lombardt, 350; Green Gage, 500.

ONIONS—Supplies liberal, demand and
movement light, market slightly weaker;
Mass, Calif. none reported; Ohio, 100-ib.
sacks, Yellows, saxoline, 2.25—2.50, burlap,

2,00; Indiana, loo-lb. sucks, 2.25-2.50,
mostly 2.25; Canadian, Michigan, none
reported.

LIVE STOCK MARKETS

DETROIT, Sept. 10.—Cattle——Receipts,
287. Market opening slow; looks around
25c lower on heavy, coarse and common.
000d to choice yearlings quotable, $8.50
@10; best heavy steers,, $7.50@8.50; best
handy weight butcher steers, $6.50@7.25;
mixed steers and heifers, $5@6; handy
light butchers, $4.50@5; light butchers,
$4@4.25; best cows, $4.50@5; butcher
cows, $3.25@4; common cows, $2.50@
2.75; canners, $2@2.25: best light bulls,
$465; bologna bulls, “@435; stock
bulls, $3.50@4; feeders, $4@6.50; stock-

ers, $i@6; milkers and springers, $45
@90.
Veal Calves—Receipts, 372. Market

steady. Best, 513.5062“; others, $4ﬁ13.
Sheep and lanlbs—Rece‘ ts, 1,187. Mar-
ket opening slow. Best amlbs, $13.50@
14; fair lambs, $10.50@12.75; light to
common lambs, $7@8.75: fair to good
sabeep, $5@6.50; culls and common, $1.50
3.75.
Hogs—Receipts—1,687. Market pros-
?Ects: Mixed and yorlccrs, $1.25; pigs,
.75. ‘

CHICAGO—H o g s ~Receipts, 3,000;
market steady to strong. Top, $10; 250
90111163 weight, $9.10@9.90; medium

weight, $9.55@10; light lights, $8.90@10;
heavy packing sows, smooth, $8.60@9;
raglan: sows, rough, 5808.60; pigs $6.50

Cattle—Rodents, 500; market steady.
Beef steers: Choice and prime, $10.25@
11.25; medium and good, $8.50@9.50;
good and choice, 810011.50; common and
medium, $7@9;. Butcher cattle: Heifers,
$5@9.50; cows, $4@8; bulls $4@7. Can-
ners and cutters: Cows and heifers, $2.25
@450; oanner steers, $5@7. Veal calves,
light and handy weight, 811.5061“
feeder steers, $6@8.25; shocker steers.
$5.50@8; stacker cows and heifers, $3@

6.60; shocker Calves, $5.50 @ $8.00. Wests
cm range cattle: Beef steers, $6 @9 ;
cows and heifers, $3 0 6.50. Calves—e

Beceipts, 200.
Sheep and lmbszeoolous. 1.000; mar-

ket study- lambs. fat. BIBOM; culls ”

and common, $8.50@9.50; yearlings, $10
11.50; wethers, 37.60639: ewes. $5.50?
.50; culls and common, $150685:

_ breeding, $5.50@11.50; feeder lambs, $12

013,

BUFFALO—C 5 Nil cue-Receipts. 100 :
market active. Prime steers, $10.50@11;
shipping steers, $8010.25 ; butcher grades,
87.500950; heifers, “OH 0033- $30

 

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bulls. 1305.75 ; tenders. 84.38.05.150;
cows and springers, $30@120.
Calvea—Receipts, 100;
Cull to choice, $3 @13.
Sheep and lambs—Receipts, 600; mar-
kot slow. Choice lambs, $13@13.50: cull
to fair. $8@11.50; yearlings,
sheep, $3@7.
Hogan-Receipts, 4,000;
Yorkers, $8.75@10.5o; pigs, $8.75@9;
mixed, $10.40@10.50; heavy, $10.40@
10.50; roughs, $8.25@8.50; stags, $4@5.

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milk

market slow.

market slow.

OFFICIAL MARKETGRAM

U. S. Bureau of Agricultural I” .uiomics.

Washington, D. C. for week ending
September 5, 1924.
FEED-F e e d markets inactive. No

pressure of wheatfeeds from west and no
improvement in eastern demand. Hominy
feed easier but mill offerings are light
demand poor. Linseed meal slightly
easier with future shipments quoted at
32—53 from prompt. Cottonseed meal
little lower with occasion one car orders
and very light speculative demand.

Quoted September 5: Spring bran
Minneapolis $38.50. Spring Middlings $25.-
50. 34% Linseed meal$43.50. Chicago
Gluten feed “0.80. Yellow Mommy feed
“1. 36% Cottonseed meal Memphis $39.
Sixty percent tankage at various mark-
kets at $60.

DAIRY PRODUCTS—Butter markets
nervous and unsettled during the week.
Scarcity of fancy quality the only sus-
taining inﬂuence. Production still run-
ning fairly heavy and prospects good for
heavy fall make. Foreign situation im-
proetant with possibility of exports
rather than imports although no real
business.

Closing prices 92 score butter: New
York 37%, Chicago 371/4, Boston 38%;,
Philadelphia 38%,.

CROP REPORTS
Benien—Corn looking fair. Oats good
crop. Early potatoes doing ﬁne. A1-
falfa hay is ﬁlling the barns to the peak
for those who grow it. Cucumbers will
be a. short crop not enough hot weather.
We have no peaches. We have some up-

plcs. Sowing the orchard land to cover
crops is in vogue—D. A. 10., County
Agent.

Ottawa—Soil drying out rapidly mak-
ing plowing somewhat more (lificult. Cn'n
progressing slowly, will require good
weather for four weeks to mature major-
ity of crop. Some corn too late to ma-
ture. Wheat and oats threshed out ex-
cellent yields. Early potatoes were the
best ever. Late potatoes look good but
acreage is small. Fruits not coloring up
much and are quite small, will require
favorable weather to ripen—C. Milhazn,
County Agent.

St. ClaikWeather the past week has
been very offending for maturing of the
corn crop. Much threshing yet undone.

Livingston—~Com crop has improved
materially, but will have to have some
more warm weather. Oats and wheat
have threshed out considerable about the
average. The bean crop will be short,
blight having hit the late beans severely.
Potatoes look good—C. L. Bolander.

Lancer—Grain turning out Well. Bean
yield being cut seriously by blight. Corn
needs lots of good weather to make a
crop of grain. Beets fair. Potatoes fair.
-—A. J. Patch, County Agent.

Manistee—Kllling frosts in sections
east of Chief Lake. Corn requires 10
days to mature best ﬁelds. Cold weather
offers little hope. Plums heavy crop
prospect. Apples, peaches and pears light
and poor quality. Beans 50%. Potatoes
80%. Oat threshing in progress, yield
good, weather damage 10%.-——H. W.
Vaughn.

Newaygo—«Northern part of county hit
by frost. Central and Southern sections
prospects good if frost holds off two or
three weeks. Potatoes looking fine, grain
yielding above normal. Apples light and
no market—~Clair Taylor.

 

GRAND RAPIDS READY FOR
RECORD-BREAKIN G FAIR
HE stage is all set in Grand Rap-
ids for the West Michigan Fair
which opens Monday the 15th

for ﬁve days and nights and from
the entries that have been made, it
is a safe bet that the 1924 Fair will

-go down in history as the biggest of

them all.

President Wm. T. Morrissey Who
took the active management of the
fair early this year is determined
to give the people of Michigan a
well-balanced fair and has left no
stone unturned to provide educa-
tional features that will long be re—
membered as well as a full program
of super-quality attractions and
amusement features.

Silos are being built this year to beat
the frost in harvesting the corn crop.

FREE BOOK ABOUT CANCER

The Indianapolis Cancer Hospital,
Indianapolis, Indiana, has published
a booklet which gives interesting
facts about the cause of Cancer, also
tells what to do for pain. bleeding:
odor, etc. A valuable guide in the
management of any case. Write for
it today, mentioning this paper.(Adv.

$7@10; »

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4mm AOMW
COLLEGE?

OW many farmlboys who go to

college this fall will take agri-

culture? Fewer than last year
probably, due to conditions. The
head of one institution tells us that
early registrations of ﬁrst-year men
in the college of agriculture are
only three-fourths as large as a year
ago at the same time, while total
enrollments in the same university
are ahead of a year ago on the same
date. That is likely to be the con-
dition when school opens, in this in-
stitution and most others.

If we were guessing we would say
now is the time for young men, to
invest in agricultural training. It
is generally agreed, we presume,
that higher education in any line
pays. At least that is the founda-
tion of all material progress in this
world. Study has given us the dis-
coveries and inventions that have
added to our prosperity and com-
fort. Agriculture is one of our
greatest industries, and its need for
trained men is as great if not great-
er than that of any other business
or profession. That need will grow
rapidly, because there are relatively
so few men who have had agricul-
tural training. The young man who
comes out of college four years
hence will ﬁnd a wide opportunity
in the ﬁeld of agriculture. And at
that time he is likely to be very
grateful to those who this year urge
and make it possible for him to
enter a college of agriculture—-
Chicago Daily Drovers Journal.

ADOPT HERD PREFIX NAMES

HREE Michigan Holstein breed—

ers recently adopted herd prefix

names which are reserved for
their exclusive use in naming anim-
als of their purebred herds in the
Herd Book of The Holstein-Friesian
Association of America. The name
reserved by each owner with his
name and address follow: “Mich-
san,” State Sanatorium, Howell;
“Monrona,” George J. Schroeder,
Monroe; and “Trifolium,” J. Am—
brose Rouech, Bay City.

FILL YOUR COAL BIN FREE!

Special oﬂer to Michigan Business
Farmer Readers

vsmsss FARMER readers are of-

fered an opportunity of doing

that very thing—ﬁlling their
coal bins without spending a dollar,
and ﬁlling them with the best grade
of free—burning coal. That sounds
good, but how can they do it? Here
is the way; it’s open to all.

At 1800 Coal Exchange Builtb
ing, Chicago, there is an old and Well
established concern known as the
Popular Coal Co. They have been
selling coal direct to the consumer
for years and now have hundreds of
customers among the farmers of
Michigan and the neighboring
states. These are customers who
are buying again this year because
the coal has always been good. And
it cost them from $1.50 to $2.00 a
ton less than they could get the
same coal for anywhere else.

Among your friends and neigh-
bors there are a lot of people who
would be delighted to know where
and how they could get this small—
cut coal at such a saving and with
no trouble whatever to them.

Just Toll Thom How
That is absolutely all you have to

do. The plan on which this coal is
sold is well tried out—no experi-
ment. Those who know it say it is

the most sensible way to get their
year’s supply. Wherever it is start-
ed they keep it up.

\Vr'ibe for Details of the Plan

It you want to earn a year’s sup-
ply of coal and at the same time
produce .a big saving for your
friends and neighbors, write the
Popular Coal Company, 1800 Coal
Exchange Bldg, Chicago, for the
plan that these people use. Ask
them for some letters from people:
who have tried it. The publishers
of THE Busmnss FABMEB, have tried
it and know it is good and havel
highly recommended it. Your neigh-
bors use about ﬁfteen tons of coal
apiece in a winter. What one would-
n’t thank you for saving him from
$23 to $30? WRITE NOW. Prices
will start going up before long. Get
your friends in at today’s exception-
ally low prices and GET YOURS
FREE. Don’t delay.—(Adv.)

  

 
 


 

; Tractor

 

Lay-Offs
—Use

  

- TH E' PERFECT] MOTOR  

Made in Five Grades

   

A. large percentage of tractor breakdowns are chargeable to worn parts, caused by
frlCthIl wear due to lack of lubncation.

And a breakdown in the middle of a busy season is costly.

Polarine protects tractor parts by maintaining at all times an unbroken cushion of oil
on all beanng surfaces, thereby promoting the free actlon of all moving parts. The
use of Polarme IS a sound busmess pr0position.

 

 

 

Recommendations
TRAGTOBS Trade Name Motor 0"
Trude Nam. Motor 0" Mogul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .
Adaptable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..H. Moline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3. H.

' 6-1:. ....... .. Monarch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

‘ Other Modelaﬂ. H. Nikon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..S H.
ABWuk ................. .. one“ ................... ..nn.
ﬂown-M . . . . . . . . . ..E.H. gloom .................... 

p can . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. once: ................... .. .
Janna-Mum ..... ..s 11 ..................... ..s.11
Anltman-Txyh.0thaModelLS. E. Rix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .S. H.
Automotive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rmnley, Oil Pull. 12-20, 16-30
Am.c.&no.an.m.....n. and ................ .. .
very, Truck Runner . . . . . . ..S. H. Rumley, Other Models . . . . . ..E. H.
Aru'y.0thurModelo....... H Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..S.
Bind Hula. Midwest Samson ................... ..S H.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. H. 

Bates,0therMnddl . . . . . . . ..H Square'l‘urn. ............. ..E.H.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “RH. Stimson.....................B.H.

. . . . . . . . . . . ..E.H.  8.11.

Big Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..EH. Topp—Stenrt ............. . .S. H.

M1048, Mudlb-Z'I..H. Toro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

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

One mm- ....... ..E.H. Traylur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .

F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Tmndaar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..S. H.
Clemw ................ ..E. H. 'I‘winCity,12-203nd 2035...S. H.

................ ..E.H. ‘City, 
Dart........ S H. Uncleﬁim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..S. H.
Eagle .................... ..S H. allis .................... ..S. H.
 S H. WaterlooBoy ............. ..E. H.
Ellwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..H. Wetmore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8. H.
Farmilnﬂmu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  moonsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..S. H.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. L

Flour City. Junior and 2m .8- I1 Anmo...f.U..TlY.A.1.-9ﬁsm .
FlourCiW-OWMMdIm-EH- Aro ...................... ..H.
Fordson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..S. H. Avery . . . . . . _ . _ . I _ . . . . O ‘ . . “E
Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..E.H. Baum. _ . _ _ . - . . _ . _ ' _ _ . . _ . _ _ “E
Frick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..E. H. Bm . . _ _ _ . . . . . . . . . . _ _ . “B;
Gray ..................... ..B. H. Bolmu‘ E
Hut-PIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “EH. Boring ‘ _ _ _ . . - O _ . _ . _ . . D ‘ _ . “H
Haida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..8. H. Calm l . _ ' _ . . _ _ . . ' . . . . _ H 11
Holt, 2-Ttm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..H. murmur . ' . _ _ . . _ . . _ . . _  E
Holt» Modd- -------- JUL Lionel .............. ..H.
Huber .................... ..S. H. e I _ . . . . _ _ . . . . . . ' _ I O __3_
Indians._ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..H. Man . _ . . . I I . . . . . “M.
IntematlnnaL . . . . . . . . . . . . . “EH MOW Mﬁntm. _ . _ . _ . ' “g. E
J T . . . . . . n n u o n n - u n a a s n . u ..E. -  . . - . . . . . . . . . . I ..H‘
{11%) ------------------- ~§ﬁ E.‘ .................. ..H.
a on .................. Wheel . _ _ . I _ _ . _ . . _ O . _ “ER
Lauson ................... ..S. H.  I _ . . _ _ _ _ . ' _ . I . . I . . "a
Leader ................... ..B. H.
[sound .................. ..8. H.
Liberty ................... .  g: L_pd.ﬂ.. u‘h.
whit“; n n . . . . . . . n . . . . . ..8. E,  
umW-a:nm““=m“z::zzz::: n—PoI-rI-e new
Minneapolis. 12-25 and 17-30 S. H. Sl—Polaﬂnesndallleavy
mum 0am- H. EE-Pohﬂnmraleavy

 

N. BE-For recommendations of grades of Paldn'ne to
user's ' andtmgksconsulgchartatmy
Standard Oil Company (Iudmna) Station.

 

 

Polarine minimizes friction by an oil ﬁlm
of.cor_rect body under all working condltlons. It mam-
tains Its body because:

First—It is made from carefully selected crude petro-
eum.

Second—Because it is reﬁned and treated by a special
process to remove those elements which tend to form
gum and carbon.

Third—Because it undergoes elaborate chemical and
Operating tests in the laboratory and in the ﬁeld, which
check up the work of the Standard Oil Company (Ind-
iana) staff of lubricating engineers, in producing a
lubricating oil which will stand up under all temper-
ature and mechanical conditions.

Fourth—Because there is a correct grade of Polarine
for your tractor. When you use this grade you are
sure of the right body, Weight and consistency—the
oil which will conserve all the power of your engine.

Use Polarine and get the best work out of your tractor.

' Put your automotive activities On a business basis.
It pays!

 

,

Standard Oil, Company
910 S. Michigan Ave. (Indiana) Chicago, Ill. 3491

 

 

 

  

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