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‘ and Gray Sliver resigned as director

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SIGN FMM »- FARM BUREAU",
OHN "W. COVERDALE resigned

as secretary and director of or-

ganization of the American
Farm Bureau federation at the
quarterly session of the executive
Sept.

of the legislative department and
WWW nmueltative of the
federation.

The two oﬁcials of the farm bur-
eau resigned, it was stated, to de-
vote all their time to the newli or-
ganized Grain .Marketing company,
a corporation which plans ultimate-
1y to take over ﬁve large grain'com-
panics and operate them on a coop-
erative basis. Mr. Silver is presi-
dent of the grain marketing com—
pany and Mr. Cloverdale is secre-
tary and treasurer. 1

Hr. Cloverdale retained his po-
sition as treasurer of the American
Farm Bureau tederatiou until Jan--
nary lot, 1925. Farm bureau onc-
ials said a new secretary probably
will not be named before the first of'
the year but that an acting Wash-
ington representative probably will
be appointed soon.

NATIONAL MILK PRODUCERS
TO MEET AT DETROIT
ICHIGAN Milk Producers’VAe
M sociation extended an invita—
tion to the National Federation
of milk producers’ organizations to
come to Detroit for its annual meet-
ing this fall. The board of directors
of that organization accepted the in-
vitation and it has been deﬁnitely
decided the annual meeting Will be
held in Detroit on November 12th
and 13th. ‘
This is the ﬁrst time the Fedora-
tion has slot in Michigan, and will
prove to be is great opportunity tor

 

better acquainted with the work at
the national organization, use With
the work done by organisations siss-
ilar to our own in other M98.

The national organization come
into being.- out of a distinct need.

. giving to scattered marketing assoc—

iations some medium for keeping in
touch with  other. It Was ini-

i tinted at the fourth conference on

marketing and farm credits held in
Chicago, in December, 1916. It com—
prises in its membership over 3100,-

URTEEN years ago the Europ-

ean corn borer, imported from

Hungary, made its ﬁrst appear-
ance in the United States, and in
1921 it ﬁrst came to Michigan. At
that time it was discovered in two
townships in Monroe county, the
following summer found it working
in one township in Wayne county,
and it rapidly spread, so by the end
of 1923 it was working in 22 town-
ships in these tWO counties.

Latest ofﬁcial information shows
that the ‘corn borer is working in a
total of 62 townships in—the counties
of Wayne, Monroe, Lenawee, Wash-
tenaw, Oakland, Macomb, St. Clair,
and Sanilac. - And it is expected that
the infested area by November will
be at least double the above ﬁgures.

Everything possible is being done
to prevent the spread of this pest. At
the present time the United States
Department of Agriculture motor
boat patrols the ‘Detroit and St.
Clair rivers to enforce the quaran-
tine against farm produce from the
heavily infested areas in Canada.
Another motor boat is doing scout
work among the islands at the head
of Lake St. Clair, and along the St.
Clair river. At the present time
seven crews consisting of 23 trained
men are looking. for insects in areas
bordering the townships known to
be infested. Up to July lst, the town-
ships that were known to be infest-
ed are as foiloWs: O

Mon-roe County—Berlin, Ash, Ex-
ter, Frenchtown, Monroe, Erie, La
Salle, Bedford, Whitef‘ord, Ida, Dun-
dos and Raisinvill. Wayne County
 Pointe, Gratiot, Green-
?1 ﬁeld, Springwells, Hsmtramck, City
" at Detroit, Mersey Taylor, Huron,
Since July I" the ' am?-

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tionaié townships have been found to
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l London and Spglngﬂeld. ‘Wayne

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worth of milk and milk
each year. N. P. Hull, presi " ' or
the Michigan organization, is one of
the directors of the National organ-
ization. the meeting on November
lltli will be hell in tile “#1 of
Commerce Iﬂﬂﬁoﬁiﬂi is Molt

 

and will be of special intereit t0 111‘ i

milk producers. It trill be a 

Wait? for every Mic; ""n
d ' to get an idea. of t
gri- state organisations are doing.
only With this idea iii mind.

INGRAM occur: osmium
AL SCHOOL GETS PRI , ‘
T the State Fair, held in Detroit,
Aug. 30th to Sept. 7th, the
Inghgm Township Rural Agri—
cultural school or Dausvlils, snub.
ited the work of their agricultural.
glowing and manual training depart-

‘rilc following week they received
notiﬁcation that they but! will two
ﬁrst  the agricultural exhibit
getting the prise or titty dollu‘s and
the sewing exhibit also “‘89ng
the ﬁrst you of $50. The sewing
class e‘ﬂiibited dinerent articles of
clothing which they made“ last year
and a complete baby's outﬁt. The
hundred dollars Will be used by the
agricultural and serving classes for
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omo CO-OPS , WANT 300,000
nuns '

HREE hundred thousand hens is
the minimum quota seasht by
Ohio Farmers in orgsuising the

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in! :bf‘vappi'oximately 8380,060‘01?‘

Ohio Poultry Producers CMerat—q

ire association.
srs owned by the
have already 9: ‘
marketing contrast, more to the
Ohio ram bureau.
which is in charge of tljé‘ﬁommr-
ship drive, one  will
stem We has 1, 19:6, pro-
vided producers owning ,0!" 60ntrol—
lug 300.906 heirs ism dialled.

, The association is organised und—
er the Ohio cox-operative low. Eggs
will be“ graded by size, color, and
other characteristics. all dimmers
Will receive the same avers ‘ price
for the some quality over the same
poo-ling periods.

Corn Borer Active in Michigan

County—Redford, Northviile‘,
mouth, Canton,
Van Buren, sumpter and Romulus.
LenaWee County—Raisin, Bilssﬂeld
and Riga. Washtenaw County—-
Superior. Oakland County—Bloom-
ﬁeld, Southﬁeld, Troy and? Royal
Oak. Macomb County—Loner, Ray,
Washington, Richmond, arren,
Armada, Erin; Clinton, Macomb,
Harrison and Sterling. St. Clair
County—Columbus, St. Clair, Ira,
Clay, Casco, China, Cottreitville and
Burtchville. Sanilac County—Worth.

So far the battle against the corn
borer in this country has been a fail-
ure. Experts state that the borer
can be controlled, but cannot be ex-
terminated. Even control has been
found difﬁcult because of the ab-
senc‘e in the United States of the
borer’s natural “‘"mv

In New England Where the borer
ﬁrst made its appearance, back 4.:
1910, specimens of several enemies
of the borer have been distributed
in the‘A'infested districts of New
England, but these have not been
propagated in sufﬁcient numbers to
be available for distribution in oth-
er territory. Also in Ohio they have
liberated 70,000 specimens of the
wasp which feeds upon the borer's
body, and if these survive the North-
ern Ohio winter they may eventual-
ly bring the borer under control.
. _In this state the Federal author—
lines have the cooperation of LI R.
Taft, Chief horticulturist of the
Department of _Agri‘culturo
and the M. A. C. Departineut of En-
toumlogy headed by.  R. H.
l’ettit. Pron Taft adﬁw‘ ﬁrmers
“1 Miqhigan to harvest’ M corn
early m the  and5 to) cut it
low to prevent hm
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 V Are Taxes Heavier Because of Prohibition ?

‘ Study, of, Beer and Light Wine Amendment Wet Interests Would Have Michigan Vote On

HEN- the citizens of Michigan

go’ to the polls on November 4,

' they will ﬁnd that besides a
long list of candidates for ofﬁce,
among whom they will. have to

». checse, they will also be called upon

to pass judgement on a number of
proposed constitutional a m e n d-
ments. Of particular interest to the
farmers will be the proposal for a
state income tax regarding which
we have had more or less to say in
our BUSINESS FARMER tax articles.

However, it will be some relief to
the rural voters ‘of Michigan to learn
that the so-called beer and light
wine amendment will not appear on
the ballot this year. Sufficient sig-
natures were secured to this amend—
ment by the Michigan Division of
the Association Against the Prohib-
ition Amendment, but the Attorney
General of Michigan has ruled that
the petition was not in the proper
form and that it could not be put on
the ballot.

Even though the amendment will
not be voted on this fall it is time—
ly to remember that prohibition is
not a dead issue by any means.

There is a candidate for the United

States Senate on the 'Republican
ticket who fervently declares that
prohibition is not an issue,,and yet
it is commonly understood that pro-
hibition will be quite largely the
determining factor in the minds of
those who vote for or against this
candidate.

The amendment which the wet in-
terests of Michigansought to place
on, the ballot this fall was advocated
as a means of reducing the farmers’
taxes and it is because of its relation
to this subject of taxation that we
are tempted to devote an article to
the discussion of this vital issue.

The amendment which the wets
sought to place on our bollot this
fall is as follows:

“Beverages containing alco—
hol that do not exceed the
amounts that are or shall be
pgrmitted by the statutes of the
United States of America may
hereafter be manufactured and
sold in this state, for home use
only.

"The Legislature shall by
law prohibit the consumption of
said beverages on or within
the premises where sold, and
shall levy a reasonable tax up-
on each gallon of alcoholic bev-
erage so manufactured and sold.

“The proceeds of such taxa-
tion shall, as the Legislature
may direct, be used for the re-
tirement of outstanding state
highway bonds, or other state

By STANLEY M. POWELL

(Lansing Correspondent of The Business Farmer.)

the construction and mainten-
ance of county and state high-
ways and institutions.”

On the ﬂap of the petitions which
were circulated for placing
amendment on the ballot were the
following suggestive words:

“Bring Back Beer and Lower
Taxes
No Saloons
Turn Over and Read Before
Signing.”

On. the back of the covers of these
petitions there were more very in—
teresting statements from which
we might quote as follows:

“This proposal if it carries will
reduce the farmers’ taxes from 35
to 50 per cent, build all of the
county and state highways, keep
them in repair, also retire all of the
state bonded indebtedness which
amounts to $100,000,000.”

The startling statements quoted
above certainly merit our very care—
ful study, and if there is any means
whereby our farm taxes can be cut
in half it is high time we were ﬁnd-
ing out about it. In order to under—
stand What the light Wine and beer
program of the Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment really
is, let us turn our attention to a few
of the salient points of this program
as outlined in a recent article by Dr.
John H. Slevin, president of the
Michigan Division of the above nam-
ed organization. They desire the
repeal of the Volstead law and the
enactment by Congress of a law leg-
alizing the manufacture and sale of
beer and wine direct to the consum-
er. A further development of this
program would include state laws of
a similar. character. It is planned
to place a Federal tax upon the
liquor business and on the beer and
Wine which would be produced.

A further very interesting feature
of their program would require phy-
sicians to pay a license of $1,000 per
year for the privilege of administer-
ing and giving out to their patients
whiskey, brandy, gin and other sim-
ilar liquors of a high alcoholic con-
tent. These wet leaders include one
very conservative plank in their
platform by advocating a provision
limiting the number of licenses to
manufacture beer and wine to one
such establishment for every 15,000
of the population. It is further
proposed that the states should levy
a tax both upon the liquor manu-

this .

product. Such tax, however, should
not be in excess of twice the Federal
tax. ,

About a year ago, Dr. Slevin,
came out with a statement in which
he said that this program would in—
crease revenues, both state and na—
tional, with the consequent reduc—
tion of taxes and that he would be
prepared to show within a short
time some startling ﬁgures as to
just what his light wine and beer
program 'would do in the way of in—
creasing revenues and reducing
taxes in Michigan. He goes on to
state that his program will place the
burden of taxes in connection with
beer and wine. where it belongSH
upon the producer and consumer.

\Vcts Speak

This question as to whether or
not prohibition increases taxes and
whether governmental i n c o m e 8
might be raised and expenses lower—
ed by the adoption of any light
wine and beer program in Michigan
is one which should be given the
very careful thought of every think-
ing citizen. It is a subject on which
the rabid wets and bone dry prohi—
bitionists will never agree. I not-
iced an interesting exchange of ar-
guments on this very issue in a dai-
ly paper a short time ago. Captain
W. H. Stayton, head of the Associa—
tion Against the Prohibition Amend-
ment, declared:

“The national prohibition law:
have swept away one of the most
important sources of public revenu:
that existed on the statute books 0
the'country. The annual receipt
by the federal government from this
source ran into hundreds of millions.
Revenues through licensing gave
still greater sums in the aggregate
to states, counties and municipal~
ities. Under‘various forms of prac-
tical regulation of the liquor trafﬁc
without the return of the saloon,
these former sums could be greatly
increased, amounting to far more
than any relief that can be devised
in any other manner by the national
legislators for the relief of the peo—
pleon

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Drys Answer Wets
To this statement, Mr. Wayne B.

Wheeler, general counsel for the
Anti-Saloon League, retorted:
“Business, not commercialized

vice, pays taxes. We are planning
cuts in our taxation, reducing our
national debt by $2,000,000 every
day and are voting a bonus to our
soldiers without missing meals,
denying ourselves motor cars, dia-

We can do all this because we do not
have the brewers and distillers tak-
ing billions of dollars out of our
pockets each year. In return for a.
pitiful sum paid the government in
revenue, the liquor interests retain-
ed billions for themselves robbed
the government of enormous sums
through tax frauds totaling $1,000,—
000 annually in Pennsylvania alone,
degraded men and women, caused
industrial accidents, slowed up pro-
duction through beer—beuumbed
minds,
diverted from retail merchants bil—
lions of dollars each year, and plac-
ed upon charity a burden of $100,-
000,000 per year for the care of
those made destitute by intemper-
ance.”

To the above statement by Mr.
\Vheeler, might be added some re-
cent remarks by Dr. P. A. Baker,
leneral Superintendent of the Anti-
Saloon League of America. In re-
ply to a member’s inquiry, “What
are we getting for our money?” Dr.

Baker gives fourteen speciﬁc re-
sults, the ﬁrst seven of which are as
follows:

“First: We are getting rid of

money waste. The billions of dol-
lars that passed ovor the bar to
maintain in idleness and criminality
multiplied thousands of unproduc-
tive citizens are now being turned

into the Channels of legitimate
trade.

“Second: “'9 are getting rid of
the unproductive drain of keeping
in idleness the army of proprietors,
bartenders. spittoon washers. gam—
~Z~rs 3:: prostitutes that infested
is sari}- 2’~t).r.lv)v) grog shops.

T1171: We are getting rid of the
ET~3d “:55. That spawn of the
sales: has :ractically disappeared.

“Fcn~":‘.. We are getting rid of

ire-e lodgi:g houses. The Salvation
Army has abandoned most of their
over crowded relief Stations for
want of patrons.

“Fifth: We are getting rid of the
poor—farms. In many states poor-
farms are being transformed into
agrirultural experiment stations hm
cause they no longer have pauper
inmates.

“Sixth: We are getting rid of
charity claims. More than a. sev-
enty cent reduction in the num-
ber 0 charity cases due to liquor
since prohibition went into effect.

“Seventh: We are getting rid of
the jails and poorhouses. Jails are
being closed for lack of prisoners
and almshouses for inmates in many
states.”

Public Charges Show Decan

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EL AN UNOFFICIAL ESTIMATE OF MICHIGAN CROPS, 1924

- h 1924 n m 1923 ﬂ
Crop Est’ed Production Price Total Value Est’ed Production Price Total Value
‘ Corn .................... "46,322,000 Bus. $1.20 $55,586,000 58,167,000 Bus. $0.78 $45,370,000
Winter Wheat ......17,447,000 ” 1.10 19,192,000 16,456,000 ” 0.96 15,798,000
Spring Wheat ...... .. 138,000 ” 1.10 152,000 120,000 ” 0.96 115,000
Oats ‘ .................... ..58,825,000 ” - .40 23,530,000 48,896,000 ” 0.43 21,025,000
Barley .................. .. 4,018,000 " 1.40 CWt. 2,700,000 3,600,000 ” 0.64 2,304,000
Rye ...............  .... .. 5,460,000 ” .75 4,095,000 6,538,000 ” 0.62 4,054,999
Buckwheat . ......... .. 887,000 ” .84 745,000 753,000 ” 0.84 633,000
Potatoes ....... ....,....33,110,000 ” .60 19,866,000 35,796,000 ” 0.50 17,898,000
Hay .............  .... .. 4,062,000 Tons 12.00 48,744,000 3,912,000 Tons 14.50 56,724,000
Beans ..........  ..... .. 5,492,000 Bus. 5.25 CWt. 17,300,000 6,532,000 Bus. 2.70 17,636,000
Sugar Beets .......  1,174,000 Tons 7.00 8,218,000 769,000 Tons 9.00 6,921,000
Apples  8,194,000 Bus. .85 6,965,000 13,159,000 Bus 0.85 11,185,000
Peaches  464,000 ” ‘ 2.50 1,160,000 1,125,000 " 1.79 2,014,000
“1’88”  686,000 " 1.25 858,000 900,000 " 1.07 963,000
Clover Seed  V \ 14,500,000 147,000 " 11.10 1,632,000
,Vdne of above crops $21043 $204,272,000
Value at ailerons . 3247;: .000 $242,472,000

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F, you should happen to have
available a few acres of muck
land, low—lying and properly

drained; not so far north as to pre—
, ’vent a growing season of 100 to 120-
' days; if the prevailing price is such
that an average of $20 to $50 would
seem attractive to you, the growiﬁg
and marketing of peppermint offers
a combination of interesting work
and satisfactory earning power that
will appeal to many farmers.

True, a number of out-of—the-or—
dinary angles must be considered.
Peppermint growing is subject to
many of the uncertainties that pre—
vail with many other crops. The
weather is always a factor. The
time of harvesting must be calculat—
ed to a nicety. A still enters into
the picture, for the oil must be ex—
tracted from the peppermint leaves,
and the prohibition director of the
district must be consulted in this
particular.

Kalamazoo the (‘cnter

Michigan ranks ﬁrst in the Unit—
ed States in the production of tpep—
permint, producing over 50 per cent
of the total yield. The state’s acre—
age in 1921 was 12,000 acres, re—
maining approximately at the ﬁgure
since then. The price has ﬂuctuat—
ed very radically, ranging from as
low as 75 cents per pound in 1897
to $9 per pound in 1920. In 1921
it again dropped to $1.25, and the
general average would be about $2
per 'pound. With an estimated pro—
duction cost of $1 per pound (de—
tailed production ﬁgures are not
available) the average net return
per acre can be very closely arrived

at. Changes in methods of plant—
ing, the introduction of special
machinery to replat e the work

formerly done by hand, have creat—
ed a rather mixed situation, with
order slowly emerging therefrom.
Southwestern Michigan affords
the climatic and soil conditions
. most favorable for the production of

ipeppermint oil. The bulk of the
crop is grown in St. Joseph, Cass.
Berrien, Van Buren, Allegan and
Kalamazoo counties, with a limited
production in Eaton, lngham, Grai'

tiot and Saginaw counties.

Probably the largest individual
producer and marketer of pepper—
mint oil is A. 'M. Todd of Kalama—

zoo, who operates several extensive
farms, 'well equipped plants for ex—
tracting the oil, and who has favor—
able outlets for his entire produc—
tion. Beebe Brothers of Niles,
Woodward Brothers of Centerville,
Charles Severens of Pearl and Lewis
Oswalt of Vicksburg, are other pro—
ducers who have won, because they

HE proper measures and pre—
cautions taken this fall or dur—
nig the early winter will do

much to keep down many of the in—
sects of the farm. It has been often
said that “an ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure,” and never
was this more true than in the pre—
vention of insect depredations. Many
of the insect pests of the garden and
ﬁeld, as well as those of the orchard,
can be controlled to a great extent
by correct farm practices. The fall
and early winter present an ideal
time in which to forestall the dam—
ages of many insects that otherwise
prove to be very serious during the
following year. During this time
the insects are inactive and can the
more easily be controlled. Many
insects spend the winter in the egg
stage, some on weeds near its food
plant, some on remains of its food
plant; others lay their eggs in the
ground or in the trunks of trees.
Others spend the winter in the larv—
al or worm stage, most generally in
silken cases or cocoons of some
‘sort, or else under rubbish. Others
may pass the winter in the pupal
,tage, either in the ground or 1n
"same sheltered place. Piles of trash
fund heaps of brush, or even crev1ces
' the ground, afford protection
{Where the adults may pass the cold
nionths. Some hibernate under the
‘bark of orchard and shade trees.

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Over Fifty Per Cent fof Peppermint Producéd in. U. S. Comes from This State

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A ﬁeld of peppermint about ready to blossom on a farm in Cass county.

have deserved it, wide reputations
as producers.

J. R. Duncan, instructor in the
farm crops department of Michigan
Agricultural College, and himself
formerly a large producer of pepper—
mint on the home farm near Vicks—
burg, Mich., is probably the state’s
leading authority on the subject at
this time. Inquiries regarding this
crop are referred directly to him,
and they come in steadily. Mr.
Duncan does not unhesitatingly rec—
ommend that Michigan farmers go
into peppermint production on an
extensive scale. But he does be-
lieve, if the price is “right,” if sat-
isfactory land is available for this
crop, that many farmers might well

investigate the matter and, after
full consideration, “jump in, feel—
ing their way carefully and above
all, with the intention of sticking to
the crop over a considerable period
of time.

Michigan is not the only pepper—
mint producing state. The northern
counties of Indiana are the oldbst
competitors of Michigan, and away
out in Oregon, peppermint growing
is being taken up, with acreage ex—
panding every year.

Peppermint oil is widely used in
medicines, extracts, for candies and
last but not least, chewing gum.
Wrigley of Chicago is largely re—
sponsible for the latter use, and is a
large buyer of the oil.

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Peppermint still on the farm of Beebe Brothers, neag' Coloma, hIichigan.

By DON B. WHELAN ‘

Millions of insects make use of
weeds in one way or another during
the winter season for sustenance or
shelter while their particular food
plants are not growing. It all Weeds
were cleared from the farm in the
fall, particularly from the ﬁelds and

fence—rows where the insect pests
have been injurious this year, some
of our worst insect enemies will be
noticeably scarce next year. The
favorite food of the sugar beet web—
worm is the pigweed and lamb’s
quarters. The beet leafhopper rel—

 

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Old cabbage stumps should not be left in
an ideal hibernating place for insects.
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the ﬁeld but destroyed because they are.
(Insert) A ~beetle found in old grain.

   

A growing season‘of 100 to 120

days from the time the young pep-
permint plants appear above ground
until harvest time is vitally neces-
sary. Peppermint is seriously in-
jured by unseasonal frosts, and the
farther north one attempts to grow
it, the greater the hazard.
7 A continuous supply of soil mix-
ture is necessary for the largest de-
velopment of the plants. Conse-
quently, hard clay or dry sandy soils
are unsuitable for this crop. As
the cost of producing peppermint,
especially the ﬁrst attempt, is rela—
tively high, unless one has land ob—
viously adapted to peppermint and
is well located climatically, some
other of the specialized crops will be
found more satisfactorily.

Peppermint does best if it has
plenty of sunshine and warmth dur—
ing the latter part of the growing
season. Cold and cloudy weather
may not affect the growth of the
plants, but the oil yield-will be les-
sened. When planted in muckland,
with its known capacity for holding
moisture, the peppermint root sys-
tem is so organized that the plants
may go unaffected through periods
of drouth that would seriously af-'-
feet many other crops.

Peppermint has a branching stem
system, ordinarily growing to a
height of 18 to 24 inches, forming a
bushy plant with a large number of
leaves. The leaves are the import—
ant consideration, because it is in
them that most of the oil is found.
Anything that might cause the
plants to drop these leaves, such as~
frost, drought or insects, seriously
decreases the yield of oil. New
leaves will be put forth if the earlier
growth is lost, but the oil yield will
be much less than with the original
growth.

Commercially, peppermint" is not
allowed to produce seeds, depend-
ence being placed entirely upon the
roots. New acreage is started with
roots from older acreage, one acre
of old roots furnishing enough sur-
plus to set from four to eight acres
of new mint. The root system is ex-
tensive, the main root attaining a
length of 12 to‘ 18 inches, with a
diameter the size of a lead pencil.
The large roots have nodes about
two inches apart, and new plants
spring from these.

Long runners extend in every di—
rection from the main plant above
ground. These form a low arch,
striking the ground from seven to

twelve inches from the plant, new
plants forming at these contact
points.

(Continued on Page 21)

Will You Supply Mr. Bug and His Family With a Home this Winter?

ishes the Russian thistle. During
the early part of the growing season

the flea—beetle gives a lot of trouble

by perforating the leaves of pota-
toes, tomatoes and many other of
our early garden crops. This small
pest passes the earlier 'part of its
life on the roots of weeds. Many of
the most destructive of the plant
lice spend a portion of their lives on
weeds, the remainder ‘of the time
they are damaging some particular
plant. Thus the rosy apple aphid
spends a part of its time on the nar—
row leaf plamtain. The potato aphid
that periodically does much damage
tothe potato in many sections also
may be found on lamb’s quarters,
ragweed and wild lettuce. Weeds
not only occupy ground needed for
other purposes, taking the nourish-
ment that the cultivated plants use,
but they are the bridge that carries
many of our worst pests over the
winter months.
Clean li‘arnu’ng

It is a common practice, when a
crop has been harvested, to allow
the remnants of the plant to remain
on the ground all winter. This is

"true of the stumps of cabbage and

cauliflower and very often of mel-
ons and squash vines that have been
killed by the frost. The stubble of
corn often proves to be an' ideab
hibernating place as does the shel~
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STAYING 'YOUNG AT 60.—Edna Wallace
Hopper, 60 year old ﬂapper, says “Shun a
rockingchair; don’t forget how to laugh; keep
busy; think and act young; and don’t grieve
over a lost husband or sweetheart.”

 

SONIETHING NEW FOR THE LADIES.—— NE‘V LAKE STEAMER.—-The new lake steamer SNAKE EATING BIRI).—-This is a snake eating
A small battery and bulb in Milady’s handbag Greater Detroit has been placed in commission by the bird which strikes terror to the heart of all rep«
enables her to see to powder her nose at all Detroit and Cleveland Navigation 00., Detroit. It tiles, espeeially snakes. Its home is South Africa

hours of the day and night.

 

HOT BATH WHILE YOU WAIT.—This photo shows a
native taking a bath in .a tub in the tent colony of Uyeno
in the cold water while a. friend
I After a long
sitting the water ﬁnally gets hot and the bath is ready.

Park, Tokyo. He sits
builds a fire in the stove beneath the tub.

 

TREE SCULPTURE.—One of the features
of the Royal Kew Nurseries, London, are the
objects, animals, birds, etc. made out of the
shrubbery. It (took 50 years to grow this.

‘J‘Patoka" in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
mast has proven successful.

FARIVIERS NIEET PRESIDENT COOLIDGE.-—-—President
and LIrs. Coolidge shook hands and were photographed with
600 Grangers of eleven diﬂ'erent states, who called on them
at the home of the President's father at Plymouth, Vermont,
last month. Bl'iohigan was well represented.

 

cost $3,500,000 and is 550 feet long.

 

LATEST IN TRAVELING.—The lat-
est thing in Europe is the “IVIotor
Wheel” an Italian idea, which is rapidly
taking hold. The idea may be all right
but we prefer an automobile.

world,

SHENANDOAH HAS MOORING SHIP.—The Shenandoah,
navy dirizible, and her mooring ship, the converted oil tanker
The mooring

but is living in the New York Zoo.

SlWALLEST SHOE REPAIR SHOP IN THE WORLD.
-——-This shoe,
is

 

in Amsterdam. It
long and about three feet high, and the proprietor must
sit down all the time to do his work.

     
    
  
     
 
     
 
 

THE PRINCE OF WALES—This is a re-
cent portrait of the Prince of “’ales who is
visiting in this country. The Prince is very
popular with the people abroad as Well as at
home.

repair shop, said to be the smallest in the
is not more than six feet

 

PROFESSOR OF ADVENTURE.—Melllcen
Dalton, 60 years old, has traveled all over the
world. He makes his own clothes and is a
vegetarian.

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VOTE ONLY ..
At any. school meeting when im-
‘portant questions are to be decided
by ballot can everyone go to vote
and put as many ballots in the hat
as he pleases when there is no re-
cord kept of the names of the vot-
ers? If so done is it lawful? If
a man and wife are not taxpayers
and have no children to send to
school but in order to give him a
vote have a piano for a small sum
assessed to get their name on the
tax roll, and have they a right to
vote on money raising and bonding
the school district? What is the
highest percentage 9. school district
with an assessed valuation of $150,-
000 can be bonded forf—C. F. Whit-
temore, Michigan.

CHOOL electors must be twenty-
one years of age, full citizens,
residents of -the district at least

three months next preceding the
meeting, owners of property either
real or personal which is assessed
for school purposes, or parents or
legal guardians of children between
the ages of ﬁve and nineteen inclu-
sive. Each elector is entitled to one
vote only. Any person paying a tax
on personal property is entitled to
vote on all questions, including
money raising and bonding of the
school district, no matter how small
the assessment may be.

15 per cent is the maximum for
which any school district may be
bonded.———C. L. Goodrich, Asst. Supt.
of Public Instruction.

FORGE) NAME
Would you please inform me if a
man hauling milk on the highway
was run into by a state truck could
he collect damage from the state?
Every thing was demolished but the
driver and horses which escaped un—
hurt. Would you also tell me
if a man (my husband) forged
my name to a mortgage.and then
left my son to pay up debts and
went away about 8 years ago and
has not come back and in case of my
death could come and claim person—
al property which was left here? I
have a deed of the farm.—Mrs. H.
W., Monroe County.
F the wife's name was forged to
I the mortgage, she would incur
no liability, and her personal
property could not be taken to pay
the mortgage debt after her death.
——Asst. Legal Editor.

 

ROSE MILDEW

I am having trouble with rose mil-
dew and would like to know what
to do. Please advise me.—-F. G.,
Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.

OSE Mildew is caused by a
fungus growing on the leaves
and sapping their strength. This

mildew lives over winter in the cot-
tony tufts which are formed about
the thorns on the stems. It is ad-
visable to trim the bush so as to rid
it of these hold-over places. Then
in the summer, when the tempera-
ture at noon gets above 85 or 90
degrees, it is advisable to spray or
dust the bushes frequently with some
sulphur preparation. For a dust,
ﬁne sulphur in a cheesecloth bag or
in a regular dusting outﬁt does good
work.

For spraying, a dilute lime sulphur
solution made by using the com-
mercial lime sulphur (which can be
bought at hardware stores) at.1—40
strength is good. Weekly applica—
tions are advisable until the control
has been accomplished. Sulphur is
a speciﬁc for mildews, but it takes
a high temperature to make the sul-
phur active in killing the fungus.

For bushes in shady locations,
Bordeaux mixture or Pyrox (can be
bought ready for use) would be ad-
visable. Frequent applications will
keep the foliage in good condition.
-——-Ray Nelson, Research Assistant in
Plant Pathology, M. A. C.

MIGHT BRING, AOI'ION AGAINST
COMPANY

I bought a house and lot in the
City of Wyandotte and since I have
bought an Oil Company bought
some land just across the alley and
erected six large supply tanks about
150 feet from our house. Is there
any law to prohibit them from do-
ing so? It also decreased the val-
ue of our property. In there any
danger from these tanks? Please 111--
form us ‘ through THE Busmnss
Funn- the law concerning same.
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have received much. beneﬁt from it.
Thanking you very kindly‘ for any
information you can give me, I am.
-—-W. G., Wyandotte, Mich.
011 might bring an action
against the company to have

, ‘ the tanks removed, on the
grounds that they constituted a
nuisance. As to whether or not it

is actually a nuisance it would be
necessary to view the premises and
examine all the circumstances of the
case—Asst. Legal Editor.

SCHOOL OFFICER WAS NOT
ELECTED

Will you please explain the fol-
lowing fully?‘ At the school meet-
ing of this year in our district, the
following incident oecured. The of-
ﬂoor to be elected was director.
There were two nominees for the
oiﬁce, a vote by ballot was taken
three different times, the ﬁrst two
ballots were uneven, the third being
10 and 10. The director arose, de-
clared his right to decide, which one
should be elected, and did so. Is this
oilicer elected legally and can he
hold ofﬁce? And if he is qualiﬁed
for the oﬁice, by the senior member
of the schoolboard, can he hold the
ofﬁce being not legally elected? And
is this action of qualifying legal?

MICHIG

WHEAT ON CORN GROUND

Would you advise sowing wheat
on corn ground after the corn is
taken oﬂf in the fall? Would it be
too late, especially in a year when
corn is late? Which would be the
best way to put it in and what time?
-———F'. I., Hersey, Mich.

0R best results wheat should be

sown by the ﬁrst of October.

since after this date it is likely
to winter kill badly. In tests con-
ducted here at the college, best re-
sults Were secured when wheat was
sown from the 20th to 25th of Sep-
tember. However, this date may
vary a little with the season.

If the corn is taken off for ensil-
age, wheat could be sown after the
corn is removed. If the corn is not
to be cut for ensilage it would be
best to drill the wheat between the
standing corn rows—C. R. Megee,
Associate Prof. of Farm CropsLM.

PUTTING HAY IN SILO

I have in mind a machine to be
used in the hay ﬁeld, this machine
to cut the hay in small lengths, say
x,é-inch long, and put it up in bags.
The hay to be then hauled to the
barn in the bags and dumped into
the silo, and I wish to know if it
would make as good feed for the
horses as cured hay. What do you
think about it?—-T. W. Bloomdaie,
Mich.

HERE is very little difference in
feeding value of hay made
into silage and hay properly

cured in the ﬁeld when the dry
Weight of the two is considered.
Due to the fact that there is no
machinery especially constructed to
make hay crops into silage, the
practice has not increased in favor
among farmers. It is also consid-
erably cheaper to allow the moist-
ure to leave the plants in the ﬁeld,
in other words,. allow the hay to
cure and thereby handle a much
smaller weight then is the case
when the crop- is made into silage.

The proper moisture content of a
crop when made into ensilage varies
from 35 to 46 per cent; when high-
er than this, frequently a juicy, sour
ensilage results; when lower than
this, there is not sufﬁcient moisture
in the ensilage to cause it to pack
tightly and exclude the air.

Experiments have shown that
good ensilage can be made out of
practically any crop when the proper
moisture content as meat, and
when the is may pack-
ed; In the case of green crops such
as sweet clover and alfalfa, it is fre-
quently necessary to’ allow the crop
to remain in the  three

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to ' corn—45W. Lloyd.

 

The majority of the district are

against his holding ofﬁce, as he was
not legally elected, yet he intends to
do so. In a case like this can this
man held oﬂlce? If not, what can
the district do, what is the right and
lawful thing to do? Can the dis-
trict compel the schooboard to hold
a special meeting and elect an of-
ﬁcer? In case the *schoolboard
qualify him for ofﬁce, what can be
denies—Mrs. G. A. P., Springport,
Mic .

HERE is no provision in the.

school law for breaking of a tie
vote by the chairman or anyone else.
If the director wished to vote he
should have done so at the time the
vote was taken. Since he did not
do this he lost his voteVand was not
entitled to vote after the ballot had
had been closed and the votes
counted.

No emcer was elected since an
election requires a majority vote.
When the people fail or neglect to
elect the school ofﬁcer it becomes
the duty of the township board to
appoint one to ﬁll the vacancy un-
til the next annual meeting. Until
the township board does appoint a
successor and he qualiﬁes, the pres-
ent incumbent holds the oilice.—C.
L. Goodrich, Asst. sum. of Public

Instruction.

six hours after being cut in/order
that the moisture content may .be
reduced.

About the only time it is advis-
able to use hay crops for ensilage is
when the silo is the only method of
preserving the crop due to bad
weather or when corn or some other
bulky crop cannot be grown for en-
silage.

We believe it would require con-
siderable additional help to make
the crop into ensilage by the meth-
od you suggest. It is usually found
more satisfactory to haul it to the
silo, pass it through the cutter and
lower it into the silo rather than out
it in the ﬁeld—C. R. Megee, Assoc.
Prof. of Farm Crops, M. A. C.

 
     

SAVING SWEET CORN SEED
HIS year is likely to be one in
which good reliable sweet corn
seed for next season’s planting
will be scarce. The danger of early
frosts catching this year's delayed
crop of corn has made the ﬁeld corn
seed situation one of the worst in
years, but sweet corn seed is even
harder 'to cure ‘than ﬁeld corn.
There is much more risk of losing
sweet corn from rotting in the ﬁeld
and improper curing than there is
in losing ﬁeld corn. Gardeners who
wish to be sure of having sweet
corn seed next spring will do well
to save seed from their own ﬁelds,
provided they have properly devel-
oped corn of one variety.

If properly cured, sweet corn seed
Will germinate well even if picked
when very green. In fact, growers
are surer of having good seed if they
pick the ears in the dough stage and
then take care of them than if they
take a chance on leaving the seed in
the ﬁeld where it is in. danger of
damage from cold, wet weather.

When sweet corn seed is picked
green it must be handled so that it
will dry out thoroughly and rapidly.
To this end it should be handled so
that there is a free circulation of air
around every ear. When small
quantities are handled a common
method is to tie the ears in pairs by
the basin and hang them over a
wire in a dry. well ventilated room.
However, when large quantities are
being handled it is better to have
special wire curing racks for the
seed. These should preferably be
placed in a room where artiﬁcial
heat can be used for drying if the
weather is wet and cold at the time
the seed is brought in from the
ﬁeld.

Special precautions are necessary
to keep sweet corn seed away from
mice, since they seem to be even
tender of it than they are of field

 

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for thiewnd of the township but 
3!! oversees the whole thing . 

and the"commissioner doesn’t seem
to have any thing to say.--—E. F. 8.,
mm roads are maintained

  by'the' Township ‘ V

Highway Commissioner under
the direction and supervision of the
Township Board.  an individual
the supervisor has nothing to say
in regard to such work as the super-
vision and control is vested in the
Township Board as a Boardand not
in any individual composing the
Board—II. Victor Spike, Assistant
Attorney General. ‘1.

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COULD NOT 00m

INSURANCE
Can yen tell me if a deed of a 40
acre farm with'good buildings is in
the wife's name and the wife dies
and there are three children and
her husband insures these buildings
can he collect insurance when these
buildings burn? If the husband has
the deed of a 40 acre farm in his
name and the deed is put on record
then he deeds it to his wife but it

is not put on record when it is in ‘

her name is the deed the wifeholds
goodl—Mrs. A. 8., Manton. Mich. »

HE husband would not be able
to collect insurance on the

buildings which the wife owns: '

he must have an insurable interest
in the property before his contract
of insurance would be valid.‘ If,
after her death and after the estate
has been settled, he insures the
property, he would be able to col-
lest the insurance, in case of loss.
As between the husband and wife,
the, wife’s deed is good, even if it is
not recorded—Asst. Legal Editor.

OPTION NOT BINDING

I am one of the heirs of an estate,
have lived on and worked the same
for a number of years. but said estate
has never been probated. Would an
option given by me on any part, I
having no deed to property, be legal
or binding even if money has been
paid on same?——R. C. 8.. Clio, Mich.
-0ption would not be binding. The
estate should be probated at once
and distributed to the persons en-
titled to it.——Asst. Legal Editor.

nor ENTITLED To PROPERTY

I want to know if a widow has a

farm and property left her by her
first husband and he died and she
marries again and her second hus-
band is mean to_her can she put him
out without giving him anything?
Can he hold half of what she has?
Please let me know about it and
what she has to do to get rid of him.
I am a paid up subscriber.——J. S.
McG., Drybnrg, Michigan.
——She could one her husband for
divorce, in which case he would not
be entitled to any of her property.—
Asst. Legal Editor.

CUTTING WILL NOT KILL OUT
SHRUBS
Do you know of a time for cutting
paw paws when the one cutting will
kill them?
when the sign is right to kill «them.
As I have about two acres of them
I am anxious to learn how to get
rid of them. Will you please inform
me by letterl—E. B. W., Reading,
Michigan. '
HERE is no time of the year
when trees or shrubs can be
cut and the cutting them will
kill them out. If they are cut oil
at this time of the year it usually
proves. more of a check to their later
sprouting than if they are cut off
during the winter or in the spring.
—V. B. Gardner. Professor of iIorti-
culture. It. A. C. .

 

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I have my mail come on a route
and on a couple occasions the stamps

have been torn o! before package .

was delivered. I imagine it must of
been dou‘either by the mail carrier
orinodlce. Cantu-hulls? I

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OR years 'we had een conduct-
ing our evening ch rch meetings

I - are securing.

 

’ as well as our other nightly
church aﬂairs by the use of eight or
ten common, small coal oil lamps
hung around on the walls. These
lamps were equipped with reﬂectors
still the church was never sufficiently

Lighted. The pulpit was lighted by

a large, round wick kerosene lamp
which could belowered close to the
preacher’s head when he wished it
and he always did. Yet with all
this we were never satisﬁed and were
always on the lookoutlfor a better
way to light our church for we knew
of many young folks that were not
attending our meetings on accouilt
of our poor illuminating facility. It
seemed church, as it was, simply
didn’t attract the young men and
women, and they were going else-
where.

Finally we had a chance to secure
a very beautiful chandelier from one
of the town churches that was going
to discard it, should the town suc—
ceed in voting in a city electric light
plant. They did. The city church
installed electric lights and we pur-
chased their chandelier with ﬁfteen
fairly large coal oil lamps.

The chandelier was installed in
the center of our church house and
how much nicer were our meetings
after that. The house was much
brighter and more cheerful. So was
the entire congregation.

Our meetings grew better and bet-
ter while on}; attendance became
much more regular. In fact we now
had one of the best illuminated as
well as the largest attendance of

' any of the churches around.

It was not for some time after-
wards that we became aware of the
fact that our branch church was only
some what lighted instead of sufﬁc-
iently illuminated.

New neighbors moved into our
community bringing a letter to our
church. They were in attendance
the next Sunday evening and were
admitted.

Our new members lived on an ad-

joining farm so naturally we met

rafter. It was during one of our
' frequent conversations that he asked
if I would like a suggestion for im-
proving our church. Learning I
would, he asked me why not light
the church better. This question
came some what as a jolt I that
we had ekcellent illumination yet,
wanting to better our conditions if
possible, I asked for his solution.
After much inquiry and a good long
Conversation, his answer was sum-
med up in six words. “Use a gaso—
line vapor mantle system.” He
stated such was used in his home
church and told how splendid it was.

I told him we would talk it over
with all the members next Sunday
night as he had interestingly con—
vinced me better lighting could be
secured. -

Well, after services the following
Sunday night I collected the mem—
bers together and we talked over the
subject pro and con deciding to look
.into the new lighting prospect
thoroughly and at once.

Our investigations led to learning
of a church some distance away that
was using this system so we decided
to visit this church and learn from
them ﬁrst hand all about the new
light.

We arranged a committee to make
this visit and investigate. This we
did on their next meeting night.
After dismissal we all got together
and thoroughly talked over as well
asinvestigated their method of ill-
uminating their church which was
the hollow wire, gasoline vapor sys-
tem.

This trip sufﬁciently convinced our
delegation that this was the only
system for us to use. Returning
home we again talked over and con—
sidered the feasibility of installing
such a system in our church. We
ﬁnally decided we would arrange for
and after a short time we secured
our gasoline hollow wire light and

' ever since it has been installed we

have been exceptionally well pleased
with the brilliant illumination we

Our‘ system is composed of a ﬁve
gallon gasoline supply and pressure
tank" with, hollow wiresuéﬁcient to
give us one light in front of and

. awe; the-pulpit, as well. asanother 
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By Bren LUGAs

back in the house. We placed the
supply tank in one corner where it
would be convenient as well as out
of the way. .

To light, we merely ﬁll the tank,
pump up pressure, generate, turn on
the fuel and light both lights, and

, our illumination is on until turned

off. ' Very simple yet it affords us a
wonderful light. - '

Our system; generates its “own gas
from common gasoline and after we
ﬁrst generate it is automatic, burn—
ing until burned out.

The gas ﬂows up thru the hollow
wire into the mantle where it burns.
In burning it heats the mantlesto an
incandescent white so they radiate
very brilliantly, as I remember, some
six hundred candle power of light
is what we are now securing.

The light we secure from our pres-
ent lighting system while very, very
brilliant is pure white. Restful to
the eyes. It is unflickering and gives
out no disagreeable odor.

With our gasoline vapor mantle

  

system our church is brilliantly
ﬂooded‘with light. No dark, unin—
viting corners. Our church is cheer-
,ful and attractive to all. All depart—
ments are now progressing nicely
and our work for Christianity is ad-
vanced steadily onward.

Who would not come and attend
a brilliar iy illuminated, cheerful
progressive church? We not only
have the welfare of our community
in hand but are working for the up-
building of all other communities as
well, so wish to pass on some of our
delightful experience to the other
churches in hopes that our informa-
tion will prove as beneﬁcial to them
as our results have to us.

We have had our vapor system in-
stalled for almost two years and no
trouble so far. It furnishes more
real illumination than a roomful of
common coal oil lamps such as we
previously used, and such as .the
large majority of country churches
are using today.

The house of God should be at-
tended by all. Light your church
brilliantly. Make it comfortable.
Radiate it with cheerfulness. Make
it as interesting as possible so that
the young folks will be drawn there.

: (3'1)

Use carefully selected lessons and
have some good minister to give you
their rendition in a clear, frank tho
precise manner and the country side
will respond accordingly.

—_

Spray or sprinkle frost bitten plants
with cold water early in the morning and
the frost will gradually be drawn out of
the tissues, and thus lessen the damaging
effect on the plant.

 

Good dairy cows are proﬁtable. The
scrub is doomed 'to fail.

Loosening cabbages in the soil by giv-
ing them a slanting pull and partially
breaking the roots, will prevent them
from splitting open.

 

Purebred livestock are 48 percent more
efﬁcient as producers than scrub stock.

A man who fails to pay his bills
Is shunned by other men,

And yet a cow which fails to pay
May fail topay again.

 

Com Cures
A corn syrup manufacturing company
received the following letter: “Dear Sirs
——I have ate three cans of your corn
syrup and it has not helped my come
one bit.”

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“We have a herd of 15 Holstein cows which give
nearlyras much milk as some of our neighbors who are
milking 25. My father says it is all in the feed. We

feed Larro.” H, E, COLE, Epping, N. H.

Good Condition and High Production

“We have fed enough Larro to test it thorougly. We
ﬁnd it an excellent milk producer—at the same time
keeping the heavy producer in good flesh.”

O. O. BUSCHLEN, Bad Axe, Mich.

“My cows are in the ‘pink’ of condition and produce
heavily. Four of my cows have tipped the scale at 60
lbs. of milk in one day; two of them have reached 65%
and 64% lbs—cows that were producing very little
milk on all kinds of miscellaneous feeds. This is my
result from feeding Larro and I shall continue to feed
same as long as I have cows.”

A. HERBERT, Westport, Mass.

Larro for Long-Time Results

"We started with one cow for our own family use and
now we are keeping between 400 and 500 head on our
farm, and the cows we started with and have been milk-
ing for more than 12 years are yet proﬁtable producers.
We are glad that we commenced our dairying experience
in feeding Larro and have never changed since our
beginning with our family milk cow.”

WHITE BELT DAIRY, Lemon City, Fla.

“1 have used Larro for over 9 years and there is
nothing that will duplicate it. Larro is the best milk
feed there is. It does increase milk production.”

JOSEPH NOWAK, Thompsonville, Conn.

“We have fed Larro along with other dairy rations
and it gives us better results than any we have tried.
We also ﬁnd the longer we keep the cows on Larro, the
better they milk.”

W. B. BRADSHAW, Cartersville, Ga.

Larrowe Bldg.

   

 

Quality as Well as Quantity

“Your feed is the best feed on the market, as it pro—
duces the richest milk and cream. We have tried other
feeds but have not found them satisfactory. We have

,used Larro for over 7 years.”

H. A. COUCH, NewMilford, Conn.

THE LARROWE MILLING COMPANY

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Where Other Feeds Had Failed

“My ﬁrst sack of Larro mined my patronage for other
feeds with the exception of Larro. From that one sack
I got an increase in milk and as I kept on using Larro I
got better results. I wouldn’t give one sack of Larro for
any two sacks of other feed I have ever used.”

E. H. BAKER, Ironton, Ohio.

“We have been feeding Larro for several months in a
test with several orher feeds, with results which are
highly favorable to Larro.”

PEYTON T. GISH, Mt. Sydney, Va.

For Young Stock and Old

“1 have two cows milking 100 lbs. of milk on 10 lbs.
of feed apiece a day. If I could get alfalfa, I think I
could get 60 lbs. from these cows apiece on 12 lbs. of
Larro. One of theSe cows is 17 years old.”

C. C. ROBINSON, Annapolis, Md.

“We think Larro feed is certainly great, and our
whole herd looks fat and nice, and has produced lots of
milk this winter We have one cow 14 years old that
gives 42 lbs. of milk a day. We feed the calves on
Larro and like the feed.”

L. E. WETMORE, Canﬁeld, Ohio

For Economy and Proﬁt

“1 have thoroughly tried out practically all standard
makes of dairy feed and mixed many kinds myself, but
have found nothing which will produce as much milk of
ﬁne quality—a regular amount—and keep the cows in
ﬁne condition like Larro does. It will give me at least
15% to 25% more proﬁt than anything else I have ever
found. If I had used it exclusively for the past ﬁve
years, I would have saved many thousands of dollars.’,
LORING BROWN, Orlando, Fla.

“I use Larro as ever and am satisﬁed with the results
from it. Idid try some cheaper feeds, but lost out in
production and was out money in the long run.”

LAWRENCE BACHMAN, Tarentum, Pa;

Detroit, Michigan

   

 
      
  

  
  

 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
   
 
   
    
    
  
   
   
   
   
 
    
  
  
    
  
  
 
  
  
 
     
   
 
 
  
   
   
   
 
  
  
   



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Mich... would say I hare failed

to ﬁnd the county .agsnt an ax-
pert. 1.9a}! more to mu that they
make Just  many mistakes as the
farmers .(10- They perhaps new a
‘Iittle hatter hook Meaning than she
common. fax-mar has but émitt 3mm
down .to the ma! test. Rm. chem on
a farm and start them where some
of us old farmers 'had to start (by
"caring up our land), and the ma-
ﬁoﬁty would (starve. it is true that
«the most of the farmers do not read
the book from the state agricultur-
r-al coll -e but if they are interested
they -w ‘1 read it. And so it is with
what the county agents tells them—
they let it go in one ear and out the
other.

I have «watched the M. A, C. {erm-
ors, I mean the jboolk learned 
foam and one majority of them
have made a gﬂanle.

‘ch, [condioions are changed from
better to worse. But I .don'.t blame
it all to we county agent. NOW I
an not blaming the sonnet)! agent.
All I have to say is go gto it and linen
Aulsling the wood over the board of

upervisors eyes and make them ‘be--
{eye they have got to have him all
'ight. But why not have a vote on
't and if the majority of the {armors
vant him all right or let them that
‘iave use for him pay him. “I guess
‘iis job would be shortlived. It is a
rhame to make the farmers pay for
something they don’t want and if I
needed him I would be Willing to
pay ~him. It is dust like forcing a

,dose of medicine down a want

whether :he wants .it or not.

Let one people yote on it and if
the majority are .in favor of a coun-
ty agent '1 would be satisfied. No,
they dare not let the people vote be-
cause they know it would be turned
down by 7.5 per cent. If it was the
board ,of supervisors money they
were spending it would (put .an and

I to some .01 our taxes. Come again.
y E. .C.o;blen.t.z, ‘Qharlevqix
‘ County.

BANK BUYS BONDS OUTRIGHEI‘

EAR Editor—.11  to reply
through the columns of your
paper to an article of August
30th, in which a person signs his
initials “J. B., Columbiaville, Mich.”
This person states that there is a
man here in eastern Michigan who is
r selling bonds and forces the sale by

 

tend to have bought the bond by
placing their C. D. on the bond.

? Inferring that I am misrepresent-
ing facts and using under—handed
methods to get business—In the ﬁrst
place, I am in a legitimate business,
just as legitimate as farming, doc—

{ tor, lawyer, or any other business.

Next to agricultural industry, of

which industry I am a part, it is the

second largest industry. 10 per
cent of the people in the United

States depend on this industry either

directly or indirectly for a livelihood.

I am assisting in supplying one of

the two necessities to mankind,

namely shelter, because‘no great
apartment building, oﬂice or theatre
building, or hotel, could be built
without the sale of good ﬁrst mort-
gage bonds. I consider that I am
supplying shelter and am assisting
people to gain a livelihood. In fact,

‘] am assisting in ﬁnancing shelter
for the biggest consumers of farm
products who are forced by neces-
sity to live in the great cities.

Approximately 40 per cent of
every dollar I obtain through the
sale of these bonds goes direct for
labor.
to labor through manufactured ma—
terials and other allied products. I
will ask J. B. if this is not as noble
and worthy a work as any of the
other‘necessary professions?

The fact that I have sold banks
these bonds for their own invest-
ment, and have obtained them :for
their customers, ought to he suﬂc-
ionic proof .that I am in a , itimate
3311333353 and trying to do ~. _ right

' _In every community there

a  higher grate  W
Mir money. .

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having one of the local banks pre-'

60 per cent goes indirectly

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"Goad 1mm mortgages we not grams
available,
order to mutant their communion
are trying to direct the invaﬁtmt
as “was “mean :2
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the opossum}!- it is  silly
on the part of 1- (B. ,
bank or Missal can my

bonds without payi, for m,
I than  A

instead of key , g all} “a  in
large cities. is dons to . eﬂ
the mm: so  .15 has @919 W1
‘to make shrrinne sswmal loans.
and assisting 71.11 ﬁnancial ﬂoss! mad?-

'I have perwnall momma Hus
cannon? shoot it. its .msssantors
in Guicssp and Detroit, and have
talked with some 9.! the largest
banks ’in tho 15.11.11.951 Slates. asking
absent! their emerienqa- :1 ﬁnd 2341966
banks (have natal" known .91 a 41e-
mm in either intanaat or Drinnnal
[on the part of any of the borrowers
ion «to bond issues sold by this com-

mas).- Il‘llse banks in Michigan who

have purchased these bonds have
«made a thorough. investigation of
them, and when one of their customi-
ers ask {or an investment, they get
the bond for them, or if {they have
them ,in their own account, they will
let gthem have one of their own
bonds. This they have a perfect
legal right to do.

I :know personally, and can prove
to ,J. B. that :these bonds which I
ago selling are as safe as it is pos—
sible «for human minds to gnake any
investment and can back up my
statement by  that during this
company’s incoﬁapwated existence, it
has sold hundreds of millions of
bonds and individual agnogﬁgages se-
gqured by income-producing proper,-
ties throughout the UnitedStates to
thousands of individuals, banks, in,-
ﬁmﬁnw «REMAINS, and trust com.-
panics, MW mils ~1.9138 of a single
419M .0! either interest at principal
{to any investor.

J. 13,. also makes a remark about
the Michigan .Swzitias Commission,
which shows “his lack of knowledge,

- «because dials commission is governed

by {the dams enacted in the state of
 whey can see that cor-
polzaatlons ﬁnancing themselves in
this state, live up to these laws, and
«that is all «they are permitted to do.
They are not permitted to ‘ recom-
mend any «investment, or prevent the
sale of any invesnment as long as
there is no fraud intended.

H J. 8. could have his way. we
would have no schools because we
have to have bonds in order to build

  

snowman banks, in, ‘

ﬂame 

7' pings ashram "or'.‘liu-~
‘  ally

im~wdshumtoﬁe' rs

thmhm the 1Uth  doc-
tm. hm, marchers, dormers

who base rumbast these bonds, 1 : .

  

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v. ﬁc- think he should use 
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ﬁmm.chuumermish.tog‘
We reﬁnances from (various ban-ks

will Myanmar their names .to ‘

channel.

My.
Imushsomaawthuonau

mm costar Hi. i. a. mild make .'

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any “aged or dishOW- allow: any
_ , camel‘th newton,
I mu :bs glad to prom to  w-
m that he do wmnz. out It neces-
‘oowmt tin. an the Man. . d to cm.
Montana‘s. 4

I hope 5. n3: no! .borg WW -

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his good intention;  3&5; _ ‘ z 1
take we «ankle to inform - , 39,1:
ments .with the idea .9! stop .9; pro-

ibotooe he makes misdeidin
gross and mi .. :bp... .5 and
gamma.%<?5a§%. Faxing Fas-

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Mann  
r  comic mm
= have m. cm men m m:-

cam meal .crop is reduced «:0 
58.9.541909 hilﬂlelﬂ and like acom- :

1111633031“ one» (co 15.2%.090 normals.
This lowers one State .to m mace
this  unload .0! its .uszual tank
iowmi. ",nhe commercial dionacaots
for other states are included in the
gamut issued by ,L. Whitney Wat—
.WJ

Statistician and are a comma:

4,412.0”; Remarlyania. 9074100;
MMYW, 395115.009"; Vila'a’insluu, 2,836,-
395”; West 'kama, isllﬁ m, g :

Monti. 4690440099; Arkansas. «uc,» '

000; Colorado, 9884,9300; Mo.
:stiw; Washington, 16,444,000:
wagon, '1;8178.9¢M; and  . '

142689401130. Twat estimates (indi-
cate a {total may 0! :58 ,per cent»:
normal, and a commercial Mc-
 .o.f 2930834109 Mela. ms is
about ﬁre mikﬁou thaw less than

Commissioner of Agriculture

«0“ ’

the 31:92.8 .crdg and tame and mm ;

which annuals less than
in £14922.

 

nor NOW :18 canisa‘ RIan
FROM run DEAD and become’che

ﬁrst fruits of them that Vsle‘pt.'——I
Corinthians 15:20. .

EYE  NOT SEEN, nor ar
heard, neither have mtared into 3,16
heart of man, the things which God

 

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hath prepared for them that love :

him.——1 Corinthians '2 : 9.

 

.DO WE .OBEX THE LAW?

,‘ HE ol’ feller where I room at is
a queer sort of a 01’ geezer an'
great on. argument. We got

talkin’ today ’bout the Volstead law

or whatever it is, an’ be asked me

if I believed in it? I said, “yes, I

think it’s purty good, don’t you?”

Well then the 01’ man commenced

cussin’——he said a law like that

couldn’t be enforced—it was bein’
vi’lated a hundred times a day an’
any law ’at couldn’t be enforced
should be repealed or somethin’ to
that effect. I asked him if he had
anything laid by an’ he took me
down in his cellar—~well boy! I
don’t blame him so much—~we got
quite churning down there an’ be
told me a. lot of, well kinda smuty
stories an’ I’d probably would of told
him some only I didn’t happen to
know no stories like he told an’ so I
kept quiet. But «it’s kinda remark-
able what a trip into a collar like
that can make a man think of... An’
after comin’ out of there he kept up
the argumentJbout the Volstead law
an’ I might agreed with him just
then but you see I remembered the
days an’ nights she’d had that cellar
an’ free access to it an’ I never knew
he had it an’ :1 sez, “Yes!” Jest
like that—“$319 law is alright but
it ain‘t thoroughly .onforced an' never
will he Jest as   sou an' I
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no   st’s bein’
  Amy  sane killin’
a p ' ' fﬂmenn p

 

W  t murder‘

:4; sheaf of ‘ >_  

anybody howlin’ ’bout repealin' the
law against murder do you?”

“Well” he sez “that’s different.‘

that is takin’ human life.”
“Jest so,” I sez, “but it’s law an’

bein’ vi’lated jest the same as the .

liquor law is bein’ vi’lated."

Well he got kinda mad or some- ,

thin’ an’ he called me sev’ral names
like an 01’ fool an’ similar an’ I sed
“You don’t have to say old—I ain’t
so old, not so old as you." An’ he

sed I was a fool any way an’ so we‘-
sort of simmered down after awhile '

an’ I guess I didn’t change his mind
nor he didn't change mine—I ain’t
got so very much to change anyway.

,But jest the same—J believe the,‘

Volstead is good—I’m glad to see‘ the '. '
My friend v

saloons gone, so are you.
here is not the whole world, neither
am I—if he violates the law some—
times or if ‘I do it’s no sign the law
is bad—we’re bad an’ the ﬂaw; is
just alright.

The liquor law had always been a
hard one to enforce—no harder now
than when saloons wuz in 1,111,111on

.--——we *had blind pigs then an' they're
jest as blind nowi—no more. ot"em

“jest a little mite worsee—Tmebbe?:

Anyway "I ain’t goin’  cellar
again with myjandlgrd—rhettel. :too
manystories‘an' gets me all gnu gig-ed
up an’ he’s too poﬁiﬁYQr—rﬂ '

r _ _~ "  hows
when he's  don-n collar.

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{’ FTER bonding a radio sot We

, sometimes wish that we could
, haves cabinet} that Would be
serviceable, unbreakable and cheap.
so we are going to tell- you how to
build one am home or have one built
tor you: that Will! cost a dollar or
fess and be just the right size for
your set. Also this type of cabinet
will do aWay with that disagreeable
eﬂect, called body_capacity effect,
which is caused by your hand or
body coming near your set and
lchangimg the signals“ so that they
fade away or come in stronger. This
eﬂect is particularly noticed’ in any
type of regenerative receiVin‘g set
and is a. cause of diﬂiculty in tuning
quickly and clearly.-

The radio sets. described last Feb-
many and March. were mounted in
such cabinets and a look at those
pictures will" show you how neat
they look.

After assembling. your set on a
panel“, and it being mounted on a
base board, measure the heighth,
length and depth (from front to
back, and then take a large sheet of
paper and lay out a plan of a cab-
inet upon it, this will look like Fig.
1. Then get a sheet of 22 gauge
galvanized iron and lay your pattern

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Putting cabinet together.

on it and with tin sni'ps cut out of
the sheet iron the ﬂat form for your
cabinet. At the places shown in
dotted lines, lay across; a. sharp corn—
ered board: and bend to make a box.
Fig. 2-. Now with a- soldering iron
run: solder along the inside seams
and Where it runs thru on; the out-
side smooth off with a ﬁle. ‘~
On the top, and two sides solder
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fee) and on the bottom edge, inside,
colder three small “L” shaped

I s of iron, tut-u" which you have

It or made hlo‘l‘es, so" that this case
his! can be' screwed to"- apiece or
Board, it Will then look like ﬁg. 2;
 complete. Now bore three
holes thru your panel: to correspond
to the three screws and you can
slide your set: into the cabinet and
fasten! it in mil three of the small
ﬂirts off old“ dry batteries.

The ﬁnal’ ﬁnish can be a dead“
black enamel, mahogany or any oth—
er colored enamel or paint that you
desire;

 

the Acme “hook—up.” is simpler to
follow "out and their parts are so
built that very little wire is used‘ in
making the connections and the less ,
wire there is used the less lik-l'i-hood
of incorrect connections and trouble.

   

,Cab‘ii'nets of this style can be of
any size; and‘ are quickly and‘ easil‘y‘
made as there are no laps on the
edges or fancy corners to solder.
Your editor makes one in less than
2 hours and he is far frOm being a
tin-smith. '

A RADIO SET FOR DISTANCE

those that are interested in re—

. ceiving broadcasts from great
distances, and who want a set
that receives on a loop and not upon
alt—Outside aerial, and also easy to
tune We recommend the “Reﬂex”
receiver.

A reﬂex receiver uses the same
tube for. tWo purposss, that is each
tube acts as a radio frequency amp-
liﬁer and also as an audio frequency
ampliﬁer and so it is possible to
have; several stages of each kind of
ampliﬁcation with» a few tubes.‘

Such sets are easy and simple to
assemble if instructions are follOWed
to the letter. Also in assembling
them it is necessary to use the make
of apparatus recommended for each
particular circuit».

A good reﬂex set will give or
bring in to you just as much as any
other type of set and is extremely
simple to tune, much easier than the
high priced Neutrodyne or Super-
hetrodyne sets.

‘ Both the Erla and Acme parts are

recommended for making a reﬂex
set, and we are giving a diagram
here of a 4 tube, Acme, reﬂex set
which 'uses a crystal detector and
gives 3 steps of radio frequency
ampliﬁcation. If you wish to build
an Acme reﬂex set be sure and use
Acme parts, and if a Erla set use
Erla' parts.

By writing to'the Acme Apparatus
00., Cambridge, Mass, and enclos—
ing 10c in stamps or coin and ask—
ing for their booklet “Ampliﬁcation
Without Distortion” you will receive
a booklet that explains clearly and
fully how to build several kinds of
ampliﬁers and detectors especially
reﬂex sets. It is worth more than
they ask for it and it will be worth
having for any one who intends to
build a good radio set. .

Your radio editor has built a 4
tube set after their plans and on a
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_'(Continued from Sept. 13 issue.)
CHAPTER XXIV
,That' Miserable Money ' . ,
the evening, after the Martin girls

‘ had gone to their rooms, Miss Maggie
‘ and Mr. Smith faced the thing squarely.
"Of course,” he began with a sigh, “I’m
really not out of the woods at all. Bliss-
fully‘happy as I am, 'I’m really deeper in
the woods than ever, for now I’ve got
you there with me, to look out for. HOW—
ever successfully John Smith might de-
materialize into nothingness—M a g g i e
.‘Duff can’t.”

“No, I know she can’t” admitted Miss
Maggie soberly.

“Yet if she marries John Smith she’ll
have to—and she doesn’t marry him,
how's Stanley G. Fulton going to do his
courting? He can’t come here.”

“But he must!” Miss Maggie looked up
with startled eye‘s. “Why, Mr. Smith,
you’ll have to tell them-who you are.
You’ll have to tell them right away.”

The man made a playfully wry face.

“I shall be glad,” he observed, “when I
shan’t have to be held off at the end
of a ‘Mr.'! However, we’ll let that pass
~—-unti1 we settle the other matter. Have
you given any thought as to how I'm
going to tell Cousin Frank and Cousin
James and Cousin Flora that I am Stan—
ley G. Fulton?” ' '

“No—except that you must do it,”
she answered decidedly. “I don't think
you ought to deceive them another min—
ute—not another minute.”

“Hm-m." Mr. Smith’s eyes grew re-
ﬂective. “And had you thought—as to
,what would happen When I did tell
them?”

"Why, n-no, not particularly. except
that—that they naturally wouldn’t like
it, at ﬁrst, and that you’d have, to ex—
plain—just as you did to me—why you
did it.”

“And do you think they’ll like it any
better—:when I do explain? Think.”

Miss Maggie meditated; then, a little
tremulously she drew in her breath. She
lifted startled eyes to his face.

“Why, you’d have to tell them that—
that you did it for a test, wouldn‘t you?"

“If I told the truth—yes.”

“And they’d know—they couldn’t help
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adequately.”

“Yes. And would that help matters
any—#make things any happier, all
around?”

“No-—oh, no,” she frowned desparingly.

“Would it do anybody any real good,
now? Think of that.”

"N—no,” she admitted reluctantly, “ex-
cept that—that you'd be doing right.”

“But would I be doing right? And
another thing—aside from the mortiﬁca-
tion, dismay, and anger of my good
cousins, have you thought what I’d be
bringing on you?”

llMe !l’

“Yesﬁ In less than half a dozen hours
after the Blaisdells knew that Mr. John
Smith was Stanley G. Fulton, Hillerton
would know it. And in less than half
a dozen more hours, Boston, New York,
Chicago,—to say nothing of a dozen less-
er cities,—would know it—if there didn’t
happen to be anything bigger on foot.
Headlines an inch high would proclaim
the discovery of the missing Stanley G.
.Fulton, and the fine print. below would
‘tell everything that happened; and a great
deal that didn't happen, in the carrying—
pretty good story in rthe case, and some
‘ extraordinary scheme of testing his rela—
tives with a hundred thousand dollars
alpiece to ﬁnd a suitable heir. Your pic-
ture would adorn the front page of the
yellowest of yellow journals, and—” _

“My picture! Oh, no, no!” gasped Miss
Maggie. I

“Oh, yes, yes,” smiled the man imper-
turbably. "You’ll 'be in it, too. Aren’t
you the afﬁanced bride of Mr. Stanley
G. Fulton? I can see them now; ’In
Search of an Heir and Finds a Wife.’—.—
l‘Charming Miss Maggie Duff Falls in
Love with Plain John Smith,’ and ” .

“Oh. no, no,” moaned Miss Maggie,
shrinking (back as if already lurid head—
lines were staring her in the face.

Mr. Smith laughed.

“Oh, well, it might not be so bad as
that, of course. But you never can tell.
Undoubtedly there are elements for a
pretty good story in the case, and solne
man, with nothing more important to
write up, is bound to make the 'most of
it somewhere. Then other papers Will
copy. There’s sure to be unpleasant
publicity, tiny dear, if the truth once leaks
out.”

“But what—what had you planned to
do?" she faltcred, shuddering again.

“Well, I had planned something alike
this: pretty quick now, Mr. Smith was
to announce the completion of his Blais-
dell data, and, with properly grateful
farewells, take his departure from Hiller-
ton. He would go to South America.
There he would go inland on some sort
of a simple expedition with a few native
guides and carriers, but no other com—
panion. Somewhere in the wilderness he
would shed his beard and his name. and
would emerge in his proper person of
Stanley G. Fulton and promptly take
passage for the States. Of course upon
the arrival in Chicago of Mr. Stanley G.
Fulton, there would be a slight ﬂurry at
‘his appearance, and a few references to
the hundred thousand-dollar gifts to the
Eastern relatives, and sundry speculations
as to the why and how of the exploring
,trip. There would be various rumors and
ralleged interviews; but Mr. Stanley 
Fulton neVer was noted for his communi-
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the whole thing would be dismissed as
probably another of the gentleman’s well-
known eccentricities. And there it would
en< .”

"Oh, I see,” murmured Miss Maggie, in
very evident relief. “That would be bet—
ter—-in some ways; only it does seem
terrible not to—to tell them who you
are.” 7

“But we have just proved that to do
that wouldn’t bring happiness anywhere,
and would bring misery everywhere,
haven’t _we ?”

“Y—Yes."

“Then why do it?——particularly as by
not doing it I am not defrauding any—
body in the least. No; that part isn’t
worrying me a bit now—but there is one
point that does worry me very much."

“What do you mean? What is it?”

“Yourself. My scheme gets Stanley G.
Fulton back to life and Chicago very
nicely; but it doesn’t get Maggie Duff
there worth a cent! Maggie Duff can’t
marry Mr. John Smith in Hillerton and
arrive in Chicago as the wife of Stanley
G. Fulton, can she?”

“N-no, but he—he can come back and
get her—if he wants her.” Miss Maggie
blushed.

“If he wants her, indeed !” (Miss
Maggie blushed all the more at the
method and the fervor of Mr. Smith’s
answer to this.) “Come back as Mr.
Stanley G. Fulton, you mean?” went on
Mr. Smith, smiling at Miss Maggie’s
hurried efforts to sniooth her ruffled
hair. “Too risky, my dear! He’d 100k
altogether too much like—like Mr. John
Smith.”

“But your beard will be gone—I won-
der how I shall like you without a beard.”
She eyed him critically.

Mr. Smith laughed and threw up his
hands with a doleful shrug,

“That’s what comes of courting as one
man and marrying as another,” he groan-
ed. Then, sternly: “I’ll warn you right
now, Maggie Duff, that Stanley G. Fulton
is going to be awfully jealous of John
Smith if you don’t look out.”

“He should have thought of that be-
fore,” retorted Miss Maggie, her eyes
mischevious. “But, tell me, wouldn‘t you
ever dare to come—in your proper per—
son?” ‘

“Never!—or, at least, not for some
time. The beard would be. gone, to be
sure; but there’d be all the rest to tattle
-———eyes, voice, size, manner, Walk—
everything; and smoked glasses couldn’t
cover all that, you know. Besides,
glasses would be taboo, an 'way. They’d
only result in making me 1 ok more like
John Smith than ever. John Smith, you
remember wore smoked glasses for some
time to hide Mr. Stanley G. Fulton from
the ubiquitous reporter. No, Mr. Stanley
G. Fulton can’t come to Hillerton. So,
as 'Mahomet can’t go to the mountain,
the mountain must come to Mahomet.”

“Meaning—'2” Miss Maggie’s eyes were
growing dangerously mutinous.

“That you will have to come to Chicago
——yes.”

“And court you? No, sin—«hank you !”

Mr. Smith chuckled softly.

“I love you with your head tilted that
way.” (Miss Maggie promptly tilted it
the other.) “Or that, either, for that
matter," continued Mr. Smith genially.
“However, speaking of courting—Mr. Ful-
ton will do that, all righ-t, and endeavor
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quantity or quality. Think, now. Don’t
you know any one in Chicago? Haven’t
you got some friend that you can visit?”

“No!” Miss Maggie’s anSWer was
prompt, and emphatic—too prompt and
too emphatic for unquestioning accept-
ance.

“Oh, yes, you have,” asserted the man
cheerfully. “I don’t know her name——
but she’s there. She’s waving a red flag
from your face this minute! Now listen.
Well, turn your head away, if you like——-
if you can listen better that way," he
went on trauquilly,'.paying no attention
to her little gasp. “Well, all you have
to do is to write the lady you’re coming,
and g0. Never mind who she is—Mr.
Stanley G. Fulton will ﬁnd a way to meet
her. Trust him for that! Then he’ll
call and meet you! The rest will be easy.
There’ll be a regular whirlwind courtship
then—“calls, dinners, theatres, candy,
books, ﬂowers! Then Mr. Stanley G.
Fulton will propose marriage. You’ll be
immensely surprised, of course, but you’ll
accept. Then we’ll get married,” he
ﬁnished with a deep sigh of satisfaction.

“Mr. Smith!" ejaculated Miss Maggie
faintly.

“Say, can’t you call me anything-—"
he began wrathfully, but interrupted him-
self. “However, it’s better that you don’t,
after all. Because I’ve got to be 'Mr.
Smith’ as long as I stay here. But you
wait till you meet Mr. Stanley G. Fulton
in Chicago! New, what’s her name, and
where does she live?”

Miss Maggie laughed in _spite of her-
self, as she said severely: “Her name,
indeed! I’m afraid Mr. Stanley G. Fulton
is so in the habit of having his own way
that he forgets he is still Mr. John
Smith. However, there is an old school-
mate,” she acknowledged demurely.

“Of course there is! Now, write her at
once, and tell her you’re coming.”

“But she—she may not be there."

"Then get her there. She’s got to be
there. And, listen. I. think you’d (better
plan to go pretty soon after I go to South
America. Then you can be there when
Mr. Stanley G. Fulton arrives in Chi-
cago and can write the news back here
to Hillerton. Oh, they’ll get it in the
papers, in time, of course; but I think
it had better come from you ﬁrst. You
see~—-the reappearance on this earth of
Mr. Stanley G. Fulton is going to be of
—of some interest to them, you know.
There is Mrs. Hattie, for instance, who

= is counting on the rest of the money next

November.”
“Yes, I'know, it will mean a good

deal to them, of course. Still, I don't'

believe Hattie is really expecting the
money. At any rate she hasn’t said
anything about it very lately—perhaps
because she’s been too busy bemoaning
the pass the present money has brought
them to.”

“Yes, I know,” frowned Mr., Smith,
with a gloomy sigh. “That miseralble
money!”

“No—no—I didn‘t mean to bring that
up,” apologized Miss Maggie quickly,
with an apprehensive glance into his
face. “And it wasn’t miserable money
a bit! Besides, Hattie has has learned
her lesson, I’m sure, and she’ll do alto-
gether differently in the new home. But,
Mr. Smith, am I never to—to come back
here? Can't we come back—ever?"

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come back ,then.‘ Meanwhile. you can
'come alone—a "very little. I han't let
you leave me very much. But I under:
stand; you’ll have to come to see: your
friends, Besides, there all those" play-q

grounds for the babies and cleaner milk’

for the streets, and—" .
“Cleaner milk/for the streets, indeed!"
“Eh? What? Oh yes, it was the milk
for the babies, wasn't it?" he teased.

“Well, however that may be, you’ll have-

to come back to superintend all those
things you've been wanting to do so long.
But”—his face grew a little wistful——
“you don’t want to spend too much time

here. You know—Chicago has a few.

babies that need cleaner milk."

“Yes, I know, I know!” Her face grew
softly luminous as it had grown earlier
in the afternoon.

“So you can bestow some of your
charity there; and—~”

“It isn’t charity," she interrupted with
suddenly ﬂashing eyes. “Oh, how I hate
that word—the way it’s used, I mean.
Of course, the real charity means love.
Love, indeed! I suppose it was love that
made John Daly to give one hundred
dollars to the Pension Fund Fair—after
he’d jewed it out of those poor girls
behind his counters! And Mrs. Morse
went around everywhere telling how kind
dear Mr. Daly was to give so much to
charity! Charity! Nobody wants charity
-—-except a few lazy rascals like those-
beggars of Flora’s! But we all want
our rights. And if half the world gave-
the other half its rights rthere wouldn’t
be any charity, I believe.”

“Dear, dear! What have we here? A
rabid little Socialist?" Mr. Smith held up
both hands in mock terror. “I shall be
perti'tioning her for my bread and butter,
yet .” .

“Nonsense! But, honestly, Mr. Smith,
when I think of all that money"——hcr
eyes began to shine again—“and of what
we can do with it, 1—1 just can’t believe
it's so!” 9

“But you aren’t expecting that twenty
millions are to right all the wrongs in
the world, are you?” Mr. Smith’s eyes
were quizzical.

“No, oh, no; but we can help some
that we know about. But it isn’t that I
just want to give, you ’know. We must
get behind things—to the causes. We
niust—”

“We must make the Mr. Dalys pay
more to their girls ’before they pay any-
thing to pension funds, eh? laughed Mr.
Smith, as Miss Maggie came to a breath-
less pause.

“Exactly!” nodded Miss Maggie earn-4
estly.
do—with that twenty million dollars?”

Mr. Smith, his gaze on Miss Maggie’sL
ﬂushed cheeks and shining eys, smiled‘
tenderly. Then with mock severity he.

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frowned.

“I see——that I'm being married for my
money—after all!” he scolded.

“Pooh!” sniffed Miss Maggie, so al-
together bewitchingly that Mr. Smith
gave her a rapturous kiss.

CHAPTER XXV
Exit llfr. John Smith

Early in July Mr. Smith took his de-
parture from Hillerton. He made a fare-
well call upon each of the Blaisdell fairn—
ilies, and thanked them heartly for all
their kindness in assisting him with his
Blaisdell book.

The Blaisdells, one and all, said they
were ery sorry to have him go. Miss
Flora frankly wiped her eyes, and told
Mr. Smith she could never, never thank
him enough for what he had done for
her. Mellicent, too, with shy eyes avert-
ed, told him she should never forget what
he had done for her—and for Donald.

James and Flora and Frank—and even
Jane !—said that they would like to have
one of the Blaisdell books, when they
were published, to hand down in the
family. Flora took out her purse and
said that she would .pay for hers now";
but Mr. Smith hastily, and with some
cvident'cmbarrasment, refused the money,
saying that he could not tell yet what
the price of the book would be.

All the Blaisdells, except Frank, Fred,
and Bessie, went to the station to see Mr.‘
Smith off. They said they'wanted to.
They told him he was just like one of
the family, anyway, and they declared
they hoped he would come back soon.
Frank telephoned him that he would have
gone, too, if he had not had so much to
do at the store.

Mr. Smith seemed pleased at all this
attention—he seemed, indeed, quite toucha.
ed; but he seemed also em¢barrased-~in
fact, he seemed often embarrassed dur-
ing those last few days at Hillerton.

Miss Maggie Duff did’ not go to the
station to see Mr. Smith off. Miss Flora,
on her way home, stopped at the Duff
cottage and reproached Miss Maggie for
the delinquincy.

“Nonsense! Why should I go?” laugh.
ed Miss Maggie. ’

“Why shouldn’t you?” retorted Miss
Flora. “All the rest of us did, ’most."

“Well, that’s all right. You’re Blais-
dells—ibut I’m not, you .know.”

“You’re just as .good as one, Maggie
Duff! Besides, hasn’t that man boarded
here for over a year, and paid you good
money, too?!\’ . .

“Why, y—yes, of course.” V

“Well, then, I don’t think it ' would
have ‘hurt you to show-him this last little
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"Well, then, if—Why, Maggie Dun,
you’re‘blushing!" she broke off, peering
into Miss Maggie's face in a way that
did not tend to lessen the unmistakable
color that was creeping to her forehead.
“You are blushing! I declare, if you
‘56 twenty years younger, and I didn’t
kn w better, I should say that—" She
stopped abruptly, then plunged on, her
countenance suddenly alight with a new
idea. “Now I know why you didn’t go
to the station, Maggie Duff! That man
proposed to you, and you refused him!”
she triumphed. . '

“Flora!” gasped Miss Maggie, her face
scarlet.

“He did, I know he did! Hattie always
said it would be a match—from the very
first, when he came here to your house."

"Flora!" gasped Maggie again, looking
about her very much as if she were medi-
tating ﬂight. »

"Well, she did-abut I didn’t believe it.
now I know. You refused him—now,
didn’t you?’.’

“Certainly not !" Miss Maggie caught
her breath a little convulsively.

"Honest?"

"Flora! Stop this silly talk'right now.
I have [answered you once. I shan’t
again." ' _

“Hm-m." Miss Flora fell back in her
chair. "Well, I suppose you didn’t, then,
if you say so. And I don’t need to ask
if you accepted him. You didn’t of
course, or you’d have been there to see
him off. And he wouldn’t have gone
then anyway, probably. So he didn’t
ask you, I suppose. Well, I never did
believe, like Hattie did, that—"

“Flora,” interrupted Miss Maggie des-
perately, “will you stop talking in that
albsurd way? Listen, I did not care to go
to the station to-day. I am very busy.
I am going away next week. I am going
—-to Chicago.”

"To Chicago—you!” Miss Flora came
erect in her chair.

“Yes, for a visit. I’m going to see my
old classmate, Nellie Maynard—Mrs.
Tyndall."

"Maggie!" ' _

“What‘s the matter?”

“Why, n-nothing. It’s lovely, of course,
only— only I—I’m so surprised! You
never go anywhere." '

“All the more reason why I should,
then. It’s time I did," smiled Miss Mag-
gie. Miss Maggie was looking more at
ease now. ,

“When are you going?”

n "Next Wednesday. I heard from Nellie
last night. She is. expecting me then.”

“How perfectly splendid! I’m so glad!
And I do hope you can do it, and that it
won't peter out at the last minute same’s
most of your good times to. Poor Mag-
gie! And you’ve had such a hard life—-
and your boarder leaving, too! That'll
make a lot of difference in your pocket-
book, won’t it? Butrhiaggie, you’ll have
to have some new clothes.”

“Of course. I’ve been shopping this
afternoon. I’ve got to have—oh, lots of
things."

“Of course you have. And, Maggie,”
——-Miss Flora’s face grew eager,—“please,
please won’t you let me help you a- little
-—about those clothes? And get some
nice ones—some real nice ones, for once.
You know how I’d love to! Please, Mag-
gie, there's a good girl!”

“Thank you, no, dear," refused Miss
Maggie, shaking her head with a smile.
"But I appreciate your kindness just the
same indeed, I do!”

"If you wouldn’t be so horrid proud,”
pouted Miss Flora.

But Miss Maggie stopped her with a
gesture.

"No, no,-—listen! 1—1 have something
to tell you. I was going to tell you soon,
anyway, and I’ll tell it now. I have
money, dear,———lots of it now.”

“You have money!"

"Yes. Father’s Cousin George died two
months ago.”

"I‘he rich one, in Alaska?"

"Yes; and to father's daughter he left
—ﬂfty thousand dollars.”

“Mag-me En

"And I never even saw him! But he
loved father, you know, years ago, and
father loved him."

"But had you ever heard from him—_
late years?" I

“Not much. Father was very angry

, because he went to Alaska in the ﬁrst

place, you know, and they haven’t ever
written very often.”

"Fifty thousand! And you’ve got it
now?” Am

“Not yet—all of it. They sent me a
thousand—just for pin money, they said.
The lawyer’s written several times, and
he’s been here once. I believe it’s all
to come next month.”

“Oh, I’m so glad, Maggie,” breathed
Flora. “I’m so glad! I don’t know of
anybody I’d rather see take a little com-
fort' in life than you!”

At, the door, ﬁfteen minutes later, Miss

I Flora said again how glad she was; but

she added wistfullyz—

“I’m sure I don't know, though, what
I’m going to do all summer without you.
Just think how lonesome ,we’ll be—you
gone to Chicago, Rattle; and Jim and all
their family moved to Plainville, and
even Mr. Smith gone, too! And I think
we’re going to miss Mr. Smith a whole
lot, too. He was a. real nice man. Don’t

you think so. M88818 '3" /

“Indeed, I do think he was a very nice
man!" declared Miss Maggie. "Now,
Mora, I shall want you to go shopping /

.mth me lots. Can you?’ _

" ’hlin.’ cm are mad, about some—thing, 1'

 

And. Miss Flora, " eagerly entering. into

Mis..Maggie’s‘ disc sion of frills and
ﬂounces, failed to not ce that Miss Maggie
had dropped the subject of Mr. Smith
somewhat hastily.

Hillerton had much to talk about dur-
ing those summer days. Mr.‘ Smith’s go-
ing had created a mild discussion—the
“ancestor feller” was well known and
well liked in the town. But even his de-
parture did not arouse the interest that
was bestowed upon the removal of the
James Blaisdells to Plainville; and this,
in turn, did not cause so great an excite-
ment as did the news that Miss Maggie
Duff had inherited ﬁfty thousand dollars
and had gone to Chicago to spend it.
And the fact that nearly all who heard
this promptly declared that they hoped
she would spend a good share of it—in
Chicago, or elsewhere—on herself, showed
pretty well just where Miss Maggie Duff
stood in the hearts of Hillerton.

It was early in September that Miss
Flora had the letter from Miss Maggie.
Not but that she had received letters from
Miss! Maggie before, but that the con-
tents of this one made it at once, to all
the Blaisdells, “the letter.”

Miss Flora began to read it, gave a
little cry, and sprang to her feet. Stand—
ing, her breath suspended, she,flnished it.
Five minutes later, gloves half on and
hat askew, she was hurrying across the
common to her brother Frank's home.

“Jane, Jane,” she panted, as soon as
she found her sister—in-law. “I’ve had a
letter from Maggie. Mr. Stanley G. Ful—
ton has come back. He’s come back!”

“Come back! Alive, you mean? Oh,
my goodness gracious! What’ll Hattie
do? She’s just been living on having
that money. And us, with all we've lost.
too! But, then, maybe we wouldn’t have
got it, anyway. My stars! And Maggie
wrote you? Where’s the letter?”

“There! And I never thought to bring
it,” ejaculated Miss Flora vexedly .“But,
never mind! I can tell you all she said.
She didn’t write much. She said it
would be in all the Eastern papers right
away, of course, but she wanted to tell
us ﬁrst, so we wouldn’t be so surprised.
He’s just come. Walked into his law-
yer's office without a telegram, or any-
thing. Said he didn’t want any fuss
made. Mr. Tyndall brought home the
news that night in an ‘Extra’; but that’s
all it told—just that Mr. Stanley G. Ful-
ton, the multi-millionaire who disappeared
nearly two years ago on an exploring
trip to South America, had come back
alive and well. Then it told all about
the two letters he left, and the money
he left to us, and all that, Maggie said;
and it talked a lot about how lucky it
was that he got back just in time before
the other letter had to be opened next
November. But it didn’t say any more
about “is trip, or anything. The morn-
ings paper will have more, Maggie said,
probably."

“Yes, of course, of course," nodded
Jane, rolling the corner of her apron
nervously. (Since the forty-thousand—
dollar loss Jane had gone back to her
old habit of wearing two aprons.) "Where
do you suppose he’s been all this time?
Was he lost or just exploring?”

“Maggie said it wasn’t known-that the
paper didn’t say. It was an ‘Extra’ any-
way, and just got in the bare news of
his return. But we’ll know, of course.
The papers here will tell us. Besides,
Maggie’ll write again about it, I’m sure.
Poor Maggie! I’m so glad she’s having
such a good time!”

“Yes, of course, of course,” nodded Jane
again nervously. “Say, Flora, I wonder
-——-do you suppose we’ll ever hear from
him? He left us all that money—he
knows that, of course. He can’t ask for
it back——the lawyer said he couldn’t do
that! Don’t you remember? But, I
wondeHo you suppose we ought to
write him and——tha.nk him?" '

“Oh, mercy!” exclaimed Miss Flora,
aghast. “Mercy me, Jane! I’d be scared
to death to do such a thing as that. Oh,
you don’t think we’ve got to do that?”
Miss Flora had grown actually pale.

Jane frowned.

“I don't know. We’d want to do what
was right and proper, of course. But I
don't see—” She paused helplessly.

Miss Flora gave a sudden hysterical
little laugh.

“Well, I don’t see how we’re going to
ﬁnd out what’s proper, in this case,” she
giggled. “We can't write to a magazine,
same as I did when I wanted to know
how to answer invitations and ﬁx my
knives and forks on the table. We can’t
write to them. 'cause nothing like this
ever happened before, and they wouldn‘t
know what to say. How’d we look writ-
ing, 'Please, dear Editor, when a man
wills you a hundred thousand dollars and
then comes to life again, is it proper or
not proper to write and thank him?’
They’d think we was crazy, and they’d
have reason to! For my part, I ”

The telephone bell rang sharply, and
Jane rose to answer it. She was gone
some time. When she came back she was
even more excited.

“It was Frank. {He’s heard it. It was
in the papers to-night.”

"Did it tell anything more?”

“Not much, I guess. Still, there was
some. He’s going to bring it home. It’s
’most supper-time. Why don't you wait?”
she questioned, as Miss Flora got hastily
to her feet.

Miss Flora shook her head.

"I can’t. I left everything just as it
was and ran. when I got the letter. I’ll
get a paper myself on the way home.

 

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SATURDA‘Z, SEPTEMBER 27, 1924
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" The Farm Paper of Service "

THE KILLERi-CRwsING MUST GO!

INCE returning from Europe this summer we
have been giving some thought and study
to the problem of railroad crossing accidents

in the United States, and we are wondering how
many of our readers know that in all of England
and practically every nation on the continent the
public is protected at the highway crossing of the
railroad in such a manner that accidents are
practically unknown.

When Prof. Frank Spragg and his wife and
son were thus killed almost within sight of their
home at Lansing and we lost one of our most
promising seed experts, it focused our attention
on the ways and means, of preventing such a cal-
amity and aroused our indignation in almost
equal proportion to our sympathy.

There is no excuse for grade crossing acci—
dents!

Railways executives agree with us in this state-
ment, but they place the blame entirely on the
motorist who will not “Stop, Look and Listen"
at every railroad crossing which he meets in his
travels day or night.

Yet we can take these men to any number of
crossings in Michigan where it is impossible,
without getting out of the automobile and walk-
ing to the center of the track, to tell whether or
not a train is approaching, and we are familiar
with an accident where a careful motorist did
this very thing and yet there was a curve at the
point so that although he had looked carefully
in each direction and could see no train ap-
proaching, by the time he had climbed back into
his automobile and driven to the center of the
tracks a svvift passenger train was upon him.

In European countries it is common for the
railroad to provide a small piece of ground at
the intersection which is occupied by a section
hand and it is the duty of the Wife in the family
or an older person to lower the gate preceding
the approach of the train. Evidently they are
advised well in advance because we recollect
' very clearly sitting in the blistering sun for fully
ten minutes this summer waiting for an ap-
proaching train which crossed the road that lead
to Belleau Woods.

Minor highways which are seldom used for
travel are protected by gates which are contin-
uously closed so that the traveler, whether by
foot or conveyance, must get out, open the gate,
and is forced by state law to close the gate be-
fore passing on, and the penalties for not so do-
ing are we understand, very stringent.

Grade crossings on main traveled highways
where the traﬂic is heavy should be protected by
separations as soon as possible. There is no ex—
cuse for grade crossings on the principal paved
state highways in the State of Michigan, and the
state and county could well afford to meet the
railroads half way in  those separations
poSsible at every strategic point.

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In some recent proposals which has come to
our desk «it is pointed out «that the average grade
crossing costs from sin; to 6W town! dad»
lars and that more are 2.55.1009 credo crossings
inmumm. vmmmlwom
then-tore. em on m at smmmm.
We wonder if the one who prepared these ﬁgures
and sent my  to mislead .the public could
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grade separation, nor is there any necessity «for ‘

it. We do not helluva that more than one Per

cent of   crossings in Michigan can

ibonst .of "killings" to their credit, but it is these
comparative few dangerous crossings «where one
or more people have alrde been injured to
which we direct the immediate attention of the
farm organizations, automobile clubs, and all in-
terested in satety for the public.

There is no use trying to hide behind the
shield of public carelessness; certainly it is the
duty of the government to protect the lives and
property of its citizens. and if “Irafety” is to be
spelled with a dollar sign we might as well go
back to the days of the despotic monarchs, to
whom the lives of their subjects were only as so
much fodder!

 

THE FARM CENSUS

IT_HIN the next few weeks the rural mail
carrier will hand you an envelope from the
Department of Commerce which will advise

you of a census in agriculture for 1926 to be
taken as of January ﬁrst, and doubtless you will
wonder what it is all about. —

You may recall that Congress provided that an
agricultural census be taken between the period
of the ten your national census and it is expected
that the labor of from ﬁfteen to twenty thousand
enumerators will be necessary to collect this in-
formation from the individual farmers all over
the United States.

The Department of Commerce has adopted an
excellent idea in sending a sample of the census
returns to each individual farmer so that he may

 

THEY SHALL NOT PASS—w—
UNGUARDED!

The dangerous railway crossing
where lives are being , snnEed out
every day for want of protection to
the public must go!

No European nation tolerates it
and over there crossing accidents
are unknown.

We call for the support of farm
papers, farm organizations, automo-
bile clubs and the great majority of
our citizens whose wives and fam-
ilies must ‘be protected at any cost,
to rally to a movement for adequate
railway crossing protection. WE
WANT PICTURES AND DESCRIP-
TIONS OF “KILLER CROSSINGS”
HERE IN MICHIGAN! Help us
locate them and we will help you
get them protected.

 

 

take the time necessary to answer all the ques-
tions and have them ready. for the enumerath
When he calls. -

The enumerator will only ask questions that
are placed on his own blanks so you can keep
the original copy which has been sent Yon from
Washington for your own ﬁles.

When it is considered that‘ ﬁve million of these
questionnaires will be mailed out to individual
farmers you will get some idea of the amount
of labor involved in collecting this information.
The collected information will be of value to all
interested in agriculture in America, which in-
cludes each individual farmer.

We hope every BUSINESS Fumes reader will be
ready with the information required on the
sample blank which is sent him from Washington
when the enumerator for his district comes to
his front door.

“BlllLD——BEPAIRw-BE-BOOF NOW”
URING early fall comes a period when the
good business farmer will take an inventory
of the condition of his buildings, because,
preceding the coming of early {all teens, it be-
hooves him to make preparations for winter.

14 there la a leak in the root ,9! the New.
harm or other buildings, now is the the to re.-
” W.- I! more are odd Jobs outside, new is
the pins to set the work out .01 the may. , »

The job that .is put on adds something to 145
own post at doing it later. 014‘ M  to!
instance, rot away, letting stock 491:9}; 1145' :1
mm gain where the dam .. . ,. cm 1
the animal in one might. would met My Man
mmwtmpm-  , _- .

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doing something by a suggestion  ONI-
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plane was ﬂout. Leigh- Wede .ot  M-

13311, a farmer hay. ’ r

We knew that'lt mould takeAmoﬂcan insen—
wﬂty. resourcefulnem. and pluck to make the dust
circle of the world by air, and a d not our-
prlse us that four or the seven men who new
around the world were farmer boys from .dlmerent
parts of the United States. r ~

It takes a mixture of red blood and 
with the resourcefulness which just 
comes to a term boy to accomplish the tem-
ordinary things in our modern life.

The boy raised in the city does not have to
cope with the necessity of making for himself
the tools or toys with which he works or plays.
and so it is little wonder that the real achieve-
ments in science, experiment, and discovery can
largely be traced to boys and girls who came from
the farms of America.

Michigan feels the same thrill of pride over
the accomplishment 013- this illustrious farmer boy
that his parents and sisters must feel today.
We hope the plane-he new around the world can
be exhibited at the larger fairs in Michigan next
year. and we omer this as a suggestion to the
army service. I

Lleut. Wade, we are proud to call you a native
son!

 

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TAX-FREE bond is a bootleg bond in that
the proﬁt to its owner, through assaying all
taxes, falls to pay its just share toward gov-
ernment, just as the proﬁts from bootleg whisky
fell to pay their share of government expense.

The tax—free bond is legal, however, while hoot-
leg liquor is not, but in both instances the gov—
ernment loses revenue from the proﬁts/win the
transaction.

:Sim-ple justice demands that our law be
changed so that the proﬁts from future issues of
public bonds may .be taxed. They would always
command a lovVer interest rate ,than private
bonds on account of their greater security.

Why permit the proﬁts from this class of se-
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EXTENDING USE OF SILVER

ROFESSOR Irving Fisher, Yale University

international economist, says that gold is no

longer a stable standard of value, and that
its purchasing power should be stabilized to pre-
vent evils of inﬂation or deﬂation by larger use
of silver all over the world.

The treasury has embarked upon a campaign
to restore the silver dollar to general circulation.
An initial step was taken when one of the coins
was placed in the pay envelope of each of 5,000
Treasury employee. Similar action will be sug-
gested to other government departments. Paper
has been “pulsating silver dollars, but upkeep
of paper money costs the government around .3
per cent of its total, face value, while mainten-
anue of silver dollars costs practically nothing.

 

WHEN FRIENDS MEAN MOST
T no time in life does the signiﬁcance .of our
friends become so apparent as during a be-
reavement, when we' are fairly staggering
from the weight of the blow.

How much do the words and messages of
cheer from our friends then revive and sustain
us! '

Among the most appreciated was a note from
Anne Campbell, known to most of our readers
as the “Detroit News Poet” and who is heard

very often over the radio from 'WWJ, it read:

  
 

“What can I say? I can only otter you
my hand in sympathy, and hope that the 
that made your father the ﬁne man he was,
will comfort you and sustain «you until time

. heels you. * ,

1 enclose a. little poem. Which  be pali-
mm, in the Detroit News under the we
“in memory”, and which you are welcome to
publish also, it you would like to.”

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on at our readers, from the
' Service  1-06
East 13th street. New York, asking
you to send the address of. .a person

' for when they had a “lost package”,

whom they “were intermed- you
knew”, what would you do?

It you were .a member of the
Business Farmer’s Service and Pro—
tective Bureau and read the publish-
er’s desk, you might send it in to
us as this lady did, but if you were
entirely “on your own”, you might
end up with several dollars out of
your pocket, in fact as many as they
might get before you woke up to the
crooked scheme they were apparent-
ly trying to work.

We have had our representative
in New York try to locate this com—
pany and he reports that not only
are they not listed in the telephone
book, but there is no such address
as “106 East 18th Street."

So just who they were who organ-
ised this “lost package" scheme and
just how they intended to work it
will have to remain a mystery unless

I some reader who has been victimized

will tell us about it, on our promise
not to divulge their names.

In the meantime we are turning
the correspondence over to the post-
oﬁce inspectors at New York and
will report in these columm in a
later issue it they are any more suc-
cessful than we in locating this con-
cern.

By the way, they must have been
doing a rushing business in lost
packages as the number of the one
referred to, by our reader is
“227,561”!

POOR TIME TO BUY NEW AUTO
STOCKS

N reply to a request for informa-

I tion regarding a new automo-

bile manufacturing company,

being reﬁnanced in Detroit, the

‘ stock for which is being “peddled”

in some farming sections in Michi-

. gain, a well—posted member of the

Detroit stock exchange says:
“The —‘———-—- Motors Co. is now

, conducting a campaign to sell more

stock and we personally can see only
failure for the smaller stockholders
of the company. They are «manu-
facturing an eight cylinder motor

‘ with some kind of a trick valve ar-

rangement that has never proven
success, and with Columbus, Lib-
erty and several other of the smaller
motor companies going out of bus—
iness we believe it is hardly time to
purchase small motor stocks.

On the contrary we believe that
your correspondent would be furth-
er ahead it he could sell the stock

' for what he can get for it regardless
' of what he paid and take its loss.

We might add that inasmuch as the
to sell additional stock, during the
campaign there would probably be
some market for the same.”

MEMO: PHOTOGRAPHS
HE Artcraft Studios, of 3900
Sheridan Road, Chicago, lIli—
nois, appear to be doing an

‘ honest business. However, the sub-

ject they teach is not one that would
furnish ready employment to per-

, sons in rural districts or small

country villages.
As a rule a. 'small town photo-

. grapher is somewhat of a retoucher

himself, and can do the work well

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good, and if you are going to work I

in a photographer’s gallery would
pro-re of great'value. But living
where you do, I would not advise
you to take up this course. '

WARREN MoRAE AGAIN

We have just had a little exper—i
ience with a farm agency that had;
an ad in our paper. They claim"

they had buyers for Michigan terms,
so we thought we would let them
take a chance on buying ours if it
suited them but now they want “0
in advance for listing our farm
which does not look very good to
us, as it may be another $10 take,
just to pay $10 and may never .see
a buyer. Will enclose some of the
last letters which they have sent us.
At last they cut it down to $5 it we
would send it right away, within the
hen few days. Could you tell. us if
this land agency is reliable or not?
Am enclosing a listing agreement.——-
A Reader of the M. B. F.

are a little surprised to ﬁnd
that you have not been read-

ing the numerous items we*

have been publishing regarding the
Warren McRae Farm Agency. We

would not advise you, or any of our ‘

readers to list a farm with this
agency until they supplied you with
the complete name and address of

two or more farmers in this state -

who have sold farm-s through this
agency. TEE Bosmass Fume-n for

some time, tried to secure a list of ’
farmers in Michigan who have sold ‘

their farms through Mr. McRa—e’s
Agency, but to date he has ignored
our requests.

The letters you received are
about the same type as received by

other subscribers of THE Busmassj

‘FABMER, namely: that if the sub-

scriber did not respond to the $10 -‘
listing fee, a special oﬂer was made, '

of $5.00. And as we understand it,
the price was reduced even lower to
encourage some of our readers to
list their farms with Mr. McRae.

if you desire to dispose of your
farm, we would advise that you
«place it in the hands of your local
real estate men with whom you are
acquainted, or place it in the hands
of some reliable real estate agency
that has branches in other states.
But, in all events, be skeptical of
any ﬁrm or agency that asks you a
fee for listing your farm for sale,
and be amply sure that they are
thoroughly reliable before making
anqyr payments. You know “One
bird in the hand is worth two in a
bush," and you might better keep

your money than give it to some I '

stranger, about Whom you know
nothing.

BUYING RADIO STOCK
r O matter how honorable a man's

business may be, there are al-

ways fakirs in the same busi-
ness, and this is especially true in a
business that is making a phenomin-
al growth though sudden popularity
with the public. One business that
has perhaps gained more popularity
within the last year or two than any
other, is radio, and new companies
for the manufacture of receiving
sets are springing up all over the
country, and people are being solic-
ited by stock salesmen continuously.

There is no question but what

radio is a wonderful invention and it
will not be many years before prac-
tically every family will have a re— ‘
oe-iying set in their house. In spite i

of the fact that radio is very popular 1

I would not invest in the stock of km? .
new company without knowing as to
the reliability of every ofﬁcial in it, ‘
and would study the proposition very
careful'ly before I would invest one
cent. It I wanted to invest in radio
stock I certainly would put my money
into some company that was well es-
mace, and let (to other W do
the 'ng with the new com-
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If I. have caused one feet to gp‘ astray,
If ~-I have walked in my own willful
way— ‘ «'
Good Lord forgive!

‘. If I have uttered idle words or vain, .’
If I have turned aside from want or pain,
- Lest I myself should suffer through the
strain—. '

Good Lord forgive!

'If I have craved for joys that are not
mine. .
If I have let my wayward heart repine,
Dwelling on things of earth, not things
divine——
Good 'Lord forgive!
If I have been perverse, or hard, or cold,
It I have longed for shelter in the fold
When Thou hast given me some part to
hold— -
Good Lord forgive!

Forgive the sins I have confessed to thee,
Forgive the secret sins I do not see.
That which I know not, Father, teach
Thou me—
Help me to live.
-—Selected.

JEALOUSY IN CHILDREN

ROBABLY the commonest hu-

man failing is jealousy. Every

one has some of it, and every
one hates it in himself and other
people. The rarest person in the
world and the one whom every one
likes is the person who is most free
from it. There are plenty of people
to whom we can tell our troubles.
But if you will stop to think, there
are very few (except our mothers)
to whom we can Without self-con-
sciousness tell our achievements and
our good fortunes.

You are wise if you brag only to
the people who are not your com-
petitors in your own line, if you
want genuine congratulations. Not
every one is so transparent as the
great tenor who had a tremendous
popularity with the basses, contrai—
tos and sopranos who sang with
him. He was unfailingly kind to
them all. Other tenors, however,
told a different story. Most of us
have the same emotions as he, care-
fully as we have learned to cover
them up.

It is not so strange that children
show a perfectly frank and un-
ashamed jealousy, and that as they
grow older and cleverer you can still
see the green-eyed motive for many
of their otherwise inexplicable
naughtinesses. Jealousy, after all,
is an offshoot, a by—product of that
inevitable and useful instinct to
keep the personality strong and
alive and dominant. Every child of
spirit will give you a merry chase to
train his jealousy into a trait pos—
sible to live with.

They say that the things you
mind the most in yourself are the
things you most viciously attack in
your children. If that is true, all
parents have a difﬁcult task to turn
this particular vice into a virtue. I
suppose you could analyze all ambi-
tions into various forms of jealousy.
It is a difﬁcult problem, but once
recognized, like all others, it is less
hard to meet. One curious thing is
that when by questioning you have
helped the child to understand the
'underlying meanness, he is relieved
and acts almost grateful to you.

 

COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS

ID you ever stop to think how

much time the most of us

spend in bemoaning our fate
and holding up our troubles and
problems to the sympathetic gaze of
our families and our friends, instead
of seeking each day the many‘bless—
ings which fall to the lot of every
one of us, for which we can offer
very real thanks?
‘ All along the road of life, day by
day, are scattered innumerable
blessings, some of them so familiar
to us that we do not always count
them as such. And yet, if we but
stop to realize that each and every
one of these often commonplace
gifts of daily life are indeed bless—
ings, how much easier our path and
how much more of happiness we can
bring to others as well as to our—
selves.

First and foremost comes the
blessing of healthand strength. Our
physical well—being we take so much
for granted that it is not until we
fall sick or have some big physical
handicap to overcome that we begin
’ to realize that a well body is more
' to be valued than wealth or worldly
possessions. Then we appreciate
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what you are missing while
many of you do not.
It will help keep John
and Mary on the farm with
you, too.

 

 

9‘ ‘Far'
~ .Allepartment for the Women

Edited by MRS.

' EAR FOLKS: Have you a radio in your home? If you haven’t
‘are you going to get one before the winter weather begins? We
have one in our home and we would be lost if it was taken out.
It is true that the original cost of a good receiving set, one that all
the family can enjoy at once, is fairly high but if you install one this
fall, and use it all winter, next spring- you will declare it has paid for
itself. Life on the farm can be made much more enj0yable and dur-
ing the long winter evenings you can listen to the latest news, a good '-
lecture or a sermon, have a front seat at an opera or other musical con-
cert, or you can bring to your home some of the best dance music
orchestras of the land or you can have the music of the old time
dance, and all the time you can sit by your warm ﬁre and let the wind
howl outside and the snow pile up.
you. This sounds as if I were writing an advertisement for
the manufacturers of radio receiving sets but I am not.

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

 
     
  
  
    

    
 

  
  

 

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grows steadily or suddenly dim. 
you have to-change your glasses fre-
quently for stronger ones, there is a
great probability that something
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ism which permits us to und rtake
our household duties and s ccess-
fully perform the sometimes hard
and» difﬁcult tasks that come our
way.

Can we not also count as a rich
blessing the loving hearts that sur-
round us in our home—or, if we are
not the happy possessors of a fam-
ily—in the hearts of our friends and
those near and dear to us? And not
always our most intimate friends,
but sometimes those who seem to
stand aloof in times of stress are
often the ﬁrst to come forward with
sympathy and understanding.

Another blessing that comes to us
in disguise is the blessing of hard
work and daily drudgery. The end-
less routine of household tasks that
oftimes seem so irksome and so
difﬁcultwall are stepping stones to
the development of character and
real greatness of spirit in us. In
time of trouble, who of us has not
realized that the commonplace house—
hold duties are the means by which
the mind and body are kept health-
ily employed. Those very duties of
daily life keep use from useless
grieving and help us to weather the
troubled seas of pain and regret.

The world is a beautiful place. Do
we ever stop to realize this as a real
factor in our every day existance?
Look out of your windows. At ev-
ery season of the year in every
country nature has something won-
derful to offer you. Especially to
those of us who live in the country
is this a very real truth. The eye of
the apreciative beholder will thrill
to the beauty of nature and count as
a blessing the glories of every
changing season.

Count your blessings, name them
one by one, and life Will assume a
brighter, happier aspect for you and

 

for those who travel the road with
you—Kathleen M. Strange.

(Editor’s Note:—I am indebted
to the Nor’West Farmer for the
above article.)

 

KEEP YOUR EYES WELL

FEW years ago the following
recommendations were passed
by an oculist’s convention. The
rules are good, and any person who
has his own best health and welfare
at heart would do well to heed them.

Your eyes are worth more to you
than any book.

Your safety and your success in
life depend on your eyes. Therefore
take care of them.

Always hold your head up when
you read.

Hold your book fourteen inches
from your face.

Be sure that the light is clear and
good. Never read in a bad light.

Never read with the sun shining
directly on your book.

Never face the light in reading.
Let the light come from behind or
over the left shoulder.

Avoid books or papers printed in-
distinctly or in small type.

Rest your eyes by looking away
from the book every few‘ minutes.

Cleanse your eyes night and morn-
mg.

In conclusion keep your eyes well
as you grow old and you will not feel
old. Remember that proper glasses
obtained from a capable oculist will
lengthen your usefulness in this
world, and keep you feeling content-
ed with life. Remember that few,
if any, eye diseases come from them-
selves. There is always a cause for
everything. Therefore, ﬁnd the cause.
Do not neglect to have your health
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SCHOOL Illﬂ’ROVEMENT

URING the next few weeks more mothers and fathers, living in
D rural communities, are going to see the insides of schoolhouses
than have seen them for many months. This is because 1924 is
a presidential election year and many political meetings will be held

in schoolhouses.

While you are there, mothers and fathers, look around and see if
these schoolrooms are ﬁt places for your children to spend the best

part of ﬁve days out of seven.

Windows should be on one side of the

room and the amount of glass area should be from one-fourth to one-
ﬁfth of the ﬂoor area; they should be capable of being lowered from
the top and raised from the bottom and should have adjustable shades.
If there is an unjacketed stove in the center of the room an equal dis-

tributiOn of heat for all parts of the room is impossible.

This difﬁ-

culty can be overcome by placing in a corner a jacketed stove with a

fresh air intake and a foul air outlet.
This is condemned by intelligent public opin-

and common dipper?

Is there an open water pail

ion, and prohibited by law in many States. Are the seats of one size

or non-adjustable?

If so your little ﬁve year old girls sit all day with

their feet dangling and your big over-grown fourteen year old boys are

stuffed into seats several sizes too small.

Inspect the toilets and see

whether they are an insult to decency and a menace to health.

It is most ﬁtting that the people should gather in their own build-
ings—the public schoolhouses—to hear reasons why they should or
should not vote for this or that party, candidate or referendum meas-

ure. It is real community civics.

Out of it come a more intelligent

electorate. One of its importantby-products may be a revived inter-

est in schoolrooms and their equipment.

 

 

Personal Column

 

 

Sugar Cure Meat—Can you send me
,a" recipe on how to sugar cure meat?
We want to do our own butchering this
winter.-—Mrs. H. M., Petersburg, Mich.
——The only recipe that I can ﬁnd is that
given by 0. Powell in her' “Successful
Fanning and Preserving.” It is as fol-
ows.—

-—-"Sugar-Cured Breakfast B a c o n—For
up-to-date ‘sugar-cured’ breakfast bacon,
take pieces one inch to one and one-half
inches in thickness, six to eight inches
wide, and ﬁfteen to eighteen inches long,
and treat with salt, sugar and saltpetre
mixture of ﬁfteen to twenty—two days,
unless strips are heavier. To every 100
pounds of meat weigh out eight pounds of
salt, two pounds of granulated white
sugar, and .two ounces of saltpetre, mix
thoroughly, dampen the top side (not
skin side) lightly with water by us-
ing a whisk broom dipped in water,
then rub the mixture into the top side,
and edges and the ends. Sprinkle bot-
tom of box with the mixture, lay in the
piece that is rubbed, skin down, and
sprinkle with salt mixture, giving a light
coating on top. then another, and so on.
Every seven days from the day packed,
overhaul all. rub each piece again, and
resalt with the same mixture lightly.
The bacon that is one inch thick should
remain in mixture ﬁfteen days. The
bacon that is one and one-half inches
thick should remain in mixture twenty-
two days. Heavier bacon may require
longer time. Then take out, wash thor-
oughly, hang in smoke-house twenty-four
hours to drain, and smoke to a light
chestnut color. This recipe should not be
used where the meat must be kept in a.
warm and dry place, as the preservatives
will not penetrate easily and uniformly."
—Jean Krueger, Dean of Home Econom-
ics, M. A. C.

 

Cooking Flﬁll.——HOW can ﬁsh be cooked
so that the bones are ready to eat?—R.
B.

—-Pressure cooking, which gives a Very
high temperature and which is used in
the canning of ﬁsh, seems to soften the
smaller bones, altho the larger ones are
still hard.

The addition of dilute acid'will dis-
solve the mineral matter in bone as the
raineral matter gives bones their hardness,
t is method should soften the bones so
they could be caten.-—Osee Hughes, As-
sCociate Professor, Home‘Economics, M. A.

 

Wants Recipes.——I am a Reader of the
BUSINESS FARMER and enjoy reading it
very much. I would like to ask some of
the sisters of the Bsumnss FAREMR for
a recipe for the old fashion ginger bread
and corn leaf and would be glad to send
any recipe I have—Mrs. W. H. D., Grass
Lake, Michigan.

 

 

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Table Details All Should Know.—
Separate vegetable and butter dishes are
not objectionable on the home table, for
all they are not fashionable at formal
dinners.

There can be no second helping at a.
formal dinner save when offered by the
hostess. _

What has been spilled or dropped—food
or liquid—is best passed over as quickly
as possible with a brief apology. What
has been broken—glass or china—~cannot
be so dismissed, if valuable. In that
case the cup or glass which has fallen
a victim to circumstances, is duplicated.
if possible, and sent to the hostess with
a note of regret.

The ﬁnger-bowl is not a wash-basin,
though those who know no better often
confuse the two. The extent to which
tradition has inﬂuenced table etiquette at
European courts is shown by a rather
disgusting ﬁngerdbowl observance re-
corded by the late Theodore Roosevelt.
When he dined in the palace of Schen-
brunn as the guest of the Emperor Franz
Josef, ﬁnger bowls in which stood glasses
half-ﬁlled with water were served at the
conclusion of the meal. To Mr. Roose-
velt’s surprise, the emperor and the il-
lustrious company, comprising the social-
ly elect of the land, each took a mouth—
ful of water, rinsed their mouth and
spat back the water into the bowl held
ready by the servant. This practice,
most repulsive to our ideas of modern
good breeding, had travelled from socially
more primitive times as a detail of the
rigid “Spanish etiquette” taken over by
the Austrian Hapsburghs from the Haps-
burgh kings of Spain. In the United
§tates the glass bowl, half-ﬁlled with
tepid water, is served at the conclusion of
the meal on a plate, and only the ﬁnger-

tips of each hand—one at a time—

should be lightly dipped in the bowl.
When nuts are 'served cracked (not

’shelled, as for instance. salted almonds

or peanuts) remember that the plate: is
the natural boundary of the shell frag-
ments: they should not be scattered on
the cloth.

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Cream of Barley Soup
‘Shepherd’s Pie
Broiled Tomatoes
Cucumber Salad with Red Peppers
Wine Jelly
Coffee v
I'Shepherd's Pie.—Chop 1 pound cooked
meat, mix in 2 tablespoon breadcrumbs,
1 chopped onion, 1 tablespoon chopper
parsley, 1 cup gravy, salt and pepper to

taste; 2 tablespoons fat, half teaspoon
powdered herbs, half teaspoon tomato
catsup. Turn into ﬁreproof dish and

cover with thick layer seasoned mashed

potatoes. Brush over with beaten egg
and dot with pieces of fat. Bake 20 min-
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A'pple Fritters—11A; cupfuls ﬂour, 2
teaspoonfuls baking powder, IA, teaspoon-
ful salt, 1 egg, 1 tablespoonful melted
fat, ‘34 cupful milk, 3 apples cut in
quarter inch slices, 3 tablespoonfuls
sugar, 1 lemon. Peel, core and slice ap—
ples, then sprinkle 2 tablespoonfuls sugar
and strained juice of the lemon over
them. Sift ﬂour, baking powder, sugar,
and salt into bowl, add milk to well
beaten egg and stir liquid gradually into
dry materials, beating thoroughly, then
add fat. Cover aipple slices with batter
and drop them into plenty of fat heated
so that small bread-crumb browns in
sixty seconds. Fry for four or ﬁve min—
utes. Drain and sprinkle with powdered
sugar. Any other fruit may ’be sub-
stituted for‘axpples or a combination of
fruits makes a delicious fritter. Suf-
ﬁcient for twelve fritters. ~

Graham Cakes—1A2 cup butter, 5% cup
of milk, 1 cup sugar. Method: Cream
the butter, add sugar and milk gradually,
three eggs beaten separately, 1% cups
of graham crackers, rolled ﬁne, 11/2 tea-
spoons of baking powder, 1 cup sifted
ﬂour. ‘

Filling—1 tablespoon melted butter,

’ Menu for September 28th _ '

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cup ,IpoWdered sugar, 1 teaspoon yanilla " '
if too thick add a little cream, Bake,

in layers—Alma Becker. .

 

Chicken 3 la. Tartare.——1 young chicken,
1 egg, =34 cupful fat, breadcrumbs, salt
and pepper. to taste, mixed pickles, Tar-
tare Sauce.
chicken in half; take breastbone out and
sprinkle salt and pepper over. elt 1/2
cupful fat in frying pan and fry chicken
half hour, turning it now and then. Re-
move from pan arid place two dishes with
heavy weight on top, till it is nearly cold.
Then dip in egg, beaten up, and roll in
breadcrumbs. Melt remaining fat, then
sprinkle it all qver chicken; roll in bread-
crumbs once more. Fry in hot fat to
golden color. Serve at once with a garn-
ish of chopped pickles, and tartare sauce.

 

Corn Mufﬁns—«Take 11/“) cups of flour
and 1%; cup of corn meal, 1 teaspoon salt,
2 teaspoons baking powder and mix
thoroughly. Beat 2 eggs very light, then
add 1 cup milk and a piece of butter size
of an egg. Beat well and bake twenty-
ﬁve minutes—Alma Becker.

_.__¢

Mixed Pickles.—1 gallon sliced cucum-
bers, not peeled, 1. medium sized onion,
sliced, put together and let stand in salt
water 3 hours, then drain. To every
quart of pickle add: 1 cup brown sugar,
12 whole cloves, 1 tablespoon white must-
ard seed, a pinch turmeric powder, cover
with vinegar, cook until tender and seal.
Mrs. O. A. K., Gobles, Michigan.

 

 

The Runner’s Bible

(Copyright by I’loughton Miﬁlin Co.)

 

 

The righteous givetli and spareth not.
Prov. 21:26. All things are yours. 1 Cor.
3:21.

Just as the sunlbeam draws forth from
the sun its light and warmth, so does
the child of God (the divine ray) draw
forth from the divine nature all that is
needful.

AIDS To GOOD DRESSING

BE SURE AND SEND IN YOUR SIZE

4851-4697.
Pattern 4851, and Skirt Pattern 4697.
Camels hair, Tweed, Velours or Kasha. The
inches bust measure” The Skirt in 7 Sizes: 25.
With corresponding hip measure, 35, 37, 39,

medium size, will require 6% yards of 40 inch material.
Dress.—This is a good model for business, shopping or traveling. It

4865 A Practical “Day”

may be worn under a coat or cape, and is suitable for wush or wool fabrics.

or in wrist length._ The collar is convertible.
green, this deSIgn is very pleasing. ‘
. I )

is cut in 6 Sizes: 34,

yards of 40 inch materizil'if niade’with long sleeves.

A Good Model for Mature Figures.

 

4861. . _
be used for this deSIgn. .
side on the fronts. The Pattern is cut in
measure: 38 .inch size requires 5% yards of
contrasting material 5/3 yard is required.

4861 .

silk, and also outing ﬂannel are suitable materials for_ this . .
A 38 inch size reqiures 51/;

38, 40, 42 and44 inches bust measure.

4858. A
cellent for
broad cloth,
cloakings.
tern is cut in 6 Sizes:
46. inches bust
quires 3%

“Jaunty”
twill,

yard 40 inches wide
Wise.
4877.

two styles of collar,
clicker 1 collar. The

40 inches wide or

4852.
Small Glrl.——Sergc,
taffeta, twill and
model.
and 8 yea

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4 0 inch material.

and very practical
or short as in the
cut in 4.
Size requires 2%

   

A stylish Street Suit.-—Two attractive
Plaid suiting was usednn this inctanse. ()nc
(Joat2_is  m 6 Sizes: 34. 3G, 38, 40, 42 and 44
i L

41, 43, 45 and 47 niche

The Width of the skirt at the foot is 1%;
‘12 and 44 inches bust measure. '

.Model.—This style is ex—
fur and pile fabrics,
polo cloth,
The vest may be omitted.‘

measure.
yards of 40 inch material. For fuc-
ing, pockets and cliffs of
is required.
contrasting material requires 14

A Popular coat Style.—Velours. striped
and other novelty cloakiiigs, polo cloth and bohvia
may be used for this deSl‘glL
t \c

,. , 0, 12 and 14 years.
quired 3% yards of 40 inch-material“
and scarf collar of contrasting material 1
. yard 54 inches wide, will
be reqmred, cut crossmse.

A Comfortable Top Garment {Or the

Jersey,
broad cloth are good for this

Pattern is cut in 5 Sizes:
A 10 year size re-

l<‘or cuffs

yard

The Pattern is cut in 4 .Sizes: 2, 4,
year size requires ‘2. yards of

4853. A Pleasing t1Play Suit.—Co.lnfortable
lS is
It may be ﬁnished witll)i tllie sleeves in wrist length

so ‘ '
Sizes: 2, . , 4 and dye-41‘s. .
yards of 36 inch material.

ALL PATTERNS 12c EACH—
3 FOR 30c POSTPAI‘D

Order from thls‘ or former issues or The Business
Farmer, gmng number and sign
name and address plainly.

ADD 100 FOR FALL AND WINTER
1924-1925 FASHION BOOK

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

Suit. Cont
could use

models combine to make this

31 33, 35 and 37 inches waist measure,
. s. h To make the Suit for a
The Width of the skirt at the foot is 1 7A; yard.

The sleeve may be short,

lnicii,_ \i'itli pipiiigs of white or

’ yard. The Pattern

A 38 inch size requires 41/;
yards is required

brown crepe or

\Vith short sleeves 3%

_ Printed cotton, crepe, silk alpaca, satin or kasha coull

It has straight lines, bSut added fulness is supplied by pliiit sections at each
‘izes: ‘

T 40 inch material.

The Width at the foot With plaits extended is 2 14; yards.

36, 38, 40, 42,
For collar,

44, 46 and 48 inches bust
vestee and cuffs of

A Comfortable “Sleeping” Garment.-—Crepe, iiiudras, batistc, long cloth, crepe dc chine, or

design. The Pattern is cut in 6 sizes:

yards of 36 inch material:

 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
  
 
 
  
  
    
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

as well as for
vclours and other
The Pat-
, , 42, 44 and

38 inch size re—

contrasting material 1
The vest of
yard cut cross-

The Pattern provides
scarf collar and the

velours, velvet, also

model here portrayed.

View. The l‘attern is

year

your

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Gentlemen} m h ‘ ﬂ
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The size is"? 1-2. q

These shoes. were purchased from
Georie Dean in September. 191 . and
have pen worn every dB at her work
ever since. hey have g van me excel-
lent servica, In fact, the best service of
any shoe I ever wore. I have had four
pairs of taps put on them, and you can
see that_the uppers_nre good {or several
more pairs.

The leth~Kmuse Rouge Rex Brand
Wlll be my brand from now on, and I am
always glad to recommend them to any-
one.

Yours truly,
(Signed) HALE B. SACKETI‘

 

 

 

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:31 am. and boys entered the. con-

test, ranging from 6 to 19 years old,
andf most of the letters Were fine
and competition very close. Awards
were made as follows: First prize,
Ruth Evans (Age 16), ‘R..6, Lapeer;
second prize, Estelle Goetz (Age
12), -R. 4, Monroe; third prize, Mary
Arens (Age 15), R. 3, Fowler;
fourth prize, (Esther Avery. (Age
15), R. 7, Jackson. The winning let-
ters appear on this page and I want
you all to read them. Get your
copy that contains the questions and
read them over, then read the let-
ters, because we are going to have
more contests like this and by study—
ing the questions and answers again
you will learn just how to answer in
order to stand a chance of winning
a prize. Yes, we are going to have
more of these contests and I have
an original idea or two that I will

, spring on you in the near future but

for the next contest we will have
something like our last one—~—but I
will tell you about that in the next
issue.

Girls, you want to watch out for
the boys in the next contest. They
came very close to getting some of
the prizes this time and I am sure
you will have to go some if you win
all of the prizes in our next contest.

How about it boys? You read
What I wrote the girls and I hope
you Will stand by me. Us boys have
got to stand together,~you know.—
UNCE NED.

OTHER CONTESTANTS

Besides the four winners the following
girls and boys sent in answers:

Hilda Gross, Saline; Helen Lusn, Hol-
ly; Celia F. Densteadt, Bates; Gertrude
Korelshi, Kinde; Carrie Clark, McBride;
Sarah K. Suderman, Comins; Ruth Barn-
hart, Chesaning; Marie Stockmeyer; Vi-
vian Bedell, Bellaire; Jack Kantola;
Elsie Bolsmann, Vassar; Ina Levis, Trav—
erse City; Edith E. Chew, Bay Shore;
Evelyn Webster, White Cloud; Cecelia
Reust, DeWitt; Iva Krepps, Samaria;
Vivian Wilds, Ossineke; Leona Booher,
Evart; Elnora J. Gerber, Hastings; Chas.
McCormick, Kinde; Lela Cooley, Lansing;
Lucille C. Steinhardt; Evelyn Hansen,
Powers; Virginia London, Battle Creek;
Elsie Louise Putncy; Edward Arthur
Everett; Bernice B. Stone, Carsonville;
Helen Stafford, Central Lake; Mary
Chesebro, Copemish; Lily Schultz, Ro—
meo; Bernice Barnes, Onondaga; Donald
Strong, Remus; Eleanor Sawyers; Martin
IJng, Lake City; Ruth Harrigan, Kings—
ley; Mildred E. Perry, Caro; Laura Al-
laire, Aloha; Wilma Roberts, Ithaca;
Helen Saunders, Chase; Goldie Sanger,
Sanford; Margaret Gove; Velva McLeod,
Central Lake; Maude Marie VanVlcet,
Petersburg; Beatrice Brilinske, Atlanta;
Doris Purdy, Luther; Gilbert Dena, De-
catur; Jeanette Brandt, Litchﬁeld; Dor-
othea C. Cook, Pittsford; Ellsworth Riley,
Perry; Viola Kreiner, Brown City; Sylvia
Porter, Brown City; Helen Rogers, Mun-
ger; Arlene Vaughn, Vestaburg; Minnie
Blackbird, Petoskey; Eunice Berbaum, St.
Louis; Katherine Brunt, Mayville; Ber-
the. Predmore, Mikado; Elvera Teachman,
Ithaca; Melvin A. Yarrington, Stanwood;
Vesta Arlene Hayward, East Jordan;
Ruth Grundy, Perry; Phyllis Oxby,
OliVet; Ingeborg Veinrich, Sand Lake;
Louis Molet, Wolverine ;. Annie Stimac,
Engadine; Jack Stimac, Engadine: Eliza-
beth Dieterman, Marion; Jacob Van De
Pol, Marion; Marian Maude Kimball,
Ionia; Charles Lester, Mayville; Leo
Keys, Montrose; Sallo Panduren, North
Branch; B. Maxine Hurley, Goldwater;
1112. Platz, Boon; Ida A. Kietsmann, Stan-
wood; Grace Hanson, Powers; Jeanette
Eleanor Soss, Clayton; Verlin Murphy,
Woodland; Amelis Gorte, Silverwood;
Arthur Keil, Webberville; Beulah Mary
Coggan, Abbottsford; Viola G. Drake;
Fern Dennis, Belding.

 

 

    

DOGOJIM LEARN

 

The ﬁrst girl’s name begins
with ‘G’ and the others name
with ‘M’. See if you can spell
their namos with the letters in
what the girl is saying, and
have no letters left over.
Answer to last puzzle: OT—
TER, TIGER.

 

 

 

 

 

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CUR 3018 AND GIRLS

Dear Uncle Net-«May I join your
merry circle? We take the M. B. F. and
think it is a. very good paper. I live on
a ZOO-acre farm with my parents. We
have 3 horses, 7 cows, 3 year-old heifers,
and 5 calves, 4 pigs, 240 chickens, 3'00
chicks and 2 cats. I am in the eighth
grade at school. I will describe myself
as the others do. I am 13 years old, 5
feet 1 inch tall, have medium brown hair
(of course it is bobbed) and brown eyes
and rather dark complection. I must
make a guess at Anna’s riddle. I think
it is a watermelon. My letter is getting

quite long so I will ring off. I am your.

want—to-be niece—Virginia Belle Huling,
R1, Box 6, Lake City, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned:—-Well, well, here is the
Canadian back again! May he come in?
Well I will tell you about the Wellman
Canal near where I used to live. It is
three hundred feet wide and supposed
to be 35 or 40 feet deep. On one side
it is all cement for two miles and the
other side is stone. There are 25 looks in
it. Locks are to hold the water back
so the boats can go through. Well I
described myself once so I will not do it
again. Say Uncle Ned the best way for
cousins to describe themselves is to send

a 'picture. Well I will close with Iowa
to all.-—Your want-to—be friend, Earl

Running. .My address is changed‘to Bad
Axe, Mich, R2, care of John Carriveauy ‘

-——You are right, Earl, and should" ha'va
set an example by sending in a pic-
ture of yourself. If the girls and boys
will send- in their pictures then We can
print them on our page.

Dear Uncle Nedz—«I have Written you
before but did not see it in print. I will
be, in the 9th grade when school starts
this fall. I am 14 years old and have
light bobbed hair. Last spring I passed
the eighth grade and also got a. Palmer
certiﬁcate. I think that Billy Frank
from Alabaster, is 16 years and Mildred
Lindhurst’s age is 11. I must close or
Mr. Waste Basket will get my letter. I
am—Alice Palm, Grant, Mich, R2.

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—My father takes the
M. B. F. and we all enjoy it very much.
We, have been taking it for almost six
years. Well I think I will describe my-
self so if you’d happen to see me you
would recognize me. I am a farmer’s
daughter, twelve years of age and am in
the tenth grade at school. Last year at
high school I took Algebra, English, Gen-
eral Science, and Ancient History and re—

ninety-eight/ pounds. {Wei}, I think i -

 

 

 

WINNERS IN OUR CONTEST

FIRST PRIZE

Dear Uncle Ned:-—I submit my answers to the questions in the editorial of
the Children’s Hour. Following are the answers, written and answered to the

best of my ability:

1. The Hudson Store of Detroit is going to have a big sale-

To celebrate

their forty—third anniversary is the reason for this sale.

2. Ferndell, a cow which produced 13,477.!) pounds of milk, came from
Florida. The herd she came from has, for thirteen years, been fed “Larro”
made by the Larrowc Milling Company of Detroit.

3. The secret of a certain tires ability to stand hard knocks is the extra
ply and its extra heavy tough red tread. This tire is the “Fisk”.

4. Sugar-beets should be lifted with a John Deere Riding Beet Lifter.

5. The Hoosier Silo is a savings bank for corn.

6. You can save 1’ to be on a stove, range, or furnace, by buying direct

/4

from the Kalamazoo Stove Company, thus cutting out the middleman’s proﬁts.
7. The First Mortgage Real Estate Gold Bonds, sold by the Federal Bond

and Mortgage Company, pay 7%.

8. $1.75 worth of "something" increased the yield of grain about 41/2 bushels
per acre. This "something" was genuine German Potash sold by Potash Im-

porting Company of America.

9. “Su‘pertwist” is the name of a new cord fabric. This is used by the

Goodyear Company.

10. I like Hudson’s ad because of the meaning which it implies. The steady
growth of this store shows what cooperation with the buying public will do.
Only by kindness and courtesy coupled by the values and money-saving op—
portunities which this store oﬁers, has made its growth so rapid—Ruth Eliza.
Evans, age 16, Lapeer, R, No. 6, Michigan.

SECOND PRIZE
1. The J. L. Hudson Company is going to have a sale on their 43rd an-

niversary.

" Ferndell comes from Florida and was fed on Larro feed for 13 years.
3. The secret of Fisk's Red Top Tires ability to stand more, hard knocks

than other tires is found in its extra ply and its extra heavy tough red tread.
4. Sugar—beets should be lifted with a John Deere. Riding Beet Lifter.
5. The Hoosier Silo is 9. “Savings Bank” for corn.
6. You can save 1/4 to V; on your stove by taking advantage of Kalamazoo

Stove Company's sale.

7. Federal Bond and Mortgage Company bonds pay 7%.
8. $1.75 worth of potash increased the yield of wheat in Michigan nearly

4%; bushels per acre.

9. Supertwist is the name of a new cord fabric.

10. I liked the New York Central lines advertisement best. It has a good
picture at the top and chooses an interesting subject to write on to lead to
mentioning their business and to call attention to their importance as a means
of transportation. It is a very attractive advertisement—Estelle Goot'z, age 12,

Monroe, R. No. 4, Michigan.

4

THIRD PRIZE
1. The Hudson Store in Detroit is going to have a big sale to celebrate its

43rd anniversary.

2. Down in Florida, Ferndell, a cow produced 13,4719 pounds of‘milk.
The herd has been fed Larro for 13 years. -

3. The secret of one tires ability to stand more hard knocks is found in
its extra ply and its extra tough red tread. It is the Fisk Red Top Tire.

4. Sugar—beets should be lifted by John Deere Riding Bbet Lifter.

5. A Hoosier Silo is a savings bank for corn.

6. You can save $4, to 1A on a stove, range, or furnace by buying direct

from the Kalamazoo Stove Co.

7. Federal Bond and Mortgage Company bonds pay 7%.
8. One dollar and seventy-ﬁve cents worth of potash increased the yield

nearly 4% bushels per acre.

9. Supertwist is the name of a new cord fabric.
10. The advertisement in August 30th issue I like best is the State Fair

advertisement.

I like it best because it induces people to attend the fair and

by doing so they can learn many interesting things. It also gives the farmers
better ideas for raising cattle and farm crops—Mary Arens, age 15, Fowler,

R. No. 3, Michigan.

FOURTH PRIZE
1. The J. L. Hudson Company is going to have an Anniversary Sale to

celebrate their 43rd anniversary.

2. Fcrndell of theLemon City White Belted Herd is from Florida. The
herd of which she is from have been fed on “Larro” for the last thirteen years.
3. The Red—Top is the name of the tire. And its secret of ability to stand
more hard knocks than any other tire is in its extra ply and its extra heavy

tough red tread.

4. Sugar—beets should be lifted by John Deere Riding Beet Lifter for it

does not waste so many beets.

5. The savings bank for corn is the Hoosier Silo.
6. You can save 1,4 to 1A on your stove, range, or furnace by buying a

Kalamazoo Stove, Range>or Furnace

7. The Federal Bond & Mortgage Company bonds pay 7%.
8. In Michigan 8. $1.75 worth of potash increased the yield of wheat nearly

4% bushels per acre.

9. The new name of a cord fabric is Supertwist, made by the Goodyear

Company.

10. The advertisement I list best is the one on page 19. If I owned a car
and was going to the State or County Fair, I would surely have my  in-
sured against tire, theft, liability, and collision—Esther Avery, age 15, Jack-

son, R. No. 7, Michigan.

 

must close before my letter for; too long,
hoping Mr. .Wast‘e Basket nos Just had

. a. good. meal before it art'Wes. A want-

to-be niece.—-Marie .Stookmey‘er, R. No. I.
Munger, Michigan. ' ‘ . .,
I V M

Dea-r Uncle Neck—May I join your
merry circle? I tried but I guess I did
not have enough pep. I" wrote but I
think Mr. Waste Basket got all my let-i
ters and read them all. You will have
to put a chain around his neck and take
him to the barn so you may get all the
cousins letters. This is what I look like.
Height 5 feet 7 inches, weigh 130 pounds,
medium brown hair (which is not bob-
bed). grayish blue eyes and 15 years of
age. I graduated from the eighth grade
and, I am going to high school in the
fall. I think I will be too big to write
to the Children’s Hour then or wont I?
For pets I have one dog, his name is
Sport We also have another dog named
“Bobbie” but I do not like him; I wish
some of the cousins .would write to me.
Uncle Ned why don’t we have another
drawing contest? I hope Mr. Waste
Basket won’t get this letter. Here are
some riddles: Upon a red hill thirty-
two white horseshere stamp, here they

,tramp and here they stand still. The one

that guesses this riddle will receive a
letter from me. What has a foot but
cannot walk? Hill. What has a mouth
but cannot talk? River. Well must
close. Your want-to—be niece——Evelyn
Slumyek, Kendall, Michigan.

——If you read the page each issue you
will ﬁnd many in high school who still
write to Uncle Ned. Come again after
you get settled in your new school work
and tell me how you like it.

Dear Uncle Ned:-—-May I too join your
merry circle? ” I am a newcomer to your
paper, and after reading the boys and
girls page I love it dearly. I am in
Clare county at present, having my sum-
mer vacation. We have a dandy little
farm here, with a lovely little brook run-
ning through. We came up quite early
in the spring and put in a nice garden.
Of course it takes time to hoe. I had
my share of it already, my muscles are
getting strong I assure you. My rayorite
pastime is writing. I dearly love to write
stories and poems. May we send in a
few home-made poems and stories? Well,
guess I will close, shake hands and de-
part, bidding you dear Uncle and my
new cousins adieu, hoping I may have
the privilege of coming again. Your blue-
eyed niece—Goldie Kleinhardt‘, R5, Clare,
Michigan. /
——By all means, Goldie. send in some
stories and poems. I will publish some
of them.

Dear Uncle Nedz—Hope. you had a
good time on- your vacation. The North
is a wonderful country for a vacation.
but that is about all can be said about
it at present, although it has great pos~
sibilities. When you get back write on
our page all about your trip. Am sure
we would all enjoy it. Don’t you think
so cousins? My mother has just returned
from a four weeks motor trip. They
spent one week ﬁshing and camping in
the upper part of lower Michigan. Then
crossed? the straits into the upper penin-
sula. After one week there they crossed
Sault Ste Marie into Canada, from there
to Toronto, Brantford and Niagara» Fills,
crossing again. at Buﬁalo they followed
the lake store through»- New York state,
Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and home. She-
said she saw some beautifu) sights also
some pathetic ones. I am 'sending an"
swers to the questions so will have to
ring off. From: a niece—Miss Ruth
Bamhart, Chesaning, R5, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Nerds—Ir wrote a few Weeks
ago and my letter Was in print so I am
here again as I' like to write letters.
We'll school soon will start. I am glad
to go back to school again. I am cor-
respnding with two girl and I would» like
to write to some other boys and girls.
I will answer all letters I get even if I
get a dozen every day. My father is
threshing his oats today. My middle
name starts with M. and has eight letters
in it. The one that guesses my middle
name correct will receive a letter from
me. Well I guess I will have to close
or I’m afraid Mr. Waste Basket will get
my letter. Well cousins I will look for
some letters. Good-bye Uncle Ned——
Lois Meyer, Stanwood, R. 2, Michigan.

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tons! menswear

 tuners ofoabbsge 1n
Meier. mill be loans: the ease and
memesbers of  cabbage aphid.
rm writer has bred the adult at .tile
cab‘b e , at from rutabngas
that. ya been frozen in thescound
N1  The some): bug and the
awnlshed plant .bu lire under sard-
en reﬁnes. or in cleared pieces in
 garden all winter. These rem-
nants 01 the garden are the source
.01 the next season's intestatmn and
should be cleaned up and either
burned or buried. The man who
cleans up the crop refuse around the
farm is many times repaid for his
labors “:1 die amt  does not
one to mend the time is .mduciing
n Meter resort for our mos: vogue-
.same. insect    us r em
m bell enmm gnaw they can
partake of the new succulent crops
-3 the swing.
0ther W68
M are now other
when a biotic care and .Iorosighzt will
save the farmer money bar lessening
the chances for insect losses. If «he
can destroy the breeding paces or
the hibernating places at the time of
your these spots are vital to the in-
sects existence he will enjoy a great-
GI‘ Random from their .depredations
the knowing year. For instance
small accumulations of old grain are
often left in the corners of the bin
when the new grain is placed there.
in this old grain may be found sev-
eral varieties of insects that eat the
germ of themed, making it unﬁt for
planting. Often the grain will heat
and annuities musty “0.141” odor that
renders it unﬁt for milling pur-
poses. This old grain with its in-
habitats should be destroyed and.
if ble, the bin should be fumi-
._ before the new grain is
l to t in. The Butt-ale tree bop-
per 63 more damage in oncst
that are ﬁlled with weeds than in
those that are kept Clean, the weeds
supplying a part of its £99.51. The
, eureulio, a little snout beetle
ties

skim the ap leis, plums. ﬁller-
,, and other Ignite, speed? “‘9
mtg- in one grates and rubbish in
or near the, orchard. ...The 0031133
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loose her); much of which could be
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 to  and other enemies.
Piles of prunings from the orchard,
left Iron: year to rear, mu be a
sauce of intonation of mucous as
well an insect enemies. .
It would undoubtedly be a his
task to ,clean up Md destroy all .of
the insect hibernating places on the
term; but a little more ease 1mm

do; to  during and after bar-
resting w 1 reduce these places to
the minimum. Emu in alarm

practices gs outlined wil bring in"
 so great a return so; .4118 labor
.exnended as anywhere else on .the
farm. V

(DH, MONEY! *MONM!
(continued from ‘Pase 11)
Jim 391.93 to nail up Hot-tie. too. on the
long distance. My. it's 'most as exciting
as it was when it ﬁrst came,—the money,
'1 m.-—isn’t it?" pointed Miss Flora as
she hurried aww.
one iiide {bought mow papers dur-
ing the past tow .days. But even by [the
little that the  .G- (MPH sensation
had dwindled to a short paragraph in an
obscure corner of ,a. middle page, they
(and the public in general) were really
little the wiser, except for those bare
£88125 :ﬁF
Stanley G. Fulton had arrived at a.

South American hotel, from the interior,
had registered as S. Fulton, frankly to
avoid publicity, and had taken immediate
passage to New York. Arriving at New
York, still to avoid publicity, he had not
telegraphed  attorneys, but had taken
the sleeper for Chicago. and had fertun-
at.er not met any .One who recognued
him until his arrival in that city. He
had brought home several fine specimens
of  textiles and potteries: and he
declared that he had had a very enjoyable
and proﬁtable trip- Beyond that he would
say nothing. He did not care to talk of
his experiences, he said.

For a time, of course, his return was
made much of. Fake interviews and
rumors of threatened death and disaster
in impenetrable jungles made frequent
appearance; “but in an incredibly short
time the ﬂame of interest died from want
of fuel .to feed upon; and, as Mr. Stanley
G. Fulton himself had once predicted,
the matter was soon dismissed as merely
another of the multi-muilionaire’s Well-
:known eccentricitles.

All of this the Biaisdoiis heard from
‘Miex MW and in addition to seeing
it in wesmwspapers. But very soon, :Srorn
Miss Nessie they began to 183:”! more,
Before a fortnight had passed, Miss ,Flora
received another letter from Chicago that
sent her ﬂying as before to her sister—
in-law. (Continued in Oct. 11th issue.)

Are Taxes Heavier Because of Prohibition?

(Continued from Page 3)

N. Holsaple, Superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League of Michigan, de-
clares: '

“Records compiled from state
ﬁgures show the number maintained
as public charges after the ﬁrst
years of prohibition had decreased
nearly 3,000 in the state of Michi—
gan. In 1920, there were 41,553
receiving aid of some form in Mich-

4 igan; in 1917, the last year of legal
liquor traiﬁc, there were 58,464.

“State ﬁgures compiled .by the
state attorney general showed 427
convicted of burglary 'and robbery
in the state in 1917. This number
was reduced to 304 in 1920. There
is a big decrease shown in the total
number of arrests made on all
charges in the state in 1921-22 over
the last year of booze, 1917.

“The state banking commissioner
shows that in the 500 state banks
and 106 national banks in Michigan
in 1917, there was $752,426,363.15
in total deposits. This was an aver-
age of $386.86 to each depositor. In
1921, after prohibition had had a
trial, there was $1,084,187,417.88
in total deposits, or an average of
$589.88 to each depositor.

“It is not contended that this
great increase is due solely to pro-
hibition; but it is significant that it
happened under prohibition. It,is
also a noticeable fact that the great-
er number of new depositors are
poor, or laboringzpeople, many of
whom formerly spent‘their money
for liqnor in the saloons, and never

had a- dollar in a bank before.

“Sunnortere. of the rombitien
movement feel that in t e face of
the increasing economic, social and
moral beneﬁts. gaining in (“unﬂinc—

_i aspect, and because oxalic now
aggbuted {to the movement. era 9 be—
ing: corrected and can} with a fair
to of time be‘el’iminat'ed,_ it isbgtotod
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back to the old regime but to ﬁght
to retain the ground gained, saving
as much energy as is possible to
work out the tangles in the situa—
tion and have the booze prohibition
law as generallysupported and pop—
ular as the Harrison dope prohibi—
tion law.”

Savings Increase Over Million

Mr. Holsaple is authority for the
further statement that our savings
accounts increased $1,400,000,000
last year, While $73,000,000 form—
erly spent by charitable institutions
in taking care of cases resulting
from the liquor trafﬁc, has now been
released for other purposes, thus
bringing about greater prosperity
and happiness for all concerned.

Cook Says U. S. Getting Dryer

A. B. Cook, Master of the State
Grange of Michigan, and business
manager and associate editor of the
“Michigan Patron,” the ofﬁcial pap-
er of the State Grange, says:

“Farming like every other indus—
try has proﬁted by the prohibition
law. The stuff sure dies hard but
the good old U. S. A. every day in
every way is getting dryer and dry—
er. ’
’ But there is another phase of this
problem to which we should devote
careful attention and that is the
effect of prohibition on industrial
efﬁciency. Charles J. Brand, form-
er consulting specialist of the Bur-
eau of Agricultural Economics of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture,
who recently returned from an ob-
servation trip to Europe expressed
the startling opinion that the eco-
ndmic advantage coming from pro-
hibition in this nation will make it
Massimo for other nations burden-
ed Vﬁh alcoholism to stay in com-
petition with this country Within the
next 26 years, and that the‘eoonomic
gusto avoided igut-he Ulnited States
‘ 3’ NW” on FF. ,  .e  coun—

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A CROP LOSS TO YOU?

A Good Silo Will Tum Frosted  
Com into  Feed 

Does it look as though you were
likely to lose your corn crop because
of late maturity“! Thousands of mm-
ers are safeguarded against such loss
because they have a silo.

Read what CJ’. Collins of
Bnnvi'ﬁe, ill, says:

“I ﬁlled my silo late last fall with
.frostbitun com. The cow was so
sot; that it would have been a clear
Alags;tomleifIbadbeonwithontn
o. I believe the silo one of the best
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Not for years have we had such a.
late corn crop throughout most of the
country as this year. This means soft
corn. The wise farmer will be pre-
pared to save his season's labors with
a silo—~and a concrete silo is the great-
est value for the money.

    
     
     
       
     
     
      
     

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REMEMBER, it’s but a short dis«
tance from your cow’s udder
to the cream pitcher—the but-
ter plate—the nursing bottle.

Kee her surroundings
health 111, free from disease
germs, and clean smelling,
with Dr. Hess Dip and Dis-
infectant.

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

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

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Ashland, Ohio

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32:310. SALE DATE «7.:

To avoid conflicting dates we will without
cost list the date of any live stock sale In
Michigan. If you are considering a sale ad-
vise us at once and we will claim the date
for you. Address. lee stock Editor. M. B.
F.. Mt. Clemens

16—llolsteins, C. S. Ileeg and Sons,
Howell, Michigan. I“. J. Fishbeck.
Sale Manager.
Oct. 23—Holsteins, Howell Sales 00., Howell,
ich., Guy Wakeﬁeld, Sales Manager.
Oct. 24—Cmnpletc dispersal sale. of 90 Reg-
istered Holstein Cattle. Spring Valley
Stock Farms. Elisha (i. Bailey &
Son, I’rop., Pittsford, Michigan.

CATTLE

HOLSTEINS r
‘ Dispersion Sale

BEE. HillSlHN BATTLE

The entire Herd of

C. S. HEEG & SONS,
Howell, Michigan

Thursday, Oct. 16, 1924

Sale Pavilion, Fair Grounds

66 Head in Sale

Includes a draft of thirty head from
other good Herds

ALL HERBS ON THE
ACCREDITED LIST

(60-day retest privilege)

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The highest record lot of cattle ever sold in
Livingston County.

The ﬁrst 7 dam of our Herd Sire have records
that ayerage over 34 lbs. He is included in the
.316. Weight 2600 lbs. 3 other bulls, two from
80 lb. dams.

A 86 1b. cow. 9. 35 lb. cow and several (laugh-
tcrs from each. 30 lb. cow and several daughters
of 30 lb. cows. also many other good ones.

The Grand Champion Bull and Cow at the
Livingston County Fair this year included In sale.

For Catalogs, address,

F. J. FiSHBECK, Howell, Mich.

FOR SALE—REGISTERED H 0 L s T E IN 8.
Two matured cows, due Oct. 10th. Two three-
esr old Heifers due in March._ Four heifers due
ct. and Dec. Also four grade Guernsey heifers
due in Sept. and 0c .

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accredited bv~ sum and Federal Government.
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WORLD’S CHAMPION FOR RE-
PRODUCTION - DEAD .
0RD has been received that
Financial - K i n g ' 3 Interest
235065, the pure-bred Jersey
that holds the world’s record for re—
production, all breeds, died at the
Greystone Jersey Farm, Pensylvan—
ia, on August 6th, at the‘ age of
twenty-four years and seve 11
months. ' ' .

This marks the close of one of the
most notable careers that is to be
found in livestock history, for dur—
ing her lifetime Financial King’s
Interest was the mother of twenty
heifer calves and one bull calf. Un-
-fortunately she was 'not tested until
she was in her nineteenth year, but
even at that great age she produced,
with calf, 401.09 pounds of butter-
fat, and followed this with another
oﬁicial‘test in her twentieth year,
when she again produced over 400
pounds of butter-fat.

At the 1923 National Dairy Show
she was exhibited with ten other of
the greatest Jerseys that have ever
been gathered together, and was the
center of a great deal of interest.

BRITISH ARE LAX IN HANDLING
MILK

HE methods practiced in the
T British Isles in distributing
milk would be considered mulch
behind times and unsanitary in this
country, according to C. S. Rhode of
the department of dairy husbandry
at the University of Illinois, who has
just returned from a trip to Eng-
land and other European countries.
The consumption of milk is very
low as compared with the consump-
tion of milk here. Rhode stated that
there was a considerable amount of
tuberculosis among the cattle in
England and there nothing deﬁnite
was being done to stamp outtthe
disease.

Milk is rarely seen on the menus
at restaurants and hotels, and very
seldom does one see any one drink-
ing milk. The milk that one gets is
ordinarily not of good quality. He
said he asked for milk several dif-
ferent times in hotels and quite fre—
quently they brought him hot milk.
One very seldom gets cream and us-
ually it is labeled “preserved
cream” and is of poor quality. Very
little ice is used in England and ap-
parantly little is known about re—
frigeration.

The ordinary method used there
in getting the milk from the produc-
er to the consumer is to deliver it
from the farm or station in large
milk cans. These cans will held
from 170 to 200 pounds of milk
and are made different than our
cans are made. They are larger at
the bottom than at the top and
have straight sides.

The milk is sent to the cities und-
er rather unfavorable conditions.
There it is strained and sometimes
pasteurized, and turned over to the
distributors. The distributor ordin-
arily has a two-wheeled cart that he
pushes about himself,
cart he usually has one large can
with a spout at the bottom. He
also carries a goodly number of var-
ious sized measures. He then
draws off the milk into these meas-
ures for his customers. Occasional-
ly the supply can be covered with a
jacket, but quite frequently it is ex-
posed to the sun, dust and weather
conditions. V

At the present time the United
Dairies in London are pasteurizing
and bottling milk, and are making
an effort to put milk on the market
as we do here.

“CHEVON” IS NAME FOR GOAT
MEAT

EREAFTER, if the efforts of a

number of organizations and

individuals have the desired ef—
fect, goat meat will "be designated
by a special name which will be
comparable to pork, beef, and mut-
ton.
raising interests in the Southwest is
“chevon”. In reply to requests for
approval of this new name, the Unit-
ed States Department of Agricultrue
has stated that there seems to be no
reason why this name should not’ be
adopted and generally applied to
the meat of this domestic animal,

and in this

The name selected by the goat.

DA”me LIVE’STOC

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and it,_therefore approves the name
“chevon.”
The word

"chevon" was created

and adopted, after long considera- ‘

tion of many suggestions, by or an-
izations -representing the princ pal
Angora goat producing region. It
was made by combining parts of two
French words, “chevre” meaning
goat, and “mouton” meaning mut-
ton. \ In other words, “chevon”
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SPECIAL DAIRY HERD SURVEY
N increase of 6 per cent in the
number of milk cows two years

old and over, on farms in the
United States for the year ended
June 1, 1924, is indicated by the milk
cow survey of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, which was
made by the rural mail carriers, cov-
ering 121,000 forms. The Bureau
of the Census in 1920 enumerated

23,724,148 dairy cows and heifers.

over 1 year of age on farms. For
the period January 1, 1920, to Jan—
uary 1, 1924, the Department of
Agriculture has estimated a 4 per
cent increase in milk cows, which in
the light of this survey and the pro-
duction of dairy products, would
seem to have been conservative.

WITH THE COW TESTER

The Elsie-Ovid (Clinton—Shiawas-
see) Cow Testing Association has
just completed a. year’s work. The
avera'ge production for 236 cows
was 9101.7 pounds milk and 317.2
pounds fat. This is the highest av—
erage production of milk of any
Michigan C. T. A.

The Cass County Cow Testing As-
sociation had a reorganization and
continuation meeting at the farm of
Jones and Aldridge at Cassopolis on
August 8th.

Henry Wylie, the cow tester, gave
his annual report and indicated that
450 acres of alfalfa were in use
among the 26 association members.
Two hundred twenty acres of new
alfalfa were s0Wn this year. Like-
wise, 165 acres of soy beans are be-
ing grown this season and 25 acres
of sweet clover are being used for
pasture. Sweet clover is being ser-

iously considered by many of the

other members and 100 acres of
new seeding have been put in.

The association decided to con-
tinue for its third year and hired
Mr. Albert Morley as tester. A. C.
Baltzer, Dairy Extension Speciaﬂist
was present and gave some facts re-
garding the 100 cow testing assoc—
iations operating in the state.

/ ____.

The South Eaton Cow Testing As-
somation has completed its second

year. 'I-Iansi Ker

H _ - testing; Over this
period of time.
port'shows‘ that 234 cows complet-
ed the association year, averaging
286.7 pounds fat and 7,654 pennds

"milk. Mr. C. E. Burke carried on

all honors. His seven purebred
Holstein cows averaged 14,472
pounds milk and 513.6 pounds fat,
the highest ,in the entire Association
for both milk and butter fat.

The South Eaton Cow Testing As-
sociation reorganized without the
loss of a single day. In fact, this
Association has been completely ﬁll-
ed at all times. Mr. Kardel’s effort’s
have necessitated keeping a con-
stant waiting list to permit mem-
bers to get into his cow testing as-
sociation.

DRENCHNG HORSES
HEN medicine is given as a
drench to horses, only enough
i1 or water should be used ,to
thoroughly dissolve or dilute it. In—
soluble medicines, if not irritating
or corrosive, may be, put in water,
or better. thin gruel; the bottle to
be well shaken before giving it.
Strong or irritating liquids such as
turpentine, croton oil, etc., should
be mixed with olive or linseed oil,
or milk beaten with eggs.

To administer medicine to horses,
put the medicine in a drenching
bottle. A bottle holding about a
quart, strong, clean and smooth will
answer. If the dose is small, the
horse’s head may be held up by the
left hand while the medicine is
poured by the right hand. The left
thumb is placed in the angle of the
lower jaw; the ﬁngers spread out in
such a way as to support the lower
lip. If the dose is large, the horse
ugly, or the attendant" unable to
support the head, then have the
head help up by a loop made in a
rope, and slipped over the upper
jaw just behind the front teeth, the
free end being held up by passing
through a pulley, over a beam, or
through a ring fastened to the ceil-
ing. It should never be fastened,
as the horse might hurt himself.
Elevate the head enough to prevent
the horse from throwing the liquid
from his mouth. The line of the,
face should be raised a. triﬂe more
than horizontal, but not much, or it
will be hard for the horse to swal-
low. The .person giving drench
should stand on something in order
to reach the horse’s mouth. Intro—
duce the bottle at the side of the
mouth in front of the molar teeth.
in an upward direction. This will
cause the horSe to open his mouth,
when the base of bottle is suddenly
elevated and about 4 ounces of li-
quid allowed to run out on the
tongue as far back as possible, care
being taken to keep bottle from be—
tween the back teeth. Take out the
bottle, and if the horse does not
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HIGH COWS IN TESTING WORK IN MICHIGAN. DURING JULY

The following tables show the 5 high cows in the respective age classes in
the Michigan Cow Testing Associations reporting for the month of July. Those
are the highest butter fat producers in the respective classes in eighty-seven

associations reporting.

Mature Cows—Five Years and Over

  
 

  
 
 

 
 

 

Date Lbs. Lbs.

ASSociation Owner Breed Fresh Milk Fat
North VanBuren '  C. Tiedebohl ....PBH 3/23/24 2480.0 99.2
Calhoun ............. .. ....Lakewood Dairy ..PBH 6/30/24 2310.0 95.8
Sanilac No. 2 ....................... ..Glen Clarkson .... ..Gr. H 7/4/24 1600.00 94.4
Marquette-Alger ............... ..J. B. Duetsch ...... ..PBG 4/19/24 1671.0 87.0
Hillsdale N0. 1 ..................  Spear .............. ..PB H 3/20/24 1993.0 85.7
Under Five Years
Gratiot-North ..................... ..George Davis ...... ..G-r. J 5/16/24 1553.1 82.3.
Kent-W. Alpin .George Kaber .... ..PB H 6/10/24 1538.0 81.5
St. Clair No.1.......  Stableford ...... ..PB Hr! 6/15/24 1618.2 77.7
Osceola .....................  ........ ..Ray Pixley ...... ..A....Gr. H 12/22/23 1027.0 74.9
Hillsdale No. 1 .................... ..‘W Hayward ...... ..PB J 4/18/24 1274.0" 73.9
’ Under Four Years
Berrien .............. ..  L. Fisher ........ ..PBH 12/1‘8/23 1820.0 74.6
St. Clair.No. 1.. ....Molla.i1 & Dunning PB H 5/18/24 2470.7 74.1
Lapeer ................ .... ............. ..A. Reek .............. ..PBH 6/27/24 1671.0 71.8
Eaton—North ....................... ..J. B. Strance ...... ..PBH 6/22/24 1980.0 71.2
Montcalm ............................  Hansen .......... ..Gr.G 5/1/24 1066.4 69.3
r Under Three Years
Marquette-Alger....  B. Duetsch ...... ..PBG 12/17/24 1283.0 58.0
Iron ........................ .. ....George Jayne ....Mixed 7/2/24 1432.2 57.3
VanBuren-North ................ ..T. C. Tiedebohl ....PB H 3/9/24 1732.0 57.1
Livingston No.3 ................. ..N. H. Chestnut ....PB H ' 1860.0 55.8
Livingston No. 3 ................. ..N. H. Chestnut .... ..PB H 1897.0 55.0

 

The following table shows the 5 high cows in milk production in the eighty-

seven Cow Testing Associations reporting dn Michigan for the

‘onth of July.

.Dafe Lbs. Lbs.

Association Owner Breed V Fresh - Milk Fat

Vaanr‘en-North ................ ..T..C. Tiedebohl ....PBH 3/23/24 ' 2480.0 ‘ 99.2

St. Clair No. 1 ..................... ..Mollan' & Dunning PB H 3/18/24 2470.7 ‘ 74.1

Calhoun ............................... "Lakewood Dairy ..PB H 4/12/24 1 2446.0 68.8

Hillsdale No. 1 ....  .... ...~. .... ..M. Spear .............. ..PBH - .4/18/24 2486.0 58.5
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Lakewood ~Dairy ..PB H

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If cough-

tle is broken, lower the head at
once. Don't. rub, pinch or pound
the throat or draw out tongue. Be
patient. Drenches must never be
given through the nose to a horse.
If a me is hard to drench, put a
twist on his upper lip.-—-—Nor’-West
Farmer. ‘

VETERINARY
DEPARTMENT ' l

COW SUFFERING FROM GADGET
Am writing you in regard to one
of our cows. She gives bloody
milk in one quarter. Sometimes it
comes out in lumps, then again it
comes out just in a stream. She has
been this way quite a while. We
treated her for garget, but it didn't
do any good.——.T. R., Red Oak, Mich.
HIS cow is suﬂering from gar-
get, sometimes called mastitis

or mammitis. There is no
speciﬁc treatment for this disease.
It is very unsatisfactory to treat this
disease by mail as it often times be-
comes necessary to change the treat-
ment from time to time as the dis-
ease progresses. I think it would
be best for you to consult your local
veterinarian relative to treatment of
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  the mouth, _ 
  ‘or neck :bottleg. "Repeat,
.:when this: is? swallowed, and con-

do {have {any veterinarian in your
locality and will write me giving full
particulars regarding the case, I
will be. very glad to prescribe treat-
ment: for you.-—-—John P. Hutton, As-
soc. Prof. of'Surgery and Medicine
M. A. C. ~

00W MAY HAVE MASTITIS

We have a cow that has got hurt
some way so that she gives bloody
milk out of one quarter. Do you
know anything that can be done so
that the milk will not be bloody? It
has been about four weeks now
since. she has been giving bloody
milk and we have doctored her but-
she doesn’t seem to get better.—Mrs.
A. B., Rives Junction, Mich.

HIS cow, I believe, is suffering
from mastitis, a disease of the
udder that is more often caus-

ed by infection. The disease may,
however, sometimes be caused byan
external injury. Better consult
your local veterinarian relative to
treatment in this case. It often be-
comes necessary to change the
treatment in these cases from time
to time. It is very unsatisfactory
to treat such cases by mail.———John
P. Hutton, Assoc. Prof. of Surgery
and Medicine, M. A. C.

Say It .With Flowers
Don't divorce your wife. Take her a
dozen roses. The shock will kill her,
and you can use the roses for the funeral.
——The Vancouver Sun.

Are Taxes Heavier Because of Prohibition?

(Continued from Page 1'1)

try to outdistance the nations of the
world in economic competition in
this 25 year period.

Concerning the relation of pro-
hibition to industrial efﬁciency, Mr.
Earnest H. Cherrington, General
Secretary of the World League
Against Alcoholism, in a very inter-
esting book entitled, “Permanent
American Prohibition Assured,,'
says much that we would like to in-
clude in this article, but from which
we have selected the following three
very challenging paragraphs:

'21]: Industrial Revolution

“Perhaps no series of legislative
acts have so aroused the manufac-
turing interests in America to the
absolute necessity of Prohibition as
the Workmen’s Compensation Laws
passed during recent years in all
but three states of the American
union. As a result, millions upon
millions have been invested in safe-
ty devices for the protection of life,
limb and health of the 10,000,000
American manufacturing employees.
Safety to workers and insurance to
manufacturing interests preclude
the possibility of those interests ac-
cepting the hazzard which would be
inevitable with the return of the
beverage liquor traﬂ‘lc.

Auto Truck and Old Teamster

“Only a few years ago the vast
tonnage of agricultural products
and of industrial commercial enter-
prises in America was moved on
short hauls by wagons with teams
and teamsters. Today the great
proportion of that tonnoge is moved
by auto trucks. One large truck
will move more tonnage than could
be moved under the old system by
ten wagons. Under the old system,
half—drunken drivers might throw
the lines around the dash board and
depend upon the dumb animals
drawing the load to avoid collision
and the ditch. But the intrinsic
value of more than a million auto-
mobile trucks now operating in
America, to say nothing of the val—
ue of the tonnage involved, cannot
be entrusted to alcoholized truck
drivers.

Automobilimd Nation Without

' Prohibition

“There are in operation in Amer-
ica ten million automobiles. All the
rest of the world together employs
two million automobiles. America
therefore may be said to be the
most thoroughly automobiliaed na-

' tion in the world. IZl‘he great devel-

   
  

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

     
  

opment of the auto'inoblle industry
has taken place in the last decade,
during which same period prohibi-
tion, by state legislation was_rapidly
covering the area of the Men. The
beverage alcohol system in opera-
tion in automobilized America today (
is unthinkable. What decree .of
could be
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extent the 'fate
If the laws against the sale of alco-
holic poison cannot be enforced,
qrmwsunnce
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any sidewalk of any town or any
city ”

The arguments given above would
indicate that prohibition is almost
necessary in our present state of in-
dustrial development.

But to get back to the light wine
and beer program of the Michigan
Division of the Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment, they de—
clare that they intend to organize
the unorganized majority. and crys-
tallize the anti-prohibition sentiment.
Just how they ﬁgure that the major—
ity of the voters of Michigan are not
in full sympathy with prohibition is
diﬂicult ‘to understand. The pro—
hibition amendment to our constitu-
tion was submitted to the vote of the
people on November 7, 1916, and

‘was adopted by a majority of 68,-

624. The liquor forces of the state
in 1918 submitted an amendment to
the constitution allowing the manu—
facture and sale of all vinous and
malt liquors. This amendment was
defeated at the popular election on
April 7, 1919 by a majority of 207,-
520. On January 2, 1919, a consti—
tutional amendment for national pro—
hibition was ratiﬁed by the Michigan
legislature by a vote of 30 to 0 in
the Senate and 88 to 3 in the House.
Thus the people and their duly
elected representatives have spoken
repeatedly in favor of prohibition.
This is an interesting issue. Some
time ago Dr. Slevin representing the
wets, and R. H. Holsaple, represent-
ing the drys, became engaged in an
interesting newspaper argument.
The conclusions to their two articles
are highly signiﬁcant. Dr. Slevin
closes his discussion of the light wine
and beer program with the follwoing

      
    
   

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almost seditious statement:

“If this question is not settled by
ballots, the day may come, which5
God forbid, in which it may be set—
tled by bullets."

Mr. Holsaple, near the end of hi
article, writes:

“The present situation constitutes
the greatest challenge to the patriot—
ism of Americans of the past half
century. Can democracy function
when it has the opportunity? Will
the. minority accept the will of the
minority when expressed through
orderly processes, and if not, can the
government enforce the laws and
policies of the nation as set forth in
the constitution? Can any group of
individuals set aside and nullify the
provisions of law regularly made and
provided without being called to ac-
count for it?

“Upon the answer of America to
these questions depends to a large
of tree government.

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WE SOLICIT YOUR SHIPMENTS
of live poultry, veal and eggs.
Our commission is 5%.

women: Wayne County and Home
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Hereford Steers

60 Wt. around 880 lbs. 86 Wt. around 620 lbs.
30 Wt. around 800 lbs. 94 Wt. around 550 lbs.
78 Wt. around 725 lbs. 50 \Vt. around 500 lbs.
80 Wt. around 660 lbs. 58 Wt. around 450 lbs.

Deep red“ dehorned, good grass ﬂesh. Some
bunches fair ilesh account short pasture. Realr
quality Iiercﬁords are usually market toppers when
ﬁmsh . Will sell your choice one our loud or

all. (live number and weight preferred.
V. V. BALDWIN, Eldon, Wapello Go. lows.

WE HAVE BRED HEREFORDS SINCE 1860
Our herd bulls are International Prize Winners.
Stock of all ages. for sale, at Farmers prices. Write
us for further Information.
Feed Ilsrcfords that fatten quickly.
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MAY H GUERNSEYS ~ ROSE

STATE AND FEDERAL ACCREDITED
Bull calves out of Dams up to 877 pounds fat
Sired b Bulls whose Dams have up to 1011
)ounds at. The homes oi bulls; Shuttlewick Kay

ose Sequel, Jumbo of Brmrbank and Holbecks‘
Golden Knight of Nordlnnd. om Dams pm.

during 1011.18 fat, 772 fat and 610 fa.
GEORGE L BURROWS or GEORGE J. HICKS.
Saginaw, W. 8.. Michigan.

GuunseyHelllng Out Registered Cows and Bull.

$100 to $150. (‘et description. Go
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SHROPSHIRE

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and rum lambs. Also a few ewes that have size.
type and covering.

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common hog diseases.

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Stock Eggs for hatching and Bob .Chicks. May
chicks $20.00 per hundred. Rate 2 eggs $8.00
or hundred. June Chicks $16.00 per hundred.
‘283 $7.00 per hundred. Hen hatched chicks
on request.

WM. H. FROHM, R1. New Baltlmore, Mich.

POULTRY BREEDER’S
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Advertisements inserted under
this heading at 30c per agate line,
per Issue. Commercial Baby Chick
advertisements 450 per agate line.
Write out what you have to offer
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type. send proof and quote rates by
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COOKERELs—-Barred and White Rocks; Reds;
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for sale at reasonable prices. Bred from selected
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Cured His Rupture

I was badly ruptured while lifting a
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There was no operation, no lost time, no
trouble. I have nothing to sell, but will
give full information about how you may
ﬁnd a complete cure without operation,
if you write to me, Eugene M. Pullen,
Carpenter, 44L Marcellus Avenue, Manus-
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and show it to any others who are rup-
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' CURING ROUP ,

0UP is a contagious catarrh and

a hard thing to ﬁght. The' best

and easiest way to recognize it
is by the smell. It is just like the
obnoxious catarrhal smell,noticed
when humansﬁg affected, and once
you get that e11 in mind you will
never forget it. ’

Symptoms

The early stages are the same as
described above for simple catarrhal
colds at ﬁrst, but gradually become
worse. The smell is very notice-
able, the dullness of the birds be-
comes more apparent, the discharge
is thicker, the appetite leaves, the
feathers ‘be-come rough and the fowl
has 'a. wretched, dejected appear-
ance. The eyes become inﬂamed,
swollen and often ulcerated. Quite
often the gathering of the musous
in the passages back of the eyes be-
comes so much and so. hard that the
eye is pushed out of the socket. This
is very contagious as the germs are
passed from one to another by their
sneezing, using the same food and
water vessels, _etc. It may be
brought into the ﬂock by a bird
brought in from the outside or by
birds or coops that have been to a
poultry show, or some such cause.
The germ is localized upon the muc-
ous membrane of the birds.

Treatment

Get rid of the contagion in any
possible manner. Do not allow any
person, poultry or animals to go
from an infected ﬂock into a healthy
one. Clean out the house thorough-
ly and give a good disinfecting by
spraying, painting or fumi‘gating.
Do not be afraid of over doing it. It
is a disagreeable task, but the only
way you can win out is to go after
it hard, keep it up and do it again
until all traces of the disease have
disappeared.

Isolate infected birds for individ—
ual treatment. If they are not too
valuable and have it bad, kill and
burn the carcass.

There are several good roup rem-
edies on the market, Perhaps you
can use some of them easier than
you can mix your own. Take a. good
roup remedy or a good antisceptic
solution and thoroughly cleanse the
head passages through the nostrils
and cleft of the mouth. This can be
done by using a small oil can or a
small rubber syringe so the solution
can be forced up into the head pass—
ages. Some dip the birds’ heads in
the solution which would cause
them to inhale some of it, but it is
also apt to strangle the bird. This
will clean out the head passages and
kill the germs. Several treatments
may be necessary. The boric acid
(15 grains to one ounce of water) is
good, or creoline in a 2 per cent so-
lution, or permanganate of potas,
sium, one grain to the ounce of
water. Some have used kerosene
mixed with ﬁve parts of olive oil and
.this latter remedy may be more ef-
fective after the passages are clear-
ed as the olive oil would help to
heal and soothe the irritated mem—
brane.

Cures can be effected, but treat-
ment must be persisted in and the
preventative, sanitary measures fol-
lowed through and repeated, as well
as the application of remedies.—
“Those Nine Fox Brothers.”

A SIMPLE SYSTEM OF
POULTRY ACCOUNTS

DEFINITE record of expend-
A itures and receipts is one of the

greatest needs of many poultry
keepers. Without it, the poultry-
man is hardly able to determine the
extent of success or failure of his
work.

In Farmers’ Bulletin 1427., just
issued, the United States Depart—
ment of Agriculture gives a simple
system of poultry accounts by which
the necessary records can be easily

~kept. This system may be used

either by the poultry keeper who
has a small ﬂock or by the com-
mercial poultryman.

A study of his records kept ac-
cording to this system will enable
the poultryman to determine which
parts of the operation of the farm
are proﬁtable and where the costs
are too much. The actual equip-
ment necessary and the amount of
feed required for the operation of» a

commercial poultry \‘farm are also
given. 

Copies of Farmers’ Bulletin 1427,
Poultry Accounts, may be had free
of charge upon application to the
Department of Agriculture, Wash-
ington, D. C.

BREAKING UP THE BROODY
HEN
URING the summer and fall
most ﬂocks of chickens have
several broody hens that are
producing nothing, thereby cutting
down the proﬁt from the rest of the
ﬂock. If left to their own choice many
of them will set for months and be-
come so poor that it will take a long
time to get them back in laying con—
dition, but if they can be broken of
the habit as soon as they become
broody they will be back into laying
in a, few days. It takes continuous

_ attention to keep \a ﬂock free from

“broodies.”

Many magic as well as severe
remedies have been advocated for
curing the broody hen, but most of
them‘ are not advisable, as they in-
jure the hen and tend to reduce her
production rather than increase it.
The best method that has been de—

.‘ so; rsjé j. in contents .. deal “with 7'
'the broody hen and gather back
into laying is to conﬂne’her in an .

airy coop where she cannot sit on a.
nest. Broodiness is a feverish con-
dition and increases the hen’s tem-
perature at the time. For this rea-
son a slatted bottom coop should'be
used, which will tend to cool the
hen’s entire system. An ideal coop
is one with a slatted bottom, slatted
or wire sides, solid top and hung
under a tree. It is well to have two
compartments in coop so that hens
put in on different dates ,may be
kept separated. Compartment No.
1 can be ﬁlled on the ﬁrst night,
compartment No. 2 ﬁlled on the
third night, the ones in compart-
ment No. 1 released on the ﬁfth
night and reﬁlled, thus keeping
each hen conﬁned four days, which
is sufficient time, providing they are
caught regularly and have not been
broody too long.

The broody coop should be pro-
vided with feed trays and water pan
and the hens fed liberally on rich
feed While in conﬁnement. It is a
mistake to starve a hen to “break
her up.” She should be gotten in
good condition for laying while she
is conﬁned. Most hens if properly
handled will lose only from six to
ten days as a. result of being broody,

y while if not cared for they may

lose as much as three or four
months—Western Farmer.

FRUIT AND ORCHAR

Edited by FRANK D. WELLS

\VINTER PROTECTION FOR
STRAWBERRIES

TRAWBERRIES are hardy and
S yet it will be a beneﬁt to cover
them with a layer of coarse
material during the Winter, but
the covering should be thin
enough to admit air freely else they
will be smothered. I have seen
several ﬁne patches that were kill—
ed out entirely in one winter by
heavy mulching in the fall. The
coarser the material the better, and
chaff is likely to pack too close and
rot the crowns. Wheat straw from
which the chaff has been shaken will
answer very well. Autumn leaves
are ideal but rather troublesome to
keep in place. The main value of
the mulch is in preventing frost

lossening the roots.———L. H. Cobb.

PROTECT TREES FROM MICE IS
\VARNING TO ORCHARDISTS
EPTEMBER and October are the

months when the far-sighted
orchardist makes preparations to
guard against possible injury to his
trees by hungry ﬁeld mice which
gnaw the trunks and roots. Such
injury is liable to occur at any time
after November 1, although most of
it usually is inﬂicted in mid—winter
or early in spring under cover of
heavy snow and when the more fav-
ored food supply is running low, ac-
cording to the Biological Survey of
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture.

That serious injury to orchard
trees by mice occurs only at irregu-
lar intervals makes the menace the
greater, for it usually catches the
orchardist unprepared and wholly
unaware of the damage being done
until the melting snow in spring un-
covers girdled trunks, or the wilt-
ing trees in mid—summer betray the
hidden work of mice on the roots.

Preventative measures cost little
in comparison with the protection
afforded, and although frequently a.
girdled tree may be saved by timely
bridge grafting, an ounce of preven-

tion is worth a pound of cure. Many“

progressive fruit growers realize
this truth and each fall and several
times during the winter, examine
their orchards carefully for mouse
signs. If mice are present they pre-
pare to destroy them or take steps
to prevent their attacks upon trees.

Methods of preventing mouse in-
jury vary according to the species
of mouse and the cultural practices
followed. In much of the eastern
United States pine mice are present
and their injury is usually inﬂicted
below the surface of the ground. It
is necessary to destroy such mice un-
less they are driven out by deep and
clean cultivation of the whole or-
chard. Where meadow mlce only

are concerned,'suchlme‘thods as rue--
chanical protectors and repellent

mm...

washes are practicable, although the
destruction of the mice is prefer-
able.

General information reative to
methods of coping with ﬁeld mice is
contained in Farmers’ vBulletin

1397, “Mouse Control in Field and,

Orchard,” and more speciﬁc infor-

mation to most questions not cover—'

ed by the bulletin will be given to
anyone describing details of their
problems to the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, Washing-
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appreciate very much if you could
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will be the best time for this trans-
planting, also which is the best
course in cutting back—D. W., Bay
County.

THE best time to transplant wild
grape vines is in the early

spring. Rather small vines
should be selected for this purpose
and they should be cut back quite
severely at the time of transplant-
mg.

Perhaps it would be best to re-
move all but one or two good strong
canes or branches and cut these
back to at least ﬁve or six buds. This
may seem like a very severe prun-
ing, but it is quite necessary to in-
sure success in transplanting—R.
E. Loree, Ass’t. Professor of Horti-
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Peppermint of the native variety
has been largely supplanted by that
brought from England. The Eng—
lish mint was ﬁrst introduced here
by shipping roots, carefully packed,
from Mitchem, England. Fresh im-
portations come from time to time,
and while some growers are none
to careful about mixing the Ameri-
can and English varieties, the best
growers will use only the English.
English mint produces more oil per
acre, a powerful reason for its pref-
erence over American mint. The
plants of the English variety ordin-
arily attain a height of 24 inches,
and under the‘most favorable con-
ditions, a much greater height. They
are of a darker shade of green than
the American variety.

It will require from two to three
wagonloads of peppermint roots to
set an acre of new mint, the cost
ordinarily ranging from $3 to $6.
Once started in the growing of pep-
permint, enough of the old acreage
will be left untouched after harvest—
ing to take care of the new acreage.

As early in the spring as the con—
dition of the ground will permit, ._a
plow is run about three inches deep
under each row that has been left
for this purpose, thus throwing the
roots out of the ground, making
it easy to shake them out of the dirt
with a fork. These roots are gath-
ered into piles, and covered with
dirt to prevent drying out. _

If the new acreage is already pre—’

pared, the roots may be hauled dir-

ectly to the ﬁeld and placed in piles

convenient for the “setters”,
Preparation of Ground

The acreage to be used for pep-
permint should be plowed in the fall
if possible or very early ill the
spring. It should be disced, harrow-
ed, and rolled to kill weeds and grass
and to make a ﬁrm, level seed bed.
Fall plowing is recommended as a
good method of keeping down cut-
worms and wireworms, the most
serious pest‘s with which peppermint
has to contend.

Previous to planting, the ground
is marked off with a horse—drawn
marker, using ﬁve-inch shovels, fur-
rows about four inches deep, and
from three to three and one—half

feet apart.
“Setting” the mint roots is a
trade in itself, and considerable

skill and experience is necessary to
qualify as an expert. A skilled
workman can set from one to two
acres a day, and his pay is relatively
high. Recent experiments with
machinery, some of which have been
most successful in their results,
make one lean to the impression
that “hand” planting will soon be a
thing of the past.

The “setter” provides himself
with a sack suspended from a broad
strap over the shoulder, which he
ﬁlls with roots from the nearest
pile, pulling the branches of the
roots apart as he does so. Using
one hand to string them out, he
drawa the bunches of roots from the
sack, throws them into the furrow
ahead of him and scrapes dirt over
them with his feet as he moves for—
ward.

The new mint will require hoe—
ing and weeding in the rows, with
several additional cultivations. Oil-
producing weeds must be kept
down, as ragweeds, smartweeds,
maretail, etc., will aﬁect the color
and odor of the peppermint oil,
making it objectionable and less val-
uable when ready for sale.

New mint in Michigan is usually
ready to out between August 20 and
September 10. The time for har-
vesting is indicated by the maturity
of the plants, taking into considera-
tion the weather and the maximum
oil content. This latter is determ—
ined by holding the leaves in the sun
and noting the oil to be seen glisten—
ing on the underside of the leaves.
Under normal conditions, the maxi-
mum oil content is reached while
the plants are blossoming, but when
the blossoms commence to die, the
leaves rapidly lose their oil. -

A scythe is used in cutting new
peppermint, the operator cutting as
much of the row as. is possible and
throwing it. to a pomt between the
rows. On-a return triphe clips on
what was left on the original jour.
ney, the runners, etc. “A two-horse
mower is . used by some-- growers,
with equipment much the same a;

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"  Production

(Continued from Page 4).

\ killed,

mint is lost and runners torn, this
method is not yet considered satis-
factory.

“Old’? mint is handled quite dif-
ferently and with much less expense
than “new” mint.

When the new mint is harvested,
the acreage desired for the next
year is decided upon and sufﬁcient
rows for the purpose of providing
the necessary roots are set aside
and left untouched. The balance of
the mint acreage is then plowed
about four inches deep just before
the ground freezes in the fall.

Early in the spring the old acre-
age is thoroughly harrowed with a
disc, then a spike tooth with the
teeth slanting back, this process be—
ing continued until the mint is
six inches high. Most of the weeds
are eliminated by this method, and
nothing further is done until blos-
soming time, when any weeds which
have shown their heads are pulled
out by hand.

It is cut when well blossomed out,
with an ordinary mowing machine,
allowed to Wilt, raked into wind-
rows, bunched and hauled to the
still. This harvest time is earlier
than is the case with new mint, com-
ing from the middle of July to the
middle of August.

With old mint, the above process
may be followed through the years
as long as the roots are not Winter—
injured by insects or the
fertility of the soil so decreased
that the crop becomes unproﬁtable.

‘And Now the Nlint Still ‘

The mint is packed into large
tubs six feet in diameter by six to
eight feet in depth, the lid closed
airtight and steam forced through
it, which carries the oil along
through a condenser worm where it
is cooled, thus causing the oil and
water to separate. The stream of
oil and water then passes into a re-
ceiving can, from which the oil is
skimmed into a storage can. When
the mint leaves are properly wilted
it requires from one and one-quar—
ter to one and one—half hours to ex-
tract the oil from a tubful.

When a still is run for custom
work, handling the output of an en-
tire community, the charge for still—
ing ranges from 20 to 30 cents per
pound of oil. If the mint is run—
ning a very low percentage of oil
content, a ﬂat rate per tubful is us—
ually made.

Some growers prefer to operate
their own stills. Permission. from
the prohibition agent of the district
'should ﬁrst be secured. A simple
equipment could be installed by any
good carpenter and tin-smith, work—
ing from plans suitable for the need.

Is It \Vorth “Vllile Trying?

Professor Duncan, to whom we
are indebted for much of the infor—
mation used in this article, has
some well grounded ideas on the
industry and its desirability for the
average farmer. He says:

“If one goes in the mint business
he should be in such ﬁnancial shape
that he can hold his crop of oil over
a year in case the price slumps. A1-
so, it is no use to jump in one year
and out the next. A market for the
oil can usually be found with sever-
al of the larger handlers, and the
hay, after the oil is extracted, is
nearly as good feed as timothy, but
being somewhat laxative, should be
fed along with other roughage.

“Mint yields anywhere from 15
to 50 pounds of oil per acre. The
average for Michigan is given by the
U. S. department of agriculture as
27 pounds

“Some men have made big money
in this business while a great many
little fellows have gone broke at it,
but I will say if a man does not put
all his eggs in one basket but raises
mint in rotation year after year
there is a good living in it.

“Michigan has a large amount of
land that could be used for pepper-
mint, and in caSe market conditions
warrant an increase in production,
the acreage can be greatly expanded
at any time.”

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Future of Wheat Market Looks Bright 1

Live Stock Slow'to Show Improvement -

 
 

By “7. W. FOOTE, Market Editor.

I LTHOUGH the general sway of
‘ business is taking an upward

trend, with foreign trade ex-
panding, and grain markets in
healthy conditions, live stock mar-
kets are not keeping pace with the
general current of the times. In
face of the fall expansion, live stock
prices have declined sharply within
the past week or two. The conﬁ—
dence which many feeders have had
in the future live stock business
has dwindled. Nevertheless, these
declines have been due to excessive
marketing of bovine, porcine, and

ovine, stock, and does not truly rep-_

resent conditions if the distribution
of receipts had been spread out ov-
er a longer period. With American
business in good shape, unemploy—
ment at a minimum, and trade on
other agricultural commodities in
much better condition than a year
ago, there is a good probability that
substantial improvement will be
made providing the marketward
movement is held down to moderate
proportions.

Recent export grain business with
Europe has given the American
grain growers reason to feel that
they are not entirely dependent up—
on our domestic market for outlet
for their production. As the Dawes
plan for economic re—adjustment of
western Europe comes more into
play, the volume of our export busi—
ness is likely to expand. Although
the volume of business may never
reach the proportions that it attain—
ed before the war, it will be a factor
of paramount importance in estab-
lishing prices for our grains.

Optomistic Grain Outlook

The perpendicular rise of the Chi-
cago wheat market this fall has giv—
en an optimistic tone to grain grow-
ing industry which was enshrouded
in pessimism last year. While the
corn belt was suffering from excess
moisture there was a long drought
in western Canada this summer, and
wheat ﬁelds there were bare and
parched. The wheat market re-
sponded quickly to the disastrous
condition of the Canadian crop, and
American farmers benefited thereby.
Argentina is being watched as to
the outcome of their crop which will
determine in a large measure the
trend of wheat values in the future.
All reports indicate that there will
be a close adjustment of the world’s
supply to demand, with only the
United States having more wheat
than last year. While there is an
estimated decrease of 300,000,000
bushels of wheat in the world pro-
duction compared with last year’s
crop the total wheat crop of the
United States is estimated at around
41,000,000 bushels more than last
year.

The movement of the spring
wheat crop is starting with Winni—
peg reporting about half of her re-
ceipts coming from the new crop.
Already there is much new wheat
arriving at our domestic markets
and it is understood that some of
it has been sold on export account.
During the last six weeks approxi-
mately 35,000,000 bushels of wheat
' was shipped across the water, and
there is every reason to believe that
this export demand will be main—
tained.

With September wheat recently
quoted at $1.25 December futures
have been selling around $1.30.
There has been a slight change in
sentiment of the wheat trade recent-
ly, and there is a disposition now to
look for lower prices, while the
movement of spring wheat is on.
Unless something of a bullish na—
ture makes its appearance the
probability is that values will work
lower.

Bullish news on corn seems to
have worked stale, and, for the time
being, unless there is a killing frost
before the first of next month, there
is a probability that corn will de-

cline. Reports from some sections
of the country are that considerable
improvement in the crop has been
made recently, while in other sec-
tions a very low percent is expected
to mature. There will undoubtedly
be much soft corn in the country,
even some of the best corn states re—
porting a very poor outlook. Many
Farmers are planning to save their
crop through silos, while others
planto feed it immediately. There
is only one way to market an imma-
ture corn crop, and that is through
live stock. There has recently been
a rally in the feeder markets, farm—
ers rushing in for thin stock to util-
ize their grain. During the last
week, however, this activity has
been abated, due to more promising
weather. There is an abundance of
excellent pasture and forage crops
throughout the agricultural states
of the union, and many feeders are
panning to carry their stock along
on as little grain as necessary. Sep-
tember corn is quoted at $1.20 with
December at $1.15.

The market on oats has been
showing fair strength due to the de—
velopment of export business and
brisk eastern demand. The new crop
is moving steadily, and stocks at
terminals are increasing rapidly. A
little export business has been done
in barley and rather extensive for—-
eign business was put though in rye.
The acceptance of the Dawes plans
has made a complete change in the
situation abroad, and all kinds of
grain have been taken on foreign ac—
count in the past week, wheat and
rye being the principal grains.

Trade Balance Favorable

The latest report on internation-
al trade shows an increase of ex-
ports and a decrease in imports,
making a very favorable balance,
while exports in July total $278,-
000,000, August amounted to $331,-
000,000. Our imports for 'August
aggregated $271,000,000, against
$278,000,000 for July and $275,
400,000 for August last year. The
exports for the United States in
August were the largest since May.
The trade balance being about $61,-
000,000 compared with $35,500,000
in August 1923, and only $400,000

rDuri'ng the
vfirst eight months of the year the
favorable trade balance amounted
to $300,000,000 against $93,000,-
000 for the ﬁrst eight months last

in July of this year.

year. Gold imports during August
were $18,149,981 against $18,134,—
423 in July,. and $32,856,097 in
August, 1923. Gold exports for
August jumped to $2,397,457 com-
pared WithVOnly $327,178 in July,
and $2,200,961 in August last year.
Cattle Prices Break

Two weeks ago excessive receipts
of cattle arrived at all markets with
over 63,000 cattle and calves at Kan-
sas City being a new record for that
market. During the past two weeks
at Chicago over 14.0,000 cattle ar-
rived, resulting in a break of from
$1.00 to $2.00 during that period.
Included in this number thousands
of thin western range cattle were
dumped into the market hopper,

,causing a depression on feed oﬁer-

ings. Most of the decline was regis—
tered on fat heavy steers, prices dur-
ing the last three or four days being
the lowest of any time previously this
year. Heavy carcasses of beef were
offered in too large numbers for de-
mand, and reports from the leading
consuming centers were that , the
coolers were full of these big beeves,
with practically “no outlet. Conse-
quently killers refused to buy
weighty cattle except at their own
ﬁgures. This was not the case with
yearling cattle, and handyweights
averaging upward of 1250 pounds.
They sold fully steady with some of
the better grades which were scarce,
even showing strength. Prime year—
lings went for shipment at $11.40,
a price within 10c of the recent
high mark touched two weeks ago.
This class of cattle, however, were
entirely too high to maintain such
wide premiums as they were bringing
over heavier steers of similar ﬂesh
condition, and before the past week
was ended even they received a set-
back of 25c.

Prime heavy steers closed the past
week with tops at $10.00 and $10.--
10. Handyweights averaging from
1100 to 1200 pounds were quotable
upward to $10.75. While the bulk
of all steers sold within a price
spread of $8.00 to $10.50, most
heavy steers averaging 1350 to 1500
pounds went from $7.75 to $10.25,.
during the past six days. Early in
the week one load of prime long fed
weighty steers sold as high as $11.-
00. Dressing percentages on some of
the $8.50 to $9.00 steers ranged as

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Detroit Chicago Detroit Detroit
Sept. 22 Sept. 22 Sept. 10 1 yr. ago

WHEAT—

No. 2 Red $1.83 $1.86 $1.26 $1.08

N o. 2 White 1.35 1.28 1.09

No. 2 Mixed 1.34 1.31 1.27 1.08
CORN— _

No. 3 Yellow 1.24 1.15 1.25 .94

No. 4 Yellow 1.19 1.14 1.20 .98
OATS—

No. 2 White .60 .50 .62 .41

No. 3 White .58 .37 .60 .42
RYE—m

Cash No. 2 1.04 1.04 .93 .75
BEANS— .-

C. H. P. th. 5.65@5.70 6.50 5.75@5.80 5.85
POTATOES—

Pcr th. 1.50@1.66 1.10@1.20 1.50@1.‘60 2@2.33
HAY—-

No. 1 Tim. 19@20 25@26 22 23 20.50@21

No. 2 Tim. 17 @18 21 24 20@21 18@19

No. 1 Clover 19@% 17 19 19@20 15@16_

Light Mixed 18 @ 19 23@24 21 @23 19.50@20

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, September 22.———All grains, excepting oats, are unchanged. Bean market
easy. Butter and eggs in demand. Large supply (if-poultry and market weak.

 

 

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high as 62 per “cent, with big fat,
cattle of plain quality selling around
$8.00, dressingfrom 58 to 60 per
cent.
pound steers having had a little
grain going as low as $6.50. These
prices are virtually in line with those
paid for western steers two weeks
ago. Most western range steers dur- f
ing the past week soldwfrom $5.50,
to. $6.50 with a few of the very best
bringing $7.00 to $8.00 earlier in

the week. » "

W'estern Cattle Decline.

Many westerns were picked up by
feeder buyers early in the week at
very strong prices. Anticipating a '
broad demand for thin steers suit-
able for country. outlet, dealers in '
stocker and feeder cattle laid in a. ,
liberal supply of 700 to 1000 pound _
range steers frOm $5.50 to $7.00.
With warmer weather prevailing
during the past few days, country,
demand was restricted, and this end
of the cattle market declined 25 to
50c before the close of the week.

Conditions on- the western ranges
are reported to be on a decline, due
to continued lack of moisture. In
higher sections grazing conditions
remained fairly good, but the lower
ranges were very dry, with prospects
of short feeds for fall and winter
grazing in several states. This bad
condition was especially noticed in
the extreme western states, with
ranges in Utah, California, Washing-
ton, Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada
estimated at 75 per cent normal,
compared with 91 per cent a year
ago. Cattle and sheephave done
fairly well on cured grass in nearby
range states, but west of the con-
tinental divide the condition of stock
has declined considerably. '

This partly accounts for the num-
erous shipments of young cattle and
comparatively thin condition of the
range sheep and lambs arriving at
the market. Numerous loads of
western heifers have been dumped on
the market, causing severe price re-
cessions inv nativeshe: stock values.
Western cows and heifers Sold, at
practically the same prices asn’a‘tive
butcher stock, going largely Within a
spread of $4.00 to $5.50. _ Eitcep-
tions to this were a few prime corn
fed yearling heifers which realized
from $8.00 to $9.00 and up to $10.00
for a few odd head. Thin canner
stock sold down to $2.50, with $3.00
representing cutter cows. Bologna
bulls remained steady with a decllhe
of 50 to 750 scored. the previous
week, and sold largely from $3.75
to $4.25. Veal calves also main-
tained last week’s closing levels
which were $2.00 under two weeks
ago. Bulk of vealers cleared from
$10.50 to $11.50.

Cattle Feeding Wanes

During the ﬁrst eight months of
the year so far, the countryward
movement of feeding cattle from
eight leading markets has decreased
287,739 head compared with the
same period during last year. Over
half of‘this decrease was noted dur-
ing August which indicates that
there was a general widespread de-
cision not to feed cattle next year.
This decision however may change
decidedly according to the outcome
of the new crop of corn. The fall
months are usually the largest
months of the,year for feeder move-
ment.

The feeder movement of sheep and
lambs is just the opposite from cat—
tle, the ﬁrst eight months of the year
showing as large an increase as cat-
tle showed decrease. Over half of
this increase was noted in August.
The good prices paid for sheep and
lambs so far this year and the abun—
dance of forage in the country were
factors favoring an increase in feed—
ing of bovine stock.

Fat Lambs Drop

Big receipts hurt lamb prices dur—
ing the past week to the extent of
$1.00 generally. Top fat lambs
dropped from $14.50 a week ago to
$13.25 on late sessions during the
past week. This was not the case
with feeding lambs. They held
steady in face of the sharp decline
on‘fat lambs and at the close of the
week were selling at thejame prices
as fat lambs. This is the ﬁrst time

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of the week's. receiptsxwere western
' lambs ,offfeeding. ﬂesh and the move-
ment to the country was liberal.
Owing" to the scarcity of sheep,
they failed to show much price
[change during the past six days With
choice 100 to 125 lb. western ewes
selling from $6.25 to $6.75.
.120 to 130 lb. native ewes earned
[around $6.00 with 140 lb. Offerings
going at $5.00 and heavy 200‘lb.
ewes at $4.50. Inferior canning
ewes sold down to $3.00. Feeding
ewes were taken from $5.00 to $6.09
with full mouthed breeding ewes at
$7.00 to $8.00 and younger stock
up to $9.00 and yearlings at $10.00.
Native lambs cleared from $12.75
“$13.00 late h the week tor mice
mowemmususo
and common lambs at $12.00. In-
tutor native lambs were quoted at
$11.00 with culls from $9.00 to
$0.50. Western range lambs sold at
$12.75 to $18.00 for choice grades
with $13.25 bein paid for top of~
kings. That s was the lowest
top of the year. Feeding lambs sold
up to $13.10 for choice 55 lb. of-
ortngs. A spread of $12.75 to $13.-
09 took most of the choice 55 to 65
lb. feeding lambs with 70 to 75' lb.
lambs at $12.00.
Hogs Sell Lowest of Month
While prices advanced the week
previous, they dropped sharply dur-
ing the past seven days on hogs,
closing around 45c below last week
end or 25c under two week’s ago.
Good sized receipts, less activity on
eastern account and the general
(dump in all live stock values was
responsible for the drop in hogs
values. The average cost of packer
and shipper droves late in the week
was $9.25 with tops at $9.90 to
$10.10. Bulk of packing grades
cold from $8.55 to $8.65 with med-
ium grades going largely at $8.80
to $9.10 and the better grades most—
ly at $9.20 to $9.80. .
Cold storage stocks, of pork are
not, burdensome according to recent
government ﬁgures. The total hold-

ings aggregated less on September 1

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Week of September 28
ITH the exception of the very
beginning and the very end-
ing of this week in Michigan

the weather will be generally fair——

a good period for doing a great deal

of outdoorfarm work.

Cloudy and threatening weather
with light showers of rain are ex-
pected in this state about Sunday
and Monday. The greatest rainfall
of the week, however, will occur
during the closing days of the week.
In many counties of Michigan, the
rainfall will be heavy. Fog may
also be plentiful.

Temperatures will 'be seasonable
during the ﬁrst part of week, but
during middle part will fall below
the seasonal normal and many frosts
will occur. The last days of the
week will bring a quick recovery in
temperatures, however, and warm,
muggy conditions may be expected.

Week of October 5
The ﬁrst half of this week will
bring more than the average storm-
iness to Michigan as a series of
storm centers cross over and near
the Lake region. Early in the week
there will be storms of local rains
that will heavy and as the mid.
die of the week approaches these
storm cond ions will increase. Bar-
ometric gra ants in this part of the
United States will- come steeper with
a resultant increase in the wind-
force. Fruit not yet gathered will
be in danger from the stiff gales.
There will probably be a resump-
tion of storminess along about
Thursday when rain and high winds
will be experienced in many parts
Following these storm periods the
' will fall decidedly
bringing the coldest weatherof the
week’along about. the middle and at
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I  "amuse BEGINS oer. 1st. "
7 N October-“list the advertising campaign for-Michigan

beans is on. "After that date the normal settlement
willgprovide a centribution of one cent per hundred
pounds each from grower and dealer to the advertising

fund. .

The placards, etc, are ready for distribution.
fund will be administered by a committee as follows:
E. Chatterton, Mt. Pleasant; C. S. Benton, Lansing; J. E.
Gus Marotzke, Sebewaing; Mr. Cross,
Bites, Saginaw; A. B. Cook, Owosso, (Chair-

Malone, Lansing;
Bad Axe; Mr.
man), .

The
H.

While there seems to be no doubt that the present
crop of beans will not be burdensdme, and will bring a
good price, the time to ﬁx the roof is when the sun shrines,
and we hope to get a fund available so that when the bean
industry of Michigan is threatened from any standpoint
the munitions for defence shall be at heme and the burden

equitably distributed.

We will see that you and your readers are kept posted

as to the development of this enterprise.
does not realize ﬁfty cents for

If the grower
every penny invested, we

shall be disappointed—A. B. Cook.

 

than on the same date a year ago.
As indicated by the ﬁgures, most of
the decrease this year was shown in
pork in process of curing, thereby
showing that more fresh pork is
going into consumptive channels and
less into the cellars. Considering
the storage ﬁgures in connection
with the predicted decrease in mar-
ketings of hogs, the outleek for the
feeder is anything but discouraging.

Offerings of horses on the Chicago
market during the past week were
moderately light and prices were
from $5.00 to $10.00 per head higher
than two weeks ago. Many good in-
dividuals were on sale with the best
selling at $237.50.
ped at $475. Good farm chunks
sold at $100 to $150 with common
checks from $60 to $90.

A special aution will be held Sept.
22 when 286 head of artillery and
cavalry horses belonging to the
National Guard of Illinois will be
sold. There will also be 300 head
of selected draft and wagon horses
offered at that auction.

 

WHEAT
Wheat is inclined to hold steady
on the Detroit market as there is a
large number of buyers present, but
these buyers are trying to pick up
wheat at a price just below the pres—

ent market. Very bearish news
comes from Canada, one of the
newspapers reporting the wheat

crop as something like thirty mill-
ion bushels greater than any Amer—
ican experts had estimated the crops
a short time ago. Some selling was
done on this only to bring out the
fact that there were plenty of purw
chasers for every bushel offered. The
price declined a total of two cents
at Detroit, but later advanced this
same amount, and on Saturday of
last week the market was two cents
higher than on the previous Monday.
Farmers in this state have not been
selling their wheat very readily, but
receipts last week showed an in-
crease. Millers are in the market
for good Wheat, and the foreigners
are taking quite large quantities.
Many of the market experts believe
that there is not much danger of
prices going much lower, and there
is quite a possibility of their ad-
vanc'ement.

 

CORN

The Detroit corn market has been
nervous for several days and ﬂuctu-
ates easily. The market closed last
Saturday with the price at the same
level as it was at the opening of the

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Best teams top- '

week, and one cent lower than the
close two weeks previous. The mar-
ket is inclined to show more ﬁrm-
ness as everyone is- expecting re-
ports of damage by frost nearly any
day now. Buyers have been keep-
ing back, but a report of damage by
frost would send them hurriedly in-
to the open market.

 

OATS
Oats have followed the trend of
corn during the past fortnight, and
the price is one cent lower than two
weeks ago last Saturday. There has
been a slowing up of demand during
the past fortnight.

 

RYE

A steady tone prevails in the rye
market, and prices advanced at De-
troit ﬁve cents for the week ending
September 20th, and eleven cents
for the last two weeks ending on
that, date. The demand seems to be
good, and the market firm.

 

BEANS

There are many things hard to
understand in this world, but to us
about the hardest is why beans de—
cline in price, and the market be
easy in tone at this time. Harvest—
ing is underway in Michigan, but
wet weather in some sections is
causing considerable trouble. Deal-
ers are not expecting beans to ap—
pear on the market until after the
ﬁrst of October, due to the lateness
of the season and to the weather.
Our readers will be pleased to learn
that beginning on October let the
advertising campaign on Michigan
pea beans will go into eﬁ’ect. Mr.
A. B. Cook who is chairman of the
advertising committee advises us
that the grower will contribute one
cent per hundred pounds and the
dealer the same amount. There is
practically no change in the bean

market in New York, only a fair
amount of business being done.
However, holders of choice pea

beans are unwilling to sell at any-
thing off the market price. It is
reported a large chain of stores are
featuring pea beans at 10 cents per
pound.

POTATOES
The Detroit potato market is easy.

-Rep0rts throughout the state show

that the farmers in the Greenville
section are hauling potatoes to mar—
ket in large quantities, while haul-
ings are generally light at the bal—
ance of west Michigan points. The
demand in trading has been moder-

 

 

 

DON’T SELL YOUR BEANS TOO SOON

THE bean crop of Michigan has suffered much damage
during the past month and a half and the crop report
.issued September 1st estimated the 1924 crop at about

a million bushels less than last year. As we were about to

go to press we received a long distance telephone call from

a market expert and he declared that to date the yeild has

been cut a million and a half under last year’s crop.

also his opinion that

It is

if the farmers will hold their beans

until Novemberlst they will get $6 per hundrcdweight for ,

them.

 

mam-«momma

ate, and the market about steady
’ with slight change in prices. Chicago
reports a liberal supply and the de—
mand moderategwith trading slow.

The market has been about steady .

on early? Ohios, and‘weak on other
varieties. Eastern markets report
' trade fairly active, as consumption
is increasing with the advent of cool
weather.

as
in
large receipts, and these are slow
sales with Values easier except
where better grades are wanting.
Timothey is easier with large re<
ceipts and fair demand especially
V for the better grade. .

HAY
Markets are slightly weaker,
the poorer grades have been

THE LIVESTOCK MARKET

DETROIT, Sept. 22.——Cattle—~Receipts
1,159. Market demoralized. Few selling
fully 25c lower. Good to choice yearlings.
dry fed, $8.50@9.75; best heavy steers.
dry fed, $7.50‘@8.25; best handy weight
butcher steers, $6.25@6.75; mixed steers
and heifers. $5@5.75; handy light
butchers, $4.50@5; li ht butchers, $3.500
4.25; best cows, 4.50@4.75; butcher
COWS, $3.25@4; common cows, $2.250
2.75; canners, $2@2.50; choice light bulls,
$4.25@4.50; bologna bulls. $4.50@4.75;
stock bulls, $3.50@4; feeders, $4@G;
stockers, $4@5.50; milkers and springers,
$45@90.

Veal Calves—Receipts 500. Market
slow. Best, $13@13.50; others, $4@12.

Sheep and Lambs~—Receipts 2,465.
Market steady. Best lambs, $12.50@12.75;
fair lambs, $10.50@12; light to common
lam'bs, $7@8; fair to good sheep, $5@6;
culls and common, $1.50@3.50.

Hogs—Receipts 1,332. Mixed yorkers,
$10.50; pigs, $9.50. '

CHICAGO—~H o g s—Reoeipts, 17,000;
market steady to weak. Bulk, $8.90@10;
top, $10.10; 250 to 325 lbs., $9.50@10;
m e d i u m weight, $9.70@10.10; light
weight, $9@10.10; light lights, $8.25@10;
heavy packing sows, smooth. $8.70@9;
packing sows, rough, $8@8.65; pigs, $7.50
@9.

Cattle—Receipts, 3,000; market steady.
Beef steers: Choice and prime, $lO@ll;
medium and good, $8@9; good and choice.
$10@11.40; common and medium, $709.
Butcher cattle: Heifers, $5@$9.50; cows,
$3.75@7.50; bulls, $3.50@7. Canners and
cutters: CoWs and heifers, $2@3.25; can—
ner steers, $5@7; veal calves (light and
heavyweight), $10~@12; feeder steers,
$575298; stocker steers, $5.70@8; stocker
cows and heifers. $5.50@7.75; stocker
calVes, $3@5.50. Western range cattle:
Beef steers, $5@8; cows, $6@9; calves,
$10.

Sheep—Receipts, 20,000; market steady.
Lambs (84 lbs. down), $12@13.25: culls
and common, $8.50@9.50; yearlings, $9@‘
1050; wethers. $7@8.50; ewes, $5.50@
6.65; culls and common, $1.50@3.50;
breeding owes, $5.50@11.50; feeder lambs,
$12@13.25.

Blili‘FALOﬁ C a t t l e ——Receipts, 450;
market slow. Shipping steers, $9@10.50;
Butcher grades, $7@9; heifers, $5@8;
cows, $2@6.50; bulls, $3605.50; feeders,
$4006.50; milk cows and stringers, $35
@125.

Calves—Receipts, 1,700; market steady.
Cull to Choice, $3.50@13.50.

Sheep and Lambs———Rcceipts, 3,600:
market active. Choice lambs. $13@13.50;
cull to fair, $8@12; yearlings, $7@10;
Sheep, $6177.50.

Hogs—~Receipts, 8,000; market slow.
Yorkers, $10@10.50; pigs, $9@9.50; mix-
ed, $10.90@11; heavy, $10.90@11; roughs,
$8.25@‘8.50; stags, $4@5.

 

DETROIT PRODUCE
RU'J‘TlCll—No. l
34112017351/30 per lb.
EGGS—Fresh receipts.
doz.;cold storage, 31@33 1/13C.
APPLES—Duchess, $1.25@1.50; Weal—
thy, $l.75@2.25; Johnathan, $3@3.25 per
bushel
DRESSED CALVES—B e s t country
dressed, 1000170 per 1b.; ordinary grades,

BIA RKE’I‘
creamcry, in tu'bs,

34@40c per

1:l@150; small, poor, 1060110; heavy
rough calves, 861790; City dressed, 19@
20c; per lb.

L I V E POUI'XI‘RY—Spring Chickens,

fancy largo, 250; medium, 2303240; leg-
horn, 21%22c; best hens, 270; medium,
2460250; lcghorns, 18@19c; old roosters,
160; geese, 18 @20c; ducks, 4 lbs. and up,
white, 18c; small or dark, 16c per lb.

CROP REPORTS
Marquette——Oats are being harvested,
the latest in many years. Everything
frosted last week. Potatoes will be only
fair crop. Silos are being ﬁlled. We
have had the earliest freeze in years in
the vicinity of Marquette. Oats and bar—
ley are a fair crop. No mature corn——
L. R. Walker.

Shiatvassek—The bean crop is hardly up
to the average owing to the weather con-
ditions. ~Cool damp weather delays the
curing as the crop ripens. A couple of
weeks favorable weather will put the corn
crop out of danger. The wheat and cat
crop has yielded beyond expectation.
Potatoes are doing well.-—'—D. H. M.

TnseoiaL—Corn the farthest advanced
needs ten days, most needs two or three
weeks. Potatoes fair to good. Very
little blight. Sugar beets about same as
last year, root growth rather small.
Beans quite badly diseased—few fields not
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but do you realize that ' your risk

in driving the" old One without

FEW men these days will drive a new ‘car away from the dealers without insurance,

but many men drive old cars postponing until they buy the new One, the invest-
ment in protection.

Yet the old car, with worn brakes and other parts, may fail you more quickly in an
emergency and make you liable for injury to another person or property.

If you could read the letters like the one below which come daily to our oHice, you

too, would realize how important it is to keep insured against ﬁre, theft, liability and
collision: ‘ i

 

It Pays to Keep Insured
Citizens’ Mutual Auto Ins. Co.
Howell, Michigan.

Gentlemen?\

Birmingham, Mich.
September 4, 1924.

Upon the 4th day of April A. D. 1924, I had the misfortune of having an accident While driving in the
City of Detroit. A little boy by the name of Thomas Sayre ran out into the street and was knoclmd down
by my car and his leg broken. Usually those cases are not so very serious, but in this case the setting of the
boy’s leg was. not successful and he has a very serious permanent injury and is now paralyzed on one side. *‘

a settlement and you have contributed the full amount under your policy of Five Thousand’Dollars ($5,000).
I feel much relieved to know that this case is settled and that your company has been fair in dealing
with the one who had the misfortune to have such a serious injury. I have been insured in your company
eight or nine years and I am well satisﬁed with the service rendered and I am sure that no company could
have done more.
Yours very truly,

Theron B. Smith.

 

 

 

Be Sure the Company is Strong!

Figures don’t lie---compare this statement of assets with ANY other
mutual automobile insurance company now operating in Michigan.

Total assets December 31, 1921, $137,392.51

Total assets December 31, 1922, $226,449.45 ' .
Total assets Dec. 31, 1923, $407,683.55

Total assets August- 1, 1924, $561,543.26
Total assets Sept. 1, 1924, $573,534.62

This record of growthis the-ﬁnalanswer tojy0ur choice of safe in-
surance. ,
today for full rates and 1nformatlon.

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