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O the ‘Editor: Why are Mich-
igans so much lower than Cali-
fornia beans. An interesting

problem is revealed by this ques-
tion. It seems something must be
wrong with Michigan marketing
methods, because it has been com-
mon knowledge for several months
that the crop of California beans
would be short, and now that har-
vesting time is at hand, this has be-
come an assured fact. The recog-
nition by the trade of this has creat-
ed a heavy demand, with a corres-
ponding increase in prices. Beans
are selling today at the following
prices f. o. b. California:

Small Whites, $8.00; Limas, $13.-
25; Baby Limas, $12.25; Blackeyes,
$8.00; Red Kidneys, $8.75.

The market is steadily advancing
as the dealers continue to buy in
fulﬁllment of orders, and it is ex-
pected that all varieties will be from
$1.00 to $2.00 per bag higher with-
in 60 days. At the rate beans are
moving out, it will be only a matter
of months before the short crop will
be cleaned up. Some idea of this
can be best ascertained by compar-
ing available stocks with that of the
previous year:

Est'ed.

Crop 1988 Crop 1924
Small Whites ..360,000 60,000
Limas .............. 700,000 325,000
Blackeyes ........ 275,000 175,000
Large Whites ..100,000 40,000
Red Kidneys 40,000 30,000
Pinks ................ 650,000 250,000

The 1923 crop was below normal,
and it has been estimated that the
total bean production for the state
of California this year will only be
about 5 per cent of normal. The
result will be that at same time in
the near future, the trade will have
to look to Michigan for their bean
supply and when that time comes,
the Michigan farmer should be in
relatively the same position as the
California farmer, who at the pres-
ent time is getting record prices for
his beans, and the crop though
short, is proving extremely proﬁt-
able.

It has always been considered
Michigan beans were of superior
quality to those grown anywhere
else, but notwithstanding this fact,
they are selling for approximately
35 per cent less than California
beans in eastern terminal markets.

Why should there be this differ-
ence? It would seem if Michigan
CHP beans are all that is claimed
for them, they should command a

_ premium over machine cleaned Cal-

ifornia beans of inferior cooking
quality.

Is there anything wrong with the
marketing method of Michigan
beans, or has it been due to the
bearish interests among the Michi-
gan dealers who are endeavorlng to
keep prices down, for their own self-
ish interests? .

Beans are a staple commodity and
Michigan beans are supposed to be
the most popular of all beans grown.
The best evidence of this is reﬂected
in the attitude of the canners, who
claim to use about 40 per cent of
the normal Michigan crop. If this
is true, any outside demand from
the balance of the trade, should
have a tendency to stabilize the mar—
ket at legitimate prices, particular-
ly on a year like this, when all the
producing sections are short. If
Michigan beans are showing heavy
damage from recent rains, unfavor-
able weather, and the estimated pro-
duction much less than last year, it
is extremely difﬁcult to comprehend
the reason why Michigan farmers
are not getting more for their beans.

Are the Michigan farmers getting~
the right kind of information from
the elevators, and are they getting
the proper support from their
banks?

In connection with the last ques-
tion—California farmers are more
fortunate in having public ware-
houses run by disinterested parties
who issue negotiable warehouse re-
ceipts, upon which the farmers can
borrow money at the bank.

When the farmer realizes he is
not receivingrall that he should for
his beans. he has the privilege of
holding for a better market. Per-
have this is one. of the solutions of
the problem.

At any rate the fact remains—that
Michigan farmers are receiving a

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price for their beans today that
scarcely shows them any proﬁt for
growing, while farmers in other
beau producing sections, are making
a proﬁt, even on a short crop. The
reasons that are responsible for this
condition are many, and those inter-
ested in the been growing industry.
it they hope to continue,'should take
steps to bring about a change.

There is unquestionably a dispos-
ition on the part of the Michigan
bean dealers, and so—called farmers
selling organizations, to sell beans
too freely——the cutting of prices and
short selling have a decided weaken-
ing effect on the market.

One of the most evil practices in
the marketing of Michigan beans, is
the method of selling beans short.
because that destroys the natural
balance of supply and demand. If
this method of selling were eliminat-
ed it would tend greatly to stabilize
the market at a price that would be
commensurate to the effort and
labor of producing beans. The bean
industry is one of the outstanding
features of the States of,Michigan,
and should be preserved and devel-
oped, but in order to do so, farmers
should receive at least as much as
others. for their product.—-—Kutner
Selling Agency, San Francisco, Cal.

TO HOLD 78 DAIRY-ALFALFA
SCHOOLS IN SAGIN AW

EVENTY-EIGHT Dairy - Alfalfa
Schools, three in each township
to bring the “College to the

Farm” is the plan of the County Ag-
This
special feature of Agricultural Ex-
tension Work is designed along
practical lines to furnish a basis for
a ﬁve-year program of educational
development of the dairy and alfalfa
production in Saginaw county.

Arrangements have been made
whereby there will be two crews of
specialists from the Dairy Depart—
ment and the Farm Crops Depart-
ment holding short two hour schools
during the day and evening in each
township in Saginaw county. Schools
will -"start at 8:00 o'clock in the
morning and there will be four each
day by each crew, making a total of
8 schools a day being held in various
parts of Saginaw county. This will
last from November 12 to 26, ex-
cepting Saturdays.

In addition there will be a few
general night meetings for those
who were unable to attend the day
meetings.

These schools will be so arranged
that a farmer need not come more
than four miles to reach a school
and will not need to give more than
three hours of his time to get the
information which these men have.

This will be a practical course in
which the problems of production of
alfalfa from the‘standpoint of fer-
tility, liming, time and rate of seed—
ing, times to cut for hay and seed,
how to cure and proper methods of
feeding alfalfa hay. The practical
problems of dairy production will be
discussed, particularly the value of
Cow Testing Associations, the way
they work, the value of herd sires
and community bull rings, the prop-
er methods of feeding, how to bal—
ance rations, and other practical
points of dairy production.

The special feature of these
schools will be their informal na—
ture. They will be “Barn Yard
Talks" at the homes of various
farmers located for easy access by
farmers of the township. They will
be right out in the alfalfa ﬁeld and
in the dairy barns, where everyone
can feel free to ask any questions
which are of interest to them re-
garding the subject.

The series of schools offers the
greatest opportunity ever presented
to the farmers of Saginaw county to
get practical information on dairy
alfalfa production and to take ad-
vantage of the great number of
things which the Agricultural Ex-
tension Service in Saginaw county
has to offer the farmers. Every
farmer should begin to plan to at-
tend one of the meetings, which. will
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, The “Dark Horse.” Issue of Reapportionment

Here Are Facts You Should Know Before Voting on Reapportionment Amendment November 4th

EN a great battle is raging

along an extended front it is

good generalship not to over-

100k the places where everything is

apparently quiet. Behind the out-

ward evidences of peace and calm
there may lurk hidden dangers.

And this is equally true of the

great struggle to preserve our prec—
ious liberties and those wise govern-
mental safeguards which the fore-
sight of the founders of this Repub-
lic and the experiences of the past

have proved desirable.

And when I voice these senti-
ments I am not dealing in general-
ities but am referring to something
very speciﬁc and of most timely in-
terest to us as voters. Shadowed
and almost eclipsed by popular in-
terest in candidates for the more
important ofﬁces and by the agita—
tion concerning the income tax and
parochial school amendments, there
is another constitutional amend—
ment of the most far reaching im—
portance. It _is sponsored by a
group of Wayne county individuals
and interests and has to do with
that great unsettled question of re-
apportionment of senators and rep-
resentatives in the state Legislature.

Echo of Legislative Battles

It' will be remembered that our
present constitution requires that
this matter be attended to at the
legislative session of 1913 and every
tenth year thereafter. But during
the 1923 regular spring session and
again at the special sesion that fall,
Michigan’s lawmakers failed to ar—
rive at any reapportionment which
the majority of them would support
and which would fulﬁll all the re-
quirements of the provisions of the
constitution regarding this matter.

There is some doubt as to whether
any reapportionment legislation
could properly be ocnsidered during
the 1925 session of the Legislature
as the constitution speciﬁes that re-
apportionments shall be made at the
session of 1913 and every tenth year
thereafter.

It is well to remember in consid-
ering this problem that the constitu-
tion provides that in 1926 the ques-
tion of revising this document will
automatically be submitted to the
voters. If they authorize its revis-
ion, a constitutional convention will
be held in 1927. Because of this
situation many law—makers and oth-
er students of reapportionment ar-
gue for leaving the present districts
undisturbed for the next two years.

It is well to remember that the
constitutional convention is compos-
ed of three members from each sen—
atorial district, so to grant Detroit
additional senators automatically
increases the delegation from that
city in any future constitutional
convention. Let us make ourselves
plain: the more senators Detroit
gets, the more voice it would have
in drafting the new constitution. If
given its owu way, it would probab;
ly discard the moiety clause entirely
and virtually take over the com-
plete control of the state.

The Amendment in a Nutshell

But even that dire calamity is not
more to be dreaded than the passage
ginehlzlemelli’te n $111111 g constitutional

w c will

the ballot November 4. appear on

This proposed amendment is too
long to print in full but .its most in;
teresting provisions are that while
it substitutes the words "registered
and qualiﬁed voters" for the term
“inhabitants" which ‘ppears in our

constitution at present, it dismd.

entirely the protection of any mag.
qty clause and takes the whole mat.
tor of reapportionment out at th.
hands of our duly elected represent.
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By STANLEY M. POWELL

(Lansing Correspondent of The Business Farmer.)

 

 

W‘HEN you go to the polls on November 4th you will ﬁnd that one
of the amendments you are to vote on has to do with reappor-

tionment.

Other amendments that are to be considered at that

time have been before the public almost constantly while the amend-
ment on reapportionment has had very little publicity, yet means as
much, if not more, to the farmer than any other question to be voted

on.

If this amendment is passed at the November election it will

mean that Michigan will be ruled by highly organized minority in the

city.

Read this article and tell your neighbors about it.

 

 

composed of. the Secretary of State,
the Attorney General, and the Lieu-
tenant Governor.

No one can deny the justice and
desirability of the ﬁrst provision,
that which would require apportion-
ment to be made on a citizenship
basis rather than according to the
total number of “inhabitants" with-
out taking into consideration Wheth-
er these inhabitants were citizens or
aliens.

Such a. reform has been strongly
urged by our leading farm organiza-
tions such as the State Grange and
State Farm Bureau. It certainly is
necessary in view of the steadily in-
creasing alien population in Detroit.
There are 183,503 aliens in Wayne
county, which is more than 62 per-
cent of the total alien population of
Michigan, although Wayne county
has only about one-third of the
adult inhabitants of the state.
Twenty—ﬁve per cent of the popula—
tion of Wayne county are aliens and
do not have the right of self-govern—
ment even in their own county, so
why should they be counted in ap—
portioning our senators and repres-
entatives, in the State Legislature?

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

But lurking behind this one equit—
able and virtuous provision there is
a hidden danger of the most far
reaching signiﬁcance. The proposed
amendment fails to make any men—
tion at all of the moiety clause.

Now rural representatives and
farm people generally have come to
realize that the moiety clause is our

only safeguard against the increas-
ing encoachments of selﬁsh city in—
terests. The moiety clause in our
present condition provides that any
county having more than half of an
exact mathematical ratio of repre-
sentation should be entitled to its
own representative. The population
of Michigan according to the 1920
census was 3,668,412. There are
100 representatives in thevstate leg-
islature, so an exact ratio would be
36,684. A moiety would be one—
half of this or 18,342. ‘

While the constitution speciﬁcally
provides that any county having a
moiety of population is entitled to
independent representation, it does
not make clear whether or not this
rule should apply to a group of
smaller counties. The Attorney Gen-
eral has ruled that it does not. Un-
der this ruling, while a. small county
having a moiety would have its in-
dependent representative, slightly
smaller counties would have to be
grouped until a district with a full
ratio of population was secured be-
fore such a district would have a
representative.

Both the State Grange and the
State Farm Bureau have urged that
this moiety clause provision be ex—
tended not only to apply to individ-
ual counties but to groups of small-
er counties as well.

The Farm Bureau’s Stand
At the last regular meeting of the
Farm Bureau Board of Delegates, a
resolution was adopted declaring in
part “we further feel that it is im-

 

 

GRANGE PROGRAM AT PETOSKEY

HE 1924 sessions of the State Grange at Petoskey, October 28-31,
will be the ﬁfty—second annual meeting of this farmers organiza-

tion.

as follows:

It is planned to make this year’s meeting the best ever held
and a ﬁne program has been arranged by the ofﬁcials in charge.

It is

Tuesday, October 28th
Closed session of the Grange, with reports of State Master and

other state oﬁicers.

Evening—Open meeting for discussion of state income tax.

Mr.

Sparks, Editor of Grand Rapids Herald, will speak against the income
tax, and C. H. Bramble, Overseer of State Grange will speak for State

Grange in favor of income tax.
cussion of the question.

Following this will be a general dis-

Wednesday, October 29th
Afternoon, open program which will be the Lecture Hour pro-

gram, a big feature of the Grange.

Dr. Butterﬁeld, President of M. A. C., will be one of the feature

speakers for Wednesday.

Congressman Ketchum will give an address.

Discussion of Child Labor Amendment.

Special entertaining features of music, readings, and so forth by
Antrim, Charlevoix, and Emmet county Pomonas.

Dr. Lewis G. Michaels, U. S. Department of Agriculture, will

speak on marketing farm products.

Thursday, October 30th

Business session.
Degree work in the evening.

Friday, Gambia
Business session with installation of More at the close.

 

‘past age.

portant that the moiety clause be
preserved and applied not only to in-
dividual counties but to districts of
small counties as well”. Other
phases of this resolution provide for
making reapportionment upon the
basis of citizenship rather than the
total population basis and recom-
mend that no county should be en-
titled to more than ﬁve senators or
sixteen representatives.

As pointed out above, the amend—
ment on which we are to vote Nov-
ember 4th goes to the other extreme
and instead of extending the moiety
clause protection, it would abolish
this feature of our legislative appor-
tionment system entirely. To pass
such an amendment would be to in-
stitute a gross inovation in our sys—
tem of government.

It is one of the basic principles of
our American form of government
that areas and political units as well
as population totals should be con-
sidered in giving representation.
This principle is carried out even in
our United States government. The
State of Delaware with 223,000 peo-
ple and New York with 10,385,000
have exactly equal representation in
the United States Senate. This pro-
vision was, no doubt, adopted to
prevent the country from being
dominated by a few conjested cent-
ers of population. To prohibit such
a condition arising in the state gov-
ernment, nearly every state having
a large city has adopted some re-
striction to keep the city from rul-
ing the state.

Other States Solve Problems

In discussing this subject in THE
BUSINESS FARMER of December 22,
1923, we told how several states are
meeting this problem by limiting
the representation which any one
county can have in one or both
branches of the Legislature. If
space permitted, we would not only
include those illustrations which we
gave before, but would tell how
many of the other states are meet-
ing this problem.

Sufﬁce it to say that not only the
states which were organized early
protect themselves against the dom—
ination of large cities, but our west-
ern states, organized more recently,
have adopted similar safeguards.
For example, in Iowa, each of the
state's 99 counties elects one rep-
resentative, with one extra for the
most populous counties, but these
extra members are limited to nine
and no county however populous
may have more than one extra mem-
ber. Thus Dickinson County with
9,465 people would have one mem-
ber and Polk county with 129,121
Would have only two representa-
tives. An examination of the consti—
tutions of the other states would
bring to light other similar provis-
ions.

As the Adrian Daily Telegram
commented in an editorial published
when this matter of reapportion¥
ment was being fought out during ,
the special session of 1923: “These
safeguards, in so many states, are
not mere obsolete survivals from a
They are up to date. They
reﬂect present—day opinion. The
constitutions of these states have
been amended frequently and from
time to time have been entirely re-
written. They have changed great-
ly in the last hundred years, and em—
body many innovations and advanc-
ed political ideas. But the principle
of restricted urban representation
has been kept intact, even where

urban population outnumbers rural
overwhelmingly, as in Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, and Rhode Island."
Tail Would Wag Dog
I! the propsed amendment were
to be adopted and Wayne county
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Octo ”r, 25 ”‘1924

The Ups and Downs Of An OCean Voyage

. Your Many Troubles Begin Long Before You Get on the Boat

HAD seen New York—and I had

been seen by the New Yorkers—

and if it brought no more satis-
faction to them than it did to me
the few days I spent there were
enough. Besides, the Leviathan,
the great ship that was to take me
to Europe, had docked and I was
anxious to be off, to sail away to
England. I had left the cornbelt on
June 5, 1924 said my goodbyes, ar-
ranged my baggage and my friends’
advice, and was all piepared for the
sailing date on June 14.

Whenever one is contemplating a
trip abroad, a new car, ﬁshing gear,
or matrimony he falls automatically
at the mercy of all professional ad-
vice givers. He becomes the open
season prey of all his friends by vir-
tue of any connection however, re-
mote, between his intentions and
their experiences. And whichever
hobby it happens to be, the con—
founded principal is always so thor—
oughly interested in the evolution of
his big idea that he listens to all
With his ears, mouth and simple
soul wide open We are supposed to
learn from experience I had never
traveled in Euiope and therefore
why not learn from the experiences
of many of my friends who had? I
was told that one should take a
bathrobe and woolen heavies, and
the necessity for them was carefully
explained in all the delightful de—
tails. Very well, I would take them.

Veteran travelers advised me to
take a Winter overcoat, and, by all
means, my ﬁeld glasses must be

equipped with canary yellow lens.
Of course, I must take a raincoat,
and my own toothbrush. A steam-
er rug was not necessary, nor an
electric ﬂat iron. I should take only
hand luggage, no steamer trunk.
and I should keep the labels and
hotel stickers off if I could.

To make a long problem short, I
prepared a list of everything that
had been declared absolutely neces—
sary and found that it would fill two
trunks, and three if I wanted to
close the lids. And yet such simple,
minor articles of comfort and con—
venience as shoes and trousers and
shirts had not been mentioned.

Packing Up Your Troubles

I began again and limited the list
only to those things which at least
four persons had agreed upon as
absolute, vital necessities, and then
scratched off the last two—hundred
items. 'Then I packed three suit~
cases and took up of the frag—
ments that remained twelve bas—
ketsful.

At the last minute I discarded
one suitcase and eventually left
home with one suitcase and a light
topcoat. And that was quite sufﬁci—
ent for all my needs for the whole
summer. 'The topcoat did admir-
able duty as overcoat, raincoat, or
bathrobe, each in its own time. It
is true that I returned in the fall
with two suitcases, a big portfolio
and a steamer rug and a cane—
but that was bccause of my weak—
ness for the European shops and
European prices. One cannot walk
down Bond (Street or Picadilly or
through the Paris shops without
buying.

NOW that it is my time to give ad—
vice, I will say to take as little as
possible and get. it all in one big
suitcase if you can. Contrary to the
old advice not to put all your eggs
in one basket, I recommend with
Mark Twain to put all your eggs in
one basket and then watch that bas-
ket!

 

The Ups and Downs

Next to what to take and where
to go the next most common advice
to travelers, I suppose, is upon the
delicate matter of mal de mer, or
seasickness. As a subject for con—
versation it provides for the travel~
er the same kick, the same morbid
thrill, the same satisfaction that the
inevitable symposium 011 the amount
of blood lost does for those who
have had their tonsils removed, or
their teeth pulled. ,No one cares
about listening but, oh, what a joy
it is for the weak—stomached tour—
ists, and de-tonsiled, toothless won—
ders to dwell upon their experiences
in all the gruesome details. I do
not wish to presume. but if I were

 

By FRANCIS A. FLOOD

 

 

 

 

11E hardest thing about taking a trip to Europe is getting ready.
Francis A. Flood, in his second article of European travel, tells

us about the time he had to get ready and the wonderful supply

of advice his friends gave him—but in spite of them he went without

requiring an extra boat to carry his luggage.

And after a few days

out 011 the ocean he is prepared to give some very good advice on sea-

sickness.
hotel”.

However, all together, he enjoys his trip on the “ﬂoating

 

given the contract to work out a
scheme for the hereafter, I would
ﬁx it so that all the good people who
deserve a heavenly reward would be
allowed to spend all their spare time
telling about their seasick exper—
ien-ces, and I would have some of
the extra wicked sinners come up
from below to be the audiences.

Conversation on such a subject is
particularly disagreeable to those
who are susceptible to seasickness;
I have been sea—sick. I have my
strong points, but my stomach is not
one of them. I am all right on land
but, gastronomically, I can’t hold
my own 011 board ship.

My 'well wishers recommended a
dozen different internal medicinal
remedies, a seasick belt that was a

table.
sick.
Presently the waiter set a com-
bination salad covered with thous—
and island dressing before the sleep-
ing doctor. I gently woke him and
he looked up, that ashen, discour—
aged look on his face that is seen
only on board ship. He spied the
salad, studied it a moment in horror
and then summoned the waiter.
“Waiter," he whispered hoarsely,
“waiter, do I eat that—or, did I”?

The Mighty Ocean
“Roll 011, thou deep and dark—blue
ocean—roll!
Ten thousand ﬂeets sweep over thee
in vain. ”

He was tired, sleepy and

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Lines, for the U.

sure preventative, a course of men—
tal gymnastics to school my state of
mind and thus ward it off, and diet—
ing advice. My own advice is put.
your trust in the L01‘d,—~01‘ castor
oil will do nearly as well.

Doctor Bcreman of South Dakota
was one of the editors in our party.
His title was purely honorary, but
thoroughly fitting. lle was very
learned, and pleasantly so, and he
was a genial and tolerant but a.
solid philosopher. We conferred
the honorary doctorate upon him
early on the trip and he lived up to
it nobly.

The doctor wasn’t seasick, but
sometimes when the big ship jump—
cd out of the furrow he would feel a
little uneasy. One evening he felt
especially disturbed, but we induc-
ed him to come down to the dining
room and out anyway. He sat wait—
ing for his order with his head rest—
ing in his hands, wearily, en the

Shipping Boa-rd.

Eryon’s powerful tribute when he is

in the midst of the mighty ocean

which prompted it.

“The oak leviathans, whose huge
ribs make

Their clay creator the vain title
take

Of Lord of thee,
war,—

These are thy toys, and, as the
snowy ﬂake,

They melt into thy yeast of waves,
which mar

Alike the Armada’s pride, and spoils
of Trafalgar.”

and arbiter of

The sheer, unfathomable might
of the ocean makes one tremble to
contemplate consigning himself to
a week out upon its trackless sur—
face, for even the “oak Leviathan”
which carried me across was tossed
and rocked about as one of the
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“‘Time writes no wrinkles on thine
azure brow;

Such as creation’s dawn beheld,
thou rollest now!”

If that be true, as it is, of course,
the ocean was just as terrible and
inconquerably mighty in 1492 as it
is now. And that thought has led
me to believe that no less than the
continent of American itself could
have justly been the \reward for so
intrepid a sailor and so great an
undertaking as Christopher Colum-
bus and his exporation trips. A
magniﬁcant reward, it is true, but
certainly an unprecedented under—
taking! And when a landlubber like
myself gazes out over the trackless
ocean and can’t even feel North
from South, and all about is just the
same exactly, and he knows that
land is a thousand m’iles away in
every direction—and even straight
dowu it is a mile or more—there is
only one word to describe the feel-
ing and that is “lost”. .

But the landlubber knows that up
in the crow’s nest stands the watch,
and on the bridge is a zealous skip-
per amid the Wizardry of his instru-
ments, the highway signs of the
ocean. He knows by his delicate
compasses and those canny silver
dials more about his minute by
minute location than the average
auto tourist does 011 a transcontin—
ental highway. He knows that." he
will reach land at a certain time
and in a certain place; he knows
that whether the wind is favorable
or not he can make certain pro-
gress, and he knows through the
radio all that is happening about
him.

Columbus Took a Chance

But Columbus had none of these.
He didn’t know where he was going
nor what he would ﬁnd if he ever
got there. He had to depend upon
the weather not only for his pro—
gress but for his very safety—and
even the people in California know
that the weather is always “unus-
ual.” But he found the greatest
land in the world, America, and I
shall always say that he deserved it.

The only thing he didn’t have
against him was the immigration
law.

One of the lifeboats carried on
the Leviathan is big enough to hold
the combined crews of Columbus’
three ships—~and the big ship car—
ries 76 of these lifeboats ready to
be lowered into the water at me—
ment’s notice.

The S. S. Leviathan is the world’s
largest and most luxurious ship.
She is owned and operated by our
own government as a ﬁrst class pas—
senger liner from New York to
Southampton, England, and Cher-
bourg, France. The Leviathan, or—
iginally the “Vaterland” was built
by Germany in 1914 and made just
three trips across before the war
broke out. He was then interned in
New York and held there until she
was seized by the United States gov—
ernment in 1917. She was then
converted into an army transDOI‘t
and carried American soldiers over
to ﬁght against Germany. During
the two years she was used for this
purpose she was stripped of her
furnishings and the decks cleared so
that she carried 10,000 to 12,000
soldiers each trip instead of 3,400
passengers she was intended for.

A Floating Hotel

The great ship is 950 feet long
and is nine decks high above the
water line. Imagine a [great hotel
three blocks long and a hundred
feet Wide, nine stories high and
with a basement 40 feet deep, and
then imagine that hotel being
driven 25 or 30 miles an hour out
in the middle of the ocean with
4,500 people, or the population of a
small city, on board, and you have
the :S. S. Leviathan as it actually
exists!

There is enough carpet used on
this ship to cover a pavement thirty
feet wide. and a mile long, and
enough oriental rugs to cover that
with a strip 3 feet Wide dowu the
full length of the mile. It takes
7 tons of butter and 8 tons of sugar
on each round trip.

The lobbies before the social hall ‘

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Chinese compositor in the printing plant of the (‘hinese
Reform paper, New York City, must have a hard job as-
sembling his letters as there are 40,000! characters.

PEBBLES INSTEAD OF PRAYER
BEADS.—Bef0re wayside shrines in Japan
can be seen many stone bowls filled with
pebbles which are placed there by the wor—
shippers. Each stone means a petition of
seine sort in the form of a. prayer. he
Japanese maiden is shown putting a stone
in the bowl.

states, who won

Hoyt, Iowa;
Rowena )leBane,
Minnesota.

son, Illinois;
Douglas Curran,

Blue Valley Creamery Company.
Jerome Olson, So. Dakota;
“'illard “'hitney, Nebraska;
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press room of the New York Tribune, where
he learned how to produce

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CHADIPION CALI“ RAISIGRR—State (‘alf (Tlub (‘hampions from 1‘:

a trip to the National Dairy Show
Left to right:
“'alter Ni
Indiana;
John Ilaedt, No. Dakota;
Newman, Kentucky: Ralph
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generations have ridden in this baby buggy owned
for the paet 75 years by Ilabbe Yelde, l’ekin, lll.
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ARTIFICIAL SI'NIJGIIT FOR (‘lllL—
DlthN.—()ne of the artiﬁcial sunlight
machines which has been installed at the
New York Nurs‘ery and ()hilds Hospital,
to treat: children who are suffering front
malnutrition and forms of tuberculosis.
These “baths" have been found to be very
beneficial to the little sufferers.

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atrice Fenner, 19 year old blind girl of Los
Angeles, Calif” has been praised by Mme. Galli
Curci, famous opera singer for her ability to
write songs.

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WANT TO BUY A BOAT?-—This is a. picture of an auction
sale of rum runners bouts, captured by the prohibition forces,
being held at the army base, Boaton, Massachusetts. All
those wishing boats for “pleasure" purposes ought to be able
to get a bargain.

River Rouge plant the casting molds are
to and from the metal furnaces, pouring being

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TINIEST HOUSE IN NEIV 'YORK;
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smallest house going, as seen in this
picture. A steel frame was used for
walls to save room. '

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EXPLORER T I1 I. I. H ()F ADVANCING
GLACIERS —(‘apt. Donald ll. McMillan de—
clared many glaciers up north, thought to be
Htlllll. are slowly moving down to sea and
breaking 011' into gigantic icebergs.

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RAGE OF THE HORRIBLES.——0n the Occasion of a re-
cent “bike” race in Paris some 40 fun loving young people
decided to introduce some comedy. This shows a. part of
the parade that furnishes the fun for the bystanders.
Original costumes, aren’t they?

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ALONG HIGHWAY.
I would like to obtain: information

»- in regards to brush and weeds along
the public highway.

When weeds
and brush are allowed to grow along
the highway so that in the winter it
forms a windbrake so as to cause
the snow to drift and blocade the
road so as to make it impassable
without a lot of work by those that
travel the road, is not the road com-
missioner, when notiﬁed, obliged to
see that it is cut and removed?—
A. R. B., Ludington, Michigan.

HERE are two statutes relative
to cutting noxious weeds but
only one with reference to

brush within the limits of the public
highways. It is made the duty of
the Overseer and Commissioner of
Highways to cut or cause to be cut,
prior to the ﬁrst day of July in
townships south of Range 16 North
and prior to July 15th in townships
north of Range 16 North, all brush
and Weeds within the limits of the
highways. Neglect or refusal to
perform these duties is made a mis-
demeanor, punishable by ﬁne or im-
prisonment or both. However, there
would be no liability on the part of
the Highway Commissioner for the
cost of removing snow which accum-
ulates by reason of neglect or refus—
al to perform such duties.

Act No. 66 of the Public Acts of
1919 provides for the cutting of
noxious weeds and makes it the duty
of every owner, possessor or occupi-
er of land of every person, persons,
ﬁrm or corporation having charge
of any lands in this State to cut or
cause to be cut all noxious weeds.
The Act goes into considerable de-
tail with respect to giving notice by
the Highway Commissioners and for
charging to the person or persons,
whose duty it is to cut such noxious
weeds, the cost of such cutting in
case they are cut by the Highway
Commissioner, as provided in the
statute. Inasmuch as the adjoining
land owners own to the center of
the highway, Act No. 66 of the Pub-
lic Acts of 1919 is undoubtedly
broad enough to require such own-
ers to cut noxious weeds Within the
limits of the highway. It does not,
however, mention brush and conse-
quently, Chapter 24 of the general
highway laws is the only statute
relative to the cutting of brush with-
in the limits of the public highways.
—H. Victor Spike, Assistant Attor-
ney General.

HOLD MAN FOR DAMGES

A man ask me to put out a garden
on his farm and told me that the
ground was not weedy. After the

crops came up it got so weedy that

I could not see the stuff I planted
and yet at the same time he asked
me to help him in his harvest and I
did and let my garden go to help
him and also when I took this land
to garden it he said he would see
that the garden truck got to town
but did not do it and I lost by help—
ing him in his harvest and on ac-
count of the garden and harvest
coming at the same time. Could I
hold the man good for my loss or
notl—W. G., Gaines, Mich.

0U could hold this man for

damages for failing to do what

he agreed to do, but I doubt if
you could recover for the loss occas-
ioned by your neglect of your own
crops to help him, in absence of
some agreement or understanding
in the transaction.——Asst. Legal
Editor.

BOARD MAY PAY TUITION

My school house is one and three-
fourths miles away and the road is
grown up to willows and almost im-
passible and in winter drifts 4 feet
high and there is no work done on
the road. Can I make them pay my
tuition to another school? I am
one and one-fourth miles to another
school with good roads—A. W.,
Ithaca, Mich.

reply to the question raised I
would state that any person ﬁve
years of age and over has an

equal right to attend the public
school maintained in that district.
Where a pupil lives nearer the
schoolhouse of another district than
his own the board of his district
have authority to pay the tuition to
the district the school house of
which is nearer but they cannot be
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trict the board have met the legal
requirements as to furnishing edu-
cational advantages for their dis-
trict.

The school board have no author-
ity concerning the maintenance and
upkeep of roads. This matter is
under the authority of the township.
county, and state highway depart—
ment.——G. N. Otweil, Supt. of Rural
Education.

OWNER FURNISHES ALL AND
GETS TWO-THIRDS ,

Would like your advice on how
to let my farm, most proﬁtable to
me and where I could remain on the
place. I am a widow and own an
80-acre farm and have horses.
cows, hogs and most all tools nec-
essary for farming. What are the
rules or law about the shares to give
a man that takes it on shares. either
where I furnish the horses and tools
or where he furnishes them and
about the feed to be fed them? Who
must furnish the seed and other
such as thresh bill, labor extra if
needed? Where beets are planted
what share of the expense of labor
on same would I be obliged to pay?
Would the law compel me to pay for
labor while it is hired and also pay
man for handling my share of
beets? Where crops are let on
halves or shares is the man oblig-
ed to market all my produce such as
hay, grain and other bulk? Should
straw stay on the place after the
grain is threshed? Where I furnish
the horses has the man a right to
use them to work on road or else—
where for his own use earning
wages and keep same? What about
horse feed where I furnish them?
Is it my place to keep them shod,
and pay for shoeing? If I should
let the farm in ﬁelds to different

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parties what share can I expect or
give where he furnishes his own
team and tools? Where I fnnrish
the horses must I furnish the feed
for them or is he to furnish all the
feed?—Mrs. M. B., Merrill, Mich.

RE the owner furnishes ev-
erything that i s land, tools
and stock and the tenant the

labor the owner receives two-thirds

of the income and the tenant one-I

third for his labor. Such expenses
as feeds, and seeds purchased, fer-
tilizer, twine, thresh bill, horse
shoeing, etc. are borne in the same
proportion as income.

The tenant should stand all labor
expense including marketing the
produce under reasonable condi-
tions. Straw should always remain
on the farm to be used in the ma-
nure, thus keeping up the soil. How-
ever, the tenant has a right to his
share of the straw providing there
is any at the termination of lease.
Provisions should be made in lease
to keep straw on farm.

If the tenant furnishes everything
except land his share of income will
be two-thirds and land owners one-
third, providing other expenses as
seed, etc. are borne by tenant.

Contract labor such as rendered
by the sugar beet company should
be borne by both parties in the same
proportion as income.

Horses should be fed out of the
undivided portion of the feed rais-
ed, thus both parties sharing in the
feed.

One important thing to remember
after agreeing on terms is to have
them placed in writing drawu up by
one who can state the terms clear—
ly, thus avoiding any future mis-
understandings and difﬁculties—F.
T. Riddell, Research Asst. in Farm
Management, M. A. C.

FRUIT AND ORCHARD

RAISING EVERBEARING STRAW-
BERRIES

Could you please tell me the best
way to raise Everbearing Straw-
berries. What kind of fertilizers to
use and when to put it on them?—
L. P., Dundee, Mich.

V E R B E A R I N G strawberries
should be panted in well pre-
pared soil very early in the

spring. Keep the plants well culti-
vated and see that all blossoms are
removed from the plants until
about the ﬁrst of July. After that
time, the plants may be allowed to
bear a crop of fruit. Plants which
mature a good crop of berries in
the fall usually do not bear well the
following spring. For this reason
the best commercial growers make
new plantings each spring for the
fall crop.

Stable manure is, perhaps, the
best fertilizer to use. It should be
Well worked into the soil when it is
prepared for planting. The best
commercial fertilizers are acid phos-
phate and ammonium sulphate. A
mixture of 400 pounds of acid phos-
phate and 2-00 pounds of ammonium
sulphate may be applied when the
plants are set in the Spring. One
or more applications of ammonium
sulphate applied around the plants
during the summer months will be
found beneﬁcia1.—R. E. Loree, Asst.
Prof. of Horticulture, M. A. C.

SETTING OUT ORCHARD

Could you give me some advice as
to what variety of apple trees to set
out? I want only one kind. Would
you set out fall or winter apples?
Would you set out Grimes Golden,
Wealthy, Dutches, Gideons, Bald-
wins or Rome Beautys? Which
would hear the youngest? If you
know of a better apple than the
ones named please let me knot—P.
W. 8., Sears, Mich.

l‘ t he varieties mentioned
Grimes Golden and Wealthy are
the only ones recommended for
c-mmerclal planting in Michigan
and it is doubtful if either of these
two varieties is as satisfactory as a
number of others. Wealthy must be
harvested at a: time :in W

  

when they are in comparatively lit-
tle demand in most of the larger
markets. Grimes Golden is very
subject to certain forms of collar
rot and should not be planted unless
the trees have been double worked
-——that is, the Grimes Golden should
be grafted on to a trunk of some
strong growing variety like Gideon
or Tolman.

For your section of the State I
would prefer to select some such
varieties as McIntosh, Fameuse,
Jonathan or possibly Delicious.
These are all high quality red apples
which come into bearing rather
early and have proven themselves
to be proﬁtable Michigan varieties.
——-Roy E. Marshall, Assoc. Prof. of
Horticulture, M. A. C.

GUM OF PEACH TREE
oozms OUT

What is the cause of the gum of a
peach tree oozing out through the
bark? Is it an indication that the
tree is not healthy? What can be
done to prevent itl—R. J. C., To—
ledo, Ohio.

HE oozing out of gum from
peach trees may indicate a dis-
eased condition or it may not

as the case may be. Oftentimes
where these is a little cracking in
the bark or where two limbs are
crowding, a little gum oozes out
where the limb is bruised, and
hardens. However, the gum which
oozes out of such a spot is usually a
small amount. When considerable
quantities of gum ooze out from the
bark of peach trees it generally in-
dicates the presence of borers or
perhaps some other insect or even
perhaps some fungus disease. The
method of procedure is usually to
cut out the infested or the infected
tissue and thus get rid of the source
of infestation or infection. If there
in gun nosing out from many places
onthosmailertwlgitisiihelyto

indicate the presence or some insect
or disease that may be controlled by
spraying and under such conditions
the matters should be brought to
the attention of the Experiment Sta-
tion Entomologist or Plant Patholo-
gist—V. R. Gardner, Professor of
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tract, payments due in .
After three or four years Mr. 3
fails to pay taxes after which he
rents part of the farm in October
to C for pasture for the next year.
Then in December he fails to make
his payments and Mr. A forecloses
and in three months has the farm
back. CanChoidhispsrtrented
for the next mash—L. B., Elberta,

 

— Mich.

GOULD not hold the portion of

the farm he rented from B, as

against A. The lessee‘s interest
in the land would terminate upon
the termination of the lessor, or
landlord’s estate in the property,
and after foreclosure of the land
contract, A would have exclusive
right of possession of the farm.—
Asst. Legal Editor.

BOARD CAN VOTE BUDGET

Has a school board a legal right
to vote the budget for the next year
and not present it to the taxpayers
at an annual meeting? Has the
board a legal right to hire a janitor
out of the district, when a man in
the district offered to do the work
and at $10.00 less per month? Has
the board a right to buy or rent a
hall for a gym, without a vote of
the taxpayers? Who has the right

to reduce grades in a 12 grade"

school? If the taxpayers has not the
right, who has, and how would they
proceed to get it done3—S. F. B.,

Coral, Michigan.

CHOOL boards and not electors
vote all taxes for the mainten-
ance of the school. A school

board has the legal right to vote
the budget at a school board meet-

ing and is not required to present.

it to the taxpayers at the annual
meeting.

The board has a legal right to hire
a janitor outside the district regard-
less of whether they pay him more
than that for which another has of-
fered to do the work. .

The taxpayers must vote the
money to buy or rent a hall for
school purposes.

It is the duty of the board of edu-
cation in any graded school district
to establish a high school when
directed by a vote of the district at
an annual or special meeting.

There is no provision in the law
for reducing the grades of a 12 grade
high school.——C. L. Goodrich, Asst.
Supt. of Public Instruction.

INDORSER NOT NOTIFIED OF
NON-PAYMENT

I have been a reader of your
paper since the time of the pink
sheet. I enjoy reading it from cov-
er to cover. I am seeking advice
through the service department. A
borrowed money at a bank asking B
to sign with him. A has not paid
the note. The note is two months
past due. The bank has not notifi-
ed B. Will B have to pay the note?
Can B waive payment on the note?
Will it have t6" be waived through
another person? Thanking you in
advance I remain, Yours very truly,
——C. F. B., Charlotte, Mich.

F B signed as an endorser, he
would not be liable on the note
unless notiﬁed of A’s non-pay-

ment, provided notice was not waiv—
ed by a statement to that effect on
the note itself.—-Asst. Legal Editor.

HOW WILL PROPERTY BE
DIVIDED
Will you please answer the fol-
lowing questions as I have heard
different reports about it and come
to you for correct answer through
your helpful Service Bureau. What
is the law of inheritance of second
wife when there were no children
of the second marriage but children
of a prior marriage?—An Interested
Subscriber, Kalkaska, Mich.
ON the death of the husband,
one third of his property would
descend to his wife and the
other two thirds to his children,
whether by his present wife or a
former wife—Asst. Legal Editor.

WIFE WOULD an on mum

lfamandiesandhhproperty is
all in land. cattle and horses. having
children how much can his wife hold
at his death? Does she inst have
the use of part of it?—-—Mrs.,W. R..
Almost. Michigan.
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URING the last year of the second Wilson adminis—
tration, even after the reaction from high war
prices, the farm crops of the United States were

worth $10,197,092,000.

During the ﬁrst year of the Harding-Coolidge adminis-
tration their value shrunk to $6,410,229,000.

During the last year of the last Democratic adminis-
tration, livestock and livestock products had a value of
$7,419,000,000.

”i During the ﬁrst year of the Harding-Coolidge admin—
.. istration, their value fell to $5,468,000,000.

During the last year of the last Democratic adminis—
tration, the average acre of farm crops was worth
$35.74. ‘

During the ﬁrst year of the Harding-Coolidge adminis—
tration, the average value of an acre of farm crops was
$14.45.

Although proportionate production has been main—
tained, the increase in the value of crops and of live-

1 How theFarmer Has Gone Broke
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stock and livestock products during the later years of
the Harding-Coolidge administration has been so small
as to be triﬂing. ' '

Every piece Ofelegis‘lation enacted during the Hard-
ing-Coolidge administration intended for the aid or re-
lief of the farmer, has been passed through the cooper-
ation of Democrats and independent western Repub—
licans, and over the opposition of Republican leaders,
particularlyﬁSpeaker Gillett and Senator Lodge, of Mass—
achusetts, epublican Floor Leader Longworth, of the
House, and Representative Winslow, of Massachusetts,
Chairman of the House Committee on Interstate and
Foreign Commerce.

On every piece of legislation of interest to agriculture,
the proportion of favorable votes by Democrats has been
greater than that of Republicans, and that of opposing
votes has been smaller than among Republicans, and this

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CHAMPLAIN
STUDIOS Ill/q,

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JOHN W. DAVIS

 

 

 

 

600,000 Farmers
In Fifteen States
Ruined Since 1921

Under.the Harding-Coolidge adminis—
tration’s ruinous policy of deﬂation, of a
prohibitive tariff and commercial isola—
tion, shutting off export markets for the
surplus products of American farms,
more than 25 per cent, one in four, of the
farmers in the States West of the Missis—
sippi River have been pauperized, either
by bankruptcy proceedings, by voluntarily
surrendering their farms and homes to
their creditors, or by becoming economic
serfs to those creditors.

In ﬁfteen States, 600,000 farmers have
been economically ruined since 1921! The
ﬁgures are from the Department of Agri-
culture’s ofﬁcial reports, under the pres—
ent Republican Secretary. They apply
only to January 1, 1924; if bankruptcies
during 1924 were added, the total would
be even more appalling, for during the
ﬁrst six months of 1924 there were 342
bank failures in States west of the Missis-
sippi River, and they reﬂect the plight of
the farmer in the agricultural and stock—
raising States of that section.

During the last three years of the

, second Wilson administratioii, 1918 to

_ 1920, inclusive, there wereonly 189 bank
failures in the entire country,

 

What the
Democrats Offer
the Farmer

The democratic party has
a deﬁnite program by means
of which we hope to restore
to the farmer the economic
equality of which he has
been unjustly deprived. We
undertake:

To adopt an international policy
of such ('.()-O])(‘l’ilii()ll, by direct
otlicial instead of indirect and
evasive unofﬁcial means, as will
re-establish the farmer’s export
market. by restoring); the industri-
al balance in Europe and the
normal ﬂow of international
trade with the settlement of
Europe’s economic problems.

To adjust the tariff so that the
farmer and all other classes can
buy awiin in a competitive
market.

To reduce taxation, both direct
and indirect, and by strict
economy to lighten the bun-dens
of Government.

To readjust. and lower rail and
water rates, which will make our
markets, both for the buyer and
the seller, national and interna-
tional instead of regional and
local.
To bring about the c'arly com-
pletion of internal waterway sys-
te'ms for transportation, and to
develop our water powers for
cheaper fertilizer and use on our
farms.
To stimulate by every proper
governmental activity the pro-
gress of the co-operative market;
movement and the establislnnent
of an export marketing eorpora~
tion or commission in order that
the exportable surplus may not
establish the price of the whole
crop.
To secure for the farmer credits
suitable for his needs. This is
our platform and our program;
and if elected, I purpose with
the aid of a. democratic Congress,
to put it into effect.”—

Frorti the speech of John \V.

Davis at 'Omaha, Neb., Sep-

tember 6, 1924.

 

 

has been true of both House and Senate!

     
 

CSMITH>
GARDNEM

FOR VICE-PRESIDENT
CHARLES W. BRYAN

 

 

 

Heavy Decline In
Buying Power Of
Farmer’s Dollar

Figures prepared by the Joint Com—
mission (Congressionall of Agricultural
Inquiry and by Henry (7. \Vallace, :Secre—
tary of Agriculture in the Harding-Cool—
idge administration, picture the serious
plight of the farmer.

The purchasing power of the. farmer’s
dollar represents what he gets for the
products of the farm he sells and what he
pays for food and other necessaries of life
which he must buy.

From 1913 to 1919, under a Deniocratic
administration and Democratic tariff, the
farmers’ dollar was worth: In 1913, 100
cents; in 1914, 105 cents; in 1915, 103
cents; in 1916, 97 cents; in 1917, 107 cents;
in 1918, 112 cents; in 1919, 112 cents.
These are the ﬁgures of the Agriculture
Commission,whose study went only to 1920.

Secretary Wallace brought t h e m
through 1922. In 1921, the ﬁrst year of
the Harding—Coolidge administration, the
farmer’s dollar was worth only 84 cents,
and in 1922, only 89 cents.

In 1923, because of the increased prices
for clothing, fuel, farm implements and
other things the farmer must buy, meas—
ured in other than food and farm prod~
ucts, the- purchasing power was only 59.5
cents! .

 

 

COMMON HONESTY—

 

 

VOTE FOR DAVIS AND BRYAN

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permit the U. S. Government to
pass laws so that children under 18
cannot be employed in any gainful
occupation. Before we vote on this
question, let us stop and think what
such laws as that would be like.
Most of the states have passed laws
regulating child labor within their
bounds, and others are likely to pass
them, so why should the general
government interfere with matters
that belong to them, and thus make
a let of confusion and extra cost.

Again many children under 18 are
working because if they did not
they would suffer for want of food
and clothes, and what will become
of them if t‘iey are deprived of a
chance to make an honest living. It
is easy to say “let their parents do
it, the children ought to be school
until they are 18”. But, many have
no parents living or their only ones
are poor widOWS with some small
children that would become a public
charge and others have old sick or
crippled parents or grandparents,
hardly able to live at all. Is it best
to destroy their self respect by mak—
ing them a public charge so they
need not work for pay?

Even if their parents can clothe
and school them while they get their
needed exercise through various
kinds of sport,.what will they be af-
ter being coddled until they are 18
years old. A glance over the his—
tories of those who have been great
and useful, and it will be found that
they are folks that were accustomed
to doing things for themselves in—
stead of expecting “Dad”.

One trouble that is worrying the
statesmen is the fast decreasing
birth rate caused largely by the
heavy burden of caring for children
according to present day ideals.
Should the proposed laws be passed
they will add to the burdens of par—
ents and cause a still lower birth
rate. If we farmers want to know
how drastic laws will be drawn, we
can remember that an amendment
was offered to exempt farmers and
others that employ their children at
home. But it was voted down, so if
we do not want the oﬂicers after us
every time we have our children
work for us we had better vote down
the proposed U. S. constitutional
amendment—Francis G. Smith, Isa-
belle County, Mich.

SHIEEP RAISER HASN’T TAKEN
HARDEST BUMPS
O the EdltOI‘I—THE BUSINESS
FARMER has always been a wel-
come visitor in our home. Its
faithful, and instructive service di—
rectly in the interest of the farm
world, has earned the active support
of every farmer in the state.

As you are aware, my present vo-

cation is selling personally owned
wild land to real honest—to—goodness
settlers, who in many cases are un—
able to ﬁnance the purchase of im-
proved farms. I must now, in refer-
ing to my vocation, speak in the
past tense, as the lure of the city,
and the many improved farms, from
coast to coast, for sale on any terms
obtainable, has practically checked
i’ the sale for wild land, in our county
for the present.

It does seem as if “vocation” as
applied to my calling, is destined to
be one long veary vacation, with
nothing to do but borrow tax money,
renew obligations, and try to extract
some comfort out of a ﬁve cent cig-
ar until the “back to the land” rush
sets in.

While my dome calls for a
shrunken hat band, and old age has
jellied my muscles, thank heaven,
my system is still charged with con—
ﬁdence, the one indispensible asset
of a certiﬁed land dealer, and when
'I come to think it over, this is also
‘ the right bower of many successful
politicians—ﬂanked by an able sec—
retary. But, this is neither here nor
there. The burning question just
now with your Uncle Dudley is, how
am I to connect continuously with
:good ten cent cigars during this per-
:lod of normalcy. -

Am not only concerned about the
quality of my smoke, but, speaking
as a Jackson Democrat, to a bunch
of Texas Republicans, it certainly is
a long time between eats. However,
Michigan is not so .bad a place to
'live in after all. When republicans
. and democrats can so readily agree,
i‘ who knows how soon the tempering

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climate surrounding the state cap-
itol will become real habitable for
the rebels? Baker‘says, Groesbeck
has cruciﬁed the tax payers, and
wants to commit the crime a-third
time. Groesbeck says, Baker could
do no better, and Frensdorf says
they are telling the truth. Varying
the subject somewhat—cool weather
has retarded our corn and beans,
otherwise everything is lovely on
the farm. Winter wheat and oats is
turning out 30 to 60 bushels per
acre. Alfalfa and sweet clover ex—
cellent. Wool around 40 cents per
pound. Lambs $7 to $9 per head,
with potatoes the usual gamble as
to price.

The farmer in Northern Michigan,
depending upon wool and mutton,
can pat himself on the back, while
the sheepless farmer is kicking him-
self for lack of foresight, and pre—
judice against the most proﬁtable
animal on Michigan farms.

The writer, from the very ﬁrst
visit in Michigan, recognized in
Northeastern Michigan, the real
shepherd’s home, or rather, the
shepherd’s real home, with just a
little bitter mixed with the sweets.
If only sheep could be accustomed to
a winter diet of snow balls. For
believe me, no real shepherd, up—
holding the traditions of the past.
is a personal friend of hard labor.
On no other ground can one account
for the popularity of the shepherd
craft with the old dogs in Biblical
times.

When the writer arrived here 23
years ago, for a short visit, sweet
clover, a legume destined in a few
years to render an annual value to
the farm world, in feed and fertiliz—
er, equal in amount to the annual
production of gold in the entire
world, was everywhere regarded as
a worthless weed, and alfalfa was
practically an unknown factor in
northern Michigan, but an abund-
ance of June clover hay, in stacks
and in mow, greeting my eye on all
sides, and begging for buyers
around $6 per ton instantly un-
wound my thinker. My dream to
become a real shepherd developed
full feathers over night. Why, I
had the world by the seat of the
pants, so to speak. At last, I had
found a condition most ideal for the
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seek's, but few ﬁnd.

All I had to do was simply buy
winter feed from my neigthrs, give
the sheep the run of the big open—
ings from early spring to late fall,
then welcome the drover with wide
open arms, and in order not to ap-
pear an idler in my wife’s eyes,
during the long summer days, I
could put in non-union hours, whip-
ping trout streams, or seeking out
new bass lakes. There was not a
single kink or curve in the road to
affluence, I had visualized. I Could
see this road clearly from end to

Work, and which every sun of a gun

. end. But just as soon as I landed

my sheep on the ranch land, from
the Chicago“ stockyards, I’ll be hang-
ed, if the contrary farmers it seem—
ed all at once decided to feed up
their hay stacks, and in the end I
was forced to clear land for winter

'feed. Just when I thought I had

wiggled out of hard work, I discov-
ered, to my disappointment I had
fallen into it up to my neck.

During my ten years adventure
with a band of sheep, with by side
pardner faithfully juggling pots and
pans, I never realized over $3.75 per
head for my lambs, running from 75
to 100 lbs., and marketed late in
October or early November. Free-
dom from ﬂy pests in October and
November assured me lambs that
Were toppers. For the wool I nev-
er,received over 25‘ cents per pound,
and had to haggle like the old Har-
ry to get this—and I thought I was
doing immense as I considered the
wool returns amply compensated for
the winter feed.

Now, when I behold our farmers,
at this writing, holding their lambs
at $10 per head, with an abundance
of dependable sweet clover and al—
falfa available for the growing, with
which to supplement June clover,
etc., in the economical production of
wool and mutton, which I had not
the beneﬁt of in my romantic exper—
ience as a gentleman shepherd, and
lamb crops seldom falling below 100
per cent, except when poorly man-
aged, I am forced to seriously doubt
if agriculture in northern Michigan,
where the golden hoofed sheep was
prominently represented, has taken
the bumps in the last three years
that has fallen to the lot of .many, in
other lines of endeavor.—John G.
Krauth, Presque Isle County.

RADIO DEPARTMEN

THE SUDION, OR “GOLDEN RULE
TUBE"

OR a little over a year there has
been on the market a new vac-
uum tube to be used for a de-

tector in radio receiving sets, called
the Sodion tube, type 8-13, which we
have been testing out and have
found to have exceptional merits in
many ways.

It gives clear, undistorted tones,
and equals a crystal in clearness
with the advantage that it is many
times more sensative to weak radio
signals than a crystal, in fact it is
practically equal to the ordinary
tube used in a regenerative circuit,
such as a single circuit receiver, us-
ing one tube. It does not whistle
or howl as do other tubes in a regen-

EDITED BY J. HERBERT FERRIS, R. E.

erative circuit and when the proper
adjustments are made between the

coils in a set it does much to e1imin-.

ate static troubles.

The present type of Sodion tube
cannot be substituted for the ordin-
ary tube in the present type of cir—
cuits, but—with a few changes
which are simple to make your
single circuit tuner can be changed
to use this new tube and you will be
delighted with the wonderful tone
and quality of music and voice that
you will hear.

A one or two step ampliﬁer can be
added to a set using the Sodion tube,
but the ampliﬁed will have to use
the ordinary type of tubes.

Where the loud speaker is used,
the continual howling that is ex—

 

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"dimers; for there 'is none. . The"
only sound that you hear is a veryh .’
slight hiss as you tune ‘in to the“
broadcasting station, if they are on-

the air, but not sending out any:

thing at the time: if they use actual-3.

1y broadcasting all you hear is the
music or-voice.

No grid leak or grid condenser is i

used with this tube, a special socket
is needed or an adapter to ﬁt your
present socket. A rheostat of about
15 ohms is needed when using this
tube with a storage battery. A po-
tentiometer is also used, all of these
can be purchased from the dealer
who handles thistube. The cost is
small for the parts and the change
from a regenerative set to a Sodion
circuit is not expensive and easy to
make.

One of the reasons that we recom-
mend the Sodion tube is that it does
away entirely with the interference
to your neighbors caused by your
use of a regenerative circuit.

Maybe you have noticed the faint
little whistles you hear when you
are listening to, a broadcast, some
call these sounds “birdies" as they
sound like the twittering of a bird,
this is caused by regenerative sets
near you radiating their energy out
into the air and where there is a re-
generative set near you all your
broadcasts are spoiled and in turn
every time you tune-in and use re—
generation you are Spoiling the re-
ceiving for a neighbor even if he is
several miles away. The ordinary
single circuit tuner is the worst of-
fender along this line, tho it brings
in the broadcasts very loud.

We are giving a diagram of a
hook—up here for the Sodion tube,
the coils for which you can easily
wind (but do not shellac them) the
parts you can buy. In a near future
issue we will publish a photo of a
single circuit tuner that has been
changed over into a Sodion tube set.
telling the exact changes necessary
to change over your set. But by
following this diagram you can see
that you can use most of your pres-
ent parts. If your present set uses
6 ohm rheostat just add another 6
or 10 ohm rheostat in series with
it for the required resistance of 16
ohms. The coils can be wound on
ordinary cardboard tubes 3 inches in
diameter, but for best results they
must be spaced about 4 to 5 inches
apart. The farther apart you place
these coils the sharper your tuning
will be and the more selectiveness
you will have.

After once setting the distance of
your coils the sharper your tuning
will be and the more selectiveness
you will have.

After once setting the distance of
your coils no changes will have to
be made, and only when you ﬁrst
light up the tube will you have to
adjust the potentiometer. The only
tuning you will have to do will be
with the condenser, and a vernier
condenser is recommended for this.

In the tests that we have made
with this tube we have heard all of
the stations we used to hear with a
regenerative circuit and with a great
deal more pleasure.

As the negative side of the Po-
tentiometer is the only part used the
makers of the tube recommend a 40
ohm potentiometer with a 100 ohm
resistance connected to the positive
side as shown in the diagram.

If your dealer does not and can-
not supply you with this tube and
necessary parts send us a self ad-
dressed post card and we will tell
you where you can buy them.

MUTUPIPLYING SOUNDS BY
RADIO

IGNOR MARCONI, speaking the
other day in Rome, promised
that before long speech will be
heard by radio from a given station
all over the world at once, a promise
that may thrill the 3,000,000
American homes already equipped
with radio apparatus, and add im-
petus to the onward rush 'of an in-
dustry that is reported to. have
grown from sales amounting to};
trivial $2,000,000 in 1929, 50 $120,—
000,000 in 1923, and by estimate to
$350,000,000 in 1924. Assuming
24,000,000 as the, approximate num—
~ber of homesinthe United States, a
statistician twriting - in Radio News
says that nearly 13,000,000 of
them have automobiles, 0,000,009

have phonographs, and 3,000,099. 1

 
  

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THREE per cent of Michigan’s population of ten years and over cannot read or write. The

nation’s average is twice as high—six per cent.

Thirty states have more illiterates than Michigan.
There are 2,203 negro and 14,172 native white illiterates in Michigan

These are United States Census Bureau figures. They disprove the claims of propagandists
that there are more than one-half million people 1n Michigan who cannot read or write.

Michigan people are broadminded, tolerant and educated. They are products of schools that

are second to none in America.

Public, Private and Church Schools have worked together 1n a program of state- wide education.

Each deserves credit for the part it has played.

If Michigan were to adopt the School Amend-
ment, private and church schools would have to
be closed in less than nine months! Nearly 125,000
pupils would be thrown into an already overcrowded
public school system. Chaos would prevail. Work
would be disorganized. System would be destroyed.
Taxes would go up.

. Many children would be put on a part time basis.

Michigan’s splendid record for literacy would be
threatened.

Preserve our high standard of education by vot-

ing “NO!”

You Can Trust the Parents!

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HE parents of America may be trusted to choose
the right school for their children, whether it
be a public, private or church school.

Michigan has a high standard of Education, and
ALL schools are faithfully striving to meet it.

Unless the School Amendment is defeated, pri-
vate and church schools will be abolished.

This would mean, in effect, that our great Amer-
ican Democracy no longer trusts the parents to guide
the education of their own children.

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. .. CHAPTER I.

The Man Who the Storm Haunted

EAR the northern end of Lake

Michigan, where the bluff-bowed

ore-carriers and the big, low-lying,
Wheat-laden steel freighters from Lake
Superior push out of the Straits of Mack—
inac and dispute the right of way, in the
islands divided channel, with the white—
and-gold, electric lighted, wireless equip-
ped passenger steamers bound for Detroit
and Buffalo, there is a copse of pine and
hemlock back from the shingly beach.
From this copse——dark, blue, primeval,
silent at most times as when the Great
Manitou ruled his inland waters—there
comes at time of storm a sound like the
booming of an old Indian drum. This
drum beat, so the tradition says, when—
ever the lake took a life; and, as a sign
perhaps that it is still the Manitou who
rules the waters in spite of all the com-
merce of the cities, the drum still beats
its roll for every ship lost on the lake,
one heat for every life.

So-—<men say—they heard and counted
the beating of the drum to thirty-five
upon the hour when, as afterwards they
learned, the great steel steamer VVenota
sank with twenty-four of its crew and
eleven passengers; so—Jmen say—they
heard the requiem of the ﬁve who went
down with the schooner Grant; and of
the seventeen lost with the Susan Hart;
and so of a score of ships more. Once
only, it is told, has the drum counted
wrong.

At the height of the great storm of
December, 1895, the drum beat the roll
of a sinking ship. One, two three—the
hearers counted the drum beats, time and
time' again, in their intermittent booming,
to twenty—four. They waited, therefore,
for a report of a ship lost with twenty-
four lives; no such news came. The new
steel freighter Miwaka, on her maiden
t.p during the storm with twenty-ﬁve——
not twenty-four aboard never made her
port; no news was ever heard from her;
no wreckage ever was found. On this
account, throughout the families whose
fathers, brothers, and sons were the of—
ﬁcers and crew of the Miwaka, there
stirred for a. time a desperate belief that
one of the men on the Miwaka was saved;
that somewhere, somehow, he was alive
and might return. The day of the de—
struction of the Miwaka was fixed as
December ﬁfth by the time at which she
passed the government lookout at the
Straits; the hour was ﬁxed as ﬁve o’clock
in the morning only by the sounding of
the drum. '

The region, ﬁlled with Indian legend
and with memories of wrecks, encourages
such beliefs as this. To northward and
to westward a half dozen warning lights

 

—Ile-aux—Galets (“Skilligaloe" the lake
men call it), \Vaugaushance, Beaver

and Fox Islands—gleam spectrally where
the bone-white shingle outcrops above
the water, or blur ghostlike in the haze;
on the dark knolls topping the glistening
sand bluffs to northward, Chippewas and
Ottawas, a century and a half ago, quar—
reled over the prisoners after the mas-
sacre at Fort Mackinac; to southward,
where other hills frown down upon Little
Traverse Bay, the black—robed priests in
their chapel chant the same masses their
predecessors chanted to the Indians of
that time. So, whatever may be the or-
igin of that dru'm, its meaning is not
questioned by the forlorn descendants of
those Indians, who now make beadwork
and sweet—grass baskets for their summer
trade, or by the more crudulous of the
white ﬁshermen and farmers; men whose
word on any subject would receive un-
questioning credence will tell you they
have heard the drum.

But at bottom, of course. this is only
the absurdest of superstitions, which can
affect in no way lllt‘ll who to-day ship
ore in steel bottoms to the mills of Gary
and carry gasoline-rugine reaped and
threshed wheat to the elevators of Chi—
cago. It is recorded, therefore, only as
superstition which for twenty—years has
been connected with the loss of a great
ship.

Storm—the stinging, frozen sleet-slash
of the February norther whistling down
the ﬂee—jammed length of the lake—was
assaulting Chicago. Over the lake it was
a white, whirling maelsiri-nn, obscuring at
midafternoon even the lighthouses at the
hanbor entrance; beyond that, the winter
boats trying for the harbor mouth wore
bellowing blindly at bay before the jam—
med ice, and foghorns and sirens echoed
loudly in the city in the hills of the
storm.

Battering against the fronts of ‘the row
of club buildings, fashionable hotels, and
shops which face across the narrow strip
of park to the lake front. in downtown
Chicago, the gale swirled and wldiod the
sleet till all the. wide windows. warm with—
in, were frosted. So lu-avy was this
frost on the panes of the Fort Dearborn
Club—one of the Stititit‘h‘i of the down—
town clubs for anon—that the great log
ﬁres blazing on the open ln-arths added
appreciable light as well as warmth to
the rooms.

The few memlbers present at this hour
of the afternoon showud by their lazy
attitudes and the desultoriness of their
conversation the dulling of vitality which
warmth and shelter bring on a day of
cold and storm. On one. however, the
storm had had a contrary effect. With
swift, uneven steps he paced now one
room, now another; from time to time
he stopped albruptly by a window, scraped
from it with finger nail the frost, stared
out for an instant through the little open-

 

ing he had made, then resumed as ab-
ruptly his nervous pacing with a manner
so uneasy and distraught that, since his
arrival at the club an hour before, none
even among those who knew him best
ventured to speak to him.

There are, in every great city, a few
individuals who from their fullness of
experience in an epoch of the city’s life
come to elptomize that epoch in the general
mind; when one thinks of a city or of a
,section of the country in more personal
terms than in square miles, its towering
buildings, and its censused millions, one
must think of those individuals. Almost
every great industry owns one and sel-
dom more than one; that often enough
is not, in a money sense, the predominant
ﬁgure of his industry; others of his rivals
or even of his partners may be acthally
more powerful than he; but he is the
personality; he represents to the out-
siders the romance and mystery of the
secrets and early, naked adventures of the
great achievement. Thus, to think Of
the great mercantile establishments of

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0 Indian 3 Drum

By William MacHarg and Edwin Balrncr

Copyright by Edwin Balmer

house which had been unchanged—and in
which nothing appeared to have been
worn out or have needed replacing—since
his wife left him, suddenly and unac-
countably, about twenty years before.
At the time he had looked much the same
as now; since then, the white slash upon
his temple had grown a bit broader per-
haps; his nose had become a triﬂe aquil-
ine, his chin more sensitive, his well
formed hands a little more slender.
People said he looked more French, re-
ferring to his father who was known to
have been a skin-hunter north of Lake
Superior in the ’505 but who later mar-
ried an English girl at Mackinac and
Settled down to become a trader in the
woods of the North Peninsula, where
Benjamin Corvet was born.

During his boyhood, men came to the
peninsula to cut timber; young Corvet
worked with him and began building
ships. Thirty-ﬁve years ago, he had been
only one of the hundreds with his fortune
in the fate of a single bottom; but to—
day in Cleveland, in Duluth, in Chicago,

/.

HIS mystery story is based on a legend that near the northern
end of Lake Michigan a. sound like the booming of an Indian

drum is heard whenever the lake takes a life.

\Vhen the new

steel freighter “Miwaka,” with twenty-ﬁve souls on board went down

the drmn beat only twenty-four.

Years after there came to Chicago

Alan Conrad, who had grown up to manhood in ignorance of his birth

and parentage.

He was told that he was the son of Benjamin Corvet,

but Corvet had mysteriously disappeared, following a. ‘quarrel with his

junior partner, just before young Conrad’s arrival.

This is the pre-

lude to a series of surprising incidents which make absolutely fascin-

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State Street is to think immediately of
one man; another very vivid and pictur-
esque personality stands for the stock—
yards; another rises from the wheat pit;
one more from the banks; one from the
steel works. The man who was pacing
restlessly and alone the rooms of the
Fort Dearborn Club on this stormy after—
noon was the man who, to most people,
bodied forth the life underlying all other
commerce thereabouts but the least
known, the life of the lakes.

The lakes, which mark unmistakably
those who get their living from them,
had put their marks on him. Though he
was slight in frame with a spare, almost
ascetic leanness, he had the wiry strength
and endurance of the man whose youth
had been passed upon the water. He was
very close to sixty now, but his thick,
straight hair was still jet black except for
a slash of pure white above one temple;
his brows were black above his deep blue
eyes. Unforgettable eyes, they were;
they gazed at one directly with surpris—
ing, disconcerting intrusion into one’s
thoughts; then, before amazement altered
to resentment, one realized that, though
he was still gazing, his eyes were. vacant
with speculation a strange, lonely with-
drawal into himself. His acquaintances,
in explaining him to strangers, said he
had lived too much by himself of late;
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more than a score of great steamers under
the names of various independent com—
panies were owned or controlled by him
and his two partners, Sherrill and young
Spearman. .-

He was a quiet, gentle—minded man.
At times, however he suffered from ﬁts
of intense irritability, and these of late
had increased in frequency and violence.
It had been noticed that these outbursts
occurred generally at times of storm upon
the lake. but the mere threat of ﬁnancial
loss through the destruction of one or
even more of his ships was not now
enough to cause them; it was believed
that they were the result of some ob—
scure physical reaction to the storm, and
that this had grown upon him as he
grew older.

To-day his irritalbility was so marked,
his uneasiness so much greater than any
one had seen it before, that the. attendant
whom Corvet had sent, a half hour earlier,
to reserve his usual table for him in the
grill—“The table by the second window”
had started away without daring to
ask whether the table was to be set for
one or more. Corvet himself had cor-
rected the omission: “For two,” he had
shot after the man. Now, a shis uneven
footsteps carried him to the door of the
grill, and he went in, the steward, who
had started forward at sight of him.
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to his table stood nervously uncertain,

ve his custom“-
imself as much

not knowing whether to
ary greeting or to efface
as possible. .

The tables, at this hour. were all un-
occupied. Corvet crossed to the one he
had reserved and sat down; he turned
immediately to the window at his side
and scraped on it a little clear opening
through which he could see the storm
outside. Ten minutes later he looked up
sharply but did not rise, as the man had
been waiting—Spearman, the younger of
his two partners——came in.

Spearman’s ﬁrst words, audible through
the big room, made plain that he was
late to an appointment asked 'by Corvet:
his acknowledgment of this took the
form of an apology, but one which, in
tone different from Spear-man’s usual
bluff, hearty manner, seemed almost con-
temptuous. He seated himself, his big,
powerful hands clasped on the table, his
gray eyes studying Corvet closely. As
Corvet, without acknowledging the apol-
ogy, took the pad and began to Write
an order for both, Spearman interferred;
he had already lunched; he would take
only a cigar. The waiter took the order
and went away.

When he returned, the two men were
obviously in bitter quarrel. Corvet’s tone,
low pitched but violent, sounded steadily
in the room, though his words were in-
audible. The waiter, as he set the food
upon the table, felt relief that Corvet’s
outburst had fallen on other shoulders
than his.

It had fallen, in fact, upon the shoulders
best able to bear it. Spearman—still
called, though he was slightly over forty
new, “young" Spearman—was the power
in the great ship-owning company of
Corvet, Sherrill, and Spearman. Corvet
had withdrawn, during recent years, al—
most entirely from active life; some said
the sorrow and mortiﬁcation of his wife’s
leaving him made him choose more and
more the seclusion of his library in the
big lonely house on the North Shore, and
had given Spearman the chance to rise;
but those most intimately acquainted with
the affairs of the great ship-owning ﬁrm
maintained that Spearman's rise had not
been granted him but had been forced by
Spearman himself. In any case, Spear-
man was not the one to accept Corvet’s
irritation meekly.

For nearly an hour, the quarrel con-
tinued with intermittent truces of silence.
The waiter, listening, as waiters always
do, caught at times single sentences.

“You have had that idea for some
time?” he heard from Corvet.

“We have had a nunderstanding for
more than a month."

“How deﬁnite?”

Spearman’s answer was not audible,
but it more intensely agitated Corvet;
his lips set; a hand which held his fork
clasped and unclasped nervously; he
dropped his fork and, after that, made no
pretense of eating.

The waiter, following this, caught only
single words. “Sherrill”-——that, of course,
was the other partner.

“ C o n s t a n c 0 ”—that was Sherrill’s
daughter. The other names he heard
were names of ships. But, as the quarrel
went on, the manners of the two men
changed; Spearman, who at ﬁrst had been
assailed by Corvet, now was assailing
him. Corvet sat back in his seat, while
Spearman pulled at his cigar and now
and then took it from his lips and gest—
ured with it between his ﬁngers, as he
jerked some ejaculation across the table.

Corvet leaned over to the frosted win-
dow, as he had done when alone, and
looked out. Spearman shot a comment
which made Corvet wince and draw back
from the window; then Spearman rose.
He delayed, standing, to light another
cigar deliberately and with stud-
ied slowness. Corvet looked up
once and asked a question, to which
Spearman replied with a snap of the
burnt match down on the table; he turned
abruptly and strode from the room. Cor-
vet sat motionless.

The revulsion to self—control, sometimes
even to apology, which ordinarily fol—
lowed Corvet’s bursts of irritation had
not come to him; his agitation plainly
had increased. He pushed from him his
uneatcn luncheon and got up slowly. He
went out to the coat room, Where the
attendant handed him his coat and hat.
He hung the coat upon his arm. The
doorman, acquainted with him for many
years, ventured to suggest a cab. Cor-
vet, staring strangely at him, shook his
head.

“At least. sir,”
on your coat.”

Coert ignored him.

lie winced as he stepped out into the
smarting, blinding swirl of sleet, but his
shrinking was not physical; it was mental,
the unconscious reaction to some thought
the storm called up. The hour was barely
four o'clock, but so dark was it with the
storm that the shop windows were lit;
unotorcars, slipping and skidding up the
broad boulevard, with headlights burning,
kept their signals clattering constantly
to warn other drivers blinded by the snow.
The sleet—swept sidewalks were almost
deserted; here or there, before a. hotel or
one of the shops, a limousine came to the
curb, and the passengers dashed swiftly
across the walk to shelter.

Corvet, still carrying his coat upon his
arm, turned northward along Michigan
Avenue, facing into the gale. The sleet
beat upon his face and lodged
folds of his clothing without his heeding
it.

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blasts of a steam whistle. A steamer
out on that snow-shrouded lake was in
distress. The sound ceased, and the gale
signals. Corvet recognized the foghorn
at the lighthouse at the end of the gov-
ernment pier; the light, he knew. was
turning white, red, white, red, white be-
hind the curtain of sleet; other steam
vessels, not in distress, blew their blasts;
the long four of the steamer calling for
help cut in again.

Corvet stopped, drew up his shoulders,
and stood staring out toward the lake,
as the signal blasts of dis tress boomed
and boomed again. Color came now into
his pale cheeks for an instant. A siren
swelled and shreiked, died away wailing,
shreiked louder and stopped; the four
blasts blew again, and the siren walled
in answer.

A door opened behind Corvet; warm
air rushed out, laden with sweet, heavy
odors—chocolate and candy; girls’ laugh-
ter, exaggerated exclamations, laughter
again came with it; and two girls holding
their muffs before their faces passed by.

“See you tonight, dear.”

"Yes; I’ll be there—if he comes.”

"Oh, he’ll come i”

They ran to different limousines, scur-
ried in and the cars swept off.

Corvet turned about to the tearoom
from which they had come; he could see,
as the door opened again, a dozen tables
with their white cloths, shining silver,
and steaming little porcelian pots; twenty
or thirty girls and young women were
refreshing themselves, pleasantly, after
shopping or ﬁttings or a concert; a few
young ‘men were sipping chocolate with
them. The blast of the distress signal,
the scream of the siren, must have come
to them when the door was opened; but,
if they heard it at all, they gave it no
attention; the clatter and laughter and
sipping of chocolate and tea was interrupt-
ed only by those who reached quickly for
a shopping list or some ﬁlmy possession
threatened by the draft. They were as
oblivious to the lake in front of their
windows, to the ship struggling for life
in the storm, as though the snow were a
screen which shut them into a distant
world,

To Corvet, a lake man for forty years,
there was nothing strange in this. Twenty
miles, from north to south, the city—its
business blocks, its hotels and restaur-
ants, its homes—faced the water and,
except where the piers former the har-
bor, all unprotected water, an open sea
Where in times of storm ships sank and
grounded, men fought for their lives
against the elements and, losing, drowned
and died; and Corvet was well aware
that likely enough none of those in that
tearoom or in that whole building knew
what four long blasts meant when they
were blown as they Were now, or what
the siren meant that answered. But
now, as he listened to the blasts which
seemed to have grown more desperate,
this profoundly affected Corvet. He
moved once to stop one of the couples
coming from the tearoom. They hesi—
tated, as he stared at them; then, when
they had passed him, they glanced back.
Corvet shook himself and went on.

He continued to go north. He had
not seemed, in the beginning, to have
made conscious choice of this direction;
but now he was following it purposely.
He stopped once at a shop which sold
men's thing to make a telephone call. He
asked for Miss Sherrill when the number

answered; but he did not wish to speak"-

to her, he said; he wanted merely to
be sure she would be there if he stopped
to to see her in half an hour. Then——
north again. He crossed the bridge.
Now, ﬁfteen minutes later, he came in
sight of the lake once more.

Great houses, the Sherrill house among
them, here face the Drive, the bridle path,
the strip of park, and the wide stone es—
planade which edges the lake. Corvet
crossed this esplanade. It was an ice—
bank now; hummocks of snow and ice
higher than a man’s head shut off the
view of the ﬂoes tossing and crashing as
far out as the blizzard let one see; but,
dislodged and shaken by the buffeting of
the ﬂoe, they let the gray water swell
up from underneath and wash around his
feet as he went on. He did not stop at
the Sherrill house or look toward it, but
went on fully a quarter of a mile beyond
it; then he came back, and with an oddly
strained and queer expression and atti-
tude, he stood staring out into the lake.
He could not hear the distress signals
now.

Suddenly he turned. Constance Sherrill,
seeing him from a window of her home,
had caught a cape about her and run
out to him.

“Uncle Benny!" she hailed him with
.the affectionate name she had used with
her father’s partner since she was a baby.
"Uncle Benny, aren’t you coming in?”

“Yes,” he said vaguely. “Yes, of
course." He made no move but remained
staring at her. “Connie!” he exclaimed
suddenly, with strange reproach to him-
self in his tone. “Connie! Dear little
Connie!”

“Why?" she asked him.
what's the matter?"

He seemed to catch himself together.
“There was a. ship out here in unable,”
he said in a quite different tone. "1m
aren't blowing any more; are they all
118m?"

“It was one of the M and D boats—tho
Louisiana. they told me. She went by
here blowing for help, and I called up
the oﬂce to find out. A tug and one
lather of their line got out to her; she

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had started a cylinder head bucking the
ice and was taking in a. little water.
Uncle Benny, you must put on your coat."

She brushed the sleet from his shoul-
ders and collar, 9. held the coat for
him; he put it on o diently.

"Has Spearman been here to-day?" he
asked, not looking at her.

“To see father?"

"No; to see you."

GINO)!

He seized her wrist. "Don’t see him,
when he comes!" he commanded.

"Uncle Benny l”

"Don’t see him!" Corvet repeated.
"He’s asked you to marry him, hasn't
he?”

Connie could not refuse the answer.
llYes.l,

And you?"

“VVhy—zwhy,
answered him yet."

"Then don’tr—don’t; do
stand, Connie?”

She hesitated, frightened for him. "I'll
——I’ll tell you before I see him, if you
want me to, Uncle Benny,” she granted.

"But if you "shouldn’t be able to tell
me then, Connie; if you shouldn’t—want
to then?" The humility of his look per-
plexed her; if he had been any other
man—any man except Uncle Benny—she
would have thought some shameful and

Uncle Benny, I haven’t

terrify“ qt hung over him; but he
broke on Milly. “I must go home," he
said unce ”I must go home; then

I’ll come back. Connie, you won’t give

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ened, half bewildered; then he' turned at
once and went swiftly away from her.

She ran back to the door of her father’s,

house. From there she saw him reach
the corner and turn west to go to Astor
Street. He was walking rapidly and did
not hesitate.

The trite truism which relates the in-
ability of human beings to know the
future, has a counterpart not so often
mentioned: We do not always know our
own past until the future has made plain
what has happened to us. Constance
Sherrill, at the close of this, the most im-
portant day in her life, did not know at
all that it had been important to her.
All she felt was a perplexed, but in-
deﬁnite uneasiness about Uncle Benny.
How strangely he had acted! Her un-
easiness increased when the afternoon
and evening passed without his coming
back to see her as he had promised, but
she reﬂected he had not set any definite
time when she was to expect him. Dur-
ing the night her anxiety grew still
greater; and in the morning she called
his house up on the telephone, but the
call was unanswered. An hour later,
she called again; still getting no result.
she called her father at his ofﬁce, and
told him of her anxiety about Uncle
Benny, but without repeating what Uncle
Benny had said to her or the promise
she had made to him. Her father made

   

     

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light of her items; Uncle Benny, he re-
minded her, often acted queerly in bad
weather. Only partly reassured, she
called Uncle Benny’s house several more
times during the morning, but still got
no reply; and after luncheon she called
her father again, to tell him that she
had resolved to get some one to go over
to the house with her.

Her father, to her surprise, forbade this
rather sharply, his voice, she realized,
was agitated and excited, and she asked
him the reason; but instead of answering
her, he made her repeat to him her con-
versation of the afternoon before with
Uncle Benny, and now he questioned her
closely about it. But when she, in her
turn, tried to question him, he merely
put her off and told her not to worry.
Later, when she called him again, re-
solved to make him tell her what was
the matter, he had left the oiYice.

In the late afternoon, as dusk was
drawing into dark, she stood at the win-
dow, watching the storm, which still con-
tinued, with one of those delusive hopes
which come during anxiety that, because
it was the time of day at which she had
seen Uncle Benny walking by the lake
the day before, she might see him there
again, when she saw her father’s motor
approaching. It was coming from the
north, not from the south as it would
have been if coming from his office or his
club, and it had turned into the drive
from the west. She knew, therefore, that

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-—AND NOW NOWER FOURTH!

EFORE you receive the next issue of Tim
BUSINESS FABMEB considerable history will
have been made. We will know who is to

be the president of the worlds greatest democ-
racy for the next four years. We will know who
is to be governor of Michigan for the next two
and the last embers of various other less import-
ant battles which have been ﬂamed to white heat
in our many localities will be slowly dying out.

We hope the best man for every ofﬁce will be
elected and from the standpoint of the followers
of his party, he will doubtless be. Personalities
in politics are of less importance to us than the
measures at stake. We do not deﬁne it as one
of the duties of a publication which represents
the farming business in a. great state to attempt
to force its opinion of the ﬁtness of men for par-
ticular positions on its readers, even if we were
capable of doing so.

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farmers of our state, we do not feel justiﬁed in
openly advocating our own convictions, unless
our columns are open for rebuttal of its equally
sincere constituents who do not agree with us.

But when an attempt, like the present “Re-
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farmers with whom we have talked and every
representative farm leader are agreed, is not in
the best interests of the farming business, then
we are willing to use the strength at our com-
mand to defeat it.

If you will turn to page four of this issue and
read the article by Stanley M. Powell, our Lan-
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It is difﬁcult to muster enough rural votes
in Michigan these days to overcome the rapidly
inoreasing metropolitan vote which will be massed
to a man to get this amendment over. City work—
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to make the success of this amendment a cer«
tainty. City women will get to the polls in
greater proportion than will country women.
There is great danger of many farmers not under-
standing this amendment and voting in its favor.

The important thing to do, is not only to be
certain of your own and your family’s vote, but
to see your neighbors between now and the time
they get in the booth. But read Mr. Powell’s
article and you'will know how to meet their ar-
guments, if they advance any!

MAKING CROSSING STOPS COMPULSORY

IX states, we are informed, already have made
full stops at railroad crossings compulsory
by law. This is a step in the direction we

are pointing for the abolition of the frightful
crossing accidents which‘have become too fre-
quent in Michigan to avoid our serious consider-
ation.

If every’vehicle‘ were required by law to come
to a full stop before crossing any railroad track
which was not adequately protected, it could not
help but reduce the number of oxidants to a

large extent, providing suitable warnings are?

,ereotedsothattheyeanaml willbe’readbythe
motorist in ample time before he reaches the

crossing.

This law will hardly answer for the “blind”
crossings, which are obstructed by cuts, trees.
buildings or standing freight cars, which make it
impossible for the vehicle driver to see in either
direction, up or down the tracks, even if he
comes to a full stop. There are many automatic
warnings now in use which would protect this
kind of a crossing at a small original or main-
tenance cost and serve the purpose quite as well
as the constant attendance of a gate—tender or an
expensive grade separation.

We recognize that the railway executives are
quite as anxious to protect life and property at
the railway crossings as are any other interested
parties to it. They are spending thousands,
probably millions of dollars, annually in safety
work of all kinds and maintain expensive de-
partments of Starvice for this very purpose. We
do not hold the appaling growth of accidents
chargeable to the railways by any manner of
means. Neither do we charge the state highway
oﬁice with any lack of honest attempt to protect
trunk line crossings, because their many signs,
lights and reﬂectors, are apparent in all parts of
the state. The drivers of vehicles are doubtless
in a greater percentage of cases responsible, than
are either of these factors, but that does not
change the conditions which exist and there is no
use denying that they are real.

The motor-driven vehicle brought with it, by
reason of its very speed, an element of danger at
crossings which must be reckoned with. The
public must be protected by adequate laws, by
the elimination of “blind” crossings or their pro-
tection by safety warnings and the proper co—
operation to this end by the railways, the railway
commission, the automobile clubs, farm organiza-
tions and the press and until this is accomplish-
ed, the horrible responsibility of every killing at
a crossing is on our heads.

WILL HELP SAVE FORESTS

HE Forest Service has just written to seven-
teen of the largest tobacco manufacturers
of the United States requesting them to in-

sert warning cards in every package of cigarettes
they put out, cautioning the smokers to be care-
ful with ﬁre in the woods. Similar campaigns
are being undertaken by various state chambers
of commerce.

The reason for this is that in studying the
problem of ﬁre prevention, the Forest Service
has been forcibly impressed with the hazard
of forest ﬁres caused by thoughtless smokers.
Figures recently compiled covering Oregon and
Washington show that 23 per cent of the ﬁres
have been caused by smokers.

The public, year by year, is becoming more
and more aggressive on the subject of man—
caused forest ﬁres and should demand that what-
ever steps are necessary be taken to eliminate
such ﬁres entirely.

Inasmuch as matches and cigarettes are re-
sponsible for the greater part of our annual ﬁre
loss, match manufacturers could well join with
tobacco manufacturers in spreading the gospel
of carefulness with ﬁre.

CANADA SOUNDS A WARNING

ANADA business men seem to be getting wor-
ried over their country’s burden of public
debt. That is a fair inference from a cir—

cular issued by the Council of the Montreal
Board of Trade and addressed to citizens gen—
erally. After asserting that the present per
capita debt of the Dominion is $612, the circular
continues:

“Part of every dollar you spend goes to pay
interest on the public debt, and the bigger the
debt grows the more of your money it will take
away from you.

“These large debts are the result of years of
public spending beyond our means and borrowing

 

 

IS YOUR NAME ON STRAIGHT?

HIS is house cleaning time on our mail list.
so if your address label is not exactly cor.
not as to:

Your correct; name and initials.

You escalate address and correct rural
route number.

8. Your correct date of expiration.
lend h your odds“ label from the cover of

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9 war. but the war was ended more than ﬁve
years age and we are still doing it.

“The governments and the municipal councils
do the borrowing and the spending, and often
get poor value for the money. but the people do
the paying back. and you will have to do your
share.

“Sooner or later this reckless borrowing and
spending must end, and the sooner the better,
but only the elector can stop it.

“If you want your public aﬁalrs managed as
sensible men handle their private affairs, getting
good value for what they spend and doing with-
out things they cannot aﬁord; if you want the
cost of living to come down, so that you will
have for yourself more of what you earn, the
remedy is in your hands.
ion, Provincial and Municipal—see to it that the
men you vote for understand what you want,
and make sure that they will support the policy
of reducing the public debt. "

What is wrong with this warning for the
average American city, county and state?

 

HUMANOR HOG

. K. HALL Vice-President of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company, in dis-
cussing the human factor that enters into

business and which cannot be handled as a mech-
anical proposition, says:

“‘What is the difference between an animal
and a man? The difference is that man has
everything an animal has plus the ability to re-
cord his experience and the experience of other
men and proﬁt by the same. A hog is a hog
today, just as he was a thousand years ago. If
a human cannot proﬁt by experience of others
and help to make this world a little better in
which to live, he might as well be a. hog.”

 

TOLL OF CARELESSNESS

IGURES rceently compiled by the state of
Oregon show that 93 per cent’ of its auto-
mobile wrecks are caused by carelessness.

Of 9,131 accidents reported from January 1 to
June 30, last, 5,475 are charged entirely to care-
lessness. And to these may be included the fol-
lowing: speeding, 183; failure to give right of
way, 1381; reckless driving, 260; cutting cor-
ners, 372; double at intersections, 155; driving
while intoxicated, 123; failure to giye any signal,
290; driving on left side of street or highway,
64, improper parking, 79; reverse direction in
middle of block, 40; passing to left of street cars
while discharging passengers, 31; inexperience,
24, jockeying on bridges, 21; a total of 8480
accidents might have been avoided, according to
the report of the secretary of state, had the driv-
ers been careful. It is probable that these Ore-
gon ﬁgures would be a. fair average for other
states.

That too many automobile drivers “let the
insurance company pay the bill" is responsible
for many avoidable accidents. Let drivers re—
member that no insurance policy has yet been
devised which will return the life of a person
killed through an automobile driver’s careless-
ness. Safety to life and property rests almost
wholly in the hands of the automobile driver.

 

DON’T BESS THE NEW SERIAL

will be your own fault if you do not enjoy

following the hero of “The Indian Drum"

through the mysterious ~chapters of the story
which begins in this issue and which will appear
in generous installments in each following issue
until it is completed.

Our last story, “0, Money, Money!", was read
in thousands of farm families in Michigan and
from the many letters we received it was one of
the most popular that has ever appeared in our
columns. We predict however, that “The Indian
Drum”, a story which has the shores of our own
Lake Michigan as a back-ground, will have an
even greater appeal than the story just competed.

It is a real source of pleasure to follow the ex—
ploits of a good fiction story, to be left in sus—
pense at the end of a gripping chapter and to
look forward'to. the arrival of the next issue.
Often times a. whole family will take an evening
when the paper arrives to read the story aloud
and in this way they have the satismtion of dis-
cussing aud enjoying it together. “The Indian
Drum" is the kind of a story that every member
of your family, from the young folks to grand-
dad, will equally enjoy and root from it: read-
ing.

Read theopeuiagchspterhtleeepym
now hold in your hands and we will gamble that
you will ionowittolteverycad Wilma:-
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American Automobile C o m p a n y
stock, which I would like to sell.
The stock cost me $12.50 per share.
I think the company was organized
about 1917 at Decatur, Illinois.”

OM what we are able to learn

about the Pan American Auto-
'mohile Company, we would believe
that your stock is of no value. This
Company went into the hands of the
receiver a year or two ago—the
Millikin Trust Company of Decatur,
Illinois, being the receiver.

It looks very much as though the
shareholders would not receive any-
thing. There are no steps being
made to reorganize. The buildings
were sold a short time ,ago and the
sale ratiﬁed by the Judge. The gen-
eral opinion prevalent in Decatur
among the ﬁnancial men is that the
stock is of no value.

CONSUMERS POWER AND BOND
‘AND MORTGAGE CODIPANY

“‘We would like your advice on safe
investments for money. Would you
advise one to put money in the Con-
sumers Power Company at 6.6 per
cent? Do you think it would be
a safe investment? And do you
think the Federal Bond & Mortgage
Company at 7 per cent a good in-
vestment? We are paid up mem-
bers for protective service."

BELIEVE both propositions
which you mentioned are thor-
‘4; eughly trustworthy, otherwise
we would not be carrying their an-

nouncements in THE BUSINESS

Fm.

. Obviously there is some risk at-
tached to every investment. The
safest in the world is a government
bond, but these pay only 4 per cent,
and even the bonds of some foreign
government have been made worth-
less by way.

The preferred shares of stock in
7 an industrial, like the Consumers

 

Power Company, which supplies a
necessity to the people, is probably
one of the safest stock investments
that a man can make, and the int-
erest rate of 6.6 per cent is certain-
ly attractive.

The ﬁrst mortgage bonds offered
by the Federal Bond & Mortgage
Company of Detroit are exactly as
their title would indicate, ﬁrst liens
on real estate in the city of Detroit,

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and we believe perfectly safe. It a
ﬁrst mortgage bond company is
managed by honest men who will
not over-appraise the valuation of
the building on which the bond issue
is to be made, 'there is nothing
which can disqualify this type of in-
vestment.

There is only one safe rule for
investments, and that is “never to
put all your eggs in one basket”,
but personally I can give my endose-
ment to both of the above propos-
itions because I believe they are as
safe investments as one could hope
to ﬁnd, and I would like nothing
better than to own a hundred thous-
and dollars worth of either the pre-
ferred stock or the bonds mention—
ed above.

WOMAN’S INSTITUTE

“Will you kindly investigate the
Woman’s Institute of Scranton,
Pennsylvania, for me? It is a cor—
respondence school of dressmaking,
millinery, cooking, etc., and I should
like to know about them as I am
thinking of,taking a course with
them.”

E understand that the W0—

man’s Institute, Scranton,

Pennsylvania, is owned and
directed by the International Corres-
pondence Schools of Scranton, Penn-
sylvania. The International Corres-
pondence School of that city have
had several years experience teach-
ing by mail and are recognized as
among the foremost schools of that
kind in the country. We believe you
will ﬁnd them honest.

COMIVIONWEALTH CASUALTY
COMPANY

“Can you tell me anything about
the Commonwealth Casualty Com-
pany, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, I
have a chance to act as their agent
but ﬁrst want to know if they are
all right."

HIS company is organized under
the laws of Pennsylvania and
authorized to transact a gener—

al casualty business. The insurance
department of that state states the
company is solvent and fully able to
carry out its contracts. Its report
to the Insurance Department at the
close of the year 1923 showed: Total
admitted assets, $921,980.01; Lia-
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FORGET! REDIEMBER!

Forget each kindness that you do. -
As soon as you have done it;

Forget the praise that falls to you,
The moment you have won it;

Forget the slander that you hear,

Before you can repeat it;
Forget each slight, each spite, each sneer.
Wherever you may meet it.

Remember every kindness done
To you, whate’er its measure;

Remember praise by other won
And pass it on with pleasure;

Remember every promise made,
And keep it to the letter;

.Remember those who lend you aid

And be a grateful debtor.

Remember all the happiness
That comes your way in living;
Forget each worry and distress,
Be hopeful and forgiving;

" Remember good, remember truth,

Remember heaven’s above you,
And you will ﬁnd through age and youth,
True joys and hearts that love you.
—The Youth‘s Companion.

GAlVIES FOR HALLOWEEN

ALLOWE’EN or Hallow—Even is

the last night in October, be-

ing the eve or vigil of All—Hal-
low’s or All Saint’s Day, and no holi—
day in all the year is so informal or
so marked with fun for both grown-
ups and children as this one. Nearly
everyone goes to a party on that
night. Sometimes before the even—
ing' is' over there is a. lull because
no one can think of a new game to
play. I am printing a few games
that I have seen played at parties
and they were well liked by all. Try
some of them:

Apple Seeds
Name two wet apple seeds and stick

them on forehead. First seed to fall in-
dicates that the person for whom seed
is named is not a true lover.

Apple—Seed Test

Cut an apple open and pick out seeds
from core. If only two seeds are found,
they portend early marriage, three, leg—
acy; four, great wealth; live, sea voyage;
six, great fame as an orator or singer;
seven, possession of any gift desired.

Barrel—Hoop

Suspend horizontally from coiling a.
barrel-hoop on which are fastened a1-
ternately at regular intervals apples,
cakes, candies, candle-ends. Players
gather in circle and, as it revolves, each
in turn tries to bite one of the edibles;
the one who siezcs candle pays forfeit.

Raisin Race

A raisin is strung in middle of thread
a. yard long, and two persons take each
an end of string in mouth, whoever, by
chewing, reaches raisin ﬁrst has raisin
and will be ﬁrst wedded.

Threading a. Needle
Sit on round bottle laid lengthwise on

 

ﬂoor, and try to thread a needle. First
to succeed will be ﬁrst married.
Alphabet Game
Cut alphabet from newspaper and

sprinkle on surface of water; letters ﬂoat-
ing may spell or suggest name of future
husband or wife.
Jumping Lighted Candle

Place a lighted candle in middle of
ﬂoor, not too securely placed; each one
Jmnps over it. Whoever succeeds in
clearing candle is guaranteed a happy
year, free of trouble or anxiety. He who
knocks candle over will have a twelve-
month of woe.

Hiding Ring, Thimble or Penny

Hide ring, thimble and penny in room.
To one who ﬁnds ring, speedy marriage
is assured; thimble denotes life of single
blessedness; penny promises wealth.

Water Experiment

A laughable experiment consists in ﬁll-
ing mouth with water and walking
around house or block without swallow~
ing or spilling a drop. First person of
opposite sex you meet is your fate. A
clever hostess will send two suspecting
lovers by different doors; they are sure
to meet, and not unfrequently settle mat-
ters then and there.

The Four Saucers

Place four saucers on table in line.

Into ﬁrst put dirt; into second, water;

 

into third, a ring; into fourth, a rag.
Guests are blindfolded and led around
table twice; then told to go alone and
put ﬁngers into saucer. If they put into
dirt, it means divorce; into water, a trip
across ocean; where ring is to marry;
Where rag is, never marry.
START 'A GIFT BOX NOW

USED to leave my gift making
I until about the middle of Nov-

ember and when I was enjoying
the rush season at Christmas time
making and buying and wrapping
gifts at the last minute I always
said, “Never again! Next year I
shall start a gift box early and avoid
all this rush." However, I never did
try out this plan until last summer
and now I’m completely converted.
I’ll never go back to the old way. I
shall have a gift-box every year.

It is such a comfort as Christmas
draws nigh to simply wrap the gifts
and send them instead of having to

  

  

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their turn.

points of the others.

use of our (yours and
mine) page. Send in your
helpful suggestions, recipes,
etc. and ask questions. Lets
hear from more sisters.
Address letters:

 

. '1' H E -‘ EU 8 '1 E E sis] E’Asénnii -

Edited by MRS.

DEAR FOLKS: Now that you are not quite so busy and the cool
evenings keep you indoors Why not start reading a book out loud

for the entire family. .Mother-can read out loud one evening and
father the next, and other older members of the family can each take
It is a wonderful way to spend at least a part of each
evening during the long winter if you choose good books.
ily reading circle is much better than each one doing some different
reading because, through discussion and debate, the subject is digest-
ed more thoroughly, and each member of the circle gets the view-
Take for a slogan this winter “A good book a
week” and spend an hour or so each evening reading out loud.

And now that you have more time sit down and write to me. Make

W

Mrs. Annle Taylor. care The Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens. Mlchlasn.

    

 

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make them or buy, or go without in
those hectic days before the gift
season.

Anyone having a. general gift-box
open the year round would be able
to remember their friends and rela-
tives on various anniversaries and
other occasions.

A regular box may be kept in a
convenient place to receive articles
as ﬁnished. If it is of fair size the
box may be padded and covered with
a pretty cretonne and do duty as a
Window seat. A look may be, added,
if desired.

If one prefers, a drawer of a
bureau or ('lliffonier servos lilt‘, pur~
pose, provided it is used for nothing
else.

\Vhatover
clean it well,

storage place is used
line it with white
paper so that any articles placed
therein will not lose their fresh
look, and—if you want it to be es—
pecially nice use some delicate
sachet or perhaps a dainty package
of lavendar to impart a faint illusive
perfume to your gifts.

Other convenient accessories for
the hiding place of your gifts are a
pencil, a note book and a tiny box
With a slit in the cover through
which coins may be dropped.

The pencil and note book will be
handy for keeping a list of gifts
given to certain persons in previous
times. This will avoid duplications,
a list of all for whom you wish to
provide gifts and ideas that may
come to you for new things to make.

Do start a gift box now and if
you have some friend or relative
who loves fancy work but never
ﬁnds time to do any for herself,
make some pretty little crocheted
article for hen—«M. R.

BE YOUR OWN HEALTH
OFFICER
OU think the country is the
healthiest place in the world to
live. But is it? Statistics show
that the death rate in the country,
where there is plenty of fresh air to
breathe and open ﬁelds to roam, is
higher than it is in the noisy, crowd-
ed city.

The reason for this may easily be
seen.

City health departments are vigil-
ant guardians of the physical well-
being of the people, realizing that
great care must be taken to safe—
guard the lives of those who live in
congested sections. In the country,
there is seldom such a thing as a
health department and every person
has to be his own health ofﬁcer.

To learn how to be your own
health officer, you should join the
American Red Cross during the
Eighth Annual Roll Call, to be held
November 11 to 27.

By joining a Red Cross class in
Home Nursing and Care of the Sick,
by going in for a Nutrition course,
by learning First Aid and Life—Sav-
ing, you may safeguard your own
life and that of your family and
neighbors.

 

 

Personal Column

 

 

Wants Magazinesr—Although m a n y
many questions are answered in The
Business Farmer, I have one problem not
yet solved by it. I am an ardent ad-
mirer and enthusiastic worker of hand-
work of many kinds. While I now sub-

scribe to the magazine, Needlecraft. pub-

lished at Augusta, Maine, I have taken
it but a very short time. I wish to ob—
tain ﬁles of the magazine. I have writ-
ten the ofﬁce at Augusta and am informed
that the publishers cannot supply them.
I cannot hope to obtain complete ﬁles for
its ﬁfteen or sixteen years existance al-
though I confess I should like to have
them, but I do very much desire back
issues. Do you know of anyone in pos-
session of number which they no longer
wish? So many women write for “Pin-
Money” ideas. While this isn’t exactly
that, someone can make some money, for
I shall be. glad to pay a reasonable
amount for the magazines. Daring to
hope, I am Yours truly—Emma Mae
Bears, Cass City, Michigan.

 

To Kill Green Insect on Roses.——There
was a green insect on my rose bushes
and I ﬁnally got rid of it by using the
same preparation that I use on my house
plants. Perhaps others have the same
trouble. so here is the remedy. I took
3 tablespoonsful of ammonia. to a boiler
of water and sprayed the bushes thor—
oughly. It sure got the insects—Mrs. E.

 

Everyone Write.—I have been looking
for more quilt patterns on our age, but
still we farmers haven’t time or quilts
now. That must wait till canning time is
over. It is some job to get vegetable
canned and pickles etc. put up for win-
ter, but, Oh! so good later on. My ex-
change a month ago was not noticed, to
early I guess. I miss the letters from
other sisters and hope some will get busy
and write to our page again. Hope you
keep well. Frost has not done much
damage here yet, what a blessing for we
farmers—«Mrs~ Geo. Morgan.

 

Here’s another one of those beautiful
quilt blocks designed by Mrs. Van Ant-
werp, of Mayville. I have the block and
any subscriber may borrow it so that
they can cut a pattern.

To blend Crockery.—I would like to
get help from you or some sister of The
Business Farmer how to mend crockery
as I have a 20 gallon crock I would like
to mend. I know you use Plaster Paris
and Gum Arabic. I would like .to get
the directions how to use its—C. G., Cedar,
Michigan.

 

A Request—Can any of the readers
tell if the liquid on cold packed corn,
beans and peas is to be used when cans
are opened or is that liquid thrown away
and milk and butter added? It was hard
to get little hot pepers here for chow
chow etc., so I bought a bottle of the tiny
red peppers sold in bottles and used them
and the balance left of them I poured
off the brine and put vinegar on. This
is nice to use on cold boiled meats.—
Mrs. M.

 

‘How to Sugar-Cure Meat—Having
noticed the request for sugar-cured meat
by Mrs. H. M., will send her mine which
we have all used for a. number of years,
and ﬁnd it excellent. For every 100
pounds of meat. that has been rubbed
well. with salt on ﬂesh side and let laid
over night, underused of! in morning.
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ofbrown Sugar, 3% ounces of salt peter
and 4 gallons of boiling water. Pack
meat in jar (or barrel) and letbrine ‘,
cool, and pour over it. This keeps well-w"
BT11 avinter, in cellar or cool place—Mrs.

 

‘Wants Tobacco Habit Cure—Dear Mm
Taylor:——Thou.ght perhaps some of your
readers might know of a good secret hp-
bacco cure. My husband is a cigarette
ﬁend and they are undermining his health.
Would be very glad to know of a. harm-
less cure—Anxious.

 

To Save Meat.——I see by your paper
that Mrs. H. M., Petersburg, would like
a recipe to save meat. I have one that
I think better than the one that is an
answer to hers. The last year that I’
was on the farm I put down pork by this
recipe in the fall and it was all right
late in spring. The family I got the
recipe from had used it for some time.

For 100 pounds of pork or beef: 4
gallons of water, 6 pounds of salt, 2
pounds of sugar, 14 pound of soda, 2
ounces saltpetre. Let it (‘fvne to a boil
skim and set aside to cool before putting
on the meat—L. T. Conley.

 

 

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The “Group” Introduction.—The 'group'
introduction—the presentation of one in-
dividual to a group of other persons in-
in poor taste on larger formal occasions.
It is permissablc at small luncheons and
other informal affairs. When a lady is
introduced to a group, the senior member
may be the ﬁrst addressed, and the lady
to he introduced presented. Then, the
hostess, including all the others in the
group, mentions their names. The young-
er women usually rise to shake hands.
A gentleman is introduced in the same
manner; “Mr. Morton—~Mrs. Coutant, Bliss-
Northcllffe, Miss Welton, Miss Gregory”
and the names of any gentlemen in the
group are mentioned after those of the
ladies.

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Menu for October 26th

 

 

‘Grilled Halibut with Parmesan
Roast Mutton, Currant Jelly Sauce
Creamed Turnips
Browned Sweet Potatoes
American Salad
Apple and Prune Pie
Coffee

*Grilled Halibut pith Parmesana—Tako
desired number of {ilets of halibut and
grill on both sides until nicely browned.
Take from broiler, spread with fat, cov-
ered with grated Parmesan cheese, sea.-
son with salt and dash of paprika on
each slice, and set in hot oven until cheese
is well browned and melted. Serve with
lemon slices and potato balls tossed in
melted fat containing chopped parsley.

 

 

RECIPES

 

 

“'heat and Indian Bread—TO 2 quarts
of sifted Indian meal add hot water
enough to wet the same :‘when sufﬁciently
cooled, add one teaspoonful or more of
salt, half pint of yeast, and one half tea-
cupful of molasses. Then add wheat ﬂour
enough to make it into loaves (it should
be well kneaded), and when well risen,
bake or steam it 3 or more hours; if this
should get sour while rising, add a. tea.—
spoonful of sugar and a little saleratus
dissolved in water.-———Mrs. M. A. B.

 

Apricots Go Fine With Elder-berries for
Sauce—1 part apricots to 4 parts of ber-
ries, rhubarb may be used for either
sauce or pics with the berries—Mrs. W.
M. R., Gratiot. '

 

Salmon Mold.———1 can salmon, 2 table-
spoonfuls fat, 1,5 culpful rolled crackers.
3 eggs, 1 tablespoonful Worcestershire
sauce, salt and pepper to taste. Sauce—-
1 tablespoonful fat, 1 tablespoonful ﬂour,
1 egg, 1 cupful milk, salt and pepper to
taste, parsley. For the mold. Remove
oil, skin and bone of salmon. Rub sal-
mon. smooth, add eggs well beaten,
crackers, and seasonings. Turn into a
greased mold, and steam for one hour.
Turii out and serve with sauce.

For sauce. Blend fat and flour in a.
sauce mm over ﬁre, add milk and stir
and boil for ﬁve minutes. Add egg well
beaten, and seasonings, pour at once
over salInon. Garnish with parsley.
Sufﬁcient for one small loaf.

Virginia Corn Bread—Dissolve 1 table-
spoonful of butter in 3% pints of boiling
milk; in this scald 1 quart of Indian
meal; when cool, add a half pint of
wheat ﬂour, a little sugar, 9. teaspoonful
of salt, and two eggs well beaten. Mix
well together, and bake in two cake tins
well greased and buttered—Mrs. M. A. B.

 

The St. Charles Hotel Indian Bread.—
Beat 2 eggs very light, mix them with
one pint of sour milk (or butter with
sweet milk will do), then add a teaspoon-
ful of soda or saleratus, then stir in
slowly one pint of Indian. meal and one
tablespoonful of melted butter; bake in a
common cake pan, in a quick oven. The
bread can be made very good without
eggs—Mrs. M. A. B.

A Good Pickle for Home, “Old-Funk):-
ed”.—-For curing hams in pickle we have
tried and approve of the following com-

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pound of articles: To 100 pounds of
hams use 8 or 9 pounds of rock salt, 2
ounces of saltpeter, 2 , pounds of white
sugar,- 1 quart of best syrup, 4 ounces of
saleratus, and 1 ounce of auspice. These
materials are boiled and simmed, in ten
or twolve gallons of water, and the hams
packed in a barrel, and the brine put on
moi, adding water if necessary to cover
the hams. None but a new oak barre‘l
should be. used. Scald the barrel and
cool it before putting in the hams. Let
them lie three weeks, and then take them
out and air them 24 hours; put them back
again three weeks, and then take them
out and dry them thoroughly before smok-
ing which is done in an airy smoke-house,
with cobs and maple or hickory chips.
In smoking be careful to keep your hams
cool. Never allow fire enough to heat the
meat—Mrs. M. A. B.

 

Preserving Hams for Family Use.—To
keep hams through the summer, hang
them in a dry, cool room, and draw a
loose cotton bag over them, and tie it
tightly around the string that holds the
meat. This must be done before ﬂies
come in the spring, and it will keep them
away. We have kept hams prepared in
this way till over three years old and
they were as much better than new ones.
as ripe cheese is better than one a day
old—Mrs. M. A. B.

 

 

The Runner’s Bible

(Copyrizht by Houghton Midlin Co.)

Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is
b. Prov. 16:20.

Happiness, like health, harmony and
peace, is the normal, eternal condition of
ﬁle real, the Spiritual Man. It belongs
entirely to the kingdom of the Spirit, for
happiness is a state of being, and there
an be no such state for the one who be-
haves in the power of the ﬂesh and the
material world, for such a one has allied
himself to the ﬂeeting and the ever chang-
ing—to perpetual death, and must ever be
m a state of fear.

 

 

HOMEPUN YARN

Ice garnered in the winter spells sweet
cream in the summer.
0 0 0
Empty Jars in the fall mean larger
,grocer's bills in the winter.

._ , i, .
Another name for over-shoes /might be
shoe savers or health preservers.
0 O O
No wonder the broom looks dejected.
Hang it up and let it rest its feet.
0 t 0

The kitchen should be the pleasantest
room in the house. How about yours?
. O _
Store the apples in the cellar, but don’t
freeze them. An ocassional sorting will
pay in better fruit, longer kept.
t t t

A thermometer is a truer gauge of
temperature than your feelings. Hang
one up when you start the furnace.

O l .

Brushing the teeth is all right, but
”combing" them is still better. At least
dentists say that just describes the best
motion.

0 t 0

Don’t spend too many hours over the
ironing table. Let the children wear
simple clothes that require little or no
ironing.

0 t t

A good memory, and pencil and paper,
are two ways of making sure the needed
household supplies are purchased when

needed.
O t 3

Two cups of salt in a gallon of cold
water will set the color in black stockings.
This may have to be done before every

washing.
i t t

All cotton garments should be carefully
washed and blued before being put away
for the winter. Do not starch them;
starch rots the ﬁber.

0 O 0

If guests drop in and the Whipped
cream for the dessert has to be extended,
add the white of an egg well beaten—
it will go twice as far.

 

 

WOMEN’S EXCHANGE

F you nave something to exchange, we will
rlnt It FREE under this heading providing:
girst—lt appeals to women and is a bonlﬁde
exchanges. no cash involved. Second—It will

no in three lines. Third—You are a paid-up
subscriber to The Business Farmer and attach
our address label from a recent Issue to dprove
It. Exchange offers will be numbered an in-
serted In t 0 order received as we have room.
-—MRs. ANNIE TAYLOR. Editor.

 

No. 121r—Lovely female and gingham ullt
pieces to exchange or an hing usefuL—
Geo. Morgan. Vicksburg, Ml ., F. D. No. 3.

AIDS TO GOOD DRESSING

BE SURE AND SEND IN YOUR SIZE

“all is d d 1 r
agoo was or stutﬂ .
and 50 inches bust measureo gures The

mode as illustrated it will require 3% yards of plain ms

The width at the foot is 1% yard.

4882.
good also for crepe do chme, voile and silk.

A Pleasing House or Morning Frockr—Linen, gingham or crepe could
. Pattern is cut in 8
A 38 mch size requires 4% yards of one material 3:2 inches wide

A Stylish Party Gownr—Chiﬂ'on and lace are combined in this ilhlstmtion.
e cascades o ‘ and

be used for this dev

Sizes: 86, 38, 40 42, 44, 4G

and 96 yard of ﬁgured material?

The model .
ma be faced with ~

u want for}!
lor This Pattern is .cut in 6 Sizes: 84, 86. 38. 40. 42 an ﬁdmc ea bust meusuw

_ 2 c0 . ‘
Width of the slnrt at the foot is 1%

To make the (11‘

will require 2 ynrl

mbroidered or beaded vui .

d. as as illustra
ﬁgured material for the skirt. and 4% pygrrds of plain material 40 inchesEvnde for waist and drape
it yards '

I 38 inch size. If made of one m to l
or chiﬂon would be very pleasing for tldsrlgxogel.

4908.
for this

A Neat Model for a School Dresxr—Wool crepe ﬂannel. .3393
Is The sleeve may be in wrist or elbow len

W111 be required.

and wash materials are gov
This. 1uttern is cut in 4 Sizes: 4, 6. ‘

Ind 10 years: A 10 year m requires 3% yards of 36 nch matam

bath.
:2 inch material if made with long sleeves.
width of the dress at the foot is 1% yard

439°- “ “VHF“ FPOCK for Slender Fl urea—Silk alpaca. crepe or kasha could be used for til:

It 11“ mahtlmes and a. very new9 and attractive collar. 1
The Pattern is cut in 3 Sizes: 16, 18 and 20 years. _
If made with short sleeves 4% yards Will be required,

The sleeve may be‘short or in Wrist
An 18 year size requires 4% yards oi

A Popular Style for a Masquerade SulL—This model may be developﬁilﬂn ﬂannel. mmbric
13

4900.
Q My cloth. The coat is separate. and in

Sizes: 4

used for 16.

omitted.

inch silie requires 2 a
inches! wide. I

terl.

4905. A
"pongeo and re p
ma

Jaunty

The "drop'
This
cut in 4 Sizes

 

   

costume for children’s
Dartim and mas ierades. The Pattern is
10 and 12 cars. A

theatncals, fancy drag!

. 6 .
also requires 5 yards of 27 in

4898. A Smart New Blouse—Silk broad-
cloth. ﬂann pongee or crepe de chine could be
sty The strapplalin may be

The Pattern is cut in 6 Sizes: 84 36
38 40 42 and 44 incha bust measure. .A 3S
yards of one mate 1 82
i made as illustrated 2%. rds of
one and ‘56 yard of contrasting materm is re-

4804. A Dainty Romper St Ie.——Dotted per-
. with co r and belt of
linens” Ore e or chambrsy would also be good
for this s e. The sleeve may be short. or in
wrist lenzt as shown in the small view.

Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 1, 2, 3
A is}; your size requires 2% yards of 27 inch ruse

mic is here illustrated

”Play Sult".—Chsmbrey,
would supply very satisfactory
_ for the garment. The
tensions under which ample pockets are arranged.
’ buck fastens over a waist ortion.
model. The Pa rn is
, . and 5 years. A 4 year
size requires 2 54 yards of 27 inch material.

ALL PATTERNS 12c EACH——
3 FOR 30c POSTPAID

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

ADD 100 FOR FALL AND WINTER
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Address all orders for pattern: to
Pattern Department

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‘ THE CAT AND THE HEN

i CERTAIN cat, having a great

desire to eat a young chicken

was unable to gratify her wish.
During the daytime, the Dog watch-
ed over the chickens, and at night
the Hen—house was fast shut. So,
in the presence of the Dog, the Cat
said to the Hen:

"‘Let us be friends. See, as a
proof of friendship, I will send one
of my little kittens to spend the
night with you, and, the day after,
you shall send one of your chickens
to spend the night with me.”

So it was agreed, and, the next
night a kitten slept in the Hen-
house. -

The night following, a chicken
went to spend the night with the
Cat. But the chicken never return-
ed. Thus the Cat got his feast of
young chicken.

“You will learn to be wiser next
time," said the Dog to the Borrowing
Hen. “Cats and chickens can never

be equals."
Unequal friendships often end in
disaster. R-W.

OUR GIRLS AND BOYS

Dear Uncle Ned:»-—-May I join your
merry circle? I am five feet, eight inches
tall, weigh one hundred and twenty-eight
pounds. I mm between twelve and eigh-
teen years of age. The one guessing my
age correctly will receive a nice long fat
letter from me. I have medium brown
hair, brown eyes, and of course my hair
is boibbod like all other girls. I thing
Helen is seventeen years old. The swi-
swer to Ruth's riddle is an umbrella.
Am I right Ruth? I am writing this in
school and as it is soon time for dis-
missal I will close. Your want-to-be
niece,——-Martha Menard, L'Anse, Mich.

Dear Uncle Nedc—I don’t suppose any
of you remember me as I haven’t writ-
ten for anout three years. Uncle Ned,
that game you told us about, Japanese
Tag, is one we play at school quite often.
It is certainly a ﬁne game. As its been
so long since I’ve written I’ll describe
myself. I am thirteen years old and this
fall I start my freshman year. I am
ﬁve feet tall and weigh about 90 pounds,
have grey—blue eyes and medium brown
bobbed hair and fair complexion. Also
I wear glasses. I would like to hear from
any member of the Children’s hour
especially some of the freshmen. Is the
9th grade work hard? When I wrote to
the club last I gained a correspondent,
"Leah Demers" and have corresponded
with her every since. The weather has
been terribly cold for summer until last
week. How has it been with the rest
of you farm girls and boys? I believe I
will close hoping to hear from some of
you soon. An old M. B. F. friend.—
Josephine Wells, R5, Dowagiac, Mich.

Hello Uncle Ned:-——Here I am trying
to get in unless Mr. Waste Basket is
.peeking around the corner and watching
me. There was a big shower here Sun-
day night and it was thundering and
lightning. Say Uncle Ned, I think it
would be fun to have a drawing contest.
I have never sent any drawings in yet
when there were drawing contests, but I
think it would be fun to try. I go to
school every day. I like to go. What
subjects did you find the hardest when
you went to school? I think civics is
the hardest subject. My, but we had such
a short summer this year at least it seems
like we hardly had any warm weather.
There is going to be a clinic here Fri-
day and the children are going to be ex-
unined. Hoping to hear from some of
the boys and girls I remain, Your niece.—
Annie Stimac, Engadine, Mich, Box 101.

Dear Uncle Nedt—I have never writ-
ten to you before, but I am going to ask
you if I may join your merry circle. If
this letter happens to escape that horrid
waste baSket, I hope that some of the
boys and girls that belong to our merry
circle will write to me. As this is the
first first time I am writing I will have to
describe myself. I am 5 feet 9 inches
tall and weigh 130 pounds, have dark
brown hair and brown eyes and am light
complexioned. My age is somewhere be—
tween 15 and 20 and the one that guesses
my age will receive a letter from me. I
have been reading The Children’s Hour
for three years or more. I believe the
boys and girls belonging to your merry
circle are having a wonderful time. I
believe that Gladys Maxson’s age is be-
tween 17 and 18. I have been living 2::
Michigan for the last 5 years. I was
living in the state of New Jersey before
we come to Michigan. I also lived in the
state of Pennsylvania. My parentssboth

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done. Easy, wasn't it?

about it “Well Wisher”?

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EAR boys and glrlsr I suppose by this time you have all noticed
the new feature on our page.
Easy" and shows you the easy way to draw a cartoon. Many

think drawing is so difficult and one must have a great amount of
talent if they would draw pictures. If anyone can ‘writc they can
draw for it is really very easy if you know a few of the “tricks”. and
we are going to show you the “tricks" so you can learn to draw.
In this issue the artist shows how to draw a little negro girl from a
bottle of ink. Just try it once and see how easy it is. Of course, you
draw the bottle of ink with pencil, also “Topsy", and after making a
complete pencil drawing of her you take a pen and with black ink
trace the outline—of “Topsy”, not the bottle. Give the ink time to
dry and then erase all pencil marks. Now you can black the face, legs
and arms, and make the checks on the dress. And there she is-—-all

Some girl or boy sent me a folder about Florida last week. This
folder advertises Clermont, Florida, and contains many illustrations
showing what fun one may have spending a winter in that city and
in the surrounding country, and was sent to me by one who signs
their name “A Well Wisher”. Apparently someone is trying to tease
me knowing that I must work hard here in Michigan all winter. How

I believe our second contest is going to be more popular than
the first one if the pile of letters coming into my-oiﬁce is any indica-

It‘ is called “Cartooning Made

 

 

 

 

Passiac, N. J. I and my brother and
sisters which are a little younger than
me have stayed with my aunt and uncle
since. I have for the last 2 years been
taking care of myself, trying to at least.
I have been working out, and trying to
save enough money to put me through
high school. I will close for now as my
letter is getting a little too long and I
am afraid you will let the waste basket
have it. All those guessing my age will
receive a letter. Hoping to hear from
some of the boys and girls, I remain your
friend—John G. Meister, R1, Kingston,
Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned:—-Will you please let
me in as I don't want to stay out in the
cold. I live on a 40 acre farm 40 rods
from the Michigan line in Ohio. Our
farm touches the Michigan line. Now
first, please put Mr. Waste Basket out
the back door, as I wrote once before
but I guess he got it for his dinner. Ha!
Ha! My folks take the M. B. F. and
enjoy it very much, mostly the Children’s
Hour. Do I have to describe myself? I
am not a bit pretty, have dark brown
bobbed hair, blue eyes and a dark com-
plexion. I am not very fat (very skin-
ney), weigh 92 pounds, am 14 years old
and am in the 8th grade this year. I
missed my ﬁrst year at school. Say
Uncle Ned why don’t you put your picture
in the paper, I am sure the cousins will
agree, don’t you cousins? Well I must
tell some thing about my home life.
There are two of us children, one brother
younger than I am, and for pets we have
2 small kittens, one large cat and a dog,
I have six pet chickens. And for sports
I like horse-back riding, skating and
basketball. Well I will close now hoping
that my Uncle Ned gets this letter in-
stead of Mr. Basket. From a want-to-
be niece—Doris Irene Farling, Pioneer,
Ohio.

Dear Uncle Ned:—May I join your
merry circle? I am a farmer girl eleven
years of age, weigh eighty-six pounds,
height four feet ten inches, have grayish
blue eyes and medium brown hair (not
bobbed). I am in the sixth grade at
school. My birthday is on December 17th.
Have I a twin? If I have I wish she or
he would write to me. For pets I have
two dogs, Bobbie and Sportie. We have
two dogs, two cats, two horses, two pigs,
two cows and two girls. We take The
Michigan Business Farmer and like it
very much. I love to read the letters
that you print, I mean the ones you
write. I also love to read my cousins
letters and the stories and poems. Well
I better stop because I see Mr. Waste
Basket is opening his eyes and he will

get my letter. Will some of the cousins
write to me, because I am very lonesome.
The one who guesses my first name will
receive a letter. Your want-toebe niece,
——B Slunich, Kindall, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned:——Knock, Knock, can
I come in? I want to join your merry
circle. This is my ﬁrst letter. I am 11
years old and am in the 6th grade at
school. I am 6 feet 1 inch tall. I have
brown eyes. We live on a 260 acre farm.
I have 1 brother and 3 sisters. My mother
died when I was 5 years old. My grand-
ma is taking care of us now. I have 2
white chickens of my own, but help take
care of the rest I would like to have
the boys and girls write to me. Your
niece,———Melthis Webber, R1, Springport,
Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned:—May I join your
merry circle? I have been a silent reader
of the M. B. F. for a long time. I live
on a farm 0&90 acres. We have 3 horses,
11 cows, 18 sheep, and 150 chickens, and
for pets we have 6 cats, and 1 dog named
Jiggs. I like to ride horse back the best
of all. Oh yes, I will let you guess my
age and my birthday. My age is between
13 and 18 and my birthday is between
June lst and 10th. The one who guesses
my age and birthday right, or nearly
right, will receive a letter from me. Oh
yes, I had better describe myself or you
will not know what I look like. Ha! Ha!
I am 5 feet 4 inches tall, weight 110%
lbs. Slim, as they call me, dark brown,
bobbed hair, and brown eyes. I have
three sisters, one older and 2 younger.
I would like to hear from the cousins
between 13 and 18. Your want-to-be
niece—Florence M. Brown, Hillsdale,
Michigan, R1, Box 71.

Dear Uncle Nedz—May I join your
merry circle? I like the Children’s Hour
very much. Well as everyone else has
described themselves I think I shall. I
will be 11 years of age on the 17th of
March, 1926. I am 4 feet 5% inches tall
and I weigh 70 pounds, have brown bob-
bed hair, blue eyes, and am light com-
plexioned. I live in Flint at 1712 Vérnon
Ave. I have one brother and one sister.
For pets I have a cat and dog, my cat
stays down to my aunts which is about
3% blocks from us and my dog is just
my age, 10 years old, and he is nearly
a thoroughbred collie and say, he is the
biggest dog! Well as my letter is getting
long I think I had better close and give
the others a chance. I wish the cousins
would write me and I will try and an-
swer all letters sent to me. Your want-
to~be niece—Theda Blockman, Flint,
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have blue eyes, light bobbed hair. as I
would like to hear from everybody. boys
and girls. If you are not yet 1 year old
don't write and if you are nearly 150
don’t write but between them please write.
Ha, Ha! I believe I will close and met
to work. Don’t forget, “everybody write."
From your niece—Miss Eunice I. Butler.
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Dear Uncle Nedz—May I join your
merry circle? I have been a silent reader
for some time. I will describe myself.
I am 5 feet tall, weigh 93 pounds, have
dark brown hair and eyes. I am 18

, years old and am in the 8th grade. My

birthday is between the 25th and 31st of
July the one that guesses it will receive
a letter from me. I live on a 75-acre
farm, 13%, miles from Traverse City. I
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from where I live. There aren’t very
many going to that school. My letter is
getting long so will bring it to a close.
Will some of the cousins please write to
me. I will answer every letter I get.
Your want—to—be niece,-——-Elsie M. Stanck.
Old Mission, Michigan, R1, Box 44.

 

Dear Uncle Ned——I am going to write
again. I think it was very nice of you
to print my letter, and there were four
who answered it. But there is only one
who is writing to me now. I hope I may
get as many this time, that is if you will
be good enough to put the waste basket
under the table while you read this. I
live in the city now, Uncle Ned, and I
suppose I am a city dude. We still take
the M. B. F'. I am 16 years old now,
but 1 don't see as I’m a bit larger than
I was when I was 14. Hoping all the
cousins will write to me soon, I am as
ever, your loving niece,—-Bernice Breck—
way, 710 Glenwood Avenue. Jackson.
Michigan.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I correspond with

three M. B. F. girls. I will describe my- .

self. I am 5 feet 2 inches tall, have
light brown hair (bobbed), blue eyes,
light complexion and weigh 124 pounds.
My mother, father and oldest sister work
so I have to do the work at home. Have
I a twin? I was sweet 16 the 11th day
of September. I was to a surprise birth-
day dance Saturday night. There was a
large crowd and they all said they had
a fine time. I did not because I had a
headache and did not dance. They had
2 violins and traps for music. My letter
is getting quite long so I guess I will

.close and watch for the next M. B. F.

Your niece—(Bridget is my nickname)
Ida Sweeney, 120 West Hill St, Plainwell,
Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned :—I have been a silent
reader of the M. B. F. for about two
years, and have certainly enjoyed the let-
ters from the boys and girls. My father
takes the M. B. F. and isvery much
interested in Pritchard's weather fore-
cast, also Market Flashes. I will de-
scribe myself. I am fourteen years old,
have dark hair (not bobbed), dark eyes,
medium complection, am about five feet
and a half tall, and weigh one hundred
and fifteen pounds. I live on an eighty-
acre famn. We have two horses, thirteen
head of cattle, nine head of bogs and
about one hundred and twenty-five chick-
ens. For pets I have a cat and a dog.
I live only three miles from Lake Michi-
gan. As my letter is getting long I will
close with a riddle. What is the alter-
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furnished in their carved mahogany
panels as, in any hotel in America.
There is a marbled swimming pool
varying gradually from wading
depth to nine feet of water under
the diving board. Beautiful tiled
pillars and stairways, balconies, and
winter garden garnishi-ngs add lux-
ury to the novelty of a swimming
pool on board ship.

Elevators carry passengers from
one deck to another, and there are
telephones in every stateroom. A
winter garden of clustered blossoms
and palm trees, a fully equipped
gymnasium and a large library offer
opportunities for passing away the

time.
First Class is all “Class”

I travelled ﬁrst class—and ﬁrst
class on the Leviathan means that
there isn’t any higher “class” on all
the seas.

As I lay there in my luxurious
cabin, I recalled those bitter cold
mornings on my old homestead in
Wyoming when I would brush the
frost from my pillow, and with the
thermometer showing 35 to 40 de-
grees below zero in the little ship-
lap cabin I had built myself, I would
crawl out, shake down the ashes
and kindle a fire and then shiver
back into bed again to wait for that
little topsy stove to bring the tem-
perature up a hundred degrees—~to
sixty. Then I would walk a half
mile to ﬁnd some water that wasn’t
frozen and be ready to wash up and
get breakfast.

A light rap on my stateroom door
would rouse me from this reverie
and a slavish, courteous voice in
pure Hollywood tones would an-
nounce “Your ba’ath is ready, sir."
My master of the bath would wish
me a schooled good morning. grave-
ly open the door while I slipped on
my combination bathrobe and rain-
coat, and then he would lead me
into my large bathroom and gently
how my attention to an eight foot
tub with a warm salt bath already
drawn and a towel as large as a
stack cover. By the time I had ex-
hausted the possibilities of that
great institution my faithful stew-
would have my shaving gear

arranged on my dressing

nd the warm water running
in the vatory; He would have my
clothes laid out on the bed and be
ready to bow himself out of the
room and leave me entirely to my
own resources, as soon as he felt
convinced within himself that I was
equal to the occasion. j

I would take the elevator up to B
deck and walk ﬁve times around the
preminade, which made a mile.
Then I would take the’ elevator
down ﬁve floors to the dining room.
One handsome man would take my
hat and another would hand me the
morning paper. printed on board
from radio news service. Another
man with a uniform like John
Philip Sousa's would escort me to
my table and turn me over to the
mercies of my waiter who had poss-
ibly been waiting for me for an hour
or more. He had only four people
to serve altogether including “the
doctor who didn’t eat very often.

Clegg was a very conscientious
waiter who took a personal interest
in me from the start—and never al-
lowed it to ﬂag until the day I left

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the‘ ship when I handed him a tip
that would have paid my board for
that many days on land. I think he
forget me immediately thereafter.
Clegg was an artist.
ually study the position of every
piece of silver or dish that he plac-
ed on the table. He would insist
that I eat, or sample, a half dozen
diﬂerent varieties of fruit from the
magniﬁcent fruit center-piece that he

' had waiting for me every morning.

For dinners he would always bring
me three or four different desserts
and. could hardly bear it if I didn’t
try them all.
two or three kinds of ﬁsh and them
tempt me with planked steaks, ven-
ison, partridge, turkey, goose, chick—
en and every other kind of meat on
the menu. Meals are always
cluded with the ticket of course,
and so it makes no difference how
much one eats.

After spending on hour or so in
the dining room sampling these
wares, and listening to the famous
twenty piece Leviathan orchestra.
there was nothing left to do but
loaf around the lounge room, or
read and visit on deck, or count the
ticks on the dog watch.
past six in the evening I would go

down to my stateroom and ﬁnd my ‘

Tuxedo and all the trimmings neat—
ly laid out for me to dress for din—
ner.

All the members in our party
took to sea life like a calf takes to
hand feeding, it was ﬁne after we
got just a little used to it. Person-
ally, I didn't know the rudder from
the crupper when I boarded the
ship, but before I’d been on the sea
two days I counted time by “bells”
and directions by “port" and “star—
board".

The end of the column is the mid—
dle of the ocean—but we’ll get to
land yet, in the next article.

THE INDIAN DRUM
(Continued from page 11.)

he was coming from Uncle Benny’s house,
and, as the car swerved and wheeled in,
she ran out into the hall to meet him.

He came in without taking off his hat
or coat; she could see that he was per-
turbed, greatly agitated.

"What is it, father?"
"What has happened?"

"I don’t know, my dear."

“It is something—something that has
happened to Uncle Benny?"

“I sit afraid so, dear—yes. But I do
not know what it is that has happened,
or I would tell you."

He put his am about her and drew
her into a room opening of! the hall—his
study. He made her repeat again to him
the conversation she had had with Uncle
Benny and tell him how he acted; but
she saw that what she told him did not
help him. He seemed to consider it care-
fully, but in the end to discard or dis-
regard it.

Then he drew her toward him.

“‘Tell me, little daughter. You have
been a great deal with Uncle Benny and
have talked with him; I want you to
think carefully. Did you ever hear him
speak of anyone called Alan Conrad?”

She thought. "No. father.”

“No reference ever made by him at all
to either name—Alan or Conrad?”

"No, father."

"No reference either to any one living

she demanded.

in Kansas, or to a town called Blue
Rapids?"
“No, father. Who is Alan Conrad ?"

"I do not know, dear. I never heard
the name until to-day, and Henry Spear-
man never heard it. But it appears to be
intimately connected in some way with
what was troubling Uncle Benny yester-

y. He wrote a letter yesterday to

lan Conrad in Blue Rapids and mailed
it himself; and afterwards tried to get
it back, but it already had been taken
up and was on its way. I have not been
able to learn anything more about the
letter than that. He seems to have been
troubled all day; he talked queerly to
you, and he quarreled with Henry, but
apparently not about anything of any im-
portance. And to-day that name, Alan
Com-ad. came to me in quite another
way, in a way which makes it certain
that it closely connected with whatever
has happened to Uncle Benny. You are
quite sure you never heard him mention
it, dear?”

"Quite sure, father.” .

He released her and, still in his hat and
coat, went swiftly up the stairs. She ran
after him and found him standing before
a highiboy in his dressing room. He un-
locked a drawer. in the highboy, and from
the drawer he took a key. Then, still
disregarding her, he hurried back down-

As .she followed him. she caught up a
wrap and pulled it around her. He had

told the motor, shes-wind new. to wait:

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MICE. HOLSTEINS WIN PLACES
AT NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW
IX Holsteins from Michigan won

nine ribbons at' the 1924 Na—
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at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Two oth-
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selves unable to place in open

classes, when shown with the lucky
six, constituted a State Herd that
won third premium.

These are, indeed, great honors to
bring back from the National Dairy
Show. The very best, the pick of
the Dairy States, compete at the Na-
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even tenth as classes frequently in-
clude over ﬁfty entries. Oftentimes
an animal that has been judged ﬁrst
prize at a large State Fair is found
placed ﬁfth or sixth at the National.

The head of the Michigan Herd
was Count Veeman Segis Piebe own—
ed by Lambert and Webber of
Clarkston. This fellow was able to
place fourth in the strongest bull
class of the Show—the three-year-
old division.

The Junior hull of the Herd was
a son of “Count.” His name is the
same as his dad’s, only with “8th"
added. This youngster landed
eighth place in the senior calf divis-
ion, competing with thirty—eight en—
tries. He also came from the herd
of Lambert and Webber.

Three cows over three years of
age are called for in the constitu-
tion of a State Herd. Each one of
Michigan’s trio landed a place.

Bessie Fayne Johanna, owned by
Dudley Waters and Martin Buth of
Grand Rapids, took second place
among forty—seven contestants in
the “5 years old or over” classiﬁca-
tion. She was led by a Colorado
cow, “ZWingara Segis Clothilde,”
the only undefeated champion of the
big line circuit this year. Had the
Michigan cow carried about two
hundred pounds more ﬂesh the
judges would have had to take even
more time than they did before put-
ting the Colorado cow above her.
But Bessie was shown in her work—
ing clothes as she has been running
on yearly test since freshening last
March.

A stablemate to Bessie, Maryland
Walker Colantha, placed tenth in
this same class.

The third member, Tessie Henger-
veld Segis, from the Detroit Cream-
ery Company Farms, at Mt. Clem-
ens, found herself in fourth place in
the three—year—old class. One of the
cows above her was afterwards
made Grand Champion of the Show,
another one has won more ﬁrst
premiums than any other Holstein.
So “Tessie” traveled in fast com-
pany—the best ring, in fact, of the
whole show.

Michigan can also be proud of
these three cows because they all
placed in the classiﬁcation for cows
having ofﬁcial yearly records. The
requirements for entry are that the
cow must have produced in official
test of 300 days or over, butterfat
exceeding by 50 per cent the re-
quirements for admission to the
Advanced Registry of the Breed.
After so qualifying, judging is made
on individuality only without re-
spect to the record itself.

“Bessie”, ﬁnishing her second
record over 900 pounds of butter in
a. year, took ﬁrst place in this class.
“Maryland Walker”, with 891
pounds of butter from 23,553.4
pounds of milk as a four year old,
stood fourth. “Tessie,” competing
in the Junior division of this classi-
ﬁcation, took third. Her record
made as a two year old is marvelous
—869 pounds of butter from 24,—
106.9 pounds of milk. Surely these
cows are not only prize winners for
type, but proven producers. Along
this line of thought it should be
mentioned that the dam of the
“Count” bull had over 36 pounds of
butter in a week with 1273 pounds
in a year.

Reformatory Pontiac Canary 2nd
from the Michigan Reformatory at
Ionia stood eleventh, or just outside
the money in the two-year old
group.

Fourth place fell to the Junior
yearling, Lakeﬂeld Count Veeman
Piebe. She is from the Lambert and

 

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Little Winnwood Pietertje Orms-
by M. 0. Wayne from the John H.
Winn farm at Rochester, found her-
self in the largest class of the Show,
over sixty being entered in the heif-
er calf group. She got lost in the
shuffle. However, she did her bit
for Michigan by coming out in the
State Herd Class with the others al-
ready mentioned; and Michigan
stood third.

Officials of the State Holstein As-
sociation-,who gathered the Herd to-
gether, as well as the breeders who
loaned the animals, are well pleased
over the satisfactory showing made.

Michigan dairymen iiirgei-neral.-ap-l

preciate such creditable advertising
for the dairy industry—J. G. Hays.

 

BREEDER GIVES. GOOD ADVICE
TO BUYERS
NE of the most business like let-
ter heads we have seen in some
time came to our ofﬁce recently
from Nashville Stock Farm, Otto B.
Schulze and Sons, proprietors, at
Nashville, Mich. The name and ad’-
dress and “Breeders of thorough-
bred O. I. C. Swine” are set up in a
very neat manner but the real feat-
ure—to us at least—of the letter
head was a column printed on the

lefthand side of the : page, . in ' the ,

space ordinarily left for a margin,
headed “Hints to be Observed in
Ordering Pigs”. In this column
Otto B. Schulze and Sons give some
very good advice to the prospective
buyer. Part of this advice is:

“Don’t feel sore if stock is sold
before your order gets in; ﬁrst
come, ﬁrst served. The breeder
can’t hold stock unless by special
agreement. I don’t know who will
answer or not. In ordering always
write your address plainly, and give
shipping address whether same as
P. 0. address or not.

“When ordering a pig, if you say,
‘send me on not akin to the one I
got of you before’, please give date
of former deal. It saves lots of time
looking over duplicates."

 

BLACK-TOP MERINO FLOCK
AT M. A. 0.
EN Black—Top Merino breeding
T ewes have been donated by en-

thusiastic breeders and accept—
ed by the Michigan Agricultural
College for experimental and educa-
tional purposes. They are the
eighth breed in the the college ﬂock
and are the only representatives of
the Merino family except the Ram—
bouillets.

The Black—Top Merino breed has
never had much publicity and recog—
nition at fairs in this state, but their
performance under farm conditions
has led to their wide distribution
from the south edge of Gratiot and
Saginaw counties, south through the
eastern and central part of this
state. In some communities they
have practically replaced most of
the other breeds.

Heavy ﬂeeces of long ﬁne wool is
their strong paint. The "wool is
longer than that produced by any
other breed that is ﬁne enough to
grade as Delaine. They have oil
enough and of a character that gives
a very black surface when exposed
to the sun and storm and protects
the strength and character of the
wool ﬁbers. They are very hardy,
raise a good percentage of lambs
and have proven themselves a very
proﬁtable wool and mutton breed of
sheep on hundreds of Michigan
farms.

These sheep are registered by the
Improved Black-Top Merino Sheep
Breeders Association and all trace
back to the original importation
from Spain by Colonel Humphrey in
1802 and later improved by William
R. Dickinson of Steubenville, Ohio.
Most all of the present members of
the Registry Association are Mich-
igan breeders. The Association was
organized in 1885 and its present
secretary is Mrs. O. M. Robertson,
Eaton Rapids, Michigan.

Members of the association be-
lieve that much beneﬁt will come to
their breed through having a rep-
resentative ﬂock at M. A. C. and at
their annual meeting, last August,
offers to donate ewes from’ several
different ﬂocks were sent to . the
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not skin, from bi strong stock, recorded free.
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Fowler & Son; Eaton" Rapids, ’ene
from R. E. noes; Hewell, 'one from
Gee. E. Haist, Chelsea, one from
Otto 'D. Luick. Chelsea, and one
from 0. C. Burkart, Chelsea. Presi-
dent of the improved Black-Top De-
laine Merino Sheep Breeders’ Asso-
ciation. , I

The Association is making an ef-
fort to get representation in the
premium list of the state fair next
year and in more of the county
fairs. Many of the members are go-
ing into the Register of Merit certi-
ﬁcation work proposed by the Mich-
igan Fine-wool Sheep Breeders As-
sociation, and if they can get an—
thentic records to back their claims
for wool production the breed will
certainly be able to command more
attention.

OUTLOOK FOR TIIE BU’I'I‘EB
MARKET' ‘

ECAUSE of the prospective gain
in butter production this fall
and winter over last year and

the large surplus accumulated in
storage during the flush season, the
outlook for butter prices is not as
strong as in either of the last two
years, according to the Blue Valley
Creamery Institute in a survey of
the butter situation just completed.
Prevailing prices are about 7 to 10
cents a pound lower than a year ago
and already discount most, if not
all, of the bearishness of the situa-
tion. Seasonal conditions are likely
to bring a moderate advance in the
next few months, especially on high
grade fresh butter, although much
of the decline compared ‘with last
year’s prices is likely to be main-
tained.

WISCONSIN MAN T0 JUDGE AT
TOP 0’ MICHIGAN POTATO SHOW

NE of the leading experts on

potatoes in the country, Prof.

J. E. Milward, Horticulturist of
the University of Wisconsin, will be
the judge at the Top 0’ Michigan
Potato Show this year, according to
Mr. A. C. Lytle, secretary of the
Show. Mr. Lytle says, "We are an-
ticipating a much bigger and better

The “Dark Horse” Issue of Reapportionment

(Continued from Page 3)

was to have over a third of the rep-
resentatives and senators of the
state Legislature, we would no long-
er have a rule of the majority in
Michigan but a rule of the highly
organized minority. Thirty-ﬁve or
forty per cent of the members of the
Legislature, all coming from a small
congested area and all voting togeth—
er on important issues, could con-
trol our tax policies and all of our
other important laws as they would
be much more affective in putting
things across than the same number
of members coming from regions
widely scattered over the state.

Then, too, it is apparent that it is
much easier for a man representing
a congested city area to ﬁnd out
how his people feel about any issue
and to represent them accurately
than for a man attempting to repre-
sent the same number of constitu-
ents scattered over a large area per-
haps comprising several counties. It
is also true that it is more diﬂiCult
and requires more time and money
to put up a campaign over a large
area than in a region of dense popu-
lation containing the same number
of voters. These are a few of the
arguments in favor of the retention
of the moriety clause.

In view of Detrot’s insistent de-
mands for greatly increased repres-
entation in the State Legislature, it
is interesting to read an editorial
which appeared in the Detroit Free
Press of July 23, 1924. This editor-
ial is entitled “Improving the Lans-
ing Delegation” and is given over to
a plea that better men he sent to
represent Detroit in our legislative
halls at Lansing. ,

ty vs. Quantity

This editorial states in part:
“That there is a crying need for a
movement of this kind The Free
I’ress pointed out early in the pres-
ent month. Our present Lansing
delegation is about as far from be-
mg representative of this metrop-
..Olil as it can possibly be. It has
been We in_sinost_em_ quali-
ﬁcations delegation from. a giant
city-should possess.

   

 

a; N am than list year.
‘ country. With ‘Antrin county in

and we must Item. .

was-"said to be one of the best in the

the race competition will be both
antiserum and keen. We expect at
least 200’entries of northern Michi-
gan’s best. Our premium list is ful-
ly as attractive and the classes are
about the same. The 32-potato class
will attract the most competition as
usual. The judging contest for bass
iide farmers which is scheduled
should cause some scratching of the
head and, possibly, some keen rival-
ry. At any rate, the task before
Prof. Milward—the judge—is not
going to be an easy one, but being
one of the most competent judges of
potatoes in the country, we know
that we are all going to beneﬁt
greatly by his presence."

_‘_ VETERINARY
DEPARTMENT

CATS HAVE DISTEMPER

We have been having trouble
with our cats. They sneeze, cough
some and their head seems to be
ﬁlled up so they can hardly breathe.
There is a discharge from the head.
They are this way even in hot
weather. They seem to be better at
times, then are worse again. Could
you tell us what it is and if there is
anything we can do to cure them?
-—-A. N., Portland, Mich.

HESE cats are very likely suffer-
ing- from distemper. This is an
infectious disease, the prog-

nosis of which is unfavorable. The
cats should be kept in a moderately
warm place free from drafts of air,
and every precaution taken to pre—
vent unnecessary exposure. The ap-
petite can be tempted by offering
small amounts of lean meat. Liver
may be offered occasionally. Fresh
clean milk should be allowed in
small quantities. The eyes and nose
should be cleansed with a warm two
per cent boric acid solution. Sul—
phocarbolate tablets are recom-
mended daily as a bowel disinfect-
ant. These can be best secured from
your veterinarian with directions
how to give—John P. Hutton, As-
sociate Prof. of Surgery and Medi-
cine, M. A. C.

 

 

 

confess that its failure to measure
up to its requirements is in large
measure the fault of our own peo-
ple. There has been neglect of and
indifference to the personnel of the
Lansing ticket, and the inevitable
consequence has been subsequent
regret and indignation and some-
times shame.”

We might suggest that Detroit
diligently apply herself to the tre-
mendous task of enforcing local,
State, and National laws within its
own boundaries and electing men
to represent it who will inspire con-
fidence that some increase in Wayne
county representation would not be
a calamity to the state.

- As one senator expressed it when
testifying before the Senate appor-
tionment Committee a year ago:
“Let Detroit learn to govern itself
before it tries to govern the whole
state". With Detroit men in so
many of our important elective and
appointive state ofﬁces, there are
many thoughtful citizens Who be-
lieve that we have gone entirely far
enough in turning over the control
of our state to one city.

The moiety clause is our best pro-
tection and it would seem to be a
calamity if the voters on November
4th should abolish this protection
and take this radical step in govern-
ment which goes contrary to the
principles of our national govern—
ment and the experiences of the sev-
eral states.

There is no doubt but that a re-
apportionment measure should be
passed in the not far distant future,
but there is no need of adopting an
amendment which is radical, ex-
treme and entirely unsafe to the
state as a whole.

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STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MAN-
AGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED
BY THE ACT OF‘CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24.
1912, of The Michigan llusmcss Farmer, published
biweekly at. Mount Clemens, Mich., for October 1,
1924. but the names and addresses of. the
publisher, editor, managing editor and the busniess
managers are: Publisher, George M. Slocum, Mount
Clemens, Mich. Managing Editor, Milon (lrinnell,

Clemens, Mich. That the owners are: Give
names and addresses of individual owners, or, if a
corporation, give its name and the names and nd-
6! ms of stock-holders owning or ho ing 1 per
cent or more .of the total amount of stock. The
Rural Publishing 00., Inc., Geo. M. Slocum, M.
H. Slocum, Mt. Clemens; W.‘\V. Slocum, Fil'l'lll-
ington; C. Allen, Lake; Aug. and E. Amps,
Owosso: N. Powell, Oden; C. J. Prattn Charlevmx;
J. Ritzler. Rogers; F. _R. Schnlclr, Chicago; F. A.
Lord, Ls eer; W. Sebrmer Marine City; A. Voss,
Luther; . Wolff, Riggsvﬂle; F. Yost, Bridgeg‘ort,
Mich., E. Ellsworth, Washington, D C. 3. hat
the. known bondholders, mortgagees and other se-
curity holders owners owning or holding 1 per cent
or more of. total amount of bonds, mortgages, or
other securities are: (If there are none so state.)
Citilens Sayings Bank. Mt. Clemens; R. R. Olds,
gem-cit, Mich. Milon Grinnfell. Managing Editor.

of October. 1924. Ralph E. Griﬂith.
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Butcher-ing day on the Childs Farm at Mendon. Michigan.
the Childs family was going to do much worring about their winter supply of meat.

It doesn’t look as though

Marketing Pork at a Good Profit

“ ‘HE cheapest meat a. farmer can
use is the product of his own
farm” says the U. S. Depart—

ment of Agriculture, yet each year

the number of farmers who butcher
declines. Instead of killing and cur-
ing their own meat they ship their
hogs to the packing centers and the
fresh and cured meats are shipped.
back to supply local needs. It is
not. uncommon for a farmer to haul

a load of hogs to town and bring

homc with him a packinghousc side

of bacon, a, ham or ﬁl'ty pounds of
lard. This custom does not work
to the advantage of the farmer.

Work on the farm is not urgent
during the, winter months, and farm—
ers have ample time to do their
home butchering, to put up their
winter supply of cured meat and
lard, and then sell the surplus. The
progressive farmer can make meat
production very proﬁtable, saving
money by producing meat for his
own table and making money by
producing it for market.

A farmer we know who has raised
purebred Duroc--Jersey hogs for
several years told us recently that
he butchered every fall and winter,
and after putting away his winter’s
supply, sold his surplus to his neigh—
bors and regular customers in near—
by towns. He uses purebreds be—
cause he said it paid. “They grow
faster and make better pork” he
said. And an investigation of his
records showed that he had averag-
ed 20 cents a pound, ﬁguring live
weight, for his hogs for several
years.

What this farmer has done and is
doing every year, most any other
farmer can do if he lives within
driving distance of a good town, but
ﬁrst he must produce the right kind
of hogs, feed them properly and then
equip himself for killing, dressing
and preparing his products.

Finished Products Bring Proﬁts

The price of pork products always
allows ample proﬁts for those who
turn hogs into sausage, lard, hams
and bacon. The farmer who ships
hogs to market receives, as a gener-
al rule, from 8 t0 9 cents per pound
and pays freight and commissions. A
250—pound hog, at 9 cents per
pound, brings the former a gross
sum of $22.50.

According to the United
Department of Agriculture,
pound hog will make:

35 pounds of ham, 34 pounds of
shrouldcr, 26 pounds of bacon, 30
pounds of lard, 24 pounds of loin,
8 pounds of trimmings, 19 pounds
of head, 41/2 pounds of feet.

If these products were sold at
prices which would allow the farm—
er to divide proﬁts with the consum-
er, the farmer would receive in ex—
cess of $50 for his hog.

The advantage of producing and
butchering for home use can only
be fully appreciated by those who
have tasted country—cured hams and
bacon. This appreciation becomes
greater when the retail price of
these products is compared with the
cost of production and curing. Those
who produce for home use generally
have a. surplus, and when the prod-
uct is properly prepared and offered
in a clean and attractive package.

States
a 250—

no trouble is experienced in obtain;

ing regular customers. Many farm—
ers make it a practice to not only
sell large quantities of fresh meat
to town customers, but to dispose of
many hams, sides of bacon and 0th-
cr cured products, averaging from
200 to 300 per cent above the mar-
ket.

To make a success of butchering
for home use or for the sale of meat
products directly to consumers, one
must not only familiarize himself
with the best methods of killing,
dressing, curing and preparing” for
market, but must have a. full appre—
ciation of the great necessity for
cleanliness and be equipped to do
the work rapidly and economically.
Much of the equipment can be con~
structed on the farm. The rest can
be purchased at comparatively small
cost. A convenient location for kill—
ing and dressing should be selected
and all obstructions removed. This
location should be thoroughly clean—
ed. A ﬁreplace should be construct-
ed for the dipping vat, or for swing—
ing a large kettle in which to heat
water, if barrels are used for dip—
ping. A vat is preferred as a per—
manent piece of equipment and a
ﬁreplace constructed under one end.
Near this vat a derrick is erected
and equipped with tackle so that the
carcass may be easily handled from
the vat to the scraping board and
back to the derrick where the en-
trails are removed. A heavy and
substantially built table should be
constructed on which the carcass
can be laid in cutting up. Other
equipment should consist of knives,
cleavers, hooks, meat saws and meat
axes.

Some Other Items

With this equipment the farmer
is ready to kill and dress his animal.
Unless he has ~made arrangements
to dispose of his meat at once and
does not care to smoke and cure
harms and bacon, or prepare other
products for home use, or to be
sold later, there are several other
things to be considered. First comes
a properly constructed smoke—house
with the right kind of fuel handy.
then comes the casks or barrels in
which to salt down the meat, and
not the least, but inexpensive, is the
meat or sausage grinder and saus-
age stuffer, of suﬂ‘icient capacity to
do the work well and quickly. Salt
pepper and other material to be us—
ed in curing meat, of course, is' nec—
essary. These things are spoken of
on other pages of this issue.

The farmer—butcher should not
only be clean, but should put up
such a product as will be appetizing.
“The farmer and his family deserve
just as good products as does the
consumer in towns, but the consum-
er demands the best, whereas many
farmers are content to do their
work in a slovenly manner. Hams
and bacon, spareribs, lard or other
pork products, if offered for sale,
should be nicely trimmed, clean and
neat in appearance, and protected
from ﬂies and dust with clean cloths
and waxed paper. Waxed paper can
be purchased almost anywhere.
Cheesecloth is cheap and can easily
be made‘ into sacks of the proper
size. Don’t offer the public a prod-
uct that does not look clean. If it
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His experience of interest to
every farmer

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and has had sev-
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8-inch burr wide open, for chopping oats
and corn.

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as to sausage, although many claim
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A FLOCK OF CHICKENS ON
EVERY FARM
VERY farmer should have a
ﬂock of poultry on his farm.
The more the better. But be
sure that it is of some pure breed,
for it does not take any more feed
or care for the purebred than it does
for the mongrels, which do not lay
the eggs the purebreds do.

I have learned some very interest-
ing statistics from the 1920 census
of the United States. The total cash
value of livestock in the United
States is about $5,000,000,000, and
as $1,000,000,000 of this is for
poultry, it equals one<ﬁfth of the
livestock. The total for farm prod-
ucts is about $14,000,000,000, hence
poultry is about one fourteenth of
the total agricultural resources of
this country.

The farmer makes a short crop,
with average price, a large crop
with a low price. He doesn’t know
what else to do to make a little
money. The farm hen is the cash
product for the farmer to turn to,
and promises greater returns on
smallest investment than anything
else on the farm. Grain, such as
corn, oats, wheat, etc., is about the
same price it was twenty-ﬁve years
ago, but the cost of producing has
increased very much.

Poultry and eggs together are
products that have increased more
than 500 per cent in the last twenty-
ﬂve years. I firmly believe $200 in-
vested in poultry will make the
farmer more money than $200 in-
vested in livestock, or $200 invested
in some kind of grain crop. So ev—
erything indicates that every farm
should have a ﬂock of poultry.

It is known from statistics that
poultry can be made to pay. Ten
acres properly fenced, and houses
properly built, will produce more
net cash than 100 acres devoted to
general farming. If you have a
ﬂock, see that all the hens are pro-
ducing well. If they are not, cull
them. Do not keep them to look at,
but replace with vigorous stock that
will pay their keep and give you a
proﬁt. You can do it. There is no
danger of over-stocking the market.
Go to your grocer and see if there is
not always a sale for poultry prod-
note.

There is money in the poultry
business, wherever you may have it,
but the farmer will have the least
expense of feeding them. That is,
if he gets the type of poultry that
will rustle. The saying is, “It is
the fellow who has little money and
a lot of determination who eventual-
ly makes the greatest success of
anything that he goes at," to win
success, we have to strive for it,
taking losses good—naturedly, but
proﬁting thereby.

I have just returned from a tour
of Europe. On my tour, I visited
over thirty of Europe’s greatest
poultry farms, and attended ten
poultry shows, and I ﬁnd that there
is one in the “show poultry stock"
to where there are six hundred in
the “utility poultry stock.” Every
European farmer has a ﬂock of
purebred poultry of some kind, and
poultry and eggs are higher in that
country than in this. They say
there is no danger of getting the
market ﬂooded with poultry prod-
ucts in that country.

All my railroad and auto trips
were taken in the. daytime, and I
noticed that each farm had from
one to three chicken houses. These
were about 6 feet wide, 8 feet long,’
7 feet high, and were mounted on
four _, iron wheels. These houses
were full of roost poles. As soon as
the farmer harvests his crop, the
house, or houses, are moved to the
ﬁeld. ‘withabout thirtyto- ﬁfty hens

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would cover it up. Those days are
over."

No one will buy the second time
from a farmer who has sold some-
thing for what it is not. Sausage
made of parts that ought to have
been made into lard, fries down to
little hard lumps and is so unsatis-
factory that a second purchase is
rarely made. Right service coupled
with right products will always de-
velop a steady trade worth dollars to
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in each. After keeping them up one
day, to learn their roosting place,
they are turned out in this ﬁeld to
eat the waste. They range around
these houses about 100 feet each
way. When they have eaten all the
waste, the houses are moved 200 or
300 feet in another direction and
the poultry eats the, waste as before,
and so on until the farmer is ready
to break the land. Then he plows
around the houses, and the poultry
follow him like the crows, or other
birds, do in this country, to eat the
worms, etc. When the farmer has
plowed up to the house he pulls it
away to another location and plows
around it as before, so you see the
farmers do not have to feed their
ﬂocks at all during all this time, and
they never lose any product of the
farm, like the farmers do in this
country.

A farm ﬂock will pay any man, if
he will give them a little attention
after he has bought a purebred ﬂock
of birds. I have this from several
farmers, that poultry will eat boll
weevils, grasshoppers and other in-
sects that destroy their crops. This
being so, why not let poultry save
the cotton and other crops of the
South? The boll weevil is the
South’s greatest menace at this
time, so get busy and get a farm
ﬂock, which will make money in
more ways than one.

The Hens That Lay

“I like to work with hens that pay,

The ones that lay each winter’s day;

But when a hen does nought but eat,

I have to make her pay as meat.

Because, you know, the hens must
pay,

Or else my bankroll shrinks each
day.

I like to watch a proud old cock

Go strutting ’round and lead the
ﬂock;

But sometimes they in stew go too,

For that’s the only thing to do:

And then my bankroll swells galore,

Till some day I shall work no more.”

—A1ex Johnson, Farm and Ranch.

 

WANTS TO PRESERVE KALE
FOR WINTER USE

Is there some way to cut or pres-
erve Kale for winter use to feed
chickens? I know that clover and
alfalfa is used as feed by soaking in

hot water. Could I do the same
With kale?—-—J. L., Birmingham,
Mich.

O my knowledge, no attempts
have been made to preserve
kale. I doubt very much if it

could be handled successfully unless
curred like tobacco, which calls for
suspending it, downward in a dry
room. It seems to me, however, it
would lose most of its feeding value
if so treated. It could not be hand—
led like alfalfa or clover to bring
it back to the succulent stage which
is much desirable in feeding during
the winter months. Undoubtedly
the kale would undergo a soft rot
in attempting to store it in piles
without being cured. This is the
writer’s personal opinion, however,
and We would rather recommend
spending time and effort in sprout-
ing oats which are possibly the most
palatable and nutritious green food
for the winter months—E. C.
Foreman, Professor of Poultry Hus-
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bank account of the man who owns me;
I can subtract from the principal of his
mortgage; I can multiply his chances for
success; I can divide his cares and wor-
ries; I can give more interest to his work;
and I can discount his chances for loss."

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Farming Outlook Continues to Improve

Further Advances In Wheat Prices Expected
By W. W. FOOTE, Market Editor.

HE presidential election affects
T city people more than farmers,
although its inﬂuence is wide-
spread, and in some lines of manu-
factures and business marked cur-
tailment is reported. After the elec-
tion is over it is expected that busi-
ness will reach large proportions
once more, and in all probability
the holiday trade will be much larg—
er than that of last year. Our for-
eign trade is making a remarkably
good showing, and the banks in
farming districts give good reports,
the advances in prices for farm pro-
ducts enabling farmers to meet their
obligations. The high prices offered
for the new wheat crop have been
taken advantage of by many tarm-
ers, and much of the grain has gone
to market already. This is true also
of the rye crop, that grain having
undergone a wonderful boom in
prices. Oats have had a rise too,
although it is smaller than that in
the other cereals. The advance in
hogs has been extremely sensation-
al, the upward movement exceeding
most expectations, and the recent re-
action in values, severe though it
was, came as a natural result. It is
highly unfortunate that farmers
suddenly started in to market their
underweights and mere pigs, and
the collapse in prices for the
youngsters was terriﬁc. The object
of this premature marketing was to
avoid feed bills, but in most cases
the wiser course would have been to
hold on to the pigs and under—
weight hogs. The cattle market has
been good for the better class of
yearlings, which were much wanted,
with no large offerings, while grassy
cattle and heavy steers were dis—
criminated against and sold at low—
er prices much of the time. Sheep
and lambs have been proﬁtable to
owners, and much of the time of
late prime handy-weight lambs
have sold around $13.50 to $14 per
100 pounds, while the best feeding
lambs sold as high as $12 to $13.35.
Farmers who have remained out of
the sheep industry are anxious to
get in, and breeding ewes are much
in demand at $6.75 to $12, yearlings
selling highest, with few offered for
sale. Improved farm machinery
plays an important part in the mid-
dle west, and there is a threshing
ring in Illinois that used a 35 horse
power electric motor to operate the
grain separator.
American Exports Increasing

American exports are still on the
increase, the total for September
reaching the record ﬁgure of $427,-
000,000, while imports also rose to
$285,000,000, according to statistics
compiled by the Department of Com—
merce.

This leaves the United States a
favorable balance of trade of $142,-~
000,000 compared with $127,788,-
190. balance of September, 1923.

Total exports for the ﬁrst nine
months of the year amount to $3,-
124,146,417, against $2,940,144,675
for the same period in 1923, while
imports totalled $2,667,893,336 for
1924, a slight decrease from the $2,-
904,137,043 for the nine months in
1923.

Secretary of Commerce Hoover,
commenting, said that so great an
increase was probably abnormal, but
that there seemed to be a general
tendency for continued increases.

Mr. Hoover pointed out that
American foreign trade has increas-
ed 30 per cent in quantity since
1918.

Gold imports fell off sharply dur-
ing September to $6,555,341 from
$18,149,981 in August.

Large Montana Bean Crop

A; R. McDermott, vice president
of the Montana National Bank of
Billings, writes to Live Stock .mar-
kets as follows: “The bean crop,
which is now being harvested, is
turning out splendidly and growers
in some instances are getting a gross

return of $100 per acre, and there
is not a great deal of expense handl-
ing this crop. I would say that the
average gross return on beans in the
valley would be about $75 per acre,
based on the present price of $5.20
to $5.50 per cwt. We estimate that
about 400 cars of beans will be
shipped out of this territory this
season, which should return the
growers about one million dollars.

Highest Prices for Grain

Wheat, corn, oats, rye and barley
are selling at extremely high prices,
values being away higher than in re-
cent years, and cheap grain is not
expected this crop year, although
after such galloping booms as have
taken place during recent weeks re-
actions are inevitable. Within a
short time December wheat has sold
at $1.525; per bushel, a new high
price on the crop, comparing with
$1.05% a .year ago, while wheat for
May delivery advanced to $15664.
Many farmers have seized the oppor—
tunity to sell part of their wheat,
acting on the principle of “the bird
in the hand", but it has been deemed
best to reserve some grain for the
future, for further advances appear
probable, to say the least. The do—
mestic consumption of the new crop
of winter and spring wheat has been
and still is very large; and exports of
wheat and ﬂour have far exceeded
those for a year ago. Rye exports,
too, have been reaching extremely
generous proportions, and after the
many months of very low prices, they
have undergone a big boom. Late
sales were made of rye for December
delivery at $1.37, comparing with
69 1743 cents a year ago. The extreme—
ly high prices paid for corn months
ago on crop scares have been fol-
lowed by much lower values, al-
though prices are still far above
those paid in recent years. A short
time ago December delivery was sell—
ing for $1.14 comparing with 77
cents a year ago. Oats are selling
at very good prices, although their
rise has been smaller than that of
other cereals, the stocks in sight be-
ing very heavy. A short time ago
December oats sold at 56 cents, com-
paring with 42%,» cents a year ago.
Cash lots of barley are bringing 86
to 96 cents a bushel, according to
quality. The future seems to look

brighter for wheat prices than for
corn and oats. It is pointed out by
leading authorities that for several
years there has been an overabun-
dance of bread grains and insufﬁcient
supplies of feed grains. This situ-
ation. is now reversed, and- the world
today is short of foodstuffs. It is
claimed that there is more» feed
grain, hay and forage than can pos-
sibly be used consumed within the
present crop year. On the other
hand, the position in wheat is re-
garded as bullish, while that in corn
and oats is bearish. Of course,
these are only opinions, and they
may be mistakes. As for corn, the
continued excellent weather over the
corn belt and the liquidation of live
stock by farmers have a-disturbing
inﬂuence on prices. There is too
much low grade hay coming into all
markets for the demand to absorb
readily, while good hay of all kinds
meets a ready sale, with $26 a ton
paid in the Chicago market for’No.
1 timothy. There is much discussion
over the future of grain prices, and
there is a disposition to take proﬁts
every time the price of December
wheat gets above $1.50 or May wheat
sells above $1.56. The shortage of
choice seed corn is a serious matter,
and farmers cannot be too careful in
marketing their sele‘Ctions. It is
better to pay what seems too high
a price for seed corn than to be easy
going and trust to luck. Soft corn
is going to be much more plentiful
than usual. One farmer has put
600 tons of soft corn into silos and
has a surplus left. The improved
situation in Germany promises to
bring about much increased imports
of breadstuffs from this country, and
already such shipments are being
made.
Yearling Cattle Wanted

For several weeks the demand for
well fattened light weight cattle has
been growing, and prime yearling
steers and heifers have sold at much
higher prices in the Chicago market
than the best long fed heavy steers.
The week’s cattle receipts were much
larger than a week earlier, and many
grassy offerings sold badly, while
weighty steers were especially dull
and showed reductions of 50 to 75
cents. On the other hand, the best
yearlings sold up to $12.60, equal-
ing the top last April. Recently
yearlings have been selling from $1
to $2 per 100 pounds higher than the
heavier steers. The bulk of the
steers sold last week at $8.75 to
$11.75, with the better class of year-
lings at $11.60 to $12.60 and the

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Detroit Chicago Detroit Detroit
Oct. 22 Oct. 22 Oct 8 1 yr. ago

“WHEAT—-

N0. 2 Red $1.51} 1.50@ 1.51 $1.50 $1.13

No. 2 White 1.55 1.52 1.14

No. 2 Mixed 1.54 1.51 1.13
CORN-—

N0. 3Yellow 1.15 1.11 1.17 1.13

No. 4 Yellow 1.09@1.10
OATtr—

N0. 2 \Vhite .54 §é .50@.51 .57 - .48

N0. 3 White .52 K .48 @ .49 .56 .46
RYE—

Cash N0. 2 1.82 1.27 @ 1.28 1.33 .77
BEANS— ‘

C. H. P. th. 5.40 @ 5.45 6.20 @ 6.25 5.40@5.50 5.40 @ 5.50
POTATOES— ,-

Per CWt. 1.00 1.00@1.10 1.23@1.26 1.33@ 1.36
HA 1'— _

No. 1 Tim. 19@20 22@23 19@ 19.50 21 @22

N0. 2Tim. 16@17 18@20 16@17 19 20

N0. 1 Clover 15@16 17 18 19@20 18 19

Light Mixed 17 @ 19 i 20 22 17.50@ 18 20.50@21

 

 

Wednesday. October 21—th and .oats strong after. slight decline. Corn and -
rye unchanged. Beans continue unchanged. Cattle and hogs lower. .

 

 

-‘ Detroit. m and m Wed-003.: Live-M ”M‘Nm Page.

best heavy steers: at $11 to $12. No

good steers sold below $9.25, and

sales were made down to $6.75 to
$8. for the cheaper» class of light
weight steers. Butcher lots going at
$2 to $3.30, bulls at $3 to $6 and
calves $5 to $11. The stocker and
feeder trade was only moderate at

$3.25 to $7.75 for interior to prime.-

lots, sales being mainly at $5.50 to
$7. Common lots were lower. A
year ago beef steers were selling at
$6.50 to $12.80 and thirteen years
ago at $4.40 to $9.15. A few in-
ferior killing steers are selling at $4
to $6.50. Combined cattle receipts
in twenty markets for the year to
late date aggregate 11,108,000 head,
comparing with 11,356,000 3 year
ago and 10,781,000 two years ago.
Slump in Hogs

Just at the time when owners of
hogs were dreaming of hogs going
to the highest prices ever known
they spoiled everything by glutting
the market with pigs and under-
weights. and prices were smashed to
a point that was far below recent
levels. The cause of this mistaken
premature marketing was a desire to
avoid feed bills and to take good
prices while they were to be had.
The plan was a bad one and worked
out disastrously, many thousands of
underweights being carried over un-
sold nightly. There was a marked
widening out of the price range, with
sales of the heavier hogs at the high—
est ﬁgures. Eastern shippers failed
to purchase the usual proportions of
the hogs, and competition was there-
by reduced materially. Declines in
prices were far more severe in lots
averaging 100 to 150 pounds than in
heavier lots and one day the drop
in the light lots amounted to 50 to
75 cents, while it was only 10 cents
in the best heavy butcher hogs. Com-
bined receipts in twenty markets for
the year to late date amount to 32,-
269,000 hogs, comparing with 33,-
030,000 a year ago and 25,705,000
two years ago. Healthy pigs and
young hogs should be held to matur-
ity. One year ago hogs were selling
at $6 to $7.75 and two years ago at
$7.70 to $9.90. Recent sales were
made at $9 to $11.25, comparing
with $9.85 to $11.85 a week earlier.

The Lamb Market '

Frequent reactions ocCur in lamb
prices, but well fattened ﬂocks are
taken all the time at prices which
mean fair proﬁts for sheepmen, and
the shortage of western range feeder
lambs has sent prices up sharply.
Lambs in the Chicago market sell at
$10 to $13.40 and feeding lambs at
$12.50 to $13.40. ,

WHEAT _.

Week before last the wheat mar-
ket weakened slightly, and prices
declined, but during the week end—
ing Saturday, October 18th, the tone
of the market was very- ﬁrm and at
Detroit the total increase for the
week amounted to Sc, bringing the
price up to 50 higher than quoted
in the last issue of THE Busnvsss
FARMER.

There was little change in the
market over a week ago, and indica-
tions are that prices will at least
continue at present heighth and per-
haps make advances in the near fu—
ture. D. W. Snow has issued a
statement showing the world out-
look to favor higher prices for
Wheat, and whenever the market has
weakened and prices decline, they
eagerly bought everything in sight.

CORN

Corn is not in demand like wheat
and the price is slightly under what
it was two weeks ago. Trading in
this market has been featurless and
the market is held steady, although
buyers are not very numerous at
present.

OA'IS

A lack of demand was also notic— .

ed in the cat market during the past
fortnight, and prices are lower than
they were two weeks ago. Commis-
sion merchants have been selling
oats quite ”readily owing to the
weakness in corn. Receipts have
been fairly . liberal, but country of-
ferings to'arrive are nothing. . p

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advances in price! that wheat did
during thetwo weeks ending Satur-
day, October 18, Matthew is a de—

' mand. for rye, and. we believe that

this grain will he wanted by the
foreigner before another season. At
present they seem to be interested
mostly in wheat, but many of the
foreign nations are used to rye
bread and will take rye if prices in
the wheat market get to an unfavor-
able heighth. '

BEANS

Certainly something must be done
to bolster the Michigan bean market
because prices on Michigan beans
are declining, while in California
prices advance, and everyone knows
that Michigan beans are better than
any other variety produced in the
United States. Even the producers
of California beans will not deny
this. Read the article on page 2 on
why Michigan beans are so much
lower in price than California beans.
We are in receipt of a letter from
the writer of the article on page 2,
and he states “California markets
still climbing, while Michigan is go-
ing down. Guess your farmers must
submit to the manipulations of var-
ious dealers and elevators." This
shows that even people from other
states are of the opinion that Mich-
igan growers are not getting what
they should for their product. One
Michigan company advises us that
their brokers at Baltimore, Md.,
write “Strange to say, all beans have
been moving good with us excepting
Michigan’s, the best bean in the
country.” We sincerely hope that
the advertising campaign which was
put into operation October lst will
create such a demand for Michigan
beans that the market manipulators
will be unable to continue to force
prices downward. We believe that
the grower who threshes his beans
in a good dry condition, and has a
place where he can store them will
be making money if he holds his
beans.

POTATOES

The potato market weakened
some during the fortnight ending

 

  

 

 

 

Week of October 26
HE high temperature point of
the week will occur about
Tuesday or Wednesday. Maxi-
mum temperatures will not range
high during this week but minimum
temperatures will show an average
trend downward.

Sunshiny days and clear, cool
nights are expected in Michigan at
very beginning of this week but
about Monday or Tuesday condi-
Following this

fall in many parts of the state. The
winds will be strong and dangerous
for shipping. Snow flurries are
also probable at this time.

There will be little or no precipi-
tation in this state during last half
of this week with the probable ex-
ception of Saturday.

Week of November 2

First half of week will be general-
ly fair in Michigan but stormy with
rain or snow and high winds during
last half. The temperature during
ﬁrst part of week will be cold but a
general upward movement will start
about the middle of the week. The
highest temperature reading will oc-
cur about Friday after which time
temperatures will fall to about 15
degrees above zero.

Dry November

The fact that precipitation is et-
pected to be less than the seasonal
normal during November may help
many farmers to get a great deal of
their winter and next springs work
done. We ﬁgure it will be an ideal
month for those people who advo-
cate fall plowing.

Basing our statement upon ex-
pected weather conditions rather
than anyeha'nge in sun rise or sun

  

,mtf‘we'f'helieve there‘will be more
routine ‘

law during this
”than usually scours.

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motorists nam ' invades“:

ell. AtDetroitdu-lngthat,perloda

loss, of from 23 cents to 26 cents

was recorded.» Trading has been
slow and receipts are small as farm-
ers do not like the condition of the
market. A dull tone prevails in the
market at present.

HAY

Markets generally have been
quiet to dull. Low grades are in ov—
er—supply and are clogging the mar-
kets, in some instances being offered
at prices as low as $14, without tak-
ers. Timothy is easier on heavy re-
ceipts in many markets. Alfalfa is
steady, with a good demand for the
better grades. Markets generally
are‘irregular with under grades very
slow sale.

LIVESTOCK MARKETS
DETROIT, Oct. 20.—-Cattle———Receipts,
240; market, opening slow and about
steady. Good to choice yearlings, dry fed,
$9.50@10.75; best heavy steers, dry fed,

$7.50 @ 10 ; best handy weight butcher
steers, 86 @6.75 ; mixed steers and
heifers, $5.25 @6 ; handy light butchers,

$4.50@5.50; light butchers, $3.50@4; best
cows, $4.50@5; butcher cows, $3.50@3.75;
common cows, $2.50@3; canners $2@
2.50; choice light bulls, $4.25@4.50; heavy
bulls, $4.75@5; stock bulls $3@4; feeders,
$4.50@6; stockers, $3@5.75; milkers and
springers, $45@85.

Veal Calves—~Receipts 383; market
steady. Best, $12.50@13; others, $11.50.

Hogs~Receipts, 2,248; market pros-
pects lower. Mixer hogs and heavy york-
ers, $10.90; pigs, $8.00.

m
~ 610.88; ton, $11.25; heavy

cascade—35pm 20.00.:
as to {be lower. M 30.75
810.50
@ﬂlji; medium weight, ”0.4061130:
light weight. $9.15@10.90; light “ﬂats.
87.75@10; heavy packing sows, smooth,
8969.25; pigs, $6.50@7.50.
Cattle——Receipts, 8,000; market steady.
Beef steers: Choice and prime, $9.75@
10.75: medium and good, $8@9.25; good
and choice, $11.50@12.60; common and
medium, $7@9. Butcher cattle; Heifers,
85@10; cows, $3.50@7.50; bulls, $3.50@
6.50. Canners and cutters: Cows and
heifers, $2@4.50; canner steers, $5@7.
Veal calves, light and handy weight, $8.50
610.50; feeder steers, $5.50@8; stacker
steers, $567.50; stocker cows and heifers,
”@550; stocker calves, $5@7.50. VVest-
cm range cattle: Beef steers, $6@9.50;
cows and heifers, $3637. Calves—Receipts,
1,000.

Sheep and lambs——Receipts, 17,000;
market 15 to 25 cents higher. Lambs,
fat, $13.50@13.75; culls and common,
$8.50@10; yearlings, $8.50@10.50; weth-
ers, $6.50@8.50; ewes, $7.00; culls and
common, $1.60@3.50; breeding, $64912;
feeder lambs, $12@13.50.

BUFFALO—Cattle—Receipts, 450;
market weak. Prime steers, 88.75@9.80;

shipping steers, $8.50 @ 9.50 ; butcher
grades, $8@9 ; heifers, $5.50@7.50 ; cows,
$2@5.75: bulls, $3@5.50; feeders, $4@

6.50; milk cows and springers, $35@115.

Calves—Receipts, 900; market steady.
Cull to choice, $3@13.

Sheep and lambs—Receipts, 4,000; mar—
ket steady. Choice lambs, $13@1'3.50;
cull to fair $8@12; yearlings, $7@10;
sheep, $3@8.

Hogs—~Receipts, 6,400; market steady.
Yorkers, $10@12; pigs, $10@10.25; mixed,
$12@12.10; heavy, $12@12.10; roughs,
$9.50@9.75; Stags, $4636.50.

HE Nation’s bean crop is approx—
,imately three million bushels
less than that of last year ac-

cording to a report issued by Verne

H. Church,

(9531 .23

Michigan Agricultural

Statistician and L. Whitney Wat-

kins,

Commissioner of Agriculture.

While the yields are up to average
in most states the acreage is consid-

erably less
white beans.

in the states growing
Based upon the aver—

age of previous years, Michigan has
75 per cent of the entire crop of

white beans.

A special inquiry on

October 1 developed the information
that 88 per cent of the Michigan
crop is white varieties, 10
red kidneys and two per cent soys.
The average pick is 6.5 per cent;

the average yield,
acre;
621,000 bushels.

It

per cent

11 bushels per
and the total production, 5.-
is estimated

that eight per cent of the State’s
acreage was abandoned for various
reasons, leaving a harvested acreage

of 511,000.

The telegraphic reports from the
principal bean growing states are as

 

 

follows:
Average
Price Yield Production
per per in
Bushel Acre Bushels
New ~York ............ $4.00 13.0 1,703,000
Michigan 2.90 1 1.0 5,621,000
3.50 11.4 114,000
.50 3.7 1,132,000
.80 5.0 550.000
0 8.5 42.000
19.5 1.208.000
11.0 1.903.000
9.2 12.782.000

 

Make Each
R.R. Crossing
' A Stop Street

' Most Michigan cities compel motorists to bring their
cars to a full stop before crossing any heavy—traffic street.

This law is universally approved. It saves time and
averts accident. It is wise and fair.

Yet heavy motor vehicle trafﬁc is far less dangerous to
you than a railroad train. Speed is the very essence of
Railroad service. A train cannot stop quickly. Nor can
it turn out to avoid hitting you.

Six states have already passed laws, making stop streets
out of Railroad intersections. The time may come
when the State of Michigan will compel you by law
to thus protect yourself.

 

But, why wait for law, when you have common sense?

Determine today that, from this time on, you will always
bring your car to a full stop before crossing a Railroad
track, anywhere—any. time.

Everybody will approve your good judgment. Many
will follow your exam le. And you will be relieved
forever from the possi ility of this, the most serious
of common accidents.

Michigan Railroad Association

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THERE is one thing, more import-

ant than great cities and rich
farms. It is the American Spirit. It is
the spirit that threw off the shackles
of tyranny and gave birth to the Re-
public.

 

The Spirit of' America is the Spirit
of Liberty. America without Liberty
would not be America at all.

The founders of this Republic rec-
ognize the importance of Liberty
when they laid the foundations of our
present greatness.

The Constitution of the United
States guarantees Freedom of Speech,

Press, Religion and--EDUCATION.

This Freedom is now being chal-
lenged by an effort to abolish all pri-
vate and church schools.

The School Amendment is contrary
to the Spirit of America.

It will not be approved by any man
or woman who loves America and its

ideals.

MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF
PRIVATE AND CHURCH SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Dementia; Protestant and Non-Denominational Schools

  

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Washington:

“I have often express-
ed my sentiments that
every man conducting
himself as a good cit-
izen and being ac-
countable t o G o d
alone for his religious
opinions ought to be
protected in worship-
ping the Deity accord-
ing: to the dictates of
his own conscience.”

 

Jefferson:

“I have considered re-
ligion as a matter be-
tween every man and
his Maker, in which
no other, and far less
the public, has a right
to intermeddle.”

 

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Lincoln-
0
_ “If you have been in-
:‘ clined to believe that
all men are not creat-
ed equal in those in-
alienable rights enum-
erated by our charter
of liberty: let me en-
treat you to come
back! Return to the
fountain Whose waters
spring close by the
blood of the Revolu-

tion.”

 

Roosevelt:

“The good citizen will
demand liberty for
himself, and as a mat-
ter of pride he will
see to it that others
receive the liberty
which he thus claims
as his own.”

 

“Religious liberty has
its unalterable place,
along with civil and
human liberty, in the
very foundation of the
Republic. Therein is
shown the farseeing
vision of the immortal
founders, and we are
a better people and a
better Republic be-
cause there is‘ that
freedom.”

 

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