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IGAN SPUD POOL

HIRTY-FIVE of the local asso-

ciations which constitute the

Michigan Potato Growers Ex-
change, have completed rcor'glniza—
tion under the ﬁve—year pooling con-
tract, according to‘R. A. Wiley, the
farmer who is in charge of organiza-
tion work.

Each of the 35 locals has more
than 5-0 percent of the acreage of
its district. while at some places the
percentage of sign-up .13 86. Ten
other districts are said to be nearing
their minimum quotas. The number
of individual contracts exceed 4000.

The exchange was formerly a loose
federation for sales purposes, and de-
veloped weakness in that it could not
1 control the marketing. Under the
5‘ new producers contract the Exchange
‘is given greater strength and will
operate in a manner similar to the
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MALE HOW BIDDING

COUNT! OP 1'. E. POULTRY
Hillsdale county board of
supervisors have appropriated
$500 tor co—operatim work with
the United States department of ag—
riculture and the Michigan Agricul—
tural college for the inauguration
of a systematic campaign for the
eradication of tuberculosis from all
poultry flocks in this county. Hills—
dalc county was the ﬁrst in the
United States to undertake cmopera-
tive work with the federal govern—
ment and the state in the eradication
of tuberculosis among cattle and this
county was the ﬁrst to receive the

‘ adored by the packers on hogs bred
and fed in an accredited county.
This new movement to systematically
eliminate tuberculosis tron all pool.-
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named 38' NM Honey

week, according to R. H. Kcity
of the entomology department of
 A. C. During this week cam-
: paign will be conducted with the
purpose of encouraging the use ot
honey in all forms. Honey will be
; tournd on sale at; all groceries and
restaurants. Statements from prom-
inent doctors indicate that the use
of honey is healthQu-l as well as
. gratifying to the taste.
A novel use for honey was recent—
. l-‘y discovered when it was iound a
- proper mixture or honey and water
’ makes a peth anti—ﬁrearm mixture.
It is not only cheaper, but more of-
ﬂcic‘n’t than alcohol. It is n
to caution that the mixture should
be made up in the proper propor-
‘ tions, or it is useless.

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communes

‘ BOUT ﬁfty Michigan farmers are
.. , in the M. A. C. Farm Crops dept.
contest this year to see who
‘ can make- thc most proﬁt, growing
corn. These men» are keeping all
production costs on ﬁve acres of corn.
This includes plowing, dragging, roll-
ing, planting, cultivating, etc, cost
of Seed, amount of manure used, and
the amount and kind of commercial
fertiliser.

They are not keeping any records:
of the cost of harvesting, as some
will hog down the corn, some will
husk h-om the run. others will cut
and shock before bushing”. Neither
are the taxes, rent, nor interest made
a part of the records.

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selutivc of the Fedllratm, in dis-
cussing the action to be taken by
the Senate when it convenes Decem-
ber Z. The tender made by Henry
Ford passed the House by a large
majority and the “Meet was made
theirstoraerothastneseinthe
SenateMnothinxelucanbetsken
up until it is disposed of.
WA (JO-OP WILL FIGHT
no PROTECT CO-OP LAW
ll lighting blood of 208,000
Minnesota coopth has been
stirred by the report that var-
ious dealer groups in the Twin Cities
are preparing a “last ditch" attempt
to obtain the repeal of the state’s
cooperative marketing law. The six
state associations met in Joint con-
ference recently to plea that ﬁght
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an amalgamation: tor mutual pro-
tection, are the Minnesota Potato
Growers Exchange with 14,006 mem-
hers, Poultry and m Producers Ex-
change with 13,600, M City Milk
Producers Association with 6,200,
Minnesota Cooperative Creameries
Association with 85,000, Minnesota
Wool Producers Association with
5,000, and the Central Live Stock
Cooperative Commission Co. with
85,000. .

MICHELEX PLANT MARKETING
BEANS

.. R the ﬁrst 25 days of October.
' the Michele: Elevator and
Warehouse Company, eon-opera,-
tive terminal bean elevator and bean
picking plant for the Michigan Ele-
vapor Exchange shipped out 25 can
loads at sacked trade-matted} beans
to the trade under chhdex, Bunker
Hill and St. Clair  Tho last
two We were I adopted recently
tor second and third grade beans.

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More than 12,000:   and
girlie from {move my use Can—
ada will be  st the Third
Austral» Boys? and W Congress
held in Chicago  the ter-
nacronal Livestock W this
year.

These boys and girls well represent
700,000 4—H club masters: and. their
trip to the National  will be

then them because they were win-

ners in competition in agricultural
and homc‘making projects: as- e‘; part
of their club work.

E. W. SHEETS APPOINTED CHIEF
AW . L Hus" mum MION
i. W. SHEst has been appointed
Chief of the  ﬁnshendry
Division of the Bureau of Ani-
mal Ind‘u‘sﬁy,  States Depart-
ment of Agriculture, eﬂ‘cc’tiva Octo-
ber 16, 1924. This was one of the
last ofﬁcial acts of the late Secretary
of Agriculture Wallace. Mr. Sheets
has been in charge of the animal
husbandry  of the department
since» the resignation or Geo, E. Rom-
mel in 1921, with the exception of
fourteen months that L. J. Cole 01
the University of Wisconsin served
as chief. .
Mr. Sheets was born and raised on
a livestock farm in West Virginia.
He received the-degree of Bachelor
of Science in Agriculture from West
Virginia University in 1-912 and the
degree of Master of Science from the
University of Illinois in 1014. He
had been elected a fellow attire lat-
ter university for the completion of
his work for 3 Ph. D. degree when
in 1918 he was celled to the depart-
ment for duty in connection with the
act of Congress to stimulate meat
production in the United States. In
1019 he was placed in chm of the
v one,
and new Acting outer or t s Ani-
mal WW Men in 1-921.

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Gratiot county says that he shipped
out last year 1-7? ‘Gﬂm
with a. gross NIB or $230,000.
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In Resolutions Adopted at 513t Meeting the Capper-Williams Bill, Child Labor Amendment, Tax Exempt
Securities are Condemned, Endorsement Given Truth-in-Fabric Bill, Enforcement of

ROWNING a year of successful
Grange progress, the 61st ses-
sion of the Michigan State

Grange, held at Petoskey last week,
may .well be regarded as. among the
most proﬁtable state meetings ever
held by this venerable and really re-
markably farmers’ organization. A
program of reports, business, dis-
cussions and addresses blended with
the warm spirit of Grange fratern-
alism, made the four-day session
pleasant and proﬁtable to the hun-
dreds of delegates and others in at-
tendance.

That the Grange in Michigan is a
truly live and going organization
was indicated by the report of State
Master A. B. Cook of Owosso, who
called attention to the fact that 37
Granges have been established or
reorganized in Michigan during the
past year, and that in this respect,
it is the banner state in the Union.
Master Cook declared, in discussing
state affairs, “We have demonstrat-
ed that with the assistance of organ-
izations whose cooperation we can
secure, that we can initiate consti-
tutional amendments, for with the
assistance of the other farm organ-
izations and the Michigan Federa-
tion of Labor, we secured practical-
ly twice the requisite number of sig—
natures for placing the income tax
amendment before the voters. The
moneyed interests of the state have
used every means at their command
to ﬁght this amendment. *‘* What-
ever the outcome may be on Novem-
ber 4, the Grange has done a Won-
derful work in directing public at-
tention to the injustice of our pres-
ent system. The income tax will re-
quire a continuation of our work
whether the amendment prevails or
not.”

Debate Income Tax Measure

Discussion of the income tax
amendment commanded attention
at frequent intervals throughout the
sessions. Tuesday evening was de—
voted entirely to a debate between
Overseer C. H. Bramble of Lansing,
and Frank Sparks, Associate Editor
of the Grand Rapids Herald, on this
proposition. If this issue of THE
BUSINESS Fumes were to be read
before election day, considerable
space would be devoted to giving in
detail the arguments advanced by
these two gentlemen, but under the
circumstances, the amendment will
either be passed or defeated before
this article is in the mails.

Suffice it to say that Overseer
Bramble in defending the proposed
amendment, pointed out the present
intolerable taxation conditions in
Michigan, calling attention to many
of the facts which we have been
placing before the readers of THE
BUSINESS FABMER from time to time,
declared that the income tax was
right in principle, that it could not
be passed on for if it could be big
business would not be opposing it,
gave ﬁgures to show who would pay
such a tax, how much it would
raise, explained how it would be en—
forced and carried. out, declared
that it would not apply to corpora-
tions and that it did not endanger
the primary school fund, and assur-
ed his hearers that it would really
be a substitute tax lessening the
burden on real estate.

After Mr. Bramble had spent an
hour and a. quarter presenting the
argument briefly stated above, Mr.
Sparks took an exactly equal
amount of time in a vigorous attack
on the amendment. Mr. Sparks de—
clared that while he was in favor of
the principle of an income tax, still
he did not like theﬂspegiﬂcHamend-
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Eighteenth Amendment, Gas Tax, Work of M. A. C.

By STANLEY M. POWELL

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GRANGE STAND ON LEGISLATIVE MATTERS
AMONG the more important resolutions relating to state affairs
adopted by the Grange at Petoskey might be mentioned: En-
dorsement of a gasoline tax, and condemnation of tax exempt se-
curities; resolution giving rural view-point on reapportionment; no
reduction in sugar tariff; endorsement of Meggison bill; opposed to
Child Labor Amendment; endorsement of area plan for bovine tuber-
culosis eradication; several recommendations regarding game laws;
endorsement of work of M. A. 0.; urge continuation of reasonable

building program at M. A. C.

When it came to national issue the Grange declared itself as fav-
oring the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Waterway; national truth-in-fab-
rice bill; granting of feeding in transit privileng for live stock; strict
enforcement of Eighteenth Amendment; the Ketchem bill. The Grange
condemned the (Dapper-Williams bill and the Winslow bill.

 

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was proposed to secure an income
tax was improper, that the propose-d
amendment would increase rather
than decrease the tax burden and
that the amendment would be un-
wise, disasterous, unpatriotic and
un-American. He declared that by
writing the details of rates and ex—
emptions into the constitution there
was a serious lack of flexibility. Mr.

Sparks attempted to point out that ,

the amendment would affect direct-
ly and indirectly many farmers who
supposed it would not apply to
them. He also attempted to show
that the amendment would apply to
corporations and that it would en-
danger the primary school fund.

Discussion following he debate
showed that despite the objections
which Mr. Sparks had attempted to
raise, the assembled Grange dele-
gates were almost unanimous in
feeling that the proposed amend-
ment, while perhaps not entirely
perfect, would still offer material
relief and more equitable taxation
conditions than now prevail in
Michigan.

Butter-ﬁeld Addresses Gmngem

It was exceedingly appropriate
that the feature speaker of the
Grange program should have been
Dr. Kenyon L. Butterﬁeld, the new
president of the Michigan Agricul-
tural College, who returns to Mich-
igan after an absence from the state
of a quarter of a century. Dr. But-
ter-field, because of his past assoc-
iations and attitude toward rural
social problems is deeply and cor-
dially interested in the Grange pro-
gram and progress. In the great
address which he delivered Wednes-

day afternoon, Dr. Butterﬁeld told
of his early connection with the
Michigan State Grange as editor of
the Grange Visitor thirty—two years
ago. Dr. Butterﬁeld said in part:
“If we are going to preserve the
American farmer on a high plane,
there are some things which are es-
sential. We must get together on
a large general program. We must
think of Michigan not as nearly
200,000 farms but as one large

farm. All our splendid agricultural
agencies and organizations must
work together. Cooperation of

farmers in their local community
project is one of the ﬁrst essentials
for the greatest success. The local
group can get together, think to-
gether and work together. It is
the ﬁrst requisite.

“The work of our college is an—
other matter which deeply concerns
the agricultural progress of our
state. This work is three-fold,—
teaching students, research and ex-
tension. I am deeply concerned re-
garding some problems which are
arising in connection with our
county agricultural agent work. The
method of extension is not sacred.
But you can’t afford to let this work
lapse. It is far too valuable to
lose.”

Mr. Butterﬂeld in his addressed
developed the great motto of Hor-
ace Plunket, “Better farming, bet—
ter business and better living."

Fraternal Feeling Reigns

Probably the high point in Grange
fraternal feeling was reached at the
big banquet held in the Hotel Cush-
man Wednesday evening and at-
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DECLARATION OF PURPOSES ADOPTED BY GRANGE IN 1873

DR. BUTI‘ERFIELD, new president of the M. A. 0., in his address
before the Grange called the “Declaration of Purposes” adopted
by the National Grange in 1873 “the best single document con-

cerning problems of agriculture.”

The declaration was as follows:

“We propose meeting together, talking together, working to-
gether, buying together, selling together, and in general, acting to-
gether for our mutual protection, and advancement, as occasions may

require.

“We wage no aggressive warfare against any other interests

whatever.

0n the contrary, all our acts, and all our efforts, so far as

business is concerned, are not only for the beneﬁt of the producer and
consmnqr, but also for all other interests that tend to bring these two
pal-ﬂu into speedy and economical contact. Hence we hold that trans-
portation companies of every kind are necessary to 'our success, that
their Masts are intimately connected with out interests, and bar- .
minus action is mutually advantageous. keeping in view the ﬁrst
sentence in our Declaration of Principles of Action, that ‘individual
happhccs depends upon general prosperity’.”

 

 

the method by which it 

program consisting of songs, jokes,
stunts. addresses and remiscences
was of a somewhat informal nature,
but left a deep impression upon all
the delegates because of the under-
tone of sincerity and fraternalism
prevailing throughout. A feature of
the evening was the presentation of
a silver fruit tray to Miss Jennie
Buell who retires from forty-one
years of active ofﬁcial service for
the Michigan State Grange.

The report of State Lecturer Dora
H. Stockman, of Lansing, was one
of the outstanding messages deliv—
ered at the Petoskey convention.
After discussing matters of partic-
ular interest to the Grange, Mrs.
Stockman called attention to the
crisis in agriculture and told of the
fundamental conﬂict which is now
being waged between agriculture
and big business, headed up in the
Federal Department of Commerce.
She quoted Willis Booth, president
of the International Chambers of
Commerce, as voicing this spirit in
the following words: “In no nation
has industry and agriculture pros-
pered side by side very long. Either
one or the other must dominate and
it is time for agriculture to domi-
nate America.”

Mrs. Stockman added “The trend
of big business in trying to sub—
merge agriculture is being carried
out from many angles. Just now
there is a ﬂood of propaganda being
sent out to manufacturers. merch-
ants and other business men, say-
ing, ‘More taxes on agriculture and
less on industry’.” Mrs. Stockman
discussed the Federal proposals
bearing on this conﬂict. She con—
demned the Winslow bill which
would place the work of marketing
farm products under the Depart-
ment of Commerce instead of the
Department of Agriculture, and also
attacked the Capper—Williams bill
which, she declared, would build up
a big marketing department outside
of the Department of Agriculture.
Her indorsement was given to the
bill introduced by Congressman
Ketcham which would strengthen
the position of the Secretary of Ag-
riculture in assisting the farmer in
marketing his products.

A crisis is at hand she declared,
“Fellow farmers, the crisis in ﬁg-
riculture is here. Shall we tamely
submit to seeing big business con—
trol the marketing of our farm pro-
ducts and reduce our farm people
to peasantry or shall we ﬁght not
only for our rights but for the
rights of the future America? If
America is to go forward to a pros-
perous future, agriculture and in-
dustry must go up the road of pros-
perity together. The crisis is here
not only for agriculture but for
America.”

It is one of the outsanding char-
acteristics of the Grange organiza—
tion, whether state or national, that
annual meetings are deliberate bod-
ies at which there is a very careful
consideration of the issues of a leg—
islative character. The State Grange
session at Petoskey was no excep-
tion to this rule. In fact, it was an
outstanding example of this Grange
policy. The various committees took
themselves seriously and reported
out many worth while resolutions.
The discussions on the floor were
very enlightening and helpful in the
formulation of sound and progres-
sive commitments which will tend
to demand respect and inﬂuence fut-
ure state and national legislation."
Among the more important resolu-

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Spanish PriSonerFraud
Crooks Try to Work World’s Oldest Swindle

on Business Farmer Reader

OR over three hundred years the

Spanish prisoner has been in

jail, in spite of the fact that
many people during that time have
helped to get him out. He has
plenty of money—$360,000—and a
big heart, and all he needs is help,
just some one to provide the neces—
sary bail to get‘him out of jail and
he will give them $120,000—at
least that is what he says in his let—
ter.

One of our readers in Gladwin
county received a letter early in
September, telling him about this
trouble and thinking there was “a
nigger in the woodpile" he sent it to
The Business Farmer’s .Service Bur—
eau asking for advice. It is a
swindle pure and simple, and is per—
haps the oldest that is known. But
let us read this letter:

“Madrid 21st—8—1924. Dear
Sir: Being imprisoned here by
bankruptcy I beseech you to
help me to obtain the sum of
360,000 dollars I have in
America, being necessary to
come here to raise the seizure
of my baggage paying to the
Registrar of the Court the ex-
penses of my trial and recover
my portmanteau containing a
secret pocket where I have hid—
den two checks payable to bear—
er for that sum.

“As reward I will give up to
you the third part, viz: 120,000
dollars.

“I «can not receive your
answer in the prison but you
can send a cablegram to a per—
s01 of my' confidence who will
deiver it to me addressed as
follows: Romate. Lista tele-
grafor Guernica Vizcaya, De-
tails Whetstone.

“Awaiting your answer to in—
struct you all my secret now I
sign only, R. (le S.

“First of all answer by cable,
not by letter.”

Doesn’t that sound interesting?
The receiver of such a letter many
times gives it some thought because
it is addressed to him and the entire
letter appears to have been written
with pen and ink. However, a care—
ful study of the letter will reveal

that very little of it is written by
hand, the main part of it being
printed, so apparently the people
invited to participate in the $360,-
000 number many.

If our reader had swallowed the
bait and replied to this letter he no
doubt would have received a request
to forward three or four hundred
dollars—maybe more and ~maybe
less. If he forwarded the money he
would spend the rest of his days on
this earth wondering what had be-
come of the Spanish prisoner and
his money. Or a reply to the ﬁrst
letter might have brought the infor~
mation that the poor prisoner had
died, but he left a beautiful daugh-
ter who would be so glad to rescue
the‘ property and ﬂy to the savior’s
arms. We can see a beautiful Span-
ish maiden ﬂying into the arms of a
brawny farmer 'while his wife stands
one side and applauds——yes, we can
not. Farm wives, prepare not to do
battle should husband receive a
“:Spanish prisoner” letter and answ-
er~ it, because the maiden, once she
received the money, would ﬂy in
the opposite direction from her
benefactor.

This swindle has been worked in
every country in the world, in every
state in the Union, and perhaps
nearly every town or community in
this country. Out in Iowa the farm‘
ers had an opportunity to help the
prisoner and Wallace’s Farmer told
its readers:

“This is the oldest of conﬁdence
games. History records that it was
originated shortly after the Great
Armanda of Phillip of Spain was
smashed by Drake and Hawkins off
the northern Europe coast in 1588.
Immediately afterwards Englishmen
began receiving such letters from
supposed victims who had need of
help to get a share of their fortunes.
Many Englishmen bit and some went
to Spain but never received any
money. '

“The second outbreak of “Spanish
prisoner’ letters, and the ﬁrst to hit
America, came shortly after the
Spanish—American war in 1898. S01-
diers who had been in Cuba began
to receive letters in beautiful scripe
pleading with them to help a Span—
iard who was in prison. Methods of

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It Takes All Kinds of People to Make a Trip Across the Ocean

By FRANCIS A. FLOOD

This is the third article of the
series by Mr. Flood on his travels in
Europe, and. like the first two, it’s
a “humdinger”. Almost as good as
taking the trip yourself, and much
cheaper.

ND the morning and the evening
were the second day. I had
been at sea, on the great S. S.

Leviathan, from New York to South—
ampton, England, a whole day by
the calendar but, on account of the
daily Change of time, only 23 hours
by my watch.

“It is time for dinner, sir”, said
my cabin valet in his respectful
tones as he entered my stateroom to
touch up my black pumps and to

ﬁ‘view of rur'al England, showing one of the pictureSque little thatched root cottages.

lay out my tuxedo and hard-boiled
shirt. If I (lid not dress to grace
properly the first class dining room
on the ﬁnest ship that sails the seas,
it would not be the fault of my per—
fect cabin steward. “It is half—past
six, and dinner will be served from
seven, sir.”

“Why, I have only ﬁve—thirty”, I
dcmurred, and I was sure of it be—
cause by watch was guaranteed for
a year and I’d had it only a few
months. Besides, if it wasn’t a re—
liable watch I was out two dollars.

But just then the ship’s gong
sounded ﬁve bells, which means six-
thirty, and the case was won for the

 

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cabin steward without forcing him
to disagree with me.

Sailing cast one meets the sun
earlier each morning and must set
his watch ahead according to the

distance traveled during the day.
Everyone sits up until midnight

when the day’s run is posted and the
ship’s clock is corrected so that pas—
sengers may set their watches be—
fore going to bed.
A 23 Hour Day

On a fast ship, as the Leviathan,
one loses an hour a day sometimes.
That is, it is midnight by his watch,
his appetite, and the time since din—
ner,——by all ways of sensing the

 

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passage of time it is midnight. And
then, of a sudden, it is one o’clock!
Without getting the beneﬁt of an—
other hour of life, without living a
moment longer, or knowing where
the time goes, all at once it is an
hour later.

One gets only a 23 hour day on a
fast ship sailing east. That has its
advantages for one gets his full
round of meals every 23 hours—but
then he has to get up in the morn—
ii g once every 23 hours. Of course
I reasoned, that extra hour is stored
up, in the geography book or some-
place, and one gets it back when he
returns and sails west again. He
has simply loaned it until he sails

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FROM TAXES

would like to know if a man buy-
ing unimproved land on a contract

. is entitled to tax exempt, providing
‘ he has no other land?

It so how
much is he entitled to and how

1 long a time is be exempted from

taxes and would he have to write in
to the State Department at Lans-
ing‘l—I. L. 0., Vanderbilt, Michi-
gan.

L call your attention to Sec-
tions 4192 and 4193 of the
Compiled Laws of 1915,

which provide that any cut-over or
wild lands actually purchased by a
person for the purpose of making
a home, shall be exempt from taxa—
tion for a period of ﬁve years there-
after, provided the purchaser act-
ually resides upon and improves at
least two acres of such land each
year in such a manner as to render
the land subject to cultivation. The
claiming exemption under
the statute must make application
to the supervisor for such exemp—
tion at the time the assessment is
made.—-—Clare Retan, Deputy Attor-
ney General.

BROADCAST OB DRJIJA?

Which is better, to sow seedings
by broadcasting them, that is, when
planting with grains, or to drill
them in with the grain? This is a
question that was asked in an agri-
culture class.—4Mrs. R. C., Milford,
Mich.

0R best results alfalfa, clovers,
and sweet clover should be
seeded at a depth of from one-
half to three-fourths of an inch.
Oats. barley, and wheat are usually
sown at a depth of from one to two
inches. When alfalfa and the clov-
ers are seeded with oats and barley.
and the alfalfa or clover seed passes
down the grain tubes with the oat
or barley seed, the alfalfa seed is
covered too deeply. Too deep seed—
ing is responsible for a. good many
failures.

When the seeder attachment of
the grain drill is in front of the
grain box, it is usually advisable to
allow the tubes to drop the seed just
in front of or onto the disks. In
this way the alfalfa seed will be cov-
ered about one—half the depth that
the oats or barley is covered. If the
seed bed is quite loose, it is some—
times advisable to allow the tubes
from the grass seeder to drop the
seed just back of the disks, and to
cover the seed with a chain fastened
back of the drill, or follow the drill
with a spike tooth drag, set very
shallow.-—C. R. Megee, Associate
Prof. of Farm Crops, M. A. C.

COMMISSIONER DOES NOT FIX
ROAD

I live one half mile oi! the main

road and the highway commissioner

has not done any work on our road

for two years and it is not ﬁt to

travel. There is money raised every

  
 

     
 
 
 
 

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Inquiries must be common ed by full name and address. Name not used If so requested.)

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chapter 10 and section 34 chapter
26 of same act, provides that a com-
missioner or overseer may be prose-
cuted by information or indictment

,tor any deﬁciency .in the highways

year for the side roads. but they will e

not work on my road. When I
speak to the commissioner about it
he says he will be down next week,
but he never comes. If I would go

and ﬁx the road myself could I col—'

lect money for same? The com—
missioner said he was not allowed
to pay people for working on their
road without being hired to do so.
Is that right? Can I do anything
about it? The road is not ﬁt to
haul a load on. The threshing
machine can not even get down it,
it is so bad. Please let me know at
once what I can do about it.—W. M.
0., Kewadin, Mich.

U would have no right to work

i on the road without the knowl-

edge and consent of the High-
way Commissioner or overseer of
that district and could not get pay
for any such work unless engaged
to do so. You might also get your-
self in trouble in attempting to
work on the road without such au-
thority.

Section 11 Chapter 2 Act 283
Public Acts of 1909, as amended,
provides that the Highway Commis-
sioner shall keep all roads in his
township in reasonably safe and ﬁt
condition for travel.

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occasioned or continued by his tacit
or neglect, and upon conviction
thereof, may be ﬁned in any sum
not exceeding ﬁfty dollars. You
must make your appeal: to the Com-
missioner and township board—R.
D. O’Keefe, Michigan State Highway
Department.
BLUING GUN BARREL

Will you please tell me how to
blue a gun barrel? Thank you.—
W. G., Edwardsburg, Mich.

parts you intend to blue
should be carefully cleaned and
polished, using a very ﬁne em-
ery cloth for polishing, and ﬁnishing
with croeus cloth. Great care
should be taken to see that no ﬁnger
marks are left on the steel. The
barrel bore and magazine bore
should then be plugged with cork so
that the acid cannot get inside and
injure the parts. Next dip/the parts
to be blued into nitric acid, taking
care to keep the acid of! hands and
clothing. Leave in the acid until
the proper blue color appears, then
remove, rinse with clear water and
oil to prevent rusting. Do not ex-
pect a ﬁrst class job the ﬁrst time
you do this as it is really quite
diﬂeult to produce a good. ﬁnish.—
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name norms OF Barnum

In a case of this kind what can a
person do? ‘I was away for awhile
working and was called home by the
illness of my brother and left my
clothes where I was boarding and
when I sent for them they would
not send them until I, paid three
dollars a. week storage. I came
home May 24th. Must I pay and
how much? Can they hold them if
I don’t? I have taken the paper for
ﬁve years now and I would not go
without it.——M. H., East Jordan,
Mich. r

WOULD advise you to bring an

action of replevin for the
clothes. While they are legally
entitled to compensation for stor-

age. the amount would be too small
to mention—Asst. Legal Editor.

WHITE WOOD TREES

Would like information on rais-
ing the seedling of the forest tree
commonly called the White Wood.
I have lots of seed of these trees but
don't know when to plant them or
where or how and also what kind of
soil is best. Thanking you for all
information you can give, I am.—
H. H., Vermontville, Mich.

O particular difﬁculty is encoun-
tered in growing these trees. A
light, well drained sandy soil

should be used for a seed bed. The
seed should be buried about one-
quarter of an inch and kept well
watered during the ﬁrst year. At
the end of the ﬁrst or second grow-
ing season these seedlings should
then be planted in the ﬁeld in their
permanent locations. White wood
does best on a moist rich loam. It
will not do well on dry sandy soil.
The viability of white wood seed is
very low. By planting the seed in

like to have answered.

cent may, germinate and‘ produce
trees. A bulletin published by the
United States Department cl Agri-
culture, entitled. “Growing and
Planting Hardwood Seedlings on
the Farm”, No. 1123 cover? this
subject generally—J. A. Herbert,
ﬁes: lgrofessor, Dept. of Forestry,

new no m (DUSIN

Will you kindly give no personal
information on the following ques-
tion. I have been married 14 years
to my ﬁrst cousin. He has no child.—
ren. but several brothers and sis-
ters and has considerable. property.
Cinlholdapartofhisestateasa
wife’s share, or will it all go to his
brothers and; sisters—in case. there is
ﬁmwﬂli—Mrs. H. 8., Elm Hall

HE marriage, being void on ac-
count of consanguinity, I am
of the opinion no men rights

could arise out of it, and that the
wife would not be entitled. to any
of her husband’s property upon his
death.——Asst. Legal Editor.

TAKE HES, $8101? AMER 30
DAYS

I have a legal question I would
I sold a
house and lot in the city of Lansing
on a contract to a Mr. B... he agree-
ing to pay the taxes. After four
years I ﬁnd the property for sale ftl'
taxes. I paid the taxes and sum-
moned him before the Commission-
er, obtained a judgment, and he
was given thirty days to settle
Question, if he fails. to attic in
thirty days what should be my next
move? Mr. R. has an equity at
$5,000 in this property; I have an
ﬁrst}? of $‘4,006.—C. W., Portland,
0 .

, UR next step would be to en-
ter and take possession oi the
place, as all the vendee‘s rights

in it would terminate upon the ex-
piration or the thirty days. After‘
having elected to declare the con—
tract forfeited and foreclosure, you
would not be able to recover from
the vendee the amount you paid for
taxes, as the contract is no longer
binding on either party after for-
ieiture.——Asst. Legal Editor.

CAN MAKE CANDY WHEOUT
LICENSE
Does a person have to have a
license in order to manufacture and
sell home made candy? It so where
would I apply for such a license?—
V. E. N., Iron River, Mich.

know 0: no statute which re-
quiree a person to secure a
state license in order to mam»

facture and sell home made candy.
-——Clare Eaton, Deputy Attorney
General.

LIABLE FOR mmrsss
I am interested in trapping and
hunting and would like to know i!
I could hunt and trap on other
grounds? Mainly if I could trap on
ﬂowing streams?—-W. L., Brant,
Mich.

PERSON who_enters upon the

premises of another to trap ev-

en en a. navigable stream.
would be liable for trepassing even
though he traps in the stream or at—
taches his traps to the banks or bed
of the stream.-—-Clare Retan, Deputy
Attorney General.

 

 

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many of the ’so’hoolrooms of De-
_ troit, is a motto, bearing the fol-
lowing plain, true words: “It pays,
always, to DO RIGHT and it NEVER
Pays to do wrong.”

These words may be considered,
with proﬁt, in connection with the
efforts being made to clean Detroit
of vice.

These efforts are most. worthy,
provided the motive is-right and the
method wise, but the driving of
these unfortunate women from De-
troit to continue their evil ways in
other cities, cannot be right, and
this is true of all cities, attempting
similar methods.

Reclaiming, through the rebuild-
ing of wrecked womanhood, is the
plain duty of Michigan's metropolis,
where the hundreds of church spires
point Heavenward and in whose
streets thousands of professed
Christians walk. I

If we consider the ancestry, the
environment and the temptations
which these outcasts of society have
to contend with, ought they to be
considered irreclaimable?

Let it not be forgotten that if
there were no male prostitutes there
would be no female prostitutes and
that the former class is the most
numerous and most to be condemn-
ed; yet they walk the streets of the
city in, granted, comparative re-
spectability.

Do you say that these women can-
not be reclaimed and brought into
the path of virtues? God created
them pure, but man has caused
them to sin and man should help to
restore to them their lost purity.

The lesson taught by the Savior,
when the sinful woman was brought
to Him for condemnation, and to be
stoned to death according to the
Jewish law, is a lesson for us in this
twentieth century, as we remember
His words, “Let him that is without
sin, cast the ﬁrst stone." And those
men went out self-condemned.

Knowing all of the temptations
and conditions which the woman
had met, Christ uttered these words,
"Neither do I condemn thee; go and
sin no more.”

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Day these sinful women will be far
less condemned than will be the men
who caused them to sin.

In behalf of weak, sinful human-
ity and in the light of this twentieth
century, in this nation called
“Christian” these Women of the
"red light" district should not be
driven to other cities, or to other
portions of the same city, but in-
stead they should be kindly, help-
fully led into “The Jesus Road,"
and all who helped to save them-—
these souls which God created——
will be glad in The Day of Final Ac-

counts—J. T. Daniells, Clinton
County.
“THE NOBLE 00W AND HER
MISUSED CALF"
(1) “In this country are twenty-

four million dairy cows, an increase
of seventeen millions in the last
ﬁfty years. The COWS produce in
money two billion dollars a year.
The important fact is that the
amount could be doubled if all men
fed and treated their cows as some
unusually intelligent do.

“The best cow gives four times as
much milk as the average cow.
There is no reason why the average
cow shouldn’t give twice what she
gives now.

(2) “There is also no excuse for
the slaugthtering of millions of
calves every year in their babyhood.
Veal is undesirable food, NOT easily
digested, lacking in strength.

(3) "Of course it would, be
Socialim, even bordering on anar-
chy, in the minds of some citizens,
but why shouldn’t an effort be made
to rake some of the wasted calves
on pasture lands belonging to the
Government?

(4) “Elimination of Texas tick,
soon to be accomplished in Florida,

r- and the development of ali~year-

around pastures there, would pro,-
vide homes for millions of calves.
(5) “Some plan ought to be de-
vised to save at least the calves-of
the big dairies. The poor little
creatures are knocked on the head
the moment they are _ born, taken
from their mothers, that never see

 

    
 

them. and thrown out on the refuse
pile, as the law prevents that going
to the butcher shop‘.

(6) “Cheap artiﬁcial food could
be found for them, to bring them to
the grass-eating stage. That would
solve one food problem.”

EAR Editorz—The above is tak-
en from the editorial page of
The Detroit Times, a great met-

ropolitan daily.

In commenting on article 1 as to
doubling the supply of milk by bet-
ter feeding of cows will question the
wisdom of such a policy for the av-
erage American stock farmer as his
objective may be dual purpose;
making dairy product, making beef
and perhaps turning waste roughage
into a more convenient form of fer-
tilizer to enrich the land. This
policy is no more of a waste than
the making of more pasture land
than is needed should the public at-
tempt it, and to double the supply
of dairy product without doubling
the demand would ruin the industry
completely as the dairy business is
now on the very edge of bankruptcy,
owing to high labor cost in the
United States.

As to article 2, there being “no
excuse” for slaughtering many
calves for veal. The reason for this
is knbwing that the consumers of
the cities will pay more for veal
than they pay for beef, hence the
folly of the farmer letting a beast
worth 12 cents, grow into a stocker
with but 6 cents per pound.

About article 3 and socialism no
comment is made, but to call the at-
tention to the fact that the forest
service of the department of agri-
culture and irrigation are now doing
all they can with the funds given by
congress to make waste places pro-
ductive of something useful to man
including the leasing of pasture land
to those who own calves.

Article 4 of Texas tick elimina-

k spars.-  
a conservative action "On

   
     
 
 
  

  

 

was a“ ' ' Awe: that. 
he s

     

rt of
experienced stock men: for ’tis well
known "that climate been great deal
to do with producing beef and not
much depending on temperature as
experience has shown on the semi-
arid high altitudes of the west
where some of our best dressing
averages are obtained, also some of
the best hides.

Article 5, on the saving of the
calves of the. big. dairies presents
some problem to the dairyman. First
he. don’t need the calves and he has
not been able yet to ﬁnd anyone
who does, and again experience has
taught him that the cows do better
freshened in regular intervals, the

‘time being for the manager to de-

termine, so what is to be done, but
to lay on the compost heap some-
thing that cannot otherwise be dis-
posed of.

As to the cheap artiﬁcial food
spoken of in article 6, a rare op-
portunity exists for inventive genius
to furnish a proﬁtable substitute for
a nurse cow or an animal loving
housewife coming regularly and
punctually with a pail of good
skim-milk and a. dish of cats prob-
ably never agaln‘xto be seen on a
dairy farm in the United States.
Bring on your substitute that will
show a proﬁt at market time and
your success is assured!

While I am writing this I imagine
a telepathic communication with
Aunt Jemima who lives ,far south of
town 1 range 1. She is busy cast-
ing meat scraps into lye making soft
s’éap for winter use to beat the kali
trust of “Ne Yok" (next week she
may be found making apple butter
to beat the can trust) and having
read the editorial her mind waves
radiate to every old fashioned farm-
er in the land thus:

“Will you-all please keep youa
skunk-cabbage bokase to home as
none of owa folk hain trubled wid
do. complaint dat skunk-cabbage is
genally used to cua ."—Ernest
Richardson, Huron County, Mich.

 

 

 

Ends Rubec Spinach

’ I‘IIE REASON

ELL folks here we come again
W an’ this time I’ve got a little

somethin’ to say ’bout sev'ral
things an’ one in partic'lar. You
know if a teller or she, happens to
live longer’n he or it ort to, most
always gen'rally they give some
sort of reason for it an’ try an’ ex-
cuse themselves in that way. Now
there ain’t no sort of reason why
anybody should live so long but
some of ’em do an' that brings me
to the point! Why have I lived so
long as I have? Well now, I might
answer that by sayin’ jest ’cause I
ain't died—yet. that is, as the teller
sez, not entirely.

Now you know there’s all kinds
of excuses oﬂered. I remember an
01’ lady, sed she had reached the
age of 98 an’ give as an excuse that
she had always smoked tobacco.
Well anybody that can smoke to-
bacco 98 years shouldn't ort to be
afraid of anything that could come
in another world an’ ort to be will-
in' to give room for some one who
was jest beginnin' to smoke.

Then there was an 01’ man—102
he wuz—he give as an excuse that
he had never. touched licker nor to-
bacco——had lived a temperate life,
had used common sense or some-
thin' like that an' had remained
single. Mebbe he had a good ex-
cuse as far’s it went, but up popped
'nother teller same age, sed he’d
made it a practice to take 3 or 4
drinks of licker every day, had
smoked an’ chewed tobacco all his
life—well he died right after the
Volstead law wuz passed so I’ll say
no more 'bout him.

Well folks so it goes. One wo-
man of ripe age sez she. lived long
'cause she never'went to dances nor
stayed up late nights—«mob» she
didn’t live much even it she lived.
long. But then another 01' girl
jumps in an’ laid all the fault of her
long life to the tact that she danc-
ed, went out with yearns men nights
an’ sez ‘that now, at 95, she feels
that a dance would beneﬁt her a
heap. 'Course she kinda hes-tates
when you speak 'boutgein’ outnat
night, so! she thinks.- Nineteen

is good for the eyes anisimlar but 7 r '

ﬂ ‘ S:  
w,

she’s a gay 01' gal jest the same an’
I see her every day. There wuz no
automobiles when she wuz young—-
when she went out with young fel-
lers they went afoot or horse back
an’ she sez mebbe that built a good
strong constitution for her. Mebbe
it did, any way, that sort of thing
ain’t buildin’ many constitutions for
our girls today is it? Now folks you
see just what I’m gittin’ at. If
we've got to live so long—course
you know if we live a great long
time, longer’n we ort to we're bound
to grow old—4n time. An’ thats
jest what I‘m gettin' at. Why do
we do it an’ for what? Now you
wouldn't hardly believe it mebbe,
but 1, why friends I’ve lived to be
less’n 90 years old an' I’m beginnin'
to think I art to give some excuse
for it an’ thats jest what I started
out to do when I commenced this
letter. Now I want to be honest an’
fair, I don't want to try to fool no-
body, so I'm jest tellin’ you sort 0'
conﬁdential—don't tell anybody——
friends, I ain’t got any excuse for it.

I might of left this vale of tears,
\or whatever it is, years ago jest the
same as lots of others did when it
came their time to go. But I kept
hangin’ on. One thing I’ve noticed,
an' mebbe that’ll help solve the
problem, no matter how cold the
winters have been nor how long,
I’ve lived through them jest as I
have the summers. Then again I
noticed this, no matter how hot the
weather, I‘ve stayed right through
the summers too. Now if I had
quit in either case mebbe I would-
n’t be here now—-course we can’t al—
ways tell-—-but jest thinkin’ of it
sort of casually, as the teller sad, I
think mebbe I wouldn't. An’ so
folks you see jest how it sems to be.
it ain't so much how long we live
u what we live for. I ain’t got
much of an excuse myself—mebbe
the fact that I still love little child-
ren, babies, that I honor mothers of
babies. that I respect my fellow
men. u'thatlamstllllivin’ma!
be some excuse—it may not be
much but friends its 'bout all I got.
'ceptin’ this, when the Lord-sees ﬁt
he’llhlot, no out. an’ I'll quit—91111

   

  

 
 

 


  

 

We have a suburban lot' 601130
which we would like to partly plant
to fruit trees. . Could you advise me
thru your columns the best varieties
and when to plant them?—-C. 11.,
Royal Oak, Mich.

is impossible to give a standard-

ised list of fruits and varieties

of fruits for a single orchard be-
cause so much will depend on the
location, the soil and the individual
preferences. In a general way, how-
ever. I may state that the fruit
plants likely to suffer least from the
neglect that is usually given them
are probably sour cherry and plum.
One tree of Montmorency would be
preferable; if a. second tree should
be added. Early Richmond would be
the best selection. This ripens ear-
lier than Montmorency. The two
would give a succession. For plums,
it seems probany that Monarch and
Shropshire Damson would please
the average taste and provide some-
thing for canning. Among pears,
Bartlett and Sheldon would probab-
ly be satisfactory.

For backyard cultivation I am in-
clined to think that grapes are one
of the best and most satisfactory
fruits. There should be room in this
back yard for perhaps six vines.
Moore’s Early might be planted for
one; Concord should comprise per-
haps two or three of these and the
remainder might be distributed be-
tween Delaware and Niagara. Rasp-
berries are usually rather satisfac—
tory for back—yard planting. Of
these, probably Cuthbert for the red
and Plum Farmer for the Black
would be as satisfactory as any—
thing.. Among currents Prince Al-
bert, Perfection and Fay are probab—
ly as good as any. You will under-
stand, of course, that making up a
list of this kind is something like
making up a menu for a family. I
have indicated things which can be
relied on to grow under ordinarily
favorable conditions. The individ-
ual’s preference must determine be—
tween those varieties and fruits.
There will not be room for all of
them on that portion of your lot
which will probably be given to
fruit. These trees should not stand

closer than 20 feet apart and should v

not be planted closer than 10 feet
from any boundary line. Grapes
and the small fruits should be plac-
ed to the south of the fruit trees. If
the rows run north and south, so
much the better.—F. C. Bradford,
Assoc. Prof. of Horticulture, Mich.
Agricultural College.

HORTICUIIFURAL SHOW AT ST.
JOHNS, NOV. 12

plans for the Horticultural

show to be held in St. Johns on

Novemeber 12 and 13 are tak-

ing deﬁnite form and indications

point to one of the largest collec—

tions of fruit seen in Clinton county
in many years.

These varieties listed for prizes
are as follows: Fameuse, Grimes,
Greening (Rhode Island), King,
Jonathon, McIntosh, Northern Spy,
Steel Red (Canada Red), Wealthy,
Wagener, N. W. Greening, Winter
Banana, Talpohochen, Starks, De-
licious, Hubbardston.

ADVISE DELAYING STRAW-
BERRY MULCH

EAVY mulching of strawberries

in the fall is not a good prac-

tice. The correct method is to
wait until the ground freezes and
then apply the mulch. Fruit spec—
ialists at the New York State Col-
lege say that the idea is to get the
frost into the ground and keep it
there, thus preventing the buckling
out of plants. It is a good idea to
put on a light mulch in the fall to
prevent any fall buckling, but the
heavy mulch should be delayed un-
til the surface of the soil is thor-
oughly frozen.

The winter mulching of strawber-
ries is a subject that many growers
do not fully understand. It is a
common belief that the purpose of
the mulching .is to prevent the
‘ plants from being killed by low

winter temperatures. This belief is

   
 

  

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Ford of the extension department,

since strawberry plants one not eat-
iously injured by low temperatures.
Strawberry plants are very shallow
rooted and are often buckled out of
the ground during periods of alter-
nate freezing and thawing and dur-
ing the late winter and early spring.
The purpose of the mulching is to
prevent this buckling out of plants.
Because of this, the time that the
mulch is applied is a very import—
ant matter.

USE SPLIT HEADS FOR SAUER-
ICRAUT

PLIT heads of cabbage will make
the good old-fashioned sauer—
kraut that is getting so much

new-tashioned publicity these days.
Broken heads of cabbage won’t keep
well in storage, but as sauerkraut
they will add vitamines and ﬂavor to
many a meal. A good stone crock,
a pound of salt, and a wooden mal-
let, and the inclination will make
sauerkraut. Shred the cabbage ﬁne-
ly. A vegetable slicer would be a
handy purchase for this. Place a
layer of the cabbage in the crock
and temp it down well around the
edges. Salt well, using about a
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ﬁtting earthen or wooden cover
well weighted down, and tie a
cheesecloth over the top’to keep the
dirt out. Let‘ the kraut stand in a.
fairly warm place (about 55 degrees
Fahrenheit is right) for four to six
weeks, when bubbles should stop
rising to the top, and the kraut
should be cured, though a warmer
place will cure it sooner.

Cured sauerkraut may be canned
simply by packing it in jars with-
out water. Cover as for canning
and cook in a waterbath for an
hour—or for thirty minutes under
pressure.

CHOICE OF TRACTOR DEPEN'DS
., ON NEEDS
EFORE buying a tractor most
farmers ‘want to know what
kind will meet the need of
their farms. Because of frequent
requests from farmers for help in
this matter the engineering staff at
the New Jersey State College of Ag-
riculture, New Brunswick, has
draWn up a group of suggestions
which may be used as a guide to
prospective buyers.
1. Choose from the ranks of
those which have been tried by
years of use, from the old manufac-

    

 

t ‘ -whe info-lasalnemw.
with a stock-of repair parts near at
hand. _ ' ‘ ' v

z. A reasonable amount of set!-
ice should go with a machine of tin“
type. See if your agent is in the
habit of following up his sales to see
that he has satisﬁed customers.

3. A belt pulley controlled by I
friction clutch is usually desired.
Study the size and location of this
pulley.

4. A mechanical governor
very desirable for belt work.

5. At the present price of gaso-
line it is economical to have a trac-
tor that will operate successfully on
kerosene at any load.

6. An air cleanser is essential to
long life of the engine if used in
dusty ﬁelds.

7. A magneto with an impulse
starter provides as nearly as poss-
ible sure ignition and ease and
safety in cranking.

8. It is very important to see
that the tractor hitch and imple-
ment hitch are suited to each other
in height and lateral adjustment.

9. Most working parts should be
inclosed and run in oil.

10. A tractor pulling a two-bot-
tom plow would suit most New
Jersey farms on which a tractor can
be proﬁtably used. Some might need
a three—bottom outﬁt. Only a few
would require a larger one.

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WOULD rather you did not come

with me, little daughter. I do not
‘ "'knowht all what has happened—I
will let .you‘ik’now as soon as I ﬁnd out."
mThe "ﬁnality in his tone stopped her
from~ argument. As the house door and
then the door of the limousine closed
after him, she went back toward the win-
dow, slowly taking off the wrap. She
saw the motor shoot swiftly out upon the
drive, turn northward in the way that it
had come, and then turn again, and dis-
appear. She could only stand and watch
for it to come back and listen for the
'phone; for the moment she found it
difficult to think. Something had hap-
pened to Uncle Benny, something terrible,
dreadful for those who loved him; that
was plain, though only the fact and not
its nature was known to her or to her
father; and that something was con—
nected—intimately connected, her father
had said—with a name which no one
who knew Uncle Benny, ever had heard
before, with the name of Alan Conrad of
Blue Rapids, Kansas. Who was this
Alan Conrad, and what could his connec-
tion be with Uncle Benny so to precipi-
tate disaster upon him?

CHAPTER II.
Who is Alan Conrad?

The recipient of the letter which Ben-
Jamin Corvet had written and later so
excitedly attempted to recover, was ask-
ing himself a question which was almost
the same as the question which Constance
Sherrill had asked. He was, the second
morning later, waiting for the ﬁrst of
the two daily eastbound trains which
stopped at the little Kansas town of Blue
Rapids ‘which he called home. As long
as he could look back into his life, the
question, who is this person they call
Alan Conrad, and what am I to the man
who writes from Chicago, had been the
paramount enigma of existence for him.
Since he was now twenty-three, as nearly
as he had been able to approximate it,
and as distinct recollection of isolated, ex-
traordinary events went back to the time
when he was ﬁve, it was quite eighteen
years since he had ﬁrst noticed the ques-
tion put to the people who had him in
charge: "So this is little Alan Conrad.
Who is he?"

Undoubtedly the question had been
asked in his presence before; certainly
it was asked many times afterwards;
but it was since that day when, on his
noticing the absence of a birthday of his
own, they had told him he was ﬁve, that
he connected the evasion of the answer
with the diﬂerence between himself and
the other children he saw, and particu-
larly 'bet‘Ween himself and the boy and
girl in the same house with him. When
visitors came from somewhere far off, no
one of them ever looked surprised at
seeing the other children or asked about
them. Always, when some one came, it
was, “So this is little Jim !” and “This
is Betty; she’s more of a Welton every
day!” Then, each time with that change
in the voice and in the look of the eyes
and in the feel of the arms about him——
for though Alan could not feel how the
arms hugged Jim and Betty, he knew that
for him it was quite different—“So this is
Alan Conrad,” or, "So this is the child!”
or “This, I suppose, is the boy I’ve heard
about!"

However, there was a quite deﬁnite, if
puzzling, advantage at times in being
Alan Conrad. Following the arrival of
certain lettters, which were distinguished
from most others arriving at the house
by having no ink writing on the envelops
but just a sort of purple or black ink
by having no ink writing on the envelope
printing like newspapers, Alan invariably
received a dollar to spend just as he liked.
To be sure, unless “papa” took him to
town, there was nothing for him to spend
it upon; so, likely enough, it went into the
square iron bank, of which the key was
lost; but quite often he did spend it ac-
cording to the plans agreed upon among
all his friends and, in memory of these
occasions and in anticipation of the next,
"Alan’s dollar" became a community in—
stitution among the children.

But exhilarating and wonderful as it
was to be able of one's self to take three
friends to the circus, or to be the pur-
veyor of twenty whole packages—not
sticks—of gum, yet the dollar really made
only more plain the boy’s difference. The
regularity and certainty of its arrival as
Alan‘s share of some larger sum of money
which came to “papa” in the letter, never
served to make the event ordinary or
accepted.

“Who gives it to you, Alan?” was a
question more often asked, as time went
on. The only answer Alan could give
was, “It comes from Chicago.” The post-
mark on the envelope, Alan noticed, was
always Chicago; that was all he ever
could ﬁnd out about his dollar. He was
about ten years old when, for a reason
as inexplicable as the dollar's coming,
the letters with the typewritten addresses
and the enclosed money ceased.

Except for the loss of the dollar at the
end of every second month—a loss much
discussed by all the children and not ac—
cepted as permanent till more than two
years had passed—Alan felt no immediate
results from the cessation of the letters
from Chicago; and when the ﬁrst effects
appeared, Jim and Betty felt them quite
as much as he. Papa and mamma felt

them, too, when the farm had to be given
up. and the family moved to the town,
~and papa went to work in the woolen mill
beside the river.

v. Papaand—mamma, at first surprised and

 

 
 
  

 
 
 
 

  

Indian Drum

By William MacHarg and Edwin Balmcr

 

 
 
 

dismayed by the stopping of the letters,
still clung to the hope of the familiar.
typewritten addressed envelope appearing
again; but when, after two years, no more
money game, resentment which had been
steadily growing against the person who
had sent the money began to turn against
Alan; and his “parents” told him all they
knew about him.

In 1896 they had noticed an advertise-
ment for persons to care for a child;
they had answered it to the oﬁice of the
newspaper which printed it. In response

to their letter a man called upon them'

and, after seeing them and going around
to see their friends, had made arrange-
ments with them to take a boy of three,
who was in good health and came of
good people. He paid in advance board
for a year and agreed to send a certain
amount every two months after that time.
The man brought the boy, whom he called
Alan Conrad, and left him. For seven
years the money agreed upon came; now

Copyright by Edwin Balmer

ideas and manners came to him which
he could not have acquired at home;
athletics straightened and added bearing
to his muscular, well-formed body; his
pleasant, strong young face acquired self-
reliance and self-control. Life became
ﬁlled with possibilities for himself which
it had never held before.

But on his day of graduation he had
to put away the enterprises he had plan-
ned and the dreams he had dreamed,
and conscious that his debt to father and
mother still remained unpaid, he had re-
turned to care for them; for father’s
health had failed and Jim who had opened
a law ofﬁce in Kansas City, could do
nothing to help. ‘

No more money had followed the draft
from Chicago and there had been no com-
munication of any kind; but the receipt
of so considerable a sum had revived and
intensiﬁed all Alan’s speculations about
himself. The vague expectation of his
childhood that sometime, in some way,

 

 

SUMMARY OF OUR STORY TO DATE
EAR. the northern end of Lake Michigan there is a copse of pine and hem-
lock back from the beach and from this copse there comes at time of

storm a sound like the beating of an Indian drum.
tradition says, whenever the lake took a life.

This drum heat, so
During December. 1895, Mikawa,

a new steel freighter, sank with 25 people on board but the drum beat only 24,

and the one remaining person was not accounted for.

Benjamin Corvet sailed

the lakes for years and then retired to direct the ﬂeet of ships he had purchased,
and at the time the story opens he has two partners, Sherrill and young Spear-

man.

Shel-rill has a daughter, Constance, who is to marry Spearman but Corvet,

who is called Uncle Benny by the girl, does not want her to marry him but will

not give her a reason asking her to wait until she sees him again.

disappears. That’s the story to date.

Then Corvet

 

 

it had ceased, and papa had no way of
ﬁnding the mam—the name given by him
appeared to be ﬁctitious, and he had left
no address except “general delivery Chi-
cago”——Papa knew nothing more than
that. He had advertised in the Chicago
papers after the money stopped coming,
and he had communicated with ("very
one named Conrad in or near Chicago, but
he had learned nothing. 'I‘hus, at the age
of thirteen, Alan definitely know that
What he already had guessed—the fact
that he belonged somewhere else than in
the little brown house—was all that any
one there could tell him; and the know-
ledge gave persistence to many internal
questionings. Where did he belong? Who
was he? Who was the man who had
brought him there? Had the money
ceased coming because the person who
sent it was dead? In that case, connec-
tion of Alan with the place where he be-
longed was permanently broken. Or
would some other communication from
that source reach him some time if not
money, then something else? W’ould he
be sent for some day? He did not re-
sent “papa and mamma’s” new attitude
of benefactors toward him; instead, lov-
ing them both because he had no one
else to love, he sympathized with it.
They had struggled hard to keep the farm.
They had ambitions for Jim; they were
scrimping and sparing now so that Jim
could go to college, and whatever was
given to Alan was taken away from Jim
and diminished by just that much his
opportunity.

But when Alan asked papa to get him
a job in the wollen mill at the other side
of town where papa himself worked in
some humble and indeﬁnite capacity, the
request was refused. Thus, externally at
least, Alan's learning the little that was
known about himself made no change in
his way of living; he went, as did jim,
to the town school, which combined gram-
mar and high schools under one roof;
and, as he grew older, he clerked as
Jim also did—in one of the town stores
during vacations and in the evenings; the
only difference was this: that Jim's
money, so earned, was his own, but Alan
carried his home as part payment of those
arrears which had mounted up against
him since the letters ceased coming. At
seventeen, having ﬁnished high school, he
was clerking ofﬁcially in Merrill’s general
store, when the next letter came.

It was addressed this time not to papa,
but to Alan Conrad. He seized it, tore
it open, and a bank draft for ﬁfteen
hundred dollars fell out. There was no
letter with the enclosure, no word of
communication; just the draft to the or-
der of Alan Conrad. Alan wrote the
Chicago bank by which the draft had
been issued; their reply showed that the
draft had been purchased with currency,
so there was no record of the identity of
the person who had sent it. More than
that amount was due for arrears for the
seVen years during which no money was
sent, even when the total which Alan
had earned was deducted. So Alan merely
endorsed the draft over to “father”; and
that fall Jim went to college. But, when
Jim discovered that it not only was pos-
sible but planned at the university for a
boy to work his way through, Alan went
also.

Four wonderful years followed. The
family of a profssor of physics, with
whom he was brought in contact by his
work outside of college, liked him and
“took him up.” He lodged ﬁnally in their
house and became one of them. In com-

 

 

panionship with these educated people.

he would be “sent for" had grown during
the last six years to a deﬁnite belief.
And now—on the afternoon before—the
summons had come.

This time, as he tore open the envelope,
he saw that besides a check, there was
writing within—an uneven and nervous-
looking but plainly legible communication
in longhand. The letter made no explan-
ation. It told him, rather than asked him,
to come to Chicago, gave minute instruc-
tions for the journey, and advised him to
telegraph when he started. 'The check
was for a hundred dollars to pay his ex—
penses. Check and letter were signed by
a name completely strange to him.

He was a distinctly attractive looking
lad, as he stood now on the station plat—
form of the little town, while the east-
bound train rumbled in, and he ﬁngered
in his pocket the letter from Chicago.

As the train came to a stop, he pushed
his suitcase up on to a car platform and
stood on the bottom step, looking back
at the little town standing away from its
railroad station among brown, treeless
hills, now scantily snow—covered—the
town which was the only home he ever
consciously had known. His eyes damp—
ened and he choked, as he looked at it
and at the people on the station platform
—the station-master, the drayman, the
man from the post ofﬁce who would re-
ceive the mail bag, people who called
him by his ﬁrst name, as he called them
by theirs. He did not doubt at all that
he would see the town and them again.
The question was what he would be when
he did see them. They and it would not
be changed, but he would. As the train
started, he picked up the suitcase and
carried it into the second day-coach.

Finding a seat, at once, he took the
letter from his pocket and for the dozenth
time reread it. Was Corvet a relative?
Was he the man who had sent the remit—
tances when Alan was a little boy, and
the one who had later sent the ﬁfteen
hundred dollars? Or was he merely a go-
between, perhaps a lawyer? There was no
letterhead to give aid in these specula-
tions. The address to which Alan was to
come was in Astor Street. He had never
heard the name of the street before. Was
it a business street, Corvet’s address in
some great ofﬁce building, perhaps?

He tried by repeating both names over
and over to himself to arouse any obscure,
obliterated childhood memory he might
have had of then; but the repetition
brought no result. Memory, when he
stretched it back to its furthest, showed
him only the Kansas prairie.

Late that afternoon he reached Kansas
City, designated in the letter as the point
where he would change cars. That night
saw him in his train—a transcontinental
with berths nearly all made up and people
sleeping behind the curtains. Alan un-
dressed and got into his berth, but he
lay awake most of the night, excited and
expectant. The late February dawn
showed him the rolling lands of Iowa
which changed, while he was at break-
fast in the dining car, to ‘the snow—cov-
ered ﬁelds and farms of northern Illinois.
Toward noon, he could see, as the train
rounded curves, that the horizon to the
east had taken on a murky look. Vast,
vague, the shadow—the emanatinn of
hundreds of thousands of chimneys-—
thickened and grew more deﬁnite as the
train sped on; suburban villages began
supplanting country towns; stations be-
came ore pretentious. They passed fac-
tories; then hundreds of acres of little
houses of the factory workers in long
rows: swiftly the buildings became larger.

a

closer together; he had a vision of miles

upon’miles of streets, and the train relied '

slowly into a long trainshed and stopped.

Alan, following the porter with his
suitcase from the car, stepped down
among the crowds hurrying to and from
the trains. He'was not confused, he was
only intensely excited. Acting in iniplicit
accord with the instructions of the letter,
which he knew by heart, he went to the
uniformed attendant and engaged a. taxi-
cab—itself no small experience; there
would be no one at the station to meet
him, the letter had said. He gave the
Astor Street address and got into the cab.
Leaning forward in his seat, looking to
the right and then to the left as he was
driven through the city, his ﬁrst sensation
was only disappointment.

Except that it was larger, with more
and bigger buildings and with more peo-
ple upon its streets, Chicago apparently
did not differ from Kansas City. If it
was, in reality, the city of his birth, or
if ever he had seen these streets before,
they now aroused no memories in him.

It had begun to snow again. For a few
blocks the taxicab drove north past more
or less ordinary buildings, then turned
cast on a broad boulevard where tail tile
and brick and stone structures towered
till their roofs were hidden in the snow-
fall. The large, light ﬂakes, falling lazily,
were thick enough so that, when the taxi-
cab swung to the north again, there
seemed to Alan only a great vague void
to his right. For the hundred yards which
he could view clearly, the space appeared
to be a park; now a huge granite build-
ing guarded by stone lions, went by;
then more park; but beyond— A strange
stir and tingle, quite distinct from the
excitement of the arrival at the staion,
pricked in Alan’s veins, and hastily he
dropped the window to his right and
gazed out again. The lake, as he had
known since his geography days, lay to
the east of Chicago; therefore that void
out there beyond the park was the lake
or, at least, the harbor. A different air
seemed to come from it; sounds . . . .
Suddenly it was all shut off; the taxicab,
swerving a little, was dashing between
business blocks; a row of buildings had
risen again upon the right; they broke
abruptly to show him a wooden-walled
chasm in which ﬁowed a. river full of ice
with a tug dropping its smokestack as it
went below the bridge which the cab
crossed; buildings on both sides again;
then, to the right, a roaring, heaving,
crashing expanse.

The sound, Alan knew, had been com—
ing to him as an undertone for many
minutes; now it overwhelmed, swallowed
all other sound. It was great, not loud;
all sound which Alan had heard before,
except the soughlng of the wind over
his prairies, came from one point; even
the monstrous city murmur was centered
in comparison with this. Alan could see
only a few hundred yards out over the
water as the taxicab ran along the lake
drive, but what was before him was the
surf of a sea; that constant, never dimin—
ishing, never increasing roar came from
far beyond the shore; the surge and rise
and fall and surge again were of a sea
motion. Floes ﬂoated, tossed up, tumbled,
broke, and rose again with the rush of
the surf; spray ﬂew up between the ﬂees;
geysers spurted high into the air as the
pressure of the water, bearing up against
the ice, burst between two great icecakes
before the waves cracked and tumbled
them over. And all was without wind;
over the lake, as over the land, the soft
snowﬂakes lazily ﬂoated down, scarcely
stirred by the slightest breeze; that roar
was the voice of the water, that awful
power its own.

Alan choked and gasped for breath,
his pulses pounding in his throat; he had
snatched off his hat and, leaning out of
the window sucked the lake air into his
lungs. There had been nothing to make
him expect this overwhelming crush of
feeling. The lathe had thought of it,
of course, as a great body of water, an
interesting sight for a prairie boy to see;
that was all. No physical experience in
all his memory had affected him like this;
and it was without warning; the strange
thing that had stirred within him as the
car brought him to the" drive down-town
was strengthened now a thousandfold;
it amazed, half freightened, half dizzied
him. Now, as the motor suddenly swung
around the corner and shut the sight of
the lake from him, Alan sat back breath—
less. .

“Astor Street," he read the marker on
the corner a block away from the lake,
and he bent quickly forward to look, as
the car swung to the right into Astor
Street It was—as in this neighborhood
it must be—a residence street of hand—
some mansions built close together. The
car swerved to the curb about the middle
of the block and came to a stop. The
house before which it had halted was a
large stone house of quiet, good design;
it was some generation older, apparently.
than the houses on each side of it which
were brick and terra cotta of recent,
fashionable architecture; Alan only glanc—
ed at them long enough to get that im-
pression before he opened the cab door
and got out; but as the cab drove away,
he stood beside his suitcase looking up
at the old house which bore the number
given in Benjamin Corvet's letter, then
around at the other houses and back to
that again.

he neighborhood obviously precluded
the probability of Corvet’s being merely
a lawyer—a. go-betwe‘en. He must be
some relative; the question ever present
in Alan's thought since the receipt of the

 
 
         


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1922

letter, (but held in abeyance, as to the
possibility and nearness of Corvet’s re-
lation to him, took sharper and more
exact form -now that he had dared to
let it take before. Was his relationship
to Corvet, perhaps, the closest of all re—
lationships? Was Corvet his . . . father?
He checked the question within himself,
for the time had passed fOr mere specu-
lation upon it now. Alan was trembling
excitedly; for—whoever Corvet might be
-——the enigma of Alan‘s existence was
going to be answered when he had entered
that house. He was going to know who
he was. All the possibilities, the reSpons-
ibilities, the attachments, the opportuni-
tieS, perhaps, of that person whom he was
-—but whom, as yet, he did not know—
were before him.

He half expected the heavy, glassless
door at the top of the stone steps to be
opened by some one coming out to greet
him, as he took up his suitcase; but the
gray house, like the brighter mansions
on both sides of it, remained impassive.
If any one in that house had observed
his coming, no sign was given. He went
up the steps and, with ﬁngers excitedly
unsteady, he pushed the bell beside the
door.

The door opened almost instantly—so
quickly after the ring, indeed, that Alan,
with leaping throb of his heart, knew
that some one must have been awaiting
him. But the door opened only halfway,
and the man who stood within, gazing
out at Alan questioningly, was obviously

servant.

“What is it?” he asked, as Alan stood
looking at him and past him to the nar—
row section of darkened hall which was
in sight.

Alan put his hand over the letter in
his pocket. “I’ve come to see Mr. Cor—
vet,” he said—“Mr. Benjamin Corvet.”

“What is your name ?”

Alan gave his name; the man repeated
it after him, in the manner of a trained
servant, quite without inﬂection. Alan.
not familiar with such tones, waited un-
certainly. So far as he could tell, the
name was entirely strange to the servant,
awaking neither welcome nor opposition,
but indifference. The man stepped back,
but not in such a manner as to invite
Alan in; on the contrary, he half closed
the door as he stepped back, leaving it
open only an inch or two; but it was
enough so that Alan heard him say to
some one within:

“He says he’s him.”

“Ask him in; I will speak to him."
It was a girls’ voice—this second one, a
voice such as Alan never had heard be-
fore. It was low and soft but quite clear
and distinct, with youthful, impulsive
modulations and the manner of accent
which Alan knew must go with the sort
of people who lived in houses like those
on this street. '

The servant, obeying the voice, returned
and opened wide the door.

“W‘ill you come in sir?”

Alan put down his suitcase on the stone
porch; the man made no move to pick it
up and bring it in. Then Alan stepped
into the hall face to face with the girl
who had come from the ‘big room on the
right.

She was quite a young girl—not over
twenty—one or twenty—two, Alan judged;
like girls brought up in wealthy families,

 

 

 

 

she seemed to Alan to have gained young
womanhood in far greater degree in some
respects than the girls he knew, while,
at the same time, in other ways, she re-
tained more than they« some characteris-
tics of a child. Her slender ﬁgure had a

woman’s assurance and grace; her soft

brown hair was dressed like a woman’s;
her gray eyes had the open directness of
the girl. Her face—smoothly oval, with
straight brows and a skin so delicate that
at the temples the veins showed dimly
blue+—-was at once womanly and youth-
ful; and there was something altogether
likable and simple about her, as she stud-
ied Alan now. She had on a street dress
and hat; whether it was this, or whether
it was the contrast of her youth and
vitality with this somber, darkened house
that told him, Alan could not tell, but he
felt instinctively that this house was not
her home. More likely, it was some in—
deﬁnable, yet convincing expression 'of her
manner that gave him that impression.
While he hazarded, with'fast beating
heart, what privilege of acquaintance with
her Alan Conrad might have, she moved
a little nearer to him. She was slightly
pale, he noticed now, and there were
lines of strain and trouble about her eyes.

“I am Constance Sherrill,” she an-
nounced. Her tone implied quite evident-
ly that she expected him to have some
knowledge of her, and she seemed sur-
prised to see her name did not mean
more to him.

“Mr. Corvet is not here this morning,”
she said.

He hesitated, but persisted: “I was
to see him here to-day, Miss Sherrill.
He wrote me, and I telegraphed him I
would be here to-day.”

“I know,” she answered. “We had your
telegram. Mr. Corvet was not here when
it came, so my father opened it.” Her
voice broke oddly, and he studied her in
indecision, wondering who that father
might be that opened Mr. Corvet’s tele-
grams.

“Mr. Corvet went away very suddenly,"
she explained. She seemed, he thought,
to be trying to make something plain to
him which might be a shock to him; yet
herself to be uncertain what the nature
of that shock might be. Her look was
scrutinizing, questioning, anxious, but not
unfriendly. “After he had written you
and something else had happened—-I
think-to alarm my father about him,
father came here to his house to look
after him. He thought something might
have . . . . happened to Mr. Corvet here
in his house. But Mr. Corvet was not
here.”

“You mean he has—disappeared?”

“Yes; he has disappeared.”

Alan gazed at her dizzily. Benjamin
Corvet—whoever he might be had dis-
appeared; he had gone. Did any one
else, then, know about Alan Conrad?

“No one has seen Mr. Corvet,” she
said, “since the day he wrote to you.
We know that-—that he became so- dis-
turbed after doing that—writing to you-—
that we thought you must bring with you
information of him.”

“Information !”

“So we have been waiting for you to
come here and tell us what you know
about him or—or your connection with
him.”

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SPANISH PRISONER FRAUD

what we hoped would happen, did! So

W you can turn to page four of this issue and
read how the oldest of all swindles was at-
tempted end right here in Michigan on a reader
of this page! We had felt rather slighted be-
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Spanish 'prisoner. We began to suspect that
perhaps our, fame for uncovering the creek and
hm hi moat into the white light of publicity
. was not only national, but international. . We

1 were likes “policemau‘ who. has no afloat",

chance to use his, gun on a ﬂeeing murderer.

Now we have had it! It came from-.9. bona-
ilde subscriber and the illustration on page four
is an actual photograph of the original with the
King Alphonso stamp and the post mark of. some
murky little Spanish town.

If we were the least bit romatic or imaginat-
ive”, we would picture a lazy Caetillion, sprawled
over a green-painted table in the patio of the
wine-seller, lazily opening his mail from which
ﬂuttered now and then a green money-order,
bearing the good name of the United States of
America, calling for the equlValent of so many
dollars into Spanish pesos! And then back
in America—the long wait in the humble home,
now tense with the excitement of a sudden for-
tune that was to be theirs—the planning for
autos, new dresses, furs, the surprise and envy
of the neighbors, for even in the land of plenty a
cool hundred and twenty thousand dollars is not
to be sneezed at! Then the slow, clammy realiza-
tion of the fact that it was all a hoax; that the
savings sent to release the Spanish prisoner had
been lost forever!

What a story unfolds itself in your imagina-
tion. But that would be ﬁction. This letter is a
cold fact. How many of them are received an-
nually in the United States, and how much mon-
ey is sent abroad by folks who dare not after-
wards confess their folly, even to their most in—
timate friends, will never be known.

It makes interesting reading and you smile
at the innocense of those who fall for it, but
just supposing that you had never heard of the
Spanish prisoner hoax and you received such a
letter in your mail-box some fine morning. Are
you so sure your heart would not have beat a
little faster!

Most lives are drab, altho all of us would
live in a world of romance and adventure if we
could. If you don’t believe it, tell me what in-
ﬂuence is more powerful than the fiction story
in print, on the stage or in the motion pistures?

That is why even the most conservative are in-
clined to bite on some scheme which is pure im-
agination on the part of a promoter and pass
the solid investment, of which they are thor-
oughly familiar, because it does paint a rosy
picture in their minds.

All we can hope to do, is to expose such frauds
with the help of our readers who bring them to
our attention and this we shall continue to do.

CHILD FIRE PREVENTION

F all the people of our country were to learn
by heart the rules regarding ﬁre prevention
which Fire Commissioner Drennan of New

York City has suggested for memorization by the
school children of that city, so that what these
rules require becomes instinctive, we would see
a material decrease in our $500,000,000 annual
ﬁre loss.

The rules which the Fire Commissioner sug-
gests do not ask for more than ordinary care.
He suggests that matches be kept always in
metal containers; he warns against throwing
remnants of lighted matches, cigars and cigar-
ettes away without seeing where they fall; he
tells one not to try to start ﬁres with kerosene,
nor to go into dark closets, bedrooms or cellars
with lighted candles or matches and not to use
lighted candles on Christmas trees; he further
cautions against keeping gasoline, naptha or
benzlne in the hOuse, and ends the list of twenty-
one rules with the commandment: “Do not look
for gas leaks with a lighted match or candle."

THE LATEST GRAZE

HAT subtle psychology is it which sweeps
W 'the nation now and then like a fire spread-

ing in dry leaves? Last year it was the
curious game from China called mah jong, which
some predicted would supplant most card games.
This summer another demonstration was afford-
ed in the diving belles which suddenly adorned
the Windshields of automobiles from Maine to
California and interfered with visibility to the
point that cities were forced to issue police ord-
ers against their use. And so we could go on
and on; mentioning games like "ﬂinch," home
work like "wood—burning” and “Indian beads";

 

 

IS YOUR NAME ON STRAIGHT?

8 I: house cleaning time on our mail list.
So it you{ address label is not exactly cor-
rect to to. ’
1. Your correct name and initials.
2. Your complies. address and correct rurul
route number. A. -
8. Your correct “a of expiration.

Bend in your names label from the cover of
thieoruuyreeentmtdlu'hQGiemu
nrantee to comet it within 24
e your letter is received, if you
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to which we humans fell heir. ,_ __ -
Right now it lathe “crosswordpusele” end if

you have ‘ net caught the erase tor worms out

these elusive and. aggravating time-killers, turn
to page sixteen of this issue and prepare to spend
many hours of misery beside a seed dictionary,
for that is what you will probably used!

After all, perhaps these current fads are what
keep life worth living and if a cross-word panels
will keep your family happy and interested
around the ﬁre this evening we will feel that/ the
space we have given it well spent. At any rate,
we hope you make it! The correct answer will
appear in the next issue.

 

WOW LAND
ROM the oﬂice of the auditor general of the
State of Michigan comes the alarming state-
ment that this state now has a total of 608,-
000 acres which have been taken over by reason
of unpaid taxes, most of which is Worthless land,
on which the state is required to pay 6 cents per
acre annually in taxes to the county in which
they are located. This now amounts to over
$30,000 annually.
It is probable that most of this land has been
timbered and many of the fortunes which are
now famous through Michigan and represent the

backbone of our aristocracy who are its present.

day heirs, were founded on denudlng these very
acres of their valuable timber.

Even to this day we have made scant progress
in the adequate protection of our natural re—
sources so that they do not later become a public
charge.

 

SIX MONTHS 0R SIXTY HOURS!

RE is something to ﬁre the imagination in
the stories which the newspapers have just
printed of the ﬂight of Ezra Meeker, the

sturdy old survivor of the pioneer West, from
the Paciﬁc Coast to Dayton and from there to
Washington, by airplane.

In 1852 Ezra Meeker was one of those who
followed the advice “Go West, young man, go
West!” and braving the perils of Indians, fam-
ine, and the vicissitudes of the long trail trekked
his way by ox—team and covered-wagon for six
months until he came within sight of the green
Paciﬁc. He was 22 then!

Ezra Meeker was 94 years old when he climb-
ed into the seat of an airplane and followed the
thread of a trail which he had helped to lay and
watched it unwind under his very eyes at the
speed of 120 miles per hour.

To few men are given the span of life which
Ezra Meeker has enjoyed and in all history we
doubt if any man has lived to see the develop-
ment of a nation and the progress which has
marked this remarkable record of a man’s life-
time. That he should have retained the spirit
of youth which ﬁrst ﬁred his imagination, is at
once a challenge and a goal for we younger ones
and that includes all of us under ninety-four!

WHERE CREDIT E DUE
FENCE. a Huron County member of
the Michigan State Farm Bureau, says that
the 0,000 pounds of wool which he sold into
the pool this year netted him $780 more than he
could have secured from local buyers. At the
time of shearing, June 20th, he was offered 32
cents a pound, but by pooling his wool he re-
ceived 45 cents per pound.

This is not the first kindly boost for the farm
bureau’s wool pool which we have heard this
year; in fact, we have heard very little criticism
of it. All. of those who went in seem satisfied
and that is as it should be.

We like to boost any improved system of mar-
keting which will insure the farmer a greater
share of the proﬁts and we are glad to hand a
little credit to this instance because we believe
credit is due.

WANrm—A MAN

OMEWHERE in Michigan there is a man who ..
can write a department which we want to-

add to the service alreadyvrendered in this
paper. We are coming to you, our readers, to
help us ﬁnd this man because we are afraid that
he is too modest to come to us and you will have
to suggest his name and leave it to us to get him.
This man should be one of the best farmers in
Michigan. He must know soil culture and have
made a success of the business or  We
want him to give us a letter for each issue on
his own farm operations; what he is doing, and
why! We also wanttorefertohim lettersre-
garding farm problems among our 
This man can do a distinct service'toagrlcul-
ture, and ofcourse. we unwilling to pay him in
addition for his time. Where is the men in
Michigan who is e. practical, succeeelul fencer.
and has still-retained the summon about it
.on paper? Can, us  hint? '

   
 

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nannies BEWARE!
comes to you claiming to have
bought part of a load'of grade
r» Holsteins in some territory near
you. You drive him to ﬁnish his
load. He buys freely, but pays noth-
ing down. At night, or just before
banks close, he exhibits a telegram
from an out-of-state bank saying that
he has funds on deposit. He writes
a check for enough to ﬁnish paying
for his purchases in the territory
where he bought the part load. say-
ing he will go pay for them and then
come back to ﬁnish with you. He
presents this check at your bank.
He asks you to sign on his check
as indorser. Don't do it!

A man claiming to be H. C. Helms
of Nashville, Tennessee, worked this
swindle on one of Michigan Holstein
county sales managers, making away
with $650.00. Telegrams to the
Nashville Bank brought forth in-
formation that no such man had
ever had any deposits to his credit
in such bank, as he claimed, but that
a man by such name was wanted
by the Nashville police.

If you meet this man or obtain
any information regarding him notify
m‘ BUSINEBS Fm at once.

BUILDING AND LOAN ASS’N.

‘Tlease send me information con-
cerning the U. S. National Building
and Loan Association whose address
is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their
advertisement as I understand will

 

allow anyone $1000 cash for a $660,

investment or a clear proﬁt of $340.
Now this offer sounds most unreason-

able to me."

EPLYING to yours of recent
date regarding the U. S. Nation-
al Building & Loan Association,

wetwould say that their advertise-
ment sounds very misleading.

The plan of the building and loan
associations which are under state
supervision. is to sell membership in
the association. For example if you
buy a thousand dollar membership
you are entitled to deposit up to one
thousand dollars in the building and
loan company at a rate of 7% or
thereabouts and all money deposited
over the thousand dollars would re-
ceive 6% or thereabouts.

The building and loan company
loans money to individuals who de-
sire to build houses. Those individ-
uals pay the money back at so much
per month.

There are many building and loan
associations here in Michigan so why
consider one in Pennsylvania, if you
desire to invest?

 

‘WANTS TO FLY!

“Will you please state your opinion
of the correspondence course of Prac-
tical Aeronautics that is offered by
the American School of Aviation,
Chicago. Is there any Aviation
Schools maintained by the United
States Government where mail car-
riers are trained?

"Do you think the Coyne Electrical
School of Chicago a good school for
a beginner to study electricity?

“My father signed up for the Bus-
iness Farmer last summer and we
think it is a good paper.

“Thanking you in advance for any
information you may give on above
inquiries, I remain your young
reader."

know nothing about the
Practical Aeronautics offered

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believe that such a course would be
practical for anyone to take up un-
less they intended to become a com-
mercial aviator.

The aviators used by the Post Of-
ﬁce Department are trained by the
government, being army aviators,
and even though you did take a
course oifered by some school it
would be necessary that you go into
the army and work your way
through.

We question very much whether
this subject can be taught through
the mails. We do not condemn cor-
respondence courses, as we know that
many subjects can be taught through
the mails, but to us it seems the sub-
ject of aviation requires the constant
contact with the plane. To us it
would seem that taking a. course on
aviation would be like learning to be
a photographer without handling a
camera.

We have heard of the Coyne Elec-
trical School of Chicago. If they
are strictly reliable they should be
pleased to furnish you with the com—
plete names and addresses of several
students who have graduated from
their course, and are now holding
good positions. Write and ask them,
thats a safe plan on any correspon-
dence school scheme.

FITTING GLAQSBE BY MAIL

"I would like to have you publish
the experience of one of my neigh-
bors with a mail order spectacle
company of Chicago. This man ord-
ered a pair of spectacles on ten days
free trial. At the end of that time
he was to pay $4.98, or if they were
not satisfactory return them. They
were not satisfactory so he returned
them as per agreement. In a few
days he received a letter advising
glasses had not been received and
they demanded $4.98. His letter of
explanation was never acknowledg-
de, and their letters to him became
more threatening until ﬁnally they
threatened to place the bill in the
hands of a collector. My neighbor
became alarmed and sent a money
order for $4.98 which the company
never acknowledged receiving. I
hope this will benefit others who
might be tempted to order glasses
in this way."

F course the spectacles did not
ﬁt. We will bet our last sum—
mer straw hat that there is not

one case in a hundred where glasses
ﬁtted through the mails are satisfac—
tory. They may seem all right but
if your eyes were tested by a special-
ist chances are that he would ﬁnd
them several degrees out of the way.
Human eyesight is to precious to
take any chance with it. When you
get spectacles you want to be sure
they ﬁt and a man who has made a
careful study of the eyes and its all-
ments should be consulted. Many
times we have trouble with out eyes
that could be corrected without
glasses; our stomach may be out of
order, or something else goes wrong
in our system. If your eyes are not
feeling right it is a good idea to
consult the family physician and
take his advice.

THANKS!

Find enclosed letter from——-. I re-
ceived the check for $12.00 for my cases
of eggs yesterday and I sure thank you
for your help in getting this for us. We
gave the farm bureau $30.00 to join them
and they could not collect that egg
money for us. We sent you 600 for a
year's subscription to a. paper worth far
more and you collected the $13.00 for us.
Some dimerence and I again thank you
and hope I can favor you some time in
the future——C. W. A., Pigeon, Mich.

 

I thank you very much for getting re-
sults with the————. I have received
two magazines under same cover so ex-
pect to receive the year's number. Us-
ually I get results but could not this
time. This alone is worth several year's
cost of the paper, which I shall be a
subscriber for always. Claim 1552.
Thanking you again I remain as always,
Your friend—Mrs. n 8., Charlotte, Mich.

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PASSING THE BUCK .

It’s a mighty hard thing to aclmowledto

a fault; _ 7
It is human to hedge and deny,
Make excuses and stall, when we’re buck-
ed to the wall,
Instead of the truth give a lie.

It’s a mighty hard thing to admit we have

erred,
But, like other hard things, can be
done;
It takes courage and grit to say, “Yes,
I'm it!”

But it’s great when the battle is won.

Someone is at fault for the thing that
goes wrong,
And that one the censure should take;
Make it right if he can, but stand up
like a man,
If little or much is at stake.

Say, wouldn’t we ﬁght, at the drop of
the hat,
If somebody called us a sneak?
But we’re all of that, if we see on the
mat
Someone else for our fault and don’t
speak. ‘

It's a mighty hard thing to peach on one’s
self,
To say, “Yes, you’re right, I'm to
blame !”
But it takes out the sting and half squares
the thing.
We can do it and will, if we’re game!
——Bert Adair Seelhoff.

FILL CANS WITH SOUP AND
CHICKEN

E decree that no more board-

ers will be kept in the poultry

yard means that the season has
arrived for laying in a store of can-
ned chicken. And the home—made
brand tastes just as luxurious as
the grocery variety but is much
less expensive. It may be put up
with or without the bones depend-
ing on the number of empty jars at
hand. Canned chicken meets the
emergency of the Sunday night sup-
per in creamed chicken or chicken-
a-la-king, or that of the unexpected
guest in chicken fricasee, pot pie,
or the real old fashioned chicken
pie. If the bones are removed be—
fore the chicken is canned they will
furnish a. supply of chicken soup or
of the ever desirable chicken stock
which adds ﬂavor and richness to
many otherwise plain dishes. To
can soup from chicken or other
bones cover the bones and trim-
mings with cold water, salt to sea—
son, add a bit of onion, bay, and
celery if desired, and slowly simmer
until the bits of ﬂesh on the bones
drop oif in shreds. Strain, reheat
and boil for ten minutes. Pour into
clean jars and boil in a hot water
bath for three hours or under ten
pounds of pressure for seventy min—
utes.

 

DO RED CEDAR CHESTS
PROTECT?

has been claimed by many that
ITthe red cedar chests not only

protect clothing from the rav-
ages of the clothes moth but also
kill many of the young worms, or
larvae, that may be present when
placed in the chest. In some cases
the protection is said to be due to
the fact that the chests are tight,
therefore vermin—proof. Others con—
tend that it is the odor of the wood
that kills the insects.

The Bureau of Entomology, at
Washington, D. C., has conducted
several experiments along this line
to see if the chests do protect wool—
en garments and, if so, to what ex—
tent this protection may be depend-
ed upon. The results that they ob—
tained are of much interest to every
owner of red cedar chests. Among
their conclusions they found that
“chests made of heartwood of red
cedar (Juniperus Virginiana) such
as are found on the market, if in
good condition in regard to tight-
ness, are effective in protecting fab—
rics from clothes—moths attack if
certain precautions are taken to
beat, brush, and, when possible,
sun articles before placing them in
the chests”. These chests will in—
deﬁnitely retain their value as pro-
tectors against moth ravages pro—
vided they are properly cared for.
It is the odor of the red cedar that
is effective against moths therefore

.care should be taken to prevent the

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undue escape of the aroma from the
chests. This is accomplished by
keeping the chests tightly closed ex-
cept when clothing is being removed
or placed in them and this proced-
ure should be accomplished as rap-
idly as possible.

Aside from their value in killing

I enactment for. the W n..-

Edited by MZRS. ANNIE TAYLOR

EAR FOLKS :

to harvest.

folks, and especially the
women, bad faith in God
and knew all the time that
He would take care of His
own.

 

 

/’ H E V 3 Us I‘N‘E‘S s {mg n E it

The world looks much brighter this fall than it
has for quite some time, doesn’t it?
and cold that nothing could be planted, and everyone was pretty

well discouraged, but ﬁnally the storm clouds blew over and the sun

came out, and the crops were planted at least two weeks late. There
was a feeling prevailant on the farm that many of the crops would
never mature, that the frost would kill them before they were ready

But the seeds were no more than in the ground when

the plants peeped through the soil, and they grew so fast that it

seemed they would pull themselves out of the ground, roots and all.

Finally they were harvested, unharmed by frost.

ful harvest after all, wasn’t it?

Address letters: Mrs. Annie Taylor, care The Buslnoss Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Mlohlgan.

   

  

 

 

Last spring it was so wet

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moths,' they are tightly constructed
so that there is no opportunity of
their gaining entrance except when
the cover is open. This is not true
with the average trunk so often us-
ed for storing clothing, or of many
other recepticals. The chests will
quickly kill the young or newly
hatched worms, or larvae, but can-
not be depended upon to kill the
worms after they are nearly full
grown. These larger larvae are
capable of much damage if they are
left unmolested in the chests and
will continue to feed and develop.
Therefore it is important that any
articles intended for storage in ced-
ar chests should very carefully be
cleaned, beaten, brushed, and, if
possible, be sunned to remove and
kill as many of the moth eggs and
larvae as possible. Much attention
should be given to the seams,
creases and pockets.

If one does not have a cedar
chest they can get the same results
by scattering red cedar chips in the
folds of a garment and then rolling
it up in several thicknesses of pap—
er. The ordinary suit-box that
comes from the clothing store is a
good storing place if properly pre-
pared. After the garments are plac-
ed in it the cedar chips can be lib-
erally added and the cracks covered
by pasting paper over them. Naph-
thalene ﬂakes or balls, moth balls,
will give much the same results al—
though the odor is more disagree-
able and harder to remove from the
clothes—D. B. W.

 

PIN MONEY POINTERS
RS. K’s affairs were in an ex—
tremely bad way and even a
little change helped so she
asked the editor of her paper if
he’d like news from a little lake re-
sort which was beginning to mani-
fest itself near her home. He de-
cided he Would, since so many peo-

ple in his paper’s territory picnick-
ed or vacationed there. Then, Mrs.
K. spoke to the woman in the stand
there, about the advertising value
of news of the place. After that,
Mrs. K. found a few locals waiting
for her when she called twice a
week. She told me her greatest re-
muneration was in the exercise she
got and the people she met, though
there is always a little pin-money
for anyone who can report the do-
ings of any country community for
the paper.

Mrs. Y. has a way with animals
and raises guinea pigs which need
but little care. A man who supplies
the laboratories of a large hospital
buys them as fast as they are large
enough for use.

Mrs. Z. saw her neighbors selling
this and that, so one bright morning
she timidly placed ﬁve bouquets in
a row on her porch railing. l'resent—
1y a car stopped and the woman
who left with a handful of zinnias,
a few minutes later said she intend-
ed to call again. Now Mrs. Z. likes
to meet strangers as well as her old
friends and ﬁnds people come to see
her as much as to buy her ﬂowers.
———J. C.

FEEDING BABY ON A BOTTLE

OTHER’S milk if scanty and in—
adequate, even on plenty of
food and drink, should be con—

served and supplemented by bottle
feeding. Some breast milk is bet-
ter than none and should be jeal-
ously guarded during the ﬁrst six
months of an infant’s life. The
danger period comes in the early
months.

Ten bottle—fed babies die to one
that is breast—fed.

Bottle feeding should not be un—
dertaken except upon the advice of
a physician. If the baby can have
breast milk in addition to the bottle

 

 

Place Card for the Thanksgiving Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

giving dinner.

The feet and beak are brown.

 

 

The design given here decorates a place card for the Thanks-
Select cards of about the size shown. Trace the
turkey to one side of the card. By rubbing pencil on the back of
the pattern a good tracing medium is produced. Go over all the
lines with India ink and a ﬁne drawing pan. The drawing may be
left this way or ﬁlled in with water color paints.
should be an iridescent combination of brown, green and dark blue.

The feathers

 

 

 

 

November ’8,‘ *
food he will be better than if do;

pendent solely upon the bottle.
Cow’s milk not diluted or un-

' changed is entirely unﬁt for young

infants. If properly diluted and
mixed, however, it is the best sub-
stitute for mother’s milk. Cow’s
milk must be diluted. with water,
barley water or oatmeal, or with
beef or mutton broth before being
fed to baby, but always in accord—
ance with the doctor’s directions.

Cleanliness is of more import-
ance than the richness of the milk.
Good clean milk does not need cook—
ing, preserving, sterilizing, pasteur-
izing. The pasteurization, of milk
is a complicated process andbad re-
sults may follow if it is not properly
done. The use of cooked milk for
any length of time will certainly be
harmful.

Babies fed on condensed milk are
sometimes fat, but seldom strong.-
Condensed milk should only be used
when pure and reliable milk cannot
be secured. Milk powder (dry
milk) is a better form than con~
densed milk.

The amount of milk to be given
to an infant in twenty-four hours
depends on his age, weight and di-
gestive power. Most infants under
one year need one and one-half
ounces of milk to every pound of
their own weight. With very young
infants, even when weaning, it is
safer to begin at one ounce for ev-
ery pound of weight.

 

 

Personal Column

 

 

Here’s Ginger Bread Rosina—ID The
Business Farmer of September 27th I saw
Mrs. W. H. D., of Grass Lake wanting
some sister to send her a recipe for ginger
bread. I am not a sister but a reader
of The Business Farmer; however, if the
recipe I send ﬁlls the bill it will do as
well. I have to do most of the cooking.
I have made a good many of the follow-
ing ginger cakes. My son and I are by
ourselves and have been for over ﬁve
years, as my wife was called from us.
I write you as the full name is not given
and it might interest others if printer
in The Business Farmer. If some one
should like the cake I would be pleased
to hear from them. I am not a full
ﬂeged Florida "cracker" though I have
lived here ﬁve years. I have a 40 acre
citrus grove; oranges, tangerines and
grapefruit. I came here from Owosso,
Michigan. -

Recipe for making the old kind of
ginger cakes like we used to eat before
the war. One cup of New Orleans mo-
lasses, a half cup of brown and white
sugar mixed, one tablespoonful of butter,
one tablespoonful of lard, two tablespoons-
ful of ginger, two tablespoonsful of cin-
namon, a half teaspooan of cloves and
ﬂour to make very soft batter. Bake in
two pans, brush white of egg. Be care-
ful or it will burn, not too hot ﬁre—H. M.
Post, Lutz, Florida.

 

 

—if you are well bred!

 

 

The Correct Formal Introduction.—In
all introductions the word “present” is
the one sanctioned by the best social
usage. The rule is that a man, though
he may be an old gentleman with the
most imposing claims to distinction, al-
ways be presented to a woman; though
the latter be in her 'teens. Like most
laws, this has exceptions: great age and
special distinction of ofﬁce and character
may justly introduction a debutante to a
famous scientist or author, an admiral
or general. The three exceptions which
prove the general rule are the President
of the United States, a cardinal, or a
ruling monarch. The correct formal in-
troductions is expressed as follows:

1. “Mr. Coutant, may I present Mr.
Morton ?” ‘

2. “Mrs. Coutant, allow me to present
Mr. Morton." or:

1. “Mr. Morton, may I present Mr.
Grey?”

2. “Mr. Morton, allow me to present
Mr. Grey.” or any of the following vari-
ants:

1. “Mrs. Coutant, have you met Mr.
Grey?"

2. “Mrs. Coutant, do you know Miss
Grey?”

3. "This is my daughter Genevieve,
Mrs. Coutant.”

4. “Mrs. Coutant, do you know my
mother?”

5. “Mrs. Coutant, you know Mrs. Grey,
don't you?" (never “do you not?”)

 

 

Menu for November 9th

 

 

Celery Soup
'Casserole of Lamb
Sweet Pickle
Creamed Onions Mashed Potatoes
Cabbage Salad ‘
Caramel Ice Cream
Codes ‘

‘Cusorolo of Lenin—2% pounds loin ‘

of lamb, 55 cup rice, 2 cups good gravy,
1 blade mace, is. cup fat; 3 033' yolks,
salt and pepper, and a little grated nut:

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meg. Han: roast 10111 of lamb. and out
it into steaks. Boil rich. in boiling
mMerl Water for. 10 minutes. drain it.
and add to it gravy With nutmeg and
melee; cook' slowly until r106 begins to
thicken, remove it from ﬁre, stir in fat,
and when melted add yolks of eggs well
beaten: grease a casserole Well, sprinkle
steaks with salt and pepper. dip them In
melted fat, and lay them in greased dish;
Pour over gravy that comes from them,
add rice and simmer for ’79 an hour.

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RECIPES

 

 

 

Now to Cook Ham.—-Never put a ham
into a kettel of cold water, and be equally
Oil-refill never to put one into boiling
water. First let the water become luke
Wa-l'm. then put in the ham. Let it sim-
mer or boil lightly for four or ﬁve hours,
five is better than four, then take it out
and shave on? the rind. Put granulated
Sugar into the whole surface of the ham,
so long as it can receive it. Place the

in a. baking dish with a bottle of

prime vinegar, baste occasionally with the

co. and let it bake an hour in a gentle
heat—Mrs. M. A. B.

 

Rye and Indian Bread.——“By'n-Injun”
-——Take equal quantities of Indian meal
and rye ﬂour; scald the meal, and when
hike wann add the ﬂour, with one-half
pint of good yeast to four quarts of the
mixture, and even tablespoonful of salt,
and a half cup molasses, kneading the
mixture well. This kind of bread should
be softer than wheat ﬂour bread; all th
water added after scalding the mea
should be luke warm. When it has risen
suﬂiciently, put it to bake in a brick oven
or stove, the former should be hotter than
for ﬂour bread, if in a stove oven, it
should be steamed two hours, then baked
one hour or more; when done, it is a
dark brown. The best article for baking
this kind of bread is in brown earthen—
ware——say pans eight or ten inches in
height, and diameter about the same—
grease or butter the pans, put in the mix-
ture, then dip your hand in cold water,
and smooth the loaf; after this, slash the
boat both ways with a. knife quite deep.

AIDS TO GHQQD DRESSING

BE SURE AND SEND IN YOUR SIZE

4834: A New and stylish Qoat Model.-—This fmtiires a new shoulder and the popular scarf collar.
cloakings, and also for fur and pile fabrics.

9 design is od f
a, 36 go or a

very real in the ﬁne “suit” that is here portrayed.

the coat" and also for cap and leggings. Cotton butt

Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: Small. 34-36, Medium.
east in
yard of 64 inch material'is required.

4880. A Pleasing School Frock.—Checked Gingham combined with linene or chanihrey Would be
It is also good for wool crepe, jersey or repp, With contrasting material for
The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: , and 10 years. ‘
acumen yards of one material 27 inches wide.
ﬁgured or checked material and it yard of plain

4818. A Popular Bath Robe Style—~Blanket
cloth,‘ eiderdown or ﬂannel. also quil
towehng could be used for this model. The sleeve
may‘be short or in wrist length. The Pattern is
cut in. 4 Sizes: 6. 8. 10 and 12 years. .
your size requires 3% yards of 27 inch material.

4889. A Popular “Stylish stout". Models—.—
Striped and plain woolen is here combined. This
is a good model for satin. crepe or shsrrnecn.
Roshsnarii crepe with satin collar and panels
would be very attractive. The Pattern is cut in
8 Sizes: 36, 38, 40, :2, 44, 46, 48 and-50

3 active for this model.
an _r, cuéﬂgé panel and belt.

    

   

Q83?

inches bust measure.

2 yards.

bleached mus

cut in 4 Sizes: 1, 2,

in the small new.

material. The width at

 

L gin“), 42, and 44 inches bust measure. . . . . .
nations 1' cuffs, facings and collar of contrasting material 1% yard 40 Inches Wide 13 requlred-

4577. Santa Claus or Kris Kringle Costume—One can lay "Santa" Very comfortably and look

38
ensure. A Medium size will require 3% yards of 54 inch material. For leggings alone, 9%.

4% yards. of one material. _
made as illustrated it Will re uire. 1% yard of
plain material and 3 V. yards 0 striped or ﬁgured
' material. The Width of the dress at the foot is

4828. IA Practical Apron for Mother's Helper.
-—’I‘his Will be pretty in ﬁgured ercale or cre—
tonne, with Rackets and binding 0 linens or_un‘

' The Pattern is cut in 5 Sizes:
2, 4, 6, 8 end 10 ears._
1% yard of 27 inc materia

4438. A Simple Coat 8‘11er for Young thl-
dram—Serge, broadcloth, ta (
could be used for this moich
have fulness from the shoulders, which may be
gathered or shirred in cross-rows. '
' and. 5 years. .A 4 year
size requires 2 yards of 40 inch material.

4901. A Simple Dress—This model is closed
at the centre front. under the plsit fold. The
sleeve may be in wrist length. or short as shown
.The front is ﬁnished with in-
serted pockets. This Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes:

, 18 and 20 years. I .
quires 3% yards of one material 40 inches. Wide.
It" made as illustrated in the large View it will
require 8 yards of ﬁgured n
a foot is 1% yard.

ALL PATTERNS 12c EACH...
' 3 FOR 30c POSTPAID

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

ADD 10c FOR FALL AND WINTER
1924-1925 FASHION BOOK

Address all orders for patterns to
Pattern Department

THE BUSINESS FARMER
Mt. Clemens, Mich.

 

  

 

Some let it rise a little more before they
let it ‘bake. When it is difﬁcult to get
rye ﬂour, wheat ﬂour will answer as a.
substitute. It adds very much t6 the rich-
ness and ﬂavor of this kind of bread to
let it remain in the oven over night.-—-—
Mrs. M. A. B.

 

 

The Runner’s Bible

(Copyright by Houshton Miﬂlin 00.)

He that keepeth the-law, happy Is he.
Prov. 29:18. ,

The selﬁsh man builds about him a.
prison house which narrows and darkens
as the years go by until at last he is
smothered in its black conﬁnes.

But he that looketh into perfect law,
the law of liberty, and so continueth, be-
ing not a. hearer- that forgetteth, but a
deer that worketh, this man shall be
blessed in his doing. James 1:25. (E.B.V.)

 

 

HOMBBPUN YARN

You can't make good vinegar with poor
mother. It should be light colored and
clear. If it is a tough leathery brown
mass, don’t put it in the barrel.

0 t C

Santa Claus would have a hard time
bringing a water system down the chim-
ney; but it would make a ﬁne Christmas
present for the farm home just the same.

0 O .

Enameled ware is a form of glass over
iron and should be cared for as such.
It the glass surface becomes chipped,
the exposed iron is liable to rust or be
acted upon by acids.

I O O

Castor oil has many uses, not the least
of which is waterprooﬁng shoe uppers
and making them more durable. If you
rub in only as much as the leather will
held, there will be no trouble in polishing.

t t 0

Non-washable fabrics may be sponged
with vinegar and water, keeping a pad
of soft absorbent rags beneath the spot
to take up the moisture. If the vinegar
affects the color, sponge with diluted
ammonia, followed by chloroform.

The Pattern is cut in 6 Sizes:
inch size requires 4% yards of 54 inch

Jersey coth, ﬂannel orrdnibric may be used for
ing may, serve as trimming in place of fur. The
—40; Airge, 42—44; Extra Large, 46—48 inches

I . . ‘ year size
If made as illustrated it Will require 2% yards
materinL

satin or

  
  

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A  b h t millions .Of
That’sgvhgve done Wit

wome El,

Being £137 of  'ents used on
ver spo s o .
Il::::l<e-day. It is puretilr‘i3

the can an pure in
baking.

Don’t trust to lucknilset
Calumet an .know—vzcg-
the results  bi t are
nomical bakings t a . us
Wholesome and nutritio .

VERY INGREDIENT USED

oVED BY
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RENEWINE STRENGTH

It’s true that what you
assimilate today becomes
strength for tomorrow’s task.

Scott’s Emulsion

    

 

    

' Pay 0n Arrival. Examine goods andiiyou are
not more than satisﬁed with you bargain. we Will
gladly retain-your money.

   
 

  
  
 

 

88 inch size requires
4 inches wide. If

 

 

ALB year size requires

*ta, crepe or hnen
Buck and front

The Pattern is

A 16 year size re-

s d M; yard of plain

 

 

is an easily absorbed tonic—
nutrient that seldom fails to
build strength and resistance

I in those who utilize it.

Scott & Bowno, Bloomﬁeld. N. J. 24—32
ﬁgural
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izes 5 to 12
Made of the best leather ob-

 

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almost impossible to wear them out.
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same as above but have hob nails in solo  
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Our commission is 5%.
Sizes 5 to 12. References: Wayne County and Home
Savings Bank, Bradstreet.

 

 

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Write for our shippers guide, how to ship
live poultry, how .to dress and ship
dressed poultry. It is free of charge.

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I

We,
1. the heart of the tangled wildwood.

ml and troubles have come little
home. ‘

he. the scenes of my childhood.

But happiness and peace shall ever reign,
Out the deer little home in the wild-
wood

Hey Helen 11'. Kennison, mailman. men.
A”

I did have to work hard.

Roman Fedewa, Fowler, age 14;

third, Jay Forrest Schuyler, Kala-
mazoo; fourth, Mabel Birchﬁeld,
North Adams; ﬁfth, Elsie Putney,
Grand Ledge, age 15; sixth, Elsie
Eggli, Traverse City, Michigan. The
prize oﬂered for the ﬁrst answer re~

ceived goes to Geneveive Russell,

Six Lakes, Mich. I will start anoth—

er contest next issue—UNCLE
NED

OUR GIRLS AND BOYS

Dear Uncle Nedz—I never did believe
in the waste paper basket, I always
thought the boys and girls said that just
for fun, but now my mind has changed
as I wrote a letter and never saw it in
print. Now I shall try again. This time
I have a question to ask: Do you print
stories in the M. B. F. written by boys
and girls? I am writing one now, which
will be a long one but if I think it is
very good, I will send it in. It is not

ed yet but if it is too long to be all
in print at once, can it be continued until
the next week? I like to write stories,
but like to read them best. My author
is James O. Curwood. His books are
good. The answer to Evelyn Slumyek's
riddle is your teeth. I happen to know
that. as one day in English class a
poem was read and this riddle appeared
in the poem. The teacher asked a girl
if she knew the answer and she didn't.
I was afraid she would ask me and I
didn't know either. One person happened
‘to say it right out so I was mighty glad
they did as I didn’t want the teacher
to ask me if I knew. I never will forget
it. The best times of a person's life is
spent during high school days, isn’t it?
I will close now, but will sign my nick-
name and if this letter is printed. you
can expect to see my name when my
long story appears. If it does not ap-
pear I will write again and my full name
will be included. I wrote to the M. B.
1". two years ago and my letter was
m Love and best wishes to all.
"Rufus, the short," Plymouth,
Michigan.
v—Sure, we print stories on this page.
Send your story along and if too long
tor one issue we can continue it over
into another. Yes, school days are great
3.

Dear Uncle Ned:——Well here I am

. again. I suppose you think I am as brave
as Hercules, writing again so soon. I
wrote before and saw my letter in print,
no I thought I would write again. I re—
‘oeived three letters. One from a boy
and two from girls, I don’t weight as
much as I did last time I wrote you. I
only weight a 131 pounds. Before, you
know, I weighed 140 pounds. I am 13
years old now. I am so glad I am going
to school again. I wonder how many
' other girls are glad they are going to
‘ School again. I believe Tiny is a girl. I
1 don’t believe a boy would want anybody
to guess whether he was a boy or girl.
' Uncle Ned, don’t you think the trees are
pretty now? I do. We had a party at
our school house Friday night. I had a
lot of fun. Well Uncle Ned I will have
to close now or you will get tired of
reading my scribbling. Will some of the
boys and girls write to me? Helen Wil-
son please send your address. I have lost
the paper it was on and I can’t remember
what it. was. I will ansWer all the let-
ters I receive. Your want-bo-be neico.
—-Julla Weller, Boyne City, Michigan. R2.

2 Dear Uncle Ned :—May I join your
‘mel'ry circle? I like to read what the
boys and girls are doing. I am eleven
' you old and in the sixth grade. I have

 

 

 

EAR BOYS AND GIRLS: Our
second and largest contest has
closed and prizes awarded.
Guess how many entered the
contest. Three‘ hundred and invent»
We girls and one hundred boys
were entered and counting those
that arrived too late I received over
four hundred and ﬁfty letters. You
can imagine what a great time I had
reading all of them. But the real
work was choosing the six prize win-
nm and you can imagine how
long it took me when you consider
that I read each one, and many not
once but several times. However,
it was great fun for me even though

 

 

 

W'hich will you have, a. cat or a dog? The artist shows you
here how to draw a dog’s head and when you turn the paper
aroundyouﬂnditisacat'shead. Thatwillboaﬂneu'lcktoshow
your friends. When you decide which you want—a dog or a cat—
you draw the body as the artist has done. Or you can show it

running, or in nearly any position you like. This is fun, isn’t it?

The boys were out in earnest this
time and it was only by a small
margin that ﬁrst prize was won by a
girl. But they made up for this de-
feat by taking second and third
while the girls won the remainder
of the prizes. The winners are as
follows: First, Marguerite Mc-
Queen, Snover, age 16; second,

 

 

 

 

 

 

a little brother and little sister.
on a ZOO-acre farm and have 15 cows,
10 horses and a colt, chickens, pigs, sheep
I like the farm and
I also plow, drag

made up while milking.
good. 1 milk three
morning and must admit I don’t like it.
My sister returned from Africa not very
long ago. She has a. pair of twins, 8
years old and we received word Monday
from Chicago that she has a dandy 8%
pound boy. She and her husband went
to Africa as missionaries.
across the Atlantic Ocean 4 times.
would you like it, Uncle Ned? She brought
home monkey and leopard hides,
baskets, beads, and many other things.
If I see this letter in print I will write
again and tell you of some of the things
she has told me of Africa, if the children

It isn't very
cows night and

and a. good dog.
helped thresh today.
and milk. Hope this will
waste basket—Bertland W. ngie, How-
ell, Mich" R2.
————— She has been
Dear Uncle Ned :——May I come in?
Please just .for a little chat.
you'd like to know what sort of a crea-
ture is writing this.
I am 13 years old and have dark brown
hair and eyes. Of course my hair

I am sending in a poem.

 

 

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SUGGESTIONS FOB BOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES
in the words of which you feel reasonably sure.
crossing them. and turn
cg; words starting at the numbered squat

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waste basket. I am ten years old. in
the sixth grade, have grey eyes, dark
hair, (bobbed), and a. freckled face. and
would love to join your band of cousins.
and be one of your little nieces. I have
been looking every day to see that Ford
sedan. I'm sure you are near as this
is up in the "Resort Country" where so.
many city people come to spend their
vacation. Hope you had a grand time.

Your niece.—Louie Molet, Wolv 1
Michigan.  ne' R1.

 

Dear Uncle Ned:~—-I thought that it
would be very nice to Join the merry
Circle as my father takes the M. B. F.
and I read the Children's Hour every
time. I will describe myself to you. I
am 5 feet 6 inches tall, dark brOWn hair
(not bobbed, and do not want it bobbed).
have brown eyes and am 13 years old
and in the seventh grade. I have two
Sisters and one died a week ago Friday.
and I have one brother. I will close as
my letter is getting-long. Your want-to-
be nieces—Lucy St. John, R1. Bendon,
Michigan. P. S.——I would like some of
the boys and girls to write to me and I
will answer all letters received.

 

Hello Uncle Ned:-——My father takes the
M. B. F. and I surely enjoy reading the
Children’s Hour very much. I am 18
years old and in the 7th grade at school.
Nearly everyone calls me "Jim" for I.
nick-name. I have bobbed hair too. My
birthday is the 27th day of May. Have
I a twin? I have 7 brothers and 1 sister.
We have 5 horses and a Fordson tractor
to work our 120 acres of land. We live
on 80 acres. Three of my brothershave
a Ford each. But the oldest brother has
his Ford with him in Marquette. The
other two are at home. My father has a
7 passenger Studebaker. Your new niece.
——Ida Oonnsson, R2, LeRoy, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Ned:—I am not sure if you
will let me call you "Uncle Ned" but I
am hoping you will. I guess you are not
accustomed to letters from Ohio but you
are getting one now anyway. If you will
admit me into your merry circle I am
sure I will behave as well as any "kid"
from Michigan. Now I wﬂl let you know
What I look like. First I want everybody
to call me Rosy, you can tack "Poay"
on it if you like. Is that understood?
If so, I will proceed. I am ﬁve feet tall,
have yellowish golden hair, blue eyes,
fair complexion and am eleven years old.
My birthday is October 4th. I am in the
seventh grade. And if anyone will move
that we compel Uncle Ned to have a poem ‘
contest I will second the motion. I bet
you will think I am a. pig for taking all
this room so I guess I will close. Re-
spectfully—Rosamond (Rosy Posy) Mc-
Pherson. 56 Norman Ave, Dayton. Ohio.
P. S.——-I have no brothers or sistm's so
you will be mine, won’t you? Please
write and I will answer.

 

SHOEMIAKER AND MILIJONAIRE
ESIDE the big house of a mil-
lionaire there stood a little
shoemaker’s shop. The shoe-
maker was poor, but happy, and
sang all the day long.

"Friend," said the millionaire to
him one day, “any one who is so
happy as you while in such poor
circumstances, ought to be reward-
ed. Here, take a thousand dollars.
Now you will be able to sing louder

, than ever."

But the shoemaker, having hid-
den the money in his cellar, grew
wakeful at night. He could not
sleep for fear of thieves. He grew
pale and haggard, and his songs
were no longer heard. '

The millionaire, some time after,
came to his shop.

“Friend,” he said, “give me back
the thousand dollars, and ﬁnd your
sleep and your songs again." ;

Riches are often more care than
comfort.

 

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Remember that this department is for you, and we went to help

' the beginner in this interesting ﬁeld as well as those that are more

advanced. Do not hesitate to call 0n us for any information along the

radio line tint you wish to know.

We "156917on the entire department in this issue to broadcast-

irg schedules of the two leading Michigan stations and other large

stations in nearby states. Clip out the schedules end put than up

some place near your radio, then when you want to “tune-in" on some

staiion for market quotations you can look the schedule over and see
it they are broadcasting at that hour.

THE RADIO BEGINNER .

ACE season sees a new lot of people taking up radio, and to those
we otter the time worn advice, “Look before you leap”.
is we advise you to be careful from whom you purchase your sets

or parts. Do not try the most complicated hook-ups or the most ex-
pansive sets, but start simply and learn gradually and you will get
more pleasure in the long run than the person who tries to advance to

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HEAR MUSIC AND TALKING
1000 MILES AWAY

New Radio Set Has No Outside Wires

or Storage Batteries

The new Trans-continental Radio bone which lei
the most simple. and the clearing nod radio let
on have ever 115 cued to, )8 the mvmuon of Mr.
D. Costs. of hlce . This radio outﬁt is en—
diﬂerent from 21 others. No enmidp wires
No troublesome storage batteries. _It

The People’s ﬁephone

The telephone knows no favorites. It does the bidding of
the country store and of the  bank. It is found in the

The telephone knows no favorites.
people is of the same high standard—the Bell System stand-
ard. Twenty-four hours a day it carries the voices of all.
For the beneﬁt of all, the long-distance circuits are kept in
tune. Numberless discoveries and improvements developed
by the Bell System have made the telephone more useful for
all the people. In America, all can afford the telephone, for
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right in the en e family can listen to it just

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certs, Singing, lectures. and speeches. Get the
market reports, latest news and returns of the In?
as by. radio. , _

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a now ma n: a We reduction of 40 per cent
price for the t outﬁt placed in each c ~
mini . M.. D. Coats. 3 8 West 47
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Its wires penetrate the northern forest, stretch
across the prairie, are tunneled under city streets.

Its service to all the

The telephone knows no favorites. It is not owned in any
one locality or by any particular group of men. It is owned
by 350,000 stockholders, who represent a cross-section of the

The owners of the telephone

In America today the l5.000.000 telephones of the Bell
System contribute to the security, happiness and efﬁciency

AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
AND ASSOCIATED Consumes

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Cured His Rupture

1 was badly ruptured while lifting a.
tnmk several years ago. Doctors acid
m only hope of cure was an operation.
Trusses did me no good. Finally I got
hold of something that quickly and com-
pletely cured me. Years hava pasaed and
the rupture has never returned, although
I am doing herd work as a carpenter.
There we. no operation, no lost time, no
trouble. agave nothing to sell, but will

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The 1000 Mile Shoe

CORDOVAN HORSE-HIDE

MEN—
Pull This On

It Stays Soft— Wet or Dry
Outwears Three

Ordinary Pairs

Nashville, Mich,

May 19, 1923
HIRTH-KRAUSE,
Dear Sirs:—I bought a pair
of your shoes from Geo.
Dean in September, 1919,
and I wore them
at hard work
up to May,
1923. Have
had them
tapped
fourtimes.
(Signed)
HALE B. SACKETT

A unique work shoe—it’s dif—
ferent than the rest because it is
made of thick, pliable horsehide,
double tanned in our own tan-
nery, soft as buckskin but tough
as rawhide. Rouge Rex Shoes
are the only work shoes made of
Cordovan horsehide throughout
—the toughest leather known, as

Ask for No. 407
or No. 491

Smoke or Chocolate

tanned by us. There’s a Rouge
Rex shoe for everyjob—for farm,
mine, factory or lumber camp.
If your dealer does not handle
Rouge Rex Shoes, write us and
we will name our nearest dealer
and send you a catalogue of
Gried Defying Rouge Rex Shoes
for The Man Who Works.

HlRTH-KRAUSE COMPANY - Shoe Manufacturers and Tanners
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

Advertisements inserted under this heading for reputaou
rates to encourage the growing of pure-breds on the farms of our readers. Our advertising rate
is Thirty Gents (300) per agate line. per insertion.
2% for cashE if sent with order or paid on

or $4.20 per inch. less
of month following date of Insertion. s
F

EE, so you can see how many lines it will fill.
BREEDERS DIRECTORY, MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER. MT. CLEMENS, MIGH.

breeders of Live Stocx at spemal low

Fourteen agate lines to the column inch
or before the 10th
OUR AD AND WE WILL PUT IT IN TYPE
Address all letters.

 

 

 

 

“lit.

To avoid conflicting dates we will without
Dost. list the date of any live stock sale in
Michigan. If you are considering a sale ad-
vise us at once and we will claim the date
ior you. Address, lee Stock Editor. M. B.
F.. Mt. Clemens
Nov. 20th.———Hereford. '1‘. F. B. Sotham, St,

Clair, Michigan.

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JERSEYS
REG. JERSEYS, POGIS 99th OF H. F. AND
Majesty breeding. Young stock for sale. Herd

fully accredited by State and Federal Government.
\Nrite or visit for prices and description.
GUY c. WILBUR. BELDING. Mich.

Regi’steéred Jersey Bulls for Sale!

MOR ms. Farmlngton, Mich.

 

GUERNSEYB
MAY _ GUERNSEYS — ROSE

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

 

ose Sequel, Jumbo of Briarbank and Holbecks’ ‘

Knight of Nordland. li‘rom Dams pro-
fat, 772 fat and 610 fat.
J. HICKS.

Golden
(luring 1011.18
GE RGE L. BURROWS or GEORGE
Saginaw. W. 3.. Michigan.

Pittsford, Michigan

 
  

 

For Sale Guernsey Bull Old Enough For Service,
from A. R. am. Federal accredited herd. Write
for particulars Echo Lodge Farm, Watervllet, Mich.

HEREFORDS
HEREFORD STEERS

120 Wt. around 860 lbs. 60 Wt. around 1050 lbs.
90 Wt. around 780 lbs. 82 Wt. around 660 lbs.
56 Wt. around 950 lbs. 50 Wt. around 500 lbs.
94 Wt. around 550 lbs. 58 Wt. around 450 lbs.

Also other smaller bunches. Deep reds, de-
horned, good grass ﬂesh. Some bunches fair
ﬂesh account short pastures. Real quality Here-
fords are usually market toppers when ﬁnished.

 

 

 

\Vill sell your choice one car load or all. Give
number and weight breferred.
V. V. BALDWIN, Eldon, Wapello 00., iowa.

 

WE HAVE BRED HEREFORDS SINCE 1860
Our herd bulls are International Prize \Vinners.
Stock of all ages for sale, at Farmers prices. \Vrite
us for further information.
Food llerefords that fatten quickly.
CRAPO FARM, Swartz Creek, Michigan.

 

 

ANGUS

BECAUSE OF INSUFFICIENT FEED I WILL
sell one carload of twonty good Angus cows, nearly
all purebreds, at $75.00 each, f. o. b. Somerset,
llillsdale County, Michigan. Excellent for pro—
ducing high class beef calvos. \Vi'itc H. R. 8 TH,
Room 4, Record Building, Union Stock Yards,
Chicago, Ills.

 

 

BROWN SWISS

FOR SALEr‘Brown Swiss Bull Calves.

JOHN FITZPATRIOK, Kewadin, Michigan.

 

HEREFORD

Annual Autumn Auction at Sotham Hereford Farm

Brown and 9th Sts., ST. CLAIR, MlCH., Thursday, Nov. 20th

Sale rain or shine in pavilion.
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3 BULLS DALLAS. _A

$10,000.00 was refused m
bred in the celebrated Gudgell &
2 of his sons.

celebrlte for
Simpson herd,

HEREFORD BABY BEEF AND REDUCE
GROW Send- for catalog and plan to be

Reached by good roads from everywhere.
be dispersed. with choice attractions added.

Including the Anxiety—bred BEAU
which
1918: one of the last

R. W. Baker’s select herd

0f the Very best
40  &  blood;Fairfax. Dis-
turber, Anxiety, etc. Good individuals. opt of
them lusty calves at side. Most desirable
of buys. Moneymakers.

LABOR TO THE MINIMUM.
with us.

Address 1'. r. I. carnal. we Manager. 31'. cum. MIOHIGAN

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THE A B OS OF ANIMAL DISEASE
oo‘N'rROL

Apply tests for T. B. annually.

Build suitable quarters.

Cremate or bury carcasses.

Disinfect the premises.

Eliminate disease carriers.

Feed an adequate ration.

Get healthy foundation stock.

Haul away wastes immediately.

Immunize hogs against cholera.

Join disease control campaigns.

Keep infected animals isolated.

Learn all disease symptoms.

Mark animals used for breeding.

Nurture the young carefully.

Ostracize the stray dog.

Protect animals in shipment.

Quarantine diseased herds.

Rotate livestock pastures.

Select breeding animals carefully.

Treat all cuts and wounds.

Use mineral mixtures when needed.

Vacate ﬁlthy quarters.

Watch incessantly for disease.

X-pose equipment to sunlight.

Yearn for clean, healthy herds.

Zest the food of weak and young
animals.

hIICI-IIGAN HOLST’E'IN BREED-
ERS CHOOSE NAMES

IN'E Michigan breeders of H01—

stein cattle recently adopted

herd preﬁx names which have
been registered for their exclusive
use in naming purebred animals in
their herds by The Holstein Fries—
ian Association of America. The
preﬁx names recorded and the
names of the breeders for whom
they have been recorded are: Silver
Bank, Harry A. Smith, Jackson;
Meadow Dew, H. Siegrist, Jr.,
Mason; Crestlyn, Doan Straub, Gal-

ien; Dairy Model, Norman D.
‘Thornton, Elsie; Wexl, Wisconsin
'Land & Lumber Company, Her-
mansville; Sure Acres, W. L. Bak—

er & Sons, Perrinton; Edenacres, W.

H. MacDonald & Sons, North
Branch; Sunnyhurst, Morton Orr,
Cass City; and Vehicle City, John

Calvert, Flint.

Many progressive breeders have
adopted preﬁx names and are using
them to great advantage. The cus—
tom is well established and is grow—
ing rapidly. Over 5,000 preﬁx
names have already been reserved,
of which 503 names were recorded
by the national Holstein association
in the last ﬁscal year. No charge is
made for reserving preﬁx names.

NEW MICHIGAN CONTENDER AT
INTERNATIONAL

NEW contender in the'classic
A contests at the International

Live Stock Exposition which
will celebrate its Twenty—Ffth An—
niversary at Chicago the ﬁrst week
in December this year will be the
'Goteredson StOCk Farms, Ypsilanti,
Michigan, which has entered eight
head of Shorthorns in the competi-
tions.

A herd of nearly one-hundred
Shorthorns including some Polled
Shorthorns is maintained on the
eighteen—hundred acre farms, oper—
ated by this company, twenty-ﬁve
miles from the city of Detroit. The
herd is headed by Maxwalton Mac?
one of the best sons of the celebra —
ed \Shorthorn bull, Rodney, and it is

the plan of the owners to increase
their holdings until the herd num—
bers in the neighborhood of three-
hundred head.

_ The Gotfredson show herd made
its ﬁrst appearance this year, exhib-
iting at ﬁve fairs and winning four
grand championships on the two-
year old bull, Maxwalton Mack, and
Similar honors with the two-year
old cow, Haylands Butterﬂy, in ad-
dition to capturing all herd prizes.
At the recent Michigan State Fair
their Deer Dick Miss Jean and calf
was made the second prize cow and
their Polled Shorthorn bull calf,
Mornel, captured the junion champ-
ionship.

F. A. Clark, the superintendent,
reports that this year the farms are
producing 400 acres of corn, 250
acres of wheat, 200 acres of oats
and 400 acres of alfalfa and red
clover hay. The farms raise and
feed from 500 to 700 ’Duroc Jersey
hogs and from 200 to 300 steers an-
nually.

 

GOING INTO DAIRY BUSINESS

I have decided to go into the
dairy business and so would like to
get some information. I am going in
the dairy business on a small scale
and I will have a regular route. Will
handle about 30 to 40 cows. Would:
you please decide the best breed of
cows for my trade. I own over
eighty acres of ﬁne fertile feeding
growth and I also have an uptodate,
comfortable dairy barn, very sani-
tary. At the present time I am in-
terested in Brown Swiss. Please give
your opinion about them.——C. G.,
Bay City, Mich.

THERE are men making a suc-
cess in selling milk of all

breeds of dairy cattle at the
present time. If you prefer the
Brown Swiss, there is no reason
why you shouldn't make a. success
of it if you put in the eﬁort and
have the fundamental essentials for
success in the milk business. By
fundamental essentials I mean hav-
ing business ability to run a route
in addition to having the knowledge
and energy necessary to produce
clean wholesome milk from well fed.
and healthy cows. If you are in-
terested in the BroWn tSwiss breed I
see no reason why you should not
continue with this breed. These
cows give a good large ﬂow of milk
and the average test is four per cent
or better. Consumers generally
like milk that runs four per cent or
better. This differs from the aver-
age milk that is sold in the cities by
about one-half per cent, that is, the
ordinary run of market milk tests
about three and one-half per cent.—
0. E. Reed, Professor of Dairy Hus-
bandry, M. A. 'C.

 

Salt is essential to all farm animals.
Ordinary barrel salt is the best to feed
for the reason that an animal may have
all the salt desired. Salt should not be
mixed with the feed but should be fed
in a. separate feed box. If salt is mixed
with the feed the animal may get either
too much or too little and suffer as a.
result. It is not necessary to buy exq
pensive condiments such as the ordinary
“stock food,” as very few animals need
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Johanna Ragappie Pabst of Pick Spring Stock Farm, Hartford, “Wisconsin, proved
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third calf this spring, in March. She
has never been sick a day in her life,
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did not “clean” when she treshened
and we had her cleaned, she had a
Blight. discharge. for a couple weeks,
but has seemed perfectly all right
since and she was bred about a week
880. Is there any thing I can do for;
her and what causes it?——-O. R. D.,
Mancelona, Mich.

OUR cow is suﬂering from gar-
i get caused by infection. The

infection may gain entrance

through the teat opening, or
through the blood stream, more of-
ten the former. Give the cow 3
pound of Epson or Glanber salts in
one gallon of water as a drench. Mix
one ounce 0! sweet oil with one
dram oi turpentine and one dram of
ﬂuid extract of Phytolacca and af-
ter you have washed the udder clean
with soap and water rub this mix-
ture in vigorously. _

Give the cow internally one-half
ounce of ﬂuid extract of Phytolacca
in water night and morning for two
or three days. Milk out the affect-
ed teats ﬁve or six times daily.
Considerable massage to the udder
is very beneﬁcial in these cases.
Meet at these cases can be much
more satisfactorily treated by the
clients local veterinarian than by
mail, as it is often necessary to
change the treatment from time to
time in these cases.——John P. Hut-
ton, Associate Professor Surgery
and Medicine, M. A. C.

GRANGE HOLDS LIVELY SIBSION
AT PETOSKEY

(Continued from page 3)

tions relating to state alfairs might
be mentioned the following:

Endorsement of a gasoline tax,
and income tax and condemnation
of tax exempt securities.

A strong resolution giving the
rural view-point on legislative reap-
portionment.

A demand to the President for no
reduction in the existing sugar tar-
lit.

Endorsement of the so—called
Meggison or Escanaba plan for
changing the method of distributing
the primary school fund.

Endorsement of the area plan for
bovine tuberculosis eradication.

Several recommendations regard-
ing game laws.

Opposition to the ratiﬁcation by
the Michigan Legislature of the pro-
posed Federal so-called “Child
Labor" amendment.

Debate Child labor Issue

The adoption of the resolution op-
posing the ratiﬁcation 'of the Fed-
eral “Child Labor’ ’amendment fol-
lowed upon a discussion at this sub-
ject, in which Miss Mabel Carney,
Professor of Rural Education of the
Teachers' College ot'Columbia Uni-
versity, defended the amendment,
and N. P. Hull and your Lansing
correspondent discussed the pro-
posed amendment in detail and from
a somewhat negative point of view,
that it is very comprehensive and

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Concerning the national issues,
the Grange went on record as favor-
ing the Great lakeerLIAwrence
watmay; the national truth-in-tsb-
rics bill; the granting at a feeding
in transit privilege for live stock;
strict enforcement of the Eigh-
teenth Amendment; resolutions car-
rying national agricultural market-
ing bills and legislation misting to
the functions of the Federal Depart-
ments of Agriculture and Commerce.

Perhaps the most signiﬁcant res-
olutions adopted by the State
Grange were those expressing hear-
ty endorsement of the work of the
Michigan Agricultural College and
its extension program and urging
that all extension workers receive
their entire support from public
funds. A resolution was adopted
urging the continuation of a reason—
able building program for M. A. C.
The formation of a county extension
council representing all farm organ-
izations in..-the county for advising
and directing the county agricultur-
al agent was recommended.

Adrian was chosen as the place
of meeting for the 1925 convention.
The following ofﬁcers were elected
for the coming year:

Master, A. B. Cook, Owosso; 0v—

erseer, E. E. Salisbury, Mendon;
Lecturer, Mrs. Dora Stockman,
Lansing; Steward, T. E. Niles,

Mancelona; Chaplain, Mrs. O. J. C.
Woodman, Paw Paw; Treasurer, W.
E. Hill, Davidson; Secretary, Mrs.
W. H. Lovejoy, Perry; Asst. Stew-
ard, W. G. Armstrong, Berrien Cen-
ter; Lady Asst. Steward, Mrs. W. G.
Armstrong, Berrien Center; Gate-
keeper. Peter Klees, Crystal; Flora,
Mrs. Maud Spaulding, Buchanan;
Pomona, Mrs. E. E. Salisbury, Men-
don; Ceres, Mrs. ‘Phoebe Benton,
Copemish. Members of the execut—
ive committee: C. H. Bramble,
Lansing; Mrs. Bernice Curtis, Char-
lotte; Mrs. Mabel Madison, Hubbard
Lake; W. F. Taylor, New Era.

Emphasis was also placed on the
fraternal spirit of the Grange at the
evening sessions Thursday and Fri—
day. Thursday evening was devot-
ed entirely to conferring the Fifth
and Sixth Degrees on classes of
nearly tw0 hundred each. The im—
pressive esoteric work of these de-
grees was beautifully given. Con-
gressman John C. Ketcham, former-
ly Past Master of the Michigan
State Grange, ofﬁciated in confer-
ring the Sixth Degree. On Friday
evening Past Master N. P. Hull in-
stalled the new ofﬁcers. Final de-
bate on resolutions made this in-
stallation service a. midnight func-
tion.

Despite the fact that the Grang-
ers were late to bed on this last

night of the convention, most of .

them were up in time to leave Pe-
toskey at 5:30 Saturday morning on
the special train running south over
the Pennsylvania tracks as far as
Grand Rapids. The Patrons aboard
the Grange special were a tired but
happy lot.

SPANISH PRISONER FRAUD
(Continued from Page 4)

operation were similar to the old
scheme and a few bit. Then the
Spanish police began to work and
about ten years ago it was announc-
ed the suﬁerer really was in jail and
the gang had been broken up for
good. However, it is supposed that
due to insurgent uprisings at the
present time the Spanish police have
more than they can handle and
some of the gang have started anew
their raids. A press report from
France recently records the fact
that a wealthy Frenchman bit but
after he had spent a few thousand
dollars in trying to free the poor
Spaniard the French iriend turned
up missing, money and all.

"The records of the Spanish
police at Madrid, says this report,
show that at the time of the raid of
ten years ago when the hand had
been broken up, fully 20 per cent
oi: the receivers of letters answered
and about 6 per cent had sent
money to help the prisoner out.”

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home again. And then the thought
struck us—suppose I should die ov-
er there, or something, and never
come back? I would never get my
hours back. That would hardly be
fair.—I hoped I would not die in
Europe.

When the day's run is posted at
midnight, the winners in the ship’s
pool are determined and duly con—
gratulated. The ship’s pool is a
form of legalized gambling based
upon the probable mileage of the
ship for the following day. It is an
interesting indoor sport, although a
dangerous one on a ship of the class
of the Leviathan where the amounts
run into the thousands of dollars
daily.

A twenty mile range of probabil—
ity is arbitrarily determined upon by
the promoters of the pool and these
twenty “guesses” are auctioned off
among the passengers. To provide
for an extra slow day or an extra
fast day “low” and “high” are sold
at auction in addition to the other
twenty chances, for hundreds of dol-
lars or sometimes thousands. In
case of a record run, exceeding the
twenty mile range of normal prob
ability, “high” wins. If the day's
run happens to turn out to be one
of the twenty guesses on mileage,
the lucky man or woman who
bought that number wins.

Long Live the Corn Belt

It is, of course, a different class
of people from those one associates
with in the cornbelt and the reac—
tion of the thirty agricultural edit-
ors on board was “Long Live the
Cornbelt”. r In my midwestern sense
of the ﬁtness of things, a fat, greasy
woman with a full half-dozen glit-
tering rings on either hand, puffing
a cigarette dr00ping from the end
of a jewelled holder six inches long,
does not harmonize with such a
tastefully furnished social hall.
Young men from the eastern col-
leges whose last names we read ev-
ery day on our clothing labels, our
shoe trademarks, or in the news—
paper headlines, were pouring gin
from silver pocket ﬂasks into the
soft drinks of super—cultured girls
whose father’s fame or wealth or
their own cock-sureness permitted
them to dress like a siren of the
Paris streets and to get drunk
enough to be considered “awfully
clever” instead of “besotted” or
“debauched”. I can see no more
“charm” in a group of painted wo-
men tippling and smoking on an
oriental rug in the so-called better
circles than in their sisters on the
sawdust ﬂoor of the so-called dives.

Of course, the number of either
class is so small, compared to the
millions of really feminine girls who
make up The American Girl and
who realize the meaning of feminine
charm, that we didn’t worry much
about it and only turned away and
laughed at them.

Most of the passenger list, of
course, was well Worth—while, and
there were some remarkably ﬁne
and interesting people on board.
General Pershing moved about
among the passengers and with his
forceful dignity and powerful per-
sonality, but altogether pleasing and
sociable disposition, excited many an
admiring comment, whether he was
making a few miles on the promon—
ade deck, dancing in the social hall
or visiting with his friends, the
people. He met one afternoon with
the group of editors and led a most
interesting discussion on the na-
tional defense and the doing away
with war.

There were several Senators, a
Congressman or two, a few samples
of foreign nobility, including the
very estimable lady Gladstone of
England and a glittering constella-
tion of movie stars, on board.

.Broaking into the Movies

Ramon Navarro, the hero of
“Scaramouche”, completely broke
the hearts of every woman with
whom he didn’t have time to dance.
One romatic southern‘girl offered
me the half of her kingdom if I
would introduce her to this grace-
ful beauty of the screen, and she re-
newed and doubled her offer every
time she caught hisdanguorous eye.

“I can’t go up and beg that hand-
some devil to dance with you,” I
told her—and how could I?

"I’ll bet you’re afraid to, that's

all. If you’re not afraid, go up and
ask Enid Bennet to dance with you,”
she suggested wickedly.

Enid Bennett, the beautiful and
altogether charming movie star,
with her husband, and scenario writ-
er, and Marcus Loew and other not-
ables of the silver screen were on
their way over to Italy with the
handsome Navarro to ﬁlm Ben Hur.

The idea appealed to all the rest
of the editorial party very strongly
and I was urged ,, ask Enid Ben-
nett for a danc '. I was given
enough moral support by my friends
to have asked the Virgin Mary if she
had been there. But it was the sage
remark of my friend, the doctor,
who whispered to me that she had-
n’t danced at all that evening and of
course would turn me down, that
ﬁnally persuaded me. If I could
please all my friends by asking Enid
Bennett to dance, I would do so,
but to actually carry out the dance
——ah, that would be too much. But
if, as the doctor believed, she would
turn me down anyway, I would sat-
isfy my friends and ask her.

With all my friends looking on
and waiting to laugh at my defeat,
and perhaps her husband too, I gal—
lantly approached the gracious
movie star.

“Pardon me, Miss Bennett, would
you care to have this next dance
with me?” My job was done and I
was ready to receive her refusal and
retire in confusion to the great de-
light of my friends—and to my own
relief.

“Why, yes. Thank you very
much”, she responded very sweetly.
“Won’t you sit down and wait until
the next one begins?"——Confusion
worse confounded!

So the joke was on me, after all,
—but the joke was even more on my
party of friends, and after we were
out on the floor we did our best
stuff before the editors. I’ll never
miss an Enid Bennett picture after
this.

Land Ahoy!

We had left New York on Satur-
day and early Friday morning we
sighted the coast of France. About
noon we reached Cherbourg and lay
out in the harbor while a few hun—
dred passengers and some tons of
mail were loaded into a tender fron~
one of our lower decks.

The day or two of fog had delay
ed us just enough so that we could
not land at Southampton, England
that night. We put into the harbor
and tied up to the pier sometime in
the night, when all we could see 01'

“the charm of England” were th'
lights along the shore.
The next morning immediately

after our last patented breakfas:
on board ship the ponderous process
of debarkation began. There was
much waiting in lines while Kins
George’s hired men’ jolly well took
their own time about examining our
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the ofﬁcers could go through our
suitcases if their curiosity should
get the best of them.There was much
paying of the last rites, a formidihle
tip, to the cabin steward, bath stew-—
ard, deck steward,

library steward, I

waiter, and the many other friends f
I’d made on board—the heavy be— ‘
ginning of the obnoxious and high— ,

powered system of tipping with
which all of Europe is so infested.

Finally we emerged from the
heap of baggage and uniformed 0i'~
ﬁcals and scurried over to the little
toy train waiting to carry us to
London. Instead of a door in each
end and a long aisle down the center
of the car as we have here and
which is therefore the right way—
the European cars have a side door
entrance for each compartment of
two seats facing each other. These
seats extend the width of the car
and each compartment holds about
six or eight people.

These compartments are either “I
Class” or “III Class”, according to
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of Southampton watching the pic-
turesque farms and villages of
southern England come and go like
stereoptican slides. ,

Rural England from a train win-
dow is all the imagination calls for.
The patchwork-shaped little farms,
themselves a crazy quilt in patches

of garden and wheat, hayﬂelds and‘

pastures, the winding white roads
with the countless bicycles and plod-
ding, big two-wheeled carts, the
many small ﬂocks of sheep, the
thatched roofs and red-tiled chim-

‘ neys, the inevitable ivy-green stone

wall about the garden, and the

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IT PAYS TO CRATE-FEED YOUR
MARKET FOWIB
heartily recommend crate-
feeding of chickens and fowls
as the best method of fatten-
ing for market. The manager of one
of our largest packing houses, in
addressing a gathering of farmers,
said: “The farmers of this country
are losing more than $10,000,000
annually because they do not fatten
their poultry for market. They fat-
ten their beef, pork and mutton, but
ship their poultry just as it comes
off the range. It goes to the city
feeder or the packing house where
it is crate-fattened and makes this
additional $10,000,000 for the oth-
er fellow."

The American people are the best
fed people in the world. They will
not slight their appetites at any
cost; they want the best and are
willing to pay for it. Men in the
food supply business have a high
calling. They are rendering a great
service. But the service should be—
gin back on the farms in the prepar-
ation of the product for the market.

If you Mr. Producer, would spend
one hour in the kitchen of one of
our big hotels, clubs or ﬁrst class
restaurants and see what the chef
hasto put up with, you would un-
derstand how important this is. In-
side of ten minutes you would say
that the consumer was a “crank.”
He expects too much, but that
would not solve the problem. The
consumer knows what he wants and
how he wants it, and is willing to
pay the price; therefore, it is up to
you, the chef and us to see that he
gets it. That’s good business for
all of us. Our appetites may not be
the same as that of' the consumer,
who is paying $1.00 to $2.00 for his
order of chicken or turkey, but he is
the fellow we are all catering to
and he must be pleased.

People living in the corn section
of the mid—west have an idea that a
piece of corn-fed meat is the only
thing worth while. This is a fallacy
that we are going to explode right
here. Don’t misunderstand us. Corn
is a great feed. It makes fat and
heat, but where it is used as an ex-
clusive diet the fat is apt to be soft
and greasy and many times too
much of it for eating purposes.

Another thing: meat grown on a
corn diet is apt to be of long ﬂbre,
hence tougher. While you may put
on weight, it is not always the best.
That’s why we are going to explain
the “Why and How of Crate-Feed-
ing,” and its beneﬁt to the meat
product of the fowl.

Why and How of Crate-Feeding

Just what effect the crate—feeding
has on a fowl may be of interest to
you. When a fowl is closely conﬁn—
ed the muscular tissues are broken
down—relaxed. It is on the same
principle of you going to bed when
in a healthy condition. If you will
do nothing but eat and sleep for a
few days, more than likely you will
put on ﬂesh very rapidly, particular-
ly if you eat fattening foods. If you
doubt us in this statement try it
out, then write us, but don’t try it
too long. There is a reasonable
time limit to crate-fattening of
poultry —- chickens, geese, ducks
and'guineas. If you were to stay
in bed for two or three weeks and
eat heartily, at the end of that ar-
iod you‘would ﬁnd it extremely -
cult .togfnaiwvigate. , It is easy to be

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hedges along the highway—it is the
blending of all of these into a ﬂeet-
ing panorama from‘ the car windows
that made “the charm of England”
a real appeal to all of us. We want-
ed to wander along those roads and
talk to the English farmer about his
hay and his mutton and his family
and himself.

But we were headed for London,
mighty London, on the Thames. The
City of Ten Million Chimneys grad-
ually crowded the charm of rural
England out of the picture, the little
toy train pulled into Paddington
Station, and we were in London at
last.

Our wanderings about Westmin—
ster Abbey, London Bridge, Pall
Mall, and Picadilly and our exper-
ience with the natives of Merrie
England Who try to speak our lang-
uage and really do the best they can
at it will be described in the next in-
stallment.

    

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seen that where a bird is closely
conﬁned it does not wear out as
much tissue as when on a range, nor
would it develop its muscles, hence
the meat will be more tender.

To obtain the best results it is
necessary to feed so that the ﬂesh
and fat build up during this conﬁne-
ment period and that it is of the
proper kind. Do not feed beyond
the proﬁt limit. Two weeks is long
enough. During that time you
should put on from 25 to 33%, per
cent. Figure out the cost of the feed
and the additional weight and im—
provement in quality and you have
the answer.

The Crates,

Crates may be made from old
lumber or even ordinary packing
boxes. A crate 6% ft. long by 11,4
feet wide, by about 12 inches high
inside, is the most desirable. The
ﬂoors should be made of slats so
the droppings will fall through. The
slats on the side should be far
enough apart to permit the fowl’s
head to pass through.

An ordinary V-shaped feeding
trough, made by nailing two 4-inch
boards together, will do. Hang the
trough on the V-shape hanger in
front of the crate for feeding and
remove or drop one end between
feeds. Commercial feeding stations
use all metal feeding crates. These
are too expensive for the average
farmer’s needs. The home-made,
wooden crates here illustrated will
do just as well.

Do Not Over-crowd Crates

About twelve chickens is a desir-
able number to place in one com-
partment of a crate. Fill it so the
birds cannot move about too much,
but leave suﬂicient room so they
can come to the trough. If it is
desired to put two or more crates
on top of each other (book—case
fashion) then a sliding board
should be placed between the crates
to catch the droppings. This should
be so arranged that it can be easily
pulled out and cleaned, thus keep-
ing clean also the birds in the deck
below.

These crates should be placed in
an open shed where there is plenty
of protection from snow, rain and
storm. If the weather is cold, as it
is in .the winter, it will be advisable
to keep your crates in the barn or
other building. Remember, com-
mon sense methods of housing and
care are necessary in crate-feeding

to prevent loss.

Pen Fattening

Many farmers have very good
success in fattening their chickens,
ducks and geese in pens (turkeys
should have a larger range, not too
closely conﬁned). In this method
the fowls are enclosed in a pen with
or without a small yard in which to
range, where they are fed heavily
on fattening ration for a period of
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Exports of Foodstuffs Show Large Increase

Farmers Are Marketing Wheat Too Early

and Prices Decline
By w. w. FOO'l'E, Market Editor.

UROPE’S need for American

foodstuffs is much greater than

in recent years and there was a
large increase in our foreign trade
during September, farmers reaping
the main part of the beneﬁt result-
ing from this demand. It was a
highly important factor in advanc-
ing prices for the different grains,
and it is bound to continue a pow-
erful source of strength for months
to come. Our September exports
aggregated $427,636,576, an in-
crease of $46,202,000 over last
year. Exports of foodstuffs for
September $114,898,000, and in—
crease of $41,234,000 over last
year. Therefore American farmers
received 90 per cent of the increase,
although food stuffs represented
only 28 per cent of the total ex-
ports. Our September imports
amounted to $288,126,817, an in-
crease of $24,480,437. Our balance
of trade for September amounted to
$139,509,769. General business has
been as large as could be expected
in a “presidential year," and new
trade may be expected to return to
its normal proportions once more.
The banks are well supplied with
money, and rates of interest are
still very low. Following the boom
period of early grain marketing,
marked reactions have taken place,
which was only natural, heavy mar-
keting by farmers being the main
reason, but grain values are still
much higher than in recent years,
the smallest advance being in oats,
which were rushed to market much
too freely. Live stock markets have
been depressed recently by excess—
ive receipts of hogs and cattle, es-
pecially of hogs, and farmers have
cheated themselves by becoming
panic stricken and rushing enorm—
ous numbers of underweight hogs
and pigs to market. This is a great
pity, for there is every reason for
thinking that retaining this young
stock to proper maturity, owners
who have sufﬁcient feed would come
out handsomely ahead ﬁnancially.
As for the cattle trade, everything
depends upon whether owners have
the right kind that the packers
want, and that is fat yearlings,

. heavy steers being slow at a big dis-

count. While this is rather unusu-

. a1, yet the tendency is to feed for

shorter periods than a decade ago,
leaving longer feeding to farmers
who make this a specialty. Nothing
has happened to discourage the
sheep industry, and farmers who
have ﬂocks on their farms may con-
sider themselves highly fortunate.
It is getting late in the year to buy
feeding lambs and breeding ewes,
but they bring high prices, and a
short time ago, for the ﬁrst time
this year, feeding lambs of the best

. kind sold 25 cents higher than the

best killing lambs. A string of 600
Arizona feeding lambs which aver-
aged 61 pounds sold on the Chicago
market at $14 per 100 pounds, but
not many of this kind were offered.
Michigan farmers will be interested
to learn that H. W. Gowdy, of the
Michigan Board of Agriculture, was
in Chicago a short time ago inspect—
ing the fruit and vegetable market
on the Municipal Pier. Just before
leaving for home he stated that an-
other similar market will be estab—
lished soon, probably in South Chi-
cago. “Our plan has been,” he said,
"to organize so that we could give
the people of Chicago a better pack
of fruits and vegetables that come

‘ from Michigan at a fair price and to

insure a fair return to growers."
‘Advice to Grain Owners

Farmers have been marketing
their new crops of grain too freely
to hold prices at the early harvest
level, despite the larg'é domestic and

.foreign demand, and it would be

well to ship less liberally, although
there is no occasion for alarm, with
prices still much above these of re—

cent years. The heaviest movement
has been in wheat, and it is accum-
ulating very fast, the recent ofﬁcial
report showing the visible ‘wheat
supply in this country to be 87,767,—
000 bushels, comparing with 67,-
732,000 bushels a year ago. Mean-
while the foreign outlet has contin-
ned exceptionally arge, and in a re-
cent week expors of wheat from
leading Atlantis/and gulf ports ag-
gregated 12,139,000 bushels, com-
paring with 9,486,000 bushels a
week earlier and 6,219,000 bushels
for the corresponding week last
year. The statistical showing is
bullish, and this should be heeded
by farmers owning wheat. The In-
ternational Institute of Agriculture
at Rome estimates the world’s ex-
portable surplus of wheat at 826,-
000,000 bushels, or only 18,000,000
bushels above estimated import re—
quirements. Argentina and Aus-
tralia are estimated as likely to
have 310,000,000 bushels, or about
50,000,000 bushels in excess of
trade estimates. This report was
construed as extremely bullish on
the Chicago Board of Trade. It is
important to note that a large por-
tion of our exportable wheat sur-
plus has been exported already.‘ In
the four northwestern states where
farmers harvested 80,000,000 bush-
els more wheat than last year, with
the price around 35 cents higher
than a year ago, it was natural that
they were anxious to cash it in, but
it is now time to use more care in
selling. Our wheat is the most
plentiful and cheapest in the world,
as well as the best. On the other
hand, most of the Canadian wheat is
of poor quality, and it will be large-
ly bought for mixing purposes
abroad. Late sales were made on
the Chicago Board of Trade of De-
cember delivery wheat at $1.43,
comparing with $1.07 a year ago.
December corn sells around $1.07
comparing with 73% cents a year
ago; December oats at 49% cents,
comparing with 411/2 cents last
year; and December rye at $1.22,
comparing with 69% cents a year
ago.

Conditions governing the corn
trade have changed materially dur—
ing the past month, better weather

having helped to dry out the crop.
and there will be less damaged corn
than was expected. Corn is still
above an exporting basis, but rye
and cats are exported freely, and
surroundings of the rye market re-
main bullish.

Hogs Rushed to Market

Warnings have had no effect ap-
parently on average stockmen, and
despite the appalling smash-up in
prices which has taken place during
the last month, recent marketings
of hogs have increased rapidly, ar-
rivals last week in the Chicago
stock yards being far ahead of the
preceding week, although very
much smaller than a year ago. Un—
quetionably, this eagerness upon
the part of owners was inspired by
lack of faith in the future of the
hog market mainly, although many
stockmen have got the idea that
com will be to dear to feed to live
stock. This is, in the opinion of
old-timers in the hog industry, a
grave mistake, and they are back-
ing up their view by holding on to
their young hogs, with a determina-
tion to market them not before
reaching maturity. It has been a
market where pigs and immature
light hogs greatly predominated,
and they had to go at an unusually
liberal discount from the prices
paid for weightly butcher hogs. The
latest fall in prices brought out in—
creased purchases for eastern ship—
ment, and served to check the de-
cline. The volume of receipts in
twenty markets for the year to late
date amounts to 33,866,000 hogs,
comparing with 34,963,000 for the
corresponding period last year and
27,152,000 two years ago. Large as
has been the shrinkage in prices,
hogs are still selling higher than a.
year ago, when they brought $6.26
to $7.50. Two years ago they sold
at $6.90 to $8.65 and three years
ago at $6.25 to $7.86. Recently
prices for ordinary light hogs have
gone off as much as 50 cents in a
day, hogs weighing under 160
pounds being too numerous. The
spread in prices. was the greatest of
the year, and prime lots sold at a
handsome premium. The Chicago
receipts have averaged 236 pounds,
being the lightest since June. Late
sales were made of hogs at $6.66 to
$10.

Enormous Cattle Receipts

Not only are farmers rushing
their hogs to market as fast as they
can get cars, but they are also los—
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THE BUSINESS FARMER’S MARKET SUMMARY
and Comparison with Markets Two Weeks ago and One Year ago

 

 

 

 

 

Detroit Chicago Detroit Detroit
Nov. 5 Nov. 5 Oct. 22 1 yr. ago

WHEAT——

No. 2 Red $1.49 $1.50 $1.14“

No. 2 White 1.51 1.55 1.14

No. '2 Mixed 1.50 1.54 1.13
CORN-—

No. 3 Yellow 1.14 1.05 1.15 1.02

No. 4 Yellow 1.03@ 1.04
OATS—

No. 2 White .51 1,4,. .45@ .47 .54 35 .46 1,4

No. 3 \Vhite .49 34 .43@.44 .52 K .43 35
RYE—-

Cash N0. 2 * 1.16 1.14@1.15 1.32 .77
BEANS—

C. H. P. th. 5.30 6.00 5.40@5.45 5.30@5.40
POTATOES—-

Per CNN. .93 .70 @ 1.05 1 .00 1.23 @ 1.40
lift-)1 """

No. 1Tim. 18@19 22@23 19@20 21@22

No. 2 Tim. 16@17 18@20 16@’17 19@20

No. i Clover 15@’16 17 18 15@l6 19@20

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Wednesday, November 5.-—Gra.ins easy after recent declines. Bean market down.
Potatoes unchanged. Live stock market active. ,

 

w Detroit. Chicago and Buffalo Wednesday Live—Stock Hal-hots Next ran.

half fat cattle, evidently distracting
the future and being teaspoon! to
food can during the approaching
months. - ',, the
enormous receipts weakened the
Chicago market ,, seriously, a n d
prices declined last week from 3‘
to. 75 cents, even choice

going of at last. The bulk of the
beef steers sold at $8.60 to $12,
with the best yearlings at $11.50 to
$12.90, and late sales of the best
yearlings around $12.66.
heavy

over, and sales down to $6.26 to
$7.25 for common light steers and
inferior little steers at $4.60 to $6.
Butcher cows and heifers had an
outlet at $3.50 to $11, with cam
and cutter cows at $2 to $3.40.
bulls at $3 to $6.25 and calves at $6
to $11. Stockers and feeders have
had a moderate sale at $3.25 to
$7.76, mainly at $6 to $7. For the
year to late date combined receipts
of cattle in twenty markets amount-
ed to 11,846,000 head, comparing
with 12,157,000 a year ago and 11,-
657,000 two years ago. One year
ago beef steers were selling at $6.26
to $12.40 and 17 years ago at $3.10
to $6.70. Farmers should hold on
to their well bred cattle until in
good marketable condition. Last
week 90,000 cattle were dumped on
the Chicago market.

GOBd Demand for Lambs

There is an active demand for
lambs at high prices, with sales at

$12 to $13.75, While feeder lambs .

go at $13 to $14. Breeding ewes are
much in demand at $6.75 to $12.
Thirteen years ago the best lambs
sold at $6.25.

 

WHEAT

Last week started out with a
strong wheat market at Detroit and
a good advance, but the ﬁnish was
easy and to a large number of deal-
ers it appeared to be a weaker mar-
ket and destined for a lower level.
This conclusion was reached because
of a decrease in export activity; a
failure on the part of the foreigners
to show anxiety enough to follow an
advance with more purchases. This
determination to pull out of the mar-
ket every time prices advanced has
been in evidence for several days.
They are buying only on breaks and
not in large quantities. The needs
of Europe are still said to be large
and this is proved by a report that
France will facilitate the importation
of wheat by a reduction on the im—
port duty, but they to be out of im-
mediate trouble for supplies and
there is a distinct falling off in ex-
port buying. Buying for speculation
has lost some of its activity also,
and more dealers are trying to make
money on the declining side of the
deal. Farmers are selling readily
seeming to be well satisﬁed with
present prices.

CORN

Corn worked lower during the two
weeks ending Saturday, November 1,
and the decline at Detroit during
that period compared with that
quoted in the last issue amounts to
6 cents. This was rather unexpected
as reports .from the ﬁeld indicate
that much of the corn is of poor
quality and the total output promises
to show a reduction from recent
estimates. Buyers were scarce on
the closing day of last week.

OATS
Oats followed the trend of corn
last week and the price is 3 cents
under that given in our last issue.
A 1,6 cent decline at Detroit last Sat-
urday failed to bring out any buyers.

RYE

There was a bad slump in the rye
market during the fortnight ending
last Saturday and the price at De-
troit went from $1.32 to $1.17. Buy-
ers seem to be out of the market at
present.

 

BEANS ,
New York reports that buyers are
showing a fair interest in the new

crOp of pea beans but, you

steers brought $11.26 to
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dealers declare the vmarket is easy
with, demand slow. Prices at Chi-
cago declined during the past two‘
weeks. Buyers are holding back on
em Mans, it seems, and the price is
easy.

POTATOES

Demand for potatoes has been only
fair and prices of the best grades
only steady. Fair to medium grades
are piling up on the market as buyers
are not interested as long as there is
s Mcienrt supply of the best grades
to take care of. their immediate
wants. Market men in the East are
urging housewives to lay in their
‘winter’s supply at present low prices
stating that prices will work higher
rather than lower. It is to be hoped
that these men are right and prices
will. turn upward.

HAY
Most market reports show that
poor hay is arriving in large quanti-
ties and this is sold only at heavy
concessions in many instances. Good
hay soils readily and markets are
kept cleared of these sorts.

woonmnmrs

Prices on the Chicago wool mar-
ket have ruled ﬁrm in about all
lines, although the volume of trans-
actions has not been great. There
is considerable less activity on the
part of speculators, who, since the
London sales, have been assuming
an awaiting attitude pending the
November election. The swing to
a manufacturers’ market such as is
noticeably the case, betokens' a more
healthy trade. Manufacturers are
taking a larger share of the busi-
ness, due to increased orders. The
small manufacturers are expected to
follow the lead of the American
Woolen company in advancing
prices on» a good share of their pro—
duct.

Although the trading on the Bost-
on wool market was somewhat
quiet last week, as very good volume
of wool moved- from the market di-
rect to the manufacturers. Prices in
about all instances are very ﬁrm and
some choice lines of domestic groWn
wools- are slightly. stronger. A fair
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Week of November 9
BE opening days of this week
will bring unsettled and show-

conditions to Elongan
with equally winks and probably
some snow ﬂurrios. In some coun—
tries the precipitation may be
heavy. Towards the middle of the
week high winch or gale: will add
their presenso to the mkigm ele-
ments.

First half of 883 week the gener-
al trend of the Was will be
upward but dum latter halt read-
ings will be conﬁdential? below the
seasonal normal.

The week will end with 
fair and cool weather.

Week of November to

The greater share of the Weak
promises fair weather and quite
likely with a semblance of Indian:
summer. About the only unsettled
weather will occur about Tuesday
and Wednesday when light showers
or snow ilurries my occur in var-
ious parts of the m.

Thanksgiving Day Weather

There is hardly a person that
does not look up the weather condi-
tions for the day set aside in honor
of the practice Med by; the Pil-
grims some 300“ m 85 . The
purpose of the m ‘rs con-
siderably, hm, m the minis-
ter who wonder! that ﬁlo me out
will be in  M m. the line
past the ﬁshermen, the hunter and
automobilist to the football player.

For this reason we are giving
“wo'boﬂove will be hoover-
age weather conditions in Michigan
on Thanksgiving day, 1924. We
look for a. generalb dreary day with
rain (or snow) and high winds.
Temperatures on this day will range
between 26 and 38 degrees.

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plies until after the ﬁrst otNovem-
‘ber. Although the worsted branch
of the industry is still somewhat
slow, the woolen manufacturers con-
tinue to“ be active.

. STOCK MARKETS

DETROIT, Nov. 5,—Cattle: Market ac-
tive amd‘ steady. Good to choice year-
lingl, fed, 37.500175 ; best handy weight,
dry fed, $7.50@9.75; best. handy weight
butcher steers, “@615; mixed steers and
setters, $5.25@0; handy light butchers,
$565.50: light butchers, “@450; best
cows, 34.5065; butcher cows, $3.50@4;
common cows, $3@‘8.50; canners, 82.50@
2.75; choice light bulls, $4.25@4.50;
heavy bull's, $4.50‘@5 ; stock bulls, $3@4;
feeders, S4.50@6; stockers, $3@5.50:
milkers‘ and springers, $45©85.

Veal Calves—Market steady; best, 812
@1250; others, $3@11.50.

Sheep 8. n d Lambs—Market : G 0 o d
lambs $15625 higher; others and sheep
steady; but lambs, $18.50@1~3.65; fair
lamlbs, $10.50@12.25; light to common
W, $768.50; fair to good sheep, $5.50
66.50; culls and common, $1.50@3.50;
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Hogs—Market: Prospects higher. Mix--

ed hogs, $9.90; pigs, $7.50@7.75.

CHICAGO—H o g s—Receipts, 24,000:
market slow; mostly steady. Bulk $7.75
@140; top. $9.80; 250 to 325 pounds
weight, 90.250930; medium weight,
$8.75@9.70; light weight, $7@9.25: light
lights, $5.75@8 ;; heavy packing sows,
snooth, $$8.25 @8.50; packing s o w s,
rough. $7.85@8.25'; pigs, $5.50@6.50.

Cattle—Receipts, 12,000; market steady.
Beef steers: Choice and prime, $9.50@
10.75; medium and good, $8@9; good and
choice, 31167112; common and medium,
$7@9. Butcher cattle: Heifer, $5@
10.50; cows, 3.50@7; bulls, $3.50@6.50.
Canners and cutters: Cows and heifers, $2
@4.50; owner steers, $5@7; Veal
calves, light and handy weight, $9.50@
10.75; feeder steers, $5.50@8; stacker
steers, “@750; stocker cows and heifers,
$3@5.50; shocker calves, $5@7.50. West—
ern range cattle: Beef steers, $6@9; cows
and heifers, $3@6.50. Calves—Receipts,
1,500.

Sheep and lambs—Receipts, 8,000, laato
market higher. Lambs, fat, $13.50@
13.75; culls and common, $10.50@'11;
yearlings, $9.50@11.25; wethers, $7@
8.50; ewes, $5027; culls and coinmon‘,
31.50@3.50; breeding, $6@12; feeder
lambs. $12@14’.

BUFFALO-Cattle—Receipts, 035; max»
hot slow. Prime steers, 38.350105; ship-
ping steers, $8.25@9.50; butcher grades,
sagas-o; heifers, $4.50@8; com, :20
5.50; bulls, $3@5.50; feeders, “@050;
milk cows and swingers, $35@125.

Calves—Receipts, 1,000; market steady.
Cull to choice, “@1250.

Sheep and lambs—~Receipts, 5,000; max--
ket satady. Choice lambs, 812@13.25;
cull to fair, $7.50@11; yam. $76,010;
sheep, $3@8.

Hogs—-Receipts.
Yorkers, $9.50@9.75; pig‘S, S7@7.50; mix-
ed, $9.75@9.85; heavy, $9.85@10; roughs;
$7.25@8; stags, $4@6. '

MISCELLANEOUS LIARKET
QUOTATIONS

Detroit, November 3.

ButteF—Best creamery, in tubs, 341,9
@36léc per 1b.

Eggs—Fresh, 47@52'c; cold storage, 3'
@390 per doz.

Apples—Jonathans, $2.25@2.50; Greeni-
ings, $1.75; McIntosh. $1.7@2; Show,
$1.75@2.25; Wolf River, $1.50@1.7?5 per
bu; Western boxes, $2.25@3.

Cabbage—~50@750 per bu.

Dressed calves—Best country dressed, .

14@15c; ordinary grades, 12@13e; small
and poor, 10@llc; heavy rough calves,
8@9o; best city dressed, 17@18‘o per lb.
Live poultry—Best spring chime; 5
lbs. and up, 23c; medium, 22; legworns',
18@200; best hens, 5 lbs. and up, 25c:

medium hens, 23 @ 2 4c; leghorns anr
small, 15@16c; old roostegs, 15@18¢; '
geese, 19 @ 200; ducks, 4 15 "lbs. and up,

white, 21c; small or dark, 18@200; tur-
keys, 33@35c per 1b.

Onions—$1.50@2.25 per 100-lb
Spanish, 31.75%235 per crate.

Rabbits—20@210 per lb.

Vegetables—Carrots, 75@$1 per bu;
bests, $1@1.25; per bu; mrm'pS, $1@
L25 per bu; radishes, $1.50@2 per bu;
green peppers, 511751.25 per bu; spinach,
$1@1.25 per bu; parsley, 25@35c per box;
egg plant, $1.50@2 per bu.

THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
HARTERED by Congress to pre—
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peace and in war, at home and
abroad theAmerica‘n‘ Red Cross is
about to hold its annual Roll Call
in which its membership is renewed

and increased from year to year.
This annual Roll Call will take
place Armistice Day and Thanks-
giving, November 11 to 27.

sack ;

later the purpose of maintaining its

membership at such a point as will

enable It is

upon it by Congress.
Everyone 'in the United States,

oldaor young, Who can spare a dol—

lar bill, should have a membership

  

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