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Dame-Jersey Pigs Win First Prize in Michigan Ton Litter Contest—~Using
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U. S. WHEAT POOLS BEAT LAST

YEAR‘S DELIVERY RECORD
. MERICAN wheat pools will han-

dle three times as much wheat

this year as they did last year.
Nine associations reporting to the
National Council had handled 18,-
946,646 bushels by the beginning of
November, contrasted with total re-
ceipts of 12, 881,942 bushels for the
whole of last year. Further deliv-
eries from November 1 until the sea-
son pools are closed will double the
present volume, it is thought, bring-
ing the total pooled crop to 38,000,-
000 bushels.

Taking Canada into consideration,
where half the crop is handled co-
operatively, more than 100,000,000
bushels will be pooled on the North
American continent this year.

Oklahoma leads all the U. S. pools
with 6,336,341 bushels on Novem—
ber 1 compared to only 3,841,967
delivered on that same date in 1923.

DATE SET FOR FARMERS’
WEEK
E eighth annual Farmers’
Week at the Michigan Agricul-
tural College will be held Feb-
ruary 2nd to 6th inclusive, and the
committee having charge of the an-
nual gathering are looking forward
to a record—breaking crowd. Last

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year 33 organizations had their
meeting during the week and this
year still other meetings will be
added. The Michigan State Farm
Bureau is the largest organization
holding their meeting during Far-
mers’ Week.

In addition to the other exhibits
which have been ﬁxtures of the
week’s meetings is the Annual Po-
tato Show to be held at the College.
Last year the show was held in con-
nection with the State Horticultural
Association’s Apple Show at Grand
Rapids, but this year arrangements
have been made so that farmers at-
tending Farmers’ Week will be able
to attend the Potato Show also,
making the one trip cover both
events.

You better check these dates on
the calendar and make arrange-
ments to take mother and the fam-
ily over to M. A. C. for the week.

PIANS LAID FOR 1925 HOLS’I‘EIN
CONVENTION AND SALE
IRST plans for Michigan’s role as
host for the 1925 Annual Meet-
ing and Sale of the Holstein-
Friesian Association of America,
were recently laid by members of the
State Holstein Board and other in-
terested Michigan Holsteiners.
M. W. Wentworth, President of

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the Michigan Association,/ was .eleo-
ted chairman of a committee of three
to have complete charge of the
Meeting and Sale. Mr. Wentworth
has “been thru the mill"-—he having
been an active member of the com-
mittee that handled the entertain-

ment of the Convention held in De-.

troit in 19 16.

Dudley E. Waters of Grand Ra-
pids and Horace W. Norton, Jr. of
Lansing, were the other two mem-
bers elected. Mr. Waters—a life-
long resident of Grand Rapids—will
be well suited to handle local ar-
rangements in that, the Convention
city. Mr. Norton has been a direc-
tor. of both National and State As-
sociations for years; consequently he
is in a position to facilitate handling
of the business of the National ASSO-
ciation attendant at the 1925 Con-
vention.

J. G. Hays, State Secretary for
the Michigan Association will of

course function as chief assistant to.

this general committee.

No plans have been given out as
yet except that two whole days will
be devoted to the Delegate Meeting
instead of one as formerly. This
should make for an’orderly transac-
tion of business with opportunity
for each delegate to assist. As to the
sale—plans include selling only 60
head in a one-day sale, the offerings
to be of such high quality as to in—
sure an average sale price of
$1000.00 or better.

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Keep Tracks Clear

mustbetheﬁrst
ttheremustbe

consideration always.

With every Railroad, plassenger safe

a clear track.

t implies

As motor vehicles multiply, this problem becomes increas-
ingly difﬁcult almost from day to day for the 24 steam
Railroads of Michigan. Despite the most costly and care-
fully planned precautions on the.part of the Railroads,

crossing accidents are becoming ” appallingly frequent.

Such accidents are due to the growing recklessness of
the motorists. Yet each accident also imperils the lives
of trainmen and passengers.

Separation of grades can never solve this problem, for
crossings are multiplying far faster than grades can be
separated. And, with each separation costing from
$70,000 to $100,000, the entire wealth of Michigan
could not accomplish the task.

The public demands of us speed—quick delivery—for
passengers, mails, freight. To keep our tracks clear for
. this efﬁcient service, and to maintain our standards of
absolute safety, we must have cooperation at crossings.

Most motorist? give this cooperation by heeding our
request to Step Look, Listen. For their own proteo

tion, as well as ours, those who do not heed this request
should be made to do so by the mandate of Law.

Do you agree? Write us your verdict.

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ceived by the Committee in regard

to the Convention and ‘Sale to be
held the ﬁrst week of June 1925 in
Grand Rapids, Michigan.

RUSSIAN CO-OP ORGANIZED
LIKE OURS
USSIAN peasant farmers sold
their crops through cooperative
commodity marketing associa-
tions long before most American far-
mers heard of such a plan, according
to Dr. Nicholas D. Kondratjeff, who
is now touring the United States in-
vestigating cooperative marketing.
Dr. Kondratjeff is professor of agri-
cultural economics of the university
at Moscow and was one of the em-
pire leaders in the ﬂax association
before the Soviet regime.

Although few of the Russian co-
operatives used producers contracts
like the American type, all the mar-
keting was along the line of our pre-
sent methods. Each district or state
had separate associations to handle
ﬂax, grain, potatoes, dairy products
and other crops. Locals were organ-
ized in the various smaller divisions.
Each commodity was then national-
ized by federation into the National
Unions, one for each crop, similar to
the American Cotton Growers Ex-
change.

The coming of Bolshevism and
the civil strifes partly disrupted the
movement, according to Dr. Kron—
dratjeff. At that time government
commissars were placed in charge of
the cooperatives. Now, however,
there is again a tendency toward
more democratic control, and the
associations may be returned to their
pre-war status in the course of time.

COUNTS (ZIHCKENS, COWS
AND P‘IGS

ALF a million farmers are being
asked to report to the United
States Department of Agricul—
ture this month the number of cows
and heifers kept for milk this year
compared with last, the number of
hens and pullets of laying age, and
the number of sows farrowed or
bred to farrow this fall and non
spring. Questionaires are being dis-
tributed by the rural mail carriers.
This information is sought to
form the basis for forecasting pro-
duction and market supplies so that
farmers may adjust production to
demand and market their products
in a more orderly fashion. Survey-
of this kind were begun by the do-
partment two years ago in connec-
tion with pigs, and the success at

the system has been such that the

surveys have been extended to dairy
cows and poultry.

OHIO SIGNS 115,000 KENS

ORE than 116,000 hens have

been signed up in Williams.

Fulton, Deﬁance and Henry
counties, Ohio, in preparation for an
egg marketing exchange. Marketing
work will not start until egg market-
ing agreements are signed to include
at least 300,000 hens.

TELEPHONE CODIPANY TO
SPEND $85,000,000
RESIDENT FRANZ C. KUHN of
P the Michigan Bell 00. an-
nounces that his company will
expend more than $85,000,000, be»
tween now and the end of 1929, for
additions to Michigan's telephone
plant. That program of expansion
will bring the property worth of the
plant with which the company ser-
ves Michigan up to more than one
hundred and ﬁfty million dollars.

During the year 1925, alone, the
Michigan Bell company will expand
its plant to the extent of $16,782,—
000, Judge Kuhn says. It is plan-
ned to invest $7,568,000 in Detroit
next year, $4,500,000 in the South—
ern Michigan division, of which
Lansing is the company’s divisional
headquarters; $1,713,000 in central
Michigan, with divisional headquar-
ters at Saginaw, and $359,000 north
of the Straits of Mackinac. The com—
pany’s northern divisional head-
quarters are at Menominee. Tele-
phone plant and service expansion
and consolidation in Western Mich-
igan alone next year will cost about
$2,700,000, of which $1,700,000
will be spent in the city of Grand
Rapids. ’

There is expected to be a net gain
of 162,000 telephones in Michigan
the next ﬁve years, Judge Kuhn
says. That will mean connecting
591,000 telephones, the diﬂerenoe
being accounted for by discbnnects.

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ore Cooperative Marketing, Says Coolidge

President Believes Agricultural Colleges and Farm Leaders Should Encourage Marketing
of Farm Products Through Organization

agricultural problem of to-
l day is not on the side of pro-
duction, but on the side of dis-
tribution. Too little' thought has
been given to this phase." Thus
spoke President Coolidge in his ad-
dress before the association of agri-
cultural colleges of the United States
at their recent annual meeting at
Washington, D. C. It is his opinion
that the agricultural colleges and
farm leaders should do everything in
their power to encourage and develop
farm cooperative marketing.

“The immediate problem,” the
President declared, “is to bridge over
the difﬁculties resulting from war-
stimulated surpluses. To this end he
promised that the government would
do everything to prevent a recurrence
of recent agricultural misfortunes,
and in this connection he recently
called a conference of agricultural
leaders to make legislative recom—
mendations to Congress. The Presi-
dent also insisted that the farmer
must be willing to readjust his meth-
od of production and distribution in
accordance with the facts which his
agricultural colleges and organiza-
tions work out.

President Coolidge predicted the
not far distant time when the United
States will become one of the greatest
agricultural buying nations.

A New Condition

“Up to the present time,” Mr. Cool-
idge said, “the main emphasis of our
agricultural education has been pla-
ced upon production. I believe that
was right, because unless there is
economy and efﬁciency in production
there is no need for thought in any
other direction. But our experience
of the last few years has demonstrat-
ed that it is by no means enough.
The farmer is not only a producer, he
is likewise a merchant."

The farmers must face the problem
of the future, coming possibly in a
generation, Mr. Coolidge declared,
when this nation will be preponder-
antly commercial and industrial.

A Look Ahead

"In a very few years,” he said,
“the natural increase of population
and the inevitable tendency to indus-
trialization, will place as among the
nations producing a deﬁcit, rather

Duroc-Jersey Pigs Win First Prize in Michigan Ton

WENTY litters of pigs were fed
T* out to reach the weight of one
ton or more in the Michigan Ton
Litter Contest this year. Only six-

xteen passed the ten in the Contest
last year, and as the enrollment was

no larger this year, a larger percent
of those starting the contest reached
the goal.

Several litters that would have
made the ten dropped out of the
contest before they were 180 days
old because market conditions were
favorable and the owners would
rather market them at a good price
at ﬁve months of age than to take
a. chance on the market, which actu-
ally did drop during the latter part
of the contest.

No spectacular weights were ob-
tained in the Michigan Contest but
most of the litters were fed a good
combination of home grown feeds
and demonstrated a practical profit-
able pork production.

The contest ﬁnished as follows:
lst, H. M. McIllwain, Bath, 13 in lit-
ter, Duroc-Jersey, Weight 3074 lbs.;
2nd, Houseman Bros., Albion, 12 in
litter, Dunc-Jersey, weight 2824

 

 

“ P to the present time,” Mr Coolidge said, “the main

emphasis of our agricultural education has been pla—
ced upon production. I believe that was right, because un-
less there is economy and efficiency in production there

is no need for thought in any other direction.

But our ex-

perience of the last few years has demonstrated that it is
by no means enough. The farmer is not only a producer,

he is likewise a merchant.”

 

 

than a surplus of agricultural staples.
We were fairly on the verge of that
condition when the World War gave
a temporary and artificial stimulation
to agriculture, which ultimately
brought disastrous consequences.
Even today if in making up our bal-
ance sheet we have included our re-
quirements of coffee, sugar and wool
we already have a considerable agri—
cultural deficit. It may not be gen-
erally known, but even now we con-

sume more calories of food in this
country than we produce. The main
reason is that we do not raise nearly
enough sugar. Our only agricultural
exports of consequence are cotton,
meat products, and wheat; and as
to the two latter it must be plain
that the scales will shortly turn
against us. We shall be not only an
agricultural exporting nation but in
the lives of many who are now among
us, we are likely to be one of the

Michigan 10th in Judging at International

HICAGO, Dec. 1.——In the live
stock judging contest on the
opening day at the International
Live Stock Exposition at Chicago,
the team representing Michigan
placed 10th in a field of 20, and the
team was tied with Kansas for high
on judging cattle. A Michigan boy,
Howard Start, tied for ﬁrst with
three other boys.

The Kansas champion noncollegi-
ate team won first position with a
score of 1,529, leading Nebraska,
next highest, by 77 points. The
ranking of the teams and the points
scored by each are as follows: 1,
Kansas, 1,529 points; 2, Nebraska,
1,452; 3, Oklahoma, 1.424; 4, Minn-
esota, 1,405; 5, Missouri, 1,391; 6,
Colorado, 1,370; 7, North Dakota,
1,349; 8, Indiana, 1,348; 9, Arkan-
sas; 1,340; 10, Michigan, 1,336; 11,
Wisconsin, 1,333; Pennsylvania, 1,-
326; 13, Iowa, 1,322; 14, Virginia,
1,316; 15, Ohio, 1,301; 16, Ken-
tucky.1,300; 17, West Virginia, 1,-

289; 18, Illinois, 1,268; 19, Georgia,
1,266; 20, Tennessee, 1.251; 21,
Nevada, 1,228.

The top 10 men, all classes, were:
1, Karl Garrett, Kansas, and Stanley
Daneska, Nebraska, tied with 531
points; 3, Ralph Grose, Kansas, and
Forrest C. Fall, Colorado, tied for
second with 526 points; BertAVVebb,
Oklahoma, 506: 6, Donald M. John—
son, Indiana, 496; 7, Aubrey llam-

mer, Missouri, 495; 8, (Jlarcnce
Brundy, Minnesota, 484; 9, Milton
Shelby, Arkansas, 433; 10, Floyd

Eskra, Minnesota, 478.

Four boys tied for ﬁrst on cattle
with 135 points—~Karl Garrett, Kan—
sas; Roward Start, Michigan; Stan-
ley Daneskas, Nebraska, and Clifford
Beecher, Pennsylvania. The Kansas
team was “high” on cattle, tied by
the Michigan team and also high on
sheep. Minnesota an (1 Oklahoma
were second on sheep. Arkansas was
high on hogs With Nebraska second.
Wisconsin was high on horses, Mis-
souri second.

By V. A. FREEMAN

lbs.; 3rd, Ernes‘t Barnard, Portland,
11 in litter, Poland China, weight
2686 lbs.; 4th, W. R. Kirk, Fair-
grove, 13 in litter, Chester—White,
weight 2619 ibs.; 5th, Dickey Bros.,
Goldwater, 11 in litter, Poland-
China, weight 2550 lbs.; 6th, David
Gibson, Deerfield, 10 in litter, Grade
Poland-China, weight 2430 lbs; 7th,
Harry Ward, McBain, 10 in litter,
Grade 0. I. 0., weight 2418% lbs.;
8th, Perry Tift, Montgomery, 11 in
litter, Duroc—Jersey, weight 2359
lbs.; 9th, Victor Wilson, Portland,
10 in litter, Poland-China, weight
2358 lbs; 10th, Fritz H. Montey,
Fairgrove, 9 in litter, Grade Chester-
White, weight 2354 lbs.; 11th, Glen
Macomber, Plymouth, 12 in litter,
Duroc-Jersey, weight 2318 lbs.; 12th
D. W. Kelly, Gobles, 13 in litter,
Grade 0. I. 0., weight 221215 lbs.;
13th, H. M. Bursley, Charlotte, 12 in
litter, Duroc—Poland Cross, weight
2202 lbs.; 14th, E. E. Withington,
Montgomery. 9 in litter, Duroc-Jer-
sey, weight 2198* lbs; 16th I. J.

Bennett, Muskegon, 9 in litter, Grade
0. I. 0., weight 20801bs.; 16th.
W. A. Scott, Caledonia, 11 in litter,
Grade 0. I. 0., weight 2053 lbs.;
17th, Jesse T. Fox, Prattville, 10 in
litter, Poland-China, weight 2036
lbs.; 18th, Ralph Sherman, South
Haven, 12 in litter, Duroc—Jersey,
weight 2023 lbs.; 19th, John Bronk-
horst, McBain, 12 in litter, Grade
0. I. 0., weight 2002 lbs.; 20th,
Fred Roblfs, Fairgr ve, 9 in litter,
Chester—White, weight 2000 lbs

All of these men were successful
in producing a ton of pork from one
sow in 180 days from the birth of
the litter and will be awarded gold
medals.

In addition Mr. McIllwain will re-
ceive $100.00 from the National Du-
roc—Jersey Record Association and
a bronze medal for producing the
heaviest Duroc-Jersey litter in the
Contest. This litter is also the heav-
iest of all breeds and he will receive
$25.00 in cash, some bacon, ham and
mnkage.

greatest of agricultural buying na-
tions.

“In this lies the assurance to the“
.. American farmer that his own future

is secure enough. But he must read-
just his methods of production and
marketing until he comes within
sight of the new day.

“We must look forward to a long-
continuing increase of population.
We must realize that our relation-
ships with the outside world, already
enormously important, will increase
in number, complexity and impor-
tance in their inﬂuence on our social
structure.

Faith in Organization

“We cannot begin too soon to pre-
pare for this future. It may seem
contradictory to suggest that in a
time when we are embarrased with
surpluses for markets which are not
easily to be found. We must begin
to plan for exactly opposite condi—
tions. But it is not really a contra-
diction. The organizations and meth-
ods which look to economics and et-
ficiencies in producing and distribu—
tion will be equally useful, equally
necessary in either set of circum-
stances. To fail in establishing these
instruments will commit us to that
most inexcusable of economic sins,
a deliberate policy of sheer wasteful-
ness. And wastefulness, whether in
disposing of a surplus or permitting
a deﬁciency, in the end can only re—
sult in calamity.

“Finally, you will remember that
America has but one great staple
product. We till the soil, we operate
our industries, we develop transpor-
tation, wc engage in commerce, we
encourage the arts and sciences, but
these are only a means to an end.
They are all carried on in order that
America may produce men and wo~
men worthy of our standards of cit-
izenship. We want to see them en-
dowed with ability and character,
with patriotism and religious devo-
tion. We want to see them truly
American, while ready and eager to
contribute a generous share to world
welfare. We want to see them hon-
est, industrious and independent,
posessed of all those virtues which
arise from an intellectual training,
joined to experience which comes
from the open country."

Litter Contest

Mr. Houseman will receive $20.00
in cash, some ham, bacon and tank—
age.

Mr. Barnard will receive $15.00
in cash and some bacon and tankage.

Mr. Kirk will receive $25.00 01--
fered by the Chester White Record
Association for producing the heav—
ies litter sired by a registered Ches-
ter White bear and produced by a
registered Chester White dam, also
810.00 in cash, some bacon and
tankage.

Dickey Brothers will receive $5.00
in cash. some bacon and tankage.

These prizes will be awarded by
the Michigan Swine Breeder’s Asso—
ciation during Farmers’ Week at the
College held the ﬁrst week in Febru-
ary. The ham, bacon and tankage
are products of Michigan Packing
Companies and these prizes as well as
the gold medals were made possible
through the donations from the
Packing companies of Detroit and
Pontiac.

Many of the stories of how these
litters were produced will be pub-j
lished during the winter.

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ONEY is becoming popular
throughout the country as an
anti-freeze solution for auto—
oblle solution for automobile rad—
iators and many advocate using it
iinstead of alcohol. It was tried
at last winter and some had
atrouble for various reasons but ex—
g’perts declare it it is prepared prop-
rly there will be no trouble.
3 Professor R. H. Kelty, beekeep—
.ng specialist of the Michigan Agri—
cultural College, has advocated that
:motorists use a solution half of
honey and half of water to guard
against zero weather, th1ee— ﬁfths of
honey for temperatures of 10 de—
grees below zero and two— thirds of
honey for temperatures of 20 de-
grees below zero
Advantagx‘s of Honey
Most important of the advantages
»?',of honey for radiators is its safety
in winter, P10f.Ke1ty points out.
{Even if the honey solution solidi~
ﬁes, it does little l1a1n1. Unlike a
:gsolution of wate1 and alcohol, it
_does not expand. Furthermore, it
rholds the heat better and an auto—
mobile, after being left standing for
two hours 011 a cold winter day can
:be started without difﬁculty.
_ The honey solution also has a
higher boiling point than water or
’ a mixture of water and alcohol and
‘ hence does not evaporate so rapidly.
i‘ Because of better carburetion, it is
claimed that more miles per gallon
= of gasoline may be obtained with it.
Motorists must be careful not. to
:let the water boil away, he warns,
.. because when the solution gets
thick it circulates less easily. When
the water is all gone, the honey left
becomes hot and chars. He advises
us not to add the water at night,
.however, since ice may be formed
before it mixes with the honey. If.
;»is also important, he declares, that

This is the ﬁfth article of Mr.
Flood’s series on traveling in
" Europe.

HE spell of London is wrapped
up in matchless history, its
; traditions and kings. and great
cathedrals and countless monu—
ments, its palaces and legends. It
not shee1 physical properties of
ondon, majestic. as they are, where-
in lies the greatness of the city, and
its value as “a place to see”; it is
its history and associations. And
0 the average Amcrican I am afraid
that much of that is lost.
" It is about as ditlicult for an Amer—
"lcan really to “see London” and get
the full satisfaction out of it and
the proper appIet when [01 its place
among the cities oi the woild as it
:would be fo1 the average saxophone
~jazzist really to appreciate The Mes—
lab, or for an English admiral to
ecome very enthusiastic over view—
ing the Gettysburg battleﬁeld.
Thele is ten times as much “to
see" around Times Squaic in New
York as there is around ’lrafalgar
Square in London, but only the pro—
'ncial New Yorke1s will argue that
ﬁl‘imes Squa1e is more wo1th while
Ior one who is out to visit the gieat
sights of the w011d That famous
square with the g1eat statue of Lord
Nelson towering hivh above it can
“hold me for a long, long time, con—
emplating the wealth of l<ngland’s
istory, and the sentiment of her
~'ge. We in America cannot equal
at, With our automobiles and sky—
rapers.
7 But with all the facination that.
,he soap box oratory in Hyde Park
H for us; with all the appeal of
t Paul’s great cathedial; with all
he Charm of Fleet Sheet, and the
omance of Westmister Abby and
ondon TOWer——we were farmers
on the United States and we want-
to get into the country, if there
did be any in this little island, and
a» how far behind or ahead of us
‘; English farmer is. It was the
t opportunity that any of us had
to see European agriculture.
King George 11. “Dirt Farmer”
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E HAVE received many inquiries during the past month regard-
ing the use of honey in the radiator of an automobile to prevent
.freezing and this‘ article contains information on making the

solution and advice on using it.

For the man who is making long

drives every day the honey solution should work Very satisfactorily

haps the most economical to use.

and as it does not boil away as rapidly as alcohol so it would be per-
However, the farmer who drives only

a few miles each day, only far enough to get his car warmed up, will
ﬁnd alcohol less troublesome, according to experts, and just as cheap.

 

the car have no leaky connections
through which the honey can seep
through to the engine.

Should the solution solidify, it may
be brought back to liquid form by
running the engine a short time.

 

EXHIBITS AT TOP ’0 MICHIGAN POTATO SliO\V
A general view of the auditorium at the Top ’0 Blichigan Potato Show, at Gaylord,
the ﬁrst week in Novcmbcr, showing potato exhibits. In the background, on the
right, can be seen the charts on potato discuscs displayed by the M. A. C. while 011‘
the stage are the exhibits on grading put up by the State Department of Agriculture.

By FRANCIS A. FLOOD

up to actual agriculture. The king
really has, a farm and since George
\V’indsor gets his job being king
without doing any electioneering
he does not need to pose as a “dirt
farmer” unless he wants to. Some
member of the Windsor family has
been king of England for a long
time, and will probably continue to
be so without any change, just as it
has been the tradition for some
member of the Bryan family to be
a candidate. If the king of Eng—
land borrows somebody’s overalls
while he has his picture taken it is
simply because he likes the idea; he
does not do it, for the sake of pub—
licity, but, rather, in spite of pub—
licity.

The royal family and the lesser
nobility who live on agricultural
estates and keep up the big manor
houses of England must be given
credit for doing their farming be—
cause they wish to and for neither
publicity nor proﬁt, the same as the
average American farmer during
the past three years. From our
limited observation of aristocratic
farming in lngland, there is just
about as much actual proﬁt from
the farms as there has been in
America in recent years.

Our party was given special royal
permission to vist the farm at Wind—
sor, and the king’s factor met us
at the royal gates. We expected to
see the hired man doing the chores

Tho‘.Kinx’sBoyal Beet on his ,Wlndsor tar-m. '

in a coat of mail and using a lance
for a pitchfork; we expected to see
a herd of unicorns grazing in a field
of. purple grass, and the cows all
branded with the coat of arms. As
a matter of fact, the royal chickens
\vere scratching in the royal dirt
just exactly the same as they do 111
the backyard of The Lazy Farmer
back home.
The King‘s Royal Beef

A small herd of Shorthorns were
grazing in a wonderful pasture be-
side a shady lane. They were the
Reefer-s to His Majesty the King,
and as such merited the grave and
undivided attention of ‘ the entire
party of American agricultural edi—
tors, as well as several rounds of
snapshot ﬁlm. The same Short—
horns, however, in an American
pasture would have excited no notice
whatever, for they were of very or~
dinary quality and breeding. The
herd was headed by a big white
bull whose only claim for distinction
as far as We could see was the ped—
igree of his owner. These animals
were only the king’s royal beef, of
course, and not his best, show stuff.

King George himself may not
know a Hampshire from a Plymouth
Rock, but there were some splendid
examples of the Hampshire hog in
the royal pens. Most of these were
ﬁrst class show animals but leaned
more toward bacon type of 110g that
is so popular throughout all of Eng—

reezin:

The honey solution may be still
further improved, he declares, by
the addition of a little alcohol. For
some reason the alcohol does not
evaporate from a honey solution as
it does from water.

The present annual production of
honey in the United States is about
20,000,000 pounds. One automobile
radiator need 21 pounds of honey
for a season. Hence, more than
270,000,000 pounds of 'honey would
be needed to supply the automobiles
now in use. But the bee specialists
say that only 1 per cent of the avail-
able pollen for honey production is
now utilized.

For the farmer who keeps bees
and produces more honey than is
used on the table this solution
would be undoubtedly more eco-
nomical than alcohol, or if one does
considerable driving each day he
would'ﬁnd it eﬂiéient, but for the
man who does little driving and who
must buy the honey used alcohol
will continue to be the most eco-
nomical and least troublesome. The
mailman who makes a long drive
each day would be able to use the
honey solution satisfactorily
and it would cheaper for him
than alcohol '1 s the later would
evaporate rapi ly but the farmer
who does not average over 4 or 5
miles each day will have less
trouble, we believe, with alcohol.

Some Use Kerosene

A few have advocated the use of
kerosene in the radiator to pre;
vent freezing and have used it
successfully. However, many talk
against it for fear it might cause a
ﬁre. The motorist whose car has a
good cooling system can use it, it is
said, but the man with a Ford who
drives much so that his car gets
rather warm is advised to use some—
thing else.

His Majesty, the King of England, is a Real “Dirt Farmer”

land, than do our own Hampshire.

We'saw a pair of wonderful
Guernseys which, we were told, had
just been given to the king from
the Island of Guernsey to be the
foundation for a Guernsey herd.
With such encouragement as that,
most of us could do Well as cattle
breeders ourselves, escpe-cially if we
could turn over the care and feeding
of them to experts afterward.

Seriously, however, the king, as
well as his older boy, the Prince of
Wales, has the real Britisher’s high
regard for better livestock, and the
Englishman is a far better stockman
than the American. We noticed
some of the royal entries in the
great Royal Livestock Show at
Leicester and observed that the
prizes were given strictly on the
merits of the animal and not upon
the political standing of the owner.
The royal purple came no easier to
the royal barns than to the wattles
of the lowliest sheep-herder.

While England does not have the
large and numerous agricultural
colleges and experiment stations
that we have in this country, the
little island does boast the, oldest
agricultural experiment station in
the world, the famous farm at Roth—
amsted. _

Our time was limited. Three or
four of us had the choice of spend—
ing the day at the Rothamsted Sta-
tion, or a day at the British Empire
EXposition, the great 1924 world’s
fair at Wembley, near London. We
chose the experiment station, and
the next day when it developed that
I was able to spend about three
hours at the world’s fair anyway, I
was very glad that I had spent the
full day at Rothamsted instead of
Wembley.

.The Rothamsted Experiment Sta-
t1on was founded in 1843 by Sir J.
B. Lawes who died in 1900. Sir J.
B. Lawes maintained the station en-
tirely at his own expense until 1889,
a period of 46 years, and ‘then cre—
ated an endownment fund of nearly
half a million dollars to ’carry on his
great Work. Since 1904 the stat-

tion has been receiving other bones

ﬁts and government grants.
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Shepherd, Mich., has just butchered a ﬁne and the family,” writes R. F. Hagy, Goldwater, 1\Iich. This load weighed Irwin of Armada, said for us not

pig. Deane Miller has been helping his nearly two tons and was taken to the kraut factory at Goldwater. Mr. Hagy to use his name if we published

‘v dad. The pig was a pure bred Poland had eleven acres of cabbage this your that produced about one hundred tons, this picturelbecause he might get

China, 1 year old and dressed 575 pounds. or just over nine tons to the acre. the frying pan on his head.

       

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always room for one more” would not work here. How— bald-headed one in the center," writes that farmers never take a vacation but this kodak print i
ever, the horse seems to carry the load without protest. Allen Bookwalter, Tustin, Mich. “We proves they do. This picture was sent to us by Muriel

The picture was sent to us by Byron Wilkin, of Plymouth, are building up a herd of Jerseys, Frey, Caledonia, Mich. Muriel is standing at the extreme
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City cousin IS saying to C. D. Finkbeiner of Greenwood Farm, OATS.—This is Bennie Gal- and Mrs. E. Cross, of \Vcst Brunch, takes quite an interest in

at Clinton, Michigan. ster, of Middleville, Mich. livestock. lie prefers Dun-hams.

   

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

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READY ’FOR WORK.-—This four-horse team belongs to MORTGAGE LIFTERS.—“A good AT PINE CREST FARDI.—In the foreground of this pic-
Frank Story of W116“ 1%“ 11101113811. and the"picture was wife and thrifty pigs went a long ture you can see ‘a, corner of the banana. squash patch on
taken on his farm dur 8' the pest Gunmen. One seldom way toward paying our mortgage” the F. A. Cline Farm at Alma, known as “Pine Crest Farm”.
ﬁnds four horses so near of a size nowadays...‘ ” writes B. G. Waggoner, Ithaca, Mich. Fine looking farm buildings, are they not? '

   
    
        
     
      
  

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RULE FOR MEASURING HAY

How many cubic feet are general-
ly used, in selling hay in the ﬁeld
by the tan? My hay is clover and
timothy mixed—W. H. B., Oceans
County.

EN it is impossible to deter-

mine the actual amount of

hay in a stack by weight, the
amount is sometimes estimated
from measurements. A common
rule for measuring hay is known as
the Frye-Bruhm rule, in which the
width, length and over measure-
ments are used. The “over” is the
distance from the ground on one
side over the stack to the ground
of the other. The width is subtract-
ed from the over, the result divided
by two, then multiplied by the
width, and the product multiplied
by the length. This result will be
the approximate number of cubic
feet in the stack, and is divided by
512 to obtain the number of tons.

Another rule sometimes used is
"width plus over, divided by four
and squared, then multiplied by the
length and divided by 512." A
smaller number of cubic feet are re-
quired to make a ton in a large
stack than a small one, and one that
has completely settled weighs
heavier for a given volume than a
new stack.

A stack, the measurements of
which are, width, 14 feet; length,
60 feet, and over 32 feet, according
to the ﬁrst rule would have 7660
cubic feet. This ﬁgure was obtain-
ed by the foregoing rule in this
manner:

32—14
1 —————X14x60:7560.

2

This amount divided by 512 gives
14.8 tons.

The number of cubic feet obtain—
ed by the use of the second method
is 7935 and was calculated as fol-
lows:

14+32

———-:11.5. 11.6)(6027935.

4

This amount divided by 612 gives
16.5 tons.

If it is desired to divide the stack
into deﬁnite quantities, more trust-
worthy results may be secured by
dividing it vertically than horizon-
tally.

BOTH BREAK CONTRACT

A rents a farm from B for three
years. They have a written contract
and B agrees to furnish grass seed
which he did not do so A left the
farm at the end of two years. Can
A collect his share of the grain that
was sowu last fall? B claims that A
cannot have his share of the grain
because A broke his contract.-—D.
P. M., Bear Lake, Mich.

A broke his contract by leaving
Irthe place at the end of two

years, I am of the opinion he
could not collect his share of the
grain grown on the farm after he
left. When B failed to furnish the
seed according to the agreement, A
should have brought suit against
him for damages for breach of con—
tract, instead of leaving the place.—
Asst. Legal Editor.

 

CANCEL OLD TITLE AND
GET NEW ONE

We have a Rec five passenger
touring car. Would like to replace
body with a light truck body. Would
I have to pay for truck license?
Would the deed have to be changed?
——C. H.. Marion, Mich.

will be necessary for you to
IT cancel title already issued,

make application for new title
with correct description of style of
car, have the truck weighed, attach
scale weight receipt and make ap-
plication for license—Chas. J. De-
Land, Secretary of State.

 

SCALES OF'F' BALANCE

Several days ago I took 6 hogs to
our co—operative shipping association
and they were weighed in at 1460
pounds and drove oi! the scales into
the pen with other hogs. I was not
satisﬁed with the weight and I step-
ped on the scales and asked them to
weigh me, they done so and said that
I weighed 175 pounds. My weight
is 190 pounds. I went to the ma.-
ageroutintheyardandtoid
they tested the scales and found
far out of balance. The
said he would nah it ri-H.
do not agree as to what a tight.

 

 

(A Clearing Dena-unset for tormers' our
all complaints or
you. All Inquiries must be eeoompan

contend that the scales would keep
up the same ratio of under-weight
on the'hogs as they did on me, that
is 8 pounds to the hundred-weight,
or in other words the honest weight
of the hogs would have been at least
1,575 pounds or 115 pounds more
than the weight given. Am I right
or wrong? What is right? There
is no ill feeling on either side. It
was an accident and the wrong will
be made right as soon as we can ﬁnd
out the right—Reader, Ionia County.

EN 3. pair of scales are in

balance the leverages in the

scales are so arranged so that
the effect of the weight on the plat-
form is just equal to the weights on
the scale beam. For example, 100
lbs. on the platform would be bal-
anced by a 1—lb weight on the scale
beam and 200 lbs. on the beam would
be balanced by 2 lbs. on the scale
beam.

If a weight were placed on the
scale beam sufﬁcient to throw the act-
ual weights off by 1%, neglecting the
friction of the scales which has some
inﬂuence on heavy weights, the same
percentage of error would be shown
in the larger weights. In other
words, if the weights placed on the
scale beam gave a reading of 101
lbs. instead of 100 lbs. then the read-
ing would be 202 lbs. instead of 200
lbs., correct weight. I am assuming
here, of course, that there is nothing
out of adjustment in the scales them—
selves and that the error is made in
not having the scales in balance be-
fore weights are taken.—H. H. Mus-
selman, Professor, Agricultural Engi-
neering Dep’t., M. A. C.

NOTE STILL GOOD

I have been a subscriber since your
paper was ﬁrst published. now I have
come to you for some advice. First
father gave a note, I will say 25
years ago, 5% interest payable 1 year
after date, no endorser on it. I will
say he paid interest every year for
10 years, then he paid when he
could. Father died Nov. 15, 1915,
left a widow and two sons. Widow
paid when she could. Widow died
4 years ago. She never got a re—
ceipt showing they paid interest.
After her death, sons deeded quit
claim deed to one another, each hav-

ICH I G A

CANADA THISTLFS AND QUACK
GRASS

What methods can you give as
the most practical and effectual in
destroying the Canada Thistle and
Quack Grass?—C. H. T., Sand
Lake, Mich.

UNDAMENTALLY, the control
F of these two weeds depends up-
on the principle of exhausting
their stored up fodos without per—
mitting them to renew this supply.
Inasmuch as plant foods are manu—
factured by the leaves, by the aid of
light, it is necessary to see that no
leaves are permitted to develop
where they may have access to the
light. At the same time the plant
should be encouraged to grow as
many new shoots as possible but
these shoots should be destroyed
the very day they see light. It is
well known that when a plant is
forming its ﬂowers and in the case
of grasses, that means when the
grass is heading out. the stores of
food are drawn on very heavily.
Accordingly, general practice has
shrowu that it is often proﬁtable to
wait, in the early summer, until the
thistles or Quack Grass run up to
flowers. They are then cut and
plowed under deeply and kept in
constant cultivation for the re-
mainder of the summer so that no
leaves are permitted to be exposed
to the light more than a day before
they are destroyed by cultivation.
Sometimes these plants can be kept
down by plowing them under and
cultivating them a few times and
then in the early part of the sum--
not sowing sorghum broad-cast
very thickly so that its growth
another: the weeds out.
let ash particular ¢tyvpewof soil

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iron to
requests for Intervention e dressed to this department We are here ‘e serve
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ing 80 acres. Now this man hold-
ing the note wrote saying only $80
had been paid in 7 years and he will
sue them for the note. Now I would
like to know can he Sue, or probate
the farm? The farm is a homestead.
bought in 1771. How long does a
man have to be dead before they
can probate? Does the note still
hold good? Do they not have to pay
interest on the day it is due? Can
he probate a homestead?——W. B. B.,
Mariette, Michigan.

HE holder of the note can ask
for the appointment of an ad-
ministrator over your father's

estate and present his claim against
the estate to the probate court. You
should have all your receipts so they
could be presented to the court at
the hearing on this estate to show
the amount that has been paid on the
note. The Michigan Supreme Court
has held in a similar case that a
creditor may have the estate pro—
bated and present his claim 12 years
after the death of the debtor, on the
theory that the statute o limitations
did not run between th ime of his
death and the appointm nt of an ad-
ministrator. The note ould still be
good even if the interest wasn’t paid,
on the due date‘ nor the receipt
marked on the back.—Asst. Legal
Editor.

POWER COMPANY REPAIRS
ROAD

I am writing you regarding the
maintenance of bridges and ap-
proaches raised and rebuilt on the
roads traversing the river on which
a power company is building water
power dams. Is there a state law
that provides who maintains, re-
pairs, or rebuilds such bridges, ap-
proaches, ﬁlls or trustlework?—-O.
S., Secord. Mich.

POWER company before put-
A ting through such a project

must secure the ﬂowage rights
or the right to ﬂood to a depth or
shore line beyond the normal stream
conditions. The company so organ-
ized may condemn one quarter of
the said lands so required as neces—
sary for the use of the public, pro-
vided that it has otherwise secured
control of the ﬂowage rights for not

and climate the details of the meth-
od must be varied by experimenting
until the most satisfactory method
can be worked out.———E. A. Bessey,
Professor of Botany, M. A. C.

SWEET CLOVER

I would like a little information
in regards to sweet clover. We have
light sand, should we fall plow it or
harrow it in the spring? How much
shall be sown per acre? Should we
start a nurse crop? When and how
often should it be cut? I have never
raised sweet clover so would like
as much advice as I can get.~—H. S.,
Sanford, Michigan.

N light sandy soil a good seed-
ing of sweet clover is frequently
secured by seeding broadcast

and covering with a spike tooth har-
row during the late spring or early
summer.

If the soil is in a fair state of fer-
tility, a nurse crop either cats or
barley may be used, and the sweet
clover sown at the same time that
the nurse crop is sown. The sweet
clover. however, should not be sown
as deep as the cats or barley.

Sweet clover is a two-year crop
and on light soil does not usually
produce very heavily the ﬁrst season.
On fertile soil considerable pasture,
or a crop of hay may sometimes be
secured. Most of the growth is made
the second season. at which time the
sweet clover may be used for pom
hay. seed. or green manning pup

seed
land not very deﬁcient is
Associate

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less than three—quarters of the total

land .so required. However, the
right of condemnation does not in-
clude highways which are already
lands appropriated for the use of the
public, and. there is considerable
doubt as to the legality of condem-
nation of such public lands,; al-
though we are not able at this writ-
ing to state whether this matter has
actually been ruled on or not in any
Michigan case. ‘

After the acquirement of the flow-
age rights the company must secure
permission to carry out its construc-
tion plans from the Michigan Public
Utilities Commission. and this Com-
mission is empowered to investigate
the acquirement of such properties
and to refuse permission if, iniits
opinion, such action is warranted. It
is, therefore, plain that the power
companies must secure the permis—
sion of the proper highway author-
ities to ﬂood the highway, and in all
cases which have come to our at—
tention the power companies have
made agreements with the highway
authorities to modify repair or re-
construct such bridges aﬂected by
the fiowage rights and to perpetual-
ly maintain at least the substruc-
ture of such bridges or in many
cases to maintain the entire struc-
ture, and should such a company
fail to secure a proper agreement
with the highway authorities the
highway authorities shall Ihave am-
ple opportunity to present their ob-
jections with the proper appeal to
the Public Utilities Commission.—
C. A. Melick, Bridge Engineer.

WANTS TO CUT TREES ALONG
HIGHWAY

Can I cut trees just inside fence,
on my premises on trunk line road?
I gave two rods of road, and fence is
on survey line. They are a damage
to crops for three rods in and I am
on a small farm and means quite a
lot from year to yeah—J. H. S.,
Remus, Michigan.

IF the trees are within the high-
of-way, no person has the right
to cut them without the consent
of the authorities having charge of
the highway. If they are not within\
the right-cf-way, the owner of the
property may cut them.——H. Victor
Spike, Asst. Attorney General.

CHALLENGE'UNQUALHHED
VOTERS

At our annual meeting in July,
there were a number of men and wo-
men that voted that were not tax-
payers and did not have children of
school age or no children at all, and
one of the parties that voted did not
even live in the school district. Was
the meeting legal? If illegal, what
can be done about it?—W. F. W.,
Bancroft, Michigan.

IF people who are not legal
school electors are permitted to

vote at an annual or special
school meeting it does not invalidate
the meeting. There is no provision
in the law for the throwing out of
any ballots or a recount of the same.
If no one challenged the unqualiﬁed
voters at the time of.voting, the
election stands. All that can be
done is to criticise the Board of Edu—
cation and others who were present
because they permitted those who
were not legal school electors to cast
their votes. C. L. Goodrich, Asst.
Supt. Public Instruction.

 

WIDOW ENTITLED TO HALF

If a husband died 30 years ago
leaving one child but no will and
the widow living on the same-farm
for the past 47 years and done the
house work for the farm and the
widow never married what share of
the farm is she entitled to now
there being no debts?—Mrs. B. 0..
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Miss Zita. Thomas of Saginaw county was

declared the leading girl in Boys’ and

Girls’ Club work in Michigan this year

and she was one of the two club members

to represent Michigan in the Moses Lead-
ership Trophy Contest.

TO encourage leadership among
boys and girls club members a.
beautiful silver trophy given by
H. A. Moses of Mittineague, Mass,
will be awarded annually by the
International Four—H Training
School to the club boy or girl in
the United States showing the most
outstanding leadership.

Each state may enter one boy
and one girl in the contest, and all
contestants must have been club
members in good standing for not
less than three years, including the
leadership year. Also each contest-
ant must be at least ﬁfteen years of
age and not over twenty—one on
December 1st of the current year.

Each contestant must be a mem-
ber of a leader of a standard club
group as approved by the proper
ofﬁcials of the State College of Ag—
riculture of the State represented,
and the contestant must have a re-
cord showing participation in County
or State, or Inter~State demonstra-
tions, Club exhibits or judging work.
To the International Four—H Train—
ing School the contestant must sub—
mit a certiﬁed record of his lead—
ership work and inﬂuence of his
leadership. Also a record of mem-
ber’s individual club work for the
full three year period of the club
leadership, and the contestant must
show that he has enlisted or helped
other club members in the work.

Each state is required to submit
a copy of the program of the club
for the current year from which the
contestant comes and also show the
number of meetings held by the
club, and the number attended by
the entrant. In addition, each state
may furnish any additional inform-
ation that it may have, including
suitable pictures. This may include
any signed statement from the local
leader, county extension agent, local
residents, or any other person who
can speak authentically about the
members. A history of the club and
the work of the member will be of
value to the committee making the
award. It is recognized that local
conditions in communities will vary
and will have a hearing on determ-
ining the worth of a member’s work.

Each entrant is required to write
a narrative report on the subject:
“How I Have Tried to Help My
Community Through Club Work.”
The contestants are scored as fol-
lows:

Leadership Score Card
1. Three year record of club
work as shown by annual reports
and approved by both County and
State Leaders in charge of club
work ...................................................... 25
2. Club members record in mak—
ing exhibits, public presentation of
club work, giving demonstrations
or work in judging contest, etc ....... 25
3. Club Leadership record
as shown by:
(a) Securing new members
(b) Work as actual leader of
club or clubs
(0) Record of inﬂuence on
community . .
(dY‘Individual progress made
(e) Part taken in club meet- .
" ﬂ in’gs; etc. ....... ......... 25
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SilverTrophyto" Leading Elub "Member

twenty-one teams. The

   

je‘ct: “How I Have Helped My
Community Through Club Work.”..25

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Total Score .......................... 100

Should the winner of this Lead-
ership Contest not be the winner of
a trip to Congresshthe funds for
such trip will be furnished by the
trophy, Mr. H. A. Moses.

Represent Michigan

Michigan’s representatives in the
Moses Leadership Trophy Contest
held in connection with the Inter-
national Livestock Show at Chicago
during the past week were Raymond
Laser of Hillsdale county and Zeta
Thomas of Saginaw county.

Raymond Laser has had nearly
three years of club work joining
during the spring of 1922, and has
been particularly successful in the
work. The ﬁrst year he was chosen
a member of the general livestock

judging team to represent Hillsdale

county. at the Michigan State Fair
Judging Contest at Detroit, and the
team won seventh place in a ﬁeld of
following
year he won prizes at the Hillsdale
County Fair for his season’s club
work. He won All—Around County
Championship which included a
short course scholarship at M. A. C.
and the privilege of attending Club
Week at the college. Each year he
has gone with the County Exhibit
with the State Fair, and during the

,his community to

past year won a trip to the National
Club Conference, and a gold watch
fob. This year he was high indi—
vidual in judging at the West-Mich-
igan Fair. He was chosen to go to
the National Dairy 'Show, but did
not go as he had already won a
number of honors and decided to let
the boy chosen as alternative, take
the trip. Also he has done much in
encourage his
friends to take up club work as well
as help those already in the clubs.
Girl From Saginaw County

When only ten yeras of age Zeta
began her career as a club member,
and the ﬁrst year she became fam-
iliar with her work but did not win
any prizes. The second year she
was elected secretary and treasurer
of her club and took part in a dem—
onstration team that fall. The third
year she again held ofﬁce and the
team she demonstrated with that
year received ﬁrst prize, and also
she received prizes on jars she had
at the Saginaw County Fair. Her
last year of club work was the most
successful and the demonstration
team of which she was a member
received ﬁrst prize again.

Miss Thomas also belonged to a
sewing club. She took up cooking
and the team of which she was a
member took ﬁrst prize at the
Michigan State Fair on making cot-
tage cheese and various ways of
serving. She has been local leader
for the First Year Club having
twelve girls under her at one time,

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and six at another. This last fall.
she chaperoned two of her. club ‘
members to the State Fair, and they
demonstrated the making of baking
powder biscuits and peach short-
cake, receiving ﬁrst place. Also the f.
team she trained won several prises '
at the Saginaw County Fair. All to-‘5
gether she has had eleven years of ,
club work which included two
trips to the State Fair and attend-
ance at Club Week at the M. A. C. "

Michigan is proud of this boy and
girl who represent her.

  
 
 

EATON COUNTY AGENT JOEE
M. A. C. STAFF

FTER serving the farmers of

Eaton County for over three

years County Agent Ralph W.
Tenney resigned during the latter
part of November to join the facul-
ty at the M. A. C. at East Lansing.
Mr. Tenney will act as director of
short courses and in addition to his
regular work will direct the Far-
mers’ Week Program, arrango for
Farmers’ Day each summer, direct
the boys’ and girls’ project work
and the college exhibits at fairs.

Mr. Tenney has been unusually;
successful in his work in Eaton
County, and farmers regret his ge-
ing. However, they have secured
the services of Clair C. Taylor for
four years agricultural agen‘ of
Newaygo County, who has made an
outstanding success of the Work
and he will “carry on” where Mr.
Tenney left off.

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ELL, here’s the close of another year. It

hasn’t been the best kind of a year, but
neither has it been the worst. And the out-
look for the future is the best the farmers
have seen for several years.

In the meantime, all your farm machines have
another season’s work to their credit. It’s time
to check them all over, now, while you remem-
ber just what they can do. Which machines are

worn out? Which ones are losing you money?
Which methods are behind the times?

Important changes have come to pass in
ten years’ time as every man knows. Good
farming has had to change along with the rest,
to a faster, more efﬁcient, more economical
pace—and that has been largely a matter of
change in farm machines. Farm machines to-
day must save more valuable time and take the
place of more expensive human labor. Many
of the old, small-capacity tools, made for a time
when labor was cheap, are wasting proﬁt.
Sometimes they eat up the cost of new equip-
ment in a single season. The time for slow
work is past. Now is the day of 10-h. binders,
2- and 3-furrow plows, 2-row cultivators, me-
chanical power and motor haulage. You can’t

beat down the price of labor but you can make
that labor do two or three days’ work in one!

To make money your farm must handle the
most productive work in least time, with least
labor. Increase your crop yield per acre. Cut
down your labor costs. Diversify. Plow more
furrows as you go along, cultivate more rows,
cut wider swaths. Plant every hill full—the
missed hills in a ﬁeld have a big effect on the
yield. Save extra pounds of butter fat by efﬁ-
cient cream separation. Spread manure by
the load instead of by the forkful. Let tractor
and engine power help you.

Never was there a better time for the use of
good judgment, combined with practical vis-
ion. Put the right pieces of modern equip-
ment on your farm, handle them well, and you
can’t avoid a proﬁtable year.

The law of supply and demand is swinging
back to the sunny side of farming. Let's be
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HOME-MADE GATE WILL
NOT SAG

DO not know as I can think, off

hand, of anything more aggra-

vating on the farm than a sag-
ging gate-—unless it is a balky
horse. But I would rather have the
horse because he would be balky
only part of the time while you have
trouble with the gate every time
you open or close‘it. One of our
readers used to have sagging gates

      

 

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on his farm but no more. The ac-
companying sketch shows how he
has remedied the trouble. Follow-
ing is a key to the sketch: M—
4”x4”; 0—2”x4”; Y wire; X—
barb wire so that pigs cannot crawl
under the gate; D—~6”x6” bolted
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IN G TOOL

OR pulling up woven wire fenc-
ing one of the rollers taken
from an old grain binder may

be used to advantage. The one driv-
ing the reel of the butter canvas is
preferred as these have a steel shaft
passing through the wood roller.

The differential type of Windlass

is secured by wrapping chains or
cables around the shaft ends and at-
taching these to the fencing clamp,
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these latter cables being attached to
an anchored post. A crank is at-
tached to one end of the shaft, and
as the roller is turned to wind the
cables on the large part of the roller
the other cables unwind from the
shraft thus giving a powerful wind-
lass action—G. M. V.

A HANDY TOOL BOX

HAVE a handy tool box I made
I out of a tin box about 4 by 4 by
7 inches, open at the side. (If
you do not happen to have such a
box on hand your tinner can very
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Handy tool box for the car.

hules at the top center on each end,
making loops with wire or other
material for fastening the box on
the radiator rod. A cover may be
made of a strip of tin 4 by 7 inches,

placing loops in the center of each
end to slid on the rod above the box.
The box is swung over No. 1 and
No. 2 spark plugs next to the radi-
ator. The cover may be slid back
and forth toward the dash; the bot—
tom of the box may be fastened to
the radiator hose to prevent the box
from swinging.
The box inay be lined with card-
board to prevent tools from rattling.
This box makes a handy place for
keeping the spark-plug wrenches,
spark plugs, pliers, tire tape, etc.
The only thing necessary for
quick repair is to raise the hood and
slide the cover of the box. A ﬂannel
cloth may be kept in the top of the
box to prevent any noise of tools,
which may also come in very handy
for absorbing grease from the
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A HANDY MILK;STOOL
EADERS Of THE BUSINESS FARMER
B may be interested in the‘handy
milk Stool as shown in the draw-
ing which I have used and found
very convenient. It is easily made
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Milk stool reader uses.

ing as it can usually be made from
scraps of boards and lumber found
on practically every farm. It will
be noted that the pail rest is nothing
but a board that slides on a cleat and
can be slid under the seat when the
stool is not in use—R. T.

Michigan Grain Judges At International

AGINAW county has been a fer-
tile spot for Boys’ and Girls’
Club work and during the past

your it has perhaps taken more hon—-
ors than any other county in the
state. Miss Zita Thomas of this
county was chosen as the most out—
standing girl Club member in the
state and represented Michigan in
the Moses Silver Trophy Contest.
The grain judging team in club work
that represented Michigan at the
Hay and Grain Show at this year’s
International also came from this
county.

Jesse Mayer, Harrison Fretterer
and Leonard Benkert represented
Saginaw county in the grain judging
at the State Fair, winning ﬁrst place
and the right to represent Michigan
at the International. The total
score of the team was 1,570 point,
covering the judging of corn, wheat,
oats and beans. The boys individu—
ally scored third, fourth and seventh
in the state contest. The team was
selected by County Club Agent Clare
A. Rood to represent the county at
the State Fair because of the in-
terest which they had shown in
their project and their proﬁciency
over the other members of the
county. Inasmuch as this was the
ﬁrst time any of these boys had
ever appeared in any judging con-
test they are to be congratulated up—
on their success. County Club Agent
Rood has been untiring in his ef-
forts to interest the young folks in

club work and the county is to be
congratuated that it has such a good
man on the job.

Jesse Mayer is a corn club mem-
ber, living at Merrill, Michigan, ﬁf-
teen years of age, and a junior in
the {Merrill High School. In his pro-
ject this last summer he raised one
acre of Duncan’s Yellow Dent Corn.
Due to the late season, his corn did
not mature well enough for seed,
but that did not dull his interest in
corn club work and he is expecting
to grow even a larger acreage next
year.

Harrison Fretterer, lives at Swan

Creek, Michigan, is sixteen years of

age, and grew one acre and a half
of Pickett’s Yellow Dent, which so
far has passed all tests for certiﬁca-
tion. He was the highest scoring
member of the Saginaw County
Team and a very enthusiastic boost-
er of Pickett’s Yellow Dent. The
fact that this corn was somewhat
quicker in maturing than the Dun-
can was in his favor this year, be-
cause of the late season.

Leonard Benkert, lives at Swan
Creek, Michigan, is eleven years old,
and this past season raised an acre
of Navy Beans. This was the ﬁrst
time that a bean club had been or—‘
ganized in that community and
Leonard’s success has created a wide
interest among the boys there. He
is already planning on his next
year’s bean crop and expects to im-
prove very materially over the work
he has done this year.

 

This 15 the grain Judging team from Saginaw county that represented Michigan at

the International at Chicago this year.

They are: (Seated. left to right) Jesse Mayer,

Merrill, and Leonard Benkert. Swan Creek; (standing Harrison Fraterer. Swan Creek.

  
  

 
 
    
  


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Contributions Invited—Questions Answered

RADIO AND AUDIO FREQUENCY
,,. AMPLIFICATION
ROM several inquiries that the
Radio Department has had re—
cently it appears that there is
some confusion in the minds of
many as to what is meant by radio
frequency ampliﬁcation compared
with audio frequency ampliﬁcation.
At the present time it is well for
all those that are intending to pur-
chase sets or build them to have an
idea about this subjet as so many
different claims are made by those
who are selling radio sets, basing
the advantages and disadvantages of
the different kinds of ampliﬁcation,
that the purchaser or builder can be
easily mislead to his regret.

Let us remember that radio waves
as we know them are sent out on
frequencies (we might call them
viabrations) of several hundred
thousand a second—this is called
radio frequency. In radio frequency
the changes, fummncies, or viabra-
tions are so r that our ear can
not hear them'w they pass through
our radio set.

Audio frequencies are viabrations
that are between 16 and"3.000 a
second and are the limits between
which we can hear sound. The low-
est. bass note that our ear can hear
is one that viabrates at 16 a second
and the highest note is at 3,000 a
second.

Now the broadcasting station
sends out it’s program at radio fre-
quency which is modiﬁed by the
speakers voice at audio frequency.
When we tune in our radio program
we tune in the radio frequency
waves which we do-not hear, but
when the speaker speaks we hear
audio frequency modiﬁcations of the
radio frequency waves.

If we wish to hear distant sta-
tions we must have a set that will
detect the very weak radio frequency
currents, and so we add one or more
steps of radio frequency ampliﬁca-
tion. If we wish to get more vol-
ume of sound .from our set, then we
must add radio frequency ampliﬁca-
tion.

Remember—Radio frequency am-
pliﬁcation does not add volume to
strong signals but it does build up
the very weak radio frequency cur-
rent has brought to your detector.
so strengthens them so that your
detector can detect them and enable
you to hear the audio frequency var-
iations that the radio frequency cur-
rent has brought to you detector.
If new you should add audio fre-
quency ampliﬁcation you would
build up the volume of sound pro-
duced by your detector at radio fre-
quency.

It’s radio frequency amplification
for distance and audio frequency
ampliﬁcation for volume.

It is not advisable to ever add
more than three steps of radio fre-
quency or two steps of audio fre-
quency ampliﬁcation. If more than
this is added you are likely to ﬁnd
that your set produces more unde-
sirable noises than good music.

RADIO APPRECIATION
HERE are thousands of people
who listen nightly to radio
programs and yet have never
sent a word of appreciation to the

person whom they heard or to the.

broadcasting station telling them
that they enjoyed the program.

If radio broadcasting is to con-
tinue we all must show our appre-
ciation of this wonderfull free ser—
vice that we are getting, for if we
do not show our appreciation we
cannot expect people to give their
services continually for our bene-
ﬁt and entertainment.

It is well to send in a post card
to the person who you enjoyed hear—
ing or to the broadcasting station
each time that you really enjoy their
program. This will cost you one
cent for each time and is a very
small amount to pay for the pleas-
ure and beneﬁt that you obtain
from radio. .

Many dealers have Applause
Cards” that they will give you
which are easy to fill out and to
which you just add the stamp and
that you enjoyed the program, why
have not let the broadcaster know

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that you einjoyed the program, why
not start right now and make it a
rule to send out at least two or
three cards a week. ’

Remember, if you wish broadcast-
ing to continue, you must do your
part. Don’t put it of! but start with
tonight’s program and sendv your
card.

    

RESPONSIBTLTY
WANT to speak about the small—
I est class in every community.
It is the favored few who ac—
cept their full responsibility in re—
spect to their various duties, and
DO them.

We all want to run from our
duties. It is easier to shrug one’s
shoulders than to bare them.

Physical laziness is back of most

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of our failures to roll up our sleeves ‘

for our community. .
We are all born into the world

with great debts upon our little ,

souls. Most of these debts we can
never repay.

We owe the good God for our life,
and our parents for the home they
gave us. We owe the community a
good environment in which we grew
up. We are in debt to the schools
and churches for knowledge and
guidance.

If you and I live for one thous-
and years we cannot pay up.

Our responsibility goes out to
those who live in our neighborhood.
I confess that this thought does as
much to make me try to keep
straight as almost any other.

We are responsible for the ignor—
ance of the world. Not all of it,
but that part which we can help.
Yet. the average American has to be
coddled and almost shamed into
paying taxes for education.

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We are all responsible for the'
ill-feeling that now and then ﬁares ,

out in our communities. Troubles

and hatreds over race, religion and

politics

If we will all face our duty as en— ‘
lightened and intelligent Christian 1

citizens, we, can do a great deal
more than is now being done in pro-
moting good will.

We are all responsible for the oc—
casional, low-browed, sex ﬁlm that
is shown in our towns. Most of the
movie showings are entertaining
and good, but there are now and
then things slipped over on us that
ought to make married people blush.

A young woman said, “Mother, I
could still blush, but I never think
of it." Some one ought to shoulder
the responsibility of the unpleasant

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and thankless task of trying to im— ‘

prove the moral quality of the movie
showings in each town.

We are all responsible if the
Church, in many rural communities,
is a waning and divided force. Our
fathers sacriﬁced for every good
thing which we enjoy. We will have
to struggle in the same spirit if we
retain these blessings.

Thank heayen, there are, every-
where, a few choice souls who try
to shoulder the responsibility for the
happiness, decency, and purity of
life in their communities. May their
numbers increase!

To me the charming wonder of
our Lord was that He became per-
sonally responsible for the sickness,
the ignorance, the sin, and misery
of the world, and was willing to die
for a better order and life among
men.

It is true that we need better ag—
riculture, and better schools, and
a whole lot of other good things,
but most of thesevbetter things will
come when we all try to accept and
carry our responsibility to our-
selves, our God and Each Other.

THOU SHAL'I‘ LOVE THE LORD
thy God with all thy heart, and with
all thy soul, and with all thy
strength. and with all thy mind; and
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‘ B it was taken» by the photo-
, grapher in Blue Rapids. We all
had our pictures taken on that day
-+Jim, , Betty, and I. Mr. Welton"—for
the ﬁrst time Alan occasionally avoided
g the title “Father" to the man in
nsas—“sent one of me to the “general
delivery' address’ of the person in Chi-
my.”

“And this?"

. The second picture, Alan saw, was one
that had been taken in front of the barn
at the farm. It showed Alan at twelve,
in overalls and barefooted, holding a
stick over his head at which a shepherd
dog was jumping.

“Yes; that is Shep and I—Jim's and
my dog, Mr. Sherrill. It was taken by a
man who stopped at the house for dinner
one day; he liked Shep and wanted a
picture of him; so he got me to make
Shep jump, and he took it.”

“You don't remember anything about
the man?”

“Only that he had a camera and wanted
I. picture of Shep."

"Doesn't it occur to you that it was
your picture he wanted, and that he had
been sent to get it? I wanted your veri-
ﬁcation that these earlier pictures were
of you, but this last one is easily recog-
nizable."

Sherrill unfolded the third picture; it
was larger than the others and had been
folded across the middle to get it into
the envelope.

"That is the University of Kansas
football team," he said. “I am the second
one in the front row; I played end my
junior year and tackle when I was a
senior. Mr. Corvet———?”

"Yes; Mr. Corvet had these pictures.
They came into my possession day before
yesterday, the day after Corvet disap-
peared; I do not want to tell just yet
how they did that."

Alan‘s face, which had been ﬂushed at
first with excitement, had gone quite pale,
and his hands, as he clenched and un-
clenched them nervously, were cold, and
his lips very dry. He could think of no

ssible relationship between Benjamin

rvet and himself, except one, which
would account for Corvet’s obtaining and
keeping these pictures of him through
the years. As Sherrill put the pictures
back in their envelope and the envelope
back in his pocket, and Alan watched
him. Alan felt nearly certain now that
it had not been proof of the nature of this
relationship that Sherrill had been trying
to get from him, but only corroboration
of some knowledge, or partial knowledge,
which had come to Sherrill in some other
way. The existence of this knowledge
was implied by Sherrill’s withholding
of the way he had come into possession of
the pictures, and his manner showed now
that he had received from Alan the con-
ﬁrmation for which he had been seeking.

“I think you know who I am” Alan
said.

Sherrill had risen and stood looking
down at him.

"You have guessed, it I am not mis-
taken, that you are Corvet's son.”

The color ﬂamed to Alan's face for an
instant, then left it paler than before.
“I thought it must be that way,” he an-
BWered; “but you said he had no chil-

“Benjamin Corvet and his wife had no
children."

"I thought that was what you meant."
A twinge twisted Alan’s face; he tried
to control it but for a moment he could
not.

Sherrill suddenly put his hand on Alan’s
shoulder; there was something so friend-
ly. so affectionate in the quick, impulsive
grasp of Sherrill's ﬁngers, that Alan's
heart throbbed to it; for the first time
some one had touched him in full, un-
checked foeling for him; for the ﬁrst
time, the unknown about him had failed
to be a barrier and, instead, had drawn
another to him.

"Do not misapprehend your father,"
Sherrill said quietly. “I cannot prevent
what other people may think when they
learn this; but I do not share such
thoughts with them. There is much in
this I cannot understand; but I know it
is not merely the result of what others
may think it—cf 'a wife in more ports
than one,’ as you will hear the lakemen
put it. What lies under this is some
great misadventure which had changed
and frustrated all your father’s life.”

Sherrill crossed the room and rang for
a servarit.

"I am going to ask you to be my guest
for a short time, Alan," he announced.
"I have had your bag carried to your
room; the man will show you which one
it is."

Alan hesitated; he felt that Sherrill
had not told him all he knew—that there
were some things Sherrill purposely was
withholding from him; but he could not
force Sherrill to tell more than he wished;
so after an instant's resolution, he 80-,
oepted the dismissal.

Sherrill walked with him to the door,
and gave his directions to the servant;
he stood watching, as Alan and the man
went up stairs. Then he went back and
seated himself in the chair Alan had oc-
cupied, and sat with hands grasping the
anus of the chair while he stared into
the tire.

Fifteen minutes later,"‘he heard his
daughter's footsteps and looked up. Con-
stance halted in the door to assure her-
self that he was now alone; then she
came to him and, seating herself on the
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his thin hair and smoothed it softly; he

felt for her other hand with his and
found it, and held it clasped between his
palms.

“You've found out who he is, father?"
she asked.

“The facts have left me no doubt at all
as to that, little daughter.”

”No doubt that he is—-who?"

Sherrill was silent for a moment—not
from uncertainty, but because of the ef-
fect which what he must say would have
upon her; then he told her in almost
the same words he had used to Alan.
Constance started, ﬂushed, and her hand
stiffened convulsively between her father's.

They said nothing more to one another;
Sherrill seemed considering and debating
something within himself; and presently
he seemed to come to a decision. He
got up, stooped and touched his daughter's
hand, and left the room. He went up
the stairs and on the second floor he
went to a front room and knocked.
Alan’s voice told him to come in. Sher-
rill went in and, when he had made sure

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“That key,” he said, “is one I made
your father give me some time ago; he
was at home alone so much that I was
afraid something might happen to him
there. He gave it to me because he knew
I would not misuse it. I used it, for the
ﬁrst time, three days ago, when, after
becomihg certain something had gone
wrong with him, I went to the house to
search for him; my daughter used it this
morning when she went there to wait for
you. Your father, of course, had a key
to the front door like this one; his serv-
ant has a key to the servants' entrance.
I do now know of any other keys.”

"The servant is in charge there now?"
Alan asked.

“Just now there is no one in the house.
The servant, after your father disap-
peared, thought that, if he had merely
gone away, he might have gone back to
his birthplace near Manistique, and he
went up there to look for him. I had a
wire from him to—day that he had not
found him and was coming back."

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SUMMARY OF OUR STORY TO DATE

look back from the beach and from this copse there comes at time of

NEAR the northern end of Lake Michigan there is a copse of pine and hem-

storm a sound like the beating of an Indian drum. This drum beat, so

tradition says, whenever the lake took a life.

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.

Sherrill has a (laughter, 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.
A young man, known as Alan Conrad, appears at the Sherrill home
Alan, since a small child, has lived with a family

disappears.
asking for Benjamin Corvet.

Then Corvet

in Blue Rapids, Kansas, and neither he or the family know who his father or

mother is.

He was left with this family by a man who told the- people they
would receive pay for taking care of the boy.
the mails but never knew who sent it.

They received money through
Then Alan receives a letter from Ben

Corvet to come to Chicago and Alan rushes there thinking that Corvet could
tell him something about his parents, but arrives after Corvet disappeared. He
goes to the Sherrill home and talks with Constance and Mr. Sherrill.

 

 

that the servant was not with Alan, he
closed the door carefully behind him.

Then he turned back to Alan, and for
an instant stood indecisive as though he
did not know how to begin what he
wanted to say. As he glanced down at a
key he took from his pocket. his indeci-
sion seemed to receive direction and in-
spiration from it; and he put it down
on Alan's dresser.

”I've brought you,” he
“the key to your house?”

Alan gazed at him, bewildered.
key to my house?”

“To the house on Astor Street," Sher-
rill conﬁrmed. "Your father deeded the
house and its furniture and all its con-
tents to you the day before he disap-
peared. I have not the deed here; it
came into my hands the day before yes—
terday at the same time I got possession
of the pictures which might—or might
not, for all I knew then—«be you. I. have
the deed down<town and will give it to
you. The house is yours in fee simple,
given you by your father, not bequeathed
to you by him to become your property
after his death. He meant by that, I
think, even more than the mere acknow-
ledgment that he is your father.”

Sherrill walked to the window and
stood as though looking out, but his eyes
were blank with thought.

“For almost twenty years," “your
father, as I have told you, lived in that
house practically alone; during all those
years a shadow of some sort was over
him. I don't know at all, Alan, What
that shadow was. But it is certain that
whatever it was that had changed him
from the man he was when I ﬁrst knew
culminated three days ago when he wrote
to you. It may be that the consequences
of his writing you were such that, after
he had sent the letter, he could not
bring himself to face them and so has
merely gone away. In that case,
as we stand here talking, he is still alive.
On the other hand, his writing you may
have precipitated something that I know
nothing of. In either case, if he has left
anywhere any evidence of what it is that
changed and oppressed him for all these
years, or if there is any evidence of what
has happened to him now, it will be found
in his house."

Sherrill turned back to Alan. “It is for
you—not me, Alan," he said simply, “to
make that search. I have thought ser—
iously about it, this last half hour, and
have decided that is as he would want it
——perhaps as he did want it—to be. He
could have told me what his trouble was
any time in these twenty years, if he
had been willing I should know; but he
never did."

Sherrill was silent for a moment.

“There are some things your father did
just before he disappeared that I have
not told you yet,” he went on. “The
reason I have not told them is that I
have not yet fully decided in my own
mind what action they call for from me.
I can assure you, however, that it would
not help you now in any way to know
man.”

He thought again; then glanced to the
key on the dresser and sewnedto re-
collect. -

said evenly,

“The

whether there was anything more Alan
wanted to ask; then he went out.

CHAPTER IV

“Arrived Safe; Well"

As the door closed behind Sherrill,
Alan went over to the dresser and picked
up the key which Sherrill had left. It
was, he saw, a ﬂat key of a sort common
twenty years before, not of the more
recent corrugated shape. As he looked
at it and then away from it, thoughtfully
turning it over and over in his ﬁngers,
it brought no sense of possession to him.
Sherrill had said the house was his, had
been given him by his father; but that
fact could not actually make it his in
his realization. He could not imagine
himself owning such a house or what he
would do with it if it were his. He put
the key, after a moment, on the ring
with two or three other keys he had, and
dropped them into his pocket; then he
crossed to a chair and sat down.

He found, as he tried now to disentangle
the events of the afternoon, that from
them, and especially from his last inter-
view with Sherrill, two facts stood out
most clearly. The ﬁrst of these related
more directly to his father—to Benjamin
Corvet. When such a man as Benjamin
Corvet must have been, disappears—when,
without warning and without leaving any
account of himself he vanishes from
among those who knew him—«the persons
most closely interested pass through three
«stages of anxiety. They doubt ﬁrst
whether this disappearance is real and
whether inquiry on their part will not be
resented; they waken next to realization
that the man is actually gone, and that
something must be done; the third stage
is open to public inquiry. Whatever
might be the nature of the information
Sherrill was withholding from him, Alan
saw that its effect on Sherrill had been
to shorten very greatly Sherrill’s time of
doubt as to Corvet's actual disappearance.
The Sherrills—partlcularly Sherrill him-

‘ self—had been in the second stage of

anxiety when Alan came; they had been
awaiting Alan’s arrival in the belief that
Alan could give them information which
would show them what must be “done"
about Corvet. Alan had not been able
to give them this information; but his
coming, and his interview with Sherrill,
had strongly inﬂuenced Sherrill’s attitude.
Sherrill had shrunk, still more deﬁnitely
and consciously, after that, from prying
into the affairs of his friend; he had now,
strangely, almost withdrawn himself from
the inquiry, and had given it over to
Alan.

Sherrill had spoken of the possibility
that something might have "happened"
to Corvet; but it was plain he did not
believe he had met with actual violence.
He had left it to Alan to examine Cor-
vet's house; but he had not urged Alan
to examine it at once; he had left the
time of the examination to be determined
by Alan. This showed clearly that Sher-
rill believed—perhaps had suﬂicimt reason
for believing—that Corvet had simply
"gone away.” The'second of Alan's two
facts related even more closely and per—
sonally to Alan himself.
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life. Did' this mean that there might have
been seine previous marriage of Alan's
father—some marriage which had
strangely overlapped and nullified his
public marriage? In that case, Alan
could be, not only in fact but legally.
Corvet’s son; and such things as this,
Alan knew, had sometimes happened, and
had happened by a strange combination of
events, innocently for all parties. Cor—
vet’s public separation from his wife,
Sherrill had said, had taken place in
1897, but the actual separation between
them might, possibly, have taken place
long before that.

Alan resolved to hold these questions
in abeyance; he would not accept or grant
the stigma which his relationship to Cor-
vet seemed to attach to himself until it
had been proven.to him. He had come
not to ﬁnd that
the wrong had been righted in some way
at last. But what was most plain of all-
to him, from what Sherrill had told him,
was that the wrong—whatever it might be
—-had not been righted; it existed still.

The afternoon had changed swiftly into
night; dusk had been gathering during
his last talk with Sherrill, so that he
hardly had been able to see Sherrili’s
face, and just after Sherrill had left him,
full dark had come. Alan did not know
how long he had been sitting in the dark-
ness thinking out these things; but now
a little clock which had been ticking in
the blackness tinkled six. Alan heard a
knock at his door, and when it was re-
peated, he called, "Come in."

The light which came in from the hall,
as the door was opened, showed a man
servant. The man, after a respectful in-
quiry, switched on the light. He crossed
into the adjoining room—a bedroom; the
room where Alan was, he thought, must
be a dressing room, and there was a bath
between. Presently the man reappeared,
and moved softly about the room, un-
packing Alan’s suitcase. He hung Alan’s
other suit in the closet on hangers, he
put the linen, except for one shirt, in the
dresser drawers, and he put Alan’s few
toilet things with the ivory—backed brushes
and comb and other articles on the dress-
ing stand.

Alan watched him queerly; no one ex-
cept himself ever had unpacked Alan's
suitcase before; the ﬁrst time he had
gone away to college—-it was a brand
new suitcase then~“mother” had packed
it; after that first time, Alan had packed
and unpacked it. It gave him an odd
feeling now to see some one else unpack—
ing his things. The man, having ﬁnished -
and taken everything out, continued to
look in the suitcase for something else.

“I beg your pardon, sir," he said ﬂnaIIV,
“but I cannot ﬁnd your buttons."

“I’ve got them on," Alan said. He
took them out and gave them to the valet
with a smile; it was good to have some-
thing to smile at, if it was only the reali-
zation that he never had thought before
of any one’s having more than one set of
buttons for ordinary shirts. Alan won-
dered, mm a sort of trepidation, whether
the man would expect to stay and help
him dress; but he only put the buttons
in the clean shirt and reopened the
dresser drawers and laid out a change of
things.

“Is there anything else, sir?” he asked.

“Nothing, thank you,” Alan said.

"I was to tell you, sir Mr. Sherrill is
sorry he cannot be at home to dinner to-
night. Mrs. Sherrill and Miss Sherrill
will be here. Dinner is at seven, sir."

Alan dressed slowly, after the man had
gone; and at one minute before seven he
went down-stairs.

There was no one in the lower hall
and, after an instant of irresolution and
a glance into the empty draWing—room,
he turned into the small room at the op-
posite side of the hall. A handsome,
stately, rather large woman, whom he
found there, introduced herself to him
formally as Mrs. Sherrill.

He knew from Sherrill’s mention of
the year of their marriage that Mrs.
Sherrill’s age must be about forty—ﬁve,
but if he had not known this, he would
have thought her ten years younger. In
her dark eyes and her carefully dressed,
coal—black hair, and in the contour of
her youthful looking, handsome face, he
could not ﬁnd any such pronounced re—
semblance to her daughter as he had
seen in Lawrence Sherrill. Her reserved,
yet almost too casual acceptance of Alan's
presence, told him that she knew all the
particulars about himself which Sherrill
had been able to give; and as Constance
came down the stairs and joined them
half a minute later, Alan was certain
that she also knew. ~

Yet there was in her manner toward
Alan a diiference from that of her
mother—a difference which seemed al-
most opposition. Not that Mrs. Sherrill’s
was unfriendly or critical; rather, it was
kind with the sort of reserved kindness
which told Alan, almost as plainly as
words, that she had not been able to hold
so charitable a conviction in regard to
Corvet’s relationship with Alan as her
husband held, but that she would be only
the more considerate to Alan for that.
It was this kindness which Constance
set herself to oppose, and which she op-

as reservedly and as subtly as it-
was unressed. It gave Alan a strange;
exhilarating sensation to realize that. as
the three talked together, this girl was
defending him. '

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Dinner was announced, and they went
into the great dining-room, where the
table with its lln'en, silver, and china
gleamed under shaded lights. The oldest
and most digniﬁed of the three men ser-
vants who waited upon them in the din-
ing—room Alan thought must be a butler
-—'a species of creature of whom Alan had
heard but had never seen; the other ser-
vants, at least, received and handed things
through him, and took their orders from
him. As the silent-footed servants moved
about, and Alan kept up a somewhat
strained conversation with Mrs. Sherrill
-——a conversation in which no reference to
his own affairs was yet made—he won-
dered whether Constance and her mother
always dressed for dinner in full evening
dress as now, or whether they were go—
ing ”Ont. A word from Constance to her
mother told him this latter was the case,
and while it did not give complete answer
to his internal query, it showed him his
ﬁrst glimpse of social engagementslas a
part of the business of life. In spite of
the fact that Benjamin Corvet, Sherrill’s
close friend, had disappeared—or perhaps
because he had disappeared and, as yet,
it was not publicly known—their and
Sherrill’s engagements had to be fulﬁlled.

What Sherrill had told Alan of his
father had been iterating itself again and
again in Alan’s thoughts; now he recalled
that Sherrill had said that his daughter
believed that Corvet’s disappearance had
had something to do with her. Alan had
wondered at the moment how that could
be; and he watched her across the table
and now and then exchanged a comment
with her, it puzzled him still more. He
had opportunity to ask her when she

~ waited with him in the library, after

dinner was ﬁnished and her mother had
gone up-stairs; but he did not see how to
go about it.

“I’m sorry," she said to him, “that we
can’t be home ii-night; but perhaps you
would rather be alone?”

He did not answrtr that.

“Have you a picture here, Miss Sherrill,
of—my father?” 1.3 asked.

“Uncle Benny had had very few pic—
tures taken; but there is one here.”

She went into the study, and came back
with a book open at a half—tone picture
of Benjamin Corvet. Alan took it from
her and carried it quickly closer to the
light. The face that looked up to him
from the heavily glazed page was regu—
lar of feature, handsome in a way, and
forceful. There were imagination amd
vigor of thought in the broad, smooth
forehead; the eyes were strangely moody
and brooding; the mouth was gentle,
rather kindly; it was a queer impelling,
haunting face. This was his father!
But, as Alan held [the picture, gazing down
upon it, the only emotion which came to
him was realization that he felt none.
He had not expected to know his father
from strangers on the street; but he had
expected, when told that his father'was
before him, to feel through and through
him the call of a common blood. Now,
except for consternation at his own lack
of feeling, he had no emotion of any sort;
he could not attach to this man, because
he bore the name which some one had
told him was his father’s the passions
which, when dreaming of his father, he
had felt.

As he looked up from the picture to
the girl who had given it to him, startled
at himself and believing she must think
his lack of feeling strange and unnatural,
he surprised her gazing at him with wet—
ness in her eyes. He fancied at ﬁrst
it must be for his father, and that the
picture had brought back poignantly her
fears. But she was not looking at the
picture, but at him; and when his eyes
met hers, she quickly turned away.

  
   
        
    
  
  
 
   
 
  
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
   
  
 
   
   
 
 
 
    
 
  
  
   
 
  
  
  
   
   
 
 
  
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
   
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
  
  
  
 
 
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  

twanted to thank her for her manner to

His own eyes ‘niled,iand he choked. He

him in the afternoon, for defending his
father and him, as she had at the dinner
table, and now for this unplanned, im-
pulsive sympathy when she saw how he
had not been able to feel for this man
who was his father and how he was
dismayed by it. But he could not put
his gratitude into words.

'A servant’s voice came from the door,
startling him. ,

“Mrs. Sherrill wishes you told she is
waiting, Miss Sherrill.” ,

“I’ll be there at oncej’ Constance, also,
seemed started and confused; but she

delayed and looked back to Alan.

“If-4f we fail to ﬁnd your father,"
she said, "I want to tell you what a man
he was.” '

“Will you?” asked Alan. “Will you?”

Sheddeft him swiftly, and he heard her

mother’s voice in the hall. A motor door
closed sharply, after a minute or so; then
the house door closed. Alan stood still a
moment longer, then, remembering the
‘book which he held, he drew a chair up
to the light, andy read the short, dry
biography of his father printed on the
page opposite the portrait. It summarized
in a few hundred words his father’s life.
He turned to the cover of the book and
read its title, “Year Book of the Great
Lakes,” and a date of ﬁve years before;
then he looked through it. It consisted
in large part, he saw, merely of lists of
ships, their kind, their size, the date when
they were built, and their owners. Under
this last head he saw some Score of times
the name “Corvet, Sherrill and Spear-
man.” There was a separate list of en-
gines and boilers, and when they had been
built and by whom. There was a chron-
ological table of events during the year
upon the lakes. Then he came to a part
headed “Disasters of the Year,” and he
read some of them; they were short ac—
counts, drily and unfeelingly put, but his
blood thrilled to these stories of drown-
ing, freezing, blinded men struggling
against storm and ice and water, and
conquering or being conquered by them.
Then he came to his father’s picture and
biography once more and, with it, to pic—
tures of other lakemen and their bi-
ographies. He turned to the index and
looked for Sherril’s name, and then Spear—
man’s; ﬁnding they were not in the book,
he read some of the other ones.
- There was a strange similarity, he
found, in these biographies, among them—
selves as well as to that of his father.
These men had had, the most of them,
no tradition of seamanship, such as Sher—
rill had told him he himself had had.
They had all been sons of lumbermen, of
farmers, of mill hands, miners, or ﬁsher—
men. They had been very young for
the most part, when they had heard and
answered the call of the lakes—the ever—
swelling, ﬁerce demand of lumber, grain,
and ore for outlet; and they had lived
hard; life had been violent, and raw, and
brutal to them. They had sailed ships,
and built ships, and owned and lost the-m ;‘
they had fought against nature and
against man to keep their ships, and to
make them proﬁtable, and to get more of
them. In the end a few, a very few
comparatively, had survived; by daring,
by enterprise, by taking great chances,
they had thrust their heads above those
of their fellows; they had come to own
a half dozen, a dozen, perhaps a score
of bottoms, and to have incomes of ﬁfty,
of a hundred, of two hundred thousand
dollars a year.

Alan shut the book and sat thoughtful.
He felt strongly the immensity, the power,
the graduer of all this; but he felt also
its violence and its ﬁerceness. What
might there not have been in the life of
his father who had fought up and ,made
a way for himself through such things?

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the ﬁrst time Alan occasionally avoided
mg the title "Father" to the man in
snap-“sent one of me to the ‘general
delivery' address' of the person in Chi-
mgo."

“And this?”

The second picture, Alan saw, was one
that had been taken in front of the barn
at the farm. It showed Alan at twelve,
in overalls and barefooted, holding a
stick over his head at which a shepherd
dog was jumping.

"Yes; that is Shep and I—Jim’s and
my dog, Mr. Sherrill. It was taken by a
man who stopped at the house for dinner
one day; he liked Shep and wanted a
picture of him; so he got me to make
Shep jump, and he took it.”

“You don’t remember anything about
the man?”

'fOnly that he had a camera. and wanted
a picture of Shep."

“Doesn’t it occur to you that it was
your picture he wanted, and that he had
been sent to get it? I wanted your veri-
fication that these earlier pictures were
of you, but this last one is easily recog-
nizable."

Sherrill unfolded the third picture; it
was larger than the others and had been
folded across the middle to get it into
the envelope.

"That is the University of Kansas
football team," he said. “I am the second
one in the front row; I played end my
junior year and tackle when I was a
senior. Mr. Corvet—'1"

"Yes; Mr. Corvet had these pictures.
They came into my possession day before
yesterday, the day after Corvet disap-
peared; I do not want to tell just yet
how they did that."

Alan’s face, which had been ﬂushed at
ﬁrst with excitement, had gone quite pale,
and his hands, as he clenched and un-
clenched them nervously, were cold, and
his lips very dry. He could think of no

ssible relationship between Benjamin

rvet and himself, except one, which
would account for Corvet’s obtaining and
keeping these pictures of him through
the years. As Sherrill put the pictures
back in their envelope and the envelope
back in his pocket, and Alan watched
him, Alan felt nearly certain now that
it had not been proof of the nature of this
relationship that Sherrill had been trying
to get from him, but only corroboration
of some knowledge, or partial knowledge,
which had come to Sherrill in some other
way. The existence of this knowledge
was implied by Sherrill’s Withholding
of the way he had come into possession of
the pictures, and his manner showed now
that he had received from Alan the con-
ﬂrmation for which he had been seeking.

“I think you know who I am," Alan
said.

Sherrill had risen and stood looking
down at him.

"You have guessed, if I am not mis—
taken, that you are Corvet's son."

The color ﬂamed to Alan’s face for an
instant, then left it paler than before.
"I thought it must be that way,” he an-
swered; “but you said he had no chil-

"Benjamin Corvet and his wife had no
children."

"I thought that was what you meant."
A twinge twisted Alan's face; he tried
to control it but for a moment he could
not.

Sherrill suddenly put his hand on Alan’s
shoulder; there was something so friend-
ly, so affectionate in the quick, 1mpu1sive
grasp of Sherrill’s ﬁngers, that Alan’s
heart throbbed to it; for the ﬁrst time
some one had touched him in full, un-
checked feeling for him; for the ﬁrst
time, the unknown about him had failed
to be a barrier and, instead, had drawn
another to him.

"Do not misapprehend your father,"
Sherrill said quietly. "I cannot prevent
what other people may think when they
learn this; but I do not share such
thoughts with them. There is much in
this I cannot understand; but. I know it
is not merely the result of what others
may think it—of ‘a wife in more ports
than one,’ as you will hear the lakemen
put it. What lies under this is some
great misadventure which had changed
and frustrated all your father’s life.”

Sherrill crossed the room and rang for
a servant. ‘

“I am going to ask you to be my guest
for a short time, Alan.” he announced.
"I have had your bag carried to your
room; the man will show you which one
it is."

Alan hesitated; he felt that Sherrill
had not told him all he knew—that there
were some things Sherrill purposely was
withholding from him; but he could not
force Sherrill to tell more than he wished;
so after an instant's resolution, he ace
cepted the dismissal.

Sherrill walked with him to the door,
and gave his directions to the servant;
he stood watching, as Alan and the man
Went up stairs. Then he Went back and
seated himself in the chair Alan had oc-
cupied, and sat with hands grasping the
arms of the chair while he stared into
so, am

Fifteen minutes later,“he heard his
daughter's footsteps and looked up. Con-
stance halted in the door to assure her-
self that he was now alone; then she
gene to him and, seating herself on the
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felt for her other hand with his and
found it, and held it clasped between his
palms.

"You’ve found out who he is, father?"
she asked.

“The facts have left me no doubt at all
as to that, little daughter.”

"No doubt that he is—who?”

Sherrill was silent for a moment—not
from uncertainty, but because of the ef-
fect which what he must say would have
upon her; then he told her in almost
the same words he had used to Alan.
Constance started, ﬂushed, and her hand
stiffened convulsively between her father’s.

They said nothing more to one another;
Sherrill seemed considering and debating
something within himself; and presently
he seemed to come to a decision. He
got up, stooped and touched his daughter's
hand, and left the room. He went up
the stairs and on the second floor he
went to a front room and knocked.
Alan’s voice told him to come in. Sher-
rill went in and, when he had made sure

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communism

“That key," he said, “is one I made
your father give me some time ago; he
was at home alone so much that I was
afraid something might happen to him
there. He gave it to me because he knew
I would not misuse it. I used it, for the
ﬁrst time, three days ago, when, after
becommg certain something had gone
wrong with him, I went to the house to
search for him; my daughter used it this
morning when she went there to wait for
you. Your father, of course. had a key
to the front door like this one; his serv-
ant has a key to the servants’ entrance.
I do now know of any other keys.”

“The servant is in charge there now?"
Alan asked.

“Just now there is no one in the house.
The servant, after your father disap-
peared, thought that, if he had merely
gone away, he might have gone back to
his birthplace near Manistique, and he
went up there to look for him. I had a
wire from him to—day that he had not
found him and was coming back.”

Sherrill waited} a moment to see

 

 

SUMMARY OF OUR STORY TO DATE

D IEAR 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 asound like the beating of an Indian drum. This drum heat, so

tradition says, whenever the lake took a life. 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. Sherrill 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. Then Corvet
disappears. A young man, known as Alan Conrad, appears at the Sherrill homo
asking for Benjamin Corvet. Alan, since a. small child, has lived with a family
in Blue Rapids, Kansas, and neither he or the family know who his father or

mother is. He was left with this famil
would receive pay for taking care of t
the mails but never knew who sent it.

y by a man who told the- people they

be boy. They received money through

Then Alan receives a letter from Ben

Corvet- to come to' Chicago and Alan rushes there thinking that Corvet could
tell him something about his parents, but arrives after Corvet disappeared. He
goes to the Sherrill home and talks with Constance and Mr. Sherrill.

 

 

that the servant was not with Alan, he
closed the door carefully behind him.

Then he turned back to Alan. and for
an instant stood indecisive as though he
did not know how to begin what he
wanted to say. As he glanced down at a
key he took from his pocket, his indeci-
sion seemed to receive direction and in-
spiration from it; and he put it down
on Alan’s dresser.

”I've brought you," he said evenly,
“the key to your house?”

Alan gazed at him, bewildered, “The
key to my house?”

"To the house on Astor Street," Sher-
rill conﬁrmed. "Your father deeded the
house and its furniture and all its con-
tents to you the day before he disap-
peared. I have not the deed here; it
came into my hands the day before yes-
terday at the same time I got possession
of the pictures which might—or might
not. for all I knew then—be you. I. have
the deed down-town and will give it to
you. The house is yours in fee simple,
given you by your father, not bequeathed
to you by him to become your property
after his death. He meant by that, I
think, even more than the mere acknow-
ledgment that he is your father.”

Sherrill walked to the window and
stood as though looking out, but his eyes
were blank with thought.

“For almost twenty years,” “your
father, as I have told you, lived in that
house practically alone; during all those
years a shadow of some sort was over
him. I don’t know at all, Alan, What
that shadow was. But it is certain that
whatever it was that had changed him
from the man he was when I ﬁrst knew
culminated three days ago when he wrote
to you. It may be that the consequences
of his writing you were such that, after
he had sent the letter, he could not
bring himself to face them and so has
merely . gone away. In that case,
as we stand here talking, he is still alive.
On the other hand, his writing you may
have precipitated something that I know
nothing of. In either case, if he has left
anywhere any evidence of what it is that
changed and oppressed him for all these
years, or if there is any evidence of what
has happened to him now, it will be found
in his house.”

Sherrill turned back to Alan. “It is for
you—not me, Alan," he said simply, “to
make that search. I have thought ser-
iously about it, this last half hour, and
have decided that is as he would want it
—-—perhaps as he did want it—to be. He
could have told me what his trouble was
any time in these twenty years, if he
had been willing I should know; but he
never did."

Sherrill was silent for a moment.

“There are some things your father did
just before he disappeared that I have
not told you yet." he went on. “The
reason I have not told them is that I
have not yet fully decided in my own
mind what action they call for from me.
I can assure you. however, that it would
not help you now in any way to know
them."

He thought again; then glanced to the
key on the dresser and seemed-to re-
collect. .

  
 
 

   

whether there was anything more Alan
wanted to ask; then he went out.

CHAPTER IV

“Arrived Safe; Well"

As the door closed behind Sherrill,
Alan went over to the dresser and picked
up the key which Sherrill had left. It
was, he saw, a. ﬂat key of a sort common
twenty years before, not of the more
recent corrugated shape. As he looked
at it and then away from it, thoughtfully
turning it over and over in his ﬁngers,
it brought no sense of possession to him.‘
Sherrill had said the house was his, had
been given him by his father; but that
fact could not actually make it his in
his realization. He could not imagine
himself owning such a house or what he
would do with it if it were his. He put
the key, after a moment, on the ring
with two or three other keys he had, and
dropped them into his pocket; then he
crossed to a chair and sat down.

He found, as he tried now to disentangle
the events of the afternoon, that from
them, and especially from his last inter-
view with Sherrill, two facts stood out
most clearly. The first of these related
more directly to his father—to Benjamin
Corvet. When such a man as Benjamin
Corvet must have been, disappears~when,
without warning and without leaving any
account of himself he vanishes from
among those who knew him——the persons
most closely interested pass through three
stages of anxiety. They doubt ﬁrst
whether this disappearance is real and
whether inquiry on their part will not be
resented; they waken next to realization
that the man is actually gone, and that
something must be done; the third stage
is open to public inquiry. Whatever
might be the nature of the information
Sherrill was withholding from him, Alan
saw that its effect on Sherrill had been
to shorten very greatly Sherriil’s time of
doubt as to Corvet's actual disappearance.
The Sherrills—particularly Sherrill him-

‘ self—had been in the second stage of

anxiety when Alan came: they had been
awaiting Alan's arrival in the. belief that
Alan could give them information which
would show them what must be “done”
about Corvet. Alan had not been able
to give them this information; but his
coming, and his interview with Sherrill.
had strongly inﬂuenced Sherrill’s attitude.
Sherrill had shrunk, still more deﬁnitely
and consciously, after that, from prying
into the affairs of his friend; he had now,
strangely, almost withdrawn himself from
the inquiry, and had given it over to
Alan. ’
Sherrill had spoken of the possibility
that something might have “happened"
to Corvet; but it was plain he did not
believe he had met with actual violence.
He had left it to Alan to, examine Cor-
vet's house; but he had not urged Alan
to examine it at once; he had left the

time of the examination to be determined,

by Alan. This showed clearly that Sher-
rill believed—perbaps had sumaent reason
for believing—that Corvet had simply
"gone away." The second of Alan's two
facts related even more closely and pars
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life. Did this mean that there might hare
been some; previous marriage of Alan's
father—some” marriage which had
strangely overlapped and nulliﬁed his
public marriage? In that case, Alan
could be, not only in fact but legally.
Corvet’s Son; and such things as this,
Alan knew, had sometimes happened, and
had happened by a strange combination of
events, innocently for all parties. Cor-
vet’s public separation, from his wife,
Sherrill had said, had taken place in
1897, but the actual separation between
them might, possibly, have taken place
long before that. .

Alan resolved to hold these questions
in abeyance; he would not accept or grant
the stigma which his relationship to Cor-
vet seemed to attach to himself until it
had been proven to him. He had come

to Chicago expecting, not to find that

the Wrong had been righted in some way
at last. But what was most plain of all
to him, from what Sherrill had told him,
was that the wrong—whatever it might be
—had not been righted; it existed still.

The afternoon had changed swiftly into
night; dusk had been gathering during
his last talk with Sherrill, so that he
hardly had been able to see Sherrill’s
face, and just after Sherrill had left him,
full dark had come. Alan did not know
how long he had been sitting in the dark—
ness thinking out these things; but now
a little clock which had' been ticking in
the blackness tinkled six. Alan heard a
knock at his door, and when it was re-
peated, he called, "Come in."
' The light which came in from the hall,
as the door was opened, showed a man
servant. The man, after a respectful in-
quiry, switched on the light. He crossed
into the adjoining room—a bedroom; the
room where Alan was, he thought, must
be a dressing room, and there was a bath
between. Presently the man reappeared,
and moved softly about the room, un—
packing Alan’s suitcase. He hung Alan's
other suit in the closet on hangers, he
put the linen, except for one shirt, in the
dresser draWers, and he put Alan’s few
toilet things with the ivory-backed brushes
and comb and other articles on the dress-
ing stand.

Alan watched him queerly; no one ex-
cept himself ever had unpacked Alan’s
suitcase before; the ﬁrst time he had

gone away to college—it was a brand,

new suitcase then—"mother” had packed
it; after that ﬁrst time, Alan had packed
and unpacked it. It gave him an odd
feeling now to see some one else unpack-

ing his things. The man, having ﬁnished .

and taken everything out, continued to
look in the suitcase for something else.

“I beg your pardon, sir,” he said ﬁnally,
“but I cannot ﬁnd your buttons."

‘.‘I’ve got them on,” Alan said. He
took them out and gave them to the valet
with a smile; it was good to have some-
thing to smile at, if it was only the reali-
zation that he never had thought before
of any one’s having more than one set of
buttons for ordinary shirts. Alan won-
dered, mm a sort of trepidation, whether
the man would expect to stay and help
him dress; but he only put the buttons
in the clean shirt and reopened the
dresser drawers and laid out a change of
things. .

“Is there anything else, sir?” he asked.

“Nothing, thank you,” Alan said.

"I was to tell you, sir Mr. Sherrill is
sorry he cannot be at home to dinner to-
night. Mrs. Sherrill and Miss Sherrill
will be here. Dinner is at seven, sir.”

Alan dressed slowly. after the man had
gone; and at one minute before seven he
went down—stairs.

There was no one in the lower hall
and, after an instant of irresolution and
a glance into the empty draWing~room,
he turned into the small room at the op-
posite side of the hall. A handSOme,
stately, rather large woman, whom he
found there, introduced herself to him
formally as Mrs. Sherrill.

He knew from Sherrill’s mention of
the year of their marriage that Mrs.
Sherrill’s age must be about forty-ﬁve,
but if he had not known this, he would
have thought her ten years younger. In
her dark eyes and her carefully dressed,
coal—black hair, and in the contour of
her youthful looking, handsome face, he
could not find any such pronounced re-
semblance to her daughter as he had

seen in Lawrence Sherrill. Her reserved,

yet almost too casual acceptance of Alan’s
presence, told him that she knew all the
particulars about himself which Sherrill
had been able to give; and as Constance
came down the stairs and joined them
half a minute later, Alan was certain
that she also knew. ,

Yet there was in her manner toward
Alan 2. diﬂerence from that of her
mother—a difference which seemed al-
most opposition. Not that Mrs. Sherrill’s
was unfriendly or critical; rather, it was
kind with the sort of reserved kindness
which told Alan, almost as plainly as
words. that she had not been able to hold
so charitable a conviction in regard to
Corvet's relationship with Alan as her
husband held, but that she would be only
the more considerate to Alan. for that.
It was this kindness which Constance
set herself to oppose, and which she op-

posed as reserveclily and as subtly as it
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into the great “ dining-room, where ,the
table with its lii'i'en, silver, and china.
gleamed under ‘shaded lights. The oldest
and most digniﬁed of the three men ser—
vants who waited upon them in the din-
jug-room Alan thought must be a. butler
—=«a species of creature of whom Alan had
heard but had never seen; the other ser-
vants, at least, received and handed things
through him, and took their orders from
him. As the silent-footed servants moved
about, and Alan kept up a. semewhat
strained conversation with Mrs. Sherrill
—-—a conversation in which no reference to
his own affairs was yet made—he won-
dered whether Constance and her mother
always dressed for dinner in full evening
dress as now, or whether they were go—
ing ”ﬁt. A word from Constance to her
mother told him this latter was the case,
and while it did not give complete answer
to his internal query, it showed him his
ﬁrst glimpse of social engagements-as a
part of the business of life. In spite of
the fact that Benjamin Corvet, Sherrill's
close friend, had disappeared—or perhaps
because he had diswppeared and, as yet,
it was not publicly known-their and
Sherrill’s engagements had to be fulﬁlled.

What Sherrill had told Alan of his
father had been iterating itself again and
again in Alan’s thoughts; now he recalled
that Sherrill had said that his daughter
believed that Corvet’s disappearance had
had something to do with her. Alan had
wondered at the moment how that could
be; and he watched her across the table
and now and then exchanged a comment
with her, it puzzled him still more. He
had opportunity to ask her when she

>waited with him in the library, after

dinner was ﬁnished and her mother had
gone up—stairs ; but he did not see how to
go about it.

“I’m sorry,” she said to him, “that we
can’t be home tJ-night; but perhaps you
Would rather be alone?”

He did not answer that.

“HaVe you a picture here, Miss Sherrill,
of—my father?” L3 asked.

"Uncle Benny had had very few pic—
tures taken; but there is one here.”

She went into the study, and came back
with a book open at a half-tone picture
of Benjamin Corvet. Alan took it from
her and carried it quickly closer to the
light. The face that looked up to him
from the heavily glazed page was regu-
lar of feature, handsome in a way, and
forceful. There were imagination and
vigor of thought in the broad, smooth
forehead; the eyes were strangely moody
and brooding; the mouth was gentle,
rather kindly; it was a queer impelling,
haunting face. This was his father!
But, as Alan held the picture, gazing down
upon it, the only emotion which came to
him was realization that he felt none.
He had not expected to know his father
from strangers on the street; but he had
expected, when told that his father'was
before him, to feel through and through
him the call of a common blood. Now,
except for consternation at his own lack
of feeling, he had no emotion of any sort;
he could not attach to this man, because
he bore the name which some one had
told him was his father’s the passions
which, when dreaming of his father, he
had felt.

As he looked up from the picture to
the girl who had given it to him, startled
at himself and believing she must think
his lack of feeling strange and unnatural,
he surprised her gazing at him with wet—
ness in her eyes. He fancied at ﬁrst
it must be for his father, and that the
picture had brought back poignantly her
fears. But she was not looking at the
picture, but at him; and when his eyes
met hers, she quickly turned away.

His own eyes 'ﬂiled, and'he choked. He

vwanted to thank her for her manner to

him in- the afternoon, for defending his
father and him, as she had at the dinner
table, and now ,for this unplanned, im-
pulsive sympathy when she saw how he
had not been able to feel for this man
who was his father and how he was
dismayed by it. But he could not put
his gratitude into words.

'A servant’s voice came from the door,
startling him. .

“Mrs. Sherrill wishes you told she is
waiting, Miss Sherrill.”

“I'll be there at once.” Constance, also,
seemed started and confused; but she

’delayed and looked back to Alan.

“If—if we fail to ﬁnd your father,"
she said, “I want to tell you what a man
he was.”

“Will you?” asked Alan. “Will you?”

She left him swiftly, and he heard her
mother’s voice in the hall. A motor door
closed sharply, after a minute or so; then
the house door closed. Alan stood still a
moment longer, then, remembering the
book which he held, he drew a chair up
to the light, andgread the short, dry
biography of his father printed on the
page opposite the portrait. It summarized
in a few hundred words his father’s life.
He turned to the cover of the book and
read its title, “Year Book of the Great
Lakes,” and a date of ﬁve years before;
then he looked through it. It consisted
in large part, he saw, merely of lists of
ships, their kind, their size, the date when
they were built, and their owners. Under
this last head he saw some score of times
the name “Corvet, Sherrill and Spear-
man.” There was a separate list of en-
gines and boilers, and when they had been
built and by whom. There was a chron-
ological table of events during the year
upon the lakes. Then he came to a part
headed "Disasters of the Year,” and he
read some of them; they were short ac—
counts, drily and unfeelingly put, but his
blood thrilled to these stories of drown-
ing, freezing, blinded men struggling
against storm and ice and water, and
conquering or being conquered by them.
Then he came to his father’s picture and
biography once more and, with it, to pic—
tures of other lakemen and their bi-
ographies. He turned to the index and
looked for Sherril’s name, and then Spear-
man‘s; ﬁnding they were not in the book,
he read some of the other ones.
~ There was a strange similarity, he
found, in these biographies, among them—
selves as well as to that of his father.
These men had had, the most of them,
no tradition of seamanship, such as Sher—
rill had told him he himself had had.
They had all been sons of lumbermen, of
farmers, of mill hands, miners, or ﬁsher—
men. They had been very young for
the most part, when they had heard and
answered the call of the lakes—the ever-
swelling, ﬁerce demand of lumber, grain,
and ore for outlet; and they had lived
hard; life had been violent, and raw, and
brutal to them. They had sailed ships,
and built ships, and owned and lost them ;‘
they had fought against nature and
against man to keep their ships, and to
make them proﬁtable, and to get more of
them. In the end a few, 3. very few
comparatively, had survived; by daring,
by enterprise, by taking great chances,
they had thrust their heads above those
of their fellows; they had come to own
a half dozen, a dozen, perhaps a score
of bottoms, and to have incomes of ﬁfty,
of a hundred, of two hundred thousand
dollars a year.

Alan shut'the book and sat thoughtful.
He felt strongly the immensity, the power,
the graduer of all this; but he felt also
its violence and its ﬁerceness. What
might there not have been in the life of
his father who had fought up and made
a way for himself through such things?

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FARM BOARD STARTS WORK

HE farm board of advisors appointed last
month by President Coolidge did not lose
much time getting into action and that

would augur well for its future accomplishments.

At the ﬁrst meeting, following a conference
with the president, members stated that the chief
executive seemed to have a surprising grasp of
the present agricultural situation and that they
were certain of his complete support, even to the
extent of demanding certain measures be passed
on at the short session of congress.

One of the matters which will certainly be
presented to congress is a freight reduction on
farm products, where it is Justiﬁed. It has been
stated by competent investigators that agricul-
ture is carrying an unfair share of the load,
even with the better prices which have been in
evidence during the present harvesting season.

The commission is composed of men, most of
whom are identiﬁed with the great cooperative
marketing movements in the farming business
and they are capable of suggesting practical
measures which are not put forward solely with
the purpose of building political fences.

Too many impractical suggestions were made
during the last session when more attention was
being given to how the legislation would “sound
back home", than to how it would work out in
actual practice.

The farmers of America do not ask what is
not their just due. They are not demanding a
subsidy at the expense of the government as a
whole. They ask only a fair and square deal
which will enable them to take advantage of the
natural improvement which economic conditions
the world over are now returning to a normal
basis. A fair return for the hours of labor and
the capital invested, is all the farmers are ask-
ing and that they are now in a better position
than ever before to realize this ambition seems
pretty well admitted.

GROESBECK SEES THE LIGHT

is reported from Lansing that Governor
Groesbeck will sign a gasoline tax of two
cents a gallon, if passed at the next session,
but he believes an additional tax on weight of
automobiles and trucks should be incorporated
with it.

The funds available from this dual tax would
not only carry to completion the hard—roads of
the state highway department, but would furnish
suﬂicient funds to maintain the elaborate system
already in use.

It is hard to see where the automobile clubs
or others who have. opposed the gasoline tax will
ﬁnd a foot-hold of argument to combat the prac-
ticability of this proposal and we think the
farmers and other owners of motor vehicles will
immediame see the necessity of it.

That a gasoline tax will be passed at the next
session is a pretty well admitted fact and now
with the opposition of the governor removed
there seems to be nothing which will prevent its
being put into effect early in 1925.

80 certain is the administration of I. change
In the present weight and horse-power tax that
they have instructed the secretary of state to
make no collections of automobile tax and to
hone no new license plates until after the ﬁrst
of February. ‘ ,

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THEY SHALL NOT PASS—UNGUARDED!

ETURNING home from Mason where he had
been busily and happily purchasing supplies
for the family reunion to be held on Thanks-

giving day, John Snyder. a farmer sixty-ﬁve years
of age, was struck and killed by a passenger
train.

Cranberries, nuts, raisins and candies for the
little folks were strewn along the tracks with
the new sedan in which he was driving. A
farm home that was to have resounded with
merry laughter was turned into a sorrowing
household in the twinkling of an eye.

That was only one of the many grade-crossing
accidents in Michigan alone during the past fort-
night. What is to be done about it?

We are asking for better protection at these
death-crossings whether it be by legislation
which requires all vehicles to stop before cross-
ing railroad tracks, automatic signals which can
be seen and heard by the driver or actual gates
which are closed on important streets and main
traveled highways.

Only a catastrophe in our own family seems
to be able to jar us into the responsibility which
is ours. The automobile has brought with it a
problem which must be reckoned with and
quickly!

SUGAR BEET OUTLOOK BRIGHT

ROWERS and manufacturers alike seem
G pretty well satisﬁed with the prospects of a

successful outcome of their work for the
year 1924.

The acreage under the new contracts was
longer than in any previous year. Labor was,
in a few instances, plentiful and experienced.
And even Nature stood on the right side of'the
industry and with a lengthened fall matured the
beets with a higher sugar content than has been
known for years.

Only the wholesale price of sugar during the
months of October, November, December and
January will determine the ﬁnal share which the
grower will have in the proﬁts derived.

Some optimists predict a total payment of
over $19,000,000 to the growers for this years
crop and this will top by at least two millions
the record since the inﬂated war-time prices
were in evidence.

The manufacturers of beet sugar in Michigan
can well afford to take the representatives of the
growers into their conﬁdence, work with them
and bring about a spirit of harmony and co—
operation which has been unknown since the ﬁrst
ton of beets was hauled to the scales in this
state.

It takes a year like this when all are reaping
the proﬁt to bring about such a friendly feeling
among those most vitally concerned and it would
be a crying shame to let the opportunity which
it presents pass unnoticed.

The manufacturers, if they are fair, will ask
only a reasonable guarantee and a reasonable
return for their capital and energy invested and
we know the beet-growers of Michigan, ask no
more. It may be that in years past there has
been the wrong approach to a conciliatory meet-
ing between the two. It may be that new leaders
who carry none of the past ill-feeling must be
appointed by each side. One thing is certain:
both are now concerned in the inroads of a pos-
sible reduction in the tariff on Cuban sugar
which should bind them in an open ﬁght on com-
mon grounds. Get together, boys!

RADIO HAS ARRIVED

EVEN at the risk of having some of the readers
of this page accuse us of giving unwarranted
attention to the radio and its adaption to

the modern farm home we are writing this,
especially to call your attention to the develop-
ments of the past week, when transatlantic broad-
casting has been tried and proven in a large way.
Many amatuers, some on the farms of Michi-
gan have during the past week heard concerts
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P3118. Brussels and ever Berlin. The “seven-
league boots" which were but friction and wild
dreams of a generation ago are now available to
any farmer or his son who will string an aerial
from the house top to the windmill!

The air is literally ﬁlled with music, lectures
and sermons, which are yours for the taking!

In England this summer we were told of the
scheme employed over-there to tax the receiver
with a share of the expense of maintaining broad-
casting stations aud furnishing the entertain-
ment. It seems one concern, which is composed
of the leading manufacturers, have the sole broad-
casting rights and are allowed by the Br?
government to collect a tax proportionate to e
receiving distance of the outﬁt used. A tax com-

parable with the automobile weight tax on this,

side of the Atlantic. .

One similar measure may in time be enacted
here, but at present metropolitan newspapers,
electrical manufacturers and others are ﬁnding
enough publicity value to enable them to stand
the expense of the elaborate programs which
they broadcast and for the receiver they are as
free as the very air itself.

We repeat our suggestion that you combine
your Christmas money and with it buy a good
radio outﬁt that every member of your family
will enjoy for countless hours.

DOGS AND AUTOMOBILES

CARRYING dogs on the running-board of an
automobile results in many dogs being.killed

by falling off or being thrown off, and killed
or maimed, and many are lost on the highways.
The Oregon State Humane Society has prepared
and will present a law to protect dogs carried in
this way.

It is called an act regulating and prohibiting
carrying dogs on automobiles and provides that
it shall be unlawful to carry a dog upon the hood,
fender, running board or other external part of
any automobile unless the same shall be pro-
tected by a frame work, carrier, or other device
sufﬁcient to keep any such animal from falling
from the automobile. .Suitable penalty is pro-
vided. -

There should be such a law in every state and
a copy of the proposed Oregon law can be so-
cured by addressing Judge Benson, counsel for
Oregon Humane Society, 1102 Spalding Building.
Portland, Oregon.

THE CONSTITUTION
T the 150th anniversary celebration of the
meeting of the First Continental Congress.
at Valley Forge, Pa., Senator George Whar-
ton Pepper said:

“When things go wrong, in ninety-nine cases
out of a hundred it is we who are at fault—not
our constitutional system. Our job is not to
chop the Constitution to pieces to ﬁt our ab-
normalities but make ourselves worthy to live
under our Constitution as it is.

“We are reminded here that when the times
were evil, Washington fasted all day and united
with his countrymen in prayer for light and
guidance. It was in this spirit that they laid the
foundations of the Constitution. Some of our
modern reformers. on the basis of three square
meals a day and the noisy proclamation of their
own self—sufﬁciency, want to blow the founda-
tions from under the Constitution. My breth—
ren, these things ought not so to be."

THE BIRDS HAVE GONE SOUTH

URING the past few months the great annual

ﬂights of migratory birds to the south has

taken place. The honk of wild geese ﬂying
by night mostly was a familiar sound. So the
gathering of great ﬂocks of blackbirds and other
varieties preparing to migrate were common
sights. Soon Jim Crow, an occasional bluejay,
owl or sparrow will be the only land birds left
to spend the winter with us. The wonder is
how the birds that remain ﬁnd food, water and
shelter. We can help preserve the birds by plac-
ing a little food where they can get it, especially
about the house or sheltered places and let the
house cat enjoy seeing them through the windows
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THE COMMON PEOPLE PAY

ELIABLE statistics show that with $32,000,-

, 000,000 in tax—exempt public securities—
national, state and district—the difference

in the earning power of the average tax-free so-
curity and that of taxed industrial property is
about as 8 to 6; industrials must make the larger
percentage in order to compete with the tax- ‘
free holdings. This forces an unnatural scale ot/

prices for everything that is made by industry;

and prices are now and will remain high until
all investments are brought to parity, by taxing
all incomes from investments silks. ‘
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SPECIACLE COMPANY
RETURNS MONEY

"Being a subscriber to your ﬁne,
We paper, I was reading your Nov-
mnber 8th issue, and noticed a letter
published, which, I am positive,
would not apply to all cases.
would appmciate it very much, if.
for the sake of the Company 8130mm
of, you would publish my letter.

"A short time ago I also received
a circular letter from a ﬁrm selling
spectacles in Chicago. I was inter-
ested and ordered a pair for which
I was to pay $4.98, on a ten-day
free trial. I received the Spectacles
which did not seem to ﬁt my eyes,
and wrote to the ﬁrm, asking if
their guarantee -of exchange would
be carried out. They forwarded an—
other pair, upon my request, and
they, too, were not quite strong
enough for my eyes, but they im-
mediately sent me a check for the
full amount, and were as courteous
and prompt in their remittance as
one could possibly desire.

“Because of this, I think it rather
un-just for everyone to get the im-
pression that they are dishonest,
and feel sure that there must have
been some mistake on the part of
the party who returned the specta-
cles —- perhaps in the address.
Thanking you for publishing the
above, I remain, an appreciative
subscriber.”

first paragraph of the article
you refer to was a copy of a
letter we received from one of
our subscribers and it gave the ex-
perience of this subscriber with a
mail-order spectacle company. Our
subscriber does not say that all of
the ﬁrms selling spectacles by mail
are dishonest, nor do we. But we
did state in our comment on the let-
ter that we do not believe that there
is one case in a hundred where
glasses ﬁtted through the mails are
satisfactory. After your experience
I think you will agree with. us. Our
eyesight is too precious to allow
anyone to experiment with it. Do
not allow someone to ﬁt you “by
guess and by- gosh," but go to a
specialist, one who has made a real
study of the eye and its ailments,
and knows what he is doing.

 

NILE ART COMPANY AGAIN!
N the August forth, 1923, issue on
this page we gave some little pub-
licity to the work—at-home scheme
promoted from Fort Wayne, Indiana,
under the name of the Nile Art Com-
pany and advised our readers not to
be caught by the alluring induce-
ments offered for coloring articles at
home.

Our advice must have had some
foundation in fact.

A week or so ago the government
postal authorities closed in on the
company, arrested the manager and
—but let the newspaper clipping tell
what happened: “A gigantic nation—
wide swindle is believed by United
States postal authorities at Washing-
ton. D. C., to have been nipped to—day
with the arrest of Glenn D. )‘ryer,
24, years old. ﬁnancial genius of
this city. who since April 1, 1922. as
owner and operator of the Nile Art
Company. has done a volume of bus-
iness in excess of a half million dol—
lars and earned for himself a (lear
proﬁt of around $200,000 or $300,-
000 This year, the boy—wizard is
believed to have cleared a proﬁt each
month of approximately $10,000.
And Fryer it is said, less than three
years ago borrowed $100, With which

 

 

The purpose o! this department In to P.
our subscribers trom fraudulent dealinol
or unfair treatment by person: or com

a distance.

in ova-y case we will do our host to man
a satisfactory outlet-tent or form action. '0'
which no ohms for our services will over he
made, providing:

1.—-Tho claim I: made by a paid-up sub-
Iorlbor to The Business Former.

2.—-Tho claim I: not more than C sues. old.

8.-—Ths claim I: not local or between 900-
Within our distance of one another.

shouldbooostlodotﬂmhonsandnot
attempted by mail.

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mots, dates. «0.. code: no also your ad-
dn-hhoitromthohontsoverofan laws
but." thatyouaroooo who:
Till IUOINE“ FARMER. Coliseum: Io:

It. Clams. Mich.

Report Endi llovombor 28 1924
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to start working his scheme. It may
not have paid others but it certainly
paid Fryer! He must have been able
to cut a wide swath in Fort Wayne
on $10,000 a month profit! We can
picture the surprise of the staid old
bankers when his deposits began to
mount up. The neighbors pointing
him out as a second Ford or Rocke-
feller. The appraising glances of
the towns fond mothers with daugh-
ters of a marriagable age, for it is
not given to many young blades of
24 summers to be drawing down a
tidy $2,500 a week from their own
eﬂorts!

But let us pause just a minute and
study the proposition which made
Where did
the money come ‘from? It was from
poor women mostly, many widows.
old men and women who found
through tear—dimmed eyes that their
meager savings were not enough to
keep them and saw only the poor-
house doors leering them an invita-
tion. The money which this man
Fryer took from the envelopes every
day which piled high on his desk
with each incoming mail was mostly
tear-stained, all of it blood-money!
Why the highwayman who holds you
up at the point of a gun and takes
from you only that portion of your
worldly goods which you have on
your person is a gentleman, deserv-
ing of public recognition as com-
pared with the promoters of some of
these work-at-‘home schemes, who
take the last dollar from the most
unfortunate of society!

We have through this page tried to
make Michigan an unhealthy place
for these kind of schemes to live in.
The mere arrest of one manager is
only one step in the right direction.
There are land-sharks who advertise
“Wanted—to buy farm from the
owner," when as a matter of fact
they would be honest if they adver-
tised ”Wanted—$10 of your money!"

There are correspondence schools,
not all of them mark you, but there
are some who would guarantee to
make a blind-man a surveyor or a
deaf-man a telephone operator—“for
$5 down and just $5 a month for a
few short months!"

There is a concern in New York
that has a “lost—package” scheme
which we have turned over to the
post-oﬂice department, knowing in
our own minds beyond a shadow of
doubt that it is a crooked proposition
and as yet the investigators have
only reported ”no cause for action".
But we are not going to lay down on
this one until it is proven honest,
and if they do prove it is honest we
will make them the same proposition
we made a certain Indiana real-estate
dealer, whom many of you will re-
member, to whom we offered an ad-
vertisement on this very page if he
could prove the statements he was
making. But we never had to run
the ad!

The season on these human buz-
zards is never closed in Michigan so
far as we are concerned and we ap—
preciate the eﬁ’orts of our loyal read-
ers in helping us get them out from
under cover. Publicity sometimes is
a greater weapon than the law of the
land itself! They hate it as a ground-
mole hates sun-light and we suspect
for much the same reasons!

GLOVE MAN “IN BAD" WITH
UNCLE SAM

AM enclosing a circular from

Kenneth Hackley, of Earl Park,

Indiana. I wish you would ad-
vise me whether he is reliable or
not." KENNETH HACKLEY, of Earl
Park, Indiana, is not reliable, ac-
cording to the United States Post
Ofﬁce Department. He has been ar-
rested by United States oﬂicers on a
charge of using the mails to defraud.
It is said that his business amounted
to $40,000. Hackley sold glove
materials to stay-at-homes, many of
them women and girls unable to
work out or shut in by illness or de-
formities, and the authorities believe
he did not buy the ﬁnished product
back. It has developed that the au-
thorities are investigating other
work-at-home schemes to discover
whether or not they are doing a legit-
imate business.

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There is plainly evident
among thrifty farmers a
definite disposition to
concentrate their secur-
ity investments in the
safe first mortgage bonds
sponsored by this house.

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(158)

BUD’S LAM‘EN’I'A'I'ION
By Edgar A. Guest

1 wish I had lived in seventy-six.
When freedom needed then of might
And there were few to dare and do
And bravely battle for the right.
I could have crossed the Delaware
With Washington and all his men,
0r stood with George at Valley Forge.
If only I’d been living then.

I might have been a famous man
If I had lived in sixty—three,

I could have led a charge ahead
And called my men to follow me-

. «I might have cheered Abe Lincoln up

When he was troubled and forlorn
And helped a lot, but I could not,
Because I wasn't even born.

I read my history day by day
And think about those warriors bold
Who fought and bled where blood ran red
Throughout those glorious days of old.
I might have been a hero, too,
A general's cap upon my brow,
But I can't see a chance for me,
There is no work for heroes now.

There's nothing left for me to do,
Old Glory safely ﬂies in air,
There ls no foe to overthrow,
No call for heroes anywhere.

I have to add. subtract, divide,
Learn capitals of every state,
And how to spell and scribble well,

And all because I came too late.

(Copyright, 1924, by Edgar A. Guest.)

POP COR-N FOR WINTER
EVENINGS
OME of the happiest hours of my

childhood on the farm were
during the long winter even—
ings when, after the dishes were

washed and dried and father came
in from doing the evening chores,
We got out the popper and made a
heaping bowl of snow white pop
corn. Mother had a large wooden
bowl that she always used and I can
close my eyes now and see it heap-
ed to overﬂowing with the ﬂuffy
white kernels. And then after we
ate the pop corn mother would read
aloud to us. ‘

Pop corn is one of the things that
adds pleasure to country life In the
winter, especially around Thanks-
giving, Christmas and New Year. A
supply of pop corn and a popper is
a treat for the whole family and a
source of entertainment for the
children on long winter evenings.

The ears may be stored any place
the air can circulate around them
freely and where they are safe from
mice, rats and squirrels. An over-
head rack made of slats or wire net—
ting suspended by wires in the shed
makes a good place, or the ears may
be strung and suspended from the
rafters in the attic. Pop corn should
not be stored in a warm or heated
room because this causes it to dry
out.

If new pop corn is properly st01 ed
it may dry out sufﬁciently to use by
Christmas. Old pop corn that has
become too dry to pop may be re-
stored by sprinkling with water be-
fore poping. It it is very dry the
poping qualities may be restored by
putting the pop corn in a shaded
place outdoors to absorb moisture
from the air.

If the pop corn is in ﬁrst—class
condition and the heat properly ap—
plied, one pint of unpopped corn will
make 15 to 20 pints of popped corn.
The common way of preparing pop
corn is by popping and sprinkling it
with salt or adding melted butter.
Sometimes the popped corn is eaten
with milk and sugar like breakfast
food. After butchering on the farm
some will pop a kettle full of pop
corn in the greasy residue left in the
kettle after the lard has been ren-
dered.

For variety, some prepare sugar-
ed pop corn. This is made by boil—
ing together two teacups of granu—
lated sugar and one teacup of water.
Boil until the syrup strings from the
spoon or hardens when dropped into
cold water. Pour over six quarts of
freshly popped corn and stir well.

To make pop corn balls the fol-
lowing recipe is suggested: One pint
sirup, one pint of sugar, two tables-
spoonfuls butter and one teaspoon-
ful vinegar. Cook till the sirup
hardens When dropped into cold
water. Remove to back of stove
and add one—half teaspoonful of
, soda dissolved in a tablespoontul of
~“hot water and then pour the hot
’sirup over four quarts of freshly
popped corn, stirring till each ker-
nel is well coated, then it can be
molded into balls or any desired

form.
The following is a recipe'for cho-

      

 

 

 

DEAR FOLKS :

style.

and a half inches wide.

the under side.
and sewed together, instead
of carrying the braid round
and round, often causing
the rug to hoop when laid
on the ﬂoor.

Address letters:

 

 

Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR

Remember the rag rugs our grandmothers used
to braid to put on their kitchen ﬂoor? That was a good many
years ago and they have long since been declared taboo—out of '
But now they are coming back in style and they are being
used extensively, in bedrooms, living rooms and dining rooms.
ones our grandmothers made were not always artistic, as little
thought was given to color scheme, but the ones being made today
are of colors to harmonize with the wall paper and hangings. In
the making of these rugs the strips should be cut from tw0 to two
These are then sewed together, either hit
or miss or in solid colors, and rolled into balls, three of which are
used in braiding. All that is needed in addition to the rags is a
stout needle and cotton with which to sew them over and over on
The mat will shape better if each round is cut of!

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colate pop corn: Two teacupfuls
white sugar, one-half cup of corn
sirup, two ounces chocolate and one
cup of water. Put these ingredients
into a kettle and cook until the sir-
up hardens. Then put into cold
water. Pgur this over four quarts
of crisp freshly popped corn and stir
well to insure the uniform coating
of the kernels.

HOME-MADE HOUSE SLIPI’ERS
I IS a comparatively easy thing to
make a good looking and neatly
ﬁtting pair of house slippers,
and they will cost you nothing but
the time spent in the making if you
use material from your piece box.
I use heavy cloth, men’s suitings
and coat fabrics. Uppers and soles
can be made from the same mater-
ial but it seems better sometimes to
use a darker, heavier piece of goods
for the soles. You will need some-
thing for binding, narrow velvet
ribbon, bias strips of velvet, braid,
or what you will. A small design
embroidered on the toe of the slip-
per in wools or appropriate cotton
adds a decorative touch to slippers
for women or children.
The small diagram
cutting pattern I use.
If you ﬁnd you cannot cut the up-
pers from a single piece, .piece
them at the sides with a lap seam
or an ordinary seam and join at the
back, making a curved seam as
shown in the pattern. Making the
upper a little smaller at the top and
bottom than it is at the sides gives
it a good shape and makes it fit the

shows the

heel. When this is done, stitch the
counter on the inside, at the back
putting the middle of the counter
directly'over the seam.

The soles are made of double
thickness, so cut out two for the
left foot and two for the right, and.
to avoid any mistake in putting
them together, it is a good plan to
stick a pin in each of the right soles
so that you can tell them from the
left. When you are ready to stich
the soles together, trim one of each
pair so that it is just a little bit
smaller than the other, and place

the larger one on top and then
stitch them twice around the edges
and up and down in a sort of ﬁgure
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Cutting the Pattern.

When you have the soles done,
turn the uppers wrong-side—out and
cut out a little piece on each side,
as indicated in the diagram. This
will make the slipper look better
and also fit better. If you cut out
the same amount of both sides the
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they make very useful gifts from one child to another.
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_\ tory. “If one cannot get a last, a this

board cut in the shape of a shoe
sole of the right size will serve the
purpose.

When you make up a slipper, the
sole is placed on the last, inner side
uppermost, and fastened in place
with two or three small tacks. The
upper is then put in place, wrong- -
side—out, folded over about three-
quarters of an inch and sewed hi
the sole with long stitches in and
out. When this is done, the slipper
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Self-Introductions.——Men and women in-
troduce themselves to each other at a
dinner when unacquainted. The man (look—
ing at the lady’s place—card) may say:
"How do you do, Mrs. Content. I am
Henry Morton"; or, showing his place—
card: “Let me introduce myself: this is
my name." It is quite in order, too, for
the lady to take the initiative: “I 81))
Mrs. Algernon Coutant," to which the
gentleman would reply: How do you do.
Mrs. Coutant. My name is Henry Mor-
ton." In theory, though the lady may
speak ﬁrst, she never, according to the
accepted social canon, “introduces" her-
self to a man on any occasion; she merely
allows him to know who she is. Other
forms which may be used by her are:
"I believe I am speaking to Mr. Morton.
I am Genevieve Grey”; or, This is Mr.
Merton, is it not. I am Miss Grey." A
man when introducing himself, never uses
the title "Mn," but a host may say: “I
am presenting myself, Miss Grey, because
my wife is so taken up with her duties
as hostess that she evidently has no time
to introduce me. I am Algernon Coutant."

 

 

Menu for December 7th

 

 

Oysters
'Chicken Hot Pot
Celery Salad Dried Apricot Shortcake

Coffee .
' Chicken Hot Pot.——Prepare large
chicken. Cut into as small pieces as

joints allow. Do not remove meats from
bones. Boil chicken until nearly tender
and keep broth left in kettle when you
remove chicken from it. Cut 1 pound of
lean, raw ham into small squares. Wash
and peel and parboil 8 large potatoes
and slice them._ Slice 3 medium sized
onions. Put into deep, baking dish leyer ..
of chicken, layer of ham, layer of pota-
toes, and layer of onions. Repeat until
all are used up: when arranging these
layers strew tiny bits of fat over them.
Pour chicken broth over layers, well sea-
soned with salt and pepper. Add enough
water to almost ﬁll pot. Cover pot, and
bake it for 1% hours. Be sure plenty of
water is in pot while baking is in prev
gross. When cooked put, baked chicken
and vegetables in large tureen. Garnish
edges with parsley. Sprinkle parsley and
sliced cooked carrots over top. Serve
with small slice of toast on each plate.

 

 

RECIPES

 

 

Cake Recliner—I am sending you a cake
recipe which has never been a
by me. 1 level cup sugar and three egx'l
well beaten together, add one cup of but-
ter or sweet cream, then measure one and
one half or two cups ﬂour and three teac-
spoons baking powder' (Royal) and beat
all together, bake. This is a simple but
good cake. I hope it will help other
readers.-—-Mrs. A. D., Gladwin, Mich.

Chocolate Jelly.—2 squares chocolate.
1 tablespoonful fat. 2 cupfuls boiling
water, 94, cupful sugar, 4 tablespoonfuls
cornstarch, 1,4 teaspoonful salt, 1 tea-
spoon vanilla extract, 1,4 cule chopped
walnut meats and whipped cream Break
chocolate into small pieces, dissolve in
boiling water, add fat, salt, cornstarch
mixed with sugar, stir and boil for eight
minutes. Remove from fire add vanilla
and nuts and pour at once into wet mold
Cool, turn out and serve with whipped
cream.

 

Carrot Pudding—For puddin , 1 cup-
tnl brown sugar, 1 cupf‘ul gratetgi carro
iouphnmtedmwmmtoes, 94 cup
fat, 1 eupful seeded raisins, IA. cupfd‘
breadcrumbs, 1,5 cupful milk, 1% cupi‘uls
flour, 1 teaspoonrul salt, 1 teaspoonfﬂ
baking powder, 1 tesspoontul mired

cos, 1 cupful currents and prune sane.

rsauoe, it mpmnealwineg .
marry wine, 1 lemon. 56. t ,
powdered cinnamon. For pudding. "mm
fat and sugar together. add carrots. pots." .
tau. raisins, currents. crumbas WIS-bah-
” powder, salt, and milk. ~ 7 run- ‘

gassed mold, cover and steam M m
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to cover them, simmer gently ,until quite
soft. Do not allow to boil or fruit will
be spoiled. Take out stones, crack some,
and save kernels, Rub prunes through
sieve, add sherry, kernels blanched, grated
rind and strained lemon juice, and cin-

namon, and then, if thicker than rich
cream, add more wine, or water, and
use.

 

Butterscotch Pie.——-1 egg, 1 cupful dark
brown sugar, 1 cupful milk, 3 tablespoon-
iuls flour, 2 tablespoonfuls fat, 3 table-
spoonfuls water, 1,4 teaspoonful salt, 1
tablespoonful powdered sugar, 1 baked

crust and 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract.

Put yolk of egg into saucepan, add brown
sugar, ﬂour, water, fat, salt, and vanila.
Sit over ﬁre until it thickens and comes
to boiling point. Pour into baked pie
shell. Beat up White of egg, then beat
powdered sugar into it. Spread on top
of pie and brown lightly in oven. Sufﬁc-
ient for one pie.

 

Bran Gems—Va cupful bran, 2 table-
spoonfuls fat, 1 tablespoon whole wheat
ﬂour, 1,5 cupful white ﬂour, 1,6 cupful
milk, 1 saltspoonful salt, 1 egg. 2 table-
spoonfuls molasses and 1 teaspoonful
baking powder. Mix fat thoroughly with
molasses, add egg well beaten, milk, salt,
bran, ﬂours, and baking powder. Divide
into well greased gem pans, and bake in
hot oven from eight to ten minutes.
These gems are excellent for constipation.
Sufﬁcient for eight gems.

 

 

The Runner’s Bible
(Copyright by Houghton Miﬂlin 00.)

Then shalt thou see and be lightened,
and thine heart shall tremble and be en-
larged: because the abundance of the sea.
shall be turned unto thee, the wealth of
the nations shall come unto thee. Isa.
(30:5. (E. R. V.) ‘

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even/thin ' _‘ , else, an ‘
hard fer’gvhtaever. will bring it.‘ You as
a Christian believe that it comes ‘only
through" spiritual understanding, and you
will live your profession if you are a
true Christian. The world will want none
of your faith if you go around morose or
sad, or with a sour countenance. On the
other hand a wonderful way to magnify
God in the eyes of men is to radiate from
your face the sunlight of His love.

 

HOMESPUN YARN

The deliciously spicy syrup of sugar

and vinegar left from the spiced pears
and pickles is worth saving for that
mincemeat you will be making soon.

Finely chopped apples, served with
powdered sugar, a dash of lemon juice,
and cream, make a good dessert change
from pie during the apple season.

Aunt Ada’s Axioms: Thrift may be
carried too far; it is better to put in a
water system now for mother than to
give her a ﬁne tomibstone a little later.

If you have to 'buy a bread box, try
one that opens from the side. They are
more convenient to use and easier to keep
zlean then those that open from the top.

Metal towel racks attached to the lower
part of a kitchen shelf are convenient
for hanging small tea towels or equip~
ment, and on the back of a, closet door
they- make an excellent shoe rack.

Saddle soap is good for cleaning the
children’s shoes.

Getting the children off to school is
easier on the whole family if their things
are in order the night before.

Aunt Ada’s Axioms: They say modern
boys and girls use home mainly as a
place to get ready to go somewhere else,
but they eat there most of the time,
table talk gives the best chance to set
high standards.

AIDS TO- GOOD DRE§SING

BE SURE AND SEND IN YOUR SIZE

4921.
“morning" ress. Percale of Seersucker,
kind. . 0 Width at the foot .is 214 yards,
mature ﬁgure. The Pattern is cut in
measure, A '
contrasting material, 1,5 yard

4883.

Siz. :
is require .

A Simple Apron Model.—-—Checked
ﬂmall, Medium, Large and Extra Inrge.

A Pleasing House Dress Style.—-Comfort
d gingham or
with plaits extended.

0

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.moh Size requires .5 dyards of 36

. in h m
This is also a good style for cretonne, nnbleechgd ﬁndslin

A Medium size

and good lines are expressed in this charming
wool crepe would be good for a dress of tlllS
This is a. ﬁne model for women of
_ , , _ , 44, , and 50 inches bust
inch material. If collar and cuffs are made of
is here shown with binding of white linen.
and-percale. The Pattern is cut-in 4 Sizes:
requires 2 yards of 36 inch material.

A Practical Undergarment.——Cotton or silk crepe, initiate, radium silk or crepe de chine may be

4982.
used for this style. The arment is in ste )-1n
The Pattern is out in 4 gizee: S 11, 3 -
hehes bust measure. A I» ma 4 56

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bloomers may be of th

style, with
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long vest

drawers.
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portions an circular
. 46-48

42—44 ; Extra Large.

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eeping” Garme_nt.——-Thi

4911. A comfortable
fbr little ones who

[‘8'
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cloth may b
2 cut in 6 Sizes: 2

material.

4821 .

Boy.—Jereey, ﬂannel,

The Pattern is
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4692.
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Overalls of ﬂannel,
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6 _year size requires 2%

A Popular Suit Style for the Small
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cut‘in 4 sizes: 2, 3. 4 and
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inch material if made with long sleeves.
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12,

4879. A Very Attractive Dress for the Grow-
ing mph—Checked gingham and linene numbers

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Little brook why do you go

To join the brimming river, '

Why don't you stop and play with In.
And not go on forever?

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But you really seem so small;
I don't see how you manage

To turn a mill at all.

The brook wecnt merrily onward
To join the brimming river.
I know that it will always go
Forever and forever.
—-Pearl Barnes, Marne, Mich.

EAR Boys and Girls: -—How

many of you have read the
book ”Pollyanna"? I am sure that
most of you have, or have heard
about it, and you will recall how
Pollyanna always saw the bright
side of life, and kept very busy
doing something to make someone
happy. Many times I have thought
that the boys and girls who write to
our page should not be called cous-
ins, but deserve the right to be cal-
led Pollyannas, because they are
always so ready to write interesting
letters to the members of our circle
who are sick or injured.

Here is another opportunity to
help someone. I have a letter from
Albert Smith of Alabaster, Box 12,
Michigan, in which he states that he
is lying in bed with a broken leg,
he is lonesome and wishes some of
the cousins would write to him. He
states that his hair is black, he has
blue eyes, and is five feet nine
inches tall. As to his age he states
he is between seventeen and twenty-
one and the one who guesses his age
correctly will receive a pound box
of candy from him. Now you will
be sure and write to Albert, won’t
you?—UNCLE NED.

 

OUR BOYS AND GIBIS

Dear Uncle Ned:—How are all the
cousins and you too, Uncle Ned? I am
not very well, I have asthma I have
had it ever since I was a little baby.
I have been wanting to write to you and
the cousins before but just didn’t get
around to it and this morning I will. I
just love to read The Children's Hour.
I will tell you what my greatest sports
are Uncle Ned. It is riding my Shetland
pony and playing ball and sliding down
hill. Well I guess I had better describe
myself like the other cousins do. 1 am 4
feet 6 inches tall, have red hair (which
is bobbed), Weigh 50 pounds and am 11
years old. I am in the fourth grade at
schooL Please excuse my awful writing
because I can not write very good. I
will give the cousins something different
to guess. What kind of a house do I
live in? I have just come from practic—
ing my music lesson. I haven’t taken
very long. \Vell I will close for fear Mr.
Waste Basket gets hungry all at once.
Will please some of the boys and girls
write to me. Your want-to-be niece.—
Iola Rae Walton, Rosebush, Mich., R3,
Box 89.

Dear Uncle Nedz—Please let me call
you Uncle Ned. I know you will. I am
almost an orphan, so please be my Uncle.
My mother has been sick since June 2nd.
She had rheumatism in her limbs and I
have to do all the housework. I am 13
years old and have brown hair (bobbed
of course) and I would have been in the
ninth grade if I would have attended
school. Mamma went to the hospital
and stayed two weeks and I stayed home
and kept house for daddy. Someone has
knocked attbedoorsolmuststop. I
love the contest and I hope you have
a drawing contest—Celia Densteadt,
Bates. Mich, Box 88.

Dear Uncle Ned:——May I join your
merry circle? I am 4 feet 4 inches tall,
weigh 53 pounds, am between 6 and 10
years and the one guessing my correct
age will receive a long letter from one.
I am in the third grade at school. We
live on a Bil-acre farm, 1 mile from town
and we own a 120—acre farm'lvj miles
from town. I walk to school. We have
9 head of cows and 4 head of horses and
7 little pigs. For pets I have two little
kittens about 4 months old. I hope Mr.
Waste Basket doesn’t get my letter. I
have 1 brother living, 1 sister and 1
brother dead. Well I will close. Your
want—to—be niece.—Linnie McElhenie, R1,
Fremont, Indiana. '

Dear Uncle Ned:——I am another cousin
who would like to join your merry circle.
“0 you object to this Uncle Ned? I bet
you are wondering who I am by now. I
have written you once before but I did
not see it in print. I bet anything it
struck the waste paper basket. Didn’t
it Uncle Ned? But I hope you will not
disappoint me this time. I will describe
myself. I have a light complexion.
brown eyes, brown hair (bobbed of
course), weigh 112 pounds and am 5 feet
l5 inches tall and my age is between 14
and 18 years of age. I wonder if any-
onecanguesstberight age? Try“.
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receive a long letter. I live on an 80-
acre farm and have 3 miles to walk to
school. Daddy has taken the M. B. F.
for 8 years and thinks it is fine I think
I had better close and leave room for the
other Cousins. Hoping that the boys and
girls will write to me and I will try and
answer all of them. Good luck to all of
you. Yo ur want-to—be niece—Lillian
Breen, Clare, Michigan, R7.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am going to bother
you again if I may. How do you like
this kind of weather, Uncle Ned and
cousins? I think it is ﬁne. I got ﬁve
letters and was real glad to get them.
Write some more cousins. I like to get
letters. The contest that just ended in
The M. B. F. I did not try but my Mend
and schoolmate got first prize. Uncle
Ned, I wish you had seen her when she
got it. Marguerite is my chum in school.
I was to Detroit last summer and I had
just a fine time. When we came home
we passed through Mt. Clemens and I
would like to have stopped but we had
to be in Imlay City by 10:30 A. M. All
the cousins that have been to Den-cit
please write to me and tell me of the good
time you had there and I will certainly
try my best to answer each one. I will
close with love to Uncle Ned and cousins.
Your niece—Miss Esther Caister.

-—How can the cousins write to you, Es-
ther, when you do not give us your ad-
dress. That's a good joke on you.

Fnclg£ubec Spinach Sans:

Dear Uncle Ned:—Reading so many in-
teresting letters from the boys and girls
I thought I would try my luck and see
if I could escape the waste paper basket.
I have just been wishing I had someone
to write to, so I would like to have some
of the boys and girls write to me from
sixteen years old and up. I’ll answer
all letters received. I'll give a description
of myself. I am five feet six inches tall,
chestnut colored hair, brown eyes, weigh
about 120 pounds and have bobbed hair,
but not the shingle style, I don’t like it.
I came to Michigan from Colorado ﬁve
years ago, and have lived on a farm
ever since. I help my dad do all the
farm work. I like to work out of doors
if the work isn't too hard. I milked as
high as nine cows and separated the milk
myself. When at home I milk every
night and morning, but at present am
going to high school and am in the tenth

grade, a sophomore, and like it very well,

I take English, Algebra 2, Civics 2, An-
cient History, Penmanship and Spelling.
My average the last six weeks was B
or 96. Well I don’t know how many
boys and girls will agree with me but I
like it better in the country than in the
city. I wonder if I have a twin? If so
I would like to have him or her write to
me. Age 17, October 19th. If I hear
from some of the boys and girls I’ll
probably write again and tell about the
west and my trip. Hoping to hear from
some of you soon with best wishes to all.
—-Miss Mary E. Kruley, Boon, Mich, R1.

 

 

 

 

WHAT “TILL THE HARVEST BE?

OW that ’lection is past an' gone

an’ we know jest who we’ve

got to blame for everything
that happens for the next 4 years—
everything from marriage to in-
growin’ toe-nails, from crop failure
to stunted pigs,-—we can lay down
an' rest in peace—or pieces, jest as
we see fit.

Anyway, the country is safe for
another 4 or 3 years an’ we ain‘t
got anything to worry us no more—
‘ceptin' maybe how to make a livin'
or pay our debts or some little trif-
ilin' matter like that.

An’ so folks I'm jest goin’ right
on jest as I have in the past, eatin'
3 meals a day when I can git 'em.
less when 3 ain't available. I’ve
never worried much 'bout it ’canse
I've thought all the time the coun-
try was reasonably safe anyway.

You see I've never believed that
it wasn’t safe with a hundred and
ten or fifteen million men and wo-
men to keep if safe. Somehow I
never could make myself think for
a minnit that the safety of this
great nation —of ours depended on
anyone man or woman. I don't be—
lieve it now any more’n I ever be-
lieved it. But it’s prob’ly jest as
safe now as it was before ’lection—
mebbe business is better and has a
little better chance. Business always
has a better chance when farmers
has any kind of a chance atal, an’
jest now things are lookin’ at little
better for farmers—mot so good as
as they should look but better than
for sometime past.

Of course farmers don’t need
much, an' to tell the honest truth
they ain't been gettin’ much—jest
crawlin' along—victim of every
shark an' grafter in the country—
goin’ their honest way and depend-
in' on providence to keep 'em out of

the poor house an’ givin’ their child-
ren a chance to grow up and. be
honest too. For the last 3 or 4
years I guess not many farmers has
made plans for their boys and girls
to follow the business of farmin',
least ways it ain’t appeared that
way to me.

But now folks, friends, things
look a little mite better don‘t they?
Prices are better an’ crops are fair-
b’ good. An' then another thing that
makes me think ’at mebbe 'lection
went all right is the fact of the nice
weather we‘re havin and the splen-
did rains that have cometer so
long a time, we got the rain an’ you
know they come after an‘ not before
'lection! Mebbe if ’lection had gone
Democratic, or “Laf—a-lot" had been
’lected mebbe it wouldn't never
rained again an’ mebbe this world
would’a burned up an’ all of us
might’a been baked hams or some-
thin’ with nobody left to eat us an’
we might’a been entirely wasted.

But now you see it’s different—-
we’ve got all the old timers——the
political ﬂesh-eaters—the vampires
an’ blood suckers still with us and
jest Pres’dent Cal Coolidge an’ a
few others to keep ’em off'n us. So
I sez to myself an' to you, lets
stand up for our Pres’dent, help
him in every way we can. Stand for
our own rights, ﬁght for ’em if we
have to an’ most of all let us stand
together. In onions there is
strength—also in union. United
Farmers Alliance to control the
business of farming, membership in
Business Farmer Protective Service
Bureau, the Farm Bureau, Grange,
Farmers Clubs or anything that
unites fame , are goin’ to help
keep the she s from eatin’ you an'
will sure hel solve many of your
hard probl s.——Cordially yours,
UNCLE RUBE.

 

 

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more. Quite a while since you’ve heard
from me, but I’m still living. and doing
ﬁne. I have been working away, 8 miles
from home and 3 miles from a small town,
called Levering, since June 5th. New
haven’t I kept my job good? The lady
I‘m working for teaches my home school
and drives back and forth night and
morning. She takes her oldest girl (age
6) with her and the yomgest girl (age
4) stays with he and the two boys go to
their own school. I like it here very
well. It is the ﬁrst place I ever worked
out, but I go ahead with nearly all the
work. Maybe I'd better give my former
address, or the cousins won’t remember
me. It used to be: Pellston, Mich., R1,
Box 84. Now, do you remember me? If
so lets shake hands and be chums. The
last time I wrote, which was over a year
ago, I received 27 letters and am still
corresponding with some of them. It is
raining to-night quite hard. The ﬁrst
rain we‘ve had here in a long time.
Maybe I'd better give a description of
myself to those who don’t remember me.
I am 5 feet 5 inches tall, weigh 124
pounds, have dark brown, bobbed hair,
brown eyes and am 16 years old. The
people here do not take the M. B. F. and
oh, how I miss it! But I get over home
every two or three Weeks and never fail
to read the last issue. If the boys and
girls care to write to me I will enjoy all
their letters and will do my best at an-
swering them. So now here goes me for
bed. Good night and sweet dreams to
all. A friend to alt—Miss Ruby E.
Fletcher, Levering, Mich., care of Ed. W.
Hartung, R1, Box 9.

 

Dear Uncle Ned:——May I join your
merry circle? My father takes the M. B.
F. and likes it very much. I like to read
the letters that the boys and girls write
to Uncle Ned. I think I will describe my-
self to you. My birthday is in January
and I am eleven years old. I am in the
sixth grade at school. I never had my
hair long yet. I am about 3% feet tall.
I am a farmer girl. I live on a 100-
acre farm. We raise cows, horses, pig's,
sheep, ducks and chickens. Well I think
I will close or Uncle Ned will get tired
of my scribbling. Goody—by. Your want—
to—be niece—Hilda Fedewa, Westphalia,
Michigan, Star Route, Box 146.

P, S.——I would be pleased very much
if any of the boys and girls would write
a letter to me and I would surely an-
swer it.

 

An Unwelcome Death

There once lived a happy family,
They lived in a peculiar place;
One day there came a heavy rain
And washed their home away.

The father sat a brooding,

O’er his little brood

For mother dear, had been taken wiﬂi
fear,

And left the family wooing.

And now these little Sparrows,

As the family was known to he,

Are living in a Woodpecker-’5 nest

In the hollow of an old oak tree.
———Kathryn Paul, Waucedah, Mich.

A FEW RIDDLES

Few children think they will ever tire of
playing games; but all the same, towards
the end of a long evening, spent merrily
in dancing and playing, the little one.
begin to get two weary to play any longer,
and it is very difficult to keep them
amused.

Then comes the time for riddles! The
children may sit quietly around the room.
resting after their ramps and laughter,
and yet be kept thoroughly interested.
trying to guess riddles.

It is however, very difﬁcult to remem-
ber a number of good and laughable ones.
so we will give a list of some, which will
be quite sufficient to puzzle a roomful at
little folks for several hours.

Why are weary people like carriage-
wheels‘b—«Answer: Because they are
tired.

An old woman in a red cloak was pass—
ing a field in which a goat was feeding.
What strange transformation suddenly
took place?———Ans'wer: The goat turned
to butter (butt her), and the woman into
a scarlet runner.

Why does a duck go into the water?—
Answer: For divers reasons.

Spell “blind pig” in two letters? P G:
a pig without an 1.

Which bird can lift the heaviest
weights?—-—The crane.

Why is a wise man like a pin?——-He
has a head and com :3 to a point.

Why is a Jew in a fever like a dia-
mond?—Beca‘use he is a Jew-ill.

Why do many carpenters reasonably be—
lieve there is no such thing as a stone?
Because they never saw it.

What is that which is put on the table
and cut, but never eaten?»—-A pack of
cards.

Why does a sculptor die horribly?—-Be-
cause he makes faces and busts.

When does a farmer double up a sheep
without hurting it?—When he folds it.

What lives upon its own substance and
dies when it has devoured itself‘l—A
candle. _ I

Why is a dog biting his tail 9. good
ma'iager?—Becanse he makes both did.
meet.

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In cdggh t\(ilhite space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally

The answer to this puzzle will appear in the next issue. Also. we will have another puzzle.

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VER sixty-ﬁve million Christmas
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this year. They have been dis-
tributed to the men, women and
children of Michigan by the Michi-
gan Tuberculosis AssociatiOn and its
many county branches. The seals
Were printed by the Naional Tuber—
culosis Association, of which all
state associations are members.
There were 1,250,000,000 Christ—
mas seals printed altogether. To
print that many seals requires a.
years’ time and planning. .
“The 1924 Christmas Seal Sale 18
the private citizen’s opportunity to
share in saving lives,” says Theo.

‘ J. Werle, secretary of the Michigan

Tuberculosis Association. “The
Christmas Tuberculosis Seal is the
sole ﬁnancial support of the work in
Michigan. It costs a penny. Who
can say what it is worth?
“Christmas seals have paid for
Free Chest Clinics; they have main-
tained summer camps for under-
weight children who are ready vic—
tims of the tuberculosis germ; they
have paid for the distribution of
thousands of pieces of literature
bearing facts not generally known
to the average citizen, but common
knowledge to the tuberculosis work-
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covers Michigan with the driver-
lecturer who helps in the education
of Michigan people as to the dan-
gers of tuberculosis with health
movies and printed matter.

“Christmas seals support 14 full
time executive secretaries
Modern Health Crusade director
who has carried the plan of daily
health chores to thousands of boys
and girls in Michigan schools.
These boys and girls are learning
health habits so thoroughly that
these habits become a part of their
after life."

“Rural people often imagine they
are practically immune to the ravages
of tuberculosis, because they live in
the puriﬁed country air,” says Miss
Laura Bauch, R. N., state director of
clinics for the Michigan Tuberculosis
Association.

“We have found that a large per-
centage of our applicants at Free
Chest come from the farms. It is
not always convenient for country
people to submit themselves to phys—
icians for a physical examination. A
bad cold or other illness leaves them
in such aweakened condition that
they become victims of active tuber—
culosis, as 98 per cent of the adults
of this country are infected with the
germ of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis
infection can at any time turn into
the disease itself.

“Homes can be as poorly venti-
lated and tuberculosis patients as
careless of their habits in the coun-
try as anywhere. Many tuberculous
men, women and children are found
as we visit homes in preparation for
a clinic. These people visit our
clinics where our suspicions are
often con-ﬁrmed by the doctor’s ex-
amination.

Through the educational printed
matter, the Modern Health Crusade
and the Free Chest Clinic, the
Christmas Tuberculosis Seal helps
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breeding associations, agricultural colleges, farm bureaus
and progressive farmers in the important work of improv-
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Better cattle means better milk. Better milk means better
prices for the farmer.

TranSporting milk from the farms to the city has come
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to help increase this trafﬁc.

Recently a “Better Cattle Train” operated in cooperation
with New York State Department of Farms and Markets,
Breeders’ Associations, Farm Bureau, Grange, Dairy-
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portant dairy counties of the State, giving demonstrations
and lectures on the care and feeding of herds, and on
modern dairy methods. Similar trips are being planned
for other States served by our lines.

We recognize that working with the farmer helps to
make hurl prosperous, and we prosper only as the
communities we serve prosper.

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MICHIGAN HEADS HONOR ROLL
OF 800 POUND HERBS

NNUAL yield per cow is the

most vital factor in cost and

therefore proflt in milk and
cream production. Markets may
determine price but the cow owner
controls the costs. Lower costs in-
crease proﬁts or make a proﬁt at
lower selling prices.

Two thousand three hundred sev-
enty four members of Cow Test As-
sociations in twenty-eight states
were reported to the National Dairy
Association as eligible to the Honor
Roll of Herd owners whose herds
averaged 300 pounds of fat each
per year for each cow in the herd
and on yearly record in a Cow Test
Association.

Michigan leads with 386 herds
over the 300 pound mark, 38 of
these went over 400 pounds. -

Wisconsin follows with 365 herds
over the top, of which fourteen ex—
ceeded 400 pounds. Pennsylvania

comes next with 338 herds over 300 ,

pounds and 48 over 400 pounds.
Minnesota, 221 herds with 9 over
400 pounds. Ohio, 204 herds with
25 over 400 pounds and three over
500 pounds.

FEEDING RAW POTATOES TO
MILCH COWS

What is the food value of raw
potatoes when fed to milch cows?
Do they equal in food value, a mash
of ground oats and barley? What
can be done for a cow that loses her
milk before milking time?-—M. K.,
Stockbridge, Michigan.

OTATOES, according to Henry I

and Morrison’s Feeds & Feed—

ing contain 1-1 per cent digest—
ible protein and 17.1 per cent total
digestible nutrients. A mixture of
equal parts of barley and oats con-
tains 9.3 per cent digestible protein
and 74.9 per cent total digestible
nutrients. There is no close com-
parison between the feeding value
of potatoes and the mixture men-
tioned. Potatoes compare much
more closely with corn silage being
somewhat less valuable than good
corn silage for feeding dairy cows.
Not over 25 to 30 pounds of pota-
toes should be fed to a cow daily be-
cause of the danger of scouring the
cow and because cows that are fed
heavily on potatoes produce butter
fat which makes a salvy butter. Po-
tatoes should be out before feeding
by putting through a root cutter of
some sort to prevent the cow from
choking on the round potatoes.

A cow that leaks milk from her
udder usually cannot be treated
very satisfactorily. This is due to a
weakening of the sphincter muscle
that normally closes the lower end
of the teat. Collodion can be appli-
ed to the tip of the teat after milk-
ing and this usually stops the dif-
ﬁculty but sometimes causes sores
to form on the teat which may
cause infection worse than the or-
iginal trouble—J. E. Burnett, As-
sociate Professor of Dairy Husband-
ry, M. A. 0.

WITH THE COW TESTERS
CE MULLE'I'I‘, Cow Test-
er, has summarized the ﬁrst
year’s work of the Charlevolx
Cow Testing Association. Seven
herds averaged better than 300 lbs.
butterfat production per cow. Five
of the seven are Holstein herds, one
a Jersey and one a Guernsey. Art
Shepherd’s purebred and grade Hol-
stein herd was high in both butter-
fat and milk production for the as-
sociation. This herd averaged 433.9
lbs. fat. and 11749 lbs. milk. The
other Holstein herd owners are as
follows: Bert Elliott, Frank Shep-
ard, Frank Vehling, and Breezy
Point Farm. George Megglson had
second high herd in butterfat pro-
duction. His ﬂve purebred and
grade Jerseys averaged 395.9 lbs.
fat. Carl Stevens and D. Cowthers

owned the Guernsey herd. ..

Every September the Calhoun-
Battle Creek Cow Testing Associa-
tion has its annual meeting and de-
cides to carry on the work for an—
other testing year. Floyd Wonser,

00w Tester. has completed one ‘year,

and islcontinuing the testing work '

for the present season. One. of the
outstanding facts mentioned in his
annual summary is that "the Lake-
wood Dairy herd of 59 purebred
Holstein cows owned by the Battle

,Creek Sanitarium, averaged 374.6

lbs. butterfat and 11415 lbs. milk.
This is the high herd in both milk
and butterfat production for the
association year.

The high cow in butterfat produc-
tion was owned by R. J. Sackett. In
addition to the Lakewood herd
eight other herds in this association
averaged better than 300 pounds
butterfat production.» These were
owned by A. M. Johnson, 12 pure-
bred Holsteins; R. J. Sackett, 8
purebred Jerseys; Frank McDermid,
10 purebred Jerseys; Paul mapp, 22
grade Guernseys; Leo Vinita, 14
grade Guernseys; Don Backus. 11
grade Guernseys; Hollis Barker, 6
grade Guernseys; and T. V. Hicks.
16 purebred Guernseys.

 

The North Lapeer Association
has ﬁnished one year’s testing work.
Harold Holden, Cow Tester, sum-
marized the year’s work mentioning
that 186 cows averaged 305.5 lbs.
butterfat and 8243.7 lbs. milk. Nine
herds averaged more than 300 lbs.
butterfat. The high herd for the
entire association belonged to
George Chaplin. His seven grade
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and 8341 lbs. milk. Other high pro-
ducing herds were owned by Gar-
ﬁeld McNeil, Allen Brown, Lyle
Sharp, Seddon Bros, Arthur For-
rest. Ross McGuigan, Claud Sinclair
Charles Thomas and E. J. Rice. This
association is continuing the testing
{mi-k and Earl Copeland is the cow
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H. E. Frank, Cow Tester of the
North Eaton C. T. A., reports this
year that ten herds produced bet—
ter than 300 pounds butterfat while
the association summary in 1923
showed ﬁve herds produced above
300 pounds butterfat. Last year
323 cows averaged 264 lbs. butter—
fat, while this year 301 cows aver-
aged 275 lbs. butterfat. The high
herd showing the most economical
production was owned by H. W-
Burns. These four grade Guernsey:
owned by Mr. Burns averaged 394.5
lbs. fat and 8366 lbs. milk. Other
herds that averaged better than 300
lbs. fat production were owned by
John Chaplin, R. H. Burton, Filmer
Lundberg, G. S. McMuIlon, C. F.
Brunger, L. W. Cole, Clair Backus,
J. Pray, and Jesse Nythe. These
herds are all Holsteins—either
purebreds or grades.

 

A good cow should produce over 800
pounds of butterfat in one year.

No agricultural college has as yet an-
nounced whether it is worse to give good
feed to scrub cows, or to give scrub feed
to good cows.

Use of whole milk in the homes of
America has increased 12 gallons per
person per year in the last 3 years. and
use of butter has increased about a
pound per person per year. Wlw‘! Be-
cause they are both good foods and the
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Census of Agriculture Now Being Taken

 

 

 

  

By James L. Kraker

URING the months of December
and January, every farmer in
the United States will be visit-

ed by a fellow farmer who has been
appointed as a Census Enumerator
to take a complete agricultural cen-
sus as of January 1st, 1925. This
means that every farmer in Mich-
igan will be interviewed and 'you
should be ready to answer all the
questions on the schedule which ap-
plies to your farm when the enum-
eratoryisits you. With the cooper-
ation of the Post Ofﬁce Department
and its rural mail carriers, sample
schedules have already been distrib-
uted to every farm. If you have not
seen and studied yours a little, you
had better take it down from its
hiding place behind the clock some
evening, and be ready to answer the
questions when the enumerator
calls.

The last complete census of the
United States was taken in 1920,
and of course at that time a census
of Agriculture was compiled.‘ At
that time, our agriculture was in a
state of readjustment following the
war, and the ﬁgures obtained from
that census were far from accurate,
so far as giving a true picture of our
country’s agriculture. Not only that,
but the ﬁve years from 1920 to 1924
have so changed the aspect of our
national agriculture that the 1920
ﬁgures are practically useless now.
Hence the last session of Congress
authorized the Census Bureau of
the United States Department of
Commerce to take this special cen-
sus of Agriculture, to be taken as of
January lst, 1925. Only the agri-
culture of the country will be enum—
erated, the population and industri-
al ﬁgures that apply to the industry
as a whole, will not be tabulated
again until 1930.

‘For the purposes of administra—
tion, the state of Michigan has been
divided into six districts, with 3.
Supervisor of Census in charge of
each. This man is charged with the
collection of the data in his terri-
tory, and must appoint the ﬁeld
men who collect the information in
the several enumeration districts in
his supervisor’s district. For in-
stance, in the Second Michigan
District, which includes the north-
ern twenty-one counties of the low—
er peninsula, including all counties
north of and included in the tier of
counties with Manistee on the west,
and Iosco on the east, the supervis-
or must appoint ninety-two enum-
erators and each should live in the
territory he canvasses, and be en-
tirely familiar with township boun-
dries in his district. The supervis-
or must then see that these men are
properly instructed and supplied
with blanks and all ﬁeld supplies,
and he must have a continual check
on their work while they are in the
ﬁeld. The enumerators started to
take this Census on December 1st,
and must complete their territory
by January 31, 1925. The enumer-
ators are being paid on a piece
basis, so it is up to each man to
thoroly cover his district as quickly
as possible, so as to return to the
Supervisor’s ofﬁce as many sched-
ules as there are farms in his enum—
eration district. Thus insuring the
completeness and accuracy of the
census. If every farmer Will be
ready to answer the questions on
the schedule when the enumerator
appears, he will greatly aid the
United States government in collect-
ing this census. Of course, every
citizen knows that the laws of the

United States require him to answer.

all questions on the census sched—
ule. But it should also be remem-
bered that no supervisor of a town-
ship, or other assessing ofﬁcer is
eligible to act as a census enumer-

ator, so that the information on the

census is absolutely secret, and will
under no circumstances be used for
taxation purposes.

The schedule to be used is, of
course, uniform for the entire Unit-
ed States. Therefore there ane many
questions on it which will not ap-
ply to the state of Michigan. All of
the questions relate to the crop year
1924, and the livestock items are
takenas of January lst, 1925. The
status of every farm as to its owner-
ship, acreage, and the division of
this’ acreage: into own land, land un—

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ed for pasture, and other land, will
be taken for every farm. An im-
portant question in this section, and
one which may have a great bearing
when we begin to use crop insur-
ance, is the one relating to “land
from which no crop was harvested
in 1924 because of Crop Failure or
destruction of any cause”. The
schedule then takes up “Farm Val-
ues", “Farm Debts” and “Farm Ex—
penses” so as to give an idea of the
ﬁnancial status of agriculture. Two
questions which will be answered
more in Michigan than in many oth-
er regions of the United States are
those relating to “Cooperation in
Mark ting in 1924." Under “Farm
Facili ies” the government is asking
“Is ere a radio outﬁt on this
?”, the ﬁrst time radio has
included in a nationwide sur-

    

Then follows some 63 questions
relating to crops harvested in 1924,
which runs the whole gamut of. farm
orchard and forest products. Then
comes the live—stock section, the an-
swers to which will give us a full
census of farm animals and animal
products as of January 1st, 1925.
From the above statements, it
may be seen that Uncle Sam is try-
ing to ﬁnd out the exact condition
of Agriculture in the United States.
For the next ﬁve years this census
will be the basis of all estimates of
crops and livestock products made
by the Department of Agriculture. It
will be the basis on which products
worth $10.000,000,000 a year are
sold. It will be the basis for many
plans for the improvement of agri-
cultural conditions. Therefore do
your part to make it accurate by
having the facts ready for your
enumerator when he calls.

VETERINARY
DEPARTMENT l

TROUBLE NOT DUE TO MILKING
MACHINE
I have been having'some trouble
with my cows by one quarter of the
udder swelling up and am not able
to get much milk from there and
what does come is matterated but it
only lasts for a couple of milkings.
I have a milking machine and
thought it might be caused by that.
—C. B., Sand Lake, Michigan.
HERE is no reason why the
milking machine should cause
the trouble if it is working
properly and is kept clean. Milkers
do sometimes cause mastitis when
they are allowed to become ﬁlthy.
The milker should be thoroughly
cleansed and sterilized at least once
every day. The common cause of
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ally gain entrance into the bag
through the teat canal.
A treatment that sometimes

works well is to strip the quarter
clean every hour for two or three
days. The stripping should be done
into a pail containing a strong dis-
infectant solution and thrown out in
a place to which cows have no ac-
cess. In the evening the affected
quarter may be massaged with
equal parts of camphorated oil and
soap liniment. The udder should
be protected against chill, bruises.
and soiling.—-—John P. Hutton, As—
:ochrof. of Surgery & Medicine, M.

CONDITION DLAY BE
TEMPORARY

I have a young mare, ﬁve years
old, apparently in good health, ex—
cept her period has run now nearly
two weeks and she does not seem
to be getting over it. I would appre-
ciate any information you can give
me.-—F‘. L., Lum, Michigan.

ARES sometimes remain in est-
M rum for a long period of time
when suffering from disease

of the ovaries. About the only
successful treatment for a condition
.of this kind is to perform a surgical
operation and remove the ovaries.
This operation should be performed
by an experienced veterinarian. This
condition in your mare may, how-
ever, be only a temporary one, and
she may become all rightdn a short

period of time—John JP. Hutton,
r. not: us.- Ame. m..oesm..ihueewm.

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WHITE MINOR/OAS NOT POPULAR
I am in search of information in
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have a list of several day-old chick
companies, but they do not mention
White Minorcas. What is wrong
with that breed of fowls, that they
are not advertised for sale by differ-
gillth bre’eders?—_E. B., Freeland,
c .

HE White Minorca is not a very
popular variety at this time,
due undoubtedly, to the fact it

is White skinned, and the American
people are partial to the yellow skin-
ned fowls. There are in the vicinity
of Holland and Grand Rapids one or
two very productive ﬂocks of White
Minorcas, but as a rule, this variety

is low in vitality, slow to mature,.

although they do lay a large chalk
White egg. From the standpoint of
commercial egg production, the
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to four cents per dozen below the
cost of eggs produced by White Min-
orca stock. More over, they mature
earlier, lay more heavily during the
winter months, and the cost of
maintenance is considerably lower.
These factors combined with the
fact that the Leghorn has a yellow
skin, and produces a. white shelled
egg, make it superior to the White
Minorca from a practical standpoint.
The White Minorca is not a meat
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the more popular heavy breeds, such
as the Rock, Red, or the Wyandotte.
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GREEN FOOD mu POULTRY
OME kind of green feed must be
given to poultry if one' is to
get winter eggs. How are you
going to fool the hen at this season
of the year so she will think it is
the good old summer time and lay
eggs even at 10 or 20 below zero?
One way is to give her out bone,
meat scraps, ﬁsh, or milk in place
of the fancy bugs and worms she
provides herself with in the season
when picking in the insect world is
good. Lengthening the short hours
of daylight by artiﬁcial lights in the
henhouse also help to delude the
simple-minded creature into think-
ing that summer is here and more
eggs are expected from her. But
neither animal food nor artiﬁcial
light will result in the highest egg
production if plenty of green feed
is not given the ﬂock. To obtain
the best results with poultry they
must be furnished a plentiful supply
of green feed. Where fowls have
unlimited range on a farm they will
secure green feed during the spring
and summerN but during the Winter
it should be supplied for them.

Best Feed at least Cost

The question of how to supply the
best feed at the least cost is one
that each poultry keeper must de—
cide largely for himself. It will
probably make little difference what
kind of green feed is supplied pro-
vided it is relished by the fowls.
Cabbages, turnips, beets, sprouted
oats, and the like are suitable for
this purpose.

The larger roots and the cabbages
may be suspended by a wire or
string, or they may be placed on the
ﬂoor, in which case it would be well
to split the turnips or beets length-
wise With a large knife. Potatoes
and turnips should be fed cooked.
The mangel is an excellent root for
feeding raw. Sprouted oats, clover
meal, and ground alfalfa make very
good feeds for this purpose.

Oats for sprouting are soaked ov-
ernight in warm water and then
spread out one inch thick on trays
having perforated bottoms and put
into an ,oat s-prouter. The oats are
watered thoroughly and should be
stirred daily until the sprouts are
well started. In cool weather arti-
ﬁcial heat should be supplied by the
use of a. kerosene lamp or by some
other means. Use a good grade of

oats, allow a square—inch of sprouted _
out surface per hen daily, and feed -

these sprouted oats on the hear of
the poultry house or in the yard.
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Rye is a good crop for late fall
and early spring, for it will germ-
inate and grow in very cold weather
and will live through the winter.
As a \ general thing, fowls should
haVe once a day about all the green
feed they will eat.

Clover Hay Economical ‘

Clover hay may‘be fed economic-
ally to laying hens and may be pre-
pared as‘ follows: Cut into as short

lengths as possible (one-fourth to. ‘

one—half inch) and place in a buc-
ket. Then pour boiling water over
it and allow to stand for two or
three hours or over night. When
ready to feed, drain of! the water
and mix the hay with the mash. The
hay may constitute about one-half
the bulk of the feed, altho the exact
proportion is immaterial. Clover
hay is best, but any kind is value-
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to give too much bulky feed, for the
hen having a small crop, cannot
make use of as large an amount of
it as the cow and other rueminants
can.

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On one ﬁeld of eleven acres,
wheat has been grewn continuously
every year for 81 years, and this in
spite of the fact that it is usually
considered impossible to raise wheat
in England for two successive years.
This eleven acre ﬁeld was divided

up into 19 plots and during this

long period of time each of these
plots has been receiving a soil treat-
ment slightly different - from
others, and careful records kept of
the yields. ‘
Continuous Wheat 81 Years

The highest producing plot, with
an average yield of 35 bushels of
wheat per acre every year for 81
consecutive years, received 618
pounds of mineral fertilizer, plus
86 pounds of nitrogen; Running a
close second to this spectacular re-
cord, .with an average yield of 34
bushels per acre, is another lot that
has received no other treatment
than 14 tons of barnyard manure
per acre. It would seem that the
land under such conditions would
become impossibly foul, and yet the
yearly yield is undeniable proof, and
the wheat on these two plots cer—
tainly looked good to us when we
were there in July.
well drained with tile.

On another ﬁeld of 8 acres, man—
golds, or mangels as we usually des-
ignate this turnip-like root, have
been grown continuously every year
for 81 years, and the ground still
produces as high as 27 tons of roots
per acre. Here again the value of
barnyard manure as a permanent
fertilizer is demonstrated although
its effectiveness varies with the
amount of lime in the soil.

The general method of investiga-
tion at Rothamsted seems to be to
start from the farm and work to the
laboratory, or vice versa, and the
two ends are never allowed to stray.
In the last few years the number of

ﬁeld experiments has been consid-‘

erably increased to deal with prob-
lems of present day importance as
they arise. The crop producing
pOWer of manure stored in various
ways and comparisons between
green manure, artiﬁcial manure,
such as rotted straw, sewags sludge
of various kinds, and town refuse
has been studied on both grain and
root crops for years.

Within the last decade or two,
numerous other farms in different
parts of England have been corre—
lated with the Rothamsted station
in experimental work and the clear—
ing house for all the results on these
farms is the statistical staff at Roth-
amsted.

These samples of English agricult-
ure, far removed as they were from
the plain. actual farming that we

were naturally interested in, made .

us all the more anxious to leave the
lights of London and get out into
the rural shires, where the mutton is
grown and where the wool is clipped.

How would we go? Some of the
party traveled on the little toy

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the "

The ﬁeld is

' highways.

trains to Leicester, Brighton, Win-.
chester, and other towns and got an
idea of the appearance of the farm—
ing country from the train windows.
Others hired autos and traveled on
a tailor-made schedule.

The Gray Goose

Four of us shopped around to-
gether and brought back. to our
hotel a light, used car of a make
popular in England as well as in
America, for 62 pounds, or about
$275.00. This was a 1922 model
touring car in good shape. It was
painted grey and Doctor Bereman
named it the Gray Goose on ﬁrst
sight.

I was appointed driver, which
was an honor and a recognition as
well as a perilous undertaking in
that land of left-hand driving. All
the trafﬁc keeps to the left side of
the street in England where driving
would be difﬁcult enough anyway,
with the narrow, crooked streets all
cluttered up with inevitable monu-
ments. Perhaps that is one reason
why autoists in the congested, com-
plicated tangle of London’s streets
escape with so few accidents. Mon-
uments to the dead on every hand
probabily are as efﬁcient caution
signs as the millions of safety slog~
ans and trafﬁc warnings in our own
Of course, we have not
lost so many lives in wars as Eng—
land has in her centuries of conquest
and therefore it would be more dif—
ﬁcult for us to ﬁnd the same class
of subjects for our monuments, but
we lose so many more lives in auto
accidents that we would be able to
erect as many monuments as Eng-
land has, and have a few in every
congested street as potent warnings.
In spite of our wide streets and
square corners and trafﬁc rules and
caution signs, there are more auto
accidents in Chicago alone every
month than in all of England.

Right Side Is Wrong Side

The left-handed driving does not
bother as much as one would think,
and not nearly so much as the count-
less monuments that are so promis-
cuously strewed about. In the cities
one' naturally falls in with the traf—
ﬁc that is going in his direction, and
he can hardly get on the wrong side
of the streeet if he wants to. But
in the open country when one is
thinking of the hay meadows on the
other side of the hedge, and meets
another car, he ‘is liable to try to
pass on the right side of the road
which is the wrong side in England.

We headed the Gray Goose south
from London early one morning to
ward the famous Southdown country
and after miles of picturesque little
farms of all shapes, but all small,
and numbers of cities and towns
gradually getting smaller and small-
er, We came into the real farming
districts of England, the southern—
shires.

Our observations amongthe real
farmers of England will be discuss—
ed in the next installment.

A Cooperative ‘Side Line

ITH keen competition some of

our cooperative farmer eleva-

tors have found it wise to in-
stall some side lines. These help
bear the overhead and leave the
elevator able to pay more for grain
than they could otherwise.

This elevator is located at Pember-
ville, Ohio, on two main roads. The
manager took advantage of the situ-
ation and put in a line of well

known tires, and a high grade
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Hogs Scarce and Prices Higher in 1925

Review of Conditions Shows Present Much Better Than Year Ago
By W. W. FOOTE, Market Editor.

0ST farmers will close the year
BI much more satisfactorily than
a year ago, and the general im-
provement in farming conditions has
been brought about through natural
means and not by legislation. The
country was favored with a good
crop of-wheat, as well as good yields
of cats and rye, and there was a
large foreign demand for our sur
plus supplies, with wheat and rye
especially wanted by Germany and
the Scandinavian countries. Prices
for all the grains ruled far higher
than in 1923, and proﬁts were ma-
terially increased, which is a matter
of much satisfaction to our Michigan
wheat farmers. Corn too had phe—
nominal rise in prices because of the
reduced crop which was brought
about by unusually late planting and
early frosts, resulting in a great deal
of soft corn. Farmers owning silos
Were able to utilize their low grade
corn, and such farmers are in a much
better position than those not hav-
ing any. The boom which has taken
place in corn has made a serious
change in the market for live stock,
and it has brought about one of the
most Sensational farm shipments of
hogs and pigs ever witnessed, invol-
ving a great break in prices, espec—
ially in underweights, as well as in
the many shipments of poorly ﬁn-
ished cattle. The stand taken by
stock feeders was that corn was too
high priced to feed to stock profit—
ably, but the stockmen with long ex-
perience take a different view and
their belief is that hogs will be
scarcer and much higher in 1925.
Some close observers maintain that
through the constant marketing of
hogs and cattle, millions of bushels
of corn are being saved and will be
shipped later in vast quantities at
lower prices. Potatoes, because of
the greatly increased crop, are sel-
ling at much lowered prices, bring-
ing in the Chicago market from 75
cents to $1.10 per 100 pounds. Cold
Weather has had the usual result of
curtailing the egg supply, and the
best lots are up to 59 cents a dozen,
with other grades selling at 31 to 55
cents. Decreasing butter produc-
tion has sent prices up to 40 to 50%
cents a pound for the choicer lines
of creamery. Apples are selling at
85 to $8 a barrel and spring chick-
ens at 22 cents a pound for live of-
ferings, dressed lots going at 23 to
24 cents. Taking a look forward, it
may be said that the safei course for
the farmers to follow is to devote
no more acres to crops than can be
taken good care of and to increase
the production per acre by manuring
and fertilizing. It is probable that
most Michigan farmers have learned
that if one crop fails to turn out
the lesson from experience of pro-
perly diversifying their crops, so
right, other crops may help to make
good the unprofitable one. Not many
farmers are investing in more land,
and moderate sized farms are becom-
ing more the fashion than ten years
ago. Many farmers are setting out
apple and peach orchards and the
cultivation of grapes, pears, plums,
cherries, etc., is increasing in many
parts of Michigan. It hardly needs
saying that farmers should aim to
so far as possible raise everything
they need on their own acres. It is
also highly important to keep up
with the times by buying improved
farm machinery in these times of
scarce and dear farm labor. Not
many farms are changing ownership
and this is a good time to buy land,
but not a good time to sell. Fewer
farm mortgages than usual are be-
ing made. .
Higher Prices for Wheat

What a wonderful change has ta-
ken place in the wheat trade during
One year ago sales
were made on the Chicago Board of
Trade for December delivery at
81.02% and naturally growars were
greatly disappointed. Recently sales
were made at $1.55, and similar ads
mess have taken place in the other

grains. For instance, December corn
has been selling around $1.13 com-
paring with 72 cents a year ago; and
yet corn sells far below the 'prices
paid shortly after harvest time.
The boom in rye has been startling,
rye for December delivery selling at
$1.35, comparing with 67%, cents a
year ago. Because of heavy early
marketing of the cats crop, this cer-
eal has advanced in price much less
than the others, late sales having
been made for December delivery at
53 cents, comparing with 43 cents a
year ago.

The big feature of the wheat trade
is the remarkably large demand for
wheat and ﬂour, as well as rye, for

shipment to European importing
countries. During a recent week Eu-
ropean countries took 5,000,000

bushels or more of wheat, mainly
American, and upward of 2,000,000
bushels of rye. The movement of
wheat from farms from the ﬁrst of
July to the present time exceeds all
past records, and it is estimated that
the exports by December 31 will ap-
proximate 200,000,000 bushels, com-
paring with 156,000,000 bushels for
the corresponding period last year.
In all probability the primary move-
ment from now on will fall off, and
the carry over in the United States
promises to be unusually small. As
for corn, it may be said that May
corn has not sold for twenty—six
years as high in November as it did
this year. In twenty-one of the
twenty-six years the highest prices
were paid after November. Rye is in
a strong posnion, the greater part of
the crop having been exported.

“This year our wheat prices are
relatively the cheapest in the world,”
says S. C. Harris. “In the two
countries which are our greatest
competitors, Canada and the’ Argen-
tine, prices are well above our par-
ities. As a result, large sales of
United States wheat have been made
and are still being made for export
as far ahead as April. It is easy to
forsee a continuous drain on our sup-
plies in quantites whlch will far out—
strip last year’s clearances.”

Yearling Cattle Higher

There seems to be scarcely a limit
for fancy prices for prime yearling
steers, but the market during
Thanksgiving week was rerely’ex-
ceptional, as quite a number of extra

choice baby beeves especially pre—
pared for the International Live
Stock Exposition were sold at a big
premium over all other offerings in
the Chicago stock yards. These cat-
tle sold at the highest prices of the
year, and other fat cattle of light
and handy weights also brought ex—
tremely high prices, but as hereto-
fore, heavy steers had to go at a big
discount. There was the customary
large showing of grassy and short
fed cattle, and they sold at compara-
tively low prices. As usual, fat
yearling heifers sold extremely well.
Stockers and feeders sold at an ex-
tremely wide spread in prices, sales
extending from $3.75. to $7.50,
largely at $5 to $6.50. For the year
to late date the combined receipts of
cattle in twenty markets amounted
to 13,222,000 head, comparing with
13,387,000 one year ago and ’12,—
934,000 two years ago. On the
Whole, cattle prices ccmpare well
with average years. Lots of bar—
gains are offered in the Chicago mar-
ket in stock and feeder cattle, and it
seems rather surprising that so few
are being shipped into feeding dist-
ricts. The reduced weight of the
cattle moving to market is indicated
by the fact that during recent weeks
the Chicago receipts averaged 90
pounds less than a year ago, while
receipts in Omaha for the year have
averaged around 75 pounds lighter
in weight than last year. The Chi—
cago market was as active as could
be expected during Thanksgiving
week, the bulk of the beef steers
selling at $8.50 to $11.50, while the
choicest yearlings, including those
intended for the fat stock show, sold
at‘ $13 to $14. The best long fed
heavy steers sold at $19.25 to $12,
and no good steers were bought be-
low $9.25. Common light steers
brought $6 to $7, and butcher cows
and heifers sold for $3.40 to $12,
while canner and cutter cows sold
at $2 to $3.35, bulls at $3 to $6 and
calves at $5 to $9.75. A year ago
beef steers sold at $5.75 to 12.65.
The Hog Outlook

Stock feeders have been in much
too great a hurry to get their hogs
to market, the panic lasting many
weeks, and in that time enormous
numbers of pigs and underweights
have been sacriﬁced, such consign—
ments selling at extremely large dis—
counts frum prices paid for well
matured butcher weights. At times
prices have declined in a day as much
as 50 cents for light weights, while
pigs declined in the same time as
much as $1. On a recent day the
best heavy hogs sold for $9.40 per

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Detroit Chicago Detroit Detroit
Dec. 8 Ba). 3 NOV. 19 1 yr, ago

WHEAT—

No. 2 Red $1.61 $1.54 $1.63 31.10%

No. 2 White 1.62 1.64

No. 2 Mixed 1.61 1.54 1.63 1.10%
CORN—

No. 3 Yellow 1.21 1.10@ 1.16 1.19 .81

No. 4 Yellow 1-06@ 1.15 .76
OATD—

No. 2 White .55 1,4 -54 @ .55 .54 K .49 1,4

ho. 3 White .54 a; .50@ 51 .53 95 .47 lg
RYE-—

Cash No. 2 1.29 1.32 1.31 .73
BEANS—

C. H. P. th. 5.10@5.15 6.00 5.25@5.30 4.75@4.80
PO’i‘ATOE. —-

Per th. .93 ~70@.80 .93 1.10 @ l .20
HA1—

No. 1 Tim. 18@ 19 22@24 18@19 23.50@

No. 2Tim. 16@ 17 18@21 16@ 17 19@2o

No. 1 Clover l5@18 17 @21 15@ 16 21 @22

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Wednesday, December 3.—Heavy selling lowers wheat prices.

Corn and oats

steady. Rye easy. Bean market inactive. Cattle steady. Hogs active and higher.

 

-‘ Detroit. Chicago and Home Wednesday Live Stock Hark.“ Next Page.

100 pounds, while a drove of 1500
pigs which averaged 116 pounds
brought $5.44. For the year to late
date the combined receipts in twenty
markets for the year amount to 37,-
123,000 hogs, comparing-1 with 38,-
511,000 one year ago and 30,800,000
for the corresponding period two
years ago. Hogs have-had an en01~
mous fall in prices from the high
time of the present year, yet they
are far higher than at this time in
recent years, the unusually large pur-
chases of light hogs in the Chicago
market to ship to eastern packing
points being the most important
strengthening factor. A year ago
hogs were selling in the Chicago mar-
ket at $5.75 to $6.90, two years ago
at $7.35 to $8.30, three years ago
at $6 to $7.10 and four years ago at
$9.25 to $10.65. Recent Chicago
receiptsof hogs averaged in weight
226 pounds, being three pounds
lighter than a week earlier and eight
pounds less than a year ago. Not
until the mad rush to get hogs mar-
keted is over is the expected rise in
prices probable. Owners who hang
on to their underwengths and have
sufﬁcient feed need not worry about
the future. Late sales were made of
hogs at $8.50 to $9 60, comparing
with $7 to $9.55 a week earlier.
Active Trade in Lambs

Most of the time lambs are in
great demand in the Chicago market
at very high prices, and the same
is true of fat ﬂocks of yearlings,
ewes and wethers, while nowhere
near enough breeding ewes and
western feeder lambs are marketed
to meet the demand. Meager re—
ceipts during Thanksgiving week
caused another boom in prices, with
killing lambs selling at $11.50 to
$14.85. $15, show lambs selling at
the top.

 

“'HEAT

The wheat market is quiet and
steady and prices closed last Satur-
day at the highest point of the sea-
son. The grain seems to be pretty
well established at the high level.
There is much speculation as to
whether prices will go much higher
in the near future or not, but there
are few who think they will decline
to an extent. It seems that the for-
eigners have about all the wheat they
need right at the present time, and
while they continue to buy a little
they quit the minute prices start up-
ward, so the bulls are experiencing
considerable difﬁculty in trying to
advance prices. Those who have ex-
amined the foreign situation very
closely are talking higher prices be-
cause the needs of Europe are so
large that estimated surplus of other
countries will not be enough to meet
their demands, and is expected that
the shortage will become acute in a
month or so. Many of the bulls be-
lieve that these foreign countries
Will be willing to pay a much higher
price if necessary in order to get the
grain.

 

CORN
The corn market is a little slow
and at Detroit prices declined from
one to three cents last week. This
is a temporary slump it is believed,
and prices are expected to go higher
in the near future.

 

OATS 4
Oats followed the trend of corn
and as a result there was little do-
ing in this market.

 

RYE

Foreigners seem to have all the
rye they want at the present time
and the market is quiet. Dealers
do not believe that the European
buyers are going to stay out of the
market long, but will be back again
in the near future and will perhaps
boost prices to higher level.

 

BEANS

Buyers do not seem to be inter-
ested in beans and the market is dull
at this time. There appears to be
a determined effort on the part of
certain interests to depress the mar-
ket but conservative dealers do not
anticipate any decided change in
prices for. several weeks. 'It' is re-
ported that there are large stocks

 

 

 

 


 

in elevators and bears are using this
in an attempt to “break” the mar-
ket without much success. If the
farmer controls his marketing he can
determine to~a large extent the trend
of the market and the price he is to
receive. The past fall has been warm
and consumption has not increased,
but with winter setting in in earnest
we look for an early improvement
in demand.

Reports come to us daily that
many of the elevators in the state
are not taking seriously the plan to
advertise Michigan beans and are
not contributing their share to the
fund. Farmers, have you asked
your local elevator man what he in-
tends to do in this matter? Talk it
over with him and then let us know
what he had to say. Something must
be done and it is up to the elevator
men to do their share. Many of them
are anxious to do all they can be-
cause they realize their success de—

ends on the farmers' prosperity,
ile others seem to be out to “kill
the goose that lays the golden egg.”
Let's ﬁnd out who these “killers”
are.

POTATOES
Potatoes have not been selling
very well but it is expected that
weather will help the market con-
siderable. Receipts have been large.

HAY
Receipts have been moderate with
demand good for the best grades of
all kinds but barely steady for the
under grades.

BOSTON \VOOL llIAI’tKET

The wool market continues to be
strong and a fairly good business is
in progress. Prices quoted last Sat-
urday were somewhat nominal, due
to the continually changing condi—
tions of the market. Some lots may
have sold at a slightly higher ﬁgure
for a large weight. However both
dealers and manufacturers were a
little more cautious last week, as
they were desirous of seeing condi-
tions more stabilized than for prices

 

 

 

Week of December 7
PURTS of rain, sleet and snow at
very beginning of this week will
be immediately followed by a
sudden change to colder in Michigan.

These low temperatures will con-
tinue with more or less intensity
through the middle part of the week
and probably until Thursday or Fri-
day.

Near the end of the week another
storm center will be approaching
this state. It will cause a marked
rise in temperature followed by
storms of rain or snow of more than
moderate intensity. Added to these
conditions will be high winds for a
day or so.

\Veek of December 14

Storminess of last week will run
into ﬁrst part of this with rain or
snow and high winds. A change
will take place about Tuesday.

Following this storminese the bar-
ometer will‘begin to rise and the
temperature fall. The sky will clear
up and then will follow a few days of
fair weather or such as is experi-
enced in Michigan'during the winter
season.

There will be a renewed stormi-
ness during the last two days of this
week but of a much milder form
than the previous period except for
local centers. Temperatures at end
of week will be mostly above the sea-
sonal normal.

Partly White Christmas

But for the fact that the temper-
atures in Michigan are expected to
rise moderately high for the season
about the 24th or 25th when snow
already‘ on the ground might melt
away, we could say this year will
have a white Christmas throughout
the state. As it is, we are of the

opinion that sections where the pre- '

vious snowfall has been light will be
more or less free of the white man-
tle. In some parts of Michigan there
is a possibility that some snow will
fall just before Christmas day.

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to advance .too rapidly. Strictly
choice domestic wools, both ﬂeece
and tel'ritory, have continued activeI
in about all lines. While business on
the goods market is still unsatis-
factory, there is an optimistic tone
among the trade.

THE LIVESTOCK MARKETS

DETROIT, Dec. 3.—Cattle—-Receipts,
213; Market, good grades strong, others
slow. Good to choice yearlings, dry fed,
$9.50@10.75; best heavy steers, dry fed,
$7.50@9.50; best handy weight butcher
steers, $6037; mixed steers and heifers,
$5@5.75: handy light butchers, $4.25@5;
light butchers, $3@4; best cows, $4.25@
5; butcher cows, $3.25@4.25: common
cows, 52.50603; canners, 82@2.50;
choice light, bulls, $3.75@4; heavy bulls,
$4.25@4.50; stock bulls, $3@4; feeders,
$4.50@6; stockers, $3@5.50; milkers
and stringers, $45@70.

Veal calves—Receipts, 602; market
steady. Best, $12@12.50 ; others, $5@11.50.

Sheep and lambs—Receipts, 3,635; mar-
ket 50c higher. Best lambs. $15©15.25;
fair lambs, $11@13.75; light to common
lambs, $8@9.75; fair to good sheep, $6@
7.50; culls and common, 32.5064; buck
lambs, $7@14.

Hogs—Receipts, 3,356. Market pros-
pects: Mixed hogs, 89.35@9.50.

CHICAGO.— H o g s —Receipts, 68,000
head; market 10 to 20c up. Bulk, $9.50
@980; top, $9.90; heavyweight, $9.10@
9.50; medium weight, $8.40@9.45; light
Weight, 870060850; light lights, $5.75@
7.50; heavy packing sows, smooth, $8.65
(08.90; packing sows, rough, $8.90@9.20;
pigs. $7@7.50. .

Cattle—Rcccipts. 17,000 head; market
steady to strong. Calves, $20. Beef steers:
Choice and prime, 510601150; medium
and good, $8.50@9.50; good and choice,
$12@13.75; common and medium, $7@
950. Butcher cattle. Hcifers, $5@10.50;
cows, $3.50@7; bulls, $3.50@6. Canners
and cutters: Cows and heifers, $2.25@
$4.50; canner steers. $5@$7.50. Veal
calves (light and handyweight). $8@
$10.25. Feeder steers, $5.50@8. Stocker
steers, $5@7.50: Stocker cows and heifers,
$3615.50. Stocker calves, $5@7.50. West—
ern range cattle: Beef steers, $6@9; cows
and heifers, $3@6.50.

Sheep—Receipts, 21,000 head; market
strong. Lambs: Fat,~ $15@15.25; culls
and common, $9.50@11.50; wethers, 88@
9.60; yearlings, $10@12; ewes, $7.75@
8.50; culls and common, $2@4; breeding
ewes, $6.50@12; feeder lambs 813.500
14.50. _

BUFFALO.—-Cattle—Recelptl. 750
head; market slow. Prime steeﬂ. $9.10
@950; shipping steers, $9@9.50: butcher,
grades, "@925; heifers, $5@8; cows.
$1.75@5.25; bulls, $3@5.25; feeders. 84.50
06.50; milk cows and stringers, $25@
120.

Calves—Receipts. 700 head; market
steady. Cull to Choice, 83@12. -

Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, 500 head;
market active. Choice lambs, $14@14.25;
cull to fair $8@13; yearlings, $7@11;
sheep, $3639.

Hogs—~Receipts, 8,000 head; market
steady. Yorkers, $650639; pigs, $6696.50;
mixed, $875699; heavy, $9.25@9.50;
roughs, $7@7.75; stags, $4@6.

MISCELLA NEOUS MARKET
QUOTATIONS

Detroit, “’cdnesday, December 3.

BUTTER N0. 1 creamery, in tubs, 37
@44 c per lb.

EGGS—Fresh receipts, 50@54c; cold
storage, 351/3@38c; coast whites, 54@
64¢ per doz.

APPLES—Wolf River, $1.50@1.75;
Greenings, $2; McIntosh, $1.75@2; Snow,
$1.75@2.25; Jonathan, $2.25@2.50 per bu:
western boxes, $2.25@2.50.

CABBAGE—7ﬁc@$l per bu.

RABBITS—Live, 5 lbs 20@21c per lb.

DRESSED CALVES—-Best c o u n t r y
dressed, 14@15c per lb; ordinary grades,
11@12c; small poor, 9@10c; heavy
rough calves, 8@90; city dressed, 16@
17c per lb.

ONIONS—Large, $2.25; small, $1.75 per
100—lh. sack; Spanish, $2@2.25 per crate.

DRESSED POULTRY—In barrels of
200 lbs: Dry picked turkeys, 36@ioc;
scalded geese, 25@28c; scalded ducks.
30@320; scalded chickens, 28@34c per lb.

LIVE POULTRY-4pring chickens,
fancy, 4% lbs. 22@23c; medium chickens.
21@220; leghoms, 180; best hens. 5 lbs.
up, 23c; medium hens, 20@220; leghorns
and small, 15c; old roosters, 160; geese,
18@19c; ducks, large white, 21c; small
dark, 19@200; best turkeys, 300 per lb;
No. 2 turkeys, 250; old toms, 25@260.

HARLEY—Melting, 98c; feeding. 93c.

BUCKWHEAT—Milling, $2.25@2.30 per
cwt.

SEEDS—Prime red clover, $19.35;
March, $13.55; alsike, $12.90; timothy,
$3.20. -

FEED—Bran, $32; standard middlings.
$34; ﬁne middlings, $39; cracked corn,
$50; coarse cornmeal, $46; chop, $37 per
ton In car lots.

“THE HOME COW DOCTOR"

A book that is of interest to every
farmer owning cows is published for the
Dairy Association Company of Lyndon—
ville, Vt.. and given free by that company
to any reader of Tun Easiness Fannum
who will write them requesting a copy.
Their advertisement appears in this Issue
and when writing for a copy of. this book
please mention that you saw their ad in
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the January, 1925, issue.

American Magazine ............ $2.50
American Boy . ................... 2.00
American Poultry Advocate 1.00
American Fruit Grower .75
American Needlewoman .75
Better Farming .................. .75
Boy’s Magazine 1.00
Christian Herald 1.75
Collier’s Weekly ........ . ..... 1.75
Gentlewoman .75
Good Stories ............. . .......... .75
Home Folks .75
Home Friend .................... .75
Hunting & Fishing ........ 1.00
Illustrated Companion 1.00
Mother’s Home Life ..... ....... .75
McCalls Magazine ....... 1.00

Adrian Telegram ................ $4.25
Ann Arbor Times News ...... 3.50
Albion Evening Record ...... 3.50
Battle Creek Enquirer News 4.50
Bay City Times-Tribune 4.50
Detroit Free Press ........ 4.50
Detroit News ........... 4.50
Detroit Times

 

 

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Below we have listed the most popular monthly and weekly
magazines at about one-half the usual rates in order to
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Pick out your favorite magazines and send in your club at
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These special reduced prices
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Price quoted in each instance includes one year subscrip-
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MICHIGAN DAILIES AND BUSINESS FARMER

(Orders for dailies accepted from R. F. D. readers only)

Mode Priscilla ........ ...... 2.00
National Sportman . .......... 1.25
People‘s Popular Monthly .. .75
Pathﬁnder ........................ 1.00
People’s Home Journal ......
Pictorial Review ...........
Physical Culture ...... ..... .
Today’s Housewife
True Story

\Voma‘n’s World ....................
Woman’s Home Companion. 1.75
Youth's Companion 2.50
Success Magazine ................ 2.00
Outlook

Scientiﬁc American

Base Ball Magazine ............
Scribner’s Magazine ............
Forest and Stream

Flint Journal

Grand Rapids Press ...... . .....
Grand Rapids Herald .......... 4.?
Jackson Citizen Patriot ...... 4.50
Jackson News 4.50
Lansing State Journal ........ 4.50
Owosso Argus Press ............ 4.00
Port Huron Times Herald 4.50
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(Establlshod 1909)
‘21th Ave... South. Mlnneapolls, Mlnn.

To Early
FRE
Buyers

Our monthly bulletins on feed-
ing, housing, culling, and rarc of
poultry. Send name, address.
No obligation.

RURAL POULTRY FARM
Box 660, Zeeland, Mich.

Get Acquainted Offer

., 1 apple tree, 25 Dewberry plants,
g m vt‘rufeii, 1 package single Ilollyhocks, $245
about 100 seeds. allior .......................... '
Concord grape vim-s for $1.00, post paid.
Guaranteed to please you.
MARSHALL'S VINEYARD
Paw Paw, Michigan.

HIGHEST QUALITY CHICKS

From culled and tested flocks. 10' varieties.
Catalog free. For large proﬁts on broilers order
from ﬁrst hatches. $4.00 oi! on advance orders.
LAWRENCE HATCHERY. Grand Rapids. Mlch.

 

 

 

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Y 0 U R ANNUAL OPPORTUNITY. FOR
quick disposal we offer sslesmen's samples of
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lined coals, mackinaws. lather vests, etc, at one-
third to one—half less than _regular prices. Our
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BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM FOR-

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WANTED—GIRL FOR GENERAL HOUSE
work, a permanent posnion good home, good
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MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR. care of Michigan Bus-
iness Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

 

WANTED COUNTY DISTRIBUTORS FOR
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FARM LANDS

 

80 ACRE FARM, FOR SALE—FINE SOIL.
good basement buildings, new furnace, lights in
house and ham, all buildings just painted.
$125.00 an acre. Stock and tools if desired.
HENRY SASKA, R1, Owosso. Michigan.

F 0 R 8 A L E—20 ACRES, 12 ACRES
cleared, R :Icrcs woods. F- miles from Allenn.
Mich. JOHN M. SIMMONS. Romeo, Michigan.

 

 

 

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As. a 'Junior 4 . old won 2nd .State
Prize 1." both 7 day and 30 day divuions,
producing in 7 days 653 lbs. of milk and
30.70 lbs. butter; in 30 days. 2779.9 lbs.
milk and 124% lbs. butter.

30-32 YEARLING SON

Have yearling son of this cow sired by a
32 1b. bull that can be bou ht on similar
terms. Also several young heifers and cows
coming fresh for sale. Come and see or
write quick. Herd fully accredlted.

Wah-Be-Me-Me Farms
White Pigeon, Mich.
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