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HE‘ 32nd annual meeting of Mich-
igan State Association of Farm-
ers’ Clubs was held; in the Sen-

ate Chamber, Capitol Building, Elan-
sing, on December 2nd and 3rd and
was attended by the usual number of
delegates.

The forenoon of the 2nd was spent
in presenting credentials, paying
dues and registering. The afternoon
session was called to. order by the
acting president, S. J». Skinner, of
Belding and the ﬁrst number on the
program was a solo by Mrs. Clarence
Bolander of Howell. A reading was
then given by Mrs. Florence Trum-
ble of Pottervil'le who gave some
very pleasing readings during the
meetings.

The report of the association was
given and in this Mrs. Johnson ap-
pealed to the members to set a goal
and work to make it, this being the
only way that success would come to
anything, that during the war every-
thing had been done to further the
work of the Association and it. was
the hope.that in the coming year
much more would; be done.

The subject for the afternoon was
under the leadership of M. S. Pitt—
man, director of rural education of
the Michigan State Normal College
and E. J. Lederle, Commissioner of
Schools of Oakland County.

Mr. Pittman told of the two kinds
of education, the ﬁrst a source of
which the society of our land has lit-
tle control as the child may be the
son of a farmer, a blacksmith, or
whatever occupation the parents may
have; the second the training of the
child in our schools by trained tench—
ers, to advance the better education
of our children.

Mr. Lederle spoke of the time
when the county school commission—
er would not be a political factor but
would be chosen according to ability
and considered this a most import—
ant item in solving some of the prob-
lems.

Miss Sara Brodebeck, Executive
secretary of Grzitiot county, of the
Michigan Tuberculosis Association,
was unable to be present and the
session adjourned to meet at the
ﬁrst Baptist Church for the, ban-
quet at 6:00 o’clock.

Sixty at Banquet

The banquet for the evening was
served to about 60 persons and was
a. most delightful affair. Music was
furnished by Walter Tobias and Mrs.
Clarence Bolander of Howell, who
sang in a most pleasing manner for
the delegates. This with readings by
Mrs. Trumble gave spice to the
ocassion.

The acting president Mr. S. J.
Skinner of Belding gave an address
and in his remarks urged the farmer
to not begrudge the little fee that
he was paying for membership in
the organization but sighted that the
organization of teachers of our state
were paying man" times the amount
that the association members were
paying and would willingly pay more
if necessary to carry on the work of
their organization. Mr. Skinner
thought this the trouble with the
farmer. he expected a great deal and
wished to pay very little.

The main address of the evening
was given by President Voclker, if
()livet College and he spoke on the
subject of “Education of the Heart
Rather than Education of the Brain.”
He appealed to the parents to edu-
cate the heart in childhood not to ex—
pect the education to be all given
by the teacher when the child entered
school. He spoke of the case of
Leopold and Loch, that theirs was
education of the brain and not of
the heart.

The session of the 3rd was opened
with several selections by the In-
dustrial School band and showed the
work done in this school for the boys
sent there for our different localities,
and showed~that training was all
that was needed to bring there boys
to a high point of efﬁciency.

Dr. Kenyon Butterﬂeld, President
of M. A. 0., gave an address on the
subject “The Relation of the Farmer
and M. A. 0.”

“Problems of farming have chang-
ed in recent years from those of
production to those of marketing,"
Dr. Butterﬁeld declared. “We ask
today, what is the market, What do
the people want that do not produce,
how to get it to them the cheapest

way. There is a new economic
standpoint that must: be considered.
You must cater to the market, rec-
ognize competition with other parts
of the country and with the world.
Previously the attention was given
to what could be done with: the land
—production. Now the scouts of ag-
riculture are in the market, and
think in terms of the consumer. This
is resulting in an increasing growth
of cooperative facilities.”

Mr. Butterﬁeld in closing asked
for. the farmer to get in better touch
with the college as it was here that
their problems would be worked out
to the best of the ability of the: col-
legs.

The afternoon session of the 3rd
was opened with music from M. A.
C. and the topic of the afternoon,
“Farm Organization and the Country
Boy and Girl” was taken up by Mrs.
Dora Stockman, Lecturer of Michi-
gan State Grange.

Mrs. Stockman in her discourse
said. there must be community center
idea and. there must be the county
church. That the young people to-
day were no worse that the young
people of the past only that their op-

portunities were greater and it was~

less tempting for them to do wrong
than it was for those of today. There
are 2 million between the ages of 14
and 18 that are not in high school
and the children brought up on the
farm are not taught that it is a
worth-while job. Interest must go
up not; down and these children must
be taught that the making of money
is not all of life. We must have
orderly production and orderly mark-
eting if we make the most of agri-
culture. We must make the market
but not to so high that we must make
our standard of living higher. We
must all prosper together—no group
must prosper alone.

Noon Talks

Mr. Noon, President of Michigan
State Farm Bureau, then gave a ﬁne
address on “Farm Organization prob~
lems and Some Solutions”. Mr.
Noon stated that the solutions of all
farm problems must be fought out
in groups. No group must be servant
to the other. He also stated that
every great orgar“ ation existing put
forth every effor that was in their
power to have Legislation passed that
would help them and; plead with the
farmers to look out for themselves.
To be organized in groups and de-
mand all possible in every way of our
representative. We must stick to
our cooperative organizations.

The meeting closed with readings
by Mr. Trumble.

The oﬂicers elected for the coming
year were as follows: President, S. J.
Skinner, Belding; Vice-President,
Wm. S. Kellogg, Lansing; Sec-Tress,
Mrs- I. R. Johnson, Rushton; Direc—
tors, Mrs. C. B. Cook, Owosso, Law-
rence Ward, St. Johns.

The following committees were ap-
pointed: National Affairs—J. N. Mc-
Bride, Mrs. S. R. Holmes, F. G.
Beardsley. State Affairs—Edgar
Burk, Lawrence Ward, G. A. Mills—
paugh. Legislative Federated—.1. N.
McBride, Edgar Burk, Lee Noble.
Auditing Mrs. Clarence Bolander,
Mrs. M. T. Wilkinson, Bryon Bliz-
zard. Credentials—Mrs. I. R. John-
son, Frank Geiger, Mrs. L. R. Hyde.
Beardsley, Edgar Burk, Mrs. I. R.
Johnson, J. N. McBride and Law-
rence Ward.

Mr. Edgar Burk was elected to act

 

on the Board of the Anti4Saloon‘

League for the Association. The
names of C. B. Cook of Owosso and
W. A. Cutler of Grass Lake were
added to the list of honorary mem-
bars.

0. E. BRADFUTE REnELECTED
PRESIDENT OF A.‘F. B. F.

ORTY-NINE voting directors re—
presentiing 35 state Farm Bur-
eau Federations assembled in

convention in Chicago, Illinois, De-
cember 10, 1924, and re-elected O. E.
Bradfute, of Xenia, Ohio, as presi-
dent of the American Farm Bureau
Federation.

Edw. A. O’Neal, of Montgomery.
Alabama, president of the Alabama
Farm Bureau Federation and for the
past three years executive committee-
man in the American Farm Bureau
Federation, was elected vice-presi-
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MiChigan Mall is “Hay King” at Internationa

In Hay, Soft Red Winter Wheat, Oats, Field Beans, Soy Beans and Rye Classes Farmers

the International Grain and

Hay Show at Chicago on Dec-
ember fourth, he paused as he was
being showu around by Superinten-
dent G. 1. Christie of Perdue, Indiana
to see the best peck of oats and wheat
and the best ten ears of corn in the
show. He saw here the very best
quality of grain produced this past
year and many other samples which,
although not sweepstakes winners,
were indeed a credit to their growers.

The exhibits by the various agri—
cultural colleges were by far the best
of any year. Usually each exhibit
developed but one idea and in many
instances experiments by the colleges
were used to show the why of the
recommendations,

Michigan, Iowa and Indiana each
had a corn exhibit. Michigan showed
how corn was being used in rations
for livestock and different adapted
var“- L' <. liﬁl‘tliy the result of the
breeding Work at the experiment
station.

Iowa showed how soft corn put in
a properly ventilated crib kept all
right while with poor ventilation it
moulded and decayed.

The Indiana exhibit showed on one
side, the result of breeding corn to
get a pure line and the rest of their
exhibit was feeding corn to hogs.

After four years of selfing and the
elimination of diseased and, unpro-
ductive seed, the “pure lines” were
crossed. The result was that ten
consecutive hills of a cross yielded
ten ears almost identical. Their uni—
formity in cob, kernel and ear type
was almost unbelievable. There
was a great variation between the
different crosses, but each one it-
self contained corn ears about as
"like as two peas".

As a result of four years tests,
they found in Indiana that hogs on
corn alone required 638 pounds of
feed to produce 100 pounds of pork
while if soy beans, minerals and a1-
falfa or clover pasture were added,
it required but 351 pounds of feed
and the pasture. With hogs selling
for $9 and corn, $1 per bushel, the
ﬁrst lot lost $2.30 per hundred
pounds while the soy bean—mineral
fed hogs showed a proﬁt of $2.42 per
hundred pounds gain.

Wisconsin had an exhibit showing
the need and value of more alfalfa
hay in the eastern half of the United
States. Illinois had an exhibit on
soy beans. They illustrated the in-
creased acreage of soy beans and
showed the yields of seed of several
different varieties.

These wall displays by the various
colleges each taught a lesson of
general interest to all farmers and
of particular interest to those farm-
ers living in that region.

The competitive exhibits of grains
and hay were of that excellent qual-
ity which characterizes the Inter-
national. Samples were received in
greater number than in any previous
year and in many instances the
judges paused for a considerable
time to determine which was the
better of two samples.

Michigan farmers have reason to
feel proud of their achievements
this year. In the Hay, Soft Red
Winter Wheat, Oats, Field Beans,
Soy Beans and Rye classes an en-
viable record was made.

Our showing» in the corn classes
was far from being all that could
be desired. The past season ap-
parently placed Michigan farmers
under too much of a handicap.

Soft Red Winter Wheat

There was a. lot of competition in
the Soft Red Winter Wheat class
which in open to all United States
and Canada. '

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from Michigan Make Fine Record
By D. F. RAINEY

Extension Specialist in Farm Crops, M. A. C.

Practically all of the wheat grown
in Michigan except our white vari-
eties are of this class. It includes
such old standard varieties as Shcp-
erd's Prefection, Nigger, Poole. and
the Red Rock which was developed
and given to Michigan farmers by
the late Professor Spragg.

There were 78 exhibits made in
this class of which 30 were from this
state. There were 30 premiums to
be awarded and Michigan farmers
took the ﬁrst eight. In fact they
took all except the ninth of the first
16 premiums.

The ﬁrst place award went to C.
D. Finkbciner of Saline, Washtcnaw
county, Whose Red Rock wheat has
always won prizes for him where-
evcr exhibited. Mr. Finkbeincr is a
veteran Wheat grower and has been
growing Red Rock wheat under in-
spection by the l\'lichi::an Crop Im-
provement Association for many
years.

It was not a walkaway, however,
for there was but little difference
betWeen the first three samplcs. Mr.
Finkbeiner’s wheat wcighcd 62.1
pounds per l)u.; Mr. John Wilk of
St. Louis took second place with an
exhibit of Red Rock weighing (il.5
pounds per bushel; while A. W.
Jewett, Jr., of Mason rcccivcd third
award on a sample weighing 62
pounds per bushel. a.

These ﬁrst three samples were
outstanding as compared to the rest
of the exhibits in this class. Color,
plumpness, hardness, were excellent,
and the average man would be un-
able to detect the difference between
them.

Of the ﬁrst 16 awards made, all
were Red Rock except Mr. Jewett's
sample which was a Mediterranean
wheat. The ninth winning sample
was from New York state but Red
Rock wheat just the same. .

This class offered $240 in pre-
miums; $185 will be received by
the farmers of Michigan.

Rye

This class open to all United
States and Canada had 61 entries—-
Michigan growers submitting 19. In
general, the quality of the rye ex-
hibits was not all that one would
expect. While the top of the class
had excellent quality, it rapidly di-

Many International

HE Twenty—Fifth International
Live Stock Exposition at Chica-
go this year was better than ever

before, those,who attended declared.
Last year it was thought the entries
were as near perfect as it was poss-
ible to breed, but the stock this year
passed that of a year ago, both in
number and quality.

As usual, our Michigan Agricul-
tural College was there with some of
the ﬁnest animals ever exhibited at
Chicago and they “brought home the
bacon”. The various breeds exhibit-
ed by the College included: Aber-
deen-Angus cattle; Hampshire, Ox-
ford, Cotswold, Rambouilette sheep;
Poland China, Duroc-Jersey, Hamp-
shire, Berkshire, Tamworth, York-
shire swine; Perchéron and Belgian
horses. And the college won awards
on each breed.

“Wm. E. Scripps of Orion was an-
other successful Michigan contest-
ant, winning prizes With his entries
of Angus cattle and Belgian horses.
Woodcote Farm, Ionia, won several
prizes on their Angus cattle, and ﬁn-
ished ahead of Mr. Scripps’| entries on

minished as one looked down the

.placings.

George and Louis Hutzler, living
on the South Manitou Island about
six miles off the coast of Lelanaw
county, Michigan, again receiVed
ﬁrst award on their Rosen rye. This
makes the third year that they have
accomplished this feat. Possibly
they have it a little easier in main—
taining the purity of their rye be-
cause of its isolation and, of greater
importance, no other variety of rye
is grown on the island.

Their sample weighed 57.4 pounds
per bushel, plump, free from dis-
ease or cracked kernels but its out—
standing quality was uniformity.

l<‘icld Bcans

The ﬁeld bean class was an open
class and contained samples from
many western states and Canada.

There were but ﬁve awards to be
be made, yet there were 49 samples
of beans sent in. None of the large
bcans had a chance against the high
quality whitc pea beans in this class.
The class contained red and white
kidneys, largo whites, and navies.
The winning samples were all navy
poa beans.

J. A. Wilk, of Alma, rccoivcd first
prize. Michigan farmers took the
first four of the ﬁve awards in this
class.

Soy lit-ans

Although the acreage of soy beans
in Michigan is not large, yet we have
the quality as is attested by the
fact that farmers of this state took
the first thrcc and all but three of
the tcn premiums, on ycllow or
greenish yellow soys in chion 2.
The principal vnrietics in this class
were Manchu and Ito San.

J. A. Wilk, of Alma, who won
ﬁrst in field beans also won first in
soy beans with his sample of Manchu
soys. Mr. Wilk, by selection, seems
to have gotten away from the brown
hilum. Most samples of Manchus
have both brown and black hilums.

Corn

As a state, Michigan corn samples
were of comparatively poor quality
and but few premiums Were won.
Mr. W. A., Wortley , of Rushton
Washtenaw county, took second
with a large smooth sample of Pick-
ett. We made 27 entries in the Ten
Ears Yellow Dent, Region 2, class

Prizes to Michigan

two or three occasions. In the P01-
led Shorthorn class L. C. Kelly and
Son, of Plymouth, proved that Mich-
igan could produce some champion
Shorthorns. Another breeder from
Michigan to win on Shorthorns was
the Gotfredson Land Company, Ypsi-
lanti.

Honors in the Chester W'hite swine
class coming to Michigan were divid-
ed between Crandall’s Prize Stock,
Cass City, and Andy Adams, Litch-
ﬁeld, and Adams proved he could
produce more than one breed of prize
winners by winning heavily in Tan-
worth barrows.

In the Belgian horse class the
Owosso Sugar Company, of Owosso,
was a heavy bidder for honors and
won several prizes.

Competition this year was very
strong, and the choice of the land
was there, but Michigan breeders did
not have to take a back seat for any
of them. The live stock breeders and
grain farmers, working together,
proved to the world that Michigan is
about the best, if not the best, state
in the Union.

and eleven of these got in the
money.

In the Single Ear Class, Region
2, Michigan placed but two samples
—Ted Wilk, Forest Hill, taking sec-
ond and L. H. Laylin, Mason, taking
thirteenth place out of the ﬁfteen
awards.

Our most dependable exhibitors
had too poor a crop from which to
select their corn. We hope for I.
better season and a more successful
showing with corn next year.

Hay

Michigan farmers made an ex-
cellent showing in this class, which
was an open class, by taking all the
ﬁrst and seconds offered on Alfalfa
hay, Clover hay, Mixcd hay, Timo-
thy hay, Prairie or any other hay.

Not only this, but they took all
the other places too, except one
third, one fourth and two ﬁfth pre-
miums.

A. W. Jewett, Jr., of Mason, Mich—
igan took Sweepstakes over all bales
of hay with his alfalfa. This is the
third consocutive year that Mr. Jew-
ett, has won Sweepstakes honors in
the hay classes.

This halo of alfalfa was made
from second cutting. It had retain-
cd its green color excellently. was
leafy, ﬁnc stemmed, free from grass
and stubble. It was out after be-
ginning to bloom. .

It is nm-cssziry to speak about Mr.
.Icwctt’s halo of red clover hay bea-
cziusc of its wondcri‘ul green color
instcad of the brownish green so
commonly secn. Because of its col-
or. it was many times mistaken for
a halo of alfalfa. so you know it
must have had a mighty good color.

The first prize mixed hay bale was
not far from an equal mixture of
clchr and timothy.

In this class called “Prairie or
Any Other Hay”, all prizes were
awarded to bales of soy bean bay.
The Prairie hay did not have a
chance against this high protein
f(\t>tl.

Below is given a list of Michigan
prize winners in the classes of great—
est interest to readers.

10 Ears Ycllow Dent, Corn, Region 2.

2nd, \V. A. “'ortlcy, Rushton; 7th. A.
chctt, Jr., Mason; 8th, ()rii Iloopingar-
ncr, Bronson; 9th, Milo Robinson, Union
City; 10th, L. ll. inylin. Mason; 11th,
John (T. \Vilk, St. Louis; 13th. Fred
Schilling, Coldwatcr; lSih, L. T. Lasenby,
Mason; 19th. I. C. Moody, Forest Hill;
let, J. A. Wilk, Alma; 23rd, D. V. Bow,
Saginaw, IV. S.

10 Ears “'liite Dent, Region 2.

10th. A. Id. Hilliard; 20th, R. F. Jewett;
Elst, L. II. Laylin; 22nd, A. W. Jewett,
Jr.; all of Mason.

Single Ear Corn, Region 2.

2nd, Tod J. Wilk, Forest Hill; 13th..
L. H. Laylin, Mason.

IO Ears Junior Corn, Region 2.

1st, Lynn Wortley, Rushton; 2nd. Clair
Wortley, Rushton; 3rd, Harold Goetg
Blissﬁeld.

Flint Corn, Region 2.

lst, R. F. Jewett, Mason; 2nd, A. W.
Jewett, Jr., Mason; 3rd, L. H. Laylin.
Mason; 5th, A. E. Hilliard, Mason; 6111:.
L. ’l‘. Lascnby, Mason; 9th, Lynn Jewell,
Leslie; 13th, John C. Wilk, St. Louis;
14th, L C. Moody, Forest Hill; 15th, J. A.
Wilk, Alma.

Soft Red “'intcr Wheat

1st, C. I). Finkbeincr, Clinton; 2nd.
John C. Wilk, St. Louis; 3rd, A. W.
Jewett, Jr., Mason; 4111, Lynn Jewell,
Leslie; 5th, L. T. Lascnby, Mason; 6th.
A. J. Lutz, Saline; 7th, Warren Fink-
bciner, Clinton; 8th, R. F. Jewett, Mason;
10th, L. H. Laylin, Mason; 11th, Harry
M. Martin, Clinton; 12th. J. A. Wilk.
Alma; 13th, Ted J. Wilk, Forest Hill:
14th, A. E. Hilliard, Mason; 15th, Ralph
Arbogast, Union City; 16th, Sebastian
Finkbeiner, Saline; 19h. Everett Lindsley.
Saline; 20th, Fred Mohrhardt, Saline:
let, Charles Konnot, Ewen; 22nd, Frank
L. Houghton, Alto; 23rd, David E. Han-
son, Berlin.

Hurd Red Winter Wheat
25th, John C. Wilk, St. Louisv
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Dr. Kenyon L. Butterﬁeld, president
of the M. A. C.

SHALL never forget the ﬁrst time

I had the pleasure and privilege

of meeting Dr. Kenyon L. Butter—
ﬁeld, the new president of our Mich—
igan Agricultural College. I had been
an admirer of his writings for years
and had even heard him speak, but
had never had any more intimate
contact with this great leader of
agricultural thought, but to meet
Dr. Butterﬁeld personally is to deep-
en and enhance any hero worship
which one might previously have en-
joyed.

I remember thinking, as he ad-
vanced towards me, that there was
no evidence of the ,pompous attitude
which is sometimes associated with
college professors. 011 the contrary,
his manner was most simple and (lir-
ect. As he grasped my hand with a
real maseuline handclasp his search—
ing eyes seemed to be looking
scrutiny of a man looking for hidden
faults or weaknesses. He seemed
rather to be looking for the best
and his glance did not fill me with
fear but rather with a vague aspir—
ation that I might be worthy of the
man who was offering me his hand
in greeting and friendship.

Had I- been skilled in character
analysis I suppose I could have read
much in his expressive countenance
and vigorous manner, but as it was
I was only conscious that he gave
every evidence of being unusually in—
telligent and forceful and a man who
would inspire conﬁdence because of
his qualities of sincerity and genuine
ability of leadership.

From Pioneer Stock

It is not by mere accident or
chance that President Kenyon L.
Butterﬁeld possesses this rare com—
bination of qualities. His was a
very fortunate parentage. Dr. But-
terﬁeld came from a line of pioneer
agricultural leaders. His grand—
father was a member of the legisla—
ture and of the committee that pro-
vide for the establishing of the
Michigan Agricultural College.
Then later, his father was a farmer
and Kenyon L. Butterﬂeld was raised
in an environment of both the best
and hardest of Michigan agricultural
life as could well be found, and the
rugged simplicity which Dr. Butter—
ﬂeld inherited from this ancestry is
characteristic of him even today des-
pite the multiplicity of duties which
crowd upon his time and attention as
an educator, author, editor, public
speaker and leader in all movements
for the betterment of rural life.

In talking to Dr. Butterﬁeld one
day this summer he told me that he
found it difﬁcult to get as much time
for exercise as he would like, but
confessed that few days before when
he had been dOWn to Lansing addres-
sing some meeting, that he had stol—
en an hour or two to travel on foot
the distance of some three or four
miles from Lansing back to his work
at the College. Other men might
have preferred playing golf but to
a person of Dr. Butterﬁeld’s type

  
   
    
  
  
  
  
 
   
   
   
     
    
  
  
  
  
 
 
     
    
   
  
    
    
   
   
     
  
     
 
  
 
    
  
    
   
  
  
    
  
   
   
 
    
     
  
    
  
  
 
  
   
   
  
  
  
  
 
 
  
    
   
  
 
   
     
    
   
 

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offer superior attractions.

By his vigorous efforts Dr. Butter-
ﬁeld laid Well/the foundations for the
life ofpgreejtusefulness and leader-
ship which has been his. As a per-
son who has held a lifelong interest
in rural problems, it was but natural
that young Butterﬁeld should have
“determined upon his graduation from
high school to attend the Michigan
~Ag’riculﬁtural College. We are told

   
  
  

 

 

 

 

 I Meet Pres. 'Butterfiel”

'9

_ A Word Picture of Michigan Agricultural College Head

that there was a great deal of rug-
gedness about his college experience.
Anyway he had to drop out one year
and work because his funds were low
but of course, he went back and fin—
ished. None of his friends could
think that he would not. ,

In the early days of his student
life he began to display the qualities
of leadership which have marked his
varied career. Professor W. J. Beale,

the “grand old man of M. A. C.”

related shortly before his death that
he picked Kenyon L. Butterﬁeld for
a future college president when Ken—

yon was a sophomore at M. A. C._

As a student, he was editor of his
college paper, president of the Y. M.
C. A., winner of two oratical contests,
Commencement orator and head of
his class, and yet, his early friends
declare that he never once seemed
to have thought that some brilliant

By STANLEY M. POWELL

(Lansing Correspondent of
THE BUSINESS FARMER.)

of the Michigan Agricultural College
from Which he had graduated thirty-
three years before. ‘

His welcome upon returning to his
native state was most happy and
unanimous. As the months passrhe
seems to be carving an ever larger
place in the hearts of all those with
whom .he comes in contact. He is
more popular With the. students of
M. A. C. than any man who has held
a similar position for many years.
The alumni have conﬁdence in him.
He has established a friendly con-
tact with them. Upon aSSuming his
new duties he responded to a request
from the alumni for a statement with

' an open letter to them which con-

 

 

EVERY farmer in Michgan is interested, or should be, in the Michi-
gan Agricultural College, at East Lansing, and what it'is doing

to help the farming business.

It is in the hands of the president

of such an institution to direct its activities and determine its policies
to a large extent so it behooves the ofﬁcials of the, board of agricult-
ure to choose a man to head the institution that will work along the
right lines. Michigan is very fortunate in having Dr. Kenyon L. But-
terﬂeld, a native born son, at the head of the 1‘1. A. C. and we believe
that under his direction the college will be of more value than. ever

to the farmers of our fair state.

 

 

career in the city called him away
from the pursuits of agriculture to
which he has remained true all his
life.
Rapid Rise Traced

Graduating from M. A. C. in 1891.
Mr. Butterﬁeld spent four years edit—
ing the Grange Visitor, and then be-
camelthe ﬁrst superintendent of Far—
mers‘ Institutes at M. A. 0., develop-
ing them into a state—wide system.
He started the ﬁrst publicity and
advertising work for the College, a
service which has grown into a most
important contact with the people of
the state. Following a year’s study
at the University of Michigan, he
taught there one year, leaving to
accept the presidency of the Rhode
Island Agricultural College in 1902
which he held until 1906 when he
was called to a similar position in
the Massachusetts Agricultural Col—
lege. Here he remained nearly eigh—
teen years until the call came for
him to return and become president

tained the following Signiﬁcant para—
graphs: '

“It is a thrilling experience thus
to return to one’s Alma Mater, con—
scious of the opportunity and the
obligations that rest upon one to do
his best not only to preserve the old
traditions, but to help bring the «col-
lege into new conquests.

“I have no ready made scheme for
changes. I have no set of policies to
‘spring’, no revolutionary ideas to
promulgate, nobody to reward, and
nobody to fpunish’. My ﬁrst task is
to get acquainted with the institution,
the men who are making it,-——teach—
ers, investigators, extension men and
women. I want to know how things
are done, the existing traditions and
methods. I want to get the student
point of view. I want to ﬁnd out

what the alumni are thinking and»

hoping. I want to learn what the
friends of the college, as represented
in the great farmer’s organizations
and other civic organizations believe

 

of mind the quiet walk seemed to _

EXCERPTS FRODI‘ DR. BUTTERFIELD’S RECENT BOOK, “A
CHRISTIAN PROGRAM FOR THE RURAL COIVIDIUNITY”

“ HE Christian must believe that no matter how proﬁtable the
business, it is not a success unless in all its ramiﬁcations it. makes
for development of personality, for enrichment of character."

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“The farmer must. have access to the land on terms that give him
the largest possible personal freedom and encouragement, and that
likewise most fully assure society that. the land will be used to the

best advantage to society."
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“With us the main issue, lies not only in the increase in tenancy
during the past generation, but in the fact that so large a proportion
. of this is of a highly transient nature."

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“But a system of transient tenancy makes inevitably for poor farm-
ing, for meager community life, and as a rule gives the individual

tenant small chance for economic success.

Access to farming land

is becoming year by year more difficult and will continue to be so ex-
ept as vigorous steps are taken to remedy the difﬁcutly.” '

*

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“There is terrible waste in our ‘hodgepodgc' method of relating

production to consumer‘s need."
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“Many farmers believe sincerely that the reason why they do not
get a larger share of the consmner‘s dollar is that they are being
delibcaricly robbed by the middlcunen. There is no proof that this is
the truth. There is ample proof, however, that tho_cost of' distribur
tion of soil-grown products under the present. plan is in general too
high. In some 'cases there are too many intermediaries between the
farm and the consumer’s table. Often there are  many tolls taken
and sometimes these tolls are extravagantly large. There is. too much
quantitative waste in the products themselves, especially with the
perishables and the Semi-perishables. The greater staples are often
handled in a way to deprive the‘grower of the full value of the market".

  
 

and desire for this great institution."

The faculty admire Dr. Butterﬁeld
leadership. As a real schplar it is
but natural that he should command
their respect.

Farm People Pleased

The farm leaders of Michigan
greeted the selection of Dr. Butter-
ﬁeld as indicative of better prospects
for the farmers of Michigan. One
rural leader recently remarked when
discussing the problems of the far-
mers of Michigan, “ The two bright
spots in the picture are the selection
of Dr. Butterﬂeld as president of our
Agricultural College, and the fact
that‘we have a State Board of Agri-
culture in"which we can place com-
plete conﬁdence." 1

It is but natural that the selection
of Dr. ,Butterﬁeld as president of the
Agricultural College should meet
with unanimous favor among the
Grange people of Michigan, for it will
be remembered that Dr. Butterﬁeld
spent his ﬁrst four years out of col-
lege in publicity work for the Grange,
and ' has always retained a very
friendly, and sympathetic attitude
toward this organization. Nor has
Dr. Butterﬁeld been partial to any
one farmers’ organization. Again
and again he has endorsed the Farm
Bureau program and has even gone
so far in commenting on the remark-
able development of the American
Farm Bureau Federation as to say
that “it is at present the most pow-
erful farmers’ organization which we
have had in the United States in
recent times if not in all history”.

To those who have watched Dr.
Butterﬁeld take charge of his new
duties at the East Lansing institu—
tion, it is evident that he approaches
his task with appreciation of its pos-
sibilties and importance. His con-
ception of M. A. C. is something
greater than that of a mere institu—
tion for the academic training of
young people in the science of agri-
culture, or engineering, or home
economics or any of the other courses
taught at that college. 'He seems to
regard M. A. C. not so much as a in—
stitution but as a center of influence
which must be at least state-wide if
at least not greater in its scope.

Favors Service to Farmers

The keenly analytical mind of Dr.
Butterﬁeld has the widest and most
comprehensive conception of the fun-
damental problems of agriculture.
He realizes that our agriculture must
be efﬁcient, "but he sees the funda«
mental importance of research work
for the solution of the multiplicity of
problems presenting themselves to
the farmer today. Moreover, he has.
a ﬁrm conviction that the College-
should not only serve the students
who are able to come and study with-v
in. its class rooms, but it should be a
source of information and assistance
to all the people of the state.

It is but natural, therefore, that he
should return with a friendly atti-
tude toward the extension work of
the college. We may be assured that
under his guidance the county agria

cultural agent work, the home dem—

onstration agent program, boys’ and.
girls’ club work, farm meetings and
demonstrations, etc., will be pro-
moted and their sphere of service ex—
tended.

Dr. Butterﬁeld realizes that there
is more to agriculture than merely
eﬂicient production. He believes in.
cooperative marketing. To him it is
not merely a means to an end but
almost an end in itself, in that he
regards it as one of the highest forms
of real practical Christianity. This
point of view is well brought‘out in
the following forceful summary of
President Butterﬁeld’s ideas, taken
from one of his recent articles.

“I wonder if the ministers of relig—
ion in the countryside and the good
deacons and elders in these churches,
realize how Christian a thing it is
for farmers to cooperate in produc--
tion and distribution, to work to-
gether in order to improve varieties
of corn and cotton, to buy together,
to sell together, to plan together, to
think together, to carry on all‘their
common operations together wherev-
er this coop'erati'on can result in sav-
ing, labor; time and money? ,

. “We are likely to think of econof

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doll and pet dog, Kernel”, writes telephones. automobiles, and parcel post and the egg-man became a. memory. The this is Percy Lewis and himself
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‘About 100 Michigan Fruit GrowersDisplay Choice Apples at Grand Rapids
By CARL H. KNOPF

OR years Michigan apples have
suﬁered by comparison with
those grown in other states.

“Nearly every corner grocery has,

'cured 6
iwhole winnings

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right at this moment, a bushel bas-
ket of small, gnarled, scabby, wormy
fruit which is designated as “Michi-
gan Apples" and which afford a
startling contrast to the large, Inni-
form, well packed box of apples from
the Northwest. To those who had
gotten this impression of fruit from
the Wolverine state, the Third An-
nual Apple Show, held in connection
with the 54th Annual Meeting of the
Michigan State Horticultural Society,
was a distinct revelation.

‘ The whole of the main ﬂoor of the
Grand Rapids Coliseum was ﬁlled
with the ﬁnest apples which can be
produced in any state, bar none. The
exhibits even overﬂowed into an ad-
jacent hall where well-packed bush-
els competed for special premiums.
Apples were shown on plates, with
ﬁve specimens per plate, in trays, in
groups of trays. and in bushel
baskets. All varieties were there
—too many in fact, for it is begin-
ning to dawn on the Michigan
apple grower that, unless he has
a special home trade, he is much bet-
ter ed with only four or ﬁve varie—
ties, and certainly not to exceed 811
varieties, of apples.

Unique Sales Package Contest

II-‘he center of the apple exhibit,
all also the center in point of inter-
est was the sales package display.
Here apples of various varieties were
shown packed in every conceivable
kind of sales package and all ar-
ranged and garnlsned to attract the
eye of the prospective purchaser.
Over forty packages were in camped-
ti‘on for the prizes of $25. $16, and
$10 offered by the Grand Rapids
Press. The packages ranged from
small baskets containing 10 or 12
large red Spies and priced at 35¢ per

package up to full bushels costing‘

about $3.50 each. In each case the
fruit contained in the package had
been weighed and computed at a uni-
form price per pound. The cost of
the fruit plus the cost of the package
determined the price at which the
package was offered.

While there were many entries of
baskets in the form of half-pecks,
peeks. half—bushels and bushels. the
largest part of the exhibit was made
up of containers suitable for mailing.-
These held various quantities of
fruit and were made of wood, of fib-
er, and some of cardboard.

One very unique container was in
this form of a wire waste—basket with
a handle added for convenience in
carrying. This container gave unlim-
ited opportunity to inspect the fruit
from all sides and 'had the further
advantage of supplying a useful
waste—basket when emptied.

The Public Chooses

The sales package exhibits were
judged by the public itself. Each
visitor at the show was furnished a
card on which he, or she, indicated
the packages considered the “best
buys", beginning with ﬁrst choice
and continuing to eighth choice. In
order to induce careful consideration
and thoughtful judging, there were
prizes offered to the judges them-
selves. For the three- persons whose
judgment came nearest the average
as expressed by all the people, prizes
of $25, $15, and $10 were offered.
As a thousand or more persons “jud-
ged” these exhibits, the task of de-
termining the winners, both as to
exhibits and judges, required a long
time. The results, when ﬁnally
available will be received with much
interest.

Twenty-Year-Old Exhibitor Wins

To report the winners in the regu-
lar classes of the apple show requires
that one write the name “Braman”
and then use a lot of ditto marks. J.
Russell Braman, a 20-year old fruit
grower of Kent county won the lion’s
share of the honors. As this is the
third- show in which young Braman
has been a prominent exhibitor, his
ability is ﬁrmly established. This
year J. Russell won 27 ﬁrst prizes,
8 second prizes, 2 third prizes and
1 fourth prize. In addition, he se-
sweepstakes awards, the
giving him over

$200 in cash besides several valuable
special prizes. .

The remarkable list of Braman
winnings includes ﬁrsts on plates of
Wealthy, Snow, Rhode Island Green-
ing, Canada Red, Northern Spy, Bald-
win, King, Ben Davis, and Wagner,
all these being in the section for
south-western Michigan. His plates
of Wealthy, Snow, Canada Red, R. I.
Greening, and Northern Spy later
won sweepstakes ribbons with all
parts of the state competing. Fur-
ther sweepstakes honors were won
for J. Russell Braman by his plate of
Baldwins which was judged the best
plate of apples in the entire show.

Other winners of sweepstakes
honors in the plate classes were:
.Jonathans and McIntosh, S. J. Cowan
of Rockford; Grimes Golden, L. A.
Spencer of Kibbie; Wagner, R. C.
Newton of Hart; Hyslop Crab, Jesse
W. Pickett of Caledonia.

With the Bushel Exhibits

Winners of ﬁrst place in the class
for varieties shown in bushels were
as follows: Snow, Johnathan, Weal-
thy, Northern Spy, and Wagner, J.
Russell Braman of Grand Rapids;
Grimes Golden. W. R. Roach of Hart;
Canada Red, Farley Bros. o-f Albion;
Hyslop Crab, Henry McCarty of
Grand Rapids; Any other variety,
Thorns and Brechting of Grand Rap-
ids.

Tray Exhibits Also Attractive

The tray exhibits always attract
the attention of visitors to the Apple
Show as the trays give full opportun—
ity for displaying the skill of the ex-

   

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essed to this department.

hibitor in selecting for color, size,
shape, and uniformity.

Another recent development of in-
terest to fruit growers is the produc-
tion of a red Northern Spy and a
red Rome Beauty. While both of
these varieties have always been

. listed as red apples there has always

been a certain percentage of the fruit
which was greenish streaked. As a
result of years of selection there has
been developed strains of these two
varieties which produce fruit which
is practically solid red in color.
Putting an attractive red coat on
Michigan's Northern Spies, which
have had a reputation for years for
size, ﬂavor. and quality, is bound to
be of considerable commercial im-
portauce.

Those winning ﬁrst place in the
various variety classes for tray ex-
hibits were: Snow, Wealthy, Jona-
than, and Northern Spy, J. Russel
Braman; Grimes Golden, W. R.
Roach; Greening and Wagner, H. S.
Newton; McIntosh, S. J. Cowan;
Steele Red, Farley Bros.

Lest the reader get the impression
by this time that J. Russell Braman
was practically the only exhibitor at
the show, be it said that there were
about 100 exhibitors representing
every part of the state, the Upper
Penniusula included. All of the ex-
hibits from the latter section Were
sent by W. A. Clark, Agricultural
Agent of Ontonago-n county.

Too Many Varieties

Niels L. Harass of Fennvi'lle had
the largest and best display of apples.
It was said that nearly 80 varieties
of apples were included in this ex-

 

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We are here to serve

you. All Inquiries must be accompanied by full name and address. Name not used If so requested.)

HAS SCHOOL BOARD RIGHT TO
PAY TUITION?

Has the school board a legal right
to pay the tuition of a pupil of said
district to a high school when the
pupil is twenty years of age?——C. M.
P., Charlevoix, Michigan.

SCHOOL board does not have

the legal right to pay the tuition

of a pupil who was twenty years
of age at the time of filing written
application for the payment of tui-
tion. If the pupil were nineteen at
the time of filing application and
became twenty after that time, the
board must pay the tuition for the
school year following the time of
ﬁling application.——-W. L. Coffey,
Deputy Superintendent of Public In-
struction.

HOW CAN HE GET CLEAR TITLE?
I have a state tax land deed for a
certain piece of property. Kindly
advise me as to the necessary pro-
cedure in order to give me a clear
title of this property. Please pub—
lish in your legal column—G. R. B.,
Harrisville, Mich. '
OU are required to give notice
Y to former owner, of your deed.
The county clerk will instruct
you how to proceed—Legal Editor.

NOTES D0 OUTLAW
Is there a law passed that notes
do not outlaw? If so when was it
passed and would notes given less
than six years before it was passed
be collectable?——M. H., Snover, Mich.
0 far as I am aware there is no
statute in this State providing
that promissory notes do not
outlaw.—-—Clare Retan, Deputy Attor-
ney General.

CHARGED OVER SEVEN
PER CENT

I have a note for $150.00 in a
certain bank. I borrowed this mon-
ey four years ago this fall. The
ﬁrst time for one year they charged
me $7.50 bonus beside the seven per
cent interest and after the ﬁrst year
I have renewed it every three months
and now I have got so .I can egin to
pay it up a little at a time and” want

to know if it is lawful for them to
charge this bonus? Could I make
them turn this bonus onto the prin-
cipal?—H. E. C., Secord, Mich.

is unlawful to charge more than

7% interest on borrowed money,

and a bonus of this kind would
be uncollectable.——Legal Editor.

APPLY TO PROBATE JUDGE FOR
MOTHER'S PENSION

Would you please inform me
where and how a widow can apply
for the widow’s pension? Husband
was killed three years ago and two
small children. Could the back
years he collected?——Mrs. G. D.,
Gladwin. Michigan.

WOMAN must apply to a Pro-

bate Judge for aI‘so-called

mother’s pension. The Probate
Judge-will give her necessary blanks
to make the application and will ad-
vise her as to her rights.———Clare
Retan, Deputy Attorney General.

NO RIGHT TO DESTROY
PROPERTY
I have a question I want to ask
in regards to a cemetery. Has the
sexton or any other party any right
to set ﬁre in the cemetery and burn
over the whole cemetery destroying
shrubs and ﬂowers? This is an old
cemetery and there is no vacant lots
in it. Do not the lots become in-
dividual property when the people
hold a receipt for the lots? -—A
Subscriber, Selkirk, Mich.

HE sexton or any other person
would have no right to injure
or destroy any property on your

lot in the cemetery, as it is your in-
dividual property—Legal Editor.

 

AGAINST  T0 mm
PEWTE-
Can a farmer shoot pheasants if.
they are destroying his corn or oth-
er crops?-—H. Ju, Algonac, Mich.

HE law makes an absolute clos-
ed seasou on pheasants mntﬁl
1926‘. There: is no provision in—

the law for the killing of pheasants
if they are found to be destroying
property—John, Baird. Director,
Dept. of Conservation. ' 

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‘ fruit growing world.

hibit. Comment around the show
room was to the effect that such dis-
plays bring out the weakness of
Michigan as an apple section, that is,
too many varieties. Some sentiment
was in evidence to discontinue- such
classes in future shows. \

The best and largest collection of
pears was exhibited by J. P. Munson
of Grand Rapids.

Among the special classes at the
show were several for bushel ex—
hibits of apples. Premiums for
these classes were provided by sev-
eral business houses of Grand Rapids
with the understanding that the prize
winning bushels became the property
of the ﬁrms furnishing the premiums.
In this division J. Russell Braman
was again the heavy winner securing
ﬁrst on bushels of Jonathan, Bald-
win, Northeru Spy, and Winter Ban-
ana. Other owners of ﬁrst prize
bushels in this section Were: Grimes
Golden, W. R. Roach; Wages-er, H.
Schaefer & Son of Sparta; Rhoda Is—
land Greenings, Yaylor & Jager of
Douglas; Delicious, Thorne & Brech-
ting; McIntosh, H. S. Newton;
Duchess, Roy Dodge of Byron Cen-
ter; Sweet apple, Rex Roberts of
Grand Rapids.

Continuing his Winning stride, the
same J. Russell also took ﬁrst in the
class for a ﬁve—bushel exhibit of any
standard variety. 

Some of the other prominent ex:—
hi‘bitors who did not break into the
ﬁrst prize column unite so often, but
who nevertheless had spiendid fruit
on display were: Gordon Frost of
Lowell; Pickford Bros. of Doster;
Ballard Bros. of Niles; A. L. Coons
of Lowell; Chas. McCarty, of Grand
Rapids; Chas. Braun*& Son of Ann
Arbor; Stuart Acres of Marshall;
J. D. Smith of Jonesville; W. S.
Smith of Muir; A. G. Spencer of
South Haven; J. H. Crane of Fenm—
ville; N. W. Laird of Chelsea; Homer
Waring of Kewadin; Arl‘ie Hopkins
of Bear Lake; H. E. Huey of Shelby;
J. Robothan of Beulah; F. C. Sher-
man of Hart; A. Dickinson of Benton
Harbor; L. H. Greene of Balding.
This latter exhibitor won ﬁrst on a
plate of Golden Delicious, a variety
which is quite new to this state and
whose value has not yet been de-
termined.

J. H. Gourley of the Ohio Experi-
ment Station and J. H. Waring of
Penn State College were the judges
for the show.

M. A. 0. Student Contest

Each year the students in the
Horticultural department at the
Michigan Agricultural College look
forward to two contests which are
held in connection with the State
Horticultural meeting. One of these
is the speaking contest which occu-
pies a prominent place on the pro-
gram and in which the students dis-
cuss different phases of horticulture
for the beneﬁt of the audience.
Winners in the speaking contest this
year were:

First, L. H. Kelly of Conklin.

Second, E. M. Berry of Hopkins.

Third, R. K. Rosa of Pontiac.

The second contest involves the
identiﬁcation and judging of apples
and thus requires no little skill.
Forty varieties of apples are pre-
sented for identiﬁcation, following
which 5 classes of apples must be
judged for excellence. Winners in
this contest were announced as fol-
lows:

First, Don Stark of Midland.

Second, A. H. Teske of South
Haven.

Third, George Compton of South
Haven.

The State Department of Agricul-
ture had a large and interesting dis—
play illustrating packing, grading,
containers, inspection service, dis-
eases, pests, tﬂc. Incidentally, tth
potato which last year was half this
Apple and Potato Show, could be
found- this year only in thh State De»
partment’s exhibit.

Michigan’s Third Apple Show was
a convincing demonstration that
Michigan fruit is second to: none and
that some Michigan growers know
how to produce, grade. select, and
pack. When this knowledge and
ability is put into more, general preo-
tice we may then expect to see Mich»-
igan. take her rightful place in the

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English Farm Hand Works 52 Hours a Week and Receives About $6.50 Per Week
By FRANCIS A. FLOOD

This. is the sixth article ‘of the
series on European travels by Mr.
Flood. ' In this article he tells us
Something about the journey of the
four farm paper editors in the Gray
Goose.

HE four Yankee editors were up
with the ﬁrst loud crack of
7 dawn, and, after our standard
English breakfast, t he old. Gray
Goose was honking out of the City
of Ten Million Chimneys just as the
dawn, vegetable peddlers and milk-
men were creeping into town.
Doctor Bereman of South Dakota,
“Dean” Hopkins of Wisconsin, Tom
Wheeler of Indianalﬁnd I were the
four Americans; the legal breakfast
in England is cold toast, marmalade
and tea; the Old Gray Goose was our
English-tailored ﬂivver; and the be-
chimneyed city was London town.
The morning was a rainy June Day,
not pleasant at all, and it made me
understand why Browning wrote,
“Oh, to be in England now that
April’s there—” instead of selecting
June to rhapsodize about. The Gray
Goose was “honking” because the
British variety of the Ninety Dollar

[Wonder are always equipped with

the big bulb honkers instead of the
electric office buzzers that are sol-
dered into the American edition of
the famous tin car.

After nearly a week in London,
we had let the rest of the editorial
party go their several ways, visiting
around among the museums and his-
torical places of the grand old city,
making short daily sallies out to
nearby farms and cities and back
again at night, seeing rural England
from the windows of the little toy
trains, invading Scotland or leaving
Merrie England entirely for contin-
ental Europe and whatever they
could ﬁnd elsewhere.

Four of us had tired of the high-
ways of English travel and decided
to follow the inviting byways for a
week in our fog—colored jitney which
had promptly been named The Gray
Goose. We paid 62 pounds for the
car and hoped the price would not
lose much weight before we should
return a Week later. The complica—
tions of the left—handed trafﬁc are
so terrifying that we insured the old
uncovered wagon against accident
and felt certain that we would get
our money back soon enough—eith-
er in accident insurance on the Gray
Goose, or in life insurance on each
other. The fact that I was appointed
the driver, without even my own dis-
senting voice, forestalled that possi-
bility, however, for we kept safely
on the left side of the road and our
only accident was the fact that we
made it at all.

We headed for the southern shires

.i of England, the home of the South-

down sheep. We had always under-
stood from the time When we ﬁrst
knew a sheep, from a goat that the
shires of Sussex and Hampshire were
covered with Southdown sheep. To
imagine the hills of the southern
shires was to imagine ﬂocks of mut-
ton on every hill. But, whatever
they may once have been, those chal-
ky hills are now as full of sheep as
Wyoming and New Mexico are full
of Indians—they used to be there,
but, except in a few isolated cases,
they are there now only in tradition.

‘ This may sound like telling the small

boy that there is no Santa 'Claus, but
we drove for eighty miles in a south-
erly direction from London before we

' sighted our ﬁrst ﬂock of sheep.

There is not the mutton consumed
in England today that there was in
former years. Many a lament we
heard from the real Britisher who
deplored the passing 0f the mutton
sheep, and longed for the chop of
the good old days. Why this change
has come about no one is totally
sure; it seems to be for the same
reason that brown eggs are eaten in
Boston and white ones in Chicago.

.It was the haying season.
ﬁeld there were fourteen men build-
ing one stack of hay. Three buck
rakes, or hay sweeps, .much as we
have here in America were bringing
the . hair up; to ' a. stacker, , an endless
he; "  or aims, 0,11 the

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A band of Suﬂ‘olks in the portable wattles.

fashioned straw carrier from a
threshing machine before the blower
came into use. Four men were
pitching the hay into a hopper which
led to this carrier and there were
ﬁve men on the stack. A one—horse
“horse-power” propelled this hay
carrier through a connection of tum-
ble rods. The one man on a rake,
and the foreman, completed the hay
making complement of fourteen men
and six horses building one stack of
hay.

It was an excellent ﬁeld of alsike
clover, votch and rye grass, making
about two tons to the acre. In hay
of this kind the foreman said that his
crew of fourteen men would put up
about 25 or 30 tons per day. When
they ﬁnished a stack, however, they
left a perfect job. I think the ﬁnest
ﬁnished tacks of hay that I have
ever seen stood on those English hill
sides.

These men were paid 28 srillings,
about $6.50, for a week of 52 hours,
and they were required to board
themselves. Overtime was paid for
at the rate of about 17 cents per
hour. Most of these hands were the
young unmarried men of the nearby
villages who constitute almost all the
farm labor.

The prevailing rotations used on
some of the farms around there
which appeared to be representative
of the southern shires in general in-
cluded hay crops, wheat and rye or
barley, and roots, Swedish turnips.
Winter vetch will be seeded down af-
ter an. oats crop is removed. It will
be pasteurized by sheep during the
summer, and, incidentally, fertilized.
Then it will be put in roots and then
in grass, followed by wheat or barley.
The problem of the English farmer
is to keep putting something back
into his soil and not to content him-
self with merely seeing how much
he can take away as does the Ameri—
can farmer.

The main difﬁculty with English
farming as a proﬁtable business un-
dertaking at present seems to be the
taxes. Unbelievable tales of excessive

taxes were told by the owners and
renters of prosperous looking farms
who explained that the high rates
Were forcing many of the ancient
landed citizenry to sell their farms
———and that at a sacriﬁce—because of
their inability to pay the tax from the

rent or direct proceeds of the land it-
self.

The country, almost strictly agri-
cultural as it is, appears prosperous,
and everything is neat and tidy and
as picturesque as a painting. The
doctor remarked that if one wanted
to take a beautiful picture of rural
England he could blindfold himself,
walk out into any ﬁeld and point his
camera in any direction and snap it.

We stopped at Brighton Beach, the
Atlantic City of England—or rather
it would be more to the point to say
that Atlantic City is the Brighton of
America—and did a few minutes on
the board walk feeling quite at home
among the many American residents
of that famous beach. We made the
trip to Winchester our ﬁrst day out;
Winchester, where so many of our
own soldiers were quartered with
soldiers of nearly every allied army
during the great war.

A great event was on at Winches-
ter, a cricket match between Eton
and Winchester. These cricket games
are long—drawn-out, two-day affairs
and the score was two or three hun-
dred to a half—dozen in favor of some
side at the end of the first day. We
heard no cheering and saw less ex-
citement than there is in the morning
batting practice of a boy scout team.
The only thing the cricket game
meant to us was that every hotel in
town was ﬁlled by the time we
reached Winchester, even the famous
old House of God Begot. We stopped
at the sign of the Ball and Ring, a
typical old tavern of the Tales of a
Wayside Inn type. Mine host and his
wife and daughter with their huge
angora cats and their mugs of ale
and their quaint old tales of English
lore entertained us until ﬁnally the
doctor and I crept up the stairs to
our little bedroom under the eaves,
with the candles in our hands. We
put our “boots” outside the door for
the maid to “clean” and slept that
night on big featherdown bolsters
dreaming of English puddings and
Canterbury Tales.

In 164 A. D. a Wessex church had
been built upon the sight of the ca-
thedral at Winchester and the next
morning we visited that grand old
building and sat on a bench that had
been supporting the monks, and tour-
ists, for over 900 years. The old ca—
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The i
remains of local celebrities of the'

now by the town residents.

days of Columbus and Queen Elizan
beth are buried around the church-
yard. On one weatherbeaten lime-
stone slab we read the following in-
scription: “In Memory of Thomas
Thatcher, a Grenadier in the North
Reg’t. of Hants Militia, who died of
a violent fever contracted by drink-
ing Small Beer when hot the 12th
of May, 1764, Aged 26 years.” AndI
beneath it this bit of verse:
“Here lies in peace a Hamp»
shire Grenadier
Who caught his death by drink-
ing cold small beer.
Soldiers, be wise from his un-
timely fall,
And when yere hot drink Strong
or none at all."
And then the ofﬁcers of the garrison
added the following bit of sentiment
upon the restored slab in 1780:
“An honest soldier never is for-
got
Whether he died by Mufket or
by Pot."
Another inscription that attracted|

our attention in spite of its evident »

intent was ascribed on a marble slab
in the churchyard in Arundel:

“All you that pass this way

along,

Think how sudden I was gone.

God doth not always warning

give;

Therefore, be careful how you

live.”

As one who has gained many a.
thrill in battling a black bass from
one of Minnesota’s lakes or in snar-
ing a canny trout from his rocky lair
in a dashing moutain stream, I reg-
istered a thrill in resting for a mo-
ment upon the old wooden bench
where Izaac Walton had sat when
writing his Compleat Angler, 300‘
years ago.

We did not ghoulishly and fool-
ishly spend our time searching
around graveyards for tombstone in-
scriptions, however, for these hap-
pened to be a few that were particu-
larly pointed out. But it does give
the most unromantic soul a certain
kind of feeling to stand over the
graves of Tennyson, Browning,
Shakespeare, fallen kings, and mon-
archs undefeated save in death, to

browse on the glories of those olden l
into the f

days, and then step out
sunlight shine of 1924 with the past
as quickly brushed aside.

I get my kick out of the glorious .

present and appreciate the period
of time in which it came my lot to
live, but I also enjoy tuning in for a.
moment with the mysterious and en-
chanting ages of the past. This can
be done so easily when standing in
W'estminister Abbey before the old
Coronation Chair, with the Stone of
Destiny beneath it, where so many of
England’s kings were crowned, or

resting in the medieval atmospherel

of the grand cathedral at Salisbury
or at Winchester, with its 600 feet of
length crammed full of history and
legend, and where the only thing that
has remained in the shadow of the
spire which slowly, but exactly, meas-
ures up to the same niche in the
grey stone wall, ﬁfty yards away,
that it reached at high noon 400
years ago when the niche was ﬁrst
carved there by some long-headed
monk who had his three meals and
petty troubles and worried about the
day by day destinies of those forgot-
ten times as we do here today.-

It was in these country places,
removed from the beaten paths of
tourists that we attracted the most
attention as foreigners, “damned

Yanks”. as we were affectionately l
In fact, one Englishman told!

called.
us he had visited America a few
years ago and learned for the ﬁrst
time that “damned Yank” were two
words.

With our big shell-rim glasses
Tom Wheeler and I attracted even
more attention than would other-
wise have been occasioned. The
doctor had a playful habit of refer-
ing to -me as ‘,‘Harold", or,,.?fllr.
Lloyd’3, in a. tone loud, enough to be
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YOUR BABE) BEPARI’HWENT.
HE Radio Editor wishes to
make this department of in-
terest to the readers of THE
BUSINESS FARMER and instructive
when ever and however possible.
Will you help us?

Please write and tell us just what
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to read about or Want to build. Send
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built and tell us What radio has
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like to see what the other fellow has
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Thc different types of vacuum tubes.

HERE are 4 types of vacuum
T tubes now on the market which
are used for receiving purposes
as well as for amplifying in both
audio and radio frequency circuits.
These types might be divided into
two classes, the dry battcry tubes,
and the storage battery tubes. Dry
battery tubes may be operated upon
storage batteries but storage battery
tubes can not, be operated on dry
batteries with satisfaction as they
use up too much current and thus
are expensive.

On the left of the picture We have
the [JV—200 or 0—300 type of bulb,
which is a gas content, bulb and is a
splendid detector. The same shaped
bulb is the UV—L’Ol—A or the C—IBOLA
bulb, which is both a detector and
amplifier. The [TV—200 bulb uses 1
ampere of (current, while the 201—A
bulb uses only 14 of an ampere.
Both should be used on storage bat-
teries of not over 6 volts. The “A”
as much to run as the other one and
type of bulb will cost but a quarter
in most instances will give just as sa-
tisfactory results.

In the center of the picture is the
VVD—l 1, W’D-12 or 0-11, 0-12 type of
bulb. these tubes are worked on dry
batteries, only one cell of 1% volts
being required for the A battery.
They use 14 ampere of current and
one tube can be run on one cell for
from 30 to 100 hours of intermittent
service. These same tubes can be
used on one cell of storage battery
which is of two volts. In this case
a rheostat of plenty of resistance
must be used so that the tube will
not be burned out.

The righthand picture is the “pea—
nut” tube or the {TV—13)!) or (3—299
tubc. which requires 41/2 volts for A
battery and uscs only six one—hun—
dredths of an ainporc (0.06 amp.)
and is thc idcal dry battery tubc,
tho on account of it‘s (mistruclion
it will not :4in quite the volunw
that the other tulws will zglw,

’i'hcsc “peanut” tubes and the l“v'
'11 (1‘ 1‘3 tubes Zil't‘ \wrv ::uit;ll)lc, for
small, and the batlcrics can in: small
and the whole set includng the bat,—
terics can all be enclole in one cab~
inct. "l‘hcse then arc the tubes for
portable sets.

For volume of sound the 201—A
tubes are the best as they have large
plates and grids and a good internal’
capacity for this purpose.

Other Makes of Tubes

There are several manufacturers
making vacuum tubes, and some of
them are quite good while others
are defective and do not have a long
life. Some of the basic patents hav-
ing expired has led many people into
this ﬁeld and soon We may havo vac—
uum tubes almost, as clmap as elec—
tric light bulbs are now. In the
meanwhile if you try any of these
tubes do not be surprised if you are
disappointed at times. I have used
some good ones and also some poor
ones.

The Life of :1 Vacuum Tube

The longest life of a vacuum tube
is obtained when all conditions of the
maker are observed, that is use the
right voltage of A battery, do not
burn too brightly, (that is turn on

   

 

 

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your A battery current only high
enough so that you get the desired
results) and do not force it in order
to bring in signals on a poor night.
The vacuum tubes that are made for
detectors and ampliﬁers should not
be used for transmitters.

{Sudden jolts and jars will some—
times disarrange the internal ele—
ments and then the tube will not
work. Handle it carefully.

From a year to ﬁve years a tube
w1il last depending upon the amount
of use and abuse you have given it.
Properly handled tubes seldom burn
out, but after long use just die down
and do not give results. For this
reason it is well to change tubes once
in a. while and test out those that you
are using as your set may be failing
to function all on account of a dead
or dying tube.

RESULTS IN RECEIVING
BROADCAST’S
0 often we hear or read of some-
one who has heard a very dis-
tant broadcasting station, a

station that we have not heard. Our
set is the same and we wonder just

why he could hear it. Or on some
particular evening we wish to hear
some broadcast that will be of spec-
lal interest to us, and no matter how
carefully we tune in, we do not get
it. And then again, we invite in
some friends to hear our radio, and
we only get poor results or maybe
we do not hear anything at all.
Why?

There are a. great many things
that may. cause such results; some
that are of our making and others
that we cannot be held accountable
for. for they are due to Nature. The
faults of our own set we can cor-
rect, and so a few suggestions may
help many of you readers to get bet-
ter results.

First, know your set; that is, re.
alize by observing results just what
you do in tuning that gives you
clear and distinct voice reception,
also just how you tune when you get
a distant station. A common fault
is "mushy" or indistinct voices. This
at times is due to weather condi-
tions, but a great deal of it is caused
by poor tuning, that is, in trying to
get the greatest volume from your
set. Turning your A battery cur—

 

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U N ERICA RAB]; E HAM MICK.
HANDLES

HERE hammers are to be used
v‘ for rough work, or when used
in the hands of unskilled work—
men, it. is difﬁcult to keep the com—
mon wood handles from breaking.
And as the handle eye of most ham—

 

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mers is smaller than the hand hold
part of the handle, it is not possible
to use a piece of straight tubing.
For a Well—proportioncd tube handle
the front forks of an old bicycle are
very good. Straighten the fork mem—
bers then place the small end in
the hammer driving the latter on as
far as it will go. With a hacksaw
then cut, the fork off at the proper
length for the handle. Allow the
small end to protrude a half inch
through the hammer then drive in
a hard wood Wedge from the large
end of the tubing, using a long,r bolt
or punch to set the wedge to the
tonal] wad of the handle. Rivet over
the 1/; -inch cud left p"otrud‘in_g and
the job is completed. ith a handle

 

which will give long service and yet
not be any heavier than a wood han—
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A HANDY ENGINE TRUCK

HEIN a small farm engine of

v; the so—called stationary type
has to be moved occasionally

the expedient shown in the sketch
will prove helpful. Usually these
engines are mounted on a pair of
skids about 2 by 4 inches in size.
A set of small iron wheels (all
four alike) should be used. lron
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A handy engine truck.

as an axle also is picked out. Then
holes are bored through the engine
skids at front and back ends, the
axle slipped through, the wheels put
on and held in place with washers
and cotter pins. 

Obviously the steering facilities
are deﬁcient, but it is easier to lift
over one end of the engine to steer
it than to lift the whole engine to
haul it in some other way. The
drawbar pull required will be less if
the wheels are of fairly good size,
but for convenience in prying up the
engine to get the wheels on a rather
low wheel is preferably.———Frank J3
Renner. '

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December :0, 192 "

rent on too much so that the’ ﬁla- '

merits of your bulbs burn too bright
will distort or change the natural
tone of voice; try it With a. little
less brightness, and though not as
loud the tones will come in clearer.
Too much regeneration, in a regen-
erative set, will give loudness but
always at a loss of clearness. Un-
tune a little; you will lose a little
volume but again gain in clarity of
tone. Both the above faults are en—
countered usually at the time when
the broadcasts are not coming in as
loud as we Wish or expect and so we
try to “force” our tubes to do more
than they are made to do, and na-

turally they being overworked do]

not give the best of results.

Vacuum tubes have one point at
which they work best, and though
all vacuum tubes modify or distort
voices and music somewhat a. great
deal of it can be done away with by
watching your results and then
sticking to the adjustment that
gives fair volume with clearness.

Always bear in mind, in cool
weather, fall and winter, that your
results will be better, that is signals
come in much louder and usually
clearer. That at night, and the lat—
er you sit up, the results are much
better than in day time. Some sta-
tions that can not be heard at all
during the day time will come in
splendidly at night.

When weather
about the same where you are and
at the broadcasting station, your re—
sults will be better; but should
there be a storm area. between you
and the broadcasting station you
may only get poor results, or a
“swinging” or “fading” result. Just
because the night is clear where you
are is not a sign that reception will
be good as there may be a storm
right where the broadcasting sta-
tion is or between you and it.

Partly cloudy nights, where the
clouds hang low and drift slowly
past your house, may cause a great
deal of fading and spoil your pleas-
ure by causing you to lose just that
part of a speech or music that you
most wish to hear. Do not keep ad-
justing your set; if it is a fading sig-
nal it will come back in time, or
tune into another station that you
know that you can hear.

Fogs, rains, clouds,
changes in temperature, electrical
disturbances all may cause you
trouble; these you cannot avoid, and
to try and force your set to receive
through them is not only very dis-
appointing, but by burning your
tubes too bright you shorten their
lives and cause them to distort the
received signal and spoil them in-
ternally. (They are made to burn
at a certain temperature and too
great heat causes a. physical change
in the metal and its coating, spoil-
ing it for the purpose designed.)

Last to be considered is the per“
sonal element. Some people have a
natural “knack” for tuning, and
others require long hours of pract-
ice before they can tune. Some
never get satisfactory results. Most
of the (lifllculity on a good set is
due to this personal element. Each
person has a slightly different meth-
od of tuning, and if you are not get—
t1ng satisfactory results but some
one else can, from your set, then
by all means learn their method and
stick to it.

sudden

M. A. (‘. STATION \VILL SOON Hit}

ON AIR

HE Michigan Agricultural College
has announced that the new
college radio broadcasting sta—

tion, WKAR, will go on the air the
ﬁrst week in January. The station
is a new class B station, with 500-
watt power sending outﬁt, and re—
places the old 100— watt outﬁt hero,—
tofore used at the college. New
areials, huge steel towers on top of
the engineering building, were com—
pleted week before last.

XVKAR will operate on a wave
length of 286 meters, according to
present plans. VVREO, Reo motor
Car Company station, operates on
about the same wave length and a
division of time between those in
charge of the two stations will be
made.

The program from the college will

be both educational and entcrtain—
ing. Department heads will give
lectures, college " events will be

broadcast and the various musical
organizations. dramatic clubs, etc.,
will be given turns “on the air.”

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THE ADIERICAN AND HIS
MONEY

{ WISE man wrote down this. “A
A fool and his money are soon
parted.”

Most of us have had experiences
that have made us feel that this
sentence was written to describe our

rsonal actions. What one of us

as not some time exchanged gold
for glitter, and come home poorer in
pocket, but richer in experience?

The Spending of money is an index
of character. What we spend for,
shows our deepest likes and dislikes.

The woman whose, check—book
tub was being examined by her hus-
band, had written down the letters
G. O. K. after many of her ﬁgures.
He said, “What does that mean?”
She replied “God Only Knows.”

The American Education Digest
gives the following table to show
how we Americans as a whole are
disposing of our earnings.

Of each one dollar which we spend,
the following items are the average
proportion.

Living costs ........................ ..24 1/2
Luxuries ............................ ..22
Waste ................................ ..14
Miscellaneous .................... ..13 be
Investments ...................... ..11
Crime, court costs, etc ....... .. 8%
Government ...................... .. 4 1/2
Schools .............................. .. 11/2
Church .............................. .. 5&4

The list does not describe every
one of us, but the average of all of us.

Our fathers spent more of their
income living, and little for luxuries.
They spent less for crime and its
punishment. They spent more for
the causes of religion, that is a
higher per cent of their earnings.

Really as you look at this list of
ﬁgures, one has to admit we show
too little sense in the spending of
our cents.

You and I are spending three times
as much for luxuries as we are for
government, schools, and church.

How long will the moral life of
America be preserved, sweet, clean,
and wholesome, if that proportion of
things continue?

We are spending two and a half
per cent more for crime than we are
for Government, Schools and Church!

If that is true, then we must be—
gin to teach ourselves, and teach to

our children the sacredness of Obedi-'

ence of Good Laws.

The next twenty—ﬁve years of
American History will determine the
trend of the next- 500 years.

Science is bringing to our hands
and homes convenience after con—
venience. Luxuries that were only
tasted by our richer people of a gen-
eration ago, now crowd the lives of
the children of the poor. The lab—
orer of America eats better food
with knife and fork of silver, than
Queen Elizabeth, in her palace, ate
with her fingers.

I plead for a sanity that will save
us from folly, I plead for purposes
that will reverse the proportions of
America’s spending list, and lift those
ﬁgures at the bottom of the column
nearer to the top where they right-
fully belong.

Unless we put more money into
these things that preserve and save
us, we shall soon begin to write the
lurid tragedy of another people who
forgot God and perished.

I believe that we shall change
these ﬁgures, and personally, I am
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CANADA BIG \VINN'ER AT
INTERNATIONAL
CANADIANS won some of the most

coveted honors at the Interna-
tional Live Stock Exposition and
Hay and Grain Show held recently in
Chicago. Farmers from the Domin—
ion, competing with the best that ex-
hibitors from the United States could
produce won a gqu share of the
championships and blue ribbons.
The outstanding honor of the show
from a Canadian viewpoint was the
winning of the world’s wheat cham-
pionship by J. C. Mitchell, of Dahin-
da, Sask., a victory he had scored in
1919 and 1920. He won this cham-
pionship in 600 entries with a bushel
of Marquis Sprint wheat. The prize

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nets him $675, of which $600is giv<
en by the International show. Can-
ada has won the world's wheat cham-
pionship thirteen times out of four-
teen. The international competition
began 14 years ago.

' The Prince of Wales was a Winner
with shorthorn cattle from his ranch
near High River, Alberta. His year—
ling heifer “Princeton Rosewood"
carried off a ﬁrst in a ﬁeld of 20 en-
tries and he also got fourth for
“King of the Fairies”, a shorthorn
bull.

More than three-fourths of the
prizes for sheep'went to Canadian ex-
hibitors, who were principally from
Ontario. The Dominion Experimen-
tal farm at Lacombe, Alberta, was a
big winner with shire horses.

FARM COURSES START AT
M. A. 0. JANUARY 5

‘1-
SIX different “short courses” rang-

ing all the way from a course in
general agriculture to special
schools in deﬁnite branches of farm-
ing, will open at the Michigan Agri-
cultural College on January 5, ac—
cording to announcement made by

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E. B. Hill. director of the
school at M. A. C.

The short winter courses are open
to any citizen of the state ovwr ‘"
years of age, no scholastic requ.-
ments for admission being held.
They are said to be designed for
those who cannot or do not care to
take a longer four-year agricultural
course at the college, and yet still
want to gain scientiﬁc training in
their agricultural ﬁeld.

Two dairy courses, a ten weeks
course in dairy production, and an
eight-weeks course in dairy manu-
factures; an eight-weeks course in
general agriculture; an eight weeks
horticultural course, a four weeks
poultry course and an eight weeks
agricultural engineering course are
those which start January 5.

winter

\ LIQUIFYING HONEY

T is true that many people do not

know how to use honey in its solid

form, and although t e danger of
loss in shipping is less hen honey
is granulated, the customer, with few
exceptions, expects to buy extraced
honey in liquid form. Since most of
the Michigan honeys have a tendency

 

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to granulate at the end of six weeks

after extracting, it is only fair to the

cuszi mer to heat—treat extracted hon-

ey sofa! in retail containers before it
placed o: the market.

For the beneﬁt of beginners, this
heat-treating process consists in
heating the honey to 150° in a water-
bath which provides an inch of water
space on the bottom and four sides of
the sixty pound cans in which honey
is commonly stored. This water
temperature of 150° should be main-
tained for one hour after the honey
has melted. If the honey is not yet
granulated, the maintenance of this
water temperature for one hour
should be sufﬁcient to prevent the
honey from granulating for quite a
period of time, say six months or 80.
Of ecurse, all honey that is sold in
glass packages should be heated any—
way, unless the customer demands
granulated honey.

I have been a reader of M. B. F. e‘v‘er
since it has been printed.——-J. L, S., Moore-
park, Michigan.

We like the paper very much.-——B. 8..
Clayton, Michigan.

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The quality of Larro will ncaer be
lowered so long as Larro is made.
Regardless of what changes take
place in the price of ingredients,
Larro will always remain the same.

ONG ago we decided upon this policy, and wrote this pledge
into our manufacturing creed.

There were two reasons for this decision—we knew it to be
correct, both in theory and practice, and we knew we could keep
the promise.

Years of experiment and practical feeding have proved that a
dairy feed must be more than just “a good feed.”
be absolutely uniform and its formula must not be changed.

Sudden changes in feed—putting in more of this, or less of that,
the substitution of poorer ingredients, imperfect blending or
mixing—result in lower milk yield and smaller proﬁts for the

Your cows do not eat a printed formula. They are not conCerned
with price changes. Whether the market is high or low, they need
a feed that will build condition and keep milk ﬂow at its peak.

The Larrowe Milling, Company is able to keep ifs promise of
uniformity and unchanging formula because it has the experience
and equipment to manufa :ture a feed that never varies. It has a
formula that can be depended upon to produce milk proﬁtably.
This formula will never be changed unless the Larro Research
Farm proves that a better one has been found.

LARRO is more than a good feed; it is always the same feed.

We repeat that we shall continue to manufacture LARRO on this
basis—the basis of more proﬁt to those who buy it.

THE LARROWE MILLING COMPANY

DETROIT, MICHIGAN

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THE SAFE RATION FOR DAIRY COWS

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hall clock in the hall struck nine.

He got up and went out into the

hall and asked for his hat and coat.

When they had been brought to him. he
put them on and went out.

The snow had stopped some time be-
fore; a strong and increasing wind had
sprung up, which Alan, with knowledge
of the wind across his prairies, recog-
nized as an aftermath of the greater
storm that had produced it; for now the
wind was from the opposite direction—
from; the west. ‘He could see from the
Sherrill’s door-step, when he looked to-
ward the lighthouse at the harbor mouth
winking red, white, red, white, at him,
that this offshore wind was causing some
new commotion and upheaval among the
ice-flees; they groaned and labored and
fought against the opposing pressure of
the waves, under its urging.

He " went down the steps and to the
corner and turned west to Astor Street.
When he reached the house of his father,
he stopped under a street-lamp. looking
up at the big, stern old mansion question-
ingly. It had taken on a different look
for him since he had heard Sherrill’s ac-
count of his father; there was an appeal
to him that made his throat grow tight,
in its look of being unoccupied. in the
blank stare of its unlighted windows
in the houses on both sides, and in the
slight evidences of despair about it. He
waited many minutes, his hand upon the
key in his pocket; yet he could not go
in, but instead walked on down the street,
his thoughts and feelings in a turmoil.

He could not call up any sense that
the house was his, any more than he had
been able to when Sherrill had told him
of it. He own a house on that street!
Yet was that in itself any more remark-
able than that he should be the guest,
the friend of such people as the Sherrill's?
No one as yet. since Sherrill had told
him he was Corvet's son, had called him
by name; when they did, What would
they call him? Alan Conrad still? Or
Alan Corvet?

He noticed. up a street to the west,
the lighted sign of a drug store and
turned up that way; he had promised,
he had recollected now, to write to . . .
those in Kansas—he could not call them
“father” and "mother" any more—and
tell them what he had discovered as soon
as he arrived. He could not tell them
that, but he could write them at least
that he had arrived safely and was well.
He bought a postcard in the drug store,
and wrote just, “Arrived safely; am
well" to John VVelton in Kansas. There
was a little vending machine upon the
counter, and he dropped in a penny and
got a box of matches and put them in his
pocket.

He mailed the card and turned back
to Astor Street and he walked more
swiftly now. having come to his decision,
and only shot one quick look up at the
house as he approached it. With what
had his father shut himself up within that
house for twenty years? And was it still
there? And was it from that that Benja-
min Corvet had ﬂed? He saw no one in
the street, and was certain no one was
observing him as, taking the key from
his pocket, he ran up the steps and un—
locked the outer door, Holding this door
open to get the light form the street lamp,
be ﬁtted the key into the inner door;
then he closed the outer door. For fully
a minute, with fast beating heart and a
sense of expectation of he knew not what,
he kept his hand upon the key before he
turned it; then he opened the door and
stepped into the dark silent house.

CHAPTER V
An Encounter

Alan. standing in the darkness of the
hall. felt in his pocket for his matches
and struck one on the box. The light
showed the hall in front of him, reaching
back into some vague, distant darkness,
and great rooms with wide portiered
doorways gaping on both sides. He
turned into the room upon his right,
glanced to see. that the shades were
drawn on the ~windows toward the street,
then found the switch and turned on the
electric light.

As he looked around. he fought against
his excitement and feeling of expectancy;
it was—he told himself——after all. merely
a. vacant house, though bigger and more
expensively furnished than ever he had
been in except the Sherrills; and Sher-
rill's statement to him had implied that
anything there might be in it which could
give the reason for his father's disappear—
ance would probably only be a paper,
a record of some kind. It was unlikely
that a thing so easily concealed as that
could be found by him on his first ex-
amination of the place; what he had come
here for now—he tried to make himself
believe—was merely to obtain whatever
other information it could give him about
his father and the way his father had
lived, before Sherrill and he had any
other conversation.

Alan had not noticed. when he stepped
into the hall in the morning, whether the
house had been heated; now he appreci-
ated that it was quite cold and, probably,
had been cold for the three days since
his father had gone. and his servant had
left to look for him. Coming from the
street. it was not the chilliness of the
house he felt but the stillness of the dead
air: when a house is heated. there is al-
ways some motion of the air, but this
air was'stagnant. Alan had dropped his
hat on a chair in the hall; he unbuttoned
his overcoat but kept it on. and stuffed
his gloves into his pocket. ‘ 4

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A light in a single room, he thought,
would not excite curiosoty or attract at-
tention from the neighbors or any one
passing in the street; but lights in more
than one room might do that. He re—
solved to turn off the light in each room
as he left it. before lighting the next one.

It had been a pleasant as well as a
handsome house, if he could judge by the
little of it he could see, before the change
had come over his father. The rooms
were large with high ceilings. The one
where he stood, obviously was a library;
bookshelves reached three quarters of the
way to the ceiling on three of its walls
except where they were broken in two
places by doorways. and in one place on
the south wall by an open ﬁreplace.
There was a big library table—desk in the
center of the room, and a stand with a
shaded lamp upon it nearer the ﬁreplace.
A leather—cushioned Morris chair—a lone-
ly. meditativedooking chair—was by the
stand and at an angle toward the hearth;
the rug in front of it was quite worn
through and showed the ﬂoor underneath.
A sympath toward his father, which Sher-
rill had not been able to make him feel,
came to Alan as he reﬁected how many
days and nights Benjamin Corvet must
have passed reading or thinking in that
chair before his restless feet could have
worn away the tough, Oriental fabric of
the rug.

There were several magazines on the
top of the large desk. some unwrapped,
some still in their wrappers; Alan glanced
at them and saw that they all related to

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next to‘it. was occupied by a library
table-desk. He pulled open some of the
drawers in it; one or two had blue prints
and technical drawings in them; the
others had only the miscellany which so-
cumulates in a room much used. There
were drawers also under the bookcases
all around the room; they appeared.
when Alan opened some of them, to con-
tain pamphlets of various societies, and
the scientiﬁc correspondence of which
Sherrill had told him. He looked over
the titles of some of the books on the

shelves—a multitude of subjects, anthrop-I

ology, explortation, deep—sea ﬁshing, ship-
building, astronomy. The books in each
Section of the shelves seemed to corre-
sp nd in subject with the pamphlets and
co espondence in the drawer beneath,
and these, by their dates, to divide them-
selves lnto different, periods during the
twenty years that Benjamin Corvet had
lived alone here.

Alan felt that seeing these things was
bringing his father closer to him; they
gave him a little of the feeling he had
been unable to get when he looked at
his father's picture. He could realize
better now the lonely, restless man, pur-
sued by some ghost he could not kill,
taking up for distraction one subject of
study after another, exhausting each in
turn until he could no longer make it
engross him, and then absorbing himself
in the next. _

These two rooms evidently had been
the ones most used by his father; the
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back from the beach and from this copsc there comes at time of

EAR the northern end of Lake Michigan there is a copse of pine and hem—
lq lock

storm '9. sound like the beating of an Indian drum.
tradition says, whenever the lake took a life.

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

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

and the one remaining person was not accounted for.

Benjamin Corvet sailed

ilw 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 Corvcf,
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who is called Uncle Benny by the girl. does not want her to marry him but wi

not give her a reason asking her to wait until she secs him again.
A young man, known as Alan Conrad, appears at the Sherrill home
A‘an, sincc a small child, has lived with a family

disappears.
asking for Benjamin (‘orvvt.

Then Corvet

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

mother is.

would receive pay for taking care of the boy.
the mails but never knew who sent it.
Corvet to come to Chicago and Alan rushes tht-r-

lie was left with this family by a man who told the people they

They received money through
Thcn A'nr 'ivr-s a letter from Ben
inking that Corvet could

tell him something about his parents. but arrives after Qorvet disappeared. He
goes to the Sherrill homo and talks with Constance and Mr. Sherrill. He de-
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technical and scientiﬁc subjects. The desk
Evidently had been much used and had
many drawers; Alan pulled one open and
saw that it was full of papers; but his
sensation as he touched the top one made
him shut the drawer again and postpone
prying of that sort until he looked more
thoroughly about the house.

He went to the door of the connecting
room and looked into it. This room,
dusky in spite of the light which shone
past him through the Wide doorway, was
evidently another library; or rather it
appeared to have been the original library,
and the front room had been converted
into a library to supplement it The book-
cases here were built so high that a little
ladder on wheels was required for access
to the top shelves. Alan located the
light switch in the room; then he re-
turned, switched off the light in the front
room, crossed in the darkness into the
second room, and pressed the switch.

A wierd, uncanny, half wail, half moan,
coming from the upper hall, suddenly
ﬁlled the house. Its unexpectedness and
the nature of the sound stirred the hair
upon his head. and he started back; then
he pressed the switch again, and the
noise stopped. He lighted another match,
found the right switch. and turned on
the light. Only after discovering two
long tiers of white and black keys against
the north wall did Alan understand that
the switch must control the motor work-
ing the bellows of an organ which had
pipes in the upper hail; it was the sort of
organ that can be played either with
ﬁngers or by means of a paper roll; a
book of music had fallen upon the keys,
so that one was pressed down, causing
the note to sound when the bellows
pumped.

But having accounted for the sound
did not immediately end the start that it
had given Alan. He had the feeling
which so often comes to one in an un-
familiar and vacant house that there was
some one in the house with him. He
listened and seemed to hear another sound
in the upper hall, a footstep. He went out
quickly to the foot of the stairs and
looked up them.

“Is any one here?” he called.
one here?"

His voice brought no response. He
went half way up the curve of the, wide
stairway. and called again. and listened;
then he fought down the feeling he had
had; Sherrill had said there would be
no one in the house, and Alan was'cer-

"Is any

to the room where he had left the light.
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into them one by one, he found spoke
far less intimately of Benjamin Corvet.
A dining-room was in the front of the
house to the north side of the hall; a
service room opened from it, and on the
other side of the service room was what
appeared to be a smzrlier diningnroom.
The service room communicated both by
dumb waiter and stairway with rooms

below; Alan went down the stairway only ‘

far enough to see that the rooms below
were servants' quarters; then he came
back, turned out the light on the ﬁrst
ﬂoor, struck another match, and went
up the stairs to the second story.

The rooms opening on to the upper hall.
it was plain to him, though their doors
were closed, were mostly bedrooms. He
put his hand at hazard on the nearest
door and opened it. As he caught the
taste and smell of the air in the room—
heavy, colder, and deader even than the
air in the rest of the house—he hesitated;
then with his match he found the light
switch. The room and the next one
which communicated with it were——or had
been—41 woman’s bedroom and boudoir.
The hangings, which were still swaying
from the opening of the door, had been
permanently the folds in which they had
hung for many years; there were the
scores of long-time idleness, not of use,
in the rugs and upholstery of the chairs.
The bed, however, was freshly made up,
as though the bed clothing had been
changed occasionally. Alan went through
the bedroom to the door of the boudoir.
and saw that that too had the same look
of unoccupancy and disuse. On the low
dressing table were scattered such articles
as a woman starting on a journey might
not thing it worth while to take with her.
There was no doubt that these were the
rooms of his father's wife.

Had his father preserved them thus
as she had left them, in the hope that

she might come back, permitting himself-

to ﬁx no time when he abandoned that
hope, or even to change them after he
had learned that she was dead? Alan
thought not; Sherrill had said that Cor~
vet had known from the first that his
separation from, his wife was permanent.
The bed made up. the other things neg-
lected, and evidently looked after or
dusted only at long separated periods,
looked more as though Corvet had shrunk
from ‘ seeing them or even thinking of
them, and had left them to be looked
after wholly by the servant, .without be-
ing able to bring himself to give instruc-

tions that they should be changed. Alan,

felt that he would not be surprisedsto

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On the top of a chest of high drawers
in a corner near the dressing table were
some papers; Alan went over to look at
them; they were invitations, notices of
concerts and of plays twenty years old
—-the mail. pfbbably, of the morning she
had gone away, left where her maid or
she herself had laid them, and only picked
up and. put back there at the time since
when the room was dusted. As Alan
touched them, he saw that his fingers
left marks in the dust on the smooth
top" of the chest; he noticed thatsome
one .else had touched the things and
made marks of the same sort as he had
made. The freshness of these other marks-
startled him; they had been made within
a day or‘so. They could not have been
made by Sherrill, for Alan had noticed
that Sherrill’s hands were slender and
delicatelyformed; Corvet too, was not a
large man; Alan’s own hand was of good
size and powerful, but when he put his
ﬁngers over the marks the other man
had made, he found that the other hand
must have been larger and more power-
ful than his own. Had it been Corvet's
servant? It might have been, though the
marks seemed too fresh for that; for the
servant, Sherrill had said, had left the
day Corvet’s disappearance was discov-
ered.

Alan pulled open the drawers to see
what the other man might have been
after. It had not been the servant; for
the contents of the drawers—old brittle
lace and woman’s clothing—were tlmbled
as though they had been pulled out and
roughly and inexpertly pushed back; they
still showed the folds in which they had
lain for years and which recently had
been disarranged.

This proof that someone had been pry-
ing about in the house before him and
since Corvet had gone, startled Alan and
angered him. It brought him suddenly
a sense of possession which he had not
been able to feel when Sherrill had told
him the house was his; it brought an
impulse of protection of these things
about him. Who had been, searching in
Benjamin Corvet’s—«ln Alan’s house? He
pushed the drawers shut hastily and hur-
ried across the hall to the room opposite.
In this room~plainly Benjamin Corvet's
bedroom——were no signs of intrusion. He
went to the door of the room connecting
with it, turned on the light, and looked
in. It was a smaller room than the
others and contained a roll-top desk and
a cabinet. The cover of the desk was
closed, and the drawers of the cabinet
were shut and apparently undisturbed.
Alan recognized that probably in this
room he would ﬁnd the most intimate
and personal things relating to his father;
but before examining it, he turned back
to inspect the bedroom.

It was a carefully arranged and well-
cared-for room, plainly in constant use.
A reading stand, with a lamp. was beside
the bed with, a book marked about the
middle. On the dresser were hair-brusnes
and a comb, and a box of razors, none
of which were missing. When Benjamin
Corvet had gone away he had not taken
anything with him. even toilet articles.
With the other things on the dresser, was
a.silver frame for a photograph with a
cover closed and fastened over the por-
trait; as Alan took it up and opened it,
the stiffness of the hinges and the edges
)f the lid gummed to the frame by dis-
use, showed that it waslong since it had
been opened. The picture was of a wo-
man of perhaps thirty—a. beautiful wo-/
man, dark-haired. dark—eyed, with a re-.
ﬁned, sensitive, spiritual-looking face.
The dress she wore was the same. Alan
suddenly recognized, which he had seen
and touched among the things in the
chest of drawers; it gave him a queer
feeling now to have touched her things.
He felt instinctively, as he held the pic-
ture and studied it, that it could have
been no vulgar bickering between wife
and husband, nor any caprice of a dis-
satisﬁed woman, that had made her sep-
arate herself from her husband. The
photographer’s name was stamped in one
corner, and the date—4894, the year after
Alan had been born.

But Alan felt that the picture and the
condition of her rooms across the hall
did not shed any light on the relations
between her and Benjamin Corvet; rather
they obscured them; for his father neither
had put the picture away from him and
devoted her rooms to other uses, nor had
he kept the rooms arranged and ready
for her return and her picture so that
he would see it. He would have done
one or the other of these things. Alan
thought. if it were she his father had
wronged—or, at least, if it were only she.

Alan reclosed the case, and put the
picture down; then he went into the room
with the desk.~ He tried the cover of the
desk, but it appeared to be locked: after
looking around vainly for a. key, he tried

_again. exerting 'a little more force, and

this time the top went up easily, tearing
sway the metal plate into which the claws
of the lock clasped and the two long
screws which had held _it. He examined
the lock. surprised, and saw that the
screws must. have lien merely set into
the holes; scars showed where a chisel
or some metal implement had been thrust
in under the top to force it ,up. The
pigeonholesqand little drawers in the up
per part of the desk. as he swiftly opened
them, he found entirely empty. Ho bur--

’ ried‘ to'the cabinet; the draWers of the
.cahinetﬁtoo .had .been forced; and very

recently; for the  and the ;s
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part" of the desk either were“ empty-,' or

the papers in them had "been disarranged .

and tumbled in confusion, as though some
one had examined them hastily and tossed
them back.

Sherrill had not done that, nor any

one who had' a business to be there. If

Benjamin Corvet had emptied some of the
drawers before he went away, he would
not have relooked empty drawers. To
Alan, the marks of violence and rough-
ness were unmistakably the work of the
man with the big hands who had left

1marks upon the top of the chest of

'had told him

. found

drawers; and the feeling that he had
been in the house very recently was
stronger than ever.

Alan ran out into the hall and listened;
he heard no sound; but he went back to
the little room more excited than before.
For what had the other man been search»
ing? For the same things which Alan
was looking for? And had the other man
got them? Who might the other be, and
what might be his connection with Ben-
jamin Corvet? Alan had no doubt that
everything of importance must have been
taken away, but he would make sure of
that. He took some of the papers from
the drawers and began to examine them;
after nearly an hour of this, he had found
only one article which appeared con-
nected in any way with what Sherrill
or with Alan himself. In
one of the little drawers of the desk he
several books, much worn as
though from being carried in a pocket.
and one of these contained a series of
entries stretching over several years.
These listed an amount—$150.——opposite

, a series of dates with only the year and

the month given, and there was an entry

’for every second month.

Alan felt his ﬁngers trembling as he
turned the pages of the little book and
found at the end of the list a blank, and
below, in the same hand but in writing
which had changed slightly with the pass-
age of years, another date and the con-
firming entry of $1,500. The other papers

' and books were only such things as might

accumulate during a lifetime on the water

,and in business—government certiﬁcates,
,manifests, boat schedules of times long

gone by, and similar papers. Alan looked

through the little book again and put it

I in his pocket.

It was, beyond doubt, his
father’s memorandum of the sums sent to
Blue Rapids for Alan; it told him that
here he had been in his father’s thoughts;

3in this little room, within a. few steps
‘ from the deserted apartments of his wife,

Benjamin Corvet had sent “Alan’s dollar"
—-—that dollar which had been such a sub—
ject of speculation in his childhood for

.himself and for all the other children.
,He grew warm at the thought as he be-

 

’ door had slammed.

gan putting the other things back into
the drawers.

He started and straightened suddenly;
then he listened attentively, and his skin,
warm an instant before, turned cold and
prickled. Somewhere within the house,
unmistakably on the ﬂoor below him, a
The wind, which had
grown much stronger in the last hour,
was battering the windows and whinning
round the corners of the building; but the

ihouse was tightly closed; it could not be
,the wind that had blown the door shut.
’Some one—it was beyond question now,

for the realization was quite different
from the feeling he had had about that
before—was in the house with him. Had
his father’s servant come back? That
was impossible; Sherrill had received a
wire from the man that day, and he
could not get back to Chicago before the
following morning at the earliest. But
the servant, Sherrill had said, was the
only one besides his father who had a
key. Was it . . . his father who had
come back? That, though not impossible,

, seemed improbable.

Alan stooped quickly, unlaced and strip—
ped off his shoes, and ran out into the

'hall to the head of the stairs where he

looked down and listened. From here the
sound of some one moving about came to
him distinctly; he could see no light
below, but when he ran down to the turn
of the stairs, it became plain that there
was a dim and ﬂickering light in the
library. He crept on farther down the
staircase. His hands were cold and

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moist from his excitement, and his body
was hot and trembling.

Whoever it was that was moving about
down-stairs, even if he was not one who
had a right to be there, at least felt se—
cure from interruption. He ,was going
with heavy step from window to window:
where he found a shade up, and pulled
it down brusquely and with a violence
which suggested great strength under a
nervous strain; a shade, which had been
pulled down, ﬂew up, and the man domned
it as though it had startled him; then,
after an instant, he pulled it down again.

Alan crept still farther down and at
last caught sight of him. The man was
not his father, he was not a. servant; it
was equally sure at the time that he was
not any one who had any business to be
in the house and that he was not any
common house-breaker.

He was a big, young-looking man, with
broad shoulders and very evident vigor;
Alan guessed his age at thirty-ﬁve; he'
was handsome—he had a straight fore-
head over daring, deep-set eyes; his nose,
lips, and chin were powerfully formed;
and he was expensively and very care-
fully dressed. The light by which Alan
saw these things came from a ﬂat little
pocket searchlight that the man carried
in one hand, which threw a little bril-
liant circle of light as he directed it;
and now, as the light chanced to fall on
his other hand—powerful and heavily
muscled—Alan recollected the look and
the size of the finger prints on the chest
of drawers upstairs. He did not doubt
that this was the same man who had gone
through the desk; but since he had al-
ready riﬂed the desks, what did he want
here now? As the man moved out of
sight, Alan crept on down as far as the
door to the library; the man had gone
into the rear room, and Alan went far
enough into the library so he could see
him.

He had pulled open one of the drawers
in the big table in the rear room—the
room where the organ was and where the
bookshelves reached the ceiling—and with
his light held so as to show what was
in it, he was tumbling over its contents
and examining them. He went through
one after another of the drawers of the
table like this; after examining them, he
rose and kicked the last one shut dis-
gustedly; he stood looking about the room
questioningly, then he started toward the
front room.

He cast the light of his torch ahead of
him; but Alan had time to anticipate
his action and to retreat to the hall. He
held the hangings a'little way from the
door jamb so he could see into the room.
If this man were the same who had looted
the desk up-stairs, it was plain that he
had not procured there what he wanted
or all of what he wanted; and now he
did not know where next to look.

He had, as yet, neither seen nor heard
anything to alarm him, and as he went
to the desk in the front room and peered
impatiently into the drawers, he slammed
them shut, one after another. He
straightened and stared about. “Damn
Ben! Damn Ben !” he ejaculated violently
and returned to the rear room. Alan,
again following him, found him on his
knees in front of one of the drawers
under the bookcases. As he continued
searching through the drawers, his ir—
ritation became greater and greater. He
jerked one drawer entirely out of its
case, and the contents ﬂew in every direc—
tion; swearing at it, and damning “Ben”
again, he gathered up the letters. One
suddenly caught his attention; he began
reading it closely, then snapped it back
into the drawer, crammed the rest on top
of it, and went on to the next of the
ﬁles. He searched in this manner through
half a dozen drawers, plainly ﬁnding
nothing at all he wanted; he dragged
some of the books from their cases, felt
behind them and shoved back some of the
books but dropped others on the ﬂoor and
blasphemy burst from him.

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KENYON L. BUTTERFIELD

thought we owed it to the business farmers
of Michigan to give them a more intimate
picture of the present head of the Michigan
Agricultural College, because it would give a
better insight into this man’s character and what
‘ he proposes to do.

Kenyon L. Butterﬁeld has the reputation of
‘ ﬁghting with his cards on the table, face-up and
‘ where all can see exactly what he is trying to
; accomplish. He is not afraid of saying or doing
what he believes to be best at the moment, and
those who have in the past been accused of
‘ pussy-footing around the college campus might
as well understand now as later that the present
head of this institution is not a politician in any
sense of the word, and the methods attributed
’ to political practices will find no comfort in his

3 hands.

Mr. Stanley M. Powell, our Lansing correspon-
dent, has prepared a very intimate picture of Dr.
Butter-ﬁeld. which you will ﬁnd on page four of
the current issue, and we especially recommend
‘ it to your reading.

PRACTICING AND PREACHING

‘ HEN the President of the United States of
America came from the capital to Chicago
last week to address the International

I Livestock Show he traveled with Mrs. Coolidge

i in an ordinary drawing room of a Pullman car

: and went into the public dining car and ate a

‘ $1.25 dinner, so the newspapers report.

Had this occurred a month earlier his critics

: might have easily counted this as a. gesture of

;pre-election expediency. As it is, the public at

. large are rather inclined to believe that the frugal

'training on a New England farm had left its

' mark, so that Calvin Coolidge in his declaration

‘for greater economy in government affairs is

preaching what he actually practices in his own

‘ life.

The greater part of his recent message to Con-
gress was devoted to this subject alone, and his
record since he took over the reins of ofﬁce have
shown him to be almost obsessed with the idea
that the government spends altogether too much
of the tax—payers’ money on needless operations
and for unnecessary red tape.

No sentiment could be more popular with the
American farmer, who has had to practice ex-
treme economy during the past three orgfour
years of low prices and this public demonstration
of real economy on the part of the President cer-
tainly did him no harm with public opinion, even
though it could not change his political status.

Many talk, but few practice what they talk!

 

KEEP ROGERS IN

RANK F. ROGERS who is now concluding
his third consecutive term as state highway
commissioner has announced his candidacy

for nomination for a fourth term at the Repub-

lican state convention to be held next February.

We think a word ought to be said in his support

and although our columns are not usually open

to political personalities, we are not adverse to
giving a man who has served well in public life
proper credit for what has been accomplished.
We do not doubt but what Frank Rogers has
made some mistakes during the three consecutive
terms in which he has been commhsioner, but‘we

 

   

 

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would seriously question any intimation that he
was not thoroughly capable of handling the job
‘or had ever used it to his own personal ad-
vantage. -

Mr. Rogers was born in Lenawee county, in
1858. He is a graduate of Michigan Agricultural
College, from which he holds two degrees, one as
a civil engineer. He has followed that profession
since his graduation and served as deputy high-
way commissioner under Horatio S. Earle and
Townsend S. Ely, whom he succeeded in 1913.
Hence Mr. Rogers has been directly connected as
chief executive with the state highway depart-
ment ever since its establishment and the begin-
ning of the present state line construction and
maintenance systems.

Although 14,000 miles of road have been con-
structed in Michigan at a cost of $150,000,000,
it is obvious that there is a great deal more to
be done and to drop a man who is thoroughly
equipped by experience to carry forward the work
to completion, would seem to us the height of
folly, and the opposite of sound business judg-
ment.

 

IS SAPIRO RIGHT?

HEN Aaron Sapiro talked in Michigan a few

days ago he took the fruit growers of our
state, particularly the apple growers, to
task in an not altogether gentle manner.

If Mr. Sapiro is right, the apple—growers of this
state have fallen far below the possibilities of
their product, in preparing it for the market and
grading, inasmuch as even he admitted that the
quality and ﬂavor of Michigan apples was far
superior to those reaching the market from the
far western states, which command a much better
price.

It is our own opinion that strides had been
made through the co-operation of the state soci-
eties and the agricultural college, which are bring—
ing about a gradual improvement in the grading
and marketing methods of our fruit growers, and
if we were unjustly attacked by this nationally
known cooperative marketing organizer, then
Michigan ought to to be defended and promptly.

We do not think that the fruit growers of any
state are any more intelligent, any more energetic,
or any more anxious to make a greater proﬁt from
their efforts. So if there are reasons entering
into this condition, if it exists as charged, then
something must be done about it and soon, or
we will suﬁer an irreparable loss in the buyers

eyes.
A, the large cities by the social workers to
" whom the problem of the homeless girl is
most apparent.

They ﬁnd that the larger majority of these
girls come from the rural district and they claim
that the cost of living in the cities has become
so high, without a corresponding increase in the
earning capacity of the average girl, that it is
almost an economic impossibility to provide from
the wages received a suitable room and necessary
food. It is the old story told again in all its
disagreeable and terrible details. The statement
is made that a girl going to New York cannot
obtain a decent lodging place for less than '310
a week, and this she cannot pay from earnings
averaging from $10 to $18. Thousands of these
Working girls, according to the survey, are unable
to pay more than $5 or $6 a week for a place
in which to live. Miss Cornalia Marshall, presi-
dent of the association, asks what becomes of the
homeless, hungry girl. She answers her own
question thus: “She begins to frequent the

STAY HOME, GIRLS!
FRIENDLY warning is being sent out from

 

 

THE TEAM
By Anne Campbell

Best 01’ team I ever had!
Hitched With jes’ one tether,
Actin‘ allus kinda glad
They wuz hooked together.

Through the mud an’ through the snow,
They wuz not complainin',

Didn't kick on storms, you know!
Didn’t stop for rainin'!

Shared their oats an' shared their hay!
Shared the field an' stable.

Bedded 'e.m with straw, an’ they
Bothrwere confertable!

One a bay, an’ one a. roan,
. Each a good 0’ plodder.
Never Win a. day they'd know:
Want 0' grain an' fodder.

Even to the water trough, 5
Driv one with the other.
Whlnnered if we led one o!
Leavin’ home his brother!

Best 01' team' An' fond, them two!
Allus in high feather!

Feelin' glad, like me an' you—-
They won hitched together!

 

L. _ 1 _

     

   

/ ’ December 20,1924

dance halls, and we ﬁnally become aware of her
only when she is arraigned in the police court.
Estimates made show that of the 126,000 work-
ing girls in New York between the ages of 15
and 25, 25,000 are economically adrift, victims
of the room shortage and the temptations that
beset the unhappin housed. That is a terrible

to“ to take from the homes of thousands of

American families where gripping want has never
been known. It is no idle assumption that the
great majority of these young women have not
gone out into the world because of the necessity
to earn their own food and shelter, but that they
have foolishly determined to seek their fortunes
among strangers, the while hoping to enjoy the
bright lights, gay apparel, and lively companion—
ship. How sad, indeed, has been the awakening
from many such dreams! '

All is not gold that glitters, and the cheerful
ﬁreside in the old home would look a lot better
to our girls if they could see the grimy little
rooms and the awful homesickness which awaits
them in the big cities. Stay home, girls, unless
you are trained as a teacher, nurse, stenographer,
or for some position which will pay enough to
let you live cleanly and comfortably, stay home!

 

THE INTERNA TIONAL

ICHIGAN did not take a back seat at the
M International Livestock Show at Chicago
this year, where particularly in the crop
and seed devisions she shone as in previous years.
The surprising thing is that more farmers in
Michigan do not avail themselves of the nearness
of this exposition because at no other spot we
know of can more" be learned in a shorter space
of time. We actually believe it would be a good
investment for any farmer to spend at least one
day at the International Livestock Show each
year and that his banker ought to be willing to
loan him the money to do it!

You can have the pleasure of going through
the exhibits by turning to Mr. Raney’s article
which appears in this issue. read it and see for
yourself.

 

LESS CROSSINGS KILLINGS

. A. ROWE, chairman of the committee on the
prevention of hughway crossing accidents of
the American Railway Association, claims

that there were 59 less deaths reported during
June and July than during the same period a year
ago“ What the later months prove, his report
does not show.

We have been pointing each issue on this page
to the necessity for better protection of railroad
crossings, and have asked the cooperation of the
State Highway Department, railway executives,
automobile clubs and farm organizations, because
the toll has been mounting to an alarming ﬁgure.

This report looks encouraging. Most of us are
interested in it, because few of us are not con-
tinually menaced by it.

 

ANNE CAMPBELL

was you. the readers of Tm: BUSINESS FABMIEB,

who “discovered” how really sincere and true—

to-life were the poems of Anne Campbell, at
that time editor of the Womans department of
this publication.

Some of her best poems appeared first in THE
BUSINESS FARMER.

Now, Anne Campbell, has climbed the ladder
of her dreams towards the award of success.
Critics freely admit that no one else in America
today has so close a grasp on the homely, senti—
mental side of farm life. Her poems bring the
smell of drying hay, the joy of the ﬁrst bluster-
ing snow—storm or the sweet memories of child-
hood on the farm, as no contemporary poet of
our time seems able to do.

We know our old friends of THE BusINEss
FARMEB are proud of “our Anne" and what she
has accomplished since she left. our ﬁre—side.

Her poems appear daily in a syndicate of news-
papers reaching from coast to coast and with
millions of readers. Each Friday evening she
reads several original poems over the radio from
Detroit News, station WWJ. And now, her ﬁrst
book, which is a collection of her best poems,
entitled “Companionship” has just come from the
presses of a leading eastern publisher who has
earned reputation for selecting coming authors.

We ink it would be a ﬁne idea to show Anne
Campbell this Christmas that a lot of her friends
in the old “Bonuses ansn" days have not for—
gotten her. no we are printing on sdxertisement
anthemmtotothis,offeringtoekiptho
new books. prepaid to your m, for the
regular retail price. No ﬁner Christmas gift to
a friend or relative who enjoys poems could be
imagined and that you will want. to keep one for
your own library goes without saying. Use the
coupon on the opposite page and help us give
“Ana-8” a. real Christmas surprise. Books will.

.beshimd “everyday you're-per few.

   

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CORRESPONDENCE COURSE FOR
' FOREBT RANGER
A "Is the Mokane Institute of Den-
;- v'er, Colorado. a reliable school? I
 want to become a forest ranger and
would like to know if I could prepare
myself for the Work by taking a cor-
respondence course with this school."

I have been investigating this
‘ School and ﬁnd that they ad-
vertise a correspondence course
that is supposed to prepare men to
pass the forest ranger’s examination.
The United States government
does not recommend or indorse any
eocalled civil service schools. The
l forest ranger examination is given
annually by the United States Civil
Service Commission, usually the lat-
ter part of October, and is conducted
by the Forest Supervisors at their
local headquarters. Practical exper-
ience is the main point in passing
one of these examinations, so we can-
not see how it will beneﬁt you to
study with this school. .

 

NILE ART MAN RUNS FASHION
MIRROIDERIES OF LINIA, OHIO

our last issue we published an
INarticle about the Nile Art Com-
pany, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and
told of the president of the company,
Glenn D. Fryer, being arrested by
the United States Post Ofﬁce Depart-
ment and charged with using the
mails to defraud. Since then we
have learned that he is also presi—
dent of the Fashion Embroideries,
Lima, Ohio, and has been operating
‘ that company in the same manner.
[I Fryer will be charged with. intent to
defraud through the mails in both

’ cases. Charges have been made

 

against Marguerite C. Jordan, gen-
eral manager of Fashion Embroider—
loll

RAILWAY MEN WANTED

I _ARLY in November we received

E an order to run the following

advertisement “3 times” and

a check in payment for the space
was enclosed with the order.

"FIREMEN, BRAKEMEN, for

railroads nearest their homes,

everywhere; beginners $150-

8260 monthly (which posi-

tion?) Railway Association,

Desk W21, ——-——-, ——-—-
Following our usual custom before

~ inserting in the Business Farmer the
advertisement of any company with
which we are not thoroughly fami-
liar, no wrote this company asking
them to give us references, both
from men they had placed, and from
railroads who employed their grad-
uates, preferably in Michigan.

This brought forth a prompt reply
which we publish here so all the
world may see and heed:

“Please cancel our order and

return our check!" The Rail-

way Educational Assqciation,

per G. H. B.”

We do not imagine our readers
will require any further statement
from us.

DID OOllIPANY LII‘SREPRESENT ?

In 1919 a company was organized
in Brighton under the name of the
Grand River Sand and Gravel Com-
pany. They bought 100 acres of
land on the Pere Marquette R. R.
They sold me $2,000 Worth of stock
after saying they had tested all over
the land and the be supply of

 

gravel was unlimited. They said if I

 

, Th. Purpose of thl: department In to P"-
teot our subscriber. from fraudulent dullnal
Per unfelr treatment by person: or concern: It
to dlntenoe.

‘e satisfactory settlement or force eotlon. f0?
Mulch no charge for our servloee wlll ever be
Emede. provldlngv:
1.—The olelm I! made by e bald-up sub-
'ta-lber to The Iutlneee Farmer.
ﬂ 2.-——The ololm le not. more than a mot. old.
8.—-The claim It not local or between Peo-
ple wlthln easy dlmnm of one another.
Then should be settled at ﬁrst hand and not
Rettempted by mall.
, Address all letters, giving full particulare.
». lemounte. datee. “0L. encloslnq line your ads
' ,drue label" from the fnont cover of any lune
.to prove that you are e pald-up tubeorlber.
{I'D-IE BUSINESS FARMER. Collection Box
‘ Mt. Clemens. Mloh.

 

1 Report Endlnu December 12, 1’92!
hm: number claims ﬁled........................2892
shoem- Insolveet.....-..-...-......--.-....$ae.0'15.25
\ mu number clum- settled...“ .......... .1189
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In everyone we wlll do our but to make .

 

would furnish some money to get it
started they would pay me interest,
and in three years they would pay
me three dollars for every one that I
put in. This was one of their prom-
ises and only one out of many. They
have never paid me anything yet.
The solicitors worked the plant till
Octcber, 1922, and then leased it to
the Greenville Gravel Company of
Ohio who are operating a large plant
six miles east of this one. The Green-
ville Co. tested the gravel and chang-
ed the machinery and then stopped
working it and moved most of the
best hauling parts to the other plant.
The Greenvill'e Co. is a million dollar
corporation. The Grand River Co.
sold over $200,000 in stock—F. L.
H., Howell, Mich.

F the company who sold you the
I stock, made false representations
to you regarding the company,
you could bring an action against it
for the return of your $2000.00 on
the ground of fraud. However, if
there was no misrepresentation, you
would have to stand your loss along
with the other stockholders.

When a man buys seek in a com—
pany, he is trusting his money to the
integrity and ability of the oﬂicers of
the company, and taking the risk
that the nnterprise in which the com-
pany is engaged Will be profitable.

EIJIGIBLE-TO-REGIS’I‘ER
STOCK
E have had many complaints
from persons who had bought
eligible to register stock and
failed to receive their papers. Care
should be exercised by both buyer
and seller in such cases. If you buy
“pure-bred” stock, you merely accept
the word of the seller that the stock
is “pure bred,” and receive no pa—
pers. If you buy "eligible-to-regis-
ter" stock. you receive the stock and
the pedigree which will enable you
to have the stock registered it you
pay the fee. If you buy “registered”
stock, you buy the stock and the sel-
ler gives you the papers of registry.
Very often the seller does not turn
over the pedigree or registration pa-
pers with the animals sold, and some
delay is occasioned very often in get—
ting the papers through and forward—
ing them to the buyer. Sometimes
this leads to suspicions on the part of
the purchaser. Persons making pur-
chases should not grow impatient or
suspicious without just cause, and
persons making sales should be very
careful not to give cause for sus-
picions. Above all else, the seller
should answer correspondence from
purchasers who are growing anxious
about receiving pedigrees or regis—
tration papers.

WOLVERINE INSURANCE
COlllPAN Y

“I have a question I would like to
ask you? Is the Wolverine Insur-‘
ance Company of Lansing a reliable
concern?”

HE Wolverine Insurance Com-
pany is a stock company, regu-
larly authorized to transact

within the state of Michigan the bus—
iness of fire, inland marine, and au—
tomobile insurance, and the latest
statement in the hands of the depart-
ment of Insurance of Lansing as to
their ﬁnancial condition is that as
shown by their annual report ﬁled
with that Department as of Decem-
ber 31, 1923. It shows: Total ad—
mitted assets, $405.252.06; total li-
abilities except capital, $22,823.74;
capital paid up, $323,175.00; sur-
plus, $59,253.32.

 

OLSON RUG OODIPANY

“I have some cloth that I want
made into rugs and have been
thinking about having the Olson
Rug Company, Chicago, Illinois,
make them. Do you know it the
company is reliable? Have you ev-
er seen any of their work? Thank-
ing you for any information you
may be able to give me and with
best wishes tor The Business Farm-
er's success.”

HAVE talked, with three or four

diﬂerent ladies: who. have had. ,

the Olson Rug Company make
rugs for them and all of these ladies
spoke very highly of the work don
by this (tummy. ‘

 

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are a most sensible re-
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Anne’s Christmas lﬁarig

S mentioned on the editorial page opposite we are planning to
A give Anne Campbell, at one time Woman’s Editor of The Busi—

ness Farmer, a real Christmas surprise.

We want to prove to her that a good many readers have not
forgotten her, just because she is getting famous.

Her ﬁrst book of poems is just off the press. We have secured
a quantity and will ship them at the regular retail price, doing the
wrapping and paying the postage as our contribution to the sur-
prise party!

“COM 5y Almze Campﬁe/I

You can solve some of your Christmas problems right here, by
ordering two or three extra copies. Don’t order just one to give
away, because if you ever start reading it you’ll never part with it!

-—————AND MAYBE!

We won't promise it, because this is to be a surprise on Anne!
But we'll wager that if you send a little note with your order
coupon below, telling Anne Campbell that you would like to have
an autographed copy, she’ll be glad to write her name in your copy.
Try it and see! We know she has a mighty soft spot in her heart
for “our folks”.

Well, here is the coupon —we’ll ship the books the same day
your order is received unless you write a note asking Anne to auto-
graph your copy— or we’ll ship the copies you want to give away
immediately and hold your own copy until we ask that it be
autographed.

In any event, no time to spare— help us give Anne Campbell
a real Christmas surprise from her Business Farmer friends!

Bound in Cloth—~8x5——-$I.25 per copy, Postpaid

 

 

The Michigan Business Farmer,
' Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

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Ship me by parcel post .......... .. copies of Anne Campbell’s “Companionship”,
" a collection of her best poems, for which I enclose S ..........  ..... ..
 To ......  .....  R. F. D. No. ..... ........... '
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
God bless you all this Christmas Day
And drive the cares and griefs away.
Oh, may the shining Bethlehem star
Which led the wise men from afar
Upon your heads, good sirs. still glow
To light the path that ye should go.

As God once blessed the stable grim
And made it radiant for Him;

As it was ﬁt to shield His Son,

May thy roof be a holy one;

May all who come this house to share
Rest sweetly in His gracious care.

Within they walls may peace abide,
The peace for which the Savior died.
Though humble be the rafters here,
Above them may the stars shine clear,
And in this home thou lovest well
May excellence of spirit dwell.

God bless you all this Christmas Day;
May Bethlehem’s star still light thy way
And guide thee to the perfect peace
When every fear and doubt shall cease.
And may thy home such glory know
As did the stable long ago.

(COpyright, Edgar A. Guest.)

EEEQ
IF YOU DON’T HAVE TURKEY
TRY ONE OF THESE

HE ﬂesh of the goose is rich, soft
and of wonderful ﬂavor. It
should be stuffed with a plain
bread dressing, roasted in a moder-
ate oven and elevated during cooking
on a rack or grid in the pan so that
the excess grease sweated out may
not cook back into the bird. Always
serve some acid accompaniment such
as skinned baked apples, tart jellied
apples, prunes, sharp currant or
gooseberry jelly, or a water—ice of
cranberry, cider, orange or lemon.
Such side dishes are necessary to
counteract any rich and oily meat,
both for pleasing contrast in eating

and for better digestion.

Duck, guinea—hen and partridge
have dark ﬂesh and are more dry
than either goose or turkey. They
therefore need must basting if roast-
ed, and are particularly delicious if
prepared by a braising process, thus
adding moisture and softness to the
meat. Thin slices of either bacon or
salt pork larded on the top or skew—
ered on with toothpicks will act as
a self-basting device to keep the
ﬂesh, especially the breast, tender.
However, it is well to remmeber that
the breast of any fowl should always
be set downward during the early
cooking, and turned uppermost only
during the last period of the roast-
ing. Bread or giblet stufﬁng, or more
fancy kinds such as potato, chestnut
or oyster, may be used, and these
birds also require acid accompani-
ments as with the goose, or such side
dish may be in the form of a tart
salad with a sharp dressing, such as
orange and cress, grapefruit and en~
dive, etc. The gravy may also be
given a. tang by dissolving cranberry-
pulp in it, or using part of a glass of
any acid jelly.

Capon, chicken and partridge re-
quire about the same treatment, es-
timating the length of the cooking
according to the si..e. An attractive
variation from the conventional
stuffed and roast fowl is that known
as “smothered” chicken, capon or
other bird.. This is really the result
of a braising process where the bird
is split straight through the back, the
body extended breast down, and the
cooking done slowly under moderate
heat and with considerable moisture.
A cream or giblet gravy makes this
into a very “company dinner”, espec-
ially when served with the “trim—
mings” of other courses and with
such suitable vegetables as green
peas, asparagus, artichokes, cauli-
ﬂower or Brussels sprouts.

Rabbit and hare deserve mention
all their own, for in olden times a
rabbit pie or “jugged” hare held the
spotlight on the festal board. And
even now either may be the chief
holiday plat if cooked correctly. In
some localities can be bought cheaply
and the choice parts (legs) of several
can be developed into the most tooth-
some and delicious stew or casserole
dish. Reserve the backs, etc., for
broth and use only the legs, ﬁrst
sauteing in butter or other fat to
give color and richness. Dredge with
ﬂour, pour over them boiling stock
and simmer as usual in casserole
fashion, covered, using bay-leaf, pep-
per, plenty of onions, a few carrots
and celery. diced. A dash of Worces-
tershire sauce, stoned olives or ca-
pers seem to go particularly well
with this flavor of meat. Hare and

squirrels are prepared the same way.

 

  
   
  
  

  

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l'ﬁ' 3!th * ~

From the bottom of my
heart I wish each and every
one of you a merry, merry
Christmas and a most pros-
perous New Year.

Address letters:

 

and in any case a rich crust and fan-
cy “rose” of rolled pastry may be
added to the top in the old—fashioned
manner of a typical rabbit pie, equal-
ly relished no less by modern men.

Squabs and quail are always band-
led by a quick broiling method, and
well brushed with melted fat during
the cooking, or else larded with ba-
con. They are preferably served on
toast moistened with drippings and as
usual with game or high—seasoned
fowl, currant or other tart jelly or
fruit sherbet is passed and eaten with

them.
ﬁfﬁﬁ

M. A. C. FINDS WAY TO CARRY
ON EXTENSION WORK

“ HERE there is a will there is
a way” is an old saying and
friend husband declares this

applies more to a woman than to a.

man. Apparently the Home Econ-

omics Extension Service Department

of the M. A. C. remembered this old

saw when the State Legislature and

boards of supervisors of the counties
failed to provide funds for home
economic extension work in the state,
because they immediately started out
to find a way around the difﬁculty.

At the present time there are only
12 women, under the direction of
Mrs. Louise H. Campbell, state leader
of home demonstration agents,
spending full time in the work in
Michigan. Six are home demonstra-
tion agents in Ottawa, Kent, Kala—
mazoo, Oakland, Marquette and
Wayne counties, another is in charge
of all home economic extension work
in the upper peninsula, and three
are specialists and work-directly un—
der Mrs. Campbell and her assistant,
Mrs. Julia Reeky, at the College.
It was an impossibility for these 12
Women to do all the work being plan-
ned—but what was to be done? After
much thought it was ﬁnally decided
to train women in each county to
pass the knowledge along to their
neighbors. These women who are
trained in some particular division of
Home Economics by one of the spe-
cialists actually go to school two
days a month for four months. If the
subject is clothing they learn how
line and color may be utilized in
making women’s clothes look attrac-
tive and how to select and wear
clothes. If the subject is nutrition

  
 

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. . . ‘ .epartment for the Women 
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EAR FOLKS: Christmas is the one day of the year when time

rolls backward and we all become children once more.

seen men who were most digniﬁed and business-er 364 days
of the year get. down on the ﬂoor on their hands and knees Christmas
Day and play with the children’s toys until they begged mother to
make Daddy let them play with their toys too. These men were boys
again for a day—yes many women are Just as bad, I know.
should be more days like that during the year because we take life
too serious and grow old too soon.
play a little every now and then, it will save many a doctor bill.

Mrs. Annie Teyler, care The Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens. Illlchlasn.

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they learn about the most helpful
foods and how these may be pre-
pared, or if the subject is home man-
agement they learn how steps may
be saved in the proper kitchen ar-
rangements.

The training school will consist of
from tWelve to ﬁfteen women, ap-
pointed, elected, or volunteering to
take the series of lessons and com-
mittees are appointed to look after
publicity and other details. Usually
the women work in pairs, passing
their information on to ladies’ aid
societies, federation of women’s clubs
local branches of Women’s Christian
Temperance Union, and other groups.

Mrs. Campbell declares she is very
much enthused over the new plan
and that the women of the state are
responding to it with great enthus-
iasm. She states that those who take
the special short course are so pleas-
ed to get the training themselves
that they are very glad to pass it on.

“Much rivalry has been created
between communities in the same
county," Miss Campbell says, “and
between counties as to the number of
families persuaded to put the ap-
proved plan into effect.

“Each woman when she signs up
for the course agrees to train ten
others. This means that the effec-
tiveness of all work is multiplied
approximately ten times.” .

The workers are in hopes that pro-
per demand will become so strong
that Board of Supervisors will appro-
priate the necessary funds to carry
on the work. It is said that County
Agricultural Agents are cooperating
very fully and everyone is very op-
timistic on how this is going to turn
out.

Twenty-two counties are following
this plan of organized project work.
Is your county one of them? If you
are interested, write to Mrs. Camp—
bell or to me.

eras

MOLASSES IS HEAJJI‘HY
SWEET
0T every one realizes that some
sweets are better than others.
For instance, molasses is a more
healthful and nourishing sweet than
reﬁned sugar because it contains con-
siderable amounts of iron and lime
which sugar has lost in the process of

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FARM CHILDREN SUPERIOR

0'18 involving 20,000 high school pupils representing every state
in the Union show that farm children make better progress than

other children through high school.

This is true because of the

unusually good prdgress of farm girls. The facts show also that a-
highor percentage of farm girls than of other girls are enrolled and

that the percentage of elimination from high school is. lower.

Unless

we concede remarkable sex differences of ability between farm boys
and girls, therefore, we must abandon the ancient myth that: the farm
stock is decaying and that all the brains have migrated to thepcities.

Sentixnentalists who have sought to improve rural education by
raising the bogey of decay of the farm stock and have advanced a pro-
gram designed to keep the most intelligent on the farm must seek an-

other leg to stand on.
It is yet educable.

The farm stock is still virile and intelligent
We must not fear to-ofl’er to country children an

unbiased liberal education and permit, oven encourage, those so
minded and ﬁtted to seek opportunity wherever it beckons whether
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l manufacture. It‘s a good idea to  '
molasses occasionally in the 'meal‘

plans—hot gingerbread, molasses
cookies, and brown bread are winter
dishes which are good for everyone:
Old—fashioned molasses pop corn
balls are a Christmas confection that
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Personal Column

 

:

To Write Articles.—Will you please tell
me through your department in Tin
BUSINESS FARMER if it is necessary for
me to join the Press Syndicate in order
to write household articles, etc, for pay?
I haVe been led to believe so but did not
feel I could pay the fee they charged
unless necessary.-—-Mrs. B., Hillsdnle
County, Mich.

—You are not obliged to join the Press
Syndicate or any other syndicate, my
dear Mrs. B., so that you may write
articles for remuneration. Write your
articles and submit them to any publisher
or publication you wish. You need not
write a letter, just write your name and
address in the upper left hand corner of
each page and at the top of the first
page in the right hand corner write “Sub-‘
mitted at your usual rates” and your
articles will be given attention. It is best
to have the articles typewritten, and when
you submit an article he sure to enclose
a. self-addressed, stamped envelope or re-
turn postage so that the article will I).
returned if not available.

Wants Wall Paper.—I am in need 0!
wall paper and would be very glad If
some of the readers had some they did
not use last season and would care to
send it to me. I thank them in advance.
—Mrs. Manse] Cone, Roscommon, Mich.

 

 

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Street Introductions.—When two girls
who are walking in the street meet e.
person who is a friend or acquaintance of
one of the girls, but not of the other, the
girl who is unacquainted with the person
met does not stop. She walks along,
slowly, while her friend stops to speak
to the person they have met. The first
girl should not stop and introduce her—
self to this person who she does not know.
If the newcomer, instead of passing on
after a few remarks have been exchanged.
is invited to join her friend and does so,
the first girl, who has walked slowly on,
will be overtaken and she will naturally
be introduced when the others catch up
with her. The newcomer, however, must
wait to be asked to join the others, and
should not volunteer to do so.

You may with entire propriety intro—
duce yourself to some intimate friend of
your sister or mother, where a cordial
reception of your self-introduction may
be presumed. In the worst possible taste,
however, is a self—introduction which pre—
sumes on a slight acquaintance or no
acquaintance at all.

Fellow-travellers may introduce then;-
selves to one another, when they are wo—
men. Ordinarily, however, no gentleman
addresses himself to a lady who is a.
stranger to him under these circum-
stances, and no lady speaks to a gentle-
man unknown to her, save where the
freedom 6f steamer manners or some ex-
ceptional circumstances excuses breaking
the rule. When two men walking
meet someone who is a friend of only
one of them, the same rule quoted for
the case of the two girls applies, and the
man who does not know the newcomer
walks on slowly by himself.

 

 

Christmas Dinner

 

 

Oysters
Celery
Tomato Soup

Roast Turkey, Cranberry Jelly
Mashed Turnips Brussels Sprouts

Orange and Celery Salad
Vanilla Blane-Mange
‘English Plum Pudding
Fruit Coffee

*English Plum Puddlnz.—1 oupful bread
crumbs, 1 oupful ﬂour, 1 oupful brown
sugar, yg oupful fat, 1 teaspoonful salt.
2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1 teaspoon-
ful mixed spices, 3 eggs, 1 oupful milk,
35 oupful seeded raisins, 1/2 oupful chopped
candied citron peel, 1 cupful currants, 1;"
oupful chopped preserved ginger, 34 cup-
ful brandy, lﬁ oupful chopped English
walnut meats. Mix flour with bread-
crumbs, add fat, sugar, salt, baking pow-
der, spices, nuts, fruit, milk, eggs well
beaten, and brandy. Pour, into greased
mold, cover with greased papersnd steam
steadily for four hours, turn 'out" and
nerve with liquid or hard sauce. The
brandy may be omitted.

Mangoes Stuffed Olives

 

 

RECIPES

 

 

Best JumbleI.—2 oupfuls sugar, 1 cup-
ful fat, 4‘ eggs, 4 oupful: ﬂour, 3 table-
spoonfuls milk, 1 teaspoonful sa.lt,,_ 3 tea-
spoonfuls baking powder, 1 teaspoonful
almond extinct, 1 teaspoonful rose extract.
Creamdat and sugar thoroughly together,
then gradtu add mswell beaten. now
add milk. ‘extracts, ﬂour, salt and ’_ ',
powder. m: and roll out,th on

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cut into circles
with" doughnut cutter, lay on greased
tins and bake in moderate oven from
seven to ten minutes or till light brown.
These cookies will keep fresh two weeks,
and if milk is left out. a month. Sufﬁc-
ient for seventy jumbles.

Caramel Rice Pnddlng.-—1-3 cupful rice,
as teaspoonful lemon extract, 3 eggs, 2
tablespoonfuls fat, 3.4 teaspoonful salt, 2
»cupfuls milk, 14 cupful sultana raisins, 2
tablespoonfuls powdered sugar and 174,
cupful granulated sugar. Melt granu-
lated sugar in small saucepan and cook
until brown, but do not burn, pour it while
hot into pudding mold and spread it all
inside. Wash rice, parboil, drain,
and cook slowly in milk thirty minutes;
turn into basin, add powdered sugar, fat,
salt, raisins, extract, and eggs well beaten
and pour into prepared mold. Set mold
in pan of boiling water and bake in oven
till quite set. ’Turn out and serve hot
or cold.-.

 

 

The Runner’s . Bible

(Copyright by Houghton Miﬂ'iin Co.)

 

 

The joy of the Lord is your strength.
Neh. 8:10. Cultivate happiness, en-
deavor to look pleasant." ‘No matter what
your mood. act always as though you were
happy. Happiness is contagious and it is
every Christian’s duty to add to this
world’s store of it.

 

 

HOMZESPUN YARN

A small beater of the one egg size is
a useful gift for any household.
3 t O

Aunt Ada’s Axioms: The children don’t
seem to be bringing their parents up as
well as they used to.

i t t .

Why not make it a practice to can a
few Jars of cranberry sauce each time
it’s made for winter menus?

AIDS To, GOOD DR ESSING

BE SURE AND SEND IN YOUR SIZE

4826. A New and S _ '
model for charmeen WithmgggldSter. F]

iva be \V'Il‘ll

tern is (31E 1? 7 Sizes: 36, 38, 40 I
yar s 0 one mat ‘ ' ’ "

material for the undeernslilri iiidmcms “Ida.

Width of the skirt at the foot is 1 % yard.

4912. A Simple One-Piece A ron—— ‘
model. Drill, muslin and crctonn: are algdrEﬁg

cuﬂ’ fittings, and

Small, 34-36: Medium, 38-40' L 0-
size requires 3% yards of 36 ihchahgteriu‘l.4

4870.
also attractive in linen,
1111 111an year sfﬁtrequires

e as i ‘
40 inches wide. m ed, It

4929.

silk alpace or ratine

Wlll require {*4

A Simple "Day"

in 7 Sizes: 34.
inches bust measure.
38 inch size requires

»

terinl and yard

4910. A
—-Plaid woolen
trusting color
The collar is
$3. length or,

with

32 inches wide. If

material.

of crepe, or iisinsook
used. for ‘jilance"
be in wrist length or

yea rs. A year size

he dress. If
sleeves it will require 1

or jersey Weaves.
. and 5

2.1/6 ’yards of 27 years.

yard will be

sine requires 2 1A;

 

t. , s'llred silk and satin are here combined.
it is very attractive. The "tuniri'l‘mmmg or embroiii/irry for dq‘omnon.
12. 44, 46 and 48 inches bust measure. _
If made as illustrated it will require 3% yards of ﬁgured

3% yards of plain material for the "

_seersucker or percale would be very good for this
suit; and serviceable. ‘
Extra Large,
This model is cut without underarm seams.

An Attractive One Piece Dress—(ire (13] arid ﬁgured silk are here combined-
. 8
4 yards of one material 40

yard of ﬁgured material and 3%

Dress'r—The straightline dress is as ever
model With new features.
gured crepe or in silk alpaca.
good in serge or charmeen.
38, 40, 42, 44 and 46
iii/made of one material a
If made as 5illustrated 3%){3
. ‘ of plain is

Width of the skirt at the foot is 1% yard.

Stylish Frock
‘ 1 facinfgs of
vns eiosen or h" '
convertible. t is pleasmg model.
short as in
sttern 1? cut in 4 Sizes: 6
0 year size requires 3
' 03 made as
require .. /8 yards of plaid and %

4907. A Simple Pract'
Glrl.—.Thi_s model will malk
frock in gingham or wool creeps.

cal Frock_for Mother’s

or party wear.
short and comfortable”.
re‘SlZeSZ 4. 6, 8 and 10
inch material for the guiiii‘iidfs
the guimpe is

yard.

This Pattern is cut‘in 4

4922. A Comfortable
Small Raﬁ—Checked ginin
combined. This style is good a
The 1

am and liiiene are here

’aktern is cut .1“ 4 Sizes:

inch material.

and facings of contrasting mater
required.

in vogue. The Pattern is cut in 4 ' '
34—36; Medium, 38—40; Large, 42448-12336 Sii‘iliii
rge, 40-48 inches bust measure. 'A ed‘ium

yards of 36 inch material.

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

Order from this or former Issues of Th
Farmer, alvlna number and sign0
name and address plainly.

ADD 106 FOR FALL AND WI
1924-1925 FASHION BOO-'31!"

Address ’all orders for pattern: to
Pattern Department
THE BUSINESS FARMER
Mt. Clemens, Mich.

  
   
  
   
 
  
  
  
  
   
 
 
  
   
    
   
   
  
  
 
 
 
 
     
  
   
    
  
  
    
   
 
   
    
   
       
       
    
    
  
 

A firm lining inside'the' pockets of the

kiddies’ sweaters will help to keep them

from stretching and tearing.
. t iv
Two or three strips of bacon added to
the. dish of macaroni and cheese just be-
fore putting it in the oven will improve
the ﬂavor.
O . i~
Trailing evergreens or hemlock and
cedar boughs with pine cones are the
ﬁnest of Christmas decorations for the
home. A box of these greens would be
greatly appreciated by city relatives or
friends.
1 $ t
Don’t guess—Ameasure.
recipe has failed because a
was heaping".

Many a good
“level” cup

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Try usinga tablespoon or two of some
of the chills and relishes in the boiled
salad dressing.

t II t

Aunt Ada's Axioms: Children must
have a square deal if they are expected
to deal squarely.

t I

The apple a day may sometimes be
in a salad. Sweet onion, cabbage or
celery may be used with the apple.

t t It

Don’t hold your breath and fear the
worst when you put your cake in the
oven. Use a thermometer and be certain.

t t t

When ironing, some“ housekeepers find
a sprig of cedar vey satisfactory for oil~

ing the iron.
it II! t

Water-glass for preserving eggs should

be used in the proportion of one part
water-glass to nine parts of water. The
eggs should be clean. smooth, and in-

fertile; .the container 3. clean earthen-
ware crock.
t t *
A successful rural leader must be a
good farmer.
II! t 1!
Cows do not enjoy moldy silage,
it makes horses sick.

and

This is also a good
In faille silk and broadcloth
or s‘cevMess under drrss. The Pot-
A 38 inch size requires

on)" sh »

"tunic. The

The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes:
64-48 inches bust measure. A Medium

This model is
.attern is cut in Sizes: 16, 18 and 20 years.
inches Wide. The width at the foot is.1% yard.
yards of plain material

popular,
One could have this in
It is also very
The Pattern is cut

tliis

It appears in

yards 40 inches wide.
yards of ﬁgured ma—
required. The

for the Growing Girl.
crepe In a CO!)-

Tlie slecse may be In
the large veiw. The
, 8. 10 and 12 years.
yards of one material
illustrated it will
yard of plain

e a serviceable school
With the guiinpe
he dress may also be
The sleeve may

 

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made with short

 

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OF GASOLINE

A new automatic and self-regulat-

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trouble and overheating. it can be
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Mr. Stransky wants distributors and
is Willing to send a sample at his own.
risk. Write him today.——Adv.

COAL

Ohio, W-Va. and Ky. Shaker screened Lump coal
in carload lots at attractive prices. Best qusli
guaranteed. Farmer Agents Wanted. Buy di
from the mines and save money.

THEO. BURT a SONS. Melrose, Ohio.

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address on
postal card

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EAR boys and girls: I suppose
your mothers and fathers no not
recognize you as the same boys

and girls that have been living at
their home for several years. I know
it is only a few days until Christmas
and everyone likes to be popular
with Santa Claus. It sometimes
seems real hard work to be good and
you feel that you need a large re-
ward but after Christmas just contin—
ue to be real good and thoughtful of
others. Help mother and father all
you can. After you have been good
for another month you will forget
that it is hard work and you will
want to be that way always.

I know there are none of you who
are not good right down in your
heart but many times you are asked
to do something and you do not want
to do it because you are busy playing
or reading, or you disobey your par—
ents without thinking. When I was
a boy I often made these mistakes
and I always felt sorry afterwards,
You do too, don’t you? So let us all
see how good and helpful we can be
the whole year round.

Our best letter contest was won by
Muriel Frey of Caledonia, Mich.
You all remember Muriel. I am sure.

Have you written to Albert Smith
yet? He is expecting a letter from
you.

I wish you all a most joyous
Christmas and happy New Year.—
UNCLE NED.

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OUR GIRLS AND BOYS

Dear Uncle Ned2—I received the prize
which you sent me in reply to the contest
I few weeks ago. I was very much sur—
prised and pleased and so forth so I wish
to thank you very kindly. I like to read
the letters from the other boys and girls
in THE Buernss FARMER. Yours truly.
p—Margaret McQueen, Snover, Michigan.

Qﬁiﬂ

Dear Uncle Nedz—VVhen I came home
from school tonight, we were having a
typical November robin-«told and dreary—
whieh I think will turn into snow before
night. I don’t like November weather
very well, do you? In fact I like March
and November the least of all months of
the year.

October, the "golden month”, is my
favorite. Some friends and I donned our
knickers, and, chaperoned by mother and
another lady Went out in the woods to
gather bittersweet berries. For some rea—
son our “old stamping grounds“ were
pretty bare of berries this year—I guess
because we were a little later than usual
and others had gathered them before us—
so we had to climb trees to get enough
for all of us. We succeeded; but our
arms were all scratched badly. But then
Why worry? Our arms will be, healed in
a few days—long before the berries are
bursted open. You know the berries are
supposed to be hung upside down for a
couple weeks and then placed in jars and
they are beautiful all winter.

Most people favor springr as the nicest
time of the year, but I think October,
when the woods are radiant with tinted
leaves, fruits ripened, corn in shocks and
fall ﬂowers with a profusion of colors
are nodding in the garden, is the “crown-
ing glory” and worth waiting a year for.
Maybe another reason that I favor Oc-
tober (?) is because my natal day occurs
in that month.

One reason that helps me “to grin”
thru November‘s thirty days of rain is
because I know winter will soon be here
and l like winter next best. I enjoy the
cold. crispy, snappy mornings when the
snow squeaks under your feet on the way
to school. Then too I like winter sports
such as coasting, skating and sleigh ride
parties. I have been dropping hints lately
that I'd like a “Flexible Flyer” sled for
Christmas and I have a sneaking idea
that daddie will get me one, judging by
the twinkle in his eyes when l mention
it and then too he has always been
especially keen on winter sports himself.

I guess I’m warm and dry now so I’ll
go help mother prepare supper. When I
came from school I was cold and damp
So I sat down by the furnace and read
“The Children's Hour" in the M. B. F.
which came today, and then took pencil
and paper and wrote this for the letter
contest. Yours very sincerely—Muriel
Frey, Caledonia, Michigan, Age 12.

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Dear Uncle Nedzq—I have never written
to you before, but now I am going to
enter the original letter contest, Just to
see what I can do. It is a dandy plan
to have such a contest. I'm sure that
none of us want to be copy cats, altho’

‘ "it is human nature, as you say.

1 will tell you about my school. I am
,in the tenth grade and like my teacher
wary much. Some pupils never like their
teachers, but believe me boy: and girls,
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always willing to do everything she can
to help you. There are only twenty—one
pupils in my room, but I think that our
school is the best school in the world.
Which subjects do you like best in school,
pals? I like all of them except Algebra,
and I positively detest that, but I try to
work it anyway. We are going to have
examinations tomorrow. Like exams? I
do.

I suppose that most of you are glad
that winter is coming. It is lots of fun
coasting down hill if you don't tumble off
before you reach the bottom. There is a
large hill on our farm and we have lots
of fun coasting down it. We. are planning
a coasting party for this winter. Won't
that be fun? How many of you girls
like to cook? I can make cake, but that's
about all. I’ll tell you something that no—
body can cook. Water on a red hot stove.
Ha! Ila!

Now I am going to give you some in—
teresting information about the town of
Omer. It has four churches, five stores,
two garages, a town hall, a Masonic hall,
one skating rink. and one school. The
population is about three hundred and
fifty. Very large, isn‘t it? The only
thing about Omer is that there are no
murders committed in it overnight.

In another day, we shall celebrate
Thanksgiving. I think there is a lot of
things to be thankful for, don’t you, Uncle
Ned? We should be thankful for our
parents, friends, relation, good health, our
good homes and we should be thankful
that we are able to go to school and ac—
quire an education. Ilere’s wishing all of
my new friends and l‘ncle Ned the hap—
piest Thanksgiving and I hope that you
all have so much to eat that you won't
know where to pack it all. But anyway
you can save some for Christmas. Think
it would help? I don‘t. Well I will say
good—bye to you all. Your sincere niech—
Lillian V. Kent, Omer, Michigan. Age 16.

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Dear Uncle Ned :—-——I saw in the editorial
of the Children's Hour in the past issue
of the M. B. F. you had opened another
contest. I tried on the last contest but
I remembered the old saying “If at ﬁrst
you don‘t succeed, try, try again" so here
I am. To—day is Thanksgiving. As I sit
here I think of what a lot we have to be
thankful for. But still some of us oom—
plain. I am a farm girl: 17 years of age.
I keep house for my father and three
brothers. I ﬁnd some splendid hints in
the women’s department of the M. B. F.
My father has taken the M. B. F. for
three years, we ﬁnd it a very hepfuJ paper
for the farmers. We had our ﬁrst good
snow of the season to-day, and it is still-
snowing. I think I will tell you some-
thing of the country where I live. I live
in Clare county, in Sheridan township.
It is the best township in the county, the
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And do what you know is right,
As you should.
Down the chimney he will creep,
Bring for you a woolly sheep,
And a doll that goes to sleep,
If you’re good.

SANTA Claus will come tonight

Santa Claus will ,drive his sleigh.
Through the wood,

But he’ll come around this way
If you’re good.

With a wind-up bird that sing:

And a puzzle made of rings,

He will bring you many things
If you’re good.

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ship. The little, town. of Clare is one of
the best thriving towns around. Corn is
our main crop, oats and beans are pos-
sibly the next. sugar beets are raised
quite a lot here also. The land is mostly
loam in this county. Fruit wasn’t very
plentiful in this county this year due to
the late frosts and dry weather.—Miss
Hilda Armentrout, R6, Clare, Michigan.

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Dear Uncle Ned:‘—I wonder how many
would be interested to hear of my trip to
the “Sunny South”.

It was on October 3rd, 1922, that my
sister, her husband and their family and
myself left Union City, Michigan, for
Florida. We drove an Auburn car, and,
as We intended camping out along the
way, “'0 had a nicely equipped trailer in
which to make our home. We went by
the route of Washington, I). C., where we
stopped for about a week Sight-seeing,
when wo again resumed our journey. ()ur
next stop for any length of time was at
Savannah, 1a., where we spent two nights

and a day, having a lover time. \Ve
found the Georgians the most hospitable
people imaginable; always .ioing some-

thing for the pleasure of the tourists.
\Ve then stopped over a day at Brunswick,
Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla” where we ar—
rived on Navy Day. As Daytona, Fla”
was to be our headquarters, We were
anxious to arrive there and reached that
place about three weeks from the time
we started. We toured the Eastern part
of Florida and then my folks deciding
they were not satisﬁed, prepared to re-
turn home. W'e came by the way of Tenn—
essee and Kentucky, where we found bad
roads. nice people and some snow.
Thanksgiving night we had pork Steak,
potatoes boiled with the skins on. coffee,
bread and butter and numerous victuals,
but say; that was the best Thanksgiving
dinner I ever ate, after riding in the open
air all day. \l'e arrived home early in
December, and I want to say I never had
a more enjoyable trip and I camped every-
where from in someOue’s chicken yard to
the middle of a new road bed just being
made.

\Vell as my letter is getting long, and
the hands of time are pointing to all
"Childrens" bed time, I will close. Lov-
ineg your niece and cousin—Elizabeth
Yoder, Maple City, Michigan, RI.

QE§§

Dear Uncle Nedz—I hope you will not
squeeze me out of the door this time, as
last time I didn’t see my letter in print,
but I'm going to try again. Uncle Ned,
I‘m going to tell you how I earned my
spending money during the summer.

Dad rented a tract of land to me, about
10 by 12 feet square. Upon this I raised
an enormous crop of cucumbers. I sold
them at wholesale price, and I obtained

  

Jumping jacks and cars that go,
If you're good,
And a rocking-homey, Oh!
If he would!
And a dolly that can sneeze,
That says, "Mammal" when you squeeze,
He’ll bring you one of these
If you're good.

Santa. grieves when you are bad,
As he should:

But it makes him very glad
When you're good.

He is wise and he’s a dear;

Just do right and never fear;

He'll remember you each year,
If you're good.

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a sum of money of about ‘87P85. When
the wild berries were ripe 'I sold L90 cents
worth of them. Do you think that ‘it was
a good way for me to spend my spare than
last summer? For this winter I’m going
to earn some money by raising a little
black Berkshire pig. I’m paying "dad '
Wholesale prices for the feed, and I’m sure
I’m going to make good. He gains about
% of a pound per day. He is so fat he
can hardly “Grunt”. Uncle Ned, I think
I will have to close for tonight. So
good-night. From your little want-to-be
niece—Kathryn Paul, Waucedah, Mich,

Age 14.
sets

Dear Uncle Ned:—Am rather late in
writing to you bnt it was a mere fact of
forgetfulness, but as they say “better
late than never”. 1 received your check
of a dollar and was very much surprised
to hear that I had won Second prize. I
thank you immensely for the check. We
have taken your paper for some time and
like it very much. Roman Fedewa, Fow-
ler, Michigan.

ﬁtﬁg

Dear Uncle Nedz—I have written once
before, but thought I would write while
the contest was on. I am 14 years old.
We ought to have some subject to write
upon, such as an experience of any kind.
I think horse-back riding is very amusing.
I ride horse—back every once in a while,
when I get time. Once a friend, named
Arlene, and I went horse—back, on one
horse, it wasn’t a very fat horse either.
Arlene weighed about 120 pounds and lo
did I. We went past a neighbor‘s house,
we made the horse run, and all we could
do was to hang on, but we were laughing
so hard, and gazing all around, she sat
in front of me and when she went off I
went off too on the hard ground. But we
didn't stay there‘ very long, we were on
our feet in no time. It hurt us a little.
but not much. We got on the horse and
rode away so no one would know it. Well
I guess this is all of that. I had one,
just this fall, but I’ll discuss that some
other day. I must close my chatter box
for a while. Your loving niece—Laura.
Klaus, L’rown City, Michigan.

ﬁtﬁg

Dear Uncle Nedz—Well how are you
today? Is your rheumatism any better?
I hope so. Well tomorrow is Thanksgiv-
ing and I suppose not only my mother
but everyone‘s mother is stufling turkeys
and baking pies and oh won‘t all these
things be good to eat when it comes din-
nor time! My goodness I can hardly
wait until tomorrow! Can you? And
I'm sure everyone has something to thank
God for. i know my heart is just over—9“
flowing with thanks to our Father in
heaven who has done so much for me
and I'm sure that even the little children
who have not riches and are too poor to
have so many good things for a Thanks—
giving dinner can thank the dear Lord
that they are living and have their dear
parents with them. Don‘t you feel the
same way Uncle Ned? Your affectionatia
niece—Mary E. Nalta, Old Mission, Mich.
care of A. A. Johnson.

ﬁiﬁﬁ

Dear Uncle Nedz—May I join your
happy circle? I will describe myself. ‘I
am ﬁve feet and three inches tall, have
light blond hair, blue eyes and light com—
plexion. I live on a 160-acrc farm, one
mile and three quarters from school. I
am in the eighth grade and am 13 years
old. We have two horses and three
mules, ten cows but expect to have twelvo
this summer. My father signed up for
the M. B. F. the seventh of August. I
was almost tickled to death because I
just love to read the Children's Hour,
and the stories. I have one brother.
My brother and I are the only children
in the family, my brother is nine years
old. I guess Tiny is a girl because one
of my girl friend's name is Tiny. Any—
body that guesses this riddle will receive
a letter from me. I went to the woods
and there I got it, I sat down and cried
but took it home because I couldn’t help
it. What was it? Your lovingly want—
to—be niece—Beatrice Yager, R2, Box
118, McBain, Michigan.

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Dear Uncle Nedz—I think Mr. Waste
Basket must be pretty fat now. He gob—
bled up one of my letters already. Well
I guess I had better describe myself. Am
4 feet 5 inches tall, weigh 70 pounds, blue
eyes and light brown hair. My age is
between 8 and 12 and the cousin that
guesses the right age will get a letter
from me. Well I guess I had better
close now. From your want-to-be nephew,
John Terpstra, Box 44, Caledonia, Mich.

EIEE

Dear Uncle Neat—Here I am again,
thanks to your encouragement. Bur-r-r'!
How cold it is. Our first snow fell No-
vember 13th and I guess winter has come
to stay. I’ll be glad when I can wail»
through snow up to my hips. Have you
ever tried it? It is lots of fun in the
evening. Your niece—Pearl Ramos.
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heard by anyone who happened to be
rude enough to laugh at me in my
tace, and whenever it was under-
stood it always had a. remarkable

eﬂect.

We Were always picked out as
Americans the minute we entered an
inn or restaurant, and the suspicion
was conﬁrmed as soon as we opened
our mouths to speak or laugh—
and since we did our share of both
of these great American pastimes
our identity was never concealed for
very long. One evening we seemed
to be the object of some special good-
natured stares and grins from three
men who were eating at a table on
the other side of the room.

“I wonder if those men are Amcri~
cans and smiling at us, or English—
men and laughing at us,” the doctor
remarked. We decided that they
were Americans and when they were
through eating and came up to speak
to us we felt even more sure. An
Englishman will never take up con-

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or in a restaurant or any public place
as these men did.

“We were just wondering whether
you Were not from God’s Country
too,” I greeted them as they ap-
proached. ~

“Well, not exactly,” one of them
replied. “Just one of us. This man
is from the States, but my friend
and I, here, are from Canada.”

I shall always remember that un-
conscious tribute to the United States
of America, paid by a Canadian, as
one of. the best l have ever hmrd.

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age to cattle would affect their teeth
or in any way cause'them to decay?
Or would manure, produced from sil-
age fed cattle, cause soil to become
acidy, quicker than manure produced
from any other dry ieed?—R. E. S.,
Tawas City, Michigan.

E have fed silage here for near-
ly forty years and have had
cattle fifteen to sixteen years

of age that have eaten silage from
the time they were old enough to eat
any solid food and have never had
any trouble with the silage injuring
the teeth in any way, whatever.

The excrement from cattle fed on
silage would not cause the soil to be-
come any more acid than would the
excrement from cattle fed on any
other feed—Geo. A. Brown, Profes-
sor in Animal Husbandry, M. A. C.

GOING TO RAISE CALVES

We now have ﬁve fresh cows and
would like to buy some calves to
keep for cows. Would like to know
What to feed a calf. Some say it is
not good to feed much skim milk.
We raised two calves last year and
they were nice. We gave them about
a gallon of skim milk and some kind
of calf meal. We would like to get
about 25 calveﬂ'to keep as cows. I
believe it is the cheapest and safest
way to get cows, as we can buy calves
from the farmers that sell milk, for
$2.00 each. Would like to know
what is the cheapest and best to feed
calves. We have silage, clover hay,
bean pods, corn fodder, oats, rye,
barley and wheat—H. B., Saginaw,
Mich.

ERE you can buy well bred H

calves at the prices you mention,

it would certainly be a paying
proposition to grow them out. ‘ One
precaution that should be taken is
to get calves only from high produc—
tion dams and from pure bred sires.
It is too much trouble to put your
time and feed into any other kind of
calf. You should also keep in mind
to see that the calves come from
healthy cows, particularly cows free
from tuberculosis.

Calves should have new milk at
least for the first two or three weeks
of their lives. The exact amount will
depend upon the size of the calf. Us—
ually feed about one pound of milk
per day for each ten pounds of live
weight of the calf. When the calf
becomes three weeks old it can grad—
ually be changed over to skimmilk,
keeping the feed in the same propor-
tion as stated above. Some ground
grain, such as corn and oats, should
be placed before the calves after they
are three weeks old. Grain, such as
this should never be mixed with milk.
If you have skimmilk available it is
best to keep the calves on milk until
they are six months of age. Clover
hay should be kept before the calves
at all times and during the cold
weather the calves that are on milk
should not be turned outside of the
barn but should be kept in a clean,
light, well ventilated barn where they
have plenty of room for exercise.
As the calves get a little older they
can be fed silage, but it hardly pays
to feed calves silage while they are
on milk. They don’t eat very much
of it in the ﬁrst place and it may
cause digestive disorders with the
very young calf on milk—O. E. Reed
Professor of Dairy Husbandry, M. A.
C.

lifUST ALLOW AUTHORJTIES
TO TEST OO\VS

When a. county is testing the cows
(tuberculosis test) and if you did not
want them to test your COWS, just
using them for your family’s milk
and butter, could you order them to
leave your cows alone? Could they
proceed with it or What would be
the consequences if you did not al-
low them to test them?—Mrs. E'.W.,
Eldorado, Mich.

ECTION 15-8., which was added
to Act 181 of the Public Acts of
1919, by Act 89 of the Public

Acts of 1923, specifies. that when
bovine tuberculosis eradication worx
under the area plan, is being con-
ducted in any county that “shall be

Questions cheerfully answered.)

unlawful for any person who owns
or is in possession of, or controls
any cattle, to prevent, hinder. ob—
struct or refuse to allow the com-
missioner, or authorized veterinar-
ian, to conduct tests for tuberculosis
on such cattle;‘the only exception
being in the case of steers p‘roperly
isolated from other cattle.

In the event of a person owning
or in control of, cattle refusing to
permit a test to be conducted after
having been given a reasonable op-
portunity, the matter would be pre-
sented to the prosecuting attorney
for action—B. J. Killham, State
Veterinarian.

HILISDALE CATTLE GO TO
BRANCH COUNTY

. A. HIMBAUGH of Noble Town—

ship, Branch county purchased

Blackbird E. III of Glenwood of
Walter Moore Sunnyside farm at
Hillsdale, December 2 among other
purchases. Marshall Lilly of the
same place purchased a cow and a
bull. These gentlemen were directed
to Hillsdale county to buy pure bred
stock, by K. R. Smith of Chicago,
who is a stockholder in the Southern
Michigan Breeding Association with
its headquarters at Hillsdaie, organ-
ized for ﬁnancing and marketing
pure bred live stock, since this coun-
ty has become a modiﬁed accredited
area of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
as a reward for the enterprise shown
by its farmers in the eradication of
bovine tuberculosis. Blackbird E.
III of Glenwood is the daughter of
the show cow Blackbird E. of Glen-
wood and Bonami III also a ﬁrst
prize bull.

WISCONSIN LEADS IN COOPERA-
TIVE CHEESE MARKETING
RECENT survey by the United
States Department of Agricul-
ture shows that 70 per cent of
all cooperative cheese factories in
the United States are in Wisconsin,
that 60 per cent of the farmers be-
longing to such enterprizes are lo-
cated in Wisconsin and that 70 per
cent of the business handled in _1923
by cooperative associations for mar-
keting cheese was transacted by Wis—
consin organizations.

The oldest living organization
from which the department is re-
ceiving reports is the Cayadutta
Cheese Factory at Fonda, N. Y. This
association was formed about 1863
and in 1865 was making cheese from
the milk of 845 cows. Oregon is
second to Wisconsin as regards the
cooperative making of cheese, al-
though Oregon has but one—eigth as
many OTKDan'VﬁnHQ rm Wisconsin.

n VETERINA RY
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S\VELLI NG (:1 EN E RALLY
INCURABLE .

I have a cow, that had a swelling
on her leg below the gambrel joint
and foot. It was swollen for a year,
but this summer the swelling broke.
I have been rubbing it with a lina-
ment recommended by many. But
as it heals in one place it swells in
another spot and breaks. She has
just freshened, is a good cow and
otherwise seems to be in good con-.
dition. Would her milk be fit tor“.

 

 

 

human consumption, or if fattenedl

Would she be all right for beef?
Would like to keep her as she is a
young cow and a good milker, if
she could be cured. Would be glad
to know what I could do for her.
There is no veterinarian near here.
——J. B. K., Lupton, Mich.

0U have a condition that I am

afraid will be very difﬁcult to

remedy. Swellings' “of the char-
acter you describe of lbng standing
are generally incurable.

The cow’s milk would be all right
for human consumption providing
the swelling is entirely a local con-
dition. This I would not be able to
say, how-yer, without having an op-
portunity to make a. physical exam—
ination of the patient. The same
would apply relative to the carcass

- being fit for human consumption.—

John P. Hutton, Mme. Prot. of
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Poultry

  

  

= ABSORBiNE
» TRADE MARK moment on,
Reduces Strained, Puffy Anklet,
Lymphangitia, Poll Evil. Fistula,
Bails. Swellings: Stops lameness

and allay: ain. Heals Sores, Cuts.
Bruises. goot Choice. It is a

SIFE "MEN": “0 GERMIGIDE

Does not blister or. remove the
hair and horse can be worked. Pleasant to use.
$2.50 a bottle, delivered Describe your case
for special instructions and Book 5 R free.
ABSORBINE, J R... antiseptic unlmcm for mankind. I»
has Strains. Painful. Knotted. Swollen Veins. Concen-
rucd—only s few drops required a an appllndcn. Price
31.25 per bottle a! dealer! or delivered.

N. F. YOUNG, inc., 369 Lyman St..$prlngﬁeld. lass.

POULTRY BREEDER’S
fDlRECTORY‘

Advertisements Inserted under
this heading at 80o per agate line,
per Issue. Commercial Baby Chick
advertisements 45c per agate line.
Write out what you have to oﬂer
and send It In. We will put it in
. type. send proof and quote rates by
 return mail. Address The Michigan

Business Farmer. Advertising Do-
i partment, Mt. Clemens. Michigan.

   
 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yearling Hens and Cockerels

vsnnuucs LEGHORNS ana‘ unconso—
ctreruny culled high production stock.

OOCKERELS—Barred and White Roch; Beds:
Wyandottes; Minerals; Anconss; Leghoms.
TURKEVS. GEESE, DUOKS———Exce.llent breed
type. Send for complete Circular.

STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION. Kalamazoo. Mich;

 

For Sale—Pure Bred Large Black Len shuns. May
hatched, Pullets laying since November 17m
Frank B. Crane. R1, Adrian, Michigan.

BARRED ROCKS

 

 

For SALE—SI)!m SdEIaEcTEhD WHITE HOOK
coo eres mm s n r uti'ty win

Beauties. $2.25 eac , six for 812.00..“11. M
MRS. L0 E ROUNDS, Cedar Springs. Michigan.

anld e Reap—Coost and Puliou at v

reduced9 prices. Also 1 en, 1 cock and 4 hen?
must make room for reedin Penn Paradise
Poultry Yards, Box 1285, R1, ﬁlalfwu, Michigan.

BARRED ROCKS—BIG HUSKY OOCKERE
standard color. bred from great layers. WrLigc'
y. W. O. Coﬂman, Benton Harbor. Mich“ R8.

 

 

 

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or on I'OIIJ qua 'ty matin s and ut'h'
ﬂock. Stock all sold. Fred Berlinz, Allen, Mlioti:

PURE-SHED WHITE WVANDOTTE 000K-
ereis, P‘lshei strain. at $2.50 each if ordered soon.
Tracy Rush, 104 Grover Ave" Alma, Mich.

 

 

RHODE ISLAND REDS

Rhode Island Reds that are Red

100 Bed cockerels to take_ your choice of, 81.6
and up each, as to quailty. Also a few 2

hens. Quality Breeder of Rhode Inland Red].
Wm. H. Frohm, New Baltimore, Mich., R.F.D. 1.

 

 

 

TURKEYS

 

REGISTERED BOURBON RED T U R K E y 8 .
Large rigorous Axteli Strain one and two year old
stock. MARY’ BEACOM. Mariette. Michigan.

 

FOR cM-E—puns saso usnnncnnsm
mn‘s'. c. w. "EEBE, A'IdI‘YaIi‘nltEYEh" n1.

 

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heavy birds, large bone. well marked. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Mrs. Perry Stobblns, Sal-snag, Mic};

 

 VIGOROUS BOURBON RED T0518,
y Milli) each. While thvy last.
R. W. ROBOTHAM, Hosperln. Michlgan.

 

Puro~8red Mammoth White Holland Turkeys, un-
related young hen, 12 pounds, $6; young tom 18
pounds 38. Frank Vondraseil. R3, Mulch, Mich.

 

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For Sale Thoroughbred Geese-Gander:

BALDWIN A NOWLIN, R4, hingxburg, Mich.

Cured His Rupture

I was badly ruptured while lifting a
trunk several years ago. Doctors said
my only hope of cure was an operation.
Trusses did me no good. Finally I got
hold of something that quickly and com-
pletely cured me. Years have passed and
the rupture has never returned, although
I am doing hard work as a carpenter.
There was no operation, no lost time, no
trouble. I have nothing to sell, but will
, lve full information about how you may
and a complete cure without operation,
if you write to me, Eugene M. Pullen,
Carpenter, 44L Marcellus Avenue, Manas-
quan, N. J. Better cut out this notice
and show it to any others who are rup-
tured———you may save a life or at least
stop the misery of rupture and the worry
and danger of an operation—(Adv)

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We are Willing to bet that every one of these cows is entered in a, cow testing
Muciation. A business farmer plus business methods make dairying' proﬁtable.

Superior Cows Entitled to Certificate
By A. C. BALTZER
Dairy Extension Specialist, M. .\. (I.

HE MichiganCow Testing Associ-

i ation Record of Performance
is. receiving much attention this
month by cow testing association
members, cow testers and .county
agricultural agents. On December
3rd four hundred and twenty—two en-
tries had been received by the Dairy
Department, Michigan Agricultural
College. Many cow testers are cal-
ling. for further entry blanks and
many more applications for entry
into the Record of Performance are
expected. January 1st, 1925, is the
ﬁnal date for entry in the ﬁrst year
book that will be issued by the Dairy
Department. Certiﬁcates of. the rec—
ord of Performance will be drawn up

after that date and mailed to the .

Michigan Cow Testing Association
members whose cows have been ac-
cepted- for entry.

The Mac’omb No. 1 Cow Testing
Association, Eldon Barclay, tester,
has sent ﬁfty—four Record of Perfor-
mance entries to the Dairy Depart-
ment. This is the largest number
of entries received from one Cow
Testing Association. Only sixty—one
cows were elegible for this honor in
this. association. Every cow that
qualiﬁed for the Record of Perfor—
mance certiﬁcate in the Calhoun-
Ba-ttle Greek Cow Testing Associa-
tion, Floyd Wonser, Tester, has
been entered. Thirty-six entries
were made by this Association. The
Battle 'Creek Sanitarium herd leads
with» ﬁfteen cows that qualify.

Forty—four entries have been re-
ceived from the Oceana Cow Testing
Association, L. D. Leisenring, tester,
These entries were made by E. M.
Near, Henry Meyers, R. E. Deymon,
Henry Henrickson, E. 0. Anderson,
Leslie Brady, Carl H. Rabe, Mrs. E.
B. Rabe, Ray Burke, Sam 0"Dell and
F. C. Sherman.

Four herds owned by Henry Mey—
ers, E. 0. Anderson, Leslie Brady and

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Sam O’Dell will receive special recog-
nition in the Year Book because
more than 50 per cent of the cows in
the herds have qualiﬁed and been
entered. These are purebred Jersey
herds. The ﬁrst bulls to be listed as
proven sires in the Michigan R. O. P.
are Jerseys. These bulls are Mc-
Kay’s Lad and Noble Sensational
Lad owned by the Oceans. County
Jerseymen. Each of these bulls has
ﬁve daughters or more listed in the
Record of Performance.

Many other cow testing members
scattered thruout Michigan have sent
in entry blanks to the Dairy Depart-
ment. Michigan dairymen are res—
ponding whole heartedly to this new
department in the cow testing asso-
ciation work. The requirements for
entry of cows in the Michigan Record
of Performance are as follows:

a. Heifers starting record under
three years old must produce 280 lbs.
or more of butterfat.

b. Cows starting record under
four years old must produce 310 lbs.
or more of butterfat.

c. Cows starting record under
ﬁve years old must produce 350 lbs.
or more of butterfat.

d. Cows starting record when
ﬁve years old or over must produce
400 lbs. or more of butterfat.

e.. When age is not known cow is
to be classed as mature, and must
produce 400 lbs. or more of butterfat

“The entry fee of $1.00 is to accom-
pany each entry blank. This fee is
to be used to cover cost of certiﬁcates
and R. of P. Year Book.

The aim of the Record of Perfor—
mance is to encourage more efﬁcient
dairying. Certiﬁcates issued under
this plan will establish a system of
recording superior cow s— either
grades or pure—bred—with the Dairy
Department, Michigan Agricultural
Collee.

   
    

  



' (We invite you to contribute your experience in raising poultry to this
department. Questions relative to poultry will be cheerfully answered.)

CHICKENS ON THE FARM

farm seems to be the only
1 ‘ logical place for raising chick—

ens.

Everybody seems to have a fuller
appreciation of this fact than the
farmers themselves. The poultry
specialist delights in inserting the
words “Farmed Raised” in his ad-
vertisments. He knows that buyers
will prefer to pay out their money
for chickens raised under these con—
ditions than for birds which during
the growing periods Were restricted

NEW LAMP BURNS
94% AIR

 

Beats Electric or Gas

A new oil lamp that gives an
amazingly brilliant, soft, white
light, even better than gas or elec-
tricity, has been tested by the U. S.
Government and 35 leading uni-
versities and found to be superior to
10- ordinary oil lamps. It burns
Without odor, smoke or noise—no
pumping up, is simple, clean, safe.
Burns 94% air and 6% common
kerosene (coal oil).

The. inventor, A. R. Johnson, 609
W. Lake St., Chicago, 111., is otter-
ing to send a lamp on 10 day’s
FREE trial, or even to give one
FREE to the ﬁrst user in each loc-
ality who will help him introduce it.
Write him to—day for full particu-
lalas. Also ask him to explain how
you can get the agency, and without
experience or money make $250 to
$560 per month.,—:-6Adv.) ‘ ~ ’ '

  

to the range of a town lot, other
things being equal. The farm raised
birds will be the better ones, the
greater exercise and the more varied
diet will produce larger growth and
stronger constitutions. All trained
and experienced poultry men would
like to have their birds farm raised.
those who cannot have them so rais—
ed, consider themselves at a disad-
vantage as compared ‘to those who
can.

Farmers who have visited it Well
kept poultry plant and seen the neat
looking poultry houses and nicely
arranged yards ﬁlled with a type of
fowls superior to what they are ac—
customed to look upon are apt to
conclude that the breeding of such
fowls is not possible apart from such
surroundings. And the owner of the
plant: is thinking how seriously he
is handicapped in his operations for
the want of the farm ﬁelds and
grasses as a pasture for his chick—
ens. There is no place like the
farm for growing poultry of the best
class. The wide range of the ﬁelds
and the unlimited kinds of seeds and
grains that can be. picked up ma-
tures the fowls more quickly and
also give a much better ﬂavor to
the meat than the fowls that are
conﬁned and fed on a. commercial
diet.

It is to be regretted that the un—
equaled opportunities are ever
wasted on scrub chickens, for the
scrublfowl bears the same relation
to the well bred fowl, that an old
canner does to the prime well fed
beef animal.—-—D. H. Morris, Shia-
wa33ee County. ~

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Trade Allowance
on old Cream Separators

forN
De Lav 318‘

De Laval Agents are now making liberal allowances
for used centrifugal cream separators of any age 01‘
make, as partial payment on new De Laval Separators
of the latest improved type.

This offers to cream separator users an unusual
opportunity to replace obsolete, badly-worn, under-
sized and otherwise unsatisfactory cream separators
that are wasting cream and time and causing trouble
and annoyance, with the latest improved and best De
Laval Separators that have ever been made. The
Improved De Laval Separator is meeting With remark-
able success. It skims cleaner and runs easier, and Will
save its cost over any other method of separating cream

from milk.

The De Laval Milker. If you are milking 10 or more cows by
hand. you need a. De Laval Milker. Sold on such easy termslt 95575
for itself. Over 25,000 in use, giving wonderful satisfaction.

New De Laval {operators sold
on easy terms, ranging from

  
  

    

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xvill correct the trouble.

Row-Kare accomplishes just what is needed.
builder of natural vigor in the genital and digestive organs. A table-
spoonful given with the feed twice a day, one week out of each month,
will pay for its slight cost many times over in increased milk-ﬂow.“
Besides, your cows will not become the prey of sueh ailments as Bar-
rcnness, Abortion, Retained Afterbirth, Scours. Milk Fever, Gargct,
Lost Appetite. etc.. all of .. which result from sluggish digestive
and genital organs.

If you are troubled with any of these diseases in the herd. Kow-Kara
For over twenty-ﬁve years it has been
The Home Cow Doctor" to many thousands of cow owners.

Let Kow-Kare work for you this “winter. Start now: your feed
dealer. general store or druggist has it—in $1.25 and 65c sizes. Or we

will send by mail, postpaid on receipt of price.

Send for valuable free book, " The Home Cow Doctor”. Cow own-
crs use nearly one million copies of this book yearly. Thousands say
they could not get along without its help.

Dairy Association Co., Inc..

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Just Like Having A
Green Pasture All Winter

Dry winter feeds are harder to digest, harder to assimilate than the
tender, green food your cows enjoy in summer.
the milk-making function naturally reduces the milk yield in winter—
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You Can Stop Them Yourself ’
.  AT SMALL COST

 Ask for FREE copy of “The Cattle
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— questions asked during the past thirty years
about abortion in cows. Also let us tell you how to get the “Practical
Home Veterinarian”. a Live Stock Doctor Book, without cost. Veterinary
advice FREE. Write tonight.
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We Will tan your pelts and manufacture them into any
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Does the‘Storekeeper Help the Farmer? T '

The Country Merchant’s Side of the Buy-at-Home Argument as Told

by J. R. Spargue

OEIS the small town or country

merchant render a service to

his community? Or would it be
better, as is sometimes urged, if all
retail buying should be done from a
few great centres and handled
through cooperative association of
consumers?

Doubtless it is often true that the
small merchant does not get the
support to which he thinks he is en-
titled because many people believe
him to be a useless burden. But he
does perform a service. Leaving out
well supported stores, the retail
merchant is worth actual dollars
and cents to any community.

In my home county in Western
New York State a man whom I will
call Mr. Edgar Tomlinson owned a
hundred-acre farm on a cross-road
six miles or so from the county seat.
Although it was a cross road farm
it was a most attractiveplace with a
long, Well built story-and-a—half
house that dated back nearly a hun-
dred years, and a big modern barn
with a cupola surmounted by a gilt
horse that year after year reso-
lutely faced the shifting winds in
the attitude of a brisk trot. In one
of the back ﬁelds there was a spring
that never failed even in the dryest
seasons on record; and there was
also a grove of hard maples an acre
or two in extent, which Mr. Tomlin—
son tapped every March. It was, in
short, about as ideal a place as one
could ﬁnd anywhere.

They Decide to Sell

Mr. and Mrs. Tomlinson had but
one child, a daughter, who married
a lawyer who practiced his profes—
sion at the county seat, and a few
years later the older people conceiv-
ed the idea of selling the farm and
moving into town to take things
easy. To do this required some
rather close ﬁguring. They had ac-
cummulated some money which Mr.
Tomlinson had out at interest, but
it was not enough to live on. He
knew about what he could get at
auction for his stock and imple-
ments; and this, added to his other
investments, would bring in enough
to live on nicely if he could get a
fair price for the farm. He believ-
ed he could easily get $150 an acre
for the place which seemed reason-
able enough considering its money-
making possibilities

Half a mile from the Tomlinson
place Where the cross—roads joined
the main thoroughfare, there was a
good sized general store run by a
man named Meyers, which was sort
of a meeting place for the people of
the country roundabout. Meyers was
an easy going man who it must be
confessed, ran his store in some—
what slipshod fashion, but he sold
his goods at reasonable enough
prices and was personally quite
popular. It was natural therefore
that Mr. Tomlinson while in the
store one day making some pur-
chases should have told the mer-
chant that he Was thinking of sell—
ing his farm if he could ﬁnd a pur-
chaser.

“I believe I know just the man,"
said Meyers unexpectedly. “There’s
a traveling man who calls on me ev—
ery three months for a‘ wholesale
house in Pittsburgh and he told me
the last time he was here that he
was sick of the road and wants to
settle down. He’s due herejna few
days and I’ll tell him about\your
place if you want me to.” ’

Sure enough the traveling man
did arrive the following week and
on Meyer’s suggestion went to look
at the Tomlinson place. He was a.
businesslike appearing man of per-
haps thirty—five years, Henry Doyle
by name, who had been raised on a
farm in our part of the country but
had drifted to Pittsburg a dozen
years previously, ﬁnding employ—
ment in the wholesale house and
eventually becoming a traveling
salesman. He told Mr. Tomlinson
that he had enjoyed the traveling
life for the ﬁrst few years but it had
got to be an old story, and especial-
ly since he had been married his
ambition was to settle on a good
farm somewhere, which ambition
was heartily seconded by his wife,
who was tired of seeing her husband
only once every two or three weeks.

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and conveniences and walking
through the ﬁelds, at the end. of
which time he expressed himself as
very much pleased with the plant.
When Mr. Tomlinson named a price
of $15,000 he said he thought the
ﬁgure reasonable enough and promis-
ed to bring his wife to see the place
on the occasion of his next trip.
This was in April, and alongthe lat-
ter part of June, Henry Doyle
brought his wife. They drove out

from the county seat to- Meyer’s

store where he stopped to sell Mey-
er a bill of goods, and then to the
Tomlinson place. Mrs. Doyle was
even more enthusiastic over the
place than her husband had been.
She too was country bred and never
had been satiﬁed with her life in
acramped city apartment. She was
especially taken with the spring in
the back lot and the grove of Hard
maples. The upshot of the visit
was a verbal agreement that the
Doyles were to buy the place for
$15,000 as soon as they could real-
ize on certain investments. They
Would not be able to pay more than
half down.

It was understood that if nothing
turned up to prevent, Henry Doyle
would close the deal the next time he
came to sell goods to Meyers,
which would be about the ﬁrst of
September; the plan was that Mr.
and Mrs. Tomlinson should stay on
the place until the following spring.

On Henry Doyle’s September trip
he drove out, as usual from the
county seat‘ to Meyer’s store and in
his inside pocket was a certiﬁed
check for $7,500 to be given Mr.
Tomlinson as soon as the necessary
documents could be executed. He
himself intended to continue trav—
eling until the following spring
when he should take possession of
the farm. But when he reached
Meyer’s store he found everything
in confusion. A couple of big
trucks were backed up infront of
the place and inside Meyer was in
his shirt sleeves pulling goods off
the shelves and packing them in
boxes to be loaded on the trucks.
Henry Doyle, astonished at the
sight, inquired the meaning of the
operations, Meyers did not seem in
a talkative humor but he paused
long enough to answer.

Meyers Moves Away

“It means,” said Meyers aggres—
sively, “that I’m quitting. The peo—
ple around here don't seem to feel
the need of a store and so I‘m going
to let them get along without one.”

The rest of the conversation was
carried on in snatches between Mey-
er’s efforts at pulling goods off the
shelves and nailing up boxes, but
Henry Doyle got the whole story
eventually. It seems that Meyers
had been in business nearly ﬁfteen
years and at ﬁrst had done quite
well, enjoying a good trade with the
farmers within a radius of several
miles about. He maintained a rig
and during the busy seamns when
their horses were working they
could telephone in at any time and
get purchases.sent out. But grad—
ually people got more and more into
the habit of going to the county seat
for their goods or even sending to
Buffalo or Pittsburgh.

Meyers, it seems, was moving his
stock to Buffalo, where he thought
it would be easier to get along, al-
though he would have preferred to
stay where he was. Henry Doyle
asked him if there was a likelihood
of any one else opening up a store
at the corners, to which Meyers
answered forcibly that there might
bf fools in the world, but he didn’t
know any fool big enough L1 try to
make a living in such a poor place.

The traveling man, of course,
understood that Meyers spoke more
bitterly than he realized; but the
fact remained that the Tomlinson
farm which he was about to pur-
chase would be more than six miles
from any place where he could buy
anything, instead of a convenient
half mile as formerly. However,
around the, neighborhood to ~talk
with the farmers. Some, of. them,
he found had been clubbing together,
and buying supplies in bulk from
a ﬁrm in Pittsburg, thinking to get
their goods cheaper that way. Henry;
Doyle asked one of these mustang
man named Abernathy, if they had

   

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 given Meyers» a chance-to quote

prices 'on their bulk purchases.

“Why no," answered Abernathy:
“Meyers is only a country merchant.
He couldn’t sell us stuff as cheap as
a big city concern.”

“That may be,” said Doyle, “but
if you’d give Meyers or any other
local merchant an even chanced be—
lieve you would ﬁnd they could sup-
ply your stuff just as cheap as you
can get it anywhere. When I say
‘even chance' I mean this: That you
take your cash money and hand it
over to the merchant before you get
the goods; that you wait an indefin-
ite time for the goods to arrive from
the mill or factory; that you risk that
the goods will be up to standard
when they do arrive. Do these
things and, I’ll bet you a new hat
that the home merchant will quote
prices cheaper than the mail order
house, or even than your coopera-
five!"

Henry- Doyle spent some hours
calling on other people in the neigh-
borhdod, and it was toward eyening
when he drove up to the Tomlinson
farm. Both Edgar Tomlinson and
his wife were at home and the trav-
eling man came directly to the sub-
ject that was on his mind.

“I ﬁnd things have changed in
this neighborhood since I was here
a few weeks ago,” he said, “Meyers
is closing up his store and moving
away." ‘

“Yes, I know about that,” he
said. “Meyers is an old kicker any-
way. He seems to think the people
in this section ought to trade with
him just because he is a local man.
I can’t see it that way. We farm-
ers work for our money and we’ve
got a right to spend it wherever we
see ﬁt. Meyers doesn’t do anything
for the community. He’s only a
trader.”

Storekeeper Extends Credit

“Of course you’ve got a right to
spend your money where you want
to," Doyle answered. “but I think
you’re wrong in saying Meyers does
not do anything for the community.
In the ﬁrst place he’s always been
willing to extend credit, and any
man is liable to need a little accom-
modation occasionally. Then Meyers
carried a ﬁne stock of implement
parts; if any of you farmers hap-
pened to break a plow point or a
nut or a bolt, all you had to do
was to drive to his place and get it.
Just think what a ﬁx you would be
in if there were no local stores, but
you had to depend on a mail order
house or organization in some dis-
tant city.”

Mr. Tomlison made no reply to
this except to say he guessed the
farmers could get along perfectly all

right without Meyers and his store.’

“I came out here today, Mr. Tom-
linson,” he said, “fully intending
to close the deal for the purchase of
your farm at the price you asked.
But as a business proposition your
farm isn’t worth as much as it was
three months ago. . I like the place
and my wife likes it; but I can’t

make as much money from it now -

that I must face the problem of
driving in to the county seat every
time I have to buy anything, or to
dependron sending away to mail
order houses. If you want 'to close
the deal at $13,000 instead of $15,-
000, here is my check for the ﬁrst
payment. If you feel the price too
little, I'll have to look elsewhere for
a place."

Mr. Tomlinson indignantly declin-

ed the offer and the traveling man ‘

went away. During that fall and
winter Mr. Tomlinson made further
efforts to sell out, putting the mat-
ter in the hands of a couple of real
estate agencies, but with no success.
Several partiés came to look at the

...place but some of them did not have

enough cash to make sufﬁcient ﬁrst
payment, and those with more mon-
ey would not come up to the price

he demanded. In the end he wrote L

to Henry Doyle acceding to the lat—

ter’s offer of $13,000, and the deal '_

was closed at that price.
That is about all there is to the
story, which I have told without

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ation as something sordid. This is
not the'view of the leaders of the
great agricultural cooperative move-
nent in Europe—~quite the contrary.
Cooperation in Europe" before the
war _was almost a religion. And
why shouldn’t it be? Isn’t coopera-
tion in the real life work the best
posaible test of the spirit of brother-
hood, of loving ones neighbor?

“Is loving something that merely
exhibits itself in times of distress,
merely in a pleasant smile, merely
in a sort of general glow and good
fellowship? No, the real test of
neighborly love comes in this very
ﬁeld of economic competition.

“One of the asks of the country
preacher is to preach cooperation in
production and distribution of farm
goods, not only because of the neces—
sity that the farmers shall have a
reasonable reward, which is their
just due, but because cooperation
itself is one of the best .expressions
of the Christian spirit.

“In the large and true Sense the
country church should be the cham-
pion of the farmers. It should en-
courage the farmer to play his part
in the legislation and organization in
the economic and social and politi-
cal life of the nation under righteous
terms. It should encourage him to
seek his rights; it should equally en-
courage him to recognize his obliga-
tions.” -
Well Balanced Leader

In 'Dr. Butterfield’s make—up we
have a ﬁne blending of the practical
and the sentimental. He realizes the
necessity of real work and efﬁcient
work, but to him everything else is
only incidental to the development of
Christian character and high stand—
ards of community life. This con-
viction is well brought out in the fol-
lowing paragraph from an address
which he delivered at Amherst,
Mass, just before leaving to accept
his new duties at M. A. C.

“Men can not farm on sentiment.
They have to procure a reasonable
proﬁt. But the great goal of life is
not a success irrxmaking money, but
the sort of life one lives. A satis-
fying country life, is, after all, the
great goal with money merely a
means. The ﬁnest type of home life
in the country means ample provision
for health, adequate recreation, a.
chance to read and the habit of
reading established maintaining on
our land people who believe in relig-
ion, and then, not the least, a life
in which the farm people themselves
see‘ the beauty of the countryside. If
we can’t have a satisfying country
life, by and by 'We’ll have an inferior
lot of people here. This satisfying
country life is found in the develop-
ment of a strong rural community.”

Dr. Butterﬂeld has the happy fac-
ulty of being perfectly adaptable to
every occasion. His remarks always
seem appropriate and he can go from
addressing a church gathering on
some deep and fundamental phase of
education or religion, direct to an
athletic mass meeting, and be
equally at home before either audi-
ence. Probably the key to this unus—
ual ability is found in the combina—
tion of sincerity and enthusiasm
which is one of his most outstanding
characteristics.

One of the most remarkable things
about Dr. Butterﬁeld’s character and
personality is that despite the many
honors which have come to him he
has remained thorougly human and
democratic. There is nothing ex-
clusive about the new president of
our farm college. As the college
photographer remarked after having

   

persuaded Dr. Butterﬁeld to pose for
a few snapshots, “the President is
very friendly and cordial. There is
nothing about his attitude that seems
to say, ‘I am the president of this
college, what do you want.’ He did
not seem to feel that I was putting
him under any obligation when he
gave me the time that I requested.”

Bigger Than His Job

Dr. Butterﬁeld is a man among
men. There is nothing of the hermit
soul about him, despite the fact that
he is a deep thinker and a real phil-
osopher. Since taking up his duties
at M. A. C. he has established the pol—
icy of regular “open houses” at his
home, for faculty members and other
friends who might desire to call and
get better acquainted. He gives 1i—
berally of his time to innumerable
organizations. He is not a small
man tackling a big job, on the con-
trary, although he has had many
heavy responsibilities he has always
proved to be a little bigger than his
job. He has done his main task well
and has had time and sympathy for
outside interests. Perhaps the key
to this unusually ability is found in
the following two sentences hidden
away in one of his books:

“Neither a high—school nor a col-
lege diploma should ever be a ticket
into the palace of pleasure and ease,
but rather a commission to toil for
the good of mankind. It is a pathetic
reversal of all the fundamental ideas
of Christian civilization to regard
education as a means of escaping
work."

Dr. Butterﬁeld practices What he
preaches and his life has carried out
the sentiments of the above quota-
tion. He has devoted a life time to
agricultural education in school work
and has been a builder. He is a
strong believer in farm organizations
and aggressive for their development,
not only because he feels that they
are necessary in order to secure a
square deal for the farmer but be-
cause he hopes that through them
more satisfactory rural life may de-
velop. In carrying out this policy,
Dr. Butterﬁeld has become a national
ﬁgure. President Roosevelt ap-
pointed him to membership in the
Country Life Commission which was
one of the outstanding accomplish-
ments of Mr. Roosévelt’s adminis—
tration. Later iDr. Butterﬁeld was
called by Woodrow Wilson, while
President to the Commission on Ru-
ral Credits. He is today president
of the American Country Life Asso—
ciation and interests himself greatly
in the problem of the rural church,
and all other rural religious agencies.

He is an educator, a philosopher,
an author of many worth while books
and an orator of high rank. He is a.
diplomat, ﬁnding satisfactory ways
of advancement through just counsel
rather than through strife. And,
most of all, he is indefatigable in his
efforts to secure that which he would
accomplish. At a time when the
farmers of Michigan are confronted
with so many perplexing economic
and social problems, it is indeed for-
tunate that a man of the ability and
the outlook and the character of
Dr. Butterﬁeld has returned to
guide the destinies of our Agricul—
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We all enjoy THE BusiNEss FARMER
very much and would not be without it.
I am respectfully, Your faithful reader.
——W. N., Cadillac; Michigan.

  
 
 

        

   

 

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SHE \VAN’IS A MAllﬂWA!

She was born in a far-away city,
Mid the smoke and noise of a factory,
.And for Just a short ﬂeeting moment,
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In a way known only to fairies,

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Wheat Prices Continue to Climb Higher

Good Demand for Hogs and Sheep.
By “L w. FOOTE, Market Editor.

Good Ti mes Returning

AKING a broad survey of general
farming conditions, and making
allowances for poor corn crops

nd low grade corn in various‘sec-
ions, it may be said that on the
whole farmers are in much better
Where Sl—
los are in usc they help out mater—
ially, and in the fortunate districts
where wheat is the principal crop, as
is the case in much of Michigan,
farmers have much to be thankful
for; for wheat is almost steadily ris-
ing in price, and it is expected to
go much higher. While the farmer’s
dollar will not buy as much as be—
fore the war, it goes much farther
than last year and farmers generally
have more money to spend than a
year ago. As indicated by the large
gains in sales for the year reported
by the big mail order houses, farmers
have purchased miscellaneous com-
modities much more extensively than
in recent years, and the reduction
in prices for farm machinery of var-
ious kinds just announced by manu—
facturers is sure to cause increased
sales. Many of these cuts in prices
are from 5 to 6 per cent, and numer—
ous reductions are from $2 to $20.
The many Michigan farmers who are
interested in the sheep industry have
been pleasantly surprised by the worn
dcri‘ul boom in prices for lambs, the
recent extreme top for prime fat
lambs being $16 per 100 pounds, the
highest in a long period. The great
advance in wool is a big factor in
the sheep industry, and the large
Wool houses have contracted for a
very large part of the next year's
clip in the west. A year ago the best
lambs sold for $111.40‘ while. near the
close of 1015 the top price stood at
$9 60. The cattle industry shows
 profits for the fortunate farmers
who bought a good class of feeders
at the right time and had plenty of
feed, but in districts where the corn
crop turned out badly many farmers
were forced to market their cattle
and hogs prematurely thereby suf—
fering more or less losses. The de—
cline in hog prices in recent, months
has been enormous, resulting from
the glutted markets, but prices still
remained much above those paid in
recent years, and within a short time
prices have had a good rise because
of lessened receipts in Chicago and
other leading markets. Leading au—
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future, and one of the veter ns in
the Chicago markets has pre icted
that the properly matured pig will
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Weeks, particularly the lots averag—
ing around 100 to 140 pounds which
have been bringing from $5.25 to
$6.50 per 100 pounds. He adds that
these shipments will stand a good
chance of bringing $12 or more if
their owners are able to get sufﬁc—
ient feed for them.
New Liberty Dollars

New Liberty Dollars are making
their appearance, being a handsome
coin fresh from the mint. Uncle
Sam desires to have these silver coins
increase in circulation in place of
the paper dollars, and it; is expected
to save nearly $1,700,000 in cost of
printing paper money‘ Secretary of
the Treasury Mellon has requested
banks throughout the country to co—
operate in putting forty million of
the new dollars into circulation. It
is now necessary for the government
to print forty—eight million dollar
bills every month to meet the de-
mand and redeem unﬁt and mutilat-
ed bills.

The Advance in “’hcnt

The early predictions of much
higher prices for wheat are being
fulﬁlled. the upward movement being
legitimate and based upon the mark—
ed requirements of European import—
ing countries at a time when avail-
able supplies in exporting countries
are much smaller than usual. A
highly signiﬁcant fact is the begin—
ning of a shrinking in the visible

supply of Wheat in the United States
after the many weeks of rapid gains
During the ﬁrst week of December
the visible supply showed a reduction
of 902,000 bushels, leaving the sup—
ply at 99,461,000 bushels, comparing
with 72,547,000 bushels a years ago.
Marketing of spring wheat in the
northwest shows quite a falling off,
and receipts in Winnipeg are far
smaller than a short time back. Ar—
gentina reports are very bullish, and
word comes from there that there is
going to be no large exportable sur—
plus. Exports of rye, wheat and flour
from this country continue on a much
larger scale than a year ago, and
the rye market is in a particularly
strong position_ Oats have advanced
with the other grains, althou'l‘h'lcss
than wheat and corn, for oats have
been marketed much too freely, and
the. visible stocks have mounted up
to 67,250.000 bushels, con'iparing
with only 18,058,000 bushels a year
ago. Rye is moving actively at rul-
ing prices, and the visible supply
stands at 20.871000 bushels, com-

paring with 18,266,000 bushels a
year ago. Stocks of corn in sight. ag—

gregate 9,065.000 bushels, comparing
with 4,340,000 bushels a, year ago.
Late sales for December delivery
were made of wheat at $16115 per
bushel, comparing with $1.001/2 a
year ago; corn at $1.24 3/4, comparing
with 71% cents last. year; oats at
58 cents, comparing with 421/2 cents
last year; and rye at $18,514, com-
paring with 68 cents a year ago.

Cattle on Feed

There were only about 86 per cent
as many cattle on feed in the. eleven
corn belt states on December 1, this
year as on the same date in 1923.
according to a preliminary estimate
of the Department of Agriculture.
The number on feed in the western
and Paciﬁc states was around 92 per
cent, of last year. This estimate is
based upon the movement of stocker
and feeder cattle into the corn belt
and into the different states in the
two years and upon state estimates
made from reports of individual
feeders as to their own operations
and from estimates of livestock re—
porters. In the corn belt the reduc—
tion in feeding is about the same both
east and west of the Mississippi
River. All of the important feeding
states show reductions of 15 per

.

cent or more, except Kansas. The
state percentages are as follows:

Ohio .......... .. 80 Minnesota  90
Indiana ...... .. 80 Iowa .......... .. 80
Illinois ...... .. 85 Missouri .... .. 85
Michigan  95 So. Dakota .. 90
Wisconsin ....100 Nebraska .... .. 85
Kansas ........................................ .. 95

The shipments of stocker and feed~
er cattle into the corn belt states
from August 1 to December 1, this
year Were 1,547,000 head, compared
to 1,858,000 head for the same per-
iod in 1923, 1,962,000 in 1922, and
1,260,000 in 1921. The greatest
falling off this year was into the
states west of the river, especially
into Iowa and Missouri. The reports
of feeders as to the character of cat—
tle on feed indicate a larger percent—
age than last year of cattle weigh-
ing over 1,000 pounds when put on
feed and a considerable reduction in
the percentage of feeder calves. Re—
ports as to the probable time of
marketing show larger percentages
for December and January than last
year and smaller for the following
months, especially for April and
later. These reports bear out mar-
ket opinion that. a considerable part
of the cattle on feed this winter are
being used to salvage soft corn and
will be given only a short feed. They
would seem to forecast marketian
of corn finished cattle in December
and January almost as large as a
year ago, but a considerable falling
off late in the winter and durng the
spring months. Since the proportion
of fed cattle in the total market sup—
ply of cattle is not known, the effect
01’ the decreased feeding upon the
total marketings during the next
ﬁve months cannot be determined.
Nearly all evidence points to a cons
Siderable decrease after January.

(‘aitlc Market (:‘luttcd

The Chicago cattle receipts last
week attained snch enormous propor—
tions that, prices for the greater part
of the. ot‘t‘crings were on the down-
grade mosi ol' the, time, and late
sales \Vcre from $1 to $1.50 per 100
pounds lower than a week earlier.
butcher stock going.r off 50 cents
mostly. The choicest yearling steers
sold higher, bringing at the best
time in the week $12.50 to $14.75,
with the late top $14.50. The bulk
of the beef steers brought $7.50 to
$10.25 late in the week, with the
best heavy steers selling at $10 to
$11.50, and pretty good heavy steers
as low as $8.25. (‘onimon steers
brought $5.75 to $6.75, and inter—
ior little steers sold at $3.50 to $5.50.
Butcher lots of coWs and heifers
brought $3.25 to $11.80, canner and

 

THE BUSINESS FARMER’S MARKET SUMMAF-(YM

and Comparison with Markets Two “'ecks ago and One Year ago

 

 

 

 

Detroit Chicago Detroit Detroit
Dec. 16 Dec. 16 Dec. 3 1 yr, ago

WHEAT—

No. 2 Red $1.74 $1.74 $1.61 551.10%

No. 2 \Vhite 1.75 1.65 1.62

No. 2 Mixed 1.75 1.74 1.61 1,10%
CORN—

No. 3 Yellow 1.31 1.22 1.21 .78

No. 4 Yellow 1 .26 l .21 @ 1 .96 .74
I)A'l‘h~——

No. 2 \Vhite .64 .61 @ 62 .55 $6 .50 15

ho. 3 White .6: .58@ .59 .5-1 % 4.8
RYE-

Cash No. 2 1 .37 1.38 1 .09 .73 1,4
BEANS-—

(7. H. l’. th. 5.25@5.30 5.10@5.15 4.85@4.96
POTATOES—-

Per th. .93 35 @ .95 ‘ .93 1 .61 @ 1.33
HA 1—

N0. 1 Tim. 17.50 @ 18 22@24 18 @ 19 23.50 @24

No.2Tim. 15@16 18@21 16@l7 21@22

No. 1 Clover 15@16 17@20 15@18 ’21@22

Light Mixed 16.50@ 17 20@23 17@18 21 @22

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, December 16.——Wheat strong after recent advances.
Potato market shows some improvement.

quiet.

Other grains
Cattle slow. Hogs steady.

.7 Detroit and Chicago Tuesday Live Store Marketa Next Page.

cutter cows $2 to $3.45, bulls $3 to
$6 and calves at $3.75 to $10.50.
The stocker and feeder trade was
fairly large at $3.85 to $7.15, largely
at $5.25 to $6.50. Milch cows sold
at $45 to 75 per head mostly. Com-
bined receipts of cattle in twenty
markets for the year to late date
amount to 13,997,000 head, compar—
ing with 14,121,000 a year ago and
13,663,000 two years ago.
Higher Hog Prices
Hogs Were marketed in large num-
bers last week, although less freely
than a week earlier. Fortunately.
for sellers, local packers and eastern

shippers took hold better than usual,‘

and prices had a number of ,shary
advances all along the line. With
the large representation of under-
weights, they were slower to advance
than the well matured heavy butch—
ers, but p'gs had some b'g advances
at. times, in fact, the market. has been
showing signs of getting back to
normal conditions once more. Still,
the market, requirements have limits,
and the only way to establish a
higher price schedule is to hold down
supplies of hogs to reasonable pro-
portions. Late sales were made of
hogs in the Chicago market at $7.40
to $10.05, comparing with $6.40 to
$0.60 a week earlier and $6.40 to
$7.25 a year ago. December market—
ings exceed all records.
Fancy ’riccs for Lambs

While good advances in prices for
well finished lambs were predicted
months ago, the boom has far ex—
ceeded expectations, prime lambs sel—
lingr on the Chicago market recently

for $16.25 per 100 pounds, while
i‘ncdingr lambs went, at. $15.25 to
$15.60. A year ago prime killing

lambs sold at $13.40, three years ago
at $11.40, and nine years ago at
$0.60. The Department of Agricul-
ture reports that there were 40,000
less lambs and sheep on feed on De-
cember 1 than a year ago.

 

W] l [9.1T

Prices in the. wheat market at
Detroit made several advances dur—
ing the fortnight ending Saturday.
December 13, and the market. was
steady and most of" the advances
held. Foreign buyers were active
last week and it is said that on sev—
eral occasions nearly every country
in Europe was reprcscnted in the
buying. Domestic dcmand was also
good. The visible supply is expected
to decrease again and bulls are look—
ing for still higher prices.

CORN
There is not a very active demand
for corn at Detroit at present, ac-
cording to reports, but. the market is
ﬁrm in tone and prices made several
dvances within the last two weeks.

OATS
Oats also made several gains in
price during the two weeks ending
last Saturday and .the market was
ﬁrm at the close.

 

RYE

There is not as active demand for
rye as other grains. Prices advanced
some at Detroit during the fortnight
ending December 13, but not as
much as in other grains. Bulls are
looking for foreigners to come into
the market as it is reported that
some of the European countries are
using rye instead of wheat for bread.

 

BEANS .

During last week the Detroit bean
market gained 10 cents in price al-
though most dealers report a dull
tone prevailant in the market. Dur—
ing the ﬁrst week of this month bean
brokers of Colorado quoted recleaned
western beans at $5.75 per cwt. f. o.
b. During the same period Michigan
jobbers were offering to sell Michigan
choice hand picked pea beans at
$5.25 1'. o. b. Their cleaned western
bean compares with our. fancy screen
bean that represents a value of 25c
per cwt. under our C. H. P. How do
yOu account for this? Something is
wrong, radically so, and the elevator

men and bean growers must get to- .

gether and save the Michigan bean
industry. Is your local elevatér man
in on the advertising campaign? 1

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December 20., 1924 f

POTATOES

Potatoes continue easy. and dull
with small indication of an early
change. Receipts remain large.

 

HAY

The general tone of the hay mar—
kets of the country is steady with
demand better for all grades. Re-
ceipts have declined and most of the
hay coming to market at present is
of fair quality.

\VOOL

The wool market at Boston was
a little weak last Saturday but prices
held steady and dealers declare they
do not expect to see any declines in
the near future.

THE LIVESTOCK MARKETS

DETROIT, Dec. 16.——Cattle: Market
dull and 25 lower on all grades. Good
to choice yearings, dry fed, $9.50@10.25;
best heavy steers. dry fed, $7.50@8.75;
best handy weight butcher steer, $6@6.75 ;
mixed steers and heifers, $5@5.70; handy
light butchers, $4@4.75; light butchers,
$3.70@3.75; best cows, $4.25@4.75;
butcher cows, $3.25@3.75; common cows,
$2.50@2.75; canners, $2632.25; choice
light bulls, $3.50@3.75; heavy bulls, $4.25
@450; stock bulls, $3@3.75; feeders,
$4.50@6; stockers, $4@5.75; milkers and
springers, $45@75.

Veal Caves-«Market. steady and 500
higher; best, $12Gii12.50; others. $5M?
11.50.

Sheep and Lambs Market, 25c lower.
Best lambs, $16@ 16.2»; l'air lambs. $13717
14.75; light to common lambs, $7.500!)
11.25; fair to good slump, $727508; nulls
and common. $3.5ti0/~l.35; buck lambs,
37500171523.

Hogs~—Markot 154! 25v lower. Mixed
hogs, $0.25; rouglls, $8.25; pigs. $63.50.

(liliUAtltlklions~—-l{v(‘t‘ipls. 122,000;
market steady. llnlk, 338.5001 SHE”; top,
$9.85; 250 to 3125 pounds, $9; medium
Weight, 358(11‘850; light \\'t*lf.1'lll, $7.50@
9.40; light lights, $tl.5001>8.-13; heavy pack—
ing sows, smooth, Silﬁvtljﬁ; packing sows,
rough, $8.80@9; pigs. $6@7.25.

  

 

 

 

 

.L__:_.:" .'_. " iii"; .
\Vecr of December 21

T the very beginning of the week

A of December 21 in Michigan the

temperatures are expected to be
very low for the season. These con-
ditions, however, will soon be dis-
placed with cloudy and threatening
weather, brisk to high winds and ris-
ing temperatures.

It is this coming spell of mild
weather that has left us in doubt as
to how much of the state will have a
white Christmas. That it will be
warm enough to melt snow in some
parts of the state seems almost cer—
tain but the two conditions making
a green Christmas at this time are
quantity of snow on the ground at
beginning -of this week and the de—
gree of warmth to which this storm
period will raise the temperature of
the Michigan air. These are condi—
tions that will have to be definitely
decided by the residents of each 10-
cality.

Warm weather will pass slowly
eastward so that by the 24th or-
Christmas Day tmnpcraturcs will
again be ('old and the sky clear. The
week ends with temperatures again
moderating.

“'(‘ck of December 28

There will be many temperature
changes during this week. Warm
weather at beginning of week will
again become chilled about Monday
or Tuesday but about New Year’s
day another mild wave will hit the
state. '

Clear to threatening weather is ex—
pected on New Year’s day in most
parts of Michigan.

Duringr the closing days of this
week there will be a rain, sleet, ice

or snow storm in Michigan that 10-_

cally may do censiderable damage.
Closely following this disturbance
there will be a change to colder but
probably not as cold as is expected
during early part of next week.
January Dry and Gold

The average weather conditions
expected over most parts of Michigan
duri g January will show tempera-
tures and precipitation both below
normal. In mest cases-we believe
that conditions all around will be in
favor. of the farmer.

   
 

 

‘\ .“

.1KII;S.. I513 S 11S E S 3 IF Apiz’mris R

Cattle—Receipts, 25,600: market weak.
Beef steers: Choice and prime, $10@11;
medium and good, $8@9.50; good and
choice, $12@14.50; common and medium,
$6. Butcher cattle: Heifers, $5@10.50;
cows, $3.50@7; bulls, $3@6.50. Canners
and cutterS' Cows and heifers, $2@4.50;
canner steers, $3.50@4. Veal calves, light
and handy weight, $8@]0;' feeder steers,
$5.50@8; stocker steers, $5@7.50; stocker
cows and heifers, $3636; stacker calves,
$5@7.50. Calves Receipts, 1,500.

Sheep and lambs—Receipts, 26,000;
market steady. Lambs, fat, $15.75@16;
culls and common, $11@12.50; yearlings,
$11.50@13; wethers, $10; ewes, $6.50@
8; culls and common, $2@4; breeding,
$6.50@12; feeder lambs, $14.50@15.60.

 

MISCELLANEOI'S MARKET
QUOTATIONS

Detroit, Tuesday, December 16

BUTTER—N0. 1 creamery. in tubs, 38
@400 per lb.

EGGS—Fresh receipts, 50@54c; cold
storage, 361/2(g)38c; coast whites, 52@60c
per doz.

APPLES—Wolf River, $1.50@1.75;
Greenings, $2; Snow, $1.75@2.25; Joha—
than, $2.25@2.50 per bu; western boxes.
$2.25@3. '

LIVE POULTRY Sprint: chickens.
fancy, 41,5 lbs, 2369240; medium chickens.
21@220; leghorns, 190; best hens, 5 lbs
up, 23617240; medimn hens, 20®220; leg~
horns and small, 150; old roosters, 16v;
geese, ltlﬁDl'Io; ducks. large white, 21m
220.; small dark, 1900200; best turkeys.
320iiilflc por lb; No. 2 turkeys, 230: obl
toms. 25/:i‘2tlo IH'I‘ lb.

lllllCSSlCll t.‘..\[.‘.'l'ISr~'%ost country
drpssml. llro 15o pt-r lb; ordinary grader:
10o llo; small poor, flu! ltlt‘: llf‘HVY l‘tlll‘rl‘ll
(Illth‘S, Stu ilt‘; t'ily tlI‘l'SSt‘ll, Iii/1117C per Ill.

H.\'lt INS r l.:Il‘L’l‘. 3.5a; small, $2.35
per lOO—lb sot-k; Spanish, $2.:5T.’«12.50 pt-r
crate.

 

MICHIGAN MAN I14 “HAY lithl“
(Continued from l’ag‘o $1)

No“ \Vliiic “'inlvr “'lli‘zli
lst, A. \V. .lt‘\\'t‘ll, .lt‘., Mason; 21rd. l..
Il. Laylin. Mason: lth, L. ’l'. I‘llfit‘llllﬁ.
MaSon.
Oats, Region 33.
5th, L. ll. l.a.\'lin, Mason; tlth, A. \\’.
.IcWett, Jr., Mason: 7th, Lynn .Iewvll.
Leslie; 9th. A. l‘]. llilliard, Mason; loll]
Henry McCarty. tlrand tnpids; lIth, ll.
F. JcWett, .\lason;121h. L. 'l‘. Last-nlly,
Mason; 'l7th. ltoy L. I'low. Sauinaw; lRtlr.
Harry M. Martin, (‘linlon: 19th, l’aul
Clement. llritton; 20th, \Varrvn Fink»
beiner, Clinton; 21st. I). V. How, Sani
naw; 2nd. (7. I). Finkbviner, Clinton; 2231:].
G. P. Phillips, Rollevno: thh. l“al‘|wy
Bros, Albion; 26th.' Fred Mohrhardt.
Saline; 28th, Richard \\'ood(\n, llanovt-r;
29th, L. E. “'ooden, Hanover; 30th, tho.
W. Ernest, Clinton.
Flax, Region 12
lst, A. IV. .lewvtt, .Ir., Mason; 2nd, l.
H. Laylin, Mason; 4th, Lynn .lewt-ll,
Leslie; 6th. II. I”. Jewctt. Mason; 71h, .\.
E. Hilliard, Mason.
Rye
lst. (too. and L. (l llutzlvr, So Mani
Lou; 2nd. L. ll. Laylin. Mason: 1111, .»\.
\V. .Iowr-tt, .lr.. Mason; tith, L. ’1‘. Last pby.
Mason; 7th, R. F. .tmvettz. Mason; Nth
A. [6. Hilliard, Mason; 12th, Melvin J.
Smith. Springport; 13th, Lynn .It‘\\'1‘ll,
Leslie; 16th, John C. \Vilk. St. Louis;
19th, .I. A. Wilk, Alma; 20th, Ted J.
VViIk, Forest Hill; illst, Vorold Clormley.
Newberry.
Six Iiowed Barley
lL’th, II. F. Jowvtt, Mason; 121th. L. ll.
Laylin, Mason; 'ltlth, A. lG. Hilliard,
Mason; 20th. Fritz Mantey, Fairgrove:
2lst. Lynn .l“\V1'll, l4":‘:llt'; ‘_":.’nd. .\_ \\'
vaett, .111. Mason.
Alfalfa IIay
lst, .r\. \\'. .lowvtt, .lr., Mason. (Ian'nl
Champion; 2nd. Lynn Jewell. lu‘Silt'. stl.
L, ’l‘. l'msvnby, I‘llason; Alth, L. ll lxt) Mn.
Mason.
Hod (‘lovt-r Ila:v
'lst, A. \V. .lmw‘tt, Jr., blltrvlli; 1nd l
T. Lasenby, Mason; 21rd, l.\nn .I wil.
Leslie; 4th, L, H Laylin, Mason.
’I‘imoihy Illa)
lst, A. W. .lmw‘tt, .lr., Mitﬁ‘oll: L‘nd. l..
H. Laylin, Mason; :lrd, L. ’l‘. Laswnl».
Mason; ‘lth, Lynn .lw\\'«ll, Leslie; 5th, .\.
lC. llilliard, Mason.
Mixed Hay
lst, L. II. Laylin, Mason, lb-s-i'Vw
Champion; 2nd, A. \V. .anctt, Jr., Mason;
3rd, (Thas. Laughlin. llansville; 41h, A. ll}.
Hilliard, Mason; 5th, L. ’l‘. Laswnby,
Mason.
Any OtIu-r Ilay
lst, L. ll. Laylin, Mason; 2nd. A. \V.
Jewett, Jr., Mason.
Red (‘lovcr Seed
12th, Albert letgelshaw. Union (‘ity.
Alsike (flora-r Seed
5th, A. J. Lutz, Saline.
Yellow Soy Beans. Region I and :5
1st, J. A. VVilk, Alma, Ill-svrw- (..‘ham-
pion; 2nd, Ted J. \Vilk, Forest Hill; Ilrd,
John (7. VVilk, St. Louis; 5th. Melvin
Smith, Springport; 6th, A. W'. vaett, .lr.,
Mason; 8th, D. V. Bow, Saginaw; 9th,
L. H. Laylin, Mason.
Soy Beans, Any Other Color
3rd, L. T. Lasenby, Mason; 4th, A. \V.
.Jewett, Jr., Mason; 62h, Lynn Jewell,
Leslie; 7th, L. H. Laylin, Mason,
Field Peas
lst, Charles Konnot. Ewen; 4th, L II.
Laylin, Mason: 5th. Connors Bros, Topaz.
Field Beans
ist, J. A. \Vilk, Alma; 2nd, Lynn Jewell,
Leslie: 3rd, Melvin Smith. Springport;
4th, A. W. Jewett, .lr.. Mason.

 
   
  

  

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llnn-lrtvds of owners will write you direct. No
on mission ('lltll'tft’ll. FARM SERVICE lil'RI‘lAU,
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Standard (-olor, brml from lfl‘t‘ilt layers. \\'rite.

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w‘ :n‘rt-s Woods. .0 miles from .\llt-gan, Mir-b. ' '

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*lt. t‘lcnnns. on our line. References. \Vrite
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.mss l‘armcr. Mt. t'lcnmns, Michigan. old nmgncto points, tlist‘nl’thl Jt‘Wt‘lI‘y and o‘lld
:7 ___;;;: gold. Mail to, Ille'I“. Sill‘llll'th} 8; IIEFINING
(,‘O., Otsego. Michigan.

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FILMS FINISHED QUIt‘KLY. II I I: II E S ’1‘
lltllll‘fﬁl'llN ’l'OIiAt't‘O: (‘III'IWING FIVE quality. I‘lvcrbrite photos never fade. Send
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ton $2.00; pipe free, pay win-n received, VH‘E. “T6011 “HY. WiS.
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chewing $2.ti0; 8 smoking $2.20; 8 second
smoking $1.40. I’ay tor tobacco and postage S’l‘AR’l‘ LITTLE MAIL Ulilllﬁlt BUSINESS AT
mitt?“ received. ULI) IIUMESI‘L‘N L‘O., Hawa— home valuable IIIIOI‘lll.tllUlJ free. llNl'l'lGD
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“O we have reduced our rates from 10C a word to 8c

to make this, one of the most popular departments,
a readers’ marketplace where more than 65,000 gath—
er every two wool :1. ~~ some to buy, some to sell, some
who want Work and some who need workers.
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'il'ie i‘v‘iichigan Business Farmer, H '—
i‘it. Clemens, Mlich. NEW RATES
Due in or“ on . 8r: per word
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If you are earning less than $50 a Week, -read every word. Why stair in the old
job, with no future—no chance of ever earning much more than you are now? The Auto,
Tractor and Electrical Business offers thousands of BIG PAY JOBS—jobs where you are
the BOSS. Get out of the rut—be independent—be an Auto Expert.

J. A. McSweeny --- the Largest Operator of"
Automobile Schools in the U. S. Will Train You!

I am the largest operator in the United States. I have completely equipped schools
in Cincinnati, Chicago and Cleveland. Think a moment what it means to be trained by u
McSWeeny—think of the prestige—the ease of getting a big pay job when you can say
“McSweeny Trained Me”. That’s the magic phrase that has opened the doors of thou-
sands of big pay jobs to my students. You can go to any of my schools—the school nearest
you or the school nearest where you want to locate.

EIGHT suo RT WEEKS No Previous Experience
and Then SUCCESS . Necessary

Think of it—eight short weeks in any of Age or lack of experience is no handi-
my schools—then a big pay job—Success! cap. I have trained hundreds of men With
You don’t have to know a thing about cars— no previous knowledge of automobiles. I
you don’t have to have any education—all you have successful graduates—men who are
need is the determination to get ahead. In making big money—from 16 to 65 years. Age
eight weeks you’ll be, not merely a garage makes no difference to an employer 1f the
mechanic, but an Auto, Tractor and Electri- man knows his stuff—and he does When he
cal Expert—a Big Pay Man. completes my training.

cSweeny Trained Men Be  Allto 

MAKE GOOD ‘ Ordinary garage mechanics make
A. J. Beall, Jr., l‘v’lorgantown, W. Va., made $85,- " ' ‘
000.00 last year clear with his garage and Chevrolet gOOd “1011637. Arte’ﬂ' elgllt weeks ‘11} any
Agency. - . . . of my schools you ll be in a pOSIti
George Smith, W. Alexandria, Ohio makes over . v . d
$800.00 a month clear witlh his garage. I. f _ t0 bOSS ordlnary mechanlcs, an
Thousands of ot icr stm cuts are now manng 'rom
$50 to $150 a week. Before thloy came u; school, they to make more money Ehan
knew nothing about nutomollyi os—now ticy are Suc—
cessful men. You, too can have the same SUCCOSS— you ever dreamed 0f be ore
all you need is the Trainingchchcny Training. You read thls announcement,

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WRITE AT ONCE 52-1%,; Book

For the Best Offer Ever Made , My big 64 page, beautifully
illustrated catalog tells the Whole

The leader sets the pace. I am the ac- story—I send it free if you act at once.
knowledged leader in the automobile bus1—
ness. Because I have three completely equipped schools, I can give more for less a. n. MoSweeny,Pres., Dept. 526,
money than any one else. Right now, I am making the lowest tuition offer ever 23:$3??an‘ggsfré‘fﬁﬁnfaﬁfeﬁﬁiffhwls'
‘ ' ' __ ’ ‘ ' :‘l” s. L‘ fl' St., Ch' ag , Ill’ .
made in the history of automobile schools you 11 have to act quickly in order to M5 Egg}; St" Cfgvelgnd, him
get 111 on thlS. (Send to the School nearest you.)
Dear Mac:
Send me your 'big‘ catalog and full information
about your limited Special Offer.

T . Now is the time to train yourself—now
        Name .................................................................................. ..

. . will be able to take your place with the Address .............................................................................. ..
other McSweeny Trained Big Pay Experts. Send the coupon—NOW—TODAY— City sue
THIS MINUTE. ‘ """ "are"rge'r'rzeg"'r;;;'game restate; """"""" "

McSWEEN QSTEEEEESERE SCHOOLS
THE LARGEST OPERATOR OF AUTOMOTIVE SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES. '

Dept. 526

CINCINNATI, OHIO ' CHICAGO, iLL. CLEVELAND, OHIO
9th and Walnut Sts. 519-21 South Laflin St. , 1815 East 24th St.‘

 

 

 

 

