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AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE
RECONVENES JANUARY 5
ANUARY 5 has been set as the

date of the next meeting of the

President’s Agricultural Confer-
ence. It is understood that members
of the conference will come to Wash-
ington several days before the next
meeting in order that considerable
preliminary work might be done. 11.
is the plan of the conference, accord-
ing to Chairman Carey, to make im-
mediate recommendations to the
President on relief for the cattle in-
dustry now considered an emergen-
cy problem. The second question is
that of cooperative marketing and
early recommendations are' antici-
pated. Members of the conference
have been giving attention to these
and . .her problems during the recess
in order that action might be made
shortly after reconvening.

 

OUT IN WORLD WHEAT AND

RYE CROPS

DECREASE of about 440,000,-

000 bushels in the estimated

world wheat crop as compared

with last is indicated in reports re-

ceived by the Foriegn Service of the

United States Department of Agricul—
ture up to December 17.

The estimated world crop is placed
at 3,298,679,000 bushels compared
with 3,742,541,000 bushels in 1923.
The figures include estimates of all
important wheat producing countries
of the northern hemisphere except
China.

A reduction of about 320,000,000
bushels in the world rye crop as com-
pared with last year is also indicated
The world crop is estimated at
1,174,148,000 bushels this year com-
pared with 1,494,688,000 bushels last
year. The most important reductions
in rye production have been a de-
crease of 84,000,000 bushels in P01-
and, and a decrease of 27,000,000
bushels in Germany.

 

STATE TO FIGHT NEW
RAIL RATE
ICHIGAN will oppose the in-
crease in freight rates between
Chicago and New York, pro-
posed by the railroad companies in
a plan now before the interstate com-
merce commission, and the state ad-
ministrative board December 23rd
authorized the attorney gen'eral and
the Michigan Public Utilities com-
mission to have their representa-
tives present when this plan is to be
considered by the I. C. 0. next Febru-
ary 4th. ,

Charged violations of the inter—
state commerce act by the carriers
caused them to lay before the I. C.
C. the plan which would boost Mich—
igan rates east. The chhrge is that
the railroads do not keep their rates
in central freight association terri-
tory, which includes lower'Michigan,
uniform with those of the eastern
trunk line, which takes in the sea—
board states.

Revision of the rates is thus pro-
posed by the carriers, so they claim,
to eliminate the violations charged.
There are six freight classiﬁcations,

 

and the proposed changes between
Chicago and New York would make
the increased ratio of rates from
Michigan points to the east as com—
pared with Chicago, as follows:

First class, from 142 to 161; sec-
ond class, 124% to 137; third class,
94% to 108; ﬁfth class, 56% to
56%; sixth class, 471,4.» to 45.
Hence all classiﬁcations except the
ﬁfth and sixth would be increased.

As compared with Chicago rates
to New York this would mean in-
creases on ﬁrst class rates froxn
Michigan points as follows: Pom
tiac and Adrian would pay 82 per
cent of the total increase from Chica-
go to New York, or 132 as compared
with the present 116% ; Owosso and
Lansing, 91 per cent or 148 as com-
pared with 130%; Detroit 78 per
cent, or 125 as compared with 111
at present; Bay City, Jackson, Sagi-
naw, 88 per cent or 141% as com~
pared with 125.
creases would result for other Mich-
igan points.

It is also claimed that not only
would interstate rates be thus in-

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creased for Michigan, but intrastate ‘
rates as well would thus be affected. '

That such increases would discrimin-
ate against Michigan shippers, and
and also hit Michigan manufacturers

in competition with eastern industry, ‘r

is urged against the proposed new
rate plan.

 

SUGAR PRODUCTION [N U. S.
SHOWS INCREASE

UGAR production of approximate- :
ly 1.192000 short tons fro‘m ;
beets and cane grown in the Uni- "

ted States this past year is indicated .

in the reports received by the United
States Department of Agriculture
from beet and cane sugar factories.
Production from the 1923 crops was
1,043,000 short tons and from the
1822 crops was 970,100 short tons.
These figures include the produc-
tion of beet sugar in all beet—sugar

factories in the United States and the :
production of cane sugar from sugar ‘
cané grown in Louisiana, but do not :
include small quantities of cane su- i

gar which may have been made in
Florida, Texas and other Southern
States.

Production of beet sugar in 1924-13

estimated at 1,087,000 short tons, ‘

compared with 881,000 short tons a
year ago. This relatively large pro-

duction is largely accounted for by ‘

the high sugar content of the beets,
which is 16.82 per cent compared
with 15.34 per cent alst year, and by
the larger acreage. Offsetting fac—
tors are the relatively low yield of
beets per acre which, for the United
States, was 8.90 tons, compared with
10.66 tons a year ago. The produc-
tion of beets this past year is repor-

ted as approximately 7,600,000 tons, ‘

or about 107 per cent of last year’s
produetion.

The cane sugar crop of 1924 is
approximately only 105,000 short
tons, a low production caused by un~
favorable weather and
high price of cane syrup.
production has steadily declined from
the 324,431 short tons of 1921.

Five Short Courses to Open at M. A. C. Jan. 5

BE Dairy Production Course is
especially designed to meet the
needs of one expecting to take

up cow—testing association work, or
become a dairy herdsman, or one
specializing in dairy farming. This
course seems to be receiving more
than its share according to the ap—
plication cards received at the Short
Course ofﬁce.

One hundred and ﬁfty have applied
for admission to the Winter Short
Courses. Five of which will begin
with the opening of the winter term
January 5.

The General Agricultural Course
is especially prepared to meet the
needs of the diversiﬁed farmers. This
course covers such subjects as ani-
mal husbandry, types, scoring, and
breeds. In the farm crops course
special emphasis is given to cultural
methods, desirable seed, and adapta-
bility of the various grains, hay
crops and pasture crops. The other

subjects offered are animal feeding,
soils, and fertilizers, farm manage-
ment, and shop work consisting of

 

both woodshop and forgeshop, or
farm engineering. A course in radio
will also be offered.

The Dairy Manufacturing students

spend most of their time on butter
As a re- ,

making or cheese making.
suit on completion of the course they
should be able to take responsible
positions in either a cheese factory
or creamery. The other subjects of-
fered in this course consist of Bab-
cock Testing and Separators, cream-
ery mechanics, dairy bacteriology or
hygiene, and dairy arithmetic. This
course will be followed by a two
Weeks course in ice cream making.

The special Four Weeks Poultry
Course will emphasize culling and
breeding, management, housing, in—
cubation, disease control, and either
horticulture o'r beekeeping.

The Horticultural Course is es
pecially designed for the man spe—
cializing in fruit growing. The sub
jects offered are fruit growing, fruit
disease, fruit disease, fruit insects,
beekeeping,
gineering.

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Farmers Have Much At Stake in

Legislature

Expect Gas Tax Legislation Will Come Before Michigan Lawmakers During Session at Lansing

l S this article goes to press the
' vanguard of the small army of
law—makers, neWSpaper men,
lobbyists, clerks, stenographers, ser-
geants, coat room keepers, document
room keepers, pages and other re-
tainers has reached Lansing in pre-
paration for the opening of the Le-
gislature at noon, January 7th, for
what gives promise to be one of the
most interesting sessions in Michigan
history.
As the Governor and the Admin—
istrative Board have held up the is-
suance of automobile license plates

. until February 1st, it is commonly

acknowledged that the chief atten—
tion will be focused during the ﬁrst
few weeks of the session on the mat-
ter of highway ﬁnance. The recom-
mendations which the Governor will
make regarding this matter to the
Legislature in his third biennial mes-
sage are being awaited with interest.
Michigan’s Chief Executive has not
conﬁded to your Lansing correspon-
dent as to whether or not he will ad—
vocate the adoption of a 20 gasoline
tax to supplement the weight tax
which it is commonly understood he
will propose.

The failure of gas tax legislation
at the 1923 regular session and the
Governor’s refusal to allow this mat-
ter to be brought up at the special
session of the Legislature has given
rise to a critical situation in high—
way ﬁnance. It is commonly under-
stood that the $50,000,000 bond is-
sue will be exhausted when the road
building program. authorized for
1924 is completed. This means that
the state-highway department will
have to hold its 1925 road building
program quite largely in abeyance
until the Legislature takes deﬁnite
action regarding the various propos-
als which will be submitted to it.

Farmers for Gas Tax

Farm organizations of Michigan
are united in supporting a 2c gaso-
line tax as the source of a consider-
able portion of the revenue necessary
for ﬁnancing a permanent highway
program in this state. Th organ-
ized farmers of Michigan would not
object to the removal of any injus-
tices which may exist in the present
automobile license fees. However,
they do not favor depending upon an
excessively high weight tax as the
means of ﬁnancing our improved
highways.

Resolutions and discussions at re-
cent meetings of leading farm organ-
izations in this state have pointed
out that a weight tax can never dis-
tribute the burden of highway ex-
pense fairly among the automobile
owners in proportion to the beneﬁts
derived. Under such a system two
owners of the same model car would
pay exactly the same annual weight
tax, although one might drive his car
ten times as far as the other. It has
been pointed out that under no
Weight tax system can we derive any
revenue from visiting tourists.

The gasoline tax, on the other
hand, is being advocated as the
method which will insure the most
equitable distribution of highway ex-
pense, in that under such a system
each person pays according to the
amount of gasoline consumed, which
is. roughly speaking. in direct pro—
portion both to the weight of the

car and the distance driven, the two

factors which contribute to the
Wear and tear on our highways
and which go to measure the bene-
fit which the individual receives
from the improved highways. The
gas tax derives revenue not only
from the owners of cars registered
in Michigan but from those of
visiting tourists as well. As poin-
ted out in our former. article in
THE Business Fauna, the state gas-

oline artisan invisible toll gate pro- 1

By STANLEY M. POWELL

- (Lansing Correspondent of The Business Farmer.)

 

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EFORE another issue of The Business Farmer goes to press
Michigan‘s lawmakers will be in session at Lansing, and. possibly
before another issue is in the mails some legislative matters of

importance to the farmers of this state will be disposed of.

This

session of Legislature will be one of the most important in the history
of Michigan and there will be much of interest to the farmers so we
have arranged with Mr. Powell, whom you all know, through his

contributions to our columns, to cover the session.

In this article he

discusses the various legislation that Michigan’s lawmakch will have
to deal with. and also writes on some of the questions that may come

up during the session.

 

 

ducing revenue from all drivers of
motor vehicles in the fairest and
most equitable manner and in such
a way as to make it the easiest to
Pay.

It Wil be remembered that one of
the big arguments used in defending
the veto of the gas tax bill two years
ago was that the state did not need
as much money as it would provide.
In fact, we were told at that time
that the 2c gasoline tax would have
provided as much revenue as was
required. It was commonly accepted
that it would have brought in about
$8 000.000 per year. Today our
$50,000,000 bond issue is practically
exhausted, the state owes the coun—
ties and townships about $7,000,000
in b tCk highway rewards, and so the
argument against the gas tax that
the revenue is not needed has of ne—
cessity been thrown into the discard.
Now we are told that we should have
a weight tax of 70c per hundred on
passenger cars and 900 per hundred
on trucks, bringing in about $20,000,
000 per year, two and one—half times
as much as the gasoline tax would
have produced.

Even though the Legislature
should be favorably disposed toward
a gas tax this session, and there
seems to be little question but what
such will be the case, it is freely pro-
phesied that there will be consider-
able discussion regarding the dis-
tribution of the funds which it would
raise. Some would have all the mon-
ey retained by the state, others
would favor returning a portion of
it to the counties, still others will
attempt to show that a portion of the
funds should be returned to the ci-
ties and villages.

In the meantime, the Governor,
the Secretary of State and the Ad-
ministrative Board are being threat-
ened with various legal proceedings
for their failure to go ahead and dis-
tribute 1925 license plates as the law
requires. It is even pointed out that
should the Legislature pass highway
ﬁnancing bills and give them immed—
iate effect and attempt to make them
retroactive, that is, to take effect
January 1, 1925, any such action
will be dragged into the courts and
an attempt made to show that it is
entirely, unconstitutional. It will be
remembered that under our present
constitution only bills necessary for
the preservation of the public peace,
health, or safety and those providing
appropriations to meet existing deﬁc-
iencies can be given immediate ef—
fect. It is hard to see under which
of these clauses a weight tax, or a
combination weight and gas tax, or
a. gas tax by itself could be given im-

, mediate effect.

Reapportionment

When the matter of highway ﬁn—
ance is settled, if it is, there will be
many other important matters com-
ing up for solution. The Detroit
delegation will no doubt insist upon
bringing up once mono the matter-or
legislative remortienmant. The

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constitution provides that the mem—
bers of the Legislature should be re-
apportioned in 1913 and every tenth
year thereafter. Since nothing de—
ﬁnite was done along this line during
the 1923 session some statesmen
hold that the subject cannot be
brought up again under the pre-
sent constitution until 1933. Others
insist that it is a matter of unﬁn-
ished business which it is within the
jurisdiction of the 1925 session to
consider. This matter of represen-
tation in the Michigan Legislature
has been thoroughly discussed in two
previous articles in T1119 BUSINESS
FARMle and so more space will not
be devoted to it at this time. It
might be observed, however, that it
would be indeed a poor trade if the
rural districts were to virtually give
the control of the state to Detroit
even though they were to receive the
gas tax in return.

It is hard to predict what other tax
reform measures will be brought up
during the coming session. Some of
the leading representatives from ru-
ral districts favor making no move in
the direction of a State income tax
during the present session, but advo-
cate concentrating on a gas tax and
on laws looking towards the aboli-
tion of tax-exempt securities and the
enactment of annual speciﬁc taxes
upon many of the classes of intangi-
ble personal property which is now
largely escaping taxatiOn in Mich-
igan.

Timber Tax

No doubt some sort of a deferred
tax on growing timber will be pro—
posed. It will be remembered that
the Meggison bill along this line was
passed by the Legislature two years
ago but vetoed. This whole subject
was gone over carefully at a confer—
ence held in Lansing a few weeks
ago for the consideration of conser-
vation legislation. There seems to
be no question but What the idle land
in Michigan will never be reforested
under private ownership as long as
we have the annual general property
tax applied to our growing timber,
taxing the forests each year on the
basis of the bare land value plus the

value of the accumulated timber
growth.
At the conservation conference

mentioned above a long list of pro-
posed bills relating to ﬁsh and game
laws were considered. Probably
nothing radically new along this line
will be introduced unless it is a mes-
sure to give the Conservation Com-
mittee more power and authority to
declare closed seasons on ﬁsh and
game in localities where the Com-
mission may deem it advisable.
There is a growing tendency with
the various state departments to
avoid what is called “departmental
legislation”. The various depart-
ments are holding conferences this
year in an chart to have the support
for various proposed legislative re-
forms come directly from the inter-
ested citizens. An example of this

was the conference on fruit legisla-
tion held at Grand Rapids, December
19th and attended by representatives
of nearly all of the fruit organiza-
tions in the state. At that meeting
various bills, to promote fruit stan-
dardization and inspection were ad-.
vocated. It was brought out that
at present the enforcement of potato
grades must be carried out under Act
207 of the public acts of 1913, and
that such enforcement is ineﬁective
and civil action by injunction slow,
uncertain and not at all desirable.
It was advocated that for the en-
forcement of these grades there
should be a statute such as either
the apple or the grape law whereby
the wilfull and deliberate violator
might be taken into court without
any loss of time.
In Interest of Dairying

It is not probable that the dairy
interests will propose much legisla—
tion during the coming session. It
may be thought advisable to amend
the ﬁlled—milk bill passed twoyears
ago so that it shall specifically guard
against the manufacture of ﬁlled
milk containing egg yolks. Also the
cheese law, enacted two years ago
may need to be amended so as to
give some control regarding so—called
cottage cheese. The present law ex-
empts cottage cheese and it is neces—
sary with any cheese supposed to
contain. cocoanut fat to prove that
the cheese was never cottage cheese.
This is very difﬁcult and so before
this so—called ﬁlled cheese can be
guarded‘against, it might be neces-
sary to amend the 1923 law.

Tuberculosis \Vork

One matter of particular interest
to the livestock breeders of Michigan
which is sure to come up during the
1925 session will be in regard to ﬁn—
ancing the bovine-tuberculosis eradi—
cation work in Michigan. During the
1923 session of the Legislature the
Bureau of Animal Industry of the
State Department of Agriculture.
with the backing of the livestock or-
ganizations of the state, went before
the Legislature asking for an appro—
priation of $500,000 a year for the
two year period for indemnity funds.
The Legislature ﬁnally appropriated
$250,000 a year for the two year,
period. There are now several coun—
ties on the waiting list that have
been waiting for this work more
than two years and there is probably
three years work already lined up at
the present rate of progress.

Increase School Interest Fund

Of fundamental and far reaching
importance to the rural districts in
Michigan will be any legislation pro—-
posed to modify in any respect the
primary school interest fund. The
State Teachers Association, with the
support of the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, are trying to
initiate measures to increase the pri-
mary school interest fund by increas-
ing the tax on the insurance business
written in Michigan by insurance
companies whose main ofﬁces are to—
catcd outside of the state and by in—
creasing the state inheritance taxes.
While these measures may look good
on the surface, there are many ang—
les to them which should be carefully
considered. Space does not permit
going into them more fully at this _,
time. However, if they come before
the Legislature we shall be glad to
have more to say about them in tu-
ture articles.

It is estimated that if these two
initiative proposals should become
laws they would increase the amount
of the primary school interest fund
by about one-third. It is problema-
tical whether or not there would be a
corresponding decrease in local
School taxes.

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' , tage by agricultural teachers as
a means of getting best results in ag-
ricultural subjects. A project is a
[problem whereby a student can put
into practice best cultural methods
advocated in the class rooms Here
the theory is carefully gone over and
in the ﬁeld this theory is put into
practice. One of the chief aims of
this supervised practice is to insure
contact of the student with the farm-
ing vocation in which he is being
prepared to engage. As a result of
the 'pupils’ successful work, it is rea-
sonable to expect that there will be
a deﬁnite improvement in practices
on the home farm in succeeding
years. The beneﬁts are soon evidenc-
ed in the community and a higher
tandard of rural living is the result.
Another way in which supervised
practice can function is in aiding the
teacher to make intimate contact
with farm homes and secure know-
ledge of the needs of his locality.

’ The student is guided in his choice
of a. project ﬁrst probably by his per-
sonal likes. Best results come from
students who enjoy learning and do—
ing at the same time. Other factors
that must be taken into considera—
tion are problems that are confront-
ing the boy or girl in his or her com—
munity, and the amount of time
when the problem ﬁts into the every—
day work of the student.

Last year 3. Chester White pig club
was organized in our community and
ﬁfteen pure bred gilts were distri-
buted to ﬁfteen boys and girls. One
of these animals was drawn by a boy
who was taking a course in Agricul—
ture in high school. Here was a
splendid chance for this future far—
mer to practice good methods of
feeding and caring for his pig which

Project Method of Teaching Farm Subjects in High S‘Ch

 

By WILLIS CAMPBELL

Agricultural Teacher, Cass City Public Schools

 

 

“  LL Work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," is_ an old saying and

a very true one.

It is possible that thereare beys and girls who

would like tolearn entirely from books instead of from practical
experience but we have never met- them. But a combination of the two

is better than all of either one.

The project method of teaching agri-

culture in high schools gives the student this combination, because
the student puts into practice what is advocated! in the class room. It
causes the student to become intensely interested in the work before

him and he realizes that farming is a real business.
he runs his farm like a. business-man runs his business.

he did with a result that now he ex—
pects to continue and get a herd of
registered Chester Whites. His gilt
was bred to the champion aged Ches-
ter White boar at the International
Live Stock Show last fall and far—
rowed t‘en splendid pig. From these
he will select his breeding stock this
year. This boy is keener for the
farm, keener for pure breds and good
methods of feeding because he has
worked out a practical problem and
did it in connection with his every
day work.
pays to feed and select carefully.
These problems given the students
are supervised by the ful—time agri-
cultural teacher who guides the boy
or girl and‘in every way helps to
make the undertaking a success.
Once every three weeks and oftener
if necessary, he visits these farm pro-
blems and tries to connect theory
and practice. One of my boys, Wil—
ford (laister, was growing an acre of
(‘ertiﬁed Russet Rural potatoes this
summer. I notiﬁed Wilford one day
about the time that the potatoes

Europeans Declare Americans

This is the sew-nth article of Mr. Flood's
series on his travels in Europe.

UDYABJD Kipling is an English—

man, and no doubt knew the En—

, glish women better than I do
when he sang of the London house—
maids:

“Beefy face an’ grubby “and——

Law, wot do they understand?

I've a neater, sweeter maiden

In a cleaner, greener land,

On the Road to Mandalay.”

Now, I've never been in Mandalay
and I don’t know what kind of peo—
ple live along the famous highway
leading into Mandalay. but, from
what I saw of England’s women slop-
ping—in their beer and cigarettes, I
would sing these lines with Kipling
——changing the last line, however,
to:

“In the good old U. S. A.”

We all agreed that the prettiest
girl we saw in all England was the
miss Who “cleaned” o‘ur “boots” in
Stratford—olmAvon. Yes, “cleaning
boots” in England is the same as
shining shoes under the stars and
stripes. I

I was well aware, of course, that
Elaine the Fair, Elaine the Lovable.
Elaine the Lily Maid of Astolalt,
guarded and polished the sacred
shield of Lancelot, but it was a bit
of a blow to all of us to ﬁnd that the
Englishman nowadays allows his
beautiful women to shine his shoes
also. He also allows her to carry the
bundles or wheel the baby while he
strides majestically along with his
cane and his gloves in his hand, and

wearing his three—gallon hat. The.

Englishman himself must always be
--and he is—correctly dressed even
though his wife or daughter cannot
afford the trimmings and ﬁxings on
her clothes which in the American
tamily are almost as important neces-
bities as gasoline.
Americans Too Chivalrous?

'The'English, as well as the H01—
lenders, the Germans, the Danes, the
Swiss and even the French laugh at
us for being so chivalrous to our wo-
men in America. Whenever we found
anyone who had been to America

 

He has found out that it;

And in later years

n

were in bloom that the potato in-.

specter would visit him to give his
potatoes their ﬁrst inspection. Pre-
vious to this, time we had taken up
potato diseases both in, the class
room and together in discussing his
particular project. But here in the
ﬁeld was the place to talk over and
identify such things as Leaf Mosaic,
Hopper Burn, Four Line Leaf Bug,
Aphids, and Blight with an expert
who had made a careful study of
these particular diseases and insects
and could advise both the student
and teacher wisely. ‘

One ofthe biggest beneﬁts that
should come from this supervised
practice is a closer relationship be-
tween the student and the farm. It
should develop a keener interest in
better seeds, a desire for more pure
breds, and improved methods of
farming. One of the pure bred Hol-
stein heifers brought into our com-
munity last spring went into a herd
of grade Holsteins. She was grow—
thy, carried out well over the rump
and showed indications of develop~

ools.Holds Interest of Students - '

ment of'a good middle. This heifer

'was about fourteen months old'when

purchased alongvin April. :She grew
and developed splendidly during the
summermonths and late in August

_was taken to the county fair‘to com-

pete against other heifers purchased
at the same time. She took the blue
ribbon there and‘ was afterwards
shown at Bay City, Saginaw and De-
troit where she never disappointed
her proud owner. At‘ Detroit in the
Boys and Girls club classes she was
declared Grand Champion Female
oVer some ﬁfty females.

‘It was not the winnings that were
impressive but the reaction that this
good heifer had on the community
and particularly on this farm boy.
Recently he has acquired a pure bred
Holstein bull with ﬁne records on
both sides. In the spring he intends
to purchase another heifer and have
these three animals as a nucleus for
a herd. '

Since Agriculture has been taught
in a practical manner in the. high
school, the farm boy has not only
taken an added interest in the home
mm, but added enthusiasm in
school work. In our own school, the
non—resident students‘P have increased
forty per cent in the last three years.
A large part of this increase is due to
the fact that the country boy and girl
has come to realize that a high

school education is just as essential

in farming as _in other vocations.
The student that completes a pro-
ject or farm problem learns more
about the business. of farming be-
cause it is his problem and not dad's.
The successful farmer of tomorrow
must know how to keep records, use

_best cultural methods, weigh values.
and last but not least come to realize,

that‘farming is a business requiring
a scientiﬁcally trained man.

Are Too Chivalrous toWomen 

‘By FRANCIS A. FLOOD

 

 

 

 

 

’l‘hc charm of rural England is shown nowhere better than in the beautiful little
village—~99”! one a work of art.

of the American woman and they in—
variably said that we spoil them, we
humor them and pay them too many
gallant attentions. We overdo en—
tirely the idea of chivalry to the tem—
inine sex. Anyone in the United
States would laugh at this, of course,
and especially the women would in—
sist that we are certainly not chival—
rous enough—and that for evidence
we have only to look inside any
street car ﬁlled with tired shop girls
pulling leather and as many men oc-
cupying the seats. I

We decided, with no argument,
that the modern English girl, for in—
stance, with her continual guzzling
of beer and carrying of cigarettes is
not naturally the object of chivalry
and attention and courtesy that her
“Mid-Victorian” older sisters were
who retained their ‘feminine charm
and along with it the chivalrous res-
pect of the mere men. They may
scoff at this thing called feminine
charm and may disdain to wish for
it, but when they give it up so glibly
they also give up these gallantries
and chivalrous

   

attentions of their
men. Of course, we did not travel ‘

among the royalty and upper crusts
of England—but then, few do.

Much of this is, naturally, a result
of the war, and we certainly cannot
criticize the people of England, nei—
ther the men or the women, for the
scars left upon them by the war,
which we in America know compari-
tively little about.— .It cost us nothing
compared to the sacriﬁces made by
{the people of England and yet we
reaped as much of the beneﬁts—-
if anything good can come from war
—-——as did any of the victorious coun-
tries. » ‘ 

English \Vomenv Paid

Four long years of the ruthless
war that raged at their very thresh-
old and threatened daily to stalk in-
to their very midst demanded—and
unstintingly , received ——- every ounce

of resistance and every personal sac- ,

riﬁce of every son and daughter of
England. The victory was theirs,
but the war-torn people will be pay—
ing for many years for that victory
———zwhatever that word may mean.

Maybe it was “Merrie England”.

once: but it struck .us that, it isn’t
any more. Unemployment hasbeen

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‘En‘gland andjc’ontin'en'tal Europe is

so acute that the goverment has been
paying a certain amount, called a
“dole” to every man who is unable
to ﬁnd work. This is ofﬁcial recog-
nition of the, fact that the public is
not self-supporting. It, is costly—-
economically and socially. It is de-
moralizing to the public mind and
would probably never have been put
int6 effect except to avert even more
dangerous, active dissatifaction and
unrest.

I don‘t know whether it was as
bad before the war or not, but if one
looks into any one of the thousands
of public houses in London alone, or
“pubs” as they are called, between
ten and eleven o’clock in the evening
just before closing time, he will see
them all nearly full of people—and
poor people-spending a few pence
for their beer and ale. They do not
drink the hard liquors that make the
American ﬁghting drunk; it is the‘
cheap and sloppy beer—cheap in the
cost per mug, but a mighty drain up--
on the poor masses of England whc
must support it as an institution.

Old men, underfed and poorly
clothed, probably living on their
“dole”, or a pension from some oi
England’s former “glorious” wars;
old women and young girls who drift
in with their male partners and lean
upon the bar or slouch about the
room on boxes or Benches, sleepy-
eyed, mannish and loud in theirtalk
and laughter, cheaply and plainly
dressed but spending their tuppences
and sixpences for their beer or stout
and spending their more important
property—their time, for the same
“beer” standard of social activity;
young men and what we call boys...

out of work and, from all appear

ances, having a hard time to get
along—all these are chipping in with
what money they can scrapetogether
to support the institution of the pub—
lic house or saloon. And they laugh
at us because we have got‘rid of it!
Argument Against Saloons

For every American who boasted
to us that he had come over to Eur-
ope to get his nose wet there were

a score who. told us that trip through, 

  

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“OUR SIX CHILDREN.”-—”This is a picture
of the best ‘crop' we ever raised, our six chil-
dren,” writes Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wyckoﬂ‘ of
Sheridan. ‘

GETTING A TASTE OF FARM LIFE.—These youngsters,
George and Merrill Jennings, were born in the city and live The girls, both school teachers, are
there during the winter but they like to go out to the farm helping Alphens Raybune, Ithaca,
of their uncle during the summer. The picture was sent in

by Mrs. Mary _Archibald, of Ada.

“G0 ’LONG MULE”.—Tbat is what Bliss Marie Duchane, of
Marine City, is saying to her friend who is between the thills Teddy, belonging
playing she is the horse. These young farmerettes look ready to Burnice Kidd, of Hart, Fowlerville, are having great fun feeding the chickens. The pic-

. ture was sent to us by Clifton G. Cook.

to help do a. man’s work.

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a picture of the family trying to push the ﬂivver when they got
stuck in the snow on their way to Christmas dinner. Everyone
seems to be real happy in spite of all the trouble.

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“\VE'RE ALL GOING FISHING”.—

take a ﬁshing trip.

     
         
        

 

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A FINE PAIB.—This ﬁne looking team belongs to A. W. Swift, of Dow-

dia‘.‘ em“! but Em“ Irene, 7‘y09'r'91d “It. Mich. These horses are full sisters, according to-Mr. Swift. A few
daughter 0‘ Ml" and M". Chall- ROOk- ‘ Years ago nearly every farmer owned a. well-matched team but nowadays

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“GOING TO ELSIE”.—-Is the title of this picture ac-
cording to George Crom, of Elsie. The calf looks gentle
in the picture and everyone seems happy but we wonder
catch some minnows so they can all what would happen if they met an uutonlobilc on the
road during their journey to town and back.

GETTING AN EARLY START IN THE POULTRY BUS-
INESS.——-ldlsie Mae and Evelyn Cook, age 21/2 and 11/2 years, of

ANOTHER BUSINESS FARMER.—
This is a view of the back yard of
1Iciiierce Caywood’s home at St. Louis,
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“A HUNTING WE WILL coin—This

is Edsel Ford Page and his rabbit-dog,
Sport. Edsel is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Alva. Page, Cheboysan.

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If a man has subscribed for stock
must he take it if the stock agent
tdd him things that is not so? Stock
agents want me to exchange my su-
gar stock for coal stock. I have to
pay no money, only stock, and they
told me the next time they came they
would bring the certiﬁcate and take
my certiﬁcate along and made [no
sign a note paper and told me they
do not make a note out of it, they
only wanted it for a copy. But I
hear nothing from them till I get
notice from a bank saying there is
a note to pay. Must I pity this note
or not ?—C. W., Bay City, Mich.

00 would have to pay the note
if it is in the hands of the bank,
but you could bring suit for

damages against the company to re-
cover the amount you had to pay, if
they made false representations to
you in the transaction.—Legal Edi-
tor.

AHERICAN-BORV \VIFE OF ALIEN
VOTING

Does the wife of an alien have a
vote in the election. although she is
native born? Does a convict draw
$2.00 per day while he is serving his
sentence, besides his board and
clothes?—E. S.. Gladwin, Mich.

“3 wife who is an American-

born woman, wife of an alien,

would not have the right to
vote if she was married prior to
September 22. 1922, unless the bus-
hnd had been naturalized. Since
September 22. 1922 an American
woman would not lose her citizenship
by marrying a foreigner and would
be entitled to vote.

Convicts generally do not draw
two dollars per day while in the
State's prison.———Clare Retan, Deputy
Attorney General.

 

BRING A("I'l0.‘l
DAMAGE
I bought a cow at a sale and the
man i bought her of said she would
freshen May 28th but there is no
sign yet. I told him about it and
he put the blame on his hired man.
He said he kept track of that. A
week after that I asked him again
and he said he had not seen him. I
told him I did not think I would have
to keep the cow but he told me to
tr... her back home and get my mon-
ey at the bank. I wanted 5 dollars
for feeding her and he said he would
not pay it. I asked him if he would
feed a cow 2 months for 5 dollars
and he said “no” and drove away.
1 called up the bank and they said
he has no money in the bank. What
can I do?—E. D. D., Washington,
Hich.
0U could bring an action for
‘ damages against the man who
sold you the cow. If he is work-
tag and owns a farm. he ought to be
ccllectable.-—Legal Editor.

FOR

PERMIT TO [7811} FERRET

Can a permit be obtained by farm-
m and fruit growers to hunt with
ferrets on their own land and if so
where and how much Will it cost?—
R. Van K., Remus, Mich.

HE law provides for the issuing
of permits to farmers and fruit
growers to use ferrets in hunt—

ing rabbits on their lands when it
can be shown that these animals are
doing damage.

On receipt of a request from a
fruit grower or farmer for a per-
mit It is referred to a deputy for in-
vestigation and he makes a recom-

mendation on the matter.———John
Baird, Director, Dept. of Conserva-
tion.

BRING SUIT

I would like your advice what to
do about an auto accident which I
was in a few weeks ago. I was driv-
ing from Muskegon, going at a mod—
erate rate, and was on the right side
of the road and I met another car
and was passing when another car
came along at such a .rate of speed
to go between the car ahead of him
and me. He skidded into me and I
had to do some fancy steering or I
would have turned turtle. He stop-
ped and came back Where I was and
gave me his number and address and
told me (after he was convinced he
was in the wrong) to have my car
repaired and send the bill to him and
he would pay for damages. The dam-
age of my car cost $19.30. There
were- ﬁve witnesses to the accident,

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all of them say the other driver was
at fault. I have sent the bill but he
fails to even answer my letters.
Shall I sue him or garnishee his
wages? Thanks—T. G. Harvard,
Mich.

yer and bring suit against him.

You could garnishee his wages or
bank account after you obtained
judgment.——Legal Editor.

I WOULD advise you to get a law-'

PURCHASED TAX TITLE 40
YEARS AGO

Kindly give me information. There
is a party here that has a tax title
that was bought on a piece of prop—
erty of unpaid taxes. some 40 or 50
years ago. Does it outlaw in a cer-
tain length of time? The taxes
have all been paid since that time.
At that time the property was only
valued at $700 or $800. Now it is
worth $3.500. Does that tax still
have a claim and does it draw in-
terest?——S. A. 0., Farms, Mich.

AM of the opinion that the per-
I son who purchased the tax title

40 years ago and entered into
possession, keeping possession until
the present time, would have good
title to the land and would not be
subject to any interest or taxes, if

the taxes were kept up during the
time he had possession.-——Legai Edi-
tor.

BUILD ONLY HALF OF LINE
FENCE
Here are two questions I wish

answered. A and B joins farms. A
wishes to pasture his land but B
does not. B's is mostly woods. Now

there has never been a line fence
nor has the line been surveyed. The
question is will B have to build his
share of the fence and help estab-
lish the true line- or will A have to
do it alone? The other question is
A and C joins farms. C had a line
surveyed and he built a fence, 5
years ago, but the former owner of
C's farm died and his wires were
taken down. Now A wants a line
fence built. Will C have to help or
will A have to build it alone?-—C. 8.,
Hart, Mich.

would be B's duty to erect and

maintain one-half the partition

fence. It would also be C's duty,
in the latter case, to maintain one—
half the fence between him and A.
The parties should agree upon the
portion each should maintain. Other-
wise. it would be necessary to have
the fence viewers decide the matter.
——Legal Editor.

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KEEPING BARREIB IN
CONDITION
ROUND most every farm there
are a number of barrels which
are needed only once in a long
while, perhaps only at butchering
time. If not kept ﬁlled with water
they dry out and often fall to pieces,
and if ﬁlled and forgotten the water
freezes and bursts them at the first
cold spell.
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place, bottom up, and underneath
place a pan or nail of water. If the
barrel is tight and rests closely on
the ground the water will not evap-
orate as rapidly as mlght be expec~
ted—Albert Schmidt.

SHOWS IF TANK IS FULL

HIS drawing shows an arrange-
T ment 1 use for telling when a
water tank into which an engine
or windmill
full.

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rests on the surface of the water in

the tank. A string is fastened to

the float and is run over two spools
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as shown, the other end being at-
tached to a weight. The weight is
just heavy enough to keep the string
tight. The weight on the outside of
the tank can be made in such a way
that it will indicate readily by its
position on the tank how much water
there is in the tank or how near full
it is getting if the pump is working.
——R. T.

'A BABY \VALKER

VERY mother knows that it is
best not to urge a baby to walk
too seen, yet when he gets old

enough and strong enough to stand
on his own legs it is not harmful to
render a bit of assistance. Many
babies are backward in walking
simply because they are afraid and
the busy farm mother’s arms get
weary “toting” the heavy bundle,
but they are none the less loving it
they invent a way to relieve them-
selves by making this baby walker.
From an old chair without a bot-
tom may be made as satisfactory a
walker as one may .buy. Remove the
back from the chair and put casters
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chair.

Baby walker made from old

12 by 18 inches square; cut holes
on the sides- for the legs to go
through up to the hips, and tack
the cloth in the chair so that it will
hang down loose like a bag. The
baby cannot fall out and the casters
go easily along where the baby wills
and the .mother can go about her
work knowing baby is out of mis-
chief and learning to walk too.

If a small‘compact canvas box is
tacked to the front of the walker to
hold thevtoys he will amuse himself

with them for a long while—Mrs. J.
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TOWNSHIP BOARD

Two adjoining 'townships which
we will call A and B agreed that
each should take and maintain each
alternating mile, for instance A
township has the ﬁrst mile on the
south end, then B township the next
mile, then A township the next mile
and so on. Now the state has built
a trunk line road on the north ilve
miles leaving A township with the
south mile to maintain, and B
township without any road to main-
tain. Is B township compelled by
law to take over 55 mile of the mile
that A township still has to main-
tain? If you will please send me
your opinion on this matter. I will
be very much obliged- to ’ you.—
Reader, Glddwin, Michigan.

PRESUME that the agreement
I referred to was exectited in ac-

cordance with provisions of Sec-
ticn 4299 of the Compiled Laws of
1916.
that should any part of such line
road become at any time abandoned,
or should the division of such line
road between townships— become at
any time unjust and inequitable for
any cause, then such agreement may
be modiﬁed by following the pro-
cedure therein prescribed and out-
lined.

] suggest you take the matter up
with the Township Highway Com-
missioner and the Township Board.
with a view to a modiﬁcation of the
agreement in accordance with the
section of the statute above referred
to and as the facts in the case refer-
red to may warrant.—-H. Victor
Spike, Assistant Attorney General.

CAN HE TAKE FENCE?

A rents one of his father's farms
and while on the farm he buys posts
and wire and builds a fence and af-
ter a year or two he decides to quit
farming and has an auction sale and
sells his personal property and also
this fence that he bought and built,
Just as it stands in the ground. A
bought the wire. I did not get the
wire right off and in about six
months the son-in-law buys the farm
and wanted to buy the wire for the
same price I paid . I refused to take
that amount. Now he forbids me to
come and get the wire.——C. D.‘ K.,
Maple City Mich.

FENCE erected upon land is re-
garded as part of the realty and
goes with the land. unless it

can be shown that there was an und-
erstanding to the contrary at the
time of the’ erection. Unless you
can show that there was an under—
standing in this case between the
father and the son that the fence
was to be only a temporary one and
that the son could remove it, you
could not recover for the fence or
get possession of it. Your action
would be against the son who sold it
to you for damages.———Legal Editor.

REFUSES TO PERFORM DUTY

I have a rat bounty bill of $20.00.
The clerk, also the county, refuses
to pay. I have delivered my orders
from the town clerk. The county
clerk refuses to draw the order on
the treasurer. This rat bounty is a
state law. Has a county any right
to do this kind of business? Can I
sue the county? 'It will cost me
about all I have coming to serve
a mandamus on the clerk. Please
tell me what you think about it and
oblige—L. A. W.

F a county ofﬁcial 'refuses to per—
I form his legal duty to draw an

order for bounty on rats. it
will be necessary for the party claim-
ing the bounty to institute some pro-
ceedings, mandamus or otherwise,
to compel him to do so.—~Clare
Retan, Deputy Attorney General.

SCHOOL N(Yl‘ LEGALLY CLOSED

Please inform me if it is legal
for moderator and treasurer to
close the district school (no board
meeting) and give the teacher two
days for the fair (9 miles away)?
Can .we compell the director to issue
an order for these two days? The
treasurer closed the school.——J. H.
3., Silverwood, Mich.

W0 members of the board can-
not legally close a school and
determine that there shall be

a vacation' unless there has been a
board meeting for that purpose. The
director could not be compelled to
issue an order under such conditions
fer the payment of salary for the
teacher.-—W. la: Coffey. .
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OME of the readers of THE Busr- ~

NEss FARMER will remember
reading in a comparatively re-

,cent iSsue, something about the pub—

lisher being in want of a man some—
where in Michigan, who Would write
and tell of his farm operations,
views, plans, etc., and in so doing
conduct a new department in the
Farm Paper of Service. Whether the
publishers have found such a man
or .not, is something of a question,
but, sufﬁce to say, yours truly, whose
home is in Hillsdale County, some
forty minutes north of the state line
between Ohio and Michigan, appears
to be the one destiny has decreed
shall at least start such a series of
talks. ,

Having just returned frm a few
days sojourn in Lansing and Battle

  

Edited by L. W. Meeks, Hillsdale County

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City Men Work

Another thing this trip convinced
me of, is this: The average laboring
man in the city works as hard, or
harder than the average farmer.
Many a man in the city never sees
his home by daylight, from late fall
to early spring only on Sundays. One
man once told me he never saw his
children awake only On Sundays!

Now I am not saying the city is
not a good place in which to live. I
am glad so many people think it is
And perhaps some
day there will be so many living in
them there will be a demand for all
the overproduction [we now have on
the farm. In that day prices will
right themselves automatically and
there will be no need of an Agricul-
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HILLSDALE FARMER JOINS OUR EDITORIAL STAFF
E want to introduce to our folks Mr. L. W. Meeks, of Hillsdale
. County, who has joined our editorial staff.“ Mr. Meeks, who will
conduct this department under the heading of “Broadscope Farm
News and Views", is 45 years old, has a son just out of high school and

a daughter who started in high school this last fall.

Not only has Mr.

Meeks been a farmer in Michigan all his life but he has been a business

farmer, being much interested in up-tO-date methods.

He owns 70

acres and works 80 acres more, has all the tools needed to carry on
with, raises certiﬁed seedI potatoes, is interested in good cattle, hogs
and poultry, and is raising a ﬁne orchard; in fact, he has had experi-

ence in about all lines of farming.

He knows what debt is and all

about the ups and downs of farming. His good Wife has been the true
partner of a business farmer, being not only interested in her'home
and its duties but in the farm, and in the community affairs as well.
We hope Mr. Meeks will like his work and that you will enjoy his de-

partment.

He will be pleased to have you write him and if you have

any questions you would like him to answer he will be glad to serve you

to the best of his ability.

Creek, some of the impressions of
the trip are very evident in .my
thoughts tonight. Surely it was a
wise man who ﬁrst said, “There is
no place like home” for the farm
certainly did look good as it came
into view, while we were yet some
distance from it.
ill III all
Gas Tax

One of the outstanding questions
this trip brought up is, “How can
any one oppose a gasoline tax? When
one drives over so many miles of the
ﬁnest of highways, and sees so many
large motor busses and mammoth
freight trucks, one just naturally
wonders how_the state can ask the
tax payers to build and maintain
these arteries of travel for such huge
commercial enterprises, and* only re-
ceive from them a small license fee.
It surely does not seem right to com—
pel the steam and electric roads to
pay such high taxes, and maintain
their own roadway, and let these
motor vehicles compete with them.
It doesn’t seem feasible that a weight
tax would be fair at all. In_ the ﬁrst
place, does the heavy vehicle hurt
the cement road much more than the
lighter one?

We would like to see the license

l fee on all motor vehicles placed at

about three dollars, and a gasoline
tax heavy enough to 'meet the re-
quired expenditure of the Highway
Department. Many farmers would
then feel justiﬁed in owning a large
car, as well as their ﬂivver. Many
more would Own at least two of the
smaller cars—one for the children
to drive to school, and one for other
uses. Many farmers want a truck,
but as they would use it only a few
days during the year, they feel it
would be too expensive. Why should
their tax be as much as these com-

. mercial trucks which run every day
\ in the year?

As one farmer in Battle Creek ex-

pressed it,‘the other day, “Let the

fellow who only uses a barrel of gas
build just a barrel of roadl,” of
course the great opposition to a gas
tax comes from the city. However,
we notice a great many city cousins
who drive their cars only a. compara-

tively few miles in a year; and a gas ,
hree dollar- license fee.

  

  
   

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4W9“  tee, -, 

Write him care of The Business Farmer.

' . i
wonders what such a Commission
can do in the meantime. » l

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Empty Corn Cribs
Yes, empty corn cribs, and nearly
empty ones were seen during this
trip. Many ﬁelds of corn in the
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the corn was so immature, it wouldl

keep longer in the shock than in the
crib, or help is ‘so scarce there was
no one to husk it. Some shredding
has been done, but the immature
corn is not ideal for shredding. We
at home, being aware of this, and
knowing it would not be very pleas-
ant work to draw all the corn during
the winter as it was needed, husked
what we could by hand, shredded one
ﬁeld, and drew and stacked anOther
ﬁeld.

Taking it from the time it was
planted, reﬁtted, planted over again,

we believe the corn crop of 1924 was -

almost equal to any cross word puz-
zle we ever found. Well, anyway,
if your corn crib is empty, don’t con-
sider it as a distinction, for a two
hundred mile motor ride will show
you empty cribs are quite the fash-
ion.

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Magazines

My attention has just been called
to some new magazines, and this
seems an opportune time to mention
this coming year’s reading. In too
many farm homes, and city homes as
well, magazines are conspicuous by
their absence. “Tell me what a man
reads, and I’ll tell you what he
thinks." Far too many people class
magazines as luxuries, and consider
them too expensive. Some good
monthly magazines may be secured
for a small sum, and two or three
dollars will bring the best of them
into the home for a year. Any one
copy, even after'eliminating the ad-
vertisements, would make a large
book, while the best thoughts of the
nation are often found in these regu-
lar visitors.

Many consider periodicals simply a
means of entertainment. There are
such, and of course they have a.
large sale, but the ideal magazine is
educational as Well as entertaining
and the money spent for themis well
invested. The inspiration contained

in: one short article is often worth the

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LOOSE CONNECTION OR
' BROKEN WIRE
ANY times, on home made sets,
it is found that they suddenly
stop working, and even a care-
ful examination will not show what

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Locating loose connection or broken wire.

the trouble is or how to ﬁnd it.
Joints that are loose, broken wires,
or unsoldered joints that can be seen
can be ﬁxed, but those that are not
seen are the ones that are hard to
find. The following hints may help
you.

Take one or two dry batteries (the
ordinary No. 6 size) and connect
them in series, and in series with the
batteries place a. 2 cell ﬂashlight
bulb, from the bulb and from one
side of the battery run two wires
that are either small enough to bend
easily or are regular ﬂexible wire.

By touching these two wires to
any part of your set, through which
electricity can pass, you will ﬁnd the
ﬂashlight bulb will light if there is
no break in the connection, but if
there is a loose or broken wire, or
corroded joint the light will not
light.

In this manner you can test the
wiring from your binding posts to
the different sockets, in doing this
be sure that you test to the contacts
inside of the socket, for sometimes
corrosion will stop the current going

socket to the contact spring on the
inside.

To ﬁnd your loose connection or
break, test from every binding post
to the place where the wire ends;
from the aerial or ground posts
coupler; from the battery to the
sockets; from the sockets to the
telephone connections; and so on
through all the wiring till you ﬁnd
the trouble.

The accompanying cut shows the
connection of batteries, light and
testing method.

THE BEST INSULATOR

TRANGE to say, ~the glass from

which cooking dishes, such as

cake, pie, baking and pudding
dishes are made from has 'proven to
be better than any other type of in-
glass is called PYREX, and no doubt
you have some such dish in your
house. This glass is used in many
manufacturing processes and is also
called a “technical” glass.

Strain insulators for your aerial,
and tube sockets are now on the
market and before long I suppose
that there will be tubes, knobs, etc.,
that we can all use.

WHY USE PYREX? It is not nec-
cssary to use pyrex unless you want
the very best insulators at present
available for radio use. Pyrex in-
sulators used on your aerial will per-
mit you to receive distant stations
that you never would .hear, as the
loss of the feeble currents is pre—
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aerial and ground must also be Well
insulated. .

The cost is greater, as l’yrox strain
insulators will cost, you 40c to 50(:
each and the porcelain insulators
about 10o each. lﬁut if you want the
best, get Pyrex.

 

A Git”) LEAK, RESISTANCE
UH l-‘lﬁls‘l-l

VERY once in a while norm: om:
E will shin." rm: their grid resis-
tanrxrz, or leak, and axis 1m:
when: they Ian 21:1 another "Imam"
like it. 80 many sch: now um: the
glans cartridge type of grid “felli—
lancc that ii, is Lo wonder that. they
are called locust, 3o: so tin-obi. you
have notch the lesson/31mm to the
fuses used on the better autmuoblleu
to protect the wiring and generator.
Some sets use a pencil mark {or a
grid leak, this git/er; good results
but owing to the "mixture and dirt
getting on it it is not as good as the
glass enclosed kind.

RADIO ‘ DE PARTMEN
h Edited -by J. HERBERT 'FERRIS, R: E. =
Contributions lnvited-—Questions Answered

from the post on the outside of the-

which is 0 many thousand ohms, is
to keep the proper charge of electri-
city on the grid and should too much
get there it lets it leak away. A grid
resistance is seldom used on any
tube but the detector. Each tube re-
quires one of a. little different value
to give the best results, but on the
average the same type of tubes will
require the same amount of resis-
tance.

 

SOLDERED JOINTS
E have emphasized, time and
time again the-value of solder-
ing all joints in a radio set, but
it is much better not to solder them
than to solder and use acid solder.
Tighten all joints with a pair of
pliers and leave the solder alone, un-

   
  

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490m aaawsfzze'mee

Soldering joints.

less you can solder carefully and
neatly with resin solder.

Do not use acid solder.

We have had two radio sets for
readers, to try and make work and
the main trouble was ACID SOL-
DER.

 

SllﬂIPIlE [SOLDERING IHNTS

Do not use a large soldering iron,
the smaller the better.

Keep your iron clean and well-
tinned.

Do not use acid ﬂux, or acid core
solder.

Use resin as a ﬂux or resin core
solder.

Wire solder is easier to ‘work with
than bar or stick solder.

Heat your iron.

Hold it against the wire to be sol-
dered till it gets hot enough to melt
solder.

Then touch the wire or joint with
the wire solder and it will melt and
run over the joint. .

Sometimes it is better to “tin” or
melt at little solder on the end of a
wire, and also a little on the place
where the joint will be, then by
bringing the two wires together and
touching with the hot iron a neat
and quick joint will be made.

Scrape off all excessive resin when
the joint is cool.

Test joints to see if wire is fasten-
ed on solidly.

And remember,
ACID SOLDER.

SHELLAC, PAINT, TAR OR
NOTHING
O’ME of the radio sets that this
department has been asked to
ﬁx have had the coils Shellaced,
some painted with tar or asphalt
paint and others have had a combin-
ation on them. All these have made
the set work poorly.

Do not shellac or paint your coils
after you wind them.

Shellac the tube if you wish, and
then dry wrap your wire on it; do
not put anything over the coils.

If you must use something, then
dissolve a little celluloid (from a.
broken auto curtain window) in ba-
nanna oil and then add a little al-
cohol. Use very lightly.

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i'ildi’xliimi) TUBE

Trouble again! Some time ago I
wrote you about my trouble with my
Radio; well i got one thing 0. K. and
now it. is another. I had the mis-
forlum: of burning out my bulb and
i sent, it away to have it repaired but
it, does; not seem to work. The ﬁla-
ment. lights but I can not get a thing.
i am getting discouraged. I went
over my hook-up and can not ﬁnd a.
thing wrong. I get a click now and
then but that is all. Do you suppose
the bulb is bad? Thanking you for
advice, I remain, E. S. S., Merrill,
Mich. '

T is possible that the bulb that
you had repaired is "bad" as
you suggest. Sometimes these

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bulb burned out, it should work now
with a good bulb. The connections
cannot change when you are not us.-
ing the set, therefore I believe that
the bulb is wrong. 4

I believe that it pays to buy a new
bulb rather than to have an old one
repaired—Radio Editor.

. ‘ other times they do not work-at all.
' I ‘I It your set worked nature the

 

It is
New Year. Little children are
singing and dancing their glee.

To them, Time merely crawls along.

Young people are together love mak-

ing and counting the Slow passing

years, till their dreams come true.

HERE go the bells again.

To them, Time moves slowly. The
middle aged are quiet. Time, to
them, is moving faster, and they

know that each year brings its hard-
ships as well as its joys. ,

The aged sit in silence, and brush
aside occasional tears, as the ghosts
of half forgotten scenes rise through
the mists of years. To them, Time
ﬂies in lightning wings.

So, each of us, in the time of his
age, views the ever recurring sound
of New Year Bells.

If we are sensible there are many
things we want to happen to us and
our friends in NINETEEN HUN—
DRED AND TWENTY-FIVE.

We want to be kinder! Faces are
certain to wrinkle with, but whether
they wrinkle Up, or Down will do.-
pend on whether we are kind or un~
kind.

This morning, I saw a man heat—
ing a poor horse because his feet
would not catch in the snowy pave-
ment. I am glad that my sister does
not have to live with that man. In
his heart he is unkind. .

Kindness will pay bigger heart-
dividends than most any attitude of
mind we hold toward others.

I bought an article in a store to-
day. A young, inexperienced clerk
was trying to tie up my package.
The ﬂoor-walker saw her dilemma.
and “called” her in harsh words.
As I left the counter I said to the
ﬂoor-Walker, “Treat that girl kinder
and she will do better.” He said.
“Who the hell are you?”

That man will never succeed. In
his heart he has the nature of an
animal, and not a kind gentleman.
He is not ﬁt to handle cattle, let
alone sensitive young women.

We are going to dig some new
graves this year and bury our grud—
ges there. Every now and then my
good Wife handles rather roughly
the accumulated piles of papers and
stuff that get on top of my desks.
Sometimes I miss something that I
wanted, but, in the main her work
is best, for “JUNK” will smother us
if We do not destroy and bury it.
Our souls get piled full of memories
of un—neighborly‘ acts and words.
The deeper the accumulation, the
harder to really live. Dig out that
old grudge, and while the bells are
ringing and the children Singing
bury it deep in forgetfulness.

We are going to quit pitying ours~
selve, if we are wise. I have Worse
than wasted every hour that I have
spent in pitying myself, because I
may have had a hard time. Hard-
ship is the compliment a wise Provi-
dence hands to plucky souls.

The American farmer has, in the
past four years, shown his ability to
“dig in”, and now he is going to
show the world his equal ability to
Chance, is the need of valor.

We are going to go right on work-
ing for bettered conditions of life.
We are going to sin less, and repent
more; pray more sincerely, and look
up more often; visit the sick, and en—
courage the hopeless; add a Word of
reproof to the careless, and extend a
hand to the lonely. If we do, the
year opening amid the bells, will not
close with the knells.

“Ring out the old,
Ring in the new;

Ring out the false,
Ring in the true."

 

THANKS
1 like the paper because it is a good
market paper andgives a pretty fair line-
up on futurep.—-—Elmer Brown, Shiawassee
County, Michigan." " ' ' ‘ ' ‘ ' ‘ ' ,2

      
      
 
   

  

  
       
       
 
 
 
      
     
         
      
        
        
      
 
     
        
     
      
      
     
       
 
        
       
      
       
  
    
     
  
   
 
  
   
  
  
 
  
    
 
  
  
  
 
  
  
    
    
     
    
   
  
 
   
  
  
    
    
   
    
  
 
  
   
 
  
  
   
 
  
 
  
    
   
    
      
   
        
   

 

 

 

 

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WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS?

ers of your valuable paper in regard to changing the time of our

DEAR Editor:—I would like to get this suggestion before the read;-

township meetings from the ﬁrst Monday in April to the second

Monday in May.

Let’s hear from the other readers pro and con.

UP

here it is usually neither wheeling or sleighing, and there is no place to

put a team in for the day anyway.

Whitney, Antrim County, Mich.

Best wishes to M. B. F.—H. H.

Editor’s Note: We are pleased to publish Mr. Whitney’s letter and ask

that you express your opinions on the subject.

No matter which side

of the question you are on we will be pleased to publish your letter in
this department. You must sign your full name and address to the com-
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ADVISING HOLDING BEANS

O the Editorz—We read with in-
T terest some time ago a commun—

ication from a Western bean
dealer quoted. in your publication.
We also read Mr. Drees’ reply to
same. -

As you no doubt know we are the
largest handlers of beans in the Uni-
ted States. Our Directorship has
been giving more than usual thought
and consideration to the outlook of
the present bean market. After
viewing the matter from all angles
we have come to the conclusion that
the bear. market for the next few
months is largely in the hands of the
Michigan bean growers. We do not
believe the growers appreciate the
inﬂuence they can exert on the mar-
ket. If some inﬂuence of some kind
could be brought upon the bean—
growers so that they to a man would
not sell a pound of beans between
now and the 10th of January, we feel
positive that the market would ad-
vance 25c to 50c per cwt.

We believe we are safe in saying
that the elevators in Michigan feel
that the market will advance, but
you can appreciate that there is a
limit to the quantity of beans which
they can ﬁnance. Accordingly if the
farmers force beans upon the eleva-
tors they in turn must offer similar
quantity to the trade.

We cannot help but believe that
you would be doing your growers a
big favor if you could urge upon
them the advisability of their refus—

ing to sell at present time. We be-
lieve you could almost promise them
$5.50 for their beans if they would
hold up deliveries entirely for forty
to sixty days.-—Chatterton and Son,
per B. A. Stickle.

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EAR Editor: Some one, unknown
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for me. My subscription does not
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I have not been a farmer for the
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Purest Rye Produced on Manitou Island

an article written by Frank Ridg-

way for the Chicago Tribune it

is stated that on South Manitou
Island, which is located near the
north end of Lake Michigan about
twenty miles out from Traverse City,
Mich. a small group of farmers is
producing the purest and probably
the most superior variety of rye in
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sheL
. There is a demand for more seed
rye than is grown on the island, and
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all of the 1,250 bushels are used by '

mainland farmers in, growing certi-

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Michigan farms, where it has little

chance of being crossed with other

varieties. Ins-pectors keep a con-

stant guard over. the ﬁelds, and if at
' .

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seed. Mainland growers get .a pre-
mium price of from 25 to 40 cents a
bushel above the market price for
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Mr. Rather says that as a result of
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of Rosen rye. However, it is varying
in degree of purity. It was this su-
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yields even on thin land, that made
it possible for Michigan farmers to
produce more than 900,000 acres
during the war.

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' and men "rotting in Hell."
"glight from which the torch in his hand

‘ house before ;

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himself, and God; he damned men by
name. but so violently and incoher-

‘ently that Alan could not make out the

names; terribly he swore at’ men living
The beam of

.8wayed asideand back and forth. With-
out warning, suddenly it caught Alan as
he stood in the dark of the front room;
and as the dim white circle of light
gleamed into Alan’s face, the man looked
that way and saw him. ’

The effect of this upon the man was so
strange and so bewildering to Alan that
Alan could only stare at him. The big
man seemed to shrink into himself and
to shrink back and away from Alan. He
roared out something in a bellow thick
with fear and horror; he seemed to choke
with terror. There was nothing in his
look akin to mere~surprise or alarm at
realizing that another was there and had
been seeing and Overhearing him. The
light which he still gripped swayed back
and forth and showed him Alan again,
and he raised his arm before his face‘as
he recoiled.

The consternation of the man was so
complete that it checked Alan's rush to-
ward him; he halted. then advanced
silently and watchfully. As he went for—
ward and the light shone upon his face
again. the big man cried out hoarsely:

“Damn you—damn you, with the hole
above your eye! The bullet got you! And
now you've got Ben! But you can’t get
me! Go back to Hell! You can't get
me! I'll get you—I'll get you! You——
can't save the Miwaka!"

He drew back his arm and with all
his might hurled the flashlight at Alan.
It missed and crashed somewhere behind
him, but did not go out; the beam of light
shot back and wavered and flickered over
both of them, as the torch rolled on the
ﬂoor. Alan rushed forward and, thrust-
ing through the dark. his hand struck
the man's chest and seiZed his coat.

The man caught at and seized Alan’s

arm; he seemed to feel of it and assure
himself of its reality.

“Flesh! Flesh!" he roared in relief;
and his big arms grappled Alan. AS

they struggled, they stumbled and fell to
the floor. the big man underneath. His
hand shifted its hold and caught Alan's
throat; Alan got an arm free, and, with
all his force, struck the man's face. The
man struck back a heavy blow on the
side of Alan's head which dizzied him
but left him strength to strike again, and
his knuckles reached the man‘s face once
more, but he got another heavy blow in
return. The man was grappling no
longer; he swung Alan to one side and
off of him, and rolled himself away. He
scrambled to his feet and dashed out
through the library. across the hall, and
into the service room. Alan heard his
feet clattering down the stairway to the
ﬂoor beneath. Alan got to his feet; diz-
zied and not yet familiar with the house,

 

he blundered against a wall and had to
feel his way along it to the service room;
as he slipped and stumbled down the

stairway, a door closed loudly at the end
of the corridor he had seen at the foot
of the stairs. He ran along the corridor
to the door; it had closed with a spring
lock, and Seconds passed while he felt
in the dark for the catch: he found it
and tore the door open, he came out sud-
denly into the cold air of the night in
a paved passageway beside the house
which led in one direction to the street
and in the other to a gate opening on the
alley. lie ran forward to the street and
looked up and down, but found it empty;
then he ran back to the alley, where it
intersected the cross street, the ﬁgure of
the man running away appeared sud-
denly out of the shadows. then disap-
peared: Alan, following as far as the
street, cOuld see snothing more of him;
this street too was empty.

He ran a little farther and looked,
then he went back to the house. The
side door had swung shut again and
latched. He felt in his pocket for his

' key and went around to the front door.

The snow upon the steps had been swept
away, probably by the servant who had
come to the house earlier in the day with
Constance Sherrill, but some had fallen
since; the footsteps made in the early
afternoon had been obliterated by it, but
Alan could see those, he had made that
evening, and the marks where some one
else had gone into the house and not
come out again. In part it was plain,
therefore, what had happened: the man
had come from the south, for he had not
seen the light Alan had had in the north
and rear part of the house; believing
no one was in the house, the man had
{one in through the front door with a
key. He had been some one familiar
with the house; for he had known about
the side door and how to reach it and
that he could get out that way. This
might mean no more than that he was
the same who had searched through the
but at least it made his
identity with the former intruder more
certain.

Alan let himself in at the front door
and turned on the light in the reading
lainp in the library. ’I he electric torch
still was burning on the ﬂoor and he

' picked-"it up and extinguished it; he went
- tip-stairs and brought down his shoes.
"’- He had seen a. wood ﬂrer set ready for
- lighting in . the i
- lighted it and sat before it drying his wet

library, and now he

socks-1 before he put on his shoe. He
mi’still shaking, and breathing fast from

'his““s'§i‘uggle,_Withvthe man and-rhisnchase 1;;

1 (Continued from   l 7,
 ‘HE cursed "Ben'i again and again. 

 
   
 
 
 
 

 

 

after him, and by the strangeness of_what
had taken place. ‘ -

When the shaft of light from the torch
had flashed across Alan’s face in the
dark library, the man had not taken him
for what he was—a living person; he
had taken him for a specter. His terror
and the things he had cried out could
mean only that. The specter of whom?
Not of Benjamin Corvet; for one of the
things Alan had remarked when he saw
Benjamin Corvet’s picture was that he
himself did not look at all like his father.
Besides, what the man had said made it
certain that he did not think the specter
was “Ben”; for the specter. had “got
Ben.” Did Alan look like some one else,
then? Like whom? Evidently like the
——-one dead for he had a ghost—whq had
“got” Ben, in the big man's opinion.
What could that be?

No answer, as yet, was possible to that.
But if he did look like some one, then that
some one was——or had been—dreaded not
by the big man who had entered the
house, but by Benjamin Corvet as well.
“You got Ben !" the man had cried out.
Got him? How? "But you can’t get me !"
he had said. “You—with the bullet hole
above your eye!” W'hat did that mean?

Alan got up and went to look at him-
self in the mirror he had seen in he hall.
He was white, now that the ﬂush of the
ﬁghting was going; be probably had been
pale before with excitement, and over his

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one whom he could identify with this
man; but Alan could describe him to
Sherrill.

Alan found a lavatory and washed
and straightened his collar and tie and
brushed his clothes. There was a bruise
on the side of his head; but though it
throbbed painfully, it did not leave any
visible mark. He could return now,to
the Sherrills’. It was not quite midnight
but he believed by this time Sherrill was
probably home; perhaps already he had
gone to bed. Alan took up his hat and
looked about the house; he was going to
return and sleep here, of course; he was
not goi‘”! to leave the house unguarded
for an long time after this; but, after
what had just happened, he felt he could
leave it safely for half an hour, particu-
larly if he left a light burning Within.

He did this and stepped out. The wind
from the west was blowing hard, and the
night had become bitter cold; yet, Alan
reached the drive, he could see far out
the tossing lights of a ship and, as he
went toward the Sherrills', he gazed out
over the roaring water. Often on night's
like this. he knew. his father must have
been battling such water.

The man who answered his ring at the
Sherrills’ recognized him at once and ad-
mitted him; in reply to Alan’s question,
the servant said that Mr. Sherrill had not
yet returned. When Alan went to his
room, the valet appeared and, ﬁnding

 

 

SUMRIARY OF OUR STORY TO DATE

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

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

storm a sound like the beating of an Indian drum.
tradition says, whenever the lake took a life.
a new steel freighter. sank with 25 people on board but the drum beat only 24,
and the one remaining person was not accounted for.

This drum bent, so
During December, 1895, Mikuwu,

Benjamin Corvet sailed

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

man.

Sherrill has a daughter, Constance who is to marry Spearman but Corvet,

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

not give her a reason asking her to wait until she sees him again.
A young man, known as Alan Conrad, appears at the Sherrill homo
Alan, since a small child, has lived with a family

disappears.
asking for Bcnjamin Corvot.

Then Corvet

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

mother is.

the mails but never

lie was left with this family by a man who to‘d the people they
would receive pay for taking care of the boy.
knew who sent it.

They received money through
Then Alan rcccchs a letter from Ben

Corvet. to come to Chicago and Alan rushes there thinking that Corvet could

tell him something about his parents, but arrives after Corvet disappeared.
goes to the Sherrill home and talks with Constance and Mr. Sherrill.

He
He de-

cides Corvet is his father and upon being given a, key goes to Cox-vet’s house.
He discovers a man ransackjng the house.

 

 

right eye there was a round, black mark.
Alan looked down at his hands; a little
skin was off one knuckle, where he had
struck the man, and his fingers were
smudged with a black and sooty dust.
He had smudged them- on the papers up-
stairs or else in feeling his way about
the dark house, and at some time he had
touched his forehead and left the black
mark. That had been the "bullet hole."

The rest that the man had said had
been a reference to some name; Alan
had no‘trouble to recollect the name and,
while he did not understand it all, it
stirred him queerly—“the Miwakaﬁ’ What
was that? The queer excitement and
questioning that the name brought, when
be repeated it to himself, was not recol-
lection; for he Could not recall having
heard the name before; but it was not
completely strange to him. He could de—
ﬁne the excitement it stirred only in that
way.

He went back to the Morris chair; his
socks were nearly dry, and he put on his
shoes. He got up and paced about. Sher—
rill had believed that here in this house
Benjamin Corvet had left—or might have
left—a memorandum, a record, or an ac-
count of some sort which would explain
to Alan, his son, the blight which had
hung over his life. Sherrill had said
that it could have been no mere intrigue,
no vulgar personal sin; and the events
of the night. had made that very certain;
for, plainly, whatever was hidden in that
house involved some one else seriously,
desparately. There was no other way to
explain the intrusion of the sort of man
whom Alan had surprised there an hour
ago. .

The fact that this other man searched
also did not prove that Benjamin Corvet
had left a record in the house. as Sherrill
believed; but it certainly showed that an-
other oerson believed—or feareda—it.
Whether 01 not guilt had sent Benjamin
Corvet away four days ago, whether or
not there had been guilt behind the
ghost which had “got Ben," there was
guilt in the big man’s superstitious terror
when he had seen Alan. A bold, powerful
man like that one, when his conscience is
clear, does not see a ghost. And the
ghost which he had seen had a bullet
hole above the brows!

Alan did not ﬂatter himself that in any
physical sense he had triumphed over.
that man; so far as it had gone, his ad-

versary had had rather the better of the
battle; he had endeavored to stun Alan, '
'or perhaps do worse. than stun ; but after
\the ﬁrst grapple, his purpose. 'hadbeen

to get away. But he hadnot "fiedf'from

-A'lan; he had fled, from discovery of .who
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that Alan was packing, the man offered
his service. 'Alan let him pack and went
down-stairs; a motor had just driven up
to the house.

It proved to have brought Constance
and her mother; Mrs. Sherrill, after in—
forming Alan that Mr. Sherrill might not
return until some time later, went up—
stairs and did not appear again. Con-
stance followed her mother but, ten min-
utes later came down—stairs.

"You’re not staying here
she said. ,

“I wanted to say to your father," Alan
explained, “that I believe I had better
go over to the‘ other house."

She came a little closer to him in her
concern. “Nothing has happened here?"

“Here? You mean in this house?"
Alan smiled. “N0;,nothing,"

She seemed relieved. Alan, remember-
ing her mother’s manner, thought he
understood; she knew that remarks had
been made, possibly. which repeated by a.
servant might have offended him.

“I'm afraid it's been a hard day for
you," she said.

"It's certainly been unusual," Alan ad-
mitted.

It had been a hard day for her, too,
he observed; or probably the recent days,
since her father’s and her own good
friend had gone, had been trying. She
was tired now and nervously excited; but
she was so young that the little signs of
strain and worry, instead of making her
seem older, only made her youth more
apparent. The curves of her neck and
her pretty, rounded shoulders were as
soft as before; her lustrous brown hair
was more beautiful, and a slight ﬂush
colored her clear skin.

-It had seemed to Alan, when Mrs.
Sherrill had spoken to him a few minutes
before, that her manner toward him had
been more reserved and constrained than
earlier in the evening; and he had put
that down to the lateness of the hour;
but now he realized that she probably
been discussing him with Constance, and
that it was somewhat in defiance of her
mother that Constance had come down
to speak with him again. -

"Are you taking any one over to the
other house with you?" she inquired.

"Any one?”

"A servant, I mean." °

“No.” ‘

“Then you'll let‘ us lend you a. man
from here.” . ' - .

"You're awfully good: but I don't think
I’ll need any one to-night. 'Mr. Corvet’s
my father’s man— is coming back to-
mprrow, I understand. I’ll get along very

to—night?"

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there." .

, “Yes,” she said. "Yes." She looked at
him quickly, then away, checking a ques-
tion. She wanted to ask. he kneW. What
he had discovered  that lonely house
which had so agitated him; for of course
she'had noticed agitation in him. And
he had intended to tell her or. rather,
her father. He had been rehearsing to
himself the description of the man he had

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“My father must have been, often 

met there in order to ask Sherrill about _

him; but now Alan knew that he was
not going to refer the matter even toSher-
rill just yet. ’

Sherrill
Corvet's disappearance was from circum-
stances too personal and intimate to be
made a subject of public inquiry; and
what Alan had encountered in Corvet's
house had conﬁrmed that belief. Sherrill
further had said that Benjamin Corvet,
if he had wished Sherrill to know those
circumstances, would have told them to
him; but Corvet had not done that; in-
stead, he had sent for Alan. his son.
He had given his son his confidence.

Sherrill had admitted that he was with-
holding from Alan, for the time belng,
something that he knew about Benjamin
Corvet; it was nothing, he had said,
which would help Alan to learn about
his father, or what had become of him;
but perhaps Sherrill, not knowing these
other things, could not speak accurately
as to that. Alan determined to ask Sher-
rill what he had been withholding before
he told him all of what happened in Cots
vet’s house. There was one other cir-
cumstances which Sherrill had mentioned
but not explained; it occurrel to Alan
now.

“Miss Sherrill~—" he checked himself.

“What is it?" >

“This afternoon your father said that
you believed that Mr. Corvet's disappear-
ance was In some way connected with
you; he said that he did not think that
was so; but do you want to tell me why
you thought it?"

“Yes; I will tell you." She colored
quickly. "One of the last things Mr. Cor-
vet did—in fact. the last thing we know
of his doing before he sent 'for you—was
to come to me and warn me against one
of my friends."

“Warn you, Miss Sherrill?
mean. warn you against what?"

“Against thinking too much of him.”
She turned away. ‘

Alan saw in the rear of the hall the
man who had been waiting with the suit-
case. It was after midnight now and.
for far more than the intended half hour,
Alan had left his father’s house on-
watched, to be entered by the front door
whenever the man, who had entered it
before. returned with his key.

“I think l'll come to see your father
in the morning," Alan said, when Con-
stance looked back to him.

"You Won t borrow Simona?” she asked
again. _

“Thank you. no."

"But you'll come over here for break-
fast in the morning?"

"You want me?"

“Certainly.”

"I‘d like to come very much."

“Then I'll expect you." She followed
him to the door when he had put on his
things and he made no objections when
she asked that the man be allowed to
carry his bag around to the other house.
When he glanced back, after reaching the
walk, he saw her standing inside the
door, watching through the glass after
him.

When he had dismissed Simons and re-
entered the house on Astor Street,- he
found no evidences of any disturbance
while he had been gone. On the second
ﬂoor, to the east of the room which had
been his father’s, was a bedroom which
evidently had been kept as a guest cham-
ber; Alan carried his suitcase there and
made ready for bed.

The sight of Constance Sherrill stand-
ing and watching after him in concern
as he started back to this house. came to
him again and again and, also. her ﬂush
when she had spoken of the friend against
whom Benjamin Corvet had warned hcr.
Who was he? It had been impossible at
that ‘moment for Alan to ask her more:
besides. if he had asked and she had
told him, he would have learned only a
name which he could not place yet in
any connection with her or with Ben-
jamin Corvet. Whoever he was, it was
plain that Constance Sherrill “thought of
him"; lucky man, Alan said to himself.
Yet Corvet had warned her not to think
of him. . . .‘

rAlan turned back his bed.

How? I

It had been

. .for him a tremendous day. Barely twelve

hours before he had come to that house.
Alan Conrad from Blue Rapids, Kansas;
now. . . phrases from what Lawrence
Sherrill had told of his father were run}
nmg through his mind as he opened the
door of the room to be able to hear any
noise in Benjamin Corvet’s house, of which
he was sole protector. The emotion
roused by his ﬁrst sight of the lake went
through him, again as he opened the win-
dow to the east. , ‘ ,

Now—he w a in bed—lie seemed to, be
standing, {specter before a '1 man, bias-2
pheming Benjamin ‘Corvet and the souls
of men dead. "And the hole above the!
eye! . . . Thebullet got you! . . . So it'-
you that got Ben'l . . . I'll

     
  

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THE SOIL THAT GOD
GAVE US .

N beginning a series of soil articles
for THE BUSINESS FARMER, I want
to bring to the reader a clear and

concise treatment of a problem that
affects every human being, regard-
less of whether he lives on a farm or
anywhere else.

When the place we call earth was
created there was a being as designer
or architect that was without a peer,
and one who never has been known
to have made a mistake.

Thisbeing also gave us laws of
control that are simple and unyield-
ing that— can be followed by anyone
them.

If you doubt his power look at the
shades of green in the landscape,
look at the leaves of the trees, all
similar, but no two of them exactly
alike. He also gave us certain ele-

 

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Contributions invited—Questions Answered

In some places the soils on these
continents are in good balance with
the other groups, viz:l airwater and
sunshine and plants and trees have
grown, died, and grown again, until
the soil has been ﬁlled with decaying
vegetable matter, and we term this
rich soil; other places may have an
abundance of minerals and air, but
lack water, and we call these barrens
or deserts.

Then in rich soil we ﬁnd an abun-
dance of decaying vegetable matter
combined with air and enough mois-
ture to make this matter soluable.
When .we lack decaying organic mat-
ter and moisture we call the soil
poor. This decaying animal and veg-
etable matter in a soil is called hu-
mus. .

Let me state right here that this
is the stepping stone to soil better-
ment throughout the world; this

 

 

ANOTHER FARMER TO CONTRIBUTE TO OUR COLUMNS
1TH this issue we are beginning a series of articles on soil work
by Mr. C. ‘J. Wright, a Cass county farmer, who had made a care-
ful study of Michigan soils and how to improve them. Mr. Wright
is to conduct the “Soils and Crops” department in The Business Farmer
and he will be pleased to answer any questions on either subject. Write
to him in care of The Business Farmer.

 

 

ments or matter that nothing can
destroy, yet trees, animals, liquids,
plant life, minerals are all com-posed
of some combination of these ele-
ments or matter.

This wonderful being, for mutual
understanding in this series of arti-
cles I am going to call God.

While God made this earth he
grouped areas of the elements or
matter in uneven masses of different
elevations which many millions of
years afterwards men named contin-
ents.

He also grouped other areas which
men have termed lake and ocean
beds and be ﬁlled these beds with
another group of‘elements which was
called water. He knew that if he
.wanted the high areas or continents
teeming with plant and animal life
water must be had to make soluble
the elements of the areas, so that
plant and animal life could live upon
them.

He then made the greatest of laws
that when a plant or animal dies, it
returns to the elements it was made
of, and that no part could leave the
universe for which it was created.

He also knew that the being He
made by the name of man and who
had control of this kingdom would
be grasping and forgetful of these
laws, so great reservoirs of certain
elements were stored through the in-
tervening years, in different sections
of the universe, thus we ﬁnd the
great nitrate beds of Chile, the pot-
ash beds of Germany, the limestone
beds all over the land and the great
phosphoric deposits of different con-
tinents. , ‘

One more group of elements He
knew was necessary for the existance
of things and that man termed at-
mosphere or air.

Each of the articles mentioned
above are dependent, one upon the
other and no life can exist on any
one group alone.

means on your farm, no matter What
state of fertility it is in.

God also made every part of the
universe a dwelling place for some
creature or thing so you will ﬁnd
some form of plant and animal life
from the mess of the icy Arctic
to the jungles of the Tropics, and
each form of life dies, is decomposed,
turned back into element and is re-
constructed into a new life and in
repeat the process, thereby enrich-
ing the soil for subsequent crops.

If man could, on a certain parcel
of land, grow his crops and let them
all return to the soil from whence
they came he would not need to wor-
ry over a poor farm, but the econ-
omic conditions that a .man ﬁnds
himself in on a farm compels him to
sell and convey a portion of these
crops to some one else to gratify his
fellow man enjoys.

He has now begun to draw on the
soil that God gave him, for certain
elements that he unconsciously bar-
ters away, that will never be re-
turned to his particular piece of land,
unless he understands the greatest
of God’s laws and makes some pro-
vision to buy or get the same amount
of element for less than he sold his
for in his crop.

In subsequent articles I shall try
and show how this may be done and
is being done by many. I shall try
not to make sport of the ideas of
other farmers for I have found that
they are by no means fools and
numb-skulls, but will try to be hon—
est and considerate and use as plain
explanations as I know how.

Uncle Ab says you seldom lose by un-
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college and get ready to buy a. farm;
then the young man will be going up
with the price level before everybody else
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SATURDAY. JANUARY 3. 1925

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"The Farm Paper of Service ”

RI’SY SESSION A HEAD

F you have read Mr. Powell’s article on page

I thrce of this issue you will have a pretty

clear Idea of what the legislature of the state

of Michigan is up against during the present
session.

If you will keep in mind what Mr. Powell
shows should be accomplished at this session and
then compare it with the actual resmts, you will
have a true conception of how things stand at
Lansing.

This is going to be a mighty interesting session
from the point of view of the farmers of this
state. There are several bills, as Mr. Powell
points out. which are sponsored by the farm or-
ganizations and which will be given early at-
tention.

Our Lansing correspondent will continue to give
our rcadcrs a careful non-political review of the
present session and you are quite welcome to
write us regarding the voting of any member
on any bill in the house or senate, or on any
mattcr of interest to farmers which is up for or
pending consideration. Our columns will con-
tinue to bc the open forum. from which the
farmcrs of Michigan can air their views, without
restriction. You may be sure that most of those
at, Lansing keep a sharp look-out for the drift
of [he straws, as indicated by the farm press of
this state, so you can be sure of your suggestions
or criticisms, getting the attention they deserve
at the capital.

t t *

Gentlemen at Lansing, lay aside for the mo—
ment, petty politics and factional strife. You
represent today a greater state than did any
legislature in our history. Michigan no longer
is provincial. Prosperity has fairly battered
down our gates to ﬁnd a home here. Great cities,
grown Alladin-like, clamor for more and more
products of our ﬁelds and orchards. So too,
prosperity is within sight of our farmers, now
gaunt from a four years famine! Your decisions
are of vital consequence to the farmers of Michi-
gan, they deserve your unqualiﬁed and sincere
sympathy and support!

Will they get it?

MICHIGAN \VINS

ILLIAM P. HARTMAN,deputy commissioner
 of agriculture pointed out at the recent

meeting of the Michigan Canneys' Associ-
ation held in East Lansing, that 115 canneries
now placed fifteen varieties of Michigan canned
goods on the market. This is, indeed an inter-
esting showing and one of which both growers
and canners can be proud.

But the mere quantity of production is not the
most interesting feature, because Mr. Hartman
points out that Michigan canned products enjoy
a position second to none on the market, be—
cause of their superior ﬂavor and strict adherence
to the conditions of the sanitary law which was
put on the books in 1919.

Addressing the same meeting, Mr. V. H.
Church, agricultural statistician said" “It seems
evident that there is an opportunity for marked
expansion of the fruit canning industries in Michi-
gan. Particularly is this true if quality is made
the chief objective. I believe that the word
‘Michigan' on a package of any product of our
state should be made to represent a high standard
.6! that product...smnd as a guarantee togtha. pur—

ar ‘ ' 'i“ M"‘ ‘ A ‘

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chaser. and its use on tutu-lo; “pants to be for-
ever prohibited. I believe I‘ wodld so so far as.
to recommend that the address of manufacturer
or grower must be emitter from all shipments
of inferior products, if such are allowed to go
out of the“ state at all. This would make it
impossible to trace any connection between them
and this fair state. "

As Mr. Church infers, the lands of Michigan
can be made among the most valuable in the
United States, because of our strategic geograph-
ical location. We are nearly in the center of
population which means the center of the con-
suming markets and our extra proﬁles can be

made on what it costs the growers of other states'

to ship their products.

 

LICENSE ALL DRIVERS

HE time is not far distant when, for the pro-
tection of careful motorists and pedestrians,
all states will lecense the drivers of motor

vehicles upon examination as to the ﬁtness and
will revoke licenses upon violation of any of the
rules by which it is held. _

It is admitted common sense that the greatest
variable factor in the whole problem of safe
operation of motor vehicles is the ego, the per—
sonality, the individualism of the operator. A
standard to measure this can, of course never be
exactly set. But a test of mentality and of
proper driving experience can and should be
efﬁciently applied before an operator is licensed,
and those tests kept applicable through his whole
driving period

The lecense system provides the necessary
machinery to accomplish this. Under it can be
had examination of all operators before license
is issued, and discipline and education of all
operators while licensed. During the course of
an examination all that class of persons who are
by nature, disease, or habit unﬁtted to operate
motor vehicles will be ﬁnally eliminated.

 

WINTER WHEAT

ECENT reports from Washington indicate that
R there was an increase of 6.5% in the acreage
of winter wheat planted last fall.

That this did not jar/the wheat market how-
ever, is proveu by the fact that buyers are still
clamoring for grain, as they have not since the
early years of the world war. Of course a change
in crop conditions in Agentine or Ukraine next
year would change the condition of the market
in the United States. But there are an ever in-
creasing number of buyers crying for wheat.
Germany is back in the market in a big way and
we can see no indications of a change which will

have a marked effect on next years markets,

even looking forward to a horizon twelve months
away.

Present high prices on the wheat exchange
have fooled even the best of the speculators. If
one could have known what was going to happen
to wheat he could have made a. fortune every
working day this fall!

 

GAS TAX SEEMS DIMINENT

E believe we are quite safe in predicting

from this page that t much discussed

gas tax which Mr bee e subject of more
than one wordy battle in Michigan will be settled
within two weeks after the legislature convenes.
It looks as i' Michigan will have a two—cent-per-
gallon tax and a decreased license fee, based on
weight and horsepower, for 1925.

We have always believed in the gasoline tax
as a fair method of collecting funds for road
improvement and repairs, and although we have
continually asked from this page for a fair and
square argument against the gasoline tax we have
never found any convincing enough to thangc our
views.

There is every reason for Michigan continuing
its road improvement program and for keeping
in repair those roads which have been con-
structed to date, and we believe the gaso.iue
tax is a safe and certain method of raising these
funds painlessly.

N ARRO‘VNESS

N Oakland county they are having a regular
I squabble over eight veterinarians who are
said to have taken an active interest in the

defeat last November of the proposal in' that‘

county, to lappropriate $9,000 for bovine tuber-
culosis eradication.

It seems that a hand-bill headed “Warning to
the Taxpayers" and signed by “Taxpayers Pro-
tective Lcague” was given wide distribution thru-
out the county just preceding the November elec-
tion and undoubtedly caused the defeat of the
measure.

Dr. B. J. Killham, State veterinarian, is highly
incensed over the situation and has asked the
eight veterinarians in question to appear before

"soar-w." 1s . A;

 

him and show why their permit: to do tuberculin-
testing should not be revoked. .

Oakland county is in the very heart of the
Detroit milk area and the farmers of this section
are too dependent on the proper central of the
milk industry to permit an investment of $9,000
to stand between their milk and the market

It would seem that the amount called for was
so small that it could have been considered as
insurance. at least until such time as this work
is taken over by the state or federal authorities.

We believe that Dr. Killham was quite right
in calling these gentlemen to time and making
them explain whether or not they had any part
in the circularizing of such a malicious piece of
propaganda.

 

Tomis'rs DO PAY!

UNDER if, when you see the various colored
tags, on the many automobiles from other
states, which seem to clutter our roads in

Michigan, especially during the summer months,
you have ever stopped to consider their value to
you and to your farm.

We were quite surprised recently when we
heard the ﬁgures which have been compiled by
various communities in Michigan to show how
much money is spent by the automobile tourist,
in our state.

Can you believe, for instance, that the second
largest industry in Michigan is the tourist trade?
According to the authority we heard, there is over
one hundred and ﬁfty million dollars spent in
Michigan by automobile tourists annually.

Rich and poor alike drive hundreds of miles
to enjoy the beauties of Michigan's lakes and
forests. That they are entitled to some little
consideration from we who are beneﬁtted by their
coming, seems quite apparent.

Our sister state across the lake, Wisconsin,
makes a special effort to entice the summer tour-
ists to her shores and yet Michigan has natural
advantages for superior. Now we must match
her in courtesy and service if we are to make
those who come want to come back again.

So the next time you are hooked out of the
way by a car with an out—of—state' license, just
remember that the owner is leaving behind u
not only a cloud of annoying dust, but a gen
sprinkling of gold and silver, a part of u i.
will eventually elleviate your injured feelings

Plans are on foot by the tourist and develop-
ment bureaus in Michigan to spend nearly a
quarter of a million dollars advertising the. beau-
ties and inviting people from all over the United
States to come here and spend. their summer
vacations. Indications are that 1925 should see.
the number who come nearly doubled.

Our farmers along the main highway can get
ready for t is inﬂux of consumers and those of
us who live on the back roads can at least say
“Howdy Stranger! and give them a smile be-
cause we will, in an indirect way at least, beneﬁt
by their coming.

A SAFE INVESTMENT

ORE and more farmers are turning to bonds

1‘ as a safe investment for their surplus funds.

as do capitalists in every other line of in-
dustry.

Right now the Federal Land Banks are par—
ticularly inviting farmers to invest in their bonds
which are sold in denominations of $40, $100,
$500, $1,000 and $5,000 and which pay a safe
and sure interest. . '

More than 300,000 farmers have borrowed
from the Federal Land ‘Banks thru their 4.600
local loan associations.

These bonds are tax free, interest is paid twrce
yearly and the principal promptly when due. In
the meantime they can be used as collateral
security of the highest rank and they are guar-

Ianteed jointly by all of the twelve Federal Land

Banks, having a combined capital and a reserve
of over $50,000,000.

With the many excellent forms of bonds now
offered for the farmers’ investment there is little
excuse for the purchase of stock in “ﬁy—by—night"
manufacturing companies, oil wells or gold mines.
Good bonds are simply “little mortgages" on valu-
able property and they are as safe and sure.

 

INCREASING USE OF ELECTRICITY
ON FARMS

TATISTICS show us that every third home in
the United States is on a farm. This means
that about seven million families of this

country are farm households.

The day has passed when farmers will he sat-
isﬁed with conditions as they were twenty years
ago and electricity is constantly gaining in use
for farm work of all kinds.

In one western state 28. per cent of the farm-

.ers now use electricity in varying degrees to light

the buildings and furnish power for milk separ-
ators,.churns,- water systems, and for cultivating
the soil and ,rhgoshlng. the seed crops. - - -

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‘  om swmnnnn STILL ON JOB

. 0. HELMS, Who honOred Mich-

' ignnwith his nefarious schemes,
‘ has been heard of recently in
. other states.

Tn]; BUSINESS FARMER has carried
notices from J. G. Hays. Secretary of
the Michigan State Holstein Associ-
ation warning against Helms, who
had swindled Michigan cattle men.

Readers of these notices have
written Hays of unhappy acquain-
tance with Helms. The sheriff of
Hugerstown, Maryland, wrote that he
Wu looking for Helms who hooked a.

lveterinary of that town last spring.

VA Jersey breeder near Chicago re‘

ports that he donated to Helms just

last month. A new Michigan victim

K notiﬁed Hays that Helms duped him

out of $650.00. The chief of police

' of Waterloo, Iowa, writes that Helms

i ‘ is wanted in that town for his crook-
ed work. _

i 'In almost every case the Victim

saw the notice that our paper printed

é just too late! So even though re-

; pound publishings ma.v make that

, ' operator wary, we warn you again!

i . (Look out for a cattle buyer ans-

‘ ‘ 1ﬂaring“ this description: six feet tall,

 medium build, weight about 170-190.

Hair light brown. Eyes blue. Gold

l toeth,——- believed to be eye teeth.

l Wears a watch charm of pearl fash-

3 ionod as a cow’s head. Affects a de-

g sided Southern acoent. Has used
-  the same name, H. C. Helms. Claims
i different places as his home, but a

5 favorite location has been Nashville,

Tennessee.

‘ ms scheme is to enlist aid in buy-
« in: cattle. Sooner or later he Will
V attempt to cash a check either for ex-
pense money he needs or to pay for
cattle. He exhibits letters and tele-
grams from a bank identifying him-
self. These are bogus.‘ Do not Sign
his check as sponsir.

If. you have information regarding
this rascal, wire collect at once to
the officers mentioned in this write-
‘i up, to the sheriﬂ at Corunna, or
' Grand Rapids, Michiga . or to J. G.
Hays, Dairy. Departme t, M. A. 0.,
East Lansing, Michigan.

 

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AGRICUJEURAL LIFE INSUR-
ANCE COMPANY

“Please advise me as to the stand-
ing of the Agricultural Life Insur-
ance Company." .

have investigated the Agri-
cultural Life Insurance Com-
. pany located at Bay City, and
i and that their report of December
‘ 318:. 1923, shows total assets
amounting to $1,262,579.11 and
their total liabilities amount to
$963,993.02. They have Capital
Stock Outstanding to the amount of
$250,000.00, and Surplus for All
:Contigencies of $45,577.09.

‘ GOODBYE, $10
‘ “I would like to know if you can
ﬁnd} out for me if Warren McRae of
Logansport, Indiana, 2114 Spear St.,
is a reliable real estate man or is he
a fraud? I listed my farm with him
and paid him $10.00 for listing some
time ago and do not hear anything

more from him.”

ROM time to time during the past
I two years we have published
information regarding the War-
ren McRae Farm Agency of Logans-
port, Indiana, and at no time have
we spoken favorably of this agency.
? As far as we can learn Mr. McRae
i has never sold a farm for any of our
’ readers, and we issued a statement

0 9 (Collection B0

The purpose of this department I: to PM-
, 1 too: our subscribers from fraudulent deallniﬂ
i } :5- unlezatmtmont by persons or concerm n
i

In every case we will do our host to m '10

I a satisfactory settlement or force action. go!
no shame for our services will over in
f M providing:
; g 1.—-Tho claim Is made by a aid-u sub-
1 _ scribe? to The Business Farmer. p p
y z—Tho claim is not more than 6 mos. old.
t—Tho claim is not local or between now
do within any distance of one another.
. Those should be settled at ﬁrst hand and not
muted by mail.

Address all letters, giving full particulars, '
mounts. dates. etc., enclosing also your ed-
M label from the front cover of any issue _
- to more that you are a paid-up subscriber.
THE BUSINESS FARMER. Collection Box

Mt. Clemons. Mich.

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to him that if he would furnish us
with a complete name and address of
one farmer in Michigan who had dis-
posed of his farm through his agen-
cy, we would be pleased to give him
a free advertisement in THE BUSI-
ans FARMER. He never replied to
this letter.

His scheme is to get the prospec-
tive customer to pay $10.00 for list-
ing his farm. If the customer does
not pay $10.00 he will, as a rule, cut
the price to $5.00, and we have
known of cases where he brought it
down to $2.50.

We fully believe you have seen
your $10.00 for the last time.

 

SMPLEX 1W ANUFACTURING
COMPANY

“I have 154 shares of stock in the
Simplex Manufacturing Company at
Kansas City, Mo. I have had this
stock for two years. The Company
sent a man here the 18th of last
month to explain what they had and
what they were doing and gave me,
as an old stock-holder, a chance to
buy more shares at $10.00 per share.
He said that after the ﬁrst of the
year it would be $15.00 per share.
Can you tell me if it is safe to buy
or not?”

8 you have owned stock in the
Simplex Mfg. Company. Kansas
City, for twoyears you are in a

better position than I am to judge as
to this stock’s ability as a dividend
payer. If you have been drawing
regular dividends and the statement
of the company appears in good
shape it would look like a good in-
vestment, howchr, if you have not
been drawing regular dividends I
would not consider putting any more
of my money in until I have been
able to make a profit on what I al-
ready had invested.

 

MASSACEUSETI‘S BONDING AND
' INSURANCE

“I am a subscriber to your paper

and would like to have you look up

the Massachusetts Bonding and In-

surance Company, Boston, Mass;
General oﬁice, accident and health
department, Saginaw, Mich.”

HE Massachusetts Bonding and
Insurance Company, incorpor-

61/2%

Federal Bond 83’
Mortgage Company

(1375)

First Mortgage Real Estate Gold Bond:

January funds may be
shortly available to you
and we suggest our first
mortgage bonds as the
ideal securityfor re-
investment.

Write for Booklet AGI375

Tax Free in Michigan
Normal Income Tax Up to 4% Paid by Borrower

FEDERAL BOND 8r MORTGAGE BUILDING. DETROIT

 

ated under the laws of the state
of {Massachusetts commenced busi—
ness in 1907, and was admitted to
Michigan during the year 1908. It
is regularly authorized to transact
within this state the business of fidel-
ity, casualty, surety, burglary, steam
boiler, accident, health, liability, au-
tomobile and teams property damage
and collision, plate glass, and sprink-
ler insurance.

The following is a statement of the
ﬁnancial condition of the company as
shown by its annual report ﬁled with
the Michigan Department of Insur-
ance, as of December 31, 1923: To-
tal Admitted Assets, $8,233,148.61;
Total Liabilities except capital, $5,-
145,987.28; Capital paid up, $1,500,-
000.00; Surplus over capital and all
liabilities, $1,317,161.33.

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There is no other farm engine
like it. Simple in construction
and easy to operate. It is only
one engine, yet it takes the
place of six engines. It will give
from 1% to 6 H. P., yet it is so
light that two men can carry it
easily. Set it anywhere and
put it to work.

Change Power
as Needed

It is a 6 H. P. when you need
6. or 1% H. P. when you need
only 1%, or any power 1m be-
tween. Fuel consumption in
proportion to power used. and
remarkably low at all times.
Adjustment from one power to
another is instantaneous.

Burns Kerosene
Operates with kerosene or gaso-
line. Easy starting, no crank-
ing. The greatest gas engine

I received my money from I
do not know what method you use but
it sure does the work. They never took
time to seal the envelope. I told them
I would notify the postal authorities or
for quicker action reﬁer them to the M. B.
F. but had no idea it would work so
quick. Am going to try and get a sub~
soription to the M. B. F.-—Mrs. P. P.
Edgeton, Tuscola County, Mich.

 

 
    
  
 
  
   
  
   
 

 

  

The check for amount due my daughter
from came yesterday. Accopt
our hearty thanks for your services, for
we feel we should never have received it
without. We value your paper highly
and look forward for each issue. Again
thanking you, Yours very truly-G. W.
H., Lakeview, Michigan.

 

   
     
   
  
   
   
 

 

 

 

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"! set out to build a farm engine
that would have every feature
the farmer wanted and none he
didn't want. It has now been
on the market six years. Thou-
sands of satisﬁed users tell me
I've succeeded. I'm proud to
have this engine bear my name.'7
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value on the market. And you
can prove all of these statements
to your own satisfaction.

What Users Say
Ivan L. Blake, of Hannibal.
New York. says: “Only engine
economical for all jobs. I run a
28-inch cord wood saw, a 24-
inch rip saw, a washer, a pump,
and a grinder, and it sure runs
them ﬁne. It has perfect run-
ning balance, and it sets quiet
anywhere." _

Clarence Rutledge, of Mani-
toulan Island, Ontario, says:
"Have given my Edwards four
years' steady work and like it
fine. It uses very little fuel. I
run a 28-inch» cord wood saw,
also a rip saw, 8-inch grinder.
ensilage cutter, line shaft for
shop, churn, washer, separator
and pump. Have had ten other
engines and the Edwards beats
them all."

Frank Foell, of Cologne. New
Jersey, says: “ It's a great pleas-
ure to own an Edwards engine.
I tuna wood saw. cement mixer.

rkalrle Engine

threshing machine, etc. Do
work for my neighbors. Easy
to move around and easy to run.
I would not have any other}?

Free Trial Oﬂ’er
Now-I want to prove my
claims to you. I want to send
you an Edwards Engine for ab-
solutely free trial. Just write
your name and address on cou-
pon and mail. I will send at
once complete details about my
farm engine and about my free
trial offer. No. cost or obliga-
tion. Mail coupon now.

 

    
      
   

    

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two weeks. I wish you every success
with your farm paper.—C. P. 8., Brighton,
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practical way of doing things. I lived at
Adram, Lenawee county 77 years and 5

months t0 a day. was born there. I now -Esaywlth the

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“DON’T RUN 'AWAY!”
By Anne Campbell

   

“Don’t run away!”
I always say,
Whenever he

Goes out to play!

“Stay near the house,
And don't you roam.

I like to know

You’re close to home!”

“Don’t run away!”

And yet, alas!

How hurriedly

These bright years pass!

thile day by day,
Into the man

He grows from ll’lt‘
That he will be!

(We are indebted to Mrs. D. F. W'ilcox,
of Elk Rapids, for the above picture.)

INVISIBLE DARNING
'0 most’of us our best coat suit is
a thing to be taken'care of, es-
pecially as it takes a small for-
tune to buy a new one. But with the
best of care We sometimes have sad

’accidents,—a snag in the fence, the

muddy—pawed puppy that is glad to
see us home, a red-hot stove that
scorches before we notice it, and
there’s the hole, right in the front
breadth of the suit that we were go-
ing to make do for another year.
Well, we’ll just have to patch it up
somehow, and use out the suit round
home.

Now here is where invisible darn-
ing comes in. Everyone has heard of
invisible darning,‘but few seem to
realize how simple a matter it is. Let
me tell you how it is done.

First examine carefully the cloth
to be mended—if you have a reading
glass, so much the better. You will
see two sets of‘ threads; one set cal-
led the warp, that runs lengthwise of
the garment, and the other, called
the woof, that is woven across the
warp. There are three ordinary
kinds of weave and your suit will
most likely be one of these. There
is the plain 'Weave, over and under
like ordinary darning; there is the
basket weave, made up of two under
and two over, or three under and
three over for coarse cloth, and there
is the twill, that is made up of one
under and three over in such a way
as to form diagonal lines. It is this
last we ﬁnd in herringbone patterns.

How to Proceed

The next thing to do, having found
out which weave your suit is made
01. is to cut out the hole square, re-
moving all tag ends and ravelings.
Next ﬁnd a broad seam or hem from
which you can draw threads for the
mending. Draw warp threads to run
the warps, and woof threads to
weave with. Use a long embroidery
needle with a ﬂat eye: Commence
by inserting the warp threads, begin-
ning three or four threads back from
the edge of the hole. Thread Your

_needle with each length, leaving a

loose end at either side of the hole;

V do not try to work to and fro with a\

long thread as in ordinary darning.
Next weave the cross threads just
like, the pattern. This takes ‘very

careful Work, as a miss-stitch spoils
the whole thing and betrays it as a

darn. Loose ends should be left on

work. Remember'that each warp

 each woof'gthread, is faseparate. ‘  I 1
at  youx'ndlglmgg-should always; it the head closely.

   

EAR FOLKS:

page.

them. in.

loan it to me.

ture when you send it in.

to get together to make our
page better than it ever
was.” How does that sound
to you, and are you going
to help?

 

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lepamnent‘ for. the W 11.:

Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR

Now that the holiday season is over and you have
a. little time to yourselves I want you to write to me and use our
Express your views on any subject, ask questions, send in
recipes, helpful hints, suggest how'our page can be improved.
is your page and I want to publish the things that interest you most,
but. if you do not help me I must guess whether I am pleasing you or
not. YOur old recipes will be new ones to many of my readers, so send
Your helpful hints may save many women work and steps.
If you believe your kitchen is ideally arranged the other farm women
will be interested in learning how you have it arranged, and I will be
pleased to publish a. picture of it if you have a kodak print and will
Send in pictures for our page—some of you, the child-
ren, your home, garden, yard— and tell me something about the pic-
ferhaps you have heard the line “Now is the
time for all good men to rally to the support of the country”, well I am
going to change it to read “Now is the time for.all good farm women

W 

Address letters; Mrs. Annie Taylor. care The Buslness Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

  
 

 

 

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a bundle of threads sticking up
around the hole. Now grasp the gar-
ment in both hands, ﬁrst lengthwise
and then crosswise, and wriggle the
darn into shape, so as to make sure
that there is no binding anywhere;
then very carefully trim off the loose
ends close to the cloth with a sharp
pair of scissors. A little patting and
pulling will bring the darn into
shape, and if the work is neatly
done it will be invisible. The secret
is to weave ﬁrmly without pulling or
stretching the fabric.

If the garment is plaid, or colored
stripe, great care should be used to
weave the threads in the right order
of the pattern. '

It may be objected that such Work
requires a great deal of time, but it
must be remembered that it does not
have to be done often, and that by its
aid 'a suit can be made to last many
months longer than it otherwise
would. Besides, as against the alter—
native for another thirty or forty
dollars for a new “good” suit, an
afternoon spent on an invisible darn
is well worth while.

Do not be discouraged if the ﬁrst
darn does not look much better than
an ordinary one. Remember the
ﬁrst time you learned to darn a
stocking it looked just terrible and
you knew you never would do it
neatly.—Maristan Chapman. (I am
publishing this article through the
courtesy of Farm and Ranch.)

PICK \VINTER HAT WITH TOTAL
EFFECT IN ,MIN D
LTHOUGH hats are selected pri-
marily for the protection of the
head from light, cold and storm,
and while this service must always
be kept in mind when one visits the
milliner, the decorative importance
of the hat should be of ﬁrst consider-
ation to the wearer.

The following advice on theselec-
tion of hats is taken from a lecture
on the subject recently given at the
state college of agriculture at Ithaca

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“More people will see your hat in
relation to your whole ﬁgure than to
your head alone; therefore always
choose a hat in front of a full length
mirror. Don’t trust to the View of
your head alone. .

“A well ﬁtted hat becomes a part
of the head in the complete design of
the whole ﬁgure and therefore af-
fects its proportions. A hat which
enlarges the mass of the head will
decrease the apparent height of the
wearer. Decidedly horizontal lines
in a hat with a broad brim or with
horizontal lines emphasized by trim-
mings will also increase the appar-
ent breadth .of a person. A very
large hat is always inappropriate to
a very small woman and a very small
hat may make a large woman appear
ridiculous.

“Persons wearing glasses ﬁnd that
turbans and brimless hats are not
becoming to them.

“The hat should harmonize in col-
or with the coat or dress with which
it is worn. -

‘fMuch of the appearance of the
hat and its wearer depends/upon the
manner in which it is worn. At
whatever angle it is worn the hat

never giving the appearance of ei-
ther resting on top of the head, slip-
ping off the back, tilting over the
eyes or balancing on one corner of
the head.” -

 

ANOTHER \VAY TO
CLEAN TEETH

get the best results from a

tooth paste or powder, apply it

on the teeth and gums with the

ﬁnger and allow it to remain there

for ﬁve or ten minutes before the
actual brushing.

By applying the dentifrice early in "
one’s toilet, more effective results
can be obtained when the brush is
ﬁnally used. One should be sure to
rub the dentifrice well into the spa-
ces between the teeth.

Brushing should be followed by a
thorough rinsing of the mouth with
water or a mild alkaline wash. By
ﬁlling the mouth with water and
closing the lips, the mouth can be
ﬂushed by forcing the water through
the teeth.

 

 

Personal Column

 

 

Let’s Have More Letters.——NOW that the
holidays are over I hope readers will send
in more helpful letters. The children’s
page is doing ﬁne. I wish some readers
who can make hair switches of combings
would send their names and addresses to
our paper. Myself and others who are
not bobbed might beneﬁt them. Also has
any reader, quilt pattern Tree of Para-
dise and others that are odd. Kindly
send them to Editor to be printed for
beneﬁt of us all. Stormy weather will
soon be here and if we con keep our ﬁn-
gers busy time will fly fasten—Mrs. M.

 

“The Basket” Design.—_—This quilt block
is called “The Basket” and is real pretty.

 

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  oWn.;,.When . is, " ,
'(unless old orran inValid) she must-Prise  ’
‘if seated, and offer .her hand to. my ..

‘ teaspoon ful salt.

 

 

 

 

 

If you would like to see one already made
up and wish for a pattern write me and
I will forward it to you, if you promise
to return it as soon as possible. .

 

 

—-if you are well bred!

 

 

The Acknowledgment of an Introduction.
—-The one and only phrase of acknow-
ledgement of an introduction is “How do '
you do?” and a lady may offer her hand
or not when a man is introduced to her,
as she may choose. As a rule she bows
slightly to a. stanger without extending
her hand, saying "How do you do?’.'.~ If
the man introduced is one who has been

 

her‘ han‘d.‘ It‘rls ill-bred o'nﬁéhpart. how
weirdo. refuse hen om hex-“T ,

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,apread.‘-' one-h
highly spoken of by friendashe may give g y ' ‘ ,

stranger. When _a number of" persons
are presented in rapid succession at a.
picnic, theatre 0 ‘card party, hand-shalt.
ing and even verbal acknowledgment are

not necessary: a. slight smile and bow.

recognizing each name will sufﬁce.

In general women should rise to ac-
knowledge an introduction to other wo-
men or a host; though an older matron
need not comply with this rule if a
younger girl is introduced to her. No
woman need rise to acknowledge an intro-
duction to a man.

Men always shake hands when intro-

duced to one another, and always rise to .

acknowledge introductions of any kind.
when a man and woman are seated side
by side and are introduced by a. third
person, the man rises and stands until
the introduction has been made. Excep-
tions to this rule are introductions in:
theatre, concert-hall, church (before be-
ginning of the service), drawing-room
musicales or private theatricals, where a.
man may remain seated. When a late

woman guest at a luncheon, dinner, sup-e

per party arrives, at, man introduced
should rise and bow‘ his acknowledge-
ment to an introduction, when he is able.
Where the woman is already seated, a.
bow will sufﬁce. A man introduced to a
group of men need not shake hands, but
may content himself with bowing.

No guest may refuse an introduction
made by his hostess or host: though the
person be an enemy, courtesy demands
recognition of the introduction. If asked
by a host or hostess whether one wishes
to meet a certain person, the introduction
may be courteously declined, but a. valid
reason must be given: “Perhaps it would
be advisable for me not to meet Mr. Mor-
ton. Our business relations are not of
the best,” or “You had best not present
me to Miss Grey. Our families are not
friendly.” No hostess may refuse point-
blank to introduce a guest who asks the
privilege to another, though some slight
evasion may be used to prevent an awk-
ward or unfortunate situation: "Miss
Grey seems very much taken up at this
minute,” or "I shall try and present Miss
Grey to you later, if an opportunity
offers. ‘

 

 

Menu for January 4

 

 

*Lobster Bisque Toasted Crackers
Olives Celery Pickles
Roast Pigeons Sweet Potatoes
Fried Hominy
Lettuce Salad Cheese Balls
Lemon Meringue Pie
Coffee

*Lobster Bisque—4 tablespoons ﬂour.
3 tablespoons fat, 1 tablespoon salt, 1
head celery, 2 lobsters, 1 small onion. 6
whole white peppers, 4 sprigs parsley, 1
quart milk, white pepper to taste.

Cover lobsters with boiling water, add
salt, celery diced, whole peppers, parsley
and onion. Cook until lobsters’ claws can
easily be pulled apart; it will probably
take 25 minutes. When cool enough to
handle, cut lobsters down back, remove
meat from body and claws. Save coral.
Put back all tough parts with small claws
and shells, and cook for 20 minutes in
same liquor. Liquor must be considerably
reduced. Dry coral, rub through sieve,
Blend fat and ﬂour in saucepan over ﬁre,
stir in milk, let this come to boil, add 2
cups of strained lobster broth. Bring to
boiling point, season with salt and pepper,
and stir in sifted coral to give liquid pink
color. Place lobster meat out in ﬁne
pieces in hot tureen, pour hot mixture
over and serve hot.

 

RECIPES

 

 

Golden Corn M‘uiﬁnsJ—l cuvpful ﬂour, 3
tablespoonfuls fat, 1 cupful yellow corn-
meal, 3 tablespoonfuls sugar, 1‘ cupful
milk, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoonful salt, 3 tea-
spoonfuls baking powder. Cream fat and
sugar thoroughly together, add'eggs well
beaten and milk. Then stir in slowly
dry ingredients which have been sifted
together three times. Divide into greased
gem pans and bake in moderately hot
oven twenty-minutes. Sufﬁcient for twelve
mufﬁns.

 

Chocolate Wafers.—1 cup-ful sugar, 5
tablespoonfuls fat, 2 cupfuls ﬂour, 1,4 cake
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Potatoes are cheap and plentiful this
year, and thoughtful housewives Will use
them in every possible way.

Strips of plain, white, washable mater-
Ial tacked over the ends of comfortables
are easily laundered and help to keep the
heavier bed coverings clean.

Ordinary cottage cheese served with
lettuce or other green salad and a small
amount of rich homemade preserves
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to let denominational churches remain
closed rather than to open a community
church seem to forget that Jesus was not
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ggn. One could ve unbleached muslin, gingham or. suteeii._ in .
mall, Merium, Large and Extra Large. A Medium 5123 requires 2% yards of 27 inch material.

4952. A Simple Practical Garmentjor Rainy Days.——Cravenette, rubber or rubberized cloth may
be used for this st 1e. This Pattern is cut in _8 Sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust

measure. A 38 inc .size requires 4 yards of 40 inch material.

10:119.; The Pattern is cut in 6 Sizes: 4, , 38,
Inch siz

9 requires 3% yards of 40 inch material.

4943. A stylish Blouse—This model_in “tunic”. effect may be developed in broad clots, crelpe,

ﬂannel or linen. The sleeve may be finished in wrist length, or short as in the small view. ' he

’ ‘ 38, 40 and 42 inches bust measure. To make as illustrated in the

. of 32 inch material“ With 17$ .yard of contrasting
material to face collar and cuffs. 1f made With short sleeves 3 % yards Will be required.

»’ cut in 5 Sizes: 34 36, .
Extender}: a 38 inch size vn'll require. 3% yards

4946. A Popular Suit Style vfor the Small Boy.——Lineii, cainbric, or flannel may be used fill‘
the blouse, and 1velvet, Bertie or otlgetr woolen flgr thle .tigllsel;fl;‘i)rpttlzite entire imp gays be of one
he seeve may )6 in wris, or in e ow eng . iis- s cm is on in izes: 3, 4,

mmmﬂ‘ T and 6 years. A 4 year suze will require 1%
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Men's Rain Coats—This practicéil deéségn may be developed in cravenette rubber or rubb

yards are required; with
short sleevss 21/3. yards are required. ~ Collar and
cuffs of contrasting material require % yard.

_ Popular under-garment.—
This style of corsat cover is a favorite with Women
of mature ﬁgure. It may be made of butiste,
iiainsook, cuiiibric or sateen, and if' desired the
seams may be boned. The neck ed e may be in
round, pointed or square outline. T is Pattern is
34-36; Medium, 38-40:
Large, 42-44; Extra Large, 46-48 inches bust
measure. A Medium Size requires 1% yards of

_ 4970. A “Pretty” school Frock—Plaid suit-
ingkwtillf be good forb till? style. 1 Collar, cuffs and
poc e aciiig may e 0 anne in : ’
shade atltld bound with1 brai a (ont'mstmg
Wise 5. raCive in ve veteen or in ‘

other wash fabrics. The gingham and

d. This model is like-

Sizes: 6. 8, 10 and 12 years. A 10 ' ‘
requires 2% yards of 36 inch materiuefr Egg:
collar, cuﬂ’s and pocket facings of contrasting
material % yard 40 inches wide is required.

4911. , A “Smart” Goat
Girlr—Hoinefi‘lliuii, velours, y
coa was con is used for this style It is also
attractive in velvet and oh ' ' '
collar may be closed hight er p118 fabncs. The
{called nopen as shovzn sin the

er is 911 111'. izes: 8, 10 12
years. A 12 year Size requires 2% yurdgngf 

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spoonfuls. of Water 'andsiiaking will often
bring back the popping quality.
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of’our. work is during the day. Health
will be maintained by spending a. reason—
able portion, regularly in outside recrea«

our schedule to accotnodate this but we
can if we are in earnest.
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a gargle of salt and water, a fomenta—
tation of salt on a bruise or sprain, or the
irrigation of an open wound with boiled
water and a little salt when nothing else
is at hand,—Will prove helpful in time of
need.

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open cut at once with iodine or anything
else which will cauterize or close the sur-
face by searing it over. In case of germs,
splinters, or poisons hays been injected
or forced into the surface when the skin
or ﬂesh Were bruised or cut—these (lan—
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of hydrogen which boils up when it
touches the open wound, bringing with it
offending material. A reasonable amount
of bleeding is a measure of safety, drain-
ing and washing away foreign bodies.
When the wound is clean then it is a
good plan to surface with iodine which
will close up or coat the opening and
give Nature a chance to do her repair
work.

 

 

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" ma hon girls: 
' and some of us received just
what we wanted while others were

not so fortunate (probably your let-

N tors arrived at Santa's home at such
a late date that he had to give you
what he had left), and most of us
have about recovered from the ef-
fects of eating too much candy, nuts
and rich foods. We are in :1 new
year and looking forward to what
the future will bring, but before we
forget Santa Claus I want to tell
you something about him, his real
name and where he lived many,
many years ago.

Many, many years ago Santa Claus
did not live at the North Pole as he
does today but lived a long ways
from there and from us, away off
in Asia Minor.

When Santa Claus lived in Asia
Minor, his name was not Santa Claus
but Nicholas; and he was a bishop
in the ancient city of Myra. After he
died he was called Saint Nicholas.

There is nothing much known
about Saint Nicholas, but there are
many stories about him that may or
may not be true. At any rate the
Greeks and Romans set apart the
sixth day of December as his day:
and later Christian people all over
the world honored him.

One of the old stories told about
Saint Nicholas shows why the Santa
Clans of today gives presents at
Christmas. One time when Nicholas
was living, he heard that unless a
poor man in his city had a big sum
of money on a certain date, his three
daughters would be sold as slaves.
Now Nicholas was always doing good
and he didn’t like people to know
about it. either. So just before the
day set for the selling of the daugh—
ters, he went to the poor mon‘s home
disguised so that no one knew him
and gave the poor man the necessary
money. Many years after this when
people began to think more of old
Saint Nicholas, it became the custom
to give presents in secret on the eve
of Saint Nicholas’ day. In this way
the people honored the Saint's gener-
ous act to the poor man. So that is
why the Santa Clans of today gives
presents in secret on Christmas Eve.

But you will wonder just how this
old Saint Nicholas became our Santa
Claus, and I will tell you. When the
earliest Dutch Colonists came to
America, they brought with them
this custom of giving presents in
secret on Christmas Eve. All the
little Dutch children looked for “San
Nicholaas,” to come in secret to their
houses, just as the children of today
look for Santa Claus. Soon the child-
ren of the Englistholonists heard
about the Dutch San Nicholaas and
how he brought presents on Christ—
mas Eve. So they began to talk
about San Nicholaas. But of course
they couldn't say it just the way the
Dutch children could. The nearert
they could get to saying it correctly
was Santa Claus. So that is really
how Santa Claus got his name.—
UNCLE NED.

OUR GUILS AND BOYS

Dear Uncle Nedc—Just a few lines this
A. M. Being the ﬁrst time I have written
I hardly know what to write, but in most
cases where there is no one to introduce
you the best thing to do is to introduce
yourself. I am Sybil Rowley. I just
wrote to onr of the Children's Hour
cousins. so I mouzh it would be real in-
teresting to know more of this merry
group. I suppose you have room for me?
I am Just wishing your motto is, “The
more the merrier." I have read the M.
B F'. for about 3 years but wish I had
read it longer. For my part there is no
other farm paper that excells the M. B. F.
I read every line of interest and, to be
lure, never forget to read the Children‘s
Hour, there are such interesting letters
and poems contributed to that page.
Really Uncle Ned does pick out some very
interesting ones to print, I think all the
cousins will agrce with me. I am through
school for the prescnt, at least, so I have
lots of time to myself. Now that I've
got the start you will expect to hear
from me often. I would like to hear
from all the “pollyanna” boys and girls.
I will answer all letters I receive. At
present I am not corresponding with any-
one. Would like all the cousins to do
their bit. I will make this short and
give Uncle Ned a well deserved rest, by
the time he gets this letter ﬁgured out
he'll need one. Before I close I‘ll dscribe
myself. ,I am 5 feet 1 inch tall, weigh
118 pounds and am nearly 17 years old,
have brown hair (bobbed) and brown
eyes. \Vlll close with three cheers for
the Children's Hour circle—Sybil Rowley,
Ionia, Michigan, R4, Box 95.

Dear Uncle Nedz—How are you and
the cousins getting along? Its quite a.
while since I wrote last isn’t it? Well
"rm here again anyway. We’ve five inches

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of snow already. I guess we are going
to have a white Christmas this year.
How many of the cousins enjoy winter
sports? It is lot of fun skiing in winter.
Our school is going to have a program for
Christmas in school and we‘re going to
have a Christmas tree too. I always work
on the cross word puzzle in the M. B. F.
It's just fun working on it. I'm writing
this letter at recess time in school and
I can hardly write, the kids keep jarring
my desk all the time. Say Uncle Ned
I’ve been to Detroit for a week and .had
a wonderful time. I went with my
brother in his car. It’s too bad we didn’t
go through Mt. Clemens, maybe I would
of seen you, eh? I hope Santa Claus
brings me lots of presents this year. I
hope the waste basket is full. Will close
with love. Your niece,———Anna Stimac,
Engadine, Mlch., Box 101.

P.  I hope some of the boys and
girls will write to me. I will try and
answer them all. The last. time I wrote
I received just one letter.

 

Dear Uncle Nedt—I have never written
to the Children's Hour before but have
been a silent reader for four or ﬁve years,
if not more. I was just reading what you
said about one girl or boy writing a letter,
and then a week or so later you will see
a number of letters written the same way,
rather along the same order. I haven't
anything special to write. and probably
wouldn't get a. prize if I did, but I’ll do
my best.

I am ﬁve feet, ﬁve inches tall, weight
one hundred twenty-six pounds. I have,
medium brown hair, and gray eyes, also
I wear glasses. I am seventeen years
old, and will be eighteen the ﬁfteenth
of April. My home is on a farm about
ele\'cn miles south of Saginaw, but I stay
in Saginaw during the week and go to
school. I go to Saginaw East Side High
School, I am proud to say. I am in the
12th grade this year. My subjects are

In Defense

IG is an animal most abused by
humanity. For many centuries
it has been the symbol of dirt.

Now and then zoologists would try
to straighten out this unfair mis-
judgment of pig's character, but the
general public would always stick
to the conventional conception:

“As dirty as a pig.” .

Most of the people believe that a
pig likes to wallow in mud, because
they have seen this animal doing so.
They don't know that the mud—bath
serves as a definite purpose: to rid
the poor animal of parasites. , When
the mud dries and falls off the ani-
mal’s body, pig’s tormentors also
fall off, dead.

As pigs often suffer from obesity,
artificially cultivated by men for
their own eating purposes, the ani-
mals try to relieve the feeling of
heat br’ught by the excessive fat,
by bathing frequently. It is not
their fault that the only bath they
can ﬁnd is sometimes a rain puddle
in the middle of the road.

If given sufﬁcient amount of wa-
ter, any pig can easily be taught
to appreciate cleanliness. Pigs on
our farm Were always clean, more so
than cats, who never bathe, but Just
lick themselves.

I remember mother‘s favorite
black pig, which was so clean and
had such nice manners that she was
admitted into the drawing room,
like a pet.

The “pet” weighed about three
hundred pounds, but carried its fat
with dignity. Every few days it
would trot down to the kitchen in

English, typewriting, shorthand, Ameri-
can history and sewing also public speak-
ing. We have two schools in which we
have classes, one is called the old build-
ing and is on one side of the street and
on the other side of the street is a build-
ing called the new building or manual
training building. We have in this school
a foot ball team. a basket ball team, a
debating team, also an orchestra and glee
club, both boys and girls. Our principal
last year, Mr. John W. Langdon, was
called by death last June, and we have
another this year, Mr. Fred Stevenson
whom we like very much. I had the
pleasure of becoming acquainted with him
as our English teacher was absent, and
he taught our class. We are now taking
up “Hamlet”, we are on Act three, Scene
three. We had to memorize Poloneus’s
farewell address given to his son starting
with, “Give they thoughts no tongue."
We are on the war of 1812 in history.
We take one day of each week from our
history class to talk of current events.

Well Uncle Ned and cousins I believe
I have said enough for the ﬁrst time.
Hoping to hear from some of the boys
and girls I close—Mabel Quackenbush,
1518 South Park St., Saginaw, Michigan,
East Side.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I only discovered
your page a short time ago so I do not
know if you care to get acquainted with
me yet. Most of the conversation in the
letters is about the children, but I'm not
going to attempt to describe myself or tell
my whereabouts. How many of you like
cross word puzzles? I have paid attention
to thcm until just the other night. I
worked until nearly midnight at it, bound
to get it all ﬁgured out, but couldn't.

They make you do a little thinking
once in a while. Talking about work
there‘s no limit to the lessons in high
school, and being,r a junior and having
the teachers and subjects I have. I have

of the Pig

the basement and squeal demanding
to be washed. The cook's helper
would fill with water an extra large
tub, and the pig would willingly
jump into it. There it remained for
about half an hour while being thor-
oughly scrubbed with a harsh brush
and soap, and grunting with pleas—
ure.

Pigs I have met during my travels
differed greatly in their love for
cleanliness. In places where water
was abundant, they would go about
shining like a well-kept shaving
brush. In dry' countries they looked
like a picture of conventional “dirty
pig.” This difference was especially
striking on the West Indian Islands,
so called Lesser Antilles. The pigs
which are being raised there are
called creole, like everything else
which grows on the islands. The
West Indians would say:

“Creole woman, creole cow, cre—
ole corn.”

The creole pigs were alike on
each island: small, rather thin and
black. They all seemed to descend
from the only pair which had been
brought there centuries ago by the
Dutch sailors. But their hygienic
habits differed with every isle.

On Saint Croix, for instance, the
driest of all West Indian islands,
creole pigs were always covered with
dust and~worse things, while on
Dominica, with its hundreds of
streams, waterfalls and rivulets, the
most uncared-for pigs were clean
and shiny like a society lady’s hair-
brush. The same can be said about
the pigs of southern Chile.

the only one, but I love to ﬁled” and also
get E's but one can not. loaf and get
E’s unless they have a graft with the
teachers and poor me han't. Everyone
has Christmas on, their minds now or
rather presents and good times except
me. ‘ If you don’t give, you don’t get and
I'm not giving.

Here is a chance for a guess. My
birthday is on the way and I will send
a little something to those that ﬁrst
guess my age or birthday, which is in the
ﬁrst week of January. Uncle Ned are
you very strict in sorting out the letters?
Please make this an exception because it
‘is so dlsliking to write the same kind of
a lingo for another trial. I’ve got heaps
to say but I intend to write again.—
uBuddyn. .

Letter will reach me by this address
—-E. Bersonh 338 Luding'ton Ave., Me-
nominee, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned:——I suppose I should
tell you about the town I live in and the
house I live in. Well I live in a tOWn
named Benzonia and it is located on a
bill. so you can tell how little it is. At
the bottom of the hill is a resort named,
Beulah. It is built by a lake called
Crystal Lake. It is called Crystal Lake
because of its crystal like water. My
house is on the hill too. We have a
beautiful view. A person can see as far
as four miles. In the valley is a rail—
road, a saw mill and a pond. In the
winter I go skating on the pond. We
have a cow and a horse on the farm. Our
cow is the. gentlest cow we ever had and
so is the horse. With love—Ella Smith,
Benzonla, Michigan, Box 213. Age 10
years. -: .

Dear Uncle Nedz—I live with my
mother and father in our home in Che-
boygan county. There are sunny hill tops,
and strips of low land where the cedars
and tag aldch grow, and a little spring
creek ﬂows through our place and waters
the cows. .IA mother bear and her family
came and took up their abode in our cow
pasture, they eat ants and other insects
and wild honey and wild fruits. They
hold down the branches of wild cherry
trees with their big black hands and eat
the cherries, many quarts of them and
get fat, preparatory to ﬁnding a safe
place for a winter home where they will
sleep until the warm days of spring melt
the snow about their house, and mother
nature calls her woodland children to
come and enjoy again their happy life.
——Arthur Sturgis, R2, Onaway, Michigan,
Age 9

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am ten years old
and I am in the 6th grade. I have one
mile to walk to School. I live with my
parents on a IZO—acrc farm. I have one
sister and four brothers. I like to read
The Business Farmer and we all enjoy
the jokes. puzzles and conundrums very
much. Mother likes the Farm Home De—
partment and also the. recipes. And
Father enjoys it all.—~I<lrnest F. IVallin,
Mackinaw City, Michigan, Box 91,

Dear Uncle Ned:—'I‘his is my ﬁrst let-
ter to you. I thought I would try my
luck on the contest. Hope I can win a
prize. I am 13 years old and go to
school every day. I am in the 8th grade.
I live on a farm and do most all kinds
of work. I must close and get ready for
school. Good bye Uncle Ned—Arthur
Johnson, Elm Hall, Michigan, care of
Fred Johnson.

 

A FEW RIDDLES

What thing is it that is lower with a
head than without one?———A pillow.

Which is the left side of a plum pud-
din27—That which is not eaten.

What letter of the alphabet is necessary
to make a shoe?——The last.

If all the seas were dried up, what
would every-body say?——We haven't a
notion (an ocean).

Why is it that “Uncle Tom's Cabin"
was not written by the hand of its re-
puted author?——Because it was written
by Mrs. Beecher’s toe (Stowe).

Why is a ﬁshmonger never generous?

'Because his business makes him Sell ﬁsh

(selﬁsh).

What is that which works when it plays
and plays when it works?——A fountain.

What is that from which you may take
away the whole and yet there will be
some remaining?——The word wholesome.

Why "are fowls the most economiml
things a farmer can kcep?—Because for
every grain they give a peck.’

What coin doubles its value by taking
away a half of it?——Halfpenny.

Why is it dangerous to walk in the
meadows in the springtime?—Because the
trees are shooting and the bulrush is out
(lbull rushes out). .

Why is a vine like a soldier?——Beca.use
it is listed and has ten drills (ten-drils)
and shoots.

Why is an opera-singer like a confec-
tioner7—Because she deals in ice cream
(high screams).

If a man who is carrying a dozen glass
lamps drops one, what does he become?—
A lamp lighter.

What belongs to yourself, but is used
more by your friends than by yourself‘b—
Your name. '

Why is a spider a good correspondent?
——-Because he drops a line at every post.

When is the clock on the stairs dan-
gerous?—When it runs down.

Why is the letter "it" like a. pig's tail?
Because it comes at the end of pork.

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15—Dress

18—0119 of Ithe principal divisions of our
not on

17—Oontractlon of ‘ever'

18—An exclamation (lnterrontlve)

20—Abb. for advertisement

21—— owa (nbbr.)

23-— outh Dakota (abbr)

25—Another beast of burden

26—A gmttonous term animal

29—Sister

31+Another beast of burden

34—-—Abb. for ‘established'

SB—Principal

31—Molars -

33-—9ivii Engineer

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BROADSGOPE FARM NEWS
AND VIEWS

(Continued from Page 7)

price of a year’s subscription.

The writer considers the adver-
tisements quite a valuable part of.
any publication. Some are very edu-
cational, and simply sending for
some of the free books, catalogs, etc.,
will often bring one a. fund of in-
formation not easily obtained else
Where . Yes, taking it all in all good
reading matter is the best of invest—
ments, and let me suggest that, after
reading your magazines, pass them
along to some one who. possibly must
do Without some quite necessary
things, including good reading mat-
ter.

III * It
Farm Light

Speaking of reading brings up the
subject of farm light. Electricity is,
no doubt, the perfect lighting system

ANSWER TO CROSS-WORD
PUZZLE NO. 4

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for the home, but not every one can
have it, nor is it necessary to have
electricrty to have good light. There

are excellent kerosene 'wick and
mantle lamps as well as gasoline
mantle lamps. Who should, have
better reading matter and better

light than the farmer? No one!
Just now one of my favorite late
editions seems to be calling me, as
I look toward the library table, so
you will please excuse me for this
time.

 

THE INDIAN DRUM
(Continued from Page 10)

The Miwaka! Tho stir of the name
was stronger now even than before; it
had been running through his conscious-
ness almos‘ constantly since he had heard
if. He jumped up and turned on the
light and found a, pencil. Ho did not
know how to spoil the name and it was
not necessary to write it down; the nzimo
had taken on that (lclinitcncss and inof—
fziccnblencss of a, thing which, once heard,
can never again be forgotten. But, in
panic that he might forget, he wrote it,
guessing at the Spelling—“Miwaka.”

It was a. name, of course; but the name
of what? It repeated and repeated itself
to him, after he got back into bed, until
its very iteration made him drowsy.

Outside the gale whistled and shriekcd.
The wind, passing its last resistance after
its sweep across the prairies before it
leaped upon the lake, battered and clam-
ored in its assault; about the house. But
as Alan became slecpicr, he heard it no
longer as it rattled the windows and
howled under the eatch and ovcr the roof,
but as out on the lake, above the roaring
and icecrunching waves, it whipped and
circled with its chill the ice-shrouded
sides of struggling ships. So, with the
roar of surf and gale in his ears, he went
to sleep with the sole conscious con—
nection in his mind between himself and
these people, among whom Benjamin Cor—
vet’s summons had'brought him, the one
name “Miwaka.” .

 

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in milk yield ~

The winter months are the critical period of the
year for the dairyman. The herd may come through
the summer showing a nice proﬁt—only to see it:
wiped out by a slump in milk production, or disease;

or both.

No need to suffer an annual dairy loss in winter.
By investing a few cents a day in KOW -Kare the
milk-making organs of all your cows will be invigor-
ated so that the strain of dry feeding will not break

down their production.

Kow—Kare is a medicine-tonic that acts di-
rectly on the milk-making organs, the digestion and
assimilation. It builds a permanent vigor in these
key organs, enabling the cow to thrive and milk to

capacity on the regular winter diet.

To use Kow—Kare is a sane investment. It is

Do You Have ~
A Sick Cow!

Kow-Kare has back oflt
a quarter-century record
ofsuccess in the treatment
of such cow ailments as
Barrenness, Abortion, Re-
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Garget, Milk Fever, Lost
Appetite, etc. It builds up
the digestive and genital
organs to a vigor that
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As an aid at the Calvlng
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the winter. The cost averages only about a cent a

day per cow.

Begin now with Kow -Kare. Your dealer has it
—-feed stores, general stores, druggists—in $1.25 and
65c packages. Order direct if yours is not supplied.

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Ads under this heading 800 per
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To avoid conﬂicting dates we will without
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Michigan. If you are considering a sale ad-
VIse us at once and we will claim the date
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Our herd bulls are International Prize Winners.
Stock of all ages for sale, at Farmers prices. Write
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Feed Horefords that fatten quickly.
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This is Eco-Sylv Belle Pietje from Serradella Farm, Oscoda, the ﬁrst cow in the world
to make a record above 40 lbs. of butter in
She is one of the outstanding producers of the Holstein breed.

in less than a your.

seven days and then increase that record

DAIRY and LIVESTOCK

(\Ve invite you to contribute your experience in raising live-
stock to this department. { Questions cheerfully answered.)

SERRADiELIiA FARM HOLSTEIN
IS CHMIPION

might be of interest to your read-

ers to know that the cow Eco-

Sylv Belle Pietje with a record

made last year at 4 years 1 month 26

days of 41.27 lbs. butter, 686.2 lbs.

Vmilk in seven days, and 159.73 lbs.

butter, 2804.8 lbs. milk in 30 days;
279.85 lbs. butter, 5755.5 lbs. milk
in 60 days, and a. strictly ofﬁcial. rec—
ord of 862.91 lbs. butter, 20,484 lbs.
milk in 305 days, this being the high-
est strictly oﬂicial record in the class,
has again freshened at 5 years, 1
month, 18 days and in seven days
has produced 41.51 lbs. butter, 684.8
lbs. milk thus becoming the ﬁrst cow
in the world to make a record above
40 lbs. and then increase that rec-
ord in less than a year.

This record was ﬁnished December
5th and the last two and a half days
were veriﬁcation test with the cow
under constant watch. -B. Jones of

.M. A. C. Dairy Dept., and Superin-

tendent of all Advanced Registry
work for all breeds in Michigan was
in personal charge of the test for
more than one full day.

This record stamps Eco-Sylv Belle
Pietje as one of the outstanding pro—
ducers of the Holstein—Friesian
breed. At 2 years, 4 months, 12 days
she produced 27.14 lbs. butter, 543.2
lbs. milk in seven days, 108.80 lbs.
butter, 2100.3 lbs. milk in 30 days,
and 203.90 lbs. butter, 4459.1 lbs.
milk in 60 days, an average of 74.3
lbs. milk per day for the 60 day per-
iod. Last year at 4 years, 1 months,
26 days she made' the record given
above for 7 days and her 159.73 lbs.
in 30 days, each standing fourth in
class for butter.

Her record was ﬁnished December
5th this year While last year her best
production started December 16th
making a period of 10 days less than
a year between the start of her ﬁrst
and the completion of her second 41
ll). records—Albert E. Jenkins

H VETERINARY
DEPARTMENT _ l

CHRONIC SCOCRING
I have a young bull, 18 months
old that is scoured bad all the time.
I got powders from a veterinarian
but does him no good. He started
to scour last" spring while on dry
feed. I turned him out on pasture
thinking it might help him out, but
he is just the semen He eats good
and drinks good but does not grow

any—J. T., Cass City, Mich.

HIRONIC scouring in a bull may
be a symptom of a variety of

 

 

 

conditions. It may be due to
intestinal tuberculosis. It may be
due to Johne’s disease. It may be

due to coccidiosis or to chronic di-
gestive disturbances. ',

It is not advisable .to attempt to

prescribe treatment for a condition
of this kind in the absence of an ex-

i

act diagnosis. First,;t‘he question of ,

tuberculOeis should be settled. This

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.odor, etc.

‘-1.t"t°ds¥5.m9 :4

can be done only by the application
of the tuberculin test. The diagno-
sis of Johne’s disease is a little more
difﬁcult and can be made only after
a careful study of the case by a. qual-
iﬁed veterinarian. The diagnosis
for coccidiosis requires a laboratory
examination. If the owner will send
to this department a. small portion
of the feces about the size of a pea
in a vial containing about two tea-
spoonfuls of water and add enough
Lugol’s solution of iodine- to give
the contents 8. distinct iodinecolor.
an examination for coccidiosis will
be made. Whether or not the con-
dition is due to chronic digestive
disturbances may be determined
after excluding the other possible
causes as suggested above.——E. T.
Hallman, Animal Pathologist, Michi-
gan Agricultural College. '

‘s'rERiLITY

I recently purchased a pure-bred
2-year—old heifer. The man said he
had bred her once but was really a
forced service as she was about over
the heat." I had her bred the next
day after I ‘got her home (took her
when she was in heat of course) a‘iid
had to take her again in two Weeks.
Now can you tell me of some home
treatment I can give her so she will
be more apt to catch, if I have to
breed her again? In 30 years ex-
perience have never had to take one
more than twice. She is in good
ﬂesh, not fat, perfectly healthy and
normal in every way.-—-A. I., Mt.
Pleasant, Michigan.

FAILURE of heifer to breed may
be due to lack of development

of some part of the reproduc-
tive tract, or it may 'be due to dis-
ease of some one or more of the re-
productive organs. A lack of devel-
opment could be determined by an
examination by a qualiﬁed veterin-
arian. Sterility due to disease of the
reproductive organs may be over-
come in from forty to eighty percent
of the cases but in most cases the
treatment is partly surgical and part-
ly medical and can be administered
only by a veterinarian rwho has had
some experience.

There are no simple home rem-
edies that are of much value. The
owner might try ﬂushing the vagina
two or three times a Week with
about one—half gallon of clean warm
water to which has been added a.
small handful of borax. If this is
kept up for three or four weeks, it
may correct slight vaginal or cervi-
cal troubles. If the trouble is in the
uterus of ovaries, the treatment will
have no appreciable effect—E. T.
Hellman, Animal Pathologist, Michi-
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eBranch Dairy-Alfalfa Campaign success

' - E longest series of extension
9 meetings that have been held in

Branch county for some time
was carried out during the first two
Weeks in December. Over 4‘00 far-
mers attended these meetings. The
special feature was that all meetings
were held in the barns where dairy
cow demonstrations were‘ held in
some cases along with the meetings,
and the method of ﬁnding, lime re-
quirements of the soil was also giv-
en. ,

In the dairy specialists’ talks, spe-
cial stress was laid on the value of
alfalfa and silage in feeding the
dairy cow, also, on the recent exper-
iments of mineral feeding at the
Michigan Agricultural College and
other experiment stations. After
the next consideration was the dairy
cow herself. In the past three years,

' the growth of Cow Testing Associ-
,ation work has been from 14 Associ-

ation to 114 Associations at the pres-
ent time. From these ordinary farm
records, it was found that over 10%
of the cows showed that they did not
even pay for their feed, which con-
sists of about one—half of the cost of
production, and about one-quarter to
one-third of the cows in the Associ-
ations did not make any returns to
their owners after deducting feed
and labor costs. The cost of belong-
ing to a Cow Testing Association was
thoroughly discussed, and it was pro-
ven to be a very good business pro-
position.

Following the Cow Testing Associ-
ation, the next most important item
in dairying is the introduction of
better sires so that a small owner
with some three to eight cows who
could not afford to own a sire could
yet have the advantage of a good sire
that would improve the production
of his herd. This Would be taken
care of by forming block Bull Asso—
ciations. It was shown that the cost
would be less than the way it is han—
dled now, and also be more proﬁta-
ble to the small owner as far as im—
proving his herd was concerned.

The alfalfa specialist made a sur-
vey of the growth of alfalfa acreage
in the U. 8., especially, the increase
in {Michigan during the past ﬁve
years which showed that we harves-
ted more alfalfa than any state east
of the Mississippi this last year, and
also, that the acreage will be dou—
bled within the next two or three
years due to the alfalfa campaign
which has been held in thirty coun—
ties of the state.

The next point to be discussed was
soil requirements for lime. Where
soils are acid, ordinarily two tons or
more of ﬁnely pulverized limestone
will be required, or its equivalent
in good marl, using about one-quar-
ter more than limestone. It was
found that many farmers in this
county have used from two to five
hundred pounds of hydrated lime,
being told that would be sufﬁcient
to correct lime requirements.

Along with liming, innoculation
of seed has been proven to be very
beneﬁcial to the starting of bacterial
growth on the roots, and the success-
ful growth of alfalfa. A good ﬁrm
seed bed was found to be more im—
portant than the time of seeding as
far as continuous growth was con-
cerned. Special mention was made
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that guarantee the source of their
seed. ‘

'The questions and discussions fol-
lowing each speaker Were worth pro-
bably more locally than the talks as
their own local conditions were
brought out and taken care of. Most
every case of crop failure was found
to be due to the lack of one of the
four or ﬁve main points in the cul-
ture of the crop. Sweet clover also
had its share of discussion, and far-
mers were advised to sow it where
soils were too wet for alfalfa, and
where quick summer pastures are
needed.

These meetings were put on by the
Dairy and Crops Departments of the
Michigan Agricultural College, in co-
operation with the local county agri-
cultural agent, C. W. Andrews. Much
interest was shown and it is believed
that a great deal of good will come
from this campaign.

1925 HOISTEIN CONVENTION A‘T
GRAND RAPIDS

. D. AITKEN of Flint, Michigan,

reports that Ex-Governor Low-

den, President of the Holstein
Association of America thoroughly
agrees to making the length of dele-
gate deliberation at Grand Rapids,
Michigan, next June, two days. For-
merly at annual conventions the bus-
iness of the delegate body has been
hustled through more or lees in one
day. Mr. Lowden, speaking for the
Board of Directors of the parent As-
sociation agreed to call the meeting
to order on Tuesday, June 2nd, and
ﬁnal disposition of all business can
then be made the next day, Wednes~
day the 3rd.

The sale following the convention
will be a one—day affair. Only sixty
animals will be sold, the consign-
ments to represent the tops of the
breed. H. W. Norton, Jr., Lansing,
Michigan, who is the Committeeman
in charge of the sale reports that
state quotas have been determined
and will be announced shortly. Ten-
tative ~Consignments of real Hol-
steins have already been made.

RECORD HOLSTEIN COW

NE of Michigan’s greatest produc-

ing dairy cows recently com-

pleted another record which
gives her the honor of holding more
state championship butter records
than any other cow in the state. She
is Traverse Colantha Walker, a pure-
bred Holstein, in the herd of the
State Hospital at Traverse City. By
completing a 30—day strictly ofﬁcial
record recently at eight years of age
with 3,148.9 pounds milk containing
125.19 pounds butterfat, equivelent
to 156.48 lbs. butter, this cow now
holds eight of the highest records
ever made in Michigan and two of
the leading records of the United
States.

In addition to the 30—day record
mentioned, Traverse Colantha Wal-
ker holds the highest state records
for seven days as a senior two- and
senior four—year-old, for 30 days as
a senior four-year—old, and for ten
months as a senior two-, senior
three-, senior four—year-old and full
age cow. Her senior two—year—old
production of 125.34 pounds butter
in 30 days and her ten months’ re—
cord of 914.1 pounds of butter made
at the same age have never been
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At the International Egg Laying' Contest of 1924, 10
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TWELVE HUNDRJED_ENTRIES IN
MUSKEGON’S POULTRY snow

NOWN for years as one of the
I leading poultry shows of the

state, the 15th Annual Muske-
gon Poultry Show, held December
10 to 13, has the distinction of being
the largest and best poultry show in
Michigan for this season. Over 700
entries were received of chickens and
these, together with the exhibits of
ducks, geese, turkeys, cavies and
rabbits brought the grand total of
entries up to the 1200 mark.

The quality, as well as the quanti-
ty, of birds shown was commended
very highly by J. A. Hannah, Poultry
Extension Specialist of the Michigan
Agricultural College. “The number
of birds showu and the quality of the
entries undoubtedly makes the Mus-
kegonl show the leading poultry show
in Michigan this year”, stated 'Mr.
Hannah.

White Leghorns were, of course,
the predominating breed of the show
but there were also large exhibits of
Rocks, Anconas, Rhode Island Reds,
and Wyandottes. Practically all of
the other breeds were also repre—
sented by excellent entries.

Th best bird in the show was :1
Rhode Island Red pullet owned by A.
M. Wood of Grand'Ra'pids. This win—
ning gives Mr. Wood possession of a.
silver cup, one of the most valued
treasures of-the show. This same
other massive silver trophy cups
awarded. as follows; For the best
cock, hen cockerel, pullet, and pen,
all of the same breed, in the show;
For the highest number of points
secured by an exhibitor, counting all
of the prizes won; For the best dis-
play in the show.

All of the above cups are awarded
on the plan of possession to the win-

'ner for one year and permanent pos—

session to the ﬁrst exhibitor who
wins them three times. Three of the
cups won this year by Mr. Wood
have been up for competition since
1918 and competition for them
grows more keen each year. Some
of the leading poultry exhibitors of
the state have secured one [and two
wins, each, on these trophies but, to
date, none has been successful in the
third, and most important, winning.
The remainder of the ten trophy cups
were won as follows; Best pen in
Akins and Noble of Muskegon; Best
solid colored pen, Buff Wyandottes
owned by Roy Strevel of Muskegon;
Best parti-colored pen, Anconas own—
ed by M. R. Elenbaas of Grand Rap-
ids.

The cup awarded for the best dis-
play in the production classes went
to Thos. Rozeboom of Muskegon who
had a. very ﬁne showing of white
leghorns.

Some mammoth specimens of
Johnson of Six Lakes, made up the
display which won the special cup
offered in the turkey classes.

Rabbits made up no small part of
the show. A Natural Gray Flemish
buck was awarded the cup as being
the best rabbit in the show. This
buck was owned by James Burns of
Grand Rapids.

Aside from the cup winners, given
above, there were many other prom-
inent exhibitors in all departments
of the show. Worthy of special men—
tion are the junior exhibitors 'who
are members of the. Boys Poultry
Clubs organized under the direction
of C. H. Knopf, the County Agricul-
tural Agent. The number of prizes
won by the boys includes several

'ﬁrsts and has awakened the older ex-

hibitors to the fact that they must
step lively to win their share of the
laurcls. There are no special Club
classes, the boys exhibiting in the
open classes in competition with all
comers. v

Fantail pigeons owned by Gerrit
Hoeker, B. J. Kesteloot, and E. C.
Erwin, all of them being Muskegon
fanciers, made up one of the best
pigeon displays ever shown in the
state.

Another special feature of the
show was the collection of songsters,
canaries and ﬁnches, many of them
being imported birds, shown by Joe.
Gould of Muskegon Heights.

Exhibitors of rabbits included G.
H. Sanford of Traverse City, Jan.
Burns of Grand Rapids, and  G.

   

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teresti’flg display of cavies was in-
cluded in the pet stock section. I.
Rezny of Grand Haven was the prin—
c1pal winner in the class for cavies. ‘

An interesting and proﬁtable poul-~

try institute was held in connection
with the poultry show. A very com-
plete series of topics in connection
with the poultry industry were dis-
cussed by J. A. Hannah.
cussions included everything from

diseases to culling and were given to.

attentive audiences. A model of the
Michigan-type poultry house- illus-
trated the talk on housing and at—
tracted considerable interest. ,
Credit for this very successful
poultry show goes to the Muskegon

and East .Shore Poultry Association. ‘

being fanciers living in Greater Mus,-
kegon. Ofﬁcers of the Association
kegon.—Carl H. Knopf. ‘ ‘

 

BAKING SODA FOR POULTRY
EAR Editor:—I wonder if the
readers of The Business Farmer

. know the value of common Bale
mg Soda for poultry?

' If the hens stop laying or are dum-
ping around and do not eat, just take
milk and water, 1,9 milk, 1/2 water.
and to one gallon put a tablespoon-
ful of Soda in it. Make them drink
by not giving any other drink, until
they get to feeling better, then give
the same once a week.

Your chickens will soon be all
right and hens laying. We lost so
many chickens this spring until we
fed them 'Soda, did not lose any
more. It is just as good for turkeys.

As every turkey raiser knows tur—
keys are like cattle. They will go
off their feed nad need something to
tone them up. Soda and water 1,4
and milk 1/2, will help them. I hope
some one else will try this.——-Mrs. R.
A. Smith.

 

RYE NOT GOOD FEED
FOR. POULUI‘IVX

We have 'got lots of rye and would
like to know if we boiled it and feed
the chickens if it will be all right?

~—A.' ‘D., Dighton, 'Mich.

YE is not a satisfactory feed for

poultry. I would suggest that

it be sold and wheat purchased
to replace it. The best use to which
rye can be put for poultry feeding
is for fall planting to supply spring
green feed—Clarence M. Ferguson.
Manager Inter. Egg Laying Contest,
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MONROE POULTRY SHOW
OPENS MONDAY p
’HE Monroe County Poultry As-
sociation will hold its big an-
nual Winter Poultry Show at
the Monroe Armory, January 5, 6, 7,
8, 9, and 10 “and the show will be
bigger than ever before in spite of
the fact that last year’s show taxed

the capacity of the building.

There will be the usual poultry
classes for which ribbon and cash
awards will be given but as an adri—
ed feature a number of special
awards are announced. These ex-
tra awards are in addition to the
regular awards for ﬁrst, second,
third, fourth and fifth places, in
the various classes.

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the most powerful argument in favor
of prohibition that they had ever met.

Another thing that made us glad
that we did not live in England was
the child labor which was so evi-
dent, especially in the cities. One
poor little David Copperﬁeld in his
tight-ﬁtting, high-collared and brass-
buttoned bell uniform—the inevit-
able extreme in uniform—jumped up
from the seat he had dropped into
for a moment in the hotel lobby to
oﬁer it to me, because I happened to
be standing near, and because I was
one of those “millionaire American.”
I had had a hard day and was tired,
and without shame 'I admitted it.

“I’m a bit tired too, sir”, the un-
dersized little ﬁfteen-year-old offered
after I had broken all the rules of
correct etitluette by speaking to him.

“When did you start work this
morning?” I asked him, for I de-
lighted to hear the real cockney
tongue, when it wasn’t necessary to
understand it.

“At ’alf pust six, sir,” he answer-
ed, and then told me he wouldn’t be
through until eleven o’clock that
night. ‘

He darted out to open the heavy
door for a perfectly able-bodied man
and then came back to his post with
his eye upon the lobby.

“You surely don’t work such long
hours every day, do you?” I was
astonished.

But the busy little fellow had dart-
ed up to take the burned out cigar-
ette stub from a lady who was stand-
ing smoking in the lobby. It would
have cost her a couple of steps to
have thrown it away herself.

“Oh, no, sir. Not every day, sir.
I only work this late twice a week,
sir."

He had quit school as soon as he
reached fourteen and his life work
had begun at the 'time when the
American boy is just beginning to
live. He needs the play and the
good times just as our owu boys do
for he is just the same as ourselves.
‘He is no different from the “boys” in
every state in the union for he smiled
at my surprise and said, “it’s all
right, sir, when you get a bit used to
it, you know",twhich is just what the
American boy says when he gets a
bruise or a sprain playing football,
but is a mere charitable attitude then
the average boy takes toward starting
to school in the fall.

But with all the things that are
disagreeable about London, many of
them are no different "from those
conditions which exist in any big
city. We are fundamentally farmers.
with natural prejudices against such
things, and I suppose that is why the

things of the city impressed us as
they did. We were impressed by
these things of the city, rather than
entertained or educated, just as one
American girl from one of our big
cities who said that all she got out
ofrural England in her motor trip
the, entire length of the island was

. r "9...; eneral impression of tiny farms
toned-neatly'oif with stone fences,

cutaway ’riousold trees, and

' be alrangell to

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Iti'r’wa's to see this'bea

we named "The Grey Goose", and set
out to drive. We had received an
invitation from Lord Greville, the
master of Heale House, one of those
magniﬁcent old English estates that
still grace the beautiful island, to
visit his farm if our itinerary could
include it. After
covering most of the southern shires
we appeared before the Arthurian
gates of the ivy covered wall that en-
closed his estate. At the end of a
beautiful lane there was another
artistic lane to the great manor
house itself. -

Lord Greville himself was not at
home, but he had instructed his “Ad-
mirable Critchon to receive the
American visitors, which he did as
only a perfect English butler could
do. The house had been built so
long ago that no one knew how old
it was, but there were records to
show that it was fully developed by
1600 at least. None of us had ever
seen a home so perfectly appointed
as this old English manor, but as
Dr. Bereman insisted, we all acted
as though we were “to the manor
born.” The butler led us to the back
door and, opening it, quietly ob-
served that it was rather a pleasant
view.

It was the most beautiful artiﬁcial
landscape setting I had ever seen,
and I compared it in my memory
.with similar gardens in Los Angeles
Vancouver, and Paris.

“’0 Have Some Tea

The master of the house' soon re—
turned and with Lady Greville and
his brother, Colonel Greville, served
the inevitable afternoon tea. We in-
terpreted the fact that they perform—
ed this service entirely without the
aid of any of the string of servants
that had quietly disappeared, as a
courtesy to us. After tea the master
of Heale House, who had just missed
being the Earl of Warwick because
he had an older brother to succeed
to the Earldom upon the death of
their father the-former earl, took us
about the farm and proudly showed
his.Berkshires, or his “Barks” as
they were called, his Dexter cattle
and the rest of his farm. We would
have enjoyed staying longer, but had
to hurry on to see “the rest of En—
gland". ' .

Stonehenge, that mysterious pile
of great stones on end, whose origin
has been the subject of wild guesses
for seven hundred years, lay on our
route. Great slabs of rock, some of
them over twenty feet high and rang—
ed in three concentric circles stand
upon that quiet hilltop. Across the
tops of some of these single rocks
are other huge slabs, weighing tons,
ten feet long or more, There are no
other rocks like them anywhere else
in that part of he country—where
did these come from, for they were
placed there by some people some-
time? For seven hundred years
scientists have been asking each oth-
er that question—and it is getting
later every year.

We drove to Straltford-on-Avon,
where the bones of the immortal!

Shakespeare lie; we visited his birth-‘

place where the records show that
72,000 pilgrims pay homage every
year—and scratch their names on
the walls and ceiling. “Tom Car-
lyle" and “W. Scott" themselves had
scratched their names on the glass of
the front window to prove to lesser
lights that they had recognized the
ability of the great poet themselves
and besides it is good business. We
visited Anne. Hathaway's cottage
where no doubt is left in our mind
that William courted and won the
lady, and ﬁnally we stood over his
grave in the little church and read
thebfamous inscription written on. the
s a :

“Good friend, for Iesus sake
forbeare

To digg the dust enclosed
heare;

Bleste be the man that spares
these stones

And curst be he that moves my
bones."

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nationalLive Stock. Show yatl Llexlggg-
ter, we turned the old Grey Goose
toward London and arrived thereon
the Fourth .of July. That part of it.

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Wheat Expected to .Go to $2 Per Bushel

Livestock Prices Continue to Advance

By “7. \V. FOOTE, Market Editor.

ARMERS are greatly interested
F in the recent request of the
United States Chamber of Com-
merce to President Coolidge to call a
conference on the stabilization of ag-
riculture with the view of promoting
economy in expenditure and reduc—
tion in farm taxation. “To some ex-
tent" says the report of the cham-
ber’s committee, “the farm acres of
America have a choice between pro-
ducing the traditional but unexpand-
able food, or being helped to devote
an increasing percentage of acreage
to production which supplies the lim-
itless market of industrial use. The
rapid extension of industrial produc-
tion, stimulated by science and inven—
tion, the demonstration of limitless
buying power of our people, should
he studied as a great avenue of op—
portunity for America’s producing
acres. Not shrinkage of output, but
intelligently planned production and
expanded markets should be the agri-
cultural aims that would enlist the
aid of organized business.”

To a very great extent Michigan
farmers are forging ahead along
these lines and intensiﬁed and diver—
siﬁed farming are being carried on
more than ever before, but. there is
much room for improving the gen—
eral plan of taxation, which becomes
more burdensome from your to year.
The year 1924 was one of much pros-
perity to the grain farmers of Mich—
igan, especially to the wheat farmers,
and it is safe to say that general
grain prices were much highm' than
had been expected. The new year
starts off far more promisingly than
its predecessor, but no one can tell
how it, will turn out. and all that
can be told so early is the probable
cultivated acreage of farms, such as
grains. It is always best to diversify
crops and not to depend too much on
a single crop, too many framers hav—
ing depended much too largely on
wheat in recent years. Many Michi—
gan farmers are largely engaged in
raising apples, peaches and other
fruits, as well as berries, and the
grape farmers are branching out ex-
tensively, prohibition having resulted
in an extremely large home. produc-
tion of wine and cider. As a general
rule, farmers are refraining from ex—
tending their farm acre age, how—
ever, and the most approved plan is
to produce more to the acre than in
the past. Dairy products are largely
depended upon in Michigan, and
poultry is a large source of proﬁt, as
well as butter. More than in most
states, Michigan farmers make the
farm produce as largely as possible
what their families consume.

A recent survey made by the Na-
tion Association of Real Estate boards
discloses the fact that better crop
prices have already brought about an
improvement in the market for farm
lands. There were more sales than
in 1923, more acres were sold, and
higher prices were paid. For the
country as a whole the gain of 1924
over 1923 appears to be 42 per cent
in the acres conveyed, and 65 per
cent in total consideration. About
half of the farm purchases reported
are by men who are buying for a
home and permanent business, and
over 80 per cent of the purchases are
for purchases other than speculation.

The Room in \Vheat

With a shortage of 760,000,000
bushels in the wheat and rye in the
world’s bread grain products for
1924 as compared with 1923, there
is a belief that breaks in prices for
the near furure will be followed by
recoveries. I'Spth grains are in a pe-
culiarly strong position because of
the statistical showing, and while ex—

ports of wheat and flour have fallen,

off materially in recent weeks, show-
ing a decrease from those reported a
year ago, they are quick to rally. In
short, the wheat trade, is in such an
unusual condition that it is difﬁcult
to realize, and while a large part of
the crop has been sold, considerable
quantity amounts are held for better
prices. News from abroad indicates

heavy importations of breadstuffs
from exporting countries later on,
and such countries as Russia, Greece,
Bulgaria, Italy, Germany, France
and the United Kingdom are expect-
ed to much heavier importers than
in past years. A shortage of 440,-
000,000 bushels in the world’s wheat
crop is indicated by the recent report.
sent out by the Department of Agri—
culture, the total crop being given as
3,300,000,000 bushels. Late Euro—
pean outside requirements of wheat
from outside sources are estimated
at 600,000,000 bushels. Flour shares
in the upward Whirl of wheat, having

,—

’ shot up 45 cents a barrel for spring

wheat ﬂour within ten days, while
brands of Minneapolis ﬂour mills sold
at $9.35 a barrel in car lots and at
$10.10 a barrel to the retail trade.
These are the highest prices paid for
years. Wheat has been headed for
$2 a bushel and has sold above that
price in some markets. It is certain—
ly highly fortunate for American
wheat farmers that at this time of
high prices the wheat crop of the
United States for last year reached
872,000,000 bushels, or 75,000,000
bushels more than in 1923, this hap-
pening at a time when importing
countries are so largely dependent
upon this country and Canada. Quite
naturally, the great rise in prices has
stimulated farmers to enlarge their
wheat. acreage, and the recent report
of the Department of Agriculture
places the winter wheat area at 42,—
317,000 acres, or 61/2 per cent more
than a year ago. Late sales were
made on the Chicago Board of Trade

~ for May delivery of wheat at $1.81,

comparing with $1.07 a year ago;
corn at $13.18;; comparing with 7." X;
cents a year ago; oats at 65% cents
comparing with 4474; cents a year
ago; and rye at $15834, comparing
with 73 V2 cents a year ago.
Corn, Oats and Rye

The unusually large exports of rye
from our shores to Germany and the
northern countries of Europe are
bulling prices, and they are far high-
er than a. year ago. Cats are rela-
tively lower than corn owing to the
large amounts marketed by farmers.
Corn has been marketed freely, and
some declines have occurred in price
despite the late government report
that the corn crop was only 2,457,-
000,000 bushels, comparing with 3,-
054,000,000 bushels harvested in

1923. Government ﬁgures cut down
the estimated corn crop 42,000,000
bushels from the November estimate.
Illinois and Iowa raised last year
412,000,000 bushels of oats, or 68,—
000,000 bushels more than in 1923.
The three northwestern states har-
vested last year 385,000,000 bushels
of oats. or 96,000,000 bushels more
than in 1923.

A Wisconsin farmer reports corn as
too poor to crib in many instances.
He says: “Many of the farmers in
our section are raising soy beans,
which have as satisfactory results in
fattening live stock, especially hogs
and lambs as this new corn crop. I
think it is cheaper to feed the old
corn crop, despite the big difference
in price.”

Winter \Vheat Acreage

The crop reporting board of the
United States department of agricul-
ture makes the following forecasts
and estimates from reports and data
furnished by crop correspondents
ﬁeld statisticans, and cooperating
state boards (or departments) of
agriculture and extension depart-
ments:

WINTER WHEAT—Area sown
this fall is 42,317,000 acres, which is

6.5 per cent more than the revised .

estimate of 39,749,000 acres sown
in the fall of 1923. The sowings in
the fall of 1922 were 46,100,000
acres and in the fall of 1921 there
were 49,787,000 acres. Winter dam—
age during the last ten years has
caused an average abandonment of
10.6 per cent of the acreage sown to
winter wheat. The abandonment has
ranged from 1.1 per cent to 28.9 per
cent in different years during that
period. Condition on Dec. 1, was
81.0 against 88.0 and 79.5 on Dec. 1,
1923 and 1922, respectively, and a
ten year average of 85.6.

RYE—Area sown this fall is 4,-
206,000 acres, which is 0.8 per cent
more than the revised estimate of 4,—
173,000 acres sown in the fall of
1923. Condition on Dec. 1 was 87.3
against 89.9 and 84.3 011 Dec. 1, 1923
and 1922, respectively, and a ten
year average of 89.4.

Visible Grain Stocks

Recent ofﬁcial reports show the to-
tal stocks of wheat in sight in the
United States at 96,823,000 bushels,
comparing with 98,079,000 bushels
a week earlier and 73,577,000 bush—
els a year ago. Stocks of corn in
sight amount to 13,774,000 bushels,
comparing with 11,273,000 bushels
a week earlier and 6,242,000 bushels
a year ago. Oats in sight aggregate
70,062,000 bushels, comparing with
68,430,000 bushels a week earlier
and 19,175,000 bushels a year ago.

 

 

THE BUSINESS FARMER’S MARKET SUMMARY

and Comparison with Markets Two Weeks ago and One Year ago

 

 

 

 

 

Detroit Chicago Detroit Detroit
Dec. 30 Dec. 30 Dec. 16 1 yr. ago
WHEAT—
No. 2 Red $1.88 $1.88 $1.74 $1.1
No. 2 \Vhite 1.89 1.90 1.75 1.12.
No. 2 Mixed 1.88 1.88 1.75 1.11
CORN——
No. 3 Yellow 1.30 1.24@ 1.28 1.31 .77 $6
‘ N0. 4 Yellow 1.25 1.22@ 1.28 1.26 .73 1/ﬁ
OA’l'S—— .
N0. 2 \Vhite .64 61 @62 .64 47 $6,
lw o. 3 \Vhito .63 .58@ .59 .133 A5 1A
RYE-
Casll N0. 2 1.51 1-49 3'5: 1 .37 .74
BEANS—-
C. H. P. th. 5.50@5.60 5.90 5.25@5.30 4.75
POTATOES-—
Per th. .93 .76 @ .83 .93 1.26 @ 1.33
HA 1—
No. 1 Tim. 17.50@ 18 22@24 17.50@ 18 22@23
No. 2Tim. 15@ 16 18@21 1561016 20@21
No. 1 Clover 15@ 16 17 @20 15@16 20@21
Light Mixed 16.50@ 17 20@23 16.50 @ 17 21.50 @22

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, December 30.—-Grain market unchanged. Potatoes ﬁrm. Cattle

higher. Sheep and hogs ﬁrm after decline in price.

gr Detroit and Chicago new” Live Stock Markets ‘Noxc Page.

 

The visible rye stocks amount to 20..
170,000 bushels, comparing with 19,-
180,000 bushels a week earlier and
18,570,000. bushels a year ago.
Packers Want Bacon Hogs

The Drovers Journal prints the
following from Janesville, Wiscon—
sin: Production of bacon hogs is be
ing developed by several Wisconsin
packing plants, including the Cudahy
company, Milwaukee. Contrhcts are
being made with farmers with the
guarantee of the following premium:
750 a hundred above the regular
market price for purebred York~
Shires, 50 cents above the regular
market price for second cross. and
250 above the market for ﬁrst cross
Yorkshires.
selling purebred Yorkshire boars and
gilts to farmers who desire to make
contracts. The bacon porkers are to
be marketed weighing from 180 to
220 pounds. The foreign demand
for quality bacon with lean strips
and the growing demand of the con-
surming public for lean pork makes
possible the premium offered for the
light and lean hogs.

War on Poultry Ills

Moving with unaccustomed speed.
Congress has appropriated $100,009
to ﬁnance a ﬁght against the out-
break of poultry diseases. The De-
partment of Agriculture will now de-
clare quarantines to prevent the
spread of chicken diseases. The de-
partment recently issued a statement
that there were no grounds for fear
that human health would be endan—
gered by the malday.

Cattle Market Higher

Much smaller Chicago cattle re-
ceipts than usual for Christmas week
brought about sharp advances in
prices, with sales of s‘eers at $4 to
$12.50, prime yearlings selling at
$11.50 to $14 and the best heavy
steers at $10.50 to $11.60. Stockem
and feeders had a moderate sale at
$3.75 to $7.25 and cows and heifers
at $2.50 to $10.75, while calves were
advanced sharply, bringing $9 to $16.
A year ago the best steers sold at
$11.75. Combined receipts in twenty
markets for the year to late date in
twenty markets amount. to 14,455,-
000 cattle, comparing with 14,485,-
000 a year ago.

Good Advance in Hogs

Much smaller Chicago hog receipts
last week were well taken at further
sharp advances, closing sales being
made at $8.80 to $10.80, comparing
with $8.40 to $10.30 a week earlier
and $6.45 to $7.35 a year ago. Com-
bined receipts in twenty markets for
the year to late date aggregate 41,-
894,000 hogs, comparing with 42,-
665,000 a year ago and 33,618,000
two years ago.

Lambs Bring $19.25

‘Meager receipts in the Chicago
market last week resulted in the best
lambs fetching $19.25, the highest
of the year.

WHEAT

Prices continued to advance nearly
every day during the two weeks end-
ing Saturday, December 27, and at
Detroit the total gain during that
period amounted to around 15 cents
The market appears to be as smug
as ever and bulls are freely predic—
ting $2 wheat in the immediate fut-
ure. Some dealers believe wheat
will reach this level by January lat
and possibly it will but it will ham
to advance rather sharply during the
ﬁrst three days of this week. Euro—
pean buyers were not very active in
the buying last week but the market
did not change in tone as receipts
were small and the visible supply
continued to decrease.

CORN

Corn has followed a different trend
than wheat, the price declining dur—
ing the last week instead of advanc-
ing. The demand continues inactive
and the market is quiet.

OATS
Declines in the price of oats were
noted at Detroit last week, the mar-
ket was quiet and the price dropped
3 cents during the week. The Chi-
cago oat market was steady and pr!-

ces reached a new high level for the.

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Rye followed the trend of the
wheat market and. prices are consid-
erable higher .than they were a cou-
ple of weeks ago.
at Detroit with the demand a little
slow and the market ouiet.

BEANS

There is a ﬁrm tone to the bean
market at Detroit and the price has
advanced from 25c to 300 over the
quotations given in our last issue.
H. E. Chatterton and Son, of Lansing
in a letter to the Editor advise that
the farmers should hold the bulk of
their beans off the market, stating
that if they do this and then market
them in an orderly way they can
practically control prices. Their let-
ter is published on page 9 of this is-
sue.

POTATOES

The cold weather is putting real
life into the potato market and the
price advanced several times during
the fortnight ending Saturday, De-
cember 27th. The market is ﬁrm.

HAY

Hay receipts were lighter last
week due to the bad weather at ship-
ping points. The demand is good
and market steady. Prices are
steady to ﬁrm and all advances are
maintained. Very little choice hay
is arriving and the demand for this
is strong. Lower grades are in am—
ple supply and move steadily in the
absence of better prices.

TH E III‘IES'I‘OCK NLAIiKETS

DETROI’I‘, llee. 30—-—Cattle—.—Market
prospects steady; (Irand ’l‘runk tru in late;
good to Clltil(‘c yearlings, dry fed, $9.756!)
10.50; best heavy steers, dry fed, $7.75@
9.50; best handy weight butcher steers.
3025613725; mixed steers and heifers,
3525617025; handy light butchers, 254.2569
5.25; light butchers, $4 ((174.50; best cows.
$4.75(<_i/5.50; butcth cows, .‘Sl.50@4.50;
common cows, $.‘lﬂil350; canners, $22561?
2.75; choice light bulls, $3.25@4.25:
heavy bulls, $4.25QES; stock bulls, $3.25 (in
4; feeders, $4.75mvc.25; stoekcrs, $52560
6; milkers and springers, $406060. Veal
calves-—Market steady and lower: best,
$16.50; others $861715. Sheep and lambs—.—
market prospects 25c lower; best lambs,
$18.25@18.50; fair lambs, $14.506015;
light to common lambs, $9@13.25; fair to
good sheep, $861‘9.25; culls and common.
$4695.50; buck lambs, $86017.25. Hogs——
Market prospects 10c lower; mixed hogs,
$10.75; pigs and light yorkers, $10.

CHIC AGO—H o g s—Receipts. 42,000 ;
market steady to strong to 15 cents
higher. Hulk, $9.25(u)10.60; top $10.80:
250 to 325 pounds, $10.25@IO.80; medium
weight, $9.50@10.60; light weight, $8.50(gv
10; light lights, $7.50l’tv9.50; heavy pack-
Ing sows, smooth. 380056010, packing sows,
rough, $9.25609.60; pigs, $761,825.

Cattle Iletwipts. 9,000; market steady.
Beef steers: (‘hoicc and prime, $107560
11.75; medium and good. $8.50faIIO; good
and choice, $12.50fwl450; common and
medium, $7609. Butcher cattle: Heifers,
$56010; cows, $3.50QU7; bulls, 350636.50.

 

Canners and cutters: Cows and heifers, ,

$2.25@4.50; canncr steers, $5607. Veal
calves, light and handy weight, $106214;
feeder steers, $5.50Qi)7.75; stock steers,
$5007.25; stocker cows and heifers, $3M

 

5.50; stocker calves, $5017. (Tzilvcs Re—
ceipts, 2,000.
Sheep and Lambs———Ileceipts, 16.000;

market steady. Lambs, fat, $17@18.75;
culls and common, $12.50@14.50; year—
lingS, $l4ﬁv.lﬁ.50; wethers, $10@IZ.50;
ewes, 38.506010; culls and common, $2.50
((05; feeder lambs, $15.50@16.50.

BUFFA LOW—(T :i t t 1 (g—Receipts, 275 ;
market steady. I’rime steers, 39.1061»
11.10; shipping steers, $9Qi/‘ll; butcher
grades, $7400.25; heifers, $450,708; cows,
$1.60@6; bulls, $2.75@5.25; feeders, $4.50
@050. ‘

Calves—dioceipts, 11,000: market active.
Cull to choice, $40012.

Sheep and Lambs Receipts, 8,500; mar-
ket active. Choice lambs, $17601850:
cull to fair, $10.50@16.50; yearlings, $10
($15.50; sheep, $3.50@)11.

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS IIIARKET
QUOTATIONS
Detroit, Tuesday, December 30

Applestonatliaiis, $2.25@2.50; Green—
lngs. $2; Snows. $1.75@2.25: western
boxes, $3.25.

Butter-wilest creamery, in tubs, 37@40c
per lb.

Cabbage—750ful$l per bu.

Dressed (Valves—«Best country dressed,
1640170; ordinary grades, IXGI‘ISc; small
and poor, tlmllllc; heavy rough calves,
80r9c; best city dressed, l8@10c per lb.

Eggs—Fresh—current receipts, 53@56c;
cold storage, 41 @42c; ’acilic
whites, 60@65c per doz. '

Live poultry—Best spring chickens, 41/;
lbs and up, 27@28c; capons, 7 lbs, 30((D
320; medium chickens, 260; Leghorns
200; best hens, 5 lbs and up, 27c; Incdl‘tun

Last week closed ,

Coast v

 

"hehsyﬁtrr lessens. .  from;
roosters, 16c; gain. 210220: ducks. 4%
lbs and Lp. white. 26c; small or dark.
23@24c: No. -1 turkeys, over 8 lbs. 446
45c; No. 2 turkeys, 35c; old toms. 35@ ’
36c per lb. ‘

Onions—$3 per loo-lb sack; Spanish.
$2.25@2.50 per crate.

Rabbits—ZIGJZZc per lb.

MICHIGAN’S FIRST ANNUAL
EGG SHOW

0 stimulate interest in egg quali—
ty there will be an egg show
held during Farmers’ Week at

the Michigan Agricultural College,
February 2—6, this year. The show
is to be held in the poultry building
and will be an annual event.

There will be six different classes:
Experiment Station and College
Class; Student Class, open to any
regularly enrolled student anywhere;
Commercial Class, open to hatcheries
or commercial egg farms, also hand-
lers of eggs, (8) Sub-class for any
contestant in the Michigan Egg Lay~
ing Contest or any Michigan party
participating in any other official con-
test; Demonstration Farms Class,
open to farmers, breeders and ten—
ciers; and Boys and Girls Club Class.

There is a. generous list of prizes
including poultry equipment, cups,
ribbons, and medals. The premium 1
list is now being prepared and will be'
ready for mailing by January 10th.

There is to be an attractive educa—
tional exhibit in connection with the
show to promote better egg grading,
packing and marketing; also to dem-
onstrate the health-giving qualities
of eggs.

If you are interested write G. D.
Quigley, Box 923, East Lansing,
Michigan.

 

BRANCH COW’ TESTING ASS’N
REPORT FOR NOVEMBER
HE ﬁfth monthly report of the

Cow Testing Association of

Branch County showed that 24
herds were tested, consisting of 296
cows, 245 of which were producing
milk. 10 cows produced from 40 to
50 lbs. of fat, and six produced above
50 lbs. fat, while ﬁfteen gave be-
tween 1000 and 1250 lbs. milk, and
three over 1250 lbs. The 'average
production for all cows was 531 lbs.
milk and 21.48 lbs. butterfat.

 

FARMERS HAVE MUCH AT STAKE
IN LEGISLATURE
(Continued from Page 3)

terest fund was intended to help the
poorer school districts and to insure,
insofar as possible, an equalization
of educational opportunity in Mich-
igan. .This fund has grown rapidly,
until today it amounts to about $14
for each child of school age in the
state. .

This large sum of money, totaling
many millions of dollars, raised
through the taxation of public util-
ities, inheritance taxes, etc., is dis-
tributed entirely on the basis of
school census Without regard to the
need of the school district for state
support. Two school districts of
equal school census population re-
ceive an equal amount of this state
aid no matter how they may differ in
assessed valuation or any other fac-
tors.

In View of this situation there are
many careful students of rural edu-
:ation who feel that the most needed
reform measure in regard to this pri—
mary school interest fund would be
some more fair method of distribut-
ing the revenue which it derives.
rather than proposals to increase the
amount raised without, any regard to
how the huge fund is distributed.

‘avor Meggison Bill

Many farmers have expressed
themselves as being favorable to
some such measure as the Meggison
bill or Escanaba plan, which was be-
fore the Legislature tw0 years ago
and which will no doubt be re—intro—
duccd during the 1925 session.

Truly the farmers have much at
stake in Legislative committee rooms
and on the ﬂoor of the Senate and
the House of Representatives during
the present, session of the Legisla—
ture. Our attention will be focused
with the utmost interest on events
occurng under the Capitol dome
during the next few months. '

 

We esteem your paper very highly. I
do not see how we could be without it.—
C. A. Mager, Ionia County, Mich.

 

I. am one of THE BUSINESS FARMER
readers and have found so much good in
it and like it very well.—~(.Ieo. Plotner
Gencsce County, Michigan. ' '

 

 

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ABORTION
BACI‘ERIN

DR. BEEBE

  

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Made under U. S. Veterinary License. No.
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Contagious Abortion. the worst enemy of "cryost-

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How mlktect

IndTrsIt Successfully Conta-
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onpory Blood Test til-t tell!
puttively whether your cows
Ire infected or 1101;. Write to-
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Amazing Results Secured In One Day
By Use of Virex Formerly Known
As Rattle Snake Oil

Deafness and Head Noises need not be
d-eaded any longer since the discovery of
a widely known physician. NOW it is pos-
sible for some of the most obstinate cases
of deafness to be ri-lithd in a day's time
by the application of a prescription for-
merly known as Rattle Snake Oil. This
treatment is meeting with wide success
all over the country.

Mr. D. M. Lopes, a Pennsylvania man,
says: "I used the treatment at night be—
fore retiring. The following morning I
could hear the tickings of the alarm clock
that I was unable to hear before. Now
my hearing is restored perfectly after
many years of deafness.”

Mr. Ben Jackson, who lives in Indiana
says, “Before I need Virex I could hear
nothing. After ten days I could hear my
watch tick.”

Angeline Johnson, a Mississippi resident
had been stone deaf for eighteen years.
She says, “Virex has stopped my head
noises and I can hear the train whistle
3%; miles away.”

Roy Fisher, Iowa man, says, “I hadn‘t
heard a watch tick for eleven years—now
I can lay my watch on the table and
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Mr. W. A. Lumpkin, of Oklahoma, says,
“After being deaf 38 years, I used your
treatment only a few (lays and hear
fairly well.”

Mr. Anthony Chapman, of Michigan,
says, “The terrible head noises have stop—
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back to normal.”

Deaf Baby Now Hears

Mrs. Ola Valentine, of Arkansas. says,
“My little boy, now 5 years old, had been
deaf since about 4 months of age. Now
he hears very well and is learning to
talk.”

Mr. Mather Pelleys says, “My young
son, deaf for years, has used Virex for
onlf three days and he. hears almost as
well as ever before."

 

 

Such amazing reports come from all
over this country and Canada. The pre— l
scription which is known as Vii-ex, is.
easily usod at home and sccms to work I
like magic in its rapidity on people of
all ages. .

So conﬁdent are we that Yirex Will re—
store your hearing quickly, and to intro—
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lion more sufferers, \\'t‘ will send a large
$2.00 treatment for only $1.00 on tcll days'
free trial. If the results are not satis—
factory the treatment costs nothing.

Send no money—just your nunn- and
address to the. Dale Laboratories, 1017
Iateway Station, Kansas City, Mo., and
the treatment will be mailed :it once. Use
it according to the simple directions. Il.‘
at the end of 10 days your hearing is not
rclievvd, your head noises gone entirely,
just send it back and your moncy will be
rcfunded without question. This offer is
fully guaranteed, so write lmlny and give
this wonderful compound a trial.»~—(Adv.)

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RATE PER WORD——One Issue 80. Two
Issues 15c, Four Issues 250.

No advertisement less than ten words.

_ Groups of ﬁgures. initial or abbrevia-
tion count as one word.

_Cas in advance from all advertisers in
this department. no exceptions and no
discounts.

Forms close Monday noon preeeedinz
date of issue. Address:

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER,
Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

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FARM LANDS

INVEST IN DETROIT RICA I. ES TA 'l‘ I*]——

I can show you how to make money in Detroit
real estate if you have a few hundred to invest.
My proposition will bear the closest investigation.
No trick. just :1 straight business proposition.
Imkc Shore Drive Realty (10., 1444 Harland Avc.,
Detroit.

 

 

FREE LAND IlOOK;——“10,000 NA'I'IHNAL
Form Bargains". \\'rite today. describing farm
wanted. Farm Hex-vim- Iliu'cuu. St. Louis, Mo.

 

 

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“’ANTICI): MANAGER FOR I’Iill‘I‘I‘IlHlIN'I‘
Il‘iirtu. Must bH experienced, capable of hand-
ling 77 acres specializing on inint raising.
Answer stating all qualifications. lotlcnt (‘hemicul
Company, 1011 \V. Lafayette lilvtl., Iii-troll.

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\VAN'I‘EllwwMARRIICI) MAN IlY 'l‘lll~l I'll/ll:

on farm. A good house {lllll garden iin.l good
\\':lges for the right man. “Tito or call Phone
134!” 3 rings. 1‘1. 1‘3. Stark, Manchester. Mich.

 

 

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\VAN’l‘lill—v—HIRL FOR GENERAL HOUSE—

work, a permanent position, good home, good
wage-s. Family of 2, no children. 5 miles from
Mt. Clemens, on car line. References. Write
Mrs. Annie ’l‘aylor, care of Michigan liumness
Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

 

 

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BEST FOR MICHIGAN,
Wolverine Oats.
Michigan.

 

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Address A. U. ('ouk, (hunt-it),

 

 

TOBACCO

HUMICSI‘I‘N 'I‘UIHH‘H: (‘IIICWING I-‘IYE
pounds, $1.50; (cl! $2.50, smoking ﬁve pounds
1.115; ti-n $23.00; pipe frcc. pay when received,

tobacco guarantee].

l'ailllt'ah. Kcniucky

 

'l'obdcw- ' ﬂowers let'lntllgc,

 

'I‘OllAl‘t'OA THREE YI-IAIt ULI) LEAF. 8 LBS.

chewingr $2.00; 8 smoking $2.20; 9 second
smoking $1.40. Pay for tobacco and postage
\\llcn received. Old Ilcnttspun l'o., lléth‘HVllw, by.

 

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pmmds $1.50 ten $2.50. Smoking five pounds
“51.25. ten $13.00. I'ipe l‘rcc. l’ny when rc-
reived. Satisfaction guaranteed. l'nitcd Tobacco
Growers, PI! ducn h, '3'.

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WE HAVE lllll‘ll) S’l‘lll‘lx' lll')lll€l“()ltl)h‘ SINCE

1860. Our herd bulls are luternatiolml Prize
\\‘lnncrs. Steel; of all ages for sele. iii Furnich
)i'iccs. \Vrilu- us for further inl‘ornmlion. Feed
Ieretords that l'Htten quickly l'rnpo Farm,
Swartz l‘rcek. Michigan. (X)

 

RICH. .lI‘IItHICYS. I'UHIS 00th til“ 11. 1". ANI)

Majesty breeding. Young stock for sale. llerd
fully accredited by State and Federal Govern
ment. Write or visit for prices and description.

tiny (‘, \Yilbur, Ilclding, Michigan.

 

 

HAMPSIIIRIZS SPRING IHHRS FOR SALE.

Place your order for Hilts bred to order. lltll
your. John \\'. Snyder, .\‘t. .lnlllIS. Michlg-lll,
Route 4. (X)

 

 

    
   
 

Imported M I l
with the self-balancing g; I
bowl. Positively cannot get
out of balancetherefore can-
not vibrate. Can’t remix
cream with milk. Runs so
easily, bowl spins 25 minutes
after you stnp er mg unless
J you apply brake.

  

 

Catalog tells all—WRIT!

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caution/310v“! “11:1! velbrntion
of the bowl causes cream waste]
80 days’ free trial -—- then, If
satstied, only $7.50 and a few
easy payments -- and -- the
wonderful Belgium Melons Sep-
arator layman.

Catalog F R E E

Send today for free separator boo'k
containing full description. Don t
buy any separator until you have
found out all about the Melotto and

detail- of our 15 your guarantee.
MELOTIE hﬂ-«f’iﬁfé‘lﬁaﬁ 32;, chicago
\VHEN \VRITING T0 ADVERTIS-

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gtniler $4.00 i‘.ll'll. Mammoth llmnxe 'l‘ur-
keys two yevrs old. I). . MeAvoy, Laingsburg,
Michigan, It-l.

 

lMltItICl) llllt‘KS lilll lll'HKY (‘tlt‘KICItllLS
stu, dard color, bred from great. layers. \V‘rite.
it ~ _\'. X l'. l‘llll'limn. l'wnlon lhll'hor, R3,
Michigan. (X)

 

\\'lll'l‘I'l \\ YANI)()T'I‘I‘IS¥VBOOKING ADVANCE
egg orders troni 8 quality unitings and utility
flirt-k, Slot-k all sold. Fred Berlin. Allen, Mich. (X)

 

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Michigan. 
GIANT BRONZE 'l‘llRKlCYS. HOLD BANK

strain. Choice ‘ heavy birds, large bone, well
null kl'll. S:ltl5f:lt'tltrll gum-uniced; Mi». I'crry
Nlclll‘llls, S‘H'ulinc, Mich. (X)

 

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Large vigorous. Attell Strain, one end two
year old stock. Mary Item-uni, Mariette, Mich. (X)

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old magneto points. (llscal'tlcll Jewelry and old
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How the Lowest Prices are Made for You

Our goods are bought for spot cash. Cash always
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