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BIG CROWD Eu: IONIA 
' FARM MEET

ULLY 2.600 farmers of Ionic
county gathered February 18th
at the fourth annual farmers’
day program, the best attended event
of its kind ever staged in a Michigan
city the size of 101119.. Three noted
speakers who spoke on problems con-
fronting the American farmer today
and how best they could be solved.

'were Aaron Sa-piro, Chicago founder

of co-operative marketing; Kenyon
L. Butterﬂeld, president of Michigan
Agricultural College, and Alfred
Vivian, dean of the college of agri-
culture of the 0' io State University.

Mr. Sapiro defended co-operative
marketing and told of its progress in
the past decade and its help to the
farmers. He said that too many
experts were trying to tell the farmer
how to grow two blades of grass
where one formerly grew and not
how to sell them and get a. decent
price. He spoke in high terms of
the success of co-operative marketing
and appealed to the farmers to make
it one of the vital means of solving
their problems. .

Mr. Butterﬁeld in his talk spoke
of the relation of the M.\ A. C. to the
farmers. He said the college would
launch a mammoth program the com-
ing year, if funds were forthcoming
on agricultural investigations and
studies as he maintains that. it is not
so much what the farmer produces
as it is what the consumer consumes.

Mr. Vivian gaVe a forceful talk on
the “Most Important Spot in the
World”, and portrayed it as the
American farm home. He said the
farmer fails to think enough of him—
self and his occupation, that what he
needs is faith in What he is doing.
And, furthermore, he said, a farmer
should feel mighty proud that he is
a farmer, because it takes brains to
work in the country that it does not
in the city. Anyone can get a job in
the city, but it takes intelligence to
run the complex machinery on the
farms today.

The day closed with a banquet by
the Exchange club with farmers as
guests, at which Alfred Vivian and
Aaron Sapiro spoke.

FARDIERS GIVE 10 EVVES TO
COLLEGE

EVEN sheep breeders of the state
Agricultural College radio broad-
casting station, WKAR, will

ed Black—Top Merino ewes in an ef-
fort to place that strain on a higher
rating among the sheep of Michigan.

The Black—Top Merino breed are

fast gaining favor. They have heavy
ﬂeeces of Ion ﬁne wool, ‘longer wool
than any ot er ﬁne wool breed. It
contains oil enough to give it a black
surface so when they are exposed to
the storms it protects the wool ﬁbers.

M. A. C. WILL BROADCAST
FARMER LESSON
EGINNING March 2 the Michigan
Agricultural college radio broad—
casting station, WKAR, will
start a series of 10-day radio exten-
sion schools on the subject of horti-
culture, gardening, farm crops, dairy
production, animal husbandry and
other husbandry and other subjects
of interest to farmers. The idea is
entirely new in Michigan but it has
been tried with great success in Kan—
sas and Iowa.

The ﬁrst school of the series will
consist of a complete course in agri-
cultural engineering with special ref-
erence to gas engines and farm con-
veniences. The schools will run on a
regular schedule ﬁve nights a week
beginning each evening at 7:15

‘ arate parts.

devoted to tractors.

‘Eastern standard time‘Vand continu-

ing until ‘8 o'clock with two lectures
during that period. '

All farmers interested in taking
the courses are urged to register by
mail with Ralph W. Tenny, di-
rector of short courses at the col-
lege, who is making all arrangements
for the schools._ All re- "rtered lis—
teners will receive printed copies of
the lectures with question sheets
from time to time and certiﬁcates of
completion at the end of the course.

TRUCK AN!) TRACTOR COURSE
, AT M. A. C.

SECOND Truck and Tractor

Course is being planned at the

Michigan Agricultural College
at East Lansing from March 9 to
April 3, according to R. W. Tenny.
Director Vof Short Courses. The ﬁrst
course is progressing very rapidly
and the boys report that they are re-
ceiving exceptionally ' valuable train-
ing; even more so than they had ex-
pected. I

The work is divided into four sep-
The ﬁrst week is de-
voted to stationary engines, in which
the principle of the gasoline engine
is studied together with the trouble
ﬁnding, and operating of the sta-
tionary engine. The second week is
This work con—
sists of operating, trouble ﬁnding, ro-
pairing, and assembling of motors.
The third week is devoted to ignition
systems, in which the student re-
ceived practical training in trouble
ﬁnding, adjusting, repairing, wireing,
timers, coils, spark plugs, etc. The
fourth week is devoted to trucks.
Here again the work consists largely
of operating, trouble ﬁnding, repair-
ing, and assembling of motor, trans-
missions.

The student should come equipped
with a one piece cover-all suit, an
adjustable automobile wrench, screw
driver and a pair of combination
plyers.

The principle expense is room and
board which may be secured in pri—
vate homes in East Lansing for $7
to $8 a week. Four weeks training
new will undoubtedly save a. big do—
lay and repair bill during. the coming
season.

PLAN HORTICUIJI'URAL SOCIETY
MIDWINTER MEET
ROBLEMS of the cherry grower
will be‘given ﬁrst consideration
at the annual midwinter con—
vention of the Michigan State Horti-
cultural Society at Traverse City
March 11 and 12, Secretary H. D.
Hootman of East Lansing announced
recently.

Cultural practices and pruning.
spraying and harvesting, and the outp
look for 1925 are among the cherry
topics listed for discussion here.
State and national authorities on
cherry growing have been secured as
speakers. -

The midwinter meeting usually
continues for three days, but it is
cut to two days this year with one
evening session. The convention
also is being held 10 days later than
in the past.

BERRY AND CHERRY GROWERS
TO FORM MARKETING AGENCY
T a meeting of berry and cherry
growers in the ofﬁce of Michigan
Fruit Growers, Inc., representa—
tive producers from the Paw Paw,
Coloma, Millburg, Benton Center.
Riverside, Sodus, Fair Plain and St.
Joseph districts voted to perfect an
organization which might deal with
the marketing problems of the small
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EXTEND CLOSED SEASON ON QUAIL

O the Editor:

At this time I might suggest a notice to your sub-

scribers to the effect that they should write to their legislators and
ask them to do all in their power to extend the closed season on

quail for ten years.

The farmers throughout the state seemingly have

- a uniform idea thatthe quail is the most beneﬁcial bird in agricultural
areas, and therefore should be protected. This would be a. particularly
badyeartoopentheseasononquailinviewofthefactthattheirfood

- has been covered with ice and snow.

There is a bill before the logis-

lature at the present time asking that anopcn season on quail be do»
clued—J. 'W. Stack, Associate Professor of Zoom, Michigan Agri-

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Farm Leaders

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1925

Entered as 2nd. class matter, Aug. 22,
It Mt. Clemens, M1ch., under act Mar. 3.

Oppose Changing Name of M.A.C.

“Let M. A. C. Remain College for Farmer, Both in Purpose and Name! ” Opinion of Majority, Few
However, Want Change So We Publish Both Sides

" HALL the name of the Michigan
Agricultural College be chang-
ed?” is a question that has re-

ceived much publicity in this state
in recent years, but at no time
has it been brought so prominently
before the minds of the public as at
the present. Alumni, students and
faculty members have been num-
bered among those who believe that
we should give the college a name
that will not only take in agriculture
but engineering, art and science.

Do the farmer and his representa—
tives want the name changed?

At the annual meeting of the
State Farm Bureau held during
Farmers’ Week at the Michigan Ag-
ricultural College, they adopted the
folowing resolution: “Resolved that
it is the sense of this meeting that
we are opposed to changing the name
of The Michigan Agricultural Col—
lege.”

Other farmer’s organizations have
taken the same stand on this ques-
tion, the State Grange having gone
on record as opposing any change.
Mrs.‘ Dora M. Stockman, lecturer of
the Grange declares that the farm-
ers do not want any change made in
the college name and this is one.of
the planks in her platform for re-
nomination as a member of the State
Board of Agriculture.

That the Gleaners believe the M.
A. C. should continue to use its pre—
sent name is shown by the state-
ment recently given out by R. L.
Holloway, president of the organiza-
tion. Discussing the movement on
foot to put a bill through the Mich-
igan legislature, Mr. Holloway de-
clared, “Evidently some people are
possessed of the idea that the desig—
nation of the institution as ‘agricul-
tural college’ is taken only to mean
an institution dealing only with a
limited line of study that can be of
no beneﬁt except to real ‘dirt farm-
ers'. We do not believe that such is
the case. The Michigan Agricultural
College is an institution known the
country over as one of the best of

year after year useful men who have
taken their places as efﬁcient ex cu-
tors and leaders in the ﬁelds of sci-
ence and educational activities as
well as in strictly agricultural enter-
prises. Its women have gone forth
and have made their mark in every
phase of activity, socially, economic-
ally and in the ﬁeld of home making.
Its courses of domestic art and
science bear an enviable reputation.

“The Agricultural Colleges of
other states are giving broad and
general courses of instruction not
only in things pertaining strictly to
agricultural activities on the farm,
but in the ﬁelds of domestic science
and art, and in the general sciences
including engineering of the various
kinds. This conception of what col—
leges are and what they have to give
is general. The people of every state
are familiar with these features of
agricultural college curricula. In
some states the agricultural college
is a unit of the state university, as in
the State of Illinois. In these cases
we do not believe there is any lack of
understanding or apreciation. On the
other hand we believe that the State
of Michigan has taken considerable
pride in the College at Lansing as an
agricultural and educational insti-
tution of the general type, and it
will continue to take pride in this
particular college. To give the Col-
lege a new name of no particular

signiﬁcance would be to rob it, as
it were, of its personality and make
of it a general institution."

Dr. Kenyon L. Butterﬂeld, the new
president of the M. A. 0., whose an-
cestors were pioneers in Michigan,
has declared himself in favor of the
change from Michigan Agricultural
College to Michigan State College.
He declares that while he believes
the work of the institution is far
more important than its name, he
thinks the name should if possible
stand for the scope of work it does.
In a recent statement to THE BUSI-
NEss FARMER he said “About one-
quarter of the students are in the
agricultural division. About forty
years ago the engineering work was
added and three years ago home edb-
nomics. Each of these ﬁelds of study
command the interest of about as
many students as agriculture. If I
felt that a change meant any letting
up of the development of agricultural
work here, I should be against the
change for I believe that the ﬁrst and
major task of the college is to serve
the interests of the Michigan agricul—
ture and country life."

Is College for Farmers?

A recent issue of the M. A. C.
Record contained an editorial on the
changing of the name of the M. A. C.
and in this editorial the statement
was made: “For years the farming
element of the state has been led to
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M. A. C. NOT FOUNDED

TO AID AGRICUI/I‘URE?

0 less an authority than the “M. A. C. Record”, the college paper,

questions the fact in their current issue!
the bag, so now we know from Where to start.

That lets the (-at out of
Road the excerpt

and our comment on the editorial page of this issue.

THEN WRITE AND TELL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IN LANSING
‘VHAT YOU THINK ABOUT CHANGING TIIE NAME
AND PURPOSE OF, THE M. A. C.

 

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Michigan Legislature Votes Down Child Labor

By STANLEY M. POWELL

(Lansing Correspondent of The Business Farmer.)

the Culver resolution which pro-
vides for the rejection of the
Federal Child Labor Amendment, the

{q DOP'I‘ING by a vote of 61 to 24

“House has passed another milestone

in the present session. The decks
have thus been cleared for focusing
attention on reapportionment, capi—
tal punishment, appropriation re-
quests, and the many other import-
ant bills now pending.

Members expresed great relief at
the ﬁnal setlement of the child labor
question. They confessed it was
practically impossible to get much
done while besieged by the army of
feminine lobbyists who were urging
the ratiﬁcation of the child labor
amendment.

Despite the passage of the gas
and weight taxes, there remain many
perplexing highway problems yet to
be solved. House and Senate leaders
have held a conference with Gover—
nor Groesbeck and it now appears
that a deﬁnite understanding has
been reached and harmonious action
will result.

It has been tentatively agreed that
after January 1, 1926 all trunk line
expenses will be borne by the state,
with the counties entirely relieved
from this burden. In cases where the
counties have suitable engineers and
equipment, the state could contract
with such counties to have such work
done by them, but the state would
foot the bill. A measure carryin out
the above ideas has been inlrndncod

  

in the House by Representative Fred
Ming of Cheboygan. .

In the 1923 session a. bill was pass-
ed suspending for two years the pay-
ments of state rewards on county
roads. Now Representative Eugene
Kirby of Covert has introduced a bill
which would permanently repeal the
law under which the state paid such
rewards on county roads.

About twenty-ﬁve bills to authorize
the construction of new trunk line
mileage have already been introduc-
ed, but it is doubtful if any of them
ever get out of the committee. It
now appears that a general bill
sponsored by Senator O. E. Atwood
of Newaygo, authorizing about 500
miles of additional trunk line mile-
age, will receive favorable consider-
ation. This bill has ben reported fa-
vorably by the Senate committee and
is now up for general action.

Plan Tax Reform

In harmony with the insistent de-
mands of Michigan farm organiza-
tions, the Legislature now seems
likely to pass bills removing the tax
exempt privilege now enjoyed by
large classes of bonds and placing an-
nual speciﬁc taxes upon this class of
personal wealth. Senator Vincent

Martin of Fruitpo‘rt has introduced
a bill providing an annual three mill
tax on domestic bonds and Senator

Walter Truettner of Bessemer would
establish a ﬁve-mill tax on so-called
foreign bonds, those originating out-
side of Michigan. Half of the reve-
nue from these two bills would be
forwarded to the state and the re—
maining half would be retained by
the cities and townships.

Another proposal agreed upon at
this joint tax conference, was the re-
duction in the number of members
of the State Tax Commission from
three to one. This will necessitate
a reorganization of the State Board
of Equalization, which is now com—
posed of the three tax commissioners,
the Commissioner of Agriculture and
the Auditor General. It is now pro—
posed that this board would be com—
posed of these latter two ofﬁcials and

the one member of the tax commis- -

SlOIl.

Feeling-that too much real estate
is being exempted in Michigan under
the guise of belonging to religious,
charitable or benevolent organiza~
tions, Representative Charles Evans
of Tipton has proposed a bill to sub-
ject such exemptions to the very
close scrutiny of the proposed one
man tax commission.

“There is now $515,000,000 of
property belonging to churches and
so—called benevolent and charitable
organizations that is exempt from

beneﬁt that M. A. C. was their par-
ticular property, that it was founded
to aid agriculture and that they
should retain control of its policies
and affairs. Of course this reasoning
is faulty."

Mr. Jason Woodman of Paw Paw.
Michigan, a man who is as well
known among the farmers as any
other in the State of Michigan de-
clares that he is one of the dema-
gogues mentioned in the editorial.
He writes, --“Until it is shown clearly
that the Michigan Agricultural Col—
lege is failing to carry out the pur—
pose for which it was founded, I am
not in favor of changing its name."

While Mr. A. B. Cook as an old
graduate of the M. A. C. would pre—
fer to have the old name retained he
states that “we all want to be entire-
ly fair to the students and the institu-
tion and if in the opinion of the legis—
lature the change will be an advan—
tage to the majority of the students
and of the institution, we will hum—
bly bow. If there is not too great a
sacriﬁce involved in changing a name
which has such great prestige and so
much tradition surrounding it as has
M. A. C. why ‘go to it’.”

A 1915 graduate, Mr. H. L. Bar~
num of Cadillac declares himself in
favor of changing the name of the
Michigan Agricultural College to
Michigan State College but one of our
readers Mr. E. G. Patterson, Gregory.
Michigan says “no” as in his opinion
it would be more confusing to have
two state colleges than the way it
is at present.

Readers Do Not \Vant Change

The referendum we have been con-
ducting among our readers indicates
better than 95 per cent of the farm—
ers want the Michigan Agricultural
College to continue under its present
name which is known all over the
nation. Farmers as individuals have
written us as well as County Granges
and other county organizations and
their almost unanimous verdict has
been “Let the Michigan Agricultural
College remain a college for the
farmer, both in purpose and name!"

Amendment

any taxation in this state,” said Rep-
resentative Evans Tuesday after his
bill was introduced. “That some
considerable part of this property is
used and operated at an actual proﬁt
comercially there seems to be no
room for any doubt. When that is
the case it should pay taxes as levied
upon any other property. Under my
bill the.state tax commissioner will
determine what property should be
exempt as used solely for church,
benevolent and charitable purposes,
and what part of it now exempt
should be taxed.”

When the measure to reduce the
tax commission to a one man depart-
ment, and one other bill to place re—
strictions and regulations on public
bonded indebtedness, are introduced
the complete taxation program will
be before the legislature.

The regular annual tax levies
would be collected on the actual cash
value of the stock of investment com—
panies that deal in stocks, bonds.
mortgages and other securities in
the ﬁnancing business, outside of
banks, trust companies, deposit and
security companies, and building and
loan associations, according to a bill
introduced by Representative John
Espie of Eagle.

Re-Districting Fight Looms

It is predicted that the matter of
legislative reapportionment will hold
the center of the stage in the near
future. Bills have been introduced

(Continued on Page 31)


 
   

 

 

 

» basis.

‘ a very

Future Locks‘Bri

/ Substantial Increase in Sheep Census of. Mithigan Expecteduto'Cont‘inue

 

PTIMISM reigns among Michigan
ﬂock masters. The somber hues
of the war depression which re-

.Sulted in reducing Michigan’s sheep
population from 1,545,241 in 1910 to
1,209,191 in 1920, and then to 1,-
115,000 in 1922, have given way to a
considerably more rosy aspect, as
wool and mutton production has been
placed on a much more satisfactory
Oflicial government statis—
tics for this year place the Michigan
sheep population at 1.171,000 with
an estimated wool production of 8,
000,000 pounds.

One of the most outstanding fea—
tures of the readjustment in the
sheep industry in Michigan is the
fact‘ that the recent increases in
sheep population have been repres-
ented almost entirely among the
ﬂocks of two hundred or less. Be-
fore the war there were several large
sheep ranches in the northern part
of the state, but most of these were
liquidated and have not since been
reestablished on anywhere near their
former scale. However, more num—
erous and larger ﬂocks are reported
on the average diversiﬁed tMichigan
farms.

It appears that a substantial in—
crease in the sheep census of Mich—
igan will continue, and breeders of
pedigreed sheep in this state report
good business on breeding
stock. Practically all of them have
disposed of all of thcir surplus rams
and the demand for breeding ewes
has far exceeded the supply.

()n Sound Basis

Agricultural leaders of Michigan
feel that the sheep industry in this
state is on a ‘wrv substantial basis.

Mrs. Dora ll. Htockman, member of

the State lloard of Agriculture and
Lecturer ol' the Michigan State
Grange. givcs the three following
reasons l‘or licr attitude toward
sheep for iVlichizran farms:

In the first place she points out

that this country produces only about
half enough wool for its require—
ments. 1

In the second place, she calls at—
tention to the large amount of waste
land in Michigan which is quite suit—
able for sheep production but which

By STANLEY M. POWELL

(Lansing Correspondent of The Business Farmer.)

is not so Well adapted for general
agriculture or growing other types
of live stock. '

In the third place, she shows that
the growing of sheep either for mut-
ton or wool is one of the best ways
of solvii  the very perplexing labor
problem which confronts the farmers
of Michigan.

It must be remembered that with-
in the last twenty—ﬁve years Michigan
has experienced a decided industrial
revolution and that it has changed
Within this generation from a state
that was tWO-thirds agricultural and
one—third industrial, to a common—
Wealth about one-third agricultural
and two—thirds industrial. The phe-
nomenal growth of the manufactur—
ing industry, particularly as regards
automobile manufacturing, has made
the farm labor situation very cute in
this state, and Michigan farmers are
ﬁnding the production of farm ﬂocks
one of‘ the most efﬁcient aids in keep-
ing down weeds and making econom—
ical use of pasture and home grown
feeds. ' It is-a fact commonly appre—
ciated that sheep require far less
man labor than dairy cattle, swine or
poultry.

Michigan ﬂock masters are largely
interested in the production of dual
purpose sheep which will produce
both mutton and wool. it is evident
that they are annually
more interested and intelligently in—

 

becoming ~

formed as regards the quality of the
wool produced. ‘

Perhaps one of the big factors in
causing this state of affairs has been
the annual wool pools conducted by
the Michigan State Farm Bureau.
From their experience in selling wool
on a graded basis, Michigan wool
producers have discovered that not
only does the quality and grade of
wool vary considerably from 'ﬂock
to ﬂock, but also within any given
ﬂock there are often several grades
of wool. The realization of this fact
has led the growers to a more care-
ful study of the sires used and of"
the selection of the breeding ewes. --
_ In the spring of 1924, a school for
sheep men was held at the Michigan
Agricultural College at which a rep-
resentative of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture Was‘present and gave
instructions as to the Federal wool
grades and standards. The interest
among the Michigan sheep men on
this subject was so great that Mr.
Vern Freeman, Extension Specialist
in Animal Husbandry, of the M. A.
C., has annouced that during the
coming season he will hold a series
of local wool schools over the state.
He reports that it is relatively easy to
get the growers to judge accurately
as to length of staple and density of
ﬂeece, but the matter of estimating
ﬁneness of fiber appears more difﬁ—
cult for the layman.

 

 

A ﬁne ﬂock of sheep belonging to B. “’ilkins, of Plymouth.

Few farms do not have

a place where at least a small ﬂock- of sheep could be raised proﬁtably without inter-
fcrring with other work.

;

5

There is another factor of far-
reaching importance to the sheep in-
dustry’ in Michigan, which should be
noted. At the suggestion of the Ani-
mal Husbandry Department of the
Michigan Agricultural College, sev-
eral of the leading county fairs in
this state took a forward step by
concentrating all of their premium
money for sheep on ﬁve or six of the
most popular and practical breeds—
Shropshires, Oxfords,. Hampshires,
those chosen in most counties being
Rambouillets and Merinos. Other
breeds especially prominent in a
particular county have some times
been given recognition.

This move to concentrate the pre-

mium money on a few good practi—

cal breeds has the general approval
and backing of the bonasﬁde breed-
ers, but of course, it has-raised a
tremendous amount of opposition
from the specialty men who like to
carry around a whole menagerie 'of
freak. breeds to the local fairs and
absorb a large portion of the pre—
mium funds. The men who grow the
sheep which they exhibit are gener-
ally favorable to the ruling, but the
other class of exhibitors is kicking
loudly and it'is somewhat of a ques-
tion at present What the ultimate
outcome will be. \ '
College Has Fine Flock

The Michigan Agricultural College
is practicing what it preaches and is
concentrating its attention on the
breeds above mentioned. The Col-
lege maintains relatively large ﬂocks

of rShropshii-es, Oxfords, Hamp-
shires and Rambouillets. Smaller

ﬂocks of Southdowns, Cotswolds and
Dorsets are maintained for class—
room work. An eighth breed has
just been added to the 'College ﬂocks
and comes as a result of the progres-
sive action of the Michigan breeders
of Black Top Delaine Merinos. Pro—
minent exponents of this breed in
Michigan got together and agreed to
each one donate one or two outstand—

ing individuals to form the nucleus”

of a College ﬂock.

Under the leadership of Professor
George Brown of the Animal Hus-
bandry Department of the College,

(Continued on Page 22)

American Farm Boy Learns How Hollanders Practice ,Intensiﬁed Farming

By FRANCIS A. FLOOD

In Our Ii‘cbrnary lltb issue Mr, Flood
told us about the day he spent in Amster—
dam, Holland. in this article, thc tcnth
of his serics on l‘IlH'H-[n-nli tram-ls. he tclls
us more about his cxpcricnce in the “land
Of the llyim: Dutchman."

1641 A. 1).. a man by the name
‘ of J. lC‘x'elf-Jn wrote of Amsterdam,

“Prodigious it is to consyder the
multitude of vessels which continual-
ly ride before this citiy, which is cer-
tainly thc lilost busic concourse of
mortalls now upon the whole earth,
and the most addicted to commerce.”

Whether Mr. Evelyn‘s information
was as far off as his spelling I do
not know. but the Amsterdam water—
front ou the picturesque Zuidcr Zee
is indeed a “busie concourse of mor-
talls” yet today.

The pedestrians crowd themselves
off the sidewalks and ooze out into
the crooked, cobbled streets. and
clump along in their wooden shoes
like shod horses :on pavement. Shop—

.: herd dogs, (ircat Danes. Collies. and

. just big “dawgs”

' . ﬂowers.

’ bicycles

 

 

hitched up singly,
in pairs, or in threes and tours.
strain into the collar and drag milk
carts, vegetable wagons, laundry.
coal. groceries everything
that is moved in a city, milling about
among the crowds as patient and as
bored as the draft horses in our own
big cities.

And the bicycles! We were told
that Copenhagen, Denmark. has more
and telephones per capita
than any other city in the world.
With the rural lines in our own coun—
try sagging down with gossipers, and
every party line a broadcasting sta—
tion with a dozen listeners—in to ev—
ery conversation, it seems hard to be-
lieve there could be more bicycles in
fessional men, brisk business men,
Copenhagen. Old men, digniﬁed pro-
elegantly—dressed ladies, ﬂappers,
grandmothers—everyone rides a bi—
;cycle in Holland, and what little
.it ‘

 

      

room there is left in the streets is
cluttered up with these silent: hordes
of cyclists that are so hard to dodge,
and with whom it is so hard to be—
come angry.

After one has ﬁgured out the ped—
estrians, the dog carts, the bicycles.
the usual number of street hrs and
an occasional automobile, and dares
attempt to cr ss the street, he finds
in desperation that there is still an-
other style of street trafﬁc that he
has yet to dodge the boats! Yes.
boats and barch continually sail up
and down the busiest streets of Am-
sterdain.

You may leap in desperation for a
friendly bridge over a canal in the
middle of the street —~~ and see it
slowly rite. strai'rht up in the 2131' be—
fore your eyes. to allow a ‘r-zv bizrgie
1o float lit‘l‘:(‘i‘3ll. And crowding
about you waiting for it to come

 

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down are the bicycle fleets. the big
dogs, the wooden—shod children, and
the automobiles and street cars, and
one almost longs for the peace of
l;roadway's elevated and subways
and hurrying surface trafﬁc. He
may cry with Edmund Burke “Gen—
tlemen may cry ‘l’eace! l’cace!’ but
there is no peace.”

During my gumboot days on_ my
irrigated homestead in Wyoming, I
had become reconciled to seeing the
creeks and britges on the tops of
hills instead of in the valleys, but to
see big ships standing outside my ho—

tel window and even gliding along
above the level of my head as I

stood on the street—that Seemed like
it was too much, even for Europe!
of course, all the countryside of Hol—
l.=r‘.d around Amsterdam, Rotterdam,
he Hague, llaarlem all is below
the level of the sea which is held

 

 

 

 

Harvesting a. crop of cutaway seed in Holland. One man follows the mower with a.
hand cradling device to assist in hand binding later on. ,

back only by the huge dykes,
“dams” of Holland.

lmagine if you can—and you can’t
for I tried it before _[ saw it and re—
alized later how impossible of imag-
ination it is—imagine if you can rid—
ing for miles and miles through a
beautiful fertile country as level as
a floor, shut in on all sides by a hori-
zon as chn and level as though you
were at sea. That is the west coast
of Holland, miles and miles of gar-
den and all below the level of the
pounding waves of the ocean.

We were taken out in cars by
some representatives of the Dutch
department of agriculture, and we
drove to Haarlem. The whole area
lies in What is called the “Haarlem—
nun-meet“ or iiaarlem Lake Area.
Four hundred years ago between
llaarlem and Leiden were four lakes.
These spread, reached each other and
by the middle of the nineteenth cen-
tury had formed one lake of 44,000
acres, called “VVaterwolf” which
threatened to swallow the cities of
Ilaarlem and even Amsterdam.

What to do? This was only about
70 square miles, a couple of town-
ships as we would look at it, but to
the Hollanders, whose whole country
is smaller than our national park
area, it was a large territory of land.

ISimple enough! They voted to
make the lake dry.

First the, built a big dyke around

the

the lake 3. id made a highway system

on top of that. Then they dug a canal
clear around the outside of the dyke.
Then they simply pumped the lake
dry and dumped the Water into the
ocean! ' ’

It took nine years to build the
dy'kes and canals, and then it took

3 four solid years to pump the water

out. Then a network of canals and
dykes and pump stations and roads
were built on the dry lake bed an
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FOR EVEWYONE.——Tlle deer hanging back of these GRANDMA. -—LuVerno
“This pic- G. Bulemore, of Lennon,
dressed “Shep” all up nice
and then took his picture.

A DEER.
men prove that farmers can ‘do something besides farm.
ture was taken during our 1924 deer hunt in the upper peninsula,”
writes Vernord \Vood, of Alma.

'Jt

good time at St. Mary’s Lake”,
l’entwater. “'ho eould think of
sultly summer day?

a better

 

 

 

 

 

sending us this pieture. Cotswold. George."

 

 

“COME ON IN THE “'ATER’S FINE.”—“Just having a. real
writes Mrs. George

Aubrey, of
way to enjoy a

 

OPENING THE ROADS FOR TRAVEL.—“This “TEACHING THE WOOLY CREATURE NAUGHTY HAVING A GOOD TIME.——Geo. A. Kim'—
is how we dig out up here in northern l\.lichigan", TRICKS.”—Thut is what Curl l)e\\'itt, of' Brookside Farm, miller. of Auburn, sent this pieture. to us.
writes Bliner van der Heide, of Central Lake, “‘heeler. says he is dong here. The sheep is a pure bred He says the title, is “John and his dog,

 

()RPIIANS. These lambs, both -“OUR BOYS AND THEIR TEAMS’K—Ta‘ke the boys in partners with you or A MICHIGAN SAPSI'CKBIL—Edwin,
f: ‘2, orphans and fed 0“ the POtUG, Elvedheln something that will ho!(l their interest on the farm is one way of the son of Mr. and Mrs. (ii-nee Luntz,
\ 5 turned out to be the largest In the keeping the boys with you. Note the happy and proud look on the faces of the of Charlotte, likes the Hill! fresh from

ﬂook of J. \V. B‘ossard, Brown City. boys of Frank L. Hull, of l‘llwell. and tell us if we are not right. the trees.

   

 

 
  

THE TRAINS 0F FOBTY YEARS AGO.-—A f l '
interesting but I think he missed one of the biggzls'tosghfi‘gstgon at drew 8 genes
Few thrills equalled it. Wood was used for fuel In lsas‘and in the picture on the left you Will notice “"3 “ma” is loaded With it'
of the ﬁrst passenger traln to Loki City, Mich., December, 1895. We are indebted to Mrs. Ernest Gould, of Alma, for the above pictures.
readers older pictures than these? i you have, send them in so that we can print them on this page-

 

 

 
 
 
 

 

(WO W $5 for “0h “ﬂak picture used on our cover and give a one year renewal for each picture used on this page. Pictures must be sharp and clear.)

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of cartoons under the title of “The Thrill of a, Lifetime" and they were truly
by not drawing a picture of a country lad taking his ﬁrst ride on atroin like one of the above.
The picture” on the right is
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‘ are buying.

(Continued from Feb. 14th issue.)

" ARIA,‘ says I, a couple of even-
ings later as I had pulled off
my boots and slid my feet

into the red sneakers that I bought
at the bazaar, didn't you wimmen
read a lot about Mexico when you
had that Chautauqua study circle in
your club?

“Not only did we read William,
but we talked it all over. What do
you want to know?"

"Wall, I s’posed you did talk, the
way you used that telephone plan-
ning the last meeting,-———-—”

“Never mind, William, what do
you want to know,” rebuked Maria
and I could see that I had made her
riled.

Well, I told her how Hank Peters '

had shown us a letter at the last
AngCultural Society meeting, de-
scribing a chance he had to get in
on a good thing in a Mexican silver
mine. It seems as tho Hank had
written to a fellow in New York once
about an advertisement on curing
disease by taking exercises. This
fellow, Sowbody or something like
that, had a new system and Hank
that it might help his game leg a
bit. You know Hank aint so active
as I am. Being Justice of the Peace
is kinda conﬁning except at mail and
election time.

However, Hank tried the exercises
and they seemed to help him, so he
was all for this man. I told him I
could have given him the same stuff
for nothing but he wouldn’t believe
me.

"What’s exercise got to do with
Mexico”, snaps Maria. “Well, I’m
leading you up to it, so calm your-
self”, says I. You see this fellow
wrote Hank a long letter calling his
attention to a silver mine he had
bought a big interest in. Because
Bank had taken that course the fel-
low was going to let him in on a
good thing again. Besides the fel-
low was a bit short of money and if
Hank wanted to send $100 he might
get rich. This athletic fellow claim-
ed in the letter to have made $3,—
000,000 on a $20,000 investment and
was sure Hank could do as well.

Then there was a map and a line
about the “Valencia”, which was the
name of the mine.

On the other page was a lot of
stuff about the encyclopedia Britian-
ica and it' was sure good. Hank had
the hunch it was 0. K. and we all
argued about the trouble they was
having down there and the meeting
busted up without getting to the
regular program.

“Well”, says Maria, “whats that
mine and what was those page num-
I want to ﬁnd out about that
as we never had that in our study."

“Dinged if I know”, I admitted.

“Get Hank on the phone and ﬁnd
out”, was Maria’s ﬁrm but gently
way of expressing herself, which
meant I was soon talking to Hank.

We got the page and soon was
reading how this mine was the old-
est and richest in Mexico. Maria
begun to get enthused. She called

{ Hank again and checks up on me
v . and I began to think we was going
' into Mexican mining business.

“William, you made such a ﬁne

. deal on your venture in nitrates",

says Maria, as we was going to bed
and she was putting on the last paper
curler. “Now here’s s mething we

, know about and it looks to me like
‘ it ought to be worth while.

You go
in and see Hank in the morning and

' if its good better use some of that

four percent money and make a real
investment.”

Early next morning I was down to
Banks. He had just opened the of-
ﬁce and was sweeping out. You see
Hank being an ofﬁcial of the county,
has a little ofﬁce two doors south of
the court house.

I soon was talking about the sil-
ver mine. We was just about ready
to sign up when I happens to think
of Charley Stanton. “Say, Hank,
would you mind letting me take those
papers a while”, I asks. Well, I ar-
rived at the judge’s ofﬁce when he
was sweeping out too. Showed him
the papers and told him what I had
in mind. He read them over. Then
he began to laugh.

“Bill, you just got to be a sucker,

. don’t you ?”

"Not exactly”, says I.“What's up?”
"Well, maybe this mine in Mexico
thats the worlds greatest silver mine
is all there, but that isn't what you
See this map? Your
mine is next to it. The one you are

~-.u‘omg to buy. in. tow the "Valencia" *
I I ‘ ‘,. ' '. f?

How Bill Backed the Tiéer

 

A Farmer's Experience With Slickers, Shysters'and~'Crooks
By WILLIAM EDWARDS

 

 

THE STORY TO DATE ,

ILL EDWARDS, retired farmer, has started to tell his story about
how he and others in his community bucked the grafters. It
seems that Bill had left the farm after making his stake and Was

living in, case. He had invested in Iliberty Bonds during the war,
learned a few things about ﬁnance and thought he knew a lot more.
So when he had a, chance to invest in a sure thing, which a clever sales-

man proposed, he jumped in with both feet.

Just about the time Bill

thought he had the world by the tail he was called into the local bank
to meet a note which the salesman told him would not have to be paid.
Bill paid, but didn’t forget the trimming. Because he took the trouble
to see a lawyer and ﬁnd out about the matter and then advised others
on the subject, Bill soon became the local aid to the man in trouble

and that explains how he managed to get in on all the grief.
helped his wife get out of the clutches of an easy money artist.

He even
At a

meeting of the local Agricultural Society Bill ran into another scheme

and his account of it follows.

 

 

while the world beater is the “Valen-
ciana”, lots of diﬁerence.”

“Charley”, says I, “you got me
wrong, its Hank Peters that’s buying,
not me. I wanted to ﬁnd out for
sure. Thats why I came to you",
and I pulled out my check book.

Well, it was worth the ﬁve bucks
to have the laugh on Hank. When
I showed him the difference he was
sure thankful and told me I am a
smart one. Next time Hank says
he’s going to ask me about things
ﬁrst before he tells the rest of the
boys. But Maria wasn’t as easily
put off. She blamed me for telling
her the wrong name” and maintained
she was suspicious all the time, but
of course I never told her I spent
$5 for legal opinion or she sure
would have been hot.

Meanwhile, Hank got letters from
his New York friend every week and
the physical director always has a
new get rich quick deal for Hank,
but Hank don’t bite.

Not long afterwards, one morning
Bob Smith, that’s the oldest of the
boys who is working our place, came
to me and wanted advice. Bob’s a
good boy but kind 0' head strong.
I knew something was wrong.

Mrs. Bob had been raising a lot
of chickens that summer. She was
going to do a lot of things with the
money she made and I had been
helping her by ﬁxing up fences and
building a chicken house that would
shed water when it rained.

Well, she was selling a lot of eggs
and got a good price for the ﬁrst
cases. It seems that she had been
taking them to the Wright grocery
but a fellow, Diver, had opened up
the Reliable Produce 00., in the old
Knox Building. Diver went about
the country offering extra fancy
prices and soon had all Wright’s bus-
iness. He’d give a check for the
eggs every time he bought them and
the wimmin liked that. They got
the money, you see.

Mrs. Smith, the week before, had
sold him three cases of eggs, took
a check and when Bob went to town
he took the check into the bank and
Harper took one look at it and says,
“Oh, did you get stuck on Diver
too?”

“Stuck”, says Smith, “what d’ye
mean?"

“Well, I mean that Diver’s dove
and there isn't any money to pay
that check. Let's see, that makes

$547.50 he’s skinned out with to
date.”

So Smith had come to ‘me as he
didn’t want to tell the Missus she was
out the $15 she was supposed to get.

I went to town that afternoon and
did a little detecting. "Diver, who
had stayed at the Jackson House,
left early in the week, the clerk
said, and was to be back the next
day. He didn’t come and when they
investigated they found he had left
an old trunk with nothing in it. Be-
sides he owed a board bill. When
I got Hank on the job we found that
the rentals at Knox’s was unpaid for
a month and all they was at the Shop
was a few empty egg cases. We
found a few letters and tags and by
writing to Chicago found out that
the last shipment of eggs had been
paid for, the draft going direct to
Diver. Well, before we got thru in-
vestigating and had the Weekly Sun
write it up, we discovered that Diver
had taken out close to $1,000 from
Jackson City and surrounding terri-
tory. The editor of the Weekly Sun
ﬁnally got a letter from Indiana that
said Diver corresponded to the de-
scription of a fellow that had pulled
the same gameon' their town.

So Mrs. Bob is wiser about selling
eggs and Wright’s store is getting
the eggs these days.

Traveling buyers of chickens and
eggs or anything else in our country
don’t have much luck now. A rug
peddler came around recently claim-
ing to buy junk and when the folks
heard about it and told me I had
central put a general alarm ring on
the phone to look out for the cuss.
Say, that night he came to my place
and was going to have me arrested
and a lot of things and if Maria
hadn’t come out and told me to hold
my temper, I might have been tried
for assault and battery, ‘cause I was
ready to ﬁght. When that news got
around, folks was tickled, but I
guess I’ve saved the people a lot.

And speaking of peddlers. A short
time afterwards while I was collect-
ing enough hogs to make a car ship-
ment, one of the Bruhm boys, as he
was putting a check in his wallet,
happens to show me a receipt he had.

“Just a minute, Gus,” says I
while I weigh these hogs. All right,
Fred, drive ’em down to the yards.
Pretty smooth bunch of barrows, got
any more like ’em? No? Well have
a cigar.”

 
 
 
 

  
 
 
   

 

 

   
   
     
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
  

 
 
 
 

  

I Bruhm handed me.
but a yellowslip and in one corner

sun '1 looked "at m . , 
It‘ was no '
it says :o,ooo,ooo" and then goes
on to say that when the Regular
German Paper Marks regains its
value to be worth in general ten
per cent of their Gold value, I prom-
ise to pay to holder 100 million Garb
man Marks now on deposit in the
Ileutsc' Rank in Berlin. This note
was to be presented when collection
was to be made and was signed by
the agent. ‘

"How much did you pay for this,
Gus"? I asked :-

$75 00"

“Suffering mackeral", says I. "you
got as much chance of collecting
'that 875 back as a guinea pig has
of raising a four foot tail."

W'ell. the argument started. Gus
was sure Germany was going to pay
back allpf those marks and I had a
blamed hard time convincing him
that Germany had more of that kind
to redeem than there was money in
the world. And Gus don-'t‘believe me
yet. Thinks he's going to get his
money: Some folks just won‘t take
advice. I happened to: know about
the marks, cause i bought a. bundle
of them at the fair last summer.
Paid a half a dollar for some and
when I ﬁgured up their value from
exchange rates. found they were only
worth a cent and a half.

Things was going pretty good with
Maria and me so we decided to buy
a new automobile. After riding with
all the agents in Jackson City we
ﬁnally bought a "ChummySix." It-
was sure a dandy and I had to ﬁx up
the corn crib for a garage so that
the car would keep dry when it
rained as the old roof was pretty
poor. The fellow who sold the car
told me I oug t to have insurance,
but I wasn’t so sure. One day I got
a letter from New Jersey telling me
about the amount of thefts there
were of cars in cities, and the letter
explained how this company, the
American Protective Association, was
issuing certiﬁcates that showed my
car would be protected for two years
for $29.75. That was‘ cheap I ﬁg-
ures, as Harper, who sold insurance
when he wasn’t banking, wanted
$47.50 for a policy for one year. I
told some of the other boys about the
new association and several joined
up, too.

One night while I Was at lodge at
Jackson City some crook took my
spare tire. It ~was a shame, but
Maria says, "Here’s your chance to
get even.” So I ﬁlls out the slip
which told about it and sent it to the
Association’s main ofﬁce. Didn’t
hear anything for several days.

Finally one morning a fellow
phones me from town asking if I
wouldn’t come in and talk about the
tire I lost. “That’s the adjuster",
says Maria, “Take this bill along so
you can prove to him about the value
of that tire."

I met Mr. Anderson, that was his
name, at the Jackson house and he
took me aside and starts asking a
lot of questions. Where did I get
the membership? How did I get it,
and had I told the other folks in
Jackson City about it?

Told him how it was and then he
says to me, “I am a postal inspector.
ThIS company of yours is no more.
All they wanted was your money.
Guess you were honest in getting the
other boys in it, but its broke and
the fellows who run it are gone.
There’s more of these fake protective
associations working now than’we
can keep track of. I might had to
call you to Chicago to testify, Mr.
Edwards", says ’he, “but of course
we gotta catch them ﬁrst. Mean-
while, keep quiet about it as that
might give them a clue we’re looking
for them."

Well, I kept quiet all'right. On
the way back, after I had bought a
new tir , I stopped and pulled off
the label nd threw it into the creek.

“Well, you got a quick settle-
ment”, says Maria.

“Yep”, I says, “bought a brand
new tire”, which was true, but Maria
never knew who paid for it. Some
time later she noticed the sign was
gone and remarked it was too bad
it got lost and begin to lay me out
for not fastening it on better. Guess
they never caught those fellows as
I never heard nothing more from
the inspector. And it was funny
how the rest of the boys kept their
secret too. No one mentioned the
skinning, not even at the Agnicnl-
tural Society, where the boys gener-
ally talked over such things. "

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looks after their needs?—-M. J. S.,
Springport, Mich.

CCORDING 'to law, See. 5091,

Compiled Laws 1915, the health

ofﬁcer has full and complete
control over communicable disease
and quarantine thereof. He is re-
sponsible for the isolation of cases
of communicable disease, for plac-
arding premises, for the supervision
of funerals of persons (king of com-
municable disease, and for terminal
disinfection. .He must keep his own
board of health and the State Depart-
ment of Health informed of every
He must investigate nuisances and
he has charge of the sanitation of
outbreak of communicable disease.
public places.

Families who have been quaran—
tined stand their own expenses. If
the families who are quarantined are
unable to take care of these expen—
ses, they are cared for by the city,
in the same manner in which the
county provides for all indigent sick.
——G.‘ H. Ramsey, M. D., Deputy Com—
misisoner, Michigan Dept. of Health.

SHOULD RECEIVE FULL PAY

My cousin’s estate is just being
settled and I put in a claim for ser-
. vices which extended over a period of
twenty years but the commissioners
will only allow me the last six years.
I cut wood and did other work in
caring for him year after year and
now can the law limit me to six
years? He would always ask or say
the work had to be done but never
paid me a cent for the work. Please
let me know if the commissioners
have the right to set aside my claim.
—-J. S., Moorepark, Mich.

AM of the opinion you would not

be limited to the last six years in

your claim for services from your
cousin’s estate. If you worked with
him continuously for 20 years with
an understanding with him that you
were to be paid for your services, I
don’t see why you are not entitled to
compensation for the full period.—
Legal Editor.

TAX ROLLS OPEN TO PUBLIC

Is it right or proper for a tax col—
lector, having a party at his house, to
bring out the tax boooks and let all
who Wished examine them? Many of
those present did not even live in the
township. Also is it right for the
same parties to spread the fact that
some are so unfortunate as to be un-
able to pay their taxes?——G. H. K.,
Willis, Michigan.

HE tax rolls are, of course, open
to the public, however, a party
might possibly restrain the im-

proper use of such records—Clare
Retan, Deputy Attorney General.

PROPERTY COULD NOT BE
PROBATED

Man and wife have joint deed of
farm, three years ago they deeded
this farm to a son. The deed was
made out by Judge of Probate, sworn
to, signed and witnessed and left at
the court house ﬁled with other wills
and with the understanding that it
was not to be delivered to any party
until after the death of both the man
and wife. One year later the wife
died. Can the man change the deed
without securing the one already
made? Can he make debts which
after its death can be collected from
this property? Could the farm be
probated? The son has been with
them for twelve years—A. S., Union—
ville, Mich.

AM of the opinion that the deed is
beyond the husband’s control and
that he could not make a new

conveyance of the property. This
property would not be liable for his
' debts and could not be probated as
v' part of the estate—Legal Editor.

QUESTIONS ABOUT SCHOOL
OFFICERS

Has the treasurer a right to give

a check on an order made out by the

director without the moderator’s sig-

. nature thereon and if this has been

f done is the moderator obliged to sign
these orders afterwards?

Can the director and treasurer or-
der a set of books costing $50 or
more and pay for same without con-
sent and signature of the moderator?
wWhen ,supplies, such as an axe.

   
  

you. All lnqulrlos must be accompsnlod b

kerosene, etc., is needed at the school
house and the director , refuses to
get them, what can be done to com-
pel him to get them? Has the teach-
er any right to order them‘and have
them charged to the district?
Should not all wood and kindling
be piled by those delivering the same
and be measured by one or more of
the school board before being paid
for?—G. T., Charlevoix, Mich.

HE treasurer of a school district
has no legal right to pay an or-
der unless the same is counter-

signed by the moderator.

The director and treasurer may
purchase a set of books for the pur-
pose of keeping the records of the
district providing the same is done at
a legal board meeting. In other

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directlthat this purchase be made

even if the .third. might be opposed ,

to it.

If supplies'such as you 'mention
are needed for the schoolhouse, the
school board may direct that the

same be purchased and have it done ,

by the director or some other mem«
ber of the board.

The question of piling wood and
kindling when same is delivered to
the schoolhouse is a matter to be de-
termined by the School board—W.
L. Coﬂey, Deputy Supt. of Public In-
struction. ‘ . '

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Will you kindly tell me if property
taxed direct on county drain, ‘without
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W'ANTS NAME OF M. 'A. C.
CHANGED

EAR EDITOR: In an editorial

in the February 14th issue of

THE BUSINESS FABMER you asked
some pertinent questions regarding
the change in name of the Michigan
Agricultural College. In response to
the questions “From where comes
this demand?” and “Who wants the
name changed?” let me say that this
demand comes from the students,
alumni, and faculty of M. A. C. and it
is the students, alumni, and faculty
who want the name changed. Dean
Shaw, who was acting president last
year, himself proposed the name.

As important as M. A. C. is to the
farmers of the state, it must be re—
membered that the chief business of
the college is the teaching of stu—
dents. The farmers are interested
chiefly in the Michigan Agricultural
Experiment Station and the Exten—
sion Division, whichare merely di—
visions of the college, while the stu-
dents are interested chiefly in the
college proper. If the name of
M. A. C. was changed, the name of
the Michigan Experiment Station and
Extension Division would remain the
same. Also the agricultural activi-
ties of the college would not be less-
ened.

You ask “What are the advan~
tages?” There are several. First,
it would do away with much misun-
derstanding regarding the nature of
the college. I believe that most
people of the state would clear up
the idea that M. A. C. is sort of an
advanced high school that special-
izes in agriculture, not knowing that
it really is a university with sevon
different divisions, one of which has
to do with agriculture. Let me cite
my own experience as an example.
Before investigation I did not have
the slightest idea that M. A. C.
taught anything but agriculture. Re—
cently when in Detroit, I was asked
by a friend what college I attended,
when I told him I went to M. A. C.
he replied, “Oh, yes, that is the state
cow college, isn’t it?" This idea of
M. A. C. is prevalent throughout the
state, except perhaps throughout the
rural districts.

Because of this misunderstanding,
few high school students consider
M. A. 0. when picking out their alma
mater. The fact that only a small
percentage of the students come
from the cities is evidence. It stands
to reason, then, that if the name is
changed to Michigan State College
the enrollment would be greatly in-
creased. _

Furthermore, graduates of the
college who did not specialize in ag-
riculture will not be handicapped
by the word “agriculture” on their
diploma. Alumni of the college can
tell you that this is a genuine handi-
cap when employers ask them where
they went to college.

You ask, “Why should the name
be broadened to include everything
that one naturally expects to ﬁnd at
the University of Michigan?"
"Why shouldn’t it?” Why should
we disregard the other six divisions
of the college? One might infer,
from, your question, that the college
should be limited to agriculture

I ask'

  

alone, and all other divisions ignor-
ed. This is a very narrow minded
view—point and I hope you are not
guilty of it. In fact there is as much
sense in calling this an agricultural
college as there is in calling the U.
of M. a Michigan Medical University
or Michigan Law University.

The Michigan Agricultural College I

is an institution for all the state as
much as it is one for the farmer.
Let me quote the M. A. C. Record,
alumni magazine, “It is believed that
the change in name will make it
more competent to serve the people,
through the advantage the new name
will give to those who are not stu—
dents of agriculture. It was founded
as an agricultural college but it later
accepted the terms of the Morrell act
under which it was required to de-
vote part of its efforts to education
in the mechanic arts, it has followed
the lead of other institutions of that
class in adding to its curriculum
those courses‘for which a demand
had existed. In extending its use-
fulness it has met the wish of the
people, for courses in agriculture
have generally diminished in popu-
larity in the past few years while
those in general science and the arts
have experienced a rapid growth.”

As far as I have been able to ﬁnd
out, the only reasons why the Farm
Bureau and the Grange have for not
wanting the name changed are pure—
ly sentimental and selﬁsh. In other
words, they want Michigan to be a
back number as far as progressive
legislation is concerned. There are
many other state colleges that have
already made the change in name,
and there is no good reason why we
should not change the'name, while
there are several reasons why we
should. What advantage would it be
to the Farm Bureau and Grange to
retain the present name which we
have outgrown? None at all.

Do not think that this question is
merely a feud between the agricul-
tural students and students of the
other divisions. This is not so, be—
cause most of the “ag” students are
in favor of the change of name and
I am one of them.

You make the statement that this
question would be a good one for
debate. Indeed it would, but I think
it would be a lop-sided debate in fa-
vor of the aﬂirmative.——D. E. T. D.,
East Lansing, Mich.

MAKE IT AN AGRICULTURAL
' COLLEGE

0 the Editor: I wish to inform
you that I wish to be numbered
with those who object to chang-

ing the name of the Michigan Agri-
cutural College. I will do what I
can to get it back to an agricultural
college. I attended the Farmers’
week of Feb. 2 to 8 and I saw hun-
dreds of students and state police in
uniform all over the grounds and in
all of the buildings and they staged a
grand parade. I wish to state from
what I observed it ’will be a military
college in a few years unless the
farmers of Michigan wake up and
demand a change in its policy and
teachings. —O. R. ~W.,
Mich. . ‘

   

   
 

Chemninz.

for the rent of said property collect

—same, or will property owner be legal

collector? This is the second year

to be taxed on saidcounty drain and

£110i bleneﬁt whatever.—-G. P., Au Gres,
c .

F this property is beingtaxed to

maintain the drain and the drain is

causing damage instead of beneﬁt—
ting it, you are certainly entitled to
damages. I would make complaint
to the drain commissioners. If they
'will not help you, you would likely
have'to see a lawyer about it.—-Le-
gal Editor.

 

EXEMPT $1,000 _

A person owns ﬁve acres of land

and purchases an additional. eighteen
acres, this person being ,a Spanish-
American War Veteran. I wish to
know if the whole twenty-three acres
is exempt from taxation.
" Can a person recover taxes they
have'paid before they knew the law
in regard to exemption?~—S. H., Ona-
way, Mich.

is a question of fact whether the

soldier is occupying the whole

twenty-three acres' or only ﬁve
acres as a homestead. If the former,
he is exempt to the extent of one
thousand dollars for the purpose of
taxation, upon ﬁling a proper aﬂ‘l-
davit with the supervisor or assess-
ing oﬂicer. In other words, it makes
no diﬁerence if the homestead con-
sists of one or more descriptions. If
the assessment value is one thousand
dollars or under he is entitled to ex-
emption. If the assessed value ex-
ceeds one thousand dollars he is ex—
empt one thousand dollars and as-
sessed on the amount in excess.

Such taxes cannot be recovered,
no afﬁdavit. having been ﬁled claim-
ing such exemption which aﬂidavit is
mandatory.~—-Clare Retan, Deputy
Attorney General. ,

STOP COMPANY FROM CUTTING
TIMBER

A lumber company has bought
timber adjoining my farm on the
north‘ and south line and there are
blazed trees at different lines made
years ago. This lumber company
does not know where the line is and
neither do I. I forbid them cutting
any timber near the old line until
same was or is established by some
competent authority. They have
been cutting timber past all the old
blazes over on my side. Can I stop
them from moving this timber until
the line is established and how would
I go about it? Futhermore, some of
the men who are working for this
lumber company have cut standing
green maple timber still farther on
my side. Who will be responsible for
this, the hired men or the company?
-——J. E., Clarion,'Mich.

0U could ﬁle a petition for an

injunction restraining the com-

pany from cutting timber on
land which you claim is your own,
until the line is established. You
would have to get an attorney to do
this for you.—-Legal Editor.

HOLDER.OF NOTE TAKES
PROPERTY

If I had a note can the holder come
and take anything that I have and
has any person the right to sell straw
off the place he rents on half if noth-
ing is mentioned about same in the
lease?-——F. S. Romeo, Mich.

HE holder of the note could sue

T-40u and get judgment and levy

on any of your property subject

to execution. I am of the opinion a

person who rents a place on half

could not sell the straw until it is
divided—Legal Editor.

MUST HAVE LICENSE
Would a tamer owning two
farms, not adjoining have a right to
hunt on both without a hunting ii-
censei—F. W., Woodland, Michigan.

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Would have the right to hunt
on his lands, on which he is

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EA‘R EDITOR: 'Well sir, I see
by the papers we have now got
in Mich the gas tax wich we all

have been hollering for quite some
. spell, that is all of us but the De
I 1 Troit autobile club wich has been
hollering against it, though what for
goodness only knows. Wich reminds
, me of last' summer when .I‘was in-
? fr ‘ vited to ..a meeting of a lot of gaso-

i line sellers, oil men they called them-
'-‘-’r selves, by one of the oﬁccers wich
happens to be a old friend of mine.

I thought meybe they wanted me
to sort of cast an air of dignity and
respectability over their carryings on,
but when I got there they was just a
lot of ordinary men that looked just

 as respectable as I do, even if they
3? didn’t have the dignityof whiskers,
" and they sweat their collars down
just like anybody. And from their
talk I gathered that they were up
against about the same proposition
as us farmers, what with, taxes and
‘: wages and overproduction and a lot
7 of other things all making it hard to
 save a net proﬁt out of what they
took in. Most of it I didn’t under-
stand any too well, but one thing I
could see as well as they could, wich
was that they was too many ﬁlling
stations for any of them to be a gold
mine. I

But what I was going to say was
they extended the courtesy of the
ﬂoor wich meant they stopped their
Work while there was a speach by a
Major somebody or other from the
De Troit autobile club, and he had
i his talk cut into sections like a pie,
.‘ and each section proved that the gas
! tax was an awful bad thing, con-
‘. trary to all president, etc and so

forth. His argument was hog tight

and bull strong, specially the last,
. but all the time I had a feeling it
' wasn’t so and there was a nigger in
the woodpile somehow.

Just the same there was one thing
he was right about wich was that
leglesslatures and other tax spend-
ers as he called them ain’t to be
trusted with no new ways of collect—
ing taxes, as the new tax ain’t never
in place of an old one but is added
on top of the .old one and we have to
pay both.

:80 while any body with any gump-
tion knows that gas tax is more tare
because it charges for roads accord-
ing to how much you use the roads,
still it looks as if we was soaked
heavier than ever because the licents
tags wich we have’to take off and
put on with rusty screws at the cold—
est time of year «\costs most as much
is as ever, and the gas tax is besides.
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the other.

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driving and using the roads and not

a wait tax when ‘we are waiting and '

not using the roads. Us farmers
have work to do in the ﬁeld and
mostly our cars just wait. Probly in
De Troit Where the cars are so thick
there ain’t room to park they can’t
wait and so that may be why they
want a wait tax instead of a gas tax
so as to tax the cars that wait in—
stead of them that are burning gas
all the time.

As far as I can see the only
trouble with the gas tax is we ain’t
got enough of it and there is too
.;_ I much of the old tax left over. And
 ‘ ‘ I bet you the next time I vote it will
, be for somebody that works to bring
54% the some total taxes down a little in—
 ' stead of ﬁguring out ways and means
to hist them higher. Hoping this
ﬁnds you the same I am, Yours true—
ly, HARRY VETCH.

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Garden Anticipation

S the days lengthen and the sun

gets warmer there is something

_ within most mortals that seems
to urge or inspire them to get in
touch with the great outdoors. Moth-
er Nature, and the soil; something
that prompts us
to dig in the soil
and sow some
seeds, plant a
tree and rake the
yard! Most of us
have this natuarp
a1 longing, and
just as it begins
to make itself
manifest in our
system, along
come all those
brightly colored
seed catalogs to

L'W'MEEKS add to our un-
easiness. Naturally we want to try all
those new varieties, and there are
generally ﬁfty-Seven in each catalog!

Some of us wonder if our garden
spot is as large as it should be, and
if the old fence will keep the chick-
ens out another year. We think of
our neighbors’ gardens; some always
seem to have such nice ones, and
some never seem to hare much of
any. Many of the latter probably
think much the same as a certain
friend. He never had much of a gar—
den—said he could buy all the vege-
tables and garden fruits a lot cheaper
than he could raise them. Well,
maybe he could; but generally speak—
ing, if a. farmer does not raise his
own vegetables and small fruits he
goes Without them to a very great ex-
tent if not altogether. Maybe if a
truck grower’s rig stopped at his
house every morning he would buy
what he needed. However, if his
good wife bought all the fruit and
vegetables she wanted, and could use
he would change his mind about buy-
ing them cheaper than he could raise
them.

Sure it takes some time to make a
garden and look after it, and where
a farmer has to do all his farm work
alone it is often quite a problem for
him to spend even a little time in the
garden, but, still, it can be done, as
the writer has proven many times,
and while we have not pretended to
have a large garden, containing all
the catalogs say you must have, it
has generally been quite sufﬁcient
for our needs.

My observation of gardens has quite
ﬁrmly ﬁxed in my mind this fact;
where you see a good sized farm with
a. large garden containing all the
small fruits such a graden should
contain, you will most always ﬁnd
that man has some help on his farm!
Many times a boy old enough to work
or a grandfather lives on that farm
—any way he has help somewhere.
What about the wife helping? Well,
yours truly ' has been glad of his
Wife’s help in the garden many times,
but with the average farmer’s Wife
doing her own housework, should
she be expected to spend much time
in the garden? However, many wives
would lend a hand at garden work
if the prospect of a good garden was
an assured fact.

In planning our garden, all rows
are far enough apart to allow for
horse cultivation. We have a good
cultivator which is very easily ad-
justed for different widths. All the
rows are as long as possible. In-
stead of having several short rows of
beets, etc., we have only one or two
long ones. Timely use of the horse
cultivator which is very easily ad-
ing hand work in a garden, and it
is surprising to see how much can be
accomplished in ﬁfteen or twenty
minutes by the use of such an outﬁt.

Several years ago when we bought
this place there was no orchard on it
excepting about twenty old apple
trees in a ﬁeld quite distant from
the house. The second year we were
here, we set out quite a complete
family orchard, containing about all
the fruits one could wish. This we

‘ enclosed with a poultry fence, which

a factory made to our special order.
Among these young trees we had our
garden ,snd truck patch of sweet

corn, pop corn, early potatoes, straw-
berries, etc., for several. years, and
how these trees did thrive with the
frequent cultivation they received
along with the garden crops. The
trees were hoed thesame as any
other plant, and when the orchard
was plowed every spring a. shovel was
used around the trees where the
plow could not get, and the ground
was all turned over and kept level.
With all the 'plowings it has received,
the ground is level now.

The last year we had garden crops '
in this orchard, the no longer little
trees monopolized too much of the
soil with their roots, and too much
of the air with their leaves for the
good of the garden, and cultivation
was largely interfered with by their
ever widening, low growing tops so
it. was seeded to clover, and a. large
portable brooder house was placed
in it and instead of growing garden
crops, it now grows white Ieghorns,
and the fence that kept the chickens
out, now keeps them in.

A corner of one of the near-by
ﬁelds was taken for a temporary gar-
den, until the time should come when
we could move the main poultry
house to a more suitable location.
This poultry house was built alto-
gether too near the road, and too
close to the farmhouse itself,———in
fact it was exactly where the garden
should have been.

Plans for a large new laying house
were made last fall, and as the old
one will'be torn down when the new
one is built, we, decided to move the
old one to a temporary location at
once and straightw’ay it was raised.
the cement walk on which it stood
torn away, and large poles, thirty-
four feet long were placed under it
for runners, and a neighbor with his
tractor made short work ofmoving.

The garden will now be perman-
ently located where it should be,
and as this plot has not been plowed
for forty years, more or less, we ex-«
pect to have some new eXperiences in
gardening—at least for a year or
two, until the old sod and weeds be«
come subdued to some extent.

We are going to get the garden far
enough away to allow for another
row of shade trees between it and
the house—one row of trees having
been planted six or seven years ago.
A fence on the south side of the yard
will be removed, making possible
space in the new garden for a liberal
setting of berries and other small
fruits, also a truck patch which will
include space for testing new varie-
ties of ﬁeld crops, soy beans, corn,
etc. My experience is that unless We
have space for test plots near the
house they will be sadly neglected.

This large garden space will allow
ample room for changing the small
garden stuff around in. sort of a ro-
tation and this seems to be a very
valuable feature.

This garden will be adjacent to
the hog lot. Many times there are
various waste products such as pea
vines, sweet corn fodder, thinnings,
etc., which the pigs would use to
good advantage. Usually there is not
enough of these waste products “at
one time to be worth moving away
any considerable distance, but with
only a fence to throw them over
there will be no excuse for anything
going to waste.

We have ordered our seeds direct
from a seed company. Our experi—
ence proves this method is more sat-
isfactory than to buy them of local
stores. Ordering this way we ‘ﬁnd
everything we want, and just the va-
rieties to suit our needs. Often a
grocer’s seed supply is far from com-
plete.

We always planted a few tomato
and pepper seeds in the house, and
raised our own early plants, but late-
ly we have planted such seeds quite
early in the open ground and have
had good success. Last year we had
a small hot bed. It was useful ‘in
starting some plants quite early and
was such a- success we shall have
one again this spring. _

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N our last article we took up the
, matter of elements in the soil
that aﬂected crops. The ones in

» particular that we are apt to be short

on. .-

I now want to call your attention
to a few others; the ﬁrst being car-
bon, the greatest part of the struc-
ture of all plants and then see how
this is maintained by natureor God,
so that we need not bother with it,
and also how dependent one form of
life is upon the other.

When man or animal breathes the
air and it passes through their lungs
oxygen is taken out of the air and
the air is changed and passes out as
carbon dioxide. The plants then

,take this changed air and establish

the carbon that is in their structure
from it and thus create starches,—
sugars, proteins, ‘etc., for use in
building the bodies of the animal
kingdom. Thus we have a perpetual
motion of plant and animal life and
carbon is one of the elements that is
not disturbed in one handling of
farm products. .

The next element to be taken into
consideration is that of lime. Lime
is necessary in the. body structures
of both plant and animal life but the
greatest part it plays is in the cor-
recting of soil acidity so that cer-
tain forms of bacteria can exist and
in another sense is an actual [plant
food. In 1840 a German chemist,
Justus Von Liebig,
plants do not derive all their food
from humus, but from chemicals con-
tained in the soil itself, viz; nitrogen,
phosphorus, potasium, magnesium,
iron, carbon, lime, etc., and also
some of the plant family termed le-
gumes are able to take approximate-
ly two—thirds of their nitrogen needs
from the air if soil conditions are
right for the nitrogen ﬁxing bacteria
to exist. ‘

Lime has been used to advantage
for centuries but not until recent
years has the science of agriculture
determined why this was so. It is
worth while to note that lime and al-
falfa goes hand in hand through the
ages; wherever you will ﬁnd alfalfa
growing you will ﬁnd plenty of lime
in your soil balance. Lime was used
by the Romans much the same as the
Indians used to plant a ﬁsh with each
hill of corn. Common sense told
them' that their crops were better
Where they used them and probably
no one tried to ﬁnd out the reason.
Lime being essential as a part of the
plant structure and also as a soil cor-
rector it becomes the main element
that is necessary when beginning to
improve Michigan soil or any other
if it happens to be absent which in
most cases it is. As to the forms of
lime there are four which are avail—
able to nearly every section of. Mich—
igan.

First is the. ground lime-stone
which is really the safest and best
and in nearly every case the cheapest
form to use. Second, there is burnt
lime or caustic, sometimes called
quick lime. Third, hydrated or burnt
lime with water added to make water
slacked lime. Fourth, marl that is
found in nearly every section of
Michigan which runs all the way
from 50 to 98 per cent calcium car-
borate or actual lime. 100 pounds
of raw lime rock when burned makes
56 pounds of burnt lime. When this
is’water slacked it takes up eighteen
pounds of water, making seventy-
four pounds of hydrated lime. There—
fore 56 pounds of burnt lime or 74
pounds of hydrated lime equals 100
pounds of ground lime-stone and 125
pounds of 75 per cent dried marl
would be equivalent to 100 pounds of
raw lime rock,’ but as marl usually
contains a very large amount of wa—
ter it must be used in proportion to
the water and percentage of calcium
carbonate it cdntains. It is also well
to remember that the ﬁner lime—
stone is ground the more quickly it
becomes available as an acid correc—
tor and a plant food.

There is much ado made about
that high—powered lime called hydra—
ted and some people actually put on
all of 200 pounds per acre and ex-
pect to get a real stand of alfalfa
when in reality it is the most ex-
_ Let’s
lookat these ﬁgures and see.

discovered that,

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One ton of ground lime-stone costs
$3.85 F. 0. B. your station. One

'ton of hydrated lime cost $15.00 F.

O. B. your station, a difference in
price of $11.15 which you are paying
for 26 per cent of a ton and after ﬁg-
uring out the weight of sacks will
make about 500 pounds more lime
value in the hydrated form but it
costs you $11.15 for the 500 pounds
or at a rate of $44.60 per ton for
the extra calcium carbonate in the
hydrated form. Other forms of
ground lime-stone can be bought as
low as $2.25 to your station. Burnt
lime and hydrated lime are practical—
ly water—soluble and if you have a
sandy soil the loss from leakage is
very much more rapid than ground
stone and it is quick-er acting in cor—
recting soil acidity, but it has a ten-
dency when applied in heavy appli—
cations to burn up the humus or
cause its rapid decay. Yet there may
be special cases where burnt and hy—

_'drated can be used advantageously.

 

_ Meat’michfxan" tails need an“ ar-
plication of from two to four tons of
ground lime-stone to correct the
acidity and make a condition for ni-
trogen ﬁxing bacteria to’ live normal-
ly. This amount is considered very
large by some people but when one
considers that there is 2,000,000
pounds of soil in an acre of ground
6% inches deep that by using two
tons you are using four pounds of
lime-stone to one ton of soil and by

looking at it again that is a pretty

small proportion.

The question arises as to how long
one application of lime )will last
and I don’t think there is any deiﬁn—
ite data on this but on our own farm
we have had a 300 per cent increase
in clover hay six years after we ap—
plied two and one-half tons per acre
and the regular yearly rotation of
corn, Oats, wheat and clover was fol-
lowed. We have had as high as 33
bushels increase in corn where we
applied the lime-stoneptwo years pre—
viously.

Our land is a clay loam with a clay
hard—pan original y covered with
beech, maple, white-wood and wa1~
nut timber. These differences were

   

  
   

 

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and all other treatments ’w‘arev'tlﬂte
on both, in each instance. 

In order to build up our soil .we
must ﬁrst get a leguminous cropgto
take the nitrogen from the air and-"in
order to get this crop we must cor-
rect the acidity in our soil so the-pni~
trogen 'ﬁxing bacteria can enable this
plant to do this. We can growa le—
gume crop if we have rich enough I.
soil but in this case it is no better >
than a crop of wheat or timothy as
we are taking all the elements in the
crop from our soil. In any case a
crop of clover or alfalfa must get
one-third of its nitrogen supply from .
the soil so you can see why it is that;
these crops do better on a good soil
than on poor and if by liming heav-
ily a piece of land does not produce a
good crop of clover or alfalfa there
is a reason. "

There is not enough nitrogen, pot-
ash and phosphorus in the soil in an
available form to give the plant the
necessary boost. In other words it
lacks the kick.

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tresspuss, ye who are. spiritual, restore
such a. one in a. spirit of gentleness: look-
ing to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Bear ye one another’s burdens and so
fulfil the law of Christ.”——Gal. 6:13—3.

IS name was Mr. Blank. Folks
said that his character was. rag-
ged. He was accused of illicit
companionship, of playing cards in
back-alley rooms, and othergsimilar
things. Well, he was a member of
my church. And some of the ofﬁcials
said, “Put him out. His name cum-
bers the church roster." But, I can
yet hear the (preacher saying on the
day of his baptism, “O, Lord, write
his name in the ‘Lamb’s Book of
Life'.” Was the preacher’s prayer
answered? Anyway, the guardians
of souls are saying, “Expunge his
name.” Now doesn't this sound ra-
ther bumptious and presumptious?
And somewhere the Book says, ‘Keep
back thy servant from presumptious
sins.” So be; for the while, this sin—
ning brother was being restored in
the pastor’s study. He just could
not stand alone. He needed some
one to lean on. But the deacons re—
fused to be pillars. “If any man be
overtaken in a trespass, restore such
a one.” Be a pillar.
Search out the vilest man in your

community, one wretched in sin and.

degradation, and there you have
found the Father’s child and a poten-
tial brother. He has been living a
proﬂigate life and in unendurable
shame; but no matter, he has a claim
on the heart of God. His Heavenly
Father would rather shelter him
than surrender him to the pursuit of
sin and death. This is the heart of
all scripture, and in our text today
we are called to the salvaging of the
fallen about us.

Paul, here, sees the true value of
every human life. And the basis of
valuation is not according to world
standards, however efﬁcient; but ac-
cording to moral value, the standard
being, that one redeemed personality
is worth more in the sight of God
than the whole material universe.
Paul founds his teaching in the pos-
sibilities of human life in its fullest
meaning, in full harmony with God.
He is saying that this faith is a pre-
requisite in all who would help car-
ry the world’s burdens. Where did
the apostle get this _conception of
life? From no other but Jesus.
Whoever but Jesus would pick up a
swearing, denying Peter; a stubborn
Thomas; or a traitorous Judas?
Whoever had such
to do the common and erring people
good, as did our Lord ?- In Him there
were always outstretched arms of
mercy, even to his maligners and
murderers. One day he said to one
Saul, “Why 'persecutest thou me?”
And then and there this Saul caught
his forbearingand loving spirit and
became the Paul who says, “Ye who
are spiritual restore the erring.”

“Ye who are spiritual.” Where
again did Paul get this way of life?
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the temple court. The church lead-
ers had dragged in a sinful woman
whom they had condemned to death.
What would the Great Teacher do?
Well, you know the rest. The poor,
wretched character who had been so
basely wronged had in her a spark
of sorrow and repentance. Jesus fan-
ned it into a ﬂame. The woman res-
ponded to the invitation to rise above
her sin. But the cold-hearted Phari-
see would have killed her! Just so.
And the church is not yet rid of such
haughty ofﬁciousness and inhumanity
in her laws and leaders. That is why
Paul is careful to say that the spirit-
ual folks; those who have heart vis-
ion as well as eye vision, must re-
store the erring to fellowship and:
life. - .

“As the hart panteth after the wa- 1
ter brooks, so panteth my soul af-
ter thee, O God.” This is the psalm-
ist’s picture of the spiritual man.
Here is passion. Here is ardent de-
sire going out to God for help and
strength. How much do men need
this spiritual passion today? As
much as money? As lowered taxes?
As better schools? As ﬁner church-
es? Do we need spirituality more
than all these? Now, you see Mary
sitting at Jesus’ feet drinking in the
words of life. And what does the
Master say? “Mary has chosen that
good part that shall not be takeir
away from her.” ' ,

With whom are we c-ommuning,
friends? What is the temperature of
our inner life? Are we spiritually
minded? That is, do we have the
mind of Christ? “If any man have
not the spirit of Christ, he is none
of his.” Certainly, there is no fog
or compromise about this statement.
We have Christ’s spirit or We have it
not. The spirit of Christ is brother—
ly and restorative. Are we? Do we
go to church? Do we help pay the
preacher? Callous and indifferent
people do this. Then can we know
whether We are spiritual or not? We
can get a pretty fair idea of our con-
dition by being left alone to our own
meditations. Note, then, the pur—
pose of our life. If the mental pen—
dulum swings toward service for
others, we are sitting at our Savior’s
feet.

So, we are called to “weep with
those that Weep and rejoice with
those that rejoice.” We are to be
tenderly responsive to human needs
about us and to the ﬁne and high
things of the soul life. Therefore,
we are driven into communion with
Christ and into earnest prayer that
we might be able to respond to the
high demands of the spirit. ~

But, “in the spirit of gentleness”,
we are to help the erring. The lan-
guage of self—conceit has no place in
the realm of love. How like the
meekness and forgiveness of Christ
is his attitude toward the sinning!
Paul says of himself that he was gen—
tle as a nurse. Again he says, “Shall
I come to you with a rod or in love
and in the spirit of gentleness?” Ob-
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should We’use in the restoration of
the immortal spirit in the weak and
helpless about us! To restore a.
soul, but not in selﬁsh pride; to help
the weak without the air of superi-
ority, is to_fbe possessed with the
spirit of gentleness. But to try to
do it in the spirit of judgment is not
the way of Christ. “A bruised reed
shall he not break, and smoking ﬂax
shall he not quench, till he send
forth judgment unto victory.” So
the church, preeminently, is not a
court of justice but a shelter of mer—‘
CY; a crematory where the faults of
others are burned up in the ﬂame of
lovs; a hospital where the weak and
sickly are brought back to health.
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be tempted.” We have been looking ‘

at the faults of others. .Now, let us
look inward and contemplate our
own. It is human to know what,
guilt is; if not in a given wrong, then
in other sins hidden from my broth-
er’s sight, but heinous in God’s sight.
“Look to thyself.” This needs care—
ful scrutiny. It calls for earnest con-
cern about my own spiritual state.
Is not the fall of one member of the
family, church or community .a hu-
miliation to all? And I wonder if
someone is not stumbling over my
crooked life. And now I see a weak
brother struggling and losing in the
race. What shall I do? Just then
you are to be a social pillar and say,
“Here brother, lean on me.” Only
look to thyself lest thou also be temp—
ted. “Follow me even as I also fol-
low Christ” are other words of Paul
that should gird us to carry on the
high work of redemption.

"Bear ye one another’s burdens”
is a law of social living that has its
origin in new desires which are
caught from Christ. This makes all
Christians to have a common interest
and obligation. It gives every in—
dividual plenty of service in helping
the weak and overburdened. And to
take pride, not in any moral suprem—
acy over others, but in a moral abil-
ity to bear the burdens of the erring
is a source of great soul strength.
In this, Jesus is our abiding example
and inspiration. And his power
makes it all possible. His glory was

“Not to be ministered unto, but to-

minister”; and not to boast of a
Godly dignity, but of a human capa—
city to serve. And so we come by
this view of life as a social inherit~
ance from Christ. {Does it appeal to
us? How spiritual are we?

RADIO DEPARTMEle

By J. Herbert Ferris. R. E.

WAVE TRAP OR INTERFERENCE
ELIMINATOR

ITH the great number of broad—

casting stations now on the air,

' the amount of interference
caused on certain wave lengths
makes it almost impossible to get
clear reception of certain stations,
without hearing something from
some other station on nearly the
same wave.

It is possible to get rid of a great
deal of this interference by building
a cheap wave trap or ﬁlter, which
will absorb the waves of the undesir-

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the station that you tune in to. N0
tubes or batteries are required, and
it can be built in an evening, by any—
one. \

The diagram gives the size of coils,
wire and the number of turns need-
ed, and in some instances a slight
change may be necessary for your
particular set. These changes will be
in the number of turns of wire uéd;
and to make them takes only a few
If it does not work on the
lower wave lengths, then take off a
few turns of wire, and if it does not
work on the longer waves, such as
d KYW around 530 meters,
 :11er turns of Wire.

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tune in your set. to the station-that '

you wish to‘get rid of, when your set
brings in the interfering station at
its best, leave the set alone and ad-
just the condenser of the wave trap
until the signals of the interfering
station entirely disappear. he wave
trap has now absorbed the undesir-
ed waves and you can tune your set
to any station and not be bothered
with interference from the station
that the wave trap is absorbing. Of
course you must keep your head
phones on in doing this so that you
can tell when your trap has absorbed
the signals of the undesired station.
You can adjust the trap at any time
for any station you do not want to
hear.

ARLINGTON TIME SIGNALS
HEN you have been listening
, to KDKA or WBZ or some
other station you have heard
them announce “We will now relay
and
possibly have wondered what it
meant, especially after hearing the
little short whistling notes that came

in so regularly, and so that you can
make use of the signals we will tell
you how they are sent out and their
purpose.

It is necessary for Our govern-
ment to always run everything ac-
cording to a standard time, and for
this leason the government main—
tains an observatorv for determimng
the correct time by the stars. For
it is from the stars that correct time
is obtained by all the leading nations.
There is a master clock in Washing—
ton that is always kep.t to the ex—
actly correct time and from this
clock, thru an electrical 'piece of ma—
chinery the time is sent out twice a
day to the world.

Our Navy, Army, all ships, the
railroads, jewelers and business men
need and must have this time, and
so the government, thru the Navy,
sends out from Arlington, Va., these
signals on a powerful transmitting
station. These signals are sent at
12:00 noon and 10:00 P. M. Eastern
Standard Time.

These signals are sent out one
wave length of 2650 meters, and
those of you who have radio sets for
listening to broadcasting could not

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signals, and by placing their loud
speaker near to their transmitting
microphone, re-broadcast these sig-
nals so that you hear them on the,
lower wave length. Radio travels so
fast that the time is absolutely ac- .'
curate, there not being a difference
of one ten-thousandth of a second.

Five minutes to the hour the sig-
nals begin (from Washington) and
a dot is sent for 29 seconds, one is
skipped and then from the 3lst. to
the 55th. second dotsare sent each
second, 5 seconds omitted and at the
beginning of the second minute (or
4 minutes to the hour) the same
procedure is given over again, this
keeps up for four and a half minutes
and on the last 10 seconds of the
5th. minute there is silence and on
the even hour a long dash is sent.
The beginning of this long dash is
the exact even hour, either noon 01‘
10:00 P. M. Eastern Standard Time.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1926

Edited and Published by
TH! RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. loo.
GEORGE M. BLOOUAI. President
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1. Herb Ferris Radio Editor
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WELL. IT‘S COMING OUT!

“For years the farming clonicnt of the
state has been led to believe, by dema-
gogues, for their own bcncﬁt, that M. A. C.
was their particular property, that it was
founded to aid agriculture, and that they
should retain control of its policies and its
affairs."—-Thc M. A. C. Record, Page 262.

HERE now you have it! The “M. A. C.
Record" is, as far as we know, a. publication
approved by the administrative board of the

Michigan Agricultural College, so this statmnent
may be taken at its face value as expressin-x the
sentiments which are held at East Lansing.

What a delightful misapprehension we have
been living under all these eighty years or so!
That the Michigan Agricultural College was
founded to aid agriculture! Shades of the
sturdy pioneers who fell the trees Where now
stands this mighty institution on the outskirts
of Michigans capitol city! Shades of the men
who have fostered-it, fought for it, literally died
in their heroic attempt to give Michigan the
greatest agricultural college in all the world!
What fools they were, they thought that the
Michigan Agricultural College was founded to
aid agriculture!

But now, thanks to the “M. A. C. Record",
the cards are on the table and the elusive
Ethiopian has been chased out of the well—known
fuel pile. The alumni, the faculty, the students
want the abhorent name of "agriculture" stricken
from over the gate and above their names on the
diploma, for no more worthy reason than that
"it sounds better" and will not embarrass the
students in Engineering, Veterinary and the kin-
dred arts!

An article by a faculty member in our most
esteemed contemporary, “The Michigan Farmer",
states that “by dropping the name ‘agricultural’
the attendance will be increased." But if the
increase is to come from farm boys and girls who
are thus by clever manipulation being led further
from the farms, what is to become of rural
life in our state? Do we want a land of peasants,
(for tenant farmers are scarcely more), to re-
place the men and women who now till the soil
they own? Are we ready to admit defeat for
agriculture in Michigan? Are we ready to say
that the American farm holds no future for the
boy who desires to apply scientiﬁc methods to
agriculture and thus make a proﬁtable business
of farming?

If we are, and no others than those in charge
of our agricultural colleges should be in a better
position to judge, then it is high time‘ that we
were so informed.

If the Michigan Agricultural College is not the
champion of the farm, the leader in agricultural
activities and the melting pot of farm experiences
and scientiﬁc investigation of better farming
methods, then it is high time we, who have so
held it, were awakened from our contented
lethargy.

We have tried to be fair in the simple matter

of changing the name. In this very issue we

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are  the  j hath-
against the Change. and we have agreed; on this
very page to keep an Open) mind and let the de-,
cision rest with the farmers . of Michigan—but
when the mouth-piece of the Michigan Agricul-
tural College is permitted to question that the
college was ever intended “ton aid agriculture”,
or that the farmers of Michigan are entitled to
“retain control of its policies and its affairs”,
then it is indeed fortunate that under the sheeps
coat of a mere change in name, we discover the
wolf which" has already. we fear, devoured part
of the Vitals of our most treasured institution.

If this be the mark of a “demagbgue”; to pro-
tect the sacred heritage of an institution which
we believe by every right, to belong wholly and
solely to the advancement of agriculture and
thus to contribute directlyto the family life, the.
spiritual, moral and educational upbuilding of
more than half of the men, women and children
who live on the farms of Michigan, then, does
Tun MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER, accept the mark,
and become in truth, a “demagogue”!

JARDINE FOR SECRETARY

HETHER you like it, as the Kansans do, or

don’t like it as the Iowans have loudly pro-

claimed they don’t, the appointment of Wil-
liam M. Jardine, president of the Kansas Agricul-
tural College, as Secretary of Agriculture is going
to stick if a certain New Englander now occupying
a rather conspicuous place in the White House
has his way.

Naturally, as Michiganders, we would have pre-
ferred to see Dr. David Friday win the favor of
President Coolidge. He was a man ideally pre-
pared to cope with the present problems of agri-
cultural economics. He has preached the fallacy
of the promised land of better markets through
political means. Dr. Friday is optimistic over the
future of the farming business in America, we
hope the new secretary has these same qualiﬁca-
tions.

The appointment by President Coolidge in the
face of considerable political pressure, especially
from Iowa and Oklahoma, will not surprise only
those who have not been following what has
happened at the White House since the land-slide
of last November. There is a little of the big-
stick of the Roosevelt days mixed with the cool
determination of Woodrow Wilson.

There are those who will not approve of the
appointment of a college president as Secretary,
especially at this time, when the problem of agri-
culture is largely that of marketing, both at home
and abroad, they will feel that a real business
farmer would have better ﬁtted the job.

From what we can learn of Jardine, he leans
more to the hard business end than the scientiﬁc
side of agriculture and this is as it should be.

. The new Secretary of Agriculture has a man’s
size job cut out for him. Changing conditions
are bringing farming back to the proﬁt side of
business. There is the possibility of over—stimu-
lation of production through the present pros-
pects of a continually rising market. It will take
sound thinking and careful handling but the
farmers of America will follow the leadership of
such a Secretary of Agriculture, and speaking for
ourselves, we pledge William F. Jardine the sled-
length support and cooperation of the business
t
farmers of Michigan.

\VILL WONDERS NEVER CEASE?

OUR years is not such a long span of time and
yet modern miracles are being worked with
such frequency that few of us pause to give

them the consideration they merit. ‘

Take for instance, the radio. 'Four years ago
we were thrilled by the idea that President Hard-
ing stood before a. microphone and through the
four large ampliﬁers above his speaker's stand
he addressed an audience of nearly one hundred
thousand persons, where the voice of Ex—Presi-
dent Wilson had been heard only by the favored
few within hearing distance of his inaugural plat-
form.

How we wondered at one mans voice being car-
ried to a hundred thousand, yet how perfectly in—
signiﬁcant becomes that mark of scientiﬁc prog-
ress when we compare the fact that the inaugural
address of President Coolidge will undoubtedly
be heard by twenty-ﬁve million persons in the
United States.

‘ Through the cooperation of several large broad—
casting stations scattered from coast to coast
every word of it, as spoken in Washington, will
be driven out into space to ﬁnd its reception in
the palace of the rich or the humble log cabin of
the Northern trapper, alike. . ~

0h! The marvel of it all! Even now the
voices of the world’s greatest singers are thru

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homes which thousands have-heretofore been glad
’ to pay from two to'ten dollars a seat to hear.

Last Saturday evening we sat in our homes
and listened to Lieutenants Osbourn and Wade
who new around the world and their story was
as graphically told and interesting as any ﬁction
could have been. They were followed by Cap-
tain Kline of the Navahairship,» “Los Angeles",
who described his trip from Germany to America
in seventy-two hours. He told how they sym-
pathized with the passengers on the great liners
they could- see down below wallowing in the giant
claws of a storm, while their airship pushed
majestically thru the sky at the rate of a mile-
a-minute!

Truly this is a wonderfully interesting age in
which to live and we pity those who do not thrill
with the excitement of it as they view this daily
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DEBT

T is no disgrace to be in debt and the farmer
I who goes to a bank to borrow money for the
needs of his farm need not hang his head nor.
apologize. Borrowers are the only paying cus—
tomers a bank has and the depositors are only a
necessary evil so far as the banker is concerned.
Francis H. Sisson, now Vice-President of the
Guarantee Trdst Company of New York said the

other day, “Get in debt! When you pay out.
plunge in again! Stay in debt for all you can
carry. That'is the only way to succeed in busi— '

ness. Let other men’s money work for you!"

Getting in debt for luxuries is not always com-
mendable, but if the farm family have enough
stamina to dig out-from-under, they might better
be in debt than to lose their boys and girls to the,
city because of the lack of home conveniences
and attractive surroundings.

THE RIGHT MAN

I HE appointment by Governor Groesbeck of
Nathan F. Simpson as Superintendent of the
Michigan State Industries at Jackson will be

approved by every farmer in Michigan. who knows

of "Nate’s" record when he was warden of that
prison.

It was Nathan F. Simpson who established the
binder twine plant at Jackson and through vari—
ous other prison activities changed the method
of employing prison labor from the contract
basis which had made millionaires of a. few con—
tractors toa strictly state—OWned basis.

His record at Jackson during the period when
he was establishing these industries, which have 
since become permanent, was marked as an ex-
ample of efficiency by penal authorities through-
out the world and he left his work only because
he was attracted by greater remunerative oppor-
tunities in industry outside.

It is particularly fortunate that Mr. Simpson
will accept this position and in cooperation with
Mr. Harry H. Jackson, the new warden, a record
should be established at our state institution
heretofore undreamed of. ‘

More power to you. Nate, we are glad to see
you back again on the job we know you like!

GOVERNMENT. WARNS AGAINST INCREASE

HE general outlook for American crops this
year “is fairly encouraging” compared with
recent years, the department of agriculture

declared in its annual outlook report made public
February lst, but. it added that there “may be a
slackening in domestic demand for farm products
next Winter."

Producers of the major farm crops, such as cot-
ton and wheat were advised to “follow about the
same program of production as last year. In-
creased acreages of these crops," it said, “are not
advisable this year.”

“General business prosperity during the ﬁrst
half of the year will maintain the domestic de-
mand for the 1924 farm products yet to be mar—
keted,” the report continued, “and should stim-
ulate the demand for the better grades of certain
products.”

“It is not assured, however, that the industrial
improvement of the ﬁrst half of 1925 will con-
tinue in 1926 at the same high level, and should
there be a. reduction in busineSs activity as a re-
sult of over-stimulation of business, a slackened
demand for some of the 1925 crops may be ex—

pected.

“If there is an average world crop of wheat in
1926,” the report continued, “the present high
price of wheat cannot be expected to prevail for
the 1926 crop. Growers of hard spring wheat are
cautioned not to increase poduction above domes-
tic requirements. If the spring wheat acreage in
the United States is held to that of last year, and
an average yield is secured, the production of
spring wheat should about equal the domestic

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ANOTHER VICTIM OF NILE ART
~ “I am Writing you in re ard to'the
Nile Art 00“. My wife‘ ast fall
wanted to be. earning something in
the long winter months so she enter—
ed a contract with the Nile Art Co.
She paid them $8 and got her work
out in nice shape but when she sent
it in they said her work was not
good enough and wanted her to buy
more supplies but we put them down
as a fraud. Their paints are noth-
ing but a water mixture. I see by
your paper you have been handling
claims. Now if any one should get
their money back I should think my
wife should."

PPARENTLY you have not been
A following the Publishers Desk

very closely or you would have
seen the reports we have had on the
Nile Art Company.

As early as August 1923 we wrote
up this company, advising our sub-
_ecribers not to be caught by the al-
luring inducements offered.

The latest article we published
was in our December 6, 1924 issue
in which we quoted a newspaper
clipping which stated that the pro-
moter of the Nile Art Company, Mr.
Gle D. Fryer, who has owned and
opera this Company since April
1, 1922, has been arrested by the
United States Postal authorities and
charged with using the mails to de-
fraud the people. Since dis-organiz-
ation this Company has done a vol-
ume of business in excess of a half
million dollars and has earned a clear
great for Mr. Freyer of around ,two

undred or three hundred thousand
dollars.

We have been unable to ﬁnd a
customer of Mr. Freyer who has

need work that passed his scrut-

y and we doubt if there ever was
such a customer.

SOLUTIONS DO NOT CHARGE
M‘ORAGE BATTERJIB
HANGING the solution in a stor-
age battery does not charge it.
An investigation has recently
been made at the Bureau of Stan-
dards of certain solutions which were
said to charge batteries instantly, or
in a short time as compared with
the usual process. These tests have
shown that batteries containing these
solutions, contrary to the' claims
made for them. behave in accordance
with well-established laws of electro-
chemistry.

Analysis revealed these solutions
to contain 38 to 42 per cent of sul-
phuric acid which is about the
amount in the ordinary electrolyte
of an automobile battery when charg-
ed. In some of them were also found
signiﬁcant amounts of sodium or
magnesium as well as coloring mat-
ter. The sodium may have been add-
ed as soda, lye, or Glauber salts; the
magnesium as Epsom salts. The use
of sodium sulphate (Glauber salts)
in batteries is an old story. It was
suggested more than 36 years ago,
but various authorities since that
time have stated that such material
is without beneﬁcial eiIect. This has
been conﬁrmed by the Bureau’s re-
cent experiments which show the
rate of sulphation of plates to be un-
aﬂected by even 4 to 5 per cent of
Epsom salts or Glauber salts.

Comparison was made between
batteries containing these solutions
and similar batteries containing el-
ectrolyte of sulphuric acid of equiva-
lent strength. No essential differ-
ences were shown in the charging,
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perature. When a battery is said to
be charged it -is-understood that the
battery is fully charged. A battery
which is almost completely discharg—
ed may have nearly the same voltage
as one that is charged. In this con-
dition it may be able to operate the
starter of an automobile; but this
fact can not be taken as evidence
that the battery is fully charged. It
takes as long to fully charge a bat-
tery containing one of these solu-
tions as to charge a similar battery
containing the ordinary electrolyte.

The indiscriminate addition of
these solutions to a battery is not ad-
visable, although in some cases no
great harm may be done. If the so-
lution is used to replace the electro-
lyte of a completely discharged bat-
tery as is usually the case, the bat—
tery may be spurred on to give a
little more current because the plates
retain a surplus of active material.
When the battery is recharged by an
electric current the speciﬁc gravity
will rise much too high. This is be—
cause the acid formed at the plates
by the charging current is added to
the acid already present in the solu-
tion. In the Bureau’s experiments it
rose to 1.365. This is not desirable
because the local action or self dis-
charge within the battery is materi-
ally increased. A battery containing
one of these solutions lost 47 per
cent of its charge in 4 weeks as com-
pared with 8 per cent which was lost
by a similar battery with the or—
dinary solution. Batteries contain-
ing solutions of higher than normal
specific gravity often give less capa-
city at high rates of discharge, as
when cranking the engine of an au-
tomobile, depending upon the behav-
ior of the negative plates. The high-
er the speciﬁc gravity of the electro—
lyte the more injurious is the action
upon the separators. It is a well rec~
ognized principle in battery opera—
tion that acid should be added only
to replace that which may have been
spilled, or in rare instances to adjust
the speciﬁc gravity to the required
standard after the completion of a
full charge.

Although the materials and color—
ing matter considered individually
may be harmless the disadvantages
in using such solutions more than
offset any temporary gain. The us—
ual electrolyte of pure sulphuric acid
and water, adjusted to the proper
speciﬁc gravity at the completion of
2. full charge, is believed to be the

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LAND SELLERS’ GUIDE COMPANY
AGAIN ACTIVE

OME time ago fraud orders were
issued against the New Land
Sellers Guide Publishing Co. and

the Cooperative Land Co. It is now
reported that Benjamin H. Adams,
who operated these concerns, is spon—
soring the International Farm Cen-
sus & Appraisment Board from 620
Chestnut St., St. Louis. Adams’
present plan seems to be to send out
circular letters to farm owners of—
fering the recipient a connection as
an appraiser. On the application
blank space is provided for a list of
farm owners in the applicant’s com—
munity who desire to sell their land.
The National Vigilance Committee

,believe that names so obtained will

be circularized in an effort to secure
subscriptions to a real estate maga-
zine which he contemplates publish-
ing. The Vigilance Committee says
the statement “Because of the in-
creased number of aippraisements” is
misleading because the concern has
no positions to offer. It is also said
that the names of several banking
institutions and commercial organi-
zations listed as references on the
letterhead have been used without
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Claim No. 1564 has been settled en-
tirely satisfacto‘ ry. .Allow me to con-
gratulats "The Collection Box” for its
splendid service in helping subscribers
That concern would of never settled
without your help. Accept my sincere
thanksﬂmr 1131.11 ygur trouble. May your
paper curls an w.—H. 'r., Th ,
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Yes you may take my name of! your
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“ HAT rhyme? One which the wives
I of the lake men teach their chil-
dren. Did you remember that too?”

“After you said it."

“Can you remember the rest of it?"

“ ‘Green to Green—Red to Red,’ ” Alan
repeated to himself. “ ‘Green to green’
and then something anout—how is it,
‘Back her—back and stopper.’ ”

“That's from a. lake rhyme too, but an-
other one !” she cried. “And that’s quite
a good one. It’s one of the pilot rules
that every lake person knows. Some
skipper and wheelsman set them to rhyme
years ago, and the lake men teach the
rhymes to their children so that they’ll
never go wrong with a ship. It keeps
them clearer in their heads than any
amount of government printing. Uncle
Benny used to say they’ve saved any
number of collisions.

“Meeting steamers do not dread,” she
recited,

“When you see three lights ahead!

Port your helm and show your red.

For passing steamers you should try

To keep this maxim in your eye,

Green to Green—or Red to Red—

Perfect safety—g0 ahead.

Both in safety and in doubt,

Always keep a good lookout;

Should there be no room to turn,

Stop your ship and go astern.”

stopper':

"If to starboard Red appear,

’Tis your duty to keep clear;

Act as judgment says is proper.

Port or starboard—back or stop her!

But when on your port is seen

A steamer with a light of Green,

There‘s not much for you to do—-

The Green light must look out for you."

She had driven the car swiftly on the
boulevard to the turn where the motor-
way makcs west to Rush Street. then
it turned south again toward the bridge.
As they reached the approach to the
bridge and the cars congester there, Con-
stance was required to give all her at-
tention to the steering; not until they
were crossing the bridge was she-able to
glance at her companion’s face.

To westward, on both sides of the river,

summer boats were laid up, with their

decks covered with snow. On the other
side, still nearer to the bridge, were some
of the winter vessels; and, while the motor
was on the span, the 'bells began ringing
the alarm-to clear the bridge so it could
turn to let a great steamer just in from
the lake, the sun glistening on the ice
covering its bows and sides back as far
as Alan could see. -

Forward of the big, black, red-banded
funnel, a cloud of steam bellowed up and
ﬂoated back, followed by another, and
two deep, rcverbrating ’blasts rumbled up
the river majestically, imperiously. The
shrill little alarm bells on the bridge
jangled more nervously and excitedly,
and the policeman at the south end has-
tily signalled the motor cars from the
city to stop, while he motioned those still
on the bridge to scurry off; for a ship
desired to pass. '

pealcd, as Constance ran the car from
the bridge just before it began to turn.

She swung the car to the side of the
street and stopped; as he gazed back, he
was—she knew—seeing not only his ﬁrst
great ship close by, but having his ﬁrst
view of his people—the lake men from
whom now he knew from the feeling he
had found within himself, and not only
from what had been told him, that he
had come.

The ship was sheathed in ice from stem
to stem; tons of the gleaming, crystal
metal weighed the forecastle; the rail all
round had become a frozen bulwark; the
boats were more hammocks of ice; the
bridge was encased, and from the top
of the pilot house hung down giant sta—
lactitos which an axman was chopping
away. Alan could see the ofﬁcers on the
bridge, the wheelsmen, the lookout; he
could see the spurt of water from the
ship’s side as it expelled with each thrust
of the pumps; he could see the whirlpool
about the screw, as slowly, steadily, with
signals clanging clearly somewhere below,
the steamer went through the draw.
From up the river ahead of it came the
jangling of bells and the blowing of
alarm whistles as the other bridges were
cleared to let the vessel through. It
showed its stern now; Alan read the name
and registry aloud: “ ‘Groton of Escan-
a'ba!’ Is that one of yours, Miss Sher-
rill; is that one of yours and my—Mr.
Corvet’s?"

She shook her head, sorry that she had
to say no. “Shall we go on now?”

The bridge was swinging shut again;
the long line of motor cars, which had
accumulated from the boulevard from the
city, began slowly to move. Constance
turned the car down the narrow street,
fronted by warehouses which Alan had
passed the morning before. to Michigan
Avenue, with the park and harbor to the
left. When she glanced now at Alan, she
saw that a reaction of depression had
followed excitement at seeing the~ steamer
pass close by. ” ‘ " ' "'

 

“Now we’re coming to your ‘back and ‘

"Can we stop and see it?" Alan ap-,

  

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given him a feeling for ships and for the
lake; a. single word——leaka—+—a childish
rhyme and stogy, which he might have
heard repeated and have asked for a
hundred times " in babyhood. But these
recollections were only what those of a.
three-years’ child might have been. Not
only did they refuse to connect them-
selves with anything velse, but by the
very ﬁnality of their isolation, they
warned him that they—and perhaps a
few more vague memories of similar
sort—«were all that recollection ever would
give him. He caught himself together
and turned his thoughts to the approach-
ing visit to Sherrillv—and his father's
ofﬁces.

Observing the towering buildings to his
right, he was able to identify some of
the more prominent structures, familiar
from photographs of the city. Constance
drove swiftly a few blocks down this
boulevard; then, with a sudden, “Here
we are!” she shot the car to the curb
and stopped. She led Alan into one of
the tallest and |best-looking of the build—
ings, where they took an elevator pla-
carded “Express” to the ﬁfteenth ﬂoor.

On_ several of the doors opening upon
the wide marble hall where the elevator
left them, Alan saw the names, “Corvet,
Sherrill and Spearman." As they passed,
without entering, one of these doors
which stood [propped open, and he looked
in, he got his ﬁrst realization of the com-
paratively small land accommodations
which a great business conducted upon
the waterrequires. What he saw within
was only one large room, with hardly
more than a dozen, certainly not a score
of desks in it; nearly all the desks were
closed, and there were not more than
three or four people in the room, and
these apparently stenographers. Doors of
several small ofﬁces, opening upon the
larger room, bore names, among which
he saw “Mr. Corvet” and “Mr. Spear-
man."

“It won't look like that a. month from
now,” Constance said, catching his ex-
pression. "Just now, you know, the
straits and all the northern lakes are
blocked fast with ice. There‘s nothing
going on now except the Winter trafﬁc
on Lake Michigan and, to a much smaller
extent, on Ontario and Erie; we have an
interest in some winter boats, but we
don’t operate them from here. Next
month we will be busy ﬁtting out, and
the month after that all the ships we
have will be upon the water."

She led the way on past to a door
farther down the corridor, which bore
merely the name, “Lawrence Sherrill”;
evidently Sherrill, who had interests aside
from the shipping business, had ofﬁces
connected with but not actually a. part
of the ofﬁces of Corvet, Sherrill, and
Spearman. A girl was on guard on the
other side of the door; she recognized
Constance Sherrill at once and, saying
that Mr. Sherrill had been awaiting Mr.
Conrad, she opened an inner door and
led Alan into a. large, many—windowed
room, where Sherrill was sitting alone
before a table-desk. He arose, a moment
after the door opened, and spoke a word
to his daughter, who had followed Alan
and the girl to the door, but‘who had
halted there. Constance withdrew, and
the girl from the outer ofﬁce also went
away, closing the door behind-her. Sher-
rill pulled the “visitor’s chair” rather
close to his desk and to his own big
leather chair before asking Alan to seat
himself.

“You wanted to tell me, or ask me,
something last night, my daughter has
told me," Sherrill said cordially. “I’m
sorry I wasn’t home when you came
back.”

“I wanted to ask you, Mr. Sherrill,”
Alan said, “about those facts in regard
to Mr. Corvet which you mentioned to me
yesterday but did not explain. You said
it would not aid me to know them; but
I fOIlnd certian things in.Mr. Corvet's
house last night which made me want to
know, if I could, everything you could
tell me.”

Sherrill opened a drawer and took out
a large, plain envelope.

“I did not tell you about these yester-
day, Alan,” he said, “not only because I
had not decided how to act in regard to

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After seeing -you,,_:I was” obliged to"w‘a.i

for--:Spearman to get back to..tOWn.' The

vcircumstanCes are such that I felt myself

obliged to' talk them over ﬁrst with him;
I have done so this morning; so I was
going to send for you, if you had 'not
come down."

Sherrill thought a minute, still holding» .

the envelope closed in his hand.‘

“On the day after your father dis-
appeared,” he went on, “but before I
knew he was gone—or before any one
except my daughter felt any alarm
about him—I received a, short note from
him. I will show it to you 1a._ter, if you
wish; its exact wording, however, is un~
important. It had been mailed very late
the night before apparently at the mail
box near *his house or'at least, by the
postmark, somewhere in the neighbor-
hood; and for that reason had not been
taken up before the morning collection
and did not reach the ofﬁce until I had
been here and gone away again about
eleven o’clock. I did not get it, therefore,
until after lunch. The note was agitated,
almost incoherent. It told me he had
sent for you—Alan Conrad, of Blue
Rapids, Kansas—but spoke of you as
though you were some one I ought to have
known about, and commended you to my
care. The remainder of it was merely
an agitated, almost indescipherable fare-
well to me. When I opened the envelope,
a key had fallen out.
no reference to the key, but comparing
it with one-.I.had in my pocket. I saw
that it appeared to be a key to a sa ty
deposit box in the vaults of a com y
where we both had boxes.

“The note taken in connection with my
daughter's alarm about him, made it so
plain that something serious had hap-
pened to Corvet, that my ﬁrst thought
was merely for him. Corvet was not a.
man with whom one could readily con-
nect the thought of guicide; but, Alan.
that was the idea that I had. I hurried
at once to his house, but the bell was not
answered, and I could not get in. His
servant, Wassaquam, has very few
friends, and a few times he has been
away from home of recent years have
been when he visited an acquaintance of
his—the head porter in a South Side
hotel. I Went to the telephone in the
house next door and called the hotel and
found VVassaquam there. I asked Wassa-
quam about the letter to ‘Alan Conrad,’
and Wassaquam said Corvet had given
it to him to post early in the evening.
Several hours later, Corvet had sent him
out to wait at the mail box for the mail
collector to get the letter back. Wassa-
quam went out to the mail box, and Cor-
vet came out there too, almost at ones.

The mail collector, when he came, told""'

them, of course, that he could not re-
turn the letter; but Corvet himself had
taken the letters and looked them through.
Corvet seemed very much excited when
his discovered the letter was not there;
and when the mail man remembered that
he had been late on his previous trip
and so must have taken up the letter
almost at once after it was mailed, Cor-
vet’s excitement increased on learning
that it was already probably on the train
on its way west. He controlled himself
later enough at least to reassure Wassa—
quam away from the house, Wassaquaxm
had gone without feeling any anxiety
about him.

“I told Wassaquam over the telephone
only that something was wrong, and hur-
ried to my own home to get_the key,
which I had, to the Corvet house; but
when I came back and let myself into the
house, I found it empty and with no sign
of anything having happened.

“The next morning, Alan, I went to the
safe deposit vaults as soon as they were
open. I presented the numbered key and
was told that it belonged to a box rented
by Corvet, and that Corvet had arranged
about three days ago for me to have
access to the box if I presented the key.
I had only to sign my name in their book
and open the box. In it, Alan, I found
the pictures of you which I showed you
yesterday and the very strange communi-
cations that I am going to show you now."

(Continued in Mar. 14th issue.)

Please cancel my name as my sub-
scription has expired and I am not ready
to renew my subscription. Thank you
very much for the past service as I liked
your paper very much and if I wanted
any farm paper you would be the only
one—F. M., Coral, Michigan.

 

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“ ‘ EVENTY .grOWers' from twenty-
eight counties of Michigan made
134‘ entries at the State Potato
Show held at the Michigan Agricul-
turalColle'ge during Farmers’ Week.
This show was staged by the Michi-
gan Potato Producers’ Association in
co-operation with the M. A. C. From
the standpoint of uniformly high
‘ quality of exhibits the show surpass-
ed ,any potato'show yet held at East
Lansing and was equal t-o-any of the
State shows heretofore held at Grand
Rapids. The number of entries was
approximately one-half of the num-
ber at the Grand Rapids Show in
1923. ‘

The attendance of potato growers
was much better at the East Lansing
show than at Grand Rapids and there
was much general‘interest displayed
by them in studying the samples of
potatoes and the educational exhibits
put up by the State Department of
Agriculture, the Michigan Agricul-
tural College and the New York Cen-
tral Railroad. That the show was an
inspiration to many growers for pro-
ducing better quality potatoes was
evidenced by many of the remarks
made by them.

It is believed that this spring the
planting of certiﬁed seed potatoes
will be more generally adopted by
table stock producers than in any
previous year. The eﬁect of certi-
ﬁed seed in bettering the market
quality and yield of potatoes is now
being recognized by most growers.

Many visitors of the show said that .

they intended to enter exhibits in the
potato show to be held at East Lan—
sing next winter. A larger and bet—
ter located exhibit space will no
doubt be available for the next po—
tato show held at the College and
judging by the interest and enthusi—
asm displayed by both exhibitors
and non—exhibitors the next show
will be a big one.

Pettifor of Gaylord Wins Sweepstakes

Otsego county growers won the
lion’s share of the premium money,
and were a arded a silver loving cup
for winnin ﬁrst place in the county
exhibit class.

Ernest Pettifor, a certiﬁed seed
growenfrom the Top 0’ Michigan
won sweepstakes with his 32 tuber
sample of Russet Rurals. He also
had two other entries which were
awarded premiums. _

Considering the excellent showing
made by Alpena and Gratiot counties
in the county exhibit class and the
fact that another year Antrim, Che—
boygan and Montcalm can be counted
on to be present, the competition
may be keen enough to suit the most
exacting exhibitor.

The judging of exhibits was done
by Prof. A. G. Tolaas of St. Paul,
Minnesota. Prof. Tolaas, -who has
charge of the seed potato inspection
service in Minnesota gave an inter-
esting talk on. the “Essentials in Cer-
tiﬁed Seed Production” at the Pota—
to Producers’ meeting held at the
College on Feb. 3rd... Others on the
program were J. D. Robinson, Pells—
ton; Prof. G. M. Grantham, M. A. C.;
L. L. Drake, Mancelona, and J. W.
Weston, M. A. C. The meeting was
well attended and _a hearty interest
was shown by all in better production
and marketing methods.

The following is a list of the prize
winners:

See. A. Class 1,—Individual exhibits
of 32 potatoes of Russet Rurals. 1st.,
E. Pettifor, Gaylord; 2nd., F. Wyrick,
Alanson; 3rd., J. Woodman, Paw Paw;
4th., E. VanBuren, Vanderbilt; 5th., R.
Dougherty, Gaylord; 6th., V. Mankow-
ski. Gaylord; 7th., Geo. Teeter, Gaylord;
8th., Walter Barlow, Spratt; 9th., E.
Sutton, Central Lake; 10th., James
Meeks, North Adams. Awards of Merit,
W. Pettii'or, Gaylord; John Allis, Gay-
lord; Geo. Coultes, Gaylord; J. Barlow,
Spratt, C. S. Dearborn, Bellare; B. Heath
Holden, Milford.

See. A. Class 2.-Individual 32 potato
exhibit. White Rurals.——1st., M. Smilow-
ski, Gaylord; 2nd., E.,Van Buren, Vander-
bilt; 3rd, V. vMankostki', Gaylord; 4th.,
A Smilowski. Gaylord: ':5th..'J. c. Wilk,
St. Louis; 6th., Geo. Harrison, Manton;
7th., Harry Stroven. Fremont; 8th., E. W,
Lincoln, Greenville. 'Awards of Merits,
J. A. Wilk, Alma; Rossma’ﬁn. Bros, Lake-
view; J. V. Harrison, Manton; 'Perry
.Holden, Milford. '-

Seo. A. Class 3.—Individual 32 potato
exhibit. Green Mountain.——-A. J. Gehrke.‘
Ossineke: 2nd., .Rasmus Olsen. Sands;
3rd., John Deiongchamps, Champion :7 4th..

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‘V. Beardsley, Owosso; 4th.,
aylord; 6th., J. V. Harrison,
Manton; 6th., M. C. Coates, Midland;
7th., W. Pettifor, Gaylord; 8th., J. C.
Wilk,.St. Louis. Awards of Merits, J. A.
Wilk, Alma; R. C. Campbell, Johannes-
burg. '

Sec. A. Class 5.——Individual 32 potato
exhibit. Early 0hio.—lst., J. C. Wilk,
St. Louis; 2nd., Walter Barlow, Spratt;
9rd, J. Barlow, Spratt; 4th... M. E. Gray,
Gaylord; 5th., R. C. Campbell, Johannes-
burg; 6th., T. J. Wilk, Forest Hill.
Awards of Merit, Jesse Pickett, Caledonia;
X’ard Pickett, Caledonia; J. A. Wilk,

lma.

See. A. Class 6.-——Individual 32 potato
exhibit. Any other variety of Merit.—1st.,
Clever Brudy, Wolverine, 2nd; Ward
Pickett, Caledonia; 3rd., Geo. Harrison,
Manton; 4th., Jesse Pickett, Caledonia;
5th., J. C. Wilk, St. Louis; 6th., T. J.
Wilk, Forrest Hill.

Sec. B. Class 7,—County Exhibits.—-lst.
Otsego County; 2nd., Alp'ena County;
3rd., Gratiot County. v

Sec. C. Class 8.-—Certiﬁed Seed Exhibit.
60 lbs. Russet Rurals.—-—1st., E. Sutton,
Central Lake; 2nd., F. E. Wyrick, Alan-
son; 3rd., B. Heath Holden, Milford; 4th.,
E. Van Buren, Vanderbilt; 5th., R. C.

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coin. Greenville'; 7th.,“W. Barlow, Spratt;
8th:, A. E. Stine, Bellevue. .
Sec. C. Class 9.—-—Certiﬁed Seed Exhibit.

60: lbs. White Rurals.—1st., E. W. Lincoln, '
.Greenville; 2nd., M. SmilowSki, Gaylord;

3rd., E. Van Buren, Vanderbilt; 4th., Geo.
Harrison, Manton.

~Sec; C. Class 10.——Certiﬂed Seed Ex-
hibit. 60 lbs. Green Mountains—3rd.,
John Delongchamp, Champion.

Sec. C. Class 11.——Certiﬁed Seed Ex-
hibit. 60 lbs. Irish Cobblers.—1st., Geo.
Harrison, Manton; 2nd., J. D. Robinson,
Pellston; 3rd., E. Pettifor, Gaylord; 4th.,
J. V. Harrison, Manton.

Sec. C. Class 12.—-Certiﬁed Seed Ex-
hibit. 60 lbs. Early Ohio.—3rd., R. C.
Campbell, Johannesburg.

Sec. E. Boys and Girls Club. Individ—
ual 32 potato exhibit. Russet Rural.—
1st., James Meeks, North Adams; 2nd.,
Francis Scheli, Battle Creek; 3rd., Joseph
Drake, Crystal Falls. Award of Merit,
Wilfred Caister, Decker.

Sec E. Class 16.—-Individua1 32 Potato
exhibit. Any other variety.—lst., Roy
Chamberlain, Oxford; 2nd., Gordon Gold-
en, Grindstone.

Enclosed please ﬁnd a $1.00 bill for to
keep on sending THE-BUSINESS FARMER.
We could not send money before now.
But I tell you we did miss THE BUS-
INESS FARMER very much—Mrs. O. C.
Schultz, Aranec, County.

  
 
 

     
 

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SPRIN G W HEAT

I would like information on rais-i,
ing spring wheat. Is it a sucﬁess in“
this state? I have a ﬁeld that is rolle p,
ing and it is well drained, clay soil ‘_
and part black soil.——F. G. F., Perry, v
Michigan.

URING a majority of the seasons
spring wheat is not a very suc-
cessful crop to raise in southern .

and central Michigan. The yield is
inﬂuenced quite materially by clima-
tic‘ conditions. When the spring and
summer are cool and fairly moist.
fair yields are secured. The right
season for spring wheat occurs about
once every four or ﬁve years.

I believe that you would ﬁnd oats
or barley more proﬁtable.

In case you did decide to raise a.
crop of spring Wheat, I would suggest
the Marquis variety sown as early as
possible using 300 pounds of acid
phosphate per acre to hasten the ma-
turity.—C. R. Megee, Associate Pro-
fessor of Farm Crops, Michigan Ag-
ricultural College. '

In fattening stock for the market, it’s
always best to keep them just a little
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experiment and practical feed-
ing tests, which have demon-
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cows in good condition and in
good health. Any change, there-
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exhaustive tests had ﬁrst proved
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years. With increased danger
on the highway, no farmer
or business man can afford
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and has built up assets
which, on January 1, 1925,
amounted to $565,000.

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given the farmer in compari-
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insured, see the local agent

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EAR girls and boys: What a won-
derful time I am having! I am
receiving leters from every part

of, the state and all of the writers
are in favor of our having a motto,
colors and a button, and they are
making some real good suggestions.
When I write this the contest has
better than a full week to run yet
and indications are that there is go-
ing to be so many letters that it
will take several days to judge them.

that a picture of Uncle Ned be print-
ed on the button. I would not look
digniﬁed unless my entire beard
showed, and it my entire beard show-
ed you could not see my face. on
account of the whiskers on' the size
button we intend to use — so that is
out of the question. I will tell you
more about the contest next issue.—
UNOLE NED.

OUR GIRLS AND BOYS

Dear Uncle Ned:—Here I am, back
again pretty soon am I not? I will try
to make my letters more interesting. It
seems that I am growing every minute.
I stretched about an inch already. I am
16 years of age now, my birthday was on
December 27th. We will never be email
any more so I think it is better to do
good things now for “lost time is never
found", that is my motto.

How many of the cousins can cut glass
with a pair of shears? Can you, Uncle
Ned? I am sending you a heart that I
out out of glass. If any of the cousins
am cut glass with a pair of hears write
and tell me how you do it.

that I took to Detroit, I just can't reman-
ber the date, it was some time in August,
It was on Friday, I can remember that.
We were going to leave home at one
o’clock but my brother didn't get to bed
because he went to a dance and didn't
come home till twelve. I was up when he
got home cause I went to bed at seven.
Then we started on our trip. I was driv-
ingasfaraslknewthewayandmy
brother was sleeping. Then when I didn’t
know what road to take I woke him, (it
was dark then I forgot to tell you). He
took the wheel and he went about a mile
and fell asleep. I didn’t watch him be—
cause I was watching the ﬁelds for I was
not on that road before. Then I saw that
the car was going down a slope and I
began screaming and that woke my
brother. The car went between a. tele—
phone pole and a wire and another pole
was in front of the other pole and we
went right into the other one also. Then
we had to get out of there and we had
an awful time getting the car out. When
we got through the wind shield was
broken, one of the head lights was broken,
one fender bent and the top was pulled
off. The accident happened near Jackson.
We got to Detroit and had the car re-
paired. We reached Detroit at 10 o’clock
in the morning. At night We went to a
movie, but I didn’t see much of the picture
as I was sleepy and also had a severe
headache. I was giad to leave Sunday
morning for the country is always better,
I think. On the way home we didn’t
have any accidents and I am glad we
didn’t.

I think I am going to Detroit to stay

a while and my brother works there.
He drives a Studebaker car. When I
write again I will tell you about another
trip.
I wish all the people in Kendall would
take the M. B. F. as it is such an inter-
esting paper. If every one would take
the paper I would try to make a meeting
and see if. we could have a club for the
girls and boys and call it “The Children's
Hour Club”. I think it would be ﬁne.
I love to join clubs but they do not have
any here. I think it is awful not to have
a club. I can hardly wait till the M. B.
F. comes. It seems like a month till it
comes.

I better close or my letter will take the
whole Children’s Hour page.

Uncle, did you have a context of mak-
ing paper ﬂowers? I think boys could
make ﬂowers as well as girls can.

Remember about the glass, see if you
can cut it. You may try also, Uncle
Ned. Hoping to hear horn lots of cousins.
Your niece—Evelyn Slunyck. Kendall
Mich.

—-—You are very clever if you cut that
heart you sent me trom a piece of glass
with a pair of shears. How did you do
it? That’s 0 good idea about forming a
Children’s Hour Club in your neighbor-
hood. Why don’t you try and get some
of your friends to have their fathers or

you could start your club. No, we never
had a ﬂower making contest.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I wrote you happy
circle a little over a year ago and it was
printed, thought it about time I was writ-
ing again, don’t you? The Business
Farmer is the best paper that is printed
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In one letter I have it is suggested .-

I think I will tell you about my trip ‘

mothers subscribe for the M. B R? Then

suppose you will want to know what kind
of a hen is doing the scratching, but I
am not a hen at all, just a boy who Was
ﬁfteen years old today, the 18th day of
January. I have light hair, light oom-
plexion with blue eyes with “glass front."
I just read your last issue about a
circle, which would surely be a good
and I believe all would like it.

Also it would be good to have pins with
colors, say blue and white wouldglook
good with some design on them. and then
have a' contest every week. .The ones
having won the contest get a pin. Pick
out .ten or the best ones to Ewart] the.
to. Bad: one could send ﬁve or

ten cents per month to pay for the prizes
and let more Ned be president secretary
and treasurer and whatever else is needed.
We must also have a motto to work for.
How would it be it you would have a few
gold pins to give those who would make
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or send in some good essays to be printed.
we could have a fund to help some p00r
Cripple. A good name would be “The
Happy Helpers.” Well now what do you
cousms think of all this? Let Uncle Ned
know. A good motto would be “Make
Happiness”. .

Good-night, hoping lots of the girls and
boys near the age of 15 will write to me.
I’ll answer everyone—Harold VanKam-
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Dear Uncle Ned:——My how time does
ﬂy. I can hardly believe that we are on
the last part of our term of school. I
hope to pass the eighth grade this year.
I have enjoyed my school days immensely.
Oh! those are good old days aren’t they,
Uncle Ned? Can you remember when
you went to school, Uncle? Times h3ve
changed haven’t they? It will soon be
Valentine’s Day. I am sending you a
small one. “Just a bit of remembrance."

It Will soon be spring. How glad I’ll be
though I have enjoyed the winter and
rather like to wade snow somethnes to
my hips. Oh! we northern people have
fun don’t we? Just see What the people
of Indiana are missing.

Uncle Ned do you print stories on your
page? If so I have ﬁve or six I com-
pleted for English. May I send them in?
I have only heard from one cousin since
I last wrote and that was Ingeberg Fos-
sum of Mancelona. I only got one let-
ter from her and answered it but haven’t
received an answer. Say, what’s the mat-
ter cousins? Do I hear you sigh? Now
please don't but spruce up a bit and let

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aim lusnjtimer W" ‘xin bee; Wen, byg- 

bye. Don’t forget to write. \' ‘With, lover-
Helen B. Klmmison, Kalkaska. Michigan.
—.Indeed I do remember when I used to
go to school and it is with'great pleasure
I recall those days. Times have changed,
it is true, and children have things much
better nowadays I am pleased to say.
May they continue to improve. Send in
your stories, Helen. Maybe we can pub-
lish one or two of them. ,,
Your valentine was pretty and I than

. you. .

Dear Uncle Nedz—May I join your
Merry Circle? I am a girl 11 years old.
I have light hair, blue eyes and a fair
complexion. I am four feet ten inches
tall and weigh 92 pounds. I live on a
94-acre farm. My father has two horses.
ten cows and a Fordson tractor. He
takes the M. B. F. and I like to read the
Children’s Hour. I have two pets, 2. cat
named Squirrel and a dog named Rover.
I'minthe'lthgradeatschoolandwalk
1% miles to get my education. I have
a lady teacher and like her very much.
Ourhrmisnexttotheﬁouthanno!
Pine me, no I go swimming a great
deal in the summer time. I guess that
Leona Brown'saseis “years. Am!
right. Wellmyinkiogettinglowso
will stop with a. riddle. “What is the
name of this state—high in the middle
and low on each side?“ Answer—Ohio.
—Clara Len, RZ, East Jordan, Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am going to pay
anotheth toyou. Iwusogladto
see my letter and poem in print that
I'm going to try again. I am enclosing
a little poem which I composed while
lying in bed, trying to sleep. I guess I
will describe myself to you and your
nieces and nephews. I am ﬁve feet tall.
weigh 105 pounds, have dark brown hair
and eyes and I am fourteen years of age.
OtcourSeIamagirl. Iwouldbeglad
to hear from some of the cousins about
my 86‘8- ‘

Uncle Ned, don’t you think Muriel Frey

' is a live wire? I worked out her crosa~

word puzzle and found it very interesting.

.,Uncle Ned, wouldn't it be nice to join a

club? For instance, every two weeks you
could pick out the ﬁve or ta: best stories
or poems and let us know who won, and
those that won wuld send you ﬁve or ten
cents and you could get marshes-ship pins
made. I am sure that all the cousins
wouldboverygratetultoywiryou
would try to do that. Well. Uncle Ned,
Iguasstillclose. Ihopeyouwillnot
be angry with my suggestion. Ha! Ha!
-——Katlrryn Paul, Wauoedsh, Michigan.

School Days
When I was but 8. tot of eight.
To go to school, I sure did hate,
I often said if I were through,
I'd never face inside of a stool.

When Mother said she’d go to town,
Upon my face there’d be a trown;

For it with school, I were only through,
I could have gone with Mother too.

Oh! Mother, Oh! Mother,
I sure hate school;
And also that school-
Mam’s terrible rule;
But mother always
Quieted me down,
And told me that
later I may visit the town.

And now that I'm out of school,

I often wish I could follow that rule.
or saying Yes Sir and Yes Mam.

And working all the problems I can.

——Kathryn Paul, Wancedah, Mich.

A FEW RIDDLEB

What is that which goes from London
to York without moving?—’I‘he road.

When may a chair be said to dislike
you ?—When it can't beer you.

What animal took most luggage into
the Ark, and which two took the least?—
The elephant, who took his trunk. while
the fox and the cock had only a brush
and a comb between them.

Which of the English kings has most
reason to complain of his washerwoman?
--—-King John, when he lost his baggage
in the Wash.

If a bear were to go into a linen-
draper’s shop, what would he want?—
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‘I have some grape vines and they

seem to bear good but just before

they ripen they seem to dry up and

mold and are no good. Is this what

they call" dry rot? What is the

' ‘ cause and the remedy?—J. J. Y.,
g ‘ Centreville, Michigan.

’i , OUR grape vines are probably
5' ' .  affected with a fungus disease
I ‘ commonly known as Black Rot
It is usually very well controlled by
thorough spraying with Bordeaux
Mixture. ‘The following is the spray
schedule which is recommended for
the grape.

1. When the shoots are eight to
ten inches long—spray with 4-
4—50 Bordeaux Mixture.

Just before blossoming—spray
again with Bordeaux Mixture
and add one to 1% pounds of
‘ arsenate of lead powder to each
" ” ' 50 gallons. I

Just as the blossoms are. falling
§—same as above.

Ten days to two weeks later——
same. as above.

5. If injury from insects and dis-
eases is likely to be serious another
spraying two weeks later may be
necessary.———R. E. Loree, Asst. Prof.
of Horticulture, M. A. C.

RIAKES FRUITS INTO JAllIS

AND JELLIES

This fall we commenced to work
our fruits into jams and jellies sell-
ing on the retail markets of this city.
We are well aware that same must
i I be tagged or labeled in accordance
‘ with state law, but, a couple of the

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state food inspectors assigned to
Kent county informed us that we
could not sell any manufactured

fruits commercially unless we took
out a state license of $25.00 to do
so and we were warned to discon-
tinue selling same without taking
out a license. They stated that the
Ganner’s Association had gotten such
a law passed to prevent competition.
I have also been informed that there
is no such law. I wOuld like to know

MUSINGSOEA

grees. Unusual weather.
The live stock is enjoying a sun

ID—FEB RUARY. The thermome-

me-g... . .,.-‘ V .1 ,

.4 bath, the children are romtping on
3 the lawn. Truly a wonderful Sab—
" bath day. '

 I should be at church. Instead I
am roaming around trying to shake
the fence posts testing the frost.
This bright’sun makes me uneasy
for the spring drive. This is a rest-

less age.
; How quickly nature responds to
heat. Even the clover is showing
,5 green.

I Isn’t a yearling a foolish animal?
One is trailing me down the lane
t.aw1ing. What for, I don’t know.

I seize a stone about the twentieth
of a hundredweight and hurl it at

, him with great force, shooing him

back. If the rascal would stray from

the herd it would mean a chase of
several furlongs.

9. Always something to disturb my
meditations. _

The Wheat looks very promising.

. Rumors are aﬂoat that last year’s

  

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it there is any law in this state that
will prevent me from turning my
fruit into jams, jellies, and fruit
butters and selling same commerc-
ially without taking out a state lic~
ense, as we intend the coming sea.-
son to go into this extensively even
if we have to take out a license to
'do so.———F. S., Kent County, Mich.

0U are respectfully referred to
Act No. 411, Public Acts of
1919, “An Act to regulate the
business of canning and preserv-
ing", from which we quote Section
1 as follows:
“The People of the State of Michi-
gan Enactz'

“All persons. ﬁrms, corporations
and associations are prohibited from
engaging in the business of canning
or preserving fruits or vegetables
without ﬁrst having been licensed
so to do by the Food and Drug Com-
missioner (Commissioner of Agricul-
ture) of ‘the State of Michigan.”

The annual license fee is $25.00.

Of course, you misquote the In-
spector in saying, or inferring, that
the canners of the State of Michigan
caused this law to be enacted to
eliminate competition. On the con-
trary, the law was enacted to give
the consuming public greater con-
ﬁdence in canned food products by
insuring the canning and preserving
of sound raw products put up under
approved sanitary conditions.

As a direct result of this law and
its enforcement through inspection,
Michigan canned goods are today un-
excelled in quality and so recognized
by the distributors, wholesalers and
retailers throughout the Central
West and East.

It will be necessary for you, or
anyone else who wishes to can or
preserve fruits or vegetables com—
mercially, regardless of volume of
their annual output, to apply for a
license, to have their place approved
for canning purposes, and to subject
their canning or preserving factory
to"- frequent, rigid State inspection——
Bureau of Foods and Standards.

PLAIN ‘FARMER

crop is cornered. I Wonder if it’s
cornered in that pit in~ Chicago,
where men work themselves into a
frenzy over gold.

How can money be compared with
wheat? Of course there is a medium
of exchange, but suppose the Creator
in his wisdom would put a bheck on
this money grabbing world.

A universal drought, a wave of in-
sects that would destroy all our food
plants! What then? Gold would
be an inert thing.

I don't mind hear hearing my chil-
dren whine for money, but should
they cry for food it would annoy me
considerable. .

Well, I don’t propose to play the
ticker. If the other fellow gambler.
in food—stuff that’s his funeral. And
his lookout after the funeral.

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cheap heat. My faith has been
strengthened.
Hurrah! The cattle have broken

into the meadow, stampeding with
tails high. Now for a chase. A
horse! A horse! My kingdom for a

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I By Anne“ Campbell ‘ "

, A cherished knife, a grimy ball of string.
Some pebbles. shells, and nails, 3. safety

pm;

A bit) of putty and a curtain ring,

A marble and a tiny piece of tin;

And in the other pocket folded square

His handkerchief reposes white as snow,

Untouched by hands since ﬁrst he put it
there, ’

A small boy’s handkerchief is just for
show!

I pick his little suit up from the ﬂoor,
And hang it carefully upon the hook. ‘
His weighty pockets tempt me to explore.
I have to laugh as cautiously I look,
Replacing carefully—I'll not mislay

The precious treasure of his magic day!

HOW MOTHER MADE IT

E don’t have much trouble with

our children sinCe we began to

use the calendar,” smiled
Mother looking fondly at the small
girl and sturdy boy, “they used to
have ﬁts of temper and naughtiness
but they have reformed.”

“Something new. Tell me,” I in-
sisted.

She pointed to two calendars hang—
ing upon the wall of the living room.
“All our neighbors and friends come

~'lnto this room. Most children are on

their good behavior when we have
company. Naturally they do not like
for strangers or friends to know
when they perform. So we hung
Ned’s calendar ﬁrst, marked the day
with black ink when he was espec-
ially bad. Nelly’s came next. Oh
they were ashamed when the .minis—
ter asked the meaning of those dark
days! The neighbors learned too,
and began to ask the nature of the
offense. The ﬁrst month there were
ﬁfteen cloudy days. Oh, they begged
me to tear them off. But I had ex-
plained in the beginning that the
page must hang for the month.”

“And the result?”

Mother beckoned to Nelly playing
quietly in the corner. “Let’s see your
calendar, dear.”

Nelly brought it proudly. But one
black day and the month was near-
ly gone. “For losing her temper
when Ned pulled her curls,” explain-
ed Mother, “but one day a month is
an improvement.”

“Ned’s has three black days for
ﬁghting and robbing birds’ nests and
running out the front door to keep
from Working,” laughed Nelly, “but
he’s getting good, too.” ‘

I took the calendar in my hand.
Not a leaf was missing. I turned
backward through the months which
had gone and looked at the black
days and the bright ones—record of
the lives of these tots who were
learning that a record of good and
evil is inevitable. And I thought——
if we older ones would only think
such is our life. No task master
stands beside us. Sometimes we are
less patient, less sweet, less to be
commended than the children of
whom we expect so much.

The plan was good for the child-
ren. Wouldn’t it be well, if we
should take stock of our short com—
lugs and blot them out from our cal-
endar?——Grace B. Allen.

MENDI'NG THE MEN'S CLOTHES

HEN suits and OVercoats are
W torn it takes the greatest of

care to repair them so they are
presentable. Should the tear extend
over a large surface, it is best to
take the garment to a tailor who will
insert a piece so it looks almost as
good as new and is practically un-
noticeable. The saving will be well
Worth the cost.

But the mending of the smaller
tears that do not admit of inserting a
piece is the heritage of the lady of
the house. The ﬁrst step is the
“straightenng out” of the rent, the
rearranging of the threads and ﬁbers
of the cloth so that they lie in the
original direction. When smoothed
down and ﬁrmly held with the left
hand, fasten on the under side with
stitches of the same colored thread
to hold in place, being careful not to
draw the thread too tightly as that
would give a puckered appearance.
This fastening stitch is run across the
tear and is simply a stay and prepar-
atory to the darning. When fastened
in place, bring the thread to the right
side of the goods and weave in the
broken fabric, over and under the
- ﬁbers and running beyond the tear

,on both sides, using the loose stitch
.so necessary for a successful opera-
tion. When the broken part is ﬁlled
in and the cloth is ﬁrm, you are ready

to press the work and this isaitho'

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. ADepanment ﬁx the WQmp

ﬁrst show.

a week. Every other day
is not. too often — visits will
help renew old friendships

and make new ones.
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Edited by MRS. ANNIE trams

EAR. FOLKS: In the winter man?'

of good disposition without knowing the reason why — or at least
A change of scenery will often do
more than all the prescriptions that are offered. Some women let cold
weather hem them in like a high wall that has been erected with the
Health authorities urge that no woman should let winter
keep her in —that everyone has a right to fresh air and a chance to
visit one’s friends, and that no one needs to take advantage of that
opportunity more than the housekeeper.
and mother to keep the home and its atmosphere cheery and refresh-
ing to the rest of the family, and she cannot do it unless she feels her-
self a. measure of the cheer that she is trying to give to others.
every Woman resolve to get out and away from home at least twice

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one of the main reasons why.

Mrs. Annie Taylor. can The Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Mlohlgan.

 

housekeepers suffer from loss

For it is the duty of the wife

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most important step of all. The goods
should be thoroughly wet, covered
with a wet cloth and pressed until
dry with a hot iron. Do not be satis—
ﬁed with one pressing. Wet again
and repeat. The steam and heat re-
moves the unevenness and rough ap-
pearance. Many times I have been
unable to locate the spot except by
the sense of touch. Two things make
the successful accomplishment: leav-
ing the thread loose and the thor-
ough pressing.

If the tear is so frayed it is im-
possible to catch it together, a piece
should be placed under it. The thin-
ner the piece, the better. A piece of
soft stocking is excellent. Do not be
discouraged, and do not hurry; you
will ﬁnd it possible to do good work.
The very thick wool goods is liable
to be conspicuous when darned, and
a good method is to smear a piece of
thin goods with cooked starch, place
under the tear, and press the edges
together. Cover with a dry cloth and
press. A coat with a three-cornered
tear on the shoulder was so incon~
spicuous that it was worn by the
owner'for a year.~——Mrs. G. G.

NUTS IN SANDWICHES AND
SALADS

UTS are good in almost any kind

of a sandwich, and when the

school lunch is a problem, a ﬁll-
ing of chopped nut kernels with rai—
sins, dates, ﬁgs, or prunes will prove
a solution. Nuts and olives go well
together in sandwiches, nuts with
cottage or cream cheese, and nuts
with maple or plain brown sugar.
It is a good plan to keep a jar of
shelled nuts on the emergency shelf
for these and other uses. Peanut
butter as a sandwich ﬁlling is fam-
iliar'to everyone. It can be made at
home by putting the roasted shelled
nuts through the meat grinder, and
then stirring in enough cream or
melted butter to make a smooth
paste.

A cream cheese ball can be rolled
in chopped nuts and served as an
accessory to almost any kind of
salad. Celery stalks stuffed with
nuts and cheese are often used in a
similar way. A few nuts in a fruit,
aspic or vegetable salad are a dis—
tinct improvement. Even in a potato
salad they add an unusual touch.
Boiled chestnut kernels make an ex—
cellent salad. When Persian walnut
kernels are used in salad or for other
purposes, in the raw condition, the
little dark spot at the center of the
kernel should be removed as it has a
bitter taste.

SOUPS AND VEGETABLES AND
liﬂLK TO MENU

OES your daily menu contain a

D sufﬁcient supply of vegetables

If not, the home ec-

onomics department at South Dakota

State College says that an excellent

and milk?

way of introducing these valuable
foods into the diet, especially of
children, is to make soups without
meat stock. Left over vegetables and
ﬁsh may be well used up in this way.

The foundation of most of these
soups is the well known white sauce,
the proportions "of which are as fol-
lows: To one cup of milk or water
usell tablespoon of fat and one table-
spoon of ﬂour, 1,5 teaspoon salt, 1/16
teaspoon pepper. Melt the fat in the
top of double boiler, add ‘ﬂour, stir

.9113.“ well menses an “warmed

milk gradually. Stir until thickened.
Made in— small quantities this can be
cooked directly over the ﬂame.

All vegetable or ﬁsh soups should
be thickened with this to prevent the
separation of pulp and liquid. The
liquid may be all water, all milk or
part cream, or water in which vege-
tables have been cooked except po-
tatoes. The general proportions for
cream soups are from 1,5 to 1 cup of
vegetable or ﬁsh pulp to 1 quart of
white sauce. The amount of pulp de-
pends on whether it is potato or cel—
ery, etc. -

Cook the vegetable or ﬁsh and
press through a sieve. Make a white
sauce as directed and add the thin—
ner liquid very gradually to the
thicker. Serve at once.

Tomato Soup

1 quart tomatoes, 1 pint water, 12
pepper corns, 5 bay leaves, 4 cloves,
1 tablespoon onion, 1 tablespoon su-
gar, 1/8 teaspoon soda, 3 tablespoons
fat (butter or substitute), 3 table-
spoons ﬂour, 2 teaspoons salt, 1,4 tea—
spoon pepper.

Simmer ﬁrst seven ingredients in a
pan 1/2 hour. Strain and add soda.
There should be 1*quart of liquid.
Combine last four ingredients as in
white sauce, add tomatoes and when
mixture boils, serve.

Potato Soup

11/2 cups mashed potato, 2 table-
spoons butter, 2 tablespooons ﬂour,
2 teaspoons salt, Vt teaspoon pepper,
14 teaspoon celery salt, _% teaspoon
chopped onion, 1 quart milk, 2 tea-
spoons chopped parsley.

Scald the onion with the milk in a
double boiler for 10 minutes. Make
white sauce as directed and add the
sauce to the potato very slowly, stir—
ring constantly. Add parsley just
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Eight Pointed Star Block—The quilt
block patterns seem to be very popular
with our folks. I have over twenty re
quests so far for a loan of the one shown
in our January 3rd issue—and the re-
quests are still coming in. Each request
is taken care of in the order received so

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if your request is not taken care of at
once please be patient. The block shown
here is known as the Eight Pointed Star
and I will loan it to any reader who
wishes to cut a pattern—but you must re-
turn it by an early mail so thatrthe next
one on the list can be taken care of.

Coffee Snbstftute.—-—-’l‘ry this Haters. it
is ﬁne and dandy. Beat one on. then
put in a cup of molasses and beat again.
With a. “spoon stir in all the burn you
can. ,Thnntake your  egg  up.

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. _ arr. put thiidn s gripping punt
hi four oven and hrownlit.’ .Stir itﬁpften .
as' it. burns easily. 'When all ispdark
brown and a little coal. use one cup of
gmuud, coffee and stir in the dry mixture
and it is ready to use.
three use a good half ‘Gup of this.
boiling water on it and let cook a few
minutes. Use cream and sugar if wanted.
I buy the bran at a grist mill or one
can buy it by the package—Mrs. M.

Answers Help Calla—In answer to your
request to help the Women’s Page, I am
sending in two of my favorite and reliable
recipes.

Some housekeepers think it. very ex-
travagant to use; many eggs but I think
we farmers’ wlvcs have a special privi-
lege to use plenty of eggs and milk for
cooking and baking instead of so much
meat. I think for my three growing
children they help keep the doctor away.

During these winter months I am try—
to get most of my spring and summer
sewing done. I ﬁnd that faded percalc
and gingham house dresses (especially the
kimona' style) make good princess slips
for every. day wear by cutting off the
top just below the sleeves, then put in
an inch wide hem'and add straps to ﬁt
over, the shoulders; If ’it is too large
around run a tape thru the hem to
draw it up and tie.  slip is very Inuch
more comfortable to “'Ol‘k in than a. petti—
coat with a tight band around- one’s
waist—H. W., Reese, Michigan.
—Thank you, H. W., I am publishing
your recipesin our “Recipe” department.

How Do You Keep Sausage?——Can any
of the readers tell me how to keep home-
made sausage so that it will not get dry
and hard?—-—Mrs. B.

Wants Spare Pleces.—I am making a
quilt out of silk and worsted and have
not enough to ﬁnish it. Will some of the
readers of M. B. F. send me some of
their square pieces—Mrs. B. Thompson.
Petersburg, Mich.

 

 

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'l‘ituiar Distinctions in Introductions:
There are certain generally accepted rules
with regard to titular distinctions in in-
troduction. The wives of presidents have
no title; they are introduced as "Mrs.
Harding”; "Mrs. Roosevelt”; md an ex-'
president of the United States is plain
“Mr.” Cabinet members are introduced
as “Secretary”; 9. member of the Senate
as “Senator Green," whether in ofﬁce or
not; governors and mayors as “Governor
Brown” or “Mayor Black" (there are no
ex-governors or ex-mayors, socially speak-
ing.) Military and naval ofﬁcers are in-
troduced by their proper titles or as “Mr.
Blank” or “Mr. White." A man entitled
to an “Honorable’Vis so introduced only
at public banquets or on a platform.
Judges usually share the distinction
awarded senators, and retain their title
while in ofﬁce and afterward; while a
justice is introduced as “Justice Green.”
Archbishops, bishops and doctors are as
a rule introduced by their titles and tit-
ularly addressed. A member of the House
of representatives is always “Mr.” as are
clergymen unless they hold the formal
title of “Doctor,” “Dean,” “Canon,” or
“Deacon.” A Roman Catholic cleric is
always given his title:“Father Murphy,"
“Monsignor Prelati,” "Bishop Dominick,"
"Archbishop Glynn,” while “Your Emin-
ence,” the most formal titular address,
is used for a cardinal.

American women are never presented
to the holders of foreign titles: “His
Grace,” "His Lordship,” etc., are avoided
in introductions and the proper form is:
“Mrs. Coutant, may I present the Duke
of Chaulnes?” (or “Lord Maltravers," or
Marquis Pescara?”)

The Runner": Bible

The Kingdom of God is at Hand: re-
pent ye and believe in the gospel- Mark
1:15. ‘

Do not hold the idea that you must
grow to be much better—have fewer sins,
or perhaps, pass out of the body alto-
gether before you can experience this
Heaven that is promised. for the blessed
fact is that it takes only intense and
earnest desire to make the scales fall
from your eyes and then you will see that‘
Heaven is all about you, and has always
been there for your enjoyment; but you
have not known it because the things of
the material world have blinded your eyes.
(Isa. 59:1.)

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RECIPES

 

 

Bacon and Egg Sandwich—Tmst two
slices of bread; either white or graham.
and ﬁll with scrambled eggs and a slice
of crisp bacon. Fried bacon cut into
cubes may be added to the egg mixture
while it is being cooked.

Corn 3 la Southern—To one can chop-
ped com add two eggs slightly beaten,
one teaspoon salt, oneeighth teaspOon
pepper. one and one-half tablespoon
melted butter, am! one pint scalded milk;
turn into a battered pudding dish and
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Pickled .Plgs Feet.’—-Soak the feet 12 A sman ﬂashlight is a big help .in
hours in cold water. Scrape clean and re- ﬁnding the eye of a, sewing machine
move toes. i__Boil until soft—4 or 5 hours . néedie on a cloudy day,

Salt them when partially done. * * *

Pack in stone jar and cover with hot, Aunt Ada’s Axioms: Tact is not
spiced vinegar. Serve cold or split and cheerful lying; neither is‘frankness mere
dip them in a. batter made with eggs, blunt expression of opinion.
milk and ﬂour, and fry in clean drippings. * * ‘
lard or butter.

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Straws from the soda fountain often
add to the necessary inducement needed
' ' by the child who doesn’t like to drink

Rocks.—11/2 cups brown sugar, 3 eggs. milk.

1 teaspoon cinnamon, 2 on of raisins * * t .
out. 1 cup butter or Substi te. 11:. tea- Some housewives save time, patience.
SPOOF! Cloves. '3 CUPS ﬂour. 11/2 011135 wal" and Clothespins by pinning small pieces
nuts. 1 teaspoon soda. Mix as cake- Drop of laundry to a tape, and then pinning
in spoonfuls on a greased tin, allowing the tape to the line,

room to expand and bake in a moderate ,. i *

oven' Ordinary window screens covered with
muslin make good ventilators for Winter

Molasses Drop Cookies.-—1 cup lard, 1 wmdows‘ ,, ,, . ‘

cup brown sugar, 2 eggs, 1 cup molasses r akfast ma, be heated in
% teasDoon salt’ 1 teaSpoon ginger’ 11%" thgotldis) if? ab deouble boilel‘, thereby say-
teaspoon soda, 1 cup water. 5 cups ﬂour. in the heating of an oven
Mix as cake and drop by slitoohfigisk tvgo g . * g! '
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incrggﬁieggﬁgtoggn.a greased tn Aunt Ada’s Axioms: It may be good
for a woman to wade through snow-
drifts to pump water for the kitchen,
but it’s hard to prove.

ill alt it

Old-fashioned head cheese is a good
luncheon or supper dish with baked po-
tatoes and a cabbage salad. Thin slices
used as a sandwich ﬁlling are ﬁne, too.

It It ill

If ﬁnely varnished surfaces are

Aunt Ada’s Axioms: Some, kitchens scratched, the damage may ‘be remedied
would be all right for a woman who by rubbing lightly with alcohol to soften
wanted to reduce, but even at that most the varnish and obscure the crack.
of them would prefer to do their ten When the varnish hardens again, polish,
miles a day in the open. and the scratch will never show.

AIDS TO GOOD ,DRESSING

BE SURE AND SEND IN YOUR all!

5018. A Pretty Morning Frock for the Woman of Mature Figure. .This style closes at the side of
the vest portion. The lines. are comfortable and pleasnig. .Pcrcale. gingham, linen and rcp are at-
tractive for dr sses of this kind. The Pattern is out in 8 Sizes: bust measure 42, 44, 46, 48, 50.
52, 54 and 5 inches waist_measure, 35, 37, .39, ,_43, 45, 47 and 49 inches. To make the dress
for a 44 inch bust Will require 41,4; yards 36 inches Wide. The width at the foot is 2 yards.

5008-4839, A, Stylish “Ensemble” Costume.—'I‘hc most popular style of the season is here pictured.
It. combines in this instance Ladies Coat 5003 and One Piece Dress 4839 Broadcloth, and a “col
mixturein black and gray are used together. One could have satin or faillo in two shades or in
contrasting colors. The smartiieas of the “ensemble” depends on the combination that expresses liar-
{non With Just the right contrast. The (‘oat may be ﬁnished in the shorter length that is illustrated
in t e.small_ View. The fronts‘niay be buttoned to the neck, or rolled open as in the large View. The

recs is a Simple one piece “slip‘on” model, \\'ltll the fulncss caught in rows of upright plaits or tucks.
TheICoat Pattern is cut in 6 Sizes: 34, 3'6, , and 44 inches bust measure. The Dress is
cut in 7 Sizes: 16, 18 and 20 years for Misses and 38', , 42 and 44 inches bust measure for Ladies.
To make the Costume for a 38 inch Size as illustrated in the large _v1ew, Wlll require 2% yards of the
wool mixture and 2% yards of the broadcloth, 54 inches wide With 1% yard of contrasting silk for
flinging??? thedCoat, or the Coal: may be lined entirely, the lining to serve as a flacmg. This Will re-
q re yar s.

5026. A Pleasing Model for a School Dress.—‘Plaid ﬂannel combined with plain ﬂannel is here
shoyvn. One could use 391‘86 cloth .or wash materials. The sleeve may be in wrist length, or short
as in the small View. The. attern is out in 4 Sizes: 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. .To make the dress as
illustrated for a 16 year size. With long sleeves Will require 21/2 yards of plain or checked material
ring 33 yard. of] plain material 36 inches Wide. If made “'ltli short sleeves 21.3. yards of plaid material
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5016. A Pretty Night Gown.—70repe de chine and ﬁlct lace are hcre combined.
cotton crepe. ﬁnished With fancy stitching or banding in a contrasting color.
1288: Small, 34-38' Medium. 38-40; Large, 42-44;
Medium Size requires 3% yards of 36 inch material.

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5007. Comfortable Rompers for the Little Mlss.—This “up—to-date” model is provided with “a ron
tunic” portions that may be omitted. Gingham, challie, pci‘cale, poplin and pongee are excelent
materials for garments of this kind. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 2,‘  and ‘8 years. A .4 year
size if made: with the “tunic” Will require 2% yards of 27 inch material. Without the tunic l'lé
yard is require .

. 5008.

One could_ use
fl‘he Pattern is cut in 4
Extra Large, 46-48 inches bust measure. A

A Comfortable Outﬁt for a “Small Tot”.—Voile, dimity, cropc. silk and chambrey are good

materials for the little Dress here portrayed and
for the Slip and Drawers one could use cambric.
or ] vn. The Pattern is cut in 5 Sizes:
inont , .1 year, 2, 3 and .4 years. A 2 year
size requires ‘5; yard of 36 inch material for the
Drawers, 114. yard for the Slip, and 131 yard
for the Dress if the Dress is made with long
sleeves“ It made with short_81eevcs ‘A yard less
18.1‘eqllll‘9d of 36 inch material. ‘If Slip is made
Without ruﬂ‘le % yard less is required

5006. A comfortable Suit for the Small Boy.
—Velvet and. pongee, or velvet and broadcloth
may be combined for this style. It 18 good also
for linen, scersucker and other wash fabrics. The
sleeve. may be in wrist or elbow length. The Pitt-
tern is cut lll.3 Sizes: 2, . on years. A 4
year Size requires 1% yard for the Blouse, and
1% yard for the trousers. cuffs and collar 36
inches Wide.

5029. A New Doii.——Dolls of this kind will
delight the children. In this model the D011 as
well as the garments are sup lied. A simple
waist, and Dutch Rompers ma e the Suit, to
which :1 Cap 18 added. One could use crepe or
silk for the Waist; and velvet for the Cap and
Rompers. or unbleached muslin for the waist, and
chambrey or gingham for cap and rompcrs. The
Pattern is out in 6 Sizes: 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and
22 inches in lbugth. _A 16 inch size require ‘73
yard of 36 inch material for the Dell, which may
be made of Oilcloth, drill, unbleached muslin or
gingham. The Rompers and Waist and Cap re-
quire 1 yard if made of one materiaL To make
the. Waist'and the Cap brim of contrasting ma-
terial requires 98 yard.

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3 FOR 30c POSTPAID

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

ADD 100 FOR SPRING AND SUMMER
1925 FASHION BOOK

Address all orders for patterns to
Pattern Department
THE BUSINESS FARMEB
' Mt. Clemens, Mich.

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FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT T0 99mm

MICHIGAN SHEEP MEN
(Continued from Page 4)

and his able assistants, these College
ﬂocks have been built up during the
past two years until today they are
of high quality and uniformity and
include outstanding breeding and ex-
hibition animals. During the past
few years the M. A. C. breeding sheep
and wethers have stood high in the
show ring at leading state fairs and
also at the International Live Stock
Show at Chicago.
Tariff Is Live Issue

A year ago, in‘ writing this annual
statement for the Boston Transcript,
I reported that Michigan wool grow-
ers were not very much interested in
the wool tariff. Probably that state-
ment adequately reﬂected the atti-
tude of our sheep men at that time,
but within the past twelve months

the situation has changed consider-
ably.

Now that we are beginning to hear
insistent rumors that a reduction in
the wool tariff is being advocated,
Michigan sheep men are becoming
keenly alive to the situation and are
making plans to do all in their power
to prevent any such lessening of the r .
protection to this important industry. ’FOR MW Yea" Myer“
They say that if the principle of a M Pump“ “Vela! “‘9 ﬁeld'
protective tariff is to be employed for égrﬁmﬂsagmgpé
the benefit of the manufacturers of serum“ Bundmerxiwowe,
woolen proﬁts, it should apply with Pump are but three of this
equal force to the stimulation of world famous line. Alllow
Prices on raw wool. m lﬁcoat. simple.htil:}per;dabhle.

It has been discovered that an or- ’ 9’9" "‘0'" “'qua'

ganization calling itself the Fair Tar- WWPr'Ws‘éfnﬁﬁﬁ‘;
iff League has been spreading propa- — ' dealer or write
ganda in favor of lowering the tar- MEEMYERS
id 011 wool. This is the same organi- - “mo- co-
zation which favored lowering the “25"‘1'05‘
sugar tariff, and because Michigan is Ami '
one of the leading states in the pro—
duction of sugar beets, that recom-
mendation of the Fair Tariff League
did not meet with favor from our
farmers.
R Michigan farmers and sheep men
seem to be absolutely united in favor
of adequate truth—in-fabrics legisla-
tion. There is hardly a state meet-
ing of any farmers’ organization in
Michigan which does not adopt a. res-
olution demanding the early enact-
ment of such a statute.

From the facts above stated, it is
evident that .the sheep industry in
Michigan is on ﬁrm and satisfactory
basis. Wool producers are uniformly \
optimistic and it appears that the
have good reason to look toward thg Sears. Roebud‘  Co‘ 7
future with conﬁdence. - Chicaéo Ph'ladelpma

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In the year 1893 I was attacked by Mus-
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clinic you tell his «nit kind 'of
poison I could get. to kill English
sparrows?-—C. C., Grant. Mich.

0W is the time to do away with
the English sparrow. Within

, the past month the greater part

of the Lower Peninsula has been
covered with a heavycoating of ice,
which in turn has been overspread
with varying depths of snow. Thus
the conditions for trapping and poi—

soning the English sparrow could not

be more perfect.

This destructive, ﬁlthy pest is now
congregated around the cities, towns,
and farm buildings through out the
state, and due to the fact that its
available food supply is covered with
ice and snow, it is comparatively easy
to lure the English sparow into traps
or to poisoned bait. No one should
undertake to kill these birds unless
one is absolutely sure of distinguish—
ing them from other species of native
birds. The male English sparrow
has a lack throat and upper breast;
rest of under parts grayish white;
the crown is slate color; back is
brown streaked with black; each
wing bears a bar of white and a
streak of chestnut. The female has
a. dingy greyish brown crown and
rump; the back is streaked with
black and a light rusty brown; the
under parts are of a dirty white
color. Unless one is absolutely sure
that the bird is an English sparrow,
it will proﬁt the trapper to let such
a bird go.

The three methods used for de-
stroying the English sparow, taken
in the order of greatest-effectiveness,
are trapping, shooting, and poison—
ing. Far greater and more lasting
results may be obtained in an area
if everyone cooperates at the same
time. This does not mean that in—
dividual work is not beneﬁcial, be-
cause it is a well—known fact that the
bird has a comparatively small feed—
ing area, and thus can be eliminated
until another ﬂock comes.

Considering all angles, trapping
has proven to be the most effective
means thus far used in ridding an
In some

aces it is unlawful to use poison or
ﬁre—arms without the permission of
public authorities. Traps, on the
other hand, may be used at any
time, and are more advantageous in
that they are absolutely safe. Some
types do no require an attendant,
and further, if other native birds are
caught, they may be released unin-
jured. Within the past two months
over one hundred English sparrows
have been killed on the Michigan
Agricultural College campus by the
use of traps. The drop trap is an
effective type to use, and may be con-
structed at a small cost. It consists
of a frame made of four boards, four
inches Wide and four feet long. Make
a‘small opening near the end of one
board, which will act as a door. Cov—
er the frame with three—fourths inch
mesh poultry netting. Place one side
of the trap on the ground, which has
been previously smoothed with a
shovel, so that the trap will fall on
an even surface. Prop the opposite
side of the trap with a stick twelve
inches long, to which is attached a
string which may be :pulled from a
secluded point. To insure a quick
and sure response of the trap when
the string is pulled, place a chip on
the t0p of the stick when the trap is
being propped.

For removing English sparrows
from any of the smaller types of
traps it is necessary to use a receiv—
ing cage, which is :placed at the door
of the trap and the birds driven into
it. Such a cage may be made by wir—
ing a piece of netting over a Wire or
wooden frame six inches square and
eighteen inches long. A door for
this cage may be made of netting.
Hinge it at the bottom’ of the cage
so that it will turn inward. Allow
the bottom wire of hinge to extend
beyond the side of the trap to act
as a handle for opening and closing.

The government sparrow trap has
the advantage over the drop trap in
that it does not require a person to
operate it. Compolete directions for
making this type .of trap, together
with'other methods used to destroy
the English sparrow, may be procur-
ed by writing to the United States

of Biologicalﬁurvey. Washington, D.

"0,, ...ferv.1l‘ermers’ .Bulletin No. 493,.

The knowing- method/ - for , poison-
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ing is an extract from this bulletins
“Where the use of poison is not pro-
hibited by law it may be employed
effectively to reduce the number of
sparrows. Of the ,diﬂerent poisons
tested the most satisfactory is strych-
nine, which is easy to prepare and
acts uickly. Wheat has proved to

be a good bait as well as an excellent

vehicle for administering the drug.
A convenient method of preparing
poisoned bait is as follows: ‘Put one-
e’ighth ounce of pulverized strychnine
into three-fourths of a gill of hot
water, add 1%teaspoonfuls of starch
or wheat ﬂour moistened with a few
drops «of cold water, and heat, stir-
ring constantly tilPthe mixture thick-
ens. Pour the hot poisoned starch
over one quart of wheat and stir un—
til every kernel is coated. Small ker-
neled wheat sold as poultry food, if
reasonably clean, is preferable to
ﬁrst-Quality grain, being cheaper and
more easily eaten by the sparrows.
A two quart glass fruit jar is a good
vessel to mix in, as it is easily shak—
en and allows the condition of the
contents to be seen. If the coated
wheat be spread thinly on a hard,
ﬂat surface, it will be dry enough for
use in a short time. It should be
dried thoroughly if it is to be put in
to jars and kept for future use.
Dishes employed in preparing poison
may be safely cleansed by washing.”

“Other seeds, as oats, hemp, or
canary seed, may be used instead of
wheat in the above formula, but they
are less economical because much of
the poison is lost when they are hull—
ed, though enough of it usually
sticks to the mouths of the sparrows
to produce fatal effects. As wheat
has no hull that the sparrow can re-
move, it is ordinarily preferable to
other seeds. Bread, in thin slices.
spread with the strychnine-starch
mixture may be used to advantage
alternately with the seeds.”

“In case it is impractical to poison
sparrows at their regular feeding
grounds, they may be attracted to a
suitable place by preliminary bait-
ing. In northern latitudes the best
time to put out rpoison is just after
a snow storm, when other food is
covered. The feeding place should
be cleared of snow and the poison
laid early in the morning. The poi—
son should be well scattered, so that
many birds may be able to partake at
the same time, since after a few are
affected their actions excite the sus-
picion of their comrades. Usually
a few sparrows get only enough
strychnine to paralyze them for a
few hours after which they recover.
It is important, therefore, to visit the
feeding places a short time after dis-
tributing poison to prevent such
birds escaping. It is well also to re-
move dead birds promptly to avoid
exciting the suspicions of those that
are unaffected. In deciding the
amount of' poisoned wheat to put out
at one time, it is Well to estimate the
numbers of sparrows frequenting a
feeding place and to allow about 20
kernels for each sparrow. Although
2 kernels of wheat coated with the
solution described below have been
known to kill a sparrow, 6 or 7 ker-
nels ,are required to insured fatal
results, and lunch more than a fatal
dose is frequently taken.”

“As far as practicable, sparrows
should be poisoned in secluded plac-
es where domestic animals will not
be endangered. Roofs, back yards
and unused poultry runs are favor-
able situations. Where there are
doves or poultry, sparrows may be
induced to feed in small covered
pens made of coarsely meshed wire
netting, and having all the sides
raised 1% inches above the ground.”

One must bear in mind that the
poison used to kill the English spar—
row will also kill native birds, poul—
try, and other domesticated animals.
There is also danger that chidren
may obtain the poison, directly or in—
directly, and thus at all times great—
est precautions -must be used.

Sparows are accustomed to feed in
close ﬂocks, and when thus assem—
bled in favorable places a large num-
ber may bekilled by a charge of No.
10 shot. The best way is to scatter
grain over long narow areas, and
shoot the sparows at'these baiting
places. Where sparrows infest poul-
try yards the bait maybe placed on
a horizontal board supported at such
an elevation that the birds may be
shot without danger to the poultry."
-—~J. W. Stack. Assoc. Prof. of Zool-
osY. Michigan Agricultural College.

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ROUGHING through the winter means 5
soft, unready team for spring. When plow
time comes, you cannot afford to harness
up a rough-in-the-hair, run-down, worm-
infested team. '

You cannot afford to wait at every;
furrow end on trembly, panting horses.
Remember, the season doesn’t wait on you; I
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corn that’s corn.

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kidneys, enriches the blood, drives out the worms.
W111 help them shed their winter’s coat.
you have a team that can go down one side of the
ﬁeld and up the other without a stop.

Then you get your crops out on time—in the
ground, growing. That’s what counts at harvest.

Get your pail of Dr. Hess Stock Tonic to-day.
Also give it to the mare in foal.

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Honest Goods~—Honest Price.
REMEMBER—When you buy any Dr. Hess product, our
tresponstbtltty does 'not end until you are satisﬁed that:

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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.

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rectly on the milk-making organs, the digestion and
assimilation. It: builds a permanent Vigor in these

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health and proﬁt insurance. Its slight cost is returned

many times in the quickly-noticeable improvement

in milk ﬂow.

The Kow -Kate feeding plan is winning thou-
sands of new recruits among dairymen yearly. The
usual method is to feed a tablespoonful of Kow—
Kare twice a day, one week of each month during
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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Advertisements Inserted under this heading for repuiaou breeders of Live Stock at special .ow
rates to encourage the growlng of ure-r‘reds on the farms of our readers. Our advertising rate
is Thirty Cents (30c) per agate lne, per insertion. Fourteen agate lines to the column inch
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To avoid conﬂicting dates we will WIthoul
oost list the date of any live stock sale in
Michigan. If you are considering a sale ed‘
vise us at once and we will claim the date
lor you. Address, Live Stock Editor. M. B.
F.. Mt. Clemens
Mar. 25th.——Guernseys, Saginaw County Fair
Grounds, ‘ ' .l Hicks,

 
  
 

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Saginaw. \‘l’. S, Salcs Manager.

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FOR SALE: ALL OR ANY PART, OF OUR
Federally Accredited llerd of Registered Hoisteins
of all ages at less than current prices on same
quality. Quick sale desired.

F. H. Hemstreet and Company, Beilalre, Michigan.

 

 

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lit for serVice. T. B. Tested. From heavy pro-
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J ERSEYS

REG. JERSEYS. POGIS 99th OF H. F. AND
Majesty breeding. Young stock for sale. Herd
fully accredited by State and Federal Government.
Write or visit for prices and description.
OUY c. WILBUR. BELDING. Mich.

 

 

HE RE FORDS »

HEREFORD STEERS

“. 1 l 880 lbs. 68 Wt. around 750 lbs.
23 iii; 233335 640 lbs, 38 Wt. around 550 lbs.
54 Angus 5 lbs. 56 Wt. around 475 lbs.
Dee reds, dehcrncd, good stocker order. Real
qua ity herefords are usually market toppers when
ﬁnished. Also heifers same quality. Will sell your
choice from any bunch.

VAN BALDWIN, E-ldon, Wapello 00., Iowa.

WE HAVE BRED HEREFORDS SINCE I 1860
Our herd bulls are International Prize Winners.
Stock of all ages for sale, at Farmers prices. Write
us for further information. I
Feed Iierefords that fatten quickly.
GRAPO FARM, Swartz Creek, Michigan.

FOR SALE—TWO REGISTERED YEARLING
Hereford bulls with Fairfax and Bonnie Bray
breeding. W. Kneale 8. Sons. Ionla. Mich" R3.

 

 

 

GUERNSEYS
MAY —— GUERNSEYS —— ROSE

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

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Saginaw. W. 8.. Michigan.

BEST cur‘nrsrr HEIFER CALVES

2 .00 each. v
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POLLED SHOBTHOIIIIS inwﬁﬁl’ltsz

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KING 0: SONS, Tekonsha, lchlgan.
SHEEP E
SHROPSHIRE

 

Registered Shropshires. 20 Bred Ewes 1 to 5

years old: 20 ewe lambs. These sheep are of a.

quality that have pleased our customers since 1890.
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0.’ I. Q.'S LAST SPRING PIGS, EITHER SEX.
not akin, from big strong stock. recorded free.
OTTO B. SCHULZE & SONS. Nashville, Mich.

HORSES 

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FOR SALE THE GREY PERCHERON

Imported stallion “Juriste”, two hundred and
ﬁfty dollars or will exchange for a work team.
R. G. PALMER, Beldlng. Michigan. '

   

 

 

THE BUSINESS FARMER
“The "Farm Paper of Service”

 

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. PLAN THIS YEAR’S WORK

« EREFORD breeders of Michigan
met in annual session at the
M. A. C. during Farmers’ Week

and discussed plans for this year’s

work. Members of the state associ-

ation talked on several subjects of

interest.

As well as supporting their coun- I

try and district fairs with good qual-
ity Hereford shows particularly
strong sentiment. was expreSSed for
ﬁtting and exhibiting more Hereford
steers at the Detroit Stock Show.
Hereford steers bred and ﬁtted by
the Crapo farm stood second and
third in the individual steer classes
at that show last December (1 the
Hereford Breeders’ Associatio 'want
Herefords to carry off ﬁrst honors
next year. "

The attitude of most of the breed-
ers was well expressed by Jay Har-
wood who said that he had been for
two years and still is looking for
those better times-that he believes
are “just arOund'the corner”.

It was decided to accept the
Thumb Hereford Breeders’ Associa-
tion invitation to make their annual
“Hereford Hike” through'the Thumb
district this summer. This tour will
probably be held late in June and
breeders outside the state will be
welcomed and well entertained if
they join us, as well as seeing some
ﬁne cattle and excellent farm and
stock raising land. Write the Secre—
tary for information regarding this
tour.

About ﬁfty Hereford Boosters sat
down to a ﬁne banquet after electing
the following ofﬁcers: President, J.
R. Campbell, St. Johns; Vice Presi-
dents, Dan C. Miller, Crapo Farm,
Swartz Creek; E. C. Mc Carty, Mead—
owbro‘ok Farm, Bad Axe; Harold
Harwood, Harwood Hereford Farms,
Ionia; and Secretary—Treasurer, V.
A. Freeman, East Lansing.

PONTIAC HOLSTEIN .NEW STATE
CHAMPION
Y exceeding the state’s highest
junior two-year—old yearly rec-
ord made by her dam, Michi—
gan’s new champion Holstein cow for
butter production in this class is
Pontiac Gold of the State Hospital
herd at Pontiac. Her record, as an-
nounced by the advanced registry
department of the Holstein-Friesian
Association of America, is 20,857.2
(pounds milk containing 708.79
pounds butterfat (885.6 pounds but-
ter). The record of her dam, Pontiac
Quince, made at the same age over
two years ago is 21,556.9 pounds of
milk and 856.3 pounds of butter.
Pontiac Gold received ordinary
care and was milked by several dif-
ferent men during the year. From
October, 1923, to August, 1924, she
received a daily ration made up of 15
pounds Unicorn, ﬁve pounds oats and
six pounds beet pulp.- During the
winter she consumed also 20 pounds
a. day of alfalfa hay and in the sum-
mer green alfalfa was supplied. Since
August until the completion of her
test in October she received 22
pounds a day of the State Dairy Ra—
tion.containing 24 per cent protein.

HIGH QUALITY AYRSHIR-ES
T0 MICHIGAN

HERE was delivered at Ithaca,
Michigan, late in January one of
the best lots of Ayrshires ever
assembled in this country as a foun-
dation herd. Selected for the farm
of James E. Davidson, Bay City ship

builder, by A. Minty, an experienced '

stockman from the native home of
the breed, they combine to an unus—
ual degree choice individuality and
the ability to produce, and give, Mr.
Davidson breeding material such' as
many breeders spend a lifteime to
secure.

Peter McClellan, a Canadian Ayr-
shire man who‘ has proved himself
capable of securing the best of re-
sults with the breedkis in charge of
the herd. It is housed in thorough-
ly modern stables equipped for the
comfort of the cattle and‘for secur-
ing the mostfavorable returns from
them. This transaction establishes
in Michigan one of the choicest Ayr-
shire herds in the country and is
sufﬁciently outstanding in average

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dualityto give it high rating --a.mong
j the leaders in the Central West.

The herd of forty-three animals,
including eight calves, Was secured in
two consignments, a draft of sixteen
head from the show herd of Adam

_Seitz and «Sons, Wausheka, Wiscon-

sin, and selections of twenty-seven
head from three Canadian farms.
Mr. Minty set out to buy the best
which could be found, requiring type
ﬁrst and with it plentiful evidence
of milkiness. He saw the Seitz ex-
hibits at central western fairs and
made his chief Canadian purchases
at the Royal at Toronto.

 

KENT COUNTY S'UMIMARJES
HREE Kent County C. T. A.’s
ﬁnished the year’s work during
the ﬁrst ten days of December.
An interesting point is the close aver-
age in butterfat production in each
case, which follows:

No. Aver. Aver.

Cows Milk Fat

Kent-Alpine 3 17 7694 325.5
Kent-Sparta 265 7891 325.31
Kent-Gd. Rapids 300 8993 325.38

The outstanding herd in these
three Associations was the pure-bred
Holstein herd of J. C. Buth, in the
Kent—Alpine Association. The six-
teen cows produced .an aVerage of
14,824 pounds of milk and 4730.4
pounds of fat. The high mature COW
and high two year old in' these Aeso-
ciations were also from this herd
with the production of 18,300 milk
and 603.7 fat, and 16,358 milk and
547.2 fat respectively. The high
four year old was from the same As—
sociation. She was a pure-bred Jer-
sey in the herd of Milo Edison and
Son, producing 10,567 milk and
575.9 fat. The high three year old
was also from this Association. A
grade Holstein in the Wm. H. Oliver
herd with 14,281 milk and 479 fat.

Several carloads of cows were sold
to Eastern States for milk prOduc-
tion, cow testing records always
helping the sale at good prices. A
carload of Jerseys were sold to Ot-
sego county for a. higher price than
average because of C. 'T. A. records.

The seventy-seven members of the
three Associations use purebred sires.
The high producing herds were in
nearly every case fed alfalfa hay. A
total of 42 members or more than
50 [per cent are growing alfalfa. At
least twelve more will seed the crop
this spring. Many are seeding sweet
clover for, summer pasture.

 

SUMJIIARY OF ALPENA-LEER
ASSOCIATION ,

HE Alpena-Leer C. T. A. has ﬁn-
ished the ﬁrst year of testing.
Carl Jennings, tester, found that

14 of the 28' herds‘averaged more
than 300 pounds of butterfat per
cow. The high herd was owned by
Richard Randal, ﬁve grade Guern-
seys, producing an average of 8,027
pounds of milk and 366.9 pounds of
fat. The high mature cow was from
the herd of Norman Hobbs, a. grade
Holstein producing 14,238 pounds
of milk and 500.1 pounds of fat. The
high four year old was a pure-bred
Guernsey from the Fletcher Paper
Company herd "producing 11,474
pounds of milk and 514.9 pounds of
fat. This cow also ranked high in-
dividual in the Association. The high
three year old was a pure—bred
Guernsey from the same herd with
the production of 8,135 pounds of
milk and 429.3 pounds of fat. Jens
Wong owned the high two year old. a
grade Guernsey with 7353 pounds of
milk and 355.5 pounds of fat. '

MICHIGAN BRIEEDERS RESERVE
PREFIX NAMES ‘
EIGHT Michigan breeders of H01-

stein-Freiesian cattle recently

reserved preﬁx names for their
ian Association of America. FOIIOW—
ing are the names of those reserved
exclusive use with the Holstein-Fries-
and the names and addresses or the
breeders for whom they are register-
ed: “Cherry Front,” John Keber,
Conklin: “Pine Elm,” Fred Schrader,
Centerville; “Cleercrest,” George

. M. Gld‘dings, North" Branch;  '_‘0ak
and Sons. Laps
Gear  .

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by breed‘erstf "purebred Holstein-
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naming of animals; Nearly 6,000
breeders in the United States now
use these registered 'names regularly.

PEANUT MAY-RIVAL COW
AS MILK PRODUCER
. ORK of determining just how
many different uses can be
found for the peanut and the
potato goes on in the laboratory at
Tuskegee Institute under the direc-
tion of Dr. George Washington Car-.
ver, Negro chemist, who in recogni-
tion of his splendid work received a
fellowship in the Royal Society of
Great Britain. Recently a corpora-
tion has been formed in Atlanta to
market some‘ of Dr. Carver’s pro-
ducts.

Dr. Carver has made 145 foods and
useful articles from the lowly pea-
nut. In'addition to this he has per—
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been so marked‘ that when the House

of Representatives was considering
the imposition of a tariff.” on peanuts
he was called to .testify before them.
Included in the articles which he has
listed to be made from the peanut
are .peanut butter, 10 varieties 'of
milk, ﬁve kinds of breakfast food,
two grades‘of ﬂour, ice cream, candy,
salad- oils, bisque, "Worcestershire"
sauce, chili. sance, oleomargerine,
cheese, four kinds of cattle food, and
other things not edible, such as wood
stains, leather dyes, metal polishes,
axle grease, toilet and laundry soap,
ink, tanic acid and glycerin.

A cup of peanuts can be made
into a pint of milk “as rich as that
of the cow,” he said, adding:

“It is rich, creamy and palatable.
It contains three times as much
carbohydrates, three times as much
protein and 12 times as much fat as
cow's milk, with only one-tenth as
much water. . . v.”

He has produced 107 different
products from the yam, including
ginger, tapioca, ﬂour, breakfast food
and cattle food, besides many others.

Improved Sheep Breeding By Use of Record

By V. A. FREEMAN, Extension Specialist, M. A. C. -

5, T an organization meeting of ﬁne
wool sheep breeders. last year
plans were started for an ad-

vanced registry for sheep based on

At their second

annual meeting held this year dur—

ing “Farmers’ Week” at M. A. C. a

complete program was outlined and

adopted for the work which is ex—
pected to result in as much beneﬁt to
ﬁne wool sheep breeders as has cow
testing beneﬁted dairy breeders.
Perhaps breeders themselves are
partly to be blamed for the present
incredulous attitude that is so often
expressed even when reliable breed—
ers state their wool yields. \Showing
practices though not usually intend-
ed to be dishonest have too often led
new purchasers into great disappoint-
ment by the time they took their
second ﬂeece off purchased breeding
stock. These new plans will provide
authentic records that can hardly be
questioned and'that will point out
the few high producing animals of
the state that have particular breed-
ing value. Fine Wool sheep are very
popular now in central and southern

Michigan and with decided improve-

ment of the registered animals they

will undoubtedly become even more
popular.
A constitution and by-laws for the

‘ association and rules governing ad-

mission of sheep to record of merit

. have been adopted by the )Michigan

- Fine

Wool Breeders Association.
The by-laws provide for the estab-

: lishment of a record of merit con-

, laines:
’ twenty-eight

sisting of two divisions; (a) based
on weight of ﬂeece as it comes from
the sheep and (b) based on the
weight of scoured wool produced. As
the quantity of scoured wool and its
grade determine the real market
value of the ﬂeece the B division
seems capable of resulting in the
greatest permanent beneﬁts. The
grade of wool both as to ﬁneness and
length as well as mutton character-
istics of the sheep can be seen by the
ordinary breeder but the real baffl-
ing factor is to tell which sheep real-
1y produces the most scoured wool.

The standards set by the associa—
tion are as follows:

“To obtain Record of Merit in Div-
ision A, each sheep must meet with
the following requirements: For
American Merinos other than De-
Rams to shear not less than
pounds at a year’s
growth or to have sired at least ten
lambs which have attained a record
of merit. Ewes to shear not less than
eighteen pounds at a year’s growth
or to have produced at least\two
lambs which have attained a record
of merit.

“For Rambouillets or American",
Standard and Black-Top Delaines:
Rams must shear not less than twen-
ty-ﬁve pounds at a year’s growth or
to have produced ten lambs which
have attained the record of merit.

i Ewes to shear not less than sixteen
’ pounds at a year’s growth or to have

  

produced 'two lambs which have at-
tained the record of merit. ’ '
" “To attain record of merit in div-

f isionB, sheep must meet the follow-'-

ing» requirements. which shall apply
  ‘ sinus; produee‘j.

    

in one year at least eight pounds of
scoured wool. Ewes must produce
at least six pounds of scoured wool.”

Rules governing admission of
sheep to record of merit are as fol-
lows:

“Any member Wishing to enter
sheep for the Record of Merit shall
make application in writing to the
Animal Husbandry Extension Speci—
alist, M. A. 0., East Lansing, Michi-
gan, indicating with his application
the approximate time he wishes to
shear.

“Sheep to be entered must be pure—
bred and recorded in their breed As-
sociation record.

“Sheep entered shall be inspected
within a week after shearing by a
representative of Michigan Agricul-
tural College, who shall make a rec-
ord of the date of shearing and suf—
ﬁcient data to accurately identify
each sheep entered.

“Twelve months after the ﬁrst
shearing an M. A. C. representative
shall again Witness the shearing of
the same sheep, for the purpose of
seeing that it is done as nearly as
possible in the same 'manner as was
the ﬁrst shearing. He shall weigh
the wool and record its weight. In
case the ﬂeece is entered for the
scoured test he shall take possession
of the ﬂeece and forward it to Ani-
mal Husbandry Extension Specialist
at M. A. C.

“Fleeces submitted for the scour-
ing test shall be accompanied by a
scouring fee of $1.00 each.

“Upon receipt of data from the M.
A. C. Animal Husbandry Extension
Specialist, showing that a sheep has
qualified, and having received the
registration fee of ﬁfty cents from
the owner, the «Secretary of the As—
sociation shall issue a certiﬁcate of
Record of Merit to the owner.

“Fleeces submitted for the scour-
ing test shall be considered the prop-
erty of the sheep owner, and may be
disposed of by returning them to him
carrying charges collect, or, at the
option of the owner, the ﬂeeces may
be pooled and said each year by the
M. A. C. representative and net pro-
ceeds prorated.”

Any breeder interested should
write at once to V. A. Freeman, Ex-
tension Division, M. A. C., East Lan—
sing, Michigan for information so as
to have his sheep inspected this
spring as the ﬂeece taken off at the
second inspection is the ﬁrst one that
can compete for record. The project
will be supervised this year as an ex-
tension project ' by the Extension
Division of the Animal Husbandry
Department of the M. A. C., and the
scouring of the wool will be super-
vised by the Textile Division of the
Chemistry Department, M. A. C.

A system of nose prints will be
used to identify competing sheep sup-
plementary to ear labels and indi-
vidual characteristics. If these
prints work out 'as well as they have
so far they will eﬂectively trap'any

breeder who would attempt to sub-.

stitute other similar sheep for the
ones inspected at the ﬁrst shearing,
and will materially aid in giving the
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- prestOL _.’today,’ ﬁfty- years/ﬁtter, their? , ‘
are; a. thousand Dutchmen raising.

bulbs, grain, sugar beets, .pOultry
cows and families on the Bottom of

Haarlem Lake. . ix ‘

There are.875 farms ranging in
size from three or four acres-to 300
or 400 besides the countless little
villages. In 1924, there were 4,500

horses, 3,000 cattle, 6,500 hogs and

'27,000 poultry, here’ before there
were only ﬁsh an gulls. Sugar beets,
peas, wheat, oats and caraway seed
seem to be the principal crops.

The whole country side is laid out
in little square patches of a quarter
or half an acre, as neat, as tidy, and
altogether as attractive as an unsolv-
ed cross Word puzzle. There is a lit-
tle rectangular ﬁeld of wheat, a ditch
perhaps two feet wide full of water,
and on the other side a little square
of clover, then a half acre of pasture
and next a little patch of beets, an
acre of potatoes, 9. ﬁeld of cats, a
ﬁeld of caraway seed, another little
pasture full of Dutch belted or Hol-
stein cows, and so on, as far as one
can see.

Fences, and the consequent waste
of ground are supplanted by the net-

work of tiny ditches which are ap- '
‘ parently ofﬁcially respected as fences

by the stock, and also serve to carry
the surface water into the larger
ditches from which it is ﬁnally pump-
ed up into the big canals and ﬁnally
up into the ocean itself.

There are no weeds—there is not
a weed. There is no waste. Crops
grow to the very water's edge in the
tiny line ditches, and the neighbor's
crop begins about two feet away at
the other edge. It is the supreme of
intensive farming where every foot
of ground is used.

The network of canals, laid out in
paralleled lines with other canals
crossing them like section lines,.is
really the highway system of H01-
land, and what roads there are fol-
low the tops of these Canal banks,
these dykes. Thus the auto roads
are highways in elevation as well as
in name, and afford the traveller the
opportunity to see the people at work
and play. .

Hans and Gretchen are herding
ducks or cows beside a little ditch;
Dame Brinker is on her knees in the
little wash house whose front porch
is a tiny little wharf projecting out
into the canal, doing the family
washing; the big sisters are harvest-y
ing the grain with scythe and cradle,
and the head of the house is sailing
up the canal in his barge with the
empty milk cans, probably returning
from the community cheese factory.

Our hosts took us to Boskop, the
center of the large nursery industry
which extends for ﬁfteen miles in
either direction from the city and
furnishes employment for ten thou—
sand people. The nearest railroad is
ﬁve miles away and yet these nursery
stocks are shipped out to all parts of
the world, as it is one of the largest
nursery centers in the world. The
whole area is so wet and so mixed
in among the network of overhead
canals that the ground will not sup-
port a right of way rigid enough for
a railroad. It is necessary to drive
long piles in the ground before even
a wood shed may be built, and when
a motor truck of any size rolls along
the street the whole block vibrates
with it. And yet there are about
700 independent nurseries varying in
size from one to forty acres within
this single area.

The nursery gave us a splendid
dinner in Boskop and explained that
their industry is severely threatened
by the restrictions which our coun-
try place upon shipments of bulbs
and nursery stock into the United
States. The Hollanders believe that
these embargo measures against
much of their stock are pmmpted
more by the desire of similar inter-
ests here to keep out honest compe-
tition than to ’keep out diseased
stock, and they spared no efforts to
explain to us how careful they are to
prevent the spread of any plant dis-
ease and how exhaustive their re-
search work is in the ﬁeld of practi-
cal plant pathology. .

The jolly Dutchmen allowed no
sign of ill feeling to extend to their

American visitors, however, and serv-v

ed us ’of the very best. While'we
were eating, the newspaper came‘out,
printed in Dutch of course, telling of
the death of President Coolidge’s son

     

the” Dutch toastmaster eVeryone
stood for a moment ‘in silent recog-
nition of this, loss to the people of
America. and to their friends, the
people of Holland. . '-
The biggest dinner of the summer,
however, was given us on the even-
ing of the same-day, in Zaandvoort,
by the sea. In a. magniﬁcent hotel
up on the beach—and I use the word
“up” advisedly—a. large dining room
with a special corps of attendants
had been reserved for 'us. .We‘were

seated at seven and we ate for three T

hours, until ten o’clock. The places
had been arranged so that there was
an English-speaking Hollander sit-
ting next to every American visitor.
Most of these Hollanders were rep-
resentatives of large nursery ﬁrms
and had made at least one trip to
the United States. We were able to
exchange our, opinions of Holland
with their opinions of us.

In all justice to our hosts, and to
our own ability as trenchermen, a
few signiﬁcant statistics relating to
that dinner should be quoted. To
begin with, each place Was ﬂanked
with an imposing battery of silver-
ware stretching away on either side.
It was a baffling array for we editors
who seldom get further than the
knife, fork, and spoon trinity and,
personally, I could have done just as
well with my triple-threat, all-pur-
pose knife that I used in my days of
hatching on the homestead.

There was the dinner knife, the
ﬁsh knife, the steak knife, the butter
knife—and whole families of forks
and spoons.
know their ﬁrst names, in true re—
porter style I could count them. The
waiter saw the-doctor counting his
and checked up on him later by care-
fully brushing his clothes for ‘him,
especially about the pockets. There
were twelve articles of silverware at
each plate to begin with and nine
more were brought in with later
courses. Each of us had to use 21
pieces of silver in order to have be-
haved correctly during that three—
hour dinner. Each of us was equip-
ped with a. serviette as big as an
ordinary table cloth, and the table
linen was changed four times during
the prosecution of the meal. The
only justiﬁcation I can see for that
is so that the awkward guest may not
feel that he has put the host to any
extra trouble if he should upset the

catsup or any other bottle and make .

a change necessary.

Another unusual sight for we sim-
ple “millionaire Americans” was a
glittering semicirle of glasses—six
of them—before each plate. They
were empty to start with but during
the dinner they were ﬁlled each with
its own variety of wine, champagne,
liquor, beer—or distilled water.

There were twelve distinct courses
to that dinner, and each one was
gracefully prepared and graciously
served. There was little speech mak—
ing and yet we were at work on that
dinner for three hours.

"Well, boys, it looks unreasonable,
but that stack of hay certainly seems
to be moving out there in the mead-
ow,” said the doctor on our way
home that night. I had taken pretty
good care of the doctor during the
dinner and —was surprised to ﬁnd him
seeing such things as moving stacks
of hay. '

“We'll have to take better care of
the doctOr next time,” the colonel
observed sadly, and then he stepped
on his own foot and pinched himself.

“But, why, say, it does seem to be

moving, at that!"

Had the dinner proved too much
for‘us? The stack of hay appeared
to me to be moving too,-—-but I was-
n’t going to commit myself. What
was the use?

It came nearer—a big stack of
hay! Finally we noticed the barge
beneath it. It was simply a, stack of
hay on a big ﬂat boat, drifting down
a canal in the moonlight.

Our visit in Holland and on
through Germany and Denmark will
be continued in a later issue.

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NATURAL INCUBA’I‘ION

Second of a series of articles on
raising of baby chicks, by
Clarence M. Ferguson

DURING the last few weeks we

have considered the egg largely \

as a matter of its food value and
as a means of bringing revenue when
sold to the c6nsumer. 'As spring ap-
proaches one must consider it from
another angle, its original purpose
that of reproduction. It now forms
the nucleus of our next spring's crop
of chicks and our next fall’s crop of
pullets.

The commercial poultryman is con-
fronted with the problem of greater
hatchability and less mortality among
the youngsters. Forcing hens for
production tends to decrease hatch-
ability and also to decrease the vi—
tality of the chick.

Formation of the Egg

The egg consists of a yolk, albu—
men, or white, shell membranes and
shell. Each of these parts plays a
part in the production of a. chick. The
yolk is formed and develOped by the
ovary, an organ found 'along the ver-
tebrae of the bird. When it is fully
developed it drops into the opening
of the oviduct tube, a whitish colored
organ commencing just below the
ovary and ending at the cloaca.
During production this organ is much
enlarged and is covered with a net—
work of veins which carry to this or—
gan the materials necesary for egg
production. When the yolk enters
the oviduct tube it is fertilized by the
male serum. 1f examined a small

circular whitish body will be found
on the surface of the yolk just under
the vitelline membrane.

This is call-

not make a normal growth during
the incubation period. It is essential
therefore, that eggs intended for
hatching be held at a temperature
below 68 degrees, preferably about
55 to 60 degrees F.,' until ready to be
placed in the incubators. Eggs de-
teriorate with age and therefore
should be set as soon after being
laid as possible. It is safe however
to keep them as long as two or. three
weeks if kept at a uniform tempera-
ture.
Selection of Eggs

Much has been said of culling and
selection. The ﬁrst culling should
be done before setting. If you are to
improve the type of egg to bepro:
duced by your ﬂock, set only the
best. Particular attention should be
given to size, color, shape and shell
texture. The best egg from a market
standpoint weighs from 24 to 28
ounces per dozen. Small eggs and
overly large eggs do not pack well in
standard ﬁllers and are a commodity
not well received on the market.

Color is a factor on which much
stress is being laid. If you are breed—
ing some of the Mediterranean varie-
ties, select only the chalk White eggs,
avoiding those which are creamy or
tinted. In selecting brown eggs, you
will ﬁnd a much greater range of
color. Dark brown eggs free from
ﬂecking are most desirable and this
factor should be considered.

It is hard to describe the ideal
shape of an egg. However, one
shoud not use eggs which are spheri—
cal in shape. The long pointed eggs
are also objectionable because they
are more easily broken in shipment.
Eggs with wrinkled shells and those
with bulges or irregular outline
should also be discarded.

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ing,” writes F.

ed the blastoderm and consists of
three concentric rings in the center
of which is the embryo proper. All
eggs may not be fertilized but pass
down the tube where the white or
albumen is laid on in three distinct
layers, an inner coating called the
(-halazae, a. middle layer called the
dense albumen, and an outside layer
or thin albumen. Outside the albu~
men are two tissue paper like mem—
branes which lie closely together ex—
cept at be large end of the egg
where they separate, forming the air
cell. The shell proper encloses the
entire structure and is made up
largely of lime or calcium carbonate.

The purpose of the albumen is to
act as a protective coating over the
yolk, and secondly to act as a source
of food for growing and developing
embryo. -

The yolk furnishes the food mater~
ial for the young chick for the ﬁrst;
sixty to seventy—two hours of its life,
and is just as necessary to its growth
as colostrum milk is to the new born
calf.

1f the eggs are collected soon after
being laid and properly stored. the
growth of the embryo is checked and
it lies dormant. Growth will com-
mence however at a temperature of
68 degrees F. If the eggs are per-
mitted to stay in a. temperature rang—
ing from 68 to 104 degrees growth
will continue. It then the growth is
en egd'lbyycooling. the embryo may
.- begouiwgakenod thug: it will

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E. Chambers,

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of Fcnwick.

important. This can be determined
by close inspection or by candling.
Eggs having porous shells evaporate
very quickly, tending to dry up the
developing chick. Select eggs with a
ﬁne even texture of shell that when
candled present a dense closely wov—
en shell texture. These eggs not only
are more satisfactory for incubation.
but are also the best for sale as food
as they stand handling much better
than weaker. shells. ’It, should be
remembered that a good commercial
egg is also a good hatching 
Natural Incubation

While natural incubation is
giving way to artiﬁcial means, an ar—
ticle of this kind would be incom—
plete without mentioning this meth~
od. It is generally conceded that a
hen can still produce a better job of
doing it than can her mechanical
competitor. This method ﬁnds favor
among poultrymen who do not raise
chicks in quantity and 'we even ﬁnd
some large producers still using this
method. The writer has seen as
many as 3,000 chicks being brooded'
by hens in one 'plant. The disadvan—
tages of course, are quite easily seen.
Quantity production is different ow—
ing to the labour and trouble involv-
ed with small units. Setting hens
have temperaments which vary great—
ly, and they do not always take kind—
ly to three weeks close attention to
the tedium of incubation. Then with
the develo ment of-greater egg pro-
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From Winter Laying stock produced by Mlchlgnn's old reliable hatchery. plenum breed<
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Pure bred Tom Barron and American \Vhite Leghorns,
hatched chicks from tested Hoganixed free range

Anconas, Barred Rocks

Chicks sent by Insured Parcel Post.
Seventeen years
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'4: hard and Tom Barron W. Lo horns—Heavy T pbBrown Leg. \

‘ horns—R. C. and S. C. Rho 3 Island Rad‘s—~ bode Island ~
Whites—Sheppard’s.Almanac—Park's Barred Rocks I

.f you want pure bred chicks that are bred right, hatched right. and
shipped right, that grow and will make you a proﬁt, get our new low
prices and free catalog before you buy, _\ . *

Flock: are careful! culled and developed on free range. All chicks
are hand icked m inspected, no cripples or weakhnge. Every one
stronger: healthy. . -~

100% Live Delivery — Postage Paid

Satisfaction Guaranteed. Write Now. White Leghorn andBarred
Rock pallets after May 1, at low prices. I,

, Knoil’a Hatchery, R. R. l2, Box m, Holland, Mich.

Pure bred high quality, heavy la ing, tested ﬂocks. These pullets will make

excellent Winter layers. 00% we Delivery Guaranteed. Bank Refs materials in Whi'Ch the eggs may be"
Varieties Postpaid prices on 5 50 100 500

1' come buried and chilled
. . 1. hor ...... .. 3.15 1.25 14.00 37.50 1: . , - -
gargedvggéaszBmwn .9 "8' s so 50 318.00 811.50 $1“. 4. Do not give a hen more eggs

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‘ diliggalimgma 6°“ Sheppard) "" " 2"92 ézzg 10200 $338 1 than she can cover well. Thirteen is
" the usual number.

lls'llliéiiii"dl's‘éeﬁﬁi"6'ﬁ"6i-H€is booked before March 26."
Eitcii'ingsflec‘ligchmggiitrsiiggfuii? laggedlgxiéigonaiig. “he‘rghatcéliggulhli'. 5. Be sure to use some good insec-
wmsrnom POULTRY F RM, Box c-s. Zeeiand, Michigan. ticide to rid the bird of lice and
watch for mites in the nest an coop.
6. Provide feed preferably a mix-

WUNDEDMAN’J' CHIC/(r    .   

' $10 100 (1 Fr b ed ﬂocks on free range ty 0f freSh water'
‘ per an up. om pure 1' L . .
03 pa 0 c l ' '
E"°l:""a§awﬁ' “’“'§‘i~.."”"°""""""' :::::::::::$3:§3 s3:23 ’lEISS ’23:23 31- :88 ,8. Watch the nests, remove dirt,
s'me'd Rocks, 8. ril"c""r'1 """" " 8.00 15.00 12.50 100.00 broken eggs Q]. cracked eggs.
Mixed assorted, 25,0$3.00
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HUNDERMAN

You take no chances. Free Cats 0g.
fourteenth days and remove infer-
'I'YRONE POULTRY FARM

BROS., Box 37, Iceland, Michigan
‘tile eggs ’or dead germs.
Let us sell} you your 1925 Chicks from pure bred, select thite and Brown Le horns, ‘

v 81" not the. t, .rﬁﬂ’ in.
j stinct which’has'galmost. disappear ’ _
in some of our been producing frame“
ilies. '  ‘ * ' '

Space» will not permit a lengthy
discussion of natural incubation. It
will be sufﬁcient to say—‘-

1. Select hens which show a quiet
disposition and an inclination to stay
on the job. .

2. Provide a. good shelter free
hen can have exercise and be free
from drafts. Some place where the
from disturbances; Rats and skunks
are particular enemies of setting
hens. ~

3. Supply a good nest made pre-
ferably of earth hollowed out and
lined with hay or straw. Do not use

High Grade 'St'Ock—I

At Prices 7

You can Afford thay

Bred for e as. not show feathers. Every chick
from our rm is of a proven egg laying strain.
But they win beauty prizes also. '

English Barron Leghorns

The strain that has been maldng .e gv__la ug
history ever since Tom Barron enter his rst
pen in America. We breed them upward——
watch our ﬂocks the year around to make
sure only good birds remain.

Aristocrat Barred Rocks

They occupy the same preeminent position
among Books that Barron birds do among
Leghorns.

 Brown Leghorns

All our ﬂocks have free range—-—thus
dependable, healthy and strong.

CHICK—EGGS—PULLETS

We outﬁt you in any kind of stock you prefer.
Our new catalog W111 tell you all about it.
Send for your copy.

Great Northern Poultry Farm

.ZeeIand. Michigan. R. R. 4. Box: 57



250 to 280
peﬁggreedg aﬁl [in d
1 ea so
our menu ﬂocks of
, 'I'anorod American
and Tom Barron Ena-
IIathhlto Lo horns. *
- Sheppard'o amou-
MottlodAnconaa Park's Bred-
to-Lay Rooks. ur- bu'ds won
lint prizes In any
class at Holland and

EXPERIENCE WITH  v , t igan State Fairs. All ﬂocks bred

hgutgiog‘enmgonf for hluhoglg rcductﬁon.

,. Prom 0 VOI’V Pf.” an ere

O the Editorz—I am wondering if ftheRocki yw
other M. B. F. readers have been

easto es. PrIoeo ow. 0r erearl to
1: chicks when you want them. Our beauﬁfhlly
in the same boat? Two years
ago I made up my mind to change

illeustrated, instructive free chick booklet will give
you much valuable information. Write for your
the Buﬁ Leghorns for the Buff Or-
pingtons, a larger breed, to see if

009! now.

Silver Ward Hatcheryﬁox 30,Zeeland,MIoh.
I could keep them out of the garden.
So I sent out by parcel post and got

ﬁfty chicks. One was almost dead  CthkS

'th h't d' h . At th
 record‘s...  in: FREE .
CATALOG

to set under the Buff Leghorn hen
and they hatched about the time I . .
received the parcel post chicks. The In Busmcss For 22 Yea".
hen ate and killed all but eighteen White and Bug: Leghorns
and Hatching Eggs
Barred Rocks, R. I. Reds

and I took them away and gave them
- MEADOWBROOK FAR-M

to another hen I had saved for set-
ting so I had 68 chicks to start with. 
HENRY DE FREE sons
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at the same time and divide the
chicks up at hatching time. A hen
will brood as many as twenty chicks.
The others can be broken up and
soon will be back in production.

Our next article will deal with ar-
tiﬁcial Incubation and Pedigreeing.

10. Set as many hens as possible
B d, Whit nd Buff Rocks, . . eds, Anconas, Black. and White Minorcas, hite,

Bali“? Goldvneai‘ld Silvor Wyandottes, White and Buff Orpmgtons. Black Spanish, Light

Brahmas, etc. Of leading strains such as Barron, Parks, etc.

3000 CHICKS GIVEN AWAY TO OUR CUSTOMERS DURING 1925.S _

t 100‘! Liv Deliver. Postpaid. Reference: _Commercial State avmgs
Ween glmrBaJioereu ordering (‘ﬁicks Hashim-e. LN. our special (‘ll‘Cllllll‘ containing our low
prices and particulars about the 3000 PRIZE ClilCIxS.
TYRONE POULTRY FARM, Dept. 21.

KEYSTONE HATCHERY

BLOOD TESTED CHICKS. Hatched from pure—bred—to-lay ﬂocks, best strains.

100% Live Arrival (:mr. Postpaid prices on 60
uumy 5 White Leghorns, .................... .. ........ ..$6.00 $12.00 $57.50 $115.00
- Barron V‘vni’iite L horns. ............................. .. 7.00 0 65.00 

Leg orns, R. I. Reds,. .. 8.00

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‘ R00 5, ............... ..
White W andottes Buﬁ” Orpin tons,.
Extra selected R.’c. and s. 3. Red _ _
Foreman Strain Barred Rocks, ............................ __1050 95.00
Order right from this ad. KEYSTONE HATCHERY, 51, Lansing, Mich.

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Chicks from healthy pure—bred ﬂocks especially culled for egg production.~ “'e
have been in business for 13 years. me to increased demand We have en-
larged our plant. 25 ‘70 down hooks order.

Varieties Prices On: 50 100 500 1000
Anconas, Wh. & Br. Leghorns ...................... ..$7.00 $18.00 $62.00 $120.00
Br. a. Wh. Rocks, S. C. a R. c. Reds ...... .. 8.00 15.00 72.00 140.00
Black Minerals... 8.00 15.00 72.00 140.00
wh. Wyandottes, '3uff Rooks. ...................... .. 8.50 16.00 75.00

Buﬂ Minorcas 20 cents straight. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Ref: First National Bank, Morenci.
MORENO! HATGHERY. s. E. Rupp, Prop., Box H, Morenci, Michigan.

YEAR—3" OF EXPERIENCE)

r 15 ears of work and ex erience in breeding and hatching Chicks qualiﬁes us as
3%AN iny the Poultry Industryp College. We own and .0 crate a real Poultry Farm of
20 acres, not merely a Hatchery. Our Free. Catalog W11. give you an excellent idea of
this l-‘mm—flct it now. We hnve_snccinl_lze(l in White Leghorns for many years.
Chicks ut following prices. 100% L1ve Dehvery Guaranteed

" 1 Postpaid prices on 25 50 100 500 1000
S. 0. White Leghorns. Extra Quality, .................. ..$4.00 $7. 0 $14.00 $67.50 $130.00
Barred Rooks. Reds, Anconas, ............................ .. 4.25 8.00 15.00 12.00 140.00
White .9. But? Rocks, White Wyandottes, .......... .. 5.00 .9.00 11.00 80.00 155.00
Ref. Royal Oak Savings Bank. Order direct from this ad in full conﬁdence.

DEAN FARM AND HATCHERY, Box 22, Birmingham, Michigan

STAR QUALITY CHICKS

1: .‘ z u lit cm’t be beat. Smcial hi h rade,
m‘t mm Stir. QVhlitey Ieghorn ﬂocks. atcd t0 edizgreed
o 295 eggs per year. Only
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I buried so many that I hung a po-
tato planter in a tree to have it
handy. '

To make the story short, I saved
17 pullets and 11 roosters out of the
68. Someone gave me a hint that ,
ﬁve cents worth of carbolic acid ‘_ _  [oglnbubaf0r$l32_5
would save the balance, so I got some ;_-  . ‘0 . ~—
and used two to three drops to a ‘1 ‘ ‘30Dngrrm,l
quart of water and no more were!
sick. Those too far gone, of course,|
died. A veterinary said he used!
Tincture of Iron with success.

Another experience I had with
chicks. The ﬁrst batch I gaVe plenty
of green stuff and they grew nicely, L
the second batch I ﬁxed it so all
could get out to the grass but there
were ﬁve or six that just wouldn’t.
I soon saw the difference in size as
they are stunted, although they were
fed the same as the others,—so, dear
readers, get them out to the green
grass if possible, for success—Geo.

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catalog and price detail.

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We have just the chicks you have been looking for,
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150 000 Chix 9C up. From highest_pmducmg flocks that have been culled for heavy egg produc-
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10 chix free With early orders.

tion. English White Leghorns, Anconas. Rocks,
Lawrence Hatchery. R7, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

140 Egg Incubator and Broader - $17.75
180 Egg Incubator Aiono- 5.75
180 Egg Incubator and Broader - 22.00
250 Egg Incubator Alone 22.75
250 Egg Incubator and Broader - 31.00
340 Egg Incubator Alone - - - 30.75
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30 days trial—money back if not pleased. If not ready
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FARMICR of January 3rd this year

Mr. A. D., Dighton, Michigan
asks if boiled rye is good for poultry.
If poultry raisers knew the value of
boiled rye this would be much more
used and a much greater proﬁt
left after sales. I feed boiled rye to
chicks as soon as they are old enough
to eat it after mixing in, or on, all
the dry mash it will take up. Feed
chicks a part ration at each meal and
the older ones all they can eat all
day. But keep ground oats and corn
with an equaLamount of bran mixed
before them at all times and the last
thing in the. evening see they get all
the scratch they can eat. I put 2
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in the entire United States.

For the best results,
should be planted that has not been
tested, for it costs just as much to
prepare for, plant, cultivate, and
nearly as much to harvest a ﬁfty per
cent stand as it does a ninety-eight
per‘ cent, while the proﬁt from the
latter is just practically twice as
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corn- because it pays me well. In
testing I use ﬁve, kernels from each
ear, discarding every car not testing
one hundred per cent of strong ger-
mination. An‘ ear testing one hun-
dred per cent but with weakly
sprouts goes out for feeding.

Here. is my plan .for testing seed
corn selected from several methods
I have tried. My testing box is six-
teen by thirty—six inches, with four
inch sides. On top of all four sides
I have driven in shingle nails every
two inches apart, leaving about a
quarter inch undriven. Starting at
one corner nail I tie on a piece of
heavy wrapping twine and draw
across again, and so on until I have
ﬁnished the short way across. I then
commence on another corner nail and
run back and forth the long way.
This gives me my box divided into
two inch squares. All along the box
on the outside I have glued on large
numbers to correspond to the proper
number of each outside square (the
numbers I cut from an old calendar)
so there is no trouble whatever to
quickly tell the number of any
square in the box. To number the
ears I used some real thin wood (a
piece of cigar, box). From this I
cut 144 small pegs and sharpened
them, numbering each consecutively
from 1 to 144. The pegs I made
about an inch or so long and around
three—eighths of an inch wide.

When ready to test I ﬁll my box
almost full of damp sand and bring
it into the house. Bringing in my
seed corn I select ﬁve kernels from
various sections of an ear and place
in square number one, while into
the peth at the butt end of ear I
drive peg number 1, and so on until
I have ﬁlled each square in my box.
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so that there can be no mistake, so
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ﬁlled I press the ﬁve kernels into the
sand, smooth over, water enough to
keep damp, and wait.

Before long the sprouts begin to
appear but I let them grow several
inches high as some ears will sprout
all ﬁve kernels but. after a week or
so of growth perhaps one plant is
showing weakness and is much small—
er or more spindling than the other
four. Afterl say about four inches
high, I pull out every thing, jotting
down on a piece of paper the num-
bers I want to hold and those I am
going to throw away. Going to my
stored ears I pull out the pegs, dis-
cardinggthe ears in accordance with
numbers on my paper. The ones I
retain for seed are hand tipped and
butted as well as hand shelled, run
over the grader then sacked for
spring use.

In the above manner I get the best
of seed. More trouble of course than
going to the crib when ready to plant
picking out the best looking ears and
shelling, but from comparing both
methods on small experimental plots
I have found my time well repaid
by the few hours of actual time it
takes me to test my seed corn.

Perhaps my idea (of box and pegs
will be more clear if after reading
this article the two illustrations are
looked over. Diagram one shows
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to numbering and stringing. Dia-
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Grain Markets Continue Unsettled

Fewa Cattle and Sheep Being Fed

By W. w. room. Market Editor.

URING the in-between season
farmers are making plans for
the future, and farmers of one
district are wondering what those of
other sections will do in the way of
planting and sowing seed for the sev-
eral grains. Of course, it IS rather
early to know very much about such
things, but it may be said at the start
that there is much possibility of a.
marked increase in the wheat acre-
age because of the great boom which
was brought about by the serious
world shortage at a time when the
need of wheat was extremely large.
This is a matter of tremendous 1m—
portance to the farmers of Michigan,
as this is a great wheat state, and
overproduction two years ago, as all
of them remember, brought down
prices to a level which meant little
or no proﬁt. .Better by far to stick
to common sense diversifying of the
crops, with no more than a small Im-
crease in wheat area, while devotmg
about the usual acreage to oats and
other grains and potatoes. As for
seed, use every possible way to get
only the very best of oats, corn and
other grains. Fortunately, this is
being done in the case of corn much
more generally than ever before, es—
pecially in the states Where corn is
the leading crop. This is a time
when the average farmer and stock-
man can poorly afford to pay the
high wages demanded by farm hands,
and farmers are obliged to use extra
exertions to make every acre produce
more and better products than in the
past. Even boys and girls are sur-
prising their elders by getting the
best possible proﬁts from corn acres.
Possibly, the failure of oats to ad—
vance as much as corn and the other
grains may cause farmers to reduce
the oats acreage, just as the boom
in rye prices may encourage them
to sow more rye, but the safer course
to follow seems to be to make no
large change in their acreages of
these cereals. Michigan farmers do
not need to be encouraged to set
apart ground for orchards, and the
only advice needed is to see that the
apple and peach trees are well spray-
ed at the right times. The grape
growing industry has been growmg
in importance in recent years, and It
is destined to become still more pro-
iilable.
Unscttled Grain Markets
A few weeks ago there was the
wildest kind of a Chicago wheat mar—
ket imaginable outside of war times,
prices advancing at a giddy pace, and
the price for delivery next May
jumped to around $1.06 a bushel.
Unlike the usual wheat market, trad—
ing was not restricted mainly to the
professional traders, but the public
entered the market, and their buying
was so large that the ring of specu-
lators lost control for the time. Then
the tide suddenly turned, a multi-
tude of traders starting to take their
proﬁts, and down went prices with
a rush, May wheat in less than a
month suffered a fall of nearly 29
cents, with a similar fall in rye
prices. For the trained operator it
was largely a proﬁtable affair, but
the “lambs” were badly squeezed,
as usual at such times, most of them
being losers when their holdings had

to be. closed out on the Board of
Trade (“orn has acted in sympathy

with wheat. going down in prices. as

has rm. with modera’e later ad—
. vances, and all the grains sold much
higher than a. year ago, oats ex—
cepted, the market for oats being
held down by the unusually heavy

sticks in the visible supply. Farm—
ers evidently haVe lacked faith in
oats. and they were in too much of
:9. hurry to market. their surplus hold—
ings after liberal quantities used on
the farms. It may be added that the
visible supply ‘of all grains in the
United States a short time ago aggre—
gated 385,000,000 bushels, being
110,247,000 bushels more than a
year ago. Late sales were made for
May delivery of wheat at $1.85, com-
paring with $1.10 a year ago; corn
at $1.30. Comparing with 80 cents

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a year ago; oats at 53 cents, com—
paring with 49 cents a year ago;
and rye. at $1.60, comparing with
72 cents a year ago.
Coming Cattle Scarcity

The following message comes from
New York: The American family’s
“T—bone steak” and “prime roast beef
au jus" will be both scarce and dear
by next September, a delegation of
cattle raisers and dirt farmers from
Texas, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois
told Wall street ﬁnanciers at a lunch:
eon at the Bankers’ club. The Amer-
ican housewife, the westerners
brought word, would go to market
with a smaller basket and long purse,
her harassed butcher being forced to
put on the screws by then because
of disposal of herds during the ruin—
ous post-war slump. The national
meat shortage, the visitors agreed,
threatens to become so acute by fall
that it may cost North America its
position in world markets as a meat
producer.

Cattle Scarcer and Higher

There is decidedly less cattle feed—
ing districts than usual, and a large
falling off in the Chicago receipts
during the past week enabled sellers
to obtain advances of around 50
cents per 100 pounds, the bulk of
the beef steers crossing the scales
at around $8.25 to $10.75. The
choicer class of yearlings sold at $10
to $11.25, with a few sales of fancy
yearlings up to $12.25. The best
long fed weighty steers brought
$10.25 to $11.35, with 1310—pound
steers taken at $8.50, and sales down
to $6.75 to $7.75 for common to fair
light steers. No good steers went
below $8.75. Butcher lots of cows
and heifers had a good outlet at $4
to $10, fancy yearling heifers top-
ping the market, 27 head which av—
eraged 650 pounds bringing that ﬁg-
ure. Low grade little steers brought
$4 to $6.70 and bulls sold at $3.40
to $6.50, while canner and cutter
cows were sold for $2.25 to $3.90
and calves at $6 to 14. The stocker
and feeder trade was fairly active,
desirable offerings averaging 25
cents higher, but common lots were
not much wanted at unchanged
prices. Sales were made at $4.75
to $8, largely at $6.25 to $7.50. The
general run of dairy cows offered
were salable at $50 to $60 per head,
good forward springers bringing $75
to $80 and common backward spring-
ers down to $35. A year ago cam-

mon to prime beef steers sold at
$6.25 to $11.70 and three years ago
at $6.25 to $9.20. Combined re—
ceipts in twenty markets for the
year to late date amount to 1,758,-
000 cattle comparing with 1,840,000
a year ago.
Fewer Lambs Feeding

Sharp declines in prices for lambs
have taken place recently owing to
much larger receipts in the Chicago
market and to the liberal supplies of
Colorado lambs consigned from far
western markets to the leading pack-
ers direct, thereby lessening competi-
tion between buyers. Even at the
decline, however, prices are still far
higher than in recent years, lambs
selling at $14 to $17.75, and the top
comparing with $15.75 one year ago
and $10.60 four years ago. Feeding
lambs were scarce and wanted at
$16.60 to $17.25. The only thing
that could act permanently to de-
press prices is lessened consumption
resulting from dearness of lamb and
mutton, prices being unusually high.
No large numbers of sheep or lambs
are now ready for the market, and
unusually small numbers are on feed,
and markets are mainly dependent
upon Colorado and Nebraska. No
lambs are left in the feed yards con-
tributory to the Chicago market,
where there are facilities for feeding
upward of 400,000 head. Further-
more, most of the farmers in near-by
territory have marketed their lambs,
and eastern feeders have sold most
of their lambs and-“are hesitiating
about reﬁlling their feed yards, being
indisposed to take more chances. Re—
cent sales of lambs in Chicago were
at $15 to $17.90, while feedinglambs
brought $16.25 to $17.‘ Yearlings
sold at $11.50 to $15, wethers at $9
to $11.75, ewes at $5 to $9 and
bucks at $6 to $6.75.

Hog Market Booming

The long predicted booming mar—
ket for hogs is now a reality, recent
lively advances in prices having land—
ed the commonest to the best lots
offered on the Chicago market at
$10.50 to $11.75, these prices com-
paring with $9.65 to $11.30 of a
Week earlier and with $5.90 to $7.05
a year ago. These steady advances
are basml solely on the fast decreas-
ing inarketings and large require-
ments on local and eastern shipping
accounts, eaStern shippers taking
many more hogs than a week earlier,
while the receipts are far smaller
than heretofore or a year ago. The
range of prices has narrowed, with
prime heavy butchers at the top,
these selling 35 cents above the best
light bacon hogs. With market
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THE BUSINESS FARMER’S MARKET SUMMARY

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Feb. 24 Feb. 23 Feb. 11 1 yr. ago

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No. 2 Mixed 1,90 1.95 1 .l 4 K
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Tuesday, February 24.-—-—Wheat steady.
market ﬁrm. Demand for potatoes declines.

Corn unchanged. Oats ﬁrm. Bean
Poultry strong. '

 

to fail to market hogs as choice as
possible. and every pound counts.
\VHEAT

Wheat was very active last week
with quick ﬂuctuations and a great
deal of trading, but prices did not get
far in either direction. The .price
changes at Detroit were not so'fre-
quent as on other markets,‘a condi-
tion that came from the slowness of
cash demand. Millers were not ac-
tiVe in the buying and lack of de—
mand made it impossible to follow
the advances. During the greater' part
of the week, there was more wheat 'on
the market than dealers knew.what
to do with. Bulls are still optimis-
tic and believe that the price will
again hit the $2 level before another
crop.

CORN
Receipts of corn are declining and
bulls are hoping this will cause
prices to advance. The priceis now
slightly under that of two weeks ago.

OATS

There is a fairly good demand for
oats at this writing and the market
is ﬁrm.
than they were two weeks ago, ,they
are not at the lowest point they have
been during that period and they are
expected to continue upward.

RYE

This market shows little change
over two weeks ago aside from a
small decline in price.

BEAN S

The reason for the sudden changes
in the Michigan bean market is well
explained in the following excerpts
from a letter received by a Michigan
dealer from a California dealer:

“There will probably be these ﬂuc-
tuations in the market from time to
time, but it apears to us that there is
not enough stability in the policy of
the dealers in Michigan and that if
the receipts from the country would
be better taken care of and the mar-
ket stabilized on a gradually upward
basis which the conditions through-
out the. country warrant on Michigan
beans that the trade will be more in-
clined to buy with conﬁdence than
they are at present with the condi-
tions so frequently changing.

“However, we believe in the long
run that Michigan beans should do
better with anything like a normal
shipping demand for there is no ques~
tion but that Michigan beans are
cheaper than any other variety of
American beans now obtainable.”

POTATOES
Potatoes are in liberal supply and
the market easy. Demand is slow
and no change is noted in price dur-
ing the last few days.

 

THE LIVliX-i’l‘OCK MA ltKETS

DETROIT, Feb. 24.——Cattle market
steady. Goml to choice yearlings, dry fed.
39(7010; best heavy steers, dry‘ fed, $8@
8.75; best handyweight butcher steers,
$7628; mixed steers and heifers, $6 ((177.50;
handy light butchers, $5.50Iu'650; light
butchers, $4.50@6; best cows, $5ﬁii5.50;
butcher cows, $4604.50; common cows.
$3603.50; canners, $2.25@3; choice light
bulls, $56176; heavy buns, $4.50@5.50:
stock bulls, $4.50@5.50; feeders, $5@7;
stockers, $5@6.25; milkers and springers,
$456070.

Veal» (‘alves—Market
$14.50fd‘l5; others, $5ﬁll4.

Sheep and Lambs—Market slow; best
lambs. $‘l7.25@l7.50; fair lambs, $1607
16.75f light to common lambs, $9@14:
yearlings, $13.50(a?l4.50; fair to good
sheep, $8 609; culls and common, “(176.50,

 

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Hogs Market 10 to 15c higher. Mixed
hogs, $11.95Z12: pigs, $10.
CHU‘AG O—C a t t l c——Rcccipts, 3,814.

Low grade steers, $4@6.'ﬂi; common to
fair, $6.75@7.75; fair to good corn-fed.
$7.75@9; good to choice (71 rn—feds, $9@
10.25; choice to prime corn-feds, $10.25

@1135; common to fair yearlings, $6.75
@775; fair to good yearlings, $7.75/r1
8.75; good to choice yearlings, $8.756

10.25 ; choice to prime yearlings $10.25
((012.25. Bulls, inferior bulls, $3.50@
4.40 ; common to fair bolognas, $4.406?
4.75 ; fair to good butchers, $5 @550 ;
good to choice butchers, $5.50@ 6.50.

Calves, common to choice light heavies,»

$6@9 ; common to good heavies, $4 @650 ;
good to choice heavies. $6.50 @8 ; com—
mon to fair ‘vealers, $11 @12 ; good to

Although prices are lower.

        

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aging] 35.0 to. 600.11“: 3.1M501030; rough
heavy packing, yerag’ing .350 to‘ 500 lbs.
810.4‘K@10;60.; fa r-to géo‘d'medium grades,
averaging 225 to,380 lbs.,_'$11.30@11.45;
fair to choice heavy butchers, $11‘.50@

11.76; pigs, best kinds, $8.75@10.50; plgs,_

inferior to good, $6.50@8.65.

Sheep—Receipts, 74,700..Wethers, aged,
poor to best, $9@11; we-thers, 2 year-olds.
$10@12.; western ewes, all grades, $7.50@
9.25; native ewes, fair to best. $7.25@9;
cull, $6@6.‘50; canner, 83@4.

EAST BUFFALO—C a t t l e-éReceipts,
market slow and steady. Calves—
receipts, 100; market active and unchang-
ed. Hogs—Receipts, 2.000; market ac-
tive and 10@15c higher; heavy, $12.10@
12.25; mixed, $12@12.10; yorkers, $12;
light porkers, $10.50@11.25; pigs, $10.50;
roughs, $10.25@11.60; stags, $5@7. Sheep

and Lambs—Receipts, 13,000; market ac-.

tive; lambs 25c higher, $10@17.25; others
unchanged.

LEGISLATURE VOTES DOWN
CHILD LABOR AMENDNLENT

(Continued from Page 3)

to increase the number of Wayne
County Senators from 5 to 10 and
the Representatives from 14 to 25.
At present, the Senate committee
seems favorable to allowing Wayne
7 Senators and they have requested
the opinion of the Attorney Gen-

 

 

 

 

Week of March 1
week of March 1st opens in
Michigan with heavy rain or
snow falling in most counties.
It is quite likely the weather will be
mild for the season at end of Febru-
ary and beginning of March in which
case there will probably be a mixture
of rain and wet snow. -Following
close on the heels of this storm cen-
ter sides will clear and Michigan will
have a day or two of fair weather

and seasonal temperatures.

On or just before the middle of the
week, however a renewal of storms
of rain or snow are to be expected.
With the passage .of these conditions
to the eastward the weather will
clear and the balance of the week
will be mostly snnshiny and cold.
In fact, precipitation will be at a,
minimum during the next few days
in this state-

Week of March 8

Any unsettled conditions at the
very end of last week or very begin-
ning of this will soon disappear and
most counties in Michigan will have
a few days of clear, cold weather.

Not until about Wednesday or
Thursday will temperatures moder-
ate to any appreciable amount in this
snows will melt in many of the ex-
state. but for a short period, at least,
posed places.

During the closing days of the
week winds will increase and there
will be storms of rain or snow with
some local touches of sleet. This
storm period will run into the open-
ing days of next week closely fol-
lowed by a change to colder temper—
atures. higher barometer and clear-
ing.

March Prospects

The average weather conditions
that may be expected in this state
this year may be summed up in the
two words, cold and dry. We expect
both the precipitation and tempera-
tures to be below the normal for the
season. The percentage of sunshine
will be greater than normal but we
do not believe the state as a whole
during the ﬁrst three weeks of March
will report any damaging heaving of
the farm land.

Predicted Eclipse Weather

Our predictions gain more conﬁd-
ence among the readers of the Busi-
ness Farmer with each successive
week of correct forecasts and the
prophecy of cloudy skies at the time
of the total eclipse of the sun in
Michigan was no exception to meat
parts of the state. The cold wave
immediately after the eclipse when
temperatures in Michigan fell as low
as 24 degrees below acre .‘in the
northern lower peninsula gave decid-

edproof that weather forecasting is .

as much a science as farming and-the
 In head towards rm;

' "ed names-ans mirth-from crop fail-

uI‘QB. '-‘

  

. Adios]. of t' 1'9 Home on tic prob ,
. ed. capital“ punishment bill tensile
that ﬁfty-two members. have, declared
they Will.- vote, for__.-it. and forty plan
on voting against—it. Eight members
have not yet .placed themselves on
record. .

The House committee has reported
favorably RepresLntative MacKimé
mon’s bill providingvfor changing the
name of the Michigan Agricultural
College to the Michigan State Col-
lege. It is reported that this move
is favored by the students at this
institution, but .the Michigan farm
organizations have gone on record
against any such change.

If we could know just what the
future of the East Lansing institution
is to be, we would in a better position

     

  
 

to know whether or not the change.-

would be desirable.
come a second/ university, giving a
broad training in the arts and
sciences, then no doubt the name
Michigan State College would more
accurately describe the institution.
If, on the other hand, research and
experimental work are to be vigor-
ously promoted, agricultural exten—
sion fostered and the beneﬁts and
information of the institution made
available to every farmer in the state,
then the present name would be ap-
propriate. The letters M. A. C. have
come to have a considerable meaning
not only in Michigan but throughout
the United States. By changing this

name atter considerably more than a.‘

half century of history, the accumul—
ated prestige of the name would be
lost.
Corn Borer Considered
Because of the fact that the Europ-
ean corn borer is annually being dis-

covered in additional Michigan coun- ,

ties and the infestation is becoming
more serious, Representative Joseph
Warner of Ypsilanti, has introduced
a bill to give the State Commissioner
of Agriculture authority to prepare
and enforce regulations for the con~
trol of this pest. The bill provides
for the appropriation of. $25,000 to
defray the state’s share of the neces-
sary expense. If this appropriation
is granted an even larger amount of
Federal funds will become available
for controlling the corn borer and
eradicating it from Michigan if pos-
sible.

In accordance with the attitude of
Michigan farm organizations, Rep-
resentative Frank McKenzie of Con—
cord, has introduced a bill to give
quail permanent protection. The
present temporary protection on
quail expires this year.

Each farmers' mutual ﬁre insur—
ance company would be limited to a
territory covering more than four
counties according to a bill oifered
by Representative Joseph C. Arm—
strong of Detroit. Senator A. H.
Gansser of Bay City has proposed a
bill to provide for the adoption and
use of a standard form of ﬁre insur-
ance by mutual companies.

Prevention of crime through the
passage of a very strict anti-ﬁrearm
bill is proposed by Senator George
M. Condon of Detroit. If this mea-
sure were passed it would require
all owners of ﬁrearms in Michigan
after July 1, 1925, to have them
registered with a local board on pen-
alty of a ﬁne of from $100 to $500.
Any person found guilty of commit—
ing a felony while armed with a pis-
tol, revolver or gun would be liable
to an extra punishment of not less
than ﬁve years imprisonment in ad-
dition to the regular penalty inﬂicted
for committing the crime. For sub—
sequent offenses the court would be
empowered to double or triple the
above extra penalty. The bill would
prohibit the carrying of ﬁrearms by
anyone either on their person or in
a vehicle, without a permit. Having
a ﬁrearm in one’s dwelling would
not be considered a violation of the
law.

 

mama.“ HAS 9,000 WOMEN-
FARMERS; 20 FARM MANAGERS

ICHIGAN has 9,000 women
M farmers. according to'date col—
lected by the Blue Valley
Creamery institute. Of this number
over 6,000 operate farms, 5,500 their
own, 20 as managers and not quite
250 as tenants, the data disclosed.

 

I  of'the ﬁrst
in T11!  s FARMER when It. was
first born; An) well pleased in the way
it has  J. C., Alba. Mich.

Your paperbe mala-
:70," IL—J. Boyle, ‘Vayne County, Mich.

5.000 subsorihers

 

 

If it is to be-'

If you [buy feed.l‘forpigeons, poultry,
hogs, sheep or cattle we can save you
money. Let us send you our regular

1 price "lists and market letters.

Port ‘Huron Storage and Bean 00.

Port Huron, Michigan

  

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Pure Bred Baby Chicks

Our ﬂocks have been worouﬁhlg culled-- for years
for heavy egg production. 0 % live delivery.
guarantee . 100 5 0
o. W. Leghoans $0.00 $12.00 $51.50 $115.00

3 In

R. I. Red
3. . Rooks 8.00 15.00 72.00 140.00
Catalog on request. Bank reference.
Baby chicks with a future.
THE A. D. RICHARDSON HATOHERY
Box B. Dundee, Michigan.

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=BUSIRESS FARMERS EXGHMIEE

nr ‘ PER WORD—Ono Issue 80, Two
no: 160. Four Issues 25c.
.\'n advertisement less than ten words.
' Groups of ﬁgures. initial or abbrevia-
tion count as one word.
Cash in advance from all advertisers in

   

this department, no exceptions and no
(llscounts.
Forms

close Monday noon proceeding
date of issue. Address:
MICHIGAN BIJSIIIESS~ FARMER,
Mt. Clemens, Mlchlgan.

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FARM LANDS

230 ACRES EXTRA GOOD_ DAIRY. BEET.

bean, corn and general farming land in fertile
thumb distrlct. .7 acres cropped, mostly new,
20 acres good timber. balance pasture

 

a ud easy

cleared. no waste land. One mile frontage on
trunk road woven Wire fence, two miles cement
posts, good drainage. can be tilt-d, 80 rods ‘to

best station, 1% miles to town. R. F D. mn-

   

, FRUIT:  

 

 

 

 

culf by side. Priced reasonable. ll. E. Hartwell.

\Villiumstou, Michigan.

 

IF YOU \VAN'I‘ GUERNSEY—HEIFER (TA-LVES

write L. Terwilliger. R1, Wauwatosu, WIS.

 

 

SWIN E

0. I. C. AND CHESTER WHITE PEDIGREED
pm. $16 per palr no kin. Write for cir-
culars. Ray Ruebush, Ccotia. Illinois.

 

 

 

 

PET STOCK

(JANARIES—ST. ANDREASBURG ROLLERS
and Hertz Mountain Warblers. Ethel Maddox,
Montpelier, Indiana.

 

 

POULTRY

BABY (‘lllGKS——TANORED BARRON WHITE

.egbnrns and. Shep 3am Anconas. High grade
stock. Glncks Insur for one week. Catalog
free. M. D. Wyugarden, R. B4, Zeeland. Mich.

BABRED ROCK I‘OCKERELS. BRED FROM

Holterman's Pedugeed Aristocrats direct. Light
or dark. Price $4. 0, two for $7.00. Eggs for
hatching. N. Ayers & Son, Silver-wood. Michigan.

BARRED ROCKS—BIG lll'SKY GOCKERELS.
standard color. bred from great layers. Write
tovdny. W. C. (‘nﬂ'mam Benton Harbor, Mich, R3.

WHITE WYANDOTTES—BOOKING ADVANCE
egg orders from 8 quality matings and utility
ﬂock. Stock all sold. Fred Berlin. Allen. Mich.

\VYANDOTTE POCKERELS,
and $5.00 each.
Roberts. Salem, Mich

 

 

 

$3.50
Eggs for hatching. F. W.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

m'pall German neighborhood. Federal Farm mu . , ,

Assoclation in community. bargain if sold soon. SINGLE (40MB BRO‘YN LEGHORN COFIC

$87.00 per acre, direct from owner. J. C. Auder- .91?“ 31-50 each. Orin Reynolds. Clare. R5.

son, Pigeon, Huron 00.. Michigan. Mlchlﬁnn.

\VEAI.THY WESTERN NEW YORK. LOCATE FEW "WORLD WONDER” SINGLE CO)“:
on good roads. near high-schools, among good Al‘mnﬂ COQkBTelS 1?“. 53-50-5500. 922:8 15-

people. Write us for farms that pay and have $3.00. ll. (:eml Smith. R2. Rapld City. Mich.

all modern convemences_ besides. Raise fruit,

grapes, poultry, truck or live stock and enjoy the CHICKS GIIARANTEEDz—WIIY NOT TRY

mild. climate of a natural fruit belt with long some? 100% safe arrival. Toluca Hatchery.

growmg seasons and short mild wmters. N. Y. Tolucs. Ill.

Farm Agency, W'cstfleld, N. Y.

ATTENTION FARMERS—IF YOILWANT TO

sell or trade your farm for Detrmt city prop—
erty and you wantﬁt good and honest business
also quick results llst your {arms ‘with us uith
a responsible company. we specmlize in selling
farms. in Mlclugan write to the Home Land &
Building (30., 8580 Joe. Campau. Detroit, Mich.

FOR SALE: 40 ACRES OF GOOD SAND

Loam. 30 acres under cultivation. 15 mile
from Tawas lake. Good hunting and ﬁshing.
Good 9 room house. good out buildings. With or
without stack and. equipment. Edgar Laﬁsmme,
East Tamas, Michigan.

FARM FOR SALE 103 ACRES LIMESTONE

 

 

 

 

soil string, creek _ watered mature, ten room
house barn, corncnb wagons ed. guru e other
trees. ossesslon

outbuildings (young orchard 235
April lst. .lyde Frittcr. Barnesville. Ohio. R4.

FOR SALE——GII‘EAP. OWNER HAVING OTHER

business. a small fruit farm, 1400 trues nearly
all come to DORI‘IDIZ: also a lot of Raspberry,
Currant and Gooseberry bushes. \Voll located and
very fertile. II. J. Heard, Owner, (Troswcll, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

BUFF ORPINGTON COCKERELS. COOK AND
Conway‘s strain. A. J. Brewbaker, Elsie. Mich.

STOCK AND EGGS, ALL LEADING VARIE’l‘«

res. Ducks, Geese Turkeys, Bantams, Guineas.
Chickens. and Baby Jesse Burnside, .Iudr
son, Indiana.

2 icks.

 

 

HOLLAND

WHITE
Fm uk Von -

PURE BRED MAMMOTH
$ apiece.

rkey hens for sale,
drasek, R. E.. Mesick, Michigan.

PURE “’HITE HOLLAND TURKEYS 'D
Mfltkégllouse Geese. Alden Whitcomb, Byron Cellar,
1c n.

GIANT BRONZE TURKEY'S.
strain. Choice heavy birds.

 

lGOL?o BANIli
urge us, we!
marked. Satisfaction gum-ant l. M
Stebbins. Sarsnac. Mich. w m Pu”

 

A FEW EXCELLENT THOROUGHBRED GIANT
1. {ii-yeah“ tglrkteysisle av jtarfsule yet. Healthy,
11¢ ronZ' 1r . me or arti 1;  ll 
Roht. Emerick, Ilarrisville. Michigan?“ m 1“

FOR SALE—-MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS.
“[ritc for Ill‘lCI‘S. Mrs. ll. 1). Horton, Filion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOR SALE, I20 ACRE FARM. GOOD SOIL. Micmgan
tiimlfuer, llgllitmg sylixlcm.f \Vzlllt slell machtiry '
win arm. “our mics mm lCllllOlld, Rich. FOR S A I F THOPOUvHBRFD .
. . . . _ . . 1,—— . r . TOULOUSE
Mrs. Alvah Scouten, Richmond, Mmluguu. geesﬁgﬂlndors. Baldwin & Nowun’ IM’ Lungs‘
7of Atoms Iaunt (FOR 1sAm 1NEAR 1FRANK- 1m”; ""g‘m'
nr,l1ong:m. loou muse. mm um garage; PURILBRFD AFRICAV («Flame M .
amle and cherry orchard. For terms wntc Robert . ‘ , ‘ ~ , - ‘ 3, ‘ “ ’_‘ rs' Juhuﬁ
(frat Elbmm, MichigmL Schuetx. Rh. bldtllSOll, \Vls.
FOR SiLF. MY SO ACRE FARM. GOOD v
buildings, dark loam soil. Also 400 acres ms- IL’x‘V FUR’S
tune land w‘utered 11andI fenced. For .pnrticunrs
“rite .Iolm .ampbe . I arrisvxlle. Michigan. rug}; {URS‘VIQIUSKRAITH BADGER, “.EASELS’
. . 3 5A . .- 3 . u e or. rowu. “air assortment. Prompt
I“\(‘,“‘\l‘\‘,it£1§,n(ﬁgf‘tl‘r{viéﬁlgn‘ I‘A’S‘ TLRM‘O‘ returns. Shipments held separate on re ucsl.
‘ ' ” ‘ lIold separate notlcp must accompany furs. ’ost-
"go .and Express paid. )Ve solicit. your shipments.
PIELP “rANTED Dnvm L. Dutcher, licmungton. Mich.
_/
WANTED: A BLACKSMITII you STOCK TOBACCO
Farm. Must be expert horse shocr und capable
and e\|)9rlt'll(‘i‘.d m every respect. Must also be u v y ‘
willing to work part tune at general furm work. IIOMENPI .\ TOBACCO—411113“ ING FIVE
GiVe references, salary oxpuotcd. cxpvrivm-o. and bounds $1.50 19.11 $2.50.‘Smokmg ﬁve pounds
full particulars in ﬁrst letter. Address llox 230. $1.27., ion. $2.00. l’Ipe tn-o. l’uy my." ,9.
(‘ure of Business I-‘armcr. r‘t‘lvv-ll. S11:tisfactloanuax-nntcvd. United Tobacco
Growers, in nos 1. y.
1
SEED 'l‘onAvco—lx’qurl'(IKY‘S PRIDE; EXTRA
ﬁne ('lmwmg. 10 pounds, $3; smoking, 10
SEED CORN AND SEED OATS. MY DRYING umls. $27; 20 pounds, 33.50. Farmers Club.
hnusc is ﬁlled with Clement’s Improved \Vbite luyllf‘l‘l- R!-
(‘up yellow dent, and Din-zln's yellow (lent seed
corn. Fire dried on racks, for tested, mmrm‘tced ]I()Z\Il'l.\'l'l'.\' TOBACCO. (JIIEW'ING 5 LBS”
germination from high ylf‘ll‘llllf stock._ Registered slid); 10—$2.75. Smoking. 5 lbs., $1.25;
and certiﬁed Worthy Oats. ‘ leavy yu‘ldm's uith Mild l0v$l.5(l. Pay when received. I“. Gupton,
a stiff stairs.l For prices write Paul I‘. (‘lx-mout, Ilm'du‘cll, Ky.
Britten. ic iigan
(‘uomc sum) (‘onxﬁmno rm. loo-DAY HAY AND STRAIV
Improved lelow Hunt: 500 bu. Lancaster
County Sure (lrop: 31m bu. Early \Vllitc (lap,

nearly all 1023 Crop, all hinb germinntion. Write

for price, sample and circular. ()rd’vr curly to
save money. Shull Farm. BM :30, Tullytown,
Bucks (‘0., Pa.

 

HARDY SOUTH DAKOTA No. l2 ALFALI"A
seed direct to consume-r from country in which

 

 

 

it ls group. Semi for samples and l‘ll‘l'llllll'.

Faith Warehouse (‘0mpuny. l-‘uitb. No. Duk.

FOR SALE-«IIIYRBANK "I'LLIcss oxrs 15535
see by grower. Full particulars and sumde

free. Address II. M. Welder, Fennvillu, Mich, 2.

CERTIFIED \YOLVERINE OATS. (‘ERTIFIED
Robust Beans; Postal (-nrd brings particulars.

A. ll. \‘ook, (Hvosso, Mich.

BEST FOR MICHIGAN. ROBI’ST BEANS.
Wolverine Outs. Address A. ll. l‘nok, ()wosso.

Michigan.

 

IMPROVED ROBUST BEANS, GENUINE WOL—
verinc Outs. llrookside Farms. Wheeler. Mich.

MANCIII.‘ SOY BEANS—49:34 (‘ROIK EXOS
Stewart, Lexington. Ill.

NURSE {Y STOCK

 

 

~Bth RASPBEBRIES, UUTHBERT $12.50 PER

thousand plants. any amount under ﬁve hun-
dred 8150. per hundred. 1,000 plants for 310.00
at the farm. Tony Mots, Sta Johns, \[icl1.. R1.

ELE'ORADO BLACKBERRY prﬁmsu'rm:
lognly real. % ﬁfty! A . one: Makar.

1 . . can P H I ll -
ummxgaa koala, Elberta. whirls...“ ” 8"
anus!)

ILAC 8 . RE ’76 INCHES

lo . ‘Tiard , sweet. ozue ee. Geor e
Stror'ili'er, New lluil'alo, Michigan, Box 16. g

 

 

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ll.\Y. S’I‘R.\\\' & ;\ l.l“.\LF.\F—‘VRITE US FOR

prices. (‘onsignmvnts solicited. Prompt returns.
Inquiries answered. Headquarters for Digester
’l‘ankagu, \lmt scrum. .l, .\. le-usnn (‘OH 332 Sn.

LnSallv, l‘hlt'ngo. Ill.

 

 

.MISPI'} [IIII‘ NEO US

 

loo .\.\'l‘llll.\' ’l'.\llLlC'l‘S. 47w PREPAID. GUAR-

 

“ntl‘wl “film”? F108. ()tlu'r Guaranteed Talv
1““ “'“1 pm" mm”? .m 3'0“ at \l'holosztlc prices.
Agents wanted. “rite for list. Gnsnoy, New
Do”). New York. .

BARREL LOTS SLIGHTLY DAMAGED (“ROCK-
ﬂy huts] (-luusware, cookmgware, glmwam’ at“
Shipped direct from I’m-tnry f.) punsunmr' Writ“

for purtimllzn's. E. Su'useY A- i‘o.. Portland, Msinv.

(‘ASll PAID v-‘OR. FALSE TEETH. PLATINUM.

old magneto DUIIIIS. discarded jewelry and old
gold. Mail to, Hoke Smeltinu & Reﬁning (‘0‘,
(Hm-go. Michigan 1).

SALE OR TRADE.
Knitter, extra parts.

Quarter brings sample ears.

old Ilawes, Popular Grove, Ill.

FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS YEARLY PROFIT
out of twelve hens. Book by Prof. A. (‘o bett.
Price~$l.00. James Anthony, Moorestovm, ich,

ACCOUNTS. Norms. CLAIMS COLLECTED
on vi: a in world. No charges unless on]-
lectol‘ . sy’s Collection Agency. Somerset. Ky.

KNITTER OWNERS. MAKE MORE noun.
'1‘. S. Burns. Salem. Ill.

WALN UT LOGS WANTED.
Westgate. Aurora. Illmms.

 

 

NE\\' TRIPLEX AUTO-
Also ﬁre dried seed corn.
Prices free. Hill"

 

 

 

\VALTER A.

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FLORIDA ORANGES DIRECT To YOU FROM
grove, assorted box: containing 48 or .
10. grapefrmt. 20 tangerines 48 kumquats.
fruit‘Je lé. or was midi $3.00. Florida 0
Packing 0., ’ amps, Fla. .
LIVE STOCK
FOR SALE—SIX HEAD or use. scorcu
'l‘np Sllortlmrn cows, 4 marrying calf. ‘2 with

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- We celebrate with Savings! It’s our 30th Anniversary!

Send the coupon for SHAROOD’S Big Free Catalog—

the largest book we have ever issuedF—and celebrate with us the 30th

Anniversary of “The HouSe of Quality Bargains.” This mammoth

Mail Order Store is packed and jammed with sensational values in

stylish, sturdy clothing and shoes for men, women and children.

Our buyers have ransacked the Eastern Markets for the best styles and the biggest
bargains. This great Storehouse of Bargains is like an Aladdin’s palace—ﬁlled with a

The  est Cat 6‘02 wonderful variety of dependable merchandise offered at bargain prices.

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brmgs 1‘ Free, WS‘Pmd- , founded this institution, we are celebrating the 30th Anniversary of -"
0 SHAROOD‘S with the greatest shoe sale in our history. Every pair of Sharood Shoes
St urdy  lSh   a genuine Jubilee Value. Immense \ﬁiriety of stylish, sturdy, dependable Shoes for .. .
' ' 1, Men, Women and Children! The S oe Section of Sharood’s Big Catalog is Amer-  «A '
at-LoweSt P0 SS .ble Prlces - I ica’s Headquarters for Shoe Bargains. Send for your Free copy and see for yourself. CHA5~K-5HAR00D 1'

All items of wearing apparel are modeled

on the very latest styles. Even more im- ' e ._
portant is the strength, sturdiness and dependability of v‘ s F, ,-
SHAROOD merchandise. Double-sewing where double- ' ‘ o

sewing is needed, re-inforced where extra strain may

53:333.: the prices are the very lowest for quality ': SHAROOD’S carry in stock avast assortment of merchandise—Dresses, Coats, Millinery,
' ' Underwear, Suits, Blouses, Hosiery, Gloves, Corsets, Shoes, Furs, Piece Goods, Iewelry,Novelties, Men’s
our  B arg 0 ins and Boys’ Clothing, eta—for immediate shipment. Our policy is to mail your order the day it comes in.

Will DelightYoul . Y C  l t D I d S ’ .
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attractive than ever. You will be delighted . /
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We Celebrate “’i‘h Savmgs’. Send ‘0’ ‘he Ca‘abg" Order everything you and your entire family will need for Spring and Summer from
d t our share of the savmgs'
3“ ge y ' SHAROOD’S Anniversary Catalog. We guarantee you absolute satisfaction and a big

w saving on every purchase or back comes your money. We guarantee to ship Within 24 hours.

YourBIGFREE BOO : isReady-RushtheCou on

Fill out and mail the coupon—or send a postal card—for SHAROOD’S BIG 30th ANNI-
VERSARY CATALOG of Quality Bargains in C othing, Shoes and other Merchandise for the Family. We save
you money on everything you need for Spring and Summer. We guarantee Quality, Satisfaction and Savings- Our
whole force of hundreds of trained workers is organized to give you the very best possible service. So rush the cou-
pon RIGHT NOW and get ﬁrst choice of the Special Anniversary Values, oﬁered in our Big Free Bargain Catalog.

SHAROOD COMPANY

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