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 crowns; i g a
FEW . ransom :beasi grey-

ant Hotel. Flint, Woman, Wed-
nesday, March 18, to discuss the
bean grading situation bnought about
by the'iﬁederal Bureau of Economics
which has established federal grad-
ing of many staple articles of food
with great success. Among  cout-
mading successful federal grading
-mﬁeets that have .been recently no-
‘ ﬂeet! is American grown cotton. The
. adoption by English manufacturers
.0! the U. '8. federal grades means
that. American cotton is being sold
on the foreign mills under the grad-
ing at American cotton growers.
~ The other outstanding commodi-
‘ m- inder federal grading are corn,
' grain, peanuts, hay, included with
. probably twenty—ﬁve other staples.
Under the" chairmanship of J. H.
Brown of Byron this meeting con-
sidered the present situation. At
present a telegram is registered be-
fore Mr. Wheeler of "the Bureau of
Economics, Washington, signed
“Michigan Bean Growers Associa-
tion“ which states that because of
the present satisfactory grading con—
ditions here in Michigan that the
bean growers of Michigan are against
the introduction of federal grades.
Mr. Wheeler of the U. S. Bureau of
Economics has granted a hearing to
the bean interests of Michigan, same
to be heard in Lansing on April 24th.
The bean growers of Michigan,

   

.' stiﬂing
ers of Michigan met at who nd:- 11an

have admed‘ﬁbidmgg large W
of smaﬂer‘ meetings; in
the 30,000 to 40,0010 'bean mwers
my base a voice in the matter.

Any meeting of Farmers’ Unions,
Faun Emma,  winners.
cooperative organizations, etc, may
obtain all available information re-
garding the details upon application
to the temporary headquarters of the
Michigan Bean Growers Association,
corner Fort and Brush Sta, Detroit,
Mich. Bean growers and others
who understand the situation in de-
'tai.l will .be furnished for'fthese
meetings upon request to the head-
quarters.

It was apparent that the bean

groWers of Michigan should be on,

the alert to see that their interests
are fairly represented.

The conduct of the :Sa-gzinam Bean -

Growers meeting was severely «criti-
ci'zed by some members presented.
This meeting consist-ed of about ﬁfty
growers and a number of Michigan
bean jobbers who urged strongly the
sending of a telegram to Washington
protesting against the establishment
of federal grades or any interference
to grading of beans as being handled
at present. Michigan bean jobbers
urged strongly that the costs to the
Michigan bean growers would, be in—
creased into hundreds of thousands
or more annually. It appears that

order that .

  
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fore and cousin have been «easily
understood as the Michigan Bean
Hobbes! association grades. It. was
explained thatrbecause the federal
authorities had graded a large num—
ber of caﬂoa'ds of heans under a dif-
fenent gmde and , name than .had
been used in the marketing of these
carloads that it” would mean enorm-
ous losses :to the growers. ‘These
'jo‘b‘bers offered no evidence to show
why the some customers would not
have accepted the carloads of beans
because they‘ were diﬂerently named.
It also seemed strange to the grewers
at Flint that the’jobbers should be
so solicitous of their interests at the

esent .time by going so far as to
and representatives or committees
to‘California, Colorado, Washington,
D. 20.. ;etc., with the mission of ob—
etnueting the establishment of ted-
eral grading on tbeans.

"Stranger still it seemed, that the
Detroit Free Press should have quot-
ed Clark L. Brody, member. of the
State Board of Agriculture and Man-
ager of the Michigan State Farm Bu-
reau in part as follows:

“The establishment of .the federal

 

‘grades would cause Michigan 'bean

growers a heavy annual loss."

Mr. Brady, when interviewed stat—
ed that he had not given out any
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Transportation

Into the vast and complicated network of Transportation in 
igan have been knit greatness,y types of canines. Yet it is
noteworthy that each of these accessory  

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{ remainder of the itinerary follows:
 April 88,, Concord and 'Tekonsha with
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f ‘9, Cation and Conterville; April 10,

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the purchasers of Michigan beans in-
cluding the bean manners, hean brok-
ers and Wholesale grocers. .During
the past nee m trementatives of
these mm We met the
Mining“ wean Iowan in Mention
and negatith a ntrenuous idemp-

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prose] er the irresponsible. m of ,

Michigan been shippers. Likewise
it is seriously qnestioned by Mischi-

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neat dad-rm diswsmctlon' mung ; ”

gen been growers whether habitual -

bean market manime :do not

.keep the bum made in so much

uncertainty that they purchase from

other bean mowing sections because i

of more staple market conditions;
For example, where there were

shipped from the two cities of Bil-

lings, Montana, and Twin Falls, Ida-

ho, not to exceed a dozen carloads "

of, Great Northern beams in 1919, in
1924 there were said to have been
shipped from these two cities a total
of 1200 carloads of Great Northerns
at generally higher prices than Mich-
igan beans were commanding.

At the same time can-hers who
“know beans” will not buy these
western beans for canning purposes
at any price when Michigan beans
are available.

Ex-Banking Commissioner of
Michigan Frank W. Merrick had or-
dered a bag of the Montana Great
Northerns shipped direct to his
home. His wife can cook beans. He

,stated that the Michigan bean has

a far superior ﬂavor to the Montana
bean. ‘
Mr. Merrick, who is the custodian

. .of the advertising fund :being collect-

ed by the Michigan Bean Jobbers
Association states that the amount
collected has been a serious disap—
He advised the
bean growers of Michigan that the
bean industry is their greatest “gold

 mine" and that they should take the
, advertising campaign into their own ’
‘ hauds.——-—-R. V. Judson.

SOILS FERTILITY TRAIN
. ICHIGAN’S ﬁrst soils fertility
' train to :be operated jointly by
the Michigan Agricultural Col-

: loge and the Michigan Central rail-
; road will start from Grass Lake in ,
A half

j day will be spent at most of the
The afternoon of the ﬁrst ,

Jackson county on April 7.

The

:Cassozpolis and Jones; April 11,
Niles; April 18., mines Gains and Do-
wagiac; April 14., Decatur and Gales-
:bu-rg and   April 16,
Marshall and Menace; April 17,
April

Goldwater; April
Eaton Rapids.

A soils laboratory will be part of
the sentiment  soil tests will be
made at each stop to ascertain the
amount «of nitrogen, potash, phos-
 md dime mount in the vari-

21, Albion and

our; samples submitted by farmers ‘

mm when home at each stop.

specialists ‘
Dr. '

M. M. McOool, head at M. A. C. soils j
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rim exchange against live poultry

in «e!th shine December 12, has
beeniﬂtedinmstates, it was

f announced by the department of

farms and markets March 13. Ship-

‘ ments will ibe accepted from Missouri,
1‘ Nebraska,  Dakota, South Da-
- kota, Connecticut “and Wisconsin, but
- the prohibition remains on Iowa, Illi-
. nois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New J or-
; soy and Ohio.

at poultry deem declared to be i

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am HIGH
ICHIGAN'S exports a: Canned,
milk and cream .rank eleventh
among the state's exports, the

department .of commarce ‘ Detroit '

, branch announced‘recsntly, :a dwere ,

 prevalent in the 12 states was re- ‘
E, sponsible  the embargo.

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Legislative Mill Threshes Wheat From Chaif

About 650 Bills Introduced to Date and They Continue to Come in Steady Stream
By STANLEY M. POWELL

(Lansing Correspondent of The Businoss Farmer.)

HAVE sometimes ' wondered
whether or not, if the Legislature
were: in session the year around,

there would ever be any let up in
the number of new hills which would
make their appearance. After two
and a half months of the present
session there are just as many new
proposals being dropped into the leg-
islative hopper each. day in the House
and Senate as there were in the open-
ing days of the session.

A total of about 650. measures
have been introduced thus far, 01?
course, these later bills have very
little opportunity of passing as the
legislators are already confused with
the multiplicity of'other bills before
them for consideration. The legis-
lative mill is now threshing out the
wheat from the chaff at top speed.

In the House it is not unusual for
more than a hundred bills to be on
the calendar for consideration in the
Committee of the Whole or on third
reading in a single day. Scores of
these measures are appropriation re-
quests totaling millions of dollars,
and are passed apparently without
consideration and often with merely
a motion from some member that
“the aﬂirm-ative roll-call is attached.”
Only the careful wprk of the various
committees makes such procedure
safo as possible.

The Senate spends little time in
debate and manages to keep its cal—
endar shorter. Thus far only one
issue of headline importance has
cometo a ﬁnal vote in the Senate.
The exception was in the case of the
reapportionment bill to give Wayne
county additional representation in
the Senate. After-killing attempts
to grant Wayne county eight or ten
seats, the Senate ﬁnally passed by a
vote of 18‘ 12 a bill to grant Wayne
7 seats instead of the 5 which they
now have.

In the debate on this bill; Wayne
members talked eloquently about up-

holding the constitution, but Senator

Chas. Herrick of Fenwick reminded
them that Detroit did not set a. very
good example in upholding the con-

Committee to Study Problem

0 the farmers of Michigan want

electric service'in. their homes

and on their farms? They do,
and what is more they are going to
have it.

That question and the answer is
the real reason for the conference
on rural electrification held at the
Michigan Agricultural College at
East Lansing, Friday, March 20.

Farmers all over the country are
more and. more demanding electric
service. The electric service com-
panies, on the other hand, have been
slow- to meet this demand because
of the problems involved in taking
electric pOWer to the farms. The
satisfactory solution of these prob-
lems requires the closest coopera-
tion between the farm users of elec-
tricity and the utilities companies
furnishing it;,this cooperation con—
sists largely in a correct understand-
ing by both interests of the particu-
lar problems confronting each.

In order to investigate and study
the many problems involved in mak-
ing' electric service available to ram;
ere, about two. years ago was organ-

‘ized‘ the Committee on the Relation ‘

of Electricity ‘ to . Agriculture. This
committee is made up of represent-

sttvoat‘trom thematic“ Farm Bu-

 

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stitution when it came to enforcing
the Eighteenth Amendment. The
Detroit members freely admitted that
they wanted more Senators so that

‘in any future constitutional conven-

tion, they would have increased rep-
resentation and have more voice
when» the State’s taxation policy was
being formulated. This is just what
the rural members feared.

The House Committee on Appor-
tionment is struggling with Repre~
sentative Chas. Culver’s bill which
would give Wayne county twenty-
ﬁve reprseentatives instead of four-
teen.’ If they report out that bill

or the bill passed by the Senate there \

will be a merry ﬁght on the ﬂoor of
the House. ‘
Road Program Completed

Almost all of the important high-
way législation has now been _en-
acted. Both the Ming and Atwood
bills have been sent to the Governor
for his approval. The Ming bill pro~
vides that after January 1, 1926, the
state will defray the entire cost of
construction and maintenance of
trunk line highways. The Atwood
bill authorizes .the State Highway
Commissioner and State Administra—
tive Board to lay out 500 miles of
additional trunk line mileage accord—
ing to the routes which they shall
designate.

Recognizing the necessity of doing
something to prevent the growing
menaceof grade crossing automobile
accidents in Michigan, the Legisla-
ture ﬁnally adopted the Richardson
bill which would authorize the State
Public Utilities Commission to desig-
nate especially dangerous railroad
crossings and to require the railroads
to erect standard stop signs at such
crossings. Drivers will be required
to bring their vehicles to a complete
stop at .all crossings so marked. The
Richardson bill is a substitute for
three or four much more drastic pro-
posals introduced earlier in the ses-
sion. -

departments of agriculture, com-
merce and the interior. In view of
the fact that conditions vary in-dif—
ferent states, this national commit—
tee is encouraging and assisting the
various states to organize state com-
mittees to undertake a study of their
peculiar conditions and require-
ments.

' Fifteen states have already organ-
ized and investigations are under
way. These state projects working
in conjunction with the mational
committee have served as a balance
wheel in rural electriﬁcation devel—
opment. The movement has a tend—
ency to check over-development or
unwise development in the applica—
tion of electricity to agriculture.

The purpose of the conference
called at M. A. C. was to consider
the desirability of organizing the
Michigan Committee on the Relation
of Electricity to Agriculture. The
meeting was called to order by G.
W. Bissell, dean of engineering at
the college, who explained the ob-
jects of the conference.

Hon. Sherman T. Handy, chairman
otﬁthe Michigan Public Utilities Com—
mission, one of the principal speak—
on ater commune, told what the
Commission is doing to help rural
districts get electric _service. The

ban.  ‘ exceptionally
aspect t themed

 
  

: triﬁcat‘lonj forltﬂchtgan, it was. de-

x.
One of the most knotty problems
with which the House is wrestling
is concerning the serious pollution
of Michigan streams and rivers
through the dumping of sewage and
industrial wastes into them. Charg—
ed by Governor Groesbeck in his bi-
ennial message with the duty of en—
acting some sort of constructive leg-
islation on this subject, the House
is giving serious consideration to the
bill sponsored by Representative
Smedley of Grand Rapids which
would place the authority for in-
vestigating and determining instan—
ces where pollution becomes a nuis-
ance and requiring municipalities
and companies responsible for the
pollution to make other arrange—
ments for their waste.
Senate Passes Bohn Bill

Realizing that the present system
of distributing the primary school
interest fund is not insuring equality
of educational opportunity for Mich-
igan boys and girls, but being un-
willing to go the limit and adopt
such a plan as the Meggison bill or
the Escanaba plan which was before
the Legislature two years‘ ago, the
Senate has adopted the Bohn bill by
a 25 to 3 vote. Under the terms of
this proposal 95 per cent of the pri-
mary school fund would be distrib-
uted as at present, while the remain-
der would be apportioned among the
poorer districts in accordance with
a carefully outlined method.

As usual, all tax reform bills have
experienced very intense opposition
and their progress has been slow. A
case in point is in regard to bills pro-
posing to end the tax exempt bond
evil in Michigan and to place an—
nual specific taxes on such foreign
and domestic securities. These bills
have the approval of the Senate and
House Committees on Taxation and
of the Administration, but they have
met severe opposition from the Mich-
igan. Manufacturers’ Association, the
Michigan League of Municipalities

and possibilities of electric power on
the farm.

On invitation of those interested
in organizing the Michigan com-
mittee, Dr. E. A. White, director of
the National Committee on the Re—
lation of Electrictiy to Agriculture.
addressed the conference on the gen—
eral problem of furnishing electric
service to the farmer, relating the
experience of other states in organ—
izing for a study of rural electriﬁca—
tion.

Dr. R. S. Shaw. dean of agricul-
ture at M. A. C., addressed the con—
ference briefly, expressing great sat—
isfaction that an organized effort
was'being made to get satisfactory
service for the farmer. Dean Shaw
maintains that the farmer is bound
to have electric service, and that if
he was living on his own farm, he
would make every effort to get it.
In his opinion the accomplishment
of greatest importance that can re-
sult from giving electric service to
the farmer is the improvement in
working and living conditions in the
farm home. ‘

The afternoon session of the con-
ference was presided over by R. H.
Musselman, professor of agricultural
engineering at the M. A. 0. He ex-
plained to the conference that in
organizing a committee on rural elem

 

and the Investment Bankers' Asso-
ciation. The original bills provided
for levies of ﬁve mills on foreign
bonds and three mills on domestic
bonds but they now have to stand
at three and two mills respectively.
Have a New Name for M. A. (3"..

Feeling that is was almost hope-
less to get any change in the name of
the Michigan Agricultural College
through the House of RepreSenta-
through the House of Representa-
tives at the present time, the advo—
cates of such a change have trans-
ferred their attack to the Senate.
Thursday afternoon. March 19, Sen—
ator Norman ll. Horton of Fruit
Ridge, an M. A. (‘. graduate, intro—
duced a bill in the Senate proposing
to call the East Lansing institution
the Michigan State College of Agri-
culture and Applied Science. The
next morning this bill was reported
favorably by the committee, and now
awaits general consideration in the
Senate where it is prophesied that
it will be passed by a safe majority.

Makers and sellers of livestock
tonics, condition powders, etc., will
ﬁnd little consolation in a bill intro—
duced by Senator Frank L. Young of
Lansing to require the licensing and
registration of such dealers and to
provide for labeling. inspection and
analyses of such products. Remedies
coming under the provisions of this
bill would have to be sold on the
basis of a definite guarantee as to
ingredients and in printing any anal—
Isis, the English rather than the
Latin terms would be required. In
order to properly control manufac—
turers and dealers in such remedies.
they would be subject to license and
stiff penalties to violating any of the
provisions of the bill.

Senator Burney Brower of Jackson
has introduced a bill providing an
appropriation of $75,000 for the
Michigan State Fair at Detroit for
each of the next two years. Out of
this amount $25,000 would go for
maintence and operating expenses
and $50,000 for premiums anually
during the coming two years.

5 of Bringing Electric Service to Farmers
By RAYMOND OLNEY-

sirable to call in experts on the sub—
ject in order to get the beneﬁt of
what other states are doing along
this line. He introduced Prof. E. A.
Stewart of the University of Minna
sota who is the director of the Red
Wing project in Minnesota, the ﬁrst
project on rural electrification to be
started in the country. Prof. Stew—
art related some very interesting ex—
periences with the experimental work
that is being done in that state. The
Red Wing project has been a real
beneﬁt to both the farm consumers

and utilities companies furnishing
the power.
l’rot. F. D. Paine, of the Iowa

State College, related in consider—
able detail the story of what Iowa
is doing to encourage rural electri—
ﬁcation development along sound
engineering and economic lines.

Eugene Holcomb of the Consum-
ers Power Company discussed the
subject of cooperation by the public
utilities companies.

   

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The general discussion toward the ’

close of the meeting indicated that
genuine enthusiasm prevailed for
organization in Michigan with M. A.
C. taking the lead in the organisation
and direction of the movement.
Judging from the sentiment that

prevailed Michigan is deﬁnitely com- 7

mitted to undertaking a program
that will result in putting rural elec-
triﬁcation
state on a sound basis.

  

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OOKING backward and summing
up their accomplishments during
; their ten years of service to
Michigan farmers, extension direc-

' turn in dollars and cents to the state
has abundantly justiﬁed the appro-
‘priation of money they required and
the wisdom of the Congress which in
1914 passed the Smith-Lever act has
been conﬁrmed.
 , The Smith-Lever act provided stat-
, ed sums to be given by the federal
government for agricultural exten-
:sion work‘in states where the state
“ legislatures appropriated a like
;.amount. In 'Michigan the sum
i Ta’amounted to $15,000. To this the
Estate added $15,000 and the exten—
V sion work really began its era of ex—
j’tpension here in 1915. Each year the
sum was increased until now the to-
tal from federal and state sources
 amounts to $300,000 which is the
limit set by the act.
Ten years have passed and the ex-

ment to recount the results of their
labor.
Reviewing Beneﬁts

First it is pointed out that in 1915
the population of the state was di-
vided with 60 per cent of the resi—
dents on the farm and 40 per cent iii
the cities. This percentage now has
been exactly reversed yet, as is
shown by the annual crop reports for
Michigan, agricultural production in
‘ the state has been greatly increased.
Part of this increase has been at—
tributed to improved and wider use
of labor saving machinery, and part
to improved methods of farming,
some of which have been learned
from epxerience, part from agricul—
tural schools but most from exten—

the farmers and taught them how to
increase crops, decrease losses of an—
ipials from disease, and how to in—
crease the productivity of their lands.
- H. C. Rather, extension specialist
"in farm crops at the M. A. C. in a re-
port on the activities of his depart-'
ment says, “The story of ten years
of extension activities in Michigan
insofar as farm crops are concerned
. is one of the development of two
“main projects———the promotion of the
Widespread use of pure seed of the
-most dependable varieties and the
education of Michigan agriculturists
'ato a greater use of legumes.
' “These two lines of endeavor jus—
tify themselves because they are fun—
:“damental to a successful and proﬁta—
‘ ble agriculture. In legumes we have
the cheapest source of soil fertility
" and the most economical roughage
‘for livestock, while the quality of
seed is the very foundation of a
healthy and vigorous plant life.”
Mr. Rather goes on to say that
during the last ten years the ex-
periment station at the college has

» If You Want to

ISEASED, degenerate, runout
seed potatoes never did produce
high yields of high quality pota—

toes and they never will. High yields
and high quality are essential for the
successful production and “marketing
of' the potato crop. With low yields,
'the cost of production per bushel is
prohibitive and poor quality potatoes
are a drug on any market.

Disease free, vigorous, selected
’ seed is the kind to plant for better
.x'yields and better quality. Michigan
Vicertiﬁed-seed potatoes are practically
"free from serious disease, they come
‘from vigorous high yielding ﬁelds
and they have the selection back of
them that gives them the inherent
bility to produce satisfactory yields
of high quality, potatoes. The plant-
ing of 'Michigan certiﬁed seed pota-
toes is the, ﬁrst essential in proﬁt-
able potato production in Michigan.
*Mich‘i'g 11 certiﬁed seed potatoes
' " need last year- by nearly
v wire in ,47 counties of Mich-
‘hese growers practice the
, improved cultural, methods.
mention}? the highest quality
‘d ,se’ed; Ethey spray their

    

        
    
  

   
  

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Review Shows Resultsi‘n Michigan Cannot Bé Estimated Just in Dollars, ‘andicemnts .1 .

By LAWRENCE McCRACKEN

introduced to the state's farmers
Berkeley "Rock wheat, Wolverine and
Worthy oats, Michigan Black Barb-
less Barley, the original and the im~
proved strains of Robust beans, M.
A. C. Yellow Dent, Duncan, and an
improved strain of Golden Glow corn
and Hardigan alfalfa. In addition to
introducing these varieties certiﬁed

seed has been made available in

large quantities to farmers so that
today the average quality of seed has
been greatly improved and farmers
who do not buy certiﬁed seed are
obtaining higher quality although

their seed may be three or four 8611—.

erations removed from the pure seed.
Mr. Rather says there is 11-0 doubt but
that well over 1,000,000 acres of
Michigan ﬁeld crops are being sown
to seed of improved varieties and as
the yield from improved seed has
been positively shown under similar
conditions to produce a yield of from
15 to 25 per cent greater than other

varieties the value in dollars and‘

cents is obviously great.

Mr. Rather’s most striking state—
ment is probably his report on the
increase in the production of alfalfa
in the state. He says that although
alfalfa has been grown with varying
success for ﬁfty years in 1919 only
74,000 acres were planted in Mich-
igan. In 1924, 389,000 acres were
sown.

As the average yield of alfalfa is
21/2 tons per acre while that of other
hay is only 11/2 tons a great in—
crease in the size of the crop is
obvious. Added to this alfalfa is
easily worth $4 more per ton than
the hay formerly grown and often
brings $5 or $6 more. Thus he ﬁg—
ures the state has gained $8,000,000
through learning of ways to grow
alfalfa successfully. This was made
possible through work at the experi-
ment station at the college where it
was found that northern grown seed
produced successfully and the dis—
tribution of this seed was arranged
in cooperation with the Michigan
Farm Bureau Seed Service.

Control of Animal Diseases

In the report of the animal hus-
bandry department attention has
been devoted to the control of animal
diseases, the introduction of pure

breds, and the teaching of proper
feeding. As a result’ the report
states, “In 1914 the average farm
brood sow was of a much shorter,
chubby or extreme lardy type than
today. A few breeders have devel-
oped an extremely rangy type but the
inﬂuence of extension work has aided
breeders in selecting-and standard—
izing a medium type that not only
answers the market demand but pro-
duces *‘more economically than either
extreme type. Beef cattle breeders
have been aided in selecting for
quality and early maturity to meet
the shift in market r‘emand toward
younger, lighter, well ﬁnished
beeves.” ,

The report attributes the decrease

in disease in the state to the educa- ,

tion of farmers to report diseases
and to aid authorities in enforcing
quarantine. In 1914 the report
states that the estimated loss from
hog cholera was 73,260 head of
swine while in 1923 the loss was set
at only 17,535 head. The resume
concludes, “Better means of sanita—
tion as taught by extension work has
resulted in better prevention of many
other diseases and parasites such as
ticks and lice on sheep, stomach
worms in lambs, round Worms in
pigs, etc. but ﬁgures are not avail—'
able to make comparisons for the
period.”

' Taught (“are of Orbhurds

V. R. Gardner of the horticultural
department reported that the work
of his division had been devoted to
teaching proper methods of spray-
ing, pruning and fertilization. He
says, “Eight or ten years ago it was
the general practice in this state to
prune young fruit trees extremely
severely. The general effect was to
delay bearing and interfere for many
years with proﬁtable returns from
the orchard. Much has been done by'
the extension service to correct this
situation though there is still need of
instructional work along this line."

In the poultry division attention
has been given the culling of non-
layers, introduction of pure breds,
and methods to increase egg returns.

In 1914 there were no cow testing
associations in the state while now
there are 105, K. H. McDonel. assis-

 

 

 

 

FARM BOYS STUDYING TRACTORS AT THE M. A. C.
A group of Michigan farm boys receiving practical training in the Truck and Tractor

Course at the M. A

The Short Courses at the Colit-go are put on in the spring of

the year when the boys can get away from the farm without upsetting matters and
an increasing number are taking the courses.

By H. C. MOORE

Extension Specialist, Michigan Agricultural College

deaux mixture using high pressure
Sprayers; they rogue their ﬁelds sev—
eral times removing all diseased and
off-type plants; they hill select their
seed stock from isolated seed plots.
The consistent practice of such seed
production methods over a period of
ﬁve years helps to explain why Mich-
igan certiﬁed seed potatoes have giv—
en such uniformly good results'wher-
ever planted.

Michigan certified seed potatoes
are petatoes that have passed all of
the rigid inspection requirements of
the Michigan Agricultural College.
All inspections are made by ofﬁcials
working under the direction of the
College. Two ﬁeld inspections are
made during the growing season to
see that the ﬁelds are free from dis-
eases andvarietal mixture and that
the plants are uniformly vigorous.
When the'potatoes are harvested a
bin inspectibn is made of all lots that
passed the ﬁeld inspections. At the

bin inspection,~ th‘e‘potatoesmust be --
true to. " typé; 1‘ medically free ,trpm‘ ,,
A,

court, scab and other blemishes.

fourth inspection is made when the
potatoes are loaded for shipment.
Before potatoes can be sold as cer-
tiﬁed seed, they must be very care—
fully graded to confornr with the
strict certiﬁed seed grade require-
ments.

Michigan certiﬁed seed potatoes
are sold in new sacks that'contain
150 pounds. Each sack is sealed
with a lead and wire seal to which
is attached the ofﬁcial certiﬁcation
tag issued by the Michigan Agricul-
tural College.

Each year approximately 300,000
bushels of certiﬁed seed potatoes are
produced in Michigan of which about
250,000 bushels are offered for sale.
This ,amount is scarcely enough to

'plant the potato acreage Of Mont-

calm county ,_if all the'potato growers

'in~'that county used certiﬁed seed.'

For the whole state of Michigan ap-
proximately 4,000,000 b,ushels,_ﬂof

seed potatoes are required annually, -
"so. if‘certiﬁed‘seed were used-b ’ -

  
 
  

tant to R. J. Baldwin, extension di-

rector reports. These associations
test the product of cows for butterfat
and help farmers to cull out those
which are least productive. '

But all these activities are only a
part of the servicewhich the $300,-
000 brings Michigan farmers. Fifty—
ﬁve county agricultural agents re-
ceive part of their pay from this fund
and disseminate information and ad-
vice'Irom extension headquarters
directly to the farmers. Six state
club leaders, with theaid of six 'full
time county club leaders and 10. part
time leaders, direct the training of
13,000 (boys and girls in sewing,
cooking, canning, handicraft, crop
raising, livestock breeding, and pouL
try breeding.
these boys and girls have realized
substantial proﬁts from their eﬁorts

: and some have had a decided inﬂu-

ence in bettering crops, livestock and
household methods in their commun-
1 es.

Besides this Mrs. Louise H. Camp—
bell, director Of home demonstration
work, directssix state specialists and
six county agents in the instruction
of farmers’ wives in household arts.
Two of her staff devote their time to
clothing and textile work, two to nu-
trition, and one to home manage-
ment.

As proof of the value of their ser—
vices the extension workers point to
the attitude of the farmers of the
state toward them. When in 1915
they began their work, farmers ‘sick~
ened by the work of self appointed
and oﬁ‘icious workers, Were skeptical
of the practical value of the exten—
sion service. Now when the chickens
are stricken with a mysterious mal—
ady, hog cholera breaks out, the bar—
berry threatens wheat, or any of a
hundred things, whiclr keep the farm-
er’s life from’ being a monotonous
grind, break out they turn to the
state and county agents for help as-
sured of conscientious aid not only
to save their own property but to
save their neighbors from a like mis-
fortune.

Statistics Prove Value

Although the actual value in dol-
lars and cents can not be determined

1 it is proven beyond question by dry

crop and livestock statistics for the
state that powerful agencies have
been at work in the last decade to
better the quality and increase the.
yield of Michigan farm products,
Allowing the state extension workers
credit for only a small part of this
improvement they believe they have
proven conc1usively that the'federal
and state appropriations for the ser-
vice were wise investments. Proba-
bly they have been proven wise be-
cause the men selected to carry on
the work were themselves farmers
and appreciated the difﬁculties of
making the “back forty” buy shoes
for the children and Sunday dresses
fer the missus.

Produce Choice Potatoes You Must Plant Good seed 1

duced would not go far in supplying,
the demand.

Last year Michigan potato growers
bought 70,000 bushels of Michigan
certiﬁed seed, While potato growers
in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and‘
other statesbought 180,000 bushels.
When 72 per cent of this certiﬁed
seed is sold outside the state, it is
evident that Michigan growers are
not as appreciative ofChigh quality
seed potatoes as are the growers in
Pennsylvania, Ohio and some other
states. The out of state demand for
Michigan certiﬁed seed potatoes is
due to'the excellent results that are]
secured with them. Data on 916‘
tests that have been conducted in.
seventeen states .during the past four
years showed that Michigan certiﬁed
seed outyielded seed with which it5
was compared by 56 bushels to the,

acre. Just ‘as satisfactory ,results‘év-

have beenﬁjseciired in {Michigan with;
tests of this; kind. ,‘_!,Th-ree.,rhiindredf
and  twenty roger; , tests ﬂosﬁuet’ed in;
twenty-dour ' ‘ anteater “Michigan;
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“THE OL’ SWIMMIN’ HOLE.”—-Doesn’t this make you ISN’T SHE S‘VEET?-—Thls is \VHAT WILL GRANDPA SAY HEN "E SEES THEM
think of the good old days? Mrs. Edw. B. Cole, of Mt. Golden, daughter of Claude Purk- ON HIS FENCE?——E. E. Ste-urns, of Dverﬁeld, IS being visited
Pleasant, sent the print to us. er, of Hopkins. by three of his grandsons.

“PI‘SH 1“ ,."—Kniel, son of John “IN THE GOOD 0 I) 817‘ \[ER TIN! ..”—The children of Albert Broodwood SQI‘IRREL SEASOTvr—Eumi Ruthhun
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PROM EITHER, SIDE‘I—B'Ir. and Mrs. John )[e— Blidland, sends us this picture of Karl and John, of the we saw on our trip,” writes (3. W. l’u‘triek, of
lnnes. of Silverwood, would lead one to believe. that same address, playing with their pal, Brownie. Even Bellnire. “Plenty of does but the blleks seem to
the statement that you can milk a cow on the left Brownie has a. smile. on his faee so everyone mun-It, be be about all gone." “'e wish you better luek
side only is wrong. happy, He time, boys.

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ET I was  of Maria. .
You know last summer a
young? fellow came along and
stark telling about some works of
art he has. He is in the picture has-
heu and if maria would give him an
ordinary photograph of me which
was sitting on the bookcase, he
would have it enlarged and make it.
look like the one he was showing,
all for $2.98. Say, Maria must have
been proud of me to have wanted
such a colorful looking resemblance
of. yours truly.

Well, the ﬁrst I heard of it was
when the express man says to me,
‘Thene‘s a package for Mrs. Ed-
wards with express charges of $9.62
on it. A picture and a frame." I
wouldn't take it before I phoned
Maria but she admitted it mustwbe
all right so I took it home. We un-
crated it and here was yours truly
painted up like the new clothing
store across from the court house.

“Like it?” says Maria. 1

“Sure,” says I,.rather doubtfully.
Didn't want her to think I wasn’t
appreciating the compliment.

“But it was expensive," I remarks.

“Well,” says Maria, “I didn’t plan
on such an expensive frame.”

"Did you order it?” asks I.

“No,” she says.

Well, we dug out the order and
here it said that the frame would be
included, which Martha didn’t read
when she signed up.

Say, I got a good laugh out of that.
But that picture was worth the price.
We had it in the parlor till Ruby,
that's our oldest girl, who lives in
California, came home and she was
so mad Maria took it down and put
it upstairs. One night when a rain
was coming up and I was shutting
windows, I ﬁnished it by sticking a
foot through it. No one cared for
it by that time. We was all convinc-
ed that the picture was a bit too
good—no human ever looked like
that.

It was shipping day last, spring
and a lot of the boys had been bring-
ing in their hogs so as to get rid of
them before the spring work began.
Gus Bruhm had several loads of ho:.s
and some of the neighbors had been
hauling for him. Gus was sticking
around watching the weighing. Be-
tween times he and me talked things
over.

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ays Gus, “did you hear
how Andya ' er— got stuck?”

Andy Miller was running the Jack-
son House and was a smart young
fellow who knew all about the hotel
business, if you believed what he
told. When I heard he was stuck, it
was good news.

“No,” says I, “who has had the
honor of putting one over on our
prominent young citizen?"

“Well,” says Gus, after he had lit
up the General Pershing cigar I had
given him, “that salesman for the
Happy—Hen Coop Co. who has been
pestering us for the past year was
the bright young fellow. You see,
thh fellow, I think his name is Ho—
bart, has been coming out here regu-
lar like once or twice a week from
0.3113. and he was pretty chummy
with Andy. Hobart got in the habit
of having his laundry and other par-
cola sent here and Andy would pay
the charges and collect oil“ of Hobart
when he rolled in. You know Ho-
bart, he’s the guy who come down to
the post ofﬁce one day and bought
a! the two for a quarter cigars in
the store and then passed them out
to us fellows who happened to be in
there, just to make a splash.

“Well, to speed things up a hit."
goes on Gus after he had lit the Gen—
ml Pershing again. “week lw’r' no,

last Andy gets a telegram from Ho- ‘

hart saying a valuable pac 11,48 was
rolling to him in care of the hotel
and he Wished Miller would take it
up. There was about $47 charges
on the package, acording to what I
heard at the post ofﬁce. Well, Andy
just sat up that night waiting for a
notice from the post ofﬁce that the
package was there and when it did
come. shelled out the money for that
handle even though it was a small
one. It was like he was buying a
gold brick."

“leanwhﬂe no other word comes
from Hobart and yesterday I heard
that Fred Kelly was reading a story
in it Sunday paper and m onto a
m about a-~»fellow by the name of
Hobart who was pinched for pulling
I cooked deal. That noon - Kelly
3* Andy about helm-stand than
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A Farmer’s Experience  and"

By WILLIAM EDWARDS

 

 

ILL EDWARDS, retired farmer, friend of the folks in his community, has
been telling his experiences with the various xrafters that thrive by para-
mnnities. Bill

siting on the rural was, a few times because
hehappenedtogstﬁe‘baltottolh wrotehlaltaryvﬂdalnlm
running serially in “o m farmer, ‘x

stern. But one time

he ,
revenge is sweet and um had me om M
mwhﬁcmmnnuﬁm-
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when Mabitonupiutnmdonl

Then along came a travelling 

Bdﬂsavedolototmlorhﬂu. :ﬁonhmwbgutﬂnbut
a. m

. Volunt-
~Mhinuodiorit not
monum-

pathy deal. A few passes and the hat was amused ﬁler ﬁe your fellow.
the boys who had been so generous found out an M1: the ~

Bill also described what happened to a My in 

r
everything, and the trouble they all had keeping her out 9! We.

ha that afternoon. Anyway Kelly
stuck around last night and was
there when Andy opened the pack-
age. All he got from Hobart was a
few old newspapers wrapped around
a brick, only it wasn’t gold. Andy
found out that Hobart’s in jail, but
was out of luck when it came to get-
ting back his $47. Believe me, he’s
a mad hotel man, so if you happen
in, don’t mention it to him."

Just then another load of Gus'
hogs comes up and that was all I
heard about it. But I made a point
to keep it in mind for the next meet-
ing of the Agricultural Society.

But before we had the meeting we
other than the Hon. Chas. Stanton
had a better one to talk about. None
had been hooked and on a good one,
too. Say, Charley left for Chicago
the next day and about all we heard
from him since is that he plans to go
to one of them hog springs for his
health, but the boys says it's because
he wants things to cool off here be—
fore he comes back. The deal didn’t
cost the boys more’n a dollar each
and it was worth that much they say,
to put one over on the judge.

Just below the ﬁrst bridge over
the creek is quite a sand bar. When-
tar mixin’ we go down there and
ever any of us wants to do any mor-
load up what sand we want and it’s
cheap building material.

Last week one of the men was
there and come onto a fellow dressed
in ragged clothes and busy working
in the sand. Soon the fact is evident
that this fellow is making a ﬁgure
out of the cold sand. Well, the driv-
er wasn’t long in spreading the news
up towu and soon several of the boys
was down there watching him work.
The stranger never Said a word un-
til he was done. By that time he had
completed the prettiest bit of sculp-
ture I seen since he World’s Fair.
It was a pretty woman lying there

with a babe in her arms and it was .

done right pathetic, specially when
the fellow knelt down and begin to
sob. Well, he ﬁnally gets up and
begins to tell us how this was the
way he kept in mind his great loss.

at. he just couldn’t do it.

Tim picture was a reminder of his
 and babe, he. said, who were
drowned in the Ohio ﬂood two years
ago. They were all he had. They-
were swept away so quick he never
got over it, and although he had
tried to continue his work as an art—
Then he
sobbed- some more. . .

Well, Judge Stanton happened to
be there just then and it touched him
deeply, so deep that he took off his
hat and puts a $5 bill in it and' then
passed it among the fellows. I even
tried to get the fellow to come up
town with me and have a bite to eat,
but he says, “No, just leave me with
my mved ones." But he took the
313 we raised and the rest- of us.
feeling like a funeral in action, quiet-
ly left. 80 did our stranger.“ The
next day, to make matters exciting,
a deputy sheriﬂ.’ came along with a
story about this fellow. It was pa-
thetic tee, and we listened to it with
interest. So did the judge and that’s

’why he left town that night.

The story the deputy told about
how sad it was and then ended up
by telling us this fellow made pic-
tures in ﬁve towns and taken collec-
tions in all of them, or rather, dona-
tions had been made. Then he end-
ed up by telling the number of ﬂoods
his wife and babe had been drowned
in and how the chief of police had
pinched him for a faker. He was.
Say, when they searched that fellow
he had two bank books showing
deposits of nearly $10,000.00. They
found hewas an escaped convict and
never was married. There’ hasn't
been much said about the collection,
and yesterday when I was down to
the sand bar the picture had been
shoveled away. And as I said, the
Judge is away too.

Well, we had our regular meet-
ing last night on schedule and while
we did talk a little politics, we got
away from that subject just when
things were warming up. Hank
wasn‘t a regular member but he
came last night because he had a
mission. It wasn't long till Hank
was talking. He had a letter from

 

 

 

 

 
  
  
 

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such letters." " '

Well, we thanked Hank and he
stayed till  was served
to show his appreciation of the
thanks, I guess, 'cause he ' slept
through not Em mm. .Just
More the m; armour one of
the Smith has! our to “Hank:

my. Han-k, where  that plane

in Spain where that letter came

from?” _

"Barcelony." replies ﬂank, im-
portant ulna.  where these
Spanish  hang out. You
see it's this way. They make believe
one of them is in {tall and if a few
debts would be paid, the fellow could
get out. “Wendie who was in jail
has a lot of property and if a fellow
will send enough money to pay the
debt,’rwhen the fellow  out he
will whack up a third of the estate.”

“Sounds shellfish.” Hank further,
“but it's a the.“ \

“Well. m M boy kinda laughs

and then just as Hank was takin’
another cup of, coffee and-a dough-
nut, Smith winks at me'and begins.

“By the way, Hank, wasn’t it your

father who went to New York to,

collect an estate right after the
Spanish warf”, ,

“What’s that?” says “Hank, setting
3;“ the coffee and looking wild

e. -

“I said, wasn’t it your father who
almost had an estate in Barcelona
some thirty years ago?"

Hank says he never heard any-
thing of it. Then he thanked us for
the food and left soon afterwards.

“You see," remarks Smith, “the
reason Hank knows all about this
Spanish deal is that his father gave
them same Spaniards several thou-
sand berries on a similar deal. One
thing we can thank Hank for is that
he remembered why he didn’t re-
ceive any property when his .pa
died."

So the meeting wasn't a regular
'failure. -We learned something. _

As I recall to mind, I think the
prize sucker in our town is Bedeliah
Stokes. She’s an old maid, no telling
how old, although at the last election
she was of legal age, and then said
she has lived in'the county 42 years
and someone remarked they had nev-
er_ known her to "live any place else.

Well,» sir, Bedoliah was always try- ,

ing out some kind of a scheme. She
had a little property left her by an
uncle and she got the money every
month from the bank, so she could
have lived it she had wanted to and
attended the Missionary Society
meetings and done a lot of useful
work. But Miss Stokes had an idea
she was cut outta be famous. She
painted China for a few winters and
sold it to us folks till we was all
stocked up with punch bowls, fancy
plates and the like, till the cupboards
wouldn’t hold no more. Then she
decorated boxes with one of them
burning outﬁts and they was the
rage in Jackson City one Christmas.
Everybody gave-someone else some-
thing burnt.,_ But Bedeliah wasn’t
satisﬁed with her work. She got the
mail order habit. First she got a lot
of catalogs and solicited orders for
perfumes and soap. Then it Was pos-
tal cards she was peddling and as

far back as I can remember she had _

some fad. A
But the .nnttiest thing she did was
to open up a sock factory. She saw
a lot of ads in a paper about how
to become independent, and Bedeliah
wanted to move to California, whu'e
I got a hunch she planned to go into
the movies, and she would have been
a knockout too with her build, so
she started out to be lndependat.
, She borrowed ﬁfty bucks from Tim
Harper at the bank. dim knew he'd
get it back so loaned ltto her with—
out asking into her am. Well.
the machine that was to snake socks
thatwastokeop usheyssmrm when
we shocked m, arrived an accord-

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But What good rain and sunshine can
makeof your Wheat crop depends upon
the thorough seed bed preparation and
proper planting which you have done.

Any Ford dealer Will show you how these
often hurried spring tasks are well done
and easily done With Fordson power.

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PAY TUITION
I moved from school district A
into district B on December 1, _1924.
I wish my children to ﬁnish the year
-.in District A, can district A compel
me to pay tuition for balance of year?
Children are enrolled and drew their
~ public money in district A. I was
assessed on both real and personal
property in district A. I disposed of
my real estate last fall and the buyer
paid the taxes. District A refuses
to credit me with these taxes because
I did not actually pay them. I claim
credit for the payment of these taxes
as the shifting of this responsibility
was a private agreement.—-E. R. D.,
Garland, Michigan.

F a person moves out of one dis-
I trict into another district he
cannot send his children to the
district in which he lived without be-
ing subject to the payment of tuition
if the school board demands it even
V though he may have had property
assessed there and. may have had
his children on the census list of that
district.

It appears from your letter that
you had real and personal property,
sold it and the buyer paid the taxes,
and you are claiming the right to
have these taxes applied on your
tuition. You are not entitled to have
the tax so applied because you did
not pay it, nor was it paid on your
property since you had already dis-
posed of the property—W. L. Coffey,
Deputy Superintendent of Public In-
struction.

MUST HE PAY FOR PLOVVING?

A bought a farm and rented it
to B for one year with the priv-
ilege of keeping it ﬁve years if
satisfactory. But A let the farm go
back. B had done some plowing and
wants A to pay for it. The people
that took the farm back wants 3 to
stay on the farm. Is A to pay for
plowing when B can stay on the
place if he wants to.—J. B. M., Mar-
iette, Michigan.

B has the privilege of staying

on the farm, I doubt if he could

hold A for pay for the plowing
he has done—Legal Editor.

NOT. ENTITLED TO PAY

I have been teaching school for
several years and this winter a mem-
ber of my family contracted a con-
tagious disease. I notiﬁed the dis-
trict board and they closed the school
three weeks. I was not sick myself
but was quarantined. There were
no other cases in the district at the
time. Is there a law governing this?
Should I make this time up or is it
a matter to be settled between the
teacher and b~oard?—C. D., Decker-
ville, Mich.

INCE school was not maintained
because of the inability of the
teacher she is not entitled to pay

for the time school was closed. The
district should maintain the number
of months voted. The board and
the teacher must mutually agree on
how the time should be made up.—
G. N. Otwell, Supt. of Rural Educa-
tion, Dept. of Public Instruction.

EGGS AND TURKEYS BELONG
T0 NEIGHBOR

A neighbor has turkeys and one
has a nest of eggs over on our land.
Now I would like to know if we had
any right to eggs or any of turkeys
after they hatched? Thanking you
in advance for information, I remain.
——P. C., Northport, Mich.

F the turkeys belong to your neigh-
bor, you would not have a right
to any of the eggs or turkeys——

Legal Editor.

PUTTING UP ICE

We have ice packed in our base-
ment 11 cakes long and 5 cakes wide
with an air chamber 8 to 10 inches
between the cakes.
keep packed with sawdust during
the hot summer months or not?
The cakes\are all shapes, large and
smaiL—C.‘ 8., Chippewa Station,
Mich.

HE common method of packing
ice is to ﬁt the cakes closely to-
gether to form one compact

mass. Even under this method of
packing ice, the loss under favor-
able storage conditions, is often as
' h as '60, per cent.

1.0 has apart you

 
    

will . un-
« pores

» Assistant

Will the ice -

With the cakes.

A Clearing Department for farmers' ev
all complaints or requests for information a d

  

div troubles.
rooted to thisﬁepartment.

 

 

 

Prompt, careful attention {Lyon to
We are here serve

you. All Inquiries mu’st'be accompanied by full name and address. Name not used If so requested.)

 

Packed arc/und the ice it would be .

wise to put cracked ice in the open-
ings between the cakes; even going
to the trouble to pour in water and
allowing it to freeze—F. E. Fogle,
Professor, Agricultural
Engineering Department, Michigan
Agricultural College.

OWNER FURNISHES ALL ‘AND
RENTER DOES WORK

I would like a copy of a contract
between us and another party on a
farm where the ﬁrst party furnishes
everything and the second party
does the work—C. S., Bronson,
Mich.

0 go into the details of a com-
plete contract would take con-
siderable space and I do not

think it necessary in order to give
you the desired information.

Under your proposal “where the

ﬁrst party furnishes everything and
second party does the work", the
ﬁrst party should receive two-thirds
of income and second one-third of in-
come from farm.

Such expenses as threshing, silo
ﬁlling if hired, twine, fuel for thresh—
ing, fertilizer, should be borne by
both parties in the same proportion
as income. The tenant to furnish
all labor for farm purpose. The
landlord will pay all taxes and in-
surance and furnish material for up—
keep of fences and buildings. Labor
for min-or repairs to be furnished by
tenant.

The system of farming to be car-
ried out should be taken into con-
sideration in the lease as well as
many minor affairs such as; time
of hauling manure and amount of
seed left; keeping weeds down, etc.
——-F. T. Riddell, Research Assistant
in Farm Management, Michigan Ag-
ricultural College.

 

Contributions Invited
STRONGER

MAKE WEED LAW
0 the Editor:———Enclosed ﬁnd
T check of $1.00 for renewal. I
would like it very much if you
Would use" your inﬂuence in getting
the teeth put in the weed law. As
the highway commission here claims
you can’t do very much the way the
law is now, I would suggest that
upon the ﬁrst notice from the high-
way commission one dollar be charg—
ed up in the taxes, and if not cut
within twenty-four hours the com-
missioner shall have them cut at the
prevailing wages.

We all have quite a time as we cut
ours and these would—be farmers,
here this year and gone the next, do
not make any effort to cut the weeds
and do not care, so all our work
does not amount to anything.

Maybe you can get something bet-
ter than what I have suggested—N.
H. G., Jasper, Mich.

THAT GASOLINE TAX

O the Editor: It is interesting to

note the arguments for and

against the tax on gasoline. One

can at best, merely consider both

sides of the matter and then decide

as conscience dictates. It is to be

tried out now anyway and we shall

see how it works. The tax will, no

doubt, soon be universal among the
states.

In the ﬁrst place there must be
money to maintain and build roads
if we are to continue them as we
have been doing. The amount of
money required has been almost
more than the people could well af-
ord, yet the demand for road build-
ing is great. It seems the big ques-
tion is whether we can raise the
money without too great a burden of
taxation.

Everyone knows that farmers and
other property owners have been
paying high taxes; of course it is
not all road tax, there are other taxes
also but the total is large. If roads
are to be built and maintained, and
it seems they are, it is no more than
fair that those who drive most should
pay most and the joy-rider should
stand his share as well as the busi—
ness people. We have inheritance
tax and income tax for the well-to-do
which the low-salaried people and
those of little means escape, and as a
general thing that is just. The man
who only pays dog tax can solve his
problem by keeping fewer dogs. The
joy-rider can use less gas and solve
his problem the same way. Perhaps
all will consider pleasure less and
business more and meet this tax with
little additional expense. I am not
for cutting out pleasure altogether
mind you, neither am I in favor of
a few getting all the beneﬁts while
the others “pay the freight."

Not all laws are quite just.
for instance the widow or someone
who happens to own a mortgage, a
tax must be paid, while whoever
owns the mortgaged property must
also pay a tax upon it. an; no deduc-

 

Take '

a mortgaged property, really do not
own it all. The amount of the mort-
gage is always considered in any bus-
iness transaction. Why not also in
the assessment for taxes?

Then, too, the public school tax
and right here let me say that I am
opposed to any move to increase the
public school funds, until what we al-
ready have is more justly spent.

Railroads have not built fast
enough to keep up with the needs of
the people. This brought the motor
trucks into activity to furnish trans-
portation for various commodities.
Roads were not intended for such
heavy trafﬁc at ﬁrst, but the situation
is to be met some way and we must
consider future needs as well. Roads
must be honestly built too, by fair
minded contractors \who will give
honest construction at decent ﬁgures.
Not all roads have been well made as
much defective work now testiﬁes.

Just a word in regard to speeding.
Much danger and disaster could be
avoided if all drivers were careful,
but all are not careful so they need
to be controlled. A writer to a na—
tional publication recently suggested
the manufacture of cars that could
not exceed the speed limit and that
writer was a woman too, bless her.
Why go to the expense and trouble to
make high speed possible and then

"call on Tom, Dick and Harry to make
~them go slower?

If we could have the Golden Rule
worked out in all public affairs, how
much better off humanity would be.
But evil has been gnawing at the vi-
tals of good. So, to preserve pro-
gressive civilization, we need to be
ever on the alert to discourage wrong
and see that right prospers. We may
not always be successful in our ef-
forts but the fact that we did our
best goes far to clear us of respons-
ibility.——Mrs. Florence Howard, Mon-
roe County.

SUGGEST NAME FOR COLLEGE

EAR EDITOR: I have lived on a

farm sixty years in Michigan

and am in favor of changing the
name of the Michigan Agricultural
College. Call it “The Tax Grabbers’
Haven of Rest.” Why tax the farm-
ers and drive them off the farm to
support an unnecessary institution?
It has been a burden to the farmers
ever since it was started.—— L. B.,
Manton, Michigan.

FAVORS WIDE SLEIGHS

the Editor:-—-In your issue of

January 17th under the heading

of “What the Neighbors Say",
I read an article by F. W. Newton,
Saginaw County, regarding the stan-
dard width of sleighs.

I have widened my sleixghs and can
not see where they are going to be
less serviceable as Mr. Newton stat-
ed. They will run just as easy and
are not'nearly so apt to tip over un-
der a top-heavy load as before.
Some of my neighbors have. 1' built

. . smothers

    

    

count). '7 WIL,   *7"

“I am" a brother of“\ﬂinei‘ in a

family. six girls and three” bOys all
married. My younger brother was
working my father’s and mother's

  

farm but could not get along so my '

folks want to sign over and will the
farm to me, I to pay the girls 01!.
The boys, my folks say,
their share already. Could this will
if signed right, be broken if the sis-
ters or brothers are not satiﬁed?—O.
H. P., Pinconning, Mich.

If the will is properly executed and
signed it could not be broken.—
Legal Editor.

KILLING HEDGE

I have an osage range hedge that I
wish to kill. I sawed it off close to
the ground in November. Stumps
run from 3 to 8 inches in diameter.
I have been told to bore a hole in the
heart of the stumps and ﬁll them
with kerosene oil. Would this kill
them?

Michigan. 
ONSIDERABLE work has been
done in an attempt to discover a
cheap but effective means of
destroying undesirable, rootﬁ, stock.
The work has been conﬁned thus far
mainly to quantitative experiments in
an effort to determine just what
poisons are most eﬂective. "Quanti-
tative experiments unfortunately
have never been deﬁnitely worked
out as to just how much of each
poison is necessary to kill the trees.
The amount of poison necessary de-
pends on a numbé’i‘ of unrelated fac-
tors, such as the species of trees, the
size of the individual tree and the
general vitality of the tree. Kero-
sene will kill trees but I cannot say
just hows—much would be necessary.
Boring holes in the stump is rather
laborious work and I would suggest
that more certain results could be ob-
tained with much less work and at
approximately the same cost by using
a stronger poison such as arsenic.
The arsenic can be prepared per the
following directions or can be pur-
chased in solution in the form of
various weed killers. If prepared
at home extreme care must be taken
to secure a true solution of arsenic

or else no results will be obtained. -

 

 

WHO CAN ANSWER THIS?
WOULD like to ask a ques-
tion. Why is it with using
a peach twig to locate a

vein of water that it will work
with some people and not with
others?—R. V., Kent County.

 

 

If the following directions are care-
fully followed boring holes in the
stumps should not be necessary to sec
cure desired results.

The solution is poisonous and care
must be taken to see that people and
animals are kept away from it.

Use one pound of arsenic and three
pounds of soda to make one gallon
of this poison. Arsenic is not solu-
ble in water to any great. extent so
that soda, either ordinary washing
soda or caustic soda, has to be used
to dissolve it. When large amounts
of the solution are required, wash-
ing soda will be cheaper, but for
small quantities of solution, caustic
soda will possibly be found handiest.

In preparing the solution, whether
caustic soda or washing soda is used,
ﬁrst dissolve the soda in a conven—
ient amount of water, using heat, if
desirable, to assist and hasten it:
then slowly add the arsenic, previ-
ously made into a thin paste, stir—
ring all the time: place on a,strong
ﬁre, and allow it to boil for at least
half an hour: stir from time to time.
being careful to stand on the side
away from the fumes, as being poi-
sonous, they are apt to cause sick-
ness. When the arsenic is thoroughly
dissolved, the solution may be made
up to the required bulk by adding
suﬂicient water, either hot or cold.

The best time to carry out the ,

work of poisoning trees is when the
tree is dormant, that is in the fall or
winter months.

‘Small trees may be cut of! low
down and the solution may be daub-.
ed 'on with a swab-stick 'to kill and
prevent suckering. ’ '

 

  
 
 
   
 

shes It.
the I _ 

r

If not, how would you ad- 5
vise killing them?-——J. W. B., Doster, ;

Care should ,be taken to see that "
people

have got ,

    
 

 


 

 

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,. 1 times TE OF SODA IN 50041523551 FER TILIZA TION -

.A Synopsis of Results Obtained from Investigations
l Conducted in Michigan in 1922 and 1923

 

(Reprinted from FACTS ABOUT SUGAR, March 22, 1924)

r The investigation, the results of which are
summarized in the following article, was com-
menced in the spring of 1922. Its object.
primarily. was to ascertain whether in the
culture of sugar beets in Michigan nitrate of
soda. applied liberally, would prove as potent
a factor as experience has shown it to be in
European practi . -

In some parts 0 Michigan the use of com-
mercial fertilizers is little known and their
properties less understood. Where used. the
fertilizer is too often one almost devoid of
nitrogen and consisting. chieﬂy of acid phos-
phate— typical of many low—grade brands on
the market which

ceived no fertilizer treatment, being reserved
as a check.

Results of First Yield

The results obtained from the sugar beet
crop of 1922, grown on the O’Toole and Gavit
farms, appear in Table 1: 1922.

A glance at the data presented in Table 1
shows that in both experiments aremarkable
increase in the yield from every fertilized plot
was recorded. In this they agree, but differ
somewhat in the degree of response shown to
the various methods of treatment. On the
O'Toole farm the yield from Plot 4 was rather

 

commend themselves
to the purchaser be-
cause, being largely
phosphatic. they can

TABLE I: 1922
Yields and Increases per Acre (in lbs.)

be sold at a compara- Fertilizer O’Toole Farm Gavit Farm
tively low price per Plot treatment Method at Yield Increase Yield Increase
ton. _ (lbs. per ace) application over check ever check
I Nitrate—300 Drilled in 31.282 6.426 s .005 8.195
Plan Of Acid phos.—3oo pdor to 5
the Liar. p0 seeding
Expetimentl a Nitrate—135 Drilled in amass 2.502 20.330 3.520
In order to pro- ﬁﬁgﬁ‘f “f “go '“h'w'
vide conditions which
would permit of ow 3 Check 24,856 . . . . 16,810 . . . .
aliens being conduct- 4 Nitrate—300 Drilled In
ed on a scale con- Add Dh“-—3°° Prior to 32.340 7.484 «.590 3.780
i I twith o n Sul.p0tash——so seeding
farm practice two _ s Nitrate—300 Top dressed 31.xoo 6.244 17,530 720
' Acid phos.—-300 when
ﬁelds. each 20 m Mar. potash—so blocking

inareaandgiving

 

evidence of lmiform-
ity in soil conditions.
were selected for the two principal experi—
ments. In these it was intended to obsa've the
inﬂuence of the fa'tilizer during the course of
a three-year rotation consisting of (1) sugar
beets. (2) grain, (3) hay—a rotation conform-
ing to practice approved in the locality. These
experimental ﬁelds were situated twenty miles
apart. one on the farm of W. P. Gavit, at
Saginaw, and the other on the farm of Ben
O’Toole, at Merrill. The soil on both farm!
was a clay loam.

larger than that from Plot 1, indicating a
slight advantage for sulphate over muriate of
potash, whereas on the Gavit farm the posi-
tion was reversed. It should be stated. how-
ever. that a measured acre (fertilized as Plot
1) adjoining Plot 4 on the Gavit farm yielded

y the same as the latter plot. On
ndther experimental ﬁeld was a pronounced
response to potash fertilizing anticipated,
both soils having shown, by analysis, a high
potash content. Another contrast is seen
in the results following the
application of the fertilizer

 

as a top drowng at the time
the beets were ‘ ‘ blocked."
This plot on the Gavit farm

’ Fawkes ‘
no. mm. Method 0, “.14, De, mm... om prodymmuced a uirtery ingengrt’
Obs. w an!) sublimation smegma. v' check. 1138- "—3 PPS I10 011
x Nitrate xso Drilled in with as m 5.364 par“? atlrlbutable ‘0 “wk
M wed ' . of soil mmsture adequate for
Illu- notalh 45 the quick solutionof the famil-
. mu“: mo Drilled in with m 3,594 izers. The corresponding
Add place. no ﬁrst. sending plot on the O’Toole farm at
m”- "m “am” Merrill produced ayicld prac-
3 Check £9.07. tically identical with that
4 Nitrate 180 Drilled in with from Plot 1. and in this con-
Add ohm- 180 ﬁat 86.614 W nection it is noteworthy that
W’ acopiousrainfall followed al-

most immediately the top
dressing of the fertilizers on

 

Theplanprovkiedfortheapplicaﬂontothe
greatu'portionoftheexpaimentalﬁeidof
soomundseachofmu'ateofsodaandacld
phosphate. together with 50 pounds of muti-
ateofpohshpamThiswastobeappllal
priortoseedlng.

The balance of theﬂeld. divided into four
plots of approximately one were each. sawed
todemonstrate the inﬂuence ofcertainmodiﬂ-
cationsof the general treatment.

Procedure of Experiments

Preliminary trials having indicated that me
fertilizers might be most efﬁciently and con-
veniently applied by means of the fertilizer-
sowing attachment of a modern grain drill,
this method was adopted and found satis-
factory, it being possible to distribute the full
amount. representing 650 pounds per acre,
at one opaation.

On the plot to which the fertilizer was ap-
pliedinthsrowwiththeseedfromthebeet
dnnonlvmmimdsperacreofthemixture
were used. this amount

Plot 5.

Respecting Plot 2. on which the fertilizers
were drilled in with the seed—a method which
cannot be generally commended — owing to
failure of the seed to germinate within a
reasonable time period this plot on the O 'Toole
farm was harrowed up and reseeded, whereas
no perceptible delay—as compared with the
other plots—was noticeable in the germina-
tion of the seed in Plot 2 on the Gavit farm.

Supplemental Experiment

Further light on this point was furnished in
a supplansntary lo-acre test on the O’Toole
farm at Marin. In a ten-acre field of a heavy
loam soil the fertilizers were applied in the
row with the beet seed. Four acres received
the same fertilizer as was applied to Plot 1 in
the 20-acre ﬁeld. and on four acres potash was
omitted, the balance of the ﬁeld serving as a
check. While germination proceeded rapidly
and vigorously on the check plot. it was so
seriously retarded on the fertilized areas that
these—with the excqrtion of four rows ad-
joining the check—were hat-rowed up and re-
seeded ten days after the date of the ﬁrst

 

representing the limit
of the beet-drill's fen-
tiliscr-sowing capacity.
Another acre—plot re-
ceived fertilizer treat-
ment similar to that of
the 'main area. except ,
that “mme 0‘ WM 3 Nitrate 300
replaced the muriate. 1+4 goo
while still another 4 Unf'u’tilized
received the fertilizer as 5 2-1ng 3.0
a top dressing when the 0
beets were'ready for

blocking." One we re:

.Nlmxso . 300'
'Im'wmof
Wmmnhupercentof

TABLE 1: m3
Yield-and Imps-Acre (inlst

Saunas-inc. Fau- Heinroth Fan-n
Method of Yield Increase Yield , Increase
application over check ever check

26.104 4:931 30.075 5.556

Drilled 23.01 2 1,189 27,057 2,533
, in 29.729 7.906 32.504 7.985
pnor
to 21.823 24.519
needing 25.745 3.922 28.897 4.378

26,075 4.252 28.720 4,201
nitrates of potash and soda, was found on
nitrogen and 9.65 per cent of potash.

seeding. The results are seen in Table 2: 1922.

The results recorded here show, on com-
paring the yields from Plots 1 (with potash)
and 4 (without potash) that no advantage
was gained by the use of potash in
this instance, though the lower yield on Plot
1 does not necessarily imply that the potash
had been detrimental. Further it should be re-
marked withreferenceto the behavior of Plot2 -
represented by the four rows

 
  

A gratifying feature of the results 111*‘
marked degree of consistency exhibited in
comparing the behavior of corresponding
plots in both experiments. The data in Table
1 indicate clearly the inﬂuence of the various
fertilizers. as measured by the increase over
the yield of the check} plot. In both instances
the highest yield followed the application of
nitrate of soda with the 1-8-4 mixture, and

 

of the fertilized area not re-
seeded—that though retard-

IABLE 3: 1022

ed by the fertilizer in prox’ RESULTS FROM ACRE OR HALF-ACRE PLOT DEMONSTRATIONS

imity to the seed, germina-
tion ultimately took place
and a full stand of beets re-
sulted. However, though
overcoming substantially the
lead of the check plot. the
yield from Plot 2 fell far 1
short of that from Plot 1.

thus furnishing irresistible a
evidence in favor of apply-
ing active fertilizers apart

Fertilizer
Plot treatment
be. per acre)

Check

Nitrate 200
Acid Phos. 200

Tom Mayer, Merrill.
Medium loam

Method of Yields per Increase ov
application acre. lbs. c . lbs.
Drilled in 30,390 7.250
with seed

but reseeded

23,110
E. K. Kennedy, Swan Cree .
andy loam

. . x Nitrate 300 Bmadcasted 18.520 n. s
from the seed. or msumns Acid Phos. 300 after beets ‘7
that they do not come in too were up
direct contact in the soil. I Check H W M 5 C7.0 8
Geo. . , wan rec .
. Sandy loam
Demonstrations on x Nitrate 300 Drilled in 29,510 6,890
Smaller e28 Add Phos. 300 pnor to
A! . seeding
Besides the experiments ’ Check c - “'6”
. H. Wlltse, Swa Creek.
already described. a number Medium 1021?):
of smaller 2-plot demonstrar- 1 Nitrate 37o Drilled in 24.230 11,175
tions were introduced in Add Phos- 370 5:33;“?
ammo“ whee?“ t° 8351‘ 2 Check (which had received 13,055
naw and Merrill. The re- “5155, 1-3-3 bmd)
sults from these are given Clifford E: Wiltse, Freeland.
brieﬂy in Table 3: 1922. x Nlmt 300 D ,u d PW 103‘“ 6° 66
. . (3 fl 8 ln 2 .5
The results, lthll be seen, Add phat 300 prior to 4 4‘ 5
were consistently favorable seeding

and need no further expla- 2 Check
nation. The greatest propor-

19.895

 

tional increase gained from
the fertilizing was noted in the experiment on
the farm of E. K. Kennedy, Swan Creek, where
the soil is a light sandy 10am, and the fertilizers
were broadcasted as a top dressing after the
beet plants had reached the rough-leaf stage.
The response to the fertilizing was immediate,
and, by reason of the vigorous growth of the
beets thereon, the fertilizer plot furnished a
striking object lesson throughout the season.
As a. factor contributing to the success of
the first year’s experiments one must recognize
the favorable weather conditions in the moder-
ately warm, moist summer of 1922. Another
factor, which cannot be overlooked, was the
helpful. active interest in the work shown by
representatives of the Michigan Sugar Co.

EXPERIMENTS IN 1923

Unfavorable weather conditions—a cold
May followed by an exceptionally dry J une—
experienced in the Saginaw district during the
season of 1923 inﬂuenced yields adversely, so
that the tonnage per acre was considerably
lower on the average than that of the previous
year. Yet, despite these untoward conditions,
the returns from the use of nitrate of soda,
alone or in conjunction with other fertilizers.
have been no less marked, and proﬁtable, than
those of the initial year of the investigation.

The scheme of experiment in 1922 was com-
paratively simple in its nature. ba'ng designed
rather to demonstrate the proper method of
applying the fertilizers and the increase in
yield which might be expected from their ra-
tional use than to compare the inﬂuence of
diﬂerent fertilizers.

In 1923 the scope of the investigation was
broadened to include comparisons of single
ingredients—also commercial mixtures—and
certain combinations thereof. having in view
primarily the determination of the individual
inﬂuence of each. The choice of materials for
this purpose was indicated both by local usage
and the recommendation of the agricultural
college, the former involving the use of the
customary 1-8-4 mixture and the latter one of
a 2—12—2 formula.

In the two large experiments—on the Som-
erville and Heinroth farms—nitrate of soda
was employed (1) alone. and (3) in conjunc-
tion with the 1-8—4 mixture, the 1—8—4 mixture
also being applied alone (2). Two other plots
were treated with 2-122 alone (5) and nitrate
of potash and soda (“ Nitrapo") alone (6). Plot
4 (check) was unfertilized. The results are
shown on Table 1: 1923

The previous cropping of these area was
as follows: Somerville, pasture in 1921. com
in 1922; Heinroth. hay in 1921, beans in 1922.
The Somervﬂle' field was lightly mama-eq—

nitrate alone was much more effective than
1—8—4. That the 2-12-2 mixture proved
superior to the 1-8-4 may indicate a greater
need for phosphoric acid than for potash, a
surmise supported by the results from Plot 6
(“Nitrapo”), which showed no increase over
those from plot 1 with nitrate alone.

As a basis for the calculation of proﬁts
from the fertilizer treatment, the value of the
crop may be taken as $9 per ton, and the cost
of the principal fertilizers as follows: nitrate
of soda, $3.50 a hundred pounds; 1-8-4
mixture $2.15 a hundred.

Other Demonstrations in 1923

The results of other, small-plot demonstra-
tions conducted in 1923 were as follows:

On the Clay Loam farm of M. Winterstein.
Swan Creek, 300 lbs. of Nitrate showed an
increase of 4,363 lbs.

On the Heavy Clay Loam farm of M. E.
Barkman, Swan Creek, 150 lbs. of Nitrate-
showed an increase of 2,544 lbs.

0n the Medium Loam farm of Murphy
Brothers. Freeland. 300 lbs. of Nitrate 0n
Plot 1 showed an increase of 1,720 lbs: 3004
lbs. of Nitrate on Plot 3 showed an increase
of 3.520 lbs.

On the Clay Loam farm of Robert Caldwell,
Saginaw, 300 lbs. of Nitrate showed an in-
crease of 4.994 lbs.

With the exception of one experiment from
which a record of the yields was not obtained.
the foregoing shows the results of the in-
vestigation carried out in 1923.

Certainly there is enough evidence in
this article to convince any grower of Sugar
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crops. Some advocate deep plowing
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and easily worked.

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for different crops. Some of these
experiments may be interesting, and
as plowing time will not be far away
when my farmer friends read this,
it seems an opportune time to tell
of some of these plowing tests.

One ﬁeld of nine acres was a clover
meadow for one year, and during the’
next winter it was covered with ma—
nure, about seven loads per acre
being used. The clover killed out
quite badly that winter. as the fall
and early winter were real dry.
The ﬁeld was plowed with a working
plow, and after plowing about one;
half acre at a depth of seven inches,
the plow was set to plow more shal—
low—in fact, the lead wheel was
lowered as far as it. would go. The
plow was then turning a furrow only
ﬁve inches deep. This depth was
plowed until noon. During the noon
hour I took a piece of oak, two by
four, and bolted it to the wheel
standard, and then to the plow beam,
in order to be able to lower the
wheel another two inches or so.

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tion for plowing, and the plow did
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fact, the spring tooth drag tore out
considerable manure and sod as in
some places it cut down nearly as
deep as the plow had gone. The
ﬁeld was planted with a. check row
planter about May 10, and planted as
shallow as possible, and cover good.
About that time we had a. good rain,
and it was the last rain we had for
a long time. This corn sprouted and
came up ﬁne, and soon all the roots
were in soil deeper than it had been
plowed.

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and dry, which caused the top layer
of soil to dry out as deep as it had
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low plowed soil-y full of manure and
old clover growth, acted as a mulch
and the soil beneath did not dry’ out
to any considerable extent, and the
corn grew fast and never rolled,
wilted or showed signs of needing
moisture. '

Neighboring ﬁelds that were plow-
ed deep, dried out as deep as they
were plowed and as the corn had

. not rooted into the soil below this

deep :plowing, it was badly affected.
It wilted and rolled and did not
seem to grow normally in size or
color. Our ﬁeld was plowed so shal-

low the cultivator tore out the ma-_f
nure and sod almost all over the

ﬁeld, and how dry it all seemed to
be!

The dry weather continued until-

the fore part of July, and by this
time the- corn on the deep plowed
land ‘Wasso badly affected by the
dry hot weather, it never regained
what it had lost, and made a very
poor ‘crop. Our shallow plowed
ﬁeld continued to grow ﬁne and prov-
ed to be the best crop of corn we
ever had. '

The corn was cut by hand and
shocked up wide and rye was sown
with a disk drill without ﬁtting the
land in the least. The rye grew ﬁne.
In the spring mammoth clover was
sown. At this time the old, nearly
decomposed manure and clover were
clearly seen all throughpthe upper
soil, and what an ideal seed bed it
made for the clover.

The following spring this mam-
moth clover was sure enough mam-
moth, and about June 10th it was
plowed under, and what a. ﬁne crop

of those good old Carmen potatoes

it produced!
It i t
A Test for Oats

We have been commercial growers
of potatoes for nineteen years, and
oats follow potatoes in our rota-
tion. The potato ground is never
plowed for oats, however, the same

'year we plowed so shallow for corn

we tested out the oat ﬁeld also. A
portion was plowed through the cen—
ter of the ﬁeld and rolled. This
plowed portion was ﬁtted just as the
rest of the ﬁeld. Clover was seeded
with the cats. The dry spring was
very much more detrimental to the
plowed portion, and showed plainly
in the oats while the clover was even
more seriously affected. It seemed
the soil would dry out as deep as it
had been worked in the spring-—
whether it was three inches or seven

or eight. ’ i
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Another Corn Test
The ﬁrst year we owned this farm
we had an old sod ﬁeld which we put
into potatoes. Very early the follow-
ing spring this ﬁeld was limed, one

bushel of cats per acre were sown. _’

and the ﬁeld seeded to‘ alfalfa. It
was a good growing season. We had
intended to cut the cats for hay,
but as the weather continued real
wet we let them mature and harvest—
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to spend any precious spring work
on. and now it was demanding con-
siderable attention, as it lay there,
the alfalfa a perfect failure.

Our ﬁrst thought was to sow it
to alfalfa again, but that spring the
alfalfa seed was so high in price We
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As neighbor was-induced to helpplow
it, and -it was plowed “round and
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were simply double disked, and then
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second year before. Corn was plant-
ed about June ﬁrst. The season was
normal, and there was no difference
in the corn crop. One could not tell
where'the land had been plowed.or
disked.

I am ﬁrm in my conviction that as
a general proposition we use the
plows too much. I am more and
more certain that if we could have
a four year rotation with only one
plowing, more satisfactory results,
with less labor, would be accomplish-
ed. No doubt some heavy soils
would show some difference in their
treatment of one plowing in a. four
year rotation. My experience is
mainly gained on a. medium loam
soil. r
The ﬁelds we use in our rotation,
which includes the potato crop, have
only one plowing in the four years.
The rotation consists of—Aﬁrst year,
potatoes; second year, oats (disked
in) seeded to clover and alfalfa mix-
ture; third year, hay; fourth year,
pasture, until about half of the
growth is consumed, when stock is
removed and the rest of the growth
is plowed under for potatoes again.
We plan to top dress-the potato
ground after“ it is plowed, and sev—
eral weeks before the potato crop
is planted. For the past three years
we have grown certified seed pota-
toes, and our aim is to growa good
crop of medium sized potatoes rath-
er than a large crop of large pota-l
toes. l

The medium sized potato seems to
be far better for seed than the larg-
er ones. In fact they are also better
table potatoes. We believe we could
very easily increase our yield if we
would sacriﬁce the quality a little,
however the M. A. C. inspection re—
ports for the past three years show
our crop to be very good. The ma—
nure, if plowed under instead of
being used as top dressing, might
grow larger potatoes, but these larg-
er ones would not be as desirable.
Several years before we began grow-
i—ng certiﬁed seed, we learned that
the returns from a potato crop were
as much dependent on quality as on—
quantity. The quantity of a pota-
to crop is of little interest to the con-
sumer, while the quality is a matter
of great concern.

The above four year rotation has
only one plowing. Top dressing
after that plowing seems to leave
considerable humus near the surface
and this is ideal for the oat crop as
well as the clover.

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If corn stubble or potato ground
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E/ had a splendid wife, and two

farm, and a. church and school
across the way. He should have
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Let us notice ﬁrst, the Christian’s
personal reaction to this debt of
service. Paul sets the mark for us.
In him it became a homesickness. “I
long to see you that I may pay off
this debt”, wrote he to the.Romans.
We can well believe this, for how
many of us have heai‘d the mission-
aries say as much about their foreign
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the heart of Paul. All men were his

creditors. He owed them the Gospel
1 that had been trusted to him for

them. “Necessity is laid upon ‘me”
said he; and “woe is me if I don’t
pay off this debt.” You see the apos-
tle was one of those men who could
not wrap this obligation up in a nap—
kin and forget about it.

But this spiritual obligation to
men attaches to every believer in the
Gospel. We all are trustees of this
truth. Are 'we worthy of it? Are
we selﬁsh with it? Are we trying to
save it? Then we shall lose it.
What is the matter with that pond
of water. Whence the green scum
and foul odor? It refuses to give re—
freshingly to a thirsty soil. It lies
there in a land pocket all by itself.
Then do you wonder at so many
sickly, foul—smelling Christians? And
must we keep on giving? Is there
not a limit somewhere? Yes, and
here is the limit: “As much as in
me is.” Our debt remains to bless
us. We can’t get rid of it. We have
no other honorable choice than to
pay to the limit. But as to how
much of it we shall be able to get
done depends uponour years, oppor—
tunities, and capacities. The one
talent man is net expected to do as
much as the ﬁve talent man, but he
must do what he can. Every be—
liever has his own debt to pay and
God and mankind will hold him for
it. But does every Christian take
[his obligation so seriously? You

answer. But why should anyone
want to repudiate his debts?
get on a house-top and herald the
fact when someone pays his debt?
Why not? Because it is but common
honesty and self-respect. Now ap-
ply this to religion and then see
how different-the church and the
world would be. How about apply—
ing it to your owng‘community? If
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to the foolish. So, as much as in me is, ‘

_not all one father?

nice boys, and a pretty little,

Do we.

earnest about paying off his religi-i
"ens-and social debt to the society in ;
which he’lives, how like a. heavenly;

     
    
  

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ciety because of the fact of human

brotherhood implied in Creation.
This creative idea throbbed in the
hearts of the prophets. “Have we
Hath not one
God created us? Why do we deal
treacherously every man with his
brother?” Malachi 2:10. Jesus came
to' earth to establish this ideal in
the lives of men. This is the divine
solvent for the racial frictions and
the religious antagonisms of our or
any other day. H. G. Wells, the Eng—
lish author, says that the clashing of
the races is the greatest present men—
ace to the peace of the world. How,
then, this emphasizes the debt that
every believer owes to a world under-
standing in Christ. ’

Paui,-a Jew. says he is in debt to
the Romans, 8. Latin race, and he
tells them about it in a manuscript
written iniGreek. Verily, this was
some new thing, and it all came
about in a generation after Jesus
proclaimed, “The Kingdom of Hea-
ven is at hand.” ‘Faith can now see
that this spirit is'destined to become
world—wide in its work of breaking
down racial and culture barriers.
“Greeks and Barbarians” and “the
wise” and “the foolish” yet exist;
that is, the racial and culture chasms
represented by this classiﬁcation. I

 

May I say a. few words in regard
to the sermons. I think they are
wonderful. The paper would not be
complete without them. God be
praised that Mr. W'arner is well and
able to write again. Long may he
live to send out the good news. His
sermons does good and lots of it.—
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suppose we shall have to admit the
educational snobbishness and the
caste of learning among us that tend
to socialstratiﬁcation. But, it is
also true that the tendency to one-
ness through Christian education is
growing;' Over‘I all the surface di-
visions of mankind created by race,
geography, education, or wealth,
there is forming’a connecting arch,
the keystone of which is understand
ing and fraternity in Christ. For
the Jew Paul, to have had such a
faith was every whit a miracle; for
that he is peculiarly the chosen race,

still dominates the thought and faith ‘

of the orthodox Jew. But all this
notion is to decay under the pressure
of a religion that is persistently
working toward the goal of a com-
mon Father and a Common Savior.

'So then, we all eat and drink out
of the hands of one God; we breathe
the air, see the beauties, and hear
the harmonies of a common Creator.
We have the same heart yearnings
for goodness and the same heart
guilt for sin; and bless God, the
same Savior. We are one in Christ
Jesus. So, every Christian is set to
radiate this fellowship atmosphere in
the earth. He. is a debtor.

We are debtors to society because
of the social heritages that have
been and are being passed on to us.
My friend purchased property in a
rapidly growing American city. In
a few years he was wealthy. Why?
Because of his personal earnings or
efforts? Not that. Then why? Be-
cause of his lucky (as he says) loca-
tion, he became a happy, Sharer in
the economic growth of that section
of the city; a Sharer in the successes
of his neighbors. In a few years he
was luxuriating in an unearned sur—
plus. And I said to him one day.
“Friend, you owe a great deal to this
community because of What the com-
munity has done for you.” So do We
all owe this community debt. Who
would want to do without the social
order brought by law enforcement.’
Without schools for our children, and
without churches for our souls?
Then We owe a generous support to
these community agencies for right-
eousness.  - a ' '  -

*Does America owe anything to, the
world because of. imported beneﬁts?
EWhence the language through which,
gw.e.,,cominunioate .One, with another?
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them anything? 9 What should be the:
shining glory of America today? Car-
rying to othern’lands bur literature;
our school f, system; our industrial
methodsjv-or rather our hearts of
good-will and our debt of Christian-
ity? And who knows but that Amer—
ica has come into the community of
nations for just such an obligation
as this? Even so.

But if we have, we must shift our
living standards and revise our mo-
tive. The recent Foreign Missions
Conference at Washington charged
our Western civilization with carry-
ing great evils to distant lands. No
wonder the high note of the conven-
tion was to ﬁrst Christianize Amer-
ica. Paul said to his own people,
“The name of God is blasphemed
among the, Gentiles through you.”
Can that be applied to AmeriCa to—
day? Therefore, the debt Of Ameri—
ca to the world is to lift mankind to
the high levels of Christian broth—
erhood. v

Thus, we are bound to all men.

There are other religions, but they
are bounded by race and geography,
and they are powerless because they
are not full of grace and. truth. They
are fading out in their contact with
a religion that is destined to rule
over all tongues. We have this re-
ligion. Others do not. That, then,
constitutes our solemn call and sum-
mon. We are obligated to others
in terms of Christian love and fra-
ternity.

BIBLE THOUGHTS

MASTER, THIS WOMAN was tak-
en in adultery. Moses commanded
us that such should be stoned: but
what sayest thou? . . He said unto
them, 'He that is without sin among
you, let him ﬁrst cast a stone at her.
-—John 8:4, 5, 7.

BOA‘ST NOT thyself of tomorrow;
for thou knowest not what a day
may bring forth.——Proverbs‘27:1.

PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU, my
peace I give unto you: not as the
world giveth, give I unto you. Let
not your heart be troubled, neither
let it be afraid—John 14:27.

RADIO DEPARTMENT

By JAhIES “C H. WEIR, R. E.

GETTING READY FOR LIGHTNING
will not be very long before we
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“ Proof of Tests" that
show "Galvannealed "
uare Deal outtests any
at er farm ence. The
Indiana State University ;
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Chicago; (I. F Burgess
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We will also send a copy
of Ropp’s Calculator that
is the handiest helper
around the farm. Answers
75,000 everyday questions.

Square Deal Fence Cata-
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require fewer posts. hold
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gripped to stiff stay wires
with a_ knot that never
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have the Red Strand, then you are not
getting the greatest value for your money.
The “Galvannealed” process is owned
and controlled by Keystone. On ordinary
Galvanized Wire only a comparatively thin
zmc coating can be applied. On “Gal-
vannealed ” Square Deal 2 to 3 times more
Zinc is used than on ordinary Galvanized
w1re._ Everyone knows that the heavier
the Zinc coating is, the longer the fence

will last. But we have gone even further;
KEYSTONE STEEL 8: WIRE 00., 4844 Industrial St., Peoria, Ill.

Outlasts any other Farm Fence !.

      
  
  
   
    

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This gives such an extra
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many, many years. The long extra wear “Galvannealed’.’ Square Deal
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than only protecting the “outside.” We
have actually also protected the “inside”
of the Wire by usmg copper with the steel.

Ofﬁcial tests show that steel with 15 to 30
points of copper in it resists rust at least
twice as long as steel without copper. It
costs more to use copper—it costs more
to manufacture “Galvannealed” Fence
but this new Square Deal which outlasts
any other farm fence costs YOU not one
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storms. This raises the question
as to whether or not your house and
' set is properly protected against fire
from lightning.

We would suggest that you write
to the company in which you are in-
sured asking ":hem what you must do
in the way of lightning protection.
Undoubtedl‘y they will tell you that
you 'must use a properly grounded
lightning arrester always connected
to your set. The National Board of
Fire Underwriters has 'ruled that
this is a necessary precaution and to
collect insurance for ﬁre caused by
lightning such arresters must be in—
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If you do not want to have a ﬁre
in your house, or have your set spoil-
ed by lightning we advise that you
install a lightning arrester as soon
as possible. They only cost from $1
to $3.50 each, and should be of a
kind approved by ﬁre underwriters.

You know that your telephone
wires are protected by lightning ar-
resters and so should your aerial be.
Indoor aerials and loops do not need ‘
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SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1926

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THE RURAL PUDLIMIIRG OOMPANV. lne.
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“THEY SHALL NOT PASS"—-—UNGUARDED!

OR the past six months, as you who have fol-
lowed this page, will remember, we haVe
been calling the attention of railway, auto-

mobile and farm organization executives to the
alarming growth of accidents at railway cross-
ings.

This was driven home in the untimely death of
Prof. Frank Spragg and family of East Lan-
sing, a man who had done as much or more to
improve the seed crop of Michigan than any other
individual ever accomplished in a lifetime. Yet
this valuable life was snuﬁed out in a railway
crossing accident almost in sight of his own home.

Most of you, therefor, will appreciate the fact,
that on Tuesday, March 17th, the House of Rep-
resentatives passed a so-called stop law bill,
which requires a. motorist to stop his automobile,
before crossing a dangerous railroad intersection.

This, we realize, is only one step, but it is in
the right direction, and because it is sponsored
by the railroads and the railway trainmen, we
can now look for their support in securing suit-
able automatic signals at every “blind” crossing
in the state.

The bill, as passed by the house, authorizes
the State Public Utilities Commission to designate
the crossings at which all trafﬁc shall stop and
requires the railroad to establish and maintain
large stop signs at these crossings, so that the
highway travellers shall have plenty of warning
and opportunity to comply with the law.

Among the most earnest advocates of the bill
are representatives of the men who operate the
railroad trains of this state. They urged that
the strain of running trains over thousands of
highway crossings in the state, is becoming al-
most unbearable because so many drivers fail
to cross the track with due regard to their own
safety and the safety of those riding in the rail-
road trains. If drivers of vehicles can stop at
through streets in the cities as a. means of mak-
ing travel safer, the trainmen argued. there cer-
tainly can be no reason for not stopping at rail-
road crossings where the danger is much greater.

It is obvious that some further regulation
should be put in the hands of the State Public
Utilities Cdmmission which would make it easier
to require railroads to properly protect the dan-
gerous crossings.

The automobile brought with it problems of
safety to the public, and of particular interest to
the rural community, because of the increase of
these accidents among farmers and their families.

We are proud of the part THE BUSINESS Fromm: I

has played in insuring the enactment of this leg-
islation and can assure readers that we will leave
no stone unturned until every dangerous cross-
ing in Michigan is suitably protected.

If you know of a “blind” or dangerous crossing
in your vicinity which is not protected, we would
appreciate your communicating the facts to the
editor. and we would especially appreciate a
photograph of the crossing.

WHERE THE FIFTY MILLION WENT!

are not unconscious of the fact that some
W readers of this page have criticised our
Mouse of the administration and partic-
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would take'th‘e trouble Lto write Mr.  for
e copy of the book, mRoads Built-With the Fifty
Million Dollar Bond Issue", which was issued un-
der date of February 2nd. 1925.

We do not contend for one minute that no
mistakes were made in the spending of this vast
amount of money. -We do contend that the work
was so gigantic that no human or group of hu-
mans could have accomplished what has , been
accomplished without approximately the same
ratio of errors. - .

So far no reader has pointed out a speciﬁc

instance of .mis-appropriation of highway funds—

which has not been logically and cheerfully ex-
plained and proven by deﬁnite ﬁgures from the
State Highway Department.

The report shows that as of January lst, 1925,
1711 miles of gravel road had been built, and
a total of 1581 miles of macadam, concrete, as-
phalt and brick pavement laid; a grand total of
3398 miles of road, including 244 bridges of
greater than 30 feet span. 

For the construction of these highways, the
department has spent the $50,000,000 raised by
the sale of bonds and in addition, $14,000,000
of federal aid, 3. total of $64,000,000.

Every farm which lies in proximity of an im-
proved highway, open to motor trafﬁc through-
out the year, has been enhanced in Value and
the total of this increase in farm property value,
would, if available, we believe, make this amount
spent, great as it is, look pigmy.

The social, educational and religious advan-
tages of good roads cannot be measured in dol-
lars, and if we have helped to make farm life in
Michigan more attractive, and helped to maintain
a sound agriculture, with farm boys and girls
remaining on the farms, then it has been worth
while, no matter what the cost. ’

We feel that Michigan today can be justly
proud of her road system.

We believe that from this point on a more
conservative program can be carried forward,
based largely on the return from the gasoline
and other privilege taxes, from those who use
the roads. . -,

We do not lose sight of tlﬁa fact that our good

roads will bring millions of dollars of tourists’
money, which will be spread to Michigan farms
and industry. In other words, we feel that the
$64,000,000 has been one of the best investments
the state of Michigan has ever made and we
again commend those men who helped to make
it a reality.
- Some day a monument will probably be erected
to the men who built the ﬁrst paved roads in
Michigan so we can not feel that it is unbecom-
ing to pin a posey in their lapels while they can
still enjoy its fragrance!

SHALL OUR RIVERS BE SEVVERS?

RACTICAL Christianity and good citizenship
both demand of us that we jealously guard
the rights of our fellowmen and conserve

and develop the natural resources with which
Providence has so abundantly blessed us. Nature
has spread her gifts with such a lavish hand in
America that we are just beginning to appreciate
the solemn obligation which is ours to protect
this heritage for future generations.

We may talk ourselves black in the face about
ﬁsh and game laws, closed seasons, ﬁsh hatch-
eries, bag limits and other similar more or less
ineffectual methods of conserving ﬁsh and other
forms of wild life, but there is one thing that is
fundamental and of primal importance. We re—
fer to the prevention of wholesale pollution of
Michigan streams and rivers through making
them open sewers into which industrial wastes,
acid, alkalies, oils and municipal sewage is
dumped promiscously regardless of the serious
consequences to ﬁsh and wild life, public health
and the tourist attractions of our fair state.

Space does not permit a lengthy portrayal of
the vicious and disgraceful conditions which now
exist along such rivers as the Flint, the Grand,
the Saginaw, the Huron and the Kalamazoo. As
Michigan becomes more and more of an industrial
state and as our great centers of population
grow and multiply by leaps and bounds, the prob.
lem becomes more and more perplexing .and the
menace ever more ominous. The only bright

feature of the whole situation is that conditions I

have ‘bec'ome so serious that they are attracting
attention from those whom we trustﬁmay aid in
their solution. For instance, Govérnor Gross-
beck in his message to the legislature when that
body convened for its present session, declared:

“Little headway has been or is now being made
to stop the unnecessary pollution of our water
supp_ly—-—rivere, streams and lakes. Your com-_
mittees having charge of; this subject should, if
possible.pW' schemes! roc aura as;

 
  
 

  

   

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Smedley AhtiaPollutibnbllI (House Bill 385, Mg

105). "The purpose and him. of the mm is cor-n

telnly commendable. Its provisions seem fair,
reasonable and statesinanllke.‘ Its enforcement

would be placed in the Department of Conserva- .'

tion, doing away with the present overlapping
of jurisdiction of the Department of Conserva-
tion, the Department of Public Helath and the
Attorney General’s Department.

We shall watch developments on this legisla-
tion with interest, and earnestly commend the
Smedley bill to the careful consideration of the
kmembers of the Legislature and of our readers.

 

STICKING TOGETHER OR BEING STUCK‘
“ HE mills of the Gods grind slowly, but they
grind exceedingly small." Farmers are the
most conservative class ‘of people on earth,
but certainly it cannot be said that they are un-
progressive. They are not only adopting better
methods of individual production, but they are
learning to work together for the solution of
their common problems in a measure totally'un-
dreamed of by the farmers of yesterday.

A casein point is the way in which the steer
feeders and dairymen got together when the so-
called Espie bill was attracting so much consider-
ation and discussion before the Senate Committee
on Agriculture recently. This measure, intro-
duced by Rep. John Espie of Eagle, would have
prevented the importation of any untested cattle.
including feeding steers, into any county where
bovine tuberculosis eradication work was being
carried on. '

The bill had the strong backing of the' dairy
interests of the state, which desired protection
of their herds from possible infection. which
might be brought in through untested feeding
stock. With this support it passed the House
by a strong majority and went to the Senate, but
the steer feeders saw practical difﬁculties in car-
rying out the provisions of this bill on a com-
mercial scale, so they arranged for a big hearing
to be held before the Senate committee and plan-
ned to bring in a large delegation of steer feeders
and register vigorous protest.

However, it appeared to some farm leaders that
such plans could only lead to a jam and a.
wrangle which would confuse the Senate com-
mittee and make it appear to the city members
that the farmers were divided and did not know
what they wanted. With this thought in mind,
a conference Was held on the night preceding
the public hearing, and after both sides had ex—
plained their position, a committee was appointed
which reached a satisfactory compromise and
submitted it at the public hearing the next morn-
ing. By so doing the feeders and dairymen have
set a splendid precedent in real agricultural co-
operation.

When farmers learn to think individually and
yet act collectively through their organizations
and abide by the decision of the majority it will
be the dawn of a new day in rural life. Agricul-
ture can never be placed on a plane of equality
with other industries until farmers are effec-
tively organized so that they may have a united
voice in halls of legislation and whenever their
interests are at stake.

 

FARMERS’ LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
FARM organizations in California, including
* the State Grange, Farm Bureau Federation,
Farmers’ Union, Farm Legislative Commit~
tee and marketing organizations are united in a
statement that public utilities owned by cities
shall be taxed, and that issuance of all tax-free
securities shall be. prohibited.
These two propositions are perfectly logical
when it is considered that cities operating public

'1rtilities issue tax-free securities with which to

construct the some. thus exempting large proper—
ties from taxation. and ﬁt the same time enabling
large ﬁnancial interests to escape their federal in-
come taxes.

Tax-free, city—owned utilities built with issues
of tax-free securities create a privileged condition
for dwellers in cities and cast a double burden
upon the owners of the farms that is arbitrgry,
unjust and absolutely unfair in its op'eratlSns,

'The Petaluma Argus, chempionlng sgrlculture’s

major legislative program. says, editorially:
“Those who evade this state tax live almost

(entirely in our cities. The amount of this tax.

now being shifted upon the backs of those who
live outside the larger cities, especially upon the
farming class, amounts to millions of dollars an-
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HOSPITAL
HEN we originally received the
advertisement from the above

» institution, from our advertis-
ing'representative in Ohio, we se-
cured his endorsement of the pro-
position before the advertising was
inserted in our columns. Then for
over a year, we carried this adver-
tising continuously and never hav-
ing a complaint, we did not further
qhestion it. '

Two months ago, however, a
reader questioned the advertising,
and we withdrew it from our col-
umns, pending an investigation,
which we are just bringing to a close,
and which we are pleased to state
not only gives this institution a clean
bill in our minds but shows, in fact,
that they are doing worthy work in
curtailing, at least, the ravages of
one of humanity’s most gruesome
scourges.

We make this statement based on
letters from more than a dozen
patients in the state of Michigan,
who have written us regarding their
experiences with the Indianapolis
Cancer Hospital, and who have With-
out exception, volunteered their testi-
monials of the service rendered by
this institution. ’ ,

Apparently all that the American
Medical Association has against this
institution is the fact that—they ad-
vertise their services, which We be-
lieve, if practised by all physicians,
would have a salutary effect on the
eﬂiclency of their methods.

We have always held the idea that
if doctors were forced to advertise
the number of cures or kills they
made, in competition with others ‘in
their same profession, who were bid-
ding for work, it would have a tend-
ency to improve the quality of their
service and be of genuine beneﬁt to
the public.

We don't mean for one moment
that we believe in all advertising
doctors, but we do believe that a
good doctor ought to advertise that
fact, and because he does will not
make him a poor doctor.

 

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AT LAST
famous ‘Spanish Prisoner"
I ' who for years has solicited the
sympathy, assistance and funds
, of people all over America, has at
I last landed in jail according to re-
‘ ports from Spain. And his name is
‘ "General" Ramon de Santa Clara.
Our readers will remember the ex-
! pose of this world wide fraud we
. published in the November 8th,
' 1924, issue of Tun Busnvsss Fm.
' You will remember how his scheme
1 was to write a letter to the intended
victim telling that he was imprisone
in Spain by bankruptcy and “ I be-
seech you to help me to obtain the
sum of 360,000 dollars I have in
America, being necessary to come
here to raise the seizure of my bag-
: gage, paying to the Registrar of the
. Court the expenses of my trial and
: recover my portmanteau containing
‘ a secret pocket where I have hidden
' two checks payable to bearer for
i that sum. As a reward I will give
up to you the third part, viz: 120,-
3 000 dollars.” He then stated he
‘ could not receive the letter in prison
'andaskthatitbedirectedto
friend whose name he gave, and con-
. eluded with “First of all answer by
cable, not by letter.”
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fall for the bait .but enough people
have been-victimized during the last
. ﬁfty years, it is declared, that he has
accumulated a comfortable fortune.
We heard of a man in Brook-
lyn, N. Y., who received one of these
letters and replied by cable. He had
considerable correspondence with the
“Pr‘snner” and ﬁnally went to Spain.
After spending most of his money he
received a check and the instructions
not to attempt to cash the check un-
til he heard further from them.
Shortly after landing he received the
following letter from the “Prisoner”:

“Dear Sir: The object of this
letter to you is to reveal the
whole affair which you came
here about. Being without
friends, to make our living we
thought of this method to save
us from the crisis we are in.

“The check we gave you is
without doubt a wet paper, like-
wise all the operation we made
has all been comedy, and so we
notify you so you won’t be fool-
ish and present the check to
cash it, for you are liable to ar-
rest‘for presenting a fﬂse docu-
ment. ,,

“In case our businessvpros-
pers we would return the money
you have given us with much
pleasure. We hope you may
prosper in business and make
your fortune. Just because the
world calls us Gentlemen of In-
dustry, don’t think for a minute
that we have no noble blood.
So permit us to mention again
that we hope you may gain your
fortune, and so, wishing you
goer‘speed in life, I am, sir,
yours truly, R.”

BALD FAOI‘S ABOUT BALDNESS

“Enclosed please ﬁnd circulars
about hair restorer, etc. Is this a
fake or are they reliable people and
responsible and will they return the
money as agreed it you receive no
beneﬁt from use of same?"

HAVE never heard of the Kos-

kott Laboratory of New York

City and have had no occasion to
investigate them, but after reading
their literature I would say that I
am skeptical of their proposition.
N You know 'and I know that for
ages scientists and medical men have
been searching the world over for
a treatment that would produce hair
on a bald head and the only way they
have found successful so far is to
purchase a wig.

, Some publications are full of ad—
vertisements of this nature while all
the time baldness is on the gain.

Not long ago I read an article by
a well known scientist and he de-
clared that the day was coming when
the human race would not have hair
at any time during their life. I have‘
heard many arguments on this mat-
ter and it seems that nearly every
scientist has his own solution as to
why people are becoming bald more
and more. I put the question to a
doctor who is rather bald himself
and he laughineg replied "Because
man is not a fur bearing animal”.
I think his answer is as good as any.

If the treatment offered by this
company is such a sure cure they
should be able to furnish you with
complete names and addresses of any
number of people throuth the
United States, many of them in Mich-
igan or in near states who had
used their treat I t and tell you in
glowing terms \. at they thought of
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TUBERCULOSIS
National Vigilance Committee
has issued a bulletin regarding
John Hamberg at Coeur d’ .
Alene, Idaho, who is advertising
“th Sin" at $3 a buttle with the
sta ment. “Tuberculosis bacilli de-
stroyed in six days.” The bulletin
states that some periodicals have ac-
cepted this advertising » because the
word “Tip Sin" has been registered
Atten-
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tration of a trademark carries with
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THINK I can be here this afternoon.”

Alan said.
“Would two—thirty suit you?"

"As well as any other time.”

“Let’s say two-thirty, then," Spearman
turned and noted the hour almost solicit-
ously among the scrawled appointments
on his desk pad; straightening, after this
act of dismissal, he walked with them to
the door, his, hand on Sherrill’s shoulder.

“Circumstances have put us—Mr. Sher—
rill and myself—in a. very difficult posi-
tion, Conrad,” he remarked. "We want
much to be fair to all concerned—”

He did not ﬁnish the sentence, but
halted at the door. Sherrill went out,
and Alan followed him; exasperation—
half outrage yet half admiration—at
Spearman’s bearing, held Alan speechless.
The blood rushed hotly to his skin as the
door closed behind them, his hands
clenched , and he turned back to the
closed door; then he checked himself and
followed Sherrill, who, obviously to Alan’s
excitement, led the way to the door which
bore Corvet’s name. He opened it, dis-
closmg an empty room, somewhat larger
than Spearman’s and similar to it, except
that it lacked the marks of constant use.
It was plain that, since Spearman had
chosen to put off discussion of Alan’s
status, Sherrill did not know what next
to do; he stood an instant in thought,
then, contenting himself with inviting
Alan to lunch, he excused himself to re—
turn to his ofﬁce. When he had gone,
closing the door behind him, Alan began
to pace swiftly up and down the room.

What had just passed had left him
still breathless; he felt bewildered. If
every movement of Spearman’s great,
handsome body had not recalled to him
their struggle of the night before—if,
as Spearman’s hand rested cordially on
Sherrill’s shoulder, Alan had not seemed
to feel again that big hand at his throat
-—-he would almost have been ready to
believe that this was not the man who he
had fought. But he could not doubt
that; he had recognized Spearman be-
yond question. And Spearman had
recognized him——he was sure of that; he
could not for an instant doubt it; Spear-
man had known it was Alan whom he
had fought in Corvet’s house even before
Sherrill had brought them

together. Was
there not further proof of that in Spear-
man’s subsequent manner toward him?

For what was all this cordiality except
deﬁance? Undoubtedly Spearman had
acted just as he had to show how undis—
turbed he was, how different he might
be to any accusation Alan could make.
Not having told Sherrill of the encounter
in the housw—not having told any one
else——Alan could not tell it now, after
Sherrill had informed him that Spear-
man opposed his accession to Coi‘vct’s
estate; or, at least, he could not tell who
the man was. In the face of Spearman’s
manner toward him to-day, Sherrill would
not believe.‘ If Spearman denied it—and
his story of his return to town that
morning made it perfectly certain that he
would deny it—it would be only Alan’s
word against Spearman’s—the word of a.
stranger unknown to Sherrill except by
Alan’s own account of himself and the
inferences from Corvet‘s acts. There
could be no risk to Spearman in that:
he had nothing to fear if Alan blurted
an accusation against him. Spearman,
perhaps, even wanted him to do that-—
hoped he would do it. Nothing could more
discredit Alan than such an unsustain—
able accusatlon against the partner who
was opposing Alan’s taking his father's
place. For it had been plain that Spear-
man dominated Sherrill, and that Sher-
rill felt conﬁdence in and admiration
toward him.

Alan grew hot with the realization
that, in the interview just passed, Spear-
man had also dominated him. He had
been unable to ﬁnd anything adequate to
do, anything adequate to answer, in 01)-
position to this man more than ﬁfteen
years older than himself and having a.
lifelong experience in dealing with all
kinds of men. He would not yield to
Spearman like that again; it was the be-
wilderment of his recognition of Spear-
man that had made him do it. Alan
stopped his pacing and flung himself down
in the leather desk—chair which had been
Corvet’s. He could. hear, at intervals,
Speanman’s heavy, genial voice address-
ing the ship men in his ofﬁce :«its‘ tones——
half of comradship, half of command—
told only too plainly his dominance over
those men also, -.-He heard Spearman‘s
ofﬁce door open and some of the men go
out; after a. time it opened again. and
the rest went out.. ,He heard Spearman’s
voice in the outer ofﬁce. then he heard
it again as Spearman returned alone into
his private ofﬁce. 

. There was :a telephone upon Corvet's
desk which undoubtedly connected with
the switchboard-in the general Ofﬁce-
Alan picked up, thereceiver and asked for
"Mr. “Spearmint.” .
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denly again the harsh voice of the man
who had called down curses upon “Ben”
and on men “in Hell” in Corvet’s library.

Alan sat back in his chair, smiling a
little. It had not been for him, then-'—
that pretense of an almost mocking cordi—
allty; Spearman was not trying to de-
ceive or to inﬂuence Alan by that. It
had been merely for Sherrill’s beneﬁt; or,
rather, it had been because, in Sherrill's
presence, this had been the most effective
weapon against Alan which Spearman
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not,\ deny to Alan his identity with the

man whom Alan had fought; as yet Alan‘
did not know which Spearman would do;
but, at least, between themselves there
was to be no pretense about the antagon-
ism, the opposition they felt toward one
another.

Little prickling thrills of excitement
were leaping through Alan, as he got up
and moved about the room again. The
room was a corner, and there were two
windows, One looking to the east over
the white and blue expanse of the harbor
and the lake; the other showing the roofs
and chimneys, the towers and domes of
Chicago, reaching away block after block,
mile after mile to the south and west,
till they dimmed and blurred in the
brown haze of the, sunlit smoke. Power
and possessionwboth far exceeding Alan’s
most extravagant dream—“were promised
him by those papers which Sherrill had
show him. When he had read down the
list of those properties, he had had no
more feeling that such things could be
his than he had had at first that Corvet’s
house could be his—until he had heard
the intruder moving in that house. And
now it was the sense that another was
going to make him ﬁght for those prop-
erties that was bringing him to the real-
ization of his new power. He “had”
something on that man—on Spearman.
He did not know what that thing was;
no stretch of his thought, nothing that
he knew about himself or others, could
tell him; but, at sight of him, in the dark
of Corvet’s house, Spearman had cried
out in horror, he had screamed at him the
name of a. sunken ship, and in terror had
hurled his electric torch. It was true.
Spearman’s terror had not been at Alan
Conrad; it had been because Spearman
had mistaken him for some one else—for
a ghost. But, after learning that Alan
was not a ghost, Spearman’s attitude had
not very greatly changed; he had fought.
he had been willing to kill rather than
to be caught there.

Alan thought an instant; he would
make sure he still “had” that something
on Spearman and would learn how far
it went. He took up the receiver and
asked for Spearman again.

Again the voice answered—“Yes.”

“I don’t care whether you’re busy,"
Alan said evenly. “I think you and I
had better have a talk before we meet
with Mr. Sherrill this afternoon. I am
here in Mr. Corvet’s office now and will
be here for half an hour; then I’m going
out.”

Spearman made no reply but again
hung up the receiver. Alan sat waiting,
his watch upon the desk before him—
tense, expectant, with ﬂushes of hot and
cold passing over him.‘ Ten minutes
passed; then twenty. The telephone

' under Corvet’s desk buzzed.

“Mr. Spearman says he will give you
ﬁve minutes now,‘ the switchboard girl
said.

Alan breathed deep with relief; Spear-
man had wanted to refuse to see him—
but he had not. refused; he had sent for
him within the time Alan had appointed
and after waiting until just before it ex-
pired.

Alan put his watch back into his pocket
and., crossing to the other ofﬁce, found
Spearman alone. There was no pretense
of courtesy now in Spearman’s manner:
he sat motionless at his desk, his bold
eyes ﬁxed on Alan intently. Alan closed
the door behind him and advanced to-
ward the desk.

“I thought we'd better have some ex-
planation,” he said, “about our meeting
last night.” ' ,7

“Our meeting?" ‘Spearman repeated;
his eyes had narrowed watchfully.

“You told Mr. Sherrill that you were
in Duluth and that you arrived home in
Chicago only this morning. Of course you
don’t mean to stick to that story with
me?)’ .

“What are you 'talking about?" Spear-
man demanded. .. r

“Of course, I know exactly where you
were a part of last evening; and you
know that I know. I only want to know
what explanation you have, to offer.

'Spearman leaned forward. “Talk sense
and talk it quick, if you have anything
to say to me!" ' 4

"I haven’t ~told. Mr. Sherrill that 'I
found you at Corvet’s house“ last night:
but. I don't "Wont .you to doubt for a
minute that I know youT-and about your
damning ‘of Benjamin Cor-vet and your
out " ﬂag the Miwaka!”

  
 
   

 
      

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Contributions Invited—Questions .Answered

ALFALFA

OLKJS are beginning to plan on

sowing alfalfa. The idea of this

article is not to condemn the
methods of others or paint a picture,
overdrawn as to the place, of the
master legume crop of the farm.

Throughout the farming world
theory has been raised “raise alfal—
fa" and great steps have been taken
toward the goal. ,

A great many failures have taken
place among those who tried to grow
it, and a fair average at successes has
also been noted and every failure or
success has had its underlying cause.

These causes have been deter—
mined and While the crest has not
been gained we know enough about
the essentials of growing it that any-
one anywhere in Michigan can grow
it if he has the following things at
his command. First, a drained piece
of soil (because'alfalfa will not grow
in water) the richer the soil the
better the growth, with alfalfa as any
other crop. Second, a limed soil or
a natural sweet soil. Third, a solid,
well-worked seed bed. Fourth, plen—
ty of inoculation with nodule form-
ing bacteria. Fifth, Grimm or hardy
northern grown seed. Much has
been said about how to sow alfalfa
and when you- sum it all up, it does
best sowed as a crop, and not as.a
catching seed in some other grain
as in nearly every case the protecting
crop becomes a robber and limits the
growth of the alfalfa plant, although
some good stands have been obtained
that way. .

The best ground for alfalfa 1s a
rich sandy loam, but it will grow
good on a heavy clay loam but as a
rule the second cutting is not as rank
as on the lighter loam.

If your ground is sour you must
lime it and there is no way of get-
ting around it. Let me say if you
have plenty of manure and humus as
you will ﬁnd in an old garden alfalfa
will grow there even if it has not
been limed and many times people
think if they can grow it in the gar-
den they can grow it in a ﬁeld and
in every case they are doomed to dls-
appointment. But the farmer as a
rule is from Missouri and will try a.
stunt like this to satisfy himself.

How much lime shall I use? is the
question of most people. That de—
pends [on the section in which you
live, but in any case not less than
2 tons of ground limestone per acre
and your success will be much better
if you use from three to ﬁve tons
of the ground limestone.

If you are not convinced of this
sow a strip with tWo tons, one with
4 or 5 tons along side of each other
and watch the crop each year and it
will tell you the story far better than
it can be put on paper. Lime should
be sown as long before sowing the
seed as conditions will permit. In
most cases where land is plowed in
the fall lime should be sowed as
early as possible the following spring
and well harrowed in the soil as a.
lime particle must be brought in con—
tact with a soil particle in order to
neutralize it, so the early application
with frequent harrowing until seed—
ing time is the best. This frequent
harowing retains the moisture and
nitrifies the humus in the soil so
when the seed is sown it springs up
like magic even though it is seeded
during a drouth.

This frequent harrowing and early
plowing and liming is the big augur
in raising the crop. From June to

the later part of August is the ideal

time for seeding although some good
stands have been grown by sowing in
the early spring and as late as the
later part of September, but they are
the exception rather than the rule.
Eight to twelve pounds of good
Grimm or northern grown common
seed is enough according to how you
sow—with a seed drill or broadcast
and sow the seed as shallow as it can

. be sowed and yet be covered. -Many
a. good prospect has been ruined by?

getting the seed, sown too deep.
Some times a. dashing rain, such as
we get at this time,of the summer.
will cover the little plants up with
soil aftermthey have sprouted and

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crops practically spoiled. This .may
not happen'as bad on sandy or grav-

- elly soil as on the heavy clay soil of

this section as it usually crusts after
a hard rain. We have sown alfalfa
on Saturday, July 4th and on 'Mon—
day, July 6th it would be up. That
doesn’t seem possible, but it is a fact.
And by all means don't forget to in-
oculate the seed with nodule forming
bacteria as all of the previous steps
are practically worthless unless you
do this and the cost is so small that
you can not afford not to do it.
Twenty—ﬁve cents will buy enough to
treat one bushel of seed but one can
use two, or three bottles for one bush-
el. You. can get it of your county
agent or the M. A. C. We generally
use three to four bottles per bushel
as you can not get too many of these
little organisms in your soil and if
you sow broadcast lots of them are
generally killed by'the sunlight be-
fore the seed gets covered.

The old method of inoculation by
taking soil from one ﬁeld to the
other has been done away with, and
by using the pure bacteria cultures
it is done so much more easily and
efﬁciently.

There is one fact about alfalfa that

. one does not hear about and few peo-

ple have thought of it. Its roots pen—
etrate in many cases 20 to 40 feet
deep and it derives lots of its chem-
ical food from these depths and
stores them in the plant tissues of
its make-up, thus rooting 10 to 20
times deeper than any other crop on
the farm and reaches a food supply
that is reached by no other farm
crop. It also produces two or three
times as much hay as the other mem—
bers of the clover family and runs as
high as 60 per cent protein, which is
15 per cent more than the clovers or
vetch, making it by far the best for—
age for dairy cows. It, like its other
relatives of the clover family takes
when the bacteria is working 66 per
cent or two-thirds of the nitrogen it
uses from the air. It is a heavy
feeder of lime, phosphorus and pot
ash, in fact one of the heaviest of
the farm crops and where a person
can do it, an application of from 300
to 500 pounds of acid phosphate can
be used to a big advantage.

A top dressing of stable manure or
ﬁne rotted manure of any kind ap-
plied real early or just before seed-
ing is of great beneﬁt. Though one
gets extra trouble from weeds by so
doing it is one of the factors in get—
ting a good seeding.

We can sum this article up as fol—
lows: - Plow your ground early in the
fall before if possible. Lime early
with from 3 to 5 tons of ground
limestone per acre. Harrow the
ground shallow and often. Sow with
Grimm without nurse crop from June
to September 1st. Be sure to in—
oculate seed with plenty of culture.
Plant seed shallow. Manure if. pos—
sible as top dressing. Use 300 to
500 pounds of acid phophate per
acre if possible. You may think that
this is too costly and causes too much
trouble to get a good stand but this
is what happened in our owu experi-
ence, we being the ﬁrst to raise al-
falfa in this section. Our soil is a
clay loam covered originally with
beech, maple, white wood and wal-
nut. Folks said that we could not
raise alfalfa on the land and I want
to tell you what we did on a one and
three—quarter acre plot of land. This
one and three-quarter acres 'was a
neck of a ﬁeld caused by taking out
a building site and orchard. It had
been farmed with the rest of the ﬁeld
for years. I plowed this ground
right after oat planting having ma-
nured it rather heavy throughout the
spring. It was a June grass sod.
After it was plowed I put on ten tons
of ﬁne limestone divided into three
strips of three tons, four and a half
tons and six tons per acre, running
lengthwise of the lot. Then I sowed
1,000 pounds, Of 16 per cent acid
«phosphate on the lot and top dressed
it again with manure. I kept it har-
rowed until July 17th and I sowed it

‘with 22 pounds or Grimm seed inocu-

lated with two bottles of culture.
using a grass seed drill. The lime
cost $40.00,.acid phosphate $18.00,
and _,c.ulture cost, $22.60,
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* girls and boys: Hurrahfor
the contests, and hurrah for the
girls and boys who keep me so
every time we have one! I am
‘_ happier than when surrounded
, caps of letters from the members
i the Children's Hour, and I am
 happy now because the letters
re piled so high around me that I
fan hardly see over them—and more
one in every mail.

:3, The judging on our motto, colors
nd pin contest has been concluded
d the prizes are being forwarded.
_ The motto ﬁnally chosen is “Do
.our Best" and was submitted by
thel Fay Sharp, of Akron. The
_’" and best motto, acording to the
rdges was “Never Say Fail”. Odeal
a vassem, of Auburn, wins second
prize for sending it in.

The popular color combination
was blue and gold, and Anna Eliza-
beth Smella, of Standish gave the
best reasons for using these colors
0 ﬁrst prize went to her. She said
'lue means loyalty and gold happi-
ess. Second prize on colors went
o Violet Luepnitz, of Allendale.

, First prize for the suggestion as
j” the'design to have on our pin was
warded to Anna Bliss, of Bancroft,
and Lola C. D. Ewald, of Unionville,
 second.

, Let’s stop and consider our motto
and colors more fully. They are:

Do Your Best
Blue and Gold

Stop and think what the three
words, “Do Your Best" can mean.
If you will do your best you are
bound to be a success in this world.
And the colors, blue and gold, loyal-
ty and happiness. Loyal to your
parents, your friends, your associ-
ates, your club, your country and its

   
   

explains itself.

We hope to nave the pins soon, but
do not get impatient because I want
all of you to have one and ‘wear it
proudly, and I will let you know as
soon as I receive them—UNCLE

PCs. You have noticed that I did
not tell you what is to appear on our
pin. That’s to be a surprise—U. N.|

H OUR GIRLS AND BOYS
 "Dear Uncle Nedz—I am a new writer
who wants to join your merry band. I
on a girl age thirteen and I am in the
"eighth grade at Albion Junior High
School. My father carries your maga-
line to all the farmers on route 4 and has
Tbeen doing it for ever thirteen years.

'v My chief pleasure is to go with him on
a bright, sunny morning. We have been
r ving some ﬁne weather here in Albion
 every Albion citizen hopes that it
 stay for a good long visit.

f We have had a "Dollar Day” here and
 sheets were terribly crowded.

 I am sending what I think will be a.
‘ u ~ motto, name and color or colors for
u club. Here they are: The motto—
eiry to do our best and our faithful
3.: r does the rest. The name——Wllling
T-Vorkers Own Hour. The colors—Our
Quntry’s colors, red, white and blue, most
 -. in every hue. I am also sending
-'- a poem I wrote not long ago. Here
1toes!
 March

if and mellow
‘Bring us days that l
' To in are so dear,

fBring u birds that
, Sing sweet songs,
 on days that

You lusty fellow,
Your voice is rough

But your heart is mellow.

There! Nowlthinklhaveeaiduough.
so with love to you and the boys and
girls I urn—Dorothy Riggs, R. F. D. No.
. Box 11, Albion, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned :—As I have never
written before I decided to do it now.
1' have just ﬁnished the question contest.
send like it so well that I wish there were
ignore questions to answer. I havealwayﬂ
 interested in the Children's page, and
more read the letters in every issue mt
‘rpibout three years. My father likes the
finer-and has taken it for as long as I
“I! remember. ' ,,

I will describe myself. I am about ﬁve»

  

  

   
    

   

r us brown eyes and Weigh 118 lbs.
was ﬁfteen years old last month. My
day is between the 15th and 19th

of February. The one thatst ,
= rrect date will receive a letter tram

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and four inches high, have brown“

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ponded through mail with a. girl in South
Dakota. But she has not answered my
last letter and I did not write again.

Have you seen any robins yet Uncle
Ned? I haven't, but I heard one chirping
the other morning before I got up, and
it certainly sounded good to’ hear one
once more. I think it must be a sign of
spring, don’t you?

I had ought to be at school today. But
don't you think I am making good use
of my time? I am in the tenth and
eleventh grades at school. We have good
times at school I can tell you. We have
chapel every Wednesday morning, it lasts
about a half hour. We had our last
basket-ball game last Tuesday night, for
this season. I like awfully well to see a
good game. Did you ever play? I wish
we might have a story contest sometime,
as I like to write stories. Last year in
our English class-we often had to write
long story themes. Well I must close.
I hope to see my letter in print, and I
also hope I found the correct answers
in the question contest. With love to all.
—-Lili Perkins, R4, Stanton, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I have been a silenb
reader of the M. B. F. for three or four
years, and have never written to you.
I see quite a few of the writer’s are ex-
pressing their opinions on the question,

“Shall we have pins, motto, colors and

contests?” My opinion is that we should
vote for a motto and colors. Then we
could have contests and the ﬁrst time one
wins he becomes a member of “The Chil-
dren's Hour," and gets a pin and member-
ship card. Then if he wins after that he
can be awarded with a prize. 1 think it
would also be nice to let the members
send in poems, stories and their opinion
on certain things.

I enjoy reading the M. B. F. very much



Land have also enjoyed working the Cross-

word Puzzles. Muriel Frey must be quite
a cross-word composer. I think Uncle
Ned should be president, secretary and
treasurer for “The Children’s Hour.”

Well, I will close and leave room for
the other letters and hoping we have a
contest soon. Will Sign, “A new-writer”,
—Harriett Bennett, Durand, Michigan.

P. S.——-I would like to hear from any
of the writers.

My Dear Uncle Nedz—I received your
letter the past week, and was surely glad
that you were interested enough. in me,
as to send me such a loving letter. Yes,
indeed, I always try again. I believe it
is my most practiced motto.

Say I know something that would make
our department more interesting. Can
you. and the cousins guess what it’ is?
Oh! I’m not going to tell you until away
to the end of my letter.

Uncle Ned, it surely is a. shame to
bother you to read my letters so often,
but you know I live in the country, and
this is about the only amusement I have
and I’m sure there couldn’t be any better.
How about it “kids?” .

Uncle Ned, I’m not going to school this
year, so I can’t tell you about my present
school work. I graduated from the 8th
grade last June, and I had the highest
average in my school and second highest
in the township. I want to take up a.
business course next- year, so probably
I'll typewrite you a letter. Last May
I took ﬁrst place in a Declamatory Con-
test, my topic being “The Open Door." I
was supposed to get a gold medal but
have never received it yet.

The only pet I have now is a little
tabby cat named “Skeezix.” Inst fall I
had a pet pig named "Peggy". but I sold
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WHY THE PRINCE OF WALES
RIDES A HORSE

EAR EDITOR: Owing to the

fact it was considerable of a

blizerd today I ﬁgured meybe I
could get into the court house and
pay thewait tax on my so-called au-
tobile, so I sunk in right after dinner
before them that had been waiting
all four noon had got back and sure
enough they was only two or three
ahead of me, for wich I was glad as
the couple of times I was there be-
fore they wasnt even standing room.

Now my autobile aint quite a ford
but when the young lady ﬁgured up
the tax I wished it was, for even her
being fair to middling good looking
didnt ease the pain when she said
$10 and 45c, which is only about a
$1 less than it was before the gas
tax was in acted. And I got to think-
ing that politicians are a darn site
better at putting new taxes on than
taking old ones off.

These same politicians bragged
a lot about the way they reduced tax-
es just before election, but come to
ﬁnd out they been holding out road
money from the county. for roads
wich the state was suposed to pay
most of, and so the county commis-
saries had to levi more road taxes to
ﬁx up the county roads and after all
the some total of taxes wich I paid
was higher than ever, wich only gees
to show that while ﬁgurs wont lye
how politicians will ﬁgur.

Now I havesome cousins over in
Ontario canada and they poke fun
at us here in the stated because we
buy and pay taxes on 160 acres of
land and 4 score of it is in the road
and dont do us no good. - It seen!
up there they only own to the fence
and the road is extra'and belongs to
the government wich I is why it is
called the kings high way. But that
never bothered me any because 15‘
score of our land is better than 160
of theirs wich is only good for peas,
turnips and barley.

When I got home-I hunted up my
tax reseats and sorted out the state
county and twp road taxes, also the
covert taxes and ﬁgured up how
much it.would all come to in 20

yrs, and it come to me all at once.

that a hole lot more than 4 acers of
my place would be in the road. But

‘ that may be all right, as "if we“ keep

on the way we been we will be en the
road more than wears on the farm.
'* Wich reminds me of the saying

   
   

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And speaking of them Canuck cou—
sins, they dont get far joking me
about American ways and institu-
tions as long as we aint got any
prince of Wails falling often a horse
every little while. He is reported to
of said that American girls is great
to dance with. But being a diploma-
tic young chap he refrained from
saying that when it came to ones
he would ruther fall off the nglish
kind. I aint never really heard a

orse laugh, although I have heard

.. 1- ts of folks mention it, but I bet if

the prince of Walls had gone down

into the cow country of the S. W. all

the bronchos would of laughed.

But after all it probly is good prac-
tis for the prince because some day
he will be king and the way the king
business has been lately they have to
abdicate in a hurry, and if a throne
is as easy to get of! as a horse he
will be able to manage all right.

I see by the papers that while the
prince was in this state he called on
Henry Ford and probly Henry knew
about his poor luck with horses, and
thought he ought to have something
he could ride without falling, off.
Anyway he took him down to the
factory and they made him a brand
new ford in 1-6 minutes wich shows
they took special pains with it, and
Henry had it nickel plated so he
could tell wich it was after he had
parked it in a crowded street. If
Henry bought him a licents to go
with it it was a real generaous pres-
out.

But I bet you when the prince gets
back to England he will go on riding
a horse because they aint no wait tax
on a horse and it dont have to wear
a small billboard on its nose and tall
with a big number to show that the
licents is paid. And another thing
with a horse he can just turn it loose
to eat grass in the palace yard in-
stead of driving all over Iondon
looking for a place to park. Then
too a horse dont stand long enough
in one place to get pinched for vilat-
ing the‘parking ordnance.

Besides that the prince has a lot of
dignity to maintain, and falling on
a horse is a deal more digniﬁed than
changing a ﬂat tire, or getting out
to crank it when the starter jams on
a down town corner. And it would-
n’t ', be becoming the dignity of a
prince to run out of gas and carry
contain a can from the next ﬁlling

station and have to put' up a ‘81 de-
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hens. Hal Hal, Shem-wee going to whip
me but I- told her I was “Too Big”. I
also told her I'd work hard all day. Ha!
Ha! Well couins I guess I have made
you wait long enough. Yourknow it- would
be- more interesting if we knew what
Uncle Ned looked like, so pleas. Uncle

Ned, just publish your picture once. Let's ‘

make him shall we cousins?

'As to selecting a motto and the pin and
colors for the contest ending February
28th I think a good motto would be.
"Let’s Try Again.” The letters L. T. and
A. could be on the pin. It could have a
light blue ﬁeld with a circle of gold
around the edge, and the letters white.
Then our pin would be gold, white and
blue. Wouldn't that be nia?

Well I guess I will stop or Mr. W. B.
will surely choke, and then Uncle N
would have to build on addition on
paper, so that he can publish our letters.
From your loving niece—Kathryn Paul.
(age 14), Waucedah, Mich.

Dear Uncle Ned:——Here I come again
It doesn’t seem long since I wrote but it
surely has been quite a while. Well as
I see by the M. B. F. that the children
are all suggesting a motto, name and
colors I think I will begin to suggest also.
I suggest blue and gold as colors for the
name I think that “The Willing Workers
of America” would be nice. And for
a motto I think that "Work and Win"
is good. Well I guess I will describe
myself. I am about 5 feet 3 inches tall.
have blonde hair and blue eyes, and I an
15 years old and in the 8th grade at
school. Well, Uncle Ned, did you say
that we were going to have another con-
test? I thought I heard you say so ever
the wires. Ha! Ha!. I hope so because
I worked all of the others. Well I hope
if my letter hits the waste basket that
it will hit so hard that it will topple over
and spill my letter and it will crawl up
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take Ha! Ha! That would be a good

joke on Uncle Ned, wouldn’t it? I think
it would be nice to have a story writing
contest although I can't write a story
"worth reading to the dogs." But I like
to read the other stories. Well, I guess
I will close with a few riddles: What is
it that goes along on the road with its
head on the ground? What is it that goes
along with its tongue hanging out? Hop-
ing to have some of the cousins answer
these I will close—Florence Coleman.
Ithaca. Michigan.

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—Having seen my
letter in the last issue of the M. B. F.
Iamgolngtotrymyluckagain. I’ve
got my nerve, coming so often haven't I?
I want to enter that contest too. Our
motto could be "Scatter sunshine all day

long.” That would be quite good wouldn't ,

it Uncle Ned? That is an original motto
of my make-up. The colors of purple
and gold would be real pretty, or we
could have gold and old rose. I think
that the clock on the heading of the Chil-
dren's Hour would be a good design for
the button. We could have ‘The Child-
ren's hour printed above the design if
there was room.

The Eastern Star of Omer are going
to have a play entitled “Old Maids Gon-
vention". There are about twmty per-
sensinltsolsuppoeethatitwillbereal
good. We are giong. The Seniors of our
school are going to give a play too.
The name of it is "Safety Last”.

Did you all get lots of valentines on
February 14? I got about ten. How do
you like to be editor of a children's page
Uncle Ned? Nothing would suit me bet-
ter. unless it was being president of the
United States, Ha! Ha!

How many can guess this riddle?
“Why was Moses the most wickedest man
living? I will tell you the answer when
Iwriteagain. lamenclosingapoeln
called “Cross-Word lezlea" I composed
it. Wlth best wishes to all, I remain.
your triads—Lillian Kent, (age 1%).
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Dear Uncle Nedz—I have never writ-
ten to the Children‘s Hour below but I
hope that will not count ass-ms: me in
the present contest It, the contest I
meamiswhatreallyinducedmetowrita
mummstattemptbutlhomto
bevery acﬂveinhelpingourclubinthe
future, if the waste-paper basket keep.
out of the way. Our family has not
taken the paper long. but everyone started
in new once, didn't they Uncle Ned?

I think the letters from the boys and
girls are very interesting. 1er Lillian
Kent, endIamgoingtowrttetoher.

As everyone else describe. theirselves.
I suppose I’d better to it mo. I am ﬁve
feet two inches tall, in the tenth grade.
have grayish blue eyes, and shingled.
bobbed hair. I do not live on a farm.
butIhavehadamplewaonfknowing
about farm life, so I am not entirely out
of it all. ' v » -

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looking "a product as will the large

seeds. This statement is true 'shouéd ' i .

all ' conditions [or development a

ideal and there be no adverse condi-

‘tions. The latter point is whatjwe    users say

must consider in preparing .tor our Does aRlvex—side Cord last as long as any tire? Is it as

harvest. EPOd a tire is. any tire made? Is it as well made as a "APRifOTRivgmide Cords
With this in mind we would advise tgrecanbemade? Tens of thousands of users of Riverside 33:5.“l'523i'cﬁ‘vﬁﬁ “.23:

running the beans over a tanning I mes “8"?” enthus‘aSt‘CF‘ny—“YCS’” mountain roads. and they

mill a couple of times using coarse Just forget that our prices are low. Compare quality, gave never been onmygur.

Screens thus taking out all the small, “W‘Ce: mlleage—m’e for tgrc,  Riverside Cords stand {0:32:33 goggagcfv‘ivgsdu

undeveloped seeds and giving a more equal t9 the best. There is a big saving in price—and James A. Kape, '

the quality. mileage, servme is all that you get in any tire. Ca’cadc- Maryland

uniform, thrifty stand in the ﬁeld.
However, this is not all that can be How our low prices are made

accomplished while one is working Riverside tires cost as much as other tires to ma
- - . ke' "The Riverside

on F32); Big: giggience of this past “ 3805:1153? pizﬁrzlucrlg :gsfalﬁrickrubbea and labor. But you boughiilalst Summigt

season 1923—1924, every bean grow- less We are  1 w y. we”! .6 Dimes are 3° mUCh Efﬁe  3551’s mngl;
1 t 1' man and probably con- 1 ' e argest retailers oi: tires 1n the world. We at the “me time at}; an

er, e 6V8. O y ‘ d .  _sc 1 5,000 to 6,000 tires per day. Rivermde Tires are made gone. I tell my friends to

Sinner realizes the possible amage “  m the best factories—on our speciﬁcations, under our “"3. River"““ and 9“

git: Bngiihzrffggalgnfgém Bean Blight  ' .-.»i ' supervision. We know their quality. their gages? ggglth."

n . - ‘;:. . . . ,
Should the weather have continued  L: greater Protechon against Skidcking Danveﬂ- M83:-
as favorable toward disease as it was “1:;  . . Big heavy blocks of live rubber and extra thick
during the early and mid part of the I. . ‘ _  Bide studs and the husky ribs of Riverside cords
season the bean crop would have ' 9'31? the Slippery roads and are your greatest pm_ “smut-regal: cord 0,. my
been a sorry looking affair. As it “who,” agfm‘St Sklddmg- 33‘33311? {Efrli‘e‘i‘i
was many farmers were unable to ' ‘ lermde Cords are thus the safest tire, the most months, in use everyxday,
harvest anything from their bean ‘ gal-15f.”ny tire and the most economical tire you and “Mill has in it the
ﬁelds and many who did found blot- - can Wimbly buy. Why pay more? :Zgle‘a'lzlrlftf lgltlls Eh:
ches on their beans or a regular dark _ F 01‘ 55-years Ward’s have sold “Quality” goods 15.8. Robgins? '5'
looking sore. These are manifesta- only—With at deﬁnite “Money Back” guarantee_ Las Cruces, N. Mex.

tions in a small way of what might k The fellabI-hty of Montgomery Ward 8:, co, is
have been a real defeat and the wip- \\ beyond question. You can not buy
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ﬁelds. ‘
Since these two diseases live over‘ >
ESTABLISHED 1872

winter in the beans and bean straw, 7

let us be a little careful where the

next bean ﬁeld is located and don’t I I 

grow them on the same ﬁeld again, i p .

also begin to prepare for next year’s
 by    a   The Oldest Mail OrderHouse is Today the Most progressive

picking and throw out every bean .
with 33y sign of discolor on it. Thus Chmago Km” CitY St. Paul Portland, Ore Oakland Calif F t W h
0 y o 01' 

you see if you eliminate the disease
from your seed it is going to be much

later before it is attacked, if at all, , 

and then, the case will not be so sey- __  ..  ' MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER
ere. . ' ’ ' ' u .

Should the moisture, rains and . 5 The Farm Paper 0f Seerce"
dews, be just right this year With the ' g ' .r TELL
disease already present, it will be . .~ YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT IT
much worse, so if we take all pre—
cautions available we certainly can
give it a hard ﬁght. Again if we
take all precautions and the weather
is againstthe disease we have done
a lot to Wipe it out and thus make
for a greater prospect bean crop in
years to come.

Take out your insurance now by
giving the seed you will plant a very »
severe picking, discarding all dis- 1m . lspﬁglAfL eternally OFFEUI: 11/, h
' 1n , . .' , -
colored beans thus “9‘0ng out all a use“; regrets nukes.
apparent disease. This must be done to mvse logs fweur. _ You could rightfully expect to
before spring work begins because Batmn' 93c ‘l’ﬁlfsiasé‘al‘gzzl‘TEeZhem' Just my
most or us W111 be too busy to do It Our new Harness catalog with Similar bargains is
and Will be sent you FREE on rouuost.

the... rough.
So, let’s take out some insurance 31 '95 "P' 1’“ d‘m’“ 59‘"
\ere FOR OUR

by picking our seed beans! The  ‘
dividends returned will depend in a  ,BLEECATALQQ
measure upon the severity of pick. 0591: can MINNEAPOLIS, Mwwsson

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OUT RIGHT
By Anne Campbell

H .erything will come out right.
'Things will change. You'll see!
{Maybe I'm not happy quite,

~But I’m bound to be!

aybe all my childish dreams

‘ Vanished out of ’sight.
Troubles always end, it seems.
 Life turns out all right!

 
 
 

Everything will come out right!
When the clouds are black
Then I’m sure to see a light!
Luck is coming back.
When I'm bluest, then I know
‘ Next day will be bright.
Sorrow always has to go.
Life turns out all right!

Everything will come out right!
Heart of mine, be gay.

Though there’s not a star in sight,
Soon it will be day!

Soon the rosy light of dawn
Puts the dark to ﬂight.

Let’s be brave and carry on.
Life turns out all right!

(Copyright, 1924.)
FARM IS PLACE TO SEEK

HAPPINESS
T would seem that the subject of
’ city versus country had been

worn threadbare, but when I pick
up our local paper and see the long
list of auction sale notices and see the
headings “having decided to quit
farming” etc., I just can’t resist the
temptation to tell my experience as a
farmer’s wife in town. Most writers
put great stress on the fact that we
have free mail delivery, autos, radios,
etc., etc. To be sure we enjoy those
things but I think the things that
really count most are the little things
that make up our everyday life. We
didn’t decide to quit farming, the
Doctor decided it for us after John
had had a complete nervous break-
down caused from overwork. We
had worked farms on shares for eight
years; we started with absolutely
nothing and ended up with every-
thing in the line of stock and tools.
We had worked hard, too hard, and

- altho we always had enough to eat
and wear we thought we were “poor

- folks” because there never was much
money in our pocketbook.

When the sale was over we were
quite surprised to ﬁnd we had enough
to buy a small farm but as we had
been ordered off the farm why we
bought a Ford and moved to town.
I’ll have to admit that the ﬁrst six
months we were in town we thor—
oughly. enjoyed our “vacation”. John
was not able to work so we kept that
Ford busy, visited everyone we knew
for miles around and it didn’t matter
when we went or when we got home
for there were no cows or pigs, not
even a chicken waiting to be fed.
Then John got a “stand—up collar”
job and we settled down to be “city
folks”. Talk about life on the farm
being monotonous, there’s nothing

' more deadly monotonous than living
._ in town after the novelty wears off.
There’s more noise and excitement to
be sure, but it’s the same thing day
after day, the year round, and it’s
dust and dust and more dust. There’s
no milk cans or cream separator to
~ wash but the extra washing, ironing,
sweeping and dusting, trying to keep
' the house and children clean, more
, than made up for it. Hang a wash-
- 'lng out and then see clouds of dust
continually rolling off the street, and
e in the winter it’s the smoke and soot
of a dozen different chimneys that
will settle on it.

I seldom went any place except a

hurried trip to the store and I noticed
. the neighbors who had children were
tied‘down as much as I. The chil-
‘dren left the house for school at
’ eight ﬁfteen a. m., were home again
at eleven, left again at ﬁfteen‘to one
p. m. and were home at three. The
children are a constant worry in
f town. There’s nothing for them to
e do but play and no place to play ex-
cept in the house, a small yard and
. the street.

Before we went to town my boy

and girl were perfect chums but he
_ -soon found plenty of boys his own
_ ,age to play with and they didn’t want
“that kid” tagging along. She found
little girls to play With and they did-
n’t want “those horrid boys” around
so they drifted. apart. ' . _. 
2" We 'lived in theebetter, part of the
toWn, our neighbors ‘-.were' neither
‘ ich or" poor, just average well-to—do.

 
 

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step, right there on the farm
——and they moved back, to
stay, both happier and wiser.
Let us have the experiences
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The Farm Home ‘\
-A‘Department for the Women
Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR

EAR FOLKS: There are few families that have always lived 0n
the farm that do not, at some time, yearn to get away from what '
they call drudgery. They want to move to the city where there

is “big pay” and little work, where life is somewhat of a vacation. 1
Wish every member of such families could mad the letter by “A Farm:
er’s Wife” that appears on our page in this issue. Her family” "got
the fever” like many others and they tried the city, much to their
regret, because they found the “pot of gold” they thought was at the
end of the rainbow that rested in the city was really at their own door- '

W £444.,

Address letters: Mrs. Annlo Taylor. on" Tho Iuslnm Farmer. Mt. Clemens. Mlonluan.

   
   
 
 
  
  

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away from home. The men were at
work all day, came home for supper
and then went oﬂ down town. They
all thought I had an ideal husband
as he never went any where after
work unless he took the Ford and
we all went. Where did we go'.’ We
want out to that “small farm" we
Dough. econ after we moved to town
and just wandered around and plan-
ned what we would do‘ some day".

Uur limes move in a circle and I
found that city people live in such a
small circle while country people live
in a muclz larger circle and we get
a bigger, broader, cleaner view of
life. I’ve noticed since I've come
back to the farm that our neighbors
out here go more and are more active
mentally than Our city neighbors. The
clean, wholesome, cheerful feeling
shows through in spite of the con—
stant grumbling that “there’s no
money in farming”. While with peo-
ple in town there’s sort of a hopeless
longing underneath the smile, good
clothes and the general custom of
bragging about that “good job and
big pay”. A lot of country people
seem to feel its their duty to grumble
and appear dissatisﬁed with their life
while city people make a constant
effort to convince folks that they are
happy and satisﬁed. But to one who
understands human nature the truth
is, plainly visible underneath the
mask.

We soon found it is almost impos—
sible to save anything in town in
spite of that “big pay", with rent, gas
and electric light bills, even the daily
paper costs nearly three times as
much in town, being delivered by a
boy instead of the mail carier and
you have to buy every mouthful you
eat. I think that is what hurt me
most of all. When I would come
from the store or market and empty
my basket on the kitchen table, think
how much I paid for it and then
think how much I used to go out into
the garden on the farm, gather great
armsful of vegetables, select the very
best for the table and throw the rest
over to the pigs—well I didn’t know
whether to laugh or cry. I had to
plan and skimp in buying and skimp
in cooking in spite of John’s “big
pay”. I couldn’t afford to buy food
and then throw it in the garbage pail.

After four years, the house where
we lived was sold, we were asked to
move and there wasn’t an empty
house in town. I guess we were
about the happiest family in town for
we had to move out to our little
farm. We’ve no modern conven-
iences of any kind out here and we
are not getting rich but there’s no
rent, gas or electric bills to pay.
John will never come home at night
with the terrifying news that he’s
“lost his job”. I don’t need to get
my pocketbook and count the con-
tents forty times a week and skimp,
scheme and worry while planning the
meals; it don’t matter if there’s mon—
ey in the pocketbook or not, I simply
run down cellar or out in the garden.
No wonder our city friends make life

'a burden for us sometimes, they

know it’s true that we always have
lots of good things to eat on the
farm.

I have my chickens and garden to
look after, something worthwhile to
do. I don’t need to “dress up” and
walk around the block to get a little
outdoor exercise. When we go 'a'way
we must get back at chore time but
such a noisy, happy greeting comes

   
  

   
 

 
  

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“me.

When the boy comes home from
school he goes out to help Dad in—
stead of slouching down on the front
steps waiting for a neighbor boy to
come along and help think of some-
thing to do. The girl can practice
her music in piece and quiet, there’s
not a half dozen youngsters out in
front calling to “come on out” and
best of all they are chums once more.
If they are out of sight I don’t need
to worry, I know they are on the
farm some place, they won’t get run
over by a street car or truck and if
the baby’s dress is dirty sometimes
there’s no one going along the side'-
walk to see and criticize.

We have neighbors here who have
been to town and moved back. We
also have neighbors who are sick and
tired of farming and want to go to
town. I wish they could all go for
at least two years for I know they
would come back perfectly happy
and satisﬁed and convinced that the
farm is the place to live and be hap-
py ever after.—A Farmer’s Wife.

ICE CREAM
HE subject of ice cream may seem
untimely to some but it is more
easily made at this season and

we enjoy it as well now as in sum-

mer. We have served it several
times this month.

I know a number of housewives
who make ice cream simply by freez-
ing a raw mixture of eggs, sugar and
milk.

Here is my way: To 1 gallon of
milk use 2 eggs, 1% cups of sugar
and 6 heaping tablespoons of ﬂour
stirred to a smooth paste in part of
the milk.

Beat eggs well, add sugar and beat
again, pour in the milk and stir
until sugar is dissolved. Put in
double boiler and when boiling point
is reached stir in the ﬂour thicken-
ing and boil about 3 minutes. Cool,
ﬂavor and freeze. You will ﬁnd this
most creamy and delicious with no
taste of ﬂour.

I devise a double boiler by placing
some old piston rings in the bottom
of a large pan containing hot water.
In this I set the smaller pan of milk
and cover with a common kettle
cover.—B. O. R.

RE-POTTING HOUSE PLANTS
OUSE plants such as geraniums,
begonias, and ferns need oc-
casional re-potting. The top

edge and bottom of the old ball of
earth should be removed and fresh
soil used in reapotting. 'Always
place a piece of broken pot in the
bottom to aid in drainage. Do not
ﬁll the pot to more than a quarter
of an inch from the top.

 

OVEN TEMPERATURE IS VERY
IMPORTANT

E proper oven temperature is

an important consideration in

the successful preparation of "

food. Many a last minute failure
in a carefully prepared recipe is due
to too slow or too quick an oven.
Oven temperatures for various foods
suggested by the home economics
department at South Dakota State
College are as follows: L

V Custards and margarines require
a slow_.oven which" ranges in temper-
ature from. 250° to 350° F. Sponge
cake, angel .cake, bread, ginger

bread, plain cake and cookies are
.gbaked in a. moderate oven _with Ia;

 
  

{temperature Iotfrom, 3.50 9.. to 43009.,
i  notiﬁtquick‘cven “400 .tb ,
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PLANNING THE PLANTING

- EFORE starting the home vegeta-

ble garden, make a paper plan of

the area to be used and draw it
to scale. That is, make a map which
will show the size and‘shape, by us—
ing a constant unit such as one-
fourth of an inch or one-eighth of an
inch to a foot. A plan with a 12-inch
boundary would thus represent a gar-
den either 48 feet long or 96. Then
plan the space for each crop, and
keep in mind that the general tenden~
cy is to put rows or hills too close

together. Prevent this fault by al-

lowing plenty of room. If the garden
is large enough to warrant the use
of a wheel-hoe or horse cultivation,
it is particularly necessary to give
lots of room. And don’t put the to-
matbes where they were last year.
Also keep in mind the tendency. to
plant too much of a given crop. Rad-
ishes, for example, should/be planted
in small lots at intervals. 'One 'com-
paritively small row of Swiss'chard
is enough for any ordinary family,
particularly if it is harvested on the
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Keeping Sansago.—In answer to ers.
B's inquiry as to how to keep home-made
sausage, will say I have had very good
success by canning. Have been able to
have it the following summer at bar-
vest and threshing time.

First form into balls or patties, as for
table use or so they will slip through the
mouth of a two-quart fruit-jar, easily.
Put in frying pan and fry ‘until cooked
thru, pack in hot sterilized fruit cans,
until full, but not crowded, add a cup
of the hot drippings, seal tightly, as for
fruit, and turn can upside down and let
stand until thoroughly cold, so lard will
harden over top of meat, then store in
cellar. When wanted for use turn can
upside down in basin of hot water and
sausages will shake out easily. Simply
reheat in frying pan and they are ready
for table. I ﬁnd this very easy and suc-
cessful and a great lard saver.—-Mrs. E.
J. Osborn. , '

 

 

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Dance Etiquette.—-Formal or informal,
the ﬁrst duty of a man who has taken
a girl to a dance is to his hostess; ‘When
both have laid aside their wraps in their
respective dressing-rooms. the; hostess is
greeted. Thereafter things take their
natural course. If the girl’s brother has
taken her to the dance, he may relinquish
her to some other man friend who, comes
up, or if she has come witha maid, she
ﬁnds a girl friend or group of friends
whom she joins. Brothers do not as a
rule take their duties seriously enough
when they bring their sisters to a dance.
Sisters, on the other hand, are usually
satisﬁed to have them neglect these duties.
if some one else is willing to assume
them; and any sister is usually quite
willing to have her brother take in an-
other girl as a supper—partner—a matter
which should be settled early in the even-
ing—if she herself has been suitably pro-
vided for in this respect. In general the
man who takes a girl to a. dance assumes
certain responsibilities. He must not only
dance with her himself but must intro-
duce other partners to her. Nothing: is
ruder than for a man who has taken
a girl to a dance, to abandon her to her
own resources after a few fox-trots. and
retire to the smoking-room, unless it be
leaving her alone on the floor with an
"Excuse me” which does not excuse, to
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With God Nothing Shall Be Impossible.
Luke 1:37. 1

If any trouble seems ﬁxed beyond, your
control, put it into God’s hands. ‘If it
comes again into your hnind, put itiback
affirming, “God will perfect that EWhlch,
concerneth me.” Tremendous power lies
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A Stomach Tickler.——I have here .‘the '

most economical recipe for molasses cook-
ies that I have yet discovered and also
the one most suited to my taste. If one
follows directions closely the result will-be
delightful to the eye and a deep sat-is-
falction to the inner man. “ Ingredients
are; 1 cup sugar, 2 cups molarSSes._xL"‘.tea-

    
     
   
  
  
 
  
 
 

spoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla, or.  tea- '

  
 

sp’oon lemon. lz‘tea'spoon cinnamo

soda,1,loyelvqnp,,lard‘ ‘or 1 rounding 
butter, or). 2% cups your  2.5641: .15.;
monumental! and 8M Mimi
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that it mixeseas lyint , I
mixing well itmaybdneces’sary to add a
small amount of ﬂour but keep the dough
ail—soft as possible_to_handle_ well. Roll,
out, sprinkle with sugar and put a. raisin
or a nut “m'eﬁt in the 'centre .of each
cookie. , Bakein a moderate oven.

Ginger may be used instead of spices
and is usually, good with lemon ﬂavor.
-—B. O. R.

Braised Loin of Mutton.—~3 lbs, loin
mutton, 73 tablespoonfuls fat, 1 celery
stalk. $9 teaspoonful whole white peppers,
1 bunch sweet herbs, salt, pepper, and red
pepper to taste, 1 turnip, 1 carrot, 3
cloves, 2 sprigs parsley, 3 tablespoonfuls

 
   

' has); Axioms: 'There’s a lot in
the way ,“thank you: is said.

An‘oocasional well placed mirror adds
space and light to living room or hall.
$ t t

A pan full of dry warm oats poured
into a boy’s wet boots dries them out the
best of any known method.

II III.

A pan'orf ,water on the radiator or reg-
ister will give needed moisture in the air
of the room during the winter.

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The soil to; most potted plants should
be a good garden loam containing a little

 

ﬂour, 12 button mushrooms, 1 onion. sand, at little well-rotted stable.manure,
Remove bone from' mutton, rub in little avery little bone meal, and a little leaf
salt, pepper and red pepper mixed to- mold. ‘

gether; roll up and tie in neat roll with ~ * * *.

tape: cut up celery, onion, carrot and In preparing macaroni. a hearty cold
turnip, and lay them at bottom of sauce- weather < dish, all stickiness should ‘ be
pan with herbs and parsley; lay mutton washed away by rinsing after cooking.
on top of these. and pour enough boiling Plenty cheese, tomato, or meat sauce adds
water to three parts cover it, and. simmer ﬂavor to the diSh-
slowly two hours; lift mutton into roast- " .\ _
in: tin with a few tablespoonfuls cf the Wrapping each piece 0f homemade
gravy; set in hot oven until brown; candy in oil paper Will help to keep it
strain gravy and skim off salt, melt fat from drying out when sent through the
in saucepan, add ﬂour, then add gravy mails.

gradually, seasoning of salt and pepper, _ . " "'
mushrooms, and boil eight minutes. Set When grindlng bread for DOUItrY Stuff-
mutton on hot platter with mushrooms ing. a paper bag tled over the grinder
round. and gravy strained over. helps Catch the Caumys- *

Cottage Plow-rWe With others do enjoy Carrot and orange marmalade is loaded
the M. B. F" I always turn to the Farm to the gunwaies with vitamines and
Home department. for I like to read the hardly stays in glasses long enough to
ideas of others, as I live qn a farm and pay to cover with paraﬁn,
know something of what a farmer’s wife * t *
has to mntend With- I Will send you my Ink may .be removed from upholstery
“301136 for Outage Die. by covering the spot with a paste made

Take 2"CuDS’Of maﬁa-r0111. 000k in salt of baking soda and water. When thor-
water until tender." 2 cups of cold ham oughly dry, it should be brushed off. This
or beef 'run through the food chopper. may be repeated if necessary.

Put in a‘pudding pan a layer of macaroni . * * *

then a layer Of meat. COVG!‘ With some A few drops of commercial ammonia
EOOd thiCkened gravy. then for the top on a dry cloth will do much to remove
layer add a layer of ﬁne mashed potatoes “water spots” from polished ﬂoors or furn-
with bits of butter on top. Let brown in iture. If the surface is waxed the spots
the oven. We think this is very good Should be rubbed with a mixture of equal
for supper.-—Mrs. Floyd VanWie. parts of turpentine and linseed oil.

AIDS TO GOOD DRESSING

IE SURE AND SEND IN YOUR SIZE

5046-4850. A Smart Sports Suit—A Smart Tunic Costume.——Printed voile was used for this design.
Collar and vestee are of organdy. Pattern 5046 was used for the Tunic Blouse and 4850 for he
§kirt. The Blouse In? be ﬂnisned With the sleeves short, or in wrist length. The Blonse is cut 1
4 Sizes: 34, 3g. 38, 0, _42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. The Skirt is cut in 7 Sizes: 25, 27,

, . 33, 8n and 37 inches Waist measure With corres ending hip measure, 35, 37, 39, .41, 43,
45 and 47 inches. The Width of the skirt at the foot is % yard. To make the Costume With short
sleeves for o. 88 inch. bust size will require 596; ards 06 40 inch material, and ‘75 yard for vestee
and collar Vof contrasting material. i‘ made with orig sleeves, % yard more will be required.

5048. A Practical “Two In One" undergarment—Cambric. batiste, crepe, satin or crepe de chine
may be nsedfor this model. The brassnere may be fastened to the chemise with sun fasteners or
buttons, or, it may be ﬁnished separatel. This Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: Small, 3336; Medium,
3 0; Large, 42-44; lxti'a Large, 46- 8 inches bust measure. A Medium size requires 2% yards
of 36 in h material. he chemise alone requires 1% yard. For gussets of webbing 1,4, yard 4
inches Wl e or 56, yard inches Wlde is required.

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6031. .A Popular St le with New Features.-_—The straight line dress is still a general favorite. .In
themodel here shown c eoked. annel is combined with plain ﬂannel. One could use wool bengaline
With satin,‘ or, have one material, and decorate the ﬂounce. collar and cuffs with braiding or stitchery.
The Pattern is out-in? Sizes: 34. , . , , 44 and 46 inches bust measure. If made as
illustrated,, for. a 38-_iiich size'B‘A yards of checked material and 1% yard of plain material 40 inches
Inde_ igdrequired.. Width of Skirt at the foot is 1% yard. If made on one material 4% yards is
requir . ‘ ‘

5034. A Comfortable ‘Mornln Frocli for Women of Mature Flavor—Striped gingham or linen
will be good for this model. wth facings of contrasting material in a plain color. The sleeve
may be in wrist or elbow length. The pattern is cut in 9 Sizes: 40, 42. 44, 46. 48. 50, 5

I , 54 and 56 inches bust measure With correspond-
ing waist measure, 33 5 37, 39, 41, 43,_ 45.

7 and 49 inches. 0 make the dress as illus—
trated for a 44_inch bust will require 41/2 yards
0 .36 inch .stripped material, and % yard of
plaidn for facings. The Width at the foot is 1%
yar . '

6049. .A. Dainty Dress for the “Little Miss"
_—VOile, dimity, batiste, crepe de chine and China
silk are good materials for this style. The yoke
and sleeve portions are made in one piece. The
Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 2. 4. 6 and 8 years.
tA Slyear size requires 21/3 yards of 36 inch ins:
one.

5050.. A Simple Comfortable Suit for a Small
Boy.-——Linen, chaiiibi'ey, poplin, Jersey cloth and
iinniiel inay__be' used for this style. The Pattern
is cut in 3 Sizes: 2, 4 giiid 6 years. If made
as illustrated a. 4 year Size requires 3 yards of

r 36 inch material, With 1/5 yard of contrasting
material for collar, cuifs, lap and facings.

_5044. A New Skirt Stalls—This is a f011l“
piece model With Circular re. It is good for
velvet, silk and for sports materials, also for knslia,
cliarmeen and linen. The Pattern is cut in 7
Sizes: 25, 27, 2.9, 31, 38, 3,5 and 37 incth
waist xiiieasure With corresponding hip measure,
35; 37. , , , 5 _and 47 inches. The
_width_at the lower edge is 2% yards. A 2!)
inch 5136 Will require 2 yards of 40 inch material.

5061. A Good “Sport'sﬁhlrt” Style. This is
a good model for a Negligee or Outing Shirt.
The sleeve may be in wrist length, or short, to
the elbow. Flannel“ broadcloth, caiiibric or silk
could be used for this style. Tile Pattern is cut
in 7. Sizes: 15. 1.5%. 16. 1 it. . and
18 inches. neck size. To make the shirt for ii.
15 inch Size requires 3% yards 36 inches wide.

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

Order irom this or [armor Issues of The Buoineu
Farmer, giving number and sign your
name and address plainly.

ADD 100 FOR SPRING AND SU
1925 FASHION BOOK MMER

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

  

 
 
  
  

 

  

   

 
 
 
 
 
  
    
 
 

  
 

  
    
 
 
 
   
   
 
 
  
 
 
  
  
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
    
  
 
  
  
  
    
 
  
 
 
 
  
   
  
   
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
  

 

 
 
 
  
 

 

 

 

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When depressed in vitality
nothing so quickly restores
tone to the body as

. Scott’s Emulsion

It is the fo'od—tonic that
builds up vitality and helps
lighten the daily task. '

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DAHLIAS.‘16 FOR $1; 10 IRIS. MIXED s1;
75 Gladioli, blooming size, $1; Hardy plants 
equally low prices, prepaid. Circular free. " h ‘
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1924

 

The Politico

Years Claims Paid in Force Assets
1915‘ 11 s 564.13 1,733  $4,083
1916 176 25,260.42 15,337  7,740
1917 474 59,938.91 27,431  40,446
1913 721 95,120.35 32,908 , ......................69,424
1919 1,337 192,492.27 39,742  ......... ...7 1,201
1 920 2,232 230,901.29 45,067 1
1921 2,646 323,273.36 40,263  .... 
1922 3,326 295,147.21 38,263 
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9,001 Claims Paid, $539,106.38

Total Claims Paid to date, 25,463
Total Amount of Claims Paid, $2,203,226.48 ,

Assets

$565,225.96

The Company settled 9,001 claims in 1924, only 37 cases
were disposed of in the Court, as folloWs;

7 verdict for policy holder

16 adjusted before trial

7 verdict against policy holder

7 dismissed

you are not carrying automobile insurance, it would pay
you to see the local agent, or write

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Rheumatism

A Remarkable Home Treatment
Given by One Who Had It

In the year 1893 I was attacked by Mus-
cular and Sub—Acute Rheumatilm. I suffered as
only those who are thus afﬂicted know for over
I tried remedy after remedy. but
Iuch relief as I obtained was only temporary.

treatment that cured me

h 92 pitiful condition has
never returned. llhave given it to a number who
were terribly aﬁlicted, even bedridden, some of
izhty years old,
results were the some as in my own case.

I want every sufferer from any form of _mus«
cular and sub—acute (swelling oi: the mints)
rheumatism to try the great value of
Treatment” .
ealing pmver. Don’t send a cent' aim 1y mail
dress, and I wil se
. After you have used it. and

be that ions-look

and the

my im-
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it has prov-
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SIJHGImS'l-‘IUNS FUR SQLVINI‘. GROSS—WORD PUZZLES
Start, out by ﬁlling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure.

a clue to other words crossing them, and tilt
Imgﬂed

in each. white space, words starting at the
or vertically or both.

ACROSS

1 Aspect

6 Speed! ‘

11 iarzous cow which recently died
12 Work-s ' «
14 A color

15 A piece of literature

17 BO": nllchmo

18 Each (abbr.)

19 What the owner of a cow docs twice a day
20 A Southern State (abbr.)

21 Biblical character _
24 Organ of vision

25 Asz.ert _

21 One who owes money

29 in second childhood ‘

31 Consumed

3'2 Western State (china)

33 Arid waste

36 To oppose force

39 Always .

40‘ Sumx meaning “native of"

42 Volcano in Sicily-

43 Parent

44 Plant valuable for its root

46 Like

41 Form of poetry

49 What brightens up the house I
50 Skill in producing beautiful things

51 Torment .

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BEAN ADVERTISING FUND

EAN growers are keenly interest-
ed in. the advertising fund to be
raised jointly by growers and

dealers contributing one cent for
each hundred pounds of beans sold

; or bought.
, contributions forwarded to F. W.
Merrick,
‘ amounted to $4,819.62.

011 February 25 the total

the funds,
The follow—

custodian of

ing list. made public at the recent
meeting of growers in Saginaw, g1ves

' the location, name of ﬁrm, and mum-1

ber of months covered by the remit-
tances from each contributing com-

pany.

This list includes all who had

sent in remittances previous to the
ﬁrst of February:

Albion. F. E. Nowlin & Co., two.
Auburn. Auburn Elev. Co., tour.
Bach. Seloewaing (lo-op. Ass’n.,
Bath, S. Cushman & Son, four.
Boyne City, Boyne City Mill, two.
(lass Ciy. Cass City Grain Co., four.
(‘mial‘ Springs, ii). A. Remer & 80113,

(on r.

lhl‘t‘t‘,

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one—half.
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(‘harlottm Farnivrs‘ 'I‘Ilev. Co., four.
l‘lzire. (‘hattertnn & Son, one—half.
(.‘m'unna, Farmer-rs’ ("o-up. Elev, one.
(‘ruswelh t‘roswel] (‘o-np Elev. two.
l‘ruswell, Mil-higan ill-an (10., four.
ln-lvin, ("hattrruln & Son. one-half.

DeVVilt. Christian Brvisch & Co., tour.
Eaton Rapids. Crane & Crane, one.
Eden. (‘. A. Davis. four.

Elsie. Elsie Elev. Co.

Evart. lilvart Milling Co., three.
Farwell, Michigan Bean Co., four.
Fenton, Michigan Bean Co., four.
Fenwick, Fenwick Elev. Co., four.
Flushing. Flushing Elev. Co.,
Fowler, Sturgis Brothers, one and one-
lf. \
Fowlerville, E. W. Burkhairt & Sons,

ur. .
Fowlervll‘c. Fowlerville Farmer-9’ Co-op.,

tWO.,

Gerri, Charles Wolohan, one.
Giadwln, Charles Wolohan, two.
Greenleaf. Cass City Grain, three.
Hm Beach. Huron Km. one.
Hamlet. Charlies Wolohan‘, rune.

Henderson. Henderson 00479;. 

one and _

Holly, Holly Grain and Prod., four.
Imlay City, Lewis Steele, two. ‘
Ithaca, Ithaca. Gleaners’ & Farmera’

Elevator Co., one.

Kirby, Albert Todd 8; Co., one.
Lansing, Christian Briesch & Co., fur.
Lansing, Iabell Brown Co., fou’r.
Lennon, Lexmox Elev. Co., four.

Mariette, Mariette Farmer-9’ 80-0).

Elev, one.

Marshall, Farmers’ Elev. Co., two.
Midland, Orr Bean & Grain Co., four.
Midland, Chatterton & Son, one-half.
Mikado, Michigan Bean Co., four.
Millington, Sioux City Seed, two.

Mt. Pleasant, Chatertton & Son, one-

half.

Morris, Morris Bean & Grain Co., two.
Owendale, Michigan Bean Co., four.
Owosso, L. C.--Ha.ll, two.

Owosso, Isbell Wholesale Store, one.
Perry, H. Starks Co., one.

Pompeii, Chatterton & Son, one-hall.
Prescott, Prescott Grain Co., one.
Richville, Richard Hoerlein, three.
Sebewaimg, John C. Liken & Co., four.
Shiloh, Shiloh Elev. Co., four.

Snover. Snover‘Co—op. Elev Co., one.
Traverse City, Traverse City Mill, four.
Unionville, Unionville Mill Co., two.
Weidman, Holmes Milling.r Co., one,
Whittemore, loser) Elev. Co., one.
Whittemore. VVhlttemore Elev. Co., two.
Williamston. 0. l). Pm‘win, four.

 

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shop's ts from over,,,1.ooo -.
gidwe’rs  testimonyxghat Mich-
igan Certiﬁed seed does better the
yield and quality of the potato crop.
Michigan potato grower-z will more
quickly raise the standard of potato
s production in this state and the qual—
rity 01 Michigan potatoes on the mar-
ket by planting certiﬁed seed on their
own farms instead of letting the bulk
01 it go to farms in l’ennsyvania,
Ohio and other states. . _
Approximately 50 per mm: of the
1924 crop of Michigan certiﬁed seed
has already been sold and the early
spring demand~ is strong. Michigan
farmers are urged to place their or—
ders for certiﬁed seed early and not,
wait until planting time. Certified
seed potatoes of the Russet Rural.
White Rural, Green Mountain, Irish
Cobbler and Early Ohio varieties may
be procured from the Michigan Pota-
to GrowerS’ Exchange, Cadillac or
from individual growers. Sources of
certiﬁed seed and detailed inform 7
tion concerningdthe seed potato i.
speetion and certiﬁcation work, me
be had by writing to the oﬂice of Seer
Inspection Service, Michigan Agricuh
tural College, East Lansing.

ALFALFA
(Continued from Page 17)

than $35.00 per acre, which is a
rather high cost per acre. The ﬁrst
season after sowing I out two loads of
hay, Where I put the three tons
there was a large amount of yellow
plants, on the four and a half ton
strip a few, and on the six t-on strip
a rich dark green and fully a third
more growth. The next season we cut
6 loads of hay off theone and three—
quarters acres and pastured 22 hogs
11 lambs and 4 calves until winter
stopped it and it looked as though
there was no alfalfa left. The next
season it came on and we cut 7 loads
of hay and pastured 28 head of hogs
until sold in the late fall, also a cow
and a calf. The next season we raised
56 head of hogs in the one and three-
quarter acre lot and also cut 2 loads
of hay and this year we had 65 head
of hogs on it until after the second
cutting and got two loads of hay off it
besides and I'guess there will be some
hay there next year also. This was
done on land that folks said alfalfa
could not be raised upon because it
was too heavy. I am going to let the
reader ﬁgure out the proﬁt, if any, on

v the expenditure on this piece of land.

I have just scratched the surface
ofwhat might be said of alfalfa and
might say something more at some
other time.

I NOCULATION

In nitrogen used to inoculate oats
and beans or not? I have read so
much about it for inoculation of
other crops. If it is used how much
would you use to the bushel.——H. C.,
Sword, Mich.

OCULATION consists of the addi—

tion to either the soil or the seed

of a certain bacteria that will en-
able the plant to secure or make use
of the nitrogen of the air.

Commercial cultures may be secur-
ed for leguminous crops such as al—
falfa, sweet clover, beans, etc. The
cereal crops such as oats, wheat and
rye are not inoculated.

Material for inoculation may be
secured from the Department of Bac-
teriology. The price is twenty-ﬁve
cents a bottle and one bottle con—
tains sufﬁcient material to inoculate
a bushel of seed. Directions for ap-
plication accompany material.——C.
R. Mogae,‘ Associate Professor of

Farm Crops, Michigan Agricultural
College.

SEEDING ALFALFA
I would like to know if you can
get a good seeding of alfalfa by sow—
ing it in oats or barley in the spring
of the year? What would ‘be the
best way to get a good alfalfa seed—
ing any way? What kind of fertili-
zer or lime should. you use? The
soil is black loam and gravel mixed.
---1. L., Goldwater, Mich.
fairly fertile soils excellent
seedings of alfalfa are frequent—
ly secured when the sltaltaseed
is sown in;er cats or barley.
three“ in acid some torm' of
 build be applied; all
ﬁt ’ be .

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 0F BARLEY

I would like some advice about
black barley. The only black barley
that ,Iaam ablevto ﬁnd for seed had
smut in last year and I have been
wondering, what the treatment for
“smut in barley is.—C. D., Grand
Ledge, Michigan.

‘ HE smut of barley may be suc-
‘ cessfully treated by preparing a

solution containing one pintof
formaldehyde to forty gallons of
water. Clean the seed thoroughly
with a fanning mill to remove smut
kernels then sprinkle the seed, using
one gallon of the above mentioned
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soon as dry.———C. R. Megee, Associate
Professor oil-Farm Crops, Michigan
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. RAISING VETCEH

I have been thinking about vetcll.
How much should be planted per
acre and would it do well in cats?
How would you prepare the ground?

——J. Y., Traverse City, Mich. '
PRING sown vetch frequently
makes a good hay crop and some—
times quite a proﬁtable seed
crop. However, larger yields of seed
have been secured when vetch is

sewn during the late summer.
If you desire a hay crop, I would

suggest sowing two bushels of oats

and 20 pounds of vetch seed per acre.
The seed bed should be prepared the
same as for oats.———C. R. Megee, As—
sociate Professor of Farm Crops,
Michigan Agricultural College.

RED KIDNiii’ mus: -  :

     

I‘ have been thinking of raising‘

kidney beans next season and would A ‘
like your opinion as to whether it
would be a proﬁtable crop in raise. 
also how far apart should they be ~

planted and what time of the season
should they be planted ?———J. Y., Tra-
verse City, Mich.

NE would expect Red Kidney
beans to give a fair proﬁt this
coming season under favorable
conditions. This means planting of
as clean seed as possible. (Free from
disease). \Give the seed a severe
handpicking.
Would advise planting the beans

in rows about 30 inches apart at the I

rate of about 80 pounds per acre.
The beans should be planted about
the ﬁrst of June; the 25th of May
to the 10th of June being within the
limits for planting—H. R. Petti—
grove, Assitant Professor of Farm-
Crops, Michigan Agricultural College.

 

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REG. JERSEYS. POGIS 99th OF H. F. AID
Me Herd

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MAY _ GUERNSEYS —— ROSE

STATE AND FEDERAL ACCREDITED
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38  Around ago lbs. 46 Wt. Around 525 lbs.
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WASHTENAW COUNTY COW
SUPPLIES .BANQUET

-FIF.TY-EIGHT banqueters had a

pint of milk apiece made for

them in sixteen hours by Houwt-
je Maid Korndyke Segis No. 548,695.
The occasion was. the annual meeting
of the Washtenaw County Holstein.
Ass’n held March 16th at Saline.
And there was enough milk left in
the kitchen to feed all the cats in
For Houwtje Maid has aver-
aged 97 pounds or pints of 3.95 per
cent milk' a. day since freshenlng
January 27th.

Her performance is not exactly a

surprise to her owner, Wm. Rundel
of Saline, for in Cow Testing Asso—
ciation work from December 8th,
1923 to November 11th, 1924, she
ga've 21,788 pounds of milk, testing
3.8 per _ cent containing therefore
842.4 pounds of fat, the equivalent
of 1010.88 pounds 0 fbutter! She
was milked twice a day except for
the ﬁrst three months.
‘ Small wonder the program of the
evening was full of pep when the
participants were full of “health——
vitality—nutrition"!

Pres. Wm. Austin presided over
the meeting. Speeches were inter-
spersed with vocal music by the
“Men’s Quartet” of Saline, pialno
renditions by Miss Janis Austin,
songs by Harold Miller. Of especial
attraction was a duet by Miss Austin
and her brother George, piano and
comet. ‘

The speakers of the evening in-
cluded H. S. Osler, County Agent; A1
Watt, Mgr. of the Washtenaw Fair;
State Holstein Assi’n Secretary J. G.
Hays, and Carlos Beckington of Ypsi—
lanti. -

Young Becklngton gave a very in-
teresting account of his trip to the
1924 National Dairy Show. His trip
was ﬁnanced by the Washtenaw
County Holstein Ass’n as a reward
for high class work in Boys’ Calf
Club.

Hays sketched breifly present day
doings in State Holstein circles. He
ended his haraugue by a True Type

demonstration using famous (?)
knock—down portable pastelboard
model “Ornery”. Some cow!

The business session resulted in
re—election of Pres. Wm. Austin,
Vice—Pres. Glen Birg, and Sec. Walter
Srpalding. Frank Geiger was chosen
Treasurer and for new directors W.
L. Rundel, and R. B. Watrous were
selected. The ofﬁcers were directed
to lay out a plan of activity for the
next year—calf club work and show-
ing at fair being two projects for
special consideration.

Movies from the extension service
of the National Holstein Association,
a two reeler, called “Jonathan Barr’s
Converstion”, capped an evening
packed with pleasure.

WHY CONTINUE TESTING?
ANY farmers ask this question
 after they have tested their
herds one year in an associa-
tion. L. C. Payne completed his se-
cond year in the Macomb County As-
sociation No. 1 during September.
One cow in the herd, a four year old
grade Holstein, produced the ﬁrst
year 7502 pounds of milk and 239.8
pounds of fat. The last six weeks of
the year she was well fed and put in-
to good condition. After freshening
she was fed according to production,
and the second year produced 14,184
pounds of milk and 484.3 pounds of
fat. The increase in the second year
over the ﬁrst was 6682 pounds of
milk and 244.5 pounds of fat. The
increased return over feed cost in
the case of this one cow more than
paid the'testing fees the second year.
“Dairy Extension Dept., Michigan
Agricultural College.

 

SHJAWASSEE HOISTEIN ASSOCI-
v ATION HOLDS ANNUAL
BANQUET Thursday evening,
A the 12th, at the Hotel Wilder-
; muth, Owosso, ushered in the
annual meeting of the Shlawassee
County Holstein Association. Some

forty banqueters enjoyed the follow-J,

ins program: speech of welcome,

Mayor Wright; mom;- son‘gs, “Kit
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stock to this departinent. Questions cheerfully, answered».

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sociation; “The Holstein Breeder
Today”, D. D. Aitken, Flint.

The Kline sisters, little girls, scor-
ed a» big hit'withatheiriduets, especi‘ . - :‘
ally one song about “The Holstein"
Cow”. The talk by, Mr. Aitken, '
Ex—President of the Holstein-Frieslan
Association of America, was gobd as
usual. The company united in a
vote of thanks to Mr. Altken.

The business session following the
banquet revealed the ﬁnances of the
Association to be in good shape, over
$100 on hand. As a good share of
this fund accrued from the Count):
Sales Manager system of selling sur-
plus stock of the members. it was de-
cided to continue the system with
the former manager, Fred Martin of
Owosso, in charge.

Local Holstein matters occupied
the attention of the breeders present,
special interest being shown ln‘cow
testing association work, and show-
ing at the Fair. .'

Oﬂlcers elected included C. 8.
Baldwin, Bennington, President;
Mrs. Burt Nowlin of Laingsburg, re-
elected as Sec-Trees; J. Fred Smith
of Byron, Vice-Pres. The four direct-
ors elected were Chas. Paine, Der-
and; Fred Martin, Owosso, Jay Bowl-
by, Ovid; and Dan Dutcher, Owosso.

FEEDING POTATOES T0 MILK ‘
cows

. Is it all right to feed potatoes to a
milk cow? If so, how many?—M. 0..
Grand Ledge, Michigan.

OTATOES do not contain a very
large amount of digestible nut-
rients per one hundred pounds

but they may be fed as a root crop
to dairy cows. They should be" put
thru a root cutter to remove the dan—
ger of the cows choking. I will ad-
vise not feeding over twenty-ﬁve to
thirty pounds per day as too many
potatoes are liable to cause scours
and butter made from the milk will
be soft and salvy.———J. E. Burnett.
Associate Professor of Dairy Hus-
bandry, M. A. C.

VETERINARY
DEPARTMENT

REMOVING \VARTS

I have a cow that has warts on
her teats. Please advise how to get
rid of them.——~M. L., Branch, Mich.

THINK perhaps the best way to
I get rid of warts on the teats is

to cut them off. The wart and
skin should be properly disinfected.
the cow properly restrained and the
wart cut off with a pair of sharp
scissors. The wound covered with
a pair of sharp surgeon’s scissors.
The wound covered with sterile sur-
geon’s cotton and retained in posi-
tion with adhesive tape for a day or
two until the wound scabs well over.
It is best to remove these warts when
the cow is dry. Occasionally, good
reports are given from the daily ap—
plication of sweet oil to the warts.—
John P. Hutton, Associate Professor
of Surgery and Medicine, Michigan
Agricultural College.

 

 

 

 

 

SOW EATS PIGS

I have a young sow that had a lit-
ter of pigs three days ago and now
she has commenced to kill them and
eat them. What is the cause of this
and what can I do to cure the habit?
—M. H., Harbor Springs, Michigan.

is claimed by some authorities

that the sow eats her pigs be-

cause she is very short on protein
material in her body after having
produced a litter of pigs and an
udder of milk. To remedy this con~
dition a sow should receive about
one quarter pound of high grade
tankage once daily in' her feed. To
obtain best results, however, the
feeding of tankage should begin ear-
ly in the period of pregnancy and
be continued until the sow has her
pigs and are weaned—John P. Hut-
ton, Assocla, to Professor of .Medi-
cine, »Mlch:lgah' Articulturel Collage.

 

    

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DITOR:—-—'-‘“We believe you are in-
terésted'in some relable infor-
' mation on the bean situation,
considering the United States as a
'whole. We are accordingly sending
herewith some charts which may be
of interest to you. Possibly you will
ﬁgure this information of sufficient
value to your groWers to re—produce
one or more of the charts in your
good publication. The information
thereon can be readily checked, and
we assure you it is absolutely relia-
ble.

Chart No. 1 gives prices on various
grades -of beans delivered Chicago

Prices Feb. 16-1925 F. O. B. Chicago

_
Limas $14.80

_
Blackneys $10.80
_

Pinks $8.80

_
,Small Whites $8.65

_
“'Mrge‘Whites $7.40
_
Bayos $8.30

_ I I Cranberries $8.80

  Icoiomdo Pintos $7.25

‘;  Idaho-Great Northern $7.30
 ich.  H. P. Pea Beans $6.55
7 Chart No. 1

basis.  You will note that although
Michigan beans are the most desir—
able and the most readily salable of
‘any’ of the varieties raised in the
United States, with the possible ex-
ception of Limas, it is the cheapest
bean on the list. There is no reason
in the world if Michigan growers who
still own beans will keep them off
the market, but what they can ob-
tain better than a $6.00 basis for

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2* California Varieties

them. Reasons for this will be
emphasized as the other charts
are studied. It might be men-

tioned here, however, that there is
no danger of any serious competition
from any other bean. The volume of
beans back in other States at present
is the smallest they have had in
years. , They are not worrying in the
least as to their ability to early clean
up their remaining stocks regardless
of price, and as fast as the Michigan
market is advanced they will in turn
advance their price to keep the dif-
ferential approximately the same as
indicated on the chart enclosed.
The chart No. 2 showing Califor-
nia stocks as of February 1st for the
past ﬁve years is of much interest
to us. The chart shows total tonnage
of beans held back in California in-
cluding all varieties, such as Lima,
Pinks, Small Whites, Large Whites,
Bayos, Mexican Reds, Red Kidneys,
Cranberries, Blackeyes, etc. whereas
on the same chart the proportion of
Large and Small Whites to all vari-
eties is shown. You will notice that
the stock of Large and Small Whites
on hand February 1st is the smallest
they have ever had in California,
whereas the stocks of all varieties of
beans on hand on February lst, 1925
is just a little more than half as
many beans as were on hand Febru-
ary 1st, 1924. This is all the more
remarkable when you consider that
on February lst, 1924 they had the
smallest stock of beans in California
that they have had since before the
war. All of the white beans in Cali-
fornia will be readily consumed with-
in the borders of the Paciﬁc coast
states. The stocks of white beans
in California could possibly be better
expressed by this statement, which
is absolutely true. Namely—that
during any two weeks of the crop
marketing season so far there have
been more Michigan beans shipped

sales of Pea Beans, Five Your Average, 1919 to 1924

be!

September lst tb' January 1st 3
42.1% a

‘ To January ls! 4!.1 %

To ruary
o are lst .
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than the entire crop of white beans
left in California at the present time.

One of our men is on his way back
from Idaho at the present time. He

' advises that there are not to exceed

100 cars of Idaho beans left. In-
asmuch as their crop out there was
1200 to 1500 cars they have less
than 10 per cent of their crop left
and six months to go before new crop
is harvested. _

In Colorado and New Mexico there
are less than 50 per cent as many
Pinto beans on hand at the present
time as there were a year ago now.

New York state crop of peabeans
is virtually cleaned up. New York
state bean dealers being unable to
get sufﬁcient tonnage in their own
state to take care of their trade are
new buyers of Michigan beans.

Chart No. 3 shows our average
percentage business for the past ﬁve
years. The top line represents 100
per cent. We start our crop year
with September lst, as that-is the
closest even month date we can ar-
rive at for the starting of the move-
ment of new beans. You will note
that 60.4 per cent of the business for
the year is done between September
lst and March lst. In other words,
there should be left in the state on
March lst practically 40 per cent of
the total crop raised to take care of
the demand from March lst to Sep-
tember lst. From September 1st to
March 1st this year, according to
railroad reports, there have been
shipped from Michigan practically
6,000 cars. There should have been
left on March lst in order to take
care of the demand until new crop
can be harvested, 4,000 cars in Mich-
igan. The total crop, however, was
only approximately 8,000 cars. Ac—
cordingly there cannot help but be a
big shortage of Michigan beans be-
fore new crop is harvested, particu-
larly when you consider that this

year the other states from which the

trade get a certain proportion of
their supply of beans, are holding
just about half as many beans as

California Bean Stocks February lst

they did a year ago now. Railroad
reports show that between March
1st and September lst last year there
were better than 4,000 cars of beans
shipped from Michigan. At the out—
side, including seed stock and every-
thing, there cannot be left in Mich-
igan at the present time more than
2,500 cars. Accordingly any way
you look at the situation the statis—
tics point to a much stronger market
later on.

There is no reason that we can
possibly ﬁgure out why Michigan
beans should not be selling at least
as high as beans raised in other
states, this year in particular when
Michigan unquestionably controls the
stock of beans in the United States,
why the farmers chould not get $6.00
or better for their beans—Chatter-
ton and Son.

Milking machines will save labor if a
sufﬁcient number of cows are being
milked. The herd should number at least
15 cows before a milker is a time saving
investment. A mechanical milker will not
injure the udder or the cow or cause her
to dry up if reasonable care is observed
in its operation. Stripping after the
machine is necessary to avoid drying up
of the cow. Do not leave the milker on
the cow too long after practically all the
milk is drawn. This may injure the
cow's udder.

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on to the stable at general rout-

ine, in a legarthy from sitting
late at a neighbor’s 101' a radio con-
cert.

Breakfast of a pulle-t’s egg, coffee
and a. roll. Muddled my brain for a.
spell trying to ﬁgure a way to clean
stables easily. Gave up in despair
and used the old form, cussing the
while

Commanded myself to veal all
calves this year and not be pestered
with stubborn yearlings running past
open doors.

In to lunch of steaming hot soup,
consuming three deep bowls- Pur-
used the daily paper a bit, and saw
where some. bad men pistoled a bank-
er for his gold. Marveled at the
devilishness going on in the world.

Sauntered forth across lots for a
chat with my in-laws, and we jibber
jabbered until thewhour of eight.

Returned home to ﬁnd the chores
ﬁnished. My wife and oldest daugh-
ter in a. surly mood. Attempted to
act coltish, doings step dance on
the kitchen ﬂoor. 'But fell ungrace-
fully, nearly wrenching my hip.
Arose expecting they would laugh
uproaringly, but they only responded
with a. smothered cackle.

Decided not to try any more antics,
so sat in my favorite rocker and
listened with great pride while my
daughters played a. melody on their
violins.

Retired early—A. P.
Huron COunty. '

Ame; late! .fccdared the ﬁre and

Ballard,

PRUNING TIME FOR. ORCHARD
IS HERE

RUNilNG time for the farm or-

P chard. is here. Warm days dur-
ing early spring can be spent
in renovating the fruit trees.

Moderate pruning every year en-
courages annual fruiting and is much
better for the tree than heavy prun-
ing every three or four years. The
work should not be delayed until
growth starts.

Trees which have not been pruned
regularly and have grown too bushy
and dense should receive a. rather
heavy thinning of medium sized
branches in the outer portions of the
tree. If possible, avoid removing
large limbs because this leaves the
tree thin in places and too dense
elsewhere. All dead, diseased, brok-
en, injured, crossing and rubbing
limbs should be removed as tar as

possible. When young trees have
been properly pruned until they
reach bearing age, only moderate

pruning of small branches is required
to keep the tree properly thinned.
Sunlight will then be admitted to the
central portion of the tree.

In pruning of young trees special-
ists recommend keeping the head
low. They also urge a. pruning sys—
tem which will avoid having two

- branches leave the trunk rat the same
3 point.
’should be saved, and as far as poss-
:ible so selected
,evenly distributed around the tree
‘as well as up and down the main
» trunk.

Four or ﬁve main branches

that they will be

In all your pruning work use
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wounds that are over an inch in di-
ameter.

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No use wondering what a. milker of the
proper size to ﬁt your own needs will
cost installed in your barns. 0n the back
cover of this issue, the Delays]. Separator
Company. one. of the oldest and best
known manufacturers of dairy equipment
in the world, are offering an engineering
service absolutely free which you dairy-
men who are milking ten or more cows
ought to accept.

The power milker has come to stay.
There are a. great many dairy farms in
Michigan equipped with power mllkers
now and there will be a. good many more
before the end of this very year. It is
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The following letter will no doubt
be of utmost interest to poultry rate-
ers who have had serious lossesfrem
White Diarrhea. We will let Mrs.
Bradshaw tell of her experience in
her own words:

“Gentlemen: I see reports of so
many losing their little chicks with
White Diarrhea, so thought I would
tell my experience. I used to lose a
great many from this cause, tried
many remedies and was about die-
couraged. As a. last resort I sent to
the Walker Remedy 00., Dept. 68?,
Waterloo, Iowa, for their Walko
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50c packages, raised 300 White Wy-
andottes and never lost one or had
one sick after giving the medicine
and my chickens are larger and
healthier than ever before. I have
found this company thoroughly reli-
able and always get the remedy by
return mail.-——Mrs. C. M. Bradshaw,
Beaconsﬁeld, Iowa.”

Cause of White,,Diarrhea

White Diarrhea is caused by the Bao-
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transmitted to the baby chick through the
yolk of the newly hatched egg. Readers
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Don't wait until it kills half your chicks.
Take the “stitch in time that saves nine.”
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Never Lost a Single Chick

Mrs. L. L. Tam, Bumetts Creek, Ind,
writes: “I have lost my share of chicks
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from White Diarrhea. Waiko not. only
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Mrs. Ethel Rhodes, Shenandoah, Iowa.
writes: “My ﬁrst incubator chicks, when
but a few days old, began to die by the
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ferent remedies and was about discour-
aged with the chick business. Finally, I
sent to the Walker Remedy 00., Waterloo,
Iowa, for a box of their Walko White
Diarrhea Remedy. It’s just the only thing
for this terrible disease. We raised 700
thrifty, healthy chicks and never lost a.
single chick after the ﬁrst dose.”

 

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even quadruple your proﬁts. Send 500
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- er'vlzth beet‘lamlgo heavy to

heats this year! _ Is there assnr- ,

am thil: the extremely high extrac-
tion a: sugar per ton of beets (301
lbs.) will be repeated next year?
‘Does the farmer get a just return

" per acre for his beets when theton-

nage runs low and the extraction
high on the present 45-515_7contract?
Can the acreage planted to sugar
beets in the United States he increase
ed unless the farmers get contracts
which will give them full beneﬁt of
a tariif policy? If a 45-55 contract
(or others of similar nature) show
exhorbitant proﬁts to the beet manu—
facturer under the present tariff
would it not be a. logical solution to
give the farmer a 55-45 contract and
see if the tariff commission would re-
commend a reduction of tariff on
sugar? Would the farmer have re-
ceived this year an unreasonable
price per acre for his beets had he
had 'a. 55-45 contract? Assuming
the tonnage to have been 6, which I
believe is a fair average per acre
planted (Michigan crop reports show
7.1. tons per acre harvested) last
year and had'we a 55-45 contract we
would have received a gross return
of $41.56 'per acre less $10.00 per
acre for hauling which would make
$31.56 per acre, for land and labor
in raising the crop, or a little more
than the beet worker received last
year per acre on the contract labor.

On the present 45—55 contract did
the farmer receive as much per acre
for his beets for use of land cultivat—
ing. pulling andhauling as the beet
worker received for about a month’s
work this year? ‘ If the extraction
should be as low as 223 lbs. which
is past history. and should sugar be
$6.50 N. Y. or around present prices,
making the price of beets $6.50, can
the growers of beets assure such
chance buying all his labor and ma-
chinery on a high tariff market? Is
the farmer justiﬁed in being in favor
of- any tariff policy that does not
take into consideration the fact as to
whether or not the farmer is receiv—
ing his just share of the rewards of
a tariff. Of what account is it to
have a tariff commission to ﬁnd that
the tariff on sugar should be reduced

\ considering the cost of manufactur-

ing sugar when they do not take into
consideration the cost of growing
the beets or what kind of contract
the grower is getting? Are the par-
ties receiving tariﬁ beneﬁts to which
they are entitled or if the growers
were getting a better contract would
the present tariff or even more be
out of line in building up a policy of
making ourselves self-supporting in
the sugar we raise in the United
States? '

It may be well to mention in call-
ing attention to the high cost of
farming that a few years ago the
sugar factories furnished beet drills
to the farmer for twenty-ﬁve cents
per acre. This-was raised to ﬁfty
cents per acre last year and it is un—
derstood that next year the farmer
is to buy and furnish his oWn drills.
if the farmer cannot get as much or
more per acre net out of a crop of,
beets as he can out of a crop of
wheat or other crops which he ~is
raising at ooSt and less on account of
not being able. to receive tariff bene—
ﬁts on account of overproduction in»
the U. 8., why should he be requested
to ask that the present tariff on su—
gar be maintained for the beneﬁt of
a' manufacturing element that aims
to my the farmer only the bare cost
of the raw beets-and do not give con-
tracts which glve the farmer at least
50 per cent of the tariﬁ beneﬁts?

Why is it that the Michigan farm

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organl-zations pass this important

matter” by so indiﬂerently? Can this
condition exist without the 175,090
Michigan acres usually planted to
beets being planted to another crop
so adapted to heel; ground, which
generally is white beans, and there-
by undo the beneﬁts of a tarii! on
this commodity by creating an over-
production? Cannot the farm or-
ganizations get farther with farmers'
pro'blemsby adopting a policy of reg—
ulating production instead ofendeav-

, oring to market a surplus at a high

price? Last year after the best
farmer has deducted his contract
labor $23.00 per acre and his extra
hauling costs $10.00 from his beet

-r\cﬁeck he‘has approximately $15.00

per acre on the average for his land,
plowing, ﬁtting, planting, cultivating
and pulling—a sum not very attrac-
tive considering the fertility .beets
take from the soil. According to the
best ﬁgures obtainable, it cost last
year 2150 per pound to extract a
pound of sugar—this being true an
average acre of 5 tons of beets would
cost $37.60, leaving a net proﬁt of
$15.60 on an average acre of beets
of 5 tons. Why cannot this proﬁt be
divided with the farmer thereby plac-
ing farming in Michigan on a more
staple basis and also place the Presi-
dent and the tariff commission in a
better light with the Republican par-
t . .

At the present time is not the beet
farmer of Michigan justiﬁed in stick-
ing out for at least a 50—50 contract
or no beets?

If the western factories give 50—50
contracts why, do we not get them
here in Michigan? Is not this after
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Why does not the Michigan Sugar
Beet Growers’ Association continue
to operate and function? Why do
the important ofﬁces of this organi-
zation pass to the heads of other
organizations who never grow beets
and according to their statements in
the press are as ignorant of the
problem as would be «possible for a
man to be?—C. E. Ackerman, Dur—
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LANS are being completed by
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ricultural agent of Oceans coun-

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_Dairy—Alfalfa Campaign, April 13-17.

A total of thirty barn meetings will
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There will be two teams used, each
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ricultural College. Each team will
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The increasing difficulty of making
dairy proﬁts without high protein
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EGG PRODUCTION bums
We have eighty White Leghorns,
last year pullets. We shut them up
Noyember 6th and began feeding for
egg production; in a couple of weeks
we began to get eggs and the pro-
duction increased up to January 25th
—on that day we got 66 eggs, next
day 60 and then 50 to 55 per day
for some time. Then production be—
gan to slump so that at this time we
are getting around 20 a day. I did
not increase the grain ration any
from the time-.we shut the hens in
and this is the question at issue with
me. I have increased the grain ra-
tion lately to. see if I could stop the
slump. The hens seem to look nice
and healthy but they seem to be Shy
of ﬂesh. Do you think a. hen can be
too fat to produce if she has the
right kind of rations?

We have had a. gasoline lantern
in the hen house in the morning
and all night all winter so hens have
had about twelve hours OE and the
same on. We have cut out the even-
ing light for a couple of weeks but
still put it on in the morning.——D. 0.,
Fremont, Mich.

T is seldom that a good hen be—
comes too fat to lay, providing
she has been fed a well balanced

laying ration. It is not an unusual
thing to ﬁnd birds that have pro-
duced heavily during the early win-
ter months, taking a rest the latter
part of January, or during a portion
of February. It is doubtful if feed-
ing would entirely eliminate this
period 'of rest, but egg production
may be somewhat governed by the
feeding method. I would think that
it is a dangerous proposition, as far
as egg production is concerned, to
remove the evening light, after hav—
ing used it during the greater part
of the laying year. We usually feel
that if lights are once. used, that they
should be carried through for the
full season, or shut off gradually.—
C. G. Card, Acting Head of Depart—
ment of Poultry Husbandry, Michi-
gan Agricultural College.

FREEZE COMB AND WADDLES

We have taken your paper for
some time and think it is ﬁne. Wish
to ask you one question, Does the.
freezing of the combs and wattles
hurt poultry in any way?——-I. C.
DeS., Dundee, Michigan. .

E are sure that the freezing o
W poultry to such an extent that

the comb and wattles injures
it would interfere with egg produc-
tion. Especially. do we feel this is“
true in the freezing of the wattles.
The soreness here, hinders the birds
from eating mash.

Regarding males, I would think
that the freezing would lower the
vitality and this would indirectly
cause a loss in the ﬂock—C. G. Card,
Assistant Professor of Poultry Hus-
bandry, Michigan Agricultural Col-
lege.

FEATHER PICKING

My chickens have been picking the
feathers from each. others heads.
Would you please tell me the cause
and the cure? I bought some eggs
for hatching where the chicks did
the same. Is it a. disease and can it
be transmitted thru the eggs? Also
please tell me what chickens are con-
sidered the best for both laying and
meat?—-—Mrs. J. E., Orleans, Mich.

T is doubtful if feather picking is
I a. disease transmitted through the

egg. I would rather think it is
due to a lack of exercise, and would
suggest that the birds be turned out
doors where they can receive plenty
of sunlight and exercise.

The birds that are usually consid-
ered the best for general purposes
are the Barred Rock, Rhode Island
Red, and the White Wyandotte.——G.
G. Card, Assistant Professor in Poul-
try Husbandry.

THIN SHELL EGGS

Why do we get so many thin (not
soft) shelled eggs?‘ Our hens are
fed buckwheat, oats, corn, also dry
mash. Have oyster shells always
before. them, also gravel to pick at,
water and milk to drink, still we get :
eggs with shells you can crush with

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Sheppard Ancones

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Our pen at the International eg’ la in -
test of 1924 outlaid the pen front: on:' o tlferir
renowned ancestral farms by 95 eggs; laid 201
more than the average of two pens from an-
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OUT IN FRONT AT
CONTEST

The Royal White Leghorn pen at
the International Egg Laying contest
of 1925 led the entire ﬁeld for the ﬁrst
.two weeks. For the succeeding two
months they were a close second In the
Leghorn division, then on Jan. 30 went
ahead and on March 1 still led all
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Such birds speak for themselves. We have
thousands like them, mated to pure Tuncred
cockerels whose dams laid 225 to 299 eggs
in a. year.

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Grade A .

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‘gal'l‘tsd Rgocks.  8.00 16.00 12.00 140.00
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Chicks ,

. hat the ground lime stone makes a
higher percentage of available lime
then- 'can be“'obtained by the outing
of oyster shell. I would judge that
after “yOur hens are turned" out on
free range in the spring, that your
shell texture will improve. Plenty
of green food may improve the shell
texture to some extent at this time.—~
C. G. Card, Acting Head of Depart—
ment of Poultry Husbandry, Michi—
gan Agricultural College.
OLD HENS NOT SURE WINTER
LAYERS
GE is no indication of worth in
the feathered kingdom accord—
ing to poultry specialists.
01d hens do not make depend—
able winter producers, according to
many specialists. The good ones are
usually occupied with their molt
about the time high prices are ruling.
These hens may be very desirable
for breeding good chicks for the next
season but the early hatched pullets
are the ones that shell out the wint-
er eggs. By early hatched birds
they mean those that reach laying
age before severe cold weather sets
in. The lighter breed, like the Leg-
horns, will begin to lay in ﬁve to
six months but a month or two must
be added to this for the American
breeds like the Rocks and Reds.
Asiatics require from nine to ten
months, and hence are not proﬁtable
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TUBERCULOSIS CAUSES BIG LOSS
IN POULTRY

TUBERCULOSIS in poultry is caus—
ed by a germ which has many
of the characters of the germs

that cause the disease in the human
family and in other animals. These
germs live for many months in the
dark, damp places about poultry
yards and in the poultry house but
can be killed by thorough cleaning
and disinfecting. ‘

Tuberculosis in poultry causes an
unthrifty condition, especially in the
older birds. They get poor and thin,
lose ﬂesh rapidly in most cases, and
many of them get lame. External
examination of the dead birds will
show that very little meat is present
on the breast bone. A post-mortem
examination shows the liver is usu-
ally covered with white spots. If
these spots are cut into with a knife
they are usually found to be gritty.
Similar white specks will be found on
the spleen.
vanced, small white specks and some-
times abcesses will be found among
the intestines. Lossés from tuber-
culosis in chickens is usually greater
in winter than in summer.

“The only known means of con—
trol is to eradicate the infected birds
'because they distribute the disease to
the other birds”, Dr. G. S. VVcavei‘ of
the -South Dakota State College de-
clares. “If the ﬂock is standard bred
it may pay to have them tested with
the tuberculin test but the ordinary
farm ﬁock had better be disposed of
in some other manner. Before hatch-
ing time next spring, an infected
ﬂock should be gotten rid of by kil-
ling and burning all sick birds and
marketing those ﬁt for killing pur—
poses. Clean and disinfect the hen
house and poultry yards and then
start a new ﬂock by the use of an in-
cubator. The disease is not inher—
ited and any chicks hatched by the
use of an incubator are free from this
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Speculators Making Prices in Wheat Market

Fair Demand for Cattle—Hogs Prices Expected to Go Higher

By W. W. W Market Editor.

T cannot be denied truthfully that
the times are improving, and the

‘ farmers are sharing in the return
of prosperity. Of course, it is not
an Sunshine, and the year 1924 saw
a short corn crop which gave many
farmers a set—back and delayed re-
turn to normal conditions. But
conditions this year promise well,
and so far as corn production is con-
cerned, there are many reports com-
ing from various farming districts
that farmers are exercising more dili-
gence than in former years to thor-
oughly test their seed corn and dem-
enstrate its germinating value. In
these times of high wages demanded
by helpers, farmers are compelled to
devise every way possible to lower
the cost of production and to increase
the proﬁts to the acre, and this ap-
plies to wheat and other grains as
Well as corn. A short. time ago John
W. Foster, the president of the First
National Bank of Guthrie Center,
Iowa, said in a business letter farm-
ing conditions are better than at any
time in 1919 or since. The letter
was written prior to the recent enor-
mous breaks in grain prices, but most
rational people look for a recovery in
the near future of much of the de-
cline. Mr. Foster noted the fact
that farmers have received a sub—
stantial recovery in the prices for
products they have to sell, while
there has been a downward trend in
non—agricultural commodities which
the farmcr has to buy. He points
out that according to recent statis—
tics, “the ratio of the farm dollar
to the industrial dollar is about bal-

anced. Awhile ago, it took two days’
labor on the farm to equal one in
the industrial enterpriSes, but by

1923 the farmer‘s income from his
crop as compaer to pre-war pur-
chasing power had advanced and was
$1.40. while the things he needed
to buy from the industrial world was
$1.75. The year 1924 appeared to
have worked a. total readjustment.
Farm prices for crops have risen to
$1.58, while industrial prices have
receded to $1.55. This balancing of
income and out—go is vitally import—
ant to the farmers and to those who
do business with them, and supplies
one of the necessary conditions for
prosperity. Good crops supply an-
other; balancing the ratio price of
live stock and grain is a third. All
these things are on the way.’
Money for Cattle-men

A short time ago R. A. Cooper,
commissioner of the Federal Farm
Loan Board, returned to Washington
from a long tour made at the request
of President Coolidge, and stated that
it was his conviction that there are
ample funds immediately available
for live stock and other farm indus—
tries for all purposes except for the
repopulation of breeding stock on the
ranges. Even as to the depleted
range herds Mr. Cooper is hopeful
and expresses the belief that. this
has long passed its crisis. He, with
another member of the commission,
visited all the states west of the Mis-
sissippi River and helped organize
six new cattle loan companies in dis-
tricts where the range breeding herds
are most diminished. He said even
conservative banks are now looking
upon cattle loans as safe proposi-
tions, although they cannot function
as well in financing breeding herds
as other forms of credit institutions.
The cattle loan companies, however,
can be of inestimable service in this
connection, and it was to this end
efforts of the government ofﬁcials
were directed. Mr. Cooper said they
tried everywhere to encourage the
organization of the local agencies
through which the farmers may take
advantage of discounting facilities or
direct loans available with. govern-
ment funds. “The cattle industry,
which has recovered slowest 01 all
agricultural pursuits.” said Mr.
Cooper, “unquestionably has struck
bottom, and it is already on the way
to betterment." .

All regard to the legitimate value).
01: wheat he been disregarded tor "

 

several weeks, and the law of supply
and demand has been set aside, the
speculators on the Chicago Board of

' Tr'zde being the actual rulers in mak-

ing prices. It is not a pleasant
thing to say, and ultimately the con—
sumers may be expected to take or
leave the wheat, buying it if it is
not too dear as compared with other
food, but of late wheat has been
treated like‘ a football, with ﬂuctua-
tions that startled honest traders.
At ﬁrst the bulls were in complete
control, and everybody was buying,
May wheat soaring to around $2.06
a bushel. Wise oWners lost no time
in placing their wheat on the mar-
ket, while those who believed it
would go to $2.50 later held on and
saw it sell away lower, the fall in a
single week reaching 40 cents. The
future is uncertain, but it may be ex-
pected to go up again within reason-
able limits. Meanwhile, it is worth
while to take a view of the actual
surroundings and to note the improv—
ed export demand for breadstufl’s on
the big breaks in prices. Then there
is the recent ofﬁcial report made by
the Department of Agriculture on the
wheat left in this country. It ap-
pears that on the ﬁrst day of March
the total wheat supply in all positions
amounted to 259,000,000 bushels,
comparing with 305,000,000 bushels
a year ago, and 310,000,000 bushels
two years ago, while in 1922 there
were 253,000,000 bushels. There is
a small increase in the winter wheat
acreage of ﬁfteen countries, the grain
being about 4.3 per cent over last
year, while the rye acreage of twelve
countries is 27,323,000 acres, an in—
crease of 5.2 per cent over last year.
Rye has closely followed the price
ﬂuctuations of wheat, and a short
time ago rye for May delivery was
selling 60 cents a bushel under the
highest prices of the season. It
seems evident that there must be a
marked improvement in the exports
or rye from the United States to ab-
sorb the supply now in sight. Oats
alone of cereals, have been selling
a little lower than a year ago, due
to the rapid marketing of. the crop.
the visible oats supply far exceeding
that of a year ago. Late sales for
May delivery were made on the Chi-
cago Board of Trade of wheat at
$1.48, comparing with $1.05 a year
ago; corn at $1.18, comparing with
78 cents a year ago; oats at 45 cents,
comparing with 47 cents a year ago;

‘ing with 11,397,000 a year

and rye at $1.20, comparing with 67
Cents a year, ago. May barley sells
in Minneapolis at 82 cents comparing
with 67 cents a year ago: /
Fair Demand for Cattle
While the Chicago cattle receipts
recently could hardly be called par~
ticularly large, there were at times
rather more than the local and east—
ern packers needed, and seme'sha'rp
breaks in prices- took place. A late
rally in prices occurred, but prices
were still largely 50 to 75 cents low-
er than a Week earlier, the bulk of
the beef steers oﬂered during the
week ﬁnding buyers at $9" to $11.
The commoner light weight beef
steers sold at $8 to $9 with low grade
little steers going for $5.75 to $7.75
and the best lots of yearlings at $11
to $11.80 and no good steers offered
below $9.75. There were not a great
many choice long fed steers and the
best heavy steers offered brought $11
to $11.40. Looking back a year, it
is recalled that common to prime
steers were selling for $6.85 to $12,
while nine years ago prices, stoOd at
$7.75 to $10. -Butcher cows and
heifers are aétive sellers at $4.25 to
$10.75, with canner and cutter cows
selling at $2.50 to $4.25, bulls at
$3.50 to $6 and calves at $5 to $12
the calf market having declined from
$2 to $3 per hundred pounds. The
purchases of stockers and feeders
were only moderate, at $6 to $8.75,
sales being largely at $7 to $8.25 for
desirable offerings. The better class

of springer cows sold at $75 to $90.

per head, medium grade dairy cows
going for $50 to $65. v
Hogs Good Property
No matter how prices maybe go-
ing temporarily, hogs are good in-
veStments, and their fortunate own-
ers need not hesitate about ﬁnishing
them off in good marketable condi-
tion. Because of the great falling
off in the receipts in all markets,
they are selling at a great advance
over the early’year prices, and they
will probably advance much higher
later on. Of ecurse, the market has
reactions at times, but advances fol—
low; and within a short time new
high levels for the season were reach—
ed, the top standing at $14.60. A
year ago hogs sold at $6.50 to $7.50.
For the year to late date the com-
bined receipts in twenty markets
amount to 10,079,000 hogs, compar-
ago.
Late sales were made of hogs on the
Chicago market at a range of $12.90
to $14.15. 7
Some Figuring 
Live Stocks Markets does the fol-
lowing ﬁguring: “For those who are
fond of ﬁguring the recent live stock

 

 

 

 

THE BUSINESS FARMER’S MARKET SUMMARY
and Comparison with Markets Two Weeks ago and. on; Year ago

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Detroit chicago Detroit Detroit
March 28 March 23 March 9 1 yr. ago

WHEAT— J ' v

No. 2 Red $1.77 $1.81 $1.06

' No. 2 White 1,76 ’ 1.81 1.07

No. 2 Mixed 1,76 1.81 1.06
CORN— . ’

No. 3 Yellow 1.18 $1.13 1.26 .81

No. 4 Yellow 1.13 1.21 .77
OAT»—

No. 2 White .53 . .47 €91 .58 .49 35
No. 3 White .52 .45@ .46 94 .57 .47};I
RYE- ‘

Cash No. 2 1.16 1.45 .66
BEANS—

C. H. P. th. 5.65@5.75 6.25 » 6.00@6.10 4.70@4.75
POTATOES——

Per th. 1.07 l.00@1.05 1.I4@1.17 ‘11'.50@1.66
nAir— " t .

No. 1 Tim. 16 16.50 19621 * 16®17 

No. 2 Tim. I4 15 15@ 17 ‘ 14 15 21.00 '22

No. 1 Glover 13@14 F 14@ 15 , 14 15 v20.60@21

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estimate of the Bureau of
mm lies: on 1m ‘ ting »
bureau: magnate: twelve million lew— .
er hogs and two million fewer beet ;
cattle on hand January 11, as com- ..
pared with the same time a: year ago.»

This ﬁgures about Euro billion four
hundred million pounds. at pork lens
and two billion pounds of has! lam

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Taking population into consideration v

this resultsivn about 15 pounds per.
person less pork will be served than
a year ago and a decrease per capita
of fully 8 pounds less."

WHEAT

The bulls continue to be very pro-
minent in the wheat market although
prices fail to show advances. The
fore part of last week prices at D'o-'
troit dropped 11 cents but directly
after they advanced 8 cents, broke
again but recovered leaving the price
at the close of the week slightly “Ii-'-
der two weeks ago.

COR-N
Corn: followed the trend of wheat.
Trading has been light and receipts
are expected to be small for the near
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OATS I,
Demand is fair in the oat market
and a. steady tone prevails. Com-
mission concerns are taking a large
share of the offerings. Receipts con~
tinue small.

RYE
Rye has taken a serious slump
during the past fortnight and prices
are much lower than they were at
the beginning of that period. The
market is easy.

BEANS ~

In spite of the many reasonsad-
vanced that beans should be bring-
ing more money the price continues
to work lower. The Detroit market
gained 5 cents on Saturday of last
week and the day closed With the
market Steady. ’ ,

POTATOES
There is a liberal supply of pota-
toes on the market and the demand
for old stock is slow. The market is
easy at lower prices.

HAY
The hay market IS not active, the
main part of the receipts being oﬂ'
grades and they are not wanted. The
market is easy in tone with priced
somewhat lower.

SEEDS \
*DETROIT, March. 21—Clover, primb
$17.00; timothy, $2290; alslke, $13.75.
CHICAGO, March 21—Timothy, seed.
$5.25@6.50; clover seed, $21@31.

LIVESTOCK MARKETS

EAST BUFFALO—C a t t l a—Receipu.
175; slow and dull. Calves—Receipts;
250; active; choice, $13.50@1'4; fair to
good, $12@13; culls, “@1150; heaw,
$6@8;grassers. $36115. !

Hogs—Receipts, 3,500; slow; generally
25c lower; heavy and mixed, $14.15;,
yorkers, $147014.2'5; light yorkers, $130
13.75; pigs, 8123506918; roughs, $12.50;
stags, $6@8.

Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, 1,000;
slow; lambs, $10@15.50; yearlings, $100
14; wethers, $11@ll.50; eves: $3©10;
mixed sheep, $10@10.50.

CHICAGO.-Fresh supply of hogs not
large but demand lacked action for heavy
kinds. Sellers found a fair market for
choice light animals, and some of these
were up a (lime from the low time of Fri—
day of last week. Prime heavy butchers
sold at $14@14.10. against $13.85 for top
hogs at the close of last week. At the
best time, last week top lots went to
$14.80, but stopped at $14.15 Saturday.
Bulk of good packing hogs sold at 3183
13.40 and sellers had about 5,000 unsold
hogs at the close. Present price Show;
up somewhat higher than a week ago.

Cattle trade was of little account. The
run was estimator at only 500 head.
Small lots were picked up at unchanged
values. The market for steers dropped
50@?5c in many .cases, early last Week.
but there was a betterdemand again later
and  were 15035:: of! from
those hated a wool: ago. Cows and bolt
are also MWWdEIﬂO-i utter alqu

   

    

 

 

 

        

      

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Manson's. making amasse-
ascents-to care far she beekeepers.
Since this  is the home of
many OIin’s bests beekeepors,
 is sure to be well nat-

-‘  Tmowing the meeting it is

V 3W 4.9 conduct a tour through

the M8415!” areas in northern
Michigan to examine theresults ’by
gm Area Clean-up Campaign of the

epartment of Agriculture. Please
keep the dates in mind and look for
further announcements regarding the
program.

. 2 COUNTY HOLSTEIN
BREFJDERS MEET .
‘ HE annual meeting of the Kala-
mazo County Holstein Breeders
' .Association was held March 11
at Oshtemo. The main interest of
the gathering centered around a dis-
cussion of how to improve the usual
strong showing of Holsteins at the
County Fair. Among the points
raised was that the Fair Board be
requested to add a division for cows
of each breed with Cow Testing As-
sociation records—breeds to be judg-
ed separately, but purebreds and'
grades of each breed to compete in
the same class. To be. eligible for
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Week of March 29
MPERATURES will be warm
for this time of year in Michi—
gan at beginning of this week.

The barometer will be low, winds

strong and scattered showers and

rains with spring thunder storms are
all likely probabilities for this per-
iod.

By the middle of the week stormi-
ness is expected to have passed this
state and as a result there will be a
change to colder weather with clear—
ing skies.

Toward the end of the week tem-
peratures will again rise to much
higher levels followed by increasing
cloudiness, showers, thunder storms
and wind. This storminess will be
in full force in Michigan at end of
this and beginning of next week.

Week of April 5

Moderate spring temperatures will
be the rule at beginning of this week
in Michigan but before the middle
3 of the week arrives the bottom will
have dropped out sending the mer-
cury in the thermometer much lower.

Precipitation during the storm
area of the ﬁrst part of this week is
not expected to be
throughout the state although there
may be some heavy falls in local cen-
ters together with early electrical
storms and strong winds.

The average temperature for the
next six to eight days following this
storm center will range generally be-
low normal in this state.

April Weather

April weather in Michigan is not
expected to be about seasonal in tem-
perature or possibly a little below
normal, yet not suﬂiciently adverse
for spring growing crops usually
planted or growing at this time.
This means that fruit trees generally
should be safe from a too early or
rapid growth and will not be in so
precarious a position in regard to
the extremes of weather 'during next
month. -

The average precipitation for the
most of April is expected to be below
'the seasonal normal in Michigan.
This will mean there will be little or
no serious delay in farm activity in
preparing ground for planting oats,
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duced to 51.00 per year.

R. B. Olds, county agent, and Phil
.Sexton,‘ Secretary of the Kalamazoo
County Farm Bureau. were present
and helped in discussions. J. G.
Hays, Secretary of the Michigan Hol-
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that the breeders could do to help

the Holstein breed in their county.
A reel showing “1924 Champions

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ﬂashed on the screen. -
Meeting adjourned to meet late

this month with Mr. Yager to elect
ofﬁcers, the present President W.
E. Balch and present Secretary Roy
Buckham holding over.

HOW BILL RUCKEI) THE, TIGER
(Continued from Page 6)

hex-{just plain wild. She couldn’t
follow direcﬂons and the socks
would not roll out like the picture
book said.

The wimmin. particularly Maria,
claimed Bedeliah would lose her
mind and after a meeting of the Mis—
sionary Society they decided to ask
her to get rid of the machine. So
they went to see her and succeeded
in convincing‘ her to send it back.

I boxed up that contrivance and
Bedeliah had Jim Harper write a
letter to the company.

In a Week Jim got a letter .and
the company said they sold that ma—
chine outright and they wasn't tak-
ing back second hand property. So
Jim wrote another lettersaying the
lady was hard up and a note had to
be paid. “Let her make socks.”
wrote back the company, “and she
can pay for the machine like our
other successful workers have."

Well, that darned near caused a
riot in our town. Everyone was try-
ing to ﬁgure out a way to get Bedel—
iah’s money for her. Even Judge
Stanton investigated and ﬁnally he
asked a farm paper what they could
do for the lady. At any rate, be-
fore the matter was settled, the pa-
per got Bedeliah two thirds of her
money back and we was happy.
That paper was a friend of ours from
then on. We thought we had Be-
deliah cured. Nothing doing though.
What does she do but fall into one
of these mail order matrimony
sharks’ hands. They sent her a long
list of things to ﬁll out (Maria got
this information) about her accom-
plishments and what kind of a well
to do. handsome man she wanted.
Bedeliah ﬁxed up the record blank
and sent it in with a~ch.eck, I don’t
recall how much. But instead of
getting married she pulled the prize
bonehead of her career. You see
the old fool put on that list of ac-
complishments that she was an opera
singer. And to make good she
signed up for a correspondence
course in grand opera singing, thirty
lessons and a career, “pay as you
learn";

Well, Miss Stokes only took a few
lessons. It was like some one was
dying from being carved to pieces
slowly, the way she howled.

The neighbors were just about
ready to have a revolution and then
Hallowe'en came and all the boys in
town went up about ten thirty and
begins to mock Bedeliah. It was
enough. She told Maria and the
Smith woman afterwards, it just
crushed her to think what her towns—
men thought of her. I said that
was all of that, but it wasn’t all.
The notes for paying for the course
began to roll in and it took the ef-
forts of Charley Stanton, Jim Harper
and me to clean up that mess. So
Bedeliah has promised me that she
won't sign up any more courses with—
out consulting Maria about it ﬁrst
and“ Maria has promised .me that she
won’t advise her-till I get a chance
to look the matter over.

, m m ,
is more work than stacking straw in
near as mean a

   
    
  
   
 

  

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for TB ‘Mdicaﬂon also some up for}.
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BUSINESS.

FARMEBS’ EXCHANGE; "

 

lilo advertisement less than ten words.
of ﬁgures,

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Form close Monday noon proceeding date of issue.
3 A Address: MICHIGAN nusmnss FARMEB. Mt, Clemens. Michigan.

on  memo ADVERTISING
SAT! m wow—0n. issue So. Two Issues 15c, Four Issues 25c.

. initial or abbreviation count as one word. .
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.‘ HELP WANTED

ADDITIONAL SALESMEN WANTED EOR UN-
occupied territories. Our proposition is an un-
usual opportunity for high grade men, offering
eater earni power and steady work. Must
are cur. Fall information on Mamie. Minne-
a olis Woolen Mills 00.. Inc., 61 First Ave..
lifinneapolis, Minn. -

TED: A BLACKSMITH FOR STOCK
W‘g‘grm. Must be expert horse sheer and capable
and experienced in every respect. Must also
willing ,to work part time at general farm work.
Give references, salary expected, experience, and
full particulars in ﬁrs letter. Address Box 239.

.Care of Business Farmer.

 

 

 

 

 

ANTED llOUSEKEEPER ON ‘ FARM.
WAdults. Electrical appliances. E. E. Stark,
Manchester, Michigan.

\‘(l AV FOR FARM WORK. .MODERN
Y9§lclxine¥y.fStltte wages expected. Scluﬁer Acres.
Remus. Michigan.

FARM LANDS

 

TOR SALE—1,000 ACRE RANCH. SACRI-
flee.

 

ELDOBADO BLACKBERRY PLANTS—THE
only real_cmnmercul variety. A Money Malia.
I05) poo )sid 3.00. Wholesale prices on quan—
tities. ’. L. eeler, Elberta. Michigan.

BUY N l' RSERY STOCK DIRECT FROM
grower. S'w agent's cmnmisslom Send for
catalog. Kankakec Nursery. Kankakee. Illinois.

 

 

 

POULTRY

 

WHITE WYANDOTTES’BOOKINC ADVANCE
egg orders from 8 quality matings and utility
flock. Stock all sold. Fred Berlin. Allen. Mich.

VVI’I'I‘E 'WYANDOTTE (‘OI‘KEREI.S, $3.00 AND
’ encli. Egus $1.50 for 15. Seven dol-
100. F‘. \V. Roberts, Salem, Michigan.

HATCH'ING ECGS. R. C. R. I. REDS. BRED

for color. six” and egg production. $1.25 per
15 postpqxd. Mrs. Albert Iiarwood, R4, Char-
levolx, Michigan.

CHICKS GUARANTEED:—~\VIIY
some? 100 '4.» safe urrivnl.
Toluca. Ill.

JERSEY BLACK GIANTS EGGS.

 

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lots for

 

 

NO'I' TRY
’l‘nlunu Hatchery,
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PRIZE W'IN-

 

 

 

 

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Attention sheep. bug or czlttlc rniscrs or M.“””;( SEEK,“ lull” IMF l-v him (,mssman,
attention some one who camﬂzleljl'ordl Spill'lsllilall'ls "m" - “1‘”!-

. . ;\ mutinv an sun 0 go. aim-x ‘ V V V ‘ ‘ v W ‘ ‘
lgggelde‘id)rlglotﬁteulix1 County, Miclziigan, between Mill, SALI'rrﬁlluliMul llI.A(.I{r (.IANT PULLIuTS
Grand Rapids and Saginaw. Private lakcs. good $3.00 ‘E‘ll'll. Roostcrs $0.00 each. B85819
buildings. soil, railroad facilities and roads. Write Jul-obs. Inmlcn, Michigan, R4.
for particulars. Might consider some trade. Rest ‘ ‘ Y F
buy I ever inspected. I’ricc right-“terms easy. LARth TYI‘EV'I‘OLIDIISE (IEESE EGGS 500
This is no wild cutovcr laud proposition. Arthur 1-:*(-ll.. Ruff Rm-k eggs $2.00 per )5, Baldwin
C. Lueder, 40 N. Deurborn St... Chicago, Illmms. & Nowlm, R. E. I), angsburg, Michlgan. '
FOR SALE—800 ACRES WILD LAND, $8.00 RUFF ORI‘INGTON COCKICRELS. (‘OOK AND

an acre. Will break in two tracts. Easily (‘unwuy's strum. A. .l. lrcwbaker, Elsie, Mich,
cleared. Small imu'ovements. No cash payment

who must harvest mmuully,
acres of (lnmms certiﬁed
Only

down to right par y
after secohd your, [‘5 _
alfalfa seed for land payment and interest.
a sheep man need apply. For alfalfa and swyet
clover chaff ﬁts in nicely With a band of brooding
Will sell on ll) venrly cash payments also

E 'es. .
“ John G. Krauth, Millcrsburg, Mich.

if preferred.

ATTENTION FARMERS IF YOU ARE LOCATED

within 60 miles from the city of Detroit and
you want to trade your farm for Detrmt. property
and want to have a good and honest business also
quick results, list your forms uxtli us, with a "c-
sponsiblc company. we ﬁpt‘cmllzu m sellmg farms
with all stock and machinery. Write to the Home
Land & Building Company. 8580 .Ios. (.‘umpuu,
Detroit. Michigan.

FOR SALE IMIﬁmVM) LEVEL g‘LAY LOAM
80

 

farm. Fair buildings. electricity, consoli-
dated School, mile north Williumsburg, l3 Tm—
verse City. Sarah 'I'imlall, 2277 Irwin, Muskegon,'
Michigan.

 

FOR SALE—MICHIGAN FARMS IN JACKSON.

 

 

ll‘IAMMO’I‘lI “'lll'l‘l‘l HOLLAND TURKEY EGGS
40 cents each. Jersey liar (Hunt eggs, 1:!
cents cm-lx. E. II. llawley, Itlmcu. Michigan, R3.

 

 

TURKEY EH‘DS FRO“ ()llR VARIOUS M.
Bronze B. lied, Ncrrnguuscit and Vl'. Holland
flocks. \Vrite Walter Bros. I’mvlmtan Point, Ohio.
FOR SALFr—MAMMO'I‘II BRONZE ’I‘llRKEYS.
Write for prices. Mrs, H, l). Horton, ll‘ilion.
Michigan.

 

 

SWINE

 

O.  (3.
pigs.
culurs.

ANI) CHESTER WHITE PEDIGREED
$16 per pair no kin. rite for cir-
Ruy Iluubush, Srinta, Illinois.

 

 

PET STOCK

 

 

 

 

 

 

\Vashtcnaw, Inﬁlizlln and 1.1vmgston (l‘ountics A 191x14} YOUNG “OUND WELL STARTED 0N
fully equ pod. 'ellam‘e Perm Agency, 24 Sun FOX. B. G. Hardy, Boon, Michigan.
131118.. Jac on, Michigan.
FOR SALE—I20 ACRE FARM. (IOOI) SOIL, RA‘V FURS
timber, lighting system. Will sell machinery
with farm. Four miles from Richmond, Mich.
Mrs. Alvnh Si‘Ollli‘ll. Richmond, Michigan. SPRING AND \VINTER MITSKRAT FURS
wanted at full market valpc; fair treatment;
FOR SALE IMPROVED FARMS. RANCIIES. prompt returns; shipments held separate on re-
\l ' ta lust fre .. D. Thompson _& quest. We pay transportation charges, Writ.

s . e.
Company, 3621 S. State Street, Chicago, Illmms.
FARMS NEAR DETROIT. MILAND, AND PYSI-

hinti. Write for list, stating kind wanted. E.
W. Box-dine, Route 5, Miland, Michigan.

LARGE ANI) SMALL_FABM. EASY TERMS.
C. Wilmer. Crews. Virginia.

 

 

 

SEED

 

CHOICE SEED CORN—«1000 BU. 100—DAY
‘1 1 Yellow Dent: 500 bu. Lancaster
Conn use Crap: 300 bu. Early White (lap,
neatly ll 1928 rep, all_hi¢h germination. Write
for  sum lo and circular. Order early to

we now. hull Farm. Box 20. Tuhytown,
ﬁnch 00.. Pa.

 

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“as...
Fan-grove. Michigan

9%? FOR 31; 10 18.18 MIXED 81',
' l.“ ' ' 31. Hardy giants
Circular

IMPROVED ROBUST BEANS,
Ped' rec Barley. Fritz Mantley,

 

 

76 G cmme sue
ﬂint? priogs. I‘repsid. free. L.

CW. Michigan
GLADIOLIIS. MICHIGAN DOWN, FI N E
selection. for rednc prices. Thos. L

Cousins, Nuthville, Michigan.

 

MANCHU SOY BEANS—«CHOICE RECLEANED,
from cell‘tiﬁlitll selfnl. 9839 Hewiniétion. 
m» ; gs ree. uy . tanner
cuss. Ohmic-n, Illinois.

EARLIEST DENT SEED CORN. 91% GERMIN-
a' . Also hardy alfalfa seed. Sam Bober,
News . South Dakota.

FOR SALE GOOD DENT SEED CORN 84.50
busheL Sam is our, sent for 25c. J. M. Mc—
Farren. Rapid ity, Michigan.

CERTIFIED WOLVERINE OATS. CERTIFIED
Robust Beans. Postal cord brings particulars.
A. B. look. Owosso. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

for pricm. Dans L. Butcher, Bennington, Mich.

 

TOBACCO

 

IIOMESPI'N TOBACCO—C II E W I N G
pounds $1.50, ten $2.50. Smoking five pounds
$1.25, ten '$2.0.0. Pipe Free. 1’? when ro-
oeived. Satisfr etion Guaranteed. e n t u c k y
Farmer's Assucmtion, Paducah, Kentucky.

m

 

TOBACCO—jKENTUCKY'S PRIDE;
ﬂnc chewmg 10 ounds, $3
nude. 32; 20 noun . $3.50.
‘Iayﬂeld, Ky.

E X T B A
; smoking, 10
Farmer»! Club.

 

IIOMESPUN TOBACCO. CHEWING 6 LBS..

$1.50,- 10—32.75. Smohng. 5 1m, 31,25;
Mild 10—8150. Pay when received. F. anton.
Bardwell. Ky.

 

 

HAY AND STRAW

 

HAY, STRAVV. 6; ALFALF'AI—WRITE us FOB

prices. Consignments solicited. Prompt returns.
Inquiries answered. eadtlual'terﬂ for Disaster
Tankage, Meat sent a. J. A. Benson Co.. 332 So.
LaSalle, Chicago. L

 

 

MISCELLANEO US

 

100 ASPIRIN TABLETS. 45c PREPAID. GUAR-

unteed Sample Free. Other Guaranteed Tab—
lets and pills direct ,to you at wholesale pri
Agents wanted Write for list. Gonna, 2m
Dorp, New York.

BARREL LOTS SLIGHTLY DAMAGED CROOK-

m-y, hotel chinaware cookingware, glassware etc.
Shipbed direct; from factorg to consumer. Write
{or particulars. E. Swasey ' 00., Portland, Maine.

ASH PAID FOR FALSE TEETH. PLATINU
0 old magneto minin- dlscarded )ewelr and 01

 

IMPROVED ROBUST BEANS. GENUINE WOL— old. Mail to. lloke Smelting & Re lung 00..
vetine Oats. Brookslde Farms, Wheeler, Mich. tsego. Michigan.

REGISTERED WOLVERINE OATS—MICE , UNTS NOTES, CLAIMS COLLECTED
man-B best 0‘ D' I‘mkbemer' Llll‘ton‘ Mmh‘ Acacigwherc' in world. No charges unless col-

 

NURSERY STOCK

 

RASPBERRIES. ASPARA-
31.25 pOBtPald. Free
table Gar on Luxures. C. D.

her new book

 

     

looted. May’s Collection Agency. Somerset. Ky.

 

FOR SALE—GARAG E AND GASOLINE
station with hvmg rooms over head. Inquire
of .l. R. Decster. Weidman. Michigan.

 

KN'IITEER OWNERS,

MAKE MORE MONEY.
. Burns. Salem, IlL

--- You like Aime Campbell’s 19067725?

Then send for “C:0rnpanio'nshipl ’ which is a collection of her poem of

home, family and farm life. Be-

cause Mrs, Campbell’s ﬁrst published oems appeared in The Business Farmer she
‘ will. prhmhoopyothiisstediﬁon.“Boundincloth, 185 page.
"5 $1.25 post ‘ .
Order from

Rural Publishing Company, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

 

      
  


   
 
 
 

  
 

   
   
 
 
 
  
 

 

 

 

 
 

 

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Make a sketch showing the

arrangement of your coéw barn

and send it along with the in-
formation requested below. You
will ﬁnd it convenient to lay a
thin sheet of paper over the
ruled space below, using the
cross lines as guides.

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, Owing to the rapidly increasing
. use and popularity of De Laval
Milkers, savings in their manu-
facture have been made which make
possible reduced prices for 1925.
There is now no longer a good
reason why any owner of 10 or more
milch cows should be without a
De Laval Milker.

skilled operator;

New York
. 165 Broadan

——it not only milks better but faster, thus saving more
—-eit is easy to wash and keep in a sanitary condition.
Therefore, the De Laval is by far the cheapest in the end.

The Do Laval Separator Company
29 nﬁv’iifa‘iﬁzn s...

  

You Can’t Get De Lava Results
Unless You Use A De Laval Milker

It is possible to get mechanical milkers for less than the ﬁrst cost
of a De Laval—but you can’t possibly get the same results.
are now more than 25,000 De Laval Milkers in use, and

—we have never known of one to injure a cow;
-——the action of the De Laval is so pleasing and stimulating that
cows almost invariably produce more milk;
———the De Laval is practically fool-proof and does not require a 11

San Francisco
61 Beale St.

time;

installatiOn ande‘satisfaCtory Work.

, OW that you.

I

are planning your work for the coming season you are

looking for ways and means of increasing your proﬁts, by cutting
expenses or producing more. If you are milking 10 or more cows a De Laval
Milke’r will help you do both. Plan now, to get along with less help by install-
ing a De Laval Milker, or plan to keep more cows with the same help you
now have. Send us the information requested below and we will gladly send
you, without obligating you in any way and free of charge, plans showing
just how a De Laval Milker should be installed in your barn, and approxi- ‘
mate prices. Then if you decide it would be cheaper to hire a De Laval
Milker than‘to hire extra labor, you will have plans which will insure proper

 

 

Thousands of users sa their De Laval .Milker is the best
investment they ever ma e and that they wouldn’t part with it
for twice its cost; many go so r as to sa'y they would selltheir
cows if they couldn’t have one. Our only regret after you put a
De Laval Milker to work will be that you didn’t get one sooner-—
and the longer you use it the better you will like it.

Conservativer ﬁgured, a De Laval Milker will make at least
$20. er cow per year in saving time and increased milk which
usual y comes as a result of its use and because of its regular,
stimulating and soothing action. A De Laval Milker usually
makes much more than this, frequently saving one or more men.

In addition, when it is considered that cleaner milk can be pro-
duced, that the drudgery and dislike of hand milking are eli-
minated, and that dairying is made more pleasant for owner, son
or hired man, you have the answer why so many people are in-
stalling De Laval Milkers.

 

$0.9M

\ICDCJr

There

€900

  

10.

12.
13.
14.

Free—-

De Laval Milker Engineer-
ing Service

165 Broadway, New York

Gentlemen:

Without obligating myself in any way I am sending you the following
information, tOgether with a sketch of _my b
that I am to receive a drawing showing how a De Laval Milker would be
installed in my barn and the apprommate cost.

1.

 

THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO., Dep’t4526
29 E. Madison St... Chicago
61 Beale St., San Francisco

arn plan, with the understanding

State maximum number of cows to be milked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. How many rows of stanchions to be ﬁtted up? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. How many cows or stanchions in each row? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. How long is each row of stanchions? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feet

. How far between the rows of stanchions? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Feet

. ’Is there an alley from side to side? , . . . . . In center? . . . . . . On end?. . . . .
. Is there anything to prevent running a pipe line from stanchion row to

stanchion row? . . . . . . . . .In center? . . . . . . . . .At end? . . . . . . . . . . .
. How high above the stanchion row will it have to be placed? . . . . . . . . . .
. Have you steel stanchionsi‘. .‘ . . . . . . . . . . . .What make? . . . . . . . . . . . . .

or wooden stanchions? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

How near to the stanchions in feet can the pump be placed? . . . . . . . , , ,
(Please locate on sketch) .

. Have you electric power?. . . .If so, give Voltage. . . .Phase. . .Cycle. . .
Have youamotor?. . . .If so, state H. P.. . . .Speed. . . .Size Pulley. . . .
Have you a gas engine?. .' . If so, state H. P.. . .Speed. . .Size Pulley. . .

How many milker units will you require?: . . .
(One man with 2 units can milk and strip 20-25 cows per hour.)

 

 

 

  
  

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