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“ISN’T IT FROZEN YET?”

‘In this issuer—Timberland Tax Law Good If Properly Enforced—Michigan Bean Growers» to Have
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CCOERDING to the, report of
Manager L. E. Osmer at the an-
nual meeting of the Michigan

  

 
  

of over $84000, 4109. This is double
, the business done timing the pre-
vious m. The increase was mus-

    

iated with the exchange, did more
, than $1,000,000 worth of business
last year. It marketed 160 car-
loads at beam and 119 winds of
grain.

favor o! the advertising b1 Wm
been, provided 91) per cent of the
shippers hack the protect, and in
3tavoroifhhean pool-Hittite desired
by the Minus. They dodorsed the
Michigan Beam Jobbers Association,
- of which the exchange is a member.
. in its efforts to assist the been in-
'dustr_y and thanked the Michigan

- State Farm Bureau for its action in

calling the conference last week to
:zonsider the question of a :bean pool.
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was the only“
pacer: reelected were: Pl‘esidm‘t.

 

fin. Reason.
ﬁnest-r elected.
‘R D, Honton, of Kinds; vice-orni-
ﬁent, L. C. “Kamlenike, M Washing,-
ton; secretary-sumac. Carl Mar-
tin, of mam; W W
MoCalla of Ypsilanti, M. R. Sisler, of
Caledonia; Fred Oehmke. of Bach
W. E. Phillips, of Decatur, and W
Nicolson, cit Mariette.

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STATE FAIR we m m
EVER HELD
ICHIGAN will celebrate the
M seventy-sixth anniversary of
the bonding M its State Fair
this year Dashes tor the m are
Friday, September 4 to Sunday,
September 18.

0!! course to say that the 1926
Fair would be bigger and hefter than
any that have gone before seems like
using a rather time worn expression.
Nevertheless it is true. G. W. Dick-
inson, secretary-manager of the Mich-
igan State Fair, is authority for the
statement that the seventy-sixth an-
nual Fair will be of considerably
greater magnitude than last years,

which was in itself a record breaker.

One of the new departments of the

    
   
   
      
   

   

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'Homes Contest will be open to all

mum-lies whose members are in good
health. Obviously entries of sickly
persons, undid (not he accepted in a
health contest. There will be tour
masses In ms trophies will be
awarded to each of the winning
tend-lies. Then there will he a
grand championship trophy tor the
best family of all entered. The
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phste and thorough physical cumin-
rem and psychology test. m
ottheseﬁm‘iings willbegivenboennh
«entrant sitter the contest with aug-
gest‘ions on how to further W
the health. This alone is warn-Eh est-
traebing the entry of a}!!! the imilxies
that visit the mo.

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C will be held tit-rem September 4 to 13, 19$.

or course you know that the hair has clays but
conducted primarily for the benefit of the far-er and I want
to say that this is equally true of the 1925 Fair.

While there me many attractions that dm the
city folks we never lose sight or the fact that the torn ﬁnd the
farmer come first.

Every department of interest to the man «on the
land has been enlarged this year and there are some new feat-
The United States Department of Agriculture
Dairy mibit, tm completed exhibition of all types or power.
farming machinery, the Cattle, Sheep and Swine exhibits, the
Horse and Poultry Shows, the display of farm products. in—
cluding grains, fruits, potatoes and flowers, are just a few
or the my features that are put on for the farmers' benefit.

'Wholesome entenaiment that 'can be furnished,
mob of it free, because of the large attendance, also inter.
. ests the folks from the farm as they seldom have an oppor-

. tnnity to enjoy such outerteimont, except at Fair tine.

Really the Fair gives the tanner e clan-co to see
what the other fellow is doing with his crops and stock and
therein lies the benefit.

Very truly yours.

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other mm the Mim
Stab ﬂair m award

who attend the—Fair there will be
wonderful automobile races on
mile speedway each ..'.aitelnoom con—
m a. big moo m the last

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who mm m in the and stand,

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wwghds in 3. met Rodeo «densest;
Min mum and his homily of
W mildews, Junk deprecated his
eight patterning horses. .131 Sweet
and his singing bend, Ml Browsers,
aerial acmibats; the Lime “tirio,
Shah’s Mules, the Three Krr hetlos,
McKesme .s Righland Bend the (brig—
‘ina‘l Four ‘Phii‘lips, world’s modest
forehead :balancers; William Wok
and Company, acro‘bats; M Haas
Brothers, Toyama and Many.
Japanese performers, and others. """

The acts Just mentioned mm ap-
pear We the m new grand stand
both afternoon and evening. The
evening Mormon will wind up
with a great shaman. the Swing
at Rome, and Wm this
every night will he a mm dire-
wm‘ks cm.

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Mus m we me w Wok
1h m the story of the Wm—
hg mm annual State l‘air
is m Den" State Fair W To
this each year comes as. buy :trom
{immediate 8‘)! Will the

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turning and are new mum in-
struct- and guides at nib dime.
Theyliwe in a. ﬁne, mm that city
provided by the Fair went
and go through .a regular Mine
each day. All their expenses are
paid by the Fair and m Imoge—
mt bees to it thet/m Eben are
given wholesome <31:an dong

. with their agricultural hmwions.

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greatest ever held in W ﬁncc
the days at the M Went
by our hardy pioneers M h 1849.

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thing I want to mention. Michigan
State GM will again mwate
with the State Fair, asbmbeen the

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, ass-mm the M. The
founding M titre hollege, the ﬁst ag-
ricultural school in the wet“, dates
trom 1857. And permit as m say
that the collage has always given
its heartiest orb-operation to me Fair
and wﬂlmdn this year-Ma. won-
derful amt in the Giannini: “Elem-
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Timberland Tax Law God If: Preperly Enforced

Expert on tom} and Conservation Problems Declares Pearson Act Should Fill Long Felt Need

mm M!!!- i‘neue of. T111; Boer-
m Fm Mr. Pmll quoted
in full, Section 2 of the Pearson
not and connented‘ that this was a
measure passed by the legislature
“which had been insistently urged
by mchigan farm organizations and
those interested in conservation.”
That is certainly the case but it
remains to be said that while this
law was drama and passed in good
m, and to cure a longstanding

injustice, that nevertheless it might

become a- funnel for wholesale tax
evasions and outright fraud against
the state and its taxpayers.

There were no hearings on this
bill. There is no record other than
in the law itself, as to what the leg-
islature expected” or intended the
law to accomplish. Save as the
low might be repealed, or as the
courts? might interfere, the Depart-
md of: Conservation. is the ﬁnal
Why in. the interpretation and
Win;- of the: act.

hati'stooay,theactasit

m is a' my“ good not indeed,

nﬂ pool-bay the boot the of the
loot imam stoke today; but whether
the law m- to he an all-around
beneﬁt, or just another mess of
trouble, depends almost wholly on
how the Departmont of. Conservation
handles the questions: Evolved.

Right now is the time to discuss
the sanction for the. Pearson act
does: not go into steer. until August
2:8: as, before then, the Department
oi Conservation must frame and-
m not the rules, regulations- and
instructions under which it will ad-
minister the new law.

Those is reason to think that
versions: his owners of timberlands
have olplained to tho Department
how they would like to have the
EU admwiariotered Perhaps the De—
partment might also beneﬁt by
learning what. the farm organiza-
tions think about it. In any case,
it!" anbe is going to think or say
anything about it, now is the time.

The outstanding facts, I think,
an about as. follows:

Nearly a. third oi the state is now
my”, burned user stump land;
The repeated ﬁres have usually do
strayed the natural second growth
so that whatever is now growing on
the land; is relatively poor stuff. or
what happened to miss. the ﬁres.
But, here and there, are irregular
potohos Gt swamp timber, young
hardwood, popple, hairpins and oak
com in after pine, which, given a
dooont. chance, will presently be
rod forest making timber. -

'l'ho old notion that practically all
the. cut-over. land would he “need—
ed!" for agriculture, has been pretty
well blown up. Boom after boom
has come alang and ﬂattened out.
Today everybody knows that there
is a limit and just about where that
limit is. Today everybody knows
that if the bulk of our cut-over
lands are. ever to become productive
it must be with crops of timber and
with the wild-life and tourist traf-
ﬁc always associated with good for-
eats.

The land-certiﬁcation act“ handled

. by the State Department of Agricul-

ture ,and the Land-Economic Survey
handled by the Department: of Con-
servation, are both oﬁcial recogni-
tions by the legislature, that it is
time to start dealing, with the facts
and to get going with a state land
policy and program that has a
chance to workwand to get and
hoop idle land at work.

hogaoothor stop in sugho. policy,

Inch unexplain—

The Only Farm Magazme Owned

   

SATURDAY, AUGUST 1,1925

By P. S. LOVEJOY

Formerly Assistant Professor of Forestry, University of Michigan.

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ed by Mr. l'owell‘ in another article
has long been» evident. Under the
general property tax everything,

must be assessed and taxed each
year. In the case of yearly crops
that works out all right but in the
case of a long-term crop, such as
timber, the - yearly tax, at. full as-
sessed value; may conﬁscate the-
crop before it is ready for market.
Even when the assessors have been.

assessable, the chance is always

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there. So special tax laws» for tim-
ber being grown as a crop, are neod-
ed if private owners are expected to
raise such crops at all. And private
owners must begin raising timber,
and soon, and on a very great scale,
or we shall shortly be. very short of
forest products. Otherwise we go

protection and so- -,forth and that
the money required for this keeps
increasing and! with no end in sight
—-—and-' that it is due to keep on in-
creasing until the bulk of those idle
lands, somehow, become self—sup-
porting and steadily turning off
something of value.

Quite a lot of l',and several mil-
lion acres, probably, has fair to good
young forest on it. If the owners
of that fwd and that young, forest
can be persuaded or encouraged in-
to taking care of it, then there is
that much less to worry'about. Be-
sides it is only fair to give every
crop a just form of taxation.

So the last legislature passed the
Pearson act. Under it, the state
agrees that timberland which can

 

 

MR. P. S. LOVEJOI is wol qualiﬁed to discuss any questions of
timberland taxation hath; in 1922 acted as chairman of a spe-

cial committee selected by the Department of Conservation to
draft a bill along the line of the Pearson not. His other work along
this line includes having, charge of the Land-Economics Snrvey, behg
My 6? the State Forestry Association for some 12 years, assist-
ant professor of fer-entry at the University of Michigan for 8 years,
and 5 years of travel, investigation and writing on this subject for
one of the leading magnum of the country. Mr. Lovejoy declares

the new law is all right if not interpreted “liberally”.

In this article

hoonphinstholawinoo-oiderabledetailasweﬂasitsuseandpos-

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without or we grow our timber
through public agencies—state and:
national forests, for instance.

The legislature recognized all this
when, in 1911, it passed the woodlot
tax act. Under this not more than
40 out of any 160 acres might get
the beneﬁts and at least half the
160 must be improved land. So this
law could not apply to the typical
cut-over country holdings.

But we have some 1050“,“!-
acres of' these holdings, now, and
more of them everyday the lumber-
men work. Whenever the owners of
such land have been urged to get
going with timber crops they have
said: “Can’t consider it. Taxes
might eat me alive.”

he a matter of fact. of course,
taxes were already eating them
alive. Idle land, produehg nothing
of value, and. privately owned, must
always out its hood of unions the:
owner is successful in- unloaﬂng on
somebody at a proﬁt.

Lost January there were 7,000,-
000 acres in Michigan that were
delinquent for taxes. That‘s one
acre in every ﬁve for all the state.

And over 700,000 acres had gone

into bankruptcy and been bid in to
the state. Owners are getting tired
and are deciding that their specula-
tions are not going to pan out and
are letting go.

It is quite easy to blame the lum-
ber-men for all this but everybody
helped start the thing off and keep
it going so that if we are now to
change the system we must be fair
about it.

Too Much Idle Land

For instance we know that crops
of timber-and the things which: al-
ways so with timber, are a whole
lot better than no crops at all. We
know. also, that there is a danger-

qualify as required by Section 2
of the act, shall at once be taken
out from under the general proper-
ty tax and shall go into a special
class of its own, and stay there so
long as it can conform to the re-
quirements of the act.
Pay 5 or 19 Cents per Acre

Lands listed under the Pearson
act pay only 5 or 10 cents an acre
a year, according to whether they
are pine (and swamp) or hardwood.
Lands so listed pay only these nomi-
nal taxes on the value of the bare
land and the timber crop on the
land pays no taxes at all until the
owner decides to cut some timber.
Then the owner must pay 25 per
cent of the stumpage value on what
he cuts

That would certainly seem to be
fair enough but the legislature was
more than. fair; it was generous. It
went still further. It agreed to
stake the townships and counties
containing listed land and to put up
5 cents an acre each year on each
acre of listed land.

That is to say, under this arrange—
ment, the state treasury is tapped
for a half, or a. third, of what the
owner of the listed land is required
to pay in yearly taxes. That is more
than any other state does and is
probably all right.

The idea is that when they have

-a lot of cut-over land, assessed at

$3 to $10 an acre, and hardly worth
that, many townships and counties
are up against it to raise enough tax
money to keep on getting by. They
are therefore tempted to raise val-
uations on cut—over land to a point
where the owners quit and begin to
void their titles. But when that
happens, of course the townships
and counties are worse oi! than ever
but can’t help themselves;

So the owners of timberland

  

   
  
 
  
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
   
  
 
  
   
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
   
   
   
     
 
 
 
  
  
    
   
  
 
    
  
   
 
   
  
 
  
  
     
   
  
 
   
   
    
     
 
   
     
  
    
 
  
 
  
 
  
   
 
     
  
  
 
  
   
  

ed 2nd. class matter. Au. 22, 1'19 11 ,
gunﬁre cilgmenr, Mich” under act 1 123.187.:

counties meanwhile, will suffer mort’
or less loss in current taxes when.
land is listed under the Pearson not.
To square that, and as 3 investment
and proof of good faith and to help
oil the works, the legislature agreed
to ante the nickle an acre. We noon!
and want a lot of good young foroot.
We would like to have it grown by
private owners for otherwise we
must do it direct and through public.
ownership and administration.

But——

When an owner has been paying. ‘
25 to 50 cents an acre in taxes, and,
by ﬁlling out an application, may be'
able to get those taxes dropped to
5 or 10 cents an acre, it’ 3—4de
quite likely he will be interested,-
as it were.

And if a big cut-over land owner»,
were to let it be known, or under-f
stood, that he was ﬁguring to drop
quite a block of land and quit pay~.
ing any taxes at all, perhaps most of'
the local people might feel that halt
a loaf in tax money would be better’
than no bread—especially with the
state itself putting up a half or a.
third of it. So the local people»
might not show up to protest when,
the hearings required by the Poor-5
8011 act are called, and when the!
land being applied for isn't—well.
isn’t just what it should be undet'
the law, as it were—

Right there is the possibility that:
the new law may not work as it;
should.

List to Escape General Tax

What is to prevent the wholesale;
listing of cut-out, burned—out stumpo‘
and-raggedy cull land, so as to let
the owners escape from the general
property tax, and, paying only nom—
inal land taxes each year, sit tight,
comfortably waiting for a chance-
to unload? And while the state
treasury is being tapped for a half
or a third as much as is the owner
himself?

If anything like that should hap-g
pen, of course we Should be much
worse oﬁ than before, for we should'
have deliberately encouraged, and
paid cash, to perpetuate and con- .
tinue the particular thing which, a1!
these years, has been making all tho.
trouble. That, of course, is the hold«;
ing of timberland by owners who: .
have no intention of getting, put-I
ting or keeping their lands at work..
and whose sole concern is to hang
on until they can ﬁnd a way of un-
loading at a. proﬁt—and who have'
no desire to see present conditions: {53'
changed unless they can say whah. ‘
changes shall be made.

Now what is to prevent something.)
like that from happening?

The Pearson act itself prevents it
—if the act is enforced according,1
to its letter and spirit. The possibil—
ity was understood all the time by
the people who drafted the bill and,
who helped it through the legisla-
ture. The possibility'must have i
been understood by the legislature
and by the Governor when he sign-
ed the bill and made it a law. That
anybody intended to let anything
like that happen is most unlikely.

As a matter of fact the act was?
carefully drawn so as to prevent;
anything of the sort.

Listing Land ,

Section 2 is the most essential.
part of the law. It deﬁnes just._
what sorts of land may, or may not, i
be accepted for listing.

“Land carrying any considerable;
stand of mature forest growth 117i.
excess of whatmay be required to
insure satisfactory reforestation, as
Well as land primarin valuable for
purposes other than the production.
of forest products" is very deﬁnition:
excluded from the beneﬁts at “1‘
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Farmers Committee
HE Michigan bean growers com—
" mittee, chosen at the meeting

., at the M. S. C. on July 13th,

get together again on July -20th at

' e State Farm Bureau headquar-

ers to discuss what could be done

5to help the bean growers of this

Estate. It was the general opinion

(if the gathering that before any

{plan of marketing be taken up that

"the growers get an organization that

could represent and act for them.

The growers committee proceeded

to organize 'an association by elect-

ing Earl C. 'McCarty of Bad Axe as
president, Richard‘ Price of Saginaw
as secre ary, and F. W. Dowling of

Akron a treasurer.

After the election of ofﬁcers a
resolution was proposed providing
for the appointment by the presi-
dent of a committee of three bean
‘growers to confer with the Markets
~Department of the Michigan State
College of Agriculture and Applied
Science and bring in a report on
' how to proceed to form a legal and
permanent organization. President
,McCarty appointed the following
men to the committee who confered
.with Prof. Patch of the College:
'Richard Price of Saginaw, C. A.
Cheney of Empire, and C. R. Oviatt
of Bay City.

ﬁAfter a recess the meeting was
again called to order and the com—
mittee presented a report outlining
13 points which they recommended
as: the basis for a permanent organ—
ization. ‘ After a careful reading of
,thg report it was adopted and the
Barrie committee of three was asked
to continue their study of the matter
and in cooperation with the Markets
Department of the College to draw
up the necessary legal documents

4 In the Land

7(In this article, the seventeenth of the
‘s ies on his travels in Europe, Francis
A4 Flood tells us about Switzerland.)

' OUNTAINS and hotels, cheeses

and champagnes—Switzerland

Y is famous for those four at-
tractions, and our guides from the
Swiss Department of Agriculture
who showed us about their little
country left nothing undone to im—
press us with the superiority of their
country in all four of these ﬁelds.

Of these four principal things for
which Switzerland is famous, and
justly so. our guides ﬁrst specialized
in cheese. They laughed at, us for
knowing so little about it, and pi—
tied us because Americans eat less
Scheese per capita than the people of
«any other country. (The Swiss eat
more per capita than the people of
any other country.) When Ameri—
ecan importers buy Swiss cheese they
demand the kind that has the larg—
est and most numerous holes
through it. while the Swiss people,
although they are good ’enough bus—
iness men to make it that way for
us, do not like it quite so holey for
themselves. But this one large, por—
ous brick cheese which we have
come to call “Swiss" cheese is only
one of the many, many kinds to
Which the Swiss people turn their
attention and pride. Almost half of
all the milk produced in Switzer—
land is converted into cheese, for
home use and export. Besides the
most popular Emmenthaler and thc
Gruyere, they make and export enor-
mous quantities of small cheeses.
. extra ﬁne and compressed into small
cardboard boxes.

We visited the seat of the larg—
est‘ cheese exporter at Zollikofen,
near Bern, where a model plant has
been erected comprising twelve huge
cellars, and dowu these musty,
smelly cellars we paraded behind
our proud guides, sampling, and ex-
claiming in our delight, which was
not entirely forced, through miles
of alleys all lined with these enor-
mous cheeses.

The aroma was wonderful. In this
.one warehouse alOne' there were at
, at time approximately 8000 chees-
es reposing in state, each in its own
pace {in its process of curing and
storing.” These huge single cheeses
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pounds . in .
his and were worth from $76.
11- 0* each. and so ‘in this one

Now Workiag‘ With "Mass! Spéci

Papers for Incorporation

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for the incorporation of the new or-
ganization.

According to the report of the
committee local units will be es-
tablished in various sections of the
bean growing counties and they will
be known as Bean Growers Associ—
ations. Then there will be a cen-
tral ofﬁce to be known as the Mich-
igan Bean Growers Exchange. Each
local is to have one vote in any
matters that may come before the
Exchange. It was tentatively agreed
that the individual grower should

pay a membership fee to his local
of $3 and each local would pay
membership dues of $100 to the

with distrust because it had the ap-
otﬁce. However, the central ex-
change is not to be organized until
twenty locals have been formed.
The proposed pool published in
our last issue came up for. discussion
but the majority present felt that
ﬁrst an organization of the growers
should be formed and marketing be
taken up later. AJa-rge number of
those present looked upon the pool

proval of the old line elevator in-

terests. Prof. Cox’ declared by the
ﬁgures in the proposed pool the
handling charges on beans were

nearly double present charges, and
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CUTTING “'HEAT 0N \VINKLE-R FARDI AT VASSAR

Notice how thick the bundles are?

Henry F. “'inklcr, of Vassar, had 15 acres of

wheat two years ago and it was all as heavy as this.

of Mountains. Hotels, Cheeses and Champagnes

By FRANCIS A. FLOOD

storehouse there was well over a
half-million dollars worth of this
one kind of cheese alone.

It was only after sampling dozens

of varieties of Emmenthaler, Gruy—
ere, Petit, Suisse. Roquefort, Pon‘t
l’Eveque. and what Dr. Bereman
liked to call “fromage de Brie
cheese”, and countless other vari-
eties of various ages in various

stages ofmanufacture and process—
ing that we were able to satisfy our
conductors that we had ﬁnally “stu-
died” the Swiss cheese industry. It
was appaling to them that some of
us could not tell a three—month-old
Emmenthaler from one that had
stood for six months or more, and
it was just as unbelievable to them
that there were some in our party
who did not know Gruyere from de-
Brie as it would be for us to learn
that a Swiss visitor to this country
would not know an ice cream soda
from a malted milk, or vice versa,
and I dare say that many of them
would not. It was interesting for
us to see a few weeks later near
Versailles, France, on the famous
Rothschild estate a band of Larzac
sheep and to learn that really gen-’
uine Roquefort cheese is made only
from the milk of Larzac sheep.
There is cheese sold as Roquefort,
of course, and sometimes it becomes
almost exactly so by diluting the
sheep’s milk with cow’s milk, but
to the exacting cheese fancier of
Switzerland and France there is
only one Roquefort.

Our experiences in the champagne

cellars of Switzerland and France
were equally embarassing. Through
miles ‘of cool, damp cellars and past
acres of bottles, kegs and huge
casks, some of which would hold
several thousand gallons of this ex—
pansive and most aristocratic of all
wines, our prohibition party of
American editOrs trailed along with
our guides and samplers. Sampling
champagne in Switzerland and
France is one of the highly skilled
professions, and a real taster" can
sip a small sample and then his
highly educated palate will tell him
not only what part of the country
the grapes were growu in, but prob—
ably the condition of the vineyard,
the year the champagne was made
and in what kind of a container it
has been kept since making. Of
course, the laity can not do so well,
but the average citizen can identity
“extra dry" and come somewhere.
near naming the district from which
it came and its age. Our own ig-
norance, then, was pitiful. We wish-
ed samples off onto each other and
did everything we could by com-
paring notes and paying careful at-
tention to be sure to praise the
best, but I am afraid that we made
some terrible blunders.

But with all the agriculture of
this staunch and thrifty little re—
public of Switzerland, their moun—
tains, their noble Alps, really con—
stitute their greatest attraction

We rode by train, groaning up
steep cogged roads and slipping
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that they should be sure that they

are at the head of it and have con-4

trol.

successful [inmost instances and it
was proposed a compulsory pool un-
der the Michigan Elevator Exchange
be taken
elevator exchange now handles
about twenty—three per cent of the
beans grown in Michigan at pres-
ent and it was thought that enough
of the crop could »be-signed up to
make an effective pool. Discussion

along this line did not go far'as it ,

was the intentof the meeting to
ﬁrst get a growers organization un-
der way.

The representatives that attend-
er the meeting were:

Leelanau' county, C. A. Cheney of
Empire; Ingham, Chas. F. Hart of
Williamston; Saginaw, Richard Price
of Saginaw; Clinton, Samuel Lang-
don of Hubbardston; Missaukee,
John Spitzbergen of Moddersville;
Bay, C. R. Oviatt of Bay City; Shia-
wassee, Jas. N. McBride of Burton;
Eaton, H. D. Burroughs of Milliken;
Tuscola, W. F. Dowling of Akron;
Midland, F. A. Lundy of Coleman;
St. Clair, Bert Barr of Capac; Hur—.
on, Earl C. McCarty of Bad Axe.
Representatives from .Isabella and
Gratiot failed to attend,

The committee of three decided
that they would need a couple of
week’s time to draw up the neces4
sary papers to organize the growers’
association, and it was announced
that another meeting of therepre-
sentatives of the growers would be
held on August 6 at the State Farm
Bureau headquarters. at which time
the committee would report.

nally came to Lake Lucerne, that
supreme masterpiece by which, it
seems to me, all other lakes may be
judged.
is the most beautiful, Lake Louise
in the Canadian Rockies, Lake Ta—
hoe in California, some of those
gems of the Scotch lowlands, or
Lake Lucerne or Geneva in Switzer—
land, and it seems to me that the
question can not be answered any
more‘than it is possible for any one
to prepare a brief setting forth why
the rose or tulip is more beautiful
than the violet or the lily. Certain-
ly each is supreme in its own class
and that is as far as the human cri-
tic may go. We rode across Lake
Lucerne on a tourist boat and then
spent the day climbing up by means
of a terriﬁcally steep little electrical
cogged railroad to the heights of
Rigi—lHulm where we ate dinner in
One of those Swiss hotels thousands
of feet above the lake and so di~
rectly above that it seemed that we
could almost have jumped off the
top and down into the blue depths
of the lake below. '

The next day we took a train in
another direction to the height of
its run and then climbed on foot a
few miles to the foot of a glacier
lying among the tops of those
mountains. It was a hard climb but
delightfully typical of what I had
always imagined Switzerland to be.
Little boys and girls in their pic—
turesque mountain garb hailed us
along our climb offering to sell lit-
tle bunches of edelweiss, a hardy
little aster whose habit of thriving
only in the most inaccessible of
spots makes it the more desired.

A panorama ofgSwitzerland seem-
ed to spread before us as we loiter-
ed along this winding road up‘ to
the glacier. A peasant woman in
her house by the side of the road
was arranging the ﬂowers in the
huge window boxes that always
ﬂank those enormous curving gables
of the chalet type of mountain
homes. A ragged little urchin of
twelve years had forgotten his edelf—
weiss customers for a few minutes
In. a sunny nook by the side of a
little bridge, and was, engaged in
the. 'morevwnatural -and.= .delightful
business of “good-timing" one, of
the competitors ‘ in ‘gthe newer: 5.111%?-
ness, 8. pretty-"lit e‘ girl-'ofabou
. on}; pg . n—Bagé’fZiﬁYV

   

 

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L: HAVING LOTS OF FUN.——Billy,
, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bonton, the pigs and chickens, and everything. “He’s a young“ neighbor of mine,” writes F. J. Dart, grandson of M. DeMond,
} Pentwater, is enjoying a. foot bath. Butler of Eckford, sending the picture to us. ” Mt. Pleasant, likes watermelon.

 

 

   

 

AMONG THE FLOWERS—Here we have two lovers of READY FOR PLAY.—Cari and Ken— GOING FOR A RIDE ON A FUNNY LOOKING
ﬂowers, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Cornell, of Reed City. _“'e neth Lewis are. visiting their grand— llORSE.——George Cook, of Harbor Springs, had seen pic-
wish it were only possible for us to print this picture in parents, )Ir. and Mrs. John Clarke, tures of many people taken while on the hack of u. horso
colors to show you the wonderfully beautiful ﬂowers Mr. of Coleman. Aren't they two jolly so he thought he would have his taken a. little different
and Mrs. Cornell raise. looking boys? ——-—-und here it is. Some horse!

 

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- IN HIS BIRTHDAY SUIT.—-—This is Rex, PUTTING THE “’GRIN” IN FARIWING.—"This is what puts the ‘grin' DIOTHER'S llEl.l’ER.—Ruth helps
son of 311-. and Mrs. Fenstma-ker, of \Vood- in farming—a. tractor. a dog, and best of all a. good boy to help dad," her niotheu Mrs, Arthur Bliss, Hender-
land. writes E. L. King, 0! Quincy. son, with the ('hivkens.

 

 

 

   

'“NICE DOGGiEi'b-The boy‘whohas not. known the

. , , BROADCASTING A SIMILE.— HELPING CLEAN UP.—-Eldon Garnet Nicholas, of Gad-a _
companionship of a. on, has missed a part, 0f~llf9. Geo. That is the title given this picture iilae, enjoys helping his dad and here he is doing all he can
' ' ”Mar-3m“ Plug“! 11-1", 99"“ th°Pﬂnu .1 ., , V . . by Mrs. L. A. Byers, Grant. ‘ > to clean up the back yard. ' 1 .

       

 
 

      

  
 

 
 

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l1 ,, three «wees; ,
west. use a, permit to can,“
- along the gravelroad and through
“Bay City. Iethat report true! It
(so, where will I apply to, for such
» as. permiti—O. ‘L; P., Whittemore,

.- Michigan. ‘

RE is no statute which re-

', . quires the owner of cattle to

- obtain a permit before he may

. lawfully drive such cattle alOng “the

. public highways. Live stock may be

. lawfully gdﬂven along the public

highways when in charge of a com-

j potent much.
' Whether

‘ City has any regulations relative to
«driving eeule through its public
streets, we are unable to say. i
inmost that you take the matter
. up with the City Attorney.—H. Vic-
’ to; Spike, Assistant Attorney Gen-
ie .

CAN GARNISBEE

. A owes B a debt, can B garnishee
‘- A providing A pays B a certain
iamount every month? Can a land-
lord garnishee a tenant after ten-
" ant has moved off from premises?
2 A owes B a store account. A gives
. B his note signed by sell. A makes
7 one or two payments after giving
inote. Can B collect balance of debt
,2 by garnisheei—A. 0.. Munising.
. Michigan.

COULD garnishee A for what

is past due even though A pays

a certain amount each month.

' Tenant's removal from the place

would not prevent the landlord from

. garnisheeing him for back rent. B

. could not sue for the balance until
‘ the note is due.—--Legal Editor.

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Hay three school districts enter
.an agreement to hire a person to
.drillabandandtakefromthegen—
oral fund $5.00 for such purpose?

1 DISTRICT would not have a

" legal right to enter into such

an agreement nor to expend
money under such condition—W.
i I... Coﬂey, Deputy Superintendent of
Public Instruction.

COMPANY COULD NUl‘ (new
During the last ice alarm oer
telephone wires, which were very
old and rusty, were broken down.
We did not have any service for
over two weeks. Will you please
tell me whether or not the telephone
company can collect rent for the
timewedidnothavetheuseofthe
phone? We pay the rent every
'three months—A. E, North Branch.
' Mich.
: LEPHONE companies are not
; authorised to charge for serv-
ice not rendered and puiode
I during Which no service was render
6 ed should be deducted from the time
S for which charges are made—Mich-
. igan Public Utilitim Commission.

HA8 RIGHT on Pessmsron
,Havelarighttokilianold
Shores and skin him and hang the
{meet up in shed. in cold weather, to
., feed to chickens? Health oﬂicer

 

 

issue it is illegal to kill horses that ‘

tway. IfArentsfarmfrom B,cedl
”out, pays rent and vacated premis-

es two months before his time ex-
}pires. hasBright torent it too, C
. to move on the farm before A's
" time expires without A’s permis-
§ Bion?-——F. K., Middleton, Mich.

S RE is a state law prohibiting
“ the feeding of the ﬂesh of old
and decrepit animals to fowl!

(or other animals.
You would have the right of poo--
gsession to the term until the expir-
ation of your lease ,and no person
3 would have the right to move onto
,it without your permission—Jags!

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they can

Ilia!

l . maker of the note “it be

] liable on it sitar nine m
~v notice. a- lull-r

.weuld notbe‘iialﬁe Mile“

1been‘given notice of am

iprevided such noiice was not we!!!-

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NEW ROAD . ,
There‘is a new ’i‘oad being built
through a forty and leaves the
building back from the road. Can
this read he closed? There is no
road work done on it. The land
opens to the road but not in front
of the building but they own the
land out to the road—J. A... East

‘ Jordan, Mich.
or not the city of Bay -

0U state that there is a new
road built and in the very next
sentence you say that there has
been no work done on it. If this
road has been properly laid out and
opened, you have no right to clues
it unless the proper steps ‘are taken
for closing existing roads—H. V.
Spike, Assistant Attorney General.

PAY LAWYER FEES

If A sues B and beats him in Jus-
tice Court, and B carries it up into
Circuit Court and wins, who has to
pay the costs? But if B settles be-
fore it is brought into Circuit Court,
does 'B have to pay his lawyers tull
fee, or how much?-—E. E. 1., Sher-
wood, Michigan.

F B wins in the circuit court, A
would have to pay the can... If
it is settled before the case is

heard, B would have to pay his law—-
yer whatever his charges are, provid-
ed they were reasonabi-e, depending
.on how much time and work was
expended by the lawyer in bringing
about the settlement—Legal Editor.

CAN GET DIVORCE

I want to know if when a warrant
is put out for a. man and they do
notﬁndhimlnaceminiengthof
time, then if a woman wants a di-
vorce it it will inter-tore with the
warrantornouandifithutobe
put before an attorney or not, and

 

 

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. in order to get a divorce.

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to support ”his child until she is 18
nullified/end does he have to
be in the same place Where she is
Can she
get it on the grounds of non-support
all; W! ‘——Mns.- 9., Alma.

‘ your husband on the ground o!
desenion and non _ rt whe-
ther you both live in the same
place or not. , You could get an or-
der requiring him to pay you money
for the support or yourself and
children. You would have to con-
sult a lemma—Legal Editor.

 

“CONDMATION 0F Emmi-
.HOUSE
Will «you please inform us how
to go about it to condemn a school-
houseie-aH.--P.. Burr Oak, Mich.
- ~ condemnation of a school-
~ housewhkhis unﬁtiornseis
done by the Superintendent ct
Public Instruction, and'auch‘is done

thebnﬂdinghysomememberoithe
Department of Public Instruction.—
W. L. Ceﬂey, Deputy Supt. of Public
Instruction.

WANTS PENSION
I would like to ask it there
pension tor widows in this state
an without any support and not
work any mom. I see "by
papa, We Ohio has. such a

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OILS AND CROP

Edited in C. I. WRIGHT. Cm County

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Contributions Invited—Questions Answered

mama on snsrmr

Which is the most succesfully
grown for hay—timothy and alfal-
fa mixed or timothy and alsike mix-
ed—-O. H., Harbor Beach, Mich.

3 LSIKE clover is adapted to low
wet soils and to soils that do
not contain suﬂicient lime to

grow a large crop of alfalfa and

sweet clover.

Alfalfa, on the other hand, is
adapted to fertile, well drained
soils.

The mixture, then, which you
should use, will depend upon the
nature of your land. The timothy-
alsilte mixture {or lowlands. and
timothy—alfalfa or straight aliens
for uplands. The majority of tann—
ers prefer a straight aliali‘a bay to
a mixed hey—C. R. Megee, Anson!-
ate Professor of Farm Crops, nich-
igan State College.

MPW W mes
Are you able to tell us whether
transplanting sugar beets has ever
been tried? We are wondering if it
would be a practical operation to
have the beets started in a hot bed
and later transplanted—the idea be-
ing to get away iron the was!"
hand labor of blocking and also to
give the transplanted plants two or
three weeks mart over the plants
grown irom the seed in the ﬁeld.—
W. J .,, Jackson. County. _
UR inquiry; about the trans-
planting. of sugar beets can be
best answered by quoting from
the only article that has been found
. on this subject . This article appear—
ed in the Journal of the American
Society of Agronomy for larch
1916 and was written by F. J.
Pritchard and L. E. Longiy on work
conducted at Madison, Win. in 1914.
“m rows were planted with
seedlings grown in .a cold heme
team used sewn April nth. They
were Want? to she held on
W sun when ‘5 te . my tong
and .M sap-1mm to new
M in diameter. The rows in
which
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Original, sewn on May 173:. A opac-
ing of 20 inches was employed ‘be—
tween the rows and 12 inches be-
tween the beet within the rows.
Practically every beet grew and at
harvest time the yield from these
rows, (the transplanted rows; ex-
ceeded that of those sown in ’iise
open, but many of the roots were
badly breached."

“Beets transplanted when very
small usually die; if allowed to be-
come somewhat larger, the- loss
from dying is mostly eliminated but
excessive branching of the root ott-
en occurs. The best length ed moi:
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ten inches. Seedlings shorter than
eight inches are likely to produce
roots rather short for commercial
use, though they make fairly large

_ beets. Those longer than ten inches

are liteiy to double up in plant—
n‘..'1 _

As to the practicability est grow-
ing the sugar boots in hot hole or
cold frames and banqueting” than
totheﬁeid.lwilihamtoeaymy
frankly that I do not know. Even
though the ensue W to the
' methods of blocking and

\mnmumummtnm

he math-x team of prodsdng
the young plants—note the size no-
cessary tor bet meek—Hem! 3th

'Mdgewing thewer‘lrprepu-

iy perfumed would be

, equally res
greet—4. G. L111. . Assist-

     

   

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can she makehim give her so much

YOII coeid~~get a divorce from

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. on .a cemeteries
ience:would~5be a road fence it {its
schoolhouse“ were not there. , "
owner insists «the district malt dot.
A.Reader,"Union City, Michigan.
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HAYPAYW

Hy home is on the county line
.instoveriatoih-amsooengaed
/theneerestschoolisin ,'mmon
conntywhiehissbouta 1' andaa
half from here, While the nearest
school in Crawtord county is about
3 miles and a half. an» tuition

 

charges in Roscommon county for :a '

child going in \the louver grades is
twenty-ﬁve. dollars. ‘The child ls
seven years old. Can I compel the
school board in my district to pay

the tuition in another county under»

the circumstances? The roads in
my districts are not kept open eo
thatachlldcengotoeehool.”il.
0., Resonance County. 7, '

THE been of M of a
» school districtin which a child
lives nearer the swoelhouse in
another district than in his own,
may pay the tuition for any of the
ﬁrst . eight grades to this other
school. The booed. however. cannot
be required to do ee—W. L. Coffey,
Deputy Superintendent at Public h-
attraction.

A and B on pasture lendiadjoh-

leg. the line lease was built sev-
eral years _ ago. Now his old and
rusted out. ‘8": .M tears. >, 8's pert
down and A‘s stock then m on B.
B won’t build or repair his part. B
bought this term on contract three
years age" , says he is going to quit
the teen after another year. How

IS required to keep his share of

thei’aeaceinnepairm'i‘f'he

fails to do so» cannot recover
from A for damage done 'by A‘s
cattle going through B's part of
fence. A could collect We done
by B's stock going through B's part
of hence. I would go see the local
fence Wen—45m Elmer.

~ EA! am new

Bought a sane! stack of w some
time ago, on time, and hate ozﬂy
received about 1% ton, the rest of
the slack burned down through the
carelessness 91 mm neighbor start-
ingiteess ﬁre. Ann I new to pay
tor all or only the 1% teal—J. 11.,
Wore, Mich. *

, ascending to the bargain, you

were to remove the hey, it be-

came yours at the time of ale
and you would have to stand the
loss. 11, however, the tamer was
to deliver it to you, you would not
have to pay for the part that had
not been delivered—«Legal Edit-a

 

MC in MATE LAKE

HAownewtote‘iahe andiB
owns the other part, and A puts an
in the-lake, weuld B have the ri‘t
tocatchtheﬁahifheﬁshedonhis
side of the lake? A one the land
on one side. and B on the other, and
it has no outlet or inlet in which
ﬁsh could get into it—A. '1‘... Adrian,

3 mm have the right ~te catch
the ii on his side «of the lake.—
Legai Editor.

If a man applied tor a divem
andhiswisepatinaeressabill, mu
they collect her new ‘ ef him
one is WI and also-
her expense money. to it the can?
ll}~ hi. I)... Newborry, '

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cost distribution, permitting the delivery
of live stock to the yards without notice—
able shrinkage, and grain to the elevator
the day prices are best, While the best
market, though distant, can be selected
for the sale of other produce.

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low production costs, greater production
per acre and insures the work being done
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Harvest Beets
While You Ride

Get on the seat of this
John Deere Beet Lifter
and ride while you lift the
beets just enough so
they can be harvested eas-
ily by the hired help.

., John Deere
. C O O
, Riding Beet Litter

No effort—«imply drive the
team. Blades loosen the soil
and gently raise the beets
.without exposing or damaging
’ them. The beets are notjerked
Out and strewn along the
ground; no loss of weight from
being exposed to rain and frost
, and the blistering rays of
g the sun.

Foot dodge enables you to
follow uneven rows. Light

,- draft; only two horses needed
under ordinary conditions.

   

 

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Join: Deere, Molina. Illinois, and
ask for folder MP~633

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1‘ Seventy-ﬁve years’ experience is behind it. No
kother cutter has ROSS construction features.

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No silo too high. no corn too large, for
the BOSS. Equipped with boiler plate
steel disc. Six fans throwing as well as
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Those New Milken

BOUT the time the writer began
his farming career, some thirty
years ago, we lived on a large
dairy farm in Gratiot county. This
farm maintained thirty co_,ws about
half the number
we re registered
or‘ pure bred Jer—
seys, and the
others were reg-
istered Guern-
seys. It seemed
to me at that
time if the
world’s popula-
tIOn contiued to
increase and also
the demand for
mi-ilki, some
means of taking
the milk from
cow other‘than hand milking would
have to be invented. The milking
proposition on dairy farms is the
big expense item, and no doubt
keeps many men from having more
cows on their farms. Of late years
we have only four or ﬁve cows, as
with our other work we can not
care for more. Of recent years, as
milkers have been perfected and
quite generally used, I am 'naturally
quite interested in them, but having
only a small number of cows, never
expected to have use for one. How-
ever ,a few weeks ago, it was quite
evident there was some other than
hand milking effort being used on
our cows, and while the effort was
more or less successful in obtaining
all the milk, it was far from satis—
factory to us, as more or less empty
milk pails were in evidence .It
seemed necessary to investigate the
matter, and a close watch revealed a
ﬁne lusty ninety pound Duroc play—
ing the role of milker. He was
quickly placed in a pen by himself,
while the others continued to make
use of the clover and sweet clover
pasture with the cows.

But this one was not the only
milker, we continued to catch
others at it,’and when three was
shut up we thought the affair was
over, until today, when.two ﬁne
specimens of Durocs were nursing
the same cow, one on either side!
What did we do? It seemed quite
impractical to keep on shutting up
the pigs, unless we did the entire
bunch, and as they are making such
a satisfactory growth on the clover
pasture, we decided to place the
cows in another pasture during the
day, and keep them in the barn at
night. This will not be a very sat-
isfactory arrangement, but appears
to be “the only solution”. Thirty
years farming experience has taught
me that “the only solution” of per-
plexing problems must often be
used, whether satisfactory or not;
and the acid tests of a farmer seems
to be his ability to make “the only
solution” to a problem work out to
its best possible advantage.

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The Minus Clover

The extraordinary dry weather
continued so long there is little or
no clover left in the wheat and oat
ﬁelds. The owner of a ﬁeld in
which we have wheat wanted us -to
sow the clover early in March this
spring, and we did. It was so dry
then, and continued this way, that
May ﬁrst showed no clover left and
the ﬁeld was again sown, uSing the
disk drill. An inspection June 1st,

 

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showed this seeding growing ﬁne,

and a good clover meadow next year
was evidently assured. But when
the wheat was cut the ﬁeld was
practically bare, scarcely a clover
plant having survived. The seed for
these two clover seedings on this
ﬁeld this spring cost over ﬁve dol—
lars an acre. What to do with this

ﬁeld is a problem “the only solu—V

tion” of which seems to be the same
as that of a neighbor with whom we
were talking the night of schOol
meeting. He was lamenting the loss

of his seeding, and in reply to my,

question, “What are you going to

  

next spring.” . . . , ...,

Broadscope Farm News and Viewsu§

Edited by L. W. Hooks, Hillsdale County

  

 

 

 

A Quack Grass Question
80 many questions concerning the
eradication of quack grass are be-
ing asked, I believe the answers to
this one will quite generally answer
the most of them that come this
time of year. , \

“We have a ﬁeld of wheat
badly infested with quack grass.
We sowed clover this spring,
but the clover is all gone, and
now the wheat is cut the ﬁeld
is green with quack grass. How
can we kill it out?—Subscrib-
er, Central Michigan.

Many farmers say it can't be done
——that they have tried to kill out
quack grass but it's no use trying.
They didn't try hard enough! Quack
grass has a most determined na-
ture, and unless the farmer is of a
more determined disposition, the
quack grass will win out. However
if “Subscriber” has the determina-
tion he can clean that wheat ﬁeld
of quack grass. Most ﬁelds infect-
ed are surrounded. by fence rows
which are full of it too, and this
will gradually ‘crop out into the
ﬁeld after the ﬁeld is once cleaned.
“Eternal vigilance is the price of
success”. This was never more true
than in its relation to the killing of
quack grass. If the “Subscriber”
canlpasture this ﬁeld so much the
better. Let the cows and hogs run
in as much as they like, and let the
quack grass furnish all the'pasture
it can. 'Whether you pasture it or
not, some time during the last two
days of August plow the ﬁeld as
shallow as possible,
work. Cut a narrow furrow, and
better not use a jointer. After plow—
ing go over the ﬁeld not less than

and do good.

once over every ten days until 0‘s"
toher 15th. After this once in two
weeks ~wiil probably he often
enough. It the weather is wet, and
any green appears, don’t wait for
the next regular dragging date, get
‘busy at 01109.1! once over doesn’t
destroy all green shoots, go twice
over it. It's now or never.

We cleaned-Out a ﬁeld by this
method three years "ago, ’and there
isn't e. spear of quack in it today.
This ﬁeld, however, did not have
much if any quack in the fence
rows. Of course this in the fence
rows will work out eventually, but
we should worry

We have a ﬁeld in our potato re-
tation series, which is now furnish-
ing pasture for those pesky Durocs,
and one side of the ﬁeld has consid-
erable quack in it covering a space
perhaps ﬁve ‘rods wide and thirty
rods long. Besides this there are
one. or' two patches a rod of tWo
across. We‘shall plow them, and
work as above, and next year plant
potatoes 'in the ,ﬁeld. It hardly
seems necessary to plant a cultiva-
ted crop the year following, but
when possible it may be a good
thing.

The history of quack grass in
southern Michigan is quite interest-
ing, and some time when space per-
mits I will write of it. It proves
that quack grass is not an entirely
useless plant, but highly prized by
some. Without a doubt quack grass
produces seeds, many of which will
germinate under favorable )condﬁ-
tions. Many farmers do not fear it,
as they believe it only sreads from
roots, and they are careful not to
let any roots get on their farm.
They will discover a patch of quack
grass some day, probably in their
best ﬁeld, and then they will change
their mind about quack grass seed
growing.

  

WA’IYER WITCH -
O the Editor: Having read quite
a lot about water witches I
thought I would tell you what

I know about it. _
My grandmother was a famous wa-

-ter witch in her day although she

was blind from the time I can re-
member. I have led her around
when I was a boy to ieep her off
of things. She always used witch
hazel, nothing else would do the
trick. I remember leading her
around once following a stream and
she would say “It’s too deep here"
and ﬁnally it went under the house,
so we went round to the other side
and she hit again there and 'went
about thirty feet away from the
house and she said “This will do,
it’s close to the top here.” We dug
there and found a ﬁne spring and
it’s there yet for all I know.

It ran along for a good many
years and one ,day I was passing a
neighbor’s house and stopped for a
drink and found their well dry as
punk. He had run an auger down
but couldn’t get any water. He said,
“Where will I get water, can't you
ﬁnd water for me?” Well, I thought
of my grandmother and her witch
hazel and I said I could if he could
ﬁnd some witch hazel. Couldn't
ﬁnd any witch hazel and he said,
“Try peach.” So I took the peach
and ﬁxed the prongs just right and
looking as wise as I could I went to
work. I looked all around the
house but couldn’t ﬁnd any water.
I began to think I was a failure as
far as ﬁnding water was concerned
but I kept on and enlarged my cir-
cle until ‘I was ten or ﬁfteen rods
from the house when she worked
and I told him he could ﬁnd water
there. It was a good many years
after that I stopped there for an-
other drink of water. The old well
was ﬁlled up.
matter, haven’t you got a well?"
“Sure," he says, “come on" so we
go off quite a ways and found the
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Gee, I had forgot all about it. Said
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who could stop blood. I had a
friend that could talk warts oi! my
hand.

These things can all be done by
mortals now.» Miracles aren’t they?
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EAR EDITOR: I have enjoyed

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peach crotch and know this is no
fake trick as some suppose. I have
a cousin who can do this and she
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be able to work this out one must
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Water Bearer, and as you know this
sign is in the legs and ankles,'so
perhaps this is the direct reason
why some are able to work this out
with the peach crotch and some are
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E. R., Berrien County.

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What had taken place. A sailor formerly
"employed on the Corvet ships, the coroner’s
thee had been told, had come to the Cor-
:vet house, ill and seeking aid; Mr. Corvet
‘ at being at home, the people of the house
had taken the man in and called the doc-

Or; but~ the man had been already be-
yond doctor's help and had died in a few
ours of pneumonia and alcoholism; in
tMr. Corvet’s absence it had been impos-
tslble to learn the sailor’s full name.
Alan left corroboration of this story
ostly to .Wassaquam, the servant’s posi-
tion in the house being more easily explic-
. fable than his own; but he found that his
7 'right‘there was not questioned, and that
'the police accepted him as a member of
the household. He suspected that they
did not think it necessary to push inquiry
very actively in such a home as this.

After the police had gone, he called
, Vassaquam into the library and brought

*the lists and clippings out again.

"Do you know at all what these are,
”Judah?” he asked.

“‘No, Alan. I have seen Ben have them,
and take them out and put them back.
That is all I know."

“My father never spoke to you about
them?" -

“Once he spoke to me; he said I was
not to tell or speak of them to any one,
:orneven' to him."

“Do you know any of these people?”
. He gave the lists to Wassaquam, who

:studied 5them through attentively, holding
“them to the lamp.
"No, Alan."
“Have you ever
blames before?’~f _ . , .
' “That may be. I do not know. They
‘ idre common names."

' “Do you.know the places?"
“Yes—the places. They are lake ports

heard any of their

‘ 'or' little villages on the lakes. I haVe
- been in most of them, Alan. Emmet
rCounty, Alan, I came from there. Henry

comes from' there too."
"Henry Spearman?"
"Yes.” '
”‘Then father took newspapers from
those places, did he not?”
Wassaquam looked over the addresses
again. “Yes; from all. He took them for
’ the shipping news, he said. And some-
times he cut pieces out of them—these
pieces, I see now; and afterward I burned
the papers; he would not let me only
is W them away."

. , ”That's all you know about them,
”Judah?" .
. f‘Yes, Alan; that is all."

Alan dismissed the Indian, who, stolld—
ly"methodical in the midst of these events,
‘went down-stairs and commenced to pre-
' pare dinner which Alan knew he could
not eat. Alan got up and moved about
"the rooms; he went back and looked over
the lists and clippings once more; then
he moved about again. How strange a
picture of his father did these things call
'upto him! When he had thought of
Benjamin Corvet before, it had been as
Sherrill had ”described him, pursued by
some thought he could not conquer, seek-
ingi' relief in study, in correspondence with
scientiﬁc societies, in anything which
could engross him and shut out memory.
But now he must think of him, not merely
as? one trying to forget; what had
thwarthed Corvet’s life was not only in
the‘past; it was something still going on.
It has amazed Sherrill to learn that Cor—
‘Vet, for twenty years, had kept trace of
man; but Corvet had kept trace in the
9 way and with the same accuracy
‘of :many other people-cf about a score
of people. When Alan thought of Corvet,
alone here in his silent house. he must
think of him as solicitous about these
people; as seeking for their names in the
newspapers which he took for that pur~
pose, and as recording the changes in
their lives. The deaths, the births, the
marriages among these people had been
, of: the intensest interest to Corvet.
, 51}. was possible that none of these peo-_
ple.‘ knew about Corvet; Alan had not
known about him in Kansas, but had
. :kndwn only that some unknown person
' sent money for his support. But he
appreciated that it did not matter whether
ithe'y knew about him or not; for at some
{)6th common to all of them, the lives of
these people must have touched Corvet’s
life. When Alan knew what had been
that point of contact, he would know
about Corvet; he would know about him-
if.
”Alan had seen among Corvet’s books
' a. act of charts of the Great Lakes. He
went and got that now and an atlas.
Opening them upon the table, he looked
up the addresses given on Corvet’s list.
They were most of them, he found about
the northern end of the lake; a very few
were upon other lakes—Superior and
'Huron—but most were upon or very close
1‘ Lake Michigan.‘ These people lived
‘V means of the lake; they got their
7‘ ' tenance from it, as Corvet had lived,
’d as Corvet had got his wealth. Alan
as feeling like one who, bound, has been
«my unloosed. From the time when,
' ~to see Corvet. he had- found Cor-
"1’. done until now, he had felt the im-
-‘ "iiity of explaining, from, anything
ew , . or 1+ seemed ; likely " to .,- learn the‘
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, rsu'rrbunded "Obi-vet.» But'

   

these names and addresses! They in-
deed offered something to go upon, though
Luke now was forever still, and his poc-
kets had told Alan nothing.

He found Emmet County on the map
and put his ﬁnger on it. Spearman, Was-
saquam had said came from there. “The
Land of the Drum!” he said aloud. Deep
and sudden feeling stirred in him as he
traced out this land on the chart—the
little towns and villages, the islands and
headlands, their ‘lights and their uneven
shores. A feeling of “home” had come
to him, a feeling he had not had on com—
ing to Chicago. There were Indian names
and French up there about the meetings

of the great waters. Beaver Island! He
thought of Michabou and the raft. The
sense that he was of these lakes, that

surge of feeling which he had felt ﬁrst in
conversation with Constance Sherrill was
strengthened an hundredfold; he found
himself humming a tune. He did not
know where he had heard it; indeed, it
was not the sort which one just knows.
A rhyme ﬁtted itself to the hum,

"Seagull, seagull sit on the sand,

It's never fair weather when you’re on

the land.”

He gazed down at the lists of names
which Benjamin Corvet had kept so care—
fully and so secretly; these hwere his
father’s people t00; these ragged shores
and the islands studding the channels
were the lands where his father had
spent the most active part of his life.
There, then—these lists now made it
certain—that event had happened by
which that life had been blighted. Chi-
cago and 'this house here had been for
his father only the abode of memory and
retribution. North, "there by the meeting
of the waters, was the region of the wrong
which was done. '. '

“That’s where I must go!” he said
aloud. “That‘s .where I must go!"

Constance Sherrill, on the following
afternoon, received a telephone call from
her father; he was coming home earlier
than usual, he said; if she had planned
to go out, would she wait until after he
got there? She had, indeed, just come in
-and had been intending to go out again
at once; but she took off her wraps and
waited for him. The afternoon’s mail
was upon a. stand in the hall. She turned
it over, looking through it—iiivitations,
social. notes. She picked from among
them an envelope addressed to herself
in a ﬁrm, clear hand, which, unfamiliar
to her, still queerly startled her, and tore
it open.

Dear Miss Sherrill, she read,

I am closing for the time being, the
house which, for default of other owner-
ship, I must call mine. The possibility
that. what has occurred here would cause
you and your father anxiety about me in
case I went away without telling you of
my intention is the reason for this note.
But it is not the only reason. I could
not go away without telling you how
deeply I appreciate the generosity and
delicacy you and your father have shown
to me in spite of my position here and of
the fact that I had no claim at all upon
you. I shall not forget those even though
what happened here last night makes it
impossible for me to try to see you again
or even write to you.

Alan Conrad.

She heard her father’s motor enter the
drive and ran to him with the letter in
her hand.

“He’s written to you then,”
at the sight of it.

“Yes."

“I had a note from him this afternoon
at the ofﬁce, asking me to hold in abey-
ance for the time being the trust that
Ben had left me and returning the key
of the house to me for safekeeping."

“Has he already gone?"

“I suppose so: I don’t know.”

"We must ﬁnd out.” She caught up her
wraps and began to put them on. Sherrill
hesitated, then assented; and they went
round the block together to the Corvet
house. The shades, Constance saw as they
approached, were drawn; their rings at
the doorbell brought no response. Sher—
rill, after a few instants‘ hesitation, took
the key frbm his pocket and unlocked
the door and, they went in. The rooms,
she saw, were all in perfect order; sum—
mer covers had been put upon the furni-
ture; protecting cloths had been spread

he said,

 

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over the beds tip—stairs. Her father tried/

the ,water and the gas, and found they
had been turned off. After their inspec-
tion, they came out again at the front
dour, and her father Closed it with a
snapping of the spring lock.

Constance, as they walked away, turned
and looked back at the .old house, gloomy
and dark among its newer, fresher-look-
ing neighbors; and suddenly she choked,
and her eyes grew wet. That feeling
was not for Uncle Benny; the drain of
days past had exhausted such a surge of
feeling for him. That which she could
not wink away was for the boy who had
come to that house a few wekes ago and
for the man who just now had gone.

CHAPTER XIII
The Things from Corvet‘s Pockets

“Miss Constance Sherrill,
Harbor Springs, Michigan.”

The address, in large scrawling letters,
was written across the brown paper of
the package which had been brought from
the post ofﬁce in the little resort village
only a few moments before. The paper
covered a shoe box, crushed and old,
bearing the name of S. Klug, Dealer in
Fine Shoes, Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The
box, like the outside wrapping, was care-
fully tied with string.

Constance, knowing no one in Manito-
woc and surprised at the nature of the
package, glanced at the postmark on the
brown paper which she had removed; it
too was stamped Manitowoc. She cut the
strings about the box and took off the
cover. A black and brown dotted silk
cloth ﬁlled the box; and, seeing it, Con.-
stance caught her breath. It .. was—at
least it was very like—the muffler which
Uncle Benny used to wear
Remembering him most vividly as she
had seen him last, .that stormy afternoon
when he had wandered beside the lake,
carrying his coat until she made him put
it on, she recalled this silk cloth, or one
just like it, in his coat pocket; she had.
taken it from his pocket and put it around
his neck.

She started with trembling ﬁngers to
take it from the box; then, realizing from
the weight of the package that the cloth
was only a wrapping or, at least, that
other things were in the box, she hesitated
and looked around for her mother. But
her mother had gone out; her father and
Henry both were in Chicago; she was
alone in the big summer “cottage,” ex-
cept for servants. Constance picked up
\box and wrapping and ran up to her room.
She locked the door and put the box. upon
the bed; now she lifted out the cloth.
It was a wrapping, for the heavier things
came with it; and now, also, it revealed
itself plainly as the scarf—Uncle Benny's
schrf! A paper ﬂuttered out as she be-
gan to unroll it—a little cross-lined leaf
evidently torn from a pocket memorandum
book. It had been folded and rolled up.
She spread it out; writing was upon it,
the small irregular letters of Uncle Ben-
ny's hand. -

“Send to Alan Conrad,” she read; there
followed a Chicago address—the number
of Uncle Benny’s house on Astor Street.
Below this was another line:

“Better care of Constance Sherrill
(Miss).” There followed the Sherrills‘
address upon the Drive. And to this was
another correction:

“Not after June 12th; then to Harbor
Springs, Mich. Ask some one of that; be
sure the date; after June 12th.”

Constance, trembling, unrolled the
scarf; now coins showed from a fold,
next a pocket knife, ruined and rusty,
next a watch—a man’s large gold watch
with the case queerly pitted and worn
completely through in places, and last a
plain band of gold of the size for a wo—
man’s finger—a wedding ring. Constance,
grasping and with ﬁngers shaking so from
excitement that she could scarcely hold
these objects, picked them up and exam—
ined them—the ring ﬁrst.

It very evidently was, as she had im—
mediately thought, a wedding ring once
ﬁtted for a ﬁnger only a triﬂe less slender
than her own. One side of the gold band
was very much worn, not with the sort
of wear which a ring gets on a hand,
but by some different sort of abrasion.
The other side of the band was rough—
ened and pitted but not so much‘worn;
the inside still bore the traces of an in-
scription. “As long as we b0 . . . all

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and picked up the watch. Wherever it
had lain, it had been less protected than
the ring; the covers of the case had been-
almost eroded away, and whatever initial-
ing or othervmarks there might have been
upon the outside were gone. But it was
like Uncle Benny’s watch—or like oneof
his watches. He had several, she knew,
presented to him at various times——
watches almost always were the testimon-
ials given to seamen for acts of sacriﬁce
and bravery. She remembered ﬁnding
some of those testimonials in a drawer
at his house once ‘where she was rummag-
ing, when she was a child. One of them
had been a. watch just like this, large and
heavy. The spring which operated the
cover would not work. but Constance
forced the cover open.

There, inside the cover as she had
thought it would 'be, was engraved writ-
ing. Sand had seeped into the case; the
inscription was obliterated in part.

“For his courage and skill in seam . . .
master of . . . which he brought to the
rescue of the passengers and crew of the ~
steamer Winnebago foundering . . . Point,
Lake Erie, November 26th, 1890, this
watch is donated by the Buffalo Mer-
clian'ts’ Exchange."

Uncle Benny’s name, evidently, had been
engraved upon the outside. Constance
could not particularly remember the res—
cue of the people of the Winnebago; 1890
was years before she was born, and Uncle
Benny did not tell her that sort of thing
about himself. _

The watch, she saw now, must have
lain in the water, for the hands under
the crystal were rusted away , and the
face was all streaked and cracked. She
opened the back of the watch and ex—
posed the works; they too were rusted
and ﬁlled with sand. Constance left the
watch open and, shivering a little, she
gbntly laid it down upon her bed. The.
pocket knife had no distinguishing mark
of any sort; it was just a man’s ordinary
knife with the steel turned to rust and
with sand in it too. The coins were
abraded and pitted discs—a silver dollar,
a half dollar and three quarters, not so
much abraded, three nickels, and two
pennies. "'

Constance choked, and her eyes ﬁlled
with tears. These things—plainly they
were the things found in Uncle Benny's
pockets—corroborated only too fully what
Wassaquam believed and what her father
had been coming to believe—that Uncle.
Benny was dead. The muffler and the
scrap of paper had not been in water or
in sand. The paper was written in pen-
cil; it had not even been moistened or it
would have been blurred. There was no-
thing upon it to tell how long ago it had
been written; but it had been written
certainly before June twelfth. “After
June 12th,” it said.

That day was August the eighteenth.

It was seven months since Uncle Benny
had gone away. After his strange inter—
view with her that day and his going
home, had Uncle Benny gone out directly
to his death? There was nothing to show
that he had not; the watch and coins
must have lain for many weeks, for
monthsyin the-water and in sand to be-
come eroded in this way. But, aside
from this, there was nothing that could
be inferred regarding the time or place"
of Uncle Benny’s death. That the pack—
age. had been mailed from Manitowoc
meant nothing definite. Some one—Con—
stance could not know whom—~had had the
muffler and the scrawled leaf of direc~
tions; later, after lying in water and in
sand, the things which were to be “sent”
had come to that some one’s hand. Most
probably this some one had been one who
was going about on ships; when his ship
had touched at Manitowoc, he had exe-
cuted his charge,

Constance left the articles upon the
bed and threw the window more widely
open. She trembled and felt stirred and
faint, as she leaned against the window,
breathing deeply the wanm air, full of
life and with the scent of the evergreen
trees about the house. .

The “cottage" of some twenty rooms
stood among the pines and hemlocks in-
terspersed with hardwood on “the Point,”
where were the great ﬁne summer homes
of the wealthier “resorters.” White, nar—
row roads, just wide enough for two auto-
mobiles to pass abreast, wound like a
labyrinth among the tree trunks; and the
sound of the wind among the pine needles
was mingled with the soft lapping .of
water.. To south and east from her
stretched Little Traverse—one of the most
beautiful bits of water of the lakes; across
from her, beyond the wrinkling water of
the bay, the larger town—Petoskey—with
its hilly streets pitching steeply to the
water’s edge and the docks, and with its
great resort hotels, was plainly visible.
To westwardfrom the 'white life-saving
station and the lighthouse, the point ran
out in. s i‘ngle, bone white, outcropping
above the water; then for miles aWay'
the 'sh‘allow 'water' was treacherous green
and: white .to where at the north, around
thebend of the shore, it deepened and
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I them all, I indeed baptise you with water;
3 but there oometh he that is mightier than
‘ I, * "‘ "‘ he shall baptise' you'ln the Holy
Spirit and in ﬁre.” Luke 3:16. . ' ,

NLY the other day I saw' and
felt this new day spirit as I
. listened to a series of three ad—
dresses by Sherwood Eddy. But
this day of God has been as a thou-
sand years and more. We hear the
prophets, call it “that day” and “the
day of the Lord”. ' “And Jehovah
alone shall be exalted in that day.”
Perhaps it had its initial beginning
at ,that historic baptismal scene in
the Jordan. Anyway, ever since the
“Prophet of Galilee Was manifested
to Israel, old things are becoming
new. We are witnessing the pass—
ing of oppression in church and in
state. We are seeing What is to be
the destiny of Kaisers, Czars, Kings,
and their ecclesiastical counterparts.
Since the day of Jesus the destiny
of religious‘despots is sealed; and
the tyranny of man in state is pass-
ing. 'The new day is here.

But our text invites us to take a
passing look at the prophet, John.
Do you see that lonely ascetic out
there in the desert? Yes, he was so-
cially woutcasted by. the prevailing
church. Would he be now? Look
at him closely. Do you see any pro-
fessional 'air or any garb of social
and religious distinction? You
don’t? But do you see. a robe of
righteousness; a garment of purity,
strength, humility, and courage.
Was there anything more obnoxious
to this wilderness prophet of meek-
ness and godliness, than the social
and religious oppression of his fel-
low-men? He felt the urge of his
God—given commission to level the
mountains and ﬁll up the valleys of
.injustice, and make the ' paths
straight for his oppressed country—
men to reach the kind, loving, un—
legalistic, and forgiving Christ.
What rebuke“ and earnestness he
puts intohis Work ! Yet, what hu—
mility and self-effacement! One day
he said, “Behold, the Lamb of God”.

'I’ am not worthy to unloose his
shoes. I am just here as a voice to
announce his coming. Not to too
many men is it given to gracefully
retire When their work is done; or
to know their limits when another
appears on the scene to do a better
work. And what about John?
Well, the whole story of his life can
be told in three words: hated, im-
prisoned, beheaded. His life a hen—
efaction; his end a tragedy. '

But John did not wholly charac—
terize the spirit of the new day. We
pass on to his Nazarene Successor.
The prophet designated him as “He
that is mightier than 1.” He gives
us a close-up estimate of his spirit
and work. His baptism is not to be
an outward one of water, but an in—
ward one of the spirit and ﬁre. It
is to have such penetrating, search-
ing power, purging men of sin. And
how much more this world needs the
spirit of Jesus than the water of
the Jordan!

Christ’s baptism is a. spiritual re-
ality and symbolized by “in ﬁre”.
Fire is but a symbol. Heathens used
it in their worship. God used the
ﬁre-phenomenon at times in his ap-
proach to his people. You Will re-
call the burning-bush, the pillar of
ﬁre by night, and the ﬁery tongues
at Pentecost. All these are but em-
blems of Divine presence, power,
and passion.

But what does Christ’s baptism
do? Its effect is expressed in His
words. “I came to cast ﬁre on the
earth.” Jesus'knew that this world

needed more than a correct belief,
more than John’s preaching of re—
pentance, and more than amegative
cleansing. It needed power and life.
It needed to be immersed in ﬁre.
Only this would burn up its evil,
and make men’s heart’s radiators of
love, good-will, and brotherhood.

‘Are we willing to endure ﬁery- or-
deals ton the sake of; a Christian
commonwealth? Even so, did Jesus

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States were gathering at the home
of a Christian layman in Kansas
who Was dying with cancer, to honor
him... Why? His Was a heart set
aﬂame with divine love and conse-
cration. His spirit of service in
time and in money had cast a ﬁre

“He shall baptise you in ﬁre.”
Of course, any religion will go to
ashes Without ﬁre. Now, that seems
a strange paradox. But I-was thrill-
ed to hear a recent speech of a fur-
loughed China missionary as he told
me of the powerful and quickening
effect his religion was making on
the people and their rulers. Getting
such results makes the yoke of Je—
sus easy, as he said. Verily, the
Christian religion is meant to be a
challenge to ﬁery sacriﬁces and
conquests for the sake of a new day
on earth. "How many of us are
ready for this kind of an ordeal?
Don’t be afraid to warm up, broth-
er. Where is the spirit of Pente-
cost? Did it ever get away from
the Jerusalem land? Yes, but as its
ﬁery billows are sweeping on, many
are retreating into the cold and
temporarily protected haunts of the
world. Racial and social opportun—
ities are knocking at our doors but
wewill not open. How alarming is
our, absorption in. selﬁsh business
and pleasure! Christ shall baptize
you in ﬁre that you might be his
light in the world; a blazing torch
in the darkness. Will you be? _

I visited my friend at the foun-
dry. He explained to me how the
hot draft pours through the burn-
ing mass of metal all day. Then,
here the dross is separated and
there the yellow, puriﬁed liquid me—
tal runs out to be shaped into any
mold. How similar the work of the
Holy Spirit in his operation on the
crudeness of men! Spiritual ﬁre
will remove‘the dross and make one
plastic for God’s use. The gracious
baptism of Christ’s spirit is as a
furnace of ﬁre that eats up the
dross and leaves the heart in a holy,
forgiving mood. Belgian children
were returning home from an under-
ground school. The cannonade had
lulled. They came to a still-stand-
ing cruciﬁx and stopped for prayer.
“Our father”, and all went well un—
til they dame to “our daily bread”.
(They had had none that day.)
But an older girl led on until they
came to “as we forgive them their
trespasses”, and lo,’ the king was
hearing and he ﬁnished the prayer.
What absence of hatred and malice!
How hate tears, embitters, bruises,
and destroys! Do you think De-
fense Day tests and naval war man—
euvers destroy or encourage hate?
Do we have a more determined foe
of church and state today than this
saber—rattling business? Let God
be thanked for a ~President who
dares tell the World, “America seeks
no earthly empire built on blood
and force. * * "‘ * The legions that
she sends forth are armed not with
the sword but with the cross." Be-
hold, a new world, and a new heav-

n.

And then my friend showed me
the slag. There I found the two-
fold function of ﬁre. The same ﬁre
that cleanses‘and saves, is the ﬁre
that destroys. Whosoever yields to
the cleansing of the Spirit, shall
live; but he that rejects, shall die.
The same pillar of ﬁre had in it sal-
vation for Israel but despair for the
Egyptians. The same Pentecostal
ﬁre gave us a bold Peter and an in—
vincible Paul, but a dead Annias
and Saphira. You must take your

choice. “Our God is a consuming
ﬁre.” “Each man’s work shall be
made manifest; the day shall de-
clare it, because it is revealed in
ﬁre.” Welcome, the ﬁery spirit of

a new day.

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BEAN GROWERS ASSOCIATION

has long -been apparent that a real bean

growers association is needed in Michigan.

On two different occasions efforts have been
made to form such an organization but both
.times the movement has failed. Campaigns were
put on in a few counties and the growers ap—
proached were enthused over the idea and will-
ing to join but the work was not carried into the
other parts of the bean growing section of Mich—
igan, and, as a result, the association represented
only a few counties instead of all bean growers
in the state. The agitation for a pool for this
year’s beans has again brought the matter to no-
tice and a real movement to organize the grow-
ers is being made. Representatives of 12 coun-
ties met at Lansing on Monday, July 20th, and
at that time a committee was appointed to work
with the marketing specialists at the M. S. C. to
draw up the necessary papers to incorporate the
organization. They expect to incorporate in a
legal way the forepart of August, according to
present plans, and then consider a way of mar-
keting the growers' beans.

We are one hundred 'per cent for the organiza-
tion and our columns are open to help it all we
can, but we hope the growers do not get into
a position where nothing is done to help the
1925 crop on to the market. There is not much
doubt but what this year's crop will be a bumper
and if something isn’t done to prevent a dump-
ing of a large part of it on to the open market
this fall prices will go to smash. It is reported
that one large canner is selling futures at a sub-

stantial mduction under current prices which

would indicate that he felt prices were going
to be considerably lower all around this fall.

We believe an advertising campaign would
help stimulate the demand but even a good de—
mand would not sustain prices if huge quantities
of beans were dumped on to the market and
there was a steady increase in receipts for sev-
eral weeks. A large quanity of these beans must
be held off the market if prices are to be fair.
What is going to be done?

A THREE-CENT GAS TAX
his annual report the Secretary of State,
Charles DeLand, suggests that the gasoline
tax be raised to 3 cents and the license plates
sold as part of the equipment of every automo-
bile and good for the life of the car. It would
mean a saving of about $500,000 a year to the
state, according to Mr. Deland, and be right in
line with the economical policy so popular nowa-
days. He proposes to charge $5 license tax and
the plates would be good year after year without
further payment or renewal. Also the increase
of one cent in the gasoline tax would bring the
state a large increase in revenue over the pres-
ent gas and weight tax
Figures show that tie gas tax is being col-
lected in Michigan fa? ’more cheaply than any
other state revenue and it is theeasiest tax paid
because it is paid a little at a time. To us the
real meat in the nutshell regarding the fairness
of the gas tails that the ones who use the roads
pay for them and they pay in proportion to the
amount they use them. The man ' who drives
only so miles a week should not pay as much
as the one who covers as miles and under the
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ravine already
extra two cents without giving it a section
thought. The ﬁrst couple or times we drove Ill
to a gas station after the law was passed we
though of it and even ﬁgured we might use a

gallon less a week than/.previous‘but we didn‘t.

curtailﬂconsumption and we never think of the
tax any more. And we do not have to pay out
so much in a lump sum for license plates right
at tax paying time as we. uséd to.

We are for the V’s—cent gas tax.

THE warsmn MARKET

E heartily approve of the wayside market,
but are not so strongly in favor of the road-
side market. Perhaps if the ownership of

roadside markets .was restricted to farmers it
would'be satisfactory, but if you will drive along
any well-traveled highway on a Sunday, or other
holiday,-.you will see many of these markets be-
long to bookstore, and they get a lot of business
that should go to the farmer. In front of all of
these markets you will ﬁnd cars parked in almost

every direction, on the road and off, making it ,

diﬂicult for people driving along the road to get
by and .many times causing serious accidents,
thus making the roadside market a real nuisance.
If the condition prevails very long we would not
be surprised to see the state to pass a law against
such markets. Much of the trouble is caused by
hucksters and we semetlmes think a' law along
this line would be all right. Then farmers would
open wayside markets and the hucksters would
be "out of luck” because few farmers would rent
their yards to outsiders to operate a market.

To us the ideal market to be owned by the
farmer would be the wayside market with his
produce displayed in his yard, front or back.
several rods from the road with'a neat looking
sign advertising what he had to offer. and three
or four samples, placed near the road to attract
the attention of the traveler and displayed prom—
inently should be the words “Drive in.” We be-
lieve that such a market would prove more proﬁt-
able to any farmer than the roadside market,
because many drivers who would be timid about
stopping on the road, ovﬁng to traillc, and other
difﬁculties, would gladly drive into a farmer's
yard and buy what he wanted, away from the
hubbub of the busy road. The produce would be
fresh, away from the dust and hot sun and much
more attractive to the buyer.

The farm wife could “have a ﬁnger in the pie"
by placing two or three small tables with chair

under one or two large shade trees and serving"

fresh cottage cheese, buttermilk, lemonade, sweet
milk and cold meat or cheese sandwiches. We
are sure there are people who would gladly buy
refreshments of this kind and eat them in the
shade of a large tree.

If you have ever stopped at a roadside market
and purchased any refreshments you have found
them ﬁlled with dirt and unappetising, at least
that has been our experience, and we generally
choose to stop in a town or village where we can
sit where it is cool and rest and eat food, to all

appearances, clean. We believe that thousands "‘

of people have the same inclinations we have.

If you are located along a well-traveled road,
just try out the idea of a wayside market instead
of a roadside market, and we are sure you will
have a very proﬁtable business.

YOUR ADVICE IS NEEDID

LETTER has come to our desk from a sub—
A' scriber who intends to build a home in

the spring and he wants some of the read-
ers to give him advice.

“I am going to build a six or eight room
house and am not satisﬁed in my mind what
kind of heating system to install," he writes.
“We thought it would be nice if some of the
M. B. F. readers would write their experiences.
We would like information about equipping bath-
room and plumbing in kitchen."

We will greatly appreciate receiving letters
from our readers giving their experiences for
Many others will
be interested, tee.

ELEVATOR EXCHANGE PBOSPEBS

HE Michigan Elevator Exchange held its an-

nual meeting last week and the manager,

L. E. Osmer, reported that the business
handled during the last year amounted to over
$8,000,000. which is double that of a year ago.
The Exchange is doing good wo‘rk and can be
proud of its record as a whole. 'It has had an
uphill ﬁght but was bound to succeed because
ofthetaltiitmembenhadinthom
and immense: myths Exchange havens

Jasmin minimal- conning yet

And we are now my the

  

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as
”vent
was

amount at (least.
sentiment in favor of the ﬂattery-Hanged bill
which proposed to establish a government grain
corporation to market the exportable surplus
wheat and believes the development of I. national
cooperative marketing agency is entirely feasible
“but it must come from the farmers themselves”.

The trip revealed that as a whole the farmers
are in a better frame of mind than they have
been for some time. and he found them greatly
encouraged with the outlook for as good or
better income than last year. m

With reasonable prices the farmer' s income
is bound to increase because he is ﬁnding that
he can operate with less man labor than he used
to employ and he is doing it. This country's
-production per man is likely to be greater this
year than ever before.

PEARSON TIMBERLAND TAX LAW
HE Pearson act providing a special tax on
timber being grown as a crop was passed
by the last legislature. This act had the
approval of most of the people interested in in-
creasing Michigan’ 3 forest acreage, and. as P. 8.
Lovejoy states in his article on page 3, is a

good law. The enforcement of the law is the
work of the State Department of Conservation

and its value depends much on how the Depart- ,,

ment interprets it.

 

Intercom) TRUTES

RODUCTION costs are lower when two litters

of pigs are raised each year than when only

' one litter is raised. It takes _more feed to
put the second 60 pounds on a pig than the first
50 and more for the third than the second 50
pounds. Reduction of production costs has the
same effect on profits as increase in sale price.

These profound truths are solemnly presented by; r
the U. 8. Department of Agriculture as the re- "

suits of a study on hog raising in Iowa and Illi-
nois. If any diderent results had been found
they would have been startling, but we are at
a loss to' know why it should take a survey to.
discover know‘u facts. It will be a long time
before we know all about agriculture. and any
research that adds to our knowledge is valuable,
but why not direct the research .at the unknown!

 

OLD ADV“!

N 11840 an English farm journalist had the
I courage to say: "Every calm and thinking
man must own that the greatest fault at the
present day in the English agriculturalist is the
looking to or trusting to government. rather
than each man to his own foresight and labour.
We would assure our brothers of the plow that
it is not in the power of any government to bol-
ster’ up the state of agriculture. A wise and good
government wil not enact laws prejudicial to
any part of the community; and they may be as—
sured that it is not forcing wheat to be sold at
a sovereign a bushel, .or meet at five shillings
per pound, that will ever make the agriculture
of the country prosper. or the farmer rich. Is
it by the manufacturer selling his prints at a
sovereign a yard that he has amassed a fortune?
No—it is the greatest quantity produced at the
cheapest rate that makes a prosperous trade."
There is something in this for those pessimist-
about agriculture who are also optimists about
the ability of the government to make it prosper-
ous.

 

TIEPOOIHCIMAN

ECENTLY the paper; published a story of

a rich New York millionaire who wants sug-

gestions as to thebest way he could die-
tribute his many millions. Within the ﬁrst few
days after the‘story appeared he received 3,000
letters and only a few contained concrete sug-
gestions, the others soliciting funds for the writ-
ers. In other words most of the writers sent
in letters for purely selﬁsh reasons with no
though for the betterment of mankind. '

 

PETER me's mom!

I see by the daily paper that they' re having
a but time of it down in the coal minin’ country
trying to decide about higher wages.

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Teams.

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Mme waif-I“ In tact. theooanpsny
is no more. according to reports.
Mr. and Mrs. F. c. Kunau, as well

promoters of the oompany.,weoe re-
" cently indicted, by I the. .Eederal
Grand Jury sitting in _ Britain; and
charged [With using the-mails to de‘.
fraud. . '

Man'y‘ot our readers will recall
the page adverthements published
in many of our magasines In which
the company told their ideas of
”turning spare time into money at
home by knitting hosiery on their
wonderful knitter. Some of our
readers, no doubt, were among the
ﬂies that went into the spider's par:
lor, and they tound promises were
easily given but it was another mat-
ter to make "the company keep the

, 1 es made. “
prom s to buy

The company was
from the knitter all the hosiery she

could knit but few were ever suc-
cessful in doing work that passed
inspection at the allies. Some found
an outside market for their output
and customers were well pleased
with the work. but the company
claimed the hosiery was detective.
mom W A

"A few weeks ago an agent tor
the Farm and Fireside induced my
father to subscribe tor their magn-
dne. Nowheisanoldmanand
does no business only through his
family. and has no interest in any
paper other than the daily and our
own county weekly. The agent talk-
ed with himuntil he gotmy tether
to give hint live dollars and he gave
tether a receipt showing that he had
paid tor the Farm and Fireside tor
tenyea’ﬁandgotspencilasapre-
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It is too bad that this shyster
agent is permitted to soﬂcit anh-
ecriptions for any magazine. If he

‘ spent a few days in jail he might
change his ideas of getting subscrip-
ticm's. and if an agent of this type
comes into your neighborhood you
will.” doing the community a. serv-
ice it you call the charm.

-. When you are approached by an
agent of any kind insist that he
show you his credentials to show
that he has the right to represent
the company or publication that he
is “discussing. Then the company
back of him should be responsible.
If he has no credentials show him

the road.

THE W Hosanna:

have been advised by readers

that the feather bed scheme

we erposed in Ten Busnvm

Farm recently. is being worked

again. The time we exposed them

they were working in Jackson coun-

ty but they soon cleared out after

our paper was received by our Jack-
aaa county readers.

The men claim to be in the busi-
ness of manufacturing mattresses
from feather beds and they call at
the homes of (armors and residents
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tics WWI”! cutest-1 wonder-
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and 16 cash, and the mattress will
be delivﬁ'od at your door in a few
days... The scheme was worked in
Jackson county over two months
ago and the people are still waiting
for their mattresses. Some of the
feather beds were found recently in
an old barn many miles from the
scene of the “mattress manufactur-
er’s" operations. .

SOLICITTNG FOR CHARITY

“Recently two men were going
around our: neighborhood collecting
for an Orphans' Home in Detroit and
a home for crippled children near.
Pontiac called the Carpenter Estate.
A lot of the neighbors gave them
money. Not having heard or read
of such a drive for funds being on
I am wondering if they were takers.
I hope you will let me know through
your paper if such a drive is on.” .

E wrote to the Detroit Com-r
munity Fund and Gordon A.
Damon, Publicity Director at
the Fund advised us as follows:
“We do not know of any Orphans‘
Home that has solicitors out collect-
ing money and we have never heard
of an institution for crippled chil-
dren on Carpenter's estate. It isl
possible. of course, that there may ‘
be such an institution but the chanc-
es are equally good that the men
who were collecting this money were
lmpostors. The thing tor people to .
do under these circumstances is to
refuse ; give unless the solicitor
can p , uce bonaﬁde credentials or
insist On their furnishing oeterenoes J
that can be called on the telephone.
One thing is certain. these men were
not soliciting on behalf of any insti-
tution in the Detroit Community
Fund and them are over seventy on
our list.”

SPECIAOLE 8mm To JAIL

MOTHER traveling eyesight doc-

tor has decided to settle down

lnonetowntoratlmeandtake
up different work._ “Doctor" Sam-
uel Goulson swindled tarmers in this
state ﬁtting their eyes with only
magnifying spectacles and the fed-
eral authorities found out about it.
The judge requested “Doctor" Goul-
son to spend three years and eight
months at the tederai prison at
Leavenworth. Kansas. An‘ accom—
plice, H. M. Harris. alies Dr. Miller.
will receive his mail at the same ad-
dress tor a. like period.

 

Don’t buy eyesight from peddlers. .

Go to a man who understands his
work and has authority to treat
your eyes if needed. It's cheapest
in the end every time.

. ERE is a new one and we are
' passing it along to our readers
so that you can be on the look
out. It happened in Detroit but
might take place in any city or town
it there was a. large crowd about.
One of our subscribers who owns
and operates a farm within a bun-
dred miles of Detroit takes a load
of produce or poultry to the market
at Detroit every few days-and many
times hires a stall from which he
disposes of his load while other
times he sells to peddlers often dis-
posing of his whole load to one
man. The other day he took a load
of broilers into Detroit and a couple
of peddlers looked over what he had
and expmsed a desire to make a
deal with him. The idea suited him
as he was anxious to get back home
at an early hour and the broilers
were transferred to the truck the
two peddlers had at some distance
away and while one of the men
stayed by the truck the other walk:
ed bdck to where our subscriber’s
truck was parked talking with him
about payment for the broilers.
When they reached the truck the
peddler reached into his pocket as if
for money. At that moment our
subscriber happened to look away
and he turned back just in time to
see the peddler disappearing in the
‘ It «was impossible for him
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Experienced investors,
among the better farmers,
know our first mortgage
bonds as conservatively
safe With attractive in-

7W'rite for Booklet, “How to Analyze a
First Mortgage Real Estate Bond Issue.”

Tax Free in Michigan
Normal Income Tax Up to 2% Paid by Borrower

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Time Tested W. mdmrll
The Auto-Oiled Aermotor has behind it a record of 10 years
of successful operation. In all climates and under the severest con-

. ditions it has proven itself to be a real self-oiling
windmill and a most reliable pumping '

  
      
  
  

   
  

needs no further attention except the annual oiling.
There are no bolts or nuts to workloose andnodelicate
parts to get out of order.

There are no untried features in the Auto-Oiled
Aermotor. Thegearsrun in oil in theod-tightetorm-
5'? proof gear case just astheydid 10 years ago. Somereﬁne—

ments havebecnmade, asexperiencehasshownthepossioil-

ity of improvement, but the original simplicity of design has
been retained while greater perfection of operation has been
achieved. The
winds, which are the prevailing ones. The self-oiled motor works
with practically no friction, andthe wind-wheel of the Aer-motor
. . is made to run in the lightest browse. It is also amply strong to
run safely in the strongest winds. In any condition of wind or .
some that the Auto-Oiled Aermotor will give you the best of service. It 18 made
by the company which established the steel windmill business 38 years ago.

AERMOTOR CO.

Aer-motor is wonderfully efﬁcient in the light

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to honest merchandlsing.

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The"- announcements are signed. They must to" the truth in their advertising.
own protectlon, as well as yours.

What would It proﬁt a man to advertise “Pure, virgin-wee! cults." only to have you db-
oovar they were shoddy? You would soon separate the sheep from the cotton.
never deal with that men again.

Read the advertisements.
anything. To ave ham 0! shopplns. .Te ma the (may some do a tissue. tau- 3....»-
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Honest Man’s Word

"ORE than three hundred you‘s age. Miguel de Cervantes said: “An honest man's word It as

remain Worth-'3.
For their

Advertisers must be honest men. If they would

And you are“
And. further, you would tell all your aoaualntanoaa what

A; a matter of business. I! not a! personal principle. an advertiser mm tall the tuna In
his signed announcements. That's what makes the adrenalin oalumns such reliable sold.

The printed announcements are bonds between yea and the m.
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leisure , busy unothers

' less of taking “ than or giv-
8 3 ‘

. Sympathetic. readywith a kiss.

Cheerful

face above the children's
mending; "
Hands so kind they rob us of our
" care. '
We’ve a home that’s bright with joy
unending,
And it’s ’cause we’ve got a grand-
ma there.
, Every house should have a grandma
in it; ,
Every house should have a baby,
’ too.
Grandma’s hands are busy every
minute.
There’s so much for grandma's hands
to do.
And her arms are, oh, so right for
baby,
And her lap‘s a paradise to share.
Some folks think old ladies bother
maybe.

Our home's glad because our grand-
ma’s there.

Grandma's hair is white; her step is
slowing,
But her heart’s as young as yours or
mine,
And somehow she has a way of
knowing

What to plan to make young faces

shine.
Cookies, bread with crust so crisp and
golden—-

~Why, our home with others can’t
compare.

It‘s old-fashioned——ﬁlled with pleasures
olden—-

Just because our precious grandma's
there!
(Copyright. 1925.)

ELIMINATE WASTE BY GANNING
SURPLUS

ANY garden products, both
fruit and vegetables go to
waste unless some method of

preservation is used. Canning is
one of the best.

Fresh fruits and vegetables are
impossible the year round in the
country communities because of the
short growing season and the cost
of shipping he home maker must
therefore e he fresh fruits and
vegetabl she raises, can any sur-
' plus , d ﬁll in with the stored
and dried products. She may be
able to purchase some fresh fruits.
oranges and apples, but they are
generally expensive. The family
will be as well fed and the cost of
food will be less if she makes the
best possible use of a well-planned
garden.

In the canning of fruits and vege-
tables one should observe the fol-
lowing:

Select fresh, ﬁrm, well ripened
products with no blemishes.

Prepare the product for canning,
wash scrape, pod, string.

Blanch all products but berries in
hot water or steam.

Omit cold dip.

Prepare the products for packing
by peeling, and cutting into conven-
lent sizes.

Pack product carefully so as to
make an attractive looking can. To
every pint can of vegetables add
11$ teaspoon of salt; to every quart
can add 1 teaspoon salt. Fill the
can with water to within one—fourth
inch of the top. Fill the can of
fruit with syrup of desired density
to within one-fourth inch of the top.

Partially seal cans.

Process cans the required length
of time, depending upon the size of
jar 'and the method of processing.

Remove from sterilizer and seal.

Cool and store. '

CANNING CORN

ERE I am again with a few
I l suggestions that may be helpful

to someone. To those wishing
to can corn this year I wish to say
that the following method of can-
ning corn is the best I have ever
found ,and I wish every houseWIfe
would try it. I feel it is too good
to keep to myself.

First, ﬁt a granite or good tin
pan into the top of a kettle to make
sort of a double boiler. Now shave
"and scrape earn from cobs into the
pan until- it is half or‘ two-thirds
full. .Have boiling water in the
‘ kettle and place pan over it.‘ Keep

the water boiling and with a spoon
' tir the" corn frequently from bottom
plenum“; sit-amulet f,8;c%f1d9d” qr
topless snaihmcmihwa announces

     
  
  

  

  

 

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to thank you personally.

ﬁshing it" for‘that reason.

of our department.

could be improved.

along your favorite recipes,
suggestions, and express
your opinion on any of our
present day problems.

‘ e- ‘1 Farm, Home ~

ttmeut, for theWcmsu

Edited by MRS; ANNIE TtYLOB ..
EAR FOLKS: I received a, letter during the: past week from a

Cinton county. reader and I have wanted to print a part of it

but have hesitated. for fear you would think me egotistical.
However, I have decided to take a chance, and here it is:

“We readers appreciate your eﬂorts on our behalf and I wish _
If we did not tell you, you “would not
know whether we appreciated you or not.
each issue of the M. B. F. for we? receive many helps‘ from it."

Like all human beings, and animals ‘too. I like too be praised,
and I feel real proud 'when I receive such a letter, but I am \not pub-
I would rather have you criticise than
praise because it is through criticism that I will make our page
better and bothers—and that is what we all want.
the above to remind you that one of your Michigan neighbors has
taken «the time to tell me, what she thinks of our department, and
I am expecting to hear from you.
and not more than one in twenty-five say what they actually think
If you do not tell me I am not sure that I am
giving you the kind of department you want.
you would not write at‘ all unless you were interested in the de-
partment, but I am sure you could offer suggestions *on how' it
I shall be happy to have you criticize because
I can not be satisﬁed with our department until you are. Will you
take the time to write, at least a line?

it...

Address mun: ms. Annle Taylor. cm The Iuslnou Farmer, It. Olomem. llohlgen.

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you can conveniently with the spoon
and when ﬁlled place one teaspoon-
ful of salt on top of the corn in pint
cans and two teaspoonsful of salt
for quart cans.

Screw caps on cans as much as
can be done with thumb and little
ﬁnger, place in rack in boiler and
boil for two and one-half hours.
Remove cans from boiler and ﬁnish
tightening caps.

When once this has been tried you
will always wish to can your corn
this way.

We think that heating corn in
the can as above mentioned and
then placing on plates to dry makes
the best dr'ied corn. It will dry
very quickly when placed about the
range. Golden Bantam is the best
'corn for canning and drying.

It is not necessary to blanch
string beans, peas and shell beans
for canning and much time and
labor can be saved thereby. When
the beans and peas have been
shelled and washed place them in
cans with fresh, cold water. Place
tops on and process for three hours.

We now have shelled beans that
were canned two years ago. Have
never had any spoil.

Last year we made a discovery
which may be helpful to others.
The pods of shell and lima beans—-
especially the shell beans—are hard
to open but if a steel husking—peg
is placed on the hand, as for husk-
ing corn, and the pointed steel run
down the whole length of the pod
it will open easily. A saver of time
and patience.

Last spring we had much cabbage
remaining in the cellar so we cold
packed about twenty quarts by the
rule given above and it kept per-
fectly and was very satisfactory.—
Mrs. F. Clinton County.

PACKING THE BOX LUNGHEON
THE words, “Box Luncheon", may
bring to your mind an enjoy-
able picnic, a line of industrial
workers with various shaped con-
tainers in their hands or a group of
children on their way to school.
Every housewife has experienced the
packing of a luncheon for one of
these three purposes. ,
The luncheon is not a means of
Serving refreshment between meals,
but is for the purpose of supplying
regular daily meals. For this rea-
son, it should be well planned and
should be attractive and palatable.
The selection of food is very im-
portant, home economics specialists
point out. One should consider the
importance of fresh fruit and vege-
tables—apples lettuce, tomatoes,
spinach, oranges, etc.; the place of
eggs, etc.; advantage of cereal pro-
ducts, whole wheat bread, etc.; the

wise use of sweets, especially for:
' children;_ the fact-that ages and oc- ,
~ donation: demand change :in. diet; _..the ;

toad. -tcr..;_th.e . aromas - boy.” or,_, girl .,

'- should” differ from that of the work‘-

 

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ing man; food for all members of
the family should differ in winter
and summer.

Some diﬂlculties in planning
meals are as follows: ‘meny foods
are inconvenient to pack or do not
taste good when cold; the box should
contain the necessary amount and
not an overabundance; the meal
wul_be eaten away from the merry
family group so such foods as will
stimulate the appetite by means of
dalntiness and variety should be
chosen. ‘

Possibilities for sandwiches are
numerous. For bread, there is gra-
ham, brown with raisins, and nut.
Materials for ﬁlling include the fol-
lowing: Fruit, raisins, ﬁgs, prunes,
ginger, marmalades, preserves. Ve-
getables—lettuce and tomato, water
cress, cucumber, celery, radishes.
Eggs—hard cooked. chopped or slic-
es mixed with salad dressing or
seasoned. Cheese-Lsoft or
ﬁrm, cheese and green pepper,
cheese and lettuce, cheese and nut,
cheese and olives, cheese and pine-
apple or dates, cottage cheese. Fish
——sal_mon, tuna, sardines, shrimps,
crab meat made into paste, sea-
soned, or mixed with salad dressing.
Meat—~any meat sliced thin, chop-
ped or ground.

.After food selection and prepar-
ation, careful packing demands at-
tention. The box should be an ex-
ample of convenience, neatness, and
attractiveness. Wax paper, paper
wrapper, bag, box, basket or dinner
pail assists in meeting this problem.
T111 boxes prevent drying out of
food and they are easily cleaned.
Paper cups, tight jars or containers,
a thermos food par or bottle are
convenieces. The foods should be
wrapped in wax paper before being
placed in the box and insofar as
possible packed in the order in
which the food is eaten. '

 

GOOD CARE OF FLOOR REI'URNS
DIVIDENDS

CKED—DOWN carpets which
cover the entire ﬂoor have
more and more given way to
rugs only partly cover ﬁnished
ﬂoors. 'The ﬂoor itself has corres-
pondingly become more important.
Whether the ﬂoor is of hard wood
or pine it should be well laid, for
on the laying depends much of its
wearing qualities. It should be lev-
el and should ﬁt closely into cor-
ners and edges. The boards should
be tightly ﬁtted to avoid cracks
where dirt and moisture may lodge.
The surface should be smoothed by
planing and sandpapering, with the
grain of the wood. New wood
ﬂoors may be ﬁnished in a variety
of ways, butvt‘he present tendency is
to sh'owthe natural colonand grain
of the wood’.’ - g ',
. durable ﬁnish .which
can' be .Lcleaued and. .r owed with
least. eilort‘eis thei '_e',-_of‘ every

‘ housewife. ‘.:_ Stain, ﬁller, toil-1: paint“ .

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n
_ r ' ,wao’ or
it ar‘monizewith the fur
83 'or other Woodwork in the"
. , Fillers, are used" on. porous
WW‘k-iitosive them, a smooth and
more‘ldurable ﬁnish. Varnish is a
common ﬁnish for” soft wood, but
waxdis preferred by many for hard-
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How Do You salt Flsh‘l—qAre' there any z~

of the readers that can "tell me how to
salt down ﬁsh so that they will keep.
also how to put them up with‘ spices so
the bones will be cut out like salmon
bones are? We get plenty of suckers

 
  
 

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here and white ﬁsh in the fall, but no-x' .

body seems to know how to put them up

so they will not spoil—Reader, Otsego
County.

 

Nurse’s Training.—I am thinking of
taking a nurse’s course. Do you know
of what age and grade I must-pass be-
fore taking up the training? “Would I
have to study Latin ﬁrst? When I take
this training it will be a city hospital.

2—H. s., Williamston. Michigan.

—-The law regarding registration of
nurses in Michigan states that a nurse
must have had two years of High School
and be 21 years of age before'she can
register.

Since our training schools for nurses
have a three year course, it would mean
that a. young woman would have to be
eighteen years of age before being allowed
to enter training. Many of the training
schools demand a High School education
as an entrance requirement. This, how-
ever. is not so stated in the law. ' .

In advising young women who are

Wilkins of taking a nurse’s training we ‘

always tell them that there are some
schools in Michigan on what is known as
the accredited list. These schools have
been inspected by the Board of Registrar-
tion of Nurses and are found to meet
certain requirements. Consequently we
advise a young woman to enter one of
these schools—Mrs. Helen despelder
Moore, R. N., Assistant Director, Bureau
of Child Hygiene and Public Health
Nursmg, Michigan Dept. of Health.

 

 

—if you are well bred! ,

 

The Slave of the Rings-The engage-
ment ring is an essential, in a way. A
deep sincere sentiment is associated with
the motive which prompts a man to slip
it on the ﬁnger of his betrothed. But
while the ring on a. girl’s hand does in.
ply a species of proprietary right on her
part to the giver. she should leave it to
him to give her other gifts, should he so
desire. If a ﬁancee wishes to do so (and
can afford to do so), there is practically
no limit to the value of the gifts he may
offer the girl to whom he is engaged.
They may range from a deed to a house
and lot (though of course, she would not
enter into possession until after marriage).
to the ﬂowers and bonbons which were a
habit of courtship days. Certain kinds
of gifts are tabooed, however. He may
give her a jewelled lavilliere but—he
cannot give her a handkerchief! Until
after her marriage the strict unwritten
law forbids him presenting her with any
clothing. Her trousseau in every detail
must be her own (that is to say, her
father‘s) contribution.

Since it is a gift from one woman to
another Old Point or Valenclennes which
has been kept or handed down in the
fiance’s family may be presented to the
girl by her intended husband’s mother,
as well as jewels which are family heir-
looms. These a ﬁancee may accept with-
out scruple.

 

 

The Runner": Bible

(Covynsh‘ thy Enlighten um ‘ Co.)

 

 

Wherefore think‘ ye
hearts? Matt. 9:4.

Dislodge an evil thought immediately.
To replace it with one of love or grati-
tude is the true, the ideal way. _ But evil
must not be harbored a single moment
even though you can dislodge it only by
ﬁxing the attention upon some‘ material
object at hand. carefully noting its size,
color and other characteristics. When
once the intruder has ﬂed fill the mind
with love and gladness. To open the door
to one sort of evil may be to let in dif—
ferent forms of it at the same time' that,
settling in unsuspected places may later
spring forth into trouble. Then you will
ask, "How happened this to come to me?"

evil in your

 

 

Recipes

 

 

Butterﬂy Salad—Arrange lettuce leaves
on salad plates: Cut a slice .of pine-

apple in halves and place on the lettuce ,

with the munaesl edges together. This
will form .gth'e wings of the butterﬂy.
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Orange Busheta—Ffruit salad may be
served in oralnge baskets, made by cut-
ting away portions or «'the‘orange. leaving
'a' handle and ‘scooping out the pulp of
the orange. - ‘ .

 

 

Elderberry Frittermr—Pick the white
blossoms, place in salt water. Then make
a batter of egg, milk and ﬂour, not too
thick. Now dip blossoms in batter, place
in skillet with hot greast. cut off stems
with shears, turn like cakes—«Mrs. C.,
Mendon, Michigan.

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Peach Dumplings—Pare and halve as
many large ripe peaches as y0u wish
dumplings. Make a crust as you would

scream biscuit. Roll three-fourths of an
inch thick, and cut out as for biscuit.
Roll out each quite thin, and in the
center place the half ofa peach; put in
a ‘little piece of butter, and a teaspoon-
ful of sugar; place another half on top
of it. and fold the dough up around the
peach. It need not entirely cover it.
Set them side by side. quite closely, in
a pan, and bake. Or they may be steamed.
Eat with almond sauce, or any other
sauce preferred.

 

Coﬂ‘ee Jelly—Soak two envelopes of
gelatin in one cup of cold water. Add
three cupfuls of boiling water and stir
until disSolved. Add two cupfuls sugar
and two cupfuls of strong coffee. Stir
until well mixed. then place in a mold
to harden. Eat with whipped cream.

Scalloped Potatoen.-———I pare and slice
the amount of potatoes I think I will
need for the family. Then I put a layer
of potatoes in a pan or basin and sprinkle
with flour, salt and pepper. Repeat until
the pan is full or the required amount
is in the pan. Now cover with milk and
bake for about three hours. - It is very
nice to put some hamburg in between the
layers ofhpotatoes, and a’littale onion if
one desires—Mrs. M. W.', Tecumseh, Mich.

Cranberry Conserve—L4 cups cranber-
ries, % cup raisins, 1/; cup walnuts, 21/;

cups sugar, 1 cup water. 1' small orange- '

Put the orange 'peel through the" food

chopper. Cut the pulp fine. Cook the
ground peel and pulp in the water 20
minutes. Add the cranberries, raisins

Cook until fairly
Pack in sterilized

(out ﬁne) and sugar.
thick. Add the nuts.
jars.—M. G.‘ ' -

French Dressinz.—z teaspoons salt. 1
cup olivevoil, 15 CUJD vinegar, 2 teaspoons
pepper. Mix ingredients and stir until
-17ell blended. ' Used with" crisp greens and
vegetables and for marinating cooked
salad material.

Sour Cream" Salad Dressings—1 cup‘

sour cream,_w_hipped until stiff, 1 table—
spoon lemon juice, 1 tablespoon pineapple
juice, (if on hand). Add lemon and pine—
apple juice during the whipping. Sea—

 

 

Suggestioni: Sour Whippeddcream' can

be substituted for sweet ‘Creagmr" in any

boiledsalad dressing recipes.

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‘ HOMEPUN ‘YARN

 

A half cupful of chopped. dates lends
variety to your custard pie.

A hook above the kitchen table and a
hole in the recipe card will keep it clean
and in sight.

Aunt Ada's Axioms: The next time
you think of making a mountain out of-
a molehill, go around the molehill.

A blush may be given to canned pears
by a. little red vegetable coloring. With
a clove for a stem and a lettuce leaf for
garnish this makes an attractive salad.

Poison bottles feel like any other kind
of bottles in the dark. A strip of sand—
paper pasted on the poison bottles makes
them unmistakably different to the touch.

Spend a few minutes investigating the
insides of the electric plugs in the house.
and a screw driver may help you solve
your difficulties later on when a fuse burns
out unexpectedly.

Use‘an ordinary egg beater to keep the
scum of! cocoa.

 

Rubber aprons save their cost many
times in laundry bills and in wear and
tear on other clothing.

A bit of jelly in the apple pie brings
out the ﬂavor of the apples and adds a
piquant taste.

After polishing metal, rub it with ﬂan— .
nel moistened with parafﬁn oil; this helps :

it to hold, luster.

If your over-curtains are wide enough
to draw across the whole window,‘ they
do away with the need for shades.

“Men and women should determine
their joint earning power before marriage.
The ability of the women to use money
intelligently is as much a factor as the
ability of the man to make it."——~Martha
Van Rensseiaer.

A few drops of commercial ammonia
helps remove water spots from polished
ﬂoors and furniture.

Have nothing in your home which you
do not know to be useful or believe to be
beautiful.——William Morris.

Sance Tartare gives ﬁsh a new and ap-
petizing ﬂavor. To make it add chopped
olives, sweet pickles. and chives to may-
onnaise.

AIDS TO GOOD DRESSING

 

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inches bust measure. A .42

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This.Patter_n is cut in 9 Sizes: 38. 40,
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. percale,
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inch material. For the panel of

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contrasting material ’ﬁyard cut crosswnie is required. The width of the skirt with plaits extended is

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may be used
It picnic in 4
measure. _
made With camisole top 2% yards are required.

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Small, 34-36: Medium, 3

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This is a good model for rep. pon ee or linen.
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5180. A Serviceable Kitchen
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Popular Suit Style for the Small Boy
in 4 Qlizes. , 3, 4. and

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“80t"—Here is a simple Apron

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yard of 30 inch mateiI-Jial. req ire % yard of 36 inch material.

_ New Rompers for the Smal hll .— ' ' '
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l iiiaterias as well as for ﬂ 1
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Hostile; It is the’ story of N
“Halstead, .Jr., of Bay . City, who
though handicapped, with poor
health, won a trip to the Michigan
State Fair because of the high aver—
age he made in the eighth grade
and ‘State Fair examinations. (Nor—
man says he did his best ,and urges
other girls and boys to do their best
and if they don’t succeed at ﬁrst
to try again. He is ﬁfteen years
old. His story is very interesting
and he is going to write us again
later. ' ‘ '

Our song centest is coming along
ﬁne. I doubt if an expert could
compose any better songs than some
of the girls and boys have, and I
want to publish a great number of
them on our page. The tunes
range from “America” to “Barney
Google” and from sacred hymns to
the modern popular song. I must
cnofess that I did not realize that
there were so many young song
writers on the farms of Michigan.
Your response to this contest indi-
cates that we must have more along
'the same line. I will tell you who
the winners of the song contest are
in our next issue—UNCLE NED.

» OUR GIRIS AND BOYS

Dear Uncle Ned:———Here I am! Trying
to get in your happy circle, and a happy
person I would be if I could see my letter
in print.

As you all describe yourselves, I will
try to do the same. I am nearly sixteen
years old and in the eleventh grade. I
have blue eyes, one—half of them being
brown, I have freckles, of course nearly
every country girl does have, don’t they,
Uncle?

I would be pleased to hear from the
cousins. I would very much like to get
a League Pin, and I think the colors are
nice, and also the motto. Hoping my
letter is published and I hear from the
cousins, I am.———Lita Jenkins, Morrestown,
Michigan.
~Why of course all country girls have
freckles. Every healthy person who is
out in the sun a great deal has them.
Come again, Lita—Uncle Ned.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am glad you said
I could join your merry circle. I really
think it is such a jolly circle that I
thought I would write again. Perhaps I
had better describe myself. I have brown,
bobbed hair and I am 15 years old and in
the ﬁrst year of high school. I have
never been on a very exciting trip but I
can tell you about The House of David,
you have heard of that, I am sure, and
I live in the same town they do. I see
them quite often. They have a train of
cars and the engine is only four feet
high. It goes on a track about one foot
wide. It is a beautiful place. The park
is beautiful, their 200 and swimming pool
are very exciting. They have beautiful
houses, one is House of Bethlehem and
the House of Jerusalum. Some people
call it “the house of whiskers” because
they have long hair and long whiskers.
,They have a theatre and baseball park
and a women's bench and a' man‘s bench,
and refreshment stands all over.

As I cannot recall any more about. it
I will clase, hoping some of the cousms
will write to me so I can answer them.
——May Searls, Euclid Ave, Benton Har-
bor, Michigan.

Dear Uncle NHL—Well. I'm back again,
to bother you and the cousins. but you
must give me credit for one thing, I have
not Whered you for quite a while. Don t
tar-ow if many of the cousins will remem-
ber use or name. my address. used to be
Poms-l, Michigan. Bl, Box 84, but I've
been lining with my sister in Detroit
am fine 33th of iv’ehr‘oary. _ .

‘9’ man and: ms: the page. which is
W as the Children's Hour, every issue,
so you set; i aim". miss it and if 1 am
in the city. .

I like Detroit in», fur working every
day. I work at a “Inﬂationary store,
behind a soda counter. There are thirty-
ﬁve or forty other girls working at the
same store, we all wear green uniforms
with white collars and cuffs. and look

very neat and fresh in the hot summer,

days, but you are to understand that we
are not always cool by any means.

Perhaps I’d better describe myself. I
have dark brown bobbed hair (shingled),
brown eyes, weigh 125 pounds, am ﬁve
feet four and one-half inches tall, and
my age is between 16 and 19 years. Any—
one guessing my age correctly will re-
cieve a letter from me.

The last two times I wrote to you
~Uncle Ned, I received 27 letters the ﬁrst
time from the cousins, and 16 the next
time. I still correspond with some of
them. One of them I’ve written to for
over a year, and he has moved to Wis-
cousin now.

I expect to go to my homein Northern
Michigan this August, for a short vaca-
to'm. I may decide to take the boat up
and maybe I’ll go on the train. I go to
quite a few dances and shows, etc. here.
Belle Isle is a wonderful place. The ﬁrst
time I was ever there. was on Easter
Sunday. and Uncle Ned, you should have
sod the‘psetty luster links and an

   

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record the other. day for m Victrola,
“Ukelele Lady” one of the new dance
hits. It’s good and lively. — . ..

I’m real interested in our Worship
buttons, and I hope to win one someday,
but the trouble is with me, the contest is
generally over by the time my folks read
the paper and get around to send. it to
me. I like our colors very much, also
think our motto 0. K. “Do Your Best”
that’s all anyone can do, so lets see how
many of the cousins will really do their
best, by writing to me.

Will close now with a little poem of
some of the latest songs.

“Why They Dance and Sing”

You’ve heard of “Little Rover”, from
“Way Down East in Maine”, well he got
"All Muddled Up" with "The Bees Knees”
at “Three O’clock in the Morning". He
started to “Flirt” with “Ivy”, just before
"Gallagher and Shean” who were “Fall-
ing” for “My Buddy”, started to sing
“Gee but I hate to Go Home Alone”. As
"Fate”‘ would have it,, “Sweet Lovin’
Mamma” walks in with “Lovin’ Sam” and
shouts, “He May Be Your Man, but He
Comes to See Me Sometimes”. But “Only
Just Suppose” “Dearest”, I called you
"Agravatin' Papa”, would you send back
my “Faded Love Letters”? “I Wish I
Knew”, "Sweet One”, so "Come on Home”,

ﬂute: T'DO“ . .
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”Old Pal”, you know you’ve “Lost a
Wonderful Girl", but “Who Cares” “He
Loves It”. I wish I could shimmy like
“Sister KatewI’d take “My Teddy Bear”
and go to "Carolina in the Morning". The
whole world knows “It Takes a Little Love
to Drive the Blues Away" and “Tell Me”
“Who Did You FooLAfter All”? I guess
I m "Homesick” and “Tomorrow”I’m go-
ing “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans”.
“I Gave You Up Just Before You Threw
Me Down”, and now “Who’ll Take My
Place When I'm Gone"? “You Tell Her,
I stutter" for “The World is Waiting for
the Sunrise”. "Since Love Sends a Little
Gift of Roses” I’m thru “Shedding Tears
Over You”, "You Know I Miss You, Pal
of Mine” “That’s Why I Cried Over You”
so if you get the “Choc-Choc Blues”,
“Meet Me Next Sunday Morning”.

Well, enough said this time I guess, so
will close. Hope some of the cousins
will write to me and that Uncle Ned
won‘t get disgusted with this long, silly
letter. A niece—Ruby E. Fletcher, 1147
Seward Ave, Detroit, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I wish to thank you
for the check for $1.00 and also for the
lovely pin. It was a. great surprise for
me when I received your letter stating
that I won first place in the contest. I

“ How I Won 21 Trip to the State Fair”

(Norman Halstead, Jr., of R. 2,
Bay City, had a very pleasant sur-
prise not long ago when the county
school commissioner of Bay county
wrote him that he had won a trip
to the 1925 State Fair at Detroit for
having the highest average on the
8th grade and State Fair examin-
ation. We asked Norman. who is-
15 years old, to tell us about his
school work and his letter follows.)

I ‘NSWERING your kind invitation
A to write a few lines, and thank-

ing you for your good wishes.
This is a real pleasure I never ex-
pected to enjoy, and I’m writing
this letter hoping that it may help
some other boy or girl to try hard-
er tor some goal they have in view.
Especially if they are handicapped
in some way, through illness or
otherwise, like I was.

Last winter I was very sick with
pneumonia, which left me with a
bad heart, and, as I had always been
subject to bronchial asthma, I nev-

er had a chance to attend school as.

regular as I would have liked to.
Because of my illness last winter I
missed three months of schooling,
and sometimes I became pretty well
discouraged. But every one was so
good to me, my teacher and class-
mates sent me ﬂowers and candy,
but what I especially appreciated
was the letters and notes they sent
me every day which my brothers
brought home to me, and in this
way I always knew what was going
on at school.

As I was never able to play as
much as the others I got in the ha-
bit of reading a great deal, not only
books of ﬁction, but history and

books of study. When I was too
sick to read for myselimy parents
or brothers would read to me. And
my advice to any sick boy or girl
is to read all you can for it will

surely help you with your studies.

When I ﬁrst went back to school
it was pretty hard for me to catch
up» with my lessons again and I was
tempted not to try for the examina-
tion but when I saw how hard my
teacher tried to help me I thought
I’d do the best I could and‘try to
pass. I owe a lot to my teacher and
I shall never forget her.

Mr. Lang, the school commission—
er used to come and visit us at
school, and he would tell us stories
of boys and girls to help to encour—
age us, and no matter what our
problems were he was always will-
ing to explain them and help us
with them.

When I ﬁrst heard that I passed
in my eighth grade examinations I
was surely happy and thankful, but
when I heard of my reward I could
have jumped for joy. My parents
and brothers are all helping me to
plan for my trip and I only wish it
were possible to take them along,
but I expect to keep a dairy of my
trip so I can tell them all about it
when I get back. And I will write
and tell you all about it.

I shall work hard this summer to

help my parents all I can for their
help and encouragement.
. I want to say again to anyone
that is discouraged as I was, if you
work for something, do your best,
and if you don’t succeed the ﬁrst
time, try again for it will pay you
always. I had planned on going
to high school this fall but the doc-
tors tell my parents I may have to
wait another year because of my
heart. Of course, this disappointed
me a great deal, but if it has to be
I will do the best I can, and study
and read all I can to ﬁt myself for
it. I am only 15 years oldi.-—Nor-
man Halstead, Jr.

 

 

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Ld‘epths‘vyeu see vegetation which has form-5‘3 ‘
ed-v castles of ,many. different colors. In

. pigs and two hogs.

  

a dark blue;

one particularjpot the vegetation had
wound itself , around in such a way so
as to form a’httl‘ewillage. , It was indeed-
beautiful. The .“Blue IIole” is quite a
noted plaCe and many tourists visit it
daily. ‘

My birthday is the 24th day all Novem-
ber. and I am fourteen years old. I am
rather anxious to know if I have atwin.
If so I would like to hear from that per-~
son. Also if any of the - other cousins
wish to write I will answer, their letters
with pleasure. _ I must bring my letter to
a _ close now, so good-bye. A sincere.
friend.-~Winnie L. Clark, R2, Lakeview
Michigan. '

Dear Uncle Ned:-—-This is the second
letter I have written to the M. B. F.. I
wrote use ﬁrst letter about a year ago.
and did not see it in print so I will try’
again. ,

I am in the eighth grade. weigh seventy-
ﬁve pounds, have blue eyes, light hair:
Ibobbed) and am about four feet We
inches tall. I have ﬁve brothers and two
Sisters, and for pets I have a dog, a cat
and tw0 little colts, and any one guess—
ing my age (between eleven and thirteen)
will receive a nice, fat letter from me.

It’s too bad I didn't write when you
were having the drawing contest. Your
niece—Iva Bohhnger, R1, West Branch
Michigan.

 

 

 

Dear Uncle Ned:-May I come in just
for a little while? I have been a silent
reader of the M. B. F. for a long time.
so I decided I would write. How many
of the cousins like to go’ horseback riding?
I do for one. We have a riding horse,
and I can ride him all I want to. I hay}
a little dog named Buster. Just before
I started to write this letter I was sitting
out on the porch reading, every little
while he would come up to me and want
me to pet him. Then he would try to
catch his tail, sometimes heiwould get
a hold of it but he could not keep hold
of it very long. He also tried to get the
paper that I was reading away from me
a few times. It was hard reading when
he bothered me so much, so I thought I
would write a letter to you.

I suppose you wonder who this chatter-
box is who is writing to you. Well I
have dark brown hair and blue eyes. I
am 5 feet tall and was 13 years old on
April the 25th. I passed to the eighth
grade. I live one mile north and one-
fourth mile west of Elkton.

I hope that the favored Mr. Waste
Basket is sick when this letter arrives so
if he tries to gobble my letter down
he will vomit it up so it will get‘mixed
with thoserUncle Ned was going to print,
and be printed anyhow. I wish the cons-
ins would write to me. Your niece-Vera
M. Eicher, R3, Box 14. Elkton, Michigan.-

 

Dear Uncle Ned:——As I did not see my
letter in the paper before I will now try
again. I am an interested reader in the
Children’s Hour page. My uncle has tak~
en the M. B. F. for about two years and
a half.

I will describe myself. I have light
bobbed hair and blue eyes; am four: feet
eight inches tall and weigh 79 pounds.
I am fourteen years old. I live on an,,
80-acre farm. I am in the seventh grade
in school. I walk about. 60 rods. Wet"
have ﬁve cows, four horses, seventeen
As for pets, I have
a little dog whose name is Prince. I have
an old cat and three kittens, whose names
are Tempest, You Know, I Know and
Don’t Know.

Now I will tell you howl spent my
Fourth. I spent it at home shooting fire-
crackers with my cousins.

I hope this letter won’t reach the waste
paper basket. I guess I will close with a
riddle: Round as an apple, busy as a bee.
as pretty 3. little. thing as ever you did
see? What is it?—-—Mlss Evedna Green-
man, R2, Box 5, Jerome, Mich., in care 02
John Lewis.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I have read quite a
few of the leteers in the M. B. F. but I,
never wrote before. I hope Mr. W. B.
doesn’t get this. I will describe myself.
I have dark-brown curly hair, blue eyes.
I am 12 years old and in the seventh
grade at school, I live on a hundred'and
thirty acre farm. We have four cows,
three yearlings, six calves. One of the
calves is my own pet, I named her
Cherry because she is red. We have three
horses. ‘We have a dog and three'cats'
and lots of chickens. I milk a cow some
evenings. I gather the eggs at evening.
Well, I will close. Good-bye Uncle Ned.
Your want—to-be niece—Hazel May Nor-
ris, R3, Yale, Mich., in care of David
Keys.

 

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railroads?-—-'Phe locomotive. "‘

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. thereon
that such forest may be
second-growth. or Widowed. “or

? The real nub of the. not reads
thus: in order to be eiigihieior list-
ing under thepact. timberland "must
be capable of supporting a thrifty
‘forest growth, and must.» at the
time of listing actually carry enm-
ciegt forest growth of suitable char-
- actor. and so distributed. as to give
reasonable assurance that a stand
of merchantahle timber will be de-
veloped in the near future." '

In order to give out! further pro-,

tection to the public interests, Sec-
tion 13 provides that when "for
any ‘ reason”, land becomes. or is
found to be unable to meet the re-
quirements of Section 2, that the
Department of Conservation “shall
file notice with the owner of inten-
tion to cancel the listing. . . . "

That would certainly seem to
make it very clear. Land with
much old timber on it can’t get in.
Land principally valuable for min-
eral, agricultural, industry, or re-
creation can’t get -in. Only land
which is chieﬂy valuable for timber
production can get in. And of the
timberland, only that part may get
in which "at the time of listing ac-
tually carries" a good thrifty
growth and a good full stoc ing of
the land with‘ real timber—making
tree species. That sort of land, of
course, is entitled to a lot of real
consideration and to just and gen-
erus treatment. .That sort of land
is really at work raising a crop.

If any other sort of land gets list-
ed, by mistake or otherwise, or if,
“for any reason" the good young
forest gets too ,thin and poor to con-
form with the requirements as to
species and stocking, then the state
can kick such land back into the
Imeral property tax rolls along
with all the other unproductive,
loaﬂng or idle stump land.

I“ Is All

The law itself .is all right. Ex-
perience .will doubtless show up
pieces which need me tinkering
but that is to he expected of any law
senew and untried. The only ques-
tion is how it will be enforced, in-
terpreted. and administered by the
elclais of the Department of Con-
servation. ,

Various cut-over land owners and
some politicians will doubtless try
to convince the Department that the
new law should be construed in a

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Emilia wens certain lands are now
perhaps a little thin of vegetable
m- that, presently no doubt.
tree need will blow in or something.
the holes’ will lee‘ullled1 13p, and ev-
erythin will he . r g .
They5 may argue (that since red
is a tree, and sometimes

make: a log or so. that red mum

should be counted in even when it
is growing on land so poor that it
can never make even good ﬁrewood.

They may say that every sprout
of red maple and oak should be tal-
lied when computing what growth
there is on given lands, or that pm-
herr is a tree.

6 Ally such persuasions and argu—
ments, of course. will usually be,
more bank, and seldom uttered in
even r ly good faith. The
Pearson act attempts to remove the
injustice of applying the general
property tax to crops of. young tim-
ber which are actually established,
in good shape, and due to make
good merchantable forest in the
“near future"—-and the act hasnt
anything whatever to do with any
other sort of-land.

If a merely just, and even gener-
ous tax law, will not permit and
persuade the owners of loaﬁng or
idle stump land to get and' keep that
land productive, then it Is tune to
have that fact made clear and to see
what, if anything, we want to do
next

A good. many things, of course.
will have to be done before that 10

“am" way. They [may ar- ._ ‘

million acres of stumps and brush .

and old and young forest all goes

to work. .
If private owners can't or wont

do the necessary things, then the

sooner we ﬁnd that out the better, .

and the sooner we can ﬁgure what
we want to do direct, through public
ownership and administration of
state, national and perhaps county
forests.

One of the things which most
needs doing, is to ﬁnd a way by
which the owners of ﬁne old virgin
timber can be persuaded, or assist-
ed, to do their cutting in such a
way as to let good young timber
come on at once and without years
at devastation and idleness. We
have too much bummed-up cut-over
land already.

The Pearson act is just one of the
many items which must presently be
attended to but it is a good try and

entitled to a fair trial.

A good many of us, no doubt, will
be watching to see what rules, reg-
ulations and instructions are issued
by the Department of Conservation,
between now and August 28.

FgUiT AND ORCHARD

 

OYSTER-SHELL SCALE

Can you tell me what causes the
oyster-shell scale on fruit trees and
other kinds of trees? I ﬁnd it on
black walnut. poplar and apple
trees. The limbs die and the scales
are dead. There seems to be some
insect that e'ats their insides out;
turn them over and they are hollow
on the under side and some are hol-
low on the top side—N. 13., Niles,
Rich.

N reply. to this, I would say that
the oyster-shell bark-louse is an

, insect known as iepidosaphes
um. In reality there seem to be
two species, one of which lives on
”Ole and other fruit trees and the
other lives on lilac, poplar and a
in: list of other ornamentals and

ten-t
rummmwdm
Wane eyes:

with eggs which have just come
through the winter. After the eggs
hatch the scaly covering remains
sometimes for years on the tree and
if one is tipped over it shows mere-
ly a hollow space underneath and is,
of course, empty, since the young
by that time will have crawled out.

The insect somewhat“resembles
the San Jose scale, but this latter
insect goes through the winter as a
partially grown nymph and it is
naturally easier to kill a living,
breathinglnoect than to kill an egg,
and, therefore, the oyster-shell, as
one would expect, is very difﬁcult to
kill by means of sprays.

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The best way to control them is L

to wait until the eggs hatch and then
to spray with a contact insecticide,
may a dilute miscible oil,

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HIS tremendous distribution deserves attention. Are you feeding
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Cows fed Milkmaker produce more milk and butter fat. They are
healthier and stronger animals. Your feed cost is lower.

Evéry one of the ten milkmaking ingredients is listed on every bag.
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. Also write for booklet on Milkmaker and feeding suggestions.

See your co-operative Ass’n Manager or our local Farm Bureau

agent at once and arrange for your supply. '

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219 N. Cedar Street, Lansing, Michigan

          
       
 
     
   
   
   
  
   
    
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  
   
      
         
   
    
      
 
  
    
   
    
   
   
  
     
   
     
    
  
 
     
   
   
       
     
   

 

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To avoid conﬂicting dates we will without
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Michigan. If you are considering a sale ad-
vise us at once and we will claim the date
for ou. Address lee Stock Editor, M. B.
F., t. Clemens.

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“ TE AND FEDERAL ACCREDITED
Bullbclai‘ves out of1 Danni) up til) 87lulpougds fut.
i“ Bulls wmse unis lave ‘
311.3%le at. The homes of bulls; bhuttlewwk May

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Golden-Knight of Nordland. From Dams pro—
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stock to this, department. Questions cheerfully answered.)

‘ SUBSCRIBER has raised the

-. question of' the value of a. good

dairy cow; and as dairying is
one of my hobbies, I am forced to
make‘ a few remarks.

This gentleman calls attention to
the’fact that good grade cows are
bringing $100 and more. Also he
wonders how ,this can be so when
the dairy industry is somewhat in
the dumps. The reply which asks
another question is quite apt and
to the point, namely: does a. good
dairy cow ever cost too much? If
so, how much too much does a poor
dairy cow cost? This really an—
swers the whole question in two
short sentences; but unless a man
has considerable experience in the
dairy business, he may miss the
point.

This country is now an exporter
of dairy products, whereas a few
months ago we were importers.
The balance of trade has swung the
other way, and naturall’y'the price
has declined from 30c to 40c per
100 pounds of milk, and from 10c to
12c per pound for butter. This
coming at a time when grain is very
high, and with a. severe winter, na—
turally our dairy farmers are feel—
ing the pinch, and with an over—
production it might be hard to un—
derstand why dairy cattle are sell—
ing at good prices.

The over—production of dairy pro-
ducts in this country is caused by
poor dairy cows. It is the cow pro-
ducing around 3000 pounds of milk
and 100 pounds of butter-fat that
is depressing the market and in‘
juring the industry. There is a di—
rect relation between the Volume a.
cow produces and her proﬁt. The
more a cow produces, the greater
her proﬁt. Without question, 25 per
cent of our 25,000,000 dairy cows
are actually losing money to their
keepers; and it is these 6,000,000
unproﬁtable dairy cows that are los-
ing millions of dollars to all of the
dairymen in the country.

The most important thing con-

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nected with the. dairy business is ,
to weed out the unproﬁtable cows,
and ﬁll their places with good cows.

The majority of our farmers and

dairymen understand this fully, and

that is why good dairy cows are

bringing good price.

As to what a good dairy cow is
worth, it is hard to say. If she is
a pure-bred, I should say several
thousand dollars. If she be a grade
and a young cow, I would say from
$150 to $200. When the Holstein
cow, Katie «Gerben, produced 10,-
000 quarts of milk in a year, which
sold for 100 a quart at the farm, it
caused quite a sensation. The cost
of feedingthis cow was around $160
and probably the labor cest about
$100, making a. total cost of $260.
Katie’s bull calf. sold at ten months
of age for $500, making her gross
income $1500, and her net income
for a. year $1,340. Now this hap-
pened some 18 years ago, before the ’
war and high prices, but we re-
fused $5000 for this cow, and it
proved to be good business judg-
ment, for she was worth a. great
deal more.

I am inclined to believe from my
experience in the dairy business that
we are more inclined to pay too
little than too much for our cows.
We should by all means reduce our
herd to good cows, and if adding
members to the herd, we should see
to it that they are producers; and
being such, we need have little fear
of paying too much. The expensive
cow is the poor, cheap cOw, and she
is the one that costs to much when
we buy hen—Ii. L. Haecker.

Uncle Ab says the more satisﬁed a man
is with himself the easier it is to let
things slide.

¥ It I.

Are you using the farm bureau?
I t It

Hope springs eternal; so do weeds.
Plan to use one to kill the other.
III II it
Before planning to increase production,
make sure that the product can be sold.

Gratiot County Farm Cattle Tops Market

RATIOT county is setting a

good example for its farmers

by putting beef cattle on the
market that top the market. Here
is how it is being done.

For the last three years the com-
missioners of the poor farm of Gra—
tiot county have purchased a herd
of Hereford cattle to fatten for ’mar—
ket and each year they have shown
a proﬁt, much credit being due Lee
W. Roycroft, superintendent of the
farm, who had charge of the feed-
ing. Hogs were also produced pro-
ﬁtably for market on the farm.

When interviewed on the proﬁt

made on the 30 head of cattle and
45 pigs Mr. Roycroft said “The total
proﬁt to the county amounted to
$1,141.59.”

“The superintendents purchased
30 head of cattle for $1,985.55, pay-
ing seven cents per pound. To this
was added the expense of making
the purchase $23.50, or a total of
$2,009.05”, continued Mr. Roycroft.
“Forty—ﬁve pigs were purchased at
$2.50 making speed of $112.50, or
at total cost for,. cattle and pigs of
$2,121.55.

“Twenty—ﬁve acres of shock corn,
mostly immature, and of less than
market value as a result, valued at
$500.00, and other feed which was

purchased was fed to the cattle and
hogs.

“Interest on the investment was
ﬁgured at 2 per cent, the amount
that the county receives on its daily
balances, as the money with which
the purchases were made came from
idle funds.

“This brought a total cost of the
cattle and hogs, including all ex-
penses to $4,019.77.

“Four of the hogs died, and four
shoats valued at $62.50 were. kept,
as well as four brood sows,’ which
were valued at $120.00.

The balance of the' cattle and
hogs were sold after fattening,
bringing with the value of the
shoat's and sows kept by the county
farm, a total of $5,161.36, this
showing a net proﬁt of $1,141.59
on the transaction for the county
poor farm.

“No charge was made, however,
for labor and for straw, (other than
the cost of buying) it being felt
that these items were offset by the
fertilizer. left from the cattle.

“The cattle were on feed 188.
days, and made a gain of 1 98/100
pounds daily. They cost 7 cents per'
pound and sold for 10% cents, top-
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GRUBS.

How, in your opinion, do the
gnubs which we ﬁnd in the backs of
cattle in the spring, propagate?—
G. 3., Allenton, Mich.

lite history as worked out :by

the government eutmnelugists

do as hollows: Common warble
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spring and attaches the eggs to the
hairs, usually placing them on the
heels just below the dowdaws or
somewhere on the lower part at the
hoste' legs. It has been dotted that
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EFORE the development or the

radio tube, little progress was

made in the design of radio re-
ceiving circuits. Those who devot-
ed their time to such problems were
forced to conﬁne themselves to the
use or a single crystal detector.
without any means of really ampli-
flying the signals. The vacuum
tube, however, opened up vast new
ﬁelds a! development. It could be
used both as a detector and as an
'e.a1pliﬂer,and several tubes could
be used, one after another, in “cas-
cade", to detect and enmity the
signals.

Even in the ﬁrst days of vacuum
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cuit designed for great volume 01!
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"thaw but about two months after
tEor hows enticed the skin, they be,-
gin to appear under the mucous lin-
Ing at the guilet or ‘eaaohagus.
They remain in thh situation for
new manths. During this time
they grow to about three—fourths 10!
an inch in length. In the lull and
winter these grabs migrate up the

  

ribs and amt-am towards the back"

beginning to appear under the hide
along the spine about February or
March in this part. or the country.
As soon as the back is reached, the
grub cuts a small hole into the hide
and remains in the same position
until it is fully developed. The hole
is enlarged as growth continues, and
the grub changes in shape and color,

thirty-ﬁve to eighty-ﬁve days after
it ﬁrst reached the back. It then
works its way out through the hole

two weeks it becomes quite hard
and dry, and the ﬂy develops. This
as will be seen, completes the cycle
in about one year's time. “The adult
ﬂies live only a few days and do not
eat anything, their only object in
life being reproduction.

Recent experiments have demon-
strated that the application of a
mixture of one part of iodo‘torm to
ﬁve parts of vasoline applied to the
swellings on the back in the spring
will kill the grubs so that they
can not again reproduce themselves.
—John P. Hutton, Assoc. Prof. at
surgery and Medicine, M. S. C.

Uncle Ab says that the but rams
most aim take the to put an the few
extra. touches that really ﬁnish a tab.

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garden to in good h
who does the gardmsht.

to the person

above was only practical tor re—,
oeivimg local stations. The larger
sets, with many tubes, capable of
receiving the more distant stations,
were both expensive and diﬁcult to
operate.

Then a discovery was made which
revolutionised the design of radio
receivers. This discovery enormous-
ly inmaased the eiiiciency at the va-
cuum tube. It enabled the designer
to use fewer tubes in attaining the
same results.

The invention which no revoluP

tioniaed the design of radio receiv-
ers is the Armstrong regenerative
system. Major Armstrong was, at
the time at working it out a stu—
dent in the Graduate School of Go-
lumbia University. In experiments
that he conducted toward preparing
his thesis he thoroughly developed
his system.

As soon as the discovery had been
made public and suﬂicient trial had
been made of u; to prove its prac-
timbiiity, the regeneration crane
swept over the country. Non- ~re-
generative sets were regarded as
obsolete, and discarded in favor of
the new wonder circuit.

0! course, Major Armstrong had
fully protected himself by patents,
on the commercial production of the
circuit was then. and is today, re-
striated to a. few manufacturers.
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menters throughout the country,
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EQUIPMENT FOR POULTRY
, HOUSE
I am located on a farm of 100
acres which has a poultry house 20
by 50- feet, located in a plum or-

chard 7 by. 10 rods,~and enclosedby ,

poultry fence. I have no equipment
of any kind and I would like advice

4 as to what you consider best in the ’

way of rrangement and equip-
meat. --0. ,Pompeii, Mich.

might say that if you have
a poultry house 20 by 50 feet
that it would accomodate 250
birds or even a few more. You
would need in addition to this two
or three Colony, Houses for the rear-
ing of the chicks unless you desired
to purchase your pullets at eight or
ten weeks of age. You would also
require‘ Brooder Stoves for these
houses. I assume that your plant
at the present time is equipped with
satisfactory nests, feed hoppers, etc.,
if not, we would be" glad to send you
suggestions on the installation of
the same. If you haVe any ques-
tions dealing‘deﬁnitely with any one
subject we would be glad to answer
them for you as your question is
rather general as stated—Clarence
M. Ferguson, Manager Inter. Egg-
Laying Contest, M. S. C.

CHICKEN POX -

POULTRY grower in the east

has Just written me to know

what to do with fowls that are
suffering with what he believes is
“sore-head” better known as “chick-
en pox” ,and what i the cause and
positive cure. In the ﬁrst place
chicken pox, is the fore-runner of
roup. In some cases, however, it is
the after effects of some stages of
roup and unless it is handled very
cautiously it is one of the most de-
structive diseases possible to besiege
a ﬂock of fowls. Some few years
ago, the writer was called by phone
to come across to the neighbors to
inspect his ﬂock of fowls as he had
just discoveredsthat they were suffer-
ing with some ”mighty disease”.

After examining a few fowls amd

. observing the situation and quarters

these fowls were forced to use I soon
arrived at the conclusion that his
fowls were suffering with both roup
and chicken pox, as the building they
were in was not ﬁt for rats to live in,
as the roof was more than half off,
the snow and rain was pouring in on
the fowls, the ground was wet and
about the place was
ﬁlthy, so I said, “Your fowls, without
a doubt, have the worst form of roup
and sore-head or chicken pox.” He
was quick to ask what was the cause.
I said, “Well, to be frank with you,
it's the uncomfortable condition and
ﬁlth the fowls must contend with.”
I advised him to remove the most
hopeful ones, to a dry house and use
the following remedy on them. Pro-
cure two ounces of carbolated vase-
line and ten grains of yellow oxid of
mercury. Mix thoroughly and anoint
each bird’s face, comb and wattles,
which will quickly cure the disease.
Those that were the worst I advised
him to use the treatment two or three
times and he informed me shortly
afterwards that his fowls almost to
a one got all right.

I am convinced that in majority
of instances this sore-head is caused
by neglect and exposure. I have ex-
perienced with this treatment time
after time and have the ﬁrst time
yet to learn of its failure to effect
a speedy cure. We have tried out
disinfecting without success, While
this treatment always effected a cure
in a comparatively short time. This
disease attacks both old and young
fowls and my experience has been
that the old birds are more likely to
pull through the attack than the
young birds as the mortality among
the young birds has always been very
great where the treatment was not
prompt and thoroughly administered.

For the beneﬁt of those that have
never experienced trouble of this
kind I will give you the symptoms of
the disease, then if you ever observe
such symptoms you can ﬁgure on
severe trouble right away.

First, you will notice a small wart-
like excresence on the “bird’s oomb.‘

wattles. and. enriches-4t semetimee —G

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rabout the size of a pin-head either"

white or brown in color. It may re-
semble a scab, soén this will gather
full of pus then you will soon notice
the same appearance on every fowl.
I don’t know of a disease that is

more contagious than chicken pox.

The eyes will soon begin to swell,
frequently ﬁlled with pus', at this
stage the disease is almost out of
medical aid. Just as soon as you

notice the small, like pin-head pim- .

pics, you should begin the treatment,
otherwise you will experience great
mortalities both in the old and the
young.

As a rule fowls suffering with
chickenpox have a wonderful, appe-
tite, while with almost any other di-
sease the fowls are listless and show
no signs of hunger, this is where
the disease is deceitful it’s, getting
in it’s deadly work by deception, but

[don’t be deceived by the apparently
strong appetite of the fowls asit, in;

only temporary and the disease is
getting in its deadly work rapidly.
Keep fowls dry and clean and you
will have but little trouble with the
chickenpox, however, if you should
be over taken with the disease the
above remedy will soon effect a cure.
J. C. Clipp.

RAISING BROILERS IN COLD
WEATHER

LD King Winter is not going to
stop Michigan poultry raisers
from rowing ﬁne healthy

young broil if the specialists of
the Poultry Husbandry Department
of the Michigan State College have
anything to say about it.-

The latest scheme is- to build a
sun porch for your chicks and place
them under an ultra-violet lens for
a few minutes each day. The dis-
covery was made by Professor J. F.
Hughes of the Kansas Agricultural
College, and the specialists at our
own college at East Lansing, have
been carrying the experiment on.

This spring a group of young
chicks were placed in a pen liber-
ally supplied with windows on the
east and south. For several hours
each day windows were opened wide.
The chicks proved to be the health-
iest raised at the college in a long
time and not one developed leg
weakness.

FARM MECHANICS

RE-BUILD Boss's
I ,am going to re—build my house.

I want to stone it up. Now it is
lath and plastered and double
boarded on the outside. Can I take

off the outside boards and stone it
up next to the lath and plaster or
must I have an air space? I am
going to put in an 8 inch stone
wall.

would be preferable to leave at

least one thickness of boards on

the outside of the house and if
the other thicknes of boards is of
no great value I would recommend
that this be left also since it would
add insulation'to the house.

It would not seem that it would
be necessary to build a wall as thick
as 8 inches. It is desirable to nail
metal strips onto the wood having
a free __end that can be laid into the
mortar. This will hold the stone
wall veneer to the frame structure.
—F. E. Fogle, Ass’t. Professor of
Agricultural Engineering, M. S. C.

CREOSOTE IN CHIMNEY

DEAR EDITOR: Just a word
about creosote in chimney. We

were bothered a lot with it and
found the trouble was in, the stove,
as the one we used had novdampers
in the back to open when other
dampers were closed, and so when
we closed the stove for night there
was no draft in stove whatever and
the creosote would run all night.
Hardware man told us to put a hots
on top of stove about the. size of a
quarter, when all other drafts were

closed to open this, and we and we

are not having an'y‘w bile
with it. .We have ab

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the same age. I [We 'bdiight all. their

- lowers unsolicited. "and trudge! .on
. 1‘ our way. ‘
lmas’ing natural beauty and grace-

A young 'woman whose

full. strength would be the despair
of many of 'ourlxown American beau-
ties was swinging easily down a by-
path with a huge Wooden bucket ‘of
water in either hand, suspended
from ’a yoke across her shoulders.
We didn’t pity her for her isolated
life for if every one in the ,world
were as healthy, as happy, and as
beautiful as she—-—it would be a far
better world than it is. A well-fed
and apparently happy young couple
were hand-harvesting a patch of hay
from a tiny plot of ground on the
side of a hill so steep that it seemed
almost necessary to stake the very
ﬁeld down to the rocks which
bounded it.

And the yodeler! We had heard
his echoes drive against a hundred
hills and clattering beck from a
hundred rocky cliffs in the distance.
for some minutes before we round-
ed a curve. in the road, and there
he stood with his great horn in full
operation. This horn was fully ﬁf-
teen feet long with the bell anchored
below the road on which he stood
as he sang, holding the mouthpiece
in his hand. We were glad to drop
some francs into his leather buck-
et for that was his business, his pro-
fession, singing to the hills, and asks
ing nothingf‘rom anyone. All con-
tributions to this‘fAl‘pine minstrel
were entirely voluntary.

A day or'two later, we sailed
from Vevey, Switzerland, nearly a
whole day’s journey thelength of
Lake Geneva“ to the city of Gen-

eva. the home of the League of Nam

tions. Ouré‘itrain was to leave for
Lyons, France, that evening, and
we had justtime to get our Swiss
and American money changed into
French francs, buy our tickets, and
pay a hurried. visit to the building
on the lakeufront which is the seat
of that . American paradox,
League of Nations.

The huge stone tablet on the wall
before the building states that it is
dedicated to the memory of Wood-
row Wilson, President of the United
States -,and Founder of the League
of NatiOns,-and- yet-Old Glory is one

of the very very few ﬂags that can--

not be seen ﬂying from the windows
of the hotels which house the vari-
ous delegates to this international
league that was designed, if not
destined, to encourage more friend-
ly international relations and coop-
eration in the hope that it would
prevent future wars.

We had seen in England and in
Germany some of the results of the
barbarous institutions of war which
civilized nations sometimes see ﬁt to

indulge in even today, and the con-_

trast which they offered tomHolland
and Denmark and Switzerland, who
in the midst of it all were‘somehow
able to keep out of war, and was so
striking that we were not ashamed
to stand beneath that tablet dedi-
cated to the memory of one who
tried, at least, to do something to
stop war, “and have our pictures ta-
ken as fellow countrymen of his.

Our route from Geneva to Paris
led through much, of the battle-
ﬁeld area and if we were enemies of
war at that time, we were ever so
much more so after viewing some
of the wreckage it had caused—-
. without'beneﬂt to anyone.

Our visit in France, the battle-
ﬁelds, and? Paris, will be‘described
in the next installment.

THE INDIAN DRUM
(Continued from page 10.)
now—was only a few miles back among
.the hills. Here, before that, Uncle Benny
had been a young man, active, vigorous.
ambitious. He had loved this country
for itself and for its traditions, its In-
dianlegends and fantastic stories. Half
her own love for’ it—and. since her child-
hood, it had been to her a region of de-
light—was due to him and to the mem-
' cries of that companionship came to her.
This little bay, which" had become now
for the most: part only a summer play-
ground for. such as she, had been once

 

a,place where he and other men had'

struggled to grow rich swiftly; he had
outlined to her " the locations of the dis-
mantled sawmills. It was he who had
‘told her the=namesof the-'freighters pass-

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about Michabou and the animals; and
he had been the ﬁrst to tell her of the
Drum. .

The disgrace, unhappiness, the threat
of something worse, which must » have
made death a relief to Uncle Benny, she
had seen passed on to Alan. What more
had come to Alan since she had last
heard of him? Some terrible substance
to! his fancies which would assail him
again as she had seen him assailed after
Luke had come? Might another attack
have been made upon him similar to that
which he had met in Chicago?

Word had reached her father through
shipping circles in May and again in July
which told of inquiries regarding Uncle
Benny which made her and her father
believe that Aiui was searching for his
father upon the lakes. Now these articles
which have arrived made plain to her
that he would never ﬁnd Uncle Benny;
he would learn, through others or through
themselves, that Uncle 'Benny was dead.
Would he believe then that there was no
longer any chance of learning what his
father had done? Would he remain away
because of that, not letting her see or
hear from him again? /

She went back and picked up the wed-
ding ring. The thought which had come
to her that this was Alan's mother's wed-
ding ring, had fastened itself upon her
with a sense of certainty. It defended
that unknown mother; it freed her, at
least, from the stigma which Constance's
own mother had been so ready to cast.
Constance could not yet begin to place
Uncle Benny in relation to that ring:
but she was beginning to be able to think
of Alan and his mother. She held a
little band of gold very tenderly in her
hand; she was glad that, as the accusa-
tion againstthis mother had come through
her, people, she could tell him soon of.
this. Shecould not send the ring to him.
not knowing Where he was; that was too
much risk. But she could ask him to
come to her; this gave that right.

She sat thoughtful for several minutes,
the ring clasped in her hand; then she
went to her desk and wrote:

Mr. John Welton,

Blue Rapids, Kansas.
Dear Mr. Welton:

It is possible that Alan Conrad has
mentioned me——or at least told you of
my fatheiu—in connection with his stay
in Chicago. After Alan left Chicago, my
father wrote twice to his Blue Rapids
address, but evidently he had instructed
the postmaster there to forward his mail
and had not made any change in those
instructions, for the letters were returned
to Alan’s address and in that way came
batik to us. We did not like to press
inquiries further than that, as of course
he could have communicated with us if he
had not felt that there was some reason
for not doing so. Now, however, some-
thing of such" importance to him has
come to us that it is necessary for us to
get word to him at once. If you can
tell me any address at which he can be
reached by telegraph or mail-or where
a messenger can ﬁnd him—it will oblige
us very much and will be to his interest.

She hesitated, about to sign it; then,
impulsively, she added:

I trust-you know that we have
interest at heart and that you can
tell us anythng you may know
where he is or what he may be
We all liked him so very much. . . .

She signed her name. There were still
two other letters to write. Only the
handwriting of the address upon the pack-
age, the Manitowoc postmark and the
shoe box furnished clue to the sender of
the ring and the watch and the other
things. Constance herself could not trace
those clues, but Henry or her father
could. She wrote to both of them, there-
fore, describing the articles which had
come and relating what she had done.

Alan's
safely
as to
doing.

Then she rang for a servant and sent the

letters to the post. They4were in time to
catch the “dummy" train around the bay
and, at Petoskey, would get into the
afternoon mail. The two for Chicago
would: be delivered. early the next morn:
ing, so she could expect replies from
Henry and her father on the second day;
the letter to Kansas, of course, would
take much longer than that.

But“ the next noon she received. a wire
from Henry that he was “coming up."
It did‘ not surprise her, as she had ex-
pected him the end of the week.

Late\ that evening, she sat with her
mother 'on the wide, screened veranda.
The breeze among the pines had died
away; the lake was calm. A half moon
hung midway in the sky, making plain
the hills about the bay and casting a
broadening way of silver on the mirror
surface of the water. The lights of some
boat turning in between the points and
moving swiftly caught her attention. As
it entered the path of the moonlight, its
look was so like that of Henry's power
yacht that she arose. She had not ex-
pected him until morning; but now the
boat wasso near that she could no longer
.doubt that it. was his. He must have
staged Within an hour of the receipt of

her letter and had been forcing his en-l

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v Expect Wheat to'Sell Above Yew Ago
War Outlookr'Than Any Time in Last Six Years '
By W. W. Foam, Market Editor.

HINGS loo-k brighter for farm—
ing interests than for any year
since 1919, according to the

United States Department of Agri-
culture, and in all probability wheat
farmers will be in a position to ob-
tain good proﬁts, provided they are
not too eager to seek a market. The
other grains and most other farm
staples bid fair to command normal
prices. There is an extremely wide
difference in the yields of. wheat,
much depending on how farmers
maintain or fail to keep up the ter—
tility of the soil, an dthe successful
farmers, with less exertion, come
tilfty of the soil, and the successful
. out ahead of the others. Some farin-

ers who use plenty of fertilizer raise
43 to 49 bushels of wheat per acre.
A good corn crop is expected, and
while some grains may fall behind
last year, the aggregate yield of all
grains is counted on to exceed that
of 1924. Dairy products are selling
in the cities extra high, the best
creamery butter retailing in Chica-
go for 56 cents a pound and the
best eggs at 52 cents. As is the case
every year at this time, a large part
of the eggs and butter produced is
going into cold storage for consump-
tion next winter. Within a short
time milk prices in Wisconsin dairy
districts were raised and there is no
excessive production of high grade
mil. An extremely important item
of interest in farming conditions is
furnished by the government, show-
ing that the average agricultural
worker is now able to care for al-
most three times as many acres as
one person could handle seventy-
ﬁve years ago, this being-the result
of vastly larger use of horses and
mules, tractors, motor trucks, sta-
tionary engines, electric power and
windmills. This power cost the
agricultural industry about three
billion dollars every year. Silos are
seen on every up-to-date corn farm,
and it is not easy to ﬁnd a farmer
who is not the owner of an auto-
mobile of some kind. A new record
in volume of dairy production was
established in the United States last
year, according to ﬁgures released
by the Department of Agriculture
which places production of creamery
butter at 1,356,000,000 pounds com-
mred with 1,252,000,000 pounds in
1923.

Agriculture is “safely convales-
cent", Secretary Jardine declared in
a review of the situation as seen
from hill dg'ht weehs' western tour.

Farmers are getting out of the
"shadow of bankruptcy,” he assert-
ed, and there is a return of conti-
dence. In. short, he. added, agricul-
ture appears to be “gradually get-
ting its house in order again” after
the post-war disruption.

Declaring the farmers themselves
were competent to work out their
own problems, he said. that if he
got the right impression there will
not be any great demand for farm
legislation. Many of the farmers
told him to “let it alone, as things
were going along pretty well.”

“Cattle and hog men are better
off than they have been since 1.920
and I didn’t see any sheep men
down at the mouth,” he declared.
“If the wheat men are careful in
marketing their crops they will get
good prices and they are learning
not to ﬂood the markets.

“Conditions in the. corn belt are
reversed from what they were a year
ago, when hogs were still cheap and
com a poor and expensive crop.
Indications are for a large cotton
crop and a favorable income in the
belt.”

Damage to Wheat Crop
' So many reports of serious dam-
age from black rust to the north-
western crop of spring wheat have
been followed by contradictory re-

' ports, saying the injury was notary .

great, that. is in lathe easiest thing
, to~ discover the real . condition in

     
    

and the northwestern Canadian pro-
vinces. It seems probable, howchr,
that the crop will be not nearly so
bad as the bulls have represented,
although short, and conditions have
changed recently, the-hot weather
having given place to needed rains.
Prices have improved; considerably
since the. slumps in prices some
time ago, and within three weeks
wheat advanced 21 cents, followed
hter by a moderate decline. Wheat
may not sell at $2 a bushel, but it
is expected to fetch much better
prices than a year ago, when it was
bringing around $1.31. Within a
short time i-t’has sold on the Chicago
Board of Trade for July delivery at
$1.541. It is, of course, impossible
to know just what the future price

*~ is going to be, but it is of interest

to learn that Thomas D. Campbell,
the largest wheat grower in the
United States, wires in from Mon-
tana advising farmers to hold their
wheat. He says: "Al-l spring wheat
in the northwest has been__seriously
damaged. Look for $2.00 wheat.
Farmers should~be advised to hold
their wheat and get advantage of
the shortage that is bound to come.”
This sounds good, and it seems a
good idea to wait and see how the
market goes, taking advantage of
such times as prices are higher. The
visible wheat supply in the United
States is down to 25,233,000 bush-
els, comparing with 34,175,000
bushels a year ago and is decreasing
slowly. Rye advances slowly, "de-
spite the fact that the visible sup-
ply in this country is only about 5,-
000,000 bushels, comparing with
15,415,000 bushels a year ago, and
July rye sells around 93 cents,
comparing with 84 cents a year ago.
On the other hand, the cats visible
supply aggregates about 27,000,000
bushels, comparing with only 3,951,-
000 bushels a year ago, and July
oats sells around 44 cents, while a
year ago it sold for 53% cents.
With promise of a ﬁne, large corn
crop, July corn sells around $1.03,
comparing with $1.08 a year ago.
Murray estimated the spring wheat
crop at 255,000,000 bushels, or 21,-
000,000 bushels: less than the gov-
ernment July 1 returns, conﬁrming
the reports of damage from rust and
the recent heat wave. Winter wheat
is estimated at armed 405,000,000-
bushels, mm: a total for the.
country of “0,000,000 busheh or

only slightly" in excess 09!, domestic 3

requirements. .
Increased Grab Exports: ,

Grain and grain products to the
val’uemf $535,000,000 were export-
ed',“f'r01n the United States during
the ﬁscal year ending with June.

The ﬁgures announced by the
commerce department, registered a
gain of 32893000000 over the ﬁscal;
year of 1924', and resulted from
higher prices which have 4prevafl‘ed‘
during. recent months for, cereal
products.

Much at; the/increase was"'§ccoun.t-
ed for by the exportation of 195,-
490,000 bushels of wheat, against
7 8,793,000 bushels the year before.
The. increase in values was relative-
ly much higher for the: department
estimated that 1925; wheat exports
M‘ worth $300,006,000. while:
313? of 1924 were worth $87,713?

Flour exports for "the ﬁscal year
1925 were 13,89 6,000 barrels, worth;
$97,706,000. In 1924 they were
17,253,000 barrels and $08,202,000.

The Boom in cattle

One of the most remarkable booms
in fat corn-fed- cattl-e ever seen in
normal times has been in- progress
tor' several weeks, with sales of prime
yearlings at ﬁgures which probably
no. owner had ever expected. It was
altogether legitimate, there being.
nothing of a speculative character in
the live stock markets, and the
steady rise in values was based

      

wholly on. the decline of the receipts

in the Chicago. stock yards at a. time
when the demand. for choice cuts of
beef throughout the cannery. was
much better than usual. Most buyers
of cattle have favored the fat light
yearling steers and‘ heifers which had
been fed. plenty of corn and other
ﬁne. ieedzsr, but limited numbers» of.
heavy steers sold as high as the best
yearlings, while some prime extra
heavy steers, averaging in weight
1769 pounds, brought 314 and some
prime 15'33-pound steers sold at.
$14.60. Top for yearlings was 3.14.-
65. The: greater part. of. the recent
sales, oi steers took plate at a range

of $19.50 to $314.25, ”with sales down -

to $6.75 to $7.75 for the commoner
light steers, and limited numbers of
interior little steers at $5.50 to. $0.5 0.
Steers ol good quality sold at $11 or
more, and buyers discriminated
against grass cattle, which made up
the principal of the otterings, these
selling at lower prices. Fat butcher
cattle have had their full: share in the
cattle boom, with sales of cows and
heifers at $3.85 to $13.25, and a few
heiﬁers going for $13.50. Bulls sold
at $3.50 to $1, cannon and cutter

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WHEAT— ?
No. 2 Red $1.58 31.5034 2, $1.39 1,32
No. 2 White 1.59 l 1.69 31,34
No. 2 Mixed l 1.58 g 1.119 1.33
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No. aYeuow 1.13 .1.oa@1~.o7;gp 1.17 r 1.20
No. 4 Yellow 1.09 ; 1.06 t 1.13 l 1.15
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No. 3 \Vhito ' .50 ~43 @ -44 is r ~52 % : .57 55
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Cash No. 2 g 1.94 ~ 1.07 so
BEANs— , .
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POTATOES— - .:
New, Per cm. 3.50 3.35@4.oo ; 1.ss@2.oo 1.2o@1.so
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The stockist andteeuennds in on a

very small, scale at mostly unchanged

prices, with sales at $5" tng't_zgs..mj .
a few quotable up to $7.75,, while , .

stacker and feeder‘cows and hottest

sell: at $3.25 to $5.50. 'Milch eaves

sell at $60 to $90 per head.
Increased Lamb Chop.

An increase of 51.5 per cent in the
lamb crap as compared with last
yenris shown by the June 1 survey
made by the department oi: agricul-
ture. The increase is due largely to
gains in the so-called native sheep
states, the western states: showing a.

decrease. The tendency to expat is '

most marked in native mm docks

and in small flocks in the western ’

states.
As compared with 1924 native

states show/1.22 per cent. as runny~

lambs on farms, and western state!“
97.7” per cent. The increase in the
native states may be attributed to
considerable extent to thegincreaaed
number of farmers handling sheep.
In many states, over 15 per cent of
the returns were from farmers’ﬁ'ho
reported no lambs raised last year.
Scarcity of Breeding Ewes '

According to the live stock farmers
who have been numerous at the man:-
mouth Chicago sheep house in the
stock yards. recently, looking tor
breeding ewes of the better class,
desirable kinds are scarcer this year
than usual. According to reports
from the distant" western rages,
most of the owners of breeding ewes
are declining to sell, and one ruult
is that good light ms; one or two
years old are selling in the contry
as high- as' $12.50 a head, and ever
at this price) they are ready ales.
A sheepman from Kentucky was in
the Chicago stock yards as short this
ago, and he remarked that in his
opinion both scarcity and urmt de-
mand for good breeding eweswﬂl
continue for another year, and be in-
tended to prom. by it. He was buy»
ing ewe and wether lambs suitable
for feeding, which he: intends to ﬂare
until later in the year, aeration-put
on a full! feed of corn, oats and hay,
with linseed: oil! added as a condi-
tioner before marketing" Hi rea-
marked he wouldhold back 300 head
01’ the best ewe, lambs for: ”true
breeding. R. M. Gibson, of Louis-
ville, Kentucky, who was among
the buyers. o! breeding ewes said in
an; interview in the» Drovers Journal:

“Sheep mixers during the past two
years" have not been following the
um]. custom: or holding“ out are
isms tram their shipments to mar-
ket," he stated. “They are depend:
in: m the nutter. to supply them,
with breeding stock when such is de-
sired. The consequence is that cem-
puatively few ewes under 4 years of
age are; available in- the middle west
and eastern states," "

Hog Receipts

Manger marketing of hogs accounts

for the frequent rallies in prices, the

«weekly receipts in the Chicago and

other western points being far less
than in recent years, and last week's
Chicago receipts falling greatly be-
hind the preceding wee-k. For the
year to late date combined reedpts
in seven leading market points agre— .
gated but 15,732,000 hogs, compar-
ing with 19,025,000 a year ago and
18,284,000 two years ago- Chicago

.prices last week moved upward once

more, with western shippers buying
a large part of the choice-r offerings.
When it is recalled that a year ago

hogs were selling at $7.65 to,)9.50-: .

and two years ago at $5.60 to $7.75,

present prices look good to .owners.-

At last week’s. close hogs sold at
$11.90 to $14.55., - .

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. week-and prices are slightly lower.

The market is easy.

RYE
A decline in export demand has
taken most of the life out of the rye
market and it is easy in tone.

BEAIS

Prices in the bean market seem to
be traveling down hill fast due to
lack of demand. Canners claim they
are getting ready for the tomato sea—
son and that they will be very light
buyers for some time. However, we
will wager, they will have their eyes
on the_bean market every minute and
will snap up any. bargains, The
grower who has beans left to sell is
in a bad position at 1present. With a
big crop coming on he is going to
be in utiill me position unless some-
thing its done to keep part of the
1925 crop oh the market this fall.
It is hoped that‘the growers get their
organization in a position where they
can do mething along this line.
Read the story on page 4 of the new
organization and write us your opin-
ion of it.

POTATOES

The potato markets have been con-
siderably diiiierent this summer than
they were last. Receipts average a
little more than half what they were
last year and :prices ace about three
times as much. There is a good de-
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Week of Aligned; 2

T the very hegiumimg (:1 this
week in most parts 01 the state
the weather conditions will he
unsettled with numerous thunder
storms, sometimes known as heat
storms. In connection with these
storms there will be local winds of
more or less severe proportions.
ﬁlming the ﬁrst part of this week

‘ we use not expecting rainiaiil to he

very plentiful except in possible '10-
cal centers.

There may be very brief and
slight drops in temperature or, at
least, a respite from the general
local .s‘tnrmimess in the state about
Sunday or Monday but more elec-
trical storms are to he expected be-
fore the middle of the week.

During or immediately after the
middle of the week there will be
more local storms throughout the
state with wind and heavy rains.
At the end of the week temperatures

1 will drop and the skies will clear

up.
Week of August 9

The weather will be generally fair
during aopandng days of this week
in most parts of Michigan. While
the temperatures may be cool about
iMy d'ﬂﬂs week, they wii’l ra-
pidly warm up. ‘

About Way the weather will
inane unsettled with «increasing
cloudiness, thunder and lightning
and heavy nine. Fromm: these
activities the taupennhme will fall
rapidly and to a low reading for
the month to! August. 'm balance
of the week in Michigan will have
generally fair weather; pleasant
days and cool nights and matings.

Amt Wis! Average W-sm
temperature during the month of

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Molt—mover seed, 316. '95; alt
m. 312. 75; timothy, 32. 819.

muted o—ﬂover seed, 316. 95; al-;

site, 312. 75,; timothy, 33. 8
WWTimothy seed, .36. 75 D

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BUMPER AND EGGS
Detroit—Eggs are steady with
trash receipts at 31@82 16¢ per doz-

en. Butter, No. 1 creamery, in tubs,

is quoted at 4i);@421,-§c per pound.

LIV FBTOCK MARKETS

CHICAGO—Cattle—Fat steers slow:
bulk 38@10; plain kind to killers down-

ward to 37 and below; beet fed steers.{
vealers neatly-

313.25; yelnilinga, 313.;
310. “@1135: dew choice lobe mar-die -
312 and shatter 1E outsiders:

Hogs—hm native . 11qu good and
choice 11in» pig:
average, 314.251EJ14 4‘5; top 314.59; 31441)
to 1151.9 pond m6, My 314911.25;
pom om. neatly 312 .40@12. 85:; 11111111
81mm: daughter pigs, 313 .59914.

15an 111111115 active; women
strong to 15¢ higher; best range lambs,
315. 5;!) bulk 315.25 @1550; natives, large-
ly 314. 75,
ers weak to 25c lower; desirable handy-
weight native ewes, 38@8.50; medium
and heavy kind, 36@6.75; feeding lambs
desirable kind,
314.‘75@15.

EAST BUFFALO—Cattleb—Slow and
easy ; shipping steers, 39@12.7 5; butchers.
38@9.50; yearlings, 39 @1250; heifers,
33@6.75; canners and cutters, 32@3 bulls,
33@6.25; stookers and feeders. 34@7;
fresh cows and springers, active and
steady, 340@115. Calves—Active; choice,
312.50@13; fair to good, 311@12; culls,
“@1050; heavy, 36@8; .grassers, 33@5.
Hogs—Slow and steady to 10¢ lower;
heavy and mixed. 315; yorkers and light
workers, 314. 50@14. 75; roughs 312.75;

113,333,7010.

.Shdep amd Lambs—Steady; lambs, 310
@15. 25, a few at 315. 50; yearlings, .32@
12 northern, 50c higher, 39@9. 50; ewes,
51);: higher, 32 @8 mixed sheep, 38@8. 50.

 

I0? 0’ MICHIGAN POTATO SHOW

OPEN TO ENTIRE STATE
Board of Directors of the
Top 0' Michigan Potato Show
Araaociation have made two im-
poi-tent (changes in connection with

the 1225 Show at Gaylord. Due to‘
the Morest manifested in this an-‘

anal event throughout the state,
they have decided to open the most

important dams for state-wide com-é
Won instead of conﬁning it toi

growers located in the northern
counties which are making ﬁnancial
contributions toward the support of
the Show. All the potato growers
in Michigan will .be allowed to com-
pete in the (SO-pound seed-lot class,
according to Mr. A. C. Lytle, the
secretary, who feels that the 3125
in prize money offered in this class
should prove very attractive to
growers of certiﬁed seed throughout
the state. “'7 opening this particu-
lar class t the state, emphasis is
being laid on certiﬁed seed thus
preventing any material overlapping
with the other district shows in
Michigan. -

The other change is the includ-
ing of a “beginners’ class”\in the
premium list. The class will be
limited to those growers who have
never exhibited before, thus giving
the new exhibitors a chance to win
the prize without being hopelessly
out-classed by skilled exhibitors who
have had several years of experi-
ence . The premium will be fully as
large for this class as they are in
the realm classes. Mr. Fred Brudy,
a director and himself a skilled ex—
hibitor, says “We believe this will
bring a dot of growers in who have
never showed before because they
felt that they did not have any
chance whatever. After all, that

. is the main purpose at our show—-

to educate and train all the growers,

not Just a few chosen ones.”-—E. J.’

Leenhouts.

 

A permanent wound dressing for fruit
trees may be made by mixing dry bor-
dean with raw linseed oil. It is harmless
and effective

1-30 to 225 permit

culls, 311. 50@12; sheep to kill— ‘

 

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