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(1th over Juli.

~11 , i’to rpfa‘vora’ble Weather

ﬁnditions‘. This brings the ﬁgure
mp to 88 per cent, which is equiv-
Walent to a production of 7, 283, 000
bushels. The outlook has also im-
“proved in Wisconsin, Minnesota and
ddaho, but declined in all other

-' States. T. 2 net result is a forecast,

of 17 464, 000 bushels as compared

ment issued by Verne H Church,
U. S. Agricultural Statistician and
L. Whitney Watkins, Commissioner
pf Agriculture. /

New York reports a condition of.
[85 per cent and a prospective pro-
.iduction of 2,,108 000 bushels; Col-
orado, 70 per cent and 2,,230 000
bushels; Idaho, 92 per cent and 1,-

{122, 000 bushels; and California, 74'

per cent and 2, 914, 000 bush'els.
These forecasts allow for the nor-
Ina] decline that usually occurs with

DUDEEERDTHERS

;"with a ﬁnal estimate or 13, 619, 000 .
{or last year, according to a state- .

7 below this £311
1 the change from the ﬁermitl

ea
or condition A large percentage ‘01
the stands in- New York and Michi-
gan are exceptionally good, and
prospects to date are for a crop or
'good quality. Blight and anthras-
nose have made their appearance
but at the time of report had not
developed to any material extent.
The Michigan sugar beet crop
prospect increased during July from
812, 000 to 899, 000 tons. There was
also improvement in the other east—
ern sugar beet states, but the condi-
tion declined in the producing states
West of the Mississippi river except
Colorado.‘ For the country as a
whole, the estimate is for a slightly
smaller crop than reported on July

1. The prospective production off

6,139,000 tone is nearly .1,-400,000«
tons below last year’s crop,’ the-
acreage planted this year being cor-
respondingly less in amount. Con-

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, elation.

.7Michigan will rank second in pro-’ 7;
-..duction this .year as} against third,
place last year. 7. -‘

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HHATO SHOW

NE of the outstanding matures
of the Third T“ p a? Michigan
Potato Show,

which will be . 111g

held" November 4, 5, .-.and ' 8,2- is the-

encouragement of Boys’ and Gi’rls
Club Work. Over one {dozen potato
clubs have been organized by the
State Club Leader, Mr. A. G. Kettu-

non, through the cobperation of the

directors of the Potato Show Asso-

/

TYPE“ B SEE-DANE.

Its exceptional comfort is commented on
by everyone who drives 'it.

Doctors, tourists, salesmen, and all who
, f ﬁnd it necessary to spend eight, ten and . . -
' .. twelve hours on the road at a time, are

particularly emphatic in their praise.

The fact is, that with its admirable
\ Spring suspension, deep seats and gener- - .

ous lounging room, the Type-B Sedan
i. . delights the mast exacting seeker . after
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Shine ether clubs are also
included but next year they plan to :
include call clubs on a large scale.

that they should encourage not only
“11!?! "showing of notatoes but also - ,
‘ other thing's that tend to promote "

'the Welfare of northern Michigan.

’ igan.

‘less than last year’s and the

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is territOr, The
liberal induce— “

The 9ther feature that is attract- _,_
so attention the Apple -
ShOW he d in Connect on with the
Potato Show. Although not looked
upon as an important apple pro-
ducing territory, nevertheless- the
eight northern counties that form
the “tip” of Michigan, produce m;-
a quarter of a million bushels of ap-
ples every year. These growers feel
that the show will do for northern
Michigan apples what it has done
for the potatoeS—develop standard
varieties, a higher quality, and a
uniform grade and pack. ’
The Potato Show at Gaylord is
becoming an annual event of much-
importance to all of northern 'Mich’-
It is becoming a force which
will do much to place its agricul—

. ture on a higher plan and to bring

greater prestige to its growers and

V, their pr.oducts

”By encouraging such Worthy pro~
jects as Boys’ and Girls’ Club Work,
it is providing a leadership and a.
unifying inﬂuence which we have al-
ways lacked. In that way Mr. L.
L. Drake, regional director of Coun—

ty Agents, Summarizes the activity
of this association.
“No apple or potato grower

should fail to exhibit at the Top 0’
Michigan Apple and Potato Show
this tall. It is none too early now
to start preparing for it by spraying,
etc. The Show is open to growers
from all counties which 'have appro-
priated to the Show through their .

_Boards of Supervisors, " says Mr. A.
'C. Lytle, Secretary of the Show.—

E. J. Leenhouts.

BIG INCREASE IN
APPLE CROP

E commercial apple crop of the

United States was estimated on

'August 1 at 30,364,000 barrels,“
which is practically the same as the ‘
average of the last ﬁve years and
nearly two millions more than the
1924 crop. The total agricultural
crop is nearly 18 million bushels
in—
crease in commercial production is
due to the fact that the larger por-

 

' tion is concentrated in the com—

mercial areas of leading apple
states and because of exceptionally
high quality of the fruit in these
areas. The prospects in Washing—
ton, the leading states, are for over
two million ‘barrels more than the
ﬁnal estimate for 1924, and all
other northern states report an in-
crease. Nearly all southern states
indicate a decrease, the Virginia
crop being only about one half of
last year’ s.

The condition of the Michigan
crop is rated at 50 per cent and the
United States average is 57 2 per
cent, acrording to the report issued
by L. Whitney Watkins, Commis-
sioner of Agriculture and Verne~-H.
Church, U. S. Agricultural Statistic- ,
The corresponding percentages
for last year were 52 and 57. 8 per
cent, respectively.

The quality of the Michigan fruit
this year ranks high, as scab and
other fungus diseases have given
much less trouble than usual.

BEAN PEST HEADS TOWARD
MICHIGAN

HE Mexican bean beetle

moved another step

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gist at Indianapolis,
headed northward.

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f: Asked to make a complete review
of the episode Mt.
:gave out the following

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HE magnitude of the canned

! ~ white bean Industry can best be

judged by the approximation of

promos acres cf the cleaned pro- ‘
Inct Of Michigan goes into cans.

the ordinary No. 2 or pint can, re—
ﬁling at 10 or 12 cents contains
mundane-third pound of dry beads.
.Added water, tomato sauce. ‘3. minute

ice of pork and a little seasoning

, nukes up the balance. The bea‘nsin

the can were furnished by the grower
atratherlessthan twecents percan.
The present price quoted by factor-
ice to the :10be trade is 85 cents
per dozen, with the more widely 'ad-
81. 00. Out of
those prices is often a brokerage
allowance so that the canner is get-
ting around seven or eight cents a
can.

farmer for the raw stock, and will
probably average more.

four cents a can which includes in
addition to actual factory expenses
all the costs of merchandising of the
raw material to him and his selling
costs including advertising. which is
a large item.
__ The popularity of canning dry
beans is that plants representing
me investments are able to run on
green fruits and vegetables in their
lessons and then turnto dry beans
ual increase the total days of factory
- ting. ~ thus greatly decreasing
e overhead expenses. The tomato
industry has surplusages‘ and, unde-
sirable stocks for canning which goes
into tomato pulp. Canned beans are

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the major .outlets' for tomato pulp

and this item adds tovthe proﬁts of

; the canning industry as a ‘whole.
The addition of tomato pulp to the
, pork and beans is not only. of dietic

advantage but an. acid that is a de-
sirable aid to preservation in can-
ning.. The legumes peas and beans
have certain inherent dimculti'e’s in

? preservation that requires great care
.to prevent troubles like ﬂat sours,
etc ‘

boring the world war the question

' of permission to use tin plate labor

eta, tocan beans was raised. " At

_ ﬁrst glance it looked as though dry

beans ought to be cooked and. used
without canning. More complete in:
vestigation pointed to the great sav-
ing in small families and where fuel
was expensive—Lin using the canned
goduct over cooking at home.

creased use of canned beans has
been phenomenal and apparently eco—
nomical although not conceded by
those who apply the rule of thumb
measurements to tlfeir own experi-
ences and observations.

The actual can used as a con-'
"talner is enuai'to the price paid the

The can-‘
ners service then represents three or-

'l‘he ..
Jor beans to the grower but competi-

SATURDAY AUGUST 29, 1925

lchléan Beans and the Market

Many Difﬁculties in the \IVWayA—of Acreage Control
1. , - 1 By J. N.‘MVcB‘Rle

,_ Home baking of breadas compared
"to that of the More stock furnishes
similar arguments coincident with
that of canned beans. However,
baker" 8 bread and canned beans seem
to be having the better of the argu—
ment in. the‘ matter of output.
Whether we approve or not more

and more of beans will go into cans .

and. bean growers will take them in
cans on auto outing occasions as a
‘matter 'of convenience.

The analysis of the major outlet
for Michigans beans seeins to be nec-
essary in order to understand that
with this solution there has come in-
to being a concentration of buying
power» greater each year. Happy is
the salesman of Michigan beans—if
he can have one large canner as an
outlet. The canners also _are very
anxious that one of their competi-
tors dees‘ not get beans cheaper. than
he and he pegs the price a notch
lower than his last order just to be
sure." As “ one, bean operator ex-
pressed it "he no longer quoted
beans, just ﬁlled orders.”

The canning trade are thoroughly
conversant with acreage, crop con-
ditions and base their quotations on
canned goods accordingly. It is not
generally lmown that the great bulk
of canned goods are sold as "futures”

, with the total deliveries proportioned
- asto the actual pack and not a total

number of cases. Last year the corn
pack-was very light and pea pack
heavy. Deliveries were made on
contracts at agreed prices, peas to the
full extent and corn at the minimum.
Anticipate Large Crop

As noted before canned pork and
beans are being sold on futures as
low as 85 cents per dozen for No. 2
cans. .In other words the anticipa-
tions of a large crop now growing
is .made- the basis of proportional
delivery at a low price with all the
uncertainties of the crop still ahead.
Concentrated _quantity buying and
the fact of a very short 1925 pea
crop (probably not over 50 per cent
normal) with cans. equipment and
storage available makes bean can-
ning doubly attractive when bought
low; It is conceded that canners are
not over anxious. about low prices

tion for businem among themselves
compels it. The added price of four
cents per dozen cans would be equal
to $1. 00 per hundred pounds to the
grower.

. DIODE?
parison is that of industrial groups.

In matters of price making—~the
tin plate makers are united. The ad-
vertising columns are as adamant
when it. comes to prices for space
and so all the way down the line of
labor, transportation, interest, etc.,
the charges are unyielding. The
modem physician’s great prescription
to the ailing one is to "build up the
resistance" to disease. The bean
growers seem to have little resistance
to price cutting, and when he has
grown a large crop and the. price is
low he is comforted by professional
advisers to grow the next crop more
efﬁciently.

Efﬁciency advices to farmers is
thoughtless thinking, to say the least,
if it is really thinking at all. The
economic or relational com-

with whom exchanges of products or
serviceaare made or with previous
records made by the respective
groups. Agriculture compared with
itself in the past as a group has
tripled in efﬁciency within the last
75 years and as compared to individ-
ual output in mining, manufacturing
and transportation has vastly out-
distanced those in the last decade.
The real efﬁciency notion as usually
expressed by the expert is not new.
Pharoah of Egypt had the same idea
of getting more bricks by furnishing
less straw. ,
Increasing Bean Acreage

Natural conditions in Michigan do
not permit of very great expansion
of bean acreage, the actual area is
rather limited and any decided in-
crease is at the expense of the crop
rotation. The increased acreage of
1925 is a combination of factors, viz,
low potato and sugar prices together
with droughty conditions which
switched considerable of corn acreage
to beans. During the years of the
great war bean acreage reached a
maximum of 543,000 acres, while in
1924 the acreage was only'14,000
more acres. The average acre re—
turn from 1914 to 1924 has been
$36.08. This price is based on an
average yield of 10.2 bushels per
acre. The average price of the 1914
crop was $2.00 per acre below the
low. year average. Winter wheat
and barley last year brought the
grower respectively $30.36 and
$24.80 per acre and corn was ﬁgured
at $27.65. These ﬁgures are given
to show that there is very little dan—

ger of a. continued drift away from .

class matter. A
at but. “(iguana Mich, under set

.22.: {as

the standard farm crops in favor of
beans ove’r a long period of time.
- Could a bean acreage be decreased.
to around 450, 000 acres and the bal-
ance of 100, 000 acres or more be de-
voted to the standard crops the pos-
sibilities are in favor. of a total gain
to the farmer. However ﬁgures on
this point are subject to different in--
terpretations. For example the crop
of 1919 of 316,000 acres brought
over eighteen millions of money,
while the crop of 1920 was 286,000
acres and brought about nine million
dollars.
. Acreage Control

There are so‘ many diiiiéulties in
the way of acreage control that no
proposition of thiskind gets beyond
the mere suggestive status. The
best economists are inclined toward .
a method of reservoiring non-perish-.
able products and making the surplus
serve as a notice to growers to reduce
acreage or to be used in case of poor
seasons to maintain an essential food
supply. The great question is how
to preserve the surplus of a good
season so it will not compel losses
to the grower. The English depend-
encies are maintaining rubber prices
by governmental action. Brazil and
Honduras are in a similar way valor-
ising coifee and sisol ﬁbre. There
is in a democracy like the U. 8. a
well deﬁned sentiment to leave this
service to the commodity producers
and legislation has opened the way
to make this action within the law.
Agricultural opinion has not yet been
molded into constructive action on
these lines. It is safe to say that
cooperative bodies that are merely
handlers of goods, passing them on to '

, channels of consumption or manufac-

turing processes are only other roads
to the same terminals and while their
over turn may be great or small,
these must some day and very soon
be made increasingly serviceable in
maintaining price levels. The turn-
ing point of Denmarks success in
cooperation was the passage of the
famous trades act in 1909 authoriz—
ing the principal organizations of in—
dustry i. e., (the cooperatives) to
mark the retail prices on the article
or container and a ﬁne for selling at ,
a. different price unless so authorized '
by the producer. The package or

unit of sales must not be broken or

divided however to secure this price.

The power of the Denmark cooper-

atives came as a growth and main- ’
tained the home market at a stable

price while the surplus was exported.

The home market in control of the

producer prevented the exporter from

bidding down prices, when the pro-

duct was out of ﬁrst hands.

Hoover Gives Inside Story of Fixing Price of Wheat During World War

1‘ FTER eight years of silence

G'l Herbert Hoover is ﬁnally tell-

ing the inside story of the ﬁx-
ing of the price of wheat at $2. 20
a bushel during the world war.
During this time he has been the

.. subject of many bitter attacks by .

agriculture for his supposed lead-
ing part in set the price.

‘nFermers thought the price set was

too low and most of them believed

. it would have advanced much high—

er: if no price level had been set.

 

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Hoover ﬁnally

ist needs no reference, has madea
thorough study of the records of
these war time organizations, and.
for the ﬁrst time. a report has been
prepared based on a full examina-
tion of these records.

“Dr. Surfaces objective review
.easily demonstrates that the Amer-
ican farmer was saved from what
otherwise would have been a com-
plete disaster due to certain condi—
tions created by the war and effec-
tively dissipates the myth that price
guaranties were entered into for

tion between themselves, the Allies'
governments before we came into
the war had consolidated their pur-
chasing of world wheat into one
buying agency. Through control of
world shipping and the blockade
against the enemy, this agency was
the sole buyer of our wheat.
1 Price Fixed

“The domestic price of wheat to
the American farmer was ﬁxed by
the price which could be realized
for the export surplus. As export
buying was all in one hand, the
operation of the law of supply and
demand had been abolished and the
price of wheat to the American
farmer, therefore. would be deter-
mined hy the price which this
buying agency determined to pay.

.‘i5wPrice lining for American wheat
“thaws: thus already under way in-

Congresshadpro-

fordgn .
vided a minimum price of only $2
a busholmfor the 1918 crop and it

WI! for the 1911
harvested.
had ﬁxed-

, their

only reason they were proved

 

prices of wheat in their own coun-
tries at about $1. 80 a. bushel and
in order to lay down American .
wheat at this price they considered ,
that they should pay the American

farmer about $1. 50 a bushel at cm;

cage for the 1917 crop.

“In support of this contention .
agents contended that any ,
higher price to the American farmer-
would require an increase in the ‘
price of bread in the Allied coun’
that the American farmer ,
had realized only about $1.30 a
bushel for his previous year's wheat.
despite the $3 corner on the Chicago”
market which occurred after nearly
95 per cent of all the wheat had left.
the farms.

  
 
     
  
     

“They also pointed out that the
pould purchase abundant sum
of wheat in Argentina and A," " -
at $1.50 a bushel or less and “

    

   
  
 
 

    
   

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cheaper, supplies- by the longer prey
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b cultivate our com that we might
et the best results of our labor.
hat set a number of us thinking.
, dry weather I began to cultivate
allow but our cultivators were
hot made for an even shallow culti-
ation, so I_ dragged ﬂoats behind,
on ,I tried different things like
dhains, gas pipes and so on, but I
found the three—inch gas pipe the
est when out the right length for
cultivating either riding or walking.
The gas pipe seemed to have a good
ffect as my neighbors’ crops seemed
rsufl’er much while my crops still
_eld_ out and were nice and green
'during dry spells, until a nice show-
er of rain would come, again put-
ting new pep into the crops, connect—
ng the new moisture With the old
1111 ﬁtting it up fo1 some more dry
days.
, Experiences Encouraging

"Those experiences were very en-
uraging, however. The ﬂoats were

-.1_unny looking things and ve1y in-.

onvenient especially when turning
the ends of the rows, so I began
plan out better tools, not ﬁnding
them in the market making them
out of old spring drag teeth and
some angle iron.T110se I ﬁrst made
ad three teeth f01 small things like
eets and carrots, with shields and
‘ﬂoat behind it. These small things
gave me a start for something larg-
.er and when improving 011 the little
Qnes I ﬁnally got a perfect cultiva-
’ tor as you ﬁnd in the picture; a cul—
inter of ﬁve teeth for 24 to 28-
hch rows. These shields have a

tints thru the ground as it has a

his is the eighteenth a1ticle of a ser-
by Francis A. Flood on his travels in
rope last summer. The next article
ich concludes the series will appear in
-; an early issue.
, ”3, S our party crossed the bordei
from Switzerland into that land
~ of war and "romance that we had
Waited so long to see I am sure that
every- member of our party 1egister-
ed this thought with a bang: “So this
is France!” It is a most unoriginal
idea, but one of those that suddenly
hits you full in the face and rears
' on back on your haunches in a
t of daze, unable to grasp it all
‘ once in spite of a lifetime of an-
ipat‘ion.
' General Pershing had told us, on

words when he landed in France in
917 were not “LaFayette, we have
ome." as the popular fable has it.

Just what he did say ﬁrst
know that if he didn’t actually say
thought it, and what he
thought was, “So this is France!"
Qr that is the only thing there is
left to think when you suddenly see
iti-

.: England had been a delight H01—
land and Denmark were wonderful,
Germany was most impressive, and
SWitzerland was beautiful, but—
well, this was France! This was to
be the main act aftei all. The or-
chestra had been wonde1ful, the
comedy a real one, and the lobbies
”and the theatre itself magniﬁcent,
ut the curtain was just now ringing

.Hi'

S you Will remember years age“

s were sent out and told us how,

" weight ‘on the ﬂoat.

harp point at the rear and that

By JOHN VENHUISEN

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curve at the end .of'the point, threw-

ing away the dirt with the weeds
.from the rows. The ﬂoat comes
along behind and ﬁlls up the little
furrow which the shield has made,
making it a perfect bed, the spring
teeth stirring up everything with
the shield as a protector of the
smaller plants. The ﬂoat acts as a
packer and leveller bolted to the

handles on a 60 degree giant with

the cultivator so as to put its full
These shields
can'be raised as the plant grows

higher, allowing the teeth to throw_

the dirt around the plant, covering
up single weeds. We can go shallow
or deep. by the setting of a: lever.

Ottawa County Farmer .,

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I have larger t-utivators that are
somewhat different; there are sev-
en teeth in them—three in the
front row and four on the back

row, also with levers so that we can ‘

adjust them for deep Or shallow cul-
tivating. TWo more teeth can be add-
ed to the larger ones, one on each
side so that we can cultivate under—
neath long vines. They are made of
spring steel teeth bent straight with
a cultivator curve at the back bring—
ing them down low soas to creep
underand not endanger plants-or
vines." Thesefteethsaye much hoe-
ingrand I use them onlyin my vine-

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The special attachments you see 011 these cultivators were invented by John Ven-

hnisen, of Holland

By FRANCIS A. FLOOD

up 011 the main act at last, and the
name of the show was “France"
To some it is a comedy, a society
drama, a fashion show, or a great
art exhibit, but to many, both
Americans and the French them-
selves within recent years, it is a
tragedy, a powerfully dramatic tra-
gedy, in which many of the princi-
pal actors Were killed before the
last act.

As for myself, I had thbught of
France as the battleﬁeld of the re—
cent war, and that is what it meant
for the 'most of our party, none
of whom had ever been in the coun-
try before.
the service during the war, I had
never been sent across to the other
side.

We caught our ﬁrst glimpse of the
battleﬁeld area just below Chau—
mont, and from there to Rheims the
outlook from the windows of our lit-
tle “chemin-de—fer” grew steadily
worse. The ﬁrst signs were only an,
occasional old trench almost lev-
eled and apparently glad “to hideits
hideous war-head under the ﬁelds
of wheat and grass that covered it,
and once in a while a ruined house
stood as a much more appalling

monument to war and what it really ‘

means than is any bronze statue of
a conquering hero on a great war
horse towering over a public square.
These shattered houses, ruined
towns, and countless little cemeter-

Although I had been in .

ies are the real monuments to war

_ itself.

New Towns Spring Up

Farther north, our train passed
through whole villages as new as
my OWn pioneer town near where I
homesteaded in Wyoming, and
where every shack has been built
since 1918. Without even a whistle
oui train passed an old, weed— covered
stone depot platform that must have
once served a fair sized town judg—
ing from the remains of the sta~
tion platform and train sheds.
other little town, brand new, is
struggling to erect itself near by,
and the old town doesn’t get even a
whistle from the engineer any more.
We saw an occasional wheat ﬁeld
mottled continuously with spots of
sparse, short grain exposing a top
soil of limestone thrown up above
the original fertile soil by a shell
or trench and cutting dowu the
yield by just that much. Wooded
areas of 40 or 80 acres are now only
a tangled mass of underbrush with
a few shattered trunks still stand-

ing.
All this was just by way of pre-
lude to the dramatic tragedy,

France, and the ﬁrst. act was laid in
Rheims.

Rheims! We found it simply a
wreck of a great town as our train
rolled in toward the station.
were told that 15,000‘of the 18,000
houses in the town had been partly

 

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have different sizes for narrow rows, ‘
such as potatbes. The. ﬂoats on
theSe large cultivators are bolted tO‘

- the cultivator handles and handle

yard or among the raspberry bushes. /

standard with chains, holes are
drilled thru the upper line of the
ﬂoat thru whiCh the end” of the
chains are keyed. These keys we .
insert in different lengths of the
chain for loose ﬂoating and these
ﬂoats are made of 1,6 inch thick
sheet steel 12 inches wide and the
full width of the Cultivator. They
are corrugated at bottom edge or
rather cut “V” shaped leaving the
ground in a corrugated shape pre-
venting the wind from drifting too
much sand and it crushes the clods
better. 1 For the ﬁrst and second cul-
tivation we seldom use them. We
raise them and tie them to the han—
dles out of the way but later on,
we drop them doWn and use them all
the time and towards the last we
weigh them down by tightening the
chains putting the weight of the
cultivator on to the ﬂoats.

I will say that we have forgotten
the riding cultivator as it does more
damage than good. When We begin
to cultivate the little plants we add
a shield and raise the teeth nearest
111's row going very shallow; in this

'~ way we can almost touch the plant

\or small plants.

An- '

We.

'width of corn rows

without covering it and you cannot
do this with a riding cultivator.
We go deeper later but. run the
teeth against the row all the time
by adjusting, the one tooth for big
On potatoes we use
no shield for it does no harm to cove
er them going once thru a 10w ﬁne
ishing one row at a time because the
cultivator covers . about the full
Before culti—
vation begins the weeder has been
run over the ﬁeld once or twice.

destroyed during the four years of
the war. The German army had oci-
cupied that toWn for eleven days in
1914 and then after Joffre drove
them out, they had occupied a cap-
tured French fort just a few miles
out and had kept up a continuous
shellﬁre whenever they were so in-
spired throughout the remainder of
the war, often with incendiary
bombs. , ..
Beautiful Cathedral at Rheims
To me the name Rheims had sim—
ply meant the home of the great
cathedral of that same name, per.-
haps the most beautiful and most
famous of all those ancient archi-
tectural masterpieces of centuries
agone which we dare not attempt
to duplicate today. When Columbus
discovered America, the cathedral,
even then, was older than any build—
ing we have in the middle west
today, and by the time of 'our Revo—
lutionary War it was already 500
years old, a magniﬁcent monument
to the patience and artistry of those
medieval builders. Men had spent
their entire lifetime hand carving
single seats or those graceful stone
pillars and then had passed on, leav—
ing their matchless workmanship
behind, and this‘workmanship had
stood in their memory as one of the
architectural marvels of the ”modern
times. Then came the German army
and now much of it is gone. An
American philanthropist recently
gave a round million dollars which
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WHICH IS )IOTHER?—This is “ALL WORK AND NO PLAY NIAKES

 

Mrs. Frank Whitcratt, ot‘ Okemos, camping trip where one
and her daughters. Only two guesses morrow. This is Kenneth

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Rosebush. camping' at Houghten Lake.

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THREE HORSE PO“’ER.——Oral Randall, of Marion, who sent
us this picture must be a lover of good horses. Lovers of horses

have ﬁne looking horses.

“READY TO HELP OUT ‘PAS’I‘URE XIOTHERS SHEEP.—“Our Jersey heifer and two pet lambs READY TO HELP DAD.—-Ri(‘hard, son of
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A'Mrs. E. Beard. of Harrison-

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Davison, says “My goat likes
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JACK A DULL BOY!”—-—It is on a
forgets their troubles and gives no thought to to- Phelps, of Stockbridge, sent us this pic—
}Iarshall and family and A. J

“She is doing a good Mr. and Mrs. Nealie Cook, Marion, is a. husky
“'eighed 90 pounds at 12 weeks.” n-hap isn’t he?

given this picture by Frank Thayer, ot Twining, and he should
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TUITION MUST BE PAID

In May last spring, a certain per- '

son hired a boy of school age whose

home was in the adjoining district...

He now wishes to go to school,

the person who has hired him
estoknowwhotherornothocsn
send the child to school in his own
school without tuition—A. 1., Burr
Oak-”Mich. \

3 child is non-resident and

tuition would need to he paid

it the board of education of the

school district where he is to attend

requires it.——~W. L. Coﬂey, Deputy

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I would like some information on
berriesand
whentcplsnt. spray and prmsnd
whatkindofplanistonsetorsets.
Ganyouresetold gooseber’rybush—
esi Wohavoiust boughtssmsll
tambutitisanrundowmbut

- plenty of berries here when it is

reset and got into shape. Also I

would like to know how to reset on”

asparagus bed. We have red and

black raspberries, gooseberries, cur--

rants and strawberries. Would like
to plant overbearing strawberries.

. Should they be planted in the fall

or spring? I have a grapevine and
don’t know how to care tor it eithu
but know that it needs a lot of care
to make it look like the ones on suc-
cessful fruit farms.—C. 8., Wood-
land, Mich.

best time to set out small
fruit and asparagus plants is
early spring. The spraying and
, pruning diner with the kind of
plants, and with the particular posts
which it is found necessary to con-
trol. I would advise you to enlist
the services or your county agricula-
tural agent and the state experiment
station for information on these
subjects.

Old gooseberry bushes and as—
paragus plants may be reset, but it
is best to secure young plants for
emitting new plantations. If you
attempt to reset the old plants I
would suggest that you move them
in the spring. One hall or more of
the tops of the bushes should be
cut out when they are reset. Even-
bearing strawberries should be not
as early 'as possible in the spring.
Keep the blossom picked oil until
about July 1 after which Mm
be allowed to bear fruit. I an
log you several experlmsm station
bulletins and circulars on the sub-

jects in which you are' most interw-

ested——B.E.Loree,hsst.l>roi.oi

Horticulune. I. 8. C.

ﬁreman}: on m nuns
Would like to know the law on

stop signs. Who has right-ohm

where two trunk lines cross.--P. 8.,
Ashley, Mich.

reply to the toregoing, we refer

INyou to the tonowing portion of
Act 98 of the Public Acts of

" 5. Rightofwxy.
“(a)Whex1mctorvwliieloeap-
an intersection of a state

linehighwayandanyother
highwayatmesamemmve-
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the center of the intersection of thé raw

4: two streets as up cable.
“(6) The public utilities commie“

sion and the state highway commis- .. _ W
sioncr. gating jointly, are hereby him
tod'esighstien any ‘

siren authority
state as a , , ‘ us .

way department at
place or places‘on the highway on
each-eldest railroad rightoiwsy
within arreasonable distance 0!! such
crossing.

"(1) 8It shall be unlawful to park
,a vehicle on the beaten track or
paved surface of any highway out-.
side the limits of any village or city.

"(8) The provisions 0!! perv

graphs (3), (b) and (c) ofthissoc-
ti “intersections

Aim icy General.
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What is the best ﬂowering plant
gorshruh-tosetouttorbeeposture?
Domicedoharminbee-hivos! Do
ants (red) do harm in bee-hives?
-——C. 8., Alpena, Mich.

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sideration, either alsike. clover

orswoetcloverwouldprobubly
bothemostproiit’abletorheepu-
ture. Thereseemsf tobespopulu-
impression that buckwheat yhlds
considerable honey also but this n
notthetactinmanypsrtsotm
igan, at least. InNew Yorke)!

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emour‘large enhanced
saddest!” colonies and irritate the f

but mm get into weekll
We have never known' or ,
where ants censured a colony ‘

bees In fact, if the colony is weai
enough to allow the guts to said
entrance, there is something wrong'
and it should either be:

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SOILS AND CROPS
———-—Edited by c. .f. WRIGHT. “st. Joseph County. -.
. Contributions Invited—Questions Answered '- "

WHAT ARE WE GOING no no
‘ABOUT OUR CLOVER
THIS season ﬁnds Michigan and

surrounding territory with the
smallest stand of young seed-
ing in her history and the oilects
will be noticed more on further crop
production than perhaps it has been
in past instances.
The old meadows must be left for
hay another year, and the wheat

on our now limited supply of hue
mus.

Now is the time to think about
getdngsstandorset (astheHoos—
ier calls it) of clover to stick‘ for

Thiscanbedonebutit
someeﬂortonthepartoi man
and an expenditure of money. but
thechaneesorrewardaresogood
thatthequi‘clner onetriesittho
soonerheisonthewaytobetter
cropsocnthetarm

will take
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Plow mr_ m stubble early, and.
tons

you understand selling your crop
higher than the food elements you
aretakingoutotthesoﬂtom
does it, and then buy, or put these
elements back into the land at I
lower cost than you are selling '
them as a crop.

Lots of people say this is too ex-
pensive to get clover this way, but .
it is not half as expensive as they
are raising clover now.

If they would keep track of the
cost of the clover ’seed that they
sow each year and lose and the hay
that they buy to ﬁt the land, and
their limited production of their
other crops, they could treat every
acreottheirfarmWith-theirun—
seen losses and have “money left.

The corn crop stterliming and 2
setting a crop at clover to put to
corn will in nearlyevsry Minna ‘
givoanincreaseoione-fourthois?
former corn crop extra. V

Wehaveonourowufarmhad
instahcesofl'lbushelandszbush

showed 66 per cent hard where
lined and 75 per cent soft where

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DETROIT-— WOODWARD & FARMER AT GRATIOT

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IS sale celebrates not only the forty-fourth anniversary of
the founding of this business but the completion of our new
ﬁfteen -story building. 01 The increased facilities of this new
Farmer Street building, together with the addition of two stories to
our entire Woodward Avenue building, have made it possible for
, ”us to - provide for this sale greater assortments, greater quantities,
‘ , I greater values and better service than ever before. ('1 Every depart-
. ment in the store will be represented. Every piece of merchandise
in the anniversary sale is new, for fall and winter— of Hudson
1 quality—and at a deCided saving.

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State .: Fair

3 STATE FAIR is an arena for friendly competition.
’ It is an educational opportunity. ’ It is a medium of _

exchange fer ideas and property. It is a social event.‘ It is a

reﬂection of agricultural optimism. It is an annual census

 
 

of progressive agriculture. It is a pageant of progress.
The crop and livestock products of a great common-

wealth are on display.

The best grains, the most nutri-

tious grasses, and the ﬁnest farm animals on exhibition
give evidence of man’s progress in soil husbandry.

. Ever keeping pace with the progress of the world’s basic

6 industry—agriculture—has been the development of the

' ; Nation’s arteries of transportation. Interdependent as are
‘ agriculture and transportation, it is becoming more and

more evident that the prosperity of one.depends upon the

success of the other:

Always in the lead to recognize the needs of the country,
3 the New York Central Lines have spent millions upon
‘ millions of dollars in providing livestock cars, box cars

for grain and refrigerator cars.

When visiting the State Fair, consider also the fact that
the progress reﬂected there is, in a large measure, pos-

sible through the foresight and progressiveness of the.
builders of our great railroad systems.

   
 
   

 
 
 
 

NEW YORK _’ ,-
(_l:iNTRAL,.;' ‘ .
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At the Michigan State Fair the New York Central
Lines display will include a showing of trafﬁc
headquarters and a community eghibit.

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New ork Central Lines,

Boston&Alban —Michigan Centralu—Big Four—Pittsburgh &Lake Erie ,

an the New York Central and Subsidiary Lines
Agricultural Relations Department Oﬂices
New York Central Station, Rochester, N. Y.

La Salle‘ St. Station, Chicago, Ill.
466 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y.

Michigan Central Station, Detroit, Mich.

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Albion steel and wood mulls are Q0“
and powerful. One-lhirdlhe work-
all}, parts of any other mill.

man Puman bearing 5:1me to
wear. This a oilleu, and "ﬂy lo
placublc. Govern: b dependable
weigh! springs. Flu my 4-90“
mellow“. Whynolm chore
houn now will a good M7.
This in your charter—F. O. B.
Albion. Bedlam Mm
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farm
dry, sanitary. Warm
permanent. HOOSIEh
recommended for all. permanent con-
struction. Whatever you plan to build.
I get; HOOtSaIlgR prices and
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4‘ our dealer or write direct for notations.
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UN IVE RSAL
HULLER and SCARIFIER

"Ten pounds
04f scariﬁed
a 1 f a l f a or
sweet clover
sccd will give
a better stand
than 18 to 20
pounds of un-
s c a r i f i e d
seed," is an
alfalfa e x —
pert's state-
ment.

Save '
$1.00 to $5.00
Per Acre.
Alfalfa seed
at 50 cents
per pound is
expensive. Why waste four or ﬁve
dollars? Use scariﬂed seed. Sweet
Clover at 15 cents er mom! will mean-
a loss of 81.00 to 1.5 per acre if un-

scarfﬁed seed is need. .-

Sweet Clover becomes a weed if un-
scarlfied. Unearthed Sweet Clover
will keep comm ugefor a number of
years, but it wll come a weed in
every ﬁeld where it in sown. Scarily
it and eliminate this trouble.

null Your Own Sweet Clover

Why pay two cents or more to have
your sweetclover boiled and ”filled?
Why sell it for four or tire cents per
pound less than it is worth?

Free Clreulnr. Get our clrwlar
about the Untrersal Holler and r-
iﬂer, that every famwr can “for to
buy. Does not crush , , t
it is the very best huller and our!
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Americﬁn Grain S _ Co.
i021 nuex st. 15-39%!!! Ilka.

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T use New. Alfalfa. »
HE galfalfa ire},- sowed the latter
part of... Jane has .msde a ﬁne

tees last year, and was ‘not._,plowed

 

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alfalfa. It was

very few weeds

grow. However,
since the alfalfa
was sown there
have been sever-
al’ good grains,
and the alfalfa
‘was -not the only
, . thing on ‘ that
ﬁeld tomake a wonderful growth.
In fact the weeds came on so fast
there was danger of their making
too much shade, so the ﬁeld was gone
over with the mower. As one fellow
said, we tried to cut the alfalfa as
high as possible, and the »weeds as
low as possible, which was quite im-
possible. We1_l,_ anyway the ﬁeld
was certainly improved. The hay
rake was used to- gather up the
weeds. " The clipping off of the al-
falfa tops did not hurt‘the plants
.in the least, and they are forging
ahead faster now than over, now they
have the ﬁeld to themselves.
We Missed ' It

L; w. MEnks

not put this ﬁeld into barley; The
way the season has been we could
have grown twenty-ﬁve "or thirty
bushels of barley to the acre on "it,
and had a good alfalfa seeding too.
On a neighbors ﬁeld we disked up
the corn stubble, and sowed barley
and alfalfa. The weather was so

and only yielded about thirty bushels
per acre, but the alfalfa grew and is
a very good stand. This is the ex-
perience of several farmers around
here. However, next year the same
method of seeding would possibly
be a. waste of seed.

I have yet to hear of anyone who
has a catch of cloverseeding this
season. One neighbor is disking up
the wheat stubble and sowing sweet
clover;’ another is disking his and
sowing alfalfa. '

The clover ﬁelds which were cut
for hay are making a good growth
and would produce a much larger
amount of hay now, than they did
before, Most farmers are planning
on' making hay of this second crop,
regardless of Whether the clover ﬁlls
' well for seed or not. We have some
clover seed we are carrying over, so

second crop. Really I would like to
simply cut it and let it lie on the
ground. It would be a. ﬁne thing
for next year’s clover, and this is
what we planned, but the hay will
be needed almost too much for this
to be practical. We have a ﬁeld on
a neighboring farm where mammoth
clover was Seeded in oats last year.

ceedingly well with seed. _ ,
For the, past ﬁfteen years we have
planned to have a ﬁeld of mammoth
clover seed each year, and generally
it is quite a successful crop. It
seems to improve the soil. Some-
times this mammoth clover has been
cut for hay and it makes quite good
buy for cattle and sheep, but we do
not like it for horses. We never
sowed mammoth clover with the in-
tention to! making hay of it but
sometimes when the corn fodder and

have cut the mammoth clover for
seed. 'We always sow a liberal
amount of this big clover in our pas-

ture seeding. .
. i It 0

- Threshing
Twentyvﬁve years ago, thrashing
from the shock was quite unpopular.
Most every farmer drew his grain
andstuked it, or. put it in thegbarn.
disengage, year by, year; the ﬁeld
threshing; 533 weaned, in ,PQWNﬁtK:
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lroadsecpe, 'a m _
' _ _ j ﬁldlted by" L.*:W.___Meelt "

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growth.” The ﬁeld _ grew pota- .
this springfbuﬂt burrowed-atfreq'uent '

. April ﬁrst until.
'it was soWn to.

, so dry“ all this,
time there were'

that started, to ,

We missed it this year that we did

dry the ,barley did not get very large’

I think we will make hay of the‘

The .clover is ﬁne, and is ﬁlling ex-e

other roughage feeds are short, we‘ ‘more

   
 

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* thisiyear, ,llééhuse‘we have drawn our .
A hundred

oatsjund' 'mstsclred them-
‘mile 3114201, triplishowaonly ﬁve or pix

stacks" for grain.

.Wll‘ﬁzt would a farmer have'thought"

itwenty-jﬁve' years ago, if, when the
threshing rig pulled into the yard
tractor—no coal, no tank wagon:—
only five men in the crew—one driv-

’.ing the tractOr and the other catalog .

in an automobile! . Both going home

in the car .f’or’the 'nightapd not 4-

getting.back on the job until ten
minutes before time for threshing
1n the morning. Twenty-ﬁve years
ago, this .would have seemed absu‘r‘d,

but, today it is the way .it‘ is done.,

As far as I know, there are only one
or two steam threshing outﬁts in
the county. The coal burning, steam
engine hasbeen discarded for the in-
ternal. combustion- oil motor for
threshing pow’er, just as the gas
driven motors have taken the place
of horses on the road. ‘
no doubt, as it should be but still
the writer is 'just old fashioned
enough to miss the horses and the

y steam engines! ’

Times change—and the world
moves and methods and machinery
which were very much up to date a
few years ago, are» now obsolete and
remain but a— memory. I am im-
pressed by this thought as I think of

‘ our local feed mill.

When‘ I ﬁrst became a. patron of
the mill, it Was the last word in
equipment of that time, It consist-
ed of a wondrous large steam bdiler
and engine, and a feed mill that was
considered of good capacity. Soon
the village voted to have an electric
light'plant, and the miller furnished
the power for the generating equip-
ment. In a few years the village
built their own power and light sta-
tion at quite a heavy cost. The
milling, property was sold, and the
new owner found steam power for
grinding feed-unsatisfactory. It- took
too long to get steam for starting
the mill, it took a. man’s time to
stoke the furnace and look after the
engine, and this was, until about
that time, considered an absolute
necessity. 'But internalcombustion
engines were fast becoming practical,
and so the old boiler and engine
were scrapped, and in its place was
installed a wonderful oil engine
weighing many tons—also a. feed
mill twice the capacity of the steam
driven one. ‘

Surely this was about as near per—
‘fection as one could imagine. One
man ran the whole works, and needed

to be there only three minutes bee-W

fore ‘he could grind feed. There
no ﬁres to build and two hours of
waiting for steam. The mill had a
wide territory of patronage as ser-
vice Was of the best.-

The once up to date village elecs

, tric light station was too expensive

to operateand have twenty four hour
current. A great electric compand
1n a far distant city could construct
power lines to the ‘village, and fur—
msh continuous current far more
economically. Accordingly, the' vil—
lage scrapped their lighting plant,
and the miller, assured of continuous
current, hasjustlscrapped his oil
engine and equipment, and his new
motors and grinder are being put
into service this week. '

If the miller gets on the job just
one minute before he wants to start
his grinder. That is plenty long
enough! He can open the oil cups
and throw the switch in one min-
ute.~ The. capacity of the grinder is
largely increased. There will be no
waiting. But the ‘question
comes to me.
electric motor driven feed grinder be
considered up to date?

from now?

-e s, a
- — (‘ Corn f ‘
, The corn is comingﬁne. It» s
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All this “is, ,

How long Will this.

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Int 1881111 ”0 Hr, Eat6n Rapids"
a'sks- how to get rid of i‘chok‘e:
,II. Several years age a -bee
. n at Verona Mills, Huron cogntY.
[I was _pestered with a 4 '
> ”I “choke-weed" or “bind-weed” in
,5, his garden, the rum 0! an old time
_.:‘ ﬂower garden. The soil was deep
- 5188181 drift clay learn and. natural-
; 3 I fertile; the weed was' master.
“ I, I . owner hired the patch plowed
' seven inches deep in the late fall.
I Ime tollewing spring he cultivatéd
' ' I it with a wide tooth hand cultivator
88 soon 88 the ground 'was tillable
I and went over it regularly every
"week, wet or dry, for 13 consecu-
tive weeks and intermittently for
. the rest of the season, without any
. _. crop. The following sensen it was
I . ~- . plnnted to garden and but three
: - sprouts were feund and it has since
' - " been rm from the pest. —Ernest
Richardson, Huron County.

  

  

{HIE FARMERS NEED .

EAR EDITOR: Theiarmer needs

to know that every tax—dodging

salary raising, market closing,

dishonest and mercenary piece of

. legislation is a direct injury to ev-

7’ _ ery honest business in the coun

- Just now while foreign markets

are giving the American farmer

~ about double the price for grain

- , ‘ that the home market was paying

I him a short time ago, further relief

amounting to hundreds of millions

of dollars might be extended by the

removal of the tariff on articles he

has to buy. If President Coolidge

is committed to a sincere and honest

conviction to aid the farmer would

not the remedy apply to reason,

since it would cost nothing to attain

I it?. But is it not a fact that he in—

, 3 tends to help the farmer, if, 11, IF

4- ‘ , ' it does not interfere with or injure

\ ‘a dishonest and oppressive system

'of taxation? The protective tariff

'is oppressive because it taxes 3

man 10, 20, 40, or 50 "per cent

when a tax of one or ﬁve per cent

on the nation’ 3 wealth would be

more than sufﬁcient to run an econ-

omical government;‘ dishonest be—

, cause _it taxes the poor man with

only a few dollars as much as it

does agrich man worth millions, and

because it is for the sinister pur-

pose to take from one man a per-

_ I centage of his dollar and without

I his consent and against his interest
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. give it to another. We might re-
.mark that this system of “extortion”
or “hold-up” charity has got a bad
name.
In governing a nation, state,
township, or community, the ﬁrst
' rule for the tax man‘ to consider is
‘ that every man should have ’free
and open opportunity to engage 'in
or conduct any; legitimate business.
. -That when it becomes necessary
- to incur expense to enforce this com-
; . , : munity or public right to be secure
- I- I in health, peace and property, then’
‘ every dollar should contribute
I equally to such cost because every
' _, I individual and every dollar is equal-—
” _ ‘ ly involved in the question oi rights.
- What the farm wants, and what
I the country needs, is law that will
stop and prevent all class legisla-
tion, all rates of taxation conﬂict-
I. ing with the average rate obtained
,; by dividing the total cost of govern-
: 1118111 by the total amount of prep-
I erty in the nation or state, as the
. case may be; then every man’s
', property would be in line for the
'I- same treatment. No injustice could
occur in the method of taxation, and
' . it any existed it would be foundin
t, " ~3 the excessive rate imposed by the-ir-
9; responsible misrepr‘esentative elect-
I -4 ed tooiilce. Another advantage of a
I direct and equal tax would be the
“ Iielimination of other systems which
. -.would mean less government ma-
‘sI chinery, or less eXpense and hotter
‘ '1‘ service. —Wirt McClain '

71111311131119 “he run Moonv.‘
' EDITOR; .We were phased
note your acknowledgment

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, _ _ . , 23.5: times to not 161‘ a number of years,
mu. EDITOH: In‘ the Adm

ﬁnding it Very interesting and so
beneﬁcial on the farm in way of

crops, trees, berries, etc... also elim-
Uinating a number of hours unneces-
sai‘y work .in way of eradicating

weeds at the proper time and plant-
ing to gfve no fruitful returns for

- o'ur seeds and -.lab0r

Knowing Mars, ruling planet this
was to be droughty, cold,
changeable, we took a strong sign,
April 28, planted our corn; through

, sand storms, two frosts and hail-

storm it is now (July 20.) in tassel
and shooting ears and ﬁve feet tall
while neighbor farmers’ is ‘about
two feet high.

M. A. C. advised not to plant corn-

or sow alfalfa' so early: where will
these farmers be with a frost last
of September?

Our late potatoes now in blossom
and vegetables of all kinds to eat

{each 1- had ‘delegated pare 71*

in)! our the children: while we

Sow :
1111 and chariot!

signs. 11. I
‘ knew more about them, what a load

of unnecessary labor would be
eliminated:

We were interested in the peach-
twig and persons ﬁnding water. My
husband’s mother could locate it,
and he also.

We sowed alfalfa and sweet clo— _
‘_ ver July 14th and it is up

A. farmer asked how to I)get rid. of
hedge in one of your spring papers
-——-try August 17th and 18th or
September 14th and 16th. Success

—to you.—-—Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Brown,
Antrim County.

KEEPING CHILDREN 'AFI‘ER
_ SCHOOL
EAR EDITOR: As there has
been some question on keeping
children after school I sent
what Mr. Francis G. Smith wrote in
your paper to the Department of
Public Instruction. So I will send
you what they say about it.

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she has authority to administer
reasonable punishment. If the w
is kept after school as a method“
punishment I believe the teach
would be acting within her rights
providing she does not keep the
child an unreasonable length oi ‘
time. ‘ _
“The law does not ﬁx the length I»
of the school day. The school board
has the authority to determine the; ‘
hours at which school shall open‘
and close. The school board also has
authority to make rules governing
the external aﬂairs of the school.
If the school board should make a
rule against keeping children after
school the teacher would have to be
governed by this rule ”—R T., ,. Re-
mus. Mich.

Many orchard trees would set no fruit -
were it not for the kindly mlnistrntlonn
of the bees in pollenizing them.
O 0 0
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Producing a dairy ration of unvarying
high quality is more than a matter of
mixing together a lot of feeding studs.

Any dairyman can buy the ingredients of
Larro in the open market. He may even
mix them in the same proportions as in
Larro. But the ﬁnished product would
not be Larro. 0

To insure uniformly high quality, every
carload of ingredients received at the Larro
unill is analyzed and tested by trained
chemists. If it doesn’t measure up to a
certain standard, it is not used in Larro.

These tests, made in our own laboratory,
show that no two lots of the same ingred-
ient are ever alike, even though they may
look alike. ' In the table below is the story
. told by the analysis reports of different
-lots of each of the six Larro ingredients.

If we were to use these ingredients just

as they come from the cars, every mixing

of Larro would be diﬁerent. One lot would

8 be rich in protein and fat. Another would
' lack these essential food elements and con-

tain "an over-supply of ﬁbre and moisture.

' At the Larro mill we overcomethese varia-
tions by a series of exclusive blending oper-
ations, whereby hundreds of carloads of
the same ingredient are thoroughly mixed
and brought to a ﬁxed standard of
quality before being used in the ﬁnished
product.

Automatic machines, accurate to the frac-
tion of an ounce, weigh these standardized
ingredients into the mixture. And of
course Larro passes over a powerful
electric magnet which removes all danger-
ous metallic substances.

Only because we have such manufactur-
ing facilities and such high manufacturing
standards can we assure you that every
sack of Larro is identical with every other
sack, regardless of when or where you
buy it. , _
The name Larro on a sack of dairy feed
is our pledge that it contains a ration ’oi'
unchanging high quality—one that can be ‘
depended upon to produce milk in proﬁt-
able quantiﬁes, week after week, year in
and year out.

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Middlings to 180 3 to 6% 7% to 9%% 9% to 14%
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Gluten Feed 21 o to 30%% l o to 3 % 5 to 9% to 15 o
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gain and go to
,. as possible; that
' his way recently, particularly.
the might of the yacht stirred her
. 1‘me and she watched while it ran in
mlose. stepped and instantly dropped a
ﬂingey from the davits. She saw Henry
111 the stern of the little boat; it dis-
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The impetuousness, almost the
iﬂoi'ence of his hurry to reach her, sent
its thrill through her. She went down
on the path to meet him.
“How quickly you came. '"

' “You let yourself think you needed me,
some!"

"I did.

, He had caught her hand in his and he
held it while he brought her to the porch
. and exchanged greetings with her mother.
‘ Then he led her on past and into the
house.

.When she saw his face in the light,
there were , signs of strain in it; she
could feel strain now in his ﬁngers which
held hers strongly but tensely too.

. "You’re tired, Henry!"

-He shook his head. "It's been rotten
hot in Chicago; then I guess I was men—
tally stoking all the way up here, Connie.
When I got started, I wanted to see you
to-night . . . but ﬁrst,‘ where are the
things you wanted me to see?"

She ran up- -stairs and brought them
(Town to him. ,Her hands were shaking
now as she gav them to him; she could
not exactly
tremor increased as she saw his big hands
fumbling as he unwrapped the muffler
and shook out the things it enclosed. He
took them up one by one and looked at
them, as he had done. His ﬁngers were
hteady now but only by mastering of
control, the effort for which amazed her.

He had the watch in his hands

"The inscription is inside the front."
she said.

She pried the cover open again and read,
with him, the words engraved within.
-'“ “As master of. What ship was
be master of then, Henry, and how did
, he rescue the Winnebago’s people?”

“He never talked to me about things
like that, Connie. This is all?”

   
    
      
     
  
   
    
  
     
 
    
  
    
  
   
  
   
     
     
     
   
      
 
   
    
   
    
  
   
    
    
    
    
 
     
   
    
   
    
  
    
    
   
  
   
     
   
  
 
  
     
   
       
     
       
   
     
     
     
      
 
      
   

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“And nothing since to show who sent
them?” . , .

(INC )1

“Corvet, Sherrilfyl‘ and" Spearman will

send some one to Manitowoc to make in-
quiries." Henry’ put the things back in
the box. “But of course, this is the end
. of Benjamin Corvet."

“Of course," Constance said. She was
' shaking again and,"without, willing it,
she withdrew a little from Henry. He
caught her hand again and drew her back
toward him. His hand was quite steady.
. “You know why I came to you as
quick as I could? You know why I—why
my mind was behind every thrust of the
engines?"

“No: I)

“You don’ t?
know now. '"
.,“Yes Henry ” she said,
"I’ve been patient Connie. Till I got
your letter telling me this about Ben,
I’d waited for your sake—for our sakes—
though it seemed at times it was impos-

ible. You haven’t known quite what's

been the matter between us these last

onths, little girl; but I've known.
'~ We' ve been engaged; but that’s about all
. there’ 3 been to it.
.lttle of that; you know what I mean.
ou've been mine; ‘but—but you haven't
let me realize it, you see. And I’ve been
patient, for I knew the reason. It was
' Ben poisoning your mind against me."

.“No! No, Henry!”

‘~“You’ve denied it; I've recognized that
you‘ve denied it, only to me and to your
people but to yourself. I. of course,
knew, as I know that I am here with
your hand in mine, and as we will stand

before the altar together, that he had no
cause to speak against me. I've waited,
Connie. to give him a chance to say to
you what he had to say; I wanted you
to hear it before making you wholly
mine. But now theres no need to wait
any longer, you and I. Ben's gone, never
'to come back. I was sure of that by
what you wrote me, so this time when I
started to you I brought with me—this."

He felt in his pocket and brought out
a ring of plain gold; he held it before
her so that She could see within it her
,own initials and his and a blank left for
the date. Her gaze went from it for an
instant to the box where he had put back
the other ring—Alan’ s mothers. Feeling
for her long ago gazing thus, as she
must have. at that ring, held her for a
moment. Was it because: of that that
Censtance found herself cold now?

“You mean you want 'me to marry
you—at once, Henry?”

He drew her to him powerfully; she
felt him warm, almost- rough with pas-
sions. Since that -day- when, in Alan
Conrad’s presence, he had grasped and
kissed her, she had not let him “realize"
their engagement, as he had put it.

‘ "Why not?" he turned her face up to

his ~now. ("Your mothers here;

will follow soon , or. if you wi

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nefsfarid why;/ but her;

Don’ t you think I make '

YO“? '

“No; nol'e’f course not!” 7 " ' ”
“Then we’ re going to be married. . . .
We’ re going to be married, aren’t we?“

Arpn’t we, Constance?"
. “Yes”; yes, of course ”
“Right away, we’ll have it then, up

here; now !"
“No; not now, Henry. Not up here!”
“Not here? Why not?” '

She could give no answer. He'held her
and commanded'her again; only when he
frightened her, he ceased.

“Why must it be at once, Henry? I
don’ t understand!”

“It’s not must, dear,” he denied. "It’s
just that I want you so i" '

When would it be, he demanded then;
befere spring, she promised at last. But
that was all he could make'her say. And
so he let her go.

The next evening, in the moonlight, she
drove him to Petoskey. He had messages
to send and preferred to trust the tele-
graph oiﬁce in the larger town. Return-
ing they swung out along the country
roads. The night was cool here on the
hills, under the stars; the fan-shaped
glare from their headlights, blurring the
radiance‘of the moon, sent dancing'before
them—swiftly-changing, distorted shadows,
of the dusty mushes beside, the road.
Topping a rise, they came suddenly upon
his birthplace. She had not designed
coming to that place, but she had taken a
turn at his direction. and now he asked.
her to Stop the car. He got out and
paced about, calling to her and pointing
out the desirableness of the spot as the
site for their country home, She sat in
the motor, watching him and calling back
to him. “

The house was small, log- built thefj;
chinks between the logs stopped .with
clay. Across the road from it the Silver
bark of the birch trees gleained white

ong the black-barked timber Smells

iank vegetation came to hei from these
woods and from the weed-grown fields
about and beyond the house; There had
been a, small garden beside the": house
once, now neglected strawbemy vines ran
riot among the weed stems and a clump
of sunﬂoweis stood wth hanging, full-
blown heads against the August meon.

She gazed proudly at Henry’s streng, .
well prorfortioned ﬁgure moving about in
the moonlight, and she was glad to think '
that a boy from this house had become
the man that he was. But when she tried
to think of him as a child '"hére, her mind
somehom. showed her Alan' laying about
the sunﬂowers; and the p 'a'ce was not
here; it was the brown, Kansas prairie
of which he had told her. if. ~

"Sunflower houses,” she murmured to
herself, “Sunﬂower houses.‘ They used to
cut the stalks» and build shacks" with
them."

“What’s that?" Henry said; he had
come back near her.

The warm blood rushed to her face.
“Nothing,” she said,” a little ashamed.
She opened the door beside her. “Come;
we ’11 go back home now.’

Coming from that poor little place, and
having made of himself what he had,
Henry was such a man as she would ever
be proud to have for a husband; there
was no man whom she had known who
had proved himself as much a man as he.
Yet now, as she returned to the point,
she was thinking of this. lake country
not only as Henry’s land but as Alan
Conrad’s too. In some such place he also
had been born—born by the mother whose
ring waited in the box in her room. '

Alan, upon the morning of the second
of these days, was driving northward
along the long, sandy peninsula which
separates the blue waters of Grand Tra-
verse from Lake Michigan; and, thinking
of her, he knew that she was near. He
not only had remembered that she would

latter.

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be north at HarbOr Point this month; he
had seen in one Of the Petoskey papers
that she and her mo
rill summer home.
taking him nearer them than he had been
at any time before; and, if he wished to
weaken, he might convince himself that he
might learn from her circumstances which
would aid him in his task. But he was
not going to her for help; that Was fa!-
lowlng in his father’s footsteps.
he knew everything, then—not till then—.-
he could go to her; for then he would
know exactly what was upon him and
what he should do.

His visits to the people named on those
sheets written by his father had been con—
fusing at first; he had great difficulty in
tracing some of them at all;
wards, he could uncover no certain con-
nection between them and Benjamin Cor-
vet or between themselves.
he had been succeeding better in this

ei‘ were to the Sher-
is business now was

When

and, after—

But recently,

He had seen—lie reckoned them over
again—fourteen of the twenty- one named
originally on Benjamin Corv t’s list; that
is, he had seen either the individual or-
iginally named, or the surviving relative
written in below the .na‘me crossed off.
He had found that the crossing out of
the name meant that the person was
dead, except in the case of two 'whb had'
left the country and whose whereabouts
were unknown to their present relatives
as they had been to Benjamin Corvet,
and the case of one other, who was in
an insane asylum.

He had found that no one of the per-
sons whom he saw had known Benjamin
Corvet personally;
know him at all,
only as a name.
Ceeded, always there was one connotation
with each: of the original names; always
circumstance
When he had established that circum-
stance as inﬂuencing the fortunes of the
ﬁrst two on his 11sts, he had said to him-
self, as the blood pricked queerly under
the skin, that the fact might be a mere
When he established it also

as affecting the fate of the third and of

the fourth and of the ﬁfth, such explan-
ation no longer sufﬁced;
it in common to all fourteen, sometimes
as the deciding factor of their fate some—
tunes as only slightly affecting them, but
always it was there.
In how many different ways, in what
strange, diverse manifestations that single
_ circumstance.,had spread to thOSe people
.whom Alan had interviewed! No two of
them had been affected alike, he reckoned,
as he went over his notes of them. Now
he was going to trace those consequences
To what sort of place would
it bring him to- day and what would he
Hef'knew only that it would
be quite distinct from the rest.

The driver beside whom he sat on the
front seat of the little automobile was an
Indian; an Indian woman and. two round-
faced silent children occupied the seat be-
hind. He had met these people in the
early »morning on the road, bound, he dis-
covered, to the annual camp meeting of

many of them did not
the others knew him"
But, when Alan pro-

bound all together.

and he fouﬁd

Indians at Northport.

They were going his way, and they knew
the man of whom he was in search; so
he had hired a ride of them. The region
through which they were traveling now
was of farms, but interspersed with des-
olate, waste ﬁelds where blackened stumps ‘
and rotting windfalls remained after the'
work of the lumberers.
many .of the hollows were wooded; there
were even places where lumbering was
still going on.
water. the twin Manitous broke the horis
zon, high and round and blue with haze.
To his right, from the higher hilltops, he
caught glimpses of Grand Traverse and of

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father had left to him,

in fawn wagons, or groups or
single indiViduals,. walking beside the
road. All-w were going in the same direc-
tion as themselves, and nearly all were
Indians, drab dresSedlIlgures atirred ob-
viously in their best clothes. Somemalks
ed barefoot, carrying new shoes in their
hands, evidently to preserve them from
They saluted gravely Alan's
driver, who returned their salutes-—
llBiJou '9! "Bijou [H

Traveling eastward, they had lost sight
of ake Michigan , and suddenly the
wrin led blueness of Grand Traverse ap-.
peared quite close to them. The driver
turned aside from the road across a clear-
ed ﬂeld where ruts showed the passing
of many previous vehicles; crossing this,
they entered the woods. Little tires ,for
cooking burned all about them, and nearer
were parked an immense number of farm
wagons and buggies, with horses unhar-
nessed and munching grain. Alan’ 5 guide
found a place among these for his auto-
mobile, and they got out and went forward
on foot. All about them, seated upon
the moss, or walking about, were Indians.
family groups among which children
played. A platform had been built under
the trees; on it some thirty Indians, all
men, sat in straight- backed chairs; in
front of and to the sides of the platform,
an audience of several hundred occupied
benches, and around the borders of the
meeting others were gathered, merely ob-
serving. A very old Indian, with inor-
dinately wrinkled skin and dressed in a
frock coat, was addressing these people
from the platform in the Indian tongue.

'Alan halted beside his guide. He saw
among the drab-clad ﬁgures looking on.
the brighter dresses and sport coats of
summer visitors who had come to watch.
The ﬁgure of a girl among these caught
his attention, and he started; then
swiftly he told himself that it Was only
his thinking of Constance Sherrill that
made him believe this was she But now
she had seen him; she paled; then as
quickly ﬂushed, and leaving the group
she had been with, came toward him. .

He had no choice .now whether he would
avoid her or not; and his happiness at
seeing her held him stupid, watching her.
Her eyes were very bright and with some-
thing more than friendly greeting; there
was/ happiness in them too. His throat
shut together as he recognized this, and
his hand closed warmly over the small,
trembling hand which she put out to h'h'ii.
All his conscious thought was lost for the
moment in the mere realization of her
presence, he stood, holding her hand, ob-
livious that there were people looking:
she seemed careless of that. Then she
whitened again and withdrew her hand;
she seemed\ slightly confused. He was
confused as well; it was not like this that
he had meant to greet her; he caught
himself together.

Cap in hand, he stood beside her, trying
to look and to feel as any ordinary ac-
quaintance of hers would have looked.

CHAPTER XIV
The Owner of the Watch

“So they got word to you!” Constance
exclaimed; she seemed still confused.
“Oh, no—of course they couldn't have
done that! They’ ve hardly got my letter
yet 91

“Your letter?" Alan asked.

“I wrote to Blue Rapids,” she explained.
"Some things came—they were sent to me.
Some things of Uncle Benny’s which were
meant for you instead of me. '-'

“You mean you’ ve heard from him?"

“No—not that.” ,

“What things, Miss Sherrill?"

“A watch of his and some coins and—4a
r1ng ” She did not explain the signiﬁ-
cance of those things, and he Could not.
tell from her mere enumeration of them
and without seeing them that they furn-
ished proof that his father was dead.
She could not inform him of that, she
felt, just here and now.

“I’ll tell you about that later. You—-
you were coming to Harbor Point to see
us?

He colored. “I’m afraid not. I got as
near as this to you because there' is a
man—an Indian—I have. to see.”

 

“An Indian? What is his name? You
see, I know quite a lot of them.”

“JO Papo 11

She shook her head. “No, ' I don’t know
him. "

She had drawn him a little away from
the crowd about the meeting. His' blood

‘was beating hard with recognition of her
manner toward him. Whatever he was,

whatever the disgrace might be that his
she was still
He had known
She found a spot where

resolute to share in it
she would be so.

the moss was covered with dry needles.

and sat down upon the ground.
“Sit down," she 'invited;

to tell me what you have been doing "
"I’ve been on the boats.” He dropped

down upon the moss beside her.

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GM! “Jone Jehova: and thou‘shalt l’ove-
. siphon thy God with all thy heart, and-
_ 7 w th thy soul, and with all thy might.

. ._ .. " And._these
” .. \ “.11! day. shall be upon) thy heart; and

. thou shall teach them diligently unto thy

. children, and shalt talk of thennwhen

thou sittest in thy house, and‘when thou

walkest by the way, and when thou nest

‘ down, and when thou risest up.' And thou

ye ‘shalt_hlnd them for a, sign upon thy

hand, and they shalt be for frontlets
‘between thy eyes." .Deut. 6:4-8.

. was at the breakfast table. The

. night before son had been out

“ . and had had a rather good time

' .with some gay companions, And

\ ' now dad reads a homily- to son,

John, on his careless ways: “John,

‘ .. you are so vain and thoughtless.

* Boys did not use to be so. .Young

folks in my youth were .much more

staid and dependable. Why, we nev-

er‘acted the way you do, John. We

stayed at home, worked hard, and

saved our money.” And so._ on.

Well,.this is but an ordinary scene

in the American home which has be-

’ come short on piety and long on
' vanity.

Our text is sometimes called the

“Hear" section of the Jewish’law.

The Jew recited it every morning

and evening (“when thou liest down

and when thou risest up”), and

strange as it may seem, carried out

the latter part in a literal way.

words which I; command thee

 

Little leather boxes were worn ’on‘

“ the arms and foreheads by the men
and boys, each containing the words
of our text. This looks like a pray-
erful and serious attempt at creat—
ing a religious atmosphere in the

life.‘ . .
This generation has but one task;
namely, to give to the world a next
following generation better than it—
self. To fail here is to ‘be found
wanting in carrying out our high
responsibility toward God and man.»
‘But this can be done only. as we
have respect for the person as above
things. A person is a, profoundly
t sacred being. Things have no sig-
' - niﬁcance only as they are associ—
ated with persons. This is the sig-
niﬁcance of the Golden Rule which
isxa statement of the ideal relation-
ship between persons or peoples. A
growing sensitiveness in this direc—
tion is moral progress; it is recogni-
tion ‘of’ the emphasis that Jesus
placed on personality or character.
In a Christian commonwealth, every
thing is to be held as subserv1ent
to the welfare of the folks about
‘us; especially our children.
farmer Jones, I reckon you do not
'relish this kind of. a doctrine. You
’are more interested. in thorobred
pigs than you are in thorobred kids.
’ You give more time and study. to
the progeny of your stock than to
‘ the progeny of yourself. Really,
how much time are you giv1ng to
the budding aspirations of the young
hearts in your home? - What suc-
cess are you having in transmitting
character to the folks about you?
--And “Character is caught and not
taught.” ‘ " _
Character is caught in’ life. Life
is a school of education and discip-
line. The lessons are hard and we
can not escape them. Living thru
our daily tests successfully, depends
upon
, "ness.
to character.

And, ﬁnally we graduate in—
But what kind? Yet,
any kind is caught, rather more
than taught. It is caught in our.
personal contacts. You ﬁnd your-
self responding to the quality of
life and convictions in another. You
catch his spirit, not thru argument
or teaching chieﬂy, but thru at—
mosphere. In another’s atmosphere
there is an active principle, a living
«touch that is contagious. Here is a
Liresh, but not‘ an ordinary, example
' of this fact: Senator LaFollette is
- 3 dead. And the politcal life of Amer:

ing zeal against corrupt wealth, his

science. Something in his lite -~ has
passed 5°11 . that the :‘coininon

  

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a"heart for “the man in the street"
and a passion for clean government

. has been the quality of life that La-
-F‘ollette has passed on to inspire

the rising generation.
been contagious.

The -atmosphere' in '~ which the
roots of the young life about us
are being nourished, is the forma-
tive inﬂuence. The youth is quite
sponsible for the environment that
is melding him. What is your com-
munity life? Are you .making it
hard or easyb-for your young people?
They cannot resist the relentless
standards of the world. Or, if the
do’, they are handled roughly. For
the sake of-the-boys' and girls, are
you interested in right community
standards?
necessary for them to go elswhere

His life has

"Iirsem

Are you making it un- ‘~

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formal instructions. “And this helps.
Yet the old adage, .“Knovvledge is
power," that your teacher used to
write in your ~cop-y-book," is net psy-
chologically and. experimentally true.

You can shovel the coal into the en-

gipe but that does not produce pow-
er. You‘have to set it on ﬁre. But
that takes ﬁre. And you cannot be-
get life and character in another
only as you bring to that one', life
and character.
no less in the religious than in the
physical realm. “You. will not
come unto me that you may have
life,” said Jesus. You see, inﬂeshed
life is the only communicable life.
It is where the home is, even more
than what it teaches, that creates
the atmosphere for the nurture of
the children.

Religion is communicated in this
way. You set your' child on ﬁre
with religion’s holy ﬂame by being
on ﬁre yourself. The Jewish home
believed'this. No mere profession
or lip-serviCe takes the place of de-

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itual atmosphere, the young *f‘»
are secularized, fathers and m" :
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things may ' promote a growth
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stantial. Usually, there is a wither-
ing after-effect and the whole body -
is infected with a dangerous poison.
A real church atmosphere has “the
effect of dispensing life and com-
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ABOUT BEANS

this issue We are publishing an article by
James N. McBride that gives some very in-
teresting information on the Michigan bean
and its market. For instance. he says that the
ordinary No. 2 or pint can. retailing at 10 to
12 cents contains only about one-third of a
pound of beans. Then if the growers were to
receive a dollar more per hundred pounds for
their beans than they are getting at present it
would mean only a third of a cent per can.
This would indicate to us that if the farmers
had an agency that controlled a large per __cent
of the Michigan crop they could maintain a price
much more advantageous to the growers than
at present and still not have it high enough to
interiors with the price of canned beans to the
extent that the canners would even consider
putting their own marketing agency into the
ﬁeld to deal direct with the individual grower.
Substituting foreign beans would not be consid-_
emd. we believe. even though the prbe spread
was quite large. due to past experience with
than.
A real growers organisation with seventy per
cent of the crop signed up could do this. we
believe.

8011001. DAYS nears

RI! and there over Michigan the fall term

of school is now in session, and within the

next month practically _all of the other
schools will open their doors again. ~We can
close our eyes and a picture of the dearold
school house where we spent many happy years
sppearsbeforeus. ltwasanoldfashioneds
one room school and it was not painted red
like the ones in stories, it was a "sort of a white.
having been painted several years before my
time. The desks were pretty well "carved up"
with the initials of the “big boys".
you never really graduated from school unless
you left your initials on your favorite desk.
Then there was our favorite chum who always
sat with-us. It has been years since we have
seen him or had a word as to where he is. We
wonder what became of him. And our ﬁrst
sweetheart—we must not forget her,‘or how we
used .to walk a mile out of our way every night
to carry her books home for her. We suppose
she now has children of her own, yes perhaps
gmdchildren. How the world moves alone.
But those days we spent~ at the old country
school. learning ”readin', ’ritin‘ and ’rithmetic"
shall always remain happy memories regard-
is: of where we go or what we do.

EB 13‘.le AMENDMENT

' it about time the publications of this

I ‘country worked together urging the obser-
vance of the Volstead Act. instead of some

of themr seemingly encouraging the opposite
while othersslde-st‘ep the issue? The voters of
this country indicated through the ballot ‘box
their approval of the Eighteenth Amendment
so the newspapers that favor the wets are not
appealing to ‘the majority, and they are only
tooling themselves it they think they are. Many
oi the editors of c 18136. daily newspapers
publish lengthy e . r and articlesmn crime
and cite the? . 71.7 of greater observance
.o‘t'onr laws. Elsewhere in the some issue no

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place if they can ﬁnd a place some. whereintlie
page: toward the back. - This in notltruewofall
our newspapers, put those that are guilty. are as '

guilty oi! breaking. the law, in, our «aeration as -

the man who selh'liquorr- Bone newspapers!!!»

couragetho people to break the law when'they;

could do so. much to support omctals in enforc-
ing the law. Prohibition is here to stay and
even these newspapers would have to admit it

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“ No miss most CLUB WORK
. " FINE compliment was paid the‘ club work
A of farm boys and girls by Mr.8amubl Mc-

- Kelvie. former governor of Nebraska who
was the chief speakerlhrmers' Day at the

pardon and in all my experience I never met a
.member of a state boys’ club who was a mem-
ber of the criminalckss. Raising, calvu. pigs
and pertorming other special project work kept
their minds occupied and they were too busy to
get into mischief. Boys’ and girls' club work
teaches our children to become better citizens."
Yes.itdoesmorethanthat. Itgivesthatboy
or girl a real interest in life and brings about
a greater- fasclnation of lite in the country."

 

FEWEB RURAL CHURCHES
T‘HEBE are too many rural churches. That
. is rather a startling statement. but never-

theless true. If there were fewer churches
and .the farm folks would forget their denom-
ination and attend a community church much
more progress toward improving the ‘ spiritual
side of life on the term would be made. At
the recent meeting of rural pastorsat the Mich-
igan State College the following“resolution was
adopted:

“We ask that the superintendents or other
oﬂicers of our churches study carefully the
problems of those communities which may be
over-churched, and that, subject to denomina-
tional approval. by ~amalgamation, federation or
elimination of churches, they make it possible
for such 'nmunities to more easily support the
preachinD or ‘the Gospel."

This problem has been worked out in many
communities and lasts“ oi twoor three church-
escwith windows covered with boards they now
have one church well kept; and a well-trained
preacher hired at a salary suiiicient to keep
his family properly and .maintain his sell-
respect. The result been an increase in religion.

We hope the resolution adopted by the rural
ministers will get the careful attention and
attention and prompt action it deserves. '

 

WIHMISLEADEABMJEB AND WORKMZAN?

WHEN our present tariif system was framed.
between’forty and ﬁfty of the principal

agricultural organizations of the country-
were represented at the hearings before the
Ways and Means Committee. They succeeded
in- carrying all their points with the result that
practically everything the farmer buys for use
on his farm was placed on the free list. and
everything the farmer raises for sale was put
on the protected list. “

.In spite of all the political talk to the con-
trary, it is safe to say that thexgeneral opinion
of the informed farmer is, that our present tar-
iff laws are as nearly perfect from the point of

-view of the farmer as it is possible to make
them.

To open the ﬂood gates of Europe and the
Orient and abolish the tariif on wheat and "other
cereals. wool. butter, eggs. cheese. citrus fruits,
sugar, and a hundred other things that the
farmer- raises which are now protected, would“
he a calamity for" the farmer just as he is begin—
ning to get on “his feet. _ l

A blow at the tuna! protection to American
industry is a blow at the factory worker, which
in turn is a blow at the farmer, because Amer-
ican workmen comprise the biggest market for
American farm products.' A ‘_ “

~ The soon‘ér the public, the laboring Mind
the farmer realise these homely radium soon-
”er will the, tart! Questiongbe'gtakeﬁ outlet-poli-
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oi textile lahor but not in the ”price of cloth”
4 labor. 17111131; is new" in dispute. In thousand
5th. inabllity of the nonmetal-era to radon
othoroosts. and’ their inability )to market high-
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HE Boyce Thompun Institute for Plant 39-.

If the seed
is dead there will be no foaming and if of low
vitaliiw only a little. Another announcement
by the Institute is that the germination of seeds
,may be hastened -by the control of heat. Slow
germinating seeds maybe forced into germina-
tion by the use of heat. Much more research is
necessary to make such discoyeries of the great-
est practical use, but the Institute is well on-
dowed, has a ﬁne equipment and a force of thirty-
ﬂve specialists in plant research, so we may ex-
pect great things of it. in» the future The In-
stitute has been in operation only a few months
and it has accomplished something already.
What may we expect after years of research
devoted to plant life?

 

MORE WITCH?

Department of the Interior has just is—

sued an interesting report on the engineer-

ing and economic “feasibility of several irri—
gation projects. From it we learn that the
estimated cost of putting water on the Kittitas
division. Yakima preject. Washington, is $148.:
75 per acre; on. the Baker project. Oregon,
$147.35 per acre; on the Vale project. Oregon,
$118.65 to $126 per acre; on the Owyhee pro—
ject, Oregon. $126.50 to $l39 per acre. These
are estimated costs. - Experience has usually
shown that actual costs are ’higher. But as—
suming that they are correct, by what process
of reasoning can be justiﬁed the expenditure of
public funds on these barren areas .to the
amount of $118 to $148 per acre? The above
estimates are merely of the cost of irrigation.
The lands must also be cleared. which the re—
port says will cost $1,500 to $8,000 per farm

of 80 acres. Then buildings and equipment will ‘D

cost $6,000”"to $12,090 per farm of 80 across
Why spend $100 to $150 per acre putting water
on barren land in the . Northwest when good
farms in any of the older states may be had for
the same money? Whenever these projects are
really feasible trom an economic and 8. ul—
tural standpoint suﬂicient capital will be found
to develop them. Until then they should remain
undeveloped, no matter how feasible they may
appear to government engineers. .1,

 

~ ~ CROP CONTROL
OME means of controlling the production of
crops or the farm is constantly being urged
by agricultural leaders but so far they
seemtobestumpedastohowtobringthis
about. It is true that the business men of the
city regulate their production. but they have a-

different proposition than the farmers. Weather ‘

and crop pests are to be considered in the pro-
duction'of a crop and the best of planslaid by
man mean nothing to either. Through organi-
zation' acreage can be controlled ‘but yield does
not depend entirely upon the farmer. Of course.

crop posts can be continued, at least to some” “7 '

rext’amt.‘ but the weather is quite antherhprob-

len- We wonder in: the problem will ever be ‘

1 completely” solved?

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to advising me that I hadfbeen
awarded a .beautifulmlotr..‘sise 301100
test. and it “intimated in‘ Mon-

: mouth county. N. J. near the station

ottnaxim. lit-was not swamp land.

according to the company.10! cause

I would have“ to get a wananty deed
to show that I was‘iegaiowner oi
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“WWATFAIR

VERY propessive tarmer should
attend his county; and. it pass-
ibie, his state and district fair,

bntwedowauttogiveyouthisone
warning, however, in regard to the
tactics used by “sharp-shooter" paper
menwhowlllbeonhandtogreet
you at the majority of the fairs.
These paper men are a menace to the
real interests of the publishers 01'
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7 :9 : i]. 3300.000.

if, ﬂauntwtth them will know
Mlle will ‘be treated -iairly and

« ,, so‘acalled “sheet—writers"
know the psychology of a fair, name-

’ iy thatevery farmer-who attends the '

infra does so with the "fair spirit".
Z'That is; nearly every one who attends
, fairs expects to spend some

~ money whether they always get value
received or not. and uponthis basis
the “sheet—write ’ greets you with
’ his extended right-hand, giving you
' a hearty welcome to the iair grounds.
«telling you that he is'registering all
the boys and would like to get your
name aims with the rest. for which
he will send you any paper that he
may represent, or in tact any paper
thatyouwantiorthesmallsumoi
ﬁacentaw‘eek,andatteritisall
overyou ﬁndthatyouhavetopay
98 cents. one dollar ninetyeight or
two dollars and ninety-eight. or just
as 1116!! as the "sheet-writer" thinks
he an “ﬁst you for." They will
promise you all oi the his hooks-and
bulletins in addition to the paper
whichwilloometoyoueveryweek.

0! course many or you who have

., for these papers are still
long: tor the big books and bul-
letins even though you did not re-

, oelvem the publication you subscribed

7 Onrwarnlngtoyonistopassthese
agents up unless'they have on dis-
play copies oi the publication they
are representing. In addition to this
you should insist upon their showing
you their credentials of authority,

. that they have a right to represent
such a paper, properly signed by
some odﬂcial oi the company they
are representing. In addition to this
insist upon a properly ﬁlled out re-
ceipt showing the amount of money
you paid, the term of the subscrip-

- iion,‘ and be sure that the agent's
name is written out in full so that
anyone can read it. It you are care—
ful and insist on all these things
from the representative you will get
the paper you subscribe for, and even
though you are talking to a “sheet-
writer" he will be mighty careful in
dealing with you. It is only the so-
called “sucker” that the “high-pres—
sure sheet writers" are looking tor.

This warning does not mean that

for there are' some honest agents.
taking ledtimate subscriptions at the
hire but unfortunately they are" in
competition with a lot of crooks -who
claim to be representing farm papers
and torpyears have been “working"
the farmers for subscriptions to farm
papers.

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state insurance department
received complaints n-om motor-

7 late who have purchased what
they believed to be personal liability»,-
property damage and collision insur-
anoexon their carsior $34.60, but
received in tact a personal accident
insurance policy not worth more than
$1.50. According to complaints the
salesmen claimed to be representa-
tives of the “Autoists Auto Owners
Association". Do not take out in-
ﬂuence until you are sure of what
you are buying and if the agenkis
authorised to represent the company.

 

PHIIIPSBORN’S BANKRUPT

N involuntary petition of bank-
. ‘ ruptey was recently ﬁled against

' Phillpsborn's Inc. of Chicago,
111., the mail order house. Accord-
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tend themed-let semis this fall, but _, are John and Mary,- who ‘ 31:9,; Feel??? 0“" ° “‘9
" graduated from eighth grade last spring. gems ,to high school . . \ , ' -..
when it'opems? “I hope that every ‘one of you who read thiscan ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ' , ', - - .3
answer \‘fyes”. The days when ‘a~fariner—did not needas goodan POEM (:1 0 13mm; ‘Wil .. . f, ‘1
education as the city business man are pastand we all must reoog- stove 0r coal range is alwa s "
niz'bnthe fact. The uneducated farmer is in competition with the” getting spotted and when tile . - ‘ . :
educated farmer nowadays and the one who understands his work/ spots burn on they are difﬁcult to ,
the best is the one who proﬁts the most. According to investigations remove. To keep the nickel in shin-
a high school'education is worth as much to a farmer as‘ $6,000 ing condition a washing frequently
‘worth of bonds drawing five per cent interest, and- a. college educa- ‘ . in -SORP and water With a little soda,
tion is worth twice that much. Give your girls or boys chances to added t0 cut theggrease (a teaspoon

, , to a quart 0f water).» Spots may
matmlhsﬁgsthgl tingselves by giving them an opportunity to b e removed by polishing with whit—
go 118 . _. ing or any ﬁne scouring powder
0011080. 1*» W111 .be an m" moistened in ammonia. Wash, dry
vestment that W111 pay (11- and polish the nickel after cleaning: ‘
videuds in more ways than There is nothing better to keep the
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Clark Morehouse, of Hastings. .and his
baby brother. — .

MY BABY BROTHER

This is my .baby brother
He’s cute as he can be
I’m sure there is none other
That’s quite as sweet as he.

He coostas softly as a dove
.And almost every day
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’ TIME SAVERS IN ME‘AL PREPAR~

ATION -

very minute saved in preparing

the “three meals a day” is im-

portant. Short cuts are neces-
sary-if the housewife wants time to
enjoy friends, books, an hour or two
in the open or an occasional motor
In‘ cutting down the time of
preparing meals, the extension spe-
cialists at 'South Dakota State Col-
lege suggest the following as prac—
tical: .

Place food in Charge of silent ser—
vants that need little or no watch-
ing, by collecting implements and
tools that will make kitchen work
easier.

'Serve' one dish dinners that are
easy to prepare, simple to serve
with little dishwashing and clean—
ing. away afterwards.

Keep tools and ﬁxtures used as

l'close together as possible and con— ‘
venient to {the place where they are

most used. A kitchen" cabinet has

proved its worth by keeping matera

ials and supplies together at the
work table. r Where no cabinet is
available shelves may be arranged
over the kitchen table or alongside
of it. ‘

Use meats, vegetables and‘fruits

gcfanned in season which can be made
ready for the table in a very few
‘minutes.

. Use trays and wheel stands. They
are great step and time savers to
dining

A high stool to sit on will many
times save tired feet and back and
the right height of work table and
sink will ,saVe many a backache.
Have all the necessary tools and
them in good condition. (An
egg beater that sticks in turning, a
can opener that slips or that is too
dull to cut the tin, a dull paring
knife for peeling vegetables, a
saucepan that leaks just a tiny bit,
that has no handle, or is worn so
thin that nearly everything burns

on it, means a loss of time and tem—
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,MAD DOG! .

F a dog bites you: Catch him alive
and keep him under observation
for ten days. Go to your doctor
for ﬁrst aid. If the dog dies while
under observation or if, you have
been obliged to‘kill him, send the
head to the nearest Pasteur labora—

tory with a full report of the per- ~

sons bitten and the nature of the
bites. Report’ for Pasteur ‘treat-
ment immediately if you’are unable
to capture the dog, if he is reported
as mad, or if you are bitten on «the
face. ' ‘ ' . . . _

The above rules are given by Drs.
Roy W. Pryer and Carl E. Beck of
Detroit in an article called “Mad
Dog!”. in Hygiea.‘

The idea that a mad dog is afraid“
'of water is no longer held,
"rabid animal in the ﬁrst and even
the disease will.

second stages of

wade and even swim, Drs. Pryer and

:Beck declare. .
mad animal does not always

. team at the mouth, nor does it.ru'n

around‘trying to bite everybody. 0n
the centr
this“: gut restless.

  

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cessary to be bitten severely to get
the disease,'for amad dog by mere-
ly lapping a .‘portion of the body on
which there is a slight break in the
skin may transmit the disease.
, Horses, cows, ground squirrels,
coyotes; wolves and cats may also
have rabies, although the disease
is more common among dogs.

The Pasteur method of treating
the person bitten by mad animals,

it started in time will prevent rabies ..

from developing; once the disease
deyelops, .however, there is no cure
and death always results.

Since it takes the disease from
ten days to seven months to develop,
depending upon the location and se—
verity of the bite, time is allowed
for the vaccination of the person in
spite of. the fact that many injec—
tions are required.

Can Stamp Out Rabies

The more extensive the bite and
the closer it is to the brain, the
greater the danger of the person
coming down rapidly with the dis-

How To Mend

EVERAL methods of home mend-
ing of rugs and carpets have
been tested "in the United States

Department of Agriculture, which
gives the following suggestions:

‘ Select wools for mending to
match those of the rug in color.and
texture, if possible. These may be
raveled from scraps of carpet, or
bought from carpet dealers, or if
necessary heavy knitting yarns may
be dyed to match. Carpet yarns
are stiffer and more durable than
ordinary wools and should be used
if obtainable. A stout needle with
a large eye will, of course, he need—
ed, and curved scissors are particu-
larly convenient for clipping the

~threads when mending a- rug or

carpet’ with velvety pile.

Darn ingrain carpet with the
over—and-under stitch used in mend—
ing stockings, and work in the de—
sign on this background.

In pile rugs, such as Brussels,
Wilton, and some kinds of oriental
weaves, replace the linen jute, or
cotton backing ﬁrst and then work
In the pile with colored yarns. Just
how to make the pile stitch depends
on the texture of the rug, but a good

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ease, so for face bites it is necessary

to begin the preventative treatment
without waiting to ﬁnd out Whether
the dog is really mad or not.

Two ways of stamping out rabies
are suggested. The ﬁrst is to muz-
zle all dogs, prohibiting any dog
from entering the country ’without
undergoing a period of quarantine.
However, muzzling laws are difﬁcult
to enforce.
vaccinate dogs against rabies. A
single hypodermic injection/of vac-
cine into a dog will protect him
against rabies for about a year.

GRAPE RELISH

FRESH grape relish is a, novel
way to preserve foods and car-
ries some of the pleasures of
summer well into mid-winter. Select
bunches of grapes of about the same
size and ripeness; though they
should not be overripe. Leave the
grapes on the stems and pack the
bunches closely into clean glass

Rugs At Home ’

method can quickly be developed by
experimenting. It is generally made
by knotting the yarn around the
warp in such a way that it holds
ﬁrmly and the ends stick up to form
the velvety‘su’rface of the rug. These
ends can be clipped off after each
stitch is taken, or they can all be
sheared at once after the entire hole
is ﬁlled. Ragged edges make other—
wise ood rugs look shabby and are
net'ciﬁicult to repair. Sometimes
they can be bound or blanket stitch—
ed or overset with stitches run into
the rug at least ‘half an inch or,
what is much better looking, an ex-
cellent selvage similar to that on an
oriental rug can ‘be made. Lay one,
two, or three cords along the edge
and with black or neutral—colored
wool darn them to the rug with
over-and—under stitches set close to—
gether. Choose cords of such size

that when covered with the wool a ,

durable, ﬂat strip about the thick-
ness’of the\rug is formed and use
hard-twisted wool or" regular carpet
wool if it can be obtained. If the
edge is very ragged reinforce it
ﬁrst with braid on the underside so
as to give a'ﬁrm material into which
to weave.

 

The other method is to“

' tbanth so was whi

than a daily rubbing with a cloth
which has been lightly saturated
with any unsalted oil. Special stove
.oils may be used. A brisk rub with
wax paper such as come around
bread is also a help.

 

 

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Preserving Flinn—Just a line to say I
turn eagerly to the women’s page upon
the arrival of M. B. F. and ﬁnd there an
answer to many household problems.‘ For
the benefit of ”Reader" Otsego County,”
who asks for a way to preserve ﬁsh I
am enclosing my recipes, all of which I
have tried. ~

To salt ﬁsh, clean and remove heads.
Do notxscale, and do not cut, leave ﬁsh
whole unless too large, pack in crock or
kegs, put ‘plate- and stone to weigh down.
Make a brine of salt and water strong
enough to bear up an egg. Bring brine
to boil and skim, let. it get cold then pour
.over fish and cover _tightly. I tie a. clean
cloth over, then a lid. These can be
washed until freshened enough and fried
or creamed like codﬂsh.

To make “like salmon, clean and soak
in weak salt water over night. In morn-
ing take a sterilized crock, put in a, layer
of ﬁsh, sprinkle lightly with ﬂour. Then
put in a. layer of ﬁsh, and sprinkle each
layer with ﬂour until crock is nearly full.
Then take very weak vinegar and cover
ﬁsh and cook in oven slowly for about
7 hours. ¥ou may put in spice if you
wish. When done place weight on to
keep ﬁsh under liquid. It is well to cover
with plate while cooking. '

To can ﬁsh. clean and wash and if
large ﬁsh cut in pieces, and pack in sterile
cans. I use pints and quarts. To each

quart can use {tablespoon of vinegar'

(not weakened) and 1' teaspoon of salt.
Use new rubbers, screw lid partly down
and put cans in boiler with cold water
and bring to boil, then boil rapidly for
2 hours. Remove cans and tighten covers.
You may put spices in these also if liked.
The vinegar and long cooking softens the
bones in both recipes. I have canned
perch and they are ﬁne—Mrs. H. W.,
Bay County.__ .

How to, Salt Fish.——~We like your paper
very much, .I would not like to be without

it, and as I have never written to you I“

. thought I could let you know how well we
liked your paper. That recipe for can-
ning corn sounds good. I had wondered
how I could can my corn and when I saw
that recipe I said, “Well, there is the way,
I will can my com.”

I saw in your paper some one wanted
to know how to salt ﬁsh so they would
keep so I will give a. recipe that us folks
used in the South. I came from the South
to Michigan oneyear ago. I was born
and raised in Floridalso probably there
might be quite a few _questions I could
answer for these Michigan folks. .

You take enough water to cover your
ﬁsh, whatever amount that might be, and
then put salt in the water until it will
ﬂoat a. hen’s egg, then put it 'in some-
thing that you can bring it to a boil then
skim that scum all of! and when it is
cool cover your ﬁsh and put a weight on
to keep them under. The third day take
them out and boil the brine‘again and
skim, then cool. put them back. It is
all right then as long as you keep'them
covered with the brine but you will have
to soak the ﬁsh before, wash them in
fresh water. They will keep for years if
you fix them right, I tell you, and Will be
,as good as can be. '-'=‘- ‘

Would like to see some more recipes
in the M. B. F. One for~ canning beets
please—Mrs, E, M. W., Hastings, Mich.

 

 

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Recipes

 

Pimionto Sandwiches-Finely chopped
pimi'entos, mashed with potted cheest, and
moistened with mayonnaise‘ or: boiled
dressing, make a popular sandwich. Take
crisp green peppers, chop ﬁne and mix
with grated cheese, and you have another
appetizing ﬁlling.

 

’ Ham Sandwaches—No sandwiches are
more 'popular with the men than dainty
baking-powder biscuits spread with delic-
ous' butter and pink, sweet ham, either
plain or deViled. For the deviled ham
chop one-fourth part of the fat with three-
fourths of the meat. Add one pimiento
chopped ﬁne. a teaspoonful of prepared
horseradish or mushroom catsup to each
cupful of ham, with prepared mustard to
taste, and then seasc'm with just a speck
of cayanne. If you are not certain about
the, tastes of all your party it is best
met to add mustard to sandwich ﬁllings,
but to take along a little jar of made
mustard.

 

Sardine Sandwiches—Remove the skin
and bones from the, ﬁsh; lay the 'ﬂesh
on buttered bread; then cover with a,
paste made of the yelks of two hard—
boiled eggs rubbed with one teaspoonful
of pimiento pasteyone teaspoontul of pre-
pared horse-radish, and pinch of salt.

 

Baked Chickeii :with Corn—Two young
spring. chickens, 1 pint sweet corn, 1 table—
spoon chopped parsley, salt and pepper, 1
cupful tomato pulp, 1 green pepper, 1/2
teaspoonful paprika, bread crumbs.
Steam the chicken for 20 or 30 minutes,
or try. ’Add the tomatoes to the corn,
also the chopped parsley. season to taste.
Place in the‘bottom of a casserole or
baking dish a layer of buttered crumbs;
then place the chicken on top of this.
Pour over corn and tomato mixture.
Place over the top, and cover with but-
tered bread crumbs.

Head Cheese—Twenty pounds of pork
(heads, feet, tails, neck bones. hearts,
tongues, etc,), 5 lbs. beef (cheeks are
preferable, shanks, tails, etc),
pepper, 1/2 lb. salt, 1,4 oz. allspice, 1/4, oz.
cloves, % oz. caraway, 4 lbs. soup. Boil
the meat for two or three hours, or until
the, meat can be easily picked from the
bones. It is then‘ cut up by hand into
quarter or half inch cubes. Add the sea-
soning and four poundsof soup in which

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, itincle ‘Ab says the hardest obstacles

he 'has had to ‘surmpurit are those 'he
stacked against himself.
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InexpensiVe butcher’s aprons, easy to
launder, are handy to slip on while get-
ting dinner.

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Most farmers think late afternoon is
the best time to cut alfalfa. The hay
is apt to look better for itr and more of
the leaves will stay on.

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A daily memorandum calendar makes a
convenient telephone pad. The date is
always at hand, and sheets are easily
torn off.

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Bake potatoes on a rack instead of on
the ﬂoor of the oven so they will cook
evenly on all sides. When they are done,
the rack can be pulled out to save burn-
ing your ﬁngers. Careful washing and a
little fat rubbed on the outside will make
the skins as good as the inside to eat.

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Aunt Ada’s Axioms: Little kindnesses

make life too full for little meanesses.
1! 't 1'

Many housewives like} the different fia-
vor given to rice pudding by a little
grated lemon rind. ’.

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f Before you go gardening rub your ﬁnger I

nails' over a moistened cake of soap.
When you are through the soap will wash
out easily and leave no trace of dirt
under your nails.

It! it I!
Sugar syrup sweetens cold drinks better
than granulated or powdered sugar.

Make the syrup by boiling equal parts of
sugar and water together, and keep it in
the ice box ready for use.

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Cherries, pineapple, peaches, pears, and
strawberries, which do not make jellies
when used alone, can be combined with
apple juice. The pectin in the apple juice
makes it stiffen well and the mild apples
do not disguise the ﬂavor of the other

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WOMEN’S EXCHANGE

F you nove- somothlng to oxcnange, we, will
ﬁrlnt it FREE under this heading provldln :
Int—It oppuls to women and la a honiﬂgo
exchanges. no cash Involved. Second—It will
no In three lines. Third—You are a paid-up
subscriber to The Business Farmer and ‘attaoh
our address I from a recent Issue to rove
kﬁofxori'nr‘i: gag: lwilll 1‘13 numborohd an In-
ocov as we ave room.

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AIDS To. GOOD DRESSING

II CURE AND SIND IN YOUR SIZE

201.7 A Simple Popular-st Io.-_—Flannel, tub silk, crepe and printed fabricsmay be used for this

5
model” The Pattern is cut in
of 32 inch material. '

.518}. A
trimming _of' white .ene is_here portrayed.
The surplice closmg is especially

re iiire 5 ‘74:
.1 4 ,yard.

5209.
or pongee may he used for t is model.
is cut in 4 Sizes: 2, 4, 6 and 8 years.

6193.
‘Ipook.!)
gingham or unbleached muslin. ~
size'wﬂl require 2 yards of 27 inch iiiateria .

. 5191.
plant at. the centre of the f
in 4 Sizes: 4. 6, an .10 years. A
, cuffs and belt of contrasting material it y

6210.
this design. The Pattern is cut in 7 glass: 25.
with corresponding hip measure. 35 3 39
2% ”It'll o: 54 inch motenal.

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If collar is made of contrasting material 1516 yard

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, and 5 .inches bust measure.
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A Prett Frock m- a Little "Ilsa—This attractive model b ' h l
y The fulness of the back is conﬁned (iws a.t 6 now so popiiar
6 your size «requires 2 yards of $6 inch material.
and 27 or 36 inches Wide is required.
A Good style for a Sport Skirt.—Kasha7, giggingl and sports' silk are
, , 41. 43, 45 an’d 4i
7, Width of skirt :it the foot is 2% yards.

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Pleasing Morning Frock for the Stout woman with Sienter Hlps.-——Checked gingham with
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The width of the dress at lower edge is

A Popular Suit Styllo'for a Small Boy.-_——Lineii, kindergarten cloth, chambre , jersey, ﬂannel,
The closing is at the left side under the tuck
'A 4 year 5128 Will require 2 yards of 36 inch material.

A ﬂat Apron forIMothor's "cinch—This model’will delight the little "housekeeper” or
It is such a protective apron and very comfortable. It
The I-‘tiimernI is cut in 4 Sizes: 6, 8, 1'0 and 12 years. A 1

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For collar,

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inc es waist measure,

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Q One‘tlness is made of mercerized
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you expected, foran reason whatsoever,returu them
at our expense an we willc y refund your
money. Couldnnythi "by No. 99.

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At your dealer’s today-“yeti can carefully examine it be-
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’Ask the thousands of farmers who have been using
:‘Evcrwear harness for years. They know because of its
high quality that it pays to buy the Everwear brand.

IREMEMBER, you are trading with your local respon-
Eiible harness dealer who as our agent guarantees and
islands back of Ever-wear harness.

MclNTYRF/BURRALL CO» Green Bay,Wis.

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Surprise Oder
Direct to t1You Proposi-

Buy Now—Pay later
Corn Cribs and
Grain Bins
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Cutler and 8Ilo 5%.

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A: / : bigot o' the rubbish:
Get can!

Colors' BLUE
EAR girls and boys: In our last
issue,- August 131:, I promised I
would tell you about the win-
.nersﬂin our song oontestihis issue
but I must, disappoint you because
I have not been able to reach a de—‘
cision to date. I am going to ask
you to help me judge these songs
- and know you will because you nev-
er fail me when. I ask you to do
anything. In this and the next is-
sue or two I will print some of the
best songs and I- want you to help
me by studying them all carefully
and then sending me a letter telling
which you think is the best and
second best. Will you do that?
Thank -you, I knew you would say
"yes”.—UNCLE NED. .

 

 

Our Boys and Girls

 

 

DO YOUR BEST
(Tune4—-“America")

1
Our motto, “Do Your Best"
Is chosen from the rest;
This is a cinch, -
These three words are the rage,
For just the Children’s Page
I’m sure I would engage
It in a. pinch.
2
Our page is now complete
With motto that’s so sweet,
These words I praise;
I love our paper too,
The colors gold and blue
I’m sure we should be true
Through all our days.
‘l

Our motto pure and free
As you can plainly see;
We praise it best.
Long may it stand
And face our page so grand
I hope it helps our land . -
And all the rest.
Let’s keep our motto in mind,
Ne’er let it fall behind
It is no pest;
I won’t be afraid to bet
Your’e thinking of it yet,
But try and not forget
To “Do Your Best."
—Eathel Fay Sharp,
R3, Akron, Michigan.

D0 YOUR BEST

'1 (Tune—“Michigan. My Michigan”)

1
Oh, do your best in everything,
That‘s the most any one can do;
Just keep your smile and try to sing
If the things you try fail you.
That it‘s not easy, We all know
But just try your best as you go;
“'ith hope and plenty of working,
You‘ll win, if there’s no shirking.

2

And when there‘s some one on life's way
VVho’s had hard times many a day,
A helping hand, your turn, to lend
‘Twill be; and then again they’ll wend
Their way upon life’s rocky road
Encouraged; with a lighter load
Then probably they’ll do their best,
And pass your good on to the rest.

3

Perhaps sometimes our life seems drear.

We strive for success.’ yet we fear

That someone else our chance will take,

Leave us behind. so we forsake our work;

Then leaving it undone

We fall back without having won,

When, if we’d done our very best

Then we'd have won out with the rest.
—-—Miss Milda Barwick (Age 15)

R2, Box 78, Branch, Mich.

 

no your ans-r
(rune—wit Isn't Trouble Just to suing")

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It isn't any trouble just to
"Do Your Best"

It isn’t any‘trouble just to
“Do Your'Best",.

If there’s any trouble
It will vanish like a bubble

If you Only take the trouble to
“Do Your Bast.”

It isn’t any trouble in your work
Or in your play;

It isn ’t any trouble in your Work
01' in your play.

If there' 3 any trouble it will vanish ,
Like a. bubble - -

‘ “Do Your Best" in work or play. \

3
‘It isn't any trouble in our daily tasks. ,
To do our best; .
It isn't any trouble in our daily tasks
_ To do our best;
If there's any trouble ' 1.
It will vanish 13%;; £11 bubble , ~

 

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'Oh, some folks they can Work all day,

If you only take the trouble to 1 .

ANH GOLD
‘ \ 7 no 11an Base
i'l'une—“It Lin’t Gonna Rain No Mo’ ’9

And never take any rest.

But you 'll h’aVe to say. that it doesn't pay.

If you don‘ t try to do your best. .
Chorus

Oh! we all try to do our best, our best.

We all try to do 0111‘ best,

You’ 11 have to admit, we’ ve done our bit,

When we all try to do our best.

‘ 2

We may feel disappointed,
Our dreams may die and fade,
But if we’ve done our very best,
Will feel we are repaid.
3 .
The M. h. F. .has stood the test,
It satisﬁes its readers,
We too will show we do our best
To try to please our leader.
——Elizabeth Yodér (Age 17 yrs.)
Maple City, Michigan.

 

no 101111. BEST
(Tuneh—“Ameriealo

1
The work 'you do is love

.In that sweet home above,

The place for rest,

We strive to make our way,
Work that will always pay,

To that home we’ll go some day.
So do.your best.

- 2
Long may the people ‘stand
Within our God’s own hand.
Our heavenly nest;
And we must «always look.

Jnto that. holy book,

And neVer be a crook, ‘ -

1‘ Just do your best.

To our church we-*must go
And learn our lessons so.
Things that are best,
We must not loiter here.
Nor look for any fear.
But always try to cheer »\
And you’ll do your best.
4

Our home is far,

Where all strange people are
They’ll be our guest,

They’ll show us God’s own home.

.Where we will want to roam

And see the waters foam
They’ll do their best.

-—Mildred Brassgalla (Age 15 yrs.)
Mullet‘Lake, Michigan.

 

D0 ‘YOUR BEST
(Tuner—“Yankee Doodle")
1
I’ll tell you about The Business Farmer,
The best paper in the world,
But the best page that is in it,
Is the page for boys and girls.
Chorus -
Our motto is”. “Do Your Best,” '
Our colors. “Blue and Gold,"
Every place that I do go.
Our colors and motto are told. —
. 2 >

Saturday morning I get dressed,
I do my work, do not rest,
For we should always, “Do Our Best."
Hurrah! for The Business Farmer.
3 I

So now I’ve told you all I can.
This song is not a jest,
For I remember our motto,
thioh is always, “Do Your Best."
——Mil_dred Darby (Age 12 yrs.)
Standish, R3, Michigan.

 

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se .to do, dear,
Are What makes life wofth While;
They say that song lightens labor.
Then do yours with a smile — ‘
Though our lots are mixed, joys and

sorrow
Our life here is the test .
Sharing our joys and hardships
Each one must do 'our best.

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Do your best is a. motto
Ever to keep in mind.
‘Twill help in time of trouble
Also in joy, you ’ll find; " '
Though the path you are climbing _. I
Is on the hillside "crest. , -
You'll get strength for the task assigned

you. -
So always do your best. , '
—-Janet Cha8e_ (Age 10) Pellston, Mich. ‘ ’ ,1

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D0 YOUR ‘BEST

(Tank-“What a Friend “’13 Have in
Issue”)
_ 1 . .
Do your best, new little children,
In this world you have a. share
or life’s burdens and its hardships
Seeming very hard to bear.
Ask God’s help and kindly comfort,
As you struggle with your share, ,
Everyone must hear his burdens
Do your best, whate’r your share.
2

Do your best when you’ ve grown older, '_ .
All that’s good with others share; ‘
Life will yield the most to workers, ‘ - I.
Do your best then everywhere. '
Be a. soldier marching onward,
Bravely hear your load of care, .
Earn your- crown you wear in glory, —. . a
Do your'best then. everywhere. ’
——Dorothy Chase (Age 12 yrs.) '
Pellston, Michigan.
D0 YOUR BEST

 

JUST no YOUR BEST i
(Tune5—4“America.")

1

‘My Children’s Hour, bold

Colors of Blue and Gold,~
Just do your best;
A club that is very good.
An that has never stood ..
Or in any way took a rest,
Just do your best. '-
Chorus
Yes, always do your best
And do not take a. rest , ’ ’ "
Do not delay!
You 11 ﬁnd that it will pay. ’
Yes, do it every day. -
In every sort of Way;
Just do your best. ' M .
‘ 2

My Farmer magazine
Everyone looks through it clean *

Just read your best; '
This here is my adVice— * '
Its got a. real low price ~ -
With all its advertised '-

Give it a test.

Let every one do their best
And think~not of the rest,

Sweet Children’s Hour,
Write storiesppoems and all,
And do not miss a. call,
Just give it a test r
And do your best.

-—Alma Mojeske (Age 13) ,
. R5, Bay City, Mich. ; , 4

D0 YOUR BEST ~
(Tune—J‘Yankee Doodle") , “

1
Do your best, your very best ' ‘
And do it every day; “ "
For all the girls and all the boys "
Ought to do it that way.
1 2

Do your best, your very best
And do it with a heart;
For all the girls and all the boys ~» '
Ought to do their part. 1 l
' 3

When you are playing round your homd
Or going to your school,
Just remember to begood
And make it your best rule.
—Howard‘Raymond Snow (Age 9 yrs.) “ ' ,
R5, Nashville..Micw ‘

 

.» D0 YOUR. BEST
(Tune—"Home, Sweet Home)

If you- try With all your might, - ,
And you never get things right, , ’ ~' «.
Don’ t you leave it to the rest. "
You just try and do your best.
Even at your reward seems small.
All you don’ t like things at all,

If you leave it to the rest,

You can 't say, _"I've done my best?

  
 
  
   
   
  

 

  

   
  
 
    
  
  
      

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’~ ' ‘ . ' 1,000 Sept. 19—29
Charlevoix ........ 800 Sept. 7-17
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Clare 80 Sept. 12-22
1,200 Sept. 8-18
Clinton ..... ......... 700 . Sept. 1 4—27
800 Sept. 16-26
Crawford .......... 1,100 Sept 6—16
‘ 1,200 Sept 5-15
Eaton ................ 800 Sept. 17-27
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Emmet . . ep -
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Genesee ...... . ..... 600 Sept. 17-27
.7 800 Sept. 15-2.»
Gladwin ............ 700 Sept. 12-22
1,000 Sept. 9-19
Grand Traverse 600 Sept. 12-22
1,000 Sept. 8-18
Gratiot .............. 700 Sept. 15-25
/ 800 Sept. 14-24
Hillsdale ............ 900 Sept. 19-29
._ 1,200 Sept. 16-26
_Huron ................ 600 Sept. 13-23
800 Sept. 11-21
Ingham .............. ‘800 Sept. 17—27
900 Sept. 16-26
Ionia .................. 800 Sept. 16-26
900 Sept. 15—25
Iosco .................. .600 Sept. 11-21
, 1.000 Sept. 7-17
Isabella ............ 700 Sept. 14-24
1,000 Sept. 11-21
Jackson ............ 1,000 Sept. 16-26
Kalamazoo ........ » 700 Sept. 20—30
1,000 Sept. 17-27
Kalkaska .......... 600 Sept. 11—21
1,200 Sept. 5-15
Kent .................. 600 Sépt. 18—28
800 “Sept. 16—26
Lake .................. 800 Sept. 13-23 ‘
’ 1,200~ Sept. 9-19
Lapeer .............. . 700 Sept 15-25
800 Sept. 14-24
Leelanau .......... 60 Sept. 11-21
900 Sept. 8
Lenawee ............ 700 Sept 21-31
» 1,000 Sept. 18-28
‘ Livingston ........ 900 Sept. 16-26
1,000 Sept. 15—25
Macomb 600 Sept. 18-28
1,000 Sept. 14-24
Manistee 600 Sept 13-23
1,000 Sept. 9—19
Mason ................ 600 Sept 15-25
800 Sept. 13-23
Mecosta. ............ 900 Sept. 12-22
. 1,000 Sept. 11-21
Midland ,- ............ 600 Sept. 15—25
- ,. 700 Sept. 14—24
Mlssaukee ......... 1,000 Sept. 9-19
1,400 Sept. 5—15
Monroe .............. 600 Sept. 21-Oct 1
700 Sept. 20-30
Montcalm .......... _ 800 Sept. 15—25
900 Sept. 14-24
Montmorency 800 Sept. 7-17
1,200 Sept. 3-13
Muskegon .......... ' 600 Sept. 18—28
800 ' Sept. 16-26
Newa'ygo ....... - 700 Sept. 15-25
1,200 Sept. 10-20
*Oakland ............ . 800 Sept. 16-26
1,200 Sept. 12—22
Oceana .............. 6 0 Sept. 16-26
’ 800 Sept. 14-24
Ogemaw ............ 800 Sept. 10-20
. 1.200 Sept. 6—16
Osceola .............. 1,000 Sept. 10-20
1,600 Sept. 4-14
Oscoda."" .............. 1,000 Sept. 7-17
. 1,200 Sept. 6-15
Otsego ................ 1,000 Sept. 6—16
1,400 Sept. 2—12
-0ttawa .............. 600 Sept. 19-29
800 Sept. 17-27
Presaue Isle~ ...... 600 Sept. 8-18
800 Sept. 6-16
A .Roscommon 1,100 Sept. 7-17
_ ‘ 1,200 Sept. 6-16
-Sag1naw ....... 600 Sept. 16~26
‘ 700 ‘ Sept. 15—25
Sanllac ............. . , 600 Sept. 15-25
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St. Joseph 600 Sept, 23-Oct. 2
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.800 . - Sept. 18-311
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Milk Is Milk

Prices used are for example only. Change
prices to suit price you pay.

Condensed buttermilk as a rule con-
tains 72 lbs. of water and 28 lbs. milk
solids per 100 lbs. It sells generally at
$4 00per cwt. In other words, the farm-
4ys $4. 00 fer 28 lbs. of milk solids
or 4.3 cents r pound. Collis Process
uttermilk contains 92%
lbs. pure milk solids 1n each cwt. and
only 7% lbs. water at $9.00 per cwt.
(average price f. o. b. your R. R. sta-
tion). The milk solids cost only 9. 7
cents per pound.

Yousave4h6¢entsperpoundor$460

when you use genuine Collis
moses Pure Dried Buttermilk.

Isn’t the saving worth while? To say
nothing of the sanitary, wsy-to-mix,
nice-to-handle product that you have
when you use Collis Process Pure Dried
Buttermilk—It Keeps Indeﬁnitely.

 

The cheapest form of
BUTTERMILK SOLIDS
for poultry and hog feed;

COLLIS PRODUCTS COMPANY
Dept. 560
Shipments made Iron either Shun], Mlnm. or Omaha. Nob.

   
   
 
     
  

    
     
   
     
      
    
     
 
 
    

In buying buttermilk for poultry and hog feed-
ing, the farmer 19. only after the valuable milk ’
solids—he has no use for the water. ‘

Collis Process Pure Dried Buttermilk is almost .
100% pure milk solids. Practically all of the (-
water has been removed— naturally, this prod- .
uct goes a great deal further than condensed 3'
buttermilk which contains almost 70% water. ?
Collis stands back of its guarantee—without 5
restraint and without “craw-ﬁshing”

We absolutely ﬁrmly warrant Collis Process Pure
Dried Buttermilk to do exactly what we say in our
established guarantee (as shown on this page).
Write for free illustrated book, “Feed From Egg
to Market”—it tells what to feed and how to
care for poultry.

CLINTON, IOWA

 

 
 
   
   
  
    
 
  
  
  

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pegs,ﬂr_1ger boards. tail piece {3.111 set strings', bow.
box resin and self— instruction book. Send us your
name and address and GIVE AWAY FREE 28
Big Art Pictures with 28 pckgs.
you sell at 100 a pckg.

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Farms. Write today for low prices _
easy payment terrhs.

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Milkniaker I

V Now Being Distributed at 2’60 Points, in Michigan

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HIS tremendous distribution deserves attention. Are you feeding

to the best advantage?

‘Cows fed Milkmaker produce more milk and butter fat.
Your feed cost is lower.

healthier and stronger animals.

They are

Every one of the ten Lnilkmaking ingredients is listed on} every bag.

. pound for pound. Not an ounce of ﬁller.
Milkmaker is always the same.

you are feeding.

You know exactly what

_ If there is no co-operative association or agent near, write for infor-
mation how to co-operate with your neighbors for car lots of Milkmaket

for car door delivery.

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.

The Michigan Farm Bureau Supply Servicl
219 N. Cedar Street, Lansing, Michigan

 

 

"HOLD

   

The “Holden"- Spreader makes

Sour soil means poor crops. Exgierts fakiiﬂuiﬁggs useless on sour soil-it must have lime.
iggei- ro .

Lime and Fertilizer

S 0 reads;

to handle lime in any form,fertilizer.

hosphste, gypsum, wood ashes or crushed shells.

SoilTested-tiee "cmcnos.

The Holden Lime and Fertilizer Spreader willinake your

What about your soil'l—your crops?
Are they big and sturdy as they
should be? Find out today with our
free Litmus Test Papers-positive
sour 301] test recommended by all
sci] experts. Write for them now.

.THE HOLDEN CO., Inc.
Dept 280 Peoria llllnols

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Try Spreader 10 days Free.

soil healthy and productive. Spreads twice as far as any
other; 16% ft. Attaches to any wagon or truck. ‘
N 0 holes to bore. Spreads evenly 100 to 10,000

lbs. per acre Handle material only once, from

car to ﬁeld. Get literature and low prices now

and ask about 10 Day Free-Trial.

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BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY

Ads under this heading 30c ‘per
agate line for 4 lines or more.
$1.00 per insertion for 3 lines or

CATTLE

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MAY — GUERNSEYS —— ROSE

STATE AND FEDERAL ACCBEDITED
u to 8 7 pounds fat.
Bull calves oumt 35113951) iiiJ have1 up to 1011

 

 

1. Jumbo of Briarbank and Holb ks
Ggldensegélgight of Nordlsnd. om Dams pro-
d‘mmg loll'lasufiiiio'ilili fat 32%)ng fitmcxs

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GEORGE Leaglnaw, W. 6.. Michigan.

REGISTERED GUERNSEY BULL
FOR SALE 7 months old. .
Grandson of 2nd best butter bred bull. Calf s

’ ’ ‘ n l . cow.
demons ﬁfe slidiiguhx. Owosso. I12. Mlchlgan.

' HEREFORDB

Hereford Steers

. around 1000 lbs. ' 90 Wt. around 140 lbs.

:3 W1: around 850 lbs. 45 Wt. around 550 lbs.
98 Wt. around 500 lbs. ' 56 Wt. around 4haoflbs.
~ h bunches. Also Hereford ei ers.

6:35p $1.3 dgiioei‘liied and in good grass ﬂesh. Some
bunches on thin order account short pastuie.
Real quality Herefords are usually market. toppers
when ﬁnished. Will sell your shows how any
bunch. . , t

V. V. BALDWIN, Eldon. Wapello 00... Iowa.

D HEREFORDS SINCE. 1860
3,115 li'ei‘dIEbuESREre International Prize Winners.
Stock of all ages for sale. at harniers prices. Write

. formation. .
us for fElsewrlrligiefords that fatten quickly.
ORAPO FARM. Swartz Creek, Michlgan.

. BROWN SWI‘SS
wBRéW'N swrss

Biﬂls and Heifer Calves.
Foiiosiiiihsii'viiinrmcx. Kowadln. Michigan.

JERSEYS
Pools com or H. r. AND

RIG JERSEYS:
" . x 11 stock for sale. Bord
W'iiscriiiéﬂngv Sigismund Federal Government.
to

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ron Lit—HIV ENTI'III H as or REGIS-

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l “Less Labor-More Profit”

That’s the Lesson to be Learned at the

NAllllNAl DAIRY
[XPﬂSIlIUN

The demonstrations of latest improved
labor-saving
filmed world s_

e s; in .
hrorse show; his Government exhibit.

L STEl—To the feeding, and breeding lectures

I by famous authorities; convention
discussions of farm and dairy prob-
lems; bands and orchestras.

lJoY— The pleasures of a few_days vacation
E spent at this great Duiry Exposition
‘ where the bes farmers in the land
gather to .view and inspect the best

of everything in the dairy mdustry.

"— How you, too, may make More Proﬁt
LEAR with Less Labor; how to select the
best dairy cows; how to raise calves;
how to breed for more _production.
.You will learn to solve innumerable
other roblems of Vital importance
to YOIS).

SEE— _

this wonderful show will pay YOU
big dividends for_years to come._ As
’ roposition, you owe it to
yourself and to your community.

Identify and associate yourself with
the progress of this billion dollar in-
dustry. Make your plans now—and
GO TO—

PROFIT—A few dOHMS invested in a visit to
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a busmess

    
    
  

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” f Association met

. «are helper-issue.

of the great English live-stock
breeders more than 'one hundred
years ago. It summed up his life—
time experience in breeding live-
stock. This is still a.» fundamental

breeding. -

Progress in building a. better
herd lies in the introduction of bet-
ter blood through the sire. Half of
the inheritance that each animal
possesses comes from the sire.

The hull whose get are an im-
provement in production and type
over their dams is keenly sought
by all dairy men. Ten daughters of

average of 119‘pounds more butter-
fat per year than their dams. No

ed on such bulls.

Record keeping locates both the

desirable andvtheg'undesirable bull.
Record keeping based on ordinary
farm feeding and management prac-
tices is a safe standard to use in
comparing and selecting bulls. The
Cow Testing Association offers the
best method to properly gauge the
transmitting ability of a dairy bull
because it takes into account all the
daughters sired by a bull.
i Proven bulls that have outlived
their period of service on one farm
should be re-located in another
herd. R’ecord will tell how long a
bull should be kept.

The greatest ned for more pro«
ﬁtable dairying in Michigan is bet-
ter herd sires—-—proven sires.’ Re-
cently the Dairy, Department, Mich-
igan State College
‘Record of Performance wherein pro-
vision is made to recognize proven
sires. Fourteen bulls in Michigan
have met the requirement of ﬁve
or more daughters which have made
the requirements of the Record of
(Performance. These dairy bulls are
aged sires. They have been given

The names of the bulls and the num-
ber of R. O. P. daughters are as
follows:

Maplecrest Korndyke Hengerveld,
9; Noble Sensational Lad, 8; Alcar-
ta Pontiac Vale DeKol, 8; Oxford
Katherine’s Major, 8; Signal’s Gold-
en Oxford Lad, 8; Ypsilanti Sir Pie—
tertje De'Kol, 6; Golden Chene of
Riverdale, 6; Houwtje Canary Cadil-
lac Lad, 5; McKay’s Lad, 5; Alpha
Pontiac DeKol King, 5; Rosaire’s
Fern Lad, 5; Swigartdale Korndyke
Hengerveld, 5; Sophie’s Adora's
Son, 5; King Flint, 5. ~

GIVE TRIPS TO TEN STATE
DAIRY TEAMS

HE junior dairy calf demonstra—
tion team’in Michigan, which
wins the state championship this

fall among the boys and girls in
Four—H agricultural clubs will be
awarded a prize educational trip to
the National Dairy Show in Indian-
apolis, October 10-17, offered by the
De Laval Separator Company.

In addition, the De Laval Separ—
ator Company will give engraved
gold watches to the members of the
team winning the grand champion-
ship at the National Dairy Show. '

OVER 100 COW TESTING ASSO-
OIATIONS
IVE years’ growth of the Cow
F Testing Association work in
Michigan shows that the num-
ber of Cow Testing Associations
has expanded from seven active on
July 10, 1921 to one hundred and
six active July 10, 1925. This peri-
od of growth has been constant over
the last four years. In July 1922
there were 18 Associations; in July
1923 there were 54 Associations,
and in July 1924, 89 Associations
operating in Michigan. Another in-
dication of growth is shown in the
number. of. herds and cows under
test. ' During July 1921, 1056 dairy
herds were being tested in Michigan,
on‘ . the basis of 106: Associations
operating in July 1925 .there are
2616.he~rds under test.

' Each year many more dairy cows
under Cow. i

dds"? In' ,

s.

1'8

 

“ HE sire is half the herd,” This
‘ "eiipression was uttered by one ‘

were ”177.53 ms being “tested by? the

seven coW‘ testers on the -w‘ork in

truth today in all ﬁelds of livestock-

'Chilmarks .May Kign produced an‘

accurate prire or value can be plac-v

institu‘gted lthe ,

the opportunity to prove their value.“

the state. This year in July there
are 27,220 cows under testby the
106 cow-tester? employed in-Michi-
gen associations.
the union has made such vast steps
forward in doing cow testing asso-

ciation work as has Michigan 'during’

the past years. Wisconsin alone
has more cow testing associations
in operation than has Michigan.
The percentage of cows under test
in Michigan, however, is greater
than the percentage of-cows undér

test in other states—Dairy 'Exteny

sion, Michigan State College.

 

LEADING CONTRARY COW

AR EDITOR: This last spring

we found a way of leading a

contrary cOW‘ that I think is
worth telling about. 'Sometim'e ago
I_ was leading a cow to the stock-
yard, 3. man .told me if I would'put
a rape, around‘ her body she would
lead better. A couplelof months ago
it became necessary to lead a cow
that never' before would lead. I
thought of what the man had told
me and so- we put a rope around, her
body, just behind her front legs,
then put the end through the halter
ring and tied it to the hind end of
the wagon. Then to make things
doubly sure we tied the rope that
was on the halter to the wagon too.
She soon found that the only way
she could keep from being led was
to throw herself down. Just as she
got ready to try that I drew her at-,
tention to some angleworms that
were in the back end of the wagon,
and she soon forgot about resisting
and followed along in good shape.
I have no doubt that a person could
lead her by hand easily now.—E.
W. IShumaker, Eaton County.

 

WHEAT ALL RIGHT FOR FEED
Our wheat contains quite a bit

of smut. Is it‘all right to grind
this for hog feed?i—-J. 0., St.
Charles, Mich. “

HEAT which has some smut
would be absolutely all right
to grind for hog feed. In fact
it looks now as though wheat
ground and fed to hogs would re-
turn just as much as though the
wheat were sold. Hogs at four-
teen cents a pound give a return of
better than $1.60 per bushel for

wheat and unless some cheaper feed ‘

is available I would by all means ad-
vise grinding this smutted Wheat
for hog feed—Geo. A. Brown, Pro-

fessor of Animal Husbandry, Michv

, igan State College.

__ VETERINARY _.
DEPARTMENT—1'

GARGET

I have a cow that gives garget
milk from one quarter. The milk
veins in the back of the udder seem
to be swollen. Is there anything I
can do‘Z—F. C., Cathro, Mich.

, HE cause of garget is usually in-
fection which gains entrance
through the teat. opening or

through the blood, more often, I
think, the former. If the function
of the gland tissue in the aﬁected
quarter has not been destroyed, the
cow may come to her milk again at,
the next calving time.

Such cases are.more successfully
treated when. taken early by bathing
the bag well with hot water and
stripping out the affected quarters
once every two hours if not too sore
and badly swollen and then apply

 

 

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Test 98 .

daily and rub well in. A good ca-
thartic is often indicated in the ear«
ly stages of the disease.
nal administration of an internal ap-

tiseptic often proves valuable. Milk-V
ing of the affected quarters should:
always be done into a pail of anti-3"

septic solution and the, hands wash
ed very thoroughly lathe antisep
kins anoth r;

  
 
 

 
 

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shrill "whim 80 .. ..
“ $9 induce every wheat growergto in:

:1 “ fertilizer application.”

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me .801? of m "

crease the yield and proﬁt of the
V‘irheat he seeds this tall bye proper

“ “snacks, 'no,”- he replied.
farmers don’t need to be‘ told—~they

' ,_ know it. They know the value of.
fertiliser on wheat and use it. ,.
—' I ﬁn

getthemtol‘eave'ch
ertﬂilsr demonstration! had this

i, . .

~yearwus onumrm about four
mnesoutandthat.,_ anaccident-
alone. The r attachment.

didn‘tgoingearforoneboutacross
the. ﬁeld. You could see that strip
alllastiall audible-year upto
vest—fell it a quarter uterine
away. Last fall the wheat didn’t
seem to be southicxon that

short, and

n’t measure the yield, but I should
judge that ' ‘r doubled the
on that ﬁeld.” " .
That experience with fertiliser

E

typical. but it is not general. There,

are many comniunities where last
fall farmers cut down-on all expen-
ditures, including those for fertil-
iser. There *are some who wish
they hadn’t, as the extra 8 to 12
bushels per acre would look pretty
good in the bin now. With the
low price last year almost everyone
was c. Today the situa-
tion is diﬂerent. It Seems that agri-
culture has turned the corner.
However, I do not believe that the
present situation warrants an ex-
pansion in acreage. A considerable
expansion will result in. over-pro-
duction, low prices and small proﬁts.
0n the contrary, I believe that poor
wheat land should be put to other
uses. and that only these soils which
can average 16 or more bushels of
wheat over a ten year period, should
be seeded to wheat. Such a policy
would eliminate most of the unpro—
ﬁtable wheat production that always
accompanies low yields and waste
.of labor. It costs nearly as much to
cultivate a thin acre as a fertile
acre, while the tertile acre produces
at half the cost per bushel.
_ A good variety, good seed. good
soil preparation, sowing late enough

.ii'ﬂlixerH-Ldmchstm-i .
. this .y'ear,..andj you“

icm’I

' tly few compared,
‘with the rest of the ﬁeld. We did-U

     

, (Continued from pm 8)
comes an very last and this seems to
be suitable Weather. But, I do not"
expect, even with a good crop—corn
wiltirbe cheap. There have been
m'ore'empty corn cribs this past year

than there ever were before and one

«good» corn, crop will not cause corn
to be cheap. “ 4 .
. . O I -0

s A Good Book

The writer has just been reading
James Oliver _Curwood’s "God’s
country—The Trail to Happiness"—
! have read many of Curwood‘s books
but this work is different—not a
newshnota‘realstoryusatories‘hgae:i

but Mr. Ourwood. ﬁfteen hun

miles from home, alone in the wilds
of Canada, explains in a very inter-
esting Mar his view ofvlite. He
not only tells what he believes. but

_ why he believes it. How this change

of view came to his life, etc. One
would have to. be a very superior
person indeed who could not proﬁt
at least a little from its reading.
One does not have to endorse every-
thing he sayg, but there is foodvfor
thought in every page.

TRAINING sum. BEING GEN-
EBATION

(Continued from page 11)

municating love, and thru this the
young folks are led into Christian
estate.

So it comes back to this: Parents,
preachers,~ and teachers must be
genuine. Nothing impresses the
young like conviction. Your person-
ality is what you are and not what
you profess to be. Quit your pos-
ing. Put your religion into every
day of the week. Go into church
without knocking and leave without
knocking. Human incubators of
hate and jealousy should‘remain at
home and stay on their knees. Be
genuine. If you "are not, your life
loses its authority. Young fol-ks
catch religion in the atmosphere of
loyalty, consistency, and love. Gen-
uineness in unselﬁsh living begets
cenﬂdence. ,You must be so true, so
simple, and so attractive in your
Christian life, that those whom you

touch will instinctively feel the
debtor.

 

- UncleAh saysthatarealleadernever
ueetb to apologise for his followers.
0 O 0
Heavy feeding and no exercise on Sun-
dafis equally bad for} horses and men.

ADIO DEPARTMENT

 

EDITED 'BY JAMES W. H. WEIR, R. E. 2

Contributions Invited—-Qiiestions Answered

TESTING YOUR “B” BATTERIES

HE only test of a “B" battery
T which is worth anything is the
voltage test. While b a tt 0 r y
users and,dea1ers are in the habit of
testing dry batteries with an am—
meter, this test is worthless on a. "B”
battery. The amperage indicates, to
a certain extent, the internal resist-
ance of a battery, but since, theme-

’, sistance of a 22.5-volt battery is

about 5 ohms, and the resistance of a
Mum tube is from 10,00'to 30,000

‘ A; , ohms, it is apparent that an increase

ofsay 5 ohms, in the battery resist-
ance will have no appreciable effect
on themmbined “B" battery and
tube circuit. In other words, a drop
in the amperageof a “B" battery,
so long as the voltage is still satis-
factory, meansjlittle. regarding the

__uefulness of the battery.

 
  
   
 
 

. fj'i'hei important thing to know is
gym voltage which the battery will
-7 ..jlelimrto the plate. and'tha‘ 70111836
: test is of real value only when,,made
m a high grade; aac’curate. ' volt-9'
uneter. The reastm for this isthat .2

the ordinary pocket voltmeterhasan‘.
ﬁnch lower redstanoe
mumvtube. Begs
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instruxhent has approximately the
same resistance as the vacuum tube

and in some ‘cases even a greater

resistance. Therefore, it is certain
that when a “B" battery indicates
a given voltage on a voltmeter of
the latter type it'will deliver at
least vasvmuch voltage to the— tube.

The minimum working voltage of
a detector tube is about 17 volts.
Therefore,-a “B" battery should give
results till its voltage drops to this
ﬁgure. Even then it need not be
discarded. It“ can be connected in

‘ series with other batteries and used

on the ampliﬁer tube. Here it should
be serviceable until its voltage has
dropped to‘ about one—half. In this
connection, however, one thing
should be watched. Some “B" bat-

teries become noisy when their volt-

age drops, and if this is the case the
battery should not be used. This
is especially true of “B” batteries of
ordinary construction. where no
special pains are taken to eliminate
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also other Bunches or Swellings; No blister.
nohair gone. andhorse kept at work. Eco.

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, 80 well reCognized is this danger
that most cars are now provided
with a visible oil guage as a sort of
mechanical pulse for the engine, by
-means of which. you can assure your-
self, ' from time to . time, ‘ that oil
circulation is normal. Few engines
fail; these days, from a lack of all.

But suppose the blood stream be:
comes poisoned and instead of cir-
culating a life giving, wear saving
ﬂow of clean oil, it carriesa thin
dirty stream laden with particles of
abrasive grit. The oil guage will
continue to show normal circulation
and there will probably be no sud-
den and spectacular'breakdown of
the engine, but little by little, the
working parts become infected and
insidious disintegration, heralded‘by
sundry knocks and rattles creeps
upon it, until at the end of a few
thousand miles a major operation,
knowu in automobile circles as‘ a
“complete overhauling” is neces-
sary to make it again deliver quiet
and satisfactory servite.

If you would avoid such a situ-
ation as I have described, you must
see that your engine has not only
plenty of oil but that it is clean oil
that. is being circulated when your
motor runs. ‘ J

Two things are continually hap-

pening to the oil in your engine
when you use your car. It is con-
stantly thinning out or losing its
lubricating body, and it is constant-
ly accumulating abrasive particles.
or dirt. Engineers call. this “dill?-
tion" and “contamination”.
, Dilution is due to the presence
in the lubricating oil of considerable
Quantities of gasoline. It accumu-
lates faster in cold weather than in
warm. It is at its worst in cars
driven by physicians and salesmen,
who make frequent stops and starts,
allowing the engine to cool down in
between. It frequently becomes so
pronounced that the engine appar-
ently uses no oil at all and the
crankcase seems" to be full even
after several hundred miles, but an
examination will show that the oil
isthin and black and has entirely
lost its slippery feeling. It has no
lubricating “body”. The fact that
an engine is apparently using less
than a normal amount" of lubnicat-
ing oil is generally an indication of
severe dilution. '

How does the gasoline get into
the oil to thin it out? To many
people who are familiar with the re—
sults of dilution, the cause is still
a mystery, ‘

When you started your car this
morning, particularly if it had stood
all night in a cold garage, you pull-
ed out the “choker” before you
started to crank it, and very likely
you drove several blocks before you
considered the engine warm enough
to run without. using the “choker”
to some extent.

The “choker” simply gives your
engine an additional amount of
gasoline, probably from three to

ten times as much as is necessary
to form an explosive‘ mixture. 'You
use a “rich” mixture on a cold day
because the air does. not contain
heat enough to readily vaporize the
gasoline and you must have a vapor
to get started. _ -
But what happens to the remain-
ing gasoline that enters the engine
cylinders in liquid form! It con—
denses on the cold cylinder walls
and dissolves the lubricating. oil
off of the piston rings. On the down
stroke of the piston, some of it is
carried down into the crankcase to
mix with the oil there. .
. Now we depend on the oil around
the piston' rings to form a seal and
make our cylinders gas tight, as well
as to lubricate the moving parts,
and if this oil is dissolved by gas-
oline, we no longer have a tight
cylinder. More gasoline and even

work their way past the piston rings
and into. the crank. case, ,

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er‘an‘d‘ poorer» lubricant. This thin
oil, does net‘give as good lubrication
as thickerbil, and more wear takes .
place between [the moving- parts, of
the engine. Further, thisthin oil-
does not make, as gobd a piston seal
~ as thicker oil and there-tofu allows
more gasoline to work past the pis-
ton rings the next time the car is
started. . .

Contamination works in the same
way. The thiner oil.
gritty particles causes g‘rea‘ter swear, '
and. greater wear 'prbduces more.
grity particles to‘ be picked up by
the oil. Contamination is frequent-
ly aggravated by quantities of road
dust and ﬁne particles of carbon
,which also work past the piston
rings and et into the oil. .

Now the. we know the dangers
of‘running our engines on diluted
and contaminated oil, what can we
do about it?

This question has been the sub-
.ject of extensive scientiﬁc investi-
gations on the part‘of the U. S. Bu-
reau of Stadards, the Society of Au-
tomotive, Engineers, and the Amer-
ican Petroleum Institute for the past
three or four years, and they, after
much experimenting, are now able
to draw some, deﬁnite conclusions
which can be used by the average
car owner to prevent these troubles
to some extent. " .

Brieﬂy; these ' engineers have
found that the causes of dilution,
in the order of their importance are
as follows: ‘ ‘ _

1. Operating engine at too low a
temperature.

2. Excessive use of the choker.

3. Use of an over-rich. mixture.

4. Use of poor gasoline which
does not vaporize readily.

To make practical application of
this information and avoid addi—
tional repair bills as far as we can,
let us resolve for the good of our
engines to: ~ ,

First: Keep the engine war-m by
covering the radiator in cold weath-
er, or even by throwing a robe over
the radiator until the water gets
hot after starting up on a cold
morning.

: Use .the choker only
when necessary and never drive
with it on. A motor in good me-
chanical condition should not re-
quire excessive choking to start. .

Third: Use the leanest possible
mixture at all times and if possible
overcome the temptation to “give
her more gas” every time the motor
spits on a cold morning.

Fourth: Buy gasoline from a de- -
pendable reﬁning o r g a. n i z a t i on
which maintains a uniform product.

Finally, we must recognize the'
fact that we will‘always have a cer-
tain amount of dilution and con-
tamination of our lubricating, oil
under even the best operating condi-
tions, and that eventually the oil in
the crank case will be come too thin
and dirty to provide proper lubrica-
tion and-prevent wear. When this
time arrives there is nothing to do
but drain out the dirty oil, throw
it away, and reﬁll the crank case
with clean fresh oil of the proper
grade. In winter, this should be
‘done every ﬁve hundred miles to be
3%, and even ~more often for cars
which are started and stopped a.
great deal in cold weather. ,

Oil is cheaper- than bearings and
in this-case it certainly pays to fol-
low the manufacturer's instructions.
~—V. G. Parker. ' '

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On an average, an agricultural worker
in.this country is now able to care for
about three times as many acres -of crops
as an individual could handle seventy-ﬁve
years ago. This is mainly because of the
inoreased use of mechanical power and of
labor-saving machinery. ,

. I- r us

.Using acid phosphate does not increase
the lime needs 'of the soil; on the other -.
hand. liberal applications have been fbund
to lessen the mount of lime needed; for
clover and alfalfa. . ‘ r,

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From the time I ﬁrst no-
this any of them being sick ‘it is

" ‘only from 24 to 36 hours before.
i they die. Their combs are a bright

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Do you know the cause, or what
Ehe disease is, and also what is the

"cure? I might state that they have
‘godd' wheat, dry mash and butter-

milk, to eat, and plenty of good wa-
ter. Any help you can give me will
v.1 An“
gusts, Mich. 1

is impossible to make a diag-

.nosis without seeing the bird.
We will be glad to make an ex-

., amination if live birds are sent to
7:, the laboratory. Birds sent after they
.. have died are generally too decom-
- posed to make culture examination

which is generally necessary in dis-

tinguishing these diseases. —-J. F.

pom
, cheerfully answered.)

Olney, Graduate Assistant, Dept. of
Bacteriolbgy and Hygiene, M. S. 0.

W0
My six-weeks~old chicks are both-
ered with worms Is there anything
I'can‘ put in the mash to rid them
of worms?——J. 'M., Kendall, Mich.

appears to me that sometimes
ITseveral ailments are ttributed

to worms when it is no definite-
ly known that worms are present.
If, however, you know positively
that the chicks are affected with
worms. the best treatment is two
per cent tobacco \dust in the mash,
other 'treatments are turpentine
and some recommend thymol, how-
ever, it would be better if you would
have your local veterinarian hold
a postmortem examination to deter-
mine for sure whether worms are
present or not.-—-E. T. Johnson,
Graduate Assistant, Department of
Bacteriology and Hygiene, M. S 0.

“So This Is France” Says Farm Boy

(Continued from Page 4)

is enough only to partly repair the

roof, so great was the damage done

/ agaihst this beautiful churCh in the

recent war. '

It seems harduto believe, but we
are told that the cathedral itself
had apparentl'y'been made a special"
target for the German guns, and as
proof of thisyour hosts showed us
smaller churches of more modern

= and less beautiful design which were

damaged but little compared to the
ruin of the great cathedral.
Our host in Rheims was a real

* French gentleman and one .of the

vcity’s most prominent business men.

He had been born in Rheims and

had lived there all his life, even dur-

. ing the four years of bombardment.

our host took us over the battle-
ileid of Chateau Thierry, that old
town and bridge made famous by
our own reckless soldiers who would

. not turn back—and then we visited
* the American cemetery which is one

. of the results of that battle.-
seem .to be no other results, except

There
that the town is badly torn up; no

one seems to be any better 011 on
- .. account of having had that battle
4 except the souvenir sellers, the ho-

tel keepers and the tOurists' guides.
It has helped them and it has made

- the town famous. '

. Everywhere one sees these evi-
dences of the war. In the midst of
a ripening vineyard we saw a great

towering statue of an American

‘ doughboy

“carrying on” although
wounded. The French thought a
great deal of our army and think as

much of our people even now. There -

are many little villages in rural
France and even big cities that have
their "Avenue de Woodrow Wilson"
yet today, a tributerto the great war

:leader whose greatest mistake in

their minds was that he brought
about the early armistice instead of
the war into ’German terri-‘
tory and marching on' to Berlin.
The French people see that as an
enormous mistake today. "

_‘ In Rural France
Rural France, 'agriculturally and

simply as a human spectacle, is won-

derfully interesting. Riding over
those old, old roads that wind about
among countless little farms and

‘ through countless little villages one

farming districts
gth’at insets the eye.

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ems a contrast to our own great
in every detail

..-On an experiment farm near Ver-

‘ sailles. we saw a ﬁeld that has been

under. cultivation for, a thousand

years and which last year produced
_ jiitty bushels of wheat per acre.
,’.that same farm we noticed a number;
- 01 the huge work cattle so common
{on all the farms standing idly in a

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incubate

they were always made to stand’in a
pool of. water for two or three hours
before being allowed to enter their
home stables again.

The grain was being harvested at
the time that we were in France.
Most of the harvesting seemed to be
done by hand, ,with the cradle, and
then han-d‘bound into bundles by
the women and hauled away in huge
ox-drawn, two-wheeled carts.~ We
saw several American made grain
binders working in the larger ﬁelds,
and very often drawn by a mixed
team of horses and cattle hitched to-
gether.

When two or more horses were
hitched to a hay cart or big wagon,
they were nearly always strung out
single ﬁle, one ahead of the 'other,
and we were told that this may be
partly due to a certain tax ruling
which imposes a heavier tax upon
a wagon that is drawn by two hors-
es abreast than if the horses are
strung out Indian file.

There are no houses on the farms
themselves, or certainly very few.
The people are clustered together in
the picturesque little villages of one
or two narrow, crooked streets, and
they go out to their farms to work
in the morning and return to the
in the evening when the
day’s work is done, the cattle, hors-
es, children and clumsy wagons
making a really old-world picture
of a system of agriculture that is
continuing in that style only from
the sheer momentum of its genera-
tions and generations of custom and
tradition. They get along that way
and can raise enough grain and
grapes and fruit and vegetables and
meat to support themselves and
have a little left to sell besides, and
that was good enough for their
great-grandparents, and so is good
enough for them. They seem to be
contented, and they wave and smile
——and even laugh sometimes, I am
afraid—at the fool American tour-
ists who scoot along those old, old
roads and wonder at their content-
men

The‘next article which will'be the
last of the European series, will
take us into that great city of Paris

.‘and then home again to the .United

States of America,’ the.

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strength. - "

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Crops Are Goodiam'l PriCes Are Hi‘gh 1 p I _,

By W. mimom’fmka Editor.

[ -*'.l‘ various times in recent year‘s
" prosperity has loomed up on

the horizon stimulating the na-
tion’s business with optimism but
businesses were en-
joying the warmth of. this bright
outlook, agriculture was handicap-

' pod by the disparity between the

prices which the farmer received
for his product and what he had to
pay for manufactured goods, Con-
sequently the gleam of prosperity
wasbut a short lived ﬂash. Busi-
ness could not boom without the
' Last year
and again this year, crops have been
good and prices high. The nice
,thing about the upward trend of
business this" summer and fall. is
that the farmer is keeping up with
the procession and in fact is leading
at the head of the line. There will
be no backing up as long as the

farmer gets a just reward for his

labbrs.

Wheat owners are confronting
the problem of whether to sell their
grain or hold it for higher markets.
There has been so much said about
the shortage of wheat and the prob-
able high prices, that it would 1n-
dicate that everybody feels like
holding wheat. However, if the big
traders on the large markets felt
that way, the market would un—
doubtedly go “skyrocketing". There
is a big reduction in receipts at the
primary markets for the season to
date, over 26,000,000 bushels less
than arrived during the correspond-
ing period last year. With all of the
bullish sentiment ﬂoating around,
it is not surprising that there are
many wheat growers who are plan-
ning to wait a while before they
cash their grain. -

Wheat in Streng POSition

A recent issue of the Price Cur-
rent Grain Reporter says that it is
doubtful whether a stronger domes
tic situation has ever existed under
normal conditions than prevails this
year. From a statistical standpoint.
all the wheat east of the Rockies
will be needed for domestic consump-
tion, even some durum, which ordin-
arily is not used. The surplus in
the four Paciﬁc states, including
Idaho, is around 40,000,000 bushels
ever and above the actual needs and
it is this grain plus the durums that

ill seek foreign outlet .

It‘40,000,000 bushels of durum lS
deared, as many in the trade anti-
cipate, it could only result in a very
tight situation or one that would.
have to be met by importations
of Canadian, by the territory east
of the Rockies or by a reduction
in the domestic consumption and
carry over. From a theoretical
standpoint, every bushel of hard
winter wheat sold for expprt must
be” replaced by an equal quantity
of Manitoba or other wheat, and
with import duty of 42c per bushel,
it is hardly probable that any great
quantity could be brought in. This
prospective scarcity of cash wheat
is already being reﬂected in the ur-
gent milling demand, and the high
premiums obtainable for cash grain
in‘ the leading markets, and while
the spring wheat movement shows
a tendency to advance: with mills in
the winter wheat territory good buy—
ers of the spring kinds for mixmg
purposes. , '-

-While this bullish sentiment pre-
vails in the wheat trade, prices have
eased" off‘around 3c a bushel dur—
ing the past week. Futures are
quoted aro‘und $1.59 to $1.60. The
market on corn was held about

crease in business over recent. trad-

"ing. Oats futures are quoted at! 40c,

43c and 470 for September, Decem-
ber and-May. ' . .
Rahge Cattle To Be Less
There will be a~’decrease in the
number of western range cattle mar-
keted this yearyaccording to -reports

published by the United States de-

steady all week with September corn ,

quoted at $1.04 on the Chicago mar-

ket,'.with December and May corn .

at .87 and 900. .
growers are offering to contract
th-eirvnew crop at‘07c per bushel but
feeders so far “are refusing: to pay
‘1 Old. corn median:
around 92 to’96c in the’ﬁjcountm

-, Around 1,000,000 “bushels of cats
hominid
a: , an;

In the country corn ‘

partment of agriCulture. The esti-
mated number to be marketed this
fall at 4,077,000 head is a reduction
of around 250,000 head less than

.last fall and 131,000 head less than

the fall of 1923. '

The’principal decrease is reported
in the southwest, where the fall
movement is estimated at 1,847,000
head compared with 2,117,000 in the
fall of 1924 and 2,041,000 in the
fall of 1923; Due to dry conditions,
the movement from the southwest
from January to July has been very
heavy, with a considerable increase
from Texas, ’while Oklahoma mar-
keted 232,000 during thistime com-
pared with 226;000 during the some
period in 1924. In New.Mexico a
record number of cattle, 254,000,
head moved during the first seven
months of 1925 compared with 164,-
000 in the same time last year.

Feeder Demand Increases

A large part of the western cattle
move through the market to feeders
in the corn belt and the demand for
stocker and feeder cattle in the corn
belt this fall will be an important
factor in the marketing of western
cattle. The August forecast of the
corn crop indicated about 500,000.-
000 bushels more than last year and
about equal to the ﬁve year average.
In all of the corn belt states the
crop is much larger than last year,
except Nebraska Where it is lighter.
The‘hay and pasture... crops in the
corn belt will be lighter than last
year except in eastern Iowa, Missouri
and most of_Minnesota. Many of
states have hay crops from 15 to 35
per cent shorter than in 1924. The
supply of hogs in the corn belt is
the smallest in several years, so the
demand for corn for hogs will be
correspondingly light

The shipment of stocker and feed,
er cattle from twelve markets into
seven states, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri,
Nebraska, Kansas, Indiana and Ohio,
during June 1925 was 87,000 com-
pared with 144,000 in June 1924
and 153,000 in June 1923. During
July. 1925 the movement into these

agriculture Oh A Firm Foundation -1 -- 5"" *

j. .. "chirped;
were, higher; than» (dorm

1000 head had been received during,
A, good share of »

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The early. iii cations...

feeder de'man llir‘o;,ulo:lﬂl_)i.=. strong.

to“0hicago has been much larger

than a year'ago, around‘ 27,000 head’»

being the total for the session to
date. Range cattlehave been com-
ing to market earlier than usual this
year and at this time last year there
were .hardly enough to count and
two years ago only a little over 10',-

the same ,‘period.
the receipts have found country out~

let with the past week’s trade seeing ‘
rather numerous loads of mil bred"

thin western ‘steers 'go into feeder
channels. , . '

Prices on range cattle have been
from $7.50 to $8.50 generally dur-
ing the past week,~the market being
considerably below the Week "previ-
one.
outlet at $9.00 to $9.75 but common
grade went at $6.00 to $7.00. Most
stockers and feeder steers have been
selling around $6.50 to $7.50 with a
few loads of extra choice feeding
quality" and carrying a good cover-
ing of ﬂesh at $8250 to $9.9,0'and
better.
aging 1100 to‘1200 lbs. went to a
corn belt .feed lot recently at 59.10.

Fat Cattle Slump ‘
Fat steer prices slumped sharply

during the week, good grades which

have advanced so rapidly during the
past month or two, sharing most of
the $1.00 to $2.00 break. In ex—
treme cases as much as $2.50 to 3.00
losses were evident compared with
the recent high time. Prime long
fed steers, on the show order, scld
at $15.25 to $15.50 recently against
a top of $16.10 last week. The bulk
of steers sold at $8.25 to $14.50 with
common lots landing around $6.50
to $7.00. While these prices are
low as compared with a week or ten
days previous, they are still very high
compared with a year ago when top
steers were selling at $11.00 to
$11.25. , - .
Owing to thescarcity of ﬁnished
steers, it is doubtful whether top
prices will suffer much further but
the medium; grades will undoubtedly
continueto be more or less a gamble.
Butcher stock prices also slumped,
largely in sympathy with the decline
on fat steers. The better grades of
cows and heifers closed 50 to 75c
lower with spots $1.00 or more off.
Bulls at $4.00 to $4.50 were steady
and veal calves held ﬁrm at 312.50

 

 

 

THE BUSINESS FARMER’S MARKET SUMMARY

and Comparison with Markets Two Weeks ago and One Year ago

 

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Detroit 1 ' Chicago Detroit Detroit
Aug. 25 Aug. 25 July 28 1 yr. ago
WHEAT— . '
N0. ’2 Red $1.71 1.00@ 1.68% $1.58 $1.25
No. 2 White 1.72 1.59 1.27
No. 2 Mixed 1.71 1.58 1.20
cons— ‘ -
No. 3‘Yellow 1.11 1.13 ‘ 1.23
No. 4 Yellow 1.10 1.09 '. 1.18
Owl‘s—-
. No. 2 White .49 .41 @.41 K .52 .62
iv o. 3 White J46 .4055 @Al .50 .60
RYE-— ' , _ ~
Cash No. 2 1.15 1.04 .94 ‘
BEANS— . . 1 ' _ - - ~
‘0. H. P. th. 4.70 1 ‘ Zr , ' 4.651@4.70 5.85@5.99 ,
,PO’I‘ATOES— 7'”. ' ~' '
New, Per cm. 3.25 2.oo'@2.1o . 3.50 ;._1»~.30@1-.4o
,_ HAY— L . _ ‘ _ , I _ ~ ‘
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~ The run of western range cattle“ grower grades" :11

A few of the best— steers found ‘

-$1.00 above a year ago.

Some short fed steers .aver- p

'lings from $9.50 to $13.00.

‘ butchers, $12.50@-12.70 ;

_ 50@15.25:

thiﬁ season.
show only, 519.6.

   
   

 

   
  

  

        
  

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stands? 1800- under;

ck. ago.» ’1 ,

$12.40 to; $13.75 representing the
built a month, previews. - A year ago
the'bnlk cashed on a $9.00 mono
basis. Top hegs selling around
$13.75 new are averaging from 180
to 210 pounds» Most of the better
grades are quoted from $12.45~'to
$13.40 with medium grades largely
at $11.85 to' $12.35 and '
.grades'at $11.30 to $11.60.
I): steady... the cal j strength being
evident" on feeding humps. Top'this
week was $15.55 paid for feeding
lambs while top fat lambs sold at
$157.50. The bulk cashed on a $11.<
50 basis, same as a_week ago but
Common
listed at

Sheep p’i‘ices are able to hold fair-1

to medium grades were

.$13.50 to $14.00 with $14.00 to

$14.75 taking medium to good lambs.
$14.50 up.

In the sheep trade, tops landed V

around $7.75 'during the week with
$6.00 to $7.50 representing the bulk.
A week ago and a year ago the bulk
of sales Were about‘ the
Wethers recently were quoted at
$8.00 to $10.00 on the Chicago mart
with ewes at $5.00 to $8.50 and years
‘Breed-
ing ewes including yearlings were
quote from $8.50 to $13.00 with
feedi 'g ‘wethers at $6.50 to $11.50
and feeding ewes at $3.75 to $5.25.

According to forecasts made by the

department of agriculture prices-Jar »

lambs will be well maintained durs.
ing the remainder of the year but
there is a possibility of lower prices
for spring 'lambs in 1926.
due to” the increase in production
and the probability of lower prices
for wool. .

 

LIVESTOCK MARKE'ns. I

....DE‘1‘.ROIT, Aug. 24.—Cattle——Receipts.
1,231; market opening very slow and
about steady. Good to choice yearlings,
dry fed, $10.25@11; best "heavy steers,
dry fed, $9.50@11; best handy weight
,butcher steers, $8@9.50; mixed steers and

n. at an: inset? ,_
, the top Ipripefsf ’
line" for the week?“
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age at $12.15" .

' — 181111713331K hdgs"‘lﬁeéently~have l‘e'enf
selling from $11.60 to $13.50 with , ‘ '

packing .

.,Feeding lambs were quoted from,

same. ’

This is ’

heifers, $6607.50; handy light butchers,»

$5@6.25; light butchers, $4.25@5.25; best
cows. $5095.50; butcher cows. $4004.75;
common cows, $3003.50; canners, $2.35@
3; choice light bulls... $5@5.75;.heavy
bulls, $4.50@5.25; stock bulls, “04:26;

feeders, $5@6; smokers, $4@4.25; milk- .

ers and springers, $45. 00 61) 90. Veal
Calves—Receipts. 4 6 6 ; market steady ;
best, $14.50 @15; others, $40013. Sheep

and Lambs—Receipts, 2.166; sheep steady".
lambs 25c lower; best Tambs.’$14@16.25:
fair lambs, $12@12.50; light to common
lambs, $8@10.25; .buck lambs, 312.506

13.25; fair to good’ sheep. $6@7; culls ‘

and common, ”50603.50. Hogs—~119-
ceipts, 689; market prospects, mixed hogs,
$13.50. ~
CHICAGO.—— C a. t ‘t lo—aReceipts,
Grain fed steers. $10.50@18.75 :' grass,
steers, $7168.50; grain fed cows, $0.758-
8? grass cows. “@535; canners '

cutters, $2.95@3.60; veal‘ calves, $115067 '

13; stockers and feeders. 360/8.

Hogs—~Receipts. 20.000; uneven: bulk.‘
better 140 to 210-1!) weight” $13.35@
13.60; top, $13.66; bulk.‘“225 to 325-lb
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largely, $10.80@11.25; few strong weight
killing pigs, $13@13.40; shippers, $10;
heavyweight hogs, $12.10@12.80; medium,
$12.20@13.10; light, $11.45@13.05; light
lights, $11.25-@l3.65; slaughter pigs,
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cull natives, $ll@11.50: feed-
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7.50; few upward to -$8;"range yearliﬁg,‘

wethers, $10.50@11.50.

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