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 STRONG FOR WINTER SHORT

'- R. and Mrs. Roland Hill and
' their three boys are not only
 strong supporters of a well-
planned home garden, but,.are also
strong supporters of the _winter
Short- Courses in Agriculture offered

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arranged" for its utility.‘ A home

garden to supply; the' family with

fresh fruits and vegetables during
the. entire growing seasonas well as
enough to preserve for the winter
months is a hobby of Mrs. Hills.
She. by the way, enjoys the support
and assistance! of the boys who have

ranged for  as "salt is "r  A

   

gathering «of about?!“ mime.
bars of the Michigan Crop Im-
provement Association at the

Michigan 'State College at East Lan-

sing November 6 and 7 for a “Har— ‘

vest Home" celebration is the ﬁrst

of a series of annual gatherings

which it is predicted at the ’college
will increase in popularity until
they become one of the outstanding

ones 5 
' ' dances, «Vii?

  

‘-’-.newer steps.
~ To provide
those for Wham dancing helds no
appeal, a program of vocal solos, re-
citations and _ games will be ar-
r d. At night as- many of the

, visi era as can be accomodated will

sleep in ,the union building while

,_ in, . ‘
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irele. two-steps ' in addition _'.to the" '

entertainment ‘ for . -

   

   

- >1 ,. . a. keen sense of ride in the family _. the others will belodsed atprivate
 v. ' 3:25; the eldest of the three garden, p ’ events of the year in state agricul homes in East Lansing. ‘ g
l ' '. boys, gﬁdnamd from the. Short‘ The following list of’ plants and “"31 011‘0193- I ' ‘ Inspection of the crops depart-

 

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 ‘j ’ Courses a few years ago and is now
‘,a cow tester in Genesee Number 5
" f association.
, second year of the Two Year Sixteen
, Weeks Course October 26, which is

Lester will begin his

the opening date for this course.

; Lloyd will begin work in this same
: course next year.
‘ thusiastic farmers and keenly appre-
e ciate the value of the Agricultural
.- Short Courses.

The boys are en-

varieties show that careful study
has been given to this home garden
which practically feeds the family:

Grapes: Concord, Wordens.

Plums: Lombard, Bradshaw, Bur-
bank, Reine Claud.

Cherries: Early Richmond, Mont-
morency, Gov. Wood. Bing.

Pears: Bartlett, Kieffer.

Peaches: Proliﬂcs, Elberta, Craw-
ford, Engle Mammoth. .

As members have been asked to
bring their. families about 500 per-
sons are expected to be on the cam-
pus for the two day session. The
meeting while of a definite practical
value is also to include a number
of social features.

On the morning and afternoon of
the sixth the visitors will visit the
informal technical .discussions on
the activities of the college along

ment of the college, the laboratories
and greenhouses is scheduled for
the morning of the seventh.. '

In the afternoon the visitors are
to attend the football game between
the Michigan State College eleven
and the teani from the University of
Toledo.

Among the speakers who will be
heard during the gathering are Gare
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As one drives into the front‘ yard Berries: Red Raspberries, Cum- 'this line will be given by ers 31° £133“thle ‘President Kenyon ,  _
:oi-‘the Hill home his eye is immedi- berland, Eldorado, Dewberries L. of the college farm‘ crops dep rt- ~ “tterﬂeld 0‘ the 0011889  ' ;
'.- ately attracted to the beautiful gar- Vegetables: Asparagos. rhubarb, ment which is to cooperate with. he 31d Dean R- 3- shaw- Howal'd RP‘ I g
5 .  deal at the side of the yard. on carrots, peas, beans, sweet corn, (3 association in ‘holding the meeting. abdisecmtary (if the‘ “Mention '
.- . closer investigation one soon learns kinds), parsnips, cabbage, beets, For the evening program a husk- an t “:50; ﬁt t 9 farm crops 49‘
" that this plot of ground is not ar— swisschard, onions, squash (2 ing bee in the new Unlon\Memorlal Par men 0 t 8 0011638 15 arranging

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t    ' SELEUHNG POTATOES FOR
 ‘54, SHOW
‘5;st HE Thumb of Michigan Potato
 ' Show to be_ held at Mayville,

- A: Mich, on Nov. 11, 12 and 13th _‘
should be of~inﬂnite value to all .
potato growers. There is no more
,‘ effective way to learn the methods
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‘J‘x Michigan State College. 

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“9',- -‘.' potatoes should be uniform in size, i
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can be handled simply and easily during cold -;’.’.'..'_‘_, mg; 56813;“; “318%? 811 tuba“ 
Make your plans for building ﬁre-proof, rot-  ~ g ' ° ' 'w ’9 “mm °r »,
i. u .. other injuries. Save only those—po- .
proof, rat-proof, rust—proof— ALPHA CEMENT .11. H. mm» that .3“, of medium- size (8 \
improvements in the months ahead. The local . ' I "an. to 10 ounces), smooth and symmet- _
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page, Illustrated handbook, “Alpha Cement__ '-.‘-:. '1’ per before removing haul the ﬁeld. ‘
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ﬂoors, foundations, steps, small bases, troughs, 1 ~.".‘.:[ toes carefully with a soft bristled T 6
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in a stout wooden box that is lined
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to the show. -
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and the class in -which it is enter-
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HE Michigan State Fair can
not yet rank with the better
agricultural fairs of the Mid-

 .West. First-class buildings have

been added to make very complete
equipment, the exhibit space was
petty well ﬁlled, and the turnstiles
showed a good attendance, but as
we see it there’are still two impor-
tant deﬁciencies to be remedied.
There should be more dairy cattle
exhibited "and a much larger dairy
farmer, or if you prefer it, farmer
attendance. Perhaps the former
would help remedy the latter." '

Thus reads the opening paragraph
of an article appearing in Hoard's
dairymen on the recent state fair at
Detroit. Continuing into the arti-
cle we read: , \

“ e attendance this year was the
best in the history of the fair with

. 140,000 the big day, Labor Day, but

it was largely a city crowd.

“The dairy cattle show included.

just about 450 head for the ﬁve
breeds with- ﬁve or six of the heavi-
est winning herds from out of state.
It’s fine to have these herds present
but in as good a dairy state as

. Michigan there should be more good

state oWned cattle out. We think
that the cattle are 'there and we
think if more were shown, more
fairy cattle men would attend the
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"The county show herds have
brought out much larger exhibits at
some other state fairs and given a
fair trial at Michigan would perhaps
do the same thing."

Criticism in State

We need not go out of Michigan
to {find criticism of our state fair.
The Detroit News recently carried a
story in its columns regarding, the
loss of farmer interest. It declared
that only one day of the ten each
year was set aside as a day for the
farmers and Jt was not accompanied
by special ceremonies or program.

“With the emphasislaid upon non- '

agricultural attractions, many farm-
ers have lost interest and have ceas-
ed to attend or send exhibits, con-
tenting themselves with their own
county fairs or the West Michigan
State Fair at Grand Rapids,” contin-
ues the News.

The Grand Rapids Press is au-
thority for the statement that the
Governor is not pleased with the
Detroit exposition. feeling that more

‘ attention should .be given agricul-

ture and the circus features should
be reduced. It is suggested that he
has been displeased with the fair
for some time, and that criticism of
the. exposition has been quite gen-
eral for some time. '

To Retain Interest

We have felt for some time that
the farmers of Michigan were losing
interest in the state fair but we
have hesitated to criticize hoping
there would be a change in the pol—

* . icy of the directors and the inter-

ests of the farmers 'would again be
paramount. But each year you see
fewer rural folks although state-
ments are given out that the total
attendance increases each year
which indicates it is city people who
are, turning out in increasing num-

. bers. . o

_‘0ne argument  for the

 

,' Thiswas’all verywell
‘days, but :pe‘o‘ﬂe. anon ‘came' to 'de- "

Farm Magazine Owned and Edited in Michigan

1- ’ SATURDAY. OCTOBER— 10, 1925

r.)    Are the Farmers Losing Interest in State (Fair?

13 Michigan State Fair Living Up To Its Opportunities As An Agricultural Exposition, Or Is It

Receiving U nwarranted Criticism?

have attended the fair regularly for.
the last 5 or 8 years know that they
used to be there \and 'so why will
The number

they not come now‘l
of days is the same as it was then.

Opinions of Farm Leaders
We asked several of the “farm

leaders in Michigan whether they
thought the Michigan State Fair
was living up to its opportunities as
exhibition, and
found their replies varied but the
general opinion was that it was not.

Dr. Kenyon Butterﬁeld, president
of the Michigan State College, ad-
vised that he was not able to get
down to the fair this"year but stat-‘
ed “I have heard the observation
that the fair did not seem to com-
mand the attendance of the bone

an agricultural

fide farmers it that should. I have
‘no proof of this.”
“I have“ hardly been in close

enough touch with the Michigan

State Fair during the past two years

to give you the most intelligent an—

telegram,” writes
secretary-manager

swer to your
Clark L. Brody,

of the Michigan State Farm Bureau.-

“In general I think the plan upon
which the Michigan State Fair has
been operated lacks many things to
be' desired in the most successful
agricultural fair," he continues.
"Whether it can be made to attain

the desired possibilities depends
largely, in my estimation, on whe-
ther in its present location it can
become a more important educa-
tional factor in the agricultural de-
velopment of the state and still re-
main self—supporting ﬁnancially.

Under Handicap

“I feel that the Fair is under a
rather serious handicap in its pres-
ent location as far as the support of
the agricultural interests of the
state is concerned. Not only is it
situated far from the center of our
agricultural interests but also many
of our farmers are very reluctant
to undergo the hazards of the trafﬁc
congestion that must necessarily be
experienced in a city the size of De-
troit. As the city grows still larg—
er I believe this condition will be-
come worse and in order for our
State Fair to continue to exist with-
out the appropriation of large sums
of public money it be unquestion-
ably be necessary for the manage—
ment to provide to a large degree
the purely entertainment and mid-
way features in order to attract a
suﬂ‘icient number of the .people from
Detroit to ﬁnance the institution.

“Unquestionably the State Fair
has great possibilities in agricul-
tural education and it is. surely to

Fair Wrong Says Detroit Newspaper

' NOTHER Michigan State Fair
has (come and gone. Several

' hundred thousand persons paid
the 75—cent admission fee and
,doubtless a nice blue ink balance
will be shown on the books.

But comments made by many of
those who visited the fair seem
to indicate that they were not al-
together satisﬁed, they were looking
for something they could not ﬁnd.

"Oh, yes, I came out to see what’s
here. But it's the same old fair.”

This vague dissatisfaction is not
limited to visitors at this particular
fair. It seems to be true at nearly
all fairs of the present day. What
is the matter? Are the men respon-
sible for fair policies in a rut? Or,
under the stress of competition
from movies, golf and automobiles,
have they followed oi! after false
gods? Clearly, something is wrong.

All of this leads to the question:
What and why is a fair? There
have been fairs since time immem-
orial. The fair is one of man's old-
est institutions, nearly as old as
the market place. It is by its very
nature social. It is the place Where
once a year all the people may meet
to eat and drink and pay together.
But it is more; it is the place where
they may get away from the
monotony of every—day routine,
view each other’s proudest handi—
work, feel the throb of civilization’s
progress and dream great dreams
of what they themselves will do
during the coming year. It is——or
ought to be—a source of inspiratiOn
for all the people and the concrete
embodiment of their ideals.

The agricultural fairs in the
United States began with competi—

tive. exhibits of farm products, ac-,

companied by quiet family picnics.
in the pioneer

ma‘nd something more. The story

‘ ‘of the; evolution of fair manage-
ment" seems to have-been mostly a.
. story opportunism.~; Managers and

 

  

As a result, we have at our fairs
circus attractions, advertising con-
cessions, hot dog stands—and some
worth-while, but rather uninterest-
ing exhibits. The theory of the av—
erage fair board seems to be that
the pill of education is invariably
bitter and must be sugar—coated
with jazzy entertainment. How ut-
terly stupid! It is like throwing
baubles to a baby who cries for
milk!

What is needed is a new kind of
management, one with enough bold—
ness to break away from the estab-
lished paths and enough vision to
give the masses of the people what
they really want, not merely what a
few jazz-crazed thousands seem to
want.

Perhaps one of these days a man—
agement with such boldness and
such vision will appear. When it
does it will build up a fair which
will express in imaginative and cre-

,ative form the life ideals of the

community. Visitors to this fair
will go not only to look and learn,
but to take part as well. It will
truly represent not only agriculture,
but all industries. Exhibits will be
intended not merely to advertise,
but to educate by illustrating indus-
trial products and processes. They
will not be motionless, hackneyed
and uninteresting, but replete with
action and ideas that will stimulate
new thought and enterprise. The
entertainment will not be of the cir-
cus type, completely out of harmony
with the purposes of the fair, but
will consist chieﬂy of music, folk
dancing, pageantry and sports.
There will be a. suitable auditorium,
where visitors may listen to lectures
on better families, better babies and
anything else that is worthy. There
will “be banquet halls where the
great social groups may meet in
good fellowship. v .

This fair will be ‘of, by and'for
the‘ people. It will be their harvest

1 festival of rejoicing and aspiration.

A Kiwill_mark, .once a year, the re-

ef  Quilted and the

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2nd. class matter

Entered as , Aug. 22. 1911.
at Mt. Clemens, Mich. under act Mar. 3. 18 V

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be hoped that the Michigan State
Fair will be able to fulﬁll its true
mission in the state.”

James N. McBride, Shiawassee
county farmer and widely known
throughout the state, advises that
he had the impression that agricul-
ture was not specially served or ad—
vanced by the state fair, while Ar-
thur W. Jewett, of Mason, 1924
_“Hay King” at the International..
believes “There is no question but
what the Michigan State Fair at De-
troit is one of the best agricultural
fairs in the middle west. Through
the untiring efforts of Secretary
Dickinson the fair has reached a
very high place agriculturally. Ex-
hibits of live stock and farm pro—
duce are exhibited from every cor—
ner of the state, for the past two
years exhibitis have come from the
upper peninsula and have taken
many prizes.”

Our Lansing correspondent, Stan«
ley M. Powell, believes that the fair
has had considerable criticism that
it does not deserve. After comment-
ing on the special prizes to live
stock shown by Michigan breeders
and to the emphasis that is being
placed on Boys’ and Girls' Club
he points out that he is not satisﬁed
with the educational results which
are being secured. He regards the
ideal fair as an educational institu—
tion, combining the educational ad-
vantages of the diﬁerent depart-
ments of the agricultural college,
the state and U. S. Department of
Agriculture, products of the best
live stock breeders, crop growers
and horticulturists, and exhibits of
industrial progress which are of in—
terest to up-to-date farmers and
home—makers.

Milestones of Progress

“Our fairs should be milestones
'which mark the progress we are
making in agricultural, horticultur—
a1 and industrial development,” he
writes. “They should be the exaxno
ination days at which the farmers
bring their products and have them
compared by competent judges in
order that they may see the progress

which they are making and be
brought in touch with the other
farmers who perhaps have bee-n

more successful than they.

“In my judgement, the time has
come to decide once for all what is
to be the main purpose of the fair.
If we decide it is to be an educa-
tional institution, we can hardly ex—
pect it to be entirely self-supporting,
Our schools and colleges do not pay
their own way. If we want it to be.
entirely self—supporting then amuse—
ments are bound to come into in-‘
creasing prominence, and quite
largely eclipse the educational ad—_
vantages.

“It might be said in this connect.-
ion that at present the state fair at
Detroit receives an appropriation of
seventy-ﬁve thousand dollars a year
from the state, twenty—ﬁve thousand
dollars of which goes toward the
payment of premiums. We can not»
justify the continuance of these
state appropriations which are made
possible by the taxies levied upon
the citizens of the eighty—three
Michigan counties unless the fair-is
going to be an institution of general . -.
beneﬁt," not only the factory work-‘_ '
ers and other inhabitants of Detroit,’
but to a majority of the populatiunv
of our great agricultural and mass;

     
      
      
      
             
     
     
  

 
  

         
   
   

Thus the evidence would indicate?"  '
that as an agricultural fair the. 
Michigan State Fair is lacking sand;- -‘ ‘
semething must be done if it, 
se‘rve,the state as a whole 
just Detroit and surrounding.“  a
and towns. Something must ..

      
    
 
 
 
 
  

  
       
 
 
   

 

 
     

  


 
 

 

ECENTLY I had the pleasure of

being one of a party of nearly'

eighty, composed of agricul-
'ral editors of America and their
Wives, to tour western Canada as
he guests of the Dominion govern—
ment, the Canadian Paciﬁc Railway
and the Canadian National Railway.
The trip started at "Chicago on Aug-
ust 22nd and we went to the Paciﬁc
>3Coast and returned to our starting
point on September 7th. We stud-

mount-ain resorts of that country.
‘We ate more than our ﬁll of the ﬁne
'food produced in Canad. we re-
newed old friendships and made
new ones. Truly, it was a wonder-

ful trip.

We left Chicago Saturday night,

 at 10 o’clock, over the 800 line, with

only part of our party on board as

many planned on joining us at Min~
v.2 neapolis, :Minnesota. Morning found
{us still in Wisconsin so we had an
"1 opportunity to see a little of that
2f state as well as Some of southern
,3 Minnesota. If one did not know it
3‘ was Wisconsin you could not tell it
 from our own state, Michigan. Ev-
 erywhere we saw the need of rain,
the grass looked as dry as powder
 and the rivers were nearly dry in
many places. V'I believe our corn
,2. looks better than any I saw while
 away.
9 When we arrived at Minneapolis
* we found we had time to take a
.. drive around Minneapolis and St.
1 Paul, if we so desired, and the ma—
jority of the party got aboard sight—
_~ seeing busses. We were showu the
ﬂprincipal sights. which included the
 Ford factory in St. Paul and was
 pointed out to us as second in size to
fiv the one at Detroit. We also saw
2.. the ﬂour mills for which the “Twin
Cities” are famous.

Into Canada

i’We left Minneapolis at 5 o’clock
that afternoon headed for Winnipeg
_and arrived there the next morning,
 Monday,.'August 24, to be welcomed
 by J. H. Evans. deputy Minister of
 «Agriculture and a .delegation of
 prominent citizens. During the fore-
i. noon we visited the Manitoba Agri-
, cultural College where we inspected
 the buildings and grounds. There
i had been a hard rain the previous
 day and the soil, which seems to be
:_' a black clay and resembles in sticki—
ﬁness the gumbo of our western
istates, was in such a shape that we
3?; could not visit the experiment plots
 but we were shown enough to con-
~._ vince us that for a college that has
*5 been established only 11 years they
are doing some ﬁne work. They
v' only have 21 inches of rainfall dur-
' ing a normal year compared with
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ages. occasionally than those
planted by Clarence A. Diehl of
:Dansville, Mich., but if there are the
 {chances are they are planted by large
{land corporations, and there are few
Visuch in Michigan. Huge bean acre—
ages are common in California and
Colorado, but in Michigan the usual
planting of beans is about 10 acres
101' the average farmer, with some-
_imes a farmer plunging with 40
{acres or so.

' ‘ For at least ﬁve years Mr. Diehl,
ho also has a wide reputation as a
jr'oad contractor. has averaged 200
-'acres of beans a year, cultivated by
’imself, and this year he is sponsor-
ing 45 additional acres of beans, cul-
ivated by a neighbor. A
Mr...Diehl controls 1200 acres of
Mcellent farm land, a large part/ of
,hich he owns. Of the 200 acres
jgvotedn to beans, 100 acres are of the
*bust variety, which has consistent—

THERE may be larger bean acre-

  

   
   
   
   
 
  
  
   
  
 

yonds the 20-bushel mark, with an
signalzyieldmunning to 40 bush-

‘d, according to his neighbors, who
years talked slightin‘gly” of; his
3'10 succeed at farming ,with

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rought his average yield to and,

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By MILON GRI-NNELL

have to ﬁgure on early frosts and
weather that sometimes goes to 50
degrees below zero. I asked one of
the professors if a silo was part of

the Canadian farm program. He

said that the farmers made some
silage but kept it in trench silos as
our type of silo would freeze com-
pletely through during the real cold
weather in Manitoba.

At noon we were served a ﬁne
meal, saidgto be the everyday fare
of the students, and learned that
everything we had to eat, with the
exception of the salt and pepper,
was produced on the College farm.

The College grounds and build-
ings cost approximately $4,000,000

The xprovinces of Manitoba, Al-
berta and Saskatchewan each have

‘a wheat pool and each p001 func-

tins by. itself but the selling is all
done through a central marketing
agency. The only assistance they

.had from the government was in a

ﬁnancial way and every cent is be-
ing paid back with interest. They
have had their opposition but their
faith in cooperation is strong and
so far they have won '- their ﬁght.
When the price is too low in their
estimate they will go into the mar-
ket and buy until it goes up to a
reasonable level: The cost of opera-
tion has ben held down very well.
Salaries for» the right men are good

 

 

House on the ranch of the Prince of “’ales in the foothills of the Rockies.

We spent

nearly a day on the ranch.

and the annual maintenance is a lit-
tle less than $400,000 or 650 per
capita of the population of the pro-
vince. During the noon hour we
learned that development started in
Manitoba 45 years ago and the total
population today is 612,000, of
which more than half lives on the
farms. The area of the province
exceeds that of Alabama, Arkansas,
Indiana, New York and Ohid com-
bined. The average farm contains
274 acres and the grains produced
include: wheat, rye, oats, barley,
and ﬂax. Corn is grown quite suc—
cessfully on a limited scale. Dairy—
stock raising are given
much attention as is also the pro—
duction of poultry. Several times
on the trip we were served Manitoba
turkey and it cannot be beat.
During the afternoon we met with
ofﬁcials of the Manitoba Wheat P001
to learn how the farmers were going
about it to market their own wheat
and I believe most of us came away
with the thought in mind that co—
operators of this country can learn
much from their Canadian cousins.

but they have avoided the trouble
many of the cooperative associations
in the States have had because of
too high salaries.

When the wheat is delivered an
initial payment of $1 is made, and
in the ﬁnal settlement all receive
the same price, so there is no rea—
son for a grower rushing his crop
to market, nor is there any reason
for him holding it until most of
the crop has been sold. The ﬁnal

settlement for the 1924 crop show—-

ed that the growers received slightly
over $1.62 net.
On to Brandon

From Winnipeg we traveled west—
ward through the “Portage Plains",
one of the ﬁnest farming sections in
the Canadian west, to the city of
Brandon. Here we were taken by

autos on a tour of the farming ter- '

iritory and we stopped to inspect
several ﬁne farms. We were in the
land of wheat and it was visible on
all sides of us as far as we could
see. Here and there would be a
ﬁeld of winter rye and all of it
seemed to be coming along ﬁne. I

By E. A. LITTLE

n

themselves growing beans, with pro-
ﬁt to themselves, and the community
at large.

Of the remaining 100 acres of
beans, 60 of them are common pea
beans, and 40 acres red kidneys.
Mr. Diehl’s land is a rather heavy
clay loam, which is easily handled
and which hasn’t blown away into
the next county as considerable acre-

      
 
     
        
 
  
  
  
   
  
 

age in Ingham county has this year.
While Mr. Diehl uses the ordinary
bean cultural methods, he has grown
them so long and made such a study
of bean culture that he is able con—
sistently to secure better returns than.
his neighbors.

“Beans have been a mo: satis—
factory crop for me,” he sai , while

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’wé “d.

saw. one ﬁne ﬁeld of corn on the
trip but if they had a frost during
the ﬁrst week of September, as they
often do, I am afraid it was caught
with the.ears just past the milk
stage. It was. here that we heard
the word.“stook” used for shock.

'It was a ,“stook‘? of wheat, and not

a shock. ' t

On our return We were t ken to‘

the Dominiom Experiment taltion
Farm where we were given an appe-
tizing lunch and then shown about
the farm. A recent hail storm had
damaged the fruit and garden crops
but in spite of this everything look~
ed very good and We were all im-

pressed with the work being done.

From here we went to the hortiCul-
tural exhibit at the fair grounds
where we saw some of the ﬁnest
ﬂowers I have ever looked at, in
this country or any other. The fruit

.1 and garden produce were equally as

good. Rain fall in this section is
about 18 inches a year.

Summer Fallowing
It was at Brandon that we ﬁrst
learned of the importance of fallow-
ing to the Canadian farmer. In
Michigan a farmer may summer fal-

v low once in several yearsand then

only on a very small scale. If the
quack, grass or thistles seem to be
getting the best of the-crop in some
ﬁeld he will summer fallow, other-
wise he never thinks of it. In Can-
adad a ﬁeld is summer fallowed at
least every third year and some
times every other year. They plow
the ﬁeld early in June and then cul-
tivate it from three: to ﬁve times
during the summer with what is
known as a duck-foot cultivator.
Much of the work is done with hors-
es although we were informed that
a tractor was owned on nearly ev-
eryfarm and many of the farmers
had several.

The city of Brandon has one of
the three central heating plants in
western Canada. Practically every
large building in the 'center of the
city as well as many of the. homes
are heated by this syStem. One man
said that he lived in a three—room
apartment and hadvplenty of beat
all winter at a cost of only $4 per
month. We editors shivered when
we thought how much heat we
would, get in this country for $4 a
month. The heat goes through a
meter the .same as gas and electri-
city and all three are furnished by.
the same company. ‘ '

“Home of the Mounted Police”

This was our last stop in this pro—
vince on our way west and we woke
up the next morning,’ Wednesday, in
Regina, in the province of Saskatch-
ewan. This province. was formed
only twenty years ago and today it

(Continued on Page 19)

Is Ingham County Man MiChigan’s ChampionBean Grower?

noonon the veranda of his modern
and well kept home. “Of course
there has been considerable publicity,
not deserved at all, but I don’t mind
that. It has proved a ﬁne cash crop,
the cultivation has been relatively

easy, and the beans haven’t hurt my .

land a bit.
it."
Asked about the reported large
checks he has received for consign,—
ments of beans delivered to Lansing
and other. elvators, Mr. Diehl, inform-
ed' the reperter the" large'st’theck
received at anyone time was about

In fact they have helped

“$4,500, with several running well
above $2,000.

V“I'don’t sellall to
one ,ﬁrm,” he remarked. “Several
Lansing ﬁrms have treated me re-

‘markably well, but every once in a

While I deliver beans to thecooper—
ative elevator at Williamston, ’in

_ which I, am a stockholder.”

Mr. Diehl, a young and progressive
man of about 40 years, "is looked up

‘tog'b‘Y' the people of the Dansville’.

communityi takes the lead in com-t

 musity‘ affairs; seal ismxaidlygmaking
"a name for himself that extends far

beyond his local, .bpundaries. , ,

  

 

 

   
  
    
   
  
   
 
  

   
 
  
 
 

  

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

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IN THE BARNYARD.——-1\Irs.
sent- us this picture and wrote
way they brought up the orphans
in her father's sheep fold

COMING 1M.,B. F. AGENT.—“This is
my son, George,” writes Edward Jones,
M. B. F. agent. “He is going to sell Bus—
iness Farmer when he gets old enough.”

NOT DRUGSTORE
cowboys from 'l‘useola. eounty and they
Lawrence and‘ Gerald
Daisy. L. l’rime is their duddv.

with their pony,

 

 

"GOING BERRYING.”—Dad and the boys
are going to pick some berries, according to S.
Woodward, Burt.

 

 

 

DAD'AND HIS HORSES.——This is, Frank, Lew and Dick.
Lew Travis, of Vermontville, with Frank and Dick, his team of
matched l’ercherons, weighing 3200 pounds.

 

 

   

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EIGHT COUNTRY COUSINS.-——-“Our nieces. nephews and our own
children," wrote Mr. and BIrs. Leonard Pritehurd, of Evurt, sending
this picture to us.

BALANCE ROCK,
RADO.—John Terpstra,
took this

 

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FLOCK 0F \VHITE LEGIIORNS.—“Ilere are u, few of the
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TAKING THE COW T0
When Melvin Kennedy, _
the cow to pasture he  ragga!”

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seas: mdn't cost you a. cent.
The beat standard makes of traps
free. Act while this unusual oﬁer
still holds good. Thousands of . '
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t-timonials likethsaeinonrﬁles:   _'
'Beeeived check on traps. ‘ "' » '
Huathave twoor three dozen
more this fall. Get the most
for my furs when I ship to
you. Will ship a lot more
this hil."-—Noa
. Sheridan. Mich. '
"Thanks for trup re-
fund. When I need more
gene 0; supplies gill «Rid
or them. ve s p- _
peso; diﬂerent houses, but
after this all my furs to Silbermsn.”
. . Frlcke, State Center, Iowa.
Send today for facts regarding this one:- of free
traps: also free supply list and market forecast.
that keep you posted on right prices. If you want
more money for your furs. write

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use: WINDMILL ON ‘Wam
PRESSURE SYSTEM

I have a water pressure system
and want to know if a windmill
could be used successfully to pump
the water and maintain a pressure
of say 40 pounds. Would a ten-foot
mill furnish enough power over an
eight-foot mill to pay the diflerence
in cost? Is there. any attachment
that can be placed on a windmill
that will automatically cause the
mill to maintain a. nearly constant
pressure?—-—B. G., Gratiot County.

WOULD say that a windmill ten

feet in diameter would be sat-

isfactory for this purpose and I

have seen quite a number of
them around the state used in this
way.

An automatic device can be at-
tached which will turn the windmill
011 when a pressure drops to a cer-
tain amount and..turn it on when it
reaches 40 or 50 pounds. In this
way as long as the wind is more or
less constant, pressure can be main—
tained in the tank-and the outﬁt
will be practically automatic—O.
E. Robey, Department of Agricul-
tural Engineering, M. S. C.

SHARE OF PROPERTY

First cousins have been married
thirty years, adopted three children,
now all adults. Husband has broth-
ers and sisters. If husband should
die without making a will what
share would his widow receive of
his estate? In case the property is
owned jointly by husband and wife,
then what share would wife receive
at husband’s death.-——D. F., Evart.
Mich.

ON the death of the husband,

the widow would be entitled to

one third and the children two
thirds of the estate. If the proper-
ty is owned jointly, the wife would
receive it all upon the death of the
husband—Legal Editor.

OWNER OF FRUIT FROM TREE
NEAR ROAD
I have hickory nut trees along
the road side. Although the trees
stand on my land, inside the fence,
there are some limbs that hang gun
the fence and nuts fall on the road
side. Now people claim that the
hickory nuts that fall on the road
side do not belong to me and any-
one else can pick them. They even
claim they can shake the nuts of!
the overhanging limbs. If this is
so, can I cut the limbs that hang
over the fence so the nuts will not
fall over the fence? Or have I a
right to prohibit anyone from pick-
ing up the; nut_s?——V. M.
0U are advised that anyone
Y touching the tree or picking
any of its fruit that has fallen
on the ground on the right of way,
while standing on the public high-
way, is a trespasser, the same as
though they had entered‘your yard.
All the fruit that falls on the
ground belongs to the owner of the
land adjoining the right of way. All
the owner of the land has granted
the township, county and state, is
an easement for a highway and only
for such purposes—H. V. Spike, As-
sistant Attorney General.

PUPILS DO NOT LIVE IN
DISTRICT

Can school board order children
out of school when they are not
residents at district? The distance
is 2% miles and most convenient to
go. The school .district is which
they reside is 3 miles. The school
board is willing to ‘pay the tuition
of $14 per pupil, but they ask $4.00

per month per pupil or $36 which

we are unable to pay. Will the
children have to. stay away from
school entirely or will the school
board have to provide a to take
the children to and from school, or
can they compell the children to
walk 3 miles, or 6 miles, both ways:
~—¢H. 8., Midland, Mich.
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der no obligation to accept them
even though they are willing, to pay
tuition unless the parents or guard-
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school, in which case the district
must accept them, but may charge
the tuition, giving credit on the
tuition‘for the amount of the school
tax paid by the father.-——W. L._ Cofa
fey, Deputy Superintendent of Pub-
lic Instruction.
BORERS IN TIMBER
We live in an old house and the

.. worms are eating the sills and sleep-

ers to such an extent that piles of
sawdust lay on the, cellar ﬂoor. Is
there anything we can do to stop
them before they weaken the timber?
We cannot see them.—J. M., Hud-
son, Mich.

OST oLthis damage to old hous-
es is perpetrated by two gen-
eral types of insects although

occasionally there are other borers
that contribute. Of thesotwo, one
is a large beetle that lays its eggs
in the bark and-whose larvae work
into the timber when the latter is
used with the bark still on. This
type of borer is as big as a "lead pen-
cil in diameter, and tunnels anywhere
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type of borer is known as a powder
post beetle and is of comparatively
small size, making a hole no larger
than a darning needle. It works in
sap wood only. and will not attack
the heart wood although it will some-
times reduce all of the-sap wood‘to

'a ﬁne ‘ﬁour-like powder.

The control of these insects is, at
best, difﬁcult because the timbers are
usually not exposed so that one can
get at them. In case the borer hap-
pens to be one of the larger sort, I
would inject kerosene with an oil
gun syringe or something of the kind
into the tunnels and in the cases of

  

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over way seams

dust just as 1211: creeps'in blotting

'paper and ﬁnally reach inside where'

the fumes will penetrate and kill the
insects. .

Another possibility, of course is
that ants may be at work and white
nuts are becoming more and more
common everywhere in Michigan.

We are always anxious to see the
specimens whenever it is. possible to
get them, since when we once know
the exact species of insects present,
we can be much more deﬁnite in
making recommendatibns.—R. H.
Pettit, Professor of Entomology,
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CAN HOUSE BE TAXED?

I own a farm. Now my son got
married and wants to work so he
bought a' little house for $40 and
moved on my place. Now they tax
him for personal property and he
has $330 to pay astuxes.‘ Can they
do this?-——~J. 0., Valley Center, Mich.

your ‘son placed the house on

the farm with the intention of

it staying there and becoming a
part of the place, he would not be
liable for taxes on it as persbnal
property. If it were only a tempor-
ary building, it could be taxed as
personal property.———Lega1 Editor.

MUST PAY _IN)R SUPPORT

We took a. girl when she was
eight years old. Her mother is
dead and her father works in the
city and has no home so as to
keep her. We' have,kept her for
eight years now and I have not
charged anything for her board and

room, and now she is grown up her ,

father, wants to take, and she does
notwant to go, and we want to keep
her. Could you tell me if he could
take her?—G. B., Sunﬂeld, Mich.

AM of the opinion the father

would not be entitled to the ‘

custody -of the child without
ﬁrst paying for her support during
the time she was under your care.
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MICHIGAN GAME LAWS

Open seasons: Deer (male, with
horns not less than 3 inches above
the skull), bear, Nov. 15 to Nov. 30.
Rabbit, hare (see exception), Oct.
15 to Jan. 31. Exception: Snowshoe
or. jack rabbit, Oct. 15 to Feb. 15.
Squirrel (fox), Oct. 25 to Oct. 30.
Ruffed grouse, partridge, prairie
chicken, male Chinese or ring-neck-
ed pheasants, woodcock, Oct. 25 to

Oct. 31. Duck, g00se, brant, Wilson
snipe, coot, gallinule, black—bellied
and golden plovers, yellowlegs,
Sept. 16 to Dec. 31. Rail, other

than coot and gallinule, Sept. 16 to

'Nov. 30.

No open season: Elk, moose, cari-
bou,» dove, quail, squirrel (except
fox squirrel), Canada or spruce
grouse, hen pheasant, wild turkey,
swans, wood duck,‘ eider ducks,
auks, bittern, sand—hill and whoop—
ing cranes, gannet, grebes, gulls,
herons, jaegers, loons, murrés, tern,
and all shore birds (except wood-
cock, Wilson snipe or jacksnipe,
black-bellied and golden plovers,
and yellowlegs).

Hunting and ﬁshing licenses: Non-
Deer, $50; small game,
$10; ﬁsh, general, $5; special (ﬁsh,
except brook trout and bass), $2
(ﬁshing license not required of per-
son under 18 years of age‘). Rosi—
dent: Deer, 32.50;. small game,
$1.25. Issued by county clerks, di-
rector, or deputy. Licenses issued
to persons under 17 and over 12 on
application of parent or guardian,

who must accompany such minor.

when hunting. Residents and min-

or children may hunt during open,

season small game on own inclosed
land on which they reside without a
license. Unlawful to hunt on posted
person in passess‘ion'." _

Bag limits "and possession: *Oue

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prairie chicken 3. season; 2 Chinese
or ring—necked pheasants a day, 4
a season; 15 ducks 9. day, 30 in pos—
86881011, 50 a calendar week; 5 geese
and brant a day, 8 in possession, 15
a season; 5 woodcock a day, 10 in
possession, 20 a season; 15 in all of
black-bellied and golden plovers and

yellowlegs a day, 15 in possession,

25 each a season; 50 sure and 25 in
all of other rails, coats and galli—
nules a, day. Game birds lawfully
killed may be possessed during ﬁrst
10 days of close season, except par-
tridge, during ﬁrst ﬁve .days, and
game animals during ﬁrst 30 days
thereof. Camping party of six or
not less than four licensed hunters
maintaining a camp of not less' than
four persons for not less than seven
days may, under permit (fee $3),
kill one deer for camp purposes.

Interstate transportation: Export
prohibited of all protected game.
Exceptions: (1) Deer may be trans—
ported outside the \State to reach a
point within *the State. (2) Non-.
resident licensee may take out, as
hand baggage, open to view, one
day's bag limit of birds, and may
ship one door lawfully killed by
himself when license tag and seal
are attached. (3) Deer skins and
green or unmounted buck-deer
heads may be exported under per;
mit, Game taken , outside, of State
and legally' gxported may be~possese
sad in like manner as game taken in
State. ' '

Sale: Sale prohibited of all pro-
tected game; provided, deer skins
and green or mounted buck-deer
heads lawfully taken may be . sold
or lT1,.‘lilmnsportod under permit.

9 tor upon approval-pf the:

-_ Qpnserva‘ 11 Commission may close
or shorten the season and otherwise

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game (except that he may not fmodij “

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“LEATHER
STOCKING”

Mslvern. lows
May 10. 1925
Wolverine Shoe & Tan’g Corp.

Rockford, Michigan
Gentlemen:

Just one word to say about
your shoes. They are the best
shoes that I ever wore. This
makes threepairs thathonglrt,
each pair I wore more than a
year. The second pair I bought
the ﬁrst of April, 1924, and they
are still good for three months
yet. They are the Only size 8
shoes that I ever bou ht that
didn’t hurt my feet. I ve got
three fellows to try them. They
say that they are the easiest
shoes they ever wore.

M. P. KELSO.
Malvern, Iowa

‘ Men—this shoe wears

   
  
   
   
    
  

A shoe to wear 1000 miles.
Men thought it could not be
done. Now they tell us that 1000
miles is really “nothing at all” for
this shoe. Read the letter above.
It is like hundreds we receive.

1000 miles

and it always dries out soft

lt’s horsehide tanned a secret way

Get these shoes soaking wet.
They’ll always dry out soft as
velvet. You’ll like Wolverines
for their comfort as well as their
long wear. Try apair this season.

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leather. Flexible as buck.

 

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son why Wolverines
give so much extra
wear. They are differ-
ent from any other

i work shoe made. It’s
a different leather to
start. Genuine Cor—
dovan Horsehide. The
  stoutest, toughest
f ~ : leatherknowntoman.
-' The only material
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easy as a carpet slipper.
Fits like an old shoe the
ﬁrst thne you slip it on.
Suitable for anyone with
sensitive feet, or for long
re you don't
have wet weather.

skin. Tough as rawhide.
That’s what you get in
horsehide tanned this new
way. And, remember. it
always stays soft.

We make work shoes ex-
clusively. And wehave our
‘own tanneries. Every hide
is tanned in our‘own plant.
That assures yogi uniformly
high quality. We produces
model work shoe for every
job. Farm, lumber camp.
mine or factory— and for
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balls. Used for cen-
turies in making the ﬁne Cossack

,' - saddles. Its equal for with-
' standing hard knOcks has never
been found. .
But heretofore horsehide could

n ver be used in work shoes. It
' ways “tanned up” too stiﬂ.
‘ Finally, in Our own tanneries, we
discovered a new process. We
learned the art of making this
tough leather soft as a glove.
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In your ﬁngers as easily as oiled
rawhide. And it alwags‘stays soft.

I’ v is thick and heavy. Yet it bends v

  

will just suit you.

Send today for our catalog. If your
dealer hasn’t Wolverines, please write
us and we will refer you to one who has.

Wolverine Shoe & Tanning
Corp. ‘
Formerly Michigan Shoemaker:
Rockford, Michigan,

  

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to ask your dealer about Wolves-
them in stock; Write-usdirectaml
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Edited by L. w. Hacks, HillsdaleLCounty

‘Fair Days, Past and Present
‘NY one attending the fairs this
fall would have to be very
much engrossed with the races
ive stock, shows, hot dog stands,
wise and big pumpkins, if they did
-. not give at
least a passing
thought to the
fairs of y e 3 rs
gone by. Th 'e
writer has noted
the changes in
the fairs for the
last quarter cen~
tury, which show

  

how the world
moves, and times
change. '

Attending the
fair shows a per-
son what policy

L. W. MEEKS

fair managers have
best one in conducting them; how
the best and latest inventions of to—
day are to be outclassed by those of
tomorrow. It will show how styles
zllange from mutton leg sleeves to
no sleeves at all; how long hair
for the ladies has found disfavor;
and the young men, not understand-
ing whythe ladies do not like long
hair, are inclined to let their hair
grow long.

I often think of the ﬁrst auto
that entered the Hillsdale Fair
Grounds. It was fashioned some-
What after an open buggy. It came
quite unannounced and was driven
all over the grounds. It needed no
horn honking 'to keep the crowd
out of its path, for certainly the
people gave it a' wide birth. Final-
ly'it came to a standstill and then
the people showed their interest in
it by crowding around and asking
all sorts of questions. I remember
one fellow said he thought it was
run by a, gasoline engine; another
said there was no gasoline about it,
it was run by electricity, and for
proof he pointed to six dry cells
under the seat!

About that time one of the two
occupants of the machine gave out
circulars, and told the folks what
a wonderful place the Detroit Bus-
iness University was. Finally he
said they would have to go, as they
were to drive back to Detroit yet
that afternoon. This seemed like
quite an impossible thing to the as-
tonished crowd.
Detroit, spends the day, and drives
back in the eveningl

Remember in those. days how the
manufacturers of gasoline engines
sent a man to the grounds two
weeks before the fair to construct
a heavy cement foundation on
which they would bolt the engines!
Some of these old cement founda—
tions are in evidence yet, and seem
like a monument to the early day
of the internal
Among some of the things that have
not changed with the times might
be mentioned the pink lemonade
and hamburg sandwiches. —

It at ‘

Some State Fair Notes

It was the writer’s privilege to at-
tend the last days of the fair, and
probably the thing longest to be

‘emembered is the heavy rain of
Friday night and Saturday! Things
Which interfere With one’s pleas-

' at such times are likely to be long

remembered. One visiting the fair
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_Notice we use iron standards.
Now one drives to '

combustion motor.—

so many ﬁne. buildings, pavements;-
etc. . A man told me that the In-
ternationsl at Chicago had no nicer
buildings than the State Fair. And

these buildings are certainly 7well I

kept.
cement.

Some displays are very. much dif-
ferent than those of years gone by.
Remember when there were nearly
a dozen threshing outﬁts on display?
I think there were~ none this year.
In fact there was a. very small show-
ing of farm tools. ’

One of the Ford airplanes (‘Maid-
en Dearborn) which carries express
for the Ford Motor 00., between
Detroit and Chicago, was stationed

Most of them are of brick or

‘on the grounds and was the object

of much interest.
nicely made, somewhat
than I had expected they were.
There is much to be told of the state
fair, but just now I want to tell

(It was very

of a portable table or bench, on5

which we husk our corn.
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Corn Husking

a

smaller ;

Part'of the corn crop will' be]

husked with a machine, but lack
of storage for the shredded fodder
necessitaties that the larger part
be husked by hand. The worst
feature of hand husking is having
to work down on the ground, and
many benches have been fashioned
to allow the husker to stand. Near-
ly all of these benches are so un-
handy they do not ﬁnd favor with
the user. It’s too hard to ’ltear
down the shock and put it on the

 

bench and the bench is too heavy
to carry, " etc. , -‘

The husking table shown in these
pictures has no objectionable feat—
uers, and many very excellent ones,!
as We have used one for twenty-ﬁve}
years or more. We are quite sures
it is a winner—and as it is very
easiy constructed, it seems strange
there are not more of them in use.

Wheels similar to those on a two-
horse walking cultivator are quite
satisfactory. A gas pipe will do for
the axle if a solid steel one can;
not be obtained. If gas ,pipe is used

it should be strengthened with a'-

piece of wood between
standards.

The standards from axle should
be strong and braced to the frame.
The
table itself is about six by nine
feet in size, composed of one byrfour
inch ‘boards, nine feet long, nailed
to the two by four by six foot pieces
which form ’the frame.

Figure 1 shows the table leaning
against a shock of corn. Notice the
wheels are set back on the frame
far enough So they are about twelve
inches off the ground when the table.
is set on, end. Pulling on the shock
is easy as it is not raised from the
ground until the wheels touch the
ground. At this time the shock is
at an angle of about forty—ﬁve de-
grees, and‘ a step on the axle to
hold the wheels solid is about all
that is required to load the shock.

If a shock leans too far, a rope
with (one end fastened to the table
is put around the shock, and the
free end passed between the slats of
table. Pulling on this end of rope
will easily load a heavy down shock.

The wheels; being nearest the
center of the load, carry ‘most of
the‘weight, and the shock may be
wheeled quite a distance if need be.

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. mfuch on'aéid phosphate.

'» {In the beginning the. name acid
;.has kept more people from using it.
’ than has any other factor, and this‘

must be’ forgotten when using this
kind of. phospOrus.

Aci'dphosphate is made by treat-
ing raw phosphate rock with sul-
phuric acid. This process leberates
the phosphorus in the rock, and
makes it soluble so a plant can use
it. Nature uses a vegetable acid to
do the same business, but when you
have no decaying vegetable matter
in your soil you are out of luck
from this source and that is why
acid phosphate gives you greater
returns for your money in nearly

' every instance than the other forms

of phosphate, viz: The average raw
rock and bone meal, etc. The aver:
age farmer will never put on enough
to injure his soil because as high
as 7% tons per acre has been used
over 23 years in New Jersey and at
the end of this time there was no
difference in the lime requirements
of this soil. Experiments in many
other states show that there is little
or no chang in the acidity of the
soil. ‘

Now what does acid phosphate do
to a crop? In the ﬁrst place it
plumps the grain and hastens the
maturity; on our oWn farm its use
has shortened ,the length of matur-
ity at least ten days to two weeks.
And in nearly all of the soils of
Michigan ‘its is the low part of a soil
balance.

It is something that we sell off
in our grain and live stock and
there is no way to get it back unless
we buy it.

On the market it is the cheapest
of any element that enters our crops
or especially of the big three, nitro-
gen, phosphorus or potash and it
is the element most necessary.

Clover is one of the heaviest feed—
ers on phosphate of any crop on"
our farms and as Clover feeds in
the top 18 inches of cell it needs

a supply of phosphorus in soluble
form.
In, the past it got it from the

phosphorus supply that was origin—
ally in our- soil but in most cases in
Michigan and elsewhere this condi-

- tion does not exist to the amount

that the crop“ needs.

The sales of grain and live stock
from 'our farms has carried it away
and the only way to get it back is
to buy it. I may mention here that
better results are always obtained
when the soil is limed beforehand.
but it is used either on a limed or
unlimed soil. In nearly every case
the fertilizer analysis of the world
is based and built around the phos—
phorus content. Thus we have (low
grade) 1:821, 2:12:2, 2:12, 211622,’
and the majority of fertilizers con—
tain from 8 to 16 per cent of acid
phosphate.

Manure is low in phosphoric con-

tent and is always beneﬁted by the .

addition of acid phosphate.

Phosphorus has a tendency to
lack the ammonia or nitrogen con—
tent when used in the stable thus
preventing the loss of nitrogen b
evaporation.‘ ’ '

Phosphorus.does not leach from
the soil in any perceptibel amount.
and one is safe to use as much as
he cares to and'have the assurance
that it is not going to get away
fr0m_ him. '

200 to 300 pound application has

. been known in nearly every instance

to increase grain yields from 2wto
7 bushels" per acre and on our own

I  we have had. a third heavier
4 (growth “of clover where we have
fused it. ADon’t forget} this formula ‘

Increasing g- 'g as yields?  First
sate  ~  '

then .200

  

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wheat per acre than you are in the
habit of raising. ‘ _
I have just scratched the surface

-of the beneﬁts of acid phosphate
and will give you more facts about A

it in some other .issue.

Now dear reader:

We want to make this department
the best of any paper in America
and if you have any' soil problems
or ideas please send them in as we
know that there are thoughts and

ideas buried in the minds of the ..

good farmers of Michigan that are
not doing thegood they should, for
the want of some medium of, ex-
pression.

We will. show no partiality to any
one and treat your subject either
with a personal_ letter or space in
the paper as conditions p’ermit, but
we want a free expression of
thought on "these vital subjects.
Truth and common sense is the mot-
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not itgls aigood plan, ton-{BOP 
alfalfa in the fall it the alfalfa is
sown in May—J. W., Munith, Mich.

HE top dressing on allialfa is a

good practice. .Care should be

'exercised in not top dressing
too heavily since a heavy dressing
may cause some of the plants to be
smothered out.

Manure tends to stimulate alfal-
fa and in most all cases causes-
heavier yields.—C. R. Megee, As-
sociate Professor of Farm Crops,
Michigan State College.

RED TOP

What time of year is best to plant
Red Top seed or Blue Giant on a
marsh where water stands on marsh
in late fall and early spring.———E. S.,
Munith, Mich.

ER the conditions you, men—

tion it is advisable to seed Red

Top during the late summer.

It is not likely that seed of Blue
Giant can be secured commercially.
Red Top is about as well adapted to
wet conditions as any of the culti-

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FERTILIZE FOR 
Do you consider it proﬁtable w;
fertilize for beans? If so what an}
galysis fertilizer would you advisaf
and. what amount per acre.?-——G. 8.!
B., Owosso, Michigan.

; CONSIDER it proﬁtable to fer-l
I tilize for beans on any type on!

soil, as you get a more even, uni- 3'
form development and the: beans?

where acid phosphate fertiliser is
used.

For the heavier silt and clay,
loams and clay soils I would advise
two hundred and ﬁfty to three hum
dred pounds of acid phosphate ter-
tilizer per acre, providing a rotau
tion having a legume is being used
or manure is being applied to the
ﬁeld. Otherwise, a little nitrogen
should be included in the fertilizer
as a 3-16—0 or” 2—16—0 fertilizer.-—~
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Surely you can. I must know. I

the fight to know. Yesterday, even
before you found out about this, you knew
things you weren't telling me—things
about the people you'd been seeing.
They’d all lost people on the lakes, you
said; but you found out more than that."
“They‘d all lost people on the Miwaka!”
he said. “All who could tell me where
their people were lost; a few like Jo
Papo we saw yesterday, who knew only
the year his father was lost; but the
time always was the time that the Mi-
waka disappeared !”

“Disappeared!” she repeated. Her veins
were pricking cold. What did he know,
what could anyone know of the Miwaka,
the ship of which nothing ever was heard
except the beating of the Indian Drum?
She tried to make him say more: but he
looked away down to the lake.

“The Chippewa must have come in

“NO; you can tell me more now, Alan.

early this morning.” he said. “She’s
lying in the harbor; I saw her on my
way to the telegraph oﬂice.‘ If Mr.

Spearman has come back with her, tell
him I’m sorry I can’t wait to see him."

“When are you going?” '

"Now."

She offered to drive him'to Petoskey,
but he already had arranged for a man
to take him to the train.

She went to her room after he was
gone and spread out again on her bed
the watch—now the watch of Captain
Stafford of the Miwaka—with the knife
and coins of more than twenty years ago
which came with it. The meaning of them

‘ “now was all changed; she, felt that; but

what the new meaning might be could
not yet come to her. Something of it
had come to Alan; that, undoubtedly,
was what had so greatly stirred him:
but she could not'reassemble her ideas.
Yet a few facts had become plain.

A maid came to say that Mr. Spear-
man had come up from his boat for
breakfast with her and was downstairs.
She went down to ﬁnd Henry lounging in
one of the great wicker chairs in the liv-
ing room. He arose and came toward her
quickly; but she halted before he could
seize her.

“I got back, Connie—”

“Yes; I heard you did."

“VVhat’s wrong, dear?”

“Alan Conrad has been here, Henry."

“He has? How Was that?"

She told him while he watched her in-
tently. “He wired to Buffalo about the
watch, He got a reply which he brought
to me half an hour ago.”

“Yes?” .

“The watch belonged to Captain Staf-
ford who was lost with the Miwaka.
Henry.”

He made no reply; but waited.

“You may not have known that it was
his: I mean you may not have known
that it was he who rescued the people of
the \Vinnebago, but you must have known
that Uncle Benny didn’t.”

“Yes; I knew that, Connie,”
swcred evenly.

“Then why did you let me think the

he an-

watch was his and that he must be—
dead ?” ,
“That's all’s the matter? You had

thought he was dead. I believed it was
better for you—~for every one—to believe
that."

She drew a little away from him, with
hands clasped behind her back. gazing
intently at him. “There was some writ-
ing found in Uncle Benny‘s house in
Astor Street—a list of names of relatives
of people who had lost their lives upon
the lake. Wassaquam ‘knew where those
things were. Alan says they were given
to him in your presence.”

She saw the blood rise darkly under
his skin. “That is true, Connie.”

“Why didn’t you tell me about that?”

He straightened as if with .,.anger.
“Why should I? Because he thought that
I should? What did he tell you about
those lists?"

“I, asked you, after you went back, if
anything else had happened, Henry. and

you said, ‘nothing.’ I should not have
censidered the finding of those lists
‘nothing.’ ” -. -

“Why not? What were they but names?
What has he told you they were, Connie?
W'hat has he said to you?”

“Nothing—except that his father had
kept them very secretly; but he’s found
out they were names -of people who had
relatives on the Miwaka!”

“What?” ”

Recalling how her blood had run when
Alan had told her that, Henry’s whiteness
and the following suffusion of his face
did not, surprise her. .

He turned away a moment and con-l
sidered. “VVhere’s Conrad now, Connie?"

“He’s gone to Frankfort to cross to
Manitowoc.”

“To get deepervinto that ‘mess, I sup-.
pose. He’ll only be sorry'.”  6
“Sorry?”
“I told that fellow long ago not to start

stirring these mattersup “successor;— 
vet, and ,particularly I told him  6*.

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kn’ow. Conrad seems to have paid no at-
tention to me. But I should think by
this time he ought to begin to suspect
what sort of thing he’s going to turn up.
I don’t know; but I'certainly suspect--
Ben leaving everything to that boy, whom
no one had heard of, and the sort of thing
which has come up since. It’s certainly
not going to be anything pleasant for us,
Connie—for you, or your father, or for
me, or for anybody who’d cared for Ben,
or had been associated with him. Least
of all, I should say, would it prove any—
thing pleasant for Conrad. Ben ran away
from it, because he knew what it was;
why doesn’t this fellow stay away from
it?” - . I

“He—I mean Alan, Henry,” she said,
“isn’t thinking about himself in this; he
isn’t thinking about his father. He be-
lieves—he is certain now—that, what-
ever his father did, he injured some one;
and his idea in going ahead—he hisn’t
told it to me that way, but I know—is
to ﬁnd out the whole matter in order
that he may make recompense. It’s a
terrible‘ thing. whateyer happened. He
knows that, and I know; but he wants—
and I want for his sake, even for Uncle
Benny’s sake—to see it through.” '

“Then it’s a queer concern you’ve got
for Ben! Let it alone, I tell you.”

She stood ﬂushed and perplexed, gaz-
ing at him. She never had seen him un-
der stronger emotion.

“You misunderstood me once, Connie!”
he appealed. “You’ll understand me
now!”

She had been thinking about that in—
justice she had done him in her thought
-—about his chivalry to his partner and
former benefactor, when Uncle Benny was
still keeping his place among men. Was
Henry now moved, in a way which she
could not understand, by some other ob—
ligation to the man who long ago had
aided him? Had Henry hazarded more
than he had told her of the nature of the
thing hidden which, if she could guess it.
would justify what he said?

In the confusion of her thought, one
thing came clearly which troubled her
and of which she could not speak. The
watch of Captain Stafford‘s and the. ring
and the coins, which had made her be-
lieve that Uncle Benny was dead, had
not been proof of that to Henry. Yet
he had taken advantage of her belief,
without undeceiving her. to urge her to
marry him at once. , .

She knew of the ruthlessness of Henry’s
business life; he had forced down, over-
come all who opposed him, and he had
made. full use of his own advantage of
other men’s mistakes and erroneous be-
liefs and opinions. If he had used her
belief in Uncle Benny‘s death to hasten
their marriage, it was something which
others—particularly she—could pardon
and accept.

If she him for his
which some-

she had no
if he turned it thus

had drawn to
strength and dominance,
times ran into ruthlessness,
right to complain

upon her.
She had made Alan promise to write
her, if he was not to return, regarding

what he learned; and a letter came to
her on the fourth day from him in Mani—
towoc. The postofﬁce employees had no
recollection, he said, of the person who
had mailed the package; it simply had
been dropped by some ont into the recept-
acle for mailing packages of that sort.
They did not know the handwriting upon
the wrapper, which he had taken with
him; nor was it known at the bank or
in any of the stores where he had shown
it. The shoe box dealer had no recollec-
tion of that particular box. Alan, how-
ever, was continuing his inquiries.

In September he reported in a brief.
totally impersonal note, that he was con-
tinuing with investigations he had been
making previous to his visit to Harbor

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thing mere cane. such 'as’the boxwhich

She wrote to;him in reply each tune:
im lack ‘of anything .more important to
tell him, she related some of'he? activities
and inquired about his. After she ,had
written him thus twice, he replied, de-
scribing his life on the boats pleasantly
and humorously; then, though she im-
mediately replied, she did not zhe'ar from
him again.

She had returned to Chicago late in
September and soon was very busy with
social aﬂairs, beneﬁts, and bazaars which
were given that fall for the Red Cross
and the different Allied causes; a little
later came a series of the more personal
and absorbing luncheons and dances and
dinners for and for Henry,_since their
engagement, which long had been taken
for granted by every one who knew them,
was announced now. So the days drifted
into December and winter again.

The lake, beating- against the esplanade
across the Drive before Constance’s win-
dows. had changed its color; it had no
longer its autumn blue and silver; it was-
gray, sluggish with ﬂoating needle-points
of ice held in solution. The ﬂoe had not
yet, begun to form, but 'the piers and
breakwaters had white ice caps frozen
from spray—harbingers of the closing of
navigation. The summer boats, those of
Corvet, Sherrill, and Spearman with the
rest, were being tied up. The birds were
gone; only the gulls remained—gray.
clamorous shapes circling and calling to
one another across the water. Early in
December the newspapers announced the
closing of the looks at the “Soo” by the
me.

That she had not heard from Ala/n was
beginning to recur to. Constance with
strange insistence. He must have left
the boats by now, unless he had found
work on one of those few which ran
through the winter. .

He and his occupation, instead of slip-.
ping from her thoughts with time, absorb-
ed her more and more. Soon after he
had gone to Manitowoc and he had written
that he had discovered nothing, she had
gone to the oﬂice of the Petoskey paper
and, looking back over the twenty—year-
old ﬁles, she had read the account of the
loss of the Miwaka, with all on board.
That fate was modiﬁed only by the In-
dian Drum beating short. So one man
from the Miwaka had been saved some—
how. many believed. If that could have
been, there was, or there had been, some
one alive after the ship “disappeared ’—
Alan’s word went through her with a
chill—who knew what had happened to
the ship and who knew of the fate of his
shipmates. .

She had gone over the names again;
if there was meaning in the Drum, who
was the man who had been saved and
visited that ~fate on Benjamin Corvet?
Was it Luke? There was no Luke named
among the crew; but such men often
went by such names. If Luke had been
among the crew of the Miwaka and had
brought from that lost ship something
which threatened Uncle Benny that, at
least, explained Luke.

'Then another idea ‘had siezed .her.
Captain Caleb Stafford was named among
the lost, of course; with him had perished
his son. a boy of three. That was all
that was said, and all that was to be
learned of him, the boy. '

Alan had been three then. This was
wild, crazy speculation. The ship was
lost with all hands; only the Drum, be-
lieved in by the superstitious and the most
ignorant, denied that. The Drum said
that one soul had been saved. How could
a child of three have been saved when
strong men. to the last one, had perished?
And, if he had been saved, he was Staf-
ford’s son. Why should Uncle Benny have
sent him away and cared for him and
then sent for him and, himself disappear-
ing, leave all he had to—Stafford’s son?

Or was he Stafford’s son? Her thought
went back to the things which had been
sent—4the things from a man’s pocket
with a. wedding ring among them. She
had believed that the ring cleared the

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‘()N the hillside, not far from my

study, reposes the dust of the

‘dead. One can see, on these
summer evenings, the living, medi-
tatively strolling among the tombs.
And why? Strange. isn’t it, that
folks should walk among the graves
with expectation in their hearts?
No, no. There is a triumphant
voice arising to assure us that Death
has been gloriously defeated. “0,
death, where'is thy victory?”

The reality of death is uninviting
and unwelcome in appearance. Few
like to see the fullness of life pass—
ing away. We love power, life,
achievement. Death puts an end
to these. And Death does no res—
pect to persons. So, from high and
low alike come wailings and come
pleadings that the departed might
be restored. But Death is cruel
and refuses to give up. So, why do.
the living walk among the dead? Is
there any voice that comes forth?
“And thru it, he being dead, yet
speaketh.” ‘Thru what? EVen
thru faith. This is why we know
the sunset of life is not death. It
is but a disappearance behind the
horizon of earth to, shine more lu—
minously in another world epoch.
Says Beecher, “Dying is life.” Ver-
ily, Faith is as a loud speaker in—
tensifying the voices of our immort-
al dead. , '

And now we listen to hear the
voice the voice of a mother who
has gone on. We laid her body in
the green hill' yonder. But her
sweet spirit abides. It is to the
glory of all true mothers that they
speak on. I_ arrived in a western
city in the night time, and made
search for a friend, not knowing
just where to ﬁnd him. I rang a
door-bell and a gray-haired mother
threw her arms about me thinking

‘I was her long lost son. 0, she

must have gone on by now, but I

.can’ yet hear her cries of anguished
3 love.
ﬁhearts crying out of the grave in

Yet I hear other mother’s

behalf of offspring that took them
to the depths of travail. Son, erect
a memorial in a chaste and high-
born life, to an old-fashioned moth-
er’s love that is calling for you.
And who is not blessed in the
memory of a mother’s self—denial
and sympathy? Do you remember
how she was content to work un-

famed for the individuals about her ~» Between the

and was not courting popularity
through her efforts to get to the
masses. No wonder that mother
holds such a heart sway over_the
world and her voice yet speaks
from the grave. Hers was the way
of sore and tired feet, calloused
hands, and blessing heart. Keep her
grave green for it is alive with a
voice that calls you to the Father’s
bosom over a narrow way.

And father? Well, you can not
forget him. Yes, you spurned the
advice of “the old‘man.” You said
he was not “up-to-date.” And then
there came a day When you looked
upon his pale face for the last time, -
and ‘you felt an ugly pang in your
heart. You had dishonored. your
father and played loose _and fast.

.with his good' counsel, .and now it

comes home to yOu that the spirit of
the age is treacherous and the b'il-
léws’ of life have wrecking power.
You’- cheese. the more "expensiVe
course-in the school," (if experience.
But may we hope that the‘iteStimony '
that arises out Of the grave;of your .
father will yet have transforming
power for you. ‘

Child, were your. parents old—V
fashioned? Did they “say grace”
at meals? Let God be praised. He,

only, knows how many street-walk—
ing girls less would we have today,
and how. many less snobbish sons,
did we have more - odd-fashioned

‘ ‘Beautify
of course, -_but keep
memory green in your heart.
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famed and left no gold or large pos-
sessions, they had found the way to
true greatness. “All they could hold
in their cold, dead hand is what
they had given away.” They re-
joiced in the prosperity of their
neighbors, everywhere they left
hearts kindlier, and all the time the
world better. They got close enuf
to the heart of the Master to hear
his “well-done” and receive from
him the crown of’ life. . -
Again, there -comes from the
grave the voice of brotherhood.
Year by year streams of people re-
turn to the resting places 0f the
dead to leave tokens of respect on

graves of friend and foe. “Q, grave,
where is thy victory?” Faith is
challenging Death to produce it.
There is none. The grave has

brought both victor anddefeated to
one sad level of meekness. My ar-'
tist friend, McPherson, just came
into the house with a color sketch
of a beautiful landscape. When one
scans it too closely one sees rough
lines and unseemly blotches; but
farther away, it becoms a lovely
and harmonious picture. So, a close
inspection of those living about us
some times prompts to disgust; but
when taken from us by death and
we get a distance look at them, the
more comely features of the life
are brought out. The voice from
the sunken grave has in it miracu—
lous power to heal the wounds of
bitterness and strife and keep alive
what is good and imperishable in
both friend and fog.

“America, the Beautiful!” This
is the writer’s favorite hymn of pa—
triotism. “And crown thy good with
brotherhood from sea to shining
sea.” iHow lustily we sing that
ﬁne sentiment. ‘But all the while we
are in danger of falling 'prey to mis—
understanding from the East, to
hatred from Mexico, and to strikes
and strife within. What is the mat-
ter? Will we refuse to hear _the
tesstimony that is coming from the
graves of the fallen? Why such re-
ligious strife as between Funda-
mentalist and Modernist? Such rac—
ial strife as among Klan, Jew and
Negro? Such political cleavages
that run wide and deep? The voice
from the grave is crying out from
understanding; for justice and
brotherhood.

Life is too brief,
Between the budding and the falling leaf,
seedtime and the golden
‘sheaf,
For hate and spite.
We have no time for malice and for greed;
Therefore with love make beautiful the

deed:
Fast speeds the night.

And then, there is the voice of
the ressurection. This voice calls
us away from the grim experiences
and wrappings of death to give us
a new and living hope. No longer
is death repulsive. It is but a fail—
ing asleep as the silent messenger
carries us across into an ever-grow-
ing and ever-happy experience. Old-
er Christians need not fear to turn
their thoughts upon the end, and
really, all Christians may look for-
ward to this transition with buoy—
ancy and hope. Jesus Christ “abol~
ishedydeath' and brought life and
immortality to light." And the voice
of the ressurection is. saying, “Be
ye' steadfast, unmovable, always

rforasmuc‘h as you know that your
labor is 'not7 in- vain in the Lord.”

Many of our loved are gone on,
yet they speak words of sober coun-
sel and a living faith. Tender care
is due their graves but hallowed
memory is owed their lives. So be it.‘

BIBLE THOUGHTS

BUT NOW IS CHRIST RISEN
FROM THE DEAD and .become the
ﬁrst fruits ‘of them ,that slept—I

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LET'S BE FAIR WITH THE FAIR

ET no one misconstrue our attitude toward
the Michigan State Fair at Detroit. We have
worked hand—in—hand with the management

for years, with the single hope of helping to make
it the best state fair in America. We know too
many of the problems to be unmindful of the

' conscientious labor, of its directors and man-

agement. We sincerely believe that no fair has

‘ ever had better direction from a business and

‘ proﬁt making standpoint.

We harbor no belief
that any single change can be made which will
make the fair live up to its opportunities. We
appreciate the fact that many changes have been
made, such as the abolition of the , games of
chance, which have been at a great sacriﬁce to the
fair’s income. '

But we do know, and have known for the past
three years, that the state fair at Detroit, was
losing ground with the farmers of Michigan, and
the agricultural interests for which by virtue of
its charter andaid from the state, it is expected
to serve.

Perhaps as some of the leaders of farm thought

‘ in Michigan point out in this issue, it is because

of its geographical location, but we are inclined
to doubt this. Most citizens of the rural sec—

? tions of our state would welcome an opportunity

of coming to the metropolis of which they are so

proud, at 1 ast once a year and what better time.

than when 6 state exposition is being held?
Privately we pointed out to the state-fair man-
agement early this year that we believed the

' farmers of Michigan were coming to the point

‘ : ﬁeld and orchard.
‘ ment of the fair to direct their attention primar-

where they hardly felt they were necessary to
the fair’s success. That it had become a city-
man’s fair, with the electric-washing machine and
the jazz-piano crowding out the products of the
That it behooved the manage—

ily to recovering this interest in the fair which
the farmers of Michigan had 'once held.

We were told, if politely, that we didn’t know
what we were talking about!, Our suggestions

' were regarded, apparently as meddling, altho we

' . rather assumed that THE Busnmss FABMER rep-

‘ resenting, as we feel it does, more than half of
I the active farmers of Michigan would be hardly

living up to its responsibilities, if it did not point
out the facts as we found them.

Now comes an aftermath of criticism from re-
liable and disinterested sources, which indicate or
should, that what we had oﬂered as constructive

' and with only the best interests of the fair at

' heart, months before, were, in reality well-found-

 Iintaeets in this state are listened top, by .the
_~'_mgagement of the Michigan State Fair. We
 to prevent the possibility of its becoms-

ed and should have been accepted as such, by
the management to whom they were, in private,
directed.

Now, in all kindness and with only the up-
building of what we consider to be, one of the

states most important agricultural institutions,

h mind, we propose to see to it that the farming

  of a political machine or its. falling into
.‘disrepute with the farmers and breeders of this

if  nearby states.

Whether pr not the Michigan State Fair should

 roared  Detroit is not now, in our opinion -’

its?! 01

 is, water of

     

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Finally we believe, that the average city man
goes to the state fairgto see an agricultural ex-
position. _ The better you make the fair fromthe
standpoint of the farm?» and breeder the- more

it will appeal to the city man, whether he be a.

laborer who dreams of a home in the country
some day or the capitalist who already ownsone.

The Michigan State Fair can be made one of
the greatest assets which this state owns and
controls and until it‘ livas up to this possibility
we do not believe the citizens of' this community
have, any right to be satisﬁed or to remain silent.

BEWARE OF CORN BORER! -

mECENTLY a farmer from Saginaw county
dropped into our omce for.a little chat. Our
conversation went from one subject to an-
other, ﬁnally we mentioned the damage being

done by the European corn borer, and he im-‘

mediately sat forward in his , chair. "Say," he
exclaimed, “I’d heard and read a lot about this
corn borer but I didn’t think much about it until
the other day when the ofﬁcials stopped me and
looked through my car. You see I had been to

Detroit and was headed back home and they‘

stopped me because they were afraid I might be
carrying some corn from the infested area. It’s
mighty serious? -
There are many farmers, no doubt, like this
one from Saginaw county. They do not realize
how rapidly the corn borer is increasing in Mich-
igan, nor that the areas infested is spreading
with practically no means of ﬁghting the pest.
It is now at work in Lenawee, Jackson, Livings-
ton, Oakland, Lapeer, Tuscola, Sanilac, Huron,
Monroe, Wayne, MacOmb, St. Clair' and Wash-
tenaw counties—and the ofﬁcials do not expect
nor can they hope there will be a reduction of
this area. The only thing to do is to prevent its
spread, if possible.
Wake up, folks!
ter, as any farmer in the infested area will tell
you. Keep the corn’ borer out of fyour county,

if it is not already in it, and if it is prevent its ”

spreading.

INCREASED ATTENDANCE AT M. S. .0.

IT is pleasing to note that the enrollment at
the Michigan State College of Agriculture and

Applied Science is larger this fall than it has
been at any time in the history of the institution.
With 2,451 students compared with 1776 last year
it is a gain to be proud of and speaks well for
our college.
that the changing of the name of the college by

legislature last spring had much to do with in- '

creasing the number of students. VPossibly it did
but we believe that the. graduates who had a hard
time to get a job while the college was known as
the Michigan‘Agricultural College will still have
trouble in getting a. position even though the
name is now Michigan State College of Agricul-
ture and Applied Science, with the emphasis on
the ﬁrst three words. _‘_ To us it would seem that
the boss would be more interested in what you
could do than where you went to school because,
after all, it is results that count. We all know
it pays to advertise but you must have the goods.
A diploma may read ﬁne and be a work of art but
it is nothing if you cannot handle the job.

‘AUTO LICENSE PLATES

N a recent issue we had an editorial endorsing
the proposal of Secretary of State Charles De—
Land that the gasoline tax be raised .to 3

cents and license plates be sold as part of the
equipment of every automobile and good for the
life' of the car. The revenue to the state would
be larger than it is at present allowing us to
continue our road building plan at the same time

paying off our indebtedness caused through the ,
The annual scramble for'

sale of highway bonds.
license plates would be eliminated and, the saving
to the state on plates and cost of distributing
them would amount to several thousand dollars,
but there seems to be one diﬂlculty that may pre-
vent the adeption of the latter idea. Solar no one
has been able to ﬁnd a suitable. permanent license
plate. The state of Indiana has beencarrying

on an investigation for some time as the legislate »

ture of that istate'passed an act seueral months
ago authorizing permanent license plates 

now the. secretary of state admits he  made .

' We believe the. matter of’farmers  
come into the zone of Detroit's traﬂlc 
can be met by‘ any number of simple expedients.

This is a mighty serious mat- »

And now ,there is a rumor aﬂoat,

  

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in:  the Canadian museum: the 

adieu National." . YWe had the" pleasure drinking ' i
[this wonderful tr‘ipfand We are frank to admit.

we were in no‘hurryr-to return team" work. As
We were given'the same treatment that crowned
heads of Europe wouldfreceiv‘e, » fed the ﬁnest
food in thelamd; andgh‘ad’no‘ worries! of any "kind
as to where we Were, going or how we were [to

get there, I am sure you .w’ill, appreciate our re- ’

luctance to leave that country. j we were shown
their ﬁnest farming lend, their agricultural cel-
leges and experiment farms. visited the farmers’
cooperative associations, and were taken on sight-
seeing tours of the many cities and towns where
we stopped. You can believe us when we say
Canadian hospitality is perfect and we shall al-
ways remember our visit to that country. '

Much of the pleasure of a vacation is» telling ,_

about it atterf you return, sowefare sure that we
will enjoy telling yon about'some“ of the things
we saw, and now that we have had an opportunity
to sit back and view the trip'as a whole webs-'-
lieve that you. will be interested in reading about
it. The ﬁrst part of the trip is told on page four
in this issue.

ABOUT TRAPPING

‘THANKS to the professional trapper you will
n

at be allowed _to trap mink, skunk, raccoon
or muskrat in Michigan this winter. There is
such a shortage of these animals that it has been

~ found necessary to provide protection by law for

them so the farm boys of Michigan who have
been planning on a good catch this winter may
as- well dismiss the matter from their mind.‘
It is’too bad that such a step was necessary.
Many a farm income has been increased during
the long winter by some ﬁne pelts, but the. fellow
who made trapping a business has stopped this
in addition to putting himself out of business in
this state. ' '

REAL ONES PAY . -.

N ofﬁcial of a federal land bank tells us tha
his bank has mighty little trouble with real
farmers who have-borrowed money from it.

They have borrowed for business reasons, they :

pay their interest promptly and of course they
suffer practically no foreclosures. The trouble
is with those who only think they are or should
be farmers. These “bite off more than they can
chew", don't know how to farm, or don't apply
themselves to it, or have some fanciful notion
about it, ‘or attempt to run their farm from a
distance. These fellows, he says, are responsible
for most of the delinquent interest and ﬁnally
the foreclosures. They likewise furnish most of

the vocalists who get hoarse hollering about their I

business.

WILD LIFEr REFUGE

ARMERS have long realized‘ that birds are '

‘ their most valiant allies in the perennial bat-
tle against insects that prey on plant life.
This fact’alone makes conservation of wild life
of prime importance to agriculture. In addition
we have learned the recreational value of wild

life refuges, and that the permanent development .
of the country calls for consideration of saving '

areas in their natural state. In. this connection
we welcome the initial steps that have been taken

' by the Department of Agriculture to purchase .
lands for the creation of the Upper Mississippi -
River Wild Life and Fish Refuge, provided for ‘
This land is :
of little value for other things but is ideal for 5

by act of Congress two years ago.

wild life. It, is a valley three to ﬁve miles wide.

mostly overﬂowed in high water and interspersed -
In'the past it has been “
a breeding ground for quail and ducks, while .
many other birds have tound it a refuge during -:
migration., The fur-bearingL animals ‘ alone will ’
be of considerable economic importance in the. '

with sloughs and bayous.

legitimate uses of this refuge.’

LEATHER was demeraliaed perhaps more 

other industries in real. and an... been-the '

last to »mci$i‘er.jﬁopes of better ti

    

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sells. women’s.  :and other"

merchandise”  mails. It
' hiclaimed» that the goods were not
atropre’sented and instead of money
' '  guaranteed. the concern

"'se’nt. to complainants. “cash credit

certiﬁcates" covering the amount
- remitted and when this was not ac-
cepted, refused to answer) further
inquiries. ~
been issued against the Importers
. Salvaging Syndicate. This company
advertised binoculars, ﬁrearms and
. various kinds of police equipment.
It is said that the merchandise fur-
nished to buyers was not as repres-
ented, and that in most instances no
merchandise of any kind was fur-
nished. The ,Postoﬂice Department
also says that when customers in-

sisted on a. refund of their remit- .

tances and returned the merchan-
dise, these customers were in many
instances, sent “no funds” checks.

 

‘GEOBGES CREEK COAL
. CORPORATION

“Can you tell me anything about
the Georges Creek Coal Corporation
of West Virginia? I own a small
amount of stool: in the company,

and recently heard that they had no _

right to sell stock in this state."

\CCORDING to the records of the
Michigan State Securities Com-
mission on June 2, 1921, per-

mission was given the company to
sell $300,000 of "its unissued pre-
ferred stock. Thecertiﬂcate of ap-
proval for this issue was dated
June 4, 1921. On October 15, 1924
the order of June 2, 1921 was re-
voked and held for naught due to
the fact that the corporation did
not ﬁle with the Michigan Securi—
-ties Commission its annual report.
So the sale of any stock of the
company after October 15, 1924
would be illegal.

FLORIDA REAL sacrum
“I would like to know what you

 

thing about buying real estate in.

Florida. A man from Detroit has
been» after me to buy some. He is
an agent for a company in Florida
dealing in real estate."

I )‘NDER no condition would we
advise anyone to buy real es-
‘tate in Florida or any other
place until they had visited it and
satisﬁed themselves as to its value.
As you perhaps know there has been
a land boom in Florida. during the
last two years 'that would rival a
gold rush to the Klondike, and the
end does not seem tobe yet insight
.—-but there is always a limit to any
" thing. Millions are certainly being
‘ made out of Florida lands but it is
just as certain that millions will
be lost by northern investors who
pay out their money» for land they
have never seen. _'l‘he ones who are
making the money» are the ones who
are right on the ground and see
what they buy, but some day prices
are going 'to reach the peak and
then, no doubt, there will be several
declines and many will lose all they
made through speculating in Flori-
da lands. When prices will reach
the peak it is hard to predict, it
may be a matter of days and it may
‘ be months or years. Swindlers have
reaped a harvest on real estate dur-
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Wtaryour‘téstevefmr
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:13 name of Florida. They have
’ unloaded

some very undesirable
property onto an unsuspecting pub-

lic that has heard so much about , '
'the prices choice property in that

state sells at.

You might make some money on
Florida real estate if you were in
that state and saw what you were
buying, but as long as you stay in
Michigan we suggest that you put
your, money in Michigan real estate.
It's easier to watch your investment
if it's near home. ‘

JNVESFIORS’ DAILY GUIDE 18
. NO MORE
_ HE postoﬂlce department has

closed the mails to the Invest-

ors' Daily Guide, a ﬁrm with
headquarters in. Kansas City and
New York. and which has been ad-
vertising that it would make money'
for- farmers who wanted to gamble
on the board of trade.

A newspaper report reads:

“A fraud order has been issued
by the postoﬂice department in
Washington against the Investors'
Daily Guide, 1016 Baltimore avenue,
Kansas City, of which H. C. Schau-
his is given as manager. The con-

cern also had ofﬁces in New York,-

given as 63 and 65 Wall street, and
both oﬂlces came under the fraud
order.

"The concern operated in grain
speculation and scores of com-
plaints have been made. It dealt
in ‘advance and decline guarantees'
and George M. Husser and C. E.
Buehner, ofﬁcials of the Better Busi-
ness Bureau of Kansas City, say
that farmers and merchants all over
the country have been victimized.

“H. E. Randall, local postoﬂ‘lce
inspector, worked up the case
against the concern. When the evi-
dence he had accumulated was pres-
ented, after extended hearings at
Washington, the fraud order was
issued.”

p FAIBE STATELIENTS

E have learned from different
W readers that there are agents

working in Michigan as rep-
resentatives of another publication
who have been making false state—
ments regarding THE Business
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they were talking about or they
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We are only too glad to answer any
questions about our company or pub-
lication, but when the agent calls
at your door he can make the mis-
statements and we are not there to
defend ourselves, so we hope that
before you accept any of the state-
ments against THE Busnmss Farm
you will write to us. Please advise
what publication the agent repres-
ents, and if possible, give us his
name, when writing to us.

HARBOUN MOTORS
‘ “Is the Harman Motors Company,
of Wayne, still in existence? I
heard that they went bankrupt.”

0U heard correctly. Creditors

of the company applied for re-

ceivership in 1922 and a De—
troit trust company was appointed
receiver. Since then the plant has
been sold to a successful truck com-
pany and is being use at present as
a motor body plant. ‘

 

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’FARMS  , .
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’Thelittle. farms of England  5
»,'.Are beautiful to see a f ‘
' And verdant are the meadows

In far-off Brittany.

Italian fields are lovely,

‘ . All picturesque and quaint; .
And Switzerland has farmlands

The artists love to paint.

We‘ﬂnd the wide world over
Such home—like little farms

To lure the eyes grown weary
or town and all its charms!

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But oh, my heart is lonely
For winding roads that ran
To Childhood’s magic playground—-
The farms of Michigan!
(Copyright, 1925.)

IN'EXPENSIVE AND USEFUL

THINGS FOR BEDROOM

AINTY little hair receivers can

be made of fancy handker-

chiefs. I made one for my
room of a white silk handkerchief
which had a little spray of ﬂowers
in one corner so I took this for the
top. To make it I turned the oppor-
site edges together down to the
point at the bottom. This may be
done with lace Or a fancy embroid-
ery stitch, I using the latter. Where
the sides begin to turn toward the
center I made a rosette of ribbon.
This with a little loop of ribbon for
hanging up is all that was necessary
to make this pretty and useful ar-
ticle which every girl would like
'fOr her bedroom.

Pieces of cloth of large dimension
may be worked up in the same way
to be used as soiled handkerchief
receivers and so forth.

Not having closet room for some
of our clothes the men folks made
us some handy boxes for keeping
our blouses and such like in. The
boxes are sixteen by twenty inches,
by twelve inches high. They are
made of light lumber and with hing-
ed lids so they may be easily opened
and closed. The inside I covered
with white paper pasted ﬂat to the
box while the outside, we covered
with a pretty design of wall paper.
They could have been made a little
more fancy by lining them with silk
or some such material. I slip these
boxes under the bed and they are
out of the way and at the same time
keep our clothes in a fresh, clean
condition—Nelle Lucas.

 

HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS

ERE is a simple and satisfac-

tory way to serve cabbage.

Shave ﬁne or chop enough cab-
bage-to serve 6 or 8 persons. Sea~
son with one level teaspoon table
salt, one level teaspoon celery salt,
one—quarter cup vinegar, a full half
cup sugar, and two—thirds cup sweet
cream. Allow to stand a half hour
before serving. Very good.

The next time you serve raw to-
matoes, cut crosswise in slices and
cover with sugar and sweet cream.
They are fully as good as peaches
and cream. Tomatoes are very good
tried. Choose meaty ,ones, not over
ripe. Cut in thick slices, dip in
ﬂour, sprinkle with salt and fry in
butter. Serve with sugar.

If your family likes a “spread”
for their bread, make a few pints
of pear honey to tickle their palates.

Choose ripe, mellow pears, peel,
core and put through the food chop-
per. Then use a cup of sugar to a
cup of fruit and boil slowly for one

hour, stirring often. Seal hot.—
B. O. R.
FRUIT DESSERTS ALWAYS

PLEASE

HERE is no part of a meal that

is more appreciated than a de-
licious dessert. Fruit desserts

are also a pleasant means of provid—
ing the mineral and vitamin foods
Which are so necessary for a well
balanred meal. Desserts that are
easy to make, attractive and'whole-
some are always acceptable to ev-
ery member of the family. During
the fruit season, fresh fruits make
the simplest and often the best des-
serts. Canned fruits also make
simple, yet goOd desserts. The
housewife who has a good supply of
either of these can always feel that
she has something ﬁne for a dessert
a at a moment’s notice. By the ad-
;‘dition of a few nuts, ﬂavoring and
’ 1Whipped cream to the‘fruit, a more,
v. attractive. though simple ' desert
 be prepared, andthe food val-4
Vile of itia'kincreased." Both‘nuts.‘aﬁdf
whipped cream arerich foods. - ' .

    

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will soon be here.

' thinning.

buying winter clothes.

and weighted silks.

Hold material to the light.
it will not hold its shape.
break them.

leaves a large amount of ashes.

face of napped cloth briskly.

But if it burns slowly, hold-
ing its shape after 
been burned, it is weighted
silk.

Address letters:

 

Edited by use. ANNIE TAYLOR» L——---—‘-—".

EAR FOLKS: As I write this I can look from my window and on
all sides I can see evidence that summer has passed and winter
" The sky is overca'st with clouds that fore-
tell of coming snows, the air is. cool and people hurry along about
their duties so they will not feel the cold.
picture if it were not for the brightly colored leaves that are rapidly
Winter is not far of! and like the squirrehwe must ﬁll our
storehouse to tide us over until spring. One way that Mrs. Squirrel
is better off than we are is that she does not have to worry about

One has to be careful when selecting materials  be sure that
they are good and perhaps you will be interested in a few simple
tests to protect yourself from buying reworked 0r adulterated wool

It should be ﬁrmly woven, otherwise
Ravel out warp and woof threads and
. ,Wool pulls apart with'kinky ends while cotton breaks.
Wool burns very slowly, givinngiI an odor of burning feathers, and
Cotton makes a. ﬂame While burning,
has the odor of burnt leaves, and leaves a ﬁne gray ash. If cotton
is. present with the wool it will burn with a ﬂame.
If the nap loosens and drops off. the
cloth will soon wear threadbare. When silk dresses crack soon
after they are made up it is a sign the silk was weighted. Burn
a sample of the silk before buying. If it burns slowly, giving off
an odor of burning feathers, and the ash coils up into a tiny ball
on the edge of the material you may feel sure that it is [pure silk.

Mrs. Annle Taylor, em The Business Fermer, Mt. Olemem, Illohlaen.

 
 
  

 

 

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peaches in the bottom of an oiled
baking dish, cover with a layer of
biscuit dough and bake 12 to 15
minutes in a hot oven. Serve with
cream. '

Other fruit desserts recommend-
ed are:

Cinnamon Apple Sauce
Add a few red cinnamon drops

beginning to cook the apples for,

sauce. Add sugar to taste. Baked
apples may also be prepared in a
similar manner.

Baked Peaches
1 quart canned peaches and juice,
2 cups soft buttered bread crumbs,
1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 table-
spoon butter.
Put peaches in a greased baking

dish. Sprinkle with sugar butter
and crumbs- Add juice of peaches
and lemon. Bake 30

minutes.

BEST WAY TO KEEP OUT
FLOWERS FRESH

“ LANTS live by breathing, or as

the botanists say, by transpir-

ation, or exhalation through
the tissues, and keeping this pro-
cess as nearly normal as possible
prolongs the life of cut ﬂowers,”
says Professor A. H. Nehrling of
Cornell.

In cutting ﬂowers, from plants,
choose healthy ones and cut them
with a clear clean slant just above
a node or joint. Early morning is
the best time to cut ﬂowers, accord-
ing to Professor Nehrling, because
the whole plant is then most rigid
and fresh. 1

“After removing ﬂowers from
plants, put them in plenty of clean
cool water. Strip foliage from the
lower stem to avoid congestion and
disagreeable decay in the container.
Deep roomy vases are’best. High
narrow ones are too easily crowded.
Low shallow dishes do not hold
enough water. When blocks are
used, wire ones are best for freedom
of stems. The new wire block with

ﬂexible prongs is very good if the-

ﬂowers are placed carefully to
avoid mangling the stems.

“Abnormal transpiration iscaus-
ed by placing ﬂowers in an over-
heated room with dry air. Keeping
a dish of water on the radiator re-
,medies this. Draughts, too, are dan-
gerous for ﬂowers.

“Gas, especially illuminating. gas,
is fatal to cut ﬂowers. Carnations
wilt when there is no more than
one-millionth" part of gas in the at-
mosphere. v ‘ t

“Salt and other chemicals have
been found to~ have no value from
the scientiﬁc standpoint in keeping
ﬂowers fresh. They f keep the’ waste:
trash. to «some “extent in

   

 

  
   
 

v during the“ process,

Frees:  

end of the stems are the primary re-
quisites in keeping ﬂowers fresh.

“To revive wilted ﬂowers, clip the
stems while under water, then stand
them in a cool place. Woody stems
should be slit up three or four inch-
es when placed in water.

ART GUM FRESEENS WALL
PAPER
ALL paper lends such charm
to a room that one cannot
happily dispense with it. Even
in the midst of city dust and grime
perhaps, one makes an effort to
cling to its daintiness and view with
utter despair at the end of the year
one’s dusky walls. The clean, deli-
cate pattern is smirched and quite
retired behind a layer of dinginess.
And paper is too expensive to buy
frequently and the labor of hanging
it is too great too allow us to re-
place it often.
A discouraging sight greeted the

writer in an upstairs room. The
yellow paper was literally dark
gray, and there was not time or.

money for a thorough redecorating.
Plenty of strength, however, lay in
elbows and wrists so the greater
part of the day was devoted to
bringing back to life the color and
pattern of the wall paper.

A huge square of art gum, such
as one can buy for 50 .cents at any
store where artists’ materials are
sold, was the only equipment. Then
began the work of effacing the dirt,
cleaning the walls as an artist
cleans drawing. When the labor
grew tedious, squares were lined
out with the art gum, then just that
much was erased; a device invented
only to lessen the monotony. Fin-
ally the room was quite revived,
and there was such an encouraging
difference between the erased and
the unerased partsthat an impetus
was given to the task. -

Such unskilled labor is required
that the older, children will gladly
lend a hand. The room does not
need to be violently torn to pieces
as» the erasing
makes .a harmless litter that can be
swept up easily.

DO YOU KNOW THAT— A
Witch hazel taken‘internally is
good for sick headaches, back ache
and piles? - ‘ ,
Turpentine will kill bed bugs?
Keeping a pair of shears ‘in‘ the
cabinet saves steps? _ .
Paper sacks placed over; lamp

chimneys when not in usegkeepsf

them clean?- ~ ‘ ~ ‘ . _A A,
Hot salt water is good for 0110’s
game after  "ere enraged.
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‘ out of. trouble

. A, an ' ﬁlm ..

vanishes in the" kitchen?

Minute vtapicocav sprinkled in juicy

pies will _, prevent them froin boil-

ing over? . ‘  '
Clothes not rinsed well will turn

yellow when ironed? ‘ ‘

ed in cold water and set, on the

stove to dry will polish easier?—

Mrs. 0., Mendon, Mich.

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Personal Column

Wants Two Basilica—Will you please
ask some of the M. B. F. readers if they
can send in a recipe for raisin bread,

also one for fruit cake? If it isn’t askinl -

too much will someone kindly send a.
romper pattern for a 19-months-old baby?
——Mrs. P., St. Johns, Mich.

To Avoid Fat Boiling Oven—Can some
one tell me when to‘put soda in fat when
clarifying. it to avoid boiling over on the
stove and catching ﬂre?——Mrs. M., Mos-
cow, Mich. "

 

‘Wants Oatmeal 'Cake Recipe.—I would
like a recipe for oatmeal cake. I ate such
a cake in Sanilac county and it was de~
licious.—-Mrs.. C., Saginaw County.

 

Leather is Sticky.—I am going to ask
a favor. I have a genuine leather chair
and the leather is sticky and I do not
know what to put on to take that off
without injuring the leather. If some of
the readers can advise me what to do I
will appreciate it a great deal.-—Mrs. F..
Gratiot County.

 

Who .Has Pattern?——Who has a bed
spread stamping pattern with a design
for lam-p wicking such as a basket with
flowers for center and other design for
around the outside? I would be glad to
pay for same. The pattern could be trans-
ferred to any kind of paper for me.
Please'write giving price before sending.
—Mrs. G., Mantony Mich.

Put Flour in Frosting.—When using
powdered sugarnfor cake frosting mix in
a large tablespoonful of ﬂour and the
frosting will go farther and be better.—
Mrs. S., Bear Lake, Mich. ,

 

 

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The Bride’s Trosseau.—The bride's tros-

seau is another wedding accessory gath- .

ered long before the wedding itself takes
place. The trosseau is simple or, lavish,
as the bride's means permit, and includes
dresses and gowns. formal and informal,
hats, shoes, personal and household linen,
and in general any feminine clothing or
other accessories. There is, of course.
no set rule for what a trosseau should
or should not include: In general, the
trosseau of the American bride empha-‘
sizes the intimate and “undress garments”.
underclothing, the delicate lacy things
worn in the bed—mom and boudoir, the
negligee and "deshibille" garments, rather
than those whose utility is more practical
and exterior. The following tabulation
gives what might be the average trosseau
requirements at a glance: ‘ .r

Lingerie—Undergarments of every sort,
pajamas, nightdresses, stockings, etc.
Lace (real or imitation trimming). Fine-
ness and quality of texture and beauty
of embroidery characterize these trosseau
pieces.

Undress Clothes—Kimonos. tea-gowns,
breakfast gowns, dainty housewraps and
home negligees of every kind.

Dresses, Etc—A street dress (or
dresses), evening gowns and wraps, out-
of-door clothes and hats, a fur coat (if
possible), a cloth coat, gloves, white shirt-
waists, and skirts for summer wear, shoes,
slippers, etc.

Household Linen—Bed linen of every
kind, blankets, towels '(hand and bath).
table and kitchen linen (including cloths,
napkins, dailies, pantry towels. e’tc.) ‘

As already remarked this list may be
varied in athousand and one ways. The
"linen shower" in which young girl
friends of the bride unite to present her
with linen for her trosseau, usually in
connection with an informal luncheon or
tea, is only incidental to gathering the

bride's trosseau, which is bought by her '

mother. . ~ .

If in your home town the bride’s'u-os-
scan is "exhibited" in the nicest homes
you need not for a moment hesitate 'to
follow the local tradition. The greater.
intimacy and directness which marks the
social life of the smaller community justi—
ﬂes ignoring the fashionable, practice of
the large cities, where a girl’s trosseau
is regarded as too private and personal
to;- display. like the wedding gifts theta;-
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 ﬂair-litany BreedF-I‘ am sending the:
’ "following-recipe in answer to. the request

.of “Mrs. M., Antrim County.”

' The day before bread is to be baked
scald a cup and spoon, then ﬁll cup 1,5,»
full of like warm water to which add a
lump of‘ soda; the’ size of' a large corn
grain and stir 4 heaping teaspoon of
graham ﬂour.- Keep this in a warm place.
It' should show some sign of getting light
---by evening if set at noon in summer.
In "yvinter I set it a’ few hours earlier.
However if it gets light before bed time
remove cover frOm cup and set in a cool
place till morning then scald out the dish
and spoon‘ to be used for the bread. Use
abdut 3 pints of warm water V4 teaspoon
of soda. and .ﬂour to make a. dough stiff
enough to hold up the starter. Keep this
warm until it gets light then add table—
spoon of salt and more warm water to

~make the desired number of loaves and

mix ,quickly into loaves, let raise and bake
30 minutes. The main point in making
this bread is to keep it warm and not
too hot, The dough should not be mixed
so long or hard as yeast bread. and. win-
ter wheat flour is better than spring
wheat noun—Mrs. E. V. S., Lapeer
County.

 

Raisinl’iesr—I make the ﬁlling for my

‘raisin pies in the evening so it will be

cool to use the next morning. Here is
my way. For 3 pies, stew slowly, in a
covered sauce pan, for about 1/2 hour, or
until raisins swell. 1 lb. raisins in 3 or 4
cups water. Then add 2 cups sugar, 2

tablespoons vinegar, 1 level teaspoon salt. .

Bring to a. boil and thicken with 1/2 cup
corn starch dissolved - in water. Before

'using stir 2/3 cup sour cream into the

mixture. If sour cream is unobtainable,
use butter the size of a small egg when
cooking the raisins—B. O. R.

 

Oatmeal Cookies.-—1 cup brown sugar,
1,4 cup butter, 2 eggs, 1 cup raisins, 1/2
cup sweet milk. 5%, teaspoon soda, % tea-
spoon salt, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 tea-
spoon baking powder, 2, cups ﬂour, 2 cups
rolled oats, 1 teaspoon vanilla. You can

 

   
 

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, as .yreil. ‘i‘hiejmeicea,
" . . V, p with-"a spoon _in‘"~bu -
ed tins and,» bake‘in hot oven. Best

  

 when mixed. a couple hours before bak-

'iiig.'——-Mrs. Geo. Short, Manistee County.

 

Small Cucumber Pickled—480“ small cu—
cumbers in salt water for ﬁve minutes.
drain pack into cans and. cover with hot
liquid the sanie as was made for the car-
rots—Mrs. Delbert MacLaren, ..Oceana
County.

 

Pickled String Banner—Wash the beans
and snip but do not cut up. Cook in salt
water. until tender and pack into cans.
Cover with the hot liquid made as ‘for
the carrots and cucumbers, seal.—-Mrs.
Delbert MacLaren, Oceana County.

 

 

HOMESPUN YARN

 

 

Aunt Ada’s Axioms: A new broom
sweeps clean, but so does an old one if
it's that kind of a. broom.

ill III Ilt

For washing the hair, a quarter pf a
cupful of vinegar in the second rinsing
water helps take ‘the‘: soap out.

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Gran’pa says: Like the apple polished
on the peddler’s greasy sleeve, dirty milk
strained only looks better.

A! t it

Straight short trousers for the little
boy. look more mannish and are easier
The loose knee
gives no chance for restricting the air-
culation.

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WOMEN’S EXCHANGE

F you new something to exchange. we will
rlnt It FREE under this heading providln :
Irst—It appeals to women and is a
exchanges, no cash Involved. second—It will

lines. Third—You are a paid-u
subscriber to The Business Farmer and attao
our address label from a recent Issue to
t. Exchan e offers will bevnumbered an In-
In t e order received as we have room.
—MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR. Editor.

 

 

Jam—Assorted ﬂOWering bulbs for gin ham and
permit!)i lguilt mecca—Mrs. Frank Wyn'c , Alan-
son, 0 . .

AIDS TO GOOD DRESSING
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,II CURE AND all") IN YOU}! I!!!
8228. A Popular Serviceehlo ModeI.-—-Nainsook, long cloth, cre'Fe, radium silk, crepe de chine
h dart ﬁtted ‘t

teen‘ may be used f r this deal in 9
gauge]? is cut in 4 sizes: s 118 - 6; Mggilum

L
5221. A Comfortable Goat Dress
for mature ﬁgures.‘ It will be very attractive in
now so popular. rn cut in '

eesure. ,A 46 inch gale is
material, wi ‘ yard oi
small views. 3% yards of

5231;1‘ amt Frock r
it? g” “if '19 t? Reg? at 4

e ew. . is v '
yards ofj3'6 inch nit-$31.“ cu m I S ms

521 2-51 22.
The Blouse

his mOQeL h B] 5212

’ 9 use . t
The Skirt 51-22-in 7 sizes: 5, 18 C“ m 6
p measure. 35. 37, 39. 41
extended ,18 2% yards.
inch material.

5218. A Popular Play
may be ﬁnished With longr or short sleeves.
4 year Size re uircs 2%
treating materia requires 3

contrasting material

0-!)

43 45 and
To make this

yard.

Collar and belt may

the large view.
(25,%8, 10 and 12 years.

VIEW.

also a good mode

of the dress at

239

. '7 . A Good
Kasha, taffeta,

33, 35' and.
responding. hip measure,-
an .47: inches.

 

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ma ,
To make the sup with the ﬂounce to

ensure. Med. . . .
gaggth Without the ﬂounce iii; yard less is requlrgd. mm Size W“ require 3

data, 1
. . 9 Sizes: 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52
if made as illustrated in the large View, will 1'
_ for_the collar.
54 inch material is required.

thtle Mlss.—Dotted Swiss
The lon (peasant) sleevo

. I . . an , years.
if made With short sleeves. With long sleeves 2%

A Popular Style—Silk or cotton balbriggan, .

ms_bosom. portions that may be omitted. The
Sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42
, 33, 85
47 inches.
“ensemble” for

Garment.-—Plaid gingham and linene are here

. ’1‘ is Battern- is out in
'ards of.36 inch material if
If made With short sleeves the Rompers require 2%

5281. _A' Neat .Froek for the Growing Girl.—
Dotted veile in pink and white is here shown.
_ be of linen or
The sleeve may be in wrist length, or .short as in
The Pattgrn1 013 out
yards of 40.1nch material, with 1,4.
contrasting material for colla
straight belt, if made as illustrated in the large
\Vith long sleeves 2% yards are required.

5230. An Up To Date
ured and plain cre Tears here combined. Th
_ for V0110 or tub silk
Pattern is cut ’m 4_ Sizes: 14.

. .‘ year 3126 requires
inch material if made as illustrated.
the foot is 1% yard.

"Sports"

balbriggan or linen ould b
for this design. The ack ' c 9 “89d

37 inchesywaist measure. with cor—
35,ll , 39, 41, 43, 45

yggd,of the 54 inch materiaL

  plaits extended Tali}; -_

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 Mt. Clemens, Mich.

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THAT 'OLD BALL ~I‘EAIM

Those were great oldvdays.»I tell you,
And I’d like to go-again >
To a siniin’ hot old‘haillgame
Like we used to have 'em, then
I can see Chet Wolbern pitchin’
And there's Walt behind the bat,
Gosh! it scares those poor dubs looney
When Chet steams ’em in like that.

I can see Jim Kibb1e sprintin’
Round them' bases like a streak,
See, the crowd has gone plumb crazy—
Watch that Ward boy try to sneak
In from third
He made it. Well! I gueu
that Babe is there
Look! Oh man, 0812'! Old Doc Watson
Slam that apple thru the air!

Yesthosemaﬂn'hometeamballgamea
Means a..lot to me today. ,

And I still am tellin’ people
Bowlthat Grenville team could play.

Folks. I wouldn’t take a million .
For the happiness I and

When some boyhood recollection

Brings those good old days to mind.

-—Helen Holtord, (Age 17). Mme, Mich.

. EAR girlsand boys: One otthe
laws of the Scouts is to do a

. good turn daily, and another is
to help other people at all times.
The other day I watched a boy step
up to a blind man and ask him it
he would like to have assistance to
get to the other side of the street.
The man replied he would and‘sev-
eral stopped to watch the boy help
the man across. Then I heard one
man say, “He must be a Boy Scout”.
There was nothing about the boy’s
clothing to indicate he belonged to
the organization, it was his thought—
fulness. Perhaps what the man said
was true but I am sure there are
many boys who do not belong to the
Scouts that are thoughtful and gen-
tlemanly, and farm boys are very
prominent in the list.

Girls, do not think I have forgot-
ten you. No indeed, but girls are
naturally more thoughtful than
boys. I am sure you will agree
with me on this aim. However,
most of us could more thought—
ful and do more good deeds if we
would only watch uourselves.

Our motto is “Do Our Best" and
I do not think we could have chosen
a better one, but I wish you would
all have two more mottoes—unof-
ﬁcial mottoes 'I shall call them-—
that you will remember next to our
real motto and these will be “Do
a good turn each day” and “Help
everyone you can.” Start right in
today, not tomorrow, and see how
many good things you can do. Make
it a game by getting a little book
and every time you do a good turn
or help someone write it down. It
will surprise you how interesting a
game it will prove to be. Write
and tell me about your good deeds,
will you?—UNCLE NED.

 

 

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Dear Uncle Nedz—No, I haven’t attend-
ed a fair this year nor have 1 any hopes
of doing so. In fact it has been two
years since I have had the occasion but
it all comes back to me now (those prizes
helped a lot)! The music, ﬂags. balloons
and laughter, nice people, crabby people,
tired children, lost puppies, noisy animals,
work that took years of practice and
patience to complete and—oh, just every-
thing!

If I attend with mother I see all the
new household labor saving devices.
\smell baked goods that make your mouth
water and afterwards We go to admire
elaborate fancy work.

Seldom do 1 escape a fair unless my
brother feels it his loyal duty (at least
so he says though I suspect it’s just a.
low down trick "to repay me for refusing
to find his collar button or something
equally unspeakable) to take me through
the entire edmational departments, in—
cluding everythhig that I ought to be in-
terested in." When I’m nearly exasper—
ated he's sure; to meet an - old conga
friend to when 'I’m politely in
and then  to_ subside into 
while they carry on a. lengthy Wu
as to their school systems and 
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other earthly rows. Here one must dodge
friendly pigs that stick muddy noses on
you and goetewho'perslst in sampling
.choioe bits or! your attire. : We can army
all these privileged‘oﬂenoea at home but
as Dad seems to be. enjoying it, we w
main. . , _ .
Next comesﬁais" who revels in dogs.
No reterence necessary; she just falls in
love with them “sight. thus causing no
torulnanothe. goodduyinthedog
show where big dogs let out deep growls.
little “weenie” ones let out ear-splitting
yelpe while others eye you dangerously
and those left distribute liberal amount

of dog Mr over your complete onetime. "

0hwell,it'eallina.lite—time. - ' ~

Last but not least comes the boy friend
Who pushes you swiftly through the crow
direct for the midway. All that'sineoee-
nary here is a swoet disposition which
enables you to say nicely. "Please excuse
me but I'm under you," when people in~
ist in standing upon your new blon
alligators. ’

But, some day, that something to look
forward to. Some day I’m going to leap
from the car before it’s stopped on the
grounds, disappear in the crowds and

neither friends or .family will ﬁnd trace 7

of me until going home time. My great
hiding place will be in the art departmmt.
I may linger as long as I like, studying
each sketch and design for there is mayor
quite such a throng here and those pres-
ent seem more quiet. ~Here one may ﬁnd
anything from grammar grade drawings
to works of celebrated artists. I love It
all.for it is expressing one’s thoughts Do
that even the most ignorant understand
them. ‘

I think every one should visit this dis-
play and study some of the charts for
they help in dress, interior decoration,
landscape gardening and in fact most any-
thing that makes things pretty. Few

people seem to be really interested in the-

way they plant their shrubs, ﬂowers, etc.
“Just so they grow," they remark, not
giving a ﬁrst thought as to the am
arrangement.
so much on Ones character. Surely I!
more people studied art there would be
fewer red headed little girls with pink
hair ribbons and fewer purple rooms
sporting red drapes. A splendid place
to get ideas if you haven’t studied art is
at displays of the sort mentioned.

Personally I’m very much interested
in drawing. painting, etc., so I’m naturally
enthusiastic over the fair displays but
honestly I believe they would beneﬁt 
one who is interested enough to

through them. Very sincerely.——LaVeudl '

Adolph, Union City, Mich. . .

P. S.——I’ve never thanked you and the
cousins for the personal interest you took
in me when my home burned last spring
but I was glad to hear from you. It gave
me a very pleasant feeling to know that
so many really cared. Thank you, yes.
we're getting things back to some (2th

even though nothing was saved from-the .
ﬁre. .

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Dear Uncle Ned :—-I am thanking you
for the lovely pin which I received quite
a while ago. The last letter I wrote was:
n't in print, so I thought I'd write again.
I suppose the W. B. was hungry, so it
swallowed it before it reached you. I
hope it doesn’t get this one because it
it does I might get discouraged and mi
write any more. I think Ruby E. Fletch-
or made up a nice poem or the latest
songs.

One cousin asks how many ‘of us like

horseback riding. We have a two-year.

old colt but I wouldn’t want to try and
ride it, because it isn’t broke yet. I have
a. brother; who’s in the army, he drill-
two hours each morning. then in the alt-
emoon he grooms two horses for a half
an hour. I spent my Fourth this year
at a. lake three miles from Engédlne
where they celebrated Fourth of July.
There’s a. dance hall there where they
dance every Saturday night. '

I always read the story of “The Indian ‘

Drum” in the M. B. F. I can hardly
wait until the next issue comes. How
many of the cousins read it? It sure is
an interesting story. Will stop my chat—
tering and will close. Good-bye.-—Annic
Stimac, Engadine, Mich. Box 101.

Dear Uncle Ned:;——Sa.w my last letter
in print, so I ram trying again. Wish
Uncle Ned would hsye his picture on
the page so we would know him‘ it We
met him don't you cousins? How many
or you have pins, I haven't got any yet

but wish to have one. ’ yv ,
Two girls wrote to me, andphall my

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g;  h A1'1‘ENTION,_,BEAN 

  EAR EDITOR: 7111. 460111118 01791‘
' - the bean situation in’ Michigan

and ’in’f..fact the whole United

"   we.  that from a farmer’s
» T‘f'oint ,ot.’vi'ew.“that several material \

. changes have taken place since the

last government estimate was made

~ en the "1925, crop which I believe
-x.‘ was around one and one-half mil-

lions. more than existed in Michigan.
 Many of the farm reports from
‘ A which this estimate was made were ‘
taken’ too early in the season, and
 , ' many ﬁelds of rank growth that fed
'  4 for a bumper crop at than time
 ” have been damaged by rust, blight
» and excessive rain, all the way from
a small amount in some sections to
a complete loss in others.

Damage is especially heavy on
the low black lands where water
does not drain oi! readily, this also

__’ . ‘ being our areas fr;om which - our
% i heaviest yields usually come and a
‘  ‘ large amount Vof which will not be

{ all worth harvesting this year.

‘- l" ‘ I believe that in this way our
crop has been cut down some thirty-
; ’ . - ﬁve per cent, and with warm rainy

f i" ‘ during the ﬁrst part of the harvest

weather which has been prevalent

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ditional ten per cent loss .will have
to be taken. __

If I am right or within ﬁve per
cent of being right, then we have
the right to assume that the Mich-
igan 1925 crop will, not be over six-
ty per cent or far below last year’s
crop. I believe that I am more than
conservative in taking this" stand
after taking the heavy losses and
 pick into consideration. With po-
5 ; tato prices 100 per cent higher than
' ‘ a year ago, or the highest in several

years, the crop reported short, a,
short wheat crop, and small supply
of high priced hogs, is it then un-
‘ reasonable to predict a higher price
v on beans?
If Michigan bean growers can see
and actually find these conditions as
I have in going through the best
been growing sections of our state,
x then they should have no trouble in
-getting five dollars and ilfty cents
or six dollars per hundred pounds
for their beans.

With the California bean crop out
very short by drought and the
smallest carry over stock they have
had in ten years, together with an
import duty of one dollar and sev-
enty-live cents per one hundred

~ pounds on foreign beans I think we

have‘very little to worry over from
-tbese two sources.

If Michigan bean growers will

, -i stand as a unit and hold this year’s

< . » ‘ crop for sixty days, we should have

‘ no trouble in obtaining six dollars

or even more if p‘ast unfavorable

weather conditions continue, and as

a Michigan bean «grower of more

than twenty-five years’ experience I

think this .matter worthy of‘ our

serious consideration—A. M. K.,
' Sterling, Mich.

WANTS INFORMATION ABOUT
V PLANTING

EAR EDITOR: Relative to plant-

. ing in the moon I would like

' to ask Mr. and Mrs. R.‘ T.

Brown, of Antrim county, why they

planted their corn when the moon

was full and theirsweet clover and

alfalfa in the new of ' the moon.

,‘ Also when they planted their pota-

toes and whyl—V. D. Standish, Ma-
son county.

DOESN’T BELIEVE IN HOLDING
BEANS .

’EARx EDITOR: The article on

beans written by H. T. Blake;

, and from the notes that you

make on same, you are advising we

farmers to hold the beans. I think

you are making a very great m‘is-

take. _. With the enormous crop that

is in sight, if the growers put the

. ‘ price up ‘to what you say, 5c or even

  wake, it will let the foreign buyers

-  ‘v ninyand wewill have thesame con-

 'r ﬂaking"  ~we~ had three or four

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touch their potatoes. The charges

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~ THE INDIAN DRUM
(Continued from Page 10)

mother's nuns; might it in reality only
involve it? Why had it come back like
this to the man by whom, perhaps,,ﬁit
had been given? Henry‘s words came
again to Constance: “It‘s a queer con—
cern you’ve got for Ben. Leave it alone.
I tell' you!" He knew then something

about Uncle Benny which might have,

brought on some terrible thing which
Henry did not know but might guess?
Constance went weak within. Uncle
Benny's wife had left him, she remem-
bered. Was it better, after all, to “leave
it alone?" _ '

But it wasn’t a thing which one could
command one’s mind to leave alone: and
Wee could not make herself try to,
so long as it concerned Alan. Coming

home late one afternoon toward the mld— .
die of December, she dismissed the motor ,
The day -

and stood gazing at the gulls.
was chill, gray; the air had the feel. and
the voices of the gulls had the sound to
her, which precede the coming of a. severe
storm. The gulls recalled sharply to her
the day when Alan ﬁrst had come to
them, and how she had been the one ﬁrst
to meet him and the child verse which
had told him that he too was of the lakes.

She went on into the house. A tele-
graph envelope addressed to her father
was on the table in the hall. A servant
told her the message had come an hour
before, and that he telephoned to Mr.
Sherrill’s ofﬁce but Mr. Shem-ill was not
in. There was no reason for her think-
ing that the message might be from
Alan except his presence in her thoughts,
but she went at once to the telephone
and called her father. He was in now,
and he directed her to open the message
and read it to him. '

“Have some one," she read aloud; she
choked in her excitement at what came
next—“Have some one who know Mr.
Corvet well enough to recognize him, even
if greatly changed, meet Carferry No. 25
Manitowoc Wednesday this week. Alan
Conrad."

Her heart was beating fast. “Are you
there?" she said into the 'phone.

llYeL'l "

' "Whom shall you send ?"

There was an instant’s silence. -“I
shall go myself,” her father answered.

Shenhung up the receiver. Had Alan
found Uncle Benny? He had found, ap-
parently, someone whose resemblance to
the picture she had showed him was
marked enough to make him believe that
person might be Benjamin Corvet; or he
had heard of some one who, from the
account he had received. he thought
might be. She read again the words of
the telegram . . . "even it greatly chang-
ed!" and she felt startling and terrifying
warning in that\phrase.

(Continued in October 24th issue.)

BROADSOOPE FARM NEWS
AND VIEWS -
(Continued frdm Page 8)
We often have twenty ﬁve bushels
of corn husks in one pile by drawing
several shocks together. In windy
weather one can pile stalks up, and
husk behind them quite comforta-
va, even when it is very cold. No-

tice the center of table is solid and

does not extend beyond the two by
four frame. This allows ,one to
gradually step into the table as the
husking progresses, Two men can
use the table, one on either side.
The stalks are bound on the table.
and there is no cessation of husking
because the ground is too wet.

This table is ideal for use in
husking beside a wagon, as, stand-
only four or ﬁve feet from the wa-
gon, it  easy to. throw the corn
into the box. A partition of crates
in the box enables us to sort the
corn as we husk.

Not Alone

It was at a summer camp and Caroline
was nowhere to be seen for more than an
hour. When she came back she told her
mother she had been for a walk with her
best friend. Alarmed. the mother said:
“Never do so again. You little girls must
not go to the woods alone.”

Coraline answered: "But we were not
alone, Muvver. Evelyn was Wis me, and
I was wis Evelyn." V

 

A City onus in tho Country
Celeste of the city was watching her
grandmother milk a cow‘with a calf.

"Arent you going to milk the calf?"
"No dear." answered the grandmother.

   

Mr. E. S. Chandler, breeder of!
heavy producing Ayrshircs at Brier
tol, Pa, is one of thousands of,
successful dairymen who use a
large percentage of Linseed Meal
' their grain rations. He uses—-

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, One-third Oats

s ' ' One-third linseed Meal
He wriccsus: “Regarding the value of Linseed Meal as a feed, will
say we use 33% with farm grown feeds as a summer and winter feed '
for young stock and milking herd. Having no digestive trouble, the
stock is in perfect health and producing better than on any other
feed we have used.“

Increased Milk Flow 15% to 25%

Mr. J. H. Berger, Manager Jersey Crest Farms, Oconto Falls, Wis, writes:
For herd work and register of merit feeding, linseed meal has been most
essential in helping us to balance up our rations with the home grown
feed which we raise on the farm.

A proximately ten to ﬁfteen per cent of our ration ‘consists of Linseed
Mial. I have found that in many instances Linseed Meal has increased our
milk ﬂow from 15% to 25%, especially in cases where the bay was poor.

Proven Proﬁtable With All Farm Animals l‘

——-With Hogs —With Beef Cattle

Was worth $85 per ton when added Paid $12.79 per ton proﬁt in fatten-
toacornandtankage ration for ingbabybeev ' esota.

—-With Poultry

   

pigs—Whamm-
——With Sheep

Proved worth $13 per ton more Widely recommended by poultryh
thanitcostinfatteninglambo— menasanexcellemfeed,espedally
Nebraska. 

Balance Your Rations for Greater Proﬁt

We can hcl you—easily but accurately. It has all been ﬁgured out in the
two books 'stcd in the Coupon below. These books are chock full of
' ' ' include all manner of feeds in various proportions,

extensively fanncrg¥
breeders, feeders and experiment c o u P 0 N
LINSEED cmsﬂms MEAL

stations. Get these books, and in
addition write to our Secretary. awmﬂsmo COMMITTEE
noon “it. won nun animus. Galena ILLIIOII

0 has had extensive
farm and experiment 813' Please send me without obligation drbcr or
bod: of the books I have checked with an "X"

Lion experience, if you

have. any “Dbl scone: "Dollars and Cents assume a
feeding 1'0 em} told by Practical Feeders. Breeders lid

to solve. o obhv Dairymcn."
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need Meal." by Prof. P. B. Morrison. such:
with W. A. Henry of the RC ' Am. “I
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There are no bolts or nuts to work loose and no delicate
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ere are no untried features in the Auto-Oiled
A  Acrmotor. The gears run in oil in theoil-ﬁghtstom-
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retamed while greater perfection of cperaﬁonhas been
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wormy?

Here's how you can tell:

Give them a course of

' » Dr. Hess Stock Tonic

Start in by giving the worming dose
(l tablespoonful twice a day to each
i 00-pound hog) for a week or ten days,
until the bowels move freely (physio) .

Make sure that each hog gets its full
share. Mix it in the feed or swill. That

 

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1000 lbs. 75.00
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Then continue the Tonic with the
regular feeding dose (mix 2 pounds
Tonic with every l00 pounds feed).

This will tone up'your herd and put
them in a ﬁne thriving condition.

Dr. Hess Stock Tonic supplies the

minerals so necessary to bone and

tissue building—pork production.

REMEMBER—W hen you buy any Dr. H es: product, our responsibility does
not end until you are satisﬁed that your investment is a proﬁtable one. Other—
7 rise. return the empty container to your dealer and get your money back.

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Dr. Hess Dip and Disinfectant
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Dewberry Plants

4 for 25¢; as to}: 31.00. 12 Grape Vines for
81.00: 8 Pneh Trees, $1.00: Hollyhock seed,
10o package

IARSHALL VINEYARD. Paw Put. Mlohlodn.

Cured His Rupture

was badly ruptured while lifting a
trunk several clears ago. Doctors said my
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No. 1514‘“ SINITITION. Describes and tel)
how to prevent common to livestock.

No. 157—006 BOOKLET. Tellsbolrtorldthedol
of ﬁns and to help prevent disease.

No. loo-HOG BOOKLET. Com the prevention of
common bog

No. 18H” muons. Gives complete direc-
dons for the Monet oconaete bozwallow.

No. w—routm. How to get rid of lice ms
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stock to this department. y fQuestions cheerfully answered.)

NEW CORN DOES NOT CAUSE
CHOLERA *

HAT the common belief among
farmers that hog cholera is
sometimes caused by excessive

feeding of new corn is not based on
fact.gis the opinion expressed by Dr.
C. C. Lipp, vegetarian at South Da-

‘ kota State College.

However, if too much corn is fed:
the digestive’ systems of pigs are
disturbed, just as too many green
apples will disturb the digestive

I system of a boy, with the result that

the vitality of the pigs is lowered.
They are then susceptible to cholera
and any other disease that is pre-
valent.

_ Moral: A word to the wise is Blif-'
ﬁcie‘nt.

Pigs should be gradually
accustomed to a new corn ration.

O'lSEGO COUNTY DEVELOPS IN
DAIRYING

HE value of purebred dairy sires

with scrub or dairy stock was

demonstrated in a. striking
fashion at the Otsego County Fair
this year. Three years ago. the
Michigan Central Railroad, through
its Agricultural Department, placed
twenty purebred dairy sires in
northeastern Michigan, leasing them
to various communities without
charge for a period of two years.
Seven of these were placed in Ot-
sego county. This year the railroad
offered $75 in prizes for a class of
livestock at the fair which would
represent the offspring of these
pure-bred sires.

This class was easily the feature
of the Top 0‘ Michigan Fair, not
so much because of the quantity as
the quality. Twenty—three heifers
were entered in this class and they

. were indeed striking object-lessons

of what breeding will do even in the
ﬁrst generation with scrub stock.
Every one of these twenty-three
showed a dairy conformation thru-
out and indications for prductions
far above the average. The sires
were present and were awarded sev-
eral blue ribbons as well as the
sweepstakes.

‘Mr. A. C. Lytle, the county agent,
said: “This exhibition of young
stock has convinced me that our
dairy program is going across and
that Otsego county will soon take
its place among the leading Guern-
sey counties in the state. The de-
mand for purebred sires and good
grade cattle was never so strong as
it is now."—E. J. L.

HOGGIZNG OFF CORN IS GOOD .
PRAUI‘IOE

ESTS made at the South Dakota
State College indicate that hog-
-ging off corn is a proﬁtable me-
thod of harvesting the corn crop
even in normal crop years and in
dry seasons much corn which would
hardly be worth picking can be har-
vested in this manner with little
trouble.

Before turning the hogs into the
ﬁeld, according to the department
of animal husbandry at the college,
especially if they have been getting
a limited grain ration, it is advisa-
ble to feed new corn in the lot for
a few days.
vent them going off feed, due to
consuming a large amount of new
corn, just after they are turned into
the ﬁeld. .

Experience at the college indicates
that hogs having the run of the
corn ﬁeld will make just as good
gains as hogs fattened in the feed
lot._ Pigs of 80 to 120 pounds are
best for hogging off corn inasmuch
as they are better rustlers than
Pigs of' this weight
are” also large enough to clean ,up
the ﬁeld in much better shape than
pigs of lighter weight. n

A- ration of new corn such as the
pigs; will get in the hogging of! me-
thod of feeding does. not constitute
a balanced rattan and, if possible,

they should be given green pastures-

‘such as alfalfa or sweet clover as

, ,en .
have If - I,  . 19

This will help to prey

t. 3 Some experiment ate: 3

addition to good pasture, with the

.new corn is' proﬁtable practice. _
In case no green pasture is avail--

able, a‘ supplement such as tank;
age, oil meal, middlings, soybean
meal, skimmilk or buttermilk ,may
be used to supply protein to balance
the ration.

This method of hogging off corn
not only keeps the pigs in a thrifty
condition by giving them a proper
amount of exercise but is also an
excellent means of harvesting corn
that will hardly yield enough to pay
for picking. However, for fatten-
ing hogs, a short ear of corn or nub-
bin is just as good as a ten or
twelve “inch ear.

SPELT on m
I would like to see in print in
your paper semething about spelt
as food value as compared with
other grains. Also is 'it good feed

for any kind of stock and poultry?
—H. B., Saginaw County.

PELT or emmer is about mid-
way between oats and barley
in its feeding value. It con-

tains somewhat more ﬁber than
barley, but not quite so much ﬁber
as cats. A standard bushel of oats
weighs thirty-two (32,) pounds; a
bushel of emmer weighs forty (40)
pounds; and a bushel of barley
weighs forty-eight (48) pounds.
The analysis of emmer as compamd
with other grains is as follows:
. GRAIN

i:
8?; 3
Corn, dent, grade No. 2.... . . 1.
Emmer (spelt) .................. ..91.8 . G.
Oats ....................  ............... ..90.8 . 0.
Barley. common-

From the above you will see that
the emmer has somewhat less total
digestive nutrition than either corn

'or barley, but somewhat more than

oats.
In feeding trials which have been

conducted emmer has proven about , ,‘

ten per cent less valuable than corn
for cattle. In feeding hogs it has
proven frbm twenty to twenty—ﬁve
per cent less valuable than corn be-
cause ef the large amount of ﬁber
it contains.

Corn contains two per cent of ii-

ber; emmer 10.1- per cent of ﬁber;. 

and oats 10.9 per cent of ﬁber.

For poultry emmer has about the
same value as oats. —Geo. A.
Brown, Professor of Animal Hus-
bandry, M. S. C. -

MUST HAVE COWS TESTED
Do registered cows have to be T.
B. tested. in order to be sold at an
auction sale? Is there a law con-
cerning it?—-—G. 0., Paris, Mich.
HE state law requires that regis-
tered cattle offered at public
auction should have a proper
tuberculin test before being so of-
fered.—C. H. Clark, Assistant State
Veterinarian.

Working a horse immediately after eat-
ing often causes colic.

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You use judgment when you breed cows

but colts are more valuable than“ calves.

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dinary oil lamps. It burns without odor.
smoke or noise—no pumping up; is. simple,
clean, safe. Burns 94% air and 6% com-
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The inventor. A. R. Johnson. 609 W.
Lake St, Chicago, 111., is odor-ing to send

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_ ' men called it; is
I 1 seven» farmers’ cooperative organi—
7"*zatfons among which the
'  kamhewan Wheat Pool, Saskatche-
 Wan Cooperative Creameries, and the

. 11.!
inducingmver half of the
 in Canada} The _‘ w’or
’hnmpionshi‘p in Wheat has gone to
this. province 10 times in,£ourteen
Saskatehewan is also taking
mulch interest in dairying' and live

 stock. and the value of the live stock

is emulated at over. $163,000,000.
Engine, of the “Home of the

as some of the wo-

the headquarters of

the Sas—

Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator
Company. Our ﬁrst stop .on‘ our
trip about Regina was at the Coop-
erative Eievator Company where J.
B. Musselman, vice-president and

' managing director, explained the op-

eration of the company to 41s.
Starting out in 1911 with only 46

country elevators controled by. this
organization, while the'grain handled

has. increased from 3 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 bushels

‘. the ﬁrst year to 48,500,000 bushels

for“ the last crop seasdn for which
ﬁgmen have been made public. There

--‘ar"e. m 28,000 farmer shareholders.

The, method of ﬁnancing new elevat—
ors. is well worth mentioning here.
The ﬁarmer cooperators are called

upm to subscribe the in amount of
money/necessary to b ‘ d an e ator.
The capital.- stock is divided into

shares-of $50 each, no person to hold
more than twenty shares, and the
stockholders pay 15 per cent in cash

7 at the: outset, the Provincial govern-

ment furnishing the remaining 85
per' cent on the security of: the ele—
vator itself. The 85 per cent is re-
paymble to the government in twenty
equal annual instalments covering
principal and interest, and, we were
told, up to date all payments have
been promptly and fully amet. The
shareholders are receiving an annual
8 per cent divident,‘ and $35.50 has
been added to the paid up value of
each. share subscribed in the/ﬁrst or—~
gallium-lion year. The authorized
capital of the company is $5,000,000,
the subscribed capital $4,426,350,
paidi up capital $1,956,930.50. and

=resmes amount to $2,284,463.55-

Nell pro-ﬁts for the season 1923-2l are.
shown: to he $475,534.53. In order
to. return to the pockets of the pro—
ducers: all proﬁts in handling grain
the~._chm-pany has established a. com-
minllion and sales department in Win—
Him has terminal elevators at_the

head at the Great Lakes, :1 terminal}

tramier elevator at Buttalo, and op—
erates export departments at Winni—
peg, Vancouver, New York and Lon-
don, England. Last year the export
departments handled over 47,000,000
bushels of grain.

We next paid a short visit to the
cooperative company and then to the
oﬂiees of the Saskatchewan Wheat
Pool... .General Manager ‘1). McRae
discussed the pool, which operates
along the same line as the Manitoba,
then after a brief inspection of their
ofﬁces we were taken to the Parli-
ment Building to be officially wel—
comed to the province by C. M. Ham—
ilton, Minister of Agriculture,

Following luncheon as guest of the
prowince we adjourned to the depot
o‘r headquarters of the Royal Can—
adian Mounted Police to witness a
military tournament in honor of the
ofﬁcial visit of Lord Byng, Governor
General of Canada. This is the only.
training depot for the Mounted Pol-
ice in Canada. With bright red coat,
blue breeches with a wide yellow
strilpe down the outside of each leg,
high riding boots with polished spurs,
revolver at his side, and his brown
felbhat tilted slightly over his right
eye he is a romantic ﬁgure. Condi-
tions changed in Canada since this
organization. was ﬁrst formed but
only the ﬁnest of men can join and
their reputation of getting their.
remains untarnished, although the
automobile has increased chances for
the criminal-to escape justice. .
 . Our visit to Moose Jaw, and Medi—
crne Hat, also calgary where we
spent some time at the” Prince. of
Wales; ranch, and‘our trip thmugh

the- Canadian Rockies.will be told'

cinrjhe. next installment. V

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*- Vilanapolis, Indiana, has published
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will be kept cleaner, sweeter.

the old manure wheel- ,   _
barrow you’re using

to smitherecns—you’ll be money ahead ‘ K
and lots of it. It’s costing you hours of
wasted time—hours of back-breaking work—
driving your boys and hired help off the farm.
It’s a “Silent” thief and trouble maker. The
sooner you get rid of it andput in a JAMESWAY

“BIG BOY” Litter Carrier
the better everybody and everything will be.Your barns ‘ I
. You can dump the manure
right onto the spreader with but one handling—SAVE

dollars worth of liquid manure—get manure onto your

soil when it is most valuable—SAVE a lot of hard work.
A “BIG BOY” will pay for itself in a few months in the

SAVING of time alone. Read these letters:

.“I wish to state that the carrier outﬁt has becnﬂand is the most

satisfactory piece

Jameswav
Equipment
includes
Slanchlons.
Stalls.

barrow.

Litter Carriers.
Drinking CUPS
and
Uentllatma
Systems.

Very low cost.

 

without it now.

labor, time and

of equipment I eVer bought. It was evidently
built to last two or three generations. ” .

J.CG. BUSTON, Tazewell, Va.

Just write for our

' New Jamesway Book - FREE
1 and sec for yourself howyou are payingfor JAMES- :
WAY Equipment over and over and still not get- I
 it. Mail coupon NOW to oﬁice nearest you. =

. Jams Manuan Company

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The Truth in Feeds

 

MILKMAKER

Now Being Distributed at
360 Points in Michigan
HIS tremendous distribution deserves
attention. Are you feeding to the best
advantage? I ‘ .

Cows fed Milkmaker produce more milk
and butter fat. They are healthier and
stronger animals. Your feed cost is lower.

Every one of the ten milkmaking in-
gredients is listed on every bag, pound for
pound Not an ounce of ﬁller. You know
exactly what you are feeding. Milkmakex
is always the same. '

Ask u; for booklet on Milkmaker 5nd Feed
. mg Suggestions.

The" Michigan Farn
Bureau“ Supply Service
219 N. can. Siren, ‘  Mm...

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the growing of pure-om: on the farms of our readers. OI!

Conn (300) per agate llne,

to encourage

II
or M. 0 MI‘ Inch. loss

Minn-ml“. Minn- E

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-“I  to say that the ‘BIG BOY’ which I installed two years
ago 18 gvmg me perfect satisfaction and I could not get along
It would be terrible to go back to the wheel-

ARTHU’R M. HAIG, Alpcna, Mich.

Thusyou can see you are losing money and time by not put-
tmg 1n modern equipment.
Let us show you how JAIWESWAY “Direct From Factory’ ’

prices will enable you to equip your barn with real
money saving conveniences at IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

JAMES MANUFACTURING (20.. Debt. 3- 15
Send me your Free Book on Barn Equipment.

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I have __.__cows- I am interested in ________________ ..
Name __________________________________________ __
I P. O ___________________________________ __
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State ______________ "St. No. or R. F. D ____________ __

a! moth _followlng date or lnsertlon.

Fill. no you can see how ma

per Insertion.
for cash If sent wlth order or paid on

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ny lines It will Ml.

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Fourteen agate llnes to the column Inoh

or before the 10th

OUR AD AND WE WILL PUT IT IN TYPE
Address all letters.

IREEDERS DIRECTORY, MICHIGAN IUCINESS FARMER. MT. CLEMENS. MIOH.

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To avoid conﬂicting dates we will without

list the date of any live

cost. _
If you are consnder

Mlcblgan.

stock sale In
inq a sale ad-

vnso us at once and we will claim the date

Address Live Stock
F., r  7 V r
N'dv'eiﬁﬁr" 3. lll25.——llert‘fprlls,

Swartz Creek, lVIlclllglln.

MICHIGAN’S

Editor, M. B.

(‘mpo Farms.

RE-BRED

P U
LIVESTOCK AUCTIONEER ,

\Vrito
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or wire for ton s and dates.
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MAY - GUERNSEYS

STATE AND

out of Dams up to

Sirod ulls

Ego   Jumbo 0
Be .

Golden 0(knight of Nordland.

ducing 10.11.18 int. 772 int

GEORGE L. nunnows or
c - Begin

The homes of bulls;

and

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From

—'- ROSE

FEDE'BAL ACCREDITED

877 pounds flit.

whose Dams have up to

Shuttlewick May
Holbecks'
ms pro-
610 fat

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NOVEMBER 3. 1925. FIRST OF REGULAR
Seml-unmlnl Hule of l‘rnlm Farm Hereford Hattie
Will he held. (‘ows 21nd Bulls. Write for Catalogue.
ORAPO FARMS. Swartz Creek. Mich.

 

 

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SHORTHQRN BULL. ELEVEN MONTHS
An exec )tionul individual weighing 900 Lbs.
. G. PALMER. Balding, Mich.

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3135‘ good ages, good slleurers. Price~ Nine Fifty
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REGISTERED SHROPSHIRE SHEEP. 40 YEAR-
ling ewes. Yearling rams and mm lambs. The

kind that have )loased since 1890.
c. LEJEN & SON. Donor, Mich.
N A raw onono: .
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BIN BOOMER, M. Evan, I!

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The dependable service of ""
Anthony Fence and Banner Steel
Posts is like a constant watch dog
over crops and stock.A good
fence is an investment insurance
7—protects property as well as
making it easier to manage crops
and stock in a business-like way.

When you buy Anthony
Fence your purchase is backed

GUARANTEE

Our dealer will hand you with
every purchase of fence our writ—
ten guarantee that it will equal
or outlast in actual length of
service any other fence now
made, of equal size wires and
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and

{I j They root themselves ﬁrmly into '

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Within the last two weeks I have
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low on the dropping and I took it
away, three hours after that it was
dead. This morning when I went
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fruit found in it, paying less atten-

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By W.W.FOUIE,WW. '

}- Lake Odessa, Michigan, corres-
pondent asks advice on the
prospects on the lamb and hog

markets for the near future. Judg—

ing from what has been happening
of late and from existing conditions.
before the answer can be read
by the inquirer. prices will be
still higher, although possibly the
boom in values will check for
the present the demand. As re-
gards hogs, as I have stated all
Along, it is wholly a matter of sup—
uly and demand. The holdings of
farmers have reached such extreme-
ly small proportibns in all farming
districts that advancing market
prices has been easy for the commis—
sion ﬁrms at Chicago stock yards.
as well as those of other packing
points. Of course. there are limits
to the upward movement of swine
and other live stock, but apparently
they have not been reached as yet.
and many stockmcn owning hogs
are acting on the theory that it is
going to pay to hold them until they
become fat and reasonably heavy.
Corn is abundant, as is other feed.
and marketing the corn instead of
converting it into meats is certainly
not a proﬁtable transaction for the
farmer. The general prosperity of
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to dispose of the cheaper cuts. 11:
o may be added that more 1102s are
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export needs than a few years ago,
the population having grown ma-
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fast. Perhaps farmers at some fu—
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swine, but the testimony of many

farmers is that in the long run those
who stick to it come out all right.

It is bad policy to try to keep up”

with the procession in raising tor
the market. what brings in the big»
gest proﬁts. l\'o farmer who yearly

. raises the same kind of stock loses

in the end. It is best, however, to
study the market reports from week
to week and ascertain what seems
the best time to have hogs and oth—
‘I‘oo much
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“Shall I Own Sheep?"

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bring about much smaller m’arket-
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in weight. It is certain that there
Is no big supply in feeding districts.
and the aggregate receipts in esven
western packing points for the year
to late date amount to only 19,215,-
000 hogs, comparing with 82,940,-
000 two years ago. A short time
ago hogs sold in the Chicago mar-
ket at $10.25 to $12.90,Jcomparing
with $11.35 to $14.20 a week ago,
$8.90 to $11.15 a year ago. Where
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it is better to divide up the ship-
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The demand for beef cattle in
the Chicago market is unusually
large, and although the late Chicago
receipts of farm and range cattle
were far greater than of late or in
recent years, prices actually had a
fair advance. The bulk of the beef
steers sold at $9.25 to $15, with the
best long fed weighty steers at $15
to $16.30, and prime yearlings up
to $15 to $16. Common light steers
brought $7.50 to $8.50, and no
steers of good grading went lower
than $11.50, While inferior little
steers sold at $5 to $7. A year ago
beef- steers were sold at $6.25 to

- $12, ten years ago at $5 to $10.50

and seventeen years ago at $3.10
to $7.60. The stocker and feeder
trade is/of fair proportions at $5.25
to $8.60, with sales mostly at $6.50
to $7.71. The cattle industry is now
on a good paying basis, prices being
unusually high. A shipment of 71
bulls averaging 1.700 pounds, cost-
ing around $6.50, was started a few
days ago for Germany. being the
ﬁrst export cattle from Chicago in
many mouths.

The Break in “Wheat Prices

Failure on the part of the Chica-
go Board of Trade to take immedi-
ate steps to adopt proposed reforms
will lead to action with a view to
suspension or revocation of its des-
ignation as a contract market, See-
retary of Agriculture Jardine warn-
ed a few days ago.

“A failure on the part of the
Board to take these steps immedi-
ately will leave me no alternative
but to inauguarate action looking to
suspension or revocation of the dea-

ignatiou or the Chicago Board of
Trade as a contract market.” I e».

Secretary Jardine characterized
as of far reaching importance rec-
ommendations made to the presi-
dent and board of directors of the
Chicago Board of Trade by a so-
called ‘members’ program commit-
tee. These recommendations, it put
into eﬂect, will go a long Way tor‘
ward reﬂecting a" true. supply and
demand situation on the Chicago
markets, he believes. ,

December wheat has fallen on the
Chicago market to around $1.35,
with May 'wheat at $1.3 6, comparing
with $1.10 a year ago. December
corn sells around 78 cents, compara
ing with $1.13 a year ago; Decem-
ber oats at 19 cents, comparing with
58 cents a year ago; and December
rye at 79 cents, comparing with
$1.31, a year ago. Sentiment has
been bearish for many weeks, and
all the grains have secured big
declines, wheat being especially de-
pressed by the large Canadian
wheat crop. There have been other
years, however, when wheat was
much cheaper, and two years ago it
went below $1. Reports of wheat
production .trom practically the en—
tire Northern Hemisphere with re—
cord acreage and favorable condi-
tions reported in the Southern Hem-
isphere. indicate an increase of 8
per cent in the world wheat crop
over the estimated, production of
1924, according to ofﬁcial estimates
received by the Department .of“Ag-
riculture up to September 18, 1925.

Farming in Maine

On 'a recent vacation spent in vis-
iting New England and the province
of Quebec, considerable information
was obtained about Maine farming,
and it was learned that while sum-

-mer visitors are a wonderful source

of revenue every year, the farmers
are producing great quantities of
potatoes,» poultry, etc. In the state
there are 48,227 occupied farms.
The average value of land and
buildings per farm is $5,609, av—
erage value of land per acre, $21.09,
and the total value of farm prop-
erty, $270,526,783. .Aroostook, the
largest potatb producing county in
the world, had an average yield of
308 bushels per acre in 1924, com-
pared with an average ‘yield of 124
bushels throughout the United
States.

WHEAT_ -

The market is being literally
ﬂooded with wheat, every one seem-
ing anxious to sell, and prices do-
clined considerable during the tort-
night ending October 3. It the Can-
adian and European wheat crops

  

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remain

Reports that the bean crop is
damaged in many‘parts of the coun-
try and the general yield will) not
be as heavy as expected are having
a steadying, eﬁect on the market.
Last week the market "at Detroit
gained 10 and 15 cents but declines
during the previous week left the

price somewhat below

our last issue.

partment of Agriculture says there.

 

POTATOES
In regard to the recent declines
in the potato market the U. S. De-

quotations in

is invariably a decline at harvelt
time during short crop years.

“This seasonal decline often con-
tinues until past the height of the
says the bureau».
“Some price recovery and advance
after digging time would be nothing

potato harvest,”

Such a rise, from Novem-

ber onward, is 'far more likely to oc—
cur in seasons below average pro-

duction.

“Thervinter rise in the Chicago
market following the short crop at
1908 was about 70 cents per 100

pounds.

it was nearly $1.

For the light crop of 1911
That season was

rather like the present one in esti-
mated production per capita and
general business conditions.

“For 1916 the tall and winter ad—
vance was over $2 and for 1319..
with a market attended by general
price inﬂation, there was a gain
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kind and common kind'up most; stockers
and feeders sharing advance; extreme
top matured steers, $16.30; s'everal loads
yearlings,'$16; new hightor year; weigh-
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of! ; canners and cutters active, 150 to 26c
higher, little change on balls: vulers
around $1 higher; week’s bulk price: fol-
low: Grain fed steers, $10.50@ 13; grass»
steers, $7.50@9.50; fat cows. $476@6.50;
canners and 'cutters, $3.25@3.85; veal
calves, $12.75@13.50; stockers and feed-
ers, $6@8.25. Sheep——Compared week ago

'fat lambs $1 to $1.25 high; cull natives

25c to 500 higher: fat sheep and feeding
and breeding ewes steady; demand for
all classes broad; tops for week: Fat
and feeding range lambs, $15.90; natives,
$15.85; fat ewes. $8; bulk prices follow:
Fat lambs, ~814.78@15.90; feeding lambs,
$14.75@1§.75; cull natives. $11@12; fat
ewes, $6.50@ 7.50; range yearling wethers,
$11@11.75.

BOSTON WOOL MARKET

Trading on the wool 'market is
showing very little change. Tran—
sactions are a little more in favor
of the seller. Medium domestic
stock is holding very ﬁrm and some
concerns are well sold up on both
three-eighths and one-quarter blood
combing wools. "Combing stock of
one-quarter blood quality in partic-
ular is mentioned as difﬁcult to ob~
tain in sizable amounts.

Lots of lance talk about" the poor class
of help on the farms made one farmer
inquire it better living quarters wouldn’t
attract a better grade of men.

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Week at October 11
-T the very beginning of this
week the weather is expected
to be generally fair or with a
little cloudiness. Temperatures at
the same time are expected to be
above the seasonal average. The
wind forces all during the ﬁrst half
of the week are expected to be high—
er than usual with critical stages es—
pecially about Monday or Tuesday.
The last half of the week promis—
es much cooler temperatures to
most parts of Michigan.‘ With the
exception of about Thursday or Fri-
day. the last half of the week will
be generally fair. During the two
above mentioned .days there may be
some heavy rains or snow ﬂurries
but these Conditions will be of short
duration. ‘

Week of October 6

Unsettled, rainy weather will
probably be in action at the very be-
ginning of .this week in most parts
of the state but will soon pass over
leaving fair and cool weather with
frosts. I

By the middle of the week tem—
peratures will make a rapid ascent
with readings considerably above
the normal for this time of year.
'During Wednesday and Thursday
the weather will be threatening
with some scattered rains or show—
ers. There is also a probability that
there will be some late thunder
storms, or at least the presence of
clouds and other atmospheric effects
seen when thee storms are active.

Following a brief spell of cooler
about Friday there will be more
threatening storms that will run
from Saturday of this week'to Sun—
day of next.

“Weather Made to Order”-

.One reader writes that our fore—
cast of August'weather .made it
seem that the “weather 'was made to
order.” Our forecast of “many ex-
tremes in temperature” was true in
many parts of the state during the
month. Probably the greatest range
was near the end of the month when
the) mercury ran from 26 degrees on
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OR more than twenty years, ‘we have been selling direct to the
user. This method of handling coal has enabled us'to reduce
the, price and save the consumer from $1.50 to $2 a non. As

the average family uses about ﬁfteen tons of coal a year; this means
a big saving. We have found through experience ‘that when
coal is shipped in carload lots 'direct from the mines toithelpeiople
who use it, we can reduce the cost ‘still more, but as the average car
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that amount. There is usually enough coal in a car to supply Ask the Man Who
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They will gladly club together and buy coal by the carload in
order to make a big saving. You ’see, we are exclusive wholesal-
ers; we have no local yards, no local agents, consequently we
are unable to reach the individual coal users personally and in-
terest them in our “CLUB” plan. We therefore started to 'organize
Popular Coal Clubs, appoint an organizer in each community
and give him his coal FREE for his effort in organizing the club. wish to state that I found
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get your next winter's coal supply FREE. Your' friends and ' I ever saw. 'There was
neighbors will jump at the opportunity to join you .in'a carload no slack in it. All of my

order and thank you for it—because it means a big asving for them. customers are bragging
on it and say it is much

cheaper than coal sold by
local dealers. One states
that it held ﬁre without
attention in his furnace
for~twenty-four hours. It
burns free, gives a good
heat and leaves a clean
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\I also wish to thank you

Ask. the Michigan
Business Farmer
About Our Re-

sponsibility

Co-Operative
Buying

0U, as a farmer un-

derstand the prin-

ciples of “Co-opera—
tive Buying." You know
what big savings can be
made by that method. It
is just as sound in prin—
ciple as co—operative mar—
keting. Here is a won?
derful opportunity for
you, not only to get your
own coal for next winter
absolutely free, but also
for you to save real
money for many of your
friends and neighbors,
thereby doing a genuine
service for your com-
munity.

Hundreds of Michi-
gem Business F arm-
ers Got Their Coal
This Way Last Year

Popular Coal Co.,

Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir:

Last month "I bought
and delivered a car of
your Southern Illinois
Fancy Block Coal and.

You Can Own a Proﬁtable Business

And you needn’t conﬁne this Money-Saving offer to your immedi-
ate family and friends. Every storekeeper, banker, church, hos-
pital, oﬁice building, hotel and, in fact, every coal user in your
community will be interested in this plan. You can order as.
many carloads of coal as you want and after you have all the
coal you can use, we will pay you abig cash commission on each
ton of coal you order from us. This offer has started many a

HIS is not a new and
T untried plan, but one

that has been thOr--
oughly tried out and
found entirely practical
and satisfactory. Hun-
reds of farmers in Michi—.
gan, Illinois, Indiana,
the Northwest and other,
sections of the country
got their coal from us
last year through this
plan and are again tak-
ing advantage of it this
year. Their letters tests

for you, too.

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man on a proﬁtable business and may open up a big opportunity

Only Best Quality Coal

Our coal is all hand picked from the best mines. It is freshly
mined, clean and free burning,‘ free frdm slate and makes very
little soot, and is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction. You
will be amazed that such high=quality coal can be bought at so
low a price. Every one who uses it, is delighted .with itand
praises its quality. - -
Inspect Coal When Car Arrives

Simply ﬁll out the coupon and 'mail it today. --We will send you

promptly price list with full description of coal and complete
instructions, so you can start right out to organize your coal

ify to their enthusiasm club. Ask your friends and neighbors if they want to save money

over the soundness of
our method, the quality
of our coal, and to the
money they saved.

Why Not You?

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coupon today.

POPULAR COAL C0. ,
1700 Coal. Exchange Building, Chicagp,. Illinoisgy

Gentlemen—Please send me your. order blanks
and instruction sheets in connection with your Popu—
lar Coal Clubs. I want to try out your plan but I_
understand that this request carries with it no obli-
gation of any kind on my part. I

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on their coal bill and you Will ﬁnd that they all will be anxious
to join you when you have explained our plan to them. A little effort in your
spare time and you Will quickly have made up that ﬁrst carload order. And
after that ﬁrst carload arrives, you will see how easy it is to make up others.

This is your chance to build up a proﬁtable and permanent business. Send

Now Is the Best Time‘ to Get
’. Your Coal

Prices are lower, deliveries quicker,‘ labor is

plenty. Check up your lastiyear’s coal billsand

then you{will see how much',money ‘you' could

have saved had you bou ht coal I anom- Direct-

from-Oar-to-User Plan. all Coupon today.

b“Ask.ty Tm! BusIans Fnunm about our responsi-
1 . ~

 [YOUR NE
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for the good service I re—
ceived. ‘
Respectfully yours,
, (Signed) D.  R.,»
Paxton, 111;,

To the Popular Coal Co..—

Chicago, Ill.
Gentlemen:

Permit me,to say that
I have sold Popular Hand
Picked Goal to 30 differ:
ent farmers and not one
complaint. I have used
it in my owu home and
ﬁnd it to be a good burn—
er, giving a good heat
and lasting longer than
any coal I have ever had.
I thank you for causing
me to try it. Enclosed
ﬁnd another order, which
is the ﬁfth car.

Sincerely yours,
(Signed) E. M.

We have the original let-
ters of these and many
other satisﬁed farmers
who have effected big
savings by purchasing

coal from us.

The Michigan Business Farmer—eYour Farm
IPaper-—Has Used Popular Coal for, [Years

 

