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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-
ga'n Business F arm-
ers Got Their Coal
This Way Last Year

HIS is not a new and
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 test-
ify to their enthusiasm
over the soundness of
our method, the quality
of our coal, and to the
money they saved.

Why Not You ?

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POPULAR COAL CO.

0R 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 ton. 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 to‘thepe‘ople
who use it, we can reduce the cost ’still more, but "as the average car
of coal contains from 40 to 50 tons, no one family is likely tones
that amount. There is usually enough coal in a car to supply
three or four families. '

Your Friends Will Be Glad'to Join You

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.
This FREE offer is now open to you. You will ﬁnd it easy to
get your next winter's coal supply FREE. Your' friends and
neighbors will jump at the opportunity to join you in a carload
order and thank you for it—because it means a big asving for them.

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, ofﬁce 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 a big cash commission on each
ton of coal you order from us. This offer has started many a
man on a proﬁtable business and may open up a big opportunity

for you, too.
Only Best Quality Coal

Our coal is all hand picked from the best mines. It is freshly
mined, clean and free burning; free frOm 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 it and
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

club. Ask your friends and neighbors if they want to save money-

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
coupon today. , .
Now Is the Best Time to Get

~ Your Coal

Prices are lower, deliveries quicker,‘ labor is
plenty. Check up your last..year’s coal billsand
then you‘will see how much‘.money ‘you‘ could
have saved had you bought coal‘on.our Direct-
from-Car-to—User Plan. Mail Coupon today.
Ask Tan BusIans Fuunm about our responsi-

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Popular Coal Co.,

Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir:

Last month ‘I bought
and delivered a car of
your Southern Illinois
Fancy Block Coal and.
wish to state that I found
it the cleanest car of coal
I ever saw. There was
no slack in it. All of my
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
white ash. No clinkers.
I also wish to thank you
for the good service I re-
ceived.

, , Respectfully yours,

(Signed) D. 'E. R,
Paxton, 111;,

To the Popular Coal 00.,—

Chicago, Ill.
Gentlemen:

Permit me,to say that
I have sold Popular Hand
Picked Coal to 30 differ:
ent farmers and not one
complaint. I have used
it in my own 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.

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M. S. C. ENLARGES RADIO
ACTIVITIES ‘
v GREATLY enlarged program
A for the radio school of the

Michigan State College of Ag-
riculture and Applied Science is and
nounced tor this tall and winter by
James B. Hasselman, director of
publications at the school. Although
the radio station, WKAR, resumed
broadcasting Oct. 5 after having been
closed during the summer months
during'which time extensive repairs
and improvements were made, the
radio school is not to begin until
November 2.

As last year when 3000 farmers
and their wives or other persons in-
terested in agriculture enrolled in
the ﬁve two weeks comes ousted.
theschoolthisyearwﬂlbedirected
entirely to offering instruction in eg-
riculture or related subjects. The
station is dedicated to the farmer and

n his interests are always in mind as

the program is being planned.

Many educators are skeptical as to
the practical value of the air as an
educational medium and it is now
quite generally conceded that the
teaching of languages and similarly
involved subjects has met with little
success when attempted by broad-
casting stations. However, the ex-
periences of the few agricultural col-
leges in the country which have
adopted radio as an important ad-
junct to their extension departments
have been encouraging and apparent-
ly the farmers believe the instruction
which they havereceived through the
medium at the loud speaker and head
phones is or value as they have en.-
rolled in steadily increasing numbers
in the courses offered.

The program mapped out for this
year by the college radio stair calls
for ﬁve months of' instruction or
about twice that of last year when
courses were offered tor but ten
weeks. Detailed programs outlining
the courses to be oifered, the mem-
bers of the faculty or outside speak-
ers who will be heard. the dates when
the courses will be broadcast, and
other data have not been worked out
yet at the school but are to be ready
shortly before the school opus, ac-
ccording to Mr. Hasselman.

The deparunents which will par-

culture or of the beneﬁt to the term-
er’s wife in her domestic duties,’are
home economics, farm crops, soils.
dairy husbandry, animal husbandry,

poultry, entomology, bacteriology and ‘

agricultureal engineering.
An enrollment of several times the
number of last year is expected ow-

ing to the greater number of re.-

eeiving sets which are now installed
in farm homes, improvement in re-
ception which was made possible by
changes in the college station’s equip-
ment, the greater advertising which
the courses will receive and the in-
terest which was stimulated by the
experiment of last year.——McC.

emu. PRIZES am W0
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w Michigan State Department

of Agriculture cooperating with

the Thumb of Michigan Potato "

Show which is to be held at Ma'yville

on November 11, 13 and 13th, are '

altering a prime of one hundred doll-
ars to growers who best interpret
the recently enacted law on uniform
grading of potatoes.

To compete in this class growers
are required to prepare an exhibit
of one bushel ﬁeld potatoes, besides

these he will then select one peck ‘

each of U. S. Fancy, U. S. No. 1, U.
S. No. 1 small, U. S. No. 2. together
with the culls removed in making
up the above grades.

The real contest is in the grower
exhibiting what“ he thinks is the
proper kind of potatoes to comply
with the rules established by the
State Department of Agriculture.
Copies of these regulations may be
secured by writing the State Depart-
ment of Agriculture at Lansing, or
the County Agricultural agent of
any county.

The judging of the exhibit will
be done by regular inspectors from
the State Department of Agriculture.
The premium money is divided into
nine prizes, giving thirty dollars to
the grower winning ﬁrst place.

The bankers of the Thumb Area,
by contributions, have also made
possible the entering of substantial
premiums on both Early Ohio and
Irish Cobbler type of potatoes.

Policy of M. S. C. Toward Cooperation

We believe that cooperation in agriculture should be encouraged and that there are
certain advantages which come from it. These advantages are:

1. It awakens farmers to the necessity of understanding marketing problems as
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2. It gives farmers inionnation about market processes and enables them to keep
in tours: with market conditions so that production may be more nearly kept in haw
many with market demand.

3. It aids in, the dissemination of crop and market news, in the establishment of
grades, and in better packing and handing practias which have melted in beneﬁt:
to the consumer as well as to the farmer.

4. It givm the farmer a knowledge 0! the conditions of supply and demand and
therefore places him more nearly on a parity with those who are buying his product.

5. It gives the farmer bargaining power in the market.

6. It permits the farmer to perform marketing services for himself in instances
where privately owned agenda are not doing this adequately.

7. It gives the farmer a saucy which holds his interests paramount.

8. It permits the tanner to get the bandits of wholesale buying.

9. It aids in bringing about cheaper and better production.
10. It otters the most helpful W to the problem of reducing marketing costs.
We hold the following opinions about agriculture and marketings:

1. Thai everything possible should be done to make rural life more wholesome,
increase the standard of living in the country. eliminate as many of the business
risks of agriculture as Mic, increase the return to farmers for the use of their
capital and tor their labor, keep at a minimum the oust of taking produce to the con-
sumer, and hold an energetic. indusu-ious and moral citizenship in the country.

2. {that sound occupation in agriculture is beneﬁcial and should be encouraged
wherever the conditions of citizenship and business make it possible for it to succeed.

3. The: in those ammmities where the training or temper of the people is adverse »
no cooperation, there should be edumtion to overcome these defects.

4. That the marketing agencies operating under our present commercial and in-

systanareessmtialandare avultmbleeervice.

5. m it is possible through scientiﬂc’research and action to develop a stronger
and more efﬁcient system of handling agricultural products.

6. um more can be accomplished by evolutionary than revolutionary methods
in market improvements and that improvement will come onty after thorough scien-

tiﬁc reseasch. ;, . .

7. Tint there 1 old he claser cooperation between the agricultural and the in-
dustrial. and ﬁnancial interests of the state.

8. “ﬂat farmers should turn their attention to cooperation in production and buy-
ing supplies as well as in maxketins.

9. That in adopting a program for ammmra-l business improvement the interests
of consumers as well. as those of farmers should be considered.

10. m the success of cooperation is dependent upon the action of tanner: them—
selves. It is essential .that the farmer feels that the organization was formed by him

and not forhim.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1925

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What Do You Know About Detroit Milk Market?

'Series of Articles by Economics Export on Market for Whole Milk to Answer Many Questions

E is much misunderstand-

l ing about/the problems involv-

ed in the marketing of whole
milk. This condition prevails in
every whole milk market area, and
it is duite natural that it should.
The farmer is a busy man who
Works by himself and very rarely
gets to the city where his product
If he does not
take this trip he probably learns
nothing about market conditions.
It is not possible to get a clear un-
derstanding of the market by ob—
servation. Much time must be spent
in studying every phase and factor
having an inﬂuence on the market.
This, the farmer, .as an individual,
is not able to do.

.The labor of taking care of a
dairy herd is not light. The return
for effort expended is not large. The
farmer working day after day with-
out intimate knowledge of how his
product is handled after it leaves
his hands is very apt to get a wrong
impression of just what is going on.

Market conditions are not ideal.
There are many weaknesses in our
present system and much research
and study must be made on the
whole agricultural market problem;
but conditions are not as bad as
some farmers seem to think. Some
of the things farmers are made to
believe are entirely without founda-
tion and are given circulation for
utterly selﬁsh purposes.

I have been asked to write a few
articles about the Detroit Milk Mar-
ket for the readers of THE Busmsss
Fauna. In these I shall attempt
to state the economics ofthe milk
market in as clear and concise a
manner as possible and answer some
of the questions which farmers are
asking. It will not be my purpose
to enter into a controversy or de-
fend any particular type of market-
ing or group of people. I realize
that while the attempts of organ-
ized farmers to improve their mar-
ket conditions have accomplished
much, there is still much to be done.
In discussing an economic question,
we must not fail to consider it, as it
confronts us under existing condi-
tions rather than conditions as we
would like them to be.

,The problems of the milk market

Michigan’s 1925 Corn CrOp 1‘s Largest on Record

E month of September was

very favorable for the matur-

ing of late crops, the moisture
having been sufﬁcient and no frosts
occuring except in northern coun-
ties. —The ground was in excellent
condition for Wheat and rye seeding
although rains delayed some sec-
tions. Corn cutting was well ad-
vanced at the end of the month and
silo ﬁlling was practically complet-
ed. Rains delayed bean harvesting
and causing considerable damage to
the crop in some of the heaviest
producing counties, according to the
October 1 report issued by L. Whit-
ney Watkins, Commissioner of Ag-
riculture and Verne W. Church, Ag-
ricultural Statistician, U. S. Bureau
of Agricultural Economics.

Corn: Michigan has an excellent
crop this year being good in practi-
cally all sections except in some
northern counLies where extreme

, drought prevailed during the. great-

er part of the season. The condi-
tion of Wiper cent is equivalent to

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By PROF. J. T. HORNER' 
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THE milk from thousands of Michigan herds goes to feed the people
of Detroit, yet we will wager that a large percentage of the

ownersofﬂiesehendsarenotfamﬂiarwiththeh'mm-ket.

This

h‘ the ﬁrst article of a series we have arranged with Prof. J. T. Homer
aftheM.S.C.toprepar-eforushoinﬂorm youonthismarket, and
you can read them with the feeling that you are getting the correct
information as he has spent some time studying the Detroit market.
Do not miss any of the series. Prof. Horner invites you to write
about any particular question ym would like discussed and we urge
that you take advantage of his invitation.

 

 

must be considered as they exist at
present and every eﬂort made to
bring about improvement in an or-
derly manner. There are so many
real knotty problems which com-
mand the wisdom and attention of
all of us that it is essential that no
eﬂort be wasted on non—essentials
and misconceptions.
Send in Questions

While this series of articles is ap-
pearing, I would be pleased to have
dairy'men write me about any parti-
cular question they want discussed.
I am quite sure that there are many
questions about the marketing of
milk which cannot yet be answered;
but if we all look at this matter in
a spirit of fairness and give sincere
study to the problem, we can sure-
ly make some progress. It would
be worth while for farmers to send
in their opinions about the market
so that these might be passed on for
what they are worth.

At the outset of the consideration
of this question, it is well to take a
look at the problem of the milk
market. There are in greater De-
troit, approximately, one and a
quarter million of people who need
milk. This is produced by some ten
thousand farmers. Milk must be
taken from farm to the city kitchen
and so handled that it will be kept
clean, pure and sweet.

Every pint of milk which goes
for consumption in the homes of De-
troit must pass through a bottle.
The whole supply which is produced
on 10,000 farms must be distributed

18 bushels, making the total produc—
tion 144,000 bushels as compared
with 126,000 last year. The quality
is rated at 88 per cent.

All Wheat: The percentage of the
crop marketed up to October 1, ac-
cording to the estimates of corres-
pondents, is 38 per cent, or a total
of 5,974,000 bushels.

Oats: The yield of oats is placed
at 32 bushels per acre, nearly two
bushels below the average for the
The total produc-
tion is 52,224,000 bushels against
67,000,000 last year, the yield be-
ing ten bushels less per acre. The
quality is 88 per cent, one per cent
above the average but six per cent
under last year. Rains during har-
vest discolored a portion of the crop
while in the shock.

Barley: The reports of correspon-
dents indicate that the average yield
of barley is 24 bushels. The straw
was shorter than usual but well ﬁll-
ed. Rains. discolored a considerable
quantity of the grain while stand-

ing in the shock thereby reducing ,

the quality to 84 per cent. The
estimated total crop is 4,104,000

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to the homes of 1% million con-
sumers. The small quantities pro-
duced on the individual farms must
be assembled into large quantities,
processed and then distributed again
in packages (bottles) holding one
quart each.

A product is not fully produced

until it is in the hands of the person

who is toquse it. The process of
production, in its true sense, in-
volves all the operations necessary
to put milk in the hands of the con-
sumer. Someone must not only feed
cows and milk them, but also haul
the milk to the country station,
weigh and cool it, haul it to the
city, pasteurize and bottle it, and
deliver it to the door of the consum—
er.

There is no need, at this point,
to discuss the question of Who
should perform all these operations.
At the present time the job of pro-
cessing and distributing milk is
done by companies specially organ-
ized for this purpose. This is a
specialized business the same as is
milk production. All of these pro-
cesses are essential and must be per-
formed by someone, regardless of
the type of ownership, just as long
as milk is produced on farms some
distance from the city. The only
way these operations could ever be
made unnecessary is for the con-
sumers to keep their own cows in
the city. There was a time when
this was the practice; but I do not
believe the time will ever come
when it will be again. So we have

ened the yield in northern districts
and heavy storms did considerable
damage to the crop of some of the
southern districts. The condition
of 79 per cent is the same as one
year ago and ﬁve per cent above the
ten-year average and is equivalent
to a production of 961,000 bushels
which is practically the same as that
of last year.

Potatoes: Prospects did not im-
prove in September as is usual in
most years. The condition of 76
per cent represents a production of
26,384,000 bushels as compared
with 38,252,000 in 1924. The early
crop was light and the late crop
varies greatly between different sec-
tions, being rather light in many
central, southwestern and northern
counties and very good in some of

the west-central counties. The
quality is excellent.
‘ Beans: Frequent rains during

September interfered with the bar-
vesting of the crop and damaged

.many ﬁelds, as a result of which the

pick _will be heavier than usual on
the late crop. Correspondent’s re-
ports indicate an average yield of 12
bushels per acre .and an average
pick of 8.5 per cent. However, but

 
  
  

   

   

the situation to face as it actually
exists. To perform these processes
there are required large quantities
and many types of machines, much-
capital and many workers. The job
of handlmg the milk during the
market process is essential and is-
just as much an economic service to
society as is that of milk produc-
tion on the farm.
World Pro

In the early days of milk marketa-
ing, the farmer performed the mar-
ket services for himself. He de-
livered the product of his herd di-
rect to the consumer. As cities
grew the distances necessary to
reach a suﬂicient supply to satisfy
requirements were too great to
make it feasible for the farmer to
go into the city each day with his
small supply. Health considerations
made pasteurization necessary. This
involved the outlay of large amounts
of capital to build plants equipped
to handle large quantities. Also the
development of modern milk distrib-
uting methods made this a special-
ized business requiring special busi-
ness training. These factors of dis-
tance from market, capital require-
ments, and special business ability,
are the reasons for the em'stence o!
the distributor as a marketing
agency.
developed which divides into two
parts, the business of providing the
city consumer with his milk—{he
farmer and the distributor. That is
the system which now prevails and
in our consideration of this whole
problem we must recognize this con-
dition. EVen though the distribu-
tive machinery might some time be
owned and operated by the farmer,
the separation will continue to
exist, for it is impossible to ever go
back to the old basis.

The market channel for milk un»
der existing conditions may be il-
lustrated as follows:

Farmer — Distributor — Consumer

The service of transportation is
not considered here, for the farmer
and distributor perform this or hire
someone to do it for them.

In the next article I shall discuss
the business relationship between
the farmer and the distributor.

For Our State

percentage of the crop was still un-
harvested, so that a later inquiry
may show somewhat different ﬁg
ures. Based upon this yield, the
production will be 7,356,000 bush-
els in comparison with 5,848,000
harvested last year. A special in-
quiry relative to varieties indcates
the following percentages grown
this year: small whites, 82; large
whites, 4; light red kidneys, 5:
dark red kidneys, 7; soys, 1; other
varieties, l per cent.

Tame Hay: The crop has steadily
increased in volume during the sea—
son as a result of many second cut-
tings of clover and second and third
cuttings of alfalfa. The yield is es-
timated at 1.0 ton per acre, or a
total crop of 3,194,000 tons as com- I
pared with 5,010,000 tons last year.
The quality is 84 per cent, a con- ‘
siderable percentage of the late crop "
having been damaged by rains while i
being harvested.

Pastures: Great improvement
took place during September, the
condition being 81 per cent at the T
end of the month as compared with
68 at the beginning. :

Clover Seed: The outlmk 1032'
clover seed. is only fair.  
timated production, based on a coi-

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. WAJS walking home from Mill-
burg one day when I heard the
_ unmistakable clatter of an emp—
ty Ford truck behind me. Glancing
ack I saw that the hood of the
pproaching juggernaut was held
own With an old. bright red sad-
By this token I immedi-
,tely recognized the truck as the

  

 
 

I once asked him if he didn’t
think the saddle cinch a little out
' of place on a motor truck. “It ain’t
any more out of place on this con—
Xtraption than I am," he answered.
, “Me and that old cinch are both old
 timers, but ‘By Jing’ we intend to
af-Jkeep up with the times.”

_ As the truck approached I con-
" ﬁdently expected Ed to slow down
and give me a lift, but to my sur—
prise he kept right on. looking
straight ahead. An outraged yell
from me, however, brougth him to
~13. squealing halt.

“What’s the matter, Ed," said I.
‘Is your eyesight getting poor or did
you get so much money for that
oad of Duchess apples that, you con—
’sider yourself above your neigh—
abors?”

f “Never fear,” he answered, “about
., a fruit grower getting too much for
if anything. No, sir, the reason I did—
! n’t see you was because I was just
oing some hard thinking about a
.package of rolled oats I bought over
at Byer's store just now." I asked
him if his wife had been getting
, oatmeal for breakfast a little too
 often to suit him.

 “Nope,” he said, "tain’t that. I
'was just comparing that oatmeal to
my loadlof apples. I was thinking
T that if t. e people who put out that
~package" f rolled oats tried to sell
the way we sell our fruit
they would go broke."

‘fAha,” I chirped, “I guess I know
’what's wrong. You are a triﬂe peev—
‘Uﬂ because Max over at the associ—
iﬁtion packing house didn’t take
your load of miscellaneous Duchess
apples and turn out a one hundred
per cent ‘A’ grade pack?”

V “No, sir,” he answered. “you are
[Wrong again. I don’t expect any
.man to do the impossible. Max is
'doing his best. If it wasn’t for
him and a lot more like him, we’d
all be in the poor—house by this
 time. What I was thinking about
was advertising.”

“We fellows do a lot of kicking
about the fruit market but I’ll bet
six cents against the holes in a swiss

Q.

N our October 10th issue I told
you something of the trip of the
agricultural editors of this coun-

try made into western Canada. I

 told you of leaving Chicago on the

 night of August 22nd, our stop at

'Minneapolis, what we saw at Winni-

peg, our visit to the farming territory

around Brandon and Regina and our
study of the farmers’ cooperative as—

‘SOCiations at the latter city. We saw

“a military tournament at Regina in

the afternoon and for refreshments,

.tea and sandwiches were served in a

tent, instead of the various cold

'drinks, sandwiches,' many kinds of

candy and popcorn that we associate

[with public entertainments in the

States.

,, ‘Tho City of Moose Jaw
From Regina to Moose Jaw it is a

istance 0f 41 miles and we made

the run in slightly over an hour ar—
iving at 5:30 I). M. Autos were

Waiting for us when we got there

nd we were taken out into the farm-

ng territory. It is claimed that the
est Wheat growing land in the

Aorld is located around Moose Jaw

ﬁnd after a twenty—ﬁve mile ride

hrough it I am willing to agree.

a yield runs as high as 38 bushels

he acre on many farms. Radios

to be very popular with the

 

  

  

   

 
 
  
 
  
 
 

   
  
  
  
 

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‘ ,they did not have one. And
‘lrthey, might have had an in—
erial'he're, which would make
per’ce . After a good “feed”
'boa (led our train and was

 

Fruit They Would Go Broke,” He Says

By HERBERT NAFZIGER

Editor Fruit and Orchard Department, THE BUSINESS FARMER

 

 

 

NEW FRUIT AND ORCHARD EDITOR

E are pleased to announce that Herbert

 

  

 

 

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Nafziger has joined our regular staff of

editors, taking charge of our Fruit and
Orchard department. Mr. Nafziger studied hor-
ticulture at the M. S. C. and has been making
his living as a practical fruit grower in Berrien
county for the last 16 years.
are- going to enjoy his department as he is
planning on publishing articles not only on
fruit culture but about marketing methods,
news of general interest, reports on meetings,
and he says, you may expect to hear about his
neighbor Ed McIntosh once in a. while.

We know you

Heis

at your service and will be glad to answer your

Herbert Nafziger

questions.

 

 

cheese that those rolled oats peo—
ple didn’t have any market at all
to begin with. They made a mar-
ket. And they made it by advertis—
ing. Every day in every way they
told folks What a ﬁne thing it was
to eat rolled oats. How healthy it
was how it made children grow—
how it made old folks live to be a
hundred, and so forth. By and by
people began to believe it and the
ﬁrst thing the oats rollers knew
they had an enormous market work-
ed up.”

“Well, Ed, I guess you’re right,”
I said, “I suppose you think we
ought to get busy and do the same
thing with our fruit.”

“Why of course we ought to!”
he exploded, “We not only ought to,
but ‘by Jing’ we’ll have to; with
fruit so hard to sell and all these
new orchards and vineyards coming
into bearing.”

“But, neighbor, let me tell you

 

one thing,” and here Ed slowed
down the truck and put his hand on
my knee, “getting back to those

rolled oats. All the advertising in
the world wouldn’t have done ’em
any good if they hadn’t been telling
the truth. The oats ARE good,
they ARE healthful, and all the rest
of it. As far as making people live
to be a hundred is concerned, I don’t
know if they ever claimed that, but
oats won’t prevent them from living

to be a hundred like some things
will. Now I’ve thought a lot about
this advertising business and I be—
lieve it is the thing to do, but I al-
so believe that before we start on
any advertising campaign we want
to be darn sure that our stuff is
worth advertising.”

“Hold on there old boy,” I ob—
jected, “I guess I know that our
fruit is the best that grows. Isn’t
Michigan the home of ‘Fruit with
Flavor’, ‘The Big Red Apple’, ‘Per—
feet Cherries’ and ‘Sweet Blue
Grapes’? If any fruit was eVer
worth advertising, I guess ours is."

“Sure,” answered Ed. “Sure it’s
worth advertising. There ain’t any—
body can hold a candle to our stuff.
But I know one or two of my neigh—
bors who are just naturally unlucky
when it comes to coddling moth and
sometimes a little scab will creep in
here and there in spite of every—
thing.” ~

“No matter how good the ﬂavor
of our apples is, biting into an ap—
ple and ﬁnding half a worm in it
does not improve it any. Now that’s
the kind of stuff it does not pay to
advertise. VVe’ve got to advertise
our stuff or people will never know
we have it to sell, but the proper
place for the poor stuff is the cider
mill or the hog pen where it can’t
damage our business.”

At this point I was about to put

By MILON GRINNELL

This city is located in the province
of Alberta and we did not arrive
there until the next morning, August
27. They have an abundant supply
of natural gas and most of the
heating and cooking is done with it.
Here again autos met us and took us
out into the country. After partak—
ing of‘a luncheon as guests of the
Board of Trade of Medicine Hat we
continued our journey westward to
Brooks, “the town that was born
over night.”

But a few years ago there was no
town here, in fact, there was small
need for a town as the country was
so dry that littlevcould be raised.
Then some farsighted men introduced
irrigation farmers saw the possibili—
ties and came there and the once dry

prairie is now a most productive
land. Perhaps the most interesting
sight near this town is the huge,
reinforced concrete aqueduct con—
structed by the Canadian Paciﬁc
Railway Company at a cost of $800,-
000. It is two miles long, and, at
places, over 50 feet in height, and
conveys the water from Lake Newell,
south of Brooks, across a great de-
pression in the prairie. Around
90,000 acres in this territory have
been irrigated. A visit was made to
the Dominion Government Experi—
ment Station here also and results
obtained through the irrigation of
crops were presented. 1

Calgary, the largest city between
Winnipeg and Vancouver, was our
next stop, and from this point we

 

 

 

      
      
    
    
     
     
 
 

 
 
  

 
 

 

eighhor   Ed McIntoSh  His RolledOats 

“If the Folks Who Put Out These Rolled Oats Tried To Sell Their Stuff the Way We Sell Our

in a wise remark of my own when
I noticed that we were nearly forty
rods past my place so I thanked my
neighbor for the ride and 'Walked
back.

My conversation with Ed McIn-
tosh, however, put a bug in my ear
and the next day I went to Benton
Harbor to see Mr. Fred L. Granger,
energetic manager of our husky
young state exchange, the Michigan
Fruit Growers Incorporated.

I told him what old Ed had said
and he agreed that every word of it
was gospel truth and pure wisdom.

‘fThink of the strategic position
which we occupy”, said Mr. Grang—
er, “We have the best geographical

.location in America, Within ﬁve

hundred miles of forty million peo-
ple. We have a wide diversity of
horticultural products, all With‘high
quality and ﬂavor.” “ nd What is
more,” he continued, ﬁle Michigan
fruit industry has ‘ reached the
point where it is ready for adver-
tising. Three years ago it was not
ready. At that time our grading
laws were weak, toothless infants,
Federal loading point inspection
was unknown here, and last but not

least, our growers were not organ- ,

iged in a way to make an advertis-
1ng campaign possible.”

“Today things are different. We
have good grading laws and their
enforcement is going forward in an
energetic, efﬁcient manner, because
the growers themselves want it. We
have loading point inspection, and,
most important of all, we have the
machinery to organize and put
across a real business-like adver-
tising campaign.”

Of course I know what Mr. Grang-
er meant by the “machinery”. He
meant the Michigan Fruit Growers,
Incorporated, with its net-work of
twenty—two constituent fruit co-ops.

Without this machinery, an ener-
getic and sustained advertising ef-
fort would be impossible. To make

, a success of advertising one has to

do more than hit the nail on the
head just once. One has to keep
on hitting it until the nail is driven
and then drive another and another
and so forth.

Needless to say, this will never
be done unless the growers do it
themselves.

“Yes,” said Mr. Granger, “Michi—
gan fruit is ready. to be advertised.
We are on the brink of a new mer-
chandising era. All we have to do
is realize the fact and push our-
selves over the brink.

In Western Canada With Farm Paper Editors * ’

took a drive of seventy miles to the
ranch of the Prince of Wales in the
foot hills of the Canadian Rockies.
I shall never forget the feeling of
awe that came over me that beauti—
ful morning as we passed out of the
city of Calgary on our way to the
ranch, and, for the ﬁrst time, I saw
the Rockies. At ﬁrst they appeared
to be behind a thin screen of smoke
but as the sun rose higher in the sky
the outline of the mountain range
became more distinct, the low-hang—
ing clouds cleared away and the
snow—capped. peaks were visible, 90
miles away. My wife said it was the
ﬁrst time’she ever saw me speech—
less. We passed through some ter—
ritory where mixed farming was prac—
ticed and into cattle and sheep coun-
try arriving at the ranch of the
Prince shortly before noon. The
buildings are located in a beautiful
valley and are very sensible and sub—
stantial. We were welcomed by the
manager, Dr. W. L. Carlyle, a man
who was born and raised in the Unit—
ed States. The men of the party
were given a ﬁne lunch spread on
tables under the trees Beside a creek
that passes through the ranch, while
the ladies were entertained with tea
in the Prince’s ranch house. The
afternoon was spent in inspecting the
ranch buildings and the stock.
Among the notable animals were
“King of Fairies,” prize Shorthorn
bull, andﬁ‘Will Semers,” thorough—
bred stallion. owned by King George
:{d loaned to,  ‘  ‘

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NO‘V ‘VOULDN’T THIS GET YOUR “GOAT”?——It’s Harold and ll'lorey Skinkle,
hert. son of

of unﬁcld out for a “joyride.” Their sister, Reoah, took the picture and sent
it in to us.

‘ “CHICKEN THIEVES.” — T h e s e
‘ horned owls were shot «by Stanley
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PICKING IIUCKLEBERRIES.——It is real fun to pick “0" BOY! AIN'T \VE GOT \V “0 ARE THESE YOUNGSTERS‘3—The joke is on us

huckleberrie/s, according to lurs. \V. M. Chesney, of Leslie. FUN?"—Dolo res, lO—months-old this time. “’e were in such it hurry to get this picture in

. and she sends in this picture to prove it. “We had eight daughter of Jules Unbain, of St. the paper that we plumh forgot the name of the folks. All
Charles, is having just a wonderful we remember is that the dog’s name is “Cub”. ‘Vho are

7 I ‘ crates ﬁlled when this was taken and we were just getting

' started,” she writes. they?

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YOU’RE WRONG! THEY ARE NOT EST" ER AND HER FAVORITE Snell, dungh— ()Rl’llAN_ ——-’l‘hese
CLOVER”!—They are standing in a patch ter of Eugene Snell, of arunae, has a, horse of her own that she Mrs. Joe Atzingen, of
of Early Rose potatoes on the funn of Chas. harnesses, drives and rides and she asks no odds of anyone. She them in hand to raise

L. Powell, of Kewadin. is a. genuine furmerette all the way round. very much interested.

 

   

  

“JUST PALS.”—The bright young man in this
Slash, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Howard W. Moore,
tecton- slts by his side.

EVERYBODY IS HAPPY.—Marie
and Betty, daughters of Mr. and
.ﬁMzs. Byron Swanson, of Pelleton,

“MIGHTY HUNTERS ABE WE.”—Clar-
one and Charlie Inman, of Shepherd, and
muﬁhlack tax they caught.

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' crate with tile in it crack?

"“5’1 I _Vﬂ_7___________~-_‘r ___ ,
’ (A «.1. W rel- W

CONCRETE CHIMNEY
Would a chimney made of con-
Would
it stand much heat, also would the

tile have to be loose in the concrete ,;

or could it be set in the mold so the
concrete could stick to it? Please
give me what advice you can.-——G. (1.,
Empire, Mich.

TIRE use of concrete in chimney
construction is not generally re-
commended for ordinary dwell—
ings and is not permitted in most
building codes. There seems to be a
greater possime of building a des
festive chimney of concrete than
when brick is used. Cracking caused
by settling or expansion from. heat
is more diﬂicult to avoid than in a
brick chimney.

When a chimney is made of con-
crate it should be lined with regular

   

   

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aiming-neuter mm
you. I mymmmmmnnammemmmnumnnmi

ﬁre clay ﬂue lining, and concrete
should be reinforced both horizont-
ally and vertically. The concrete
shell should be from 4" to 6” thick
and may have the ﬂue lining embed-
ed in it.-—O. E. Robey, Specialist in
Agricultural Engineering, M. S. C.

CHARGES FOR HAULING
PASSENGER

Would like to know if a person
with an operator’s license has a
right to charge for hauling passen-
gers in his automobile, or if he has
to have an extra. license—A. V. S.,
Glennie, Mich.

VERY person who operates a
motor vehicle for hire or who
hires himself to operate a mo-

tor vehicle is required to have a
chauffeur’s'license. If a person owns

    

 

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chauﬂenﬁs licensee—C. J.‘ DeLand,
Secretary to.

 

WANTS DRAIN

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as“: ‘ , we. ,. ..

trict, bya‘p’fstitipntsigned by at'leut
ten, preparation. 01
such signers shall be owners or

’ lands liable to assessment for the

I have forty acres in the northern .

part of the state and cannot get
drainage on account of a hill. There
is a good ditch starting about two
miles west of my place and it ends
at,my place. It is on the public
highway and they never made any
attempt to put a drain through this
hill as should be done, as it has to
go down about ten feet. Would it
be up to the township to put in‘ this
drain or the property owners that
are beneﬁted—M. 11., Wayne Coun—
ty. ’

reply to your question my opin-

ion is that if the drainage is for
purpose of draining your

own property you will have to stand
the expegse. As it appears to me
from your statement of facts that
you are the only beneﬁciary. If
other lands are to be beneﬁted you

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Resulgs

An increase of 2476.5 lbs. in two lac-
tations! And, at the same time, an
object lesson for all dairymenl

Here was a cow with a splendid record
during her ﬁrst lactation period—pro-
duction that would satisfy most dairy-
men. Yet proper feeding and care
brought an increase of 1326.9 lbs. in the
second milking  and a further
gainof1149.6lbs.inthethird.

Dairymen owe it to their bank balances
never to take for granted that a particu-
lar cow has reached the physical limits
of her proﬁt-earning capacity. Every
cow owner, of course, wants imme-
diate returns on his feed investment,

 

 

   
    
 
   
   
  
  
   
 
  
  
  
  
 
  

‘Ihe Story Of Cow No.120‘

00w No. 120, a grade Holstein, came to the Larro Research
Farm January 22nd, 1922. Since that time an accurate record
of her performance—weight, ration feed, milk produced—has
been kept, covering three complete milking periods. From
these ﬁgures the following table was compiled:

MCIATION LACIAII'ION

No. 1 No. 2
Date {Inhaled - - 11/11/21 1/19/23
Weight after Embossing v 917 1100
Weight ﬂ ad (‘ lactation o 1226 1254
Weight just bobs: ﬁtshenmg 1270 1334
Highest 1.0 day? - — 416.4 476.2
Milk in 330 (it?! - 11259.2 12586.1

“the long haul.”

Askdienearestdealer

alone can
rave a feed

   

LACI'ATION
No. 3
3/24/24
1150

564.6
13735.7

and Larro brings those returns as in
the case of cow No. 120. But Larro
also builds the health and condition
that make it possible for a cow to yield
steadily increasing proﬁts during the
succeeding milking periods.

More milk now. More milk next year.
More milk in years to come. For thou-
sands of dairymen, scattered over the
country, Larro is paying handsome
proﬁts over their investment for feed
—both in immediate returns and for

Anyfairtrial ofLarrooveranyreason-
able period of time will prove these
facts to your own satisfaction.

THELARROWE MILLING COMPANY , (

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construction of such drain. (Act No.
316 of P. A. of 1923 Session, Chap.
III.)——H. V. Spike, Assistant Attor-
ney General.

SET OUT sermons n! me

When is the best time to set out
asparagus, in the spring or fall?—
0. B., Plainwell, Mich.

is usually thought that the best
time to set out asparagus plants
is in the spring. Plants set out
in the fall do not have ample time
to become established before winter
sets in. In this case many plants
are likely to winter kill. However,
plants set out in the spring gener-
ally make good growth, and thus

 

become established before the grow- .

ing season ends—Joseph B. Ed-
mond, Instructor in Horticultum,
Michigan State Qollege.
RECORD CONTRACT
I bought a piece of .land on con-
tract through a real estate agent.
He looked up the records and they
showed an $1,800.00 mortgage on
same. I bought it on said contract.
the price being $5,000.00, paid
$500.00 down and $36.00 per
month, or more, at 6 per cent. This
contract bears date of March 12,
1924. On April 3, 1924 there was
another mortgage

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the place. This man refuses to re-
cord said contract. He is not col-
lectable, so what am I to do? This
man can mortgage said land again
if he so wishes, or assign it to some-
one else if he so chooses.

is reliable.
said contract recorded?

Mich.

—You could take your copy of the
contract to the register of deeds'
ofﬁce and have t recorded—Legal
Editor.

SEEKING-FURTHER APPLE

What is the matter with the Seek-
No—Further. apple? Twenty years
ago it was a common and popular
variety, now it is almost impossible
to obtain one—E. F., Albion, Mich.

BE Seek-No—Further apple has
not been planted much during
recent years because there has

been no particular demand for it.

it has been unable to compete in the
markets with, some of ‘Our more
prominent standard sorts like John-
athan, McIntosh and Northern Spy.

of Horticulture, M. S. C _
DISPUTE OVER CATTLE
A sold two cows to B for $200

ed to pay the balance of $50 in a
week. Now nearly a month has
gone by since B took the cows and
he has not been to A as yet to pay
for the same. A has heard through
different parties that B talks of
not paying the balance, claiming
cows are too old and not what they
were claimed to be. New B had his
own choice of cows and did not say
anything when he took them. Can
A take sheriff and go after cattle,
paying B the $150, but making B
pay sheriff costs and cost of hiring
truck to haul cattle? No note for
the Jifty dollars was given, A tak-
ing B's 'Word for same—C. W.,
Waltz, Mich.

CD would have to get an order
from the court before taking
the cows back. I would sue
him for the levy on the cows to
satisfy the judgment.———Legal Editor.

PLANTING BERRIJZB
When is the best time to‘ set rasp-
berries?-——-Mrs. B., Tower, Mich.

FALL planting is sometimes prac-
ticed with the blackberries and

red raspberries but the black
raspberry should beset as early as
possible in the spring. The plants
are propagated by laying down the
tips and covering them with soil
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necorded of,
$1,000.00, making $2,800.00 against.

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If this :
be true a land con-tract is not safe a
to buy on unless the second 
Isthere anyway to get,
I have a‘
copy of same—E. W., Dansville, .

(Like a great many other varieties, i

——V. IL Gardner, Head, Department .

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Fine quality‘lbuilt into an automobile
makes it run well, wear well and look well
for a long time. It keeps satisfaction high
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R ENTION was made in a former

article of the Hillsdale county
club attend-
but at that

boys’ and girls’

ing the State Fair,
time

their prize mon-
ey would total,
and when it was
a n n o u n ced it
seemed like
quite a 1 a r g e
chunk of bacOn
for the clubs of
one county t 0
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lars! The prize
L. w. MEEKS ribbons w h i c h
were won were

on display in a bank at the county
seat until the Hillsdale County Fair
when they formed one of the lead-
ing attractions of the parades,
which the clubs put on each day.
Nearly one hundred of the boys and
girls enjoyed the entire week of the
Hillsdale Fair by having sleeping
and dining room tents on the
grounds. They staged some sort of
entertainment each evening in the
Congress Building and the year’s
club work is certain to go into his-
tory as a great success.
* tic *
Rainy “feather

James Whitcomb Riley once gave
utterance to a thought which has
often impressed me with its common
sense and wisdom. It runs some-
thing like this——

“It's no use to grumble and complain.

It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice;
When God sorts out the weather and

sends rain.

Why, rain’s my choice.”

We certainly had our choice for
rain well satisﬁed during the last
four weeks, having had so many
rainy days that farm operations in
general have been greatly hindered.
Some ﬁelds of alfalfa which were
cut the third time for hay are cov-
ered with the piles of rotten hay,
and there have been on the ground
so long they have killed the alfalfa
plants under them. Scarcely any
medium clover seed has been hulled
yet, and the rains have nearly ruin-
much of it. Many ﬁelds of beans
are yet to be harvested, and many
ﬁelds are ruined by the wet weather.

The wonderful 1925 bean crop
came to a sad end. I doubt if there
is any other crop so easily ruined by
rain as beans. My experience leads
me to believe that many farmers are
in too great haste to pull their beans
and have to,allow them too long a
time in the bunch to properly cure
for storing.

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Potato Harvest

When this issue of the M. B. F.
reaches the subsoribers, potato har-
vest will be on in full tilt here in
Southern Michigan. The crop is
fair, but will be far short of last
year on many farms, as the stand is
very poor. This seems to be the
trouble all over the U. S. Blight has
killed many potatoes around here
as it has elsewhere. We can easily
see where our frequent sprayings
with Bordeaux Mixture have helped
keep our vines alive. This is only
one year in several where blight
has caused much trouble, and‘I
question whether it pays to spray
late potatoes with Bordeaux Mix—
ture simply as a blight preventative.
Blight so seldom causes serious loss—
es, and continuous spraying with
Bordeaux costs so much. It is
doubtful if it pays where one pro-
duces table potatoes only. V

Of course, if one produces certi-

fied seed, one must spray atleast’

five times-wand if the potato vines
did not show a quite general cover—
ing with the dried mixture when vis—
ited by the inspector, he would have
just”0ause for rejecting the field. I
doubt if ﬁve sprayings are enough
for late potatoes. In blighty years.

  

  

» like this one. eight sprang“ aphid

News and

dited by L. W. MEEKS, Hillsdale County

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worth doing well.”

Blight, however, is not the only
reason one has for spraying. The
many sections of the state the Colo-
rado {Beetle or old fashioned potato
bug, must be combated with spray,
andwhen a pOlson is used for bugs
it is no more work to use the Bor—
deaux at the same time. In all our
experience with late potatoe, we
have never had to spray for bugs.
In fact we never have used one
ounce of poison on our late potato
crops.

The last year or two we have no-
ticed a few leaf hoppers on our
ﬁelds, but the Bordeaux mixture
seems to keep them from becoming
numerous enough to be a menace.
In ﬁelds belonging to neighbors,
who do not spray, the leaf hoppers
are very numerous and ,it is only a
question of time when they will be
as dreaded, and justly so as the po-
tato bug, and harder to cpntrol.
Next year we shall add nicotine sul-
phate to our Bordeaux mixture and
note its effect on leaf hoppers.

Help becomes more scarce every
year and it would seem that before
many years such crops as pocatoes,
which require so much labor, will
necessarily be reduced in-acreagc.
No matter how much potato machin-
ery a farmer has, the potato crop re—
quires a great deal of genuine work.
We usually pay the help by the
bushel for picking up the potatoes,
the price varying according to the
size of the crop, and amount of sort-
ing to be done. We have always
sorted them when picked up but this
year we are not. They are all c'erti-
ﬁed and must be held on the farm
until spring, and regraded .before
Shipping so no grading is done in
the fall only to throw out an occa-
sianl one of undesirable appearance
if any.

Keeping our crop until spring has
caused us to build a storage house
this fall. It is not as large as some
we have read of, but will be of am-
ple size for .our need. A farmer
can not produce quality potatoes
only by having a ﬁxed rotation, and
this means a limit as to acreage.
Our storage will care for nearly
three thousand bushels. Potatoes
are too often piled too deep in the

 
  

careful storage than half is stack.)
A Corn 3 . > Question
“Will you please germ me new

I can store shredded corn fodder so.

that it Will not heat and mold in
the mow? We would husk corn
with a machine if we thought we

‘ could keep the fodder from spoiling.

—-Old Reader, Central, Michigan.

Old Reader‘is not the only farm-I. '

er»wh‘o would shred and husk his
corn if he knew how to keep the fod-
der from Ispoiling. I well remem-
ber the ﬁrst corn we ever had husk-
ed with a machine. It was late in
the fall, and corn was entirely cured
and, as the weather was very dry, it
seemed an ideal time to use a ma-
chine huskér. Not knowing my
better, we took extra care to have
the fodder well mowed away. A
man kept up a constant tramp to

,pack the shredded stalks, and every

man on the job allowed Meeks
would certainly have some ﬁne
roughage that winter—but he did-
n’t! Two weeks after shredding the
water was dripping from the raft—
ers in the barn, and four weeks
after shredding the barn, smelled
like a silo. It was/a cold winter and
the mow of fodder froze into a near-
Iy solid mass. I used an ax to cut
out chunks which I fed rather spar-
ingly to the' cows, and much to my
astonishment they seemed to relish
the feed. The next year the own
was not as well cured and a new
system was used. We borrowed
some extra wagons and loaded them
with bright oat straw. These were
hauled in by the side of the mow,
and a man unloaded this straw into
the fodder, keeping it well mixed.
When the mow was full, there was
perhaps one third straw and two
thirds fodder, and it kept ﬁne. It
never even got warm as far in as
a man could reach. It is not abso-
lutely necessary to mix straw with
the fodder, but when one has the
straw handy, it is an ideal system.
Fodder will generally keep it not
packed too tightly. A man should
be stationed at the blower discharge
and keep the mo'w of fodder as level
as possible. If fodder is well cured,
it should keep by the above method.
Some use salt, thinking it keeps the
fodder from spoiling, but it seems to
me it would require a vast amount
of salt‘to be successful as a preser-
vative, although a reasonable
amount would no doubt add some-
what to its palatableness, as a
stock food.

I believe many M. B. F. readers
would like to know how others have
kept fodder, and any such informa-
tion will be glady printed if sent in.

 

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\VIDE OR NARROW SLEIGH

EAR EDITOR: Some of us old
D residents here have seen the

wide sleighs tried out here and
discarded. When lumbering stopped
here there was left a lot of sleighs
that tracked with the wagons or
about two inches narrower than the
new standard ones and for a time
few others were in use but their
owners soon got sick of them and
cut them down and got others.

It was found that it took about
twice the power to draw them
through drifts as it did to draw the
narrow ones through or pull them
through the loose snow when We
turned out to pass other teams. Be-
sides they turn hard in loose snow
especially and where travel was not
very heavy the horses went inside
of the track and ﬁrst one runner
would slip into the horse track and
the other climb up out and at an-
other place the runner that was up
would slide down and the other up.
Besides they had to be made heavi—
er to be just as strong. But the
worst of this matter is the principle
of it.

The object of this legislation is
to force the farmers to__break the
roads for the automobiles to so in.
It was plainly stated by some of its
advocates before the law was pass~
ed. A car owner has the same right
to use the road that the farmer has.
but no, more right. . No one cleaning;

the , right to sores another-Solon

  
     

them pay for it. When laws are
passed to make one class serve an-
other it,is class legislation and all
wrong. When the $50,000,000 in
bonds was voted we were to have
better roads to market our produce.
When the roads were laid out we
found they were planned for the
beneﬁt of the tourist trade and tax—
es to put through these big roads
were so high that other roads were
neglected, so many of us have
poorer roads to market than we

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GOOD TILLAGE AND ITS
EFFEM‘S ON CROPS

' S one looks around his own com-
munity he -_will see a lot of
difference in the way different

You

will also note that the successful

farmer has a deﬁnite routine that
he follows to arrive at his results.

The big fact in tillage is to con-
trol moisture, so as to liberate plant
food as the crop needs it, and to
conserve this moisture for future
plant use. -

The ﬁrst step in this operation is
plowing, there has been lots said,
on plowing, books written upon it,
and it has been argued pro and con,
yet to the individual doing the job
there is always a. certain fancy that
enters
eradicated. 0n nearly every piece
of farm land that has been plowed
there is a plow sole just at the bot—
tom of the furrow the depth depend-
ing upon the way the ground has
been plowed in previous years.
Sometimes this is 4 inches and
sometimes 9 inches from the sur-
face. This sole is usually hard and
non-porous in the clay soils and in
the blow sand land you may not
ﬁnd it at all.

"’ A depth of 7 to 9 inches is the

best plow depth as nearly all the
12, 14 and 16 inch bottom plows
will work to the best advantage at
these depths. At deeper depths the
modern plow will not work success-
fully and the draft becomes so great
that it is not practical. The advan-
tage of deep plowing is that you
have a greater area of soil that is
mellow to hold humus and mois-
ture.

After the plowing has been done
it should be followed at once with
a roller, cultipacker or even a wood
planker to pulvorize the large
lumps and compress the soil so as
to eliminate the air pockets that
cause rapid drying out of the soil.
If this moisture is retained the soil
begins to nitrify, especially in warm
weather. This nitriﬁcation is al-
ways necessary in the starting and
growing of crops. Frequent drag-
ging keeps the crust from forming
and prevents soil cracks and checks

that permit the drying out of the
soil.
But let this be deﬁnitely under-

stood that unless you have plenty
of humus and plant food in the soil,
good tillage is not going to turn the
trick, but whatever the condition
the chances are 100 to 1 in favor of
the good tiller.

Remember these things: - deep
plowing, 7 to 9 inches, rolling and
packing, and, frequent harrowing at
intervals that prevents the drying
out of the soil is really the ideal
method of ﬁtting ground for

any

Edited by c. J. WRIGHT, sarcasm County—4—
. Contributions Invited—Questions Anewered

into it that will never be

crop. And if you try to ﬁnd why
the successful farmer raises good
crops this will be one of his secrets.
Another one is that he is plowing
under some vegetable residue or
clover sod so as to keep up his
supply of humus. And usually he
keeps enough livestock to use up
his roughage and turns these ele—
ments back in the form of manure.

I have noticed farmers plowing
3 to 4 inches deep and this is es-
pecially so with some of the tractor
plowing and this plowing will lay
in the furrow for weeks before even
a drag has been used and yet they
think that this is O. K. but in a year
or two this kind of work will make
its lasting impression upon the soil
and always to the detriment of the
farm. With good tillage comes the
fact that there is more capillary at—
traction and moisture is drawn up
from the subsoil in varying amounts
and this does not happen to the
poor seed bed and one has to de—
pend upon rains rather than mois—
ture drawn from the water table
below. This is the principle used
by the dry farmers of the west
where all they have to depend upon
is the moisture from the snows of
the winter season and where there is
hardly any rain during the growing
season. Yet they can conserve this
snow water throughout the season
and raise a good crop.

When one realizes that a ton of
clover or alfalfa hay requires a
million pounds of water to produce
it, and a crop of wheat at 25 bush-
els per acre needs water enough to
grow it, that, if put on the acre at
one time it would cover it to a depth
of ﬁve inches then one will realize
that the more moisture he can con—
serve the better chances he has for
getting a crop. Thousands of farm—
ers have been using this method to
their advantage for years yet thous—
ands of others have been and are
using the lax method and are fore—
most in the ranks of the calamity
bowlers and dissatisﬁed farm peo—
ple.

LIDLE 0R LIMESTONE?
What would be the best for a
garden and a young orchard four
years old, lime or limestone?———G.
8., Oakland County.

N nearly every case ground lime—
1 stone from two to four tons
per acre is the best form of lime

to use. If it is not available one
ton to three of hydrate lime can
be used but is much more expen-
sive.

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MEET C. J. WRIGHT,
FOLKS

when introducing a new feature

editor to our folks to publish a.
picture of him so that you could see
what he looked like, and we had
been pretty successful until we
hooked up with C. J. Wright, our
Soils and Crops man, last January.
C. J. declared he didn’t have a
picture but ﬁnally sent us one taken
about 10 years ago which he swore
he hat “snitched off an old sweet—
heart." We thoughtwit looked like
a collar ad or “A skin you love to
touch” illustration rather than a
picture of a real sod-buster, and we
told him so. Then he got busy
with spring work and had no time
for pictures. But this didn't stop
us because we had decided that we
must have a picture, by fair means
or foul, so we got busy—and here's
the results. This was taken one
hot Sunday afternoon last summer,
and we consider it a remarkable
likeness—especially of his hands
and left foot. It’s too bad we were
not able to get a snapshot of him
when awake because he is a real
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CHAPTER XV
Old Burr of the Ferry

I was in late November and while the
coal carrier Pontiac, on which he was
r, serving as lookout, was in Lake Super—
Or, that Alan ﬁrst heard of Jim Burns.
The name spoken among some other
names in casual conversation by a member
of the crew. stirred and excited him; the
n name James Burr, occurring on Benjamin
Corvet's list, had borne opposite it the
‘ legend “All disappeared; no trace,” and
“Alan, whose investigations had accounted
for all others whom the list contained,
.had been able regarding Burr only to
Verify the fact that at the address given
no one of this name was to be found.

He questioned the oiler who had men-
tioned Burr. The man had met Burr one
night in Manitowoc with other men, and
something about the old man had im-
pressed both his name and image on him;
he knew no more than that. At Mani—
towocl—the place from which Captain
Stafford’s watch had been sent to Con—
stance Sherrill and where Alan had sought
for, but had failed to ﬁnd, the sender!
Had Corvet, after his disappearance,
found Burr? Had Burr been the sender.
under CorVet’s direction, of those things?
Alan speculated upon this. The man
might well, of course, be some other Jim
Burr; there were probably many men by
that name. Yet the James Burr of Cor-
Vet’s list must have been such a one as the
oiler described—~a white haired old man.

Alan could not leave the Pontiac and
go at once to Manitowoc to seek Burr;
. for he was needed where he was, The
season of navigation on Lake Superior
was near its close. In Duluth skippers
were clamoring for cargoes; ships were
lading in haste for a last trip before ice
closed the lake‘s outlet at the Soo against
all ships. It was fully a week later and
after the Pontiac had been laden again
and had repassed the length of Lake
Superior that Alan left the vessel at Sault
Ste. Marie and took the train for Mani-
towoc.

The little lake port of Manitowoc,
which he had reached in the late after—
noon, was turbulent with the lake season’s
approaching close. Long lines of bulk
freighters, loaded and tied up to wait
for spring, ﬁlled the river, their released-
crews rioted through the town. Alan
inquired for the seamen’s drinking place,
where his informant had met Jim Burr;
following the directions he received he
made his way along the river bank until
he found it. The place was neat, im—
Amaculate; a score of lakemen sat talking
at little tables or leaned against the bar.
(Alan inquired of the proprietor for Jim
Burr.

The proprietor knew old Jim Burr——
yes. Burr was a wheelsman on Garferry
Number 25. He was a lakeman, Experi—
enced and capable; that fact, some
months before, had served as introduction
for him to the frequenters of this place.
When the ferry was in harbor and his
duties left him idle, Burr came up and
waited there, occupying always the same
chair. He never drank; ho llt‘VOl‘ spoke
to others unless they spoke ﬁrst to him,
but then he talked freely about old days
on the lakes, about ships which had been
lost and about men long dead.

Alan decided that there could be no
better place to interview old Burr than
here; he waited therefore, and in the
early evening the old man came in.

Alan watched him curiously as, without
speaking to any one, he went to the chair
recognized as his and sat down. He was
a slender but muscularly built man seem-
ing about sixty-ﬁve, but he might be con—
siderably younger or older than that.
‘His hair was completely white; his nose
was thin and sensitive; his face was
smoothly placid, emotionless, contented;
his eyes were queerly clouded, deepset
and intent.

Those whose names Alan had found on
Corvet’s list had been of all ages, young
and old; but Burr might well have been
a contemporary of Corvet on the lakes.
Alan moved over and took a seat beside
the old man.

“You’re from No. :35?" he asked, to
draw him into conversation.

‘lYes'il

“I've been working on the carrier l‘on—
tiac as lookout. She’s on her way to tie
up at Cleveland, so I left her and came on
here. You don’t know whether there’s
a. chance for me to get a place through
the winter on No. 25?”

Old Burr reﬂected. “One of our boys
has been talking of leaving. I don’t
know when he expects to go. You might
ask." '

. “Thank you; I will. My name's Con—
rad—Alan Conrad.”

. He saw no recognition of the name in
,Burr’s reception of it; but he had not
expected that. None of those on Ben—
amin Corvet’s list had any knowledge of
‘an Conrad or had heard the name be—
are.

Alan was silent, watching the old man;
if. silent too, seemed listening to the
Wersation which came to them from
tables near by, where men were talk-
; of cargoes, and ‘of ships and of men
who worked and sailed upon them.
""wa long have you been on the lakes ?”
‘ n‘ inquired.

tell my life.” The question awakened
ﬂnescence in the old man. “My father
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“The Miwaka'?” "

Old Burr turned abruptly to look him
through and through; yet while his eyes
remained ﬁxed on Alan suddenly they
grew blank. He was not thinking now of
Alan, but had turned his thoughts within
himself.

“I remember her—yes. She was lost
in ’95,” he said. “In ’95," he repeated.

“You lost a nephew with her, didn’t
you?"

“A nephew—no. That is a mistake. I
lost a brother.”

“Where were you living then?”

“In Emmet County, Michigan.”

“When did you move to Point Corbay,
Ontario?”

“I never lived at Point Corbay.”

“Did any of your family live there?"

“No.” Old Burr looked away from
Alan, and the queer cloudiness of his
eyes became more evident.

“Why do you ask all this?” he said ir—
ritably. “What have they been telling
you about me? I told you about myself;
our farm was in Emmet County, but we
had a liking for the lake. One of my
brothers was lost in ’95 with the Miwaka
and another in ’99 with the Susan Hart.”

“Did you know Benjamin Corvet?"
Alan asked.

Old Burr stared at him uncertainly.
“I know who he is, of course."

“You never met him?"

((NO'V)

Did you receive a communication from
him some time this year?”

“From him? From Benjamin Corvet?
No." Old Burr’s uneasiness seemed to in-
crease. “What sort of communication?”

“A request to send some things to Miss
Constance Sherrill at Harbor Point.”

“I never heard of Miss Constance Sher—
rill. To send what things?”

“Several things among them a watch
which had belonge to Captain Stafford of
the Miwaka.”

Old Burr got up suddenly and stood.
gazing down at Alan. “A watch of Cap-
tain Stafford's?—no." he said agitatedly.
[1N0 !!!

He moved away and left the place;
and Alan sprang up and followed him.

He was not, it seemed probable to Alan
now, the James Burr of Corvet’s 1st; at
least Alan could not see how he could be
that one. Among the names of the crew
of the Miwaka Alan had found that of a
Frank Burr, and his inquiries had in-
formed him that this man was nephew of
the James Burr who had lived near Port
Corbay and had “disappearec” with all
his family. Old Burr had not lived at
Port Corbay at least, he claimed not to
have liVod there; he gave another ad—
dress and assigned to himself quite dif—
ferent connections. For every member of
the crew of the hiiwaka there had been
a corresponding, but different name upon
(‘orvct’s list—the name of a close relative.
If old Burr was not related to the Burr
on Corvct’s list, what connection could
he have with the Miwaka, and why should
Alan’s questions have agitated him so?
Alan would not lose sight of Old Burr
until he had learned the reason for that.

lie follmved, as the old man crossed
the bridge and turned to his left among
the buildings on the rim-r front. Burr's
ﬁgure, vague in the dusk, crossed the
railroad yards and made its way to where
a huge black bulk, which Alan recognized
as the ferry, loomed at the waterside. He
disappeared aboard it. Alan, following
him, gazed about.

A long. broad, black boat the ferry was,
almost four hundred feet to the tall, bluff
bow. Seen from the stem, the ship
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only above the water line, the stern was
all cut away, and the long, low cavern
of the deck gleamed with rails upon
which the electric lights glinted. Save
for the supports of the superstructure
and where the funnles and ventilator
pipes passed up from below, that whole
strata of the ship was a vast car shed;
its tracks, running to the edge of the
stern, touched tracks on the dock. A
freight engine was backing loaded cars
from a train of sixteen cars upon the
rails on the starboard side; another train
of sixteen big box cars waited to go
aboard on the tracks to the port of the
center stanchions. When the two trains
were aboard, the great vessel—“No. 25,"
in big white stencil upon her black sides
were her distinguishing marks—«would
thrust out into the ice and gale for the
Michigan shore nearly eighty miles away.
Alan thrilled a little at his inspection
of the ferry. He had not seen close at
hand before one of the great craft which,
throughout the winter, brave ice and
storm after all-or nearly all—other lake
boats are tied up. He had not meant to
apply there when he questioned Old Burr
about a berth on the ferry; he had used
that merely as a means of getting into
conversation with the old man. But now
he meant to apply; for it would enable
him to ﬁnd out more about old Burr.
He went forward between the tracks
upon the deck to the companionway, and
ascended and found the skipper and pre-
sented his credentials. No berth on the
ferry was vacant yet but one soon would
be. and Alan was accepted in lieu of the
man who was about to leave; his wages
would not begin until the other man left,
but in the meantime he could remain
aboard the ferry if he wished. Alan
elected to remain aboard. The skipper
called a man to assign quarters to Alan,
and Alan, going with the man, questioned

,wh'im about Burr.

All that was known deﬁnitely about old
Burr on the ferry, it appeared was that
he had joined the vessel in the early
spring. Before that—they did not know;
he might be an old lakeman who, after
spending years ashore, had returned to
the lakes for a livelihood. He had rep—
resented himself as experienced and train-
ed upon the lakes, and he had been able
to demonstrate his ﬁtness; in spite of his
age he was one of the most capable of
the crew. .

The next morning, Alan approached
old Burr in the crew’s quarters and tried
to draw him into conversation again
about himself; but Burr anly stared at
him with his intent and oddly introspec-
tive eyes and would not talk upon this
subject. A week passed; Alan, estab-
lished as a lookout now on No. 25 and
carrying on his duties, saw Burr daily
and almost every hour; his watch coin—
cided with Burr‘s watch at the wheel—
they went on duty and were relieved to-
gether. Yet better acquaintance did not
make the old man more communicative;
a score of times Alan attempted to get
him to tell more about himself, but he
evaded Alan’s questions and, if Alan per—
sisted, he avoided him. Then, on an
evening bitter cold with the coming of
winter, clear and ﬁlled with stars. Alan,
just relieved from watch, stood by the
pilothouse as Burr also was relieved.
The old man paused beside him, looking
to the west.

“Have you ever been in Sturgeon’s
Bay?” he asked,

“In Wisconsin? No.”

“There is a small house there—and a
child; born,” he seemed ﬁguring the date,
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One of your brothers’ children or grand-
children?” I v '

“I had no brothers,” old Burr said
quietly.

Alan stared at him, ama‘zed. “But you
told me about your brothers and about
their being lost in wrecks on the lake;
and about your home in Emmet County!

“I never lived in Emmet County,” old
Burr replied. “Some one else must have
told you that about me. I come from
Canada—wit French-Canadian descent.
My family were of the Hudson Bay peo-
ple. I was a guide and hunter until
recently. Only a few years ago I came
onto the lakes, but my cousin came here
before I,did. It is his child.”

Old Burr moved away and Alan turned
to the mate.

"What do you make of old Burr? he
asked.

“He’s a romancer. We get ’em that
way once in a while—old liars! He’ll
give you twenty different accounts of
himself—twenty different lives. None of
them is true. I don’t know who he is
or where he came from, but it’s sure he
isn’t any of the things he says he is.”

Alan turned away. chill with disap-
pointment. It was only that, then—old
Burr was a romancer after the manner
of some old seamen. He constructed for
his own amusen’lent these “lives.” He
was not only the Burr of Corvet’s list;
he was some one not any way connected
with the Miwaka or with Corvet. Yet
Alan, upon reﬂection, could not believe
that it was only this. Burr, if he had
wished to do that, might perhaps merely
have simulated agitation when Alan
questioned him about the Miwaka; but
should he have wished to simulate it?
Alan could conceive of no condition which
by any possibility could have suggested
such simulation to the old man.

He ceased now, however, to question
Burr since questioning either had no re-
sult at all or led the old man to weaving
ﬁctions; in response the old man became
by degrees more communicative. He told
Alan, at different times, a number of
other “lives” which he claimed as his
own. In only a few of these lives had
he been, by his account, a seaman; he
had been a multitude of other things—
in some a farmer, in others a lumberjack
or a ﬁsherman; he had been born, he told,
in a half—dozen different places and came
of as many different sorts of people.

On deck, one night, listening while old
Burr related his. sixth or seventh life, ex-
citement suddenly siezed Alan. Burr. in
this life which he was telling, claimed to
be an Englishman born in Liverpool. He
had been, he said, a seaman in the British
navy; he had been present at the shelling
of Alexandria; later, because of some
difﬁculty which he glossed over, he had
deserted and had come to “the States”;
he had been ﬁrst a deckhand then the
mate of a tramp schooner on the lakes.
Alan, gazing at the old man, felt exulta-
tion leaping and throbbing within him.
He recognized this “life”; he knew in ad-

'vance its incidents. This life which old

Burr was rehearsing to him as his own,
was the actual life of Munro Burkhalter,
one of the men on Corvet’s list regarding
whom Alan had been able to obtain full
information!

Alan sped below, when he was relieved
from watch, and got out the clippings
left by Corvet and the notes of what he
himself had learned in his visit to the
homes of these people. His excitement
grew greater as he poured over them; he
found that he could account, with their
aid. for all that old Burr had told him.
Old Burr's “lives” were not. of course,
his; yet neither were they ﬁctitious. They
———thelr incidents, at least—were actual-
ities. They were woven from the lives of
those upon Corvet’s list! Alan felt his
skin prickling and the blood beating fast
in his temples. How could Burr have
known these incidents? Who could he be
to know them all. To what man, but
one, could all of them be known? Was
old Burr . . . Benjamin Corvet?

Alan could give no certain answer to
that question. He could not ﬁnd deﬁnite
resemblance in Burr’s placid face to the
picture of Corvet which Constance had
shown him. Yet, as regarded his age and
his physical characteristics, there was
nothing to make his identity with Ben-
jamin Corvet impossible. Sherrill or
others who had known Benjamin Corvet
well, might be able to ﬁnd resemblances
which Alan could not. And, whether
Burr was or was not Corvet, he was un-
deniably some one to whom the particu—
lars of Corvet's life were known.

Alan telegraphed that day to Sherrill;
but when the message had gone doubt
seized him. He awaited eagerly the com—
ing of whoever Sherrill might send and
the revelations regarding Corvet which
might come then; but at the same time
he shrunk \from that revelation. Ile him-
self had bccome, he knew, wholly of the
lakes now; his life, whatever his future
might be, would be concerned with them.
Yet he was not of them in the way he
would have wished .to be; he was no
more than a common seaman. ‘ '

Benjamin Corvet. when he went away,
had tried to leave his place and' power
among lakemen to Alan; Alan, refusing
to accept what Corvet had left until Cor-
vet’s'reason /should be known, had felt
obliged also to refuse friendship with the

herrill's. When revelation came, would
it make possible Alan's acceptance of the
place Corvet had prepared for him, or
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TEXT: “In diligence not slothful;
fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.”
Romans 12:11./

HE press reports the pope as
saying that it was one of “the
great religious events of Amer—

ican history." What? The giving
to 9. Cleveland priest, by the pope,
the alleged skull and bones of a
third centurry martyr. But why
rattle these dead bones in our ears?
What have they to do with the liv-
ing present? When is religion to
loose itself from the oppressive se-
verity of the past? “In diligence
not slothful; fervent in spirit; serv-
ing the Lord." A marginal reading
has it, “serving the opportunity or
occasion.” This gives it the color-
ing we desire. We are to serve this
day or occasion and not Paul’s or
our fathers’.

Lloyd George said a few years ago
that now is the time to usher in the
reign of the Prince of Peace. Of
course it was the time. It always
has been such time and occasion. No
enterprise anywhere compares, in
importance, to the extension of the
Kingdom of God on earth. And as
the realm of industry has had to do
with men, and has been built up
only through diligence and intense
application; so the Realm of God
has to do with men and can be built
up only through similar diligence
and fervency. All the affairs of
men invOlve the future of the
church. Our day is marked with
disturbances in industry; with so-
cial friction; and with political
changes. These all bear a vital re-
lation to the progress of the church.
In China and elsewhere there are so
many disturbances of men enmasse;
and at home there are so many rac—
es, cultures, environments, and prej-
udices, that the church has a royal
and colossal task, and under it she
gees down or on. But she is to go
on if she holds diligently to the pro-
gram of her Head; a program of life
and service. So our text is empha-
sizing eﬁiciency and economy.

We are told that the majority of
business enterprises fail and the
efﬁciency experts tell us why. May
we apply the efﬁciency test to the
church? Of course, there is a dif-
ference. Most church workers are
unpaid. Service and sacriﬁce are
not compelled. Spiritual values are
not altogether tangible, and yet we
have no exact standard by which to
measure gains and losses. Yet the
apostle urges us to serve well our
day. That would seem to call for
eﬂicient dealing with living prob-
lems of living men.

But let it be said, ﬁrst, that the
greatest resource of the church lies
within herself. Her vital power re-
poses in Jesus Christ, but will be
released for her through consecrat-
ed worship and consecrated work.
Modern methods without surrender
and communion, is presumption.
The church is impotent without the
spirit of her Founder; but‘with His
spirit, she has life and power and
can, therefore, meet all other needs.

The church of today needs to be
equipped for social effectiveness. A
costly church ediﬁce has been built
and recently dedicated. We are told
these folks wanted the ﬁnest church
in tOWn, and they have it. . But did
they examine well their motive?
Heavenly Father, give us the pride
of.old Zaccheus that climbs into a
tree to see Jesus, and not to see it—
self. Did the pride of these people
build but a tower of Babel? And
doesn't such pride make for social
confusion rather than fusion and
harmony? We have too many high-
toned church clubs already. The
Spirit is saying to some churches, “I
will remove thy candlestick out of
its place except thou repent."

But we are living in an era of
Gospel reaction and we do need
equipment and organization ade-
quate to_carry the impact of the
Gospel to the world in an economi;
cal and effective way. The other
.. ._ day we parked our cars in a church-
yard to eat our lunch. It was grown

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religion these folks have. “Of course
anyone could see that there was
written over the doors of this
church, “The old time religion is
good enough for me.” It lacked
the social outlook. It was forget-
ting to love its neighbor. And in a
few years more it will have meta-
morphosed into a mausoleum and
have written over its doors, “Asleep
in Jesus.

The church’s program is chieﬂy
educational, and it needs recasting
in many places to meet the modern
spiritual needs of the people. " Our
whole Christianity needs to be
Christianized. And we must come
to grips with the problems of
youth. So we see Robert Raikes
gathering up the street urchins and
payng some women to teach them
on Sunday And ever before this
one Ludwig Hocker held Sunday
afternoon classes for the young pep-
ple in a Germantown,‘Pa., church.
Educational ideals were apparent to
these men. They believed the heart
of the child held the promise of the
future. So, the church needed for
today is moving out on a program
of religious education that will
make it possible to “carry-on.” To
such a program there should be giv-
en our pedagogic skill and efﬁciency
that we might have unity and coor-
dination of all spiritual forces.

The “Let good enough alone”
spirit never has been characteristic
of the New Testament church. Too
long have we standardized our
church life in terms of “Thou shalt
not.” Long have we had the rules
for efﬁcient Christian living, but we
have not heeded. We have held
them as impractical and visionary
for a matter-of-fact world. Yet,
here, and there, we are happy to
see notable advances in the direc-
tion of applying the Gospel rule to
all the affairs of life. It is ﬁnally
taking hold of our faith that Jesus’
mountain teachings make life a unit
and not a group of compartments so
that we might separate the spirit of
Sunday from that of Monday, or the
spiritual from the secular.

But this vision and understanding
depends on the individual. The
church is a social aggregation. As is
the individual so will be the church.
The writer was shown thru a mod-
ern church recently, and With appar—
ent pride, the guide led him into a
young women’s class room which
was believed to be modernly equip—
ped. And there he was amidst sofas
and easy chairs. Verily, 110w rest-
ful! Do you think these young 1a—
dies ever heard about That Man who
had no‘ place to lay his head and
who ﬁnally died for them? Do
you think cushioned divans make
for efﬁciency in learning the way to
the Cross? Will they stimulate to
good works and joyful sacriﬁce?
And if one individul or class has
eaten sour grapes the teeth of the
Whole church may be set on edge.
We usually“aim to get the folks out
of the choir that create a musical
discord and we would do well to dis-
courage conditions that make for
social ease. Jesus worked with in-
dividuals for he knew this was pri—
mary. One can not help that one’s
natural birth was in a mountain—
eer’s hut or in a Godless, modern
home; but one can decide about the
spiritual birth. The individual,
trained and ﬁt, is the keynote to the
church’s wisdom in efﬁcient meth-
ods of work. The church needed
for today must serve the Lord thru
confessing her sloth. But she must
get clear back to the ways of Jesus
and train hei- members to follow
therein. To organize her life around
the ideals of Jesus Christ, is the
true end of every living, potent
church.

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in 1920 there were 196,447.

Naturally you might assume that this would
worry us, but to be perfectly frank, we cannot
get unduly excited over it and if the curve
should continue downward we would only know
that in Michigan we were getting more months to
feed in the cities and less farmers to feed them.

For example, if in a town where there were
too many grocery stores for any one of them to
make money, two or three should suddenly de-
cide to close shop you would hardly expect the
remaining grocers to put on mourning, would
you?

Competition may be the life of trade, but we
have never been able to apply the principles of
this old saw to the farming business.

Michigan may be losing in her total number
of farms. No one who gets within a day’s ride
of Detroit, would have to ask where they have
been going to! The subdividers at the rate they
are going will be plotting out “choice residence
lots near Ford’s plant” in Cheboygan county
before very long! Already there is a threatened
civil war between the Detroit and Chicago sub—
dividers who are standing almost back to back.

Every acre of land in Michigan is going to
be worth more with each passing year. There
may be less farms and less farmers, but you have
to boil down the sap to get the syrup.

VIOLATING CONTRACT
EGAL action against buyers who encourage
growers to violate their ﬁve—year crop mar-
keting contracts with the Michigan Potato
Growers Exchange is being taken, according to re-
Considerable evidence has been collected,
it is said, against these buyers. The state has a
.' law to protect cooperators and it has never been
*  so this is a good opportunity to see if it is"
» of any value. There is nothing discourages co—
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' business but it will cut down his proﬁts, and there
are always those who are willing to do business

at a. loss for a year or so and offer more than.

the farmers’ marketing association for the com-
modity to get the members to break their con-
tracts which, in turn. breaks the associatiOn.’

The dealer. can not do the work alone, he must
have the assistance of the farmers, so the grower
who breaks his contract is as much to blame, if
not more. A far-sighted man will not break a
contract of this kind. He will appreciate the
reason that the dealer has suddenly offered him
prices entime out of line with years before the
association was formed and when world conditions
were similar. He sticks to his contract even
though he apparently does lose a few dollars the
ﬁrst year or so, because he knows he will proﬁt
in the long run.

Growers must be made to realize the serious-
ness of their contract and dealers shoul be made
to respect this contract. If it is necess ry to go
to court, the sooner the better.

SLUSH OR‘SENSE AT JACKSON
AT the Jackson state prison has become a
sort of summer resort colony for criminals,
seems to be the opinion of M. E. Brogan,
who spent many years in the service of the pris-

on and whether or not his ‘charges are true or~

exaggerated, they will merit “some attention from
the present administration at Lansing.

Part of the present orgy of crime in Michigan
can be laid directly to the lack of fear of sen—
tence on the part of the criminal.

Sentimentality has been allowed to run ram-
pant, Well—meaning but hardly well-balanced in—
dividuals have given up their valuable (?) time
to making the prisoners happy and contented at
all odds. «

Not so long ago, we had paraded before our
eyes the spectacle of a group of Detroit ladies
raising funds for the defense of a convicted mur-
derer in another state

What fear can instill in the minds of our
criminally inclined youths, when their picture of
prison is a place of ease and luxury, where they
can have the beneﬁt of the instruction from ex-
perts in their own line, and be assured of some
kind-hearted individual helping them to beat the
length of sentence given after due deliberation
of judge and jury?

We may be old—fashioned but we hold to the
same ideas which Mr. Brogan has advanced, that
prison must be something to be feared. We
have never been convincedihat capital punish-
ment, where guilt is unquestioned, would not
lessen the number of our murders. We can
learn a lot from England and even from our
next door neighbor, Canada, in handling crime.

Going to prison, in our humble opinion, ought
to be just about the last thing anybody wanted
to do, but from the growing population of our
state institutions apparently it isn't!

WHAT~ ABOUT BEANS?

WHAT about the Michigan bean grower and
his association? What about a marketing
plan? What of the advertising campaign?
After the work that was done during the past
spring and summer in behalf of all three are
we no better off than we were a year ago? The
bean growers need an organization just as much
as the potato growers or the fruit men. We
are sure the growers are favorable to an associ-
ation and that they can be organized just as
easily as any other group of producers. Grow—
ers of beans in other states have marketed their
beans successfully and proﬁtably, so why can not
Michigan growers? They can if we will all get
behind one marketing plan instead of being di—
vided. The collections of funds for the adver-
tising campaign was not very successful, but
this was the ﬁrst year it was tried. Rome was
not built over night. We understand the pro—
posed advertising plan has been dropped and we
are very sorry to learn this because we had great
hopes in what could be done. We are inclined
to feel that the elevator men had more to do
with the killing of the plan than anyone else.
because they failed to turn in their share of
the fund or urge farmers to do their part. Per-
haps they did not do this intentionally but we
believe if the elevator men had been 100 per
cent on the proposition there would have been
no question about the mrmers. ‘
The total production of beans in the United
States this year is estimated at 17,754,000 bush—
els, of which Michigan produces 7,356,000 bush-
els. Isn't that evidence that we should be or-
ganized? Let's hope that a determined effort
will be made in the near future to organize a
genuine Michigan bean growers association, one
that will represent even been producing section
in the state and  can be taken up.
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slderable misunderstanding regarding the
situatioan the Detroit milk market. We

have felt that a series of articles by an uninter-

ested party on the DetrOit market would be Of
great value to our readers and we have arranged
with Professor J. T. Horner, head of economics
work in agriculture at the Michigan State College,
to prepare a series. His ﬁrst article appears in
this issue. You all know Prof. Horner as a leader
in this work and having studied the market at

Detroit most carefully for some time he is well

prepared to discuss the matter. We are sure

you will enjoy the series and we will welcome

letters giving your opinions at any time. .

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FEED RESERVE -

HE oﬁicial economists at Washington say that
farmers would get more out of the cats crop
if they would hold over more oats from

large—crop years to small-crop years. They es-
timate that if this policy had been carried out in
the 18-year period 1895-1913 farmers would
have been $171,000,000 better off. No doubt the
policy of carrying reserves from big-crop years
to lean-crop years is sound in the case of any

non—perishable product, but not all producers can"

do it. It is rather hard for a farmer to know
that a big crop will not be followed by another
big one. 7
is it impossible. Probably the best thing to do
is to call attention to the wisdom of creating
farm reserves of all feed grains in big-crop
years and let it go at that. Farmers do not sell
or hold grain without good reasons, and there
have‘been such reasons for their policy in the
past, even though it may appear to be wrong to
statisticians and economists.

COOPERATION AND THE COLLEGE
OOPERATION is perhaps the most misunder-
C stood word in the dictionary. It has been
blessed and it has been cursed, but mostly
misunderstood. Too many think of cooper-
ation as meaning cooperative marketing only.
Others see it as a “cure-all” for the ills of agri-
culture. Both groups are wrong. The most sen-
sible interpretation of this word that we have
ever heard is the policy the Michigan State Col-
lege of Agriculture and Applied Science has
adopted toward cooperation. The policy appears
elsewhere in this issue and we suggest you read
it carefully.

A BETTER REASON

IGH authority in the business of making fer-

tilizers assures us that Mussel Shoals "has

no inherent advantage for the production
of fertilizers." He presents this as one of the
reasons why Mussel Shoals should not be used
or leased for that purposes It may be a good
reason, but there is a better one. The govern-
ment has no right to engage in the manufacture
of fertilizer or anything else, no right to sub-
sidize lessees to engage in that or any other
manufacturing, whether Mussel Shoals is more
or less costly or convenient than other plants or
places. Whatever may be the proper use for that ‘
costly piece of public property, it is not to put
the government into the fertilizer business or any
other business, either directly or indirectly ‘
through lessees. The government is a notorious
failure in business, always has been a failure,
but that is not the best reason why it should re-
main out of business. The reason is that our
government’s function is to govern, not to manu—
facture, distribute or deal in anything.

AN ERROR

“ 0 err is human," and We are only human.

There was a mistake in one of our editor—

ials in our last issue and we were not long
in ﬁnding it out after the paper was in the hands
of our subscribers. We know that at least some
of you read Tm: BUSINESS Foam pretty thor-
oughly because if a mistatement appears in our ’
columns it is soon called to our attention by oblig-
ing readers. We are mighty glad that our folks
take sufﬁcient interest in their own farm paper“
to call our attention and we thank each and every r
one of you. The mistake we are now’ referring to
was in the editorial on trapping, the ﬁrst sentence ‘
reading “Thanks to the professional trapper you
will not be allowed to trap mink, skunk, raccoon
or muskrat in Michigan this winter." It should

__ have read “Thanks to the professional trapper you

will not be allowed to trap mink and muskrat in
Michigan this winter.” These two animals "are '
protected until 19.27.

  
   

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JUST about one year ago this .pa—
per published the ilrst of a series
of warnings concerning a cattle

swindler going by the name of H. C.
Helms. ,We are glad to. announce

,Qo apprehension of this rascal. Our

informant who also provided us
with former notices, is J. G. Hays,
Secretary of the Michigan 'Holstein-
Priesian Ass‘n, East Lansing, Mich-
igan. Secretary Hays writes' ,

“Dairymen can breathe easily for
seven years at least, for during that
period the swindler, known as H. 0.
him, alias L. C. Lingle, alias L. E.
GR. alias B. L. Barton, will be the
guest of the Iowa State Penitentiary
—-according to E. A. Leighton, Chief
at Police, Waterloo, Iowa.

“Chief Leighton showed more ac-
tivity than did his brethren in Mich-
igtn, Illinois, or Maryland, so he se-
cured this prize package. He writes
that the rasal’s real name is Leroy
A. Austin. and the proud city of his
birth is Marshville, North Carolina.

“The Chief sent me a Bertillion
photo of Mr. Austin. The most sat-
mying feature of the photo is num-
ber “266" prominently displayed on
msﬁn’s chest!

“The three Michigan dairymen who
contributed jointly some $1400 to
Ir. Austin are perfecting plans to
automatically receive him upon his
from his seven-year

nents will be made so that he may
antinne his pursuits at some sister
institution. Any of Austin’s custom—
Iu who have been maintaining a
Meet silence are hereby invited to
join us in the worthy object of pro-
nﬁing him with an indoor home for

“Austin, who has worked in dif-

srent schemes for obtaining money.
In general, however, he represented
himself .as a buyer of cattle. He
t some time in selecting his
At the right time, generally
on Saturday just before closing hours
the bank, he had his victims as-
him to obtain funds by endors-
a check that he produced. He
supplied with such creden-
telegrams from an out-of-
bank. pass-books, bank drafts,
Even on one occasion be cash-
heck on his aunt in Kaila, Mich-

This city eventually proved

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“Austin was able to work his game

at least a year because of a real

:Nledge of dairy mttle, a pleasing

peonaiity, ability to make himself

wed fellow, and by striking at
y separated points.

“The dairymen
windled paid dearly for the lesson
'mn‘t endorse a stranger’s paper!’
itey will not bite again—the rest of
as better keep our eyes peeled for
other such swindlers.”

GOT HIS PHOTOGRAPH BACK

5 ‘ FEW weeks ago we weaved a
A letter from one of our sub-

scribers Wing an enlarged
mograph which he had ordered

H. Hawiey,.of Detroit. During
the forepart of April, 1924, an agent
iythenameolelsomtookour sub—
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later. the picture was delivered by
Mr. Hawley, supposed to be the art-
ist, and it was unsatisfactory so our
reader refused it. It was ﬁnally
agreed that our subscriber would
pay $4.50 for the frame with the
understanding that Mr. Hawley
would enlarge another picture. After
waiting for a few weeks and not re-
ceiving the picture our subscriber
wrote a letter to Mr. Hawley, and,
.not getting a reply he wrote him
again, and then several more times,
but no answer. What am you do
for me, was the tone of the letter
we received and we immediately got
busy sending a letter to Mr. Hawley
on September~ 17th. No reply, so
“the next letter went out registered.
A few days later we received a let-
ter from our subscriber and it read
as follows:

“This is to advise that an un—
known person delivered the picture
ﬁnished at the house today, also the
postcard size one, and this .man was
very much peeved for some reason
or other. I thank you for making
them come across. I said to. my-
self by the actions of that man they
have heard from Tin Busmnss
Fanmm all right."

Within the next day or two our
registered letter was returned to us
in an envelope postmarked at Bay
City and written across the bottom
of our letter was:

"Mind your own business and I
will take care of mine."

FLORIDA LANDS

HE old slogan “Pikes' Peak 01'
‘ Bust" might be brought up to
date by changing it to “Florida
'or Bust" because that seems to be
the aim of thousands of people at
present. So many people have the
idea that if they can once get to
Florida their fortune is made. Met-
ropolitan dailies all over the
country carry advertisements on
how money is being made on Flori—
da real estate and the movement of
people in that direction has become
so general -that we understand it is
almost impossible to rent space to
put up a tent while room in a hotel
is entirely out of the question. Fly-
by—night real estate ﬁrms have
sprung up in large numbers and
thousands of dollars have been lost
by people who purchased land
without seeing it. Some of the state
securities commissions are not grant-
ing licenses to Florida real estate
ﬁrms. The Ohio ofﬁcials recently
made an investigation and they
summed it up as a “speculator’s de-
bauch." In their report given out

to the press they said:

"Florida bankers and real estate
men estimate that the lots that are
platted and staked out for sale, and
the acreage that has been sold to

whom Austin“ be subdivided, amount to approxim-

ately 20,000,000 lots. To put a
house on each lot and allowing
three people to a house would give
Florida a population of 60,000,000
people, or more than half the popu—
lation of the United States, Locher
and Beck calculated.

“Riding through Florida on the
east coast, the ridge country, and
the west coast, and even in the low-
lands, one is impressed with the
large percentage of land that is be-
ing subdivided and offered for sale
as building lots.

“Thousands of orange groves on
the ridge country are being allotted
and the groves destroyed. From
Jacksonville to Miami along the Dix—
ie Highway, new town sites and lots
are offered for sale and staked off
all the way, and the West Coast is

the same.

"No one knows what property is
worth. Most of the people who are
buying property in Florida at pres-
ent do not expect to work the land
or live in Florida. The conditions
are abnormal because it is a boom.
No one knows how a boom starts;
when it gets started no one can
control it, and no one knows when

"Real estate men and bankers

‘ agree everywhere that the trick is

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a clearer picture of the care

and caution we

in the selection and pro-
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for our clients.

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MY BIG BROTHER

By Anne Campbell

I ain’t a-scared o’ ghosts an’ things
Like other girls I see:

I’m jest as brave as sojers are——
No one's as brave as me!

Why, I ain’t even 'fraid o’ snakes,
Or toads, or nuthin’ queer;

'Cause they ain't goin' to bother me
When my big brother’s near!

'There’s boys at school as big as him,

An’ some is bigger, too;
But none of ’em that dast tease me!
He’d ﬁght an' lick ’em, too!
My teacher may be awful cross,
But I’ve no cause to fear;
Nobody's goin’ to pick on me
When my big brother’s near!

Sometimes I wake up quick at night
An' see a boogy man

A-standing’ winkin’ in the dark,
As only boogies can.

’Nen I remember HE’S not far,
An’ if I call he'll hear!

No boogy man can frighten me
When my big brother’s near!

m Grandma sez when I grow up
I Won’t be half so gay:

She sez as how the troubles come
An’ joy jest ﬂies away.

I told her that I guess I knew
My life can't be so drear!

I won't be scared of anything
If my big brother’s near!

(Copyright, 1925.)

HALLOIVE'EN
CTOBER and Hallowe’en. Hal-
lowe’en and parties, parties
with wierd decorations, spooks
and witches; a mysterious atmos-
phere prevailing.

For the average housewife the
best decorations are those which
cost the least and can be easily
made. Use black and orange crepe
paper, pumpkin Jack—o—lanterns, and
brilliant leaves or possibly corn
stalks, for the proper effect.

A pumpkin chariot ﬁlled with
black paper cats and owls, with a
witch for a” coachman; a procession
of sheeted spectres emerging from
the exaggerated mouth of a Jack-
o—lantern at one end of the table
and promenading down the center
to be swalllowed by a similar mon-
ster at the opposite end, a toy tub
surrounded with autumn leaves and

filled with water in which ﬂoat a

number of apples; these all make
simple and attractive centerpieces.
If a light is above the center of
the table, black and white or orange
crepe paper may be fringed and
hung from the light. Within the
circle formed by this fringed paper
Jac’k-o-lantern faces, b r o w n i e s,
witches, etc. may be hung at vary—
ing lengths. A Jack-o—lantern, plac-
ed/in the center of the table and
surrounded by a few leaves, com-
pletes this plan for a centerpiece.

A small bunch of cornstalks may
be tied with orange and black crepe
paper and used for a centerpiece.
Small favors may be hidden within
the stalks. These may be tied to
ribbons running out to each cover.

Place cards may be easily made
from old postage stamps from which
are cut small cats, owls, witches or
other designs. With a pen or brush
the whiskers of the cat may quick-
ly be drawn to complete the design.

These may be pasted on small White-

cards. Funny verses written on
each place card and read by the
guests add merriment to the party.

A popcorn ball favor is simple to
make. Cover the ball with parafﬁn
paper, making two twists which may
imitate ears. Either cut eyes, nose
and mouth from black paper and
paste in position for a face or paint
in the features with black paint and
a brush.

MILK IS BEST OF ALL FOODS

NE quart of milk, the best food

of all, contains more lime, the

principle building material for
bones and teeth, than 28 pounds of
lean beef, 23 pounds of potatoes, or
nine pounds of bread, according to
Mary A. Dolve, extension specialist
in foods and nutrition at South Da-
kota State College. Nature has
provided milk as a food for the
young during the greatest period of
growth and hence it is natural to ex-
pect it to contain all the foodstuffs
needed by the body and in a form
that the body can use it to good ad—

grantage.

Milk“ also contains all the vita-
mins which are essential to normal.
grthh and health. Milk proteins
are .of high quality and enable the,
body to utilize other proteins to
much better advantage. Milk pro-

in are excellent muscle building

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life.

crowd was in attendance.

Was it true?
certain.

nights-

happily ever after.”

doors .

say a word to them.

keep from making her work?

in your ﬁelds. Home can
be everything or nothing,
which ever you make it. All
cooperate and enjoy it to
the fullest. extent.

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Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR

EAR FOLKS: The other evening I saw a. moving picture that was
most interesting and the plot was taken from every day family
I have forgotten the title of the picture but -I do remem-
ber it was something about making a home, and, in spite of the fact
that we we are living in a day of thrills and excitement, a good
The mother was a wonderful housekeeper,
she made a regular science of her work. Everything had its place
in her house, and all was spotlessly clean. She became very much
excited if the children brought in any dirt or mislaid anything. It
was a clean house and not a home.
preferred to play elsewhere while the husband would return Zrom his
w0rk only to eat and then go away for the evening. She realized her
family was growing away from her but she could not ﬁgure out why,
and, she understood, even the neighbors had begun to talk about
it. And they were saying she was too particular, that she was driv-
ing her family away from home by nagging them all the time.
It couldn‘t be—but something was  that was
A favorite aunt came for a visit and she conﬁded in her
only to learn that the aunt believed the same as the neighbors.
She had always prided herself on her house being so clean and or-
derly, but she would swallow her pride for a week, she would urge
her husband and children to stay home, she would not fret and stew
but would do all she could to make them interested in their home.
She did and they were rather bewildered for two or three days, but,
to her joy, they took new interest in their home.
found he could smoke his pipe in the house and not provoke the
wrath of his wife if he got ashes on the rug he began to go out less
The children would ask their mother if they might help
her with her work because she quickly commended them after the
task was performed to the best of their ability.
in more senses than one, and, as it reads in a book, “they lived

I left the theater thinking there are many homes where all
are unhappy because of too good housekeepers.
things look nice but one should not go to extremes.
to smoke his pipe while he sits readi g the paper and he may spill
a. few ashes, but do not remind him about it.
ble, you can clean up the ashes in a moment after he has gone out- '
You want your children to stay on the farm, don’t you? '
Then make their home interesting to them because if they cannot
enjoy themselves at home they are going to go elsewhere.

I know there are many men who read our page and I want to
Are you making life on the farm enjoyable
for your wife or is it drudgery? Are you thoughth and trying to
Has she things modern to make her
work easier? Just because she has everything modern in the house
is no reason for your not cleaning your feet whenever you go into
the house or for scattering ashes about the house. Your wife doesn’t
liketoseedirtaboutthehouseanymorethanyouliketoseeweeds

W $1444.,

Mrs. Annie Taylor. are The Iuslneu Farmer, Mt. element, Miohlnn.

The children, a girl and a boy,

When husband

Itbecameahome

We all like to see
John likes

Let him feel comforts.-

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weight on a straight milk diet in
a comparatively short time.

Milk fat, or cream, is in an easily
digested form.

Milk has a favorable inﬂuence on
the health of the digestive tract.

Milk contains all the elements
and compounds Which are essential
for the nutrition of the body, and is
especially rich in everything except
iron, that is needed to supplement
the things which are lacking in ce—
reals, tubers, roots and meat.

Together with leafy vegetables,
milk is a protective food and should
be used generously to supplement
the other foods. V

To be a good food, however, milk
must be clean. Care, cleanliness,
and a low temperature for keeping
are needed to produce a satisfactory
grade of milk. Clean and healthy
cows; healthy milkers; milk pails,
cans and other utensils, and separ-
ator sterilized by steaming or scald-
ing; clean hands, and prompt chill-
ing after milking are the essentials
in the production of good milk.

HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS ‘

AM one who has never written to

tell you how much I like your

department in our paper. I can
not go on my housework when the
paper comes but must sit down and
read it. I would like to offer a few
suggestions to the readers and hope
they ﬁnd them worth while.

First of all Iywant to say that we
should honor our fathers the same as
we do our mothers by having 3
Father's Day as they have earned our
bread by the sweat of their brow.
Let us try and set aside the second
Sunday in June. All who are in

favor of this idea please write to our

sister, Mrs Annie Tay or, be we

I want to tell those that are
troubled with gas on the stomach
to try calomel. Take one pill when
you feel it coming on. If this does
not relieve you take another. I tried
them a year ago and now seldom
ever have a spell. I think it would
be a very good plan to take one three
times a day for a week now and then.

Ever try canning tomatoes by silo--
ing after peeled into cans and adding
a little salt? Put a tablespoonful
of salt in a two quart can and a tea—
spoonful in one quart. Do not add
water as they make their own liquid.
Put cover on loose and put in a pan
with warm water and bake in the
oven. They taste like the ones we
buy.

A small brush is nice to clean
kettles and pans with instead of
scraping. One should have a round
brush to clean fruit with.

Try peeling new potatoes by put-
ting them in a pail of water and
stirring briskly with a stick. if you
stir long enough most of the skins
will be removed and they can be ﬁn-
ished with a knife.

Much time is saved the farmer’s
wife with a cream separator. Never
wipe the parts but wash good and
pour boiling water over them.——Mrs.
G., Manton, Mich.

 

 

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Renovating Featherbed.—Get I cheese-
cloth ﬁour bags or make some. Place
about 54, full of dirty feathers—loosely—
then tie mouth ﬁrmly. Takes many bags
for a large featherbed but only part need
be washed at one time. Make good suds
of any good soap and wash your partly
ﬁlled bags as you would anything else,
using the wash board. Rinse the same I

to/dryl‘oompletely but they will be a
nice as new. "If windy they wiLl dry
quickly—Mrs. Ed. H. Manning. '

Making Lace.—-Ihave atthisoflioeaﬂno
sample‘of lace sent to me by Mrs. John
Porritt, of Kent county, and I am sorry

. —I cannot print a picture of it in our col-

umns but the expense would be too great.
However, Mrs. Porritt has supplied the
directions for making the lace and if any
of you are interested I will gladly send
you the sample and directions providing.
of course, you will return it to me at an
early date so that I can send it to others.
First come, ﬁrst served, and each will
receive it in the order their letters are
received—Mrs. Annie Taylor.

Likes Department.——I want to tell you
how much I enjoy M. B. F. and especially
our page. I think it gets better with
every issue of the paper. I have found
so many recipes for different things that
are seldom seen in any other paper.—
Mrs. D. M.. Hart, Michigan.

 

 

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Wedding Gifts.-—Like the trosseau, the
wedding gifts .arrive (or should arrive)
long before the wedding itself takes place}
The receipt of.a house wedding invitation
always implies an immediate acknowledge-
ment: and the wedding gift should be sent
as soon thereafter as possible. The less
intimate a footing you are on with bride
and bridegroom. the sooner you send your
gift; the more intimate you are with
them, the longer the time allowed you.
Never send a bridal gift after the wed-
ding unless a note of explanation goes
with it. The matter of bridal gifts in
one that causes man unnecessary heart-
burnings, and yet there is no reason why
it should. The greatymajorlt'y of people
seem to believe that cost is the most es-
sential thing in making a wedding pres-
ent. They would rather exceed their
means in making a present of the kind
than run the risk of appearing ungenerous.
To do this shows an entire misconception
of the nature of a wedding gift. It should
always, be, not a concession to conven-
tions, regretfully made, but the embodi-
ment of kind wishes and felicitations in a.
concrete and personal form. It is far
more important that your gift be personal.
that it reﬂect a personal thought or ef-
fort, than that it be expensive.

1. Make your gift express yourself and
show that you have given thought and
cage to its selection.

. Always address and send our ft
to the prospective bride. y g!

3. Linen and silver, as a rule, should
bear the initial or initials of the bride‘-
maiden name. Gifts of family silver.
however, may be engraved with a single
initial, that of the bridegroom's surname.

4. The giver should enclose his per-
sonal card with a bridal gift. The best
form prohibits writing anything on the
card. If you are an intimate friend of
the bride, however. you may write:
"With a grejz deal of love and best
wishes," or s ething of the kind across
the card. A lmarried woman maklng a
bridal gift naturally send the card she
shares with her husband ("Mn and Mrs.
Goeffrey Atley”) with the present

5. There is no ﬁxed rule as regards
the retention or discarding of cards sent
with bridal gifts when the latter are dis—
played. Attach the sender’s cards or
leave them off, as you choose. ,

6. If the bridegroom is an intimate

’personal friend of yours, you may be in-

clined to select a gift which is unmistak-

ably a man’s present, and belongs on the
table of smoking den, or on a library
desk. If you do this, it is more truly
courteous to send with it another individ-
11:31 gift for the bride, addressing both to
er. '

7. Like almost every other social event,
the display of wedding gifts may serve
as an excuse for an afternoon tea.

8. If you intend to give the bride-
groom some more intimate personal gift.
one which excludes any idea of sharing
with the bride, it is more courteous to
give it to him personally than to send it.

9. Since all bridal gifts are accom-
panied by cards, the simplest way to be
sure of acknowledgements will be duly
made is to keep each individual card,
writing on the back a few brief words de-
scribing the gift. If you intend to ex-
change the gift, note also the name of
the shop from which it came. This method
is more direct and simple than purchas-
ing a stationer’s “record book.” As the
gifts are acknowledged. you set down the
date of the acknowledgement. When you
have done with these duties a rubber
band may be‘snapped about the cards,
and they may be put away for reference
or, if you prefer, they may be destroyed.

10. You are at liberty to exchange
any but a very personal or intimate gift,
and such a one would probably not come
into consideration at all, since it prob-
ably would not be duplicated.

11. A bride should acknowledge every
wedding gift as‘ soon as possible after
its receipt. A good plan is to write your
notes of thanks day by day. as your
gifts are received.

 

 

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Huckleberry Short Cake.—Make the
crust this way if possible. Sift 1/2 cups
ﬂour, 1 level teaspoon salt and 1 round—
ing teaspoon baking powder together. In-
to this stir 2/3 cup sour cream and 1/3
cup cold water in which 1A, teaspoon soda
has been dissolved. Use enough more
ﬂour to make the dough just stiff enough
to roll out. Fit on a pie pan, sprinkle
top lightly with sugar and bake in a
quick oven. Keep warm until ready to
serve. Then split open and ﬁll with well
sweetened huckleberries either fresh or
canned (I prefer the canned.) Serve at
once—«B. O. R.

Salt Rising Bread—Here is‘ a recipe
that never fails. I set my rising in a
half gallon crock and} cover it with a
cloth at night, set it at four or ﬁve
o'clock in the evening. Peel and slice
four good sized potatoes, add two table—
spoons of corn meal, one tablespoon of
sugar. one tablespoon of salt, one-fourth
teaspoon soda, one quart of boiling water.
The next morning this should have a good
foam on. Skim out the potatoes and
put one tablespoon of sugar, one table-
spoon of salt, one fourth teaspoon of soda,
and ﬂour enough for a sponge and let rise
until the crock is full. Then take one
quart of boiling water and pour in the
ﬂour, take half sweet milk and water hot
just so you can put your hand in it. Mix
the ﬂour and when cool enough that it
will not scald the rising put in and let
the bread rise. When it is light work
out in ans and let it rise. Keep it at
the sto e as it must be kept very warm.
The heat is what will make it rise—Mrs.
McC., Moscow, Mich.

Oiled Pickles.——Small pickles 100, 1/;
ground mustard, 1 teaspoonful black pep—
per, 54, pound whole mustard, 1 quart
small onions, 1 pint olive oil, 2 ounces
celery seed. and 2 quarts cider vinegar.
Wash cucumbers and rub well with cloth,
slice thin. Peel onions and slice thin.
Put in one layer of cucumbers and then
one layer of onions, then a good skrink—
ling of salt. Then another layer of cu~
cumbers and another of onions and some
salt, repeating until all is used. Place a
Weight on top and let stand over night.

In the morning drain. Put a teaspoon-
ful of poWdered alum in suﬂ‘lcientcold
vinegar to cover the pickles and let them
stand until afternoon. Drain again. Do
not waste vinegar as it can be used for
the other pickling. Put the cucumbers and
onions into jars, then Ynix all the re-
maining ingredients together gradually
adding the oil and vinegar and pour over
them, and seal cans—Mrs. O. E.

Carrot lVIai-malade.—-11/2 pounds of car-
rots, 11/2 pounds of sugar, 2 lemons.
Scrape and chop carrots, cook in water
until tender, then drain. Wash and chop
lemon, cook in double boiler until tender.
Add carrots and sugar and cook until
thick.—~Mrs. O. E. '

Oil Pickles.——I am sending cucumber

oil pickles recipe requested also one other
favorite recipe. Oil Pickles: 1 gallon sliced
cucumbers, 1/2 cup salt. Mix and let
stand 3 hours. Drain. Mix 1 oz. white
mustard seed, 1 oz. black mustard seed,
1 oz. celery seed, 1/3, pint olive oil. Thor-
oughly mix and cover with vinegar. Let
stand a day or so and mix occasionally.
Seal in cans—Mrs. W.
Beet Salad.——Ch0p ﬁne, 1 qt. cabbage,
1 qt. beets, 1 large pepper sweet, 1 tea-
spoon salt, 21/2 cups brown sugar. 1 cup
grated horseradish. Cover with weaken—
ed vinegar and cook until done. Can as
usual—Mrs. W.

Aunt Ada’s Axioms: Every help to
Mother helps the whole household.
‘ II it i

Home canncrs can save time, work. and
trouble by using a wire frying basket for
blanching fruit and vegetables.

* It *

Properly selected paint and wall paper
will often do as much to brighten a room
as the addition of another window.

it It in

Summer silks will not spot from water
if, before the dress is made the material
is covered with a damp cloth and pressed
With a warm iron.

I! I! t

In cooperation the “co” and “operation”
are equally important.

it I #

Mustard plants are weak individually
but tough collectively. Go through the
spring grain now and see that it’s clean.

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si .
421? 42 guild 46 inches bust measure. A 38

5251 . Good School

A Dainty Dress for House or Porch—Tub silk, linen, rep, or gingham could be used for

It is also good for wool or cotton crepe. . ‘ ' 6,
. inch size requires 5% yard of.36 inch material with 1,9
yard contmsting for collar, cuffs and belt. The Width at the foot With plaits extended is 2%

he Pattern is cut in Sizes: 4, 38. 40,

yards.

Dress.—Wool crepe or rep, or balbriggan would be very suitable for this

A
model. As here shown it was developed in ten balbriggan with trimming of brown wool crepe. The

Pattern is in 4 Sizes: 8, 10, 12 and

.0.“
material With 1/4

.5264. _
chine or outing ﬂannel.
measure.

5241 5069.

straight line kirt for which attern

broad cloth could be used for this design. The Skin. I
‘ 1.: hip measure, 35. . l, 39,

35 and 37 inches waist measure with a(’('01111)1il}lyill
, .

inches. The jacket in 6 Sizes: 34, .36, 38
for a medium

inch materin l. The

5241 .

. .l4_years. A . I
yard of contrasting material if made as illustrated in the large view.

A Practical Style—This design may be made of muslin, long
The I’iittern is cut in 7 Sizes: 36, r ,, 0 A
A 38 inch size requires 4% yards of 36 inch material.

siZe wiii_ require 3 33,
Width ot the
lower edge is 56 inches.

A New and Stylish. Model.~’l‘his design

0 year Size requires 1% yiird of 54 inch

cloth, biitiste, crepe, crepe de

12 46 and >18 inches bust

A Stylish Two Piece Suit—Comprising a smart Jacket out from Pattern 5241. and Ii
506$) supplies the model.

Velveteen, tweed, wool mixtures or
I’Iittern Is cut in 7 Sizes: ‘ 7 "7, 2!), ’ 1, 33,

" ' , :13, A15 and 47
and 44 int-hes bust lila'lslll'e. To make the suit

yards of 5
Skirt at the

may be developed as it sports Jacket or as port of a

two piece suit.
simirt. It may be

‘iittern is cut in ii

The style
rolled
View or closed high as in"the small View.
‘ Sizes: 34, 36. 38, 40, 42

of the
open us

('othr is very
in _the large
The

and 44 inches bust measure. A .38 inch size re—
‘ quires 2 yards of 5-1 inch material.

5245._ _
rep or linen With

inmg would be good for
to be ﬁnished with buttons or
provide a
part.
the front.

leg scam edges are
snap fasteners. to
veiiient closmg
back is buttoned over
cut in 4 Sizes: 6

material with

at this
. ’ 11103.,
one year Size “'1” require 11/3 ‘ ‘
1/i_ yard of contrasting muteriol for

A Simple Stylebf Rompers.~—1’ongee,
contrasting

‘ iinlterial for trim—
this model. The inner

practical and con-
At the sides the
This design is
and 3 years. A
yard of 36 inch

1,2

colar, sleeve facmgs and belt.
5242 A Comfortable Coal. and Cap for Tiny.

Tots—koshn, iliinnei,
used for this (but.

material or of velvet.

corduroy or silk
The (hip may be of .the Same
Silk, or

could be

fur lubries. The

Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 6_ months, 1, 2, and 4

years. A

year size _requires 11%

yard of 54

inch material for the Goat and it yard for the

8.1).

5253. A Practical Convenient Garment.——This

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To have pure and easily digested
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It is made only of the purest of"
materials in the world’s most sanitary
baking powder factories. Every ins
gredient used officially approved by
U. S. Food Authorities.

Calumet Bakings possess highest
of food value and enable you to supply
your table with variety essential to
properly balanced diet. It is so easy
to bake with Calumet. No failures.
No worry. No trouble at all.

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do not conSIder it worth
doublc'our price, we will
give it to you free of
chargeYou are the en-
tire Judge. Don’t semi
any money. Just send
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dress, give size and
color wanted and the
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you prepaid.

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model may be made of one material such as cam<
bric, gingham or to match a. dress or smock—or,
the waist portions may be of caiiibric lawn or
crepe. and the bloomers of serge, Jersey, gillghillll at your door.
or sateen. 'l‘iie Pattern is cut in ' Sizes: 4, , r
12 and 14 ygiirsa A 1 your size rc— 1 A. NEW YORK
yard of 6 l‘ljl‘fitllh materioll icf piled/e s ' MODEL
' 1 Chronic e ‘op 2 i 0 .
alone require 1 3t; lagedoigegggsmgligvggpiln
yard. New York and all the
big fashion centers of
the world. Made of a
cloth which is guaran-
teed to be half-wool in
newest panama creﬁc
weave, Glood weig t
and Will give excellent
wear. Slip-over model
With turned - back rc-
vers, collar and cuffs.
Self-cloth narrow sash
beit.CutfuIl.and roomy
The double Jabot down
center-of the front of
dress is made of pure
Rayon (ﬁbre silk)with
hemstitched p i co t
ed e.’l‘his is adouble
3a ot,one above the
other. Without the
Jabotdress is a plain
' staple everyda
model. Don’t thin
' . this dress is cheap
because the rice is so low. The material alone is
worth more 1: an the price we ask for complete dress.
COLORS: Brown. rod. cranberry. navy bluo,
green, pansy purple, gray or block. Sizes to ﬁt
misses and women, 32 to 44 bust.
DELIVERY FREE— Write us a letter now fgivin
size and color wanted, and we will send this hni -woo
Rayon trimmed dress to you. Pay the postman $2.06
when hp delivers the dress at our oor.We have paid
the delivery charges. If the \is not better than
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Color Your Butter

“Dandelion Butter Color" Given That
Golden June Shade which
Brings Top Prices
Before churn-
ing add one—half
teaspoonful t o
e a c h gallon of
cream and out
of your c h u r 11
comes butter of
G o l d e n June
shade. “Dande—«
l i o n B u t t e r
Color” is purely
vegetable, harm—
less, and meets
all State and National food laws. USed
for 50 years by all large creameries.
Doesn't color buttermilk. Absolutely
tasteless. Large bottles cost only .35 ‘-
cents _'a.t drug or grocery; ; stores, ,.

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No. 151-‘FARM SANITATION. Dcscribcsand db

I how to prevent diseases common to livestock.

No. 157—006 ROCKET. Tells how to rid the d“
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EAR girls and boys: After

judging the letters in ,our fair

contest I felt like rising, thrust-
ing my right hand into my coat,
Napoleon-like ,style, facing the piles
of letters upon my desk and saying
“Fellow citizens, I am pleased to
see so many new faces tonight,” just
like a real politician would do. To
me your letters are you, because I
never even see a picture of most of
you, and to you my letter in each
issue must be me, each picturing in
their own mind how she or he looks.
Thus you can appreciate my feeling
like talking to the letters like I
would persons. But you would not
hear me so I must write "I am glad
to read so many letters from child—
ren who have not taken part in our
previous contests." This is very
true, and most of the winners are
new ones. Neva Rice, or Hartford,
received $2 as ﬁrst prize, while
Margaret G. Beckwith, R. 2, Ovid,
run off with the second prize, $1.
Each of them received one of our
buttons, as did also the following:
Maxine Cickler, Quincy; Marjorie
Hurley, R. 1, Midland; Esther Bach,
R. 3, Sebewaing; Alma Christie,
Byron; Daisy Dennis, Durand; Os-
mond Beckwith, R. 2, Ovid; Naomi
White, Boyne City; and Norma
Rice, Hartford, Mich.

Hallowe’en is but a few days off
and I hope that you remember what
I have said in the past about doing
good deeds that night instead of bad
tricks such as destroying property
or causing other folks considerable
trouble. Write and tell us about
your Hallowe’en, will you?———UNCLE
NED.

OUR GIRLS AND BOYS

Dear Uncle Nedt—It has been two
years since I wrote to you the last time,
so you can imagine I have lots to tell
you.

That last time I wrote, I mentioned
the fact that my father was working at
the Bamﬁeld Dam. I received a letter
from a certain Arline Kurtz, and she
told me that her father knew mine. So
of course we corresponded, although we’d
never seen each other.

The next spring after I received Ar-
line’s letter, I went to my sister’s in
Pontiac, and remained with her, for six
months. While I was still in Pontiac,
my father and two younger sisters moved
to Coline, where the Hodenpyl Dam was
under construction. A year ago this last
September, I went there too, to stay with
the folks. One morning, upon entering
the Sunday School room, I heard some-
one address a young lady, by the name,
Miss Kurtz. We lost no time in getting
acquainted, and it was no other than Ar-
line Kurtz. We became fast friends. and
had many good times together, the short
time she reunained there. I think it was
in October that they left there, and they
are now residing in Midland. You may
be sure that we girls still correspond.
Wasn't that an odd coincident?

Perhaps I had better describe myself
before going further. I am about 5 feet
4 inches tall. weigh between 115 and 120
138.. have medium brown hair, real dark
eyes and always rosy cheeks. I‘ve had
rosy checks from baby-hood. up. How
old am 1? Oh! I was 17 last May. I’m
not too old to write, am I Uncle Ned?
I‘m only a child yet, with a. few grown-
up ideas.

Introductions over, I will proceed to tell
you about the way we lived up at the
dam. Did you, Uncle Ned, or any of the
cousins, over see one of those camps,
while the dam is under construction?
It is really very interesting. There were
four rows of houses; twenty-six houses
in each row, and each house just thirty-
three feet from the next one. There was
a road, with one row of houses facing it,
then back of them the other row faced
the opposite direction and also another
row of houses facing them, with the main
street between them. The fourth row of
The
front facing a street. and the back, to-
wards the back of the houses on the third
row. Can you understand such explan-
ations? It’s hard to tell it, so you’ll
see what I mean. The houses were 181:
22 feet, consisting of three rooms, were
put up in sections, covered with tar-

paper (over.fra.mework) and had rooﬁng.

paper on the‘ roofs, all of which was held
in place by lath. Otherwise we had a.
very modern village; electric lights in

» every house, street lights, hydrant water

a short distance from the back door,
good sewerage system, a store, post office.
garage, pool room, and barber shop,
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their families with them. Another build-
ing, but it was the bunk-house for the
mead men that had no families. Then
there were eighteen houses, having five
rooms, for the head men, and their fun-
illes. There was a large dining hall.
where all the men from those bunk-houses
took their meals. And to complete our
village, on the south side, there were two
long double garages, the rent of which
was $2.00 per month. .

Now what do you think of it? For m
part, I loved it. There isn't any prettier
scenery in Michigan, than in the north-
em part. Such hills—and all were cov-
ered with brush and trees. Along that
Manlsteo river I found the most beautiful
Arbutus I ever saw.

I forgot to say that our camp boasted
a 10th grade school, with three teachers.

I was in that mp, a little over eleven
months. than we came home. My father
is now working in one of the Fisher plant
in Detroit. But we ﬁnd it will be cheap.
for up to live here while he works there.
Rent lm't high in Detroit. is it? And
menmrmypartrdratherllvelns
mall town. where I can get a breath of
fresh air, than to live in a dirty. mow
place like Detroit. I’ve been there. and
said from the ﬁrst, that I’d never live
there. But I’ll admit that Belle Isle is
wonderful.

Now please Mr. Waste Basket, go to
sleep till my letter is safely printed. Will
some of the boys and girls please write
to me? Your niece—Gladys Corbin, Stan-
wood, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Nedz—The surprise pack-
age was received. but as it came the day
I went out in the country visiting I neg—
looted writing before. I surely thank you
for the nice pencils and pen, and the case
is so nice that they came in. Our school
began the 3lst of August and I will tab
great pleasure in using them. I am four
feet and six inches tall, have light brown
hair and brown eyes. I go to town school.
We enjoy the M. B. F. and noticed at one
place where We visited near Alto
also tookit. We spent most of our vaca—
tion riding horseback. Well. as my letter
is getting long I must close. I would be
glad to receive letters from any of the
cousins. Many thanks for the button. I'
remain a cousin of the Children's Hour.—
Mlss Marion Snow, Nashville, Mich.

Dear Uncle Ned:-—-Here I am, wishing
to get into your merry circle, and I would
be very pleased to see your letter in print.
Well now, as all the cousins describe
themselves, I will try too. I am four
feet nine inches tall, weigh 94 pounds, a
fair complexion and very jet black hair
and am quite plump. Blue eyes (bobbed
hair) and my age is between 10 and 11
years old. the one guessing correctly will
receive a long, fat letter from me. I'suro-
ly hope that old Mr. Waste Paper Basket
is asleep when my letter arrives, as I
will be so glad to see it in print. I hope
to get a. membership pin for the Childrenﬁ
Hour, as I love the colors I read about.
and also the motto is correct. Well, I
guess I will ring of! quite short, hoping
to see my letter in print. Good-bye.
Your want-to-‘be niece,—Ruth Ricketts.
B. 1, Box 16, Alma, Mich.

Dear Uncle Ned:—-I wrote once before
and didn’t see my letter in print. so I
thought I would try again. From what
I have heard about the waste basket it
is a. pig to eat so many letters.

We had a Bible School at the Brethren
church beginning July 29th to July 3181..
We had a picnic at the church in the
basement the last day. We were going
to go to National Park but we didn‘t.
I am going to tell my age. I will be
fourteen October 11th. I am in the sev-
enth grade. I have about four miles to
go to school but I am going in a school
bus. I think I will close—Orville Van
Wle, R1, Woodland, Mich.

Dear Uncle Ned:——I have never writ-
ten before so thought I would write. I
have been readng the Children’s Hour
and came across the riddle in Louis
Rafte’s letter and I think the anSWer is,
“To hold his trousers up.” The riddle
was, “Why does Calvin Coolidge wear
red, white and blue suspenders.” I think
Louis is about 12 years old. I hope I
am right. Am I Louis? Good-bye, will
write again some time. Hoping you will
let me be your niece—Florence Rossman.
R3. Pontiac, Michigan.

 

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vised there was to be a banquet"‘and
dance that evening at which we were
to be the guests. An agricultural
editor can always eat and we cer-
tainly proved to the people of Canada
that in this respect we were very
good editors. ‘

The city of Calgary was established
60 years ago and but a short time
before we were there a huge cele-
hration was-held in connection with
the Annual Calgary Exhibition and
Stampede, commemorating the event,
at which many of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police who founded the city
were present. The word “Calgary”
means clear water, and the city is
called “The Gateway to the Canad-
hn Rockies.” There are large oil
and gas deposits just out of Calgary
and several paying wells are in op—
eration.

The next morning we found our-
selves in the midst of the mountains
at Banff and many of us experienced
a new sensation as we stood in the
warm sunlight very comfortable in
our summer clothing and gazed at the
tops of mountains on all sides, cap-
ped with snow and ice. We spent
over a half day here and those who
cared to had the opportunity to bathe
in the warm sulphur water that ﬂows
from the many hot springs for which
Bani! is famous. There are ﬁve chief
springs and they have a total flow
of about a million gallons 8. day.
The water issues from the ground
the year around at a temperature
of over 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
Band is headquarters for tourists
from all over the world, and at the
Bani! Hotel I was approached by a
guest who announced he was glad
to see someone from so near his home
town———Detroit.

About the middle of the afternoon
we journeyed 40 miles still further
to Lake Louise, one of the most
beautiful spots in the world. From
the little station we ascended over
600 feet into the mountains to the
lake by gasoline railway with trees
growing thick along each side of the
track. The lake is situated in a
cup at the foot of ancient glaciers,
and at one end is the beautiful
Chateau Lake Louise, property of the
Canadian Paciﬁc Railway Company.
One can sit on the wide veranda of
this hotel and see mountains nearly
two miles high with glaciers 500
feet thick on them, or, if you prefer,
horses may be hired and you can
follow the narrow paths up to Vic-
toria Glacier or the upper lakes.
Some rather walk as it is only ten
miles round trip to the glacier and
six miles round trip to the upper
lakes. .

Sunday in the Mountains

The next day was Sunday and we
left Lake Louise at 8 o’clock in the
morning to travel a, whole day and
night, with only stops to change en—
gines or take on fuel and water, and
most of the way was through the
mountains. An observation car had
been added to our special train of
four sleeping cars and a diner so
that we might enjoy to the fullest
extent the splendid scenery. Cross-
ing the Great Divide we descended
through the “Spiral Tunnels" to
Fields, a little town at the foot of Mt.
Stephens. Here we entered the Yoho
National Park and traveled for some
distance beside the charming Kick-
ing Horse River descending the west-
ern slopes of the Rockies into the
great Columbia River “trench”. We
left the Yoho Park near Mount Chan—
cellor and ascended again, this time
into the Selkirks, and into Glacier
Park, passing through the famous
Connaught Tunnel, which is nearly
ﬁve miles long. The highest point
in this part is Mount Sir Donald

which is 10,808 feet above sea level. i

It is a huge pile of rock that towers
to a heightgof a mile and a quarter
above the railroad. From there we
again descedded steadily, following
the rivers that issue from the moun-
tains, passing through Rivelstoke
, Park, the town of Rivelstoke, Sica-
, nous, , and arriving in Kamloops

0' 3 ﬂier-ﬂy before dark. The trip through

4110 great canyons of the Thompson
M Fraser rivers had to be made
‘ lining the night as time was short.
and We had lunch country yet, to see,
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real opportunity to get acquainted
with our hosts: A. B. Calder and
James Colley of the Canadian Paciﬁc
Railway who had charge of us from
Chicago to Victoria on our way west-
ward, and from Winnipeg to Chicago
on the way back; H. F. Tilley and
W. E. Watson, of the Canadian
National Railway who took charge of
us the rest of the time; and Robert
J. C. Stead, famous Canadian author,
represented the Dominion Govern—
ment. Up to this time they had all
been so busy keeping everything
working smoothly that we only
caught passing glimpses of them.
They were certainly wonderful hosts
and more than did their part to make
our trip a most enjoyable one.

WIDE 0R NARROW WE
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had not been hired. But the plan
that the M. B. F. helped to get
through is now to make the men
that use these improved roads pay
for them in a gas tax which is all
right with few complaints.

The M. B. F. is doing the right
thing by having a man at Lansing
to report what is going on in the
legislature because there has been
too many laws passed that favor
other classes at our expense.

If we do not look out for our in—
terests we cannot expect that others
will look out for them for us as
they are too busy looking after their
owu interests. We have not looked
after our interests very well in the
past-so a number of laws have been
passed that were unfair to us.—
Francis G. Smith, Isabella County.

KILLING BIRDS

EAR EDITOR: In a few days
the slaughter of our feathered

innocents will commence. It is
a crime to shoot partridge and
woodcock in lower Michigan, yet,

the open season for these birds is
almost here. We have ﬁne covers
for these birds on our farm, but,
our friends are gone. Farmers,
generally, are opposed to the open
season, but the city gun clubs seem
to have the “hobby.” This open
season for English pheasants is ab—
solutely premature, as this bird is
just being introduced. “It is to
laugh" to say that only male birds
shall be shot. Every pot—hunter will
put the males in his game bag, and
the females in his hip pocket. As I
see it, the farmer is too harassed
with the slavery of fall farm work
to go and drive the poaeher ed the
premises—Geo. J. Barrie, Huron Co.

MICHIGAN'S 1925 CROP IS
LARGEST ON RECORD

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dition of 67 per cent, is 149,000
bushels.

Sugar beets are attaining good
size and quality, with a prospective
yield somewhat above the average.

Apples: The total apple crop av-
erages 60 per cent of a normal one,
or 10,756,000 bushels of which 1,-
864,000 barrels is rated as commer-
cial. This includes all summer, fall
and winter varieties. As the Winter
varieties represent 54 per cent of
the commercial crop, according to
the reports of growers, they amount
to 1,007,000 barrels.

Peaches: The peach crop amount-
of a, full production as compared
ed to 592,000 bushels or 37 per cent
with 464,000 bushels in 1924. The
crop was greatly reduced by heavy
freezes last May. The quality is
rated at 85 per cent. _

Pears: The pear crop is 37 per
cent of normal which is equivalent
to a production of 503,000 bushels,
a much smaller crop than last year’s
which amounted to 810,000 bushels.

Grapes: Grapes were disappoint-
ing in yield, amounting to only 28
per cent of a crop, or 23,157 tons.
They matured and were harvested
much earlier than in 1924, the crop
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BETTER DAIRYING

ECEN‘TLY a. survey of 50 Mich—
igan Cow Testing Associations
Was completed by the Associa—
tion cow testers. Out of 12,761
cows under test in the 50 Associa—
tions surveyed, 4,025 or 31.5 per
cent were purebred and 8,736 or
or 69.5 per cent were grade dairy
cows. A comparison with a similar
survey made in 1923 on 62 Associ-
ations shows that 29.9 per cent of
Michigan Cow Testing Association
cows were purebred. Evidently
purebred cows are on the increase

in Michigan Cow Testing herds.
Very few Cow Testing Association
members are using other than pure—
bred sires. 92.5 per cent of the

1,232 members reported in the
above survey use only purebred
sires. Eight hundred thirty-two

members or 67.5 per cent of the
1,232 C. T. A. members own a pure—
bred sire. There are 464 or 55.7
per cent purebred Holstein; 191 or
22.9 per cent purebred Guernsey;
131 or 15.7 per cent purebred Jer—
sey; 30 purebred Shorthorn; 9 pure—
bred Brown Swiss and 7 purebred
Aryshire sires in the total of 832
sires owned by the C. T. A. mem—
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One hundred and eight or 13 per
cent of the 823 purebred sires are
owned cooperatively as Bull Associ—
ation sires. This point would indi-
cate that many C. T. A. members are
long time and that they realize the
great value of proving a bull'by get—
keeping the purebred sire for n
ting records on his daughters.

Michigan dairymen are keen for
alfalfa hay. The acreage of alfalfa
increased from 8,174 acres in 1924 to
10,524 acres in 1925 on the 1,232
farms reported owning 12,761 cows.
This ’means .82 acres of alfalfa for
each dairy cow in C. T. A. work re-
ported in 50 associations. This acre—
age is an increase of 12.8 per cent
alfalfa seeding on the farms of Cow
Testing Association members in one
year.

Seven of the members reported
had alfalfa seedings previous to
1910; 263 farmers had alfalfa seed—
ings before 1920 and 554 . have
seeded alfalfa since 1920. L. C.
Gardner, Stockbridge, member of
the Livingston No. 2 C. T. A.; and
D. J. Miller and Sons, Eaton Rapids,
members of the Eaton—South C. T.
A. are the alfalfa growers of long—
est standing. Gardner started with
two acres in 1892 and has twelve
acres of alfalfa today, while Miller
made his ﬁrst seeding in 1895. He
has 39 acres of alfalfa at present.
Both breed purebred Holstein cattle.

Sweet clover also receiVUd much
attention by Michigan duirymen
during 1924 and 1925. The acre—

age of sweet clover increased from
1,519 acres in 1924 to 3,459 acres
in 1925 or 127.7 per cent in one
year with Michigan C. T." A. mem—
bers. These ﬁgures are based on
the reports of 50 C. T. A.’S totaling
1,232 members.

Cow Testing Association members
are also making use of soy beans.
They have 520 acres seeded to this
good legume crop.

Dairymen all over Michigan are
ﬁrm believers in using silage for
succulence. 1,262 silos are owned

and used by the 1,232 dairy farmers
represented in this census.

Drinking cups are installed on
many C. T. A. members farms—but
not on all dairy farms. Out of 1,232

)1AX‘VALTON
\VAVERLY
This ﬁne young herd
Hire, Muxwulton “'av-
crly, is at the head of
the herd of Shorthorns
owned by John 0.
Clark and Son, of Har-
bor Beach. He has
been a. winner at both
state and county fairs,
taking fourth place at
Detroit one your and
the blue ribbon regu-
larly at county fairs.
The Clark herd aver.»
ages from 30 ‘ to 40
head” of pure—breds.

 

farms reported only 321 have barns
equipped with drinking cups. Radio
receiving sets are owned on 217 out
of the 1,232 farms reported—A. C.
Baltzer, Dairy Extension, Michigan
State College.

CHARGES FOR PAS'TURING

Will you tell me the price charged
for pasturing horses cows and
sheep?+P. W., Jerome, Mich.

HE price charged for pasturing
the different farm animals var-
ies a great deal in different

parts of the state. The _charge made

for pa'stuiring horses and cattle
ranges from' twentyaﬁve to ﬁfty
cents per head per week. It would

be my opinion that a good average
charge for these two classes of live-
stock would be ﬁfty cents per week
for horses and thirty—ﬁve cents per
week for cattle. The charge for
sheep would be four to ﬁve cents
a head. In other words, it is ﬁg-
ured that about eight sheep will
pasture where one cow will pasture.
Geo. A. Brown, Professor of Ani—

 

mal Husbandry, M. S. C.
VALUE OF SILAGE
Please advise me the value of

good corn silage per ton in silo ac—
cording to the price of hay per ton.
——A. 14]., Grindstone City, Mich.
HE usual rule in ﬁguring the
T value of silage is that one ton
of hay is equal to three tons
of silage. This value is also borne
out by the content of digestible nu—
trients. One hundred pounds of
corn silage made from well matured
corn contains 17.7 pounds of digesti—
ble nutrients, one hundred pounds
of alfalfa hay 51.6 pounds of diges—
tible nutrients, one hundred pounds.
of red clover hay 56.9 pounds of di—
gestible nutrients and one cw-t. of
timothy hay contains 48.5 pounds of
digestible nutrients. In clover and
alfalfa hay there is more protein
and less carbohydrates and fat than
there is in timothy hay and corn si—
lage. Geo. A. Brown, Professor of
Animal Husbandry, M. S. C.

 

PROTEIN-RICH FEEDS FOB...
DAIRY SUCCESS
ANY farmers fail to get the pro--
ﬁts they should from their
dairy herds. Some of these
men do not have cows which are
good dairy animals and efﬁcient pro-
ducers of milk and butterfat. Others.
feel that protein—rich feeds, like lin-
seed meal, cost too much, and there-
fore they fail to feed a balanced ra-
tion which provides enough protein
for a high yield of milk. Milk is
very rich in protein, and the ration
of a good cow must therefore contain
plenty of protein for the cow to use
as a raw material in making the
protein in her milk .

Still others do not appreciate the
fact that a good cow must be fed
liberally to make the most proﬁt.
Even the best cow needs a large part
of all the feed she can eat to main-
tain her own body. From the feed
thus used up the dairyman gets no—
thing in but the society of the cow
and her manure. His profits come
only from the amount of food a cow
eats in addition to her maintenance
needs. Therefore, if you have the
right kind of cows, be liberal with
them and be sure you supply them
with the right kind of feeds.


 
 
 
  

 
 
 
 
 

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SPRING HALTx

I have a 13—year-old mare in good
health and lively. When I turned
her out to pasture she was 0. K..
Today when I went after her she
seemed to have the spring-halt, or
something similar, when walking or
running will draw right hind leg al-
most to belly. Will this hurt her
to work? Is there any help for her,
and it it leaves her will it come back
and always bo‘ther her?——L. F., Fife
Lake, Mich. , :

S a. general thing there is no

help for a spring halted horse

and most owners let them alone
when once affected. Have known
horses to work for years with this
condition with no apparent injury
to themselves: this affects them
worse during cold weather. Since
this has just come upon this mare
at her age which is somewhat un-
usual you might try the following
treatment which will do her no in-
jury and since you can begin it
early it might help her. Feed her
laxattvo teed and not too heavily.
Get three ounces of potassium io-
dide dissolved in one quart of water.
0! this solution give her one table-
spoontul each night and morning on
some wheat bran or ground feed.
If this seem to help you can discon-
tinue after the ﬁrst quart is gone
for three or four days and then you
can give a second treatment just
like the ﬁrst one.

 

COW WITH OOUGH

I have a cowthat has been troub-
ling me for the last year. She stands
and grunts by spells and then she
will appear alright for a while, and
she has a slight cough. Please ad-
vise me What to do.——B.. P., Howard
City, Mich.

8 far as the grunting is concern-
‘ ed you need not worry about

that as this cow is probably just ‘

a hearty eater and overloads her
stomach. Have irequently observed
cows that grunt considerably when
lying down? As to the cough it it
is at all serious you might get the
following for her: 2 drams of potas-
sium dichromate dissolved in 1 pint
of water; of this mixture give this
cow 1,5 tablespoonitul on some bran
or ground feed night and morning.

 

SOUNDS LIKE 00W POX

My cows have sore teats. First
comes a blister like ﬁlled with wa-
ter, then turns to yellow matter. It
seems to be spread from one cow to
another. Sore as can be from the
way the cow acts. It is not con.-
ﬁned to teats but will come on the
udder. Please answer through Vet-
erinary Department. I know of
other herds that are bothered with
the same infection—C. M., Belle-
vue, Mich.

sounds just exactly like

cow pox. The only treatment
that will be satisfactory will

be that of using an antiseptic on the

adders and then wash the hands be- -

tween each milking. Would suggest
that you use an antiseptic that will
not taint the milk and such ones
as sterilac or zonite Will be good.
Make warm solution of enough to
wash all the udders and dry them
with a soft cloth. Between the milk-
ing of each cow if it is done by
hand, wash the hands in the same
solution and dry them. This is
carrin from one cow to another

benzoin compound; this
painted over the ulcers with a. small
camel's hair brush Once or twice
each week it they do not heal as
rapidly as you think they’should
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the way it is with feeding—«1p to a certain point, the eed merely
serves to maintain the bodies of the animals. But add Linseed Meal
and you jump ahead in gains of milk, meat, wool and eggs.

Thousands of Endorsements Like Thae
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commenial feeds. Last year 3 proved worth $75 a
feeding value.”
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Yes, many state that
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lat mvested. What other investment will pay
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Get the books shown herewith. Learn how
much better use you can make of the feeds
you now have. And if you have any special
problems, write to our Secretary, who has had
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In tho year of 1893 I was attacked by
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MICHIGAN POULTRYBIEN MEEH‘
OCTOBER 29-30

HE newly organized Michigan
State Poultry Improvement As-
sociation will hold its ﬁrst an-

nual convention at the Michigan
State College, October 29th and
30th. We expect between three hun-
dred and four hundred of Michi-
gan’s most prominent poultrymen
at this meeting.

An excellent program has been ar-
ranged, Wi'th Doctor M. A. Jull, Sen-
ior Poultryman, U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C., as
principal speaker, who will speak at
the banquet being held Thursday ev—
ening, October 29th, and give his
principal address the morning of
the 30th, discussing the importance
of poultry certiﬁcation and accredi-
tation, from a national standpoint.

Prof. W. R. Graham of the On-
tario Agricultural College, Guelph,
Ont., the foremost poultryman on
the continent, will be present for the
two days, discussing on the after-
noon of the 29th, “Ontario’s Poultry

Industry” and on the morning of the -

30th, “The Future of the Poultry
Industry, as I See It.”

On Friday afternoon, October
30th, will be held a business session,
election of ofﬁcers, and a discussion
of the plans for accrediting and cer-
tifying of poultry ﬂocks and hatch-
eries, as now being use.

The poultry ﬂock and hatchery

certiﬁcation work is progressing
nicely with some 3,000,000 egg
, hatching capacity in commercial

hatcherles, signed up for State in—
spection and, accreditation for the
ﬁrst year. The ﬁrst ﬂock inspec-
tions have been made and the rest
of the poultrymen are getting their
ﬂocks into shape for the ﬁnal state
inspection. Contracts binding the
hatcherymen have been mailed, and
many of Michigan’s farm leaders
have told us that they consider the
poultry flock certiﬁcation and in—
spection the most important agri-
cultural movement taking place in
Michigan for" the past several years.

Mr. Glen Campbell of the Camp-
bell Advertising Service, Toledo,
Ohio, Will deliver an address on the
afternoon of the 29th, on “Efﬁcient
Advertising for the Sale of Poultry
Products”.

Thursday evening, October 29th,
a banquet will be served in the ball
room of the Union Memorial Build—
ing, for all the visiting poultrymen.
The Newton Incubator Company of
Harrisonburg, Virginia, being hosts,
and donating the banquet meal. Sev—
eral other feed companies and in-
cubator companies are contributing
to the entertainment of those in at-
tendance.

All Michigan poultryment are in-
vited—J. A. Hannah.

DIAICE READY FOR WINTER

CRUCIAL period in the life of

the pullet is almost at hand.

It is the period of a few days
when it is necessary to deprive the
birds of whatever range has been
available and put them into the lay—
ing house for a long Winter of hard
work. The pullet that has had free
range during her growing and de—
veloping months will be the best
one for egg production this winter,
but she will have to go through a
brief time of tribulation getting ac—
customed to the conﬁnement of the
laying house.

Laying hens, especially the light-
er breds like the Leghorns, are in-
clined to be nervous. Some are more
so than others. Sudden changes of
any kind affect them adversely, even
though the change be one that will
ultimately be for the better. It is
therefore highly advisable that
great care be exercised in changing
the condition under which they are
living. To go to the range house
after dark and collect the pullets
and take them bodily to the laying
house is bad business. It will excite
them. They will not rest much that
night. The next day they will do a
lot of worrying, wishing that they
were out on the range and trying to
get there. The result is likely to be

a disorganized system, followed by’
an unnatural malt and a general de- ‘

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Questions relative to poultry will be cheerfully answered.)

    

The effect of it is likely to run on
throughout the entire laying year.

Where it is possible, it is desir-
able to allow the pullets to enter the
laying house at will and get ac-
quainted with it before the time
comes for shutting them up in it. If
they can have access to it and re-
ceiVe a little food in it, much of its
terrors will be removed and they
will be less likely to feel disturbed
when they” ﬁnd themselves tolled in-
to it as a ﬂock and the doors closed
behind them.

The judicious poultryman ls care-
ful never to frighten his birds. He

is , especially cautious when they
are ﬁrst installed in the laying
house. They are well acquainted

with him as he appears on the range
but he is entirely different creature
to them when he enters the house
where they are conﬁned. A quick
motion or rapid gait is sure to
throw some of them into a ﬁt, and
when one of them jumps and ﬂut—
ters and squawks most of the rest
do likewise and real damage is done
to their morale. Hence it is desir-
able that the person entering the
house do so quietly and in a way to
develop conﬁdence rather than fear
on the part of the pullets. It is
not a bad idea to throw them a lit-
tle feed each time he enters for the
ﬁrst few days, for this is sure to
create a spirit of friendliness,

A point that should never be over—
looked is the necessity for adequate
ventilation. Chickens always need
much fresh air. There is no d0-
mestic animal that requires pure air
more than does the hen. If she has
just been brought in from practical-
ly open air quarters, it is especially
desirable that the laying house he
so constructed and so controlled as
to afford plenty of ventilation.
Drafts are undesirable, but even a
draft is better at ﬁrst than close,
stuffy, hot quarters.

The laying house should have
been cleaned scrupuldusly before
the pullets were brought in. Every
trace of ﬁlth, pest or vermin should
have been eliminated. If there is
the slightest doubt about the pullets
being free from pests, a sodium
ﬂuoride or other suitable treatment
upon ﬁrst introduction to the Winter
quarters is desirable. It is never
as easy to destroy pests as it is to
prevent them, and unless the birds
are free from them when ﬁrst put
into the house, the louse and mite
population is sure to increase with
corresponding losses in egg produc-
tion.

DON’T BE DECEIVED
By Samuel Smith, Montcalm County.

Good people, good people now don’t be
deceived,

Political tricksters
lieved.

They are aiming for something though
high it may be,

They are as apt to deceive you as the
fruit of a tree,

That in the springtime gives promise with
ﬂowers so fair,

To cover the ground with a fruit that’s
most rare.

Then in summer they wither and fall to
the ground,

In autumn no trace of its fruit can be
found.

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ECONOMY IN RADIO OPERATION
HE other day I chanced upon a
booklet compiled by a prominent
battery manufacturer and read

the following:

“To avoid disappointment, you
should realize at the start, that a
radio is not like a phonograph. It
is not always ready to bring in any
station you want, for weather con—
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other obstructions exercise a marked
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There is more truth than poetry
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all the more. Taken on the whole,
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set that will not permit its user to
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source during an evening.

The beginner in radio goes shop-
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a radio set and after a few months
use, he discovers to his sorrow that
the cost of operating his set is ex-
tremely high. Naturally he is pro-
voked to exasperation and blames it
on the set. Is this just. Let us see.
Upon being questioned, the real
causes for his trouble are instantly
apparent. While trying to run his
set on the smallest number of bat—
teries possible he is adopting a meth—
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not last nearly as long and he natur—
ally buys more often. In this little
story now I am going to show you
how to use batteries more economic—
ally and in the ﬁnal analysis you will
realize that though the initial ex-
penditure is big you will ultimately
save on the expense of upkeep.

Radio batteries are of three classes
called “A”, “B” and “C” batteries.
As all of you know these batteries are
but designations showing to which
part of the radio circuit the battery
belongs.

Radio “A” batteries are found in
two types, wet and dry. The wet is
the familiar storage battery such as
required for the economical opera-
tion of all vacuum tubes using more
than 1,4 ampere of current for heat—
ing their ﬁlaments. Such tubesrare
the UV 201, C 301, UV 200 and C
300. The advantage that the storage
battery has is the fact that it can
withstand the heavy current without
losing much in voltage efficiency,
They also have their objections, the
main of which is the fact that they
must constantly be recharged. One
other objection is that they employ
acid which is very corrosive.

The dry cell radio f‘A" batteries
are light, low in initial cost and if
properly used almost as economical
as the storage battery. Unlike the
storage battery they require no at—
tention until they are exhausted.

Now the purpose of the “A” bat—
tery is to light the ﬁlament of the
tube, heating it to a point where it
will expel sufficient electrons to per—
mit the “B” battery to function.
for most economical operation they
‘should be grouped in certain deﬁnite
ways in order to obtain the best re-
sults. This grouping will now be
discussed.

Let us begin with tubes of the 1 1A2
volt class. These tubes are classed
such as WD-ll, WD—12, WX~1‘2, C-
12 and others. The best arrange—
ment is to employ 2 dry cells for each
tube of this class in the set. This
is due to the fact that the dry cell
should be limited to 1/9 ampere draw
at all times. If the set then, has
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299 and others whose voltage does
not exceed 3 volts 1 cell per tube is
satisfactory in cases where no more
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cells in parellel, connect all the posi—
tive posts together and then all the
negative posts. To connect a group
in series connect the positive of one,
to the negative of the next and so on.
The series parellell connection is
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The “B” and “C” Batteries will be
discussed at another date. Those of
you desiring information on the sub-
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Good Demand for Choice Cattle b‘ut Lower Prices on Other Grades
By W. W. Foam, Market Editor.

is getting late in the year, and

lots of work remains to be done

before winter sets in, the most
important things being corn husking
and winter wheat seeding. The lat—
ter promises to get under way short-
U in districts where it has been de—
layed by wet ground, and it is gen-
erally thought that the acreage will
be larger than usual. Wheat is a
big staple crop in the State of Mich-
igan, as our readers know, and
probably will continue to hold its
high position. The Department of
Agriculture in its October report
places the winter wheat crop of the
country at 416,000,000 bushels,
compared with 590,000,000 bushels
harvested in 1924, while the spring
wheat crop is reported at 282,000,-
000 bushels, comparing with 283,-
000,000 bushels grown last year.
First in importance in the size of
the ﬁve grain crops stands corn, and
so much is grown that it is essential
that most of it be converted into
beef, pork, lard and mutton to re-
turn proﬁts to the farmers who raise
it. It is reported this year as aggre-
gating 2,918,000,000 bushels, com-
paring with 2,437,000,000 bushels
raised last year. Farmers have
grown 1,470,000,000 bushels of oats
or within 72,000,000 bushels of the
big yield last year, and 142,000,000
bushels above the last ﬁve year av-
erage. The aggregate yield of the
ﬁve crops amounts to 6,365,000,000
bushels, being 1,036,000,000 bush-
els in excess of 1924. On the other
hand, the hay crop is down to 98,-
100,000 tons owing to the dry
summer, or 14,000,000 tons less
than last year. There is a marked
butter shortage, as well as a big po-
tato shortage and butter has had a
boom, retailing as high as 62 cents
in Chicago the same price as fresh
eggs. Probably, most of our Mich-
igan farmers raise the greater part
of What their families consume on
their farms, but they also market
I. great deal of wheat and other
foods, and a great question is whe-
ther to sell now or at a later date.
Unquestionably a great deal of corn
will be stored in the hope of better
prices at a later time. The Chicago
Tribune says it would not surprise
some of the closest students of con-
ditiqns if the “hold back your corn
movement” in Iowa resulted in a
great deal of grain being stored un—
der the farm warehouse act. Ofﬁc—
ial reports say approximately half
the counties in the state are in .a
position to take advantage of this
law, which provides a form of col—
lateral which can be discounted
readily. Forty—seven of the coun-
ties in Iowa are organized under the
warehouse act and have local boards
to supervise the work. State ofﬁc—
ials are preparing to register other
counties as rapidly as the local or-
ganizations may be completed.

Great Butter Shortage

The Department of Agriculture
reports that the release of the cold
storage report for the entire coun-
try on Tuesday, Oct. 13th was of
considerable inﬂuence on the mar-
kets. This report showed holdings
of butter on Oct. 1st amounting to
114,167,000 pounds as compared
with 153,494,000 pounds on Oct.
1, 1924 and 109,958,000 as an Oct.
lst ﬁve year average. These ﬁgures
were of a' bullish tendency inasmuc
as the trade had variously estimated
holdings considerably heavier than
those shown in the ﬁnal report.

Sheep at International

A new departure in the sheep
carload show at the Interna’ional
Live Stock exposition, to be held No-
Vember 28 to December 5, will be’a
contest for-carloads of lambs out of
grade range ewes by registered
rams of any one distinct breed.

“The ewes must have grazed in
1924, west of the 98th degree of
blongitudo, but the lambs can be fed
More and without any restric-
tion alto feeds,"”, reads the an-
jnouncement. “They must he.
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1925. Prizes of $250, $100. $75,
$50, and $25 will be awarded to the
ﬁve best carloads exhibited in this
new class. President John Clay of
the International will again offer a
special prize of $250 for the grand
champion carload of sheep or lambs
of the entire show. Armour, Swift
and Wilson companies will each do-
nate $50 to be divided $75, $50, and
$25 between the three next best car-
loads as special awards."

Will Wheat Go Higher?

Lower corn prices have checked
farmers' deliveries of old corn as
well as sales of new corn for future
deliveries. Corn is certainly low
with recent sales on the Chicago
Board of Trade for December deliv-
ery at 75 cents, comparing with
$1.10 a year ago. Any improve-
ment in wheat prices is slow at best,
and the demand is not very large
as yet. There were late sales for
December delivery of old wheat at
$1.43, being six cents lower than a
year ago. Oats for December de-
livery sell around 40 cents, compar-
ing with 54 cents a year ago; While
rye for the same delivery sells at
81 cents, comparing with $1.34 a
year ago. Most of the leading trad-
ers are not looking for any immedi-
ate pronounced advance in grain
prices. The recent statement of the
United States visible grain supplies
follows:

his week. Last week. Last year.
Wheat -._4 878,000 49,371,000 83,571,000
(torn _.__ 97,000 5,470,000 7,820,000
Oats __...65 26,000 65,818,000 58,178,000
Rye _..._ 9,302,000 0,726,000 12,945,000
Barley 6,169,000 6,027,000 5 583.000

As the season advances there are
substantial gains in the Chicago re—
ceipts, as well as elsewhere. and the
tendency is for prices to go lower for
the rank and ﬁle of the offerings.
But the market is very ﬁrm for the
few choice offerings, and they con-
tinue to bring a generous premium.
The range of prices for steers is ex—
tremely wide, and while the cheaper
light weights are purchased for $7
to $9 per 100 pounds, the best class
of long—fed steers go at $15 to $16.
Prime yearlings are taken at $14 to
$15.25, and no good steers sell under
$10.75. The bulk of the steers sold
recently at $8.25 to $14.50. A year
ago steers were selling at $16.75 to
$12.60, while ten years ago they
brought $4.50rto $10.60. Butcher—
ing lots of cows and heifers are
selling at $3.85 to $13, calves at $5
to $12 and stockers and feeders at

$4.50 to $9, mainly at $6.75 to $7.75.

“Somewhat reduced shipments of
stocker and feeder cattle Were made
into the corn belt during the three
months of July, August-and Septem-
ber, 1925, as compared with those
made during the same period in
1924,” according to the regular re-
port of the United States department
of agriculture.

“Compared with the same period
in 1923 and 1922 a very large de-
crease is shown. During the same
period the receipts of cattle at lead-
ing markets were larger than last
year, due to the heavy movement in
July and August, the September re-
ceipts being much smaller than last
year. ‘

“The total shipments of stocker

and feeder cattle from the twelve,

leading markets into all states were
only 898,000 for the three months'
period this year, compared to 986,-
000 last year, 1,369,000 two years
ago and 1,373,000 three years ago.

“These reduced shipments oc-
curred in the face of the highest fat
cattle market in ﬁve years and de-
spite the prospects for a corn crop
much larger and of much better feed-
ing quality than that of last year in
the corn belt,‘and despite the fact
that old corn sold at generally lower
prices during the three months’ per-
iod this year than during the same
time last year,” says the report.

“The explanation of the decrease
is probably found in the general
shortage of pasture that has existed
all summer in most of the important
cattle feeding states. This has made
it impossible for farmers in many
areas to buy cattle which would be
needed later to consume roughage
and for winter feeding. As a con-
sequence, feeder cattle prices in July
and August were but little, if any,
higher than a year ago.

“General rains over the corn belt
during September, however, renewed
pastures and produced an abundant
supply of roughage. The good corn
cmp prospects materialized and the
demand for stocker and feeder cattle
greatly expanded with a resulting
sharp increase in prices. In view of
the heavy early marketings of west-
ern cattle, the generally improved
feeling in western cattle regions and
the greatly improved feed situation
during recent weeks in the southwest,
a continuing strong market for feeder
cattle seems highly probable.

“In spite of the demand for heavy
feeders for a short feed, induced by
high fat cattle prices this summer
the actual shipments of such cattle
were smaller than last year, ship-
ments of calves were also smaller.

Despite the continued large re-
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Detroit Chicago Detroit Detroit
Oct. 19 Oct. 19 Oct. 6 1 yr. ago

WHEAT—-

No. 2 Red $1.68 $1.53 1.53

No. 2 White 1.69 1.54 51.55

No. 2 Mixed 1.68 1.53 1.54
CORN— ’

No. 2 Yellow .88 .84@ .85 if .85 1.15

No. 3 Yellow .87 .84
OATS (old ) —

No. 2 White .44 36 A0 @ .4 $4 .49 .54 X

No. 3 White .42 $4 .39 §4‘@ .40 .46 .52 5‘
RYE--

Cash N o. 2 .87 .87 1.32
BEAN S—

C. H. P. th. 4.55 4.60 @435 5.40 @545
POTATOES— '

N ew, Per th. 2.20 @ 2.23 1.63 @ 2.17 2.00 @ 2.10 1.00
HAY——

No. 1 Tim. 23.50 @24 27 $29 28.50 @24 19 20

No. 2 Tim. 21 @23 24 26 21 @22 16 17

No. 1 Clover 18 @ 19 28 @ 25 18@ 19 15 @16

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shippers helped to bring about a rally
in prices, and sales were made at
$9.95 to $12.10, with prime light
weights at the top. Heavy hogs went
at a big discount from prices paid
A year ago hogs sold at
$9 to $11.25 and two years ago at,
$6 to$7.50.

 

WHEAT '

Prices in the wheat market have
advanced consqiide’rable during the,
two weeks an a strong tone pro-
vails at present but most of the
large dealers are selling out their
stocks at present prices there being
much feeling that lower prices are
not far off. Export demand has been
small this year" owing to the fact
that bankers have been slow to ex-
tend credit for purchases outside
of their own country.- It is hoped
and expected that Europe will soon
have to come to America for wheat.
the home supply being reported as
about used up. "

. CORN

Corn has advanced some in price
although reports of a bumper crop
have been trying to bear the mar-
ket. Corn is ﬁrm because of small '
receipts, farmers not taking the
time to do much marketing at pres-
ent. «

OATS
Following the trend of the other
grains oats advanced slightly dur-
ing the last fortnight. Feeding de-
mand seems fairly active and export
demand better than a year ago.

RYE
Light receipts is helping to keep
prices up in the rye market. Export
demand is dull.

BEANS

The latest government estimate
of the Michigan bean crop is 7,-
356,000 bushels compared with 5,-
848,000 last year, and the average
yield per acre is about 12 bushels.
The pick will average about 8.5 per
cent according to -estimates. Not
much change in price is expected in
the near future.

, POTATOES

Potato growers are feeling pretty
good these days, with a short crop
and good demand prices are very
satisfactory. If growers will market
their potatoes orderly it is believed
they may expect satisfactory returns
for the entire crop.

WOOL

The wool market seems to be
slightly improved and trading in
general has been more regular.
Everyone seems to have more con-
ﬁdence in the market. '

BUTTER AND EGGS
DETROIT—«Butter, No. 1 cream-
ery, in tubs, 45@480 per lb. Eggs,
fresh, 38@42c per doz.

POULTRY

Detroit—Live poultry—Best Pb-
mouth Rock spring chickens, 4 lbs.
and up, 24c; mixed. 4 lbs. and up,
23c; medium, 22c: Leghorns, 20c:
best hens, 5 lbs, 25c; medium hens,
24c; Leghorns and mall. 16c:
stage and old roosters, 16c; geese,
18@19c; large white ducks, 23@
24c; small ducks, 20@23c; young
turkeys, 8 lbs. or better, 30@32¢
per 1b..

New York—«Live Poultry—Quiet;
chickens, by frieght, 18@28c; do by
express, 18@25c; fowls, by express,
15@30c.; roosters, by freight; 17c.

Dressed Poultry—Quiet; chickens,

fresh, 26@420; do frozen, 23@
26c; fowls, 19 @ 360; old roosters,
15 @ 23c; turkeys, frozen, 30 @ 46c;

do fresh spring, 35@55c; fresh, old
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cars; We, 15 @223“; springs,
20c; roosters, 16c turkeys, 25c;
ducks, 19c; geese, 190. .

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‘  steady: buwamred steers offered

$135 bqu‘Jhort fed. $9010.50; odd lots
western grassers, 312563850; she stock,
steady to weak; bulls and vealers fully
steady. Hogs—Active, 10 to 16c higher;
light Weighm and packing sows showing
full advance; bulk good and choice, 100
to 825 pound weights, 3115061130; 140-
pound averages topped at 812.10; bulk
packing sows, 89.50@10.10. Sheep—Best
fat lambs steady; others weak to 25c
lower; top range lambs, $16.40; natives
upward to $15.15; desirable feeders, 315
615.75; bulk desirable fat native ewes,
$6.50@7.60.
EAST BUFFALO—Cattle—Slow and
; shipping steers $9@12; butchers.
$5.86@8.75; yearlingS. $9014: heifers.
$4.60@8.50; fair to choice, cows. 330
6.50; canners and artters. 823563.25;
bulls. $3.25@6; stockers and feeders. $4
67.50; fresh cows and springers, active
and steady. $406120. Calves—Slow and
steady; choice, 814.50815; fair to good.
$13614; culls, $861k“); a few at 818;
heavy, $869; grassers, $566. Hogs—
Slow, steady to 10c higher; heavy, 812.25
612.40; mixed, 8114061150; yorker!
and light yorkers. $12.50; pigs. 811.50
012.60; roughs, 3103561050; stage, 87
@9. Sheep and Lamla——Slow, lambs, $9
015.25; yearling; $8012; wethers, $8.50
@9; ewes, 8268; mixed sheep, $8@8.50.

A~GLANCE AT THE MARKETS
(U. 8. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Washington. D. C.)

For week ending OCtOber 14.
EVERY time of rising prices has its

 

setbacks and slumps. .Usually they

do not last long unless the imder-
lying conditions have changed. During
the ﬁrst half of October there was con-
siderable backing and ﬁlling in the mar-
kets, often with no reason except that
previous high prices had attracted heavy
supplies or had checked the buytng a
little. Once a decline starts for any rea-
son, it goes on for awhile because many
dealers hold 03 in hopes of buying lower
down. This kind of a. decline was per-
haps mainly responsible in whatever dips
and drops have occurred in butter. cheese.
hay. tobacco, ﬂax, livestock and some
fruits and vegetables Back of these com-
modities is light production and good pub-
lic buying based on prosperous business
conditions. and such a backing would
tend to prevent lasting periods of low'
prices.

With cotton and the grain products the
market had to adjust itself to a. rather
large but still uncertain low production
and demand. For these the proper level
of prices is still unsettled although there

' seems little permanent cause for the severe

decline in some of the feeding grains. for
instance, in View of the active demand
likely to prevail and the opportunity for
proﬁtable use of all feeding material in
the livestock industry.

The wheat market at the moment has
recovered somewhat from the early Octo—
ber slump, owing to scarcity of desirable
milling grades because of severe weather
and perhaps some unwillingness to sell at
the lower prices. But sales for future
delivery continue at a comparatively low
level and foreign markets are weak be—
cause large supplies present and expected.
Many wheat regions over there have ﬁrst—
rate crops. Even Russia threatens to
place a. fairly large surplus on sale at
rather lowprices. The result of the for—
eign market depression from such causes
may be to force some Canadian wheat
over our own tariff fences. Our crop of
spring wheat turns out to be about the
same as last year, with nearly $6, Durum
wheat.

Corn markets still feel the effect of a
large and early maturing crop. nearly 3
billion bushels with light export trade
and the feeding demand not yet fully
developed While cash prices hold well.
lateLv. the prices for future delivery sug-
gest downward trend, when the new crop
supply increases, unless farmers continue
the present disposition to feed corn liber-
ally rather than to sell at imsatisfactory
terms out of proportion to probable pro—
ducing value of corn. Present market re-
ceipts of corn are comparatively light.

The same causes and conditions may
save the oats situation. Feeding demand.
so far. is active and trade better than a
year ago. The new crop and the stock
held over brings the available supply to
about last year‘s total. The price holds
Well at the lower level reached. Barley
also maintains its recent price fairly well -
and demand is active for brewing barley
but not so good for feeding grades. Rye
shows a disposition to advance because of
light receipts, but there is little demand
for export. Flax advanced rather sharp-
ly on sales for future delivery.

Demand for stock feeds is improving,
but the supply is heavy and prices share
somewhat the recent weakness of the
grain markets. Cottonseed is still a bar-
gain feature in concentrated feeds. It
sells at much above $40 a ton in the
Northern cities. Linseed is relatively
high and in some demand for export.
Gluten and other feeds are -in rather light
demand. with the market in buyers’ favor.
Current supplies of wheat feed are re-
Med very moderate and prices have
been moving up a little with the various
rallies in the wheat market.

Timothy grass seed still sells at an
average of $6.75 per 100 pounds in pro-
ducing sections; at least 81 higher than
last year and .abput the same price aver-
The "aromas were $6.10
 and- 8.7.40

    

  
 

has left thegrowers'» hands. Some/has
gone to export trade. _
Hog prices slumped badly from the
point above $14 reached early in
October and touched lowest prices reached
since .spring. Fairly heavy receipts of
hogs were the chief cause of the price
decline. 'Many of the hogs now coming
to market are young light-weights. thus
improving the relative market position of
heavy h0g1 Apparently a longer wait
and more corn would have been advisable
in some cases. Feeder pigs of 130 pounds
or less are in great demand and they
may help solve the problem of the corn
and feed markets. Feeder steers also
ﬁnd ready sale and have held their price
level much better than fat stock. Mar-
keting of range cattle has been going on
at nearly double the rate of a year ago.
Sheep and lambs recovered somewhat
from the slump of early October. West—
ern feeding lambs sold at $16.00 per 100
ponds in Chicago.

    

 

Week of October 25

EMPERATURES during the ﬁrst
half of the week in Michigan
will average high for the sea-

son with the probable exception of
about Monday. This condition Will
be due to a series of storms expect-
ed to cross over or near Michigan
during the ﬁrst few days of this
week.

The rainfall during this period
will not be general nor heavy but
conﬁned more to local storms and
late thunder showers. We look for
more than the usual amount of fog
on lakes, rivers and low lands, also.

By the middle of the week tem—
peratures will have made a sudden
drop. But with a very few excep-
tions we ﬁgure that from this date
on through November the general
trend of the temperature will be
downward with a notable activity in
this direction immediately after the
middle of the coming month.

With the probable exception of

Thursday and Friday of this week,’

We are expecting the last half to be
generally fair and cool. During the
two above mentioned days the
weather will be threatening to rainy
or probable snow hurries. Hallow-
e‘en will be mostly fair and cool.
Week of November 1
Moderately cool weather for the

season marks the greater share of

this week in Michigan. Precipita-
tion is also expected to be lighter
than usuaL The most active period
for showers will occur from Sunday
to Wednesday after which time the
weather is expected to be generally
fair and cool.
November Warm and Dry

The greater share of November in
Michigan will lack general precipi—
tation. Temperatures Will average
above the seasonal normal in the
state as a whole.

 

 

LIVE STOCK ADS
(Continued from page 23.)

HAMPSHIRES

 

 

 

 

HAMBSHIRES FOR SALE—BRED GlLTs FOR
Fall litter and sBring boar Pigs not a '
JOHN W. SNY ER. 8‘. Johns. Mlohlgsn. R. 4.

 FOR san—srnme AND

fall  both sex.
W. TEED, Meslok, 3, Michigan.

 

 

DOGS

 

FOR SALE—ENGLISH POHERANIAN DOGS.
la and females, color chocolate brown. white
ble. MODE WHALEY. Oadlliae. R1. Mich.

 

 

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oscan ICHER. Eikton, Mlehlgan.

Cured His Rupture

was badly ruptured while lifting a
can ago. Doctors said my
cure was an operation.

 

trunk several
only hope 0
Trusses did me no good. Finally I got
hold of something that quickly and com-
pletely cured me. Years have passed and
the rupture has never returned. although
I am doing hard work as a carpenter.
There 'was no operation, no lost time, no
trouble. I have nothing to sell, but wil
give full mformation about how you may,

d a complete cure without operation. if
you write to me, Eugene‘dld. Pullen, Car-
penter. 82M _Marcellus Avenue, Manes-
quan, . J. Better cut out this notice
and show it to any others who are rup-
tured—woo may save. a life or .at least

       
  

   
   
 

    
 
  

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nusmrss FARMERS EXGHAIGE
RATEIuL'OE'R WORD—Ono Issue 8o. No

150. Four Issues 260.

No advertisement less than ten words.
 or abbrevia-

     
      
 
  

disco' unis.
Forms close Monday
date of issue. Address:

IIGHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER.
It. c ens, Mlch can.

noon proceeding

     
     
 

 

 

Hig cultivated. farms some with build-
ings Ar V Qilor 0 on
lessthanrent. Only 0 eentdownand34$§
ears to balance 6 nt in
1...“ m" .31“ ‘“ ME." he, .0
year pr u er acre; a
tons beets. bagels barley. 77 .
39‘bushels spring wheat. 47 bushels winter wheat.
Dairy operations attractive. Local condens-
eriee and creameries assure constant marinet.
Feeding lambs and other live his.
Swinebring excellent mica when bred for only
fury-owing and early market. fac-
tories contract for all beet: grown best)
an attractive cash crop. Alfalfa and ﬂour mills
and gain elevators furnish local market.
achoo and churches. . Good roads. excl! t
climate. This opportunity and .the reasonab
terms ' make you independent in a few years.
We are not in the land business and are anxious
to get 9 best of our lands in hands g
farmers who will cuiizvate lune to bﬁadvantage
to themselyu and this ﬂ
ticulars to American Beet 8m! 00.. 27 d
Bide. .
A WELL IMPROVED 140 ACRE FARM. 1 MILE
to market. ideal home. For

An partials“
write. Rudolph Hauler, Sandusb, m. B. 4.

 

DAIRY CATTLE

GUERNSOEY OB HOISTEIN DAIRY CALng

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 .0 _each shipped anywhere. Edgew
b‘arms. Whitewater. Wisconsin.
S‘VINE
SPOTTED POLAND CIllNA SPRING AND FALL
boar pigs from rise Winning stock. Oahu
Voelker. Pigeon. Mi gnu.
POUIII‘RY

 

THOROUGH—BRED BOURBON RED TURKEYB,

all of Kentucky breeding. _ .
Cobblers $8.00. All stock yard raised, also a
limited number of single comb Rhode Island \Vhite
All stock must be sold by

Pullei's $1.50 each. ‘
November 25 Mrs. Sophia Peet. R. R. 1
Alto. Michigan

 

A FEW PURE BRED MAMMOTH BRONZE

turkeys. Toms 7.00; liens $6.00. Also 21
few White Wyan otte .cockvrcls $1.75 each
Sainiiel Putnam. Caro, Mlch.. R. No. 5.

 

 

PET STOCK

 

HUNTING HOUNDS CHEAP. TRAIL. DIXIE

Kennels. X2. Herrick. Ill.

HUNDRED HUNTING llOUNDS CHEAP. FUR
ﬁnders. Catalogue. Kaskaskonnels. Herrick. 11L

 

 

FE RRETS

 

THIRTY YEARS EXI’ERIENFE. YEARLING
femalm the mother ferret special rat catchers
5.00 each. Young stock females $4.00; males
3.50. Will ship C. O. 1). Instruction Book
‘ree. Levi Fumsworth, New London, Ohio.

 

 

TO BACCO

TOBACCO: CllElVING, FIVE LBS. 1.50;

ten  sxfnokuég. ﬁveGlbe. sitig; ten 2.00;
.igars 2. .or . unran e pipe free.
l’ay when received. t‘ilioy Carlton. Maren Mills.
Kentuckv.

IIOMESPUN TOBACCO—CHEWING FIVE
pounds $1.50. ten $2.50. Smokinl ﬁre pounds
$1.25, ten _$2.0.0. P396 ee. Pa when re-
ceived. Satisfaction (:uaranteed. l e n t u c k y
Farmer's Association. Padumh. Kentucky.
LOOK HEBEI GUARANTEED, FRAGRANT.
mellow, T'lCll. homespun tobacco. ﬁve pound.
chewing. $1.50' smoking. $1.25 Samples, 10c.
Chris's River Piantation, 1 _

192. Him. {y
LEAF TOBACCO—CHEWING
ten $2.50.

 

 

. 5 LBS. $1.50.

Smokmg, 5 lbs. $1.25. ten $2.00.
Guaranteed. Pay when received. Pipe free. Albert
Ford, Paducah. 

HOMESI’UN TOBACCO: CIIEVVING FIVE LBs.

$1.50: Ten $2.50' Smoking ﬁve lbs. $1.25;
ten $2.00: ‘uuamni~ _, pa when received. pipe
Free. Farmers Association, axon Mills, Kentucky.

KENTUCKY HOMESPUN TOBA000._F 0 U 3
pounds chewmg or ﬁve smoking $1,00 post.
id. Sam le Kentuckf'iyeorghum free. Clements-

Wettstnin, ,hambcrs, .

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

MAKE $150.00 T0 $400.00 WEEKLY SELLING
the Start Bite Sly/itch for Ford cars. 0 start on,

'ust retard spark lever. No lloor button needed.

raves bend'ix and starter trouble. Dexnonstrater

nish . Write today for plan and proof of
1810.00 monthly proﬁt. National Sales 00..
no.. Coin, Iowa.

 

BATTERY CHARGING
SuperElectrolyte. When simply poured into
djgcharged batteries, they become charged without
aid of line. Al garages prospective customers.
Gallon free to agents. Mickman 00.. St. Paul.
Minnesota.

WANTED—.iiAIL CLERKS T0 HANDLE MAIL

on trains .(travel) Formt  guard U. S.
Forests. S l A cuts. make investigations. Bor-
d” “truth guar. U. S. Border. Let Ozment
“pom.  you. Write 0amth The Coacher. 494.
St. Louis. MO.

CASH PAID FOR FALSE TEETH, PLATINU

WONDERFUL NEW

old Ina eto points. discarded Jewelr and 01
gold. Mail to, Hoke Smeltiug & Re uing Co-
Otsego. Michigan.

 

EASY TO SELL GBOCEBIES. PAINTS. LUB—

ricating oils. to consumers. Capital or experi-
ence unnecessary 53 years in business. Loverin
& Browne, 1785 So. State. Chicago.

BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM FOREST.
Car lot prices delivered to your station. Ad-
dress . Care Michigan Businas rmer.

ALL WOOL YARN FORSALE FROM MANU-
facturer at great bargain.V Sampla free. 1!.
A. Bartlett. Harmony, Mame.

BARREL 3T8 SLlGHTLY DAMAGED CROOK-
ery. o hinaware. olungwue. mm
etc. Sg’ifped direct from Mn to consumer.
Wri, ~' ‘mticularn: ‘B. Swans :4: (30.. Part-
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This picture shows lied Davenport open — ready ior use as
a bed. Bed Section is 72 x 48 inches — large enough for two
persons. it is easy to operate; opens with one Simple Motion.

AVENPORT Requires Little Wall Space—Easy to
Operate—This Davenport is especially desirable for
Medium sized homes. When closed it takes up only

57 inches wall space; yet when open it makes a very com-
fortable bed for two people. It is easy to operate—opens
with one simple motion. You do not sleep on the upholstery,
but on a separate and comfortable bed-spring built into the
Davenport; there are 2 sets of springs, one in the seat, the
other in the bed section. When DaVenport is closed, bedding
remains inside; out of the way. The advantages of the
Bed Davenport are many: you are always ready for the un-
expected guest. You can now have friends stay overnight
whom you could not accommodate before. Or, here is the
extra. bed that the family has long needed.
it it it 96

How to Realize
Your Home Beautiful

HE Spear Long-time Credit Method is Digniﬁed and
TConﬁdential. It enables Hundreds of Thousands of

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is to take advantage of my Remarkably Easy Terms. Send
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NOW.

A Handsome, Massive
and Useful article of Furniture by day—A I
Comfortable Bed by night—Large Enough for Two Persons—
Beautiful in Design —— Honestly Made of Durable Materials —
Will Give Years of Satisfactory Service—A Typical Spear Bargain
which permits you to be always ready for the unexpected guest;

 

    

 
  

  

Highly Glossed
Golden Oak or
Band Rubbed
., Mahogany
Finish

BE SURE TO STATE

which gives you the extra bed you have long needed. you cuouce

30 Days"

WANT this handsome

and exceedingly useful .
Bed Davenport to be its

own salesman. I want to send

it to you at my risk entirelyi

on 30 Days’ Free Trial.

want _you to use it every day and every night as if it were your own. I want you to know from actual
experience, its attractiveness by day, its comfort (as a bed) by night. I want you to learnhow easily
it is operated and how 1ts Simple mechanism cannot get out of order. Then if your satisfaction is not
complete, I want you to return the Davenport. I will refund your ﬁrst payment and all freight
charges. The trial W111 not cost you a penny. I will trust you gladly no matter where you live.

  Sale Price $3435

  

 

 
  
   
   
   
  
  
 

 

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Monthly .

ll You Are Not Convinced That This Is Regular $45 Value You May Return The Davenpor. 

Read theseSpeciﬁcationsof Constructionand sight and out of the way all day
Materials: This Double Service Davenport is long. Opens and closes easily and
built throughout of Solid Oak ﬁnished a Highly smoothly. A child can 0p-
Glossed Golden Color. It may be had also in erate it. The Bed Section
Seasoned Hardwood with a Fine Mahogany is 48 inches wide by 72
Finish. Both Finishes are Very Attractive. inches long—large enough ,
The frames are sturdy and massive with hand- for 2 people and is as com- 1
some ornamental scrolls on the posts, which fortable as a regular bed. '
are3l/z inches wide. Upholstery: Seat and Back Send for this Double Ser-
are covered with an excellent grade of Brown Vice Davenport today.
Spanish artiﬁcial leather that will give enduring You will always be ready for
service. The Non-Sag Seat is built over an the unexpected guest.

18 oil tempered c011 spring support covered Be sure to state your 
with heavy duck canvas and an abundance of Choice of Finish, Oak

sanitary, resilient upholstering materials. Bed or Mahogany. Order 
Features: One easy motion closes the Daven- No. TA1540. Price

port and conceals the bedding, which is out of $34.95. Terms: $1 with
order, $3.00 Monthly.

 

 

 

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D'épt. 3-701, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Home Fumishers for the People of America

 

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31 .00 ﬁrst payment. It is understood lhatif at the end of the 30 days’ trial I “$331:
I ﬂed. I will send you $3.00 monthly. Order No. TA1540. Price $34.95. Title remain.
I With you until paid in full. Send me your Big Free Catalog also.
Please prlnt or wrlle name and address plalnly.

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