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New York Central Lines are continuously
striving, in every way, to aid the farmer in-
crease his proﬁts from milking herds.

Our Department of Agricultural Relations is
constantly co-operating with cattle breeding
associations, agricultural colleges, farm bu-
reaus, and progressive farmers, for the pur-
pose of improving the quality of dairy cattle.
Fewer and better cows mean better milk
and more proﬁt.

Transporting milk from farm to city is a

considerable part of our day’s work. By the

"Better Cattle Train” Demonstration Trains,

and similar methods, we are endeavoring to

increase this trafﬁc—to prosper as the com-
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EN Calvin Coolidge, Presi-
dent of the United St tes, sits
down to lunch Mo day, De—

cember 7, as the guest of the Ameri-

can Farm Bureau Federation, he
will be sitting down to a practical»

'application of co-Operative market-

ing, for all of the food-stuffs for that
luncheon are being furnished by co-
operative marketing organizations.

And on Tuesday at noon, there will
be given a co—operative luncheon to
the entire convention.

Under the direction Of the co—op—
erative marketing department of the
American Farm Bureau Federation.
arrangements have been made for
the supply of eggs by the Atlantic
Coast Poultry Producers Association
and the Utah Poultry Producers.
There will be chickens and turkeys
furnished through the Utah Poultry
Producers and the Atlantic Coast
Poultry Producers Association and
others; bacon and ham by the Na-
tional Livestock Producers Associa-
tion; milk and cream by the Dairy-
man's League, the Stephenson, Illi-
nois, Co-operative Milk Company and
the Quincy Co-operative Producers;
maple syrup by the Vermont Farm
Bureau Federation; cheese by a
Wisconsin co-operative; p o t a. t 0 e s
from the Idaho Producers Union;
Land O’ Lakes butter from Minne-
sota; nuts from the California Wal-
nut Growers Association; citrus
fruit from the Florida and Cali-
fornia cooperatives and Federated
Fruit and Vegetable Growers, and
even the cigars at the end of the
meal will be furnished by Kentucky
tobacco co-Operatives. The list is
not yet completed.

FARM BUREAU USES WEED SEED
TO HEAT WAREHOUSE

ONS of Michigan weed seeds that

used to go back into the soil to

harass the grower of good things

are mixed with the coal that is used

for stoking the furnace that heats

the Michigan State Farm Bureau at
Lansing.

They are obtained from the agri-
cultural seeds which the bureau
handles for its patrons.

The weed seeds burn with ﬁerce,
blue white ﬂames. Mixed with soft
coal they do a good share of the
heating, thus serving a useful pur-
pose instead of passing out again
to continue their work of destruc-
tion.

RAILROAD PARTICIPATES
IN COUNTY FAIRS

NE of the interesting things
0 seen at ﬁve of our county fairs

in Michigan this fall was the
educational exhibit put on by the
Agricultural Department of the New
York Central Lines. This exhibit is
entitled “The New York Central
Lines’ ‘Road to Success in Farm-
ing'.” It is centered around a. large
oil painting, ﬁve by ten feet, which
pictures a road passing through sev-
eral counties which are named as
follows: Equipment, Livestock, For—
age, Cash Crop and Business Coun-
ties. These Counties are divided up
into townships and the road is laid
out through Good Equipment, Grade
or purebred Livestock, Legume For-
age, Certiﬁed (registered) Seed, and
Farm Accounting Townships. It
carefully avoids such townships as
scrub livestock, timothy, ordinary
markets, etc. The largest cities lo-
cated on this road are Dairying, Al—
falfa, and Cow Testing AssociatiOn.
A large river, Sour Soil River, ﬂows
through these counties and seems to
prevent the road from getting into
Legume Township. 'By means of
Limestone Bridge, this obstacle is
overcome and the road leads
straight through the town of Alfal-
fa.

According to Mr. W. H. Hill,
General Agricultural Agent, New
York Central Lines, this exhibit is
an attempt on the part of his de-
partment to encourage the county
fairs in the struggle against the car-
nival idea. He 'said, “If we abolish
the carnivals and midways from our
county fairs we must substitute
something else. We believe that the
fairs were instituted for their in-
spirational and educational beneﬁts
and we are ready to do our parthy ,

  

 

 

with this Railroad exhibit this year:

, Tuscola, Washtenaw, Hillsdale, «0t-

sego and Cheboygan.

MICHIGAN EXPERIMENT STA-
TION AMONG LEADERS

HE Michigan Agricultural Exper-
iment Station, with branches at
Grand. Rapids, South Haven.

Mancelona, and Chatham, ranks,

among the best in the United States
in undertaking to solve the multi-
tude of problemémin agriculture.

The scope of the experimental
work in the United States, according
to station specialists, is revealed in
a classiﬁed list of the different pro-
jects prepared by the oﬂlce of experi-
ment stations at Washington.

This shows that projects dealing
withheld crops lead in number, hav-
ing a total of 1,817. Corn leads the
ﬁeld crops with 170 projects under
study, wheat follows with 164, po-
tatoes 162, cotton 99, alfalfa 82.
cats 81, and soy beans 68.

Horticulture ranks second with
962 projects, of which 400 deal with
orchard fruits. Apples lead in the
orchard projects with 115 and
peaches follow with 45. Small fruit
experiments total 135. Vegetables
comprise 275 projects, ornamentals,
65, and nuts 50.

The third largest group is animal
production with 926 projects, in-
cluding among others. poultry 206,
dairy cattle 191, swine 189, sheep
and goats 81, beef cattle 77, and
horses and mules 12.

Plant pathology is another large
group having 482'projects, of which
47 deal with potato diseases.

Projects in economic entomology
number 472, of which 38 relate to
bees and 22 to cotton insects.

LAWS RELATING TO FUR ANI-
MAIB TO CONSERVE SUPPLY

;‘ AKING an unprime pelt is a.
deliberate waste of one of na-
ture’s most valuable and

beautiful gifts, and not until trap-

pers and raw-fur men learn to look
upon it as such will the best use
of our valuable resources in fur be
realized." Speaking on the subject

of necessity for careful fur conser- "

vation, Frank G. Ashbrook, in
Farmer’s Bulletin 1469, Laws Relat-
ing to Fur Animals for the Season
1925-26, points out that if the un—
prime animals now killed every year
were left for breeding stock, the an-
nual catch would probably not be
decreased more than 5 per cent,
while the supply of wild fur animals
would without doubt be increased
50 per cent in ﬁve years.

Fur is in prime condition for har-
vesting at one brief season only. An
open season of more than three
month’s duration is not justiﬁable
anywhere in the United States. The
average quality of pelts would be
much higher if laws made seasons
shorter and uniform for areas hav-
ing the same climatic conditions. If
the fur business is to maintain its
position among the great industries
of the country the continued source
of supply must be assured.

The maintenance of the fur sup-
ply is primarily the business of the
states. The United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture administers the
Lacey Act, regulating interstate
commerce in wild animals, and sup-
plements state legislation in efforts
for conversation of fur animals. The
attitude of the department is one
of cooperation and not of Federal
control.

This bulletin contains a complete
list of all the laws in the various
states and Canada relating to fur‘
animals for the coming year. Regu-
lations affecting the interstate ship-
ment of pelts are explained, and
the legislation enacted during the
year is reviewed, with all import—
ant changes noted. A recommenda-
tion is made that trappers be requir-
ed to turn in an annual report of
furs of ea'ch species taken, from
which an estimate could. be made of
the total number and value of the
furs taken annually. The status
of fur-farming in this country and

Alaska is steadily improving, and is;

discussed in another‘section.
The bulletin may be obtained

while the .suppl lasts, by addressing ‘
h" 'itede D, ' ,. '

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1925

Etntered as 2nd. class matter, “18.22813”
.Clemens. Mich, under act Mar.

1 Service Station for Counties

Well Known Farmer Suggests Plan for Counties That Have Not Taken
Kindly to County Agricultural Agent System

By JAS. N. McBRlDE

OME counties in Michigan have
not taken to the county agent
system and in some others the

foothold was not maintained and
the service suspended. These state-
ments are not arguments against or
criticisms of county agents, but a
condition of facts with a. suggested
plan to meet the situation described.
These counties are under existent
conditions, not the beneﬁciaries of
federal and state appropriations
wlﬁch for the next ﬁscal year would
be $1,800.00 per annum for counties
having this service. In other words,
these funds derived from national
and state taxation are not paid in
or to these counties and are paid in
counties where the county farm
agent system is in operation. Equity
in service is fundamental in the U.
S. and approximation of equality of.
opportunities under a democracy is
one of the great tests of government.
The plan sugested to serve in
their non-agent counties would be
the division of a county into prob-
ably four districts while say four
contiguous well-settled farm town—
ships as a unit. In each district
would be a resident farmer as the
agricultural agent of that unit. This
farmer, preferably a state college
graduate or student at one time, but
not as a legal necessity, to be select-
ed by the respective extension di-
rector from a list of eligibles certi-
ﬁed to by the respective supervisors
of the townships making up the
unit. These agents on their own
farms would devote say a minimum
of ﬁve acres to demonstration work
of seeds, fertilizers, solutions, etc.,
as prescribed from the Michigan
State College. In order to provide
against duplication unnecessarily it
would probably work out that one
district agent be a pure seed enthus-

iast, and others horticulture, poul-
try, dairying, and live stock feeuirg,
in their special farm practices. The
respective divisions of. the Michigan
State College like farm crops, soils,
dairying and others would in this
way have their own county repre-
sentatives and demonstration cent-
ers. The certiﬁcation of eligibles
by the township supervisors is sug—
gested as a happy medium of lodg-
ing responsibility locally and the ﬁn-
al selection by the extension head
in securing ﬁtness for service. The
expenditure of say four hundred
dollars for such services would make
the position comparable ﬁnancially
rather above that of the ordinary
township ofﬁcial and we all know
that the leading township ofﬁces
rarely go begging. For this reason
the agent of agriculture wOuld be
more or less sought after and the
capacity for service would be the op—
portunity that would hold these
agents at their best, like any other
public ofﬁcial under close observ—
ance. New and improved seeds
would be spread and ‘tested state
Wide. New methods would be prov—
en or disproven in actual practice.

Also Agents of State

These men should be in addition,
agents of the State Commissioner
of Agriculture also in the admini-
stration of sanitary regulation for
live stock. Of the sum previously
mentioned as might be made avail-
able for each county there would be
left ﬁfty dollars per district which
might be proﬁtably used for district
and state wide conferences. New
ideas both agricultural and econom-

ic would be exchanged and exert a
marked inﬂuence with a rapidity not
now possible. An expression of agri-
cultural viewpoint would come from
these men as a body directly in con-
tact with the farm yet with an edu-
cated background that today is not
possible to summon or secure.

Have Working M orlcl

There would be in the farm ofﬁce
of these agents a working model for
the individual farm ofﬁce. There
would be the bulletins and special
advices from the College. One could
also assume that the leading farm
papers would be there because up-
to—date farmers are subscribers for
and readers of agricultural journals,

I asked one progressive, wide-
awake farmer 110w the place of agent
with the possibilities of service
would appeal to him. His answer
was eminently practical for he said:
“I use the best seed I can ﬁnd,
plant, and cultivate this land in the
best way I know and think as well
if not a little better than the aver—
age and discuss farm matters with
my neighbors any way. I pay out
around $400.00 per season for hired
help and I certainly would be glad
to cooperate with the State Colleg
in any of their plans for improve-
ment in all farm matters.”

I want to enter a protest against
referring to this proposed service
as a bonus paid the farmer. If it
is so called, then much of the pres—
ent service rendered by demonstra-
tion agents might be referred to in
a much more depreciatory manner.
The theory of agriculture actually

applied by the man who has the
theory and makes it an art is con-
sidered many fold more valuable
than where theory is expressed only
in words and its application left to
others. St. Paul so ﬁrmly united
faith and work in‘ practice that I feel
it would work well in agriculture.
The direct service it would be to
the State College would be the con-
tact with its representation on the
farm and among farmers. My im-
pression is that rural community
progress would ﬁnd leadership
among these agents in a manner not
now provided-for under existing or-
ganization.

Put Up Neat Sign

A neat sign on a neat appearing
farm, for example “State College
Service Station” or some similar ex-
pressive term, would become the
center of inquiry and interest among
farmers. A seasonal sign might an-
nounce one acre of Robust beans,
one acre of Duncan’s Michigan corn,
one acre of grain with phosphate,
one acre without, one-quarter acre
certiﬁed seed potatoes planted, etc.
The next year the seasonal sign
woud announce the yield or results.

The agent whose main vocation
might be poultry for example would

announce on his special bulletin
board——a poultry house, Michigan
or Missouri model, breed of fowls.

average yield per hen of eggs, etc.

The ideal of all educational insti-
tutions is service which is brought
about largely by contact of persons
whose problems are sympathetically
studied where they exist. He who
talks with men does not get quite
so close to them as he who talks
and walks with them. The farmer
agent of agriculture has possibilities
well worth while to try out.

Michigan Hatcherymen Join to Protect Interests of Baby Chick Buyers

ByJ. A. HANNAH

ICHIGAN State Acoredited

Chicks are now assured for

the coming season. For many
years, th‘ere has beemén the part of
Michigan hatcherymen and the chick
buying public of the State, a desire
for an accredited chick a pproved by
the State, thus assuring the chick
customer that he was getting what
he desired in the way of livability,
purity of strain, and production abil—
ity in the chick’s purchase. It is
no secret that a few hatcherymen
have exploited the public consistent—
ly, advertising high egg records,
300—egg strains. etc., and were ace
tually wholesaling the chicks put
out, buying them from other hatch-
and re—selling them without
any knowledge of the quality of the
parent stock or of the conditions un-
der which the chicks sold, were
hatched. Most of the hatcherymen
of this state have honestly endeav—
ored to put out chicks of the high«
est quality at a reasonable: price,
and have been discouraged at the
apparent ease with which a few ex-
ploiters of the buying public were
selling chicks at an unreasonable
price, considering the quality, and
getting away with it.

To Establish Feeling of Security

To counteract the unfair adver-
tising practices on the part of a few
hatcheries, arid “to establish a feel-
ing of security on“ the part of the
chick buying public, and to insure a
high quality chick, the hatcherymen
of Michigan have banded together
and wiyerganized Michigan

  
  

”to _ produce eggs economically,

  

birds that are rejected, both males

their supervision that guarantee the
chick buying public that chicks com-
ing from accredited hatcheries will
be well bred for production, true to
type, hatched only in incubators that
have been properly managed, and
regularly disinfected, and that the
advertised promises of the hatchery
.are truthful and will be lived up to
to the letter.

Stocks Being Inspected

All of the ﬂock owners furnishing
eggs to accredited hatcheries must
be members of the Michigan State
Poultry Improvement Association.
Their ﬂocks are now being inspected
by inspectors furnished by the Poul-
try Department of the Michigan
State College, and these ﬂocks are
carefully gone over, and all birds
showing any signs of weakness,
immaturity, or disease, are removed.
Birds that are off color or that are
not true to type, are removed. Birds
that are culled from a production
standpoint, lacking the ability to lay
economically, and to transmit that
quality to their offspring, are re-
moved, so that before that ﬂock is
passed, it is a ﬂock of uniform pure
bred birds free from standard dis-
qualiﬁcations and having the ability
and
to transmit that quality to the off-
oﬂspring. All of the male birds are
individually handled by the State In-
spector and, each male bird that has
been approved, is leg banded with a
state sealed numbered band. The

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and must be disposed of Within ten
days after the time of inspection.
One inspector spends his time visit-
ing ﬂocks that have already been in-
spected, to make certain that all re-
jected birds have been disposed of.

After the ﬂock has been inspected,
the rejected birds have been dis-
posed of, and the required number
of state approved, leg banded male
birds are on the farm, that ﬂock is
accredited, and the owner is issued
a certiﬁcate of accredation. If the
ﬂock is of inferior quality, or the
owner refuses to dispose of the re—
jected birds, the ﬂock is rejected,
and can not become accredited this
season, nor can it sell eggs to any
accredited hatchery.

Eggs from Accredited Flocks

Accredited hatcheries must hatch
only eggs from accredited ﬂocks,
must disinfect their incubators reg-
ularly, must carefully inspect all
chicks shipped, rejecting small and
undesirable chicks, must ship all
chicks within 36 hours after the
time of hatching, must hatch no ac-
credited chicks before February ﬁrst
or after July ﬁrst, of any season,
must keep an accurate record of all
egg purchases, chick sales, etc.,
these records open to the inspector
of the State Association at all times.
The hatcheryman also agrees to live
up to all the rules and regulations
of the Association, to abide by the
decision of the Accrediting Board
and Board of Directors, to submit
~proof copy of all advertising circu-
lars, , pamphlets, catalozs. etc., to

   

 

the Secretary of the Association, be-
fore the publication of these adver-
tisements or pamphlets, and all ad-
vertising must be approved before
publication, by the secretary or oth-
er duly authorized person. He also
agrees to live up to all of his adver-
tised promises and guarantees, and
should he fail, to abide by all the
rules previously enacted, or any oth-
ers that may be enacted, he has
agreed to pay limited damages, to
such an amount that makes it cer—
tan that no hatchery can afford to
break the hatchery agreement.

Seventy-Two Hatcherymen Sign

Seventy—two Michigan hatchery-
men with a hatching capacity of
over 2,000,000 eggs at one setting
have signed a hatchery agreement
with the Association, and are now
having their ﬂocks inspected by the
state inspectors. There are now six
state inspectors in the ﬁeld, working
continuously in order that the 300,-
000 hens and 28,000 male birds may
be seen and handled before the com~
ing hatching season.

Michigan farmers are thus assur-
ed a better quality of chick, and of
honest treatment by those hatchery—
men that have become accredited
and the words “Michigan State Ac-
credited Chicks” or .“Michigan State
Accredited Hatchery” should instill
conﬁdence in the chick purchaser, in
those chicks, or in that hatchery and
the Michigan State Poultry Improve-
ment Association, with its one thous-
and members, made up of Michigan
poultrymen, is prepared to stand be-
hind “Michigan State iAccredited

      

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ti (In this article, the fourth of a series
the. marketing of milk. l'rof. Horner
kes up the problem of surplus.)

HEirelationship between the of-
ﬁcers and members of a cooper—
ative association is one of the
most important problems. There
hOuld be organization such that the
' member could be
informed about
certain essemials
of the business
and the funda-
mentals of coop-
eration. T h e r e
are certain prin—
ciples of coopera—
tion which must
be followed if
success is to re—
sult. There are.
also. certain bus-
iness principles
which must not
The ofﬁcials of the co—
know what. these
and "see that the
accordance
Members should be giv—
understauding' of these
‘ same essentials. This is a big job
but it is one which must be done in
;_‘ a thorough manner if success is to
result.
There are many things which the
members 01' a milk producers’ sales
“ association should about

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:Prof. J. '1‘. Horner

be neglected.
5operative should
fundametnals are

|
1: business is conducted in
i

with them.
en a clear

understand
milk. ln

: articles I am going to discuss some
of these, it will be impossible. (it

Q. course, for me to deal with every
problem which confronts the market.

In dealing with some of these
problems I am going to think of
them and speak of them in terms
used by the farmer. The phase of
the market which is most misunder—
' .stood of all is, l think, that of sur—
"iplus. Let us examine just what this
term “surplus” means.

According to the method of buy-
.ing milk in the whole milk markets
or this country, surplus means that
quantity of milk produced in a cer—
. tain market area above the require—
: ments of the market for lluid milk.
' In any situation there is no use
to make a fuss about things unless
6: conditions can be changed.

   
   
  
  

Now the points in question are:

1. Is there a surplus?

f 2. Can it be eliminated?

5, 3. If there is one and it can’t be

eliminated is the price received

for milk just?

During the past ten years im—

:5 provements in the methods of hand—

i, ling milk have made it possible to
bring milk from great distances.

 
 

frJust how far milk can be profitably
"‘ shipped to a market is diﬂicult to
tell. There seems to be no reason-

OW would you like to sit down

to a dozen Thanksgiving (lin—
ners all at once? Just think

.of adding to your own good Thanks—
giving dinner the good Thanksgiv—
ing dinners of a lot of your friends
" and neighbors! Some feed, as the
;~ children say. And then all sitting
1 down together to enjoy the dainties
T'Vthat a Whole neighborhood of cooks
have prepared instead of just the
qnes always served in your own

home. I think you‘d enjoy it, just
as we did here in the Carpenter
Community in \Vexi‘ord county.

Ever since we organized the Car-
penter Community Meet in Novem—
ber 1921 we have been having all
kinds of suppers; oyster suppers and
a; game suppers and ice cream and

cake suppers and pot luck suppers.

13m: this time it was a dinner and
instead of each family furnishing
in: one or two articles of food
gyery‘ family brought along a whole
thanksgiving dinner.
, ..We had turkey and chicken and
, tgatbfbitand. braised beef: mashed po-
games and scalloped potatoes and

'” to salads; jellies, jams, pre—
, fruit salads, pickles; pump-
. {as an dmince pies and berry
and apple pies; fruit cakes and

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By PROF. J. T. HORNER

Head of Economics Work in Agriculture. Michigan State College

able limit to the distance from the
standpoint of physical handling and
keeping. A news item taken from
November 6, 1925' issue of Hoard’s
Dairyman reads as follows: “Florida
is reaching out for an essential food
supply, to take care of its great in-

to Miami. The shipments are past
the experimental stage, except as a
matter of gauging the continued de—
mand, and there are indications that
the use of tank cars will soon be be—
gun in this enterprise.” In the No—
vember 13, 1925, issue of this same

ﬂux in population, by drawing 011 «glairy paper there is a note to the

Eastern and Central Pennsylvania.
The distance which is bridged o‘er
in this unusual development is s -
niﬁcant o; the closeness with which
production of milk is gauged to de-
mand in this whole eastern terri-
tory. Although there are thriving
dairy sections nearer Florida than
the Pennsylvania counties which are
now supplying this demand, it has
been found there was ‘not sufﬁcient
surplus to be economically assem~
bled and shipped there from any
point further south than the Penn-
syvania line. The present carload
shipments are going forward from
Harrisburg and Lancaster, 1’a., the
milk being carefully selected and
handled, shippd in cans in iced cars,

effect that whole milk is being ship—
ped from Iowa to the Baltimore and
Philadelphia markets. These in—
stances show that it is physically
possible to ship milk hundreds of
miles and if price conditions are fa-
vorable such shipments will be
made.

Science has made it possible to
ship milk long distances and keep it
sweet for days. Milk may come from
almost any producing section into
the consuming market. The day
when the farmer near to the market
had a monopoly in that market is
gone. Milk produced in any part of
the middle west might come into
the great city consuming markets.

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DID YOU RAISE

You are wrong!
here in
the right is Joseph
tall corn, grown on his farm.

\oung. of Owendale.

seen in this Bi:llt‘-—-—llnill Anton Brassingcr
This stalk of red cob. whltc dent silage corn was grown

picture shown on the right.

on their farm in Sanilac county and measures 14%;

Michigan, and the corn was grown on Michigan farms.
standing beside what he considered
“'0 too thought it was about the tallest we had ever

TALLER CORN THAN THIS?
These pictures were not taken out in Iowa, they were taken right

In the picture on.
H011)“,

and son o’ﬂllll‘ﬁ.‘0f Ardmorc, sent in the

feet high. Can you beat that?

f you can let us hear from you and send in a, picture to prove it.

When Neighbors Get Together For Thanksgiving Dinner

By EVA HENDERSON DAVEY

ings and frostings of chocolate and
jelly and cocoanut and goodness
knows what else (I couldn’t sample
them all). And coffee and milk to
drink.

Everything was ready at about
12:30 (1’. M.) and we all sat down
at the long tables except the chil-

dren, who stood up. They didn’t
mind. No doubt they all knew they
could eat more standing. (I stood

too part of the time.)

Of course eating a dozen "Thanks—
giving dinners all at once takes
quite a while. The smaller children
had to be helped. Coifee and milk
had to be poured, and then every-
body insisted on passing everything
all the time for fear someone would
miss something. lut ﬁnally din—
ner was over and the children ran
off to play while the men sat around
and visited and the women cleared
the tables (placing the remaining
food on one) and washed the
dishes.

Then we had the program. It be-
gan with a prediction regarding
what. Thanksgiving Day in 1950,
would be like, and included an ac- .
count of the .cqmtnz .. he ﬂ Pilgrim -
trust. ...v ’ $1.: “Q are

       

a talk recalled from the Thanksgiv—
ing feasts of God’s people in earlier
times, the Passover, etc., when they
gave thanks for care and protection
and deliverance from their enemies,
songs, recitations, and at last each
one was asked to tell one thing for
which he or she was thankful.

One woman, recently come from
Kansas, was thankful she was here
with us in Northern Michigan on
that cold stormy day. Perhaps that
indicates how warm hearted she is
and also how responsive she has
found us natives. At any rate I
think She must have referred to the
people rather than the'place‘ for few
people ﬁnd a cold climate ideal in
winter. It made me think of a
conversation I heard between two
women in another state regarding
Michigan. Said the ﬁrst, speaking of
the sand hills and waste cut over
lands and cold winters: “Michigan,
that’s a poor place." Said the other,
thinking of the delightful time she
had there and the beautiful sum—
mer; “Michigan! I’m just homesick
to go back to Michigan.
are. so _warm hearted and friendly

The people ,,

      

each family returned

     

Teasons F... Surplus of Milk on Detroit Market

Are Farmers Receiving a Just Price For Excess of Receipts Over Fluid Milk Sales?

a wide section of territory, it is im-
possible to expect that there will not
be more produced than can be sold
as ﬂuid milk. There must be suf-
ﬁcient production to provide us with
manfuactured dairy products. This
quantity which goes "into manufac-
tured dairy products might come in-
to the ﬂuid milk market and it will
come into these markets if the price
is attractive.

The demands of the ﬂuid milk
market vary from day to day and if
the milk distributor is going to meet
the demands of his consumers ev—
ery day, he must have more than
suﬂiCIent milk. It is estimated that
from 5.to 15 per cent more than
ﬂuid milk requirements are needed
£22316 safe. Tdhis margin must neces—

y e ma into -
tured product?r some manufac

Out of the surplus, or the excess
of receipts over ﬂuid milk sales
must come sweet cream (unless it
IS purchased from other market
areas) and milk for buttermilk, cot~
tage cheese and other manufactumd
products. The time is never going
to come when all milk which comes
into the market will be sold as ﬂuid
milk. There will always be what
farmers have been calling “surplus”
There is no other way to eliminate
this because there must be milk for
these other purposes.

Farmers living near the‘city mar-
kets hope to keep the ﬂuid milk
market for themselves and let the
milk for manufacturing purposes
come from other sections. This is
impossmle because it is so easy to
bring this milk from great distanc-
es. The Detroit milk market is not
owned. by the producers who are
close 1n. There is no way that this
market area can be restricted and
producers some distance away kept
out of the market. The market is
gomgto attract the milk needed and
the higher the fluid milk price the

greaten the distance from which
milk w111 come. The only real ad—
vantage which close-in producers

an have over those living out some
distance IS the difference in trans-

. portation costs.

If .we mean by surplus the excess
of milk production over the require-
ments for ﬂuid milk, we must recov—
nlze that there is a surplus in tlie
Detroit milk area and there always
Will .be for the area will keep ex—
panding as rapidly as demand in-
creases. There is no way in which
this surplus can be done away with.
It is necessary that We have more
milk than needed as whole milk.

‘The next question about surplus
milk is whether the price is just.
The price of manufactured dairy
products is made by world condi-
tions. The butter market is not

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a quite long life right here was
thankful for always having had such
good neighbors.

A girl, sitting next to the food ta—
ble was thankful she was near the
food, proving that she still‘ had
space for more and wasn’t like the
little girl in the Thanksgiving story,
mournful (more’n full).

One former resident, back for
Thanksgiving, was thankful that the
community spirit still lives in the
Carpenter Community.

Quite a number (mostly boys)
were thankful that they had stopped
eating when they did.

One woman was thankful that she
hadn’t eaten as much as the man
who sat opposite her, and it is pro-
bably just as well she didn’t. Men
can stand some things that women
can’t. But I am in a position to say
that the man in the case probably
did not eat any more thanmeach of
several others whom she» could not
see. A good healthy appetite is
something to be thankful for.

Along toward evening the men
began to think\of chores and the
women got the‘ children together
and gathered upatheir dishes and

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Jane Donley, of
Sandusky, is giving her brother, Verle Richard, 8. nice

IN THE WINTERTIME.—-Dolores

sleigh ride. They are children of Mr. and Mrs. James
C. Dionley, of Sandusky.

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the title Vera Shank, of Ubly, gave this pic-
ture she sent. to us. Everybody seems hap-
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FAIR ARM‘Y TO BATTLE \VEEDS.———Tliese young ladies
are, left to right, Ida, Emjlie, Emma and Pauline (ioldvrs, of
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When
He is owned

8 years old he sheared 45 pounds.
by \V. llleyers, Clark Lake.

“WELCOME” TO THE TOP 0’ MICHIGAN POTATO SHO“‘.—-A view of
Home of the exhibits at the'third annual Top 0' DIichigan Potato. Show, No-
vember 4, 5 and 6, at Gaylord.

 

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Jack, is just about the best dog in the world.
say he plays hull with them.

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mother
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county.
picture to us.

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SUM MERTIME.-—-I{ arold
and Lorraine Khode. of )11. Pleasant, think their dog,

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EVERYBODY HAVING A GOOD TIllrIE.———The youngsters always
have a. good time when Dad will play with them. and we suspect
that Dad enjoys the romp. -fully as much as the children.
ture was sent to us by Mrs. Estella Widdis, of Baroda.

This pic-

young

“ONLY TWO DAYS OLD."—‘-No wonder"
the colt looks so interested. A fluelookhli '»
lady as an escort is not a common
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SEND NO MONEY

Warm ahrmlem‘mr Wilson?“

Examine goods and if you
are not convinced that you
have more than your money's

PAY 0N ARRIVAL

Worth we will gladly return your money. Don't delay. Order now before the article you want is sold out.

 

Brand New Army 0. ll.
Wool $'69

ﬂoats
Coot $8.00 to snake.
Special

extraordinary bu
gain. A brand new govern-
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Wiill Government
0. D. Wool B:eeolres

New Army Regulation all
Wool O. D. Brwches. Thee
are the best quality 0. D.
wool breechee you can buy
no matter how much more
you pay. They are made 0!
the finest wool serge end
melton materials with large
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Price. . . . 53'39 Postage

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doves with extra. long snug fitting wristlets and double

mile. This is a tremendous bargain. 29c
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For Women and Girls

Smart all worsted wool
heather (iron stitch stock-
ing, combining warmth and
fashion. Has reiniorced toes
and heel. Deep garter tops
that are reinforced to resist gar-
ter strain. Brown heather only.
Small slam only, 7, 75,8. 8”. 9.
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inside; solid lengthen counter. Three full super
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[ﬁll YIELD BUAHANIEH]
ll] llllllBlE IN A‘ WEEK

Many things have been advertised to
make hens lay, but W. B. Mack, the
widely known poultry advisor, is the ﬁrst
to ever offer a premium for hens that
won’t lay satisfactorily after using his
simple system.

Mr. Mack, whose advice has been fol-
lowed succmsfully by thousands, recent-
ly made the following statement: “I be-
lieve that any poultry raiser can double
or triple his egg yield within one week
by following my simple system and add—
ing certain elements to the feed or water.
In fact I am so sure of it you can tell the
public I will send full instructions and a
package of ingredients, usually sufﬁcient
to get at least 600 eggs, to anyone who
will write me.”

Poultry raisers who want many times
more eggs need not send any money but
merely name and address to W. B. Mack,
338 Davidson Building, Kansas City. Mo.
Frill instructions and package of ingre-
dients will be sent by return collect on
delivery mail for only $1 and postage. If
at the end of one week you are not get-
ting at least twice as many eggs, or if
not satisﬁed for any reason, Mr. ack
will not only return the purchase price
on request, but will also pay you an ex-
tra quarter for your trouble. Mr. Mack
is absolutely reliable. and his sincerity is
proved by his“bffer to actually pay a
premium to anyone who is-not more than
satisﬁed—(Adv)

 

 

SELL YOURfURE-BRED Pom
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all crmrleinto or requests lor- inioemation a
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inquiries must be acomopanled byiull name and address. lame not used if so requested.)

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SALT AS FERTILIZER

Some time ago I was talking with
one of my neighbors about limeing
our soil to sweeten it. He said

_“why don't you use salt?” YVhat
I want to know is what effect does
salt have on the crops? If it does
have a good elect on the soil, how
much would you apply to the acre?
——H. A., Kingsley, Mich.

ALT has been used by investigat-
S ors as a fertilizers. In some
instances increases have been
obtained—in other places the yields
have been decreased. In Michigan
we have tried out salt on sugar beets
and found slight increases in yield,
but none to compare with yields ob-
tained by other fertilizers. In view
of results obtained here in Michigan,
and also by other investigators, we
do not recommend applications of
salt on the soil. Whether salt does
any good or not, it will not correct
the acidity of the soil. Some form
of lime is the only material to use
for this—O. B. Price, Soils Special-
ist, M. S. C.

POSTING FARM

I would like to ask if a farm is
posted with “No hunting allowed”
signs does that prohibit the owner
from hunting? If a notice is put in
a paper that hunting is not allowed
on a tract of land does that give the
conservation department permission
to turn that tract of land into a. state
game preserve? How are game
wardens paid? Have hunters the
right to hunt in the highway if the
land is posted on one side, but not
on the other?—F. P., Owosso, Mich.

HE posting of lands against
hunting under the provisions of
Section 3 of Act 366 of the

Public Acts of 1925, does not pre-
vent or prohibit the owner or per-
son in possession thereof from hunt-
ing thereon during open seasons on
the various kinds of game, in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the
statute.

The publishing of a notice in a
local paper stating that hunting is
not allowed on any certain tract
of land does not give the conserva—
tion Department permission or auth-
ority to turn that tract of land into
a game reserve. The machinery for
dedication of lands as game refuges
or reserves is provided through Act
360 of the Public Acts of 1913.

Under statutory provisions, game
wardens are paid at a rate ranging
from $3.00 to $4.50 per day with
certain allowances for necessary ex-
penses; however, district wardens
are allowed $1,800.00 per year. The
fund from which they are paid ac-
crues from the sale of hunting lic—
enses and permits provided in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the
statutes.

Relative to hunting on highways.
it is our opinion that public high—
ways are built and maintained for
travel and trafﬁc in the various
forms between different points and
not as a hunting ground, and while
we find no cases covering this point,
we are inclined to the opinion that
hunting, shooting “or fowling within
the boundaries of highways, where
the abutting lands have been posted
against hunting, might be consid-
ered trespass—D. R. Jones, Dept.
of Conservation.

AGREEMENT WAS WITH FIRST
PARTY

A leases land to B and is to re-
ceive one-third of the crop for his
share, nothing being said about de-
liver. A takes his share of wheat
and oats direct from the machine
and draws it to his barn and does
the same with the straw. B does
nothing to the delivering except to
lend A his horse, A having only one
horse. This was all satisfactory to
all parties, till before the corn was
harvested. A sold out his farm to C.
Now the corn is all husked and lies
in the pile, each shock with its
bundles tied and laid over it to
protect it from. the weather. Now
then. C thinks B‘ should stack t3;

  
 

  

 

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husk one shock skip two, over the
entire ﬁeld. What is the correct
thing to for B to do in this case, and
what is the usual way when B furn-
ishes and does the werk'I—Old Sub-
scriber, Bangor, Mich.

B's agreement was with A and not
C——thus he is only obligated to

carry out the agreement as de-
cided upon at the outset.

Relative to harvesting of crops
the tenant is generally obligated up
to the point of division of said crop»
Said point of division depends on
conditions of contract.

Generally when the landlord gets
one~third of the crop, the tenant
carries the harvesting to completion
and bears all or two-thirds of the
expense, such as twine, seed and ma-
chine hire. Thus, under such con—
ditions, the tenant would be under
obligations to draw the corn and
fodder.—-F. T. Riddell, Department
of Economics, M.‘ S. C.

 

DIVIDING PROPERTY

Will you kindly inform me, what
the laws of the state of Michigan are
regarding property in the husband's
name only. Where there is a wid-
ow and children left? What share
can the widow hold of the personal
property and also the real estate?—
Reader.

PON the death of the husband
one-third of the real property
would go to the widow and two-
thirds to the children. The personal
property would be divided the same
way—Legal Editor.
YELLOW OCHRE NOT FLOOR
PAINT
Can you please tell me if yellow
ochre can be used in painting in-

side ﬂoors, and if so, how to use it.
—M. R. D., Grand Ledge, Mich.

ELLOW orchre is not a good

paint for ﬂoors. White lead

is the best pigment for floors
or woodwork. For priming coat on
new white pine, hemlock or any soft
wood, use the following: 12 lbs.
white lead, 8 lbs. red lead, 1 gallon
raw linseed oil, 1 to pints turpentine,
175, pint Japan drier. Break the
white lead and red lead with 1/2
gallon of oil and stir until thorough—
ly mixed, then add the other V2
gallon of oil and stir until thorough—
ly mixed; then add the turpentine
andndrier. This will make nearly
two gallons of priming paint.

Have the ﬂoors thoroughly clean
the brush the paint across the
cracks in order to ﬁll them. Then
brush out smooth and evenly length-
wise’ of the boards. For boards
such as yellow pine, we use less oil
and more turpentine, say, =34 gal-
ion of raw oil and «one gallon of
turpentine.

For the second coat use as fol-
lows: 20 lbs. white lead, 1 gallon
of raw linseed oil, 1,5 gallon turpen—
tine, $4, gallon good ﬂoor varnish,
and 1 pint Japan drier. This amount
will cover about 1,300 sq. feet. In
tinting this to a stone color, use 1
lb. raw Sienna, ground in oil and a
very little lamp black, gradually
stirring in until you get the desired
shade. The tinting colors should be
added while the lead is in a paste,
or before the turpentine is added.

If you do not care to purchase all
these separate ingredients and mix
them, we would advise you to pro-
cure ready mixed ﬂoor paint, the de-
sired color and follow directions. As
the pigments are all ground togeth-
er, you will get a better paint and
the cost is about the same as that of
raw materials—S. B. Howard, Fore-
man Painter, M. S. C.

 

HOGS GO THROUGH EENCE

A and B join farms for 160 rods.
A has 80 rods of woven wire fence
and B has 40 rods of- woven wire
fence and 40 rods with three barb
wires only. B rents. his farm to C
‘ for moneyrent. A plants a piece of
corn . that he . wishes

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191' damages and to"k_eep his hogs
on B’s tarni'i Can-I Climates those
hogs in any way as B does no build

‘a suitable fence to turn the hogS?'—-

W. F. S., Howell, Mich.

IS only reguired to maintain a

legal fence between his farm

and his neighbor’s; A legal
fence is defined as a fence suitable
to turn stock which are commonly
raised in the community. As to
whether this means hogs depends on
the circumstances of the particular
case. If a three wire fence would
be considered a legal fence in your
locality, A would not haVe a right to
allow his hogs trespass on the farm
of C.——Legal Editor.

"ANDY H I ﬁll M’S DEPARTMENT

AUTO CASING GRAIN CHEST
HEN desiring to have some
method for securing grain from
_ a full bin for feed a 12-inch
section cut from an old auto casing
can be utilized for the spout very
readily and but three other short
pieces of boards are required to
complete the arrangement.

A section of above length is cut
at about a 45—degree angle with the
face of the casing. A piece of one
inch board is cut with a slot as wide
as is the casing and about 10 inches
deep. The casing is nailed to the
inner surface of this slot with four
or six penny nails. Another piece of.
board is cut with lower end curved
to conform to the inner cross sec-
ton of. the casing, this to answer as
the slide to shut off the ﬂow of the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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grain. This is held in place against
the surface of the side of the bin
by a piece nailed across the two up—
per parts of the board supporting the
casmz.

This makes a chute which will not
be broken off should a wagon wheel
hub strike it and one which will
properly run the grain in any meas-
ure or sack.—McV.

 

STAPLE CLINCHER FOR
STEEL POST

OST steel posts are prepared
with holes or slots for receiv-
ing staples for holding the line
wires to place. It is necessary to in-
sert the staple after placing it over
the wire, then bending the ends so

 

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For clinching staples on a. steel post

as to clinch it and prevent it from
pulling back through the slot or hole.

A tool that will help one do this
work alone is made from a pair of
ordinary fence pinchers. A small
slot is cut, in each jaw of the pinch-

-’ers so that the points of the staple

will pass through them. The pincher
handles are then simply pulled apart
spreading the staple sufficiently 96

that it will not pass back through
«‘-"the' hole yin the post.
‘= can then beused it‘turther clinching

A hammer

unoceesarY—G. ‘G..,1M. v. ,

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This: is the

 
   
   

Mechanical Power Age

VEN the airplane is now being experimented with to aid

agriculture. Out west, the orange groves have been sprayed“

by the airplane.‘ Down south, an airplane has successfully
done the work of many ground dusting machines in applying arsenate
to kill the boll weevil in cotton.

These are extreme signs of the times. They are not everyday
farming methods, but they serve to remind us of the tremendous
changes that are coming about in agriculture and that affect
the prosperity of every man on his farm.

The mechanical power age is here. The ownérs of close to a
million farms are letting brains and power farming equipment take
over the work of hired hands, horses, and limited horse-drawn tools.
They are seeing to it that one man doubles and triples his day’s work.
As a result, the Department of Agriculture shows that there were
109,000 fewer hired men on the farms in 1925 than in 1924-. Millions
are saved to the farmers in wages; yet production is greater than ever
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Sure It Is!
EADERS of these columns will

remember an article in one of‘

the September issues wherein
the writer was lamenting because
summer was nearly gone, and the
fall season was
waiting just
around the cor-
ner, very soon to
make itself evi-
dent. It was stat-
ed that if sum—
mer really had to
go, what a bless-
ing it was to
have the beauti-
ful fall season to
enjoy before
winter set in;
and “What a ca-
lamity it would
be if winter time
followed directly the summer with
no fall season between" and this is
just what has happened! There has
been no fall season and it sure is a
calamity. There never was so much
work undone on Thanksgiving day
as this year. Southern Michigan nev—
er had a better corn crop than this
year and there was so little husked
and so few stalks drawn at the ap-
proach of winter,‘ as there are this
year. It seems most all the farmers
had planned to Shred some of their
crop, and I only know of two or
three who have done it. It simply
has been out of the question, as
there have been only two or three
days in the last eight weeks when
corn was dry enough to shred.
Among many other things for which
we are thankful is the fact that
corn is not perishable in low tem-
peratures as are potatoes or apples.
Corn, when well matured, as it is
this year, will stand a great amount
of rain, and be nearly as good as
ever. Notwithstanding all this, I
would give considerable if our corn
was all in the crib and the stalks in
the stack! Our corn in the ﬁelds
was all cut with a binder, and is tied
in bundles. This is quite an advan-
tage if it must be drawn before it is
husked and this seems to be the

program this year.
ill '0! if:

L. W. MEEKS

Excuse Me

The storage house is not yetcom—
'pleted and several hundred bushels
of potatoes are stored in an impro-
vised room in the large tool shed.
We have an oil heater in this room
and also a brooder stove. The oil
heater answers the purpose of keep‘
ing the mercury high enough in the
tube on ordinary cold days, but to-
night there is prospect of penetrat—
ing cold, as the wind is quite brisk,
and I must go and start a ﬁre in the
brooder stove.

ll: * 1!:
Letter from Vicksburg

A communication from Vicksburg
has just reached me and this friend
wants a little more quack grass dis—
cussion, and, while ‘a discussion of
the merits of this or that kind of a
snow plow and the why and why not
of wide tread bobs would seem to
be more appropriate at this writing,
I always like to be neighborly and
talk on the subject the other fellow
ha brought up.

There is, perhaps, no better way
to inform this Vicksburg friend
about the ways of quack grass,
to him, than to tell of the introduc~

tion of quack grass into Southern

Michigan, or, perhaps I should say,
which as he says is something new
into Michigan.

For several years we lived on a
farm only half a mile from the farm
on which quack grass is said to have
been introduced. The story, as it
has several times been related to
me, is substantially as follows:
About the time Michigan was ad-
mitted to the Union as a state, an
Englishman came to the United
States. After a short “sojourn in
New York State, he f‘Went' out west
to Michigan,” and became the owner
of a good sized tract of land, part of
which isthe farm, above mentioned,
and-*itiwuanthis ,M..bnr _

as;

ﬁrst, he

ripen.

was a scarcity of hay, owing tonn-
favorable weather conditions ‘ at
seeding time and these conditions
continued for two or three years.
During these poor hay years he long-

ed for a meadow of quack grass,

such as he had seen in Old England.
He well knew a quack grass mead- .
ow would need no reseeding, like
clover, and that dry weather did not
hinder its growth as much. So when
he learned that a friend in England
was planning to come to America.
and would surely ﬂndfhim abodt the
ﬁrst thing after his arrival, he Wrote
and told this friend to be sure‘and
bring him some quack grass seed,
as there was none in America that
he knew of, and he wanted to start
a meadow. In due time the friend
and the quack grass seed arrived,
and to the farmer I suppose it was
a day of great importance when he
sowed that seed. It surely was a
day never to be forgotten by all of
Southern Michigan at least.

The quack grass grew ﬁne, and
aimost before he knew it he had his
quack grass meadow, and what a
success it was! Neighbors were en-
thusiastic about it, and many came
from some distance to procure roots
with which to start a similar mead-
ow on their farms.

It seemingly was qiute evident to
them, at that time, that quack grass
would not produce a seed crop of
fertile seed and transplanting 'of the
roots was the method used to start
new areas, and I’ll say it was a suc-
cessful method, too. I am inclined
to think it was far too successful
and, yet, a man who owned one of
the. original quack grass farms (and
it is now one solid mass of quack)
told me he would not have the quack
eradicated from his farm for con-
s1derable money. I cut the grain on
this farm for several years and nev-
er knew a real poor crop to be
grown. I have cut wheat there
which yielded twenty-ﬁve bushels to
the acre, and there was at least half
as much quack grass in the ﬁeld as
there was Wheat. It grew as tall as
the wheat, and the straw stacks
from the wheat crops were eagerly
devoured by the stock, and good
feed it was, too.

I have known this farmer to plow
up oat .stubble for a wheat seeding,
and there would be so many great
long quack grass roots dragged out,
that it was quite impossible to pre-
pare the wheat ground without re-
moving these roots. A hay rake
was used to bunch them and they
were drawn on‘ to fields intended for
corn the next spring. .Some manure,
eh? This farm always had good
corn cro'ps. There surely was al-
ways something to plow under!

This farmer was quite determined

quack could not be eradicated once “

it got a good start. ‘Said'vhe had
tried it on small areas, just to See;
buthe never tried it the correct way.
His method was to plow it early and
deep and drag until time to sow
Wheat. This would kill most trouble—
some weeds and grass but not quack
grass! To kill quack grass you must
plow very shallow and not early in
the season. Wait until it is all head-
ed out, and begins to lose its robust
green color. At this time it has put
all its life into the crop above
ground, and the root system is in a
very weakened condition. Shallow
plowing then will put most of the
roots on top, and will put all of
them where a disk or spring tooth
harrow will, if used often enough,
completely discourage their-growth.
The grass may be pastured or cut
for hay before plowing and it is"
much better to do this or burn the
piece over. There will be rroots
enough to jostle without the“ hay
crop being added!

This Vicksburg correspondent says
quack is new in his vicinity. This
being the case no doubt it has net
become a solid mat over ajvery
large territory. ,Small patches, say
arod or two square
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the, quack will disappear.

Being a new ailment, quack grass
naturally causes a farmer much wor-
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is bad, it might be woise.’ Suppos-.
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Edited by HERBERT NAFZIGER

THE RABBIT ’AND MOUSE PEST
NE day last spring a neighbor
0 came to the barn where I was
doing chores and said, “Say,
Herb, come here, I want to show
you something.” The tone of grief
a n d a n g e r in
which it was said
caused me to im-
mediately climb
down from the
hay-mow to see
what was wrong.
When I reached
the barn ﬂoor
h e s a i d n o t a
word but simply
held out a three
year old apple
tree which he
had just cut off.
Herbert Naleger One 100k at that
tree showed me
that words of explanation were un-
necessary. Every particle of bark
had been gnawed from the trunk
and lower branches by rabbits. In
some places holes had been gnawed
into the wood and some of the small-
er branches had been completely out
off. The tree was ruined beyond re-
pair. “And that isn’t all,” he snap-
ped out. “There are about 40 trees
just like it out there and a lot of
others considerably damaged.” Can
you blame him for feeling bad about
it? Can you blame him if he says,
“Rabbits are one of the worst pests
we’ve got and the thought that they
are actually protected by law makes
me sick!”
Many a promising young orchard
has been ruined by rabbits and mice
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vailing ideas rabbits not only dam—
age trees during the winter but also
sometimes attack trees in the sum-
mer, when other feed is plentiful. On
our own place, during the past sum—
mer, a number of newly planted
trees were ruined by these pests dur-
ing the months of July and August.
The rabbits seem to acquire a taste
for apple bark that is insatiable, and
where they are plentiful the trees
need protection the entire year.

Mouse injury is usually conﬁned
to the winter months but is often
very severe. The only effective pro-
tection seems to be the use of ﬁne
mesh woven wire protectors around
the trees coupled with an energetic
campaign of extermination against
the rabbits. Protection of the na-
tural enemies of the mice is also
helpful. Crows, snakes, owls and
hawks are great mouse destroyers
and could well be protected by the
fruit grower.

The use of repellant washes
against mice has been tried and
found wanting. During the winter
of 1918 the experiment station at
East Lansing made thorough tests
of a number of these washes. » The
following were tested. 1. Concen-
trated commercial lime—sulphur. 2.
Concentrated commercial lime—sub
phur with slaked lime to make it
thick. 3. Concentrated commercial
lime-sulphur and lead arsenate. 4.
Sulphocide. 5. Whitewash. 6.
Whitewash and lead arsenate. 7.
Strong Bordeaux mixture. These
materials were made extra strong
and thickly painted on the trees but
gave little or no protection.

The wire protectors should be
made of 174-inch mesh gavmized
wire netting. Sink them several
inches into the ground and let the
ends overlap some to allow for
growth of the tree. These guards
are also a protection against sun-

.scald. Tramping th snow down

around the trunks is helpful as it
destroys the hiding places of the
mice. .

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HIP!” he hailed. “Ahead!
ahead, sir! Ship!”

The shout of quick commands echoed

to him from the bridge. Underfoot he
could feel a new tumult of the deck; the
engines, instantly stopped, were being set
full speed astern. But Number 25, in—
stead of sheering off to right or to left
to avoid the collision, steered straight on.
The struggle of the engines against the
momentum of the ferry told that others
had seen the gleaming ship or, at least,
had heard the hail. The skipper’s instant
decision had been to put to starboard; he

Dead

had bawled that to the wheelsman,
"Hard over !“ But, though the screws
turned full astern, Number 25 steered

straight on. The ﬂurry was blowing be-
fore the bow again; back through the
snow the ice-shrouded shimmer ahead re—
treated. Alan leaped away and up to
the wheelhouse.

Men were struggling there—the skipper,
a mate, and old Burr, who had held the
wheel. He clung to it yet, as one in a
trance, ﬁxed, staring ahead; his arms.
stiff, had been holding Number 25 to her
course. The skipper struck him and
beat him away, while the mate tugged
at the wheel. Burr was torn from the
wheel now, and he made no resistance to
the skipper’s blows; but the skipper, in
his frenzy, struck him again and knocked
him to the deck.

Slowly, steadily, Number 25 was re—
sponding to her helm. The bow pointed
away, and the beam of the ferry came
beside the beam of the silent steamer;
they were very close now, so close that

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on the other vessel. shot above its shini—
inoring (li‘Cli and lighted only the spars;
and, as the water rose and fell between
them. the ships sucked closer. Number
25 shook with an effort; it seemed op—
posing with all the power of its screws
some force fatally drawing it on—oppos—
ing with the lust resistance before giving
way. Then, as the water i’cll again, the
ferry seemed to slip and be drawn toward
the other vessel; they mounted, side by
side . . . crashed . . . rccoiled . . . and
crashed again. That second crash throw
all who had nothing to hold by, flat upon
the deck, ihcn Number 25 moved by;
astern her now the silent steamer van-
ished in the snow.

(longs boomed below; through the new
confusion and the cries of men, orders
began to become audible. Alan, scramb—
ling to his knees, put an arm under old
Burr, half raising him; the form on-
circled by his arm struggled up. The
skipper, who had knockcd Burr away
from the wheel, ignored him now. The
old man, dragging himself up and hold—
ing to Alan, was staring with terror at
the snow screen behind which the vessel
had disappcared. Ills lips moved.

“It was a ship !" he said; he seemed
speaking more to himself than to Alan.

“Yes”; Alan said. “It was a ship; and
you thought "

“It wasn’t there!” the wheelsinan cried.
"It’s—it‘s been there all the time all
night, and I'd—I‘d steered through it ten
times, twenty times, every few minutes;
and then—that time it was a ship!”

Alan's excitement grew greater; he
seized the old man again. “You thought
it was the Miwaka!” Alan exclcamed.
“The Miwaka! And you tried to steer
through it again.”

“The Miwaka!" 01d
iterated the word.
waka !”

He struggled, writhing with some agony
not physical. Alan tried to hold him.
but now the old man was beside himself
with dismay. He broke away and start-
ed aft. The, captain‘s voice recalled Alan
to himself, as he, was about to follow,
and he turned back to the wheelhouse.

The mate was at the wheel. He shout—
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other ship; neither of them had seen
sign of any one aboard it. “Derelict!"
the skipper thought. The mate was

swinging Number 25 about to follow and
look at the ship again; and the search-
light bcam swept back and forth through
the snow; the blasts of the steam whistle,
which had ceased after the collision, burst
out again. As before, no response came
from behind the snow. The searchlight
picked up the silent ship again; it had
settled down deeper now by the bow,
Alan saw; the blow from Number 25 had
robbed it of its last bouyancy; it was
sinking. It dove down, then rose a little
.—sounds came from it now—sudden, ax-
plosive sounds; air pressure within hurled
up a hatch; the tops of the cabins blew
off, and the stem of the ship slipped down
deep again, stopped, then dove without
halt or recovery this time, and the stern,
upraised with the screw motionless, met
the high wash of a wave. and went down
with it and disappeared.

No man had shown himself; no shout
had been heard; no little boat was seen
or signalled. _

The second ofﬁcer who. had gone below

to ascertain the damage done to the ferry, ’

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Water was coming into a third compart-
ment, that at the stern; the pumps were
ﬁghting this water. The shock had sprung
elsewhere; but if the after compartment
did not ﬁll, the pumps might handle the
rest.

Soddenness already was coming into the
response of Number 25 to the lift of the
waves; the ferry rolled less to the right
as she came about, beam to the waves,
and she drop ed away more dully and
deeply to the eft; the ship was listing
to port and the lift of the ice-heaped
bow told of settling by the stern. Slowly
Number 25 circled about, her engines
holding bare headway; the radio, Alan
heard, was sending to the Richardson
and to the shore stations word of the
ﬁnding and sinking of the ship and of the
damage done to Number 25; whether
that damage yet was described in the
dispatches as disaster, Alan did not know.
The steam whistle, which continued to
roar, maintained the single, separated
blasts of a ship still seaworthy and able
to steer and even to give assistance.
Alan was at the bow again on lookout
duty, ordered to listen and to look for
the little boats.

He gave to that duty all his conscious
attention; but through his thought,
whether he willed it or not, ran a riotous
exultation. As he paced from side to
side and hailed and answered hails from
the bridge, and while he strained for sight
and hearing through the gale-swept snow,
the leaping pulse within repeated, “I’ve
found him! I’ve found him!” Alan held
no longer possibility of 'doubt of old
Burr's identity with Benjamin Corvet,
since the old man had made plain to
him that he was haunted by the Miwaka.
Since that night in the house on Astor
Street, when Spearinan shouted to Alan
that name, everything having to do with
the secret of Benjamin Corvct‘s life had
led, so far as Alan could follow it, to the
Miwaka; all the change, which Sherrill
described but could not account for, Alan
had laid to that. Corvct only could haVo
been so haunted by that ghostly ship.
and there had been guilt of some awful
sort in the old man’s cry. Alan had
found the man who had sent him away
to Kansas when he was a child, who
had supported him there and then, at last,
sent for him; who had disappeared at his
coming and left him all his possessions
and his heritage of disgrace, who had
paid blackmail to Luke, and who had
sent, last, Captain Stafford's watch and
the ring which came with it—-the wed-
ding ring.

Alan pulled his hand from his glove
and felt in his pocket for the little band

of gold. What would that mean to him
now; what of that was he to learn?
And, as he thought of that, Constance

Sherrill came more insistently before him.
What was he to learn for her, for his
friends and Benjamin Corvot‘s friends,
whom he, Uncle Benny, had warned not
to care for Henry Spearman. and Then
had gone away to leave her to marry
him? For she was to marry him, Alan
had read.

It was with this that cold terror sud—
denly closed over him. Would he learn
anything now from Benjamin Corvet,
though he had found him? Only for an
instant a ﬂeeting instant had Ben-
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‘ ation had overwhelmed him then, and he

struggled free to attempt to mend the
damage he had done.

More serious damage than ﬁrst re~
ported! The pumps certainly must be
losing their ﬁght with the water in the
port compartment aft; for the bow stead—

ily was lifting, the stern sinking. The
starboard rail too was raised, and the
list had become so sharp that water

washed the deck abaft the forecastle to
port. And the ferry was pointed straight
into the gale now; long 'ago she had
ceased to circle and steam slowly in
search for boats; she struggled with all
her power against the wind and the seas,

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a. desperate insistence throbbing in the
thrusts ‘of the engines; for Number 26
was ﬁeeing—s—ﬂeeing for the '.western
shore. She dared not turn to the nearer
eastern shore to expose that shattered
stem to the seas. “ .

Four bells beat'behind Alan; it was
two o’clock. Relief should have come
long before; but no one came. He was
numbed new; ice from the spray crackled
upon his clothing when he moved, and it
fell in ﬂakes upon the deck. The stark
ﬁgure on the bridge was that of the
second officer; so the thing which was
happening below—the thing which was
sending strange, violent wanton tremors
through the ship-was serious enough to
call the skipper below, to make him
abandon the bridge at this time! The
tremors, quite distinct from the steady
tremble of the engines and the thudding
of the pumps, came again. Alan, feeling
them, jerked up and stamped and beat his
arms to regain sensation. Some one
stumbled toward him from the cabins now,
he saw as she hailed him——the cabin maid.

“I'm taking your place !" she shouted to
Alan. “You're wanted—every one's want-
ed on the car deck! The cars—"
gale and her fright stopped her voice
as she struggled for speech. “The cars—
the cars are loose!"

CHAPTER XVII
“He Killed Your Father"

Allen ran aft along the starboard side,
catching at the rail as the deck tilted;
the sounds within the hull and the tremors
following each sound came to him more
distinctly as he advanced. Taking the
shortest way to the car deck, he turned
into the cabins to reach the passengers’
companionway. The noises from the car
deck, no longer muffled 'by the cabins,
clanged and resounded in terrible tumult;
wth the clang and rumble of metal, rose
shouts and roars of men.

To liberate and throw overboard heavi—
ly loaded cars from an endangered ship
was so desperate an undertaking and so
certain to cost lfe that men attempted it
only in ﬁnal extremities, when the ship
must be lightened at any cost. Alen had
never seen the effect of such an attempt,
but he had heard of it as the fear which
sat always on the hearts of the men who
navigate the ferries the car loose on a
rolling, lurching slip! llc was going to
that now. Two figures appeared before
him, one half supporting, half dragging
the other. Alcn sprang and offered aid;
but the injured man called to him to go
on; others needed him. Alcn went past
them and down the steps to the car deck.
Half-way down, the priest whom he had
noticed among the passengers stood star-
ing aft, a tense, black ﬁgure; beside him
other passengers were clinging to the
handrail and staring down in awestruck
fascination. The lowest steps had been
crushed back and half uptorn; some mon—
strous, inanimate thing was battering
about below; but the space at the foot
of the steps was clear at that moment.
Alon leaped over the ruin of the steps
and down upon the car deck.

A giant iron casting six feet high and
yards across and tons in weight, tumbled
and ground before him; it was this which
had swept away the stops; he had seen
it, with two others like it, upon a llat car
which had been shunted upon one of the
tracks on the starboard side of the ferry,
one of the tracks on his left now as he
faced the stern. He leaped upon and over
the great casting, which turned and spun
with the motion of the ship as he vaulted
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slope ; the cars nearest him were still
upon their tracks, but they tilted and
swayed uglily from side to Side ; the

jacks were gone from under them; the
next‘ ears already wdfe hurled from the
rails, their wheels screaming on the steel
deck, clanging and thudding together in
their couplings.

Alen ran aft between them. All the
crew who could be called from dock and
engine room and ﬁrehold were struggling
at the fantail. under the direction of the
captain, to throw off the ears. The mate
was working as one of the men, and with
him was Benjamin Corvet. The crew al-
ready must have loosened and thrown over
the sternlthree cars from the two tracks
on the port side; for there was a space
vacant;’ and as the train charged into»
that space and the men threw themselves“
upon it, Alen leaped with them.

(Continued in December 19th issue)

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the way which Jehovah thy God hath led
thee those forty years in the wilderness,
that he mght humble thee to prove thee,
to know what was in thy heart.” Dent.
8:12.

TOP that man, just the average
man, and attach a thought dis-
cerner to his brow. What does

it say? Money, possession, comfort.
Our elders these days are doing a
good job at showing youth how to
keep self and a comfortable end in
mind. Society that is living off the
bounty of a Personal Providence too
seldom looks up to say, “Father, I
thank thee.” Let us examine a text
that asks us to face a God “in
whom we live, move, and have our
being.”

“Remember all the way which Je—
hovah thy God hath led thee.” Of
all the reminiscences of Israel, the
Wilderness experience is most con-
stantly present in the Hebrew mind.
The Exodus, with its following pil—
grimage, seems to be the most im-
pressive of Israel’s history. The in—
spired author brings it up as evi—
dence of the love and care of God
that his children might hold him in
conscious nearness.

But this is typical of the journey—
ings of all men and movements and
of the physical and moral agencies
that promote progress. We hold
God as the cause of our hunger but
also as the one who supplies our
feed. He gave manna regularly in
the wilderness. The regularity of
God’s laws and his providences are
great reason to remember him in
gratitude. “The weather is so dry.
Has |God forgotten us?” But that
man is more conscious of self than
of God. Whoever has known the
sun to rise so irregularly or the sea-
sons to act so capriciously as to de—
prive us of food and all sustenance?
It’s the part of reason and faith to
see in these things the presence and
goodness of God. The streams in
the desert ﬂowed so constantly, the
manna came so regularly, and the
pillar of guidance was so unchang—
ing, that those things excited little
wonder in the Israelitish mind. How
about the gifts left every morning at
our door,—the dews from heaven,
the bright sunshine, and the refresh-
ing rains? Ought they not to ﬁll
our hearts with thoughts of a Per-
sonal Caretaker who gives us this
day our daily bread?

But homes, schools, and church-
es are also the outgrowth of the life

of God in the world. Are these
agencies succeeding in making 11s
conscious of their Giver? And is

our familiarity with the dollar mak—
ing us more conscious of “In God
We Trust?” It is to be regretted
that commercial fervor and indus-
trial tension have so invaded the
home as to make its atmosphere too
unfriendly to a Kind Providence.
Almost gone are the memories, cus—
toms, and altars of other days that
brought us close to God. Why is
home—life banishing such old—time
friends? We are living in a modern
today but we do well to treasure the
moral regards of an old-fashioned
yesterday. To forget God in the
home is to secularize its life and in—
itiate a general downward trend of
society toward an inferno. Godly
homes make safe schools for our
hopefuls and friendly churches for
all.

“That he might prove thee to
humble thee.” This is the purpose of
God’s leading all the way. Our
humility consists in recognizing that
we do not live by bread alone. Is—
rael was dependent. Her people were
living from hand-to-mouth. “God
held the key to her cupboard.” That
should humble the proudest heart.
But how about this generation? We
yet live by bread plus. But our
slowness in comprehending this is
evidence that Moses was far advanc-
ed in God— consciousness.

“To prove thee.” Israel was put
under a testing discipline. God was
supplying her daily needs and he
jealously asks for recognition. The
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criﬁces. And here it was impressed
that all support for both inner and
outer life came from God; that a
Kind Spirit was back of all material
beneﬁts. And here gathered the
strangers, fatherless, and widows,
and hospitality ﬂowed freely.

But what ingratitude yet re-
mains! How strange to have men
and nations refuse an acknowledge-
ment of God and assume to live by
bread alone! This is a dreadful
creed and makes for a worship of
things and a life centered in surface.
comforts. What folly in such ca—
reering! Getting happiness by any
means, fair _or foul, is the goal of
multitudes. / But too late did they
learn that Happiness is a shy and
elusive maiden. She must be more
seriously wooed. And history re-
cords the sad and crushed fate of
nations that would not hear the Di~
vine Voice. “The mills of God grind
slowly but they grind exceedingly
small.” Wisdom has always been
standing at the parting of the ways
to cry aloud this truth which is as
relentless as the cycle of the seasons.
Men live, nations live, by leaning on
the breaSt 0f the Eternal.

We are to continue our harvest
festivals and invite in the stranger
fatherless, and widows. God is ask—
ing us to recognize him through be-
ing hospitable to our neighbor. The
social challenge is marked since the
day that Jesus ate with sinners and
ordered dinners for the outcasts. Do
we care to see God in social need?
Do we mean to live by the name of
Jesus? llut this preacher is sure
that we cannot catch his convictions
and understand his purposes until
we take more time to sit at his feet.

The world is being devastated
thru poverty and disease. Christ’s
high calling is to lave off the vain
pursuit of triﬂes and pour out hos—
pitality into these social depressions.
Of course, some folks have not be-
cause of sloth. They refuse to learn
from the ant “to provide bread in
the summer.” But the crying want
of the earth is here, for the most
part, because of a competitive and
selﬁsh philosophy of life. This is
true beyond cavil. And then, there
is the blight of disease. Dr. Foulkes
says, “Half the human race has nev-
er had a physician. Ninety per cent
of the women of the race have never
had medical attention.” So, unless
we be depraved, we will face these
grim realities in the name of a God
who is proving us thru his bounty.

“To know what is in thy hea1t.”
It was the inner life of lsrc e1 that
was on trial. What is in your heart?
What is your view of life? A letter
came in my mail the other day from
a farmer who said that his rule of
life is “The Golden Rule.” The con-
tribution such a man makes to soci-
ety is distinctive in its practical re—
cognition of God. One can walk by
this rule only thru impulses disci—
plined by God. How foolish the
man who forsakes this rule of other-
ing and sets his heart only 011 at—
taining the promised land of “milk
and honey!” His only hope for the
future is to eat to the full. This is
madness and. death. Long, long,
ago, God gave his people a beautiful
secret. And though Jesus came to
reveal it, yet it is hid from masses
of men. Bread for animals is enuf;
but humans need inbreathings of
God’s spirit to keep from pining
away. History and experience have
taught us that even physical life tra—
vails in bondage without God. The
end of life will have no happy re—
trospect outside of a getting back to
God. “The earth is the Lord’s and
the fullness thereof.”

BIBLE THOUGHTS

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and the rebuke of his people shall
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for the Lord hath spoken it. —Isaiah
25:8.

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WANTED—BIG MAN TO MANAGE FAIR

is but a few days before the annual meet-

ing of the Michigan State board when it

is expected a new manager for the State
Fair will be appointed. Who this man will be
can only be surmised, and the political forecast-
ers are making wild guesses as to his identity.
Some have it that the job is going to be made a
political football and the man that gets it will
be one to whom the administration is indebted.
By all means let us hope not!

The State Fair is ﬁrst of all an agricultural
exposition and the man directing it should
thoroughly understand agriculture and be able
to work with the farmers’ organizations in this
state.

To make the fair 8. success agriculturally the
manager will need to work with the state de—
partments, our agricultural college, our live
stock associations, our associations promoting
better seeds, better crops and better markets,
the Grange, the Farm Bureau, the Cleaners. All
of these organizations should play an important
part in and exhibit at the annual exposition. The
manager must also be able to work with the
manufacturers and city dealers who are, or
should be. prominent among the exhibitors each
year. There is room for both the rural and city
exhibitors and they both should be there with the
farmer in the majority. The farmer is interest-
ed in the progress made in the industrial world,
the city man is interested in what his country
brother is doing, and the farmer is out to show
the world that he has produced something better
than his neighbor. It is at the fair that we note
the progress of our state for the past year.

The manager of the State Fair should also be

the best salesman in Michigan because it will be

up to him to stage a fair that will sell our own
folks on Michigan more than ever, and will
prove to the visitor what a wonderful state we
have here.

The man who directs the Michigan State Fair
should be a big man in more ways than one be-
cause he has a big job before him. We urge that
the qualiﬁcation of each candidate be subjected
to the most careful analysis and only the man
who comes up to these requirements be ap—
pointed.

MODERN GIRIS AND COLLEGE TRAINING

OR years we have watched with great interest
the masculine trend of the courses in our
colleges taken by young women. We have

read about and heard women leaders of our
country and others urging the girls to prepare
themselves to be capable of earning their own
living. Very able men have applauded this view.
It was talked that it was not for women’s best
interest to be dependent upon marriage for ﬁn-
ancial support, and her chances for a really
happy marriage are increased if she is able to
make her own living.

We have always endorsed these views to a

: certain degree, but felt that hand in hand with

this training there should be something on home

' economics, care of the sick and child psychology,
[and it was with pleasure that we recently learned

that Dr. Clarence Cook Little, president of the
University of Michigan, is advoCating this.
The years have proven the fear that girls with

; business training would not marry areigrounds

  

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her much in the business of keeping house.
Most men love a good home and are most happy
with a woman who understands how to make
home attractive and prepare meals that are ap-
petizing. It is only natural. Since the days
of Adam and Eve it has been so and it will con-
tinue to the end of the world.

The training in the ways of earning a living
is ﬁne for our young women. ' Every day we hear
of young married men suddenly dying and leav-
ing their young widows with perhaps several
children to support, and many of these widOws
have no profession aside from house-keeping so
they must secure work in a factory or store, .re-
maining away from their children all day, in an
effort to keep their family together. If they had
received a business training during their school
days they would have been spared much suffering
and worry. because they could secure a proﬁtable
position in some suffering and worry, because
they could secure a proﬁtable position in some
business with opportunities for advancement.
We believe every girl should receive this train-
ing, but she should also know about making a
home and the care of children. We hope the
heads and instructors of our schools and colleges
will encourage a union of the two different
branches of learning for our girls.

CERTIFIED BABY CHICKS

N every profession there are individuals and
I concerns out to get all they can with little
thought as to what they give their customers.
Not only do they hurt themselves but they make
it difficult for the conscientious ﬁrms to succeed
because they cause people to be suspicious of
the whole profession. This‘has been true in the
hatchery business, just the same as any other
line, and the hatcherymen of this state are band—
ing together into the Michigan State Poultry Im—
provement Association to protect the purchaser
of Michigan baby chicks from unfair dealings.
As stated on page 3 of this issue “Michigan State
Accredited Chicks" are assured for the coming
season, and they are backed by the Michigan
State Poultry Improvement Association with its
one thousand members, so the purchaser can place
his order with the conﬁdence that his interests
will be looked after.

N0 MICHIGAN CORN AT INTERNATIONAL

HE European Corn Borer was again brought
T prominently to the attention of Michigan
corn growers when shortly before the Inter—
national Hay and Grain Show at Chicago, it was
announced that no entries from this state would
be accepted. This bar also affected all other
where the borer is known to exist. A
generous share of the awards on corn have come
to Michigan in the past and our growers were
planning a better show than ever for this year’s
International. Of course, it will not be lifted
until we eliminate the borer from our cornﬁelds,
which is another reason that we must ﬁght, and
ﬁght hard. Our winnings at the International
proved that Michigan produced some of the ﬁn—
est corn grown ‘any place in the country and
increased the demand for seed from this state.
Now it is branded as unclean, and we must battle
the borer to death to again establish our reputa—
tion for good corn.

\VHA'I‘ IS A FRIEND?

HAT is a friend? Have you ever stopped
a; to ask yourself that question? No doubt

you never gave such a question even a
thought. You have friends, plenty of them, but
you never stopped to think why they were your
friends, or why you considered them as friends.
The other day we read a short editorial on this
subject that we feel sure you will read with in—
terest and we are publishing it.

“What is a friend? I will tell you. It is a
person with whom you dare to be yourself. Your
soul can go naked with him. He seems to ask
of you to put on nothing, only to be what you
are. He does not want you to be better or worse.
When you are With him you feel as a prisoner
feels who has been declared innocent. You do
not have to be on your guard. You can say
what you think, so long as it is genuinely you.
He understands those contradictions in your na-
ture that lead others to misjudge you. With him
you breath free. You can avow your little vani-
ties and hates and vicious sparks, your meanness
and absurdities, and in opening them up to him
they are lost, dissolved on the white ocean of his
loyalty. He understands. You do not have to
be careful. You can abuse him, neglect him, tol-
erate him. Best of all you. can keep still.with
him. It makes no matter. He likes you. He
is like ﬁre that purges all you do. He is like
water that cleanses all that you say. He is like
wine that warm you to the bone. Ho under-
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cart as her '
sister who prepared herself far making ”a home;
but when she marries her training does not help“

smooth it all

  

friend, I repeat, is one with whom you dare to
be yourself. "

Isn’t that. a ﬁne deﬁnition of a friend? With
your friend you feel at ease, you say and do as
you wish knowing that he will understand; in
other words, you are yourself when with your
friend. The writer put into words what many
feel but cannot deﬁne.

BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS

Y the time you read this no doubt all of you
will have received a letter from the Mich-
igan Tuberculosis Association urging you to
purchase the Christmas Seals enclosed. In the
same letter they told you abOut a few of the
things that they are doing, how they use your
pennies to carry on their ﬁght against tubercu-
losis. During the year ending November 1, 1925.
they examined over 2,000 people and discovered
500 new cases. Perhaps most all of the people
found to be tubercular would never have been
examined if it had not been for this organization,
or at least a large percentage of- them would have
delayed going to their physician for examination
until the disease was in the advanced stages. In
other words, your dollar and our dollar helped
to save the lives of over 500 people in Michigan
within the last year. A large percentage of the
people examined free at the clinics were farm
folks, but in spite of the fact much of their
time is spent out in the open air, many were

found to be suffering from the disease.

The largest amount of money that the Asso-
ciation asks you to contribute is small but if you
cannot spare it give what you can, because they
need every cent that can be spared to continue
the noble work they are doing.

BETTER FAthﬂ'NG

LL over the country there is a. growing de-

mand that agricultural colleges minimize

training in professions and do more training

of students in real farming. There will always

be a percentage of young people from the farms

entering the professions, but it should not be the

business of the farmer colleges to train them in
that direction.

Norway has 42 agricultural colleges besides
high schools and training schools to teach farm-
ing, all conﬁning themselves to producing better
tillers of the soil.

Ohio is providing training schools to ﬁt young
farmers for doing all the repairing of machinery
and building work of every description on the
farm. Farm colleges in our country will have to
make a better record in this direction.

NOT NECESSARY
OR many years the tendency has been toward
fewer associations for recording purebred
livestock. In some cases, where two or
more associations were recording animals of the
same breed, they have consolidated. This is true
especially of sheep and swine associations. The
breeders believe that one strong organization is
better than two or more not so strong. They are
right. The principle of one association for each
breed is correct. In deﬁance of this principle a
few men have organized a new record or regis-
try association for Holstein cattle and we are
asked whether breeders should support it. They
should not support it ,or any other insurgent
Holstein association. The Holstein—Friesian As—
sociation of America is the organization which
is recognized by the United States Department of
Agriculture, by foreign countries and by the
breeders of this country. It is a very' competent
organization in promoting the breed, helping the
breeder and protecting the public. The wise
breeder, big or little. will stick to it.

WHAT IS IT?

HAT is a fresh egg? That question bobs
W up every year. usually about this time.

when somebody is prosecuted for selling
cold storage eggs as fresh. If memory is cor-
rect a French judge decided some months ago
that no egg over ten days old could be called
fresh, but there is no generally accepted deﬁn-
ition. The storage men contend that the word
“fresh” means the condition or state of the egg.
not the age of it, and that good cold storage eggs
are really fresh eggs. The law does not agree
with their deﬁnition, nor is it likely to; but coni-
sumers are slowly learning that cold storage
products are usually good and the prejudice
against them is waning. There .never was. any
sound reason for such prejudice; nor is there‘any
reason why eggs of any kind. should not sell for
what they really are. All this reminds us that
we admired very much the good taste of an En.-
glish farmer on whose gatepost we ssw -
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POINTS FOR INVESTOR
" OW to Avoid Bad Investments”

is the title of a chapter in a.

pamphlet issued by the United
States government, and we are here
publishing ten points given that all
should study. At least one of these
points will apply to nearly every in-
vestment offered you.

1. Mining Stock. The best look-
ing mine in the world may prove a
“white elephant." Mining is a very
expensive undertaking and the risks
are unusually great. There is a say-
ing that “a mine is a'hole where
fools dump in their money."

2. Oil Stock. Drilling for oil is
costly. The hazards are great. Oil
investments are speculative and in a.
class with mining investments.

8. After every important discovery
or invention there comes a host of
schemes, “airplanes”, "radio”, “wire-
less." The promoters of these may
have only the best of intentions but
frequently their enthusiasm is about
all they have to sell. Look before
you leap.

4. 'An investment in real estate in
some distant place is sometimes as
dangerous as mining stock. People
have been known to buy swamps ad-
vertised as “sea—shore frontage."
Know what you are buying before
you invest.

5. f‘Land development" schemes
frequently do not pan out. At best
it is a long time before any money
comes in from sales. Investment in
new companies that are going to
“sell by mail" should generally be
avoided.

6. Patent rights and processes.
It is, rarely the patentee who makes
the money.

’7. “New manufacturing methods"
should always be closely checked
and investigated.

8. An investment requiring a
quick desision is often a fake. If
there isn’t sufﬁcient time to “sleep
over it”, something is probably
wrong.

9. “Special inducements" in cash
discounts or stock bonuses urging
you to be one of the ﬁrst to invest
are suspicious symptoms.

10. “Tips" alleged to land you
“on the ground ﬂoor" are rarely to
be taken. Those who are “on the
ground ﬂoor" will monopolize the
opportunity.

 

SUCCESS SEWING SYSTEM
HEN the average person thinks
of fraudulnt companies their
ﬁrst thoughts are of oil stock.
but we doubt if promoters of wild-
cat oil wells get as many victims
as the “work-at-home" schemes of
the ﬂy—by-night companies all over
this country. Dealing in stocks re-
quires the transferring of large
sums of money while a deal with the
ﬂy—by-night companies with theu‘
“work—at—home” schemes involves
only a few dollars. There are a
number of agencies doing every—
thing they can to put these compan—
ies out of business and the operators
behind the bars but in spite of this

they seem to be on the increase.
The latest company to feel the
hand of the post oﬂice department
is the Success Sewing Machine Sys-
tem of New Jersey. This company
had a glove sewing scheme, and the
victim was required to send in three
dollars with the application. The
company said this was “to protect
ourselves against those that would
have us teach them this remarkable
little industry and then after learn-
ing how to make a living at home

as he Collection Egg

The purpose of this department It to pro-
tect our subscribers from fraudulent deef'nce
or unfair treatment by person: or concerm at
a distance.

In every case we will do our best to make
a satisfactory settlement or force action. for
which no charge for our eervleee will ever be
made. providing:

1.—The claim is made by a paid-up aub-
eorlber to The Busineee Farmer.

2.-—-The claim it not more than 0 mos. old.

8.—-The claim is not local or between peo-
le within easy distance of one another.

, e should be settled at llrat hand and not
attempted by mail.

Address all letters, ﬁrm full particulars.
‘emountz. dates, etc., one up also your ad-
dress i tram the Went cover of en lune

 

,to prev that you are a paid-up bar.
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leave us to bear all the expense of
packages, the gloves, etc., to say
nothing of the cost of letter writ-
instruction booklets, transpor-
tation charges, etc.,” Pretty ﬁne’to
have the customers ﬁnance your
business and take all the risk. No
wonder such companies can go out
of business over night.

STATE HOLDING STOCK OF
MINING COMPANY

HE petition of the Golden Age

Junior Mining Company of

Boise, Idaho, and Lansing,
Michigan, for the release of $135,—
000 worth of escrowed stock was re-
cently refused by the Michigan Se-
curities Commission. The commis-
sion has been holding this stock
pending the submission of proof that
the company has claims which will
yield gold-bearing ore of commercial
value, and refused to release, declar-
ing that the company’s liabilities
amount to more than the sum which
would be realized from the sale of
the stock. It is stated that the com-
pany is keeping between 15 and 20
miners on its payroll because the
law of Idaho is that an employe may
not be discharged until he is paid
in full and there are no funds to
pay these men. It seems that the
miners are not taking out ore at
present as the shaft house on the
company’s property recently burned
and was not insured.

The company was organized in
1916 by people in and near Lansing
and we are not sure whether any
of our readers are ﬁnancially inter-
ested or not. The commission gave
the organizers permission to issue
1,000,000 shares of common stock,
of which 250,000 shares went to the
incorporators and 600,000 shares
were placed in escrow, leaving 150,—
000 shares to go on the open mar-
ket. On three different occasions
the commission authorized .the re-
lease of blocks of this escrowed
stock, which accounts for the dif-
ference in the number» of shares
turned over to the commission and
the number now held.

GE'IS HIS $20 BACK

“I received the check for $20 and
wish to express many thanks.’ I nev-
er expected to recover this money
and never would have only for yOu.
Your Publisher’s Desk is certainly
productive in keeping the unwary
out of traps as Well as getting them
out after they are caught. Again I
thank you.”—F. P., Gratiot County,
Mich.

HIS subscriber signed up with a
T correspondence school in Indi<

ana to take a course in short
story writing, with the understand—
ing that if he was not satisﬁed With
his course he could get his money
back. The course cost him $20.
Helcompletes the course in about
three months, and, deciding that he
had not received the beneﬁt he
should for this sum of money, he
wrote the school demanding a re-
fund. He received a letter from
them to the eﬁect that he was not
entitled to a refund because he had
completed/the course in such short
time. Most of their students requir-
ed in the neighborhood of a year to
complete it, they declared. There
was considerable correspondence and
Mr. P. found he was no nearer to
getting his money than he was when
he wrote his ﬁrst letter so he asked
us to do What we could for him. Af-
ter several letters back and forth we
ﬁnally got the check for $20 from
the school and sent it to our sub-
scriber.

THANK YOU

“I have received a letter from
——-—-—— of Detroit, enclosing a
check for $3.60, the amount of my
claim for three egg crates lost, and
return express charges. I thank you
most heartily for your assistance in
this matter, without it we never
have accomplished anything."——Mrs.
N. 0., Benzle County, Mich.

I enjoy reading your paper. and I would
not be without it. Receive many helpful
things from it. I wish you good luck.—
Hre. J. Weber, Crawford County. ,

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IT COULDN’T BE DONE
‘By-Edgar :3. Guest

Somebody said it couldn't be done.
' But he with a chuckle replied
That “Maybe it couldn’t,” but he would
be one
Who wouldn't say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of
a grin
On his face. If he worried, he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do
that ;
At least no one ever had done it ;"
But he took off his coat and he took off
his hat,
And the ﬁrst thing we knew he’d begun
it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he done it.

There are thousands to tell you it can—
not bc done,
There are thousands to prophesy fail-
ure ;
There are thousands to point out to you
one by one
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That “cannot be done," and you’ll do it.

SEVEN STOCKING TOP CHRIST-
hIAS GIFTS

AST Christmas no gift which
came to our house called to
mind the donor more often, or

more gratefully than a set of three
pot lifters made of seven inch circles
of black cotton stocking, quilted,
with eyes, nose, and mouth outlined
in appropriate colors. A braid of
the stocking material looped at the
top represents hair and serves as a
hanger for the holders.

The same woman made rag dolls
for her grandchildren out of cotton
stocking tops, using a home made
pattern and stuffing the shape with
cotton. Black, white or brown
stockings were, used for these, and
they were dressed out of the piece
bag.

A most realistic monekey was
made out of a brown cotton stock—
ing.‘ Gray would do as well. His
exceedingly long tail was braided.

rSocky’s daughter is a cover for a
hot water bottle for a child to take
to bed. It is made double, of four
pieces of stocking material, padded
lightly and sewed together so as to
make a lined bag with an opening at
the mouth.

The mouth is large enough to ad—
mit a tall bottle with a ﬁtted cork
which can be fastened securely.
With button eyes, realistic yarn
hair, and hot water in the bottle
inside her, Socky’s daughter makes
a nice warm bed fellow.

Four wool stocking

legs from

which the feet had been hopelessly
worn, cut open and pieced together,

  

 

   

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Make him out
{4’ of black or -
white.

the seams catstitched, and the lower
'edge crocheted, made a serviceable
petticoat for the bottom of a little
girl’s Christmas stocking.

The tops of a pair of bright col-
ored wool socks were cut open, laid
ﬂat and sewed together with an
opening at the top for neck, and at
top of each side for armholes. When
a shell edge was crocheted around
neck, arm-holes and bottom with
bright wool, the resulting slip-on
sweater delighted a small boy.
~. Six absorbent wash—cldths were
' ,, made out of as many legs of white
cotton, stockings, cut open and em—

. . cheted around with colored cre‘chetN is better,
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pneunwnia, or even tuberculosis.

tracting it.

to get at least 12 hours of sleep.
a reputable doctor.
out into the sunlight and
fresh air a part of each day,
and get plenty of sleep and
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.ADeDMnent for the Women
Edited by MRS. ANNIE TAYLOR

EAR FOLKS: It does seem like everyone is suffering with a cold
these days, and only a few are doing anything to cure them-
‘ People, as a rule, do not consider a cold as seriously
as they should, and, as a result, they often fall an easy prey to
Plenty of sunshine, fresh air, sleep,
rest and easily digested food are the best preventatives of colds.
One should drink plenty of milk and eat eggs, vegetables and fruits
to help the body build up good resistance.
dren with a. cold should be kept out of school, not only to recover
more quickly from the disease, but also to prevent others from con-
Let the children play out of doors for an hour before the
noon meal to stimulate the body and create an appetite for food, then
rest followed by more play and sunshine, supper and then off to bed

Eat easily digested foods at regular hours, get

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KEEP A HEALTH BUDGET

HERE is no question but that
T the Federal budget works. We

see and hear. favorable com—
ments about its efﬁciency published
or spoken nearly every day. There
is no question but that a health bud-
get Works, also.

In keeping the health budget a
man or woman is putting by a nest
egg for the rainy day without which
any money budget, hOWever careful-
ly followed, will be useless.

In planning the health budget
you will center everything about the

 
   
 

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First you must know

body home.
just what sort of a home your body

is. Can it give the proper amount
of service? Can it compete with
other homes about it? The best

way to ﬁnd out about its condition
is to have a thorough overhauling
of your body by a good doctor.

Then as you allow so much of the
money budget for lighting heat and
fuel so must you put thought into
planning the fuel for the body. Food
is the fuel that keeps it running.
Eat the right foods as conscientious-
ly as you buy the best wood or coal.
Plenty of leafy vegetables; more
meat if you are doing hard physical
labor than if you have work that
keeps you conﬁned to a desk; fruit
to keep the digestive apparatus func—
tioning properly; milk; bran or
wholewheat breads; well-cooked ce-
reals and enough SWeets to add var-
iety but not. too much, to make you
ﬂabby.

Fresh air is a big part of the
health budget. That is indirectly as—
sociated with practically every other
item. Fresh air day and night helps
to keep‘every part of the body work—
ing well. Fresh air is a sickness
preventative and is cheaper lthan
any other medicine. Especia y at
night in the bedrooms should \win-
dows be opened wide to allow the
outdoor air to do its work.

Rest is also essential. Everybody
needs rest to keep his body engine
running. Edison who claims he can
live on but a few hours’ sleep at
night often rests on a couch at in—
tervals during the day. When there
has been a strain either mental or
physical the body needs more rest.

Exercise should be in the health
budget. Exercise keeps every muscle
in good working order and, if only
a mile walk a day; is possible, that.

than nothing. . The __more_
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air the better will be the physical
service rendered in later years.

Play is also necessary, for this is
stimulating when taken at the pro-
per time and is of the right kind.
Flay, moreover, is mental relaxa-
tion. Anything that is of mental
beneﬁt is pretty sure to be of phys-
ical help, too, for a happy contented
mind can often buoy up a tired out
body.

These are a few of the main items
in the health budget. They will
practicaly guarantee happiness for
later years and for that reason if
for no other they are closely linked
with the money budget. As one
works toward a goal in money so
can one work toward a goal in.
health. Prevention is far better
than cure, just as a nest egg is bet—
ter than poverty.

The National Tuberculosis Asso-
ciation and afﬁliated associations be—
lieve that prevention of tuberculosis
through the education of men, wo-

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men and children has been a great
cause for more than cutting in half
the death rate from this disease dur—
ing the past twenty years. Their
work is ﬁnanced by the annual sale
of Christmas seals. You can help
them in December by buying seals.
You can help them all through the
year by keeping a heath budget.

LINOLEUM TOP FOR TABLE

OW about your working surfac—

es? Are you satisﬁed with your

bare board table tops or your
oilcloth? When the boards splinter
or the odor of an onion clings too
long or the oilcloth gets cut up or
cracked discouragingly often, try
linoleum, advises the state college
of home economics. Frequently rem—
nant": of inlaid linoleum can be
found at furniture stores at very
reasonable prices and in just about
the size needed. Linoleum may be
cemented to the table top with wa—
ter proof glue or cement, and cut
ﬂush with the table. A binding may
around the edges makes it look bet-
ter. To prepare the top for use,
melt parafﬁn and with a soft cloth or
brush wipe a little over the surface.
Then with a warm iron press in all
the surface will absorb and wipe off
the excess. When it is cooled, go
over itWith a coat Offspar varnish
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or wet pans may be set on it without
injury and it can be ‘used as a
bread and pastry board. A Well
chosen. pattern .will make the table
a pleasant addition to the room, and
the smooth surface needs only an
occasional renewing of the varnish.

CAN RENOVATE YOUR RUG
WITHOUT SPOILING FLOOR

HAT soiled, faded deep-pile rug
need give you no further con—
cern; you can clean and dye it

right on your ﬂoor and the money
and effort costs will surprise you by
their smallness.

Place the rug on a clean ﬂoor and
scrub it with warm water and mild
soap. By working carefully and not
usmg much water, the grease spots
can be removed Without saturating
the rug. Each section as it is scrub-
bed, must then be wiped free of all
soap by using a clean cloth, wrung
out of clean warm water. The rinse
water must be changed frequently.
Keep the windows open, and the
rug, though on the ﬂoor, will dry
quibkly. If the color of the rug, 3
light blue for example, is out of
harmony will all of the other fur-
nishings in the living room, a much
deeper shade may be desirable. In
that event dye, should be bOught,
and prepared just as the package di—
rects. Because the dye is to be
scrubbed into the nap with a. stiff
scrubbing brush, plenty of newspa-
pers must be spread under the rug
in order to protect the ﬂoor from
any possible stain.

A heavy knitted cloth is then used
for testing the color while water is
being added to the original mixture-
iBy dipping one corned of the cloth
into the dye at a time and wringing
it out, one can easily determine
when the desired shade is reached-

The vessel of dye should be left
over a very low gas ﬂame While a
small amount of the hot dye is car—
ried into the room and scrubbed into
the rug. After going over the entire
surface of the rug with the dye, the
windows must again be opened and
the rug left to dry. Ordinarly the
driving will take a day.

 

 

Personal Column

 

 

iVIan Not Overgrown Box—«Some folks
say man is just an overgrown boy. Don’t
believe it. When a male is old enough
to be a father he is no longer a child-
Should a male be a boy any more than
a female should be a girl? Who ever
says a woman is an overgrown girl? I
admit lots of men act like. boys and
ought to be punished, same as a child.
but where is one that is?-—-—Mrs. Edith
Childs.

 

 

—if you are well bred!

 

 

\Vhat The Bride Should \\'ear.—1. A
formal church or house wedding formerly
always implied that the traditional white
satin, silk or velvet gown and a. veil were
worn. Now, however, so long as gown
and veil are white, or white in combina—
tion with another youthful color, the bride
is at liberty to select the material which
she personally prefers. The only other
color usually introduced in a bridal cos-
tume is green (usually in the forms of
ribbons, or roses, or embroidery). Lace
in some form is usually regarded as es-
sential to a wedding gown, but there is
no law which compels its use. 2. At an

[evening wedding the wedding gown may
be particularly elaborate.

1. Informal wedding dress implies the
substitution of some more delicate silk.
or organdie or other dress goods for
heavy satins. 2. A quiet, dark traveling
suit of some kind when the bride is “go—
ing away” after the ceremony. 3. A
gown of some light and becoming color

 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
   
 
   

  
   
 
  
  
 

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The Runner’s Bible

(Copyright by Houghton Miﬂiin 00.)

At destruction and deéth thou shalt
laugh; neither shalt thou be afraid of the
beasts of the earth. For thou shalt be in
league with the stones of the field: and
the beasts of the ﬁeld shall be_a.t peace
with thee. And thou shalt know that thy
tent is in peace—Job 5:22-24. (E. R. V.)

To him, who follows after God. who
keeps the commandments, and who pos-
sesses understanding, it appears that ev-
erything extends the offer of help, whether
animate or inanimate, friend or foe. He
maketh even his enemies to be at peace
with him. (Prov..16:7.)

 

 

 

RECIPES

 

 

Amber Mnrmalade.——Peel 8 aranges, re—
moving peel in quarters; cut the pulp in
silces. Scrape white membrane from the
skin and cut the yellow rind in strips.
Prepare 4 lemons by the same method.
Add 16 cups cold water to the fruit and
rind and let stand overnight. Cook slowly
for two hours. Add 10 cups sugar and let
stand overnight. Cook again for one hour
and turn into sterilized glasses or jars, It
you like marmalade with a rather bitter
taste this is excellent.

Salt Rising Bread.—Having seen a re-
quest for the repetition of a salt rising
bread recipe using corn meal and potatoes,
I‘m sending mine, which I sent in to the
paper several years ago.

2 large potatoes (pared and sliced), 2
tablespoons cornmeal (must be fresh), 1
teaspoon sugar, 1 teaspoon salt. Pour
over this two cups boiling water, cover
and keep warm. In the morning there
should be tiny ﬂecks of foam formed on
the mixture and if it has this appearance,
add 4 cups of water (luke warm), ] tea.-
spoon soda, 1 teaspoon salt thicken as for
any bread sponge, when light and foamy
add ﬂour, kneading stiff, putting immed—
iately into loaves as soon as this last
process is completed. Keep warm an'l
when light bake—Reader.

Queen of Mincemeats.——The following ls
mother’s favorite recipe for mincemeat and
the family think it is the best ever: Two
lbs. meat weighed after boiling (it will
take about 5 lbs. of raw meat to make
this quantity), 41/2 lbs. ﬁnely chopped
apple. 3/4 lb. suet, 3 lbs. raisins, 3 level
tablespoons of powdered cinnamon, 2 level
full of powdered cloves, and 3 of salt, 3’24
lbs. brown sugar, 1 cup sweet pickle vine-
gar, 1 glass grape jelly and 3 nutmegs.
grated. Boil the raisins until tender. Chop

, T n E

the meet. apple and suet very ﬁne. put
together with the sugar, salt. spices and
raisins}. Add $6 cup of the meat liquor,
the water in which the raisins were cooked
and the pickle vinegar. If not moist
enough, add more meat liquor and vine-
gar. Cook together until all is boiling
hot, add the jelly. stir thoroughly, let
come to a boil again, then pack in steril-
ized fruit jars and seal. If made during
cold weather, it will keep for some time
in an open jar.—L. A. C.

 

 

 

'HOMESPUN YARN

 

 

The quickest generosity is the best.—
Arabian proverb.
t It It
Good locks are insurance against nerves

as well as against burglars.
. 0 O 0
Add a pair of gloves to the cleaning
equipment if you would keep your hands
looking and feeling well.
0 t 0
Cold meat goes farther and looks much
more appetizing if out in very thin slices.
0 l C

A sheen is given to table linen by iron-
ing with a heavy hot iron while the linen
is still damp.

I O 0

When making apricot jam put in a few
of the centers of the pits for a different
and delic1ous ﬂavor.

t I 4‘

“Wash after every wearing” is a good
program for making silk undergarments
and stockings wear longer.

t t I

Cinnamon toast is made easily if the
cinnamon, sugar and butter are creamed
together and spread on the toast.

O t *

How much milk do you use? A quart
a day for children and a pint a day for
adults is recommended by health author-
ities,

It i It

A good vacuum cleaner prolongs the
life of a rug because it removes the em-
bedded dirt which cuts the ﬁbers of the
rug and wears it out.

I t *

Aunt Ada’s\axioms: More good looks
come from good food, fresh air, and excr-
cise than from all the cosmetics and
beauty doctors.

t t *

Save the surface and you save all ap—
plies to complexions as well as to porch
ﬂoors. The only difference is that with
complexions one should start work from
the inside.

It It It

Small bits of soap make a soap jelly
which is good for fine laundering. Melt
them together with an equal bulk of boil—
ing water and one teaspoonful of borax
to every pint of the mixture.

* I. 1|!

Aunt Ada's Axioms: A woman may
ﬁgure the cost of providing her family
with a cook, house manager, and scams—
tress, but she can’t put 2i price on the
love and thought that make a home.

AIDS TO _G 09 D D R ESSING

BE SURE AND SEND IN YOUR SIZE

5233. A

perigee. The

and 10 years. A

of 36 inch Instr-rial.

quired.
5217.

Brown linen with
triirtive for this model.

Sizes: 4, and
requires 1% yard of

portions.
5250.

and 12 ears. A
ards of

ings if

5240-5239..
with trimming of
40,

Skirt 6239 is cut in
33. 35 and

inches
foot is 1% yard

5274.
36. 38. 40 42
measure.

 

 

5280-5287. Ladles'
cut in 6 sizes: 34, 36

    
   
 

corresponding hi
5 and 47 inc es.
quires 4
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patterns.

  
  
   

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. Neal. and Pleasing Play Frock.——-
Printed vmle and organdie are here
This design could also he niiide of tub silk, re) or
Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 4, ),
yenr size requires 2% yards
If collar and
are made of contrasting material ‘A

A Pretty Frock for Mother’s Girl.“
yoke of white would be tit-
. . It is good also for tub
silk, gingham and rep. The Pattern is cut in
p 32 inch material with

yard of contrasting material for yoke and cut!

_ A Popular Style for a School Frock.—
Striped ﬂannel was used 'n ‘
could have wash materials, or tub silk or wool
rep. ’l‘lie Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 6. 8.

. 2 inch materia
ranting material for collar, cuffs an
made with long
sleeves 2% yards Will be required.

A Very Attractive Blouse “En-
semble."——Wool cre e was used '
o shit in matched colors.
The Blouse 5240 is cut in 7 Sizes: 34. . . ,
42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. The
Sizes: 25. 27. 29 Ii
37 inches waist measure, with (-or-
responding hip measure. 39. 41
an 47 The vn
. (with plnits extended).
make this “suit” (or a 38 inch size will require
31/; yards of 54'inch material, With“? yard of
contrasting material for dollar and c s.

Ladles' House

'dtli of'tlie skirt at the
To

44 46 'i’é’ss'TiCé‘é in i8 simi

. an incies )us
_ A 33 inch size re uﬂﬁ 4% yards of
36 inch material if made with
short sleeves 4% yards wli be reqmred.

Costume—Blouse

bust measure. Skirt 6267 cut in 7 sizes: 25, 27,
29, 31, 33. 35 and 37 inches waist measure, with
measure. 35, 37. 39, 41, 43,
To make as illustrated re-
ards of 40 inch crepe and 1% 21rd: .
. or a 88 inch size. The width 0 the
[hr at the foot is 2% yards.

ALL PATTERNS 13c EACH—
2 FOR 25c POSTPAID
ADD 106 For FALL AND WINTER

1925-1920 FASHION BOOK

OrdeI-Ftroh this or tanner issue: of The Bullneo

ermer. olvlng number and elgn your
neme end eddreu plelnly.

Address all orders for patterns to
’ Pattern Department -

clematis, Mich.

combined.

lmnd ' cuffs
yard is re-

years. A 4 year size
”is

I this iiishincc. One

10
ear size requires 2%

with V. urd of con-
pocket flic-
VVith short

sleeves.

in this instance

1.
43, 43

long sleeves, with

5280
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ity of the bakings it produces.

Don’t be deceived—inferior baking
powders cannot produce good foods.
They may raise a baking—it may appear
tempting, but it really lacks quality, ﬂavor
and nutritional value.

Bakings leavened with Calumet
look good, taste better and possess all the
purity and wholesomeness essential to

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Remember the old-fashioned
mustard plaster Grandma
pinned around your neck when
you had a cold or a sore throat?

It worked, but my how it burned
and blisteredl

Musterole breaks up colds and does
its work more gently—without the blis-
ter. Rubbed over the throat or chest,
it penetrates the skin with a tingling
warmth that brings relief at once.

Made from pure oil ofmustard, it is
a clean, white ointment good for all
the little household ills.

Keep Musterole handy and use at
the ﬁrst sign of tonsillitis, croup, neu-
ritis, rheumatism or scold.

To Mothers: Musterole is also made
in milder form forbabies and small chil-
dren. Ask for Children’ s Musterole.
The Musterole Co., Cleveland, Ohio
Jars & Tubes

    

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CRUMBLY TEETH

Help your children to have
sturdy bodies, sound bones
and strong teeth. Give them

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rich in vitamins. It serves the

needs of childhood equally as
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Color Your Butter

“Dandelion Butler Color” Gives That
Golden June Shade which
Brings Top Prices

Before churn-
ing add one—half
teaspoonful t o
e a c h gallon of
cream an d out
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shade. “Dande-
l i o n B u t t e 1'
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 at drug or grocery stores
Write for free sample bottle.

Wells & Richardson 00., Burlington,Vt.

 

 

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at Less Expenses
with brilliant
carbide light.

Think of the con-
venience of .turning a
key and haying a bril—
liant light that ﬂoods
the farthest corner of
your home and barn.
What a pleasure and
comfort toreml by a

_ good li lit in the long
winter evenings. Used for coo mg and iron-
ing also. Cuts the drudgery out of meal get-
ting. The clean, hot, steady ﬂame of carbide
gas removes the big troubles of cooking With
wood, coal. or (ill. insuring 2i. real kitchen
comfort. , .

Our plant installed outside the house in
the ground requires attention'only three or
four times each year. It is simple and f
guarant . . __

Ask why ’it is brighter then electricity

than kerosene. Our “Two-1m

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with our Ingest catalogues.
THE ABNER MFG. CO.

Wapakoneta, Ohio

 

 

 

 

THE BUSINESS FARMER
“The Farm Paper of Service”

 

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A 100 per Cent

lnve stment

Yes, it s an investment—notjust an expense—and one
paying bigger and surer returns than most any you
can make. We can prove it— by the statements of

 

. country

Lawrence J.

its cost in

dairymen, feeders and breeders the

over.

The following are typical:

W. A. Bridge, waterloo, Iowa, says:
“For each dollar expended in Linseed Meal, I
should judge the return is two dollars."

J. I. Harridge, Mystic, Iowa, says:
"In my estimation, for eve

Linseed Meal in the ration,
dollars in return."

dollar invested in
have received two

Todt, Morris, Ill., says:

“I ﬁgure every dollar invested in Linseed Meal
to bring in a return of 100%."

The Wisconsin Experiment Station—
-——found Linseed Meal to be worth about double

certain hog rations.

All stock on the farm, including poultry, show a
handsome proﬁt in feeding linseed Meal
reason why lies in its TRIPLE VALUE.
stock in prime condition.
meat and milk. 3 .——It has high manurial value

The
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how others have made good money on

their investment in Linseed Meal. Study the rations given and adapt them
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Cured His Rupture

I was badly ruptured while lifting a
trunk several years ago. Doctors said my
only hope of cure was an operation.
Trusses did me no good. Finally I got
hold of something that ouickly 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 will

he full information about how you may
nd a complete cure without operation, if
Pullen, Car-
82M Marcellus Avenue, Manas-
quan, N. J. Better cut out this notice
and show it to any others who are rup-
tnred—you may save a life or at least
the misery of rupture and the worry

:to'p danger of an operation. —(Adv.)

 

In scouring vessels,
Pans and pots,

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I’ll move the spots.

 

 

 

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Pure and Wholesome

Keeps The Sign Clear

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TWHEN WRITING T0 ADVERTISERS, PLEASE MENTION

 

 

Motto :

AUTUMN

The leaves are falling from the‘trees,
.The grass is turning brown,

Jack Frost has visited lately ,.
And gave the leaves some pretty gowns.

The air is very bold and keen,

Frost upon the windows is seen,”
And pretty pictures there he makes

And flowers that grow by pretty lakes.

Here is a house, there is a tree.
And pretty mountains by a sea,
And the cold—He does not fear,
And every night is safely here.
———Mildred Darby, Standish, Mich.

EAR girls and boys: Each and
every one of you know our mot-
to and I am sure you practice it

every day. “Do Your Best” in ev-
erything and every way. I am now
going to tell you about an opportun-
ity to “do your best” to make some—
one. very happy. Jeanette Olson,
Box 47, Northport, has never been
able to walk; the joy of playing tag,
dog and deer, baseball, or the many
other games ofqthis kind, has been
denied her. In a letter appearing in
this issue she tells us that she is
paralyzed from the hips down and
must sit still the whole day long.
We who have good health fail to ap-
preciate it unti we read about some-
one like Jeanette, and then we real-
ize how thankful we should be that
we are not handicapped in any way.
Jeanette likes to read and would en-
joy hearing from all of you, so Why
not write her a letter. In her letter
she *promises to answer all letters
she receives and I hope so many
write her that it will keep her busy
a month reading and answering
them. Take advantage of this op—
portunity to “Do Your Best”.

Contest Winners

Judging from the letters I receiv-
ed in our Hallowe’en letter contest
every boy and girl was pretty busy
that night. The prizes have been
awarded as follows: First prize of
$1 goes to Elizabeth Moes, R. 4,
Lake Odessa; second prize, a foun—
tain pen, to Marie Minor, R. 3, Man-
chester; third prize, a leatherette
pencil case outﬁt, to Ruth Halsey, R.
4, Olivet.

Our “What’s Wrong,r with This
Picture?” contest is coming along
very nicely, every mail bringing in
just loads of letters. We are going
to have more contests soon.——UNCLE
NED.

OUR GIRIS AND BOYS

Dear Uncle Nedz—I am writing this let-
ter to become better acquainted with the
boys and girls of our Mﬁz‘higan. It is
impossible to learn to know everyone
personally, but we can learn a great deal
by reading. We ought to read much so
that we may glean ideas from others.

I am seventeen years of age. I have
blue eyes, brown hair, and a very fair
complexion. Boys and girls you have so
much to be thankful for when you are in
a good physical condition. I have been
handicapped since birth for I haven't
been able to walk, therefore, I couldn’t
attend school. One never realizes what it
means to receive an education, to become
cultured. except when one hasn’t had the
opportunity.

I haven’t the use of my lower limbs.
I am paralyzed from my hips down, so
I have to sit still the whole day through.

It surely is lonesome when one has to
stay inside from one day to the other,
the whole year through. I, of course. can
knit, sew. crochet, etc., which passes
'away some time. I also have learned
to read and write, so I do a lot of that.
I enjoy reading very much and love to
write to my friends.

I have seven brothers and sisters and
two of my brothers are dead. My brother
Stanley died two years ago. He would
have been twenty-ﬁve years old, thisfall.
My brother Arthur died seven years ago
and he would now be thirty-two years
old. My sister Thelman, nineteen years
old, will be going to school at Ypsilanti
after Christmas. After she goes there
will just be two of us at home—~my
mother and I.

I have read many letters from the
southern part of the state, but there very
seldom are any from this section. We live
on a peninsula which extends northward
into Lake Michigan: Lake Michigan is
on the west and north sides and Grand
Traverse Bay bounds the eastern side
of the peninsula. The peninsula is not
very wide, a few miles, but- about thirty-i

ll . from,

  

five miles long.

 

  

DO TOUR BEST
Colors: BLUE AND GOLD

mostly along the bay and around other
interior lakes. Northport Point resort is
the most famous one around here. The
resort has two beautiful club houses and
ﬁne golf grounds. There are many beau-
tiful trees around the cottages of which
the cedar is the most abundant. The
hotel is called “Cedar Lodge” because of
the great number of cedar trees.

There are still quite a few Indians
living around here. That may “be of in-
terest to you because they are rapidly
dying off. Some of them have become
Americanized, but some have the old
Indian customs and habits. They live
in one-room houses and it is very difﬁcult
to teach them hygiene. Don't you think.
Uncle Ned, you would like to live in the
northegrn part of the state?

I would like to have every boy and
girl in Michigan to visit me in tlﬁ’sum-
mer. We would have too much to say
to one another.

Dear Uncle Ned, I would be very happy
if you would spare enough space in Tn)
Boemnss FARMER for my letter. I would
like to hear from every reader of Tm!
BusINEss FARM}!!! and I shall answer
everyone. you may be sure—Jeanette
Olson, Box 47, Northport, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Ned:-—~As you asked us to
write of our good deeds on Hallowe'en.
I am writing to see if I can earn a pin.
or see my letter in print. I stayed at
home all day and did the work so my
sister could make her dress to go to a
party that night, and the day before I
carried some pails of water for an old lady
who is very nice. I sent in a poem once
before and saw it in print, so I will try
again, but it was before you gave the
lovely prize of pins away. .I will give
a description of myself. I am fourteen
years old, five feet one inch tall, have light
hair, blue eyes and a blond complection.
I hope the waste basket just had its
dinner. Your niece.—Idah V. Coon, Paris,
Michigan.

--Your Hallowe’en deeds were very good,
Idah, and I am sure you made at least
two people very happy. You are a. real
poetess and we will publish your verses
in an early issue.

Dear Uncle Nedz—As my father has
taken THE BUSINESS FARMER for several
years, I have read the letters in the child-
ren’s Hour and like it very much. I
thought I would like to be in your club
with the rest of the girls and boys. I also
would like to see some of my letters in
print if they are good enough. I am thirt-
een years old. I go to school and am in
the eighth grade. My birthday is June
19th. I like the Children’s Hour and can
hardly wait until a new paper comes. I
have a mother and father, seven brothers
and one sister. I also had another little
brother that died when ﬁfteen months old.
I am the youngest in the family since the
death of my little brother. I help my
mother with her work, and I am glad
that I am able to help J1er. I have my
hair cut. My hair is brown and my eyes
are brown. I am about ﬁve feet tall. I
will close for this time. Your friend,
—-Irene Olmstead, Route 5, Bellevue, Mich.
—-—Come right in, Irene, “the more the mer-
rier" is our motto. I’m glad you like our
page and hope you ﬁnd it better in each
ssue.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I have not written
to the Children’s Hour for a long time.
so thought I would write to you. I am
writing this in school so please excuse
this paper an I have nothing else to write
on. I am thirteen years old and am
taking seventh and eighth grades this
year. I have just received my history
test paper. I got 96. I do not like his-
tory. Did you Uncle Ned? I hope my
letter and poem will be in print. Your
loving niece —-Mildred Darby, Standish.
Michigan.

—-Glad to hear from you again, and we
are printing your excellent poem. Come
again. ‘

 

 

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EAR EDITOR: In a recent edi-

torial (August 29) you intim-

ate that because of the high
cost- of labor woolen manufacturers
are almost as hard up as farmers
and really can't afford to pay much
for wool. Did you dig out the facts
for yourself or were they kindly
furnished by some benevolent “bu-
reau of economics"?

Labor, in its issue of/July 11,
presents some interesting ﬁgures
which it claims to have dug out of
a report on “growth of manufactur-
ing in the United States” issued by
the Census Bureau of the Depart-
ment of Commerce. It doesn’t speci-
ﬁcially mention woolen textiles, but
the cotton mills of South Carolina
paid. in 1921, an‘average of $645 to
each worker employed and in 1923
an average of $652. While their la-
bor bill was increasing seven dollars
a year per worker the selling price
of their product (wholesale price
at factory made an average increase
.of $1,055 a year for each worker
employed. In other words, for ev-
ery dollar of increase in their labor
bill they charged an extra $160 for
the product of that labor.

May be, of course, the woolen
manufacturer never proﬁteers. The
steelvtrust added only about $6.50
to its sale price for each dollar of
increase in wages during that time,
and the average manufacturer, in
all industries, increased his sale
price only about eight times as
much as he increased wages.

I believe a protective tariff will
be necessary to American industrial
prosperity until we have evolved a
system so fair to all concerned that
other nations are willing to adept
it. But a protective tariff only en-
ables the manufacturer to pay fair
wages. ‘It doesn't compel him to do
so. With just enough exceptions to

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prove the rule every American man-
ufacturer today stands with one
foot on the price of labor and the
other on the. price of raw materials,
boosting with both hands the price
of his OWn product. What we need
is efﬁcient, democratic, industrial
government, to deﬁne and suppress
proﬁteering and maintain some
equitable relation between com-
modity prices and the wages of cap—
ital and labor.-—-Stacey Brown, Ion-
ia County.

NARROW SLEIGHS BEST

EAR EDITOR: My subscription

to THE BUSINESS FABMEB will

expire shortly and in order to
keep the wheels moving, I am ro-
newing my subscription by sending
you $1 for two more years.

I do not agree with those that ad-
vocate wide sleighs. They are all
right in the woods or separate
tracks on the highway, but on gravel
roads where autos are running you
would kill a team in a short time.
The chains on the auto dig up the
gravel so that an empty sleigh would
run hard. With a narrow sleigh you
can break a track along side and
haul a load, most of the time. Late
years sleighing has been poor on ac-
count of drifting.

I approve of the stand the Grange
took relative to heaters for schools.
A great many districts here have
paid dearly for this experiment.
There is some talk of bringing suit
for damages on this account.

I am pleased that we have at least
one farm paper that is trying to help
its readers as much as it can, in le-
gal as well as other questions
brought to its attention. The space
devoted to “What, the Neighbors
Say" brings out problems for gen-
eral consideration—G. A... Traverse

City, Michigan.

Contributions Invited—Questions Answered

DOFB IT PAY TO IMPROVE SOIL?
N the past I have spoken of re—
building the soil of our farms,
and have pointed out ways it
could be done, and, no doubt, some
of the readers have believed it and
some have doubted it and some have
deeméd it too costly to try.

But whatever the viewpoint, this
fact remains that each year we are
getting less off the land we are
working unless we have done some-
thing of this sort, and with each
lowered crop yield there still re-
mains just as much plowing, har-
rOwing, and ﬁtting, and as much
time used to sow as when we get
larger crops. This condition will
never change, and you can expect
just as much work and more worry\
as the years come and go if you stay
in the rut and follow the way the
majority of us are doing now.

New ideas that cost something to
put them in operation are passed up
by the majority of us. Ten or twelve
years ago when we. ﬁrst began to
hire in order to grow clover we were
ridiculed by our neighbors and rela—
tives and talked about in a conﬁden—
tial sort of way as having a burr or
two loose, but on the whole we were
harmless. But today we see those
who had our welfare ﬁrst in their
hearts are doing the same thing
whenever their pride will let them.
This was to. be expected as there
were no movements worth while,
but what had their martyrs, and all
wise but loving friends that were so
much interested in one’s welfare
that if they could keep us from de—
ing things, they believed they were
rendering us a worth while service.
Remember when Columbus said the

.world was round he was called coo—

coo and yet his conviction carried
out and made possible that we are
enjoying the things we do today in

U. S. A. ,
When Ben Franklin said that

, land plaster was good to use he was

.ondﬁren when he sowed
d and iwhen

   

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the words spelled by the growing
crop “This is Land Plaster” they
still scoffed, but on the soils of
Washington and Oregon and the
western land it is a fact, that they
need land plaster, as they are low in
sulphur, but on Michigan soils cal—
cium carbonate or lime or marl or
oyster shells is the better form of
lime to use.

In Pennsyvania lime has been
used for centuries and Lancaster
county is the leading agricultural
county in the world.

Yet you have heard groups of
men argue that if you used lime or
fertilizer once you had to keep it
up and after a few years of their
use the soil would become hard and
worthless. This is about the same
kind of argument as they used in
1600 or thereabouts when they
burned people at the stake because
they were witches. Superstitions
have been one of the greatest draw—
backs of the progress of the world,
and 99 per cent of all farmers in
the world, or men in any other pro-
fession, have their pet superstitions
that while they will not admit it, it
has a niche in their make-up while
it sheds its inﬂuencing rays along
their pathways.

Some plant their potatoes in the
moon and cut their hay by the signs,
plant their trees, shear their sheep
and many other things according to
old family customs and traditions.

It costs money to bring up land
to where it is proﬁtable to farm, but
it can be done within reason and the
farm will pay for it while being
done if managed right. If you will
pardon me for referring to a per-
sonal incident where this has been
done, I will tell you what I did with
a farm of one hundred acres that
had been share rented for over thir-
ty year‘s and everything sold off . that
way. Hay and grain and clover was
practically unknown on this farm
for twenty years or more. I used
the landlord’ s entire share from this
land to buy. lime and fertilizer and

  

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0U can avoid the winter milk slump and equal the sum-

mer production scale only if you fortify your cows against
the sudden change to dry, rough feeds. When milk-making
organs are vigorous and active, proﬁts are sure. Losses pile
up only when there is failure to fully utilize expensive feed to
produce the maximum volume of milk.

Kow-Kare Added
to the Feed Makes
Big Milk Yields

Kow-Kare brings your feed money back, plus
a real proﬁt through added quarts of milk. By
strengthening the assimilation and digestion
your COWS are made to thrive on natural foods.
The all-medicine ingredients act quickly.

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the same time builds into them the power to re- not umu Januai‘y 10th,
sist disease. It serves this double purpose with- 1924, that I bega rles
out really costing you a penny, because the 0f experimems ”1

. . re ard to milk roductlon.
added milk yield pays for Kow-Kare many Aﬁé, carefully!) weighing
times over.

the‘nrnilk and feed of two
heavy producers for two
weeks I commenced feed-
ing one tablespoonful to
them once per day and af-
ter the third day, the re-
sultswere at onceapparent
in increased milk produc-
tion, there being no
changes in ration, and at
the end of two weeks I
stopped the Kow-Kare and
they fell back to their
former mess of milk for the
two weeks and upon re-
suming its use again they
came back up to their for—
mer records, and since
then! feed one tablespoon-
ful once a day to all milk-
are and the results are
gratifying."

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Doubt ?

Read how other cow
owners increase dairy
profits with Kow-Kare.

From F. P. La Chausse,
Carthage, 1V. Y. — March
30, 1925: "Having fed
Kow-Kare for ten years
more or less to cows oﬂ"
feed and for various disor-

Treating Cow Diseases

Try Kow-Kare for cows off feed and see how
quickly they regain appetite and production. It
makes both cow and calf strong; prevents re-
tained afterbirth and other disorders.

For all cow ailments arising from weak di-
gestive and genital organs—Barrenness,Re-
tained Afterbirth, Abortion, Scours, Bunches,
Milk Fever, etc., Kow-Kare is a reliable home
remedy. Thousands of dairymen say they
would not keep cows without it. ‘

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stock to this department.

COW TESTERS GIVE FEED
HELPS

‘MONG the many activities that

‘ go on» in a Cow Testing Associ-

‘ ation some of the biggest bene-
ﬁts are returned to the mem—
bers are the feed helps given by the
cow ster.

The deﬁnite value of getting a
record on each cow and having a.
complete record on the herd, has
proved immensely valuable to many
cow owners. Further, many dairy-
men have been able to get a new
vision of the value of good sires
through the Cow Testing Association
work. In addition to these points
however, the feed help obtained
through the tester has possibly re-
turned the biggest money values to
many Michigan dairymen. The pres—
ent membership of nearly 3,000
dairymen in the 112 Associations
operating in Michigan realize the
great beneﬁt that feeding brings to
the pocketbook. The single illustra-
tion from a member’s herd brings
out this point strongly. The tester
found in September that each cow
in a herd of ten cows was being fed
four pounds of ground oats daily.
The member was feeding each cow
equally. No adjustment was being
made to the actual milk and butter—
fat production of each cow. The
tester, Oscar Dowd, of Hillsdale
county, checked up on the require-
ments of each cow and found that
one cow producing 50 pounds of but—
terfat during the month was being
very sadly‘ neglected. He recom—
mended that this cow be fed at least
ten pounds of grain and another
cow that was producing around 35
pounds butterfat for the month, that
she should receive eight pounds of
grain. In this way Mr. Dowd distri—
buted the pounds of feed more pro-

perly to the individuals in the herd. _

At the end of the month the herd
owner found that he had fed a lit—
tle larger amount than he had been
accustomed to feeding. The addi-
tional expense involved in this larg—
er feed amount was $7.36. 'The
Cow Testing Association Herd Book
revealed to him, however, that this
small additional expenditure had
made him an increased return over
feed cost of $18.70.

Making the fee ﬁll the needs of
the individual cow is a problem in
itself and the help that the cow test-
er can give on this point is money
saved to the member. For winter
feeding conditions all Michigan
dairymen should consider the needs
and requirements of the individual
animals in the herds. Treating them
all alike is bound to cause mis—
treatment and under—feeding or over-
feeding in some instances. In other
words the best results are not ob—
tained from the feed that is being
put before the cows. Good rough—
age, especially alfalfa and a succu—
lent feed such as silage, is the basis
for best results. In addition a mix-
ture of grains fed in the proportion
of one pound of grain daily to each
pound of fat produced in a week will
usually supply the proper amounts
of nutrients to the dairy cow.—
Dairy Extension, M. S. C.

BUTTERJN GALLON OF CREAM
How much butter will a gallon of
cream produce from common cows,
and are purebred cows any better?
—M. A. B., Vermontville, Mich.

HE exact amount of butter that
can be churned out of a. gallon
of cream will depend entirely

upon what you: cream teggs. A gal;
- 1? cream that, tests _ per cen
Ian 0 8.1.}..pounds.

  

Questions cheerfully answered.)

Calculating the amount of butter
fat in this gallon of cream I ﬁnd
that there is 1.69 pounds of butter-
fat. Legal butter contains 80 per
cent butterfat. Therefore, there
could be made from this one gallon
of 20 per cent cream 2.01 pounds of
butter.

The comparison of a gallon of
milk produced by a common cow
and a gallon of milk produced by a
purebred cow will depend entirely
upon the butterfat test. But this
is no lway to compare the ability of
a grade with a purebred. The best
method of comparing cows is on the
basis of total pounds of butterfat
produced ’by a cow for one year or
a sufﬁcient length of time to make
a fair comparison. There is more
difference between a poor pure bred
and a good grade than between good
grades and likewise between a. good
pure bred and a poor grade than be-
tween good pure breds. The only
way to judge a cow’s merit is to
weigh the milk and test for a year.
This is best done by weighing the
milk each day and testing once a
month. The most satisfactory meth-
od to carry this out is to join a cow
testing association and have a cow
tester do this work for you. Any
one having at least six cows should
be a member of a cow testing associ—
ation. It is only through such a.
system as this that you can put your
herd on a real businesslike basis.
A cow testing association can do
this more effectively and cheaply
than the owner can do it himself.
There are now three cow testing as-
sociations in Eaton county and there
certainly would be an opportunity
for you to put your herd in one of
these associations by getting in
touch with Mr. Clair Taylor, your
county agent—O. E. Reed, Profes-
sor of Dairy Husbandry, M. S. 0.

MILK COWS MUST HAVE
.MINERALS

ILK cows undoubtedly suffer
more from the lack of sufﬁ-
cient minerals than do most
any other type of farm animals. The
reason for my making this state—
ment is this: the cow required min—
erals for her own body maintenance,
for milk production and for the pro—
duction of her young. Since from
4 to 6 per cent of the animal’s body
is composed of minerals, and, further
since each and every part of the
body requires minerals for proper
functioning it is evident that cows

(especially dairy animals) [must
have large amounts of minerals in
their feed to make any larger

herds are limited in milk production
solely for the reason that they do
not have sufﬁcient minerals in their
body, or do not secure enough thru
their feed to make and larger
amounts of milk. In a thousand
pounds of milk there is about seven
pounds of minerals of which one—
sixth is calcium or lime, and since
but a small percentage of the ani-
mal’s body is made up of minerals
the cow will give off in every 6,900
pounds of milk providing she weighs
1,000 pounds, a volume of minerals
equal to that found in her body.—
Dr. George H. Conn.

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_ BLOODY MILK
We have a cow that gives bloody
milk from one teat. Came fresh
about 2 weeks ago. Will you kindly
advise what to do?———Mrs. P., Ben-
don, Mich.

‘LOO’DY milk is caused by hem-
orrhages in the udder and
these in most cases are the re-

sult of failure to milk the cow out
before calving or else due to impro-
per feeding. Would feed this cow
rather lightly for a time and see if
the udder would not get healed up
and strong again. This will natural-
ly decrease the milk ﬂow for a time
but it will increase again later. You
might get the following tonic and
use for a. couple of weeks, powdered
nux vomica, 2 ounces, powdered
gentian 2 ounces, powdered licorice
root 4 ounces, powdered sulphate 4
ounces, powdered iron sulphate 4
ounces and powdered calamus root
4 ounces. Give one tablespoonful
on ground feed night and morning.

STEANIED BONE MEAL OR
GROUND FEED

We have a registered Jersey cow
four years old that comes in heat
regular but fails to get in calf. Is
there anything we could do to help
her?——F. P., Melvin, Mich.

HE best recommendation I could
make for the cow that doesn't
calf is to give her 1/3 of a

pound of steamed bone meal on
some ground feed each day. Give al-
falfa or clover hay and feed a bal-
anced ration. Keep this animal in
the sunlight as much as possible.

RADIO DEPARTMENT
By JAMES w. H. WEIR, n. E.
HOW To RENEW TUBES

RADIO tubes like some of the old-

 

 

er humans, eventually lose

their “pep” under the strain of
constant work and require a. rest or
need to be rejuvenated. This re-
juvenating process, as applied to va-
cuum tubes, is not as serious an
operation, however, as the one some
humans undergo in the search for
youth.

It is known as “reactivation” and
is said by the Bureau of Standards
radio experts to renew the sensitiv—
ity of electron tubes of the thoriated
tungsten ﬁlament type.

The thoriated ﬁlament was de-
veloped by the General Electric Co.,

which has also developed the meth- V

Ode of reactivating tubes of this
type. The Bureau of Standards has
found that the reactivation process
is quite successful, and frequently
makes a wonderful difference in the
results obtained ‘with a receiving
set. The process is essentially the
operation of the ﬁlament for a very
brief interval at a speciﬁed high
voltage called “ﬂashing”), follow-
ed by a lower voltage for a longer
time (called “aging”), all of this
with no grid or plate voltage. The
ﬂashing reduces some of the thor—
ium and the aging forms the re-
quired surface layer. The follow—
ing schedule of these operations is
the result of extensive experience
of the Radio Corporation of Ameri—
ca, and is published here by cour-
tesy of that company.

FLASHING
Filament
Radiotron voltage
UK and UV 199 ............ 10 volts
UX and UV 201-A.... 15 volts
UX-120 .......................... 10 volts

AGING

. Filament
Radiotron , voltage
UX and UV 199 ........ 4.5 volts
UX and UV 201-A.... 7.5 volts
UX-120 ........................ 4.5 volts

Time
30 sec.
1 min.
1 min.

Time
10 min.
10 min.
10 min.

"”Exactly the same procedures ap-
ply for C and CK tubes as for the
UK tubes of corresponding number.
Thus, C and CX—299 correspond to U
and UX-199, C and CX-301-A to U
and UX—201—A and CX—220 to UK
120. The WD-11 and WD-12 types
of tubes cannot be reactivated.

In carrying out this schedule
it is absolutely essential to have a
voltmeter of a good degree of ac-
curaCy and to use a Watch- No

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THESE people were surprised to see a new De Laval
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the skim-milk at normal room temperature
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l-iReasons For Surplus 0f MilkOnMarket .1 1

(Continued from page 4)

based alone upon the supply of milk
In any one area or the demand of
a particular consuming market. Con—
ditions throughout the world deter—
mine the price for the manufactured
products. Every market dealing in
whole milk bases the price of the
surplus ulpon world manufactured
markets. The methods of doing this
Vary in different sections of the
country. In some markets special
classes are designated for milk used
for sweet cream, ice cream, cheese,
butter, condensed, evaporated, and
other purposes. In the Detroit mar-
ket there is one class for milk sold
as ﬂuid milk and one class for that
used for all other purposes.

There seems to be advantages of
many clases over two. One advan-
tage of two classes is the simplicity
of the system. It is just one step

removed from a ﬂat price for all
milk. Many farmers believe that the
ﬂat price is the best basis on which
to sell milk. I shall discuss this
point in a future article.

In summary it may be said that
there is a surplus in the Detroit
market and there always will be.
The price which is 'paid for this
surplus is based upon the dairy pro-
ducts manufactured market which is
beyond the control of any locality.
If there is anything wrong with the
return which farmers receive for
their surplus milk, it is due to the
fact that all surplus milk is placed
in one class and paid for at one price
rather than in several classes de—
pending upon whether it is used as
sweet crean, ice cream, condensed,
evaporated, cheese or otherwise.
This matter of several classes is

 

 

 

one which should be" given ‘much
careful 'study. »

.. Milk producers of the, Detroit area?
should ‘not forget that the prices
which prevail .in this market com—
pare very favorably with those in
other parts of the country and that
the return to dairymén is such that
milk production is being encouraged,
rather than discouraged. Producers
of any commodity in any market
with conditions as favorable as they
are in the Detroit area at this time
should be very hesitant about mak—
ing changes in their methods of
marketing until they are sure they
have a plan which will bring about
a better permanent market.

THE RABBIT AND MOUSE PEST
(Continued from Page 9)

this write to the State Game Warden
for permission to use a ferret. Then
after each fresh snowfall track the
rabbits to their holes and clean
them out with the good old method

 

 

“. . . . dﬂd we saved $135 07¢ Mi: piano l/imugk
#16 Michigan Emilia; Farmer Piano C/i/é.’ ”

improved wonderfully in the last

“I I OW beautifully Dorothy plays. She’s
How do account

six months. you
for it, Mary?”

“It's the new piano, Auntie,’ nine—year—
old Dorothy spoke up, blushing with pride
at Aunt Emma’s compliment. “There’s
such a difference practicing on this nice
new piano and on that old tinny thing
we used to have. My practice hour is
gone before I know it now.”

“Yes,” her Mother added, “Dorothy used
to grumble and watch the clock whenever
she had to practice. She seemed to be
losing interest in her music. One day I
had a long talk with her teacher. She
was Very frank with me said she thought
a new Piano was all that was needed.
You know, Emma, the old piano was
pretty well played out. Forty years of
the kirfd of usage that piano got would
wear out any instrument."

”I quite agree with you, Mary,” Aunt
Emma. replied. “The last time you men-
tioned it you said you wanted a new piano
but you were afraid you couldn’t
afford it.”

“That was the whole trouble, Emma.
We’re paying for our home and I didn’t
want to get a piano until I could afford a
really good one—one that would last the
rest of our lives.”

“But you couldn’t ask for a ﬁner piano
than this one—it has a wonderful tone
and I know the splendid reputation of
Cable Pianos. One of my friends bought
a Cable Piano years ago—I remember
clearly, for it was just after Jackie was
born. Honestly. Mary, that piano is as
good today as it was the day she got it."

“Yes, this is a very ﬁne piano. We had
it here for thirty days’ free trial. I had
Dot’s teacher come in and try it. She
praised it highly—said it would make a
lot of diference in Dot’s progress. And
it has.”

“Then you changed your mind about
being able to afford a good piano?” Aunt
Emma queried.

”Yes and no. You see it was this way,”
Mother explained, “I happened to be look-
ing through THE BUSINESS FARMER and
noticed an ad about a new Piano Club
which was being formed to help the
readers save money in buying a good
piano. I sent in the coupon and in a few
days received a complete description of
the Whole plan. I realized immediately
what an opportunity it was and took ad-
vantage of it at once."

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“What is this Club Plan, Mary?”

“Well brieﬂy, it's this,” Mother ex-
plained further. “The Cable Piano Com—
pany gets a hundred BusiNEss FARMER
readers who want to buy pianos and en—
rolls them in the Michigan Business Farm-
er Piano Club. Naturally the Club gets a
special priCe on so large an order. We
saved $135 over the regular retail price
of this piano.”

“You were certainly lucky,” Aunt Em-
ma interrupted.

“But that‘s not all,” Mother went on.
"We were allowed special easy terms of
payment. We paid only a little down and
the piano came to us by prepaid freight
for thirty days‘ free trial. \Ne had the
privilege of returning it wth a full return
of our deposit if it was not entirely satis—
factory. But, of course, we are elated
over the piano and now we’re paying for
it on small monthly payments which the
Club arranged for us. I never dreamed
we could buy a high—grade piano on such
easy terms. We don’t miss the money at
all.”

“Were you allowed to make your own
selection or did you have to take this par-
ticular model?”

”Oh. no. We could have had either an
upright or a baby grand. This is a player
piano. By pulling this little knob the
pedals come out and the music records go
right in here.” She laid aside Dot’s prac-
tice book and pushed open the sliding
doors of the roll compartment.

“That's wonderful! I thought it was a.
regular upright piano. I'd never have dis-
covered it was a player piano if you had—
n‘t told me.”

“Daddy‘s crazy about it,” spoke up little
Dorothy. “He plays it every night—and
you should hear him sing. We have sev—
eral song records with the words printed
right on them.”

“Yes,” Mother said,
player piano. I was par-
tial to a baby grand but

“Jim wanted a.

show up, the Cable Piano Company agrees
to repair it or give us a new piano. They—
're a forty-ﬁve—year-old concern and one
of the biggest manufacturers in the in-
dustry. I know they‘re perfectly reliable
and will do as they say.”

“Yes, there is no doubt of that. You
certainly were fortunate, Mary, in being
able to deal direct with such a big fact-
ory. That’s unusual—I never heard of it
before.”

“This is the ﬁrst time
done, they tell me."

“Do you think I could get a new piano
through THE BUSINESS FARMER Piano
Club?”

“Yes, indeed!” replied Mother, reaching
for a recent copy of THE BUSINESS
FARMER. “See, here is another ad—the
ﬁrst Club was so successful they're form-
ing another one. Here, mail this coupon
right away and you can probably get in
on this Club. I don’t suppose it‘s all ﬁlled
up yet because this issue just came yest-
erday. They’ll send you all the necessary
information and the blanks to ﬁll out.”

“I’ll do it today, Mary.” Aunt Emma
responded. “I’m not going to let an op-
portunity like this slip by. Where is your
pen and ink? I’ll mail it at once.”

IF YOU are contemplating the pur-

it's ever been

chase of a. piano, either a grand,

upright or player, by all means
investigate the beneﬁts and savings
of the Michigan Business Farmer
Piano Club. Any reader may be-
come a member—no fees, no dues.
A new Club is now forming. Mail
the coupon today for full particu-
lars. Address .Maalager, hﬁchigan
Business Famner Piano Club, Care
of Cable Piano 00., Cable Building,
Chicago, Illinois.

Copyright 1925, The Cable Co.

TEAR OFF AND NIAIL

 

I gave in. You see und-
er the Club Plan we can
exchange this one any
time within one year and
get full credit for all we
have paid in. We would-
n’t lose a penny if we
decided to exchange it
for a baby grand, or any
other model. And we’ve
a written guarantee that
will protect us in years
to come. If any defect

  

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Cable Piano 00., Cable Bldg., ‘
“’abash and Jackson. Chicago.
Please send full details of the Piano Club without
obligation to me.
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early and. leaye the prunings on the-

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prunings and leave the trees alone/

Small or newly planted trees
which have been girdled had best be
pulled out and new trees planted in
their places. Large or fair—sized
trees, however, can often be saved
by bridge—grafting. This is done‘by
cutting scions slightly longer than
the width of the injury. One end I
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be set about 2 inches apart around
the trunk and should be bowed
slightly so as to give a little. spring
to hold them in place. The\ends of
the scions are then nailed down with
small brads and covered with graft-
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DOES IT PAY TO IMPROVE SOIL? 2,
(Continued from Page 17). i

in eight years time clover was grow-
ing in every ﬁeld 011 the farm.

The wheat crop increased from 8-
10 bushel in 1917 to 31 bushel in
1924 and the corn this year will go
ﬁfty bushel per acre where ﬁfteen
years ago you would get a peck to
a half bushel of nubbins out of a
shock of corn eight hills square.

A record of the expenses has been \
kept and it may be interesting to
note that in eight years the taxes
have been'about $1100.00, the fence
bill for eight years has been $900.00
and the lime and fertilizer bill for
eight. years has been $800.00, or.
$1.25 per acre per year for the 80
acres of plow land on the farm, and
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hundred and forty
leads in 1924. The ﬁelds have had
from one and one-fourth tons of
lime per acre to ﬁve tons per acre,
but the general application has been
two and one—half to three tons;
from three hundred to six hundred
pounds of acid phosphate has been
used per acre on the ﬁelds. Some of
the clover crops were seeded alone
in the corn stubble in the spring
when the land was too poor to raise
two crops at once and in three ﬁelds
there has been the clover crops turn-
ed under. All the straw was used
on the farm either as manure or
spread on sod ground in the fall and i
plowed under in the spring for corn. »
We have had several entire failures
of getting clover to catch in rye’
even after the ground had been lim-
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had faith and patience and tried
again. This farm has increased
production three fold in eight.years
and the cost of the material used
amounted to $1.00 per acre per'year
for the land under the plow.

We just took a test on a check
of corn in favor of the lime_applied,
seven years ago and found seven"-I
and one—half bushel of corn in favor ‘,
of the lime and 78 pounds of hard i,
corn against 41 pounds of hard in ‘
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FEEDING IN WINTER

Please tell me what to feed for
ninety laying hens and ten roosters
this Winter. So many people say
they get so many eggs during the
winter. How much grain should I
feed and what kind? Is it better to
feed them at noon as well as in the
morning? Should I let chickens run
all winter around the barnyard, or
is it better. to shut them up in a.
house? I have heard people say
they had theirs shut up for three
months. What kind of feed should
I feed in the feed hopper, I always
feed beef scraps—Mrs. A. H., Ann
Arbor, Mich.

O obtain a maximum winter pro-
duction from a ﬂock of 90 hens,
I suggest that you feed your
hens dry mash in open hoppers all
the time. This mash, either prepar-
ed by a good commercial feed con-
cern or mixed at home, made up as
folows: equal parts corn meal,
wheat middlings, bran, ground oats,
and meat scrap, and one per cent
salt and two per cent ground lime<
stone or dry marl by weight. In ad—
dition to the dry mash, the birds
should be fed scratch grain of equal
parts corn and whole wheat, fed
twice a day, the heavier grain being
given at evening, and in a deep lit-
ter of straw, so that the birds will be
induced to exercise.

Ninety birds should eat about ten
and a half pounds of both scratch
feed and of dry mash per day. It is
advisable to enclose the birds after
the advent of snowy weather, either
keeping them conﬁned all winter, or
providing them a good house, and
allowing them to run out doors all
they wish all winter.——J. A. Hannah,
Extension Specialist in Poultry Hus-
bandry, M. S. C.

 

RICKETS

We are troubled with some of our
hens getting lame. Sometimes starts
in one leg getting worse until they
get entirely paralyzed and ﬁnally
die. Just seems to be in the An-
cona hens, never had any Leghorns

bothered in this way as we keep
both kinds. It just. started last
winter and since this time have

lost six or seven. Sometimes they
are taken lame all over and sit and
ﬂop around and ﬁnally die the same
as the others—H. S., North Branch,
Mich.

HIS condition is likely rickets;
there is a possibility that there
may be a tubercular infection

also. I rather favor the rickets;
clean up and disinfect to make sure
that there is no danger from infec—
tion. Then feed as follows——use~
yellow corn and middlings in the ra~-
tion and 5 per cent of bone meal
(poultry bone) and the same
amount of grits in the ration; that
will be 5 pounds to the 100 pounds.
Some green feed is also desirable.
Keep the ﬂock in the sunlight as
much as possible. It would be a
Wise thing to give them some whole
milk for a while—Dr. Conn.

 

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Either alternating or direct current
may be used for heating the ﬁla-
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The apparatus necessary for
carrying out the process is simple.
The ﬁlament is connected to the

necessary source of voltage, noth—
ing being connected to the grid
and plate. A voltm ter is connect—

ed across the fila ent terminals.
If alternating current is available
the source of voltage can be a small
transformer, such as those for
running doorbells or electric toys.
The voltage tap nearest the volt—
age speciﬁed should be selected and
a rheostat ih series with the ﬁla—
ment used to adjust to the exact
voltage. The voltmeter must be
one for alternating current. .

If alternating current and a
transformer are not available, dry
batteries or storage batteries may
be used as a source of voltage. A
single dry cell when new will fur-
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. How High Will Price of Wheat Go?

Cattle and Hogs Sell H Lab—Predict Advance in Lamb Prices

By W. W. FOOTE. Market Editor.

NCE more old winter is with us
and farmers have more leisure,
although there are lots of

chores to attend to, with cows to
milk, hens to feed, as well as cattle,
hogs and sheep to look after. It is
aS'Sumed that farmers have wood
lots and that they cut down trees
for fuel, which means cords of wood
to saw and split, but it seems un-
fortunate that so many farms fam-
ilies deprive themselves of the great
happiness of the beautiful old-fash-
ioned big ﬁreplaces in the living
room, we used to call the sitting
room. These ﬁre—places are capa—
ble of burning nearly all sizes of
wood, and are cheap for furnishing
warmth and comfort, besides mak-
ing a wonderful picture as the ﬁre
lights up the room. In the long win-
ter evenings the farmer and his fam-
ily have time to talk over the needed
farm improvements for the coming
year, and it may be stated here that
the better times have already been
reﬂected in most farming districts
by the large use of paint, something
that always pays richly in brighten-
ing up the house and barns. Then
there are in numerous instances
new farmhouses to be built and the
progressive farmer will realize the
importance of buying a ﬁrst class
book showing designs of houses,
these books costing very little and
showing how a handsome home
costs little or no more, than a cheap
and ugly one. In progressive agri—
cultural districts farm houses are
going up that add materially to the
actual value of the farms, and in
one very noticeable respect larger
windows and outside green blinds
make the home extremely attractive.
The year has proved a good one for
most farm products, and it is espec—
ially pleasing to our Michigan farm~
ers that at last prices for wheat
have had such a good advance. The
soaring of potato prices is likely to
encourage farmers to plan a big
acreage of potatoes for next spring.
This would be very likely to bring
about lower prices.
The Advance in \Vheat

\Vheat is one of the leading sta—
ples grown in Michigan, and the
sharp advances which have taken
place during recent weeks mean. a
great deal to our farmers. The rise
in prices has come as a genuine sur—
prise to many farmers who had be-
come so accustomed to the repeated
declines following advances that it
was hard to .have faith in the future
market. However, the old law of
supply and demand still governs ul-
timately in wheat as in other com-
modities, and not, only is our supply
of wheat small for the season and
growing very slowly, but reliable
advices are that the wheat crop
of Argentina, our powerful competi-
tor, is much reduced. and this is
adding to the bullirh sentiment.
Meanwhile, the visible wheat stocks
in the United States are down to
37.670,000 bushels. comparing with
90,926,000 bushels a year ago. A
Melbourne cable says harvesting of
wheat in Australia has commenced,
and the expertable surplus is still
estimated at only 56,000,000 bush—
els. How high wheat will go is un—

certain. VVeelis ago the popular
opinion was. that it would sell
around $1.50. but of late leading

traders havo ﬁxed on a, considerably

better price, with sales recently
around $1.64 a bushel. Declines
take place at times on selling by

speculative owners, but recoveries
follow in good buying by the
“shorts” and cash buyers. Exporters
who are in the habit of buying ex—
tensively in our markets have ex—
pressed regrets that they failed to
buy weeks ago when prices were
Wheat
has been selling a little higher than
a year ago. while a little more than
two years ago it sold close to $1.
Corn still sells far lower than a year
ago. but ..recent quotations were

Husking is going on actively, and
husking bees are taking place here
and there. Much corn is going into
cribs, and many farmers have a good
surplus for marketing. Late sales
were made on the Chicago market
of December wheat at $1.661/z, com-
paring with $1.55 a year ago; De-
cember corn at 75 cents, comparing
with $1.14 a year ago; December
oats at 39 cents, comparing with 53
cents a year ago; and December rye
at 93 cents, comparing with $1.35

last year.
Iowa Farmers Dissatisﬁed
“The agricultural situation has

improved since 1921, but is is ap-
parent that many Iowa, farmers still
labor under the handicaps of large
debts, high operating expenses, high
taxes, high interest rates on short
term loans, and also widely ﬂuctu—
ating and often unsatisfactory pric—
es for their products.”

This is the conclusion on a report
made to Secretary of Agriculture
.lardine today by Nils A. Olsen, as—
sistant chief of the bureau of agri—
cultural economies, and Albert C.
Williams, member of the federal
farm loan board, who were dispatch—
ed to survey what was regarded by
the administration as an unsatisfac—
tory economic situation in Iowa.

“The question of credit .0 aid the
orderly marketing of Iowa corn has
been brought into prominence by
the recent severe drop in prices,”
says the report.

“It should be remembered, of
course, that the new corn sells at a
discount because of its high mois-
ture content. The decline of corn
prices is viewed with concern by the
people of the state, and especially
by farmers who sell for cash a
large part of their crop.

“The recent break in prices is a
result, primarily, of the large corn
crop produced this year. Recent es—
timates place the crop at 3,013,000,—
000 bushels. and for Iowa at 477.—
386,000 bushels, which is the largest
yield in the history of that state.

An analysis of the situation, how—.

ever, indicates that several factors
Will tend to offset the increased
crop."

Feed Your (him to Ho s
In a recent radio address by Pres-
ident Everett C. Brown of the Chi—
cago Live Stock Exchange he gave
this advice: “So far the country

has pursued a commendable market—
ing policy, which has been conduc-
tive to price maintenance. The
growers: position has been fortiﬁed
by conservation of pigs and light
hogs, which exerted a demoralizing
inﬂuence on fresh meat trade a year
ago. .
“Every possible artiﬁce has been
resorted to for the purpose of de-
pressing hog values below $10.00.
A recent prediction that hogs will
soon reach $8.00 was an incident in
that campaign, which has been frus—

trated by competition at the market .

and refusal of growers to be stam-
peded.

“My personal analysis of the hog
situation and prospect, which I have
given serious consideration for busi-
ness reasons, is that the logical pol—
icy for growers is to feed their hogs
corn worth 50 to 60 cents a bushel
with reasonable assurance of double
ing its value.

Any farmer marketing his hogs
on the present market will make
splendid proﬁts by replacing them
with young feeding pigs on 50 cents
to $1.00 break on present pig val—
ues. ‘

“If this policy is pursued by the
farmer the president need have no
concern over future corn values as
the average farmer will show a bet—
ter balance in his country bank a
year from today than today.”

BoOm in Lamb Prices

Recent meager offerings of lambs
in the Chicago stock yards put pric-
es up to the highest point of the
season, with the t0p"$16.75, while
top feeding lambs went at $16.25.
Charles H. Shurte, long identiﬁed
with the Chicago sheep market, said
recently: “The barn has been full
of lamb buyers from New York and
Michigan every day this week. It
is safe to say they have not; been
able to buy one load of feeders
where the' wanted twenty. We know
the country has not got them on
feed like they usually have and
this explains the shortage in re-
ceipts. It is hard to make every-
body believe this. There are many
in the trade who still believe the
C‘untry is alive with sheep. It is
not, and before long, they will wake
up to the fact that there is a short—
age. We are predicting very high
prices for both feeders and killers
all winter.”

Heavy Cattle Sell High

Supplies ran pretty large in the
Chicago market for Thanksgiving
week, and prices averaged around
15 to 25 cents per 100 pounds lower
for the greater part of the cattle,
the bulk of the beef steers going

 

 

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Dec. 1 Nov. 30 Nov. 17 1 yr. ago

\VHEAT—

No. 2 Red $1.81 $1.74 $1.61

No. 2 \Vhite 1.82 1.75 1.62

No. 2 Mixed 1.81 1.74 1.61
COR-N—

No. 2 Yellow .92 .95 1.21

No. 3 Yellow .91 .75 .94
OATS (oltl )—

No. 2 \Vhite .4435 39% @.41 .44 .5515

no. 3 \Vliito .43 K .39 @ .4014 .43 .54 3‘
RYE—

Cash No. 2 .94 .87 1.29
BEA NS—

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No. 1 Tim. 22.50@25 25@27 24.50@25 18@ 19

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

No. I Clover 20@21 22@24 20@21 15@ 16

Light Mixed 23@23.50 25@26 23@23.504 - 17.@ 18

 

 

Tuesday, Decefnber 1.——All grains unchanged. Bean market steady; 1302‘

tatoes quiet. Poultry easy .{to ﬁrm.

  

 

 

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much like. thise of, two years ago.

   

at $8 to $12.
.made of choice to strictly prime
heavy steers, which were strong to
25 cents higher. Good steers found
an outlet at $10 and over for weigh-
ty lots, with choice to extra kinds.
including some show cattle at
$11.50 to $15.25, while common to
prime yearlings sold at $7.26 to $13.
One year ago beef steers were sell-
ing at $6 to. $13.75. Butcher cows
and heifers are salable at $4.25 to
$10, calves at $6 to $12 and stockers
and feeders’ at $6 to $8.60, mainly
at $6.75 and $7.75, these being
much higher than a few weeks ago.
Stack and feeder cows and heifers
sell at $3.75 to $6.25.
tle averaged 25 cents higher.

, The Hog Outlet

. Chicago’s receipts of hogs during
Thanksgiving week were far smaller

than for corresponding weeks one

and two years ago, and prices had
some good advances, an unusually
large proportion of the offerings be—
ing sold to go to eastern packing
points. There was a regular scram-
ble among buyers for the moderate
supplies of choice hogs, which sold
quickly at a liberal premium over

underweights. For the year to late
date combined receipts in seven
leading western packing points

amount to only 22,775,000 hogs,
comparing with 27,423,000 one year
ago and 28,090,000 two years ago.
Late sales were made as high as
$11.85 and some prime light lots
sold at $12. The $11.85-pound
hogs were such as sold a week ear-
lier at $11.35.

WHEAT

Foreign crop news continue to be
the main factor in deter-mining the
trend of the wheat market. Early
last week bullish reports came from
the southern hemisphere and prices
advanced sharply, but later it was
stated that damage was not as bad
as at ﬁrst estimated and prices eased
off. Buying for seaboard improved
some while millers continued to be
active in the market. Receipts show
no increase, farmers being inclined
to hold.

H CORN

The corn market is dull and
steady, with prices unchanged. Wea-
ther for husking was good the last
few days of last week and the trade
expects an increase in receipts this
week. There is practically no old
corn for sale.

OATS

Oats are considered a bargain at
present prices and the demand is
improving. Shipping sales last week
were the heaviest in months at 185,-
000 bushels, including 100,000 bush-
els to exporters.

RYE

Rye was easy and declined on the
closing day of last week but previ-
ous advances left the price higher
than quoted in our last issue. "

BEANS

Although the market has been
steady beans declined in price dur-
ing the fortnight ending Saturday,
November 28. The general feeling
is that prices are going to go higher
and-if your beans are dry an’d'iyou
can hold them it should prove proﬁt-
able to do so. There is an old say-
ing “There is many a slip ’twixt the
cup and the lip,” but all facts at this
time point to a higher market, and
our judgment is based on present
indications.

 

POTATOES

Growers are being blamed for
some of the decline in the price of
potatoes. It is said that many have
shipped potatoes damaged by frost
and they arrived in a rotting condi~
tion. This was not done intentional-
ly, it is believed, but growersship-
ped stock before they had an. oppor—
tunity to ﬁnd out if it was~frozen.,

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BUTTER/AND EGGS
Detroit—Butter, best creamery in
tubs, 44@46c per lb. Eggs, fresh
current receipts, 52@55c per doz;

cold storage, 34@37c per doz.

‘ HAY

Hay markets are holding steady
with receipts generally equal to con-
sumers’ needs. Very little No. 1 tim-
othy is shown in any market and
the demand is good for choice stock.
Arrivals at the principal markets
east of the Rockies are reported to
be running about 10 per cent small-
er than at this time a year ago.

LIVESTOI‘K MARKETS

EAST BL'Fl“ ‘ ‘ U—C a. t. t l e—Slow and
steady. Ca ' —Active, 500 higher;
choice, 315 Q: l , fair to good, $12.50@
14.50; culls 1.11112; hoary. $6@9; grass-
ers, $4@6. Hogs—Active. 1563“ higher;
heavy, $12@12.15; mixed. $12.25@12.40;
Yorkers, $12.40@12.50; light Yorkers and
pigs. $12.75; roughs, $9.75@10; Stags,
$6@8. Sheep and Lambs—-Active, 50c
higher; lambs, $9@16.75: yearlings, $8@
12.50; wethers, $9.50; ewes, $2@8.50;
mixed sheep, $8.50@9.

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CHICAGO:—;Cattle,—Genera1 trade fed
steers steady to strong; off lots yearlings
and two year olds sorted off show string
upward to $10.25; some weighty bullocks,
$14.50; best yearlings, $13.50; bulk show
rejections, $13@14.50; she stock strong
to 250 higher; bulls steady; vealers fully
steady at $10@11 mostly to packers.
Hogs—Active, 15@35c higher; lighter
weights scored full advance; bis,r packers
bought sparingly; bulk desirable 160 to
210 pound yeights $11. 60@11. 75; prac-
tical top, $11. 85; better grades, 225 t0325
pound butchers largely, $11. 55@11.G5;
majority 110 to 150 pound selectidns,
$11.75@12; bulk packing sows, $10.40@
10.85. Sheep—Fat lambs active, strong;
spots, 25c higher; bulk better grades
handy and medium weights, $16.25@
16.65; few choice loads to shippers and
city butchers, $16.75; most cull natives,
$12.50; choice shorn lambs, $14.75; year—
ling wethers. $13.25@13.60: few feeding
lambs, upward to $16; aged wethers, $11 ;
fat ewes upward to $8.50.

 

 

W'eek of December 6
OR the week beginning December

6th in Michigan temperatures

' start off ran ging considerably
above the seasonal normal. At the
same time there will be rains in
many parts of th state together with
strong winds.

About Tuesday there will be a
clearing up of the weather but as
there will be another storm appear-
ing over the far Northwest at about
the same time, the fair weather will
not last. In fact, more rains may
be expected in many parts of this
state about Wednesday and Thurs—
day.

The weather for the latter part of
the week will be generally fair
caused by an extensive area of high
barometric pressure.

Week of December 13

The fair weather of last part of
previous week will run over into the
week beginning December 13th.
Temperatures at the beginning of
this week Will be rising and by
Tuesday Will be considerably above
the seasonal normal for the state.

About Monday or Tuesday cloudi—
ness will increase in Michigan and
then will come rain and high winds
followed later with sleet and snow.
These conditions will last until just
after the middle of the week when
there may be a short respite from
cloudiness.

Sleet is a very troublesome form
of precipitation especially when a
great quantity falls coupled with a
driving Wind. We must admit, how—
ever, that this storm inﬂuence is
really very problematical in nature.
We believe that most of the mois-
ture will be in the form of rain,
more or less general to the state,
perhaps, but steady in its fall rath-
er than sudden and destructive. If
our judgement of this storm inﬂu-
ence is correct, we ﬁgure on but lit-

' tle sleet or snow for the state as a

whole. .
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No.21—Olde
Tan Metal-
to - Metal
Breeching
H a r n e a I
withoutBack
Pad.

     
   
   

    

No. 28—Olde
Tan M e t a l-
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Please send me your Olde Tan Harness Book telling all about your 4
months to pay offer on Olde Tan Harness. .

My Name

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After You Get the Harness!

We will ship you a genuine Olde Tan Metal-to-Metal
harness and you need not pay us until 4 months
after you receive it. We give you a 30 day free trial
after which the harness may be returned to us at
our expense if you do not want to keep it.

Above are shown four Olde Tan models, all with gen-
uine Metal-to-Metal construction and made from old
fashioned Olde Tan leather. This construction is car-
ried out in every part of the Olde Tan Metal-to-Metal
Harness where there is excessive strain, wear or pull.
Introduced only four years ago by Olde Tan, it is not
yet known how many extra years of wear this con-
struction will give a harness. It is estimated that it
will make a harness last many more years. Olde
Tan harness even without the metal-to-metal feature
was capable of lasting 12 to :15 years. Harness with
that many years behind it is still in use. The maker
of Olde Tan made harness for the Armies during

BABSGN BROS, Dept. 92-89

19th Street and Marshall Blvd., Chicago, 111.

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the Civil War, and parts of the harness were found
on the battle ﬁelds in fairly good condition as late
as 1885, or 20 years after the war. ,

At the tannery is a strap which was buried 10 years in
a barnyard and which is still pliable and strong. In a
leather strength test held in Chicago in 1923,01deTan
straps and traces won over every other entrant, being
more than twice as strong as one of the contestants and
30% stronger than the second strongest. Hundreds of
letters of real enthusiasm have been received from
OldeTan owners whodeclare thatneverhave they seen
such a harness, never such heavy strong leather, and
never such careful, precise sewing and construction.

Mail this Coupon
for Free Catalog

If you believe that you even may buy another harness
within the next year, you should ask for the Olde Tan
catalog and learn all about the real leather which goes into
this harness. Also get our unusual offer—Don’t Pay for 4
months—so you can see for yourself the quality of leather
—the way metal against metal wears, and the ﬁne appear-
ance and extraordinary strength. After 30 days trial you
keep Olde Tan or send it back as you choose. We are
continuing also our offer of $7.50 after 30 days free trial
and then $7.50 per month for those who desire to pur:
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