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To the Business Farmers of Michigan, Greetings:

. . It is with the utmost pleasure that I am able to announce the culmination of arrangements with Mr.
George Harrison Phelps, owner of the powerful broadcasting station WGHP at Detroit and Dodge Brothers,
motor-car manufacturers, whereby produce and live—stock market quotations as furnished from the leading mar—
kets of the United States together with special Farm News, will be broadcast daily, except Saturday and Sun-
day by THE BUSINESS FARMER.

I think farmers of Michigan will agree that this completes the circle, the endeavor to attain which
has been uppermost in our minds since the birth of this magazine, to be known as “the farm paper of service.”

This means that farmers, not only in Michigan (for station WGHP is easily heard from coast to
coast) but in the entire United States can by means of the radio receiving set in their home, receive daily,
‘within a few hours after the markets close, a complete report and summary of the day’s activities. It means
‘that the business farmer has his market quotations in the early evening and can therefore plan on his sale of
farm produce the next day. It Spells the death knoll of the market parasite who since history began has sub-
sisted on the ignorance of the producer from whom he bought.

I hope you will accept this service with most sincere Christmas greetings
from THE BUSINESS FARMER.

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MICHIGAN GIRL CHAMPION
CANNIN G JUDGE '

HE grownups were not the only
ones from Michigan to “bring
home the bacon" at the Inter-

national at Chicago during the ﬁrst
week in December. Mary Wilmer,
of Willis, proved that she was the
nation’s champion when it came to
judging canned goods, winning the
honor in a contest at the National
held in connection with the Inter—
national. Leona Gale, of Ypsilanti,
took sixth place. In clothing judg-
ing Isabella McKellar, of Freeland,
was seventh, and Jeanette Watson,
of Hemlock, was ﬁfteenth. Michi-
gan placed eighth in the style show
and fourth in the potato exhibit.

FARMERS’ CLUBS ASK FOR
BETTER STATE FAIR

“ NE of the most proﬁtable meet-
ings we ever held." That is
the verdict of delegates who

attended the annual meeting of the

Michigan State Association of Farm-

ers’ Clubs, at Lansing. December 1

and 2. ‘It was a very interesting

convention and important questions
of the day were discussed while re-

. solutions were adopted on many of

them. They adopted resolutions de-
manding tax revisions, favoring
higher gasoline tax, and protesting
against the usurpation of public wa-
ters by private land owners.

The delegates turned down a. res-
olution, sponsored by Charles B.
Scuily, former state senator, criticis-
ing the state administration for its
pardon and parole policies. They
likewise refused a resolution charg-
ing the governor and the adminis-
trative board with playing politics
in connection with the recent organ-
ization of the state fair.

A substitute resolution was ac-
cepted insisting that the fair be
made an acceptable industrial and
agricultural exposition, without an
accompaniment of ballyhoo shows
and questionable sidewalk attrac—
tions.

The resolution touching on pub-
lic waters was directed at the re-
cent Collins-Gerhardt case in which
Judge Fred S. Lamb held Gerhardt
trespassed when he ﬁshed in Pine
river where the land on both sides
is owned by Frank Collins of To-
ledo, Ohio. Pine River is stocked
with ﬁsh by the state. The farmers
voted that all planted waters must
be open to the public. If court de-
cisions interfere with the constitu-
tion an amendment to “return to the
people their inherent right” was ad-
vocated.

Dr. Kenyon S. Butterﬁeld, presi-
dent of Michigan State Cdllege,
urged the farmers to develop in the
community idea. He predicted that
the time will come when Michigan
will be dotted with rural community
churches.

C. B. Cook of OWosso was elected
president of the association, suc—
ceeding S. J. Jenkins of Belding.
Austin Cole, Clinton county, suc-
ceeded W. S. Kellogg of Lansing as
vice—president; Mrs. I. R. Johnson of
Rushton was re—elected secretary
and treasurer. L. S. DeVerna of
Grass Lake and George Stowe of
Fowlerville were made directors.

M. S. C. TAKES THIRD AT
POULTRY JUDGING
ICHIGAN State College won
M third in exhibition judging

in the college team poultry
contest at the National Poultry Show
in Chicago last week. Purdue won

 

ﬁrst and Oklahoma A. & M. second.

In Buff Wyandottes, B. Hazleton
Smith, of Niles, Mich., took ﬁrst
cockerel, ﬁrst hen, ﬁrst pullet, ﬁrst
old hen and ﬁrst young hen.

 

SHORT COURSES AT M. S. C.

r HE Winter Short Courses of the
Michigan State College are de-
signed to meet the needs of the

young men of the state who are not

able or who do not desire to take
the full four year course in Agri-
culture. Many are unable to leave
the farm during the busy season,
others have not completed their
high school work." and satiation.

   
 
   

, lotto, placed third in the Amadeus

  

   

are not in position ﬁnancially to

undertake
course.

The courses give practical work
covering the general and specialized
features of Michigan’s agriculture.
They come during the winter months
when farm work is the lightest.
They may be attended for two, four,
eight, ten or sixteen weeks, depend-
ing on the course selected.

These courses are open, without
examinations, to all men and women
over sixteen years of age. To make
the best use, however, of the work
offered, a good common school edu-
cation is necessary. While the ma-
jority of students are farm and city
boys, yet there are many older men
and women who avail themselves
of the opportunities offered by these

the regular college

courses. Rural ministers, club
workers, retired business men and
others interested in agricultural

problems often attend the college to
take this work. City young people
should combine this work with a
summer or year of practical work
on an accredited farm.

The courses given this year, and
dates, are as follows:

General agricultural, sixteen
weeks, two years, Oct. 26 to Mar. 6;
general agricultural, eight weeks,
Jan. 4 to Mar. 5: dairy production,
ten weeks, Jan. 4 to Mar. 19; dairy
manufactures, eight weeks, Jan. 4
to Mar. 5: Ice cream makers, two
weeks, Mar. 8 to Mar. 19; horticult—
ural, eight weeks, Jan. 4 to Mar 5:
market gardeners, one week, Jan. 25
to Jan. 30; fruit growers, one week,
Feb. 8 to Feb. 13; Amateur garden-
ers, one week, Mar. 22 to Mar. 27;
poultry course, four weeks, Jan. 4
to Jan. 30; post—graduate veterinar-
ians course, Jan. 25 to Jan. 29; bee-
keepers course, two weeks, Feb. 8 to

 

.. el). 19; truck and. tractor- course.
Feb. 8to Mar. 6: truck "and tractor
course, Mar. 8 to April 2;~~Faemers'
Week, Feb. 1 to Feb. 5.

Full particulars may be secured
from R. W. Tenny, Director of Short
Courses. M. S. (3., East Lansing,
Michigan.

 

MEMORIAL ’1‘0 SIJOCIJM TO BE
GLEANERS’ HOME

HE Ancient Order of Gleaners,

attending their ﬁfteenth bien—

nial session at South Bend,
Indiana, voted to establish a home
for aged members, to be known as
the Grant Slocum Memorial Home,
in honor of the founder of the order,
who‘died last year.

In a pageant entitled, “Gleaner

Mile Stones,” including a prolog and
four episodes. the late Mr. Slocum
and 1,194 other members who have
died since December, 1923. were
honored.
.. Frank E. Haring, editor of the
Eagles' Magazine. was among the
speakers at a banquet Thursday
evening. A reception to ofﬁcers,
delegates and members followed the
banquet.

 

MORE 00W TESTERS WANTED

SHORTAGE of trained testers
to aid in carrying on the work
of the 109 cow—testing associa-
tions in Michigan, has led A. C. Balt—
zer, extension specialist of the Michi-
‘ gan State College dairy department,
to issue a call for young men with
agricultural training and experience
and knowledge of dairying.
Cow-testing associations are main-
tained in a number of counties in
the state, in connection with dairy
extension work, the .main purpose
being to test and record each cow for
butter-fat. By means of these asso—
ciations, farmers are able to keep
track of the proﬁt made for them by
their dairy cattle.

Michigan Livestock Wins Honors At Chicago

IVESTOCK from Michigan fared
unusually well at the Interna-
tional this year in spite of the

keenest competition of any time
during the history of the exposition.
Exhibitors from this state won in
every class they entered. Our larg-
est winner was the Michigan State
College, and the biggest plums pick-
ed by the college were in the Perch-
eron horse division, where Maple
Grove Leila was senior and grand
champion and Utelem was junior
champion.

The college also ranked high in
the fat Aberdeen-Angus cattle
classes, taking second and third. re«
spectively, on Pride of Burnbrae and
College Rosewood, two senior year-
ling steers, and second on Plumb,

Square and Level II, a junior year-

ling. Among the fat Herefords the
college took sixth on Bright Fancy,
a senior yearling steer.

Michigan State College won two
second places on its Berkshire en-
tries in the carcass contests.

In the sheep classes the college
took a fourth and a ﬁfth on breed-
ing Rambouillets. Henry G. Cranv
dell, of Cass City, took one second,
three thirds, one fourth and one
ﬁfth on breeding Lincolns and L.
0. Kelly & Son, of Plymouth, had
four thirds, ﬁve fourths and two
ﬁfths on breeding Dorsets.

Michigan State College won nu-
merous prizes in the sheep and swine
classes at the International Live-
stock Exposition, as follows:

Fat Berkshire swine, one second.
two fourths, two ﬁfths and one
sixth; Fat Duroc Jerseys, two ﬁfths;
Fat Hampshires, one second and a
fourth; Fat Chester Whites, one
sixth and two eighths; Fat Shrop—
shire sheep, one‘ fourth; Breeding
Cotswold sheep, one fourth; Fat
Oxford sheep, one fourth and a ﬁfth.
Also a second, a third, and a fourth
on fat Yorkshire swine.

C. H. Prescott & Sons, of Towns
City, took second and tenth in the
class for yearling shorthorn bulls
on Golden Ring Clipper and Golden
Arrow, respectively; seventh place
in the class for bulls calved after
Jan. 1, 1925,. on Richland Marshall;
second in the class for two bulls
bred by the exhibitor and ﬁfth in
the class for three bulls bred by
the exhibitor. " . ‘

F. .E. Shepard &.Sons-, of Char-r

 

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College
.Buonere "mutant? Ne " '

Shorthorm Special for grades and
Crossbreds on Roselan Avalon. In
the fat Aberdeen-Angus competition.
the State College took second on
Pride of Burnbrae and third on Coll-
ege Rosewood.

Several mares from the string of

William E. Scripps took prizes in
the Belgian competition last week.
Annabal, a yearling, was second.
Georgia K. was third. Mary Mar-
garet was fourth in the class for
aged mares and Queen Nina was
ﬁfth among the two—year-olds.
' William E. Scripps, of Orion,
Mich., placed ﬁfth among the fat
Aberdeen-Angus junior calves with
Wildwood Choice. In the slaughter
tests the Woodcote Stock Farms, of
Ionia, had the‘ third place senior
yearling. Andy Adams, of Litch-
ﬁeld, exhibited the ﬁrst prize senior
boar pig in the breeding Chester
White division.

Two more ribbons went to Scripps
animals in‘ the Aberdeen-Angus
cattle classes. Modern Queen, 9.
heifer calved between June 1 and
Sept. 30, 1924, was ﬁfth, and Even
Glow, a heifer calved between Oct.
1 and Dec. 31, 1924, was'third. The
Woodcote Stock Farm, of Ionia, also
continued to ﬁgure in the Aberdeen-
Angus winnings, taking sixth on
Blackcap of Woodcote 27th, a heifer
calved between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31.
1924, and seventh on Eirene of
Woodcote, a heifer calved between
Jan. 1 and May 31, 1924.

John F. Cutler & sons, of Plain-
well, captured numerous prizes in
the classes for breeding Poland
China swine. Their awards con-
sisted of three ﬁrst prizes, one sec-
ond, one third, two fourths and a
ﬁfth.

Corey Farms, of New Haven,
Mich., scored heavily in the breed-
ing Berkshire swine competition,
showing both the senior and grand
champion and the junior and re-

serve grand champion boars and ,

taking six ﬁrsts, four seconds, four‘
thirds, three fourths and three
ﬁfths.

W. S. Adams, of Litchﬁeld, took
three second places, eight thirds, ﬁve
fourths and two ﬁfths in the breed-
ing Tamworth swine competition.

The champion» steer of' the show,
Mah Jongg, entered. bylaws State
, was auctioned sol! to. the.

    

 
 

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BUSINESS FARM ER

The Only Farm Magazine Owned and Edited in Michigan »

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1925

 
   

 

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.000 Farmers From 40 States Make History

Representative Rural Leaders Hold Great National Convention in Chicago; Hear Coolidge and
Other Notables; Adopt Program for Agricultural Advancement

WISH that I had the power, my
friends of T1113. BUSINESS FARMER
family, to paint for you a proper
word picture of the wonderful gath-

ering from which I have just return-
1ed. It was my good fortune,
' with 200 other Michigan farm folks,

along

to attend the Seventh Annual Con—
vention of the American Farm Bu—
reau Federation in Chicago, Decem-
ber 7—9. X

As I look back now over those
never—to-be-forgotten days, I am con—
vinced beyond a doubt that no such
a signiﬁcant and representative
farmer’s meeting has ever been held
before. Precedents were broken
and superlatives prove inadequate
to tell the story. For the ﬁrst time
in history, the President of the
United States took a ﬂying trip half—
way across the continent for the sole
purpose of addressing one meeting of
farmers.

A Nota‘ble Farm Audience

It was no ordinary gathering that

lured the Nation’s Chief Executive

and a coterie of crack reporters

away from the Congressional Cave
of the Winds to the Windy City of
Chicago. The assembled host to
which President Coolidge spoke was
unquestionably the most representa-
tive conclave of farm organization
leaders ever brought. together. More
than 5,000 American farm people
were there, brought together from
They represented the
1800 County Farm Bureau which
focalize and vocalize their united
inﬂuence and power through the
American Farm Bureau Federation.

The President’s address opened
the convention. Every seat in the
spacious Grand Ball Room of the
Sherman Hotel and in the adjoin-
ing rooms was reserved. Chicago
citizens, ‘even though millionaires,
were refused entrance. It was the
Farm Bureau members’ day. When
all Were seated, the President and the
First Lady of the land entered with
their distinguished escorts. For two
minutes they stood in, the white
glare, while a whole battery of
moving picture cameras played upon
the smiling party and while the
crowd applauded.

Soon the excitement subsided to a
deeply respectful silence, and the
President, in a clear and even voice,

By STANLEY M. POWELL

(Lansing Correspondent of The Business Farmer.)

began to deliver his remarkable ad—
dress. It was a comprehensive re-
cital of farm conditions, revealing
an intimate and sympathetic under—
standing of the problems and needs
of the farmers.

As I sat there in that vast audi—
ence of farm people, I wished that
every BUSlNESS Funncu reader might
be there too, seeing and hearing the
President. Then I realized that he
was speaking in four microphones
and undoubtedly many of my friends
in their farm homes out in Michigan
were at that very moment hearing
the President’s words as distinctly
as was I. I confess that it gave me
a creepy, uncanny feeling. Any—
way, some 200 reporters took notes
and wrote articles, and daily papers
from coast to coast printed the
speech in full, so extended extracts
and comment at this time is unneces-
sary.

What He Said in Brief

The President pointed out the im—
portance of maintaining high stand—
ards of rural life and promoting
agricultural prosperity and perman—
ency through helping the farmer to
help himself. All forms of govern—
ment interference, price—ﬁxing and
bureaucracy were condemned and
business—like methods, better ware—
house and storage facilities, a better
credit structure and the continued
development of co-operative market—
ing were advocated.

Following the President’s address
he took luncheon with Farm Bureau
leaders. It was more than a lunch-
eon. it was a banquet. In fact, it
was a dinner at noon with the Presi-
dent that day. All the various foods
provided were trade-markedw-pro-
ducts provided by co—operative mar-
keting associations. While the Pres-
ident was dining thus, Mrs. Coolidge
was partaking of a similar co—opera-
tive feast with a small group of
Farm Bureau women.

While I was not so fortunate as
to be invited to attend either of the
above select parties, I was one of
the 300 who ate “the leavings” the
following day. It was some “feed”,
with every article on the lavish menu
a co—operative product. We had

California and Arizona.
turkey from Utah, sweet potatoes
from New Jersey, etc, etc. I have
known for a long time that co-oper—
ative marketing beneﬁts the produc—
er. Now from ﬁrst hand (or should
I say stomach) experience I am con-
vinced that it grcaly beneﬁts thc
consumer as well.
A Galaxy of Spcakcrs

If the editor of Tim li'sians
FARMER didn‘t have anything else to
print in this issue, I’d like to tell you
about some of the other interesting
things that happened and about lhc
remarkable address by morc than
forty outstanding national ligurcs
who appeared on the various pro
grams.

Outstanding addresses were those
on “The Application of Achrtisiug
to the Farming Industry”, by Jamcs
O’Shaughnessy, Secretary, Amcricun
Association of Advertising Agencies;
“Building the Foundation for (‘om-
munity Co—operation”, by Miss Mary
Minis, State Community W'orkcr,
Louisiana Farm Bureau ll‘edei‘ulion;
”Making the Load Lighter by lGIec»
tricity", by Owen D. Young of thc
General Electric Company. who was
a member of the so—called “Dawes
Commission”: “Discussion of (lroup
Life lnsuruncc", by J. H. Birkclt,
Prudential Lil‘c insurance (‘11:
“Farm F‘iro Losses” by 'Wallaw
Rogers, chairman, Farm Fire Pro»
venlion Committee; “Taxation and
Agriculture", by Ray P. (fhasc.
State Auditor, St. Paul, Minn: “Tho
Rate Increaso Case", by Fred S,
Jackson, special transportation at
torney, A. F. B. F; and “lturul
Self—Determination", by Mrs. Iron
D. Core of Utah.

All phases of co—opcrative markch
ing were discussed in a comprehem
sive series of addresses on that sub
ject. The Farm Bureau women
had some sessions themselves and do
veloped their Home and Community
Program. Throughout the wholo
convention, from the President's ad—
dress on to the end, the farm homc
was emphasized and it was evident
that here was the goal and lllc aim
of all this organized and’co—opcrutiw
effort. Everything else was but a

fruit from

Michigan Captures Many Hay and Grain Awards

By LARRY KURTY

Extension Specialist in Farm Crops, M, S. C.

FTER the dust had blown away
and the blue ribbons had been
awarded by the judges at the

International Hay and Grain Show,
familiar names of growers again ap-
peared, leading the various classes.
These familiar names have been ap—
pearing on these lists for so many
years that they seem to be nearly a
permanent ﬁxture. 1

The corn borer quarantine on
corn entries from Michigan natural-
ly cut down the total amount of win-
nings. Growers turned their atten—
tion to the other classes to such an
extent that more places were cap-
tured than in previous.

Art Jewett, Jr. of Mason is again
individual high winner from Mich-
igan. He could be rightfully called
the Hay King of the entire show,
due to his universal clean—up on the
several hay classes. This exhibitor
certainly knows how to prepare sam-
ples with their “best clothes” on. so
that it was not very frequently that
Michigan growers appeared ahead
ofhis name on the winning list.
Michigan growers .- won $162 out of

ﬁt: Hutzler of South

 

Manitou Island again came into the
home stretch to win with Rosen Rye.
This father and son have won three
first places in this class in the last
five years. Mr. Beck of this same
Island won over the Hutzler entries
on one occasion, as did Canada, with
Rosen samples. This is rather more,
than interesting, as these men on
the Island are carrying on head scl-
ection work year after year and fur-
nishing one of the best sources of
pure Rosen Rye in Michigan. It is
very gratifying to know that the
grain trade sees the advantages of
this variety of Rye, which has re—
sulted in its being universally
grown. Michigan’s entries won $74
out of a possible $140 in this class.
This small number of entries must
have had quality to win in such
class.

Red Rock Wheat, which has been
making friends, not only in Michi-
gan but outside the state as well for
many years, lived up to its reputa-
tion by placing 17 winners in a ﬁeld

of 30 prizes in the soft red winter

wheat class. The superior milling
uualitics of this varicty carried its
oxhihilors to the prize money oxcr
many other competing variclics.
Strong competition from Montana
\\'..5 illlple'(‘ll' right from tho stir:

but thc supcrior make-up of llod
Rock carried it ahead to win. In
other words. Michigan growers will
receive $111 out of u possiblo $303
in this class alone. 1-

Martin Peterson of llrucw -f‘ro.
ing, Ontonagon County, cumc bill‘lx’
and won first place, aftcr losing it
in 1924, with Scotch Green Peas.

J. C. Wilk of St. Louis came
in ahead of the ﬁeld in the soy bean
class, asgwell as sweepstakes 011 all
soy beans.

In Region 2 of the ﬂax class, L.
T. Lasenby won ﬁrst place; Michi-
gan winning all places in the com—
petition except 6th and 8th.

Judges Take Fifth

In the College Judging Contest,
in which 8 states competed, North
Caroline won ﬁrst place. This con-
test considered of grading, judging,

 

means toward this end. President
Coolidge had told them, “Wherever
there is a farm, there is the great-
est opportunity for a true home”
These rural leaders were uniting to
maintain and promote the opportun-
ity for the farm home to be the best
and most attractive spot in the land
and the permanent seedplot of man-
hood and womanhood.

Lucius \Vilson, president of the
General Organization Company of
(,hicago, emphasized this thought in
outlining his idea of the proper fu~
turo program of the Farm Bureau
in a very rcmarkablc address on
“The Farm llurcau Mothcr ()11,‘anl—
zution of Agricullun

Thompson Vcw l‘rcsitlcni

In tho olcction of National Farm

llureuu oiliccrs for the coming tw'o—

ycur period, Sam ll. Thompson of
Quincy, Illinois, president of the 111i-
nois Agricultural Association, whicl

corrcsponds to the Farm Bureau
organization in that state, was chosen
to succecll 0. E. Ilradfulo of Xenia,
Ohio, who has piloted the A. l". B.
14‘. during the past three years. E.
A. ()‘Ncnl of Montgomery, Alabama,
was ro~olcctcd Vlt'(‘~lll‘(‘Sl(l(‘lli. Amongr
tho thirtocn notional directors elect-
ed was M. l.. Noon of Jackson, presi<
dent of tho ‘xliv‘hicun State Farm
Burcuu.

Thirty two tori-fully considered
rosolulioiw wcro udoplt-d as express~
ing' thc at! itudc of organized farmers
towaid loading lcfsiislalivc issues and

other mottcrs. li‘zirmcrs are today
taking lhcir rightful pluco in big?
public quostions and national affairs.
'l'hoy how a voice and ihcy intend

to ho heard and hccdcd.

it was good to sco roprcsontativo
l'nrm loudcrs from 10 stalcs meeting
togclhor. discussing together, ban—
qucling iogcihcr. singing together,
enjoying an olduimo square dance
togolht-I' and in uniigv and harmony
laying a program of agricultural ad-
vanccuunl.

I')ifi‘orcnc<~,~a of. opinion there were
in discussion, but unity in desire to
go forward in a big. undivided, na-
tional way. It was gratifying to
learn that the American Farm Bu-
reau was entirely out, of debt and
has a balance of more than $10,000
with which to start the new year of
activity and service.

At International

and identifying cereals and grasses.
common to most sections of the
United States. Michigan place ﬁfth ‘
in this conicst. lGrnic Wheeler. Sen-

‘ Agricultural siudcut. was the in— 9‘
dividual star for thc Michigan State
Team.

Following arc tho names of the

looms, with 11111 points awarded
ouch: l. North ('urolinu 4281; 2,
Iowa 4083; .‘2. Ohio 4047; 4, 01(1sz
110nm 30:15:: 5 Michigan 3939; 6.
Kansas 37135)]: T. Ncbrusku 3064: h.

1.,

lmliouu hallo.

'l‘hc Michigan wiliilwil
lhe- public Ilic widcsprcnd use of
ccrliiiod su1d ol‘ all major crop~'..
This display ultruclwi considerable
interest from other Ham! icproscnt—
ativcs. duo to the fact that tho stan—
dard varietics Were dcvclopcd and
distributed by the Experiment. Sta—
tion and (‘rop Improvement Associ-
ation.

Two large maps of the State were
displayed, each one showing the cer—
tiﬂed seed potato and grain growers.

Large placards, showing the per-1
cent of acreage devoted to each par- 1
ticular variety were used. The large

(Continued on Page 23)

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‘ His is station WGHP, Detroit,

broadcasting the closing quot-
ations today on farm products
and other information of value to
farmers as furnished by TIIE MICH-
IGAN BUSINESS
F A R M E n. M t.
Clemens, Mich.”
And that will
be our Christmas
present to the
farmers of Mich-
igan and sur-
rounding sta‘tes.
for arrangements
are now being
completed where-
by, through the
courtesy and co-
0 p e ra ti o n of
George Harrison
Phelps, owner of

iznton which bears ,
his name, believes Statlon WGHP,
implicitly in the fu- and Dodge Bros,
tnro of radio. En- we will be en-
grossed In business abled to render

affairs. he ﬁrst be- this very valua-
camo interested In ble service.

radio as a relaxa-

tion. Almost immcdi- I n a n 9th 9 I‘
ately he was fascin- part Of this is—
ated by its tremend— sue you Will ﬁnd
ous practical possibil- the d a t e and
ities, and it is thru hour of the ﬁrst

his 983"“ to b” 0‘ broadcasting and
sorvnce to the farm- . .
if you Will tune

era of America, that , ,
this announcement is In on StatIOIl
made possible. VVGHP, at 270

meters on that
date you will get the ﬁrst install—
ment of our Christmas present
which we hope will be a daily help
to you for many years to come.

Although no recent survey of the
number of radio receiving sets on
the farms of Michigan has been
made since Michigan State College
announced the approximate ﬁgure of
one to every sixteen farms, we feel
8111' that there are more than 50.—
000 on the farms of Michigan alone.
and everyday sees this number in-
creasing at a truly miraculous rate.

But this is as it should be!

From the inception of the radio
THE BUSINESS FARMER has been
pointing out, over and over again,
that not excepting even the automo-
bile or the telephone, the radio was
bound to be one of the greatest in—
ﬂuences ever brought about for the
improvement of living conditions on
the farms of America.

The radio has become the magic
carpet of the farm family which car-
ries them in the turn of a dial from
coast to coast, where for their tak—
ing from and as free as the air it-
self, the best music, the best lec—
tures, the most prominent citizens.
come into their living rooms to en—
tertain or instruct as fancy may
choose.

George Harrison Phelps
of Detroit

Head of the organ-

\ ..

_ o Broadcast M. B. F. Markets
"'Arrungements Completed Which Will Bring The Business Farmer Markets
:. and Farm News

 

k

to You Daily Over Station WGHP, Detroit

Now comes this market service,
made possible through the cooper-
ation of Dodge Brothers, motor—car
manufacturers, of Detroit, George
Harrison Phelps, owner of one\ of
the country’s most elaborate and
powerful broadcasting stations in
this part of the country and THE
BUSINESS FARMER, through the com—
bining of the faciliities of each,
makes possible the rendering of a
service to the farmers of Michigan
and the nearby states, heretofore
undreamed of.

‘A “'ord About Station WGHP

The transmitting apparatus, here
illustrated, has a normal power of
1,500 watts and a reservewjvhlch
makes it possible to develop 2,000
watts.if required. The power of a
broadcasting station is measured in
watts and when it is considered
that other stations heard distinctly
in all parts of Michigan have a ca—
pacity of only half this power, it can
be readily seen that in making use
of. station WGHP, we are particular-
ly fortunate.

Most of you who own radio re—
ceiving sets know about the micro-
phone, before which the station an-
nouncer Mr. Cornelius O. Tomy, is
sitting in the picture on the cover

of this issue, receives the sound
waves. From the microphone the
waves are carried directly to the
poWerful ampliﬁers which send the
waves of electrical energy at great
force out over the miles of land and
ocean, where they are eventually
picked up on the antenna of the re-
ceiving set which is tuned in to re-
ceive them at the wave length at
which they are being sent.

Station WGHP, since it opened
with popular evening programs
some months ago has already heard
from listeners-in from every state
in the Union, from Cuba, Mexico,
Jamaica, Bermuda, and far-away
points in Canada, Alaska and from
many ships on the Atlantic and Pa-
ciﬁc oceans.

It will be over this same station
that THE BUSINESS FARMER market
quotations and farm news of import-
ance will be broadcast daily.

What We Will Broadcast

All of the market quotations
which appear in TIIE BUSINESS
FARMER, with additional comments

on the predicted rise and fall of the
market or a comparison with previ-
ous day, week or year. Any immedi—
ate news which directly effects the
farmers of Michigan or nearby

 

 

 

 

These motor generators make it possible for people to hear station \‘VGHP in all

parts of the country; they generate the high power needed to broadcast.

They will

soon be making power to send M. B. F. market reports into every farm home in
Michigan and other states equipped with a radio receiving set.

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An excellent view of the operating room
of radio station WGHP. of Detroit.

states; such as frost warnings, live-
stock quarantines, agricultural col-
lege announcements, etc. Any an-
nouncements of important state-
wide meetings of fairs or shows in
which the farmers are directly inter-i
ested. These and other features as-
they appear needed, will be added to
the program and we will be most
happy to have the suggestions and
comments of our listeners—in, with
the idea of making the BUSINESS
FARMER service second to none any-
where. .

Our Place in Radio

We are particularly pleased to
make this announcement to our,
readers, because, if you recall it was.

this publication which ﬁrst estab-.

lished a radio department in our col-'
umns and offered the free service
and advice of a radio editor to its
readers.

Now we are proud to be the ﬁrst“
farm paper in Michigan or any ade‘:

joining state to render this service;
not only to subscribers, but to all
who will tune in on it. 3

Special Blanks ,

At least for the present we will‘
make no charge for the Quotation'
Blanks, which will be in the same'
order as the markets are broadcast
from station WGHP, so that all it
will be necessary for our subscribers
to do is to use the blank, found on
page 23 of this issue, which will
bring a supply by return mail.

If you retain these blanks as you
ﬁll them out daily as the quotations
are received, you will have a com-‘
plete history of the markets and
their rise and fall, which will be an
invaluable barometer and a guide
for your own sale of produce.

(Editor’s Note: At the time this art—
icle is prepared it is not. possible for us
to announce here, the deﬁnite date and
hour of the ﬁrst broadcasting, which we
hope to announce on the Market page
(page 22) of this issue. Look for: it, send
for your blanks right away and “tune.
in for Tomy", who by the way, is Just‘
as nice to meet face to face,ras his voice
sounds over the radio.)

Fruit Growers Declare Michigan Has Too Many Varieties of Apples

By HERBERT NAFZIGER

Editor Fruit and Orchard Department, THE BUSINESS FARMER

EWER apple varieties; giving
pests a black eye; roadside
marketing. These were the

peaks in a wide range of subjects
discussed at the annual meeting of
the Michigan
‘ S t a t e HorticuL
tural SOciety in
Grand R a p id s
December 1, 2, 3.
All hands declar—
ed it a highly in—
teresting m e e t
ing. Those who
attended added a
number of ﬁne
points to their
knowledge of the
game and wit‘
, nessed the grati-
fying process of

 

jnorbert Natziger

throwing n e w
light on old problems. _
Tuesday morning the meeting

opened with a bang to the tune of

gyan‘interesting address by the presi-
dentof the society, Mr. George Fri-

day of Coloma. Mr. Friday can al-
ways be depended upon to have a
aw bomb-shells up his sleeve with
which to jar his fellow fruit growers

‘out of their Complacency. or out of

hair blues as the case 'may be.

mom; other things Mr. Friday said

that the slogan for Michigan’s fruit
growers should be, “The shortest
haul, the freshest fruit, the best ﬂa—
vor." The state of Washington, he
declared, has to pay 500 per bushel
more freight charges for shipping its
apples into the densely populated
middle—west markets than does
Michigan. California pays about $20
per ton more freight on grapes than
Michigan. These advantages coupled

with Michigan's growing reputation
for fine ﬂavored fruit should give
our growers a wonderful start in the
race for profits.

“If we cannot make fruit growing
pay under these conditions then it
is our fault and not the fault of the
business,” said Mr. Friday.

H. S. Gaston, graduate student at
M. S. C. handed the growers an eye—
opener in his address on “Why Is a

 

 

CHERRY AND BERRY CROP \VILL BE VALUABLE

“ NY grower who sells his next year’s sour cherry coop for less
A than Six cents per pound will be making a serious mistake," said
Mr. F. L. Granger, sales manager of the Michigan Fruit Grow-

ers, Inc., at a recent meeting of this organization.

Due to last year’s

Short crop and the strong demand the canners’ supplies of canned
cherries and berries are practically cleaned up.

Speaking further Mr. Granger said, “All signs point to good
prices for cherries and berries next year, regardless of the size of the

crop.

Cherries should sell for a minimum of six cents per pound,

and any factors tending to reduce the crop or otherwise increase the

demand should. bring still higher prices.

I strongly advise growers

not to contract their crops early at low prices."

 

 

 

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Cull a Cull”. He gave ﬁgures which
are the result of two year's personal.
study at nine different packing hous—
es and also includes material taken
from the last four year’s records of
these packing houses. Mr. Gaston
discovered that Baldwin produced
the most culls. [Spy was next on the
list and was followed in order by
King, Wagner, Johnathan, Greening,‘
Steele’s Red, Grimes, Hubbardston;
with McIntosh giving the least num—
ber of culls. ‘

On an average the most culls were
caused by‘lack of size. Other defects

followed in this order; limb-rub,
sting, scab, bruises, aphis, russet,
color, codling moth, early fruit

worms, baldwin spot, frost, curculio.
With Northern Spy the most culls.
were caused by bruises. .

During the four year, period Michi—‘
gan averaged 56 per cent A-grade
fruit while Oregon averaged 78 per.
cent. Michigan’s A—grade averaged
$1.60 per bushel net; B-grade 950;.;
and elders 23c. Figure it out foo:
yourself! Discussion following this;
address brought out the fact that?
a relatively large percentage of the?
Baldwins in the state are produced;
on old trees and thisvimay in part,
explain the Ia'r'ge number. ofundeI-«j;
. {Continued .o.n.Page 19) ll

    
  
     
     
      
      
           
        
       

 

 

   
 


  

   

    

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READY TO GO SOME PLACE.—

ALL FROllI SANTA CLAUS.—Is
“70 received this picture of Donnie Pearl there a man or woman who has lived so long

that they no longer feel a thrill at the thought of
Christmas? Donald Dofrgnee, Seott, sent the print.

‘J

“fare, age 2 years, from her grandma. Mrs.
Pearl Short, of Bear Lake.

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“Cl~lEA’I‘ING.”-—-That is the title Mrs. Ethelyn E. Buli-

 

FINE 0. I. 0., ISN’T SIIE?—The purebred 0. 1.

land, of Central Lake, gave to t 's pieture. It seems ture was taken in the Upper Peninsula. (‘. in this pieture belongs to Edward Sehirmer. of

4 to be another problem of minke, where/the middle— The oxen belong to Eriekson Bros., Sleandia. liiehmond. She has a litter of ten pigs. The young
man is heim: eliminated with satisfactory results. and are being driven by E. Sta-nhaugh. lndy looking over the fem-e is Mr. Seltirmer's daughter.

 

‘ “GRANDI’A, ANNIE AND ROV- GETTING THEIR FULL QUOTA 0]“ DEER.~——“.\ snapshot
. ER TAKE A “’ALK.”—Sent to us season." writes Newton Bindon, of Silrerwood. "“‘e tilled our

U ’ by Mrs. T. Barlow. of Lake. inn-.uded. “"e were in Seliooleruft eounty."

     

 
  

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v

. N0,- THEY ARE ~NOT OUT JOYBIDING.—,—,This picture was
:-;' takep by Mrs, Herbert Ambrnater, of Unionville, during a. Wet
_ Jyear, ingﬂurp‘n county. They used wywater tank for a. boat.

LAURA JEANNE SMITH._.
—-Daughter of Mr. and Mrs.’
Howard Smith, Burch ~Rl‘1'n.

 

 

 

 

  

 

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IIAULING TIIE IIAY.—This unusual pic-

  
    

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“GIDDAI’, MISTER ROOSTER!”——These two girls love
their pet and all three seem to enjoy their times together.
It is an interesting sight to see the girls driving their friend
like a horse. They are daughters of A. D. Maurer, Olivet.

      
     
  
 
   

 

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of our eateh this "HOLD STILL A MINI'Tl-I. “‘IIILE
lieensel ‘ilni’p (leer “’E ’I‘AIKIC 'YOUIE I’IC'I‘I‘R i‘l."—-—l“r0]n
Mary l’omtseele, Merrill.

    
   
      
 

_ DEPENDING ON THE FLIVVER.—-“Bo,th the wind and -‘
engine refused to function at times. but the Ford can always

upon," writes Harold Horton, of ﬂuency.


  
  
 

if
5

Mid other
farmers as furnish

; “(It Harrison Phelps

oi Detroit

live-d of the organ-
’4‘ baton which

bears
Ill. name, believes
Inpncitly in the fu-
“In of radio. En-

grossed in business

Sluts. he ﬁrst be-
omo interested in
radio as a relaxa-

' tion. Almost immedi-

ately he was fascin-
ated by its tremend-

’ one practical possibil-

ities, and it is thrn
his desire to be of
lowice to the farm-
er. of America, that

1:8 is station WGHP, Detroit,
broadcasting the closing quot-
ations today on farm products
information of value to
ed by TIIE MICH-

IGAN BU SI N E s s
F A R M E R, M t.
Clemens, Mich."

And that will
be our Christmas

present to the

farmers of Mich—
igan and sur—
rounding states.
for arrangements
are now being
completed where-
by, through the
courtesy and co—
0 p e r a t i o n of
George Harrison
Phelps, owner of
Station WGHP,
and Dodge Bros.,
we will be en-
abled to render
this very valua-
ble service. .

I n a n 0 th e r
part of this is-
sue you will ﬁnd
the date and
hour of the ﬁrst
broadcasting and
if you will tune

station

this announcement is in on
at 270

mode possible. VVGHP,

meters on that
date you will get the ﬁrst install—
ment of our Christmas present

which we hope will be a daily help
to you for many years to come.
Although no recent survey of the
f; number of radio receiving sets on
i the farms of Michigan has been
made since Michigan State College
§ announced the approximate ﬁgure of
one to every sixteen farms, we feel
Stir that there are more than 50,-
000 on the farms of Michigan alone,
and everyday sees this number in—
creasing at a truly miraculous rate.
‘But this is as it should be!
, From the inception of the radio
‘ THE BUSINESS FARMER has been
pointing out, over and over again,
l that not excepting even the automo—
Ll bile or the telephone, the radio was
fz' bound to be one of the greatest in—
]j nuances ever brought about for the
; improvement of living conditions on
"; the farms of America.
The radio has become the magic
% carpet of the farm family which car-
ries them in the turn of a dial from
coast to coast, where for their tak-
ing from and as free as the air it-
' self, the best music, the best lec—
tures, the most prominent citizens.
. come into their living rooms to en—
tertain or instruct as fancy may
choose.

EWER alpple varieties; giving
pests a black eye; roadside

? marketing. These were the
4 %' peaks in a wide range of subjects
' discussed at the annual meeting of
the Michigan
’ ‘ S t a t e Horticul—
' l ' tural Society in

Grand R a p id s
December 1, 2, 3.
All hands declar—
ed it a highly in—
teresting m e e t-
ing. Those who
attended added a
number of ﬁne
points to their
knowledge of the
game and wit—
. nessed the grati;
fying process of

 

I Barber-t Natzlger

:7 , throwing n e w
light on old problems. .
Tuesday morning the meeting

  

opened with a bang to the tune of
" ‘ M'interesting address by the presi-
dent .of the society, Mr. George Fri-
day of Coloma. Mr. Friday can al-
ias bedepended upon to have a
Ow bomb-shells up his sleeve with
hich to jar his fellow fruit growers
lit of their complacency. or out of
r blues as the case 'may be.

    

  
    
 
 
 
 
 
  

as other things Mr. Friday said 4

\

   

oBroadcast M. B. F. Markets Daily *
Arrangements Completed Which Will Bring The Business Farmer Markets
‘ and Farm News

to You Daily Over Station WGHP, Detroit

Now comes this market service,
made possible through the cooper-
ation of Dodge Brothers, motor-car
manufacturers, of Detroit, George
Harrison Phelps, owner of one of
the country’s most elaborate and
powerful broadcasting stations in
this part of the country and THE
BUSINESS FARMER, through the com—
bining of the faciliities of each,
makes possible the rendering of a
service to the farmers of Michigan
and the nearby states, heretofore
undreamed of.

'A Word About Station WGHP

The transmitting apparatus, here
illustrated, has a normal power of
1,500 watts and a reservewjvhich
makes it possible to develop 2,000
wattsjf required. The power of a
broadcasting station is measured in
watts and when it is considered
that other stations heard distinctly
in all parts of Michigan have a ca—
pacity of only half this power, it can
be readily seen that in making use
of station WGHP, we are particular~
1y fortunate.

Most of you who own radio re-
ceiving sets know about the micro-
phone, before which the station an-
nouncer Mr. Cornelius O. Tomy, is
sitting in the picture on the cover

of this issue, receives the sound
waves. From the microphone the
waves are carried directly to the
powerful ampliﬁers which send the
waves of electrical energy at great
force out over the miles of landand
ocean, where they are eventually
picked up on the antenna of the re-
ceiving set which is tuned in to re-
ceive them at the wave length at
which they are being sent.

Station WGHP, since it opened
with popular evening programs
some months ago has already heard
from listeners-in from every state
in the Union, from Cuba, Mexico,
Jamaica, Bermuda, and far-away
points in Canada, Alaska and from
many ships on the Atlantic and Pa-
ciﬁc oceans.

It will be over this same station
that THE BUSINESS FARMER market
quotations and farm news of import-
ance will be broadcast daily.

What We Will Broadcast

All of the market quotations
which appear in THE BUSINESS
FARMER, with additional comments

on the predicted rise and fall of the
market or a comparison with previ-
ous day, week or year. Any immedi-
ate news which directly effects the
farmers of Michigan or nearby

 

 

 

 

These motor generators make it possible for people to hear station \VGHP in all

parts of the country; they generate the high power needed to broadcast.

They will

soon be making power to send M. B. F. market reports into every farm home in
Michigan and other states equipped with a. radio receiving set.

By HERBERT NAFZlGER

Editor Fruit and Orchard Department, THE BUSINESS FARMER

that the slogan for Michigan’s fruit
growers should be, “The Shortest
haul, the freshest fruit, the best ﬂa-
vor.” The state of Washington, he
declared, has to pay 50c per bushel
more freight charges for shipping its
apples into the densely populated
middle—west markets than does
Michigan. California pays about $20
per ton more freight on grapes than
Michigan. These advantages coupled

with Michigan's growing reputation
for ﬁne ﬂavored fruit should give
our growers a wonderful start in the
race for proﬁts.

“If we cannot make fruit growing
pay under these conditions then it
is our fault and not the fault of the
business," said Mr. Friday.

H. S. Gaston, graduate student at
M. S. C. handed the growers an eye-
opener in his address on “Why Is a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHERRY AND BERRY CROP \VILL BE VALUABLE

“ NY grower who sells his next year’s sour cherry cnop for less

A than six cents per pound will be making a serious mistake," said

Mr. F. L. Granger, sales manager of the Michigan Fruit Grow-

ers, Inc., at a recent meeting of this organization. Due to last year’s

short crop and the strong demand the canners’ supplies of canned
cherries and berries are practically cleaned up.

Speaking further Mr. Granger said,

“All signs point to good

prices for cherries and berries next year, regardless of the size of the

crop.

«Cherries should sell for a minimum of six cents per pound,

and any factors tending to reduce the crop or otherwise increase the

demand Should bring still higher prices.

I strongly advise growers

not to contract their crops early at low prices.”

 

   

  

 
 

 

An excellent view of the operating room
of radio station WGHP. of Detroit.

states; such as frost warnings, live-
stock quarantines, agricultural col-
lege announcements, etc. Any an-
nouncements of important state-
wide meetings of fairs or shows in
which the farmers are directly interw
ested. These and other features as
they appear needed, will be added to
the program and we will be most
happy to have the suggestions and,
comments of our listeners-in, with
the idea of making the BUSINESS
FARMER service second to none any-
where. y ,
Our Place in Radio

We are particularly pleased to
make this announcement to our
readers, because, if you recall it was.
this publication which ﬁrst estab-.
lished a radio department in our col—x
umns and offered the free service
and advice of a radio editor to its-
readers. ‘3

Now we ‘are proud to be the ﬁrst“.
farm paper in Michigan or any ad-’:
joining state to render this service.
not only to subscribers, but to all‘.
who will tune in on it. V

Special Blanks

At least for the present we will:
make no charge for the Quotation'
Blanks, which will be in the same
order as the markets are broadcast
from station WGHP, so that all it
will be necessary for our subscribers
to do is to use the blank, found on
page 23 of this issue, which will
bring a supply by return mail. v

If you retain these blanks as you
ﬁll them out daily as the quotations
are received, you will have a com~_
plete history of the markets and
their rise and fall, which will be an
invaluable barometer and a guide
for your owu sal} of produce.

(Editor's Note: At the time this art~
iole is prepared it is not possible for us
to announce here, the deﬁnite date and
hour of the ﬁrst broadcasting, which we
hope to announce on the Market page
(page 22) of this issue. Look for; it, send,
for your blanks right away and “tune;
in for Tomy", who by the way, is just“
as nice to meet face to face as his voice
sounds over the radio.)

Fruit Growers Declare Michigan Has Too Many Varieties of Apples

Cull a Cull”. He gave ﬁgures which
are the result of two year’s personal.
study at nine different packing hous—
es and also includes material taken
from the last four year's records of
these packing houses. Mr. Gaston
discovered that Baldwin produced
the most culls. 'Spy was next on the
list and was followed in order by
King, Wagner, Johnathan, Greening,‘
Steele's Red. Grimes, Hubbardston;
with McIntosh giving the least num—
ber of culls. ‘

On an average the most culls were
caused by‘lack of Size. Other defects

followed in this order; limb-rub...
sting, scab, bruises, aphis, russet,
color, codling moth, early fruit!

worms, baldwin spot, frost, curculio.‘
With Northern Spy the most cullw.
were caused by bruises.

During the four year period Michi—‘
gan averaged 56 per cent A—grade
fruit while Oregon averaged 78 per.
cent. Michigan’s A-grade averaged
$1.60 per bushel net; B-grade 95c};
and ciders 23c. Figure it out fora
yourself! Discussion following this;f
address brought out the fact that?
a relatively large percentage of the!)

Baldwins in the stateare p.roduced:;'

on- old trees, and this-may- in part;
explain the large number, of‘hnderi;
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' We bought a farm last spring
ﬁlth” a school building on a corner
«bf farm lorods from our house. In
zettiug abstract we found that this

' helical ground of 1,4. acre was leased

'lo the district in 1861 for 50 years.
(in we get a new lease and what
would beIproper amount to ask for
a-uame, and how soon must this be
"done? I understand if lease lapses
"itor 15 years the district has use of
ground free. Is this so and to
«them does school building belong
on expiration of lease? The fences
are all dewn, how much should we
stand» in replacing them and who
should keep them up? Can I speci-
fy what kind of fence I would like,
as it’s along an orchard where hogs
and poultry run?”——R. B., Mason.
Mich.

HE construction of a line fence
between the school property is
governed by the general line

fence law. \In answering your ques—

tion I desire to quote section 1 and

a. part of section 2 of the general

line fence law. These sections read

as follows:

“Section 1. All fences four and
one—half feet high, and in good re—
pair, consisting of rails, timber,
boards, wire, or stone walls or any
combination thereof. and all brooks,
rivers, ponds, creeks, ditches, and
hedges or other things which shall
be considered equivalent thereto in
the judgment of the fence viewers
within whose jurisdiction the same
may he, shall be deemed legal and
suﬂicient fences.”

A portion of section 2. “The re-
spective occupants of lands enclosed
with fences shall keep up and main-
tain partition fences between their
own and the next adjoining enclo-
sure, in equal shares, so long as
both parties continue to improve the
_same.”

I also desire to quote a portion of
the court decision in the case of Bay
City and East Saginaw R. R. Com-
pany vs. David M. Austin. “The
word fence as employed here must
be construed as including a mode of
fabric when completed such reason-

.. able strength as to conﬁne or turn
the animals usually restrained by
fences in this country.”

Relative to the renewal of a lease
for school property will Say that the
usual charge is one dollar. How-
ever, a larger amount might be
agreed upon between the owner of
the property and the board of edu—
cation. The matter of granting a
new lease rests quite largely with
the individual who owns the proper—
ty. The ownership of the property
\after the expiration of the lease de-
pends upon the terms of the lease.
——B. J. Ford. Division of Rural
Education, Department of Public In—
struction.

HAS TITLE TO LAND

I would like your advice concern-
ing a tax deed. I purchased at an—
nual tax sale a tax title, and receiv—
ed a tax deed for the land from
the state one year later. Now can
I sell this land and give a warranty
deed, or must I give the former own—
er a chance to redeem this land after
two years? If the former, what
steps must I take to get possession?
No one lives on it. If the latter,
what per cent must he pay?——G. W.
T., Caro, Mich.

n-IOU would have title to the land
and could give warranty deed
to it. The former owner could
not redeem after two years had
elapsed. You could enter upon the
land and take possession now—Le-
gal Editor.

DISPUTE OVER LINE FENCE

I bought my farm 14 years ago
and my line fence has been built
for 20 years or more, and now the
farm that joins mine has changed
hands and he wants to move the
fence. Would the old line where
fence is now, stand, or would it have
to be surveyed, and who would have
M ‘ to stand the expense of surveying?
I think if surveyed it‘would change
the fence on both'ends'. I am satis-
Ied to leave the fence as it is , but
'-the other party is not.—R. S., La—
peer, Mich.

-, F the line fence was placed in its
present position in settlement
of a dispute as “to the correct

I am of the opinion it
The mere
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all 00 man or muss“
you. at?

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Inqulrlu nut to neonatal“ 9’ to," am

location for 20 years however, does
not necessarily mean it is the cor-
rect boundary line. Both parties
should get together and have it sur-
veyed and share the expense of the
work—Legal Editor.

SELL OR PEDDLE CIDER
Has a man a right to sell or ped-
dle sweet cider?———4D. B., Bellaire,
Mich.

MAN has the right to sell or

peddle sweet cider so long as

the same is not diluted or car—
bonated. Should the cider be di—
luted or carbonated, then- it would
be necessary for the individual sell-
ing such diluted or carbonated pro-
duct to apply for a license from the
Department of Agriculture, permit-
ting the sale of such product—:—
Clare Retan, Deputy Attorney Gen-
eral.

MUST BE PAY?

I ordered of a company one-half
barrel of paint, supposing one—half
barrel to contain sixteen gallons and
no more, but the statement accom-
panying shipment charges me with
forty gallons as contained in the
one-half barrel. Am I legally liable
for the price of forty gallons? I
would expect to pay for one-half
barrel (16 gallons) but if possible
would avoid paying for the other 24
gallons which I had not thought of
ordering and do not want. Please
give me your opinion—C. L. H., St.
Louis, Michigan.

0U would not be required to pay

' for 40 gallons if you only or-
dered one—half barrel. I would
send it batik after notifying the

company to that effect—Legal Edi-

tor.

BEES AND HONEY

Do bees get any honey from mead-
ow sweet, or do they get any pol-
len? What kind of Mignonette do
bee-keepers plant, the common or
large cultivated?
honey from sweet clover than the
other clover? What plant do bees
get the most honey from, is it good
honey? Is catnip honey any good?
—F. S., Farmington, Mich.

O my knowledge, bees get nei-
ther pollen or honey from the
so-called “meadow sweet.”

Beekeepers do not make a prac-

tice of planting Mignonette, or for
that matter, any other ordinary
ﬂowering plants for honey produc—
tion. In fact, the real beekeeper
very seldom bothers to spend his
time with any sort of planting what-
ever but rather devotes his attention
to the management of bees and
rents a small plot of ground to put
his bees on in a general farming
neighborhood where the crops which
produce honey are being grown.

Sweet clover is one of our best

honey plants and yields, in seasons
when other clovers and other honey
plants may be a near failure on ac-
count of weather conditions. Con-
sequently, it is very desirable plant
for beekeepers to encourage the
farmer to grow, and the districts
where there are large acreages of

Do they get more .

sweet clover are sure to be good
beekeeping districts. Awhoney of
superior quality is produced from
alsike and white clover, however.
These three clovers yield nectar pro—
fusely and when all are present in
the same locality, make the pros-
pects for honey production nearly
ideal. ‘

It would be difﬁcult to say which
plant bees get the most honey from.
HOWever, the six plants which yield
the bulk of the surplus honey crop
in Michigan are:

Alsike, white and sweet clover,
milkweed, ﬁre weed and wild rasp-
berry. Basswood used t0'be con-
sidered an important source but
basswood timber has been so deplet-
ed by lumbering that there are but
few groves left large encugh to pro—
duce any considerable amount of
basswood honey. Catnip honey is
in color amber—too dark. It has a
minty taste and is rather strong in
ﬂavor but is liked by some. It is
rarely that one ﬁnds pure catnip
honey on the hive nowadays be-
cause it commences to bloom at
about the same time that sweet clo-
ver commences to yield nectar with
the result that the two are mixed
whenever present together. Fur-
thermore, it is seldom that sufﬁcient
catnip grows in a locality to pro-
duce a surplus crop of honey. I
haven’t the slightest notion as to
where one could secure pure catnip
honey.——R. H. Kelty, Assistant
Professor of, Entomology, M. S. C.

IS HE LIABLE FOR INJURY?

If I’ hire two men to paint a barn,
in case of an accident am I liable
under the employer's liability act?
——W. C., Davison, Mich.

N reply will advise you that if you
hire the men to paint the barn
by day labor, you would un-

doubtedly be liable under the Work-
men's Compensation Act for any in-
jury arising in the course of their
labor. If on the other hand, you let
a contract to the two men to do
the work, they would probably be
considered independent contractors.
in which case you would not be li—
able for any injury.—Clare Retan.
Deputy Attorney General.

CAN HE CUT HAY?

A neighbor rented land of us for
three years. Third year was to have
seeded and cut same. He failed to
seed third year so we let him seed
it fourth season. He has cut the
hay, ﬁrst cutting, can he go on and
cut it again? He had contract for
three years but we' just gave him
permission to go on and seed fourth
year. Will it kill seed to cut twice;
We contend he has, no right to cut
it again—W. D., Remus, Mich.

F the tenant was" to, seed a crop
for hay the last'year of his lease
he could not expect to receive

any of the crop. If I understand
the conditions the tenant has no
share in the crop at all. He un—
doubtedly cut hay from meadows
the ﬁrst and second years seeded
previous to his lease—F. T. Rid-
dell, Research Ass't. in Farm Man—
agement, M. S. C.

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Can a. farmer living near asun-
mer resort sell milk if' they come
to the house and get it? Must one
get a license? We sell about 1'4
quarts a day and some cream, which
means a whole lot when times are
hard, and only for about two
liquorﬁths.—Mrs. -S., Suttons Bay,

10 .

N _ order to peddle milk or sell
milk from a store when the store
receives the milk direct from

the farmer it is necessary to have a
milk dealer’s license. The fee for
this license is; $1.00. It does not
matter whether the milk peddled is}
of the farmer’s own production or
not. In case only a small amount
of milk is sold and the customers
come to the farm after the milk a
license would not ordinarily be re—
quired. The same requirements as
to sanitation would apply to a deal-
er not needing a license as would
apply in case a license is needed—'—
T. H. Broughton, Director, Bureau
2f Dairying, State Dept. of Agricul—
ure.

HUSBAND ENTITLED TO
OF PROPERTY

A man and his wife were married
about twenty-ﬁve years. They took
care of her mother until his wife
took suddenly ill and was taken to
a hospital, where she died. They
had no children and she left no will.
Now her aged mother and sister
puts him out in the street without
a home to go to. He gave his wife
all his earnings to take care of and
she put them in the bank and car-
ried a bank book, and that bank
book she gave to her doctor to give
to her husband if she died. Now
please tell me if he cannot come in

SHARE

for a share of her property, and al‘sm /

if he could not draw from that bank
book? They told him it went to th
heirs.-—-G .M., Monroe, Mich. '

E surviying husband is entiti-

ed to one-half the persOnal

. property of his deceased wife in

this case, and also one-half of the

real property if she had any.——Le-
gal Editor.

CAN OWN LAND?

Would like to ask if a man can
own land if he is not a citizen, as
I have been in the United States for
40 years and would like to buy 'a
farm, but some say that no foreign—
er can own land in the United
States. Can his wife, who is Amer—
ican born, own a farm?——G. T.,
Gladwin, Mich. '

.—You are not required to be a cit-
lzen in order to hold property in
your own name—«Legal Editor. '

PLOWING «ALFALFA SOD .

I have twenty acres of alfalfa sod
to plow. What. kind of a plow
would be suitable?—R. R., Spring-

bdi't, Mich.

E. plow from ﬁfteen to twenty

acres of alfalfa sod each seasdn

and always have diﬂicultyuh-
less we keep the edge of the plow
share well sharpened. We sharp—
en the plow share on an emery
wheel. We get our most satisfac-
tory work by using a walking plo‘w
hauled by three good horses. ' By
keeping the share sharpened this

equipment always seems to do very

satisfactory work even on hilly lanfd.
—'v_—R. S. Hudson, Farm Superinten—
dent, M. S. C. -'

BANK CAN DEMAND MONEY’

A gives a note in payment for’a
horse sold to him by B. B turns
the note in to our local bank and
gets his money on it. The note was
given for one year. When note was
due A paid some on it and had it
renewed for three months. Before
it was due again A made payment
on note. When due bank did not
notify A but notiﬁed B that they
could not get money on note and
asked B to pay it. B wrote A about
it, as -B lives in distant city. A went
to see cashier at bank where note
was held and he refused to renew.
Said he would get money from ”B.
What I wouldﬂlike to know is,__h‘as
cashier right to refuse to accept, in-
terest and renew as long as Alias
never refused to _pay..—Mrs. F., Hon-
or, Mich. ., ' ' ‘ ‘ "

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EAR M. B. F. Friends: Greetings on this glad anniversary of our

. Saviour’s birth.

acter of this new Christmas day.

Let us all be encouraged in the special char-

As the old year fades out, we

do well to pray that the hope meaning and the peace message of this
signiﬁcant day, be projected with passion into the new year, to spir-
, itualize the common-place things of life, and to bring about large
gains in good-will among ourselves and all peoples.
Yours to serve in friendly loyalty and devoted good-will,

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TEXT: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon
me, because He annointed me to preach
good tidings to the poor; He hath sent
me to proclaim release of the captives,
and recovering of sight to the blind, to
set at liberty them that are bruised, to
proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
Luke 4:18, 19.

“ EHOLD, I b’ring‘you good tid-
B ings of great joy.” Is this a

new word for this Christmas
season? Hardly, for it is uttered at
every recurring Yuletide. But a.
halo of ﬁction and falsity has so
tinted this announcement as to rob
it of much of its reality. The inter—
pretation of this evangel lies in the
words of. our text. Has the sour
come for this new Gospel to take
hold? Let us see.

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon,

me.” Jesus”, on the occasion of his
ﬁrst sermon in his home church at
Nazareth, said that these words of

'Isaiah were fulﬁlled in him. His

home folks listened in awe. They
wondered at his show of wisdow.

.They had never heard anyone speak

so astound-ingly. But said they, “We
know this young man. He is the
son of Joseph, the carpenter. We
know the whole family. It is absurd
for him to set himself up as the tul-
ﬁllment of Isaiah’s prophecy. We
will not hear him.” And they didn’t
“They were all ﬁlled with wrath”
and they drove him out of the syn-
agogue before his sermon was end—
ed.

Our text announces the funda-
mental nature of Christ’s Kingdom.
Do we believe it? We know church
creeds and traditions. we teach our
children about the Bethlehem man—
ger. We know about the Christ who
came nineteen hundred years ago
and the Christ who is to preside at
the ﬁnal judgment, but do we know
the Christ that dwells in human per-
sonality? Is it true that the Spirit
of God is working with all men to
give form and expression to the
Christ image within? “1 am in tra-
vail until Christ be formed in you",
And Jesus said that we
do recognition to him when we re—
cognize this possibilty in even the
least of men.

James tells us how to examine our
Christianity. It is something like

.this: Two men come to church. One

is dressed in ”ﬁne clothing” and is
just out of the barber’s chair; the
other is poor and in “vile clothing”
and greatly in need of a hair cut.
But, with gracious bearing, the
church ushers escort the former to
a select pew and say to the poor
man, “Stand thou there or sit under
my toot—stool." Is this a general
characteristic of our religion today?
In a few days we are to have our
annual fall community day. Among
our speakers is the judge of our
court. My head usher suggested
that we give this man special recog-
nition when he entered the church,
by having the audience rise. What
would you do in this case? Isn’t it
true that we like to know Christ in
folks who have bank accounts and
social standing, but pass the Master
by in humbler lives? The church
is right in keeping alive the mem-
ories of the historic Christ, in teach—
ing that hope lies waiting beneath
the Star of Bethlehem, but she has
lacked much in the interpretation of
this glad fact. Under that star lay

the Christ of a new human brother—.

hood, a fellowship of the lowly; a
Christ that saw his image in the dis—
eased and wreched of humanity. Do
you know this Christ? Are you fol-
When the world bows
doWn to this Christ; racial barriers,
social stratiﬁcation, and political di-

~::'visions, willl. cease to menace, and
peace/and goodwill..,_will prevail.

51., «:RP‘T {'-

“He hath anointed me” to bring
joy to the poor and unfortunate.
Strange, that John, the forerunner
01' Christ, did not better understand
this. The King did not come in the
spectacle and poWer of overcoming
force against the Roman rule. And
John has much time to ponder this

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in his prison cell. In his perplexity,
he sent messengers to Jesus to ask
it he was the true Messiah. And
Jesus said, “Go tell John the thing
which ye see and hear: the blind re—
ceive their sight and the lame walk,
lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear,
the dead are raised up, and the poor
have thegospel preached to them.”
This answer to John should have
quelled his doubts and it should
cure us of some of our false concep—
tions of the Gospel.

Someone has said that Christian-
ity is a name applied to many differ—
ent kinds otreligion. That sounds
cynical, yet it has a coloring of truth
in it. Some say that Christianity is

a belief in an absolute body of doc-

trine ﬁxed and unﬁxable. Others
say that doctrine does not matter
so much but Christianity is an'inner
and mystical communion of the soul
with God. But the simple need not
err. There was something in the
life of Jesus that was understood by
the lowly and they followed him in
multitudes. Paul speaks of the min—
istry of Jesus in these words: “God
was in Christ reconciling the world
unto himself.” Even yet, this

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world is ragged, dirty, diseased and
imprisoned. What are we to do
about it? Just what Jesus would do
if he were here. We have had “com- ..
mitted unto us the ministry of re-' '
conciliation.” But on the one hand
is a rosy optimism and on the other
are church physicians quarreling by

the bedside of a humanity that is

sick unto death. Certainly, it is
high time to call in the Great Physi-
cian. But he has been amongst us
for nineteen hundred years and we
should know by now how to have a
whole and healthy community. The
remedy lies in the spirit of our text.
It is a way of life. It is accessible
to all but unknowu to many. And,
since the text was spoken, every day
for every man has been a judgment
day.

“The acceptable year of the Lord"
is here when there is recognition of
the Christ of the poor and needy.
Last year a Middle West city located
its community Christmas tree in the
center of an exclusive residence see-
tion..~ The unfortunate of the city
were invited there to look upon the
light, warmth, and plenty of the so-

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Every Cow a Profit Maker

15 Cow Jersey herd averages 9059.9 lbs. of 5.5% milk .
and $179.84 profit over feed cost in C. 1‘. A. work.

In the seventh consecutive year during which Larro was the grain ration of the
Jersey herd at Smith and Preston’s Valley Farm, Conotton, Ohio, ofﬁcial C.T.A.
records for the test period recently ended credit these 15 cows with an average
monthly production of 754.9 lbs. of milk per cow—9059.9 lbs. per cow for twelve
months. Remember—these are Jerseys giving 5.5 % milk.
More important than pounds of milk is the fact that these cows averaged
$279.84 proﬁt over all feed costs for the year. They produced $55 28.39 worth
of milk at a total feed cost, including Larro, roughage and pasture, of $1586.68.
A proﬁt over feed cost of over 240%.

Could any more convincing evidence
of the value of Larro as a steady
ration for your own cows be offered?

Could any but a high quality, abso-
lutely uniform ration build and main-
tain the health and condition necessary
to enable a cow to produce milk proﬁt-
ably over so long a period of time?

Take some of the individual stars from
the Valley Farm herd as an example.
Sabina, 5 years old—fed Larro all herlii'e
--produced 11,5993 lbs. of milk and
702.1 lbs. of butter during the test period.
Benignaalso 5 years old—alsofed Larro
continuously produced 93 2 7 .9 lbs. of milk
and 539.7lbs. of butter. Matie CW], 4
years old—four years on Larro—pro-
duced 10,250 lbs. of milk and 589.8 lbs. of
butter. They couldn’t have done it if they
hadn’t been handled and fed properly.

COWS.

COUDIS.

Be honest with yourself.
these records with those of your own
If your cows aren’t doing as
well as the Valley Farm cows, try
Larro. You’ll ﬁnd it just as productive
of proﬁts for you as it is for every
dairyman who feeds it regularly. And
remember this—the true value of a
dairy ration isn’t shown on the price
tag—it is proﬁt, not ﬁrst cost, that

Impressive as these individual per-
formances are, the herd record is of
more importance to dairymen. It shows
that every Valley Farm cow returned
a proﬁt over feed cost, ranging from
$176.25 for Carroll Girl in 9 months, to
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_. leading car—a box car, heavily
' laden—swayed and shrieked with the

pitching of the ship. Corvet sprang be-
tween it and the car coupled behind; he
drew out the pin from the Coupling, and
the men with pinch—bars attacked the
car, to isolate it and force it aft along the
track. ,It moved slowly at ﬁrst; then
leaped its length; sharply with the lift
of the deck, it stopped, toppled toward the
men who, yelling to one another, scramb-
led away. The hundred-ton mass swung
from side to side; the ship dropped swift—
ly to starboard, and the stern went down;
the car charged. and its aftermost wheels
left the deck; it swung about. slewed. and
jammed across both port tracks. The
men attacked it with dismay; Corvet's
shout called them away and rallied them
farther back; they ran with him to the
car from which he had uncoupled it.

It was a ﬂat car laden with steel beams.
At Corvet’s command. the crew ranged
themselves beside it with bars. The bow
of the ferry rose to some great wave and.
with a cry to the men. Corvet pulled the
pin. The others thrust with their bars.
and the car slid down the sloping track;
and Corvet caught by some lashing of the
beams. came.with it. The car crashed
into the box car, splintered it, turned it.
shoved it. and thrust it over the fantail
into the water: the flat car, telescoped
into it. was dragged after. Alen leaped
upon it and catching at Corvet, freed him
and ﬂung him down to the deck, and
dropped with him. A cheer rose as the
car cleared the fantail, dove, and disap—
peared.

Alan clambered to his feet. Corvet al—
ready was back among the cars again,
shouting orders; the mate and the men
who had followed him before leaped at
his yells. The lurch which had cleared
the two cars together had jumped others
away from the rails. They hurtled from
side to side. splintering against the sinnCh~
ions which stayed them from crashing
across the center line of the ship; it‘—
bounding, they battered against the cars
on the outer tracks and crushed them
against the side of the ship. The wedges.
blocks, and chains which had secured
them banged about on the deck. useless:
the men who tried to control thcsm cars.
dodging as they charged, no longer made
attempt to secure the wheels. Corvet
called them to throw ropes and chains
to bind the loads which were letting go;
the heavier loads~steel beams, castings.
machinery—snapped their lashings, tip—
ped from their ﬂat cars and thundered
down the deck. The cars tipped farther.
turned over ;.others balanced back; it was
upon their wheels that they charged for-
ward, half riding one another, crashing
and demolishing, as the ferry pitched; it

Was upon their trucks that they tottcreri

and battered from side to side as the deck
swayed. Now the stern again descended;
a line of cars swept. for the fanrail. Cor-
vet's cry came to Alan through the
screaming of steel and the clangor of
destruction. Corvct’s cry sent men with
bars beside the cars as the faninil dippul
into the water; Corvet, again lo-uling his
crew, cleared the leader of those madly
charging cars and ran it over the stem.

The fore trucks fell and, before the
rear trucks reached the edge. the stern
lifted and caught the car in the middle;
it balanced, half over the water. half
over the dock. Corvet crouched under
the car with a crowbar; Alan and two
others went with him; they worked the
car on until the weight of the end over
the water tipped it down; the balance
broke, and the car tumbled and dived.
Corvet, having cleared another hundred
ions, leaped back, calling to the crew.

They followed him again. unquestion—
ing. obedient. Alan followed close to him.
It was not pity which stirred him now
for Benjamin Corvet; nor was it bitter~
mess: but it certainly was not contempt.
Of all the ways in which he had fancied
ﬁnding Benjamin Corvet, he had never
thought of seeing him like this!

It. was. probably, only for a ﬂash; but.
the great quality of leadership which he
once had possessed, which Sherrill had
described to Alan and which had been
destroyed by the threat over him, had
returned to him in this desperate emer—
gency which he had created. How much
or how little of his own condition Corvet
understood, Alan could not tell; it was
plain only that he comprehended that he
had been the cause of the catastrophe.
and in his ﬁerce will to repair it he not
only disregarded all risk to himself; he
also summoned up from within him and

was spending the last strength of his
spirit. But he was spending it in a los—
ing ﬁght.

He got off two more cars; yet the
deck only dipped lower. and water washed
farther and farther up over the fantail.
New avalanches of iron descended as
box cars above burst open; monstrous
dynamo drums, broad—banded steel wheels
and splintered crates of machinery bat~
tered about. Mcn, leaping from before
the charging cars, got caught in the
murderous melee of iron and steel and
wheels; men’s shrill cries came amid
the scream of metal. Alan, tugging at a
crate which had struck down a man.
felt aid beside him and, turning. he saw
the priest whom he had passed on the
stairs. The priest was bruised and
bloody; this was not his ﬁrst effort to
aid. Together they lifted an end of the
crate; they bent—Alan stepped back, and
the priest knelt alone, his lips repeating
the prayer for absolution. Screams of
men came from behind; and the priest
rose and turned. He saw men caught
between two wrecks of cars crushing to—

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them; he stood and raised his arms to
them, his head thrown back, his voice
calling to them, as they died. the words
of absolutiOn.

Three more cars at the cost of two
more lives the crew cleared, while the
sheathing of ice spread over the steel
inboard, and dissolution of all the cargo
became complete. Cut stone and motor
parts. chasses and castings. furniture and
beams. swept back and forth. while the
cars burst and splintered. became mon-
strous missiles hurtling forward, side-
wise, aslant. recoiling. Yet men, though
scattered singly. tried to stay them by
ropes and chains while the water washed
higher and higher. Dimly. far away.
deafened out by the clangor, the steam
whistle of Number 25 was blowing the
four blasts of distress; Alan heard the
sound now and then with indifferent
wonder. All destruction had come for
him to be contained within this car deck;
here the ship loosed on itself all elements
of annihilation; who could aid it from
without? Alan caught the end of a chain
which Corvet ﬂung him and. though he
knew it was useless, he carried it across
from one stanchionto the next. Some-
thing. sweeping across the deck, caught
him and carried him with it; it brought
him before the coupled line of trucks
which hurtled back and forth where the
rails of track three had been. He was
hurled before them and rolled over; some-
thing cold and heavy pinned him down;
and upon him, the car trucks came.

But, before them. something warm and
living—a hand and bare arm catching
him quickly and pulling at him. tugged
him a little farther on. Alan, looking
up. saw Corvet beside him; Corvet, un-
able to move him farther, was crouching
down there with him. Alan yelled to him
to leap. to twist aside and get out of the
way; but Corvet only crouched closer
and put his arms over Alan: then the
wreckage came over them, driving them
apart. As the movement stopped, Alan
still could see Corvet dimly by the glow
of the incandescent lamps overhead; the
truck separated them. It bore down upon
Alan, holding him motionless and, on the
other side. it crushed upon Corvet‘s legs.

He turned over, as far as he could,
and spoke to Alan. “You have been
saving me. so now I tried to save you,"
he said simply. “What reason did you
have for doing that? Why have you
been keeping by me?"

”I'm Alan Conrad of Blue Rapids, Kan-
sas,” Alan cried to him. "And you're
Benjamin Corvet! You know me; you
sent for me! Why did you do that?"

Corvet made no reply to this. Alan,
peering at him underneath the truck.
could see that his hands were pressed
against his face and that his body shook.
Whether this was from some new phys-
ical pain from the movement of the
wreckage, Alan did not know till he low-
('i'vtl his hands after a moment; and now
he did not heed Alan or seem even to be
aware of him.

“Dear little Connie!" he said aloud.
"Dear little Connie! She mustn’t. marry
him—not him! That must be seen to.
What shall I do, what shall I (10?"

Alan worked nearer him. “Why must-
n't she marry him?” he cried to Corvet.
“\Vhy? Ben Corvet, tell me! Tell me
why!”

From above him. through the clangor
of the cars. came the four blasts of the
steam whistle. The indifference with which
Alan had heard them a few minutes be-
fore had changed now to a twinge of
terror. When men had been dying about
him. in their attempts to save the ship.
it had seemed a small thing for him m
be crushed down with them and with
Benjamin Corvet, whom he had found at
last. But Constance! Recollection of
her was stirring in Corvet the torture
of will to live; in Alan—he struggled and
tried to free himself. As well as he
could tell by feeling, the weight above
him 0 ﬁned but was not crushing him;
yet WERE gain for her if he only saved
himself nd not Corvet too? He turned
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“She’s going to marry him. Ben Cor-
vet!” he called. "They’re betrothed; and
they're going to be married, she and
Henry Spearman!”

“Who are you?" Corvet seemed only
with an effort to become conscious of
Alan’s presence. .

”I’m Alan Conrad, whom you used to
take care of. I’m from Blue Rapids.
You know about me; are you my father,
Ben Corvet?
—what are you to me?” ,

“Your father?” Corvet repeated. "Did
he tell you that? He killed your father."

”Killed him? Killed him how?”

"Of course. He killed them all—~all.
But your father—he shot him; he shot
him through the head 3”

Alan twinged. Sight of Spearman
came before him as he had ﬁrst seen
Spearman. cowering in Corvet's library
in terror at an apparition. "And the bul—
let hole above the eye!” So that was
the hole made by the shot Spearman
ﬁred which had killed Alan’s father-—
which shot him through the head! Alan
peered at Corvet and called to him.

“Father Benitot!" Corvet called in re-
sponse, not directly in reply to Alan's
question. rather in response to what
those questions stirred. “Father Beni-
tot!” he appealed. "Father Benitot!”

Some one, drawn by the cry, was mov—
ing wreckage near them. A hand and
arm with torn sleeve showed; Alan could
not see the rest of the ﬁgure, but by the
sleeve he recognized that it was the mate.

“Who’s caught here?” he called down.

“Benjamin Corvet of Corvet. Sherrill,
and Spearman. ship owners of Chicago."
Corvet’s voice replied deeply, fully; there
was authority in it and wonder too—
the wonder of a man ﬁnding himself in a
situation which his recollection cannot
explain.

“Ben Corvet!” the mate shouted in
surprise; he cried it to the others. those
who had followed Corvet and obeyed
him during the hour before and had not
known why. The mate tried to pull the
wreckage aside and make his way to
Corvet; but the old man stopped him.
“The priest, Father Benitot! Send him
to me. I shall never leave here; send
Father Benitot!” '

The word was passed without the mate
moving away. The mate, after a min-
ute. made no further attempt to free
Corvet; that indeed was useless, and Cor-
vet demanded his right of sacrament
from the priest who came and crouched
under the wreckage beside him.

“Father Benitot!”

“I am not Father Benitot. I am
Father Perron of L’Anse."

“It was to Father Benitot of St. Ignace
I should have gone, Father! . . .”

The priest got a little closer as Cor—
vet spoke, and Alan heard only voices
now and then through the sounds of
clanging metal and the drum of ice
against the hull. The mate and his help-
ers were working to get him free. They
had abondaned all effort to save the ship:
it was settling. And with the settling,
the movement of the wreckage imprison-
ing Alan was increasing. This movement
made useless the efforts of the mate; it
would free Alan of itself in a moment,
if it did not kill him; it would free or
ﬁnish Corvet too. But he. as Alan saw
him, was wholly oblivious of that‘ now.
His lips moved quietly, ﬁrmly; and his
eyes were ﬁxed steadily on the eyes of
the priest.

CHAPTER XVIII

Mr. Spearman Goes North

The message. in blurred lettering and
upon the flimsy tissue paper of a carbon
copy—that message which brought ten-
sion to the ofﬁces of Corvet, Sherrill, and
Spearman and had called Constance and
her mother downtown where further in-
formation could be more quickly obtained
—-was handed to Constance by a clerk
as soon as she entered her father's of-
ﬁce. She reread it; it already had been
repeated to her over the telephone.

“4:05 a. m. Frankfort Wireless sta—
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this?“ she asked. -

“Nothing,_ regarding Mr. -Corvet." 'Miss
Sherrill,” the clerk replied. ' .

”Or regarding—~Have you obtained a.
passenger list?” x "

,“No passenger list was kept, Miss
Sherrill." '

"The crew?” '

“Yes; we have just got the names of
the crew.” He took another copied sheet
from among the pages and handed it to
her, and she looked swiftly down the list
of names until she found that of Alan
Conrad.

Her eyes ﬁlled, blinding her, as she
put the paper down, and began to take
off her things. She had been clinging
determinedly in her thought to the belief
that Alan might not have been aboard
the ferry. Alan’s message, which had
sent her father north to meet the ship.
had implied plainly that some one whom
Alan believed might be Uncle Benny was
on Number 25; she had been fighting.
these last few hours, against conviction
that therefore Alan must be on the ferry
too. '-

She stood by the desk. as the clerk
went out, looking through the papers
which he had left with her.

“What do they say?" her mar asked.

“Wireless signals from No. 25," she
read aloud, “were plainly made out at
shore stations at Ludington. Manitowoc.
and Frankfort until about four o’clock.
when—"

"That is, until about six hours ago,
Constance."

“Yes, mother, when the signals were in-
terrupted. The steamer Richardson. in
response to whose signals No. 25 made
the change in her course which led to
disaster,. was in communication until
about four o’clock; Frankfort station
picked up one message shortly after four,
and same message was also recorded by
Carferry Manitoulin in southern end of
the lake; subsequently all efforts to call
No. 25 failed of response until 4:35 when
a message was picked up at once by
Manitowoc, Frankfort. and the Richard~
son. Information, therefore, regarding
the fate of the ferry up to that hour re-
ceived at this ofﬁce (Corvet, Sherrill, and
Spearman) consists of the following. . ”

Constance stopped reading aloud and
looked rapidly down the sheet and then
over the next. What she was reading
was the carbon of the report prepared
that morning and sent. at his rooms. to
Henry, who was not yet down. It did
not contain therefore the last that was
known; and she read only enough of it to
be sure of that.

_ “After 4 :10, to repeated signals to Num-
ber 25 from Richardson and shore sta—
tions—'Are you in danger?‘ ‘Shall we
send help?’ ‘Are you jettisoning cars?”
‘What is your position?’—-no replies Were
received. The Richardson continued
therefore to signal, ‘Report your position
and course; we will stand by,’ at the
same time making full speed toward

last position given by Number 25. At'

4:35, no other message having been ob-
tained from Number 25 in the meantime,
Manitowoc and Frankfort picked up the
following: ‘S. O. S Are taking water
fast. S. O. S. position probably twenty
miles west N. Fox. S. O. S.’ The S. O.
S. has been repeated, but without further
information since."

The report made to Henry ended here.
Constance picked up the later messages
received in response to orders to trans-
mit to Corvet. Sherril, and Spearman
copies of all signals concerning Number
25 which had been received or sent. She
sorted out from them those dated after
the hour she just had read:

“4:40. Manitowoc is calling No. 25,
‘No. 26 is putting north to you. Keep in
touch.’

“4:43. No. 26 is calling No. 25. 'What
is your position?’

4:50, the Richardson is calling No. 25.
‘We must be approaching you. Are you
giving whistle signals?‘

“4:53. No. 25 is replying to Richard—

son, ‘Yes; will continue to signal. Do
you hear us?’
“4:59. Fralnkifort .is calling No. 26,

‘What is your condition?

“5:04, No. 25 is replying to Frankfort.
'Holding bare headway; stern very low.’

“5:10, No. 26 is calling-No. 25. ‘Are
you throwing oi! cars?’

“5:14, Petoskey is calling Manitowoc.
‘We are receiving S. O. S. What is
wrong?’ Petoskey has not previously
been in communication with shore eta.
tions or ships.

“5:17, No. 25 is calling No. 26. 'Are
throwing off cars; have cleared eight;
work very difﬁcult. We are ainking.’

"5:20, No. 25 is calling the Richard-
son. 'Watch for small boats. Position
doubtful probably because of snow and
changes of course; probably due west N.
Fox twenty to thirty miles.’

“5:24. No. 26 is calling No. 25. ‘Are
you abandoning ship?’

“5:27. No. 25 is replying to No. 26,
‘Second boat just getting safely away
with passengers; ﬁrst boat was smashed.
Six passengers in second boat, 'two in-
jured of crew, cabin maid, boy, 2 men.’

"5:30, Manitowoc and Frankfort are
calling No. 25, ‘Are you abandoning ship?’

“5:34, No. 25 is replying to Manito-
woc. ‘Still trying to clear cars; every-
thing loose below . . .' .

"5:40, Frankfort is calling Ma'nitowoc,
‘Do you get anything now?» ‘ "

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We Miss Our Rye Straw
ANY years ago I began to grow
rye. I was on a rented farm
and could only get a year by
year lease.' I became interested in
potatoes, and at the start tried
plowing un der
rye for green
manure. It was
fairly successful
and, as a neigh-
bor raised rye
for the grain
crop and seemed
to always get a
clover stand by
sowing in the
rye. I tried it out
myself with quite
satisfactory re-
sults. As years
went by, and the
landlord seemed always willing to
renew the lease for another year, I
took interest, and began to grow
clover to plow under. The clover
was far more successful as a green
manure, and eventually I became a
grower of rye for the grain and
straw. Straw? Yes, sir, straw. My
large straw stack was the founda—
tion of a large amount of fertilizer.
It was a delight to carry out great
forkfuls of it for bedding. Horses,
cows and hogs didn’t live in clover
during the winter, but they did live
in straw. When Rosen Rye was in—
troduced I was the ﬁrst fellow in
this neck of the woods to grow it.
What a success it was. Sold all we
could raise for seed at twice its mar—
ket value. Zut about that time
so meth ing else happened. Dry
springs and poor clover seeding sea-
sons came and the rye would grow
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_w0uld all die when only one or two

inches high. Clover in oats seemed
to do much better because the oats
did not grow fast enough to smother
it out. Yes. it was apparent rye
would have to be tabooed on account
of the clover. We never allowed
there was any money in rye as a
grain crop. Sure, the Rosen Rye
yielded ﬁne for two or three years,
and, as we received a premium for
it, it paid, but Rosen Rye seemed
to quickly get discouraged in yield—
ing more than common rye, and try
as we would we could not keep the
Rosen pure.

This last year or two we have
grown no rye, and have grown cats
in its place. They surely have been
more favorable for the growth of
clever, and, in 1924 the straw was
almost as heavy as rye straw. But a
different description must be given
for this past season. The acreage
was the same as in 1924, but the
straw yield was about one—ﬁfth. We
never put a binder into a ﬁeld with
as little, straw growth, and our sup—
ply of bedding shows it. Shall we
have to return to rye growing for
the straw stack? Well, it looks like
it. We never half appreciated it un—
til now. It’s like the engine we
pump water with. It runs so nicely
with no particular attention that we
accept it as too common a thing.
But the other day when we were the
very busiest ever, with several car—
penters here, at work on the storage
house, and an empty stock tank,
that engine refused to chug. It sim-
ply would not make an effort. Easy
to see the spark was minus. One of
the carpenters is an old garage man
and experienced in magneto trouble.
He gave half of the afternoon to it,
and then went with me to borrow
an engine to ﬁll the stock tank! The
pump handle on our deep well is no
place for a man to spend his time
when there is work enough for sev—
eral hired hands.

Mention was made of the light
crop of oat straw. Two farmers
were talking about the light harvest
this year, and one remarked his cat
straw was so short and scattering
he could not tell where to drive his
binder—could not tell whether he
“Pshaw!”
replied the other soil tiller. “Your
oats were heavy compared with
whyymyzoats were so light.
the: norm“:

    

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I had to stop the'binder after each
bundle was tied.” “What for?”
To grease the knotter so it wouldn‘t
rust until it tied another bundle!”
Well, we can't say we greased the
knotter between bundles—however,
I do remember the binder didn't run
very good!

We have just ﬁnished the storage
house, and have the potatoes in it.
They have been in temporary stor-
age places since they were dug and
now, that they are in the storage
cellar, we feel quite relieved.

II: II t

The Last One

Was just glancing at the publica‘
tion' dates of the M. B. F. and alas,
this is the last issue for 1925.
Seems a very short time since 1925
was ushered in. Is it possible a
year has passed since last Christ—
mas? The calendar says it has, and
it must be right, for the Christmas
spirit seems to be noticeable every-
where. The writer has often wonder—
ed why this so—called Christmas
spirit only comes annually. Why not
show some of it monthly, weekly——
no, daily. If it’s a good thing to
have on December twenty-ﬁfth, why
not have it the other three hundred
and sixty—four days? This thought
always comes to me at this season.
Among some treasured clippings is
this one by Henry Van Dyke. It
seems to express the thought I have
in mind, and I pass it on to you:

How to Keep Christmas

“There is a better thing than the
observance of Christmas Day—and
that is, keeping Christmas.

“Are you willing to forget what
you have done for other people and
remember what other people have
done for you? -

”Are you willing to stoop down
and consider the needs and the de—
sires of little children; to remember
the weakness and loneliness of people
who are growing old; to stop asking
how much your friends love you,
and ask yourself whether you love
them enough; to try to understand
what those who live in the same
house with you really want, without
waiting for them to tell you; to
trim your lamp so that it will give
more light and less smoke, and to
carry it in front that your shadow
will fall behind you; to make a
grave for your ugly thoughts and a
garden for your kindly feelings, with
the gate open—are you willing to do
these things even for a day? Then
you can keep Christmas.

"Are you willing to believe that
love is the strongest thing in the
world—stronger than hate, stronger
than evil, stronger than death—and
that the blessed Life which began
in Bethlehem nineteen hundred
years ago is the image and bright-
ness of the Eternal Love? Then you
can keep Christmas.

“And.if you can keep it for a
day, why not always?

“But you can never
alone.”

OUR Book REVIEW

(Books reviewed under this heading may
be secured through The Michigan .Bunness
Farmer, and will be promptly. shipped .by
parcell post on receipt of publisher’s pricu
state .)

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Farm Life Abroad—By E. C. Branson,
Litt. D., Kenzm Professor of Rural Social
Economics, University of North Carolina.

In this volume Professor Bran son, who
has been a life—long student of rural
social economics, has set down his ob—

servations concerning
of things in Germany, Denmark and
France—not the great Cities and indus-
trial ar_eas but (1) but the farm people.
farm houses and villages, farm systems
and farm practices; (2) the country oom—
munitics, institutions and agencies; and
(3) the standards of living in the rural
regions of these three countries.” The
observations are presented in a series of
thirty—six vivid letters which delightfully
portray aspects of European civilization
that tourists usually neglect. Price $2.00.
Published by The University of North
Carolina Press.

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You can do both of these things in the
South, where the hardships of cold weather,
high living costs, scarcity of help and ever-
worked lands are never known.

There are farms of every size and state of devel-
/ opment in the South-~farms waiting for you to
combine your experience and knowledge with the
natural advantages afforded in this God-favored
section, to the end that you and your family will
have more of the advantages of life and still be
able to save some money.

Good soils-mgood roads—good schools-«good
weather-«good times await you in the Southland.
Write today asking us for free information about
how you can prosper in the territory served by
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GeneraI Industrial & Immigration Agent
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Dept. Juli-2 Louisville, Ky.

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FUR SMALL BUMMUNIIY BEAN.
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beans. :
(let your neighbors together and !
order your own community ‘

bean picking plant at once. The ,
value of the culls will pay the l
entire cost of the equipment.

We can refer you to dozens of
been growers who are picking
their own beans and doing cus-
tom work, earning hundreds of
dollars above the cost of their
JUDSON. Some have made as 1
high as $2,500 in one season.

The JUDSON JUNIOR operates
with a 1% horse power gas
engine.

Write to day for free information
on how to realize the most
from your damaged beans.

< CUAL. DIANA

Michigbean Growers’
Exchange
EXCLUSIVE msrmsurons
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1925

Edited and Published by
THE RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. Inc.
GEORGE M. SLocUM. Presldent
Mt. Clemens. Michigan
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Market Editor
Religious Editor

Charles A. Swingle..

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Should any reader have any cause for complaint against any ad-
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M. B. F. TO USE RADIO
URSUANT With our established policy of be-
ing of the utmost service to‘the farmers of
Michigan, we have arranged with radio sta-
tion WGHP, owned by George Harrison Phelps
of Detroit, to broadcast markets daily.

We are among the ﬁrst farm papers in the
country to note the interest farmers were taking
in radio andestablished a radio department as
a regular feature in our columns. We have
watched the increase in the number of receiving
sets in farm homes, the buying movement gather-
ing speed each year, until now we feel there are
enough farm—owned sets in Michigan to make a
daily market report of. great value.

Farming is the only business that we know of
where most of the men connected with it know
little about the markets. The banker studies
markets, especially on securities; the clothier
follows the wool market. as well as the whole—
sale and retail prices on clothing; and the grocer
keeps posted on all markets that have anything
to do with the products he buys and sells, and

.many know morerahout the farmer's markets

than he does himself. It is not a case of study-
ing the markets just because they are interested,
it is necessary if they intend to conduct their
business on a proﬁtable basis.

Every farmer should know as much as possible
about his markets, he should follow them daily
and get the latest reports. The easiest and best
way to do this is by radio. But, we hear some
say, they can not afford a radio, it's too expen—
sive. A good radio set complete can be bought
all the way from $15 up, and we will wager that
the money any one of them loses each year from
not being fully informed on markets amounts to
more than the price of a mighty good radio.
We have heard the statement from many farmers
that just the market reports they received from
radio broadcasting stations about the country
were worth more to them than the cost of the
receiving set, and the reports were only a small

"part of what they listened to.

Elsewhere in this issue we are publishing more
information about this new service we aregiv—
ing you, we are printing pictures of the station
we are working with, also a schedule of the
time these reports will be broadcast, and a blank
for you to ﬁll out and send in for a free supply
of Quotation Blanks to keep a daily record of
the markets.

We urge that you get a supply of our blanks
and follow the market reports we will broadcast
through WGHP, so that you will be prepared to
transact business with a dealer at any time, with
the latest information on the market at hand.

We want to broadcast just the market reports
that our own folks are interested in and we will
appreciate letters from our listeners telling us
how they like the service and suggesting ways
we can improve it.

TAKE A SHORT COURSES
'1‘ no time in the history of agriculture has
there been a greater need for intelligent
”management and greater eﬂiclency than at
the present. Other businesses are putting an
Increasing amount of emphasis on these for their
own. lines. and farming must keep pace to make
a satisfactory proﬁt.
Agriculture has taken huge steps forward dur-

11,1; 1. m” .

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In; the lost ”few. years and we believe much of

this progress can be traced back to the” agricul-
tural colleges of this country, with their thou-
sands of graduates each year scattering to all
parts of the country; 'A lover of the soil with
the proper college training is an asset to any
rural community, because not only does he prac-
tice the improved methods of tilling the land
and growing crops but his inﬂuence. is shown
on surrounding farms. _While the old saw “Com-
petition is the life of business" many times does
not apply it seems to in such cases. There is
usually a. decided interest shown in the neigh-
borhood in pedigreed seeds and purebred live—
‘stock, as well as the methods of improving, the
soil. The farmer with the cOllege training in-
variably becomes a leader in his community.
While there is an increasing number of our
young men from the farms taking agricultural
courses in our colleges, yet there are thousands
who are doing the best they know how with

'only practical experience to guide them, suffer-

ing many losses that would pay for a short
course of training several times over, and the
majority of them no doubt will go through life
denied some of the necessities and many of the
pleasures rightfully theirs. ,

Too often the idea. of college training is dis-
missed with the thought that it would require
several years, time that could not be spared.
It is true that the regular courses require from
two to four years of constant work and one
must be a graduate from high school to enter,
but there are short courses every winter at most
of our agriculturel colleges that require only a
few weeks. /

At the M. S. C., at East Lansing, during the
months of January, February, March and April
they have short courses in all branches of agri-
culture and the most elaborate one requires
only 10 weeks time. These courses are open,
without examinations, to all men and women
over 16 years of age. One should have a good
common school education to get the most out
of any of the courses but it is not essential,
and the young man who was not fortunate
enough to complete his rural schooling should
not hesitate.

Twenty—eight years ago the ﬁrst short course
was held at the M. S. C. and today the gradu—
ates of the courses established at that time,
along with others instituted since then, total
7,000. They were young men in whom the ﬁre
of ambition burned brightly and they took ad—
vantage of such opportunities. Today many of

Elgi’iﬁtﬂfg Hﬁlggl

MA MODERA'I‘ES

Dora Mon Dore

"Here, Pa," says Ma’ “ ’s a. catalog
Perhaps you’d like to see.

Just look it over; you might ﬁnd
A Christmas gift for me.

“I don’t want nothin' fancy, ’cause
The grain bill makes you short;
And anyway I never did
Want to be a sport.

“There's satin dresses cheap enough,
Silk stockings by the score;

Of course, I'd never ask for them;
I ain't young any more.

“An’ there’s a ﬁne pianny—looks
Like real mahogany;

But then our organ’s pretty fair
And sounds as sweet to me.

“An’ here’s a phonograph they say
Will bring out tones so clear;
You'll think you're in a opry house

A concert grand to hear!

“Of course, I don't want none 0’ them
My mind don't run so far—

An' there’s a high-class motor which
Can't beat our little car.

“They say that aeroplanes will bring
Us close to markets new;

But I don't blame you if rou wait
Until it's proven true.

“I'm satisﬁed with just the news
In papers that we‘get;

There ain't no use of all this rush
About a radio set!

“There. there, now, Pa; don’t look so

down!

Just get me somethin' cheap;

I ain't no hand to dream an’ plan——~
Law sakes! Why, Pa's asleep!

“I’m glad I'm of a humble mind.

His hands, how gnarled an' grim;
I guess I’ll get myneedles out

An knit a gift for him!" ’
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these graduates are numbered among the 1eaderl '
’ of Michigan.‘ ‘

The courses are open to father and son alike,
and we would like nothing better than to see
every class made up of fathers and sons—sons
there to learn all they could, and dadson- the
job so that the boys can’t come home and “show
them. up" on their farming methods. It would
improver‘the methods employed-on those 18.12.1311.
and, incidentally it would- make fathers and
sons greater pals than ever, and help t-hem- to
understand each other a little better. Bkt if
the fathers feel that they can not leave the
chores for someone else to do they should ap-
preciate the importance or their sons attending
and urge them to go. It is the age of trained
men, and the man without training is laboring
under a. great handicap. .

If you are interested write R. W. Tenny.
Director of Short Courses, M. S. 0., East Lan-
sing, asking for complete information, and do
it now because several of the courses begin dur-
ing the ﬁrst week in January.

FEW ER VARIETIES OF APPLES

NE of the questions mpstyseriously discussed
0 at a recent meeting of the Michigan State

Herticultural Society, ‘at Grand Rapids, was
the varieties, of apples produced in Michigan,
and'one thing that all were agreed upon was
that we are producing too many different kinds.
Fewer varieties and more thought to quality of
the varieties we specialize in, was the verdict.

It was pointed out by Mr. F. L. Granger, sales
manager for the Michigan Fruit Growers, Inc.,
that he was sometimes called upon to send a.
carload of apples containing as high as 34 diﬂer-
ent varieties. That means the man who bought
the car had to bid cheap enough to insure him—
self against loss on the poorer varieties in the
car. It is unfair to expect a salesman to dis-
pose of a carload of this type- at a price that
would compare favorably with what he could
get for it if it contained only six or seven stand—
ard varieties.

It has been suggested, and wisely, that the
number of varieties be reduced to six or seVen;
and a large fruit producer from the western
part'of the state offers Spy, Jonathan, McIntosh,
Steele Red. and Delicious, as the most popular
varieties and should be the ﬁrst to receive con-—
sideration.

A most careful study of the market should be
made, the right varieties determined, and then
every fruit grower of: any size should cooperate
to establish a reputation for these varieties and
for the quality of Michigan fruit that would be
second to none.

MICHIGAN AT INTERNATIONAL

LTHOUGH Michigan corn growers were bar—
A red from competing at. the International this
year farmers from this state specializing in
rye, hay. oats and wheat were there with ex-
hibits that captured a large share of the prizes.
Arthur W. Jewett, last year’s ”Hay King” re-
mained on the throne, and with other exhibitors,
ably defended Michigan’s reputation for being
one of the ﬁnest farming states in the Union.
At the county fair you learn about the ﬁne
crops your county can produce,-at the state fair
you see the best from your county competing
with the best from other counties, and you
draw your conclusions as to the sections of the
state best for certain crops. But it is at the
International where you see Michigan side by side
with other states exhibiting the best that can
be produced, and you realize how fortunate you
are to be located in Michigan.

 

CHRISTMAS

F we could be with our loved ones only one
day out of the year we would choose Christ-
mas as that day. Christmas is a Christian

festival, and it is the climax of days and weeks.
perhaps months, of planning choice gifts for
those near and dear to us. For some time be-
fore this day we think of z‘l our loved ones
living and departed, and on this day they usually
gather at one home and often you ﬁnd one or
more of those most loved by you not with you
physically. Perhaps they are departed from
this world only recently, or it may have been.
years ago, it .matters not, they all return spirit~§
11ally if not in person at Christmas time.

We sincerely hope that your loved ones will

gather about your ﬁreside this Christmas and
you will ﬁnd your sorrows small and joys great. ’

A most happy Christmas and prosperous New ,

Your are our greetings to you.

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strong drinks agin. Well, it' s a good idea. 'cause§
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SECURING NEWSPAPER CLIP-
- ‘ PING FOR 25 CENTS

“We have in our possession a
newspaper clipping concerning you
which may be of interest or impor-
tance to you. If you wish this clip-
ping, return the stub below with
25c (in coin) and we will mail the
clipping to you.”

0 doubt you have received a
postal card with the above
printed on it. We received one,

as well as thousands of other folks
throughout the country, and if yours
hasn’t arrived to date, be patient, it
may be along in a day or so. When
it does come just throw it into the
stove. One of our subscribres an-
swered the card he received and sent
in a. quarter, out of curiosity, and
he received just what they promis-
ed—a newspaper clipping concerning
him. Upon reading it he was great-
ly surprised that on a certain day,
over two years ago, he and his fam-
ily were in town. Worth 25c to
learn that wasn’t it? This is a clip-
ping bureau that gets copies of old

papers from allover the country,

clips out the local news and sends a
card to each family mentioned. As
a “get rich quick” scheme this
would seem rather slow, but when
you consider that there are thous-
ands like our old subscriber, who
will send in a quarter out of curi—
08ity, you can readily see that the
total would be large in a compara-
tively short period of time.

 

THE PICTURE AGENT CALLS

“I am now a subscriber to your
paper and I like it very much. Since
I read the piece about “enlarging
pictures’ I no longer wonder why the
picture agent that came here last
spring asked if we took THE BUSI-
NESS FARMER.

“He said ‘I understand you have
a, child, wouldn’t you like to have
an enlarged picture?’ Said he wasn’t
much of a talker but could explain
things better if I could show him a
little snapshot, and asked for a pic-
ture of four generations. I got
him one, it was just a snapshot and
not very godd at that. Then he
went out to his car and got his pic-
tures, one of a little girl, the other
a scene, and both good. He said
the regular price was $20, but they
would like to put a couple 1n our
home for us to show our friends and
he would make us a special price.
He claimed that we had been select-
ed from that neighborhood because
we were a young couple and young
folks always have more company
than older ones, so more folks
would see them and want some for
their own home. .

“Well he couldn’t get much satis-
faction from me so he talked to my
husband when he came in. The
agent went on with his story and
started to write out an agreement.
My husband immediately wanted to
know how much the two pictures
Would cost and he said they
would have to have $5.95 to pay for
the materials used. He promised
to make good pictures so my hus-
band signed the agreement,' With
the understanding that if we did
not ﬁnd them satisfactory we would
not have to take them. My husband
scarcely got a chance to read the
agreement and as soon as it was
signed the agent -left.

“A different agent brought the
pictures. He had them in frames
and wanted us to pay him $20 for
the two pictures and frames. We
could not afford to pay this and,

9 Collection B0

The purpose of this department Is to Dre-
tect our subscribers from fraudulent deaﬁnus
or unfair treatment by person: or concerns at
a distance.

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

1.—The claim It made by a paid-up sub-
scriber to The Business Farmer.

2.—-The claim is not more than 8 mos. old.

8.——The claim ls not local or between Deo—
ie within easy distance of one another.

hese should be settled at ﬁrst hand and not
attempted by mail.

Address all letters. giving full particulars.
amounts. dates, etc", enclosing also your ad-
}.dress label from the frontvoover of an issue
ﬁlowprove that. you :are p geld-up‘su bar.
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furthermore, we were not satisﬁed
with the pictures. We told this man
of our understanding with the agent
and he declared we had agreed to
take the pictures and we would have
to pay for them, so he t00k them
out of the frames and we paid him
the $5.95, as we thought there was
no other way out.

“Now we have the two pictures
laid'away. The scenery picture is
all right, but the other—we are
ashamed to let anybody see it. It
is not nearly as good as the snap-
shot, I doubt if people who knew
the folks that are in the picture
could tell which was which. We
would not spend the money to have
it framed. I heartily agree with
you about getting rid of these
agents.”—-Mrs. B., Monroe County.

E are sorry you did not see the

article before the agent called

instead of after. Every now
and then we have something in these
columns about enlarged picture
agents and probably the agent who
called on you had been kicked out
of the house of some farmer who
read about their scheme in this pa-
per. These agents are clever shy-
sters and when information about
them is sent out they soon hear
about it. Your husband was lucky
that he did not sign an agreement
to also pay for the frames, as that
scheme is many times worked. We
have yet to ﬁnd a caselwhere the
pictures were satisfactory, and we
do not believe we ever will find one.
Show these agents the road the mo—
ment they step into your yard, and
if you have a good dog have him as-
sist them to get there. A number
ten shoe applied properly is also a
great help.

FARM LISTING COMPANY

“Would you please advise regard—
ing the enclosed letter about J. E.
Berquist, of Chicago, and his pro-
position of listing farms?”—Reader,
Williamsburg, Mich.

THE lettter our subscriber receiv—

ed was a form letter sent out ‘

by Mr. Bergquist to perhaps
thousands of farmers in nearly ever
state in the Union solicting them to
list their farms with him for sale.
He advised that he had many buyers
waiting and more writing in every
day, and the farms would be listed
in his “National Homeseeker” which
goes to “the whole list of prospec—
tive buyers, to »'new ones as their
names are received day by day, and
to local real estate men all over the
country.” In the concluding para—
graph of the letter we ﬁnd that all
this service is given for only $10.
He gets his money whether you sell
your farm or not.

We had never heard of J. Ii]. Berg—
quist previous to receiving our cus-
tomer’s letter, but we had investi—
gated schemes that seemed to be
idntical, and we were rather skepti—
cal of it. It reminded us‘ of Warren
McRae, of Logansport, Indiana, and
Black's International Selling Serv—
ice, of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
But we wanted to give the man a
chance to prove his honesty so we
wrote him asking that he supply us
with names and addresses of at least
six farmers in Michigan who had
sold farms through his work. After
waiting over two weeks for a reply
we again wrote him, with the same
results—no answer. Surely, if he
was conducting his business on the
right basis he would welcome the
light of investigation, we thought,
so his silence has made our suspic—
ion more pronounced than ever.

We advise our readers to steer
clear of any of these of these farm
listing propositions put up to them
by the people in distant cities.
Chances are, nine times out of ten,
they are out to get the money and
theyare not worrying whether the
farms are ever sold.

Think I have taken it since it was born.
—8. A. Harrison, Berrien County.

/

We enjoy the M. B. F and couldn’t get
along without the weather forecast.—
Veretta Landon, Van Buren County.

We like the paper very much. I am
sending you a new name, I am sure they
will likethe paper as they like to know
the news. They will ﬁnd it nova—Viola
Perry.

 

 

    

 

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SUSIE ANN’S DISCOVERY

Twas the night before Christmas,
little 0 Ann
Had hung up her stocking with care.

‘ She said to herself as she smoothed out

the toe,
“I lmow Santa will ﬁnd it right there”

She jumped into bed, but sleep would not
come.

It seemed hours and hours to her.

When out in the room where her stock-
ing was hung.

She heard someone making a stir.

She thought, “Here's my chance, I’ll just
take a peep

At dear old Santa and see

Him ﬁlling my stocking with all the nice
thing s

This Christmas he's brought to me.”

She stole to the door and pulled it ajar,

Her very own daddy stood there

A .fllling her stocking with candy and
nuts.

Handling each package with care.

She crept to his side. put her hand on
his head,

In a voice that was shaken with fear

She whispered so low he could scarcely
understand,

"Is Santa Claus sick, Daddy dear?”

(Written especially for Our Page by Mrs.

Joseph Burton, of St. Slair County.)

A FARM \VOMAN'S CHRISTNIAS
BOX

HRISTMAS was drawing near
C and Polly Dean gazed ruefully

into her worn little purse.
Times had been hard this summer
at Hillside Farm and there was lit-
tle money to spare, yet Christmas
was coming and back in the old
home were the many friends she
wanted to remember.

Polly had always been resource-
ful and she began to take an inven—
tory of her assets. Suddenly she re—
alized that the things which were
common in the country household
were the luxuries of the city. On
the kitchen table, sending forth its

petizing odors, was a big, fat,
ﬁicy mince pie—the product of her
own hands. One of these wrapped
in oiled paper and tied with red rib—
bon with a sprig of Wintergreen
berries and ground pine would be a
thing of beauty and would appeal to
both the outer and the inner man.
Surely one of them must go into
Uncle Dan’s box along with a big
Christmas wreath of pine, dotted
with the bittersweet berries which
are found down the lane. To.Aunt
Mattie it would be a Christmas mes—
senger carrying her back to the days
when she, too, lived close to nature.

Polly’s cheeks grew red and her
eyes glistened as she made out the
list. Jars of jelly in tiny baskets, a
hardy little fern with its woodsy
odor, nut meats packed in glass jars
and delicious little patties of maple
sugar. Cousin Jennie whose appe—
tite was “ﬁnicky” received a basket
of fresh eggs, each one wrapped in
tissue paper. For brother Fred's
boys there was a large box of pop-
corn balls and another of rosy
cheeked apples and hickory nuts to
crack.

The friend who spent a week at
Hillside Farm last June would be
made happy by a box of ground pine
for her Christmas greens.

For the dear friends who had not
been able to visit her and see her
home, she prepared something dif-
ferent. She called it a Christmas
album and gathered all the various
views of the farm and its occupants.
A loose leaf black album threaded
with cord was used. On the outside
was inscribed “Hillside Farm.” One
picture was mounted on a page, the
ﬁrst being a view of the house and
driveway. Then followed various
views; the cows coming up the lane,
the horses in the pasture, ducks on

the creek, the buildings, flowers,
etc. Under each picture was the in-
scription written in red ink. The

last pages were used for “Mr. and
Mrs. Farmer ” the new baby and
household pets, and the invitation
“Come and see us."

Polly Dean’s ﬁat little purse
ceased to trouble her for she felt
that she was rich in the things that
would be most acceptable.

She enjoyed her gift-making so
much that she is planning to begin
soon for next year. During the win-
ter months she will ake baskets
trays, rugs, etc. In f ct, she does
not expect to buy any of her pres—
ents for she cannot affo to lose the
joy there is in the personal touch
that gives the true Christmas cheer.
(The above article appeared in The
Dairyme'n' 3 League News and it con-

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The Forth Home\ \
ADepartment for the Women"

QQQQ Edited byMRS. ANNETAYLOR QQQQQ

fled with your lot of the
past twelve months, and
you will face the New Year
with high hopes.

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tains so many good ideas that I se-
cured permission to reprint it on our
page—Mrs. A. T.)

PREPARING THE CHRISTMAS
BIRD

ELECT a young bird with a

S plump breast and a smooth

moist skin. The end of the
breastbone should be ﬂexible when
moved with the ﬁnger and the wing—
joint should turn readily backward.
Don’t pick a bird which has dry
scaly legs, long coarse hairs or a.
dark purplish skin; these are sure
signs of age and toughness.

When you dress your poultry be
sure to draw the tendons of the
drumsticks, as this procedure will
make the ﬁrst leg-joints more agree—
able eating. ~Remove the inner sack
from the gizzard by making a cross-
wise slit through its thickest part,
and wash the giblets in cold water.
Then cover them with fresh cold
water and one teaspoon of salt and
simmer until tender. Remove from
the ﬁre, ﬁnely mince the giblets and
reserve the liquor for gravy, Singe
off all hairs by turning the bird ra-
pidly over a low gas-ﬂame. Pin
feathers may be removed with a
small tweezer. Cut out the small
oil-sack which lies just above the
tail. Wipe the bird inside and out
with a damp cloth and lay it in the
refrigerator until it is time to stuff
it.

No matter what kind of stuﬁing you
use, the breast cavity must be well
ﬁlled so that it will appear plump
and round. Fold the wings back
and lock their tips, as this disposes
of them in the neatest- way and pro—
vides a ﬂat substantial base for the
bird to rest 011 while cooking and
while it is being sewed. Press the
legs together and tie or truss them
with string.

Cover the breast with slices of salt
pork which you can hold in place by
means of toothpicks, and place the
bird on the rack in a pan breast side
down. Thus while being roasted,
the juices will run down the breast,
basting it and keeping it tender and
moist. Do not season any kind of
poultry until it has been in the oven
for at least half an hour, and then
sprinkle it lightly with seasoned
ﬂour. Baste it every ﬁfteen minutes
with hot water and butter for the
ﬁrst hour.

After the bird has been removed
to its serving—platter, pour off most
of the fat remaining in the pan, add
a large kitchen spoon of ﬂour to the
remaining liquid and stir to a paste.
While this is cooking add the strain-
ed giblet liquor, stirring constantly
so that the gravy will be smooth and
rich. Last of all add the ﬁnely
minced giblets and jelly or addi-
tional seasoning you may prefer.
This gravy should be served in sep-
arate dish or boat.

Fill the breast and body cavity,
leaving a little room to allow for ex-
pansion. Then sew up the bird with
ﬁrm stitches, which should be re-
moved of course, before the lus-
cious, brown bird is brought to the
table, oyster stufﬁng, chestnut,
prune, potato, sausage and peanut
are some other savory ﬁllings which
are~ especially good with poultry.

EAR FOLKS: Even though I do plan every year to get all of my
Christmas gifts ﬁgured out long before the holiday season I al-
ways forget someone—more often’several—and at the “eleventh
hour have to rack my brain to think of suitable gifts.
says, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” ‘1 think this is very
true, and I know that I enjoy immensely planning my gifts but I like
to have plenty of time to study out what each person would like.
Those you forget until nearly the last day require quick thought and
I am sure to worry that the gift is not what it should be. For last
minute gifts the article “A Farm Woman’s Christmas Box” contains
some ﬁne suggestions, and other ideas will occur to you as you read
it. For the one who is short of funds this article is unusually inter-
esting because the cash outlay is the minor "part.

It is my sincerest desire, dear friends, that you all have a most
happy Christmas. and that the close of this year will ﬁnd you satis-

Annls Taylor, ears The luslnu: Farmer, Mt. Clemens. Mlohlasn.

TheGood Book

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Roast duck is not usually stuffed,
but its cavity should be liberally ﬁll—
ed during the cooking period with
slices of onion, coarse celery stalks
and leaves. These are merely to im-
part an added ﬂavor to the meat and
should be removed before the bird
is served.

MORE CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS

COLLAR bag is always an ac-
A ceptable gift for a man. You

can make one in the following
manner: Cut two circles of heavy
cardboard 6 inches in diameter and
cover one side of one piece with lin-
en, and the other with sateen; cut
a piece of linen 20x91,é inches with
a similar piece of the sateen for lin-
in‘g, join the ends of each piece, put—
ting them together, wrong side out,
and seam one‘edge together, turn,
overhand this edge to edge circle,
place and catch it at the other in—
tervals, with a few over and over
stitches. Turn a 554 inch hem for a
draw casing, through which the cord
is (drawn. Make a pocket of sateen
2X217f2 inches with elastic run in the
narrow casing at the top, and sew
on the inside of bag near casing.
“Collars," monograms, or simple de-
sign may be embi ‘idered.

A picture book is a delightful gift
for a child. To make one, out four
or more pieces of paper, muslin or
other suitable material 18x12 inch-
es. Scallop, pink or bind edges.
Sew through center crosswise. Paste
good colored pictures cut from old
magazines.

For your women friends,
of holders makes a useful gift.
case is hung by a strap. There
are three holders, 6x6 inches, case
7x7 inches, strap 1815x115 inches,
ends brought to a point. It requires
1A, yard chambray, 3%, yards bias
tape, embroidery ﬂoss. One end of
holder is left open in making so the
padding, 5x5 inches, may be taken
out when washed. This gift is pret—
ty made up in cretonne.

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The

CHILDREN LOVE SURPRISES IN
CHRISTMAS DAINTIES
N planning any festivity for the
I children the main thing to re-
member is their love of the spec-
tacular and their keen imagination.
Anything made to imitate something
else is always sure to make an ap-
peal to their love of make-believe.
Christmas time and its joy and hap-
piness is not far away. Every
child loves a surprise'so why not
try something new this year in the
way of Christmas dainties for the
children. Here are some specials.
Clown cookies will bring shouts
of joy. They may be made by
sketching faces and hair on plain
sugar cookies. Chocolate or colored
icings may be used. The features
may be made by using small raisins
or small colored candies. Faces
may also be sketched on cakes bak-
ed in mufﬁn tins.
Imitations of favorite toys.

1. Baseball:- To make, stick the

‘ ﬁat sides of two small round-shaped

trim if neces-‘
A!—

cup cakes together,
sary and coat with white icing.

ter it is. dry, mark 01! seams with H‘-

chocolate using a toothpick.

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better in small baking powder cans.“

(If lined with wax paper, nahe will
come out perfectly.) When cold
cut into even sections the shape of
a drum. Dip each section into white
icing, then decorate with a tooth-
pick dipped in red or green icing or
chocolate to imitate drums. Drum-
sticks can be made from candied
orange peal or toothpicks with
cherries stuék on the ends.
place on drum crossed.

Imitations of Animals.

1. Cookies cut in animal shapes
with the aid of tin cookie cutters.
Paper patterns may be cut and
traced in dough with sharp pointed
knife.

2. Attractive animal cookies can
be made by frosting plain cookies
with colored or chocolate icing and
placing an animal cracker in the
center before the icing dries.

 

 

Personal column

 

 

Wants Helix—I would be glad to see a

recipe for marshmallow ﬁlling published
on our page. Also I wish some one would
explain how I can polish the nickel trim-
mings and dome on my heater. They
have become discolored from hot ﬁres
and I do not know how to clean them.
Can someone help me?—Mrs. W., Bay
County.
—I am going to ask our readers to supply
the recipe but will be pleased to tell you
how to polish the nickel trimmings on
your heater. To keep the nickel in shin-
ing condition it should be washed fre-
quently with soap and water with a little
soda to cut the grease (a teaspoonful to
a quart of water will do). Spots may
be removed by polishing with whiting or
any ﬁne scouring; powder moistened in
ammonia. After cleaning wash, dry and
polish the nickel. It is a good idea to
give the nickel a daily rubbing with a
cloth which has been lightly saturated
with any unsalted oil. A brisk rub with
wax paper, such as comes around bread,
also helps.——Mrs. A. T.

Have You This Recipe?—Having been
a reader of your column for some time
should like to know if anyone could send
the recipe for Onion Syrup—Mrs. K..
North Branch, ,Mich.

 

 

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Bridal Dress Accessories.—When a
young bride was married in ancient
Greece or Rome, a large yellow veil
which completely covered her and which
was known as the ﬁammeum was worn
by her during the ceremony. It survives:
in our modern bridal veil. Lace is usual-
ly the preferred material for the bridal
head—veil (the use of a face veil is op-
tional), and it may hang from a cap or
a wreath as preferred. The bridal wreath
itself is the gilt coronet of the Jewish

Then .

bride of old converted to Christian use ;,1_

the custom of making the wreath of
orange—blossoms came to Europe with the
Crusaders, for the Saracens adorned their
brides with these wreaths as an emblem
of fecundity. Fashion is continually
modifying these and other details of ar-
rangements, material, etc, in the wed-
ding veil as in the wedding dress. A
more recent development substitutes a'
pearl bead bandeau or a pearl cap for
the orange blossom bridal wreath. The
orange~blossoms, if the bride wishes,
may appear on the skirt of her gown
or in the place of buckles on her slip-
pers (unless she is married in traveling
dress). The use of white kid gloves,
however, is optional, and some brides
prefer to dispense with them rather than
run the risk of not getting them off
easily at the altar when the wedding
ring is put on their ﬁnger. Ear-rings
are not worn by the bride as a rule, but
since the introduction of the pearl ban—
deau or cap, pearl pendants are some—
times worn. A wedding accessory carried
by some brides is a white leather or
white parchment covered prayer book
(with ribboned flower-spray bookmark),
which is handed to the clergyman and
used by him in reading the service. The
book is later returned to the bride and
may be laid away with her wedding gown
as a' treasured souvenir. The one accesé
sory whichfew brides like to miss is the
bouquet of white ﬂowers, presented by
the groom and carried in the preces-‘
sional up the aisle. ‘ '.

 

 

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longsuﬂ‘ering, foxbearing one another in
lover—Eph. 4: 2.

One cannot love one’s brother as one
should and be forgiving toward ‘him.

 

 

Recipes

 

 

Ginger Cookie Recipe. —Two' 9111):; mo-l '

lasses, one cup sugar, one cup la/rd, one\
pint buttermilk, two teaspoons. soda, (ﬁle
tablespoon ginger" and samer \oﬁl other.
spices. ﬂour to mix stiff, salﬁL- rs. N. I

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, Broad
sugar. CM'TQUV‘OI shortening,» 36‘ cup cook-
ins'T-mqlasses. 1%.:oups bread.- crumbs
dried andjground and 1% teaspoons soda,
salt to. taste, 1, teaépb'on cinnamon, and
flour to“'roll:,out;+—Mrs.' E. B'.‘ Mossel.
Eaton ‘County,“’Michig-an." ' '

 

Hot Apple Sauce .Cakez—Two cups hot
apple sauce. two cups ,sugar, one cup
raisinsuone cup» hot water, two teaspoons
soda stirred in the cup/of, hot W 'ter, two
teaspoons cinnamon; one'teaspo n cloves,
four cﬁps.:or ﬂour. One-half 'cup of short-
ening. "You will ﬁnd this good—Mrs.
G., Jackson County. ‘ ‘

 

Pork;;Eruit Cake.—Onepound salt pork
chopped ﬁne, boil two ,minutes in one-
half pint water. Let cool. One cup of
molasses, spices, two cups brown sugar.
four eggs,”'one pound 'r'aisins, two tea-
spoons soda. ﬂour. I think this will
make about three medium sized cakes
and is very good—Mrs: E., Genesee Co.

 

Scalloped Potatoes withHam—One slice
of sugar-cured ham jﬁto 1 inch thick,
4 medium-sized potatoes. 1% cupfuls of
sweet milk; salt, pepper and paprika.
Slice potatoes, place in layer in baking
dish; pour milk and seasoning over them.
Place ham on top of the potatoes. Cover
and bake in a slow oven until done.

Prune Jam.—-—Wash 2 cups prunes and
cut pulp from pits. Put pulp through
food chopper. Peel 4 oranges and cut in
small pieces. Cut rind‘of 2 oranges into
small pieces. Mix all: together. Add 1
cup sugar and one-half cup water. F‘ook
slowly until thick. Turn into sterilized
glasses and when cool cover with paraﬁn.

Carrot Marmalade—*Grate 12 raw car—
rots, add 4 cups sugar and let stand 1
hour. Add juice of 3 lemons and 1 tea-
spoon each of ground cloves, cinnamon
and ailspice: Cook slowly for 1 hour.
Turn into sterilized jars and seal when
cold.

CAKE RECIPES.

In reply to the inquiry of Mrs. E. in
November let issuefor cake recipe I
am enclosing a favorite although it is not
made with hot milk,'but I am sure she
will ﬁnd it very light.

Velvet Sponge Cake.—2 eggs, whites
and yolks beaten separately, one cup of
sugar added to yolks. one cup ﬂour. one
heaping teaspoon baking powder, 1,4 tea-
spoon salt sifted together, add to sugar
and egg yolks and work until smooth.
Add 1,4,; cup boiling water to egg. sugar,
and ﬂour mixture and lastly all the egg
whites which were previously beaten
stiff, one teaspoon vanilla and beat "well
for a few minutes. Bake in two layers.

Angel Cake.—-Sift together ﬁve times
1 cup ﬂour, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 teaspoon
salt, 2 teaspoons baking powder. Add 1
cup boiling sweet milk and ﬂavor, then
told in the stiffly beaten whites of two
eggs, bake in moderate oven in ungreased
pan.

Filling—1 cup sugar, 1A cup milk, boil
until it “hairs" when. lifted and poured
slowly from spoon, add beaten yolks of
two eggs and stir until it grains.

   

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For‘the velVet cake I use either chow--

late filling or raisin ﬁlling.

,.-.n‘ei-i'n Filling.—-1 cup sugar, 5 table-

spoons water, boil until it forms soft
balls when dropped in cold water. Pour
slowly over the beaten white of one egg
and beat until smooth. Add one cup of
ground raisins. Or 1 beaten egg white,
1 cup sugar, 3 teaspoons water. Set
bowl ’over teakettle and stir often until
smooth, ﬂavor and add one cup ground
raisins—Mrs. R. W., Bay County.

 

 

HOMBBPUN YARN

 

 

Aunt Ada’s Axioms: The pleasant
child is usually the reﬂection of a pleas-
ant home.

: t O S

A club sandwich supper makes a pleas-
ant variation on the regular Sunday even-
ing meal.

t I .

Complexions are much more attractive
when applied from the inside with fruit
and vegetables than when put on from the
outside with paint and powder.

. 0 .

Coat hangers are great space savers
on rainy days. Put the wet clothes on
the hangers and the capacity of your in—
door clothesline will be almost doubled.

t l t

Aunt Ada’s Axioms: Don't be tempted
to let the milk of human kindness become
ice cream. Warmth in friends is one of
the few kinds of heat enjoyable in sum-
mer.

t t !

Slip-covers of cretonne or linen on your
upholstered furniture will protect it from
the fading of the sun and will make your
living room seem cool and attractive dur-
ing the summer.

I C t

A portable screen with pockets on one
side is a boon to the seamstress. It
keeps many things within reach and shuts
off the sewing corner.

It! It At

Aunt Ada's Axioms: Whether the good

die young or not, they die happy.
1! i #

Cleaning vegetables is more fun and
sooner done on the back porch in a com-
fortable chair.

. t t -

Rubbers worn or torn with over—much
sliding. coasting, or catching bobs may
be repaired by vulcanizing at the local
automobile repair shop for a few cents.

t t t

A thorough evacuation of the bowels
each morning is necessary to health. To
neglect this matter is to invite disease.

0 it t

Friday’s child is fair of the face if
she eats her two vegetables and two
fruits and gets plenty of milk.

is i: t

water, or of lemonade or
breakfast may help to

A glass of
orangeade before

clear up that sluggish feeling.
I! t t
Sunlight in the kitchen is good for

one.

more reasons than
1| n t

Laughter lightens the load.

AIDS TO GOOD DRESSING

IE SURE AND SEND IN YOUR SIZE

.5291. A Pratt
Linen, Jerseg, woo
good for t 15 model.
wrist or elbow length.
Sizes: 4, 6.

requires 21/4 yards of

Collar and c
54, yard.

6276.

An 1_8

material. The Widt

A Practical

42-44; Extra.
inch material.
5284.
Crepe China silk.

for this little frock.
Sizes: 3

oped
and 44

View.

Yards.
6285.

——Baibrig an,

used for t is design.
may be

sleeves 2 $6,

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Frock for Mother's Girl.—
rep or wool crepe would be
The
The Pattern is cut in 4
and 10 years. A 6 _
'36 inch material if made
of one material and With long sleeves.
with short sleeves 2% yards Will
3 of contrasting material

A Pretty Evening or

Brocaded or ﬁgured silk, metallic lace or velvet
would' be appropriate for this style. The Pat-
tern is cut in 3 Sizes: 18 and 20 years.

year size requires
' h of. the dress at the lower
edge (under the tunic) is 52 inches.

5295. Corset Substitute.‘—Tliis
model may be made of sateen,
muslin, or of crepe or net. .
in 4 sizes: Small, 34-36; Medium. 3840;
Large, 46-43% inches bust measure.

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have a. story on our page. I receive
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by someone you do not know and
perhaps never will. But seeing
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thought you would be right in the
mood for a Christmas story, so am
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you would resolve to write Uncle
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and make your letters more inter-
esting than ever, if it possible to
make them more interesting. I will
resolve to try to keep Mr. Waste
Basket away from your letters, and
have more contests than ever. How’s
that?-

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Christmas and a happy, prosperous
New Year.——UNCLE NED.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I never wrote to you
before. I am twelve years of age and
have blue eyes, light brown hair (which
is long) and am ﬁve feet, three inches tall.
I enjoy reading the boys’ and girls’ page,
and also like to answer questions and
puzzles. I go to school and am in the
seventh grade. I hope you will excuse my
mistakes this time.—-—Miss Eva Leavitt,
Carland, Michigan.

——Welcome to our circle, Eva, and come
often. So you have long hair. I always
admire long hair, but you seldom see any
girls who have not bobbed their looks now-
adays.

A Christmas Gift For Dad

” OW many men there are today
who have lost the respect of
their assocates and made fail-

ures of themselves merely because at

one time or another they were
afraid to say ‘No’.”

When Sam O’Hearn had heard
these words from the lips of Pro—
fessor Simmons, principal of Colum-
bia High School, one morning in as-
sembly, he wondered to himself if he
wasn’t one of those persons who can’t
say “No.” He was afraid so.

at ‘4- o

here’s the proposition,
You’re the star man of
Columbia’s basketball team. The
whole team swings around your
playing at center. It would be the
simplest matter in the world for
you to throw the game to Parker
High next Thursday night if you
just wanted to, and if you will we
fellows’ll make it worth your while.
What d’you say?” It was Pinky
Pinkerton of Parker High. Pinky
had the reputation of being the
leader of the betting students of his
school, and inasmuch as betting on
any games between two institutions
was forbidden by the faculties, Pinky
took great delight in his reputation.
Sam O’Hearn listened to Pinky’s
words with a throbbing heart.
“What’s it worth to you guys?”

“Now
O'Hearn.

. he eagerly questioned.

”Well, twenty‘ﬁve dollars is a
good price, I guess.”

Twenty—ﬁve dollars! W h a t
wouldn’t Sam O’Hearn do for that
sum. Especially right at that mo—
ment for he was in dire ﬁnancial
straits. He had been working every
evening after school and all day on
Saturdays at Johnson’s Corner Drug
Store, where he and Pinky were now
conversing during a spare moment,
‘helping out,” in an attempt to earn
sufficient money to purchase his
mother and dad a Christmas present
in the form of a talking machine
that he had seen standing in the
window of the Music Shop down—
town.

But even though he toiled hard
and long in Johnson’s he was posi-
tive he could not get enough money
together to purchase the machine.
It was priced at 35 dollars and to
date, just one week before Christ-

mas he had but 25 of these. Ten
dollars short.

“Twunty-ﬂve dollars”, murmured
Sam O’llearn as the scheming,

crafty Pinky Pinkerton from Parker
High, stood by with a half sneer on
his face.

Sam leaned farther over the
counter in the rear of Johnson’s
Drug Store, where Pinky had come
to make his offer, and thought.
That twenty—ﬁve dollars added to the
twenty-ﬁve he already had would
not only give him enough to pur-
chase the talking machine as a
Christmas present for his folks but
would leave him ﬁfteen dollars
more, which would provide him with
spending money for many weeks.
What an opportunity!

Then suddenly it came to Sam that
by selling the game to Parker he

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would not be playing square with
his school, Columbia. What would
his classmates think if they ever
found out that for a measly old
twenty—ﬁve dollars he had “thrown”
a game to their hated basketball ri-

val? What would Peggy Hartman
think, especially?
But, shucks, why be so foolish,

Sam thought. Columbia High had
ne\ («1 done him any special good that
he could see—why ‘should he deprive
himself and his folks of something
that would give them no end of
pleasure just because he was a ninny
and afraid to take a chance? It
would be easy for him to “ﬁx" it so
that Parker would win—but, then,
maybe somebody would ﬁnd out.

As if he knew what Sam was
thinking about, Pinky Pinkerton
broke in on Sam’s thought. “None
of your friends’ll ever get wise. All
us guys at Parker will keep the
whole business under our hats, and
nobody will ever know.”

That was the straw that broke the
camel’s back. Sam O’Hcarn cast
aside his honor and, “I’ll take you
up on that, Pinky,” he said. deliber-
ately. “How’ll we work it, now?”
And then Pinky, realizing that he
had poor Sam—Sam whom all had
thought so highly of, of whom his
parents were so proud—«under his
inﬂuence, leaned his crafty head for—
ward, and laid the plans for the
"throwing” of the Columbia-Parker
game on the following Thursday
night, the night before Christmas
eve.

It was the night of the Columbia-
Parker basketball game. Sam 0’—
Hearn, in his basketball togs, stood
leaning against a locker in the gym-
nasium of Columbia High where the
game was to be played, deep in
thought. He was thinking of the
agreement he had made with I‘inky
Pinkerton of Parker several nights
before. Had he done right in prom-
ising Pinky he would “throw” the
game to Parker for twenty-ﬁve dol-
lars just to favor some of those
crafty betting Parker students?
Somehow he felt guilty of having
committed a great wrong. "Non-
sense," he tried to tell himself, "I
haven’t done anything I shouldn’t",
but this thought had no effect. He
still felt guilty.

“Better hurry out on the iioor
and get in a little practice beforn
we commence, Sam.” It was/the
voice of Mr. Parks, the Columbia
coach. Sam stirred himself from
his deep meditation. He looked up.
Mr. Parks stood in front staring hard
at him. “Something wrong, Sam?”

Sam’s eyes fell. He couldn’t force
himself to look the coach \squarely
in tl 3 eye. It was that infernal
guilty feeling.

“Naw——no, sir, replied Sam, and
with a. couple of words of advice
from the coach on how to get the
jump on Parker’s center, Sam strode
slowly and thoughtfully through the
swinging door and onto the floor of
the big gymnasium where already
the other men of Columbia were
practicing. ’ '

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. .man with a host of her girl friends.

Miriam , m 9. ..
.. Leaning far over the railing
the balcony'Sam‘ saw Peggy Hart-

She waved. Sam. waved b a c k .
Farther back in the crowd Sam saw
his pal Jimsy Perkins——good old
Jim. Jim yelled a terriﬁc war cry
to Sam. Sam waved and smiled.
Somehow the feeling of guilt surg-

ed through him with greater force..

What—~oh, what would they say if
they ever found out?/ And they

might—«there was a c nce of it.
Columbia High h d ﬁnished her
preliminary practice.- Parker had

taken hers. The referee Was step-
ping out from the locker room,
whistle in hand. The game was
about to start.

Sam O’Hearn had returned to the
locker room. He/dwas in a quan-
dary. He was positive now that he
wasn’t doing the right thing to take
that ﬁlthy money from Parker's bet—
ting crowd.

”And I’m not going to do it.”
Sam’s lips compressed in a straight
line. His jaw tightened.

He hurried to his locker. Taking
from it his big brown dressing gown,
he threw it over his shoulders. Then
with a quick stride he dashed up the
circular stairway and onto the bal-
cony of the gymnasium. Getting his
bearings, his quick eye hunted out
Pinky Pinkerton and, his group of
boisterous followers." He wormed
his way quickly through the crowd
to where they were.

“Pinkerton,” he called.

Pinky turned, looking crossly and
questioningly. “What d’you want
now?”

“I’m here to tell you that I’m not
going to take your money and I’m not
going to throw the game to Parker.”
With these words, sharp and poinetd,
Sam quickly turned, leaving the
startled Pinky staring open-mouthed
after him, and made his way back.
to the locker room. How much bet-
ter he felt! “I’m going to play
harder than ever in this game,” Sam
told himself. He did.

Well. (‘olumbia won.

Sam. feeling light of heart and
happy, hurried homo thrtnigh the
snow late that night. ~The spirit
of Christmas was in the air. He
felt cheerful.

Sam’s dad, Mr. O’Hearn, was read—
ing his evening newspaper when Sam
stamped into the house. Mrs. O’--
llearn had gone to bed.

“Dad, I want to tell you some-
thing,” announced Sam as he pulled
a chair up to the cheery grate ﬁre.
And then went into detail about the
offer from the betting students of
Parker, how he had said he would
accept it, and then later how he had
declined. He told about the talk-
ing machine he had been intending
to buy and‘“how now, without the
funds, he’d have to give it up.

“Son,” said Mr. O’Hearn, “never
mind about the talking machine——
I’ll go ﬁfty—ﬁfty with you, and we’ll
make it a joint present to mother.
You have given me enough Christ-
mas present tonight. I’m glad to
see you’re a man, my boy. Accept
my thanks and congratulations. I'm
proud of you. Now then, let's pile
to bed, shall we?”

 

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CORN MARKET

EAR EDITOR: Regarding the

corn market situation, why is it

that the farmers as a group
can look at 'only one side of the
case? Why not take advantage of
the situation from another source?
They all well know that a bushel of
corn will not buy a bushel of coal,
besides the time of hauling the loads
both ways. You load up a load of
corn and drive several miles to mar—
ket, take the price offered and buy
a load of coal and haul it home.

Now every farmer in the whole
country should use from ten to
twenty-ﬁve bushels or more, of this
corn for fuel. You can get almost
as much fire from a bushel of corn
as the same amount of coal compar‘
ing the prices, and, after-all have
done that way, you can still sell the
balance at a price to more than cov-
er the cost of all fuel used.

If corn should go to twenty-ﬁve or
thirty cents more on a bushel, you
have not lost. Corn now being sixty
cents, twenty-ﬁve bushels equal ﬁf-
teen dollars. Later you sell one hun—
dred bushels at a thirty-cent raise.
(You see the gain of tWenty-ﬁve
bushels by the operation besides all
the saving in coal.

The miners want from eight dol-
lars a day and up, and as soon as
the farmer can get that price for
his labor with the investment includ-
ed he may be able to buy coal re-
gardless of prices. Also the up-
ward price of corn will bring up the
price of wheat and other grains.
When prices are low the taxes do
not drOp any. The price of day la-
bor does not come down any either.
Why can’t someone “talk turkey” to
the farmer as well as the dealer. It
is getting Where the law of retalia—
tion has got to be used instead of
the old way to just take your medi-
cine and call it good. Respectfully
submitted,-—-J. C. Edden, Berrien
County.

DEFENDS EIGHTEENTH AMEND-
_ MENT

EAR EDITOR:—-—There is much

talk being ﬂoated just now

about the Eighteenth Amend-
ment being inefﬁcient, and also
much criticism of our country, state
and county ofﬁcials, and so as one
individual who has lived through
both the conditions of the open sa—
loon and the present time enforce-
ment I want to say that when I con-
sider the length of time that whis-
key has ruled this world, with no
restrictions, aye, for thousands of
years, as far back as the Bible times
and before,—and then think of the
short time of law enforcement since
our people voted this country dry
it is a wonderful progress and ad—
vancement. Take the case of our
county fairs as an example. with
their crowd of thousands where one
can go in perfect safety today as
compared to the fairs during the
reign of the open saloons where
drunken men and young boys were
staggering about among the crowds,
or lying dead to the world, along the
roadside,—-somebody's father, son
or husband. As night time came on
women and children were unable to
get home, as father was drunk.

Do these conditions prevail today?
Absolutely no, only in rare cases.
Can we expect to rid ourselves in a
few years of an evil that has ﬂour-
ished ever since beginning of time?

The automobile has, in some
ways, opened the way for many
crimes, but it has always been a
great factor in helping to make the
country dry, as it is a well known
fact that automobiles and liquor can
One must go,
and cars, I believe, are here to stay.

What we need is schooling to
teach the people respect for law en-
forcement and show plainly the evil
they are carrying in their hearts.
The present attitude of some today
is pure treason to America.

The life of a boot—legger is not as
rosy as some would imagine. First,
he is a traitor to his country and is
ashamed to meet an honest man.
His life is one continual sneak. He
goesabont his business of catching
the eye-4nd pocket-book of a few

    

   

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low, degraded hole _where the sale
is made and the purchaser slinks
out.

But very few men are going to
risk imprisonment and ﬁne for what
the bootlegger has to offer, and so
as the business is dying out, the fel-
lows who have the goods to sell are
struggling hard to turn the ride
back in their favor.

If the present conditions Were
what they claim why are they mak-
ing such a. struggle to make the
change?

What We need today is an army
of workers to go among the people
and teach us patriotism, patience
and encouragement-to help'bur "of-
ﬂcers in the fulfillment of their
duty.

But there is no cause for discour-
agement, as the evil is passing, slow
but sure, and the time will soon
come when drunkenness will be no
more—Mrs. N. G., Shiloh, Michigan.

ANOTHER WRITES ABOUT
SLEIGHS

EAR EDITOR: As I have been
D interested in the sleigh busi-

ness since I was sixteen years
old, and am now forty—ﬁve, I will
endeavor to tell what I think. In
the first place for a new road you
want the sleighs to run about where
the horses walk. About the right
distance is three feet eight inches
for the average team, and if you go
wider than that you will want them
six feet wide so they will clear the
horse tracks altogether. As for
auto trafﬁc in the winter we are to
each give half of the road and what
is an auto going to do in four or
ﬁve feet of snow turning out. Please
don’t think I am knocking the auto
for I have two of them. They are
all right in their places, but that is
the garage in the winter, not out in
the country with only a single track
road—Lester Sayers, Alger County.

DON’T STOP PAPER

EAR EDITOR: I have taken

your paper for some time and

must say right here I am more
than satisﬁed with it and look anxi—
ously for its coming. I have taken
much interest in the helpful hints
and answers to questions which ap—
pear in your paper and have looked
with pride on the kodak pictures
from my fellow neighbors. If I
should forget at any time to renew
my subscription, please send me a
reminder and don’t stop the paper.
——Your satisﬁed reader, Harry H.
Smith, Alpena County.

TO LEND EXPERIENCE TO M. S.
. C.‘POTATO SHOW
EN representing the potato
growing sections of Michigan
and men who had some part
in the staging of potato shows
throughout the state this year will
assist in the management“ of the
Farmers' Week Potato Show at
Michigan State College. The tuber
show will be the final display of the
year.

H. C. Moore, potato specialist of
the extension department, is chair-
man of the committee. Other mem-
bers are: A. C. Lytle, Gaylord; E.
W. Lincoln, Greenville; V. I. Whit—
temore, Greenville; John Sims,
Caro; William Bowers, Central
Lake; Ernest Pettifor, Elmira, and
David Inglis, Van.

THE REJEOTED GOSPEL
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cially elite whose blase children
were being surfeited with gifts with-
in luxurious homes, in honor of that
woolly little imp from the North.
What biting mockery of the poor,
and what shame to allow our chil-
dren to set their aﬁections on such
unholy and unworthy notions of
Christmas! Verily, the Christ of
Nazareth is often rejected.

Where is the Christ that taught a
human unity of Jew and Greek and
bond and free? May this Christmas
exalt the Joy-Bringer who came to
carry good news to poor people, to
give liberty to the, oppressed people,
and to strengthen the weak people.
What our ‘ relationship is to these
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CATTLE AND POULTRY ON
SMALL FARDI

I have a farm of 28 acres and
wish to raise chickens and keep as
many dairy cows as possible. I have
a silo 8x30-for summer feed and in-
tend to build one 10x30 for winter.
Can I keep ten cows by keeping
them in the barn summer and win—
ter at a proﬁt? Perhaps buy grain
and raise my own roughage? What
breed of cattle would be best for
this? I have registered Holstein at
present but do not like them. I
like Brown Swiss best but would
consider Jerseys or 'Guernseys.
Please do not be afraid to tell me
just what cattle you think best. I
may sell whole milk, perhaps direct
to the customer. I am starting in
with White Leghorn chickens, but
do not intend to keep over 150 hens.
-——A. P., Goodrich, Mich.

HE number of dairy cows and

other live stock that you will

be able to carry on your '28
acre farm will depend quite largely
upon the productiveness and man-
agement of your soil and crops.
There is no doubt but there are
many locations in Michigan where
the soil is good enough to enable
one to grow all the roughage and
some grain for ten cows and 150
chickens on 28 acres. And again
there are sections where it would
require many times this acreage to
grow the needed food.

There is no question but what
you can keep your cows in the barn
and dry lot for the year and handle
them at a proﬁt. Many of our most
successful dziirymen are following
this practice. If you plan to grow
any calves for your herd it will be
necessary for you to provide them
with an exercise lot and they should
run on pasture during their second
summer if you intend to give them
the proper development.

For 10 head of cattle and the off-
spring you should provide for
about 80 tons of silage and 25 to
30 tons of hay for roughage for the
entire year. With good land in the
corn belt 8 to 10 acres would pro-
vide the corn for silage and 10 to
15 acres of land in alfalfa would
yield the necessary amount of hay.
It would be necessary for you to
buy all the grain needed for cows
and poultry. The two silos would
amply take care of the storage of
the amount of silage required.

It is impossible for me to setlle
the breed question for you or any—
one else. Many men who have Hol—
steins wouldn’t trade them for any
other breed while you seem dissatis-
ﬁed with them. You can ﬁnd other
men who own cattle of other dairy
breeds who are likewise dissatisﬁed.
There are good cattle in all breeds
and there are poor individuals in all
breeds. The selection of individual
cows is more important than the
selection of the breed in most cases.
As a general rule where one desires
to sell market milk the high pro-
ducing cow such as the Holstein is
the favorite, but where one desires
to distribute a high quality of milk
as far as butterfat is concerned or
sell cream or butter the breeds that
give a milk richer in butterfat is
usually preferred.

Another factor which should be
taken into consideration in select—
ing a breed of cattle by such men
as you with small farms and small
herds is that you should select a
breed already represented in your
community. If you should choose
a breed entirely foreign to the
breeds now in use in your neighbor-
hood you would ﬁnd it necessary to
own a bull all by yourself and if
you had neighbors with whom you
could own a bull cooperatively you
could always have the use of a bet-
ter bull at a lower cost and if a
number of your neighbors had a few
surplus cows or calves at any time
you would be able to attract buyers
who would give you a better price
for your cattle.

The success which you will make
with your cattle or poultry will be
determined quite largely by the pro-
ducing abYLlELty of the stock you keep.
There isn’ much difference in the
cost of keeping a herd of cows that
will average 6,000 pounds of milk
and a herd of the same size where

Questions cheerfully answered.)

the cows will produce 8,000 pounds

of milk per year, but there is a
great difference in the net proﬁt
they make.
with the poultry—O. E. Reed, Pro-
fessor of Dairy Husbandry, M. S. C.

VETERINARY .
DEPARTMENT

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ENL'ARGEMENT
I am asking advice about an eight
year old mare with an enlargement
on the fetlock joint. Four years ago

\ she was stamped by her mate while

resting in the ﬁeld. Her mate in
stamping ﬂies struck her with his
foot. He was not shod. She was
not lame, but I noticed at the time
that it hurt her as she held the foot
up after it was done, but when I
started to work her she did not fa.—
vor that leg any. The next day it
was slightly swelled at the ankle,
but otherwise all right. A month
or so later I noticed the joint was
a little thicker than the other, but
it gave me not trouble. Now that
ankle swells a little when in the
barn over night, but works down to
almost normal as soon as she ex-
ercises, but the joint stays a little
large. The swelling now reaches
the hock joint. She is not lame, and
appears to use that leg as easily as
the other. She is sound in every
other way and other leg does not
stock when idle. She is in good
ﬂesh, coat is smooth, eats well. I
am feeding oat hay which was cut
quite green but Well cured and free
of sand and dirt. What shall I do?
—A. D., Benzonia, Mich.

OlNDITIONS of this kind are dif-
ﬁcult to do anything with,
since this is brought about by

a more or less chronic inﬂamation
of the structures making up the
joint. This condition will likely be-
come aggravated very easily and at
some time when this animal is idle
for some time and is being heavily
fed she may develop a severe case
of lymphangitis or elephant leg; you
no doubt have seen several of them.
The best thing to do for her is to
feed her lightly when she is not
working and to see that she has
some exercise in the yard every day.
If swelling persists in the leg give
her a good laxative of raw linseed
oil and then bathe the leg thorough—
ly night and morning with ammonia
liniment. It can then be wrapped
with cotton and bandaged during
the night.

BULL NOSE

We have 12 Hampshire pigs four
months old. Six of them seem to
have growths or swellings in their
noses. It is difﬁcult for them to
breathe. We rung them all about
six weeks ago and they have had
this trouble for about a month.
There seems to be a swelling on top
of their noses and the worst cases
make a snoring sound when they
breathe. They eat well but seem
rather stunted While the rest of the
12 are doing well.—G. S., Parma,
Mich.

HIS sounds like bull nose or
snuffles; this ”ls caused by a
lowered vitality usually the re-
sult of the pigs getting a ration that
does not contain enough minerals;
then the germ gets in its work. Se-
parate these pigs and get some tank-
age and bone meal for them and
mix 15 pounds of bone meal with
each 100 pounds of tankage and
then give each pig about a pound of
this mixture per day. Keep them in
the sunlight as much as possible and
give them skimmed milk if you have
it. Feed 3. well balanced ration to
them and probably you can over-
come much of it; if not you had
best dispose of them as soon as
you determine this.

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Bull calves out of Dams up to 877 pounds fat.
Sll'ed bty Bulls whose Dams have up to 1011
munds at. The homes of bulls; Shuttlevvick May

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Golden Knight of Nordland. From Dams pro-
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GEORGE L. BURROWS or GEORGE J. HICKS,
Saglnaw. W. 8., Michigan.

FOR SALE—REGISTERED GUERNSEY BULL,
Seven mo. old. Large t pe Poland China Swine.
both sex. ARTHUR J. OOD. Dryden. Mich

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HEREFORDS_OLDEST HERD IN 0.8.

We have some good bulls for sale. Farmers 1' es.
CRAPO FARMS. Swartz Creek. Mich.mic

JERSEYS
FLYING FOX JERSEYS

for sale. Two bulls of serviceable age and ﬁve
calves two weeks to eight months of age. These
bulls are from old selected Dams and are priced so
the beginner can buy. Our herd of 27 cows
average test of . for the past month.

L. RUHSTORFER 3: SON. Kawkawlln, Michigan

EO. JERSEYS, POGls 99th OF H. F. AND

aJesty breeding. Young stock for sale. Herd

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Recomiiicndcd by one of lilicglziigiiiipsuebgartosxéowii’;
breeders. EARL WHITLOCK, R11, St. Johns, Mich.

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rain lambs. LEMON a. SONS, Dexter, Mlch.
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Bred Gilts later for spring farrow.
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quality w111 please you. Fred Berlin, Allen, Mich.

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK COCKERELS.
Standard color and shape. Bred from heavy pro-
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J. COBB, Cedar Lake, Mlchlaan.
ANGONA COOKERELS, ggEgPARD STRAIN

$1 ch.
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prices. WALTER BROS., Powhatan Point, Ohio.

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Contributions Invited—Questions Answered

TEE FARMERS OWN
, FER'HLIZER
E have talked in previous is-
vc sues of helps to a better farm,
’ but in this issue we are going

'to touch on something that every

farmer, no matter whether he is a
large or small farmer, has, and as a
matter of fact something that as a
rule, he does not take care of or
appreciate as he should, and that is
just plain barnyard manure. For
years it has been an eye-sore to some
people, but really it is the back-bone
of better yields to most of us.

Of all the crops we feed on the
farm approximately two—thirds of
them, or the fertility of them, goes
in the manure and the other one-
third goes to market as live stock or
energy in the work animals do on
the farm.

This being the case, we should see
that this fertility is not wasted as it
is in the majority of cases, but con-
served and- used to its fullest ad—
vantage. It is estimated that the
fertility wasted in the barnyards and
poor ways of handling would
amount to over $2,000,000.00 an-
nually on the farms of Michigan.
This is more, many times over, than
the value of the entire commercial
fertilizer used in the entire state
alone, but to the entire United
States in the same proportion.

The value of manure does not lie
wholly in the chemical elements
which are in its composition, in a
soluble form more or less, but in the
combination of the elements and
humus which it furnishes the soil.

Manure plays such a valuable
part in the production of crops the
world over, that it commands atten-
tion of those that wish to succeed
on the farm.

Ignorance and shiftlessness are
the reasons why more of it is not
conserved and so much of it is al-
lowed to waste on our farms. It is
true that we all can not use the
most up-to—date methods of handling
it, but we all can make an effort to
get it to the ﬁelds before it wastes.
Two of the greatest wastes in handl-
ing manure is in leashing and burn-
ing in the pile.

Horse, sheep and chicken manure
have a tendency to heat when piled
and great losses of nitrogen occur
at this time while cow and hog ma-
nure does not heat but leach out
more rapidly. The more grain one
feeds to his stock, the more valuable
the manure and the greater the
waste by poor handling.

It then stands us in hand to use
it. to the best advantage according
to the facilities we have for handling

it. ~

Probably the best method of
handling it is td‘take to the ﬁelds
as fast as made, but some times this
seems to be impossible as the place
where we wantto put it may not be

accessible or our time is taken up
,W’vrith some other farm operation, but
‘ fit We really are concerned about it

we can always find time and a place
to put it. ‘
' Sometimes we have a set notion
of where we want it and let it ac-
cumulate in the heap when we know
dOWn in our hearts that it is a los-
ﬁ deal from a conservation stand-
‘nt. But this is custom, and cus-
tom is one of the hardest things to
break away from, there is.
’The manure pit is an ideal ar-
rangement. but where one farm has

, one there are hundreds that do not.

The covered barnyard is the best
place, but again most of the farms
are a long ways from one.

But there will be a better under-
standing of these matters in the fu-

ture and an effort will ,be made on

the majority of farms to take better
care of the most valuable source of
fertility, that each feeder of live
stock has and yet so wantonly
wastes by ignorance and shiftless-
ness. »Manure is one of the great-
est helps towards raising better

.crops we have and every piace it is
,put on the soil there is always a_
(jump in the yield of the next crop.

Barnyard manure furnishes one
“with available nitrogen and potash,
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phosphorus balances the ration for
the plants we are trying to grow.

Besides the elements nitrogen,
phosphorus, and. potash, manure fur-
nishes it with humus, that much
needed matter in all soils. There
‘is hardly a soil where we have too
much humus, so we never need wor-
ry that we will get too much. Man—
ure is too big a thing to cover in one
article, but if you remember What
is said about it in this, it may help
you to be more content on the dear
old farm.

MICHIGAN HAS TOO MANY VARI-
ETIES OF, APPLES

(Continued from Page 4)

sized culls produced by this variety.

Mr. F. L. Granger, sales manager
for the Michigan Fruit Growers,
Inc., made a special plea for reduc-
tion of the number of apple varieties
in the state. He mentioned the fact
that he is sometimes called upon to
sell a carload of apples containing
as high as 34 different varieties and
said, “I defy anyone to offer a car
containing 34 varieties to the trade
and receive anything but sarcasm.
It is a horse trading proposition and
the good varieties have to be dis-
counted for the sake of getting rid
of the poor ones. We must elimin-
ate these hash varieties. They have
no value from a buyer’s standpoint
and will soon be unsalable.”

Mr. Granger declared that Mich—
igan should not grow more than six
or seven standard varities and ad-
vocated a fruit variety survey to ﬁnd
out where the “hash varities” are
located so that an eifective campaign
for their reduction can be put into
effect. He also lauded the new
"tub" bushel basket saying that it
increased the price received from
10c to 40c per bushel.

Mr. F. C. Brown of Columbus,
Ohio, gave an illuminating explana—
tion of how he markets 90 per cent
of the fruit from his loo-acre or-
chard at the roadside. Huge quan-
tities of pasturized cider are also
sold at the roadside for 80c per gal—
lon jug. Mr. Brown uses the city
mercant’s methods of display and
advertising and ﬁnds them good. He
said, “roadside marketing will be a
big factor in the solution of the fruit
grower's marketing difﬁculties, and
affords a wonderful opportunity to
come in direct contact with the fel—
low who is consuming our goods.

“The Follies of 1925” was an
open ”confessional" by the growers
of mistakes made during the past
season.

Prof. L. G. Gentner of M. S. C.
discussed the prevalence of side—
worm or sting on apples and placed
the blame on our old enemy, the
codling moth. Thorough spraying
is the remedy. The college is also
working on the possibility of using
an ovicide to kill the eggs of the
moth.

“What Happens in the Dark” as
an interesting object lesson given by
H. D. Hootman, secretary of the so—
ciety, in which he demonstrated how
the “hands along the way" take the
grower’s proﬁts as a bushel of fruit
travels from the farm to the con-
sumer.

There were many other numbers
of great interest on the program and
only lack of space prevents a full
report on each one.

The Winners of the M. S. C. stu-
dents apple judging contest were
as follows: 1, N. H. Viau: 2, 0. Rip—
per; 3, E. J. Hueser. The students
speaking contest winners were: 1,
C. D. Bittner; 2, H. B. Farley; 3,
L. B. Bregger.

The election of ofﬁcers of the so—
ciety resulted as follows: President,
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N going over the letters of many
I of our readers, especially those
joining the M. B. F.— Radio Gang

I ﬁnd that there is a great percent—
age who desire to become acquainted
with‘the construction of radio re—
ceiving circuits. Perhaps there are
many who dream that some day
they will have advanced far enough
to delve into the construction of sets
of more complicated design than I
here specify. I mean of course, sets
of the reﬂex, radio frequency, and
super-heterodyne types. It is well
to dream these things for the be—
ginner never' should attempt a cir-
cuit of-such complicated construc-
tion until he has gone through the
mill of experience. .

Pictured in the diagram accom-
panying this article is a typical bank
wound three circuit tuner of excep—
tional design. It is a laboratory
product and is much cheaper to buy
ready made than to attempt home
construction. It ”is well to note here
that many factors enter into the suc—
cesful design of a tuner, especially
those which will give maximum re-
sults under all conditions of service.
In the tuner pictured these factors
have been carefully considered.

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the set little need be said for the
pictoral diagram shows clearly the
steps that must be taken. The type
of Three Circuit Tuner used in the
particular set described is called the
BT Type B Tuner and information
regarding where it may be purchas—
ed may be had by writing to the M.
B. F. Radio Department.

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denser combined, 250 mmf. 17/2—5
Meg., $1.50; 1 rheostat to suit tube
used, $1.00; 1 single circuit or open
jack, $1.00; miscellaneous dials,
screws, wire, etc., $4.00; 1 UV—201—
A tube, $2.50; total, $19.50.

CANADA RULES 0N SQUEALING
RADIO SETS

DUCATION of fans in the proper

E operation of regenerative re-
ceivers has been undertaken by

the radio branch of the department

of marine and ﬁsheries of Canada.

It is an attempt to reduce the
amount of interference to radio re—
ception caused by squealing sets.

To get the best results from such
receivers and still keep from inter-
fering with other fans’ enjoyment,
fans are asked to follow these rules:

1. Practice on tuning powerful
stations ﬁrst and do not try to pick
up weak distant stations until you
become expert. '

2. Use both hands, one hand for
the regeneration control and the
other hand for the tuning control.

3. Keep the regeneration control
always just below the point of os—
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the'reason for using your two hands
for tuning. ,
4. If your set then acCidontally
breaks into oscillation, turn back the
regeneration control at once. . .Do
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TEN COMMANDMENTS 0F RADIO.

EN commandments for the enjoyment
and ultimate success of. radio or.
given by C. I. Udell, technical ad-

viser of “On the Air,” radio magnum.
published by station WTAB, Elgin, 11L:

1. Know your set.

2. Be sure the wires are properly coo-
nccted. '

3. Be methodical and record the. pool-
tion of each dial and switch arm to:
din‘erent stations received.

4. Be economical by using as little
battery as is consistent with clear to-
ception. ‘ "

5. Be patient.

6. Bo considerate. .

7. Be satisﬁed with local reception
when distant programs are "chopped up"
by static. " ’

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ments on your particular kind of set.

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hear. .

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signals will come in clear and your
regeneration control can then be
tuned a. little further to increase the
volume. ~ '

6. Do not force regeneration in
an attempt to obtain loud—speaker
volume from a. set not designed for
the purpose.

7. Do not force regeneration in
an attempt to hear stations beyond
the range of your set; be content
with those you can really hear.

AERIAL

How high should an aerial be?
How can I get stations outside of
Grand Rapids? My aerial is two
wires thirty-ﬁve feet long, up about
thirty feet, fastened to a poplar tree
limb to a. house chimney on a piece
of 2-inch iron pipe wired to chim—

ney.——O. R. 11., Grand Rapids, Mich-
igan.

ERIAL should be as high as you
can conveniently erect it. You
can get more stations by using

an efﬁcient set. You do not tell me
what you are using so I cannot sug-
gest any remedy. The set to use
should be regenerative, tuned radio
frequency or heterodyne. Your
aerial is too short, it should be at
least 75 feet long. One strand in
this case would be ample. Lead—in
should be from both wires.

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(We invite you to contribute your experience in raising poultry to this

department. Questions relative to. poultry will be cheerfully answered.)

JEEP BRIGHT-EYED BIDDY
“5OT~“all the hens in the ﬂock are
- ”proﬁtable. Not all the hens that

  

make a proﬁt in the'ﬁrst year
stew-bod enough to carry a second
year. Z'Most'ﬂocks carry a few culls.
All flocks have from' 20 to 40 per
cent lmediu‘m _ hens;
'that’l'a‘y‘ from 120 to 150 eggs in

'that is, hens
their pullet year. These should be
taken out at the end of their ﬁrst
laying” season. "

,The avearage ﬂock does not have

l‘m‘ore than 60 per cent good hens;
that is, hens good enough to carry

"over a second year. In such ﬂocks
40 out of every. 100 hens should be
marketed when they quit laying. Of
the 60». good hens kept, not more
than half are good enough to keep
'a third' year. And of the 30 re-
maining from the original 100, not
more than 15 are good enough to
carry a fourth year.

A hen with a bright, snappy, alert
eye, full, solid ﬂesh on the breast-
bone, a long broad back, soft, pli-
able abdomen and thin skin, is a
good hen to keep, no matter how old
she is. A hen with a dull sunken
eye, and thin on the breastbone is
not a, good hen to keep, even if her
abdomen is in fairly good condition.
On' the other hand, a hen that gets

pended upon to furnish the vitamins
but a plentiful supply of sprouted
oats or some other succulent food
should be provided. The addition of-
cod liver oil to the ration has a
tendency to improve the general
health of the bird.

"‘Any factor that will improve the
general condition of the bird or will
increase its consumption of food
will be of beneﬁt to the old laying
hens. Restriction of feed in an at-
tempt to cut ‘down costs is a very
poor policy and will only reﬂect in
poor production later in the year.”

HOUSING DUCKS IN WINTER

Will you please tell me what is
the best plan for housing ducks for
the winter, if housed at all?—Mrs.
J._ W., Frankfort, Michigan.

UCKS and geese do not ordin-

arily require housing as we or-

dinarily think of the term for
our Michigan winters.

I suggest that if you are keeping
a number of ducks, to provide them
with a roof shelter, tight on three
sides and open on the south side.
such a structure at least six feet
Wide, and well bedded with straw,
which will furnish the ducks with all
the housing they need.

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. ‘ THE HOUSELESS HEN
“The old hen sat in a leafless tree and said:
(ood Is what I ﬁnd about, I hunt for it 'till I’m frazzled out.
I do not pay. and that I ought to sing and lay.
I'll bet a half a cent, by jing, he wouldn't

and live on pickin's all the year.
.- lay from now ’till spring."

thickgin the'skin and has a thick
layer or hard, solid fat over the
abdomen, has ceased to be proﬁt-
able, no matter how good she may
have been in years past. A hen
that is very vigorous may carry con-
siderable fat so long as it is soft
and pliable; but no hen is proﬁtable
as an egg producer when her ab-
domen is covered with fat an inch
thick. -

To sum up: Get rid of weak hens,
light hens and beefy hens, no mat—
ter whether they are one year old,
two years old, or three years old. If
the whole ﬂock is weak, or too thin
or too fat, cull the poultryman.

INCREASE EGG RETURNS
spite of the high price of eggs at
this season, with the low produc-
tion and the cost of maturing
non-producing pullets, October and
November are generally unproﬁtable
months for the poultryman.

“In order to overcome this period
of depression as much as possible,
the aim in the management of the
'ﬂock should be to increase returns
as much as practicable," advises the
poultry department of the New Jer-
sey Agricultural Experiment Station.
“The use of lights on the laying
stock will tend to increase feed con-
sumption, which in turn should in—
crease egg production. A moist

-mash fed once daily in addition to

the regular supply of dry mash,
should also be of assistance. Natural
green food, usually dry and tough
at this season, should not be de-

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BLACK HEAD

We have the Bourbon Red turkeys.
and they cost us a large sum of
money. When I ﬁrst got the birds
I lost three of them with yellow
diarrhoea. Their wings droop and
they just drag around until they
die. Is there any cure for this? I
use disinfectant where they roost
and I have been giving them a tonic
which has cured several of them,
but I would like to know if there is
anything that can be given to pro-
tect the rest of them and save those
that are coming down with the dis-
ease. Some call it black head but
these do not get black—Mrs. C. F.
M.

HIS is black head and you can
try the following which should
give you results.

of bichloride of mercury in each 1
gallon of drinking water; this is a
poison and should be given only in
a glass and earthen vessel and never
in metal ones. Keep it away from
other animals and. other poultry.
You can secure these tablets at your
druggists. If you are afraid to use
this owing to the danger you can get
5 grain sulphocarbolate compound
tablets of your druggist and can use
6 of them to each gallon of drinking
water. This can be given in metal
if desired. They should be crushed
before placing in the water.——Dr.
Conn.

A wise farmer proﬁts from his own ex-
periences; a wiser farmer proﬁts from
the experiences of others.

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The purebred sire is the greatest factor
in improving the dairy herd at a low cost.
Results obtained by thousands of dairy-
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O t O

The saying "Prevention is better than
cure" is nowhere so true as on the farm.
Keep disease away by careful attention
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soon as it is noticed that they are ailing.

O O O

The scrub hen must go because she is
inefficient, lazy and ugly to look upon.
But that is not all—she does not pay her
,board bill. The block for her!

0 O 0 .

Well greased tools stored in sheds be-
speak good farmers.

0 O t

Uncle Ab says a full stomach turneth
away wrath. and he's glad there's no
law against keeping folks good-natured
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Wheat Farmers Happy Over High Prices

Large Receipts of Cattle Weakens Market
By W. W. FOOTE. Market Editor.

ferent communities vary, as

WHILE farming conditions in dif—
must always be the case, the

_ average farmer seems to be doing

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well and has no kick coming. The
Michigan wheat farmers are especial—
ly happy, as well they may be, with
such wonderful advance in priCes
as has taken place since the upward
movement started, and it really
looks as though the only farmers
who are not cheerful are those who
have an abundance of corn and de-
pend upon marketing the corn in—
stead of feeding it to live stock. It
seems strange that the Iowa farmers
do not. see the importance of pre—
paring cattle,»~hogs and sheep for
the market or else out down their
corn areas so as to avoid such a
condition as that which now con—
fronts them. There have been bank
failures in that state, and a leading
banker of Davenport said recently
that there are about a dozen )un—
ties in Iowa where banking facilities
are inadequate because of these
failures, but he reported there is
plenty of money in the state to care
for all farm credits. Of course,
these reports on the unsatisfactory
conditions do not apply to the aver—
age Iowa corn grower. and Iowa is
going to do lots of feeding, as usual.
The grain markets have developed
strength part of the time, but aside
from wheat, most. of the advance
has been in rye, which had sold ab—
surdly low in comparison with wheat
prices. Taking a broad view of the
outlook for the live stock industry,
it may be said that cattle, hogs‘ and
sheep are generally expected to make
good returns for their owners, and
as for lambs it is impossible to for-
see how high they will go. On a
late rise in prime handy weight
lambs they brought. $17.45 per 100
pounds, and feeding lambs soared
to $17, prices that few owners had
expected to see. It is extremely
fortunate for Michigan farmers that
they are so largely engaged in sheep
farming. Turning backwards ten
years. it is recalled that: the best
lambs were selling at that. time for
$9.60. Hog prices have undergone.
some set—backs of late, but they still
sell much higher than in most past
years, and the shortage is undisput—
ed. Cattle too are higher than in
average years.
High Prices for \Vheat

Every wheat farmer can recall the
dissatisfaction he felt at the time,
months ago, when the price of wheat
was hovering around $1.50 a bushel,
and not a few of them sold because
they lacked conﬁdence in the future.
For weeks the bears on the Chicago
Board of Trade had things mostly
their own way. and then a change
took place, the increasing evidence
of shortages in the world’s crops
causing good legitimate buying by
millers and others. Prices experienc-
ed some good old-fashioned booms.
moving up in a recent. week as much
as 20 cents, with the net gain 14
cents at the week's close. On the
late rise December wheat sold at
$1.82, and as the advance brought
out increased offerings, there was a
decline of several cents, but the pre~
vailing sentiment was that the crop

was gOlllU to sell at high prices.
At one time wheat was selling much
lower than a year ago, but of late

much higher figures have been paid
than at this time in 1.024, and it is
interesting to recall that a little
more than two years ago December
wheat was selling as low as $1.03.
Only a short. time ago there were
sales reported in Minneapolis of
choice Montana wheat at $2 a bushel.
It shows the change which has taken
place by stating that millers are now
the largest holders of cash wheat.
An important item is that the visible
wheat supply in this country is in-
creasing very slowly and is only 46,~
752,000 bushels, comparing with
96,461,000 bushels a year ago.
Farmers are disposed to hold their
wheat for further advances, and the
shortage in the crops of exporting
countries is much commented upon.

  
 

A short time ago December wheat
sold as high as $1.82, comparing
with $1.65 a year ago.
Corn Goes Higher

A short time ago corn sold in Chi-
cago about 10 cents a bushel higher
than at the previous low time, hope
for favorable government action be-
ing the principle cause. Later there
was a reaction, with December corn
selling at 81 cents, comparing with
$1.23 a year ago. Farmers are sell-
ing their surplus corn after ﬁlling
their cribs. Naturally, corn is be-
ing fed on farms extensively owing
to its relative cheapness. Rye has
been in a far stronger position, ad-
vancing in a recent week over 13
cents for December delivery and sell—
ing around $1.06, comparing with
$1.35 a year ago. Rye has been

common to prime beef steers sold

at..$4r.25 to $9.75. Then years ago
common to prime beef steers said at
$4.25 to $9.75. Stockers and feed-
ers declined 25 to 50 cents under
unusually large offering, country
buyers taking good ' numbers. at
$5.50 to $8.50, chieﬂy at $6.75 to
$7.75. Dairy cows sell at: $65 to
$95, not many selling above $75.
Unsteady Hog Prices
Maintaining prices for hogs is
very difﬁcult these times, despite far
smaller receipts in Chicago and
other western packing points than
in recent years, although values are
still much above those of recent
years. Chicago packers purchase
slowly most of the time, and the
main support to prices comes from
the liberal numbers taken by eastern
shippers. For the year‘ to date
the combined receipts in the seven
leading western packing points foot
up only 24,000,000 hogs, compared
with 29,271,000 a year ago and 29,-
661,000 two years ago. Hogs were

 

TUNE IN YOUIERADIO ON M. B. F. MARKET REPORTS

T 7 o‘clock on the evening of January 4th be sure to have your
radio receiving set tuned in on station \VGHP, of Detroit, because
that is the hour and the day The Business Farmer will begin

broadcasting market reports and farm news.
in on one of your neighbors who has and listen in with him.
member: The hour and day are 7:00 p. m. on January 4th.
station is \VGHP of Detroit, on a wavelength of 270 meters.
will broadcast every day of the Week thereafter,

and Sunday, at the same hour.

 

for weeks relatively the cheapest
of the grains, and it has sold at an
unusually low ﬁgure as compared
with wheat. Oats have firmed up
too, with late sales for December de-
livery around 43 cents, comparing
with 57 cents at this time last year.

Large Cattle Marketing

As is customary at this season of
the year, the movement of cattle has
been much heavier than at other
times, and prices have suffered most
of the. time, with declines of 75
cents to $1 or more in the Chicago
market in a single week. The bulk
of the beef steers sold at a range of
$8 to $11.50, with sales extending
from $7 to $8 for the commoner lots
of light weights up to $12 to $13.50
for the better class of corn fed lots,
while a sale was made of 32 head of
Angus Christmas steers sold down
to $4.50 to $6.95.

Butcher cows and heifers sold at
$4.35 to $10, canner and cutter
cows at $3.50 to $4.25 and calves
at $6 to $13.50. Ten years ago

If you have no set: drop
Re-
The
And We
except Saturday

selling one year ago at $7.40 to $10
and tWo years ago at $6.20 to $7.
Late sales were at $8.25 to $11.
The Boom in Lambs

A recent boom in lamb prices
brought about by continued inade—
quate offerings landed the choicest
handy weights at $17.45 in the Chi-
cago market, the highest prices re—
corded in a long period, with late
sales of lambs at $16.25 to $17 and
heavy weights selling— at a big dis-
count. Feeder lambs were scarce at
$15.50 to $17, with a good demand.
A year ago the best lambs were sell-

ing at $16.25, two years ago at
$13.40, four years ago at $11.40
and 10 years ago at $9.50. As is

apt to happen after a rapid rise,
there was a sharp decline in prices.

“THEAT
The market was fairly strong dur-
ing the ﬁrst half of the fortnight
but later the bears succeeded in
Weakening it and prices declined.
Students of the market declare there

 

 

THE BUSINESS FARMER’S MARKET SUMMARY

and Comparison with Markets Two Weeks Ago and One Year Ago

 

 

 

 

Detroit ‘hicago Den ‘iit Detroit
Dec. 14 Dec. 14 Dec. 1 1 yr. ago

W l i E A T—

No. 2 Red $1.83 $1.77 $4 $1.81 $1.74

No. 2 \Viiite 1.84 1.82 1.75

No. 2 Mixed 1.83 1.81 1.74'
COR-N— '

Old

No. 2 Yellow .90 .92 1.31

New

No. 3 Yellow .80 .77 $5 .91 1.26
OATS——

No. 2 \Vhito .48 .43 .43 % .44 $5 .64

1V 0. 3 White .47 .4215; @.43% .4334 .63
RYE—

Cush No. 2 1.01 1.04 .94 1.37
BEA NS—

C. H. l’. Owl. 4.85@4.90 4.05@5.00 5.25@5.30
I’O’i‘ATOES— «

New, Per th. 3.65 @ 3.80 3.20 @ 3.50 2.06 @ 3.34 .93
HA 1’ -— .

No. 1 Tim. 24.50@25 25@27 24.50@25' 17.50@18

No. 2 Tim. 21 @22 21 @24 21 @22 l5@16

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

Light Mixed 23 @ 23.50 25 @ 26 23 @ 28.50 16.50 @ 17

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, December 14.—Wheat ﬁrm and other grains unchanged. Potatoes

in demand. Poultry market active. Eggs easy.

Butter steady.

 

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is no good reason for the slump and
expect a ﬁrmer market in the'im-
mediate'future. Millers continue to
be active in the trading.

 

. . CORN

There was not much doing in the
corn market at most points last
week and prices declined. .However,
there was quiet and steady tone to
the Detroit market and prices for
new corn advanced some. Wet corn
is holding up receipts in some parts
of the country. '

c

OATS
Oats followed the trend of corn
on nearly all markets during the
week ending Saturday, December
12th, and there was a slight advance
at Detroit. '

 

 

RYE .

After showing strength at the op—
ening of the week rye became easier
and prices turned lower. In general
this grain will follow the trend of
wheat.

 

BEANS

Prices on choice Michigan hand
picked beans have declined some
compared with quotations in our
last issue. ’We are unprepared to
say or understand why prices should
decline, unless receipts of damaged
beans are heavy. One year ago
prices advanced during the past two
weeks and we believe reasons for
higher prices are just as plentiful
this year as last. Good beans should
bring more money than they do at
present.

 

POTATOES

ConsUmers are buying potatoes
rather freely at. most points and the
market is firm. Some markets re—
port a shortage of receipts, while
others have a large supplyn

HAY

Cold weather has improved the
demand for hay and even the poorer
grades are finding many takers. Re—
ceipts are not heavy, but have been
sufﬁcient to take care of the demand.

BUTTER AND EGGS

DlC’l‘ltOlT—~—l‘sutter, best creamery
in tubs 43@45c per 1b. Eggs, fresh
current. receipts. 41@42c; cold stor—
age, 34@37c per (102.

GRAND RAPIDS~——Butter, cream-
ery prints 49%,@53c per lb. Eggs
46@48c per doz.

 

POULTRY

DETROIT —_— Live poultry ~—- Best
spring chickens, 4 lbs and up, 27@
280; medium chicks, 260; Leghorns,
20@210; best hens, 5 lbs, 28c; me-
dium hens, 26@27c; Leghorn and
small, 18@200; geese, 20@21c;
large white ducks, 29c; small ducks,
25@36c; young turkeys, 8 lbs or
better, 380 lb.

CHICAGO—Live poultry—«Steady;

fowls, 17@24c; springs, 25c; tur-
keys, 32c; roosters, 16c; ducks, 83
@24c; geese, 17@19c.

SEEDS

Toledo—~Clover seed, $18.75; al—
sike, $16; timothy, $3.50.

Detroit—Clover seed, $18.75; al-
sike, $16; timothy, $3.50.

 

LIVESTOCK MARICETS

CHICAGO—~Cattle—Fed steers Weak,
generally steady; several loads of value
to sell at $10@10.50 and better; taken
off market, shOw yearlings scaling, 000
pounds, $13.25; few little steers abow
$10; best heavies, $10.50; more bid on
heavies but refused; fat. cows closing~
weak to 250 lower; heifers sharing de-
cline; other classes fully steady; heavy
bologna bulls around $5.75; vealers, $11
(1312; few upward to $l3@l3.50. Hogs
active; opened l5@25c lower; ClOSvtl
mostly, 25c off; under-Weights 25@35c
lower; packing sows declined 25((D500;
bulk good and choice 200 to 300 pound
butchers, $10.40@10.65; desirable 160 to
180 pound weights largely, $10.65@ll;
practical top, $11.10: 140 to 150 pound
selections, $11.15@11.40; bulk packing
sows, $8.60@8.80; majority better killing
pigs. $11.75@12. Sheep—Fat lambs, 25
@500 lower; tat sheep mostly 50c lower;
“feeding lambs fully 250 off; bulk better
native lambs weak to 50¢ lower; fat your.
ling wethers sharing lamb declare; bulk
better grades fat lambs. 315.7501635';
top. $16.60; several loads. autoim-
‘ycarling weth it‘d to 818" ~

  
 

   

 

  
    

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    
   

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EAST BUFFAL

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steady to strong. ' Calves—Active. un-
changed. Hogs—Slow, . . 2 5 6 50¢ lower ;
heavy,’ $10.75@11.1’0; mixed, $11.10@

11.50; yorkers, $11.50@11.75; light york-
ers and pigs, $12@12.50' roughs, $9.25
09.60; stage, $6@8. She p and Lambs-—
Slow. lambs 25c lower, $9@17; others
unchanged.

MICHIGAN CAPTURES MANY
HAY AND GRAIN AWARDS
(Continued from Page 3)
part of Michigan acreage on which
these varieties are grown was very

striking. ,

A display presented by the En-
tomology Department of the State
College brought very forcibly to the
attention of the corn belt states the
threatening lnfestationiof the corn
borer. Farmers in particular from
the corn states were eager to get all
particulars concerning this dangerous
pest.

 

Michigan Winners
Michigan's entire exhibit was
rather unusual both in presentation
and subject matter, which made it
one of much interest to those con-
nected with agriculture.

Soft nod Winter Wheat

1, A. W. Jewett, Jr., Mason; 2, L. H.
uylm. Mason; 4 Lynn Jewell, Leslie;
5, R. F. Jewett, Masom 6 A. E. Hilliard,
Mason; 8, W. V. Finkbein’er. Clinton; 9,
L. T. Lassenby, Mason; 10. Martin Peter-
son, Bruce Crossing; 12, C. C. Smith,
Coiling; 14, J. C. Wilk, St. Louis; 16,
C. D. Flnkbeiner. Clinton; 17, R. E. Mil-
ner, Cass City; 18, J. A. Wilk, Alma;
.20. A. J. Lutz, Saline; 21, Joseph A.
Travecz, Clinton; 22, J. E. Lindsley,
Saline; 24, G. P. Philips, Bellevue.

Hard Red Winter Wheat

12, J. C. Wilk, St. Louis; 28, J. A.
Wilk. Alma.

White Winter Wheat

2, L. H. Laylin, Mason; 3, ,L. T. Las-
enby. Mason; 4, A. E. Hilliard, Mason;
5, F. N. Mantey, Falrgrove. Reserve——
Lynn Jewell. Leslie.

Oats (Region 2.)

2, A. W. Jewett, Jr., Mason; 2, Lynn
Jewell, Leslie; 4, L. H. Laylin, Mason;
7, R. F. Jewett, Mason; 8, L. T. Lasen-
by, Mason; 10, A. E. Hilliard, Mason;
14, C. D. Flnkbeiner. Clinton; 15, F. H.
Mantey, Fairgrove; 17, D. E. Turner,
Mosherville; 18, P. C. Clement. Britton;
22, Leo Wooden, Hanover.

Flax (Region 1.)

10, G. W. Neumann, Pickford.

Flax (Region 2.)

1, L. '1‘. Lasenby, Mason; 2, L. H. Lay-
lln, Mason; 3, A. W. Jewett, Jr., Mason;
4. Lynn Jewell, Leslie; 5, R. F. Jewett,
Mason; 7, A. E. Hilliard, Mason; 9, J.
C. Wilk, St. Louis.

Early Oats (Region 1.)

No winnings.

Rye
1, Geo. & L. G. Hutzler, So. Manitou;
2, L. H. Laylin, Mason; 4. R. F. Jewett.
Mason; 5, L. T. Lasenby, Mason; 9, A.
W. Jewett. Jr., Mason; 13, A. E. Hilliard,

Mason; 14, Lynn Jewell, Leslie; 16, J.
C. Wilk, St. Louis; 21, Leo Wooden,
Hanover.

Barley (6 Bow.)
9, R. F. Jewett, Masonz'ls, Fritz M.
Mantey, Fair-grove; 16, Lynn Jewell, Les-

lie; 17, A. J. Lutz, Saline: 19, I. N.
Laylin, Mason.
Hay (Alfalfa)
1, L. H. Laylin, Mason; 2, A. W.

Jewett, Jr., Mason; 3, L. T. Lascnby,
Mason; 4, A. E. Hilliard, Mason; 5,
Lynn Jewell, Leslie.

Hay (Red Clover.)

1, A. E. Hilliard, Mason; 2, L. '1‘. Las-
enby, Mason; 3, A. W. Jewett. Jr., Mn-
son; 4, Lynn Jewell. Leslie; 5, L. H.
Laylin, Mason.

Hay (Timothy.)

1, A. W. Jewett, Mason; 2. L, H. Lay-
lin. Mason; 3. A. E. Hilliard. Mason;
kill '1'. Lasenby, Mason; 6, Lynn Jewell,

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1,‘ A. W. Jewett, Mason; 4, Lynn
Jewell, Leslie.
' Alsike Clover (Seed.)
7. A. J. Lutz.

Soybeans (Yellow.)
1. J. C. Wilk, St. Louis; 5, W. E. Bart-

ley, Alma; 6, L. T. Lasenby, Mason;
8, J. A. Wilk. Alma; 9, Lynn Jewell,
Leslie.

Soybeans (Any Other Varieties.)

4, -L. H. Laylln, Mason; 6, A. .
Jewett, Mason; 10. J. C. Wilk, St. Louis:
Reserve——L. T. Lasenby. Mason.

Field Peas

1, Martin Peterson, Bruce Crossing; 4.

Charles Kanop. Ewen.
Field Beans

1, Geo. C; & L. G. Hutzler, So. Manitou:
3, J. C. Wllk, St. Louis; 5, Abel Bros.,
(Dark Red Kidney). Sand Lake.

Grand Champion Bay
A. W. Jewett. Jr.. Mason.
Sweepstakes Soybosns
J. C. Wilk, St. Louis.
Sweepstakes Rye
Geo. C. a L. G. Hutzler, So. Manitcu.

 

 

 

SIDE from the tact there may be
a low barometric pressure over
or near the state of Michigan at

the beginning of this week which

will cause some rain or snow during

Sunday and perhaps Monday, the

ﬁrst half of the week will 'be gen-

erally fair.

Temperatures during Tuesday and
Wednesday will be lower than dur-
ing the previous seven days or so
but by Wednesday a sharp modera-
tion is expected.

A rising temperature at this time
with the Winds shifting southerly
will be a sure sign of coming general
rains. The balance of the week will
be stormy in most parts of Michigan
with rain or snow and wind.

Although we see plenty of precipi-
tation about Christmas time, we
would take considerable upon our—
selves if we forecast a white Christ-
mas. To us, at this writing. condi—
tions seem to favor mud or slush
rather than a pure white mantle for
belated shoppers to wade through,
at least for the more southern parts
of the state and especially, in the
larger cities where brick and stone
buildings and asphalt pavements re-
tain the heat more than bare earth
and more exposed sections.

We are looking for a sunshiny to
partly cloudy Christmas Day this
year in Michigan.

Week of December 27
P Temperatureswill moderate at be-
ginning of this week in Michigan as

the result of the near approach of a
more or less severe storm center.
During the greater part of Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday there will
be storms of rain, sleet and snow
with strong winds and it should be
no surprise if a winter thunder-
storm rumbles across the heavens
during the early stages of these
storm manifestations.

The last days of this week include
two days of the new year—1926—
and we believe that at this time the
Gods will show mercy upon the sins
ot the past year and give us a few
days of clear sunshine.

 

 

 

 

  
   
 
 
   
   

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Can You Find The Twins?

There are eighteen girls pictured
TWO, and only two ohthem are alike in every way.
hoates. . See if you can ﬁnd them.

To be sure they al look alike. but examine them closer. You
one diﬂers in some way from all the
In some the di erenoe may be in the dnr
on the brim of the hat. or the trimmi
or hot .
No, it's not as easy as it colts.

SEND N0 MONEY—6031’s NOTHING TO TRY
FIND THE TWINS—Send in your answer: It‘s all free. No listof
Old! to wrl 0 send In, nothing . rst rlze 8500.
2 e :2 . etc One hundred in all. duplicate N105 In case
of ties, an In ad tion. valuable Bonds will also be given. Find
oso t en you vs than. cut them out and submlt your
answer soon as bio. In awarding the prises. Judges will take

as pom!
into consideration. cosmos. lo. bond as.
31.3131: 31. 1926, and only

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in Feed Mill construction. They
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BUSINESS FARMERS EXGHAIGE

RATE PER WORD—One Issue 8c, Two
Issues 15c, Four Issues 250.

No advertisement less than ten words.-

Groups of ﬁgures. initial or ubbrevm-
rum count as one word. . _

(‘usll in advance from all advertisers in
this department. no exceptions and no
:lisz-omlts. _
precccdln‘:

Forms close Monday noon

date of issue. Address:
MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER.
Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

 

 

 

FARM LANDS

A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY FOR. YOUNG
farmers and others who have only a little cash.
Highly cultivated, irrigated farms some with bmld-
ings in Arkansas Valley Colorado on payments
less than rent. Only 10 per cent down and 341/;
cars to pay balance ‘b‘A per cent interest. These
ands have been cultivated for émst 20 years and
tons alfalfa. 10

tons beets, 49 bushels barley, 77 bushels cats.

39 bushels spring wheat. 47 bushels winter wheat.
Local milk condens-

Dairy operations attractive.
cries and creamenes assure constant market.
Feeding lambs and other live stock proﬁtable.
Swine bring excellent prices when br for early
fan-owing and early market. Beet sugar inc-
tories contract for all beets grown making beets
an attractive cash crop. Alfalfa and ﬂouiI ulnlls
O( Pi’ll

' elevators furnish local market.
231900 :Alnand churches. Good roads, excellent
climate. This opportunity and the reasonable

terms will make you independent in a few years.
We are not in the land busmess and are anxious
to get the best of our lands in hands of good
farmers who will cultivate same to best advantage
to themselves and this community. For full par-
ticulars write American Beet Sugar Co.. 27 Land
Bldg" Lamar, Colorado,\v\

FARM MINNESOTA, DAKOTA,
OmantaAna, Idaho. asshin‘gton or Oregon. Crop
payment or ens térms. Bree hterature;_ mention
state. . W. Mv‘erly, 90 Northern Paciﬁc Rail-
way, St. Paul. mn.
FOB SALE—80 ACRES BEST

Well and buildings. Orvii Strong,
Michigan. .

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HELP WANTED

A PAYING POSITION OPEN TO REPRESENT“

ative of 0 meter. also order shoes-hosiery
direct to wearer. and income. Permanent.
Write Now. Tanners Shoe Mfg. 00., 11-187 C
Street. Boston. nss.

DURING SPARE HOURS EARN BEAUTIFUL

Xmas resents including Dolls. Buggies, Watches,
Skates [got Balls Boxing loves Coaster Wagons,
Bob Sle h‘s, Sweaters. etc. Get further details and
beautifu catalo b writinﬂ today to—fI’iouecr
Tea Company, 99 Gratlot Ave., Detrmt, Mich.

EARN $50.00 TO $75.00 WEEK ON. OUR
. eeting card proposition. Now is the time to
selfizethcm. onu garganworg’i duringT spar8 hours.

coda or e 3— cheer es ompan ,
Eros Gratigt Ava. Detroit. Mich. ’

POSITION WAN TED

WANTEHOSITION AS FOREMAN
rm. f oierences. 67D
Buren St., Battle

0 I
eek, Mich.
' MARRIED . com D,
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PURE BRED CHICKS FROIM‘STATE ACCRED~

itcd stock. l-‘ourtccn vunchcs. Poultry Man-
ual Free. .Stouﬂer Egg Farm, Route 25. Mount
Morris, Illmms.

READY TO LAY SINGLE (70MB \VIII'I‘E LEG-
born pullcts, $1.50. Ella Whitwood. lludson, IlL

BARRED ROCK COOKERELS LAYING STRAIN.
Mrs. Martin Mcycrs, R1. Hemlock, Mich.

THOROUGHBRED S. C. RHODE ISLAND RED
cookercls $".00. I‘ullcts nnd ycurling hens
Mrs. Rush, Alma, M1ch.

SAVE MONEY BY SIIII‘I'ING YOUR TURKEYB

 

 

 

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eggs, I’oultr and Rabbits to a Real Firm with
an Outlet. yler-Mnban Company, 832 West
Lake Street, and 202 North Green Street. Lo-

cated in the very heart of the great (list 'b .
market——Chicsgo, Illinois. 1‘1 llting

GIANT BRONZE TURKEYS. GOLD BANK

strain. Choxce young Toms and hens. Ready
for shipment. Order your breedin stock early.
Mrs. Perry Stebbms, SilTilllllC. Mic ligan.

Emmwooo GIANT nnowzm TURKEY'S.
Thoroughbred, bcst strains. Vigorous and

large. Toms $12; Hons $N. Mrs. Edgar Case.

R2, Benzomn.

Mich.
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. Ii R O N Z E
curly l)ll“l3_ from A<l stock.
Caledonia, Mich.

TURKEYS CHOICE,
Mrs. Ralph Shark.

 

BOURBON

RED TURKEYS.
Mary

loin-om, lerlette, Mich.

5 l 0 AND
Mich.

REGIS'I‘EIUCI)
Intruc Vigorous,

 

TOMS,

Y()l".\"(l \‘Vlll'I‘l'l HOLLAND
$l2.50. U. l Hartford,

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D211.

ﬁnders. Catalogue. Kaskaskeunols,
rick. Ill.

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TIIURTlY \I’EARSH EXfl’EIllENCE,
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Levi Furnsworth. New London. Ohio.

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TOBACCO
LEAF TORACCOeCIIEWING 5 LBS. 1.50.
ten $2.50; smoking 5 lbs. $1.25. ten 2.00.
Guaranteed. I‘uy when delivered. I’ipe Free

United 'l‘obncco Grow-rs, I‘mlucnh, Ky.

 

KENTUCKY HOMESI’UN TOBACCO—FOUR
pounds chewing or ﬁve smok‘m' $1.00 post
paid. Clements nnd \Vettstain, bombers, Ky.

 

IIOMESI‘IIN TOBACCO: (lllI‘IW'ING, FIVE LBS.

$1.50. Smoking, tellK$i.Sli. l‘uy when received.

 

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LOOK HERE! GUARANTEED, FRAGRAN’I‘.
mellow, rich, homcspun tobacco. Five pounds

chewmg, $150; smoking. $1.25.

. Sum lea. l0 .
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HOMESI’UN TOBACCO: CHEWING FIVE LBS.
$1.5 ; ten $2.50; smokm 5 lbs. $1.25; ten

$2.00. Cigars 50 for S2. 0. Pa when re-

ceived. Farmers Association, Maxon hiills, Ky.

 

 

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WONDERFUL NEW BATTERY CIIARGLVG
Super—Electrolyte. When simply poured 11m,
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Gallon free to agents. Mickman COL” (SE-(1111:3113,
Minnesota.

CHRISTMAS ORANGES ASSORTED BOXES

containing 48 Oranges, l) Grapefruit, 48 Kunr
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lrepaid. $5.50. Address, 'l‘nylols ”roves, 1;,“
282, Tampa, Fiorldn. -

CASII PAID FOR. FALSE TEETH, PLATINUM,
old lmigucto llOlnIS, discarded Jewelry and old
Mull to, llokc & Ilcllnlnu (30..
Mic-111mm.

01¢ Enrolling

tseco.

EASY TO SELL GROCERIES. PAINTS, LUB-
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ence unnecessary. 63 years in business. Loverm

l; Browne, 1785 So. State, Chicago.

BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM FOREST.
Car lot prices delivered to your station. Ad-

dress M. M. Care Michigan Business Farmer.

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