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tive organizations. Thin school dif-

s fer-ed from a conference in that 3."
deﬁnite outline was followed and a“

deﬁnite series of lectures, or.talks,
were given by "men prominent in, co-
operative affairs. These men gave,

, an inspiration toward cooperation as
wet}. as a wealth of. information and -
experience concerning the work..

Main interested primarily in market-
ing of fruit listened to men who are
concerned mainly with been market-

. ins... Each gained from the experi-

ence. and suggestions of the other.
It was indeed a most excellent way in
which to bring out the general prin-
ciples of cooperation which apply to

., all why organizations.

Mr. e. EL Christensen from the

* Bureau at Agricultural Economics,
. Washington. D. o. and. Walter..Peteet,

Secretary" of the National council of
Farmers Cooperative Marketing As-

fooci-ations, brought the national

viewpoint of cooperative affairs.

, Michigan’s great. federated market-

ing organizations were represented
by H. L. Barnum of the Michigan Po-
tato Growers Exchange, B. F. Beach,
Ass’t. Sec'y. of the Michigan Milk
Producers Ass'n., L. E. Osmer, Man-
ager of the Michigan Elevator Ex-
change, and F. L. Granger, Sales
Manager for the Michigan Fruit
GrOWers, Inc. No less interesting
were the‘ talks given by managers of
local co‘operative organizations and

~by individual members of locals.

The whole school is bound to im-
prove and further farmer coopera-
tion in Michigan.———C. K.

LIVESTOCK JUDGING CONTEST
HE livestock judging contest, ﬁrst
used in connection with the
1.924 Farmers’ Week, steadily
gains in: popularity. This year over
200 contestants tookpart during the
two mornings. E 9. ch contestant

judges rings of dairy cattle, beef:

cattle, horses, sheep, and swine. To

be able therefore to win is proof of i

all-arbund ability as a judge.

0n the basis of work done in all .

the classes the following were win-

~ ners: First, Fred Hampton. Bell-

vue; Second, Ferris Foster, Rives
Junction; Third, E. M. Moore, Ma—
son; Fourth, F. W'eifenbach, Beulah.

Winners in the "horse judging

' were: First, F. D. King-Charlotte;

Second, S. H. Pangborn, Bad Axe;
Third, Sherman Reed, Richland.
Beef cattle judging winners were:
First, Ray Wonser, Mulliken; Sec-
ond, Fred ' Weifen‘bach, Beulah;
Third, S. H. Pangborn, Bad Axe.
Winners in the dairy cattle judg-

ing were: First, Robert Hunt, Eaton j

Rapids; Second, H. Taylor, Coral;
Third, W. Lute, Saline. "

The following won in sheep judg-
ing: First, Floyd Cannaday, Eaton

Rapids; Second, H. C. Skinner, Diag,‘

mondale; Third, Kenneth Wagar,
Carleton.

In the swine judgingthe winners =
were: First, Ferris Foster, Rivesj

Junction; Second, 0. E..- Matoon, Du-

rand; Third, Ernest Barnard, Port-3

land.—~C. K.

HOMEMAKERS CONFERENCE
- HIS year saw a larger enrollment

than ever before in the portion ,

of Farmers' W'eek devoted to

' homemakers. At each session the“
Little Theatre in the Home Econom- .

1433 building ﬁlled with women who

: - were intensely interested in better
- , things for the homes. ,

. As usual the topics- for this con- .
. forence dealt, to some extent, with
' , foods, diet, nutrition, clothing, and
5 ‘ sewing but considerabtevtime Was al-
. ‘ so given to other topics which are of
“i vital interest. Teachers from the

Merrill-Palmer school, Detroit, ‘dis-

' cussed such» topics as, "The Nursery

School”, and "Habit-Training for the

Pro-School Child", "Innocent Disease '
Carriers" was discussed by Dr. Olin

of the State Health Department.

Music appreciation was also an in-

teresting and proﬁtable part of the

programs.——-C. K. «

 

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’7 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 19267

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Annual State Farm Bureau Meet Big success

Splendid Addresses, Consideration of Resolutions, Complete Reports,

VHERE is no question but what
the 1926 Farmers’ Week was
the greatest ever held at East

Lansing. It was appropriate that
the Eighth Annual State Farm Bu-
reau‘ , meeting held in connection
with this Farmers’ Week should
eclipse all‘former annual meetings
From
point of view of numbers, loyalty,
optimism, noted speakers and social
good time, new and unprecedented
records were set.

High points in the two-day session
were the very complete annual re-
port presented by Secretary-Manager
C. L. Brody, an address by Sam H.
Thompson, president of. the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation, the
consideration of resolutions,. the
election of ofﬁcers for the coming
year, the first annual Farm Bureau
banquet with after-dinner addresses
by Lucius E. Wilson of Chicago,
President of the General Organiza-
tion Company, and Mrs. Charles W.
Sewell, chairman of the Home and
Community Work of the Indiana
Farm Bureau, and the old—time
dance following the banquet pro-
gram, with an orchestra headed by
“Jep” Blsbee furnishing the music.

Delegates and other Farm Bureau
members attending the annual con—
vention ﬁlled the large assembly
room on the fourth ﬂoor of the Agri—
cultural Building to overﬂowing.

The special attraction for the
Thursday afternoon meeting of the
Farm Bureau convention was the ad-
dress by Sam H. Thompson of 111-
luois, president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation.
Summarims Agricultural Conditions

President Thompson made a
statesmanlike summary of agricul-
tural conditions and touched upon
the agitation for legislation to deal
with the problem of agricultural
surpluses. He declared:

“The American farmer, must get
an American price for his products
it he 'm to longer. maintain an Ameri—
can standard of living. In the A. F.

and‘Dance Feature Two-Day Session
By STANLEY M. POWELL

Lansing Correspondent of THE BUSINESS FARMER.

B. F. ofﬁce we are devoting every
energy to ﬁnd a solution to this
problem. We are not stubbornly de-
manding any one plan. We are
eagerly studying every proposal
that is made. And out of all this
agitation is coming consciously or
unconsciously a new agricultural
policy to replace the old one, which
is so badly out of joint with the
world about us. The degree, to
which the farmers of the land are
able to inﬂuence the nation in the
adoption of that policy depends en-
tirely on the extent to which they
are organized, and speak with a
united voice on their problems.”

_ The Secretary—Manager’s report
presented by C. 'L. Brody was char—
acterized by an evident desire to
give the delegates and other mem-
bers a cemplete understanding of
the affairs of their organization, its
achievements, the difﬁcult problems
with which it has to deal and the
present status of the organization.

Brody Reviews Past Year

Reviewing the past year, Mr.
Brody said: “No other year in Farm
Bureau existence has been more
fruitful in developing in our depart-
ments, county and local organiza-
tions, and in the members them-
selves the ability to intelligently
analyze the problems of the farmer
and his organization. The activi—
ties of the Farm Bureau, from the
member through the county and
state organizations to our Ameri—
can Farm Bureau Federation, are
now prompted by sound and season-
ed judgment, to a degree that was
an impossibility in the earlier days
of the Farm Bureau.”

Mr. Brody declared that the
strength of the Farm Bureau move-
ment is measured by two things—
membership and morale. He said:
“The membership is the source of
the physical and spiritual susten-

ance of the Farm Bureau. It pro-
duces ﬁnancial food in the way of
membership dues and creates an in-
terest and morale in the minds and
hearts of thousands of Michigan
farmers and their families, who
collectively constitute the very soul
of the Farm Bureau.

“The ﬁnances, of course, are im-
portant and absolutely essential, but
what is of more fundamental con—
cern is the proper preparation of the
individual and his consecration to
the duties, obligations, and oppor—
tunities of Farm Bureau member-
ship. The volunteer workers’ mem-
bership campaign accomplishes both
these objects simultaneously, and,
as is the case with Chambers of Com-
merce and numerous organizations
in other walks of life, there is now
no question that the membership
campaign will be a permanent func-
tion in the life of the Farm Bureau.”

It was signiﬁcant of the enlarged
program of the Farm Bureau move—
ment in Michigan that at this Eighth
Annual-Meeting a birthday party in
the form of a banquet and old-time
dance was staged for the entertain-
ment of the delegates and other
members. This party was held
Thursday evening in the new Union
Memorial Building at the College,
and was attended by 722 Farm Bu—
reau boosters from all parts of the
state.

The ﬁrst after—dinner speech was
given by Lucius E. Wilson of Chi-
cago, president of the General 01‘-
ganization Company, and was broad~
cast over the College Station VVKAR.
He traced the history of the Farm
Bureau movement, and showed how
at ﬁrst it was interested solely in
production problems, but that later
it had taken up the matter of mar-
keting, and now had enlarged its
program to take in a broader ﬁeld
of interests.

Big Banquet

The second speech on the banquet
program was given by Mrs. Chas. W.
Sewell, chairman of the home and
community work of the Indiana
Farm Bureau Federation. Mrs.
Sewell chose as her topic “Why I
am glad I maried a farmer." Her
address was ﬁlled with sound phil-
osophy and high idealism, but it is
unquestionably true that it was her
wonderful personality and the fact
that she spoke out of her own ex-
perience that made her words sink
so deep in the hearts of her hearers.

Following the banquet speeches,
the chairs and tables were removed
and “Jep” Bisbee, Michigan’s cham-
pion old—time ﬁddler, and his or—
chestra furnished the music for one
of: the most enjoyed and unique
dancing parties ever held. The spac—
ious Union ball—room proved all too
small for the Farm Bureau people
who wished to participate in the re-
vival of the oldtime steps.

Adopt Resolutions

Practically all of the Friday fore-
noon session was devoted to the
consideration of resolutions which
will embody the Farm Bureau's pro—
gram for 1926. The carefully pre-
pared report of the resolutions com-
mittee was adopted without any
great change although many of the
planks precipitated considerable dis—
cussion. The outcome of the com
sideration of these matters was the
adoption of 38 resolutions compris-
ing the Bureau’s stand on state and
national legislation, and other issues
of vital concern to agriculture.

In matters of national legislation
the delegates urged the prompt com-
pletion of the Great Lakes—St. Law-
rence Waterway project; protested
against further diversion of Lake
Michigan water through the Chicago
Drainage Canal; urged energetic en-
forcement of the prohibition law;
favored the national standard con—
tainer bill; the Capper Truth -In—
Fabrics bill; the Gooding—Ketchum
bill requiring the staining of red
clover and alfalfa seed to show or-

(Continued on Page 19)

Michigan Horticulturists Dedicate New Building and Hold ShOw

By HERBERT NAFZIGER

Editor Fruit and orchard Department, THE‘BUSINESS Fumes

"([0332 new Horticultural Build—
ing is ﬁnished and we are
proud to say that it is the
ﬁnest and best equipped of its kind
in the United States.” This state-
ment by Dr. V. R. Gardner of M. S.
0. gave expression to the feeling of
pride with which the members of
the Michigan State Horticultural So-
ciety gathered at M. S. C. on the
morning of February 3rd for the
ﬁrst meeting ever held in the new
horticultural building.

The building, with its excellent
equipment, owes its existence to the
inﬂuence of the Horticultural Soci-
ety and to this organization’s de—
mand for improved experimental

facilities at M. S. C. for the better—

ment of fruit growing in Michigan.
Especially to be remembered, in this
regard, is the enthusiasm and per-
sistence of the late T. A. Farrand,
former secretary of‘the Society, to
whom, in the eyes of many, the
building stands as a. memorial.
Consequently “it ,is altogether
fitting and just” that the Michigan
State Horticultural Society should
be allowed the honor of holding a
meeting, in this house of its own
creatiOn, before the formal dedica-
tion of the building. .
The meeting was typically busi-
nous-like and proﬁtable and was

" held in .a‘model lecture-room seat-
’ ‘ - In which is called

Word signify to Michigan fruit grow-
ers? -

Professor E. C. Auchter, of the
University of Maryland, says it may
mean the difference between proﬁta-
ble,.fruit laden trees and complete
crop. failure.

In our older orchards, Professor
Aucter points out, the matter of
blossom fertilization was not a ser—
ious problem, due simply to the fact
that these orchards contained many
varieties and inter—pollination was
thus easily accomplished. The mo—
dern fruit grower, however, know—
ing that it does not pay to plant
many different varieties often goes
to the other extreme of planting
large blocks solidly to one variety.
Professor Auchter stated that there
is grave danger in this practice and
cited many actual instances where it
has resulted in complete crop fail-
ures.

Some Varieties Self-Fertile

Some varieties are self-fertile
having the power of setting fru1t
with their own pollen, Others are

self-sterile, being unable to set any

fruit without pollen from another
variety and between these two ex-
tremes are many which are partially
self-fertile and may set a light crop
own pollen. All varieties

 

tile one are improved both as to set-
ting and quailty by interpollina-
tion.

By way of complicating this al-
ready complicated problem certain
varieties are inter—sterile; that is
they cannot fertilize each other and
may yet be good pollinizers for
many other varieties.

“Phew!” says the average fruit
grower, “How are we going to side-
step all of these snags?”

The only way, states Professor
Auchter, is by careful experimental
work and much valuable work of
this kind has already been done. In
hunting a pollinizer for a certain
variety, the problem is to ﬁnd an—
other variety which blossoms at the
same time, is a good pollen produc—
er, and has an afﬁnity for the var'ety
to be pollinized.

SOme of the apple varieties which
have been found to be self— sterile
are Delicious, Cortland, Golden De-
licious, Gravensté‘in, King David,
McIntosh, Opalescent, Stayman
Winesap, Wolf River, Rhode Island,
Greening, Twenty Ounce, Northern
Spy, Ben Davis, Roxbury Russet.

Some of those declared self-fer-
tile are Grimes Golden, Maiden
Blush, Early Harvest, King, Yellow
Transparent, Wealthy, Yellow New-
ton. ,
Among those“ which are partially

self—sterile are, Baldwin, Johnathan,
Gano, Duchess, Red Astrachan, Can—
ada Red, Wagener.

The following were declared good
pollenizers for the Northern Spy:
Early Williams, Mother, Delicious.

For McIntosh: Delicious, Grimes
Golden, King, Mother, Delicious.

For Johnathan: Delicious, Grimes,

MclIn-tosh, Wagoner, D u c h e s s,
Wealthy, Winter Banana, Yellow
Transparent.

For Delicious: Grimes, Johnathan,
Wealthy, Yellow Transparent.

For Stayman VVinesap: Grimes,
Johnathan, Wealthy, Delicious, Mc-
Intosh, Yellow Transparent.

Grimes Golden was declzued to be
a very good pollinizer for most va—
rieties, while Stayman Winesap is a
poor pollinizer for all varieties.

Professor Auchter cited one case
in which three trees of Stayman
Winesap properly ‘ pollinated pro—
duced more fruit than a SU-acre
block which had no other varieties

to fertilize the blossoms.

As an emergency measure it was
declared advisable to cut ﬂowering
branches and set them in pails of
water here and there in the orchard
together with hives bf bees to carry
the pollen.
top—work at least one out of every
thirty trees in the orchard to a good;
pollinizer. ’

As an aid to pollinization the

growers were warned not to depend. "

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Annual Event at M. S. C. Declared “Best Ever Held” by Visitom at East Lansing

HARACTERIZED by all as “the
best Farmers' Week that Mich-
igan has ever seen,” the 1926

Went was held February 1 to 5 at

_ East Lansing.

From all parts of Michigan they
come, some seven thousand farmers,
tarmers' wives, and their boys and
gas, to attend the annual Farmers’

eek at East Lansing. As usual,
the hospitality of the Michigan State

College was complete. Laboratories,
shops, class rooms, barns, green-
houses, radio room, in fact all

buildings, were thrown open for the
convenience and entertainment ofthe
thousands of visitors.

Each year sees a new building
added to the group of splendid build—
ings now adorning the campus. This
year there were two such newly
completed structures, the Union
llemorial building and the Horticul-
tural building. The Union Memorial

building, as its name implies, is a

memorial to the men of Michigan
State College who served in the
great world war and particularly to
those who made the supreme sacri-
ﬁce in that conﬂict. The Union
building is a gift from thousands of
alumni, former students, and friends
of the college, whose contributions
built and furnished the building.
Standing just to the east of the en-
trance to the college, the Union
building was a service center for the
thousands of visitors. In it were
the Grange headquarters and also
the School of Methods conducted by
that organization.

Farmers’ Week programs are nev-
er the same. Each year sees the em-
phasis placed on different subjects.
The high lights for 1926 were Fairs,
Livestock and Horticulture. While
these censtituted the main themes,
almost every branch of Michigan
agriculture was reached in some
worthwhile address or discussion.

Special mention should be made

V of the entertainment furnished on

the various programs by the stu-
dents of Michigan State College. The

, college band. the college orchestra,

the glee club, the varsity quartette,
and numerous vocal and instrument-
al numbers added greatly to the en-
Joyment of the programs and also
brought to notice the fact that the
college is giving many of its students
training in many arts other than
those included in the regular aca-
demic courses.

The afternoon general session on
Tuesday began with the topic, “The
Future Horse," discussed by Ralph
8. Hudson, Superintendent of the
college farm and also of the horse
department. Mr. Hudson pointed
out the fact that Michigan's horse
population had dropped from 606,000
in 1920 to 495,000 in 1925, a de-
crease of about 18 per cent in the
6 ’years. This same condition is
said to prevail in all parts of the
United States. Few colts are being
reared and where there were, in
1920, about two million horses less
than 2 years of age in the United
States, the number of young horses
had dropped in 1925 to less than
one million. Mr. Hudson pointed
out that there is no longer much de-
mand for the dual purpose horse as
the truck and auto has taken the
place of the light horse. He advis-
ed the raising of horseswhich would
weigh 1500 to 1700 pounds. The
whole United States is facing an
acute shortage in heavy horses and
this kind is certain to bring a high
price. Mr. Hudson urged Michigan
breeders to take advantage of the
present opportunity of making good
proﬁts by producing the type of
horses which will soon be in great
demand.

An optimistic note was sounded
on the same program by Dean R. S.
Shaw of the M. S. C. It was point-
ed out that the great diversity of
Michigan agriculture saved it from

_ greater losses during the post-war
depression and that the same factor

‘now helping it to build up more
rapidly than other states. “I am op-
timistic about the prospects for eg-
riculture," said Dean Shaw, “I do
not expect to live to see a better
pportunity for purchasing good
‘m lands than has existed during
I and the past year.” In 1925 it

   

 

  

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was found that Michigan had 15,000
less farms than in 1910 and 4,000
less farms than in 1920. Dean Shaw
accounted for this decrease in farms
by saying that present farm owners
are buying up other farms and con-
solidating them with their present
holdings.

He considers that this trend to
increase the size of the average farm
is a good one because it permits a

diversity of crops which is not pos- .

sible on the farm of 90 to 100 acres.
Another hopeful thing for Michigan
was seen in the fact that of the
192,000 farms in the state 161,000
are owned by the man Who operate
them. In the past year the number
of farms in Michigan operated by
managers has decreased 50 per cent.
Dean Shaw further advised that
farmers go slow on buying so long
as the farmer’s dollar, expressed in
the value of his products in compari-
son with other prices, is worth only
86c. ,

“Signs of the Times in Animal
Husbandry,” was the subject of an
address by,W. C. Coffey, Dean and
Director of Agriculture for the Uni-
versity of Minnesota. He. charac-
terized the recent depression as an
“economic cyclone," one of which
invariably follows every war. “Shall
we build again on the devastated
areas?”. is the question which
American farmers are now asking.
Dean Coffey pointed out the need
for using good land only and for ef-
ﬁcient methods of production as
there is no room for carelessness
under present economic conditions.
In the livestock industry the need
for combining utility and show ring
standards, for proliﬁcacy, disease
control, and quality was emphasized.
Dean Coffey commended especially
cow testing associations and cooper-
ative marketing. “One of the great
needs at the present time,” he said,
"is education." In this connection
he pointed out the great work of the
boys' and girls’ clubs in the United
States.

Fair Day

While fairs of various kinds re-
ceive occasional mention on Farm-
ers' Week programs there has never,
at least in the last decade, been a
program devoted entirely to the af-
fairs of fairs. The 1926 M. S. 0.
Farmers’ Week program did even
better than this and gave an entire
day for the discussion of fairs, both
county and state, and methods for
improving them and making them
of greater service to the public.

The general session on the after-
noon of Fair Day Wednesday,
brought out a huge attraction and
by the time his excellency arrived
the building was packed with Farm-
ers’ Week attendants.

On the afternoon' program was
Dean R. S. Shaw who warned his
hearers that the college cannot be-
gin to do all of the things which the
various fairs are asking of it. He
suggested that fairs make use of
the material right at hand, either
in their own counties or in adjoin-
ing counties, such as certiﬁed seeds,
better livestock, and cow testing as-
sociation exhibits. He urged that

.Bureau of Dairying,

the help of county agricultural
agents be enlisted and also pointed
out the value of exhibiting the
work of the Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs.

Speaking on the same program,
Pres. K. L. Butterﬂeld gave as the
outstanding characteristics of the
fairs of 40 years ago the following
four points;
seeing; 2, Competition, as a spur
toward improvement; 3, Festival, the
good time feature;
ually given by prominent men. '

Dr. Butterﬂeld expressed the
thought that possibly some of these
old time features might be empha-
sized in the present day fairs. Some
of the modern fair attractions were
classed as bad, cheap and vulgar and
it was suggested that games, athletic
meets, etc. could be substituted for
the former to good advantage. Pro-
fessional exhibitors were said to in—
jure a fair because they discourage
the amateur exhibitors
obliged to show in the same classes.

Dr. Butterﬁeld closed by stating that‘

fairs, as a means of education, have
come to stay and urged that the fes-
tival idea be given greater promin—
ence.

The huge crowd gave Gov. A. J.
Groesbeck a hearty reception when
he rose to speak. The governor dis—
posed of the state fair topic about
as abruptly as he handled the recent
state fair situation. “After 3 of. 4
years study,” said he, “we came to
realize that the state fair needed a
thorough house—cleaning—«and it got
it.” The governor then,la1’1’nched
into a discussion of state aﬁairs.

T. H. Broughten, Director of the
appeared for
L. Whitney Watkins, Commissioner
of Agriculture, who was ill. Mr.
Broughton stated that the reorgan-
ized Board of State Fair Managers
is anxious to do everything possible
to build up the Michigan State Fair
and that the new managers will give
personal attention to its direction.
Committees on Finances, Conces-
sions, Agriculture, Industry, and
Public Relations, have been appoint-
ed to handle those matters. The
state fair grounds have been opened
to the public and skating rinks have
recently been constructed. Mr.
Broughton also stated that the pre-
mium lists are now being revised
and urged that all who are interest-
ed would give suggestions for im—
proving the lists.

Michigan will entertain the Na-
tional Dairy Show at Detroit on Oc-
tober 9 to 16, 1926, according to
Prof. O. E. Reed, head of the M. S.
C. Dairy Department. Prof. Reed
pointed out the great opportunity
which this gives to Michigan both to
stimulate and build up its dairy in-
dustry and also to advertise to the
world its dairy products and its
dairy cattle.

Chester" M. Howell, Secretary of
the Michigan Association of County
Fairs, described a fair as “the show
window of all that is good, inter-
esting, and educational in agricul-
ture and industry.” By authoriza-
tion the legislature is now ex-
pending $75,000 annually as aid to
county fairs and an additional $75,-

Hillsdale Farmer Champion Corn Grower

RNEST GILBERT of Waldron,
Hillsdale county farmer, was the
champion corn grOWer in Michi-

gan in 1925.

He produced 112 bushels of shell-
ed corn to the acre in the statewide
contest under the point auspices of
the Michigan Crop Improvement as-

sociation and Michigan State college.

Announcement of the winners was
made Thursday at the general Farm-
ers" Week session at the college by
Prof. R. D. Rainey of the farm crops
department.

Gilbert’s crop is equivalent to 224
bushels of ears to the acre and it is
doubtful whether many farmers in
the corn belt states obtained a larger
production.

Willard Hilton of Goldwater, a

 

Branch county farmer, was second.
His crop went 105 bushels of shelled

    

corn to the acre, equivalent to 210
baskets of ears.
Britton had the third highest yield,
his crop going 100 bushels of shelled
corn to the acre.

Under the rules of the contest,

I however, the highest yields to the

acre were not the chief factors in
determining the contest winner.
Each contestant was required to keep
an accurate record of his production
cost and the awards \' ire made on
the basis of lowest net cost a bushel.
The records covered a ﬁve-acre plot.

Mr. Gilbert had the lowest bushel
cost as well as the largest yield.
Second lowest bushel cost was re-
ported by George Putnam of Britton,
but he was not second highest in
prpduction. Paul Clement was third
lowest in 60st and third highest in
production. .

      

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the latter mount $50, 000 is used en—
tirely for premiums.

Features of Banquet

“Fairs” continued to be themain
topic of discussion at the “Greater
Michigan” banquet held Wednesday
evening.
the banquet’room of the Union Me-
morial building in one of the largest
banquets ever held on the campus»
Prof J. F .Co,x toastmaster, intro-
duced Pres. Butterﬁeld who in turn
introduced Gov. Groesbeck. The
governor cOnﬂned .his discussion al-
most entirely to matters of highway
contstruction and the special session

One of the features of the evening

One of teh featuers of the evening
was the talk by Mr. Ira H. Butter-
ﬁeld, father of Pres. K. L. Butter-
ﬁeld. Mr. Butterﬂeld spoke of “Fit-
ty Years Experience with Agricul-
tural Fairs.” As he was for 30
years a member of the State Fair
Board, and was for 15 years its sec-
retary, Mr. Butterﬁeld was well lit-
ted to discuss his topic. He traced
the development of the Michigan
State Fair, beginning with its organ-
ization in 1849. ”During its 76 years
the Michigan State Fair has been
held at various points in the state,
including Battle Creek, Kalamazoo,
Grand Rapids, Pontiac, Saginaw and
Adrian, in addition to Detroit. Mr.
Butterﬁeld told of the time when
the state fair had scarcely more
than 100 exhibits entered, when its
admission was only 121/2 cents and
the total gate receipts were slightly
in excess of $2,000. He expressed
the hope that the state fair would
see even greater developmnt in the
future that it ‘might be a still more
important factor in improving Mich-
igan’s agricultural industry.

Short talks relating to the Michi-
gan State Fair were made by several
leaders representing various farm
organizations as follows: Michigan
State Farm Bureau, M. L. Noon;
Michigan State Grange, A. B. Cook:
U. -P. Development Bureau, G. E.
Bishop; Michigan State County Fair
Association, Fred Chapman; Michi-
gan Crop Improvement Association.
Garﬁeld Farley; Michigan State
Horticultural Society, H. E. New-
ton; N. E. Michigan Development
Bureau, T. F. Marston.

Talk on Corn Borer

The general program for Wednes-
day included a 'few interesting talks
which did not relate directly to
fairs. One of these was on the “Corn
Borer" by J. H. Carmon represent-
ing the U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture. He traced the spread of this
pest from its introduction in Boston
about 1909 or 1910, through Massa-
chusetts, New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, and ﬁnally to Michigan. In
1920 the borer was identiﬁed in
Canadian provinces bordering on
Lake Erie and the pest is now doing
immense damage in that country:
Mr. Carmon described in detail the
life history of the borer and also me-
thods for its control. He stated that
work is now being done by the U. S.
Department of Agriculture, and by
implement manufacturers, to perfect
machinery to assist in borer control.
To date, two such machines have
been developed. One is a corn husk-
er 'with a cutting and shredding
head while the other is a stubble
beater which tears the standing into
shreds. Mr. Caimon stated that
Michigan is in danger of having a
larger increase in corn borer infesta-
tion than any other state for the next
few years. This is due to our close
proximity to Canada where the ac-
tual loss in 1924 was over 25 per
cent of the entire crop. He stated
that the infestation in Michigan
would range from 1 per cent as a
minimum to 14 per cent as a maxi-
mum with 3. 2 per cent as an average
for the infested ﬁelds.

From the state of Massachusetts
came John D. Willard, Director of
Extension, who spoke Wednesday
evening on “Continuing Educa-
tion. " Director Willard pointed out

that one of the ﬁrst acts Of the early ,

American colonists was to set up a
system \of education. He called at—

     

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ANTI-FREEZE SOLUTION

To prevent radiators from freez—
ing could kerosene! (coal oil) be
used instead of alcohol? If not, what

H. H., McBain, Mich.

sene oil for this purpose but due

to the nature of the liquid the
hose connections are quickly. dam-
aged. The boiling point of kero-
sene is lower than that of water,
consequently overheating would be
apt to take place. ~Everything can-
sidered, we would not care to re-

commend kerosene for satisfactory
~. results.

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‘ ey and water by volume has been

used by some with success. Hg!-
ever the density of this solution does
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NO RIGHT TO USE MONEY

If a man has a farm and he makes
a will and leaves it to his Wife for
her support as long as she lives, and
it then goes to his children, and
there is mortgage on it and it has
to be sold after his death to straight-
en up debts, could the Wife use the
balance of the money as she needs
it and is the one that has helped
make the property?——M. E. B., Ban-
croft, Mich.-

AM of the opinion the wife would
I not have a right to use the bal-

ance of the money to ,use as she
needs it. That would be cutting off
the'rights of the children under the
will. She may, however, elect to
take her right or inheritance in the
placelof taking under the will. In
that case she would be entitled to
one-third the property and the chil:
dren to two-thirds.——Legal Editor.

DOG LICENSE

If you haven’t a dog when the
supervisor takes your assessment in
spring and in August you get a four-
weeks old pup, are you holding to
pay an assessment that year on pup?
—Reader. Salem, Michigan.

T is necessary for every person
I who owns a dog four months old

or over to pay a license thereon.
If a person owns a dog under that
age at the time the assessor, makes
his assessment so that the dog is not
subject to a license at that time, he
must pay the license as soon as the
dog reaches that age—Clare Retan,
Deputy Attorney General.

TRAINING FOR TEACHING
SCHOOL

full year of normal training efore
he or she can teach school? I know
of several persons, who are teaching
and have had neither a full year at
normal or ﬁve years previous experi-_
once—Subscriber, LeRoy, Mich.

HE teacher training law which
T was passed in 1921 provides in
part that after September 1,
1925, to receive a county certiﬁcate
a teacher must have had at least
one year of professional training be-
yond the completion of an approved
high school course, provided that
any teacher, who on September 1,
1925 held a county certiﬁcate which
was renewable under the old law by
virtue of having passed two teach-

standing of eighty-ﬁve in each 'and
have been continuously and success-
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September 1, 1925,7renewed at the
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teachers who .held certiﬁcates on
September 1, 19725, renewable ,as
above stated shall be eligible to 're-
semis of their certiﬁcates by com-
pleting twelve full weeks of normal
school work since the issue of their
last certiﬁcates. ~.

Up to and includingithe regular

tescher's_ examination in August,‘

1925, county certiﬁcates were issued

under the old law and. such certiﬁ- ,

cate- will be relief during the length
of .time for rwhi’ch such'certiﬁcates
were writeen. First xrsdei certiﬁ-

cates issued in August, 1925, willex- -

pire in June, 1929. Second grade cor-
tiﬂeates issued at that examination
will expire in June 1528, and third
grade certiﬁcates will expire in J one;
1926.—G. N. Otwell, Superintendent,
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Wilbyou please let me- know if I
have to have 'a license to can and
sell a few surplus chickens to cus-
tomerSY—L. P., Honor, Mich.

BEG to advise that if the chickens
I are of your own raising and can-

ning and the canning is done un-
der proper sanitary conditions, no
license is required—John I. Breck.
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AMOUNT OF HAY IN STACK

How much does a stack of alfalfa
hay weigh that is thirteen feet wide,
twenty-three feet long, and ten feet
high and has stood for one year?——
Reader, Ingham County.

AM ﬁguring the amount from a

a‘ formula taken from bulletin

No. 131 published by the United
States Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C.

To ﬁnd the volume a factor of
from .25 to .37 is used which is mul-
tiplied by the length of a rope
thrown over the stack and reaching
from ground to ground, and the pro—
duct by the length and again by the
width. According to these calcula—
tions and using a factor .30, the con-
tents would be 1942 cubic feet. This
divided by 500, the number of cu.
ft per ton of hay, gives approxi-
mately 4 tons.

As a means of checking this form-
ula; a shape of the stack‘ was taken,
which is assumed to have a semi-
circular top 5’ high and straight
sides for the width and length of
the stack. This calculation gives
2392 cu. ft. which at 500 cu. ft. in a
ton makes practically 4.8 tons.
Probably 4 tons of good hay would
be a fair estimate of the amount
of hay in this stack—H. H. Mussel-
man, Professor of Agricultural En-
gineering, M. S. C.

HAVE EXECUTOR APPOINTED

A middle-aged woman dies un-
married, willing twenty acres of
land to her father during his life,
after which it goes to her youngest
sister on condition she must pay all
taxes, insurance, and keep buildings
in repair. Failing in which, the
property reverts to her father’s'es—
tate to be divided among four bro-
thers. The dead sister leaves col-
lectable notes, to cover all indebted-
ness, but names no executor of the
will.- Can the father collect the

- notes, settle the estate, and keep the

will in his possession? At his
death, can the youngest sister se—
cure a_deed to the land? What ,legal
steps ought to be taken under the
circumstances?-——R. B. C., Ithaca...
Michigan. “ ‘

E father ought to apply to pro-

bate court to have himself, or

some other person appointed
executor of the, will so he would
have authOrityJo collect the notes,
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that means a saving for you. .

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W€Searen the Markets
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Our complete organization of buyers, our ex-
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We Never Sacrifice Quality
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At Ward’s your satisfaction is our ﬁrst thought
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Some Discovery
UST the other day my ‘ mail
brought a letter from a Subscrib-
er, J. W. F. at Owosso, who has

’a six acre ﬁeld of rather heavy clay

which has been pastured
for several years
,until last spring,
' w h e n i t W a s
p l o W e d 'a n d
planted to corn.
In August J. W.
F. was cutting
thistles in this
ﬁeld, and discov-
ered, for the ﬁrst
time, that the
thistles had per-
manent company,
and very much
of it, in vigorous
q u a c k grass!
Such discoveries in a community like
this, where quack grass is not very
prevalent, is certainly just cause for
an S. O. S. call. While this ﬁeld was
being pastured the quack grass was
not noticeable because the stock

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L. W. MEEKS

. kept it from becoming large enough

to show. From a very small begin-
ning, parts of the ﬁeld were covered
with it in a few years.

This surprise has been sprung on
more than one farmer, and many of
them have simply accepted it as a
calamity that could not be helped,
and have put forth but little effort
to. eradicate the grass, but J. W. 'F.
wants to know what to do to clean
it out.

There are no doubt several ways
of cleaning up this ﬁeld and the
method I am to recommend is the
one we should try ourselves.

J. W. F. says'the ﬁeld is in a
good state of fertility. This being
true, he will not want to lose the
use of the ﬁeld while trying to kill
out the quack, and it will not be
necessary. Put the ﬁeld into oats.
If it can be properly ﬁtted without
plowing, well and good; if, however,
a good seed bed can not be obtained
in this clay without plowing, then
plow it by all means, and plow it
shallow.

If pasture will be needed this
coming summer, from the forepart
of June until about the middle of
August, sow three bushels of oats
per acre and pasture them when
about four or ﬁve inches high., If
the pasture is- not needed, sow
around two bushels per acre and
harvest them as usual, or they may
be cut for hay.

I should recommend the pasture
or hay in preference to the threshing
of the matured crop. There is a pos-
sibility of the quack forming seeds
and being a source of infection
thereby. By pasturing, or cutting
for hay, this possibility will be elim-
inated. The last of August plow
this ﬁeld just as shallow as possible,
and yet do a thorough job of turning
the soil. Disc these infected portions
thoroughly, and watch for the green
shoots to appear. Their appearance
will vary according with the weather
conditions at that time. When these
appear, a spring tooth barrow, set
deep, will be as good as the disc.
Harrow thoroughly, and better
leave the burrow, whiffletrces and
all, right in that ﬁeld, because you
must (absolutely must) bitch on to
it again in a Week, and use it pro-

perly. Yes, and again the next
week. If the weather man sends
too much rain, you will have to

stay by the harrowing pretty steady
but in ordinary seasons after Octobe‘r
1st the barrow will not be needed

quite as often, but no green shoots "

should be allowed to show them-
selves longer than it will take to, get
your team tied to the harrow again.

If the weather has been at all fa-
vorable the ﬁeld may be planted to
corn or some other cultivated crop
the next year. If, however, a few
shoots of quack have survived, I
should sow oats again and proceed
as before. This last‘fall would have
been almost too wet for any method

to have been successful in killing,

quack. It rained so much the quack

Broadscope Farm News 4:24' VICWS

Edited by L. W. MEEKS, Hillsdale County-

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used often enough, and Would not
do thorough work when it could be
used. But such wet seasOns are
very unusual, and need not be. ﬁg-
ured on too seriously in the arrange-
ment of the eradication process.
, at: are :1:
A (SO-Acre Farm

Here are a few extracts from a
very interesting letter from a friend
located at Butternut. His farm con-
tains sixty acres and he follows a ro-

tation something like this: vFirst
year, cats or beans; second year,
wheat; third year, clover and then

corn or beans. He has three horses,
two cows and thirty sheep and wants
to ,know whether he keeps stock
enough or not, and would he be more
successful with more cows and fewer
sheep?

Not knowing the circumstances as
to the amount of help he has, etc.,
it is rather hard at this distance to
besvery deﬁnite in giving advice.
The rotation seems very good, and
it is a safe guess that this farm
could carry more,stock. He has
three acres of alfalfa; I would in-
crease this considerably, and along
with the commercial fertilizer which
he uses every year I should use lime,
and if I could not have both fertiliz-
er and lime each year, I should use
lime often enough to make sweet
clover and alfalfa very much at
home in my soil for if I ventured
into keeping more stock, I certainly
would tie to sweet clover if I could.

AbOut keeping more cows and less
sheep;
available. If he is alone on this
farm, he probably will be Wise in
keeping more sheep and .just his
two cows. It is often possible to
make two extra good cows, properly
fed, bring in as large net returns as
four common cows do, under aver-
age conditions. This questidn of
“How much stock shall I‘keep?" is
quite easily answered in a few
words; keep all you have feed for,
and feed all you keeph’While it
may not listen good I venture to say
there are many farms that have too
much live stock on them for the
good of,the stock, or the welfare of
the farm. Pastures are always too
short, and everything is pastured
that will possibly, afford any cats at
all; feed is passed too sparingly dur-
ing the housed up feeding period be-
cause it will hardly “hold out.” On
these farms half the present amount
of stock would often become proﬁt-
able. When a farm will properly
feed all its present stock and have
feed to sell every year, then it may
be good policy to add more stock.

Many have added more stock just
because of a surplus of feed for one
year, and been reluctant to decrease
the stock thereafter, yet having
more stock than their farms Will
proﬁtably carry.

I am reminded of a. farmer friend

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.. road.

, ~ writers on' the subject of wide

‘ .or narrow tread sleighs, and the
auto trafﬁc in general have over-
looked some important features con-
nected with the argument under con-
sideration. ‘ ’ ' '

When both auto and sleigh occupy
the same track, whether wide or
narrow tread, where there is deep
snow to contend with, it is a perfect
nuisance. The auto or truck, in try-
ing, to get through, cuts the track
all'to pieces and many times has to
be helped out. The sleigh or snow-
plow comes over the road, but the
sidings to let others pm makes son’-
ditions still had, as the wheel chains '
keep the-track in a loose condition
and so when the snow melts it leaves
the track hare especially on a south-N
ern slope or pavement. whether you

bridges, the snow is kept oil! for auto
traﬂic and the sleigh: or cutter have
a tough proposition to contend with
in making the grade with a load.
Where the track is for sleighs only
the road—bed is smooth and packed,
but when the heavy truck with wheel
chains goes through, the track is
soon spoiled for any trafﬁc whatever.
I therefore can’t see where there is
any advantage in using wide sleighs.
There ought to be two tracks so a
farmer can haul grain, wood or coal
without so much inconvenience,
when his machine is put aside for
the winter, but this will not be con-
venient ‘as the auto has the right of
way. Big business is in the saddle
in theory as well as practice and the
“little fellow” must abide by the
“powers that be” or get out of the
We are living in strenuous
times—F. H. Carpenter, Allegan
County, Michigan.

EUROPEAN CORN BORER

:EAR EDI‘T‘QB: Being a reader

of your paper and reading it

quite thoroughly, I came across
some European Corn Borer writings
which I do not agree, with. Why
all the excitement? Most of the
cording to my theory, there are mt
farmers have never seen one, and ac-
any yet to get excited about. Do
you remember the Colorado Beetle,
or our common potato bug? If you
picked them of by hand, you would.
Now you do not ﬁnd many and the
late potatoes do not even have to be
sprayed for the bugs in this neck
, of the woods.

It is a cinch the bugs have never
done much damage here, not even as
much as the cut worms. Why talk
of. Legislation to control the corn
borer if it is all out of control, never
has been controlled and never will
be controlled? We have thousands
of laws enacted, why more laws?
Has the average farmer got to be
watched all the time? Is there so
much money in corn that we have
got to raise it and sign papers to
raise it under supervision or will
the supervisor be a farmer or a
white—collared young sprout that
never has raised a crop of corn or
never will. I will tell, in some future
time, how two men kept a‘ township
free of European Corn Borers in
1925.—C. B., Clayton, Michigan.

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EAR EDITOR: \We were so
pleased when our paper came
today to see you were going to
broadcast through WGHP. I can
not remember when your paper has
not been in our home. We had it
"paid up till January, 1927, and Sa-
turday a gentleman called, taking
subscriptions for your; paper. At
ﬁrst we though he might just be a
grafter, but after talking with him,
we made up our minds, several oth-
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and so paid him fora seven~year
subscription. Wishing You wear
more years of success, thanking you
in advance for the Market Report
Blanks, and closing with the Sea-
son’s Greetings and best wishes for
a prosperous and—happy New Year,
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clipping in a fruit growing region.

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“man behind the
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behind the saw.
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pruning saw is

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many an orchard
would be better
oil with less
pruning.

One object in pruning bearing ap-
pple trees is to keep the top suﬂ‘lv
iently open to admit plenty of sun-
l1ght. Sunlight is one of the essen-
tials in the forming of fruit buds
Often the lower growth on an apple
tree will be thin and spindly and if
any fruit is produced there it will
be small and valueless. These lower
branches could be made to produce
good fru‘it if sunlight could get to
them- Healthy fruit buds are pro-
duced on thick, healthy twigs which
are making a good annual growth
in the presence of sunlight. Absence
of sunlight causes slender, spindly
growth and weak buds.

How are we going to get light
to the lower branches? The logical
answer is, by opening up the top.
This process of opening the top,
however must be done “on the in—
stallment plan.” Cut out many
small and medium sized branches so
as to allow many small openings for
the admission of light. In order to
prevent the growth of water Sprouts
make the cuts close to laterals or to
the main branch, but do not make
the elite close to each other. If the
trees are planted far enough apart
and are making the proper amount
of growth this type of pruning will
admit sufﬁcient light and will pro-
mote the fo1mation of the thick,
healthy, wood and plump buds that
every fruit grower likes to see. This
method also aids the coloring of the
fruit and acts as a p1eliminary thin—
ning.

The practice of cutting out large
branches should be avoided at all
cost, for. instead of letting in more
sunlight it will encomage the quick
growth of numerous water— sprouts
-which will shade the lower branches
more than ever, thus defeating the
purpose of the pruner. There are
also large branches. It reduces the
bearing wood, thus in turn, reducing
the crop. It also exposes the main
branches to attacks of sun— —sca1d and
leaves large pruning wounds which
are often slow in healing and may
become the starting point of a hol—
low heart.

Pruning young apple trees to
make them come into bearing is a
rather recent development and is
worth trying. When young trees
are making a good growth and re-
fuse to come into bearing it is us-
ually best to do no pruning as prun—
ing at this time has a tendency to
stimulate growth and stilll further
delay bearing. Dr. R. H. Roberts
of Wisconsin University has shown,
however, that sometimes young trees
refuse to come into bearing because
the tops are too thick to admit the
necessary amount of sunlight essen-
ial to the formation of fruit buds.
Such trees will sometimes produce
a few terminal fruit buds but not
enough for anything like a paying
crop.

A careful and well balanced thin-
ning of the laterals in the top of the
tree will often let in enough light to
remedy this condition. In applying
this method “make haste slowly."
Do not try to do it all in one year
and conﬁne your activities to the
top of the res, letting the lower

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simple statements that have an important bear-
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THE other day one of the great American

First, he said. “One great problem before us is the
need of reducing costs. Success comes to the man
who makes anything as good as anybody else,
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Here he has hit on the farmer’s biggest job. To-
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and slow muscle power that turned out a good
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who does not cut costs to the bone. He must adopt
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The further advice of this man is: “I don’t be—
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soon as better, cost-reducing equipment comes
on the market. In farming it must be the same.

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can you make it? The question hinges largely on
equipment. The methods of 1860 would force a
family into poverty to-day. The methods of 1913,
too, fall far short of the changed needs of to-day.

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things over with your family and resolve to make
your farming more efﬁcient, and make it easier,
too. See the McCormick-Deering dealer; proﬁt-
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TEXT: “And forgive us our sins, for
we ourselves also forgive everyone that
is indebted to us." Luke 1177;4.

“ 0RD, teach us to pray,” said

the 'disciples. And Jesus taught

them how to pray a perfect
prayer perfectly. And so this pray—
er becomes a solemn litany to all
followers of the Great Teacher. The
writer recalls that in the church he
attended in his boyhood, this prayer
was tacked on the end of every pub-
lic prayer. Perhaps “tacked” is the
wrong word, but we shall leave it at
that. And many churches yet use
it in the ritual worship. But do we
pray it perfectly? Are we losing
ourselves in the grand prospect of
a repentant world? Of “Thy King-
dom come?” And are we desirous
enough of our soul’s health to per—
fectly pray the words of our text?
An inquiry is in order.

“And forgive us our sins.” “Our
sins.” Now, this is the cry of an
honest heart. There is no attempt
at evasion here. This conscious-
ness of sin is a prerequisite to per—
fect prayer. Have we murdered
someone? This is our prayer. We
have passionately sinned. But are
we hating our brother? Then we are
temperamentally murdering him. We
are in darkness. This is our prayer.
Have we robbed someone? We have
violently sinned. Restitution and
prayer is demanded. But are we rob-
bing others through covetous deal—
ing and a so-called~ business tact? Ah
we are creating social miseries and
the cries of suffering children and
the economically oppressed go up to
the Lord of [Sabaoth We are guilty
of social sinning. Our hope is in
repentance and a cry for forgive-
ness. Have we lived delicately on
the earth and take our pleasure?
Then we have fattened ourselves as
for the day of slaughter, says James.
A wide gulf exists between us and
the Father’s House. With this pray-
er in our heart let us go quickly
and see that Lazarus has better doc—
tors for his sores than the dogs.
Have we laid our talent away in a
napkin wrapping? Are we leaving
some vital thing undone? An unsat~
isﬁed pledge? An unperformed
duty? An unimproved opportunity?
“How shall We escape if we ne—
glect?" Verily, he who thinks so
well of human nature or his own
righteousness that he will not allow
its evils, both open and hidden, is
falsely consoling his heart and clev—
erly crying down the need for for—
giveness.

“All under sin,” is the Pauline de-
claration. And when one sees ev—
erywhere the sins of passion, of tem—
per, of unneighborly unkindness,
and of social neglect, one knows
that sin is a1 ugly and universal
fact. We can y no artiﬁce escape
its reality. We talk eugenics and
environment (and this is well) but
sin remains. We make laws for
better human conditions but jails
and courts increase. The pulpit
cries against divorce but wrecked
homes multiply and sexual thrills
are enjoyed by the movie masses.
Many acknowledge that there is
much mistaken and imperfect living
but this does not impress them as
sin. Surely, there will be no cry
for forgiveness, and there can be no
deliverance, when the consciousness
of sin is morbid and the heart is
morally relaxed. Let us not miss
the sharp end of this. Have we any
open breaches or secret details in
our own lives? /

“Forgive us our sins.” Because,
we can not get 011 with our sins and
we lack strength to escape them.
This was the condition of the Pro—
digal. He sipped the nectar from
the rose but a ﬂeeting while. Sin—
ful living ate up his resources,
friends forsook him, and hope ﬂed.
No, not all hope! A ray of warm ex—
pectancy shines out from his fath-
er’s house. And you know the rest.
But this is forgiveness. We can’t
get on without \Our Father. We
long for the help that comes through
personal relationship with him. So
we leave the far country, of sin and
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cion and oﬂense are forgiven us and
we are at one with the Heavenly
Household. , _

But what a costly transaction! No
Cross, no forgiveness. I met her at
the cell door where was imprisoned

a ﬁne—looking young son. What a
broken—hearted mother! She was
carrying an invisible cross, her

cross. Yes, she acknowledged her
boy’s sin, and she hated it; but most
wonderful of all, she forgave him
of his sin because she could not bear
to have her heart alienated from
him. She could not erase the past,
she could love him notwithstanding
the past. She couldn’t deliver him
from prison but she could help care
ry his burden of guilt. For his heart
to be wrapped up in a tender moth—

er’s love made the son’s punishment .

easier. So, God cannot remove the
consequences of our sin. But this
is for our discipline. Yet God does
remove that element in sin which
separates us from. him when we face
Christ in a cry for forgiveness. Ev-
eryone has a new chance in the mer-
cy of God. “When nothing else
could help, Love lifted me.” ’
“For we ourselves also forgive
everyone that is indebted unto us.”
“If ye then being evil know how to
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how much more shall your heavenly
Father give * * * to them that ask
him.” We have learned that hu—
man kindness has an element of
forgiveness in it. If men are so gra—
cious in their attitude toward one
another, We are to know that God
is much more so. Here is authority
for every sinning one to importune;
to ask, seek, and knock for a for-
given heart.

Matthew has, “Forgive as we for~
give.” Now, at ﬁrst this would seem
to limit God's forgiveness to the
scanty measure of forgiveness that.
we mete out to others. Of all crea—
tures, we would then be the most
miserable. Isn’t there something
better for us than this? Luke helps
us to understand when he says that
because we forgive at all, God will
forgive us altogether. Yet, if we.do
not have a sense of forgiveness, God
cannot forgive us. To become a
Christian, one must believe and re—
pent; and to stay a Christian, one
must cry daily for forgiveness. But
this means that one, also, must daily
forgive others. “How often,” says
Peter, “must I forgive my brother?”
“Seven times?” “I say not unto thee
until seven times,” says Jesus, “but
until seventy times seven.” Here is
unstinted and unlimited forgiveness.
Is this hard? But having God’s for-
giveness will make us forgiving. And
to have God’s forgiveness means that
we dare not be vindictive and insist
on our own rights. We are to have
a contrite spirit toward others. God
cannot do for us when we will not
do for others.

There is, then, no forgiveness
without crying. There is no crying
without a sin—consciousness. That
we have sin is solemnly true. But
that we need not live in sin is glor-
iously true. “Blessed is he whose
transgression is forgiven, Whose sin
is covered.”

 

BIBLE THOUGHTS
A MAN THAT HATH FRIENDS
must shew himself friendly: and
there is a friend that sticketh closer
than a brother.—-Proverbs 18:24.

BE SURE YOUR SIN WILL FIND
YOU OUT—«Numbers 32:33.

COMMIT THY WAY unto the Lord;
trust also in him; and he shall bring
it to pass—Psalms 37:3, 5.

THOU ART A GOD READY TO
PARDON, GRACIOUS AND 'MERCI-

,FUL, SLOW TO .A‘NGEB. AND» OF
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The Business Farmer radio
market reports and farm news
are broadcast daily, except San-
turday and Sunday. through
station WGHP, of Detroit, on
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TELL us ABOUT YOUR MEETINGS

want to broadcast informa-
tion regarding meetings of gen-
eral interest to farmers and we
would like to have our readers and
listeners advise us about any meet-
ing to be held in their community,
giving us complete information re—
garding who is holding or calling
the meeting, the day and the hour
as well as who is to address the ga-
thering if there-are to be any speak-
era.

The Editor tells me that he would
like to have this information for
publication in the M. B. F. so that is
another reason you should send in
news about your farm meetings. Try
to get it to us well in advance of the
meeting if you desire us to publish it.

MORE COMIWENTS

When I saw your announcement of the
broadcasting of farm markets and other
matter pertaining to the business of farm-
ing, I made up my mind to get a radio
as I had been itching for one for a year
or so, so I had a 5-tube outfit installed
January 1, 1926 but I was disappointed
for the ﬁrst week or ten days as station
WGHP doesn’t seem to be a very power-
ful station and we could hardly hear any-
thing he said. He sounded over the radio

like a man talking in a wash tub. His

voice sounded so muffled and hollow, but
last night and tonight it came in ﬁne
and a lot plainer and I hope itlcontinues
so. 01 course, we are only about twenty—
one miles from station WKAR, M. S. C.
and that station seems so powerful that
it is impossible to tune the college sta-
tions out While WGHP is broadcasting
and we have to pay the closest attention
to make out what WGHP is saying at all.

Mr. Toany announced January 19th and
20th that you would like a letter from
your listeners as to how the program
was coming in, so I thought I would
write a few lines and make a suggestion
or two. First,. that he broadcast the
grain and bean marketsand live stock
market as quoted at the close of the
market in Detroit that day and the chief
reason for the ups and downs of the
market on each ﬁrst on the program each
evening so that the 'average farmer who
is not interested much in the Detroit pro-
duce market and such things can get
the grain and live stock markets when he
ﬁrst starts broadcasting and then can
tune out if he wishes to instead of listen—
ing to all the report in order to get the
part of the market report he wishes to
hear.

Hoping that the report keeps coming
in as clear as it did last night and to-
night, I remain an old subscriber who
has been taking the M. B. F. practically
ever since it ﬁrst came out as a. little
pink two-page paper.—H. W. Ballinger,
Clinton County.

Wish to congratulate you on your
broadcasting from WGHP of Detroit.
We look for the time every night to listen
in for your reports—I enjoy your paper
very much.——Chas. Hardt, Jackson Co.

We listen in every night to"your pro-
gram and appreciate the markets very
much. The program comes in very good.
—-Louis Green, Tuscola County.

 

Just a word of appreciation for the
very fine feature which you have added
to station WGHP in giving the farmers
of Michigan and surrounding states the
latest market reports, etc., at the time
of day when they have time to listen.
Keep up this fine feature—Carl E. Jungle,
Oakland County.

I have been hearing your program for
the past week. You have the best time
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We are enjoying your farm psogram
and markets which you are giving each
night and hope you will continue than.
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Your market reports are coming in
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Smith” Lenawee County.

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Edited and Published by
THE RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. Inc.
GEORGE M. SLOGUM. President
Mt. Clemens. Michigan
DETROIT OFFICE—2-144 General Motors Building
Represented in New York, Chi St Louis and Minneapolis i!
The Stoclnnan—Busmess Farmer Trio.
Member of Agricultural Publisher: Association

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.' BUSINESSMRMER 'fmm mean ' ' ' I ' '- dirb emu "war-ware!“ .. his».
« ’ ' .The Stateﬂill be doing a real-service to its ~ young forks _ who - will make: the,‘ rm“

and we feel sure results will more than justify
the spending of the money.

 

GLAD TO HEAR FROM (You
E wish to thank the many subscribers for
sending in the editorial ballot we are
‘ * publishing and We hope that more of them

in all, the signs are prophetic of. better times for _.

agriculture, our greatest industry.” '-

Reports we have from different sections or

Michigan indicate there is considerable truth‘in, ’.

this statement, a view we have had for some
time although we have“, been accused of not being
the farmers’ friend because we believed that way.

 

i! likam'kigm Fg‘xfmngio‘r‘ge £3333; will help us by ﬁnding out and mailing the one We have believed it'was not the real business 3"
i3 '6: i"w“a°§f€:::::::::i::::::::::::::::::::::§TT§?E?.‘?E.sﬁ‘ila'“aff'l'iré‘é’.“ 63%?! in their latest cow. But if you are like the Ber- “me" "110 left the farm and moved t0 the at" : a»...
13; 33%}: ”in?” $9? $5 rien county subscriber we,_h_eard from last week to, become part 01 the machinery ’ln a great fac- ~ gig
EL “2". ﬁend t; Wm" . .-_ _,_.._,-.-...........-....Rell:":\:: “lg; who declared “I read every word in the paper tory. ,The ”unless: farmer knew that farming W3;
ﬁght? E“§g:; ............. Mt amemg Egg; and I hate to cut the ballot out” just write us a was. a. “00333: “3935 much 8-3 3117 other line 01 ; :_,§§.
: £23211 5. ﬁll 03:11: Poncungtion “$3353; letter or postal card giving the information asked busmess, but 1011 hid to be a businessman ‘tO . ‘21,;
:1" r . 1: limit ninth: in the ballot. We are not so particular how you succeed and no half-hearted efforts would win. 1 m

' Published Bi-Weekly
ONE YEAR 000. TWO YEARS 61. FIVE YEARS 32.
The data following your name on the address label shows when
your subscription expires. In renewing kindly lend label to
avoid mistakes. Remit by check, draft. money—order or registered
tter: stamps and currenc are at your risk. We acknowledge
by ﬂrlt~clase mail every do lar received.

Advertising Rates: 45¢ per 0. ate l'me.
inch 772 lines to the page. F t ra . ,

Live Block and Auction Sale Advertising: We offer gold low
rates to reputable breeders of live stock and poultry; I “l-

RELIABLE I DVE RTISERS

14 lines to the column

send the information to us, as long as you send
it so that we may know your wishes. ’

Also we want thank our subscribers for their
manylnteresting and helpful letters.

The way folks are renewing their subscrip-
tions to M. B. F. would indicate that we are
publishing the kind of farm paper they believe in,
but we want you to write us. Perhaps there are

Boys' and girls’ club Work-is also helping 'to
solve the problem of keeping the young folks

-interested in the farm, causing them to grow up'

better men‘and [women to” take their places in

agriculture to make it better for the next gener-_ '

ation. _
And it strikes us that good; farm land is a
mighty safe and proﬁtable investment today.

 

We will not knowing] accept the advertising of any son or -
ﬁrm who we do not believe to be thoroughly honest an reliable. some departments we ShOUId glve more space
Should any reader have any cause for complaint against any ad- to and others that should be reduced in size or .- A CATTLE (IENSUS

vertieer in these columns, the publisher would appreciate an im-

mediate letter brindnl all facts to light. In eve case when

ﬁﬁﬁulnru'? saw your advertisement in The Michigan Business
rmer "

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will mrantee honest dealing.

"The Farm Paper of Service”

MILK PRODUCERS AND THEIR ASSOCIATION
is too bad that some of the milk producers
in the Detroit area fell for the bait cast out
by a few smooth-tongued men of the promo-

ter type who went into the milk and cream bus-

iness with a lot of hot air and a little cash, be—
cause they are ﬁnding they have learned a costly
lesson.

Posing as friends of the farmers these smooth-
tongued strangers caused unrest among the
members of the Michigan Milk Producers' Asso—
ciatio by circulating stories to the effect that the
association had “sold out” to the distributors,
that is was no longer working for the interest of
the farmers. They knew that many farmers did
not thordughly understand the surplus question
and they claimed there should be so surplus, that
all milk should bring more money and be paid
for on a ﬂat price basis. Failing to analyze the
market and conditions regarding it some of the
producers accepted the offers of these chaps to
buy their milk at a ﬂat rate, much to their
regret if we may judge from the letters we are
receiving.

Checks were received at the end of the ﬁrst
month and the farmers were laughing at the
fellow who had stuck by the association and still
sold his milk on the surplus basis. He was con—
sidered alright but he never would get much put
away for a rainy day. The happy ones cashed
their checks and departed with fat pocketbooks
and broad smiles on their faces. At last they
were getting what rightfully belonged to them
just as the fellows told them they would. But
a few days later their smiles were wiped out by a
notice from the bank that payment on the checks
had been stopped and they would have to return
the money to tho bank and pay a protest fee.
The chaps who purchased the milk had many ex-
cuses of course and promised to ﬁx everything
but from what we learn these farmers are still
out both the milk and. the money.

This doesn't happen when the Association
works with producer and distributor, the produc—
er being insured against such a loss at a very
small cost. .

The Michigan Milk Producers’ Association is
the farmers' own organization and should have
the support of every member. There may be

’little things about it you do not like but it is

 

"Ml, igan is the best marketplace in theUnited _.

up to you as a part of it to offer helpful sugges-
tions rather than try to break it down. “If you
cut your ﬁnger you would not immediately take
your own life. Certainly not, you would doctor

the ﬁnger. Well there is no. more reason to; Sermon Poultry Department ’ the Michigan State Grange, when he tasted 2
tearing dawn your own organization because 05 Radio Department Farm Mechanics corn sugar out in Des Moines, Iowa while ‘ 1
a slight mistake than there is for committing su1— Serial Story Fruit and Orchard attending the marketing conference recently. “I .

clde over a hurt ﬁnger.

Such experiences are expensive for a few but
they work wonders in renewing the faith of the
entire membership in their association.

TO ADVERTISE D'IICHIGAN CATTLE

"WIE are pleased to learn that through the re—
quest of L. Whitney Watkins, State Com-

missioner of Agriculture, the state admin—
istrative board has authorized the spending of a
normal sum for national advertising‘to exploit

Michigan cattle and dairy products. I noticed ’37 headline in the paper, thither do ..
Standing far above other dairy cattle in the ’bout an alpha”?! ,d . . «edaimm-ﬁ”
matterbf tuberculin test, according to reports, 190913, ' I

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eliminated, but we can not be sure unless you
tell us. Thanks for an early reply.

MICHIGAN’S APP/LE INDUSTRY

ECENT census figures disclose some inter-
R esting facts regarding the apple industry in

... Michigan. The number of apple trees‘"'lias
increased in certain sections but has materially
decreased in the state as a whole, and, in spite
of the fact that the total number of trees has de—
creased, the commercial production of a‘pples,
shows an increase!

This means that, with insect pests and other
difﬁculties, apple growing has become a highly
specialized business and the old farm orchards
are disappearing. The industry is becoming
centralized in certain favored sections, and, due
to modern methods, fewer trees are producing
more fruit.

The man who is looking for an archard site
had better locate in a region where commercial
orcharding has been proved successful. An un—
tried region may seem ever so attractive but, look
out! There is likely to bee hitch somewhere.

THE FARMING BUSINESS

HE National Association of Real Estate

Boards recently gave out the statement that

farm land prices were due to go higher in

the near future, and showed the results of a

survey based on reports of boards in 22 states

and 1 Canadian province to prove it. The asso—

ciation received the following comment from one
of the states;

“Agriculture has had plenty of ups and downs
during the past few years with the downs in the
majority. A lot of ineﬂicient farmers who nev-
er took their profession as agriculturists very

 

 

TheBusiness Farmer Editorial Ballot

Below we are listing several features or departments
in The Business Farmer with nsquaro opposite in which
we will appreciate your indicating by number the once
you read regularly in the paper in the order of their
importance. That is, if you like the serial story bcst,
write the figure 1 in the sonare oppoaite that feature,
the next choice should have the ﬁgure 2 in the square
in The Business Farmer with a square opposite in which
are desired may be written-in the blank spaces.

This ballot will be published for' several issues so
that each member of the family may vote his or her
preference. When the children vote their preference
they should give their age, also Be sure to sign your
correct name and address and mail to the Editor of The
Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Mich. Thank you.

Feature Articles Publisher’s Desk
Picture Page I The Farm Home
Bmadscope Farm Children's Hour
Service Bureau Dairy and Livestock
Soils and Crops Veterinary Dept.

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Harry Vetch
’Markets

Weather Forecasts
Agricultural News

Handy Hiram
Where Readers Live
What Neighbors Say
Editorials

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foods, muffins, and good beef and pork. '

HE farm census of 1925 shows some trends

in the cattle industry that are hardly in-

f line with expectations. As compared 'with
the decennial census of 1920 the total number
of cattle in the country“, shows a decrease of
5,080,807, or 7.6 per cent.
ing about the decrease in the number of range
cattle, which are beef cattle; also about the
great development of the dairy industry, which
we would expect to be accompanied by an in-
crease in dairy cattle. Butjthe census ﬁgures
show something else. The number of dairy cows,
two years old or over, shows a decrease of. 1,974,-
446, or 10 per cent, while the number of beef"
cows of like age shows an increase of 2,441,799,
or 19.3 per cent. The same tendency is -appar-
ent in the ﬁgures showing the numbers of young
cattle. Dairy heifers, one year old and under

v-two, show a decrease of 784,279, or 19.4 per

cent; while beef heifers show an increase of 57,-
293, or 1.4 per cent. Steers, one year old or
over, show the biggest decrease of all, 2,290,516
head, or 24.7 per cent. This may be accounted

for in part by the tendency to sell calves and.

yearlings to the feed—lot rather than keep them
to maturity.
approximately so, our expanding dairy industry
faces a shortage of cows and our beef industry
.no surplus of feeder cattle.

 

LOCAL TAXES

HERE is a nugget sifted out of the long but
excellent address of the Master of the Na-

tional Grange at its ﬁfty-ninth annual ses—
sion in Sacramento, Cal.: “Taxation as it affects
the farmer in a direct way is almost entirely
local. In some states practically all of the
farmer‘sdirect tax remains in his county, town-
ship or school district, but in no section is the
state tax a very considerable factor in the farm-
er’s burdens. Consequently relief can come only
through economy and efﬁciency in the county
and smaller units of government and by seeing
to it that every class of property contributes its
proportionate share to the support of govern-
ment.” Further he says: “Our county govern-

ment is now the most inefﬁcient and out-of—date -

branch of our American system. In practically
all states there is no directing county head that
can be held responsible.” Here are stated the
truth about taxes and at least a part of the
reason for them. ,If the Grange and other or-
ganizations can help to establish -some better
and more economical system of local govern:
ment they will command the support of all con-
eerned.”

 

ABO’ﬁ'r SUGAR
“ OT so good,” said A. B. Cook, Master of

ate some of Iowa’s corn sugar and it took me
two hours to get the disagreeable taste out of

my mouth.” r \ ,_ .

Evidentally friend Cook doesn’t think that the
Michigan sugar beet industry will suffer very
seriously from _this competition. We agree with
him. We will doour share of eating corn but
we prefer to have it in the form of breakfast

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_ “My dear fi'i-end: I am a poor
country girl seeking aid from which
to obtain an education.

“My parents are very poor people
and have a large family to provide
fur and cannot give us the clothing
we need. ,

“Now there are ﬁve of us that at-
tend the- rural school in our com-
munity and we are short of clothing
and shoes and if you or any of your
friends have any second-hand cloth—
ing or shoes you do not aim to use
we would certainly appreciate your
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“We are willing to repay your
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“Hoping to hear from you real
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Route 1, 301,18, Del Rio, Tenn.”

HIS is a copy of a letter received

by a. subscriber living in Bay

  

with the information that this is the
second one she has received and she
would like to know if we thinkshe
should pay any attention to them.
She says that she never heard of
this party previous to receiving the
letters.

No, we do not think she should
pay any attention to the letters. If
this family (granting there is one)
is in need and worthy of help they
can get it in their own community,
there being agencies to take care of
such cases. We have reported it to
the post ofﬁce department for investi-
gation.

. GOT HIS FOUNTAIN PEN
I am writing to let you know that
I received my fountain pen from
and I want to thank
you for your promptness and kind—
ness in getting it for me.—— ——W. E.,
Huron County.
E young son of one of our sub-
scribers wrote to a perfume
company for eight boxes of
salve which he was to sell at twenty-
ﬁve cents each. Then he was to
send the money to the company and
they were to forward to him a. foun-
tain pen as a reward for his work.
He sold the salve and sent in the
money around the ﬁrst of December
and waited some time for his pen.
Not getting it he wrote them a let-
ter and then wrote some more with—
out getting a reply. His father wrote
us and we got busy. Less than two
weeks later we received the above
letter.

DENIED USE OF M11118

ORM-LETTER horoscope and for-

F tune telling doesn’ t seem to be
a. very good business to go into.
The post ofﬁce department is inves-
tigating them and the latest to be
denied the use of the mails is Norris
Fitzgerald Roach, operating as the
Astro-Phreno Studio and the Astro-
Phrenological Studio. His business
was patterned after the Astra Stu-
dios which were denied the use of
the mails recently.
Lucien Georges Leredu, 0: New
York City, Who advertised over the
name of “‘Graphology Institute of
America" to disclose the future by
the means of handwriting analysis,
and furnished his customers with
form letters at from 25c to $1.00
has been denied further use of the
mails for his business.

The Asthma-Tab Laboratories of
Kansas City is another concern that
can no longer use the mails. Francis
W. Osborne, Allen W. Slattery, Ce—
cil W. Sydenstricker and Townley
W. Robey were the ofﬁcials of the
company.

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:6 our subscribers from fraudulent dee nee

erunfalr treatment by persons or concerns as
a distance.
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which so alone for eur services will ever be
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Built to endure, operated on buslness prlnclplcs; and as solld as the “Rocks of A " Fourth
Iar aroest Mutual Company Mlc chlgan Insiiring Farm Risks. Establlshed nn years
ago. We classes—Rodd“ and U11 d Barrows no money. Pays no
Interest. Malntalnlng an Emergency and Reserve Fund in excess of

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In the.3 Rodded Close. the highest assessment ever levied in any year was
ands. laseessment was never called. The average for nine years (191
$2. 30 per 81, 000

The Unrodded Class has called only one special assessment in ten can,
of 82 per 31. 000, making the total rate for 1925 $5 80. y
that class for the nine years has been $4. 30 per $1, 000.

£31925?” ‘1 000

and that in 1925
The average cost of insurance In

“Gold Seal" Members who keep ﬁre extinguishers get TEN PER CENT discount, 111an
the Rodded rate 82.9 That is all th paid in 1925 and we are collar ting the some rat:
for 19.26. There is not another Farm utual Insmrume Company in Michigan furnishing a

BLANKET POLICY and giving their membexs such 11 low ra

There is no better or more safennd conservative farm mutual insurxnrc comgmny in Mich-

n. . We collect our assessments 1n advance. We do not have to can the "Dead Beat)!"
who Jump from one company to another, leaving their assessments unpa Our members do
not have to pay what the other fellows do not. We borrow no money and pay no interest.
We always have plenty of money on hand to pay our losses promptly.

Ya. we are conservative We are not so anxious to get business that. we will einsure pro
«ties for much more than they are worth. e are building our company to Th);
money in our treasury belongs to our members and we carefully safeguard t.

BUY INSURANCE ON TIME

At this bunch of the year money is not plentiful with the farmers. When they pay in-
surance for a ymr back they, many es, are unable to spare enough money to become a
member of our emnpsny because our members pay in advance. We have bridged this gap. You

Join our oompsnfx if you are a term owner, and we will tell e your note payable six months
from date, Interest 8%. and issue policy at once.
thsutawidsforyoutomakethecm‘rirge.
you will be required to ...y

This is a new departure and opens

When oin our crampen a polio fee of $L50 Membershi
tee of 10 ,cenisper 310 an advance went. in theRod RoddgClam least the rate 0125
per 81.nnd000ms3. 0 Unrodd odded per ymr. If you do not want togive a note and rear 2110
pay cash when you join you pay your assmnent three, six or twelve months in a vance as
you prefer. ..._
We have just issued a 82- page booklet on "Farm Fire Insurance’ We want every farmer
to have one. It contains valuable information on Farm Mutual Fire Insurance which every farmer
know. Send for a copy. It iss. Intel: tree. Fill out the coupon and mail at once.
If you want to see one of our agents we will send him to you. Or if you prefer we mil lend
you apggcation blanks“ and instructions for ﬁlling out same and you may forward your anus
applies dinette

 

JAMES SLOOUM, Secretary.
2912 West Grand Boulevard,
Detroit. lllohlpan.

I am inmates! in Pioneer ﬁre Insurance and would be pleased to have you send ans
of your 32-33." booklets on "Farm Mutual Fire Insurance." 11y property is located in the
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N the house Alan. had found some one ,

who had mistaken him fora ghost, a

man who had cried out at sight of him
something about a ship—about the Mi—
waka, the ship of whose loss no one had
known anything except by the sounding
of the Drum. What had the man been
doing in the houée? Had he too been
looking for the explanation—the explan-
-ation that Henry feared? Alan had de—
sqribed the man to her; that description
had not had meaning for her before; but
now remembering that description she
couldthink of Henry as the only one
who could have been in that house!
Henry had fought with Alan there! Af-
terwards, when Alan had been attacked
upon the street, had Henry anything to
do With that? _

Henry had lied to her about being in
Duluth the night he had fought with
Alan; he had not told her the true cause
of his quarrels with Uncle Benny; he
had wished her to believe that Uncle
Benny was dead when the wedding ring
and watch came to her—the watch which
had been Captain Stafford’s of the Mi-
waka! Henry had urged her to marry
him at once. Was that because he wished
the security of her father—and she--
must give her husband when they learned
the revelation which Alan or Uncle Benny
might bring?

If so, then that revelation had to do
with the Miwaka. It was of the Miwaka
that Henry had cried out to Alan in the
house; they were the names of the next
of kin of those on the Miwaka that Uncle
Benny had kept. That was beginning to
explain to her something of the effect on
Henry of the report that the Drum was
telling that some on Ferry Number 25
were alive. and why he had hurried north
because of that. The Drum—so super—
stition had said—had beat the roll of
those who died with the Miwaka; had
beaten for all but one! No one of those

who accepted the superstition had ever
been able to explain that; but Henry
could! He knew something more about

the Miwaka than others knew. He had
encountered the Miwaka somehow or en-
countered some one saved from the Mi-
waka; he knew, then, that the Drum had
beaten correctly for the Miwaka, that one
was spared as the Drum had told! Who
had that one been? Alan? And was he
now among those for whom the Drum
had not yet beat?

She recalled that, on the day when the
Miwaka was lost, Henry and Uncle Benny
had been upon the lake in a tug. After—

wards Uncle Benny had grown rich;
Henry had attained advancement and
wealth. Her reasoning had brought her

to the verge of a terrible discovery. If
she could take one more step forward in
her thought, it would make her under-
stand it all. But she could not yet take
that step.

In the morning, at Traverse City——
where she got a cup of coffee and some
toast in the station eating house—she had
to change to a, day coach, It had grown
still more bitterly cold; /the wind which
swept the long brick~paved platform of
the station was artic; and even through
the double windows of the day coach she
could feel its chfll. The points of Grand
Traverse Bay were frozen across; frozen
across too was 'Iiorch Lake; to north of
that, ice, snow-covered, through which
frozen rushes protrudedfmarké’d the long
chain of little lakes known as the “Inter-
mediates.” The little towns and villages,

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and the rolling ﬁelds with their leafless
trees or blackened stumps, lay under the
drifts. It had stopped snowing, how-

,Vever and she found relief in thatsearch-

ers upon the lakes could see small boats
now—if there were still small boats to
be seen.

To the people in her Pullrman, the de-
struction of the ferry had been only a
news item competing for interest with
other news on the front pages of their
newspapers; but to these people in the
day coach, it was an intimate and absorb-
ing thing. They spoke by name of the
crew as of persons whom they knew. A
white lifeboat, one man told her, had
been seen south of Beaver Island; an-
other said there had been two boats.
They had been far off from shore, but,
according to the report cabled from Bea-
ver, there had appeared to be two men in
them; the men—her informant’s voice
hushed slightly—had not been rowing.
Constance shuddered. She hade-feard of
things like that on the quick-freezing
fresh water of the lakes—small boats
adrift crowded with men sitting upright
in them, ice-coated, frozen, lifeless!

Petoskey, with its great hotels closed
and boarded up, and its curio shops closed
and locked, was blocked with snow. She
went from the train directly to the tele-
graph oﬂice. If Henry was in Petoskey,
they would know at that ofﬁce where he
could be found; he would be keeping in
touch with them. The operator in charge
of the ofﬁce knew her, and his manner
became still more deferential when she
asked after Henry.

Mr. Spearman, the man said, had been
at the ofﬁce early in the day; there had
been no messages for him; he had left
instructions that any which came were
to be forwarded to him through the men
who, under his direction, were patroling
the shore for twenty miles north’of Little
Traverse, watching for boats. The oper-
ator added to the report she had heard
upon the train. One lifeboat and perhaps
two had been seen by a farmer who had
been on the ice to the south of Beaver;
the second boat had been far to the south
and west of the ﬁrst one; tugs were cruis-
ing there now; it had been many hours,
however after the farmer ‘had seen the
boats before he had been able to get
word to the town at the north end of the
island—St. James—s0 that the news
could be cabled to the mainland. Fisher
therefore, regarded it
as more likely, from the direction and
violence of the gale, that the boats, if
they continued to ﬂoat, would be drifted
upon the mainland than that they would
be found by the tugs.

Constance asked after her father. Mr.
Sherrill and Mr. Spearman, the operator
told her, had been in communication that
morning; Mr. Sherrill had‘not come to
Petoskey; he had taken charge of the
watch along the shore at its north end.
It was possible that the boats might drift
in there; but men of experience consider-
ed it more probable that the boats would
drift in farthr south where Mr. Spearman
was in charge.

Constance crossed the frozen edges of
the bay by sledge to Harbor Point. The
driver mentioned Henry with admiration
and with pride in his acquaintance with
him; it brought vividly to her the recol—
lection that Henry’s rise in life was a.
matter of personal congratulation to these

.people as lending luster to the neighbor-

hood and to themselves. Henry’s inﬂu-
ence here was far greater than her own
or her father‘s; if she were to move
against Henry or Show him distrust, she

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terrible (head. She had not "been able
before this to. form any deﬁnite idea, of
how Henry could threaten Alan and_Uncle
Benny; she had imagined only vague
interference and obstruction of the search
for them; she had not forseen that he
could so readily assume charge of the
search and direct, or misdirect it.

At the Point she discharged the sledge
and went on foot to the house of the
caretaker who had charge of the Sherrill
cottage during the Winter. Getting the
keys from him, she let herself into the
house. The electric light had been cut
off, and the house was darkened by shut-
ters, but she found a lamp and lit it.
Going to her room, she unpacked a heavy
sweater and woolen cap and short fur
coat—winter things which were left there
against use when they opened the house
sometimes out of season—and put them
on. Then she went down and found her
snowshoes. Stopping at the telephone,
she called long distance and asked them
to locate Mr.‘ Sherrill, if possible, and in-
struct him to move south along the shore
with whomever he had with him. She
went out then, and fastened on her snow-
shoes.

It had grown late. The early Decem-
ber dusk—the second dusk since little
boats had put oﬂ from Number 25—dark-
shed the snow-locked land. The wind
from the west out like a knife, even
through her fur‘ coat. The pine trees
moaned and bent, with loud whistlings
of the wind among their needles; the
leaﬂess elms and maples crashed their
limbs together; above the clamor of all
other sounds, the roaring of the lake
came to her, the booming of the waves
against the ice, the shatter of ﬂoe on
ﬂoe. No snow had fallen for a few hours,
and the sky was even clearing; ragged
clouds scurried before the wind and, open-
ing, showed the moon.

Constance hurried westward and then
north, following the bend of the shore.
The ﬁgure of a man—one of the shore
patrols—pacing the ice hummocks of the
beach and staring out upon the lake, ap-
peared vaguely in the dusk when she had
gone about two miles. He seemed sur-
prised at seeing a. girl, but less surprised
when he had recognized her. Mr Spear-
man. he told her, was to the north of
them upon the beach somewhere, he did
not know how far; he could not leave
his post to accompany her, but he as-
sured her that there were men stationed
all along the shore. She came, indeed,
three quarters of a mile farther on, to
a second man, about an equal distance
beyond, she found a third, but passed
him and went on.

Her legs ached now with the unac—
customed travel upon snowshoes; the
cold, which had been only a piercing
chill at ﬁrst, was stopping feeling, al—
most stopping thought. When clouds
oovered the moon, complete darkness
came; she could go forward only slowly
then or must stop and wait; but the in—
tervals of moonlight were growing longer
and increasing in frequency. As the sky
cleared, she went forward quickly for
many minutes at a time, straining her
gaze westward over the tumbling water
and the does. It came to her with terri-
fying apprehension that she must have
advanced at least three miles since she
had seen the last patrol; she could not

have passed any one in the moonlight,‘

without seeing him. and in the dark in-

. tor-vale she had advanced so little that

she could not have missed one that way

. either.

She tried to go faster as she realized

'- this; but now travel had become more dif-

j ﬂcult. There was no longer any beach.
High. precipitous bluffs, which she recog- _

\ nixed as marking Seven Mile Point, de-

scended her directly to the hummocked
loo along the water's edge. She fell
many times, traveling upon these hum-
mocks; there were strange, treacherous
places between the hummocks where, ex-
cept for her snowshoes, she would have
broken through. Her skirt was torn;
she lost one of her gloves and could not
stop to look for it; she fell again and
sharp ice cut her ungloved hand and
blood froze upon her‘ﬂnger tips. She did
not heed any of these things.

She was horriﬁed to ﬁnd that she was
growing weak, and the her senses were
becoming confused. She mistook at times
ﬂoating ice, metallic under the moon-
light, for boats; her heart beat fast then
while she scrambled part way up the
bluff to gain better sight and so ascer»
tained her mistake. Deep ravines at
places broke the shores; following the
bend of the bluffs. she got into thehe
ravines and only learned her error when
she found that she was departing from
the shore. She had come. in all. perhaps
eight miles; and she was ”playing out";
other girls, she assured herself—ether
girls would not have weakened like this;
they would have had strength to make
certain no boats were there. or at least
to get help. She had seen no houses;
those. she knew. stood back‘from the
shore. high upon the bluffs. and were not
easy to ﬁnd; but she scaled the blufi‘

‘ now and looked about for lights. The

country was wild and wooded. and the

' moonlight showed only the white stretches
’ of the shrouding snow.

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owl-town. N. Y. Send no money. The

, is free. Write now—~today. It may
. the'wearlng of a truss the rest of

  
  
   
    

  
  
  
 

    
 
   
  

        
   

     
    

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EAR girls and boys; February
is the outstanding month of the
year, being the shortest one of
the twelve and containing the birth-
days of two of the greatest men this
country has ever known as well as
St. Valentine’s .Day. On February

[12th we celebrate the birthday of

Abraham Lincoln—our “Honest
Abe”—-loved by more people in our
country and others perhaps than any
other American, past or present. St.
Valentine’s Day is just two days
later, and then on the 22nd of this
month is the birthday of the Father
of Our Country, George Washington.

As long as I can remember, which
is a long, long time, I have heard
folks debate which was the great-
est, Lincoln or Washington, and
some times the Lincoln debaters
were the victors while the next time

the defenders of Washington won‘T“

There is no question about both of
these men being loved by their
country and the girls and boys of
today can well consider them as
good examples to follow.
Another Contest

But let us have a debate all of
our own. What do you say? I do
not care which one you choose,
Lincoln or Washington, and then
Write me a letter telling me why
he is greater than the other. 'Do
not write more than 500 Words,
write only on one side of each sheet,
put your name and address at the
top of each sheet, and be sure to ad-
vise whether you have one of our
buttons or not. The one who sends
in the best letter will receive a
fountain pen; second best wins a
box of paints, and the ﬁrst ﬁfty to
send in letters will receive buttons
providing, of course, they haven’t
received one already. And do not
forget that the contest closes Sat-
urday noon, February 27th.—UN—
CLE NED.

 

 

Our Boys and Girls

 

 

\

Dear Uncle Ned:—I was really sur-
prised, Uncle’ Ned. to receive a letter and
am well pleased that you will let me
join your merry circle.

Before, going any further I must des-
cribe myself the same as the rest of the
merry cirlers. I am ﬁve feet, two and
one-half inches tall. I weigh between 105
and 111 pounds, I am not sure for I have-
n’t weighed myself for a few months now.
I have a fair complexion—and hav dark
brown hair, which, of course, is obbed.
It will be two years next March/ 12th
since I‘ve had it bobbed. I have sort of
bluish eyes, too. My age is thirteen years.
I will be fourteen next March 13th. I
think it is enough about my description.

I have also joined a club this year and
I wish it would be a success. I joined the
Girls’ Sewing Club last year, too, which
was the ﬁrst year's work. This year we
had second year garments to make. I
am greatly interested in clubs. One of
my friends and I won in the judging con-
test and were told to go to “The Club
Camp”. but we didn’t go. If we win
again next year, we will be sure to go.

In describing myself I forgot to tell
you that I am in the eighth grade. I also
have two brothers older than I am and
one sister, which is older. She goes to
high school now, so I am called the “baby
of the family}? I’ll have IQ be excused.
Uncle Ned for writing {his in my letter.
I have to go to school only a quarter of
a mile and it is a very short way. I
have not missed any school yet, even
thuoght Christmas is so near. Neither
did I miss any last year.

I will be glad to receive letters from

any one of the other cousins. I will re-
main a cousin of "Children's Hour" and
hope '(U see my letter in print. Your
niece, Wilma Wilkkila, Box 17, Rumcly,
Michigan. . ‘
—-I wish you success in your club work.
I know you must ﬁnd it interesting and
hope you join each year just as longras
you can. Write and tell us about it
sometime.

 

Dear Uncle Ned2—I have never written
to you before, and I like to read the let-
ters in the Children’s Hour very much». I
think the letters are real interesting to
read. I help my father on the farm. \Ve
live en a hundred and forty-nine acre
farm. The 'T0wnhall School takes off one
acre. It joins our place on three sides and
it is close by. I have two brothers and
four sisters. I am sixteen years old and
passed the eighth grade last year. I
will describe myself now. Iain [livoJeet
L . e bro-W11;
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hundred and nineteen pounds. .We live
seven miles from our nearest town.

I would like to be in your club with-
the rest of the boys and girls. I also ~
would like to win.one of your pins. We
have taken THE BUSINESS FARMER for
about three months and like it .very
.much.

The snow has all gone oﬂ'again. We
have nine cows and two horses, ﬁve
calves, two colts, and four pigs. There is
a Grange organization two and one-half ~
miles from our place.

_ I would like to hear from some of the

boys and girls and hope to see mygletter
in print. I read the letters the girls
write about the boys and what the boys
write about the girls and think they are
both real good—Your loving neice, Alice
M. Eetterly, Woodville, Michigan. ‘

—-I am having contests in which you have
opportunities to win a. pin every now
and then, so just keep your eyes open and »
remember that wonderful old saying, “If
at ﬁrst you don’t succeed, try, try again.

Dear Uncle Ned:—Could I join your
merry circle? I am a girl 13 years old.
I have light brown hair and light com—
plexion. I have brown eyes. I have two
cats for my pets. One will speak for a.
piece of bread. I also have a dog. I go
to school every day. I am in the 7th
grade in school. My father takes Tun
BUSINESS FARMER and we all like it ﬁne.
Well, I am going to have a party soon.
Well, I think my letter is long enough, so
I will close. I wish some of the girls and
boys would write to me. Good-bye. Amilia.
Stern, Box 109, Route 3, Imlay City.
Michigan.

—Now Amilia, I should feel slighted be-
cause I did not get an invitation to your
party—but I’ll forgive you this time.

Dear Uncle Ned:——I am going to write
about a trip I took to the See. I went‘
with a car up to the Channel. Then We
went with a boat over the Channel and
then again with a car. We passed many
houses. I saw many nice things. When
we reached the city I saw many cars and
many large buildings. Afterwards, we
went to the lake shore to have a nice
time. . ~

Now, I'will you about myself.
the second grade.
have blond hair,

I am in

I am‘nine years old,
blue eyes. I am four
feet tall. I have four Sisters and four
brothers. I have about a quarter of mile
to go to school, and we live on a farm.
I like my school work well. Your neice,‘
Irja Toivola, Johnswood, Mich.

-—Can you write me about other trips you
took? All will be interested I am sure.

Dear Uncle Nedz—Received your letter
and I thought I would try my luck
again. I don’t whether I can make this
letter interesting or not. For pets I have
a dove named Tony, and two cats, one
named Tom and the other Lucy. I live
on a forty-acre farm. We have two cows,

.' two horses, one calf and about sixty-ﬁve

or seventy chickens. We had seven acres
of good corn this year. I have two sisters,
Clela and Ardis. My teacher’s name is
Miss Hazel Miner of Reading. Michigan.
We had a big program on Christmas at
our school. There are only thirteen
scholars in my school. I am going to
drop in and see you some of these days,
Uncle Ned. That is, if you welcome visi—
tors. Dear Mr. Waste Basket: Please
don’t eat my letter. Good-bye. From
Carroll Culbert, Route 1, Joncsville, Mich-
igan.

——Mr. Waste Basket says you made such
a strong, personal appeal to him to spare
your letter that you ruined his appetite.

 

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to that offered industry; discussed
the fundamental .factors which have

4 given rise to the demand for agri-

cultural relief lesislation; and en-
dorsed any sound plan ‘for remedy-
ing this situation and insuring an

American price to American farmers ,

for that portion of agricultural pro-
ducts consumed in this country.

In matters of state legislation, one
of the most controversial resolutions
was that referring to highway ﬁnan-
The resolution as ﬁnally adopt-

ed stated in part:——“At present we
do not favor legislation to bring in
any larger "total revenues for high—
way purposes than is now derived
from the gas tax and the weight tax.
If there israny change in these taxes
~ we prefer the gas tax be increased
and the weight tax be deereased or

discontinued entirely and permanent.

license. plates be issued to be valid
for the life ot‘the car; provided, that

in no case shall the total amount'

distributed to the counties be re-
duced below eight millions of dol-
lars."

The delegates adopted unanimous-
ly a resolution protesting against the

. proposal that the state’ s delinquent

awards to the counties be cancelled.
Directors elected for the coming

year were:
From the commodity Exchanges:
M. L. Noon, Jackson, representing

the Michigan Milk Producers’ Asso-
ciation; J. HTO’Mealey, Hudson, rep-
resenting the Michigan Live Stock
Exchange; F. J. Harger, Stanwood,
representing the Michigan Potaot
Growers’ Exchange; G. W. McCalla,
Ypsilanti, representing the Michigan
Elevator Exchange; M. D. Buskirk,
Paw Paw, representing the Michigan
Fruit Growers, Inc.

Directors at large were: E. C.
McCarty, Bad Axe; Mrs. Edith M.
Wagar, Carleton; V. F. Gormely,

Newberry; M. B. McPherson, Lowell;
W: W. Billings, DavisonLJ. G. Boyle,

..... Buchanan.

. The directors organized by elect-
ing Mr. McPherson president, Mr.
Noon vice- president, and retaining
Mr. C. L Brody as Secretary-Man—
ager.

. / FARMERS’ WEEK PARADE

0 Farmers' Week would be com-
N plete without the annual par—

ade. All visitors look forward
to this event with keen interest. As
usual, the parade was headed by the
college band, a splendid military
musical organization and one of the
best college bands in the Middle
West. Following the band came the
various units of the college regiment,
the infantry, the cavalry, and ﬁnally
the supply and repair service‘and

A the artillery, both tractor drawn. "

Next came ﬂoats representing the
various departments of the college.
This section of the parade was head-
ed by the Veterinary‘ Department
ﬂoat bearing the slogan, “Horse
Doctors? No, Veterinarians!" Fol-
lowing this came the ﬂoats of the
Agricultural Department, the Ap-
plied Science- Department, the Engi-
neering Department, the Home Eco-
nomics Department and the Forestry
Department. Next were ﬂoats con-
taining various breeds of sheep and
swine.

The next section of the parade was
a pageant dipictiﬁg “The Develop—
ment of Transportation”. First of
all came the Indian and his pony,
the squaw being seated in the pony—
drawn drag or sled. Then came the
settler on foot, followed soon after
by the settler with his horse and
pack mule. Next, 0 course, wsa the
covered wagon.

A surrey, labeled
Afternoons”, and ' containing two
pairs came next. This was followed
closely by the modern sedan, motor
bus, and truck.

The ﬁnal section of the parade in-
cluded horses and cattle, splendid
specimens from the prize winning
herds of the college.

Heat the water for scalding of hogs
to about 160 degrees Fahrenheit. If it
is hotter, it will ’set the hair instead.

, tauperatures as low as 140 will scald a ‘

hog, but it takes longer.

 

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1 {demanded a balanced tariff.
"19 give agriculture pi‘dtecti‘on equal

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“I have fed cows (20 to 30 per year) for 33 years
and I honestly believe Larro to be the best, safest
and most productive feed ever offered to the
American dairy farmer, and I have used almost

every feed ever grown or concocted.”

The name and address of the writer of
this letter will be supplied on application.
He may not live in the same locality as
you do but it is practically certain that
in your neighborhood there is a dairyman
who might have written it.

For evidence that Larro increases both
' milk and proﬁts from milk,- go to him;
look at his cows and at his balance sheet.
These tell the Larro story of sustained
performance better than we can tell it

in words.

This typical Larro feeder, representative

--and he got it.

haul”,

sults.

of course, an immediate increase in mill:

But more important,

since he’s in the business for the “long
he wanted to build condition in
his cows and assure regular reproduction
of sturdy, healthy calves. He wanted to
lengthen the producing life of his herd,
and at the same time he wanted all the
milk his cows were capable of producing.

He has found that Larro gets these re-
He knows it is “proﬁt over feed

costs” that counts, and his records tell
him that Larro increases his proﬁt

margin.

of many thousands of satisﬁed- Larro

users- .throughout the country, runs his
dairy on a business-like basis. He keeps
only ‘the good, proﬁtable cows, and keeps

them at their best.

When he ﬁrst bought Larro he wanted,

 

DETROIT

Write for our folder,
Neighbors Say”, which tells the experi-
ence of nearby Larro feeders.

“What Your

Better

still—try Larro yourself and learn why
Larrd feeders are becoming more numer-

There is a dealer near you

- THE LARROWE MILLING CO.
MICHIGAN

 

one and more enthusiastic year after year.

 

The Safe Ration For Dairy Cows

Also a complete line of Poultry Feeds ——as good for

your chickens as our Dairy feed is for your cows.

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“Dandelion Butter Color”
Golden June Shade which
Brings Top Prices

in‘g add one—half
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cream a n (1 out
of your c h u r 11
comes butter of
G o l d e 11 June
shade. ”Dande-
l"ion Butter
Color" is purely
vegetable, harm-
less, and meets
all State and National food laws. Used
for 50 years by all large creameries.
Doesn’t color buttermilk. Absoluteiy
tasteless.
cents at drug or grocery
Write fer free sample bottle.
Wells l: Richardson 00., Burlington, Vt.

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We manufacture all kinds of fur goods.
Iadies' md \lvn’s l‘oats. ll‘ur Sets, Gloves,
Mittens Caps, Robes, etc. Try our re-
pair department. -

FREE

spot-light for 0111' auto.
our 1926

$5.00 inside
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illustrated catalogs.
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Makes chicks grow and hens lay.
local co-op or farm bureau agent. Insist m
IMichigan brand.
feeding book.”

THE M. F. B. SUPPLY SERVICE

OATS

S E N 5 AT] 0 N_ ductive outs in -

vation. 7 5 Bushels and upward per acre are fre-

quent with large “lute melty grams, weig g 44*

46 lbs. per measurid bushll 0f the highest quality.

Seed furnished '15 low as 65' 1c per bushel in quan-

tities. You should by all means try these oats.
Send for sample and circular.

THEO. BURT 8: SONS, Box 150, Melroso. 0M0.

One of the most’pro-
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By Anne Campbell

We're boardin' the teacher at our house.
The teacher's as nice as kin be.

Her hands are as white as white paper.

She don't do the dishes, you see.

At night there's a ﬁre' in the parlor;
On Sundays a tablecloth white.

Because we are boardin’ the teacher
We gotta hev ever’thing right.

Our hired man dresses up‘ evenin’s;
On Sunday he puts on a tie.

He sits kinda sad in a corner
When other young fellas drop by.

The teacher brings home from the school
house
Her papers an’ work to be done;
An’ though I am little, I’m thinkin’
That bein’ teacher is fun!

On mornin’s when snowdrifts are highest,

An' teacher tramps off through‘ the
snow,

I watch her an’ wave through the win-
dow,

An' wish I was six an’ could go!

The teacher wears silk—I wear cotton:
An’ she’s got a wave in her hair;

An’ she’s got some fur on her collar,
An' pa sez more brains than her share!

We’re boarding theteacher at our place,
An’ when I get bigger than you
I'll teach in some nice District School
House.
An’ I’ll be a star boarder, too!

MAKES HATS
(Prize Letter)

HAVE earned extra “pin money"

making little velvet and plush

hats for little girls from one
to twelve years of age. I buy rem-
nants of velvet and plush in all col-
ors, also linings. My braids, tassels,
etc., are also bought at bargain sales.
I make the little hats in six or four
sections in crown with a turn-up
rim. Anyone can buy patterns at
any pattern counter. Often a mother
is making her girl a coat of a larger
discarded coat and there are pieces
left over that can be used for a hat
to match. All work must be done
neatly and prices reasonable.

I am a farmer’s wife, age 63, and
what I have done, younger women
can do. I sell most of mine in the
city, but women call here and buy,
too. I live four and one-half miles
from any town or city. I would ad-
vertise and have a little shop. Lit-
tle hats are usually so dear, mothers
are glad to buy at reasonable prices
——-$1.00 to $2.00. I have done this
work every fall, for six years and
done well.——Mrs’. G. M., Vicksburg,
Michigan.

VARIED EXPERIENCES IN MAK-
ING “PIN MONEY"
(Prize Letter)

’ S I have had varied experiences
in the way of “pin money”
schemes, I will venture to tell

you them, and perhaps, aid others in

at least a small measure.

I have been local correspondent
for four years of our weekly county
paper, also collect subscriptions in
arrears and new subscribers for
which I receive generous pay. All
one needs for this is a good listening
ear, pen or pencil always at hand,
and the gift of gab and conﬁdence
in one's self.

I also give music lessons to some
of the neighbor’s children who
would otherwise be deprived of mu-
sical instruction not being able to go
to town to a teacher, and there are
‘ lots of other farm women who could
do likewise who probably have drift-
ed away from their music since liVo
ing in the country where duties are
manifold.

I make it a point to jot down ev-
my new idea that I discover while
caring for my home. New recipes
which often are concocted in time
of necessity or when wanting some-
thing “just a little diﬁerent,” and
ﬁle them away for reference, when
one of our magazine editors puts on
a. new contest or requests new ideas.
In this way I am able to at least
keep my magazine subscriptions
paid in advance. So many farm
women feel they cannot afford mag-
azines. I think this is a great mis-
take, and if they would only watch
for opportunities they would ﬁnd
noend of ways to make their maga-
zines pay for themselves by the
ideas they send in, and realize a
goodly number of savings in carry-
ing out in their own household ideas
others offer.

I have a pet purse of my own,
ﬁlled with, pennies, nickels and
dimes, etc., I havelsave‘d by making
-the' most of sales." i-"vaone" starchells
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you can use.

change their plans for this
spring so write soon so that
.we 'can publish your letter
in an early issue.

Adams letters:

[9th for the Women '
Edited by m. m TAYLOR

FOLKS: We might call cur page in this issue the “Pin

' Money Special” because I am publishing the letters Judged the
best received in our contest. I think some excellent plans are
discussed in these “letters and I hope you ﬁnd some of them that

It surprised me not to receive at least one
chickens but I suppose you felt that the money you earned in this
way could hardly be called “pin money” and perhaps you are right.
However I wish some of my readers would write their experiences in
the “chicken business” for the beneﬁt of all. Pass your experiences
and ideas along to other folks and they will give their’s to you, thus .
you both are better off. Your experiences may cause someone to

1
Mrs. Annie Taylor. are The Business Farmer. Mt. Clemens, llllohlaan.

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I buy from No. 2 and the nickel goes '

in my purse and so on ad inﬁnitum.
Then when I want something real
bad, and couldn’t hardly afford it
else, I peek in my little purse and
very seldom but what I can contrive
to get my desire.

In any number of communities
there is a chance for a farm wife to
sell fresh cut ﬂowers, plants, bulbs,
roots, and so on, especially in the
smaller communities where there
isn’t any ﬂorist. A little practice and
one can soon learn the kind of flow-
ers demanded by the trade, how to
arrange bouquets tastefully, etc. I
ﬁnd tulips and narcissus for Decora-
tion Day, and gladioli and asters sell
best.

Bouquets for the sick room are
always in demand from church and
lodge societies and such, and pay
well. Of course, there is always that
added blessing from good measure
for your money which should actu-
ate all our dealings and build the
foundation for permanent suc0ess.
—Mrs. G. H. F., Wolverine, Mich.

SELLING CUOUMBEBS
(Prize Letter)

1‘ WILL tell you how I have made
“pin money” for the last three
years. Selling cucumbers. One
can sow some seed early for ta-

ble use, selling the large ones. For

fall picking plant seeds the ﬁrst
of June—from the ﬁrst to the
twelfth. My husband plows as many
furrows as I want row of cucumbers,
nine feet apart, then the trenches
are ﬁlled with manure. I cover the
manure with dirt and sow my seed.
Some of the long greens, some of
the cluster variety. The long greens
are better for early use. I never
water my vines. I pick them every
morning. It is better for the vines
than in the heat of the day. This

year I sold small ones for $2.00 a

bushel, next size for sliced pickles

for $1.60 a bushel and larger ones
for dills at $1.00 a bushel.—Mrs.

J. B., Capac, Michigan.

QUE/IS AND APPLE BUTTER
(Prise Letter)
MAKE patchwork quilts and take
them to sales and sell them. Also
apple butter can be made at very
little cost in the fall and if kept un-
til near spring it sells very readty
at twenty to twenty-ﬁve cents a
quart. I put mine in glass cans and
take it to the public sales and sell
it often. I have boiled down cider
and can make it during the winter
months out of apples that would
otherwise decay—Mrs. R. D., White
Cloud, Mich. ..

EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS
(Prize Letter)

NOTICED in THE Bvsnvnss FARM-

ER today that you wanted to

hear the schemes to make a little
extra money. I will tell you mine.
I’m the mother of two little girls,
one a year old, the other one is
three, so I have’lots of work to do.
We live on an eighty acre farm since
the ﬁrst of September. I canned
one hundred and twenty-ﬁve cans
of fruit, took care of my children,

did my house work, and did lots of r

work out on the farm, besides I
earned $10.00. I got the job of“
cleaning the school house, and after

er’s house such, “.8. m 198.], Willi!

that‘I had workat the school teach-

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ing and baking, so made some money
that‘way. We live on a rented farm
so we only get part of what comes
off the farm, and I have my part of

the eggs. I sold $3.00 worth of
pears by saving all I could. I sold
some-..lettuce, beans, beets, apples,

and I have some chickens to sell. I
think every little bit helps a lot so
I save all I can. I don’t feel as if
I have done so bad this summer. I
think it takes a good deal of study-
ing, planning, and looking. When
one sees a little job and takes it
even if you don’t make but a little,
it will help a lot. Probably you
might think what a lot of work for
such little pay, but think this way,
every little bit helps, and I may get
it again or something else. One can
soon work their wages up, because if
you do the work good, you will get
more than if you didn’t do it half as
good. I surely hope this" will be of
some good to you. If I can be of
any help to you in any way, I will
be glad to.-—Mrs. E. M. P., Hastings,
Mich.

HOME-CANNED PULIPIHN
(Prize Letter)

response to your call for “pin-

money” ideas, I am sending one

which any farmer’s wife or
daughter can easily make use of,
even along with their busy house-
work.

Stew good ﬁeld pumpkins', sift,
pack into quart cans, tighten covers
ﬁrmly and cover cans in warm water
bath, sterilizing two hours. Com-
plete the seal and cool. Two or three
quarts may be made from each
pumpkin, each selling at twenty-ﬁve
cents a quart to’any city or even
small town, busy housewife or busi-
ness woman.—-—Mrs. A. 0., Six Lakes,
Mich.

SEVERAL SCHEMES
(Prize Letter)

OULDN’T it be ﬁne if Tm:
BUSINESS Farms would set
aside part of a column for

women to advertise what they have
for sale to make “pin money?" Let-
ting each take their turn and give
so much an insertion.

I, myself have washed for two
different families to earn money, but
that did not help my health any.
Have also crochet work. A friend
of mine told me the other day she
is going to make paper roses to sell.
Another friend sells fancy waxed
ﬂowers at $1.00 per dozen or the
plain ones at ,75c per dozen.

I certainly think it would be ﬁne
if the ladies would send in ideas in
regard to home work. I, myself,
answered ads of the knitting ma-
chine companies but they wanted so
much down. I never purchased ma-
chines. I said I wanted to earn
money not to spend it.

I intend to crochet articles for
gifts and put them on the market
before Christmas. I hope to see
bushels of money making ideas in

your good little paper.——F. W.,
Vicksburg, Mich. K”

CHLORJNE AND OOLDS
HE prevention of disease and the
cure 'of disease are very distinct
processes. The use of chlorine
for colds was ﬂrstﬂthqughtlof as a
preventative;
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continuously into a room. an treet-
ed 184 people by allowing them to
breathe the air for about ﬁve min-
utes each day. Only one person
came down with inﬂuenza, and his
attack began on the ﬁrst day of the
treatment, indicating. that it hid
probably gotten a start previously.
-In the same town and during the
same time one person in_ every 40
who were not treated took the "ﬂu."

In a similar way data has been
obtained which indicate that the in-
halation of chlorine in great dilu-
tions is fairly effective in preventinx
colds.

In this connection it is interesting
to note the report of a man who
changed from hard to soft coal in
his furnace and found that the
slight escape of coal gas throughout
his house relieved him of a “bron-
chial trouble that affected him every
winter.” It is stated also that em-
ployees in the London tubes were
not troubled with respiratory in-
fections as long as the trains burned
soft coal, but after they were all
electriﬁed these troubles began.

Thus far the use of chlorine as a
cure for colds has not always proved
effective. Those who have had good
results with it claim that the other
people did not..use enough, or that
they used too much, and in that way
irritated the mucous membranes. No
very systematic work has been car-
ried out on’the problems so that it
is not possible to draw very deﬁnite
conclusions.

One great diﬁiculty in experiment;-
ing along this line is that of con-
trolling the amount of gas in the air
which is breathed, and this would
seem to be a very important factor.

The ordinary “chloride of lime.”
which is purchased everywhere and
is very cheap, constantly emit:
chlorine gas. Perhaps somebody
may yet work out a method by
means of which this common sub-
stance can be used effectively in the
treatment of colds.

 

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Personal Column

 

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Making Mittens.—Recently I saw in
your paper how to make mittens for the
family I have just a little improvemm
on them I use wool stocking legs double
for wristlets if too large cut on and
sew in to make a bit tighter at bottom
of wrist that would be in' the center a!
stocking leg then double and sew an
mitten. It has saved this family a lot
on mittens.——Mrs. N., Montcalm County.

 

 

What Ails Tomatoes?—I would like to

ﬁnd out if possible what ails my canned
tomatoes. They do not ferment, look
perfectly good, but the‘cans that have I.
white settling in the bottom are too
acid and I have to throw them away.
So many are this way. I have tried
putting in salt, but part of them are
this way every year. I have asked but
have not been able to ﬁnd out—Mrs. W.,
Berrien County.
—The tomatoes probably have undergone
a fermentation which accounts for the
acidity, unless the acidity noted is ﬁle
natural acid of the tomato. The white
matter noticed is probably microbes of
some kind. However, these points could
be determined accurately only by an ex-
amination of the tomatoes in a labors;-
tory. We would be very glad to make
such an examination and report the ro-,
sults to you. The trouble 'comes from
improper sealing of the jar or from M
of heat either too short a period, or too
low a temperature—Ward Giltner, Pro-
fessor of Bacteriology, Dean of Veterinary
Medicine. M. S. C.

 

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or Those Representing Therm—1. All out»
lay for wedding invitations and other
wedding stationery; and any expense.
postage, service, in sending them out.

2. The wedding dress with all its ac-
cessories, and the bride’s trosseau.

3. The entire cost of church and house
decoration, ﬂowers, ribbons, etc., of all
music incidental to the ceremony, either
at home or at church; and of all trans-
portation for the bridal party and guests
from house to church and back to the
house for the wedding meal.

4. Every item of expense connected
with the wedding collation (caterer, etc.)
including the wedding cake and the brid-
al favors in the cake, (In the old days
the bride favors J‘bride-lac’e’hewere
lengths of gold lace or other lace used
to tie up the sphigs of rosemary the
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“ Years ago the- old-fashioned
mustard plaster was the fayor-
J,;3i‘te remedy for rheumatism,
r-lumbagOJcolds on the chest
and sore throat. .
It did the work, but was sticky and
cheesy and burned and blistered.
i Musterole hastaken the place of the
mustard plaster, without the blister.
Keep this soothing ointment on your
bathroom shelf and bring it out at the
ﬁrst cough or sniﬂle. at rheumatism's
ﬁrst warning tingle. .
Made from pure oil of mustard, With
the blister and sting taken out,‘ Mus.
terole penetrates the skin and goes
to the seat of trouble.
To Mothers.- Musterole is also made
in milder form for babies and small chil-
dren. Ask for Children's Musterole.
The Musterole Co., Cleveland, Ohio
Jars*& Tubes

       
     
        
 

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Cold

Double-Treatment

ON’T dose a child for a
cold. .You may upset
the little one’s digestion. Bet-
ter use what thousands of
mothers have learned [to de-
pend upon. Simply rub Vicks
VapoRub over the child’s
throat and chest at bedtime
and get the'beneﬁt of its two-
fold action:—
(1) Direct to the inﬂamed air pas.
sages by its medicated vapors, re-
leased by’the body heat, and

(2) Direct through the skin like an
old-fashioned poultice, “drawing
out” the soreness and pain.

Good for the colds of all the family.
rs ways
0‘ at once

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, ”Colds

Be quick—be sure

‘Colds are dangerous. Stop them at
once. Correct their damage. Open the
bowels, check the fever, tone the sys-
tem. You Can do that in 24 hours with
HILL’S. This way is efﬁcient and
complete. .It is so well-proved that
millions now employ it. It is so su-
perior that we paid $1,000,000 for it.
Don't rely on minor treatments. Deal
with /a cold in the best way known—
and now.

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from" the. bride is a. small personal‘gift.
some Limple bit of jewelry as a. rule, and
their bouquets. —» If the fan or some other
accessory in. place of the .bouquet, the
bride is expected to provide it. (It is
also quite correct, as a. local custom in
many places, for the bridegroom to pre-
sent the bridesmaids with their bouquets.)
These gifts of the bride to her aids, and
an incidental gift on her part to the
bridegroom (if she choose to make it)
complete the list of expenses which are
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The Runner’s Bible

(Copyright by Houghton Midlin Co.)

God giveth to a. man that Is good in
His sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and
Joy.-——Eccl. 2:20.

Who heuleth all thy diseases.—Ps. 102 :3.

My grace is sufﬁcient for thee, for my
strength is made perfect in weakness.—
2 Cor. 12:9..

For when I am weak, then am I strong.
—2 Cor. 12:10. ' '

Becoming humble through helplessness,
I give myself wholly up to God; then
nothing hinders His power from being
made perfect in me—then I am strong.

 

 

 

 

Recipes

 

 

Cookies with Fancy Rolling I’in.—I am
a. very interested reader of “The Farm
Home” page and having seen the request
of Mrs. 8., Auburn, Mich., for a good
cookie recipe for the fancy rolling pin,
I wish to make a contribution.

This recipe is an old-fashioned German
one called “Springerli”. It readsz—l cup-
ful powdered sugar, rolled, sifted and
warmed. 4 large eggs, 1 pound ﬂour dried
and sifted 3 times, the grated rind of 1
lemon, and 1 teaspoon baking powder
sifted with the ﬂour. Beat eggs and
sugar 1 hour, stirring one way. Add
other ingredients and shape into loaf
without much handling. Set in cool place
2 hours. Roll out a small piece of the
dough 1/4 inch thick on a floured board.
Put a little flour into a cheese cloth bag
and dust the springerli molds, press the
dough into the molds firmly then remove
and trim. Spread a cloth on a table in
a cool room, sprinkle it with anise seed
and lay the cakes on this for 12 hours.
Bake in lightly buttered pans in a mod-
erate oven. These cookies are ﬁne. My
grandmother used to make these for the

holidays and the whole family used to
help with the making. A good idea,
isn‘t it? The rolling pin must be rolled

over the dough quite heavily so the pat-
tern will be very distinct.

These cookies should be made a few
days before using as they improve with
age.

May "The Farm Home" continue to be
of a great help to its readers and I hope
we all will cooperate to make it the best
ever during 1926.——Miss K., Mason Co.

Marshmallow Filling.—I saw Mrs. A.
T’s. request for marshmallow ﬁlling and
I am sending a. number and she can take
her choice.

Recipe No. l.—-Boil one cup of sugar
with four tablespoons of water (boiling),
and a pinch of cream of tartar, until it
falls from the spoon in threads. Pour
this slowly into an egg white beaten
stiff. Beat ‘while pouring and until it is
smooth and cold. Soften the marshmal-
lows over boiling water, place on the
cake layers and pour the icing over them.

Recipe No. 2.—Spread the marshmal-
lows on a pan and set in the oven 8.
minute to puff up, then beat the boiled
icing.

Recipe No. 3.—Cocoa,nut Marshmallow
Icing. This takes twelve marshmallows.
Put one cup cocoanut, one cup granulated
sugar, one unbeaten egg white and three
tablespoon water in a double boiler. Beat
with an egg beater till the water has
boiled seven minutes. Cut the marsh-
mallows in small pieces, put into a con-
venient dish, pour the mixture over them
and beat till smooth—Mrs. H.,

 

 

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A foot lever to lift the lid of the gar-

bage can saves bending.
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The best mattress will lose

on ridged or sagging springs.
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its shape

Aunt Ada's Axioms: Promises set the
table, but results ﬁll the platter.
II t t

Straighten the seams before they are
pressed if you want them to come out
straight afterwards.

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Sometimes money spent for a new
stove means a saving in fuel that helps
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WOMEN’S EXCHANGE

F you nave something to exchange. we will
rlnt It FREE under this heading providln :
int—Ii. appeals to women and honln o
exchanges, no cash Involved. ooond—lt will

so in three lines. Third—You are a pal 41
subscriber to The Business Farmer and at o
our address label from a recent issue to rave
t. ‘lxohsn e offers will be numbered an in-

n t e a or received as we have room.
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One trial proves the economy of Calumet. You use
half the amourit usually needed. It has greater leavening strength.

One trial proves the quality of Calumet. Bakings have
a more tempting appearance—are fully raised and properly baked.

One trial proves beyond dispute that Calumet is the
World’s Greatest Baking Powder — highest in quality —— most

economical —- most dependable.

Every incglredient used ofﬁcially approved by United
Authorities.

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Headache
Pain

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Toothache

Colds
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WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS PLEASE
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ENDUITANCE

Children and adults steadv
ily increase in vigor and em
durance on healthagiving

Scott’s Emulsion

It is invigorating codrliver oil
that tastes good and builds up
body and strength effectively.
Always use Scott’s Emulsion!
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: “3 address — no money—
and we will send you, postage
paid. 20 yards of ﬁrst class iece
goods in remnants from tos
yards. (or the remarkably low
price of $1.98. Every bundle

contains such mate I_ as

chambrastancy colpr voilee.
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crash and lawns. You can't make
your own selection of goods.Bundles
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011. Pa the ostman 01.95 for it. We have aid
{he tranzportaption charges. If the goods are not
ter than on expected, return it, at our upon-e
we, will clieerful y refund our money at once. Order
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GO SOUTH

ﬂPROSPEK

Look at the weather report and
see the ideal climatic conditions
which are existing today in the
Southland. N o snow, no ice, no
forced idleness from work. Crops
are growing, and the live stock
is feeding out of doors.

While farmers of the North
are housed by blizzard weather,
the Southern farmer is getting
ready to market, at a splendid
proﬁt, his early spring crops.
Because of greatly increased pop-
ulation, and splendid transporta-
tion facilities, there is an ever-
increasing demand for farm and
dairy products, 'With attendant
better prices.

 

Your family will be happier in
the South, for the children can
play outdoors every day; ﬂowers
grow in wid-winter; heatmg costs
are negligible; and good schools,
churches of every denomination,
good roads and other attractions
add to the joy of living.

Find out more about this
delightful section of America.
Write today, telling us what kind
of farming you have indulged in,
and we will send you, without
cost, now or ever, full informa-
tion about how our free service
will help you to prosper in the
territory served by this railroad.

G. A. PARK
General Immigration & Industrial Alon!
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Dept. MB-G Louisville. Ky.

  

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No matter what kind of
farming you have in-
dulged in, you can do
better in the Southland,
because of better living
conditions, lower living
expenses, lower labor
costs, and a practically

all-year growing season, '

making it possible to
produce several crops
each year.

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5351:5289. . Comfortable Two ‘le Dress.—
Com rising Ladies’ Jacket Blouse or‘ Wind Breaker
535 and Ladies Start 5239. Jersey or home—
spun would be good for this model with contrast-
ing material _for belt. cuﬂ'_andvcolar trimmings.

e Blouse is cut in 7 Sizes: 34, 36. 38, 4.0,
92, 44'and 46 inches bust measure. The Skirt
in 7 Sizes: 25, , 29. 31.
inches waist measure
measure, 85, 37. 89, _41. 48, 45 and 47
The Width .
laits extended is 1 . ard. _ To make t
.or a 38 . ch size Wil require 4% yards of 40'
inch material With % yard of contrasting material
for 'iacmg on collar. turnover and hip band. Two
separate patterns.

35350. Popular style—The Jumper or Two
Piece Blouse Dress is most popular and is shown
here attractively in velveteen. It. may aho be
developed in Jersey“ wool rep, balbriggan or faille.
The Pattern is cut_in. 4 Sizes: 14, 16, 18 and 20
years. .16 year Size requires 2% yards of 54
inch material and ”it {yard of contrasting material
for the tie, and for acings on collar and turn-
over.

5348. Coat .style for Growing Glrl.———Velvet.
kasha, tweed, mixtures and broad cloth are good
materials for this pleasmg model. The collar
may be closed high or rolled open together with
the fronts. This Pattern is cut in 5 Sizes: .
8, 10, 12 and 14 years. To make the coat for
a 10 year size, as illustrated. Will require 21/.
yards of 011 inch material, and 11/. yard of fur
banding 6 inches Wide for cuffs and collar.

5341. Frock for Growing OWL—Crepe de
chine With embmidery is here shown. This is a
00d model .for velveteen, wool rep or jersey.
he Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 8; 10, 12 and 14
years. «A ;0 year 8118 requires 3% yards of 36
inch material.

   

.ALL PATTERNS 13c EACH—

2 FOR 25c POSTPAID ‘

ADD 100 For SPRING AND SUMMER
1926 FASHION BOOK

Order from this or former Issues of The Business
Farmer, giving number and sign your
name and address plainly.

Address all orders for patterns to
Pattern Department
THE BUSINESS FARMER
Mt. Clemens, Mich.

 

FARM HOME NEEDS TO BE ANA-
LYZED AT CONFERENCE
HE two day Better Farm Homes
Conference which will be held
at Hotel Sherman, Chicago, Feb—
ruary 18 and 19 will feature on its
program discussions by some of the
foremost authorities in'the archi-
tectural and home economics ﬁeld,
of ways and means of making farm
homes more livable.

This meeting, which is being spon-
sored by the Farm "Structures Divis-
ion of the American Society of Agri—,.
cultural Engineers, will be the ﬁrst
serious attempt to coordinate the
abilities of the architect, home econ—
omics expert, and agricultural en-
gineer to the end of making the av—
erage farm home more efﬁcient, liv-
able and attractive.

From the many social agencies
and various organizations interest-
ed in this movement for better farm
.homes, a committee of one hundred
will be chosen to act in an advisory
capacity. President Calvin Cool-
idge has been invited to serve as the
honorary chairman of this commit—
tee. Many other nationally known
men and women whose broad know-
ledge can aid materially in advanc-
ing the cause of better homes on our
farms will serve as ,advisors on the
many various phases of the move-
ment. ~-

, The best poultrymen thaw out frozen
cdmbs in their ﬂocks by rubbing snow
or ice-water on the combs. Then they
apply any good ointment which soothes
and heals. Carbolated vasel‘ine will do"
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self-regulating with the
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attention than any other
farm machine.
Whether you are in the
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or will be later, write for
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save 25%
to 35%

Look it Over—Our proﬁts have been cut to the bone
to make this the biggest harness bargain in the
U. S. A. See these strap sizes and speciﬁcations. We
guarantee every piece of leather to be absolutely free
from any stag or belly leather—only the sturdy steer
leather used.» Workmnshlp of the very best. All
buckles, rings of best grade. .
fRAOES—l% in. by 8 IL. double and stitched, swivel

heel chain.
BRIDLES——Al pictured, % in. checks.
BBEECHING-FA in. single with full length layer.
BREAST STRAPS—1% in. with snap slides.
HAMES—Polisbed Concord bolt. /
BELLYBANDS—2 in. single with 1% full lentil:
layer and buckles.
LINES—136x20 feet.

Order a set today—look it over. see the actual dull-
ity, feel the wonderful strong sturdy leather. You take
no risk~sent on money-back guarantee, If you are
not convinced it is the best buy in harness anywhere

DON'T SPEND A PENNY

, send it back and your money will be refunded in full.

An exceptional buy—your proﬁt.

FREE Send today for our 1926 Catalog
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similar agencies, all conceren‘ed with
[continuing the educational adults.
lithe United States there are some
three and a halt million adults tak-

about 80 millions of dollars there:
‘for. Director Willard said that there
are in the United States about ﬁve
million youth between'the ages of
16 snd‘ze years and, of these. only
about ﬁve per cent are attempting
to continue their education. Another
m million are included in the
group, of 29 to 25 years and ten per
eesttoi these are securing additional
education. Director Willard urged
that care be used to select only the
best agencies for continuing educa-
tion. lie closed with the appeal that
the American people do not allow

Intellectual laziness. but rather that
all strive for an increase in intellect-
ual capacity and in spiritual resourc‘
es.

Horticultural Day

Thursday afternoon’s general pro““

gram featured two of Michigan's
sons who have achieved national re—
putation as agricultural leaders. Li-
berty Hyde Bailey ,tamous as an
author and educator, spoke on, “A
‘Retrospectf' This retrospect car-
riezdvhi’m back 49 years to 1877
when he was a student at the M. A.
C. He recalled the “hard times"
which had then sttled down on the
nation as a result of the Civil War.
The situation was made all the more
acute for Michigan because cheap
iruit from the west, brought in by
the new transcontinental railroads,
‘had captured Michigan’s markets.
The present situationds discourag-
ing but it is somewhat cheering to
know that things were much worse
in former years.
has more advantages, his standards
oi living have raised, and-the con-
sequent costs are higher. Dr. Bail-
ey expressed the fear that the tarm-
er may have a tendency toward be-
coming a chronic kicker. He urged
meeting the situation as a stoic.
“Good production is still the basis
of proﬁtable farming," stated Dr.
Bailey.’ "Marketing and organiza-
tion are secondary.’

TalkonFuture

Closing the Thursday afternoon
general program, our own Pres. But-
terﬁeld in “A Prospect” outlined
some of the type or things which he
believes the Michigan State College
will be called upon to do. He be-
lieves that, probably within the
next 25 years, the college will be
asked to help the farmers of Michi~
m with the following:

1. Marketing, studied to some ex-
tent trom the standpoint of the con-
sumer. Where, when‘ and how the
dinerent products are wanted by the
consuming public.

2. Dietary problems.

3. Transportation, with special
reference to rates and distances be‘
tween producing and consuming cen-
ters. Also highway and truck trans‘
portation problems.

4. Consumers cooperatives, a pro‘
bablo organization in the future.

5. Land leasing, developing a sys-
tem which will operate to the bene-
ﬁt of the land owner, the tenant and
the community.

6. Insurance, including crop insur‘
ance.

7. Credit.

8. Taxation.

9. Tariﬂ, insofar as it is divorced
tron. politics.

10. Interrelation of city and coun‘
try. '

11-. Country church.

12. Problems of agriculture and
country life, considered from ‘a
world point of view. '

In presenting the above Pres. But-
terﬂeld stated emphatically that he
was, not presenting any set plan or
program of work but was rather at-
tempting to indicate some of the
classes of problems which will devel-
op ln the future and which .the M.

38... C. will be called upon to help
' solve. He elosed by pledging to the
simple of Michigan the best service
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its beneﬁcial action on the bowels.

Increase Milk Flow 15% to 25%.

-J. H. Berger, Mgr. Jersey Crest F‘s
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of our ration consmts oi' Linse Meal. I have
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for the PROTEIN content, show splendid results?
dorsements of the general qualities of Linseed Meal.

by Prof. F. B. Morrison, author with .

You may have heed feeding a certain amount of Linseed Meal for its laxative effect——
But are you aware that liberal quantities fed
The following are typical en-

Profitable for Anyone Who Feeds Cattle

or Hogs.

Mr. 0. W. Falcon, Secretary Marion Inter-State
"I feed
Linseed Meal to pigs from the time they com-
mence to eat until they go on the market, right
feeders.
I would say
that Linseed Moal is proﬁtable for anyone \lllO

Fair Association, Marion, Iowa. states:

with the other feeds. ground, in self

They get all they want to eat.

feeds cattle or hogs."

-—AND LIKEWISE IT'S PBOFI'I‘ABLI".
SHEEP AND POULTRY. AND

Balance Your Ration: for Greater Proﬁt

We can help you—easily but accurately—it has all been
ﬁgured out in the two books listed in the Coupon below.
These books are chock full of feeding rations which include
all manner of feeds in various proportions, extensively used
by farmers, breeders, feeders and ex—
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and in addition write to our Secretary,
who has had extensive farm and ex-
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any unusual feeding problems to solve.

periment stations. Get these

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ican asphalt is what as-
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Mule-Hide Roofs are
surfaced with ﬁre resist-
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minerals. That is why the
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The quality of Mule-Hide is

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~ from the cows you have

Every one of your cows is just a milk-making machine. Some of them
are capable of a larger output than you are getting.Where is the trouble?
How can you get back the money you’ve invested in feed and care-
plus a nice margin of proﬁt 2 Let Kow-Kare help.

Feed Assimilation
Is the Key

Winter feed is hard to digest—
hard to turn into milk. Kow-Kare,
fed in sparing doses along with
the regular diet makes the ideal
winter dairy ration. Kow-Kare
is all medicine. It builds‘into the
organs Lhat gather the milk the
power to reach new heights of
production—with perfect safety
to the general health of the cow.
All the milk value of the ration is
turned into the pail, instead of
partly wasting away.

For the average cow, a tablespoonful in
the feed one week a month is suﬂicient
to keep the digestion vigorous, the assim-
ilation responsive, the health and appetite
robus‘. The slight investment in this
Ko'mi'jare treatment is only a fraction of
want you realize in greater milk-ﬂow.
The best of it is, you need not take Kow-
Kare on faith— the advantage of using,
this wonderful conditioner is positive,"
visible, sure. In a few days you'll see the
diﬂ'erence in the mill: pail.

Cow Diseases
How To Correct Them_

The part that Kow-Kare performs
in correcting such cow ailments
as Barrenness, Retained After-
birth, Abortion, Scours, Bunches,
Milk Fever, etc., is fully explained
in our book, “The Home Cow
Doctor." A copy of the new issue
just Off the press is yours for the
asking. Used the year ’round by
thousands of dairymen.

Be sure to let Kow-Kare work for you
this winter. It will mean more milk and
more money for you. Two sizes, $1.25
and 65c. If your feed dealer, general store

or druggist cannot supply you, we will
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HALF TONS AT SIX MONTHS ;
T is an unusual honor in these
times of improved husbandry to
establish a world record; itvis
not often that a. world. record is
The writer can not recall another
made and then surpassed on the
same day by other animals of the
same owner’s breeding and feeding.
instance where such a record has
been made, thereforethe Ideal Farm
owned by the W. T. Rawleigh Co. of
Freeport, Ill. and who accomplished
the world and reserve World records
in the ton litter contest which was
completed on September 26, 1925 are
to be congratulated.

These two litters are pure-bred
Poland China of the farms own
breeding and feeding; both litters
were farrowed on March 30th and
were immediately entered in the ton
litter contest.
of weighing contained 15 and 16
pigs respectively. The larger litter
at farrowing time contained 18 pigs,
but two of them were destroyed .as
they were weak and unthrifty.

The litter containing 15 pigs was
weighed ﬁrst and the total weight
was 4511% lbs., an average of 300
11/15 lbs. each. This was a world
record as it exceeded the best previ-
ous record of 4408 lbs. made by an
Ohio litter by 1023/2 lbs. Within an
hour this record was broken by the
other litter owned and fed by the
same farm. ‘

The second litter of 16 pigs was
weighed and the total weight was
4789 lbs., an average of 229 5/16
lbs. each. This litter averaged 1
5/12 pounds per pig less than the
reserve world champion litter.

These litters were fed skimmilk
containing home made pig meal, also
ear and shelled corn, minerals, small
amount of tankage, and had rape
pasture. They were not exceedingly
fat and walked fully a quarter of a
mile to the weighing scale with ease.
The shelled corn and dry pig meal
was fed in self-feeder. The pig meal
was composed of bran, corn meal,
linseed ﬂour, rolled oats, ﬂour mid-
dlings, beef scrap, gluten feed, dried
buttermilk, molasses, salt and char-
coal; the cost per ton was $40.74.—
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FEEDING ‘GROUND BUCK‘VHEAT

Please tell me if ground buck-
wheat can be fed to milk cows suc-'
cessfully. If so, what other grain
should be added and what amount
fed?——E. P., Kingsley, (Mich.

ROUND buckwheat is seldom fed
to dairy animals because of its
utilization for human food.

However, it has about the same
feeding value as most of the other
farm cereals.

Because you donot say what
roughages you are feeding to your
cows I will have to send you four
different rations. suitable for feed-
ing with alfalfa hay, clover hay,
mixed hay, and timothy hay and
corn stalks respectively. These ra-
tions are based on the assumption
that the cow is getting about one
pound of hay and three pounds of
silage to one hundred pounds of
liveweight or two pounds of hay to
one hundred pounds of liveweight if
silage is not fed. The grain mixture
should be fed at the rate of one
pound of grain to each three to
three and one-half pounds of milk
produced if you have Jerseys or
one pound of grain to each three
and one-half to four pounds of milk
produced if you have Holsteins.

\Vith Alfalfa Hay

280 pounds ground buckwheat,
250‘ pounds ground corn, 200 pounds
bran, 100 pounds oil meal, and 300
pounds ground oats. .

Mixed Hay

100 pounds ground buckwheat,
100 pounds ground corn, 200 pounds
ground oats, 200 pounds bran, 200
pounds cottonseed meal.

‘Clover Hay

200 pounds ground buckwheat,
200 pounds ground com, 400 pounds
ground.oats, 150 pounds bran, 200
pounds cottonseed meal.

Timothy Hay, Corn Stalks, Etc.

125' pounds ground buckwheat,
125 pounds ground corn, 300 pounds
ground oats, ’150 pounds cottonseed

. meal, 200 pounds oil meals—J. E.
. y Burnett, . AssocietheI ‘1

Professor
Mufﬁns in}: . ..

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HE winter lay-0E softens

horses-makes them easy ‘
preyfor strains ,bruises and minorsil-
ments. That’s why it’s important to
keep Gombault's Caustic Balsam on
your shelf—readyforinstantuse. For
over 41 years it has been famous as a
remedy for Sprains, Spavin, Splint,
Capped‘Hock, Curb, Fistula, Thor-
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Cute and Musciler Inﬂammation.

Apply it yourself. Just follow direc-
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the hair or leave the slightest seer.
Don't let your horses suﬂ'er from something
you can cure yourself. Buy Gombsult's
Caustic Balsam today. $2.00 It all druuistsa
or direct from us on receipt of price. The
Lawrence-Williams Co., Clevclsnd, 0.

GOOD FOR HUMANS, TOO.

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BALSAM
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vlse us at once and we will slam the date
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LIVESTOCK AUOTIONEER
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MAY ._ GUERNSEYS -— ROSE

STATE AND FEDERAL ACCREDITED

Bull calves out of Doing) up to 877 pounds fat.
' y Bulls whose ems have u to 1011
ounds at. The homes of bulls; Shut lewick May
ose Seliélel, Jumbo of Brim-bank and Holhecis'

night of Nordland. From Dams pro-
ducing 1011.18 int. 772 {at and 610 fat.
GEORGE L. BURRGWS or GEORGE J. HICKS.

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heifer calves. d8 weekstold $20 each. We ship
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calves, $20.00 each. Shi ped 0.0.D. Satisfaction
guaranteed. L. SHIPWAJ‘. Whitewater. Wis.

GUERNSEY on HOLSTEIN oninv CALVES.
EDGEWOOD F$f3i3g Wcihtedgigﬁed anYWhere.

Wisconsin.
SHORTHORN S

FOR SALE

My Entire Herd of 37 Registered

SHORTHORN CATTLE

This is one of the oldest herds in the state and
wil be sold at a bargain.

W. W. KNAPP. Michigan.
SHOHTHOHNS; BULLS AND FEMALES
.I from the.best families. We
are for the next sixty days making a. specmlpride
on bred heifers. One of the leading herds in
the country. Over 100 head to select from.

Write to Manager.
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bred and oxen.

T. i. M RTIN. R. D. 1. lonis, Michigan.

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HORSE SALE

PERCHERONS ‘AND yBELGIANS.
MARES AND STALLIONS.
SOME GOOD TEAMS.

WEDNESDAY. MARCH 10—12:30 P. M.
Sales Pavilion. M. S. C.

MICHIGAN HORSE BREEDERS ASSOCIATION.
R. 8. Hudson, Sec’y. East Lansing, Mich.

as SWINE m

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0- l- ' Hoes FOR SALE, TRIED sows.
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either sex. At reasonable DI‘lCCS. A 0 open and
bred grits. R. J. Dudgeon, R1. Coshooton. Ohio.

POULTRY

BARREDw PLYMOUTH ROCK ‘ochnELs.
Standard color and shape. Bred fro heavy pro-

du‘ﬁers. ,Write for prices.
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mam, arm from].-
, , Lear INDEMNITY

I have had him eows that reacted
to the tuberculin test. -»The IDepart—

 

ment or Commissioner requires that.
“yard be scraped” as part of the re- '
‘Iquirement to secure compensation

for condemned animals. Now any
practical farmer knows it, would be
impossible to clean up a yard pro—
perly at this time of year. If those
managing the test wanted this work
done why didn’t they start the work
the ﬁrst of September. Is there
something one could use in the yard
—-lime or something of the sort? We
are just as anxious and interested as
anyone else can be in stamping out
this disease—C. H., Plainwell, Mich.

THE law speciﬁes that before any,

indemnity is paid for tubercu-

lous cattle, the Commissioner
must be satisﬁed that the premises,
which are occupied by such animals,
have been “cleansed and placed in a
sanitary condition.

The fact that it is very difﬁcult,
and sometimes impossible, to clean
and disinfect at certain seasons of
the year is fully appreciated, but
the testing cannot be adjusted for
all parts of the state in such a way
as to eliminate this factor. Owing
to the demands for the work and the
limited force available, it is neces-
sary for the department to conduct
tuberculin tests at all times of the
year in some parts of the state.

If. you ﬁnd it impossible to clean
your barnyard at this time of the
year, it is suggested that you do the
best you can with the idea in view
of preventing cattle from coming in
contact with the unclean portions of
the premises, if possible, and the
intention to thoroughly clean and
disinfect as soon as weather condi-
tions will permit—B. J. Killham,
State Veterinarian.

PINT NOT POUND, SAY
DAIRYMEN
' PINT of milk is not a pound
the world around, declare dairy
men at state college of agricul—

Even a pint of water weighs
more than a pound and milk is heav-
ier than water. So that a literal in-
terpretation of the old rule that‘s.
pint is a pound might mean the dlf-
ference between proﬁt and loss to a.
dairyman selling milk on a narrow
margin.

The standard quart of milk of
average composition weigs 2.153
pounds, and a forty-quart can of
milk'weighs forty “times 2.153 or
86.12 pounds.

In some plants where milk is
bought by the can and later convert-
ed to a weight basis, 2% pounds is
used as the weight of a quart and a
forty quart can is credited at 85

 

pounds.

In no case, though, say the dairy-
men of the college, should anyone
take the old adage at its face value,
and accept payment for a forty
quart can of milk on the basis of 80
pounds for the full can.

VETERINARY ____.
I DEPARTMENT

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SHEEP BLIND

I am going to tell you about one
of my sheep. She acts so wild when
I let her out and runs around like
she was dizzy, then she will stand
and stare in one direction. It seems
as though she can’t see if I pass my
hand over her eyes. She wont even
wink. It is one I bought lately. She
will run up against the wall or any—
thing just like she cannot see. Will
you please tell me What to do for
her?———Mr. C. W., Rogers City, Mich.

0U are probably right in think-
ing that your sheep is blind;

if blindness is due to some or-
ganic condition affecting the eyes it
is not likely that anything can be
dbne for her. Conditions of this
kind sometimes result from cysts
which are the result of gid ﬂies and
are known as gid in the head; if so
this animal may stand with its head
in the comer in a short time or walk
in circles or showother symptoms
of mental trouble; also symptoms of
nervous trouble along with it. If
this animal is in marketable condi—
tion would think it advisable to mar-
ket it before something develops
that makes it unﬁt for meat. As it
is * now _ there should be ~ nothing
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SUPPOSE you spilled a can of cream every
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the creamery or cream station. Naturally you
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The new De Laval is the best cream separator
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W110 alwaxé k913i a good siz‘e‘d'bun'c'h 7 7

of hogs. . One year he had none, and
in reply 'to the reason he answered,
“I’ve always had'hogs whether I had
any feed or not, and generally it’s
been ‘or not’, and this year I’m go-
ing to have feed whether I have any
hogs or not. Just for once I want
to have some feed to look at, then
after looking at it for a while I may
get some more. hogs, but not enough
to eat it all. I’ve always had the
hogs and then tried to get the feed;
from now on I am going to get the
feed ﬁrst, and then the hogs.”

This Butternut farmer asks 11
$1,500 cash income should be.con-
sidered good for a sixty acre farm.
This is an income of twenty-ﬁve dol-
lars per acre on the average, and"
it would seem a fairly good one.
Does he mean $1500 net cash in-
come, or must there be feed, fertiliz-
er, etc, paid for out of this? Some
farmers are hardly fair with them—
selves when they think their farm
has earned them a certain sum the
past year . Often this sum is the
gross returns from sales made, and
may include the sale of a few hogs,
which were purchased to feed, or
some lambs or other stock. It may
include wheat, hay, etc., which was
grown by the use of purchased fer-
tilizer. It is the net returns which
(ount. How is it with you farmers?
is your farm yielding twenty—ﬁve
dollars per acre, gross income or
net?

It would be very interesting to
hear from a number of farmers
along the line of their income. Write
the article for publication in the M.
B. F.’ The article need not be per—
sonal, but give the facts. Your name
will be withheld if you request it.
if you do not care to write the ar-
ticle for publication, sent it to the
Broadscope Farm department, care
M. B. F., Mt. Clemens. The essen-
tial parts of a few of these letters
would be good subject matter for fu—
ture articles.

At your request your letter will
be rearranged and printed, with
your initials or town used as your
signature. In any event always
sign your full name when writing
anything to the publishers. It will
not be used without your say so.

El) McINTOSH SAYS:
(Continued from page 11)

way he trims his trees I reckon he
ain’t forgot his old trade.

Now take Bill Wicker, he’s just
the opposite. He never trims his
trees a—tall and I’ve heard tell that
once an oil-experienced little bird
tried to ﬂy through one of ’em and
the pore thing broke its neck.

, A CORRECTION —
N this department in our January
I 30th issue we published an item
to the effect that Prof. N. L. Par—
tridge of the M. S. C: had predicted
the greatest grape crop in the his-
tory of the state for. 1926. This in-
formation was received from What
we believed to be a reliable source,
we have a letter from Prof. Par—
tridge denying ever making such a
statement. We are sorry this has
happened and hasten to make this
correction in our columns.

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By D. E. Spams

(Editor’s Note: The ﬁrst article of a
series by Mr. D. E. Spotts, a young man
who has made- a study of poultry, on the
hatching and raising of baby chicks.
Other articles will appear in following
issues so watch for them.)

T will soon be the time of year
when many people begin to think
about the hatching of eggs. The

great majority are rather reluctant
about getting their incubators in
shape before the hatching season ar-
rives. For the best results the incu-
bator should ﬁrst have a thorough
overhauling, as, duringrthe winter,
much damage can be done to plpes
in the form of corrosion; to essential
parts, such as those which regulate
'to water tanks, lamp,
and thermometers. In incubators
which use screen trays it is often
advisable to replace the old screen;
as it is of great advantage to main-
tain as level a condition of the egg
tray as possible.

The incubation room should have
considerable attention throughout
the hatching period, especially dur-
ing the changeable weather which is
common during the spring months.
The room should be free from damp-
ness and direct sun rays, but if it
is impossible to avoid the latter,
care should be taken to place the
incubator away from direct sunlight,
which would complicate the (prob-
lem of maintaining a constant temp-
erature.

After the incubator has been lev-
eled, washed disinfected, and is in
readiness for use, the next problem
to be considered is selection of eggs.
While the weather remains chilly
and damp it is very essential that
the eggs be gathered several times
during the day. It is also very de-
sirable to select eggs which have a
good texture. Shells which seem
porous or appear spotted when held
before a bright light, or shells
which have creases, rings, or any
other unnatural condition should
never be placed in the incubator.
Eggs used for incubation should not
be more than two weeks of age. The
regulation of the heat and moisture,
and the turning of the eggs should
follow directions received with the
incubator.

During recent years
been a.,_widespread interest in the
buying of day-old chicks. Thus a
great many of the farmers are dis-
carding their incubators. With the
problem of incubation placed in the
hands of hatcheries more time and
space Will be devoted to housing,
feeding, and care of baby chicks.

there has

.. SNOW on ICE-WATER HELPS
‘ FROZEN COMES

‘HAW frozen combs on poultry
by applying snow or ice wa-
ter,” say poultrymen at the

state college of agriculture at Itha-
ca, N. Y. “Carbolated vaseline,
which may be purchased at most
drugstores; will do the trick. A new
Jersey agricultural bulletin suggests
the following ointment: ﬁve parts
of vaseline, three parts of glycerine,
and one part of turpentine by vol-
ume. This should be applied gently
and rubbed in fairly well. Remove
the black dead tissue from badly
frozen combs, so that they will heal
more quickly.

“At this time of year: many ﬂocks
suffer from frozen combs. This
trouble is particularly bad with roos-
ters of the single comb White Leg-
horn breed because their combs are
so big. If a. rooster’s comb is badly
frozen, it seriously affects his vigor
and impairs his usefulness in the
ﬂock.”

Poultrymen say that the best
farmers in the country put their
roosters inrthe breeding pens early
in the winter and watch them care-
fully during the coldest weather so
as to minimize the danger of freez-
ing. TheyNew York College recom-
mends curtains in front of the roost
on very cold nights in narrow hous-
es. This is not recommended in

(houses that are wider than ﬁfteen

feet. Another suggestion is the use
of wooden ﬂoats with one-inch holes
in them to be placed in the drink-
This reduces the dan-
of freezing, as it keeps the birds

in the,

your breeders
at mating time

[YOU WANT fertile eggs for hatch-
ing—eggs that will hatch into
strong, livable chicks.

See to it that your ﬂock, your
hens and roosters, are in the pink
of condition at the time the hatch-

' ing eggs are laid.

Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce-a is
‘a tonic—not a stimulant.
A tonic that imparts to the

parent stock that spark of health ’

'and Vigor that means fertile eggs
for hatching.

Eggs that will hatch strong,
livable chicks—not dead in the
shell—not puny and weak.

Costs Little to Use Pan-a—ce-a

The price of just one egg pays
for all the Pan-a-ce-a a. hen will
eat in six months.

There’s a. right-size package for
every ﬂock.

100 hens the 12-lb. pkg.

60 hens the 5-"). pkg.

200 hens the 25-“). pail

500 hens the 100-“). drum
For 25 hem there is a smaller package

REMEMBER—When you, buy any Dr. Hess product, our
responsibility does not end until you are satisﬁed that
Otherwise, return the
empty container to your dealer and get your money back.

your investment is a proﬁtable one.

DR. HESS & CLARK, lnc.,

  
 
  
  
  
 
 
 
  
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 

 

 
   
   
 
  
  
 

  

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Michigan accredited chicks from ﬂocks which have stood

1926 in both production and exhibition classes

   
  

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Prices (Postpaid) On: 25 50 1 00 00
Whi its Leghorns (Wyckoi’i‘ strain) $4.00 $7.50 $14.00 $6750 $130900
Barred Rock 8. i. eds .......... 425 8.00 15.00 .50 1 0.0
. & Bf. Rocks, Wh. Wyandottes 4.50 8.50 16. 00 77.50 150. 00
\~,<:»11'11i i‘liicks $l2. 00 per 100.”
DEAN EGG FARM & HATCHERY, BOX BIRMINGHAM, MICHIGAN

 

 
  

 

wood and Ramon. ACCREDITED )S. C.
Barred ROI ks f1 0111 111: 1ti111's In using tin
Chicks you got the advuntwg of 21
()111' new frjc (uiuiléiEgE (ifémirﬂihGM our egg ('onhsi 1
it today. J. G, Owner. F.

produced in and up. ’15 [1:110 some pedimc
ping lst and 2nd prize in production class.
So our chirks should be as good is money

BECKMANN HATCHERY, 26 E.

OFFICIALLY APPROX E D 11) the State of Michigan

Iliown Lighorms
some standard.
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1'3 101'} breeder passed by

35 inspectors undeﬁ,l supervision of ‘\I1( [1111.111 Sim. (‘0111 (1:0 PW!) 111:1!1 111(IiV1duully ex-
" amined and ban ed by '1 state inspulor (H R ii‘ (‘ REDI’I‘FII) LEGIHOI RNS leprcsent
13 years of c'uicful lure-dim: on 1(1'1 6.1m“ farm. l":o11ndition of T:111(-1'ed,IIoll—

humus, (Sheppard 3 Strain
When you oxder Town Line
few hatchcrics can duplicate.
r-wnds and Show \1i11nings.“’rite for

1, Box M Zeeland, Michigan.

LOOK Buy Our State Accredited Chicks
Big, Discount on Early Orders

Inspector left only big jproﬁtziblc breeders in our ﬂocks

1F 1 best varieties ever
ed cockcrcls in our flocks, Some win-
Also trupuesting the Tancred pulle'ts.
can buy. Hatching eggs. Get free

Lyon, Grand Rapids, Mich.

circular with big discount before buying elsewhere

 

 

Laying strains White Rocks
Order right from!I this ad in full conﬁdence.
once for “TRUT 0.6
LLCROFT FARM,

 
 

 

   

PLAY SAFE

Chicks from heavy laying strains only. HILLCR
s. Breeding Faim and when Better (‘hicks are to be

HFUL" CAT
Dept. 52

EXCLUSIVELY.
Some Males from hens with records
Pedigreed Tancred Males. Only selects“,
produce our Chicks. If 011 Want really choice, vigo
your order this season.
every eﬂortt to please and satisfy you. Get Cats] 01;
31min“ sun HATGHERV, 1.. Tinholt, Prop.

Buy only from ACCREDITED FARMS.
and culled by authorized Inspectors and approved by M.
ROFT FARM

 

lick prices very moderate considerin

Our ﬂocks are Inspected

 

 

P. A.
is not simply a Hatchery, but
hatched, we will hatch them

0% lec Delivery Guaranteed—Prepaid prices 500
_ Tancred strain s. White Le horns .....................
Lye yng strains Barred Roe ks s, s. c. Reds ........g. ........ ’ "34 g3 57 8.53 $14 6.88 $91. 8g
and Wyandottes. 5. 50 s. 00 1 7. 00 82. 00
’nnk Reference or D1111 Mercantile Agency. Send at

COOPERSVILLE, HIGH.

Barron— Tancred White Leghorns

STATE AcuCREDITED FLOGKS AND HATOHERY.

to 295 eggs per year.
strong, vigorous and healthyl hens are mated to

(‘ontest record ﬂocks.

rous Chicks of t
0112.11
and price

Box T,

is breedin ve us
, andw e‘iwill'zimak
etsils before buying

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Is A Better Chick

Every Michigan State Accredited
Hatchery has had all its ﬂocks in-
dividually inspected by the Michigan
State College. Allmale birds have
been individually leg banded with a
State sealed and numbered leg band.
Parent stock of all accredited Chicks
is pure—bred and free from all major
s t a n d a r d disqualiﬁcations. All
breeders approved are true to type
and color of parent stock. All with
low vitality or disease have been
removed.

AMichi an Accreditedfhick
Is. 0. Best Chick

"Michigan State Accredited” in the
advertising of Michigan Accredited
Hatcheries is your guarantee of the '
truthfulness and reliability of the
advertiser's statements.

Such advertising has been approv-
ed by the Michigan State Poultry Im-
provement Association and by the
Michigan State CollegeJﬂ
For a list of MICHIGAN STATE AC.-
CREDITED HATCHERIES and further
information, write
HANNAH, Secretary
College, East Lansing. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

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. Tancred
and Tom Barron
s.c. White Leghorn '

CHICKS

Michigan State Accredited

TANCRED HOLLYWOOD BARRON WHITE
LEGHORN BABY CHICKS

MICHIGAN STATE ACCREDITED

Five of our hens laid .270 eggs at the 1925 Michigan
Laying Contest. Ten birds 1924 contest averaged 232 eggs. We also hatch
Brown Leghorns. and. Anconas. Discount NOW on early orders. FREE
Catalog gives fulbparticulars and tells why leading egg farmers choose Wyn-
garden Strain Chicks. Send for copy at once.

\VYNGARDEN FARMS & HATCHERY
Zeeland, Michigan

International Egg

 

Chicks Are Better Chicks

All our ﬂocks are individually inspected by
the Michigan State College of Agriculture~~
individually leg-banded with state sealed and
numbered leg band. lnsures highest quality.

160 Finest Tancred Males and Finest Large
Tom Barron Males now head our ﬂocks. Best
blood lines in the country.

Order From This Ad—low Prices

loo—$15; EGO-$72.50: moo-$140. 100% live healthy
delivery guaranteed. Every order gets my

PURE
BRED

the Micliiga

and price list.

BABY CHICKS

We have not only selected our.br_eeding stock and inatcd our birds for best results, but we have joined
r . _n Accredited Association. ‘

This work is for your protection and gives you the most up-to-date in baby chicks.
()ur cliicks cost no more and you can feel safe.

WASHTENAW HATCHERY

MCHIGAN
ACCREDITED

.An inspector from the Agricultural College a proves every bird.
' . . Vrite for‘literature
100% live dehvery. Write today.
Get Your Order Booked Early.

ANN ARBOR. MICHIGAN.

2500 Geddes Road

 

personal attention. This is our twelfth season.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Catalog free.

KNOLL’S HATCHERY

R. R. 13, Box 3, Holland, Mich.

. Producing

 

 

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It Will pay you to investigate'one of Michigan’s oldest and best liatcheries,
years experience at your Seerce.
free range breeders.
State College.

_ . . Absolute satisfaction in the
sitated increasm ‘ WH E

g our capacity.

. . Barred Rocks, _ . .
Michigan State Accredited chicks from an old reliable concern with an estab-
lished reputation f0 '
Free Catalog before placing your order
Van Appledorn Bros.

. Eighteen
Every chick hatched from carefully selected, rugger
breeder ofl‘iclallyI passed by ins ectors from Michigan
LEGaIllgsRﬁtS Ol'l-l' ol 19080012818“ l'i‘assneee‘ési
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Every

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Hollandhﬂatchery .9. Poultry Farm, Holland; Mlch.

live delivery.
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ﬁBabyL'hicIrs
S. C. White Leghorns
Barred Rocks
Rhode Island Reds

Michigan Agricultural College in-
spected a n (1 approved. Better

One of’ our

aways»? gowns Strain White Leghorns

. bred for egg production for nineteen years.
“inter layers. Many of Michigan’s largest egg farms
from us each year. One reports 64% production in
)ullets. Our flocks, hatchery and .chix are all accredited by Mich.
Joultry Improvement Assn. and Mich. State College.
catalog today. Prices reasonable. _\
R.F.D. 2. "

They are great
urchase their ('th
l ovember from 775
. State
\Yrite for our free

W. A. DOWNS POULTRY FARM. Washlngton, Mlch.
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chicks—at low cost.

Strong, healthy. free raiigc_stock. Tun-
cred and Tom Barron White Leghorns.
S. C. It. I. Reds. l'ark‘s Barred Rocks.
Best blood lines in the country.

You will make greater. proﬁts this
with 15-1“ Chicks. \‘rite for low
and free catalog today.
BRU)IMER—FREI)RICKSON
POULTRY FARM

Holland, BIicli.

year
price

Box 26.

 

 

 

 

Cod Liver Oil
with Buttermilk Gives
Amazing Poultry Results

Do you want bigger hatches——
stronger chicks — faster gains?

Varletles
Whl

Specihl Matings Ili
Free catalog tells all about Lakcview Chicks.
LAKEVIEW POULTRY FARM, R. R. 8, Box 3,

00 ”a

to Leghorns
Barred Rocks

Buy Mlchlgan State Accredlted chicks from Lakeview.
Every breederI Inspected and passed by representatives of Michigan State College.

Buy Michigan State Accredited Chicks

from one of the founders of the chick industry 24 years in the bus-
iness. An old reliable hatchery which has been putting out guaranteed
chicks for years. Our flocks are the result of careful breeding and cull-
ing over a period of years. All our ﬂocks have been state accredited and
our Male llirds have been legbanded .by the state. \thn seen our chicks
recommend themselves. . . White chliorns, Barred ocks, Rhode
Island Reds, Dr. L. E. Hensley Egg Basket Strain Bulf Legliorns.
\Vrite for free catalog.

Meadow Brook Hatchery & Farms,

Box M, R. R. No. 1, H. be Free Sons. Holland, Mlchlgan.
..A
“Fulﬁl

Ofﬁcial contest records.

live delivery prepaid. Order from this ad.

Prlces On: 25 50 1

00 500 1000
(Tancred) .................. $3.75 $7.00 $13.00 $62.00 Write for
4.25 8.00 15.00 .

(Parks strain)
Rhode Island Reds.
glicr.

i"4,25 8.00

15.00 2. 0
$10.00“

Mixed I‘liick . All heavies
' ' today.
HOLLAND, MICHIGAN

 

Would you like to double your pre-

sent poultry proﬁts?

Thousands of poultrymen are getting
just such amazing results as the above,
through a simple, easy new feeding meth—
od that is revolutionizing old fashioned
feeding rations. . .

By mixing Genuine Semi—Solid Butter—

' milk and pure high vitamine content Cod
Liver Oil, poultrymen from the largest to
the smallest have broken all their former
egg laying, hatching and raising records.

Today you can get this remarkable
feed already mixed in any size container
from gallon cansto ﬁfty gallon barrels.
'And it all contains pure cod liver 011_—
lots of it. This process of. feeding, its
endorsements from egg laying contests,
the statements of some of the users and
full information on the remarkable re-
sults it guarantees are fully described in
a circular. “Semi-Solid Buttermilk and
Cod Liver Oil” one copy of which will be .
sent free to any reader of this paper o
raising poultry. _

This is the biggest advance in poultry
feeding methods of recent years. It can’t

 

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WINNING PEN
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Chicks that are hatched from free range breeders carefully selected. Our

ﬂocks and hatchery inspected and passed by re iresentative of Michigan State
College. Itefcr you to State Commercial Savings ank. Order from this ad.
Prepald prices on— 25 50 100 500 1000

. . . and Br. Leghorns ............ $4.00 $7.00 $13.00 $82.50 $120.00

Bd. Rocks and S. C. R. I. e s ........ 4.75 8.00 5.00 72.50 140.00

Mlxed- Chicks $10.00 per hundred ,.
10% down books your order. Free catalog. 100% Live delivery prepaid.
HUNDERMAN BROS. R. R. No. 3, Box M, ZEFLAND. MICH.

‘ROVAI. :EGGBE‘P'IEGHORNS

 

 

help but increase your proﬁts—don’t fail
to.learn all about it. Simply send your
name and address and the name and ad-
dress of your feed dealer to Consolidated
Products Co., 4750 Sheridan Road, Chi-
cago, llinols, Dept. 118.—-(Adv.)

Lam. YOUR mUiIrRY Ween
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. . . Egg Produced Elgin White Leghorns

Tom Barron mating with Tailored males. Elgin chicks' are 113113161. ch atom; and

NTE T WINNING BLOOD LINE
CHICKS FROM 00 S 1000 birds entered.
2-H per bird. “‘ifty
Brothers

Our white Leghorns won the 1925 Michigan Egg Contest.
Contest average 176 eggs per bird. Our pen average
sisters of these contest winners averaged 200 eggs )er bird at home. .
and sons of these birds head the matings from. \viicli 1 W111 hatch this car.
They are Michigan State accredited. In spitelof increased demands for our e icks
we have neither increased our capacity or prices. Write today forﬂree clrcular
that tells how you can secure chicks from these wmnmgnblood lines at mod-
erate prices. . “ 5% of our 1buslﬁess 1ls tfrom old customers. You too, can Joni
the list of satisﬁed users 0 his oya 8 rain. .
ROYAL HATCHERY & FARMS, R. R. 2, Box 3, ZEELAND, MICHIGAN.

stats you. ,

ch or
Price let. . -‘*

~ oﬂts. wul c0 19’9“"
that brmﬁ'ﬁ t: 'for‘lres 93“?“ a"

,do for pain,

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can:

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be‘ kept well ventilated at 8311* timely?

-- REMEDY FObe FOR TAPE-
WORMS IN POULTRY: . ;
AMALA, a brownish powder ob- ;
tain'ed from_a "plant in India
and long used there as a drug, "
has been found satisfactory fUi‘g're- s
moving tapeworms from poultry.
This announcement is made by the f
United States Department of Agri-
culture as a result of experimental
carried on by Dr. Maurice C- Hall _.
and Dr. J. E. Shillinger of the‘Z0-.
ological Division, Bureau of Animal.
Industry. ' ~ ' ‘
Tapeworms cause serious disturb-
ances in chickens, turkeys and other
poultry, the injuries ranging from
unthriftiness to conditions'simulat-
ing paralysis, due to deficient.- diet,
sometimes resulting .in death. Up
to the present time no satisfactory ,
treatment had been known. The‘
demand for a remedy has been in-
sistent and was cosi’dered thejmore~
urgent in that the life histories of
so many tapeworms are unknown
that satisfactory preventative meas-‘
ures can not be recommended as yet.
Moreover, so far as life histories are
known they involve such intermedi-
ate hosts as ﬂies, earthworms, slugs ,
and similar animals‘which are them-
selves difﬁcult to control under farmi‘
conditions. The need for such a.
drug as kamala is therefore appar-_
ent. » ‘ .
The drug was tried out on 120',
chickens and 6 turkeys, counts being “
made daily of the tapeworms remov-
ed, the birds ﬁnally being killed to
determine whether any of the para-
sites were left. The result indicated ,
that a dose of one gram .to a. chick-
en removed all the worms in approx-
imately 19 cases out of 20, a much
better result than has been secured
with any other drug. The dose for
turkeys seems to be 2 grams. .
The investigators say the best ,
method of administration appears
be individual dosing with pills, but.
that the use of capsules is also sataf
isfactory. Flock dosing by the ad—'
ministration of the drug in feed is
much less satisfactory. The dosing'
of individual birds is easily, accom‘.
plished and fasting and purgatives,
do not appear to be important. At:
the present time it may not be pos-ﬂ’
sible to obtain kamala at all drug
stores, but it is thought that within ‘
a short time manufacturers will
have it on the market in convenient
form. An estimate of the cost of
the kamala itself for treatment of
chickens is less than one cent per
bird.

 

BLEED TO DEATH

I have a ﬂock of White Leghorn
pullets and I am writing you to
know if you can tell me the causeg‘;
or the cure for their bleeding around
the head. The trouble has just be
gun. Have lost two—apparently
just bled to death. There aregoth-
ers that are beginning to act the
same way. The ﬁrst I notice is tha
their heads and neck- feathers ar
covered with fresh blood and in
day or so they are very weak and}
then just sit down and die. 3'

Upon examining one I found that
its crop was nearly full, was about
to lay and was in good ﬂesh—Mrs.

P., Laingsburg, Mich. 'v’.

HAVE never heard of anything
like this in older chickens but
young ones frequently kill each
other after the nature of qannibals; 2.
would suggest that you watch and

not picking these birds about the

head; if so remove them and.you
will get rid of the trouble. ,Wouldc
suggest that you add the following .;
to your feed if you do not already
feed it: 5 lbsfof bone meal, 5illbs.
of ground shell and 20 lbs. of meat
scraps to .each 100 lbs. of mash. This ‘,
may help the trouble.—’—Dr. Conn.

Many a good apple is spoiled by the
unnecessary rough handling that attends
the picking. - ' , '
CANCER— FREE BOOK SENT on,

REQUEST_ ..
Tells cause of cancer and what to
. bleeding, 0d0r,..~, etc,
Write £619.11; to‘day, '

 

 


       
   
   

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This is a seed catalog unlike
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FARMER are: Jessie Pickett, E. H. House,
_ F. C. Sherman. E. W. Lincoln. Farley
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chard for this purpose.

“Hives of honey—bees placed in
'the orchard are one of the best in-
vestments that a fruit grower can
make,” said Professor Auchter..

Pruning and Fertilizing

Professor R. E. Marshall of M. S.
C. gave a detailed report of experi-
ments in pruning and fertilizers car—
ried on in a Ben Davis orchard at
Eaton Rapids, Michigan. The object
of this experiment was to determine
the dollars and cents return from
various treatments.

The average net return per tree
from several fertilizer treatments
were as follows: Sulphate of am-
monia, $5.69; nitrate of soda, $5.13;
acid phosphate, $2.04; complete
fertilizer (4-10—13) $5.25; sulphate
of ammonia applied in September,
$5.25; No fertilizer of any kind,
$1.50. "

The trees which received nitrogen
and a light pruning bore the highest
percentage of large apples, while
those which received nitrogen and
no pruning bore the largest number

The average net returns per tree
for different combined fertilizer and
pruning treatments were reported
as follows:

Nitrogen fertilizer:
not’ pruned, $4.57.

pruned, $4. 4 9 ;
No fertilizer,

pruned, $1.49; not pruned, 97c.
Straw mulch: pruned, $2.65; not
pruned, $1.51.

Said Professor Marshall, “Nitro-

gen fertilizers have proved to be the
big thing in this orchard, not prun-
mg."

Professor F. C. Blanchard of M.
S. C. gave an interesting talk on
the history of horticulture through
the ages and cited the names of
some of the men who have made
the industry what it is today.

Apple Show

An apple show managed by the
M. S. C. Horticultural Club was
held in connection with the meeting
and many beautiful specimens of
the luscious fruit were on display
from various parts ‘of this state and
from a number of other states.
The list of prize winners is as
follows:

Class 1. Best Bushel—lst, Fred Wei-
fenbach, Beulah; 2nd, F. C. Sherman,
Hart; 3rd, N. L. Harss, Saugatuck.
Class IL County Collection—1st, Alle—
gan; 2nd, Montcalm; 3rd, Ionia.

Class III. Best individual collection——
lst, E. H. House, Saugatuck; 2nd, E. W.
Lincoln, Greenville; 3rd, . Farley Bros.
Class IV. Five varieties of winter ap—
ples on plates—lst, Farley Bros; 2nd,
F. C. Sherman; 3rd, E. H. House.

Class V. Five plates of one variety—
lst, Farley Bros; 2nd, F. C. Sherman;
3rd, E. H. House; ,
Class VI. Three plates of one variety
——-1st, Farley Bros; 2nd, F. C. Sherman;
3rd. E. W. Lincoln. ,

Class VII. Single plates Jonathan——

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will they ﬁnd the plant food needed?

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lst, Farley Bros; 2nd, F. C. Sherman;
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3rd. N. Larson, Fennville. McIntosh—
lst. F. C. Sherman; 2nd, E. H. House;
3rd, Jessie Pickett, Caledonia. Fameuse
——-1st, Lincoln; 2nd, N. W. Laird; 3rd,
Fred Weifenbach. R. I. Greening—let,
E H House; 2nd, Farley Bros; 3rd, L.
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Spenser. Northern Spy—1st, Farley
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Belding; 2nd, Chas. Braun & Son, Ann
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Gordon Frost, Mosely; 2nd, Farley Bros;
3rd, E. H. House. Best plate in Class
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One-Crop Farmer Blamed for 5111111113 of Com

 
 

By W. W. mom. Market Editor.

, SUAL attention is paid at the
present time to the well adver—
tised dissatisfied corn and other

specialized farmers; many of whom
have put all their eggs in one basket,
to quote the old saying, and nowhere
near enough is said in praise of the
many successful farmers and stock-
men of. this country who are not talk—
ing much, although they manage to
make agood living and usually are
better off at the end of the year
than a year earlier. Just now, we
are between seasons, but the “lucky
farmers”, as they are sometimes
called, are planning on cultivating
their usual acres on the long accus-
tomed plan, and they will by no
means abandon growing corn because
other farmers chose to abandon feed-
ing live stock and failed to come out
ahead. Meanwhile, farms are chang—
ing ownership,‘ and tenants are Slgll-
ing leases, March the ﬁrst being the
date set for the annual shift from
one farm to another. _
corn, the matter of seed corn is per-
haps more serious than ever before,
much of the crop of last year being
wholly unfit for seed. Realizmg the
seriousness of the Iowa seed corn
situation. Governor Hammill has pro—
claimed February as seed corn
. month. He has asked that a state-
wide census be taken and germlna—
tion tests be made to insure the state
of its two million bushels .of seed
corn necessary for planting its acre-
age ot' corn in the spring, according
to information sent from the agri—
cultural colleges at Ames, Iowa.
While the grains loom up in leading
importance on most farms, live stock
follows closely, and hens are doing
more than ever before in making
farming pay. Michigan farmers are
deeply interested in wheat, orchards,
berries and beans. and the grape
growing industry has been extreme—
ly proﬁtable in recent years.

Fair Trading in Grain

There are no striking changes in
the grain markets on the Chicago
Board of Trade, with wheatleading
off in point of activity and firmness.
W'heat continuesxﬁo sell very much
lower than one year ago, but decided—
ly higher than two years ago, and
farmers have sold more freely re-
cently, especially since it was pes-
sible to obtain around $1.70 per
bushel in interior Kansas points.
The visible supply in the United
States decreases slowly, and it is re—
ported at only 45,235,000 bushels,
comparing with 77,504,000 bushels
a. year ago. Rye prices follow the
ﬂuctuations in wheat, and early re—
ports of the acreage of wheat in
seven countries show a reduction of

"labout 10 per cent from the previous
."t-gea‘son. " This would probably pre—
_..7vent a repetition of the large Euro-

“pean yield last year.

The visible rye
supply in this country is reported’ as
only 13,564,000 bushels, comparing
with 23,477,000 bushels a year ago,
but sales are made at far below
the prices paid a year ago. Oats,
too, have continued to sell much be-
low last year’s prices, and large
amounts are fed on farms. The oats
visible supply amounts to 63,076,000
bushels, comparing with 73,570,000
bushels a year ago; while that of

‘corn is 28092000 bushels, compar-
ing with 26,571,000 bushels a year
ago. Corn prices have advanced in
recent weeks and it sells higher than
two years ago, but far lower than
the unusually high prices of a year
ago. With the GXt'CDthD of last year,
when speculation ran away with the
market, and the war years, the re-
cent prices for corn futures were the
highest on record at this season.
Late sales for May delivery were
made of wheat at $1.77, 01d wheat

selling at $1.75, comparing with

$1.92% a year ago. May corn sold

at 84 cents, comparing with $1.35 a

year ago; May oats at 44 cents, com-

paring with 61 cent“ year ago; and

May rye at. $1.09, comparing with

$1.70 a year ago,

The Department of Agriculture

} estimates that on 3811921731 this-year

Reverting to~

 

the average value of cattle was

$38.40, comparing with $33.46.on

the same date a year ago; the aver-
age value of hogs, $15.21 this year,
against $12.38 a year ago; and sheep
$10.30. this year, against $9.63 a
year ago. ‘

The beef cattle trade in Chicago
is good most of the time, with a
marked narrowing of prices within
a short time, the bulk of the steers
selling at $8.75 to $11. Most of
the time very prime cattle are 0f-
fered. During the ﬁrst week of Feb-

ruary there was a sale of 22 long,

  

and cows have doubled in prices dur-
ing the year recently closed. Aged
steers are no longer held, and hand-
ling steers up to three years old is
restricted to northwestern ranges.
0n the southwestern ranges young
cows take the place of old ones, the
latter having been marketed, during
the last ﬁve years, and there has

been a really startling reduction in ,

the number of female cattle. Several
rangemen declared that for breeding
. purposes the value of cows has
doubled in a year. Ex—Governor Rob—
ert D. Carey of Cheyenne is authority
for the statement that Wyoming has
today not more than 30 per cent of
the range breeding cattle it had in
1920, adding the ~1-‘we do not have
over 15 per cent of all the steers
in the ,state that are older than

 

M. B. F. MARKET REPORTS BY RADIO
. VERY evening, except Saturday and Sunday, at 7 o’clock, eastern
standard time, the Michigan Business Farmer broadcasts market
information and news of interest to farmers through radio stap

tion WGHP of Detroit.
270 meters. ‘ "i /

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yearlings at $11.65, but otherwise.

the best steers sold at $11.25, the
best heavy and light yearlings going
close together. The cheaper class of
light steers sold at $7.75 to $8.75,
with good steers offered at $9.75 and
over. Prices are lower than a few
weeks ago, while they compare with
$6.35 to $12.50 paid a year ago and
with $6.65 to $11.50 two years ago.
Ten years ago steers sold at $5.90 to
$9.65. On the whole, prices com—
pare favorably with average years.
The policy of most stockmen is to

market cattle after a short feeding,

period. Stockers and feeders have
sold far higher than several weeks
ago, with fewer offered and the pack-
ers competing with country buyers
for ﬂeshy feeders, but quite recently"
they sold 25 to 40 cents lower. Or-
dinary stockers and feeders sold at
$5.75 to $8.75, mostly at $7.25 to
$8.25. Stocker and feeder cows and
heifers are selling at $4.25 to $6.50.
Beef cattle declined 25 to 50 cents
in the ﬁrst week of February.

Cattle on Ranges

Recent investigations made by the
Kansas City Daily Drovers Telegram
indicated that cattle interests on the
ranges of Wyoming, Montana, Colo~
rado, Texas, New Mexico and other
states are at last looking up, and a
return to extensive breeding is in
active progress. Breeding stock is
in active demand at advancing prices,

calves. In caseswhere cows were
valued at $25 on January 1, 1925,
they would sell readily now at $55.
“R. V. Colbert, of Stamford, Texas,
said: “Our crop of range calves in
Texas will run about 75 per cent of
the crop in 1924 because we did not
have the cows in Texas to produce
them. Our aged steers, 3—year-olds,
2-year—olds, and yearlings are prac-
tically gone. I would say that pres—
ent values would run from $45 to
$55 per head, although a trade was
~consummated just a few days ago
in our state for the purchase of 600
high class range cows at $65.”

Values of Farm Animals

The total value of all farm animals
in the country on Jan. 1, was $5,—
001,297,00 as compared with $4,-
685,021,000 on Jan. 1, 1925, an in-
crease of $316,276,000, or 6.8 per

cent, the crop reporting board of
the agricultural department an—
nounced. -

Horses and colts on farms Jan. 1
numbered 15,778,000 as compared
With 16,554,000 the same date last
year. These animals had an aggre—
gate value of $1,062,511,000, or
$64.18 per head last year.

All cattle and calves on farms
numbered 59,829,000 as compared
with 62,150,000 last year. These
animals had a total value of $2,297,-
510,000, or $38.40 per head on Jan.
1, as compared with $2,079,367,000,

 

 

 

THE BUSINESS FARMER’S MARKET SUM‘MARY

and Comparison with Markets Two Weeks Ago and One Year Ago

 

 

 

 

  
   

 

 

 

    
  

     
  

 

 

 

Detroit Chi cage , Den nit Detroit
Feb. 9 Feb. 9 Jan. 26 1 yr. ago

“'1! EA T—

No. 2 Red $1.86 $1.90 $1.95

No. 2 White L87 1.91 1.99

No. 2 Mixed 1.86 l .90 1.95
COR-N—

No. 2 Yellow

No. 3 Yellow -80 .81 1.28
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No. 2 \Vhite .44 .41 @ 42 i .47 .63 is

No. 3 White .43 .41 @42 .46 . .62
RYE-

(hlsh N0. 2 .98 1.02% 1.04 1.59
BEANS— 7

c. H. P. th. 4.40@4.5o 4.65@4.70 6.30@6.35
POTATOES——

New, Per th. 4.00@4.06 3.90@4.25 4.30@4.40 ‘1.17
HAX— "

N0. 1 Tim. 2‘4@24.50 23%25 24@24.50 , 17@18

NO. 215111., 21 @22 19 22 \ 21 @22 15@ 18

N0. 1 Clover ' 21 @22 - . 28@24 21 @22 14 15

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Potatoes firm. Butter manage easy

- Tuesday, February sis—Wheat steady sitter rooent dsonne.

 

   

Com and oats .ﬂm. ~- ~

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last year.

_old [being kept for milk news on
farms ‘ J an.

(no value given»). .
Sheep and lambs

647,000. ’ Swine and

348,000.
numbered 55,769,000.

Why Hogs Advanced

The falling

hogs is startling.

late date combined receipts in seven

western packing Points tootsup only
2,905,000 hog ,~comparin:g with 4;

_ 262,000 for the corresponding time

last year and 4,204,000 two years
ago. This great reduction in the
supply happens at a time when the

demand is very large, and eastern

packers are taking agood many h0g3
offered on the Chicago market.
Within a short time prime hogs have
sold as high as $14 while the range
of hog prices stood at $9.80 to $11.-
20 one year ago and at $6.20 to $7.45
two years ago. Naturally, farmers
are making their hogs heavier than
in. recent winters, and top prices are
stlll paid for light lots, although
heavier lots have sold better quite
recently. At t 14 for the best hogs,
prices are highest since September.

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\VHEAT

The markets as a whole in the
country are inactive with a .quiet
demand, while at Detroit millers are
ready to make most offerings. Bulls
are sure of a shortage that will show
up before a new crop, and bears are
pointing to the fact that several
other countries have quite a bit of
grain for export. In general specu-
lation is far from active as it was
and buyers do not seem to come to
the assistance of the bulls the mom-
ent there is a break in prices. The
ﬂour trade is not active. ‘

 

- CORN

‘ Corn was a little more active at
Chicago last week with the price

range in narzrw margins. During
the same pert-c. at? Detroit the mar
ket was dull and prices worked

slightly lower.

 

OATS
Oats followed the trend of corn
at both Chicago and Detroit last
week and are now steady at Chicago
but dull and easy at Detroit. ‘

 

 

RYE

Prices worked somewhat lower in, '

the rye market as this grain followed
the trend of other grains most of
the time.

BEANS - .

There has been several declines
in the price of beans since our last
issue caused by a light demand,
grocers and canners seeming to buy
only enough to take care of their
immediate requirements. About 69
per cent of-Michigani 1925 crop has
been marketed, accor ing to reports.

 

POTATOES

Prices in the potato market de—.
clined some during the past couple
of weeks but at present the tone is
steady. 'George wager, of the Mich-
igan Potato Growers’ Exchange, .is
credited ‘ with the statement that
abOut 75 per cent of Michigan‘s crop
has been sold. and he expects higher-
prices but not before the middle Qt
March.

BOSTON woon MARKET

The Boston Commercial Bulletin),
“There has been rather more
the past Week.“

says:
business in wool _ 4
although many dealers are ~refusing 7

to consider the prices which the'mna "
ufacturers are bidding for woul. The

  
     
 
 

    
   
 

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or $33.46 p61: head the _- M“.
Heifers one; teftivomrg; .

1 numbered 13,801,000
as compared with 4,234,000 last yiear 7
numbei‘edt-' 49,-
748,000 and were valued at“ {4217.35
pigs numbered
51,223,000 andwer-e valued at $770.4" ' »
Sheep and. lambs in 193.53

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BARBEDM ROCK COCKERELS LAYING STRAIN.
Where. R1, Hemlock. Mich.

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tom-pound tummy

8 “man“ don-end:

laden. m IMAM; bulk, desirable
majority packing sows, $11®11. 25; stale
killing pigs, $13. 50; down; ' shippers,
4,500; estimated hold—over, 3, 000; heavy-
weight hogs, 812®12. 60: medium, $12. 30
013. 35; light, $12.20; @14; light lights,
$12. 50614; packing sows, $10. 90@11. 40;
slaughter pigs, $11. 50@14‘. Cattle-—
Shockers and feeders dull, 25c to 500 un-
der high time tw0 weeks ago; a load of
1,065-pound‘yeariings, $11.65; top, heavy-
steers, $11.25; light yearling heifers, up-
ward to 810. 25; she stock 25c to

decline; bulls and vealers mostly steady;
weeks bulk prices follow: Fed steers,
as com 5525016115;

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may; shipping steers soon; butchers,
“7509' with“. $8. 75@10.75; heifers;
“and“ fair to choice cows. $3.5(l@7;
sensors and cutters, $2@3. 50; bulls, $4@

7 ; stockers and feeders, $4. 50@7 - fresh _

cows and springers, active and steady,
$40@12000. Calvee—Active and steady ,
$15. 50@I.;5 fair to good, $13@15; culls,
”(312. 60; heavies‘, “@9; grassers, $4@
6. Hogs—Active, some cases 25c higher;
heavy, $12. 75@13. 75; mixed, $14@14. 50;
roughs, $10. 50@11; stags, $7@8. 50. Sheep
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Week of February "14
OLD, unsettled weather with high
winds are to be expected dur—

ing early part of this week in "

Michigan. However, by Monday or
Tuesday there is expected to be a.
sudden moderation- of the tempera.-
ture in most parts of the state. This
mild spell will probably continue for
a day or so during which time the
weather conditions will be more or
less stormy. Winds will be high,
with rain, sleet or snow moderately
heavy, especially in localities.

By the middle‘ of this week tem-
peratures will have taken a most de-
cided drop and will remain more or
less low for the greater part of the
balance of the week, excluding the
last day. On Saturday we are ex-
pecting another reaction of the ther-
mometer to higher readings but

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Week of February 21

Marked change to warmer in mostj_

parts of Michigan will be the general
rule during opening days of the
week beginning February 21. Dur-
ing the ﬁrst half of the week there
will be rain, sleet and snow storms
in various sections of the state. With
these stems will be high winds that
will produce blizzards and some
blockades. There is hardly a. doubt
but that parts'of the state, at least,
will be visited by storms of wet
heavy snow about the middle of the
week.

Closely following these low pres—
sure areas the temperature will
make a sudden drop with almost
cold wave proportions. These condi-

tions will be the most effective
about Thursday and Friday in
Michigan.

This week will end with generally
fair and cold weather in most parts
at Michigan.

(Breeders Directory Continued
From Page 25)

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CLEAN AND GLAZE THEM YOURSELF.

F Why pay $5.00 to have your furs cleaned and
glazed when you can do it yourself for $1. 00?

f With our compounds and directions you cannot
make a mistake or harm your furs.

Special Offer

We will deliver to you parcel post C. O. D., or
by mail postage paid if the money accompanies the
order the following $4.00 package which is sufﬁcient
to clean and glaze three large coats:

All For $2.00

One 51 Bottle F‘ur Glaze. "
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One $2 Bottle Fur Cleaner.

ORDER NOW DIRECT FROM

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RABBITS
SILVER—Ll‘uili‘ RAlllil'l‘RY——PEI)I(4REED NEW
Zeeland Rod Rabbits, $5.00 :1 11-1“. 1-]. S.

Burt, Mich.

SEEDS AND PLANTS
FOR SALE “CERTIFIED " Cl "l‘lll’ER’I‘ HASP.
berry Plants, $30 per 1000. (let your orders
in early. Andrew J.

Barrett, lu‘llmurv, Ill. Mich.

HAY. ALFALF‘A CLOVFR TIMOTHY AND

mixed. delivered prices. Harry 1). (Rates (loin.
puny. Jackson, Michigan.

CERTIFIED WISCONSIN P11 DIGRPE HARLEY,
Improved Robust beans. Fritz Mantey, Fair-
grove. mch.

FOB SALE—CERTIFIED COSSACK ALFALF‘A

seed. the bardiest alfalfa known. Grown on
dry land without irrigation, in NorthwesternA South
Dakota Price ﬁfty cents per pound. 1‘. Mc-
Gerraugh, Durpee. S. D.

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51 5'10 Smoking, ten 1.50. Pay when received.
F. (.‘upton l’urdwell, Ky.

HOMICSI‘I‘Nn TOBA(‘(‘ O: CHEWING FIVE LBS.

$1.50 $2 50; smokin 5 lbs. $1. 25; ten
$2.00. Cigars 50 for $2. 0.1’ay when re-
ceived. Farmers Association. \Iaxon Mills, Ky.
KE‘VI‘U CKY

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businesses—C neg I‘reel Big, valuable buyer's
guide of illustrat nipped“ money- making farms.
village homes. inns, sores stations, etc. So.
40 .ures in Mich. DB. 53. leﬁck auto, 6 cattle.
horses, crops, valuable machinery; 0-room house
on improved road, only $1700. easy terms. Best
bargains thruout 27 states. Free cop saves time
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Southern \ll('.lllgall Good buildin 5. Lake on
r11.11erty “rite B. II. Davis. Box 5 Edwards-
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FOR SALE—2881ACRE FARM. CLAY LOAM.

‘20 acres M F11) Timber. Good Buildings.
Electric lent. the Community. $60.
Mrs. G. . Rowe. Evert. Michigan.

FINEST DAIRY FARM IN 170SCE0LA. COUNTY,

16 ace.rs Will sell ha price Write
owner for information. John G020. R1. Hersey.
Mich himm.

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/ d as President of the Jamesway Company, I want to personally

”an tell you why. FIRST—through our extensive experience in
/ making hundreds of PLANS, equipping and ventilating
/ PH? thousands of Cow Barns, Horse Barns, HogHouses, Poultry Houses and

 

 

~ Complete Farmsteadsﬁ-all over the United States, naturally we have
\ . _ come to KNOW HOW to plan and equip and ventilate barns better and
__ at far LESS COST. That’s one way JAMESWAY COSTS LESS.

Jamesway PLANS Save You Money

SECOND—You will be greatly surprised how much money Jamesway
Plans will SAVE you in lumber, alone, often amounting to several hundred

Lowe, Lumber co... dollars. Jamesway plans will SAVE you many costly mistakes, too. This
38mm“ ““3 and Spedﬁcaﬁm W‘“ SAVE 9°“ is very important, because if doors, posts, feed rooms, windows, and the

big money on lumber costs. Our Jamesway book

“hm” "0W”gim 5'0“ acme” “Ems ‘“ ““3“ and general arrangement is wrongly placed, you have a building that is costing

cents. Send for it and state what you are interested

3,3,2?” bam““°‘ ham—WW ”a” 0" Wm” you money every day, instead of making you money every day.
That’s another way JAMESWAY COSTS LESS.

Jamesway EQUIPMENT Saves You Money

THIRD—Here again, our extensive experience in designing and building equipment
and ventilation for poultry houses, hog houses, cow barns, etc., enables us to put out
BETTER designed—MORE practical—LONGER lasting, more sanitary equipment
for the cow, the horse, the hogs and the hens. Being so much BETTER made, they last
much longer. Being BETTER designed, they do the work better—save you more time-
give your stock greater comfort and make more money for you. That’s why J AMESWAY
COSTS LESS and over a period of years it means a vast amount of money saved for you.

Jamesway VENTILATION Saves Money

FOURTH—By all means, do not overlook the matter of ventilation, whether it be for
the hog house, poultry house, the horse or cow barn. If you do you will surely regret it.
. It will be damp, cold, foul, or disease-breeding. It will take money out of your pocket

“a“, Savlng Plans every day. and it may take it at a frightful cost. It takes EXPERTS to correctly-design
The amesway Service Man in your locality will give a ventilation system that Will ventilate a building properly. We have them, and in this,
3’0“ ERSONAL he“) that “”11“” bui‘dingremwe‘m‘ again JAMESWAY SAVES you money, and makes JAMESWAY COST LESS.

or equipment costs considerably. He is as miliar with
Still Another JAMESWAY Saving

poultry house construction as with hog ham or cow
barn building problems.
In addition, we have built up a PERSONAL Service to Jamesway buyers, through our
Jamesway Service Men, one of whom is no doubt near you, ready to help you in any
building, remodeling or equipping problem you may have. It is a service which SAVES
money, time and costly mistakes, also aids in getting lower bids on building work.

Here’s proof :———
"I believe the ﬁrst ﬁve minutes your Jamesway man, Mr Calhoun,
talked to us, he SAVED us at least $500 in construction costs by a
single suggestion.”—Lee Boyce, Brookfleld, Mass.

You Buy Direct From Factory to Farm

This is another reason Jamesway COSTS LESS. You buy direct from our factory
through our Special Jamesway representative, who is a trained equipment man. I
cannot tell you in this one Ad all the reasons for Jamesway leadership in the barn
equipment ﬁeld and why our business has grown to its enormous size and prestige,
so I ask you to 4,, .

Send For This Valuable Book . .

It is 8x11—has 128 pages, stiff bound cover, and is full of “Proofs” in the form of
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equipping your barns. It is free—send for a copy today. It will interest you, even if
you are not ready just now for such equipment. W. D. JAMES, President

James Manufacturing Company
. Ft. Atkinson, Wig. Minneapolis, Minn.

 

 

 

 

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Jemesway Equipment gives your cows.
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owners the most time and labor. because
it is BETTER designed, handler, _more
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lasts longer, therefore much more eco-
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