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LTHOUGH the 1925 .potatoicrop
in . Michigan was of smaller
acreage and production, yet the

farm value increased nearly 300 per
cent over the average, according to
ﬁgures Just released by the Federal
Land Bank.

There was, in fact, a. noticeable
reduction during 1925 in the aero—
age production in all crops, with the
exception of corn, beans, sugar
beets, and cucumbers. Neverthe-
less. the survey shows an aggregate
net increase of 7 per cent in general
farm values, chieﬂy from areas
growing corn, winter wheat, pota-
toes, beans, sugar beets, and cu-
cumbers.

Michigan, according to the ﬁgures
presented by the land bank, ranks
ﬁrst in the production of dry beans
and cucumbers for manufacture;
third in grapes, apples (commer-
cial), sugar beets, and clover seed;
and fourth in rye, buckwheat, and
potatoes. ‘

The 1925 reports show a slight
increase in dairy cattle and sheep
with some reduction in swine and
horses. The ﬁgures: Horses and
mules, 548,000, farm value, $44,-
942,000; dairy cattle, 997,000, farm
value, $59,820,000; other cattle,
599,000, farm value, $15,394,000;
sheep, 1,194,000, farm value, 13,-
134,000; swine, 932,000 farm value.
$13,048,000. >

Land bank ofﬁcials view the re-
sults of the survey in Michigan with
great gratiﬁcation. ' ~

CAPAC FARMER MAY HAVE
ALFALFA SEED RECORD
ROF. J. F. COX of the Farm
Crops Department of Michigan
State College believes C. A.
Petz of Capac, St. Clair county, has
established a record for production
of alfalfa seed in Michigan. ,

Taking seed from the ﬁrst crop in
1925 Petz got 161 bushels from 21
acres, or an average of a little more
than seven bushel an acre.

Alfalfa seed is not being quoted
on the market at present but usu-
ally keeps pace with or leads clover,
which is being quoted at $15 and
$20 at Toledo and $28 and $32 at
Chicago.

Petz has been growing alfalfa
seed for 13 years. He got his ﬁrst
seed from a small package from the
late F. A. Spragg of the State Col-
lege. He planted it in rows in the
garden for the ﬁrst few years and
then branched out into wider culti-
vation.

MORE ATTENTION FOR POTATO
GROWING

VIIHE potato industry deserves
more attention than- it is get-
ting at the present time, is the

opinion of Jason Woodman, of Paw
Paw, former member of the state
board of agriculture. He favors a
potato building on the M. S. C. cam-
pus, believing the potato growers
should enjoy the some consideration
as the horticulturists, dalrymen, and
others engaged in specialized branch-
es of agriculture. Also he favors
special experiments and ﬁeld work.

PINCONNING W' CLUB
ACCOMPLISI-lm THINGS
HOOSING a deﬁnite goal each
year, the l’inconning Boosters’
Club, an organisation of farm-
ers and merchants, have been ac-
complishing wonderful results for
northern Bay County since its «9r-
ganisatlon two years ago. It has
again demonstrated the value of
team work between farmer and mer-
chant in the building up of a pros-
perous, contented community.

At the Third Annual Meeting held
recently, some astounding facts were
revealed. It was discloud that for-
t! purebred dairy sires had been
brought into this Mv-ritory since the
organisation of me club. A. Cow
Testing Association fostered by the
Club is about to enter its third year.
Farmers are constantly rubbing el-
bows with..merchants and each are
learning more about their own busi-
ness because of these contacts. A
genuine community spirit is being
built up, which is a. power for get-
tiugfor Pinconning what it deserves,

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.. When 'the'orginisa’t-ion mystiﬁed

two years ago, the ﬁrst. fo’i‘ce enlist-
ed to. assist it in its agricultural pro-
gram was the Agricultural Depart-
ment of the New York xCentral
Lines. Through this Department,
contact with the Michigan State
College was established and much
aid was obtained from that source.

A series of educational meetings
were held each year—one every
three weeks—at which some author-
ity discussed a certain phase of
farming or community building.
These meetings were held in the
'communlty opera house and they
were very largely attended. In fact,
empty seats were always at a pre-
mium.

Each year a deﬁnite objective was
chosen and the addresses were us-
ually pointed in that direction. The
ﬁrst year, a C. T. Association was
the goal and by May 1st, 1924, it be-
came an actuality and 26 farmers in
the vicinity were getting the bene-
ﬁt of this indispensable agency in
efﬁcient dairying. The next. year,
the Boosters’ Club concentrated its
effort on purebred dairy sires. Be-
sides focussing the subject matter of
the meetings on this project, it’
induced the Agricultural Depart-
ment of the M. C. R. R. to lease
three purebred sires, free of charge.
to three communities widely apart
as object lessons. It also arranged
for a campaign during summer in
which the merchants gave number-
ed tickets to their farmer patrons
with each purchase, the holder of
the lucky number to be given a val-
uable pure~bred dairy sire. As a re-
sult of all this work, at least forty
purebred dairy sires have been add—
ed to the herds of this vicinity since
the campaign opened.

This year, the third, the Boosters’
Club have chosen for their objective
the securing of the services of a
county agricultural agent for Bay
county.

The following ofﬁcers were chosen
at the recent annual meeting: Dr. J.
L. Millard, president; J. R. Fother-
ingham, treasurer: S. M. Perry, sec-
retary.—E. J. Leenhouts.

 

SETS RECORD IN EFFICIENT -
MARKETING
HE Onekama Farm Bureau local,
of Manistee county, has set a
real record for eﬁlciency in
marketing farm produce, conducting
a $176,000 business at a cost of 7.4
per cent. This charge included a 7
per cent dividend on 88,800 capital
stock and made it possible for the
organization to add $1,000 to its
surplus fund. Stockholders credit
7 the manager, Currie Christensen, for
this remarkable showing. Fruit is
the principal commodity handled.
The association" is in need of more
storage space and the stockholders
have authorized the sale of more
stock to build a $3,000 addition to
its warehouse.

 

OREAliiERY GOOD m
FOR FAREIEBS '

FARMERS in the neighborhood of

Bruce's Crossing, Ontonagon
\ county, in the Upper Peninsula.
are ﬁnding a cooperative creamery a
very good investment. realising not
returns of around $400 per month.
The Ontonagon Valley Cooperative
Creamery Association was organised
two years ago and has a member-
ship of 180. About 15,000 pounds

- of butter are being made each month
this winter, and they expect to in-
crease the output during the spring
and summer months.

 

BRIEF NUI'ES 0N manna

The Nati‘onal Bank of Ionla will

, hold its fourth annual corn show in

connection with Farmers' Day at
lonia, March 5th.

The Barry County Farm Bureau
has purchased a quantity of hard
coal for incubators and brooders in
an eifort to help protect the poultry
industry of Michigan. Hatcherymen
are greatly in need of hard coal.

Allegan county now has. 5 ' oow-
testing associations, the latest one
being organized recently at Moreen.

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1926

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Michigan Agriculture Is . In Fair Condition

Reports Indicate Farmers of This State Are Better Off Than At Any Time Since 1920

doubt very much if there is

a business that has had more
conﬂicting reports given out
about it than farming. You read or
hear one statement to the effect that

I btlie farmers are all heavily in debt

and will soon go bankrupt, then you
.learn from another source that they
are the most prosperous they have
ever been and are buying everything
they want with cash. And in be-
tween these two extremes many re-
ports are given out on the farmers"
condition, so that one’s head swims
when they attempt to get a general
idea of how the farmers are really
getting along.

Recently we set about to get in—
formation on agriculture in Michi-
gan to ﬁnd out just how bad off the
farmers really were and, to our
pleasure, learned things were not as
black as many would paint them. We
found that in nearly every section
of the lower peninsula farmers in
general had progressed and were
paying off their obligations. Of
course, there were some who had
failed just the same as there is any
year, and there were some who had
to renew notes with theirrbanks, but
in general-the farmers prospered.

From Up North

A report from Charlevoix county
was to the effect that farmers in
general were prosperous, while in
Antrim county they are not over-
burdened with money yet they are
showing a proﬁt for the year. A
most encouraging report came from
Wexfnrd county and read, in part:
“We believe the farmers' condition

By MILON GRINNELL

shows an improvement over any
time since the close of the war and
the drop of prices of‘ farm produce
from the inﬂation of war times.

In the central part of the state
we found prosperity except in Gra-
tiot county where wet weather ruin-
ed a large part of the bean and beet
crops, but even here farmers were
meeting their obligations in most in-
stances. From Glawin county came
the report ”Farmers in our locality
are in a much better ﬁnancial condi-
tion than they have been for some
time."

“While conditions are not any-
thing to boast of I think the average
farmer has made some progress
during the past year,” read our re-
port from Midland county and it was
prepared by one who studies condi-
tions in that section and is well pre-
pared to make a statement.

Reducing Obligations

In Isabella county farmers con—
tinued to reduce their obligations
with banks and stores in substan-
tial amount during 1925.

Farmers in the potato growing

' sections of Michigan have prospered

considerably during the last six
months so it is to be expected that
our report from Montcalm would be
to the eﬂect that the farmers were
feeling good. The report read: “Our
principle crop is potatoes and the
past season yielded a very good

crop and the present market is ex--

cellent. The early market opened

good with prices around a dollar and
since has gradually increased to its
present ﬁgure, $2.25 per bushel to
the farmer, and has held there
steady for about sixty days.

“Taking all things as a whole we
believe' that we are enjoying as
prosperous and as proﬁtable a year
as has been the experience in this
section in a generation. Prices for
our products have been higher in
years past, but never before have
they been so good when the crop
was still in the farmers’ hands."

In the Thumb

In the Thumb district conditions
were fairly good, according to re-
ports, even though much of the bean
crop Was damaged by wet weather.
As a whole the farmers are not roll-
ing in wealth, nor are they suffering
from poverty, but the general con-
dition is good. Conditions might
have been better in Ionia county, we

are advised, but they might be a

whole lot worse. Right next to
Ionia, in Kent county, farmers are
said to be in the best condition they
have been in for three years.

Going over to Allegan county,
bordering on Lake Michigan, we get
into the fruit growing section where
most of the crop suffered consider-
able damage during 1925, yet the
farmers of the county are considered
to be in a prosperous condition and
increased deposits in the banks of
that section lend strength to this
statement.

Farmers in Barry county are
banking more money than they did
last year and paying off their obli-
gations at the same time. Our cor-
respondent in this county says the
condition has again reached normal.
The same is true of Eaton county.
Further south, in Calhoun county,
we found the ﬁnancial condition of
the farmer rated as fair to good in

general.

In Berrien county we are getting
back into the fruit section but not in

“ the fruit belt where there was such

heavy damage to the crop, and
farmers as a whole in this section
are doing fairly well, according to
our report. Bank deposits from farm-
ers have increased.

Conditions in Cass county are
said to be the best they have been
in two years, and in St. Joseph farm-
ers are reported as feeling better
than at any time since 1920-21, al-
though they are not “out of the
woods” yet.

Reports from Hillsdale county in-
dicate a much more satisfactory
condition than at any time since
1920 with the farmers reducing
their loans and increasing their de-
posits. Taxes were paid prompt this
year, it is said. The same may be
said for Lenawee county, except
loans are not being reduced as ra-
pidly.

These reports would indicate that
agriculture in Michigan is nearing
normal and with good markets and
the right kind of weather we expect
a most prosperous year for farmers
of this state.

The State Fruit Inspection Law Riles ’Em~ Up At Spink’s Corners

By HERBERT NAFZIGER

Editor Fruit and Orchard Department, THE BUSINESS FARMER

HAVING done justice to a mighty .

good dinner, I was just ﬁnish-

ing a perusal of the daily
"News—Palladium” when friend wife
handed me a grocery list and I was
soon tramping through the snow to
Ed Luft’s store at Spink’s Corners,
1,5 mile distant. Ed keeps a mighty
nice country store and for many
years it has been the open forum of
the neighborhood during the long
winter afternoons and evenings. In
fact,' during the winter Ed Luft’s
place is more than a mere grocery
store. It is a gathering place, a
club, to which the men of the sur-
rounding country go to meet their
neighbors, and to give expression
to the thoughts and ideas which
have been forming in their heads
during long hours behind the plow
and in the orchards. Many are the
jokes which have been cracked
about these gatherings at country
stores but, if the truth were known,
it is at gatherings such as these that
public opinion is formed which may
make or break a political campaign-
Professors at distant colleges may
tell us this or that is the big” thing
to do but when the practical hard-
ﬁsted country men get together at
the corner store, then we can ﬁnd
out whether the professors were

right or wrong.

When I reached the store with the
wife’s grocery list on that wintry
afternoon I found a hot discussion
in full blast. Ed McIntosh, big,
burly, deep-voiced, his sheepskin
coat-open, his genial mustached face
red with excitement, was holding
forth on One side of the stove. Sam
Hurst, a. ,tall, wiry fellow who, in
his younger days, saw service in the

northern lumber camps, was leading
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That much discuss- ‘

“Why, durn it all, the time’s com-
ing when the covers on our fruit
packages won't be big enough to
hold all the stamp marks we have
to put on ’em. There ain’t much
room on a jumbo cover in the ﬁrst
place and then I have to stamp on
the variety, the net contents, the
grade, my name and address. Honest
to goodness I’ve got a jumbo basket
full of stamps at my place and in
the time it takes to get em sorted
out and each stamp on the package
I could have ﬁlled another package
and sold it "

Ed McIntosh passed his hand over
his mustache and grinned. “Sam,”
he said, “You can’t tell me a thing
about your stamping troubles be—
cause I’ve seen you at it. The way
you hunt around for the different
stamps and fume and fuss reminds
me of the lunatic who thought he
had a job picking ﬁy—specks out of
black pepper!” A loud haw! haw!
from the gallery greeted this sally as
Ed went on. “Next time you come
over to my place let me show you
my stamps. I’ve got pleny of them,
I’ll admit, but a little system helps
a lot. Didn’t it ever occur to you
that instead of having each item on
aseparate stamp you could put sev—
eral items on one stamp? Take my
grape stamps for example. I’ve got
all those items you mentioned on
one single stamp and one swipe on
a package does the job. In fact with
grapes I stamp up a lot of covers be—
forehand and have ’em ready when
we begin to pick. Little stunts like
these, save a sight ,of time and time
is money when the fruit’s coming
off. Not that I am any smarter than
you are. Not at all. The only dif-

         

   
  

them to be as inconvenient as possi-
ble so you can kick about ’em. Why
I’ve even heard some fellows say
that the law compels a man to count
the number of peaches in a bushel.
Any man who can read and who has
a copy of the grading laws knows

better. The law says, ‘Numerical
count, or net measure or weight of
contents.’ You can take your
choice.”

“Well,” said Sam Hurst, “I don’t
know about that part of "it but I do
know that Galifornia puts up as
good a grade of stuff as any state in
the Union and I’ll betcha they don’t
have to do it by law either. Lemme
tell you something boys, these gol-
durn IaWS were gotten up and jam—
med thru by a bunch of politicians
and lawyers looking for fat jobs,
that’s what they were, and there
wasn’t a feller in the bunch knew a
thing about fruit. Another thing is
these fruit inspectors that snoop
around prying into a man’s pack-
ages; some of ’em ain’t nothin’ but
high-school kids and a little author-
ity makes ’em uppity! Besides, what
in time is a man going to do when
they change the law every year and
then pinch folks for not being up
on it.”

Having dropped these explosive re—
marks Sam gave, Ed a look which
plainly meant “Put that in your
pipe and smoke it.” Then he opened
the stove, spat into the glowing
coals and braced himself for the
counter attack, which was not long
in coming. '

Ed McIntosh looked at Sam; his
mustache crinkled with amusement
and the light of friendly battle was
in his eyes as he replied in his
booming voice.

fgam Ed.
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“I’m thinking .
n: on are certainly , -

not up on and that is the California
fruit law. Why man alive, they’ve
got laws out there that would make
a Michigan fruit grower’s hair stand
on end. Their laws provide for the
kind of package in which the differ-
ent kinds of fruit have to be packed
and they even provide for the chem-
ical analysis of the ‘fruit juice when
the fruit is ready to be picked! In
their fancy grape grades they go so
far as to provide a minimum length
of the bunches and a minimum size
of the berries in the bunch! This
sounds crazy to us but in California
they are so far away from market
that they have to do these things in
order to compete with us, and they
certainly give us all the competition
we want. As for inspection there
may still be a few uppity dumbbells
marching around the markets pos-
ing as inspectors, the same as you’ve
got a few weeds in your berry patch,
but they are being weeded out as
fast as possible.”

The argument raged on with an
interested gallery egging the debat—
ers on to greater efforts but I had
to go home with my groceries and
did not hear then end of it. How-
ever I took the time to verify the ar-
guments of Ed McIntosh and found
them substantially correct. I also
gathered a few more facts bearing
on the subject which might be of in-
terest.

The ﬁrst bill designed to improve
the quality of Michigan’s fruit pack
was known as the Jakway Bill and'
was introduced at Lansing by Mr.
J. J. Jakway of Benton Harbor. Mr.
Jakway is and always has been a
fruit grower.

The committee that drew up the
latest apple grading law was ’com-
posed of the following men: Mr;
Jack Fraleigh, apple. grower of Gas- ,
novia, Mr. F. L. Granger, manager
of the Michigan Fruit Growers Ins”

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i RING the ﬁrst years of her
",married life, Lavinia Heminger,
wn‘o lives near Cedar Springs,
11., took‘ no especial pains with
“chickens. She kept no account
of what income
they brought or Of
the cost of their
feed. She did not
know if she was
making any proﬁt
on them or not,
but she supposed
she must be as
her neighbors
kept chickens in
the same slip-shod
~fashion, and dur—
ing the late spring
and early summer
«, they were brag—
ng'of how many eggs they were
ting and how many hens they had
ting. If they got enough eggs from
hens to furnish a family of four
th one egg apiece for breakfast
what eggs they wanted to, and
ad a dozen more to sell during the
geek they thought they were doing
, 'ne.

Wasn‘t there an old saying like
3.3.113? “Twenty-ﬁve hens will bring
in as much income as a cow.” They
idn’t stop to think that it did not
ﬁy Whether the cow was a proﬁt-
18 one or whether she was a star
,fparder.

T’h558n one day in December of
$1.922 Lavinia began to wonder why
‘l'i was that she and her neighbors
e t-no eggs during the fall and
‘ ter months when all the poultry
opers that she read told how well
her people were doing with their
‘ickens during the long, cold win-
? Some ﬂocks not only support-
themselves, but the family as
11.

SO Lavinia went out to her chick-
coop and looked at her chickens.
ey were mostly all White Wyan—
ttes. Large, healthy birds that
baked as though they ought to lay
“.‘veryday during the year. But the
,V""'_undred chickens were crowded into
.5"; small lean—to shed, 4 feet by 8
“set. The roof was three feet high
if}! one side and 5 feet high on the
gather. She had to sweep the snow
inway on the ground, on the outside
’ .henever she fed them.

'T~AS she stood looking at her ﬂock
925118 saw an Old piece of shingled

  
   
  
  
  
  
 
   
  
 
 
  
  
  
 
  
   
  
   
  
   
       
   
   
   
   
 
    
     
  
 
    
  
 
  
    
    
   
    
   
  
   
  
  
  
  
 
  
   
  
   
   
 
 
  
  
 
   
   
  
 
   
 
  
    
   
 
  
   
    
  
   
  
  
 
    
   
  
 
  
  
 
  
 
 
   
   
 
 
  
   
 
  
   
  

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.N 1925, eleven growers qualiﬁed
‘ for membership in the Michigan
300 Bushel Potato Club by pro~
cing 300 bushels or more Of pota-
es per acre on an area of at least
0 continuous acres.
' {The methods of= production used
,\ y'the 300 bushel men should be Of
interest to all potato growers, Since
" ‘ey are applicable to practically ev-
' iiy farm and are big factors in pro-
cing the crop at the lowest cost
bushel.
All members of the 300 Bushel
ub are ﬁrm believers in good seed,
rail of them plant certiﬁed seed.
hey know that certiﬁed seed.is
ee from disease and gives high
elds; they cannot afford to take
5 nces with seed of inferior quali—
The seed is treated with Corro-
e Sublimate for the control of
b and black scurf and is out just
~evious to planting. _
,The cut pieces are of good 5128
"eraging 11/2 to 2 ounces in weight
(1 are square or blocky so that
ey Will_ not dry out in the soil.
“is t growers make the mistake of
thoo economical with seed, cut—
the seed in small pieces that
rot in the soil before the plant
'a good start. The average
unt of seed planted per acre by
700 Bushel Club members is
bushels, this is about twice as
" sea as is used by most grow-
at .it' pays to use plenty Of. seed.
‘ctically all of the club mem-
~plantgiti drills. Spacing the
T" b 36 inches apart and the
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roof leaning up against the granary.
It was just about the size of her
coop. So calling her husband’s at-
tention to it they went to work and
by night they had enlarged the
coop to twice its former size. But
the roof was so low she could hard—
ly crawl inside to gather her eggs,
when there were any.

A neighbor who lived close by
had 60 bushels of small potatoes,
which he offered for sale at 100 a
bushel, and Lavinia bought them for
chicken feed, as she said, “I am go-
ing to succeed in the chicken busi-
ness like others do or go broke try-
ing.” Then taking some of her but-
ter mOney'she bought some ground
feed and shelled corn. She cooked
the potatoes and every morning mix—
ed a pail of hot potatoes with the
ground feed until it was crumbly,

added a little salt and pepper, and

fe it warm to the chickens. She
kept drinking water before them all
the time and at night she fed them
all the warm shelled corn they could
eat, and in a few weeks they began
to lay.
First Year Proﬁt is $100

She got a pencil tablet and in it
she set dowu every egg those hens
layed and the price of them, also the
price of every pound of feed she
bought to feed them. When she sold
a’chicken she set that down. At
the end Of the year her hens and
chickens had brought her in $200

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and their feed had cost $100,? that
left her a clear proﬁt for her work
Of $100. ‘

My, but she was proud! Hadn’t
her chickens done well? Oneday
when she was bragging .tO one of
her neighbors how well her chickens
had done, he asked her if she still
had the $100. When she said no,
she had spent it, he replied, “Then
you haven’t got anything for your
work after all."

She now decided she would build
her a new chicken coop as soon as
possible. For the mites were two
inches deep all over the ground in—
side of the old one. She tried to
kill them by using kerosene and
white-wash, but they kept on in-
creasing. At last, in desperation
she took all of her dirty-soapy wash—
water every Monday, got it boiling
hot and scalded the coop with that.
It made the coop wet and cold dur-
ing the winter but it helped kill the
mites. But whenever the hot suds
ﬂew back and burnt her hands and
face she would exclaim, “I’m going
to have a new coop.”

That year she kept 100 hens and
5 Indian Runner ducks. The chick-
ens laid a few eggs each day all
winter and on the 14th day of March
her ﬁve ducks started laying. They
were of the white egg strain and
every day she got ﬁve large White
duck eggs from them. Some of these
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A FLOCK 0F “EGG MACHINES"

“'hnt Lavinia Iii-minger has done is a good

example of what many farm women are

doing in Michigan. and points out very strongly that the ﬂock on any farm. no matter

how small, should not be
daughter Helen, of Kennclworth Farm, near

made up of “just liens."

This is Mrs. \V. P. Smith and
Saginaw, feeding part of their ﬁne ﬂock.

By H. C. MOORE

Extension Specialist. Michigan State College

large rough, hollow potatoes, and
that it aids them in producing rec—
ord yields Of medium sized smooth
potatoes.
Good Seed Bod

Members of the 300 Bushel Club
realize the importance of planting
potatoes on a fertile, well prepared
seed bed. All Of them grow potatoes
in a four or ﬁve year rotation which
includes alfalfa or sweet clover and
some kind of grain. Potatoes follow
alfalfa or sweet clover in the rota-
tion. Soil for the potato crop is
made rich, not only by the plowing
under of alfalfa or sweet clover, but
also by liberal applications of stable
manure. and commercial fertilizer.
Manure is applied during the fall or
winter previous to planting at the
rate of 11 tons or so to the acre.
Commercial fertilizer is used at the
rate of about 600 or 700 pounds per

ing or shortly before planting. It
is either applied in the furrow or
sown broadcast and worked into the
soil. When applied in the furrow
care must be taken to‘see that the
fertilizer does not come in contact
with the seed pieces, otherwise poor
stands and weak plants may result.
Fertilizer of various analyses are
used; some of the most common
ones are 2—86; 3—10-5, 0—10-10 and
16 per cent acid phosphate.

The 300 bushel men plow potato
land in the fall or very. early in the
spring. In the spring before plant-
ing they work the seed bed with
spring tooth or spike tooth harrows
to keep it in a mellow condition and
to kill weeds and grass. These cul—
tivations save much labor later in
the summer in the way of seed and
grass pulling.

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acre. It is applied at time of plant— ground they

MICHIGAN 300 BITSHEL POTATO CLUB IN 1925 .
Name Address No. Acres Av. Yield Acre
M. E. Parmalee Hilliards ‘ 9 440
John Woodman Paw Paw 6 400
John Delongchamp Champion 2 388
W. Wiltse Morley 2 326
Andrew Voss ' Luther . 3 319
rRossman Brothers Lakeview 6 317
Harry Hansen Edmore 6 312
E.. W. Lincoln Greenville 12 '310“ .
John Soderman Crystal Falls ~ . 3% _,

 
  
  

J oseph Drake .

330%!”

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one. duck egg taking the place of‘

two hen's eggs in cakes, etc. The
balance of them she put in her egg

crate along with her hen eggs and‘

sold them at the grocery store, all
for the price of hen’s eggs. She set
her hens on hen’s eggs as early in
the spring as they wanted. to set.
But by the ﬁrst of May she had all
the little chickens she wanted, which
was about 200. She then started to
set the duck eggs under her hens.
and after she had about 50 of them
she started advertising them for 10
cents apiece, one day Old, or 15 cents
each, 3 days-'old. In this way she
sold quite a few, but by fall she
had 100 baby ducks of all ages. So

she fattened them for the -market.

and two days before they were to be
sold some one helped themselves to
80 of them, leaving 'her only 20
young ducks. ‘ ~

Builds Cement Coop

By saving every penny she could
that summer she had $80.00 in the
fall and this she used to build her
a cement coop 15 feet by 30 feet
and six feet high at the eaves. She
no longer had to bend double in or—
der to gather her eggs, or to enter
her coop. She now learned of a
sure way to get rid of mites, which
was to paint the roosts and nest
boxes with waste cylinder‘ oil from a
car. This she did once a month and
was no longer troubled with the
pesky bugs.

Two years went by during which
time she was taken ill and had to sell
her ducks as she was no longer able
to pump water for them, But they
were ﬁne layers, for they laid the
year around with the exception of
three weeks in August when they
moulted and another three weeks
in February when they rested. They
were the best egg machines she ever
saw and their eggs were well ﬂavor—
ed, never ﬁshy and never strong.

Early in the spring of 1923 she
saw an advertisement in her county
weekly, saying that setting eggs
were wanted by the hatchery in her
own home town, and if anyone want-
ed to sell their eggs to them to call
at once. 'Lavinia’s folks laughed at
her when she said she was going to
try to sell her eggs to the hatchery
but when she returned and told
them she was offered 5 cents a dozen
above the market price, they

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even Growers Quality in Michigan’s 300 Bushel Potato Club in 1925

two or three times with a spike
tooth harrow or weeder to destroy
grass and weed seedlings. Gener-
ally four or ﬁve cultivations are
made after the plants are above
ground. These cultivations are very
shallow and are discontinued when
the plants are in~the blossom stage.
Spray Several Times ‘

All members of the 300 Bushel
Club spray their ﬁelds with Bor—
deaux mixture to which Calcium Ar—
senate or lead arsenate is added for
the control of leaf eating insects.
The Bordeaux mixture wards off leaf
hoppers and ﬂea bettle attacks and
also protects the foliage against
blights. Sprayers carrying 200
pounds or more pressure are used.
Three nozzles are placed for. each
row and the vines are thoroughly
covered with the spray. From ﬁve,
to eight spray applications are made
during the season. The ﬁrst one
being made when the plants are
about six inches high, others follow-
ing at intervals of ten days or two
weeks.

In 1924 reports from 24 of the
300 Bushel Potato Club members
who kept cost records showed the
average cost of production per bush-
el to be forty-three cents. Accord-

"ing to a survey made by the United

States Department Of Agriculture in
1919 on 101 farms in Montcalm and
Grand Traverse counties where. the
average yieldper acre was approxi-
mately 116 bushels, it was found
‘thatthe average costuof production
per..bus 9* as, .amrQXi.’ ” ’

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ELII IABETH AND HER PET.—This is FEEDING TIBIE ON THE DELL FAR)I.—“‘Vcsley Del], “THE END OF A PERFECT DAY.”-—-That

Elizabeth Banks, of Kalkaska, holding her pet of Lawrence, feeding his pure—hred Jersey calves. He’s an is the title gixen this picture of Miss ,I‘ armer-
pig, Billie. “’e are indebted to her mother, old subscriber to )1. B. I’., havmg taken it since it started ette with the horses and “agon b5 Bliss )Iarie
Mrs. George A. Banks, for the picture. nnd'now he thinks he couldn’t do without." writes Mrs. Dell. Duchune, of Murine (.‘ity

 

     

SOME DIICIIIGAN SCENERY.-——)Iany of us live in hopes that GRANDM'A AND HER “\V‘NTA RIDI“?”—— “)Iy twin boys, Edwin 21nd Eruin “hen
some day we may travel to see beautiful scenery and overlook SPINNING “'HEEL.— not busy “‘ith tl1ei1 chores enjoy driving Buster around the neigh—
what we have right in our own state. This is 11, view of what This interesting picture hoihood. lie is \el5 contrary sometimes and refuses to lune his
can be seen 011 the shore of Lake. Huron. )Irs. Ferdinand “'olf, comes from E. J. Lunge, harness on but onee hitched up he’s ullight,” writes 31115. J. W.
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AL‘VA‘YS ROOBI FOR ONE )[ORE.—1\Iarion SEEN AT THE ZOO.—-0ne of our friends, Louis Bak— A DUAL PURPOSE CO“'.-——-‘W. F. (.‘ausie, of
and Lorraine. Curtis, of Luke Odessa, and their :1ert of “'illimnston, visited Potter's Park in Lansing llorton. sends us this picture of what he con-
city cousin on old Trix. Harold Curtis sent the last summer and this is part of what he saw in the zoo. siders :1 real dual purpose cow. The rider is
picture to us. He says there are many other kinds of animals there. Agnes (inusie.

 

 
   

 

 

LEELANAU COUNTY SNOW BANKS.——This picture was CLOTHES 0F‘]900.——Flor- A NICE STRING 0F FISH.~—A string of ﬁsh caught

taken near Marple City and sent in- by Peter 0. Peterson, pro— once and Harry Shenk, Ya- through the ice on Dease Lake, in Ogemaw county, by L.
prletor of Shady Grove Farm, near Maple City. ‘Yes, they have gerville. fl‘aken by Myrtle Chm-lick, of Milford. We do not wonder that; our subscriber

   

 

 
   

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CORN IN CRIB

Will you please give me the cor-
rect rule for measuring corn in the
crib? The following'are the rules
we have found. but we do not know
which one is correct: 2688.02 0119111.
1 heaped bushel; 2764.8'Cu. In., 1
heaped bushel; 2747.71 Cu. In., 1
heaped bushel; 1% Cu. Ft. or 2160
Cu. In., 1 heaped bushel. Which of'
these will give the nearest correct
number of bushels weighing 36
pounds each and why should the
iules vary so much?—-D. B., Ben-
gonia, Mich.

HE standard United States bush-
T el is the Winchester bushel and
contains 2150.42 Cu. In. This
is equal to 1.2445 Cu. Ft. which is
approximately 1%. Cu. Ft. In fact.
1% Cu. Ft. is always used in esti-
mating the capacity of corn cribs.
The cubical contents of the crib
divided by 114 would give the num-
ber of bushels of ears in the crib.
A bushel of ear corn divided .by two
would give the bushels of shelled
corn—~F. E. Fogle. Assistant Profes-
sor of Agricultural Engineering,
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DIVIDING PROPERTY
\Vhat is the law of inheritance of

’second wife when there were no

children of the second marriage, but‘
children of a prior marriage and the
widow holds a joint deed, and one
house and six lots? Can the hus—
band’s children claim any share of
said property even after the widow's
death?—-V. W., Pinconning, Michi-
gan.

HE property which the husband
and wife hold under a joint
deed would go to the wife alone

upon the death of the husband.
Upon her death it would go to her
heirs, but his heirs by a former mar-
riage would not receive any part of
it. The real estate which the hus-
band owned in his own name alone
would be divided as follows: one-
third to go to the widow and two-
thirds to his children. His personal
property up to $3,000.00 would go
to his widow and all above that
would be divided as the real estate.
——Legal Editor.

GET LICENSE TO BUY CREAM

I want to buy milk and cream did
rect fromethe farmers and make but-'
ter for market. Will I have to have
a license to do so?—L. C. Rhodes,
Mich. ‘

E would advise that a registra-

tion is needed for each plant

or institution where milk and
cream is received from 3 or more
producers; The fee for this registra-
tion is‘$5.00 and the ﬁscal year com-
mences April lst. If the milk or /
cream is purchased on the butter—'
fat basis a Babcock tester’s license
is also needed for the tester, the fee
for this license is $1.00. These re-
gistrations and licenses are issued
by the State Department of Agricul-
ture.-———T. H. Broughton, Director,
State Bureau of Dairying.

LINE FENCE

A and B are neighbors. B claims
A’s fence is on B’s land. The fence
has been in the same place for thirty
years or more and nothing has been
said about it. Can B compel A to .
move the fence?—-A. W. B., Harbor
Beach, Michigan.

—Ii the fence in its present location
has been regarded as the correct
boundary line for thirty years, B
could not compel A to move it now.
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CHANCERY

They foreclosed by chancery on
my term last May and it has not
been sold yet. How long must it
be advertised in the paper? How
am I to know when it will be sold?
The party has forbid me to cut
wood. but I am cutting my ﬁre
wood. Can an attorney of one
county serve the summons papers on
a. party in another county! How
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any" spring crops? Will the farm
have to be advertised in a papér
printed at the county seat? “Can I
sell the straw and manure on the
premises? Have forbid him to come
on the farm. Now when he comes
he will sneak through the woods to
look around. I tried to have him
arrested for trespassing but the jus-
.tice in the village says he is looking
after his OWn interest. We have the
warranty deed and abstract to the
farm, but do not'think the place is
worth trying to ﬁnish paying for it.
———H. R., Mosherville, Michigan.

HE property cannot be sold until
six months after the foreclosure
proceedings are ﬁled in chan-

cery. I would ask the county clerk
to give the date of sale, as he will
be able to tell you. An attorney of
one county can serve papers in an-
other. If the farm is sold you will
have six months after sale in which
to redeem. You would net be safe
in putting out spring crops. The pa.-
per does not have to be printed in
the county seat. I am of the opin-
ion you could not remove the ma-

nure or straw from the place. If

the justice of the peace refuses to
do anything, I would not advise you
to interfere with him. —Lega.l Edi-
tor.

MONEY ORDER RATES

Will you please explain for our
beneﬁt the rules for sending pack-
ages today. I sent away an order
of 75c and the post man charged a
fee of 5c and on the order blanks it
says from lc to $2.507—3c. . He has
been charging a little extra on all or—
ders for some time. Have postal rules
been changed lately? If so, why
aren't the P. O. blanks changed also?
—Reader. Kewadin, Mich.

EES on money orders were ad«
vanced on April 15th, last, and
Postmasters were directed to

use the old stock of money order ap-
plications on hand before asking for
new ones. It is evident that your
local postmaster has not yet exhaust-
ed his supply.

CANNOT MAKE\ TOWNSHIP PAY

I own a farm adjacent to the
township line. .The nearest school
in my tow ship is about four miles
from me. here is a school in the
adjacent township which the chil-
dren could attend if my township
would pay the tuition. Can they be
forced to do so? If so, what steps
shall I take?——-G. B., Perkins, Mich.

U cannot require the school

board to pay the tuition under

the circumstances. They may do
it if children are in any one of the
grades up to the eighth—W. L. Cof-
fey, Deputy Superintendent of Public
Instruction.

TRANSPORTATION TO SCHOOL

'1 would like to ﬁnd out whether I
am obliged .to take my little girl to
school when she has so far to go,
about three miles? She is only seven
years old. Can they compel the
parents to take her and would I be
able to collect any money for tak-
ing her and going after her?—-0. P.,
Selkirk, Mich.

OUR inquiry is answered in part
in paragraph “e” of Section
5979 of the Compiled Laws of

1915. Section “e” gives one oi the
conditions under which children are
exempt from regular attendance at
school. This section reads as fol-
lows:

“Children under nine years of

age, whose parents do not reside

~wlthin two and one—half miles, by

the nearest traveled road, of some
public school: Provided, that if
transportation is furnished for pu-
pils in said district, this exemption
shall not apply.

“The school board has authority
to furnish transportation for chil-
dren but cannot be compelled to do.
so except in the case of rural agri-
cultural school districts. ‘

“The rural agricultural not pro-'1

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“I now do in a couple of hours with
‘ - my - Fordson the work it formerly
. took a day to perform,” says Milton
- i Zeter, whose farm is near California,

Ohio.

‘ “This is the third year I have had my
" - Fordson and it has paid for itself sev—
‘ eral times. I can t the ground in
much better con 'tion and, as a re—
-.F sult, there has been quite an improveo
~1 r ment in both the uality and quanti-
~ ' _ ty of my crops. It as enabled me to

‘ - overcome the handicap of time in
the early spring.

‘ A Day’s Work in Two Hours

- “During the winter I use the Fordson

You can do more this year with a F ordson. Ask the
» nearest Ford dealer about the easy payment plan.

“I’ve kept a record of the cost of
operating my Fordson and ﬁnd my
average cost for plowing is 65c an
acre.

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“I also have a Ford Touring car, pur— ‘3
chased in 1919, a Ford Sedan bought
in 1923, both of which are used al—
most daily and giving excellent serv—
ice; as well as a Ford OrievTon Truck,
bought in 1920, which I use for haul—
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Quite Unusual -

HERE was a time here in South-

T ern Michigan when there was

no question about sleighing for
a considerable length of time every
winter. Some winters the .snow
came early and
remained u n til
W e l 1 a l o n g
toward spring.
Other years the
s n o w w o u l d
nearly or quite
disappear in Jan:
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soon return for
another run of
sleighing. It was
a p a rt 0 f t h e
year’s plan to an-
ticipate the tim-
ber which would
be sawed, and nearly every farmer
would have at least a log or two
made into boards to be used for re-
pairs, etc.

Nearly all farmers planned on
hauling their logs to the saw mill
on bobs. The situation is vastly
different now. First there is very
little snow. Many winters there is
absolutely no sleighing, and if snow
does come in sufﬁcient quantity, the
high winds drift it too much for
sleighing, as it. will be all blown
from the roads in some place, and
very deep in others. But today we
have used the bobs for hauling a.
few logs to a near-by sawmill. There
is not much snow, and in places (al—
together too numerous) the runners
grind on bare ground. Still, I think
the bobs run easier than the same
load would on a wagon, and it is
certainly much easier to load the
bobs. It is quite an unusual thine,~
for us to do, and we enjoyed it.

We are fortunate in having all
cross roads from the timber lot to
the saw mill. This means the autos
have not entirely spoiled what little
snow we have. It would be impossi-
ble to use bobs on main roads here
at the present time. At the ﬁrst
sight of snow the snow grader, driv—
on by a tractor, is put into opera—
tion and good—bye sleighing, come
on you gas buggies! .

I have often thought it a blessing
that we do not have as much snow
as formerly, on account of the motor
traﬂic. It seems quite providentiai,
the same as the passing of the sa-
loon with the advent of universal
motoring with automobiles. If there
were as many drunken men driving
cars today as‘there once were driv—
ing horses, a few years would ﬁnd
Mother Earth depopulated. And
still there are many who are work-
ing and anxious for the saloon to be
lawfully put back into business!
Away with such antiquated ideas.
The United States has moved a step
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must have some grudge against
themselves and humanity in general.
* * *
A Mistake

Here is a letter from a Mrs. C.
H. W. of Calhoun county, who says

she doesn’t understand the ﬁgures
given in my last article on imported
clover seed. No doubt many others
have wondered how so many thous-
and pounds of clover seed could sow
several million acres, when it re-
quires eight or ten pounds to seed
an acre. Mistakes are sure to hap-
pen sometimes, even in the M. B. F..
and somewhere between my lead
pencil and the printing press, the
ﬁgures for pounds and the ﬁgures
far acres became reversed. So it
was really the. millions of pounds
which seeded the thousands of acres.
. ai- at ll!

Weight of Potatoes

This same correspondent wants to
know how many pounds of. potatoes
in a sack. The usual trade bag of
potatoes weighs 150 pounds or two
and one half bushels. In market re-
ports, etc., this is the weight basis
unless otherwise noted. But the
price as given in the market__q‘uota~
tions means per hundred pounds,
either. bulk or sacked, unless bush-
els are indicated—which is not the
general practice any more.

* all It!

“Thy Bushels?

I often question the wisdom of
having any other measure than
weight for all products—either veg-
etable, fruit or grain. Bushel meas—
ures of these commodities vary, so
much in weight that"a great deal of
confusion is caused. When we were
raising pure Rosen rye for seed, a
farmer of many years’ experience in
wheat growing, came to purchase
forty bushels of it. When we ﬁgured
it at ﬁfty—six pounds to the bushel
lie was dissatisﬁed—contending that
a bushel of rye was just as heavy as
a bushel of wheat. However, he
said he would pay for the ﬁfty-six
pounds as a bushel, and investigate,
and return if it was not right. He
did not return. The worst part of
the bushel as a means of measure
is the fact different states have, for
mamr things, different weights per
bushel.

I know a man who, a few years
ago, went into a grocery store in a
city. There were some ﬁne apples
in bushel baskets on display, with
a so-called peck measure near—by.
The price'card read, ‘apples so much
per peck. An experienced clerk
waited on this man, who, among' oth-
er things, ordered a peek of those
apples with the understanding it
must be a peck by weight, instead of
the peck measure. The clerk did
not know what apples weighed per
bushel and the proprietor himself
had to look up the weight of apples
as given in a table of weights and
measures sent out by the Bureau of
Markets. If everything was sold on
the weight basis, there would be no
misunderstandings as there are now,

and a large amount of ﬁguring
would be eliminated.
* * It!

Ashes On Garden
A subscriber at Fife Lake wants
to know about using hard wood ash-
es on a garden. He burns thitry
cords of wood during the year, and
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EAR EDITOR: 'From time to
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iduality to their farms and to this
we give our approval. In 1911 when
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HOUSING MACHINERY AND
LOWER TAXES
O the Editor: No doubt the edi-
tor of the open forum is busy
sorting the comments and mild
criticisms, yet I cannot refrain from
writing on editorials "Housing Ma-
chines” and “Lowering Taxes”. To
give protection to machinery by
proper housing is a great study on
the small grain farms of this state
owing to the great variety of ma-
chines used and the necessity to pro-
long the life of the same.
. I seriously question if it Will pay
any ambitious young farmer with a
good housewife to make a start on
less than three eighties of ordinary
land owing to the tremendous cost
of necessary machines and care of
same. For such a man the plan for
a machine house is easily drawn far
a large shed with snow proof walls
and roof, for it is common know-
ledge that a light snow blown
through walls or root and lying on
steel machines till a warm day
comes causes more oxidization of the

‘metal than a good rain or snow out-

side followed by the wind to dry it
off quickly; not so with wood. The
doors must also be well made and
well fastened in this windy section
or the labor on the wall and roof
will be largely lost in repelling
drifting snow. For the farmer that
now has a tool house built out of
farm lumber with many cracks per-
haps a cover of steel brick siding
will be the cheapest and handlest
material to use. It is easily applied
and can be used on the doors as
well as sides. but not the roof. It
the owner wishes a better job. put a
good grade of tough building paper
under the iron. Such a place would
have come very handy this fall while
sacking and storing over night of
potatoes and fruits during the early
freeze. The rooﬁng needed will de-
pend on the eveness and smoothness
of the roof now on, as the light
grade felt roof is not serviceable
over old shingles while many styles
of metal are.

Whatever is used a thorough
closing of all openings is necessary

~ including the contact with the

ground especially if the shed rests
on posts. Do not think you can make
this work very cheap for if it is to
pay it can not be slighted any more
than the siding of your house. The
writer has had experience in rough
carpentering. and I am sorry to say
built many useless sheds, now, since
the storms beat the sides of a build-
ing just as hard as the roof. Many
farmers still get lumber sawed from
the form wood-lot and I know from
experience that said lumber is about
half wasted by placing it where it
is not suitable to withstand weather.
The hard-weed lumber cut on our

farm needs as much protection from ’

the weather as the farming mill.

Commenting on “lowering Taxes”
I have some very ilrm views.
there should ‘notbe any lowering .ot-
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proﬂlgancy of the public. Third.
that where the Federal Government
invades the states for tax levy, said
tax should be divided 50-50 with the
states regardless of the state levy;
this would encourage “Laws uni-
form.” Fourth, that. such tax as is
now forbidden on basic law should
be made a subject of special action
by congress and the states and made
legal so as to conform with modern
needs. I am hinting at the gas tax
and revenue from narcotics, spirits
and such like, for I still claim the
proﬁts of “contraband" is going in
the wrong pocket and the policy of
the nation has led our ingenious
people into temptation such as never
Fifth, that the rem-
edy is not more highly paid oﬁlcers
to Jail more people, rather would I
think that a dispenser that pays his
own way at a proﬁt be instituted and
placed within reach of every- res-
ponsible citizen 3 product that

would close every illicit still in this '

land and across the lines, ﬁrearms,
explosives, poisons, all included.—
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A FRIENDLY. LETTER

EAR EDITOR: “Let Us Hear
You” is a headline on page 12

of the January 16th issue. THE
BUSINESS FARMER wishes to hear from
us, so I am game. The editor is
right when he says now is a good
time to write our troubles and ex-
periences to M. B. F. I am not
hustling from daylight to dark and
after any more as I used to do, as
I am a retired farmer, but we have
a garden and I have other odd jobs
to do and I love to read Tm! Busmnss
FARMER, other farm magazines, and
the daily paper. I haven’t any criti-
cising whatever and I don’t know
of any suggestions to make as I be-
lieve the editor of the M. B. F. is do-
ing his very best as I am much in-
terested in reading every article that
appears on the pages of the M. B. F.

As you asked for my experiences
for the beneﬁt of the other fellow,
I have been very successful in ex-
ecuting patches of quack grass by
plowing the entire ﬁeld in the month
of August very shallow about two
inches deep and I turned the furrow
over not any wider sothe shear of
the plow point would cut clear across
the furrow. This will eliminate the
growth of the roots under this shal—
low plowed surface and the next
spring I plowed the ﬁeld about seven
inches deep and planted it to pota-
toes and raised a good crop but the
quack grass did not return. This
was my ﬁrst experience. about ten
years ago, and I will gamble on it to-
day providing the work is done up to
snuff.

Yes, I am in favor of a four—cent
gas tax and no weight tan and no
annual license plates and I am most
certain that the wish and push of the
Secretary of State DeLand is going
to win outas I noticed in my daily.
“Four-Cent Gas Tax Urged by Farm
Bureau, Kent County. Organization
11).:st Repeal of Auto License

w.Dl

Horowith. I will close with the
best wishes and prosperity and suc-
cess in your business. The M. B. F.
will be read in my home as long as
I live—Henry Kahrs, Leelanau Co.

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‘ All EDITOR: I wish to express
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farm papers and am receiving six
besides Tn: Business FARR“ at the
present time. Of all them 11 consider
your paper and The Rural New York-
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OST fruit buds are orderly and
well-behaved children of the
parent two. They produce

branches which bear the same kind
of fruit as the rest of the tree. Oc-
casionally, how-
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a black sheep.
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Herbert Eunice! t0 go on a spree

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cases it is a permanent new variety
which can be reproduced in the us-
ual way. Many valuable varieties
have had their origin as bud sports
and fruit men are always on the
lookout for “sports.”

Several new apple sports have
come to public notice recently. Two
of the most noteworthy are the
“Starking” and “Red Spy” apples.
Neither of these could be strictly
classed as new varieties. They are
really new and improved editions of
old varieties.

The Starking apple originated as
a sport on a Delicious apple tree
growing-on the farm of Lewis Mood

7 of Monroeville, New Jersey. A west-
ern nursery has bought the tree with
the sporting branch and has sur-
rounded it with a tall wire fehce.
The owner is said to have received
$6,000 for the tree. _I have a letter
from Mr. Paul Stark, President of
the American Pomological Society,
in which he writes, “The Starking
is nothing but a Delicious apple and
does not differ from it except in the
fact that it has the red color which
was the only thing lacking in the

, original Delicious, and wich was the
only fault which could be found
with it.” ‘

If, after thorough trial, the Stark-
ing is found to possess the necessary
earmarks of a good commercial vari—
ety such as hardiness, vigor, produc—
tiveness, resistance to diseasebadap-
tability, etc., it may cause the Deli—
cious to take a back seat.

Red Spy, the other sport is a solid
red edition of Northern Spy. This
sport should be especially important
to Michigan growers because Michi-
gan has always been famous for its
Spies. Red Spy is said to be exactly
the same as the old Spy except that
the color is a_solid red instead of
striped.

Several Red Spy sports have ap—
peared, both in Michigan and in New
York but no one seems to know
which is the best one or whether
there is any difference between
them. I have seen samples of both
Michigan and New York Red Spies
and to judge from those I saw the
New York sport seemed to have
slightly the better of it both as to
size and attractiveness.

Professor U. P. Hedrick of the
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TEXT: “Wliosoever would become great
among you, shall' be servant of all.”
Mark 10:43, 44. . _

E‘BRUARY is a. month of great
men. Washington, Lincoln, and
Longfellow are. familiar char—

acters to all. In recognition of the
glory due them we catch something
of their spirit and lift ourselves
toward. their high levels. If one
like Abe Lincoln; a man ruggedly
human, born into a. poor family, and
with but a winter’s schooling, could
climb so high as to be able to write
his name above those of many liter-
ati, of accomplished statesmen, and
of renowned rulers, we want to
know the mystery of it all. Yet it
is no mystery. The way is open to
all. Lincoln’s enduring power is
doubtless due to his divine passion
to serve humankind and help the
lowly and oppressed. This was his
master spirit, and it was not unlike
the spirit of his Master, who said
that he came not to be served but to
serve to the extreme of self-devo-
tion.

Jesus Christ is ever alone as a life-
interpretation of true greatness. And
so unlike, was his teaching andrway
of life, to the spirit and conception
of the times in which he lived, that a
murderous antagonism was aroused
against him. To be great then was
to exercise authority and power over
others or, in any’ way, to have won
material glory. This pagan think-
ing was so deeply imbedded in the
standards. of ﬁrst century living,
that Jesus’ avowed followers were
not easily to be cleansed of it. Sure-
ly. this must have occasioned him
many a sorrow and dissappointment.

But a more abiding word ought
to be said about the lowly condes-
cension of our Lord and his conse—
quent spiritual dignity. Here we
summon Paul’s picture in his Philip—
pian letter. The apostle is dealing

with “faction,” “vainglory,” and
“looking each of you to his own
things.” ‘He is saying that high—

ininded' folks must get the better of

arrogance and selﬁshness. These
were making social riot. They
always do. They have been baleful

forces everywhere. Of course, we
may have given them fairer names
today, but the fact that communities
are suffering because folks are at—
tending too well to their own busi-
ness, proves that selﬁshnss, however
reﬁned, is ever the same evil energy.

Now, to deal with the root of this
trouble, Paul has us to face Him
who turned away from himself and
from his own things, to attend to
the things of others. The extreme
measure of our Lord’s sacriﬁce is
stated in an impressive contrast:
“form of God”, then “form of a
servant.” Thru a complete abnega—
tion of self, Jesus becomes a servant
and brother to men. This is so
transcendentally beautiful as to be
beyond our poor conception or ap—
preciation. In Jesus of Nazareth,
we have the supreme example of one
whose life was inspired by a concern
for others. He had no-se1f—ends to
reach such as warp the deeds of
men. He ended his life in ministries
of comfort and service to others. A
touching illustration of this is to be
found in John’s gospel, the thir—
teenth chapter. He “layeth aside
his garments, and he took a towel
and girded himself. Then he pour—
eth water into a basin, and began to
wash his disciples feet, and to wipe
them with the towel wherewith he
was girded.” Now, doesn’t this

bring our popular notions of .great— '

ness into‘ the dust? But these
things always go together. He laid
aside his tailored rags, donned his
overalls, and’ cut the poor widow’s
wood. She laid aside her shimmer-
ing silks, put on a kitchen dress, and
scrubbed the sick sister’s ﬂoor. Have
you laid aside your haughty apparel
to take your place among the lowly—
minded‘servantslof Christ? Do’ you

  

  

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“Whosoever would become great
among you.” And standing near
was a rash mother who quickly ask-
ed preference for her two sons. She
was building her hopes on a vain
ambition. And Jesus,
and considerate, gave her an answer
that was signally remedial. He
places himself before her as an ex-
ample, and says that he came not to
rule as a pagan lord, but to serve
as the Son of God, and that her sons
should do likewise if they would'be
great. ‘

'She is a bright young/lady and
holds an ofﬁcial place in a state or-
ganization.
ing to impress upon her that she
should be helping out in some of the
needy places in her home church and
community. “0,” she said, “I am a
leader and am not supposed to do
such work.” Ah, yes, this is that
familiar notion of bigness that we
meet with so often. How common to
associate greatness with places of
dominion and ofﬁcial exaltation!

“Whosoever would be great among
you shall become servant of all.”
This being true, how great are we?
By what standard are we measuring
ourselves? The world says that
money is the way to greatness. Is
it? “But they that are minded to
be rich fall into a temptation and a
snare and many foolish and hurtful
lusts, such as drown men in destruc—
tion and perdition.” A converted
Chinaman refused a ﬂattering busi—
ness offer saying, “Money does not
cover my heart.” This man is ﬁnd-
ing his way to true greatness in low-
ly Christian service.

But again, the world says, “Be a
go-getter,” push, crowd thru, make
a name for yourself. But what is
in a name if one is on the wrong
road? The roadway of life has nu-
merous “lovers of self.” “From
these turn away,” cried that little
hated Jew who counted nobility of
birth and rabbinical power as but
“refuse” that he might gain Christ.
Even so did Paul. catch from the
Christ that to become great was to
dignify oneself in service for others.
And so, he has ascended into the
celestial highlands. Woodrow Wil-

,son said that a man has not come to

himself until he haS'learned to serve
the world after the example of
Christ. His motive and his example
are every man’s key to his own gifts
and happiness.

Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, President
of the Federal Council of Churches.
reports that in the Stockholm Con-
ference in August, he found even
the patriarchs and archbishops of
the Greek church growing warm to—
ward Christian unity. Why? Not,
says he, because they were ap-
proached with dogmatic commands,
but thru the work of the Near East
Relief; thru “those deeds which are
the very essence of true religion."
Verily, there is no unifying power
but doing unto others as you would
have them do unto, you. And the
perennial source of the spirit of
service in one’s life lies in a faith—
ful following of Him who became
great thru service, who gave His life
for the lifeless, and who is to bring
confession from every tongue that
in Him is ﬂue greatness.

BIBLE THOUGHTS

BLESS THE LORD, O my soul, and
forget not all his beneﬁts; who for—
giveth all thine iniquities; who‘heal—
eth all thy diseases; who redeemeth
thy life from destruction.-—Psalm
103:2, ~ 4. .-

WHEN THOU PASSEST through
the waters, I will be with thee; and
through the rivers, they shall not
overﬂow t e; when thou walkest
through t 9 ﬁre thou shalt not be
burned; neither shall the
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The Business Farmer radio
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are broadcast daily, except Sa-
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Good Roads

MICHIGAN is one of the states that has made the greatest progress
by the extension of its good roads. Its industrial importance has
been greatly fortiﬁed by the development of a system of internal com-
munication. It can still advance under a careful and judicious extension
of this program. With the passing of transportation from the mud ago
to the hard road age there are indications that we are experiencing in the
United States an industrial revolution as important in its effect as was
that which marked the introduction of the macadam road and the steam
gilroad in England. This. is evinced in the expansion of our national

For instance, the wealth of our nation—investment on our lam—in
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30 billions of dollars.

The wealth ofthe nation in 1922 was 321 billi f d l and
our national income over 80 billions. cm 0 o lsrs,

It took a six-dollar investmentto make a dollar in 1912.
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per cent. in a decade.

E utility of the railroad, as a freight carrier, has been increased
mmyrtlimes through the complementary agency of the 00d roads
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eight miles, on either side of the right-ofvway of a railroad. Now the
radrbad’s range of activity is ﬁve to six times greater. True, these hew
agencies present some problems that embarrass at times,

transportation

but better transportation in whatever form it may be, operates to the

general good.

The railrwds do ask for reciprocal regulation.
Michigan is in the vanguard as an industrial state. Let us retain that

position.

The Michigan Railroad Association approves the state’s proposed
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FEVVER VARIETIES OF APPLES

HY is it that Michigan apple growers can-

not hold their own against competition even

in the Detroit market? The answer to this
question according to F. L, Granger, manager
of the Michigan Fruit Growers, lnc., is that most
Michigan orchards contain too many varieties to
produce any one variety at a proﬁt compared
with the western grower who specializes in a
few. Much of Michigan’s success agriculturally
is due to wide diversity of crops but. Mr. Granger
is of the opinion that the policy should not in-
clude apple varieties.

In a statement issued to the press recently
Mr. Granger said it is the big—crop years particu—
larly that Michigan with its 140-odd variety or-
chards suffers in competition with districts which
produce a high percentage of a few standard
varieties. The buyer, when in need of a quantity
of a certain standard variety, goes to the district
which specializes on that particular one, instead
of. coming to Michigan. He gets Baldwins and
Greenings from Western New York; Jonathans
from Southern Illinois, Colorado or Idaho; Delic-
ious and VVincsaps from the Northwest; and York
and Ben Davis from the Virginias. The shrewd
buyer does not care to get fruit from orchards
which contain only about 25 per cent standard-

varieties because it means increased turnover
without adequate proﬁts, and sometimes no
proﬁt.

According to ﬁgures that Mr. Granger quoted
just under 50 per cent of the apples shipped from
the Northwest are Winesaps, and 90 per cent of
all the apples shipped from that district are of
six varieties. By way *of contrast, he stated that
the six leading varieties in Michigan constituted
only about 58 per cent of the total shipped from
the state. And Baldwin, the leading variety, was
only a little over 17 per cent, followed by the
Duchess which was slightly over 14 per cent.
Twenty varieties are shipped from Michigan. Is
it any wonder that Michigan cannot hold its own
in the apple market?

The question of varieties has been discussed
in Michigan for the last 25 years but nothing
has been done. In the Northwest growers got
busy 12 years ago when they were producing over
a hundred varieties and now ninety per cent of
their crop is made of 6 varieties. Michigan fruit
growers must do something, not some time in the
future, but now, and every farmer who owns an
orchard and sells any quantity of apples at all
can help by following the recommendation of
Mr. Granger to plant only seven varieties:
Duchess, Wealthy, Baldwin, Greening, Northern
Spy, Johathan and McIntosh.

 

INCOME TAX CU'I‘

E are sorry that the lawmakers down at

a: Washington saw ﬁt to make any changes
in the federal income tax and believe farm-

ers are of the same mind. The income tax can
be'considered as in the same class as our gasoline
tax. The motorist who travels on the highways
must use gasoline and the more he travels, wear-
ing out the road, the more gasoline he must pur—
chase. With a tax on each gallon for highway
buildings and maintenance he pays his proper
share. With only the weight tax in force the
automobile owner who operated his car but once

 

0r twice a week paid just as much for the high-
" _ who drove man mlles'esch ' '

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privileges as the large holder of property. This
made exempt from taxation.

In our estimation the law making body at
Washington” could have done the country a
greater favor by leaving the income tax as it was
and doing something to assist the average farmer
who is now paying a, high tax on an investment
that pays small dividends. Every person who en—
joys the liberties of our country should be glad
to pay his just share for maintaining this United
States, and we do not think favor should be
shown any certain class.

MARKET FOR BEANS

ITH Michigan producing over half of the

white‘ beans consumed in the United States
“ it seems a pity to us that they do not do
something to help stabilize the market and estab-
lish a fair price for their product if possible, yet
any movement to organize them meets with com-
plete failure.

It cannot be that farmers believe we lack de—
mand for quality Michigan beans, because we
don’t. Nor can it be fear of foreign competition
that makes them_ shy at the thought of estab—
lishing an organization of their own. Western
growers with their organizations have maintained
good prices in competition with even our own
state, so there could be no fear from that angle.
Frankly, we would like to have some one tell
us why the bean grOWers of Michigan do not
look with favor upon an organization of their
own to at least help stabilize their market.

 

CRACICER BARREL DISCUSSIONS -_

NE of Michigan’s greatest educators, Pres.

Kenyon L. Butterﬁeld of the Michigan State

College, has come out in defence of the
cracker barrel discussions in the grocery store.
Talking at Grand Rapids recently he said the dis-
cussing of political, economical, religious and in-
dustrial questions in the old grocery store helped
continue the education of people whose school
days have gone by. It caused men to think and
talk over problems of the day.

Perhaps there is nothing that has had more
fun poked at it than the old grocery store down
on the four corners and the crowd that nightly
gather about the old stove to “chaw” and
smoke tobacco and discuss politics and other
subjects of the day. But we sincerely doubt if
there is anything that has had a. greater inﬂu—
ence on the country than these same much ridi—
culed arguments and discussions. Many a political

‘ campaign as been made or broke around the old

stove in the grocery store. But politics is not

 

PRIZES FOR THE LONGEST MARRIED

MICHIGAN COUPLE

HERE is an old saying, “All the world
loves a lover," and one needs but to
notice the variety of magazines dis-

played on a news-stand or check a. list of
popular books to prove the truth of this.
However, the lovers in nearly every story
are well under 30 years of age and as soon
as they are married the author apparently
concludes that people are no longer inter-
ested in the hero or heroine and brings the
story to an end. We believe marriage is
just the beginning of real romance with
true lovers and the story of their life to-
gether, their joys and sorrows, their chil-
dren, their work side by side through the
years, would make far more interesting
reading than a story of their courtship.
Just stop and think how interesting a story
might be if built around a couple happily
married for fifty years, or even only twenty-
ﬁvc. “’hat wealth of material for hun-
dreds of such stories can be found on Michi-
gan farms.

We know there are many farm couples
who have celebrated their golden wedding
but are wondering if there are any who
have been married 75 years. We would
like to publish pictures and brief accounts
of the lives of Michigan’s oldest married
couples and will give prizes to the three
couples whose pictures we receive who have
been married the longest. First prize will
be $5, second 83, and third $2. Be sure
to mention years of residence in Michigan,
ages, what occupation has been; number of
children and grandchildren, "and any other
points of interest about lives that our‘ read-
ers would like to know about. Photos will
be returned to sender if desired.

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PRODUCTION THIS YEAR

THE U. S. Departmentof Agriculture has issued

some advice on production this year that is
well worth listening to. The statement is
made, "Although the farming industry. is in the
best general position since 1920, any general st:-

pansion in production this year would tend to ,

place farmers in a less favorable economic posi-
tion than at present.” . ,

Many may discount the statement regarding
the property of the farmer but before receiving
this report we conducted an investigation here In
Michigan to learn for ourselves just how con-
ditions were and we found them better than at
any time since 1920. However, farmers are not.
”out of the woods" yet, not by a long ways, and
an overproduction at this time would give them
a bad set—back.

The department declares there may be a de-
cline in foreign demand during the latter part
of the year, and farm wages are expected to re-
main at preseint levels. The outlook for cattle
and hogs is very good. »

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THAT CATTLE SHORTAGE‘
‘ LTHOUGH authorities agree that the beef
A cattle industry is in better condition than at
any other time ._ in this decade. Some go
farther and predict a grave shortage of beef cat-
tle,basing their conclusions on census and other
statistics, on the demand for commercial and
pure—bred breeding stock and on the growing
meat requirements of an increasing population.
We are not among those who are sounding an
alarm about a shortage of beef. Our markets

do not reveal any such deﬁciency as compared r,

with the needs or demands of consumers. They
are not likely to reveal it if the country continues
to produce an ample supply of feed. That there
is a short supply of young cattle is probable, but
feeders may be more concerned over it than con-
sumers are as long as the supply of feed is abund-

ant. The cattle industry is changing. More
small producers and fewer large ones, more
young beeves and fewer aged ones, more pro;

ducing cows on the pastures and fewer growing
steers, with earlier marketing of the latter on
account of taxation and the Corn Belt’s demand
for calves. On the other side is a greater var-
iety of food for' our consumers than ever before
in our country’s history, with corresponding less
dependence on beef or indeed on meats of any
kind. The increase in the use of dairy products,
cereals, ﬁsh, vegetables, fruits, poultry and eggs
has been left out of the account, in part at least,
by those who cite statistics of human and cattle
population..

IN THE CHICKEN BUSINESS

N page 4 of this issue we have a mighty in—
teresting little story under the heading

“ ‘Success or Bust' in the Chicken Business".

It is about Lavinia Heminger, a farm woman
living near Cedar Springs, and her struggles to
make her chickens not only pay their way but
make a proﬁt for her work. The story of how-
she has succeeded so far makes very interesting
reading and offers many ideas for other farm
wives. We recommend it to the men—folks also.

A TRUE STORY -

ERE is a little story for the beneﬁt of mem-

bers of cooperative organizations: After

overcoming many difﬁculties the manager of
a certain association had made E a. success.
Things were running smoothly, real progress was
being made, and most of the members were sat-
isﬁed with the management.
coveted the position of manager and after a per-
sistent campaign persuaded a majority of the
directors to elect him, displacing the man who
had brought the association through many dis-
couragements to success. Thus does personal
ambition, or personal favor, often interfere with
the success of cooperation, causing dissension
with" the organization, resulting in interior man-
agement, and leaving competent managers to
shun cooperative positions.

ON ECONOMY

OME timid souls are much afraid of a future
bread trust, which will control not only"

1 bread but ﬂour andconsequently wheat. As
long as any competent hOusewlfe can bake, as
long as the field is open to the small commercial
baker as well as the large one, we need not fear
the depredations of a. bread trust. Certain com-
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of our Leelanau county sub-
scribers ordered 100 baby chicks

from the Saier Poultry Company of.

Lansing, sending them money order

for $12. Waiting a reasonable

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ledge receipt of the order or ship
the chicks she had the money order
traced and found it had been cash-
ed.‘ She then wrote them on two
diiferent occasions without receiving
a reply. She referred the matter to
us and we wrote several letters,
sending the last one by registered
mail, and they still maintain a si-
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FEDERAL MAIL ORDER
BANKRUPT
HE Federal Mail Order Company
of 516-521 South Laﬂin Street,
Chicago, 111., was recently de-
clared bankrupt and" is now in the
hands of the receiver, Mr. Sam Ho-
ward, 134 La Salle Street, Room
1311, Chicago. Anyone having claims
against the company should com-
municate with Mr. Howard.

ROCK ISLAND OIL AND GAS
COMPANY .

In March 1917 I bought 10 shares
of Rock Island Oil and Gas Company
of Peru, Indiana, and I would like to
know the present value of the stock.
-—-A. 11., Montcalm County.

ROKERS advise us that there is
no market whatsoever for the
stock of the Rock Island Oil and Gas
Company, and the Secretary of State
of Indiana failed to ﬁnd any record
of such a company incorporating or
being admitted to transact business
in that state.

FRAUD ORDER ISSUED AGAINST
SHOW CARD SCHOOL

“Earn $15.00 to $50.00 a week
'at home; work supplied, no canvas-
sing, writing cards for us; no exper-
ience necessary: we instruct by cor-
respondence; write for particulars.
Sho- Rite Display Card System, Inc. ,
1.334 She-Rite Bldg” Detroit, Mich. "

DVERTISEMENTS similar to this
’have been appearing in news-
papers all over the country, at-
tracting the attention of thousands
whd were interested in doing some
home work to earn pin money or
help with expenses. Many answered
these and learned that they could
earn the amount of money stated
but ﬁrst they would have to take a
course of instructions at a cost of
$45. Upon investigation it was
found that the course consisted of
several printed sheets containing al-
’ phabets in various styles which the
student was to trace, and in this
way become an expert in the art at
. show card writing.
The Better Business Bureau of
‘ Detroit sent an ainvestigator to in-
‘terview oilicials of the school and
; found the "Sho-Rite Bldg. ," was a
1 small frdnie building about the size
of a four-ear garage. located in the
‘rear of. a one-family dwelling at
4162 Seminole Avenue. A small
: sign on the house informed one that
4 the Sho-Bite Bldg. was in the rear.
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tact our subscribers 'from fraudulent doa

1 or unfair treatment by persons or concerns at
a distance.

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cupied one room of this small build-
ing while the remaining space was
devoted to the Merchants' Display
Card Service, a subsidiary organized
for the purpose, so it Was stated, of
disposing of the signs painted by
students of the school. The stock-
room was in the attic, reached by
climbing a rickety ladder.

The U. S. Post Oiiice Department
issued a fraud order against this
company in December.

Those who have followed our col-
umns will recall that we published
something about this company Sev-
eral times during the last couple of
years and in each case we have
warned against them. We hope we
saved our subscribers a considerable
sum of money.

ECEN‘TLY one of our Shiawassee
R county subscribers sent us a
complaint against the Michigan
Dairy and Farm Produce Company,
also known as the Peoples Creamery
of Detroit. It seems that our sub-
scriber was selling milk to this con-
cern and after sending him a check
they stopped payment on it. The
check was for over $70, and the
company promised to send another
in a few days, but they failed to do
so. Later they made another prom-
ise to pay at a later date and again
they did not make good their word.
We wrote the company for our sub-
scriber and after two letters received
a reply with the name of M. I. Gold—
feder typed at the bottom of it. The
letter read:

“I am not in a position today, to
answer and explain the entire situ—
ation, but as 3. Farmers’ Organiza-
tion to a Farmers’ Magazine, I feel
that I ought to give you full par-
ticulars of our Company and its
existence. I Wish to state that in a
few days I will be able to write you
all about it; in the meantime, we
will send you Mr. check.

“I would also like to subscribe to
your magazine. Kindly send us the
‘next copy and advise us the subscrip-
tion price for one year, for which
we .will mail you our check. Very
truly yours, Michigan Dairy and
Farm Produce Company, M. I. Gold—
feder."

The letter was dated December 11
and so far we have heard nothing
more from the company although we
have written them repeatedly, so ap—
parently they have no desire to tell
more about their company. Also
they failed to enclose their check for
our subscriber and we have written
them about it without getting any
results. It seems to us that if they
intended to give everyone a square
deal they would be glad to explain
matters and adjust any claims
against them at the earliest possible
moment. .

DALE LABORATORIES

There appeared in Tim Busrnrss
Fanning an advertisement on “Hear-
ing Restored Often in 24 Hours” by

snake oil. Please tell me if the re-
medy is reliable. They say send no
money, just write to the Dale La-
boratories, 1017 Gateway Station,
Kansas City, Mo., and the treatment
will be mailed a once—Mrs. G., Al-
legan County.

HIS is the second year that we
have carried the advertising of
this company, which is a so-

called cure for deafness, and we
have never had any complaints
against this company for unfair
dealings with our subscribers.
Frankly, we do not believe that
there is any “cure-all" for deafness.

fortunes to be cured, but it is proba
bie that there are some simple re-
medies which will aid, and in some
cases cure, deafness. ~

We would notaccept the advertis-
ing of this company or any other if
it guaranteed a cure, but, as plain]:
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= HE descended‘othe remitted“ an?

went on; her gaze continued to
. search the lake, but now, wherever
there was a break in the bluffs, she look-
ed toward the shore as well. At the

,third of these breaks, the yellow glow of
“a window appeared, marking a house in a

ihollow between snow-shrouded hills. She
turned eagerly that way, she could go
only very slow now. There was no path ; at
least, if there was, the snow drifts hid
it. Through the drifts a thicket project—
ed; the pines on the ravine sides over-
head stood so close that only a Silver
tracery of the moonlight came through;
beyond the pines, birch trees, stripped
of their bark, stood black up to the
white boughs.

Constance climbed over leafless briars
and through brush and came upon a
clearing perhaps ﬁfty yards across, rough-
ly crescent shaped, as it followed the
conﬁguration of the hills. Dead corn-
stalks, above the snow, showed ploughed
ground; beyond that, a little, black cabin
huddled in the further point of the cres-
cent, and Constance gasped with dis-
appointment as she saw it. She had ex—
pected a. farmhouse: but this plainly
was not even that. The framework was
of logs or poles which had been partly
boarded over; and above the boards and
where they were lacking, black building
paper had been nailed, secured by big
tin discs. The rude, weather—beaten door
was closed; smoke, however, came from a
pipe stuck through the roof.

She struggled to the door and knocked
upon it, and receiving no reply, she beat
upon it with both ﬁsts.

“Who's here?” she cried. “\Vho’s here?"

The door opened then a very little, and
the frightened face of an Indian woman
appeared in the crack, The woman had
evidently expected and feared—some ar—
rival, and was reassured when she saw
only a girl. She threw the door wider
open, and bent to help unfastcn Con—
ctance’s snowshoes; having done that,
she led her in and closed the door.

Constance looked swiftly around the
single room of the cabin. Thch was a
cot on one side; there was a table. homo
carpentered; there were a couple of boxes
for clothing or utensils, The stove, a
good range once in the house of a pros-
perous farmer, hm been bricked up by its
present owners so as to hold lire. Dried
onions and yellow ears of corn hung from
the rafters; on the shelVeS were little
birchbark canoes, woy'cn baskets, and
porcupine quill boxes or the ordinary
sort made for the summer trade. Con—

 

-stance recognized the woman now as one.

who had come sometimes to the Point
to sell such things, and who could speak
fairly good English. The woman clearly
had recognized Constance at once.

“Where is your man 1’" Constance had
caught the woman’s arm.

“They Sent for him to the
ship has sunk."

“Are there houses near here? , You
must run to one of them at once. Bring
whoever you can get; or if you won’t do
that, tell me. where to go."

The woman stared at her .stolidly and
(moved away. “None near," she said.
“Besides you could not get somebody be—
fore some one will come."

“Who is that?"

“He is on the beach—#Henry Spearman.
He comes here to warm himself. It is
nearly time he comes again."

How long has he been about here?”

”Since before noon. Sit down. I will
make you tea.”

Constance gazed at her; the woman
was plainly glad of her coming. Her re-
lief—«relief from that fear she had been
feeling when she opened the door—was
very evident. It was Henry, then, who
had frightened her.

The Indian woman set a chair for her
beside the stove, and put water in a pan
to heat; she shook tea leaves from a box
into a bowl and brought. a cup.

“Altogether there were thirty—nine,”
Constance replied.

“Some saved?"

"Yes; a boat was picked up yesterday
morning with twelve."

The woman seemed making some com-
putation which was difﬁcult for her.

“Seven are living then.” she. said.

“Seven? What have you heard?
makes you think so?"

“That is what the Drum says.”

The Drum! There was a Drum then!
At least there was some sound which peo—
ple heard and which they called the
Drum. For the woman had heard it.

The woman shifted, checking something
upon her ﬁngers, while her lips moved;
she was not counting, Constance thought;
she was more likely aiding herself in
translating something from Indian num-

beach. A

What

eration into English. “Two, it began
with,” she announced. “Right away it
went nine. Sixteen then—that was this

morning very early. Now, all day and
tonight, it has been giving twenty. That
leaves seven. It is not known who they
may be.”

She opened the door and looked out.
The rear of the water and the wind,
which had come loudly, increased, and
with it the wood noises. The woman was
not looking about now, Constance real-
ized; she was listening. Constance arose
and went to the door too. The Drum!
Blood prickled in her face and forehead;
it prickled in her ﬁnger tips. The Drum
was heard only, it was said, in time of
severest storm; for that reason it was
" 'rrdpmost often in winter. It was very
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these reverberations the roll of the Drum
which beat for the (lead? Her voice was
uncontrolled as she asked the woman:

”Is that the Drum?”

The woman shook her head.
trees.”

Constance’s shoulders shook convulsive—
1y together. When she had thought about
the Drum—~and when she had spoken of
it with others who..themselves, never had
heard it—they always had said" that, if
there were such a sound, it was trees.
She herself had heard those strange wood
noises, terrifying sometimes until their
source was known—wailings like the cry
of some one in anguish, which were
caused by two crossed saplings rubbing
together; thunderings, which were only
some smaller trees beating against a great
hollow trunk when a strong wind veered
from a certain direction. But this In-
dian woman must know all such sounds
well; and to her the Drum was some-
thing distinct from them. The woman
speciﬁed that now.

“You‘ll know the Drum when you hear
it."

Constance grew suddenly cold. For
twenty lives, the woman said, the Drum
had beat; that meant to her, and to
Constance too now, that seven were left.
Indeﬁnite, desparate denial that all from
the ferry must be dead—that denial which
had been strengthened by the news that
at least one boat had been adrift near
Beaver——altered in Constance the convic-
tion of a boat with seven men from the
ferry, seven dying, perhaps, but not yet
dead. Seven out of twenty—seven! The
score were gone; the Drum had beat for
them in little groups as they had died.
When the Drum beat again, would it beat
beyond the score? '

The women drew back and closed the
door; the water was hot now, and she
made the tea and poured a cup for Con—
stance. As she. drank it, Constance was
listening for the Drum; the woman too
was listening. Having ﬁnished the tea,
Constance returned to the door and re—
opened it; the sounds outside were the
same. A solitary ﬁgure appeared moving
along the edge of the ice the ﬁgure of

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a tall man, walking on snowshoes; moon- '

light distorted the ﬁgure, and it was muf—
fled too in a great coat which made it
unrecognizable. He halted and stood
looking out at the lake and then, with a
sudden inovemcnt, strode on; he halted,
and now Constance got the knowledge
that he was not looking; he was listen—
ing as she was. He X'as not merely lis-
tening; his body swayed and bent to a
rhythm—he was counting something that
he heard. Constance strained her ears:
but she could hear no sound except those
of the waters and the wind.

“Is the Drum sounding now?” she asked
the woman.

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Constance gazed at the man and found
his motion quite unmistakable; he was
counting—if not counting something that
he heard, or thought he heard, he was
recounting and reviewing within himself
something that he had heard before-—
some irregular rhythm which had become
so much a part of him that it sounded
now continually within his own brain;
so that, instinctively, he moved in ca-
dence to it. He stepped forward again
now. and turned toward the house.

Her breath caught as she spoke to the
woman. “Mr. Spearman is coming here
now !"

Her impulse was to remain where she
was, lest he should think that she was
afraid of him; but realization came to her
that there might be advantage in seeing
him before he knew that she was there,
so 11 ereclosed the door and drew back
into the cabin.

CHAPTER XX
The Sounding of the Drum

Noises of the wind and the roaring of

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the lake made inaudible any sound of
his approach to the cabin; she heard his
snowshoes, however, scrape the cagin wall
as, ’after taking, them off, he leaned them
beside the door. He thrust the door open
then and came in; he did not see her at
ﬁrst and. as he turned to force the door
shut again against the wind, she watched
him quietly. She understood at once why
the Indian woman had been afraid of
him. His face was bloodless, yellow, and
swollen—looking, his eyes bloodshot, his
lips strained to a thin, straight line.

He saw her now and started and, as
though sight of her confused him, he
looked away from the woman and then
back to Constance before he seemed
certain of her.

"Hello!" he said tentatively.

“I’m here, Henry.”

“Oh; you are! You are 2” He stood
drawn up, swaying a little as he stared
at her; whiskey was upon his breath,
and it became evident in the heat of the
room; but whiskey could not account for
this condition she witnessed in him.
Neither could it conceal that condition;
some turmoil and strain within him made
him immune to its effects.

She realized on her way up here what,
vaguely, that strain within him must be.
Guilt—guilty of some awful sort con-
nected him,‘ and had connected Uncle
Benny, with the Miwaka—the lost ship
for which the Drum had beaten the roll
of the dead. Now dread of revelation of
that guilt had brought him here near to
the Drum; he had been alone upon the
beach twelve hours, the woman had said
—listening, counting 'the beating of the
Drum for another ship, fearing the sur—
vival of some one from that ship. Guilt
was in his thought now—racking, tear-
in gat him. But there was something
more. than that; what she had seen in
him when he ﬁrst caught sight of her was
fear—fear of her, of Constance Sherrill.

He was fully aware, she now under»
stood, that he had, in a measure, betrayed
himself to her in Chicago; and he had

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‘hopcd to cover up and to dissemble that

betrayal with her. For that reason she
was the last person in the world whom
he wished to ﬁnd here now.

“The point is, he said heavily,
are you here?”

“I decided to come up last night."

“Obviously.” He uttered the word
slowly and with care. “Unless you came
in a ﬂying machine. Who came with
you?" '

“No one; I came alone. I expected to
ﬁnd father at Petoskey; he hadn’t been
there, so I came on here.”

“After him?”

“No, after you, Henry.” .

“After me ?" She had increased the ap—
prehension in him, and he considered and
scrutinized her before he ventured to go
on. “Because you wanted to be up here
with me, eh, Connie?”

“Of course not!” °

“What's that?” ’

“Of course not!”

“I knew it!” he moved menacingly.
She watched him quite without fear; fear
him, she felt, not her. Often
she had wished that she might have
known him when he was a young man;
now, she was aware that, in a way, she
was having that wish. Under the sur-
face of the man whose strength and de-
termination she had admired, all the
time had been this terror——this guilt. If
Uncle Benny had carried it for a score of
years, Henry had had it within him too.
This had been within him all the time!

“You came up here about Ben Corvet?"
he challenged.

“Yes—no !"

“Which do you mean?”

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him 1"

“For Alan Conrad?

“I knew it!” he repeated.

“why

For him, then—eh. For

Yes,” she said.
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“News of the boats?"

“News!” he iterated. “News to-night!

No one’ll have more’n one news to-.-

night!’,' ' ‘ . '

From his slow, heavy utterance, a. tim-
bre of terrible satisfaction betrayed it-
self; his eyes widened a little as he saw
it strike Constance, then his lids narrow-
ed again. He had not meant to say it
that way; yet, for an insatnt, satisfac-
tion to him had become inseparable'from
the saying, before that was followed by
fright—the fright of examination of just
what he had said or of what she had
made of it.

“He’ll be found !” she deﬁed him.

“Be found?”

“Some are dead," she admitted, “but
notvall. Twenty are dead; but seven are
no .”

_She looked for conﬁrmation to the In-
dian woman, who nodded: “Yes.” He
moved his head to face the woman, but

his eyes, unmoving, remained ﬁxed on
Constance. .

"Seven?” he echoed. “You say seven
are not! How do you know?"

“The Drum has been beating for twenty,
but not for more!” Constance said.
Thirty hours before, when she had told
Henry of the Drum, she had done it with-
out belief herself, without looking for
belief in him. But now; whether or not

'she yet believed or simply clung to the

superstition for its shred of hope, it gave
her a weapon to terrify him; for he be-
lieved—believed with all the unreason-
ing horror of his superstition and terror
of long—borne'and hidden guilt.

“ “The Drum, Henry!” she repeated.
The Drum you’ve been listening to all
day upon the beach—the Indian Drum

[that sounded for the dead of the Miwaka;

sounded, one by one, for all who died!
But it didn’t sound for him! It’s been
sounding again, you'know; but, again, it
done'sn’t sound for him, Henry, not for
nm.”

“The Miwaka! What do you mean by
that? What’s that] got to do with this?”
His swollen face was thrust forward at
her; there was threat against her in his
tense muscles and his bloodshot eyes.

She did not shrink back from him, or
move; and now he was not waiting for
her answer. Something—a sound—~had
caught him about. Once it echoed, low in
its reverberations but penetrating and
quite distinct. It came, so far as direc—
tion could be assigned to it, from the
trees toward the shore; but it was like no
forest sound. Distinct too was it from
any noise of the lake. It was like a Drum!
Yet, when the echo had gone, it was a
sensation easy to deny—a hullucination,
that was all. But now, low and distinct
it came again; and, as before, Constance
saw it catch Henry and hold him. His
lips moved, but he did not speak; he
was counting. “Two,” she saw his lips
form. ,

The Indian woman passed them and
opened the door, and now the sound,
louder ad more distinct, came again.

“The Drum!” she whispered, without
looking about. “You hear? Three, Iv'e
heard. Now four! It will beat twenty;
then we will know if more are dead!”

The door blew from the woman’s hand.
and snow, swept up from the drifts of the
slope, swirled into the room; the draft
blew the ﬂame of the lamp in a. smoky

streak up the glass chimney and snuffed

it out. The moonlight painted a rectangle
on the ﬂoor; the moonlight gave a green,
shimmering world without. Hurried spots
of cloud shuttered away the moon for
moments, casting shadows which swept
raggedly up the slope from the shore. The
woman siezed the door and, tugging it
about against the gale, she slammed it
shut. She did not try at once to re-
light the lamp.

The sound of the Drum was continuing,
the beats a few seconds apart. The‘
opening of the door outside had seemed
to Constance to make the beats come
louder and more distinct; but. the closing
of the door did not muffle them again.
“Twelve,” Constance counted to herself.
The beats had seemed to be quite mea—
sured and regular at ﬁrst; but now Con-
stance knew that this was only roughly
true; they beat rather in rhythm than at
regular intervals. Two came close to-
gether and there was' a longer wait
before the next; then three sounded be-
fore the measure—a Wild, leaping rhythm.
She recalled having heard that the
strangeness of Indian music to civilized
ears was its time; the drums beat and
rattles sounded in a different time from
the song which they accompanied; there
were .even, in semen dances, three dif-
ferent times contending for supremacy.
Now this seemed reproduced in the
strange, irregular sounding of the Drum;
she could not count with certainty those
beats. “Twenty -—twenty—0ne -—twentx—
two !” Constance caught her breath and
waited for the next beat; the time of the
interval betWeen the measures of the

rhythm passed, and still only the whistle 4

of the Wind and the undertone of water
sounded. The drum had beaten its roll
and for the moment, was done.‘

“Now it begins again,” the woman
whispered.
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thanbefdre; that meant ﬁve were left!
Yet Constance, while she was appreci-
ating this, strained forward, staring at
Henry; she could not be certain, in the
ﬂickering shadows of the cabin, of what
she was seeing in him; still less, in the
sudden stoppage of heart and [breathing
that it brought, could she ﬁnd coherent
answer to its meaning. But still it turned
her weak, then spurred her with a vague
and terrible impulse.

The Indian woman lifted the lamp
chimney waveringly and scratched a
match and, with unsteady hands, lighted
the wick; Constance caught up her woo!-
en hood from the table and put it on.
Her action seemed to call Henry to him-
self.

“VVhat are you going to do?” he de-
mandcd,

“I’m going out.”

He moved between her and the door.
“Not alone, you’re not!” His heavy voice
had a deep tone of menace in it; he
seemed to consider and decide something
.about her. “There’s a farmhouse about
a mile back; I’m going to take you over
there and leave you with those people.”

“I 'Will not go there!”

He swore. “I’ll carry you.then!”

She shrank back from him as he
lurched toward her with hands outstretch-
ed to sieze her; he followed her and she
avoided him again; if his guilt and terror

had given her mental asccndency over
him, his physical strength could still
force her to do his will and, realizing

the impossibility of evading him or over~
coming him, she stopped.

“Not that!” she cried.
me!"

“Come with me then!” he commanded;
and he went to the door and laid his
snowshoes on the snow and stepped into
them, stoopingrand tightening the straps;
he stood by while she put on hers. He
did not attempt again to put hands upon
her as they moved away from the little
cabin toward the woods back of the
clearing; but went ahead, breaking the
trail for her with his snowshoes. He
moved forward slowly; he could travel.
if he had wished, three feet to cycry two
that she could cover, but he seemed not
wishing for speed but rather for delay.
They reached the trot-s; the hemlock and
pine, black and swaying, shifted their
shadows on the moonlit snow: burc
maples and brooches. bcnt by lhc gulp,
creakcd and cracked; now the hemlock
was ht'llVlt‘l‘. The wind, which walled
among the branches of the maplcs. hissed
loudly in tho necdlcs of thc hcmlocks;
sn0w< swept from the slopes and whirlcd
and drove about, lhcm, and she suckcd
it in With her breath. All through the
wood were noises; a moaning came from
a dark copso of pine and hemlock to
their right, rose and died away; a wall
followed a whinning, whimpcring walla
so like the crying of 2!. child that it start-

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selves, as the trees swayed, to tumble
from the boughs and scurry ovur the
snow; they hid, as one looked at them,
then darted on and hid behind the tree,
trunks.

Henry was barely moving; now he
slowed still more. A deep, dull reson—
ance was booming above the wood; it
boomed again and run into a rhythm.

No longer was it above; at least it was
not only above; it was all about them
here, there, to right and left, before, he-
hind—the booming of the Drum. Doom
was the substance of that sound of the
Drum beating the roll of the dead. Could
there be abading in the wood a conscious—
ness which counted the roll? Constance
fought the mad feeling that it brought.
The sound must have some natural cause,
she repeated to herself—~waves washing
in some strange conformation of the ice
caves on the shore, wind i‘everbcraling
within some great hollow tree trunk as
within the pipe of an organ. But Henry
was not denying the Drum!
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ham Lincoln and George Washing-
ton after going through all of the
letters I am receiving in our contest,
and I hope to be able to ﬁnd space
to publish many of the best let-
ters so that all may learn more
about these two famous and loved
men. Many of the letters indicate
that the writers used the best in-
formation they could ﬁnd, doing

much research work before putting.

their arguments down on paper.
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stand a better chance of winning the
centest but. they will ﬁnd the infor-
mation of great value in their school
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Wrong In This Picture?” contest are
slowly but steadily going down
through the great pile of letters that
came in and I hope in the near fu—
ture to annbunce the prize winners
and forward the prizes. '
‘ The interest you show in contests
we have had indicates that we
should have lots of them and that
is our intentions, so—watch for an-
nouncements of future contests.
But do not become so interested in
contests that you forget to write reg-
ular letters to me will you? Have
you any suggestions on a new kind
of contest that we might have?
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Dear Uncle Ned:—~I received my paints
and pin all 0. K. I sure think they are
very nice. I enjoy reading the boy’s and
girl’s page, to read of what other b0
and girls are doing. I am twelve years
old and in the eighth grade. I also, am
in the third grade of music. I live on a
160—acre farm. We raise beets, chickory,
beans, pickles, grain and com. I also
rave my share of hoeing. The last four
years I have been very lucky to win
ﬁrst prize on all of my sewing for the
Boy’s and Girl's Industrial Club. Hoping
you will let me be your niece—Lucile
Schmidt, R4, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.

P. S. I like your motto very well.

“Do Your Best." .
—Glad you liked your pin and box of
paints. I do not believe 'you won your
prizes by being lucky, but by real hard
work. Isn’t that true? >

Dear Uncle Ned:—I have never seen
any letters from around here, so I am
going to write now, hoping that Mr. Waste

Basket has the stomachache so he can’t .

gobble this letter up.

I will describe myself as,best I can.
Have light brown hair, bobbed, of course,
light blue eyes, ﬁve feet tall, eleven
years old, am in the sixth grade at
school, weigh about sixty-ﬁve pounds.
My brother, sister and I all at a pair
of skates for Christmas. I earned to
ski during vacation, but can't ski very
well. Do you know how to ski? It is
a lot of fun.

This letter is getting long enough, so
will close with some riddles. The one
who guesses the right answers will re-
ceive a letter from me. How many sticks
go to building a crow nest? What is
the last thing you take of! before going
to bed? I am your want-to-be niece.—
Barbara Murphy, RZ, Wooldand, Mich.

—-—No. I must confess that I do not know
how to ski. but I understand I miss a lot
of fun because I do not. I would be
afraid to try to learn now for fear that
my whiskers would get in my way and
cause me to fall down.

Dear Uncle Nedz—May I join your
merry circle. I have been an interested
reader since July. I like your colors and
I think your motto very good. I will
describe myself. I am about ﬁve feet,
ﬁve inches tall, have light brown hair
(bobbed), blue eyes. I am twelve years
old and in the eighth grade. I have one
sister older than myself and a sister and
brother younger. I walk one and one-
quarter miles to scheel and I live on an
eighty-acre farm. I wish some of the
nieces would write to me. I am your
want-to-be niece—Gertrude Shay, R7,
Lapeer, Michigan.

—-I am pleased to know you like our
motto and colors and hopeyou will al-
ways try to "Do Your Best."

 

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ter and I sin-glad to hear that I an be
a member of ygurmmerryth cit-elem. I am to

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great-greatagrandfather took up this farm
when it was all woods. Built a log cabin
and raised a large family. I have one
brother ﬁve years old. My mother, fath-
er, grandmother and grandfather all be-
long to the Gleaners. I think I had bet-
ter not write any more for fear I have
made this too long. I am as ‘ever your
niece, Iva Mae Brinker, Route 1, Meta-
mora, Michigan.

‘—I’ll bet you could write us an interest—
ing story about the farm where you live.
Why not try it some time? ‘

Dear Uncle ,Ned:——I have never written
before, but would like to enter your merry
circle. I have a story about our pet don-
key. -One Saturday evening while the do:
and I were getting the cows from the pas-
ture ﬁeld the donkey was in the ﬁeld too.
there was a small donkey just born. I
ran to tell the rest of the family. In the
morning we went down to get the donkeys.
but the old donkey would not let us take
the small donkey. She would kick at
us, so we let her go until after breakfast.
The old donkey was sick and died men
after taken ill, so we fed the small don-
key out of a dish. I named her Beauty.
She will not go with the horses and kicks
them when they get too near her. She
likes to go with the cows and sleeps in
the sheep stall with the sheep. When I
go in the house she will go on the porch
and wait until I come out, then she goes
to the hen house with me to feed the
chickens.

We take Tn: Busmnss Fauna and
like it very much. Your nephew, Frank
Trost. Route 6, Bronson, Michigan.
—-You are lucky that the donkey doesn't
try to kick you, aren't you? Are you
going to break her to drive and ride?

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—I got your letter a'
few days ago and I thought I would
write to you. I am not going to school
now because I have just had an operation.
I am in the eighth grade and was getting
along line. There are only two_ pupils in _
the eighth grade at our school which is
a. country school. We do not live far
from Lake Michigan, and we go there
quitea lot. There is a lake and summer
resort about a. mile from our farm.

We live on a fruit farm and have eigh-
teen acres of apples and eleven acres of
cherries on it. It is in a little valley so
we} call it “Apple Valley Fruit Farm."
Isn’t that a dandy name? I guess I will
have to stop writing so much or Mr.
Waste Basket will have this letter From
your nephews—Elmer” Kline, Route 8,
Box 71, Hart, Michigan.

—You surely have a. nice name for your
farm. and I imagine you have a fine
farm. Write again.

Dear Uncle Ned :——I wonder if you
have room for one more to join your cir-
cle? First of all, I want to introduce my-
self. My name is Donald Trierwieler. I
am twelve years of ago. My height is
ﬁfty-seven and one-half inches. My
weight is eighty-two and one-half pounds.
This is my answer to your last puzzle.
"Home is where the heart is”. I hope
you have room in 'the Children's Hour.
Yours sincerely—Donald 'I‘rlerwieler, R4,
Box 80. Lansing, Michigan.

—Glad to hear from you, Donald.

Dear Uncle Nedz—May I join your
merry circle? My folks take Tan BUB-
INEss Fumes and the most important
part I read is the Children’s Hour. How
is Uncle Ned getting along? I am twelve
years old and have large blue eyes, light
brown hair, am four feet, six inches tall
and weigh eighty pounds. I hope I will
receive a lot of letters. Don’t you. Uncle
Ned, hope I will receive a lot of letters?
Well, I will close for tonight. Now Mr.
Waste Basket you want to be asleep,
don't you? Good-bye, from your friend.
—Jack Kesler, R2, Hale, Michigan.

—I am glad to hear from you Jack and
I hope you receive lots and lots of letters.

 

Dear Uncle Ned :-——-A little less than a
year ago I wrote to you asking some of
the cousins to write to me and they re-
sponded for seventeen wrote to me from
all parts of Michigan. I answered all
but two or three who did not send their
addresses. I am now corresponding with
only one, (Oh, I’ forgot, but they were all
girls too), who lives in Lansing. She
lives somewhere on Frances Avenue. I
don’t know just where it is and so am
writing you asking that you print this
which I hope "you will. \

Uncle, you may notice when I wrote
last I lived in Remus and have since
moved to ColdWater. The winter is a
great deal more agreeable here than on
there, we have very little snow her-snow.

’Hopin'g this letterilscnotieed by most of

the members of the Children’rnoun
Your 11991!”-
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HE State Potato Show held at
East Lansing, February let to
5th, 1926, was one of the best

shows yet staged in Michigan. There
Were 170 samples of potatoes shown
by 120 exhibitors. The general
. quality of the exhibits was very high
and the number was greater than
in previous state shows. The edu-
cational exhibits furnished by the
Michigan State College and the Mich-
igan State Department of Agricul-
ture emphasized the importance of
careful grading and the use of cer-
tiﬁedv seed. These exhibits aroused
much interest, and were carefully
studied by many of the 7,000 per-
sons who visited the show.

In the 32 tuber Rural class there
were 47 entries and the competition
in this class was exceptionally keen.
F. E. Wyrick, Alanson,. won ﬁrst
place with Joseph Kosciekniak, Gay—
lord, and 'E. H. Stanbecker, Daggett,
placing second and third.

Harry Strovens, Fremont won
ﬁrst place in the White Rural class,
Bruno Sczocnski, Gaylord. second
and Peter McVannel, Gaylord, third.

John Delongchamp, C h a m p i_ o 11,
won the blue ribbon in the Green
Mountain class; E. W. Lincoln,
Greenville, ,was second; Charles
Schlicter, Mayville,,was third.

In the Irish Cobbler class M. C.
Coates, Midland, was ﬁrst; E. W.
Lincoln, Greenville, second; Ray
Warner, Gaylord, third.

Clever J. Brudy, Wolverine, won
ﬁrst place in the “Any Other Vari-
ety" class with a sample of Bliss
Triumphs. E. H. Stanbecker, Dag-
gett won second place with Russet
Burbanks and E. W. Lincoln, Green-
ville, won third place with Spaulding
Rose.

In the certiﬁed seed class there
were 30 high quality exhibits. Each
exhibit comprized one bushel of
carefully selected certiﬁed seed.

The winners in this class with
Russet Rurals were: ﬁrst, F. E. Wye
rick, Alanson; second, M. Smilowski,
Gaylord; third, E. W. Lincoln,
Greenville.

In the "Any Other Variety" sec—
tion of the certiﬁed seed "class, Peter
McVanel. Gaylord, won, ﬁrst place;
Harry Strovens, Fremont, second;
E. W. Lincoln, Greenville, third.

A11 exhibit that attracted much at-
tention and had a very high educa-
tional value was the Standard
Grade Exhibit sponsored by the
Michigan State Department of Agri-
culture. The purpose of this exhibit
was to acquaint growers with the
Michigan Standard Potato Grades.
Awards were based on the growers’
ability to correctely interpret the
grades by exhibiting three bushels
of potatoes; one bushel being ﬁeld
run and two bushels being graded
into U. S. No. 1; U. S. No. 1, small;
U. S. No. 2 and culls.

The winners in this class were:
ﬁrst, F. E. Wyrick, Alanson; second,
E. W. Lincoln, Greenville; fourth,
Robert White, Dewitt.

Otsego county won ﬁrst place in
the County Exhibit class; Antrim
county was second and Tuscola
county was third. Each county ex-
hibit consisted of twelve samples of
32 tubers each.

One of the outstanding features
of the show was the large number
of entries from members of Boys'
and Girls’ Potato Clubs. The quali-
ty of these exhibits was excellent in
many cases surpassing exhibits pre-
pared by the grown ups.

The winners in the Boys' and
Girls' Club exhibit were: ﬁrst, Hayes
Potato Club, Otsego county; second,
Waters Potato Club, Otsego county;
third, Walled Lake Potato Club,
Oakland county.

Individual Winners in the club ex-
hibits, Russet Rural class were:
ﬁrst, Sumner Allis, Gaylord; second,
Ray. Warner, Gaylord; 3rd, John
Corey, Alba.

In the “any other variety" class'

Boys’ and Girls' Club exhibit, Ver-
non Mathews, Pontiac, was ﬁrst;
Ed McVannel, Gaylord, second, and
Ray Warner, Gaylord, third.

Potato shows have aided materM
ialiiy in raising the standard of the

u is .in Michigan. my

tiy ' holds

_ Extension Specialist, Michigan State college

,George Hawley, a fruit grower and

quality exhibits a desire to produce
better potatoes.

TO BROADCAST HEAT

CC‘ORDING to Prof. S. E. Dibble,
A president of the American So-

ciety of Heating and Ventilat-
ing Engineers, before many decades
our homes will be heated by giant
power stations. The heat will be
radiocast and perhaps picked up
with some kind of a receiving set
just like radio broadcasting is re-
ceived. A few years ago a man
would have been called crazy if he
made such a statement, but nowa—
days—well, some wonderful changes
have taken place during the past
few years, ‘and most of us are about
ready to believe science can do most
anything.

LARGE BEET CROP IN EUROPE

EPOR’I‘S reaching this country
R indicate that Europe will plant

another large sugar beet crop
this year. The acreage will be 1arg~
er than ﬁrst planned owing to the
fact that unfavorable weather this
winter has killed many acres of
wheat and this land will be planted
to beets in the spring.

TOMATOES THRIVE ON POTASH
DELAY

XPERIMENTS in growing toma-
toes under glass, conducted by

Dr. John W. Crest of the horti—
cultural department of Michigan
State college, disclose a larger yield
will be produced if the usual potash
application is delayed for some time.

It is the usual plan to apply the
potash in the beginning, but delay
in application has nearly doubled
production.

The plants receiving the late ap-
plication of potash gave an average
yield of 15 pounds. At the price ob—
tainable much of the time last spring
the average value a plant was $3.

The college horticulturists are
watching the work being conducted
at Grand Rapids, the 50 acres of
glass for winter vegetable forcing
there being the largest concentration
of glass for this purpose in the
United States, it is believed.

THE STATE FRUIT INSPECTION
LAW RILES ’EM

(Continued from page 3)

corporated, Professor R. E. Marshall
of the Horticultural Department at
M. 8.0. Mr. G. E. Prater of the
Wolverine Fruit and Produce Ex-
change of Grand Rapids, Mr. A. J.
Barron of the Fennville Fruit Ex-
change, Mr. J. W. Prentice of the
Saugatuck Fruit Exchange, and Mr.

ex-president of the State Horticul—
tural Society. I am afraid that
Sam Hurst would have a hard time
ﬁnding a politician or a lawyer.

Mr. H. D. Hootman, Secretary of
the State Horticultural Society, said,
“The Michigan State Horticultural
Society has been the agency or vehi-
cle in the past thru which the grad-
ing laws have been discussed and
thru whose inﬂuence they have be—
come a law."

Mr. Wm. H. Esslinger, chief fruit
inspector said, “No one was arrested
or ﬁned during the past season for
infringement of the new features of
the fruit grading laws, in fact ar-
rests are made only for glaring and
repeated violations. . The attitude of
the growers as a whole toward the
grading laws has been one of intelli-
gent cooperatibn.”

As for the open forum at Ed
Luft’s store, it is in session every
night this winter. Drop in some
time and let’s hear your opinions.
No subject is too tough for us to
handle.

No farmer is ever richer than'his land.
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The sins of the scrub bull sponge on
the owner.
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its fertility is lost. The value of manure
is directly related to the way in which
it is handled.
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Mrs. Joseph Burton

‘One day a. crowd came to the farm,

From the city far away
be good housewife was not prepared
For she was busy that day.

She. stood for a minute in solemn thought

_ Sort of bewildered through and through

She hated to be caught without a pie.
She didn’t knbw what to do.

She said. ”Well, a chicken I can get,
They’re always nice and fat."

She had it caught and in the pot
Quicker than you can say “Scat."

A short cake will do, I guess,
,The berries are nice and sweet.
With lots of cream over it
To them it will be a treat.

I’ll get some corn and tomatoes,
And I have pickeled beet.

She huseled around and in a. short time
She had lots and lots to eat.

They did not wait when dinner was called
For hunger was over them stealing,
They all sat down to that delicious meal

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SUGGESTS SIMPLE CLOTHES
FOR TO’I‘S
HILDREN’S clothes should be
chosen from a hygenic, econo-
mical and artistic standpoint.

Simple, substantial and artistic
clothing develops in the child the
qualities of simplicity and genuine—
ness. A child should be unconscious
of its clothing. A child overdressed
thinks too much about clothes; one
attractively dressed is self-conscious;
one dirty or ragged loses self re-
spect. Unsuitable clothing may
cause various physical defects such
as impaired breathing or digestion,
round shoulders, weakened muscles,
nervous strain, fatigue and suscept-
ibility to colds.

To insure perfect freedom to all
part of the body a child should wear
union garments supported from the
shoulders instead of garments with
tight bands at the waist; garments
large enough across the chest so as
not to interfere with breathing;
waists and dresses with soft, loose
neck bands and loose sleeves, which
are well set at the shouldersand
proper length; trousers and bloom—
ers long in the crotch; seams
smoothly ﬁnished.

Round elastic interferes with cir-
culation. Hose supporters may be at-
tached to the waist or separate, but
the pull should come in the hollow
of the shoulders. Round shoulders
may result if the pull comes on the
point of the shoulders.

Hats and caps should be large
enough to allow free circulation.
The hat should be medium or small
and light weight and should shade
the eyes. Outer garments should
not be bulky or clumsy. Wiaps
should be of weight, quality and tex—
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MEAT CANNING SUGGESTIONS
HOME- -CANNED meat will be es—

pecially good 1‘01 use next suln— .

mer on the busy days for sand-
wiches and for hurry- up and unex-
pected meals. If it is packed loosely
in the jar, it can be removed easily
When ready for use. Loosely packed
meat will cook more evenly also.
Some women prefer searing it slight-
ly in the even before packing it in
the ja1s Water may or mav not
be added but the meat is mo1e uni-
formly cooked when the water is
present Salt may be added in the
quantity desired. Most women use
about two tablespoonsful of salt to
a quart of meat.

The best part of the carcass for
canning is the loin, chops, and
roasts from the front of the ham to
the neck. Paits should be cut to
any convenient size, preferably in
the shape in which it is to be served.
Meat should cook three hours in the
hot bath or one hour and ﬁfteen
minutes under ﬁfteen pounds pres-
sure in a cooker. Canned meats
should always be boiled ten minutes
after they are removed from the
jar before they are used.

REMOVE CRUST FROM WATER-
' GL‘ASS CROOKS

'ter—glass eggs is consumed,

persons who have kept eggs in

this way may ﬁnd it difﬁcult to re-

move the hard crust which clings to

the sides of the crocks. The Pbultry
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The request from “Mrs. P., of Portland" for a
recipe for canning pumpkin did not go unheeded and I am pub-
lishing a variety of recipes in this issue so that all 'may know
If you already know how it may be there is a differ-
ent way described here that you can try out. I want to thank each
and every one whose letter appears in this issue, and at the same
time I want to acknowledge with thanks letters from Mrs. 0. W. of
Clinton county, Mrs. A. C. of Sanilac county. Mrs. E. H. of Ben-ion
county, Mrs. I. F. of Barry county, Mich, and Mrs. R. S. of Indiana
. Harbor, Indiana, containing pumpkin canning recipes.

I wish to thank many others for their recipes, helpful suggest-
ions, and letters on various subjects, and am using them as rapidly as
Let us have more whenever you get the time to write so that

W fwd,

Mrs. Annle Taylor. our. The Business Former. Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

 

 

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mends that hot water be used to get
this material off, and if this fails, a.
few drops of hydrochloric acid.

This crust is a form of sodium
silicate which is soluble in hot or
cold water, hydrochloric acid and
nitric acid. The water, however,
may not dissolve the material as
quickly as desired, hence the acid is
recommended. If acid is used the
crooks should be washed thoroughly
afterward.

RHUBABB SYRUP

ERE is a very good remedy for
H stomach trouble and constipa-

tion. It was given to my sister
forty years ago by an old—fashioned
homeopathic doctor and it has prov-
en its worth so many times that I
wish to pass it on.

1 ounce powdered rhubarb, 176
ounces baking soda, 1 cup sugar, ta
teaspoon cinnamon. 14 teaspoons
[cloves Mix well in a granite pan,
the add 1 quart of water. Bring to
a boil and boil slowly for about 20
minutes. Cool and bottle. One tea—
spoonful after meals prevents sour
stomach, and gas. Two tablespoons-
ful may be taken at bedtime as a
laxative. The dose is smaller for
children or babies.

This is also an astringent to be
used in case of dysentry if more
spice is added, about double—Bes-
sie O._Roberts.

SAVING SUGGESTIONS
ERE’S to Mrs. G. M., Vicksburg,
Michigan. Economy is my mid-
dle name. My daily ration is
to make over. I sleep on it and
dream it. My three children, ages
2, 4, and 6, have never had any-
thing new, not even underwear.
Blue denim for every day play suits
is all I ever bought.
I never seem to run out of old ma-
terial. The kiddies are well dressed
and warm. I usually line woolen

garments with cloth ﬂour sacks as
it makes them more durable. For
working buttonholes, I use coarse
crochet thread as they will last as
long as the garment.

Hand knitted sweaters that are‘
badly worn can be unravelled and'

reknitted for the little ones. There
are usually several stored in some-
one’s attic. We' ﬁnd shoes the big-
gest expense in our. hourse as far as
clothes for the children are con-
cerned. I also make my own dress—
es and aprons. The material is
about half as expensive as ready-
made. If the goods from-old ones
are badly thread—bare turn the
wrong side out. It looks very well
and is a disguise. Chances are it
will never be recognized—Mrs. W.
E. T.

GROUP SMALL PICTURES
0N WALL

MALL pictures should be grouped
when placed on a large wall
space. Groups ap-pearing'as one
unit each are better that many
spots. Form the group in vertical
or horizontal lines, never in a stair-
step fashion. Large pictures may be
given the appearance of being sup-
ported by> hanging them over a

chair, table, book-case or desk.

A HELPFUL “AND SAVING
SUGGESTION

ERE is a good household econo-

my stunt. When one has a new

kitchen oilcloth they should
paste strips of. new cloth where oil-
cloth comes over edges and corners
of table as it will keep it from wear-
ing out so.,quickly or cracking. Also
if you cut the oilcloth just paste a
piece of cloth on the underside of
the hole as soon as it is done and
it will last as long as new. I make
my paste from common ﬂour and
water.——~Mrs. M., Saginaw County.

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is made of the puffed shade cloth in
ecru color and the ﬁlet worked with
the same color thread. Buy two
yards of the puffed Austrian shade
cloth. Cut this the width of your
roller and hem the cut edge. Put a
hem in the bottom Wide enough for
the wooden stick and insert the
stick. Make enough of the ﬁlet edg-
ing to reach across the bottom of
the shade. Sew this to the bottom
of the hem, andﬂnish with a, tassel

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Wants manhood: Roche.
a good recipe for minoemeat. I new one
some place that had grape jelly in it but
have forgotten where it was. Do any of
the subscribers know how it is made?—
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Expenses Borne by the Bridegroom»
1. The cost of the marriage license.. 2.
The fee paid the clergyman—all other
church expenses are home by. the bride.
3. His wedding gifts to the bride, his
personal gift to his best man and ushers
(stick-pin, cuff links, etc.) and the gloves.
ties and bouttonieres (unless these last.
as is the custom in many places, are pre-
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ened me.——2 Tim. 4:17.

As one whom his mother eomforteth.
so will I comfort you.—Isa. 66:18.3

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SEVERAL WAYS TO CAN
PUMPKIN
In answer to Mrs. P., of Portland, re-
quest for canning pumpkin, will send the
way I have been very successful with it.

I cook my pumpkin down ready for pics

then pack into mason cans and cold pack
an hour. My family is small so I use
pints and put up enough pumpkin in each
can to make two good pies and have
never had any trouble keeping it.——Mrs.
G. G., Calhoun County.

A request has been made by Mrs. P., of
Portland for canning pumpkin. Cook the
pumpkin until quite dry, press through a.
sieve or colander then measure with s.
teacup and use one—half cup of sugar for
each cup, then add spices and salt as
would be used for making pies allowing
one cup of pumpkin for each pie. Heat
thoroughly and put in sterilized cans.
A pint can will make two pies. I have

used this method for several years and

have never lost a can—Mrs. A. L., Cass
County.

Have just received the M. B. F. and in
looking it through I saw the request of
Mrs. P., Portland, Michigan for a. reCipe
for canning pumpkin, and I am sending
mine. I have used it for several years
and have had very few cans spoil and
that, no doubt was due to faulty seals.

Cook the pumpkin down as you do for
pies, then ﬁll glass cans, taking care to
work the spaces all full to exclude the
air, put on rubber and cover and make
partial seal the same as in cold pack
methods. Place in boiler of warm water
and boil one-half hour. Remove from
boiler and be sure to seal tightly. Place
in dark, cool place and I am sure that
you will be more than pleased with the

. results of your work—Mrs. O. D., Ne-

waygo County. ~~
In answer to Mrs. P., of Portland, this

is all ready for pies but the milk and

eggs. Four cups of cooked and peeled
pumpkin and three cups of sugar, salt and
spices to taste. Boil ﬁfteen minutes and
seal while hot—Mrs. E. M., Clare County.

Noticing your inquiry from Mrs. P.,
Portland, Michigan, about canning pump-
kin, so will send in my recipe. I have
never lost a can. Cook the pumpkin and
mash but do not season it, pack it in
sterilized jars within one inch of top, add
one level teaspoon of salt per quart.
Place rubbers and tops on can. turn down
almost tight, process in hot water bath
forty—ﬁve minutes, remove the cans and
turn covers down tight. I experimented
with this in the ﬁrst place arid find it
very satisfactory—Mrs. E. M., Kent
County.

Your farm home department for women

has many good ideas which is very 111--

teresting to all. I never fail to read that
page even if something else is neglected.
I noticed in the columns a request by
Mrs. P., of Portland, Michigan, of how
to can pumpkin. If Mrs. P., will follow
directions I am sending, I don’t think
she will have any trouble in canning
pumpkin. Cut pumpkin in small pieces,
cook dry and brown a trifle to give it
a rich color and taste. For each pint
of pumpkin add one cup of sugar, two
tablespoons of vinegar, salt to taste, let
simmer one—half hour and seal while hot.
Will keep and is excellent—Mrs. R. D.,
Jackson County.

In answer to Mrs. P, Portland, Mich-
igan, to can pumpkin, cook until well
done. Put through colander and 'add one
quart of sugar to each quart of pumpkin.
Mix well and put on the back ref-stove
and cook slow until the sugar is well
cooked through, and then can. One quart
of pumpkin makes two pies and all you
have to do is to add eggs, milk, and
seasoning" Ttl‘i'is will keep well as I have

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measure. A 42 inch size, if made as illustrated
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It may be made of jean, drill, sateen Or'Batlll.
The front is reinforced and ease is supplied by

ets of elastic webbing at .the Sldt’s and back.
he Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: Small, 34-36;
88—40; Large. 42-44: Extra Large, 46-
48' inches bust measure. A Medium size Will
red 8 yard of .36 inch material and £6
yard‘of webbing 12 inches Wide.

5888. Popular Ppeaslnq Style. This Jum er
Dress or Blouse Ensemble ”hit is often _ca ed
in both attractive and ractical. The skirt is
mounted on an underbod’y. (The dress may be
made of one material. or as here illustrated of

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371 . Practical

if made as
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required. To make the entire dress of one
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5269. Mlsses' Dress.—-—Cut in 3 Sizes: 16, 18

end 20 years. A 16 year size requires 3 yards
of 40 inch material. .To face collar an cuffs
with contrasting material requires 1,4 yard. The

width of the dress at lower edge is 2% yard.

5281. Glrls' Pa]amas.——Cut in ti Sizes:_ 8,
so 12 and 14 years. A 12 year size requires

X yards of 36 inch material With % yard of
contrasting for facings.

   

“Small Glrl."—Voile or

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5313.

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it makes a very attractive “party" frock. The
Pattern is cut 111.5 Sizes: 6 months, 1, 2 3 and
4 years. A 2 year Size will require 1% yard
of 40 inch material.

5393. Blouse for Small Boy.——Cambric, main-
and ﬂannel may be used
odel. The attern is cut in 5 ‘zSizes:

or is m
4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 (years. 0 year size re-
quires 1% yard of 3 inch material.

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In t o v
_ 4R8. ANN]! TAYLOR. ldltor.

anis- Well, 7I. do. and it keeps

Hope sheer anyone else that tries it will.
have good luck as I do with it. I peel
and'cut in small cubes enough pumpkin
to ﬁll large eight quart kettle. Cook
this until real soft. Drain and mash, let
simmer on stove until quite dry, stirring
often to prevent burning. Then acid from
3 to 4 cups of sugar (granulated) and 3
tablespoons cinnamon and cook about 20
minutes and seal in sterilized jars. 'It
makes sort of a butter. When you wish
to use it just add the milk, eggs, salt
and possibly a little more sugar. Yours
with best wishes.——Mrs. B., Antrim
County.

In answer to Mrs. P’s inquiry of Port-
land, Michigan, as to how to can pump-
kin so lt will keep, here is my tested
recipe. Cook the pumpkin down brown
in a kettle as you would for pies, put a.
very little salt and sugar in it and can
very hot. But I think the most easiest
and quickest way is to dry it. I dried
all of mine this year and it makes ex-
cellent pies. ’Cut in thin slices and put
in pans. Set in hot oven and around
on stove and by keeping steady fire will
dry in two or three days. I have made
several pies this winter and they were
excellent. I gave one to my neighbor
and she thought it was great and as I
have four men folks in my family there
is none goes to waste. When wanting
to make pies, put the pumpkin to soak
the night before in cold water, then cook
in the usual way in the water it was
soaked in. There is no worrying about
your pumpkin keeping when it is dried.
——-Mrs. A. C., Mecosta County.

 

Fancy Cookies.-——In reply to Mrs. S., of
Auburn, Michigan, for fancy cookie recipe,
take one pound powdered sugar, four
eggs, butter size or walnut, pinch of soda,
one—half teaspo. sour milk with anise,
add ﬂour enough to roll out. Roll with
fancy rolling pin, out apart and let them
lay over night or about six hours. The
ﬁgures won’t come out then anymore. If
this recipe is given thorough trial it
cannot fail to give good results.

In reply to Mrs. S., of Auburn, for
recipe for all kinds of baking using few
or no eggs:

Apple Sauce Cake—One cup granu—
lated sugar, one cup apple sauce, one-
half cup shortening, one egg, one-half
teaspoon cinnamon, one—half teaspoon of
cloves, one-half teaspon allspice, one tea-
spoon soda, one and three—fourths cups
ﬂour, one-half cup seeded raisins.

Chocolate Cake—One cup sugar. three
tablespoons melted butter, one-half. cup
of milk, one egg, three tablespoons cocoa.
one and one—half cups ﬂour, one teaspoon

baking powder, one teaspoon vanilla.
good and quickly made.
Ginger Cookies—One cup lard, two

cups brown sugar, one cup molasses, one
tablespoon ginger, one tablespoon cloves.
one cup boiling water, one and one~half
teaspoon soda, pinch of nutmeg.—~M. I...
Saginaw County.

Sugar Cream Cookiesz—Two eggs, one
and one-half large cup sugar, one cup
sour cream, one cup shortening, one tea-
spoonful soda, two teaspoons baking pow—
der, one-half teaspoon salt, one—half tea.—
spoon nutmeg, ﬂour enough to make a
soft dough that can be rolled out. Bake
in quick oven.

Never Fail Cake—Two eggs, one cup
sugar, three-fourths cup thin cream,
(sweet), pinch salt, flavoring, two tea-
spoons baking powder, one and one-half
cup ﬂour. Can make into layers or loaf
as you desire. ‘ -

Spice Cake.—One egg, one cup sugar,
three tablespoons shortening, one cup of
sour milk, one teaspoon soda, one-half
teaspoon cinnamon and nutmeat each,
vanilla, two cups ﬂour. I put raisins in
this sometimes for a change—Mrs. R. P.,
Newaygo County. '

Mufﬁns—I am sending you my favorite
muﬂin recipe. Two cups whole Wheat
ﬂour and one cup of white, one cup of
milk, one-half cup of nutmeats, one-half
package of ' dates. Two tablespoons of
melted butter. Four teaspoons of. baking
powder (rounded not heaping), one-half
teaspoon salt, one egg, four tablespoons
sugar. Sift together whole wheat and
white ﬂour and baking powder. Beat
egg, add milk, salt and sugar and stir
into dry ingredients ch0pped dates and
nut meats and with melted butter add
to the above mixture. Drop into muﬂin
tins and bake ﬁfteen minutes—Mrs. R.
D., Jackson County.

 

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the large drive wheel set between the
two smaller wheels, so that it stays in
mesh and turns the beating blades every-
tlme the large wheel is turned.

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At night, when awakened by the
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While you farmers of the cold secﬁons of
America are digging your way out to your
snow-covered barns in order to feed and
water your live stock; while you are suffer-
ing a forced idleness because of blizzard
weather conditions, the farmers of the
Southland are shipping their ﬁrst crops
and receiving in return therefor substan-‘
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All-year-‘round growing conditions in the South;
ideal living conditions; lower labor costs and splen—

d transportation service make possible the greater
success of Southern farmers.

Write us today for full and free particulars about
the success of other Northern farmers who have
moved'South, and information as to how we can help
you. There is no charge for our service-«now or ever.

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WHAT KIND OF CLOVER SEED
. WILL YOU SOW THIS SPRING?

PRING is on: its way and with its
coming we are making plans on
our seedlings for this and the

following year. In the years gone
by there has been just the same
thoughts and ideas rampant imrour
minds but with the vagaries of the
weather and soil and seed conditions
we have met with different success-
es and likewise failures.

Michigan unfortunately has fol-
lowed along with her sister states,
in not getting the clover catches in
the past few years as she once was
accustomed to have. This has been

' due to the gradual wearing out of

her soils and the individual farmers,
unless they are making an effort to
correct this condition, are going to
be holding the sack again when the
results of this season is tabulated.

With the very small. amount of
clover seed hulled last fall com-
pared with the acreage to be sown
this spring there is going to be a
scarcity of good seed that will stand
the winters that it must go through
before the- hay crop is a reality.

So the man that can supply him-
self with good}, home grown seed is
sure to be lucky. Millions of pounds
of imported seed has been ﬂooded
on the American market that While
it will sprout and grow through the
summer, it will not stand the rigors
of a Michigan winter and the man
sowing it will be strictly out of luck.

There is no way of telling this
seed from our own home grown seed
and some of it will be mixed with
home grown seed and sold to the
unsuspecting farmer at the price of
good seed. The farmer is thus be-
ing beaten out of the price of the
seed and the use of his land and in-
vestment to say nothing of the in-
jury to his soil in not getting a clov-
er crop to use in his rotation.

There is a movement to get Con-
gress to pass a law that will cause
this seed that is imported to be
stained so that the farmer would
know what he is getting. There is
much opposition to this method,
while it is O. K. in principle, it does
not meet the approval of certain
commercial interests, much the same
as the Truth-in-Fabric bill and the
uncoloring of oleo. '

Happily Michigan has a seed serv—
ice in the Farm Bureau: Seed Service
where one may get seed that is of
known origin. This seed may be a
little higher in price than some seed,"
but in the end it is far the cheapest.
If home—grown seed can be secured
in your locality even if it contains
some foul stuff, it is better than this
imported seed.

We must take oﬁ our hats to the
Farm Bureau’s seed department, as
it has blazed a trail for the farmer
who wants good seed that is depend-
able and it is being patterned after
by other states and communities
where the interest of the farmer is
uppermost. It is my honest opinion
that if we derived no more beneﬁt
from the Farm Bureau than this one
service, we would be amply repaid
for our support of it.

Probably the surest way to get a.
catch of clover on ground that has
not been limed or is originally sweet
is to sow early in the spring, alone,
on prepared corn ground. This may
seem tough leather to some, but it
has been our experience that a large
majority of the land in Michigan is
in such a condition that one must
resort to something of this nature.

Seedin‘g in a grain crop like wheat
or rye is very much practiced and
where. one can get his ground top
dressed with manure he stands a
fair chance to get a seeding this
way. Sometimes one has a very fa-
vorable season and the result is ob-
tained in a case of this kind, but of
late years there have been more fail-
ures than successes on the majority
of Michigan farms.

Clover and the other legumes
must be gotten back on the farms of
Michigan before prosperity will
shine through the clouds that engulf

can": and 18s» ._ ' *

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a greater part ofthe’farms of Michl- _

Iowance made to meet‘this ‘cost with
other than pridein better~crops and
hopes for a better future. Each

year farmers start out hopeful in thee

spring, but the next year ﬁnds the "
most of them farther away'fromf’a'j..i
good clover stand than the year be-"’3 ’

fore.

step, then the use of acid phbsphate
and manure on the same. bit _ of
ground, is the quickest and surest
way of achieving your aim.

It would be well to remember that,

alsike and mammoth clover are
slightly more acid tolerant their
common red and sometimes will live
on soil where red clover won’t, but

this fact is not one that Will permit "

yOu to hitch your wagon to and go
to sleep for they will only do where
soil conditions and moisture are,
right. '

Timothy will make a go of it
sometimes .where others fail,
timothy has been playing the major
part of soil robber so long that we
hate to recognize him, much less
recommend him to the farmer al‘
though there has been times when

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BROADSOOPE FARM ' NEWS AND
VIEWS

(Continued from page 8)

his garden comprises one third acre.
There are a great many things to be
considered. First, ashes vary great-
ly in their potash content, and _pot-'
ash is the only real element to con-
sider. Second, soils vary greatly in
their need of potash. Ashes-also-
have something to do with soil tex-
ture. If this garden spot is rather
low or heavy black ground, he can
no doubt use all the‘ashes on it
each year.‘ In general, I‘wduld use
the ashes on ‘the garden every other
year. They certainly are a great fer—
tilizer, and there seems to be no
need of using more than is required
for best results. Their potash con—
tent is very soluble, and any excess
would, no doubt, be easily lost by
leaching.

A number of years ago a neighbor
wanted me to put a ten acre ﬁeld
into corn. This ﬁeld was part of a
farm two miles from his home, and
a half mile back from the road. It
never had a load of manure on it,
and all it ever raised was taken
away. No green manure, more than
the stubble growth, was ever plowed
under. But being a naturally fertile
soil, it continued to produce crops
of fair average. Being short of corn
ground that year I decided to take a
chance on this ﬁeld, especially as the
owner said he would furnish hard
wood ashes and salt, if I would sow
them. After the corn was plantedl
broadcasted the salt and ashes, and
the rain carried them into the soil.
I don’t know whether the salt or the
ashes did it, but the corn crop was
far above the average for that year.
The following year I again planted-
the ﬁeld to corn, using ashes and
salt again with equally good results1

-Test stripes proved the mixture was

of great beneﬁt. ‘ The field was sown
to wheat the fall of the second crap.
This winter killed so badly it was
harrowed up in the spring and sown
to oats. They produced a very satis-
factory crop. The farm was sold,
and my interest in it ceased. ,

We' place all our ashes in large
tubs, in the hen house and the hens
pick out every particle of the char-
coal bits. The tubs are then taken
to the garden or orchard, and the
ashes scattered as evenly as possible.
Care is taken that the farther areas
receive as much as those nearby.

By the way, what has become of

the man who leaches the ,a'shes in a '

barrel along toward spring, and
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EAR EDITOR: We enjoy read-
ing your paper along with other
farm papers of which we take
several. The ideas and problems of
other farmers often give me an idea
about my own work and crops. Mr.

.Meek’s section is good. Now as good

clover and alfalfa seed is so scarce
and high I would like to give other
Michigan farmers our plan of plant-
ing clover and alfalfa on spring
grain. I believe it will give a better
stand with four to six pounds seed
per acre than six. or seven quarts
sown before with or behind a grain
drill.

After your grain is sown and sur-
face is dry. 80 over with cultivator
and then broadcast seed with wheel-
barrow seeder. Practically all seeds
fall in the little cultivator furrows.
Now roll with smooth or bar rolls
or narrow lightly with spike tooth
and you have your clover planted
just the right depth to germinate
and grow. I fully‘believe weseldom
get over 10 to 20 per cent growth of
clever seed and mainly because it
is covered either too deep to germin-
ate or so shallow it sprouts and
dies before iii root reaches solid.
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NEW "amorous FOR woman
LIVE swoon BREEDERS ASS’NS
HE different live stock breeders?

‘ Michigan "State College during
Farmers’ Week, Feb. 1-5, holding
their annual meetings and electing
their ofﬁcers for the following year.
The associations and their oﬁicers
for 1926 are as follows:

Improved Live Stock Breeders’ and
_ Feeders' Ass’n

President, Alex Minty, Ionia; Vice-
Presldent, E. C. McCarty, Bad Axe; Sec-
retary, G. A. Brown, East Lansing; As-
sistant Secretary, W. E. J. Edwards, East
Lansing; Treasurer, H. F. Probert, Jack-
son.

Executive Committee: S. H. Pang-
born, Bad Axe, W. E. Livingston, Parma,
H. W. Norton, Jr., Lansing, Alfred Hen-
rickson, Hart.

Sheep Breeders’ and- Feeders’ Ass’n.

President, Austin E. Cowles, St. Johns;
Secretary—Treasurer, V. A. Freeman, East
Lansing.

Fine Wool Breeders’ Ass'n.

President, E. M. Moore, Mason; Sec—
retary, R. J. Noon. Jackson; First Vice-
President, L. B. Roberts, St. Johns; Sec-
ond Vice-President, F. S. Freeman, Low-
ell; Third Vice-President, L. B. Lawrence.
Chelsea; Fourth Vice-President, L. W.
Hendee, Pinckney.

Shorthorn Breeders’ Ass’n.

President, S. H. Pangborn, Bad Axe;
Vice-President. H. W. Hayes, Chelsea;
Secretary-Treasurer, W. E. J. Edwards,
East Lansing.

Hereford Breeders’ Ass’n.

President, Harold Harwood,
Secretary-Treasurer, Dan Miller,
Farms, Swartz Creek.

Executive Committee:
East Lansing, Otto Pino,
ner Ramsey, Port Hope.

Aberdeen Angus Breeder-9’ Ass’n.

President, James Curry, Marlette, Sec-

Ionia ;
Crapo

W. A. Freeman,
Dertt, War-

retary-Treasurer, Avery Martin, North-
street.
Red Pelled Cattle Club
President, N. C. Herbison, Birming—

ham; Secretary—Treasurer, Mark R. West-
brook, Ionla.
Guernsey Breeders’ Ass’n.
President, John Endicott, Birmingham;
Vice-President, G. F. Hoﬂman, Monroe;
Secretary, C. F. Myers, Grand Blanc;
Treasurer, Hoyt Woodman, Lansing.
Michigan Jersey Breeders’ Club
President, Alfred Henrickson, Hart;
Secretary-Treasurer, Samuel Odell, Lan-
sing; Vioe-President, Joseph Fordney, Jr.,
Saginaw.
Brown Swiss Breeders' Ass’n.
President, L. S. Marshall, Leslie; Vice-
President, Mila Peterson, Ionia; Secre-
tary-Treasurer, Wm. J. Campbell, Dimon-
dale.
Horse Breeders’ Ass'n.
President, L. C. Hunt. Eaton Rapids;
Secretary-Treasurer, R. S. Hudson. East
Lansing; Vice President, Sidney Smith,
Orion.
Poland China. Breeders' Ass’n.
President, W. E. Livingston, Parma;
Secretary-Treasurer, A. A. Feldcamp,

Manchester.
Duran—Jersey Breeders' Ass'n.
President, Eugene Inwood, Romeo;

Vice-President, Harold Shafley, St. Johns;
Secretary—Treasurer, Raymond Lacer,
Prattville.
Hampshire Breeders’ Ass’n.

President, Ray Skinner, Henderson;
Vice-President, A. G. Bovay, Jackson:
Secretary-Treasurer, R. F. Seymour, Dex-
ter.

Chester White Swine Breeders’ Ass'n.

President, W. R. Kirk, Fairgrove; Vice-
President. F. H. Knox, Portland; Secre—
tary-Treasurer, Dan Miller, Swartz Creek.
Spotted Poland China Breeders' Ass’n.

President, G. S. Coffman, Goldwater;
Vice-President, Oscar Voelker, Pigeon;
Secretary-Treasurer, James Campbell, St.
Johns.

Swine Breeders' Ass’n.

President, W. H. Every, Manchester;
Vlce-Presdent, Albert A. FeldCamp, Man-
chester; Secretary-Treasurer, H a r o l d
Shafley, St. Johns.

LIVESTOCK BROUGHT FARMERS

TWO BILLION DOLLARS

HE farmers of the United States

were paid in the neighborhood

of two billion dollars during
1925 by the packers for meat ani-
mals dressed under federal inspec-
tion, according to statement given
out by the Institute of American
Meat Packers. This is an increase
of nearly $300,000,000, compared
with the year before.

TAILLESS SHEEP
TAILLESS breed of sheep Is be-
ing developed at the agricul-

- tural college of South Dakota.
The experiment has been in progress
since 1913 when four ewes and two
mum of a tailless specie were Im-
ported from Siberia. These were
crosspbred with Bhropshires, Hamp-
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HERE’LL soon be lots
of work to do. Are your
horses ready?

Use Gombault’s Caustic
Balsam to get them in con-
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BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY

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What chances you take— what losses
you suffer, when you leave to luck the
health of your cows as they approach
and go through calf-birth.

'At this critical time—when the require-
ments of winter feeding alone impose a
heavy burden on her vitalitya cow needs
outside asu’stance to maintain her health
and productive vigor.

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Row-Kare supplies this help in just the form
most needed—by building up the vigor of
digestive and genital organs so that disorders
and diseases cannot gain a foothold. To insure
strong, productive cows and healthy calves
Row—Kare is used regularly in thousands of
the best dairies.

Kow- Kare does more than ﬁght disease-
kputs more milk into your pails by enabling
your cows to assimilate authe milk-values in
the feed consumed. It stops feed-waste—puts
added dollars on your milk check. A table-
epoonful in the feed one week each month
works wonders—an improvement you can't
help seeing.

Our valuable book, “The Home Cow Doctor.”
tells how to ﬁght cow diseases, and the part
Kow —Kare plays In treating Barrenness,
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have the least trouble ﬁnding Kow-Kare at
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Write for free sample bottle.

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JERSEYS

8E0. JERSEYS, POOGIS 99thk OF H. F. AND
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PEROHERONS AND\ BELGIANS.
MAREB AND STALLIONS.
SOME GOOD TEAMS.

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WAN I‘mAIR WINNERS

s ECOMMENDATIONS that Michi-l
gan dairy cattle exhibitors be,
given the “edge", with an ln-I

crease of 30 per cent in premiums
for winners representing this state
at the 1926 State Fair,. have been
submitted to the agricultural divi-
sion of the new state fair board by
the committee of dairy breeders’ as-
sociations, according to Prof. O. E.
Reed, of the college dairy depart-
ment.

The action was taken because of
the necessity of protecting Michigan
cattle breeders from outside compe-
titors, who often exhibit at the fair
and win so many prizes as to dis-
courage the state’s own residents
from contributing at all. /

The recommendation ’ asks that
an additional 30 per cent be paid to
each winner in the cattle exhibits,
who is from this state.

' Another project is that of adding
a class calling for exhibition of
county herds contributed from the
stock of various individuals, by re-
presenting the various counties.

VETERINARY
DEPARTMENT

Edited by DR. GEO. H. CONN

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BLOOD SPAVIN

I would like to know what medi-
cine to use on a horse with blood
spavin. Can heaves in an old horse
be cured?———A. L., Greenville, Mich-
igan.

KNOW of. nothing that would be
I any better for the blood spavin
than the following: Equal parts
of tincture of iodine and glycerine;
paint this on well once each day;
you will ﬁnd a tooth brush about the
most satisfactory method of apply-
ing it. If anything will do this any
good this will do it but t will lkely
take some true
Heaves in an old animal cannot be
cured, not often in a young animal.
Feed lightly and do not permit the
animal to gorge itself. Tablespoon-
ful doses of fowlers solution of ar-
senic on the grain night and morn-
ing for a month then discontinue for
one week and then give for another
three or four weeks will probably
help this animal very much.

LEAKS NHLK

I have a heifer with ﬁrst calf. Is
an easy milker and leaks milk. Is
there anything I. can do for it?—
B. F. W, Freeport, Michigan.

AM not sure that I can tell you
I of anything that you can do to

make your cow retain her milk:
these leakers often give plenty of
trouble. If you can do so, you
might try milking her at noon as
this Will probably stop some of it.
Then give her the following tonic
for one month: TablespOonful dose
of fowlers solution of arsenic night
and morning on ground feed. This
for four weeks and it it does not
help, then there is nothing more to
do. This solution will freeze, so
keep it in a warm place.

Not more acres, or more cows, or hens,
or sows but greater yields and proﬁts
from each acre, each cow, each hen and
each sow is the slogan of the modern
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6 BULLS

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of 50 Head of Registered Shorthorn Cattle
ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3rd, 1926,

in the sale Pavilion of the City of Howell, Michigan.

We will offer both herds of Registered Shorthorn Cattle
belonging to W. W. Knapp and W. B. McQuillan.

These are two of the oldest established herds in Mich-
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This ﬁrst milk or colostrum of the

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thought she had done well. The
hatchery was very glad to get her
pure bred White Wyandotte eggs as
they were short on that breed. Dur-
ing the year of 1924 they paid her
8 cents a dozen above the market
price, and in 1925 they again, rais-
ed the price.
Gets the Duck Fever Again

During the spring of 1924 she
again got the duck fever, so as she
had bought two incubators, one that
held 50 eggs and the other 120 eggs,
she offered to hatch ducks for her
neighbors for half the baby ducks.
Her neighbors had the large White
Pekin variety and as they had no in—
cubators and needed their hens to
set on their hen eggs they were glad
to have Lavinia hatch them for
them. In this way she raised 60
ducks for h'erself.

When her ﬁrst ducks were 5
weeks old in July, she took them to
Grand Rapids, 30 miles away, and
sold them at a. butcher shop for 25
cents a pound and as they averaged
three pounds each, she received $15
for them. The next 25 ducks she
kept until they were 8 weeks old and
sold them in August for 20 cents a
pound. They brought her $20.00.
The last bunch she sold was the ﬁrst
of September, and for these ten she
received only 17% cents a pound
and they averaged 4%. pounds each,
which brought her $8.06. The other
4 ducks and 1 drake she kept for
her breeding pen another year.

She also raised quite a few chick-
ens this year and when the young
roosters and 01d hens and her eggs
were sold .for that year she .had
made above all expenses $250 on her
poultry.

From the time her ducks} were
hatched until they were sold she
kept a dish of 80 per cent ground
wheat and 10 per cent of. meat
scraps, mixed up with water before
them all the time. She also kept
green grass or weeds and oyster
shells and grit before .them contin-
ually. The chickens were fed a bal-
anced ration of 100 pounds each of
bran middlings, ground oats, ground
corn, and meat scrap.

fed ‘dry.
During that year she bought her
a second-hand Ford touring car for
$75 and put $75 worth of repairs
on it. She also'bought her a new
portable typewriter for $50, and a
new camera and‘ developing and
printing outﬁt for $6;50.'
" Makes Her Trap Nests,
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p _ . penny hails and with
these she made'her 24_ trap ests.
These nests ‘ would have cost her
about $15.00 in she ,had bought
them ready made, but'as she made
them herself they only cost $6.68 in
money. -

On the 5th day of January in 1925
she set her little incubator and in
three weeks more she set her large
one. On the 25th of February she
had 77 baby chicks, some of which
were 4 weeks old. ‘She sets and
tends to her incubators different
than others. For instance, when a
chick hatches or an egg is culled out
she replaces it with another egg,
warm from the hen. In this way
her\ machines are full continually.
She says there is no more work and
it does not take any more kerosene
to run an incubator full of. eggs
than it does to run one only partly
full. She writes the date on the egg
when it is put in the machine, so she
can tell at a glance— when the eggs
should hatch, and as quick as they
are removed the vacant place is ﬁll-
ed by a fresh egg. She does not cool
her eggs only long enough to turn
them as she keeps the machines in
the cellar where it keeps quite cool.

She has found out she can raise
baby chicks until they are 8 weeks
old on 1% pound of buttermilk and
2 pounds of scratch feed. This costs
her 18 cents. And to take the place
of sunshine she,feeds them cod liver
oil, one pound to 100 pounds of
feed. This keeps the chicks strong
and healthy. Her ducks started
laying in 1925 on the 19th day of
February; She wants to raise lots
of ducks and baby chicks, as she can
get $1.00 or more, for them at 10
weeks of age, which will give her a
proﬁt of 75 cents on each.

She intends to buy her a windmill
with a long garden hose so she can
water her garden, and a good $100
radio, this year, from her poultry,
beside dressing herself.

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BROODING OF BABY CHICKS
By D. E. Spotts

(Editor's Note: This Is the second artlcle of a
series on hatching and raisin? baby chicks b Mr.
D. E. Potts appearing n our columns.

LTHOUGH much of the success
A in rearing of baby chicks de-

pends upon the health and vi-
gor of the parent stock, another fac—
tor which must have due consider—
ation is brooding. Brooding may be
divided into two branches; ﬁrst, na-
tural, and second, artiﬁcial. For the
most successful results, a great deal
of attention should be given to de-
tail, so ﬁrst let us consider the na-
tural methods.

In nearly all instances allow the
hen to remain on the nest until the
chicks get so lively that they insist
on leaving it. If it is early in the
season he sure that bottoms are plac—
ed in the coops. It is also very de—
sirable that a layer of dry sand and
chaff be placed in the coop, which
aids greatly in keeping it dryer and
also furnishes litter in which the
chicks may sratch. Later in the
season, if the ground is dry enough,
the bottoms may be removed from
the coops and each day they should
be moved the width of themselves.
This saves the work of cleaning
each day and insures wholesome
conditions. Providing that coops are
to be used which were used the pre-
vious season, a thorough disinfection
would aid greatly in eradicating dis-
eases and body parasites. A 5 per
cent solution of stock-dip can be re—
commended as a disinfectant. The
type of coop used for natural brood—
ing depends upon the material
which is at hand. Most any simple
construction can be used to advan-
tage, providing it is ventilated and
water-proof. The number of chicks
which a hen can care for depends
upon the season. In the early part
of the year 12 to 14 chicks are suf—
ﬁcient, while in midsummer a hen,
such as Barred Rock or Rhode Is-
land Red, can easily hover 20 to 25
chicks. However, the best rule is
to give the hen no more chicks than
she can hover comfortabl . The hen
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practice to give both hen and chicks
a, thorough dusting with lice powder

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Accredited Chicks and Eggs

White Leghorns—Anconas.
Chicks hatched fromfree range.-
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Semi for our catalog and prices
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From one of the founders of the chick industry :24 years in the bus-
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ing 111'111 11 1.1111 (.111 of years
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Write for free catalog.

Leghorns,

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All our flocks have be111wstate actrcdited and

hen seen our chicks
Barred Roc Rhoda
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Box M, R. R. No. 'I. H. be Free Sons.

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Chicks that are hatched f

ACCRE DITE D.”

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ﬂocks and hatchery inspected and passed by rerﬁ'esentative of Michigan State

College. Refer you to State Commercial Savings ank

Prepaid prices on—
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25 50100 00

Wh. and Bro. Leghorns ............ $4 .00 $7. 00 $13 00 $62. 50
eds 41515.00

RMixed Chicks $10.00 pser0 (hundred

Bd. Rocks and S.

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Buy Michigan State Accredited chicks from -1'1ke view. Ofﬁcial contest records.
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Varieties Prices On: 50 100 500 1000
White Leghorns (Tancr'ed) .................. '$3. 15 $7. 00 $13.00 $62. 00 Write for
Barred Rocks (Parks strain) ........ . .4. 25 72. 00 Seep cIaI
s. C. R. Rhode Island Red 00 15.00 72. 00 Prices
Spedal Matings Ilighcr. Mi\e(l (‘hicks $102., 00 1er 100. All heavies $1.2 00.
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Order from this111d

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$120.00
7.2 50 140.00

Live delivery prepaid.
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MICHIGAN STATE ACCREDITED

Barred Rocks.
ing full information about
lines and why “e (an sell

Holland. Box B

“’e hatch S. C. White Ieghorns,
Send for descriptive circular giv-
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these chicks direct to
you at jobbers prices.

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EXCLUSIVELY. Strong, Healthy Chicks from H
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paid and Pull Live Delivery Guaranteed.
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1eseI selected ﬂocks. In-
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RAIN WHITE

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WINSTROM HATCHERY. Albert Winstrom, Prop., Box 0-5. Zeeland, Mich.

RELIABLE

CHICKS

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Bank Reference or Dun Mercantile Agency.
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The essentials of a. breeder house

are roominess, Sufﬁcient ventilation,
dryness, sanitation and warmth. In

addition there must be plenty or
space for the chicks to exercise, and
to prevent crowding at night. A
satisfactory allowance for baby
chicks is 1 square foot of ﬂoor space
for each three chicks. At six weeks,
1 foot of ﬂoor space should be al-
lowed for each 11/; chicks. Every-
thing considered a house 10‘ feet by
10 feet, or 8 feet by 12 feet is very
satisfactory. It is large enough for
275 to 300 chicks, the maximum
number for one hover. The house
should allow plenty of fresh air
without direct drafts. Chicks give
off a large amount of moisture and
some poisonous gases which must
be removed. The ﬂoor of the brood—
er house should be made of wood
and placed at least one foot off the
ground. This will aid greatly in
keeping the hover dry and also in
keeping out vermin.

In an ideal brooder house the
hover end should be warm and the
other end cool. This condition is
obtained by having a long house and
placing the stove near one end. The
other end serves as a feeding and
exercising room, and aids in harden—
ing the chicks, getting them used to
cooler conditions, so that they are
less apt to become chilled when al—
lowed outdoors.

In selecting the coal stove hover,
attention should be paid to the sim-
plicity and effectiveness of the auto—
matic regulator, the ease of cooling
and firing, and the size of the com-
bustion chamber. The safety of the
chick depends upon the reliability
of the draft control. The draft con—
trol should respond quickly and
should be simple. .

The brooder house containing the
coal stove hover should be located
so that trees and buildings do not
interfere with the draft. If the coal
stove hover is used within a small
brooder house it should be placed as
near the center as possible. This
will aid in maintaining a uniform
temperature. The stove pipe should
extend at least 5 feet above the roof.
If this causes too much draft the
pipe can be shortened. It should be
taken down and the soot cleaned out
often. Soft coal can be used, but
anthracite 00311, chestnut size, is
much better. The temperature at
the edge of the hover, chick level,
should be about 98 degrees during
the ﬁrst two days; the temperature
the last of the ﬁrst week about 95
degrees; the second week 90 to 93
degrees; the third 85 to 88 degrees,
and about 5 degrees less each week
until heat is removed.

A suitable guard 10 to 12 inches
high, to keep the chicks close to the
stove the ﬁrst few days, is provided
in the form of boards, strips of com—
mercial rooﬁng, etc., The objections
to inch mesh wire are that occasion—
ally chicks get their heads caught in
the mesh, also it does not cut off
drafts.

If the oil—burning hover is to be
used, the following points are i111—
portant: simplicity, effective regula~

tion of oil supply, least possible dam—-

ger of ﬁre, durable construction, and
economy of fuel consumption. The
brooder house in which the large
sized oil burners are used should be
large and roomy. The most satis—
factory. type of house is one with
two rooms, one of which is heated
by the hover. It is very important
that this heated room should have
adequate ventilation. The other
room is cooler, and is primarily for
exercise, but also allows chicks to
get away from the heat during day.

The brooder. house should be

_ ser an

is advisable to disinfect it with
per cent solution of,stock- dip. ,.
ner boards are used to prove
chicks smothering each other I
crowding against the wall or in co
11ers. An excellent cover for t
ﬂoor is an inch of sand over whic
is thrown a few inches of litter, sucﬁ
as alfalfa, straw, or clover chem
Before placing the chicks in l
brooder house give the broader .
thorough testing. Start the Ti
about ﬁve days prior to the time o
the hatching of the chicks. Be 811
that the thermostat is in workabl
condiition and that it is possible t

vary the temperature as desired.
To avoid loss in stunting and res.
ing chicks, great care must be take
to keep the brooders, utensil
ground, and stock clean. Caref
attention must be given to ventil:
tion suitable hover temperatur:
proper training of chicks,~a. sufﬁcie‘
amount of exercise and who!
some food, and correct methods I
feeding. ‘

R0 UP

We have some sick chickens, 8
would like to know what ails the u
and what to do for them. Last fa
some young chicks Started Sneezin;
their heads swelled, pus formed 1
some of their eyes and the nose ru
and some of them got lame an
couldn’t stand. on their feet. —J. W
Lowell, Michigan.

UR poultry has roup which

a very common ailment of p011

try in the winter time; it
caused by keeping too closely wit
not enough ventilation and n
enough room. This should be‘reu
edied at once. Then feed them we
and if you are not using a well be.
anced ration, buy some poultry mas
for a while until you get them 0
their feet again in good shape. P
as much peimanganate of potash i
each gallon of drinking water as W“!
lay on a nickel. This should be ke
before them at all times. Separat
the sick birds from the well ones.
Dr. G. H Conn.

GOOD SPORTS IN THE APPLE
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for proﬁt. or pleasure, should tr
Red Spy. It is true that the ne
variety has the serious fault of th
parent, that of coming in bearin
late, but there are many good cha
acters to offset this fault. Th
there are delectable quality an
great beauty in the fruits, and in th
tree hardiness, healthfulness, pr.
ductiveness, and reliability in bea
ing to commend these two warietie
Nor should t be forgotten that t-h
trees are long lived, nearly perfe
orchard plants, and that they bloo
very late, thereby often escapin
late spring frosts which ruin t
crops of other varieties.”

ITALIAN ITItl'NES
I would like to know if Italia
prunes could be grown successfull
in this locality, any information yo
could give me would be greatly on
preciated—H. S. P., Burt, Mich.

“ TALIAN PRUNE” is the name a
I a variety of European pluu
It, is hardy, dark blue and fro
stone, and is considered a good plu
for home gardens or for local ma
ket. I know of no reason why Ita
ian Prune would not succeed in yo
locality. You may ﬁnd it is 'qui
subject to curculio but this can 0
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Outlook For Farmers in Michigan

Market Flooded With

Western Lambs—Speculators Continue
Control of Wheat ”

By W. W. FOUIE. Market Editor.

REDICTlONs—of what is likely to
take place this year are numer-
ous. but. farmers should not be
ready to map out their plans

from them, even from government

announcements regarding w h a t

should be done in alloting acreage of

grains, potatoes. etc. There is al-
ways the danger that too many farm-
ers will follow this advice and there-
by defeat the whole scheme. Proba~
bly farmers generally will plant
their usual acres with the accus-
tomed allotments. As to the 011t—
look, however, it is well to ponder
issued by
the big manufacturers of farm ma—
chinery and to note the important
fact that recent operations of these
factories have been running about
one—third larger than a year ago, it
being the busiest winter in six years.
It means that in the future farmers
are going to depend less than in the
past. on hired helpers and more on
machinery. Th output of these fac-
tories shows a wonderful expansion
in tractors, engines. tractor plows,
etc. Dairy interests are growing in
all directions, and poultry and eggs
are sources of large revenue to
thousands of farmers. One result of
the extremely high prices for fresh
eggs is the great increase of eggs
placed in cold storage warehouses in
the months when prices are lowest,
the eggs being taken out later and
sold to families at much below prices
fer fresh eggs. There is more inter-
est shown in apple orchards than
ever before, family orchards coming
ﬁrst although commercial orchards
are also increasing in various dist—
ricts. Dissatisfaction over the low
prices of corn is still felt in parts of
Iowa but elsewhere the matter has
been settled by using corn to fatten
hogs and other live stock, the result
being highly satisfactory. Much of
the time for a number of weeks the
lamb market has been in bad shape
owing to excessive receipts in Chica—

too

go, with heavy lambs going much
lower. The cattle market is'vari-
able, with yearling steers and heif-

ers the best sellers.
Farmers Selling to Packers

Numerous farmers are selling
their live stock direct to the packers
in the Chicago and other markets,
and the practice is growing all the
time. The Farmers’ Union is vigor-
ously attacking this policy, and W.
A. Kerns, vice president of the un—
ion’s Chicago commission house,
says, “We are against the direct
shipping system as it is now operat—
ed because it gives the packers a
chance to play one system against
the other. The packer pays for his
direct shipments of live stock on the
basis of central market prices, and
every hog he buys direct from the
farmer takes that much competitidn
from the central market. l do not
agree with the packers‘ claim that
the direct buyers’ competition taken
from the central market is offset by
'the fact that fewer hogs are also
J-ut on the central market.”

F. E. Wheatcraft. manager of the
union's Chicago commission concern
gave a practical example to show
how this affects the situation on the

terminal market. He said. “I have
orders for four curloads of high
grade hogs today from an eastern

concern and they are so scarce I’ll
have a hard time buying enough to
ﬁll the order.”
Lower Prices for Farms

The theory that farms had a great
boom several years ago, brought
about by wild speculation, was con-
tradicted by the executive committee
appointed by the agricultural gath-
ering in Des Moines, Iowa, recently.
In a statement issued by the com-
mittee it\is shown that farm values

years ago. It is stated that farm
lands in the United States are pig -
bably “worth no more than. 80 p

    

stocl'ing the Chicago market with
lambs from western feeding districts
and big declines in prices have been
the result, the top being $13, Colo—
rado lambs sell at $11.50 to $13
and feeding and shearing lambs at
$12.25 to $14. Heavy lambs are bad
sellers, lots averaging 100 pounds
or more selling at $10 to $11.
Speculative Wheat Market
New and then there is sufﬁciently
large legitimate trading in wheat to
act forcibly on prices, but nearly all
the time the speculators are the po-
tential element on the Chicago
Board of Trade, and prices are us-
ually quicker to‘ go lower than high-
er. It is much the same with the
other cereals, with rye acting much

sample market at 40 to 50 cents a
bushel. This nets to farmers around
35 cents. There is a surplus'of the
lower grades, and the poor demand
is carrying prices lower under the
weight of increasingvsupplies. Late
sales of wheat for May delivery
were made at $1.68. Corn for May
delivery sold at 78 cents, comparing
with $1.31 a year ago; oats for
May delivery at 42 cents, comparing
with 54 cents a year ago; and May
at 96 cents, comparing with $1.62 a
year ago.
The Cattle Outlook

The Department of Agriculture
has issued a report which. gives the
number of steers in feeding districts
as the smallest in many years and
the number of beef as cows as far
less than six years ago. The num—
ber of breeding cattle is reported as
apparently large enough to produce
as much beef as it will pay farmers
to raise. The report says the num-
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M. B. F. MARKET REPORTS BY RADIO

EVERY 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 sta-

tion \VGHP of Detroit.
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the same as wheat, and low grade
corn is selling especially badly.
Within a short time low grade corn
has sold as low as 45 to 50 cents a
bushel. This would net the farmers
around 35 cents. There is a surplus
of the lower grade of corn, and the
poor demand is carrying prices down
under the weight of increasing sup<
plies. Corn sells at a huge decline
from the inﬂated prices paid a year
ago. as do the other grains. Oats
sell remarkably low, and its con—
sumption is mainly on farms, motor
cars and trucks having taken the
place of horses in the cities. The
visible corn supply in this country
is nearly the same as a year ago,
that, of oats 61,495,000 bushels,
comparing with 74,099,000 bushels
a year ago; that of rye being 13,—
790,000 bushels, comparing with 23,—
570,000 bushels a ye.ar.ago: and
that of wheat less than 43,000,000
bushels comparing with nearly 76,-
000,000 bushels a year ago. In a
recent. week May delivery wheat de-
clined over 8 cents and May rye

nearly 11 cents. Low grade corn
has been selling in the Chicago

the rate of about 500,000 head a,
year for the last six years, with the
result that the number in the coun—
try is more than 30 per cent less
than in 1920.

The unusually small receipts in
Chicago last week caused a much
better market for sellers, and prices
were on an average 25 cents higher
although some sales showed advanc-
es‘of 35 to 50 cents. Beef steers
sold largely at $8.50 to $10.85 by
Thursday, with the common to fair
grades selling at $7.65 to $8.50 and
the better class of yearlings at
$10.50 to $11.50, while the best
heavy steers found buyers at $10.25
to $11.35. Few cattle went over
$11, with prime yearling heifers at
$9 to $10.10 and calves at $6 to
$14.50 per 100 pounds. Stockers
and feeders had a week’s rise of
about 25 cents, with sales at $5.75
to $8.80, largely at $7.25 to $8.50.
A year ago beef steers sold at $6.50
to $12.25 and four years ago at
$6.25 to $9.20.

Decline in Hog Production

The report of the Department of
Agriculture says the outlook for the

 

 

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Feb. 23 Feb. 23 Feb. 9 1 yr. ago
WHEAT-—
No. 2 Red $1.83 31-86 $1.90‘
No. 2 \Vhit‘e 1.84 1.87 . 1.90
No. 2 Mixed 1.83 1.86 1,90
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hog industry is extremely favorable

for 1926, with indications that pric-

es will be maintained. at high. levels, H
supplies of hogs being the smallest ’

since 1921. Stocks of pork and lard
are the smallest in ten years, and
the present large consumption of

. pork products promises to continue

through most of the year. Hog pro-
duction has been on the decline
since 1923, but late reports by farm~

ers indicate that the number 01'

sows bred for this spring’s pig crop
was slightly
1925. Similar conditions in the past
have been followed by increased pro-
duction beyond the point of great-
est proﬁts. In districts outside of
the corn belt, however, present local
supplies of swine are much below
even normal requirements. If‘the

1926 spring pig crop in the corn belt '

is no larger than now expected, mar-
ket. supplies of hogs will continue
small through next _winter, and only-
the usual seasonal decline in prices
seems likely. ,
The marketing of hogs at all re?
ceiving pointsﬁcontinues far smaller
than in past years, the combined re~
ceipts in seven western packing
points for the year to late date ag—
gregating only 3,930,000 hogs, com?
paring with 5,176,000 a year ago
and 5,870,000 two years ago. Buy-

ers have forced several sharp breaks .1 -

in prices by holding back, but this
caused smaller receipts, followed by
advances of as much as 25 to 50
cents in a day. Eastern packers are
taking a good share of the hogs of-
fered in Chicago, creating competi—
tion betWeen rival buyers. Recent
C h i c a g o receipts averaged 238
pounds, comparing with 224 pounds
a year ago, being nine pounds heav-~

larger than that of

ier than the five year average for ,

corresponding weeks. A year ago
hogs sold at $9.90 to $11.40 and
two years ago at $6 to $7.25. Late
sales were made at $9.75 to $13.65.
Light weights sell m\uch the best,

_ .— WHEAT

A real dull ﬂour market is pre-
venting wheat from making any
great advances in price. Reports
from Europe indicate that many of
the mills over there are closed down
completely, and last week local mill-
ers were not buyinggrain at Detroit.
Oﬂerings are small. Many of the
dealers are trying to work prices up
to a higher level and are of the opin-
ion that we may see an advance be-
fore the close of this week. 4

CORN .

Prices of‘corn are somewhat un-
der what they were two weeks ago
and the market seems dull at pres-
ent, but there is a gneral feeling
that pricesare low enough so we
may see them advance in the near'
future. Large quantities of corn
containing a liberal amount of mois-
ture continue to'arrive on the mar-
ket.

. OATS

Oats also seem about ready to
steady up and perhaps advance in
price. There is a dull market at
this writing but dealers are rather
Optimistic about the future. "

RYE '
Following the trend ‘of wheat th
price of rye gained slightly at De-
troit last Saturday and the market
is quiet to steady. '

BEANS
Bean prices continue to decline.
Many declare the weakness in' this
market is caused by damp beans, the .
moisture in many lots running above "
17 per cent. As many elevators are

not equipped with dryers they are. ‘

not able to put the beans in ﬁrst.
class condition and they arrive gat
terminal markets ’ containing , 4 some“
moisture.‘ Buyers are rather can; "
tious in accepting beans from Mi ‘ -
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