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Ask any city _man to choose between a bushel of good seed

and a bushel m Wthh poor seed predominates. He is just as

ltihkel ‘ to choose one as the other—because he doesn’t know
e erence.

But the tamer does. He is an expert in the business of
agriculture. It’s his specialty, and he knows more about it
than anyone else.

The farmers know, too, that experience is a great teacher.
If the City man were to try farmm , he’d soon learn the dif-
ference between good seed an bad seed. Results are
the final test.

The same principle holds true in regard to oil. The ordinary
man can see very httle difference between one oil and another.
But a lubricaan expert who spends his life working with oils \
and making actual tests in the ﬁeld Wlth all makes of auto-
mobiles, trucks and tractors, knows the difference between
good oil and inferior 011.

The staff of lubricating experts of the Standard Oil Company .I
(Indiana) is made u of such men, and Palatine is the prod-
not. of their years 0 experience. They have repared a chart
which will give you expert mformatlon ut the correct
lubrication of your particular machine. . One of the seven
grades of Polarme 18 made expressly for 1t.

You cannot tell the difference between good oil and poor oil
by looking at them. Accept the recommendation of experts.

Use Polarine and discover the eater efﬁciency of your trac-
tor. A good tractor lubricat with Polarine will work with
all the dependable power it was designed to develop.

It pays to use good oil as surely as it pays to use good seed.
When you use Polarme and see the repair. bills dwmdle you
will be convinced that the nght 011 pays m cash—and that
Polarine is the right 01].

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Station for correct grade for your tractor.

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AlfalfaiSeedGmwers Should ‘9 Watch Bloom

Farmers of Michigan Interested in Alfalfa Production Can Take Cue From Western Neighbors

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HEY used to say alfalfa was not

a dependable crop for Michigan.
Soils were too wet or too sour.
The-crop was not acclimated. Stands
would not last. After some 30 Or
40 years of trial, there were only
74,000 acres of alfalfa in the State
by 1919. Yet today, Michigan is

the leading alfalfa state east of the ‘
Probably 500,000 acres »

Mississippi. ‘
of alfalfa will be harvested for hay
this year. Farmers have learned
that with the right kind of seed,
with the use of lime on sour soils,
and by careful cultural practices, al-
falfa is dependable in Michigan and
it has become one of her most proﬁt-

- able crops.

Alfalfa seed production, however,
is drifting about in the same boat
aswas the hay crop 15 years ago.
People say the setting of alfalfa seed
is not dependable in Michigan. The
climate is too humid. Conditions are
not right. And in the light of pres-
ent experience, such is no‘ doubt the
case. Here and there in every sec-
tion of the Lower Peninsula, from
Monroe to Mackinaw City, farmers
come thru with a good alfalfa seed
crop. Yields of two to four bushels
per acre in 1925. More often than

- not, however, seed production is a

gamble. A promising Crap “peters
out" into bare stems. Plants look
as though an insect had nipped off
the blossom at its base and the crop
doesn't pay the threshing bill.

In spite of this, enough farmers
have made a go of seed to warrant
careful investigation of its possibil-
ties. Yields of from two bushels
per acre on up are very proﬁtable.
Michigan grown seed is hardy and
will withstand the rigors of the se-
verest winter. Farmers are willing
to pay a good price for the home
grown product and eliminate the
gamble of planting seed of unknown
origin. Ontario, with a similar cli-
mate, has been producing alfalfa
seed to the extent of two or three
million pounds annually for about
three years. Success in producing
seed has become so wide-spread in
Michigan that it would not be sur-
prising to see alfalfa seed produc-
tion as dependable with careful
farmers as is- the forage production
today.

In attempting to produce a crop of
seed the Michigan farmer will do

Large Percentage

IT is a lamentable fact, that de—
spite the great efforts of the

State Fire Marshal to arouse a
generalinterest among the people of
our state for ﬁre prevention, farmers
have not taken any great interest in
the movement, and as a result farm
building ﬁres have not been decreas-

‘ed to any great extent, in fact there

seems to be a gradual increase in
number and Lamount of losses. " * "
, I may say, without fear of con-
tradiction, that almost every ﬁre on
the farm, except it be from light—
ning, is caused through the neglect

. or carelessness of some person, and

that practically every loss may be
prevented, if the occupants of the
property will use every precaution
possible to safeguard the buildings,
making them safe from unnecessary
and uncalled for ﬁre hazards. A de-
pendable ﬁre extinguisher is most

 needed <fo’r instant assistance, and

yet comparatively few farmers have

.ﬂ‘he‘y’ are always ready for"

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By H. C.

Extension Specialist in Farm

well to study the. production meth-
ods of‘ alfalfa seed producers of the
northwest. Cleah ﬁelds are of para-
mount importance. Dock, catchﬁy
(white cookie), pigeon grass and
many other weeds cannot be easily
removed from the thrashed seed.
Some of them cannot be gotten out
at all. Red clover and sweet clover
mixtures, while they are in no, way
dangerous, greatly lower the market
value of the seed. All of these
weeds and mixtures, however, can
be removed in the ﬁeld by a thor-
ough use of the spring—tooth barrow,
and the alfalfa will thrive on the
cultivation. This practice is com-
mon throughout the west. ’1 saw one
Idaho ﬁeld which had been spring—
toothed 12 times before July ﬁrst. It
had an excellent setting of seed.
Save First Cutting

Growers in northern Michigan,
like growers in the'higher altitudes
of Idaho, will probably ﬁnd it ad-
vantageous ,to save the ﬁrst cutting
for seed . The season is'hardly.long
enough for both a hay and a seed
crop and the removal of the ﬁrst cut-
, ting for hay would” likely throw the
seeding of the second crop into a
period ofﬁfrosty weather.

In southern Michigan, the taking
of the ﬁrst or second crop for seed
depends upon seasonal conditions;
at least it does in the light of our
experiences thus far. When the
spring -is droughty, as in 1925, the
ﬁrst crop will apparently yield the
most seed. Allyn Ramseyer Elk-
ton secured over four bushes per
acre from the ﬁrst cutting of a 17
acre ﬁeld of Grimm that season.
Emil Faden, Reese; Milo Gingrich,
Big Rapids; W. F. Thomas, Afton,
all had good seed‘ yields from the
ﬁrst cutting. These widely scatter-
ed farms yery greatly in soil type,
which leads one to believe that other
factors are of greater importance in
producing seed that the class or'lo-
catﬁm of the soil.

I‘am inclined to think that the
Michigan alfalfa seed grower’s two
best hunches, at present, are to
watch the bloom.

Weather undoubtedly plays a big
part in the tripping of alfalfa blos-
soms. If the air is humid and heavy

of Farm Fires Caused Throth Neglect or Carelessness 

RATHER

Crops, Michigan State College

with moisture, the leaves and ow—
er petals are tough and do not rip.

If the atmosphere is dry, the ﬂowers
trip easily. Alfalfa growers believe
this explains the better seed crop in
dry seasons.

The ﬁnal indication as to whether
a seed crop will be harvested, of
course, is the actual setting of the
seed. Hence, the western growers’
motto, "Watch the bloom.” If seed
pods form quickly and begin to ﬁll
out at the base, a good setting of
seed is indicated. “Burning out” is
the term the Utah and Idaho grower
uses to indicate a setting of seed.
On the other hand, if the tiny stems
which bear the blossoms look as
tho’ 3. grasshopper or other insect
had nipped the bud off at its base, a.
seed crop is unlikely. Seed growers
call this loss of bloom “stripping,”
and once it starts it apparently af—
fects so high a percentage of the
bloom as to make a. proﬁtable seed
crop out of the question.

In view of these characteristics,
the southern Michigan farmer’s
program might well be as follows:
In season of dry spring, let the ﬁrst
cutting come to full bloom and
watch that bloom. If the plants are
burring out satisfactorily use the
ﬁrst cutting for seed. One Thumb
District farmer who has produced
seed almost'every season for several
years watches the bloom carefully
and if 6 00 '8 out of 10 blossoms
begin to form seed pods, he saves
the crop for seed. If less than this
percentage forms or if the’ bloom be—
gins to strip, he cuts the crop for
hay. Alfalfa cut at this stage makes
good hay, though not quite as de-
sirable as it would be if out in the
earlier bloom periods.

When the spring is rather rainy
and humid, a good seed crop from
the ﬁrst cutting is unlikely. This
crop should then be taken for hay
and the procedure of watching the
bloom for “burring out” or “strip-
ping” should be applied to the sec-
ond cutting.

In northern Michigan, it will be
necessary to save the ﬁrst cutting
for seed, if any, as the second is
quite likely to run into frost.

The Michigan State College had

By JAMES SLOCUM_

 

 

HE second radio talk of our series on rural ﬁre prevention was
delivered by James M. Slocum, secretary-nuanager of the Pioneer
Reserve..me Fire Insurance Company, on the evening of May

14th through station WGHP. Many thousands of farmers heard this
talk but there are many more thousands who did not and for their
beneﬁt we was publishing excerpts of the most important parts of it.

We are sorry space Will not permit publishing all of it.

The third

talk by Hon. L. ’1‘. Hands, State Insurance Commissioner, will appear

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in the preservation of his property
should keep them on his premises
ready to use at all times. * * "

- Boot Fires

In the cities of Detroit, Flint and
Bay City, in a singleiday last March
thawﬁre departments responded to

«97 calls to “extinguish. roof. eras

caused by cm ,y sparks falling,
upon roofs, setting them on ﬁre.
 of,”  .97  were,

 

these homes been in the farming
country more than half of them
would have been destroyed.

.One large mutual company, insur-
ing farm buildings, reports 197
dwelling losses in the year of 1925,
and 107 of these burned to the
ground, and ninety were saved with
partial loss. ‘ " ‘

Wt Dangers
There are many more ﬁre hazards

H  yet they have are pro—

. gentile farm than in the cities and

   

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the farmers alfalfa problem in mind
when alfalfa breeding was started
at this institution several years ago.
The late Professor F. A. Spragg a;
worked patiently for several years 
and ﬁnally brought out the Hardi-

gan Alfalfa. Hardigan is a coined

word coming from Hardy Michigan. .V
It was Professor Spragg’s observa— 
tion that Hardigan was as good as 
the best of alfalfa varieties for for-

age production and about three

times as good for seed.

How well these observations were
borne out in performance is shown
from the results of varietal tests
conducted later. In the forage trials
conductd by Professor C. R. Megee r
at East Lansing, Hardigan has lead 
the list, yielding just slightly more "
than the Grimm. Those’ who went
on the Federated Seed Service West-
ern Alfalfa Tour last summer saw ,
plats of Grimm and Hardigan side ,;.
by side at the Aberdeen Idaho Ex-
periment Station and the Grimm
yielded 5% bushels per acre, while
the Hardigan yielded 16.

We hardly expect to equal that
performance here, but most certain-
ly the proliﬁc blossoming habits of
Hardigan Alfalfa make it the most
desirable variety for the Michigan
farmer who plans seed production.

Thin Stands Best

Lighter rates of seeding with re-
sultant thinner stands seem to favor
seed production. Probably 5 or 6
pounds of Hardigan per acre are
sufficient. The crop should be seed-
ed in the usual manner, on a soil
well supplied with lime. Phosphoric
acid and, for lighter soils, potash,
too, will probably make for better
yields. The stand should be hand-
led for a year or two as a regular
hay crop, to clean it up. _

A mower with a pea bunching at-
tachment is desirable in cutting the ‘
seed crop. The self-rake reaper also ‘
works well. The crop is ready for "
harvest when two—thirds of the seed-
pods are brown. The ordinary clov- ,,
er huller will do a. good job of g,
threshing. f”

Certiﬁcation service on Hardigan s
and Grimm Alfalfa is provided in -'
this State by the Michigan Crop Im-
provement Association, working di-
rectly under the supervision of the
Farm Crops Department of the
Michigan State College.

   
  
   
 
   
  
  
  
  
   
    
 
   
    
  
  
  
   
   
  
   
  
   
   
   
    
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
   
   
   
   
   
  
  
   
   
    
     
  
  
  
   
  
  
    
  
    
 
  
 
 
  
  
  
 
  
  
 
 
   

will not permit me to enumerate all
the dangers which confront you who
live on farms, but I will mention
just a few of the most important
ones: ‘

01d shingle roofs on dwellings
without spark arresters on chim-
neys. Defective chimneys, made so.
by settling, cracking of bricks or
mortar. Loose bricks on chimney
tops, chimneys extending over rat-
ters and roofboards, the top being
held to place while the lewer part
settles, leaving an opening for ﬁre
brands to pass from the chimney
into the attic. No opening into at-
tic so that chimneys may be in-
spected. Perforated stove pipes
caused by rusting. Stove and fur-
nace pipes not stayed or supported
by wires. No collar around pipe at
chimney entrance, The thimble
through which stove pipe passes!
from one room to another, ﬁlled. '
with ﬂoor sweepings, etc. Clothing
and bedding hung too close to store
pipe. _ Heating and cooking stoves,
without ﬁre resisting material under
the-store or between store and ilde«

   
     
   
     

 

       
   
 

  
 

   
      
  

  
    
  
   

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MR. WALTER PALMER
Director of Live Stock and Exhibits of
Michigan State Fair. '

“ FARMER’S FAIR—second to
none in the country.” This is
the slogan of the Michigan

State Fair for 1926. Already the

committees in charge are carrying

forward their plans with great en-

ergy. Many innovations and im-

provements are being made in all

departments.

“The Michigan «State Fair,” said
’Mr. Howard Taylor. of Detroit, sec-
retary, “has two important aspects.
It is both educational and entertain-
ing to the thousands that visit it
every year. 7

“Moreover, it is primarily for the
farmer. Its success depends largely
upon the support of the farmer. The
state has every reason to be proud
of its agriculture and we are em-
phasizing that our own achieve-
ments should be especially recog-
lnized. “For example, Michigan
cattle will receive an extra reward
of twenty per cent added to the reg-
ular amount of all premiums won.
'Although there is no question but
that Michigan breeders can com-
pete successfully with the world, we
want to give this extra recognition
when they are successful in open
competition. '

“All our thought is being directed
toward making this a big Farmer's
Fair—the biggest and best state fair
that Michigan has ever undertaken."

Acting as Director of Live Stock

and Exhibits this year is a man of
unusual qualiﬁcations. He is Walter
Palmer, a cordial, friendly, modest
man whose experience has been ex-

ceedingly broad and who has devot—_

éd many years to the breeding, de-
veloping and judging of livestock
and horses.

For several years Mr. Palmer was
manager of the live stock depart-
ment of the California National Live
Stock Show. He is a charter mem-
ber of the Remount Board and one
of the original seven men who
founded the Remount Association.
During the war, he was a captain in
the Remount Division‘of the army.
He has attended nearly every state
fair in the country as a judge of
horses and cattle, and he was a
judge at both the St. Louis World's
Fair in 1904, and the Panama Pa-
ciﬁc Exhibition in 1914.

Many new ideas are being brought
to the fair by Mr. Palmer. 'Some of
them have been tried out success-
fully in other states, and some will
be in the nature of interesting ex—
periments.

One new policy which will likely
become permanent is to advertise
the Michigan State Fair as coming
“Always Labor Day Week.” This
tends to make everyone look for-
ward to the annual event and to

“plan a pilgrimage to the’fair year

after year at the same time. Labor
Day week comes from September
5th to 11th, which is the official
date of the fair this year.

Among the new classiﬁcations is
an addition to the Roultry Exhibit
of rewards for the best combination
utility and exhibition birds. There
are to be two separate judges, one
of whom will view the birds strictly
from the standpoint of utility and
productiveness and the other solely

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from the exhibition angle. A lively
contest for the prizes is expected.

In all departments, generous re-
wards will be made. Premium lists
are being printed, and will soon be
sent out. They. can be had also by
addressing a request to Mr. Palmer.
In round numbers, $25,000 will be
awarded for prize winning cattle,
$8,000 for sheep, $7,000 for swine
and $19,000" in the horse depart—
ment.

Conservation of ' Wild Life

One of the most interesting as-
pects of the fair, and one of great-
est beneﬁt, will be the exhibit devot-
ed to the conservation of wild life.
Already Mr. John Baird, head of the‘
state conservation department, and
his woodsmen are at work bringing
in every specimen of interest from
the woods of northern Michigan and
Other parts of the state.

It is believed that this will awak-

'en all to the problem and advantage

of conserving game and bird life
which within recent years have been
threatened in some instances with
extinction.

This question has a direct bear-
ing on the well being of the farmer.
The enormous mineral and natural
resources of the state will also come
in for considerable attention in the
exhibits devoted to mineral wealth
and to forestry. '

The Junior Fair

Boys and Girls Clubs, which form
the Junior State Fair, it is expected
will take great interest in the above
subjects as well as in the contests
in which they take part. The growth
of the Junior State Fair has been
remarkable—it is almost as com-
plete as the “big show" itself, with
prizes for milking, a calf club, sheep
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"HIS MONEY MAKERS”
“Our ﬂock of sheep on our farm," writes Mrs. Lue Battley, of. Wheeler, Gratiot county.

“Luo says

they are his money makers.”

higan’s Annual lEécbOsition

A whole additional building will
be turned Over to the Juniors this:
year. .This is the former Women’s
Building. The beautiful colonial;~
mansion, formerly the Administra-é
tion Building will house the Womeng
in very ﬁne quarters. I

Another improvement is the new.
Agricultural and Horticultural;
Building, work on which is in pro-j
gress. It will be completed about:
August 1st. This will'give a mosti
pleasing setting for separate agri—.
cultural, horticultural and ﬂoriclﬁ-é
tural exhibits which previously have
been combined. -

The Horse Show

Mr. Howard Allen, of Washington
Court House, Ohio, one of the best
known managers in the country, has
been placed in charge of the Michi-
ga State Fair Horseshow, which will
be one of the big features of the
fair. <‘

‘Some of the best stables in Amer-
ica will be represented. Afternoon
classes will be held at the grand-'
stand, and evening classes in the Big-

Coliseum, which seats over nine
thousand people.
With all these preparations, the

State Fair of 1926 is bound to be,
one of the “greatest shows on earth":
to borrow the phraseo‘logy of the,
Circus. -

It will do much to sell the great-?
ness of the state of Michigan’ to its
own citizens from both farm and
city. It will teach them many facts
about their own state which will be
new. It will mean a big stride for—
ward over all the fairs of the years!
past, and with new buildings, new
vision and new enlarged programs,
point the way to future successes.

The Michigan State Fair, in fact,
will be just as big as the people of
Michigan want to make~ it. And
cooperation from all over the state:
is more than evident.

It will be both a tremendous edu-
cational spectacle and a mammoth
entertainment—a great display of‘
the arts and fruits of peace—of agri-
culture and industry.

Those who have been selected to
guide its course this year have set.
about the tremendous task before:
them with determination and intel-I
ligence. And its complete success
is already on the way to realization.

A New Method of Handling Michigan’s Most Valuable Crop ' 

HE hay crop is the most valu-
able crop grown in Michigan,
and at the same time one of the

most neglected. During the last ten
years, th average value of this crop
exceeded that of any other. V. H.
Church, State Crops Statistician, re-
ports that the hay crop was worth
$57,069,000 per year; this exceeded
its nearest rival, corn, which is val-
ued at $52,855,000.

The development of the livestock
industry, especially that of dairying,
has shown to many Michigan farm—
ers that alfalfa, because of its rela-
tively high food value and large ton-
nage secured per acre, is of vital im-
portance to such an industry. The
acreage .of this legume has increased
until it now comprises 16 per cent
of the total acreage devoted to the
growing of hay.\ In a year as dry as
last season, alfalfa gave 2.05 tons on
nearly 500,000 acres that were cut
for hay. Yields of 3 to 4 tons per
acre, even last season, were not un—
common in many sections.

The large acreage being devoted
each year to this valuable crop
brings with it the problem of hand-
ling such .a large tonnage of hay at
least twice a year. Quality in alfal-
fa hay varies with the maturity or
time of cutting, whether early or
«late, with methods of curing and
x storage and with the character and
‘- extent of the weather damage.

7 ' .Our hay crops are highly perish-
able goods and must be handled

with some degree of judgment if one.
Impro- ,

- is to obtain the best results.
per curing and handling are respon-
gf’ble for a large portion of the I
"i e ality. hay that its—produced.

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By L. D. KURTZ

Extension Specialist in Farm Crops, Michigan State College

he desires to sell on the commercial
market, but an actual loss of that
highly desired color, its palatability,
it's digestibility, as well as its feed—
ing value.

It has long been a common prac—
tice to allow the hay to lie and cure
in the swath after being cut. Plac-
ing the cured hay in windrows a
short time before it is ready to haul
allows the leaves to" become so brit-
tle that they shatter badly upon rak-
ing and loading. The stems, which

are much more succulent than the

rest of the plant, remain covered
during the curing process and then
many wonder why hay like alfalfa
“mow burns.” These stems have
very little chance to cure simply be—
cause the evaporating leaf is dried
up very quickly.
“New” System of Handling Alfalfa
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handling hay, particularly alfalfa
and clover, simply takes into consid-
eration the natural evaporation of
moisture from the plant and puts this
into practice, even after the hay is
cut. Hay handled by this method
has a much better chance of retain-
ing its leaf surface, preserving its
green color and securing hay that

is cured,- thereby eliminating “mow
burning.”
Even in adverse weather, this

system shows to a better advantage .as many counties,

over methods commonly in use than
when conditions are more ideal, sim-
ply because it gives the hay a chance
to dry without such a heavy loss of
leaves in the operation. When one
considers the labor involved in
handling alfalfa, either by cocking
or by the methods commonly prac-
ticed, it is readily apparent to those
familiar with this newer system that

   

  
  

  
 
  
 
 

  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  

 

 
  

  

 

  
 

   

it is a much cheaper method of
handling a‘ crop like alfalfa, even:
under adverse conditions. '

“Hay Days”

The curing of hay is an act that,
cannot be entirely discussed in
books. The Farm Crops Department
of the Michigan State College real-
ized that there is only one way of
proving the value of a change in:
methods of curing hay, and that is
by actual demonstration in the ﬁeld,“
there have been arranged with
local implement dealers and County-
Agriculture Agents 19 Hay ’Days, i Y.
Anyone inter
ested in seeing this system actually
in operation can do so by attending
a Hay Day in the following countieszg

.'Jackson, June 10-11; Washtenaw;
June 14—15;*‘Livingston, June 14-15:,

Barry, June 14—15; Saginaw, June
16~17; Clinton; June 16-17; Tus~f
cola, June 21-22; St. Clair, June
23-24; Van Buren,_, June 22-23;;
Kent, June 23—24; Allegan, June
24—25; Newaygo, (June 28—29; Ot-é‘

sego, July 1-2; Charlevoix, July 5-65
Antrim, July 7—8.9; Allegan, August;
2-3; Ionia, August 4—5; Eaton, Aug-e
ust 4—5; Barry, August 9—10; Sanié
lac, August 12-13. ’ E

The exact location of the demon-i
strations can be learned from the
county agricultural agent in any of
these counties. ‘  - ?

Or if there is no‘Havaay in youtr
locality and on are unable to get

. away to attend one in Ian-efghboring ‘ . ,~

ecunty additioiial I informationv'about

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MR. AND MRS. W. DKFALEs.—Mr. Fales is
78 years old and his wife is 68, and they were
married August 3rd, 1873. They settled on a

    

 

 

homestead near Maniton, in \Vexford county, where
they still reside. There are four children, twelve
grandchildren. and three great-grandchildren.

 
  

  

    

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MR. AND MRS. RICHARD WELLS.—They
celebrated their" Golden Wedding 8 years ago
the tint of. last January on their farm near
Hastings, Barry county,~,which has been their
home since ,ktWo gal-s utter they werehmarried.
r They; have   Mien. thirteen grandchildren
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MR. AND MRS. LESTER DILLENBACK.-——The Dillen-
backs were married 51 years ago the 10th of last October
and, up to two .years ago, they lived on their farm near
Farwell, Clare county, which they took up as a. homestead
.50 years ago. Five of the six children born to them are born and raised in Canada. They have six children liv-

MR. AND MRS G. J. PEARSON.—They reside in
the village of Gilford and celebrated their Golden
July 2, 1925. Mr. Pearson is 75 years old
and his wife is 71. Both were born and raised in
this state but spent several years in Kentucky and
Ohio. They have two children and six grand- dren, tWenty-one grandchildren and one great—

I'ATO. this union ‘was born eleven children and there

. children and sixteen great-grandchildren.

 

DIR. AND DIRS. EDBIUND )[c(IREEDY.—This
moved to Flint from their farm near Ellington.

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couple MR. AND MRS. ROBERT SMITH.—
Tuscola.
county, last summer. Mr. McCreedy is 87 and his wife 86, live on their farm near Montgomery,
and they have been married for over 66 years. Both

They have been married 64 years. They

were llillsdalo county. He is 89, she 82, an
they have, 3 living children, 12 grand-1
children and 14; great-grandehildren.

 

 

 

MR. AND BIRS. GEORGE B. \VILCOX.—This couple
was born in Canada. and came to Michigan when small
children. He is 85 years old and she is 81. Diarch 14,
1862, was the date of their marriage. They have six
living children, nineteen grandchildren and seven great—
grandchildren. ~.

 

 

MR. AND MRS BYRON S. FOSKET.—They
were married October 4, 1866 and now live on
their farm near Byron, Shiawassee county, which
85 and she is 77. They have seven living chil-

grandchild.

 

MR. AND MRS. G. W. BOMAN.—The Bomans
live near' Edenville, Midland county, and have been
married 57 years. Both are Michigan born, he be-
ing 75:years old and she less than a year younger-

are eight living. ' There are also thirty-one SIWd' .

MR AND MRS. GEORGE II. FO0TE.——— ‘ifty-ﬂve
years of married life to date is their proud record.
They have lived on their farm near Barryton, luc—

MR. AND MRS. T. M. MARSTON.“—Fifty-two years
ago the 14th of last May this couple was married, and
for ten years they lived in Howell, then they moved to
Berville. After three years here they settled on the
farmttheyin‘ow, own and live on near Argyle, Sanilao
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11R. AND l‘iRS. L. J. BOULARDu—lir. and
lilrs. Boulurd, of liowno Center, in Bowne town-1
ship, Kent county, celebrated their Golden Wed-1
ding the 22nd of February, this year. They
have lived all their lives so far in liowne town-
ship. Thcy have 3 children and 4 grandchildren.

   

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has been their home for forty-three years. He is costa county, for the past forty—ﬁve years. Their
wedding anniversary falls on September 28th. They
have two children, eight grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.

   

They have three children, nine grandchildren

and one great-grandson.

   

  
  

 

 

 

 

 


   

  

 

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REPAIRS ON BUILDINGS

K When working a farm on a ﬁfty-
-ﬁfty basis who should futuish the
paint and paper for the interior of
the house and also put it on .the
~walls when it is needed, the owner
or the tenant? At the barn should
the renter furnish all of the tools,
horses and half of the other stock to
be legal about it? Would it be legal
to just pay legal rate of interest
money on the value of what the
renter should furnish and still let
the farm owner own all the things?
Would that be a fair deal on both

Should a fellow working a farm for
a share be paid for all fence build-
ing and repair work he does, also
improvement work?-——J. T., Devils
Lake, Mich.

HE general practice is for the
landlord to furnish material for
repairs and upkeep of buildings.

The 50-50 lease provides that the
tenant furnish all tools, horses and
half of the other stock. It is possible
for the tenant to lease such items
from the landlord by either paying
a cash or share rent. The landlord
should furnish the labor for major
improvements and repairs. Minor
repairs generally fall on the tenant.

While the above is the common
practice there are many exceptions

DEPENDABILITY 3%?“3 iiinbgﬂiigﬁieal’tiﬁ 83.13%;

The greatest thing
about a Ford is the
way it keeps going,
even under the
worst. conditions.
The dependability
of Champions—-
which have been
standard Ford
equipment for 14
years—is an inte—
gral part of Ford
dependability.

Anew net of dependable Charm
pion Spark Plugs every 10,000
miles will restore power, speed
and acceleration and actually
save their cost in less oil and
gas used.

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Dependable for )5ch Engine
Toledo. Ohio

for some other.—F. T. Riddell, Re-
search Assistant, M. S. C.

ALFALEA

Would you kindly tell me when is
the best time to sow alfalfa seed and
what shape the ground must be in?
Would sowing it in the oats be best
or broadcasting it on wheat? Would
you think seed from Kansas would
be all right for Michigan soil, and
would it be pure at $7.00 per bush—

UCCESSFUL stands of alfalfa are
being secured in Michigan from
seedings made during the peri-

od ranging from early spring to
late summer. As a general rule,
plantings made as soon as seed beds
can be ﬁtted in early spring are
more certain to meet with sufﬁcient
moisture for a good start.

Alfalfa seed starts best on a well
compacted, ﬁrmly rolled seed bed.
Ground which was in corn or other
cultivated crop can be ﬁtted by thor—
ough disking and compacting with
roller or cultipacker. .

When seeding with oats, it is ad-
visable to use one bushel of oats per
acre.

0n land well supplied with lime,
good results can be secured by
broadcasting and harrowing in on
wheat or by drilling on wheat.

We strongly recommend the
Michigan. Hardy northern grown
common alfalfaxgives good results.
It does not yield quite as much as
Grimm alfalfa as best adapted to
the Grimm and is not so enduring.
Great care should be exercised in
getting alfalfa seed from sources
which can clearly prove its origin.
I doubt very much that dependable
northern grown seed of high quality
can be secured at $7.00 per bushel.
Much seed from Arizona, which is
unadapted, and unadapted seed
from Argentina, is coming into our
market and is offered at cheaper
prices than the northern grown.
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soil for acidity. It is possible that
it,may need an application of lime
to secure a stand of alfalfa.- Infor-
mation for making tests ¢can be se-
cured ' from ‘ the Soils Department,
'Michigan State College, East Lan-
sing.~—-J. F. Cox, Professor of Farm
crops, M. S. C.

MUST PAY TAKE
farm contract we are supposed to

pay the taxes. Last spring when we
went to paythe taxes a few days, he:-
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el?——C. H., Lake Odessa, Michigan.‘

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whether or not we intended. to pay
them. He had a week or so prior -
to paying the .taxes written to the
treasurer to know if they had been
paid and she answered that they had
not but she did not know but what
we would pay them as we had a
couple of weeks more to pay them
' I would like to know if he can
force us to pay him those taXes.—-
Mrs. J. E. C., Albion, Michigan.

F you are" supposed to pay the tax-
es under the terms of the con—
tract and vendor pays them» for

you, you would have .to repay him
the amount he paid.—-.Legal Editor.

 

KIDNEY BEANS

I would like some information on
growing red kidney beans as I
have never grown any would like to
try some this year. can one grow
these and sell them on the‘market
like other beans or do you have to
ctmtract with some company?———A.
M., Tyre, Michigan.

HE red kidney bean is sometimes
cdntracted for by canning com—
panies but the majority of these
beans are sold on the market as dry
beans.

We recommend the seeding of 80
pounds of the red kidney bean per
acre, seeded about the 5th of June,
the 5th to 10th being good seeding
dates. .

The culture and other car is
similar to that of the pea bean,
they being harvested by the bean
puller and threshed with the ordin—
ary bean threshing equipment.-—H.
R. Pettigrove, Assistant Professor of
Farm Crops, M. S. C. '

MOTHER’S PENSION LAW?
Can you please tell me about the
Mother's Pension Law? When it be—
came a law and the person who ﬁrst
thought about it.—-1D. D. K'., Parma,
Michigan.
0U are advised that the original
act was passed at the extra ses—
sion of 1907- and subsequently
amended in 1913, which amendment
embraced the so—called Mother’s
Pension feather of the act, which
was not incorporated in the original
enactment. I regret. to advise that
I am unable to advise you as to the

name of the person who ﬁrst con- 

ceived the idea, of a so—called Mo-
ther’s Pension Law..—-Chas. 7.}. De-
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LEFI‘ING FIELDS ON HALVES

Will you please tell me what the
law or custom is in regard to letting
ﬁelds on halves? In case oats or
wheat are put in on halves and the
owner wishes all the straw left on
the farm, does he have to furnish
all the fertilizer and half the seed,
etc., in order to hold all the straw?
If the person putting in the. crops
furnishes half the fertilizer can they
obtain half the straw? How about
corn put in on halves? This is new
business to me, looking after the

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Milan, Mi-c'h.

' MALLgrains' let on halves
landlord furnishes the landf‘ﬁ-

‘ of the seed, twine and machim ' I :
costs for threshing. Grain is genera

ally divided at the machine. It _ is
quite a common practice for the
straw to remain on the farm. If the

tenant has a large expenditure for

fertilizer it would he no more than

fair that he have a portion of the a

straw. There is no set rule on' this

_‘ point.

When corn is put in on halves the
landlord bears one-half of seed,
twine and fertilizer costs; the ten-
ant furnishing all labor, equipment
and one—half of seed, twine and fer-
tilizer. Corn is divided in ﬁeld in
shock. If tenant husks andrhauls
corn he gets two-thirds of crop. The
character and fertility” of. the soil
have much todo as to an equitable
division of crops.
of labor is required to prepare the

seed-bed or the soil is low in fertil-“

ity, the tenant should have a. large
share of the income as compared
with soils of good filth and in a high
state of fertility—F. T. Riddell,
Reseaigih Assistant in Economics,
M. S. . »—

IS SEED ALRIGHT

Is it all right to save seed from I

iparsnips that have been left in the
ground all winter or have they got
to be taken out in_the fall and then
transplanted in spring? Would oth—
er vegetables such as carrots, ruta-
bagas, and turnips be all right to
save seed from if they were left in

I the ground all winter providing they

were covered heavy enough with
straw or manure to keep from freez-
ing?—A. V., Caro, Michigan.

'1‘ would be alrightdro save seeds
from parsnips that have been
left in the ground over winter;

but this rule holds true with par-

snips as well as With other biennial ‘

crops which are allowed to seed
without selection—one is. never cer-
tain if the roots which produce the
seed crop are the ones which are'of
the best type and quality. It is more
than likely that the strain would de-
teriorate very rapidly if the seeds
were selected each year from volun-
teer plants. / ' ._

I do not think that the average
gardener can afford to depend upon
seeds produced in this manner, al-
though for one or two generations
it might prove to be fairly satisfac—
tory—Geo. E. Starr, Assoc. Prof. of
Horticulture, M. S. C '

IS WIFE A CITIZEN?

I married a girl that was borii in
Hungaryr she came to thiscountry
at the age of one year.
parents have lived in this country
ever since, but her father has ne-
glected getting out his citizenship
papers (second). I am a natural
born citizen of the U. S. Would
that make my wife a citizen or not?
——'A Subscriber, Alger, Michigan.
—-.-.If married after September 22,
1922, the wife would become an
American citizen upon her marriage
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“SPEAKS OUT IN MEETING"
EAR EDITOR: I have before me
a feW~ articles .taken from your

\ valuable paper which has creat-

V ed in me a desire to “speak out in

' meeting." I have one from our
good friend, James N. McBride of
Burton, Michigan, on the sugar beet
si‘tuation,'also one on the wool sit-
uation, one from our good farmer—
lawyer friend, Peter B. Lennon 6f
Lennon, Michigan, on the tax ques-
tions also your editorials in your
paper of March 27th, 1926, under
the headings “Farm, Legislation"
and “Farmers Radical." While I
wish to agree with the general state-
ments of facts contained in all of
these » articles and statements sub-
mitted, yet I think they all lack in
coming to the point and showing any
hope or any solution of the existing
conditions.

In the ﬁrst place Mr. McBride
points out that the sugar-beet fac-
tories will lose millions of dollars
this year. His article does not state
or estimate the 1015s the farmers will
stand. We,import sugar. We have
manufacturers who in order to get
raw beets to supply their wan-ts are
sending their ﬁeld men into, Canada
to solicit acreage. Should not the
tariff be raised on raw beets high
enough so that these factories would
wire their men to return on the next
train home? Should ‘not the tariff
be raised, on foreign raw and reﬁned
sugar so that all sugar-beet factories
could pay American farmers a price
for beets so that they could afford
to raise them? Should not the tar-
iff on sugar be high enough so that
sugar would sell for at least ten
cent sugar still be the cheapest food
cent sugar still be the cheapest fodd
ﬁguring cost of calories? Without
going into the question of high tar-
iffs or low tariffs being the best
thing for the country I think it is
agreed by 90 per cent that where the
tariff is high enough to give Ameri-
can manufacturers and laboring men
absolute protection it should like-
wise be high enough to give the

Emerica farmer like protection re-
gardless f how high such tariff
should be.

Mr. McBride states that wool is
selling for thirty cents. Is the farm-
er _getting much protection from
tariff at this price? Should not the
tariff on wool be raised tomorrow to
‘a point so high that our manufac-
turers would use every pound of
American wool at not less than sev-
enty-five cents per pound before
they invest in a surplus of foreign
wools? Would this extra on the sev-
eral pounds of wool in a suit of
clothes make much difference in the
__ cost to the consumer?

The other day I read a circular
letter by one of the largest jobbers
of beans to the trade stating that
they saw no improvement for the
bean market in the near or distant
future for the reason that foreign
beans were shipped into the United
States in large enough quantities to
supply all our seaboard cities.
Should not the tariff be‘ raided on
beans tomorrow high enough so that
not one single bean would come
into the United States until Ameri-
can beans sell for at least ten cents
per pound? If this were done would
the consumer be injured unjustly
who is now paying more for the can
than the beans he buys therein?

‘How long can the American farm-
er pay these taxes, referred to in Mr.
Lennon's article, pay the high tariff
prices on articles he needs, high,
wages handed down to him in high
freight rates and various other ways
and receive the low prices for his

goods? ‘ . r .
Now comes the article on “Farm r
Legislation.” I think it is agreed

that the farmer is in needof legis-
lative assistance. However, we are
not getting at it. > One reason is that
' the‘men that are yelling the loudest
at _,Washington .are not the“ real
farmers themselves, jut ' are a
' bunch of men, well educated in the-

' era-meat. 1012' and the. .mennfaeturers
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ed la“ sole Judge a to whether letter

der the present situation politically.
This Dickinson bill besides creating
ten or ﬁfteen $10,000.00 jobs places
the burden of effect upon the tax-
payers and not upon the business
sought to be beneﬁted. The dis-
agreement by the Farm Bureau, the
Grange and the Farmers’ Union for
the reason that the bill is sectional
in its beneﬁts providing it was legit-
imate and constitutional is'no'argu—
ment at all. I claim that where
good could be given any section of
the farming country legitimately it
should be done at once. The trouble
is the Dickinson bill compells the

a taxpayer topay regardless of Wheth-
~ or he wants to buy or not.

Whereas
tariff legislation compells you to pay
only when you buy and you are not
forced to buy unless you wish to.
In conclusion, we now come to the
article “Farmers Radical.” The Na-
tional Industrial ‘Conference Board
reports that the tendency of farm-
ers is becoming radical. The board
or a similar board gave something
else out that they found which
may explain the tendency. They,
according to the Detroit News, found
that since before the war the farm-
er’s expenses consisted of taxes, in-
terest, cost of machinery, freight
rates, etc. have increased 300 per
cent whereas the wholesale prices
or those he‘ receives have increased
only 122 per cent. Does this not ex-
plain the movement to the cities?
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will be nothing but‘an out and out
radical? It has been. said that:

his own home door. V
tariff system is effective in maintai
ing the present American standard'
of living in the industries and the
present immigration laws enable the
labor unions to maitain their effec-
tiveness, which is legislation, should
not the President of the United
States use his authority given him
for this purpose and raise the tariff-
on every article that may help the '
farmer at once and investigate after-
wards? ‘

If nothing legislative 'or otherwise
is done how long will the present
industrialism continue to thrive af-
ter the farmers have been depleted.
to a complete state of peasantry?
C. E. Ackerman, Shiawasee County.‘

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Corn Planting Distance
HE following inquiry_ is just a
little late for a timely topic in
the columns of a paper of June
5th, and still, it may not be alto—
gether too late for this season.

An “interested
subscriber" from
,Washtenaw coun-
ty asks this
question: “Last
year you wrote
of planting an
early variety of
corn in checks
only three feet
apart .each way.
Do ydu think it
was a success,
and will y o u
plant in three
foot checks again
« this year?”

“We certainly shall, and as the
planting date is late this year, we
shall plant a larger acreage of this
early corn than we had intended.
No one likes to grow great large
yellow ears of corn better than the
‘Broadscope man, but he still main-
tains he would rather have a fully
matured medium sized ear, than the
big yellow one if it is only half ma-
tured. What variety of corn to
grow is more than an ordinary ques-
tion—it is a “perplexity” and we
have to solve it every year. In choos—
ing the medium early corn, and
planting it a little closer, its yield
is not so very much less than that
of the larger variety.

In mentioning corn planting dates
one must consider that the fact a
corn is planted early is no reason
it is sure to mature. The other end
of .the season has to be reckoned
with, as well as the planting time.
Sometimes a warm day or two in
early May makes us nervous to get
thecorn in the ground, and such
was the case this year. It was pos—
sible to plant one piece the tenth,
and we did. It is now nearly two
weeks since this planting, and,
while some of the corn is half an
inch high, some of it has not appear—
ed above ground yet. In good corn
weather it should have been large
enough .to cultivate inanother day
or two. It has been too cold and
dry. Rain, as well as warm sun—
shine, has been needed. Both being
lacking, corn and other vegetation
has not forged ahead as it should.
Even grass does not seem to grow
with very much enthusiasm, except
on our lawn, where We really wish
it would slow up, as we hardly have
time to keep the lawn mower going.

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The Spring Pigs

While it requires considerable
time to look after the sale of seed
potatoes to those who come to the
farm for them, it give us a chance
to know farmers from quite a large
territory. With the universal use of
autos, the scope of local trade is
very largely increased, and from
twenty to forty miles is now a com-
mon distance, where six or eight
used to be. In asking many.of
these farmers about the spring pigs,
one is led to believe the pig crop is
very short this year. Many report
a complete loss, and others half a.
crop. Very few have a normal one.

We have a lfar smaller average
than ever before, and the reason is
not easy to explain. If this is a
nationwide shortage, as we think it

is, there certainly will be a “surg

plus” corn crop for some committee
to ﬁnd an outlet for. But speaking
of surplus/crops, what can be done
about it? No one wants to cut down
very much on their acreage, and
when once in a series of years the
crop is above normal, and a “sur-
plu’s" exists, what are you going to
do about it? Will all those farmers
in Michigan who are cons.thth
troubled with a »‘

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main solution given. In a way this
may be feasible and in many ways it
may not. Last year, so we are told, ,
the farmers of the eastern states
planted heavily of sweet corn.’ etc.,
for. canneries and local trade.
Dairying seemed unproﬁtable, and
many went into truck growing. The
result: No sale at all for very much
of the corn and other cannery pro—
ducts. A few years ago potatoes
were very high priced, and many
farmers who never grew more than
enough for their own use, vowed
they would cash in on some potatoes
and potato patches of from one" to
three and four acres were scattered *
all over the country. Result: Thirty
and forty cents per bushel. It is a
very easy matter to rock the boat! ‘
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Alfalia Again
The time has arrived when we can

“compare last year’s seeding of alfal—

fa with some proﬁt. In summing up
the different ways it only empha-
sizes the fact as a_. friend stated it“
some time ago. "If you have a ﬁeld
you want to seedto alfalfa you can
sow it with cats or barley, or on
wheat or in standing corn, but if
you have a ﬁeld you want to have
alfalfa really grow on, and make
almost sure of a'crop, that is dif-
ferent than just seeding alfalfa, and
to get it, work the ground until mid
June, and sow inoculated seed on
good suitable soil without a robber
nurse crop.” The latter method has
proven the greatest success this
past year, notwithstanding some«
good ﬁelds-have resulted from seed.
ing in barley last spring. -The seed-’
mg in standing corn was almost a
failure, and many such ﬁelds will
probably be plowed for some other
crop.
at a: n- , ’
Meadows

In a broad view of th’ year’s hay
prospect, one is inclined to be pes-
simistic. Clover winter killed very
badly. Some ﬁelds which should
have been half clover and half tim—
othy will be minus the clover, and
but the half crop of timothy. This
applies to old seedings. There ‘is
practically no new or 1925 seedings
for, meadow this year. This all.
means pasture will also be a minus
quantity. One ﬁeld we had planned '
to pasture, was seeded to mammoth
clover. last year in oats. This
shows perhaps one third of a stand
and, not knowing which way to
jump, we decided not to plow it up,
but very early went in with a disk
and sowed three bushels of oats per
acre on it; also seeded inoculated
sweet clover. The cats and sweet
clover are coming ﬁne, and what
mammoth clover there was, is doing
as well as ebuld be expected under
the circumstances. ~

We shall keep the stock from
this ﬁeld until the cats and ‘mam—
moth clover have made considerable
growth. ’

These short pasture crop years
make me think of a neighbor who
owned a four acre place. He said

“ he would like a big farm of about

169 acres and would want 120 acres
of it good swamp pasture!

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TEXT: “While the earth remaineth,
seedthno and harvest, andcold and heat.
(Ii sun-mesons! winter, and day and
night shall-M sense." Genesis 8:22.

” 0U have seen the painting, “The

~ man with the hoe." A news-
. paper editor once said to the
writer that the man with the hoe
can be the happiest man in the
world. But the man in the pic-
ture is not. He is but a solitary

defected slave; and just ﬁlling out
. miserable, hopeless days. Why? A

companion painting tells. And “The
Angelou” should be on the walls of
your Fame. In it is another man

mdth the hoe. He ' is the soul 01
; contentment and happiness.

Ah, he
has the companionship of a woman
(level and is environed by God (the
church). The bell of prayer rings
and labor ceases while the heads are
bowed. Indeed ,this farmer and his
wife are interested in something
more than the making of a living,
even the makingwof a life.

To livevis a wonderful, a tremen-
dous thing. It is to make the ideal
the real. “It is no longer I that live
but Christ that liveth in me,” is the
Pauline conception of life. With
our feet planted on mother earth
and our hearts engaged -day-by-day
in reaching out for God, is to live
in the faith of the Son of God. God’s

‘book has the whole earth praising

him and man panting after him as

 the hart panteth after the water

brooks. So, the making of a living
is but a parenthetical avocation in
its relationship to the whole voca-
'tion of life. This life is but a tent-
lug experience, and as long as it re—
mains it be its ﬁtting occasion to
Godliness. Our text is God’s prom-

. ise that he will not again smite the

' ardship.

earth and thus cut loft man’s oppor-
tunity to use the seasons in a praise-
worthy way. But this is to hear
God’s call to repentance and stew-
Luke testiﬁes, "He left

‘ not himself without witness, in that

he dided good and gave you from

' heaven rains ‘and fruitful seasons,
.' filling your hearts with food and

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gladness.” In recognition of this,
the peasant and his wife take God

. along to the ﬁelds and pray while

I " the Anglusrrings.

We recommend
this high companionship to every
farmer and farmer’sshousehold dur-

{ ing this recurring season.

Harvest shall not cease. This
promise is big with meaning. It has
in it judgment or life. The kind of.

harvest depends upon the seed-bed
and the seed. The good farmer

-‘ counts as vital the right preparation
, of his ﬁelds for the seed. This is a

- trying but by being.

parable of the heart. The heart
must have preparation for a likely
harvest. This is brought about not
so much by what we can do, but by
what God does. Man is not good by
On; relation—
ship to God is determined not by

‘ works, but by the way we react

when" he plows and harrows the
heart with trials, sickness ,and temp-
tations. How our Lord would break,
crush and ﬁne the soil of the heart
'in preparation for the good seed.
Forms of religion have no self-re-
deeming merit. “Jehovah is nigh
unto them that are of a broken
heart.“ The Savior pronounces his
blessings upon "the poor in spirit."
And then comes the sewing. The
heart never lies fallow. "Be not
deceived. God is not mocked; what-
so ever a man soweth that shall he
also reap.” And Mr. Business
Farmer, you know this proves true
in your ﬁelds; but know, also, that
it is true in the ﬁeld of the soul.
This is a law of continuity that is
~irrevocable in the realm of lite. A
certain harvest-effect follows a giv-
en‘need-sowing in human character.
Ron’s lutire depends upon present
"seed-choices. And every day of one's

 lemma life-tine ii' a seed-some

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in garments of hope. It is believed
that youth is life's fittest and great-
est seed-time, tho the seed may not
germinate until in later years.
Therefore, “Remember thy creator
in the days of thy youth.”

Summer comes on, and the man
with the hoe is anxiously noting the
vigor of his crops. The results of
his spring seeding begin to show
up. But the vigor of his manhood
also discloses whether as a youth he
‘sowed “wild cats" or good. Many
“a man is condemned in middle age
by a certain hand-writing on the
wall. . And while every farmer
should be making hay while the sun-
shines, we are glad to know that
under Grace, even at noon-tide there
is time to reseed. To get ready for
the ﬁnal harvest is yet the supreme
problem of life.

But the summer wanes and mel-p

low and ripening autumn is here.
Then the farmer lays in the reap-
ing or mourns. Similarly, in the
autumn of life when the years be-

   
   
   
   
 
    
      
       
     
     
    
       
      
      
     
      
        
        
       
        
      
     
     
     
    
     
   
 
  
   
    
  

   

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Season’s Work 2

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Will it give you good service without excessive
don’t need a new binder; but if its perform-

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"cries of an unbroken heart
wasted opportunities . What shall‘

the harvest be? Even as we sow.
There» is yet time for an eleventh
hour sowing.

Winter presses down upon us. It
comes with seeming death and bur-
ial. All is silent. Is it? No, there
is wonderful life in bud and crevice
waiting the vernal spring again. 0,’
Man ,do you feel, that stirring and
expectation of life in the breast of
your wintry years? You don’t?
Then plant as you can: God will
bless any sowing that has been in-
oculated in the culture of repent.-
ance. Verily, all of life as compared
with eternity is but a Childhood’s
existence; it is our vernal season;
our sowing time. Here we are but

tenants on God’s earth, but there

we shall have sure foundations if we
have wiser sowed before Death
.blights with his nipping frosts.

The kind of harvest will depend
upon the kind of sowing. Here like
produces like. So, the business
farmer tests his seeds. But this
has its moral counter-part. Let us
test our seed in the soil of prayer,
of worship, of the search for Truth,
and of a consecrated life. Heaven
is but a multiplication of the good
we do in life. Hell is but the multi-
plied end of sowing the seeds of sin.
Says the psalmist, “Their sorrows

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‘ McCormick gag nearing:

IN order to build the one
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There are Many I
McCormick-Dan Binders that are
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1. Improved bevel gears.
2. Improved ball-thrust bear-

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3. Improved adjustment of 10. Be brag-n f ‘d
ball-thmstbearinglmmesh- mam g or 0mm 0
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4. Ball-tbrustbearingsonbotb
ends of the main wheel bob.
5. Removable roller bearing

6. Rollerbearingsmbotbends
of main elevator driving

7. Improvedseli-aﬁgningroller

bearings.
8. Vertical bolted connectiOns
between main irame and

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robably Lacks Most of These, Tao—All
on the NEW McComick-Decring:

1.17M Bar Steel Frame.
Replaced dd Pipe imme- 5.Stmpliﬁcd Knottcr. New
Lighter and stronger.

2.Mor¢ Roller Bearings.
Roller bearings added to

3. Floating Elevator. Auto-
madcally adjusts knell to

he“! 01’ 5811‘ grain- 7. New Bundle Carrier.

4. Larger Capacity Binding Outer end drops as well as
Attachment. More room ﬁngers. Dischargesbundlcc
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for another god.”

“He that sowethto the ﬂesh." and
Whole he? He
that is dominated by a selﬁsh and
personal interest; who forgets his
neighbor; who has no idea of stew-
ardship; and he to whom every
worldly prospect pleases. Know that
every act of pleasure untouched by
noble aims toward one's fellows and
toward God, lowers one deeper into
the pit. Verily, minding of the
ﬂesh is death. It overthrown na-
ture’s laws; brings disease, and
alienates from God.

God is the connection between
seed and harvest, both natural and
spiritual. And the crops may fail
temporarily, the spiritual harvest is
certain. But death need not be
shrouded in tragedy and loss if one
sows to the Spirit.

BIBLE THOUGHTS

THE GRASS WITHERETH, THE
FLOWER FADE’I‘H: BUT THE
WORD OF‘ OUR GOD SHALL
STAND FOR EVER.——Isaiah 40:8.

SEEK YE THE LORD WHILE HE
MAY BE FOUND, CALL YE UPON»
H51M WHILE HE IS NEAR—Isaiah
5 :6.

IF THINE ENEMY be hungry, give
him bread to eat; and it he be
thirsty, give him water to drink—-
Proverbs 25:21.

menu on New

9. Improved connection be
tween platform and eleva—

II. More space between main
wheel and main drive
chain, eliminating nectr
mulation oi dirt and
undergrowth.

12. Better platform canvas
adjusting device.

13. Controlling leverseanier to
reach and operate.

14. Wider range of adjust-
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neighbor

New York Central is a “railroad man’s railroad.”

In spite of this, many of those who live along the line often
think of the New York Central as a far-off institution, managed
by men unknown, unseen and remote.

But the men who make the New York Central what it is
are to be found along its lines, among its local agents, its fore-
men, its section bosses and its train crews. They are the
representatives of the company, holding responsible positions
because of their proven ability, intelligence and trustworthi-

HESS.

f.

Farmers who live along the New York Central Lines who

  

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neighbors are overlooking helpful friends.

Newrk Central Line

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Boston 86 Albany—Michigan Central—Big Four—Pittsburgh 86 Lake Erie
and the New York Central and Subsidiary Lines

Agricultural Relations Department Oﬁ'ices

New York Central Station, Rochester, N. Y.
Michigan Central Station, Detroit, Mich.

La Salle St. Station, Chica o, 111.
466 Lexington Ave., New ork, N.Y.

68 East Gay St., Columbus, Ohio

 

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CROPS ' BIG PROFITS

Solvay Pulverized Limestone is helping thou,
sands of farmers to get more from their land.
Solvay is produced in only one grade—there
is no second best—every bag, everybulk ton
is ground to the. same ﬁneness. No effort is
spared to make Solvay of greatest beneﬁt to
the farmer.

$olvay produces results the ﬁrst year—and
its good effects accumulate from year to year.
Spread Solvay this year—it’s high test, fur!
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Corn Planting Distance
HE following inquiry. is just a
little late for a timely topic in
the columns of a paper of June
5th, and still, it may not be alto-
gether too late for this season.

An “interested
subscriber" from
,Washtenaw coun-
ty askS‘ this
question: “Last
year you wrote
of planting an
early variety of
corn in checks
only three feet
apart each way.
Do you think it
was a success,
and will you
plant in three
foot checks again
I this year?"

“We certainly shall, and as the
planting date is late this year, we
shall plant a larger acreage of this
early corn than we had intended.
No one likes to grow great large
yellow ears of corn better than the
‘Broadscope man, but he still main—
tains he would rather have a. fully
matured medium sized ear, than the
big yellow one it it is only half ma—
tured. What variety of corn to
grow is more than an ordinary ques—
tion—it is a “perplexity” and we
have to solve it every year. In choos-
ing the medium early corn, and
planting it a little closer, its yield
is not so very much less than that
of the larger variety.

In mentioning corn planting dates
one must consider that the fact a
corn is planted early is no reason
it is sure to mature. The other end
of ,the season has to be reckoned
with, as well as the planting time.
Sometimes a warm day or two in
early May makes us nervous to get
thecorn in the ground, and such
was the case this year. It was pos-
sible to plant one piece the tenth,
and we did. It is now nearly two
weeks since this planting, and,
while some of the corn is half an
inch high, some of it has not appear-
ed above ground yet. In good corn
weather it should have been large
enough to cultivate inanother day
or two._ It has been too cold and
dry. Rain, as well as warm sun-
shine, has been needed. Both being
lacking, corn and other vegetation
has not forged ahead as it should.
Even grass does not seem to grow
with very much enthusiasm, except
on our lawn, where We really wish
it would slow up, as we hardly have
time to keep the lawn mower going.

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L. W. MEEKS

The Spring Pigs

While it requires considerable
time to look after the sale of seed
potatoes to those who come to the
farm for them, it give? us a chance
to know farmers from quite a large
territory. With the universal use of
autos, the scope of local trade is
very largely increased, and from
twenty to forty miles is now a com-
mon distance, where six or eight
used to be. In asking many.of
these farmers about the spring pigs,
one is led to belieVe the pig crop IS
very short this year. Many report
a complete less, and others half a
crop. Very few have a normal one.

We have a ar smaller average
than ever before, and the reason is
not easy to explain. If this is a
nationwide Shortage, as we think it

is, there certainly will be a “sur-|

plus" corn crop for some committee
to ﬁnd an outlet for. But speaking
of surplus,crops, what can be done
about it? No one wants to cut down
very muchwon their acreage, and
when once in a series of years the
crop is above normal, and a ‘fsur-
plus”'existe. what are you going to
do about it? Will all those farmers
in Michigan. who. , are, consignth

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main solution given. In a way this
may be feasible and in many‘ways it
may not. Last year, so we are told,-
the farmers of the eastern states
planted heavily of sweet corn, etc,
for. canneries and local trade.
Dairying seemed unproﬁtable, and
many went into truck growing. The
result: No sale at all for very much
of the corn and other cannery prov
ducts. A few years ago potatoes
were very high priced, and many
farmers who never grew more than
enough for their own use, voWed
they would cash in on some potatoes
and potato patches of from one" to

three and four acres were scattered ’

all over the country. Result: Thirty
and forty Cents per bushel. It is at

very easy matter to rock the boat! ‘
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Alfalia. Again
The time has arrived when we can

“compare last year’s seeding of alfal—

fa with some proﬁt.

. In summing up
the dlﬂerent ways

it only empha—

sizes the fact as a, friend stated it”-

some time ago. “If you have a ﬁeld
you want to seed to alfalfa. you can
sow it with cats or barley, or on
wheat or in standing corn, but if
you have a ﬁeld you want to have
alfalfa really grow on, and make
almost sure of a‘crop, that is dif-
ferent than just seeding alfalfa, and
to get it, work the ground until mid
June, and sow inoculated seed on
good suitable soil without a. robber
nurse crop.” The latter method has
proven the greatest success this
past year, notwithstanding some
good ﬁelds-have resulted from seed.‘
ing in barley last spring. ,The seed-i”
mg in standing corn was almost a.
failure, and many such ﬁelds will
probably be plowed for Some other
crop.
at s e , '
Meadows I,

In a broad view of th" year's hay'
prospect, one is inclined to be pes-
simistic. Clover winter killed very
badly. Some ﬁelds which should
have been half clover and half tim-
othy will be minus the clover, and
but the half crop of timothy. This
applies to old seedings. There ’is
practically no new or 1925 seedings
for, meadow this year.
means pasture will also be a minus
quantity. One ﬁeld we had planned
to pasture, was seeded to mammoth
clover. last year in oats. This
shows perhaps one third of a stand
and, not knowing which wayto
jump, we decided not to plow it up,
but very early went in with a disk
and sowed three bushels of oats per
acre on it; also seeded inoculated
sweet clover. The oats and sweet
clover are coming ﬁne, and what
mammoth clover there was, is doing
as well as eculd be expected under
the circumstances. ~.

We shall keep the stock from
this ﬁeld until. the oats and mam-
moth clover have made considerable
growth. ' .

These short pasture crop years
make me think of a neighbor who
owned a four acre place. He said

‘ he would like a big farm of about

160 acres and would want 120 acres-
of it good swamp pasture!

 

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TEXT: “While the earth remnineth,
Doodﬂnre and harvest, and.eold_ and heat.
 summer ud winter, and day and
slight shall not cease.” Genesis 8:22;

‘ 0U have seen the painting, “The

man with the bee." A news-

t paper editor once said to the

writer that the man with the bee

can be the happiest man in the

world. But the man in the pic-

ture is not. He is but a solitary

«V. dejected slave; and just ﬁlling out
miserable, hopeless days. Why? A

companion painting tells. And “The

ageing” should be on the walls of

your home. In it is another man

«with the hoe. He 'is the soul of
/ contentment and happiness. Ah, he
has the companionship of a woman

(level and is environed by God (the,

church). The bell of prayer rings
and labor ceases while the heads are
bowed. Indeed ,this farmer and his
wife are interested in something
more than the making of a living,
even the makingﬁof a life. .

To live- is a. wonderful,’ a tremen-
dous thing. It is to make the ideal
the real. “It is no longer I that live
but Christ that liveth in me,” is the
Pauline conception of life. With
our feet planted on mother earth
and our hearts engaged -day-by-day
in reaching out for God, is to live

pin the faith of the Son of God. God’s
book has the whole earth praising
him and man panting after him as

 the hart panteth after the water

brooks. So, the making of a living
is but a parenthetical avocation in
its relationship to the whole voca-
‘tion of life. This life is but a tent-

‘_ ing experience, and as long as it re-

mains it has its ﬁtting occasion to
Godliness. Our text is God’s prom-

, ise that he will not again smite the

earth and thus cut off man’s oppor-
tunity to use the seasons in a. praise-
But' this is to hear
God’s call to repentance and stew—
Luke testiﬁes, “He left

he dided good and gave you from

' heaven rains and fruitful seasons,
i ﬁlling your hearts with food and

gradness.” In recognition of this,

L the peasant and his wife take God
. - along to the ﬁelds and pray while
' the Anglusrings.
< this high companionship
‘ farmer and farmer’shousehold dur—

We recommend
to every

ing this recurring season.

Harvest shall not cease. This
- ‘ promise is big with meaning. It has
, in it judgment or life. The kind of.

harvest depends upon the seed-bed
The good farmer

This is a
parable of the heart. The heart
must have preparation for a likely
harvest. This is brought about not
so much by what we can do, but by
Man is not good by
trying but by being. On; relation-
ship to God is determined not by

' works, but by the way we react
. when he plows and barrows the
,‘ heart with trials, sickness ,and temp-

tations. How our Lord would break,
crush and ﬁne the soil of the heart
in preparation for the good seed.

I Forms of religion have no self-re-

l

deeming merit. “Jehovah is nigh

unto them that are of —a broken

heart.” The Savior pronounces his

f blessings upon "the poor in spirit."

J

And then comes the sewing. The
heart never lies fallow. "Be not
deceived. God is not mocked; what-
so ever a man soweth that shall he
also reap." And Mr. Business
Farmer, you know this proves true
in your ﬁelds; but know, also, that
it is true in the ﬁeld of the soul.
This is a law of continuity that is
irrevocable in the realm of life. A
certain» harvest-effect follows a giv.

Man’s. tutti-e depends upon present
.ued-choices. And every day of one’s

ural life—time is' a seed-sowing

   
  

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in garments of. hope. It is believed
that youth is life's ﬁttest and great
est seed-time, tho the seed may not
germinate until in later years.
Therefore, “Remember thy creator
in the days of thy youth."

Summer comes on, and the man
with the hoe is anxiously noting the
vigor of his' crops. The results of
his spring seeding begin to show
up. But the vigor of his manhood
also discloses whether as a youth he
\sowed “wild oats” or good. Many
‘a man is condemned in middle age
by a certain hand-writing on the
wall. , And while every farmer
should be making hay while the sun-
shines, we are glad to know that
under Grace, even at noon-tide there
is time to reseed. To get ready for
the ﬁnal harvest is yet the supreme
problem of life. .

But the summer wanes and meI-\
low and ripening autumn is here.
Then the farmer joys in the reap-
ing or mourns. Similarly, in the
autumn of life when the years be-

_- the harvest be?
There is yet time for an eleventh

sndihe st

 
  

.ruptsfruit. its are haunted by mem-

" "cries of an, unbrohm heart _..;end

 . I raiser. 5.311511 is. multipl
compelled mm or 

wasted opportunities . What shall.

Even‘ as we sow.

‘ hour sowing. '

Winter presses down upon us. It
comes with seeming death and bur-
ial. Allis silent. Is it? No, there
is wonderful life in bud and crevice
waiting the‘vernal spring again. 0,
Man ,do you feel that stirring and
expectation of life in the breast of
your wintry years? You don’t?
Then plant as you can: God will
bless any sowing that has been in-
oculated in the culture of repent-
ance. Verily, all of life as. compared
with eternity is but a childhood’s
existence; it is our vernal season;
our sowing time. Here we are but

tenants on God’s earth, but there
we shall have sure foundations if we
have wisely soWed before Death
..bligh'ts with his nipping frosts.

The kind of harvest will depend

upon the kind of sewing. Here like
produces like. So, the business
farmer tests his seeds. But this

has its moral counter-part. Let us
test our seed in the soil of prayer,
of worship, of the search for Truth,
and of a consecrated life. Heaven
is but a multiplication of the good
we do in life. Hell is but the multi-
plied end of sewing the seeds of sin.
Says the psalmist, “Their sorrows

you know the rest.

   

   

ied V that give gifts '
 another god.” ' '

“He. that soweth to the flesh,” and
While be? He '
that is dominated by a selfish and '
personal interest; who forgets his
neighbor; who has no idea of stew-
ardship; and he to whom every
worldly prospect pleases. Know that
every act of pleasure untouched by
noble aims toward one’s fellows and
toward God, lowers one deeper into
the pit. Verily, minding of the
ﬂesh is death. It overthrown na-~
ture's laws; brings disease, and
alienates from God.

God is the connection between
seed and harvest, both natural and
spiritual. And tho crops may fail
temporarily, the spiritual harvest is
certain. But death need not be 
shrouded in tragedy and loss if one _ r
sows to the Spirit. 

BIBLE THOUGHTS

THE GRAJS'S WITHERETH, THE

FLOWER FADETH: BUT THE r
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(Continued from May 22nd Issue)

NOTHER place of 160 acres of
A, the ﬁnest hardwood timber I
ever knew, some of the maple
trees were ﬁve feet in diameter, and

it grew thick, was slashed down by‘ ‘

» the owner ﬁfty years ago, after it
lay a year or so and was very dry, it
Was set on ﬁre and burned up clean.
The soil was also burned under this
great heat and a good crop has nev-
er been raised since. The place is
now given to the commons.

A part of our farm suffered the
same treatment, but was checked
when we learned it was more proﬁt-
able to cut this ﬁne timber into rail-
road wood and saw logs.

No More Timber \Vasted

In 1880 w bought a second-hand
saw mill and set it up on the back
end of our place to cut lumber for
out own buildings, and do general
custom work. 'After this no more
good timber was wasted on this
'place, or any other place in this
neighborhood. .

New houses and barns were need-
ed, and as we took hemlock logs for

 

 

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Please ﬁnd enclosed $1.00 to pay
for two years subscription and please
send the April 24th issue so I can
have the whole of the Pioneer story.
That is the best ever, and my father
knows the author: he has hauled
many a load to his mill. I want to
keep all the papers for my children
to read. We are not exactly {pioneers
but we have lived here for the last
44 years and have seen some changes.
My father is 86 years old this fall
and is still working his farm with
what help I can give him. That Pio-
neer story sure made you one new
subscriber and I don’t doubt many
mores—Mrs. A. E., LeRoy, Michigan.

 

 

sawing every farmer could get lum-
ber and good, new houses and barns
were soon taking the place of the
old cabins and shacks, but there was
no sale for hemlock lumber outside
until we got sale for one carload of
4x45 to A. D. Doubleday of Kalama-
zoo, who said he would try them for
stringers under sidewalks in the
Doubleday Addition to Kalamazoo.
This was in 1882 and is, I believe,
the ﬁrst carload of hemlock lumber
ever shipped from this section. We
now got 'the railroad to put a switch
in so we could ship out lumber,
bark, wood, etc., and business in-
creased.

In 1884 we built our barn and in
the same year built a new and larg-
er mill at our railroad siding, t0“
, which we added shingle machinery.
This was another step in saving tim-
ber as shingles could be made of
logs not suitable for lumber and we
later added alathe mill and I have
sawed thousands of logs that were
. salvaged from burned slashing.

The G. R. & I. railroad coming
when it did gave us an opportunity
to save this material and ship it
where it could be used, and‘ as there
are only two men living at this time
that I know of who had charge of
this great work, I am pleased to
quote the following facts from a
letter just received from one of
those men who has just completed
ﬁfty years of service with this rail-a
road company. W. R. Shelby of
‘Grand Rapids. .“Only 20 miles of

the railroad from Grand Rapids to
' Cedar Springs were completed up to
1869, and unless another 20 was ﬁn-
ished by July 1st, 1869, the G. R.
8;, I: wpuld forfeit the land grant.

. 985 than 60 days were left in which
in build this 20 miles from Cedar
“Epidngs to Morley, a huge undertak—
 at the time, and the iron rails‘

 1the.\_English type brought from
12bit," and labor imported, ’ilh

‘ "t n._contract with the Con:

mp: Company was

By ED. dc. ALLEN."

 

 

 

 

THE STORY TO DATE

N the opening installments of this most, interest-
ing- and true story Mr. Allen told us some-
thing about his father, who was born in Eng-

land but left home when a small boy to see the
world. He told of how his father met Miss Eliza
Conway, who later became his wife, and of their
settling in Chicago, to later decide on Michigan as

their future home.

They came to this state in

1867 and two years later settled on the farm
where the author now lives, near LeRoy, in Os-

ceola county.
Ed. C. Allen .

After staking out their homestead
and making the required improvements the men

went to work on the G. R. & 1. Railroad. As soon
as this Work was done they returned to their farming but later

on the building of the railroad continued and the Allens helped.

,At

the conclusion of the last installment Mr. Allen was discussing the
wasting of Michigan's lumber in those days.

 

 

signed May 1st, 1869, and the C. I.
00., through its treasurer, W. R.
Shelby, furnished the money to be
disbursed by M. M. Stimson, engin-

eer, as the work progressed, which

did go on so rapidly that the last
rail on this 20 miles was laid on the
21st day of June, 1869, and the Gov-
ernor of Michigan certiﬁed its com-
pletion on June 30th, 1869, giving
clear title to the Grand Rapids and
Indiana Railroad Co. of its land
grant, there being no settlements
north of Big Rapids. [The C. 1. Co.
engaged Rev. Dr. Tustin to go to
S w e d e n for a

Christmas time, but they were very

\ seldom quarrelsome, generally jolly

and generous. With the new towns
springing up every few miles as soon
as the rails -were laid, there was
neither law nor order, and the ﬁrst
enterprise was often a saloon, and

in many cases there would be more A

saloons than stores. Wild times
were indulged in, especially when
the lumber camps joined in. .

At Fife Lake our camp was built
near the bank of the lake about a
half mile south of where the town
is now located. It Was a beautiful

' place and specu-

 

c o l on y. H e
brought back _ a
number of peo-
ple who settled
the lands around
Ashton, LeRoy
and Tustin. Con-
struction w o r k
was pushed ra-
pidly by the C.
I. 00., and by
July 1st, 1876,
r ails were laid
fromFortWayne.

 

lation ran high
for a large town.
A saw mill was
built, the land
around our camp
laid out for town
lots and sold at
$100.00 per lot;
a general store,
two saloons and
a h o t el w e r e
built all at once
and all» seemed
well patronized.

 

 

Indiana to Men-
ton, Michigan,
and by OctOben
the same year
they were com-
plete to Grand
Rapids and north of Grand Rapids
had been laid to Clam Lake at the
same time, October 1871, and the
G. R._ & I. railroad was ﬁnished to
Petoskey December 1st, 1878."

Neither Law Nor Order
occupation I

Philo

homesteads.

Owing to father’s
was always at the front where
everything was very active, es-
pecially as there were no restric-
tions regarding the amount of liquor
consumed. At the beginning, near
Kalamazoo, many Irish were em-
ployed who, under the inﬂuence of
liquor, were not content except
when ﬁghting, and my memory of
those days will never be forgotten.
A year later when the Swedes came
they seemed to like the liquor fully
as well as the Irish, especially about

M. Newborry as he looks today.
Mr. Newberry was born January 11, 1849,
in Calhoun county, and as a young man
acted as a cruiser_helping people locate
.He now lives in the State
of Washington.

One day the
wife of one of
the bridge timber
men who had a
,camp a few miles
north, came for
goods but as a day or two passed
and she did not return a committee
came to investigate and found her
in a room over one of the saloons in
a dazed condition. The saloon keeper
explained he was trying to get her
sober so she could go home, she was
sent home and all was quiet until
Saturday night, the town was ﬁlled
with bridge timber men, and lumber
jacks, and the saloons doing a good
business, but soon after midnight
loud yells and crashes were heard as
of some orgy, the next morning one
of the saloons had disappeared as if
by a mighty cyclone, the owner
looked as though he had been used
for a battering ram and soon left for
parts unknown. Such scenes were
not uncommon in the new towns,
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Prof. o. w. Biésen

Later he was made vice-dean of“ the department.
he came to Michigan to ﬁll the position he now holds, andvin‘:
he was made“ director of the Engineermg
-«  addition to his dtl'i‘ ‘

MEET DEAN G. w. Bissau, or M.‘s. c. FOLKS

EAN G. W BISSELL is at the head of the
Division of Engineering at the Michigan State
College. He was born in 1866 at Poughkeepu

sm_New York, where he received his early‘educa-
tion 'in the public schools.
Cornell University and graduated three years later
with the degree of mechanical engineer; following
which he served his Alma Mater as instructor in
v experimental engineering for three years.
called to the Iowa State College in 1891 to act as
assistant professor in mechanical engineering and
the followingnyear was promoted to professorship.

In 1885 he entered
He was

In the year 1907 ,
‘ 1924,

Experiment- stating; in, '

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ship. _, " ‘ ~

'the’, farm and mill.

being no telephones.

. ya 

bermen would come to town to
spend their monthly pay. 'Business
continued good, but the cutting of
the“ timber seemed to change our
climate and in winter the snow was
blown in drifts in place of lying
where it fell as in former years.
f Leaves Michigan" r

In 1892 I decided to go down
South in search of something better,
leaving my brothers to look after
I had a friend
who had charge of a big Cypress
logging outfit 70 miles west of New
Orleans, Louisiana. Here I was
given charge of a steam skidder.
and soon after my friend and I took
the contract to stock the mill (one
of the ﬁnest in the South) with cy-
press logs, our outﬁt to consist of‘a “
well equipped railroad with two 10-
comotives, about 30 cars and two
large steam skidders complete.

We made a success and the. com-
pany wanted us to remain with them
and not return to Michigan, as Were
our plans when our contract was
ﬁnished. They offered us a beauti-
ful tract of the rich alluvial lands at
the price of $10.00 per acre as an
inducement, while all the rich sugar
and rice lands surrounding us were
valued at more than $100.00 per
acre. - We were tempted to stay, and
might. have done so if the old Missis-
sippi river had not got her back up
about the last of June. '

One day our main line engine did
not return with empty cars, so I or-4
dered the‘switch engine to take out
a loaded train, (and went with it to
learn the cause of the delay, there
I “learned on
reaching the ofﬁce at the mill that
not only our train but thousands of
men were engaged in building a
board wall along the top of the le-
vee, all the plantation forces assist-
ed by the lumber companies, had
been on duty for 36 hours without
rest. " ‘

0n reaching the levee I was met
by Mr. Bowie, who was vice~presi-
dent of the White Castle L’umber &
Shingle Company, and had been on
the levee for 40 hours, He was
smiling, and his ﬁrst words were
“We are safe." - ‘

The levee had broken on the op-
posite side about six miles below,

.~ but it was over a foot above the le-

-vee on our side and was being held
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SHALL WE DO THIS?

I Just wish to say that the story
“Pioneering in lVIichigan" is the best
thing in the story line I have seen
in The Business Farmer. I love
history like that. Why couldn't it
be printed in book form and sold by
The Business Farmer for a moderate
price? Give us more of such stories.
—Mrs. E. C., Mendon, Michigan.

 

 

which was three feet high and ex-
tended for miles up and down the
levee, the surface, of the river then
being more than nineteen feet-above
the surrounding country. -

We had heard so much of thi
ﬂood that we wished to see it and on
July 4th we hired a boat, and two
of our hands, young men who were
natives and knew the country well,
offered to go with us and row the
boat, which they said would not be
hard as they would follow the cur-
rents. .

We started early in the morning.
taking with us a good lunch and a
cake of ice, as the thermometer
stood at 115 degrees in the shade
all day. The river being six [miles
wide we crossed it, angling down
stream only a few yards above the ._
break, which was over, a. thousand , .
feet wide, through which the water. 3.»
was rushing “With the; ‘ "

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TO SET OUT ORCHARD
‘ I have forty acres I wish to set
to seventy-ﬁve Delicious, twenty-ﬁve
Cortland. apple trees each year.
Would set apples trees' forty feet
apart using Montmorency cherry as
,. ~ ﬁller. Is this too
c l o s e ? I have
the best of land
for an orchard.
When could I ex-
pect to get'some
r e t u r n s from
trees? Can you
tell me if Stark’s
Golden Delicious
and the Delicious
that the Celery
City Nurseries
sell is the same?
One says it is a
golden Color and
e the other says
red. I want a red apple and a good
size one. I understand from the pa-
pers and bulletins I have that you
get more and better apples‘where
these are set together, otherwise I
would set all Delicious apples. Any
other information you can give me
will be appreciated—R. P., Harris-
ville’, Mich. e

‘ , UR. plan of setting apple trees
‘ 1' forty feet apart and using cher-

: rice as ﬁllers is O. K., but do
not-forget to remove the ﬁllers when
crowd your apple
trees. The length of time it takes
to get returns from fruit trees de-
pends a great deal on what kind of
care they get and on the varieties,
but ﬁve years for cherries and seven
years for apples will about hit it.

When a nursery lists Delicious it
means red Delicious unless other-
wise stated.

We would advise you to get some
other kindrwith your Delicious as a
pollenizer. McIntosh would be
good for this. purpose and is itself a
very good variety. .

 

 

Herbert Naiziger

SPRAYIN G RED RASPBERRIES

Could you please give me infor-
mation relative to time of spraying
of red raspberries, also proper for—
mulas for same?—V. K., Plainwell,
Michigan.

. S a rule red raspberries do not
require any spraying as they
are far less subject to disease

than the black raspberries. However

if the red raspberries should happen
to be infected with anthracnose the
following sprays should be made.

1. Just as the leaves are beginning

to come out,\with 5 gallons of lime

sulphur in water to make 50 gallons.

2. About a week before the blossoms

open spray with bordeaux mixture.

M. S. C. recommends a 4-8-100 mix—

ture which is 4 pounds copper sul-

phate, 8 pounds lime and 100 gal-
lons of water.

SPRAY FOR SCALE
I would like to get information
as to what is the best spray to use
to control scale in an apple orchard.
I would appreciate advice on when

'to spray and what to use—F. H.,

. to their enterpriseand shrewdness.

Traverse City, Michigan.

0 control scale spray when the
tree are dormant using liquid
. lime—sulphur 12% gallons to
100 gallons of water. This spray
can also be applied just as the tips
of the apple branches begin to show
green at which time one pint orni-
cotine sulphate can be added to con-
trol plant lice, thus killing two birds
with one stone. ‘

 

‘TAKING THE WIND bur OF
THEIR. SAILS
ESTERN fruit assmziations are
W said to ,be installing fruit wip-
ing machines which will be

used to remove all spray residue
from apples.‘

This move is being
made to remove any excuse that
foreign countries maykhave to dis-
criminate against American apples
because of traces of spray materials

hering to the packed fruit. The

CWesterners are to be‘ complimented

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St. Paul Portland, Ore.

A definite mileage Guarantee
Backed by a 54 year old Company ~

If you could buy a better tire
value, if you couId get extra
quality for an extra price—
that would be a different thing.

But when We put a 54 year
old guarantee back of River-
side tires, when we guarantee
them to give you the last pos- '
sible yard of mileage, paying
an extra price is only extrava- ,

When we guarantee our over— '
size cords for 12,000 miles—
our balloons for 12,000 miles-—
made with new live rubber, de-
signed to prevent skidding—-

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what better tire value can you
get at a higher price?

If you pay one-third more, what
do you get for the extra money?
You get no longer mileage, no bet-
ter. service, no better guarantee of
satisfaction. So why pay more?

i We never sacriﬁce quality to
. make a low price
The market is being ﬂooded With
low priced tires specially made to
meet' Riverside prices but: not to
meet Riverside quality.

Many of these low priced tires are
made of “rubber compOSition” and
contain so little new. live rubber
that they cannot possibly give satis-
factory mileage. Riverside Tires are
absolutelyguarantced and arethebig-

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You pay once only for any
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If Your Farm
could 'ljalk-
It Would Say:

 

Take concrete into part-
nership. Use it to mod-
ernize old buildings. Use-
it to construct new build-
ings. Use it to increase
the value of your farm,
increase production, cut
repair bills, save labor
and to make the business
of farming yield greater
satisfaction. '

Crib or granary walls, floors;
and foundations of concrete, el-
lectively keep out rate. You can't

sell rats. Why iced them ?
More milk and more beef per
acre result from concrete silos.
Concrete walks mean less
work for your wile. They keep
mud and dirt out of the house.

Clean dairy barns mean
healthy, contented cows, 3 great-
er quantity and a bener quality
of milk—hence increased dairy
proﬁts; Concrete in the barn is
easy to clean and keep clean.

Concrete gives ﬁre protection.
It protects people in houses, cat-

' tie in barns, and feed in silos. It
isvﬁresale.
Send today for our free booklets.
"Permanent Repairs on the Farm.’ ' and
"Plans for Concrete F arm Buildinzs' '

PORTLAND CEMENT
ASSOCIATION
‘ Dime Bank Building
‘ DETROIT, MICH.

A National Organization
to Improve and Extend the
Uses of Concrete

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If you want the best fur bearin SILVER
FOXES, get them from g "
mckory Grove Fox Ranch
High, dry, wooded homeland—natural and
In every way des'nrable. Hapgiy Foxes pro- ‘
duced here means the typi ' ' A,‘
and stren hof their ickor Grovehome.
When Y U want the BES , come to us.
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10c package.

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We will not knowingly accept the advertising 0 any ‘n or
firm who we do not believe to be thoroughly onset an reliable.
Should any reader have any cause for complaint against any ad-
vert‘ser in these co the bileher would appreciate an im-
medate letter bringing all he to light. In ey case when
writing say: "I saw/your advartiaement in The Mu- n Busine-
Farmerl" It will guarantee boneat dealing.

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“A. FARMER‘S FAIR—SECOND T0 NONE”

HE slogan of the 1926 Michigan State Fair
indicates that what we have talked of and
dreamed about is coming true at last. “A

farmer’s fair—second to none in the country"—
that's the slogan, and indications are that those
connected with the State Fair are doing their
utmost to make it just that. The state depart-
ments, the Michigan State College, and various
farmers’ organizations about the state are tak-
ing part, something that has been absent to a.
marked degree at the fair during recent years.
Everything is being done to encourage the pat-
ronage of the farmers. Apparently there is a
feeling that the city man will be interested in
an agricultural fair, just as much as he would be
in an industrial exposition, and the farmer is the
man the fair oﬂicials must cater to. And it is
true. A new building especially for agriculture
and horticulture is being constructed and special
awards will be made in many departments to en-
courage our farmers to enter their best at De-
troit.

This year’s fair is September 5th to 11th,
which is quite a long ways oﬂ, but we hope that
you are planning on getting in at least one day
and make your plans far enough head so that,
barring sickness or death, you will be there.

WAS IT A VIOI‘ORY?

F we are to believe allthat we read the wets
I appear to be very happy over the fact that
their candidate recently won the Republican
nomination for United States Senator from the
state of Pennsylvania. But if one reads the de-
tails about the vote they wonder if it was a vic-
tory after all.

The only place where the wet candidate ran
ahead of the other two, one a bone dry man and
the other the Administration's candidate, was in
Philadelphia. Out in the state he ran a poor
third. This indicates that it was only where the
organization of the wets functioned 100 per cent
and their misleading propaganda was circulated
extensively, especially among the foreign work-
men, were they able to win a hearing. Among the
people who think for themselves the wet candi-
date fared mighty slim because the people appre-
ciated that the country is better 01!, a hundred
times over, without liquor in any form than it
would be~to have it back.

Manufacturers are very short sighted that
they are not educating their workers to appreci-
ate the Eighteenth Amendment and if liquor was
brought back and distributed to their men le-
gally as in the days before prohibition they
Would soon realize their mistake. The_money
that in the old days went for beer and other in-
toxicating liquors is now going into automobiles,
homes, stocks, bonds, savings banks, schools»
churches, theatres, and a higher scale of living
than the laborers of any other country know.
Compare the living scale of the middle class in
the United States to the same class in any of the

' _. _ European countries where liquor ﬂows freely.

There is no comparison, they are as dlferent as
the North Pole and the equator.

.Manuiacturcrs express "alarm over a radical,
coming into this country for tear that their work-
ir‘nen will listen-to his ideas and causetmnble.
yet they 19!; something  
' » not ‘  

_ _ . . _  mils. " ~  
m " ‘ "is doinghlso’invthlnkingjsojwe
not have to worry about hint." And most of
women folks. both country and city. have
up their minds on this question, to the
of the vets. _» V ' 7 

The canoe of the veto indeed and nobody
knows it more'than they do  are going
to put up a 31:1! light befor'e they mu l/t. " 

  
  

 

MAMG commas um 50 YEARS
used to be a custom in indoor-thorn part 0!
Germany for the government to pay titty
marks to each couple that had been married

ﬁfty years and over. A ﬁne custom, but the ﬁfty

marks was the smallest reward they received
for this ﬁne record. Their real reward was the
fact that their’s was a partnership that had stgod
the test of time, that during those years they~ had
travelled life’s highway side by side. Yes, they
had had their little diﬂiculties but their love was
strong enough to survive and they were now ap-
proaching the evenmg of life, happy in the fact
that they had each other to share their remaining
days together and prepare for the future when

.they would cross the Great Divide, hand in hand,

they hoped.

It would be interesting to know how many
couples in the world would be entitled to a
special reward if all of the countries established
a custom similar to the old German one. We
know of over eighty couples right here in Mich-
igan that would be eligible as we had that many
entered in our recent contest to ﬁnd Michigan’s
longest married couples. Our reward was re—
stricted to three and these were awarded as
stated in our last issue. ‘

Although we could not give a prize to all
couples we did publish pictures of many of them
and we are going to. publish the others, just as
we have previously stated. As a starter we have
a full page of them in this issue, in place of our
regular picture page. Other pages like this, one
will appear as time goes on, so if your picture
hasn’t appeared yet, just be patient with us, be-
cause it will be published.

MILK PRODUCING RATIONS

ELL folks, your worries about what kind of
a ration to feed your cows to get the most
milk are all over. No longer will you have
to write us or anyone else for advice along that
line. All you will have to do is install a phono-
graph in the cow barn and while you milk put
on a record of instrumental music of "My Old
Kentucky Home". It’s supposed to increase pro-
duction per cow about one quart. Of course we
can not guarantee results, but a well known
manufacturer and retailer living in Tennessee
says he has tried it out on his farm for four years
and it never fails. Now he has decided he can
increase production" still more and is building a
large pool which is to be stocked with gold ﬁsh
for his cows to look into. Also he has ordered
50 pairs of canary birds and will hang a cage con-
taining two birds between the stalls of every two
cows.
While he is at it we suggest that he build a

 

CHIEF FIRE MARSHAL COMIVIENDS

Dear Editor: - a
After reading the May 8th number of
the Michigan Business Farmer we feel it
our duty to thank you and command you
on the action taken throught the columns
of your paper, in the Fire Prevention 0am-
palg'n you have recently started. -

In the past twelve years in the Fire
Prevention ﬁeld the writer has often won-
dered why in our work through municipali-
ties, public schools and the Large amount
of instruction work being done, by our de-
partment and the Michigan File Preven-
tion Association, Fire Chiefs and various
other ﬁre prevention organizations we have
been unable 'to reach the rural districts as
all such campaigns are carried on in cities.
Due to the fact that ﬁre prevention is a
thankless job and one that brings little
compensation: for our immediate «elm-ts,
it has been exoeptionally hardJ’o interest
others in this [testicular ﬁeld.

However, we are sure that the work be-
ing done by you. although you may not

reap the harireet direct is bound to can
ten-fold if continued. Again thanking you
for your  I am,
Very truly yours, .

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to give more milk. would in; 
to give butter ionized of. milk? ~'0!‘ would
buttermilk? ‘ We would like to know.

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na'r 

. Bani: some information that Michigan a5- 7 ‘

pie growers should feel real good over ind

do Everything possible to get it before the
consumers and keep it before then through pub-
llcity. both paid advertising and_newn stones.

A new days ago‘br. Hervey Kellogg, 
tionally known dietarian ‘ot Battle Creek. laid.
"If people would eat six apples a day it is mine.-
blo a good many doctors would have to abandon
their profession. An: apple between broom
and dinner, another in the afternoon and another
at bedtime are anexoellent remedy for constipa-
tion and render material assistance to badly

crippled colons which require more ‘vigorm col- '

on stimulants, such as bran, roughage, mineral
oils, etc. Most headaches are due to intestinal
toxemia, the result or an inactive celon.
at mealtime, between meal times and at bed
time serve in many, cases as an excellent laxa-
tive, this making an end to the headaches by re-
moving the, cause." ‘

Information like this, put out by the organ- ~

ized fruit growers of Michigan, would do con-
siderable toward increasing the consumption of’
Michigan’s choice apples. Give the California
orange growers a. statement recommending their
product as highly asvthis and you would read
it in colored advertisements in all of the leading
magazines for months to come. The same would
apply to a number of other grOWers' organiza-
tions. When will Michigan fruit growers begin
to “cash in" on what they have?

WATCH OUT FOR THESE CATTLE
THE State Department of Agriculture has is-

sued a warning to the farmers of Michigan»

about buying dairy . cattle on the Chicago
market at this time because of the number of
“on the edge" cattle for sale. Due to the great
amount of testing in the past few months in
northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin to com-
ply wlth the. new Chicago ordinance the Chicago
Stockyards are ﬂooded‘ with dairy cattle.
of these are reactors, properly branded and
slaughtered under federal inspection and regula-
tions, but there are others that passed the test
but came from badly infected herds, and these
are the ones you‘ must look out for. Owners of
such animals know that they have been exposed
and will no doubt react when thevnext test is
made so they unload them right away. A '
Do not accept cattle from the Illinois-Wiscon-
sin area unless credentials to show the herd is
free from tuberculosis accompanies the shipment,
urges the department, and it is mighty good ad-
vice to follow. ' ' ”

MICHIGANS ’ALFALF'A ACREAGE
T took between. thirty and~forty~years to get
the farmers bf this state interested enough in
alfalfa to plant 74,000 acres, but since. 19
this has increased to around 500,000 acres,
bringing Michigan into the lead of all states east
of the Mississippi, and inquiries we are receiving
indicate the increase will continue rapidly in the
future. ‘ 7‘.
Much interest is shown at this time particular“
ly in the production of alfalfa seed and we are
publishing an article ‘On this subject elsewhere
in this issue. The author is H. 0. Rather, exten-
sion specialist in farm crops at the Michigan
State College, a young man well known to
farmers in nearly every section of the state and
we are sure you will ﬁnd his article most instruc-
tive. '

 

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STILL AT WORK'
HUS far four states have ratiﬁed the twen-
tieth amendment to the Constitution offthe
United States and 36 states have rejected it;
This is the child labor amendment, which is still
being promoted in the face of so decisive a de- _7
feat. The farm organizations have done good
work in helping to beat this measure, but since ’

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; «"Ladies—.Earn extra money 3"

dressing cards at' home., Experience
unnecessary. 2c stamp.“ brings full
particulars: No canvassing. , Inter—
state 00., 304 W. 63rd St., Room
F6211, Chicago.” . .

 l ' HERON county subscriber ad

vises that she read the above

advertisement- several weeks
ago in The Detroit Free Press-and
answered it. They urged her to send
a dollar for their plan of clipping
papers and addressing cards and a
supply of cards. She sent the dollar

and received the instructions and—'
:ﬂve cards, and now she is in doubt

it she should do the work or not.
‘ Their work-at—home scheme is
one that is being worked by several
other companies we have had oc-
casion to investigate, It is about
like this: When a person answers
their ad they are asked to send in
$1 for instructions and supplies. The

 

 

TWO IN THIRTY DAYS

The .......... .. settled very promptly
after you took this claim up with
,them. This is two claims you have
caused a quick settlement for me in-
side of thirty days.‘ I ﬁgure this
service departmeﬁt alone worth mo‘re
than the price of your paper.—
Sherman Angel, Standish, Michigan.

 

 

instructions consist of detailed di-
rections on clipping personal items
from newspapers, which you are to
get by writing different publishers
about the country and asking for
sample copies. ,Then you are to ad-
dress a postal card to persons men-

tioned in these personal items advis-_

ing them that you have a clipping
about them which you will be
pleased to mail on receipt of 25c.

Few will pay any attention—to the
card they receive and those that do
and send their qaurter will receive
,a clipping containing information of
slight, if any, value; somethingth-at
they would not clip even if they had
a marked copy of the newspaper
sent to them by the publisher. Jt is

needless-to say they become angry ’,

at the one sending out the cards.

While it cannot be termed a gen-
uine fraud, yet it is far from an up-
right and honorable way of earning
a living. Leave it alone, is our ad-
vice. '

 

LITTLE WONDER STOVE
I own some stock in the Little
Wonder Stove Company, of Detroit,
and as I have heard nothing from
the company for some time I am
wondering what has happened and

' would like to know the value of my

stock.-'——-Reader, .Wayne County.

{ROM what we are able to learn
the value of your stock ,has
gone down some compared to

the price you must have paid for" it,
because at present it is _worth be—
tween two and three cents a pound,
quoting junk dealers prices on old
paper. »

A petition in bankruptcy was ﬁled
against this company on April 27,
1922, and Edward G. Wasey, 2040
Penobscot Building, Detroit, was ap-
pointed permanent trustee . The
company was liquidated, but there
were not sufﬁcient assets to pay the
costs of the receivership, to say

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a / :Lie Qollection 

The umeseefth departmentletorc-
test on: subscribers rem fraudulent use use
or unfair treatment by persons or concerns at
a distance.

In every case we will do our best is make
a satisfactory settlement or force duties. fee
which no oherce for_our services will ever be
made, providing: V '

1.--The claim I made by a. paid—us sub—i
minor to The! inese Farmer. r ‘
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quoted by the company. s.

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', pups at 31,500.. The assetsof the

nothing of taking care of 'creditors’
claims. ‘

Just put your stock certiﬁcates
away some place and then when you
are tempted to invest in some com-
pany that you know nothing about
take them out and look them over.
They may save you some money in
this way.

TRADERS BROKERAGE COMPANY
E have had some inquiries re-
garding the Traders Brokerage

" Company” of Kansas City, Mis-
souri, and wish to advise all who are
interested that a‘ fraud order has
been issued against this company
and its manager, J. L. Hurst. The
post 'oﬂice officials received informa-
tion that indicated this company

‘was using the mails to defraud and

issued the order. All mail to the

company is being returned to the
senders by the post oﬂice and no

issued or paid.

0. W. BIRBERICK

N East Jordan subscriber order—

ed by] mail some stationery

from O. W. Birberick, at that
time located at 1004 Townsend St.,
Lansing, and enclosed personal
check to pay in full. A few days
later she recieved an undated letter
from him advising *that the order
was delayed as he had moved to 603
Barlum Building, Detroit, but he
said nothing about when it would
be sent. Our subscriber received her
cancell d check and wrote‘ twice to
Birber k without recieving an an-
swer before she took it up with us.
We wrote him several letters, send-
ing the last one registered to be cer-
tain that he received it, and he fails
to reply in any way. It is plainly
evident that he doesn’t intend to
treat our subscriber fair and we
wish. to. warn others who might be
solicited to purchase something from
him.

LANSING LOOM WORKS

I am writing you to learn if you
know anything abOut the Lansing
Loom Works, Utica, N. Y. What do
you think of their proposition?—
G.- B., Eaton County.

A E understand the Lansing Loom
Works is promoted by the
former proprietor of the Steb-

.er Machine Company of the same
city, and the sales plan is very sim-
ilar to the one used to sell the knit-
ting machines.

Rather elaborate claims as to the
possible income are made and the
company is to, purchase all the rugs
woven. If a large number of people
purchase these looms and devote
much time to the weaving of rugs,
it seems to us, it would not be long
before the market would be ﬂooded.
Rug weavers estimate that a woman
working ten hours a day would not
be able to make more than ﬁve rugs
for which the company agrees to pay
25 cents each. So the total income
for one day’s work would be $1.26,
out of which the worker must pay
postage. And the company reserves
the right to reject any rugs that‘do
not come up to qualiﬁcations, of
which they "are the sole Judge.

We understand that the loom is
similargto others now on the market
at a price considerable under that

_ FOX FARM INVES’IDRS LOSE
HE Gordon Silver Fox Farms,
Bangor, Maine, is now in bank-
ruptcy.
than. 3,000 investors put $3,000,000
into this scheme. Foxes were of-
fered at 12,000 a pair, although “in-
terests” in a pa‘r were sold for a
lesser amount. The company agreed

each year one litters of pups. It also
agreed to purchase two of ‘these

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By Anne Campbell

On Sundayrquite the proper ,thing,
When we two married the meadows

  

. ’ wide,
E'specially in the balmy spring—
Was going for a buggy ride.

The reins across the horse'sk‘back
Were always very loosely tied.

’ > He drove himself when night dropped

black,
When going for a buggy ride.

Sometimes to meeting we would go,
A sitting happy, side by side,

And, coming back, we’d drive so slow,
A going for a buggy ride.

You always wore a sash of blue,
And lace your reddened hands would
hide.
Your face no paint or powder knew
A going for a buggy ride.

It was in May, one cherished year,
I asked you if you’d be my bride.

I bent your whispered "Yes" to hear,
A going for a buggy ride.

Now in a ﬁivver, with our boys,
On Sundays we, so digniﬁed,
Recall those days of simple joys,

A going for a buggy ride.

Remembering the thrill we had,
Sometimes we to the kids conﬁde
The happiness of lass and lad
A going for a buggy ride. ‘

And if it’s car, balloon or train,
If you are near, I’m satisﬁed
To feel the love that you made plain
A going for a buggy ride!
(Copyright, 1926.)

CAN 'A FEW JARS OF RHUBABB
A FEW jars of rhubarb on the
shelves for use next fall and
winter will add a little variety
and good food to a few meals. Rhu-
barb is the best in the spring when
it is young and tender and when the
spring rains have made it juicy. It
may be canned alone or combined
with pineapples or raisins in sauce
and conserves. For canning it alone
or cooking for immediate use, make
a heavy sugar syrup of a cup of sugar
and a half cup of water, out the
rhubarb stalks into half-inch lengths
and put them into the syrup While
it is hot. Cook them until tender in
this syrup. The rhubarb may be
baked and then canned or used. Cut
the stalks into half inch pieces, add
one—fourth as much sugar as rhu-
’ barb by measure, and bake in a cov-
ered baking dish about ﬁve minutes
or until the rhubarb is tender.
Four pounds of peeled rhubarb,
3% pounds of sugar, 1 pound of rai-
sins, 1 orange and 1 lemon make a
good conserve. Cut the rhubarb in-
to inch lengths. Add the sugar and
grated rind and juice of the orange
and lemon. Let it stand about a half
hour. Simmer 45 minutes or until
the mixture thickens. Add the rai-
sins the last ten minutes. Remove
and seal, if canned, while boiling
hot.

METHOD GIVEN TO REMOVE
GRASS STAINS
INCE nature has donned her
dress of green, the_problem of
removing grass stains from
clothing again faces the busy house-
wife. The following methods are
recommended.

Wash the fresh stain in cold wa—
ter without soap. Soap sets the
stain and therefore should not be
used. ,

Alcohol or ether will dissolve the
green coloring matter when the ma-
terial cannot be washed.

Apply Javelle water and follow
immediately with boiling water.
Thorough. rinsing will prevent Ja-
velle from effecting the ﬁber.

WHY MORE VEGETABLESZ

1. They are a natural tonic.

2. They furnish bulk, Stimulate
intestinal action, thus preventing
constipation. '

3. They give us minerals neces-

sary in the building of good blood, ,-

strong bones, and teeth. I
~4. They give us vitamines
thus good health. .

5. They give us variety and at— A .
nsyrup Which the workers W111 carry

tractiveness in diet. » .
, , Leafy vegetables are best. Spin-
”‘ach, turnip greens ,celery, lettuce,
{and green cabbage are our own best

‘  leaves. -

, Other. vegejables are also health-
an: Tomatoe , string beans, carrots,
sets, parsnips, turnips, eggplant,
quash, are in- this list of dependa-
es easy to grow, easy to cook, and
easy to. (eat. an beans add
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prices, already framed.

in the picture.

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Edited by MRS. .51va TAILOR

EAR FOLKS: Many ofour national magazines carry advertisements

. which are works of art and the editor of the American Magazine

spoke both wisely and well when he said that

needed .no excuse for being what they were. _
There is a class,of people who ﬁnd delight in spending their time
and talent on works which appeal to our baser natures and label them
Those of us who refuse to accept this trash are“ classed as

ignorant by the artist, but a reproduction of a beautiful child, a -
view of the Rocky Mountains or a vase of roses needs no apology,

Our national advertisers in various lines of merchandise realize the
power ,of suggestion, broadcasted by their bill boards as well as mag-
azines and more and more they are depending
the picture——not the message in words! .

Now if we apply this same reasoning to the pictures on our home
walls, wouldn’t a little time and money in this way; be well spent?

It is our daily surroundings which rcheer or depress us, so it is
very necessary that we keep them as interesting and bright as pos-
It is not necessary to invest large sums of money in oil
paintings, not many of us are able to do that, but by a little thought
and work we can all put a few new pictures in our home.

Prints of the works by famous artists can be purchased at popular
Then the covers of many  are
well worth either mounting or framing.
not as plentiful as they used to be in former years, but we ﬁnd one
occasionally that deserves a permanent place upon our walls.
color of the mat or mounting board should harmonize with the colors

Tue you see it takes a little time and effort to place these pictures
which ,we ﬁnd from'time to time, where we may enjoy them each day
instead of burying them away among a lot of discarded reading ma-

To the lovers of nature the mountain views, rivers, “ﬂowers and
animals are always interesting, but there is a picture of something
beautiful and interesting for each one of us. ‘ r

If any of our girls are interested in learninghow to mount /pictures



Mrs. Annle Taylor. care The Buslneu ‘Fermer, Mt. Clemens. Michigan.

 

 

true works of art

upon the beauty of

Really pretty calendars are

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ﬂower are gas-forming foods and
prevent constipation.

Always use the cooking water
with the vegetables, or in making

\ milk sauces or soups.

Cooking Vegetables

1. Baking and steaming are ex-
cellent methods.

2. Cook as many as possible in
skins. This saves ﬂavor and food
value.

3. To boil fresh vegetables use
enough water to cover. Salt while
cooking. Keep covered until tender.
Use waterwith vegetable or in milk
sauces or soups.

4. Cook cabbage 'only until ten-
der. More cooking makes these
harder to digest.

5. Soak dried vegetables, peas, or
beans, before cooking.

Above all—cook vegetables just
enough to make them tender.

WHEN COOKING DRIED FRUIT
HEN cooking dried fruit, add
W' the sugar just before the fruit
is done.
tough if the fruit is cooked in a su-

‘gar syrup. All dried fruit should be

cooked in the water in which it 'is
soaked for some length’ of time. This
water will contain some ﬂavor and
mineral which dissolve from the

Rid House of Ants

ARM weather brings out the
W ants and unless the housewife

takes precautions she will ﬁnd
them infesting the house. Tempor-
ary relief may be obtained by the
use of poisoned tape, a syrup made
of sugar and borax dissolved in wa-
ter, or kerosene, but to get rid of
ants permanently it is necessary to

flqcate the nests and treat them so
*iiat'the queen will be destroyed.

- The most’effective method for. the
Control of ants is a weakly poisoned

to‘ the nest and feed to the young.
This gradually kills all the individu-
als and exterminates the colony.
Such a syrup must be used with care,
especially where there are children
Care should
be taken to. avoid any possibility of
poisoning human food with it and -to

put it where none but the-i sectsfor {

it‘lslntendedjm y t...i_,t:
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fruit While it soaks. When baking
apples, cut the skin around the cen-
ter of the apples to prevent the
skin from bursting and spoiling the
shape of the apples.

 

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Wants Recipe—Will you please give
me a recipe for canning string beans and
green peas? Thanks—Mrs. F., Tuscola.
County.

—-—~Select and grade product, shell, scald
5 minutes. Pack in jars, not tightly.-
Add one teaspoonful of salt to each quart
and boiling water to within % inch of the
top. Place rubber and top in position.

Process: (9.) Hot water bath—180 min-
utes. (b) Steam pressure (5 lbs.)—-—60
minutes. (0) Steam pressure (10-15 lbs.)

—-40 minutes. Remove jars from canner
and tighten tops. It is best to can peas
and lima beans in pint jars.

Possibly some of our readers have other
ways and if they will send them in we
will gladly publish them.

not Pack Canning.—Can you give me
any information regarding hot pack can-
ning ?—,—-Reader.

——Hot pack canning is the feature of a.
bulletin by Dr. Louise Stanley just issued
by the United States Department of
Agriculture telling how to can fruit
and vegetables in the home. ,The hot
pack is a quick and easy method which

By Destroying Nest

pound of sugar is dissolved in one
quart of water, and one hundred
and twenty-ﬁve grains of arsenate
of soda is added. The mixture is
then boiled and strained. It is more
attractive to the ants if a little hon-
ey is added. Sponges soaked in this

‘.

syrup and placed where the ants can .

of the syrup. -

Sponges soaked in sweetened wa-
ter may be used as a~ temporary
measure and sometimes are so ef-
fective that the ants are discouraged
and keep away. When the sponges
are put in an infested place the
ants crawl into the pores in large
numbers. The , sponges may be
dropped in boiling water to 'kill the
insects and then used over again.

Ordinary ants are prevented from
reaching tables or refrigerators if
the legs of the table or refrigerator

 
   
  

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eﬁy... the hot. pack method

and otherwise prepare the vegetable", or I”

minutes in water or sirup in a kettle;
pack it boiling hot into the glass jars or
tin cans, and process in.the water bath
or pressure canner according .to the time
and. temperature recommended. This
short precooking of the fruit or vegetable
wilts and shrinks it so that it can be
packed more easily. It drives out the air
and makes exhausting
Most important of all, the food packed

boiling hot into jars or cans and put at

once into the hot banner reaches th
temperature required for processing far

sooner than if it were packed cold, and‘

makes possible shorter» processing periods.
Moreover, heat penetrates more uniformly
during canning and the food in the center
of ’the jar is more likely to be properly
processed. This cuts down the chances
of spoilage, for it is proper processing
more than all else that determines
whether canned foods keep or spoil.
The directions given throughout the
bulletin are concise. Wherever possible,
the scientiﬁc reasons behind them are
stated so that the homemaker will under-
stand why she must -follow directions if
she wants‘ to put up foods that will keep.
Types of water—bath canners for use with
fruits and tomatoes and pressure canners
forum with all other vegetables are de-
scribed and illustrated. A series of pie-
tures and brief statements give the steps
in canning in glass jars and tin cans:
Directions and time-tables for handling

'the various fruits and vegetables from

apples to strawberries and from asparagus
to sweet potatoes are included. Request
should be made to the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, Washington,
D. C., for Farmers‘ Bulletin 1471-F,
“Canning Fruits and Vegetables at
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Kikl.—Be sure to see Norma Talmadge
in Kiki (pronounced “kicky” we are told)
because it is unusually good. She is
supported by Ronald Coleman. It has
been quite some time since I have seen a
picturethat I enjoyed as much as I did
this one. Miss Talmadge plays the part
of a waif selling newspapers on the
streets of Paris. Her efforts to get a
position as a'chorus girl with a revue
managed by Ronald Coleman are very
humorous. On the opening night she
does everything wrong and is discharged
but the next day she is back trying to
get Mr. Coleman to reconsider his de-
cision. His sweetheart comes in and they
quarrel. To show he doesn’t care he in-
vites Miss Talmadge to go to dinner with
him. When they are ready to leave the
night club he asks her where he shall
take her and she replies she has no home.
He takes her to his home temporarily
and she refuses to leave when he orders
her out. From then on, to the time they
become engaged, there is much humor.
This picture played one full month at a
Detroit theater, which is an unusual
record as the average picture ‘ is good
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TheFoms of Greeting—There are the
actual forms of greeting, for instance,
for people when meeting one another in
public. Some, perhaps, take them too
seriously, because, beyond a few set
forms, there is the widest latitude of ex-
pression. The test which determines the
exact form or wording of your street
greeting is the degree of friendship, ac-
quaintanceship' or intimacy existing be-
tween yourself and the person greeted.

The bow of acknowledgement on a
woman's part—gentlemen "tip" their
hats——-is the current courtesy of acquaint-
ances passing each other in the street.
For the woman the bow takes the place
of tipping the hat on a man’s part. A
woman bows to other women or to gentls-
men when she encounters them in public;
she bows to anyone whom she knows well
enough to recognize, to her friends, her
servants, the clerk who waits on her.
Common sense and custom unite in dis-‘
pensing with her bowing when, in the
company of an escort, she meets entire
strangers, or when she meets the same
person again and again within a short
space of time. The "cut direct" is some-
thing every lady tries to avoid; only the
most valid reasons justify it. It is com-
paratively easy not to see the person
whom you do not wish to recognize, with-
out doing so in a conspicuous way. Do
this a few times and you will ﬁnd that
the hint has been taken.

In European; countries men are far
more strict about waiting for the lady to
bow—receiving her permission to greet
her, as it were—before they raise their
hats In the United States. in general,
unless they are meeting for the ﬁrst
time since being introduced, a gentle-
man greets a woman at once. Just as
the bow is accorded everyone by, a we-
man, so the raised hat is a universal
courtesy from a man .to a.woman. No

‘ matter who the woman may be, his own

debutante daughter, the second house-
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evil with good—39m. 12:12. ~ "
"‘ZI'Iook for God in your neighbor, and not
for. that which 'is not God. If you see a
fault, think of the corresponding virtue
and act accordingly. If he is what the
world calls stingy, imagine him as the
embodiment of generosity, and in turn

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dwell upon your neighbor’s” faults with-
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Recipes

 

 

Three Minute Salad Dressing.—2 eggs,
1 teaspoon salt, 1 heaping tablespoon
butter, softened, 1 teaspoon mustard, 1
can Eagle Brand Condensed Milk, 1 cup
good strong cider. This requires no cook-
. ing, simply beat all ingredients together.
After standing 15 minutes it becomes
thick. Thin as you use with milk or
cream. It is always the same and de-
licious. Will keep two or three weeks.

 

Vegetable Loan—~36» cup green peas,
% cup cooked green beans, ya cup chop-
ped boiled carrots, % small onion, 11/2
cups milk, 1 cup soft bread crumbs, ya
teaspoon salt, 1% teaspoon pepper, 1/2 tea-
spoon paprika, 1 egg. Press peas through
sieve, cut beans in small pieces and com-
bine with Other vegetables. Add milk.
eggs beaten, crumbs and seasoning. Turn
into greased baking dish and bake in a
moderate oven 360 degrees until ﬁrm.

 

Egg and Asparagus Leah—1 can of
asparagus tips, 2 hard cooked eggs, 1 cup
liquid from can, 2 cups cooked cream of
wheat, 1 egg, 1 cup milk—salt and
pepper. Line a mold with asparagus tips.
Mix beaten egg with cream of wheat, milk,
asparagus liquid and seasoning. Pour
into a mold and cook twenty to thirty
minutes. Serve with egg sauce. Garnish
with parsley.

 

“Now You'll Eat” Pudding.——This recipe
came from an elderly lady whose children
had always refused to eat boiled rice
until she hit upon the following tasty
method of preparation: Boil rice very
slowly. When well done, take one egg
well beaten, half the quantity of sugar,
and grated rind and juice of one orange—
all of which are stirred thoroughly into
the rice. Cut another orange up in small
pieces and place on saucers or pudding
dishes. Cover with the rice preparation.
The children, who always crave fruit.
will then not only get the healthful min-
erals, salts and vitamins of the orange,
but also the valuable rice as well.

 

Orange Cream Pie.—-—1 large seedless
orange, 1,5 lemon, 1 cup sugar, butter size
of walnut, 2 tablespoons cornstarch, 3
eggs. % cup milk. 1 cup boiling water.
Beat yolks of eggs. Mix sugar, butter
and cornstarch together. Add pinch of
salt. ~Add the juice and rind of the or-
ange and lemon (rinds grated). Then
pour this mixture into the boiling milk
and water, stirring all the time until
well cooked. Have the crust baked, then
pour in the mixture. Make a meringue
of the whites of the eggs beaten stint
three tablespoons sugar and a little ﬂa-
voring. Place on pie and brown in the
oven.

 

 

Homespun Yarn

 

 

A coat of varnish saves the pattern on
printed linoleum rug.‘

 

If the kitchen needs to be done over.

- consider washable paint for the walls.

 

Aunt Ada's Axioms: Ideals are meant
to be used, but it’s something just to
have them. -

 

Attractive and inexpensive table rune
ners can be ,made of crash toweling.
They give a summer touch to the lunch
eon or supper table.

Acid foods, such as tomatoes or rhu-
barb, cooked in discolored aliminum pans
will brighten the utensils while the dinner
is being cooked. '

 

Butter; cakes should not be “beaten
much. After all the ingredients are in.
one minute’s beating-is enough, as every
additional minute makes the cake tougher
and dryer.

 

 

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Colors: BLUE AND GOLD. » .,  ;

EAR girls and boys: I have.
something very sad to tell you
this time. , You. will remember

a letter from Marie Suderman about
writing to Laura May Rodgers, Men-
nonite Children's Home, Millers-
vllle, Pennsylvania, which appeared
in our Januéry 16th issue. Also you
will remember that in our April

24th issue I published a letter from.

Laura thanking all of you for your
Perhaps some of
you have written to her and are
new waiting for a reply. If so you

are to be disappoiilted because Lau- ~

ra will write no more letters. God
has taken her home to Heaven.

Laura suffered from heart trouble
all of her short life on this earth,
but she had a sunny disposition, nev-
or complained during all of her suf-
fering and always had a. smile for
everyone. She died April 22nd, ap«
parently falling asleep but when
they attempted to awaken her they
found life had departed. Wasn’t it
nice that God took her while she
slept, without pain or suffering?

I learned of Laura’s death
through Mrs. G. W. Gugel, of Evart.
To many of you that name will re—
call several letters that appeared in
this department back in 1920 and
1921, while others were'too young
at that time to remember or have be-
come members of our circle since
that time.

In our issue of “December 25, 1920
there was a letter from a small boy
who was lonesome. He had loving
parents but no brothers or sisters
and he wanted to receive letters
from some of the girls and boys. He
made many friends in this way.
Then one day I received another
letter from him, but it was not com—
plete, and a letter from his mother
accompanied it, explaining that the
boy had died, that he had started
the letter, then becoming tired had
laid it one side to ﬁnish later when
he was rested, but that time never
came, so she sent the uncompleted
I published the
letter, just as it was, in our isSue
dated April 23, 1921, and I also pub-
lished a picture of the boy, Levi. P.
Gugel, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. 
Gugel, of Evart.

Isn’t it unusual that she should
be the ﬁrst one to tell me about the
death of Laura? Later on I heard
from Marie Suderman also.

Those of you who wrote to Laura
must be very happy that you dld
something to give her some pleasure
during the last days of her life on
this earth, and I am mighty proud
of every one of you. If there are
any who Wrote to Laura that have
not received one of our. buttons I
wish you would write and let me
know because I ‘want every one of
you to have one—UNCLE NED.

 

 

Our Boys and Girls

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—As I have written
before and am a member of your merry
circle I will write again. Last summer
I pressed some ﬂowers and put them in
a book. I have them yet. Shall I send
you some, chle Ned? Yesterday a
friend of mine and I went after winter-
green berries and we got all scratched
up, so we Just got a few berries and
came home. I guess I will describe my-
self. I am four feet, xthree inches tall.
I have dark brown hair. bobbed, and dark
complexion. I am ten years old and in
the fourth gradeat school. My teacher's
name in Mrs. Benson and I like her real
well. I am going to put in some ﬂowers
and take care of them myself this sum-
mer. I live on a forty acre farm. We
have three cows and three calves, also
two horses. I have done some crocheting
this year. Your loving. niece—Grace
A. Schram, Route -1, Box 6, Omer, Mich.

-—Yes, I would be pleased to\receive some
of your pressed ﬂowers, if you have any
to spare and care to send them, but I
do not want you to rob yourself for me.

 

Dear Uncle Rem—I will tell you about
our spring trip. One spring morning,
April 19, 1926. Blanche and Virginia John-
son came over to our place and we went
to the lake to get arbutus. We. did not
ﬁnd any there so we went to Bantu-inn
Lake, then to QQIIOYQ! lake instant-cu
cum.  .w a we we use

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'merry circle?

got about a half a mile from home s.
car stopped and asked us if we knew
if there was any arbutus by the’ north
end of Conover Lake and Blanche. said,
“I don’t know but that's where we got
ours.” We‘ went a little farther and
Blanche’s and my, brother came with the
car and met us.
was after six o'clock and we were tired
as we had walked'about six miles. This
is‘the end of our spring trip. We are
going to take a trip thi year but Blanche
will not be with us. I will tell you
about it. . » .

I received my button and was glad to
get lt.--YOUI' niece, Thelma Woodman.
Route 2, Sand Lake, Michigan.

—That was rather a long walk and I do .
not wonder at your being tired. How-
ever, long walks out in “the open are.
good for one if they do not overdoit,
and you wouldn’t if you picked ﬂowers
along the way. I enjoy walks.

Dear 'Uncle Nedz—I wrote once but,
never saw my letter in print, so I will
write again. I will tell you of a trip I
went on myself. I was coming home
from school and one of my friends brought
home a wild deer. I got acquainted with
it. One day it got out and I went after
it. I went down into the woods a little.
I thought I was lost but I was not afraid
and kept on going and got' my feet
soaked, and by tracking it I found it in
a water puddle. Then I carried it home
and have it yet.

I hope the old waste paper basket is
asleep when this arrives. Your friend.
—Annabell Anderson, Drummond, Mich.
--Can you tell us more about your deer,
and maybe send us a picture' of it to
publish so all can see how it looks?

 

Dear Uncle Ned:—I would like to join
your circle. Would you please send me
a button? I hope Mr. Waste Basket is
asleep when my letter arrives for. I would
like to see it in print. I will now de-
scribe myself. I am ﬁve feet, one inch tall.
I have brown hair and broWn eyes. My
hair is bobbed like all of the other girls.
I am eleven years of age.

For a pet I have a dog, his name is
Jackie. He can play ball and get the
cows for us. I love to spend my time
writing stories of past life and of others.
We’ live on a 120-acre farm, we have
fun riding horses and we go swimming
in a lake nearby. We.have taken the
M. B. F.‘ for four years and like it. I
will close for this time and will tell you
more next time. Your want-to-b‘e‘ niece.
———Madonna Morhofer, Route 2, Weidman,
Michigan.

Yes Madonna, I will send you a button
it"you will write an interesting story for
our page. Is that a. bargain? I will
make this same offer to .the other girls
and boys who read this.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I think it is about
time for me to write to you, isn‘t it?
We are having our vacation now, as
schbol was out Friday. We had a pot-
luck dinner and then we had a small
program. After the program we bad
apples. oranges,‘ bananas, and peanuts.
I do not want to forget to tell you that
we also had lemonade. Does that make
your mouth water? I passed into the 7th
grade. .

Well, we have had a very. long and cold
winter and I surely will be glad when
spring is here. It acted like spring but
it started to snow again this morning.

Well, I will close now asI have to
help get supper now. From your niece.
Florence Gilbert, Route 5. Box 90, Fenn-
ville, Michigan. ,

-—-You are right, it is time you wrote to
me, and I’m glad to hear from you. As
for lemonade. well next to water and milk
that is my favorite drink. The weather
man tells me he believes we may have,
spring this year but it may be summer
before it comes. Just so we have it, eh?

Dear Uncle Nedz—May I join. your
I wrote a letter before but
did not see it in print, so I think Mr.
Waste Basket had his mouth wide open,
to catch it. I hope he is asleep or ﬁlled
before this one reaches you. As I have
not described myself yet, I will do so
now. I was ﬁfteen years old last Monday,
May 3rd, have brown hair and have it
bobbed. I don’t know my weight because
I haven’t weighed myself for quite a.
while. I
We do not live on a farm, but it is in
the country and we work on the farm,
even if we haven’t any farm. For pets
I have a dog whose n e is Curly. The
reason why we call her Curly is because'
she had curly hair when she‘ was a pup,
Curly has two little puppies now that
are very
other one is brown.
Well. I_ must
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out of record cows.

ALI. are from fully- accredited herd and free from
disease. SEVERA have show records. ri
for urination. We ve some real herd bull
prospects at 8100.

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BROWN SWISS FOR SALE—COWS. BULLS,
and Heifer cal .
JOHN FITZPATRICK. Kewadln, Michigan.

 

 

 

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amino“ YOUNG  -

We ~ are new in "the sheep busi-
ness and ‘wouldlike to ask for infor-
mation, as to the best methods in
castrating young lambs and how old
they should be.
sheep'and one says they should be
a week and other safthey should be
older. Which is right? Which
method is the most in use by sheep
men?—F. W., .Lake Ann, Michigan.

HERE are several methods of
castrating.» young lambs, any
one of which is very satisfac-

tory when performed by a careful
operator.

The best ~time to do this is when

the lambs are from One to two weeks
of age. The method most commenly
used is to cut oil the end of the scru-
tom and then pull out the testicle
with a small pair of pinchers or
some do it with their teeth. Per-
sonally: I never recommended this
method, preferring to slit the small
membrane which covers the testicles
and remove only the testicles, allow-

ing the white thin covering of the

testicles to be drawn back. This
thin covering is part of the periton-
eal lining {of the abdominal cavity
and I have always felt that there
was some danger of injuring the
lamb when pulling this covering out
with the testicles, although with
real young lambs the danger of in-
juring is extremely slight and a
man who is an extremely careful
operator would have better luck to
simply cut the end of the scrutom
and pull out the testicles .taking the
canning and all.-—Geo. A. Brown,
Professor of Animal Husbandry,
Michigan State College. ‘

PASTURE FOR COWS

I have twenty acres of rye and
I want to put ten cows in the ﬁeld.
Would you advise fencing the ﬁeld
in. half and pasturing one ﬁeld at
a time? How long would it last, as
this ground is sandy?—-F. K., Irons,
Mich.

would seem to me that twenty

acres of rye should pasture ten

cows quite a while; if the pas-
ture does not grow very rapidly
then it would be best to separate
and pasture half of the ﬁeld at one
time and give the balance of the
ﬁeld a rest. No one can tell you
how much pasture will grow on this
land—Dr. ‘G. H. Conn.

THE “BETTER BEEF” CAMPAIGN
COMMITTEES ‘

R. OAKLEIGH’ THORNE, Mill-
brook, N. Y., the third of an
historic generation heavily in-
terested in farming and cattle breed-
ing, who has become enthusiastic-
ally actlve in the “better beef”
movement, has accepted the chair-
manship of the committee of three
called for by the Chicago conference
of April 27 to make an immediate
study and survey of the facts sur-

rounding the marketing and distri- *
bution of quality beef, and of the.

possibilities of extending its con-
sumption. Mr. John W. Van Natta
of Indiana and Mr. Hay Brown of
Illinois have been appointed to serve
with Mr. Thorne in this connection.
The three loading beef breeds thus
ﬁnd representation. No time is to
be lost in getting down to business.

The committee of ﬁve on perman-
ent organization consists of Messrs.
B. H. Heide and Judge W. W. Wright
(of the International Live Stock Ex-
position’s Better Beef Committee),
Frank W. Harding, General Execu-
tive of the American Shorthorn
Breeders’ Association, R. J. Kinzer,
Secretary of the American Herford
Cattle Breeders’ Association, and W.
H. Tomhave, Secretary of the Amer-
ican Aberdeen-Angus Breeders' As-
sociation.

 

BARRY GUERNSEY BREEDERS
TO ORGANIZE

‘ECENTLY twelve“ Barry county
Guernsey breeders visited the
southeastern'pﬁrt of the state

and purchased seine ﬁne animals

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Millions of cows are now on pasture.

but it does not supply enough feed to
make their capacity flow of milk.

Prof. E. 5.
expert of New York, says:
of grain on pasture is so irnportant that a

20% protein should be fed on pasture.

   
 
  
 
     

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The most successful
Their cows stay fresh longer and keep in better 00

ComGlutenFeedis thebcstfecdmg‘ partofoom. Asmgle'
containsthcprotcin,minctalmatter,and ' ' sofncary
tons of whole grain.

Write today for a free copy of “The Gospel of Good Feeding,”
our new 64—pagc book. It tells you how to make more milk or
meat on less feed.

and-it is good for them,

Savage, the famous dairy
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crude protein, but only I 5.9 lbs. total digestible nutrients.
There is enough protein if the cow actually could eat IOO poundgof
grass, but this does not supply enough total digestible nutrients.

It takes four large gunnysacks to hold 100 lbs. of grass. A cow's
willhold onlybo quarts. Thestomachofacowwould have

tobc four timesaslargcasit isto holdasmuch grass as she needs.
enough for feeding Corn Gluten Feed on pasture.

dairymcn throughout the  .

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WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS PLEASE
MENTION THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER

 

  

Guaranteed to
skim cleaner

The new De Laval has
the wonderful “float—
g bowl”—the great-
est separator improve-
ment in 25 cars. 'It
is guarantee to skim
cleaner. It also runs
easier with milk going
throu the. bowl, an

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OUR old separator may be running
all right and you may think it is
doing good work, but is it? Here is
an easy way to satisfy yourself. Ask
your De Laval Agent to bring out a new
De Laval and try this simple test:
Alter separating with your old
separator, wash Its bowl and tin-
waro in the skim-mule. Hold the
skim-milk at normal room tem-
perature and run lt_ through a new
De Laval. Have the cream thus
recovered weighed and tested.
Then you can tell exactly it your
old machine In wasting cream, and
what a new Do Laval will save.
Thousands have tried this plan and
many have found a new De Laval would
increase their cream money from $25 to
$200 a year.

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or ‘Deiiver‘y
June 1. 1, 1 , 21
Per 100
810.00
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    Price

'  . held! only improved Ennis” White Leghorns

has made possible this year the est r g
cks Live, lay and produce Egg Proﬁts. Order direct from this ad.

RELIABLE POULTRY FARM & HATCHERY.

FOR JUNE DELIVERIES
ALL FLOOKS MICHIGAN STATE ACCREDITED.

Anconss and White ysndo

TOM BARRON ENGLISH STRAIN
WHITE LEGHORNS and SHEPPARDS
ANCONAS
VERGREEN STRAIN WHITE WYANDOT‘I’EB
BROILERS or MIXED CHICKS
breeding and the introducézion _of liigh

Zeeland State Bank.
R. 1, Box 41,

Reference:

5 NOW on Reliible Chick?

the lar e  birds with full hipped combs.

blood lines from other high-
ds we have ever had. Reba 1e
Instructive Catalog mes.

ZEELAND, MICHIGAN.

For Delivery
June 28 end uiy
For 100

9.00
2:00
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‘ Chicks
ﬂocks and hatchery ins
College. Refer you to State Commercial Savings Bank.

For Delivery June 1st and after
8. c. Wh

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. 7,}.5 ., 20.1.,” E.

Barred , 8. 0.
Mixed Chicks, $1.00 or
, live delivery Iggpaid. \ 0% down books your order.
'8 to A edi .

HUN DE RMAN BROS.

ECIAL SALE or UNE CHICKS

Due .to the feet that we hatch several of the more proﬁtable breeds to
' ever we ﬁnd some weeks we have a few hun

that are hatched from free ra
pected and passed

. and Dr. L horns ...... ..
Rocks R. GI. 1R090Jhruu. s

R. R. No. 8. Box 55.

are consign: hotter than
planned 11. We will sell these assorted chicks at the following low prices

1 00 FOR $8.00

Remember we guarantee
innerery way and will make
c

500 F0 R $37.50

money f pr vpu.

Send your order now to avoid disappointment.
VAN APPLEDORN IROS., HOLLAND HATCHERY ‘ POULTRY FARM. RT-B. Holland Michigan.

   
 

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Michigan

WEB in the front rank

lute Leghorns are fro
WE HA

 

There is still plenty of time to
from the prices given below.

Egg-bred for many generations.
machines

J. PATER & SON,

Our careful selection and breeding. com . _
' State Poulin'y Improvement Associainon and e

TCH WHITE AND
Send at once for copy of our new 1928 Catalog ful
interting and valuable information on the care of

CITY LIMITS HATC HE RY.

., HA! HA! LOOK

Every breeder approved by State Experts. Buy the best_ at the lowest price. 14
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guarantee 100% live delivery and satisfac on.

LIABLE HATCHERY, 92 East 17th Street,

NDERAN CHICKS

e breeders careful? select
y representative 0 Mich

$3230 55205 8110080 $§9060
25 §0325 12' '
Heavy Mixed. $11. Free catalog.
Our chicks are Michigan

1000 FOR
th ‘ chicks' bred. fro h quali stock. They are absolutely sound
e36 we Our lirile 1Ellipsid de 'very guarantee holds good on these

Orders less than 100, 1c more.
HOLLAND, MICHIGAN.

 
   
 

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igan State
Order from his ed.
1000
90.00

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ZEELAND. MICH.

gether with the fact that hatches
dred more chicks than we had

$70.00

LOW PRICES FOR JUNE» CHICKS

et chicks that will make winter layers.
hese chicks argi strong, healthy and pure—bred.

Order

8. e. White Leghorns 8c. Anconas 90, Barred Rocks 11c, Assorted 7o.
Reliable chicks have proved satisfactory for years.
Order today at above prices.

You can do end on them.

ank reference.

EGG LINE WHITE LEGHORNS

STATE CERTIFIED AND ACCREDITED

insures strong, sturdy chicks that will live,
Order now at these low
(State
(State Gert
fact .
Certiﬁed Baby Chicks deﬁnes
Catalog FREE.

Box 3, Route 4,

AB HICKS HT LV AN LAY

FROM MICHIGAN ACCREDITED FLOCKS

of the high egg line. production
in blood tested 110 k

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bined with the closeOculling of the Inspectors of the
th Michigan State College,
bred Accredited ﬂocks. ur S

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BROWN LEGHORNS AND ANGONAS. .
describing our matings, and ginng some

hicks and how to raise poultry for proﬁt.

HOLLAND MICHIGAN

Buy Our Bin,
Michigan Accredited Chicks.
CAN SHIP IMMEDIATELY.

Carefully selected eggs incubated in modern
' grow and produce proﬁt—

1 000

noes. 2 0 0
ocredited)--..$2.15 $5.00 $3.00 $42.50 $80.00
Iﬁed) ..... ... 4.50 8.50 ‘6.

00 75.00 40.00

that there are on three—other farms in Michigan qualiﬁed to sell
ly the high quality of our breeding stock.

HUDSONVILLE, MICHIGAN.

laces our

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varieties. eggs. Get free Circular and big count before buying elsew ere.
BECKMANN HATCHERY.
28 LYON. DEPT. 3. GRAND RAPIDS, .MICHIGAN.
Michigan Accredited Class A Cluck: ‘
,  0. EonglisiéhWhite and Brown {62g-
l o 1185. 0
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100% live de v . Footpath! Ont- machine. 26.010? for an“ 1:110 eeg-
slogan tree. Pay 0 day- before the st greatly r uced rigs. 500% live do-
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Chicks are shipp

THE BOS HATCHERY. R2. B. Zeeland. Mich.

SPECIAL PRICES

l d‘ v 'eties, of Michigan accredited chicks.
on so mg an it”.

pullts, ocker an ens.
° ° MemberofLB.O.

FAIRVIEW HATCHERY l: FARMS-
R. 2. B. Iceland. ioh.

Rt. 8. Box 15.

0 for 10.00-
June fat and

00" for $48.50 postpai For
fter 1c less per chicks. All chicks are
in Michigan Accredited ﬂocks.
DRENTHE HATCHERY

Zeelar'id. Michigan.

 

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Accredited ck

8. O. DUFF LEGH8iRNICchK8 FROM STATE
. i'C‘u ar .
J. W. WE STER, Bath. Michigan.

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MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU POULTRY FEEDS 
DEPENDABLE and ECONOMICAL

Michigan Chick Starter with Buttermilk
Mash with Buttermilk
Laying Mash with Buttermilk
Male Chick: grow and Item lav
by the local Co‘op. or Farm Bureau agent. Insist on
' band. Write forfreePoulny feeding booklet. “Dept.0”

MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU SUPPLY SERVICE
Lansing.

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carefull selected, test and pulled by experts. Gan Ship at Once. Order

direct rom this ad. Save Tune. 10 so

horns Hes Mind 9650 $12.60 $80.00
gall?" gm? 33.22., Ii“ mm; 3. ll Reds, (both combs) ............. —-—-—-———--- 7-75 15-°° 72-“
wag-re Rocks and w andottes, Buff Ol'plngh‘l“ . 3.50 16.00 71.50
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'FOBMULAS AND PROCESSES

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than 100 ordered add

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GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN.

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out safe fastenings, permitting ﬁre-

brands to fall on unprotected ﬁoors.
Building big ﬁres, before leaving

home that the house may be warm .

on your return. Drying kindling
and wood in the cook/ stove oven.
starting the oil, gasoline or cock
stove in the morning, before the rest
of the family is up, Opening the
drafts wide, then leaving for the
barn 'to do the chores. Housing vau-
tomobiles, trucks and tractors on
barn ﬂoors in straw or hay knee
deep, where the ﬁrst back-ﬁre or
short circuit will burn the barn.
Operating gasoline engines for pow-
er purposes in barns, not being in
a ﬁreproof compartment. Smoking
in or around any of the barn build-
ings. The most dangerous of all,
cigarette smoking anywhere, on the
farm- Rags soaked with oil, paint
and varnish will cause spontaneous
combustion. Incubators and brood—
ers in farm buildings are dangerous.
Bu‘fning leaves and rubbish around
the buildings. Setting ﬁres and not
watching them. Children playing
with matches. Dropping matches
from pockets in or around barn
buildings. Gasoline lanterns are ex-
tremely dangerous and should not
be used. Lanterns should always
be hung on hooks or wires put up
for that purpose.

Flling gasoline lamps, stoves and
tanks will cause explosions if a ﬁre
or light is near. Storing gasoline
in buildings. Smoking meats in
buildings. Steam traction engines
are dangerous and should not be al-
lowed on the farm unless equipped
with spark arresters as required by
state laws. Radio aerial wires run-
ning into dwellings without light-
ning cut-out switches. Running
grass ﬁres, and I might mention a
half hundred more causes which

destroy farm buildings all of which

care and caution will prevent. * ’ "
Roof Fires Greatest Cause

Again I will refer to dwelling roof
ﬁres, which is the greatest single
cause for destruction of farm homes.
The general impression is that these

, ﬁres are caused by sparks from the

ﬁrebox of stoves and furnaces which
pass through the stove pipe, up and
out of the chimney, landing upon
the roof, setting it on ﬁre. This is
not the case. Burning soft coal is
causing these ﬁres.
soot from the 'ﬁrebox clings to the
interior of the chimney, forming a

ADIO DEPARTMENT,

The smoke and

a. '5!

substance, which clings to the hitch
ior of the chimney, constantly in-
creasing in thickness, with the' draft
is retarded. When there is a very
hot ﬁre burning in the stove or fur-
nace, particles of this accumulation
become red hot, break 10036, and
by the intense heat arising in the
chimnye, are carried out of the
chimney,
composed of shingles, these burning
embers will set ﬁre to and, if not
discovered in time, will cause the
destruction of the home.

Every chimney extending over a
shingle, roof should be equipped
with a spark arrester, ﬁre proof
roofs are not endangered by this
ﬁre menace. If you have Occasion
.to place new rooﬁng on your build-
ings, use only that wﬁichis ﬁre-
proof. It is an insurance ainst
roof ﬁres. a

Most farm properties are insured ‘

in co-operative mutual co‘ anies,
In some section of Michigan, ﬁre
losses on farm property have in-
creased to such an extent that some
insurance companies are withdraw-
ing from that territory entirely, and
unless losses are materially reduced,
the securing of insurance will be-
come a difﬁcult problem, therefore
it behooves every farmer to so safe-
guard his property, that he may on-
joy adequate insurance protection
and he should keep in mind that it
is his duty to exercise every possible
precaution to save his property from
ﬁre destruction, not only for his
own good, but to save the brother
members of his coloperatlve insur-
ance organization from contributing
monies to‘ him for losses which
could and should have been prevent-
ed. In conclusion I will say that in
the limited time which has been al-
l’otted to me, I'am able t6 only brief-

"1y touch the situation of ﬁre preven-

tion as applied to the farming sec-
tions of Michigan, but I am hopeful
that all who listen ‘in may proﬁt by
the suggestions made hich have
come to me through the ears of co-
operative farm ﬁre insurance exper-
ience with the farmers of Michigan,
and I urge all'to aid and assist THE
BUSINESS FARMER in making this,
their ﬁre prevention campaign, a
wonderful success, thus reducing the
awful unnecessary ﬁre waste which
the farmers of Michigan are suffer-
ing with its apparent great increase
in number and volume.

= EDITED BY JAMES W. H. WEIR, R. E. ._—'_.——,._._

(Any questions regarding radio will. be glad!
personal letter andihere Is no charge if your so

 

M. B. F. MARKE’IS

The Businew Farmer radio r
market reports and far  news
are broadcast daily, except Sa-
turday and Sunday, through
station W'Gm’, of Detroit on
a wave length of 270 mMrs.
beginning at 7:00 P. M. east-
ern standard time.

 

 

 

KEEP DUST AWAY

HERE is much about the action
of a radio set that cannot be
seen and much radio theory at

the present time is based on the ac-
tion of inviSible particles of electric-
al matter that probably never will
be isolated and placed in a glass
case for exhibition.

In many cases of trouble with ra-
dio receiving sets the cause is some
trivial thing that escapes the eye,
and on acount,of its minuteness is
hard to believe responsible for dis-
rupting the orderly. scheme of
things. It is a well known fact
among radio engineers, for example,
that sets in service will become
noisy and lack selectivity and vol-
ume from one cause alone—the ac-
cumulation of dust and dirt par-
ticles 0n the plates of variable con-
densers. ,

1’ Radio currents do not like to
make quick turns or go around cor-
ners and will always attempt to es-
cape from sharp points on the sur-
face. of conductors.
dust- on condenser. pl

is the

K.

Particles 01’
.. in.

on ered by our radio editor. You‘recelve e
crlp on is paid up.)
t set to become noisy. Some
manufacturers have provided a
transparent dust proof shield of cel-
luloid to cover their new condenser
and have had reports that much bet-
ter results are obtained than with
the open type, unless, of course, a
careful cleaning, is given the old-
style condensers with a pipe clean—
er at frequent intervals. ’

A shield of celluloid prevents ab-
sorption of energy and therefore

.does not cut down the working eﬁi-

ciency of the set in the least. The
front and back of the skis] are
composed of metal, thereby a fold-
ing the condenser against body ca-
pacity effects noted when tuning. ~

OOMIIIEN’DS

This is to let you know how much we
enjoy your radio program. We have al-
ways liked the M. B. F. as it stands to
help the farmer and gives good advice on
everything. I always turn to Mr. Meek‘s
letter ﬁrst and the the story after that.
I read it all over. Please send us a. pad

for taking notes down on the radio. 1'

think it would be a good plan if you
could print some of the talks on agri-

culture. We sure appreciate the market
reports—Mrs. James Sloan, Shiawassee,
County. .

 

Please send me one of your market ’

pads so I can copy the markets as you
read them. I tune in on WG-HZP every,
night at seven. This station comes in

so clear. I get every word. you saw—A. ~~

Sohaefer, Watervillo. Ohio.

 

   

Please send  market  V
We listen in every evening'toﬁth

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You know this famous
& ‘bottle ~Keep it handy-
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:7 i .
 P White Diarrhea
Positively Controlled

Millions of chicks are hatched each year
to live only a few hours. White diarrhea
germs cause losses that B-K wrll stop in 9
meat of lo—yes—99 out .of 100—115 the
1 incubator is thoroughly disinfected with

B-K and also the brooder, before the.hatch
goes in, and B-K is fed in the drinking
water right from the first drink. B-K is“
effective also in prevention and treatment of
cholera, dysentery and other germ diseases.
8-K is clean. clear and non-poisonous.
Chicks don't notice it in the water, but it
means life instea of death to them. B-K is
concentrated an very_cheap. Costs only
about 1c per gallon of dilution ready to use.
Get ajug from your dealer today. Money
back if not satisﬁed.

Tells how to save your chicks .

Write today for this bulletléi on
n

prevention and treetme o
poultry d

 

  
   
  

   
 
   

 

General Laboratories
Dept. 134]?
Madison, 

 

ABSORBINE

TRADE MARK REG.U.S.PAT OFF.

Reduces Strained. Puffy Ankles,
Lymphangitis, Poll Evil. Fistula,
Boils. Swellings; Stops Lameness
and alleys pain. Heals Sores, Cuts.
Bruises. Boot Chsfes. It is a

   

Does not blister or remove the
hair and horse can be worked. Pleasant to use.
> 32.50 a bottle, delivered. Describe your case
; for special instructions and Book 5 R free.
-ABSORBINE. JR.. antiseptic llnlment for mankind. re~
'- laces Strains. Painful. Knotted. Swollen Veins. Concen-
r rated—only s few drops required at an application. ,Irics

ILZS per bottle at dealers or delivered.

N. F. YOUNO,lnc., 889 Lyman Si..$pringtieid, Mass.

 

"saved, Coughs. Col-dimm-
or, Worms. _, Most for cost.
Two cans .utiefactory for
[leaves or money back. $1.25
pet can. Dealers or by mail.
Howle- Remeiy Oo-
Tolode. Ollie.

    
 

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s‘ ribers. You receive a persons‘l

LOSES APPE'I‘ITE ‘
. I have'a cow that every year
eight or ten days after she comes
~ fresh loses her appetite entirely. I
feed ensilage, hay, potatoes and corn

- and oats ground together, but she

doesn't even eat the grain. The only
"thing..she will eat is old grass that
she can pickup out doors. I expect
‘her to come fresh soon, what can I
feed her to keep her appetite up?—-
A. A., LeRoy, Michigan.

HE last two or three weeks give
her but two or three pounds of
ground oats and bran night and

morning. Give her a laxative of a
pound of epsom salts about a week
before freshening. Then for 24
«hours after calving give her nothing
at all; then a. bran mash for the
next 24'hours’. Feed lightly for a
week. Salt the bran mash. "

 

TO BRING HEIFER IN HEAT

Will you“ please give me a remedy
to make heifers of about sixteen
months of age come in heat because
I would like to breed them now if
possible?.——J. G. S., Coopersville,
Mich.

T is not possible to insure you re-
I sults in trying to make these
heifers breed; the best thing I
know of is to give them a good ra-
tion of corn, goats, bran and oilmeal;
start them off just as if you were
going to fatten them for market;
then when they begin gaining they

Will probably come in heat and
breed. This is known as ﬂushing
and is very successfully practiced

with sheep and swine. Would also
suggest giving each heifer 1/4 pound
of steamed bone meal each day on
this feed and alfalfa: or clover hay.
There is no medicine you can give
that would help them at all.

 
 

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Bring our everyday problems in and lost
the exper once of other farmers. Questions ad-
dressed to this department are published here
and answered y you, our readers who {are
arsduates of the School of Hard Knocks nd
who have’Iheir diplomas from the College of
Experience. If you don't want our editor's
advice or an expert’s advice, but Just plain,
everyJay business farmers' advice. send In
your question here. If you can answer the other
he may ans-
Address Exper-
Farmer. Mt.

 

wer one of yours some day!
ience >Pool, care The Business
Clemens, Mich.

 

 

BEST BREED OF TURKEYS
O the Editor: I noticed in the

M. B. F. where a woman want-
ed to know about turkeys, which
weighed the most and how to fatten.
We have found the Bronze about the.
best, and we have raised most all

 

 

 

Some of Boyd Doan’s Turkey's.

kinds. We let them run and fed
them. Some that we hatched last
spring weighed 18 pounds in the
fall. I am enclosing a picture of
some of our turkeys. The largest
one weighed 811/2 pounds a week
ago—Boyd 'Dean, Bay County.

ADVICE FOR TWO READERS
EAR EDITOR: If Mrs. C. J. of
Armada will keep bran before
-her laying .hens, in the' dry
state, she will have no further trou-
ble with soft shelled eggs.

.If Mrs. F. G. of Bay City will use
one tablespoonful of soda in her
"separator water and also for wash-
ing strainers ‘she will not be trou-
bled with that slimy effect caused by
the combination of soap with the
casein—Mrs. L. S., Pierson, Michi—
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Dear Sir-:Q-Am writing. 0 you of ourv
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TREMENDOUS PRICE REDUCTION FOR

IMMEDIATE ORDERS.

 

 

 

 

' Ben of Holland. All chicks
bred and from high record matings.

 

~ Your holes , 50 100 500 1000
0. 0. English White Leghorn: ............................  ....... ..,...$4.25 $8.00 31.50 15. 0
8. 0. n' Leghorns or A . 4.15 9.00 842.50 s85.§0
Assorted hicks  .... .. 4.00 1.00 34.00 01. 0
Also White Le horn Pulleis. 10 weeks old. when taken in lots of 25 at the low price of,
each $1.00. erme are 20% With order, Balance 0. O D References—Peoples State

from this sale have been~ care-fully culled. range fed. and
. . Order direct from this ad, but write or wire your order
at once. Wire orders given immediate attention.

100% Live Delivery Guaranteed—Postage Prepaid.

SHADY GROVE CHICKERY, BOX B, HOLLAND, MICH.

 

 

 

 
 

Winner of First Prime in
Production Class Chicago
1925. Member of our oﬁcisl
champion contest winners.

   

University for purebred stock.

today and feel safe.

GRANIEWSUPREME LAYERS

Improved English, Hoilgivood,‘ Tancr’ed‘Le‘
 a... on . t

THEY COST NO MORE AND YOU CAN FEEL SAFE
Our chicks come up to standards set by Ohio State‘
. Send for catalog tell-
lng about our pedigreed, and pen mating stock. Order
Live delivery guaranteed.

ghortis

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\ Production winners in State and National’Shows and
Laying Contestﬁ Our catalog describes and illustrates
these superb laying strainsﬁg Order chicks now for im-é
mediate delivery from the sameﬁblood linesgasourAOﬂiciaI
Laying Champions. I i
Grandvie'a Poultry FarmflhcthoxlBI’ﬁﬁ'ﬁﬁrﬂlich}

 
   
   
    

      
      

  

 

Prices postpsld on: 25 5 100 1000

s. c. Wh.. Br. 8. But? Leghorns. .................................. .3315 $1.25 $13.00 $120.00
Mottled Anconas ............................................................... .. 4.00 1.5 14.00 126.00

8. . Blk. Mlnorcas, Wh. & Brd. ROCKS. S. C. 8: R. 0. Reds, 4.00 7.75 15,00 140,00
Bu" Mlnorcas. Wh. Wyandottes ......................................... _. ._ 4.25 8.25 16.00 145.00
White OrpingtonS. .......................................................... .. . 4.50 8.1") 11.00 ......... ..
soy Blk. Giants, Sil. Spangled Hamburgs, . 7.00 13.00 25.00 ......... ..
Mixed Chicks (Heavies not accredited. ....... ..  3.50 6.50 12.00 120.00
Mixed Chicks (Light) Not accredited...§ .....  ....  .............. .. 3.00 5.50 10.00 00.00

est ure r Stock.
WOLF MATCHING 8: BREEDING 00.. Box 32 GIBSONBURG. OHIO.

 

 ...l 35 VARIETIES.

   
     

S" .
ahead of price.

book your order.
CHICKS hatched from TRAPN

Heavy Mixed. $10 per 100.

REFERE C S.
ESTED LAYERS,

, , . Ligh‘i" Mixed, 8 er 1oo.
Cons‘n'l‘eﬁ this when "yo: place your order.$ N8) 0. 0.

3c

hatched from BLUE RIBBON PENS, 50 per Chick higher.

Babion’s Fruit & Poultry Farms, Lock Box 354, Flint, Michigan

 

 

1,000,000 BABION’S QUALITY CHICKS

Breeders of Highest egg producing strains in all leading varieties.

100% Live Delivery (iuamntc rl—Postpald prices 25 50 10 500

‘/ English White & Single & R.  Brown Leghorns $2.15 $5.50 $10.00 $45.00 $88 00
Bu and Black Leghorns .................................... _. 2.75 5.50 10.00 45.00 .
Barred & White Rocks. R. l. Reds .. . 1.00 13.00 62.00 120.00
Black Minorcas, Mottled Anconas.. . 1.00 13.00 62.00 120.00
White Wyandottes. Buﬁ‘ Rocks,_..... 3.15 1.00 13.00 62.00 120.00

Please remember Qualit goes

, I D. orders shipped. 10 0 Will

You cannot go 'wrong In ordering from this ad direct.
per Uhle Higher than above prices. CHICKS

Write at once to‘dny.

 

 

Ideal weather is with us now,

Diligent Chicks Did It & Will Do It For You

and look at our prices. Our stock culled

by the very host experts. Do not pay fancy prices for chicks that are
not. better. “a guarantee safe delivery. Ten years of honest dealing
behind us. Send us your order today. Pullets after May ﬁrst.

0 Wh 500 100 50 25
s. . ite Leghorns .......................... .. 42.50 9.00 4.15 .
Barred Plymouth Rocks ...................... "$52.50 $1.00 55.15 
8. 0. Rhode Island Reds ......................  52.50 11.00 5.15 3.00
s. 0. Mottled Anconas ..........................  45.00 9.50 5.00 2.15
Mixed Chicks ................ .; ...................... ..32.50 1.00 3.15' 2.00

DILIGENT HATCHERV & POULTRY FARM. Harm J. Knoll

Route No. 11. HOLLAND. MICHIGAN.

 

from This Method

Results
Show that Many Old Chronic
Cases HaveNo Further
Attacks

“I have suffered with asthma for
25 years and tried everything that
I ever heard of but nothing helped
me. I ﬁnally wrote to you and after
taking your treatment felt healed.
That was over two years ago. I
have not had an attack since then."

Send today for our free trial of
the method that brings letters like
this from persons Whose cases have
been given up as opeless, who had
tried all' forms of inhalers, douches,
opium preparation, fumes, “patent
smokes” and so on without results.

“You cannot imagine the change
in my condition,” says another.
“From being an almost hopeless in-
valid I am working every day and
enjoying it.” Again—“I took the
treatment and am proud to say it
has rid me of asthma. I have wait-
ed a long time to see if it would
come back on me but I ﬁnd no symp-
toms of it."

Naturally these- folks want to
“pass the word along. “I will be only
too glad," says one of.~.them. “to re—
bly "$01!!!! ettex. - i; may reed“. re-
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“NO MORE ASTHMA”
THESE FOLKS SAY

As you mention. it is about three
years ago since she received the last
treatment from you and from then
to the present she is in perfect
health in every way.”

What a relief to get rid of that
gasping torture! As one farmer's
wife says, “as this is the last day
of this month and soon to be fall, I
thought of how I dreaded to see fall
and winter. Now it’s no more dread
than summer. I haven’t had asthma
since taking your treatment over
four years ago and can scrub my
ﬂoors, do my washing, anything I
want to.”

Eyery sufferer, chronic or begin-
ning, should act promptly to try this
method. Mail the coupon below—-
today.

 

FREE TRIAL COUPON

Frontier Asthma. 00.,
Room 1455-D

Niagara and Hudson Sta,
Buffalo, N. Y.

Send free trial of your method to

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FROM 'MIOH. STATE ACCREDITED FLOCKQ .

UCEDVPRICES To JUNE 30th?

g. c. w. Log- ’25 so 100 500 iqpo‘
IsorgswAg am. $3.15 $1.00 $13.00 $82.00 s11 .00
Bi-own Leghorns,

 

Standard Grade... 2.15 8.00 11.00 51.50 100.00
Mottled Anconas.... 8.75 6.50 12.00 51.50 110.00
Barred Rocks. R. l. 1
Beds. Black
Mlnoroes .......... .. 8.15 1.00 13.00 02.00 111.00
"-1 , ,. Mixed Chicks (Not
{7.111- Accredited) ...... .. 2. 4.50. 8.00 38.00 12.00
‘11 ‘ Before you order elsewhere write for Catalog, or order Member
‘ direct from this ad. Orders are coming now for _de- 0
I | c H | a A Nlivery as late as May. Early orders mean better leeree. lﬁternatlonai
8 E Send them now. Baby Chick
AccREDrrEn. We Guarantee 100% Safe Arrival In Good Health. Association.

Write for FREE Copy.

Zeeland, Mich.

Do not order elsewhere until you get our new 1926 Catalog, now ready.

AMERICAN CHICK FARM, Box B,

 

 

 

 

  
 
  

    

    

 

     
 

   

 

 

Varieties Postpaid prices on: 25 50 100 500 1000
hlte Leghorns (Tancred) ............... ..'.$2.50 $4.15 $9.00 $42.00 Write for ' ‘a——_.-
erred ocks (Park's Strain)  ....  3.25 8.00 11.00 52.00 Special W
o R. 0. Rhode Island Reds .......... ..’3.25 6.00 11.00 52.00 Prices 
Heavy Broilers $330000 $286080  1000 ‘
Light Broilers .. sioo ....  31250 56266
All chicks ﬁftiechcifhn State Accredited, Smith hatched. Every breeder passed b representative of

Michigan S
Free catalog.

LAKEVIEW POULTRY FARM, R. R. 8, Box 3, Holland, Mich.,

liege At egg laying contests Iakene'w stock has made good. rder from this ad.

 

Reduced Prices on Michigan Accredited‘Chicks
Delivery June 14th and After

 
 

 

 

Varieties Postpaid prices on: 100 500 1000

s. e. White and Brown Leghorns. s. o. Anconas .................. "29.00 $40.00 $80.00
Barrde Rocks ........ .. 2.00 55.00 110.00
Mixed or Broilers, . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.00 35.00 10.00

SPECIAL MATINGS AT SLIGHTLY HIGHER P'RICES. ‘

GET OUR NEW CATALOG—IT'S FREE.

stale and learn why Town Line Chicks must.be good. All ﬂocks milk fed. All
Bend foNrevggdnnlEXVtched. gEgg contest records and show winnings fully described. Write for low prices

on 8-10 week old puliets now ready [or shipment.
J. H.

GEERLINGS, Owner, R. F. D. 1, Box F,

 

JUNE PRICES—Effective May 31st

 

 

25 50 100 500 1000
English White Legghorns $3 00 $5.50 $10.00 $47.50 $95.00
Barred R s, R. . Red 3.50 8.50 12.00 57.50 115.00

7.00 18.00 82.50 125.00

Mlh. Rocks,
Balance ﬁve days before shipment.

Assorted, $9.00

 

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Wh. wsandottes, ............................................ .. 3.15
. I 1 0 straight. One ﬁfth down books order.
For quick serVice send full amount. We pay postage.
100% lee Delivery Guaranteed.

WASHTENAW HATCHERY, 2500 Geddes Road, ANN ARBOR, MlCll.

 

 
    

FROM STATE ACCREDITED FLOCKS

EXCLUSIVELY. Strong, Healthy Chicks from these selected ﬂocks. In-
spected and pulled by expert State Inspectors. Carefully selected for heavy
laying abilities. ENGL H, BARRON and TANCR D STRAIN WHITE
LEGHORNS, . C. BROWN LEG‘HORNS, SHEPPARD ANCONAS. BAR-
RED ROCKS RHODE .ISLAND REDS and Assorted Mixed Chicks. Post-
paid and  Live Delivery Guaranteed" Bank Reference. Write me at
once for Circular and price particulars. Also Pullets and Yearling Hens.

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

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ZEELAND. MICHIGAN.

 

(We invite you

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GOOD mama-Fan PULLMB
THIS FALL _,
HERE is an excellent market in

   
    

to‘oontrlbutev our experienee in
g beneﬁt of others. Also questions iieletlvete poultry

prospect for pullets ‘next fall,

according to Prof. J. A. Han-

na. , of the Poultry Improvement

"As ociation, and he is advising the

hatcherymen of the state to brood
late chicks for the fall pullettrade.

As you all know we have hard 9.
very backward spring this year and
this has effected the hatcherymen as
well as the average farmer. The wet
cold weather made normal hatches
impossible and it was a real task to
ﬁll all ‘the orders received, but with
the coming of warm days production
picked up until it reached normal a
few weeks ago and they are now
going full blast. Orders are receiv-
ing prompt attention and early ship-
ment made. The buying season this
year will be a little longer than us-
ual and hatcherymen are going to
do some late hatching to handle the
wants of their cutomers, so do not

hesitate to order even though you

may feel that you are a little late.

BREAK UP BROODY H'ENS

,

BROODINESS is a natural .tend-‘

ency in hens, therefore hens

that want to set should not be
“jailed” and starved and mistreat-
ed. As soon as they stay on the nest
at night they should be shut up in
a coop with a slat bottom and well
fed and watered there for two or
three days. Ordinarily, they will
be ready to lay again then. If a
colored leg band is slipped on the
hen’s leg every time she gets broody
during the season, those hens that
spend most of their time trying to
set can be culled out and sold. If
eggs from these persistent hens are
not set, and the hens themselves
are sold at the end of the spring
laying season, the broodiness of the
ﬂock as a whole can be reduced re—
gardless of the breed or variety of
chickens. This is one of the many

‘methods used by poultry breeders

in building up the average egg pro-
duction of their ﬂocks.

e _ ——-—-———-———-—._
A MISTAKE IN 'AD
E have learned of a mistake
that appeared in the adVer-
tisement of Holland Hatchery

- and Poultry Farm in our May 22nd

issue and we wish to call our'read-
ers’ attention to it. The heading of
the ad read “New Low Prices No
Michigan Accredited Chicks” and it
should have read “New Low Prices
On Michigan Accredited Chicks.” In
other words, the letters in the word

LEGH‘ i
THAT PAY

Extra Ordinary Low Prices on
Superior S. C. White Leghorns

During the weeks of May 31, June 7, 14, 21 or 28 we 'will

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jZEEL‘AND,  .

deliver to you, prepaid, and 100 per cent live delivery guar-
anteed, Superior S. C. White Leghorns at the following re-
markably low prices. Just ﬁll in the coupon below for the
number you desire, and mail it today. We will ship your order
when you designate. ' A

These Chicks are Michigan Accredited.

These chicks, even at the low prices indicated, are Mich-
igan accredited and will pass the exacting requirements to .be
classed as such. Superior Chicks are those chicks that, under
practical farm conditions, make good. Order yours today and
avoid disappointment. Beautiful catalog showing in pictures
all about Superior Leghorns and special matings at higher
prices, sent on request.

SUPERIOR POULTRY FARMS. (Incij
_ Box.  

  

MICHIGAN ’

100 for $9
500 for ~$45
1000 for $85

 

 

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l Gentlemen : 40 1
I Enclosed please find 8 ........ ..'...for
l which please ship ,me .8. C.

I White Leghorn: u adrertlsed the week

I of i
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so that it read “No.” _

~“On’.’ were turned about by.;mistake: ~> . Y I,

. The 'Holland Hatchery is rknovm

823 one of Michigans oldest and most

reliable hatcheries, with 18 years of "

experience back of it, and wexere
very sorry if this error has caused
any loss of business. We feel sure
our readers felt thht this was a typo-
graphical error because everyone
knows that Van Appledorn/ Bros.,
proprietors of the hatchery, have
been
Michigan Poultry Improvement As-

leaders in building up the .

sociation which is putting the state '

accredited idea over in this state.

 

RATIONS FOR: YOUNG TURKEYS.

GIVE ﬁrst feed when poults are

from 24 to 36 heurs old. "This
should be dry bread gr'o‘und ﬁne,
mixed with hard boiled, egg“
four times daily ﬁrst and, second
days. 4 7   H» 
Third day, give one feedof rolled I
oats and three of bread and egg.
Fourth to seventh day, give the

Feed a

bread and egg and rolled oats alter- ,

nately, two feeds each. 1

Then, start feeding chick grain,
one feed each day at ﬁrst, taking
the place of one feed of bread and
egg. '

About this time also, for the morn-
ing feed, give a mash made as fol-
lows: ﬂnely chopped greens (onions,
lettuce, or dandelions) mixed with
bread and egg, or rolled oats. Some
granulated charcoal may also be
added. Gradually discontinue the
bread and egg and use more of the
rolled oats with greens. Never more
than they will clean up quickly.

By the end of the second week
you are feeding green mash in the
morning, chick grain for the second
feed, rolled oats for the third,'and
chick grain for the fourth or last
feed.- -

When poults are about three
weeks old, a dry mash is added to
the ration. This is composed of one-
half ground oats and one—half bran.
(by weight), with charcoal added,
proportion, of one pint to six quarts.
This is, fed in trays and boxes and
placed before them for one or two
hours betweén regular feeds, and
then removed until they become ac-
customed to it, and then it is given
for the evening meal, sometimes
feeding also a. light feed of chick
grain or cracked wheat.

. At four weeks, or as soon as they
are ready to go away on range, they
are given but three feeds daily.
Green mash in the morning, and a.
light feed .of rolled oats or chick
grain is carried to them on range.
This induces them to stay on a. given

range waiting for the noon day '

lunch. Select a permanent feeding
place and the ﬂock will soon learn
to meet you there at feeding time.

At night, when they return, the
trays or boxes containing dry mash

‘are waiting for them and if. the

supply of food on range is scantgthey
are also given a. light feed of cracked
wheat or chick grain. As they grow
older, cracked grain or commercial
scratch grain may take the place of
chick grain;

Continue feeding in this way until
three months old or old enough to
eat whole grain. ' :

Oats and wheat are the principal
grains given, More oats than wheat.
A very little corn is fed in letter
September and October. It should
be cracked corn at ﬁrst, and'later
when whole corniis fed, it should
never be more than one fourth of
the ration, until the time comes to
fatten them for market, Feed old
corn if possible, and if new corn is
fed, care'should be taken that it is
dry and well matured.

 

We surely want you to keep right on
coming. to our house. We enjoy every
feature, and look forward to every visit.
—Mrs. J. M. St. Amant, Oakland County.

 

CAN WEBER. BOOK SENT ON
REQUEST ’ '

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‘~ 80nd $1.00 for Each 100 Chicks Ordered. l’ay Postmaster Balance When 'Dellvel‘ed-

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BABY CHICKS

WILL GUARANTEED MICHIGA STATE ACCREDITED

TELL June lDeliveries--¥_lmmediate Shipment

Order Direct from This Ad to Save Time,
or Send for Catalog.

‘ 50 100 500

Grade A Mating, Our v... Best ;'.....$7.50 $14.00 $67.50
Grade B Mating, from'Selected Stock 6.00 11.00 52.50

100% Safe Arrival Guaranteed. We Pay the Postage.
Have Y0u Tried Wolverine Leghorns?

i Le horns have large 10 ped combs; big .deep bodies;
urewgrlivigrrrlrf in “size and type; up produce quantities of large,
white eggs in winter when egg. prices are 111%. Satisﬁed custom-
ers everywhere endorse Wolverine Baby Chic .

Bred for Size, Type and Egg
Production Since 1910
'ed b -M‘ hi an State College 'and Michigan
Potélltlrybrfigg‘i‘hsveidghlzdlgssociitionlc Don’t buy any chicks until you

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have our new 1926 catalog explaining our matings in detail an
how you can. have greatest succesa With poultry.

'y Write for Copy—It’s FREE
WOLVERINE HATCHERY AND FARMS

H. P. WIERSMA. Owner ZEELAND. MICHIGAN.

   
    
   
       
       
        
     

 

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Tancred ollwood Barron White Leghorn

BABY CHICKS

MICHIGAN STATE ACCREDITED

. . ' it do ends largely upon the quality of stoek you
giggtsuw3igmfilénpoghi‘3ks Ere from pure-bred, production type hen?
 ..with many high eggrrecords. FIVE of our hens laid 270 eggs at the‘ 19....é

Michigan International Egg. La TEN birds 19-4 Cantos
To averaged 232 eggs and finish THI D place. We also hatch roviiln
Leghorns and Anconas. FREE Catalog gives full information and to s

 

 

 
  

 why leading egg farmers choose \Vyngarden Strain Chicks. Send for copy.
F ROM Or’der Direct at These Low June Prices

1 Per Per For For

50 100 500 1000
‘ ’ 125.00

S. C. W. Leghorns A Mating ................ ..$7.25 $14.00 $66.00 8;

s. C. W. Leghorns: B Mathig ................ .. 6.00 11.50 53.00 109.00
S. C. W. Leghorns', C Mating ................ .. 5.00 9.70 44.00 85.00
Mottled Anconas and Brown Leghorn-5.... 6.00 11.50 53.00 100.00
Broiler Chicks (Not Accredited) ........ .. 4.00 7.50 35.00 70.00

wyngarden Farms and Hatchery,

HoLLAND HATCHEmQA

“NEW LOW PRICES 
ON MICHIGAN ACCREDITED CHICKS

‘ 'u to investigate one of Michigan’sold’est and best liatcheries.
giglltlalenpagegrg' experience. Our increased capacity made necessary through
absolute satisfaction of our chicks in the hands of old customers enables us
to make you a big saving. Every chick hatched from selected rugged free

range breeders oﬂicially passed by inspectors from Michizan State College.

5. c. WHITE LEGHORNS s,c, R,1,Riaps

 .Xﬁﬁbﬁﬁgm  BARRED ROCKS

' rice list on MichiganﬂAccredited Chicks. which shows how you can save
33%;? “83¢ yy’dxuroglhiglggcizi‘hnxi) an old reliable concern with an established reputation for square deal-
ing 100 %! live delivery, prepaid. Satisfaction guaranteed. Write today for free catalog which

gives complete information.
VAN APPLEDORN BROS. HOLLAND HATOHERY & POULTRY FARM, R1-B, Holland. Michigan.

ngmrsﬂﬁemcxs

75% or OUR SALES EACH YEAR/IRE T0 0w CUSTOMERS

HANSON-+TANCRED---ENGLISH

'Michigan Accredited S. C. White Leghorns

On: White Leghorns Won the 1925 Michigan Egg Contest with pen average of 241 eggs
1000 birds in contest averaged 176 eggs. ,50 sisters of these contest winners averaged
per bird at home. Brothers and sons 0 these birds head my matings this year.

Special Low Prices For June
A Mating .................................. "56.50% 1000

100 500
$11.50 $55.00 $105.00
3 Mating .................................. .. 6 00 0 35 00

V ' t h vs rices. I’guarantee 100% The delivery in.good.condition. 'Will book,
ogi‘lfrofﬁg? ftolimegrqiegt gage Essible and if not satisfactory on can cancel. Circular fully describing
hese winning blood lines sent) free. 'Reference—-Zeeland Ste. 0 Commercial 8: SBYlngs Bank,

ROYAL HATOHERY & FARMS. ZEELAND, MICHIGAN

Chic RS
Mtehi n ccredited chi « 0m ‘ﬂoclni which have stood careful inspection. '
Our $hi

A _
h rn Coc‘lt b d won ﬁrst at Eastern Michi an Poultr Show.
in 1lgotlidmi‘n'gduetion and exhibition classes. We‘won rst in pulllét. class.

Box B,  Zeeland, Mich.

    
        
    

 

  

 

 

     

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, 0% id 0n:2 so we so 1000“
°°" '- ' “M m (N 9‘ 023i; 03.25 $10.00 34 .50 $90.00
9.25 - .25’ {2.00 51.50 11000
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3. e. White horns .................. 
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Rural Chicks Satisfy  .
Buy NOW for JUNE Delivery  y
.. BIG PRICE REDUCTION __ ORDER QUICK 

For Delivery June 8th, 15th and 22nd ' 0

260-290 Egg Foundation.
Rural Pure-Bred Quality Chicks Cost Less to Raise and Pay Big Proﬁts

50 100 500
Rural White Legliorns ...................................... ..$5.50 $10.00 $47.50
S. C. Brown Leghorns or Anconas .... .L ............ .. 6.00 11.00 52.50
Assorted Chicks ................  ......  ....................... .. 4.00 7.00 35.00

We also? have other grades in all three breeds. For full particulars

get our Special Summer Sales Circular.
Prompt Delivery —— Immediate Shipment \
Every Bird in Our Flock is
MICHIGAN STATE ACCREDITED

FREE Catalog—fully descriptive and informative shows how you can
have big success With RURAL Chicks. Send for copy today.

100 Per Cent Live Delivery Guaranteed
RURAL POULTRY FARM, Route 2, Box M, Zeeland, Mich.

 

  
  
 
  
    
  
  
   
  

 

 

 

 

   

  

 
 

Reduced Prices-Best Chick's

Michigan State Accredited
BETTER CHICKS AT LESS COST

S. C.WHITE LEGHORNS

Real Money-Makers ~lively. strong, large healthy chicks from best selected stock.

100% Live Delivery Guaranteed
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I Good Demand For Hogs and Cattle , 

Farmers Warned Against Buying Dairy Cows on Chicago Market
‘ By W. W. FOOTE, Market Editor.

VER since farmers in southern
districts began to sow their
oats seeding and planting have

been moving northward, and of late
corn planting has been especially
large, although up to quite recently
it was kept back by cold and stormy
Weather in some places and by too
much dry weather in others. In parts
0‘ Iowa and other states corn is
above the ground and looking well,
while in other places plowing has
been going on. In some districts
corn is not looking well, however,
and around Fayette. Iowa, farmers
report the stand so poor that they
are going to replant and desire to
know where they can buy tested
seed corn. Some has been bought.
Alfalfa in that region is reported as
looking ﬁne. It may be added that
alfalfa is all the time growing in
popularity in the middle west, and
most farmers regard silos a necess~
ity in cattle feeding sections. Around
Independence, Iowa, the agricult-
ural college extension force is en—
couraging the use of limestone in
growing alfalfa. A report from
that farming district says: “Liming
is necessary on most farms, as tests
for acidity at the various meetings
plainly indicate. Buchanan county
is fortunate in having good lime-
stone deposits, and at present have
three crushers which are working to
capacity. Buchanan county is a
strong dairy county and the dairy-
men appreciate the value of alfalfa
as a dairy cow feed. Butter pro-
duction is increasing, and more is
going into storage, with weakening
prices. '
Doings in Grain Trade
Getting up bullish enthusiasm in
the wheat market most of the time
is almost impossible, and bad crop
reports are required to put prices
on a permanently higher level, the
small and rapidly diminishing sup-
ply in sight being practically ignor-
ed by operators on the Chicago
Board of Trade. A short time ago

'prices broke sharply on reports of

rains in parts of Oklahoma, Kansas
and scuth Dakota. Late sales were
made of July wheat at $1.38, com—
paring with $1.65 a year ago and
$1.06 tWo years ago. Repeatedly
have new low prices for the season
been made in corn, with large offer-
ings, although shrewd farmers are
planning on storing‘ their sound
corn to meet the emergency in the
event that this year’s corn crop fails
to show up well in quantity and
quality. Much will depend upon the

' kind of seed corn used this spring.
‘ Within a short time corn for July

delivery sold for 72 cents, comparing
with $1.18 a year ago, while at the

i same time July oats sold at 41 cents,
> which compared with 49 cents last

year. Bye for July delivery sold at
the same time at 89 cents, compar-
ing with $1.19 a year ago.
Warning to Dairy Farmers
Warning against buying dairy
cows on the Chicago market at this
time because of the number of “on

1 the edge” cattle for sale due to ex~

tended tuberculin testing is being
broadcast. to Michigan farmers by the

. state department of agriculture.

 

   
 

Dairy cows oﬁered in the Chicago
stock yards are in fair demand on
the basis of $75@80 per head for
good ones, with a few of the best
Holstein springers bringing $90.
Less desirable cows can be bought
for $60 @$70, and light weight are
selling at $50 or less.

Government Helps Farmers

According to advices from Wash-
ington, the government will spend
nearly $140,000,00 during the next

- ﬁscal year, beginning July 1, in an

effort to relieve the depression of the
agriculture industry and to place
farmerson a plane with other bus-
iness. Secretary Jardine has an-
nounced that live stock industries

=w‘ll receive $1,100,000 in federal
. aid for tubercular aredication work

among cattle. About $200,000 will

‘ be spent in printing and disrtibuting

books on" diseases of horses and

'  — ~.

Good roads—~a necessity to farm—
ers—Will get $80,000,000 from the
government next year.

Hogs Great Money Makers

Undoubtedly, if the farmers of the
corn belt states were asketho give
their testimony as to how they made
their largest proﬁts for this year,
the overwhelming answer would be
that far the greatest returns Were
made by converting their corn crops
into lard and meats, and they would
place far more stress on the proﬁts
made on hogs than on cattle or
sheep, although farmers in many in-
stances came out satisfactorily in the
cattle and sheep business. Unfor-
tunately, there are many farmers in
Iowa and other states who failed to
stock up with hogs and other live
stock, trusting on marketing the
corn, and this turned out to be a
losmg game, as the large corn crop
caused unusually low prices. Be-
cause of the extreme scarcity of hogs

-.

in the sheep business, andwmcoiisin
farmers are greater dairymen than
ever._' Soy beans are great‘favo‘rites
with many farmers of Illinois and
Missouri, and they are a big item in
live stock feeding, especially in
places where the corn planting is
later than usual. Late sales of hogs
'were made in Chicago at $‘12.00@
14.35; the best light selling 5 cents
above the best butcher lots. A year
ago hogs sold at $10.35@12.60 and
three years ago at $5.90@7.40.
/' Good Demand .for Cattle

Plenty of cattle are grazing on
farms, grass being luxuriant, and
normal supplies are moving to mar—
ket, the receipts in seven western
packing points so far this year show-
ing a good fair gain over last year.
Recent sales of steers in Chicago
were largely at $8.50@9.86, with
common to prime lots at $7.75@
10.35, comparing with $7.75@11.65
a year ago and $6.7‘5@11.50 two
years ago. The best cattle sell un-
usually low, but other kinds sell well,
with yearlings taken largely in pref-
erence to heavy steers, as is usual
during the summer.’ Fat cows and
heifers are good sellersat $6.50@

 

M. B. F. MARKET REPORTS BY RADIO "

VERY evening, except Saturday and Sunday, at 7 o’clock, eastern
standard time, the Michigan Business Farmer broadcasts market
information and news of interest to farmers through radio sta-

tion WGHP of Detroit.
270 meters.

everywhere, the packers could not
hold prices down, but they kept ris-
ing most or the time, until prices
reached the highest point seen 'in
more than a year. Some farmers let
their hogs go to market several
weeks ago, as certain market pro-

phets warned them that the usual'

yearly increased marketings and
breaks in prices were at hand. But
precedents failed in this case, for the
hogs were not in the country. As
for the future, raising corn for mar-
keting may turn out all right, the
result depending very much on the
next crop, but successful farmers will
hardly care to make the experiment.
Sticking to the hog industry has al-
ways won in the end, and it will con-
tinue to be proﬁtable where farmers
raise the corn, although booms in
prices like this year’s are exception—
al. It is safe to say that most farm-
ers are averse to taking wholly un—
necessary risks, and it is known that
many farmers have been stocking up
with cattle, hogs, sheep and hens.

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This station operates on a wave length of

10, and the stocker and feeder trade
is only fair at $7 @ 8.75, with the
greater part at $7.50 (€128.25 and
feeder and stock and heifers at $5.75
@ 6. 5 0

 

WHEAT

The wheat market is unsettled
with prices for grain'easy. At De-
troit the price made a gain of sev-
eral cents after our last issue went
to press but last week a decline set
in. There seems to be a general
feeling that prices are going to
downward and there are plenty of
sellers and no holders.
crop is reported as in better condi—
tion than last year’s. Harvesting is
already under way in the southwest.

CORN

Illinois farmers are freely selling
their corn and it-can be bought at
the lowest price in ﬁve years. ‘And
there is nothing in the future that
indicates any change for the better.

 

 

THE BUSINESS FARMER’S v MARKET SUMMARY
and Comparison with Markets Two Weeks Ago and One Year Ago

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Den wit Chicago Detroit Detroit
June 1 June 1 May 18 1 yr. ago

WHEAT—. '

No. 2 Red $1.58 $1.65% $1.64 $1.89

No. 2 White 1.59 1.65 1.89

No. 2 Mixed 1.58 _ " 1.64 1.89
CORVN— '

No. 2 Yellow .76 701/; @71 .75

No. 3 Yellow .73 - .70 1.25

OATS——

N0. 2 White .45 }§ 40@ 41 34 .46 .55
No. 3 White .44 $5 40 1,4 .45 .52

RYE--~ 3
Cash No. 2 - .88 89@89;4 -85 1.19

BEANS— ’ .

C. H. P. th. 4.25 4.40@4.50 5.45@5:55

POTATOES... ,

New. Per th. 2.83@2.89 ~2.25@2.90 x 3.65 1.52@ 1.83

FIAY— ' .,

‘ No. 1 Tim. 23.50@24 24@26 23.50@24 16 16.50
No. 2 Tim. 21 @22 21 23 21 @22 14 15
No. 1 Clover 20 821 21 28 20@24 13@14
Light Mixed 22 28 23@25 22@2B 15.50@ 16

 

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Tuesday, June 1,—Grains unchanged at Detroit and lower

 

at Chicago.’ Old

 

potatoes quiet and steady. Butter and eggs active: 

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Michigan ~' farmers are great believers I

‘ is quiet.

This year’s‘

 

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The rye market improved some. .
duringthe month of May due to'an ‘-
increased—foreign demand but at the _ '
close of the month it was easy again  
and prices were oif.'\L0cal demand.

is very light.
BEANS

Thereseems to be little or no de- ,1
mand 'for beans right at present .

withbuying continuing on the hand
to mouth basis. Offerings are re-
ported light. The prices are of! con«
siderable compared to two weeks
ago. ,

POTATOES
Demand for new potatoes con-
tinues steady while old ones are
hard to get rid of at present prices.
A liberal priCes supply of both kinds
is reported.

. LIVE STOCK MARKETS

 

DETROIT, June 1.—-Cattle——Reeeipts, ,'

243; market active and steady. Good to
choice yearlings, dry fed, $9@10; best
heavy steers, dry fed, $8.50@9.25; best
handy weight butcher steers, $7.50@8.50;

mixed steers and heifers, $7@8.50; handy . -

light butchers, $6.50@7; light butchers,
$6 @6150 ; best cows, $6.50@7 ; butcher cows
$5.50@6.50; common cows, $4.50@5; can-
ners, $4@4.50; choice light bulls, $6150
@7; heavy bulls, $6@7;
$5.50@5.75; feeders, $6.50@7.50; stockers.
$6@7; milkers and springers, 850@100.
Veal Calves—Receipts, ’ 531; market
strong and 50 cents higher; best, $14@
14.60; others, $4@13.50.- .
Sheep and Lambs—Receipts, 92; Mar;
ket ; Sheep steady; lambs 50 cents lower;
quality common. Best lambs, $16@16.50;
fair lambs, $14@14.60; light to common
lambs, $8.25@11; fair to good sheep, $7
@8; culls and commons, $2@4.50. .
'Hogs—Receipts, 1,256.
pects: Mixed hogs, $14.60.

Market pros-

DETBOIT LIVE POULTRY MARKET

Broilers, fancy heavy rocks and reds.
48@50c; medium and white, 44@45c; leg-
horns, 38@40c; Stags, 18@20c; extra
large hens, 31c; medium hens, 32@33c;
leghorns and small, 30@31c; large white
duCks, 35@36c per lb.

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l 1.4.-
Week of June 6
WARM weather, thunder showers

 

and some strong winds are- to

be expected at very beginning
of the week of June 6th in most
parts of Michigan. While there may
be a break in this storm about Mon-
day there will be renewed storminess
during middle days of this week.
General rains or at least local heavy
downpourssare scheduled for many
sections of the state between Tues-
day and Thursday.

Friday may see some clear Weather
in the state but more storms are due
again either at end of this week or
very beginning of next. Temper-
atures, also, will give way close to
end of this week resultingin a sharp
change to cooler and clearing.

. .JVeek of June 13

The ﬁrst couple days of this week
will be cool for the season in most
parts of Michigan. During the days
of sunshine will help keep the tem—
peratures up but the nights will be
unseasonably cool. ‘

With a radical change to warmer
about Tuesday there will be increas-
ing storms, high winds and heavy
rains are the ,. main characteristics
to expect during middle days of this
week. ‘

By Thursday the barometer will
rise, the sky clear and temperatures
fall to readings considerably befow
normal for this time of year. The

1 balance of the week will have gen-
--erally fair but cool weather. .

 

knitwear—Cold and no rain in ﬁve--

woolen. PiOwinf and planting‘com. SOW'Z’."
potatoes ‘  «Wheat not over. ones-hau-
crop. , Oats not on up,” yet. "Alf lfan

  

  

Oats sympathize wit ., the weak: I
11938 in wheat and corn, and demand 
Receipts areoii the gain." "

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is coming ﬁne. Farmers are well along
a prepare their corn. ground. Quotations
I at Alpena are: Hay, $520 pen torn. oats.
50¢ per bu.; wheat, $1.65 per bu.; pota-
toes, $1.25 and, $1.50 per cwt.;, eggs, 25c
portion: butter, -34.: per lees-2046.

’ Isabella. (NW).——0ats sown. Farmers
are. planting/x corn ‘and potatoes. Most
gardens hays . been planted. Two good
in the last week.— Too cold for
grow much. Potatoes, $1.00 per

s‘e‘e’dslto
28¢ per doz.; cream, 43c lb.

.bu-‘V 6883.

. IwPotatoes are about all shipped. Getting

, ground ready to plant beans.—5o20-26.
Lenawee.—-—Frequent showers the past
week“ have greatly improved grain and
hay crops. Corn planting is in full pro-
gress. Some arrthrough and some are
still ploughing. Quotations 'at Adrian
are: Hay, $12.00 per ton; oats, 376 per
bu.; wheat, $1.45 per bu.; beans, $3.00
per “cwt.; potatoes. $2.50 per cwt.; eggs,
' 28c per don—H. B. Bryan, 5-26-26.
81:. Joseph GEL—Corn not‘ planted

' yet in most parts owing to cold weather.
Also potato planting late. Late frosts.
Last week did not do much injury but
many covered strawberries and tomatoes,
etc. Fruit trees‘ unharmed. Alfalfa and
other early crops coming ﬁne. Quota-
tions at Sturgis are: Hay, $80.00 per
ton; corn, 55c per bu.; oats, 40s per bu.;
rye,- 70c per bu.;,wheat, $1.50 per bu.;
eggs, 28¢ per doz.; butter, 42c per lb.—-
Carolyn Hyde, 5-25-26.

Kent.—;—Severe frost last night some
damage to apples and cherries. Clover
froze on our ﬁeld. Early gardens suf-
fered, but not entirely ruined. Too

' early to tell what other damage. Trees
were very beautiful last week but do

not appear to be very badly injured now.‘

Will take a week to tell for sure. Corn
plowing still being done. Oats were
looking ﬁne Sunday. 'Quotations at
Lowell are: Hay, $18.00 per ton; corn,

55¢ per bu.; eggs, 27c per doz.: butter,
"35¢ per lb.—~Sylvia VVellcome, 5-20-26.
Presque Isle—Farmer's through seed-
ing and are at corn and potatoes now.
We had a nice rain the 21st. The trees
are breaking open. Rye doesn’t seem to
do very well. It is quite cool again.
Have had a few auction sales this spring.
'Pigs seem to -be scarce and beef also
sells for a good price—F. T., 5-25-26.

St. Joseph (EL—Wheat looks promis-
ing... Eearly potatoes are up nicely. Corn
“planting is in fullswing. Oats look good.
Hay good including alfalfa. Rye is head-
ing out—Alvin J. Yoder, 5-27-20.
Hmsdale (C).—Weather ﬁpe for horses
in harness, also for grass and corn needs
some warmer days. \Corn planted'May
10th is only half up and that is very
yellow. Potatoes planted same date are
not up yet. Clover sown in posts and
wheat has made ﬁne start, much different
than last year. Seed corn is scarce and
everyone wants an early sort. Quota-
tions at Hillsdale are: Hay, $16.00 per
ton; corn,-30c per bu.; oats, 37c per bu.;
wheat, $1.47 per bu.; beans, $.350 per
cwt.; potatoes, $3.00 per cwt.; eggs 280
per doz.; butterfat, 45c per 1b.—L. W. M.,
5527—26. - ..
munian (NW).——There is quite a good
deal . of corn to be planted yet. Have
had so much wet Weather the last two
.Weeks that it has hindered the farmers
working the ground. Early planted corn
is coming up. Farmers are getting anx-
ious to wrok cabbage ground. Cabbage
is the main cash crop grown here, with
cucumbers next. Had a hard frost the
night of May 22, which did‘a lot of dam-
age to strawberries and early garden

tater mounts;
a finest-sin... this morning. -
ry much needed. Fall grains

. with their seeding and just "starting .to :

  
 
 

"in«the_'hills is winter killed some.

  

per bu.; mucus”:- ; potatoes.
“46056185 macaw; eggs, 24c 'per dos. ;.
butter. 400.1 per lb.-—E. H. D., 5-24—26.
Cans—Meat is growingnicely but the
straw will be short at best. The wheat
Farm-
ers are planting corn and about 25% is
planted. Early potatoes are up. Oats
are late but with cool weather may make
a crop yet. Strawberries and "grapes
were nipped by Sunday’s frost, .other

fruit looks kiie a large crop. Tay locks "

good. Quotations at Marcellus are: Hay,
$22.00 per ton; corn, 65c per bu.; oats.
450 per bu.; rye, 50¢ per bu.; wheat.
$1.43 per bu.; potatoes, $2.00 per cwt.;
eggs. 26c per doz.; butter, 42¢ per lb.—
Walter N. Hirschy, 5-25-26.

Emmett.——The past two weeks have
been ideal for farm work. The rain of
last week was badly needed but is bring-
ing pasture on nicely. Oats are coming
up and look good. Some corn planted.
more will be planted next week. Trees
just leafing out, no blossoms in sight yet.
Quite a few outside cars on the road
makes it look good for resort trade.
Quotations at Petoskey are: Hay, $18.00
per ton: oats, 500 per bu.; eggs, 25o per

doz.; butter, 35c per lb.—-—R. D., 5-27-26.

Clare (Wk—Two heavy frosts, and a
couple of frosts within the last ten days.
Our ﬁrst real rain came last week and
was badly needed. Oats are doing well.
The high priced clover seed is beginning
to show up. Farmers are planting corn
and potatoes and plowing or ﬁtting bean
ground. Young pigs are being contracted
for at $5.00 when four weeks old. Small
litters and much loss makesrthem pretty
scarce. There are quite a few calves
being vealed. Cattle buyers can’t under-
stand present scracity of (Attic. A few
farmers are still buying hay at $25.00

, per ton. Quotations at Harrison are:
Hay, $18@22.00 per ton; eggs, 24c per
doz.; butterfat, 40c per lb.—-Mrs. D.,
5-26-26.

‘and many tourists

'truck, ,in some places cutting sweet corn '

and potatoes to the ground. Most gar-
dens are looking ﬁne inspite of cold.—
Chas. Hunt, 5—27-26. ..

Oakland—«Local rains have relieved
the drought. All crops are doing ﬁne.
Clover of all kinds killed in spots by last
year’s drought 'and ice. Corn planting
two weeks later than usual. Not very
big acreage of beans to be planted. Fruit
of all kinds promises a big crop. Pasture
ﬂne. All ,.stock going ﬁne. Quotations
at Holly are: Hay, $18.00 per ton; com,
700 per bu.; oats, 450 per bu.; rye, 750
per bu.; wheat, $1.50. per bu.; beans,
$3.85 per cwt.;, potatoes. $3.50 per cwt.;
eggs, 240 per doz. ;, butter, 40c.per,ib.——
John DeCou, 5—26—26.

Gen’esee.—Only a. feW' farmers have

} rplanted ,corn is yet, but most of them

will ~plant within a week or ten days.
Several fields have been sown to alfalfa.
Oats are looking good. There has been
considerable rain the last few days which
'has been badly needed. Nearly all of
the spring plowing is done. Quotations
at Flint are: Corn, 75c per bu.; oats, 42¢
per bu.; rye, 750 per bu.; wheat. $1.53
per 1911. ;' beans, $3.85 per cwt.; old pota-

 toes, $1.85 per bu.; eggs. 33c per doa;

butter, 48c per lb.——H. 8., 5-25—26. / e

 ﬂexfordg-r-Weather. warm. Plenty of

, I “3 Esme-“gardens are-ﬁrm~ com and
m ,.   Ming ~plan... ted. Oats plan ted.»
'  condition.  re-

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BenTen (KL—Fruit growers are put-
ting the calyx _spray on apples. Have
had plenty of rain lately. The sour crop
Will be very short. Other fruit is un-
harmed. Canners are offering 6c per lb.
for sour cherries plus the advance if
market goes high; which it undoubtedly
will. A normal acreage of melons is be-
ing planted—H. F., 5-27-26.

Masonr—Oats' coming ﬁne. Grasses
slow but new seedings coming ﬁne. Many
are setting out raspberries and dewberry
plants this year. Apple trees were slow
in blooming. Early varieties good and
plentiful. Many farmers absent for sev-
eral years from their farms have, re-
turned this spring and glad to return
from cities. Chickens hatching very
poor. Quotations at Freesoil are: Hay,
$20.00 per ton; corn, 70c per bu.; oats,
50c per but; rye, 700 per bu.; wheat,
$1.50 per bu.; beans, $4.00 per cwt.;
potatoes, $1.50 per cwt.; eggs, 25¢ per
doz.; butter, 38c per lb.—-—G. Pearl Darr,
5-26-25.

Kaikaska.——During / the past several
warm days farmers have crowded their
work to the fullest extent. Some corn
and early potatoes- planted but those
crops in general still remain to be planted.
It is believed that the last frosts have
shortened the fruit crop in this section,
especially cherries and early apples.
Alfalfa and other hay making rapid
growth. Pasture very good. Soil in ex-
cellent working condition. Roads ﬁne
northward bound.
Price now paid for eggs at Kalkaska,
230 per doz.; butter, 40c per lb.——H. 8.,
5-27—20.

Monroe (EL—Rural schools have closed
on account of unseasonable weather con-
ditions. Gardens and small fnuits are
backward. Cut worms are getting in
their devastating among the truck farm-
ers. A heavy white frost last night.
Oats, acreage not as large as last year.
Corn not all planted. The corn borer
epidemic has decreased the acreage.
Farm bunco stearers at Washington, D.
C. is becoming a. stench in the nostrils
of thinking farmers. Quotations at Tem-
perance are: Hay, $18.00 per ton; com,
350 per bu.; oats, 38c per bu.; rye, 70c
per bu.; wheat, $1.65 per bu.; potatoes,
$3.50 per bu.; eggs, 270 per doz.; butter,
450 per lb.———C. W. Eisenmann, 5-27—26.

Almeria—Very dry for this time of
year and growth very slow. Farmers
about done with seeding and getting the
corn ground ready to plant. Few have
planted. Car of certiﬁed seed potatoes
being loaded at McHarg station this
week. Farmers haVe quit buying hay.—
J. A. M., 5-26-26.

Deﬁance Count-y, Ohio.——-Been. very dry
spring; good rain past week. Frost Sun-

,day. A. M. Cherries and plums as large

as soy beans. Some safe. Grapes same.
Corn planting nearly done. Veals, 110;
hogs, 11% @130. Oats are growing ﬁne
and wheat 'best prospects for years.
Acreage not large. Alfalfa and sweet
clover 1 foot high. Young grass coining
‘good. Great ,“xnany have colds.-—W. E.
Brown, 5-287”. . '

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are: u my. $15.00 per ton; corn, 60o per
bu.; oats, 35c per bu.;
= .Wheat, $1.53 per bu.;

cwti: potatoes, $2.00 per cwt.; eggs, 28c
,gegedzoezqmutter, 40c per lb.—F. Dungey.

grass and pastures are
shape following the rains of last week
and this. _
potatoes are planted. Fruit, doesn’t seem
to be much hurt from frost.
have ripe strawberries in a week. There
is very little plowing done for beans.

., n. .. ..
.V . _ e o _ ook for;;farmérs is?“
617  Quotations ‘at—--Hemlock‘
rye, 60¢ per bu.;
beans, $3.85 per:

Clinton, Ionia,‘ Entom—Oats, wheat.

in quite good
Lots of corn planted and early

We will

'many' this year.
are: p
bu.; rye, 840 per bu.; wheat, $1.55 per
bu.

$6.50 per cwt.; eggs, 25c per doz.; but-
ter, 44¢ per lb.-—Bruce B. Douglas,
'” 5—26-26.

hay shortage some.
rain and warm weather.
been
getting ready for corn planting. Quite an
increase in sweet clover and alfalfa seed-
ing this year.
0.,

Must farmers, discouraged over the bean

   

of last year, so will not plant so
Quotations at Lansing
oats, 45c per

 
 

  
 
  
 

Corn, 30c per bu.;

; beans, $3.85 per cwt.; new potatoes.

 
  
 

Osceola and Clare.—~Pasture reieiving
Could stand more.
Some oats have
in this week. Most farmers

  
 

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Seed corn scarce.—-D. T
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Box M, R. R. No. 1.

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AT SPECIAL JUNE
From one of the founders of the chick industry 24.years in the bus-
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our Male Birds have been legb‘andviad by the state.

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Write for free catalog.
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Barred Rocks, Rhoda
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1te Leghorns,
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JUNE and JULY PRICES

$9.00 For 100
$45.00 For 500
$88.00 Per 1000

Order direct. 100 safe arrival
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Prepaid by’ parcel post.
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