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SATURDAY, AUGUST 14,1926

Entered as 2nd. class matter, A 22 g,

at Mt. Clem

Around 8 ,000 Attend Farmers’ Day at M. S. C

Crowd Sees Two Teams of Horses Pull To Tie in Establishing New State Record

E weather on Farmers’ Day,

July 30th at the Michigan State

College could not have been
nicer, even if the oﬂcials in charge
had had it made to order. It was
. ideal and a crowd of farmers and
their families, estimated at around
8 .000 people, was in attendance.

The forenoon was given over to in-
specting work being done by the Col-
lege, then at noon picnic baskets
were brought forth and folks spread
their lunches under trees on the
campus. The afternoon was given
over to quite an extensive program
with perhaps the outstanding feature
a team pulling contest where a new
state record was established.

Hon. L. Whitney Watkins, State
Commissioner of Agriculture painted
a word picture of the coming Mich-
igan State Fair for the crowd, stat-
ing, “The fair is to be a real agri-

cultural exposition, with your help. ” ’

.The interest shown by the folks in-

dicate that the help will be gladly , 8

given.

A team of chesuut horses, earned
by A. G. Vanderbeck, of Alma,
Gratiot county, and a well-matched
pair of bays, owned by Allen Has-
kins. of‘ Ionia, Iom‘a county, tied on
a new state record for pulling. They
pulled the dynamometer set at 3,100
pounds for the full distance of 271,9
feet, beating the previous state rec-
ord by 225 pounds. Also this rec-
ord is second highest in the United
States, the best record of 2, 475
pounds being held in Iowa, where
horse-pulling c o n t e s t s originated
four years ago.

To break the tie weights were set
at 3,150 pounds and the teams again
were hitched to the dynamometer.
The chestnuts made the ﬁrst attempt
and it looked as though they were
going to pull it the full distance

until a tight collar caused one of.

the horses to tail. Given three
chances they pulled it a total of 43
feet. The lonia team also failed to
make the full distance in one pull
andonlymade 34 feetinthree st-

tempts, so the team from Alma was
givcnriirst prize of $50 oifered by
thalonla Free Fair.

» - There is a possibility that the
two teams will have an opportunity
to settle their dispute at the Mich-
igan State Fair-at atDetroit in Sep-
tember.

The team pulling caused more ex-
citement than would a base ball
game "or a horseshoe pitching con-
test. Warnings to the spectators to
remain silent and keep back were
forgotten when a team got into ac-
tion. When the horses settled down
to the task at hand and their driver
waved his whip and urged them to
do their best the temptation was

too great and the crowd moved for-
ward, at the same time adding their
cries to those of the driver. But
the horses seemed to sense that the
crowd was with them and they re-

, sponded nobly with little show of
excitement.

During an intermission in the pull-
ing contest Dean Shaw introduced
Prof 0. E. Reed of the College who
talked briefly on the coming Inter-
national Dairy Show, to be held at
the State Fair Grounds at Detroit
during the ﬁrst week in October.

“Why Michigan Lives Up to Its
Motto" was the subject taken up by
John A. Doelle, former State Com-
missioner of Agriculture and now ex—

American Banner Wheat Wins Praise
By E. 0. RATHER
Extension Specialist, Michigan State College

ROWER’S raising wheat on the
lighter loams and upland types
of soil throughout Michigan are
enthused over their prospects with
American Banner Wheat this year.

The American Banner, a bald
white wheat developed several years
ago by plant breeders at the Michi-
gan State College, has come into
prominence in more recent years
through demand on the part of Mich-
igan Millers for a white wheat that
would make the better grades of
pastry ﬂour. The American Banner
Wheat evidently ﬁlls this need and
has also won favor as an excellent
variety in the food products trade.

Now, it would appear, American
Banner is becoming popular with
growers too. Clarence Heinlein of
Vassar states that American Banner
has proven unusually winter hardy
for his condition and his 20 acre
ﬁeld of this variety is one of the best
wheat ﬁelds in that section.

Farley Brothers or Albion have
also commented on the winter hard-
iness of this variety for Calhoun
County conditions, while R. V.

Beardslee of Owosso says, “We
planted Certiﬁed American Banner
Seed Wheat September 27th last fall,
using super-phosphate fertilizer. The
ﬁeld came through the winter in ex‘
cellent shape and is one of the most
promising we have had in years.”

Further evidence of the ability of
American Banner to withstand se-
vere winters comes from Joseph
Keilein of Pewamo, L. H. Conklin
of Chesaning and W._ H. Morrice of
Morrice. Mr. Keileln says "My ﬁeld
of American Banner Wheat .stood
the winter well and looks right for
a bumper crop.” L. H. Conklin pre-
dicts that American Banner and acid
phosphate will turn him a good
wheat proﬁt this year, while Mr.
Morrice says his whole neighbor-
hood is strong for this variety be-
lieving it to be the best yieldcr for
their lighter types of soil.

L. R. Kerr of Sandusky planted
his ﬁeld of American Banner be—
tween two other varieties and every-
one who saw the comparison re-
marked on the evident superiority of

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ecutive secretary of the Michigan
Real Estate Association.
tion is the big question in Michigan
for the next ten years, according to
Mr. Doelle.

“The good roads question is set
tled,” he said. What we need is an
enlightened public opinion on conser-
vation ad enough people back of the
movement to get some action on it."

Mr. Doelle compared Michigan to
an empire. A circle centering at
Detroit and reaching to Ironwood in
one direction would go 50 miles be—
yond Washington in the other, he
showed. This empire, with the ﬁrst
position in more agricultural pro-
ducts than any other state, with 32,-
000,000,000 of manufactured prod-
ucts each year and with recreation-
al resources scarcely realized, is the
greatest state in the Union, he said.

He pointed out the opportunity of .

Michigan farmers to take advantage
of the home'market offered by the
industrial cities and by the summer
tourists, and quoted a New York
ﬁnancial magazine to the eﬁfect that
only 34 per cent of Michigan people
eat food produced in this state.
Farmers need to grade and pack
their products properly and then ad-
vertise them to the people of the
cities, he said.

Urging the early completion of
the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Water-
way, he showed that lower trans-
portation costs to the markets of the
world will beneﬁt every resident of
the state. He predicted that in the
future much of the iron and copper
mined in the Upper Peninsula will
be manufactured in Michigan.

"We don't need to advertise the
state if we all believe in it and talk
about it," he said. “If you are look-
ing for a peninsula that is well lo-
cated and that is beautiful, look
about you.”

The day was concluded with the
annual town and country church
choir singing contest, sponsored by
R. E. Olds, of Lansing. Benzonia
won ﬁrst, Rockford second, Reading
third, and Fowlerville, fourth.

Michigan Hereford—Breeders Spend Two Days Visiting Herds of State

annual tour of the Michigan
Hereford Breeders Association
was held in the central part of
the state. July 29th and 80th. Owing
to the backwardness of "the season
the committee in charge of the tour
did not plan as long a one as usual,
but what this tour lacked in length
was morethan made up by the en-
thusiasm displayed. These tours are
the big event of the year on the Hero
eford' breeders’ calendar, and every-
one attends who can possibly go.
President Harwood and Secretary

' Miller met part of “the tourists at

St. Johns early Thursday morning,
from where they went to Pine Bros.
Stock Farm, near De Witt. Here
they were joined by V. A. Freeman,
of the Michigan State College. Ac—

, companying Mr. Freeman was Mr.

Ira H. Butterileld, father of Kenyon
L. Butterﬁeld, President of M. S. 0.:
this being Mr. Butterﬁeld’s second,
.tour with the Hereford breeders. He
is one of the older residents of the
state, but is still taking an active
‘interest in everything pertaining to
agriculture. and the Hereford breed-
as" ﬂm sales having him with

' wood

' problems of turning, and the friend
explained .1}; relationship existing between the
' , to; targets of countyand

Feldspausch’s herd numbers about
20 registered Herefords. Here we
were joined by James Campbell,
county agent of Genesee county. who
has a herd of Herefords on his farm
in Clinton county. We can always
count on “Jim" and his family be-
ing present when a Hereford event
is taking place.

Weisgerber Bros. , south of Ionia,
was the next stop, where we saw the
show herd they are ﬁtting for the
fall fairs. They have about 20 head
of registered Herefords. '

DinnerAtBarwoodFann

Everyone was glad to reach the
Harwood farm, where we were
scheduled. to have. dinner. Their
beautiful lawn was an ideal place
for the serving to the slxty- members
of the party, of the ﬁne dinner pre-
pared by the West Berlin Ladies Aid.
After dinner County Agent R. L.
Helm, of Ionia county. acted as.
toastmaster. President Harold Har-
welcomed the Hereford ,
breeders to his home,.and he was
followed by Mr. Lewis Hale, Presi-
dent of the Ionia Chamber of Com-
merce, who welcomed the tourists in
behalf of the citlnens of Ionia
county, and who also gave an in-

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the best county fairs in Michigan.
Mr. Hale’s talk was followed by one
given by an oﬂicer of the fair, who
gave a short account of its history.
Several of the breeders gave short
talks. Mr. Ira H. Butterﬁeld gave
an interesting account of some of
the things that he was trying to ac-
complish for the betterment of agri-
culture. At the close of the short
business meeting which was held, a
motion was made and seconded that
the Secretary send a suitable letter
to Mr. Alvin H. Sanders, Editor of
the “Breeders Gazette”, expressing
the thanks and appreciation of the
Association for his work in behalf
of the Better Beef movement.
Judging Contest

After the dinner and business
meeting, movies were taken of the
crowd, an: we left to view one of
judging mntests and demonstration

given by V. A. Freeman. Two young

cows were used in this, and it was
of great educational value to those
present.

The herd of Wm. Kneale and Son,
censisting of 25 head, was then vis-
lied. Mr. Kneale not only has good
Herefords, but he knows how to

.make good maple syrup as any one

who was present will testify. The
remainder oi. the Harwood herd of
140 were then looked over, where it
was grasing’in one of the good past-

on the Harwood term. From
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planned to have next year'stoar
the Upper Mania,

by Homer Van Baron, and saw his
good herd bull and 17 cows. An-
other judging contest was held here,
after which we were treated to home
made ice cream and cake, candy and
cigars.

We next visited Mr. R; A. Dodds,
a new Hereford breeder, who is mak-
ing a good start in the Hereford
game with 6 registered cows. The
last stop was at J. E. Hunter' 3 farm
at Vermontville, where we saw his
17 registered cows. Mr. Hunter al-
so has some good horses, of which
our movie operator shot a few pict-
ures. After being served with lem-
onade and cake, the day's tour was
ended.

Last Day

The next day was spent in in—
specting the Michigan State College
herd, and enjoying the activities of
Farmer’s Day held there.

These annual tours have a. far
reaching value; they keep the Here-
ford breeders in close touch with
each other, and give them ﬁrst hand ’
knowledge of the other fellow's _
stock and methods of breeding, all
of which is putting the Herefords to
the front of the beef cattle breeds in
Michigan.

This tour was one of the best at.-

succees is largely due to the work of
V. A. Freeman and President Har-
old Harwood. who arranged it. lit—h

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SEVERAL SCHOOL QUESTIONS

Should or must a rural teacher
teach penmanship? Must a rural
teacher correct all the pupils’ papers
on mathematics? If thecyr do not
how can they grade the pupils prop-
erly? Some teachers :say that they
are not obliged to correct any papers
after school hours and that they
have no time in school hours. Has
any parent got the right to go and
censure the teacher during school or
after school? What steps should
the school board take to prevent
this? If the law requiring at least
one year of normal training for all
teachers goes into effect this year,
where “will we hire our teachers
from?-——C. M., Midland, Michigan.

ENMAN‘SHIP is included in the
P course of study for all rural
schools. Each teacher
teach the subject.
It is the duty of the teacher to
give instruction as provided for in
the state course of- study. Details

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summers while bulletin dates it from
1908.

What I should like to know is
why it is written up so, etc., and yet
elevators do not cooperate enough
to carry seed and say there is no
sale for-it? Is it true the wrinkled
bean has no sale? Why is it that
farmers say there is no sale for it

if they do raise it?—F. M. T., Rich- _

mond, Michigan.

HE Robust is a pea bean that
had its origin ,in a commercial
lot of beans in 1908. Due to

its immunity to mosaic during that
year the plant was noted andsaved.

Since then selections and tests

have been made to get a high yield-
ing pure line. About 1916 the bean
was put out as the Robust to. the
‘commercial grower. A little later.
due to mixtures caused by careless
handling at threshing, the beans
seemed to be slightly mixed. Lots
were again tested from over the
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GOING TO TAKE ANY LON-G TRIIHS?

IN a. recent issue we published an editorial advising our folks that
if any of them were planning long trips during their vacations
this summer we would be pleased to advise them regarding the

routes.

Since then we have served a large nulnber of our folks, some

expecting to tour several states, others about Michigan, and our serv-
ices are still available to any who did not see the editorial. Just
write in, telling us where you want to go, and we will direct, you to

the best of our ability. If we feel you should have maps we will tell
In case you can not get maps we

you so and the kind you need.

will get them for you charging only the postage in addition to the

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of the method are left to her. She
must personally supervise grading
of examination and test papers. The
teacher must ﬁnd a sufﬁcient amount
of time to do the instruction nec-
essary for her school. .

A parent has no right to disturb
a school or do anything that would
tend to bring school authority into
contempt. Section 5684 of the 1915
Compiled Laws provides in part as
follows: ‘Any person who shall dis-
turb any school by rude or indecent
discourse, or in any other way make
such disturbance, shall on conviction
therof. be punished by a ﬁne not less
than two 'nor more than ﬁfty dollars,
or by imprisonment in the county
jail not exceeding thirty days.

The teacher training law provides
that after September 1, 1925, county
certiﬁcates shall be based upon nor-
mal training. The minimum amount
of training is one year. It also pro-
vides for renewals of certain certi-
ﬁcates that were in effect on Septem—
ber 1, 1925.

There is as yet no evidence of a
teacher shortage in the state—G.
N. Otwell, Department of Public In-
struction.

 

ROBUST BEANS

Two years ago your paper and an-
other state farm paper printed a
few' articles on the robust bean:
which aroused my interest. On talk-
ing with a few local farmers found
they knew nothing of bean so
through county agent got a govern-
ment bulletin on them. Decided to
plant some but the elevators were
rather vague on Robust beans and
cOuld give no guarantee on the seed
being such, so ﬁnally through the
courtesy of M. S. C. obtained a small
amount of seed to try out. My stand
was about as pretty as I ever saw,
practically every bean germinating
and when matured the vines-were
loaded. The next year when the
man who worked .my farm .came [to
plant beans I talked “Robust :Beans”
and he 'ﬂnally'grot what he said were
On' account of bad fall
which delayed the harvesting until

very; late and after several hard.
frosts, ‘thought'my'beans might not

make good ,- seed this «year, so the
planter .went 'to the ”elevators for

seed.
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a it.

The men there claim they can .'

sale ‘for it. ‘That' is it, shrinks. and *1 y
no sal for a “Winkled'be Ii: .
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about 1922, a new distribution of
seed was made, being called “The
Improved Robust”. This latter re-
lease is What is largely grown at
present and is being kept pure by
the care and restrictions of the
Michigan Crop Improvement Asso—
ciation.

The Robust has yielded well above
any commercial lot of beans which it
has been placed in test with. More
farmers are using the bean each
year. The fact that it is the most
anthracnose and blight resistant of
any of our white pea beans makes it
highly desirable to grow.

A wrinkled bean is not desirable
on the market but as yet we have
been unable to ﬁnd a bean which
will not wrinkle when conditions are
favorable. rThis is true of all the
white pea beans grown at this Sta-
tion.

The report that the Robust bean
will not sell is a rumor. As yet I
have the ﬁrst farmer to see who has
had to hold his white pea beans
from one year to the next without a
sale just because it was the Robust
or called Robust—H. R. Pettigrove,
Assistant Professor in Farm Crops?
Michigan State College.

FILE BILL OF EQUITY

In April, 1900, I bought a farm on
the south side of the section running

WHERE OUR READERS LIVE.

starring-{gm I: ,7
abstract: brought. Ill) to d t

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ﬁnd that the man on] the north-side‘ ’
in. the’ year 1901 sold ‘his land and

gave the description on the south
sideaof the section :and he never has
owned any land south of. the quarter
line. The man that 'bought'it has
sold it on t‘heright description. It
has been sold several times but;
only the once on my abstract. Would
it be made straight if. my place was
probated?——A Subscriber, Chesaning}
Michigan.

T would probably be advisable to
ﬁle a bill in equity to quiet title:
to the piece of property so as,

to- remove the cloud caused by the
wreng description in your neighbor’s
deed.—-'-aLe.gal Editor. ‘ :

7 MARL
I have a‘ marl bed and would like.
to know more about it.‘
contain as high a percent of lime
as stone? Can' marl be'dried and;
screened so it'will contain a' higherI
percent of lime. What is the bestT
way to mine and what is the usual?
price per yard?——R. H. R., Waldron,;
Michigan.

THE percentage of lime in marl
varies to a greater degree than
does limestone. :Marl deposits
may range from 96 or 97 per cent
calcium carbonate equivalent to a“
calcareous clay containing only a
low percentage of calcium carbon—3
ate. Drying and screening marl will
not raise the percentage of lime:
Most marl is taken out by means ,of»
buckets and cable or shoveled out
by hand. i
The Michigan State College con:
ducts marl digging demonstrations,
throughout the state showing a'
bucket that has been designed by:
the Agricultural Engineering De.'-3
partment; The price of excavating
ranges from 250 to 500 per cubic
yard—O. B. Price, Soils Specialist,
Michigan State College. ;

-SENDING RURAL CHILDREN TO

HIGH SCHOOL

Could you tell us the law in re-
gard to sending rural children to
high school? We live eight miles
from nearest high school. Does rural
school have to pay tuition also trans-
portation of children to high school
who have. successfully ﬁnished
eighth grade? We have no place in
town where children could make
their home and be looked after props
erly. Please let us know at once.
—Mrs. C., Parma, Mich.

UPILS who have eighth grade
county diplomas and who reside
in districts in which no high

school is maintained are exempt
from compulsory attendance at
school. Before such pupils can claim
their exemption, however, they must
obtain either a labor permit or an
excuse from the commissioner of
schools and be regularly employed,
in some kind of .work.

A district that does not maintain

a high school must pay the tuition
not exceeding $60 per year for all
resident eighth grade graduates who
make written application on or be-f
fore the fourth Monday in June. The
board of education have authority
to pay transportation but are not
compelled to do so.——G. N. Otwelli,
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1869, and they live near Boyne City,
Charlevoix county. He is 78, she is
76, and they have three children and
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MR. AND MRS. MASON \VELCH.——Fifty-one
years ago April 15, 1926, the W'elchs, of Vesta-
burg, Gratiot county, were married. To this
union Were born four children, and they have
eight living grandchildren and three great-grand—
children. IVIr. \Velsh is 71, his wife 69. There
are ﬁve living generations in this family, Mrs.
Welch's mother being the ﬁrst. :

  

MR. AND MRS. ONSLOW WRIGHT.-—The
Wrights, of Elk Lake, Antrim county, were
married December 5th, 1869, in Pennsylvania,
coming to Michigan nine years later. They
have four children, ten grandchildren and

ﬁve great—grandchildren.

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MR. AND MRS. JOHN LIcLAREN.
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five years. Both are enjoying good health. They have years later they bought a 21-m3re farm- near 01d
four children, two girls and two boys. and all of them Mission, Grand Traverse county, where they still
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lngs for your sake, and ﬁll up on my
part that which is locking of the allie-
tions of Christ." Col. 1:24.

HE lives mas humble eaters
amongb‘the hills. Her pmehv-
er-bue ad asked her to hear

him fourteen children. ”loath
long, toilsome years she “W094
washed. churned, baked. and cared;
for this large family. And. I nearly
forgot to say that for pastimes 81“.
milked. the cows and tended the
garden. When I found her she was
blind and broken. ()1 course. How
could it be otherwise? What about
th religion of her preacheruscouti
But that is not the, point in this les-
son. This mother is daily adding
honor and distinction to her life by
glorifying in her» afﬂictions. Lon:
has she been patient in bearing the
sins of husband and society. For
her to live is afﬂiction.

“For me to live is Christ". said
Paul. But when we break Christ
up into pieces, a chief and combos-
ent part is afﬂieition. In our text
we understand the apostle to say
that Christ, raised to the highest
terms, is sulfering. And he says he
is glad for others' sake. But we
shall so further. ‘

“I ﬁll up on my part that which
is lacking of the afﬂictions of
Christ.” Lieutenant Robson said that
something sacriﬁcial had to be done.
He swung the Merrimac across the
harbor channel. bottled the Spanish
ﬂeet, and it WAS done. Yes, it was
dangerous, but he was glad to do it
for his country’s sake. and he thus
.won honor and distinction. Christ’s
suffering and reconciliation were
perfect in him. His plan for captur.
ing the world was complete in him,
but not in others. So, at this point,
Paul offers his weak little body to
hear about- the marks of the Lord
Jesus so that the world may know
something of the life of holy living
and patient endurance for righteous-
ness' sake. Here is a choice soul
that recognizes that the reality and
signiﬁcance of Christ's afﬂictions
must be lived out in the ﬂesh; that
there must be created a'fellowship
of suffering to atone for a sinning
world; and therefore he is patient
while God. hammers the stubborn
iron of his body into usable shape.

Now, really, is our Gospel one of
afﬂiction? Well, Jesus says, “Bless-
ed are they that mourn." Does that
sound like good news? Doesn't it
counter with the popular notions of
happiness?, The luring way of the
world is, “Blessed are they laugh,
that are full, that have plenty of
ﬂour in the barrel and meat in the
smoke—house, that have good health,
and that know nothing about pain
and sorrow." If this be true, Jesus'
words of grace have no meaning for
us. But -all serious thinkers and
livers know that Christ’s mountain
teaching is deeply and uncondition-
ally true. There are few agencies in
the world more resultful for right—
eousness than the folks. here and
there who are imitating their Lord
through solemn and patient suffer—
ing. Verily, happiness is condition-
ed not chieﬂy by ouside affairs, but
by the inside qualities. That is the
point of Christ's teaching: This in-
ward change of heart is to be en-
forced, not through fear of penalty,
but through the idea that it contri-
butes to the greatest good in life.
Listen to Longfellow, “It has done
me good to be somewhat parched by
the heat, and drenched by the rain,
of life." * And Beecher, “Tears are
often the telescope by which men see
is! into heaven.” And this wise
ea g, “The good are better malls
by ill, as odors embed arevsweeter
still."

She came in out of the wicked
mitt-life of Chicago, and threw, her-
self on the bed in a city hotel, lone-
some and friendlees. In the, morn-
ing she was found dead. ,A note
tucked under the mattress, read,

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unto himself. and who is willing to
he afﬂicted for others? sake. our
Burden-bearer has said that it 1!
blessed to carry sorrows for others.
And if one is not blessed, one has
not learned how to set through the
miseries of life gracefully. -

Verﬂy, our G is one of suf-
tel-ins. Christian t: is perpetuated
through bleeding hearts. Without
afﬂiction. Christ is made oi ‘none,
aﬂoat, and our own life is paralyzed.
“Who is weak and I am not weak"
said Paul. Are we in this fellowship
of mourners? “Put on, therefore,
as God's elect. a heart of campus-
sion.” It's a comfort to every dis-

eased soul *vto know that Jesus
‘ offered up prayers and supplica-
tions with strong crying and tears."
Do your prayers cost anything? Is
there a bleeding life back of them?
W h a t cold-blooded propostions
some of us are? God knows we need
something in our lives to humble
and purify our nature; and sorrows
rightly borne will do this. There is
a home near you. where for years a
helpless invalid has been the source
of great blessing and holy inﬂuence.
Every member of the family has
been made gentler and more «self~
denying. And we can not under
stand any of our afﬂictions, until we
begin to see what good to others it
is possible to make them.

‘Sometime, when all life’s lessons
have been learned;
And sun and stars forevermore have -

- set ~
The things which cur weak judg-
ment here has spurned,
The things o'er which we grieved
with lashes wet,
Will iiash before us- out of life's
~ dark night,
As stars shine most in deeper tints
of blue; ‘ ‘
And we shall see how all God's plans
were right, .
And how what seemed reprcof, was
love most true."

“I rejoice in my sufferings for
your sake." Now, listen to that!
Here is a man in altomanprison
andmballmdchamyetfull
of praise and song. Truly, this a -
paradox. It is dead against sense
and experience. But the tender and
strong touch of that Band was upon
Paul. Years before, he' had put his
heart into the hands of the Great
Refiner. Such submission yet makes
for blessing and consolation. Such
surrender is true martyrdom. A
suiferer may be but a. victim. He
is no martyr unless willing to give
definite testimony of that for which
he stands; a testimony that costs
strength and blood.

-But whatabout the future! Well,
“God himself shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes." Isn't that
enough? The hall was darkened.
and the picture \ou the screen was
made brighter. Does God darken
our earthly lives so that we might
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A SUITABLEcrop rotationoilen makes
a proﬁt. Butarotationaloneisnotlikely
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In fact a rotation may not even maintain ..
a: production*. Other farm practices are like-

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clover hay, a suitable fertilizer containing

*Maintain Production

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Ohio, and Illinois Agricultural
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shown that rotation of Crops.
including clover. has not main-
tained production without the
use of manures, fertilizers, an

* potash applied 1n the fall on wheat beneﬁts
the entire rotation chiefly through increased
yields of clover. More clover hay means in-
creased soil fertility and smaller feed bills.

Clover' is a “”potash-hungry crop, but it
is farm economy to apply this necessary
potash to the wheat or other fall grain in

lime. d which the clover and grass are seeded.

In Pennsylvania the addition
of potash in the ie' izer in-
creased the average annual yield
covering a period of 40 years
as follows:

Corn 8.5 bushels
Oats 5.2 ,.
Wheat 3.2 .,
Hay 0.54 tons

In Illinois, at the CntlerField,
the addition of potash in the
er also increased the
¥elds over a period of 15 years.
he average annual increases
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Com 20.3 bushels

Clover

Potash gives best results when
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point in accord with the

programs of the various

rural forces.

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Fall Fertilizer

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this Fall.

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The State Fair

01‘ all farmers can attend the

State Fair September 5-11, but

a great many will, and many
more could, and would if they
knew more about this great Exhi-
bition. Nearly
every paper one
picks up to read
tells of some
auto mishap in
De t r o i t, and
many times these
news articles tell
of a d r u n k e n
driverrunnlng
into a o m e one
else, or of‘a street
car hitting the
auto, 'etc. To
many people this
has had the ef-
fect of cemplete-
1y obliterating any desire or thought
of visiting Detroit, and many people
consider the State Fair as being in
the city of Detroit, and they have no
desire to go. This is all a mistake.
Detroit has grown to cover vast
areas, and many outlying districts
are mentioned as Detroit, when in
reality they are somewhat remoVed
from Detroit itself. This is true of
the State Fair. It is said to be held
in Detroit, and in a. way it is; but
in a broader sense it is not in De-
troit at all, and may be reached
nicely by auto without going into
the city or near enough to be in
hazardous tramc.

To those living west of Detroit
and south west of Ann Arbor, an easy
way to go to the Fair grounds is
found by going north of Ann Arbor
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ually bring one into Detroit on what

is known as the Seven Mile Road,
and when Woodward Ave., is reach-
ed one is not far from the Fair
Grounds. For a few blocks here, on
Woodward the trafﬁc is heavy, but it
is not congested and is fully regu-
lated.

On arriving at the fair ground
one will be impressed by the vast
area which has been given over to
farmers and others for parking and
camping if they choose. This space
is not way off in a remote part of
the grounds—It is very near the
main entrances and is an ideal loca-
tion. State Fair guards are every—
where in evidence, and cheerfully
give any desired information and
help.

Many people expect the expense
will be heavy during a. few days stay
in such a place but it is much more
reasonable than they expect. 01!
course one can spend all he wants to.
but it is not necessary to run your
bank account down very far in order
to visit Michigan’s great fair, and
have a good time too.

One who has never paid the Fair
21 visit will be surprised to ﬁnd so
many excellent buildings. While at
the Fair last year a gentleman told
me that the International Exposition
at Chicago had no ﬁner buildings.
It was this man’s ﬁrst visit to Mich-
igan’s Fair, and he marvelled at its
magnitude and he had visited many
states.

Most people would be repaid for
their visit if they attended only the
horse show in the Coliseum. This
Is free and very entertaining as well
as instructive.

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‘ Taking it all in all a. State Fair
visit is 9. worth while trip. It is
not necessary to stay at the grounds
all the time. One may leave his car
their and take a street car or bus
for a visit to the city or to beauti-
ful Belle Isle. If one has never been
to Belle Isle it would be little short
of a crime to, fail to see it. .An
island in the Detroit River said to

be the most beautiful park in the,

world. “Free”? Yes, all free .

For most farmers, vacations are'

few and far between, and while the
writer enjoys a day at a lake, he
looks forward with more anticipation
to a. visit at some city or exposition.

O t .

Weather?

Yes, we are having weather every
day, and, while it was dry here when
the last article was written two
weeks ago, it is far more so- now, as
no rain has come to wet in more than
an inch. Weather forecasts of rain
come and go, but the rain does not
appear.
as pastures are practically all dead.
This dry season reminds me of. a
mam who owned a farm I once
worked. Talking of the weather
during a very dry season he said we
might better have a season_ too dry
than too wet. This was several
years ago, and I could hardly agree
with him at that time—but the next
year we had the wet.

It began in mid June, and rained
frOm two to four days every week
all summer. When fall came the
rain still continued, with this result;
no corn was worth cutting; no
ground was dry enough for seeding;
no barn had hay it it worth as much
as straw, all the wheat and cats in
granaries were musty. I concluded
my friend was right, and better have
it too dry than too wet, but why
not have it about half and half, eh?

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Corn Cribs

When we purchased this farm we
built a tool house 28 ft. wide and 60
Across the west end we
built a corn crib. It was next to
the wagon ﬂoor, and we allowed it
was as ﬁne and handy as one could
wish for. The west side was built
of 1x4 strips nailed to 2x4’s. A

series of hinged doors were placed ,

outside and when corn was ﬁrst
cribbed they could be opened to ad-
mits air, being closed most of the
year. But rats! Yes, rats put in
an appearance and our supposedly
ﬁne corn crib seemed to be their
mecca. They ruin quantities of
corn every year, and we have decided
to move the crib. It might be pos—
sible to screen the whole thing with
wire cloth, but that hardly seems
practical and we are inclined to
build one away from other buildings
and up on supperts, where rats can-
not get an entrance. Remember the
old time crib upon wood posts with
an inverted pan between the top of
post and stringer? Well, that’s
what we have in mind only we will

use cement for posts, and have some ‘

galvanized pans made for the top
of them. We can use the crib sides
we now have, and when the crib is
'taken from the shed we will use the
space ,for storing narrow machinery
etc.‘ If any or our readers have a
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order to ﬁt wheat ground properly.

One thing would be a stone boat and
the other thing would be the inclini-
i-I ation to use it. Removing stones
1. from a ﬁeld, may seem like an awful
’ ‘ taSk, but in a half d y, one man
, with ,team and stone boat can re-
; move ‘more stone than one would
; expect, at least encugh to add con—
; siderably to the joy of harvesting
the crops, not to mention mower or
hinder guards and dispositions.

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COVER CROPS, PAST AND
PRESENT

HE question of cover crops for
cultivated orchards is still a
live one but cover crop practice

and theory has changed consider-
ably. It was formerly thought ne-
cessary to use as
a cover crop a
plant that would
live over winter
and would make
a heavy growth
of green materi-
al to plow under
in the spring. Le-
‘ guminOus, or ni—
trogen gathering
crops, were con-
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ers went to con-
siderable expense
.in buying vetch seed and other high
priced seed to sow for cover crops.
Times change, however and methods
change with them. Cover crop prac-
tice that was considered the height
of eﬂiciency a few years back is now
pushed aside as not Only ineﬂlcient
and unecdnomical but in some res-
pects actually detrimental.

The functions of a cover crop are,
to check the growth of the trees in
the late summer so they will enter
the winter in a mature and hardy

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ior protection of the roots during

,1 the winter, and last but not least to

/ furnish humus for the soil. A quick

growing legume such as soy beans

3' ‘ will add nitrogen also, but as a rule

, nitrogen can be most eiiectively add-

' ed by the use of a quick acting

\ , chemical fertilizer applied early in
the spring.

Fruit trees make their greatest

‘ and most valuable growth early in

1 . theseason at a time when natural

‘ . organic nitrogen is at low ebb in the

soil, in fact the spur growth which is

so essential for annual bearing in

apples is practically ﬁnished when

the blossoms drop. At this time the

trees need all the moisture and ni—

trogen they can get hold of. The

“live over winter’ cover crop, mak-

ing a quick heavy growth early in
‘ the spring, hampers the trees by
1 robbing them of much needed mois-
,I ture and food just at the most criti-
; cal period of the year. Moreover
the temptation is often great to al-
/ low such a crop to grow in order to
obtain a large amount of material to
plow under. Every day of such de-
5 lay takes dollars out of the grower’s
Docket.

Knowledge of scientiﬁc facts is
one thing but the next thing is to
f devise cultural methods which will
1 put these facts to work in a practical
1 way. For the bearing, cultivated or—
, chard it seems best to sow a cover
\ -crop,-~. about July 15th, which, will
i _ . make a quick heavy growth and will
1 . , not live over winter but will stand
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(Continued from July 31st issue.)

“ NEW that would bring you out.”
Grinned Doug. “Guess Terry was
joking tho." .

Mary turned to her brother. “Did you
tell him that?” she demanded sharply.

“Wouldn’t told him anything but the
truth-if I did, would I?” demanded Terry,
grinning.

“He didn’t say anything much, honest,"
said Doug. “Just said he threw one of
your biscuits at a bird and accidentally
killed a cat.” ‘

“Oh, you big fibber," ﬂashed Mary.
“Well you’ll have to eat my biscuits for
dinner.”

"I can stand ’em if Terry can," said
Doug. “I’ve cracked walnuts with my
teeth."

“Mother," said Terry, suddenly remem-
bering Mort, who had been standing awk-
wardly by, “this is Mr. Ramsdale. He’s
been a big help to us.”

Mr. Muir came in. He was a thin
man, slightly taller than his son. clean
shaved and kind faced.

“Hello, boys,” he said. “Pretty bad
storm, isn't it? Any stock out?" ,

“All of them,” said Terry.

“Won't we lose them? They'll starve,
won't they, if it keeps up this way?"

“They'll break in thru the forest gate
if it keeps this up, Mr. Muir," explained
Mort. “But it won’t last long. We get
it regularly at this time of the year; it'll

Terry grinned broadly and .Doug
blushed. ‘ ‘

“Let’s go," he said. :

About half'a mile above the forest
they came upon some deer tracks.

“Go quiet now," said Mort; “the Wind’s
with us and we’ll get one.”

They followed the tracks for the dist-
ance of perhaps a' mile when Mort whis-
pered:

"There they are—two bucks and a doe.
Shoot the bucks—one apiece. Get off 'the
horsles to shoot."

Filled with excitement, the boys slid
off their horses, leveled their guns and
cracked down on the deer.

The terrible bellow of the big guns al-
most' deafened them, and the recoil left
them stunned. When they awoke from
the daze and took a look, the deer were

'nowhere to be seen.

“You shot two feet over them," chuck-
led Mort in amusement. “I could see
the snow ﬂy. Let’s go on ahead. Maybe
you’ll get another chance."

However, they rode all morning with-
out discovering any further signs, and.
were returning to the ranch, when a big
ten point buck leaped out of a thicket
of scrub oak and plunged wildly down the
slope with great bounds, lunging higher
and higher in the air until he seemed
almost to be ﬂying. .

Doug was a crack wing shot and a
quick one as well. His riﬂe had ﬂashed
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Mary who is 16 years old.

OUR. STORY TO DATE

HE Muirs have to move westward from Iowa. on account of Dad’s health
so they buy a Colorado ranch and young Terry, who is around 19, and his
chum, Doug Summers, an orphan of the same age, go on ahead to get the
work under way it being harvest time.
with Kord, their next neighbor, who is about the meanest cuss ever born.
the family arrives, Dad, Mother and Mary.

“’ithin a few days they meet up
Then
By the way Doug has a. case on

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go off in a few days. But if you hadn’t
had a lively pair of boys to push things,
you’d lost several thousand bushels of
grain."

“I could always depend on Terry." said
Mr. Muir, smiling. “And Doug, too, for
that matter."

"Dinner,” called Mary.

Doug picked up a biscuit, golden brown
and light as down, and scowled at‘ it
ﬁercely. He pretended to tear it open by
main strength and worry off a bite.

“Before you marry me, Mistress Mary,
he said; “you’ll have to improve on bis-
cuits.”

Mary ﬂushed scarlet. "Then I‘ll take
care to never improve them, Mr. Doug!"
she retorted.

“Quit quarreling," said Mrs. Muir,
smiling, “and act like you’re glad to
see one another even if you’re not."

“He started it," said Mary. “He al-
ways does. There was a catch in her
voice.

, Doug glanced up quickly; “them’s the
best biscuits in the world. Honest!”

Mort broke in, to address Mr. Muir.
"I guess we’ll look over the racks,” he
.said. “Want to stack that grain as soon
as the snow goes off."

“Why not thresh it from the shock?“
asked Mr. Muir.

“When you get ready to thresh, them
shocks will be under two or threefeet
of snow,” said Mort, smiling. “It actu-
ally snows up here. VVe’ll probably have
two or three weeks nice weather after
this; then when the snow starts again
it will keep coming. Want to get every-
thing done before then—potatoes dug,
stacks fenced, grain stacked. The win~
tors are not cold up here, but they're
long and there's lots of snow."

“Where are the cattle barns?” asked
Mr. Muir. “I haven’t seen any."

”There’s none to see. The cattle win-
ter out and bed right down on the snow."

Next morning the sun shone on two
feet of snow.

“Be a ﬁne time to get a deer," said
Mort. “You boys like to try your luck?"

“There's nothing much we can do until
the snow goes off, is there?" asked Terry.

“Not a thing."

“Then I’d say, let's go. It will be a
lot of sport. and maybe we will see some
of our cattle while we’re gone. Where
are the guns? Let's take a look at
them." , -

Mort dug out three high-powered rides,
a .30, a .351 automatic and .32 special.

"The .351 is mine,” he said; “the other
two guns go with the ranch."

“Take your pick, Doug,”
erously offered.

Doug chose the .32.

“That’s a go-getter," said Mort; “but
she sure kicks like a bay steer. But
for that matter, so does the .30.”

“Who gets the ﬁrst shot?" said Terry.

“You boys draw straws," said Mort.
“I've shot deer before and I’ll stay out
of the competition.

“Let me hold them,” said Mary, who
hadcome over to have a look at the
guns. .

Doug won.

"I’ll never in my whole life say an«
other single word against your biscuits,”
she said. “Only maybe you'd better take
a couple of them along, (Terry, so's in
case, you miss with, your young cannon,
you can get ‘him With one of them.”

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to draw theirs. It was a splendid shot,
striking the deer in the neck, breaking
it. Down the steep slope rolled the un-
fortunate animal, end over end.

“Good shot!" said Mort warmly, draw-

ing his hunting knife. “That sure is a
ﬁne buc .” Then he proceeded to dress
the deer, and, with the help of the boys,
threw it across his saddle.
, As they went in toward hoine, they
met Kord riding up the trail on horse-
back. He glanced at the deer and passed
on without a word.

A scowl passed over Mort's face. “Say."
he said, glancing after Kord, “have you
boys got a big game license?"

“A big game license?” said Doug, in
surprise. “No, we haven’t; do you have
to have one?"

“Well. you’re supposed to," said Mort.
“If that ornery critter was to ﬁnd out
that you didn’t have one, he’d be mean
enough to have you pinched. That feller
wouldn’t stop at anything.”

“Good thing he doesn't know it, then,"
remarked Terry. _

“That doesn’t settle the matter,” an-
swered Mort, uneasily. “He could mighty
easy ﬁnd out." ‘

When they arrived at the house, Doug
presented Mary with the antlers which he
had brought in. “Spoils of the hunt,"
he said quite formally and with a grand
bow. "for the queen’s boudoir."

“Thank you, kind sir," said Mary, with
a courtesy. “That's a much nicer speech
than you have been making."

As Mort had said, within a couple of
days the snow had practically disappear-
ed, and they started in busily at the
work of stacking the grain. Mr. Muir
helped with the work and they ran two
wagons. When they had completed the
job, there were ten huge stacks reward-
ing their efforts—six of cats and four of
barley.

“Some pile of grain,” said Doug, with
a look of satisfaction on his face.

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i moan:

“stacks,” r said'" Mort. ,
cost quite a little to thresh it and haul
it to town, but even that :there ought
to be a nice pile of meney above expenses.
We don’t have a crop like —it once in
ten years u ' here.”

Mr. Muir was well pleased,with the
outcome, and prospects of being able t6
pay off the mortgage when it became due
seemed quite favorable. He praised the
boys and mort warmly for the ,way in
which they had persevered thru it all.
Then he thought of the cattle, and in-
quired of Mort: “Isn’t it about time that.
we started to get those cattle in? I’m
anxious to have a look at them."

“-Yes, we can'start most any time now."
answered Mort. We turned out about
two hundred head in the spring."

"Are there ever any losses?" inquired
Mr. Muir,

”Losses! Well, I'd say so! Some
years the poison weed is awful bad. I
remember one year that Zwick lost forty
big steers from it, but," he added, seeing
an unmistakable look of concern on Mr.
Muir’s face, “that was an exceptionally
bad year for it. Some years it's not near
so bad. It hasn't been this year."

“And is there any other way to lose
them?” said Mr. Muir. All of this was
new to him.

. “Yes," said Mort. “There’s plenty of
other ways. Some of the cattle drift.
clear off of the range and we never see
hide nor hair of them again. Then the
coyotes most generally get some of the
calves; but the biggest loss always comes
from poison. It's that big plant with the
purple flowers, the giant larkspur, that
does the work."

“Well, I think we had better start get!
ting them in tomorrow," advised Mr.
Muir. “I’m quite anxious about it, and
I'll feel a great deal better when I see
them on the feeding ground."

“Yes, I reckon it would be a good
idea," replied Mort as he took a careful
survey of the sky. “The wind hasn't been
blowing the whole day for nothing. We
will have snow again before very long.
Ain’t that a bank of clouds back there?"

It certainly was a bank of clouds, and
further than that, before night had fallen
snowﬂakes were ﬂeeing before the wind.
Up in the pines, high up above them,
they could hear the wind roar with a.

/sound that was ominous and menacing.
The big kitchen, with a great ﬁre crack-
ling in the stove, was a place of com-
kfort that night.

“It’s sure a regular snow this time,”
said Mort. “From the way it’s starting
in, there won’t be very much ridin’ to-
morrow, I’m afraid."

Mr. Muir was always philosophical.
“Well, we’ll have to take whatever comes
to us,” he said. ’

They talked over the prospects for a.
while and then sought their beds with
the snow swishing against the window
panes and the temperature falling rapid-
ly. Sometime in the night, Terry was
wakened from a sound sleep by his
mother, with a lamp in her hand, shaking
him.

“Get up, Terry!” she said. “The dog
has been growling for some time.”

Terry jumped up instantly and hustled
into his clothes. A hissing blast of snow
smote him as he opened the door and
stepped out. Down by the grain stacks
a feeble light gleamed for an instant,
went out, then ﬂamed up brighter.

“Fire!" shouted Terry.
on ﬁre!"

(Continued in August 28th issue.)

 

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Dean R. S. Shaw
then in 1897 taught animal husbandry in the University of Minnesota.

A. For several

The following year he'went to the
professor of agriculture remaining

HERE are very few folks who have attended
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. during réoent years that do not know Dean

,Shaw by sight or sound, at least. >
» oeptionally interesting and forceful speaker he is
generally put on the program when any talks are
to be given at the M. S. C. and that is Why we say
you may know him by “sound." I

Robert Sidney Shaw was born on a. 520 acre
farm near Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, July 24,
1871, and was graduated from the Ontario Agri-
cultural College 1111893 with the degree . of B. 8-

Being an ex-'

years he managed. the farm, and

MomtanaState’ College as assistant
there for a little over four years.

Mr. Shaw was appointed: professor of agriculture and live stock expor-
mentor at the Michigan Agricultural College. in'1902. Then in 1908.

when the agricultural division ,‘was

created, he became Dean, and later“

appointed to directorship of the Experiment. Station aswell. , He still

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EAR EDITOER:——We haye taken
D the M. B. F. for some time and

like the paper ﬁne. In looking
over the paper, read the letter, writ-
ten by our Calhoun county farmer,
"Satisﬁed with Farming."

He says he doesn’t want to start
an argument and neither do I. It
made the dander raise on 'my head
when I read his article. So we feel

'we really can’t remain silent and

let so many people read such an art-
icle and think the farmer has such
This is not for the farmer
who really gets out and works, for

. he knows we farmers don't have such
, an easy life, but this is for the fel-

lows that usually think that money
grows on weeds and that birds gath-

I or it up and puts it in the farmer's

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pockets.

As for his four days a week farm-
ing, I think we will have to visit
Calhoun county and learn their

2 method, as a rule any where around

here the farmers put in six sixteen-
hour days a week when the weather
is favorable and when it is raining
there is plenty of inside work to
keep them busy. If we only worked
four days a week we would think
we were on a vacation with plenty
of time to rest our backs.

What I would like to ask our Cal-
houn county man is, how much has
he left at his own ﬁgures after he
pays his taxes, insurance, thresh
bills, oil for his machinery, repairs
on his buildings, fences, machinery,
etc... besides possible loss ’of some
livestock or perhaps veterinary or
doctor bills, grass seed and such
things as yOu can’t always raise on
your farm, besides 100 and one
odds and ends where money must go
to keep a farm going? Then when
the, poor man who is trying to buy

' a home pays 6 per cent interest on

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tavernhars such‘as dotted New En-

his debt, where has he anything left
to pay on the principal or for the
movies, radio and ﬁne car? His poor
wife'will still have to use the wash—
board and kerosene lamp. Then if
he should paint his house or barn to
lengthen their life, or make any vis-
ible improvement, up goes the taxes.

I live on the farm for several rea—
sons. One is, I‘ love our great big
out of doors. I am satisﬁed with
taming but not with prices—Sagi-
naw County Farmer.

THE PROHIBITION QUESTION
EAR EDITOR: “The wets are
doing more to make the coun-
try dry"—Ford. How so? Since
when did any wet person in execu-
tive capacity, construe taxing limits

expressed in basic law, to such an .

extent as to increase the amount
600 per cent, claiming as a pretext,
a war measure? If such has been
done before historians have over-
looked it! Just think $6.40 tax on
one gallon proof spirit, on every gal-
lon in store throughout the land.

Every poor ingenious person is
thus tempted to take the family
wash-boiler, the chicken oat sprout-
er, the stock-feed molasses barrel,
the hollow lightning rod from the
isolated barn, the discarded oil or
gas stove, or perhaps the old sizzling
portable boiler for heat generation,
get in the bee cellar and experiment
with the assurance that -if the elu-
sive gas from the yeast plant can be
captured and condensed ,50-50 a
prize in excess of $6.40 is likely for
each 232 cubic inches liquid volume
plus the appetite of two persons out

_, of ﬁve with the price in hand or

ability to earn, and failing to ﬁnd
ready sale, to souse themselves with
the surplus unsold, or take it to the
nearest dance or party and be as
generous as Eve with the apple.
John B. Gough was a moderate
drinker’s son. His mother was a
brilliant emotional lady. John could
never be a moderate drinker, so he
drank not a drop of spirits after he
became aWa're ‘ of it. He practiced
temperance, talked temperance, and
closed for want of patronage, many

Canada and Michigan—even
Ola 1‘8. tall

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talked them out of business when a
bushel of wheat bought three gal-
lons, a bushel of corn or rye two
gallons of whiskey, and did it by
telling stories, got the good will of
everybody. ‘

One story well remembered was
an appeal to the fashionable ladies
never to tempt young gentlemen to
drink hard spirits just to be fashion-
able, gallant. Never tempt anyone
by judging them for fear the person
might be like . itemperament to the
great orator.

In “platform echoes” you may
ﬁnd such a story as this: “I might
take my gun and climb a hill over-
looking a beautiful village, ﬁre at
targets, improve markmanship, ﬁre
at random, enjoy working the ﬁne
mechanism of the weapon, train my
vision, time the ﬁring with my
watch, and enjoy the outing, when,
10! a man comes running up. “Don't
shoot again! Your shots are going
wild! They have wounded people
in the village. Children are welter-
ing in blood and crying for par-
ents!" But says the sportsman, ”I
have been here for some time and
saw no such thing happen as you

go where the shot strikesl'

And so it is with much of the ar-
gument on both sides of this awful
moi] of disrespect. for law. The

people who are inﬂuential enough to -

correct in a measure this terrible
evil “do not go where the shot
strikes."

Protected by their own organiza-
tions and with plenty of missionary
money on hand and opposed by
parties with much boot-legging pro-
ﬁt to draw on the counsel for both,
are apparently not aware of this in-
sane folly by legislation.

A struggling barrister in England
was appointed to defend a boy for
stealing twenty-four cents, “our
'money.“ At that time in Britian
theft was severely punished, even
by death at the court’s will.

The complainant was the boy's
uncle. He had taken the boy on
trial in view of adoption and to try
out the natural bent of the lad, had
left a marked coin in a drawer
where the boy would see it in time.
The coin was missed and found in a
nearby shop taken for a paltry pur-
chase. The arrest followed, evidence
was complete, the majesty of the law
must be upheld. The defending bar—
rister carefully drew from the
worthy uncle that he had purposely
left the shining coin where the cul-
prit could see it. He wanted a boy
that could not be tempted to steal
and sorry to say this was not the

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on condi on that he, the barrister,

would ﬁn a place for the lad in his

oﬁice where money did not lay about

to tempt people. He won the case

on the plea of “lead not to tempta-

tion.” ‘

And, my dear Editor, let us try a
new deal on this liquor trafﬁc, based
on " lead us not into temptation but
deliver us from evil."—-E. 11., Port
Hope, Michigan.

COVER CROPS, PAM AND
PRESENT

(Continued from page 9)

Oats are also popular but millet, soy
beans, and other plants have their
adherents.

“Weed culture" is also practiced
by some growers and in many cases
is very effective and economical. If
a thick even stand of weeds or "
"summer grass” can be depended
upon then all that is necessary is to
stop cultivating early in July and
the automatic cover crop does the
rest. The argument that is usually
brought against this practice is that f
it is unsightly. Why should it be ,5.
unsightly? We do not grow fruit "
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league bootswith which he performed great

. deeds. William Lutz has a 3-plow McCor-
mick-Dealing Tractor. On its seat he does won-
derfulthmgstohisfarm. Hehandleeallhisold
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wonderful tractor better every day. I don’t see
how I ever got along without it.”

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McCormick-Dealing like Lutz of Idaho and
Fred Klett of Dubuque, 13., Louis Mott, In, St.
Olaf, 13.. Fred Eisele, No. Branch, N. L John
Adams,Columbus, Neb. Ralph Naiziger, Hope-
dale, 11]., and A. H. Beebee, Logan, Ia. Write
andaskeomeoithesemen what theythinkof
the 15-30 McCormick-Deering. They are de-
lighted with this 3-plow tractor and so are
thousands of other 15-30 owners.

You will plow from 10 to 15 acres a day with
the McCormick-Deming, for the 3-plow tractor
gives you control over far more power than the
2-plow outﬁt—power for plowing and then tor
the long list of belt jobs.

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operadonsMcCornnck-Desiingmcmmareperiecdyequipped.
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more proﬁtable farming. Visit the dealer and get fully
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GREEN CORN AND THE QUARANTINE
8 we write this it is still too early for us to
satisfy our hunger fer some nice roasting ears
and plenty of country butter, but the time is
not far oil, and we are mighty thankful that it
isn‘t. We know that everyone has certain weak-
nesses when it comes to eating, certain foods
making greater appeals to the appetite than
others. We have several weaknesses along this
line we are sure, andyright at the present time
we are inclined to believe that all of them are
green corn and butter. But we must be careful
where we get our green corn from and where
we take it to eat it. And the European Corn
Borer is the pest that is to blame. .

Corn on the cob must not be carried outside
the area infested with corn borer which is under
quarantine, according to the Michigan Depart-
ment of Agriculture. This means we cannot
buy some corn in Macomb county. or in any of
the other counties under quarantine, or any
other county not invaded, and take it over to
Ingham county, to cook and eat. omcials are
placed on the leading highways at the border of
the infested area to prevent our doing that.
These oillcials stop all vehicles going out of the
area to see that no corn is carried across the
border thus helping in a large measure to pre-
vent further spread of this pest.

It is a good thing for the farmers outside of
the quarantined area that these men are guard-
ing the main highways, thus saving them thous-
ands of dollars. Some folks would carry infested
corn into areas with the full knowledge that
they were doing wrong, but we believe that most
of those who do violate this quarantine are in-
nocent of doing wrong; either they did not know

 

about it in the ﬁrst place, or they did know but'

forgot.

THE COUNTY AGENT
HERE has come to our desk the annual re—
port of one of Michigan’s county agricultural
agents and we wish that all of our readers might
look it over. Those who are not in favor of the
county agent idea would be astonished at what
one agent in one county accomplished in twelve
months; also we will wager that even the friends
of the idea would be greatly surprised to learn
so much had been done.
Then by multiplying this by ﬁfty-one can get
a fair idea of what the county agricultural agents
did for Michigan last year.

1N THE GOOD OLD DAYS
HE boys and girls nowadays are sure goin’
to the dogs, with their ﬂapper ideas and
pettin’ parties. They ain’t much like the
young folks in my day." You have heard this
line of talk. Yes, possibly you meet someone
'nearly every day who has a sob story similar to
this to tell you. But how much faith do you put
in their remarks? Don't you feel like asking
them if they ever were young, and if they ever
did live and enjoy life in anyway? We would
like to have some of the most severe critics of
the young folks of today explain to them the
following bit of news:
Recently the proprietor of a second-hand store

 

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it apart to make a good lob of it, and this is
what he found: 47 hairpins, 8 mustache combs,
(6 buttons, 18 needles, 8 cigarettes, 5 photo-
graphs, 217 plus, some grains of oozes, 6 pock-

et knives, 15 poker chips, a vial of headache tab-,

lets. 34 lumps of, cheWing gum. 9 toothpick and
4 buttonhooks.
In 1960 or 1965 some second-hand store pro-

prietor will be taking apart a present-day devenm

port and find the same things, excepting there
will be no hairpins or mustache combs, which in-
dicates some progress to us.

THE MOON AND THE WEATHER
Weather Bureau of the United States De-
partment of. Agriculture has declared the
old superstition that the moon causes wet
or dry weather is bunk, and brings out some in-
teresting dope to prove that they know what
they are talking about. They say the position
of the lunar crescent depends upon the angle
the moon’s path makes with the horizon, and on
any given date it is always in places having the
same latitude. If the weather sign was trust-
worthy, the same kind of weather, either dry or
rainy, would preyail on any given date through-
out ‘a belt of latitude extending entirely around
the world. Of course there is no such uniformity
of weather. so apparently we will have to con-
sign another old superstition to the discard and
let the good forecasters prognosticate our future
weather in a scientiﬁc way. Our own Pritchard
is making a great reputation for accuracy and a
large part of the M. B. F. family swears by him,
planning their planting and harvesting by his
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SIX ROWS AT ONCE

E Department of Agricultural Engineering

of Iowa State College recently demonstrated

that six rows of corn can be cultivated satis-
factorily at one time. A two-row tractor culti-
vator furnished the power, pulling two other two-
row cultivators. Three men were necessary, one
on the power unit and one on each cultivator.
This rig easily cultivated forty-ﬁve acres in one
day and did it to the satisfaction of the owner of
the field. Experience will some day define the
economical limits in the use of all farm machin-
ery in diiferent regions—experience and the agri-
cultural engineers whose work for agriculture
is not yet properly understood.

 

A POWER PROBLEM
is unfortunate that so many of those who
discuss the tractor feel that they must assail
the horse; also that so many who discuss the
horse must take a iling at the tractor. Neither
can do any good by assailing the other, for the

problem is not to get rid of either form of power-

but to put each in its proper place and to its
most economical use. Usually if not always in
extensive farming each has its place and each
supplements the other. It is not a mere horse
problem or a mere tractor problem which we
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Sit addressed right? As]: yam-sen that dues-4" ’

V tion whenever you are about ”to mail clatter
_ and then look at the envelop to be sure the

answer is “Yes." Hardly ‘a‘ day passes thatwe
,do not receive at least one letter with the ad- ‘1

dress incomplete. We received one this morning

addressed “Veterinary Department, Dr. Geo. .fH.
Conn, Mt. Gemens, Michigan. " Apparently the

clerk. who sorted the‘ mail of which this letter
wasapartwaefamlliarwiththeM. 8.1!. and

_ knew the names of the editors associated with it, . .

otherwise the letter would have been returned
to the sender, who did think to put his name
and address in the upper-left hand corner.

There is no way of telling how many letters
each year intended for us are never delivered
because the addrese’is not complete, but we will
wager that if the total was know it would be
surprising. And many of these letters go to the

dead letter omce as it is impossible to tell horn V

the outside of the envelop who the sender is,
no return address being given. Then we are
blamed for not giving service as we promise. Be

' sure the address is complete on any letter before -
you mail it, and put your return address on it v.

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E Department of Agriculture's lamb survey '

indicates that this year’s crop is ten per
cent, or 2,200,000 head, in excess of last

‘ year’s. The range crop shows an increase of

2,350,000 head and the farm or native crap a
decrease of 138,000 head. We have been under
the impression that both native and range lambs
would ’be more numerous this year than last and
were not expecting a reduction in either. Which
way is the farm sheep industry going when ,. a
smaller lamb crop folloWs a year of high farm
prices?

A SERIOUS MATTER

N European scientist tells the world that
people develop the mentality of a cow if
they drink large quantities of milk, or get
the brains of a hen if they eat eggs. He does not
state if his theory can be.applied to everything
we eat, but it meme tons it'would be only
reasonable. Further. seeing that one thinks
like they eat, it seems reasonable to as that we
would gradually take on the physical appearance

of what goes into “our stomach.

Granting this be right, we'll wager that most
or us can just about ﬁgure out what our enemies
eat each day. Also, it is possible we have at
last discovered the cause of the “fishy" hand—
shake you get from some folks.

But going back to the milk question, it seems
like this is dealing the dairy business a severe
blow. Why, a baby that is raised on a bottle
hasn’t much of a chance to succeed in this world
of ours, because of his cow’s brains.

My! My! ’This is a serious matters

WAREHOUSE ACT
HOSE who feel that the federal government
should do something to help producers store

their crops and ﬁnance themselves pending ‘

sale should read the Department of Agriculture's
circular No. 61, entitled "The Farmer and the
Unimd States Warehouse Act.” In spite of all
that has been said about the federal warehouse
system comparatively few warehousemen and

producers know much about it. Several years

ago we called the attention of a cooperative or-
ganization and .a warehouse company to this
law, thinking it might be useful to both. Neither
the chief of the organisation nor the manager
of the warehouse had ever heard of it, though
it was enacted in 1916. Producers who want
safe storage, and the use of their warehouse re-
ceipts for ﬁnancing, should examine the law

_ and demand that their storages qualify for ser-

vice under it.
marry. me MODERN GnNiI
LLADIN had a lamp that he would rub and
Genii would appear before him ready to‘do

his bidding, That is a fairy tale. People
nowadays push a button and electricity makes the

night as bright as day, operates machinery»! all ', H
kinds, cooks meals, heats houses during cold ' ~

weather and cools them suns: he; «one: and
many other things. That is not a: fairy leis. So
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We received a letterfru’m a'

Genesee county. subscriber re-
garding a transaction she had had
‘with one ef‘these picture enlarging
companies. 'She gave the company
anorded to enlarge a picture of her
mother, to be ﬁnished in black and
white. and put in a certain kind of
frame which she picked out. When
the picture was ﬁnally delivered she
found it had been ﬁnished in brown‘
and tinted with pink while the frame
was far from what she had ordered.
She had paid $1.00 and thought she
was entitled to what she ordered so
shipped it back to the company and
wrote them a letter asking for a re-
fund. To her letters they replied
denying they had received it back
but she was sure they were not tell-
ing the truth because it was sent
by insured mall.

Finally dispariug of getting any
satisfaction she wrote us and asked
that we take it up for her. We
wrote them and the reply we got
was a carbon copy of a letter they

had written our subscriber telling.

her it would be impossible to trace
the matter at that time as they had
just moved and the head of the firm
was out of town a few days: how-
ever, as soon as he returned it would
be called to his attention. Follow:
ing it up when the boss was supposed
to return we learned they were turn-
ing it over to the adjusting depart-
ment for attention. After waiting a
short time and getting no report on
how matters were coming along we
wrote and were advised: _

“Our work is guaranteed in this

' way, that if portrait and frame is
not satisfactory they are replaced,
but no money returned."

Our subscriber informed us that if
they would do the work over. and do
it right this , time, she was willing
to call the matter settled. Finally
the matter was adjusted, four
months after the claim was placed
in our hands.

This is a fair example of dealing
with these enlarged picture concerns,
either by agent or by mail. Nine
chances but of ten the work is un-
sa factory and you are mighty
luc if you ever get satisfaction
from them even after months of cor-
respondence. If you go to a local
photographer you may pay slightly
more but you will get quality work
and satisfaction before you pay your
money.

DOYLE DENTAL COMPANY

“The Doyle Dental Company. ad-
vertised in the Lansing State Jour-
nal that they would be in Lansing
on certain days to take impressions
for teeth. .My father being in need
of a set went there and had his im-
pression taken. The teeth Were
be made and sent to him C. O. .
They came and the price, $20, was
paid. The teeth did not fit at all,
my father not being able to even get
his mouth closed over them. I wrote
the company two letters but they
failed to reply in any way. When
he was in Lansing they agreed to
send a written guarantee with the
teeth but none came.”

above is a copy of a letter

; we received from a subscriber
living near Lansing. Upon re-
ceipt of it we wrote the Doyle Dental
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salt: as our subscriber—none. Other
letters we addressed to the company
failed to get any attention and we

if they’failed to reply we would con-
sider they did not intend to give our
subscriber fair treatment and publish
the details in our columns to pro-
"tect others.

Perhaps our subscriber did ﬁgure
he would save some money compared
to what a local dentist would charge
him but in the end it was a complete
loss. The local dentist must do his
his work in such a way as to encour-
age his customers to return when
they want other dental work done
md he has to stand back of what he
does to build up a good trade. The
traveling dentist is here today and
gone tomorrow, and usually his main
interest is to get the money. The
same argument applies to the eye
doctor or medical doctor.

"YOU’RE LUCKY!”

‘ OU'RE lucky!" , That’s the way
a letter we recently received

_ from the Goodyear Manufac—
turing 00., Kansas City, Mo., starts
01. Then it reads, “You have been
awarded a GOODYEAR advertising
check. It is enclosed and it has a
value of exactly $5.00—-—no more——
no less." Yes sir, it was enclosed,
and it was “Cash or Bearer, $5.00”;
however, before we started for the
bank we learned it was a "Merchan-
dise Discount Check” and if We
bought one of their “new $12.95
All-Weather Coats", sending $5.00
with the order and the paying the
postmaster $7 .95 when it arrived, we
would receive free of charge (be-
cause we had the check, we suppose)
“a man's $5.00 sport sweater abso-
lutely free."
Perhaps you have been "lucky”
but did you "fall"? Neither did we.
No doubt you would get the coat
if you ordered“ it but we will wager
you would pay every cent it was
worth, and the sweater too. This
company, nor any other, is in bus-
iness just for the fun of it. They
are not like the Jew storekeeper in
the story who advdrtised to sell be-
low cost. When asked how he could
afford to sell things below cost and
lose so much money he replied, “Be-
cause of der volume. I do so much
business dot it counts up." .

GETS CHECK FOR $14.50

I have just received a check for
$14.50 in settlement from
which amount was overcharged on
a shipment of leather. I thank you
so much for not only getting the
leather but the money also, and
would gladly pay you something for
your trouble. I shall always speak
a good word for your paper, and
the amount you helped me collect
will pay for the paper for some time.
I wish more farmers could avail
themselves of your kind Offer to help
in cases like mine, and any one here
not having your paper will be told
about it. Again thanking you so
much—A. 1.. Manistee Co, Mich.

UR subscriber shipped 8. hide to

a tannery last January to have

' it made into sole leather. He
received a receipt for the hide but
nothing else. even though he wrote
several letters to them, so aboutthe
middle of June he put the matter
in our hands. He had let the mat-
ter run rather long before getting
in touch with us we thought but
decided to do all we could for him.
Our ﬁrst letter brought an immedi-

‘stated they had replied to his let-
~ters,.and they were forwarding hide
at that time.

Shortly after that our subscriber
received a letter from them and a1-
so received notice from the local ex-
press oﬂice to call forvthe package.
The charges were, $85.00. This was
considerably more than called for on ‘
the receipt he received he thought
but he paid it. When he arrived
home he found that he really owed
the company $10.50 and upon ad-

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By Anne Campbell

When Grandpa grinds the scythe, I stand

And turn the grindstone with my hand.

I see the water on the blade,

And watch the rusty spots all fade:

An' cos. it is a lovely sight

When that old scythe is shinin' bright!
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The grindstone's by the ‘cellar door.

I grind, and Grind, and GRIND some
more!

It seems to me that scythe’s as long

As Grandpa’s farm. and say, he' s strong!

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To hold. a scythe so carefully!

When Grandpa grinds the scythe, I get
80 awful tired—I’m sweatin’ yet;

But say, I wouldn’t quit until

He says to me, “It’s ﬁnished, Bill!"

It’s fascinatin’, bet your life,

To see that gleamin' wicked knife!

I think 0’ pirates, hidden gold,
An’ jewels shinin’ in the hold;
I think 0’ ships a sailin’ far,
Out Where the great adventures are.
In readin' books, they don’t seem true!
Wheai Grandpa grinds the scythe, they.
0.
(Copyright, 1925.)

A FRIENDLY LETTER
E subscribers often neglect to

write our appreciation of a pa-
per though we are often more

'ready to criticise What we did not

like. We as a family have found an
extra amount of help in the M. B. F.
The recipes, the sermon, the farm
home department and the articles
from the publisher’s desk are all ex—
tra valuable to us. We have enjoy-
ed the married couple contest and
how nice it was to see a familiar
picture among them as we did.

Our own married life is not half
of ﬁfty years as yet and the dear
parents are gone 11 before us but
on both sides of t e house it was a
journey together until death stepped
in.

We take several papers and maga-
zines and my daughter, recently
married, has got nearly all her pic-
tures from ads and covers. We ﬁnd
many very interesting ones for liv-
ing room, bedroom and dining room.

I have a large well bound sample-
book that I have saved surplus pic-
tures in and each spring I can have
some new ones if for any reason I
wish to change pictures.

I must tell you what I did to keep
the bedbug from getting into my
beds when I moved into an infested
house. I stood the beds out free
from the wall and put a square of
tanglefoot fly paper under each leg
of the bed.
with powder and other things to kill
them 01!, but it saves getting them
onto your mattress and into your
bed steads and having to ﬁght them
there. I was reminded of this by
reading the ant story. We have re-
cently had a peck of trouble with
rats destroying chickens. I moved
the chicks away out in the ﬁeld and
put out rat virus also poison and
traps. Don't know as any poison
has been eaten and no rate has been
caught but the virus was eaten and
in time will wipe out the rats.

I have written much more than I
intended and if anything I said helps
you, you may use it as you wish.—
llrs. L. C. W., Barryton, Michigan.

OLD TIME BISCUITS HAVE
NEW FEATURES
PLAIN baking-powder biscuit
may be used as the beginning
for meat rolls, cinnamon rolls,
orange biscuits, butterscotch rolls,

, and many other quick breads, ac-
. cording to food specialists at the new

York State College of Home Eco-

' nomics at Ithaca, N. Y.

The foundation is made in each in-
stance from two cupfuls of ﬂour,

. four teaspoonfuls of baking powder,

one—half teaspoonfuls of salt, one-
fourth of a cupful of fat, and three-
fourths of a cup of milk. The ﬂour
should be sifted once before measur-

' ing, and then all the dry ingredients

L should be sifted together.

The fat
should be worked in till the mixture
resembles coarse cornmeal. The milk
should be added last and should be
barely mixed in. Plain biscuits are
made by patting this dough on a
ﬂoured board till it is half an inch

j thick» Cut the dough with a ﬂoured

biscuit-cutter, and bake in a hot
xoven (about 475 degrees) for about
ﬁfteen minutes.

Many variations of these biscuits

1 , are made by rolling the dough t2];

at knees of one-fourth inch,

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'see that it really is “fair time."

folks who are there.

wash tub, put it on exhibi-
tion, then take a day off
with the family for it takes
people, more than anything
else to make a fair worth-
While.

Address letters:

 

'emmuent for the _
Edited by mus. Wharton

DEAR folks: While sorting the mail a few days ago I found several
letters from the county fair associations. It didn’t seem possible

that is was fair time so soon, for we are just getting nicely started
. into summer, but the calendar will soon lose another page and we

01’ course the fair is an advertising proposition, not only for the ll
manufacturer, but for the farmer’s produce and livestock as well. for
we all are interested in the results of other folks efforts and the prizes,
too, butitseemstomethenicestthingaboutthefairisseeingthe

It may be distant members of your own family, an old neighbor or
just an acquaintance but it is the friendly hand shake and cherry

greeting that ﬁll our hearts with joy and make you glad you came, so
if you have a choice piece of needlework or a pumpkin as big as a

.fw,
%’72:..

Mrs. Annie Tsyler. ears The Iuslness Isl-mer, Mt. clement. lllohlssn.

   
 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a long roll, and cut in pieces three-
fourths to one inch thick, and baked
as plain biscuits. The spreading
mixtures may be chopped meat, or
ﬁsh moistened with white sauce, or
cinnamon, sugar, melted butter, and
raisins for cinnamon rolls, or pea-
nut butter moistened with milk and
sweetened with sugar. The thin
biscuits may be baked in two layers
with orange marmalade between
them for further variety.

The main points to be rememm

bered are; sift the dry ingredients
thoroughly,
little as possible, and bake in a hot

oven.

GIVE THOUGHT TO RELIGION

E do indeed consider the M. B.

F. or rather the folks behind

it real friends. We think your
paper is splendid. Can’t say what
is the best feature but are sure glad
to have the preacher with us for
one thing. The M. B. F. is the only
paper we take as we do not get much
time to read and prefer it to all
others.

Here are a few things that ex-
perience has taught me.

Do you love your babies? Then
work for them. You owe more to
your own family than to anyone in
the world. Keep them clean and
comfortable. Give them plenty of
fresh air and good food. Be sure
they get enough of the right food.

handle the dough as

Do not worry about them, nor about
the work, but ask God to give you
courage, Wisdom, patience, and
strength and work with a will. If
you aren't strong, plan to save
strength and time. Lie down at
least a few minutes a day—a couple
of hours if possible. Don’t waste
your time on fancy work, nor on too
many fancy dishes. Above all teach
them to love God and their fellow-
men. Pray with them and for them,
and don’t forget we shall have to ac-
count for everything we do or leave
undone, so let us say little and think
much, worry little and work much.
And what is so important as salva-
tion? Do not put it 01!, come and
be saved today. Jesus is the way.
He died to save sinners. “For God
so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son, that all who be-
lieve in Him should not perish but
have everlasting life.”——Mrs. H.

 

GROUP SMALL PICTURES IN
UNITS

MALL pictures look better if they
are grouped" on a large wall
space than if they simply form

many spots. Form the groups in
vertical or horizontal lines, never in
a stair-step fashion. Large pictures
may be given the appearance of be-
ing supported by hanging over a
piece of furniture such as a chair,
table, bookcase or desk.

(Some Delicious Egg Drinks

VERYBODY appreciates whole-
some beverages. Especially
is this true in the warm sum-

mer days when a cool, refreshing
drink is wanted to quench thirst and
to satisfy a craving appetite. The
man or woman performing strenu-
ous physical labor is appreciative of
a beverage, which in addition to be-
ing appetizing, furnishes a large
amount of nourishment in a most
palatable and easily digested form.
The athlete laboring under the
strain of great physical exertion rel-
ishes a beverage which satisﬁes a
profound thirst and while doing so
provides his body with every lost el-
ement of strength and energy. The
highly digestible food elements com-
bined with the great vitamins con-
tent of eggs is the answer.

How many of us have ever stop-
ped to think what a wonderful place
the egg occupies in the home-mixing
of a number of beverages which fnlv
illls all the needs of the refreshing
summer drink, of the nourishing
beverage for the laborer and for the
invigorating beverage of the ath-
Iete?

called for more and more over soda
fountains and soft drink stands. The
public is coming to realize the won-
derful nutritive value which eggs
possess. The fact that they are rich
in the majority of the vitamines,
those unseen, yet very essential el-
ements in our diet, which protect us
against disease and induce the pro-
per functioning of our bodies, is a
newly discovered food truth, the ap-

hich sei-

  
 

 

Eggs are rapidly coming to be ,

Eggs contain a greater variety of
vitamines than any other single
food ingredient. Eggs are nourish-
ing—eggs are palatable—-and above
all else, they are satisfying.

Just try some of these delightful
egg drinks and see if they do not
create a new and delightful fondness
for home-mixed beverages.

Egg Nogg

To make a delicious egg nogg,
take one egg, three—fourths of a cup
of milk, a few drops of vanilla,
sprinkle‘ of salt.

Beat the egg thoroughly, add the
milk, just a touch-of salt and a few
drops of vanilla—ﬂavoring to the
taste. A little sugar may be added
if one has an especially sweet tooth.
Adll a little crushed ice and shake
we

So easy to mix, and didn't it make
your mouth water?

Egg Orangeade
Take the white of one egg and the
juice of one orange—put in a glass
Jar, seal and shake well. Pour
through a strainer. Cool with
crushed ice. Sweeten if desired.
This makes a delicious, wholesome,
satisfying drink.
Chocolate Egg Shake
Take one egg, two-thirds cup of

milk and from two to three ounces»

of chocolate syrup. (The syrup can
be purchased as such or made by
dissolving sweet chocolate, add hot
water until the consistency of thick
cream is reached. Place in a sealed
jar and shake violently until well
mixed This drink is better if made

 

 

with cold milk; where an especially-
d ki “d at .,

'Persenel Column

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deposits found in teakettles be removed?
—Mrs 0., Six Lakes, Mich.

—-A weak solution of muriatic acid will
soon loosen deposits so that they can be
scmped on! without difﬁculty. You must

be careful about haridling the acid as it . '

is DOisonous. Put into the kettle a solu-
tion of one part of muriatic acid to nine
parts water and stir with a wooden spoon
or stick. When the deposit is loosened,
separate it out with the stick. As soon as
it is all removed empty the kettle and‘

rinse it thoroughly with water. If the '

acid. stands in the kettle after the deposit
is removed it will attack the metal and:
may eat holes through it.~ If the solu-

‘tion is poured into a sink this also should“

be rinsed well and the pipes should be-
ﬁushed to dilute the acid so that it wilh
not attack the pipes.

 

Digging Fall Rooter—Please let me
know when and how to gather the fall
roots: dandelion, mayapple, and blood-v

' root—F. 8., Farmington, Michigan.

—I would say that the best time would
be when the plants have reached their
maturity some time in October, preferably
the early part. The method of gathering
depends upon the purpose wanted. It
merely for transplanting, ordinary pre-
cautions must be taken in roder to save
as many roots as possible and transplant
at once. Ifwa‘nted for the drying, they
should be dug, allowed to cure for a few
days outdoors and then taken into a.
well aerated shed or barn and laid out.
in fairly thin layers for storage ..——A.lex
Laurie, Floriculture, M. S.

 

For the Movie Fan

 

 

The Bat—If you are a real nervous
person, and get excited very easily, this
is not a good picture for you to see.
But if you enjoy thrills, mystery, drama,
suspense and comedy don’t miss it. You
will ﬁnd it one of the most interesting
pictures you have ever seen. It is a good
one to see on a warm night as it will
make the shivers run up and down yo
spine. The Bat is a supercrook who mys-
tiﬁes the police, and the story concerns:
itself with attempts to capture him. Most
mystery dramas have no mystery in them
after you have seen a small part of them

because you are able to guess how they

will turn out in the end, but it is im-
possible to do that with The Bat. It keeps
you guessing right from the very start
and you do not know who to accuse up
to the final scene when The Bat is un-
masked. Among the featured players are
Louise Fazenda, Emily ’Fitzroy, Jack
Pickford and Robert McKim.

 

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“Hands Together."——Shaking hands is I.
dual operation: two are concerned and
you must do your share. When a man
shakes hands with a .woman her muscular
reaction is determined by the degree of
their acquaintanceship. If the woman
knows the man well, his clasp may be
positive, while she permits her hand to
be shaken; yet there must be a slight
muscular response on her part, her hand
must not merely be laid \in his. If she
knows hinrvery well her handclasp ap-
proaches his own in warmth. One should
always look the person in the eye with
Whom one is shaking hands. Sky-look-
ing and see—sawing with the arms when
shaking hands are inelegant aifectailons.
like crooking or stiﬂening the little ﬁn-
gers when raising a glass to the lips.

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Ye shall not fear them ; for the Lord
your God, be it is that iighteth for you.
Dent. 8:22. (E. B. V.)

To live through understanding is to
swim with the tide. You will have to
work, but you will not need “to battle".
For the Lord your God. is he that goeth
with you, to fight against your enemies,
to save you. (Dent. 20:1.)

 

 

Recipes

 

 

French Omelet, Spanish Saucer—Two

cups tomatoes, two onions (chopped), one :

green pepper (diced), three tablespoons
fat. one-half teaspoon sugar, one-eighth
teaspoon pepper. Melt fat, add other
ingredients. Cook _10 minutes. Spread
half the Mixture over half the omelet,
fold, place on platter and garnish with
remainder of sauce.

 

Egg Sandwiches .——Chop hard boiled
eggs fine; season with salt and pepper.
moisten with Three Minute salad dressp

ring, spread between crisp lettuce leaves.

 

Ooeoennt Drona—One and one-half
cupfuls iiour,,,one egg. one-half cupful
shredded cocoanut, one-half cupful rich
cream. two level teaspoonfuls baking
powder, one-half cupful sugar, one tea-
spoonfui lemon rind, one teaspoontul of

    
  
  

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greased pans. or on waxed paper in pans.
and bake a delicious brown: Kaye the
cakes far enough apart so they will not
run together, and sprinkle a. little cocoa-
nut over the tap.

Tomato Puma—2 qts. thick tomato
pulp; 4 tablespoons chopped sweet red
pepper; 1 large onion; it teaspoon salt;
1 teaspoon sugar. Tomato puree may be
made from the— small and irregular sized
tomatoes. Wash, run through food chop-
per and cook until soft and thickened.
If a smooth. seedless mixture is desired
press through a sieve or preferably.

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5508. Summer Frock.—Printed cre e
whorgette are here combined. The jabot pportilzirilig
_y be omitted. Pattern cut in 7 Sizes: 34.
It. 38. 40. 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure.
I. make the dress for a 38 inch size will re uire
8% yards of 40 inch crepe. and % yard 0 40
inch georgette. if made as illustrated. The width

I! the skirt at the lower edge it 2% yards.

6582. School Drum—Plaid gingham. linen,
uyon. Jersey or serge would be good for this
model. Pattern cut in 4 Sizes: 8. . an
12 years. A. 1 year size will require 2%
suds of 3_6 inch material together with % yard
d! contrasting material for laying on collar and

e if made as illustrated in the large View.
“.msde of one material 27/3 yards Will be re-
uire .

 

5526. Child's Dream—Cut in 4 Sizes: 4, 6.
I and 10 years. A 6 year size, requires 1%

d of 36 inch material With 1/. yard of con-
meting material. If made With longeleeves and
3 one material 2 yards will be reqmred.

5810. Smart Dream—Plaid wool. and wool
nope are combined here. It.is also a good de-
sin for rayon, ersey, poplin and fine serge.
Pattern cut in 6 izes: 34, 36 38_. 40. 42 and
44 inches bust measure. A 38 .
m e 2 yards of plaid and 1% yard_ of plain
mterial 54 inches Wide it made as illustrated
in the large view. To make all of one material
rill re m're 3%_ yards. The width at the lower
“(as o the skirt. With plsits extended is 2%
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pepper-and." seasoning.” Toward the lat-
ter" ‘ part ‘ofr'proc‘e'ss. ‘it is necessary to
stirit frequently to keep from burning.
When sufficiently concentrated, can and

process 29 minutes at boiling.

 

Cheese and Nut Sandwiches.—-Spread
bread with Philadelphia cheese (comes in
small cakes wrapped in tin foil) over
this sprinkle a layer of ﬁnely chopped
nut meats. This is especially good with
rye bread.

Meat Sandwiches.—Grind cold boiled
ham or lean pork also enough sweet
pickles or olives to ﬂavor it nicely. ‘mix
with Three Minute salad dressing and
spread between buttered bread and crisp
lettuce leaves.

 

Salmon or Sardine Sandwiches.—Can-
ned salmon or sardines may be used as
follows—remove bones, to one can of sar-
dines add one tomato. pepper, salt and
paprika to taste. .Moisten with a little
cream.

The meat alone is much more appetz-
ing. with a. few drops of lemon juice
sprinkled over it. whether used in sand-
wiches or as a part of the regular meal.

 

Chilli Sance.—-—One gallon red ripe to-
matoes, 1A.» cupful white onions: 1,5 cup-
full sweet green peppers, V; cupful of
brown sugar; 1 quart of vinegar; $5 tea-
spoonful cayenne pepper; 1 Bay leaf; 2
tablespoons of ginger; 1 tablespoonful
of cinnamon; 1 tablespoontul of mustard;
$4, nutmeg (grated); 1 teaspoontul gar-
lic. Wash tomatoes. cut out green core
and put through meat chopper with the
onions and peppers. Boil all the ingredi—
ents except the vinegar together unitl
soft and broken. Add vinegar and sim-
mer until thick. Stir frequently. Pack
into bottles or jars and process.

Green Tomato Soy.—-——Wa.sh tomatoes,
cut into quarters and put through food
chopper enough to make 1 gallon. Grind
with this 6 large onions. Mix tomatoes
with two cups vinegar; 2 tablespoons
salt; IA tablespoon each ground cinna-
mon. cloves and allspice; 2 pounds brown
sugar; 4 tablespoons each celery and
white mustard seed; 1 tablespoon white
pepper. Cook about 10 minutes, stirring
frequently. Let stand over night. In
the morning. taste, add more salt or
other seasonings, if needed. Boil again
10 minutes. Pour into sterilized jars,
process and seal.

 

Club Cheese.-—-Remove the rind from
ordinary hard cheese or well-made cured
cheddar cheese, slice. and run through a
meat grinder. To each pound of ground
cheese, add about two ounces of fresh
butter. Mix the cheese and butter thor-
oughly and run the combination through
the meat grinder. The club cheese is ready
for use immediately. It is very nutritious
and palatable and can be stored by pack-
ing it in small air-tight jars or glasses.

 

Cheese Sandwiches.——Plain bread and
and butter sandwiches with fairly thick
slices of cheese between can be toasted
and are known as toasted-cheese sand~
wiches. They may also be browned in a.
pan in which bacon has been fried.

Cheese and jelly sandwiches are pre-
pared by spreading slices of bread with
a layer of cream cheese followed by a
layer of jelly. Another layer of bread is
placed on top and the completed sand-
wich is toasted.

 

Nut Molasses Bars—Pour one-fourth
cupful boiling water over one-fourth cup-
ful butter or lard. Add one-half cupful
brown sugar and one-half cupful mo-
lasses. Add three and two-thrds cupfuls
ﬂour sifted with one teaspoonful soda,
one-half teaspoonful of ginger, 9. little
powdered cloves. and one teaspoont’ul
salt. Mix well and chill thoroughly.
Turn out on a lightly ﬂoured board. pat

and roll one-eighth of an inch thck. Cut.

in strips three orrfour inches long‘by
one inch wide. Sprinkle with ﬁnely
chopped walnuts and grated cocoanut.
(liege about ten minutes in a moderate
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French Omelet. Onion Sauces—TWO
onions (chopped). three slices bacon
(diced). two tablespoons ﬂour. one cup
milk. one-half teaspoon salt, one-eighth
teaspoon pepper. Brown the bacon slight—
ly, add the onions and cook slowly 10
minutes. Now add the ﬂour and season-
ings; when blended. pOur in the milk
and cook until it thickens. stirring con-
stantly. Place the folded omelet on a
ﬁacplatter and garnish with the onion

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Cheese-Btuled Fruit.——One-half cup of
cottage cheese, two tablespoons of cream
or milk, eight gs, prunes, or dates, and
one-fourth teaspoon of salt are needed.
Steam the ﬁgs for about 12 minutes, cook
the prunes 10 minutes in lemon juice or
water, or seed the dates. Soften the
cheese with cream or milk and add salt.
Stuff the centers of fruit with the cheese.
Chopped peanuts can be mixed with the
cheese if desired. The stuffed fruit may
be served with mayonnaise dressing on

. lettuce leaves.

 

Oatmeal Cookies.——Cream together two
cupfuls sugar and one cupful of butter.
Add two beaten eggs. one-third cupful

  

  

  
 
 

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0U may have it! A keen

mind and a body equal to
the demand—the enthusiasm
of desire—the conﬁdence to suc-
coed—the stamina to carry
through—that’s pep. The
FOSTER IDEAL helps create
it because it gives you proper
i ' rest. The moment you rest
upon this spiral spring yOu feel
the support that it gives your
spine—its freedom from sag-—
its restful inﬂuence upon wea-
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like thousands and thousands of
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EAR girls and boys: I want-to
to write about something -this
time that perhaps will not in-

terest the boys. not. very much at
least. The subject is dolls. "What?"
I hear some boys say, “Dolls?" Yes,
it is dolls, and I am going to give
some interesting facts that even
boys should know.

When you girls look at your doll
do you .ever stop to think that little
girls in every country in the world
love and play with dolls, just as you
do. Their skin may be of another
color and their dolls look different
than yours but they enjoy them
just as much as you do yours. Some
of them enjoy their dolls even more
than you do because of great sig-
nificance, religious or otherwise, as—
sociated with them.

In certain parts of Africa every
maiden upon becoming a young wo-
man receives a doll which she keeps
until she becomes a mother. Then
her mother gives her a new doll
which she conserves until she has a
second child, and so forth. The lit-
tle girls of the East Indies in the
time of a certain feast dress them-
selves in their finest clothes and go
solemnly to the nearest river to
cast their cherished dolls into the
water. They can now not have new
dolls until three months have passed.

During the early days of the R0-
man empire girls frequently sacri-
ﬂced their dolls to the gods, by burn-
ing them. In India, long ago, young
children were thrown to the croco-
diles in the River Ganges as a. re-
ligious sacriﬁce. This custom has
died out, and at certain times of the
year the children of that country
give expression of their thanksgiv—
ing by casting their dolls into the
sacred stream.

When the Nile rises the Egyptians
make it a great event, having a
toast and casting a life-size doll into
the water as thanks to the river
spirit for watering and fertilizing
the soil. If a child in China is tak-
en ill a doll is hung before the door
of the house. The disease spirit is
supposed to enter the doll which is
When a.
maiden in Syria is old enough to
marry. and has the desire to do so,
she hangs a doll in the window. The
sultans of Turkey used to keep dolls
dressed like their enemies and they
would satisfy their hatred by beat-
ing these dolls.

Perhaps of all the countries in

the world it is iii—Japan that the

dolls play the most important part
in the, lives of the children. When a
girlisborninJapansheisgivena
small collection of dolls, represent-
ing the emperor and empress. and
the ﬁve court musicians. She is
never allowed to play with the dolls
except on holidays. the chief of
which is the Hina Hatsuri. the feast
of dolls, which falls on March 3rd.
At that time special shelves are
often made to exhibit the family’s
collection of dolls, and frequently
visitors come from great distances.
When a Japanese girl marries she
takes her collection of dolls with
her, keeping them until her eldest
son marries, at which time they are
presented to him. In this way some
families posses a number of collec-
tions of dolls. some of them hund—
reds of years old. In addition 1
these special dolls, Japanese girls
have many other, and they have a
belief that if they love them enough
they will become living things.

Isn't that interesting to know?—
UNCLE NED.

Our Boys and Girls

Hello Uncle Nedzi—Well, here I am,
singing with the summer birds and shin-
ingwiththebeautifullumsoyouseeI
am happy. Well. I have got worlds to
be happy for. I am happy I can get out-
side and sing with the summer birds and
I am happy when I can shine about with
God's brightaiing sun. Oh, we can not
name the Meanings we should be happy
for in this big world. I've heard people

say the world is getting worse, but I don't .
believe it. I believe “rand every day

 

it is getting better. People will say.
"Why, look at moment-It's murder.

it so back in Adam and Eve's time?”
Why, look how Cain killed Able but then
therewunonewspapertoput‘itinand
therewaasiayingand mangfmmthe
beginning of man, I guess, but why
shouldn't it seem worse today? There
aresomanymorepeopleintheworld
today than there were then and times
have changed considerable since our
grout-grandparents wore hoop skirts and
a wad on the top of their heads. Wouldn't
they be frightened to see an automobile
go running down the road at sixty miles
per hour and what would they think of
the firl’s short dresses, low necks, rolled
socks, bobbed hair and fancy garters?
Why. Grandpa would say, “My land!
thoeegirlsu'eeraaytheymustbeget-
tingreadytogoswimming". Andwhat
would they think of the boy's bell trous-
ers. sheik belts, pompadour hair cuts.
and checked sweaters. Why. Grandma
would reply, "My eyes are poor, John
you'll have to buy me a new pair of
specks. Those boys look so odd to me
they must be wearing saccalled dresses,
am’t they. only in a boyish style.

Well times are certainly different and
as the world moves we too must move
onandmwithitmustwenot?

But still for all God gives us young
folks in His beautiful world today we
seem not to appreciate it as we ought to.
Of course, there are lots that think of the
deeds God does for us but others go on
in a staggering way looking to fall in the
ﬁrst dark pit they spy. They are looking
for a temptation to load than. Nowadays
girls think nothing of drinking and smok-
ing. Why they think it is smart; of
course, not all girls but girls of that
classmdpartydo. Theythinkitisa
credit to say that they smoke and can
drink. but beware girls, time will tell on
you for all this. Of course, none of us
are perfect but we can try to be respect-
able and try to lead others to the good.
I do not pretend to be perfect but I do
like to be a girl of good character while
in my youth. I have my hair bobbed
but do not wear f'lcnickers“ or rolled
socks.

I do not go to church as I should, but
I think of God through the day's travel.
I think how happy we all ought to be
when we think of how they are ﬁghting
over in the old countries. We ought to
praise God's holy name for it. had we not?

Well, Uncle Ned, I suppose I'll soon
be passed the Children’s Hour age.
will be eighteen my next birthday so I‘ll
have to write real often this year to
make up for it. I have been a member
for over seven years now and I still write
to girls that I corresponded with seven
years ago. Can you imagine it?

I certamly have enjoyed our lovely
little page while corresponding with it.
I can remember, Uncle Ned, away back
when there was another editor that print-
ed Our Page. She was "Aunt Clare".
I have even got some of her letters she
wrote on the page, but I can’t tell you
just where they are. I surely dread the
future year to pass as I won't be able
to write to you any more but maybe I
can squeese in one once in a while, eh?

I want to send my picture to you before
I quit writing. Uncle Nod, and I would
like you to print it on Our Page but have
no real good ones at premt. Of course.
IamnothandsunacauseIamjusta
“hayseed”, Hal

Well we have our garden all in and
will soon have radishes and lettuce to
eat. Now doesn’t this makn your mouth
water, Uncle Ned? And we planted all
kinds of water and muskmclons. Yum.
yum. do you like ’um Uncle? Oh. I, do
and did you ever go cooning them? They
say they are a lot better when you
coon them than they are when you can
have them. but stealing a thing is always
better than if it is given to you. so~ they
say.

We put in a lot of different kinds of
ﬂowers. I do love ﬂowers, don't you?
I also love birds. Last year I built a
bird house and a little Jenny Wren built
in it and hatched out four little ones. I
sure was glad as I love birds around me.
If it wasn‘t for God’s beautiful birds
there would be little music to swell the
air and if it wasn’t for His ﬂowers there
would be no beautiful perfume to go, sift—
ing through the breeze and go up our
noses. We sure love the ﬂower’s per-
fume and there is nothing any more
beautiful than a ﬂower: even a weed.
A common everyday weed like a mustard
flower, Just take a microscOpe and look
at its pretty petals. They are beautiful
although it is none but a terrible old
weed. And there are none prettier than
tame flowers. ~

Oh. isn’t nature wonderful in all. ways?

Inthesummertimeiustgobaoktothe'

woodsandspreadablenketuponthe

mum. then open your ears-m close,

your eyes. You are fairly in Heaven

     
   

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(London road onto: a very poor road

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little rrel, eating a winter“
few kernels of cornvwhlch she has had
stored through the low winter storms
and look upon. the ground. there are the
busy, .tiny ants working as menfln an
automobile plant, They are toiling for all
of their tiny life and the how cruel if
some bad boy or girl to conic along and
kick their- little house over that" they
have so longsvorked at to build up. Oh.
it is cruel to do such a sinful act. They
do not harm us unless you pick one up,
then he might pinch you but, no doubt
you “him so he’s merely getting
em with you.

Uncle Ned, I am planning on going to
Lansing this year for a week. and further-
more it is with one of the girlies I have
corresponded with for over seven years.
If I go I ought to write. and tell you of
my ﬁne trip.‘ I had one vacation this
year. I went to Flint for two weeks with
my aunt and uncle. It sure is a nice
place but I cannot tell of my trip now
as my letter is too long but I will try
andkeephlhewithourpage. Ithink
weareprogressingO.K.sincewesug—
gested our motto and colors, don't you.
Uncle? I am sending my very best wishes
to you. Uncle Ned and hoping you still
continue to help us as you are many.
You surely have done your part for us.
I’m sure. You need credit for establish-
ingom-pageandbuildingitupasyou
have. I hope when I am out of the writ-
ing to Our Page that it will grow three
times bigger and better than it is now, but
really it couldn't be much better to my
It surely has furnished a. lot of
comfort for me and I am as crazy to get
that paper today as I ever was, although
I am a big girl now, but still I can
never forget Our Page. As long as the
page is printed I’ll enjoy reading it.

Well, Uncle Ned, I must surely close

for this time and will try to write again
soon. I am ever yours for a bigger and
better Children’s Hour page and good
luck to our editor, also my cousins. Your
rambling rose—Miss Eathel Fay Sharp,
Route 3, Akron, Michigan.
-——Here is a letter that will make many
of the members think, I am sure, and I
hope they will set ‘down and write their
opinions of Eathel’s ideas.

Do not forget to send in your picture
Eathel and just remember that we will
always be glad to hear from you. See—
ingthatyouhavebeen amembersolong
perhaps we should make you a life mem
ber, eh? .

Dear Uncle Ned:-—I am very sorry
that I did not get around to write and
thank you for the membership button I
received not so long ago. ‘I am pleased
with it and also that I am a member of
the Children's Hour.

I will describe myself now as you prob-
ably all would like to know what I look
like. I am ﬁve feet, two inches tall,
weigh one hundred and two pounds and
am sixteen years old. Have long, medium
brown hair. I was weighed last night.
Don't you think I must be small?

I have a sister fourteen years old this
June. She is five feet six inches tall and
weighs one hundred and thirty pounds.
Then I, have a sister thirteen years old
who is ﬁve feet two inches tall and
weighs one hundred and thirteen pounds.
I have a sister ten years old that Weighs
ninety pounds.

I had an operation last Nevanber so
perhaps that is why my weight is no more
than it is.

Well, I suppose you would like to hear
about a trip or something interesting. I
will tell you about a trip we made the
Fourth of July hat year. We got up
early and got our chores done and got
readytogotoCanada. Justaswewere
ready it began to pour rain and daddy
said we couldn't go when it was raining
and if it did not stop hetero in: we could
not go. It rained steady but not very
hsrdandwecoaxeddadtogmsoatlast
we started and when we got down by
Yale it had stopped and we had a lovely
Journey the rest of the way. When we
got to Port Huron we had to wait before
we could go across on the ferry. There
were quite a few cars ahead of our car
and we thought perhaps we would have
to wait until it went across but we were
lucky and got across that time and went
to the London road to go to the Sam
Lucas Black Fox Farm and wild animals.

We were quite a ways out in the coun-
try when we had to detour off from the
. We
had to detour ten'miles, then we went only
a couple of miles _and got there 0. K.
We found a new tire that never had been
on a car but could not and the owner.
The price we got from it covered our ex-
penses over and back and a couple ‘of
dollars over. Sam is our cousin so be-
sides seeing -all the wild animals and
birds we had a lovely visit with him and
his wife. There were about one hundred
dogs and we saw an eagle the same as is
on our money. -

If you wish I will' write and tell you
about what else I say. Tour niece.»-
Lucy Mae Lucas, Brown City. Michigan.

all mourn-lamp tell us, more about.’_
your interesting trip into Canada. ‘ 4

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eral months hog cholera is
- again playing a return engag-
, meat in Cass county. Although it
has not yet caused any-large losses.
the situation is one that should put
allhogownersonthe‘alertlestthey
find it in'their own herds.

Because there has been so little

cholera for nearly two years, the
vaccination’of hog sand pigs as a
precautionary measure has been virt-
ually discontinued. This would seem
to be poor economy, especially with
the price of hogs where it is, coupled
with the fact that herds of swine
are unusually large. The vaccine-
tionofyoungpigsisnotverycost-
ly, and is cheap insurance.
' Apparently a few garbage feeders
are either ignorant of the State law
requiring that all hogs fed garbage
(cooked or uncooked) receive the
double treatmentror else they will-
fully ignore it. This is a dangerous
policy, both for the public and the
garbage feeder himself. An indi-
vidual may feed garbage'for a while
and get by without vaccinating, but
sooner or later he is absolutely cer-
tain to ﬁnd cholera in his herd.

Because of the large amount of
changing work that always accomp-
anied threshing time, right now is
a very favorable season for the
spread of the disease from farm to
farm. Dogs in the neighborhood of
an outbreak should not be permit-
ted to run at large.

Birds and other uncontrollable
means of dissemination are numer-
ous enough, hence no avenue of dis-
tribution that can be controlled
should be overlooked.

28 STATE TO AOOREDIT BABY
CHICKS

-TEREE poultry states,

I including Michigan, entered in-

to the agreement at a national
conference at West Baden, Indiana,
August 2nd to use the uniform plan
‘of accreditation and certiﬁcation of
baby chicks as adopted at Manhat-
tan, Kansas, conference a year ago.

This plan of accreditation already
is in operation in Michigan and re-
ports on its success largely inﬂu-
enced favorable action by the other
22 states which concurred in a res-
olution requesting the United States
Department of Agriculture to coop-
erate with the various states in uni-
fying and supervising this work on
a national basis.

Dr. M. A. Juli, chief poultryman
in the United States Department of
Agriculture, assured delegates at the
conference that federal supervision
would be provided for the ﬁscal year
beginning July 1, 1927, with pros-
pects of promulgating its regulations
and making them effective before
the next hatching season. ‘

Michigan was represented at the
conference Tuesday. Its delegation
was headed by Dr. L. E. Heasley,
Grand Rapids, President of the
Michigan Poultry Improvement As-
sociation; J. A. Hannah, East Lans-
ing, Secretary, and Prof. C. G. Card,
head of the poultry department at
Michigan State College. The dele—
gation included about 25 hatchery-
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FIRE BLIGEHII.‘ PREVALENT IN
CASS COUNTY
EAR blight. or .iire blight, a bac-
terial disease affecting apple,
pear, and quince trees is becom-
ing quite prevalent in Michigan,
and has appeared in numerous Cass
county orchards. Because it is a
bacterial disease, the method of com-
batting it is quite different from pro-
cedure employed in the case of a
fungus disease.

The blight works more or less er-
raticallye affecting different trees
and orchards in different ways, but
”perhaps the most common manifest-
ation is the wilting and death of
the new growth of wood on the tips
of the branched Frequently, how-
ever, entire limbs will succumb and
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it is apparent that the trouble can
be eradimted much quicker and

easier when its presence is ﬁrst dis-

covered.

The preparation of the disinfect-
ant, various factors entering into
control, in fact, thorough discus-
sions of the entire matter are in-
cluded in a bulletin on the subject
written by Cardineii and Bennett of
Michigan State College.

SPUDGROWERSTOLIEETIN
PM!

annual meeting of the Michi-
gan Potato Producers’ Assoclao
tion will be held in Petoskey
this month, probably August 24 and
25. Secretary Ernest Pettifor of Gay-
lord announced recently. A potato
tour will be held in conjunction with
the convention.

A number of out-of—the-state po-
tato specialists and purchasers of
Michigan certiﬁed seed potatoes will
be guests of the association during
the two days. It is understood a
bus-load of Pennsylvania farmers is
planning to visit the region from
which they purchase most of their
seed requirements.

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ICHIGAN is ranked as one of
the three greatest peppermint
growing states in the country

in a bulletin on cultivation of the
crop now being distributed from the
farm crops department at Michigan
State College. .
Indianaand Oregon are given as
Michigan's only rivals in production
of peppermint oil. Michigan's pep-
permint belt, the bulletin discloses,
is conﬁned mainly to the south-
western counties of Cass, Berrien,
Van Buren, Allegan and Kalamazoo.

OTTAWA CHERRY CIDER 1N-
DUSTRY GROWING

HE manufacture of cherry cider
'has become an industry of
rather large proportions near

Holland.

One concern engaged in this busi-
ness has just converted 100 tons of
cherries into cider, producing 300
barrels or 9,000 gallons. And there
are several other concerns in the
heart of the cherry district that have
turned to making cherry cider.

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the former.
gave strong testimony to the value
of the inspection service maintained
by the Michigan Crop Improvement
Association "in its work in certifying
seeds. the cleanliness of his pedi-
greed wheat standing out in marked
contrast to the rye and chess infest-
ed fields on either side. .

Albert Nelson of Filion in Huron
County had possibly the most unus-

ual experience of all. His ﬁeld of ‘

American Banner Wheat was used
as a skating rink most of the winter

by the youngsters of the neighbor- .

hood. Mr. Nelson fully expected to

tear up the field this spring but.

found a considerable proportion of
the plants showing up and has pros-
pects for a fair crop.

Michigan Millers believe that,
with American Banner Wheat being
grown on the lighter soils and the
harder red wheat on the well-drain-
ed heavy soils, about the right bal-

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The primary purpose of the Greater
Michigan State Fair is educational-
but the Fair Grounds is a place where
you can have a royal good time.
Thousands are planning their vaca-
tions during Fair Week Sept. 5th to
11th atDetroit, so theycanvisit the
exposition this year. For they will see
a bigger, better, more interesting F air.
Come on the trolleys,[busses, railroads,

or in your own car—but come!

5‘“ to 11‘“

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In Store For You].

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Has ﬁeld work caused you to rely too much on pas- .
turage for your livestock? Grass alone will not maintain, to say

nothing of producing gain. After once run down in ﬂesh, it re-

quires extra heavy feeding to bring your animals back to normal.

Linseed Meal added to a'grain ration supplementing
pasturage, pays as high as 100% proﬁt. Rich in protein and highly
digestible, it induces heavy, continuous milk ﬂow and speeds meat
animals on to early market. Let others tell you how in our book-
lets “Dollars and Cents Results” and “How To Make Money With

Linseed Meal.”

Write our Dept. BB¥8 for them.

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Advertisements Inserted under this heading for renutaou breeders of Live Stout at epeolal low

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cost list the date of any live stock sale In
. If you are consllﬂerém‘ma (gouge;
l u atoncean wew
:ol-° ycsu. Address Live Stock Editor. M. B.
F.. Mt. Clemens.

   

HEREFORDS. Oldest Herd in U. S. A.

t. 6. 1926. A good bull sale.
salecoliabribd Elihu? Swartz Creek. Michigan.

Hereford Steers

. d 100 lbs. 69 Wt. around 1000 lbs.
#2 WI: 2333‘: ‘125 lbs. 81 Wt. around 825 lbs.
45 Wt. around 560 lbs. 50 Wt. around1 600 Lbsi
lit , dark reds, dehorned, we] mar er
ﬁgggfoi‘ldm Sleers. Good gross ﬂesh. The. ecf
t e are usually market toppers when ﬁnished.
£11 sell your choice of one car load from any
bunch. Can also show you Shorthorn steers,
yearlings or 2 year old.
V. V. BALDWIN. Eldon. Wapello Co., Iowa.

GUERNSEY!

' ._ UNOH or 150 grams
FOR SALE A FIN5E0 Blbs. All reds, rouns_and
Also a number Guernsey heifers.

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Wﬁll’eGﬂrsT‘gN AND SCOTT, McBaln, Michigan.

Read the Advertzrmentr in These Columns.

By their guidance you can obtain the best products from
‘ When writing our advertisers please

mention that you saw their ad in

reliable companies.

THE MICHIGAN BUSINESS JFARMER

to encourage the growing of ore-bred: on the farms of our readers.
Cents (300) per agate lne. per Insertion.
. 0 per ess o r cash II sent wt
of month following date of Insertion. SE D III
. so you can see how manhunt» it will IIII. Address all letters.

IREEDERS DIRECTORY. ICHIGAN IUOINESS FARMER. MT. CLEMENS. MIOH.

Our advertisinc rate

Fourteen agate lines to the column Inch
h order or paid on or before the 10th
YOUR AD AND WE WILL PUT IT IN TYPE

REGISTERED GUERNSEY MALE 14 MONTHS
old. Good type and size Dam made 318.8 fat
as a 2 year old in C. T. A.

0. M. STARBUCK, Corunna. R. 1, Michigan.

FOR SALE: REGISTERED GUERNSEY COWS.
Federal Accredited herd; C. T. . records.
JAMES c. RANNEY, Dertt, Michigan.
FOR PRAGTICALLY PURE BRED GUERNSEY
or Holsteinucalves 997.3 heavyu'rilch milkershwrite.
C: b-‘ivv: TDD-i=8. ll 7‘2E'2n‘ x..:-
Registered Guernsey Bull Calf 3 Months Old 535.
One ready for serVice $50. 10 registered heifers.
E. A. Black, Howard City, Michigan.

 

FOR PRACTICALLY PURE BRED GUERNSEY
dair heifer calves. write us. We ship 0. . D.
L. lI'ERWILLIGER. R2. Wauwatosa. Wisconsin.

 

 

JERSEYS

REG. JERSEYS, POGIS 99th OF H. F. AND
Majesty breeding. Young stock for sale. Herd
lully accredited by State and Federal Government.
Write "0; visit or prices (1 descript‘

 

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FINANCIAL KING JERSEYS FOR SALE.
Excellent bull calves from R. of M. Dams.
COLDWATER JERSEY FARMS. Goldwater, Mich.

 
 
 

 

 

 

POLAND CH [NAS

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS WITH QUALITY.

have them. Write us your wants.
we E. A. CLARK, Breckenridge. Michigan.

LARGE TYPE PQLAND CHINAS.

BUY A
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' (We Invite an to contribute your experience In raisin livestock 0 his A .
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DAIRY LOSES GUT DOWN BY
MLK COOLING .
lLARGE proportion of the loss
from sour milk, high bacteria.
counts, anl low quality butter
and cheese, might be aVOided
through prompt and thorough cool-
ing of milk at the dairy barn, as-
serts the dairy department of the
College of Agriculture, New Bruns-
wick. All milk should be cooled to
50 degrees F. or over and should
be kept at that temperature until
delivered at the receiving plant.

In the matter of dairy temperat-
ures one should never guess. A good
therometer will always pay for it-
self in a short time. One can of re—
jected milk will cost more than four
or ﬁve good therometers.

To cool milk to 50 degrees F. or
below, ice is nearly always necessary.
If ice cannot possibly be had, only
the coldest water should be used.
This means water direct from the
well or spring unless a colder source
is available. Running surface wa-
ter is never very cold. If ice is not
to be had ,it is desirable to arrange
the equipment so that spring water
may run constantly through the
milk storage tank. ‘

The cooling of morning’s milk is
the important problem just now. A
surface cooler will save time and
ice, and will enable the farmer to
cool it at the farm.

Once the milk has been cooled to
50 degrees F. or elow, if it is to be
held, a cooling tank in the milk
house becomes a necessity for ﬁnal
cooling and storage. Milk plant
operators can advise farmers as to
the best types of coolers, cooling
tanks and milk houses to meet the
requirements of their respective
companies and Board of Health.

TREATMENT FOR BLOAT

N serious cases of bloat of cattle
I or sheep, no valuable time should
be wasted in the administration

of drugs and medicines or with the
pouring of cold water on the animal’s
back. No other measures can be so
well trusted and depended upon as
tappings and there is always more
danger of doing it too late than too
early. A trocar is a simple inex—
pensive tool that should be in readi—
ness on every farm where clovers
are used for pasture. It should be
inserted in the left side of the bloat—
ed animal at a point equidistant from
the last rib, the hip bone, and the
ends of the sideways projecting parts
of the back bone in the region of
the loin. In badly bloated cases, the
gases should not be allowed to es-
cape too rapidly. In all cases the
tube of the trocar should be left in
place for some time and watched as
it is likely to be pushed out when
the movements of the palinch begin
again. If the time permits, the skin
around the place where the punc—
ture is to be made should be washed

with an antiseptic solution and the
trocar treated likewise, but in emer-
gencies an animal with a small in-
fected trocar wound is worth more
than several dead ones.

 

WHITE SPECKS IN BUTTER

Please let me know what to do
for the little white specks of milk in
my butter. I cannot wash them all
out no matter how many times I
take water to wash it, I have no sep-
arator.—W. F., Lamb, Michigan.

IIITE specks in, butter are

caused by the use of sour

cream of low fat percentage.
If the lady will set her separator so
as to skim a richer cream the diﬂi-
culty will be eliminated. The white
specks are merely specks of curdled
skim milk in cream.-—P. 6. Lucas,
Associate Professor of Dairy Man-
ufactures, M. S. C.

SALT THEM

ALT for pigs after they are
grown is as practical as ﬂowers
for people after they are dead.
All farm animals need salt. It whets
their appetites, stimulates their di-
gestive glands and aids in prevent-
Ing digestive disturbance. It is a
promoter of general good health and
vigorous growth. The habit of keep-
ing a supply of salt before farm ani-
mals all the time is a ﬁne one for

every livestock owner to acquire.
An irregular supply induces over

eating which often results in diges?‘

tive disorders and, in the case of
hogs. may cause death from salt
poisoning.

GIVE SHEEP GOOD CARE

THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

0 grow good strong wool that

will bring the highest price it is

necessary to furnish sheep with
plenty of good feed or pasture at-all
times. Lack of sufﬁcient feed or
abrupt changes in feed often weak-
ens the wool ﬁbers, causing tender
ﬂeeces. Sometimes this results in
a reduction of several cents a pound
on the market price of wool.

CROSS BRED PORKERS MAKE
GOOD FEEDERS

0G feeders in some instances get

better results in feeding cross

bred hogs than with pure breds.
When the results do favor the cross
bred hogs ,specialists say, it is very
likely due to a. weakness in the
strain of pure breds with which
they are compared and they should
not be used as an’ indictment
against pure bred in general. It is
the pure blood in the cross breeds
that makes them good.

The glazed stage is right for harvest-
ing silage corn, but frosted corn makes
poor silage; better harvest it a little
too soon than too late.

 

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I had three pigs that were sick»

when they were about eight weeks
old. I was feeding ground rye and
oats. some corn on cob and milk.
They ate some but would vomit and
13! around. I gave them sulphur.
One died and the other two are all
0. K. but they haven‘t grew since
they were nicks! am fading ground
corn and oats. ' They are running
out doors nearly every day. What
can I do for themle—E. A., Clare.
U have stunned your pigs
t-hrOugh indigestion and it is
-doubtful if they will ever fully
recover; feed them ground feed
such as middlings, bran and oil meal
with skim or buttermilk. Do not
feed. too much com. If you would
add these mill feeds to your ground
corn and oats and then mix this
with the milk and make a heavy slop
from it your pigs would. do as well
:3 (you could make them do on any
so

DQG‘S TOE-NAILS
Dog’s toe-nails coming off. There
are some bleeding and new nail
seems to be coming in all right.
What is wrong? What can be done?
——-Reader.

AIN‘I‘ these toes with a mixture
of equal parts of iodine and
glycerine night and morning;

give the dog fresh milk to drink. Do
not feed much cooked meat; give
raw meat if it is to be had.

HORSES ROOF HARD

Last...May my horse got a nail in
one front foot. I had that removed
but something else set in and the
veterinary is not able to locate the
cause. The frog of the foot is partly
gone. I have tried poulticing nd
using dimerent iiniments. At. ti es
there is considerable fever in the
foot. The hoof is very hard and
dry. Could you give me any advice
in the casela—D. M.‘, Breckenridge.
F you will get this horse's hoof
softened up you may do about
all that can be done for him. I
know of no- better way to do this
than to get a quantity of good blue
clay and then soak a quantity of it
in a large bucket and make it into
s thick heavy paste. Take an old
burlap sack and put a quantiy of it
in this and then set the animal‘s foot
in it seeing that it comes well up to
the top of the hoof; apply this each
day and keep it on until the next
morning. A few days should have

 

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the foot good and soft. Then take
a can of pine tar and thin it down
with turpentine until it is about as
thick as linseed oil and then mix
equal parts of linseed oil with the
apply this with a paint
brush two or three times each week.
Do not use any more poultices after
you have used the clay or mud to
soften the foot.

RIOKEH‘S
- I have two pigs about four months
old. A‘week ago they lost the use
of their kind parts. One is fat and
the other is just in growing condi-
tion. This last one seems to breathe
through the mouth making a noise.
I have been feeding them middlings
and some corn. Can you tell me
what to do for them? I also have
a cow that freshened last fall and
during the last two weeks a quarter
of the udder has become hard. It
lasts a few days and then goes in
the other part of the udder. After
it goes away the milk is stringy.—
N. S., Coopersville, Michigan.
IGKETS are affecting your pigs.
How about using the following
ation: 160 lbs. of ground yellow
corn, 100 lbs. wheat middlings, 50
lbs. of bran, 25 lbs. steamed bone
meal, 25 pounds of tankage, 60 lbs.
of oilmeal. Make this into a slop
with skimmilk or buttermilk if
available. If not use water. Now
for your cow, get equal parts of
iodine and glycerine and paint the
affected quarter once each day; use
an old tooth brush.

‘PILES

One of my pigs had a litter of
pigs and the other day I noticed a
swelling at rectum. One of the
neighbors thought it piles. I used
carbolic vaseline on her and then
was told to use linseed oil (raw).
This I have done. Now it looks as
though it would rot 08. She eats
well. and seems to feel good. Was
it piles? If so, what is this part
that looks as though it would drop

oil—A. A., Hesperia, Michigan.
8, your pig no doubt has piles.
Keep her from getting consti-
pated: do not feed very much
corn. This may not hurt her at all.
No one can tell now. If it sloughs
off she may get along all right and
you may not be able to tell there
was ever anything wrong with her.
I know of nothing else ydu could do
other than feeding her to keep her
bowels normal. ‘ '

Some Farm Incidentals

By JAS. N. MCBRIDE

A Water Carrier
SUPERIOR method of taking
drinking water to the ﬁeld over
the jug is the glass gallon con-

tainer with a sewed on jacket of
burlap. The jacket being wet oc-
casionally evaporates the moisture
and cools the water, following the
wel—known principle of the desert
water bag or Florida “water mon-
’key." A leather strap is placed
through the handles for convenience
and a soft wood whittled cork com-
pletes the convenience.
, Stock Minerals
Live stock pasturing on low or

sWamp lands are in need of mineral '

supply found more abundant on up-
lands. Bone meal on salt is greedi-
ly eaten. The ordinary 16 per cent
or 20 per cent acid phosphate used
'as fertilizer placed near the salt box
is also a source of lime and phosphor-
us. Wood ashes and salt are an old
time mixture and good carriers of
the essential inorganic .materials.

Even salt on good clay seems to 1111 ~

some animal demands.

. Farm Tools and Machinery
The average neck-yoke on cultiva—

:_ ,tors. mowers, and binders can be

; f

easily made ovar into the type .of
wagonneck-yok'e and, the tongues ‘of
, the machinery also changed” for this

 

. 'ursoseto adnﬁtas'ei} When chans-

:‘ from , mower: to wagon or- rake
r-changesble

the neck-yokes are into ‘

      
  

and much “less liable to, breakage.
The ordmswlrmnchins made; neck-

M Top Wagon Racks

There is service and comfort in a
low wheel wagon with a ﬂat car type
of platform. The use of cedar 61:6
for bed pieces, framed and bolted at
the ends, covered with boards run-
ning crosswise nailed to the frame
either 6 or 7 feet wide is the general
plan. The idea of the cedar sills is
lightness and freedom from decay.
When a board on the paltform is
worn or broken a new one is nailed
on. One wagon with platform sev-
en feet wide is used for hay or grain
in bundles, without any additional
grain rack. The six foot is used for
these purposes with a light rack
throwuoﬂ and on with ease. These
wagons are used on the farm ten
times to where the high rack or box
wagon is used once. ‘

Tailﬂhains

Every wagon should be equipped
with a tail chain to attach all
kinds of tools like drills, cultivators,
drags, etc, in course of transit from
field to barn, etc. On good lane
reads a team will haul, two loaded
wagons to the barn with compara-
tive case. Here again comes the
use for the tail chain. These chains
should be a permanent. ﬁxture and
placed on. thewagons either on the

.‘ endof the reach with a clevis or, on '
the rear or the ﬂat racks.

Light ladders
A few light ladders. 10 or 12 feet

 

long: are always 'a convenience to »
elimb'o'n' loads‘or into mews. ' Two

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Goodl‘ccdmg' ,‘9anduefcedmg' ourwmlincosg'dpigs
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sndIbehcvg' hwfllmsketbcrnstrcteb.

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Farmosa Dairy Ration
This is the ration which the Farmesa Farms is
feeding to their high—producing dairy cows and
also to dry cows and calves:
Corn Gluten Fecd.4oolbs. Cottonseed Meal. ..200Ibs.
Corn and Cob.....5001bs. - ........ . ..... ldlbs.
Ground Oats. at. .4oolha SW Bone Meal 161bs.
Linseed Mcal......1001bs. Charcoal Flour.... 4.1m.
Tens of thousands of other good feeders are feeding a
Corn Gluten Feed ration because Corn Gluten Feed sup-
plies digestible protein, mineral matter, and vitamines at
lowest cost.

Big Records With Poultry

Poultry Raisers get better: results with Corn Gluten
Feed to the mash for developing layers or feeding for
market. Mr. J. C. Dunn of Waterford, Conn” produces
cockerels that weigh nearly seven pounds—dressed—wvith
3 Corn Gluten Feed ration.

Ask For This Good Book
"The Gospel of Good Feeding" is a new book of M
pages. It contains twenty—eight very successful rations,
If you have not received a copy write for it today. ’
Mia 8.11m 5- K

Associated Corn Products Manufacturers
Feel Resend: Malt
He‘ll G Van Pol. M
ZMSoaIIILaSGHsSL. Cldcago. In.

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Here’ 3 to Your

Health, Mr. Hog

YOU'RE the mortgage lifter,

May your skin be clean and
free from lice. your living quar-
ters free from foul smells and
disease germs. May you have a

into a ﬁne, big porkcr.

And your near neighbor, the
dairy cow, the goodness of hot
products depends on cleanliness.
Today's civilization demands sans
itary products.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

" An 'Old Friend

DR. HESS DIP
and DISINFECTANT
of Yours m h u
— s og co
Every horse owner knows ——destroys disease germ!

Gombault’s. For spavin, —keeps down bad odors
splint, curb, capped—hock, ~—-mslres living quarters
ﬁstula and other ailments. healthful

Easy to use. Leaves no scar The sprinklin can is mighty
0? blemish. At your drug— important these ya. The farmer
gist’s, $2.00 a bottle, or who uses it to sprinkle Dr. Hess
direct from us on receipt Dip and Disinfectant freely about

of price. pig pens. cow stables. the dairy
and the poultry yards. is keeping

Thclnwrencc-WilliamsCo. out disease and putting his stoc
Cleveland, Ohio. Em! poultry on a thrift and proﬁt

eels.
GOMBAULT’S A standard preparation. Sold
CAUSTIC on money-back guarantee.

BALSAM DR.HESS&CLARK,lnc.

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, Edited by 0. J. WRIGHT, St. Joseph County:

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LQOKING BEYOND
UR hay crop is here again and
the sameshowing of “Michigan
Clover (sorrel)” is with us
more than ever. We all sowed
clover, but only about one out of
ten has anything that looks like
clover. Last season was a bad one

on young seedings and although it‘

sprouted and grew for a while it
grew sick and died so the good pieces
of clover are far apart.

Now farming is not such a big
paying job at the best and when one
misses his clover for several years
he is in a bad hole, both from the
standpoint of humus and nitrogen.
Some reason ought to be found why
farmers will sow seed year after year
the ways of their fathers and trust
blindly t0’luck to pull them over the
bad places.

It is a fact, that the average farm-
er has wasted seed and energy
enough trying to raise clover the
old way, then if’they would have
taken the same money they paid for
seed that did not make hay and
limed, phosphated and manured a
portion each year they would have
hay now, and the sledding would
have been a. bit easier. But this
year and next spring they will be
doing the same thing over again,
because they are the most hopeful
cusses in the world.

Every year that we miss our
clover or other legume in the rota-
tion that much nearer we are to an
abandoned farm. We have got to
sell our labor through Our crops and
unless we can get good crops we are

courting hard times and poverty.‘

Taxes have a faculty of getting
higher and living expenses are on
the same road, yet oats remain at
40c a bushel, corn at 55c and wheat
at $1.38 and these prices do not
cover the cost of the fertility that
enters into them to say nothing of

*the labor of growing them and the

expense of harvest.

Manufacturers of tools, clothing,
furniture, etc., ﬁgure the cost of the
raw materials, the cost of the labor
of making, and then add the over—
head and proﬁt and the consumer
pays the bill unless the manufacturer
makes something that is not wanted
or is too expensive to suit the whim
of the buying public. The farmer
on the other hand plants, harvests,
takes care of, and markets his crops

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on a market that is not in empathy
with his endeavors.

This fact has been so in the past
and will be so in the ‘future with
probably a modiﬁcation now ~and
then. So there are two ways that a
tamer may help his condition.
First, to ﬁnd out how much it costs
to raise or produce a certain article
and then through organization edu-
cate the buying public that if he is
to produce he must, get a return
over the cost of production; and sec-
ond, to raise more per acre. . There
is no doubt that he can on the aver-
age grow twice to three times as
much on an acre that he is now and
if he does this cuts his labor cost
in two and maybe more.

The tenant farmer on a." 50-50
crop basis has got to raise more than
20 bushels of Wheat to the acre if
he is to receive income enough to
meet his‘costs. If he can raise 25
to 35 bushels on the same ground
he may have better feelings toward
farming. But thousands of farmers

~in Michigan will raise less than ten

bushel of wheat to the acre this year.

Building up soil is not accomplish— ,

ed over night and' it can’t be done

without cost, but if one is willing,

to return a portion of their income
to the soil and use this portion judi-
ciously he can in the course of a
few years he better satisﬁed with
his farm than he is now and it is
coming to pass very rapidly. Thou-
sands of readers of these articles
may think that we are holding up

before their eyes something that will .

be a great deal of cost to them, but
the soil of your farm will pay you
more interest on your investment
than any other legitimate source,
and remember that a sweet soil is
the foundation of soil betterment.
This means that if it is sour, then

sow limestone and marl in suﬂlcient A

amounts to correct this acidity. Get
as much nitrogen, from the unlimited
supply of the air. Buy phosphorus
in the shape of- acid phosphates and
save the manure you are now wast-
ing and make it go back to the soil
from whence it came.

I would be pleased if those that
have been following these articles
would write me the rseults of your
endeavors. Don’t be afraid to ask

‘questions any time, for if we can’t

answer them we will be frank and

tell you we can’t.

'(We Invite you to oontrlbute your experlonoe In ralslng poultry to lhls department for the
beneﬁt of others. Also questlons relatlve to poultry wIII Ibo cheerlully answered by experts.)

 

OAPONIZING
APONIZING increases the growth
C of the birds, so that they will
be larger than ordinary chick-
ens, and at the same time improves
the character of the meat from the
standpoint of palatability. This will
mean more dollars in return.
Time to Caponize
Caponizing can be done any time
of the year, providing the cockerels
weigh 1% to 2% pounds, or when
10 to 16 weeks of age when the op-
eration is performed. Old birds
should not be caponized, because the
testicles have developed and there is
more danger of pricking the arteries.
Birds caponized in June, July and
August should be time enough to
develop for the Christmas season or
holiday market.
The Operation of Caponizing
Two conditions are absolutely es-
sential before beginning the opera-
tion. The ﬁrst of these is that the
intestines of the fowl should be com-
pletely empty, so that they will fall
away and expose the testicle to view.
This can be accomplished by with-
holding all food and water for 24
to 36 hours before the operation.
The second condition is a good,
strong light, so that the organs of
the few] may be clearly and easily
distinguished. Direct sunlight is
best for this, and for that reason
it'is best to operate out of doors on
a bright day.
Method of Holding the Fowl
Catch the bird and pass a loop of
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end of the strings of sufﬁcient size
to hold down and stretch out the
bird when placed upon the head of
a barrel or box, which serve as op-
erating table. Have the operating
table of convenient height.

Details of the Operations

Wet and remove the feathers from
a small area over the last two ribs
just in front of the thigh. With
the left hand slide the skin and
ﬂesh toward the thigh and make the
incision between the last two ribs.
Hold the edge of the knife away
from you as you stand back of the
fowl. Lengthen the incision in each

direction until it is 1 to 1% inches

long. Now insert the spreader into

the incision, thus springing the ribs

apart. Tear apart this membrane
with the hook, and the upper testicle
will be visible close up against the
backbone. It is yellow in color and
about theisize and shape of an or-
dinary bean. It may be necessary
to push the intestines aside to lo-
cate the testicle.

Insert the instrument in the in-
cision and place it about the testicle.
This is the delicate part of the oper-

ation because of the artery, which .
runs just back of the testicles and-
.to which the testicle is in part at—"
tached.

If this is ruptured, the few]
will bleed to death. After the in-

.strument has been placed about the
testicle remove by twisting and pull-

lng slowly outward and cut the cord
close up to the testicle. Take out

the epreaders, and allow skin to slip-
back over the incision.

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h'bl'rds,‘ but the loss. seldom exceeds

- caution Whatever, giving

5 per cent where any considerable
number are, c'apo‘nized', and” usually
not more than 2 or 3 per cent.
Care of Fowls After the Operation
Place the capons in a‘yard where

. they can ﬁnd shelter, food and water

and can be kept quiet. It is best
to feed 'the capons soft feed and
plenty of fresh water the ﬁrst few
days. Some growers observe no pre-
the birds
their full liberty immediately after
the operation and allowing them to
have any sort of feed.

WHY SHE MOULTS

N old hen may be melting now
for two, reasons; ﬁrst, she may

be a poor layer who ﬁgures that

the spring of the year is the only
time of year she needs to work, and
second, she may get her feed so ir—
regularly that she really thinks hard
times are coming and she might
just as well shed her old dress and

get a new one made for the winter.’

If she is a poor layer, she is thru
work for 1926 and ready to take a
trip to town. If she has been turned
loose to shift for herself and to get
feed frem the hog yard and the grain
ﬁeld and her water from the dried
up mud hole, she should not be-ex-
pected to lay many eggs. A dry
mash feeder in the hen house and a
regular feed of grain twice a day
for hens kept in a yard is a far
more proﬁtable practice than letting
the hens hunt for their summer
feed. The day is coming when the
most successful poultrymen, even on
the general farms, will~raise their
chickens inside fences like they
raise their hogs and cattle.

Goon CROP OF soy BEANS

E enjoy looking at the pictures

W in The Business Farmer and
think very much of the paper

and we have some pictures of a
ﬁeld of soy beans that we are send-
ing you. They are nothing big, but
we feel good over the crop and
thought it might be semeone else

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Market on Farm Products Averages Good

Fat Steers sell Low But Improvement Loohad For

8 is the time of the year when
all eyes are turned towards the
various markets and the farm-

er, above all others, is wondering
how well he is going to be paid for
his year’s work. Although markets
on some agricultural products are
disappointing, others are gratifying
and there is hope for a turn for bet-
ter prices as the fall season ap-
proaches.

The wheat harvest is virtually
over in the United States and is be-
ing hastened in Canada due to the
recent dry and hot weather which
stimulated the ripening of small
grains. Many grain farmers are
wondering whether the surplus
wheat can be marketed without ser-
iously affecting the market prices.
According to estimates it looks as
if the United States will have a crop
of nearly 100,000,000 more bushels

than last year but with the United ~

States and Canada together the in-
crease of wheat and ‘rye will not be
much over 25,000,000 bushels great-
er than the 1925 crops. Most of the
increase in wheat will be in this
country and will give the United
States farmers the beneﬁt. Coarse
grains will not be as large a crop as
last year, estimates showing the corn
belt to be around 250,000 bushels
short and European wheat and rye
is also estimates to be materially
less than-a year ago. This will un-
doubtedly force a broader demand
from Europe.

Grain Prospeds

This country had a surplus of
wheat last year but there was very
little carried over and there will be
another surplus this year, larger
than last. While this surplus may
give many grain growers cause for
an uncomfortable feeling, there are
many in the trade who feel that the
entire crop can be cared for without
causing any damage to the price list.
According to some who have recent-
ly made investigations in Europe
concerning their ﬁnancial conditions
and ability to buy, they are about
reaching the end of a long hard
road leading to rehabilitation and
readjustment. There have been set
backs recently and probably will be
more before the desired goal is
reached, but they expect a fair sup—
port from export demand later on.

Although there is a tendency for
the hot summer weather to put the
brakes on business activity, and in-
crease unemployment, recent weeks
have been featured by greater activ-
ity in business and industrial world
seems to have quickeued its pace
more in line with last year at this
time.

Industrial Conditions Good

Most of the large Amerim in-
dustries have enjoyed fair proﬁts
during the ﬁrst half of the current
year, especially the automobile, steel
and building industries. A glance
at the stock markets will show what
jumps they have made recently.
~ Railroads all over the country have
been busy and report a larger numb-
er of cars loaded with revenue
freight during the ﬁrst half of the
year than for any corresponding
period previous.

These points do not show the con-
dition of the agricultural world but
they do indicate that the background
for business is good and gives rea-
son for feeling Optimistic for virt-
ually all business for the remainder
of the year. About the only cloud
on the horizon at present is the
troubled ﬁnancial situation in
France. That is not conducive to
good business here nor in any other
country. Bad ﬁnancial conditions in
Europe are the ill effects of the war
but gradually those countries are
working out their problems and
when the franc is stabilised. and
France is again on our market with
full buying power, there will need
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’ of surplus crops we might produce.

around 10c undera year ago and
corn prices have been about 200 be-

low prices prevailing a year previ-

ous. Oats on the other hand are
slightly above a year ago. It has
been excellent weather for growing
corn throughout the corn belt, with
the exception of sections in Kansas
where hot weather has damaged the
crop to some extent recently. Corn
got a late start generally, due to the
backward spring, but recent rains
and hot weather has given it a boost
and much of it is within a month of
maturity. For a long time reports
of liberal holdings of old corn in the
country, tended to have a bearish
enact on the markets but the recent
improvement in the corn market has
changed this talk to more bullish
conservation concerning the possibil-
ity of much damage being done to

prices at pruent show but littlevim-
prevement over the low time. A
week ago the average price for hogs
at Chicago hit bottom at 311. 20, the
lowest average since last December.
Heavy steers of choice and prime
grades also hit the lowest levels in
several years. Bad markets on pork
products and lard, as well as dull
trade in carcasses of beef were bear-
ish factors adversely inﬂuencing the

live market. Late last week there.

was improvement in hog prices and
the average came back to close to
two weeks ago, at $12.00. Bulk of
heavy packing sows sold recently at
$9.50 to $9.70 on the Chicago mar-
ket with medium grade hogs going
at $10.60 to $11.40 and better
grades at $11.60 to $18.90. Choice

lighthogs sold around $13. 25 to
$13. 50 late in the week. On the
average these prices are only a little
more than $1.00 below a year ago
but around $1.50 under the high
time in July when top hogs sold at
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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 WGIIP of Detroit. his station operates on a wave length of

270 meters.

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corn by frosts before it reached ma-
turity. It is thought by some stud-
ents of the grain market that corn
prices will continue to advance and
will carry other grains along.

Harvest days are fast coming to
an end in the corn belt and is grad-
ually moving upward into Canada.»
Reports from North Dakota indi-
cate an acute shortage of harvest
hands and wages have been elevated
from $300 to $3.50 and $4.00 per
day in some section. Big grain
growers up there have virtually
been smothered by work and have
been calling for help to get their
crops in the shock before the grain
was damaged.

Live Shock

Amid all this hustle and bustle
in the grain section, there are stock-
men who are anxious about markets
as the corn and wheat man. They
are wondering if hog prices are go-
ing to keep going down, if heavy
cattle will ever be worth enough to
pay for their board this summer and
if lamb prices are going to go up.

Live stock markets during the last
few weeks have acted badly and

It is the general concensus of opin-
ion that hog prices have about hit
bottom but the trade is on a supply
basis, and when prices reach more
attractive levels, there seem to be
plenty of fat porkers in the country
ready to market.
Big Cattle Sell Low

Heavy fat steers have been offered
in liberal numbers all year and they
have recently suffered severe price
drubbing by killers. The situation
in the cattle market is somewhat
similar to that prevailing two years
ago when heavy beeves sold far be-
low yearlings of the same grade and
quality. The abundance of fat steers
reﬂects the abundance of cheap feed
in the country during the past winter
and the tonnage of beef marketed
was far greater than the increase in
receipts would indicate.

Many cattle ﬁnishers have been
waiting the market hoping that a
favorable upturn in prices would
come but they are now sending in
their choice stock, apparently sub-
mitting. to the punishment inﬂicted
by packers. Prime heavy steers have
gone at $9.50 to $10.00 recently

 

 

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No. 2 Mixm 1.35 1.44
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.emmcattleonthe

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steers a year ago in Septembe r.
Improvement Wilm-
Other more patient feeders
still holding back for better
and the chances are. that
beneﬁt by their waiting.
last three months comm
big weight feeding steers
back to the country, due

markets on weight fat steers.
of the heavy hooves inthe‘ on
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which cost so much to prodms
when unemployment is not great and
should be selling so lowat a time

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out the country. The consumer
is bewildered by the fact that
have to pay the retailers as much
for steaks as they did when live oat-

52$

tle were selling $7. 00 per cwt. high,

er. The consumer does not get the
advantage of the breaks in the
wholesale market on beef but the
producers pays for it through low
prices. Recently the gross margins
have been very small on heavy cattle
ranging from $1.00 to $1.50 on cab-
tle which have been fed for nearly
a year. One feeder on the Chicago
market last week sold prime weighty
steers at $9.90 for which he paid
$9.00 last year. Another got $10.35
for some cattle bought a year ago
at $9.50. On the other hand some
of the yearlings marketed recently
have shown proﬁtable margins rang-
ing from $2. 00 to $4. 00 over initial

costs.
Yearlings Sell Well

Yearlings have been selling
around $1.00 above heavy steers of
similar quality and condition with
top grades bringing $10.50 and
$10.60 and the bulk of all fed cat-
tle found outlet during the week at
$8 50 to $9.75 with plain grassers
going at $6. 00 to $7. 00 mostly. Cows
and heifers have been selling well
at $5. 00 to $6. 50 mostly for cows
and $6275 to $8.00 for heifers.
Choice baby beef heifers averaging
around 600 to 700 lbs. sold up to
$10.00 and thin. canner and cutter
cows sold at $3.75 to $4.25. Bologna
bulls have been in good demand at
$5.75 to $6.25 with fat beef bulls
ranging up to $7.00. Veal calves
have sold at good prices all’summer

and during the past week $13.00 to

$13.50 took many offerings with best
lots bringing $14.00.

. Stock Cattle Wanted

With the beginning of the western
range season demand for stocker
and feeder cattle have been increas-
ing in numbers and demand for that
class of cattle has broadened mater-
ially. Prices are low and not far
from those prevailing a year ago.
Until recently stocker and feeder
prices have been relatively too high
and the trade has been restricted.
Recent low levels, however, have at-
tracted many cattle _feeders from
Michigan, Indiana and some of the
eastern states to Chicago for ma-
terial to utilize their abundance of
grass and roughages. As the fall
approaches demand for thin cattle
will increase.

Prices during the past week on.

stock cattle have ranged from $6.00
to $6.75 mostly, a few good feeding
steers going out at $7.00 to $7.50.
carrying a fair covering of grass
ﬂesh. Plain quality light weight
stockers were available under $6.00
and a few inferior, off-celored stock-
ers down to $5.00.
the cattle market is being watched
daily by cattle feeders because they

realise that cattle bought worth the .

money have a much better chance

of paying out even though fat prices

are low. "During the last two

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WHEAT
An encouraging thing about the
wheat market is that large receipt
and small demand is not weakening

and prices are not much under those
q u o t e (1 last issue. Considerable
wheat is going into storage, we are
informed. and there is a bullish feel-
ing among many of the leading desi—
ers. Excessive moisture is being re-
ported in much of the grain going to
market in the central part of the
states.

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CORN

Corn appears to be in a bullish
position because of poor condition
of corn in storage. The new corn
crop seems to be coming along ﬁne
and folks are looking for a good
harvest, providing we have a favor-
able fall. Trading is within a small

. range.

 

RYE
Michigan rye is going to market
in a rather wet condition according
to some of the leading buyers,16%
to 17% excessive moisture being re-
’ at many This of

ported
— course is not helping the market by

any means.
' ‘ KEANE
Information comes/from a reliable

source that the carry over 01 M1611.
igan been into the new crop is 80-

 

’ ing to be the largest that we have

hadforscveralyearaanditispre-
dicted that, barring any serious
damage to the growing crop. the
market will sag to $4. 00 per hun-
dred Beans are in liberal
supply at present while canners are
not showing much interest being

busy preparaing for the tomato can-

ningseason.-

. POTATOES
Grand Rapids reports the arrival
of the ﬁrst Michigan potatoes which
send prices crashing downward and
completely wiped out the demand
for the old crop. The week closed

fairly strong at Detroit.

LIVE STOCK MARKMS

U. 8. Bureau of Mar-
keno-whet may: bulk. 3100
12.75: top. $13.50; heavyweight. 811-506
12.00; medium weight. 812013.40; light
weight. 3115001350; nahtlights. lights-.312."
618.50; heavy packing sows. smooth, $10
610.50: sows, rough. $9.50@10;
pigs, 81250$1L25.Gettle—8tesdyheef
steers choice and prime. 80.50610; medi—
umsncsoomsm 63-15::oodand
choice. 8150810.“; acumen and medi-
mn. $109; butcher cattle. heifers. $5 0
19.35; awe, 84.750800". bulls. «$5007.50
endheifars. 8‘

 

 

end handyweight).
steers. 353568.26:
853507.75: steam cows and heifer;
”34.5060: stocks-calves. 350750.811.»
and lambm—eteady; lambs, fat. 8140
{4.75; (h cells and common, 8106””:
year-lingo. 510612.50; do, wethsre, 386
0.50; ewes «M 07.85; do,

018.85.

M...—
MST BUFFALO ALOP-Mlo—An
steady: prime steers. 310010.50;

 
  
  

and $115
We.

”lambs. me
m 9.

coils and '
cmnmcn. 5864.50; feeder lambs, $13.50

'Glnto
Madmen:-

315m BUTTER AND EGGS
memory, in tubs. "c

receipts. best witty.
raucous. per dos.

FOUNTY CROP REPORTQ

WEEK before last it was our
pleasure to take a trip through
a part of the "Thumb”, then
westward into the Saginaw Valley
and Gratiot county, and back home
by way of lensing and Howell. In
practically every section we visited
we found crops in excellent condi-
tion in spite of idle late spring and

 

 

’ nearly everyone we talked with was

very optimistic over the future.
Some grain to be out yet and we saw
only two places where the threshing
had been done. Also we noticed
some hay to be hauled yet. At that
time a good rain was needed. but
since then we have had a plentiful

supply of moisture.

Our correspondents in the differ—
ent counties of the state report as
follows:

Gamer-Practically all of the wheat
and rye is harvested and several acres of
cats have been cut. Some wheat has
been thresbed but heavy rains of past
few days has stopped all further thresh-
ing. Corn and late potatoes growing line.
Raspberries have been a good crop this
year. and aches of which some vari-
eties will a ripe in a. few days will
yield good. Quotations at Flint: Corn,
85c bu.; oats, 400 bu.; rye, 75c bu.;
wheat. $1.24 bu.; beans, $3.70 cwt.: po-
tatoes, 83.35 cwt; eggs, 33c don; butter.
48c lh.—H. 8., 8-4-26.

Billed-1e (NW).—-—Had a line rain Sun-
day. all day;1§t inches water fell. soak-
ing the grolmd full. Corn. late potatoes.
beans. cucumbers. and cabbage have come
wonderfully the past few days. Thresh-
ing in: started. grain yielding a good
dai better than expected—C has. Hunt
5-5-25.

Tunnels (W).-—Wheet nearly all cut
endintheshock. Onaccountofheavy
rains the past week the bean crop has

bemdmnaged but how much we cannot
estimate at present. Some ﬁelds of cats
are fit to out but on account of ground
beingtoo eoftto run a binder farmers
will have to wait for better weather.
Sugar beets looking fine with a smaller
than last year. Corn looks fairly

message
good but quite weedy. Quotations at

Vassar: Hay, $16.00 ton; com, 800 bu.;
oats. 800 by; rye, 82c bu.; wheat. $1.24
bu.; beans. 83.75 m; potatoes, $1.50
bu.; eggs. 27c don; butter, 45c lb.—J.
r.. 8-4-18.

St. Joseph (E).-—We had several good
rains whidl boosted corn. Threshing is
well started and wheat does not yield
as expected except several pims which
turned out good. Oats are damaged con-
siderable on accmmt of dry Weather.
Ens-b potatoes the same. Late potatoes
look good. Went in good. Apples will

" be plentifuL—iAivin J. Yoder. 8-5-26.

honoree- (WM—Nice rain August lat
. Oats shalt all cut:

short. rusty and thin on ground. Wheat
very good. yield from 10

mostly
to45busbelsperwe;mostly25t080

bushels. Corn tasseiing out after rain.
Tannersverybusyfornuttmdaynor
two weeks. Help very scarce. Quota-
tima at (hdmus: Hay. 812-815 ton. cats.
:40 bu.; wheat, $1.84 bu.; eggs, 800 doz.;
m 430 Ila—C. 3.. 8-5-26.
Saginaw (NW).——Weather hot and wet,
corn and beans are doing ﬁne. They
willeoonbecaughtup. Wheatryeand
barleyahoutallcut. Wheatisrusted

7 Quotations at Hemlock: Hay, $15.00
ten; corn, 600 bu.; oats. 860 bu.; e, 850
bu.; wheat. $1.40 bu.; beans. 83.70 cwt.

0c don; butter. 89c lb.—F. 1).,

Kebabs—«All crops doing very nicely
although corn as a general crop is very
mud: behind the season average. Late
sow-n oats that missed the early drought
have headed heavy. Bountiful reins of

, stem. 000.75: butcher maiden, 876 m rill-d, to use. Berry cro
‘ 1.25: 11% "08.5 ”90.50: was hurt some by draught. ‘ ’1:
balls, 35.3505. 50: feeder-at S357” Jiltmnm M

  

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'14s bu.; wheat, “:1! be: beans. ”-

 

    
 

    

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51"... W sue bu.; case. It! s c .
c —-Georgen Pearce, H-

LETU LP MAKE
anon—Late rains are helping corn. month. ”my :5?" m’zo‘lnnio'igg 0
young alfalfa and clover. Oats cutting °" °“ °“’ “mu 0"“ 50° "“7 ‘”
in full swing and wheat threshing W011 forn 43 years. Becognisedr ﬁle but. ”1'. big e-
along. Wheat of a good quality and sev— chum—'0 ‘
eral yields of over 40 bushels an acre “' “may” 1;:anme :3;
reported. Early apples beginning to H. 11..

potatoes doing ﬁnd—W. Hirschy, 8-6—26.
Midland—Rains have helped crops in
some sections and damaged in others.
Beans are badly damaged in low land
where water stood and sun was hot upon
it. Potatoes are in good shape
sugar beets. Most of the corn will hardly
make it. Quotations at Midland: Hay,
$16.00 ton; corn, 75c bu.; oats, 38c bu.;
rye, 99c bu. . wheat. a1. 24 bu.; beans.
83.75 own: potatoes, 81.40 cwt.; eggs.
auction; butter, ”r..—B. v. Chase.

 

PLAN FORMBY STATION IN
NORTH

PROJECT is under way for the

purchase by the state of a tract

of 2,000 acres of land in Grand

Traverse and Kalkaska counties to

be used as the experimental station

of the forestry department of the
University of Michigan.

This tract already is wooded heav-

ily with pine and includes three or

‘ four lakes and a stretch of the north

branch of the Boardman river. It is
ideally located for such a project
and favorably considered by forestry
oﬂicials.

 

 

 

MPERATURES will be running
close to the normal for this
time of year at the very begin-
ning of this week in Michigan but
as the week gets older the temper-
atures will fall lower. Cool weather

for the season will remain in most'

gal-ts of Michigan until about Thurs-
ay.

During Friday and Saturday tem-
peratures-will increase but this con-
dition will be only temporary as a
change to much cooler will again
hit the state at about the beginning
of next week.

We look for some more or less
general rain storms at the beginning
of this week in Michigan and again
around the middle days. Aside from
these two periods of the week we
are expecting generally fair weather,
although at the end of week the sky
will be clouding up and becoming
threatening.

Week of August 22.

Not later than Monday of the week
of August 22nd the temperatures in
most parts of Michigan will take a
most decided drop due to the ex-
pected arrival of a high barometric
pressure from the Northwest.

However, this condition will be
greatly modified by the middle of
the week as a result of a series of
thunder and wind storms that will
pass over a great many counties in
the state. In sections the rainfall
will be heavy.

By the end of the week these con-
ditions will have passed to the east-
ward and a few days of fair weather
with warm temperatures may be ex-
pected.

BUSINESS FARMERS EXCHANGE

RATEI PER WORD—One Issue to. Two
No1“. Four Issues 250.
ladvrtisemsnt less than ten rda.
tion Groups of ﬁgures. tial or {funn-

w.
in tisen
this M£n°°$°t§é§nﬂ“m in

Monday noon precesdins

Forms close
date of inns. Address

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARME
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Knoll Jr.. R1, Holland. Mich.
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PET STOCK

rugs lBRElglaGERMAN s13201101.". repairs
m a “318 B tank
Ellsworth. Michigan. '8"

H U N D R E D HUNTmG KBOUND (IHEAW
Fur ﬁnders. askaskenielni'. P.
69. Herrick. Ill.

SEEDS AND PLANTS

CLOVER. AND TIM SEED

equally $8 bushd. Crimson $8
bushel. Math 34 .25. Fancy Alfalfa 813.2
Grimm Alfalfa 20. Freedort Certiﬁed Seed 00..
Pickford, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Maren 88,9
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LOWER TREE PRICES BECAUSE N0 AGENTS.
Gables Nurseries Gob l,ss Mich.

FOR SATISFACTION INSURANCE BUY
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pounds $1.50: ten 2. 50. Smoking ten 81.50.
Wed.

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massaged leaf chewing 5 lbs. 81:50:10,
2.75. Best smoking. 26.: lb. Mark Himlln.
baron. Tenn.

MISCELLANEOUS

 

 

 

 

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mailed ﬂ.llcr husker and shredder. nearly new,

- riding plow. new side
hill Slow. Automobile and furniture. E. Q
Nei . eo. blew-

IF‘ I SEND YEW SHOES Elk THE STYLE YOU
select—Abe h or “low a
you please. will on e”keep“ thhom.
them to your ends as “mfg“: of m 815

(Sum—Grade shoes to sell Add.”
immediately mail complete outﬁt.

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9. Live de- ,
Farms. .

PULLETS AND YEARLING HENS. LOWEST .
prices. Ed.Krood.sma Zeeland. Michigan.
LIVESTOCK
FOR : TEAM MULES 7 YEARS. G

400 varieties. rm- f
Loft. Hermannﬂle. Mich.

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”Is the Lowest Priced
Help 011 the Farm

and it is the most dependable!

In comparison the wages a farmer pays his men are high. 1'
In farming, as in every industry—some labor is good—-
and some is not. Labor is one of the uncertainties a
farmer has to reckon with.

On the other hand, Polarine is help the farmer always
can depend upon—day or night, spring or fall. It is made
to perform a deﬁnite service and it does it. Polarine pro-
tects the tractor from the wear and tear of friction under
all conditions of heat and temperature. It keeps the
tractor in perfect trim and enables it to run with a maxi-
mum of steady power.

The tractor represents brute force—extraordinary power
—-but all its force and power depend upon oil. If it is not
lubricated propedy it will not run properly. And a tractor
that breaks down is worse than no tractor atlall.

Polarine is the perfect motor oil for automobiles, trucks
and tractors—the result of a multitude of experiments
and tests by the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) staff of
lubricating experts in the laboratories, on the road, and
in the ﬁeld. There is a special grade for yourvtractor.

Polarine is the lowest priced help on the farm -—and the
most dependable!

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Tractor Chart of

Recommendations
TRA C TORS
Motor Motor

Trade Name Oil
Advance-Rumely
011

Allispuuwl5- LaCrosse ......... E.H.
Chalmers Lauson ........... S. H.
25 2035 ------- 3 H Little Giant ...... s. H.
ABWOIk. . - . - -S-H- Lombard ......... ' S.‘H.
Appleton ......... 8.11. McCormick-
3:)- - - oS-izél- Mu} Deerlblng .1 ...... H.
e ' . . . . H.
an others ------ SH- ﬁgﬁiia
Capitalu --------- EH Moline ........... s. H.
Cafe- 1330' 1527' Monarch ......... s. H.

"""" _' ' ' Nichols & ShepardEH.
Case, 22-40: 40 7.231.}. Nilson ........... S.H.
Caterpillar, 2 ton. .H. Pioneer .......... EH.
Caterpillar, others E 1.1. RRock {Island Heider S.H.

usse . .
gentam' .......... ISLH; (except Giant). .S.H.
I ' ' ° ' """" Shawnee ......... H.
cultaooooooO-o--F' Tioga H
E: """ ' ' ‘ ' Ell-l Topp-Stewart. . . ..S. H.
"""" ° Tom... ..H.
FitchFour Dnve..S.H.- ' ' ”

- Townsend ...... E.H
FlourCrty........E.H. ' ' ’
Fordson ..... . . . . .S.H. TTtayltgit-y """" H' '
FHCk ..... o ...... S. H. (except 40-65) . . . S. H.
Gray ------------ 3 E Wallis ........... s. H.
Hart Parr -------- E-H- Waterloo Boy ..... s H
Huber ........... S. H wetmore ,,,,,,,,, . .
J.T .............. SH. Wlsconsin...' ..... S.H.
John Deere ....... 3.1-1. Yuba Ball Tread. .S.H

GARDEN TRA C TORS

Motor Motor
Trade Nun Oil Trade Name Oil

Aane ...... ~ ...... H N. B ............. H.
Aro ......... . . . . .H. Red E ........... H.
Beeman. . . . H Shaw ............ H.
Bolens ........... H Spray-Mor ....... S. H.
Bready ........... H Spry Wheel ....... H.
Centaur .......... H Stande ......... H.
Clip Mor ......... SH. Utilitor ........ V . .H.
DO-It-All ......... S. H. I KEY
genial o o e o e ccccc H. H.__Po]an‘ne Heavy .

n ........... H. S.H.—-—Polarine Special
Gro-Mor . . . H Heavy
GIG-M0! Jr ------- 5-H E.H.—Polarine Extra
Gravely .......... H Heavy ,
Kin Kade ........ H F.--Polarlne' F

Trade Name Oil
Keck Gonnerman. .S. H

 

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N. B.—For recommendations of-

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