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This service consists in moving commodities fromthe point of production

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That service has been performed with regularity,uniformity and dispatch.
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to enjoy the undivided support of the communities they serve.

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teacher, ofﬁce employee and laborer,
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lic weal and welfare. Our people will
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longing this understanding.

We can keep Michigan in the vanzuard of economic importance only.
through the continued expansion of our industries and by keeping our '
roads just ahead of the‘country’s transportation needs.

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'. .eg'at'es involved change of the date

of the annual m. g and consid-

eration 'of reports  n pooling. ‘in-

vestlgatlons being smade. under the

.,,sanctlon of the organization.

Change of the date of the annual
meeting from the second Tuesday

in October to the ﬁrst Thursday in

November was approved by the

~,,body.. Further resolutions"charac-
vterlsed the recent national dairy

show at Detroit as the most Suc-
cessful dairy show ever held in
America and commended the state
dairy Show committee for its part
in arrangements for the exposition.

Approval .of continued studies by
the association in methods of pool-
ing and» the transportation of milk
to Detroit was also registered in
resolutions. The association also
went on record, as. recommending
that a fee of $1 be deducted an-
nually from the pay check of each
member of a local for the local or-
ganisation's treasury.

John C. Near, of Flat Rock, the
secretary, in his annual report sug—
gested that the association may take
overthe marketing of milk in Bay
City in the near future. He
described the werk of the creamery
controlled by the association at
Adrian, which‘ handled 14,700,000
pounds of milk and 359,000 pounds
of cream during the last eight
months and returned $464,625 to its
patrons. The plant was established
to provide an outlet for surplus mllk
during the months when Detroit
consumption is low. At present milk
from the Adrian district is being
shipped to Cleveland.

The question of modifying the
method of selling now followed was
discussed by Mr. Near and Prof.
John T. Horner, of the Michigan
State College economic department.

"‘Under the Detroit plan farmers
selling to different distributors re-
ceive a different price,” said Mr.
Horner. “For example, one cream-
ery may sell 85 per cent of its re- \
ceipts as ﬂuid milk and use 15 per
cent for other purposes. A farmer
selling ﬁnk to such a distributor
receives 32.8148. hundred pounds"
when the price of ﬂuid milk is $3
and the manufactured $1.72. An—
other farmer selling to another dis-
tributor who sells only 60 per cent
of his receipts as ﬂuid milk receives
$2.49 a hundred.

“Because of this difference in the
average prices received by farmers,
the feeling has grown up that the
present system is not fair to all
producers.”

A. C. Anderson, formerly head of
the dairy husbandry department at ~
Michigan State , College and new
ﬁeld agent for the American Milk
Producers' association, explained
the organization’s method of pool-
ing and grading being used in this
state.

Four directors were elected for a
three-year term. Those re-elected
were W. J. Thomas, Grand Rapids;
L. W. Harwood, Adrian, and M. L.
Noon, Jackson. R. L. Taylor, La-
peer, was elected to ﬁll vacancy left
by Thomas Watson.

FOUR TIMES IN TON LITTER
CLUB

ARRY WARD, farmer near Mc-
Bain in Missaukee county, has
the unique distinction of quali-
fying for the Michigan Ton Litter
Club for four successive seasons.
This year, with eleven purebred O.
I. C. pigs, he produced 2750 pounds
of pork jn six months. Herman Van
Steenls, » another young Missaukee
county farmer, entered the Ton Lit-
ter contest for the ﬁrst time last
spring, but by good feeding he met
the requirements and qualiﬁed for
the Club by producing 2507 pounds
of pork from a litter of twelve.—

H. L. Barnum, agricultural agent.

Deﬁance, Ohio.-—Cool and frosty nights.
Fields drying. Beets being lifted. Corn
cut. Some silos ﬁlled, some are not.

'Still makllng stubble bay for home use.

Good» hay $18.00 ton. Grain prices are
average._ Corn bushing“;th commenced,
crop  Quotations at Bryan: Wheat.
tumble: com, Idaho-Iowa:- oats. too
bu.: potatoes. 8214'  'mllk. $2.10
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1926

tate Grange Celebrates 54 Years of Progress

  
 
   

Owned and Edited in Michigan

Entered as 2nd. class matter, Aug. 22, 19
at Mt. Clemens, Mich. under act Mar. 8. 18'

Delegates Set New Precedents and Adopt Resolutions Setting Forth Rural Viewpoint
' sy STANLEY M. POWELL

Lansing Correspondent of TH BUSINESS FARMER

v » ELEBRATING‘ 54 years of splen-
‘ did achievement, breaking for-
mer records ‘and‘ setting new
preCedents, the "- delegates to the
Michigan State Grange 'met' in an-
nual session‘ at‘East Lansing, Oc-
tober 26—29.

'Two‘ hundred and ninety—nine of-
ﬁéial delegates'represented the more
than 31,000 Grange members in the
state. The number was swelled by a
large, number of. other Patrons so
that the attendance at the various
sessions ranged from 500 to over
1000. - ‘ ~

If the spirits of the “Seven Found-
ers of the Order” were hovering over
the new People’sChurch, where the
sessions were held, they must have
been overjoyed at the tremendous
progress made by the great farm
fraternity which they established
sixty years ago and proud of its pres-
ent position of power, inﬂuence and
service to American raral life.

Warm fraternalism and pleasant
fellowship pervaded the four days
which the Grange spent together
listening to reports of their ofﬁcers,
considering resolutions and enjoying
a splendid program of speeches,
music, a banquet and sight-seeing
trip over the Michigan State College
campus and farms.

1,000 Attend Annual Banquet ,.

Among the many outstanding fea-
tures of the four—days convention,
perhaps the big Grange banquet held
Wednesday evening, would rank as
of the greatest .general interest.
More t an one thousand Patrons
feasted together and enjoyed a splen-
did educational and entertaining pro-
gram. Not only was this the larg-
est number that had ever attended
such an occasion in Michigan, but
for the ﬁrst time in history the
speaking and musical program was
put “on the air” over college station
WKAR so that thousands of listen—
ing Grangers back home could enjoy
it along with those actually in at-
tendance.

Speakers on the banquet program
included Dr. Kenyon L. Butterﬁeld,
President of the College; M. B. Mc-
Pherson, (who spoke for the State
Board of Agriculture; C. L. Brody,
Secretary-Manager of the Michigan
State Farm Bureau, who brought
greetings from the organization; Dr.
John D. Willard, Director of Continu-
ing Education and Dr. Eben Mum-

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ford, Professor of Socidlogy. In
addition to these and several others

. who gave short talks, the principal
feature of the evening’s program was
the annual report of Mrs. Dora H.
Stockman, who for the past twelve
years has served the Grange as State
Lecturer. Mrs. Stockman analyzed
some of the fundamental economic
inequalities confronting American
farmers.

“Instead of helping to prevent a
surplus, the Government is spending
millions of dollars in reclamation
projects that swell it," Mrs.‘Stock-
man pointed out. Declaring that
“the farmers have been offered only
a slice of the loaf of tariff protec—
tion," Mrs. Stockman continued, “I
believe the Grange should put on its
ﬁghting tags and that, united' with
other national farm organization,
should demand equality for agricul-
ture with other occupations in gov—
ernmental and legislative aid."

She then outlined a program con-
taining the ﬁve following planks:

“We should demand that the tariff
on farm products be increased, or
that it be decreased on other pro~
ducts.

“We should demand Government
aid in diminishing the surplus.

“We should demand that the GOV-
ernment stop spending money to re-
claim arid and marginal lands.

“We should ask that more mar-
ginal and Government land be turned
over to grazing, forestry and con-
servation projects until such time as
they are needed for food production.

“The Government should assist
farmers in credit, storage and order--
1y marketing of their products.”

In urging a shorter working day
and better prices for farm products,
Mrs. Stockman said, “Farmers do not
want anything they do not want
others to have, but we cannot have
an eight-hour—day in the cities and
a twelve-hour~day in the country.”

‘ Grange Is Farmers’ Forum

Dr, Mumford’s ' statement in his
banquet address that the Grange
lives as the great agricultural forum
of the common people was well illus-
trated by the extended discussion of
the many resolutions reported by the
several committees. The local views

of the delegates were blended to-
gether and a state-wide rural policy
resulted.

One of the most hotly debated is-
sues coming before the delegates was
in connection with continuing the
compulsory military training at M. S.
C. The ﬁght to make this military
training optional instead of compul-
sory was lead by Rev. Wm. E. Beck—
ett of Alto, while compulsory mili-
tary training found an able champion
in A. B. Cook, Jr., a recent graduate
of M. S. C.

Mr. Cook lauded the beneﬁts of
military training, declaring, “It
teaches organization, cooperation,
initiative, morale, discipline, alert—
ness, punctuality, cheerful obedience
to orders, self-control. conﬁdence,
neatness and leadership.”

After more than two hours of im-
passioned discussion, the delegates
voted by a large majority in favor
of the continuance of the present
policy of compulsory military train-
ing at M. S. C.

Among the resolutions adopted by
the delegates were the following:
A protest against the development of
any more irrigation projects at the
Government’s expense in view of the
present agriculture surplus; favor—
ing the deportation of foreign boot—
leggers and liquor law violators;
urging increased federal aid for ﬁght-
ing the corn borer, so that the bur—
den’should not be borne entirely by
the farmers in the infested areas;

‘asking the College to assist in pro-

moting road—side markets; favoring
the restoration of bounties on wolves
and other predatory animals; asking
that licensed hunters be required to
secure written permission from the
owner or agent before they had a
right, to hunt on enclosed or occu—
pied land; decrying the apparent in-
crease in cigarette smoking among
public school teachers and asking
state ofﬁcials to take the necessary
steps to counteraét this tendency;
instructing the State Grange ofﬁcials
to use every effort to get the Legis-
lature to submit a constitutional
amendment permitting a state in-
come tax; favoring closing the sea-
son on deer in 1927 and each alter-
nate season thereafter, and allowing
a hunter to shoot either one buck or

Exhibits Fewer But Better At Western Michigan

_ By H. c. MOORE

ROWERS OF western Michigan

had an excellent opportunity to
‘ 1 arm better production methods
at the Western Michigan Potato
Show held at Greenville, October
28th to 30th“. Educational exhibits
lectures and demonstrations showed
the how and why of better potato
growing, and could not help create
an active interest in improved cult-
ural methods.

' The Michigan State College exhib-
it emphasized the importance of con-
trolling potato insects and diseases
by the“use-of certiﬁed seed, and by
careful spraying and seed treatment
work. Special interest was shown by
growers in methods for control of
the black leg disease which is com-
r '1 in most Sections of the state this
,5 on. Treating/the seed .with cor-
rossive sublimate and rogueing dis-
eased plants from the ﬁeld were the
control" measures given.- Tubers and
plants infected“ with black leg‘ were
on display as well 9:3 plants attacth
with other A ‘ such as late
blight, leaf etc.» .   v .

Afﬁne-61 the State: College ex-
' *th t -a tracted the interest or

 

Extension Specialist in Potato

growers was a potato storage dis-
play that illustrated the essential

features of potato storage house
construction. The loss of potatoes
through improper storage is very

heavy and can be prevented by: 1—
Storing only sound potatoes. 2—
Keeping the temperature of the cell—
ar between 36 degrees and 40 de-
grees F. 3—Supplying the storage
cellar with sufficient fresh air to pre—
vent black heart, botton rot and
other forms of break—down that may
be caused by lack of fresh air.

These points were made emphatic
by the use of pictures, blue prints
and models of properly constructed
cellars. ,

Potato Grades Display

, The matter of potato grades was
given special attention by the Mich-
igan State Department of Agricult-
ure. Their exhibit showed the var-
ious standard grades and the com-
mon defects-that are found in mak-
ing the grades. Mr. William Easting-
er, Chief Inspect”, stated that a

   
 

 

 

Culture, Michigan State College

study of the potato markets of the
country shows that Michigan pota-
toes are now comparing favorably
with potatoes from other states and
in many cases are bringing top
prices. The improvement in market
quality can be attributed to more
careful grading an dbetter cultural
methods.

Fewer Exhibits But Better

While the number of entries in the
competitive exhibits were somewhat
less than they were at last year’s
show, yet the quality averaged a
little better and according to C. W.
Waid, of Ohio, who judged the show,
the competition in most classes was
very keen.

Montcalm and adjacent counties
furnished the bulk of the- exhibits.
There were entries however from
several other counties including
Marquette, Kalamazoo, Wexford,
Manistee, Jacksno and Missaukee. -

' It is hoped that another year more
interest will be shown by growers -

one doe; favoring the restrictions of
the Governor’s power to pardon and
parole criminals sentenced for life;
urging a more drastic prohibition
law; favoring the biennial election
of township ofﬁcials; urging that no
person be eligible for governor for
more than two consecutive terms:
favoring more strict Sunday observ-
ance, especially on hunting and danc-
ing; and urging that the Grange of-
ﬁcials make a special effort to have
the National Grange meet in Mich-
igan in 1927, or as soon thereafter
as possible.

Inspect Campus and Farms

One of the interesting educational
features enjoyed by the delegates was
a sight-seeing trip in the form of a'

hay—rack ride around the M. S. C."

campus and farms, after which they
were guests at a demonstration game
between the Varsity and the Fresh—
men Elevens.

Thursday was given over to initia—
tory work. The ﬁfth degree was im—
pressively conferred upon twenty-
three candidates by the Clinton
County Pomona degree team, after
which the regular State Grange oﬂ‘ic—
ers assisted by Congressman John C.
Ketcham, Past—Master of the State
Grange, conferred the sixth degree
upon a class of 126.

Among the other outstanding
events of the week were the memor-
ial service for the brothers and sis-
ters who had died during the past
year and the installation of the fol-
lowing oﬂicers who had been selected
to pilot the Michigan State Grange
for the coming two years:

Master, Geo. Roxburgh, Reed City;
Overseer, E. E. Salisbury, Mendon;
Lecturer, Dora Stockman, East Lans-
ing: Steward, Marc Cutler, DeWitt;
Assistant Steward, W. G. Armstrong,
Niles; Chaplain, Mrs. O. J. C. Wood—
man, Paw Paw; Treasurer, Wm. E.
Hill, Davison; Secretary, Maude E.
Lovejoy, Perry; Gatekeeper. Eber
Farwell, Goldwater; Pomona, Mrs.
A. B. Cook, Owosso; Flora, Martha
Hale, Sumner; Ceres, Mrs. Phebe
Benton, Copemish; Lady Assistant
Steward, Mrs. W. G. Armstrong,
Niles. Members of the Executive
Committee: C. H. Bramble, Lansing:
Bernice Curtiss, Charlotte; Mable
Madison, Hubbard Lake; W. F. Tay—
lor, New Era.

South Haven was chosen as the
place of meeting for 1927.

Potato Show

and that a larger number of entries
will be listed. Considering the ex—
tent of the potato industry in the
Montcalm district there is no reason
why there should not be many more
than 160 entries, which number con-
stituted the Greenville exhibit.

On Friday, October 29th, in the
afternoon boys and girls from sev—
eral high schools in the state were on
hand to view the exhibits and be
ready for the Boys and Girls judg-
ing Contest which was held the fol-
lowing morning. Throughout the
show the young folks showed much,
interest in the exhibits and the edu—V
cationai programs.

Winners

E. W. Lincoln & Son, Greenville,
again won the lion’s share of the
aWards. John Delongchamp, of
Champion, again won ﬁrst place in
the Green Mountain class. ‘ 

With the general high quality of ,
exhibits at the Greenville show and
with” those that will be displayed '
November at the Gaylord and M5
ville shows it is .exp'ectad‘that‘ in
state potato show to be held an.

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ITH contrary weather, the dif—

. ferent breeds of harmful in-

sects and bugs after crops and
markets that many times go up and
down like an amateur saxaphone
player running the scale, it is just
about all the average farmer can do
to; keep his head above water. And
_'_then when some thief comes along
and robs his hen roost, taking all
of the chickens they raised through
the summer and have about ready
for the market, none of the clouds
Lhave any silver lining as far as he
Y can see. ~ ’

.Perhaps the theft is reported, but
nine chances out of ten the guilty
‘person is never caught, because he
gets out of the territory covered by
the local ofﬁcers and markets the
chickens many miles away the follow-
ing'day. The farmer can not afford
to‘oﬁer a reward for the capture of
the thief, and the total less in any
one case is not enough to make it a
big case for the local ofﬁcials when
there are so many things for a few
men to do.

THE BUSINESS FARMER has watched
the chicken thief get bolder and
bolder, making larger catches each
time because getting away with the
chickens by auto was an easy matter,
iguntil the annual loss has become so
a, great that farmers are thinking ser—
iofusly of cﬂrtailing their operations
a jug that line. Now we have come

ward with an oﬁer of $50.00 re-

' E European corn borer is with
us, apparently for a permanent
stay, and the problem now is

to find the most efﬁcient and eco-
-‘ nemical methods of reducing the
damage caused by this pest. This,
in brief, is the purpose of the corn
berer substation established in Mon—
.roe county through the cooperation
of the U. S. Department of Agricult—
ure and the Michigan State College.
The substation is located on a
small farm of 8 acres lying about 3
miles west of the Monroe city limits
and on the M—50 trunk line road.
This farm .is leased for a three—year
period. An adjoining tract of 8
acres was also leased this year, mak-
ing a total of 16 acres available for
the work. Monroe county was chos-
en as the site for thissubstation be—
cause it' was the ﬁrst Michigan
county to be invaded by the borer
and also because there the borer has
developed so rapidly that there are
’now many badly infested areas in
. which investigatiOnal work may be
carried out.
. The work of the Monroe station
during its ﬁrst season has been along
3 main lines, as follows:

1. To study the seasonal history
of the borer in this section.

:2. To produce large numbers of
parasites for the borers in the hope
that this may become an aid in borer
control.

 ,3. To test out different varieties
Discorn, and different planting dates
 possibilities in controlling the

pest.

 Seasonal History

‘Work along this.line has been
tone to determine when, in this

ection, the borer makes its diner—
n’t life changes, ie., from borer to
and then to the egg-laying
. It is apparent that intelligent
rol methods can hardly be de-
ped unless the exact time of
.: changes is known.

‘1 ing-the 1926 season the insect
’  the larva, or borer,
add so the pups stage during the
all of June. '- In this, latter stage
anator’mation is made from

      
  

   
 

  
  

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A group of State Police ofﬁcers who are at your service.

ward for evidence leading to the ar-
rest and conviction of any person
guilty of stealing chickens, turkeys,
ducks, geese or guinea fowls which
are the sole property of any paid—up
subscriber to THE BUSINESS FARMER
Service and Protective Bureau at the
time of the robbery, and we are pre-
pared to pay 20 of these rewards to
prove to the chicken thief that Mich—
igan is a mighty unhealthy place for
him to operate. , e
We have the assurance of Alan
Straight, Director of Public Safety,
and several of the ofﬁcials of that
organization, that the Michigan State
Police will cooperate with us most

' thief.

Let’s"

heartily in our war on the chicken
Already members of that or-
gani‘zation‘are at work on cases.
The State Police. have done much
work in ’.investigating complaints
given them by persons who have
chickens stolen and they have been
anxious to increase the amount of
their work along this line, soour an—
nouncement found them ready to
give it special attention at once and
the commanders of the State Police

 

-posts have instructions to give im—

mediate attention to complaints of
this nature.

Mr. Alan G. Straight is at the head
of the State Police and his immediate
assistants are Deputy Commissioner
Oscar D. Olander;- Capt. C. J. Sca—
varda, commanding uniformed divi-
sion; Capt. Ira H. Harmon, in charge
of Bureau of Identiﬁcation, Lieut.
Ernest G. Ramsay,‘in charge Secret
Service division; Charles V. Lane,
in charge Fire Marshall division.

One hundred troopers is the full '

strength. of the State Police, and
twelve posts are maintained the year
around with an additional one open
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The men who direct the State Police.
ofﬁcer; center, Commissioner Alan

Right, Capt. C. J.’

Scavarda, commanding
G. Straight, head of the Department of Public '
Safety; left Deputy Commissioner Oscar G. Olander.

By CARL H. KNOPF

 

 

HE corn borer substation Monroe is constantly being visited

by farmersfrom different sections, but probably the largest group

to ever visit the station gathered there October 21st.

Around 300

from eighteen counties in Michigan spent the day there studying the
work being done and observing in operation some of the machinery

recommended for use in the infested areas.

“70 wished that every

corn grower in the state could ﬁnd time to visit the station but as there
are many who feel. they cannot we'are publishing an article by Carl
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eggs for succeeding generatiOns. The
moths appeared in July and the egg
laying started soon after. It is said
that the female moth is capable of
laying 1,000 eggs during a season,

sometimes as high as 300 eggs per_

day. The eggs hatch and the young
larva appear in about 10 days after
the moth emerges. The month of
July, 1926, was therefore the month
of moths, eggs, and young borers.
The ﬁrst full grown borer was ob-
served in Monroe county on July
31st.

It is interesting that the corn bor-
er in Michigan is producing but one
brood per year. This promises to
make control of the pest easier than
in the East where the insect pro-
duces two broods each season.

Developing of Parasites

The corn borer came to us from
Europe and so the U. S. Department
of Agriculture has gone to that same
continent in search of parasites to
combat the borer. At the present
time two parasites give promise of
becoming helpul. Both. are wasp-
like insects, one being about the size
of our ordinary wasp while theother
species is smaller. The adult female
wasps hunts out the borers and sting

them. This sting does not kill the'
borer“ but paralyzes it. " The eggs are; .
then laid on the surface of the borer-.3
and ,when the, young; larvae “hatch” '
they have plenty of feed right "ﬁat

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tion has been for “quantity produc—
tion” of these parasites. Colonies
containing about 2,000 of the adults
are liberated in badly infested cern
ﬁelds in the hope that they will be-
come permanently established in this
section and do battle with the
borers.

The method of producing these
parasites is very interesting, involv-
ing as it does- considerable skill and
ingenuity along with an immense
amount of detailed work. Thous—
ands of corn borer larvae are used in
this work, in one case 50,000 having
been secured from a single field. As
it is not possible to induce the wasps
to sting all of these borers it was
necessary to find some other way of
rendering them inactive. The meth-
od as ﬁnally adopted is to dip the
borers in water which is hot enough
to stun them and yet not hot enough
to kill them. The female moths are

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the posts, the names of the hemmand-rf'

ers and the telephone numbersare asﬁ
follows: ' p , .  .

Negaunee, Marquette county, Capt:
A. A. Downing in charge, .phon 102;,
Cheboygan, Cheboygan count , Sgt.§
Geo. Aldrich,“ phone 61; 'ManisteeJ
Manistee-county, Sgt. E. J, Hathaw
way, phone '62; Paw Paw, Van;
Buren county, Lieut. O. E. Demaray,
phone 135; Grand- HaVen..3.L.-ttawa
county, Sgt. Guy Bau'ghyphone’ 1118;
Jackson, Jackson county, Sgt; Wm.-
D. Hansen, phone 3935; Flint, Gene-

see county, Lieut. W. '1‘. Anderson”

phone 8621‘; Wayne, Wayne c0unty,
Lieut. R. W. Eatbn,phone524f6 F3;
St. Clair, St. Clair county, Lieut J. C.
Cleghorn, phone 400; South Rock-
wood, Monroe county, Lieut, Orva
Jackson, phone Wyandottei‘505 F3;
Michigan State Fair Grounds, De-
troit, Lieut. Jos. M. Kearney, “phone
Arlington 5,760; EastLansing head-
quarters, Lieut. L. A.’ Lyon, phone
3121. The summer'post is at Mt.
Clemens.

During theyear of 1925 they made
3,840 arrests and they have a record
of ‘93 per cent convictions. Also
they turned into the state, treasury
$256,358.01 during that period, as
well as assisted 671 local Ioﬂicers,
178 federal ofﬁcers, helped at 418
auto accidents, guarded 51p'ay. rolls,‘
transferred 2,119 prisoners, received,
2,239 complaints and answered 2,038.-

If you are visited by chicken
thieves communicate with your local
ofﬁcers at once and thewa'ill no
doubt do all within their ,p0wer to
apprehendthe crooks, next get in
touch\ with the State Police, either
through us or your local ofﬁcials,
or telephone them direct, and then
write us complete details.

“Cell. the thief and save the chick-

,ens” is our motto. If chicken thieves

do not believe that sentence—well
we hope _a sentence ‘in jail will.
changetheir-opinion. ' 3 I

A Visit to the Government Corn Borer Station at Monroe  "-

then placed in corn pith cages with
some of the inactive borers and the:
eggs are laid on these. 'Aftér the
egg laying process a treated corn
borer is placed in a tiny glass vial
and a single parasite egg, placed on,
the larvae. These vials are-kept at
a temperature of '80 degrees in an
electric incubator. The Small-larvae
which hatch from the eggs are white
in color and resemble the corn bor-
ers except that they are smaller than
the ,latter. Just as soon as these
wasp larvae emerge each starts feed—
ing on the respective corn ‘borer.
Sometimes the appetite of the para-.

‘site is So" great that he consumes his

first corn borer and another must be
supplied him. -

After becoming full grown this
wasp "worm" spins a silken web
across the small glass, tubeand und-
er this cover it makes a complete
transformation, appearing ﬁnally as
the full grown wasp-like parasite.
Just before the insects are ready to
emerge from their “spin ups" thous-
ands of thesmall vials are placed in
racks adjacent to large cages. ' When
the insects appear they (ﬂy towhrds
the light and so are retained in the
cages. When a suﬂicient~number of
these parasites have emerged they
are counted out in colonies. It is.
the usual practice to put 2,000 of the
insects in a colony, this number’ be-
‘ing about equally divided between
males-and females. As'stated be«
fore, thesecolonies are then taken to
different sections and. liberated in
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raiser- and live stock producers are pros-
pesing in the L. &N.-served South because
of the mild climate, the all-year growmg
semen and the constant] increasing de-
mndtor their products. now and ice are
unknown in met sections of the South—
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GROWING SWEET \POTATOES IN
MICEIGAN

Would it be possible to grow sweet

potatoes in central Michigan? Would

they mature in this climate? I don't

’mean to grow them for marketing.

but only for family use.———C. H. B.,
Middleton, Michigan.

HE sweet potato is a long season
plant and requires approximate—
ly 120 days of good sunshiny

growing weather to properly mature
the crop. For this reason it is not
likely to become a commercial crop
in Michigan, but it is quite possible
under favorable circumstances to
produce fairly good sweet potatoes in
the home garden. It will be neces-
sary to start the plants inside ‘or
what is perhaps better still to pur-
chase the few plants necessary as it

,is quite possible to secure them at

the proper time all rooted and ready
to grow. A warm sandy spot should
be selected; one that is not too rich
as over-fertile soil has a tendency to
produce an excessive growth of vines.
The plants are tender and should not
be planted in the open until all the
danger of frost is past. Should a
heavy freeze kill the vines before the
roots are dug it will be necessary to
go over the crop and cut the vines
at the surface of the soil at once
as an injury by frost to the growing
plant may cause damage to the roots
within a short period—Geo. E. Starr,-
Assoc. Prof. of Horticulture, M. S. C.

BURIAL OF‘ CORPSE

Must a corpse be embalmed before
burial? Must a corpse be buried by
a licensed undertaker?—S. B., Sno—
ver, Michigan.

T is not necessary that the body he
embalmed before burial in the
ordinary cases of death. The

body does not have to be buried by
an undertaker, but a burial permit
must be obtained and death certiﬁ-
cate must be made out before burial,
also certiﬁcate by the physician giv-
ing cause of death—Legal Editor.

CAN HE USE SILO FILLER?
Is a silo ﬁller classed as farm ma—

‘chinery and has a man that rents

a farm on the 50-50 basis a right
to use the silo ﬁller to ﬁll the silo
on said farm when the contract says
he can use farm machinery?——~Mrs.
A. W., Sparta, Michigan.

HEN a farmer owns a silo ﬁlling
W outﬁt, it could be classed as

part of his machinery. I see
no reason why the silo ﬁller could
not be used, unless the understand-
ing between the two parties involved
was otherwise.—-—F. T. Ridden, Re—
search Assistant, M. S. C.

BASSWOOD AND TULIP TREES
FOR HONEY PRODUCTION

Which is the best for honey pro—
duction in my locality, basswood or
tulip trees? How much honey can
be expected from a moderate 10—
acre ﬁeld of sweet clover during an
average year? How much extracted
honey will a colony make in compari—
son to comb honey?-——F. 8., Farm—
ington, Michigan.

ASSWOOD is better for honey

B production in Michigan. Tulip

tree yields some honey in south-

ern Michigan, but is at home in the

latitude of southern Indiana to
Washington, D. C.

A ten acre field of sweet, clover
should supply about twenty colonies
of bees during the blooming period.
The amount of nectar these bees will

collect during that time varies with ~

the weather conditions and the use to
which the sweet clover is put. If
the sweet clover is cut for hay, the
crop will be less than if it is allowed
to go to seed. Better yet, if, the
sweet clover is pastured the nectar
bearing period is prolonged. In
Michigan you should not expect more
than 60 to 100 pounds per colony in
a good sweet clover location. In the
Dakotas where sweet clover is more
at home, beekeepers are securing
yields of from 15.0 to. 4&0 pounds .per
colony. Usually- a stronger colony
will produce about twice as much ex-
tracted honor..- as it. will be

    
 

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just passed, colonies sometimes fail
to produce comb honey at all. where-
as they .will store a fair crop of
honey even under adverse conditions.
—-—-R. H. Kelly, Assistant Professor
of Etnomology, Apiculturist, M. S. C.

SIGNING OFF SHARES

I have a warranted deed. My wife
does not share it with me, neither
jointly or as survivor. Now then at
my death what would be the correct
procedure, if my children at that
time wish to sign away their rights
’in favor of their mother?—M. G.,
AuGres, Michigan.

PON the death of the husband.
the children could sign 01! their
shares so as to give the wife

the entire property, after the
“debts were paid. The children und-
er age would not be bound by their
Signature, however, as, an infant
cannot be bound by his contract.—
Legal Editor.

IS HE A CITIZEN?

There is a man here that came
from Canada with his mother when
a child and she married an American
citizen and lived with him about ten
years then left him and w,ent back to
Canada and stayed about a year and
a half and then came back. The
boy’s father died in Canada where he
was a citizen. His step-father never
adopted him and he never took his
step-father’s name but he claims to
be a citizen because of his mother
marrying an American. Now if he
had been legally adopted and took
his step-father’s name he might be a
citizen. He holds town ofﬁce and
makes a good ofﬁcer but if he is a
Canadian he wants to get his papers.
———-D. G., Drummond, Michigan.

F the boy’s father was dead at the
time of his mother’s marriage to
an American citizen, and the boy

has lived in the United States
since his minority, he is a citizen.
The mother acquired citizenship thru
marriage, and the son takes the
nationality of the mother in case the
father is dead. If the father is liv-
ing the son takes his nationality.

ONION MAGGOT

Can you tell me what to do to keep
the white grub or worm from eating
my onion sets and getting in the seed
onions? It seems that every year
they get worse—G. W. R., Elberta,
Michigan.

IMAGINE that the trouble is due

to the onion maggot since this in~

sect is more common in onions
this year. Of course there is a pos—
sibility that it is the white grub, a
much larger insect than the tiny
maggot. However, I am assuming
that the maggot is the culprit.

The best treatment up to date is
the corrosive sublimate treatment.
A solution of corrosive sublimate is
poured about the plants so that the
soil is well wetted and this treatment
is repeated two or three times early
in the season. Now corrosive subli—
mate is a violent poison. It is also
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  snout;gef,.s;f~wscsrlng potf'withv
aiwood 8311‘ boring , a small, here one

quarter, of'an “inch. m diameter
through the wooden plug so. that a
small. stream can be applied without
too muchwaste. The inside of the
pet should then be painted with as-
pkaltum or with some paint that
will keep the solution from contact
with the metal, since if the solution
comes in contact with zinc. or iron
or copper of the watering pot, not
only will the pot be ruined but tll
solution as well. '

Make up the solution by dissolving

one ounce of the poison crystals-in
eight gallons of water, using hot
water to make the solution, and then
diluting up to eight or ten gallons
with cold water. I’l‘he solution should
be made in a wooden barrel or stone
crock or in something other than
a metallic container.

This treatment is also the best
known for cabbage maggot and for
reddish maggot.—-—R. H. Pettit, Pro-
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ACKNOWLEDGE BEFORE
NOTARY _

I hold a chattel mortgage not
drawn by a justice or notary but
drawn by myself and, signed by two
witnesses. Is such a paper legal ,or is
it eligible to the records?—-—-V. D.,
Rodney, Michigan.

—The chattel mortgage should be
acknowledged before a notary public.
——Legal Editor.

CITIZENSHIP OF WIFE

I would like to know if a law
passed in Michigan where a married
man became a citizen his wife is
not a citizen until she gets her own
citizenship papers—F. K., Picon-
ning, Mich.

——A law passed in September 22,
1922, requires the married woman
to take out citizenship papers also,
in cases of this kind—Legal Editor.

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Bulletin No. l.—POULTRY RATIONS.
A 168 page book devoted to the making
and feeding of poultry docks and baby
chicks. Many interesting illustrations
and formulates.
pioultry feed manufacture and distribu-
t on.

Bulletin No. 2.-——“HANDBOOK 0F
MODERN WATER SUPPLY." A valu-
able booklet of 32 pages. covering the
whole subject of water supply to the farm
home, giving sources. installation and
type of pumps. 8. highly valuable book
for anyone who is thinking of putting in
or improving his water system.

Bulletin No‘ 3.—SOIL FERTILIZERS.
Barnyard manure, Fertility in the air,
lime, straw-spreading. top dressing, wood
ashes and commercial fertilizers are all
taken up in this valuable bulletin.

Bulletin No. 4.———SEED CORNr CURING
AND STORING. The selection of seed
corn this fall is a. very important prob-
lem and the information given by Prof.
D. F. Ralney and Prof. F. E. Fogle of the
M. S. C in this circular bulletin will prove
a great help to you. ~

Bulletin No. 5.———THE GOSPEL OF
GOOD FEEDING. This bulletin tells
how to feed proﬁtably according to prac-
tical experience and was prepared by the
former editor of a dairy publication.

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* Elite, .‘boWerful 7 explosive compound

"nbwnf as tulminate of mercury.
' Key'sre bright and’shiny and are

attractive to the children who do not .

realizathat' they are extremely dan-
gerous play'things. They frequently
attempt to remove the explosive till-
ing‘ so that they can use the shell
for’a‘whistl'e or"to put on the end
of a'lead pencil,_and sometimes they
try to explode them by inserting a
lighted match 'or pounding them with
a hammer or rock. These experi-
ments, almost always prove disastrous
and ’as' a result, many little children
lese the sight- of one eye or both, or

' are crippled for life by the loss 0

a hand or arm. . -

It Would be Of the greatest beneﬁt

if the blasting-caps were kept away
from children, because it would mean
that several hundred would be saved
from being maimed each year.

-Would you be good enough to
draw attention editorially in your
publication to the dangers of these
blasting caps and to warn those who
use explosives not to leave them
around where children might get
them? Would you be good enough
in your editorial to call attention of
school authorities to the fact that if
by chance any of these caps are
found by children that this fact
should‘ be immediately reported to
their parents?

Quite a number of cases have been
reported from rural districts where
children have been hurt playing with
blasting caps and it is supposed that
the children picked them up either
around quarries or in ﬁelds where
they have been dropped.

We shall appreciate it very much
if you will join us in this movement.
—F.. J. Byrne, Chairman, Publicity
COmmittee, Institute of Makers of
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I am a listener to your market
reports nearly every evening and
enjoy it very much. We have
our radio set for WGHP more than
anyvother station. It seems to come
in better than it used to. Last Wint-
er we did not have very good luck
getting you, other stations near it
seemed to cut in on it, but since the
middle‘of the summer it has been
coming in ﬁne. We wondered why.
Here’s thanking you for past pro-
grams'and hoping to enjoy many
many more—J. B., Lapeer County-

3 ITHOUT a doubt the reason
that you have noticed such a
great diﬁerence’in the recep-

tion of WGHP is that the breadcast-
ing station has been moved out‘ into
the country, far. from any other sta-
tions 'or city noise. To be, exact,
August 23rd was the ﬁrst day the
new sending outﬁt was used. to
broadcast out , regular programs.
Rrevidus to that all programs were
put-{on the air near 'the center of
the-City of Detroit.‘_ The studio. still
remains in Detroit and programs are
sent out to the broadcasting station
over a private wire,.and fromythere
broadcast. ,The station is; north of
Detroit; almost tO‘Mtu Clemens, and
t'v'hen/ they are. broadcasting—well,
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No water circulates through the Buick radiator until 1 20 °
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Back in the dayswhen Benjamin
Franklin trod the streets of Philadel-
phia,many gems of Franklin wisdom
went out of that city and into the copy
books of forthcoming generations.

’ One of F ranklin‘s best was, “T/ze but
immanent 1': a deposit qf fertility in tire
soil bank—.mth and pay: the best. ”
True in that day of virgin soils, and
truer by far today!

Since Dr. Franklin made that far- above-

ular tractors.

of American agriculture have been
pushed west, south, and north in our
nation. New soils have been.made
old soils. The preservation of soil
fertility has become a problem of
vital importance to agriculture.

Thousands of experiments have
been made. Many commercial ferti-
I lizers have been developed. But in
' most sections the old reliable barn:
yard manure remains the outstanding
fertility restorer. Always considered
a by-product of livestock production,
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ance. No farmer can afford to waste
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, Guineafo‘wls being successful rat
eliminators.
more evidence in the Guinea's favor
for clearing a farm of rats. Here is
a letter from W. W. K. of Eau Claire,
Michigan: v
'Reading an article in September

- or other grain. A man‘onceeoid

about‘

This has brought forth -

me he had some certiﬁed seed corn
for sale, and, knowing his farm, and
the location. of ' his crop ; for that
year, I‘asked him where he’ ’got it.
He replied that he raised that. kind
in his north field. This was a yellow
corn and just over the fence to the
south was a ﬁeld of white corn.

‘ When asked if the College .had in-

25th issue of M. B. F. in regard to -

Guinea hens be-
ing rat extermi-
nators, will say
that.in 1914 I
came
live with my
mother, and the
place was alive
with rats. Being
a lover of Guin-
eas I purchased
two hens and a
rooster, and all
at once the rats
(1 i s a p peared—
and have not
seen a rat on the
place for 10 years. Hadn’t given it a
thought until I read your article in
your paper. If Guineas are rat ex-
terminators, God love the Guineas.”

Then, here is a man who says he
owns several farms and has had lots
of trouble with rats. On one farm
they were particularly troublesome.
He changed tenants, and the new
tenant brought a ﬂock of Guineas on
the farm when he came, and after
two weeks there was not a rat in
evidence anywhere, and none were
seen as‘long as the man with the
Guineas lived on the place. In six
months after he left the place, tak-
ing away the Guineas, there were as
many rats back as ever.

So much evidence is strong enough
to change my wife’s disfavor of
Guineas, and she allows she will con—
sent to our having some if we can
ﬁnd them. Their noise has always
been very annoying to her—thus her
dislike for them. The noise, how-
ever, would never bother the writ-
er, for he would never hear it—yet
he appreciates just how so many feel
toward the Guineas. However, I
imagine one would become used to
their noise and would not notice it
after a short time any more than
one does an alarm clock at four in
the morning! At any rate Broad-
scope Farm is going to be the home
of some Guineas, as soon as we can
secure them. These fowls seem quite
scarce in this section.

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What Are Certiﬁed Seed Potatoes?

There are many who are too busy
to read very much, other than a lit-
tle in their dailyvpaper. These peo—
ple hear certiﬁed potatoes mention-
ed, and at once conclude it is some
new variety they have never seen.
Several have asked the writer what
this variety is like, and if it is better
than the old ones. Then, too, many
seem to think if they purchase cert-
iﬁed potatoes for planting, they will
have certiﬁed potatoes for sale. This.
of course, is not the way it works
out. There are several varieties
which may be certiﬁed. Certiﬁed
means that the Michigan State Col-
lege has inspected the ﬁeld of grow-
ing potatoes two or three times and
again after harvesting, and if they
have passed the rigid requirements
of purity, freedom from disease,
type, etc, the College will issue a
certiﬁcate to the grower, certifying
the potatoes as such.

Certiﬁed seed potatoes must be
planted when one intends to have
the crop certiﬁed; but. the mere
planting of certiﬁed seed does not
mean that the resultant crop will be
certiﬁed. Any one contemplating
growing certiﬁed seed potatoes
should write H. C. Moore Chief of
Potato Inspection Service, M. S. 0.,
East Lansing, Mich. He will :1an
full instructions to those who would
make the venture. ' ‘ , 

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home to'

spected it, he replied, “No't'that he
knew of, and why should they as

long as he planted certiﬁed seed.

, which he got from a man the college
. had recommeneded! ". A‘ little ex-

planation soon made it clear to him
he had good seed corn, but not cert-
iﬁed. His seed corn was too near
another variety to even be ideal com-
mon seed.

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Ideal Weather ‘

That seems a strange thought—
ideal weather—but we certainl'y‘had
it for our potato harvesting. How
we happened to pick this nice spell
for digging is a mystery, but it was
certainly ideal. We were fortunate
in securing all the help we‘ needed,
and never had a harvest move along

any nicer. Of course there was al-
most too much moisture in the
ground for nice digging, but 'our

large digger handled it in ﬁne shape.
In fact, when others have to discard
the digger on account of heavy, wet
ground, we can do very satisfactory
work with our machine. This is due
to the construction. It is of ample
size with two sets of conveyor chains
and three sets of agitators. In good
ordinary dry soil we often use only
the main elevator. At other times
we use both conveyors, with plain
rollers in place of the agitators. We
worked hard every day for we all
predicted the next day wOuld be
rainy,rbut with one exception it was
not.

At this writing, there are many
potato buyers in evidence. So many
people in northern Ohio and Indi-
ana drive “up” into Southern Michi-
gan for their winter supply—some
in costly sedans—others in trucks to
get a supply for three or four fami-
lies who have gone in together on
the truck expense. Our crop being
mostly certiﬁed, we have few to offer
at this time. There is, however, a
far greater inquiry for certiﬁed seed
right now than there ever was be-
fore. ' We have more orders for
spring delivery than ever before. .Our

.new potato storage has proven to be

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an ideal place for putting them di-
rect from the ﬁeld. It has a free
circulation of air and with the ex-
ception of a few bushels, all the po—
tatoes were dry enough to place in it
at once. I

On account of weather conditions
we were so late in getting it built
last, fall, we were unable to build the
loading platform and driveway as
planned. This will be 32x40 ft. in
size and we shall begin the wall the
last of this week. This will be added

to the north of the present structure. '

and the complete building will be
40x72 ft.

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a;qu a year now and I like it fine.
I‘liave" some problems about my fruit
I
have been going to write you for

(gnometime but kept putting it off

until I have
quite a-tlist of
questions.

1.—I guess I
cultivated my
young trees too
late'last‘ fall and
some 'of them
split open (just
the bark) during
the winter. They
seem to be grow-
ing good and
healing s 1 o wly
but I “wondered
if there is any-
thing I could do
do help them. What do you advise?

2.—I have a quince bush which
blossoms full every year but never
bears.
3.—What is curculio? I sprayed
my peaches for them but have never
seen one that I know of but my
They have a
little white worm inside that look
about like the worms in apples.

4.——I have some Montmorency
cherries which split open on the
south side of the tree. The heart
of the tree seems to grow too fast
for the sap. Early Richmond cher-
ries are not bothered.

5.—Do Golden Delicious apples do
well in Michigan and are they as
good as the Johnathon for a com-
mercial orchard? Will they bear it
set alone?-—H. W. 8., Three Rivers,
Michigan.

ON’T hesitate to ask all the ques-
tions you want. We are always
at your service. We will number

your Questions just as you did.

1. If the wounds are very large
they should be bridge-grafted; 'If
they are small or quite narrow keep

them covered with white lead paint

until thoroughly healed over.

- 2". The meager description makes
diagnosis diﬂicult but no doubt your
quince bush is suffering from blossom
blight, to which the quince is very
susceptible. Do not cultivate, and
treat the same as for blight,

3. The curculio is a small dark
beetle about 1—5 of an inch long. It
is a queer looking hump-backed
thing with a long snout like an ele-
phant’s trunk. They are great fel-
lows to play “possum”. If you give
a tree a sudden jar they will fall to
the ground and lie there as though
dead. Before the days of spraying
the growers used to catch them by
jarring them down upon sheets held
under the trees. The curculio lays
its eggs under the skin of the peach.
Little white worms hatch out and
bore into the peach. The skin punc-
ture or “sting” causes gummy and
deformed peaches. The curculio .is
very hard to control on trees which
are located near a fence row or
woods. Fence-rows should be burned
over. When most of the shucks are
011' the young peaches spray with one
pound of arsenate of lead and two
pounds of lime to ﬁfty. gallons of
water. Repeat this two weeks later.

4. Your cherry trées are suffer-
ing from sun—scald, which is a form
of winter injury. A bright sunny
day in mid- inter will warm the
south side of t e trunk and cause the
sap to rise. Then when. the sun
goes down the bark freezes very sud-
denly causing it to’split. Any treat-
ment to shade the south side of the
trunk will prevent this trouble. Lean

‘a board against the trunk or wrap

it with tar paper. Let the branches
grow low and when planting your

trees lean them toward the south

west. . ‘
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had to choose between a yellow apple
and the Johnathan, for a commer-
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n' settlers were few “and far be-

als. Among them wolves and bears
were the most troublesOme, and a

“thrillingmto‘ry could be written of
unters between them and,
«the early settlers, but owing to lim-
Nited time I can only give a few.

*‘The ﬁrst wild animal to trouble

“us was at our camp near where

Merley is now located, in the sum—
mer of 1869, boarding the men who
built the railroad required a lot of
fresh meat which bears love. At
this place our camp was built of two
large log buildings one for the cook
house and the other for the men’s

quarters with an open space between‘

them all covered with one roof. This
space was used for storage and was
8.0001 place to hang fresh meat.

We had a large watch dog whose
name was “Watch”. One night after
all had retired, Watch began a ﬁerce
growling bark, and father got up to
learn the cause, but it being too dark
to see and knowing Watch was big
and strong, he set him on and he
went with a bound, but was met with
a blow as from a modern auto at
full speed. Although Watch weigh-
ed over 80 pounds, he was knocked
about 20 feet against the opposite
wall with such force that he could
not get his breath for some time and
they thought he was killed. It was
a large bear who had taken down a.
quarter of beef, but was scared away
before he could lug it off. After
that we used more caution.

Bears were plentiful here during
the early seventies. One morning
we were aroused out of bed about
four o’clock by our neighbor, Wm.
Helmer, whose pig pen was attacked
by a bear and although Mr. Helmer
rushed to the help of the squeeling
pigs with a pitch fork and fought

' the bear it succeeded in carrying a

pig weighing over a hundred pounds
over a four and one—half foot wall
and tearing a hole in the pig sixteen
inches long. The bear then suc-
ceeded in getting away into the

Mwoods before we could get our guns

ready. We followed it for half a
day but lost its tracks and gave up
the hunt.

The wolves although more shy
when not in large packs were far
more dangerous, and many of our
early settlers were forced to climb
trees'to escape them, in some cases
having to remain in a tree all night
with a pack of wolves around them.

In the Winter of 1870-1 father re-
turned to keeping the rail road
bearding camps near Big Rapids,
leaving us boys on the homestead to
keep house for ourselves, and it was
necessary for my older brothers to
make occasional trips on foot be-
tween home and the boarding camps
with needed supplies.

On one of these trips myrbrother

'l Joe then about ﬁfteen years old left
I camp for home a little later than us-
f'ual, carrying a sack with some fresh
5 meat and groceries,
' can of keresene.

also a gallon
Reaching the cabin
of a friend living about two miles
north of where the town of Ashton
now stands he was advised to stay
with them all night and go on home
in the morning, but it then being
about 4 P. M. and, although the days
were short, being in the hardwbod
forest, it seemed he would have

plenty of light and decided to go on
‘home having only about seven miles

farther to go. However as he neared
the hemlock woods and cedar
swamps it grew darker and he wish-
ed he had stayed with our friends
but hastened on into the black
swamps.

- That winter the snow was deep
and we heard the howls of the
wolves every night after we would
go'to bed, but we were not afraid
as they were alWays quite a way off,
near the swamps, but it was quite
different with my brother trying to
follow the trail through a dark
swamp and hear the sharp bark of
a wolf nearby, but too dark to see
it. He also knew the wolves smell-

; "ed the fresh meat he carried, but

 
   
  
 
  
   
  
  
   

he did not like to leave it after car-
‘rying it over twenty miles and pos—

sibly only baiting the wolves on, so
.ghestarted to run as fast as he could

with his load, and the snow about
eight inches deep, butother wolves
ined in and their howles became
are numerous. and nearer. When
tened they were gaining on him
ta-sn soon were on  sides 

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ing, and securing their heme-
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ing in, it was not a very pleasantthe fence which I will describe was

’situation,‘ but he thought of his load.

He carried matches and kerosene
and by breaking some dry saproot
from old trees soon had thEm blazo
ing which at once retarded the
wolves’ progress and they began
thinning out. In a short time he
was through the swamps and on
high land at the south east corner
of Section 1-T 19-«N 10-W, where he
could see the light in L. Prices’
cabin, only a mile from home, and
all high land, which he reached
about an hour after dark safe but
exhausted.

Two years later at a lumber camp,
not far from us, as the men were
going to camp for dinner, one of the
men became separated and behind
the rest, the wolves attacked him.
He "carried his ax and made a run-
ning fight. As the wolves became
too numerous he jumped on a pine
stump swinging his ax around him.
As he did not come to dinner his
companions made a search when re-
turning to work and found his mang-
led body near the stump with the

built in 1868, and ran from Diamond
Lake to Rose Lake a distance of
about six miles in a straight line,
my place being about the center, it
came from the west through where
my orchard is now located, crossing
M-13 at the north end of the Allen-
dale Swimming Pool”; in those days
it was a beautiful hardwood forest
of sugar .maples. ,
The Indians made this fence with
a small sharp ax by striking one

blow into a small sapling seldom.

larger than 2 inches in diameter
about 4 feet from the ground. This
usually cut it over half through,
then bending and breaking it over in
the direction they wished to run the

fence but leaving the butt hang on-
»its stump, (if out the right time of

year will remain green a long time)
in the virgin forests these saplings
grew very tall and slim so they
would go on to the next in the same
way falling the top of one on the
stump of the next with the brush

left on making a single line of poles

about 4 feet above the ground. The

 

 

WE HEAR FROM MR. ALLEN AGAIN
told you in the last issue that we were going

 

to publish some true stories of the life of the

early settler in Michigan, written by our
readers, starting off (iii this issue with a few more
experiences of our good friend, Ed. 0. Allen, who
wrote “Pioneering in Michigan,” the most popular
story we ever published, and here we are. Follow-
ing his most recent story we will publish the stories .
by the three prize Winners, and then letters of others
who failed to win a prize, but wrote a mighty good
story just the same.
them all from baby to grandpa and. grandma—Will

Everybody—and that includes

certainly enjoy these stories about early days right

ED. C. ALLEN

here in our own state, so do not ‘miss any copies.

 

 

carcasses of 17 wolves laying around
all more or less eaten.

Wolves were very numerous here
before the railroad came through
and many times we would beneﬁt
from their hunts by ﬁnding deer
partly eaten and some just killed.
At other times those who were hunt—
ers would listen to the wolves when
chasing a deer, learn the direction
they were coming, head them 0133
and shoot the deer, using the wolves
as hounds.

There were many Indians who liv-
ed here prior to 1872. They lived
by hunting trapping and fishing as
game and ﬁsh was plentiful at that
time and the Indians knew how to
get it. How many today know what
an “Indian Fence” is like and what
it was built for“! Well the deer be-
ing the staple food of the Indians at
that time it was built to assist them
in getting them. Wild deer when
not chased would not go over or
through any 'obstruction but walk
leisurely along it especially when it
leads in the way they want to go.
The Indians knowing this would con-
struct a ﬂimsy fence which would be
useless to turn the most gentle do-
mestic animal, but a wild deer would
browse along it for miles without a
thought of pushing through or jump-
ing over unless scared.

The Indian’s system of building
these fences was so simple that one
man could build miles of it in a day,

 

Indians would hide near this fence
and shoot the deer as they passed
along. Other ways of getting deer
was the more common way of tieing
a small sack of salt to a branch of a
small tree out of reach of the deer,
then ﬁx a seat in the crotch of a
larger tree near by, after the rain
the salt would drip on the ground
where the deer would come to lick
the ground and a man setting in the
tree with a gun could easily shoot
them without being seen by the deer.
This was called a “deer lick.”

The .nearest boy companion I had
of my age lived two miles away but
during the summer of 1870, we often
got together to play along the Indian
fence and climb -the slim maple sap—
lings to sway in their tops. I have
seen hundreds of wild‘deer, some
times 5 or 6 together many times.
They seemed not to be afraid of’us
but I never shot at one and never
cared to. -

Few of the first settlers came well
prepared to start on their home-
steads, some failed to bring enough
food to get well started. One near
neighbor coming here in the sixties
with his wife and three or four little
girls, the oldest not over twelve
years old, settled on his claim,build-
ing a cabin and in his haste to get
the family under shelter covered it
with hemlock brush and by the time
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grew weak and had almost given up
when the father returned with sup-
plies. This 'story I heard from the
father in the early days and it was
conﬁrmed by the oldest daughter a.
short time ago. i A

The early pioneers were noble-
hearted and money was not their

God. The family just mentioned had‘ I

only a brush roof on their cabin, and
cold wet weather was expected any
time, so the father walked three
miles to a neighbor who had just
moved in, told him his situation say-
mg, ‘I understand you are handy
and could help me put a roof onmy
cabin. I have nothing to pay you
with but the Lord may."

Years later this good neighbor
who had helped many without
thought of pay told me the story
shortly before his death, saying” “I
went with him, we worked hardand
got the roof on nicely and I had just
got back home when a heavy cold
rain-storm set in that lasted several
days, and as I looked out at that
storm and thought of my neighbor's
wife and little children and the
brush cover to the cabin, and what
I had done I never felt so well paid

for any thing I ever i ‘
felt happy."  before, I

To get rooﬁng for the ﬁrst cabins
was difﬁcult. Some used bark when
It would peel, others split long logs
through the center hollowing them
out like troughs and laying them
across the building with a slope as
they lay tile roofs, but nearly all
the ﬁrst houses and barns were roof—
ed with “Shake.” These Were made
by cutting straight splitting logs in-
to 3 to 4 foot lengths and splitting
them into one-half inch stuff random
Widths as it could be used without
roof boards, by using long slim poles
called I‘le and nailed to the rafters
three or-four feetwapart and it re
quired but few nails which were
hard to get, later handy men found
employment by making 18 inch hand
shaved shingles out of choice pine.
They did not lay as smooth as sawed

shingles but were fa ‘
lasting. 7 I r superior for

The log houses were built b ' 3
cutting the required number 0); 95;;
of the desired size into the right
lengths, get a yoke of oxen and haul
them to he building site, then start
out, to in its the hands to the “rais«
1n. This, required all the settlers
for. miles as it took 18 or 20
men to get the walls of a log house
up in a day, with the crude equip-
ment they had in those days. The
main tools used were made like a
present on the end of poles, called

bulls" and were used to push and

'roll the legs "up the skids when out

of reach. The settlers would '
for .miles to these bees willingh‘rmtlirtl;3
nating their time usually getting
only their dinner. Having no lumb-
er of any kind, small logs 6 or 7
inches in diameter were used for
joist for the bottom ﬂoor. They were
notched into bottom logs and ﬂat-
tened on top. The upper joist put in
the same at the desired height, they

usually spaced 4 V feet apart. The
ﬂooring was made by cutting
straight grained logs into 4 foot

lengths and splitting into 2 in'

ch
.planks called “puncheon” which was
ﬁtted on the joist. The’ same ma-

_terial was used for door‘ frames,

the doors were also split out and the
gables made of shake. Many of these
houses were neat and quite comfort-
able. However, very few places had
a natural water supply and I well
remember for the ﬁrst year we had “
to carry our water from a spring
over a mile distant and for our stock
we took them to a lake about the
same distance once a. day. >
We decided to get water nearer
and employed parties who claimed
they could locate water near'the eur-
face closer by, with the aid ofa‘
witch hazel stick, but after several
trials it‘was given up and we “as;
cided to locate a well where it was.

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perfect law, the low of Iiberiyhnrid'leo

eontlnueth, being not a bearer that 'for-'

gottoth ‘but a' door that worketh, this
man shall be blessed in his doing."—
Jomes 2:25.

HE epistle of Jamesshows the'

author very. practical. He ex-
presses tbe‘ Gospeiwin terms of
law and conduct. This was the
highest revelation of God that James
felt. It was diverse from Paul who

sees the Gospel in terms of faith and ,

love. Paul preaches a justiﬁcation
by faith, while James says, “Ye see
that by« works a man is justiﬁed and
not only by faith." Yet, they com-
pliment'one another for one sees a
faith that works out salvation thru
love. and the other sees works fol—
lowed by- blessing thru a perfect
faith. This, to the writer of this
epistle makes the Gospel “the law of
liberty.”

First, then. the Gospel is perfect
and ﬁnal in its standards of life.
And our text would have us hear the
Gospel appeal and act upon it. Right
here we have encountered the great-
est of human problems. ‘.‘A doer
that worketh" is emphasized. Life
is demanded. This is inherent in all
New Testament truth. "Inasmuch as
ye did it onto one of the least of
these, ye have done it unto me."
This measures Christianity. This is
to be our ﬁnal character test. James
has it this way: “Pure religion and
undeﬂled before our God and Father
is this, to visit the fatherless and
widows in their afﬂiction, and to
keep oneself unspotted from the
world." When one believes this kind
of religion sincerely, it lay a master-
ful grip upon his life. To believe the
laws of government, of science, of en—
vironment, etc., mayhave little or
nothing to do with the center of one’s
life. These rank as tutors but can-
not qualify as essentially converting“.
But faith in the Perfect Law is re-
generating and sanct'ifying.

“Is religion born in us?" is the
question shot at the writer just the
other day. "No it is not, but it is
reborn in us" was the answer. No
bane person believes that Christian-
ity is physically transmitted; yet, we
have something ,born within us,
which if leavened with the Christian
ingredients of faith and repentance,
will make us conformable unto
Christ. Spiritual education and nur-
ture of the religious disposition will
make the tree good. And. making
the tree good is life’s challenge.
This achieved. the fruit will be good.
' But it is here failures are marked.
Some folks lean hard on law as the
corrective of the ills of life. Now,
law-enforcement shOuld have our
sacred attention because it aimsto
emphasize right social conduct. But
it can do more than this. The travel-
ler stops, reads the road signs to ﬁnd
his way, but he depends on other
resources to reach his destination.
'The law gives direction and makes
demands. but there it stops. It has
no resident power to carry out its
own behests. And be'cause it was
thus imperfect, St. Paul rules it out
of the court of the heart. ,Education
and culture make their contributions
to personal and social charaCter. I
would not hinder or darken know-
ledge and progressJ These help.
Yet, they are not necessarily convert-
ing. Some of our most “learned folks
and our‘most cultured artists are
'among our biggest fools and crOOks.
Environment must come in for atten-
tion. Yet,good houses._honest wages,
and sanitary living do not guarantee
good lives. All these forces lack in-
herent power‘to spiritualize life.

 ' So. we fall. back upon what James
calls “the perfect law.” Likely, he
does not refer to the Gospel is a~
perfect code in all the details of life,
, but as complete in. pointing the right
way and in its‘power to communicate
ability to go that way. 'xitgives the
knower‘ power to become ‘agdoer.
This/is wh‘ ft mes em.
"worshi’nan in’yoiirfo'o
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so pleased to m3.” you without oharge’.

 TEXT: “But he that looketh'finto the".

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A personal reply Will be sent-to vou

he knows. ,‘ Both of these men carry
in‘their'hearts an adequate guide to
better living, but both need some-
thing more than this; they need
power and capacity to refuse the bad
and attain to the best. The Gospel
is distinctive in this respect. It
gives life, and life makes for power.
The Psalmist had some such convic-
tion when he said, “The law of the
Lord is perfect, converting the soul."

Now, we are to look into this‘law
of liberty. Think of it; here is a
law that frees us from the‘ tyranny
of passions, bad habits, and popular
opinion so that we can obey. He
violated the statute law because he
yielded to the whip of a bad habit.
This man is a splendid citizen in
most respects and this is his ﬁrst
offense against the state. The judge
granted clemency and today he is
paroled and this preacher is helping
him to look into the perfect law of
liberty. We can be sure that when
he is willing to shape his conduct‘
according to this law he will have
Another to help carry his burdens.
When he is willing to break bread
with Christ he will come into posses-
sion of such ideals and motives as
will free him from the mandates of
sin thru Christian. obedience.

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beholding as in a mirror the glory
of the Lord, are transformed into
the same image.” Tho, we must
continue to look and behold. The
seed must be left buried in the soil
it anything is to come of its life.
Constant immersion in the spirit of
Christ will beget life and action.
But this is often'our trouble. We
are spasmodic and iitful in our re-
ligion. We do not choose to give it
surrendered attention. Christ gets
the vagrant and tagged ends of our
lives. Faithful contemplation of
Christ will make of us, not forgetful
hearers, but doers of His law.

“This man shall be blessed in his
doing." This is the tenor of the
Gospel thruout. "If ye know these
things blessed are ye if ye do them.”
Recall the conclusion of‘ the Sermon
of the Mount: “Everyone therefore
that heareth these words of mine
and doeth them, shall be likened un-
to a wise man." This is to bring a
blessedness that is eight times re-
peated at the beginning of the ser—
mon. Plenty of folks feel they are
orthodox in a lazy, selﬁsh, doless re-
ligion; but it is the doing that marks
our Christianity as real. '

But, we are to be rewarded not
as an arbitrary result of the doing,
but “in the doing.” Note the differ-
ence. Christian service' brings its
own happiness. Nothing so satisﬁes
the conscience. and comforts the
heart as to know that we are faith—
ful in the will of God and trying to
live in harmony with His perfect
law. This is liberty and blessing.

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BIBLE THOUGHTS

THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT is
love. joy, peace, longsuffering, gentle-
ness. goodness, faith, meekness,
temperance; against such there is
no law.——Ga1. 5:22. 23.

BEHOLD AT EVENINGTIDE
trouble; and-before the morning he
is not. This is the portion of them
that spoil us, and the lot of them
that rob us.—Isaiah 17:14. '

HOW EXCELLENT is thy loving-
kindness, 0 God! therefore the child-
ren of men put their trust under the
shadow of thy wings. They shall be
abundantly satisﬁed with the fat-
ness of thy house; and thou shalt
make them drink of the river of thy
pleasures.——Psalm 36:7, 8.

17AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH,
AND THE LIFEi—John 14:6.

131:: KINDLY AFFECTIONED one
to: 1.; another with " brotherly; love; in '
11,90,9311' preferring-gone" another: res
compense ,to - no  evil for evil.
Provide things honest in the sight of.

men. :Be not overcome of evil,»
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We will not Inowingl m the adrertisiu of any erson or
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any reader hue an aunt for comphint unmet our ad-
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"The Farm Paper of Service"

CHICKEN THIEVES
ROOKS of all kinds who prey on the farm
folks of Michigan entertain as friendly a
feeling toward THE BUSINESS FARMER as they
do toward some contagious disease because we
have persecuted and exposed so many of them
through our columns.
ago that the agent for enlarged pictures found
the rural population “easy picking" but condi—
tions have changed since we began our campaign
against them, and today our subscribers report
to us all they have to tell one of these agents
is that they know all abOut him because they
read THE BUSINESS FARMER and he heads for the
road without further argument. Promoters of
work at home schemes or “ﬂyby night" pro-
'positions know about us because our subscribers
write before they “bite” and we make it our bus-
iness to learn about all of these companies so we
can adrise our good friends properly. Anything
that is “shady” is brought into the spot light
in The Publisher’s Desk so our readers will not
be victimized.

Now we are going to make M. B. F. just as
unpopular with the chicken thieves in Michigan
is it is with these other crooks. We announced
our war on the chicken thief in our September
25th issue and urged that our readers help us
by reporting conditions in their territory and the
response indicates that the campaign is going
to be a greater success than we even dared to
anticipate. Read all about it in this issue and
then get into the ﬁght by telling us if there are
any thieves atwork in your neighborhood.

THE CORN BORER

OME folks may think we are giving too much

space to talking about the European Corn

, Borer but we want to assure them that if
they visited the areas where the infestation is
100 per cent, with as high as 46 borers in a
single corn stalk as in many ﬁelds in Canada, we
know they would declare we \were not giving the
matter enough publicity.

During the forepart of September it had in-
vaded only a few Indiana counties on the eastern
boundary line, and now a report comes in that
it has been found within 60 miles of Illinois.
Taking into consideration that one moth can fly
at least twenty miles you do not have to use
your imagination very much to realize it will soon
be in the midst of the corn belt.

In the meantime what is the country doing to
ﬁght it? The article regarding the station main-
tained at Monroe and the work being done there
which appears in this issue will help answer that
question. Read it.

 

HE TOLD YOU SO
UR weather forecaster, L. N. Pritchard, is
being congratulated by his friends regard-
ing his accuracy in predicting the 1926 corn
and potato crops. Last spring he advised that
the potato crop would be good and corn fair
providing the early frosts, which he predicted,
did not” hit them. In the October crop report
issued by Verne H. Church, of' the U. 8. Depart»

ment-0t Agriculturewln-  ‘wi'thwthe- 

State  ofrAgrieuitm'ew-We. reads the fair

 
 

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.: I V t  ._  v
 (is reported at "801,136,!

Last year it mid per-rent? 

cent as --compared with a tehgyear, average of ‘69". -

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However, this is no _
Pritchard predicts the: weather can udusly with
an accuracy that is. almost "an lovable, and
thousands of our readers plan their farm oper-
ations according to his forecasts.

THE RED CROSS MEMBERSHIP ROLL CALL
RMISTICE Day, November 11th', marks the
opening of the tenth annual membership
drive of the American Red Cross, and it will
continue until Thanksgiving. During this period
people all over the country will be asked to join.
Although most of us are quite familiar with
this great organization some possibly think of it
only in connection with actual warfare. This is
an erroneous idea as they. “carry on" in times
of peace as well as when nations are engaged in
bloody conflict. A part of their work during

’ the past year was to render relief in 62 disasters

at home and 15 abroad. Also they assisted an
average of 80,000 disabled veterans and their
families every month, at the same time serving
the men still in the country's armed forces.
Other work included the teaching of home hy-
giene and care of the sick in every state in the
Union including Alaska, with the exception of
Delaware and Nevada, to over 67,000 students;

assisting in promoting community health through?

out the United States; instructing 2.0.000 people
in ﬁrst aid work; training over 29,000 persons in
life saving, and teaching thousands to swim.

Let us all do our bit to put this drive over in
a hurry and show a nice increase in the number
of members.

USING FEDERAL BEAN GRADES

HE United States Standards for beans were
made effective on and after September lst

of this year, and now we are wondering just

how seriously they are being taken in Michigan.
Four western states have seen the value of the
grades and have arranged to have them used on
all their future shipments of beans. The state
department of agriculture and the U. S. depart-
ment will cooperate in the states of Wyoming,
Montana and Idaho, while in Colorado the grain
exchange is working with the federal authorities.
At no time was there strong opposition to
federal grading in those states like in the other

 

THE POULTRY THIEF MUST. GO!

NE Thousand Dollars in rewards of '$50
0 each is hereby offered by "The Michigan

Business Farmer for the arrest and
successful prosecutiOn of poultry thieves.
These rewards will be paid on the following
basis:

1. For information or arrest leading to
the conviction of any thief or thieves of
chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys or guinea
fowl, from the premises of a member of
The Michigan Business Farmer Service and
Protective Bureau, living in Michigan whose
subscription to The Michigan Business
Farmer is paid-in-advance at the time of
the robbery.

2. The“sheriif must be notiﬁed as soon
as possible after the robbery is discovered,
and full details of the theft must be mailed
to The Michigan Business Farmer within
three days after its occurence.

3. The amount of the reward in each
case shall be Fifty Dollars ($50) and shall
be paid only upon the undisputed convic-
tion and sentence of the offender.

4. Only one reward will be paid in each
case.

5. The reward in each case will be paid
to the one who is principally responsible
for the arrest and conviction of the law
violator. This includes State and County
police ofﬁcers. In case of dispute as to who
is entitled to the reward, the county prose-
cuting attorney shall make the decision.

6. The Michigan Business Farmer must.
be notiﬁed in advance of the date of the
trial of the accused.

7. This offer is limitedto the payment
of twenty rewards of Fifty Dollars ($50)
each, One Thousand Dollars (35,1000) total
reward.

8. This offer applies to crimes com-
mitted after September 25th. 1926, and »

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in“ ity toward the government taking over that

' ~ work in thisst even though it—hn’sb‘eonpointed
' out to them that such, an arrangement would re-.

' move any ill feel-ing there might be on the port
of the grower toward the buyer-And we think
we can safely say there is considerable of‘ this
ill feeling prevalent in many sections. ‘ .

The main'argu-ment has been that theyl’would
have great difficulty in buying from the farmer
because they could not be certain that the beans
would make the grade they placed them in. . This
argument will hardly hold water any more since
the federal grades are much more simple ,than
their own now in force. .  .. .:

Now what will their opposition be built up

/ around? ,Can it be that they are. afraid that
the grower who produces a carioad‘ or more of
beans will get federal inspection and market them
direct? This can be done alright, and, we under-
stand, at a. neat proﬁt.

 

STOP LAND RECLAMATION PROGRAM
T the annual meeting of the Michigani State
Grange last week Mrs. Dora  Stockman,
lecturer, in her report made one of the most
sensible statements we have heard in some time.
She said: - \

"Farm product prices are so low that'to make
a living farmers believe they must produce as
much as possible .and thus create a. surplus which
there is little chance to sell on the World market.

"Instead of helping to prevent a surplus, the
Government is spending millions of dollars in
reclamation projects that swell it. A sum of
$50,000,000 is now on the program to be spent
for reclamation. About 8,000,000 bushels of
potatoes were grown last year on-irrigation lands,
netting little proﬁt to the growers and hurting
the market for owners of the regular potato
business. Yet the men in Washington baggie
over $100,000,000 to diminish the surplus.”

She might have added further that if more
farms are needed there are many vacant ones
located where nature has been more kind and
markets are nearby that can be bought at rea-
sonable ﬁgures. The Government money might
better be loaned on ﬁrst mortgages on these
farms than used as at present.

THEY STAY MARRIED IN CANADA

N the series of articles regarding our trip
through" western Canada last summer. which
appeared in our columns during the fall, we
suggested that the farmer cooperatorsuof this
county could learn considerable from their north-
ern neighbors. Now we have information at
hand that
us something else, and that is how to avoid the

divorce courts. “

A recent survey showed that only one marriage
out of 125 in Canada goes on the rocks and
eventually ends up in the divorce courts. In the
United States one out of every seven' couples
united in holy wedlock do not live up.to'their
'vow “until death do us part."

Just laws, equitably enforced is thereason
given for the low divorce rate in Canada. We
believe that another factor to consider is the
small number of large cities with big industries.
The responsibilities of married life do not rest
as lightly upon the shoulders of farm folks as
it does on the shoulders of city dwellers.

Certainly our laws governing divorce are too
plentiful and too broad. ‘

 

PETER PLOW'S PHILOSOPHY
I’m for a government reclamation program,
but ’stead of tryin' tocreclaim land thet never
will be worth a whoop I think they should re-
claim some, of these vacant farms with ﬁelds
growin' up to weeds and the buildin’s rottin'
away.

 

A shirtless sort of a teller in our neighbor-
hood, who has been suspected of borrowin’ a few
chickens without the knowledge or consent of
the owners and then fergettin’ to return ’em,
after readin' the announcement regardin' the
chicken thieves in M. B. F. was heard to remark,
“An' still they call this ‘the land of the free’.
Heck! A teller ain't got no more liberty atall in
this cOuntry. Guess I’ll move to Russia."

‘ COMING EVENTS

November 9111.— Thumb of Michigan Potato

Show, Mayville, Mich.
November 27-December 4.———Internationa1 Live
Stock Exposition, Union Stock Yards, Chicago,
‘Illinois, ‘  l ' . _
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PROTECTIVE SERVICE BUREAU

 

conviction of any person guilty of stealing chickens. turkeys, ducks, geese or
Kguinea {owls which are the sole property of any paid-up subscriber to THE
IICIIIGAN BUSINESS FARM“ who >
BUSINESS EARNED Service and Protective Bureau at the time of the robbery.

 

If your poultry house is robbed report Immediately to your sherill’, ask him

the evidence leading to the arrest and

is a member of THE 'MIOHIGAN

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Mt. Clemens, Michigan

 

 

 

I BE above is a reproduction of a sign we have printed up for the
members of our Service and Protective Bureau to post on their
chicken ooops or other farm buildings as a warning to thieves.

[t is printed on heavy cardboard, 6

can be easily read many feet away.

conspicuous place on your farm will

inches high by 9 inches long, and
One of these signs posted in a
save you many dollars, because the

thief preying on the farmer is a coward and the knowledge that a farm

owner is a member of a protective

association that will pay a reward

‘for his mpture will cause him to look elsewhere, on farms where there

are none of these signs posted.

 

 

MORE RECRUITS JOIN OUR ARMY
TO FIGHT CHICKEN THIEVES

VERY mail brings letters from
E subscribers regarding the ac—

tivities of chicken thieves 1n
various parts of the country and com-
menting on our campaign to make
this line of business a mighty un-
proﬁtable one. We have set aside
$1,000 to be paid out in rewards of
$50 each and if we can assist in send—
ing twenty chicken thieves to 13.11
from diﬂerent sections of Michigan
we will feel well repaid for our

'money and eflort devoted to the

cause.
» Read a few of the letters we have

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Wants to Contribute

"‘We are very much interested in
your War on Chicken . Thieves.
Please send particulars regarding be-
coming members of the Protective
Service Bureau. Please enroll us and

~ if there is a fee to join will send

same. Chicken thieves have already
begun working around here. but have
heard no report of them in our im-
mediate vicinity yet this fall. It,
seems to us as though commercial
poultry raisers would be willing to
contribute toward the War Fund.
We certainly would. We usually go
into winter with about 400 layers."
—R. S. B., Ionia County.

bones Turkey

“1 had a bronze turkey stolen Sun-
day, September 25th. I was away
from home at the time and the ﬂock
of twenty got in the road and was
about forty rods from the house. My
son saw the car stop and the next
morning missing the gobbler went
down and found the head at the side
at the road. The turkey would

.weigh twenty-ﬁve pounds or better.

It is. not the value of it but the prin-
ciple. I think you will certainly
help poultry raisers and farmers and
have taken the right way of hand-

 

 

fhc purpose or this men: In to In-
hoi our subscribers from fraudulent dos ring.
or unfair treatment by persons or concerns a
a distance.

in every one we will do our but u: mph
e ntlsfsctory settlement or force action. is!

, ch no charge (or our unless «In ever be
made. provldlng: .
. 1.—The olslm ls mule by a paid-up lub-
Noribor to The Buslnm Farmer.
2.—-The claim I: not more than 0 mos. old.
8.-—-Ths claim I: not local or between nes-

lo ulthln our dlttsnce of one onetime
' should be settled at ﬁrst hand and not
attempted by melt

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ling the matter. In any way I can
help will be glad to do so.”—R. D.
E, Bay County.

Commends Stand

“I am writing you to commend the
stand taken by you in regard to
chicken thieving. For two years past
we have been entirely cleaned out
of nice ﬂocks of Rocks and are look-
ing for it again this year as, the
thieves are again working in our
neighborhood. There is no use to
call the sheriff as they will do noth-
ing. If there is anything I can do
to help you in this matter please
command me. .

“I want to call your attention to
two convictions in Newaygo county
for chicken stealing, given ninety
days. Out just in time to start steal—
ing again for New Years dinner.
They must be given longer terms,
years instead of months.

“Am enclosing a check for a. three
years subscription to THE BUSINESS
FARMER."-—W. L. R., Kent County.

Coops Visited

“I saw in your last M. B. F. about
your war on chicken thieves. Will
say they are doing great work in this
vicinity and have been all summer.

“Several have been robbed of nearly

all their flocks. They have visited
our coop two different times and
each time got away with a. goodly
number. They visited us last Fri~
day night.”————Mrs. C. B., Gratiot
County.

Had Experience

“I notice in your last issue of M.
B. F. you will help rid the farmers
of the chicken thieves. I can tell
you this, that there is a couple liv—
ing near here that do anything from
stealing poultry to making moon-
shine. We farmers all know they
steal poultry but lack the proof.

"I have just had a queer experi-
ence with some other foreigners that
stole seven of my ducks. I knew
they had them for I saw them in
their orchard but had no mark on
them to prove them but I went after
them tooth and nailuntil they got
scared of the sheriff so dropped six
of them on the back of our place.
The ducks wandered farther away ~
and were gone six weeks, When we 
heard of them being in a cornﬁeld "
and we went after them. The cutest :
part is that the Hunkies got in such '
a hurry to get rid of my ducks that ‘
they took four of mine and two of
theirs. They had their ducks mark-
ed so that is how we got the proof
on them. Here’s hoping you can
clean out the thieves."—_é-Mrs. J. H.
0., Clinton County. . ‘

 

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Signs and Keep

Thieves Away!

CHICKEN thieves and crooks are not going to hang around

where $1,000 in rewards have been offered for their arrest
and conviction. Tack one or more of these signs on your poultry: ,
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house, barns or in front of your house.
pox” to the thief! 1

We have printed up a quantity of these signs which we
offer FREE, with your renewal subscription sent in now,
at practically the cost of printing and postage, if you are
paid up a year or more in advance. Use this coupon-—

 

Michigan Business Farmer Protective Service Bureau,
Mt. Clemens, Mich. '

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' frost is on

the fodder's in the shock” : .

v. . And you hear the kyonch and the
(gobble of the struttin' turkey-cools

"Amid the clackin' of the tumors. the .

X cluckln' of the hens. 

And the rooster’s hallylooyer as he tiptoes
on the fence; '

0. it's then's the times a feller is a-i'eeiin'

_ at. his best.

‘- 3.With the risin' sun to greet him from‘a

night of perfect rest »" A ‘ ..

As he leaVes the house, bare-headed,"and‘
goes out to feed the‘stock.

When the frost is on the punkin and the
fodder's in the shock.

'They's‘something kindo’ harty-like about
the atmusfere

When the heat of summer’s over and the
coolin’ fall is here-

Of course we miss the ﬂowers, and the
blossoms on the trees,

And the mumble of the hummin’-birds
and buzzin' of the bees;

But the air‘s so appetizin; and the land—
scape through the haze

Of a crisp and sunny morning of the

' early autumn days

Is a pictur’ that no painter has the color-
in' to mock— -

When the frost is on the punkin and
the fodder’s in the shock.

Then your apples all is gathered. and the
ones a teller keeps

Is poured around the cellar-ﬂoor in red
and yeller heaps:

And your cider-makln's over, and your
wimmern-folks is through '

With their mince and apple-butter, and
their souse and sausage. too!

I don’t know how to tell it—but if sich
a thing could be

As the angels wantin' boardin', and they'd

call around on me—
I'd want to ‘commodate
whole endurin’ ﬂock
When the frost is on the punkin and the
fodder's in the shock! '

James Whitcommb Riley.

’em———all the

THANKSGIVING

ARENTS everywhere, but partic-
P ularly in the cities and towns,

are asking how they can have
more of a chance to bring up their
children themselves. That is, the
better and more thoughtful sort of
, parents are looking at it in this way.

Public schools have long been
recognized as necessary for the sake
of educating the young of the human
family to later become useful mem-
bers of society. it is not only an
efﬁcient method of instruction, but

it has its singular advantages that
“cannot be duplicated in home train-
ing, however good and conscientious
it may be.

Even as certain kinds of rough
iron castings are turned over and
over upon themselves and against
each other to take off the rough
edges and give them their first pol—
ishing. so children are thrown to-
gether in the great American public
school systems as much to learn of
human behavior from each other as
to learn of the mysteries of Siam
and Ceylon and tables of dry and
wet measures.

And in the past tWenty years other
inﬂuences—fortunately conceived for
the best of purposes—have been
working to take up the spare time
of boys and girls outside of school
hours.

Persons interested in the welfare
of the American family are wonder-
ing if the organization system has
not been carried too far when it is
applied to children who do not need
its affects.

In many homes scarce an evening
is left when all the members of the
family gather together to enjoy each
other's company. This, that, and
the other claim the attention of the
different ages in the family circle.
The movies inevitably draw their
Quota, mother’s parties and father’s
club or lodge ask a certain number
of evenings a week, and then there
are the children’s meetings.

Is it not asking too much for the
youngsters to have to be drawn into
the cogs of organization before they
are old enough to know what it is
all about? What has become of the
family hearth? This question is

' heard on all sides, and while the log-
ical answer seems to be that. it is re-
placed by the heating equipment in
the cellar, one cannot blink the fact
ﬁthat other agencies besides the furn-
iace salesmen have been working to
make home a placevto eat and sleep
nstead of a place in which to really
vs. ' .
‘ The big thing to aim for is a unity
“pf "thought and purpose in the home,
garitb each member of the family in-
terested in the others' problems, each
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at meal time. \

part in this service.
one requesting them. .

family—plan our gathering
around this event of the
day, and give the dinner
second place. ‘

 

Adams letters:

 

‘ A Departmen
' V Ediutl by MRS. ANNIE TAILOR
EAR FOLlfﬂz—In this great land of plenty I wonder if we are
ever careless about returning thanks. Many of our old customs
have grown into disuse, but this is one which we must cling to,-
if we would earnestly serve a Heavenly Father. _ .
Let us give not only thanks to ﬁlm on Thanksgiving Day but let’s
make each day of the year a day of thanksgiving, for it is truly a
beautiful custom to return thanks as the fantily is gathered together

It is a ﬁne thing to teach the younger members of the family to take
I will send little verses for this purposes to any-

Firso—last—and always Thahksglving is a religious holiday.
not complete without the church service so let us all—«every M. B; F.

Mn. Annie Taylor. are The Business Farmer. It. clement. lllohlnn.

   
  
 
  

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on which will contribute to the wel-
fare of the group as a whole.

As a counter-movement, it is now
suggested that Thanksgiving Day this
year may be an occasion for a .home
celebration, as it was before football-
games and amusement places took
the family away. A deﬁnite pro-
gram for such a home celebration is
suggested by the college of agricul-
ture for the boys and girls who are
organized into farm and home
achievement clubs. The idea is
worth considering.

RELINING THE OLD COAT
HE winter coat which is quite
good except for the lining may
be successfully relined at home
by using the old lining as a pattern.
Remove the old lining, press it. and
use it as the pattern. If the back
of the old lining is not seamed in
the center back, cut the old material
in half and lay one half of it on the
folded new material to get the pat—
tern for the back. Allow about an
inch along the fold to be laid into
a pleat in the center back. This
pleat is pressed and caught only at
the neck of the coat when the lining
is stitched into place. A little extra
is also allowed at the front and back
lower edges and when these edges
are turned under, the lining is al-
lowed to bag slightly to prevent it

from drawing the outer material.

FOLDING IRONING BOARD
HE folding ironing board can be
fastened up against the wall and'
is out of the way when not in
use. It should be made of well-
seasoned 1 or 1174-inch material. A
board of convenient size can be made
by the following dimensions: 4 feet
8 inches long, 15 inches wide at the
attached end, and 8 inches at the
free end. About 2 feet from the at-
tached end the board begins to taper
gradually. The free end is rounded.
A strip 1% by 15 inches is secure-
ly fastened by screws to the wall at
a convenient height. The height at
which the board is placed varies with
the height of the user. For a wo-
man of average height it should be
31 or 32 inches. The board is hing-

 
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
    
      

  

  

 
 
  
    
    

  

  
   
 
 
 
  
  
  
  
  
 
   
     

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ed to the wall with two No. 3 butt
hinges. I

The leg or brace, made of material
1 inch thick and 4 inches wide, is
fastened with a No. 3 butt hinge to
a board strip 1 by 4 by 8 inches. The

.board strip is screwed to the under-

side of the board 11 inches from the

. free end. The length of the brace de-"

pends upon .the height of the board,
and when the board is in position the
brace rests against the baseboard
Skirts may be easily
ironed without changing the position
of the brace. A piece of galvanized
iron may be tacked to the board, on
which the hot iron may rest when
not being used. The board is folded

'up against the wall and may be held

in place by using the upperpart of
the rack for holding the portable
ironing board.

 

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Personal Column

 

 

Have You This Hymn‘r—I am wondQ-
ing if any of the readers of The Business

Farmer have in their possession a hymn .

entitled “Under His Wings". It is an
old favorite of mine and I would like to
send for a copy of a book containing it—
Can anyone help me?—G. H., Rockford.
Michigan.

Answering Bequest of Mrs. J. 8.—I
noticed Mrs. J. S‘s. of Twining, Michigan,
request about canning tomatoes. I have
canned tomatoes for three seasons now
and will tell of my experience. The first
year, like Mrs. J. S. all my tomatoes
soured. The next year I canned them the
Same way, open kettle method with a
spoonful of salt in each quart and after
they were cold I wrapped each can in a
newspaper. Not a can soured that year.
Last year my aunt told me to put in a
little salicylic acid in each can and they
would keep ﬁne. I did and all the toma-
toes kept sweet, but we thought there
was a funny taste to them due to put-
ting salicylic acid in them so I think
that if Mrs. J. S. cans her tomatoes as
hot’ as possible and then after they are-
cool, wrap them in paper they will keep
fine. I think it is the darkness that helps
keep them.

I sometimes have trouble with my to-
mato catsup souring, but I have noticed
that the catsup I make using brown
sugar instead of granulated, keeps per-
fect where as the catsup made with
white sugar is the ones that sour for me,
and yet some have fine luck with their
catsup that has white sugar in it.

rhat'little kiddie would not enjoy
W one of these dolls for Christ-
mas? A soft, pretty one that
can be cuddled down in bed with no
fear of breaking. We have a rabbit
and a puppy for the boys and a real
baby doll or a kitty for the girls.
These dolls come beautifully
tinted in natural colors on white
suiting and also stamped on colored
suiting in” blue, gold, tangerine and
rose. The outline, buttonhole and
darning stitch are very simple and
the only ones required in embroid-
ering these dolls. They are then
ready to be stuffed with cotton. ,
Each doll is sixteen inches in
length, and when ﬁnished is both
pretty and serviceable. A gift
which any little kiddie will enjoy for
the, price tag has no meaning for
our. little folks. ’ . ‘ -
The price is thirty cents each, post-
'paid. ‘Be sure to .give the number
andcoior of dell desired when order-
ing. Address ‘ Pattern, gensrtment,

Dolls For Christmas Presents

   

 

» rhesus: get bitter and sour. theta  '5
toes.‘ Following is the only way I can .

 

mine and always have good, luck: Select.
tomatoes slightly under ripe and free
from decay. Peel them and cut out all

green and hard spate. .Place them in a.

preserving kettle, salt them as for table
use. and boil until they are thoroughly
cooked. Fill sterilized jars to oVerﬂow-

ing with boiling tomatoes, add a pinch.
of salt and a teaspooan, of sugar to top,
of each jar, and seal the jar at once.

—-Mrs.~A. D., Huron County.

'Beeipe Wanted.—Please"try to get me
the recipe for sulphured apples. They
are sliced and smoked with sulphur some
way, and can be kept in an open crock
in their own liquor and will keep white.
Would appreciate it so much, if I.‘ could
get this recipe, as I have seen this a good
,many years ago, but not known iust'how
it was done—Mrs. F., Muskegon. Mich.

 

—+if you are well bred!

 

 

In the Restaurant Dining-Romm—Whm
a man and a woman enter a restaurant
or hotel dining-room the woman should
follow immediately after the waiter, who
leads the way to a table; any formal

arm-in-arm progress is, of course. out of_

the question. Before the waiter starts
out to show the places the man may
express preference. usually arrived at by
consultation with the woman. The waiter
draws out the chairs (the woman‘s first).
and when they are seated he presents the
menu. The manalways sits on the wo—
man’s right in a restaurant or cafe.
small table for two he allows her, if pos-
sible, to take the seat which gives the
best view of the room.

 

The Runner’s Bible

 

Thou, shalt love thy neighbor as thy-
self.—Matt. 19:19.

(God) hath made of one blood “1 na-
tions of mom—Acts 17:28.

 

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For the Movie Fan

 

 

The Campus Flirt.—-If you want plenty
of laughs when you go to the movies
here is one that you shOuld see. Bebe
Daniels is the star and the part she takes
is the kind that she always plays with
the greatest of success. She is the
‘daughter of wealthy parents, and after

studying abroad and developing “into 
unbearable snob. her father insists that:

she ﬁnish her education at an American
college. Of course, her “high hat” metha
ods at college fail to get. her anywhere.-
except into trouble, until finally she
swallows her pride and becomes a real.
red-blooded girl, doing all she can for
her college. The climax comes when she
develops into a champion sprinter and
wins the deciding race against a rival
college.

 

 

Recipes

 

 

I Swee-t' Pickles.—Mrs. D., Alamo, Mich.
wishes recipe for sweetplckles. The fol-
lowing will be a guide: 4 quarts cucum-
bers. 1 quart vinegar, 2 cups water. 2
cups sugar or more, 1 tablespoon of mus-
tard or seed. 2 teaspoonfuls tumeric.
Wash cucumbers, put in salt water (cup
to a gallon) over night. Drain, pack. in
quart jars. Put vinegar on in kettle,
add sugar. etc., or leave all but sugar
out if you like. Let come to a boil, fill
jars and seal._ Another for larger cu-
cumbers, medium size, slice 2 quarts of
cucumbers, 2 onions in separate dishes,
using the above amounts or to taste.
When vinegar is hot put cucumbers and
onions in and let come to a boil and seal
being careful not to break as they should
be cut thin.
Ever Ready or Quick Pickles.—Stili
another to the the busy farm wife. Take
1 or 2 gallon crock; for a two-gallon crock

take one gallon vinegar. one cup mus-.

tard, one cup salt, two cups sugar. Have
crock clean and well scalded. Put liquid
in and stir well. Wash cucumbers and
add each day any size not only those
that are very large. Keep cloth on top
with plate turned over. Keep pickle
under vinegar always. They arsenals:
thing like dill, but are better, always
ready. Easy to put away. Set on cellar
ﬂoor or in a cool place. ,
Jolly.—To make jelly this time of year,
(take peek of red apples. quarter taking
core out. wash having all clean, put in.
steam kettle two quarts of water and
cook until well done. Put in jelly bag
fand let drip over night. Inthe morning
cook one quart half ,ripe grapes in, pint
of _water. mashing. as. they cook. 
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EAR girls and boys:—-—There has
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cent contest so I am unable to an-
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before our next issue the success-
ful ones will be determined and
prises sent them. In the meantime
let’s have another contest.

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ging for a contest that would appeal
particularly to them so we will give
them a chance to do their best. This
will be a story writing contest open
to all and stories may be true or
otherwise, but they must be original
with the writers. No fair copying
them from some you have read or
heard. Also I suggest that you do
not make them longer than 500
words; however, if necessary to

just as careful consideration as the
short ones. The closing date will be
November 20th.

Are there to be any prizes, I hear
someone ask. You just bet there is.
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cause it will keep them nice and dry
and will be am easy way to carry
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is a girl, and a dandy jackknife if
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good book, while fourth and fifth
awards will be—well, just wait and
see.
to send in their stories will each re-
ceive a button, if they have not al-
ready received one. Be sure to ad-
vise if you have one, and give your
age and complete name and address.

The subject of your story is en-
tirely up to you but as this is nearly
the holiday season something about
Thanksgiving, Christmas or New
Years would be very good it seems
to me, and “Do Your Best—UNCLE
NED. .

 

 

Our Boys and Girls

 

 

Dear Uncle Nedz—I have been read—
ing the Children’s Hour page ever since
May and enjoy it very much. I just
adore the motto and colors. I think blue
and gold go so good together.

Well. I guess I had better describe my-
self as the other cousins do. I am ﬁve
feet, two inches tall. weigh one hundred
and twenty-one pounds, have dark brown
hair, blue eyes and will be sixteen years
old the 14th of April. I wonder if I
have a twin. Do you think I am too
old to write to the children’s page? .

I went to Traverse City in August and
picked cherries. I wonder if any of the
cousins,were there. .

Well. I will ring off. hoping Mr. W. B.
is asleep or away on business when my
letter arrives. I wish some of the boys
and girls would write to me. I will
answer any letters that come my way.
I am your want-to-be nieces—Evelyn
Heillg, Curtisville, Michigan.

P. S..——Unclc Ned, if I see my letter in
print I will send in a story and hope to
get a button.

——I am printing your letter. so now do
not forget your promise, Evelyn.

Dear Uncle Nedz—Well here I am
again trying to win an M. B. F. button.
I am going to tell the cousins just a little
story and you can listen in, Uncle Ned,
if you wish.

Helen and Max Walker were twins
about twelve years old and lived on a
large farm. They were second oldest of a.
family of six. They had a. large car and
were a happy lot. One day their father
decided to take the day off, so they
lo ded up and went to the lake which
win a distance of about twenty—five miles.
They had a, very enjoyable day and start-
ed for home about six. But, alas, when
they were still a. distance from the main
road they had a blow-out and. of course,
that meant a while on the road. Ted
the oldest boy and Mr. Walker worked at
the tire which was in very bad shape.
while Mrs. Walker amused the younger
ones. But Helen and Max grew restless
and began to look around. Then Helen
spied a spot where some one had had a.
fire and going closer she‘found part of a

. magazine and what kind do you suppose

Of course, you will say an M.
You are has masses”. and right
"Children's

it was.
B. F.
batons her eyes was tho

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both wrote to Uncle ‘Nsd'; [and of course,

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Colors: BLUE ANDGOLD.

make them longer they will receive"

And the ﬁrst ten story, writers-

Bour”. She and la: road it all before.

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easy

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the outcome ‘was that they are 

wearing buttons and are our own cousins.
Well, I am sure Mr. Waste Paper Bas-
ket lhas this so I will sign off. an’t-

some of the members of the M. B. F. 
write to me. please? Your niece and..

oousin.—Edith Johnston, R2, Filion, Mich, 

-—Quite a story, indeed. Write again.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I wrote to .you ones - ‘

before but did not see my letter in print.

I am going to tell you about when I ‘_
went to the Croswell Fair last year. My ' ’
I went on the merry—go:

round once before dinner and two times ‘

father took us.

right after. ~

I watched our school teacher go on the
whip but I thought if I did it Would
whip all the brains I had out. I wan"

going to go on the fan-is whoa! but didnl. «
I am ten '

I will describe yosif now.

years old. about four feet, eight inches '-

tall and I weigh seventy-live pounds.
I have blue eyes, dark hair and a dork
complexion. _
Well,hoptngtoboonsofyourmerry
circle, and also that Mr. Wants Basht
has gone on a. visit, I must alone now.-’-—-
Emma Robbins. RS. Box 83, Cromwell.
Michigan.
-—It is great fun to attend fairs. isn’t I?
I always enjoy them.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I thought I would
like to join your merry circle. I have
been reading the Children's Hour for
about one year. I would like to have
one of your pins so I will write a verse.

I will describe myself. I am about
ﬁve feet tall, weigh one hundred and
eighteen pounds. have light bobbed hair.
blue eyes, medium complexion.
the eighth grade and am ﬁfteen years
old in June, 1927. Have I a. twin? I

have four sisters and one brother. My
sisters' names are Hazel. Helen. Violet
and Marion. My brothers' i Ira. We

live on a 70-acro farm. Three acres of
it is set out to peach trees and seven
acres to apple trees. We have two
horses and sixty chickens. We have a
dog named Carlo. two pet kittens. I hope
to see my poem and letter in print—Your
niece. Ruby VanHouten. R2, Hopkins.
Michigan.
“Animatlmorlcka”

The squirrel is fond of climbing tress,
He scrambles up with graceful case,

If you and I were half as spry,

We’d not so often skin our knees.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I didn’t see my that
letter in print but will write again and
thank you for my button. I appreciate
it very much.

I will tell you about a school reunion
we had at our school house the not of
August. We had a teacher there that
taught in 1867-1877. She gave us a little
talk. Then there was a later teacher
that taught in 1923. 'Thero is some dif-
ference in the requirements of a teachnr
now than there was then. We then had
a. picnic and sold ice cream, and also had
a. short program. The men and boys
played ball and horseshoe while the older
and younger women talked about the

,schooi and other things. We have a new

school house which was built in 1910 or
1920 which is named the Kellystono or
Cobblestone. The latter was the name of
the old school house.

I will close so as to give room for the
other cousins. Your niece—Norma San-
ford, R3. Tekonsha, Michigan.

Dear Uncle Nedz—I have been reading
“Our Page” 'for about two years and
would like to join your circle as I have
never written before.

We have ten pigs, four cows, two
horses and a pet dog and cat. The dog’s
name is Penny and the cat’s name in
Fristy. They like to play. I am ﬂvo
feet three inches tall, have light hair,
bobbed and blue eyes. I am in the eighth
grade at school. I have one sister called
Orphla and two brothers named Robert
and Ray. We are all going to school
this year. Your want-to-be-niece.-—Freda
Bates, Rl, Bannister, Michigan.

 

 

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013w. , We had rainrevery day or night.
Beans cornmencing to spoil. Heavy frost,
October 23rd. Potatoes mOStly dug. some,
com' being hushed. Cattle} 'in good shape.
cam; selling good. Not much farm. pro-
dine beingsold. Farmers getting ready
for winter. Road”: in good shape. Ground
covered with snow for the ﬁrst time this
talk—«Frank Kaderabek, 16—26-261.

Midland.—Weather hard on beans and
lots. at them out rotting on ground. Some
not pulled yet. Potatoes dug but not
ﬁrst'class; seem to be not fully matured.
Very little plowing done, too much rain
and me snow. Quotations at Midland:
Hay, $16.00 ton: corn, 75c. bu.; oats, 36c
bu.;.rye, 75c bu.; wheat. $1.21 bu.; beans,
$4.50, cwt. ;,,_eggs, 490 doz.; butter,.4sc lb.
—B., V. CL, 10:25-26. ~

Kent. Apple and potato harvest almost
completed. Several auctions. Cows sold
$50 to $60 at sale. last week. Horses went
from $2.00 to $75.00. Pure bred Perch-
erons six year old mare $160, ﬁve month
mue- colt $80.00. Two imported mares
$1.40. Hogs, yearlings ready for new
corn crop to ﬁnish them off $81.00 each.
Spring pigs, $14.50. Corn crop looks
well but some report vrey hard to harden
it in shock. Ground hasn't frozen yet
but'jiorne ice reported. Oats sold at
auction, '51c bu. Hay, $9.50 ton. Bean
cropi'a failure hora—Sylvia Wellcome.
1045;26.

Alpenn,~Potatoes all dug and some
loaded out. “leather not very good for
potatoes. Fall plowing late and slow.
A little. mow but not enough to hurt.
Quotations at Sprait: Ilay, $16.00 ton;
oats, 40c bu.; rye, 70c bu.; wheat, $1.20
bu.; beans, $4.00 cwt.; potat'oes, $1.85
bu.; eggs, 300 doz.; butter, 40c lb.——R. 11.,
10—21—26.

Min (NWJ—Cold rainy Weather
with some snow mixed in. Cloudy all
the. time. Buckwheat and beans too damrr
to get in. Silos not all ﬁlled yet. Fall
wheat looking good. Very little good
corn. Potato digging is rush now; sev—
eral done. Lots of rotten potatoes in
the clay, otherwise are pretty good.
Smaller acreage than usual. Quotations
at Gladwin: Potatoes, $1.00 cwt.; butter-
fat, 42c 1b.; eggs, 35c doz.—-L. C. Y., 10-
20~2£ ,

Mason.——Almost continuous rain last
week has delayed potato digging. Many
kidney beans in ﬁeld; farmers stacking
them around poles to dry. Many pota-
toes still in ﬁeld; some rotting on heavy
soils. VMany apples going to waste.
Cider apples bringing 28c per cwt. (low
testing for '1'. B. will begin in section
around Freesoil about November lst.
Corn all out. Not much mature corn.
Quotations at Scottville: Wheat, $1.17
bu.;. broilers. 230, 1b.; oats, 500 bu.; rye,
78c bu.; beans, $4.00 cwt.; potatoes, $1.67
cwt.; butter, 46c lb.; eggs, 37c doz.—G.
Pearl harr, 10—22—26,

Shiawussvc (NW).—~Ttain every day.
Not oneathird of beans pulled yet. Those
threshed pick 10 to 30 lbs. Standing
beans dead loss excopt for hog feed.
Some have turned sheep into ﬁelds not
pulled. Corn not fit to h‘usk. Docs not

 

. cure out, what little that 'got ripc. Not

half of the llll(‘llli(\ti acreage of wheat
sown. 'l‘oo wet to do much of anything.
Quotations at, Elsie: 'Whvnl, $1.24 bu.;
oats, 360 bu.; beans, $1.35 cwt.; potatoes,
$1.00 cwt.; butler, 46c lb.; eggs, 42c doz.
—G. L. l’., 10—22~L’.6.

Oakland—thin!inued wet weather hold-
ing up all farm work. Bean harvesting
has been a tedious job but most. farmers
claim beans not badly damaged. Buck—
wheat in shock. Apples big crop and
qua.th extra good, .Potnloes good crop.
Quite a lot yet in ground. illelp scarce
and wages high. Quotations at .llolly:
Hay, $15.00 ton; earn, 700 bu.; oats, 40c
bu.; rye, 800 bu.; wheat. $1.25 bu.; beans,
$4.30 cwt.; potatoes, $2.25 cwt.; eggs, 42c
doz.; butter, 45c lb.—John DeCou, 10-
24~26.

Lenawee (W).—Crops about all gath-
ered but corn and potatocs. Corn not
best quality, lots of. soft corn. Potatoes
fair but lots of small ones. Some plow-
ing being done. Some husking by hand
being done. Shredders will start shortly
if weather permits. First snow the 25th.
Ground froze hard. Quotations at Cad-
mus: Wheat, $1.35 bu.; potatoes. $2.75
cwt.; eggs, 500 doz.; butter, 470 lb.—
0. 3., 10-27—26.

Calhoun—"Have had so much rain the
farmers are behind with all work. Early
corn very good. Late corn poor. Many
are not cutting it. Quotations at Mar-
shall: Hay, $12.00 ton; com, 900 bu.;
oats, 38c bu.; rye, 83c bu.; wheat, $1.28
bu.; beans, $4.00 c-wt.; potatoes. $1.25
cwt.; eggs, 500 doz.; butter, 450 11).—
M. M. Patterson, 10-27—26.

Clinton-Eaton—Ioniar—JBeans in at last,
but lotsof clover} seed to .hull. Some still

cutting corn or digging potataea- ‘ Wheat
looks so does apples. although 
may get hurt by good freeze. ,Auctlon
sales with us once .m. Beef hatchet

done well. Some ground too wet- to plOw.

  

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Much work to do and rains so often
ground doesn’t get any chance to dry.
Quotations at Lansing: Wheat, $1.23 bu.;
com, 800 bu.; oats, 35c bu.; beans, $4.50
cwt.; 'potatoes, $1.50 cwt.; butter, 47c
1b.; eggs, 35c doz.—B. B. D., 10-26—26.

St. Joseph—Farmers starting to crib
corn. Late potatoes being harvested.
Some report large yields while others re-
port small yields. Recent cold spell froze
some' potatoes. Fall crops look exception—
ally well. Fall pig crop small due to small
litters. mostly. Continuous rainy weather
hinders farmers considerable with fall
work—A. J. Y., 10—28-26.

Saginaw (SE).—Rainy weather still
continues. Ground really too wet for
plowing. Potatoes all dug, not half crop.
larly sown wheat looking good. No bean
threshing done yet. No husking done,
stalks too wet. Quotations at Birch Run:
Hay, $13.00 ton; corn, 75c bu.; oats, 40c
bu.; rye, 790‘ bu.; wheat, $1.25 bu.;
beans, $3.90 cwt.; potatoes, $1.25 bu.;

‘eggs, 410 doz.; butter, 480 lb.———~E. C. M.,
10-28-26. ’

Wexford.-—-Having warm rainy weather.
Farmers ﬁnishing potato digging. Country
roads in poor condition on account of
much ‘rain. Wexford county has been
reached in the state campaign against
diphtheria. Quotations at Cadillac: Hay,
$15.00 ton; corn, $1.00 bu.; oats, 460 bu.;
rye, 78c bu.; wheat, $1.15 bu.; beans.
$4.50 cwt.; potatoes, $2.15 cwt.; eggs, 360
doz.; butterfat, 44c lb.~—E. H. D., 10-28-20.

 

Monroe. Potato crop generally good
though somewhat damaged by wet
weather. Not all dug yet. Most crops

Very good. Silo ﬁlling has been difﬁcult
as fields were too wet to use machinery.
Crop was good. Quotations at Monroe:
Hay, $15.00 ton; corn, $1.00 bu.; oats, 38c
bu.; rye, 7'50 bu.; wheat, $1.31 bu.;
beans, $4.50 cwt.; potatoes, $1.60 bu.;
eggs, 45c doz.; butter, 45c lb.———Mrs. F.
11., 10—28-26. ,
llillsdale (NW).——Few nice days past
two weeks and farmers making most of
them. Had quite snow flurry Monday so
hope we will have good November. Fall
work pretty well taken care of, with corn
husking DOW the order. Corn making
good yield. llave had big crop of nuts
this year, making children happy. Large
number of farm auctionsr—C. H., 10-28426.

(Damn—Corn Cutting over with some
started to husk. Most corn not ready
to crib. Hard freeze would help ripen
corn and also loosen husks. Lambs be—
ginning to be shipped and price fair.
Pastures getting short. and some herds
looking thin. A little grain now helps a
lot. Quotations at Marcellus: Hay, $18.00
ton; corn, 800 bu.; oats, 350 bu.; wheat,
$1.18 bu.; potatoes, $1.25 bu.; eggs, 350
don—W. N. 11., 10-28-26.

’l‘uscola (VV).——Wheatl~ sowing all ﬁn-
ished with smaller acreage on account
of wet weather. Quite a lot of beans
still in ﬁeld. Some started to thresh but
on account of being put in barn too Wet
were obliged to quit. No one can remem-
ber when so much corn was still uncut
at this time of year. Auction sales be-
ginning to be held. Quota‘tions at Vassar:
Wheat, $1.24 bu.; corn, 67c bu.; oats, 400
bu.; rye, 79c bu.; beans, $4.90 cwt.; po-
tatoes, $1.50 bu.; butter, 50c 1b.; eggs,
40c doz.~—J. T., 10-28-26.

Saginaw (WS).——Farmer way behind
with work. Beans not all pulled, some
have threshed, going from ﬁve to seventy
bushels to the acre. Most all pick heavy.
Some will pick ﬁfty percent. Some hauled
In wet and are heating in mows. Pota-
toes dug went about 150 bushels to acre.
No corn husked yet. Too wet and green.
Bad for seed next year. Quotations at
Hemlock: Hay, $12.00 ton; corn 700
bu.; oats, 40c bu.; rye, 80c bu.; wheat.
 but; beans, 4$34.90 cwt.: potatoes.

. cw .; eggs, c (102. '
lh.—-F. 1)., 10-25.“. ' bmter’ 46°

Minnow—«Tuesday ground covered
withsnow. Last potatoes being dug and
hauledzsyieldlntg fkrom 150 to 300 bu. per
acre. ome , uc wheat still ' ' '

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We hung up about 400' pounds ofpork to be smoked with
green mapleMbutovernight thcwood got welldry
and the fat dripping on the ﬁre destroyed our amok:-
houce and the meat. Thanks to the man who invented
Old Hickory Smoked Salt, we no longer need to risk harm
in; up our meat. The meat we cured with Old Hickory
look: ﬁne; its brown color gives I person an appetite to
look at it: the meat did not: shrink any and has a better
taste that smoke—house meat. — Walter Laks, Ho!-

7; land, N. Y.

e many pounds in ﬂavory
meat juices and by the drippings of
fat, in the smoke-house even though
you may not set ﬁre to the 
You save all this smoke-house shrink-
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ing Old Hickory Smoked Salt to cure

 

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It 18 so wholesome, so ﬂavory that
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At your dealers in air-tight, trade.
and smoke your meat at: the same gnawed, ten Pound drums. Write fan
time. Old Hickory is pure salt with ’39 sample and 13001!-

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Unless a cow has from 15 to 20
gallons of water a day, she can-
not give her maximum supply of '
milk. When winter comes, cows
that have to go outside and stand
in the cold biting winds for wat-
cr will not drink enough and
milk production will fall off.
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Don’t go through this winter without J amesway
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Pay for Them Out of Extra Proﬁts

Tents recently made on. 28 herds proved that Jamcsww
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year on each cow. Every 90 days you put off ordering
Jamesway Drinking Cups you are paying f0: thcmm loot
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DR.’ ROPP, an Ohio veterinarian, wanted to ﬁnd out
which was better—Dr. Hess Improved Stock Tonic or
f‘capsules"— for getting rid of worms and making
hogs thrive. ‘ '

He took a bunch of wormy, scrubby shoats and

' divided them into two pens, equal in weight.
Pen No. l were given the popular capsule treatment.
\ Pen No. 2 were given Dr. Hess Improved Stock
Tonic. ' t
' Pigs weighed every week
lat week—Capsule pen had gained 29 lbs.
Tonic pen had gained 146 lbs.
6th mek—-Capsule pen had gained 37' lbs.
Tonic pen had gained 668 lbs.

Both pens were given the same care and all the feed they
would eat. At the end of the six weeks the Capsule pen had
consumed $30.96 worth of feed including $3.00 for Capsules.
The Tonic pen had consumed $36.06 worth of feed including
$2.l0 for Stock Tonic.

The Capsule pen had gained 37l pounds at a cost of 8 l/3c
a pound. The Tonic pen had gained 668 pounds at a cost of
5 l/3c a pound.

Both pens of pigs were sold at llc a pound. The gain for
the Capsule pigs was $40.8l. The gain for the Tonic pigs
was $73.48——the difference in favor 'oi Dr. Hess Improved
Stock Tonic was $32.67.

Now, Mr. Hog Raiser—if you have a bunch of
worrriy or unthrifty shoats, it will pay you to put them i
on Dr. Hess Stock ,Tonic today. Get 25 pounds for
every 20 shpats. Feed the worming dose for the ﬁrst
l0 days, then the thriving dose.

Our guarantee covers the results unconditionally.-

‘Prices: 25 lbs. $3.00; 100 lbs. $10.00; 500 lbs. at 935:; t

1000 lbs. at 9c. Ton lots at 855:: a pound.
Except In the Far West and Canada

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FARMER'S PRICES FOR BULL CALVES SIRED
by most popiilnr blond lines $50.00 each. Write
for circular. WOODLAND FARMS. Monroe. Mich.

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ier ou. Address Live stock Editor, M. I.
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Grendsons of Brookmea 3 Stars and Stripes . o.
49”? good individuals F. L. Irish. Owesso. Mich.

Michigan Pure-Bred Livestock Auctioneer
Write or wire for terms and dates.
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Shorthorn'Buils. Milking Strain. Shropshire Lamb
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tio 1 Winners. horn cows and heifers. Also good son of 1
egg?) laganﬁsiug' c I. mohmm Rodney. GLEN vasrons. R1. Clare. won.”

Hereford Steers all SWINE»  ‘

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.hncb. n also show you Shorthorn steers.
mun” °' 2 "" °“" F0“ SALE—s FEW audio college JERSEY
boars also ll: br snd open.
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5 MORE THAN HEAVY‘ONES _‘
IGHT hogs have-v sold for more a
hundredweight \than vheavy hogs

= on the Chicago market during
46 of the, 60 months in the past ﬁve
years, according to ﬁgures. This is
something for pork, producers” to
keep in mind when they are trying
to decide whether to market their
hogs at weights of about 200 pounds
or carry them along untilthey weigh
around 350mpeunds. -A scarcity of
hogs and plentiful corn are condi-
tions that justify feeding to heavy
weights. A hog market which does
not promise to decline too much also
is an important factor. Most of these
favorable conditions have been op-

, crating this year. It has been hard,
sometimes impossible, to get feeder

hogs to replace fat ones as they leave
the feed lot, and furthermore, corn
prices have not encouraged the sale
of this grain as a cash crop.

Heavy hogs take more feed for 9.
pounds of gainin live weight than do
light ones. This must be taken into
consideration in determining, wheth-
er to market hogs light or heavy.

Average ﬁgures indicate that und-
er favorable conditions-a total of
approximately 663_ pounds of feed
are needed to bring a pig from birth
to a live weight of 200 pounds. Of
this, about ‘ 60 pounds should be
tankage or its equivalent. _/

To carry a ZOO-pound hog on to
350 pounds will require on the av-
erage 627 pounds more feed, of
which 45 pounds should be tankage.

The average price of light hogs
from February 1 to May 30, this
year was $13.15 a hundred, while
heavy hogs sold on the average for
$12.24 a hundred during the same
period. A 200-pound hog at the
higher price therefore would sell for
$26.30]. If 15 per cent of 'this is
allowed for expenses other than
feed, there would be $22.35 left for
feed. Calculating tankage at $65
a ton, the 60 pounds eaten by ‘a. 200-
pound hog would cost $1.95. There
would therefore be $20.40 left to
pay for the 603 pounds of corn. A
'200—pound hog therefore would pay
3.38 cents a pound for corn, or $1.89
a bushel.

. On a similar basis, a 350-pound
hog would pay $1.56 for the corn he
ate. The corn that was fed him after
he reached a weight of 200 pounds
would be paid for at the rate of
$1.20 a bushel or much more than

the current market price.

This calculation shows that if 200-
pound hogs could not have been re-
placed in the feed lot it would have
been poor policy this year to sell
them at the higher price of 200
pounds and then market the corn
direct.——W. C.

COST OF FEEDING

What would be the estimated cost
of feeding and taking care of four—
teen head of hogs with an average
of 200 pounds each, one hundred
chickens and three head of horses
from December 27, 1925 to February
‘6, 1926, a total. of 43 days? I feed
them my own corn at 60c per bushel
and ha yat $15 per ton. I fed them
'only to keep them invgoovd condition
as they were in good condition when
I got them, and the chickens I feiL
corn.——E. L., Dowagiac, Mich.

HOG weighing 200 pounds
would eat approximately 3% per
cent of his live weight in grain
daily. In other words every one of
-these pigs would consume seven
pounds of corn daily or 287 pounds‘
during the 41 days you fed them.
This would give a. total of 71%
bushels of corn consumed by the
hogs.
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buihels of corn. In othergw‘orgg‘ft‘he

hogs and chickens “Would con'sjumo.’
about.:90\,bus'hels of shelled some:
which at 60c per bushel wouldqbepf'z ‘

$54.01.). ‘ ,

It should not be necessary to feed I:
* idle horses any appreciable quantity“?-
of grain during the winter. Twenty .
pounds of good hay per headdaily'i
should keep these horses'in goodi
‘shape. This would ﬁgure out 2,460».

’pounds of hay at $15.00 per, ton
I would come to $18.45 or a total feed
—cost for keeping these animals of
$72.45.“ It is quite possible that you
may have fed these horses some
grain with the idea of having them
in good condition for a sale. If such
were the case, the cost of. this grain
could be added to the above.‘

The ﬁgures on the amount of food
are based upon shelled corn—Geo.
A. Brown, Professor of Animal Hus;
bandry, M. S. C. ‘ ‘

N0 BUTTER IN CREAM
Would like to know if there is
more 'butter than butter-fat in a

gallon of cream, and if so how much?
—-E. C. D., Chief, Mich.

HERE is no butter whatever in
a gallon cream. There is but-
terfat however in cream. But-
terfat is what its name indicates:
the fatty. portion of milk. Butter is
a mixture of butterfat, salt, curd
and water. It is the .product of
churning, salting, and working but-
terfat.

A gallon of cream weighs approx—
imately 8.5 pounds. If this weight
is multiplied by the test of the cream
the product is the pounds of butter—
fat in that gallon of cream. If the
Cream is churned on the farm, about
11 to 16 percent more Of butter than
there was butterfat present is ob—
tained—P. S. Lucas. Associate Pro-
fessor of Dairy Manufactures, Mich-
igan State College.

DIP T0 CONTROL HORSE MANGE
IPPING in lime—sulphur or in
nicotine solution ' will cure
hurses affected with mange,'one
of the most injurious skin" diseases
affecting these animals.
lice will not be killed at one dippiing.
Destroy the "hits" or eggs which
survive, by a second dipping as soon

as the hatching is completed and’

before the young lice become mature
and begih depositing eggs.

Emilicjlzmet

Bring {our everyday problems In and set
the exper once of other farmers. Questions ad-
dressed to iglshdepartmerlt are published her!

~ arrwere y ou. our readers who a
graduates of the, chool of Hard ilnoclis all:
who have their diplomas from the Coll e of
Experience. you don't want our sdtor‘s
advice or an expe't's advice. but lust plain,
nerv ‘av husincss iarmsrs‘ advice. send in
your question here. if you can answer the other
is'low's quest'm, please do so, he may sni-
wor one of yours some day: Address Exper-
lance Pool. care The Business Farmer. Mt.
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CURING FISTULA

EAR' Editorz—Whlie reading the,

M. B. F‘. I saw the letter of C.
D. S. in regard to his mare.hav-

lng ﬁstula; I would like for him to:

try my remedy as i had a horse that
had ﬁstula. I doctored him for some
time without any good results at
all. My father-in-law wanted me to
try turpentine.
with turpentine anl injected it in as
far as I could get the syringe. ‘Only

had to use once. That \was nine

years ago this spring and it healed
right up. Have worked him ever
since, and see no signs of It coming
back—Chas. O. Hartup, Branch
County. i

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CAN YOU BEAT THIS?

EAR EDITOR:-—Some time ago you published an account of a calf
which weighed 126 lbs. at three days of age, and stated that
possibly this was a record weight. _ On January 13,1926, 1 had

a cow drop a calf which three days later. and Just before feeding time,
weighed 118 lbs. ,‘11 he had been allowed to nurserbefore weighing,
I am sure he would have been heavier than your oorrespondont’s Calf,"
as a calf of’this size would ignite considerable  than IBIbs. of  V
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They need help. Kow-Kare gives it
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Kare is a concentrated tonic that acts

' on the digestion and assimi-
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“15 more of the ration into quarts of

, Row-Kare really costs nothing to
use. Its slight cost more than comes
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Absorbine reduces thickened,
swollen tissues, curbs, ﬁlled ten-
dons, soreness from bruises or
strains. Stops spavin lameness.
Does not blister, remove hair or
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lsdl answered tree m eld-
 '70: resolve a personal  _

MILK STRINGY
I have a cow that her milk after
standing from night until morning
is slimy and stringy. Can you tell
me why it is that way? She seems
to be healthy and feeds mostly on
mash—A. J. H., Delton, Michigan.

/

ONDITIONS of this kind are not
C often any fault of the animals
unless she has been in milk for
a long time; if this is the cause the
cow should be dried up. Occasion-
ally some cows have an infection of
the udder and the milk will be ab-
normal. Would suggest getting seine
chlorinated lime and disinfecting the
milk pails and the utensils that are
used with the milk. Put a teaspoom
ful in quart of warm water and wash
this cow's udder before you milk
her; for disinfecting the pails and
other utensils you may use a table-
enconful to each couple of gallons
of warm water. Try a change in the
feed of this animal and see if that
makes any difference in the milk.
Can you think of anything you are
feeding or that she can get in the
marsh that might affect the milk?
You are acquainted with the nature
of the vegetation growing in your
community and can no doubt learn
whether anyone else using such feed
is having similar trouble with their
cattle.

CAUSED BY IRRITATION
I have some pigs and have had
two of a bunch of six that their
bowels protruded and am wondering
What is the cause and what to do.
They were about four months old
and had fed soft corn and separated

milk—C. E. G., Durand, Michigan.

HIS condition is caused by too
much irritation in the intestinal
tract and is the result of im—

p oper feeding; too much oats or too
much milk if properly balanced with
other feeds such as middlings, bran
and the like will cause it; treat the
piles each day with carbolated vase-
line. Then add some of these feeds
to the milk and do not feed light
chaify oats and you will not have
this trouble.

FAIIB TO GET WITH CALF‘

I have a cow that has had one
calf when she was three years old,
and I bred her right back and sup-
posed her with calf until it was time
for her to calf. Then I bred her
again and she went for about three
or four months. Then she came
around again. I would like to know

’ if there is anything that can be done

as she is an extra good cow. She is
in perfectly good health as far as I
can see—A. C., Alden, Michigan.

0U can do this, I will not guar-

antee that it will bring results

but it will if anything can do
so. Get air slaked lime, steamed
bone meal and salt; mix equal parts
and give this animal about 6 table-
spoonful per day on some grain.
Get two ounces of potassium idode
and dissolve in a quart of water;
give a tablespoonful every other day
on the feed.

' O
BLOODY MILK
I have a 2% year old Guernsey
heifer that came fresh last spring
and she gives bloody milk at times.
Can you tell me what to do to pre-
vent it‘I—C. B., Williamsburg, Mich.

0 not force this heifer for heavy

milk ﬂow; this is a difﬁcult

thing to handle; do not feed
much corn or at any time a heavy
ration. Better dry her up about 8
or 9 weeks'before she is to freshen
and give her a good rest. There
is nothing else that you can do.
Milk her dry and do not be rough
to her in handling her udder when

. milking.

CAN GER—FREE BOOK SENT 0N
. REQUEST
Tells cause of cancer and what to
do. for. pain, bleeding, odor, etc.
Write for , it today. mentioning this.
paper. ‘ I
Hospital. ' Indianapolis..-;Ind~,~—£Adv.),
' ’ ' :‘t'  ‘9‘?“ ’ 5  :

 

      

 

FEED .

* KEEP no:

  
 

" TONED UP

Insure their Health I

 

Feed and weather conditions have
been abnormal. Hog cholera and intes-
tinal diseases prevail. Losses are heavy.

The experience of practical hog
feeders is that proper feeding goes far to
prevent sickness. The intestinal tract of
the hog fed too heavy and one-sided a
ration, especially of new corn, is subject
to unknown bacterial attacks reducing
vitality and inviting disease.

Wisconsin Circular 54, under heading“Prevention and
Control of Hog Cholera" says: “Feed a Laxative Diet." -

Indiana Circular 44 recommends a light ration before
vaccination and no feed at all for twelve hours preceding the

operation. After vaccination, a
ration that is not heating, such as
the following, is urged: a slop of
ground oats, middlings, linseed meal
and tankagc.

Linseed Meal is a mild, soothing
laxative—one of the best condition-
ers known. It will aid in preventing
costly disease. And in addition its
high protein content will hasten
gains. It has proven worth $85 a
ton in combination with certain
other feeds at the Wisconsin Ex—
pcrimcnt Station.

Hog raiscrs, dairymen, cattle
men, breeders, marketing specialists
—evcrywherc join in praise of Lin-
seed Mcal for all classes of farm
animals. Just how-why they use
it, and the proﬁt it gives, are told
in the books shown herewith. Get
any one or all of them by writing

our Dept. BBJL

LINSEED MEAL

EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE
1128 Union Trust Building
CHICAGO, ILL.

   

 

 

      

PAYS THE FEEDER AS HIGH AS 100% PROFIT

 

 

 

 

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5:; A25 good ones. Address

BREEDING EWES FOR SALE. SHROPSHIRE.

uau yesrlm .
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FOR 8ALE: 1000 DELAINE BREEDING EWES.
500 yearlings and twos
sale.

OXFORD IJOWN RAMS AND A FEW AGED 20
ewes for sale. rices right.

REGISTEEED HAMPSHIRE VEARLING RAMS.

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can soousn, n4, Evhrt, Mlchlgan.

PURE
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Toms $8 hens $6.

Ma ‘ '. .
ARI. KALEV. ha. Elmore. Mlehlgan.

 

ire grades and cross breeds. A1 extra
50 to car lot.
F RNISS, Nashville. Michigan.

beautiful colors,
cons rooste

health
Mrs. {'1-

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Rose Comb Brown Leghorn Roosters,
and combs. $2.50 apiece.
5 months old 82.00 apiece.
stock, not mixed.
ank Mlmkln, R1, Roscommon, Nllohljan.

An-
All

 

. Price right for quick
FRANK DODGE, Peorla. Ohio.

ENOS EAOOOK. Bath. Mlohlgan.

WHITE LEGHORN EGGS BIG DISCOUNT
M— if ordered now for Spring shipment.
0 to 293 egg males. Egg bred 26
non 16 egg contests. Shipped C. 0

special price bulletin, free.

hens. cockerels at low riccs.
George B. Fen-ls. 942

Sired by
ears. Win-
. . Catalog,
Thousands of pallets,

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Address Indianapolis Cancer V

 

 

Registered Black Top Delaine
Yearling Rams

‘at reason-gs prices. This ﬂock won thz premieg'

nner t the State Fair.
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THE annual rain fall in the
United States would weigh

over three and one-half

trillions of tons.

This vast weight is
drawn up to the clouds by
the unseen but effective
power of the sun; repre-
senting energy equiva—
lent to three hundred
billion horse-power.

The annual telephone
conversations total over
twenty-ﬁve billion a year.
As silently as sunlight,
electricity, mastered by
the human mind, carries
the voices of the nation.

There must be the man-
power of 300,000 individ-
uals to build, maintain and
operate the telephone
system.

There must be the
money-power of over
seven hundred million
dollars a year to pay for
operating the plant, in ad-
dition to three billion dol-
lars invested in the plant.

The rain sustains life;
the telephone furnishes
swift communiCation for
the nation, and they are
alike in requiring a vast
amount of unseen energy.

 

AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

 

IN ITS SEMIoCENTENNIAL YEAR THE BELL SYSTEM LOOKS FOR-
WARD TO CONTINUED PROGRESS IN TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION

 

 

Cured His Rupture

I was badly ruptured while lifting a
trunk several years ago. Doctors said my
only hope of cure was an Operation.
Trusses did me no good. Finally I got
hold of something that'ouickly and com-
pletely cured me. Years have passed and
the rupture has never returned, although
I am doing hard work as a carpenter.
There was no operation, no lost time, no
trouble. I have nothing to sell, but will
give full information about how you may
ﬁnd a complete cure without operation, If
you write to me, Eugene M. Pullen, Car-
penter. 33 N. Marcellus Avenue, Mamas-
quan, N. J. Better cut out this notice
and show it to any others who are rup—
tured—you may save a life or at least
stop the misery of rupture and the worry
and danger of an operation—(Adv)

     

Wonder Ointment From
Sheep's Wool Works like Magic
A wonderful healingpintment extracted from .the
wool of sheep is theﬁlscovery of Mr. C. G. Philhg,
of Ohio. amazing remedy for Burns, ,
Cuts. Sores, or any ﬂesh wounds on man or beast.
Even stubborn cases of Eczema, Rash or Chillblams
yield wits soothing relief. ,
ClaiBgNA WG-31. FA'il‘ lo Itzbe name of trig-awn, hm:
In rave l emu 68 I f0 8 .

at: amt-sails. Emil-343. tars aw.

CORONA MFG. Coqﬂlcorou Ila" Kenton. Ohio

   

ﬁelds-which ‘ have a

 

When Writing to ’Advcrtis-

ers Please Mention The

 

Michigan Business Farmer

 

_ ECZEMA
CAN BE CURED
Free Proof To You

All I want is your name and address so I can send you 'a free trial
treatment. I want you just to try this treatment—that s all-lust

try It. That's my only ar

    

J. c. HTZELL
DRUGGIB‘I‘

ent.
I've been in the Retailﬁslgg Business for 20 years. I served four gears as a member 0!

the Indiana State Board of Pharmacy and
Association. Nearlﬁleveryone in Fort
treatment. Over

ﬁve years as'President 0
Wayne knows me and knows about my succ

him-Five Thousand Men, Women and Children outside of For:

the Retail. Druggists’

Wayne have, according to their own statements. been cured by this treatment since! ﬁrst

made '3 offer public.
It you have Eczema. Ito
ment has cured the worst cases

to send you he wonders accompli

 

Salt Rheum. Tenor—never mind how bad-my treat-
ever saw—give me a chance to prove my claim.
Send me our name and address on the con _ n below and get $531 1:11.?the treatment I

In your Own ca” "Mf-

‘-‘ GUT 5ND MAIL TODAY «—

Io. uurzzu. naught,

' No. 5254 West Main St, Fort Wayne. Ind,

Moondwithoutooetorobiiaation to me your m'mrzm ~

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brought  notth he captured the.

 

lame £116
of the borers. ' r « 

No one can venture an" Opinion as

     

to the ﬁnal value 01 these parasites _
in helping keep the borers in check,

but some encouragement is gotten
from the fact that some of the larger
parasites which were liberated in
Ohio last year were able to establish
themselves and some of the same

species were recovered from this

 

Here. is the villian of our story, Mr.
European Corn Borer, enlarged to about
twice his natural size.

section this year. If they are able
to adapt.themselves to this climate
they may become numerous enough
to be a real ally to our corn growers.

An idea of the immense amount
of work involved in this parasite pro-
duction may be gotten from the fact
that the Monroe station this year is
putting out about 40,000 of the
smaller parasites and 20,000 of the
larger species of parasites, each rais—
ed individually and
the manner described above.

Corn Varieties and Planting Dates

Fifty varieties of corn are repre-
sented in the test plots to determine
Whether some one or more of them
may prove immune to the. borer at-
tack. This test group Of 50 varieties
includes dents and ﬂints, as well as
different varieties of sweet corn and‘
pop corn. Whether or not a borer
resistant variety or strain will be
discovered still remains to ‘be\seen.
Results to date indicate, however,
that the borers are partial to the

 

 

 

The, moths which start all of the trouble.
Male at right and female at left, slightly
smaller than actual size.

ﬂint and sweet varieties. Several
more years of experimentation will
be necessary to solve the variety
question. '

Believing that the date of planting
may have a very important bearing
on borer control, the Monroe station
is carrying On an elaborate system of
tests to get information regarding
this. Four successive plantings were
made, beginning May 1, with the last
planting on June 9. Three plots of
each of these different varieties were
planted on each of the four planting
dates. If this work is carried on for
several years it should give some
very deﬁnite conclusions. as to
whether, or not, borer infestation
may be controlled to any extent by
the time of planting.

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.z‘ogr‘ti‘oie‘, mementos su station? con-.- ,
;vdeu¢;t;ed Mummy then-1.8...  
mént ot- Agriculture and t“ meme

sen State College. The entomolo-
gist in'charge of the' station" ls'l‘Dr.
Phillip, Luginbill of the Bureau; of

Entomology, U. S. D. A. He is a .

nativeof Ohio and for about .14
years was stationed» in the South
where he assisted the farmers .02

that section in waging war against _'

the insect enemies of their crops.
Dr. Luginbill 'was in the carolinas

when the cotton boll weevil “ﬁrst in--
It is his opinion ,

vaded that region.
that the corn borer threatens to be-
come as devasting a pest for the .corn
grower as the cotton boll “weevil is
to‘ the cotton farmer of the South.
Dr. Luginbill has an able corps of
assistants, at times during the sum-
mer 8 men being employed in connec-
tion with the station. .

While the entomological Work is
in charge or Dr. Luginbill, all Of the
experimental work with corn is und-
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Exorisics Rohorator, a natural enemy of
the corn borer. It stings the borer para-
lyzing it and they lays eggs on it. These
hatch out and the young feed on the post.

the Farm Crops department of the
Michigan State College. In addition
to the variety testsand the date of
planting try—outs the Farm Crops
workers are also doing some corn
breeding work in the plots‘at'the
station.

The farmer who is interested Will
ﬁnd it very much worthwhile to visit
the Monroe substation. There he
will gain a considerable amount of

 

 

 

 

This little ﬂy spends its life killing borers.
[t is known as Habrobracon Brevicornis.

interesting information. He will al-
so ﬁnd Dr. Luginbill and his helpers
ready to extend every courtesy and
be of assistance in every way possi-
ble.

  
  

 

 
 
 

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4", @113.
~ ‘ ~ neuritis eupytotetlotsof eggs all winter. Just build

“ ' E thde CLOTH seretchshedontoyour hen houseto
1" M smut the vitalising ultra-violet rays of the sun. Plsin
 {131m stepsthem. These rays bring smszing winter egg

,4 .5 yields. The-shed is cheep and easy to make. Gives twice

‘ '  Allows hens to scratch and work up vitality.

l l ‘ High  egg prices repsyits cost many times. Try it.

   

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l 3; Ideal for poultry houses, hot beds, burns, repairs, etc.
- ' ’ Make Your Home

- Winter-‘1‘ 1:
Simply tuck GLASS 0
our screens to make ﬁne storm
, . dggrs and: wBindows. Admritts glam;
' -. ‘ ’ . . tin comfo . u
' 3‘ out cold. Saves fuel end doctor bills. 135:] for enclosing
., 3

TE over

porches and else i porches. Like sddm new rooms
smell cost. Violztnrgsys use heslthy for bugl'nsns, too.
Patented-«Accept no mucous
dunble GLASS CLOTH is made only by Turner

': S BM. underexclusive
 ' our process. 0 other the same wee
,_  Ave tr
shrle specially
‘ ' end weatherproof. Ori .
4 years success. You wil know it by its

than sulthsswonwide o 3?}: all
‘1  ex-

. United Stetes and E

tents. N 0 other concern can copy

rresis for-
id imitations. Real GLASS CLOTH is Jim
sated tomakeit transparent w

perm to make-hens g s'ndéor good resuim with y

chicks end with hot plan

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Wellington. Olllo

TURNER BROS.

Send $6.00 for-big roll 45 ft. long
end 86 in. wide, pcstpaid. ll]
ﬁgtscrgtch shed 921‘si ftgt and
en us , on o n n
It better than glass or any substituagretiirii itsnd '

we will

fefund ourmone . Common instructions “Feed-
ngtor ggs,”wr such order. Cetnlo illusu-s. uses
on reqnes (Msny dealers sell Gloss 0th,)

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by building a G .ASS

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 ' $.33. \ﬂl] Passes
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W h Rays

make hens lsy all winter
FABRIC scratch, shed

n to your poultry house and transmitting

e violet rays of the sun at full strength.
LASS FABR C praised and endorsed b colleges
and poultrymen ever where. Cheap an easy 'to

Gives u

1 use. Keep: hens sa e——Keeps cold out—heat m.
1'!

winter months when prices are
itself many times over. GLAS

twice the scratching space. allowing
hens receive egg-producing ntsmmes

high.
8 FABRIC makes

during
eye for

ideal covering for storm doors or porches and is

essin tacked over screen.

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if not more

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' money.

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CATALOG ON REQUEST. Write

104 Interstate Bulldlng
KANSAS CITY. MO.

 

ROSS Broader House

A 0yllndrlcnl Bulldlng
.No corners for crowding or

suﬂ'ocn tinn

of chicks' 16

  

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\ny size. 500 chicks to
i' r "I
' vnnized. Vermin an rat
Diameter 12 feet.
Ross ounce a sum cou‘upsm
Spr’ngneldLOhlo.

hearty-ribbed glass lights,
14x..0" each. Ample ares
'0.000—-—-nmke of canner-
«umtent ROSSMETAIé gal-
roof.
fheight 6% leek—Combination ventilator and stove
"e. .
. Special Concession (or Orders va.-—.-Write Today.
4! the famous ROSSMETA
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Starts, Hens Laying

Here’s s New Way to Get Eggs in Winter.

Coats Nothing to Try

A letter from\Miss Dams. Wright,
"'Veronia, Ore., has a. real idea for
chicken ralsers who are nor. getting
plenty of eggs. She says:

 

~"llama; in October. our ﬁfteen hens were

not laying at all. I started giving them
Don Sung, and for ten days they still
didn't lay. But on the eleventh day they
laid thirteen eggs. and it is wonderful

what Don Sung has done for our egg

basket."
Don Sun . the Chinese egg laying tab-
, lets which gill
. the eyes of chicken raisersall over Amer—
ica. The tablets can be obtained from the
Burrell-gDugger CO., 254 Allen St.. Indian-

apolis; Ind. Poultry ralsers whose hens

arenot, la . ng Well should send 50 cents
for atria package (or $1 for the extra

-- ,lggge’size, holding three times as much).-
‘ . n
‘ the work or money prompll‘y refunded. so ~

Sung is positively guaranteed to do
" it costs nothing to try. Right‘how is the

l :.time to start givmg Don Sung to your

' s

 hens. so you will have a. good-
~£ZDON~SUN§

   
 

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Witnessing-.7,

    

   

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' _ supply ofi'resh eggs all winter.._

o'clock  
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’SREAnEns; REPORT -—m.ocK_s or 

HIGH EGG PRODUUI‘lON

T is, very interesting to note the

pride our readers take in their

, poultry and how they keep re-
cords on the egg production and icod
consumption. ._ .

In our August 28th issue we pub-
lished a letter and picture from Ern-
est Bellville, of Mesick, and since
then we have received and published
many letters from other subscribers
telling of what their ﬂocks were do-
ing. One Act the latest ones to reach
our ofﬁce is from F. O. Homel, of
Sodus.

“I have been reading in your col-
umns about high producing hens and
as we have just completed a record
of tWelve months of our ﬂock of 400
pure bred White Leghorns we sub-
mit it for your readers’ considera-
tion," writes Mr. Homel.

“Chicks were hatched April 7,
1925, and the ﬁrst egg layed August
23rd,- just after they were settled in
a new laying house, 24x48 feet, semi-
monitor type, open front. From
August 23rd they rapidly came into
production and we started our your
record October 1, 1925,. and ended it
September 30, 1926.

a total of 82,339 eggs or‘6,8611/2
dozens. During the year the flock
averaged 3981/3 hens.

“These eggs sold for a total of
$2,869.90, and the feed cost
$1,170.25, leaving $1,699.65.

“This was no guess work. we

kept books in our work and can
prove every item."

Another one of our subscribers
who has a good ﬂock of producers is
Mrs. Martha Glennie, of Lowell, and
she believes that in her ﬂock of S4
hens she has some that will lay 300
eggs in a year, but she has not trap-
nested any so has no oﬂiciai records
to substantiate her belief.

Giving their record over an eight
months period she writes: “From
January 1, 1925 to September 1,

1926. they layed as follows: Janu-
ary. 816 eggs; February, 1,044;
March, 1,812; April, 2,046; May,

2,058; June, 1,908; July, 1,794;
ugust, 1,650. This is a total of
3,128 eggs. or an average of 150

eggs per hen, or‘slightly better."

Let's hear from others with ﬂocks

of high egg production hens.

\VORMS IN POULTRY

My chickens have worms about
1 176 inches long, white and very thin.
I feed dry mash, equal parts of the
following grain: Wheat, bran, oats,
corn, meat scraps, some charcoal and
salt. I also feed whole corn, wheat
and oats. What could I do for the
worms?-—-—Mrs. J. B., St. Clair 00.

OR worms in poultry: Oil of
chenopodium, 1 ounce;
form. 1 ounce; oil of anise, 34,

ounce; castor oil to make I pint. This

mash for 100 birds. Birds should be
tested for 18 hours before giving it.
Then keep them penned up and

have passed the worms—Dr. G. H.
Conn. - ,

NEW LAMP BURNS
Mum
Beats: Electric or (is;

A new oil lump that gives an smhzingiy.
brilliant, soft, white light, even better than
gas or electricity. has been tested by the
U. S, Government and 35.1eedlng univer-
sitiessnd found to;be superior to 10 or.
ulnary oil lamps. It burns without odor,
smoke or noise——no pumping up; is-slmple.
clean. sate. ‘Burns 94% air and 8% com-
mon kerosene (coelioll). ‘

The inventor. ‘AJR. Johnson. 609 W.
.uush, Chicago, 111., is uttering to send
 them our 16 guys"  tl‘iAl. or even

. " "“ l-n‘ .rthe'ﬂrst user‘ln
. . will help him introduce

 

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“During October they layed 2,511
marketable eggs; November, 6,307
eggs; December, 8,6 8 8; January,
7,837; February, 7,153; March,
8,569; April, 8.833; May, 8,725;
June, 7,742; July, 7,369; August,
5,124; September, 3,481. This made -

chloro- ;

  

La Salle St. Station, Chicago, III.
466 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y. -

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That the farmer may share
in American prosperity

N 0 other region on earth offers farmers such close,
large and varied markets {or their products as are
to be found along the lines of New York Central.

Here indeedis the densest population of the wealth-
iest nation in the world.

New York Central men recognize the part these
facts have played in the development of the agri-
cultural prosperity of this region.

But New York Central policies have to do with the
morrow—not with the past. They provide for ever-
improving service that will open to the farmerever-
expanding markets, to the end that he may obtain
his share of the general growth of American pros-
_ wk perity in the years that lie ahead.

\

2‘- .4

Boston & Alba y—Michigan Central—Big Four— Pittsburgh 8: Lake Erie

an the New York Central and Subsidiary Lines
Agricultural Relations Department Oﬂices

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

68 East Gay St., Columbus. Ohio
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to be mixed with a small amount of .

clean up and'disinfect after the birds '

 

lF YOU HAVE

TURKEYS

Write DETROIT BEEF CO., 1903 Adelaide St., Detroit.

They will send you Free of Charge instructions for dressing
and shipping.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DEPENDABLE and ECONOD/HCAL
Michigan Chick Starter with Buttermilk 
Michigan Growing Mash with Buttermilk =5:
Michigan Laying Mash with W i3

Make Chicks (row and its: lay

MICHIGAN FARM BUREAU SUPPLY SERVICE
V Tanning. Michinn

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1 SAVE curves mgr"...
using Ammo pioooer, grossed remedy
3m Abortion. Wrie free booklet to:
Abomo moi-story. Box 98 Iancnster, Wis.
Advertising in the
BREEDERS' DIRECTORY

gets results. 15er
I report. Have you tried it?“
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   Future of Hog'Market Looks Bright
Wheat Going to Market Readily At Present Prices
By W. W. FOOTE, Market Editor. '

URING October there was activ—
ity on the farms, and there was
no lack of animation in business

 and manufacturing interests. For
“Weeks past the banks have been
making large loans, but this is al-
ways the case during the fall of
the year when the farmers harvest
their crops and farm products are
marketed extensively. Interest rates
have been low, and the Chicago
banks are making loans at .5 per‘
cent.
country is moving along satisfactor-
ily, and in September the balance of
trade was $105,000,000 in favor of
the United States, our exports being
the largest for any month in the last
ﬁve years. The fast increasing use
. of farm machinery in this country is
a subject of much comment just
. now, and a revolution is taking place
,in the displacement of labor by all
«kinds of farm utensils. Keen ob-
servers are pointing out that three
hundred million dollars annually in—
vested by the farmers of this country
in farm machinery are bound to cut
down materially the number of men
working on farms, while there will
be no use. for ignorant workers. Two
million less farm workers than 20
years ago, with increased farm pro-
duction, points the way for startling
future new methods. In this con-
nection it is worthy of mention to
state that the chief of the Bureau
of Dairy Industry of the Department
of Agriculture says the Minnesota
butter production doubled with an
increase of but 15 per cent in the
number of dairy cows. This is due
mainly to better breeding and feed-
ing. Reports from Evansville, Wis—
consin are that the wool market has
become lively, with recent sales of
what is said to be the largest ship—
ment ever made from Wisconsin,
consisting of 235,000 pounds. The
average price in that vicinity this
season is 35 cents per pound.
Wheat Brings Fair Prices
Speculation in wheat on the grain
and produce exchanges of the United
States is responsible for much of the
ﬂuctuations in prices with frequent
considerable declines following sharp
advances but the speculative trad-
ers on the Chicago Board of Trade
admit that back of all the gossip
there is much in the market that is
likely to put each grain on a good
price basis. For the present exports
of Wheat and ﬂour to importing
. ecuntries are checked by the high
rates charged by ocean vessels but
ultimately the surplus wheat in the
’ United States and Canada, will be
needed to make up for the foreign
. shortage. Late prices have been
within a few cents of those paid a
year ago, with December wheat sell—
ing around $1.43 and May delivery
around $1.48. A short time ago
May wheat sold at the highest price
of the season. Meanwhile, many
farmers regard ruling prices as
worth accepting, and are selling
their new crop of wheat on the ad-
vances. ’ihe visible supply in this
country decreased in a recent week
over 2,000,000 bushels, yet it stood
at 71,389,000 bushels, comparing
with 46,034,000 bushels a year earl-
ier. It should be added that the re—
. serves of old wheat in the United
States and Europe are nearly ex—
hausted, and Australia has sold its
surplus, while little for export.
Poor Grading of Com

Increasing reports of poor grad-
ing are coming from many leading
districts, and it is becoming more
and more evident all the time that in
addition to the short crop in the
corn belt, farmers are going to have
a, great deal of damp corn that will
be useless except for feeding on the
farms. The impression among trad-
ers is strong that husking returns
will prove decidedly disappointing,
and that ultimately perfectly sound

' fairly high ’ market price.

r-io't'her hand, many farmers are known
site-lbs carrying rather large quanti-
 et old corn, and for some time

The foreign trade of the

 have been pretty good” sellers.

especially after advances in prices
on the Chicago Board of Trade. Of
late corn has sold above prices of a.
year ago, but two years ago corn for
December delivery sold up to $1.09.
Most of the time price ﬂuctuations
in corn and oats have been very nar-
row, oats seling a triﬂe higher than
a year ago, with No. 2 white oats
selling at a fair premium over Dec-
ember. Rye sells unusually high ow-

,ing to the short crop.

Marketing Cattle Freely /

Most of the stock feeders market
their cattle freely, and almost every
week the Monday marketris seriously
overstocked with all kinds except the

ing‘  "amounted W to 9,456,000
cattle, comparing with 9,116,000 a»

year ago. ' h -
Good Outlook for Hogs

Reliable reports from the hog
raising states are agreed that there
8 a’ serious shortage in farmers’
holdings and this is corroborated by
the great falling off in the numbers
shipped to western packing points,
the years aggregate supplies running,
away under other years. During re-
cent weeks the hogs offered in the
Chicago stock yards have been run—
ning much more to lighter weights,
and former conditions are at last re-
versed, with the best light bacon
hogs selling at marked reductions
from prices paid for the best weighty
butcher hogs. Prices continue far
higher than in most years, and three
years ago the best swine sold below
$8 per 100 pounds. In at least one
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eastern standard time, The Michigan Business Farmer broadcasts
market information and news of interest to farmers through raido

station WGHP of Detroit. This station operates

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best yearlings, the result being fre-
quent declines in prices for the gen—
eral run of the oﬁerings. For sev-
eral weeks buyers have favored the
choicer baby steers and heifers, and
they have sold at a liberal premium,
much outselling the best class of long
fed heavy steers. Last week’s Chi-
cago cattle receipts were unusually
large, and the market suffered de-
clines of 50 cents to. $1 per 100
pounds, with the bulk of the 'beef
steers going at $11.40 to $11.50 and
the best heavy steers at $10 to
$10.75, while top yearlings sold
early at $12.40 and later at $12.
Well ﬁnished cattle were plentiful,
as were short-fed lots and grassy
cattle. Sales were made all the way
down to $7.25 for common light
steers, while the choicer class of
heifers sold for $9.50 to $11.50 and
fair heifers at $5.75 and upward.
Loking back a year, it is recalled
that beef steers were sold at $6.50
to $16, while two years ago they
sold at $6.50 to $12.90 and away
back in 1907 at $3.10 to $6.70.
Liberal supplies of stockers and
feeders have forced prices moderately
lower, and large sales were made
at a range of $5.75 to $8.25, mainly
at $6.25 to $7.50, while stock cows
and heifers had a good sale at $4.50
to $6. For the year to late date the
total receipts in seven western pack-

the better. The hog cholera has run
its course in most farming districts,
and most of the young hogs coming
on the market are healthy. The re-
cent Chicago receipts averaged 243
pounds, which was the highest since
February, comparing with 247
pounds a year ago and a ﬁve year
average of 238 pounds. It was the
ﬁrst time in over a year that the re-
ceipts averaged in weight less than
a year earlier. Weighty sows have
been largely marketed, and colder
weather has checked the ravages of
sickness in droves of hogs. Conse-
quently, stockmen are less disposed
to market their hogs prematurely.
For the year to late date the com-
bined receipts in seven western pack-
ing points were only 18,184,000 hogs,
comparing with 20,866,000 a year
ago, 24,827,000 two years ago and
25,488,000 three years ago. Re-
cently hogs have sold on the Chicago
market at $10 to $13.50, comparing
with $8.85 to $11.80 a year ago and
$6.50 to $10.10 two years ago.. Re—
cent receipts have increased, causing
breaks in prices.

WHEAT
The market for wheat held fairly
steady last week up to the closing
day when heavy selling caused prices
to break. Trade is quite evenly
divided on the ftutre of wheat, part

 

 

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and Comparison with Markets Two Weeks Ago and One Year Ago

 

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WHEAT—-
No. 2 Red
No. 2 White
No. 2 Mixed

CORN—-
No. 2 Yellow
No. 3 Yellow

OATS—(New)
No. 2 White
No. 3 White

RYE-m
Cash No. 2 '

BEAN S—
C. H. P. th. 5.25@5.30
- POTATOES—
(New)Per th

HAY-—
No. 1 Tim.
No. 2 Tim.
No. 1 Clover
Light Mixed

=:’

3.16@8.34

19 20.50
10 17.50
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Potatoes Weak. Livestock

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$1.43‘};

75%@76

2.20@2.ae

22©2s

$1.36
1 .37
1.35

$1.72
1.73
1.72

.86
.84

.89
.88

.44
.42

.49
.47

.97 ‘ .85

5.00 4.95 @ 5.00

4.00 @ 4.35

2.66 @ 3.00

19 @2050
16 @ 17.50
16 @1750
18@ 19.50

23.50-@24

21 @23

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. : Monday. November 'lr-«Wheat and corn easy. Little change in cats or rye.

of them feeling surefof higher
and .the others just as certain that
they will decline. Reports, indicate

‘ that wet weather cut the acreage

planted in Michigan this fall edits
severelY. ,,   ‘;

Corn sold at new l0w levels-eta?
close of last week, due mostlbe’":
heavy receipts. Elevator interests
are expressing concern over the 'fs'j‘ct:
that all available storage'space‘iis
rapidly being taken“ up‘and there will
be no place for the new» crop when
it starts to move. This makes.rbuy-
ers anxious to liquidate their-stocks-
whenever possible, which keeps the
market in a shaky condition...

OATS A ._

There is little change in the..-,oat
market and a steady -tone...pt.evails.
although there seems to -_ be. more,_of
a desire to sell than buy at present.

Rye declined some last week in
sympathy with other grains. It is
one of two grains to show a loss’
when comparing prices with those
quoted in our last issue. .Corn is
the other. ~ - -

BEANS . -

The bean market is a hard nut to
crack. Reliable rep‘orts come in that
wet weather has reduced the crop in
many of our best bean growing sec-
tions to not over 50 per cent of.
normal, with the central part. of the

state being the only possible section

that will have anywhere near a nor-
mal production, and yet prices seem
to be working downward. The fail—
ure of the crop in the Thumb dist-
rict has caused several banks in Tus-
cola county and one in Bay county
to close their doors. Some farmers
got their beans tip in good shape
but they were rare. Most beans
went into the mow or stack damp
and now they are ﬁnding it imposs-
ible to thresh them. Some report
beans picking as high as 50 per cent.
Looks like- good beans ought to be
worth something before another
crop. "

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n

POTATOES

Our crop correspondents report
that potatoes are not turning out as
well as expected. Prices at Detroit
were somewhat easier at the'close of
last week however.

DETROIT LIVE POULTRY

Chickens were easy Saturday‘wlth a
large carry—over but prices failed to
change. General opinion is that unless
receipts decline there is bound to be a de-
cline in prices in immediate future.
Other lines of poultry are steady with
turkeys scarce. Quo’tations are:

Springs: Fancy Rocks, 240;
colors, 23c; mediums and Whites, 220;
Leghorns, 21c; blacks, 1763.180. Stags,
18@19c. Hens, 5 lbs up, 25c; 4 lbs up,
230 Leghorns and small, 17c. Ducks;
White, 4 lbs up, 24@25c; smaller or dark,
21@22c. .Geese, 20c. Turkeys: Young.
7% lbs up, 36@38c; old toms, 250.

DETROIT BUTTER AND EGGS

Butter steady, unchanged, with best
creamery in tubs, 40@43c lb. Eggs
steady, fresh, 4260450 doz.

mixed

LIVE STOCK MARKETS

CHICAGO—Jiogs: Steady; top, $13.50;
bulk, $11.85@l3.25; heavy weight, $12.25:
@1350; medium weight, $13@13.50;
light weight, $12.50@13.25; light lights,
$11.50@13; packing sows, $10@11.85;
pigs, $11.40(a>12.75. Cattle: Steady.
Calves: Steady; bch st.ce1's,vg00d and
choice, $107011; common and ‘medium,
$7@9.50; yearlings, $76012; butcher cat—
tle, heifers, $56011 ; cows, $4.50@8; bulls,
steers, $66v8.75; stocker steers, $5.75@
8.50; stocker cows and heifers, $4@6;
western range cattle, beef steers, $7@
9.25; cows and heifers, $4@8.25. Sheep‘
and lambs: Steady; medium and choice:
lambs, $13@14; culls and common, $9@
11; yearlings, $9.50@11.50; common and
choice ewes, $4@7; feeder lambs, $13@
14.40.

EAST BUFFALO—Cattle: M a r k e t
slow, steady; prime steers, $11@12.25; .3
shipping steers, $8@10.50; butch‘ér grades
$7.50@10; heifers,,$5@8; cows, $2@6.25;
bulls, $4@6; feeders. $5@8; milk cows
and stringers, $35@110; yearlings, $11@
12.25. Calves: lower; cull to'choice,‘$4“
@1450. Sheep and lambs: Market slow,
steady; choice lambs, $14@14.25; cull to
fair. '$9@13.50; yearling, $8011: sheep,
$33608. Hogs: Market active. 10625::
higher; workers. 3132501335; pita. .
$12.50@12;75 i m i 2 ed , 313.3561835

 

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,“_._?L.—: m;;”:I-fr'l 
_ , ._ "Week of November 7
H3 early part of this week in

_. ' 'Michigan will. be stormy and.

temperatures generally below
the seasonal normal. The sky will
be cloudy with threatening to rainy
weather- and. probable snow in sec-
tions. Winds will also be high at
this. time. . '

While there may be some clearing
'weather about Tuesday with temper—
atures getting a little warmer there
"will soon be more light shewers or
snow hurries. These will come about
middle of week.

Beginning about Friday the tem-
perature will start a more or less
rapid decline so that by the end 'of
the week readings will again fall be-
low the normal and the sky will be
generally clear. -

Week of November 14

Fair, and generally nice fall
weather is expected in most parts of
Michigan at-the very beginning of
this week. Temperatures will rapid—
ly moderate from last part of pre-
vious week.

As a result of this change there
will be some severe storms of wind
and rain about Monday and Tuesday.
Storminess will continue off and on
during the middle part of the week
with some sleet or snow locally
about Thursday or Friday.

For the state as a whole we do
not believe the precipitation will be
’heavy during middle days of this
week.

0001 weather will end the week,

Crop Forecast Correct

Again we have accurately forecast
crop conditions in Michigan, written
and published before seed was in the
ground. In numerous letters to M.
B. F. readers and in this column we
speciﬁcally mentioned corn and pota-
toes providing the early frost we also
predicted would not touch them.

Just as the. corn was making a
good showing in the statean un—
usually early frost caught it with
less than half matured. This same
frost found three million more spuds
than last year in good condition.

1843.12.75; Fair, to good sheep, $6@6.50;

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on have to pay for it! Handles
AMAGED BEANS in any con-

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Service Certiﬁcate Plan. Write us
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Russet Rurals.

 

steers v and ,,
butchers, $663.30; light butchers, $4.50@
6.25: best "cove. ’$5@6; butcher cows.
34.266450; . common cows, 33.2564:
cannerscanners, 82.756816: choice light
bulls, $G@6.50-;' heavy bulls, $5@6.50;
stock bulls, $6@6.‘25: feeders, $8@7;
stockers, $5.50@6.50; milkers and spring-
ers, $55©90. -

Veal Calves—Receipts 539. Market, 31
lower. Best, $14.60: others, $3614.
' Sheep 'and Lambs—Receipts 6.135.
Market-25 cents lower. Best - lambs,
$13.75; fair lambs. $12@12.25; light to
cominon lambs. $8.50@9.75; buck lambs,

culls and common, $203.50.
Hogs—-—Recei-pts 2,358. Market—Pros-
pects. Mixed hogs, $13.26.

WOOL »
Quotations on ﬂeece wool delivered in
Detroit are: Three-eiehths, quarter, half-<
blood and delaine. 4‘0; rejections, 310.

HAY
Markets are generally ﬁrm with receipts
light. Good timothy hay is Quickly snap-
ped up at top prices. The demand for
alfalfa is slow with receipts more than
enough to care for demand,

EXHIBITS FEWER BUT BETTER
AT WESTERN POTATO SHOW
(Continued from page 3)
Lansing in February 1927, will be
of exceptional interest ,
_ The winners at the Greenville

show are as follows:
Russet Rurals, Claims A
lst~——E. W. Lincoln & Son, Green-
2nd—Allen Edgeriy, Howard
City: 3rd—Chris. A. Larsen, Gowen.
White Rurals. Class A
1st———Oliver Lyst. Greenville; 2nd
—-—Hansen Bros., Howard City: 3rd
———L. J. Hansen, Manton.
Green Mountains

let—John Delongchamp. Cham—
pion; 2nd—‘3—Mrs. Rasmus Olsen,
Sands; 3rd—E. W. Lincoln & Son,
Greenville; 4th—J. C. Wilk, St.
Louis. '

Irish Cobblers, Class A

lab—«Mrs. Rasmus Olsen, Sands;

2nd—Arthur J. Crockett, Edmore;

3rd—E. W. Lincoln & Son, Green-
ville.
All Other Varieties, Class A

1st-——Fred Meinke, Greenville,
Russet Burbanks; 2nd—Sam Mc-
Keown, Morristown, Russet Bur-

banks; 3rd—Herbert Brown, Green—
ville, Early Triumphs.

Flor New Exhibitors

1st———Loren W. Reed, Houghton,
Russet Rurals; 2nd—Earle Wright,
Manton, White Rurals; 3rd—W. F.
Kingsbury, Greenville, White Rurals.

County ’ Exhibit
Montcalm county 1st; Kent county
2nd, exhibited by K. K. Vining,
Grand Rapids. Kent county agricult-
ural agent; Gratiot county 3rd, ex-

hibited by John C. Wilk.

Certiﬁed Seed Exhibit
1st-——E. W. Lincoln & Son,-Green-
ville, 60 1b. Russet Rurals; 2nd—
John Delongchamps, Champion,
Green Mountains; 3rd—George H.
Harrison, Manton. White Rurals.

Standard Grading
1st—R. W. Swartzloﬂ, Greenville;
2nd—G. Nelson, Greenville; 3rd——
F. J. Fletcher, Greenville.
One Potato Entry
let—Hansen Bros., Howard City;
2nd—E. W. Lincoln & Son, Green-
ville; 3rd—Forest Terry, Greenville;
4th——George H. Harrison, Manton.
Baking Potatoes
let—E. W. Lincoln & Son, Green—
ville, Russet Burbanks; 2nd—C. W.
Hunt, Rockford, Russet Burbanks;
3rd—Arthur J. Crockett, Edmore.
BOYS AND GIRLS EXHIBITS
Russet Rurals
let—Leon Moran, Harvard; 2nd
-—L. J. Harrison, Manton; 3rd——
Frank Williams, Greenville. ‘
White Rurals
let—Frank Williaims, Greenville;
2nd—Neil Lyst, Greenville; 3rd—-
Lyman Losey, St. Imuis.
. Irish Cobblers
let—C. Anspaugh, Manton; 2nd
-——Lodge Bednanck, St. Louis; 3rd——
Robert Traxeler, Rockford.
H. 8. Ag. Club Exhibit
1st—-—-Greenville High School; and
—-—Manton High School; 3rd—Rock-
ford High School; 4th———St. Louis
High School. '

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STOLEN

Our Feed Service oﬁlce through which We handled
the feeding of the National Dairy Exposition
at Detrmt, was broken into shorty after the
close of the Exposition and a number of Valuable
records were stolen. _A suitable reward. has been
offered with no questions asked, but it is doubtful
whether anything will be recovered.

Among the records taken were the names and
addresses of a large number of dairymen and herd
owners who had, reques they ‘be sent regular
xiiotations on Michigan. State _ trons. .

ll visitors at the National Dairy Exposition who
want quotations on Michigan State Rations should
therefore in their names and addresses to
us at once.

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FOR SALE—A FINE BUNCH OF 150 swans
‘ around 650 lbs. All reds. roan: and
White aces. Also a number Guernsey helm

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Hens lay more in June because they
get exercise in the warm sunlight
full of energizing Ultra—Violet rays.
Build a FLEX-O-GLASS scratch shed
quickly and give your hens these
same beneﬁts through the cold
months. You’ll gather eggs all win-
ter while prices are highest. Don’t
feed hens for nothing. This scratch
shed is easily and cheaply made on

'to your poultryhouse. No matter

how cold outside, in it your hens will
stay healthy and scratch vigorously
in soft sunlight full of egg-produc-
ing Ultra-Violet rays that cannot
pass through glass. Thousands of
enthusiastic users and leading poul-
trymen have found FLEX—O-GLASS
scratch shed a wonderful investment.
15 yards is enough for 100 hens.

FLEX-O-GLASS is Guaran-
teed To Be Strongest-
and Most Durable
Ultra-Violet
Ray Filter!

Order your supply from us today. Use it
15 days. then not a b s o 1_u t e l y
satisﬁed FLEX-O-GLASS is far stronger
and more durable than any other ma—
terial, or if it' doesn’t give more warm,
healthful light than glass or other mater-
ials which claim to do all that FLEX-O—

'GLASS ,does, just send it back and we

will cheerfully refund your money With-
out question. This guarantee is secured
by $1000 deposited in the Pioneer Bank,
Chicago.

Special Trial Offer

We will send you 15 square yards of
FLEX-O-GLASS in a roll 35% Inches
wide, 45 ft. long, postage paid to your
door, for $5.00. This will cover a scratch
shed 9x15 feet—size for 100 hens—or use
for enclosing screened porches, storm-
doors, hotbeds, coldframes, brooder, onl-
try and hog house windows, etc. rder
your supply today, direct from our fac-
tory in Chicago and save middlemen's
proﬁts. You take no risk. Satisfaction
guaranteed or your money back. Free
Catalog, valuable poultry information and

instructions with every order. Tear out

coupon and mail with check, money order
or currency NOW. Your order will be
ﬁlled the day received. Send $9.60 for
30 yds. if you wish larger trial roll.

 

 

FLEX-O-GLASS was invented by him in
1924 (after much research and experi-
menting). to admit the Ultra—Violet rays
of the sun, as window glass shut them
out. Deprived of these rays animals and
many plants cannot live. FLEX-O-GLASS
is an extemely strong, especially processed
cloth base material, saturated with a
weatherproofing preparation. The result-
ing transparent sheet admits actual sun-
light. (glass doesn’t). Just cut with shears
and tack on: BeWare of inferior imita-
tions. FLEX-O-GLASS, the original ma-
terial for admitting Ultra—Violet rays is
registered in U. S. Pat. Ofﬁce and re-
commended by thousands of users, all over
the world, Doctors, Chemists and State
Experiment Stations—Your protection. A
million yards of FLEX-O-GLASS are now
in use.

Read a Few of the Hund-

reds of Letters Received

Daily. Tested and Proven
Strongest and Best

"We used FLEX-O-GLASS on our Brood--
er houses this Spring and were very well
pleased. We placed it by the side of one
window which was covered with (another
glass substitute). The difference in the
c o 10 r of the
light was quick-
ly noticeable.
But one very
convincing ar-
gument was that
the chicks piled
'; up in front of
- th e FLEX-O-
GLASS window
leaving the space
- in front of the
other entirely empty. The FLEX-O—GLASS
Looks as well at the end of the season as
it did at the first, while the other material-
is decidedly worn. I thought perhaps
these observations of ours might be of
interest to you." Mrs. R. Hammond,
Indianapolis, Ind.

Used and Recommended
by Poultry Farms

"I have used your product the past 2.

years. and ﬁnd it 0. K. Consequently I
can recommend it to my Baby Chick
Customers." J. H. C., Cornhusker Poul-
try Farm. Nebr.

Used for 'Years

“I like your FLEX-O-GLASS very much,
it is the best material I’ve seen used."
Mrs. W. H. Hansen, of Okla.

“I am using the 15 yards of FLEX-0-
GLASS which I got a couple of years ago.
I surely like it.” Gus, Kutzke of Wise.

Superior to Glass

"1 put FLEX‘O-GLASS on alongside of
a glass window last summer. I found
it superior to glass for light. I have had
enough experience in the use of FLEX-0-
GLASSto give advice to people I meet.
I do not hesitate selling anything that has
merlt." T. S. Baird of N. Y

Eggs Jumped from 5 to
116 in week

"Brother's eggs jumped from 5 to 116 in
a week with front of poultryhouse closed
with FLEX-O-GLASS.“ Mrs. G. Bipple
of Pa.

 
 

 

 

Changes Snowtrap into
‘ Sunparlor '

Save fuel and avoid drafts by enclosing
screened porches and storm doors with
FLEX-OGLASS. Makes warm, sunlit
health-room where you can work, read or

rest. Splendid for children’s winter play-'

house as FLEX—O-GLASS provides
healthful Ultra-Violet rays—vitamin D,
necessary to overcomechild’s aching legs
——Rickets. Just tack FLEX-O-GLASS on
over screen. I

Keep
Chicks

Healthy and Growing

Chicks under FLEX-O-GLASS mature in
1,5 regular time because they get actual
sunlight full of Ultra-Violet rays, indoors.
Utilize these rays. Prevents diseases and
Rickets—-weak legs caused from lack of
Ultra-Violet rays. Simply take boards off
of south side of coop and put FLEX-O-
GLASS on. Early chicks will be Warm,
comfortable and healthy, indoors. They‘ll
exercise, be full of pep and their fast
growth will amaze you. The same is true
for pigs. Sunlight is nature’s only health
producer-Why not use it?

 

  

Grows ,
Plants

Quicker and Stronger

FLEX-O-GLASS hotbeds and coldframes
are better than glass, as FLEX-O—GLASS
gives plants the Ultra—Violet sun’s rays
necessary for fast, strong growth. Does
not chill, like glass; holds heat longer,
and costs only 1/8 as much. Frames are
large, yet easily handled. FLEX-O-
GLASS is ideal for greenhouses, as it
scatters light exactly as needed.

Excellent for barn and storm windows.
Also used in factory, house and school
windows, on rollers, to diffuse unpleasant

Comes in one piece 35% inches wide and
any lengths desired. Lies ﬂat and smooth.
Looks neat and attractive.

 

sunglare. Actually makes room lighter;

Makes Hens Lay All Winter

 

"I bought 40 yards last November
h9use_like in your ad and am well Tilda;
with It. Happier hens never went tbm a
Winter. I went out there the coldest days
:Bgmwggc‘lﬁeg thed hIens scratch arid heard
. , an sure' 0 .”
Mrs. J. Morgan of Kansas. g t a cg”

As if it Were a, Day in June

“In this country it gets so cold that the
chickens hug together in a corner like balls
of feathers. Since I put FLEX-O—GLASS
on my .poultryhouse front my chickens
are runmng_ helter-skelter, scratching here
and scratching there singing their own
song of praise all ay long. They feel
so_ comfortable t t at times they stand
m theIr_ wings raised out from

ice. as if It were a day in June. You
do not claim too much for’Its value to
poultry keepers. Wishing you every sno-
gggs tgormzour F‘LEX;O-tt?1 Assnghath hiding!

V egg manu ac rers e ens .
—J. W. Soutare. Ont. Canada.

Ideal Screened Porch Enclosure

"I have FT EX-O-GL‘ASS n I
am delighted with in appeao Kiloggm till:
0. arwin of Mo. A

Better than Glass for Hotbeds

{'1 [use FLEX—O-GLASS sad
It tggr beget than lined gig: 031,323 do

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Norelius of “W. Va. 88' '

Mr. Krimmitz of Wis. writes us: "I re-
commend it to th china
You sure have a wrinnedrs.” domg m °

Most Durable—If He Rod 01!,
Known Before

“After using diﬂ’erent materials, I ve .

decided to make an exte i

chicken houses with FBiE§quréﬂy 6‘
your product so muchedbtzthtcr

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A. P.. Auburn, Nebr. r as you“. mg.

Tells Why FLEX-O-GLASS Mel
Hens Lay

“FLEX—O-GLASS is available under
name and I cannot but feel that $335
gratulations. are due you. In to -ﬂvc
{Zara practice as a consult! 01m 1
vs a great deal to do withnglight energy.
Your advertised statement I heartily oar-
roborate. FLEX-O—GLASS “makes no
lay because the Ultra-Violet ra h
penetrate It makes the hens heal in! as,
chemically active they increase the 01:-
genating power of the blood supply and h-
cident_ thereto they destroy the vitality of
gaﬁgena.v With my ﬁonﬁamﬁaﬁommh -
g1. en. am . orse, . ..
Consulting Chemist of Conn.

Entire Farm FLEX-O-GLABS”
“I use FLEX~O-GLASS

"Send 30 yards more.

We are gradualld

FLEX -_ O - GLASSIN

our entire farm. Pens

are warmer." B Poultry Farm. Nowell, Po.

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