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' 1mm MEN PLAN SPECIAL
. MEET

N addition to the regular annual
meeting at South Hayen on
March 2 and 3, the Michigan

State Horticultural Society has made

plans to have a special meeting at

Paw Paw on March lst. This meet-

ing will be held in~the high school

auditorium, beginning at 10 o’clock
with a talk on growing asparagus by

Prof. Geo. E. Starr of M. S. C. He

.will be followed at 11 o’clock by

Wm. H. Esslinger who will take

up the marketing of grapes.

The afternoon session opens at 1:30

with “Dead Arm of Grape” by C.

W. Bonnet. At 2 o’clock Dr. N. L.

Partridge, of the College, will dis-

cuss “Factors Inﬂuencing the Sugar

Content of Grapes.” Following his

talk there will be a general discus;

sion of grape dusting.
The regular spring meeting will
be held in the South Haven high

 

' school; 'audit‘oﬂun‘i mm; assai-

Wednesday morning and ending
Thursday afternoon, March 3rd.
Opening the session on the ﬁrst day
Mayor G. caroll, Ross, of South
Haven, will welcome the’ visitors.
Prof. Starr will follow him on the
program with a talk on "Cauliﬂower
and Asparagus.” Then at _11
o’clock Don Hootman, secretary of
the Society, will discuss “More
Fruit with Bees,” and Edwin Ewell
will follow with "More Bees with
Fruit.” Directly aft-er lunch the
meeting Will start on with a ques-
tion box conduCted by George Fri-
day, president of the Society. At
2:00 Prof. V. R. Gardner is sched—
uled to take up “Some Lessons in
Orchard Management Learned from
a Survey of the Raspberry Indus-
try.” Next will come “Compulsary
Eradication of Little Peach and
Peach Yellows” by E. C. Manden—
burg, followed by an illustrated talk

  

   

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State Department of Agriculture,
and the committee in charge expects
to have several other speakers mak-
ing it a very interesting evening.

The Thursday meeting will open
at 9:30 with a talk on “Thinning
Apples" -by Minard Farley, a prac-
tical fruit grower. Raymond C.
Hitchings, of Rochester, N. Y., will
discuss "Apple Production and Mar-
keting Problems," following which
Prof. W. C. Dutton will take up
“Spray Calendar for 1927.”

Another question box will be the
opening feature of the afternoon
program Thursday, followed by
Prof. 0. I. Gregg who will take'as
his subject “Landscaping the Home
Grounds." The meeting will close
with In discussion on “The National
and International Problems of the
Apple Industry” by Pres.'F. H. Simp-
son of the International Apple Ship-
pers Ass'n.

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however ,the winnings were .

Greenviile, and. Gaylord, than . in
other, years at the state-show. amen».

county also won the county exhibit

class, tor the iirst time. ‘

The winners ot,iirst,' second and
third awards were: v » .

Section A, class 1, 32 tubers. Rus-
set Rural: 1st, F. F. Rotter, Alan-
son; 2nd, John Allis, Gaylord; 3rd.
Ed Sutton, Central Lake. Sweep-
stakes, best peek of Russet Rurals,
F. F. Rotter. .

Section A, class 2, White _Ru‘rals,
32 potatoes: lst, Ed McVannel, Gay-
lord; 2nd, Mike‘Smilowski, Gaylord;
3rd, A. Smilowski, Gaylord.

Section A. class 3, 32 potatoes,
Green Mountains: lst, R. J. Gehrke,
Ossineke; 2nd, E.‘ W. Lincoln and
Son, Greenville; 3rd, Stanley Stokes,
Kingston. ~

Section A, class 4, 32 potatoes,
Irish Cobbler: 1st.
Gaylord;
Son; 3rd, Charles Herron, Alpeua.

Section A, class 5, any other vari-
ety of merit: 1st, R. J. Gehrke; 2nd,
Jess Todd, Mayville; 3rd, W. 0.
Lyst, Grenville. ’

Section B. class 6, county exhibits,
13 samples, 32‘ potatoes each, which
may be selected from individual ex-
hibits: ‘ lst, Alpena county;
Cheboygan; 3rd, Otsego.

Ray Warner, ‘
2nd, E. W. Lincoln and ~

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Section C, best 60 pounds of se- .

lected certiﬁed seed, class 7, Russet
Rurals: lst, F. E. Wyrick, Alanson;
2nd, Ed Sutton, Central Lake; 3rd,
Floyd Warner. -
Section C, class 8, all other vari—
eties: 1st, E. W. Lincoln and Son;

2nd, Peter McVannei, Gaylord; 3rd,

Glen Fingieton, Hastings.
Section D, Boys’ and Girls’ Potato

Clubs, Best exhibit by one club, ex— 5

hibits to consist oi 5 samples, 32
tubers each, shown by ﬁve club mem-
bers; class 9, best exhibit by one
club: lst, Hayes Potato Club; 2nd,

Alpena Potato Club; 3rd, Alba Po— '

tato Club.
Section D, class 10', Russett Ru-
rals: lst, Sumner Allis, Gaylord;

2nd, Carl Bredow. Bad Axe; 3rd, 3

Clare Warner, Gaylord.

Section D, class 11, any other
variety: lst, Ray Warner; 2nd, Ed
McVannel, Gaylord;
Stephan, Oxford.

Section E, standard grading, Mich-
igan State Department of Agricul—
ture Special: Ist, Martin Lynch,
Greenville; 2nd, Robert White, De-
Witt; 3rd, George Nelson, Green-
ville—Kline.

COMMITTEE TO STUDY STAKE
TAX PROBLEMS

OCAL taxation within the state

and ways and means of insuring 1

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more eﬂicient use of such taxes ',
will be the subject of special inquiry j
by a ’citizens” committee appointed |

here last week as the result of a
tax conference held at Michigan
State College.

Many of the tax paying interests
of Michigan had representatives at
the Feb. 9 meeting, which was ad-
dressed by authorities from Indiana.
Methods by which the Hoosier state
has been able to reduce local tax

levies ivere discussed by Philip Zoer— 
cher and Harry Meisse, members of =

the Indiana Tax Commission.

The representative committee of W,

Michigan taxpayers, appointed to
study local tax questions, includes
the following: chairman, Melvin B.
McPherson, Lowell (Farm Bureau);

Frank Peterson, Rockford (State 

Supervisors Assad);
Lansing, (Grange); John Doelle,
Lansing (Michigan Real Estate As—
soc. ;
(Manufacturers Assoc); C. E. Be—
ment, Lansing (League of Munici-

palities); C. " L. Glasgow, Nashville

(Retail Merchants AS800.); Lent‘D.

Upson, Detroit (Bureau of Govern—'
mental Research); Carlos J. Joliyg 

Detroit (General Motors). .

Dr. Whitney Coombs, who is do
research work in taxation for]

13.8. Department, of “Agricult 

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8 Mr. L. J. ’Wiieon’ of ‘Greenville
guilty. of .manslaughter? We
asked that question in our Jan-

uary “no: issue and over 40,000

people have replied. in the negative, _.

 _, by letter, by petition and by voice.

3 ‘In their estimatio'n, he is not guilty
«of the charge that has been brought
against him because he accidentally
fatally wounded one. of two thieves
he caughtrobbing ‘his chicken coop
Thanksgiving night.

When Mr. Wilson, who liveson a
farm near Grecnville, discovered
these ’men taking his poultry that
night he demanded that they halt.
One. of them did while the other ran
towards the road. Again he demand—
ed a halt but the runner failed to
heed so he ﬁred low intending to
shoot him in the legs and frighten
- him into surrendering. The thief
. continued to run but Mr. Wilson
" pursued and ﬁnally caught him.

i 7, When captured he denied that he

was injured'but Mr. Wilson—request-
ed the deputy sheriff, who had been
called, to takerthe thief to a hospital
for examination. There it was dis-
covered that shot had entered his
abdomen, and he died early the next
morning.
Murder Not htended

- Murder was not in the heart of
.Mr. Wilson when he discovered
these thieves taking his property
while he was supposed to be sleep-
ing, but he did feel that he had the
right to protect his property. That
is the reason he' took his shotgun
alarm when he ran out to interrupt
them. If both had given up peace-
fully there would have been no
shooting.

When a man is caught robbing a
bank or store every effort is made to
capture him, even to the extent of
shooting to prevent his escape. Why?
Because he is an enemy to society
and should be turned over to the
law so that he will be punished for
the crime committed.

“Is this case any different? The
thieves were robbing Mr. Wilson’s
so—called.,bank or store,~and it runs
.his intent to turn these men over to
the officials so that they might be
justly punished and perhaps save
other farmers from having their
property stolen. One man refused to
surrender so it was necessary to use
other means of capturing him, and
Mr. Wilson did just that. We can

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not see how his case differs from
bank robbing or store robbing.

Almost swamp Us

Directly after our January 29th
issue containing the facts about this
case reached our subscribers we be-
gan to receive letters and petitions
in his behalf. Petitions were circu-
lated at auction sales, at farm bu-
reau meetings, grunge méetings,
along rural routes, at meetings of
farmers’ clubs and unions, and we
even received one with over 200
names signed to it which had been
circulated on the Farmers’ Market
at Flint. Justices of the peace, sher-
iffs and deputy sheriffs, township
clerks, township treasurers” mer—
chants, bankers, college professors,
and legislators signed as willingly
as did farmers, because they felt
Mr. Wilson’s act was justiﬁed.

Every. day up to the middle of
this month the number of letters and
petitions in each mail increased until
at the present time we have received
over 38,000 names. Then’there were
some letters from farmers’ organiza-
tions, like granges and farmers'
clubs which contained resolutions
passed at meetings and theSe letters
were signed only by the secretary
and officially stamped. These repres-
ent the feeling of the membership

[which adds many more to the

38,000. Also, some folks have ad-
vised us that they sent petitions di--'
rect to the judge who is to hear the
case, so there is every reason to be-
lieve that the total number of people
who have registered their sentiments
in this case will totalover 40,000.

Interest among the people of the
city has been aroused also through
articles appearing in the daily press
until we are of the opinion that the
number of folks, farm and city, in-
terested will equal or exceed those
interestedin any other important
case tried in Michigan for many
years. Truely, Mr. Wilson ﬁred a
shot that was heard around the
State.

Financial AM

One Calhoun county farmer cir-
culated a. petition, got 121 signers
and took up a collection of $51.00
which he sent to us. We stated in
our January 29th issue that Mr. Wil—
son was not a subscriber, but his

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1927

V9000 Si 11 Petitions In 38113“ - 0f L- J- Wilson

.. [Manslaughter Charges Against Montcalm County Farmer Arouses Interest of All

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father was and had secured free
legal advice on the case from our at-
torney. This Calhoun county reader
said $1 was to pay Mr. Wilson’s sub-
scription to THE BuerEss FABMER,
“as we want him in our family,"
and the ﬁfty dollars was to be given
to Mr. Wilson as a reward.

Our representative personally took
the ﬁfty dollar check to Mr. Wilson
who was extremely grateful for it
and he wanted us to thank the folks
who were taking such a great in-
terest in him and his troubles.

Many folks have advised 1 their
willingness to contribute to a fund
to help him bear the expenses of
going to court.

Mr. Wilson will have to go
through two trials, one trial for
manslaughter and the second is be-
ing brought on by the widow of the
thief. She is suing Mr. Wilson for
$22,000. Of course it requires
money to hire attorneys and to
cover other expenses that come up,
but at this time there is no way of.
telling how much it is going to cost
him. After this is learned we in—
tend to give our friends an oppor—
tunity to contribute their bit, if they
so desire, to help Mr. Wilson. Pos-
sibly we will be able to soon raise
enough to take care of all the ex-
penses.

Should any of you care to send in‘

money for him at this time we will
gladly receive it and put it in his
hands. It would be advisable for
you to make your remittances pay-
able to him, L. J. Wilson, and we
will acknowledge them through our
columns if you do not object and
then forward them to Mr. Wilson.
Beware of Solicitors

If anyone comes to your house
asking you to contribute towards a
fund for Mr. Wilson be sure that
you know where your money is going
to. No doubt there are or will be
crooks at ‘work in different sections
of the State collecting funds which
they intend to put right in their own
pocket. They follow the papers and
know that this case has worked up
the sympathies of the people so that
many of them are ready to give
'money to help Mr. Wilson, and per-
haps some of them will try to take
up a collection, supposedly for Mr.
Wilson but really for themselves.

Entered as 2nd. class matter. Am. 22. 101.7.
at Mt. Clemens. Mich. under act Mar. 8. 1879..

Beware of these solicitors, pay mon-
ey to only those you know to be
honest and who will use it for the
purpose for which you gave it to
them. If a stranger comes into your
locality taking up a collection you
better get the sheriff on his trail
unless he can prove to you that he
is on the square.

We want every hard earned dollar
or cent contributed by the farmers
of Michigan to go to Mr. Wilson, and
we think it would be best to make
your remittances by personal check
or money order, payable only to him.
and send them to the Editor of Tm:
BUSINESS FARMER.

For Liberty

One of our subscribers writes, “I
sent a boy to France to protect the
U. S. A. Why should I not try to
protect my own property in the
United States?” Many others are of
the same mind, and hundreds of let—
ters we have received indicate that
it is a very” foolish thing for a man
to do to try to protect that property
without ﬁrearms. Cases of threats
and actual shooting on the part of
the thieves have been brought to our
attention by some of the victims.
Even Within the limits of the city
of Greenvillc two chicken thieves
were discovered last summer and
when the officers attempted to cap—
ture them one escaped by shooting
one officer who died within a few
moments and wounding another who
was laid up in the hospital for sev—
eral days.

Thieves have found chicken steal—
ing about the easiest way to make a.
living, and evidence indicates that
they are going into the business on
a real wholesale scale. Farmers’
houses are usually a considerable
distance from the chicken coops,
neighbors often far apart, and police
protection miles away, so it makes

rather “easy picking” for the
thieves.
But, if the farmer can unlimber

the old shotgun and ﬁll the “back
of their lap” with bird shot or rock
salt, a few times so they will take
their meals standing for several
weeks they are quite apt to lose
their appetite for chicken.

Let us hope and pray the jury and
judge rule that Mr. Wilson did a
worthwhile thing in showing the
world that the farmer’s property is
not everybody’s property.

Michigan Scions War On ' Lobbists and Chicken Thieves

By STANLEY M. POWELL

Lansing Correspondent of Tina BUSINESS FARMsn

:INGS are happening fast. under
the capitol dome at Lansing
these days. Governor Green's
office swarms with people who are
there on all sorts of errands. Mich—
igan’s new chief executive has un—
.. buttoned his vest and is tackling his
difficult task earnestly but with his
proverbial smile. The door to his
office is still open.
The members of the House of Rep-
resentatives have been displaying
their oratorical ability, debating
such issues as capital punishment,
regulation of lobbyists. a ninety-day
session and other issues of more
than usual importance. The law-
makers demonstrated that they were
a self-Sacrificing bunch of conscien-
" tious"public‘leervants when they de~
tested ,a- proposed constitutional
.tv sponsored by Rep. Ate
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Mons to; ninety ,

death chair "commitlsoiy “thanking ._.

of such able leaders as Rep. John M.
Harris of Boyne City, Rep. John P.
Espie of Eagle and Rep. Fred R.
Ming of Cheboygan who warned
against the danger of . rushing
through'lcgislation and urged that
legislative work should be done with
the utmost care and deliberation.
Rep. Dykstra's resolution ﬁnally
mustered 55 yea votes as against 37
nay votes. but as it involved a con-
stitutional amendment it would have
required _67 votes for passage.
. Rep. Joseph C. Armstrong’s capi-
tal punishment bill providing that
the penalty for ﬁrst degree murder
would boeither-life imprisonment or
electrocution when 9 as i d 'c r a bi y
amended bribe  Committee of
the whole and made a;  order
of business for debate and ﬁnal vote
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conviction wholly on circumstantial
evidence was carried Without 3. rec-
ord vote.
Adopt Anti-Lobbyist Rule

The House of Representatives has
followed the lead of the Senate in
amending its floor rules to provide
that no lobbyist could be admitted
to the ﬂoor during the formal daily
sessions. If such a rule would
really discourage some of the per-
nicious practices of vicious lobbyists,
it would be a splendid thing, but
as Rep. John P. Espie of Eagle
pointed out in the debate on the
rule, the worst lobbyists are those
who are probably never seen around
’the State capitol, but who ply their
trade from down-town ofﬁces for
hotels and usually do their most ef-
fective work in the weesmall hours
0: the night. It is hard to see just

~ INF  sitting on the side
“uses whom-the Senate or House is

actuallylin session could do much to
comments the members.

  

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tion against chicken thieves has re-
sulted in two bills, one of Which has
already passed the House. This is
the measure introduced by Rep.
Luther E. Hall of Ionia which pro—
vides that all poultry buyers would
have to take down on blanks, sup—
plied by the Secretary of State,
certain detailed information regard-
ing the poultry and the person who
delivered it. Some of the members
seemed to think that the bill was
unworkable, or would cause a. lot of
'unnecessary work on the part of the
poultry buyers, for on ﬁnal passage
through the House, Rep. Hall’s bill
had but one vote to spare. It now
remains to see what the Senate is
going to do about it.

Rep. Otis Hoff of Marcellus pro-
poses to make chicken stealing a '
serious crime in Michigan. ‘ ‘A bill
which he has introduced provides 
that larceny of poultry up to $25.00. .,
in value would be punishable by. a " '
Jail sentence of from ninety days to I,
one year, while if the poultry had a: 
value of more than $26.00, the sen? 
tence would be from two years "£0775
ﬁvo years in state’s, DIISanc‘. ,  1 "

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UL C. CLEMENT of Britton
I‘M-was announced as Michigan’s
 champion corn grower for 1926 ~
a .the annual meeting of the Mich-V
' n Crop \Improvement Association,
- . id during. Farmers’ Week at the
:Michigan «State College. The an-
nouncement is the result of Mr. Cle-
ments winning the Five Acré Corn
'COntest for 1926, a contest spon-
Jsored by'the Michigan State College
and the Michigan Crop Improvement
Association. Mr. Clement is one of
the oustanding corn growers of the
‘State and is one of the three men
who have grown more than one hun— ,
*dred bushels per acre in this contest.
‘ The winning yield obtained by
Mr. Clement in the 1926 contest was
ninety bushels per acre. This yield
represents the number of bushels of
shelled corn on a basis of 14 per
. cent moisture, and should not be
confused with the measurement in
baskets of ears from which many
farmers ﬁgure their yields of corn.

The price of corn used in ﬁguring
the results for 1926 was 73 cents
per bushel. At this rate, Mr. Cle—

'ments crop was worth $65.70 per
acre. From this ﬁgure was sub—
tracted $9.77, which was the actual
cultural costs of producing the crop,
with the exoeption of taxes, harvest-
ing, overhead and marketing. These
costs are not made a part of the con—
test in this State, although they do
represent a part of the actual cost
of producing the crop.

The placing of the awards is made
on the basis of the greatest income
per acre above the cultural costs.
Thus, the two important factors are
yield "and the cultural costs which
inﬂuence yield. The growers in the
contest kept accurate records of the
material, labor, seed, fertilizer, labor

. and time used in the growing of the
' crop.

Mr. Clement with the market
value of his crop the greatest above
the cultural costs, was awarded the
ﬁrst prize of two tons of 20 per cent
vacid phosphate, by the Michigan
State Farm Bureau Supply Service.

J; } Over 350 Entries

.- HE Sixteenth Annual Grain and
Potato Show was replete with
interest for the thousands of

farmers who visited the Armory dur-
ing Farmers' Week at Michigan
State College.

 Some 350 grainand potato entries

20f outstanding quality occupied

. tables running the entire length of

.the hall, while the wall space was

chieﬂy devoted to twelve educational

exhibits of varied nature and inter—
est. In the center of the Armory
had been erected a pyramid upon
 which were displayed the twenty-
ﬁve silver trophies awarded to the

Winners in the grain and potato

classes by various organizations and

commercial interests. This brave
display of silver gleaming brightly
against folds of purple satin gave

» eloquent suggestion of the pride in

products of premier excellence which

inspires the contestants for such
honors.

The welcome warmth and alluring
odors of a “hot dog” stand greeted

    
   
  
   
    
  
    
   
   
   
 

    
    
  
   
   
     
   
  
   
  
   
   
  
  
  
    
   
   
  
   
   
  
   
 
   
  
  
  
   
  
   
  
   
   
 
  
   
    
    
   
    
  
   
  
 
    
  
  
  

 

 
 
 

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F iveéAcre Contest ‘Winner ProducésQO Bushels of    in  "

By R.'H. MORRISH

Extension Specialist in Farm Crops, Michigan State College

He has entered in the contest for the ’

past four years and each season has
been very near the top.

‘ Other Awards

The second prize of 80 Red Top
Steel Posts, was awarded to George
Bruce of Britton, who obtaineda
yield.of 81 bushels per acre with a
cultural cost of $8.15 per acre. The
third premium was given to Ernest
Gilbert of Waldron, who obtained a
yield of 89 bushels per acre, at” a
cultural cost of $15.02. Mr. Gilbert
was ﬁrst in the 1925 contest, with a
yield of 112 bushels per acre, the
record for the contest.
ner of Riga was fourth this year,
with a yield of 84 bushels per acre.
Each of the winners of third and
fourth place received one-half bushel
of Grimm Alfalfa seed given by the
Michigan State Farm Bureau Serv-
Ice.

The Michigan Crop Improvement
Association awarded each grower
having yields of over 85 bushels
with silver medals, these going to

 

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Paul Clement and Ernest Gilbert.
Mr. Bruce, Mr. Wagner and Mr.
Fritz Mantey of Fairgrove received
bronze medals for yields above 75
bushels per aere.

This year, with only slight varia-
tions, the growers ﬁnished in the
same order on the basis of proﬁt per
acre as they did on the basis of yield
per acre. It will be noted that the
cultural methods which insure high
yields are proﬁtable.

Legumes and Alfalfa

Legumes and alfalfa in the rota-
tion were important to the winners
of the contest this year. Three of
the high men, Clement, Bruce and
Gilbert grew their corn on land that
had been in alfalfa sod the year be-
fore. Mr. Mantey and Mr. Wegner
plowed down seedings of sweet
clover for their corn ground.

.Clement used 200 pounds of fer-
tilizer per acre, 100 pounds each of
20 per cent acid phosphate and 0-
20—20. Gilbert, who was second in
yield, used 270 pounds of 20 per cent

View of the Michigan Five-Acre Corn Growing Contest exhibit at 1927 Farmers’ Week.

At Sixth Annual Grain and Potato Show At M. S. C.

By P. R.

Extension Specialist in Farm

the farmer upon his entrance to the
Armory. .

Adjacent to this, ﬁrst among those
on the left wall, was the extensive

.exhibit of the State Department of

Agriculture, showing the progress
made in the eradication of bovine
tuberculosis, control of the corn
borer, inspection of food and Of pub—
lic places wherein food is prepared
or served, and inspection of or-
chards and nurseries, all of which
continue to arouse a great deal of
interest among both city and rural
visitors.

Next to this large and varied dis-
play were three educational exhibits
dealing with the production of high
quality potatoes.

A complete exhibit of pedigreed
seed, featuring their superior worth
and productiveness stressed the key-
note of the entire show, which was
quality.

 

  

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MILLER

Crops, Michigan State College

An exhibit portraying economical
production of ﬂax ﬁbre by the aid of
adapted varieties and effective cul-
tural practices proved of real educa-
tional value to the visitors interested
in that crop. '

Adjoining this was an exhibit of
vital concern to wheat growers, in-
asmuch as it portrayed methods of
controlling black stem rust through
the eradication of the European Bar-
berry.

Occupying the entire central posi-
tion on the right wall was a novel
corn exhibitfconsisting of a revolv-
ing eight foot wheel bearing on its
rim ten miniature buckets of corn
which, each in turn, contributed its
burden to an improvised corn crib,
this being supposedly ﬁlled to over-
ﬂowing as a result of the grower’s
having followed faithfully the ten
printed maxims affixed to the wheel.
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acid phosphate per acre. Mr. Weg— A

a ner, the winner of the contest in

1924, applied‘105 poundsbf-44 per .-
cent anaconda ‘per acre.‘”"With the /
exception of live growers, commer-
cial fertilizer, manure or both5were ‘
used by the contestants.

Several- varieties and strains of
corn showed up'Well this year. "Mr.
Clement, Mr. Wegner and Ford
Lownsbury of Britton planted Cle-'
ments White Cap Dent, a strain de-
veloped by Mr. Cl‘ement.- Mr. Gil-
bert’s corn was also a straimof his
own development, knoWn as ‘Gil-"
bert’s Yellow Dent“

Duncan Corn High Yielder‘

On the farm of Fred Shilling at
Goldwater, a‘ comparison of varieties
was made in two ﬁVe-acre plots in
the same ﬁeld. Each,ofvthe two re-
ceiving exactly the same treatment
as to fertilizer and cultural opera-
tions, Duncan corn, one of the vari-
eties used, yielded 65 “bushels, and
Pickett, the other yielded 57 bushels.

Duncan corn proved well adapted
to the southern counties of the.
State yielding 70 bushels per acre
for A. J. Lutz of Saline, and 64
bushels on the farm of Harry Kelley
of Prattville.

In the north, the Pickett corn did
well and its earliness proved adVan-
tageous.

Fritz Mantey of Fairgrove grew
this variety and obtained a 75 bushel
yield, the best in that Section.

Farley Bros. of Albion' grew the
new Polar Dent corn which was
bred at the Michigan State College,
in the hope of securing frost resis-
tance. Their yield was 73 bushels
per acre.

In the four years during which
this contest has been conducted
ﬁrst honors have never gone to the-
same grower or even to the same
county. However, to stimulate
greater interest in the north, plans
are being made to award district as
well as State prizes and the 1927
contest is being looked forward to
as the biggest“ ever conducted in
Michigan. '

forcibly suggested the worth of im-

~ proved corn practices.

Corn Borer Exhibit

A thirty-foot display of that most
pernicious menace to the corn crop
,———the European Corn Borer, showed
its life history, the extent’of its de-
‘pred'ations in Michigan and ’its
spread into the great corn‘ belt.
Pictures of the pest at work and
preserved specimens told the story
‘graphically.

Another display dealing ‘with
Michigan’s corn crop showed the re—
sult of the 1926 Five Acre Corn
Growing Contest. Mr. Paul ‘C. Cle-
ment of Britton ,won high honors
among eighteen contestants, with
approximately ninety bushels of
shelled corn per acre.

An improved method of curing
beans in the ﬁeld was portrayed,
step by step, in miniature, making
an exhibit of unusual interest.

The most lively exhibit in the Ar-
mory consisted of a large number of

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DAD’S ASSISTANTS.—Lyle and Bert Denny, sons of Mr. and
Mrs. Archie Denny, of Ionia county, like to be around the horses,

and some day they are going to be regular business farmers.
The horse’s name is Jim.

RUTH INGALLS.—
Small daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. R. Ingalls, ’
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[RIGHT OF SCHOOL  

Has a 'i'ural school board a right
to cellect"”'and use money without
having books . oﬁiclaily- audited?

Have they lanyright to elect onicers >

without calling for nominations, but
merely suggesting a name'and then
voting? Has a renter a right to
vote it he pays no taxes/cu land.
taxes being paid by landlord?——E.
F.,' Leslie, Mich.

RURAL school board has the

right to collect and use the

school moneys without having
the books officially audited.
the law, the school board is the au-
thority for auditing unless this of-
ties audits the books or directs the
commissioner to audit them. The
school district may also elect officers
without calling for nominations.

A renter has the right to vote on
questions that are not the direct
raising of taxes, if he has children
of school age and the names of the
children are won the census list.—
W. L. Coffey, Supt. 011 Public Instruc-
tion.

LOOK UP STOCK

What can one do if a farmer won't
keep his stock out of one’s crops?
We have notiﬁed him and he said
he would keep them out, but they
are right back every day—horses,
cows and hogs.“ Is there no way he
can be made to take care of them?
We are sure tired of chasing them
every day.-——C. A. B., East Leroy,
Michigan.

0U could lock up the stock and

compel the owner to pay the

damages before returning them
to him or you would sue for the
damages done by the stock—Legal
Editor.

TAKING DOWN TILE SILO

Would you please tell me if a tile
silo can be taken down so the tile
can be used again for rebuilding?
—A. L., Alger, Michigan.

T is not considered advisable to at-
tempt to take down a tile silo so
that the tile can be used again

for rebuilding. Labor involved in
taking the silo apart and cleaning
the tile, and the breakage which is
likely to occur is greater than the
cost of a new silo. It is, however,
possible to move such a silo provid-
ing the distance is not too great.
Any local building mover could, I
am sure, give you’ information on its
removal.—-—F. E. Fogle, Assistant
Professor of Agricultural Engineer-
ing, M. S. .C. .

"CAN WOMAN VOTE?

Can a woman vote at school elec~
tion if she is born in.the United
States of foreign born parents who
are not citizens and marries a for—
eign born man who is not a citizen?
——-S. J., Fountain, Michigan.

ETHER or not a woman can
vote at school election if born
in the United States but mar-

ried to a foreign person, depends
upon the time of the marriage. If

’ ~;"_  marriage has sesame
'vjvac‘t of Congress which. gives a

'ship,. shé could vote if. other???

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qualiﬁed.-‘-‘-W. 'L.v-"~Co «is t. for
Public Instruction. ' '  4f: ‘_

Will you please» give me some tin-’- '
formation about the foreclosure'bi
mortgages? ' 1
closed last September how long' can

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the present owner have the beneﬁt ‘  " h A

of the place? If he put out wheit.
this tall can he harvest it and have
all or the wheat? Would‘hs be com- "

pelledlto pay the taxes this year or  I

could the person holding the mort:
gage pay them and add to the amount
collected?-——B. 0., Middleton, Mich.

HE mortgagor .would have one
year in which to redeem after
foreclosure. He would haveto

pay the taxes, but the mortgagee
could pay them and add the amount ~'
to his debt—Legal Editor.

Honors-c sonoon OFFICE

_Has. a non-taxpayer any legal
right to hold a school office in a.
rural district and is there any limit
to distance to which district-shall '
pay transportation to anchor school -
as our school is closed for one year?
———A. 6., Gables, Michigan.

NON-TAXPAYER can not hold a.
school office. The law does

not place any limit on the_dis—.
tance that a school board may trans-

 

,port children it the people vote to

close their school for the year.——W.
L. Coﬁ'ey, Superintendent of Public
Instruction. “

NEW IIIGHWAY COMMISSIONER

‘ There being a new highway com-

missioner elected at spring election
he qualiﬁed in a couple of days after
election but did not present bonds
to township board for ten days.
Could the previous highway commis-
sioner go on and snow plow roads
without consent of townshipboard
and collect pay for same. We .‘un-
derstand this that the new officer
begins as soon as qualiﬁed regard-’_~
less of bond.———-A. L., Afton, Mich.

PON the refusal or the highway 

commissioner to furnish bond »

within the time required by‘ 1-"
law, the office would become vacant
and the township board could ap-
point some person to ﬁll the vacancy
until the election of a. new officer.
The commissioner going out of office
would not have authority to work on

the roads and collect pay therefor -> l ‘
after his term. of office has expired. V 

-——Legal Editor.

NOT EXEMPT
Would you please inform me
whether or not a World War veteran
that has been over seas is exempted
from paying taxes?-—-J. B., Merrill,
Michigan.

——World War veterans who served
over seas are not exempt from paying
taxes—Legal Editor.

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State Commissioner of Agriculture

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LIST OF BULLETINB

——«POUL'1‘RY RATIONS.
Bulletin No. 2.

:—-MODERN WATER SUPPLY.
Bulletin 'No. 8.

—SOIL FERTILIZERS.
Bulletin No. 4.

———SEED CORN CURING, STORING.
Bulletin No. 5.

——THE GOSPEL OF GOOD FEEDING.
Bulletin No. 6.
v ——BEFORE YOU INVEST.
Bulletin No. ’1.
g —FARM SANITATION.
Bulletin No. 8. '\
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Bulletin No. 9.——FEED FROM THE
EGG TO THE MARKET.——Poultry men
will ﬁnd this bulletin very helpful. It gives
"information on the different breeds, how
‘to feed, breed, cull and market, and dis-
cusses the various diseases poultry is sub-
It' contains 44 pages and is well

3 Bulletin No. 10.——W'HEN AND HOW
TO DUEL—This booklet is made up of
complete schedules for dusting to control
disease and insect pests in the orchard
and the garden. Each disease or pe_st is
described and treatment by dusting given.
A valuable booklet for those who grow
any fruit crunuch garden.

Bulletin No. 11.——MINERALS AND
FEEDING—Prof, John M. Evvard, au-
thor of this 87-page booklet, is Professor
of Animal Husbandry at the Iowa State
College and chief of swine, sheep and
b’eef cattle investigations at the Iowa
Agricultural Experiment Station. In a
series of home spun articles, written in
dialogue fashion, he takes up the subjects
of Proﬁtable Rations, Factors in Feed-
ing, Nutritional Deﬁciencies—Prevention.
Judging and Feeding, devoted one chapter
to each.

Bulletin No. 12.——HOW TO MAKE
MONEY WITH LINSEED OIL MEAL.—
A plain talk on the use of linseed oil meal
by Prof. F. B. Morrison, head of the ani-
mal husbandry department of the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin and assistant director
of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment
Station. Most of you will remember
Prof. Morrison through his work with \V.
A. Henry in preparing that well known”
book,. “Feeds and Feeding”. This 32-

crammed full of facts on making up bal-
anced rations. 1

Bulletin No. 13.—-—-FIGHT THE EURO-
PEAN CORN BORER. An excellent bul-
letin on the methods of controlling the
p’eSt which will interest every' farmer.
The illustrations include a map of the in-
fested area and pictures of the various:
kinds of machinery used in the eradica-

 

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from thousands
of acres

The product of many thousands of acres is required to ﬁll the
. Nature sets a
difﬁcult task—many lots of seed as they come from the ﬁelds
must be refused altogether because they cannot be re-cleaned to
“Pine Tree” standards. Other lots require expert reﬁning with
batteries of special machinery before they can be branded and
sealed as “Pine Tree."

, Take Biennial Sweet'Clover for example. At the top (No. l)
is an enlarged photograph of an average lot of seed as it came
from the thresher. Not ﬁt to sow in this condition.

The circle marked No. 2 shows the same seed after it was cleaned
by the grower’s local elevator. Looks good now but not good
enough for “Pine Tree.”

Circles 3 and 4 at the bottom show the ﬁnal results of special
“Pine Tree" re-cleaning. No. 4 is “Pine Tree” seed. No. 3
is what was taken Out of the ordinary “cleaned” seed. Note
weed seeds which Only special machinery will remove. The
microscope shows them up. Carloads of such trash are burned
by Dickinson every year.

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Potato Questions

EVER have we had‘ as many in-
' quiries for seed potatoes as we
have had during the past
month. - These inquiries came from
far and near—Virginia, New York,
Missouri, Penn-
sylvania, 'O h i 0,
[Indiana and Il-
linois, and a call
from Oregon for

a sample. ‘
Some of these
farmers say they
. h a v e n e v e r
grown potatoes
commercially be-
fore. The past
two 8 e a so )1 s
have been rather
favorable o n e s
for potato pro—
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unfavorable ones for corn and bean
producers. Many of the latter want
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beans and grow potatoes. Hence
the call for seed. Here in Michigan
the prospect is for an increased

acreage, if the letters we are receiv—
ing are any criterion. These letters
are very intersting, and. one con.-
cludes the writers of them want to
play the potato game right.

Perhaps a letter ’from A. J. of
Sandusky, Mich., is a typical one,
and in its answer the others will
ﬁnd the information they are in
search of. ,

“Am planning on planting eight
acres of potatoes this spring. As I
have never planted many for market
before would be glad to get a little
information. What kind of seed
would be the most suitable for this
locality? How many bushels should
be. planted to the acre? Which is
best, spring or fall plowing? Should
potatoes be hilled up, or not? When
is the best time to plant early, and
when for late potatoes? What is
best to kill bugs? Would lime and
paris green be good put on dry?
What proportions should be used?
Please answer this is THE BUSINESS
FARMER, and oblige, A. J.”

The ﬁrst question is very often

asked: f‘What kind do you recom-
mend for this locality?” If one
could spend the time to look

through all the seed catalogs that
show up every season, one would
co'nclude’ there are about ﬁfty-seven
varieties of potatoes, as well as 57
of pickles and baked beans. We are
not certain about the pickles and
beans, but we are very sure certain
seed houses and seed growers have
different names for the same variety.
There are many who are always
looking for something new in a pota-
to variety. But strange as it may
seem, the writer does not believe
there are very many new varieties
being introduced. There are perhaps
different strains of the same variety.
Our Michigan State College recom-
mends only the following varieties as
suitable or necessary for Certiﬁca-
tion in Michigan: for late; Russett
Rural, White Rural, and Green
Mountain: for early; Early Ohio
and Irish Cobbler. There are, per-
haps, one or two other varieties in
early and late sorts, that give more
or less satisfaction, 'but their impor-
tance is not great. _

Russett Rurals are also called
Golden Russett, Late Petoskey, etc.

ily as the Sir Walter Raleigh, Rural
New Yorker, Carmen, etc. The
Early Ohio is inclined to be a pink
sort, and pink potatoes do not find
favor with \most markets. The Cob-
bler is recOgnized asvthe best early
variety far this and adjoining states.
Tlfe Russett Rural ‘is a this sort.
The skin is a golden br'OWn and coy.
ered.With’a net work caused by this
brown skin being sortof broken or
drawn apart. This causes the skin
to ‘be’ a little rough and. .on'heavy
soil enough of the soil will cite
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moved by any means. other than
washing. Qn dark, heavy Boil we
would not plant Russ'ets onlthis ac-:-‘
count. It hurts, the sale .of them,
for they do not have that clean
fresh look so desirable with pOtatoes.
This variety is a picture, when
grown on suitable soil.~ -
The White Rurals have a creamy
white colored smooth skin. The dirt
does not adhere to them like it does
the Russett, and for that reason it
is much better for heavy soil, or
dark colored light soil. .It.is, we
think, fully as good as the Russett.
About ﬁve years ago, the Upper
Peninsula Experiment Station at
Chatham, Alger county, releaseda
white potato they had been devel-
oping. Its parent stock was a Rural
New Yorker, and by careful selec-
tion for a term of years they great—
ly improved upon the original sort,.
and in what they call The New
White Rural, Release N u m b e r _
06300, they have given Michigan “a
very superior white potato. It is
ﬁnding favor ‘with all who grow it,
and the demand for this variety is
increasing year by year. ‘
The Green Mountai sort is sel-
dom grown only in northern sec-

tions. It seems to delight «in the
climate of Upper Michigan, New
Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.

From what has been said here it
should be an easy matter for one to
select a variety suitable for his soil.-
A letter addressed to H. C. Moore,
East Lansing, will put anyone in
touch with a reliable sourcev‘of any
of the above varieties. Mr. Moore is,
chief of the Potato Extension Serv-
ice of the M. S. C. , — , r
The second question, regarding
hOW»many to plant per acre, is not
easily answered because many things
have a bearing upon the ~quantity—- ,_
among them being the’planting .dis-, ,
tance, size of seed, method of cut-
ting, fertility of soil, ’weather condi‘-~~-’
tions at planting time, and last, but.
not least, the price of seed. . It is
generally conceded by all 'experiA
ment stations that the more seed
planted per acre, the larger the crop
will be. Many buyers of seed at our
farm say they want to plant 20
bushels per acre. Others say 10
bushels, but perhaps the greatest
number say .12 or 14'. Those who
plant by hand in cheeks 3 feet each
way use 9 bushels; these who plant
in rows 3 feet apart and 18 inches
in the row use about 15 bushels.
This latter distance gives twice as
many hills, but the seed is generally
cut a little smaller, so it doesn’t re-
quire quite as many again of seed
potatoes. We plant close together
in the row, and use real large seed,
and often times it requires 22 or
more bushels to plant an acre. The
more fertile the soil, the closer the
potatoes may be planted. One should
use judgment about this, and plant
a suitable distance, so that in or-
dinary years the tubers will not
grow to extreme size, and by so
doing develop many with hollow \
hearts. Close spacing on good soil
will lessen this trouble. .
Authorities do not agree upon .
date the plowing should be done.
The writer, however, believes there
are few, if any, instances when fall
plowing is superior to early spring
plowing. Get this—e—a-r-l-y spring
plowing. This 'does not mean to
wait until after corn planting and
then plow the potato ﬁeld. It means
plowing for potatoes before the corn
ground is plowed. Here is where
much opposition asserts itself. Be- '5
cause many want to wait for the

clever, rye or Whatever is growing 

on the intended potato ﬁeld, to Nate 7
tain a maximum growth for plow-'7

ing under. In the early stage of ‘
our potato growing we were of. this
class, but found out we were'wrmi‘

The maximum growth should;~”’he
procured the year 'befOrei-.~.and 
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,wheet, $1.15 bu.; beans, $4.80 M: 0888-.
Ste don; butter, 50° lb.——-R. 3., 8-17-87.

m (CL-“WW is much like
Herd:

in the direction. Austin- are be-
ginning to be announced. No mus be-
ing sol notations at Hill-dale: Wheat,
$1.30'bu . oats. 40c bu.; potatoes, $1.76

cwt: em 290 don—L. w. I... 3-13-27.
HIE-dale (NW).—-No cold weather so

good Inge 88c and still
going down—C. B. 1-11-81.
A Mada-Thunder storm the um and
rainbuhrokmuptbeeoetotloethat
has covered the ground for nearly two
weeks which has damaged the wheat and
rye also new seeding. Many ﬁelds of
com still standing in the shock and the
pair-Quotations at Mid-
land: Wheat. $1.32 bu; com, 72c bu.;
oats, 38c bu; e. 81c bu.; beans, $4.30
own; potatoa, $1.36 cwt; butter, 49c lb.;
eggs, 300 don—B. V. 0., 845-37.
Saginaw (NW) r—Gronnd is cowl-ed
with snow but not enough for sielghing.
Farmers hauling beans; lots going to
market, elevators full. Doing chores , is
about all they can do. Buyers here from
Detroit buying horses: about so taken,
but they will sell cheep. Not many auc-
tion sales. Few farms changing hands.
Lots of chicks ordered for spring. One
man ordered 15,000. It will be cheap
eggs next winter. Quotations at Hem—
lock: Wheat. $1.24 bu.; corn, 75c bu.;
oats, 40c bu.; rye, 80c bu.: beans. $4.30
cwt; potatoes, $8.00 own; butter, 48c lb.
eggs, 300 don—F. Dungey, 2-16-27.
Monroe (S).—February's con tin u e (1
mild weather in connection with rain. sleet
and snow has made the dirt roads almost
impasslble and farmers throughout the
county are clamoronsly beseeching county
and state highway commissioners for im-
proved roads. A vigorous campaign for
the annhlliation of the European corn
borer will be waged as soon as weather
conditions will permit. Farmers are con-
templating curtailing the corn acreage
along the Michigan and Ohio border. Re~
vival meetings under the auspices of the
various religious denominations are being
conducted in rural churches with various
success—C. W. Eisenmann, 2-16-27.
Harem—Snow and rain, trucks and
sleds. Wood hauling from the few re-
maining wood lots. Poor crops and dear
coal. Feed being moved from farm to
farm. Riding on a crest of dairy expan-
sion, the 4th in 40 years. Beet herds
fading; trainer steers scarce. The live
stock balance is being disturbed, prob-
ably will result in milk product for ex-
port rendering our tar!!! useless. emulat-
ing Denmark and Holland without their
skilled willing, workers. Milk declining,
$1.85 per 100 lbs, test 3.5.—-E. R., 2-16—27.
Bel-den (KL—Pruning and wood cut-
ting is the order of the day. Will soon be
time to get spray rigs in 'order. Fruit
buds in good condition generally. Con-
siderable interest being shown in graft-
ing and top—working. Many farmers in-
tending to do some grafting this spring.
—H. N., 2-17— 7. ,
Saginaw (BEL—We have had some
mild weather the past week. Snow all
gone. Unimproved roads quite rough.
Two miles of gravel to be punt here this
summer. Some tumors hauling gravel
on roads and for their own use. A tractor
school was held Tuesday 15th at Birch
Run which was well . attended and very
educational to tractor tumors. Stock in
healthy condition. Hay in good demand.
especially eleven—E. C. M., 248-27.
Guam—m ﬁrst or the week a few
inches of snow tell but did not last long.
Farmers are‘beginnlng to feel the main
partotwinterisover and workon tam
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D.. 2-17-37.

Wuhtmw.—Mild winter weather "the
past two week. Snow and ice about
gone. The usual amount of live stock is
being winmt'ed. There is plmty of feed
to ﬁnish the winter. Some corn still in
the field. The poultry business is being
increased among the farmers of thelcoun-
ty. Butter, 64c, eggs, 35c. Hay in from
$16.00 upward per torn—«A. W. 5.. 8-18-27.

81:. Jumh.—8prlng—like weather. Snow
is all gone. Wheat looks good. Young»
clover is still all right So. far. Farmers
are busy buzzing wood and hauling
manure. Auction sales are quite numer—
ous. Horses are bringing a fair price-
while cows go out of sight. Roads are in
bad shape-adlvin J. Yoder. 8-17-37.

Deﬁance (Ohio) .—-Weather mild and
and some rain. Been very warm past
two weeks. Frost nearly out of ground.
Muddy roads. Postman mnnot cover all
his route. sales numerous. Prices on
cows and hogs. sky high. Good grade
cow sells for more than pair of common
horses. Good machinery sells well, hay
and real estate slow. A few are trying
town life but not as many as a. few
years ago. Some young men returning to
farm, after spending time and money in
city. Quotations at Bryan (Ohio): Wheat,
$1.85 bu.: corn, 80c owt.; oats. 400 bu.:
hay, $10.00 ton; milk, $2.35 cwt; pota—
toes, $2.50 cwt.; butter-tat, 51c; eggs, 28c
don—W. E. B., 2-17-27.

STATE REPORT SHOWS CLUB
WORK BENEFI'IB

IGHTEEN thousand six hundred,
and sixty three Michigan boys
and girls were members of boys
and girls clubs in 1926», according
to the annual report just released by
A. G. Kettunen, state club leader.
Club work was carried on in all

Michigan counties except eight. ‘

During the twelve years that this
type of training for Michigan young—
sters has been carried on, there have
been 215,752 members of boys and
girls clubs in this State. Enough
time has elapsed since the initial
clubs were organised so that a meas—
ure can be taken of the value or the,
work to club members in their fu-
ture activities.

Many of the club members go to
colleges, universities, or the normal
schools after they have ﬁnished club
work. These former members ﬁnd
that the training which they re—
ceived in raising stock. in growing“
crops, in canning, or in making

, clothes has a great‘ deal of direct

value.

A majority or the former club
members, however, do not go on to
college after they have ﬁnished their
high school courses, and these club

members, who are men and Women" .. 
now, are almost without exception 
leaders, in their communities. when ‘
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"'—"-___...__. By G. H. BARNDEN—_____,. ﬂ \
(Quatlom madly Answered.)

FERTHJZING

= UCH has been written on fertil-
izing the general term crops

. but when it comes to fertiliz-
ing the garden creps information is
often found lacking. 1 While there
is no question but that good, well
rotted stable manure will always be
the old stand-by as a garden fertil-
izer the fact remains that the sup-
plementing of cemmercial fertiliz-
ers will often prove beneﬁcial. Ma-
nure at best is a poorly balanced
plant food when used as a garden
crop fertilizer. It contains a good

amount of nitrogen but is decidedly

lacking in the phosphorus and pot-
The nitrogenin ma-
nure also is a slowlyavailable form
especially during the cool‘ months of
early spring when the chemical
changes known as soil nitriﬁcation
is slow in taking place. For this
reason it is often advisable to apply
a moderate application of a nitro-
genous fertilizer to stimulate early
growth until the nitrogen contained
in the manure becomes available.
Nitrate of soda is the form of nitro-
gen most used as the nitrogen in
this becomes available at once. ,

In fertilizing garden crops a thor—

" ough knowledge of the eﬁects of

the three necessary fertilizer ele-
ments is essential. ‘Nitrogen pro—

. wduces' leaves or vines according to

the character of the crop. For this
reason it is a valuable plant food
to use in growing such crops as let-
tuce, cabbage, spinach and other
crops in which the leaves form the
edible portion of the plant. Due to
this-~an over abundance of nitrogen
in the soil will prove detrimental to
such plants as tomatoes, beans, peas,
etc., by producing a vigorous vine
or top growth at the expense of fruit
or pod production and early matur-
ity. However, the leaves of the
plant being the kitchen of the plant

‘ where elements taken from the air

,are transformed into food for the
roots its should not be inferred that
nitrogen is not necessary. The harm—
ful effects I‘have observed were only
noticeable where th _ J was over
abundant.

Phosphorus is the plant food ele-
ments most generally found lacking
in the garden soil. Its chief function
is that of promoting early maturity
of plants in which the fruit, seeds,
or pods are the edible part of the
plant. In this group are included
tomatoes, melons, peas, beans, corn,

etc. In fact, our heaviest crops of ,

early tomatoes, corn, peas and beans
were produced on land which had
had no manure for two or three
years but was liberally supplied
with 16 per cent acid phosphate
alone. There is no question but
these crops are not heavy feeders
of nitrogen. In fact, corn will some-
times thrive on a soil where other
plants stand still for want of nitro-
gen, providing the phosphorus ele-
ment was not lacking.

Potash ﬁnds its, chief use .in stim-
ulating root growth and is therefore
invaluable in the culture of such
crops as beets, radish, carrots, on-
ions, etc., the ﬂeshy roots of which
The onion crop
is. also highly~ responsive to nitro-
gen. Potash is also valuable in fact
necesasry to all plants as good root

' growth is of _. prime. necses-ity to all

plant  _ Stablemanure contains

 
  

 

 

   

 

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basic garden fertilizer. This of
course will need to be varied accord-
ing to: 1. Kind of soil in regards to
humus content, texture, moisture
retaining qualities and previous me-
thods of fertilization; 2. Kind 6f crop

 

:' W n? no" manure" has" been'use'd

 for some time and one is to depend
I on commerciallertili‘zer alone, I am
3 of the opinion that the 4-8-10 proves

very satisfactory under average con-
ditions when it is desired to use one
analysis on all 'crops. Where manure

v enters into the program the nitrogen
element may be decreaSed or even

manure is seldom satisfactory for
best results. It is better if com-
posted in a pile. for 6 months or so
and then applied after plowing and
worked in. Moderate yearly appli-
cations are to be preferred to heavy
applications once in two or more
years as in the former method much
of the food properties are lost
through leaching, especially in the
lighter soils. It is seldom advisable
to apply commercial fertilizer at
rates exceeding 1,500 to 2,000
pounds per acre unless succession

      
 

cropping and then it would ‘- 
more-advisable to treat each 
separately. Good results are ‘ often,
attained by use" of 500 to 190“)?
pounds on soil in moderate con

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parts of the state. . ‘

2. The company has been successfully managed
and has built up a large agency and adjusting
force to bring. the service of the company home

‘to the party insured.

3. During the life of this company, ﬁve different '
companies have started business and retired
from the automobile insurance ﬁeld.

4. The company conﬁnes its business to writing
automobile insurance in the state of Michigan
only. It is therefore able to give more careful
attention to its members than those who spread
their activities over many states.

5. It took many years of successful planning to
properly organize and build up the company to
itspresent standing.

I 6. The company has increased in assets $140,000
per year for ﬁve years and now has assets of
over $840,000 and thereforehas fully estab-
lished reserves. .

7. By insuring in this company, you are taking out
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'TEXT:.
Bolt, Watchman, what of the night?"—
Isaiah 21-11.

ASHIN‘GTON and Lincoln live
' on. They live through the in-
spiration of well-nigh unparal-
leled faith and persistence. In that
dark winter at Valley Forge, Wash-
ington is often on his knees. In that
terrible gloom after the Emancipa-
tion P;oclamation, when the people
were ﬁckle, and political friends
were forsaking him, LincOln, in the
grace of a manly faith and a child-
ish humility, is wont to carry his
cause to the God Whom he trusted.
He says, “I have been driven many
times'to my knees by the overwhelm-
ing conception ,that' I had nowhere
else to go. My own wisdom, and
that of all about me seemed insuf-
ﬁcient for the day."
night” was the agonizing prayer on
the lips of both of these political
saviors. -

But in the days of our text, a veil
of darkness was settling upon all
the nations. Out of the silence of
decay and death, the prophet hears
the cry, “What of the night?" Some
distressed soul was seeking an ora—
cle of relief. He wonders how long
judgment will last and when the
morning will come.

Now, what were the signs in
those days that pointed to a night
of gloom? Let us consider what
Isaiah says about Judah, for she was
no exception. Chapter 5:8-20 gives
the woeful story. Corrupt wealth
was gnawing at the vitals of Judah.
Property was falling into a few
hands, and these selﬁsh few had
formed a protected class, which ig-
nored social responsibility while ac-
cumulating more pelf, and thus

people. Agriculture was the chief
occupation, and so much of the
wealth-getting took the form of
grabbing farm after farm “until
there was no more room." But we
have a great herd of this class in
America. “Industrial Facts” by Kir-
by Page has these statements: “Two
per cent of‘the populations owns
sixtey per cent of the wealth.” “One
man is on the board of forty-ﬁve
railroad companies." “Senator La-
Follet (now dead) points out that,
‘the real power which today con~
trols the railroads of the United
States, is the group of a dozen New
York ﬁnancial institutions’." T‘The
1910 census revealed the fact that
about one-fourth of the agricultural
land in the .United States was in the
possession of about six ten—thou—
sandths (only a fraction of one per
cent) of the population. ‘ " " Fifty-
four owners had, it is said, nearly
27,000,000 acres." And in cbntrast
to this, let us note this statement,
“About ten million persons are liv-
ing in poverty, or at the margin of
the minimum standard of existence.”
America needs the warning of Isaiah
that if she would foster congested
wealth and turn her ear from the
cry of the many, she is sowing the
seeds of doom. Wealth, in its indul-
gent forms, is a sure menace to
n a t i o n a l existence. Abandoned
farms and desolate houses are silent
forerunners of greater ills that are
to prey upon us. Who said that the
ﬁrst function of government was to
protect the rich and their money?
Verily, that is no. Christian oraclelr

And, says the prophet, wealth
leads to social indulgences of the
most virulent forms.“ The times
were prosperous and wealth had its
chance. But Isaiah saw nothing
but evil in it. And Jesus says, “how
hardly” can riches bless the posses-
sor. 7 Why? Because it is not-used
to bless others. .Yet, there are some
happy exceptions. But the prophet's
picture is a modern realism. He
points out that drunkeness follows

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crushed the life out of the hapless'

wealth. Certainly. : There argfmany. .
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music. ‘ ’suéh animalism is deaf to, ‘

the call of God and to the" signs of
the times. “They regard not the
work of Jehovah, neither have they
considered the operation ‘of his
hands.” ‘ '

Before the prophet ﬁnishes his
scathing picture, he .must tell how
money and drunkeness are taking
away righteousness from the land

through corrupting the courts of Jus—~

tice. He relates how public oificials
“are mighty to drink wine” and to
mix their drinks. How well Isaiah
painted modern conditions and gov-
ernment in collusion with corrupt
wealth. Why did General Pershing
recently say, “If the time ever comes
when public officers 'can be virtually
bought and sold, then the downfall
of the Republic is not far off.”
When will we be warned by our de-
caying: manhood and our illicit love
for material possessions? 'It adds
nothing to the vision of President
Coolidge that he said .in a recent
address, in speaking of Europe’s
plight, “Those who need credit ought
not to complain, but rather rejoice,
that there is a bank able to serve
theirneeds. Well, a community of
farmers that is long mortgaged td‘
the town bank, does little rejoi’cing,

but it often falls into the belief that -

wealth is oppressing it. Now, Europe
believes that Uncle Sam is taking

advantage of her through her econ- .

omic misfortunes. And this belief
is daily breaking ,down international
good—will. Surely, we will not delib-
erately allow our wealth to make us
incapable of trust and belittle us
before the whole world!

The Jerusalem seer clearly dis-

cerns the end. “Therefore my people .

are gone into captivity for lack. of
knowledge.”
“It is righteOusness ’that exalteth a
nation.” Our President says and
would have us believe, _“Our moral
and spiritual life has kept measure
with our material prosperity.” But
this scribe does not believe it,
though we could wish it were al-
together so. Our ears are dull of
hearing, \for example, the appeal of
China for the many ministrations of
Christian mercy. And until we
clear our intentions by purifying our
industrial aims in that and other
foreign realms, we cannot be said to
have the “moral and spiritual life"
close at heart. And until we purge
public life of the corrupting inﬂu-
ence of wealth and wetness, our
moral and “ritual life has kept
poor measm s. '

“Watchman, what of the night?"
When will the morning come? But
the prophet discerns the dawn.
“The people that walked in dark
ness have seen a great light: they
that dwelt in the land of the shadow
of death, upon them that the light
shined.” But for long now the Light
has shined to lead the way out of
our perils and to give us a vision
of that day when “of the increase
of His government and of peace
there shall be no need.” Church of
God, arise, and sing less “I want to
be an angel”, and more “The Son of
God goes forth to war" for right-
eousness and justice among the
peoples.

KEEPS FARMERS POSTED

EAR EDITOR: We all like your.
paper.
er posted on what is going on.

At home the paper comes in my'

boy’s name, but the whole family is
interested in the M. B. F.; market,
weather, service, poultry, farm home
and all departments are good, like
a home paper. We have other farm
papers but they are so far away with
their news that we hardly looklat
them. Your: paper tells us what is
going on around us. We like the'
crop reports and your chicken 36-

. We have "a nice. bum
ciswyandottes, white " h’ ‘ " "

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that I 1961 like saying a

which wettarmers. are all concerned,
for while up here we are aWay out
or what is called the corn belt we
do depend, to a large extent, upon

ﬂour corn; in fact, I would say it will

be areal calamity if that crop is
lost to us. I know that a great ef—
fort is being made by many men who
know more about the habits of the
pest than I do to control it; still
I have not as yet read of anybody
trying out the plan I should at-
tempt it I had to do it on my own
farm. ' r

While I am not sure, I presume
the borer is much like many other
pests and would welcome the ﬁrst
thing that suited it. Potato bugs
will ﬂock to the volunteer plants,
grasshoppers will readily come for
poisoned bait and many other pests
will come’to strips or plants put out
for their beneﬁt, so were I to pre-
pare for the corn borer next spring,
I would clean up my premises as
well as possible of all such stuff as
the borer cared much for. I would
then clean up a strip entirely around
my farm and ﬁt it up and plant it
to Golden Bantam sweet corn or
some other very early corn just as
soon as the weather was ﬁt to plant
corn. Also if the farm was large I
would run strips four or ﬁve rows
wide across it each way. I would
then do my regular farming inside
this ring of corn and plant such
other com as I felt I must at as
late a date as could be trusted to
leave time to mature, corn of some
early variety. It seems to me the
corn in these strips would be so
far advanced before the main crop
was around enough to call the borers
that it would catch a large majority
of them and when it was thought
that this corn had capured all it
could and is usefulness was ended,
cut it or pull it and make away with
it. I think that this might do con-
siderable good it generally done by
those in the infested area. Then
again it might 'be a fool idea. I
really don’t know, still I am mighty
interested—Clare D. Scott, Cheboy-
gan County.

POOR ILAWS

EAR EDITOR: There are some
laws that I consider very weak
and unjust. First the auto 1i-

cense plate should go for the life
of the machine and we should have
a four cent gas tax.

Second, all hunters, no matter
how old, should be obliged to get a
hunter’s license, and a license should
be for hunting, trapping and ﬁsh—
ing. If that was the law, lads from

"10 to 15 years old could not kill

quail and in fact every bird they see.
They should be allowed to hunt on
their parent’s land without a li—
cense. These same lads go to the
lakes and streams and catch small
ﬁsh, simply for sport. If everyone,
no matter what age, who wants to
hunt, trap or ﬁsh was obliged to
pay $1.25 for a license, game and
ﬁsh would be much more plentiful.
Anothergweak law is the traffic
laws of Michigan. When one ma-
chine drives by another and causes
an accident that driver should be
ﬁned from $100 and 90 in jail and
have his license revoked for two
years. Such a law save many lives.
One of best privileges the mem-
bers the members of the M. B. F.
do enjoy is the exposing of crooks
so the members are ready. for them.
-—-—J. L. Klein, Washtenaw County.

DEPORT CRIMINALS

0 the Editor: Capital punish-
ment is to come up again. Some
claim 8 out of 10 criminals in

the United 'States were born in the
old country. Why should We kill
them? Wouldn’t it be better to de-
port them to their old home? That

,would empty our .Stateprisons and

save taxes for the Americans. We
Wouldn’t; have the expense of build-

ing] more ,prisons. We could rent
a when; We have “for some good use.
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NEW SERIAL STORY

HOSE who read “Forty Years of Faking”
T and “How Bill Bucked the Tiger" in our
columns some time ago will be pleased to
know that we have secured the publication rights
to another story somewhat along the same line——
the activities of thieves in rural communities.
The two stories mentioned dealt with the work of
grafters, while the new one has to do with the
depredations of a gang of thieves and how they
were caught. “Millbank Brings Back Its Bacon”
is the title of this new story of the troubles of a
farm neighborhood~perhaps your neighborhood.
or course it is ﬁction but the background is true
to life and shows what farmers can do to get rid
of thieves when they organize themselves into
protective associations as they are being forced
to do to protect their property in many sections.
It is not a long story and has something doing
in every paragraph so you are bound to ﬁnd it
very interesting. The ﬁrst installment will ap-
pear in our March 12th issue. Don’t miss it.

BEARING FRUIT

HEN Governor Fred M. Green took over the
W reins of the government of Michigan at

the ﬁrst of the year he made a rather brief
and to the point speech which included the
statement, “This Legislature could easily'become
the outstanding Legislature of the United States
with every member going home proud of the
achievement and with an acknowledged place in
the history of Michigan, if you would proceed to
your work on the theory that we need no more
laws.”

Apparently his advice is bearing fruit, because
the ﬁrst bill to be passed by both houses during
the 1927 session was brought to the Governor’s
desk only last week. And the Legislature con-
vened over seven weeks ago.

Let us hope that quality rather than quantity
will be the watchword throughout the session.

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40.000 FRIENDS

EN it comes to going to the rescue of their

own kind there is not a class of people in

the world that can hold a candle to the
farmers. When we asked for petitions urging
the acquittal of L. J. Wilson, Montcalm county
farmer, charged with manslaughter because he
fatally wounded a chicken thief he caught rob-
blng his hen coop, we had a faint idea of the
response we would get, but the number soon
passed our prediction and every mail brought
more until we become almost swamped with
them. From every direction they came, some
with only two or three names on, others with
over two hundred listed one below the other on
a long strip of paper. As we write this we have
over 38,000 names signed to petitions and letters
urging that Mr. Wilson be declared “Not guilty!"
Then some of the letters are from granges, farm
bureaus and farmoro' clubs in different sections.
and they contain a resolution adopted by that
organization which is ‘ oﬂlcially stamped and

 ' aligned by the my These mpmsent many

'  Th Easiness 

-' show this spirit toward a brother?

' all the time.

., quittod‘ is ove 7 :0

= of}

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when: w‘illing‘h

sent in money or eigniil .
help him bear. theTex'pens‘es. , , l '
Is there any other class of werkers who "would
We, have
never: heard ofany, and furthermore, we have no

idea that ive ever will hear of any.' Out in the

 
   

country felks think of something. else besides
themselves. In the cities it is self’ﬁr‘st, last and
Thank God we were born and
raised close to Mother Nature.

 

FUNDS TO FIGHT THE/BORERS

seems the bill to appropriate $10,000,000
for ﬁghting the European corn borer before
Congress at this writing is moving along with-

out a hitch and if the Legislatures of the dif-‘

ferent states interested in this ﬁght do not get
busy they are going to be trailing a long ways
behind. The states ought to be leading instead

. of trailing.

Michigan is to get about a third of the $10,-
000,000, which she is to match wlfh_$1.00 of the
State's money to every $5.00 from the U. S. gov—
ernment. Action is needed all down the line
because the borer will soon be active-again, and
we want to be ready to “go to the front" when
the borer begins his 1927 attack.

FARMERS’ WEEK BIGGER AND BETTER

VERY year Farmers’ Week at the Michigan I

State College is a little bit larger and a little

bit better than it was the year before. Every
year new features are added to bring out a
larger crowd of farm folks to mingle at their
own agricultural college and get the latest in-
formation on things of particular interest to
them. It is very gratifying to notice how the
interest in this annual event increases yearly be-
cause it means our rural folks are becoming more
and more interested in business farming instead
of just “farmin’.”

We tried to tell you all about the 1927 Farm-
ers’ Week iu the last issue, but it wouldn’t hold
it all so we are telling you some more about it
in this issue.

 

At the Family Reunion
By ANNE CAMPBELL

At the family reunion,
When the babies all git cry'in'
‘And the women all git talkin'
0f the livin‘ and the dyin’,
Thenlgrabmypipean'beatit
For the barn or fur the stable,
An’ I don’t come back till dinner’
Is a cofﬁn 'on the table.

At the family reunion,
When the chicken’s crisp an’ tender,
Then my disposition softens
An' I’m anyone’s defender.
I kin stand the women buzzin’
’Bout their clothes an' all sich foolin‘
When we‘re sittin‘ down at dinner,
An‘ the punluin pies are ecolin’.

At the family who,
I’m the oldest one mendin’.
An‘ sometimes it seems to gabbin’
There is never any endin’;
But as long as there is oookin’
Set before old eyes a-dimmin’
Sech as we git when we gather,
Enron there Is some use for women,

At the family maroon,
’ I fol-git my bones are achin’!
When‘I sit around the table,
I ain’t old; I ain’t forsaken.
For my kin are sittln’ with me.
An' their young an’ party faces
Make me sorry I got grouchy
An‘ I put them in their places.
At the family reunion, ’ '
When the women’s busy clearin'
Thonlsetbocklnmonrner‘,~ _
An’ it ain’t ﬂashy}: I’m hearin’.
Goon I 10¢ a biz. fir all”
  back to hound me
An’ I dream I‘myoung an’ settin'
With my fondly  me:

 

 

 

 
 

‘for their license. .. .

 . .Cgue‘ge. 

(ﬁlling!  f" ks’ Association. V

'dé‘rstendféat the reg

lhibh 6 

assume-f of the :countyr’clerks is cut, me

because the ardor rofxmany ‘loveslck 
off within the ﬁve'daye andhthey fail to "come ‘

  

If love will not was live :‘days‘ no salsa

has the right to get married. 'Eve‘ry lawina‘ker 

at Lansing should stop to think that how!“ en— 
courage divorces if he votes‘to repeal thelew as?"
Certame noneof usiwantzeueg, 

it now stands. g I _ r
divorce courts any more crowded than they are ,
at present. Heaven forbid.

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poor. rule to follow, and only county clerks who
are extremely selﬁsh would encourage it. ‘
county clerks are not making, enough money let
us raise their salaries, .but leave the the day'
marriage license law alone.  t
_ Legislators, spare that law!

 

MAPLE SUGAR TIME

T will not be long before the sap will be run-
I ning and the making of maple sugar will be
in full swing in Michigan. If one is just mak-
ing what sugar they want for their own use they
get a lot of fun out of it whether they proﬁt from
it or not, but if it is a matter of dollars and cents
with them there are a few things they should
ask themselves.

One question to consider is, what costs will» ‘_

have to be‘ borne regardless of whether sugar
is made ?’ Another is, what employment is avail- ‘
able that will payas well? And still another,
with what farm operations will it interfere and

how serious will be the interference? ~ V

According to ﬁgures given out by the U. S.
Bureau of Agricultural Economics, based on
prices received for maple sugar by New York
and Vermont producers, for the years 1921 to
1925, producers received about forty cents an
hour for their labor.
duction disregarding the producer's labor was
about jl.00 per gallon, and the total cost aver
aged $1.45 and ranged from 54 cents to $4.24 a
gallon.  .

HELP 01m POUIIl‘RY INDUSTRY
HE'Legislature is being asked for $200,000
for the. erection of several new poultry >

buildings at the Michigan State College.

/.

Some time ago, we mentioned on this page that
such a request would come before this session
and we expressed the hope that favorable action
would be taken. Again we want to voice our
feelings in favor of such action. . _
Taxes are already too high and we do not
want to see any more appropriations made than
are really necessary because the money must be
raised if it is spent and most appropriations are,

taken care of through taxes assessed on the land,- ” ‘

but this can be considered an investment that
will pay good dividends.

Experts declare that the poultry industry re- - , /

ceives the least service in proportion to its'value
of any other industry in the State. It is not
because we do not have the right men in charge
of the work. Far from it, because the members
of the poultry husbandry staff at the Michigan
State College are leaders in the ﬁeld. The trouble
is that they have practically nothing to work
with to render the needed service. The $200.—
000 will take care of that.

Get in touch with your lawmakers and urge
that they do their, hit toward getting this
through.

 

PETER PLOW’S PHILOSOPHY

“Set and think" is supposed to be good advice
but ain’t it funny how many folks can “set” but

What we went to;  '
work towards is fewer divorces, ’not more.  ,V
' “Merry in haste and repent at leisure," is a  

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COMING EVENTS

March 1, 1927.—-—Special Meeting Michigan”:

State Horticultural Society, Paw Paw, Mich. ,
March 2-3, NHL—Regular . Spring Meeting
Michigan State Horticultural Society, Eon 
Haven,M_lch. , - » , 
August 1—4, int—International Country
annual meeting,- Mlehlgan State Couege,'f
Lansing..Mlch.  , A» " a  ~ '
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 20qu FOR s1
 her'da’ypwe received a letter
 one of "our Subscribers
4 *it'seems, was very much
V, up": over 'an accident policy
ﬁhfchhad been sold to him in con-
 'with a subscription to a
;‘_ :hap'er. It appears Mr. Sales-
Van for said farm paper had told
 subscriber that if he took out a

, (may with him that there was noth-

ing left .for him to worry about as
at [as bodily injury was concerned
:Athe policy was just as safe as a
government bond and covered every

"-517Qininry known ‘to man, all for the
' magniﬁcent sum of only one dollar

 

year.

Now we don’t want to say an on?

"hind-word abOut our subscriber, but
honestly don’t you think he should
‘ have known better? Why, this agent

stood right up close to our good sub-
scriber and told him that should he

.7 fall ad a load of hay, should the
‘ cow kick him Or should the bull run

'him out of the pasture and muss him
up doing so why all Mr. Farmer had
to do was to go in and lay down on

“the couch, take it easy, call the doc-

tor, get a nurse, and stick close to
the house for ﬁfteen weeks and draw
down more money from the insur-

.ance company than he could make

each Week farming. And because

 fthis'agent looked fairly honest and

irepresented a good farm paper our

 

  
 
  
 
  
   
  
    
 
 
 
    

subscriber fell for the story, took out
Is subscription and one of the policies
' ——-he had to do that in order to get

the subscription.

Well along came the policy within '

a few days and after our friend sub-
scriber read it over he started saying

‘ ' things, and when he did his wife ran

the children into the bed room and
locked the door behind her, because
the things friendhubby was saying
about that policy were not ﬁt tosbe

v heard by young children or a sensi-

tive wife. After the atmosphere
cleared away Mrs. Farmer went out
and put her arm's around his neck

‘ and told him to never mind but to

write Tm: Busnmss stm all about
it and learn the real truth about
these insurance policies———for after
all it .was only a dollar—then he

« .

0 V -, raved far into the night about the
- general principle of the thing, and

why couldn’t a man take a farm
paper without. an.insurance policy

tied to it.
The next day he wrote us the

iwhole story, and we wrote him as

follows:
“Sorry, indeed, to learn that a

~ ‘slicker’ took'you in on an accident

(policy. You know by this time that
your policy only protects you while
travelling or an injury in a public
building-such as a church, theatre,
library, and then only under certain
conditions. Your policy or any other
dollar policy will not protect you
_while on your own property. In
order to get a policy that would
cover all the things this agenttold
you were covered in your dollar
policy it_ would cost you from ﬁfteen
to twenty ﬁve dollars a year.
“Remember, you have a good
policy and it is well worth a dollar
.-but its too bad the agent lied like
a trooper for it was not necessary.
Had this man told you the truth you

I -might have taken the policy anyway
for as we said before it's worth the.

money—in this day and age of ac-
cidents while travelling.

  

 

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department II to w
toot our hen hem fraudulent out!!!”
or but-Ir “mm by persons or concerns at
I
’ .Iu every one we will

I satisfactory "tumour
.whichrnc chorus for our unless will our
megs, rum : '- -

be _ hand and not
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«mm~ etc 'o " also you ad-

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“an: Emmettan has an ac-
cident policy. tee, jut we.--_do not

allow our agents to sell it. ’ Our ﬁeld '

men give ,- out insurnace blanks and
on these blanks'nre'printed in detail
just what you get for your money.
You do not have to buy an insurance

policy in order to get our paper, if
you want the policy it's alright with

us and if you don’t we feel just as
good about it———-‘—Tnn BUSINESS FARM-
ER comes ﬁrst with us—and the
policy is just an added service if you
care for it; .

We are glad you like THE BUSI-
Nsss Farm and that you feel safe
in writing us about any subject
knowing you will get a square deal

'é—that is jusHhe way we want ydu

to feel. Call on us again.

GENERAL MOTOR SUPPLY 00.

I will send you a bunch of letters
from the General Motor Supply
Company of La. Crosse, Wis. I be-
lieve it would be wise to advertise
them through your columns. Tried
one of their gas governors and ﬁnd
it of no value at all. Besides they
are giving too many valuable pre-

 

miums that alone show it is all

bunk.--—J. ’D., Turner, Mich.

ENERAL MOTOR SUPPLY

COMPANY”. Repeat that over

a couple of times. What does
it make you think of ? General Mot-
ors Corporation, of course. Isn’t it
quite possible that those operating.
this “gas governor” ﬁrm are trying
to get you to confuse the two, or pos-
sibly give you the impression that
General Motors is back of their bus-
iness? We think so. Well, don’t
believe it. ‘

As for their “gas governor” we
have no faith in any of these so—call-
ed gas savers. To date we have never
heard of or seen one of them that
would work with any degree of satis-
faction, and we believe that if one
is ever perfected it will become
standard equipment on automobiles
as no one is more anxious to con-

serve the supply of gasoline than the

manufacturer.

WHY MRS DO NOT GET

DIVIDENDS

RE, there any of our readers
holding ﬁrst mortgage bonds of
Bernard and Sara Fineman,
written against the Plaza and Wav-
erly Apartments, of Detroit, issued
and trusted by the Michigan Bond
and Mortgage Company in 1924? We
hope not because the chance of col-

ledting interest is mighty slim.
According to the Detroit Better
Business Bureau, the Plaza Apart-
ment building has stood for months
unﬁnished, the doorways unbarri—
caded, the premises piled high with
rubbish and overgrown with weeds,
apparently without protection ,of any
description. The Waverly Apart-
ments present a similar appearance.
Folks living nearby state that 'during
the year or more since the project
was apparently abandoned vandals
have carried away much of the ma:
terials not only piled in the street

but in the building as well, while

children use it as a playhouse,
breaking the windows and otherwise
destroying the property. '

Some of the ofﬁcials of the Michi-
gan Bond and Mortgage Company
have been under ﬁre in connection

‘ with companies of shaky reputation,

we are informed by the Detroit Bet-
ter Business Bureau. '
Reputable investment banking
houses allege that the established
practice as regards mortgage bond
issues would leave no chance for
such a situation as exists in > this
case. The trustee would have held
suﬁlcient money to complete the
building, and released the proceeds
of the bond issue only to pay bills
accomplishing that end. ,

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

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In'addition to a proﬁtable rate of interest, the ﬁrst
mortgage real estate bonds “recommended by the
Federal Bond & Mortgage Company offer to in-
vestors‘the certainty belonging only to safe securi-
ties backed by the integrity and stability of a
dependable investment house. ‘

    

  

  

   
 

Safeguarding investors is our established policyr
Not one has ever had to suffer the slightest delay
in payment of principal or interest when due on
securities purchased from us. Mail the coupon
below and we will gladly send you full information
regarding the bonds we sponsor as well as the in-
vestment services we are prepared to render you.

6% 861/270

Normal Federal Income Tax Up to 11/2% and 2%
Paid by Borrower

  
  
    
 
    
    
   
    
 
 
  
   
    
  
 
  
  
 

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“Nothing succeeds like success,” they say, but where success is
constant and mcreasing there must be some unusual merit back
of it. The continued success of the Auto-Oiled

Aermotor is based entirely on merit. It has

been made better and better year after year.
Improvements have been added as experience
, has showntheway.TheAuto-Oiled Aermotor
 of today is a wonderfully durable and
. ’ The Aermotor Company, more than 12 years ago,
solved the problem of complete self-oiling for
windmills in such a way as to make the system
absolutely reliable. The oil circulates to every
.r'  bearing and returns to the reservoir with never a
failure. There are no delicate parts to get out of order. The double
gears run in oil in a tightly enclosed gear case.

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For over 28 years DREW has maintained an
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All we ask is for you to compare DREW qual-
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'3 'HIS story is a true. one, quite

exciting as well as. veryninter-

esting, especially to the writer
as I attended school at Wayland,
Allegan county, and I had\a host of
friends and I got along with my
school work grand. The year that
they put the Grand Rapids and In—
diana Railroad through the place
there were a number of our friends
went north to homestead land.

In the year of 1871, the ﬁrst of
April, I received a letter asking me if
I would come up there and teach
their school as there had never been
any as yet. I got my parents consent
to go, and my father went with me.
I hpd to go to the town of Hersey
to take the examinations. There
was only one train from Reed City to
Hersey and it did not give us any
too much spare time. After I got
my certiﬁcate we knew we had no
time to waste and we had four long
miles to walk to catch the last
train out of Reed City and had to
make it. I tell you there was some
high stepping, we did not stop to
count the railroad ties. We just
made the train. The train only Went
as far as Cadillac at that time. It
was a mixed train, ﬁat cars loaded
with hemlock bark and some with
cedar shingles, also some with rail—
road ties and cedar posts. We had
no upholstery seats to sit on.
Where we were going to stop was
just a crossing and it was nearly
dark when we took the train and we
did-not go very fast as the train
ran over a new road. We both, were

‘ very tired.

I must say I got there before they
had the school house completed.
Now the buildings were all logs cov-
ered with sha‘ke roof and it did
not take an expert to build any kind
of buildings for they were all nearly
alike, only some were larger than
others. I had to commence my
school on a certain day, so the
school board got together and de-
cided the next Monday they would
have the school house ready, it
would be so I could commence the
school. I was glad and rather anxi-
So Monday morning I rang the
school bell, one I had brought with
me. They had got; the schoolhouse
just nicely under way. There was
no roof on it, had the rough ﬂoor
down and a few rough benches
nailed to the ﬂoor and they did not
have even the chinking in so after
I closed school at night the car-
penters would come and work, and
also Saturdays, until they ﬁnally
completed the wonderful building.
I had a roll call of. twenty-six chil-
dren, all ages. I had some older
than myself but that made nodiffer-
ence. They all obeyed me to the
letter. There was a Doctor Gristin,
a Swedish man. He Went back to
the old country and brought back
two boatloads of Swedes and Danes.

Religious Services

I had always been brought up to
attend church, also Sunday school,
so I talked with the parents about
organizing a Sunday school. It was
understood by all that the next
Sunday we would all meet at the
school house and there was a grand
turn-out, nearly everyone in the dis—
trict. Anyone that had any good lit—
erature was to bring it, also any
hymn books. Now I sent to my
home and had a great plenty sent
me, also papers and cards for the
children and our collection increased
each Sunday so we sent for our sup—
plies and the good work went on.
’ After a short time we had a min-

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ister come and speak to. us twiCe a 5
month, so I began to feel I was live",
ing in a. civilized country once more. i
I did enjpy the summer very 'much.

  

I had never been in the wilderness, 

before and in fact never ‘had' been-,1 v

away from my home, so you may

know‘wha‘t home meant to me. I- . '

was there six weeks and went ho'me
to celebrate the 4th of July. When:
I returned I was so glad to great my
happy children for they all met me
and wanted me to tell them what I
did, also what I saw, while I was
away, so that was my last visit
home until the term of school was
out. On the last day of school I
had prepared a program and invited
the parents there to visit us. I was

r so proud of those dear children. I

have never forgotten, although it
has been ﬁfty—ﬁve years ago.

The small village where I taught
the ﬁrst school, also organized the
ﬁrst Sunday school, was called Tus-
tin. There was one store and post
office combined. After a time one
of the Swedish men started a small,
store to supply their class of people.
How hungry that new country made
everyone. Potatoes were so good
with only a little salt on them. Of
course, everyone was as good as
another, so friendly they did not
seem to have any thought of self—'
ishness or jealousy. We all had a
good time. We had dances and
sometimes barn raisings, loggin
bees, quilting bees and we all wen ’
and had a grand good time.

Marriage

As my school closed I returned to
my home, I received many good let—
ters from many of my'scholars, also .
from one of my gentlemen friends.
After a, time he came to see me and
in the year of 1873, the 11th of May,
there was a great commotion at my
childhood home. I wondered why
when my dear father took me by the
hand and gave me to another. I tell
you it meant-something. ,I did not
think of it then as I do today, as
I was about to leave a good home
and the best of parents and the
youngest cried as if her little heart
would break. “I don’t want that
big man to take my dear sister away
where I can’t see her."

After the ceremony was performed
we took our departure for the north.
We went as far as Big Rapids where
we spent our honeymoon with
friends, and had a ﬁne time. After
a time we went north to Tustin as
he had homesteaded eighty acres of
the great wilderness. He had lived
there for two” summers previous to
our marriage. Now there were not
much of' any roads. We went to our
home light hearted, little realizing
the hardships of a pioneer life.

He had a log cabin and it did look
queer to me. The ﬂoor was rough
boards, the table was one he made
of rough boards, also the cupboard
was the same. The casing was all
rough boards. We bought chairs, two
bedsteads, also some bedding and
our provisions to last a time. _,

Had to get our lumber all from
Big Rapids and draw it in by oxen.
Horses were very scarce at that
time. I had one of those old ele-
vated oven stoves. It was a hard
cooker but I could bake our brown
bread and‘army beans and anything
that the good man provided, and
was happy to do so. We both went
to work getting in our crops. I
think he had about ﬁve acres
cleared.

We had some happy days with our

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THE CHILDREN'S noun
CLUB .

Motto: Do Your Best
Colors: Blue and Gold

S a member of The Chil-
dren’s Hour Club I pledge
myself: . -

To live a Christin life and keep
the Ten Commandments.

To do my best in everything I do.
To be true to my country, the
United States of America.

To do at least one good deed

each day.

To assist the less fortunate than I.

To be considerate of others.

To be kind to people Ind to oni-
mule.

To become educated.

To always conduct myself in a way
that is becoming to . lady or
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EAR girls and boys: Hear ye!

Hear ye! A-new club for the

girl and boy readers of M. B. F.
is about to be formed. Let every
one give their most careful atten—
tion. You will remember that one
of our readers recently suggested a
club with officers, and everything,
andrsince then many have written to
me endorsing the idea. So today we
are going to form it.

First we must consider the name
of our club, and I want to suggest
that The ,Childrens Hour, the name
of our department in the M. B. F.,
be used. So if you have no objec-
tions that will be the name of our
club. Also we will adopt the motto
and colors of the department. I
can not think of a better motto than
“Do Your Best. Further, the but—
ton we have will be considered the
official badge of our new club,
which means that every one of you
who has a button is already a mem-
ber of this club.

Now for the membership of our
club. All of you are entitled to
join but you must take the pledge
which I am publishing on Our Page
and you must live up to this pledge
to the best of your ability if you
wish to be considered a member in
good standing. Take this pledge,
then write me a letter advising that
you have done so and desire a button
to show that you are a member. En-
close two cents. a postage stamp will
be all right, as an initiation fee.
You know that when men join
lodges or clubs they must take an
initiation and they pay a fee before
taking it. I have heard jokes about
taking an initiation by mail, but I
do not know how it could be done,
so we will just have the fee of two
cents and when you send that in
you can considerd yourself initiated.
Then I will enter your name in our
membership book and send you a
button.

Next we will consider officers for
our new club. If we get nominations
and then vote on them it will take

considerable time so I have decided '

to oﬁer some names for your con-
sideration. For president I offer
Mildred Darby, of R. 3, Standish,
and Helen B. Kinnison, of Star
Route, Kalkaska, as candidates, be—
cause most of you, know of them.
For vice president I offer Thomas
McCarthy, R. 7, Bad Axe, and Marie
Suderman, Box 32, Comius, as candi-
dates. As the secretary must keep
a. record of the. membership, and the
treasurer the money it is probably

‘ _best to have one person ﬁll both of-
' Also as I needlall, the infor- v

ﬂees.
mation at my office I am offering
myself as a candidate for secretary
and treasurer, beeuse it would mean
a lot of extra work for someone else.

As we desire to get the officers
elected as soon as possible I want all
you to write in voting for your
choice.

to vote for someone else just write
their name in your letteras well as

the oifice which you-wish to have.

them hold. I am publishing a ballgt
on this page which, you .can‘ ﬁll out
and send in it] on

”  

  

I have given the names,
above as candidates but if you wish,

wish, or it, you _
‘ ' the do flint

Colors:  AND GOLD

,}
vise by letter. ‘The persons getting
the most votes between now and
March 12th will be considered elected
to serve until February lst, 19.28,
at which time new officers will be
elected.

One or two have mentioned our
having dues to be paid once a year.
Perhaps it would be alright but I
am not so much in favor of it. I
would rather have the initiation fee
the only cost with everyone a life
member. An active member until
18 years old and an honorary mem-
ber after that, with the privilege of
writing in at any time. What is
your idea about it?

So much for the State organiza-
tion. Now we will consider small
local clubs that can be formed.
Where there are several children in
a. neighborhood interested in The
Children's Hour 9. local club can be
formed with officers elected from
among the members, just like the
Statewide club. Meetings can be
held at regular intervals, once a
month or oftener if desired, and
with a. lunch and games a very in-
teresting time can be had. Perhaps
you can adopt some of the ideas of
the club your folks belong to. Then
after each meeting it should be the
duty of the secretary to report
about the meeting to me so that I
could keep a record of all meetings
and tell about them in our depart-
ment. Some times there might be
visitors from other clubs who could
tell you about what they are doing.

You might also form such clubs
in your schools, and have contests
of various kinds. Story writing con-
tests, drawing contests, as well as
many other kinds, and the prize
winning story, drawing, poem, or
essay sent in for publication. Your
teacher no doubt will welcome such
a suggestion and help you all she
or he can. And of course I will be
happy to help you in every way pos-
sible.

Now I hope you will do all you can
to make our club a big success. Re-
member youu' criticisms and sug-
gestions are always welcome and
given most careful consideration.
Drawings, pictures stories, and
poems by our‘readers are gladly re-
ceived for publishing on Our Page.
Let’s make Our Page better in 1927
than it ever has been in the past.
-—UNCLE NED. ‘

GUARANTEED

A man who was greatly troubled with
rheumatism bought some red ﬂannel un-
derwear, which was guaranteed in every
respect and a couple of weeks later re-
turned to the store where he made his
purchase. “These ﬂanneis are not what
you claimed them to be.” He said to
the clerk.

“What is the trouble with them?" asked
the clerk, “Have they faded or shrunk?"

“Faded! Shrunk" cried the purchaser
indignantly, '"Why when I came down to
breakfast this morning my wife asked me,
rWhat are you wearing the baby’s coral
necklace for?’»~"———Delores Lenz, Box 304,
Hubbell, Michigan.

 

BALLOT

I, the undersigned, of my own free
will, do hereby cast my vote for '
oﬂicers of The Children’s Hour
Club, to serve to February 1, 1328,
as follows (make 31! x in square
before name of candidate you vote
for)
PRESIDENT

D Mildred Darby
D Helen B. Kinnison .

VICE PRESIDENT
D Thomas McCarthy

El Muie Suderman

SECRR‘I‘A BY—TBEAS UBER
D Uncle Ned

Signed: \
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. 'would frequire. hunters and campers
“ to- obtain Ithez.‘“written” permission
. orthogown’erg or. tenant before enter-
ying ii ’on enclosed or improved land.
Elli-is? ‘ill provides stiff penalties for
those violating its provisions and
would empower the farmer or his
agent to arrest without warrant any
,‘DM‘SOII found violating the proposed
'statute'and immediately to take the
. offender before the Justice of Peace
for trial.
Tax Bills Hang in Balance

Several tax measures of consider-
,able interest to Michigan farmers
are receiving the attention of the
lawmakers, although none of them
have as yet come to a ﬁnal vote.
The proposed constitutional amend;-
ment sponsored by Rep. Wilber B.
Snow of Comstock which, if ap—
proved by the Legislature and the
voters, would empower the Legisla-
ture to revise Michigan’s tax laws
and to include a state income tax in
the new system, has been re-referred
to the House Committee on General
Taxation upon motion of Rep. Snow.

All sorts of highway ﬁnance
schemes are‘ being discussed and a
.‘dozen or so measures on this sub-
ject have already been introduced.
SeVeral House leaders are favoring a
plan which would meet with a great
deal of support from Michigan farm-
ers. In brief the plan is for 4c gas
tax, permanent licenses for passen-
ger cars and an annual weight tax
“for commercial vehicles such as
trucks and busses. This legislation
is embodied in bills already intro-
duced by Rep. C. J. Town of Onon-
daga and Rep. Wm. P. Strauch of
Vernon. Rural spokesmen are en-
dorsing this program, but are recom-
mending that the annual weight tax
on light trucks be considerably re-

 

duced as they feel that many of "

these trucks are used but relatively
few days in the year and that they
are little, if any, more destructive
to the highways than the passenger
cars.

. Rep. Douglas Black's bill, extend-
ing the time for the payment of
taxes without penalty from January
10 to February 10, is, still being
considered by the House Committee
on General Taxation, and is said to
be meeting with considerable opposi-
tion although it has the support of
Michigan farm organizations.

T. B. Senator-him Puzzles

One of the most knotty problems
which is worrying both the Gover-
nor and members of the Legislature
is'regarding what Michigan is to do
to provide additional sanatorium fa-
cilities for its tuberculosis patients
House leaders are declaring that at

‘this session they are going to do
something so that the poor man's
child will have at least a ﬁghting
chance if afflicted with this dread
disease. At present the waiting lists
for the State sanatorium at Howell
are so long that a person would
either die or become seriously af-
flicted before his chance would come
to be admitted to that institution.
The more wealthy citizens can afford
private sanatoriums and hospitals,
but this is totally beyond the reach
of the'average person.

Two years ago the Legislature re-
alised the need of additional beds for
tuberculosis patients and appropri-

' ated $600,000 to build a new State
sanatorium. The legislative com-
mittee empowered to select the site
for this institution reported in favor
of a location on State owned land ad-
joining the University Hospital at
Ann Arbor. However, no move has
been made to commence construction
of the new sanatorium and there 'is

' some tall: that there is a technical
defect in the 1925 law which makes
it inoperative. Now a move is on
foot to provide funds for rebuilding
and enlarging the; present inade-

. ‘quate and antiquated sanatorium at
Howell. V

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Howell and any other state sanatori-
um which might be constructed in
the 'future. This bill deﬁnitely re-
appropria'tes the money appropriated

: by t-he‘Legislature two ‘years ago for

the; construction of the new sana-
torium.“ -

one of the' strong talking points of
those, who favor a sanatorium at
Ann Arbor is that it would provide
an opportunity for the medical stu-
dents and nurses to obtain valuable
experience in connection with this
disease and would make it possible
for investigation and research to de-
velop improved methods .of curing
tuberculosis. .

Plan to Fight Corn Borer

Among the ﬂood of appropriation
bills which have been introduced in
the Legislature is one of special in-
terest to Michigan farmers. This is
Senator Norman B. Horton’s bill,
providing $200,000 of state funds
for each of the next two years for
corn borer control. President Cool-
idge recently signed the Purnell bill
appropriating ten million dollars for
this purpose and providing that the
Federal Government will match
State money ﬁve to one. Thus if

'Michigan appropriates $200,000

there will be a million dollars of

 Federal money available to ﬁght the

corn borer in this State.

Passage of the McNary-Haugen
bill by Congress met with approval
on the part of State officials'and
farm organization leaders at Lan-
sing.‘ Fearing that President Cool-
idge might veto the bill, various tele-
grams were sent to the President,

urging him to give his approval to

the measure. Among these were the
following:

Governor Fred W. Green: “While
I would not intentionally add to your
burdens, I feel that you should know
that our agricultural interests feel
that the McNary-Haugen Bill should
become a law. Inasmuch as other
countries have tried similar plans
that have worked out successfully,
they feel that the plight of the agri-
cultural interests entitles them to
this experiment."

Herbert E. Powell, Commissioner
of Agriculture: “We urgently re-
quest you to sign the McNary-
Haugen Bill. We are sure a large
percentage of the agriculturists of
Michigan believe this 111 e a s u r e
should be given a fair trial.”

C. L. Brody, Secretary-Manager of
the Michigan State Farm Bureau:
“Michigan State Farm Bureau ur-
gently requests you to sign McNary-
Haugen Bill. Measure approved just
recently by delegates from nearly
all counties of Michigan. Our thou-
sands of members will greatly appre—
ciate your favorable consideration.”

 

BANQUET MICHIGAN SWINE ,
BREEDERS

WINE breeders attending the an-
nual Farmers' Week meetings
at Mrs. C. joined to pay tribute

to those who achieved honors in
pork production the past" year.
Breeders representing the principal
breeds of hogs grown in the State,
were present. Mr. Every,.President
of the Michigan Swine Breeders’ As-
sociation, called on representative
breeders to report for each breed.
All expressed conﬁdence in the fu-
ture. Prof. V. A. Freeman of the
Animal Husbandry department, M.
S. C., distributed the badges, medals
and checks awarded to breeders in
the ton litter club. Every breeder
who produces a ton litter is given a
gold medal. Twenty-three ton lit-
ters were produced in 1926. Grades
and crossbreeds were prominent in
the winnings as it appears that pure-
bred breeders have neglected to give
the ton litter work the airport which
it deserves. , ‘ ,

The heaviest litter in the State
was fed by A. C.- Landenberger, A1-
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. elsofcorn peracre, bogged it

down and get $1 bushel.
In an unfenced ﬁe d had only
50 bushels per acre and sold it
for 50ch bushel. Good
fence made ‘ $45 per acre
extra proﬁt. ‘

2 Lauby, Savageton, Wyn,
. saves$1500a yearinherd-
mg expenses va1th.13 miles hosf
woven Wire encmg on '
sheep ranch.

3 Land, Mason City, Iowa,

makes more per acre
rent on a stock-share basis
With good fence.

4 Hiner, Reed Point, Mich,
. paid for stock tight fence
in 2 years by saving herders’
wages.

5 Oathout, Ethan, S. D.,

says well fenced farms sell
for at least 25% more than
the same farms poorly fenced.

6 Schultz, Russell, N. D.,

made worn out land bring
28 bushels of wheat per acre
and turned oil $2,600 worth
of mutton, .wool and hogs in
one/year With $800 worth of
fencmg.

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7 Kennedy Hunter, Okla,
sa 2 “G eanm from 100
acres of stubble W111 produce
1000 pounds of pork. ’

8 Taylor, .Eaton, Tenn.,
. turned pigs into a fenced-
m wood lot and made them
outweigh hlS neighbor’s pigs
90 pounds each at killing
tune. Good fencing paid for
his farm.
9 Luscombe, Fairmont,
an., bogged down and
saved $420 worth of blown
down corn last year in a hog-
tight ﬁeld.

10 Pinkney, Eairmont, N.
D., cut his corn feed
from 11 t0854 bushels per 100
pounds of pork With hog—tight
sees.

11 Simpson, Eden, Texas,

With good fence, made
$3,100 m one year on sheep
and goats.

12 Wyrock, Lewistown,
. Mont, summer fallows
gram ﬁelds every third year
and makes more than $1000
net returns on tight fence.
13  Fairbank, 1a.,
With trght‘fence, made
$40 per acre extra proﬁt on
hogs and lambs.

WE have thousands of letters on ﬁle from good farmers

telling how they hog down corn; save fallen grain en
feed and mMed corn, rotate crops, etc. and make extra ﬁts

with hog-tight fence.

“Red Strand Galvannealed” is the good old “Square Deal”
encept better, longer lasting now than ever before. Full length
picket-like stays hold .it straight; wavy strands keep it ﬁrm;
can t-Sllp knots,keep 1t trim; full gauge, honest weight—but
. Galvannealed’ nowj—not  Extra heavy zinc coat-
ing and more copper in the Wire keep rust out and give longer

life at lower cost.

Let us send you FREE

Five booklets—(1), Cost of Fencing Farms; (2) Making More
Money from Hogs; (3) What 17,000 Farm Folks Said; (4) How
to Test Fence Wire; (5) Keystone Catalog. All interesting, in-
structive, proﬁtable. Ask your dealer for them, or write us.

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witheagerness aglow! .

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:a . scarce believed was true;

 softly she exclaimed to us, before
 his speech was through,

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300m” clutching at the hearts of us and
 ﬁlls our eyes with tears.
"In Springﬁeld, Illinois, when she was just
, a child of ten,
She saw him high above the crowd.
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When Grandma heard the President upon

the radio,

- “I thrilled when Lincoln spoke," she said,
“so long, so long ago.

As upright and as ﬁne a man as ever
wore a shoe. ’

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(Copyright, 1927.)

WINTER MEALS NEED WHAT
APPLES CAN ADD

PPLES are a stand-by to the

housewife who has a hard time

, getting enough fresh fruit to go

with winter meals. The good quality

fruit this year make them doubly

helpful in planning appetizing and
healthful meals.

Raw red apples are good as break—
fast fruit or to eat out of hand in
the middle of the morning or after—
noon. They are easy to pack in‘ the
school lunch box and should be in it
often. They are good also as dessert
for lunch or supper when ser'ved
with molasses or sugar cookies.

.Raw apples are more useful in
salads than most other fruits for
they add crispness and combine well
with other ingredients. A p p l e
cups made by cutting a slice off the
top of the apples and scooping out
the pulp leaving a shell one—fourth
of an inch thick, make attractive
containers for meat or fruit salads.
The pulp may be chopped and used
in the salad or may be cooked for
sauce. Salads, mad with diced ap-
ples, and cold cook d veal or pork
and celery cut in small pieces are
delicious when mixed with mayon-
naise or boiled dressing.

Combinations to Try

Apples, oranges, and onion ,make
a salad combination worth trying,
and the addition of chopped peanuts
makes it even better. Diced apples,
grated raw carrots, and raisins make
another good salad. Apple, celery,
and nut salad is well known as Wal-
dorf salad. Pineapple, celery, and
apples go well together. Sliced ap—
ples and dates; diced apples, oranges
and marshmallows; apples bananas,
'and ﬁgs or dates, are combinations
which are favorites also. Any of
these salads may be served with
, mayonnaise or boiled dressing on

lettuce, water cress, or shredded cab-
bage leaves.

CAN PREVENT DAMAGE FROM
CLOTHES MOTH

INE silks, valuable furs, and ex-

pensive woolens, stored in dark,

out—of-the—way places are con-

stantly in danger of being either

partially or totally ruined by clothes
moths.

One of the best preventive meas-
ures, in regard to clothes moths, is
to thoroughly brush on both sides all
"susceptible materials, then to sun

them for two hours, before storing
for the summer.

The method of storing uninfested,
susceptible articles for the summer
is important. Boxes or bags lined
with fresh tar paper, or tight ﬁtting
.wooden or cardboard boxes, make
safe storage places. Of all the ma—
terials used to repell clothes moths
from goods in storage, napthalene is

. . undoubtedly the best and cheapest,
. whether used in the form of balls or
' as ﬂakes. Cedar chests and fresh
cedar shavings are not wholly ef-
fective against the pest.
(Infested articles can be easily and
eaply fumigated in boxes, trunks,
'pchesfs. The procedure is as fol-
3: Pack the infested materials
day in to a box or chest and upon
gt‘op of them place a shallow
'hcmitaining about .;an ounce of
hon bisulp‘hid. Immediately close
’«boxor' chest and anal tightly. The
n-hisulphid produces ,a. gas that
 a into the clothing, $111:

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painting.

the surface."

even crusty exterior.

surface” we will enrich our
friendships and amid the
disappointment of ﬁnding
only “veneer” where we ex-
pected real friendship.

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Sometimes we over estimate their value because of money or
social standing. Even an attractive personality may sorely deceive
us, but how many times do we pass hasty judgment, drop an unkind
remark or even miss the opportunity of cultivating a. rare friend
because we cannot look beyond the odd dress, quaint manners or

Just so far as we develop the faculty of looking “beneath the
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Annlo Taylor, can The luslneu Farmer. Illlt. Clemens. Mlemnn.

hm- Editedbym. ANNm  

EAR FOLKS: One of the current magazines states-e that the
X-ray is now being used to detect faking in antique furniture and
'A new idea to me and science will no doubt disclose ’

many secrets to us in the coming years, but friends as well as
furniture are sometimes misjudged because we fail to see “beneath

 

   
  

 

 

 

ing all stages of the clothes moth.
No ﬁre should be in the building in
which the fumigating takes place as
' the gas produced is highly explosive.
All fumigating should be done in
summer time, when the temperature
is never below 65 degrees.

Most of the so-callcd home rem-
edies for clothes moths are worth-
less. And the ineffective ones are
dusts of allspice, angelica root, black
pepper, borax, cayenne pepper, euca-
lyptus leaves, hellebare, lime, quas—
sis chips, salt, sodium icarbonate,
sodium carbonate, sulphur and to-

bacco. Formaldehyde, as a spray or
fumigant, is also entirely satisfac-
tory.

In building dwelling houses, if a
small window is put in each clothes
closet and storage space in the attic,
much of the moth trouble would be
over, for moths do not work or breed
in the presence of light.———A. L. Ford.

OVER~SIZE POTS BINDER
HOUSE PLANTS
OIL conditions become bad for
house plants if the pot is too
large, ﬂoriculturists insist. The
soil becomes sour, the pot holds too
much water, and the roots do not get
the required amount of air. Plants
may be given larger pots as they
grew, but each shift should be to a
pot one inch larger in diameter up
to 8 inches, and beyond that, 2
inches in diameter.

Pots are made porous for the
movement of air and water; keep
them so by scrubbing them before
ﬁlling them’soil. The hole in the
bottom is to allow the free water to
pass from the. pot. Never cork it
up, ﬂoriculturists caution, but place
three or four pieces of broken ﬂower
pot over it to keep the soil from
closing it. '

Allow enough space betwen the
top of the soil and the top of the
pot to keep the water from running
over the top to the ﬂoor. Take the
plants from the pot and look at the
roots if you suspect them of being
too dry, to wet, or infested with in-
sects. Plants are easily removed
from pots by placing the foreﬁnger
and second ﬁnger of the right hand
about the plant and inverting the
pot. If the pot is jarred against a
table the ball of soil and roots will

loosen itself from the pot and rest

in the palm of the‘hand.

Only a few insects and almost no
diseases' are troublesome to house
plants. Nicotine etxract is one of

the most useful poisons to keep on
hand. It may be bought at seed or
drug stores. It is best to use soap
as a spreader, at the rate of a.
tablespoon to a gallon. ’

 

Personal Column

 

 

Not Very Old.——Will you please send
me the words to the two following songs:
“I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles,” and
"Don’t Bite The Hand That’s Feeding
You."-—Miss P., Fenton, Mich.

Wants Two.——I would like to see “The
Three Wishes” and “In the Baggage
Coach Ahead” in your columns—F. C.,
Wyman, Mich.

+___—_

Helps and Wants Help.———I am very glad
to supply the song wanted by Mrs. B. of
Jackson. Now can anyone tell me where
I can obtain, with music, the song en-
titled “Saved To Serve Jesus.”—-Mrs. P.,
Carson City, Mich. -

8 Point Starr—In the last, issue I pub-

‘ lished a pattern for the necktie quilt block

many have written me about and in this
issue I am publishing another popular de-
sign—the 8 point star. I have a worked

block of each design and will be pleased
to loan them to any who do not fully
understand how to cut a pattern from the
Requests

illustrations shown. will be

    

8 POINT STAR

taken care of in the order I receive them,
and the blocks are to be returned to me
just as soon as you are able to cut your
patterns. I will be pleased to receive
favorite quilt block patterns from our
good folks and will publish them in our
columns from time to time.—-Mrs. Annie
Taylor. '

Wants‘Two Bongsr—I would be very
glad to get the words of “Two Little
Girls in Blue” and “Paradise Allie".—
Miss B., Howard City.

February Flower Work

OW is a good time to plan your
ﬂower beds or borders. A few
peonies and iris here and there

in clumps or in a border makes your
place look much nicer. They should
be set out in the fall to show up best
the ﬁrst year but will do well set out
early in the spring and will ﬂower
some the ﬁrst year if they do Well
and you Will have .a much larger
clump for another year if you set
them out this spring than . if "you

wait until fall»- . .  I
I know ,of‘ no plant that gives the

beautiful blossom "with so little care J

as the bearded iris will. A border

of one row 's'et abOut ﬁfteen inches]~

7apart in the row.;wii.t- in one year’s
time. .mk'  - 1 b0 ' *1

“When the plants
'hi th stakes?

like the tall ones or those that
grow, about thirty inches high best
for a border with 'all kinds mixed in
the row. Send to some growers for
their price lists. They sometimes
give the height of the plant in. the
list. They are in prices from 10
cents up. The latter kinds are scarce
so are high in price. ,

To keep chickens from scratching'
v out your plants get a piece of board

and split it up in short stakes. Drive
these in. the ground only leaving

about four or ﬁve inches above.

ground and three or four stakes to

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MOTHER’S series
1.

Mother’s voice is low and sweet,
As she rocks ~her babe to sleep;
Twilight shadows creep along,
While she sings her cradle song;

I And now we hear,— »
Hush my dear lie still and slumber: .
Holy angels guard thy bed.

2.

Now the child older grown,
Quite a boy he walks alone;
But the loving mother keeps
Watch o'er him e'en while he sleeps;
And now we hear,—
How gentle God’s commands;
How kind His precepts are; ,
Come cast your burdens on the Lord
And trust Him constant care.
3. '
See her boy in manhood stand,
Fighting for his native land;
Over all this broad domain
hall the ’stars and stripes remain.
And now we hear,—
My country ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty 0
Of thee I sing; ‘ .
Land where my fathers died
Land of the pilgrim’s pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring. -
4

Peaceful glides her life along:

As she sings her evening song;

While her loved one’s gather near.

Hark to mother’s tones so dear,
And now we hear,—

(Home, home, sweet, sweet, home,

' Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like

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For the Movie Fan

 

 

Flaming Forestr—This picture will sure-
ly thrill you. It is taken from the story
of the same name, written— by James
Oliver
thor, and the background is the Canadian
northwest in the days between 1869 and
1874. Renee Adoree and Antonio Moreno
are the stars. At the beginning of the
story there is no law or order in the
northwest and a ferocious halfbreed, Jules
Lagarre, try to rule the country with the
aid of his gang of cutthroats. Andre
Audemard, wilderness merchant, will not
submit to Lagarre’s rule and he and his
wife are killed, leaving a daughter, Jeanne
Marie, played by Renee Adoree, and a
son. Legarre forces the settlers to move
out and as they are heading eastward
they meet a company of mounted police,
coming to the northwest to establish the
law. They return to their homes and
Lagarre’s gang scatters to the four winds
to later return and try to wipe out the
settlement. Of course they are- not suc-
cessful. Davidd Carrigan. played by An-
tonio Moreno, is a sargeant in the North-
western Mounted, and he falls in love with
Jeanne Marie, who returnshis love. You
will enjoy this picture, I am sure.

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The Young Girl and the Young Man
Who Calls on Her.——A young girl’s invita-
tion to call, extended to a. young man,
may be modiﬁed in a hundred different
ways, in View of the ﬂexibility of the
English lauguage and the varying inﬂec-
tions of the speaking voice. She may tell
a‘ mutual friend to bring him to an “at
home” when she is to receive with her
mother—and her tone of voice will make
it clear that she is quite indifferent as to
whether he puts in an appearance or not.
She may mention that she is apt to be at
home several evenings during the week,
leaving him free to call at the risk of
ﬁnding her out; yet subtly intimating that
he will probably ﬁnd her in. When she
ﬁxes a deﬁnite time, such as “any Tues-
day afternoon” or “Wednesday and Fri-
day evenings", and tells him she will be
glad to see him then, there can be no
doubt regarding the cordiality of her in-
vitation. But whether his call be wel-
come or not, it is only civil on a girl’s
part to say she is glad to see a young
man when she enters the room. Her
manner and a deﬁnite invitation to call

.. again, however (if it be his ﬁrst/call),

are the safest indications that she really
means what she says. '

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.‘ﬁffnﬁot earning. : their feed

 ' I THE U. S. Department  Agriculture estinmtes that there arq

as  3,000,000 cows in the U. S. that are not paying for their'ieed; »
i jam! that there are 8.000.000 more that are not earning a proﬁt, I

Only those dairyrnen and farmers who are giving'the same
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feed. are making milking pay. ‘ ‘

in other words. it's the dairymen who ieallae that good
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 check with proﬁt in it. \

, In a recent veriﬁed test made. January. I926. on a herd 05

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¢ Dr. Hess Improved Stock Tonic was added to this ration}

I end— ’

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of one per cent.

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(can increase your proﬁt $20.00 per cow per year.

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March 29.——H915tein_s, W. B. Harper and
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GUERNSEYS HOLﬂ’E‘mﬁFAELESlAN

FARMER'S PRICES FOR BULL OALVES SIRED
by most globular blood lines. Write for Circular.

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. among the Michigan ' cow teeters, Zac-

coi'fding to A. C. Baltzer, in charge
of cow testing. association work in
‘Michigan. ’Mr‘. ‘Blum‘er receives the
award of $215300 cash by. the Mich-
igan Creamery-Owners and Mana-
gers Association. and a gold medal
from the Blue Valley 'Oreame‘ry
Cbmpany. 4
:Other winners in this contest
among the one hundred "Michigan
cow testers are the following: For-
rest Bender, Middleville, tester of
Kent County South Association, sec-
ond prize of $20.00 cash by Michi-
gan Creamery Owners and Mana-‘
gers Association and a silver medal
by the 'Blue Valley Creamery Com-
pany. Bender won by the toss of
a. coin because the fudges could not
decide between his essay and that
entered by Walter Kirkpatrick of the

    

“' Leelanau County Cow Testing. As-

sociation. Mr. Kirkpatrick was
awarded third prize and received
$18.00 cash from
Creamery Owners and Managers As-
sociation and a bronze medal from
the Blue Valley Creamery Company.

Glen Bedell, Hudsonville tester in
the Ottawa-Allendale Cow Testing
Association, Ottawa County, won
fourth prize and was awarded $15.00
cash by the Michigan Creamery
Owners and Managers Association.
Lyle Anderson, Reed City, tester in
the Osceola—Reed City Cow Testing
Association won ﬁfth prize and was
awarded $12 cash and Clarence
Prentice, Grant, tester in the Wayne
County South Cow Testing Associ-
ation, won sixth ,prize and received
$10.00 cash. John Goodall, tester
of the Missaukee County No. 1 Asso-
ciation and 006 Emens of the Ing—

ham—Lansing Association received
honorable mention.
Casper Blumer, the successful

contestant, aptly expresses the be-
lief that a cow testing association
can never out-grow its usefulness in
a dairy community as axprogressive
dairyman and cow tester never fully
reach their goal. Cow testing asso-
ciations help to elevate dairy stan-
dards and proﬁts.

“We did not appreciate that there
were so many cow testers in Michi-
gan,” commented a dairy'man at the
conclusion of the Cow Testing Asso-
ciation Conference sponsored by the
Dairy Department, Michigan State
College. This conference closed
Tuesday noon during Farmers’ Week
and eighty of the" Michigan cow
testers in lower Michigan were pres—
ent together with several hundred
dairymen, county agricultural agents
and others interested in Michigan’s
dairy industry. v

Splendid talks by Mr. A. J. Glover,
Editor of Hoard’s Dairyman, and
Professor 0. E. Reed, head of the
Dairy Department, Michigan State
College, and a round table discus-
sion, were some of the oustanding
events in this conference.

An analysis of the association
WOT‘k during the last ﬁve years
made by A. C. Baltzer showed that
many associations dropped by the
"wayside because testers have been
careless in the conduct of the work,
or they have failed to take sufficient
interest beyond the routine work of
testing and feeding help has not
been given by the testers at all
times. Closer cooperation of the
cow tester, the county agricultural
agent and the board of directors of
the association was urged.

Where a good system of ﬁnancing
the association was used and when
a tester rendered complete service
to his members in the activities of
the dairy herd improvement asso-
ciation or cow testing association,
little difficulty has been experienced
in the promotion of the cow testing
association. “Every tester," said A.
C. Baltzer, “should be an. advertise-
ment standing for high personal

ideals and furnishing his members.

with dairy information, dairy expla;
nation, and dairy inspirath for
larger dairy profits. ,. ' r  gr ._

 

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the Michigan -

.. . Qértain “@3953. .,.'91. ,9!“ ‘1 911k , . . , .. , .
 -.phsstzed fin the conch ~ 1, " ~‘under 

 butter; . It,
1 s will

associati mom 0 up

. _ g p p I
.gto one‘hundf‘d pg,- cent nae bum. .._.
bred sires- .~;At present" the was 95:

ninety per cent or the 2'600.me'mber
u.ng Purebredﬂsires.’   ‘  ' " 
during the spring ahd'Tall mo t ‘
- 4. Each testeriis going 
rdeavor to have two safety bull pens
built among the members of .his’ cow
testing assdciation. Plans «have
been furnished each tester. '

as direct personal Work b on or
another member. At‘ any yrate ethis'
is a. goal that each tester will try
to live up to this coming year. ‘

The alfalfa acreage which is .9

_ acres per cow under test in 'Mlchi an v
cow testing associations will be 8in- '

creased to one acre e '
tllast if possible. p t cow under
cover acreage is due for enlar -'
ment. At present there are .3 acggs
per. cow under test and it is desired
to increase this to .5- acres. ' i
6. Each tester will endeavor to
make greater use of the Michigan
rRecord of Performance. With 1342
entries in the ﬁrst volume covering
nearly two years’ work and with
1050 entries in the second volume
ggveirgng 1thehyear 1926, it may be
ss e o ave a. lare
entered during 1927. g r number
a 7. Each tester will keep further
Jnformation about the testing as--
sociation results in a log book fur;
mshed him by the Dairy Department,
Michigan State College.

 

PIONEERING IN MICHIGAN
(“Continued from Page 16)
hardships. We got a ﬁne cow and
a. yokeof two year old steers so we
had a driving team and I say they
would go some. Lots of times ’I
had to hang onto the seat to keep in

our sleigh or boat.
After a time we had a. barn rais-

‘ ing. There was something doing the

whole day. Everyone came and
helped and we had a big dinner out
in the pine grove and everyone did
Justice to it. There was not any
Silverware or gold banded chins. or
napkins. We left out the style and

[we could not have had it then if

we wanted it ever so much. We were
so thankful to get coarse food.

We only had one room, so he said '
he would build on another room. He
built a. lean-to on one side for a.
bedroom, all logs and the ﬂoor was
split out of basswood. It was not
very even but it was white and
clean.‘ Our roof on the house was
shakes, also our ceiling was shakes.
After, a. time we had the rough
boards wore' smooth. '

' Plenty of Game L

Oh, the wild game there was. The
deer and bears, lynx and wolf would
come right in the barnyard and
tackle the young calves or anything
and then howl for ‘the rest of the
drove to come and then there would
be a time. They came in a. barn-
yard one night and killed a. yearling
calf and the man shot one of the
wolves and he brought it over the
next day. He got $4.00 bounty on
the head. Many times I would go
out in the evening with my husband
when he would go out to brand up
the log heaps. We were doing a.
good stroke of land clearing. ‘

After a time we had two bright
faced children given us which we
reared and dearly loved. At last we
sold the farm and moved away but
the memory of those happy days
still cling to me. I could relate
many more incidents of my pioneer
life but I will not weary you with
any more, only will say I hate been

to gatheringswhere 'the Allen broth- ‘

ers have been. ' we all were a‘ happy
bunch at' that early, day.

WEST ALLEGAN o. m. A. LEADS ' i; 

THE West Allegan C. T. A., pre-

mierorganization in Michigan, ' 

, which averaged 394 pounds
butterfat during 1925 has completed
another year of testing associatmn
.work. This year. ~Leo As-hle" it
 tester, reperted that 

  
 
 

Sectional meetings" will be laid a, 

These '
may be built as a._ demonstration" or ._

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. cattle use this: Oil of tar, 5%
*’ per cent; sulphur, 5% per cent;

on. each day with a small paint

Mush. It may take several days to.

cure. it. Tincture of iodine is also
good.

NEEDS EXERCISE

We have a horse that gets sick
easily it she does not get exercise
daily. She gets a kind of swelling
on .her left hind leg it she stands
still too long. We give her oats and
hay with stock tonic in the oats.
Can this be cured in any way or will
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EAR EDITOR: In the Janr
nary letissueof 11w Bimi-
ness Farmer I noticed an
account of the weight of calves
when born. Last June we had
one born that weighed 155 lbs.
when six days old. This was a
pure bred Brown Swiss calf.—
Mrs. Jack Eitzpatrlck, Antrim
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her from getting sick? Some say to
feed her eggs, a‘couple‘a day, that
it would cure her. Is there anything
in thaw—«B. D., Fremont, Mich.

F I'had a horse of that kind unless
it was extremely valuable I
would get rid of it and get an-

other in its place; this is a weakness
oi! the digestive system'and the only

' thing to do is to see that she gets

exercise and do not overteed. This
is apt to get serious at any time, and
especially during the winter months.
There is no cure for this.

PUP MAY HAVE WORMS

I have a puppy three months old
that has what I call running ﬁts. He
runs around barking and seems to
be frightened and tries to ﬁnd a
place to hide. He has one, two and
three ﬁts a day. His eyes look wild
at the time and he urinates all the
time he is running. His bowels seem

»to be all right. He is a collie pup.

Could you tell me it there is any
cure, it so what would you advise?
-—-—C. R., Ada, Michigan. '

HIS is often caused by worms,
so we will worm this pup and
see if that is it. Get 18 tablets

containing 1-10 grains of santorin
and calomel and give one of them
three times each day until they are
all ‘given. Then give two table-
spoonsful of castor oil. If- that does
not stop the ﬁts write me in three
weeks. Be careful about the feeding
oi this dog.

[Q The Egerience Pool @

Bring your eve dey emblems In and set
the ex rienoe of 0 her farmers. Questions ad-
‘dmoolnd 3;:lsbgepertment are gublllhed here

in: ou, our ree or: w o are
Iii-«oats: of tire Jouool of Hard Knocks and
Jim. have he! diplomat from the College of
Experience. I! you don't want our editor's
advice or en expa't'n advice. but lust plain.
everyday buslnus {ﬁrmm’ advice. send In
your nation hen. - yeuoenenswer the other
folio s ouestlm, please do so, he may ans~
“rent of your: some day! Address Exper-
‘ ienoe Pool. care The Business Farmer. Mt.
clement, inloh. '

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SURE FOR BLOODY MILK ' '
EAR EDITOR: Here is a cure
for bloody milk for A. A., A1-

~- pena, Michigan, as we have

:clearedfup bloody milk and stringy
' milk also with skoke root. You get
». “ ~10c worth of skoke root powdered

 and give one level teaspoonfnl in a

pint. .or asmuch more as you like or
arm mesh or dry. every other morn-
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More Milk Or It Costs
You Nothing

“Feed 200 pounds of Larr
to any one cow: then if yo
own ﬁgures do not show that
she gave more milk on Larro,
or if for any other reason you
are not entirely satisﬁed, re—
turn your two empty sacks
and unused Larro and get
every cent of your money
bac .”

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What can be fairer, or more sweeping, than the
Larro guarantee—“the feed makes good, or
we do”?

You get two bags from your dealer and feed
them to one of your cows. If Larro does not
produce more milk, or if for any other reason
you, are not satisﬁed, return the empty sacks
and get your money back.

We stand squarely behind our dealers in
making good this guarantee, which has been in
effect for ﬁfteen years.

Larro makes good—has always made good,
with all dairy breeds, because the quality is
there, because the formula never changes and
because Larro manufacturing methods insure
absolute uniformity whenever and wherever
you buy. That is why we dare guarantee it.

Ask the Nearest Dealer

THE LARROWE MILLING COMPANY
DETROIT - - MICHIGAN

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The SAFE Ration for Dairy Cows

Also a complete line of poultry feeds—as good for
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to'the genital organs when lowered in vigor. No lay-oil. with sickness
when the milk crop should be at the peak.

If you have been accustomed to leav-
ing the health and vigor of freshening
cows to chance, you krfow something of
the troubles you can avoid by simply
giving Row-Kare two to three weeks
meninthe countrymakeitaregular
practice—would not think of getting
along without it.

Kow—Kare builds up the vigor of the
. digestion and the genital organs so that
the unusual strain of calf-birth beauties
a safe, mtm'al process. The cow canes
back to generous milk giving; the calf is
a moneth from the start. Used

with unfailing results for over 30 years.
A concentrated medicine that costs you A
nothing to use. The certain milk gain
pays for it many times over.

Thousands of dairymen use Kow-
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for all their cows. It helps them turn
more of their heavy feeds into milk——
keeps them responsive, healthy, vigor-
ous. Kow-Kare brings back to health
cows troubled with Barrenness, Re-
tained Afterbirth, Abortion, Bunches,
Scours, Lost Appetite, etc. Try Kow-
Kare once and you will not keep cows
without it.

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(Continued from Page 8)

tato crop. One year to get ready,
and one year to go to it.

Should potatoes be hilled up or
not? Depends very greatly on how
they were planted. If they were
planted as deep as they should be
they should not require hilling. If,
however, they are planted shallow,
they will need “hilling up,” to pre-
vent sun burning and perhaps get—
ting “nipped” by the frost in the
fall. But commercial growers are
quite agreed that billing is ante-
deluvian, and level cultivation is
best. -' ‘

When should they be planted?
Plant early ones as soon as the
ground is in suitable condition. Sel-
dom is anything gained by planting
too early, and often the “too” early
planting is more or less a failure.
Plant, the late ones late. Some years
mid—seaso planting is a success, but
later planting has won out more
times than it has lost.

Killing potato bugs is something
we are not very familiar with. Dur-
ing our 22 years _. of commercial
potato growing we have never been
troubled with bugs on our main crop
ﬁeld. Never used anything to pre—
vent their coming: If, however,
they should invade our peaceful do-
main, we are ready for them. We
would not use parts green and lime
as a dust. We would use arsenate
of lead or paris green as ‘a spray.

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From Omena a Mr. W. K. writes,
“Will you please tell me if it is bet-
ter to plant potatoes with a horse
potato planter or by hand. Also
is it best fertilize them?”

No commercial grower can afford
to plant potatoes by hand. It is too
slow a job. On reasonably small
areas it can be done, and, there is
no reason why hand planting, if
properly done, is not as good as
power planting, but seldom is hand
planting properly done. A power
planter opens a furrow, and deposits
the seed down in the bottom of it,
and covers it immediately with the
cool, moist soil. It the same thing
can be accomplished with a hand
planter, it is not objectionable.
Generally speaking, it is best to for-

tilize them. No one at long range’

can tell you exactly what fertilizer
would be most suitable for your
field. It is, however, sale to say
that application of 3 per nitrogen,
12 per cent acid phosphate, and 4
per cent potash fertilizer, will be
proﬁtable nine times out of ten.
The amount used should, not be less
than 300 pounds per acre, and as
much more as conditions seem to
warrant. Why
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learn how Mrs. W. G. Pierson, Route

1 1, Colby, Kas., conquered her trauma."  i ‘

Mrs. Pierson 7 writes:

.“For 16 years, I had asthma in se- .

vere form. I couldn’t sleep, and rarely

tried to go t6 bed hetero 1:30 in the .

morning. I kept getting more weak

and nervous, and had a. terrible cough ~
I Was in Akron,.

and severe pains.
Colorado, when I started taking Nacor
in February, 1925.’ Early in March I.
felt so much better I returned to Mis-
souri. It used to be that one night in
Missouri would make me choke terri-
bly, but, I don’t have a sign of asthma
now. I sleep all night, get up feeling
rested, have gained about 10 pounds in

' Weight, and do my work without dread-

ing it or getting tired. Even in damp
rainy weather, I have no asthma.”
Hundreds of other suffers from'
bronchitis and severe chronic coughs
have reported their recovery, after
years of afﬂiction. Their letters and a.
booklet full of valuable information
about these stubborn diseases, will be
sent free by Nacor Medicine 00., 590
State Life Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. No
matter how serious your case seems.
write for this free booklet today. It

may give your whole life a new mean- .

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any cutter in the test. It will do as well
on your own farm.

An all-steel machine, unbreakable steel ﬂy
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with less labor and yet produce
just as much as you do now,‘ you

' , would be saving a good many
dollars.

Some idea of what this saving might
mean to you is shown by some remark-
able comparisons made recently by the
Michigan Agricultural Experiment
Station. I

On ten acr€s of fox sandy loam soil
.well limed and fertilized, they grew 263
bushels of rye, 189 bushels of wheat, 337
bushels of corn and 13.6 tons of sweet
clover. To grow the same amounts of
each crop on unfertilized and unim-
proved land required from 13 to 20 acres
more, 1551 hours more of horse labor
and 559 hours more of man labor;

Every attempt to obtain a seeding of
clover on unimproved land failed. The
extra land and' extra hours of horse and
man labor that were necessary to get the
same amounts of rye, wheat, and corn
cost $381.42 more than the entire cost
of farming the improved land, including
the cost of fertilizer and lime.

Here was a net saving of $381.42 in
land and labor as a result of using proper
fertilizer and lime. Isn’t this worth try-
ing for in your rotation?

BALANCE YOUR FERTILIZER

.Ac‘idphosphate used alone as a fer-
tilizer or to supplement manure has
proved proﬁtable in many rotations.
Much better returns, however, can gen--
erally be secured by adding a good sup-
ply of potash as well. This helps to
balance the phosphoric acid and manure

' and enables them to give bigger results.

Fertilizer mixtures containing 4% to 6%
' potash are recommended for mineral soils;
for peat and muck soils' a much higher
percentage of potash [10 o to 32%] is used
.with proﬁt. Potash pays!
BREE—A. new booklet. "Better
Grains and Hay”, is now being
prepared for the press. If you
would like a copy, write us now
and we will mail as soon as pub-
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. in am e ui ment is
. the _West Bend Automatic Stagchlion with
locking, releasmg lever—the original, lev-
er-opernted, swinging stanchion. Costs
no more t an ordinary stanchions that must
be.closed and opened singly by hand. It
also assures safety in locking up or releasing
cows. One throw of the lever locks or re-
leases the entire row of cows, controls from 2
to 50 stanchions. Cow stops are operated at
the sa_me time, guiding the cows into the
stanchions. Enthusiastic owners everywhere.
Write today for big free catalog showing com-
plete line of West Bend Barn Equipment.

WEST BEND E UIPMENT .
West Bend, Wis. 0 85132385.}, N. ‘1'.

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WATCH THAT BULL!

This ﬁne Guernsey bull is owned by Will
Hunt, of Cass county, who advises, “No
ugly bull for me”. But how can one be
sure a. bull will continue to be docile?
Many a man has met death on the horns
of a friendly bull. You cannot trust a.
bull, and one should regard them all
with suspicion.

LIME, LEGUME AND LIVESTOCK
SPECIAL IN APRIL

LIME, legume and livestock

special train Will be operated

between Grand Rapids and Mac-
kinaw City during the week of
April 25th, by the Pennsylvania
Railroad cooperating with the.Mich—,
igan State College. The train will
operate under its own steam, have
its own crew, and will consist of a.
lecture car, a dairy car, a crops car,
a car showing complete set up of the
lastest and most modern equipment
for marl excavation, and a general
office car; Alfalfa specialists, dairy
specialists, and an agricultural en-

gineer to operate the marl excavat-

ing machine and give information
about it, will accompany the train.
The stops along the line of travel
are planne das follows:

Ravenna, 8:00 a. m., Monday,

pril 25; Rockford, 1:00 p. m.,

pril 25; Howard City, 7:00 p. m.,
April 25; Big Rapids, 8:00 a. In.
April 26; Reed City, 1:00 p. m.,
April 26; Cadillac, 7:00) p. m., April
26; Lake City, 8:00 a. m., April 27;
Manton, 1:00 p. m. April 27; Kal—
kaska, 8:00 a. m., April 28; Alba,
1:00 p. m., April 28; Boyne Falls,
8:00 a. m., April 29; Levering, 2:00
p. m., April 29.

In addition to talks by the special-
ists soils will be tested for acidity
and recommendations given as to
the proper amounts of marl and lime ‘
to be used. Also the Keystone Ro-
tation, now being used on the rails
road’s farm near Howard City, and
which has proven a proﬁtable sand
land rotation, "will be featured. ‘

County agricultural agents, lunch-
eon clubs, farmers’ clubs, granges,
chambers of commerce, and busi—
nessmen’s organizations in the terri-
tory traversed will be solicited to

assist in spreading the gospel of
“More Alfalfa and Better ‘ Dairy
Cows.” '

FEEDING FOR TON LITTER
CONTEST
I have. read in your papers articles
about “Ton Litter Contest” and the
wonderful results obtained through
proper care and feeding rations. I
am very much interested in. raising

and breeding “hogs, having register-

ed Berkshire and O. I. C.’s for these
purposes. I am asking you for in-
formation as to these rations for
feeding and caring for these hogs as
is required in this contest or of any
way I may obtain this information.

_-——A. J. D., SwanCreek, Mich.

NYONE entering the ton litter
contest in Michigan can .feed
their litter anyway that they
choose. Rules for the Contest can
be obtained through a county agri-

cultural agent or by writing the an-

imal Husbandryv apartment of the
Michigan State College. The ton lit-

ter contest is .use‘dxas an demonstra-
tion of the best methods of feeding
and managing 13135. Most .of the men
enter the, contest follow out afgreat

many of the feeding sugestions'con—V

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the creamery or cream station. Naturally you
would call a halt on such a costly habit. But
you may be doing the same thing in a different
way without realizing it—because of a poorsepara-
tor. To satisfy yourself that you are getting all.
the cream you should, ask your De Laval Agent
to bring out a new De Laval Separator and run
the skim-milk from your old machine through it.
If you have been losing butter-fat the new De Laval
will recover it, and by taking this to your creamery
or cream station you can tell exactly what a new
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The new De Laval is the best cream separator
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prepared for the treatment of udder trouble in all live-
stock. UDDER BALM is the newest addition to the
almost complete line of Dr. David Roberts Prepared
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and thorough testing. The peculiar properties of UDDE
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Use Dr. David Roberts Udder Balm

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You cannot afford to be without this preparation that means relief and comfort for
your cows and the satisfaction on your part of knowmg that there
is no udder trouble in your herd.

For Sale by Dealers Everywhere. If no dealer,
ccnd direct. Half-pound can 50c Postpaid.

Write for free copy of the Cattle Specialist and how to get
the Practical Home Veterinarian without cost.

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exhibits were the compétitlvo pots-
to and grain entries, aﬁ'ording op-
portunity to study all the main va-
rieties grown throughout Michigan
and regarded as superior in quality
and yielding ability.

'All Lower PeninsulaReprese-nted

The corn show was highly success-
ful, chieﬂy because of the large
number of samples exhibited and the
exaellent quality of these samples.
The entire Lower Peninsula was rep-
resented, from Leelanaw to Lena-
wee. Valentine Buckham, a Kala:
mazoo farmer, won high honors in
the. Yellow Dent Corn class, in Dis-
trict I, or the lower four tiers of
counties. Second place was awarded
Jesse Pickett of Caledonia, with an
outstanding sample. Competition
was keen, as might be expected in
a class of twenty-ﬁve contestants.
William Folks and Leo Wooden re-
spectively won high honors in White
Cap or any other dent class. Mr.
Folks is widely known throughout
the state as the originator of Folks’
White Cap Corn, which has proved a
valuable contribution to the corn
growing industry of the State. Paul K
C. Clement won ﬁrst honors in the
ﬁfty ear class with a splendid sample
of Clement’s White Cap, a variety
which has consistently won honors
in the ,Michigan Five Acre Corn
Growing Contest, and is recognized
as a leading variety for the southern
part of the State. Second prize was
awarded D. E. Turner and Son of
Mosherville. *

District II, or the remainder of
the State, was likewise well repres-
ented. First place was awarded to
David R. Geddes of Swan Creek and
second place to J. C. Wilk of St.
Louis. These growers placed in the
same order in the ﬁfty ear class.

Single Ear Class

There were thirty entrants in the
single ear class, with ﬁfteen prizes
awarded. D. A. Geddes of Swan
Creek won the blue ribbon, with F.
E. Fogle a close second. ‘

The pedigreed classes afforded ex-
cellent opportunity for the visitors
to study the leading varieties com-
monly recommended for State-wide
use. All exhibitors in these classes
were members of the Michigan Crop
Improvement Association during
1926, engaged in the production of
pedigreed seed corn under inspec-
tion.

P. A. Smith of Mulliken, a prom-
inent seed grower, won ﬁrst place in
the Golden Glow class. .

Montcalm county came in for ﬁrst
honors in the M. A. C. Yellow Dent
class, with Roy L. Wright of Butter-
nut the victor. Eloyd E. Fogle of
Okemos, an' Ingham county farmer,
won second place with an excellent
sample.

Jesse Pickett of Calendonia. held
high the standard of the variety of
his own origination—Pickett Dent.
Mr. Pickett is well known also as a
producer of Wolverine Oats, and
American Banner Wheat.

Second prize was awarded W. R.
Kirk and Sons of Fairgrove, likewise
well known as producers of pedi-
greed Worthy Oats, Wisconsin Pedi-
gree Barley and Pickett Dent Corn.

Garﬁeld Farley of Albion won
ﬁrst place in the Duncan class, and

  

 

 

 

 

 
  
 

 
 
  
 

   
 

  
 

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Small Grains and Seeds
From the corn classes, the visitors
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ners in small grains and seeds.
Beginning with rye, ﬁrst and sec-
ond honors went to D. E. Turner of
Moshervill'e, and J. C. Wilk of St.
Louis, respectively. , i
In soft red winter wheat, C. D.
Finkbeiner of Clinton carried away
a blue ribbon and sweepstakes over
all with an excellent sample of Red
Rock. This achievelnent entitles
Mr. Finkbeiner to the Michigan State
Farm Bureau Trophy, having won it
three times during the past ﬁve
years. Second honors were won by
William J. Boyer of Quincy.
First and second places in the
Berkeley Rock and semi-hard winter
wheat class went to J. C. Wilk of

St. Louis and G. P. Phillips of Belle-'

we, respectively. Mr. Phillips is
likewise well known as a producer of
pedigreed Wolverine Oats and Cle-
ment’s White Cap Corn.

White winter wheat honors were
claimed by Garﬁeld Farley of Albion,
followed closely by G. Steindam of
Flint. D. A. Geddes of Swan Creek
and Fritz H. Mantey, respectively,
won ﬁrst and second places in.six-
row barley, while J. C. Wilk of St.
Louis and W. C. Pliter of Clio like—
wise won honors in the Black barb-
less barley class. '

Jesse W. Pickett of Caledonia was
the ~lucky winner for both ﬁrst and
sweepstakes honors in an oat class
made up of over thirty exhibitors.

A large numberpsf high quality
white pea bean exhibits were in evi-
dence, the best belonging to W. E.
Bartly of Alma. Voris Forshee of
Fenwick won red ribbon with a very
close running sample.

The red kidney bean which is be-
coming increasingly popular in the
state was well represented to the
visitors in the sample winning ﬁrst
place, exhibited by Mrs. Gertrude
Abel and Sons of Sand Lake.

Small seed honors were taken by
E i1 Jacobs of Merrill with a very
bﬂght sample of Hardigan alfalfa.
A generous number of red clover
samples were in evidence, making a.
very complete and extensive small
seed display. ,

0n the other side of the hall were
numerous competitive potato exhib-

.its, the winners of which have al-

ready been announced.

Fromthe standpoint of the vari-
ety and pumber of educational dis-
plays and exhibits, this mid-winter
show will-be remembered as truly
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President, E. M. Moore, Mason; Vice
President, I... W.‘ Hendee, Pinckney; Sec-

retary-Treasurer. R. J. Noon, Jackson;

.Directors, L. B. Lawrence, Chelsea, L. B.

Roberts, St. Johns.
» Aberdeen Ame Breeders Ass’n
President“ James Curry, Sandusky;
Vice President, Alex Minty, Ionla; Sec;
rotary-Treasurer, “Avery Martin, North-
street; Directors, Sidney Martin, Orion;
John A. Brown, Detroit; Frank Summer.
Shorthorn Breeders Ass'n
President. 8. H. Pangborn, Bad Axe;
Vice President, H. W. Hayes. Chelsea;
Secretary-Treasurer, W. E. Judson Ed-
wards, East Musing; Directors, Jay
Smith. Ann Arbor; F. A, Clark. Ypsilanti;
Ray Peters, Elsie; C. A. Fox, Charlotte;-
Geo. Prescott, Tens City.
Holstein-Frieda]: Ass'n
President, J. E. Mchlllarns, Mt. Clem-

,ems; Vice President, D. D. Aitken, Flint;

Secretary-Treasurer, To be elected by
Board; Directors. H. W. Norton,.Jr., Lan—
sing; M. D. Buth, Comstock Park; Wm.
Austin. Saline; ‘Fred Knopf, Jr., Bliss-
i‘ield; M. W. Wentworth, Battle Creek;
G. W. Foster, Fosteria; D. E. Waters,
Grand Rapids.
Bed rolled Cattle Club .
President, John Killick, Doster; Vice
President, R .L. Finch, Saline; Secretary—
Treasurer, Mark R. Westbrook, Ionia;
Directors, A. J. Battenﬁeld, Fife Lake;
D. Elbert Harvey, Jones; J. N. Sanford,
Freesoil.
Brown Swiss Breeders Ass’n
President, T. 8. Marshall, Leslie; Vice
President, M. H. I‘eterson, Ionia; Sec—
retary~Treasuren W. J. Campbell, Dimon—

dale.
Better Beef Association
President, W. W. Crapo. Detroit; Vice
President, S. H. Pangbom, Bad Axe;
Secretary-Treasurer. W. E. Judson Ed-
wards, East Lansing; Directors, H. W.
Harwood, Ionla; James Curry, Mariette;
John Killick. Doster.
Guernsey Cattle Club
President, John Endicott, Birmingham;
Vice President, Geo. E. Dean, 'Albion;
Secretary, C. Faye Myers, Grand Blanc;
Treasurer, Hoyt Woodman, Lansing;
Directors. H. Wigman, Lansing; John
Williams, North Adams; H. G. Bay, A1-
bion; Fred C. Holbeck, Long Lake; R. A.
Holmes, Grand Bane; J. C. Hollenbeck,
Berrien Springs; F. H. Ormston, St.
Jolms Otto Gilmore, Camden; Geo. L. Bur-
rows, Saginaw; F‘. B. Ainger, Jr., North—
Ville.
Jersey Cutie Club
President, Alfred Henrickson, Hart;
“Vice President, E. D. Parker,‘ Howell;
Secretary—Treasurer, Samuel Odell, Shel-
by; Directors, A. H. Gors, Ann Arbor;
Dr. F. Jones, Lansing; F. E. Haynes,
Hillsdale; Alvin Balden, Capac; Fred
Endlem Grand Rapids; Geo. Winegar. St.
Morris; J. W. Fordney, Jr., Saginaw; C.
G. Senbom, Otisville; W. Wilson, Kings—
167 '3 Roy Weinberg, Vicksburg; Fred W.
Nottan, Grass Lake.
Horse Breeders Ass'n ,7
President, L. C. Hunt, Eaton Rapids;
Vice President. Sidney Smith, Orion;
Secretary-Treasurer, R. S. Hudson, East
Lansing; DirectOrs, Andy Adams, Litch-
ﬁeld; John Sharkey, Bellvue; E. G. Read,
Richland; Herbert Peters, Garland; Ray
Whitney, Onondaga.
Duroe Jersey Breeders Ass'n
Presidmt. Sidney Phillips. Charlotte;
Vice President, E. H. Norris; Secretary-
Treaaurer, Raymond B. Laser, Prattville;
Directors, John Williams; Harold Shat-
iey, St. John; Barry Cramton.

Poland Chins Breeders Ass'n

President, Wm. Wood, Rives Junction;
Vice President, Mr. Barnard, Portland;
Secretary—Mm, A“ A. Feldcamp,
muster. '

moshire Swiss Breeders Ass’n

President, Roy Skinner, Henderson;
Vice President. Lloyd Aistine, Okemos;
Secretary—Treasurer, A. G. Bovay, Jack-
son; Directors, C. L. Cunpbei‘i, Parma;
John W. Snyder.

Spotted Polo-d Chine Breeders Ass’n
Presidium G. 8. 0011mm. Goldwater;
Vice President, 8. P. McConkey, Breck-
enridge; Wary-Treasurer, G. P. Phil-
lips, Bolivue; Directors, Oscar Vollker,
Pigeon; Thad Moore, Dowglac.
Chum White Breeders Aes’n ’ .
President, Dan  Miller, Swsrtz Creek :
WWI, Frederidk Knox,
Portland: Dims.’ Harold Simmons,
his; Hum Lass. Fairgrové.
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maﬁa,»th year, at which time} they
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400 lbs....St. Wheat Bran'

300 “
680 “
100 “

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Fine Ground 403

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200 “
200 “

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100 “ Steam Bone Meal
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Protein' (Minimum) [17 1
Fat Minimum) 3.5 g
Fiber Maximum) 6%

Total Digestiblc Nutrients
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for use in the ﬁrst few weeks of
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Mortality in the neighborhood
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Amco Chick Scratch and
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Feeding Young Chicks

Don’t feed chicks until 48 hours old.
The ﬁrst day give a mixture of bran
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For the first two weeks, feed chicks
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three months. Have Amco Starting
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IG, well developed frames and plenty of
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chigan, Farmers" Week, January
31 to February 4, at Michigan State
College, according to C. M. Fergu-
son of the poultry department, who
was in charge, of the show.

The success of the show was made
possible by the liberal contributions
of trophies which were awarded by
several poultry equipment and pro-
ducts companies. .

“Better quality eggs were exhibit-
ed this year than e'ver before,” de-
clares Prof. Ferguson, “and farmers
and poultrymen are beginning too
realize the importance of grading
and selecting eggs for the market.”

Entries from Oklahoma, Nebraska,
Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
and Kansas show the national scope
of the show and greater out of state
interest has been shown each year
in the Michigan contest.

Prof. A. G. Phillips, of the Mc-
Millen Feed Company, and formerly
head 'of the poultry department of
Purdue. University, was the oﬁicial
judge of the show. The judging
was done by the score card method.

Thirty points were given for size;
eight points for shape, ten for uni—
formity of color; ﬁve for uniformity
of shape; twelve for uniformity of
size;. twenty on shell‘ teXture; and
ﬁfteen points to condition of shell.
A cut of ﬁve points was also made
for each ounce under twenty-four
ounces, the standard weight for a
dozen eggs. Uniformity of color,
size of eggs, and shell texture came
in for the‘largest amount of cuts,
but a decided imprOVement was
noted this year in the condition of
shell texture.

The Yocum Faust Company, Lon—
don, Canada, were the donors of a
silver trophy for the experimental
station and college class. The win-
ners of this class were: Class 1—'—
white (15 entries); Oklahoma A.
and M. College, 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th;
University of Nebraska, 2nd, 5th,
7th, 8th; Unive'rsity of Wisconsin,
9th. Class l—brown (13 entries):
Oklahoma A. and M. 'College, lst,
2nd, 4th, 6th, 9th; University of Ne—
braska, 3rd, 5th, 7th; University of
Maryland, 8th.

' College Student

Poultry students at the College
took an active interest in the show.‘
Albert Dickinson Company of Chi—
cago, offered the silver trophy in
this class which was composed of
51 entries. The winners were: Class
2, white eggs: Donald Kline, Grand
Blanc, 1st (reserve‘sweepstakes rib—
bon); Harold Hannah, Grand’Rap-
ids, 2nd;”K. C. Poulson, Lowell, 3rd;
Kenneth Post, Mulliken, 4th; R. H.
McDonald, Grand Rapids, 5th.
Brown eggs: Oscar Hall, E. Lansing,
1st (sweepstakes cup); Donald
Kline, 2nd; B. E. Musgrave, E. Lan-
sing, 3rd; Hildred Hart, Davison,
4th.

The Michigan Farmer presented
the trophy for class three, students
Of colleges other than M. S. C. White-
eggs (six entries): Carl Wick, Okla—
homa' A. and M. College, lst, 2nd
and sweepstake cup; Charles M.
Rice, University of Wis, 3rd; L. L.
Logan, Penn. State College, 4th and
6th; James E. Payne, Kansas Agri.
College, 5th. Brown eggs (three en-
tries): R. E. Weinheimer, University
of Nebraska, lst and reserve sweep—
stakes ribbon; Carl Wick, A. and M.
College, 2nd; Clayton Holmes, Uni-
versity of Wis., 3rd.

Smith Hughes Class .

Hales and Hunter Company, Chi-
cago, Illinois, awarded the silver
trophy in the Smith-Hughes High
School Student class of ﬁfteen en-
tnies. wWhite eggs: Eaton Rapids
High School, lst, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th
(sweepstakes cup and reserve sweep-

stakes ribbon); Paw Paw High
School,'_4th; Robert Storry, Law-
ton, 7th; Mancelona High School,

8th; Melvin Leland, St. Johns, 9th.
Brown eggs (eight entries): Eaton
Rapids High School, lst, 2nd, 3rd,

Trenton, New Jersey, gave the tro-
‘phygln class ﬁve, commercial es
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ﬁg show that has ever been'held in'

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4th, 6th, 7th; Mancelona High
School, 5th; Orville Conley, St.
Louis, 8th. ‘ ' .

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sing,’ Ist and sweepsta es cup; F...-
E. Fogle, Okemos,
Farm, Owosso, 2nd.~

The trophy for the hatchery class; 

class six, was awarded by the E. J.
Smith company, Cleveland, Ohio.

Hatchery; and Poultry  _
5th and 6th._" BrovVn e'g‘gs » '
(three entries): S. J. Arnold,_Lanl-X -_ ‘

..3r ‘;A Pinecroft 

White eggs (14 entries): W. S. Han: ‘

nah and Son, lst, 4th, 6th, and
sweepstakes cup; Dr. L. E. Heasley,,
Grand Rapids, 2nd and reg’erve
sweepstakes ribbon; -Noeker’s. Poul—
try Farm, Brighton, 3rd; Wolverine
Hatchery, Zeeland, 5th; G. H. Nye,
Eaton‘Rapids, 7th; W. A. Downs,
8th. Brown eggs (eight entries);
W. R. Brott, Charlotte, 1st, 4th and
reserve grand sweepstakes; Pine-
croft‘Poultry Farm, 2nd; H. ’B. Pel—
ton and ‘Sons, East Tawas, 3rd;,
Michigan Poultry Farm, Mason, 5th,
6th, 8th. '
Best Dozen 01‘ Eggs ~

Mrs. H. H. Steﬂins, Manton, won
grand sweepstakes cup for best doz-
en white eggs in the show and also
sweepstakes cup in demonstration
farm class, class seven. Zenoleum
Products Company, Detroit, donated
the grand sweepstakes cup, while

Excelsior Wrapper Company, Grand '

Rapids, awarded the class trophy.
White eggs (ﬁve entries) ; C.‘ H.
Dykeman, Port Huron, 2nd; Otto

Saarikko, Rock, 3rd; H. A. Keister,

Bangor, 4th; James Meeks, Hills-v
dale, 5th. Brown eggs (three en-
tries); Chas. ’Sutherland, Brighton,

1st and reserve sweepstakes ribbon;

Mrs. Giles Adams, Bohnson, 2nd;
Mrs. Thomas Whitﬁeld, Cass City,
3rd. ‘

For class eight, farmers and fan- ‘
ciers, Keyes Davis Company, Battle
Creek, gave the silver cup. White
eggs (sixteen entries): W. S. Han—
nah and Son, lst, 4th, 9th and re-
serve sweepstakes ribbon for class,
also reserve sweepstakes for best,
white dozen in entire show; Otto
Saarikko,-Rock, 2nd; Mrs., H .H.
Steﬁlns, Manton, 3rd; Dr. L. E.
Heasley, 5th, 8th; Oliver Rhoades,
Clinton, 6th; H. A. Keister, Bangor,
7th. Brown eggs (eight entries);
Mrs. S. J. Ressegiue, Butternut, lst
and sweepstakes cup, also grand
sweepstakes cup for best brown eggs,
in entire show; Charles Sutherland,
2nd; J. R. Worthington, Okemos,
3rd; S. J. Arnold, Lansing, 4th;
Casper Lott, Mason, 5th.

The Quaker Oats Company, Chi-
cago, gave a nice trophy in the
record of performance class. White‘
eggs (11.entries); W. S. Hannah
1st,v3rd, 6th, 7th; Fair-
view Hatchery and Poultry Farm,
Zeeland, 2nd; H. H. Greens, Char;
lotte, 4th; W. A. Downs, 5th. Brown
eggs (9 entries): W. R. Brott; Char-
lotte, 1st, 4th, 5th, and class sweep-
stakes cup; C. N. Whittaker, Law»
rence, 2nd and'reserve sweepstakes
ribbon; Pinecroft Poultry Farm,
3rd; Michigan Poultry Farm, 5th,
7th.

Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs of the State
showed ten entries of white eggs and
ﬁve entries of browns in competition
for the silver trophy which was
awarded by the Nowak Milling com—
pany, Hammond, Indiana. White
eggs: James Meeks, Hillsdale, "1st
and reserve sweepstakes ribbon;
Sindy’s Poultry Club, Eaton Rapids,
2nd; Herbert Aue, Muskegon, 3rd;
Jacob and Ann Flaschbereger, Iron
River, 4th; Jacob- Turner, Stam—
baugh, 5th. Brown eggs: Eldee Van
Wormer, Swan Creek, lst andsweep-
stakes cup; Emil Aue,
2nd; Gustave Aue, Muskegon,~ 3rd;
Oscar Aue, Muskegon, 4th; Walter
Ross, Muskegon, 5th. . - ,

Class 11, Junior displays, ﬁve doz~
en to an entry: Sindy’s Poultry

Club, lst and sweepstakes cup; Nor- '

ton Boys Poultry Club, Muskegon,
2nd and reserve sweepstakes. rib-
bon; Jonesville‘ High School, 3rd.

 

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for 117 member hatcheries of the Michigan
Poultry “Improvement Assomation. furnishing
Michigan Accredited or Certiﬁed Chicks and
Eggs of known high quality. All inspection
under supervision of Michigan State College.
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Inspected Hatcheries and carelully culled Before shipment.

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Assorted or Mixed chicks 100 each. Chicks shi

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0P14 years of breeding for SIZE. TYPE, WINTER
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English White Leghorns

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MEADOW BROOK HATCHERY, Box 3.

  

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Buff Leghorns
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Basket strain)
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R. C. R. I. Reds

be above winning made December 1926 in Pro-
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- You can get_ better chicks at the _Washtenaw Hatchery.
accordance With the rules of the Michigan State Poultry

uality considered, our stock is priced as low as you will ﬁnd anywhere.

2502 Geddes Road.

36 HUSKY CHICKS

PROVEN LAYERS—MICHIGAN ACCREDITED.

GET THESE HIGH QUALITY PROFIT PRODUCERS
ENGLISH AND TANCRED STRAIN
LEGHORNS. SHEPPARD’S A
ISLAND REDS.
selected. breeding stock. .
Oin Eiglish mid ’i‘ancred \Vliite chliorns.
REE 'Circular
Live Delivery Guaranteed.

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

   

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White Wyandottes
Rhode Island Reds

Our Flocks have been ofﬁcially culled in
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100% live delivery.
ANN ARBOR. MICHIGAN.

     
  
 
 
  
     
   
  

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NcoNAs, BARRED ROCKS AND s. C.
Also Mixed Assorted Chicks. All from carefully
Heavy Laying Type. Proﬁt Producing Pul-
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I 1 A . CH CS ROM CON EST W NG B 000 LINES Our breeders have been inspected gind improved by inspectors supervised by Michigan
{ x . Our White Leghorns won the 1925 Michigan Egg Contest. Contest average 176. eggs. Our Den ' _ State College. The stliteiiicnts in this gid have been 0. Kd as truthful. Order at below
{v 3 averaged 241 eggs. You get some blood lines as produced these Winners in Royal Chicks. - prices in complete confidence. Postpaid prices on 25 50 100 500 1000
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Michigan Accredited Chicks

that are bred from proven blood lines.
Every breeder wears a sealed leg band in-
al by authorized state inspectors.

$1.00 DOWN—BALANCE . 0. D. . _
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our big new catalog. it is free. It Will hel you. Your
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BOWERS all-fuel brooder. tove burns softer
hard coal wood, etc. Best brooderin world
to hold hire: Self-regulating. Safe, strong.
Raises big healthy chicks. 10 years' suc—
case. 1000 or6 hick sizes. Flue ipes
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placed in operation last year have
been reported in quite a number of
districts. This intensive farming is
bound to spread in grain growing

‘states, and thosepracticing it are

enthusiastic on the subject, as they
Manure
spreaders come in handy, and the
barn yard accumulations are becom—
ing things of the past, as they are
needed for enriching the soil, while
the use of‘ fertilizers is growing
steadily in places where farmers can
raise the money. Potato growers
have been learning from costly ex—
perience the necessity of careful
spraying at just the right time, and
progressive Ohio farmers have in
quite a number of instances raised
300 bushels of potatoes an acre on
two acres of land. Clubs of farmers
of the same state feel a natural
pride for having grown 100 bushels
of corn an acre on tracts of ten
acres while wheat farmers to the
number of at least twenty have har-
vested 40 bushels of wheat an acre
on tracts of ten acres. The farmers
who have. started this movement
have no intention of increasing the
grain and other farm crops. and
their sole object is to make each
acre produce more and better crops.
Hired farm labor is costly. and
many farmers cannot afford to pay
the wages asked. It should be added
that unusual attention is being paid
to raising hogs, and the movement
fbr increasing the litters of pigs is
growing all the time. In Ohio
farmers are joining ton litter clubs
and are raising a ton of pork from a
litter of pigs in half a year.
New Grading of Beef

A system of grading and stamping
beef in such a manner that the con-
sumer may know exactly the quality
of the meat he purchases was adopts
ed recently at a meeting held in Chi-
cago of the National Better Beef As-
sooiation, it was announced by Oak-
ley Thorne, president. Under the
plan, the packers will grade the
beef under the supervision of the
government, and the marks will be
readable by the ﬁnal purchaser. Re-
tailers of beef are said to favor the
plan.

Not Much Change in “w

Week after week sees wheat for
May delivery sell on the Chicago
Board of Trade around $1.40 to
{1.43, and numerous tired holders
have been selling out, there being
apparently nothing in sight of an en-
couraging nature. A year ago the
price was around $1.65, while a
little more than two years ago sales
were made as high as $1.94. For
quite a number of weeks the stocks
of wheat in sight showed marked
weekly gains. but during a recent
week there was an increase of 759,-
.00, bushels in the visible supply in
the United States, bringing the
to 55,354,000 bushels,
comparing with 42,830,000 bushels
a year ago. Buyers are operating
mostly sparingly, and this applies to
niillers as well as to others, exports
of breadstuffs being only fairly
large, while speculators are not
branching out to any considerable
extent. Foreign competition in sup-
plying the wants of European coun—
tries explains much of the depression
for such countries as Argentina and
Australia have become large export-
ers of wheat, and the same is true
of Canada. Rye makes a great con-

trast to wheat in activity and good

prices, and quite recently aggressive
buying of rye by houses with. north-
western, eastern and foreign connec-
tions gave that grain renewed

 strength. May rye selling around
"$1.08, comparing with 04 cents a

Super a. o. On a recent day export
sales a 250,000 bushels of rye. were

v reported at the seaboard. and it was
.  that - stocks  at eastern

been hen ht

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By w. w. FOOTE, Market Editor. 7 ., »

 

 

Germany was atteralargé amounts.
May corn sells at 79 cents, about the
same as a year.ago, While May oats

sell ,around‘46 cents, a few cents

lower than last year. Oats seeding
is going forward in Texas and Okla—
homa. Two years ago May oats sold
up to 62 cents.

Cattle Hun-led to Market

There are fewer cattle in feeding
districts than at this time last year,
and the number shipped to market
this year has ran well short 01' the

same time in 1926. this applying to

the several packing points; But the
prevailing tendencyis to rush the
short-fed» steers of light weight to
market, thereby creating a glut of

 

Hogs are much Wantedquy‘r'

_ packers, the consumption of? 
and cured pork products being.ver?

large, while renter hogs are 'gging to

ceipts in
points were 3,677,000 hogs, ‘
comparing with 3,932,000 for the
sametime last year, 5,716,000 two
years ago and 5,870,000 three years
ago. Hogs sold recently in the
Chicago market at $10.40 to $12.10
comparing with $9.60 to $13.50 a
year ago; $10.25 to $11.40 two years
ago and $6 to $7.25 three years ago.
As compared with most past years.
markethrices are unusually high.
Heavy hogs continue to sell at a
great discount, and prime light
weights are market toppers, selling
40 cents higher than the best heav-
ies. Hogs marketed recently aver-
aged 231 pounds, the same as in
average years. Stocks of provisions

 

 

. M. B. F. MARKET REPORTS BY RADIO
VERY evening, except Saturday and Sunday, at 705 o’clock,
eastern standard time, The Michigan Business Farmer broadcasts
market information and news of interest to farmers through snide

station WGHP of Detroit.
of 270 meters.

This station operates on a wave length

 

 

the common to medium kinds, and
this has brought about a number of
sharp declines in prices. On the
other hand, there is a real scarcity
of choice beeves, with decidedly too
few offered on} the Chicago market
to go around, and they have under—
gone some very good upturns in
prices of‘late. Recently steers have
found buyers largely at a range of
$9 to $12 on days of fairly large
receipts, the extreme of sales being
$8 to $13.10.
are paid for long fed heavy steers,
and the top price was the highest
recorded in more than a year, The
best yearlings sold for $12.25. It
is a time when quality is greatly
lacking. and farmers who are mak—
ing their cattle choice are Well re-
warded. Cattle as a whole are sell-
ing much higher than in most form—
er years. and it is recalled that ﬁve
years ago the best steers sold at $9.
A year ago steers sold at $7.50 to
$11.50. Fat heifers and cows are in
good demand at $8.75 to $10.50, and
stockers and feeders have had good
advances, with sales at $6.75 to
$8.75, largely at $7.25 to $8.25.
Supplies of ,these cattle are light,
and there is a good demand, country
buyers competing with killers for
steers selling at $9 and under.

Much the best prices .

in storage are mostly normal, and
prices are much lower than at this
time last year. Conditions are fav-
orable for the hog industry, and
owners need not worry about the
future.

WHEAT

A steady tone is noted in the
wheat market with trading almost
at a standstill as everybody keeps
their eyes turned towards Washing—
ton. Speculation is high as to
whether or not President Coolidge
will sign the McNary—Haugen Bill
passed by both houses. Much pres-
sure is being brought to bear on the
President from both sides. Heavy
shipments from Argentina have not
helped the price ofAAmerican wheat
although foreign trade (is active.

CORN
Corn seems. to be about holding
its own because of light receipts.
Any weakness in the market brings
out plenty of buyers.

 

OATS
Oats dipped down some in price
around the middle of this month but
there are many who feel oats are

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

E Den nit. Chicago Detrou Detroit—m.
Feb. w“ Feb. 21 Feb. 9 1 yr. ago
WHEAT— .

' No. 2 Bed ill-37 $1.39 $1.33
No. 2 White 1-38 1.40 1.34
No. 8 Mixed 1-36 1.38 1.83

conN—I
No. 2 YeIIOW .7 9 .77 K .80 .75
No. a Yellow -76 .76 .70
OATS
No. 2 White 50 .46@.46% .51 ~ .43 M
No. 3 White ' .47 .4a@.4e 35 .48 .4214.
Rqu— ‘ ’
Cash No. 2 1.07 1.04 1.07 - .94
BEANS— « ’ '
C. H. P. Cut. 4-40@4.50 4.70@4.80 ‘ 4.25@4.35
POTATOES— ’
(Newll’er Cw: 2.50@2.0d
HAY— , “
No. 1 Tim. ' 18 19
 " 1.6 1‘7 .
' 180.19. V
. .1»:ng ..
l .j. v '

market than in recent years." "For. 
‘ 1927 to late date the aggregate rev
seVen- western. packing
these.

 

  

The  ,msa’e‘cahqinsa its ow?!
very well  'ﬁthe"rpri’ee remains at
the same loveless quoted in  last

“issue. The outlook continues need-V. ~

 

~ Bums. V .  A
What is the bean market ~~going to
do? ‘A real live" question without

an answer that can apparently be de- 7 ‘ "

pended upon .for‘ “its reliability.
Moisture has been ,A blamed ‘- right
along for the lowpriceron. the 1926
crop, and much «it it is true. but
these wet beans must be prettynwell

unloaded by now so that most of "the ’

stock yet to be sold, is in fair to
good condition. Experts declare that
Michigan and. California are the only
states with many beans left and the
canners look to this State for their
supply. Lookslike higher prices
were due, in fact they are past due,
and we hope they soon arrive. Re-
ports have it that many bean grow-
ers areturn-ing to potatoe for 1927.
Red kidneys are quoted from $4.50
to $6.50. .

 

‘ POTATOES

Growers of certiﬁed seed potatoes
are the ones making money right
now. With table stock selling for
less ’than a dollar a bushel seed po-
tatoes are bringing all the way up'to
$2.25 a bushel, a greater diiference
between prices than even old timers‘
can remember ever seeing before.
Indications are that most potato
growers intend to increase their
acreage while many bean growers
are deserting their ﬁrst love for po-
tatoes for 1927.

BOSTON WOOL MARKET ‘
Raw wool closed last' week at Boston
quiet with business spotty. Ohio fleece
wools were quoted at 45@46c.

DETROIT BUTTER AND noes

Butter is steady with best creamery
in tubs 49®51%c.
ﬁrsts are 26@261/é cents per dozen.

DETROIT LIVE‘ POULTRY

Geese Show some weakness while other

poultry is steady and unchanged. The.

following prices are those method by
commission merchants and paid to farm-
ers, less 5 per cent commission and trans-
portation charges: liens, selling good,
colored, under 5 lbs, 29c; over 5 lbs, 28c;
Leghorns, 24c. Stags, 230. Canons, fat,
7 lbs. up. 32@330. Ducks, white, 4% lbs.
up. 850; smaller or dark, 32c. Geese.
250. Turkeys, young, No. 1. 8 lbs. up,
42c; old toms. 32c.

 

SEEDS

DETROIT—Clover, cash, domestic.
£24.50; imported, 822.60. Timothy, cash,
2.60. ~ '

CHICAGWClover, $28.50@35. Tim-
othy. 34.756525. .

 

LIVESTOCK MARKETS

DETROIT, Feb. 2.2. ~‘Cattle—Market
steady. Good to choice year-lingo. dry
fed. $9.72@10.25; best heavy steers. dry
fed. $8.50@9.50; best handy weight hutch-
er steers, 87.250775: mixed steers and
heifers, $6@7; handy light butchers, 366
6.50;. light butchers. 352505.50: beat
cows , 355068.50; butcher cows, 34.750
5.50; common cows, 85.259575: cannon
$3.50@4.25; choice light bulls, 55.7506;
heavy bulls. “@050; stock bulls‘tSGS;
feeders, 3867.25; stockers, 35.500150;
milkers and springers, $55©90 '

Veal Calves~Market 50 higher. Beat,
unseen; others. '34.5.o@10. - ‘ '

Sheep and lambs-Market steady. 
lambs, $1&50®13.75; fair lambs, 811@
12.25; light to common lambs, “@1025;
fair to good sheep. $5@8; culls and com—
mon, 82.50Q4; ‘ '

Howumt~mgs lower.  .1, L. ._ .

hogs. $18.

m—

EAST sverano. N. Y.~—-(U.nl~te ‘ 

States Department 01 Agriculturel—y-Hzis;

, offerings united to light bu”

around 10 ‘ ts higher. at."-8.12'.0$6 

Eggs are easy. Fresh _

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Use K-R-O freely. Place itaroundyour
home, bar ' your granary or farm-
ss- ‘5. new “steamer. 
lno: tycoeived‘mtocko K-R—O send us
i name and 75c and spa—o will be sent

'd. Accept no sthitubes, there
WK-R-O.

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BABY CHICKS

100% Live Delivsry. Postage Prepaid.

Q Br I! 3&0 3‘0 012080
If. A II. Leghorn" 81;: 6.30 12.00
Inoon ................ .. 1.00 18.00
' 0. R. 0. Red: 4.00 7.50 14.00
med I ........ .. .00 7.50 14.00
8. 0. Ii. PM 4.00 1.50 10.00
If. I: - . 4 00 7.50 10.00
Inn. 0. 8. L.
Wynn ........ .. 4.50 .50 18.00
31. Orplnﬂone ........ .. 4.50 0.50 10.00

All absolutely ﬁrst class purebred [too
from culled loch. Droth shipments.
'MIIO

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0807 leech In, Cleveland Ohio.

 

 

 

 

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From well develo strong, healthy,

orne 811 d’  Bi“?

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. a; a week before are
0% live delivery. Poet- ,

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Tut/lot MWHIRV. It. 2-8. lode-d. lien.

Livestock—Too Late to Classify

WHITE LEGHORII I008 no Discount?
A ~»/ gonordered now or z shipment. Eired by
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decree I. Ferris. “2 Union. Brand Rapids, Mich.

l » . R E O l S T E R E D AVRSHIRE BULLS, BULL
' m, and heifers for sale. Free m disease.
Fred J. Vreeiend, R2, Iex 19. Wymdotte, Mich.

 

 

For_ land china lore of March and
April iarrow. Also some choice bred zilts. due to
(arrow inﬂarch and ril. one immun
for cholera. Wesley lle. Ionic. Mlchlean.
‘ At FEW 900% ﬁlm, “magi-mud IOARS
e a  1' now r . _
A J00! W. SIVDER, St. Johns. Klein, R. 4.

FARMS

120 Am. GOOD
Fair louder: near Three Rivers.

1 . Molt. land In alt-lie. To "1389.
J. 0. Selim-ta. 1935 Linden Ave, Grand Rapids,
lichiun.

 

 

 

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, 0 acre! - lectric

‘ timber, Food bump; e
Ian A 0:?an st 66 r acre. Tm
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WANTED TO’RIN'I‘, 0N assess nan wrrn
k me .De Vries. Dighton,

 

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. ' - . « HAND TRAINID. TAKE. mum
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- I February 27th will

 
 

 

‘Week of February 27
early days of the week of
average
mostly pleasant but cool to cold for
the- season. Towards the middle
part Of the week the-sky will become
Overcast with resulting moderately
heavy rain or snow.\ Coupled with
thh storm area will be strong winds
that may produce local drifts which
may impede traﬂic for a time.
Temperatures from about Wednes-
day to Friday are expected to aver-
age considerably above the seasonal
normal. Storm conﬂuent; will abate
about the same time the week ends.

Week of March 6

Following the passing storminess
of the last part of last week the
weather will be generally tair. Tem~
peratures will average about to a
little below the seasonal normal.

About the middle of the week the
temperatures will be much higher
and will remain so until near the
end of the week at which time
there willlbe a marked drop.

_ While precipitation will not be
heavy this week for the state as a
whole there will be both rain and
snow besides high winds during the
last half of this week in many parts
of Michigan.

March Wet

Averaging the month up as a
whole precipitation will be above the
average in March for most parts of
Michigan. The mean temperature
for the month will range above the
normal. These conditions seem to
point towards an early openingof
spring with suﬂicient moisture to
give good planting conditions in
April.

SHORT COURSE IN ORNAMENTAL
HORTICUIII‘URE

HE Michigan State College has

planned a short course on orna-

. mental horticulture which will
be of particular interest to amateur
gardeners, according to Prof. Alex
Laurie, who is in charge of ﬂoricul—
ture at the Michigan State College.
This course will be held from March
21st to 26th and it is thought many
women will enroll.

The course treats the various me-
thods forthe beautiﬁcation and up—
keep of the homevgrounds as well
as certain phases of more utilitarian
nature, such as vegetable gardening,
small fruits and tree fruits. »~

Actual practice in the greenhouses
will be furnished as well as demon-
strations, when facilities do not per—
mit actual work by the students.

The lectures will be delivered by
the members of Department of Hor-
ticulture and Landscape Gardening.

Monday, 1 p. m.——“Plant Propa—
gation,” by Prof. Laurie; “Plant
Propagation Laboratory,” by Prof.
Frost.

Tuesday, 9 a. m.———“Soils and Fer-
tilizers,” by Prof. Laurie; 10 a. m.—
“Hot Beds and Cold Frames,” by
Prof. Edmonds; 11 a. m.-——“Making
the Lawn,” by Prof. Laurie; 2 p. in.
—-“Design of Small Place,” by Prof.
Hyde.

Wednesday, 9 a. m.—-“Roses,” by
Prof. Laurie; “Home Vegetable
Garden,” by Prof. Edmond; “An-
nuals,” by Prof. Laurie; 2 p. m.———
“Garden Design,” by Prof. Hyde.

Thursday, 9 a. m.—-—-."Bulbs," by
Prof. Laurie; “Vegetables,” by Prof.
Starr; “House Plants,” by Prof.
Frost; 2 p. m.~—-“Trees and Shrubs,"
by Prof. Halligan.

Friday, 9 a. m.——"Care of Trees
and Shrubs," by Prof. Kindig; “Per-
ennials,” by Prof. Laurie; “Small
Fruits,” by Prof. Loree; “Flower
Arrangement," by Pref. Laurie; 2
p. m.-—-"Home Fruit Garden,” by
Prof. Gardner. '

 

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discounts.
Forms close Monday

 

 

 

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Cash in advance from all advertisers in this department. noexceptions and no

noon preceedlng date of issue.
Address: MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMER, Mt, Clmenl' Micki“...

 

 

 

 

 

SEEDS AND PLANTS

CERTIFIED WOLVERINE OATS ONE DOLLAR
per bushel. Improved Robust beans choice
stock absolutely pure, eeven dollars per hundred
are ac. Freight nil-spam on orders of
twenty dollars or over in lchigau. A. 8. Cook,
Owwo. Michigan.

HARDY ALFALFA-CIDVEBS AND ALL FARM
or Garden Se direct from growers at money

 

sevin :1 es. New Seed Book. Free! _rmer
Beal’dsz‘tlrsery 00., 71 First Avenue, Fenbeult.
Minnesota.

 

HA WANTED ALFALYA omvsn nuxnp,
3d clover. For me. Palm Oil Middlinss. rs.
Hamilton 00., New Castle, Pa. '

FOR SALE. INSPECTED C HBER’I‘ RASP-
berr lants. 100, LI ; 5 88.50 prepaid.
1000.y8l)1.00 r. o. it. 3t. resin. order early
if u want some of bernee grown.
on Tony

 

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Mots. St. J ohnl,

MAtEITODON EVERBEABING ? LESS
21

2c eac . Why me. _ m
Originator. Catalogue Free.  Ln kc. 
Bu alo. Michigan.

GOBLES NURSERlES, GOBIES,
very low prices. direct to farmers w
tree agents. 5

HIGHEST GRADE SEED CORN. (‘LOVERS,

a] In, timothy, soy beans. , etc. cheap.
Sand for price list. James Ant ony, Moorestown,
Michitm.

 

oMICHlGAN,
need no

 

POULTRY

MEYERS “I‘I’RE BRICD" (‘III(‘KS LIVE AND

grow. Moat quality per dollar. Smith hatched
——healthy and vigorous. Orders hooked now do»
liver-ed when you Want them. 100% live delivery.
Postage prepaid. Four leading breeds, White Leg—
horns. Barred Rocks, Rhodc Island Reds, Whih
Wyandottes. Flacks culled and bred for egg ro—
dm-tion. (‘el't-O-(‘uld (‘lm-ks. l-‘ind out u out
our hicks before you order c‘scwhcrc. Semi for
descriptive. circular. Meyers Hatchery. Mt. Ilees~
ant, Michigan.

 

BARRch ROCK (‘OPKERICLS AND PULLE'I‘S
laying strain. Mrs. Martin Meyers, Rl. Hen»
lock. Michigan.

BE QUICK. AMAZINGIA' LOW (‘IIIPK AND

Egg Prices. Rocks, Reds, Leghorus, pure bred.
Prompt deliver. Merrill
Hatchery. M .

BARBED ROCK ICOCKERELS. BRED FROM

Holterman's PedIETBed Anetocrats direct. Light
and dark. Price LOO—Two. for $7.00. N.
& Son. Silverwood, Michigan.

WE HATCH .ONLY GENUINE TOM BARRON
English White Leghorn, large type. overlaying
g lagng qualities none setters

m . S. 0. stock.

 

 

.Explaimtion Freer

Michigan.

 

 

Barred 1927 soon;
headed with cockerels whose dune have oﬂlcial
33, M. 8 laying conv

trap nest records. 203—2. .
test. Free circular explaining all.
cry. Holland. Mmhlan.

HICKIGAN ACCREDITED

. G.
Hillside Hatch—

 

KS, SOiﬂ:
is purchased

where we can save u money.
spiced. M. D. Wfoyngardan,
Route B 4.

 

 

 

WIIIT'I‘AKER'S MICHIGAN CERTIFIED REDS.
' Both combs. 'l‘rapnested. Bloodtestod. Mich-
igan's Greatest Color and Egg Chick”,
.gce, Cockerels. Catalog Free. Interlakes Farm.
Box 2, Lawrence. Mich.

SINGLE COMB \VHITE LEGIIORN BABY

 

_ chicks—order your chicks now and get Mich-
igan Accredited. big type, heavy '11; White
wan

Leghorne _when {on
other leading. stra
Ithaca, Michigan.

“'HITE LEGHOBN PHICKS, EGGS, AND PUL-
lets. Ed. Kroodsma. queland, Michigan.

‘ . and
us no ﬂocks. Presley Hatchery,

 

 

ANCONA CHICKS 13¢ men, 500 ron $60.15;.

 

 

 

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WHITE HOLLAND TURKEY'S. TOMS AND
hens. oulouee genders. White Peh’u mach.
drakes. Alden Whitcomb. Byron Center. Mich.
TOBACCO

 

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HOMHSPUN CllEWlNG AND SMOKING

tobacco; ﬂye lbs $1.25; ten $2.00; ci re 50
for $2.00; m e freeMpay when received. armors
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IIQMESI‘I'N TOBACCO: CHEWING
mg, 5 pounds $1.25- ten, $22.00.
Pay when received. he free for
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names in
Ky.
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shows by pictures how'the American does it. Talk
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low attractve cash noes. Write American 8“.
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olGiass
KEEPS

[CKS HEALTHY

  

PREVENTS

RICKETS (WEAK LEGS), DISEASES and DEATHS I

Don’t keep chicks behind glass. It
shuts out the sun’s Ultra-Violet
rays, causes leg weakness, rickets,
disease and ﬁnally death. Leading
State Experiment Stations and
scientists have proved this in many
tests. But these scientists also
found that chicks kept under
FLEX-O-GLASS were safe from
rickets. weak legs, stayed healthy.
were full of pep and grew amaz-
ingly in this warm sunlit room——
because the chicks ab-
sorbed the energizing
Ultra—Violet rays that
FLEX-O—GLASS ad—
mitted. See the proof
in center column.

These tests were made
for 'you. Put your
chicks under FLEX—O-
GLASS. Preventweak

chicks, diseases a n d
deaths in this e a. s y
way. Every chick will mature

or reach frying size much
sooner than ever before because they

absorb the tissue building Ultra—Vio-
let rays that pass thru FLEX-O-
everywhere ,
have replaced glass with FLEX—O-GLASS, which makes use of

only health—producer—indoors
snow and rain.
Just build a FLEX-O-GLASS
scratch shed easily and replace all poultry house windoWs with
results will
This cosy sunlit brooder-house will pay
itself many times the ﬁrst season alone and next winter
. The Ultra-Violet rays will keep them
healthy and active, stimulate the egg glands and .make them

G L A S S. Poultrymen
the sunshine—Nature’s
chicks are out of slush,
growth will actually amaze you.

FLEX-OaGLASS. The
yards for 300 chicks.
for
keep your hens in it.

lay to the limit in coldest weather.

Better Than Glass for HOT

Gardeners—get stronger,
bigger plants that will
row when transiilanteil.
ecause _ FLEX—O-
GLASS admits concen—
trated Ultra-Violet raysand
Infra-Red (heat) rays, it makes
plants grow much stronger.
faster than when under
(Glass stops these rays).
earlier. Get more money for them.

O—GLASS is installed much easier. holds heat bet—

»ter and costs far less than glass. Scatter-s

Does not chill like glass.

Ehdnegaiiie'r to handle. 15 yards of FLEX-O-GLASS
135 sq. ft. Ideal for greenhouses.

Enclose Porches and Storm Doors

   
   
   

 

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Fast, strong chick

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light just
er

covers a hot bed of
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7' ﬂ Just nail FLEX-O-GLASS over screen due
.  porches-and storm doors. Changes snow ate
4.x; _  trap into healthful sunroom for chil-
! M 7.} dren’s playhouse, cheaply. Fine for
j  sleeping porches. FLEX-O-GLASS is
I A .‘z‘ .LU, also used on ordinary curtain rollers to
 difque healthful light to every corner {test
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Millions of

much lighter.

Yards in Use - - - Read What Users Say

AND iiucii
BETTER

Whatwlwlltra-Violet Rays Will Do

difference in _
chicks of Ultra—Violet
theni gift” FL d th ds
men r ions an ousan
have proved this since FLEXOG ASS
originated.
from the same hatch. '
Deprive one of Ultra-Violet Rays.
other under FLEX—O-GLASS. _
latter will be two to three times the size of
t

so about Ultra-Violet Rays and FLEX-
Lids.

IOWA STATE COLLEGE
your product . ‘
to common glass for enclosing chicken houses
for winter and brooderhouses.”

OHIO STATE EXPERIMENT STATION, up-
on completing a rioket test reports: h
of the effective Ultra-Violet rays were trans~
mitted to offer protection against leg weak-
ness.”
KANS.
until 2 years ago no one understood the value
of Ultra-Violet .
have been reported by practical

allow the passage of the health—giving portion
of sunshine to a considerable greater extent
than glass.”

lst of Connyectlcut says:

trate FLEX—O-GLASS
chemically active and
power of the d ”
“CANADA AORI
. FLEX—O-GLASS

  

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the two chicks above. _'l‘hey illustrate the
deprivmg

growth obtained by d
by keeping

. nd _
O-GLASS. State Experi-
of Boultrymen
- - was
too. two chicks
Feed them the same.
Put the
At 10 weeks. the

EX—

You can Take

former. Read what leading U. S. author-

PROOF

states: “Believe
(FLEX—O-GLASS) far superior

“Enoug

STATE EXP. STATION says: "Up

Rays. Some excellent results
poultryinen
glass substitutes. which will

have used

MORSE, for 45 years Consultln chem-
“Congratula ions are
ou. our statements I heartily Icorrobor-
ecause the Ultra-Violet re. s which pene-
njia‘kes ens healthful,
increases oxygenating
bloo . , - -
O. COLLEGE of Man. reports: -
_is standing up ﬁne under
conducted this Winter,” says Mr. Otto.

 

 

 

 

Hundreds of Letters Received Daily Prove FLEX-O-GLASS Best

Hoffman Poultry Farm of Indiana writes:
"We used FLExro—GLASS on our brooder-
houses this Spring and were _very, well
pleased. We placed it by the Slde of one
window that was covered with ——_—-——
(another product). The diﬂ’erencehin the
color of the light was ,qu1ckly noticeable.
But one very anVIDClllg. argument was
that the chic s piled up in .front of the
FLEX-OJGLASS Window._ leavmg the space
in front of the other entirely empty. The
FLEX-O-GLASS looks as Wtelltat the end
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For PIGS .
"FLEX-O-GLASS works wonders for little
pigs.”—A. P. ave of O. .

WANTS MORE _
"Enclosed ﬁnd ﬁve dollars for which please
Send 15 yds. more of our Flexvo-Glass.
It certainly is ﬁne stuff or hen houses and
cold frames.”——Frank E. Helm on.
Nantucket. Mass.

IT'8 GREAT
"Your Flex-0-Glass is great. Please send,
me 10 ergo more."—Cora E. Harding.

~Dwego.

I a “l? ‘t‘bﬁ‘ "Pt". . in...
“ use some ex— - ass as y a ,

g all you claim.”-~—M. . Bead. Utica.

lilo.

‘ ' WONDERFUL!

‘7' is in sec nd order I think it_ is
ggﬁerfuL’E-M'rs? E. Bmi . Plousantvﬂle.

 “anemone

SU erior to Glass .
'.'I put FLEX- GLASS on alongside of a
glass_ Window last summer. '
superior to glass for light. I have had
enough experience in the use of FLEX— -
GLASS to give advice to people I meet.
I do not heSitate sellin anything that has
merit.”—-——T. S. Baird o N. Y.

HERE’S PROOF
'fI have used Flex—O-Glass for a year and
like it ﬁne. My father had about 50 hens

but no Flex-O—Glass and he got 3-5d eglgzs

a day during the cold, while I ha .
hens and I got. 8-10 eggs a day With
Flex-O-Glass during the coldest weather.
Please send me yds. more immediately
or a ‘scratch shed.”—Minnie Foster.
Schaghticoke, N. Y.
I

O. K.
"Enclosed please ﬁnd 30.00 in Post Of-

ﬂce mone order for w ich lease send me
100. yar s of your Flex- -Glass. Your
Flex-O-Glass is ' . y chickens are
doing ﬁne. scratching and singing all day

long, and laying too. ex eat some of
my neighbors will send in forpFlex- -Glass
by the Wii they talk."—-John Westwood.

Belleville, .

   

 

 

OOOb STUFF i f
"I s at last ear and ot 135 ‘sq. It. 0
Mex-eO-Glass grid found 8it: very good stuff,

   

  

so am building a new scratch pen and I
need some more.”———Geo. Koontz, Cum-
berland, Md.

GETS MORE EGGS
“Received my shipment of Flex-O—Glass
O. K. and Wish I had ordered it sooner.
Put it on the henhouse and in less than
two weeks my egg roduction has increased
50% and sill em; up. Count on me
for a bigger or er next fall.”-——-John
Lord, Revere, Mass.

A REAL BOOSTE R

“I am enclosing check for $30. Send me

100 yds. of Flex- -Glass at your earliest
convenience. ha. a 5.00 roll from on
a year ago. I think Will want anot er

. 100 yds. after I see.howhfar this ltiungred
. - It’ or coverin en yar 0 cc

5325mm find snow.”  H. Small. Soutg

Harwich. Mass. , . ~
THE BEST ‘

“Enclosed please
ﬁnd check for
$19.60 for your
invoice No. l,-
117.448. We like

 

 

  
 

any- ‘
thing similar we have tried."--H. W. Bina-
m.- Hartwell, Ga. h
HIS THIRD ORDER h h
“ ﬂdhko 3.60f0rwic
BEISCIgfgdte: iii-disc off he?» eGlass. The

- h two sh merits prov
gicgr indeed.p It is all you claim for

it.”— . B Hammond. 8t. Poursbmz. Fla.
EXCELLENT ’ hi h I

"} used our Flo -0-Glass w c

bin?“ from :8? fgbisj‘spn ‘ “gong?
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Use Only

0......FLEX- 0 - (GLASS ‘

Folks have always had poor luck with chicks. when
kept behind plain glass. The reason was not known‘
until a few years ago. Scientistsfound that chicks,
pigs and many plants eventually died and hens quit
laying when deprived of Ultra-Violet rays, and plain
glass shut these rays out. Therefore Mr. Warp origin-
ated FLEX-O-GLASS to admit these needed rays, which
he perfected after much research and experimenting. He
found it could be manufactured much cheaper than
glass. FLEX—O-GLASS was the ﬁrst and original Ultra»
Violet ray ﬁlter advertised years ago, and MrL' ‘Warp
still has charge of! the manufacture of.this most durable
health-producing product. He stands back of ‘every
word on this page. Why chance a substitute or imita-
tion when the genuine, time tested FLEX-.O-GLASS
costs no more, which is registered in the U. .8. .Patent
Office. Thousands of people have .replaced plain glass
windows with health-producing FLEX-O-GLASS. It
scatters healthful light to every corner of the room,
causing wonderful growth. It is highly recommended

' V by Best Authorities. .Millions of yards are no'win use.

i

. Just Cut With .
Shears and Nail On

ELEX-O-GLASS is very easily.
piece 3 feet Wide any length desired. Just cut to size with
ordinalry shea‘rﬁ, nail ton and the jobt is (ionic. It is ab-
so u e y wea er-resui ing, ransparen a n water r f.
Looks neat and attractive. Lasts for years. p 00

’ Genuine F LEX-O-GLASS is -
GUARANTEED Most D U R A B L E

FLEX-O-GLASS, the Original product advertised for ad-

   

installed. Comes in» one

mitting Ultra-Violet rays is une ualed Genuine FLEX-
O-GL always has been an is today made on a
stronger. better cloth base,

sgecially processed to with-
stand ail. kinds of weather. T at’s why it lasts for years,
always lies ﬂat and stays bright. FLEX-O-GLASS even
looks fresh and now after many seasons of exposure to
Wind._rain and snow. .Don’t confuse it with inferior
materials. tate Experiment Stations tested FLEX-O. '

GLASS. thoroughly before recommending its use—Your Protection It is
,used With amazing results ever where, for replacing glass at only Va tho .
cgt. In fact it costs only 3 c a _square foot. postpaid. Order Genuine
F EX-O—GLASS today at _our risk——direct from the factory and save mono .
Mrs. 'l‘. _J. of Nebr. _Writes——”When FLEX-O-GLASSv is installed besi a
another, it speaks for itself.” -' ~'

PRICES-- All Postage-Prepaid

Per yd. 36 inches wide: 1 yd. 50c; 5 yds. at 40c ($2.00);
10 yds. 'at 350 ($3.50); 25 yds. at 32c ($8.00);
100 yds. or more at 30c per yard ($30.00).

SPECIAL TRIAL OFFER

15 SQUARE YARDS POSTPAID FOR $5

The FLEX-O-GLASS MFG. will be refunded by the FLEX-(L

00.
Will send you a 15 yard tr' 1 l J ' '
of FLEX_0_GLASS 3 is re] GI ASS MB? 00.,k eiii'irl;ll(i01;’ic5kquestion.

 

 

 

 

 

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fatoPWi‘ﬁ plei’S‘dtéti PROMPT tﬁiﬁedoféeﬂstmmﬁ'lt‘l
roll covers a, Scratcsl’a mgr SERVICE. {acuity and save money-
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fronts. hotbeds‘,m Shirl-ii" “W” m" a 'eue" i163? 0 dﬁpoﬁted  the
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d‘ows. denclosln‘g rigrclfites. my: Mam“? c2: order tcod‘iicy. Sgiid lggnl?
sorm oors, so, a er ' for 30 ds 'f "h
hours your Flex-O- y- ' 1 you w“

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little bit

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plants It's mighty
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