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ONE THATDIDN’TGET AWAY
hance’ "—“Miehigan Fruit Men Spend Tw'o ,_ :9

" “Touring Ontario, ‘ rean’h—“T'hruiOur Home Folks’ Kodaks?’
. Broadscope Man Tells of Ills 24“ Hour Vacation-“Chatting With the ‘
. Agricultural Teacher”—And ’ Other Features

' In this issue: “sum Chance «Winn mam as... 'c
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SATURDAY,- AUGUST 18, 1928

 

   

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MILON GRINNELL
Editor

    
 
   

   
    

Entered as 2ndt class matter.
Aug. 22 1917 at Mt. Clemens.
Mien, under act Mar. .189

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

HE little boy wins a ham—or
the gold watch—4 tact shrieked
and yelled in lusty lunged reitera-
M You recognize at once that we
are at the fair and are watching the
concession stands on the midway.
Possibly the little boy and the young
lady win all fair enough, for it may
be a fair or “grinding" percentage
concession, in the vernacular of the
trade, a "grinding stone” where the
may lose that one or a few may win
and/ the proprietor always makes a
proﬁt.

, But we have our doubts, for the
fair concession business is highly
professionalized and industrialized,

concerns making equipment
for the trade. According to the cata-
logs of these concerns, one of which
is before me, and whose wishes I will
not respect—as the booklet is marked
“private and conﬁdential” —the
games are not‘ so fair as they might
be, but are under the control of the
operator at all times.

 

their games crooked—Jar from it,
the more ﬂattering and polite word
"protected" is used, but as the con-

maker of ﬁlled dice, marked cards.
slick aces, holdouts, and a full line
of casino supplies—the uninitiated
stands about as much chance of win—
ning, unless it is with the operator’s
consent, as he does in an argument
with a mother-in-law.
The Spindle Game

Here is the spindle game in which
a revolving arrow ﬁnally comes to
rest at the winning peg. Simple—
evidently “a fair game of chance if
there ever was one--—-but let the mak-
ers continue, “The Magic Pointer is
the latest thing in a controlled spin-
dle. It is unpretentious in appear-
ance, seemingly home made ‘ * t ’
can be hooked up fair in a moment’s
notice * ' .' ‘ for either grind or
“strong” workers. The arrow is un-

 

Michigan Fruit Men Spend Two Days Touring Ontario, Canada

N August 3 and 4 a motor cara—

van was seen to wend its way’

through a land of fertile ﬁelds
and hospitable folks.
ma! tour of the Michigan State Hor-
__...__._.__.._...._. ticultural S o c i-
ety. which was
this year staged
in Ontario, Can-
ads.

The tour start—
ed from Wind-
sor down a ﬁne
concrete highway
which stretched
across the Pro.
vince with hard-
ly a break. Fine
ﬁelds of alfalfa,
clover, and small

grain borderél the highway, near
Windsor. but corn-ﬁelds were no-
- ﬂceahly scarce. Corn-borer! Many
sweet clover ﬁelds were seen, which
residents informed us were being cut

, for seed, used for pasture and hay,

and put into the silo. Natural gas

' and clearic power are plentiful and

cheap and every farmer seems to he
- mkhgmothth‘negaais

used for cooking and heating and the
electricity for lights and power. . One
gentleman showed us his last month’s
all in; for. his house and a mall
mm... ThehmIOrtheWoto-
bled $3.89.
ﬁio .caravan’a ﬁrst stop was It

   

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perhaps it is the young lady wins

0! course the makers do not call .

cern also boasts of being the leading .

It was the an- ,

Slim once 0f Winning 011 “Games Of Chance” .

. " Manufacturer’s Conﬁdential Catalog Indicates Games Can Be Kept Under Operator’s Control

By ARCHER P. WHALLON

 

 

WHERE is enough sporting blood in most of us so that we enjoy
playing a game as long as there is a chance to win, but when the ,
cards are all stacked against us we are through. If you are one of

the folks who have a weakness for the games of chance along the fair

midway you should read this article by Archer P. Whallon.

It contains

some information that may be an eye-opener to you and cause you to

swear of! playing them.——Editor.

 

der the operator’s control at all
times.” The more ornate Bicycle
Wheel spindle is like it, for “it oper-
ates on the principle of the Camel
Back and has a good creep, though it
can be operated perfectly fair with-
out the cree-p”—-as we may be par-
doned the suggestion, in the presence
of fair officials or before policemen.
About the same comment might be
made apropos of the rolling log
game. “The outﬁt consists of one
maple tray 14x8 inches, eight imi-
tation leather pads, and two ﬁnished
maple logs. One log is numbered 1
to 8 on the eight sides, and is per—
fectly fair, the other log is numbered
30—50—190, with four 30’s, three 508,
and one 100-. This log is so made
that it will bring up one of the 308
every time, but by changing it end
for end one of the 505 or 100 will
show. Any one who has operated a
percentage laydown will appreciate
the advantage of being able to throw
out a big one at the right time.” Of
course, this advantage costs the oper-
ator a little something as “fair logs”
are listed at $1.50 while “gal! logs"
at $4.00. A still greater spread lies
between the fair and controlled put
and take tops. The fair one is priced
at but a dollar, but obviously is of
but little worth in comparison with
it counterpart costing ten or ﬁfteen
times as much and which is so made

that “the operator can spin it in
such a manner that he will spin 3
Take every time while the uniniti—
ated will spin Put.”

Percentage Games

The fact is that nearly if not all
the pitchmens and percentage games,
the so-called games of “science and
skill” as wel 13.8 the avowed games
of chance may be worked “strong”
as well as fair. Though the operator
may demonstrate them, showing how
easy it is to win, he can follow‘the
demonstration with a slight change
in the apparatus, unnoticed by his
victim, that makes winning very dif—
ﬁcult if not impossible. Such is the
case with the Pop—It—In game in
which the player endeavors to throw
balls in pockets in a rack. “When the
rack is placed at a sharp angle the
balls will not go into the pockets, but
as it is brought to a more horizontal
position it becomes less difficult.”
The operator merely demonstrates
his game, allows some winning, prob—
ably by a confederate, for advertis-
ing purposes, then unobtrusively
changes the position of his rack to
do business with the poor hicks who
are anxious to part with their money.
High strikes, pitch rack games, and
the several ball and pin games are
subject to control manipulation, “can
be worked strong.” In the Cat Rack
outﬁt “the cats are under the opera—

By HERBERT NAFZIGER

Fruit and Orchard Editor, THE Bvsmnss FARMER

sand dollars each year to feed the
wild birds which ﬂock to this place.
Part of the cost is met by bird lovers
and the provincial government. The
balance is raised by Mr. Miner
through his lecture tours. Mr. Miner
is not a millionaire. His means are
modest, but he is a bird enthusiast.
He is the originator of the sanctuary
idea and is said to be the ﬁrst man
to trap and tag wild Canadian geese
to study their route of migration.
Countless thonsands of wild geese
and whistling swans make this their
stopping place during the annual mi-
gration. April 1 to 20 was said to
be the best time to me these birds.
A number of them, some crippled,
make the place their permanent
home. Mr. Miner is also interested
in forestry and has some very ﬁne
experimental blocks of Scotch pine,
white pine, and maple. Some red ce-
dar has been planted, because of the
blue berries which it bears. "l‘lieoe
berries provide food for over-winter-
ing robins.

Then came a 150 mile drive to

. seting.

ful of “Plow Boy” when the supply
runs low!

At Simcoe the Michigan men visit—
ed the apple and cherry farm of W.
C. Everett. Sour cherry picking was
going on. The cherries were being
marketed at a stand at a price of
$1.50 per eleven quart b a s k e t.
Twenty-three acres of apples were in-
spected. The varieties were mainly
Spy and McIntosh. The Spy crop was
especially good. Trees were planted
35 feet apart. Cultivation is started
early and continues until June 18,
when a cover-crop of soy beans is
sown. The trees are sprayed only
four times but the apples were very
clean, though the McIntosh and the
Baldwins showed considerable rus—
The fact that Bordeaux had
been used almost entirely would
seem to account for this. Barnyard
manure and acid phosphate are used
as fertilizers and the weaker trees
trate of soda. The apples are all mar-
are given an additional “shot" of ni—
keted through a cooperative associa-
tion, and the bulk of the co—op’s out-
put is sold in Canada.

Second Day

On the morning of the second day
the motoring Michiganders started
from Hamilton and drove up to the
heights, near the city, known as "The
Mountain ” from which a beautiful
view was obtained of the city and the

ant talk in which he mentioned,tho

  

 

 
  
   
 
  
 
 
   
   
   
  
   
  
   
   
    
    
   
 
 
    
   
 
   
    
   
 
    
    
     
    
   
   
   
 
  
  
   
  
  
 
   
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
     
  
   
   
 
   
  
  
  
  
   
  
 
   
  
   
  

tor’s control at all times, yet can be
demonstrated to the players as they
are not weighted.” Possibly these
worthy concession men deserve pro—
tection as well as do their more aris-
tocratic brethren who handle the
roulette wheel, the hyronemous tub,
the percentage dice that are made for
banking and fading or are strong on
craps, and the Gates, Keplinger, and
Sullivan holdouts, the Jacob’s lad-
der, and the pants band machines—— :4:
that cost their operators from ﬁfty to "
a hundred and ﬁfty dollars, but with
which “live wires who have had ex-
perience with tools of this kind
should make good money.”

Barn um Was Right

These concessions do indeed tur-
nish a picturesque and colorful ele»
mont to the fair grounds. They
would be missed by multitudes. To
explain all the reasons for their ex-
istence would lead us far astray in
psychological digression concerning
the lure of gambling—possibly even
to an argument for its value as a
stimulator and conservator of cour-
age in a commonplace and humdrum
world. But to a farmer who gets all
the gambling thrill he needs from
weather and market, it would seem
that these people might better be put
to some useful work for their living
building good roads for that matter.
and the money which they take in,
and for which they give nothing in .
return, given to the Salvation Army.
These protected games are not games ‘
of chance—but of no—chance—merely
evidences of the truth of Barnum’s
assertion that people like to hum-
bugged. But when I read in a fair
catalog that “positively no crooked
games are allowed on the grounds”
and I then see the whirling spindle.
the rattling chuck—luck dice, and the
tumbling gaff log—I wonder if the
members of the fair board do not ex-
emplify the proverbial innocence of .
farmers. ;

: mists; ,

closely planted fruit district border-
ing on Lake Ontario. The ﬁrst or-
chard stop was at the H. E. Mayoock
orchard. Here were seen one hun—
dred acres of young bearing apple
trees planted 15% feet apart. Fill—
ers and permanents were all of the
same varieties in the various blocks.
The varieties were mainly Wealthy,
McIntosh, Jonathan, and Spy. The
crop was very light and we were in-
formed that the late apple crop is
light throughout eastern Canada. A
new red early apple called Crimson
Beauty was seen bearing fruit. It
was said to rank with Transparent in
earliness, and to color evenly. Eat—
ing quality was said to be ordinary
but cooking quality good. Twenty
acres of McIntosh were seen in a
solid block. These trees blossomed
full this season but set no fruit.
Frost was not a factor. Did you say
pollination? Most of the Canadian
farmers whom we interviewed com- '
plained of excessive rainfall. During
the month of June it is said to have ‘ ,
rained almost every day, and July
was evidently not much better.

The next stop was at the nursery
and preserving factory of Senator E.
D. Smith and Sons. The Senator wel-
comed the tourists with a very pleas-

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state of friendship and common luv
terest which existed between the W0

countries. There was a total lack of
a feeling of foreignness betwenthio =

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VICE PRESIDENT BECOMES
PRESIDENT '

I am one of the officers of a. farm-
ers’ telephone company. About 10
days ago our president died and the
question is now asked, does the vice
president become president and serve
until the next annual meeting? Or
must the board of managers elect a
new president? And if they should
elect. the vice president as new pres-
ident would they lhave to appoint a.
new vice president?—Reader, Arenac
County.

N the event of the death of your
president the vice president would
assume his office until a new

president is elected at the regular
election. It would not be necessary
to elect a. new vice president to take
the old one’s place.

WHO GETS COW?

Three years ago a neighbor gave
me a heifer calf. We are on a rented
farm and the contract is on a 50-50
basis. We were to have four cows of
our own. This calf has come to a
cow and now we want to sell out. The
other party gets a. pound of butter to
each cow and half of the increase of
all that is raised on the farm. Now
do you think this man is entitled to
half of this cow? She was 18 months
old when she came fresh—E. A.,
Kalmazoo, Mich.

T would be unfair for you to raise
the calf in question on the un-
divided feed and then claim the

full value of the cow later. In this
case the landlord should pay you for
one-half of the value of the calf at
the time it was turned over to you
providing it met with his approval.

If the stock is divided at the out-
set and each party owning his own
stock of which he is responsible for
the maintenance of a certain number
of animals you, could balance up the
expense of raising the calf by off-
setting one which should be furnish-
ed by the landlord. The former
method is the one most in use and
it is also most practical—F. T. Rid-
dell, .Research Assistant in Farm
Management, M. S. 0.

NOTE STILL GOOD

We borrowed some money from
one of our local bank a few years
ago. We have always been prompt
with the interest and have paid some
on the principal when we could. The
last time the note came due, we went
as usual to renew it, pay the interest,
and some on the principal. They re-
fused to accept the-renewal, interest,
and what we offered on the principal,
stating the bank examiners demand-
ed a 10 per cent payment and threat-
ened us with the demand of the face
value of the note in full. We got
the money they required and re-
newed the note. Afterwards we were

told that when one offers the inter- ‘-

est on a ’note add some payment ,on
the principal (if it is not more than
$1.00) and the owner of the note re-

fuses to accept same, it cancels the '

note. We would very much like. your
opinion on this subject—Mrs. E. B.
M., Portland, Mich.

AYMENT of all interest due and
any part of the principal would
not cancel the note where the

holder refuses to accept. The note
would” still be good—Legal Editor.

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?

If a man is sent to Ionia prison
who has a wife, not in good health
,snd three small children all under
the age of 5 do the city authorities
have to pay house rent and provide
for wife and children or who will be
responsible for the same?—'—F. J. 1.,
Hillsdale county.

F the wife is not able to support.
herself and children, she could
apply to the probate judge for a

mother’s pension. She would be en-
titled to from,$2.00 to $10.00 for the
first child under ten years of age and
$2.00 for each additional child under
tint age—Legal Editor.

 

 

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No. ld—POULTRY RATIONS.

No. 2.-—MODERN WATER SUPPLY.
No. 3.-——SOIL FERTILIZERS.

No. 4.—-—SEED CORN CURING.

No. 7.—-—FARM SANITATION.

No. 8.——-FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS.
No. 9.—FROM EGG TO MARKET.
No. 11.———MINERALS AND FEEDING.
No. 12.—-LINSEED OIL MEAL.

No. l4.—-UNDER-GRADE APPLES .
No. 16.—TIRE CARE.

No. l7.—FARMERS' TAX GUIDE.

No. l9.———CONCRETE BUILDINGS.

No.’ 20.——MOTHS AND BEETLES.

No. 21.—-FEEDING FOR EGGS.

No. 22,—CHICK CARE AND FEEDING.
No. 23.-——BETTER GRAINS AND HAY.
No. 24.—100 FOODS FROM 4 RECIPES.
No. 25.—FARM LEASE SYSTEMS.

No. 26.——ORCHARD MANAGEMENT.
No. 27.——RASPBERRY PLANTATION.
No. 29.—FLIES IN DWELLINGS.

No. 30..—MORE MONEY FROM COWS.
No. 33.—-CULLING FARM FLOCK.
No. 34.—-POTATO GROWING.

No. 85.—PROFITABLE ORCHARDS.
No. 36.—TRACTOR LUBRICATION.
No. 37.—MODERN POULTRY HOUSES.
No. 38.—POULTRY, SWINE DISEASES.
No. 39,—AUTOMOBILE LUBRICATION.
N0. 40.——YOUR TRACTOR.

No. 41.——A FEW BOARDS.

No. 42.—REAL ESTATE ASSESSING.
No. 43.——FARMING UNDER PAPER.

 

 

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oi The Business Farmer’s large family where you live.

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READY FOR A RIDE.—Ethel Suther-
land, of Macomb county,
said it was of her sister,
age 10, riding on a. pony.

sent us this

young ladies.

 

“IF YOU WANT TO BE FRIENDS WITH US YOU GOTTA LIKE OUR KENNETH AND HELEN.—Kenneth is

DOGS.”-—Fair enough proposition, isn’t it? Now we’ll introduce you to the the son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Young, of
Meet Beatrice Kelsey, Eleanor Feet and Ellia, Peet, of Kent Huron county, and he is giving his sister
counrty. Not knowing the dogs’ names we can’t introduce you to them. Helen a. ride.

 
  
 
 
  
 
 

 

THE 0RPIIAN.——\Vhen the lamb’s mama. died
Doris Freeman, Alcona, county, adopted it and is now raising it
on a. bottle; Mrs. Wm. DeCoste, Alcona county, sent the picture.

BASHFUL?—Looks
It’s Estella
and two friends.

county,

 

PET.”—-—That’s Elias
Ottawa county, with his cat.

 

 

JERSEY PRODUCT AND

Vander

A BIT OLD FASHIONEIL—Folks may consider him a bit out of (lute 55TH ANNIVERSARY.—Mr. and Mrs.’
but Frank Prutka, of Antrim county, declares his method of transportation David Van Alstyne, of Mecosa county,
is slow but sure. The picture came from Lira. Bernie Powell, some county. have been mnrru-(l ﬁfty-ﬁve years. _

 

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A SNO‘V STATUE.—This is to make you have a chill which
is a. welcome relief from the hot' days we'Ve been having. 'Don’t -.
thank us, thank C. I. Kincaid, Clinton coun'ty, it's his picture. .

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“STARTING TO TOWN FOB TOE CREAM."-—‘Mr. and Mrs.
of Eaton county, suggest this title for the picture

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HE WILL STICK TO THE FARM.—-“"hen a. young farmer .j
like \Vayne Fultz, of Isabella. county, owns a ﬁne young heifer
like this one to start a. purebred herd with you can bet your ,
last dollar the city will never get him. __

CORN.—
“Our pet rooster, very intelli-
gent. crows for corn,”
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' g - Weeks va‘cation sometime during
~ the summer. _ is ﬁne to plan on tat:
' . lug theseivac tions, and it is a good
‘ > ‘ thing there is
some fun in the
planning for the
p l a n' p at t i s
about as far as a
.1 .farmer can go
t o w a r d a two
w e e k s' absence
from his farm
during the sum-
mer. If the Mas-
ter and Mistress
o f Broadscope
Farm get away
for a day they
feel they have
put across quite a large proposition
and just recently we actually did
streak away for a lull twenty-four
hours, and it was a full twenty-four
hours vacation for it included no
sleeping hours. It proved a very
pleasant “outing" and I wish more
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Being full ﬂedged land lubbers. we
wanted to enjoy a day on some good
sized lake or river, and the luster
having taken a trip a iew'years ago
from Detroit down the river. out into
Lake Erie to Put-in—Bay, could think
of no nicer trip for a one day va-
cation.

Leaving home at.4:00 A. -M., we
were just a little too early to have
a hand in the morning chores and
this in itself was a pleasant prelude
to what was to be the “Day on."
Rain; yes, of course we had to run
into a rain. but it didn't last long and
only served to make the Old Chicago
Pike pavement look like new. Lit-

tle towns came and went, and Ypsi-
lanti arrived about the time we were
thinking it time for breakfast. A
neat lunch room and a twenty minute
halt found us ready for the last lap
of our morning ride. This was out
the Ecoree Road to Allen Road and
there onto Fort Street. which even-
tually delivered us to First Street
and only three blocks from the foot
of it where the steamer “Put-in-Bay”
makes its home. “What about park-
ing our car?” Well, that did have us
guesdng all the way from Broad-
scopo to Detroit, but there was no
cause for worry for all’ along Fort
Street there were parking places

 

scores of such” parking places and
during the early morning one is sure
to ﬁnd a. vacant stall. The steamer
leaves Detroit at 9:00 o'clock East-
ern time. '

We had half an hour to watch the
ferries cross the river, some loaded
with humanity and others with
freight cars. But the‘ crowd was to
be entertained with a rather unen-
pected “stunt" thh morning. A rum
“runner and his mate had just nicely

left the Canadian shore in a high_

powered motor boat when three sim-
ilar boats, each containing two
United States officials whose duty
was to capture Hr; Run Runner
(that is, if they could), followed him.
One would not expect» any such speed
could be made by these boats and
with the short turns they made and
quick stops it proved these motor
boats were about as nimble on the
water as motor cars are on the roads.
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amazedatthewaythisnewpbw
withitstwols' BigBaseetum
and the furrow slice
andatthemnetimeeovcrscvery
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witwﬂldothejobright.

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heavy draft for this better plow-
ing. Draft tests made by Agriailo
tural Colleges show that the
Oliver No. 218 gang equipped
with two 18' Base: is
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boats, and our rum runner and his
pursuers were lost "to us. There was
considerable shooting at the outlaws
by the oﬂicers, but apparently the
motion of the boat and speed were
too much for accurate aim.

Our next'interesting sight was the
new bridge which will span the river
and provide a traffic way for the
thousands of autos that now cross on
ferries. This new bridge will be high
enough to allow ocean liners to pass
under it. All plans now seem to in-

day will ﬁnd Detroit really an ocean
port with the same advantages such
cities as New York now enjoy.

As our boat left the Detroit river
and headed out into Lake Erie we
were aware that the wind was quite
strong, and so much so that the ﬂoors
and chairs didn’t seem to be exactly
where they ought to be! But three
quarters oi an hour either calmed the
waters some or “calmed” the passen—

very. pleasant. Soon the outline of
the Perry Memorial monument could
be sighted and. about three hours

ping off at Put-In-Bay.

Put—In-Bay is the name of the
town, the bay and the island: the is-
land being the largest of the Middle
Bass Islands. These Islands are fa—
mous for their grapes. A guide told
us that 80 per cent of Pnt—In-Bay is-
land was in vineyards. A tour of the
island showed many grape rows
which run back as far as the eye
could see. With few exceptions,
these grapes get excellent care and
the vines seem to be loaded with the
nearly half grown fruit.

A visit to the island would not be
complete without seeing the caves.
It seems a strange thing that way
out there on an island these wonder-
Perry
Cave is 235 feet long and 165 feet
wide. One goes down night after
ﬂight of stairs to enter it. The cave
is well lighted with electricity and
kerosene lamps. I imagine the lamps
are for use it the electricity should
fail. Way back in the far side is the
“Wishing Spring,” an old gentleman
in uniform dips his bright dipper in
the cold water and ﬁlls a glass for
you. Avisitwiththisveteran of
the cave disclosed the fact that he
had been a guide there for forty-two '
years! . He is only eighty-tour years
oldandsaidhalthislife had been’
spehtintheeave. Itissocold and
damp and—and—“spookey” (is that
the word?) that ﬁfteen minutes was
enough for. our party It seemed
warm whenthefreeairwasagain in
evidence. However the other caves
were visited and were equally as
wonderful and each entirely diluent.
The Perry Monument-was visited and
it certainly is a wonderfuLwork or
art. Forty-ﬁve feet in diameter at
base and thirty-live at (OP; is 353
feet high. Walls are nine teat thick.
Aﬁne elevatortakesoaetothe top
where a- landing is pissed that will
conVeniently . accommodate. :00 D00“
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Such performance is the natural result Of the im‘
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volatile parts remain. Vaporizing instantly, burning
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The Shell yellow—red tank truck is ready to bring you Shell
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the cost of your roof by the
years you get in wearing serv-
ice. Then you get the real cost.
That’s what actually counts.

MULE-HIDB Rooﬁng and
Shingles are made of the most
carefully selected materials. Only
the best grade all rag felt! Im-
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why they last for years and
years. That’s why MULB-HIDI
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County Fairs '

T won’t be long now before the
good old fashion County Fairs
will be in full swing. There’s

something about a good fair that .is
always fascinating to me. It is a
y e a rly event
which the whole
family can enioy,
there are always
ﬂoaty *0! educa-

tion that em
farmer slim ullzd
take a day’s m-
cation after the
' h a r d summer’s
work anil' with
the homily attend
his county heir.

{I've already been arslcnd to Mgc
the ston at two county mm. and I
want to say that this is .a not I al-
ways thoroughly enjoy. mm: a great
pleasure to me to line up a row 01‘
dairy cattle or draft horses and place
them before a group of interested
farmers, by picking out and explain-
ing the strong and weak points of
each.

'I also enjoy looking over the new
farm machinery and I am especially
interested in comparing the new
model automobiles; however, I’m not
so deeply absorbed in the automobile
industry and its frills, but that I can
still obtain a great deal of pleasure
and excitement from watching a good
old fashioned “neck and neck hoss
race.”

Also remember that exhibits make
a good County Fair and if you have
some good grain or livestock or any-
r’llhing else to exhibit, thy all means
miter it; it is a good method :to ad—
lvcrtise and a good opportunity to
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Michigan State 1College became the
mecca of an interesting group of
8000 farmers on July 27 as the rural
element from all sections of the
state gathered to attend the annual
‘Furmers’ Day.

Considerable interest was shown
in the combine demonstration which
took place on the College farm. As
I watched these three big powerful
machines cut and thresh .a 12 foot
swath of golden wheat on their jour-
ney around the ﬁeld I became very
much interested in them and also in
the comments which I heard from the
side lines. “I’m going to have one
of them.” exclaimed one former.
“they will cut and thres‘h grain much
faster and at a cheaper cost per
acre.” “They would‘be .a ﬁne thing
on a big farm.” said another farmer,
“but on my 120 acre farm the inter-
est and depreciation would be too
great.” Another bystander mentioned
that Michigan had too many small
ﬁelds, stone piles, cat holes, and .gul—
'lies to use a combine successfully.

As I was about to walk away from
the demonstration I heard one farm-
er mention my own chief objection to
the combine. “These things have no
method of putting the straw in the
barn, and I need straw for bedding.”
he asserted. Then I heard ,a reply to
this objection which I had never
thought of before and which I am go—
ing to pass on to you Without any
comment. ”Straw for bedding does
not produce any more pounds of beef
in_ cattle, or add any more units of
pulling power to horses,” answered
his companion.

Perhaps you may be able to add a
:ie'w more favorable or unfavorable
comments to this “list relative to the
combine. ' Personally I’m strong for
any new machinery or equipment
which is practiced and will cut down
costs of production.

t I 0 »
Kellogg llelps M. S. 0.

As' far as I have been able to learn,

the- ﬂrst instance in Michigan where

source to m and More. men
used for agricultural demonstration

ago Mr. W. K.’~ Kellogg, the cereal

 

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the menigan state College the me

~ at his large famn‘ and sanctuary to-

gether with funds for wanting en.
penses. .

Mr. Kellogg who he anode his for-
tune from the manufacturing of 1am
food products is now seeking to said
the agricultural industry in this very
liberal and splendid manner.
given Clare state board of agriculture
a trust Mn! $100,000, the interest
or ~alav'hvlch is available :for mien-m1
dom’lopmentnf the farm, and he has
established :1 similar trust fund of
$105,000 dot the development and
experimental work at the sanctuary.

I have been especially interested in
this very liberolemd welcome tribute
of Mr. Kellogg’s to the agriculture
industry}' because I am a pawl
Miend a his very nble farm superin-
«tonden‘t, Mr. George Gatman, who
comm drum our own community. In
fact he received his early. agricul-
tural Making in 3the agricultural de-
partment in which I am now teach-
ing. No, I wasn't teaching in the de-
partment at that time, but we are
still training boys for farming and
for farm leaders.

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Using Binder and TraCtor Alone

A few weeks ago I had my ﬁrst ex-
perience in cutting grain with a bin-

der and tractor all my lonesome. I’ve ,, '

cut a good many acres of grain and
have had some experience in running
a tractor, but I've never had the
thrill More of running both of them
together all alone. By attaching a
rod, spring, and lever to the bundle
carrier and running it to the tractor
the tripping of the bundles is not a
very difficult task. Of course the
ﬁeld must be moderately level and
the grain even in order that no
shifting 'of levers on the binder is
necessary. There are quite a few
things to watch in this operation and
yOu cannot go to Sleep on the job by
any means, but it (is met such a dif—
ﬁcult task it everything works all
right. I’ve always made the boast
that I could run any kind of a ma?
chine which had a seat on it. I’m
strong for this kind of labor, and
next year I’m going to try the same

contrivance on Spring Water Farm. 5

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Cofis now making a
log windmill-20 feet in diameter.
If you have a

p , .weIIQIOOO feet deep, onif
youwant toralsealargeQuantityof-Water _
from a shallower well, this is the windmill
youneéd.’l‘his newAuto-Oi‘ledAermotor
mhs nearly 2 % tons without the tower.
inhalant for power. .
WM yoursnter requirements ma
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While at the Michigan State -Col-~. '

legs for two weeks this summer, I
had the pleasure .of heaving :s. wary'
“fine interview and visit With Presi—
dent R. S. Shaw?" We forgot about
the time he called me on the carpet
when I was a student at this old “in-
stitu‘tion, and we conversed about 33— '
riqutural problems and their outlook
in Michigan. Dr. Show Who has been
called upon, and 'who is so ably
straightening out matters at the col- '
lege, holds an optimistic view con—
cerning Michigan agriculture. Hev
stated that he wished the farmers of
Michigan would use the Michigan
State College as their great center of
agricultural problems and activity.
He also informed me that the de-
partment of research, extention, and
education were at the service of the
farmers of this state at all times, and
that he hoped they would use them
toward the building up of a better
agriculture and a better rural life.
To my mind this is a very ﬁtting
viewpoint and program for the Pres—

 

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toward the farmers of Michigan, and
I pass it on to you with my utmost
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Peters. in a new ensue hook that w_
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been collected from the most reliable
sources and can be depended upon, Md

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movmg parts are .fully
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oxling a year is all
that is required.
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'63!“ ‘ mted the steel .
wm ,_ business. For '
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Twenty-one his-time vaudeville acts, the most com-
plete ﬁreworks spectacle ever staged at any state
fair, horse shows, cattle shows, contests, new and
unusual Midway attractions, races, exhibits of all
that: its newest: and best in commerce, industry,
agriculture, and domestic avts— these are but some
of the many features that will attract hundreds of
thousandsoﬁ speetatorsto the Michigan State Fair
in Detroit, September 2. to 8. Contests of many
kinds, entertainment and education for every man
anti woman, old or young. New anti improved-
facilities for taking care of the crowds, new shows
and' novelties, new and bigger exhibits— and the
same low price 0625i, children under 10 FREE. Save a
day and two nights. for. this 1928 Fair. II: will take that
long to see this mammoth spectacle in its entirety.

    
    

    
 

 
   
   
 

 
 

 
 
  

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we will see what We can do. All pictures are returned to
senders when we are through with them. Address

The Editor, The Business Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

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is the successful farm

The farmer spreading Solvay Pulverized Lime- .

stone is bound to be successful because he is

sure of sweet soil, productive soil. That means

bumper crops—large proﬁts.

Spread Solvay this year—sweeten sour soil, release
_ plant food and you’ll have fertile,productive ﬁelds.

Solvay gives you more, dollar for dollar, than any

other lime you can buy. High test, furnace dried,

ﬁnely ground, safe to handle—will not burn. In

easy to handle lOO-lb. bags and in bulk.

Write for the, Solvay Lime Book—free.

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OME years ago Doctor Russell
Conwell in a popular lecture
told in a very fascinating way

the story of two farm boys who
wandered around the world in search
of wealth and ﬁnally came back to
the old farm and ﬁguratively found
diamonds right under their very feet
when once they learned" how best to
manage the soil. To one making an
unbiased survey of the assets of the
State, the black soils ordinarily
known as muck are among its'great—
est resources.
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Where Is' The P-Nut Growing Sec-
tion?——The products of this black
soil, outside of fruit, are the high
lights of the tourist’s trip into Mich-
igan. He remembers ﬁrst the celery;
the fellow who originated the idea
of selling celery and “P-Nuts" direct
is responsible for this. In New York
recently, a man was telling me how
he drove through Michigan last year
and enoyed the celery and peanuts
so much. “Just where is the peanut
growing section of Michigan’” he in-
quired and seemed quite surprised
to learn that peanuts are not grown
in Michigan. ’

The tourist remembers the celery
on sale, the onions in the ﬁelds and
the fragrance of the mint oils, par-
ticularly in the early morning or late
evening in the autumn when the
black curls of smoke from the stills
are loitering their way into the air
dome.

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The Fertile Valley of Winds and
Boughs.—To one who wishes,to see
a great variety of the different types
of farming carried on in Michigan
in a short drive, the road from'Grand
Rapids to Sagautuck by way of H01-
land offers a great diversion. The
thickly populated and/ intensively
cultivated mucky soil area around
Hudsonville which extends on down
the valley, sometimes narrow and
sometimes wide, shows every shade
of culture from abandon to very in-
tensive. A one acre celery farm is
quite common, ﬁve acres is consider-
ed a ranch. Here they put on fertil-
izers from a ton to a ton and a half
to the acre.

At the present time, these growers
are worrying about the west winds.
The wind is one of the most serious
menaces of the muck soil operator.
You see a dozen different methods
of stopping the wind from cedar and
popular hedges to rows of blackberry
and gooseberry bushes; also narrow
drills of barley or rye and occasion-
ally two wires are strung between
posts running north and south and
the fertilizer bags are pinned to the
top and bottom wires. The longer
this muck is farmed, the worse it
blows.

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The Buckle of the Fruit Belt.—
Some miles further southwest, you
get into the fruit belt. Many people
have heard of Michigan’s fruit belt
but very few of them realize that it
is a very narrow band, never exceed—
ing 40 miles back from Lake Mich-
igan and more often being nearer 10
miles in width. Every farming com-
munity owes it location to soil, cli-
mate, and marketing facilities. The
fruit belt occurs where the cold
winds 011'. Lake Michigan keep the

Thousands of Michigan farmers who
Farm at Howard City, Michigan,-

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buds retarded until late enough in
the spring so there is no danger of
late frosts; the same winds delay
frosts until late" in the fall. This
section also has a large number of
days of bright ,, sunsmny weather.
Operating a muck farm and manag-
ing an orchard are about as far apart
as the two poles.
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Field Day in Cass County.—In this
day and age, anyone can have a col-
lege education without going far
from home, if he will only keep his
eyes and ears and mind open.

On June 22 I attended the annual '
ﬁeld day at the Cass County Experi-
ment Field. For twelve years now,
the soils department of Michigan
State College has been conducting
tests of diiferent lime materials and
fertilizers on this farm and determ-
ining the responses by the weighed
yields. This is very valuable inform- _
ation for the farmer who has a simi-
lar soil type and will put his intelli-
gence to Work on the problems of his
home farm.

Two or three very important les-
sons were brought out. This is a.
Fox sandy loam. On all crops, ap-
plication of all three plant foods was
showing wonderful results. With
the legumes particularly alfalfa and
sweet clover, potash was showing
wonderful improvement in the yield
of hay. Also the best yields of wheat
have secured on the plots that have
had a complete fertilizer treatment.

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Cheaper Nitrogen is Sand Farmer's
Hope.——Everthing now indicates that
during the next two or three years,
commercial nitrogen in this country
will cost much less per unit than it
does now. To sandy soil farmers this
will mean a big reduction in the
costs of production. The plan now in
use on these plots is to topdress all
the small grains with 100 pounds per
acre of nitrate of soda in the early
spring and it has been paying hand-
some returns. Manure is generally
regarded as a high nitrogen carrier
but this spring, the nitrate of soda
treatment has showu up on the plots
that had previously received manure
as well as those which had not.

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Peer Farm Not So Poor.——Harry
Gleason, Cass county farmer and bus-
inessman, told of the practical re-
sults of the systematic use of lime
and fertilizers as reﬂected by the-re-
ceipts of the Cass County Poor Farm.
“Twelve years ago,” said Gleason,
“the records show that this farm
turned $800 to $900 per year into
the treasury which was nowhere near
enough to support the farm and in-
mates. About that time we asked
for and were granted an appropria-
tion of $500 to see what we could do
with lime and fertilizers. The re‘
suit is that during the intervening
years, $2,800 has been spent on this
farm for such materials. During
the last ten years, the average re-
ceipts have come up to where the
ten year average is $5,300 per year
and last year it reached a total of
$10,300, the largest year yet." In
some counties, the county poor farm
could not be better named and these
might slip a leaf out of Cass

county’s bbok of experience.
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MANAGE DEMONSTRATION FARM

have visited the Pennsylvania'l) monstration '
will recognize this young couple as M .

and Mrs.» ~

is the resident manager of the farm. Both take
‘a lively interest in'orop and soil demonstrations. 4 , _
difference in average height between the treated and untreated ”sweet clover. A "

0-8-16 fertilizer was used on the plot at the loft, 350 lbsgto the acres «7, .. -,

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(Concluded from August 4th issue)
, HUS urged, Terry went. Still weak
T from the wound, the day’s events had

_ all but worn himout. He took the
worn horses to the barn, stabled and fed
them and went to bed.’ ,

When he arose at daybreak he heard
the wind whining around the house. He
looked out on the dullest, grayest, most
forbidding sky in the world, with an occa-
sional snowﬂake drifting warningly before
the wind. ' *

He hurried into the kitchen where his
mother was getting breakfast. .

“Mother,” he said, “I expect you’d bet-
ter get Doug’s and Mort’s breakfast ready
and let me take it up' to them. Doug
won’t stop to eat now. He‘s—~what in the
dickens!” he ejaculated, as two strong,
warm hands were suddenly clasped about
his eyes.

“Let him loose, Mary,” said Mrs. Muir,
laughing. “He’s never recovered his
strength, you know."

"You little minx !" exclaimed Terry,
laughing himself.' “When did you get

back? I thought you was going to stay
all winter.”

"Last night," said Mary. "Terry, it
wasn’t like I thought it’d be. I couldn’t
stay.”

“Maybe you’d like to take the breakfast
up," said Terry, grinning widely.

“No, sir,” said Mary. “There’s too
much to do here. All these hungry men
to, feed. You take it. We’ve got it all
ready.”

The old Wild Cat was still charging
valiantly across the ﬁeld when Terry came
into view. By the time he arrived there,
Doug had driven it over to the creek to
take on water. He sniffed at the package
Terry bore. ,

"Hey, Mort ;” he shouted at the noddin
Ramsdale, “look what’s come. Wake up,
you old deadhead."

Mort woke up. Both he and Doug did
ample justice to that breakfast. The
shockers were in the ﬁeld and hurling
bundles into piles before they had ﬁn-
ished it. They made sport of the work.

“How long will they last?” inquired
Terry, dubiously. ~

“Till the last bundle is piled up," de-
clared Doug. "I know them boys. They'll
be caught up and whooping for more
grain before noon." ,

f‘Before noon," predicted Mort, direly,
“we'll be two feet under snow here.” \

"If it will give us today,” said Doug,
"we can ﬁnish, with no bad luck. You’d
better get the team out,.Mort."

Mort departed, walking groggily. Terry
climbed up on the engine. Doug seemed
unusually morose.

"Terry," he said, “I’m pulling out as
soon as this job’s done."

“Where to?" asked Terry, with a light-
ness that was entirely assumed.

“I-o-wayi" said Doug.

Terry grinned in the crook of his arm.

"Won’t do you a bit of good,” he said,
tenjoying the look that came on Doug’s

ace.

The Experieneel'ool

Bring your everyday problems in end on
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“I’ll make her listen to reason," said
Doug earnestly. “I’ll give up the riding
business. I got my belly full. I’ve got
enough to build that house. I’ll make her
listen to reason.”

"Won’t do you a bit of good,"
peated Terry, "to go back there.”

“Terry," said Doug, looking at him fix-
edly, “do you really think Mary is done
with me?" '

"I didn’t say that,” replied Terry, de-
ciding that it would be good for Doug to
suffer a little. He had made them all
suffer a plenty! “I didn’t say exactly
that. I said I was satisﬁed it wouldn’t
do you any good to go back to Iowa after
her.”

Doug stared over the engine with un—
focused eyes, lifted a long leg deliberately
and set a heayy foot on the cab ﬂoor.

“Well.” he said heavily, “guess I’d bet-
ter keep this old hooker a rolling. Snow’s
a coming.”

Snow came on slowly that day, with the

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' gleam of the ﬁre on the walls.

  

purpose. It thickened: steadily. By’noo‘n

I [it"‘was tailing fast. enoughjtd‘obecure the
vision sdmewha—t. and byﬂfour O’clock it

was a smother. Mort gave up-ﬂrst and
headed for the barn, then the shockers,
who had been hard on the heels of the
binders, departed, limping and weary.
Doug stuck to the last before he turned
the, Wild Cat homeward and let her
pound. Only the fact that the grain was
too heavy to elevate kept him from ﬁnish-
ing the last acre or so that remained in
the ﬁeld.

As he rolled homeward, cattle were
drifting down from the slopes everywhere,

'bawling melodiously, glad to come back
. to the home ranch.

Even above the ex-
haust of the engine he could hear the
roar of the storm up in the pines. Be-
low he could make out the blur of the
ranch buildings thru the storm and could
vision the warmth of the kitchen and the
It was
growing dusk, even then.

Thru the storm he made out a ﬁgure
coming towards him afoot and guessed it
was Terry. He stopped the engine and

opened his mouth to upbraid him for com—
ing out in the storm and risking catching
cold.

“You little wart," he said, altho affec-
tionately, “what do you mean coming out
in this? Get up here where it’s warm and
button that coat tighter.”

’ ate preclsidnthat spells iix‘ity of IPHE r" ’.

ed. down and caught the hereon, " '
by the rm and lifted. ' - '
~ »"'Why Terry 1” he said, "you don‘t weigh
nothing! Sure fell at a lot."

Mary threw back the great collar of
Terry’s sheepskin and laughed at him.
Doug stiffened electrically.

“Thought it was about time somebody
came up after you," she said, enjoying his
amazement.

Doug did not hold that pose long. He
recovered his faculties with astonishing
completeness. He didn’t bother to ask
how she happened to be right there before
him when she was supposed to be in Iowa.
It was enough that she was there.

”Now," he said, after a little while.
grinning the widest grin he’d ever grinned
in his life, “everything is complete but
the biscuits.”

She laughed at that.

“They’re complete, too," she said. “I’ve
got some I’ve been saving for you over ‘
two months." ,

“Good 3" said Doug, starting the en-
gine, then just before they passed thru
the gate opening into the homestead. he
pointed out a level expanse of ground
partly enclosed by aspen.

“There," he said, “snow or no snow, is
where a house is going up before many
more days.” .

Mary snuggled a little closer to him.

"Who’s stopping you?” she asked.

THE END.

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made in Plain Grain;
and Fertilizer and
Grain Models. For
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Make more money _
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Get more heads per plant,

more plants per row,

more bushels per acre

with this amazing Drill
4° 4‘ 4‘ °§'

“I experimented with sev—

the number of heads per plant are not
reduced by crowding. It means that no
valuable growing space is wasted, by skip-
ping. It means many bushels of extra
grain when you thresh your crop.

It can’t be anything
but accurate

The new Superior has a Direct Drive. A
ﬂow of seed is started the minute the

This light draft is due to‘ ﬁve things,

correct design, proper distribution of 7
weight, Hyatt roller bearings, Alemite
lubrication and pitch-and-gather wheels
—features that contribute to longer life
as well as easier operation.

Let the Superior dealer
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answers y on, our readers wh
ereduetee or the canal of Herd Knock: and;
who have their diploma from the College of
Experience. I! you don’t want our editor's
catalyse}? b“! “more advice. but iuet pleln,
us noes ermere’ edvlce. send
your question here. I! you can answer the oth'el!
fellow: queethn, please do so he may one-
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Call on the Superior dealer in your
neighborhood. Let him explain the many
exclusive features of the new Superior
Drill. Talk to farmers in your neighbor-
hood who are now using it. Find out for
yourself the kind of work it does in your
type of soil. And then do what good judg-
ment will tell you to do. Use the Superior
in planting your crops this year. In the

eral drills and have found
the Superior the most proﬁt-
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I. several farms in Maryland
caganzpohhge-re The Buolnee. Farmer. It. - 4. o§o Q. .g.

=- The new, improved Superior has many
GETTING THE LICE exclusive features found in no other drill.

mechanism is thrown in gear. There is no
space wasted at the ends of the ﬁeld. It
has the famous Superior Double Run
Force Feed System -— a system that
measures and deposits an exact amount
of seed with unfailing precision. And it’s
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inquiry of “S. L., Elsie, Mich.”,

regarding what to do for lice on
cattle, and wish to say if he will
spray his cattle lightly with McNess’
Kill Fly and then throw a blanket
over them for ten minutes he will
not ﬁnd a live louse left on them.
This is to be repeated once or twice
about a week apart to get any nits
that may hatch. This will not take
the hair off or' injure the stock in
any way. Can be used for horses,
hogs and other stock—W. N. R.,
Monttrose, Mich. '

V DEAR EDITOR: I just read the

KEEPING PLUMS FROM
' DROPPING , .
EAR‘EDITOR: I notice “S. F.,
Petoskey," wanting to know
why his plums dropped half
grown. It is because his trees are
black hearted or have a rotten pulpy
heart. If he will give, them lots of
water near «ripening tune they ’will
hold the fruit. ' ' - 7
There is a lot of talks and write-
ups for Michigan to compete with the
west but we cannot grow ﬁrst class
fruit on rotten hearted trees.——R. W.
R., Levering, Mich.

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Farmers by the thousands acknowledge
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does precision seeding in all kinds of soil,
under all conditions. It gives you a degree
of accuracy that only Superior can give.

After planting last year’s crop with the
new Superior, Joseph Thomas writes: “I
have the most even stand of wheat
I ever saw without a skip in the ﬁeld.”
And Superior users, everywhere, tell the
same story. All agree that the Superior is
the most accurate drill they’ve ever used.

Think what this accurate planting
means to you in actual money.

It means that no seeds are bunched
together in one part of the row and
spaced widely in another. It means that

When you set the lever for a certain
number of bushels per acre that’s the
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what you have ,set it to do. I have been
farming for many years and I consider
the Superior Drill one of the best imple-
ments I ever saw.”

Light draft and long life

In practically all of the thousands of
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York farmer voices the opinion of all
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A BUSINESS FAMR

UST because he is located in a county that is
J outside of Michigan's fruit belt and on the
beaten path traveled by the shippers .did .not
stop John Ferwerda, of near :Fa‘lmouth, from
growing apples on a commercialscale. rHestarted
out with the idea that if he could noteell to the
shippers he would cater to the home market and
that is the way he has built up a very successful
business. Of course, he has had low priced fruit
from unsprayed and uncared for orchards to com-
pete with but in spite of this handicap he has al-
ways had an outlet for his best grade or fruit.
Until recently the stile .of his second grade apples
was his great problem but new the has solved this
by establishing a store and cider mill on the main
traveled road east of Falmouth. There being only
a limited market locally for his freshlyamade cider
3he has installed pasteurizing equipment in his
imill so that he can conserve like sunplus. ‘ll‘he
juice is ﬁltered in processing and bottling, giving
a product free from residue and of excellent ﬂa-
vor. Last year he pastuerized about 1,700 gal-
lons to carry over to supply the trade until the
1928 fall apple crop matures.
John Ferwerda is a true business farmer, .one
who farms with his head as well as his hands, and
as a result is making a success of his business.

“GAMES OF CHANGE"

AIR time is here! Some of the counties have
already held their annual fairs but the ma-
jority of them are just getting the grounds in

readiness and will throw open the gates to the
public in the near future or within the next
month or so.

“The fair is a great institution if it is handled
right. The best products re! the land, human and
otherwise, are-on display and linvcempetition. Ri-
valry is keen .but rteiendly and the smiles of .the
winners are not much broader than those of the
losers. Smiling tacos greet one -.on every side be—
cause {air time is a time set mecrymaking.

Core meets lightly on the shoulders of iboth
young and old when abbey are attending the fair.
They want to ibe amused. They are in the (mood
for playing games and visiting shows which gen-
erally occupy conspicuous places about the
:grounds. 'liheyore willing to even try beating the
other iollorwfs gains, which they generally ﬁnd,
[after a ﬁnancial loss ween ignite large, cannot lbs
done. Yet they seldom bear malice toward the
operators. ' Is it any wonder that the men with
‘ﬁ‘games 0! chance" are so anxious to \work the
county .fairs?

Folks going 1120 fairs want amusement and they
should have it :hut not the way most fair midmys
give it to them. Amusement should be furnished
.free thymine ﬂair onganization with the price of ad-
mission sun'icient to pay for it.

The average person who was in the amuse-
ments at his county fair pays a pretty stiff poise
for what he gate, main“!!! when he plays we
“games of'chance." The quotations are quite in
order because oil the chance “there is in the aver-

“ T52 Burmese farm:

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enamels: amiss, . j k
or my other thing or Value moon an uncertain
event,” and more ‘is nothing “uncertain" about
:most of these games. The player is beat before he
starts because the operator “has the game under
complete control. '

Elsewhere in this issue you w'ﬂl find an article
by Aicher P. 'Whaiicn on athese ice-culled games
of chance. Be sure to read it and then remember
it when you attend the fair.

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F SOMEONE 25 years ago had said that it
would «be possible in 192-8 to go crown the
world in 24 days and receiwe pictures by Min
theywould have (been considered crazy. 'But a
couple of weeks ago two .men did circle the globe
in that number ohdnys and only last week a imm-
ing picture was successfully broadcast by radio.
It is true that (this rate of travel is unusual and
the broadcasting rota moving picture ﬁlm do still
in the experimental stage but Itheyw‘iu not remain
that way long. Wham "they'wi‘ll be considered
very common in 21953. Who. cares to even at-
tempt to predict what the next 2-5 years may bring
forth after looking back over the progress made
during the last twenty-ﬁve?

 

NO *HGBE “FREE LOTS”

1 HE Michigan Securities aﬂommission has issued
an order that the "dines i1 " real estate pro—
motion soheme must file discontinued in this

State. In the duture‘mo meal restate dealer can

use this method to eboostsu'los. it he does he will

be cited, the commission announced.
We are pleased to see the commission take such

a pronounced stand on this scheme, which is

usually misleading strum start to ﬁnish. The

“winner" generally ways a conveyance fee that

amounts to more "than the 'lot is worth and then

ﬁnds that his lot is not wide enough to limild a

reasonable sined house 011. Most of the dots run

20 to ‘25 vfeet wide. @561qu I. house “with a drive—

way at the side on a lot or that width. It just

cannot be done and the company knows it. Then
they try to sell the lot beside the “free” one at

a good ﬁgure or .get the “winner” to trade his

“free” lot for one that «is larger and sells at a

good ﬁgure.

Real estate denim theme been permitted to lose
this scheme too long already. It should have

stopped when it was ﬁrst started. .

VALUARLE CWAR
ALKS of elinﬁnSting war have little effect
T upon the farmer. He is in a constant state
of war. When his nation needs him he ﬁghts
for her, and when that battle issettled he resumes
his war on the .farm against the elements, the
bugs, worms, and «insects, and the diseases that
seek to destroy .his :crops and kill his livestock,
even endangening the lives cf the family and ’him-
self sometimes. Every bit of Eheip :he [can get to
whip the "enemy” is needed. Take the “Calendar
wcrf Livestock Parasites" recently gotten out My the
Bureau of Animal «Industry oi! the U. S. .Depart-
meat of Agriculture as an example of valuable
help. This calendar contains condensed inter-ma-
tion on the important activities in the control of
livestock parasites which may be best conducted
each month, telling (what to watch for in parasite
activity, and what to do to remedy, and especially
:to prevent the trouble. Write to the bureau at
Washington, D. "0., tor a copy. Ask .for Miscel-
laneous Publication. 254M. It's yours for the
asking.

 

”WHAT om WILL'MY USE?

, COORDING to reports the democratic rparty
will make astrong-play for the "tarmef’s vote
this fall and we are curious to ‘know 'how

they plan on getting it. First, they nominated ”Al

Smith. governor of the state 01' "New York, who

has placed himself on record as not favoring the

Great ‘Iakes‘St. mwrence waterway. Nett, ”Gov.
.Smith declared “himself as being against the‘ equal—

ization fee which is .such an important "feature 11‘!

the McNary-Haugen bill, said “to be the favored

form of farm relief among the mid‘dlawest and
southern farmers.

Just what kind of bait are they ﬁguring on us-
ing to catch the farmer’s vote?

 

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upon the soil or on if“ toes thatfo its! no

good as chickens is. you take a ism-pound '
fry, gee whiz, and cook I“ in the hazin' put, -I“ '
there’s a dish tou- any man! We ain't a mining
that you can eat that's got a. fried spring chicken
beat. ilt takes a lot of tail and tau to raise 'lom .
through rtho perilous and hard lack dime. do!
chickenhood, but when they’re tried, my Ito: no
good.

They get the cholera and spin, it seems «they
can’t stand much hardship, the rats and alien will
pester then. you've got to use each atrium
to save their lives when they are small or you

-won’t have no fries at all. They not concoction
of the crop, and liver worms will makeathemﬂm.
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on they mold. But when they’ce ”Wk
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They say Al Smith is a “wet" but he ain‘t “not"
enough to believe in the "Great Lakes—St. Lawrence
waterway which us farmers want.

A Cepac beekeeper says that skunks out these.
Apparently the little cusses ain’t contented with
sprayin’ us with their unpleasant perfume, ibut
are ‘tryin’ to add some sting .‘to it.

I heard two 'boys arguin' 'bcut Champion ‘Gene
Tunney. One says, “I'd like to see Gene imt
another feller just like himself." The other boy
says, “Aw, that wouldn’t 119.3 flight. tron can’t
have a ﬁght with both men :backin’ up."

Ever hear this one? The newly—Wedded ﬁbrils
was doin' her shopping at its corner grocery
store. She was fbout to leave . , store «with liter
bundles when she stopped suddenly and deemed
to the clerk. “Do you know where I can thug .9.
good bee?" she asked. .

“Sorry,” replied :‘the clerk, “but
*beesi"

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said. “I want to get it to surprise my seasons.

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CADILLAC MOTORIS'I‘S
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On April 5, 1928, a man by the
name of B. R. Smith came and sold
me automobile insurance for which
I am sending you the papers. He
said they insured anything from the
scratch of a pin up to death and
would insure me or our car for two.
years for 32$.” which I paid. He
said he would send the policy right

out but instead he sent this green —’

paper without even the name of the
men ligand from what I hear I
think he is a/ fraud as he insured a
lot of them around. here and none of
them have their policy. As ,I under-
stand it the company is alright but
he is crooked. Would like my money
back ittheycannotiesune.meas he
said (or two years. Please see what
you can do for me.-—-—“Subscri'ber,”
Ortcnville, Michigan.

HIS appears to be another one of
those so-called automobile serv-
ice companies that are here to-

day and gone tomorrow- From time
to time we have caused and dis-
cussed them in these columns. We
wrote several letters to this company
without any results but ﬁnally we
had one returned to us marked,
“Move-d, left ,, no address.” That
means that these Oakland county
folks who tell tor Mr. Smith's line of
talk will have to charge it up to ex—
perleuce.

The “green paper" our subscriber
received for his $29.50 was not an
insurance (policy at all but a “certi—
ﬁcate” from the “Cadillac Motorists
Associated” informing. him he was

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WAS MAJ)! FOR THEM
0 doubt you will be inter-
tion the 'limlelun remnant
agents are working. {they called
here todaybutaswehresnb-
scribers to ll. B. F. we didn't
bite, I showed them our Pro-
tective Service sign and they
were got nearly so persuasion.
Alsolasked ﬂmmtonroll and
measure the remnant I liked or
made believe I liked. They
said, “You don’t intend buying
anyway," and drove way.
Thanks to yourgood work we
know all about “o‘er-cob and
swindle-rs who are traveling the
country.—-Mrs. R... Prescott.
Michigan.

 

 

below for a period of one year from
the speciﬁed date hereon." These
“beneﬁts” included a radiator em-
blem; towing service for a distance

of ten miles, “given by official serv- '

ice station only;" a national towing
service up to $2; authorized him to
summons the nearest station for ﬁrst
aid, change a hire or secure gasoline,
providing the charge in any case was
not over a dollar; tree touring infor-
mation; free information on reﬁnan-
cing his auto; furnish tires and tubes
at a. saving of from 15 tel” per cent;
save him at least 10 per cent on his
garage bills; turnish a leather key
case and identiﬁcation card; a policy
of insurance covering the owner for
personal accidents and injuries “in

  

 

 

      
 

 

 
        
   
    
 
    
 
    
 
    

 

 

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accordance with the policy issued;”
and give hlm legal advice regarding *
the use, maintenance and operation
of his ear. - , .
It is the same old story. Salomon
claims that the company insures =
everything for a song and the victim
hands over the cash without stop-
ping to reason whether or not the
company could do business so cheap-
ly and not go to the wall. Then, it
he‘ eventually gets a policy, he ﬁnds
that he has paid for a cheap personal

accident policy only, plus some serv- .

ice that is or little value to him be-
cause there are no “official service
stations” in his locality. Such con-
cerns are constantly springing up and ‘
going out of business within a short
time.

When you purchase automobile in-
surance go to an agent you know to
be reliable and pay a. fair price. It
will be considerably higher than .
$29.50 for two years for full cover-
age, but you will get something for _
your money, and that is more than;
“members” 01' the “Cadillac Motor-‘
lsts Associated" did. '

“COOPERATIVE SELLING"

In reading of the experiences un-
der “The Publisher’s Desk” in the
August 4th issue, with these pay-as-
you-enter sales organizations, I would
like to relate an experience I recently
had with the Cooperative Selling of.
Minneapolis. .

About two months ago I placed an
ad in the Chicago Tribune to sell this
ranch. Among the many replies I re—
ceived was a letter from the above
mentioned company together with a
form letter and form to ﬁll out de-
scribing the property. This is quite
a planes you wlll note from the en-
closures but here is one guy that did
not bite. Instead, I ﬁlled out their
description term, wrote a letter stat—
ing that it they were in a position to
make disposition of the property I
would gladly pay them a 5 per cent
commission. ‘To date I haVe had no
word from Mr. Shepard (apparent-
ly the manager) and neither has he
my ﬁve bucks. So that settles that.

The evidence is extremely mani—
fest that these‘outﬁts are interested
only in the initial payment. I sin—
cerely hope that none of your road-
ers or any Michigan farmers are
suckers enough on bite on these ﬁve
or ten dollar bill-halted hooks—E.
W. Allen, Oceana County.

EIGHBOR ALLEN did a very

good job when he applied the

title “pay-as-you—enter sales or-
ganisation" to these real estate list-
ing concerns, and he did another
good job when he refused to swallow
their bait.

Cooperative Selling wants $5 down V

and an additional $20 when the prop-
erty is sold. We wonder how many
have been called upon to make the
last payment. Several years ago we
made a standing offer that it any of
these listing concerns would furnish
us with complete proof that they had
sold a farm [or any of our readers
we would run their advertisement in
one issue of M. B. F. at the head of
the Publisher's Desk without charge
to them. So far we have not been
taken up.

If this company does have a wait-
ing list cl: customers they certainly
ought to accept Neighbor Allen's
proposition, but we’ll bet a year old
bird's nest against a. cracked mus-
tache cup that they don’t.

UNGAE 8AM: TAKE WSSION
W IN HAND

HE Produce Agency Act is 0. fed-
eral law which became effective
July 1, 1927. The Chief pur-

pose of the law is to protect growers
and shippers against fraudulent ac-
ccunting on conﬂgnnenta‘ot perish-
able farm products received in inter-
state commerce. The penalty'hr vi-
, of the act is
aﬂle a! not heathen $100 Minot
more than 33.000. «(immanent
for a mind at not moth: one

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“- NE of the
most fortu-
nate things that
ever happened to mc,”a widow
says,“was that I had good advice
at the time of my husband's death.

‘ . .

‘Tbe cntu'c estate was 111 the
form of llfc insurance, and a
friend of mme who is a success-

ful business man advised me that
the wise thing for me to do was

to invest the Whole amount in
good First Mortgage Bonds.

“I came to your company at that

time because I know your excel-
lent rcputation, and invested all
my money as you advised.

“The result has been that I’ve
received an income of over 6%
on my money, which has en—
abled me to live very com-

}widowsays imam , 
[had good advice”

fortsbly, and I’ve
never had even a

moment’s worry
about my ﬁnancial aEairs.

”Every time I hear of how a
widow has lost her moncyvthrough
unwise investment or fraud, I’m
more than thankful forthc good
advice that sent me to you.”

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The First Mortgage Bonds of-
fered by the Federal Bond 8c
Mortgage Company are secured
by well-located, income-earning
properties. They yield 6 % . They
are oHcrcd by a house of the
highest standing.We shall be glad
to send you full details of our cur-
rent oﬁcrings on receipt of the
coupon below. This places you
under no obligation.

FsorRAL BoNo oMoarcAcs Co.

Griswold Street at Clifford
(Detroit.

MAIL THIS

COUPON

—————.—_—_~—n——_'—-—_———_—————JA.

TODAY!

Federal Bond 85 Mortgage Co., Detroit, Michigan

Please send me information on your current oils-rings.

Name ..............................

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_ . , 'Ifm supposed to be quite shiftless—q
‘ ‘. Never have 9. Cent to spare;
,, l 01' the money men are making
I have not coralled my share.

When I make an honest doller,
Somehow it will never stay;

Someone always comes and gets it
With a bill for me to pay.

Though I haven’t any money,
Still, I rate a millionaire;

For I’m worth ﬁve million dollars—-
Have the assets, fair and square.

I have Sonny—he's a million;
Sister’s worth a million more;
And a million dollar baby

Croons and plays around our ﬂoor.

There is Mother—she’s a million;

Couldn’t spare her; she’s a peach;

That’s four million. You can’t buy
them

For a million dollars each.

And that million-dollar baby

Has a million—dollar smile; .
That’s the thing that keeps us going;
That is what makes life worth while.

So I’m worth ﬁve million dollars;
It's as plain as it can be

I’m a millionaire for certain
When my baby smiles at me.

Some of us have only money;
Some have wealth beyond compare.
If we ’11 only count our assets,
Everyone’ s a millionaire.

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CAN NING EXPERIENCES

HAVE read in several publications
I this year about making a list of
the number of quarts one needs to

'can of the various fruits and vegeta—

bles so as not to have a surplus of
some kinds. May I give my idea of
that?

It is obviously foolish to can
things the family will not eat, but if
one has plenty of a well liked fruit
or vegetable it is just as foolish not
to can it just because it may not all
be used this year. I have kept all
kinds of fruits and vegetables from
tho to four years with perfect suc-
cess, except that four-year—old huck-
leberries were a bit soft. Next year
the fruit or vegetable which is plen—
tiful this year may be very scarce.
Also if one puts up a large quantity
of some one thing, it is usually pos-
sible to ﬁnd ways to use it so it will
not become tiresome and so it will
save on the things of which one has
less.

This year we will have plenty of
summer apples but very few winter
ones, so I shall ﬁll a good many cans
with plain, old fashioned apple sauce.
I also shall can baked ones which are
as good as the freshly baked ones.
Here is my rule for doing them:

Choose those which will enter the
can without difficulty, remove the
blossom and bake slowly with very
little water and no sugar until not
quite done. Put in cans carefully
(I use quart size) and ﬁll with syrup.
Process 10 minutes. When I wish to
use them I put them in the warming
oven an hour or so before the meal
and they are easy to remove from
the can—Mrs. Florence L. Saunders,
Grand Traverse County.

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Our friends who visit us unexpect-
edly for a meal so often remark,
“How do you ever get up such a
good meal and so much of it in such
a short time? I never have things
on hand so I can."
We farm women just have to have
things on hand, because it would be
a waste of time and an expense to be
compelled to go into town every day
or two, and our pocket books do not
seem to have enough money in them
to supply us with dainties and “ex—
tras” to keep on hand for an emer-
gency, so we must learn to use what
we have and make the best of it. We
can have just lots of good things to
eat the year around, and things that
are raised right here on our own
farms if we just get down to good
planning. We can also save a great
many dollars by doing so.

' Now is the time to put up a year’s
supply of garden vegetables. I have
a family of six to cook for and we use
from twenty—ﬁve to thirty quarts each
of peas and beans. Greens are so ten-7
der and sweet now. Whenever I cook
greens for the table, I gather a few
extra. After the meal what greens
are left I pack into a clean can, a1-
-loWing the juice to cover the' leaves
and leaving about one—half inch space
at top of can. Sprinkle with pepper,
1 fill can with vinegar and seal. Greens
,- are delicious parboiied, drained, then
soaked in a small amount of water

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northward on. my vacation.‘

stairs are gone.
are no more.

been scattered far and near.

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THE FARM HOME

A nernn'Im Ion worms .
— Edited by no. ANNIE TAYLOR——

EAR FOLKS: While you are reading-this letter, I /will be speeding
Nestled down somewhere in the hills

of northern Michigan there is a tiny, unpretentious town with a
sonorous Latin name that will always mean “home” to me no matter
how old I grow or how far I roam away from it.
spent so many years of my life there—I have lived far longer in that
busy mart, Detroit—but it is the town where I was born and where I
spent my early childhood, and the roots of old affections lie deep.

On one day of/ my visit, I shall follow a. certain twisty woods road
that I know until I ﬁnd on the top of the highest hill an old, deserted
farmstead that Nature is swiftly reclaiming for her own.
me there? The place is just a decaying ruin, you say,‘like so many
others of Michigan’s once fair farms. The windows of the house are
'sightless eyes, the porch is sagging and rotting, the boards of the ﬂoors
and ceilings were long ago torn away by pilfering hands, even the
The old log barn, the woodshed, and the hen house
The fence of the vegetable garden is nothing but a mass
of broken pickets, and the gravel of the once well cared for walks has
But there is still the remnant of an old
fashioned ﬂower garden where rose bushes grow in wild profusion, and
beyond that on a. westerly slope an orchard continues to bear its fruit
In the kitchen yard. between two magniﬁcent maple
trees is the place where a swing used to hang.

The place is haunted with memories, and ghosts walk—or run and
laugh and play, rather—under the cherry trees and all around the
yard, a little girl in a red calico dress and a boy in blue overalls. A
tall woman with snowy hair and a pretty one with laughing brown eyes
occasionally come and go in and out of the house on woman's business.
Out in the ﬁeld beyond the vegetable garden a. man shouts to his team.

The air is full of bird songs and it is pleasantly cool beneath the

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It isn’t that I have

What draws

beeches and maples. The
way backJo town is long and
hot. I will sit down on the
stone pile that still guards
the gate and rest a while
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Address lotion: Mn. Annie Taylor, our. The Iuslmu Farmer, Mt. Clemens. Mlonlgan.
and a slice or two of salt pork. Hard
boil a few eggs, peel and drop into What To Eat

beet greens when they are nearly
done. Heap in dish and dot with
bits of lemon. Try a few table—
spoonsful of thick, sour cream poured
over Swiss chard just before. serving.
I know you will like the:m.-—Mrs.
Jesse P. Parks, Branch County.

 

 

Personal Column

 

 

Hymns Requested—Will you please ask
our readers for these hymns for me? “Je-
sus of Nazareth Passeth By" and "Jesus
is Looking for Thee.”’—Mr_s. Florence
Saunders, Grand Traverse County.

 

“’here to Get Music.———I would like to
know where I can get the music for the
song, “No Disappointment in Heaven.”—
Mrs. Amy Moore, Berrien County.

The New

HE old order changeth, giving
way unto the new.” Even so
— with stoves! They, too, have
changed. It used to be that a
stove was the eyesore of any room.
No matter 110w shiny and black they
were and replete with nickel, they
somehow succeeded in destroying
whatever effect of charm and comfort
We had labored to produce, and what
a deep sigh of relief we breathed
when the weather at last permitted
us to take them down and store them
out of sight. The new demand for
color, harmony, and beauty in our
homes is being carried out likewise
in stoves. No longer do useful things
need to be ugly.

Take the kitchen for instance.
Even here the sunshine of color has
penetrated to brighten and lighten
woman’s work. While formerly your
choice was restricted to the old, dull
black range, there are now ranges
in beautiful delft blues, cool clean
grays, rich apple greens, and lovely
lustrous tans. What an opportunity
for women to make their kitchens
really attractive! How wuold you
like to have a kitchen in blue with
a blue range, a tracing of blue in
the linoleum, blue chairs and table,
and perhaps pale yellow curtains
ﬂuttering atthe windows as a pleas-
ing contrast of color? If you want
to be original and different, you
might choose a tan range, using as
your color scheme tan and brown in
the linoleum, yellow or orange in the
curtains, and a dash of red here and

there, say, in your kitchen pots and

 

 

Cool Drinks.——-This department this time
should really be called “What to Drink,"
for these hot summer days a good cold
drink interests us more than something to
eat. Home-made milk shakes, lemonade,
or other fruit drinks can be made on short
notice if fruit sirups are kept in a cool
place. The juices of almost any fruit may
be used to ﬂavor the drink, and sirups
made of them, if kept cool, will last for
several weeks.

To make the fruit sirups, boil two cup-
fuls of sugar with two cupfuls of water
for ﬁfteen minutets, then add two cupfuls
of strained fruit juice, cover the sirup and
simmer it for ﬁfteen minutes. Pour the
sirup into clean hot jars or bottles and
store it in a cool place. If the bottles are
sealed, the sirup will keep indeﬁnitely. A
few tablespoonsful of such sirup mixed
'well with a glass of ice—cold milk or water
makes a refreshing drink in a few seconds.

In Stoves

pans. This would be a delightful
way to dress up the kitchen that or-
dinarily tends to be dark and dreary.

Heating stoves have likewise un-
dergone a revolutionary change with-
in the past few years. They have
been gloriﬁed and beautiﬁed beyond
recognition. Modern heaters would
never know their ancestors now-—-the
antiquated base burner and the old
oak stove—which they are gradually
supplanting. Each year seems to
bring new changes. If people are to
have heating stoves in their rooms,
because other heating systems are
not adaptable or practicalfor their
type of home, they are going to have
heaters that will harmonize with
their furniture. They demand beauty
as well as sensibility. The modern
heaters usually ﬁnished in a rich ma-
hogany to correspond with living
room furnishings have a. distinctive-
ness all their own. Not only are they
vastly better looking' than the old
type of heater, but they are cleaner
and more efficient in every respect.
Instead of heating just a corner or
a small radius of a. room, these new
heaters give comfortable warmth to
one and sometimes two or three
rooms.

The change in heating and cook-
ing stove styles is indicative of the
trend toward the new higher stand-
ards of home life everywhere. The
tremendous demand for new models
reﬂects the desire, on the part of
American women in particular, to
beautify their homes and make them
.more comfortable.

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One evening my daughter pointed up at
the stars and asked my little grand-
daughter, "Look,-can you see the dipper in
the sky?”

Little granddaughter clapped her hand.
in enthusiasm and replied, “,Oh yes, Ma-
ma. now show me the water pail. "—Mrl.
Wm. Casey, Sanilao County.

 

 

Folks at Our House, Like—

 

It would seem that "folks at our house"
were especially fond of cookies, judging
from the host of replies that were received
in answer to Mrs. Denslow’ s request for a
good recipe. Here are some of the ways
offered to keep the cookie jar full.

Carmel Cookies.—-2 cups brown sugar:
1/5 cup lard; 1 tsp. vanilla, 1 tsp. cream of
tartar;1 tsp. soda; pinch of salt: 4 cups
ﬂour. Mix sugar, butter. and vanilla:
then add eggs and other ingredients.
Mould into loaf and let stand over night.
Slice down and bake. These are very
good. --Mrs. R. W, Elsie, Mich.

Sugar Cookies. —-—2 cups sugar; 1A cup
butter and lard mixed, 1 cup sour cream, '
3 eggs; 1 tsp. soda; 1 tsp. baking powder;
1 tsp. vanilla, 1 tsp. lemon extract, ﬂour
enough to roll out. Cream sugar and but-1
ter; add sour cream with soda dissolved
in it; add well beaten eggs and extracts:
then ﬂour and baking powder. When
rolled out, sprinkle tops with sugar and
bake in oven. -—Mrs. Mable Armﬁeld, Ber-
rien County. ,

Dark Cookies. —2 eggs beaten well; 1%
cups brown sugar; 1% cups lard: 2%
cups molasses; % cup buttermilk: 2 level
tsp. soda, 1 tsp. cloves; 1 tsp. ginger; 1
tsp. cinnamon; salt; ﬂour to roll ——Mrs.
G. W. Stocks, Sanilac County.

Light Cookies.—2 eggs beaten well, 1
cups brown sugar; 2 cups lard; 1 cup but-
termilk; 1 tsp. soda: '1 or 2 tsp. lemon
extract; salt; ﬂour to roll—Mrs. G. W.
Stocks, Sanilac County.

Cookies. —-1 qt. molasses: 1 qt. sour
cream, 1 lb. currants; 15c citron; 4 lbs.
brown sugar; 1/; 1b. walnut meats: 1 tsp.
cinnamon, 1 tsp. allspice; 1 tsp. cloves; 4
tsp. soda; stir quite stiff with ﬂour; let
stand over night, roll out in morning and
bake. -——Mrs. H. J., Oakley, Mich.

Swedish Cookies.—-—1 cup butter; two.
thirds cup sugar; egg yolks, 1/2 tsp. al-
mond extract, 21/; cups pastry ﬂour.
Cream butter, add sugar gradually, add
well beaten egg yolks. ﬂavoring, and ﬂour.
Mix thoroughly, chill, and roll—Mrs. H.
J., Oakley, Mich.‘

Jam Cookies.—3 cups sugar, 3 eggs, 35
cup shortening, 1 cup sour milk, 1 tsp.
soda, 4 tsp. baking powder, ﬂour to roll,
vanilla or nutmeg. Mix and roll dough
thin. Cut and lay in baking pans. Put a
teaspoonful of any kind of jam or raisin
ﬁlling on each; place another cookie on
top and press down the edges. Bake in
hot oven. -—Mrs. H. J., Oakley, Mich.

Filled Cookies. —1 egg, 1 cup sugar; ’A
cup shortening, 1A; cup sweet milk; 1 tsp.
vanilla, 1 tsp. soda; 2 tsp baking pow-
der; salt; 3% cups ﬂour. Filling.——1 cup
chopped raisins; 1 tsbp. ﬂour; 1/3 cup
sugar; 1/3 cup water; 1,15 cup walnut
meats if desired. Cook mixture until
thick. When cold, roll out cookie dough
thin, and cut. Put on'ﬁlling, place an-
other cookie on top, and bake.——Mrs. S. A.
Rose, Calhoun County.

 

 

Favorite Songs

 

 

PUT lllY LITTLE SHOES AWAY

Mother dear, come bathe .my forehead
For I’m growing very weak,

Let one drop of water, Mother

Fall upon my burning cheek

Tell my loving little school mates
That I never more will play,

Give them all my toys, but Mother
Put my little shoes away.

CHORUS:
I am going to leave you, Mother,
So remember what I say:
Do it won’t you please, dear Mother,
Put my little shoes away?

Santa Claus he gave them to me
With lots of other things,

And I think he brought an angel
With a pair of goldenwings.
Mother, I will be an angel

By perhaps another day

So you will then, dearest‘Mother.
Put my little shoes away.

Soon the baby will be larger
Then they’ll ﬁt his littlefeet

And he’ll look so nice and cunning
As he walks along the street
'Now I am growing very tired

So I’ll say to all good-bye

Please remember what I tell you,
Put my little shoes away.

 

 

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An ironing board is made twice as use—
ful if a turkish towel is pinned at one
end to use_when ironing over embroidery
work and buttons.

Crisp foods like toast, celery, or, raw
cabbage for children give the teeth exer-
cise and encourage good digestion.

Dirt and perspiration are the chief
enemies of silk. They cause the ﬁbre to
break down and wear out.

Aunt Ada's Axioms: Planting ﬂowers
round the home means planting seeds of
beauty in the souls of the dwellers within
that home.

A potato ricer is handy, not only for
mashing potatoes, but also for straining
applesauce or cranberry jelly.

When the family washing has to be
dried in the house, wooden coat hangers
will more than double the capacity of
the line. '

Aunt Ada’s Axioms: The “only child"
is spoiled only when its parents lead it
into selﬁshness.

Good teeth come as much from the rlght
foods as from good care. Milk, vege-
tables, fruit',‘ and whole cereals are neces-
nary.

If the youngsters do not have a hot
lunch at school, soup. cocoa, or any other
cooked food may be packed in a glass
jar and put in the lunch box, for it will
heat easily in a ﬂat pan of water on the
school stove.

 

 

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SHOPPE R’s NOTEBOOK

The beret is new a sin, .It takes on various
forms, but flu}(lalllellt¢lly it IS a sort of skimpy
tain-o—shantcr in shape, moulded and draped to
suit your fancy or the milliner”s.

Dresses Will be ﬂouncetl and tiered. ruffled and
ﬂared this fall: but cost lines Will fall straightfor

he most part With now and then an ever-soshght

re.
The books. of our'drcsses have been until re-
cently _exceedmg1y plain, but now trimming details
are being used there as well as in front.
The ensemble Will remain the strongest and most
important fashion this fall.

Slil \Vhat do you know? \Ve heard that in
Paris and_New York‘nthe ultra—fashionnblcs are
wearing shiny black gloves to match their patent
leather shoes.

PATTERNS

8222.——-A.re you planning your fall wardrobe?
Well here is a smartly good looking dress that
should take your fancy. It Will be Just the thing,
toonfor the girl gomg awa to school. _ Au eco-
nomical feature in favor 0 this dress is that it
can be made from two old dresses or usmg old
material for the skirt new may be. bought for the
blouse. Almost any ind of material. except those
that are thin and “pully.” Will adapt itself to
this model.

_(lut in 3 sizes: 16, 18, 20., Size 18 will re-
quire .2 yardspf ﬁ ured material and 1% yards
of .1321“ material 3. inches wide: The underbody
of iniiig Will require 1 yard 32 inches Wide.

8231.—And here's a dress for (hm liter! Be—
coming gs well_us practicable and suite le. A good
dress With which to rush .off the summer and
start school this fall. Plaid materials such as
serge, woolen, or gingham Will be best suited to
this design, although printed linen, wool jersey.
cotgon or wool crepe may also be used advantage—
ous y.

CutVin 4 sizes: 6. 8, 10. and 12 years. A 12
year suze requires 3% yards of 27 inch material

s1

with % yard of contra 'ng material.
as sum: TO GIVE suzi:
ALL PATTERNS 13:: EACH—
.2 FOR 25c POSTPAID

I 10 FOR FALL AND WINTER
“0292;1929 FASHION BOOK .
Order Item this or tormen- luues or The Bull“
Former. alvlng number and Ilnn your ,
name and addreu‘vleinlr. - -
Address all orders (or pattern. to

Pattern Department
gun BUSINESS FARMEE

  

 

' younger.

., .d “ 4&1th
1 G will wear-longer. '
Electric'thsters may be ,cleaned quick-
er with a small dry paint brush than
with a cloth. '- ‘

Aunt Ada’s Axioms: The household
martyr doesn’t realize that everyone else
gets less than the martyr does.

Mattress covers made of unbleached
muslin are easy to remove and easy to
launder. They protect the mattress and
save cleaning the whole thing.

The use of whole wheat ﬂour need not
be conﬁned to making bread. Rolls, cof-
fee cakes, nut bread, griddle cakes, and
even cake and cookies are varied and
improved when part of the ﬂour is whole
wheat.

 

 

MUSINGS OF A
PLAIN FARMER

£313! A. P. BALLAR"

 

 

 

 

 

(Our Plain Farmer has had to step to
one side for his wife, Mrs. B, to have
her say this issue. Most of our wives will
notice that Mrs. B paints a word picture
of Mr. B that resembles what they have
in their own minds of their husbands, for
which we menfolks can be thankful. If
she had made him one of those perfect
men, well it would have made life rather
hard on us.——Editor.) 1

t t t ‘
HIS is grotery night and a trip to
I town, There will be confusion, as
always, getting four girls and one
man ready for the street.
O O 0

Now girls, we must hurry and be ready
when your father is. Stack the dishes!
We’ll wring no dish-cloth tonight. I have
arranged your clothes out and you should
soon be ready. -

O i .

Don’t be walking from room to room
with a chorus of where’s this and where’s
that! I want a little time to powder my
own nose and adjust my silvery hair.

It i i

What? A run in your stocking! When
did that happen? I would get you a new
pair tonight but we are purse bound and
a large order of groceries to get. Thresh—
ers next week, you know, weather permit—
ting.

. t I I

And Evelyn has lost the only button

that was ever on her shoe. What next?
l t t

Your handkerchiefs are in the box
where they always are. When are you
going to learn to get yourselves dressed
properly? Don‘t shout “Ma” again for at
least ﬁve minutes.

i O t _

Your father has started to strop' his ra-

zor and will soon be ready.
It i t

He completes his toilet by shaving and
buttoning his shirt collar. Then goes out,
kicks the four tires on the car, and starts
to yell, “Hurry up 2"

t O O

I must look him over along with you
children. He sometimes leaves lather be-
hind his ears.

3 D 0

Well, we are started at last without any
great annoyance. I always relax in an
auto away from the work.

I! t t

The lights of a busy small town.
“Where will we park?” I inquired of the
Mr. “Looks like we will have to go back
home to park,” said he. But he (lodged
in a. hole close to main street.

at: t t

Now for a busy hour buying the neces—
sities of life. . Mr. B intrusts me with
the purse and the judgment of every pur—
chase for the home. All he buys is a Sun-
day paper and his week’s supply of tobac—
co. Sometimes I think he docs it to get
away from family cares. His excuse is
that he forgets what I want and loses the
list I always give him.

i t t

Anyway when the crowd begins to thin
out and the hour is late we always have
to drag him from a group of his fellow
farmers at the hardware, where they are
usually discussing alfalfa, cow testing, the
Weather, or farm relief. ‘

 

PLOWS AT SEVEN'rY-Eion'r
J. H. Smith Is 78 years old but that.does—
n’t stop him from following the plow just
as well as any other man many years

He works for Mrs.' Henrietta
Bakker, of Ottawa county.

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No matter what the type of electric current,
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The thing for you to do right now is to ﬁnd
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. One horse can pull it, one man can
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Chronic» Asthma and
Cough for 15 Years

Entirely Rid of It Now. Cough Gone.
Relieved in One Week.

 

 

A letter written by Mrs. Ellen Wilson,
Irving, ILL, has a real message for asthma
and bronchitis sufferers. She says:

“I contracted asthma 26 years ago. For
the past - years, I have had chronic
asthma and a bad bronchial cough. I tried
all kinds of medicine, with no real im—
provement I coughed so hard I became
very weak, and had severe pains. In No-
vember, 1924, I began taking Nacor, and
in less than one week I was very much
relieved. By February my cough and asth-
ma Were gone Now (March 18,1925) I
need no medicine, and have no asthma
at all. ”

You will enjoy reading many other let—
ters from people who recovered after
years of suffer mg frorn asthma, bronchitis
and ch1onic coughs, and have had no re-
111111 of the trouble. These letters, and
booklet of vital information about these
diseases, will be sent free by Nacor Medi-
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case, write for this free information. It
my lead you back to health, as it has
thousands of others.

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If you have

Fill
SEEDS
Hill's
POULTRY
LIVESTOGK

EAR BOYS AND GIRLS: I guess
you are getting too good 10: me
on the contests because almost

everyone who has written so for

since the last issue has solved the
“Bird” contest. The first one to
send in the correct answers was Myra
Lowe, of Dansville, and she received
a water color and crayon outﬁt. Dan-
iel Shelter, R. 2, Bay Port, was sec-
ond and he got a, pocket set of a
comb and nail ﬁle in a leather case.
If Daniel has as hard a time keep—
ing his hair combed and nails cleaned

' as I did when I was a boy I am sure

this outﬁt will come in very handy.
A boy won third prize also, a Lindy
Flying game. Ralph Hart, It. 3, Bay
City, was the lucky one. Fourth
prize, a silver chain necklace with
bluebird pendant, went to' Retha
Margaret Smith, R. 2, Rushton.

Of course you are all interested in

, the names of the birds, so here they

are: 1, Kingﬁsher; 2, Robin; 2, Par-
rot; 4, Nightingale; 5, Sandpiper; 6,
Lark; 7, Swallow; 8, Flamingo; 9,
Dove; 10, Partridge; 11, Wood-
pecker; 12, Biuejay Did you get all
of them right? _

As for the next contest, John
Vlock, R. 2, Carleton, suggests,
“Let’s have a word manufacturing
contest, that is the ones who can
make the most words from the title
‘Children’s Hour Club’.” That seems
like a. pretty good idea to me so we
will try it. The idea of the contest
is to see who can make the most
words from

CHILDREN’S HOUR CLUB

without using any letter more times
than it appears in these three words.
For example, you have only one let—
ter “E” so any word with more than
one “E” in it will not count; On
the other hand you have two of the
letter "R” and can make up words
containing one “R” or two but not
more. Four Mystery Prizes will be
given and the contest closes August
25th. Any letter received after noon
of that date can not be considered.
Now lets’ see how good you are at
making up words—UNCLE NED.

 

 

Our Boys and Girls

 

Dear Uncle Ned—Seeing that some of
the cousins are giving their opinions on
“The Modern Girl” I will, too. I think
that "Wild Flower in Full Bloom” is a
bit too wild.

I think the boyish bob or the wind—
blown boobs are very nice for girls and
young women but not for elderly women.
Smoking is not healthy, butfor girls it
is not healthy or lady-like. I think mov-

cent ones, but public dance hills are no
place for young girls, especially if they
are not escorted. Knickers are just the
thing, not only at home but for hiking
and camping.
Also “Wild Flower" you may be right
when you say you havo lots of friends,
but what kind? Any of us can have
friends, and boy friends, too—yes, lots of
thorn—but we want decent, polite and
manly friends.

As for youth, I'think we can enjoy our-
selves without being “wild’ or going to

‘ public dances, and I think old folks have

very interesting problems and enjoy them—
selves as much as young folks do, only
in another way.

As for powder and paint, I will not say
much as I use them myself, but I do
think that some girls look better without
it.

Come on, boys, give us your opinion.—
Dorothy Hoffman, R. 2, Saginaw E,. 8.,
——You seem to be quite a sensible,
modem girl, Dorothy.-—-Uncle Ned.

yet

 

 

MACHINERY

for sale we know where you can
ﬁnd a market. 01- if you want to
rent a. fan- or hire a man we know
where you can get quick results.
Just insert an advertisement 13-—

THE BUSINESS FARMERS’
BX CHANGE

-—and you will know too.

 

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Dear Uncle Ned—I have been reading
the M. B. F. for some time and enjoy
the letters very much. This year was

time to write.
I disagree with some of the letters

, about bobbed hair, smoking and drinking,

but if a girl Wants to drink and all those

, bad habits that is her business, isn’t it,

Uncle Ned? I know for my part I don’t
like to see any decent girl drink or smoke,
but there are some that do.

And as for bobbed hair I think it is
perfectly all right. I have had my hair
out for about 6 years and during that
time I had a. boyish bob. I don't like that
but some girls look good in it. I didn’t,
so let it grow out to the bottom of my
ears. That I had it so I could do it up
and about two weeks ago I had my sister
art it off. My mother also has her hair
bobbed, and all my sisters.

. Alla it a. girl' is out with a. crovaof
people and she doesn’t drink but

 

    

young
they do, she doesn’t have to just because

4 more of you it you refuse.

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Your niece. --
Lydia A. Green, R. 2, Millington, Mich. '
-——Your idea regarding drinking just lie-4
cause the others do is perfectly right. The
easiest thing in the world is to be weak
and do as others do.
think and do for themselves because they
believe it is right, rather than because
some folks think so. —Uncle Ned.

 

Dear Uncle Ned—I am writing to tell-
you about a linoleum man who came to
our place today. He had some linoleum
that he wanted to ’sell. He wanted $8
for a piece about 10 feet long and 6 feet
wide. Mother told him she didn’t want
it but he wanted her to take it just the
same and entered it for 37. Mother told
him “No,” that papa was away to Hill-
man and We didn’ t have any money with
us. So he went away.

He had a funny looking truck. It had
a small house on it. I watched him as he
went out. He put the linoleum in his
truck and went near the tool shed and

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"FiDO" 'SAMBO" ‘

THIS IS FUN

Elaine Wolfgang, at Wheeler, sent these
nameographs to no Aren’t they very
clever? Notice how she used the letters
in ll‘ido' 9 name to draw a picture of him.
I'll bet it looks Just like him, too. And
look at the negro 190359.111”. And the
witch. Do you think you could do as we“?
Try using the letters of some other words
to make pictures just as Elaine did.
You will find it hardto toﬁ'nd word- that
will work well in making pictues of what
the words represent, butit is great fun.

picked up something, I am sure. I told
mother and she watched him. A chicken

“Witch'i

was by his truck and he grabbed at it ‘

but didn’t get; lucky for the chicken.

I, am nine years 'old, in the sixth grade

and getting along fine—Grace Squires.
R 1, Hillman, Mich.
-—Apparently that man intended to steal
one of your chickens if he could catch it.
It might be that he sells linoleum during
the day time to ﬁnd a. good place to rob
the chicken coops at night. Has anyone
missed chickens in your neighborhood
since he left?~——Uncle Ned.

 

 

Tongue ' Twisters

 

 

A day or two ago, during a lull in bus-
iness, two little bootblacks, one white and
one black, were standing at the corner
doing nothing, when the white bootblack
agreed to black the black bootblack’s
boots. The black bootblack was of course
willing to have, his boots blacked by his
fellow bootblack, and the bootblack who
had agreed to black the black bootblack's
boots went to work,

When the bootblack had blacked one of
the black bootbladr's boots till it' shone
in a manner that would make any boot-
black proud, the bootbiack who had
agreed to black the black bootblaok’s
boots refused to black the other boot of
the black hootblack until the blank boot-
black, who has] consented to have the
white bootblack black his boots,‘ should
boot had been blacked refused to do, say-
ing it was good enough for a black boot-
blaok to have one boot blacked and he
did not care whether the boot the white
bootblack hadn’t blacked was blacked or
not.

This made the bootblaok who had black—
ed the black bootblack’s boot as angry as
a bootblaek often gets and he vented his
wrath by spitting upon the W hoot
of the black bootblack. This roused the
latent passion of the black bootblack and
he preeeeded to boot the white bootblack
with the boot which the white bootblack

 

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A GOOD RECORD
G. P. Bailey, 1‘" your old son or Andrew
Bailey, Eau Qlajre, passed the 7th grade
this you: and. t'ed ﬂvg consecutive
school years without a single absent mark.
Isn’t that a record to be proud of?

had blacked. A ﬁght ensued in which the
bootblack who had refused to black the
unblacked boot of the black bootblack .
blacked the black bootbl‘ack’s visionary
organs, and in which the black bootblack
were all the blacking oﬂ.’ his blacked boot
in booting the white bootbl‘ack.—Louise
Aldrich, R. 3, Vermontvil’le, Mich.

Riddles

, What is the Moraine between a. mo
and a pm? One ie- hard to get up and
the other is hard to get down.

Why does a. rooster shut his eyes when
he crows? Because he knows the song
by heart—Helen Jutila, Box 674, Negau-
nee,~M.ich.

 

 

is the diﬂerence between a
soldier, an old maid, and the Amazon
River? The soldier faces the powder, an
old maid powders her face, and the Ama-
zon River—that’s when the suckers bite.
—-Ve1ma Moore, R. 1, Lake City, Mich.

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Dick: "That match you gave me want
light.” '
Gus: "That’s funny. It lit for me 5

minutes “of—Martha Louise Scott, IL 4,
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VERY HUNGRY
He: “Little girl, are you hungry?”
She: "I’m so hungry I have a cavity
no dentist can till."-—-—l£ildred Altenbernt
and Nellie Stall, R. 1, Box 63, Ann Arbor,
Mich.

 

THEN KARMA BLUSHID
Man in street car, giving pinch to fat
little leg of small boy sitting next to him:
“ ‘Who has nice fat legs?"
Small Boy: “My mamma.”—Irene
Schwenk, R. 5, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

A Game to Play

 

 

A VOCABULARY GAME

EBB is a game to play at a party or

at home. One player begins, “I like

a man who is amiable and more;
then the Second continues, “bright and
breezy”; and the third ”cute and clean.”
The fourth person must take D, the ﬁfth
E, and so on until Z k reached. 01' course
it is mun to think of anything tor X
and Z, and those who have these letter.
are the unlucky ones.

“Dre most amusing way of playing thi
gameistoplayitastaetaspossihle. ear
playerbﬂnghlgouthistwowordsin.
ﬂash without thinking; but remembr
that the qualities must be good, suc‘
words as "abominable” or “had” not being
accepted. Those players who cannot think
of their two words within a stated space
of time must pay a. ‘forfeit at the end 0!
the game. It is a splendid game for im-
proving one’s vocabulary.

Agatha Smith
Se. Boerdman

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through one of the big dour
mills in Hinneapolis. We had
seen the wheat machined and pro-
ceeeedtodeath, aswethought. We
ad to the old and experienced mill-
er, “it seems to us that you take
about all the good out sit the wheat. "
“Well." said he, “that is about what
wedo.” “But why do you do it?”
Housewives and bakers demand this
patent ﬂour," he replied, “and so we
make it.” But he quickly rejoined,
“We do not use it at our house. Come
with me and .1 will show you what
we use.” We were shown a genuine
whole-wheat ’ product.
bread-ﬂour that satisﬁes; real manna
for the body.

The prelude to our text is a mir-
acle. The evening sun is gliding the
Western hills. A hungry multitude
' lingers. The“ disciples are anxious;
they, would have the crowd sent
away; there is no food. But present—
ly, a few leaves and ﬁshes are found;
the new Rabbi is looking toward
heaven; He is giving thanks; and
the food is increased until "all ate-
and were ﬁlled.” The tired and
hungry men, women, and children
are fully supplied. This is a picture
of the reﬁlling power of Jesus
Christ; of his ability to sustain life.

How adaptable and satisfying is
the whole bread of the Gospel! The
Galilean fed the ﬁve thousand with—
out respect to race, nationality, or
religion. This is signiﬁcant of the
world’s need: but also that this need
is satisﬁed only in the Bread Sacra-
ment, Christ. “From Greenland'a icy
mountains to India's coral strands,”
only Christ can satisfy the common

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CAN'T (ill-T ALONG WITHOUT IT

3A3 EDIml:—-l think It is
Dabout time that I gave this paper

credit. We have taken M. B. I.
(or over a your and we like It he.
There are nice stories [or the little
folks, recipes ‘for the farmer's vita.
and market reports. and in fact ev-
erything imaginable that is of great
interest to all. We simply can't get
along without our Business Farmer.—
Mrs. A. E. Hickman. Oakland County.

 

 

spiritual hunger. But men have so
machined and processed the Gospel
to a perverted taste, that the modern
brand that isput on the market is
muchly void of essential nutrients
and vitamines. A great English
physician has said that the white
bread that most folks demand is no
slight cause of cancer. Similarly, we
are a starved, rickety, and diseased
generation because we have demand—
ed and accommodated Gospel, a roll—
gious bread accommodated to our
pampered appetites instead of to our
essential soul hunger. Our churches
have thrown down to them no great-
er challenge today than that of a
united understanding and effort in
toning tastes for the Living Bread.
Spiritual dyspepsia is appalling! Let
us away with religious condiments
and feed on the Manna from Heaven!
But it is encouraging that we have
begun to recover. Natural hunger is
returning; ‘ that gnawing for the
Bread that satisﬁes. We gladly hail
the day when a spurious bread is be-
ing abandoned, when the loaves ot
mistaken prophets are being thrown
away, and when we have begun to
recuitivate a taste for the natural
food of the Spirit. This is the time
to revamp our religious machinery
so that it will turn out the True
Bread of hungry masses. Perhaps.
in our neglect to do this, we have
been more weak than unwise. That
veteran missionary, Stanley Jones.
says “Our churches are made up of
people who would be equally shocked
to see Christianity doubted or put
, into practice” This is a pungent in-
em the complacency of
my

  

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Jesus is the Bread. But in the
miracle in Galilee the disciples dis—
tributed this bread to the multitude.
Ah, this is always the Christian's mis-
sion. Not without us can Christ
feed the world. What kind of loaves
Is it the ori-
ginal Bread of Lite? 01‘ is it highly
milled by a special denominational
process? Said ﬂies Blank to the
writer, “When I ﬁrst went to the
foreign ﬁeld I was instructed by my
mission board to an up OUR church.
But, 0, when I saw the terrible hun-
ger of the people I could do nothing
but feed them the bread of. Jesus."

y'peoples converge upon the sclemn

duty of feeding them this Bread. But
what about the church? Well, the
church organization will follow as an
irresistible result; but. it will take
on the incidental colorings of its own
time, geography, and race, as it
ought to. -

But Philip thought it couldn’t be '

done. The multitude was too great.
There wasn’t enough bread that
everyone might take a. little. It is

even so now. The disciple of little
faith is saying, “Who is sufficient for
these things?" And isn’t it true that
could this generation’s sins and tears
and sufferings be concentrated and
viewed at a glance, the stoutest heart
would tremble. But herein is the
mercy of the Lord. We are not per-
mitted to see the sins of society
massed. (We should be shocked to
see our own thus uncovered.) and
so we go on in our God-given task of
simply feeding Bread to individuals.
Walks and talks in the name of
Jesus are manna for a hungry com-
munity. This is the “greater works"

   

manna-mummies,"

utility of the church

Yes, you should belong to your _
community church. (And one church ‘
is enough). And be an active be
longer. Not active in “knocking"
but in making the church a dispen—
sary of Ln True Bread. This is your
community's greatest need. With—
out it, it will stagnate. Maybe it has
already. Go out to that pool of dead
water. See the green scum on its
surface. Is that like the soul of your
community? Why? Go out to the
running brook. See the clear, spark-
ling water. Is that like your com—
munity? There’s a reason. Thirsty
souls are being slacked. Hungry
hearts are being fed. There is a
church at the center which has the
spirit of Jesus who is the bread of
life. Help it along! This is your
daily bread if you only knew it. It
makes life worth living. It brings
heaven to your neighbors.

I wish to thank you for helping me get
my silverware. I received it January 24th.
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_ . EOLSTEIN FIELD DAY 7
’ ' R-IDAY, August 24th, is the date
' set for the sixth annual summer

get-together of Michigan Hol-.

stein folks. Our host will be Joseph
H. Brewer, owner of . Blytheﬁeld
Farm‘, which is located on U. -S. 131,
just across the Grand River bridge,
about 9 miles north of Grand Rapids.
or, 6 miles south of Rockford. Those
’driving on M44 should turn south
about 2 miles from the junction of
the road with 131.

The program includes lunch at

noon furnished by Mr. Brewer, de- ,

monstrations on the herd by J. E.
Burnett, Director of the Bureau of
Animal Industry for the State of
Michigan, and a varied program of
sports and contests open to everyOne.

The usual plan of only one speak-
er will be adhered to. The Superin-
tendent of advanced Registry for the
Hols’tein-Friesian Association of
America—our own H. W.’, Horton,
Jr.———will talk on the. new Holstein
herd test, “The Holstein—Friesiaii
Registry.”

A headliner in the Blytheﬁeld herd
is “Florence,” the cow that recently
completed a yearly record of 1,279
pounds of butter, well over 1,000
pounds of butterfat! She is the: third
Michigan bred cow ever to make such
a large record. Among her stable-
mates are two others over 1,000
pounds of butter and several now on
test headed toward such records.
Eight cows have made seven-day rec-
ords of over 30 pounds of butter, one
yielding over 40 pounds. In fact
every mature cow in the herd has
met the Blytheﬁeld standard of 25
pounds. This herd stood ﬁfth high-
est in the U. S. A. last year in proved
production.

The day is planned so that Hol-
stein folks can get acquainted with
one of the very best herds, can en-
joy a good visit, and a Short pro—
gram of education and fun.

Remember! Friday, August 24th,
at Blytheﬁeld Farm.—J. G. Hayes.

IMMEDIATE OUTLOOK FAVOR-
ABLE FOR SHEEP INDUSTRY

N C R E A S E D marketings and ‘
I Slaughter of lambs, accompanied

by an improved consumptive de-
mand for lamb, and a continued good
world demand for W001 are indicated
during the next 9 months, accord-
ing to the mid—summer Sheep and
wool outlook report of the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics, United De-
partment of Agriculture. With refer-
ence to the long—time outlook the bu-
reau says “sheep production in the.
United States has been rapidly ex-
panding and suggests the need for
considerable caution in regard to
further expansion.”

OUTLOOK FAVORABLE FOR
HOG INDUSTRY

FAVORABLE outlook for the
swine industry during the next

two years is indicated by the
mid-summer hog-outlook report of

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Agriculture.’ .
“The supply of hogs that will be
. available for market duringrthe next
12 months,” says the bureau, “is ex-
pected to be considerably less than
during the 12 months juSt passed,
and indications are that both the do-
estic and foreign demand for pork
products will show some improve-
ment. A hog production maintained

vat the level of 1925 and 1926‘, rep-

resenting an annual. inspected slaugh-
ter of about 42,000,000 head or some
6,000,000 less than “the indicated
slaughter for the crop year ending
October 31, 1928, promises the best
returns to the producers of both corn
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E.*L..ANTHONY HEADS M. S. 0.
DAIRY DEPARTMENT
. HE dairy department at M. S. C.
has a new head, Prof. Ernest
. ‘L. Anthony, for the last seven
years head of a similar department
at theUniversity of West Virginia,
has accepted the position recently
left'vacant by Prof. O. E. Reed, who
has been made chief of the bureau of
dairying of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture. Prof. Anthony gradu-
ated from the University of Missouri
in 1910, and received his Master of
Science degree from the University
of Copenhagen in Denmark, four
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NEW HITCH LOWERS LABOR
COSTS
LOWING seven acres a day with
eight horses- on a three-bottom
sulky is one method. of cutting

farm labor costs on the farm of Sher-3,,

man Read, Richland.

The use of multiple hitches to in—
crease the efficiency of the teamster
is one of the newer practices being
Sponsored by the animal husbandry
department at Michigan State Col-
lege. ,

With the “tying in” and “bucking
back” ‘method of hitching horses,
one driver can drive with two lines
a team of any size. The ease with
which horses are handled by this
method is shown by the fact that
several farmers of the state are work-
ing stallions in teams with other
horses. ‘

JACKSON GETS EMMET 000th
AGENT
- TANLEY J. CULVER, for 5 years
S county agricultural agent of Em-
met county, has resigned to take
a. similar position in Jackson county,
left vacant when Roy Decker recent-
ly accepted a position with the farm
crops department of Michigan State
College. A. R. Schubert, for some
time employed by the bureau of
dairying of the State Department of
Agriculture, has been employed to
act as agricultural agent in Emmet
county.

We enjoy your paper as much as ever
and look forward to each issue—H. A. B.,
Chippewa County.

BACK AGAIN Tins YEAR ,

If you had attended The Michigan State Fair last fall, you would surely have seen
the animals that were ﬁtted by our boys and girls. Among these was an Aberdeen

An us steers‘ ﬁtted by James Milligan {of Cass C ,
on in neat well ﬁtted calf. The previous year championship honors also went to this .

A . .
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itY, who carried'oﬂ the championshipu

farm boy. Again another show season: is almost hormonal Jimmie is hard at it trying ‘

to keep up the good work.

shows. The black cult is sired by “Quality Marshall”
Golden Ring." Jimmy says,r“zMsr success in steer, ..
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in; all}; l. i)

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no realizes that competition ls/c‘raggu‘al‘ly getting harder but
it seems the harder it gets the better he likes it. ‘This‘ year hev'is ﬁtting two steers -.
to be shown at the state fair. One is an Angus and the other a shorthorn. as the picture

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.heat again—J. T., Evart, Mich.

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pennants! the, Pennsylvania Bail-w
road, and in operation for the past
six years ~on their demonstration
farm, two ‘mlles north 0t Howard
City, Mich., will be on “Dress Pa-
rade," Tuesday, August 28th, ac-
cording to:their agricultural agent,
B. O. Hagerman of Grand Rapids.

The entrance gates to the (arm
will be thrown wide open and every-
body willzbeinvited to come to this
first annual Field Day, dedicated to
the interest of “Sand Land Farming,”
Mr; Hagerman, and the rest of the
Pennsylvania. Railroad folks, invite
the agricultural public to “Come.
See and.Hear.” .
. Come and bring your picnic din—
ner. Coffee and lemonade will await
you in abundance, tree for the ask-
ing. , ,_

See the results of this Keystone
Rotation now in its sixth year of soil
building existence; See the crop va—
riety tests put on by the crops depart-

See the potash fertilizer demonstra-
tion by the N. V. Potash Export Cor-
poration. This demonstration is in‘
connection with sweet clover and al-
falfa. Previousrecords on this farm

crease of 71 per cent with potash
alone, and an 86 per cent increase
when the potash is in combination
with acid phosphate.

Mr. Hagerman says that their
stands of sweet clover and alfalfa are
exceptionally gratifying as these .16-
gumes are now growing where a few
years ago it was said “it couldn’t be
done.” >

Also see the high class dairy herd
built up from one pure bred cow and
a pure bred bull. This herd has
been ranking well along the head of
the list this year in their local cow
testing association.

Dr. R. S .Shaw, President of the

principal agricultural speaker of the
day. President Shaw’s many years
connection with the Sta-te'College as
Dean of Agriculture, as well as his
own actual taming experience, gives
him a keen and sympathetic under-
standing ot the iarmers’ problems.
We all will want to hear him.
Besides President Shaw, there will
also be from the College representa- .
tives of various other departments,
including farm crops and soils.
., The program will take place in
the farm grove in the afternoon, the

tour inspection of the farm, crops,
and. live stock.

REUNION AND HOME-COMING
HE second annual reunion and
home coming of Barney School
District No. 7, Byron township,
Kent county, will be held on the
school grounds, Saturday, August
18th. All former teachers and pu-
pils are requested to be present. Pot
luck dinner will be served. All trains
will be met on request to Bell phone
251M, Byron Center Exchange—A.
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FAILS TO GET WITH GALE

Could you tell me what to do for
a cow? She is in good ﬂesh and
gives a. nice mess of milk. She
treshened the ﬁrst day of April and
I have taken her away for service
twice but every week she comes'in

HIS cow has some inﬂammation-

T of. the breeding organs, probably
the ovaries. This cannot be de-

termined without an examination. I
would recommend that you sprout
some oats and just as soon as the
sprouts reach a height or one to two
inches teed-the entire oat grain with
sprouts tothis’cow at the rate at
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ated by Senator Smith’s opening sen-
tence. He said, “We are glad to wel-
come you from the neighboring State
of Michigan.” The tourists were tak-
en through the factory in groups of
eight. Each group was in charge of
a man who explained the process of
preserving and jam making, and each
person was presented with a sample
glass of jam. One interesting fea-
ture was the large quantities of black
currants which were being used.

At Beamsville the pilgrims took
dinner in the high school building.
It was a social occasion, with Cana-

‘ dian growers present, and many
points of common interest were dis-
cussed. Among the after-dinner
speakers was Mr. T. J. Mahoney,
member of the legislature. He des-
cribed the vast, publicly owned power
industry which has erected a net-
work of electric power lines in the
Province and sells power to the citi-
zens at very low rates. The rate at
Beamsville was said to be 11/; cents
per kilo-watt. Read it and weep! The
publicly-owned power industry in
the Province was said to represent
an investment of 140 millions and
furnishes 17$ horse power for every
man, woman, and child in Ontario.

The next stop was at the pear or-
chard of S. M. Culp. A very ﬁne
crop of Bartlett and Duchess pears
were seen. The trees were on clay
soil. A strip of sod is left in the
tree rows and the middles are culti-
vated. The sod strip is mowed, and
is also burned over once each year.
A ring of ashes and cinders is placed
around each tree to prevent ﬁre in-
jury to the collars. Psylla is con-
trolled mainly with oil in the dor-
mant season. A nicotine‘spray is
used later when necessary. Five suc-
cessive years of oil spraying has
showed no ill effect on the trees. Ni-
trate of soda is used as a fertilizer
at the rate of ﬁve pounds per tree.

It might be of interest to note that
throughout the day the caravan was
escorted by a special detail of Pro-

-road open and also stopped traffic at
all main roads while the caravan was
crossing or entering them.

The Vineland Horticultural Exper-
iment Station, of 180 acres, was in-
spected by the tourists and points of
interest explained by the director,
Prof. Palmer. The Viking red rasp-
berry was originated here in 1914,
and is now being extensively grown
in Ontario. The variety is not con-
sidered equal to Cuthbert in ﬂavor
but was said to be a better shipper,
a sturdy, upright grower, and quite
resistant to disease. .It is a speciallyr
easy picker and hired help is said to
prefer picking Viking over any other
variety. Many were interested in
seeing a purple leaved peach tree
which bears red-ﬂeshed fruit.

The tourists then drove through
the city of St. Catherines and on to
the Larkin Farms. Brock’s Monu-
ment and the Welland Canal were
seen on the way. At the Larkin
Farms near Niagara on the Lake
were seen 40 thousand apple trees,

-none over 14 years old. Last year
,a 50 thousand bushel crop was har-
‘ vested. This year’s crop is very light.

A few miles more, and the Tour
? ended at Niagara Falls. Thundering
.Niagara! A vertical river, plunging
into a milky, misty caldron, and
ﬂattening out into a‘crazy mosaic of
,gswirling Whirlpools.

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7 AND VIEWS
(Continued from Page 6)

gifour ﬁfteen it started back toward
3the old dock at the foot of First
rfWStreet in Detroit.

‘ The wind had ceased, the sun was
.shining and the three and three—
fourths hour ride was most pleasant.
gHere was nearly eight hours ride
.on a palatial steamer with its modern
‘ ball room and orchestra and many
' comforts all for one dollar per pas-
senger.

Now we don’t often get to Detroit
and we felt we should make a full
ﬁday of it so we located THE Michigan

1‘ Theatre and with thousands of others
Eenjoyed a program in the world’s
1 third ﬁnest playhouse. How the other
;»two' could be any ﬁner or larger, I
.fail to comprehend.

“Our parking place?” It wasn’t a
bit hard to ﬁnd. But yes, a ﬂat tire.

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(Time, just midnight by our watches,

group and this feeling was illumin-

.as Plainﬁeld sand.

vincial Highway Police, who kept the ‘

rest soon delivered us. back to A-
len Road and in turn Ecorse turned
us «into Ypsilanti main street. Hun-
gry? Yes! One o’clpck, I noticed
in the morning our lunch room sign
said “Open all night.” We headed
for it. The question was, shall we
order a supper or breakfast? At
this hour the place waswell patron-
ized by autoists, the majority of
which I concluded were tourists. The
old pike was quite a busy place with
its between days’ traffic of freight,
busses,‘ etc. About two hours from
Ypsilanti we turned onto what to us
is T H E Main Road, for a half mile
down it we ﬁnd Broadscope.

A two weeks’ vacation in just
twenty-four hours. Good-night!

SEEING MICHIGAN WITH
MATHEWS

(Continued from Page 10)
Fertilizers On Sweet Clover.

     

I June 20th, I helped to weigh up some

fertilizer topdressing hay weights at
the Pennsylvania DemonStration
Farm north of Howard City. with as—
tonishing results. These plots were,
staked out and the materials applied
by Gerritt Posthumous, the farm
manager, on the second- of May.
There was a very large difference six
or seven weeks later. The sweet
clover was sowed in peas and oats
last year and came through the wint-
er a ﬁne stand. This soil is known
We shall not
burden our readers with the intimate
details except to say that a 350
pound application of phosphoric acid
and potash in the ratio of one to two,
an 0-8-16 to be exact, increased the
green weight of sweet clover hay by
87 per cent as compared to the plot
that had no fertilizer treatment.
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Alfalfa Is Gold Digger.——Alfalfa is
the wonder crop. It is destined to be~
come a much greater factor in Mich-
igan agriculture than it is today. The
old cow with plenty of alfalfa to eat
has kept a lot of Michigan folks in
the clear during the last ﬁve or six
years.

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Stories You Read 011' The Run.—

Credit for adapting advertising to
the installment plan of reading a new
thought each rod or so as you run
undoubtedly should go to—Oh Boy.
What Joy, What Grade, Save Your
Face, Burma Shave.
stuff, undigniﬁed but telling, never-
theless.
iture- store has made a scholarly,
digniﬁed series of hop skip advertise—
ments based on this same idea. It is
really one of the most attractive road
s1gn series I have ever seen. Each
sign is an art creation. The ﬁrst one
arouses the reader’s interest, this is
intensiﬁed by each succeeding sign
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PENNSYLVANIA FARMERS TO
VISIT MICHIGAN

ROUND 250 Pennsylvania potato
growers will spend August 21st
and 22nd in Michigan, visiting

the seed potato ﬁelds, according to
E. J. Leenhouts, genelal agricultural
agent of the New York Central
Lines, who has been working with
R. C. Bennett of Alba, and Dr. E. L.
Nixon of Pennsylvania, to bring this
about. They will arrive in Alba by
train and spend the day of Aug. 2131:
traveling by auto through Antrim
and adjoining counties, famous for
the ﬁne seed potatoes they produce.
At night there will be a picnic din—
ner after which the party will return
to the train. The next morning it
will ﬁnd itself at Cheboygan. The
forenoon will be taken up with a

visit to Mackinac Island. Upon their

return they will go to Gaylord where
lunch will be served and the after-
noon spent with Michigan growers.
There will be games, sport and
speeches, followed by a big picnic

dinner which will wind up the pro- .

gram. That night the party will

board their train and the next morn- .

ing will ﬁnd them in Buffalo.

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REQUEST
Tells cause of cancer and what to

do for pain, bleeding, odor, etcr

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1928 POULTRY TOUR FOR MICHI-
.GAN POUIJTRYMEN '
WORTHWHILE tour of out-
standing poultry plants and oth-
' or points of interest has been ar-
ranged for the dates of August 28,
29, 30 and 31. A11 Michigan poult—
rymen and others interested are
cordially invited to join this tour.

-The tour will start from Michigan
,State College .011 ~ Tuesday,

August
28, and will end at Michigan State
College on Friday afternoon, Aug-
ust 31.

It is hoped that a large number
will follow the tour
throughout from start to ﬁnish but
you are welcome to join it for one
or more days or any part of one day.
The purpose of the tour is to visit
outstanding poultry plants and other
points of interest so that those on
the trip will be able to observe ﬁrst
hand, the' "praCtices being used by
successful poultrymen. The tour
will be educational throughout and
will be worth the while of every
Michigan poultryman. The automo~
biles making the tour will carry
suitable placards and other publici-
ty features are being arranged.\

The itinerary gives the trip in de--
tail. It will be noticed that the
tour includes stops at two of Michi-
gan's largest poultry farms, four 016
Michigan’s ﬁnest Record of Perform--
ance ﬂocks, side trips to the show
place owned by W. J. Getz at Hol-
land and known as Lakewood Farm.
a trip to the W. K. Kellogg Farm at
Augusta, which has recently been
turned over to the Michigan State
College for operation, a visit to one
of Mr. Kellogg’s factories, a visit to
the University of Michigan’s campus
and athletic plant, a trip to the
wellaknown turkey farm operated
by Layher Brothers at Napoleon, and
a round—up at the Larro Research
Farm at Redford. The annual ﬁeld
day of the Michigan Poultry Im-
provement Association will be held
in connection with the last day of
the tour at the Larro Farm near
Redford on Friday, August 31. H.
L. Schroeder, of the U. S. D. A. at
Washington, will travel with the tour
thru the entire trip.

There will be no fees connected
with the trip. Those desiring to
camp enroute Will ﬁnd adequate fa-
cilities near each of the overnight
stopping points, others will stay in
hotels. The ﬁrst night, Tuesday,
August 8, will be spent in Holland.
The party will stay in either Warm
Friend Tavern or Hotel Kraker.
Wednesday evening the step will be
at Kalamazoo at Hotel Burdick or
Hotel Park American, the tour start-
ing Thursday morning from in front
of the Hotel Park American. Thurs-
day night the stop will be.in Ann
Arbor either at the Hotel Allenel
or the Hotel Whitney, the start Fri--
day morning being at 8 A. M. from
in front of Hotel Allenel, which is
opposite the courthouse. The tour

will break up from the Larro Farnr

or those desiring to do so may re‘
turn to East Lansing, where the
tour will disbdrse at about 6 P. M.,
August 31.

The poultrymen of Ottawa county,
under the direction of R. C. Jack~
son, Manager of the Grandview

Farm, are planning entertainment
features for the tour while passing
thru Ottawa county. The business
men of Bangor are planning some
entertainment features Wednesday
noon at Bangor. The Larro Milling
Company will provide features for
Friday afternoon. ‘

Mark the dates on your calendar
new and plan to make the entire
tour. Assemble at East Lansing at
10 A. M., prepared to leave East
Lansing by 12:30 noon Tuesday,
August 28.

Tuesday, August 28
10-11:30 A. M.-—M. S. 0., East Lansing.

Registration and inspection of College ‘

Poultry Plant.

11:30-12 :30—Lunch.

2-2z30 P. M.—-——Lowell.
Company.

4-6 P. M.-—Visiting the following poult-
ry farms and hatcheries: Silverward
Hatchery, Zeeland; Grandvlew Poultry
Farm, Zeeland; Superior Poultry Farm,
Zeeland; Hillview Poultry Farm, Zeeland;
Wolverine Hatchery, Zeeland.

6:30—Dinner“—Holland. Evening en-
tertainment by Holland Poultrymen in
charge of R. C. Jackson.

Wednesday, August 29

8-‘8z30 A. M.——Inspecting Holland
Hatchery owned by Van Appledorn Bros.

8 :30-10 : 30—Visiting Lakewood Farms,
Holland. A trip worth while,

10:30-11:00—Visiting Hatcheries of M.
J. Kole, Holland; Brummer & Fredrickson,
Holland.

12:30—Lunch by Bangor business men.
Munro 8: Martin of Munja Garden Poultry
Farm in charge.

-4:30-6:30—W. C. Eckard, Paw Paw.

6 :30—Supper, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Lowell Milling

Thursday, August 30
8—11 A. M.-——W. K. Kellogg Farm.
11-11230—Enroute Battle Creek via
Camp Custer.

11:30-12 :SO—Lunch.

2- 2: 30—Battle C1eek Sanitarium Farm
3: 30- 5: 30—Layhe1 Bros. Turkey Fa1n.‘
Stay in Ann Arbor.

Friday, August 31
8-8t30—Visiting University
and Athletic Field. ,
8:30-11:30—W. A. Downs, Romeo.

11:30-12 :30-——Enroute Larro Research
Farm. Lunch by Larro Co.

P. M.——Annual Field Day of M. S. P. l.
A. Speeches by Mr. Larro, Mr. Carpenter,
President M. S. P. I. A., Schroeder, U. S.
D. A. Tour of Farm.

Return to East Lansing.

Campus

CHICKEN PRODUCTION

HE number of chickens being
T raised on farms in 1928 is
is about 10 per cent less than
in 1927, according to returns re-
ceived by the Department of Agri—
culture covering approximately 22,-
000 ﬂocks, representing all States.
The returns showed the number of
chicks and young chickens of this
year’s hatch in these farm ﬂocks 011
July 1 to be 9 per cent less than 011
July 1 last year. Returns for June 1
showed 12 per cent less, for May 1,
15 'per cent less, and for April 1, 16
per cent less, than 011 the same dates
last year.

The reduction is not unexpected in
view of the somewhat unfavorable re-
lation between» the prices of poultry
products and the cost of the poultry
ration that existed during most of
1927 and the ﬁrst half of 1928.

Enclosed ﬁnd $1 for three years for the
best farm paper. I do not want to miss
a copy. I wish we could have it every
week—C. E. Whitaker, Clinton County.

 

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FARMS FOR CERTIFIED, SATISFACTION GUARAN-

teed seed of Improved American Banner Wheat

Wolverine Oats Improved Robust Beans.de1non-

FARM FOR SALE 111 ACRES 4° CLEARED. stggaed bveglésgarietiiceﬁ for Michigan. Address A. B.
Balance in pasture, water ed by W0 spring’

 

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$353 town. $r§?000.001. Part cash. L. Dunlap, FOR GUERNSEY OR HOLSTEIN CALVES

Lupton, Mich. from heavy rich milkers, write Lakewood
Farm. Whitewater, Wise.

TWO SHORTHORN BULLS, MILKING STRAIN,
Heart of (,‘loverlund. Failing health cause of nine months old. Lud Hastings, Napoleon,

selling. 1140 rods woven wire fence 50 acres Mich.

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A; Cattle Market Lower While Hogs Advanced

Lambs Steady—Butter, Eggs and Poultry Finite—Wheat Lower

By Market New. Service, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U.- B. D. A.
(Special to THE Busmnss 8411mm)

,weighty steers was meager,

: ROPS generally made goOd prog-’
ress during July. The tendency
of prices at the end of the month

was ﬁrm to slightly downward. In
contrast with the cattle market
which showed decided weakness, the
price of hogs advanced while the
lamb market closed steady Butter,
eggs and poultry were ﬁrm with
slight advances in price or values
well maintained. Grain and cotton
markets weakened while the market
for feed continued seasonally dull.

Wheat Weak

Unusually heavy receipts of win—
ter wheat, together with improved
prospects for spring grains in both
the United States and Canada, caused
continued weakness in the domestic
grain market during the ﬁrst week
of August. Generally favorable prog-
ress of the European crops and lower
foreign markets were also weakening
factors. Prices of all grains shOWed
further declines compared with those
of the previous week but soft winter
wheat continued to bring relatively
large premiums over hard winter
wheat

Corn and Oats Easy

The corn market weakened slight-

ly as a result of continued favorable

weather following the closing out of ,

the July contracts, the ﬁlling of
which had temporarily increased the
demand for corn and brought about
unusually high premiums for spot
grain. Receipts were somewhat
smaller than the heavy movement of
the previous week but stocks are re-
latively small in the markets and are
held principally at Chicago The
movement of new oats to central-
western markets increased and prices
declined somewhat, but the market
shared in the strength of corn and
had rather a ﬁrm undertone. Larger
offerings of barley weakened the
market for that grain but there was
a fairly active demand from malt—
sters and exporters which absorbed
the current receipts.

Feeds Dull

The feed market continued season-
ally dull featured by poor demand
and a price decline in most important
feeds, except corn feeds. The mar-
ket for concentrated feeds, including
linseed meal and cottonseed meal,
was generally inactive, weak and
lower. Corn feeds were reﬂecting the
strength in the corn market and held
generally ﬁrm. Alfalfa meal - was

lower.

Hay Steady
Hay markets held practically
steady. Receipts were generally

light but contained a. large percent-
age of new hay much of which was
out of condition. Middlewestern al-
falfa markets were somewhat irregu-
lar. Heavy offerings of prairie weak—
ened the market for that hay.

Cattle Ofl’

Increased receipts and a draggy
dressed beef market resulted in de-
cided weakness in the cattle market
at Chicago. Declines of 25c—75c per
100 pounds were rather common and,
in some instances, particularly on
grass cows and heifers, extreme de-
clines for the week ranged from $1—
32. The yearling light steer market
continued to decline. As the run of
there
was no such downturn in these
grades.

Hogs Advance ..

Receipts of hogs for the week were

"si-ightly less than. a week earlier.

(There was a broad shipping demand-

and prices showed net advances

{ranging from 10c to 25c per 100

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pounds.
Lambs Steady
The lamb trade was satisfactory

throughout the week. Receipts were
somewhat lighter than a week earli-

[er and lambs closed steady to 25c-

higher for the week. Sheep were
steady to strong but feeding lambs
were weak. The top on fat range
lambs was 315.50 and on natives
$15.25. Washington and Montana
lambs showed the best quality and

 

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topped the market, although there
were some Idaho lambs which also
brought the top.-
Wool Uneven
There was a tendency toward ex-
pansion in the wool trade during the
week. There was, however, consid-
erable unevenness in the demand as
only a few of the mills are now buy-
ing in quantity. Prices were about
steady, although in some instances
slight declines were in evidence.
Butter Firm
The butter market during the week
of July 30 to August 4 ruled ﬁrm
with a slight price advance effective
at all markets. Although at no time
during the week ,could trade have

ness, from all appearances, to keep
the market alive. The old crop is
reported pretty well cleaned up and

he trade is now looking forward to

the "new crop.

DETROIT SEEDS
Cloverseed, domestic, cash, $17.50;
October, $18.50; December, $18.25.
Alsike, $16.25. Timothy, cash, $2.30;
December, $2.75.

DETROIT LIVE POUIII‘RY

(Commission merchants’ gross re-
turns per pound to farmers, from
which prices '5 percent commission
and transportation charges are de—
ductible.) _‘,

Market ﬁrm. Broilers, 3 lbs. up,
rocks, 37c; reds and others, 35c; leg—
horns, 2 lbs. and up, 280; smaller
sizes, 2 to 30 less. Hens: Colored,
over 4 1b., 28c; smaller, 25@25c;
leghorns and anconas, 21c. Cocks,

 

 

MARKET REPORTS BY RADIO DAILY
HE Michigan Business Farmer was ﬁrst to broadcast farm market

reports in Michigan (January 4, 1926).
news are now available as follows:

Market reports and farm
WGHP (277.6 meters), 6:05

to 7:00 P. M.; WKAR (277.6), 12:00_M.; WWJ (352.7), 5:45 P. M.:
WCX-WJB (440.9), 4:15 P. M.——Editor.

 

been called brisk, there was suffi-
cient business to prevent large stock
accumulations. .

Eggs Steady '

The egg market continued steady
to ﬁrm throughout the first week of
August with” values well maintained.
The cheese market was steadier. Be-
cause of the seemingly high price
level, buyers continued to conﬁne
purchases to immediate needs. On
the Wisconsin Cheese Boards there
was no change in ruling prices.

Poultry Firm

Receipts of dressed poultry have
been moderate. With demand good,
the market ruled ﬁrm, and this re-
sulted in a very close clearance of.
most stocks.

Potatoes Impmve

Eastern potato markets registered
great improvement over the week be-
fore. Eastern Shore shipments to-
taled only 1,800 cars from Virginia
and 600 from Maryland, and the
f. o. b. price reached top of $1.85
per barrel but declined to $1.75 by
Saturday. Kansas and Missouri Cob-
blers sold at 80c-95c in the Chicago
carlot market, after having reached
top of $1.

BEANS

CHP beans are back up to 38.50
again with just about enough busi—

:5

180. Ducks: White, 4% lbs. and up,
23c; colored and small, 20c. Geese,
15c.

DETROIT BUTTER AND EGGS

Butter ﬁrm; creamery in tubs, 88
to 90 score, 43 lé @45c. Eggs steady;
fresh ﬁrsts, 30@32c.

BOSTON WOOL MARKET

The Commercial Bulletin says:

“There has been more business in
wool, sometimes at slightly lower
prices. Sales have been heaviest ap—
parently in eight months Texas wools
at around $1 clean bais, although
half—blood combing wool is the
strongest quality in the market. Fine
staple wools and quarter—bloods are
very slow. Woolen Mills are buying
very sparingly.

“Rather more business in piece
goods is reported, and some manu-
facturers are buying against these
orders, but they are hard buyers.

"The foreign markets are quiet
and waiting for the Australian open~
ing at Sydney, August 20. ,,Mean—
while, Bradford is selling short for
October and later delivery at slightly
lower prices.

“Mohair is quiet but firm.

“Rail and water shipments of wool
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THE BUSINESS FARMER'S MARKET SUMMARY
and Comparison with Markets Two Weeks Ago and One Year Ago

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Detroit (111mm Detroit Detroit
Aug. 11 Aug. 11 July 28 1 ’1'. ago

WHEAT—-

No. 2 Red $1.332 551-38 $1.37

No. 2 White L32 L38 1.80

No. 2 Mixed 1.32 1.38 1.35
cons-—

No. 2 Yellow 1 09 1 00 1-16 1.18

No. 3 Yellow 1 07 1-14 10
oars

No. 2 White .69 .30 it @ .40 .73 .50 a

N0. 8 White .66 .71 .49
urn-— '

Cash No. a 1.05 1 18 1.02
BEANS— i

o. H. P. th. 8.50 8-05 5.85
POTATOES—

Per th. 1.70 .60 @ .85 1.50 4@4.25
ﬂAY— ' v '

No. 1 Tim. 16 @17 21@2a 15 1e 15

No. 2‘ Tim. 12@ 13.50 19 ‘ 12.50 13 14

No. 1 Olover 1a@14 as 13314 14915 ~

night Mixed 15 @ 10 al@as 159 10 149 15

 

 

market unclassiﬁed. Hogs close 'higher.

Saturday, August 11.—Beari§1 crop Import sends grains to new low level. Bean

 

 

Lambs active.

 

 

 

 

 

August 9 were 97 057, 000 pounds,
against 123 ,‘908, 000 the same 1161103
last year. Receipts Were 237 656, 900
against 283, 755, 725. '

Michigan and New York ﬂeeces:

Delaine unwashed, 43@44c; ‘25

blood combing, 47@48~c; ‘85 blood-

combing, 54@55c; 1.4 blood comb-
ing, 53@54c. - ‘ ' 1

~ LIVESTOCK MARKETS

CHICAGO—Hogs: Market closed at ad-
vance, mostly 2563M higher than yester—

day’s average; top, $12 paid for 18010,

200 lbs; shippers took 7,000; estimated
holdover 2,000; butchers, medium to
choice, 250 to 350 lbs, $10.85@11.75; 200
to 250 lbs, $11@12; 160 to 200 lbs, $10.85
@12; 134 to 160 lbs, $10.25@11.35; pack-

ing sows, 39.758101”; pigs, medium to '

good, 90 to 130 lbs, 38.75@11.25. Cattle:
Forced market on steers and she stools;
sizeable proportion carried over for next
week’s market; best steers, $15.40 ; weigh-
ty steer trade temporme saturated;
slaughter classes, steers, good and choice,
1, 300 to 1,500 lbs, 314.25@16. 50; .1100
to 1,300 lbs, 314. 25@16. 75; 9-58 to 1,100
lbs, ”4.5061635; common and medium,
850 lbs up, 396111.503, fed yearlings, good
and choice, 750 to 950 lbs, 314. 50@16. 85;
heifers, good and choice, 850 lbs down,
314. 25@16. 75; common and medium, 389
14. 50; cows, good and choice, 39 50@13;
common and medium, $7.75@9.50: low
cutter and cutter, 36.25@7.75; bulls, good
and choice (beef), $9.65@11; cutter to
medium, $7.25@9.65; vealers (milk-fed),
good and choice, $16@18; medium, $186
16; cull and common, “@13; stacker and
feeder steers, good and choice (all
weights), $11.‘75@13.75; common and me-
dium, $8.50@11.75. Sheep: Fat lambs ac—
tive, mostly steady, quality considered;
more variable quality on range lambs;
most natives are valued to sell at early in
week; small Simply of feeding lambs un-
changed; lambs, good and choice (92 lbs
down), 814@15 55; medium, $12@14; dull
and common, 38. 50@12; ewes, medium to
choice 0 lb down), 34. 50@7. 25; cull
and c 111,011 81. 75@5. 50: feeder lambs,
good and choice, 313. 50@14.

EAST BUFFALO—Cattle: Slow. Hogs:
Strong , heavy, 311. 75 @12; medium and
mixed, 312.35@12. 40; yorkers and pigs.
$12. 25@12. 50. Sheep: Lower, top lambs.
315815. 25; year-lingo, 311612. 25; weth-
:11?“ $8. “@3. 50; ewes, $6@7. 50. Calves,

 

 

 

 

Week of August 19
ARLY part of the week of the
of the 19th will be warm and

rainy. In fact, before Tuesday
some parts of Michigan may expect
some rather hard rains.
Temperatures will drop somewhat
before the middle but will again rise
by Wednesday or Thursday. During
these latter two days there will also
be some storminess. Immediately
following this last storm period the
temperatures are expected to fall.
From this date until the end of the
month the temperatures will probably
remain more or less below the sea-
sonal average.

Week of August 26

Temperatures at the beginning of
this week will range close to the sea—
sonal normal. In fact, we look for
no real warm weather much before
Thursday or Friday of this week.

Thunder and rain storms are
scheduled for the greater part of the
ﬁrst half of this week in many parts
of the state. Immediately following
the middle of the week the sky will
clear resulting in a day or two of fair
weather.

Temperatures will be rising about
Thursday with the result of the last
end of the week being warm. - During
the last days there will, he wind and
rain stems with thunder, some of
them locally heavy.

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WILL NOT DEFEND PHEASA’NTS
EAR EDITOchDefend the pheas-
ants? I should say not! I have
seen six acres of corn destroyed

by them. This pretty fowl is nice to

look at, but I think Mr. Robert Wil—
lison. can give any one. a little talk in
regard to them. I helped him plant
the seed that this “pheasants' deal"
is taken from. This seed cost him
$12.00 a bushel; he planted- the

ground twice. and they scooped the

whole thing out. or at least, hedldu't
get an ear of corn. One neighbor
had three roosters killed by them.
another had forty little» turkeys
killed by then. Mon any farmer in

this locality says the best we to-

protect the pheasant is with a shot
gun. -
The pheasant is a nice, pretty
fowl; I can give it credit for being
a mndy destroyer of mils and par-
tridge nests; this ts be eating for
the pheasant. The man that raises
them and keeps them in captivity, is
the only one that is doing the pheas-
ant justice. I have travelled over
central and southern Michigan and
most every one you see, who has any-
thing to do with the pheasant, con-
demns the law of protecting same.
This fowl would have been thought
just as much of or more, if it had
been left in its own country; the
sparrow has the same language.
They have cost the county hundreds
of dollars for bounties on them. It
will come to a bounty on the pheas-
ants, as soon as people see there is
no other way to stop their thieving
and killing game -—C. H. Berry
County.
__________ 0
HOME LIFE: WHAT SHOULD
BE OUR IDEAL?

EAR EDITOR: In taking up its
consideration the mind assumes
a reminiscent mood and we re-
visit that sacred spot—our child-
hood's happy Homeuand all of its
dear scenes and fond memories are
ours again. The Home life of our
childhood. How those days and
scenes do come back to us and we

.say, “Backward, turn backward, oh

Time in thy ﬂight. 'Make me a child
again just for tonigh.’

And the teardrop glistens in the
eye as in memory we live again those
dear scenes. But it is the Home life
of our later years that we are now
to consider.

Home; one of the dearest words
and it should mean all that is best
and blessedr Home: where the chil-
dreniorm those habits which remain
during their entire lives and make or
mar their future life. Home: where
the family gathers as a unit com-
posed of component parts. Home:

where joys are increased and sot?

rows decreased.

The Ideal Home should possess
neither poverty or large wealth but
just enough for the supplying of all
needs and a supply for charity, this
as a result of industry and frugality.

To be the ideal the home life must
have activities which produce resdlts
along lines of that which is noble
in character building, and it’ has
been claimed that the ﬁrst seven
years of a. child’s life determines the
future character and these formative
years are passed within the Home,
and how essential is it that these
years have the inﬂuences of the Ideal
Home.

The Home should be made attrac-
tive to the eye, both within and with-
out. - A well kept lawn with shade
trees and ﬂowering plants and all in
harmony. Within the home conven-
iences should be generously provided
for. Good books and choice ﬂowers
and such arrangement of labors as
will provide opportunity for the en-
joyment of these. Some of the most
essentials are patience, kindness and
helpfulness and these cannot be omit—
ted it Home life is to be what it
ought to be.

say it is easy to build an at-

  

‘maintain such a Home as will be a

lasting monument when life’s labors
are past.

Let it ever be remembered that it
is the Christian .homes of America
wherein rests our Nation's safety
and let us do our part in helping to
maintain such a Home, remembering
ever that “Home's not merely four
square walls, with pictures hung and
gilded. Home is where affection

' cam, ﬁlled with shrines the heart has

buﬂdod.”——-J_. T. Daniella, Clinton
County.

CROP OUTLOOK BETTER
THAN LAM MONTH
1TH seasonalvle weather in most
W sections of Michigan during
July, the August 1 production
forecast for practically all crops was
increased over the previous month
according to report by Herbert E.
Powell, Commissioner of Agriculture
and Verne H. Church, Agricultural
Statistician for Michigan. With the
exception of corn, beans, sugar beets
and apples the condition of all crops
in the State on August 1 was as high
as the ten—year average or above.
Oats and barley are excellent
throughout the State; and if average
weather continues through harvest,
these crops will have the largest pro-
duction since 1918.

Following the disastrous rains in
June which destroyed many bean
ﬁelds and prevented some replanting
in the heavy bean section, there was
an excessive amount of rainfall in
July over much of the same area.
The condition- is lOWest in the heavy
producing section and is only '10. per
cent for the entire State. This con-
dition of beans forecasts a production
of 5,460,000 bushels which is larg-
er than last year.

{crop Reports

Hillsdale.~—~Have been having some ﬁne
hot weather which surely has made corn
boom. Harvest. pretty well along, this
week will see last of the oats out. Second
cutting of alfalfa ready to be taken care
of. Threshing has started in this vicinity.
*0. H., Aug. 6

M o n t c a. l m.—Two nice rains which
seemed a. Godsend to farmers. Crops look-
ing good in this vicinity. Harvest on in
full blast. Veal calf prices very good.
Second cutting of hay looking 800d. Quo-
tations from Stanton: Wheat, $1.30; corn,
60c; oats. 600; rye, 95¢; beans, $6.00;
butter, 50c; eggs. 27c.——Mrs. C. T., Aug. 6.

Midland—Continued rain has damaged
all crops. Wheat in some places washed
from ﬁelds into gulleys. Oats have been
down and ground so soft cannot get on
with machinery. Some wheat standing in
shock. Beans standing in water in many
ﬁelds. Potatoes taking on white spots.
Quotations from Midland: Wheat, $1.28;
oats,“55c; rye, 92c: beans, $9.00; pota—
toes, $l.40; butter, 440; eggs, 27c.———B. V.
0., Aug. 5.

Saginuaw.—Woe be to farmers when tax
time comes. Ground in full of water, some
ﬁelds you can’t see any land. Can’t tell
how much damage has been done but it
will be heavy. Wheat all cut, some in
barn and some standing in ﬁelds. Oats
ready to out but soft for binders. Quota-
tions from Hemlock: Wheat, $1.23; corn,
$1.00; oats, 30c; rye, 900; beans, $8.50;
butter, 440; eggs, 32c.—-—F. D., Aug. 6.

E. Huron—Rain, a. record for 26 years.
this date. Mowers and loaders stalled in
wet uncut hay. Binders miring in over-
ripe grain. Pastures getting rank and
dirty for stock. The ﬂat land farmer is
looking for berries. Summer fallow is a
mire and creeks are running like spring.
All crops in danger, some a complete loss.
Very few meat cattle. Hogs in thin
ﬂesh and less numerous. Fat ewes still
slow sale. All prices shifting with lower
tendency. Farmers" help scarce—E. R.,
Aug. 6. ‘

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