/ otjntn IbMfc Vol. 26 EAST JORDAN, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1922. No. 52 MICHIGAN SEED SPUDS MRS. MARY E. HESTON sylvania. Make Changes in CALIPH ABDUL MEDJI0 It may be remembered that a few OUTYIELD ALL RIVALS PASSED AWAY AT JfSSOTL years ago a carload of potatoes went DETROIT, DEC. 16TH. O from Michigan into Pennsylvania for Dry Law Force Outyielding native varieties by wide demonstrational purposes. This car margins, certified seed potatoes from Mrs. Mary E. Heston passed away5 at load of seed out yielded all other com­ Michigan have made a name For them­ the home of her grandson, Clark C. peting) seed by an average of 67.7 Prohibition Director Sayr Eight selves in many neighboring states dur­ Coulter, at Detroit, Saturday, Dec. 16, B.' O. HAGERMAN bushels to the acre. Consequently, ac­ ing the past season, according to re­ States to Have New Chiefs. the direct cause of her death being Co. Agricultural Agent., Boyne City. cording to Dr. Nixon of Pennsylvania, ports just given out by_H. C. Moore, paralysis, having suffered several the farmers of that state are clamoring secretary of the Michigan Potato Pro­ strokes during the past few years. for Michigan grown seed. Washington—Heorganization ot me ducers Association and extension spe­ USE POTATOES FOR It is with this idea in view that the prohibition unit will begin on New Deceased was born at Homer, N. Y., cialist at the Michigan Agricultural FEEDING LIVE STOCK certified seed producers of Charlevoix Year's day with appointments, dis­ College. July 22nd, 1846, her maiden name be­ missals and transfers in the official ing Mary E. Brown. and Emmet Counties are sending this ranks of the dry force throughout the In Pennsylvania, Michigan certified Mrs. Heston was among the early The following few lines which have carload of certified seed to the mem­ United States, it was stated at Com­ seed potatoes grown on C4 farms in residents of East Jordan, having resid­ been compiled from an outside source bers of the Boys and Girls Clubs in missioner Haynos' office Monday. Butler County outyielded home-grown ed here for some forty years. She was may serve as a possible partial solution Indiana. , seed stocks by 39.3 per cent. Two For more effective campaigning always active in the social and religious to our present surplus of potatoes. It At the Potato Show at Grand Rapids, against the drug traffic, it is likely thousand acres planted to Michigan welfare of our city and county, and for is not supposed that the methods advo­ the area around Antrim County donat­ numerous agents may be transferred seed in various parts of the same state years was an ardent laborer in the cated in this article will serve as a com­ ed two car loads of seed to the Boys to the narcotic division. showed increase of 50 per cent over cause of the Women's Christian Tem­ plete rectifier for our present dilemna. and Girls In the Potato Clubs of Penn­ Commissioner Haynos will appoint the average home-grown seed. perance Union. She was an active However, the writer does believe that sylvania. There are also 260 Potato • a new director in Texas, a position left Reports from Ohio and Delaware vacant by a recent resignation. Sev­ member of the local Presbyterian our 30 per cent above our ten year Club members in the southern part of eral states wnere acting directors show similar results. Six growers in Church. average could be very well taken care of this state who are receiving free the Buckeye state averaged an increase now function will be uffected, either Following the death of her daughter, of according to the following sugges­ seed this year in an effort to establish of 77.5 bushels to the acre with Michi­ by appointments of directors from Dr. Winifred Heston, last spring, she tions: the superior worth of Northern grown gan seed; while demonstrations in outside the present force or by the went to Detroit where she made her "In Europe heavy yielding varieties certified seed. promotion of present state heads. Maryland brought 18.5 bushels to the home. of large sized potatoes are extensively The method of obtaining this seed is These states are Montona, Illinois, acre of increase. Wisconsin, Rhode Island, New York, The remains were taken to Charle­ grown for stock, but in this country to proportion the amount given by each Even in Michigan, the certified seed, voix, Monday, accompanied by A. L. potatoes are only fed when low in price grower in a direct ratio to the amount Louisiana and New Jersey. produced by members of the Potato Coulter of Columbus, Ohio. Funeral Prince Abdul Medjid Etfendl, wh< or to small for market. Knowing their listed for sale; a man having 300 bu. E. C. Yellowly who took charge of Producers Association under inspec­ services were held from the Congrega­ was elected by the Turkish National­ feeding value, the farmer is in a posi­ for sale will give 5 bushels. prohibition enforcement in New York tion service by M. A. C. specialists, has when Ralph Day resigned on Novem­ tional Church, Tuesday forenoon, con­ ist assembly to succeed his cousin, tion to utilize the crop wisely, for feed­ The advertising value which may be resulted in greatly increased per acre Mohammed VI, as caliph and sheik ber 1 is expected to be named direc­ ducted by Rev. C. L. Long. A short ing his livestock rather than to force it received from an enterprise of this production. Twenty-live state grow­ ul Islam—head of the Mahometan tor for that state. on a profitless market. Hotatoes are ers, according to Moore, report yields service was also read by the W. C. T. church. nature is unmeasurable. Although the The Illinois directorship was left U. Interment at Brookside Cemetery, chiefly employed for swine feeding, field is great for better seed in Michigan vacant by Che resignation of Director which average an increase of 73.8 bus­ hels. Charlevoix. but may be fed in limited amounts to it is felt that nevertheless, the outside Gregory, and Haynes will defer ap­ CHICAGO TO GET FORD PLANT cattle, sheep and horses in partial sub­ markets should be catered to and a pointment until he has conferred with Another report from Ohio comes stitution for grains. For pigs the reputation established. If this seed Senator Modill Mccormick, who has from the Ohio State University news potatoes should be boiled and mixed turnsout as it has in other states, it just returned from Europe. service: "Having bought a car and a Auto Manufacturer Acquires Title to with corn meal, The heavy feeding of will mean another good market for our Coincident with changes in the half of Michigan seed potatoes last TAX REVISION TO 70-Acre Tract of Land raw potatoes induces scouring, but may next year's certified seed. ranks of the prohibition force, police year, 80 members of the Morrow Co. be fed in limited amounts sliced and departments throughout the country (Ohio) farm bureau decided to check Chicago—Henry Ford is going to mixed with dry feed. The bitter tasting will be advised on New Year's day of up to see if it had paid them. The first RECEIVE ATTENTION build a $6,000,000 manufacturing and Automatic Lighthouse. the altered relations between them­ water in which potatoes are cooked Daylight works an automatic light­ seven farmers to report give an aver­ assembling plant in Hegewlsch, 111., a selves and prohibition agents. should be thrown away. Extensive house erected on the Swansea, Wales, age yield of 142 bushels to the acre for LEGISLATURE CONVENING JAN. 3 few miles outside of the elty limits of President Harding has sanctioned trials were carried on at the Wisconsin coast Evening, w,ith Its fading tight, the Michigan seed, compared with 102 MAY GIVE FIRST ATTENTION TO Chicago, to employ more than 16,000 Haynes' idea of letting the municipal men when completed and which, It is College on feeding potatoes to pigs. causes the Illumination of the lamp, and state police conduct raids and bushels lor home-grown seed. Ninety STATE TAX PROBLEM. while dawn extinguishes it, by chem­ per cent of the Michigan seeded crop predicted, ultimately will bo one of The results were as follows: 440 pounds enforce the Volstead act In minor the world's greatest automobile es­ ical action." and 69 per cent of the crop from Ohio of corn meal, fed alone, produced 100 cases, leaving the federal agents free tablishments, possibly in time rlvattng for work on a larger scale. seed were salable potatoes." DRASTIC PROPOSALS EXPECTED pounds of gain, and 262 pounds of corn Queer Belief Concerning Opal. the Detroit works, which Is under­ meal with 786 pounds of potatoes All of these changes are features stood to have about reached the limit The ancients believed that the opal weighed before cooking, produced 100 of Commissioner Hayne's enforce­ Inquiry Commission's Recommenda. of growth. shared the charm of every stone of ment campaign for 1923. STATE NOW RAISES Title to a 70-acre tract was taken pounds of gain. which It reiteeted the color, but when tions Are Aimed to End Inequal­ It was stolen the thief became Invis­ by the Ford Motor company Dec 21 From this we learn that 786 pounds OWN ALFALFA SEED ities Now Known to Exist. ible and was never raurht. SAYS ALLIES LACK IN WISDOM and the first of four proposed units, of potatoes when fed to pigs after be­ which will cost $1,500,000 each, is ex­ ing cooked effected a saving of 178 lbs.