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American Agriculturist, Marcli 10,1923 
The 1,000 Mile Shoe 
Double'Tanned^—Double Wear 
*‘I am a fanner. Weigh 216 
lbs. and shoes were hard to 
get that would last me 3 to 6 
months. I offered merchants 
$26 a year to keep me in shoes. 
They refused. I bought a pair 
of Wolverines Oct. 8,1921, and 
they are still on my tootsies 
after 812 days of continuous 
service. I will always be a 
booster for the Wolverine 1000 
Mile Shoe. (Signed) 
WILLIAM HALDIMAN 
California, Mo. 
The Plowboy 
For plowing here’s 
the shoe. High enough 
to keep out dirt, low 
enough for coolness. It 
fits snug and protects 
and supports the ankles 
going over rough, 
broken ground. And it 
wears like iron. 
Ask for Stock Nos. 
311 - 306 
It Wbars 1000 Miles 
and it stays soft—rain or shine 
We are exclusive makers of work 
shoes made of horsehide double- 
tanned by our own secret process. 
This is our specialty. Our every 
energy is bent on making the world’s 
strongest work shoes. To insure the 
best wearing leather 
we do our own tan¬ 
ning, in our own spe¬ 
cialized tanneries. We 
tan horsehide, and it 
is known as the tough¬ 
est fibre leather on 
earth, yet we make it 
soft and pliable as 
buckskin. Horsehide 
is used to cover league 
baseballs because it is 
the only leather tough 
enough to stand the 
pounding. 
And it stays soft 
when double tanned 
our way. When other leathers get 
wet they dry out hard. Wolverine 
double-tanned horsehide stays soft. 
Wet it, soak it in water, snow, slush, 
mud, and it dries out soft and flexible 
as velvet. Wear Wolverine shoes and 
you’ll say you have gained an entirely 
new conception of shoe service, en¬ 
durance and comfort. 
We are the largest tanners of 
horsehides for work shoes in the 
country. We buy only the choicest 
hides. In making Wolverine shoes, 
we use only the strongest part of each 
hide—the butts, where the fibre is 
toughest and most enduring. 
you’ll say that 
Wolverine Shoes 
are the most econom¬ 
ical shoes you ever 
owned, and you’ll re¬ 
joice in the comfort 
they give you. Notice 
how thick the leather 
is, and then feel how 
soft it is. Just like 
velvet. Yet Wolverines 
wear like iron. And they 
never tire your feet. 
We make a Wolver¬ 
ine work shoe for 
every purpose. All are 
horsehide through iand 
through. For field and factory, for 
lumber and mining camp or oil fields, 
for hunting and motoring, where a 
husky, hard-wearing, comfort-giving 
shoe is needed, there is a special 
Wolverine shoe. 
If your dealer hasn’t the Wolverine 
we’ll see that you are supplied them 
by our nearest dealer, Write^ to us 
for catalog. 
Wolverine 
Comfort Shoe 
This Wolverine is so pliable and 
soft you can double it u_p lijce a 
moccasin. It wears like iron but 
you’ll hardly know you have a 
shoe on, it is so soft and easy. 
For tender feet, or where you do 
not encounter wet weather, wear 
this Comfort Shoe. You’ll find it 
a blessing to the feet. 
Wolverine Shoe & Tanning Corp* 
Formerly The Michigan Shoemakers 
iA change of Name only) 
Dept. 197 Rockford, Michigaa 
Give The Hen a Rest 
Dormant Period as Necessary to Poultry as to Cows 
T he old saying that By O. W. 
“there is nothing 
new under the sun” does not seem to 
apply in these days of heavier than air 
flying machines, wireless telegraphy, 
and artificial lights in the hen house. 
It may be true in the case of matter 
but does not seem to apply in the case 
of ideas. 
Most students of the problem of in¬ 
creased egg production seem to be tak¬ 
ing it for granted that the same rules 
which apply in the improvement of 
dairy cows by breeding from pedigreed 
cows of known high production apply 
equally as well in the case of egg pro¬ 
duction, but I feel disposed to challenge 
this view. 
My belief is that the production of a 
first egg by a pullet, or by a hen whose 
egg producing organs have been dor¬ 
mant for a time, due to broodiness or 
other cause, is more nearly comparable 
to a heifer’s or other mammal’s first 
menstrual period. When once started 
they continue at regular stated intervals 
over which we have little or no control, 
provided the food supplied contains all 
the elements needed to sustain the 
MAPES necessary prelude t o 
milk production. 
The use of lights in the hen house 
has sprung a new set of problems on 
poultry keepers that cry out for solu¬ 
tion. 
Will it pay to use lights during late 
summer and fall ? How long a rest for 
moulting should be given before resum¬ 
ing lights? How to get back from 
lights to natural daylight without dis¬ 
aster and how to avoid a winter or 
spring moult accompanied by a slump 
in egg production are but samples. 
I had several flocks on which I used 
lights during August and September, 
and some had no lights until November. 
When resuming lights at different times, 
results were far from satisfactory. 
In two flocks only about 15 per cent 
to 20 per cent of the hens laid. These 
have kept it up now for two months or 
more but few new recruits at this writ¬ 
ing. In another flock about half of the 
flock started to lay and fiave continued 
to do so, but the reminder are still 
dormant at this writing, February 7th. 
Another flock of 202 hens, two and three 
years old, were given lights January 
Makes “the Hen Man,” say “crowd them for nine months and then rest 
them for three” 
bodily functions and produce the eggs, 
in such amounts as can be used without 
clogging up the system with too much 
of one or more elements. 
To my mind the question of deter¬ 
mining these food requirements for the 
laying hen is of vastly more importance 
than the question of heredity. 
It seems to me that some of the effort 
now being devoted to trap-nesting indi¬ 
viduals in our egg laying contests, etc., 
might better be diverted to finding out 
more about how to feed and care for a 
flock so that once a pullet or hen starts 
to lay she will be able to keep it up 
with the regularity of the menstrual 
period in mammals. 
I have had opportunity during recent 
months to observe the performance of 
different flocks along these lines that 
have proved quite interesting. The ans¬ 
wers have especial value because they 
have all been flocks of about 200 birds 
each, instead of the usuah small experi¬ 
mental flock of five to twenty. 
I can well remember how sixty years 
ago on my father’s farm, as well as on 
his neighbors’ farms, it was customary 
to winter a lot of yearling and two year 
old heifers on straw, dry corn stalks 
and dry hay. The result was that when 
spring came the heifers were far from 
thrifty as most of us now think of a 
thrifty heifer. 
Those heifers almost invariably bred 
for the first time in June or July and 
freshened the next March or April. If 
one or more did not come in heat at that 
time as a yearling, so as to freshen as 
a two year old she usually waited an¬ 
other year before menstruation set in 
and did not freshen for the first time 
until three years old. 
What has this to do you will ask with 
egg production. 
Those straw-fed heifers were low in 
vitality as spring approached but when 
turned out on flush pasture for a month 
or two, there was a quickening of all 
their bodily powers, including sexual 
powers, and by June or July their men¬ 
strual periods started into action as a 
9th, but laid no eggs until January 18th, 
when they started with two eggs a day 
and rapidlly increased until on February 
4th, they laid 105 eggs, a yield of over 
50 per cent. ^ 
A companion flock of 202 hens of 
same age were laying 5 or 6 eggs a 
day on January 9th, when lights were 
installed, and on February 4th, they laid 
110 eggs. These latter two flocks you 
notice practically all began to lay with¬ 
in about three weeks after lights were 
installed, while only a portion of the 
other flocks responded. What was the 
reason ? 
Another thing of interest in connect¬ 
ion with these latter two flocks is that 
we had an expert from our Poultry 
Project organization come and help us 
pick out the poor birds or culls from 
this lot, in order to use the good ones 
as breeders. 
When he got through we had the two 
flocks of 202 hens each and a pen of 
culls numbering 166. It is Of interest 
. to note that this pen of poor birds or 
culls is now laying a daily yield of 45 
per cent, almost as much as the others. 
All have had the same care and feed. 
Looking back to see how their treat¬ 
ment differed from the first three pens 
mentioned I find this difference. 
The first three pens mentioned, I 
find, had the regular laying mash all 
through the time when they were re¬ 
cuperating from the moult, while the 
latter three pens had a ration from 
which all meat scrap, milk powder and 
alfalfa meal had been eliminated. There 
was practically no change in feed when 
lights were installed in the first three 
pens, but the meat scrap, milk powder 
and alfalfa meal was added to the dry 
mash for the latter three pens at the 
same time lights were installed, making 
a change as pronounced as the change 
from dry straw, hay and corn stalks to 
June pasture, in the case of the heiters 
mentioned, with the same results. 
It is comparatively- easy_ to secure 
an egg yield of 50 per cent in 
from pullets, but when 500 to 600 old 
