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WOLVERINE 
The 1000 Mile Shoe 
CORDOVAN HORSE-HIDE 
Maywood, Nebr. 
February 12, 1924 
Wolverine Shoe & Tanning Corp. 
Rockford, Michigan 
Dear Sir: 
On April 5, 1922, I bought a 
pair of No. 340 1000-mile shoes. 
Now I am still wearing these shoes 
and they certainly were worth the 
price I paid for them. Would like 
to have your latest catalog on 
men’s shoes as I am going to need 
a pair in the near future. 
Respectfully, 
C. G. JOHNSTON, 
D. 3, Maywood, Nebr. 
“DREADNOUGHT” 
Genuine Horsehide 
Throughout 
Try This, Men- 
A 1 OOO-Mile Shoe 
That Stays Soft - Wet or Dry 
Double-tanned by Our Secret Process 
Here’s something unique in a 
work shoe. A shoe that actually 
wears l,000milesandmore. Men 
doubted this at first. Now thou¬ 
sands write us letters like the 
one above. They say they never 
knew shoes could be 
made to give such 
wear as these do. 
Now we ask you to 
try them too. 
There’s a reason 
why Wolverines are 
different from any 
other shoes. 
First, they are the 
only work shoes that 
we know of, made 
throughout of Cor¬ 
dovan horsehide. 
The toughest leather 
known. The leather 
that the finest Cossack saddles 
are made of. It is also used to 
cover big league baseballs. For it 
istheonly material strong enough 
to stand the terrific pounding. 
But heretofore it could not be 
used in work shoes. For it always 
tanned up too stiff. Now in our 
own tanneries we have a special 
process that makes it pliable. 
Even softer than ordinary leath¬ 
ers. And it always stays soft. 
Even after many wettings it 
dries out soft as velvet. Some¬ 
thing you will find in no other 
work shoe. 
We use only the choicest 
horsehides. We tan them our¬ 
selves. And we specialize on 
work shoes only. That’s why 
you’ll find Wolverines different 
from any other shoe y cu ever wore. 
You’ll never know just how 
good this shoe is till you try a 
pair. Feel the thick pliable 
leather. Soft as buckskin. Tough 
as rawhide. You’ll 
know why it out¬ 
wears three ordinary 
pairs. And feels “as 
comfortable as an 
old shoe”—even 
when it’s brand new. 
There’s a Wolver¬ 
ine horsehide shoe 
for every job. For 
lumber camp, mine, 
factory and farm— 
and for every sea¬ 
son. Send today for 
our catalog that will 
show you your shoe 
—the one exactly suited to yo*>r 
needs. 
If your dealer hasn’t Wol¬ 
verines, please write us. We 
will send our catalog at once, 
and the name of your nearest 
Wolverine dealer. 
Wolverine Shoe & 
Tanning Corp. 
Formerly Michigan Shoemakers 
Rockford, Michigan 
Please send me name of nearest Wol- | 
| verine dealer and catalog. 
| Name. . 
Address . 
P. 0. and State. 
My dealer is.... 
Wolverine 
Comfort Shoe 
This Wolverine is so pli¬ 
able and soft you can 
double it up like a moc¬ 
casin. 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 encoun¬ 
ter wet weather,wear this 
Comfort Shoe. A blessing 
to the feet. 
_ American Agriculturist, November 1, 1924 
Putting Stuff in Storage 
Conditions Must Be Right to Make It Successful 
/"ARDINARILY when we speak of these stored products, whether they be 
storage most folks immediately call potatoes, cabbage, carrots or turnips, is 
to mind the idea of cold storage. Cold the kind of storage house he has. If the 
storage is the natural method for holding cellar or store-house, whatever it maybe, 
perishables for any length of time. But is well-ventilated, well drained and so 
for the farmer, common storage is a constructed that it maintains fairly even 
practical method of holding 'at least temperature, he is quite sure of having 
part of his products for a later date, when his stock keep fairly well, 
the market may be more advantageous or 
labor conditions may be such that it will Waieh How You Store Your Seed Corn 
be more convenient to give a crop more 
intensive attention as far as preparation 
for market is concerned. 
There is a big question whether it pays 
to store. I have heard more fellows 
argue the question back and forth and in 
the end no real conclusion could be 
gathered from the argument. As I see 
it there are a lot of factors that control 
the practice even to the personal affairs of 
the individual farmer involved. 
Playing the 50-50 Game 
If a fellow is hard up for immediate 
cash lie can hardly afford to store unless 
the market is particularly strong. If that 
is the case, it may be that he can borrow 
against his holdings and thereby satisfy 
his immediate casli needs. Most farmers 
that I know, who store to any degree, play 
the 50-50 game; they sell part of the crop 
and store the rest. Then at the end of 
the year, if prices have gone down con¬ 
siderably, they feel they are lucky to have 
sold at least part when the market was up. 
If the market goes up they have the 
satisfaction of getting better prices on at 
least part of their crop. 
Of course, following that method a 
fellow doesn’t do quite as much speculat¬ 
ing as though he were to take a chance on 
the entire crop. When a fellow stores 
everything he has got, then he is speculat¬ 
ing. In fact, he is skating on pretty thin 
ice because a lot of things can happen that 
no one can foresee. 
Right now every one is wondering 
whether it will pay to store potatoes for 
the spring. We have a few facts to work 
on and they are not very encouraging. 
We know that this year’s potato crop is 
one of the biggest we have ever had and 
prices right now are way down. It seems 
hardly possible that prices can go any 
lower, although I have known them to do 
so. It does not look much like real high 
potato prices this year. 
Will It Pay This Year? 
Now the question is, Will it pay to store 
and take a chance on the mid-winter and 
spring market? For myself I think it is 
a pretty good gamble. It looks as though 
right now, in the heart of the digging 
season, this glut on the market could have 
been foreseen weeks and weeks ago. 
With a heavy crop, storing facilities have 
not been ample and farmers simply had to 
ship into the markets. After this glut is 
over, it looks as though things would 
settle down and after the first of the year 
we may see an improvement. 
One of the things that is going to 
determine what a fellow will get out of 
While I am on the subject it is well to 
include the subject of seed corn storage. 
The corn crop was short this year. We 
all know that and a lot of men are going 
to sail pretty close to the wind when it 
comes seed time next spring. It is 
several years since we have faced a con¬ 
dition quite the same as this. Corn did 
not harden right this fall and there is a lot 
of soft corn that will not make good seed 
and a lot more corn that is only medium 
which will also not make good seed unless 
it is well taken care of. Seed corn must 
be stored in a place where it will dry out 
thoroughly. Corn that is wet or even 
moist and then subject to freezing and 
thawing is bound to fail when it comes to 
seed time in the spring. It will not 
germinate. 
There is not a lot of work to storing 
seed corn properly. Any place that is dry 
is a good place to store it. And as far as 
equipment is concerned, a piece of ordi¬ 
nary chicken wire will do the job. We 
had some corn one year that we divided 
into two batches. One was hung in 
chicken wire, each ear being placed in 
every alternate mesh while the other 
bunch was kept in baskets. The basket 
stock was not properly ventilated and 
therefore not properly dried. In the 
spring it tested something like 50 to 60 
per cent, germination. The seed we hung 
in the chicken mesh tested over 90. That 
is the difference for a little pains, no 
expense and a couple of hours’ time. — 
Fred Williams, New York. 
Buy Good Seeds 
I want to get some alfalfa seed at reasonable prices. 
I am in the market for Grimm alfalfa. Can you give me 
any advice where to get it?—C- W. G., Pennsylvania. 
T HERE are several reputable concerns 
advertised in the American Agricul¬ 
turist that handle alfalfa seed. When 
you buy genuine Grimm alfalfa from a 
reliable house you can depend upon it 
that you will get genuine Grimm. There 
is one factor, however, that you should 
specify in ordering your clover seed; 
that the seed is northern grown. Our 
northern winters are too severe on 
southern grown seed, while farmers 
farther south can plant southern seed 
and get away with it very well. Scarified 
seed is also to be preferred. 
Do not try to buy good seed cheap. 
It is the same to try to buy a good auto¬ 
mobile tire cheap or a good second-hand 
automobile cheap. If you want good 
seed, pay the price, it is a whole lot 
cheaper in the end. If seed is much 
cheaper than the average, there is usually 
a reason for it. It is well to beware. 
Success in storing farm produce, such as potatoes, depends a great deal on the manner 
in which the storehouse or cellar is constructed. This house is so built that a bank of 
earth is taken advantage of, concrete adding to its permanence. 
