
. "-arhets fertile nprthWestern
' The old northwestern

During years.- past the
growth, :11! no need to seek the buyer

because the man from

set.
alWays led men westward” has now

turned the tide in the opposite direc-u

tion and the western apple man will

hereafter have to ago eastward and

across the “pond” and search for the
apple buyer ‘ -

Following the hoTheseeker who-

tapped rivers, building immense water

' ways and, by the sweat 9f his brow.

labored faithfully for years to raise‘»

the famous big red apple—folloWing

" , close in the wake of this miracle of

the northwestern scil came 111 second

man, looking for the pot of gold at the '

, end of the rainbow—the buyer, who
purchased the big rad apple at- fancy
.prices, often times on the trees, and
shipped it to 3; Waiting world at extra
fancy prices. Both made money ab-
normally in the days that. were, but
those days have passed into memory

The lure of gold has tu1ned the stem!
of the tide in an absolute reverse di- ,

rection. With steadily increased prices

and increased produCtion, the buyer i.

began to: ﬁnd the pot only half; full
of geld; then a quarter full, and many
times afterward some will-o the- -Wisp

had turned his proﬁt into loss; instead '1
of geld there Was liquid of crimson -

rue, which in the language of the trade
is called' “red ink. ” In the ages to
come history may repeat itself, but for
the present, cities and hamlets all eyer
the Union and remote corners of the

old world, are turned upside down by '

the old hemeseeker, now the commer-
cial apple grow er, in his effort to 10-
cats the man, the buyer, who once sat
under the shade of his old apple tree

: with money in hand begging for his,

crop, Yes, the stem of the tide has
turned. The mountain no longer goes
to Mohamet.

Right here in the city of Detroit

during the past few years, no thwest-I
ern boxed apples have sold a a high
premium over the very best home
stock. It is generally conceded that

the Michigan apple is far better in-

taste, keeping qu lities and in Every
way than the Wes ern fruit; however,
the WeSte‘rn apple gro'Wer seems to
know just how to put up his product,

and While the Michigan apple grower'

Was pruning and spraying to get his

neglected orchard into bearing, the ~

. northwestern growers got a foothold
3&1,- : .(‘Conthiued on Page Four) '

 

 

 

1,, oc-roagaﬁ‘ﬂ‘pst our luck!

East came » .
and worshiped and prayed fer the “v
privilege of buying fancy northwestern

‘ apples at any price the gTQWerlinightﬂ
The lure of gold, Which. has.

county alone.

Something always has to happen!

Here we are

with corn cribs a‘nd stbrehouses ﬁlled “with products from the farm,
and thousands 'of bushels stiil In the ﬁelds and no place to put them.
-we want To sell at once, but prices are low. Truly, it is just one
Doggone it all, anyway "-—-(The Drama of

"aha-f thing after another.
1&12w—Lasf Act).

 

 

"susrnAclsrs LOSE:

ON THE n'ecoUNT

1

:Lose 1,241 Votes in Wayne County—v

lrrpgularlfics‘ and Unfairncss' on
the Vote Apparent Everywhere. ,

Whatever the, ﬁnal effect of the re-

' cou‘nt'on the vote for Equal Suffrage ’
1,111 this state may be, .it is conceded by

all Who have had anything to do with

i-the matter that the recount has served
. to show how irregular and uncertain is
.the present election system in some
‘respects.
in the, different Wards and townships

.i‘n'Wa'yne county, irregularities Were
: found everywhere.

In going over the vote cast

Through the re-
count the cause has suffered a loss of

1,241,.making the-totalwote against v‘

the amendment in Wayne county more

than 12,000. »

.Although the recounting of. the votes

:only added to t-he.rn'ajority of the

“antis” in the county, those interested
in the women’s cause hope to gain in
the end by forcing the ‘board of can-

,vassers in this as well as the other

counties in which a recount has been
had, to. throw out the ballots unini-

‘tialed by the inspectorssn the booths.
~ Should they be successful in this, it
'will‘ probably 1esult in a victory for
' the women, but at the cost of‘the dis-

franchisement of 11,861 voters in this
The legal and moral

"\ separated from

1 value of these votes is at this time an

open question.

At the time of the laying out of the
present ballot system the vote for
amendments was placed on the regu—
lar election ballot. Several years later
the amendment part of the ballot was
the rest and the
amendments were placed on separate
ballots. Several years following that
a. section was added to the election
law which necessitated the number-
ing and initiaJing of the regular elec-
tion ballots, but no notice was taken
of the amendment ballots in this re
spect in that nor any other section of
the election laws.

If as many errms occurred in con-
nection with the regular ballots, it is
hard to tell who was elected. Some—
thing should be done to prevent this
gross carelessness 011 the part of the
election boards.

The question as to whether the bal-
—lots did not contain the initials of the
inspectors are legal or not. is to be
determined soon, as Attorney John F.
O’Keefe, of Saginaw, has prepared :1
petition and presented it to the circuit
court for a mandamus to restrain the
canvassers from counting certain bal—
lots and from proceeding with the re-

count on suffrage in this county until ‘

the court has rendered an opinion of
the legality of the ballots. 1

The petition recites that the placing
of inspector’s initials on any corner

(Continued on Page Four)

 

At the time of going to

’ Oats, Standard . . . .
Rye~ . . . .
~Beans ...-. ..

u,

Butter

 

LAST MINUTE QUOTATIONS.

fo110wing “last minute” quotations: '
‘I Wheat, No. 1 White (large mills paying) ........ $1.05
Wheat, No.2,Rcd (large mills paying) .........

Hay (best market today, New York), at ........ 22.00
- Potatoes (best market today, Philadelphia) at. .

press, the wires bring us the

1.06
.37
.63

2.28

 

 

" ‘ the speculators’

50 WEEKS

PER COPY I OR MORE

1 BIG SLUMP LN ‘
GOLD STORAGE EGGS

\

' IT IS ISAID THAT’OHICAGO SPECU-

LATORS WERE GLAD TO GET
RID OF THEIR STOCK AT A
LOSS OF TWO CENTS
PER DOZEN.

' ”Cold Storage Stock/ls Surely Going. ‘

Lower—No Fear at the Present
Time of Any Great Change in
the Price for Strictly

' Fresh Eggs.

Forty-eight thousand dozen eggs
were thrown overboard by local specu-
lators in Chicago the ﬁrst of the week.
So anxious were the speculators to get
rid of their storage eggs that they
dumped them upon the market at a‘
loss of two cents per dozen. They
tried to get rid of several thousand
dozen more, but couldn’t ﬁnd any
takers.

The trouble with the egg situation

'in Chicago is laid at the doors of the

members of the price committee of
the Butter and Egg Board, which was
recently dissolved.

For tw0 months these committees
have been shoving prices upward with-
out regard to the demand and supply.
The board, already under federal ﬁre
for such activities, abandoned its com~
‘mittees three days ago and left prices
to be regulated by real market condi-
tions. .

South Water street commission men
said the price of eggs is nowhere near
the bottom and predict that with over
a million and a half cases in cold stor-
age ready for the winter demand, eggs
will drop close to 10 cents a dozen
before ' New Years. unless severe
weather intervenes.

During the day many holders of
storage eggs showed a panic to get
out of their obligations and offered to
sell at: 20 cents eggs that had cost
them 22 cents last April, without re-
gard to cold storage charges for the
eight months since that time. With
four carloads dumped overboard they
could get rid of 110 more.

According to the Warehousemen’s
Association, there are 1,670,355 cases
of eggs now in storage, 341,374 cases
more than at this time last year. Most
are held by small speculators, who
borrowed money to make the pur- ,.
chases last spring, or made loans on
warehouse receipts after the eggs had
been stored. Loan brokers and banks
are said to be pressing these specu-
lators for margins, forcing them to
turn their holdings into cash. ,

Undoubtedly the panic among the
Chicago speculators will result in a
tumble in the cold storage product
throughout the United States, and it
is barely possible that we shall see a
lower price for eggs of all kinds dur-
ing the next 30 days. We still main—

' tain that there is demand enough at

home to take all of the strictly fresh
product, and we see no reason why
the farmer should sell even if the price
sags for a few days. ,

Farmers will not shed tears over
losses, as the eggs
that were put in storage were bought
from the farmers at from 15 to 18
cents per dozen.

 

Ask, on a: postal, for 25 or‘ 50 copies to distribute
DO IT TODAY, PLEASE

and neighbors.

 

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ems
. _. greatwchmput
. not so this season esp all

respect to the commercial possihi is
got this given? commodity- We .4; 11111
it shows 118,218 producers and distribuA
tors of hay. that we simply must do

something out of the ”Ordinary this sea-
son in order that the best po'sSi-bl'e Te: ‘
. s‘ults may be the outcome. We think

that you should feel the importance or
conservatism and justified action 111
the handling of the given situation;

we ha‘Ve not experienced a season just-

like this in a long time.- We have not

Lhad the conditions ‘which confront 11:
this year, to cope With. So to speak.
it has been a comparatively easy prop-
osition in the past. It is possible, and
we really feel most true, that your
handling of the proposition in the past
could have been improved upon won'-
derfully, but with the advanced prices

_which were natural on the face 01

conditions existing, you were able to

‘ obtain a much better price, that you >

felt satisﬁed. 'It is certainly true that
the ones who have done the business
end of your business, acted as your
agents in putting your commodities en
the market, have reaped a handsome
reward in the past ﬁve years. We wish!
you to appreciate the businessrespon-
sibility upon you, that one thing is
meant in the producing of the crop,
but the most important is meant in
the proper disposition of it. This
season we certainly have an enormous
quantity of bay to make disposition
of As we haVe already demonstrated
and enlarged upon, there is only a.
very small percentage of the same
which will result in being high-class
hay in any of the given grades. Ninpty
per cent of the entire crop this season
we feel is damaged; possibly, not
enough to denote a commercial dam-
age, but appearance at the least. This
means that not over 10 per cent of all
the hay we have for disposition will
run nice and bright in color.

Now, readers, what are we going to
do? Are we going to sit down and
study the situation carefully and try
to frame up some course of action
that we will pursue, and what will the.
trend of this given action be? With—
out studying the situation any more
than we always have, does it not show
that if we have an abundance of bay
for disposition and that only 10 per
cent of the same is high in color and
correspondingly in quality and in sell-
ing strength, that we have a perfect
right, based on a legitimate commer-
cial principle, to hold this kind of hay

‘back and allow those who have the

common qualities of hay to gradually-
make disposition thereof? Does it not
also show that if we should continue
to place freely on the market this com~
modity .on basis of conditions that
exist, that we will not only hold' the
market where it now is, but have a
tendency to make .it of a top-heavy
nature and possibly demoralize it? We
contend that it is possible to either'
demoralize the hay market in every
direction or to make it quite satisfac-
tory, and that it is absolutely up to
you as a producer which condition

 

HAY—-—MlCl-HGAN ZONVE PRICES.“

Zone ..No‘.- 1 Michigan ......... $12.60
Zone No. 2 Michigan ......... 18.50.
Zone No. 3 Michigan .......... 14.60
Zone No. 4 Michunkn ......... 14.60
Zone No. 6. Michigan: ........ 11.60
20111: No. 6 Michigan ......... 14.60
Zone No. 7 Michigan ......... 15.00

NOTE—The prices given are on a
,bnsls of No.1 Timothy buy 111 the
diﬂerent Michigan freight Ioneu.
This gives you the price that Mich!-
_gnn dealers should. be able ‘to pay
for this commodity. 1.0. b. their stu-

 

 

 

 

  
 

has got the poor
.horn'e ‘Ta'iii

 
   
 
  

men Qualities.

, summed up adv

; DETROIT~—Having faced :a glpttad-
condition on this’inarkei for the past:
.- two Weeks. Shipments have grass ly-

decreased—«receipts on this mar
become lighter This has allowed 111
conditions here a". show dééided din--

 
  
 
 

provement having Quite well cleaned"
up, or at any rate; in a position where.

they feel very much at ease. Theo

V 0011.8.
situation has had something to do in Th9 int
helping out the situation, not only at

....

 

  

 

 

HAY—«DETROIT MARKET. :-. ,_ '
N9. 1 Timothy. ..........L...~.$17.60
NB. 2 Timothy ..... .. 15.00
Light mlxed..’...-.;:.V...... .216.00
'1“). 1 mixed. ... (3.. . 14.00
;B.ye Straw.................-... 11.00 :_
Wheat and Out Sttaw........ 10.00“

 

this point but at many others.
main trouble with;1;he situation here
is the heavy run of very common and
low quality hay. It has been ‘a serious
problem with handlers on this market
to place it to the trade“, It has really
been necessary to exercise expert
salesmanship to make it possible. We

think it safe to state not 2 per cent of
' strictly high- claSS hay or any good

grade arrived on this market during
the past two weeks

PITTSBURGH—A congested condi-

tion exists on this market on all quali-
ties cf hay, excepting No .1 timothy
and high— class clover hay. ~ You. 'will
be surprised, possibly, when We ad-
vise you that the real demand and call

 

HAY—LPIVTTSBURGH MARKET.

No.1 Rye straw.

 

The

No. 1 Timothy Hun. . .V ....... $17.00.
No. 2 Timothy hay. . . . ...... 16.00
No. 1 Light mixed hay. . ...... 1600
No. 1 Clover. mixed 118?. ..... 16.60
No. 1 Out sti-a'w'...,.....-. ..... 10.26
No. 1 Closet: pay... ......... '. 1.6.00
'F‘ine prairie packing hny ..... 0.1.60 . ’

HAY—BOSTON MARKET

 

No.1 Wheat strnw.

 

is for all cloves bay of. nice quality,
properly cured, etc; Average mixed
qualities of hay and; threshed timothy
hay are comparatively -qi;iiet. The
market at this point is, on the whole,
Slow but steady.

CINCINNATI—There was a noti'ce- ,
able increase in receipts on this mar— ,

ket, with a result that the same
showed weakness and reductions were

' forced to be made in order to create a.
movement and reduce’ther_-supply. The '

 

. tlonl, under existing market eondl-
tinny. ., » .

HAY—CINCiNNAT‘} MARKET.
Timothy,~ Standard 3.
Timothy No. 2
Timothy No. 3.‘:"’.. V

. Clover- Mixe‘d, No. 1.1....”
Clover Mixed, No. 2a.“. .

 

Clover ,
stMWI _
Straw,

 

 

x1

3mm; ,1; if;

 

Timothy No. 1...”; ”$18.00- j .

Glover Pure. ‘No. 1;. .52.... .11.“;

 
 
  

   

   
  
     
 
  
 
 
 
 

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Choice Tlmﬂly. z". . '.
No. -1 Mmo'tliyﬁr , . .
No. 2' Timothy." ' —V.
J Linn: 010°"er
' (53- 3 Mixed "h
N0. atrium,
lover- ......,. .L.
Tine-shed Timothy
{511‘ 19.011118. liar.

voice g1115111111
N011} Affnlfn

......ouv

Oats :,-. . .1. VV

 

 

Wheat . . . '

 

 

tinues to plug along at about its to
mer pace There does not so -’
any particular change todth‘
up to this time: We bei ,
ket is making lees changes 15 the

ket tone than many others. Weap

preciate that on‘ the lower and mere
, common qualities of hey, this marked 811639

BOSTON-—The Boston market conZVV‘

. 0 hot w'
and G _anows we .15.. t‘iwa'nt to mis
611, but we do. wish a: .1161}.

   
 
 
 
 
     
 
     
 
    
  
  
 

  
     
 
   
 

 
  
  
  
 
   
 

 
  
    
 
 
 
  
 
  
   
  
 
  
  
 
 
 
  
  
 
  
 
  
  
  
 
   
 
    
 
 
 
    
   

hoe: éou

' center has an outlet through the ex- :wtth you forj a betterment or south

port channel. thereby relieving itr tions and is tot-emailing of mistakes
their‘we may make, as producers, in
allowmg these large manipulators to
control the situationas they as and

. along this line. There is little change
to report as actually existing on this
market. .

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
  
   

Hay, clover. .

........

, NOTE—Large bales 11m. 1:61:51
1:200 to 260 pounds; multipurhler

 

:1-

: ./

  

a.

deem ﬁttl There isnbsolutely do sons.)
*‘imour being subject to the conSQfenco

of these potato buys 15.-
113-- well ha’fve an understanding of th<
mtuatign govern the disposition and

We can Just

. as a_ result, regulate theprice that we
61m get for our stock: Ataoc We would
not sell one bushel o1 potatoes to the

 

«beetleoking potato buyer that eye
tapped. we Simply can not feel that

’ we" have more potatoes than the trade

 

Iron! 80. to 100 pound-V. . V ~-

 

‘ NEW YORKwThere is lost a little
’better feeling t0. 1'6er 611 the‘iNew
York market for. the pant week
is noth enough, understand do mask

  
     
 

   
   

11‘ his given. point
resplt 61V receipts more than

 

  
    
 

This ‘_
in the general market

 

 

   

. ”.2 is going to demand We also feeithat
' T many of 131.11 brother producers are
going to be disappomted-.when in
open up thatr’pitsenr possnnly when
2... Hist? 1ndpsct‘i‘th 139,113?

 

  
  

   
   
  
    
  

 
   
 
      
     
       

 

 

    

 
 
 
 
   


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

, i‘j‘in general

 

 

 

 

 

“ 4 and vice versa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

.13 ..
givlén' commodity We are”. going
(-1 rigﬁtnoue ﬂat-footed and say

.61 it right over on to your shoulders,
as a producer and distributor. and say

" , f8 you, frankly", that you have jumped
You .

yoiiif stuff on the market too fast.
’have got to let up on this sort of dis-

up sltibn Onyou can bank on. an unsat- ._

uif table, - andrmnreliahle

& a tend'ewvjtpl the flir> “

condition an
ther demoralizing oi? the' bean market

urQ of this ‘
_ we have every

Now, that is shod, mam.
uh? and right from the shoulder We> .
‘1 'oogk'you hut, hut. ..

in you to; *

give“ you above ’
meats-:1: seam; sue-1s

Id;. ﬁg e avernﬁe Micki;
:1 t' 2.40 per bushel. --

"'fiiews‘i‘of a. sensin— ‘-
3 this particular line

seemed:a {13:11 any given .
its seasonl We wel- ‘-
s, because it goes to
1:13 manner in Which the t1a<le '
he his ”added and manipulated so

 

No. 2 Mixed: . .........
No. 31M£xed ......... ........

 

 

,

 

 

 

 

 

 

We gontinue to be 0F a scrappy
nature with; reference to the

dippos1tion sand lihe nossibilié

245163 or this. Yen commodity. We be-
lieve the. or. or fellow shows a little
say to weaken If we follow up

Out; position, NYe think We can effect
{a}, result which will be highly satis-
intermixed especially so as based
' the promise when the season
0136an we 'wish you to review our

, former advice, based on the condi-
' tlohs 0! other commodities of a like
‘ nature. The hay crop, corn crop, p001
wheat, etc, will all be used as feed.

One 11 turally reﬂects on the possi-/

hilities or the lmportance‘of the other
Better lock up your
granary and lose the key. \

 

OATS—:DETROIT MARKET.

No. ~
. t No. ,»
No.
No.

 

 

 

\ CINCINNATI—~The lo'cal dealers
' .monkeye‘d around on this market un-
til ,theyswere unable toﬁll their re-
quirements. They have been taking
. advantage of; the situation right from

,'Were a little lighter,
‘lOcal trade of! their guard and almost .
forcing them to go short on goods ;-~. ’

PITTSBURGH—This market also -
gives us now; of good cheEr, excel-

Ilent demand—a steady improvement]

in the situation all around. Receipts ‘
catching the

neecssary for their immediate needs,'— j

 

OATS—«PITTSBu RGH MARKET.‘

Standard .37
No. 3 White ................. .36
No. 4 White ................ ‘. .35
'No. 2 Mixed. . .7 ..............
No. 3 Mixed ................. ‘

 

 

CLOVER SEED '

 

 

 

~\- There is practically. no change
to the situation to give out this
M week. The movement of seed
during the past week has been very
light, both incoming and outgoing. By
that We mean, from the producers
through to the receivers, who are of
a large handling nature, and then
from these large handlers to the out-
side trade. ,Seed is handled different—
ly than' a great many other commo-
dities; practically all the seed in the
state goes to‘distributors, and possi-
bly right back from these local dis-
tributors to some of your local ele-

~ vators to be later resold to the brother '

producer. Little movement, little

Continued on Page Six .

 

van": roamss runs.
. E should know the freight rote
1mm his shipping station to
nth. leading market canton. With
this key you are in a position to
know whether your local dealer 1|
ﬂying you a. square dual or not.
low we give on the “Business
ramming Bone 11 of Michigan."
92011 will notice that in connection
11111311. map we give ion the sp-
1 ?rox1mou rote per hour ad pound-
' or shipments by freight to tho
markets named on mo“ of the
products of your farm. 'rhooo ratei
will vary a little at ailerons points.
thorotoro we advise you to to to
our local railway agent and yet
{he rates from him. no in obliged
by law to give you the rat". and
with than rates and the “Pink
Shoot" you are secure.

Zone 1—Sault Ste. Marie.
New York City ..........
Pittsburgh . .
Cincinnati
Chico o
Detro t

Zone 2~Kalkaskm
New York City ..........
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Chicago
Detroit

2011. swasy City. '
v New York City ......... .
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Ghicago ......... . . . . .
Detrolk ............ . .

Zone 4——Greonvillo.

. New York City. . .
Pittsburgh . . ._ . . . . .
Cincinnati . . . .‘ . .
Chicago

' Detroit

0.0-
on...-
...I.g.'.--ILI Inc-co

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'ﬁ_'Michigan lireight Zones

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II...‘

MICHIGAN W'T"
APPROXIMATE
FREIEHT stres TO

__ LEADING
ZBNES w;- .. “*7...
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MARKETS
(SEE

TABLE
BELOW)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Cincinnati
‘Chica o
‘Dotro t

New York C ty..
Plttsburs
Cincinna i

lease . . . .
Detroit

ew York City. . . .T. . .

' Pittsburgh
Cincinnati . . .. . .. . .
Chic .0 .~ . .
Detro .t

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‘whether you are an old or new mibscriher do facilitate acknowﬁedgmem)

 

   

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EDITORIAL

HERE IS A DIFFERENCE between “bucking- the market”

and holding your farm products foreproﬁtable prices." The

“Pink Sheet” never has, and, under its present management,
never will advise farmers to “speculate,” ”buck the market.”
We have advised, and shall. continue to ad-

vALL IOIN vise fa11ners to hold their products for proﬁt—
HANDS, able pric’es’. ',True you can’t alWays Be sure of.
CIRCLE TO a proﬁt 011 everything you grow upon the '
THE LEFT farm, but you can get all the supply and de—
. mand market will give if you wait long enough.
. “If you must sell at a loss, sell at the eleventh
hour"

In othe1 words, if there is a surplus in any Commodity, the
prices offered for that particular commodity will be low.
price still gives you a proﬁt, that is
if you must, pocket a loss.

\Vhy sell before you know what the sttpply and demand really

If the low
ahorse of another color—but

is? It \ery often happens that the so- -called surplus vanishes like'

snow under a Tuly sun. When the surplus vanishes, low prices take
to their heels, and a good market with proﬁtable prices remain.

At a fa1111ers’111eeting the othei day, a successful farmer, in the '
“I never sell the products of my farm ~

cOurse of his remarks said:
unless I can get proﬁtable prices; and I never hold the products
of my farm for bigger prices when I can get proﬁtable prices:

That far‘mc1 had the‘ right hunch.” He will win in the long
run;‘ win in the short run; win eve1j‘v time
ma-j01ity of us fellows 15 that we really don’t know what our products
costrus. \Ve have the goods; they are in the bin, granary and mow.

We know right well how we got these products of the farm;
we know whereb we got the supply and When—but “dog on—it,” if
we know what the goods cost us And how ale we going to set
a selling price Wthlbl will leave us a proﬁt when we don’ t know the
(OSI? "'

Speculating is sometimes proﬁtable, but often a very haZardous
game. Dealing in futures may be all right for the fellows who have
sinned away their futures anyway, but the farmer is outclassed the
moment hesits in with the fellows who play such games.

The farmer who holds for a proﬁt and sells when he can make
a proﬁt may lose a (food long price occasionally-—but he always has,
the satisfaction of knowing that he didn’t expend his labor and
energy without at least a satisfactOIy reward

A bright young farmer followed in the discussion. “My neigh—
bor’s advice is all right; but what would he do if prices were un—
proﬁtable and he desired to hold his products, and the banker noti-

ﬁed him that his interest was due and must be paid. Only money'

will cancel the obligation at the bank, and I have only farm products
with which to get the money?”

“Renew your note,” suggested the ﬁrst speaker. “But suppose
the bankei told you that he was loaned up; that the elevator man
had to have lots of money to move the crops, and he could not
renew?” asked the young farmer.

“Well,” said the well to do farmer,
replied the young farmer,‘ ‘between the banker and the elevator man
I‘have got to sell.” And there you are; One problem solved;
another unearthed ' .

Strange that farmers will put their money in a bank ‘to be

you’ve got me.’ “And,”

" irriwhere our interests an
»- athalorle every’iarmer

Fnij

thr 1111112611 .1137:

Attractive combination rate with The Gleaner, monthly. “

The trouble with the ,

   

 

 
 

 

 

 
 
  

 
  
  

"I of“ Tariff From Wiscon loam:
:Minnesota Being

Rail" rates" on potatoes from points

'in Wisconsin and Minnesota to destin-
.aticns weSt of the Mississippi river

form the basis of a complaint that is

Hbein'g heard by John S. Burchxnorc.
’ ekamirier for the Interstate Commerce
‘ Commission
,held in the federal building A tariff

The hearing is ‘5éi'1’rg

embracing: increased rates on potatoess’
from Wisconsin and Minnescita points

01511911211101 exec t- ‘ .
forated lino,. breed}; opportunity

fraud and; destroy sf’the secrecy ofthe .
It is expected that the Sign -

ballot.
new circuit; court‘ will grofnt the in?
junction, and issue an limbo e on
113116 sﬁew cause; which Will 111111ka

the matter into ceriu- On its merits. '

When iih can'vas'serar counted bailo
Friday 1113111 they counted all that ha
initials 0n the back irrespective of. the

was suspended by the commission No.- P031t10n13011°ng the opinion re- J

vember 1. last.’ It is alleged that the
new tariff is “grossly discriminatory.”

It also is charged that the proposed
rates will advance the price of pota-
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. APPLE GROWERS HAVING ’ "
TROUBLES

(Continued groin Page One)

in all of the leading markets. This
season, however, has been an exccp-_
tion to the rule, and the Michigan pro-
duct has been in demand Just what
effect this changed condition is gbing
to have on the markets of the future
is probiematica1;however, there is no.
question but that fruit groWers every.

where will be obliged to seek the mar-'

ket for the next few ygars at least.

ceived. from the attorney-generals
ofﬁce. ' « . L' x " * .
Secretary Wilson, of the United
States Department of Agriculture, has
. issued eleven distinct regulations
gOYerning the sanitation of renovated
or process butter factories, which took
effect on November 15. Copies may
~ be; obtained by writing the Bureau at
Animal Industry, Washington, for
order 133. _ . -

 

Uncle Sam is saying that he will
pni‘iish the Elgin Board of Trade for
the unjustiﬁable wot-ii they are doing
in controlling and setting market
prices 611 butter'._ The Elgin bound is
not wtru'st. but some of the work‘ that
they do may reasonably be questioned

 

 

’-em along. If you

the quarter.

- and address; I want to know

011 the board:

beans to the elevator.
be twenty— —tWo— —pound pickers.

From every bushel of beans

The Detroit market showed
man could have paid $2 20 per

. in the beans.

county.

this bargain:

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‘ ‘ " EMEMBER, "' .,b‘oys I pay a
‘ » quarter for a problem Send
problem on the‘board, it means ydu, get
Be sure t'o'give your name

send the ‘two—bits,”’ remarked the Pro-
fessor, and then he wrote this problem

Farmer Kohler took twenty bushels of
They proved to '

The elevator man paid Farmer‘Kohler sixty- ‘
ﬁve cents per bushel for the beans.

‘ had thirty— —eight pounds of hand‘piCked beans.

picked beans 011 the day Farmer Kohler brought ‘ i 1’ ,

This transaction actually occurred in Lapeer

“Now, boys," said Prefessor Square Root, set-”.5,
iously, “I wan-t to know thagot the best '01,. _
Did Farmer Kokler 2g?! more for”?
"his beans than the 21,6th Wm got proﬁt? Jﬁ so, how

' ‘ “Pk/reantterifoi’gﬁis F. ’

see your, ‘

where to

the elevator man

that the elevator
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cllnes all to live Well;

L To the Founders of

,1

"Dink-‘Eheot" is going to grow too
- gt 1;, more practical. And When you I; I :'
s 'd' in the balance. be sure to Inst" ~ P

a' Word throivn

”others those tracts Were cat-
grazin ’section‘s but the cattle

11113111633 :1 ere has ceased forever I
a Isccasidnally hear. men speak or have
me traveled a; hundred miles across
{the plains of these states and pQ s'ée- ;

i11g. a single human habitation. That
vast area was used for grazing cattle?

but it is now being far‘med and there 4

'is no new territory that may be

old.

.-

The man who reads and observes is

thoroughly cbnScleus of. the fact that

there is at present a. serious livestock
Sherpa-go;

eat‘ supply
Three successive seasons of drought

and -‘“foot and mouth” doeasie seri-
191:st crippled the livestock interests

or. South America, while the United
States has actually declined during.

the last decade in her supply of meat
animals.Q While the papulation of. her

' people has increased 21 per cent

.It Would scene that new is the ac

ce'pfed time for the thinking man. to .
Q_'- go into Stock raiSin'g. Crops of all
.- kinds are bountiful in this country and -

our natibn is most prosperous, at

peace with the World and with Qprac-'

tically Qevery one employed, which in-

  

settlement audio great 1101‘: .‘
t is occupied by settlers. Lik'e'I-

. remain?
the prices of beef, cattle will soar

opened tip to take the place of the

WORLD’S LIvEsTocK SHos-rAeE'

and statistics shoW also:
that the population 01 all civilized nae]
. tiOns. is growing much taster than is"
" the general

. three causes

There are,
or. present conditions;

so it would '

 

SPECIAL NOTICE . I ‘

MICHIGAN BUSINESS
FARMING ‘

' It you Were one of the loyal
farmers who helped found this
weekly Market and Crop Reporter
in the face of the combined oppo-

the Parasite Produce Buyers, by '
sending ITen or Twentyrﬁve cents
to apply on a mu FIFTY: WEEKS
SUBSCRIPTION ~

roncy'; or stamp: in an early mail.
Remember every issue or the littf-6Q_

8Q. Qr-o' JWofto 10111 with you

1 sition of the Market Gamblers and;

I Ask no a Personal F avert _

* that you send the balance in our- . ,
in fact,

"Qsolvlng some of the corn belt prob-
.' lems, .making possible the keeping of
more cattle on less ae‘r'e's than in the
.. With no desire to: discourage.
~ the use of- commercial fertilize '.

,Q . we must say matithe 3911.111 01' er' to Q
'I ‘do its best, needs a certain element on. '

 

 

 

  
  

vIe years.
1';-.“«On1y a few years; ago Texas had

we. cleaning up in the oattlge business. .
”s. I‘Many of the men who had been thus

engaged tht' therbilsmess and placed
trai loads of breeding stock on the
ets. It was predicted then that

Texas Would want for cattle before -

she, could roplenish her herds, and
etiide‘ntl'y it has proved true. Many of

. the grazing sections thﬂere are stocked

with cattle imported from neighboring

- states.

Just so long as present conditions

continue to exist, is it not reasonable

to conclude that present price's will
\IMy Candid opinion is that

to such heights that beefsteak Will be
served as a luxury- rather than a daily
ration .' . .

seem that the opportune time to grow .

stock at a proﬁt is in sight, with the
Starting point right now. With prime
beet selling at bet er than $11 per hun~

’ dred, makes one see hoW much he is

losing by not raising calves instead of
potatoes.

We are ceasing to be exporters of
cattle, and our OWn food supply is be-
ing seriously curtailed. A11 alarming

§carcity of “feederS” has been 'wit—'
Inesse'd- during the past him years,

While the steadily lessening number

of farmers Who formerly fed cattle for
"market adds to the seriousness of the

situation. Last season with corn sell-

ling at 60@70c per bushel made many

feeders View the situation with dOubt',
thus stayed out of the game of feeding,
preferring to sell their grain rather
than to venture feeding it to cattle,
but those who made the venture sur-

‘inveId with a proﬁt.

Elbert Hubbard, the word wizard
and philosopher,.says: “It is a wise
man who turns his grain into livestock
before marketing. ” History has proven

in this as in other kinds of business
.that the man Who “sticks to it” will

win out. “1385' dirt" is not in the ﬁrst
shovelful turned, and seldom in the

second;- so herds and Qﬂocks must be

maintained through poor years in. or-

‘Q derQ t0 be ready When the pay car

arrives I

The most. serious mistake made by
dairymen is in the Wholesale slaugh-
tering of calves; and it would not sur-

Q prise the writer to learn of the enact—

ment of Qa law in the 'near future for

‘. the protection of calves against the

greed for milk production. Stockmen
should gradually work toward raising
their own feeders and should not be-

.‘Igrud'ge the pasture necessary for this

rennin eﬂtive branch of the business;
the silo and alfalfa are fast

. set
yet

animal matter which $66me to be

.“ I. :airail'able‘ only through 'thp agency of 7" '
' . : animal. manure In
thoroughly '

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I -'. _IsII,=.I_cRETARY WILSON s FlNAL EIPE

' Q ' ' vantage of the high prices. ,
, That in itself Will materially leaﬂen
' the possibility of reple

Q herds within the neat

ishin'g their. .

—'years has. been written.
.with ayearly farm production of $4,-

- 1912.

“operation with

drops the soil is “
before a tenantQ.I-.I.I *

r porti

t; the 3611 nine

I‘stoek raising will alone insure.
Q As a result of a most thoughtfub

.4

DREAM.

 

, partment of Agriculture.
After a. service of 16 years as see-

”rotary of Agriculture Mr. Wilson sub-

mits to President Taft the last annual
report that he will ever make as head

'of the U. S. Department of Agricul~

ture.,"1‘he report covers mere than

. the Work of the year 1912, as it in-

cludes a summary of. the entire term

.0! ofﬁce, showing the advance in agri-

Culture during the past sixteen years.

_ Mr. Wilson. is a past master in deal-

ing with big' ﬁgures and his declining
years seems to add to his imaginative
powers for he deals with billions of
dollars with as. much reckless aban-

“don as does a newsboy with his pen-

“The record of 16
It begins

nies. He— says:

000,000,000 and ends with $9,532,-
000,000. Sixteen years ago the farm-
er was a joke of the caricaturist;
now he is like the stone that was
rejected by the builder and has be-
come the head stone of the corner.”
The tillers of the soil were burdened
with dlebts', he adds, “but prosperity
followed and grew with unexampled
speed. Beginnings have been made
in a production per acre increasing
faster than the natural increase of
population. There has been an uplift
of-agriculture and of country life.”
Mr. Wilson is right about the “up-

lift,” but his ﬁgures are as meaning-

less as his pen is unruly. He speaks
of the farmers’ debts in the past, and
there he leaves it, giving this im-
pression that the farmer is now out
of debt, with millions in bank; as,
continuing, he shys: “During the 16
years the farmers’ wealth production
increased 141 'per cent

“Most productive of all agricul-
tural years in the country has been
. The earth has produced its
greatest annual dividend. The sun
and the" rain and the fertility of the
soil heeded not the human contro~
versies, but kept on Working .in co-
the farmers’ efforts

to utilize them. The prices at the

   

« The grdWing pulatlon 3n‘ust b fedII .
-j ease needs mic '
Q ’ improved and made to produce greater
'.II.,VQ,.crOhs——'and needs manure; and farm»
more. need greater proﬁts which careful; 7‘tp market—be generous to the earth
‘ ' ~ Which yields you her harvest and a
sure and rich reward will be yours!

"farm are generally proﬁtable
Q Iwill
1 farmers have enjoyed in recent years.

; Sixteenth Annual Crop Report of De-
, ‘ is the highest yet reached by half. a

dither—+111; 1111111112111 you
here re no better loans. than cattle
loans. Don’t wl‘orry about the markets

" ~—the man Who loses is the Speculator.'

Feed your stOck, ship When it is ready

\e . A

and

continue the prosperity that

The total production of farm wealth

billion dollars. The grand total for

" 1912 is estimated to be s.9.532,000,000.

This is more than twlé'o the valueot
the farm wealth in 1899. "

Mr. WilsOn gives much credit to

“his department, as Well as to agricul-

tural colleges for the present‘ ‘reduced
cost of living” Which no one but him-
self seems to have noticed and he
ﬂings his soothing web of verbal
slime over the'farmers, while 99 out
of every hundred of them" will say that
“it was the other fellow that prosper-
ed, not me.” Note I what he says:
“The most effective move toward re-

duced cost ofliving is the production -.

of greater crops and this move is due
to the work of the Department of Ag-
ricul'turegcolleges and experiment sta—
tions and to the help of the press in
publishing every movement to help
the farmers. The nation forgot its
farmers in the general scheme of edu-
cation of past years and few philan~
thropists thought of them when giving
for education, but they are waking up
and thinking for themselves and con-
gress has been good to them.”

It is true that science has had much
to do in the advanced production of
crops; say for instance” the “apple
crop,” which has been boosted high
above any possible proﬁt line to any
one, yet the consumer is starving for
the surplus. Uncle Jimmy’s optimism is
a case without parallel, and its great-
est beauty is, that We are not obliged
to believe it all.

 

Enclosed ﬁnd 500 for Michigan
Business Farming for one year. I
think it is all right. You only men
lion yelling four with these credit
coupons. How about getting more,
will you send more coupons? Please
let us know at 07106118 we are aur-
ious to have them before our next
meeting. which will be Dec: 7th.
Hoping for a reply, I am, th'lliam
Smith, Rosebush, ”Mich” No. .3,
Chief Gleaner Beal City Arbor,

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Can afford to “be without this weekly that is already gaining fame
as the “salesman” of every Michigan farm factory.

SEND THIS COUPON, OR COPY IN A LETTER.

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17(- position.
'coarse feed stuffs on their present-'

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01d corn is gradually cleaning:

 

9 it is practically a bygone lac-5’
_at'or'. It is true, We will Obntinue 71:0
receiy’e advice of an occasional car
of old corn geing forward, but, prac-
tically- all the trade is now cent9reQ.

.‘ and based on the mOVement of the 43— »
It certainly detrelops that-4;». "
We have a bumper crop, and, as We” ' .

A new crop

understand it ‘of high quality, for dis»
We believe with prices '01

'-.basis, and correspondingly, with the~

high prices of meat products along "
practically eyery line, that we, in -'

turn, have a right to expect a very

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CORN—DETROIT MARKET.
No. 2 white.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.

" “ bite
.l white
, 4 white '
. 2 yellow ................ .

4 Vollow
No. 2 mixed
N41. .i nlixed
No. 4 mixed ..................

coﬁN—PITTSBURG MARKET.
No. 2 “lute

‘)

. - yellow
. 3 yellow

11 ..................
4 mixed .

 

 

 

heavy and spirited consumption of
corn this year. We are 'forced to .
state, that if we do not see an added
relief ove1 0111 last seasons output
along consumptive lines, that it will
be quite impossible to raise the pres-
ent standa1d set. Vie can hardly see
Why the feature of feeding either cat-
tle or sheep should hot be considered
and subsequently investigated by a
great. majority 01' our Michigan farm-
e1s this season Should any of you
wish to se<u1e feedexs 01 make cer-
tain investigations, you may feel free‘»
to take up with our Service Bureau.

APPLES

The general tone to the applerr'
[:1 situation remains unspirited

but very satisfactory. We cah
not look 1’01 any quick changes or
situations of a spirited nature to ex-
ist, because the odds a1e too many
against us f10m the inception of the
season. As has already been gone
over thoroughly, we have been forced
to handle the situation as not before
_ in years in o1de1' that we might have
. a ﬁghting chance for our present posi-
tion on the market and for a still bet-
tel one to exist in the future. We feel
very pleased indeed, with the result
as already showu It has not only '-
.brought about our present‘ market;
' condition on this commodity, but it
demonstrated the possibilities of the

-APPLES——-GENERAL MARKET.
Fancy. per barrel. ..... 2.00 to 3. 00
Qrdl nary, per barrel ...... 1.00 to 2.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

up so that in a commercial way‘ 7'

I. fairly decent demand, but

 

 

 

we are gomg to change Flass

this week; but We: do going to
give you just about the Wameadvlce
because we have the same mtuation. .
practically speaking, facing its as was:
given out in our last Week’s issue.
The ma ket animal looks like a verit-
able bal o'on. You have been stumng

ception of the Season, absolutely fore—4
ing him with every kind Of an apper-
tizing inﬂuenCe you could think of.

'It "has been demonstrated that about .'

all you ﬁgure on, is to get your mar»
ket animal to eat up your. stud, re-
gardless of. Whether he paid you any:
thing for his meals or not.
you are making a. decided mistake, .:
when you continue to force- thesé‘
onions out on' the market,’ regardless
of what you are going to get. out of-

' " them. We advised yen through this

sheet last Week that red bulk onions
would not bring over 12 to 15¢ per.
bushel on any outside market 'at the
present time and right in the face. of
it, we absolutely know. of shipment

» . after shipment having”been sent not

since this advice. We know ‘ how
disappointing our advice of a Situa-
tion like this existing, is received, but
at the same time, the above is the
actual' situation that exists and has
been brought about from the chan
nels we have mentioned.
situation had been handled by the
onion producers like the apple sittia—
tion in the article previous was
handled by the apple producers, you

would experience a much better price

for your whole crop, with about half

the labor and not over 69._per cent of. ,D

the expense. , _. . 1'

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ONIONS

Detroit

Yellow Globe, Stroked, ﬁber cwt.
Red Globe, sacked, per cwth . . .
Yellow Globe, bulk, per cw t.. .
Red (xlobe, bulk, per cwt..

.'- . s:-

_ , Cincinnati. .
’Yellow Globe, sacked, per cwt
Red Globe. namiedgper cwth . . . .
Yellow Globe, bulk, per ewt.. . ‘
Red Globe, bulk, per own. . . . .

Plttsburg.

Yellow Globe. nicked, per cwt...
Red Globe, sacked, per cwt

Yellow Globe, bulk, per cwt... . .
Red Globe, hulk, per cwt. ”1.3;,

.1

o .80
.50
960
‘30

 

 

 

The situation remains most critical
on bulk red stock. Next to this is '
red stock in Sacks, but the feeling
is a'. little better and the price possi-

‘ble to obtain a little better it put; up

in this manner; Yellow: 5120ch or.

ing fairly satisfactory prices, with a

hot, practically spasm/113,".
1:an

We think 5 '

" nature.

2}

. bright color. and 111m Quality is 31rin§~ .-

 

 

 

 

oral tone to the it
any made an 1111 11110.9 1_

no question abo tthe natu'na
of the butter situatio ..

. Way possible tor.

much of? a change.
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Creemeﬁy Nb. 1, ‘per pound "
Fancy Dali-111.. per {may}

 

 

 

to be most ﬁrniﬁh

tutesx'are certainly going to stay-
along as close as. ‘they £ng 9..

There is no reason} " Wbrlﬁ:

 

 

 

 

them to increase the-manufacture to- tr

~a‘ point Where forcing ”on the market

at a. reduced price would he the 9m.

bet; I

come. This will. not be butter will re— 1— 28d

main. 111211 and the tone of the situa "
._tion ﬁrm, . .,

lithe Qniom 7'

 

EGGS

In - some directmns
oelpts of strictly fresh stock
were noticeably advanved over
the past. .. This, of course, Wash;
:naturally caused by mild weather
conditibns existing (51.11» statewide
“It is~ also evident

 

 

._ in their position during the last feW

days.' ElseWhere in this paper, you
will see an exhaustive account of the} *

EGGS—GENERAL MARKET.
Large Fresh . . . . . .3
Medlum Fresh .28.;
same, but regardless of all of this,
we want to say to 31011 that the Sitnaé”

 

 

 

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" tion with reference to strictly fresh

eggs is ﬁrm and will remafn so right
through the Winter months. 111' face
of storage conditidns we ”care not.
What magnitude it is practically
possible for actual receipts of striét-

. ly fresh stun; not only #31 bring a pree

the ire.— ' ‘

 

 

 

 

25 cents p61! hundred (hiring the" ..

ter part of the Week, soin Sales be!
ing made a; 15, 1991111 40 cents per
hundred from last Weeks highest

level HﬁWever many loads 1'11 fancy.
~béeyes :Wég-e included’ln the offerings."-
ind sales Were also made ' " , 11

est prices 11 the history 111211111 tmd‘é';

some: cavy’ fat in condition
9

2111111111 but to bring almost 3113’ reami‘.x-;f

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48:? its» a

_ 1- .1... phi...
34:04? the alternate. s nmade because:
There is

 

4 .4 Wu fol-€00.11 mixed .7.75to 7.80

”fair to Medium weightul'rﬂﬁto 7 85

. _. Lightweight: " . , .. "‘ .. ..... 7370 to 7180

\ancy shippers -,.‘ .'
81m

 

 

 

Very little doing 1n the Chicago-

Jump andklamb markets; Receipts
, Were heairy‘hnd Aprlcea ruled as fol-
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clubs, good to choice 6.00 to 7.00

'~do, fair: to $9911.. .5. 75 to 7. 60
do, cull 1o cominon. . .,‘.‘.50 to 3.2

Yearling lambsg‘ choi’ce. .5.50 to 0.50

down to fair 2.50to3.25

A ,. 4.15 to 4.00

A 2. 76 to 3.60

3.25 to 4.2:
. 5. 751:0 7.85
'2.50 to 3. 25

WW e4

-d"o', choice heavy” 1
.,,Cnll 3115421224..

 

‘ 411mm. ' . .235 302.50

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. A .1 , , 1 Shape-Detroit.

..4 9 " There Was a good, fair rumor sheep '
“and lambs and a brisk market, with'

“best lambs runing- 25 to 50 Cents
higher than a Week ago;
mained about steady.

There Will be no market at the Be- '
Jitroit liveStock yards on Christmas day ;. _
, Arrivals Will be Seared for. but the; .'

market Will be closed.

sheep re~ -,

 

7...00 to' 7.50
...6 501:0 7.00 .
choice. . .5.00 to 6 00-
.25 to 3.75
4.2 59 to 2.754

good to choice

'2-.wa

do“ tail: to good
was i

ninhg,

 

 

 

' coal

 

 

 

"pun the consumption of steam
therefOre, when cold weathdr
does come the supply of coal avail-

’ able: far. domestic purposes Will not

increase at diminish.
The reports on the cars Eltuation are

"not 4encanag1ng. The railmads are

the coal situation continues in bad

The hard 00:11 situation is just a.

little easier, but on account of the

v" “Blend”‘—-—This

demand being equivalent to the sup-

' ply there has been no change in prices

A Soft Coal.
Kind of 'Coal. ,

Hocking 1111111.)
8

Cambri e lump

Cambridge $11.- lump

W08: Virginia Splint lump

White Ash block

Kentucky 4 inch lump

Kentucky 4x2- inch egg ...... . . .

Harrisburg 6- inch lump ..........
ocahontas lump and egg ........
ocahontas mine ru-n

Michigan Domestic 4- -inch lump

Anthracit egg stOVe or nut
Note:

is based on gross tons,

Flour.

4_ ﬂour, is especially
adaptedAfor all round purposes, used
as either a bread or pastry ﬂour, put
up in barrels containing 200 lbs. $5 30
, “Patent” ﬂour is a purely spring
wheat ﬂour. On account of the scar-

-'city of winter Wheat there is more of ‘

a demand for Spring wheat ﬂour It
is put up in barrels containing 200

Albs._at $4.70.

Either brands of ﬂour can be put
up in 501b towel sacks at the same
price

The above prices are for less than
car load! shipments, F. O. B. Detroit
Special prices can be made on mixed
ca'r load shipments containing ﬂour,
bran, middlings or prepared feeds.

Those interested can write our Bu—
reaufor information.

THE H4OG AND HIS NEEDS.

Never feed pigs more than they will
clean up. When the feed is left in the
trough or on the ﬂoor it soon becomes
tribe's.
It is a mistake to conﬁnethe breed—
lng stock too closely. They should
have exercise in order to develop
right.

A few dollars spent 101' a feeding
platform in the hog pens will be one

'of the best investments that can be

made.

When the pigs begin to eat they
become almost self- supporting and are
dehanding less and less of the sow

The hog that is uneasy, nervous

and is co'nsltantly ﬁghting with the
others éis usually an unproﬁtable
feeder

Hogs will make the most rapid

growth if they are given warn, well-'5
' ‘ -,, which Will at least make up for part

' ventilated comfortable quarters.

A little milk goes a-- long ways in,

building up the hogs. It is one' oi the
best feeds that "can be used.

Dry sleeping. quarters are absolutely,

necessary for the pigs and the hogs.

- If the; right: kind of feed is used. it
is impossible to crowd the pigs too;
as ,.

 

notations on anthracite coal 4

at hands. _, ..
i-w: t’dhioepugposes. is a .»

liter. _l4)lzext weekthere

nearly. no market '

re oihg nothing and city trade
'cmely Quiet; A few Maine buy-J -
Were on the market this weekE

‘buf:we‘re anﬁhin‘g but vociferous in

- +Ap occasional

..

their bidding. For every class demand

:13 4111:1111 client and even moderate re-

Ibis? ha. “failed to dEVelop tone.
Tork buyers have been practical—

‘ although 2 good young horse with

promise ﬁnds a buyer readily

choice draft gelding»
drifts in, one realizing $450 at private

sale on Monday. The cemmission in-

t‘érest is urging country buyers to

pperate cautto’usly during the next

few weeks.- There is a general dis»
position in buying Circles to mark

dewn prices.

Desirable drafters
and over ..... $250 @350
Dﬁﬁirable‘ 1, 500@800
s

Light Drifters 1,100ful 5001bs 200@250
Express horses 1.300((01 400
-185@235

I lbs ...........................
17.56.3225

1,700 lbs.

feeders

Wagon horses choice, 1.200@
1,300 lbs.
Wagon horses,
@1,200.1bs
Southern
1b..

deliverv,

PASTE THIS TABLE IN YOUR HAT.

To provide something good to talk
about during the winter we furnish
the folldwing table, showing for the
State the estimated acreage, ,total
yield and yield per acre of the follow-
ing farm products for the year 1912: ‘
’ Esti— Total 110111

mated yield per

anew c. bushels.
. 519,131

5,234,311

..1, 6’1), 061‘:

.1 4601511)‘
\')..‘317
111,101
01,593

J34
H.007

Farm
products
Wheat
Corn
Oats

lty'e
Buckwheat
Potatoes
Beans
Peas 21663
Clov erseed ..:,T»17
Apphs ‘:..l|3
Peaches . "—

18,340,101}
2.031.519
.845),‘JU§

1,...ll
Pears .. ..089
Plums ..720
Chen-105,600
Siruubmyhs .051

.asplmrrits (.786 219, 6:30

Tons.
Sugar boots” 93.949 839.4110
Hay & f0rage.2..‘l6:l,ﬁltl . 3,013.99;

Note carefully these yields, especi-
ally that of hay, then try to ﬁgure out
just whv hay is selling on the Detroit
market from $18 to $24 per ton while
on the farm but $9 to $10 can be real» ’
ized. Nigger in the fence somewhere.
Poke him out with the probe of inves-
tigation. <

CHRISTMAS TREES QUARANTINE.

, A partial quarantine was issued last
week by the Departmentbf Agricul~
ture against the interstate movement
of Christmas trees and other nursery
stock in New England. The. quaran-
tine was to take'effect November 25.’
Within particular areas in Maine, New
Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode
Island an absolute quarantine is de—
claredl on account of the gypsy moth,
and out of: these areas 110 one is to be _
permitted to move coniferous trees,
suCh as spruce, ﬁr, hemlock pine juni—44;;
per and arbor-vitae (known as “Christ-
mas trees”) and decorative plants,
such1as holly and laurel.

While this will be a. serious hard;
ship and disappointment to a great
many young folk, in not being able .
to have their Christmas trees, it is to
be hoped that other sections will show
up, not affected by the quarantine,

of the shortage

Everybody likes the new pink
' sheet-wiles “Wheeler,

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- We Mydsed you
“,ep some 1(of. your poultry
ristmas market. Ii: you hav

poultry in good shape, we are -.sure ~

great it. ._

~APlan your shipments of poultry;
so that they will reach this market
between the 16th and 23d. From
:.the 17th to the 20th will be the very;
best dates.

If you have poultry that is not in
marketable shape, 'remember that
there will be a brisk demand in
_ later markets If we have cold
» weather, there will be a splendid
demand for dressed poultry. Re-
member the following instructIOns
in preparing. . '
.instructions fer Dressing and
Shipping Poultry.—-See that the
birds are empty-cropped—kill ,by
sticking through the neck—remoVe
the feathersﬂre—dip in the same
hot water for about 15 seconds—‘-
place in cold water until thoroughly .
cooled out—next,~ where they will
thoroughly dry preparatory to ship-
ment. Do not cut off head or feet
or draw them. Use care in packing.
. -——between each layer of birds place
double thickness of plain paper——
just under cover of package place
slip showing number of birds,
weight, also your name and ad-
dress. Ship by express.

DRESSED PORK.

We have arrived at the season of
the year when there is a Splendid
demand for dressed pork. The
city trade does not object in the
least to farm— dressed pork, there-
fore you can ship almost any time
with the certainty of getting a
good, fair price. Shipping ,by'ex-
press is very expensive, therefore
wait for cold weather and ship by
freight. It is well to use burlap
over the hogs if you are going to
ship by freight, as they are liable
to get very dirty. If the market is
unstable; a wire to the “Pink
Sheet” will give you very best
prices any day.

l

tor inf: ”

t: ' . £0033,

  

usuch poor duality'ihat‘ , .
' look upon them with ran 11'. has 1: a
consequently the market, .
”glide snap or activity. There- we ‘ . » .
little really ﬁne stock id be tonne on ~ ‘
the market, and some buyers Were
willing to pay as high as 30c for good y‘
wegg‘s if they were available. The, go;-

that. you will have no reason to re-g "

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MUST RETURN CAR LININGS.

A hearing before John S. Burch-
more, examiner for the Interstate
Commerce Commission, held at Chi-
cago a few days ago, resulted in the
temporary suspension of a ruling es-
tablished by railroad lines operating
in Minnesota and Wisconsin, which
made potato shippers" liable for the
safe delivery and return of car lin-
ings. The efforts of local potato men

and northern shippers were successful,

in securing a suspension of this ruling
until February 1, and it is possible
that it will be held in abeyance indeﬁ~
nitely thereafter.

Under the ruling shippers who went
to the expense of $35 to have a car
lined properly had no guarantee that
the lining would be returned to them
safely, and in most cases when a car
would get to its destination the lin-
ings were chopped out and carried
away, and that was the last of them.
The railroads were not held respon-
sible for the linings, and unless the
party who received the car at desti-
nation made out a new bill of lading
covering the return of the linings, the
. shipper would never get them back.

The suspension of this ruling forces
the railroads to revert to the former
practice of returning car linings free,
and the interstate commerce laws pro-
vide that they are responsible for the
safe delivery and return of same.
Ordinarily, when a car is once lined it
can be used for four or ﬁve trips in a
season, and so the saving under the
old‘method is nearly three hundred
per cent on the cost of lining cars, as

compared with the cost under the rule~

which has just been suspended.

the" ,
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oral character of current receipts

'from Kansas and Missouri, however,

was inferior, and prices ranged as a
rule from 24 to 28c.
While some were of the opinion that

receipts of fresh eggs from tne Coun- . ,.
try are increasing the 031019.] ﬁg—

ures showedno material gain over the

past few weeks, and arrivals. con-x

tinued' to run something otter 2,000
cases daily '

The market on storage goods was
rather quiet though a fair move-

ment was reported out of the ecolers. .

Some shipments Were being made to

_ points in this territory and further

west, and considerable stock was go-
ing into local consumption,“ but east;
'ern .markets were not favorable
enough to attract any goods. Al-
though cooler stock continued to show
a loss to their owners, prices were
possibly a. shade stronger than last

week. April extras were salable at

211/2 to 21314.0 and ﬁrsts 21 to 21340,
while Mays brought 20% to 21c and
Junes 181/2 to 191/2c.

 

INTERNATIONAL STOCK SHOW A
/ WINNER.

 

STEER SELLS AT FIFTY CENTS.

Chicago Concern Buys the World's
Grand Champion.

Canada’s awakening along agricul-
tural and industrial lines was empha-
sized' at the International Live Stock
Exposition by the speech of Duncan
Marshall, Minister of. Agriculture for
Alberta. He dwelt on the signiﬁcance

of a Canadian steer winning the'

world’s grand championship in compe-
tition with cattle from all sections of
the united States and. other countries.

AnOther feature of the day was the
presence of Indians from the land
show, who were there as the guests

of the newly elected president of the'

International Live Stock Association,
Col. A. J. Lovejoy:

Every seat in the amphitheater was
taken at night and many were unable
to gain admittance. The horse events
were of particular interest and at
times the crowd stood in the seats and
cheered.

Sale of Prize Beef.

New Yorkers will eat the beefsteaks
from the championship/ sweepstakes
load of beef steers, but Chicagoans
will be able to purchase the world’s
champion beefsteaks.‘

, The fair bought Glencarnock Victor,
the champion steer, of J. D. MacGre-
gor, of Brandon, Man, for 50, cents
a pound. The animal weighs 1,630
pounds. The champion sweekstakes
sold for 14 cents a pound. They aver-
aged 1,189 pounds.

Fairfax, J. P. Cudahy’s 2-year-old
bull, won the wo‘rld’s grand champion-
ship of senior and junior young Heres-
ford bulls. First and second places
were won by Mr. Cudahy in another
young bull contest. Mr. Cudahy again
triumphed in the senior heifer calf
class, his entry, Pearl Donald, draw-
ing the ribbon.

Breeding Shires occupied the horse
arena throughout the day. ' Many of
these ere American bred, others
brought..from England and Scotland,
while several
were of Canadian breeding. The
principal winning contestants were

the Truman farm and W. E. Williams'

of Bushnell, 111., and the Burgess farm
of Wenona, Ill ,

‘ to have deubled.

conspicuous exhibits ,

  

of menses
the Winter, as

 
 

   
  
 

 

”gone unto .‘feeders '
weight and pearl _

  
  

 

 
 

markets have a. habit of re
repeat. ‘
Demand for feeders of- all clad .

v .

Feed is.:.abundant
d; while til

all markets
’ ‘comparatively cheap,

 

{country »is not disposed 1’1: run into ’1

long Afeeds, it is equally .indisposed,

to let roughage go to Waste. '11 iarge J \

percentage or the thin cattle now go-
ing into finishers’ hands .will merely;

be roughed through the winter to 151e,:

thrown on grass next summer and are
« not to be counted in the prospective
winter beef supply. . '

 

KEEP THE JTESTERS OFF THE
' ' HIGHWAY6. '

The automobile testers from Michi-R

gan factories are using up more roads
than all other trafﬁc combined. This
is especially true near the large cities.
A proposed law will be presented to
the coming legislature, which, if enact-
ed, will keep these testers, who have
no regard either for life or for prop-
erty. off the highways. The latest ac-
cident is reported from Monroe:
‘fWilliam Bessner, an- automobile
tester from Detroit, was arrested here
today, charged with damaging Prop-
' erty. Bessner, with another‘auto test~
er, were on their way to Toledowith
four .cars from Detroit. _ Bessner, ran
his machine into two cows owned by
George Chesmeyer, » a "farmer. The
cows were so badly injured‘tha't both
had to be killed. The car was so badly
damaged it had to be taken to a repair
shop. ”

In the last ﬁve years the consump-
tion of commercial ice cream is said
Ice cream is now
recognized as a. food as well as a con-
fection.

 

I have been a very careful and“
interséted reader of the pink sheet
and think it the best thing yet for
the farmers. , Thea/should be great-
ly beneﬁtted by it. I .would rather
pay $1 per year thando without
it, Enclosed ﬁnd 400 to balance
year’s subscription.-——Ernest Trucs-
dale, Manton, Mich, R. F. D. No.
5. ‘

 

 

 

SMALL ADVERTISMENTS

ILL be inserted under this heading
with ﬁrst three words displayed as
shown for TWO CENTS (20) PER WORD
.or will be run four times in “MICHIGAN
BUSINESS FARMING" and under the
same heading one month in “THE

GLEANER” for ten cents per word.

Address
RURAL PUBLISHING 00.,

  
  
 
    
 
  

 

 

 

95 Fort St. West Detroit, Mich
FARM FOR SALE 10 acres, splendid 10-
ation, 2% miles to
Manton, a railroad town of 1,000 population;
high school, churches, creamery and othe1
advantages. Mail delivered, near; neighbors
and school. 7- -room frame house, wx30, clap-
boarded and in good condition;
Two log barns and other buildings Never—
faillng spring of good water, piped to build—
ings, and can be used to irrigate garden. 100
good bearing apple trees; 40 acres in ﬁelds,
balance in pasture; plenty timber for home
use. Soil is good gravel and sandy loam; will
produce alfalfa potatoes, etc. Splendid loca-
tion for large apple and cherry orchard. Price
for quick sale $2,000. Address owner, JOHN
MGGREGOR, Manton. Wexford Co., Mich.

STAWBERRY PLANT 33 Standard m-

i-ieties, Senator
Dunlap at $1.66 per 1,000. LOWest Prices on
vigorous nursery stock in the state.1913 illus-
trated catalog tree.

 

good cellar. '

MAYER s PhAN'r. NUR.
: sggY, Merrill. Mich. , . , .. '

  
 

 
  
 

 

 

 

   

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This new ”book is going to '
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AND THE BIG QUES-
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he' believes" in the principles
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tions. ‘ -

Thus, every -copy of the , , ’1‘
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iness Farmer who has preven
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