
aﬁmwarr of Z5715: Media? I for?!
ffETRorrisarmaqy, M'a‘rcz. 1,11 I913 ONE CENT PER corn 29,.ngng )

SUBSTITUTE FOR
GASOLINE FOUND

STANDARD OIL COMPANY FEE?
PARES TO PUT “MOTOR SPIRIT” '
ON THE MARKET. ‘

 

Our Servrcc as Broad as the Farmer’s Needs

 

.sati‘sf 113 service to the ten thousand readers of Michigan Busi-
nose arming, is encouragement sufﬁcient to spur every man on
to do his leVel best. No paper ever established had a greater number
Or. more loyal friends than the “Pink. Sheet,” and as we proceed fear-
lonely down the highway which leads to the marketplace we find ample

T HE KNOWLEDGE that we are perforrning a real, distinct and

I-
. T3

that it}?

ended. This bill was commented: _
' racent issue of the “Pink
tie ‘a good one, and a stall

 

b y. the legislature in} session

Iati by a vote of 104 to 3. ;

i
' Will 11- aRe far-reaching effect in

manner 0f handling goods on (3011- ‘
signment

The law, which is known
the Winans Bill, provides that

.Issoqiation ortcorporation, shall fur-
nis’h to each ..customer or principal,

e purchase or sale of any hay,

-vegetables, fruits, poultry, eggs, .

,po o (1.9 address of the parties to
' Isuch property or any part
has been sold the time when,

When "and the price. The

A delegatiOn of cummissiOn mar-I
chants andvrrepresentatives of the dimer-

ear exchanges throughout the state ‘
immediately got busy and had a hear-
The pres-r

ing before the Committee.
11111111 oi the National League of Com-

mission Merchants appears very in-

iguant ovr'ar this attempt to pry into
the commission man‘s business. He
says: » ‘.

“ “1 any any one to come into the

AcomnIission district on a morning, say
about 5 Jociock, and try to get the
correct names and addresses of the
’" LI foreig’nérs who purchase fruits and.

Vegetables. we would have to hire an
interpreter to straighten out some of
the names. We would have to hire
a corps of detectives to see that we
are getting the correct names. Sup-
pose a peddler buys a barrel of apples

‘ = and a barrel of potatoes. Suppose he

gets aWay; with an extra barrel 0f po-
es and, giyes‘ us an incorrect name.

. WI? furnish this name to the shipper,_
o

writes and receives no answer.

, (II The shipper then accuses the commis-

siqn man of swindling hiin. The com-
mission men would have to. hire extra
bookkeepers to keep records which

commission merchants shall

I‘ . cppOrtunitiIes fer even greater service.

CF

the farmer receives a sauare deal

ROM TIME TO TIME we shall add new departments, for we pro-
pose that this little paper shall supply your every need so far as
lies Within the poWer and! scope of the printed word. This week

we announce the appointment of a representative at Lansing.

legislature has just got down to business; many laws that are of vital
interest to the farmer, are to be considered. You need a representative
right on the ground who is bound‘ by no- organization, who champions
no special cause. who is honest and square himself and only asks that

Such a person is Mr. E. C.

. mann, who will furnish the “Pink Sheet” ”with a hot letter, right off the
bat frOm the legislative ball ﬁeld at Lansing. He is at your service.
Letters addressed to this ofﬁce will have his personal attention.

The

Linde-

 

 

~"N.ot here toISing the OldISIong—but to Join in the Chorus of the New.”

 

 

matter for the commission merchants
to arrange the terms of sale so that
the shipper would not be any
Wiser after having written a let-
ter asking for information. You
cannot make a man honest. There-
fore, if the bill is passed, in our opin-

along. it will not 'cerrdct the evils that.
exist.

Let the conimissibn me'n be
bonded so that shippers know their
ﬁnancial responsibility, and then they
can invoke the aid of the law if it is
necessary. Every week from one to
a. half dozen commission ﬁrms fail,
and they always leave a string of lia-
biiitres about three times as long as
the list of assets.

. “You are doing} aIgood woﬂc, Mr.
Slocum, but you. dOn’t need to be

told that, you know W ”-——Wilson I

J. Bumngton,

Rushton, Michigan,
Boa: 29, R. 2. ' ?

KICK AT PARCEL POST.

Editor, Michigan Business Farming:—

The parcel post is a step in the right
direction, and a great convenience to
the rural population, but why plants
and seeds should have a higher rate

than merchandise is something more

than I can “understand. The real ser-
vlca of a parcel. post is to aid those
who live miles from any express of-
ﬁce to get their packages. Under
the present law .plant seeds, which

should be rushed by parcel post, can-_

not be sent because the price is al—
most prohibitive. For instance, our
city cousins can ’phone to a rural
router ten or twelve miles out in the
country, and get eleven pounds of
popcorn brought to towu for 15 cents,
but if the farmer wants the same
amount from town, for seed, it will
cost the farmer 88 cents—J. J ORGER—
SEN, Poysippi, Wisconsin.

 

has a value.

LaSt Moment Market Flashes

_ The Weekly Pink Sheet’s visit reminds you that another week has
slipped by. Shows you the “Shoddy” nature of the commercial fabric.
GiVes you an X-ray picture of the situation.

Don’t miss a word—each.

 

 

. yery latest quotations are:

Butter

0.0-o-.aoo.,.
I \ ».

 

on the several commodities from the principal market centers A

THE LAST MINUTE before going to press, we secure quotations
detailed statement covering conditions, our predictions and special

advice, will be found with each commodity on the following pages.

Wheat No. 1 White (large mills paying)
Wheat No. 2 Red (large mills paying)
Oats,Standard .. .34
Rye .. .. .63
Beans

Hay (best market today, New York), at ..... .
Potatoes (best market today, Pittsburgh) at... .55
....... .' .33
Poultry ._16
Breasted Hogs (Detroit Market)... . . ..

noocqoacacoeoooo-cu-n

The

...$1.O7I/z
1.08%

2.05
20.00

 

 

'pr'esidents, I guess. .-

The New Fuel Will Cost About Three

Cents per Gallon Less Than Gasoline
——-Tests Show More Mileage to Gal-
lon Can Be Obtained.

On the heels of an announcement
by the New York section of the Soci-
ety of Automobile engineers calling
a meeting of its members to discuss
ways and means of reducing the high
cost of motor fuels, the Standard Oil
company yesterday made public the
fact that a substitute for gasoline had
been discovered after a year’s experi—
ments. It also was announced that,
the new product, which will be called
motor spirit, will be marketed by the
company immediately.

Motor spirit will cost 3 cents a gal-
lon less than gasoline and Will fur-
nish, it is asserted, 25 per cent more
mileage.

The new fuel is an additional by-pro-
duct of petroleum. It was discovered
by by W, M. Burton and patents for
the process of manufacture were
granted the ﬁrst of the year. The
spirit has a greater range of boiling
points than gasoline. This, it is said,
will allow a motor to be started as
easily or more easily, with the new
fuel than with gasoline.

By the discovery of the spirit the
output of fuel for gasoline engines
from a given amount of crude petrol-
eum is declared to' be practically
doubled. This it is believed, will
tend to prevent any rise in the price
of gasoline. .

Motor spirit resembles gasoline
closely except it is yellow in color and
has a pungent odor. The company in~
tends it for use in motor trucks and
stationary engines, but its cheapness
is expected to encourage its use in
pleasure cars notwithstanding there
are several discouraging-features from
the standpoint of pleasure car OWn-
ers.

Chief of these is the exhaust of a
car which employs the spirit as a fuel
is a white smoke similar in appear-
ance to that caused by an excess of'
oil,

The great consumption of gasoline
by motors has been threatening the
available supply for some time, and
has been advanced as the chief reason
for increasing the priceof gasoline.

The new fuel has been under test »
by the Standard Oil company for sev-
eral weeks, and its efﬁcienqr it’ls de-
clared, has been proved satisfactory
to the company’s engineers.

PENSION, THE TEACHERS.

.1 see that the teachers are trying I I II

to get a pension bill passed.,’Why
should ex- -teachers get a. pension anyf
more than ex- farmers or ex- anybody,

They get good wages and have. .

What can
payers do to kill'the blll"-—-L M

‘ . Auburn, MichI.

 

 


 

 

 

 

~a,$

‘We believe that you wil‘lagree

givith us that a resume-pf the hay ,
. ..,_ situation this season‘dis-closes a,
"condition which has not visitedjus in a .
number of years. The writer of‘this
article has been connected commer- _

cially’ With the disposition “ of hay and

in ‘a very large way for the last 15 .
. years, and never during this period do -
I’ recall a time when the situation as- ,

sumed'this year’s position. Never has
,the situation from ,all angles, consid-
ering both grower and local distribu-
‘ tor, been handled as this season. We
started outknowing that we had, a
most abundant crop for disposition.
‘Aswstatistics tell us, this surplus is
represented by three million tons. The
,“Pink Sheet" was aware of this con-
dition and the the percentage of dif-
ferent qualities of hay for dispositibn,
advising you in our October number
that not over 5 per cent of this sea-
son’s crop would grade as No. 1 Tim-
othy Hay,
could not be termed commercial hay.
With these conditions put before you
it should have been apparent that this
season Was one in which the most
careful consideration of conditions and
that an outlining of activities must be
indulged in. Nothing has been done
this season to bolster up the situation
in the least. Everyone
connected with the disposition of this
commodity has seemingly had cold feet
from the very inception of the season,
it being the disposition of all inter-
ested to dump on the market just as
fast as possible. Never has there
been a time during this season, so far,
in which this is not absolutely true,
and the only feature holding back hay
at all has been “car supply.” The
only regulator that has been on the
whole situation is found in this one
element, the Railroad Carriers. We
have been most unfortunate in the
feature of weather conditions, not hav-
ing had practically any real winter
weather up to the present. It can
be conservatively stated that not three
weeks of good snug winter, or feeding
weather has visited us this season.
Weather conditions is considered com-
mercially as one of the greatest and
grandest asset possible in the fur-
thering of better market conditions.
It is more than commercially true
. with the commodity in question. We
‘ have an example on the farm of the
lesser amount of hay that you have
consumed this year by virtue of a mild
and open winter. Self-evident is this
that the amount of hay you have not
fed at home will result in an excess
in the amount you will naturally put
on the market. While it is not pos-
sible to determine exactly the amount
of hay you have saved, or in other
words, have not fed, as a result of
weather conditions, still we do know
that taking the whole situation into
consideration that this item would
stand out in large numbers. Not only
does this weather condition affect the
feeding at home on the farm, but it
also cuts down consumption at nat-
ural receiving centers. A great per-
centage of markets taking our hay
are those which are partially self—
supporting. Going farther than this,
it is absolutely true that not as much
will be consumed, in off or out of sea-

son weather, as will be the case in ‘

snug ever present zero' conditions. We
are fast approaching a time when
spring will be with us, when the
natural consuming months for every
quality of hay excepting“ high quality
No. 2 and No. 1 will not be looked on
_, with any favor, being entirely out of
season. The season for mixed hay,

‘ ’ for instance, is during winter months

and usually for' cattle consumption.
With the advent ofsipring this,,a_venue
.‘of";escape, escapes with it. , With

,[abundance of eommOn quality hay '
k,~it. isnot logical to conclude that,-
Wz .. <L 'i _ .‘r ».

2

that a great percentage.

in any way'

.. um . .
Montana ‘Woeiou
reports from other-stat 0

venues It th°§§¥ik9
. at, if,

has.
x-theﬁveather man.
-'eoeaea:.'»—it win par- 7.90

market. at proﬁtable

hour” .
' lower _ ut we vauld take a. chance.

 

a keen disposition will be shown- in
their fa'vdr. Readers, we have shown
You from thevoutset of this new mar-

ket paper that the ’only way in God’s ,
world that the hay situation, from'

a large angle, could be beneﬁted was
by holding the high quality stuff.
,which means your No. 2 or better.
These qualities of hay will always be
looked on with favor, always drawing
a handicap regardless of the race. We
know, that from an individual stand-
point, that this might not haVe worked
but in a large Way there was no other

‘manner in which the hay situation

could draw improvement. Right to-
day, men, with the situation in its
present demoralized condition, it
would be possible to so regulate and
handle the balance of this crop that
good No. 2 and better would draw a
good snug price for the remainder of
the season. We will not advise you
one way or another with reference to
the manner of disposition of the hay
you have on hand, because it is simply
impossible and you appreciate it, to
understand the manner in which your
Brother Producers and also your local
distributors will be disposed to handle
the situation from now on, but it is
possible to make this good No. 1 hay
bring home good returns even in the
face of what might seem the impos-
sible. If this farmer’s steam was only
'condensed in the form of Farmer Ele-
vators we could then put our- hand
on the regulator and shape the future
of the hay situation in an astonishing
manner. Naturally the outlook for
the hay situation bears but mighty
little promise. On lowgrades of hay
there seems hardly any ray of hope.
on high-class hay the situation is what
you make it, entirely up to the ﬁght
in its behalf. Not all the low grade
hay is going onto the market this year.
'If someone has got to be left out with
their low grade hay, why don’t we
consider it individually and collective-
ly when we can, and regulate as best
we can, the disposition of the same.
There is no use simply swamping the
situation at any time. The same is
suicidal from its every angle. ‘ Do
everything you can to bolster up the
present situation and protect the fu-
ture-don’t sacriﬁce if you have No.
1 Timothy or a. close counterfeit,
There is a wide range between this
grade and common quality, mixed,
etc., as to sellingvalue. Accept an
anywhere‘conservative price for your
low grade stock, but hold a stiff upper
lip on your high class hay.

 

‘ HAY—MICHIGAN ZONE PRICES.

Zone No. 1 Michigan ......... $10.00
Zone No. 21 Michigan. . . . ...... 11.00
Zone No. 3 Michigan. . . . ..... 11.50
Zone No. 4 Michigan ......... 11.30
Zone No. 5 Michigan ......... _ 11.00
Zone No. 6 Michigan ......... 11.30
Zone No." 7 Michigan ......... 12.20

NOTE-Jrhe price. given are on a
haul. of No. 1 Timothy hay in the
different Michigan freight IOICI. .
This give. you the price that Michi-
gan dealer: should be able to pay
for this commodity. t. o. b‘. their Ith-
tiou. under “existing mrhet condi-
tions. " .

 

 

 

- DETROIT—«Instead 9.1: :being able
to advise abetter Conditions/s exist-

ing on’the: Detroit? ,market, 1 we are/f,
obligedto give. you. its opposite. ,Stlll‘v
I the situationjthat loom up right under

..n. y 1‘ ‘ ‘ VI” : ‘ .

No. i—Good. substantial demandsand'present' conditions ,ravorsteady »
ricee. No. 2—Market clearing; up and betteeprtcee
predicted. ‘No. c—Mar et very quiet; has everyappearance otbein ‘zvover- ,
ted. No. i—Nomront at ruling prices. if you on. old; this 13 an "seventh,

reposition. No. se—Better keep in port. ‘

lokere" and.

IS rm: on. Prince may'go.

 

our eyesshovvs. conclusively‘Ta'alndjsup~ . .
ports our position", that‘it is the com}
mon qualities of 'hayand the manner. ~ :3.
of disposition that is tearing doiwn
What little protective wall “We; did-
011 the Detroit market last
_week the writer actually witnessed.-
sales of good, straight, clean, No. 2.

have.

timothy hay .;at $9 per ton, one, car
"of mixed hay fairly good color, a'lit-
tlerﬁne grass at $7, other grades of
No. 2 at $11,’but not a car of strictly

No. 1 Timothy hay were We able to’
This goes ’
‘to show that thepresent manner of ,

inspect during this time.

disposition is simply demolishing the
situation here and placingit in a very
indifferent position. Everything. is
in' the buyer’s favor, sacriﬁced prices
are continuouslybeing .made, but in
,face of this, good bright cars of No.
1 hay will sell readily at quotations.

 

HAY—DETROIT MARKET.

No. 1 Timothy ................ $14.00
N o. 2 Timothy ................ 1100
Light mixed ..... ‘ ............. 12.00
No. 1 Mixed ................ 11.00
Rye Straw. .............. ; . . . . 8.50
Wheat and Out Straw ........ ‘ ‘ {.50.

 

 

 

PITTSBURGH —- The Pittsburgh
market has experienced a very heavy
run of low quality hay the last week.

It almost appeared necessary at one

time to place an embargo. Up to the
present this has not been done. Sales
of common quality of hay» began to be
on a very indeﬁnite basis and, subject
to reduction, and in some cases sacri-
ﬁcing. Receipts is the one feature,
and practically the only one, having a
direct inﬂuence on the situation here.
.Receipts of high class hay continue
to be about normal, but we'think a
little below. -'

 

HAY—PITTSBURGH MARKET.

No. 1 Timpthy Hay ........... $15.00'
No. 2 Timothy Hay.‘ .......... ‘ 13.00
No. 3 Tl‘lnothy ................ 10.00
No. 1 Light mixed hay ........ 13.00
No. 1 Clover mixed hay ...... 13.00
No. 1 Clover hay ....... r .....

Fine Prairie Packing Hay. . . .

No. 1 Oat straw .............. 9.00
No. 1 Rye straw ............. 10.00
No. 1 \Vheat straw ........... 9.00

 

 

 

QHICAGO——For a few days the
Chicago market experienced ‘ receipts
aWay out of line with the local de-
mand, but we I

mal, basd on conditions existing over

the entire situation. About one gen»

eral basis will be. naturally estab-
llShed between ,one market and an-
other, as sympathy extends a long
way when directed along commercial
lines," and especially when conditions
are assuming a. toboggan nature.

 

H AY—CH I CAGO MAR K ET.

Choice Timothy .............. $16.50
No. 1 Timothy ................ 14.50 '
N o. 2. Timothy. ....... Z ...... 12.50
Light Clover Mixed ........... 12.50
No. '2 Mixed hay .............. 11.00
No. 3 Timothy....'..... ,
Clover . . g . ‘
Threehed Timothy . . . .
Marsh ﬂooding hay ...........
Packing .mmiu... ‘ -
Ohaieﬁ" Alfalfﬂ. - u . n u n o_.
1.;Altplta..\..;... ..

3%, '

n-oeoo'o’nncc-oy-nen

r‘ .~. ._ ‘l' “
-m¢ .... 4. .m
'54 - . . Y I

 

 

 

_ _ think at the present
time the situation there‘is about nor- .

 

Boy, 0110!”; His-‘0
Buy, No. 1. . .

h HQ?) No.._2. e-

He'y. No.3. . . 3.
Hey; jclover. . . -‘ ’. ..... \L 3.
Tiny, clover rvmlx‘e’d. . ‘.
.. gay; stock. . :. -. ... .'.

. cairn-Aye ton-awn . .1
, _ aligl'rye Iii-aw. . . -‘
Oat, stun ,‘-. . . . ,11 t,
. NOTM‘nrke ‘hllen welt
V200 toxlﬁﬂxmundn media-a
& train ’80 to;_190..ponndl.. " ' .

 

 

NEW YORK——In our last was.
sue “Last. Moment Market - Flashes'ﬁ’

'- we showed a' .te‘lgram received from
the‘ New YorkTmarketu Don’t -.be this".
’ 3 led by this or excited, to a. point
where you will expect, that the ‘situﬁe -

tiOn has shown very much of shim;
provement.‘ We feel'this advice "was
prompted. by local conditions caused
by the Firemen’s Strike. Agitation, but
it does go to show that \
which are a result of dispoSition,:i

Will bring about an advanCe in the , if.

receiptsﬁ‘;

face Of anything... This- market shet .

up a quick dollar per ton on grades iii“

of hay No. 2 ‘or' better.“ Low grades”
were not beneﬁted only possiny
through natural sympathy.- - '7

HAY—NEW YORK MARKET.

page i emit
bll’e‘, belch”;

 

$21.50; 321. '. * ‘

Light oloée'i- Mixed...
No. 1 Clover Mixed. . . .

No.
No. 2 Clover Mixed. . . .
No. 2 Olover.......... 1

Straw—

200 to 250 pounds; medium
from 80 tel” pounds. > .

 

 

 

Dear Mr. Slocumz—l thought I».

would drop you a line, ﬁrst: word
for the “pink sheet.” l received
16¢ a pound for our‘turkeys and if

I hadn’t the “pink sheet” l would . '
have got only 14c. I received $2 per
bushel for my beans, machine-run,
and‘they were only paying $2 on
hand-picked basis. So it Is worth

a whole lot to know what our stuff

is worth and what we dare hold It],
.at. I consider the “pink.~sﬁeet”'a
farmer’s guide! —-_-Fred ' Asohen'
White Cloud, Mich. , W ,

« , POTATOES .

 

 

 

 

C
?

We think there is just adittﬁle"

disposition on the part of both. I

\

‘ wane... ’nt‘.:0" ' ‘-

mi. - 5..

a;

, producers and distributors to, .

ease up on the reins they have been
holdmg on the market situation. Taut .
have you held the lines almostcon—

tinuously‘ up to the moment. ,It may i

be that You have not loosened your *

grip on the, situation or. taken any

deﬁnite conceptions of. it, but the out

side situatio‘nlwould suggest it, and

also the “moVement ofPotatoes would
haveaxtend‘ency, to, prove it, bu‘ t

the Same timeif these Potatoes I

' ” we ,.riaveiabea-. ﬁghting; g

is true the armed c.
,t‘ cma;.sﬁomd ‘

 

.4 ‘.

I I,” ...-.... missus

 


' = . ing with this market sheet.

 

' n
tigbntors-‘to place their" I)Po—
. ’ market at a. price out
with the generally conceded
,_ _l“ ituation Adjacent to the
13 trait market are some very good
tat sections and some of these
11 9‘" access to the Detroit market
over the
rate the carrying charge from these-

~ localities to this market is much less
- than to: other. outside terminals. In-

. ., stead oi holding the price up and tak-
. ing;*; the advantage of their location

. -.P0tatoes held back
‘jits. We think this is

at naturally we know "

. Page 01.: Potatoes held in
1 can important factOr with
' xSprihg situation. Yen don t Want
, for a minute that this. 20

‘ been talking

_ As the

e is would say, it is going

1: . e tight, ” and men, we want

, o appreciate that the situation
y (ices suggest that some ﬁght is
‘d,of us to maintain or improve
situation now before us. No liv-
man has a right to .tell you that

AS, raisers of Potatoes I will gu.a-r-
a tee, that you have been so com-
so many times

long expectancy lines that you will
agree Wth the above The writer has
pgrienced, been in actual touch
way,» "hat we would naturally
r ‘anipulatOrs, who . went com-
letely wrong on the future situation,
therelOre never be entirely dependent
on the dope given out by someone
else their ideas and otherwise.
your own head,.compare your notes

7 ,With others, form your own conclu-

sions We want‘ it thoroughly under-
Stood that you can so consider the
matter in Working along and aﬁiliatl
It is a
big situation—too big for any one
man. The situation today goes to

 

i1 MTATCESaMICHIGAN ZONE
PRICES.

2 ~ Michigan ......... $
4 Michigan. . . .‘ .....
5 Michigan .........

No. 8 Michigan. . ..... . . . .

No. 7 Michigan.. ,
. NOTE—From present market con-
dltiofua,’ local deal’erl‘ In the freight -
acac- ' abould pay you the price
quoted uMVc tor No. 1 stock dc.-
llvercd at their Itationb. The-c
.prlcc- can be increased by taking
advantage! of special carlot oﬂe‘rl. ‘

\No.
,No.
N o.

1 ‘ and 908150

Use 1

 

n to this market, they are
giving it. aWa'y in the form of a low—
.éred price. This is a case Where the
groWer and distri utor is not taking
advantage of the ituation at his dis-
posal The market at the moment is

’topheavy; receipts out of line with

demand, With the disposition to cut
priCes.

 

POTATOES—DETROIT MARK ET.

Bulk mil car. p’er bu. .40to .43
. ’Sackcd tram car, per bu. .45 to .48
.‘Sack'a mutt be even "$1.“. 160 ‘
hounds.
, Price quoted' lucludea coat of lack.
about 10%|: each.

 

CHICAGO~There is no material
change to report in the market sit-
nation existing at this point Quite

uniform have been market quotations
and the. market situation at this point
for some time.-

change from day to day, possibly
,from Week to week, the situation be-
ing entirely governed and made pos-

.' sible. by the nature of receipts, but at
situation has
[ been-quite sympathetic wth the sit-

all times- ‘ the“ general

nation generally ‘existing. The tone
to the market this last Week has been
quite satisfactory.

 

‘ POTATOES—CHICAGO MARKET.

Bulk from car, per bu. . .43 to .48
'Sacked from car, per bu. .45 t050
‘Sacka must be even weight. 150'
pounds. '
Price quoted Includes coat of lack,
about 1.0%“: each. \~

CINCINNATI—We are not able to
report a very snappy condition ex-
isting on the Cincinnati market, in-
stead the mar-ket was pretty'slow,

 

 

 

POTATOEs—émcmNATl
MARKET.

Bulk from car', per bu. . .5030 .55
*Sacked from car, per bu. .55 to .58

‘SI‘cka. mutt be oven wellht. 150
pounds.

Price quoted Include. coat ‘0! lack.
about 1096c each.

 

 

 

 

I

Electric Railroad, at any "

The wheat situation, during the
past week, makes the. writer
think of an old hen With a
brood of young ducks; most everyone
taking a stand on the bank and ap-
parently becoming nervous watching

the Wheat market on the commercial _
~sea, when We believe the wheat mar-

ket is just about as safe today as the
little ducks were in their water posi~
tion. About the only ground for con-
versation during the past week has
been the feature of the weather con-
ditions on the outside. Dry weather

'has been reported over a great por—

tion of the Wheat section. Being Well

 

‘ WHEAT—DETROIT MARKET.
No. 1 White. . . . .
No. 2 Red..'.....

Speculatlvc Prices.

July” delivery ......... . ...... is
*May delivery ....... .. ......

‘The prices given for Decellnber
and May delivery represent the tn-
turc delivery prices. This Infor-
mation merely give- you the future
basis of this commodity as lured
by those who speculate on future
pro-recto.

1.1}61/2

 

 

' natural inﬂuence.

We are well aware\
that the situation may showa little

 

aware of what happened last year
through this same angle the weather
Cry at this time has more than a
It is even now
considered by practical people, that
the crop has not yet been injured
These are called Bulls to the situa-
tion, ones who haVe a. strong senti-
ment in the trade, which will not be
checked until the Wheat has had
plenty of moisture. We believe there
is room for a conservative View of
the situation as it shows at the mo-
ment, but on the other hand we be-
lieve there is no reason why the pres-
ent situation does not give every
promise of a good healthy future.

 

WHEAT—fCHICAGO MARKET.

No. j: Red.... ............... $1.08
Speculative Prlces.

*July delivery ...............
*Muy delivery. ............... .9314

The price given for July
and May delivery reprclent the m-
ture delivery prices. This Informa-
tion merely given you the future
basis of this commodity as ﬂared
by those who speculate on future
prospects.

.91‘54

 

 

 

“Your ‘m‘nlc sheet’ has been like a
light in the night. I have followed
its advice with proﬁt. I want it
regularly as long as I can depend
on the 3011. If it can grow, let it
always be as fearless as in the
past.."-—S D Ellison, Bog/no Falls,
Mich.

 

 

Do you know;- men, that this
getting high time that We set
right down and study good an ,
._hard on the future possibilities, man
nor of disposition, etc, of this coni
modity. We have. a patient here that _

is gradually getting Weaker? as the

weeks go by. It is suicidal On our
part to allow this situation ‘to go
along and not give it some attention.
We would like to have you get your
“Pink Sheets” together from week‘ to .
week and read the outlines of the
situation as therein giVen. We think

you will ﬁnd that we have stol‘idlyv'”

maintained a line of- attack and de-'
fense for this commodity, which if
it had been carried out, would have .
maintained the possibilities of this
season’s output.
inception of the season we all know _
the nature of the crop, the ahund-
anCe thereof, etC., ' nothing suggeStive
whatever in either of these elements

that we should haVe our present‘sit- , ‘ '

nation. That being true, then why is
it that our present-demoralized sit-
uation should be visiting us?
the cause the manner in which dispo-
sition has been made? Don’t you be-
lieVe it is true that the disposition of
beans so far this year and the sit-
uation in general has been thoroughly
misused, and demonstrating that a
real mistake has been made. As dis-
tributors you are coming to a. time
when the percentage of beans in your
hands will be very small. The large
handlers of beans are very likely
looking forward to this time, that
they may be working with this end
in view. If they are, the reason for
the present situation is therein ex-
plained and just the moment that
these handlers think the situation is
right, Will be the time when the per-
centage of beans left in the Farmer’s
hands have reduced to the minimum,
this is the time when you will see
a. great change in the gen-era] bean
situation, the time when the great
bean dealers’ organization of Michi-
gan will step into the ﬁeld and show
you its strength from a marketing
standpoint. We had a case just like
this in 1911, beans were forced down
to $1.90 by the dealers over the State,
the situation given out to the Farm-
em as very bad, etc. On a falling
market you fellows break your necks
to sell your stuff. At-that time you
dumped your beans on the market at
$1.90, which was a reduction—from
the normal level, of 15c to 250. When
the beans had been dumped by you.
the elevator situation turned the ta-
ble. We saw beans climb to $2.65.
The question is are we facing, What
possibly is, a recurrence of like 00114
ditions? Is the general situation war-
ranted, or is it not? You all know
that beans will keep until next year
if this year’s price don’t suit you.
The future to the situation bears
Castaneda-Pogo Six

 

N order to keep in touch with the
market conditions you should know

' the freight rate from your shipping
station to the leading market cell.
ters. I! you have the trelght. rate you
have the key which places you in a po-
j-gsltlon to know whether your local dealer
' e‘j giving you the market price for your
roducts or not. In connectmn with
uslness Farmer Zone Map. You wm
notice that this map is divided into

. seven freight zones. Your: farm is locats‘
ﬂed in one of these zones: and by refer-
to the table given below you Will
approximately What it costs for car-

his article we give you the Michigan'

, rates Hglvcn cover hay, potatoes

MIC HI G'AN ; FRE I G HT Z ONE 8

Zone 3-—-Bay City.

Pittsburgh. for instance, show that Nt.
1 Timbthy hay is worth $16 00 per ton.
The freight being $4. 40. would show that
the dealers in Tuacola. county should pay
$11. 60 per ton, less handling charge. The
minimum weight of a car of hay is
20, 000 pounds; the minimum weight of a
car of potatoes is 30, 000 pounds; the
minimum weight of a car of beans in
.40, 000 pounds: and you will have to pay
for that number of pounds in each car,
so be sure and ship a full carload. Th3
an

beans only; all kinds of grains take a
different rate. We will be glad to fur-

‘ nish you with full information with ref-

Zone 4—Greenville.

Detroit
Zone 5-—Sandusky.

New York City .................
Pittsburgh

Cincinnati

Chicago

Detroit

New York City ................
Pittsburgh

Cincinnati

Chicago

New York City ................

MICHIGAN

WITH
APPROXIMATE
RATES TO

FREIGHT
LEADING
ZDNES ' -. "=— MARKETS _'

~~ (SEE
TABLE

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Going back to the

Isn’t '

Pittsburgh

- Cincinnati . . .
Chicago .......................
Detroit

. Zone d—Vicksburg.

: New York Clty....« ......
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati

stance to the maximum and minimum
' car-lets. or you can get this information
from your local agent. ,.

‘ shipments to the different market
rs. The rate given is per 100
a‘and it should be remembered
ise are the approximate rates
l, 01! course, differ a. little from
some in the several .zon'es’.
t“ on it is advisable that you‘ secure
‘ ur local;statloh agent the correct
. ' -s_tatlon' to any of the.
Remember the railroad .
trans-legit:t and, the-m
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New Yor City“...
Pittsburgh .......
Cincinnati ,
Chicago,......,..... .........

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ew York Clty.........~......., , dew York City”
. rumours}: .1. . . Pittsburgh
Cincinnati {Scinnatl '
0‘80 ulna-q ............... 11- -.
Detroit ‘ - . . ’

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* "They copied all they c'o‘uld fallow but: t19¢y coolant lam-1 my mitt
And I left’ e‘m sweating and stealth a year and (1 11011ka

ll This “pi’nk- sheet” has no creed, nor party. plays no favorites 111111. s": ' .,
.to neither f1 lend nor enemy, if they Would swerve it from the single puh"w% has

laid for itself to solve the greatest problem that confronts the farmer today,- AT 0F
'DISPOSING OF HIS CROP FOR A GREATERI IPROFlTl
. 11 The market reports are written directly to serve the farmers of lgchlgan and to
assist them in receiving at their own local market the prices which shou theirs.

ll MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING maintains a Sexist department, under com.
't'petent and experienced direction of men, whose duty it to aid our~ readers in any
'part of this state to secure fair prices and ‘gdod markets and if the. local buyer will .
' not meet these conditions to aid, if possible, in the disposing of his produce an a favor- .

_ able market.
11 In the unpretentious little‘ ‘pink- sheet” which you hold in your hands, the farmers .
of Michigan will ﬁnd a militant strong- arm, ready and anxious at all times to defend
‘ their rights and to right their wrongs wherever and whenever they be found. No rider ,
, pendent farmer or group of organized farmers in this state need hesitate to call upon this' -
publication, at any time, if it can be of assistance to them.

111 MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, let it be clearly understoodw represents no
single organization, be it Gleanexs, Grangers, Farmers’ Clubs, Society of Equity or
whatever its creed 01 title. It does, hOWever, stand for organized farming, because in
this way only do we believe the farmers of Michigan can come into their own.

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a hand, as the son wastes the money left by- his dOting father?
have kept right on, year after year, taking money from your till.

ljbecomes more produc’nve

Entered as 2nd Class Matter, Oct. 13, 1912, at Detroit, Mich., under Act of Mar. 3, 1879.

EDITORIAL

OU HAVE HEARD about the merchant Who was arrested for
robbing his own till?
city in t’the early morning, and entered his store late at- night,

to get some cash. He had just10pened the till, and was counting

 

 

.11; out his cash when the policeman on the beat saw the “robber” and,
' hustled him away to the police station.

He told his story straight; claimed owner-
ship of both the cash and the store; but the
sergeant in charge laughed at- his ﬂimsy ex?
cuses and he was locked up for the night. In

OUR the police court at 10 o’clock the next morning,
OWN TILLS he convinced the judge that he was really

. robbing his own till and, therefore, could not
be convicted of a crime.

Eight out of every ten fauners are robbing their own tills.
can’t convict them of robbery, because they have a title to their tills
They are soil robbers nevertheless, and could be convicted in any
court, with the prosecution in the hands of Attorney Outraged
Nature. _

We claim to be prOSperous; call attention to the fact that we
have been successful; and boast of the increased value of our hold—
ings. Yet we bought our farms when land was very much cheaper
and the paper value has increased a third or a half. And why?

Isn’t it a fact, brother, that you came along ten or ﬁfteen years
ago and stumbled on to a lot of wealth lying right near the surface?
It was placed there by a beneﬁcent Providence, and all you had
to do was to await the increase price of farm products—and condi—
tions added to the value of your farm

The value of that farm of yours is determined by its productive—
pess. No matter what kind of buildings you may. have; no matter
what crops you have raised in the past—the value of YOUR farm
lies in the amount of fertility remaining in the soil.

Isn’t it a fact that you have been mining from the black top
soil for years; taking the wealth and spending it with just as laysh

ou

ROBBINC

And now that the cash does not come so easily,‘ayou are anxious

to move on, where you can again Spread your net and get a larger
. and more proﬁtable haul

When you move on, some one gets a
‘sucked lemon” ———a wornout farm. . ,
,.It is possible to so conserve the soil, that with, added years it

He was going to leavefor a distant»

You I

But you (can’tm‘mamtam fertihty by.

productive ye
And- 3399

nature, so . .

nature that which,

not 1nﬂated

. We can only know whether pres. nt values are stable

applymg the‘ busrness principle to the present day value '_

farm will show a gOod interest return om the money, time,

the labor and ability invested in carrying on the busmesé ..
' Then present valuEs W111 remain. But only so loncr as yzouc" ' 3
take each’year from nature’s storehouse a sum sufﬁcien , - ,

tain the dividend payments.

Possibly for/a year or so

not interfere with the Value, but ﬁnally
When things get right dpwn to busmess '1't is the"

count.

Values are not based upon acreage, buildmgs in? I fin

ments—land values f3r farming purposes will be based, in the”
near future, solely and Wholly upon the productiveness of the

S 0 don’ t rob your own fill.

A7ature has a watchman 011 gram;

you will get “mm in” sooner or later.

 

 

WHO? THAT’S THE QUESTION'
WHO?

The Department of Agriculture is
occasionally placed in a humorous if
not an absurd position.
1y they sent out the welcome state-

ment that the cost of living ‘was grow:

ing less and that its’ statistics proved ,. wants is someone with the nerve to:

that the materials of life sold for less
during the past year than these same
materials sold for in years previous.
The average wage- earner; laughs at this

statement because he has only to look .

at his bills to see that he has paid
inore for almost everything, includ-
ng oils which ought to be cheaper
since the trust is “busted.”

‘ It is not so easy to laugh at the
statements of the Department of Ag-

J ust- recentr

sumer is paying a. big margin

for products than he1 did ten
,ag'o. Ahd,’ our dear “Farmers

the Department of Agricultu ,
tinues to send out starletlcsr

tics lock- well bn paper, and

interesting material for the. ow"
paper editors, but what the tar,
go beyond the statistics and get a

the non- producing middleman whcgi'~ ;.
in reality the individual who is go

ting the increased Wealth E G.L . _'

MINNESOTA FRUIT

riculture in connection with the glow-_ ' '

ing reports of the increase in wealth
which must have come to the farmer
during the past ten years. Recently
it has been the hobby of editors or
various papers to qubte the Depart-
ment of Agriculture to prove that the
American farmer is becoming rapidly
wealthy. Don’t the statistics show
that corn has increased several mil-

lions of dollars in‘ price? Hasn’t Wheat ‘

brought millions more this year than

it did ten years ago? Yes, some of ‘

these statistics may be true, but
THEY TELL ONLY ONE-HALF OF

THE STORY. What the American»

farmer wants to know is, “WHO IS
GETTING THIS EXTRA WEALTH?"

Why doesn’t our venerable Depart-
ment of Agriculture tell us something

about the difference in price between
what the farmer receives for his pro-_ '

duct and the price which the con-
sumer pays? A few years ago they
teld us that the farmer received on
an average about 46 cents out of each

dollars’ worth of product 130111.181

he still doing business with this 46-
cent dollar? If he- is, why hasn’t some—
thing been done to enable him to mar-
ket a dollar’s worth of produce for
less than 54 cents? He knows it
doesn’t cost that. much.

1:: it fair to tell to the world that,‘

gtime ﬁnal arrangements Were madc.

ncsota Fruit Association, a tsp—ope

11% company of ,truit growers, he d

a meeting at' Minneapolis, at which

up

for incorporating. The association

“will incorporate for $100, 000, with“ a

limited liability of $50, 000. There Will‘

' be ten thousand shares of stock with

a par value or $10 pe‘r Share
In speaking of the organization.

. work Manager H. H. RoWley Isaidi‘

“We have found that although we *’
have met to a Certain. extent Wit,
more success than We anticipated w.
have felt at 8,11 times the need ‘3f 11
working capital or fund Which could;
be used for extension and assistance ' *’

"of the ordinary agriculturlst. We want” “
> to be where We can be of material as-
sistance inasmuCh as they may Dos:

131ny be short of funds from time

time and need outside aid.- We make

them an advance on their Stock- and
take up their notes. In fact W 01161-

ate as a sort of clearinghouse

the local organizations posits
throughout; this terrltf

. ,_ l tyrant. W631”
not att‘ern‘pti ‘g' h ' mmiblwth’
of distrl lines 11in

the farm products are worth millions '

/moro this year than ever before Wi't
out ”also telling the public who gets
these extra minibus? ,- _‘ ..

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" Washington, 13 LC'.', March 1.»-Last
'Lll'eti'n‘ gave forecasts of disturbance
”rose continent- March 4 to 8, warm

 

will be about an Leverage disturbance
and therefore of no great importance.
.5The interesting matter in connection
" With this weather event is the kind
,N or weather it will give to Washington
r11, the inauguration.

  

1135

911161111er fair Weather . for that
vent. According to our calculations,

 

on March '4 and therefore. clearing
W

mguration;' -

95.11911 disturbance will reach Paciﬁc
' coast about March 10, cross Paciﬁc
-5"sl50pe by c10se of 11, great central
valleys 12 to 14 eastern sections 15.

~ about March 10, great central valleys
.'.;12, eastern sections 14. Cool wave
twill «cross Paciﬁc slope abOutL March
‘13, great central valleys 15, eastern
sections 17.
This disturbance does not promise
.9- any dangerous storms, but there. are.
{indications of m6re than the average
2'1'rain'fal-l for March, 1913. But the
rainfall of this disturbance Will prob-
.-1abl'y be iii- the country from Galves-
51911:. New Orleans, Houston, San. An-
ytonio and Dallas, north to eastern
"Kansas It alSo promises rains in the
New England States Elsewhere prob-
,2 ably dry..- Large 'parts of the country
fare threatened with a. March drouth
15.5and a general thaw. ‘

for March 16 to 28.
doubt that very destructive storms
twill occur during that two Weeks’
period, but, as we cannot now locate
them, all shbuld be on the alert- for
"the ‘ Much property and seme lives
1111.8 1: be. saved by being prepared.

1.1101115; February
"casts Were certainly 1.'good and should
encourage ally.» who. desire reliable
Weather forecasts,

 

L 91111191211 they were tied together and
could ”not separate.

 
  

ruary Weather. No. other fore-

ther forecasts a month ahead.

 

 

 

th‘hn usual seat 9133 Rep
L ' .Ln‘ffal-I' will be greater than. human w'ith'ln .150
2' long}: u'lf: coast, along Atlantic coast from South ..
5h‘1part of Pacific coast." Elsewhere lees than,
.L '2 tomcaﬁaturee not far tram March 5320, 26 and 30'. Cold. ‘
do g1 {tail on Waves. Will ores/s- continent Fool? '26 to March 2, ”
..'" 2671.6 25' and 26 to‘3915;5severo we‘at‘her- marsh 1. to 6.
s storms L16 to 29. Our danger signals will hang oht during
Lhancee. are about even, for good and for bad weather ln

vLe chart the treble line represents normal precipitation and
L As temperatures and precipitation lines rise' probabilities
ﬂog-ea e for more precipitation and higher. temperatures.
(ii-Meridian 9'0. Count one to three days earlier for west of that line
in a much later for cost of it, in proportion to distance horn that Merl-.
LdlLarl which runs Lnorth through St. L011! .

1193,19 7,0001 Wave 6 to L0. This

he indications are favorable to .
a

made about middle of January, the
cool wave will be due at Washington

either may be expected for the in-5

JWarm Wave will cross Paciﬁc slope --

knot to sell

Again We hang out danger signals
We have no5

.durLinLg the year co

temperature fore~ 1

The temperatures '
'1' February seemed to. follow our‘
gchart lines, made two months bolero,

' pound and 111.
or has ever dared to chart his?»

so“ to make that feature or,
j.L'l§'L-L.. the greatest scientiﬁc suc-

   
 

    
  

 

    
 

‘kies' L'ami cooler than

Dates are . 5

 

.31:

5.F'ebruaryL,L:20' prices Lof grain and cot?
ten are tending downward. This Was
expected, because we are now at the

season when proddcers will deliver.

large ' Quantities, ” of ‘ farm products.
Another inﬂuence favorable to lower
prices wil be the warm weather of.
March and‘ April, which will bring
early crop growing weather. Still an—

. other inﬂuence for lower prices is the

prespect that the European war will
soon be closed and the- Turk elimin-

. ated from Europe. .
. The big business interests seem to ‘

be favoring a depression and many

_L.peo5ple in' New York city are out'of

employment Another index to lower
prices is' that the public entertain-
ments are not being well patronized.
The people are holding the dollars
more ﬁrmly and many shows .have

.1 been forced out of business.

These statements are made because
heretofore we have advised farmers
The affairs of our coun-
try are in. excellent condition and
.1913 should be one of our most pros-
porous years. But it all depends on

the managers of big bus 1.15s.

 

1913 SUGAR BEET C ..‘o'T-RACT.

 

A Few Little Changes i
That the Grower
Appreciat

5 we Contract
' "I- Not

~ of inquiries
1 .1.r Beet Con-
herewith a

5 wact adopted

_ We have had a mom
with reference to the
tract for 1913. We
cOpy of the uniform 1

by the Michigan sug 10mpanies:
‘ Concerning Raising Delivery of.
_ . ugaq' Be . 1 or
’ CA IPAIGN M1, 1913.
The undersigned 1, 1 ,by agrees to
plant, culthate, he -t and deliver

ncmg' With the

Spr1n'g‘. of 1913, to f'

. . . ...................... at its
factory in . . ......... Mich,
we? at one of the 5,.)any‘ s weigh Sta-
ions ............ ..acres of -
Sugar 1 Beets 1. 15 on the following

Wit:

..........

described lands»

in SectiOn .
ship of
in the Com
of Michigan

About 15 pounds of seed per acre

..u-n-u-n-u-~$

.........................

 

.5’ shall be planted, which seed shau b
. We have a right; 8
55L\toi boast of the marked forecasts or

furnished by tl e .....................
SUGAR, comp my 111' 15 cents per
cost or same to be de-

        

 

L-s'eek to blade Mic
6L; progressive states ‘

important bills were passed

{5

to" act favorably up measures which

'O‘n Thursday of' last" Week two very
The
Flowers Resolution" which aims to give
the ballot to the women 'of the State
was pasSed by a vote 01 74 to 21
This means that if the resolution is

1 . concurred in by the Senate the voters

' or Michigan Will again have an 0pm
5 portunity of deciding whether or not
’they Wish to extend the suffrage to

women. BecauSe of the part that the
liquor interests played in the elec-

tiOn of last fall, many believe that
the amendment to the constitution
will have a better chanCe in the
spring.

On the Same. day that this import-
ant measure 'was passed the House.
also passed the. much-talked-of Glasner
bill. - This is considered one of the

-most revolutionary bills that any leg-

islature has ever considered. It pro-

vides that "‘no idiot, epileptic or per-

son who has been afflicted with open
tuberculosis, syphilis or gonorihoea
and has not been cured Of the same
shall be capable of contracting mar-
riage.” It further provides for a
stringent examination by a compe-
tent physician with a written report
which must be presented to the county
clerk before the parties may be solem-
nized in marriage. Physicians or
others who do not comply with this

 

 

It is agreed that freight on beets
delivered shall be paid by the grower
at a rate which shall not exceed the
rate on beets delivered to any other
sugar factory from the same 1stat10n.

Said beets shall be hartested and
loaded by the grower for the Company
on cars or delivered at Factory Sheds
at such time and in ’such quantities as
may be directed by the Company. The
Company will not be liable to receive
or pay for 'beets which are rotten or
otherwise unﬁt or undesirable for mak-
ing sugar.

Payment to be made on the 15th of
the month following the delivery of
the beets. All wagons used in the haul-
ing and deliVering of beets grown
under this contract must have boxes
with tight sides and bottoms and be
free from holes and cracks of any sort.
Beets must be forked from wagon and
all dirt remaining in wagon must be

. Weighed out with wagon.

All samples for fare and test must
be forked into tare baskets in the regu—
lar manner.

This contract not valid until ap-
proved by an ofﬁcer of the Company or
its Agriculturist, and N0 AG 41 TT OF
THE COMPANv HAS ANY AUTHOR-
ITY TO CHANGE OR ALTER THE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS
CONTRACT.

(Signature of Grower.)

Two'things you will notice: First.
that the clause Which guaranteed $5
per ton in 1912. has been lost sight
of and does not appear in the 1913
contract. And, again, the clause with
reference to the payment of'freight
has been Changed somewhat; it now
reads that “the grower shall pay the
freight.” This means that the price
for growing beets for 1913 will aver-
age at least $1 per ton less than for
1912.

\

MICHIGAN POULTRY ASSOCIA-
TION TO MEET.

The tenth annual convention of the
Michigan Poultry, Butter and Egg As-
soc'iation, will be held at Hotel Gris-
wold, Detroit March 6 and 7. Let it

.5136 understood that this is not a meet-

ing of the poultry men and dairymen,

5 but of those who1dea1 in these pro-

ducted frm: t1 9 ﬁrst payment me. e o
beets _ slim-rel. The title to said"1 aged
and to said (10p of beets,- from the
gtivme who 119 some begin to grow,
shall be am: remain-tin the. meany. , 1

:‘The' beets are to he give due (53.1%),)".

. . La'nLq ache grewer wlimn l nstrwptlonm.

.- regard to 111911 9135911.»; ad L
Lug for. harms ' d deli 9r.

  

ducts.

1853/11; Agricultural College; 'H. M Lei
mom-U5. S. Bureau Animal Industry,

5 Ottawa

 

‘ ' bobbing progres' .
ye. Time .1111: it has shQWu a. tandem?

13111151; in the rank

Among the speakers for Fri-.
.day afternoon, March 7, we ﬁnd the
' " ‘names of J. W. Helme State Dairy
and Food Commissioner Lansing; J.

lo»: 5
" ' . th 1: b all) LL ,s L;
01 Iaintou, Poultry Department, 5M1ch‘i— 1' "my “‘ 1‘ her will have t3: r.

_ ' receive your copy «for-1 three; (8).
Washington B;- 0.5, and: W. A. Brown

 

   
 

by. Representative Guise. '1‘
Barry County, and is intended
check the incredse in Lfeeblamind.‘
and diseased children.

Tuesday afternOOnL the Senate by ‘
Vote of 26 to 5, agreed .to submit th’L
question of Equal Suffrage to th
voters at the April election; the1
House agreed to the resolution last..-
Thursday. Nothing now stands in the
way of giving the people a right to
vote on this important question in
April. .

There are ﬁve farmers and 12 111W...
yers in the present Senate of Michi-1
gan This is about the usual reprer
sentation Which the farmer gets. in
the upper house. '

A national convention hasLLbeen1.
called in Chicago to be held in the
early spring and whose business it
will be to consider the business’side'z
of farming. Marketing and co-op-
oration will be the tWO chief topics of -..
discussion. At last a few of those Who‘
are intelested in farming and the
farmer seem to have gotten a ‘ray
of light on the real problem. Well.
we hope they do something besides
talk theory In the meantime, We,“
shall continue to preach the doctrine
of co-operation which we pioneered ..
when most people were talking about
“ggrowin two blades of grass where
Only one giew before.’ ’

..,

Even the statesmen and near-states- 1 5 ""2
men at Washington seem to realize 5
that there is something wrong with.'
the marketing end of farm products. .
Senator Hoke Smith introduced a bill -. "
last session to establish a Bureau of'-'L-'-1
Markets. That was lost, and now
there is an appropriation asked for . 15.;
in the Agricultural Appropriation Bill
to give the Secretary of Agriculture
$50,000 for the purpose of acquiring '
and diffusing knowledge on subjects
'.connected with the marketing and dis- ,
tribution of farm products. Really,‘ .1'4
our old Department of Agriculture .1'.
seems to have a new lease on life.
* * a: '

A recently published interview with
Secretary R. L. Drake of the Michi—
gan industrial Accident Board reveals,
the fact that even though farm lab-‘
orers are excluded from the Work-
men’s Compensation Law, the farmer

may still be affected by the law. 5

Section 2 of the ﬁrst part of this ‘
law says, “The plOViSlonS of section
one shall not apply to actions to rep.
(ovei damages for personal injuries
sustained by household domestic serv— .
ants and farm laborers.” 5.

This statement seems distinct
enough,- and yet there is a possibility
of the farmer being held responsible
for accidents occurring to men in"hiLs
employe. This is due to the fact that
it has not been-determined in Michi=
gap just what the term “farm labor.
ers” means. For example, when ,a "1.
man is injured while operating a grain .
binder, mowing or threshing machine."
it may be held that he is not a1 farm
laborer but is a mechanic. In that
case he could ask for compensation
under the Act.

There are already applications at
the ofﬁce of the Accident Board for.
such men as are operating dairies,
greenhouses, etc, to come under-the-
provisions of this law. It must be
remembered here that this law is en-
tiiely optional with the employer and?
the employe. If the employer doeéﬂ
not elect to come under the law he'
is liable to a suit in the common law . ‘
in case of accident. If the employs
makes claim to his employer who
has Come under the law for compen
tion, he cannot thereafter sue his ems .
ploye‘r at the common law. ' ‘-

    
   
  

  

        
  

  

    

   
 

       
   
 
      
 
 
 
 
   
  
   
  
  
  

   
  
   
  
    
   
   
  

 

 

 

 

 
  
 
  
   
   
   
   
 
 
  
 

 

 

We want the malllng' arranged
“pink-sheet” 111511115 builds
week- by Saturday, at Lle‘aot. It you
consecutive issues later tkilns
day, hdvlee our Mailinggnehorhnent
Lon 11"“ postal, Just what tine. lt

M .. i! m

 

 

 


 

WGHIGAN ZONE PRICES
o. 2 Michigan. .. . .

‘ WHO. Michigan. . c . g a ._ 2:10 .

3-.

TIE—We em you above the *
j" a that Michitun denier. should
,I'Ic‘ uble to pay :yon tor Denny, hand-
picked basin, in the intern: freight
none: of Michigan. The Pink Sheet.
in! net the pride for bennl, hand-
‘picch Ian-in. at t” uvernxe Miehi- .
gun points, at $2. per bushel. ,

 

. . .. 35.1163? 7

 

w’ ‘ﬁlJune; “TIME. s ‘n ‘ . o a .\‘c .
A 1 M

ammoth,.nrime ,.:...’.
Albike'. ,1)
Timothy sea. p‘rﬁne ...... _ .‘I

A

 

“I was one of the original sub-v

‘ soribcrs and 181m cbnsidér it a'
paper which every farmer ought to

read. ”—W. A C'ulp, Duster, Michi- , ,

gen, N0.- 2.

 

'i“I. am much pleased with the
paper ”'—»S’ B. Curtis‘s, Shepard,

0113 x

As the weeks come and go the
ability of Oats to withstand
. their position is clearly demon-
strated. In face of a constant ﬁre
from heavy market guns Oats have
" almost steadily and
maintained their position. This week
you will notice they have come back
1/430. This goes to show that the gen-
,» eral stability to the Oat situation is
i one to be‘ relied Upon. It all goes to
Show that there is nothing spirited
about the situation, therefore no ma-
terial change should be looked for,
for some little time.

 

 

 

 

 

OATS—DETROIT MARKET.

No. 3 Mixed .................

 

CINCINNATI—There was but little
animation to the situation with a
heaVy tone generally prevailing The
quality of arrivals was not very sat-

, , isfactory receipts grading No 3 and

under. Oats grading standald or No.
2 would have met with ready sale‘ at
quotations.

 

OATS—CINCINNATI MARKET.

Standard .351/2
No. 3 White ................. .3435;
N0. 4 “’lIlte ............. . . .34
No. 2 Mixed .34
No. 3 Mixed ................. 33%

 

 

, PI‘TTSBURGHwReceipts of Oats
ion the Pittsburgh market were fully
Vup' to the demand. Owing to condi-
tions on some other lines of coarse
feeds, the general tone to the Oat
situation was not very satisfactory.
Receipts ran high in common quali-
“ ties with a great percentage of the
trade looking for something a little
. better.

 

OATS—PITTSBURGH MARKET.

Standard . ...................
No. 3 White. .................
No. 4 White .................
No. 2 Mixed .................
No. 3 Mixed .................

“We can’t get alonng’thout the
‘pinlc sheet,’ with it we know what
the other fellow lcnows,”—anlc
E. Sattler, Smith Creek, Michigan.

CLOVER SEED

There is but little change to
report from week to week on
the general situation and out-
2 00k of the seed market,~ It contin—
, use to bear every promise, and ful-
ﬁll every hope that we have, in the
, past, entertained for it. At the mo-
ment, the situation is‘ most healthy
[with every angle to the situation all
a ’could hope for. We do‘ not look
"any particular change ".to the sit-

on for. some time, but we will, be

a little surprised if the seed sit:

11 does not take a little ‘5qu

e

 

 

 

 

continuously '

CORN

we are raising Flag No.1 be-

 

 

cause based on the general sit- .

_ uation we can see nothing
wrong with the price or time to the
situation
price at the moment is just what we
might hope for or possibly experi-
ence, but from a. large angle you must
appreciate that it is practically im-
possible to maintain a unifOrm level
throughout the season. There will be
times and conditions over which con!
trol is absolutely impossible. The
car situation, for the last fortnight,
has had much to do with the little
depression manifest in the corn mar-
ket. We have done m{ghty well this
year to show the present and past
standard of, levels because we all
know that a bumper crop was in ac-
tual evidence that the cat situation
was a little depressed, that the hay
situation was very much depressed,
therefore, in harmony and in sympa-
they with other coarse feed stuffs we
have done very well. As far as we
are concerned from a market stand-
point feel very pleased over the sit-
nation we have enjoyed up to the
present time. The tone to the situa-
tion at the moment is good, healthy
and bears every promise of continued
health and tone

 

CORN—DETROIT MARKET.

. 2 white ..................

. 3 white ..................

. 4 white ..................

. 2 yellow .......... ‘ .......

, 3 yellow .................

. 4 yellow .................
V . 2 mixed .................

. 3 mixed .................
No. 4 mixed ..................

CORN—CINCINNATI MARKET.
No. 2 white ..................
No. 3 white .................. .12
N0. 4’ white .................. ASV;
No. 2 yellow.................
No. 3 yelloW. . ._ .......... '. . . . .50
No.4yellow.............‘.... .49
No. 2 mixed ..... . .............
No. 3 mixed ................. .53
No. 4 mixed ................. .52

ooﬂ’N—Pn-rssunc MARKET.
No. 2 white ..................
No. 3 white. ..................
No. 4 white ............... '. . .
N0. 2 yellow .................
No. 3 yellow .................
No. 4 yellow .................
No. 2 mixed ..................
No. 3 mixed ..... ‘ .............

53%
.521/2,

 

That don’t mean that the .

 

No. 4 mixed ............. , .....

 

“I have found Michigan Business
Farming O. K. I think every farm-
er within reach should have it in
their home.”—O s c a r S t l m s o n,
Brown City, Michigan, No. 2.

APPLES

The apple situation is gradually
working around to a point
where special grades and kinds
When a condition

 

 

D

ale looked after.
like this is in evidencegproof is at
once established that the small hand-
lers and storers of apples are gradu-
ally coming into- the market for kinds

called for and speciﬁed If they run

out of some particular kinds then
they come'into tlge

fmarket.

.~ ‘Red in e

7 do so or not ‘bnly time canl'v'_ - .
APPLES—GENERAL MARKET. -‘

 

‘ Fancy, pe‘g- barred. . .1. . . £2.00 to: 3.13 .

' Ordinary. per barrel . ..'

“The .‘pink' 'sheét’
educator Should be when by every ,
farmer in Michigan, as it 1'3 (1'
guide which is .a help to every,

 

 

 

farmer in future marketing mar- f.

craps”—a—M. 0 Witta’lcer, Marlettc

ONIONS

We have endeavored to get
more than the usual line up on

 

 

 

 

the onion situation to give out

to you in this week’s, situation. .We
are, very much disappointed in not
being able to give you any data‘sup-
porting the situation we are now/ex—
periencing. 'We have only the gen-

eral situation, trend of affairs and ex-

pression of the market on which to
base our’ write-11p: We continue to
maintain that there is absolutely no
reason or excuse for the present mar-
ket situation being forced on us -It
simply demonstrates that the men do-
ing the business end of your onion

business do not care particularly What.

the general market is as long as they
can have a well understanding of it So
that purchases from you can be made,
thereby guaranteeing a proﬁt. The
point being brought out is this, that
the local man don’t care one snap
what he pays for a bushel of onions

as long as they guarantee him a proﬁt-

looked for. Just as long as business
is done along these lines and by these
agents just so long will you be sub—
ject to conditions of this kind visiting
you. You cannot look for these local
dealers to bolster up the situation. I

have heard it explained this year that

producers ought'to be satisﬁed with

‘the present condition because-last-

year for a few» minutes in the spring
onions happened to touch better than
$1 per bushel, but let me tell you
right here, very few
realized the advantage but of the
advance that was manifest at that
tlme,. practically all these onions
drawing these prices were out of stor-
age. We/are of the opinion that lo~
cal dealers have enough (if this sea-
son’s crop in store so that they can
govern the situation as they see ﬁt
and on the same basis. If they con—
tinue to- dump these onions on the
market as they have been, there will
be.no brighter future or advanced
prices. On red stock the situation is

almost critical at the present time
The outlook for yellow stock is a lit:

tle Wider, covering a larger range,
and while the market is low, are mov-
ing quite freely.

 

ONIONS.

Detroit.
Yellow Globe. sacked, per ewt.$ .00
Red Globe. lacked. per ewt. .....

Yellow Globe, bulk. per cwt.
Red Globe. bulk, per ewt .......

Cincinnati.

Yellow Globe, sacked, per cwt.
Red Globe, necked, per ewe.
Yellow Globe. bulk. per ewt
Red Globe. hulk, per cwt . . .‘ . . .

. Pltttburﬁ. ~‘ f ‘1
.Yel w" sighs, agcked, "

 

 

1.00 to‘ 2.511 '

0r farmers». ’

 

 

’ l:

producers ,

Dome-tic, per ton. trncK.;

 

,_ “The. pink sheet’ is all right n
a dull line in it
showing the freight zones is. worth

5—0. A. Fall, Elberta Mich

BUTTER

 

 

 

 

butter maiket at the moment

There is no 11111119-

Why the mug ‘

There is real activity to the 1::

All traders feel secure in the
- gene1al situation

diate possibility of the situation eVen 1

suggesting a decline.
and promising is the butter situation

on all top grades of both creamery;_

and dairy. While this is true the re
verse is true .on irregular Shipments-
of dairy butter
ored shipments, eté. Dairy shipments,
really. have no deﬁnite basis, While
fanCy dairy butter, if having estabe

lished a reputatiou, will draw extra"

Mo'st healthy

w

in rolls and 011' 001-.

creamery prices but before establiSh-F '*

ing this, reputation has to be estab—':

lished through shipments, and aéco‘rd- '

ingly introduction to the trade
BUTTER-GENERAL MARKET.

Creamery No.1. per no nd
Fancy Dairy. Der poun

 

 

“The paper is a hummer.”——Geo.
W. Yale, Kingsley, Michigan.

EGGS

 

 

 

 

uously warn you that from now

on, regardless of how healthy

the situation was, the tendenéy would
be to show a decline.
her this because it is simply inevita-
ble. At the moment the egg Situa-
tion is healthy enough, but the price

It has been our aim to contind'

Please remem- ‘

has declined by virtue of the heavier, '

receipts from the state, Ideally and f"
also as a result of heavy southern“ »

receipts. Let us advise you that from

now“ on you should be able to get '

better and safer prices for your eggs

at home than yen can by shipping, ‘
unless you have some special outside -

market arramngement

EGGS—GENERAL MARKET.
Large fresh .................... 3 .20
Medium fresh. ............... 7.. .109.

 

 

 

 

“I am well .pleased with the
Michigan Business Farming. I am}
sure it is going to do a world of;
good for the farmers of Michigan!"

~Samuel wanner, Ida, Michigan. '

 

 

 

 

 


 

If‘duite close to. 1
‘ much. the same gen rat tone existing, ’

8,...th as Quotations shown. an advance
" . has visited the neg market and some

. ’h
511' aboutlast week’s
The good. butcher range was
. $7550 to $9 with kinds below 111
300 demand . .

 

-, : Beet steers,- _,

 

,1

Busmess Farm-i119 1's.

1 right fiir the farmers. The sale'.

'.1~11¢se mere 07111760171076 potatoes
(7 more 01170110 than we can sell

at a proﬁt.”~—Horace Hart Bell‘s- ‘

I'vue, M 1ch1gcm ,

LIVE STOCK

 

 

ATTLE—CHICAGO STOCK
-. YARDS.

good to " . .
prose , heavy . . . . . . . $8.50 to 9.25 .
Beet steers, medium to
‘1 good
Beet steel-i. Io9mmon to
to r
‘13th cows.
selected .
Fat heifer-9‘"

wroICe

8.50 ‘

com-gin»... nono-

8,00 to.

6525 to 7.15

usulovonqool‘suug

common

‘5.

7.30

. . 4.50 to
good .
5.25m
Couriers and cutters. . 3410 to 4.40
Good to prime veals. .1 9.50 to 11.00

 

"the Opening of the week.
,were shy of high-priced steers. Con-

 

 

, Cattle—Detroit.
IThe week at the Detroit Stock

II M‘ 7‘ Yards marks one of activity and gen-

. ', good

I , Heifers..se1ee'ted ....... 5.00 to 7.00

{Last Week
" Previous week.

,erally considered liberal receipts The
range of stock continues to be of
£6919? good kind with the trade seem-
‘70;le disposed to 100k on the general
si‘tiiation as healthy and warrantabln
in face of its high latitude Good

handy. weight stuff, not too fat, con-

itinues to be looked after in prefer-

1 eﬁce to the prime heavy fat kind.

This has been explained as a. result

:‘iof high meat prices and an indispe-

sitlon to pay for “fat ”x Best steers
touched $8. 20, with handy weight
steers and heifers going at. $7.50. The
entire rnn from canners to top steers
Were "anything but disappointing.

 

CATTLE—DETRO lT STOCK
' YA R DS.
Beet steers. good’ to prime
heavy
Beet steers.

7

medium to . ,
6.0010 7.00
Beet steers, common to
fair ._ ........... / . ‘. . .
Beet cows. common to
~ ‘~ selected 1 ......... 4. 00 to 6. 50

5.00 'to' 7.00

Stock steers
' ‘Feedcrs ‘
Gunners and Cutters.
:Good to prime vculs.
Bulls

..... . 5.00m 6.00.
' 5.25 to 5.75
. 2.75 to 3,25
. 0.00 to 11.00
.. 4.00 to 5.00

. generally.

....... 38.00120 8.20 1y high prices

 

 

 

.I , Cattle—Chicago.
’ This table is .of great value in the

A establishing of future expectancy and

the understanding of the actual situ-
ation now present:

Bulk or
1.5316111

wExtreme
-‘ » range

FoilrI weeks ago .. 6.1.0@900
...... 4.80@8,35
. ..5 00@6 85 '

. 13%;; .10 .. I

The opening of the. market gates

:Monday revealed light receipts

resultant snappy disposition on .'

aders. A load of ﬁred 1, 579-

8. 1310111 Missouri were snap~m -
. 1:89. Twenty- -four hours later, '.
hate the situation to have assumed;

pie, 5‘

.dllferent aSpect—quite some
form evident

185;Whlle.plain and .29..

............ .......$e ammo $7. saesss'
. 0.010900 :1

.Monday supply at Buffalo.

The fancy . .'

 

Bulls ...'.:..‘.\‘....‘..'.'1.- 4.25t0 6.85

 

_ cattle—Buffalo. .
Good weight ‘steers‘ fared badly, at
Packers

sumers continue to protest against
high-priced beef and. killers are try-
ing to meet the demand for lower-
priced stuff by killing half fat steers
and more of the female stuff. Eastern
killers of better .Weight and more
costly steers, who are the main sup-
port‘to the better steer trade, were
indifferent. Chicago showed 22,000 to
open‘ upwith this week and in con-

sequence the‘ east was slow to come-

here with orders for the strong
weights.
the best steers audit was not until
the afternoon session that much was
accomplished and transactions ﬁnally
shewed a 15@25—' cent decline from the

week before and at that the buyers

cared little whether their bids were

accepted or not. Market on the lighter
and less expensive butchering grades
did not show so heavily a takeoff the
decline ﬁguring from 10@15 cents
Stock and feeding cattle
remained steady, several loads of Can-
adian feeders being on offer and sell-
ing from $6@7.25, the highest range

in the history of the local trade on.

these kinds. Bulls held to a steady
market, a few teppy heavy kinds
bringing $7 25@7. 40 nothing in the
bull line, which are showing extreme-
selling below $5.75.
Fresh cows and springers market was
strong on the best quality heavy
kinds, steady on others.

 

CATTLEeBU FFA LO STOCK
YARDS.

Good to choice. ' hem y

steers . $8.25 to
Medium to fair heaxy

steers . . . 7.75 to 8.2
Handy weight hutch-

cring s1eers..1 ...... 8.00
Fat heifers, inferior to '

choice .
Fat cows.

choice. .
Cduncrs and cutters. . .
Bulls . 6.75
Stacker-s and feeders. 6. 75
Milchcrs and springer-s 35. 00 to 85 00
Calves. choice to extra. $11. 50 to 12.50
Fuh- to good. . ,. . ..... .3. 10.00 to 11.00
Cull and common. . . . . . 9. 00 to 9. 50
light thin....‘ ..... 0.50t0 8.50
Fed calves .......... 1. . 4.00 to 0.00

8.90

7.2
medium to
6.50
4.00

 

Trade progressed slow on.

 

 

Calves—Buffalo.
One thousand'head comprised the
Active
trade at steady prices, with i. last
week’s close. = ' ‘

1

. _ -, . Calf Quotations.
\I‘Galvcg, choice to: extra. 10,501.. 11.00
Fair to g -b.00t010:00

A ' ..'.'.'...8. t ‘.
.Lig‘ht. thin . .. .90 o 850

 

 

. '1'. .60
red some: 4%": 9.50

‘ . say- has taken 06 its coat preparatory
. to making some stay. '

 

IHOGS—DETROIT MARKET

Fair to choice butchers . $8.30 to $8.35
nghtweights . .20 to 8.40
Bonn. according to

. weight . . . . . . . ......... 3.00 to 3.25
Pigs . . 8.35 to 8.45
. Stags . . . .One-third oﬂ’

 

Hogs-ChicagoI.

The aviation “meat” is still on at
the Chicago yards. Hogs sold at an
average of $8.43 which is the highest
touched since October 25th last. The
cause for real Sn and, advance is

9 . mostly due to the falling down miser-

ably .Of receipts. The shipping de-
mandeased just a little so that the
market ranged to ‘the heavier grades
or butcher varieties. -On heavier re-
ceipts the market assumed a lower
level at midweek, going mostly at
about 10 to 150 under opening code,
the average being about $8.30. Ac-
tivity seemed to keep up, but seem-
ingly aware was the trade, that con-
cessions were due, sellers being satis-
ﬁed to meet the occasion. With the
market range in the present latitude,
it is natural to expect. that variation
will be in evidence continuously. At

spresent level the situation is sensi~

tive, quickly responding to any and
all inﬂuences: The market closes

' with the top for the week set at $8.50.

with the'bulk of good handy butcher
kinds hanging close to $8.35.

 

HOGS—CH ICAGO STOCK YARDS.

Bulk of sales .......... $8730 to $8."

Common to good mixed. 8.30 to 8. 45
Fair to mcdhun v1 eight . 8.25 to 8.35
Lightnvcights . 8.15 to 8.30
Selected 260-300-1b.

packers

. 8.40
Stags, 80 108., dockuge. 7.00 to

8.10

 

 

Hogs—Buffalo.

Eighty cars or 12 800 head on offer
for the opening day of the week.
Prices advanced 156325
last week. Packers paid $9@9.05
bulk of shipping grades $9.05@9.10.
Roughs, $8@8.10. Stags, $6.50@7.
There are more bulls in the hog trade
than bears, general opinion being that
the high prices for the year have not
been reached as yet and that next
summer will witness a higher level.
Pork demand is heavy, provisions are
active and general opinion is that
the cholera has depleted the horde in
some of: the heavy hog producing
states and that the visible supply will
not meet the demands.

 

HOGS—BUFFALO STOCK YARDS

Extreme hcavics 280 up. 8.90 to 9.00
Heavies, 240 to "80 ..... 9.00 to 9.05
Mediums. 220 to 240. . . . 9.00 to 9.05
Mediums, 190 to 220. . 9.00 to 9.05
Mi'xcd,180 to 220 ....... 9.00 to 9.05
Yorkcrs 150 to 1'0 ...... 9.00 to 9.10
Do light 130 to 1 ’10. 9.00to 9.10

' Pigs 120 down ......... 9.0011) 9.10
Heavy ends 8.75 lo 8.90
Roughs 8.0010 8.10
6.00 to 7.00

. Last week

cents over '

 

 

 

Sheep and Lambs—~Detroit.

The receipts of sheep and lambs
for the last two weeks has ShOWn a
variance of only three, last week be-
ing 5,961—week previous 5,964. The
run being very uniform has had much
to do with the maintenance of steady
conditions existing. The nature of
all markets is to throw out a sympa-
thetic glow on others, making the
Whole horizon hear one general ap‘
pearance. Detroit, as. quotations

/,.,show, is keeping well up in the race

for‘top notch lanrels. While nothing

[lexciting is in evidence, still a most

healthy situation exists at this writ-

 

‘ amt... "good to choice 08.21110 0050‘

60, fair to good 00 10 0.501
Yearling lambs, choice. 7.50 to 8.06.
Mixed keep '. ' .00to 5.50.
Call 311' 3.00to 4.00

 

 

Sheep and Lambs—~Chicago. 7;.
The table below furnishes a good

‘clear synopsis of the sheep and lamb

situation.
———Sheep~—-— ———Lambs————’
TOp Bulk. Top Bulk.
..... ~. ..$7. 00 $5. 75@6. 60 $8. 80 $8. 40@8. 75
Week ago 6.40 .650@ .25 8. 90 8.35@8.
F gur weeks ago... ' 9.00 8.
2

7.00 5.0512630
5..75@600
8.75@9.00

' 5.50 7.25

1908 ................. 5.60 4.75015. 60 .

Buyers for sheep were on the ‘
ground at the sound of the gong with
anxious eyes directed in this, quarter.

Trade was very active on anything at *

all desirable in quality. Good handy,‘

weight kinds drawi‘ngreal attention.

Receipts were somewhat smaller than

anticipated, which had much to do.

with the feeling in’ evidence. The ,

game opened up with prime handy»

weight wethers selling up to $6.60,
with straggling sales above. Top ewes

[tipped the ﬁnancial scale at $5.85, with

good handy killers going at around
$0.50. A large bunch of feeding ewes
went at $4.25. Yearling‘s were a keen
attraction and close scrutiny was
placed on this division, tops going at
$7.75 to a shipping trade. Local chan-
nel took the bulk of receipts at $7.25 ‘
to $7.50. Packers formed the market
squad for midweek, being the only
contenders with not enough in sight
to meet their demand. There has
been a tendenCy from the start of
the week's operations for a tightening
of the market tension. The situation
was up to “high C” on aged wethers
at the close, with the highest point
being attained since last May. Year-
lings weakened around ~10 to 25c
while lambs suffered a reduction of
25 to 400.

 

SH EEP —— CHICAGO STOCK
YARDS.

Lambs. good to choice $8.25 to $8.75
do, fair to good ...... 7.00 to 8.00
do. cull to ('(llnmﬂll.. 5.00 to 0.00

Yearling: Lambs, choice 7.00 to 7.50
do, cull to fair ...... 6.50 to 7.50

“'cihcrs, choice... ...... 6.25 to 6.00

lil“cs, choice handy

' “cight _
do. choice hcnvy ..... '.

(Tull shocp .............

Bucks 3.50 to

6.00
0.00
5.50
4.25

 

 

 

Sheep and LambS—Buffalo.

Seventy-seven loads or 13,400 head
made up the Monday supply. It was
estimated by buyers that there were
not exceeding ten to twelve loads of
real prime lambs included in the day’s
run, showing that the feeders are in- _
clined to liquidate, rather than cash ‘
the corn via the lamb route. Active
lamb market prices being a quarter
higher, top bring 30 cents above last
Saturday. Extreme Monday lamb tOp
$9 1.1 with majority good ones bring-
ing around $9, culls selling mostly
from $8 down. Yearlings steady, with
sheep, which were in liberal supply,
quarter lower. Indications are that
there will be a scarcity of choice
lambs in Michigan, which is a heavy
shipper to the Buffalo market.

 

SHEEP — BUFFALO STOCK
YARDS.

Lambs, good to choicc.. 8.85 to
D0 fair to good ...... 8.10 to
Do cull and common. . 7.00 to
D0 skips ............. 6.00 to

Yearling wcthcrs, choice 7.50 to
Do cull to fair ........ 5.00 to
Do ewes. choice ...... 6.50 to

Wefhcrs, choice ........ 0.50 to

Mixed sheep ........... 0.25 to.

Ewes. choicc handy “t. 6.00to 1
Do choice heavy ...... 5.75 to. . L

Cull sheep . . . ‘. ......... 3.00 to .

9.15
8.75
8.00
0.75

 

 

 

.“I think . every farmer in
state shOuld‘take the ‘pink sheet.’
or as I call 11‘ the Farmers Friend. ” L
—B. 0'. 18071110107067 Merrill, M7 71.

 

625 .85 . 5


. gm; account of a. temporary oven
page; .“mnst not be used as in basis
.1 mating for the future. ‘

1 "position to tell what the future of
the market is going to be The
’ largest operators are taking a general
surVey of the commercial situation for
the purpose of: arriving at some cal-
culating point in order to establish a
price to Work on Contract bhsiness and
I_.I‘earl season shipments. The smaller
'Is'3"‘operators will have .to trail behind
with their proposition, prices etc.
‘ The general feeling among the op-

Aerators is that they will not have to -

experience the labor trouble this
1 spring, that they did last spring and
their daily output will be sufﬁcient to
.take care of their contract and out-

side business during the spring, Sum»

- ,mer and early fall season without any
trouble. There is an active demand
for all steam lump, especially slack,
. which is scarce on accmmt of very
Mlittle.domestic lump being prepared.

Soft Coal. F.O.B.
Kind of Coal. Mines.
Hocking rescreened lump ....... $1.70
Cambridge lump . 1.60
' Cambridge '%-1ump ............. 1.40
West Virginia splint lump ....... 1.50
White Ash block 1.50
Kentucky 4-inch lump .......... 2.00
Kentucky 4x2—inch egg .......... 1.80
Harrisburg 0-inch lump 1."?
Pocahontas lump and egg 3
Pocahontas mine run
Michigan domestic 4-inch 1ump..
Anthracite eggI stove or nut. . ..
Note: Quotations on anthracite coal
are based on gross tons.

FLOUR AND FEED.

The wheat situation being unsettled,
the market on ﬂour is a little easier.
The sales on feed are not very e-n—

conraging and prices are practically

the same as last Week.

Price I

Z Kind. per bbl.
“Blend” ﬂour, 1Ag-paper sacks.
Spring patent ................. 4.60
Toweling sacks or wood barrels . "
20c higher.
Per ton.
Coarse corn meal .............. 23.00
Cracked corn ................. 24.50
Chop feed..................... 22.00
‘Coarse .middlings . 23.50
Fine middlings ................. 24.50
-Bran (standard) ............... 22.50
The above prices are it. o. b. De-
troit, Mich, on car lot shipments.
‘ Tankage, averaging 60 per cent
protein, $41 per ton f. o. b., Chicago,

'Editor, Michigan Business Farming:
Will you advise me through your
paper. the oﬂicial measurement of a
'. bushel, in the city of Detroit?.—E. F.
B., Mr. Clemens.

Two thousand one hundred ﬁfty and
forty-two on‘e-hundredths (2150.42) cu-
bic inches is the measurement for one
bushel, stricken measure. But the
law demands that apples and potatoes
anti like p1oduce shall be seld by
heaped measure, which means all that
will lay upon a measure of above ca-
pacity without special design And the
, law seems to imply that 2748 cubic
inches is the measurement for such
a crate. This, however, we feel is
'excessive measurement and ham in-
formed all Who inquire that we will be
Satisﬁed with a crate having 2600
*cubic inches inside measurement to
“hold a bushel of coarse commodity
“when level full .,

GEORGE F. AUSTIN,
City Sealer
‘V‘I like the pink sheet’ very
VI 1

t the present moment no 0116 is in 3

.$ 5.30 .

3 raising"

tler‘fland pi'iiees hafv'
the lessening of 1 Is]

? D
growing very rapidly. .
production has not Rep}, p333 With

it. Thirdly prices fer live Stock

of late years have been such that feed-

'ers, with high-priced corn,,could not.

ﬁgure out substantial proﬁts from fat-I
toning cattle, even with hogs follow-

ing, and So we find that this year.

live stock markets all over are Show-
ing diminished pplies and prices
have been Skyward. A few months
ago ster prices reached the highest

reCord in the history of the world, not .

even excepting war times. prim‘e
steers selling on the hecf‘up to $11
per cwt.
showing a dressing percentage of 60
to 65 pounds, it is easily to be seen

that the cost of the dressed beef was .

high, so high that the working man
could not touch and only available
for large hotels and restaurants which
obtain very high prices. It Was but
natural that toppy ‘prices brought up
prices on the cheaper kinds and for
a time we heard thundering com-
plaints from the eastern cities that
the public-could not stand the prices
that were being exacted for all kinds
of meats. But the high price's con-
tinued right along,» notwithstanding
and under excitement of these high
prices, feeders began to ﬁll the feed
lots with. steers. After they were
in and started on feed the bears came
upon the scene and of late 'the big

killing interests have acted badly on ‘

g'ood weight and expensive steers. Did
they tiap the feeder? Did they get
him in the feeding game and then
pOund down the prices? The pack—
ers are able to protect themselves at
any stage of the game, not so with
the feeder, who buys the corn, takes
the chances and comes to market, only

1to ﬁnd that he has spent his money

and his time fer three or four months,
only to lose several hundred or per-
haps several thousand dollars. Ordi-
narily, cheap corn produces many
feeders, as it is no doubt a fact that
corn can be cashed in at a. higher
price, under a heavy production, by
way of the American hog. But high-
priced corn and low-priced steers and
hogs, comparatively speaking, mean
nothing if not discouragement to live,
stock feeding.

Opinion prevails generally among
most authorities at this time how—
ever. that prices on good weight
steers will come back .Iand that the
holder of good weight cattle along
in April or 'next summer will reap
the beneﬁt. It looks as certain as
any proposition could, that the Michi-
gan feeder who played the lamb feed-
ing game this year will be taken good
care of and be‘ amply repaid for his.

work and that hogs Will put the feed- .

or on the right side of the bank
This is a great and growing caun-

try. Demand for food products was

never as strong. The little farmer

who raises a few head of live stock'

each, year is the prosperous, We'll-to“
Idoone who is contributing much to
the greater prosperity of old Michi-
gan
theSe days is ready cash, can be fat-
tened on waste, so to speak, and bring
to the prOd-ucer the biggest dividend
of any. chigan is One of the great-1

' .I est lambbfeeding sectiOns Vin1 the World,
‘1.

is showing snitch! d
sells

 

live stocky I,

3 saying.

With steers of this price.

Any animal in the meat line. .

to hinge as though; there ‘w3 .

mg top

this on the part1 of easttern ope? tV
this year.- Meet

been pretty badly purist, and the old-1?
“A burnt child fears the ﬂre,"I1;1'
will undoubtedly hold good as far asI‘af
'speeul‘a'ting in eggs. is concerned this 1,;
The consensus of- opinion
seems to be that about, 138 to 1831/21: 1‘
seaboard are the prices that should

Season. ,

rule this SeaSon.1
Storage eggs are about down and

out as far as their being an active
commodity is canoerned The middle;
of the week the bottom dropped out

of the marléet and What stoCk was
moving sold around “.16 to 16%03 and
this graded as ﬁrsts. Storage sec-
onds were quotable at 14 to 15%c

with poorer stock selling down for.

anything it would bring. Nearby eggs
have declined with western an_d1the
quotation which has been going out
at 25 to 26c is' extreme, the bulk of
offerings cf white eggs selling around
23 to 240 with mixed 21 to 220.

It will be noted from the above re-
port that the dealers are going to ﬁght
shy of high prices for summer. eggs.
Eighteen and nineteen-cent eggs, f.o.b.
eastern points doesn’t mean 3 very

I profitable prices for the Michigan

farmer. It is to be regretted that

the farihers are not suﬂiciently or-.
Iganized so that they Could take ad-
vantage of the cold storage facilities-

when the prices range from 12 to 15
cents per dozen.

" oar laid;

stO handle/
‘Dletaen brought suit ’aga ’
‘1 head concern for the d
Ian-med; aid whit the car was so.
"amounting to $421. 45~3Th¢.
{in his anSwer, flied. a c

peaches

0 b1'
.3 ring; Ga for $1 35*.
& .

came up .to the s '11
ere th ée or:
thenwwas turned events“
After recei.

.Itor 1013s sustained for ”th I
wou’ld have realiz h d.

’. 1* 111 good', conditio

The shipper so I on ed that

3" tract Was inlﬁl‘le .w

peaches in the car,1w i th
dantV claimed that he bought

 

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