
s"
lithe, in nearly all acceptances of
,offerssifroni shippers to sell at loading
the buyers have inserted the
.; ‘St. Leuis Inspection” in their.
. 3 letters or telegrams, and when a car

It“ is argued that by having 11 of-_
“11111111 inspection at its deStinati n for
each Shipment of fruits 0r vegetables,

, - 1111' goods are sou-~28
toinspection- Will insure more"

picking and packing, and that

h pipers Will be mere careful to load

,y! merchantable products. In this
Away each car inspected Will become
a matter of record, and the shipper,

T as Well as the receiver, Will be able .

. to learn just how the car arrives, the
amount it contains, and the condition
{of the contents. In case of loss or
damage in transit through the negli-
.gen'ce or carelessness .of the carrier,
the shipper will be able to obtain

.valid evidence of this neglect,- and

5 collect damages.

At the present time it is an easy
, matter to have an official inSpection
of hay and certain other commodities,
;.but no plan has so far been tried

Which would give the shipper a rec- .

50rd of the date of receipt of his ship-

ment, and the information that could,
;be secured by an ofﬁcial inspection.’

The shipper, Whether he be a dealer
or a farmer, is at the present time
"at the mercy of the' commission men,
31' the party Who handles the com~
odity in the distant market. It hap-
,pens very often that a shipper is of-
--_.wered a certain price for a commodity
.3 «‘1‘. b his station. The shipment is
made Within the limit named and the
,1 commodity is just as represented;
hOWeVer, When the car reaches the
distant market, if the- price is per-
eptibly lOWer, the receiver is very
pt to claim that the dilality is oh,

' (1' he shipper can either accept the

tiered or make the journey 61311;. ‘

'h'e market place and turn the car
over to another buyer.- ‘

The; omcial inspection should not

Which would appear to be the

connection with the Organizer,

ONE CENT PER COPY ( ”Wylie“; )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

inspection guaranteed, the shipper
would feel secure in making consign-
ments, as he would know he could get
a square deal.

“I saw the pink sheet at our
neighbor’s, and like the paper very
much.”-—Ora S. Brumha-ugh, Rose-
bush.

 

' UITEHWELL, THANK YOU!
39 are?

Ijust smile and stay pink.

very latest quotations are:

Oats, Standard
Rye '

 

I am the “Pink Sheet” and true to color
the markets do, or how how hard the local dealers sweat at me

000......‘13-0......QOQO'IOO -

confess-33‘s.:-uuo-oo-nuo...u...enu--ao 0

Beans .
Hay (best market today, New York), at. . .
Potatoes (best market today, Pittsburgh), at. .53
Butter .33

fgs'(Dctr01t Market). . . . . . . . . .. .10:/32
« . 8

stone-coldlzuonu

LaSt Moment Market Flashes

Can’t you see-how pink my cheeks

N0 mattel what

A ,. ._..A

HE LAST MINUTE before going to press, we secure quotations
T ,on the several commodities from the principal market centers. A
detailed statement covering cenditions, our predictions and special
advice, will be found with each commodity on the follOwing pages.

The '

. Wheat, No. 1 White (large mills paying, ------ $1 05%
Wheat, No. 2 Red (large mills paying)... . .

. . 1.06 /z
34%
.62
1.95
20.00

17%,

“lit-Ounnuloooo.

 

 

$1, 346 ,629 INVOLVED
"COMPROMISED ’
FOR $101,101

OLEO MANUFACTURERS LET OFF
EASY BY FORMER SECRE-
TARY MacVEAGlH.

Twelve Big Manufacturers Caught
Artificially Coloring Their Products
in Order to Escape the Government
Tax—Grand Jury Has the Matter

in Cha'rge.

Fderal Judge Landis, of the Chi—
(ago Department of Justice, did not
exactly like the idea of the settle-
ment arranged between former Secre-
tary MacVeagh and the oleo manu-
facturers, through which they were
let off by paying about ten per cent
of theiamount they are accused of
defrauding- the government.

MacVeagh‘s action was against the
ideas of the Department of Justice, 3
and Judge Landis has insisted all
along that the compromise amount of-
fered was too small and that to accept
it would be to “compound a felony.”
in addition it opposed the suggestions

of the House committee, Whig]; has ”3333333

do with the expenditures of the treas—
ury department, and which commit-
loe recommended recently that the of-
fer be turned down.

Neither Judge handle or District
Attorney Wilkerson, both of Whom
have been concerned in the prosecu-
tion of the case against the oleo men,
Would say anything about MacVeagh’s
decision this week, but Judge Landis
has said on several occasions that the
butterine men were attempting to in-
terfere with the administration of jus-
tice by offering to compromise the
alleged frauds.

The case involves twelve manufacw
lurers of oleo who are charged with
artificially coloring their product in
such a way as to escape the tax of
10 cents 21 pound imposed by the gov-
ernment on uncolored oleo. The
amount which the internal revenue
department claims is $1,346,629, and
the settlement offered by the oleo
men was $101,100—about 10 per cent
of the amount they are accused of de-
frauding the government. Eight of
these concerns, according to Mac-
Veagh’s acceptance of the compro~
mise, are only paying a percentage of
the amounts charged against them by
the internal revenue department; the 3
other four are ordef'ed to pay their
particular sums in full. The concerns
involved and the amounts in question,
are as follows

Com-
Claimed. promise.‘

-\11T1()UI‘ & C0 ...... $122, 886 $10,000

\V. J. Moxley, Inc 334,167 25,000

U. S Butterine Co. 68, 321 6,000

G. H Hammond &

Co , . 20,000
Friedman Mnfg Co. 7,500
Capital City 3Dairy

Co 266,434 22,000
'Ohio Butterine Co. 126,331
Blanton Mnfg. C‘o. 6,876 ,600 5 3
The concerns Which have been de-
nied a compromise settlemen and"
WhiCh are due to pay their a; eged‘
frauds in full, are: ' , “J 1 ‘

‘ (Continued on Page Four)

 

 

105,000- 5


 

Reconnoitering on the ﬁeld of

action this last week shoWs

. _ that some real commercial tight
been in progress. More and more

, esi; the situation show the need of
V est concentrated action and study
on the part of the distributors of this

' commodity, in order that best possible
“results may be the outcome. It is
truly apparent that nothing in the
1 Way of luck is coming our way. We
started in with an uphill ﬁght and
‘ it has so continued with the grade
' 1 getting steeper, if anything. Nothing
.-Whatever in the way of features,

which are .usually looked fer to lend
a "helping hand have 'come forward

' , this year with a greeting. The situa-

tion frOm a large angle shows that
we have been trying to force more
hay onto the market than the same
was in position to take care of to any
kind of advantage. We have been
trying to sell two tons of hay to
a trade that would have been main-
tained in a good healthy manner with
but a little more than one. The situ-
ation has been kept in .a glutted con-
dition in practically every direction,
from the inception of the season. At
no time has there been any real let-
up Whatever from the above course
'of action on the part of—both the
raiser of hay and the
Wrongly was the interpretation placed
on the possiblities of this season’s
crop. We are astonished at the man-
ner of handling this season’s crop has
received. Reverse from the general
course has been the one displayed this
year SO far. Not until January 1 was
there any let-up whatever. About this
time the reaction took place, showing
the position of the trade in a most
emphatic manner, with the result that
the regular distributors laid down
their arms and quit the ﬁght, laid
down their arms instead of shaping
themselves ase true generals should,
and supporting and bolstering the
cause which their position
they are commercially created for and
should ﬁght to protect. Since this
time there has been absolutely no deﬁ-
nite basis whatever on Which anyone
could work-neither was there a deﬁ-
nite basis of expectancy even. A
, most unsettled and nervous situation
has existed. It was early demonstrat-
ed that we had three million tons
of hay in excess of last season’s crop.
That ought to have demonstrated in
a concrete form the example that was
being placed before us, as a Michigan
producer of hay, and the change in
action the same necessitated. Only
5 per cent of No. 1 hay was censid-
ered in excess. This ought to have
ShOWn clearly, that regardless of the
depressed condition which might be
brought about by improper handling,
that the high qualities of hay would
always be looked after and at a pre-
mium, also that the only bolstering
the situation could receive would be
through the manner in which the high
qualities of hay were handled. You
will agree with us, I think, after
having gone so far into this ﬁght that
the good hay should be held back
and what poor hay could haVe been
put on the market constantly being
placed. The season for the low
grades of hay ends- with winter, while
the high qualities of hay in either
strictly all Timothy or very light, but
high colored mixed hay, will continue
in favor and be looked after, and at
a premium until as late as August.
The better feeders of hay look 'with
favor on old hay until long after new
hay has been cut and harvested. This
shows the general, asset that high

‘ f qualities cf hay always maintain. The

season is fast drawing to a close as
View as the low and common quali-
ties of hay are concerned. Only a
‘Jiimlted time remains during which
these Qualities can be placed on the
Market at any price.

~at a very high tension.

distributor. .

insures,

The market is '

 

,r.
it will VpVa.3.V G

. It . » .41
V A 11

market, at proﬁtable prices.

' fed. No.
hour" proposition.
lower but we Would take .a' chance. .

 

No. 1-—.-Gocd, substantial demand and present conditions ‘11!
No. 2—'-Ma‘i~ket clearing up and better prices
predicted. No. 3—Market very quiet; has every 3. pearance of bein
4——-No proﬁt at ruling prices.
No E—Better keep in port

as... is; ready" ‘0
over. V‘
seventh

If you cans old,

sis ‘
Storm on 11.3“” may 5V6

 

 

 

ous is its position. It is a time when
one is taking a long chance, taking

a stand or stepping out bravely to the"
front of the ﬁring line, but We think .
we must do it, We believe we. owe it;

to you as readers of this “Pink Sheet.”
Understand, you are
ideas, which may be right or they
may be wrong, and also understand
that we have outlined the basis of
action which is necessary in order
that our results may come true. We
are going to experience a ,Very much
better situation on this high class hay
before the season is over. You are
going to gradually see the outside
market, in every direction, gradually
show a decided impiovement (in these
Qualities. Those of you who are dis-
poSed to hold back your high 'class
stuff and make a ﬁght along these
lines will reap a reward in the way
of a better price. Understand, this
hay has shrunk all it ever will. You
can hold it as long as you see ﬁt as
far as this feature is concerned. Any
gain in prices over the present basis
is a real gain to the net balance on
hand. Figure on a 20 per'cent'ad-
vance Within 30 days on this high
class stuff; don’t look for any better
situation than now exists on the low
grades.

 

HAY—MICHIGAN ZONE PRICES.

Zone No. 1 Michigan ......... $10.00
Zone No. 2 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 ......... 11.80
Zone No. 7 Michigan ......... . 12.20

NOTE—Jr!“ prices given are on a
ball- of No. 1 Timothy hay in the
diﬂcrent Michigan freight lance.
This give. you the price that Michi-
gan denier. should be able to pay
for this «nudity, t. o. 1:. their Ita-
tlonl. under ext-ting market condi-
tion.

I Most hazard- 0

receiving our.

 

 

 

DETROIT—The ﬂow of hay to this
market continues tobe ,in excess of
the real demand. It seems to be the
disposition of the adjacent territory
to use this market Whenever possible.
We have been able to.keep in touch,
not only with the ﬂow ofreceipts to
this market, but the nature of~them
as to quality also. It is very true

that the percentage of high class hay'

is very small. I don’t think 5 per
cent of the receipts will come any-
where near being No. 1 hay. At times
the market is almost glutted on low
qualities. Constant ﬁght is necessary
in order to place these grades. No. 1
Timothy is looked on with favor and
a premium can be drawn‘for it.

 

. HAY-nDETROIT MARKET.

No. 1 Timothy ....... .........$14.00
N o. 2 Timothy ................ 12.00
Light mixed .................. 12.00
N o. 1 Mixed 11.00
Rye Straw. ................ . . . 8.50
Wheat and- Oat Straw ........ 7.50

 

 

 

PITTSBURGH~—The Pittsburgh sit-
uation is just a little better than 'was
reported in our last week’s issue. Not
so much does this mean that quota-
tions could be changed materially,.but

the general situation does not ,s ow
quite as clouded a sky as Was Dre—V. ‘V
About ten days

viously in evidence.
ago it seemed necessary to place an
embargo on the

They have Wiggled through without
doing this. With any kind of con-
servative receipts they Will continue
to work along in line with conditiOns
set by the general situation. ' ’

 

HAY—PITTSBURGH MARKET.

'No 1 Timothy hay, . .‘ . . . . ,$1V5.50
No. 2 Timothy hay. . -. . . ..

No. 3 Timothy. ...... .. 10.00"
No. 1 Light mixed hay. ..
No. 1 Glover mixed hay. ..... 13.00
No. 1 Clover hay. .
Fine Prairie Packing Hay. .‘ . . 10.00
No. 1 Out straw“ .. . . . 19.00“
No. 1 Rye ntraw............. 10.00
No. 1 Wheat straw........... 0.00

 

13.00M‘
.. ......... 13.00' -

 

 

CHICAGO~Chicago reported quite
some better feeling to the general
situation this last week. Receipts of
the lower classes of hay were much
lighter. The receipts of the high claSs
hay were about the same. The gen-

» eral condition, asa'result, was one. of

improvement. It might be poSsible
to make some little change in quo-
tations. The main thing is the bet-

terment of the general situation we

are able to give out.

 

H AY—GH IOAGO MAR K ET.

Choice Timothy ............. $17. 00
No. 1 Timothy 15.00
N o. 2 ' Timothy ............... . 12.50
ngiht Clover Mixed. . . . .. ...... 12.50
N o. 2 Mixed hay.‘ ............. 11.00
No. 3 Timothy ..... ... . . .‘ ......
Clover

Threshed Timothy . .

~ Marsh feeding hay

Fucking . . . . .
Choice Alfalfa ................ 18.00
No. * 1 Alfalfa ......... . . . . . . . 10.00
Rye I 8.00

7.00
Wheat . 50

, be expected.

1 sibly, a little.

 

 

 

BOSTON—The Boston market has
taken a chance at rolling its eye up-
ward, ﬂirting justa little with ‘an
expected better condition along the
high quality hay line. Whether’this
ﬂirting will result in anything in par-
ticular is left to the future to deter-
mine.

 

HAY—IOBTON MARKET.

Large Small
bales. '
$20.50

19.50
17.00

HaY,
Hay.
HRY.
Hay, N

Hay.
Hay, clover mixed. .
stock. . . .

‘ Hay. .
Long rye straw. .

Tangled rye “turn...
Oat ctr-w ............

NOTE—Largo hale-
200 to 250 pounds; medium
from 80 to 100 pounds.

NEW YORK—There seems to be a
decided better feeling on the New
YOrk market for geod ”stuff The
trading has seemingly appreciated the
light ﬂow of high quality receipts and
in turn have an understanding of the
situation that they may expect to

 

 

 

exist from now on along this line.
The result is they are Willing to pay
a premium price tor ththigh class '

hay. Receipts are heavy enough,
either one terminal or the other is
constantly under an embargo Which
has a tendency to hold the bulk of
receipts on a conserVativ'e level, tehth
ing to tree it and keepi‘ it it e from
a glutted condition.- This
better elements to have a

Pittsburgh market Work.

' commercialism We

the closest a

91.11,ng {the w;

W" gm; ‘far

workgo ojn.”.— .
Frankfort Mt

 

 

 

This contender of ours, that W

have been ﬁguring on to 1 h

20- -rqund bo’ut, seems to be
a little out of condition the lee .
days, not so much, possibly, as o'- p
at al alarming. From an athleti‘
standpoint they tell 'us' that it is
Our trainer says till
we can’t expect a physical dendition

.to run along in one channel and .0 V

one basic level continuousw,‘
look for him to be off his feed 119
Our trainer tells it
that the general physical condit'"
of our athlete is alright, that he w 11'
go into this ring prepared for th
20- round bout we have scheduled and,
put up the ﬁght of his life, W-in th
battle; that’s what he tells us); He
says there is nothing particularly
alarming about the genenal situation”
True We have an opponent, seine;
scrapper. It wouldn’t be worth while.
staging this 20- round bout if it wasn t"
going to give the Public something
for its money. The American people
want 'action'. They are getting to a

.point where they want a scrap. We. '

don’t like too many handicaps, we: '1
don’t like to have the other fellow
too'muCh larger than we, but he 31-
Ways has been. ..
sure, we won’t get a chance at this».-
prize unless we go into the ringan'ds'”
ﬁght forjit. No matter what'line of“
, censider . today..-
there is .something We must do in or-_ '

der to promote that which we Wish. . ..
You can’t get something today With“ ‘

out going after it; you can’t keep
that something, after you get it, With- ,-
out hanging on. You can’t improve?

.the present Potato situation, or you

cant maintain it unless you make a

well regulated eifort aIOng proper*‘V"'" 'V

lines. We haven’t any kick Comingi i
on the manner in which the Potato
situation has been handled up to the!
present. We c’ontend that you fen:
lows have done nobly under the cen-
ditions existing. It was early. d'emé

'onstrate‘d that we had a lively con- 1.

tender in the Way of an abundant. '
crop for disposition. Our MinnesOth’r V
and Wisconsin neighbors have been,
constant marketers from the incep-
tion of the season, marketers who
paid no attention to the market leye
but instead kept aking disposition.
The Michigan dis .bptor hasrbeen‘ "
very conservative and studiedﬁ dis-
tributor of this year‘s crop He
done much, and done all toward m9:

ing the present situation what it is.
Frem new en, en, we must keep in”
iation possible With
the future situation in .order to g 1 i 1

19311 0111‘ present standard of lay:
13111 i

ecause IV absolute
Pet t 1

 

One thing ismighty '-


 

I“ ‘
-.38
.37 ’

gun - No‘. 2 Michigan. . . . . . . .3‘
. 17191115, No. 4 Michigan... . . . ;. '. . ...
.0116; 5 M1éhl€an.....,....
’1 one,~ No. 6 Michigan... .‘. . .40
.YZdue’ No. 7 Michigan. . . . . . . . .40
. OTE—Ftom MeIeIt nun-ket eon-
ﬂitio'uI; local dealers ili' the freight
ImeI Iho'uid may 70111 the ”re .
noted Ibov‘e for No. .. Ituck e-.
yered It their ItItioiiI. 'i‘heIe
' ﬂiceI cIn be increI’Ie‘d by tIkt-I
”at,” at special outlet ones-I. .

 

 

,‘j'oit market continue to be along
' ' The main reason Of. this

to the same. The producer
these adjacent territories is of-

111g direct to the trade here in the'
ty at a price below the standard

set by the regular Potato shippers
from the Northern sections of the
State-.- We actually know of instances
Where 11 cents per Sack reduction on

baSis of 21/2 bushels has been made
0 the trade by the individual pro- -

duper himself. Here is a case, read-
ers, where the producer is not taking
advantage of the position he could
:111st as well hold as not. If a pro-
noer; can’t go unto the market and
ell his wares on basis of the natural

trade hewis doing the entire situation

'af damage by .offering his commodities
' at: a" less price. He is doing much to

 

' POTATOES—DETROIT MARKET.

vBu’lk from car, pen bu. .. .40 to .43

-*Sucked from our. per bu. . .45 to .48
.‘SIckI nuIt be even wellht. 150

pounds.

‘ Price quoted includeI cost of IIek.

get:
I ,.'_gs,tate are situ-
enough, bears enough

We think the

ing on all other out-

rading, while not

good clean cut censerva‘

re Car's or quality are being

“ 1th the natural prefer-

While cars or irregular quaiity
ubject to a little Sacriﬁcing. ~

 

‘ ' '~ 11 8‘3POTATQES-wcHIGAGO MARKET."
do know the teei-
. receivers, and we

Bulk from our, per 1m. . . . .43- to .48
"Sacked tram. cur. per bu. . .45 to50
‘ 'sn’ek- must 5. oven weight. 150
' poundI., '
Price q'uoted includes cost It IIck.
,Ibout lingo cock.

 

 

 

 

._ Ibout 10%!) eIch. . _

CINCINNATI—J1me Cincinnati mar-
ket continues to be in a much de-

{pressed condition which is due en—
tirely to the continued supply from

Wisconsin. The Cincinnati handler is
able to buy Potatoes from the Wis-

consin shipper and sell them at a.

cheaper price than the Michigan ship-
per would naturally quote. There
doesn’t seem to be any salvation, at

the moment, for Michigan stock on

this market, and there will not be any
salvation as , langvas their supply is

forthcoming froin ,this course.
DETROIT—Very irregular does the _' ‘ '

 

POTATOEO—OlNclNNATI
15 MARKET.
Bulk from car. ner 1311.. .47 to .50
*Suc‘ked from car, per. bu. «501m .55

,. ’SIckI mun be. even weight. 150

wpouudl
Price quoted includoI cost of such.

 

 

about 103411 ouch.

 

PITTSBURGH—The ﬂow of Pota-

tees to the Pittsburgh market con-

tinues Comparatively heavy, although
the trade, at practically all times,
has been able to handle receipts with
but very little cutting in prices going
on. None of the good straight bright
cars have been subject to any out
whatever, but some of the more com-
mon colored cars, and of irregular
size, have, at some particular days,
been subject to disCount. The Potato
buyers are certainly going along
mighty careful at the present time.

They are one conservative bunch, that '

certainly do not look‘ on the future

 

 

 

cash and milling demand, along

with the large visible supply
is, to a certain extent responsible for
the present Wheat situation. The vis-
ible :supply does not show any re-
markable future. There, is rather an
unusually ﬁne prospect for a good'
winter Wheat crop. The present
Wheat, market is very much of.a
trading affair. It is conservatively

 

1. W‘HEATeDETR-OIT MARKET.
‘No. 1 White ... ............. $1.05V2
"No. 2 Red
, Speculative Prlces.

July delivery ................ $ ..901/2
‘Muy delivery 1.11

"The priceI given for December
Ind MIy delivery repreIeIt the tu-
ture delivery priceI. Thu infor-
mItion merely riveI you the future
bad. of thiI commodity II lured
by those who IpcculIto on future
prOIpectI.

 

 

estimated, and I think considered, in
factrwe view lit so, that the present

market level may be maintained for
some time. There will be little
changes one way and the other, of
course. There would be nothing to
the blackboard game if there Were no
changes, but the ﬁght is going to be
one of a well-balanced nature from
‘now on. We do not look for either
to get much the better of the argu-
ment from day to day.

 

WHEAT—CHICAGO MARKET.

No.2Red ... ............ $1.06
‘ ' Speculative Prlces. '

*July delivery
*May delivery
‘The price given for

and May delivery rem-clout the tu-
ture delivery prices. This informI-
tiou merely give. you the future
basis of thiI commodity II Ind-ed
by those who IpeculIte on future
prospects.

 

 

 

“I like the ‘pink cheet’ very much.’
—F. F. Lat/trap Mzdland, Michigan

BEANS

Without question there is some
undercurrent working on this
Bean market and general Bean
situation. There is some infection
in this great commercial wound which
was inﬂicted both by the raiser of

 

 

 

 

POTATO ES~P|TTSBURG
MARKET

Bulk from car, per 1111.. .50 to .53
Sacked from car, per bu. .52 to .55

 

 

. 1

Beans and by the- generally termed,
distributor of Beans. When the mar—
ket was in a healthy condition these
wise market doctors thought an oper—

It seems apparent that the slow-

" sisal ‘endug’h ,to o , '
ét patient, but in are" 3
a any made", was was

. . 1.1 ,
result that our patient has gradually. ,.

3. been getting Worse and worse from
week to week, and weaker and weaker . y _
It is going tog '

from week to Week. ,
take Some genuine medical attention,
must receive the aid of medical skill ‘
‘ in general, nurses must be most alert
to the seriousness of the patient they
are handling,” or we will not see an
imprbvement. The pulse to the mar-
ket is not very strong. About this
there is apparently no question. We .
wonder why this is, you must wonder]
also why the present situation exists.
We had a very large percentage of
low grade Beans this year, Beans
. which were of a damp and discolored
nature.‘ It has been the, disposition,
forced by the nature of this class of
Beans, to market just as fast as pos-
sible. The quality of Beans put on
the market has had something to do
with depression. Mild- weather condi- . '
tions have had much to do with the
inﬂuencing of the present result. The
Pure Food Law, backed up by its pro-
tectors, have been watching most
closely Beans being shipped to the
canning trade.
been the natural outlet to common
qualities of stock, Beans naturally
termed sound, but a little discolored.
were considered 0. K. for canning
purposes. With the little stir made
by the Pure Food people this avenue
of escape for common quality stock
has, in some instances, been out oﬂ
entirely and in all cases has been
modiﬁed. The elevators over- the
State of Michigan are ﬁlled to the
roof with Beans today. The average
price of: these Beans would force
them to be sold at about $2.05 in
order to show any proﬁt whatever to
the elevator. We do not Wish to be
narrow in our views, we do not wish“
to be selﬁsh, neither do we wish you
to be selfish. The proposition before
us today is to bring about as favor-
able conditions as possible for the re-
mainder of our crop to be distributed.
With the elevators loaded as they are
with Beans, and at the average price
mentioned, you will readily appreci-
ate that they must, and will do every-
thing possible to bolster up and bet-
ter this Bean situation. for before the.
season is over they simply must do
it or they are going to suffer What is
naturally termed a loss, or at any
rate will not receive one cent proﬁt
for their year’s operations, therefore,
don‘t it look as if something would be
done by this organizedBean associ—
ation before the season has closed.
There is nothing to it. If you con-
tinue to force these men to give you
a price on these Beans they are going
to keep cutting and slashing this of-
fered price until you will be lucky

Continued on Pm Six

 

market conditions you should know
~t-he freight rate from your shipping

IN order to keep in touch with the
~- station to the leading market can-

, ers'.‘ _
have the key which places you in a po-

giving you the market price for your

‘_ .. In connection with

, his article we {give you‘ the Michigan
‘; Business: Farmer Zone Map. You will
otice that thib magi: «divided into
‘seven freight zones. our '
d in one 5at these zones, and by. "refer-
ring .to the table given below you will
proXimately what it costs for car-

iprnents to the diﬂerent market

rate given is per 100

 

nd 11; should be remombered-’
' are the approximate rates ‘

E'I‘MICHIGAN

It you have the freight rate you ‘
sltiou; to know whether your local dealer .

farm is locat- ‘ 1

‘ Zone l—ﬂnult Ste; Marie. ‘ - "T ‘

Pittsburgh. for instance, show that Nt.
1 Timothy hay is worth $16. 00 per ton.

. The freight being $4. 40, would show that

the dealers in Tacoma. 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 or potatoes is 30, 000 pounds; the
minimum weight or a car of beans is
40. 000 pounds; and you Will have to pay
for that number of pounds in each car,
so be sure and ship I full car-load. The
rates given cover hay. potatoes and
beans only; all kinds of grains take a.
diaerent rate‘.. We will be glad to fur-
nish you with full information with re!-

heretics: to- the maximum and minimum

ar-lots. or you can get this information
rom your local agent.

NeW York City... .32.
Pitt burg

Cine
Chi and;

denunu...
~‘IVJCI‘LLIJI|O.IO‘IDII"I
o-o_..-..‘.-.o.-oo.§
. n.‘v.\o-u.oo. .23
v.../ll.~---o.oqa.o ”‘22“.

FREIGHT ZONES

., Zone 6-Vlcksbnrg.
.2855: .1 . '
9

Zn
2 ’13

Zone S—Bay City.

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

Cincinnati
. Chicago

Detroit

Zone 4—Greeuville.
New York City
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Chicago
Detroit

Zone 5—-Sandusky.
New York City
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati . .
Chicago . ............ . .
Detroit

...--

NeW York City
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Chicato ,
Detroit
7—Ponﬂ ﬂue.
éw York City..
ttsburgh
- 111 (a ti. _ '

Inn-.- c.-

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WITH
APPROXIMATE
RATES TO
. LEADING
MARKETS

(SEE .
TABLE \

“j BELOW)

MICHIGAN
FREIEHT
ZONES .. ‘ ’ 1;.

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ED'ITORIAL.

MEMBER of the Kansas City Board of Trade, in speaking of
present market conditions, iather insinuated that it was up to
the farmers to have something to say about the price of farm
products
the little paragraph which appears in connection with this article
You will notice this fellow
thinks the farmers could, if they
would, have something to say
about the price of farm products.
Read his statement .again. “He
says: “If a ‘man or set of men
have all that some one else must
have, and do not put.thc price
on it, they never ought to corn:
plain of low prices made by some
one. else.”
Good logic, all ,right‘. enough,
but ifyou wait for all of the

 

 

 

WHAT DO YOU 'l‘HINI( OI“ ’l‘IllS?

Well, if a man, 01' a set of men, has
all of what someone else must have,
, and does not put. the price on it. they
[.1 never ought to complain of low prices
‘ made by someone else. The. whole
matter depends on whether the farm—
615 will organize and act as a unit.
If American farmers say wheat is
woxth 80 cents then it is worth 80
cents; if they say it is'worth $1. then
it is worth $1, and the price is settled.
If the farmers do not make it so. no—
body is to blame but themselves.
Farmers would be absolute masters of
the situation if they would enter into
an agreement and keep up concerted
action. Then, instead of the price of
wheat, corn, oats and live stock being
made by the Chicago Board of Trade,
and the price of cotton by a, band of .
gamblers on the New York Cotton
Exchange, it would be the farmers
who would tel1 these gentlemen at
what prices these staples which they
produce should go into consumption.

termine what the price of wheat
shall be, and then hold their
wheat until they can all get the
price they have all Agreed up-,on‘——Wcll you will be living when the
millennium is ushered in all right enough

Why not accept conditions as we ﬁnd them and commence build—
, ing with the material at hand No need of buying a pile- driver in
. ordcr'to crack a peanut. True, you can’t kill an elephant with a
‘ pop—gun——you can’t get all of the farmers into organization in a
thousand years; and you can’t get all of the farmers’ organizations
to work together in a decade.

The very ﬁlst thing to do is to get into the game. ’Take over
the local elevator, and you have taken a long strbide down the high-
, way that leads to the market place. True, you cannot set the price,
but you can get the price paid in the consumer’ s.market~—and that
-~ price includes the proﬁts which go to the present owners

  
     
    

  
     
     
     
       
  
  
  

 

Possibly you can’t get the elevator, then
“Take btl‘lc ‘Pink Sheet’ and

., better market conditions
what? Do the very next best thing:
"watch the markets.”
in controlling market conditions.

   
 

0"? vemher ﬁrst
dumps.
in M1ch1gan than they have

You will learn just what this gentleman said by reading '

farmers to'get together and de— .

The farmer’s co- operative elevator is the farmers ﬁrSt aid to

As an individual you can be a mighty factor
You can t control marketing underj'
- preSent conditions, but you can be a farmer who believes in Sane

1
In face of all ‘th1s, P

the elephant by the proper manipulation of a pile dl‘lVCI‘

   
   
    
    
 
     
    
    

   
 
      
     
     
      
 
       
         
   
     
  
   

 

 

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DETROIT BUTTER AND
EGG MEETING A FROST

 

'EAsTERN SHIPPERs CLAIM THEY

WERE NOT TREATED
COURTEOUSLY. : 1

 

Michigan Buyers Evidently Got cold

Feet and Did Not Want to Talk
Prices—Too Much

pected.

The Tenth Annual Convention of
the Michigan Poultry, Butter & Egg
Association was held! in Detroit last
Thursday and Fi'i-day. From the re-
ports of the «conVention published in

. the daily press one would haVe under- ,'

stood that the meeting was very suc-
cessful in every respect.'
the gentlemen who journeyed from
the far east to take in the convention,
were very much disappointed, claim-
ing that they were not courteously re-
ceived.

Readers of the “Pink Sheet” who
have nice ﬂocks of poultry which they
have been carefully watching through
the winter months and from which
they are expecting ‘- to ' gather some

' proﬁts .duringhth‘e 'comlng spring and
know >_
that the primary object of the meet- -

summer, will be interested to'

ing was to get the dealers together
and talk prices The New York "Pro-
duce Bulletin” has the following re-

.port of the convention:

“The Michigan Poultry &; Egg As-

sociation’s annual conVention at the -

Hotel Griswold, Detroit, proved a big
disappointment, as there was no dis--
cussion of the probable price of stor;
age eggs at seaboard this season. It
was. especially disappointing to the

. Eastern visitors who met only a. small

‘number of shippers Most of Thurs-
day afternoon’s sessinn was devoted
to an addressrby W. F. Prie‘b‘e of

’ Chicago on the work which has been.
.begun to eliminate

the damage of

eggs in transit. He told of the work

of the gavernment to learn the exact,

cause of the heavy loss.»- So far as

the investigation has

suggestion the AssOciation massed
resolution to this effect
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1", deVilIe
_ was planned to have H .5

3 F. A. Johnson managed in some“ .
not to Call on' Mr. Emerson. Both .'

Publicity to .
Make the Meeting the success Exk.»
‘ " $90er by thos.

. tion from dealers and failed to,“

However, .

. or he belleVed to be dangerous, Michi
, gan accordihg to the census made gt

. previowjdrecord ”

'Mia- city Butterlno Co ..... 1 4,1130 -'
National Butt'érine Co. ..... 11, 6581,
.Vermont Manufacturing 00.. 36

; cempromise settlement in a case it)?"

gone, it has _

shown, Mr. Pris-be said, that packers
must use better ﬁllers, a; triﬂe larger

, ”case and load With more care. At his 1

a

$55 ;

Only 50 plates We

         
     
  
 
  
    
  
   
   
    
  
  
  
    
  
  
   
   
   
  
    
    
  
     
   
  
   
    
     
  
 
   
  
  
      

   

on the probable prices (it 5th
eggs and it is Said; that Toastmas;

"and Mr Prieb'e left at midnight.

Chicago thoroughly disguisted. 1
Ludy'V‘ig of New York, a} cute
d0W11 1361' 5a talk 011. eggs He;

1‘8
meeting and he also ett“ for Chic _,
There is bitter complaint by 51114399339
who’ said they came to get infbmﬁaé

cure it.

Shippers are unSettled in
views as to seaboard prices .
dent HOWes of Detroit said that 1. L

was high enough, but he Was

that ﬁgure.

the meeting has more ‘pbultr‘y. the"
ever, and egg production during the
open mgpth or February exceeded an

:(Co‘ntlnued from 'tPage- 0118)

38
Oakdale Manufacturing Co.- 11, 37

MaCVeagh’g ,aecefltance of the set
tlement was made“ just before 111'
term of edice expired and on the e
of the gr‘a'nd jury inVestigation of th"
oleo frauds. -’

Investigation is now going: on to!
ﬁnd out if the secretary of the tr '
__ury 115's Nhe authority to accept.

    
  
     
       
  

this klnd Where the matter 113580an
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lege of Agriculture of Ohio”
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to. March _4.

  

4‘99;
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cio‘sst continent March 18 to 22‘

 

281;. These bulletins have given warn-

thatrwarning The dIan gen) 9 storms
predicted for February ght' torna-
does‘death and r'uin'.’ in two southern
_tatesi and the destruCtion of a million
allars’ Worth of property in the mid-
13%? northwest 1

" ng are now givihg closer attention
‘nger.ousI storms and have made
higstake on them during the past
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stﬁrms March 16 to cloSe of month.
This forecast is not based on the Old
“idea of equinoctial Storms. There are
times? when no équinoctial storms oc-
our.
to seVere storms,- particularly when
, he moon and, planets are in positions
. favorable to severe weather.

' ,Next disturbance will reach Paciﬁc

"11‘

SI. .

valleys 24 to 26, eastern sections 27
warm wave Will1, cross Paciﬁc slope
' about March 22 great central valleys
‘24 eastern sections 26. Cool wave
‘jwillI cross Paciﬁc slope about March
25. great central valleys 27, eastern
sections 29 ,

'With'i’n a few days of March 26 the
weather ferIc'es Will be at great ten-
.sity arid no ‘risks shOuld be taken on
Weather events about that time. It is
.. ust as commendable to try to save
;.lives and property from great storms
1, as it is to engage in life-saving from
q.’.’th‘e. waters, and these bulletins Will

 

.1 gerous periods. The position of
till). great, planet Jupiter warns us that,

. 3 Will be a year of destructive
storms, and as we have found the
,csﬁlises Of these. monsters great good
, W I

  

  

'r- located Ithem.

  

‘aimch 19 to 23 and 2.6 to 30

   

,é loWer Missouri valleys to the Gulﬁ
Iastern provinces. In order to keep
informed on [these forecasts. a ﬁle

ﬂIZI_,l8I bulletins and charts should be

  

  

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.n ’ s9 ' .
"get“ Part, of Pacts coast. Elsewhere less than.
atu‘l'éﬂ not far' from;

i“ , I
herons etchings 16.10, 29. 9111- danger signals Will hung out durlng
' Changes are about even for {Iced and for bad ‘weathen In

1st {we ehaw the treble line represents, normal precipitation and
A-s temperature; and precipitation lines rise probabi; ities
e tor more precipitatioin and higher temperatures.
Count one to three days earlier 201* west of that line
”.me inter (or east of it. in proportion Ito distance from that Merl-
R: Which rInIns north IIItIhr'qInIg'Ih Sf.Lm‘113'..I , . (1 ,

Washington, D. (3 March 15 .——Last’
' sun gave forecasts cf disturbance

Carin Wave 17 to 21; cool wave 20 to

big of dangemus storms for the period
of this disturbance arid we repeat 1

FThlS Wonderful success ad-,'
moms’hes an to watCh for dangerous

But the equinoxes are favorable; .weather forecasts when they

do tinue to warn the people of thesev

be accompllshed by giving their:
-‘dates, although we may not be able

Rain .WaVes will cross. continent:
Ther'
1 probably cause most rain from,

or Mexico, in northeastern states and.

 

its $32.15, oil April Will. average much, .i
‘ sualzeast of Reckies 511191,? 11 I
N In 13 'h‘ﬁ dim)

 

 

arch 5, 20, 26 and 30. CoId: ,1
Ion Inent IF b".- 26 to March 2,_

 

Dates are

i cultural College
" makes the claim that the college is

 

tati'on "may be” expected. ~ Not much
rain in southern states and generally
dry near the great rivers. Our south-
eastern ceasts look dry for April.

Unusually high temperatures east
of Rockies and Cooler than usual west
of Rockies are the promises for next
month. April will be unusually favor-
able for farm and plantation work.
Good growing crop Weather will come
in early in the northern states, and
that month Will seem to promise
splendid crops for the coming sea-
son. I‘ .

Our ferecast for the inauguration
at Washingtbn, published in bulletin
of March 1 and Written about Feb-
ruary 15, proved good. Wagner, Chi~
cago’s big grain- merchant, says in
his February 15 issue: “Foster is the
greatest Weather forecaster.” Those
live wire grain dealers know good
see
them. Warm March and April will

..tend. to put grain prices lower.‘

     

 

Reported ball: .:a
question: regardmg legislatt

  

staff curfew oddest 7a), a, .. .
at lhe Std 6215
, ”ﬁling of any member of ell er House on. any
letter: “Lansing Editor,” Michigan Business Fanning, Detroit Mich

   
  

 

   
  

I gladly a ..
ital, or. report the
all Address all

    

  

      

   

 

 

(161' of the Michigan Agricultural Col-

; I lege.‘ The direct charge was made by '
. "i Senator Fred Woodworth,

chairman
of the Senate Committee on the Agri-
Senator Woodworth

not in sympathy with the farmers of
the state and that Pres. Snyder does
not .Ii‘Ipush’I’ the agricultural side of
the college, but rather fosters the
engineering and other courses The

, , Senator also stated that the President

did not have the conﬁdence of the
farmers in the State. All of the
charges Which have been made against
Pres. Snyder and the College have
been answered by Mr. Snyder. It has
been rumored that the Legislature
would not give the college the ap-
propriations which it asks for unless
Pres. Snyder resigns his position. It
does not appear, however, that the
Legislature would dare Cripple the
institution for the purpose of depos-
ing its President.
a: a a

rl"'he other big scare of the week
came when it was made known that
the “First Termers” in the House had
organized and had insisted that the
old—timers give them a square deal.
-There are 65 so-called greenhorns or
“First-termers” in the House, and
these men claim that the old-timers
control the committees in such a man-
ner that their bills are strangled and
never come to light. The ﬁrst news
of this new organization which takes
in Democrats, Republicans and Bull
Moosers, came when with machine-
like precision the House passed the
Plumley recall substitute instead of
the bill introduced by Rep. Dunn The
old- timers immediately called a cau-
cus to see What could be done to
quiet the ﬁghting “Greenhorns,” but

 

KEASEY S FIELD NOTES

D‘ip‘pchl fromI the Stream

- Chicago Cold Storage Butter is un-
der probe and is now branded as adul-
terated, it being found that one-half
of the stored product in that city con-
tains excessive moisture in violation
of internal revenue laws. This is the

I conclusion of the ofﬁcials of the Rev-
enue Department after an inquiry that

has been in progress since'last De-
cember. The adolteration consists of
moisture in quantities ranging from

16 to 35 per cent of the Weight of the

butter. _
Have you noticed- anything wrong

‘ With your hickory trees during recent

years? Our. attention has been called
to several trees throughout Southern
Midhigan that have recently died, and
when out down the wood seems to be
completely 'ﬁlled With borers or grubs;
New York is losing many of her ﬁne

hickOries through a similar cause. and

has asked her. State Department of

Agriculture to aid ina solution of the

malady, as Well as to provide a rem-
edy against further attack ' .
Fremorit Creamery secures expert
dairymap [“88 a‘. means of furthering
the interests 91% daimnen.

   

  
   

tbsp ‘
the Iv e 119111.63
' * w 1 I 1:13.111.
, 1,.triles. that .
:11 Was; 1 .

   
 
 

The man .

   

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cost of the expert. The pastﬁyear
has been one of much interest in
”Western Michigan as regards the
dairy; in fact so great is this inter-
est that the whoppers told by land
sharks regarding the fabulous returns
from frdit growing in Western Michi-
gan fall on deaf ears and well it may

as COWS produce fertility, while fruit’

reduces it.

Traverse City will Banquet Road
builders this week; the business men
of that city hoping to make March 13
and 14 memorial days for at least all
'those who attend. Much speaking and
large promises will follow the ban-
quet, the aim being to make the sea-
son of 19.13 a banner one in the line
of road building.

President J. L. Snyder of M. A. C.
appears to be a human target for
the shafts of ridicule hurled from
ambitious and unscrupulous mischief-
makers who are trying to make out
through the printed page that the
man is without friends and that his
administration as president of M A.
C had been Without effect; but such
is far from the truth. as Michigan
swarms with friends who will not lis-
ten to the scurrilous tongues of mOng-

‘,er,s who are seeking to besmirch the

  
     
  

record and character of Dr Snyder
The Wliiter, having ,free access to

.,
farmers of the state and a. personal
acquaintance with 'Dr. Snyder, well
{Irunderstands What the underhanded‘

new Iioﬂ his persecutors are. *'
1‘: if. at .- c ' ’v

The big Sensation of the week at
.. e»‘.‘Big Stone House” in Lansing'
s the attack made upon Pres. Sny-‘

“ at large

The eminent Dr. Robert Koch con—3f

 
     
  

 

     
 

up to date their organization appears .
to be strong enough to demand recog- .
nition. ‘ 1 . , ,

t. I t

Speaker Currie of the House has _,
drafted a bill which is to do away .
with County Supervisors The Speak. “ ‘
er Claims that our present system?
has too many political evils, and that
a few Supervisors in one section of
the county can get together and cause
legislatiOn detrimental to another sec“-
tion and not beneﬁcial to the county
Mr. Currie’s bill will make
the county the unit for assessment in- ,
stead of the toWnship. The bill will
provide for commissioners to take
the place of the supervisors-the cem-
missioners to represent their counties
according to its population. For ex-
ample, a county having 50,000 p'opula- _
tion would be represented 1by three
commissioners, etc. Many members
of the House look with favor upon
Rep Currie’s scheme

   
    
 
   
        
    
  
 

   
 

 
        
   
 
 

   
 

    
      
 
      
       
     
     
       
     

  

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Municipal ownership won a great
battle in Michigan when the Verdier
Home-Rule bill passed the Senate.
The bill had already passed the House
and is now up to the Governor for his
signature. The bill is given imme-
diate effect. Cities that have been
urging municipal ownership will now
have an opportunity of trying out
their schemes.

 
     
   
  
  
  
  
 
    
 
  
 

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Michigan may have a vice commis-
sion similar to the one which is create
ing so much notoriety in Illinois. Miss
Burton, of the Labor Department, re-
cently published statistics showing
why young girls are caused to lead Mm
immoral lives, and this report has ,
had a powerful effect upon some
members of the Legislature. Rept.
Glasner has already introduced a bill
which‘ aims to establish a vice com-
mission W‘hose duty it will be to make
investigations in regard to vice con-

ditions in Michigan.
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its resultant low prices, is going to
have a very bad effect on this sea-
son’s operations, as many have be-
come so discouxaged as to cause them
to neglect their orchaids. This is a
regretable condition, as. the absence
of spray pump and pruning shears . ‘91,
from the orchard can only result in ‘ £33
a return to cull fruits and diseased .419?
trees. ,
To Catch Rats Easily, ﬁll a tin'
pail two-thirds full of water, and then
pour in a quart of cats; these will
rise to the top and hide the water,
place a short board from the ﬂoor I
up to the top of the_,pail for the rats,
to walk up on and await results. We
saw such a trap in successful opera~
tion in a Livingston county farm,
barn recently. It being so simple and
efﬁcacious, both in catching rats and
in getting the boys out early in the '
morning ’to see “how many,”. we
thought it worth passing along. '
is the Tuberculin Test a Huge .
Fake, The best authorities We have "
are learning to believe that it ‘is.

 

 

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cludes that human "and animal tuber-1
culosis are in no way alike, and that
animal tuberculosis is not transmit
sible to the human. We do not claim,
to know, but Will venture the aeser-T
tion that in ten years hence that the
wholesale slaughter of suspiCioug. eg
the as took place a few years back",

    
    
  
   
 

 

   
  
   
  

   
 

  
 
   
 

unfortunate oWuIers should list he 1’
I :imbursed for t ' ., .

911‘? losses

   

a guess, but

  


by don’t you stay along in' the ﬁght 7 '
17th them and reap part of the re- .‘
,ards they are making possible for .'

 

'aEANs—DETROIT MARKET.
>White hand-picked basis ..... $1.95
7 lied Kidney

MICHIGAN ZONE PRICES.
Zone No. 2 Michigan ............ 31.85
‘Zone No. 3 Michigan ........... 1.90
.Zones 4, 5, 6 and 7 Michigan. . . 1.95,

NOTE—We Jive you above the
price. that Michlxal dealer- should
be able to pay you for hen-I, hund-
pickcd built, in the dlﬂere-t freight
none: of Michigan. The. Pink Sheet
ho. get the price for beans, hind-
pieked basis. at the nvaraze Michi-

 

 

lgan points, at 32.40 per bushel.

 

“You are certainly doing emcel-
lent worlc, just what the farmers
‘xhave needed for years.”——Elmer L.
Weaver, Auburn, Ind.

OATS

 

 

 

1The ﬁght that the Oat situation
is making, and the result it is

about to show in the way of
market conditions has, much to do
with the expectancy we can entertain
for the future. There is nothing in
conditions, from a general standpoint,
which shows that an advance is war-
rantable either downward or upward,
"instead the market situation is one
of a. healthy and normal tone, but
"nothing of a spirited or feverish na-
ture.1

 

\ OATS—DETROIT MARKET.
Si ndard

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

 

C'INCINNATILThe situation on the 7

Cincinnati market did not reveal any
. materical change, but there were signs
of weakening in some instances. An
undercurrent favoring an easier tone
was in evidence. The quality of ar-
rivals was only fair.

 

7 OATS—CINCINNATI MARKET.
Standuld 33%;
No. 3 White ................. .34
No. 4 \‘Vhite ................. 33%
No. 2 Mixed .................. 341/;
No. 3 Mixed .................. .34

 

 

PITTSBURGH—Receipts continue
to be abnormally easy on the Pitts-
burgh market owing to conditions on
other commodities of a sympathetic:
nature. It has been somewhat hard
to place Oat sales to advantage. Trade
shows a tendency to slackening in
pace. The tone to the general situa-
tion is somewhat impaired.

 

OATS—PITTSBU RGH MAR KET.

Standard .. .33
No. 3 White .................. .35
No. 4 White ......... 1. .......
No. 2 Mixed .................
No. 3 Mixed .................

 

 

“Must have the ‘plnk sheet’; can-
not farm without lt.”——W. E. Dem-
ing, Evart. '

CLOVER SEED

It continues to be an evidence
D of faith in the general seed
situation. As the season ad-

ances there is a little tendency to
ghtening up of the market tension.
I , is questionable, of course, just what
" future will bring forth because
rythlng‘ depends on the manner in

 

 

 

 

skills the large handlers of seed back '

Allure, airline .‘r "I, '
’I‘lmoth'y' Seed. prime

 

 

CORN

D The flow of corn shipments in

 

 

every direction has been Very

heavy during the past week. It I

is with pleasure we note present 'con-
ditions, net only in effect, but War-
rantably so at this writing We have
been just a little afraid that-the situ-

ation might waver under heavy rev

ceipts. 'The present conservative
standard carried out proof of the
real situation, both presentand, fu-
ture. Naturally we have a right to

'expect that the future of the Corn
situation will be as good as it is

now and should1be better. We feel
that the distributor of Corn, from a
raiser’s standpoint, should feel good
over the outcome sofar this season.

 

CORN—DETROIT MARKET.
.No.2white ....... .. ........
No. 3white.._ ...........
No. 4 white ..................
No. 2 yellow ........ . ........
No. 3 yellow
No. 4 yellow ................ '7.
No. 2 mixed ....... . .........
No. 3 mixed
No. 4 mixed .......... . .......

CORN—CINCINNATI MARKET.
No. 2 white ...... . ....... . '
No. 3 white .................. 1
N0, 4 white. . . .. .............. .50
No. 2 yellow .................

No. 3 yellow ................. .51 7'
No. 4 yellow ................. .49
No. 2 mixed.......: ..........

N0. 3 mixed ................. .50 "
No. 4 mixed ................. .49

CONN—PIT-rseu RG MARKET
No. 2 white.
No. 3 white ..................
No. 4 white....- ............. ,.
No. 2 yellow .................
No. 3 yellow .................
'No. 4 yellow ............. . . .
No. - . .
No. 8 mixed ..................
No.4mixed .......... ........

53%
52%

mo.

handling, has
glutted in many directions. .7 _.
"see absolutely no future for the onion-;-:"

situation because of the manner. in,

“Th6‘10inlc sheel‘ is a dandy’u... w: ‘
AlfredSlocum, Loomis, Michigan :7

veloped cold feet. Omens are being

offered in every direction at ridicu- 7 7_ 7 7
lously low prices. In cases where they 1

. cannot make deﬁnite sales the Onions? 4

are shipped. amng on consignmep

' The situation, as a result of“ the above
been Congest-ed and:
We can" '

which they have been handled.

 

ON IONS. .
Detroit.

Yellow Globe. sacked, per ew't.3 .00" "

Red Globe, lacked. per own. . .
Yellow Cliche, hulk. per owt. .. ~ .40'
Red Glow hulk. per cwt.. . . . . , 7 ,,

Cln'clnnatl.
“Yellow Globe, looked. per cwt...
Red Globe. sacked, per’ewt. . . ;,_ . .
Yellow Globe. bulk, per cwt.
Red Globe. hulk. per cwt..

Plttsburg.

Yellow Gobe, packed, per cwt. . .60
Red Globe. sacked, per cw-t.’ .50
Yellow Globe, bulk, per cwt.. . .50

 

 

 

 

 

 

Red Globe, hulk, per cwt. . . . . . .30

 

"I have handed out the sample
copies which you sent here some
time ago and I think you will get-
some' more subscriptions as every-
one that I have'shdwn the paper
to thinks, it is ﬁllinga long-felt
want We farmers need help in
selling our produce more than (my-
thing else. If the farmer‘can sell

' he can buy, if he cannot sell there
is no money to buy with. I wish
you continued success with your
valuable paper and assure you that
I will be always ready to speak a
good word for tiff—«Wallace Bros.,
Bay Shore, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

“The only thing there will be
wrong about the ‘plnk sheet’ in my
opinion is, that we will have to build
one or two extra asylum: to hold all
the elevator and middlemen, who are
going crazy over it, ha-ha.”———Joseph
Ego, Weidman, Michigan, R—2.

APPLES

The change in the sithation
D from week to Week isvery

slight. We are pleased -to re-
port, however, that what change there
is seems to be directed along the
lines of betterment in the way of
price. We think the trade is grad-
ually becoming aware of the situa-
tion facing us, and as a result ex~
pecting that an increase in price for
the remainder of this output is neces-
sary, and one on which they must
ﬁgure. We are aware that the' trade,

 

 

 

from some angles, is of quite urgent ‘

nature for certain varieties, but al-
ways of quality. It is the quality
feature from now on which is going
to be the contender for price laurels.
We will be very much surprised if
these high quality apples do not show

a decided improvement over the preg- 7

out market level .in effect. We do
appreciate, however, that quality is
what will talk and to which atten-
tion will be drawn, and Which will
continue to draw an audience. ’

APPLES—GENERAL MARKET

Fancy per barrel” ...... Wxt‘o 31.3!)
Ordimlr’y; per bin-rel . .‘-,.~ %0171o 2.30.

 

 

 

 GABBAGE

the State and from

has been Veryxheavy
last week. Storage Eggs 11

cons1dered next. mbnth

~month in Which the best

stering are to .be had A

Eggs draw the longest

. WP
centage of July Eggs would stanﬂ

storing. The feature of prices from:
now 7011 until the close of May, at
least, will depend very much on the
angle of storage. Howthe storage
people look at the situation will de-
termine very much the market level .
of the Spring Egg run. We believe
they are going to try to reduce the

.price of Eggs going into storage from

that established last season. To us it .7
appears someWhat questionable as to '

..their being able to reduce that level.

The situation is healthy, an enormous

real activity exists constantly, 77

price is all we could hope for at this
season, and especially with the sea»
son so favorable for Egg productidu,

 

EGGS—IGENERAL MARKér.»

Large fresh
Medium fresh

 

 

 

“The pink sheet" is” all right} 7
wish it lots of success.”——J. K. Rdyé» '
mon'd, Vicksburg.

 

 

 

 

There is no improvement tothe

Cabbage situation to give out

at this writing. There may be
juSt a little relief _in sight, because
it is true a few cars of Danish stock
are constantly being sold and handled
on outside markets, but the trouble
is there is not enough stability to
the situation so as to make it at all
dependable. One is just as liable
to run into a glutted condition as its
opposite, There is no safe way to
handle the situation other than to
make direct and \deﬁnite sales or not
ship. The consignment business
should not be considered with con-
ditions as they now exist. To be
conservative we don’t feel there is

anything warrantable in the present

possibilities of the Cabbage situation.

 

CABBAGE 7— PITTSBURGH
Danish, per ton on track. . . . . $9.00

POULTRY

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

Domestic, per ton. track. .Nonn-ket

 

“I think your pink sheet is ﬁne
and I am much interestedl"——D. E.
Bose, Wolverine.

131111111

 

 

 

f" f ward thé high prices 7
’ There has begin just a. ,.

if we Were. to say "anything re?“
garding a change to the situaA- 1 77 .
tion at all We would he to 7.

nation is whatever the trade"
tries to .make it. The receipts do not
take care of the demand, neither will
they take caie of the demand from

As the fellow says, “There is.
nothing to it; ’7’ the Poultry sits

. now on until the. close; therefore We _7
must look, and can expect a high

market level to be in evidence froml
now on until the close. Early broilers.

are going to start in under «most
We, look. for ‘< '

favorable conditions. _ , .1
them to touch the highest point they 1
have for 10 years.
see Whether .this little prediction in
the “Pink Sheet” comes true.

POU LTRY—DETROIT MARKET.

No. 1 Tug-keys. ........ .19 to
No. 2 Tux-key- .14 top
No. 1 Spring Chickens. .1510-
No. 2 Spring Chickens. .12 to .1
No.4 1 Fowls. ......... .14 to. . ‘
No. 2 Fowl-1 .......... 12 to
No. l Geese ....... ,. -. . . .15 to.
No. 71 Ducks. . ......... .19 to

POULTRY— CHICAGO MARKET.‘

No. l keys....-7....77..7...'.. .17
No 2 'l‘nr eys.lh.q.k....’......77. - .11;
'1 syn-7mg o no.1; . 1
Spring Uhicke ckgn no....... 2.12
21 Fowls. ....x...» . " .

 

 

 

 

 

We will wait and


_ {@6. 15, light sort $5. 50@5. 75.
:gbeef bull line sales at $6. 35@7. 00 were -

F'""V.)jf_'§ﬂHF'1§U,H,~I—I¢+CD‘I‘.

price was from $3. 40@5. 50.
was a good keen demand for calves,
ithe trade shoWing good force at an
j advance of about 255, packers paying
i}$11. 00. for prime

There. , - 1 ,
' alves With {ii-toes rang-

 

7 common to *
- . . 5.25 to
0.00 to

giincrg and 'Cu‘utters
:0 mi to prime venls.
Bulls ’

s supply cheaper beef.
”-stoc‘kersland feedersas were needed

 

 

 

1.; Cattle—Chlc'ago.

The week started out with good
steers going at a little advance, pack-
ers and Shippers giving urgent orders
.5 or, good stuff. As was the tendency

st week the demand was only fair

‘ .pn grades up to about the $8.00 kind.
Af-‘i discrimination was Constantly in
effect on grades below. Some choice

yearlings went at around $9 00 on
Wédnesday, 'both steers and heifers.
This was for handy Weights, which
goes to show that they have gained

.- and' come up to the standard previ-

ously set by heavy stuff. Fat corn
fed cows and heifers were leading in
price relatively as high as good steers,
a number going at $7. 50@8. 00, one lot
of prime 875 pound heifers at $8. 20,
average good heifers going at $7. 00@

vi}. }.7 50, some light‘ grades down to $6. 50

But Very few prime big cows were

' in the market such bringing $7. 75 and

even higher; medium grades of corn
fed nature bringing $5. 50@6. 50. Gen-
eral tendency is for an advance of
151’: to 250. There was only a light
run of bulls this week with an ad-

vance of 10c and 150 over last week
.- “Packers taking the larger portion of
the supply, good grades selling around

Good bologna kind bring $5. 90
In the
in; evidence. Canners and cutters
the cloSe of last week. The range of
There

vealers, the best
money paid for Weeks. The range
was all the Way from $5. 00@11. 00. A

r‘general quota of feeders Was sell-

“. g at 10c to 15c over last week’s

'~~-'ﬁf een above last. week’s
e, top loads selling from

Swift. Stern Sulzberger ‘

e of the nearby country kill-

steers Were the main sup- ‘

this diVisio‘n. Butchering cat-
ge orally Were in light supply,

prices being advanced mostly 15@25
cents ‘over the preceding week; top

handy- weight steers selling up to
$8.25 bunch of yearlings
$9. 00-. Fat coWs and heifers never
sold higher, some mixed lots reach-
ing up to $7. 90, but they Were of the
very deisirable class. Not encugh fe-
males to meet the day’ s requirements

.. There Was a marked scarcity of the
Northern Michigan little killing stuff

and these grades found ready takers
among the smaller local killers, who
jNot as many

and these ruled a dime to ﬁfteen above
a week ago.

be ﬁlled. Top selected feeders- are
selling up to $7 25@7. 50, fancy ones
would probably bring more. The feed-
er market appears but of line with
fat cattle. Demand is strong from

.the country for feeders and orders

cannot be ﬁlled. Some farmers are
putting on range young grazing cows,
which have cost around a nickel de-
livered on the farms, but prices on
these have advanced so rapidly of
late! that they cannot be secured for
the price. Bulls were a strong com-
medity, tops selling up to $7.15@7.25,
nething hardly selling below a nickel.
Nothing like enoughfresh cows and
springers coming, there being a no-
ticeabie scarcity last Menday here.
Bunches of twelve to ﬁfteen head of
good Quality, heavy cows sold at

- $72. 50, fancy kinds are .quoted up to

$85.00@1‘00.00 for exceptionally fancy
ones. ' Indications are that cattle sup-
ply Will dwindle right along now until
the range cattle from the southern
country begin .to move marketward,
which will be sometime next month.
Predictions are being made that me-
dium and common, cattle are get-
ting so scarce that prices will hold
up on high-priced steers, which will
have to'take the place of the cheaper

. cattle and a goodly number of which
. are on feed. Most authorities are of

the opinion that good feeding cattle
will continue to advance in price. In
the 'west steers costing from $7175@

‘8.00 are being bought for the feed

lots. ,To make a dollar thesesteers
must come back at $9 or better, with
corn even at 35@40 cents per
bushel. That there is a cattle scar-
city—the Worst the country has ever
witnessed—cannot be doubted. Some
authorities are agitating the passage
of a law preventing the slaughter of
calves, in order

 

CATTLE—CHICAGO crook
, YARDS.

e61 steel-l. good

J’ef’ntéE a. medium tosﬁ

 

' ~ 1‘? 9 or t 11 Ice v
name heaVy ...... $8.50 103 9.10 ,, 999 9 9 9 999 y’
’Medium to fair heavy

Tandy weight butch-Q . ,' . .
‘eé 1 - -751! toe-.25“ ‘

7

CATTLE—BUFFALO s'rocK
,‘ YARDS. ' '

steers ............. s “8.50 to coho,

 

bringing '

Ordererom Pennsyl- -
'vania and Maryland points could not

to replenish the

8.11050 8.40; '
9 Weights; good yorkers ranged from .
_ $9 25@9. 30, and light yorkers and pigs
’13 ; Minded mostly at $9. 30, With roughs ,
~ j bringing from $8. 20@8. 30, stags $6. 50
*1 .‘7'@

 

 

.ent'eVen higher _ ‘

“set prices,_which the public is pro-'

'Etec‘ting against
' :1- Calves—Buffalo.

“Monday calf receipts at Buffalo“-
{ '{1200 head.
‘. lOwer range than for the closing day' ~

Active trade at quarter

of last week. Bulk of choice veals,
$11. 50; fair to good grades, $9. 50@

" 11. 00. Culls unchanged, bringing from
‘ $9.00 down.

 

Calf Quotations.
Calves, choice to extra. $11.00@1t1. 75 ,
Fati- to good
Cull and common
Light thin
Fed calves

 

 

ﬂPlgs 120 down '

re 1- '
cent hog ’will be a reality before he"

trade has gotten Well into the spring:

01‘ summer.

 

HOGS—BUFFALO STOCK YARDS
Extreme hen-vies 280 up. $9.10@$9.15
Heavies 240 to 280 9.10@ 9.20
Mediums 220 to 240 . . . . 9.15@ 9.25
Mediums 190 to 220 . . ..
Mixed 180 to 220 .......
Yorkers 150 to 170

Do light 130 to 150 ..

tate hogs
Heavy ends

 

 

 

Hogs—Detroit. ‘

The receipt of hogs remain very
close to that of last week. The mar-
ket opened up in a most active man-
us; with the disposition, of the tiade
to take’ hold of everything in sight,
--.With a noticeable advance in price
being brought into play. The run
consisted of a goodly number of handy
weight butcher kind the kind that
the butcher trade ahd the majoxity
of trade were looking after. The
trading all around was of a most
harmonious nature. The future was
one of real promise generally.

 

HOGS—DETROIT MARKET.

Fair to choice butchers. $8 70 to $8. 80

Light“ (rights ’ .70 to 8. b1)
Bonn-l. according to

................ 3.00 to 3.25

8.70 to 8.80

................ One-third off

 

Hogs—Chicago.

Hogs set a new high point for the
.year last week, the highest point es-
tablished since last October, fancy
handy Weight hogs going as high as
$8.80. The trade was active, almost
of a feverish nature, being constant-
ly given good support by shippers and
speculators. Packers got into the
game quite early, securing the larger
portion of their requirements at $8.60
@865. About 40 per cent of the re.
ceipts have gone to shippers. October
24th last a corresponding price of
$8.80 was in evidence. Not since this
time has this ﬁgure been attained.
On October 22nd the marked soared
to the $9. 00 mark. Mixed packers
found ready sale at $8 35@8. 55, medi-
um butcher kind $8. 55@8 60 Fiom
the sound of the gong until the close
of the market the squeal of the hog
on the Chicago market meant some-
thing.

 

HOGS—-—CH ICAGO STOCK YARDS.

Mixed packing ........ $8.35 “1:88.55

Medium and butchcrs.. 8.57 to 8.0::

Poor to good heavy
packing

Lightweight;

Selected 260-300-“).
packers

Pigs and throw-outs

8.25 to 8.50
8.50 to 8.07
8.52 to 8.80
. 2.00 to 8.85

 

Hogs—Buffalo.
Extremely high prices last week
caused too liberal runs at all of the
markets for the opening day this week

and the result Was that the buying

end‘ was in the saddle. Buffalo had
85 cars or 13,600 head. At Chicago
the supply was 70,000, heaviest con—
tribution for many Mondays back.
Prices. under heavy receipts, were
lowered from 15@30 cents, as com-
pared with last Saturday’s close. Buy-
ers and sellers Were slow in reaching
terms, but after the market was es-
tablished trading was *active and 75
per cent of the offerings had passed
over the scales by noon. Packe1s
paid from $9. 15@9 25 for their

Bulls still remain in the big ma-

rity on ,the hog deal among the,

Sheep and Lambs—Detroit. 3'
There was a falling off in the reL
ceip'ts of both Sheep and Lambs this--
week, with a commonly accepted ad— ,
vance of 100 to- 250 on all grades.
There was a real sharp demand in
evidence with t- 6 tone to the situa- ‘
tion all that coulZJ be expected. Everyw
thing from cull heep to prime lambs _
were taken hold of freely from the“
outset.

 

SHEEP —- DETROIT STOCK
YARDS.

Lambs. good to choice. $8.. )0 to $8. 75

Do fair to good 8. 00to 8.50
Y curling lnlnbs. choice. 7.50 to 8.00
Mixed sheep " 5.75
Cull sheep ’ 4.50

 

 

 

Sheep and Lambs—Chicago.

in keeping with the advance on the
Hog market the Sheep and Lamb situ-
ation came into the running in almost
as pronounced a manner as did their
bristly companions. The highest level
was maintained on sheep that was f
ever established since last May. Trade
was active throughout and "sellers
were well supplied with buyers. It
was a case Where everything was in .
the sellers’ favor. Everyone shaking
his head “no” on a bunch of stuff was, ~
followed by one with the opposite
sign. The undertone to the market
was remarkably good with an early
(11 aIancc made of all offerings. The
quality 1an Well 11p in this week’s
11111. Some choice 100 pounds Westv
ern we! thers sold at $7.00 some good
130 pound kind going at $0.75, some
good native ewes going at $6.00@6.50,
one lot of fancy 125 pound ewes going
at $6.75, the highest price established
in many months for any grades, culls
going at $4. 25@4 75, some very thin
going at $4. 00. The high point for
bucks was $5 00 with the average at
$4 0061- 4.15. 0

SHEEP —— CHICAGO STOCK
YARDS

Lambs, good to choice. .$8.00 to $8.85
Do fair to good . 8.40 to 8.00
Do cull to colann . 5.00 to 600

Yearling lambs, choice 7.60 to 8.25
Do, cull to fair ....... 6.10 to 7.00

W'cthers, choice 0.50 to 7.00

Ewes, choice handy
““eighlt " 6.00
Do choice heavy . . . . '. 0.75
Cull sheep ............. 4.00 to ‘ 5.50

B licks 4. 5.00

 

 

 

Sheep and Liambs—Buffalc.

Best Monday run of sheep and ,
lambs this Week for many weeks past v.
——85 cars or 17,000 head. More good -,
lambs on offer than for some time

\

“‘In your letter you ask if there
was anything I could say to make
the paper better. I will say that
the paper is- good enough for me,
but there is one thing I will say,’
that I would like to see ,9 Gleaner
elevator just about ten‘ “ '
on every railroad in In,

Michigan, then we could
. ness. They surely 1:61) “'99,
corner; we do the werkgmt‘ ,
get the p’roﬁt.”——Andrew al.1111119,
Claire, Michigan. ,

 

 

 

 


   

 
 
 
    
        
      
   
   
   
    
    
 
     
        
    
    
    

    

    
    
   
    
      
   
   
   
   
   
       
   
 
    
      
     
   

 
 
 

    
 

 
 

 

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Lambs, good to chOiee .ﬁ9.00@80.25

Do fat: to good ....... .90
150 cull and common. 8.00@ 8.50
.Do Iklps ............ 0.@00 7.25
Yearling wethers, choice 8.00 8.50 ‘I
Do 91111 to fair 7.50
Do ewes, choice . . 6.50@ 1.00

' ;Weth9rs, choice ..... 0.75@ 7.25
Mlled sheep . ......... 0.50 @ 6.75

 

7 buses—.BUFFALO STOCK
“ YARDS.

t

' ‘EWes.<-holce handy waging-55%

 

'V‘Kentnck
, Harrisburg Ginch lump. .
{Pocahontas lump. and egg

.. Michigan domestic Much lump“

‘ Anthrac1te egg, stove or nut.
notations on anthracite coal "
are base I

 

. ‘ Do choice heavy ..... 00 6.50
011ml sheep ..........-.3.00@ 5.50
Bucks 4.75

 

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_ Coal.
, The. Spring like weather has loos-

‘gened up the coal situation to some
" I extent.
lover we are not looking ”forward to

The cold weather practically

any change in general conditions.

Prices are about as low as we can
expect and most of the operators are .
, . just mining enough coal to take care

of their contract orders.

.Nearly all of the operators are quot-i

ing prices on basis of April ship-
ment. In some cases April prices are
a little higher than May quotations,

but we are inclined to believe that

if the Weathei continues Sprinrrlike,
April, May and June prices will be
on the same basis.

The majority of the dealers are go-
ing to stock 'up with coal early in
the season. They figure that money
invested in coal bought on low prices
is a good investment. The money in-
vested usually nets them about 25
per cent. All consumers shOuld bear
this in mind and adopt the same plan
as it is one of the business problems
that comes up in “Business Farming.”

The Anthracite situation is a little

, easier and operators are lining up the

1:; 11111111.
.4x2-incfh egg
Pocahontas mine run.

Npte:

on gross tons. . ,
FLOUR AND FEED

The Wheat market is such that th9~

large mills have not changed; their
prices on ﬂour and feed. The demand
for Aﬂour seems to be increasing, While

the demand for feed is not equal to .

the present supply-

. Price
Kind. , per bbl. .‘ ‘
“Blend” ﬂOur,1/8-paper sacks. $ 525
Spring patent ........... . . . . . . 4. 50 I
’i‘oweling sacks or Wood barrels
20c higher ,,
Per ton
Coarse corn meal ............. . 23.0 ,
Cracked corn ............ 24 50
Chop feed ........... ;.......,.21.00
Coarse middlings ............. 23. 50
Fine middlings .......... 1 ....... 24. 50
Bran (standard) .............. 21. 50

The above prices are f. o D De-
tr01t Mich, on car lot shipments.

Tankage, averaging 60 per cent
protein, $41 per ton f. o. b., Chicago,

MORE MONEY WANTED.

“I don’t know anything about this .

investigation. nor do I know any-

thing of the plans of the association -

to get more money for their product.
I. know though, they should have it

“Chi(ago consumers pay 8 cents a '-

quart for milk. The farmer should
get half that much. Last year the
dairymen got only 2% cents a quait,
or $1. 26 a‘hundred pounds.”

 

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, ‘ den

3. use the country roads to any extent
and hence are exempted irbni ‘39 large
Ia tax as is placed upon the pleasure
“cars. ‘

DETROIT, MICH. I1 ‘

'IMichisan is being miserably to
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Michigan fruit growers
obliged to- place their name on’ every
closed package of fruit that leaves
their farm A bill to this effect has
been introduced by Rep., JakWay. The
bill has been amended to prohibit

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commission merchants from opening '

packages of; fruit, vegetables, 1' etc.-
Misrepresentation by placing the best

. fruit at the top of the package will be

unlawful if this bill passes the Legis-
lature.

e :11 e - I
.jThe movement to limit the session
of. the Legislature was nipped" in the
bud. SenatonI Odell introduced ares-

olution calling for the Legislature to '

cease business on April 11th, but his
resolution was turned down ﬂatly.
, t S ' it

The House voted to submit the W0-
men’S‘Suffrage, amendment at the
Spring election by a vote of 73 to I19;
Reps Murphy and Foote did‘not vote.
The amendment to the constitution
Which will be voted on in the spring

1

has been amended so as to exclude,

from suffrage alien women. There
are many rumors concerning the cam-
paign which the liquor interests are
planning to defeat the amendment in
Michigan

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An excellent bill, making it unlaw-
ful for one man to treat another in ,a
saloon, was defeated in the House last
week. The ﬁnal vote on the measure

jstood 43 to 34.

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Citizens of Jackson have started a
campaign to remove the State Peni-
tentiary from their city. The ex-con-

victs make undesirable citizens, and .

the recent troubles at the prison have
made'the citizens generally anxious
to get'ridof the inStitution. A move-
ment to institute prison farms was
another factor which aroused .the’

Jackson citizens.
* * it

Conditions never looked more favor-.

able for the State-Wide Prohibition
measure in Michigan. The hearing
which was held in the House last
Wednesday night was the scene of
much lively speech- making and con-
siderable hissing Attorney Manches»
ter of Detroit represented the saloon

interests and his remarks called forth ,

continued hisses from the audience.
in the face of the present agitatloh

it looks very much as though. the

Legislature w0uld permit the voters
of the State to decide Whether or not
' they wish to continue the license sys-
tem. State prohibition Will be effctive
now since the Wébb Bill has passed

Federal Congress making it un-I 1 ﬁpm
ful to ship liquor from a wet to a?

a; adry state. I' .1 .
I e e ,‘e

The proposed trunk; 1199 roa"

1 year it Will, be!

[made when the bill

LIhas yet been introduced in regard be

“insured; the receiver pa
. exceed $100, and th9,,s9nde'

I s
Ilrangement is to go mto‘éifect at on ‘ ‘
and can only be used at Postbm

. sing are coming here for their best“
and pork, and they can’t get it.

“The price of steers Went up $1; 95"?)

' hind on its elders of- pork and beef
.and no relief seems to be in slight.

'all applicants must_ come underI the

FARM FOR SAL

  

  

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Two years ago he generality - i
. tax for the“ Stat $31 1309 .*

 
 

  

‘ The H0999 has passed a hill j ‘

pertioning the Stat‘e for Coil .. " '
a1. districts”. Senators claim
there will be some important
reache

     

 
    
 
 
 

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the Pardels Post of’ the United States

1399 iOr Which his packs.
for the value of the pack

which are Money- order. ofﬁces.
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What’s wrong with Michigan’s cat-
tie and pork, producers? -De'alers'
from small towns surrounding M:

T11
1009] brand: of the Hammond B9
Company cannot supply its own trade.

100 pounds on Monday Last week a;
schedule of prices went into eﬁ9c‘t: "
which boosted cows $1 per 100‘

pounds; stéers, $1.50 per 100 pounds;
hogs, $3 :per 100 pounds.
inond Company is -,10 000 pounds be.

 
  
 

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charges of Prof. Davenport b'y :ssy
ing that, politics cOuld- -not enter 111139"
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their merits.
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