
gal-tel:

, and o of Iig'ter-*
n the stafe;I'

‘Iiicity Committed” of m3,\Natioml

me and the Eru “ ,8- 11d Produce

' ASsOCiatiOn, get/together on
if 11E known as the Cole bill.

111111“ 'as‘ it W111 become a .-

. ersehll the terns: prod-dots scld
admission With the exception at
"ﬂee and“ thunger It proyides

- sion merchant has ten days in which
to satisfy the f/rmer allowing for

' time it reg-dime tor the correspond-
@1106 to pass back and forth through
Ins mans. T- In case the commission
Ipierehant does an initially the farmer,

2 he letter then can ﬁle a Veriﬁed’chm
pleIntMth the Dammisslo'ner... 5i Agri-
gultﬁfer Who then gives the commis-
wsion me£0113nt severe-l days notice ”be
gore he cani aha his books in
3131127311 apestiga 0n.
( mieelmier
1745” only.-. the account _QIr that com;
at in the o‘ﬁce ofr‘the cemmission
herchant The commission merchant

must also send accdunt iof- sales and '

_ﬁccheck to shipper within 48 hours
code are sold unlese otherWise
upon. ,- -
- Ther 3re several provision; under
:5 whibh he “Cause of 1a produce
“ merchent\can be takemaWay. One
is in 70338 311 unsatisﬁed judgment

standslhgains't him. Another tea false
.. .. statement made to shippers with in-
tent to deceive Another is misrepre-
sentatio'n' as to quality of goods re~

,c’eived. ' Another 13" av? comﬁmatioﬁ

‘ ,1, 3gré

xi;- between commission merchants to ﬁx
__.; 3911055 thud still another is a refusal
to send. account at sales and check

Within time provided; by law. ,
If: ‘the Commisﬁoner 9: Agriculture

candida to resist such
go; ca? carry the mat-

‘f wesry..wranm
t e Agricultilral-Committee, tﬁé

,7 : a: the marhet.

‘ ,sheet‘ ’to the rams of Michigan, and their families.

The Com- -
KEICUItIure in making:
”a investing” will be allowed tor.

QNE CENT PER COPY (

" MONEY CAN BE MADE

 

 

 

. heroic going to press, We secure quotations
" Iveralicoﬂmodlttes from the principal market centers. A~

‘i‘tatement- covejﬁng conditions, our predictions and special
‘ ‘ with each commodgy on the following pages. The’

VV widest- gnaw—{9113 are: _ ;I~~Ig.._
Whedtrhlm I White (large mills paying) ...... $1. 06
W’gheat, N052 Red (large mills paying) ....... . 1.07
Oats, Standard .... ............. .. ~. .. .35
RYew .. “ ... .. ..
Beans
Hay (best market ides}, New York) at. ...... 20. 00
Potatoes (best market today, Pittsburgh), at .48

Butter r .33’

Poultry....... .17V2
Dressed Hogs (Detroit Market) .10%
Eggs ._.___.. .18V2

B Y way of explanation the prices quoted: “Large Mills are paying?

cah‘

vVlooo noon

 

« , refers to the prices paid 1' o. b.1'nills for the quality quoted We
.. ”give yen the “best market today” merely to how you what prices
could be secured for commodities quoted if same ere on track at mar-
kets named. These quotations, carefully considered, give you the drift

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7,17:

@1110 Farmers in Pltlftil Need

r March 27th. ---.The latest dispatches just received
from thi: ﬂood districts of Ohio, show that thousands of farmers in
'-, Our sister; state are in dire distress and calling with piteous cries for
«‘help from their more fortunate neighbors.

“We cannot use 1de or clothing yet, WE
/

Governor Cox wires:
NEED MONEY!” '

I have stopped the preSses to send this appeal through the‘ ‘pink~
LET US,
WHO HAVE BY PROVIDENCE BEEN SPARED THIS GREAT
CALIAM’IITY, CONSIDER IT A PRIVILEGE,- RATHER THAN
A DUTY TO LEND A HELPING HAND PROMPTLY IN THIS
EMERGENCY!

‘ /

The cities are responding to the cities cries for help, THE
FARMERS OF MICHIGAN MUST CARE FOR THE FARMERS

for'rH—EIR NEIGHBORING STATE

, I OPEN 'A RELIEF FUND FOR THE FARMERS OF OHIO
j’WITH A PERSONAL PLEDGE OF $25, and” the personal promiSe
. to see that every ny forwarded to this fund is distributed wisely,

to suffering farmers in dire need!

, I’ASK EVERY FARMER WHO READS THIS TO START

THE BArbL ROLLING IN HIS OWN NEIGHBORHOOD—GET
SCHOOLS, FARMERS’ ORGANIZATIONS, CHURCHES IN-

TERESTED— V I
, —I—.-BUT FORWARD THE MONEY AT ONCE! VA DOLLAR
IN TIME IS WORTH NINETY— NINE; RECEIVED LATE! Send
_any amount, large or small, addressed:
-.- ...;A‘MR GRANT E-LOCUM, for RELIEF FUND, 95 FORT
”ST” DETROIT, MICHIGAN.” In God’s name answer this appeal-

, from your nearby brothers and sisters of the soil, as beﬁts

strong.

I be aVOided,

50 WEEKS )
OR MORE

IN LIVE STOGK

IT :CWILL TAKE TEN YEARS TO
BUILD UP A NORMAL SUPPLY
OF BEEF STEERS.

Very Seldom do We Find a Scarcity
fof Live Stock When Feed is Plenti-
ful—eFarmers’ Golden Opportunity.

From all sources comes the report
of a scarcity of live stock, and meat
mices are sure to be higher instead
of lower. No less an authority than
M. F. Horine, statistician f01 the
Union Stockyard and Transit Com‘
pany, of Chicago, has ﬁgured out that
it will take a decade to build up a
normal supply of beef. steers. The
same authority also ﬁgures out that I
similar conditions prevail in the sheep
industry. Figures are given covering
:1 ﬁve-year period in the leading
Amexitan malkets and the whole
situation is summed up in the Chic-a;
go Faimers & Drove1s.‘,lou1ual as fol-
lows:

Notwithstanding the facts present-

ed, the total numbex of cattle and

calves classiﬁed as ‘stockels and feed-
ers,’ but including large number of
cows and heifers bought for breeding_
smelt, shipped out irom-the‘ﬁw prinr‘
cipal western markets during the
year 1912 was 101,070 head less than
during the year 101'], 41,355 head less
than the ﬁve—year avexage, 1907 to
l911, inclusive, and 133,635 less than’
in 1907, since when the population
has increased fully 10,000,000; and
while the number of such cattle Ship-
ped out during the ﬁrst two months

of the present your exceeded the ab-

normally small movement for Unicor-

responding period of 1912 by 61,980

head, yet the total number is 2,939

loss than in 1911, and only 11,362 in

excess of 1007, when the ﬁgures more

fully indicated a stocking up of feed

lots and were less freighted witlrI
breeding stock and young stock ship- "
nod to regions heretofore supplying

young cattle to the markets.

The greatest problem before cattle
feeders, farmers, grazers and ranch-
mcn at the present time is Where to
ﬁnd enough young cattle to consume
their feed and the grass of the com- -
ing season, and how to get enough
beef. breeding cows to provide for fu-
ture herds. They simply are not in
the country, and the consequence is
that them is bound to be a shortage
of beef cattle in the United States
for at least another decade, because
it will take that long to build up a.
normal supply of beef steers ready
for slaughter, and meantime our popu-
lation of nearly 100,000,000 is grow-
ing at the rate of approximately tw0
millions per year, and both present
and future increase in consumption
must be provided for.

As all other beef producing coun-
tries are in substantially the same
condition as to their cattle supply.
there can be no relief from abroad
for consumers, and American stock-
men are in no danger from foreign
competition

The only possible way by which a
beef famine in the United States can
is for the farmers of the
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ant on the part of. lecalf. denim, 35$
.- great many points, to loosen up and:
come into the market for at least the.
better qttalities of hay. As the other our ,

..., tor-est isvt‘he disposrtion hepar-

 
 

treme’ to this situation We are most

pleased to note that the producers of '
hay are manifesting a more ﬁrm pos'i.’ , .4
tion than they have manifested at any

time since the inception of the season.
The disposition on the part of the
dealers would go to ‘slroW that there

Was just a little better outlook or,

.. 1119.116;be high
all of August Will- she

that they had become aware o: the ,

true situation got over their decided
scare so that they were now ready to"

do business; This manifest disposi-
tion on their part 0qu- go to show
that the outline we ave been giving
you in the “Pink Sheet” is beginning
to dawn on the handlers of hay over

the State as being the true concep- < ‘-
tiOn we should have of the situation

and its possibilities. We continue to
be aware of the most serious situa-
tionpconfronting us, of the most rigid
discipline on part of the distributors

-..that is necessary, but we also c0n~

tinue to believe that it is conserva-
tively possible to bring about a bet-
terment of the present conditions in
the near future. ,The over supply of

‘ poor qualities of hay continues to

grow in evidence. The impossibility
of marketing every pound of this
class of hay seems to be well assured.
We don’t think it conservative, on
basis of possibilities, as they" show
at the present time, to‘look for all
the low classes of hay to go on the
market this season. On the other
hand, there is a decided shortage on

the better qualities. This feature con. .

tinues to be in evidence and proves
itself with more force as the Weeks
go by. The trade is constantly ask—
ing, and always demanding bay of
better qualities than is running at
the present time. Shipments of these
better qualities are meeting with
ready sale on practically any mar-

ket in the States, today, and in mostg

cases is drawing a premium, on basis
of conditions, which would appear
natural. On basis of the constant
watch we are keeping 0n the hay
situation we cannot help but feel that
if the farmers of the State of Mich"
igan, would concentrate their efforts,

“standout boldly for principle, go in—

to the ﬁght prepared to stay, that
we could, as a' result, bolster up the
hay situation and show a decided im-
provement. When you have entered
into the ﬁght in this manner and car-
ried it along well regulated and scien~
tiﬁc lines, the outcome will be a bet-
ter market for qualities of hay of me
dium classes, a. slight help will be
noticed in the extreme poor classes,
but the main difference and main help
to the situation, you can look for, is
along lines of quality from very light
mixed or gOOd cOlor up to N0. 1 Tim-
othy. .Grades below this are going
to have one awful ﬁght and be con—
tinuously under a handicap. In a ma-
jority of cases, and taking the State
of Michigan as a whole, the raisers
of hay have made a mistake this sea-
son. Had they fallen in line with the
principle set by the “Pink Sheet”
early in the season, thereby regulat-
ing the ﬂow of hay to the outside
market, there would have been a de-
cided improvement as a result. it is
almost April, the season is fast ad-
vancing to the point Where certain

qualities of hay are not supposed,
Dairy]

naturally, to have a market.
feeding and cattle feeding in general,
will soon be a thing of the past. With
this avenue of escape, there is natur-

‘ can ﬁgure.

ally no way out for heavy clover'

mixed hay and other hay closely c‘on-

forming thereto, but we still have

ﬂVe months during which good, clean,

~mand for old Timot

, will he. no market whateyer fo
,other classes of trade Wiiljaﬁen W x

 

classf
but unless it has the

hay instead There is hope {u
hay; none/Whatever for poor.

 

HAY-va-MIOHIGAN zone: unload

Zone N6.1{
' Zone No. 2
Zone No.3

Zone'ﬂVo. 4
ZonefNo, 5,
Zone No. 0
.Zone No.7

NOTE-4T1. price. ‘lvei; ﬁne" on—‘a
buli at No.1 Timothy in it the
dint-rent Michigan height apnea.
Thu the. 70‘ the Inc. that lieu-'4’
can dealers. should he able to ”7'
to: this «willow! . a. lunar ~
no". nude: ext-till nil-kc: an

tion.
Beirut

v

Michigan. .- .
Michigan. . --.
_Michlgan. .

at.

..,r. 1f.30

 

 

 

DETROIT—The

continues tcr be struggling along on bg‘low showing only
mand~

an indeﬁnite basis as reﬂects on any
quality of hay exceptin high Claoss
No 2 Timothy or grades et—ter

anything below there is really no doe-
ﬁnite basis whatever on which. you
There continues to be a

good demand for good hair, which

can be bold only at quotations, but .
stands at a little premium. A good _ ’

1720.. “ ’
__ of mew, 54

 

 

2.11.00. . L

, of st'aW With 3'3” can: of

car of hay carries its sale strength:

with it.

for sale can make demands. "In

cases of this kind the situation is in

the seller’s favor, but on Qualities be-

 

 

 

 

low the buyei has everything very
much his own way.
HAY—DETROIT MARKET. “ i

No. l'l‘lmothy. $14.00
No., 2 Timothyrr'ﬁ. . . -§- .. I . . 12.
No.3 Timothy .. ..... '. ...... 9
Light mixed ....... ...........12.
No. 1 Mixed .......... .. ... 11
No, 2 1nixed .................. 8.00 .
Rye Straw 9.00 ..I
\that and Out Straw .......... 8.00

PITTSBURGH—No trouble. ,what—
ever to dispose of good hay. at top

The party“ OWning or having“

ﬁgures but the market continues stag- '

nant on lower grades, very diﬂicult
indeed to plaCe hay at Set prices.
Threshed hay is unusually dull as
is also the case of clover hay of com-

mon quality. The range between No.“
2 clover "mixed hay and No. 1 is.a1~-’

most 100 per cent. That

shows the situation.

at

HAY—~PITTBBU RGH MARKET.»

 

 

CHICAGO—Chicago reports a de—
crease in arrivals this last week with
the demand keeping up well,,n very
ﬁrm market is the result. Good No.1
and better Timothy is especially
scarce. A few cars arriizing Were.
sold aboyp quotatibns.— Hay running
in the good No 2 clashes: mo teak
the beneﬁt in the Way «or sympathy

and reaped a reward. Straw is very
low on the Chicago’ market *-

in itself”

4 No. 1 Timothy hay ........... $15 .00
No.2 Timothy hay. . . ., ....... 13. 00
No. 3 Timothy. . . ...... . . 10.00
No. 1 Light mixed hay. . . . 12.00
No. 1 Clover mixed hay ...... 12 .00
No 1010\erh&¥.............12.00.."
Fine Prairie Packing Hay” .. 10.00;;
No. lOat straW.............. 9.00’
No. 1 Rye straw“.- 10.00~
No. 1 Wheat suawh.‘ ..... .’.' .1. 9.00

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111 1'
port. The enrrespen
year shows 373 cars of hay

  

 

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'Hlly, stock‘- . M .. . .
11¢ rye‘ straw. ....,.

Tangled 270 “row. . . . 15:0.

- Ont itrnw . . . .11.“

_ NOTMOI-ge hue- weigh 31m!
209- to 260 ”on!" medium We!
11'6”. “ to 1”.’°‘nd.a . 6 :77

1 .
ll.

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'NE‘W YORK-«There is hereafter V

movement" to give but as existing—4111
the New VYork market for the; pubs:
Week. Receipts continue to by very
-Iibe1al,' but only .45 small portion of
the same are anything like top quail?
gties‘. The market on common quail-'-
ties continues to be _of a: dragging na-
’ture With nothing in the irrimedrate
future showing a betterment . ,-

g—‘y‘

‘ aAv—Nsw YORK MARKET.

 

New Hi7: LF’“ Emil
Timothy— - hale-.9 bales. .
Choice. . .. urge-1.19mi“.
No. ,1 . .v. . . . . . . . {$321.3 $20.53.
No. 2 ., ‘. .;.,.—,.;.-'i'.*'. . . 31,9. _ 19.00 " ’
No. 3..... ......... .1. ‘ 1 14:00, ”
Shipping . . . . ...... .....‘. 14.00 - 14.190.
31.1211: Clover Mixed. .. 17.00. “17.00-
No. 1 Clover Mixed. .1650. .. 10,50 .
No. l- Clover. . . . ..... .1620!) ‘3~16.09.T V 3 : -
No. 2 Clover 1111211111.... lag _ 13.50”“ '
' No. 2 Clover.. ...... .. 15. _. “ .1 r
" Strnw— . 3- ._
, No. 1 Rye. . .yr. . . . . . . 1.7.90 7!;
_1{..2nn.... ...... mos-—
”1N9.10‘nt............. I0 11.00

. N6. 1 Who-1.. 1’ 2
..LmQ hale- who!“ from

  

 

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1" “Please renew my subscriptianﬁo

.,M_;B. F I thmlc it is a dandy paper ' P
for the Remark—James Jainism,
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min: «Inga-n Mu “ _

  
 

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potato“, is » ‘‘‘‘‘

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the outside market W
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no. .5110; W bl} com-5“ you as to whether mat- amount of toll

 

 

 

 

 

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_ T51” Miohi5an _
mjg It is Quite gen-
“ 11m max. I believe
- magician and Loftm
5120‘ mm earﬂesjly hoping
1 the day when the farmers
tom have warehbuses at their lo-'
’ ‘éhtpziiny points, where alftheir

-Lm 1.111.; and c5mwt‘ors will hovea
., en‘tral distributing ware-

‘ . present time.

anon:

 

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g; minis establishing 91 a

111' manufactured 11111111111311.1611, it
he th6 dealer} 5 position, with-your

'r'Lom a market standpoint from
dp'oint that would “Show an ﬁn:
iu‘terested

1L'1L be constantly, in the cut-

011 " would be continuously

future and regulating

’ ﬁrm from day to day to

gut possible. These frenzied
ovements and; tie- -ups would not be
The dealers over the State admit it

when they tell us of tho manner in
, . which they have put the bean crop on
-' gthe market so far,

dumping their
good beans, the Very best we had,

.into the market when the weather

was cold and freezing and then when
the weather got. warm in our South

ern outlet they had damp beans there,

ready to spoil You can see the situa-
tion and '_appreciate the mistake. The
beans or a questionable nature should
have gone into 11151311111191 when the

”weather was cold.\ The hard dry
(beans would stand up under any
Tweather conditions.
‘foial

Frenzied ﬁnan-
proﬁt led the dealers of the
State of Michigan into a trap which

~ has caught the entire bean market

and is holding it in its jaws at the
The 500 per bushel on
the early run of beans looked so big
to them that they took at and in tak—
ing it destroYed the whole bean situ-
They speak the truth when

they say that the outside markets are

a bélconszdered together.”
Madge Gehtm-I Lake

 

 

 

reasons, as... put forth by
. iii! h'ean dealers, as‘to why we
are emerienc‘ing our present dilapi-
“dated beaii market We showed you

tom Ehe‘; stare of the season up to the

L L ‘ prese‘ht On the yery- ﬁrst run of early

a proﬁt of
9 Leave it to

' beans their sates“ ShoWe
around 500 per bushel

is ﬁst or1noii. We claim that it Shows
the advantage the handlers of beans.
or anyothﬁt commodity, wit} take when
shay. get. .1119 chance. Wears.) know}

uses .291» iIL “and we hopeiyou begin to appreCiate,
a greatdeal

that just as long as you use “Toll
Agents” to toll your stuff instead of.
.. your own “Hired Man’ to sell your
. stuff Will you be facing and experi«

LL wo id have p1otected

full of damp beans. They are given
trouble, causing rejectiOns, etc No
question abOut it but the trouble is,
there is no excuse for thesa beans be-
ing there at this time. They eithe1
ought not to have been bought from

the producer in the ﬁrst place, 01

should have been sold and put on the
market at a time When the weather
them The
sit ation simply proves that these fel-
lows who are ﬁnishing our beans
ready 1361 market had made a mighty
poor job of it this year. It gives an-
other reason Why We as producers

 

BEANS—dDETROIT MARKET.
White hmld-p’fckcd basis ...... $1. 80
Red Kidney 1.90

MICHIGAN ZONE PRICES.
Zone No. 2 Michigan .......... $1.60
Zone No. 3 Michigan ........... 1.70
Zones 4, 5, 6 and 7 Michigan. 1.70

NO’l‘b—We the you above the
lithe- thlt Michigan donor. should
able to pay you tor beans. hund-
plcked bush. In the dlﬂerent freight
zone- of Michigan. The Pink Sheet
,haa let the price (or beans, hand-
picked an“. at the uvemo Michi-
gan points, at $2. 40 per bushel.

 

 

, m own stun 51nd

W11 m tmgo ahead and jg
Liar us“ If you have got good
’ 1-th fora better 111111111

 

 

 

LBotn\quotations,

change in the oat situation
from any angle whatsoever.
tone to the situ-
ation, and general conditions are on
about the same old basis as pre-
viousiy r‘eported. It is almost won‘

 

3 There isLL. really no particular

‘ derfur that the oat situation oeuld

eyen hang Where it has been this
year With‘other coarse feeds in their
depressed condition and the corn mar-
ket running on so normal 9. basis,
but everything seems to- indicate that
about oumpresent standard of levels

' will be maintained for a-shOrt time.
"Just what the Spring trading is going

to develop to is a question. We feel
that the future should bring improve-
ment to the situation. We almost be-
lieve it will. There are angles to the
situation, however, that we, nor any-
one else, can dope out with any de-

gree of accuracy.

OATS—DETROIT MARKET.

Standard

No. 3 white

No. LWhlte. . ...............
No. 2 Mixed... .
No. 3 Mixed..

 

CINCINNATI—«There was nothing
at all spirited in the trading on oats
in the past week. Offers were not
very large, but were easily able to
meet all apparent wants. Low grades
are hard to sell at set prices, while
top grades are moving along readily
at quotations.

OATS—CINCINNATI MARKET.

Standard

No. 3 White........

No. 4 White .................
No. 2 >Mrixcd ..................
N0. 3 Mixed ..................

 

 

 

 

PITTSBURGH—The Pittsburgh oat
market is exceptionally dull and un-
interesting, but very little life or
tone to the situation. The majority
of arrivals continue to .be of poorer
grades, which are indeed very hard
to place.

OATQ—PITTSBU RGH MARKET.

Standard . ........... . ...... .
No. 3 Whlte.. .....

No. 4 V‘Vhlte ............
No. 2 Mlxed...........

No. 8 Mixed..........

 

 

 

“f enclose stamps to pay the re—
mainder of my yeagsksubscm‘ption
to Michigan Business Forming, the
‘pinlc sheet,’ which I like very
much.”—Geo. E. McGowen, William-
ston, Michigan.

Coulis-ad on Pine Six

 

 

. _. fur-intuit: e 'ow that. Nt.
.- 1 Tim 3 y hay is, worth SI I600 nor ton.
“The tr am being gQ. 411. Would shoot that

- deale- \grﬁ Tuscola. cougty should pay
, ‘1 ea use

{egg 9' y 8
ma jwoighi: of a
this -

negates 3115911491110“: hay;
" can: My: all 111110.:
iﬁofeu’f‘r rags-1.. ew’

LZono 3—-_—Bay City.

' Chicago

Zone Mmenville.

”Cincinnati

_ j ‘. Detroit
“ : MIL-Vicksburg.

Chloe
“11”“

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

.... ................ u

Detroit

New York City. . . . . .
Pittsburgh

NLe‘w York City.
Pittsburgh . . .
Cincinnati . . .
LChloago’ . . . . 3.

New York Cit: y -
Pittsburgh
Ctn‘ctnnatl 4

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tnnonhloI-qI-Ioooo'o
...-1......-

doc-u..-

MICHIGAN
'FREIEHT

WITH
APPROXIMATE
RATES TO
. LEADING
ZINE-5 ... 1' MARKETS
- (SEE
TABLE

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to neither f1iénd. nor enemy, if they would swerve 11.1w
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part of this state to secure fair prices and good‘ markqt (1.! if
not meet these conditions to aid, if pOSSible, in the disposing ofV his prOduco Orr
' able market. ‘ ‘ .
if 111 the unpretentious little “pink- sheet" whit: you 11611: in yd:g hands, e farmer-6
of Michigan will ﬁnd a militant strong-arm, rec y and anxion .it all time 1&1:- dzfiﬂld
their rights and to right their wrongs wherever and whenever ybe ma: ‘
pendent farmer or group of organized farmers in this state need hésitatem ”to call upon this
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IGIITI‘T—imw your representatives down at Lansing nee-dTnOt

only 10111 watchful ca1e, but your suppOlt and encourage—-

mcnt. A majority of the members of the Senate and House
want to give the people what they want. . V -

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But there me many, very many,
wise ones in both the House and the
Senate who don’t care a rap Tor the
people; they have been good so far
during the term simply because to be
otherwise would have placed them in
a hopeless minority. .

These fellows got a pretty thorough shaking up last fall. The
cyclone which left so many oﬂ'ice— seekers high and dry on the upper
tributaries of Salt Creek last fall, gave them a thorough fright: but

' they are now getting on their pins and venturing-out a little from
sllorc.

OPEN ; YOUR
WINDOW
TOWARD LANSING.

Once these individuals ﬁnd you have ceased watching them,
they will commence figuring for a little‘ r”salvage. “Eternal vigi-
lance is the price of liberty” when the State Legislature is in
session. The other fellows have their lamps trimmed and burning.

Of course thc‘hinterests” andﬂmonopolistsi’ win in nine cases
out of ten. There's no mystery about it; they have their men right"
on the job every day in the week. These fellows live high and
lobby successfully.

But the people-tl1cy go asleep and expect the/loyal men in the
House and Senate to win the ﬁght single—handed and alone. Many
times these men who have bills in the interest of the people don’t
receive even an encouraging letter.

The faithful representatives 1171/10 are working in your interest
need encouragement. They would like to know that you are stand-
ing right back of them They must ﬁght against odds; and your
lack of interest 111akcs the ﬁght harder to win '

Theie are a number of bills before the Legislature right now
that ought to have the backing of every farmerb in Michigan—«item
are a few of them. .

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Representative Follett’s bill to “Regulate the Businessof Selling
Farm Products on Commission.”

 
  
 

Senator Hutchins’ bill to “Plovide for the Organization of
Purely Co operative Companies in this State,” the first step in the
economical marketing of farm products.

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ern sections 10.0001 wave will croso
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tral vall'cs’ts 1111115111111 sections 13.
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followed by a. cold wave '._in nor-thorax: quaﬁtitles of the cereals and d

sections that may cause frosts turthcr
outh’ than usual. Tender 1111111111
sould be protected. -But the cold
wllIJoon pass, leaving the month'Vs

temperatures to“ average higher than,

usual
Not much rain in great cents} 1;“?!-
leys befone' April 10, but in nQI't,éa1$£'

~ern states good rains will Occur: from.
April 16 to 2'3. The cool weather 11'9an
. middle of April may cause" showers,
but no general rains. ‘
is expected to continue satisfactory;
and farmers and planters will have

good opportunities for planting and
sowing. Early maturing croxgs

be planted or sown very rly ~and

FARMERS AND-'COMMﬁ—i
SION MEN GET TOGE ER

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There is no help for the‘ would-be -,

merchant who is jugs starting in
business and. who cannot obtain a
license ,He cannot resort to
courts. This clause is inserted bo

. cause an honest man with nothing
against him can enter business but
- the ﬂy- by- -night crook coming from

other states cannot Obtain a. license
to do business. The law makes it ob:
ligatory upon the part or the shipper
to pack honestly and to be Mir with
the commission merchants. A clause

from the; law says “any person hand-7' '

ling, shipping or selling far-m prod-
ucts who shall make false statements
as to grade, condition, markings,
quality or quantity of goods shipped
or pack with intent to deceive shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor."

The above covers the most impOI-

tant points in the new law, and ought '

to be satisfactory both to the farmers

and to the honest commissmmmer-

chants. The “Pink Sheets” would Sug~
gest that those co'mmissibn men who
are opposed to the F'ollett bill pre-
Sented to the Michigan, Iogis-latute,,
consider the concessions
made by the commission merchants
of New York in connection with the
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proﬁts of the middlemen R'ecently’
_ they published a. bulletin Which
throws some light: iyon where smog) .,
the proﬁts from form . ‘ our
Thig bulletin has to do With the coﬁt,

;ot farm labor and shows that this ». 1

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give

Michigan for

. West in other.

" " ve'l‘bfsvaims to

m; ,~1raud% in connection with
.. '1 j

13 [11111 included; snow-
‘hﬁsyjll‘ChaSB of lands to be
’1', in connection With

, "8.; "and this syStem is
de

_ have so smooth a path
The Chamber of Corns;
‘that““clty and. many citizens
Stre' duelyl to the, ex-
9' farm system at the
son. A hearing“ Will be held at
.73.ng this week at Which seme
s stung developments are ﬁends
The canning interests of the to are
fiob bbying against the $100, .000 appro-
lotion asked by the prison; $76 000
" 'iilch miist be used to reimburse
the state for the ”loss or sisal during
he» recent me ~:; :. ,7; _ _ ’/ »

-,, The 31 liner. shill"..- protecting frogs
as passe the House This ill has
ycsa'Sod to be a icke since Re . Pal- .
mer Was ”able to prove that the frog
Is a great friend of the farmer, and .
destroys any insects worms, etc,
1‘31a’tzmi‘g'h be harmful- to farm prod-
‘ it ' t‘ t
”The McBride bi-IL providing for the
regulation of the sale of commercial
fertilizers passed the House unani-
_mously. The House seemed to be in
% ad of regulating things \last
skim} bill was introduced to rogue
18% the rates to be charged bY
Ennis. and they even Went as far
as to attempt, to, ﬁx the size of blan-
hats to be use?! In hotels-- 4

"d? .f” ‘ 3r ‘ '1 tub ~r “ ,6"
‘ ' ,_ The SenaTe and House ﬁnally got
tage'tiier on Tuesday last and passed

the :R‘e’c'all bill in such manner that “i
it s'lioped that it Will be ivoteﬁ 011:},

A 7th. Serreees of State Mar-
tindale thinks that by cashing through

with the formalities the bill Will; bed

, ready‘by election time. There seems

Lays. That the Cltlzens Will Take:
"de111 the State Property Without

_ Cauchy a Look-Proposes to Build

',Allega.n, wants to move the stat

1' the state.

a New-Prison Out in the chantry.

State Senator. Milo D Wiggins, of
8
prison away. from the city of Jack-_

goth, and thus lentils chance will name ,

rty. approval of the people of
Senator Wiggins has hit
upon the: :idea of the state’s develop-

ing a”, swampy section 01 land four

11' , t againstssubmlt-
stint: to the 1) pie and
unsorted by, the renew-r:

.;Republlean members.
Cr'oll E‘dWard-s, Flo‘w- ,
4 _ Hinkley, @riggs;
Leonard, Maas,

, Mchtt, Menteltb,

:’.Morgan,? Nan-k, Palmer, Richardson,
Sherman, "' when \Wllc0x. i The
Démocratic members who ~voted
against the measure were Holland
and Fitzgerald. The BulL Moose mem-
bers' Who Voted against it Were Oak,
ley and Weed. This bill Would make:

‘ all oﬂ‘lcers ‘below the llEutenant- gov-

ernor appointive by the governor.
. - III * 1"
Farmers may now. have the name
-of their farms registered with the
county clerk fOr ﬁfty cents. This will

’. Spre've'nt any one else from using the .
*same name.

-.A bill to this eff
passed —_the House last week. Sele t
yobs name and put it on your sta-
tionery It will help build up your
11'1de 3.1 trade.
_*;_,_ L,"

A nOVel bill has been reported out
from the committee on revision of
the constitution. The bill aims to pro-
vide the commissiOn form of goVern-
ment to cauntles. It has not yet been
discussed by the House.
/~.~ * .II, -t'

"The TayIOr bill is another bit of
advanced aleglslation It- provides
that all drug stores, Whether in dry'
Or wet territory be placed under the
same prescription rules.

It

The farmers living around Lansing
are putting up a vigorous protest
against the auto testers who tear up
the country roads .

I *1 It . ﬂ

Bills forbidding the practice of pal-

mlstry and fortune telling have been

, introduced and both W111 likely pass

without any objections
vs o :1: 1,
Nearly, 7.00_bills have been intro-
duced in the House this session. And
they are still coming. Rep. Skeels

. attempted. to get a resolution through

refusing to receive any more bills a
after April 5th, but his motion failed»
About two- thirds of these 700 bills are
duplicates of other. bills, or so simi-
1211* that they are covered by other
bills. 'When Will our legislators for-
get little, personal prejudices and
get down to work in the interests of
the Whole State? _

* ,

At present I:[Wifer-beater can be.
sentenced to a 190- day term in jail.
Rep. Modteith‘, of Port Huron h in-
”troduced a bill Which takes Wif beat- ‘
ing out of the class of misdemeanors

, Md: places it where it ought to _be

among the felonies. If this law passes
' Wife-boaters maximum sentence

,8".
. "will be ﬁve years in the penitentiary

4 91* reformatory

. asLaw~
1mm: 6f the Rail--
Ln;- fave of a;
on u'di oh will

11;" sheep, industry.

miles northWest cf Jackson, Where
he proposes a new prison shall be
erected He claims that the land
can be purchased at from three to ten
dollars per acre and the cost of drain-
ing. The lbw land he claims can be
drained by the prisoners, who just
now have nothing to do. He says:

”Much of .the land would do for
gardening and, trucking to supply
materials f01 the prison canning fac-
tory and the reel? is coVered by beds
of clay which is adapted to the
manufacture of paving brick and
sewer pipe. Those are products for
which there is always a demand and
the supply of raw material would be
practically unlimited.

“The location would be on the

[Grand Trunk railroad and so within

easy/reach of close markets. An-
other advantage over suggestions of
taking the prisoners off to distant
parts of the state is they would still
be no the centers of crime, and
the
be no ore than now.”

Senator Wiggins also advances
humanitarian arguments for his
proposition. “It is the height Of in-
humanity,” he says “to keep men
shut up without anything to do. Con-
ditions should be arranged in a way
that convicts might become better
men and not worse There is no bet-
ter puIlﬁer like the soil Give the
men something to do out in the sun—
shine and close to the soil and it
will be best for them and‘best for so-
clety”

The senator holds that it is not
fair to the city of Jackson to take the
prisoners back and fortﬁithrough its
streets inorder to reach the farms in
use and that now while there is need
of a large amount of rebuildng is the
time to make a change, especially
since some of the citizens there have
agreed to take over the state‘s prop-
erty without causing it a loss.

MONEY' CAN BE MADE
., IN LIVE srocx

(COntlnued from Page One)

corn belt to begin at once keeping
and breeding their beef producing
mws instead of sending them to
slaughter, so as to provide a future
supply of young cattle for the feed
lots, for which the failing ranges can
no longer be depended upon,these re-
gions being both drought—depleted and
continually broken up and occupied
by settlers.

Of course this implies the use of/

more silos and the growing of more
alfalfa, to take the place of additional
pasture which would otherwise be
required; but as these are economical
means and paying investments, great—
er gains will follow than Were possi-
ble under the old ways. ,-
No better opportunity than the
present to make money by raising
beef cattle has ever been offered to
American farmers, especially in the
corn belt and at the same timeadd
to the fertility of their f ms. The
present comparatively ch ap range
of prices for pure-bred foundation
stock only emphasizes the fact
Similar conditions prevail in the

r 1"
'u-v‘

roe years of liquidation. started

ts of transporting them would -

Q; the 111 Stamens

cabs head since 1909 the popuiai

_.. 1 tlon having meantime increased about

an equal number of, millions. .

The world’s sheep supply is gradu-
ally decreasing, while the population:
and demand for mutton and wool in“
all countries are increasing, and as
all live stOck is scarce and dear, both
at home and abroad, there can be
neither over-supply nor materially re-
duced market prices for sheep and
Wool in the United States for at least
several years to come. ,

The same causes which reduced the
cattle supply in this country have,
in largefneasure, reduced the sheep ‘
supply also, and there is less pros-

' pectf‘of'corn beltfarmers coming to

the rescue of the industry, because
they are now inclined more to the
raising of cattle than sheep. This
_Will give those who understand sheep
raising and are prepared to engage
in it a chance for much better aver-
age proﬁts for several y core to come
than duiing recent years

__The tables herewith submitted for
1912 and 1913 include many thou-
sands of fat sheep and lambs con-
signed through and from Omaha via
nearby feeding or ‘lay—over’ stations
in Illinois to the Chicago market for,"
sale and slaughter, and that should
not be classiﬁed. as ‘Feeder Sheep
Shipments.’

Deductlng these market sheep
and lambs from the totals would
change all increases to heavy de-
creases, and show more nearly the
actual number consigned to feed lots.
But as no discrimination is made in
the ofﬁcial reports of that market,
the numbers as there stated are
necessarily included in the tables.
here given."

WATCH YOUR lllEN
AT LANSING

IMPORTANT BILLS GOING
THROUGH LEGISLATIVE
MILL.

The Interests Have Their Representa-
tives Right on the Ground Every
Day—Farmer Representatives Need
Your Encouragement and Assist-
ance. -

The reason why the “interests" and
“11'10nopoldsts” have had things their
own way in state and nation is be-
cause they have men on the job every
'day in Congress and in the State
Legislature, working and lobbying
for the measures that Will beneﬁt
them. On the other hand, the con-
gressmen and members of the Legism
laturc who introduce bills in the in-
terest of the people are very often
left to make the ﬁght themselves,
without any assistance and often
Without any encouragement from the
people in whose interest they are
working. Many hills which are of
vital importance to the farmers of
this state have been presented at
Lansing. These bills will become
laws if the farmers of the state will
only keep in touch with their hired
men at Lansing.» Prominent among
the measures that should have the
support of every farmer in the state-
we ﬁnd:

House Bill No. 477,
Representative Follett,
to/regulate the business of selling
,farm products on commission. This
measure providesuth'at all commission.
merchants dealing in fa1m p10ducts
shall be licensod; provides a means
of punishing fraud and deception in
the sale of farm products; and de-
ﬁnes the duties of the State Dairy
and Food Commission relathe there-
to. Possibly the bill just as. drawn .
could- not be p ssed, but the main '
“features are all . ht and should not‘
be objected to even by the commis-
,Sion men. if they want to deal hon—

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~ seed situation, we think

tin‘ue's "to be in favor among;
the large handlers of the same
i; is apparent that all verses mum's

future pipiisibilities of the commodity

see tor/Lit a meat- bright future;
is very questionable, indeed,
See present standard of levels lower;
but of course something may possibly
develop of an irregular nature to have

an influence. at some particular time, .__
The clover

but”‘We don’t look, for it.
is handled"
in such a manner as Will guarantee

protection in the Way of prices. ‘11;

is a. proposition which runs into
money very fast, accordingly, handled
by men of quite high caliber who are-
making their money out of'advanced
quotations that can be shown on the
same We shall certainly expect
seed to show some advance, although
we appreciate that the present Stand-

ard is quite high.

 

CLOVER SEED—DETROIT

M A R K ET.
J unc, prime ................. $12.00
Mammoth, prime .............. 12.00
Alsik‘e, prime ................ 12.6:
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“Enclosed ﬁnd twenty-ﬁne cents in
payment of my subscription to the
‘pink sheet‘ for the balance of the
year." I note what you say regard-
ing the bill now before the House at
Lansing to levy against each hunt-
er‘s gun a tom of one dollar. I am ,
heartily in favor of the some, but I
consider the proposed bills to pen—
sion school teachers and ﬁremen an
outrage. Senator Straight from'
this district is pushing them. I
'would like to hear your opinion
and the opinion of others through
your paper. It looks to me as
though they would have to pension
the farmer before long or he won’t
be able to pay all these tawcs."—-A.
S. Kent, Sherwood, Mich, No. 2. .,.

APPLES

- There continues to be a bettei-
ment in tone to the situation
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‘low grade stock it seems impossible

to raise them above a certain level.
The range of selling value between“
top qualities and medium is more
than common. All parties” having
apples in store of high qualities are,
apparently, well pleased with the out-
let andl standard of levels at the pres-
ent time. There is no question what-
ever about the situation remaining
strong, and we ihink,will show a still
higher price later. Of course the
season is advancing to a point Where,
stock has to be of the very best qual—
ity to stand up, although we are
pleased to state that apples are com-
ing out of storage this year in ex—
ceptionally nice condition.

APPLES—GENERAL MARKET.
Fancy, per barrel ........ 2.00 to 3.50
Ordinary, per barrel. . . . 1.00 to 2.50

 

 

 

 

“The pink sheet is just what we
need. I would not want to be with-
out it, let the good work go on."~—4—
0; Booradatle, Ionia.

CORN

It is almost marvelous the man-
ner in'which the demand and con-
sumption of corn, this year, have
traveled along together. Trading has
been effected and consumption‘ of
the same made so that the demand
has just about been taken care oi.’ by
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“I think the pink. sheet is the
best paper I take.
that all farmers should take”
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to bid.
prices instead of higher“
thing, fiom now on,
them. Outside markets,
direction, are glutted constantly. Q'nly
top

There is no promise whatever.

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It is a paper, 1'

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There is no improvement what?
E ever to the situation. ~1(A1'1par- .
ently there are onions in every
altrcction, which can- be said at Draco;
tically any price the made has a. mind '
The tendency is for lover
The main
is to get rid 0122-
f in“ *every -

quality of onions ”can be cfon—~
sidlered at hardly any priCe at all ..
4 be in position to set its aim prices 2:41“.

 

omens. '
Detroit.

Red Globe, lacked, per cwh. . . _. .

Yellow’Globe, bulk, per cwt. .. ".40‘

Red Globe, bulk, per cwtu. . z .
Cincinnati.

Yellow Globe, sacked, tier civil. . ..60

Red Globe, sacked, per twirl. . . . _
.Ycllow Globe. bulk, per-"newt. . .40
Red Globe. bulk, per cwt.. . . . . .

Pittsburg. ,_
Yellow Globe. snokedfper'cwtf-Ltie‘i
RN! Globe, sacked, Der cvvt. . .45

Yellow Globe, bulk, per th... .45
Red Globe, bulk, per4cwt. . . .‘ .30

 

 

 

“As I (1min favor of the paper
I will continue to be a subscriber
and I would ﬁot'like it) be without
it.”~'—0hris Wolfe, Standish. 1"

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is no alarm whatever to be,
There

satisfactory condition
The butter market is 111.11 most

ente1tained by anyone concerning the
Our present standard of 1ev--

same.
els is established, and in such a way,
and on such~a basis as to Warrant a
stability of the same in the future.

BUTTER ‘— GENERAL M‘ARKEET.
Creamery No. 1, per p'on'nd. .33
Fancy Dairy. per pound. . "7 33

“I will" say that I .am pleased With
the Market Repert and hope it will
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some plays; 213 easily pickedl‘lp '
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Yellow Globe, sacked, per cwt. .$ .55...

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Medium “tissue . . .
~ ‘ngrlgatr ﬁneness Farming or
' the Farmer’s: “Friend I/onald not?
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and mpWor 13,011
brbugh't ~together 1st 4

buy it. Thatsahout- ,th
situation iswbrking b '» » B c piss. ‘
are 11111, 1131614111 enough to akia‘r'c'ar
the. natural “demand from day to day, 4
:butwb'y. using and maintaining“ high
prices the demand wheggaduatly sew
code so 'that receipts will take em 0 4,
of the situation Poultry is gating in 3min? Ah“. ['3

shalI expect. the ﬁrst run oisbroilers

to start in at a long price. We made a
this predictibn. in one oi? our prevmus
numbers. '5 4,. . . ~, -4

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.. POULTRY-«DETROIT unite-1“” ,
No l, Turkeys « . . . . . . .19 to an...
No.2 Turkeys .4....... ‘.I4,to,1 ,,
M1. 1 Spring 0111 c'kens. ' 16. to Jay; , 1
No. 2 Spring 011 ckgns. .13 mm
-‘No. 1 Fowls .'. . . .. * .16 ti) 1
N0; 3 FOWIS ------- ' . m 1' - .1310:l'5
No.1Geese. ....‘...,',"‘-‘ .IBto 315%
.Noi '1" Ducks. J: ..... .,.'-‘-:C.I119t0 .‘20'5' .
POULT/BY —-c_chAG.o MARKET: £13359
Pl“ iﬁi‘gl‘ ii"
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No. 1 spring Chickens. .16 4 fed cows-end heifé’rrsin. they
11:"? 'isgﬂilgl' Chtckm -- ‘ r» 112?— 1-1 ' a vehy fe'w lots 0111
2 o -~‘ows ..‘-. . . ' r .
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muons. Uie cure In making ﬂit-
merit- and lie sure the consignee
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makes farming his business ought?
to new it in his home ”--Loms '
Klein, Sterling; »» ' "

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(7:7 (ﬁshery [much pleased with
your 1812121: Cmd want it continued
to me. f—e—Clyde Utley, Flint, Mich.

SheEp and Lambs—Detroit.

A There was also a falling, off in the 7

sheep and lamb department 4047

fagairnst “4,3137 the week.p1evious.- The

 

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.. . . 8061118 to take 311-—
go of 6791-37 little feature possi- .

The tradi'n cult-lie Chicago mar-

duri 'g“ ‘e Mjgt week shows this '

day showed; Quite 7

There was a; 'v'wider-

‘ tio manifest 01K

There were

g... .
, last Week up as“ ‘
sh as $9155, {7% .h bulk or. wies being,

111111139: 1'5; we think
‘ for? the week

’<:’:The receipts were “compasatiuely lib

‘ 1.1.1111, but 1101111101191 to warrant any

. material change in the 511111111011.
Armour. éppea‘red spite bearish on
the smafket. and Was" gable, accord-
ingly to take advantage of- some ep—
portunfities

the wehk amohntetiwto :398, 700 heatd

L agamstﬁﬁmo Zth'e prévlpusweék and ,
- {1165 000 the same Week 0 ye as age
th‘s r'eCeiVed,
...62‘ 900 hogs, Which is 17, 200 less than
. one week/ago; with 19, 000 less than a"
4 ,yggr ago, 700 less than} two yea3‘s"

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HOGS—wGHIOAGO STQCK YAKDS.

" mica Pat-kink .‘.._....38.osto$8.90
Mm 117111 Butchers :. 18.30 to 8407

8.56to’. as;
r 8.311 1191;?

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1-111.111.1111 on sheep

(ﬁerce The packing for"

remained steady

Lambs were nominally considered

"about 15 to '25 cents lower, with best
lambs going at $8. 50, fair to common

J$6ﬂ§0 to $8 00, top yearlings bringing
$8.00, with faii to common
sheep going at $5 50 to $6 50, culls to
common stuff $3 50 to $4." 15

 

SHEEP —-— DETROIT STOCK
-YARD8.

Lambs, good Q choice $8. 50 to $8.75
filo fair to good ...... .12.) to 8.00

can-“ling lambs, choice. 7.50 to 8.00
Mixed sheep . 5.75
Cull sheep; ' 4.50

 

 

 

“The ‘pink sheet’ is O. K. and I
cannot get (120779 without it”——Al-
beit J. Prutbw, Attica, Michigan.

Sheep and Lambs—Chicago."

Top prices-mud the range for bulk of sales
of sheep and lambs: , "~
, Sheep. Lambs..-
Top. Bulk. Top. Bulk.
*7.10 2513256176. 15 $8.90 $8,40@S.75
‘Véek 11gb ........... ”1225 6.0063085 9.15 850759.00
]‘ ou1 weeks wage ..*6.T§- .. , . ’ 9.00 8.3563885
191 .............. 6.35 .1 . 8.10 7. 200.7. 75
....¢ ......... 5.3.3 = 0.63 :'1‘\'W.35
. ................ 9,20 '7.H(18.25 .1 910111023
................. 6.50. 5. 006176. .. '
................. 7.00 13.006575 ‘.'. 7 35@S 10

Last week

iiyear— 01 ds.

The buyers and sellers were not

~lOng in': agreeing upon a trading basis
which could be used on all qualities

of sheep, and especially so on year-
lings; The piices for the week re-
maimed ’COInparatively sz‘teidy, with
some lots selling strenger. City
butchers and shippers did very little
in sheep dining the Week, the 111.61%}
trade being of a packer natum —
ferings We’re of llheral Volume with a
good demand being in evidence. Light
weight stock of. st1ictly prime grades
were'very scores In the absence of
light weight handy oﬁerings,
i001: heavy ones which showed ﬁnish.

,The Outside situation is of a satisfac-

tory nature” at the moment so that
it has semet‘hing of a sympathetic
effect .on the situation here. ...There

\ is little real advance. to repmt man

‘last week’s market In the lamb do-

L. pertinent there was very little doing.

 

‘AHEEP b—QHICAGO STOCK
YARDS. ‘

who, good to choice. “080017088985
“.5170 fair to good 8.40to 8.00
-' "Do (.911 to oomn'mn .. 5.00“) 600
Yen-11mg iambé,, choice 7.60 to 8.25
./ 1‘ , full to in! r ..... ...;. 6.107“) 417.010,

. others,» choice . 0.50m 7.00‘
«Ewan whoice handy
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quality '

7.j;i1(((8.10 '~

buye1s-

'ent unsettled position.

‘Ljpaid for new: wool.

,; .; ,Finére than usuaf‘activity”
among the feedsrsrand also‘h fairly?

good run of feeﬂér. steek, but the out4

let Was not What we naturally ex-

__ Shop and Lambs~Buffalo.

_ With Monday’s r1111 45 cars or 9-
00,0 trade was quarter higher, on
l‘a‘mbs but a. little slow at that. Handy
sheep. Were aetivé and a quarter high-
er, whiie heavy sheep -were slow, un-
less at steady prices. Bulk of best
handy >l-ambs $9.25, some averaging
better, than_90_lbs., going at; $9, with
some extreme heaVy lambs, weighing
over hundred pounds, selling from
$8.50 8,75. Best cull lambs $8.50@
$8.75, skips up to $8. Choice years
ling Wethers on the handy order, $8@
$8.25 aud'top yearling ewes $7@$7.50.
Best desirable wetlier sheep $6,75@
$7, some two-year—olds $7.25 and ex-
treme heavy wethers hard to place
above $6.50, latter price taking some
handy ewes, several lots of; heavy
ones moving at $6, and cull sheep
from $5.50 down.

 

SHEEP —- BUFFALO STOCK
YARDS.

. Lambs, good to chaser. . . .9.‘00@9.25
Do fair ;to good ......... 8.25@9.00

Do cull and (‘OmlllOn. . 8.25@8.75
D_o skips 6.50 @ 8.00

Y ear-ling" w others, choice. .300 @ 8.50
Do cull to 't‘nir .......... 5.00@7.50'
Do ewes, choice ........ 7.00@7.50
\Vetllcrs. choice 6.50 @ 7.00
Mixed sheep 6.40@6.65
_I<}we.~1, choice handy wght. .6.25@6.50
no choice heavy ........ 6.00@6.25
170'“ ' th‘cp ............... 3.00 @ 3.50
13110113 .................... 4.00 @ 5.00

 

 

 

“We are more than pleased with
the ‘pink sheet." we hope to see you
continue with your good work."—
Richard Rowe, Hemlock, Michigan.

woo'L.

In taking up the wool problem, we
hope you will appreciate that there
is no other one~-con1modity with a
future (lopendt‘n’t on so many differ-
out angles as is the one in question.
It is almost impossible to get any
real inside information on the situ-
ation. From all advices the Wool
market has ruled quiet since the ﬁrst
of the yea1 The :‘eueral situation
has been aygraxated by a strike of
the Garment \\01kers, which started
in New York and spread/to other
points. The effect of this strike, has
been to hold up t‘ades of goods
already orderedbas veil as to curtail
new business. The natural result was
21. falling off in consumption. 1110111
the standpoint ol.‘ supply and demand
wool maintains a very stmng posi-
tion today. This is due to a decided
decrease in the world's supply during
the past year, during; a time when
consumption was at “high water"
lm‘nrli. The result of this has been a
steady advancing which would have
occasioned a sympathetic advance
hero had it not been for the menace
of the impending advance in the tar-
;ii'f. At the moment the wool situ-
ation is of amost indefinite nature,
because of the indeﬁnite foundation
on which it rests. 'As producers of
wool you can readily appreciate that
the large handlers, and on up to the
manufacturers would naturally main-
tain a conservative position, with the
tariff and strike situation in its pres-
As far as for-
eign markets a1 9 concerned, the last
year has been one of. great activity,
piices of Wool being/rem 5 per- cent
to 10 per cent higher for Marines
and 10 per cent higher for cross-
breeds than last season. At the pres-
ent; the obvious features of the situ-
ation would point to the maintenance
of our present current high level of
values. Trade, generally, is ex-
tremely active in,/not only England
lone, but on the Continent; A conﬁ-

nce of users is shown by prices ,
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values be established. At this writ;

~ p; ing' we can 011131 giYe yOu the situ-

1111011 in general. We have given you;

-_~ in the foregoing, all that anyone has. 2

From week 'to- week— “We shall try" to

be a matter of 11 11160111311217

stry, trade—will 1710 doubt 111111111 its.“ I ‘ I
.,_ self to the new, Schedules aid busi-,. ~
71,19,351, will receive an impetus and.

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follow the situation and thereby aidff‘ - ﬁrtou 7‘
‘. you‘in the marketing ,.of~this product. 0091397 corn meal.“ ,-»-:,_, 44,1, ,I, 23:00 ~ N
>1, We are guessing that wool will start Cracked cam- ,,,,..,",, ,1, 23, 50 7
1 in at about 18%‘cemts; Weare also :«Chdp feed 1.501..
. guessing that it will strike 25: cents Coarse middlings“ 2200‘?
before the close 1 Fine middlings .. .. . 1 1, 2430* - B
‘CO‘AL. _,Bran (standard) w. H2151}
Most all mining companies are The above prices are {7-77 70-77771) De‘
operating on half time, thus reducing troit, MiCh 0.11 car 1013 shipments.
the pr-oductioﬁXQf coal. There is not Tankage, averaging 760 9‘371‘ 53m?"
much, if any, of a coal market at plotein, $41 per tpnf 691" ChicagQLI 7 7 1
- present, owing to the present weather the fact that :0 _ . it 1'77 H.
conditions. Steam plants are holding POTATOES SLOW IN \NEW YORK-{P635111}; MaQV779 Ehfjtﬁﬂtf -b977 71'6' {17' 7 0'
back on their orders and everyone '.-I ——" -~_.- departui'é item ofﬁce approve 1.1 t‘
seems to have all the 0031 he wants. } Mark“ 7”“5 Week SHQWS Sl'ght De“ measure 16 compromise thé‘; 811'. Y S7
Present prices 011 Coal are eX- Cline—Buyers Not Very Active. tax claims againsL theg“ 7:777:77} 17 g
tremely low, owing to the fact that The potato marketis quite slow in for $101000 7- . =', t]
coal in transit must be sold, and in New York this week and shows a» The court b’eliev, ‘ 11
order to do this a price must be made tendency towa1d lower prices. Buy- » ‘factur'éﬁ‘s have been, guilty of 1 , 0
that will' warrant the purchaser a ers are not taking much interest. Ln acy to defraud the gbverwent in" _ P‘
good investment. trade conditions and have been ex- curing the compromise, Md in“: * 1‘
ILake‘ shipments will soon start, pecting a decline but while this (113- -charge to the jury he made it plain"-
1' which will ~imn1ediately relieve the Cline has been noticeable at times, it, that they were to investigate ‘nd‘t t .F
‘ mines of the surplus coal and prices does not show any great anxiety to only the actions of .the defend ',, 1]
will stimulate; therefore all‘operators assert itself. but of the gOVernment 7oﬂl‘c7ial77 7 {if n
are looking forward to higher prices The 111311 ket is lower than it was ﬁdudge 1111111113 is of she Lopinioh that. 1' Y b
shortly after April 1st. last week, however. in the yards t7 1 9
The anthracite situation is more or here Maine stock wa selling from 7 . '0
loss stagnant and circular prices $1.00 to $2.10 per '18 pounds hulk. 7 d
have not been given out. Some local Shippers are asking 63 to 6'10 a bushel ’1, d
jobbers are taking orders at open delivered here, from Maine 7shipping 1 g
prices. 011 all grades of coal the points, but most Sales are made» at 5 17
anticipated mites wili be from 10 to G4c.' The price i's-too high 'nuthe- ( S
1.3 cents per ton higher than last sea- country compared with what, 9 stock ‘ ,’
son’s prices has been bringing here. At loading . .1 V
Soft Coal. F.O.B. stations in Maine it is reported shipg esﬁy with the farmm 77111115 hilt a
Kind of Coal. Mines. pers am paying the farmers $1 tOI” provides. that before taker-son 11er ‘1‘ F
Hocking rescreened Lump ...... $1.70 $1 15 pm 165 pound measure. ( ’ shall enter into the business Of sell- '.’ f
Cambridge, 1%: lump ............ 1.50 State potatoes are quite dull; 78f: ing farm products 011 commisgmn he i 3
Cambridge, '99, lump. . . .7. ....... 1.30 $1.15 to $1. 90 per 180 pounds bulk 111, shall receive a license from‘tﬁe State * ,~ 1 , 0
West Virginia split lump ....... 1.50 the yards State shippers are asking Dairy and Food Department: After re- th ,. l7 11
White Ash block ............... 1.50 55 to 580 a bushel delivered here and ceiVing the license and; before enter“ 98111971311119 and causin 3731111193731?“ 55*:
Kentucky, 4-inch lump .......... 1.65 rep01t that they are paying '40 to 450 pig/into the business, he 11119111 ﬁle“; 07:17.- gation rough at the 33m 'i‘ .. r
Kentucky 4X2-inch egg ......... 1.45 - a bushel at loading station. V band of ﬁrom $10 000 to $20, 0.00 to pro- rue/ans ‘ 1111311115 bldckmail- 51 I
» , I tect the interests of the» shippers prbperty owners Is: becoming ‘ l t
‘ ‘- . OThHe license can b9 I'BVOKGII WherQ,.I1Imon that Mable de hon 1 (. 1 d
» Ifrau'd is provem sand the Dairy 3111,11 tare dealers ought m “3.71%; ,1: f
H H ‘ IHFIIopkd 36772775717777?“ is hempotvhvgreg It“: I up and demand 11““. the Le ; II ’77;
l . a e ves ga 10118 W ere y ee ” ‘ i
. Pink" Sheet SUbSCTlIJIIthll Money “ it necessary This bill will be tough; f3; ﬁesggéngsdggnhﬁgﬁgmrgmgr
I, . by the corhmiSslon men and must in black and white, I t
t S ff ' , _, have the farmers back of it if it gets There are other meritorious 71751118 6
. ' 0 U ﬁlers. . through the Senate » Bernie the Legislature, in which the E
- Senator Hutchins has presented a farmers are interested, “Edd: We, Want f
bill to provide fer the organizatidn- of to 11111:. as 11 811501811. favors: and 111/1119 , , 5
ALL SUBSCRIPTION MONEY paid for subscriptions to Geo'perative Companies. 1,...1Iphis is the interest 0'; the farmers and taxpayers - 1., 1
“MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING” and forwarded with this . ﬁrst stepi in thatdIiJiiectIion 011i (3001191111;- or. the State of Michelin, that you l -.
coupOn ﬁlled out and attached to the remittance will be turned 127177171117 330%ch 2t ihé giggingtinie. » 17:32:31 yrtétgrggggtg 31:9 39:52:?“ :

1Michigan has no law under which ,a,2
co-operative society can ”organize
True we have many socalled co-~
operative associations in this state,
but they are co—operatiVe societies
merely in name and do not in any
way carry out the principles of (:04

over to the Grant Slocum Relief Fund, to help swell the con-
tributions of the farmers of Michigan to their sister state, now
in such distressful need.

(Signed) THE RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Geo. M. Slocum, Sec. -Treas.

7 “\

Take the matter up today-elite legts-f
Iature Will doubtless. adjourn. Within
fortyfive’ days. All important bills
will be passed within the- next thirty
days After that there will beta 1111111;
. and, it is quite probable that the {sum -

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Detroit March 27th 1913Ioperatio11L- » If Senator Hutchins‘ bill 81787 intesests will“ OVEEIOOKei‘IﬁI 7‘
‘7 ‘ ,pecOmes a law, a farmers’ elevator' 1 ~
1'7 company or a farmers’ Creamery com-I MRI SALE, sad 0;”
‘1 INSTRUCTIONS—Send 50c for One Year Subscrip 10ns,pm1y can pay dividends to its p 91m 81.101111; 1111111177831!

 

 

. I.) or $1 for Three- Year Subscriptions. Remit in regular way, butII can regulate the voting power of Ewan SALE yacruloei .
‘ be sure and attach this coupon, signed with yo,ur name and , Stockholdmers and can in tact handle< “Wm chem up w 11132311317773 2
dd -. I . the entire, business ’on a; true co« IBmmgs, FuminsDetmtt: I .-, 1-5.3:
a ress. ,_ . ' operative basis. Wisconsin has such .
nun-1 -—— —— —_ n— —— — — _ _- ,3 raw; and if the Michigan farmers
are Wise in their day and genéretion,, . :-
3 they will \do all they can to 1151p ISen~
ator 1Hutchin-s. ‘ a
Senator Corliss presented a bill:
,, which .1111 passed the senate;.and
which“ provides that\I a farmers"
operative in urance co any

 

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MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, 95 Fort Street,
DETROIT, MICH.

Dear Sirs :—-I enclose Subscriptions which amount to I

‘..77 , $. . . . . . . . You are to apply this amount to the Graht Slocum ,

Relief Fund for the suﬁering farmers' 1n the Ohio Flood District,

 

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