
- .that; Barley,
:Will Probably be
nt Plan: Mature.

ontin-ues to be one of the
lie—problems in all cir-

prospect of the agricul- ,

edules being affected seems
this extra session of con-
' feW days oil! the preparer
L he farm schedules to be acted
nithn‘iity to the principles
administration Will keep
the politicians busy in Wash-
during the next few weeks.
ences are arranged with
.Wilson, when many planks
proposied tariff bill will be sub-
or his examination, and it has
eﬁnitely knoWn that what-

nbgongress takes upon the .

_, sanctioned by the presi-
' 1111 will be left the ﬁnal
whether there shall /be one
revis .. bill ,

opposition has

, d
m Muse member‘s Who ,
malt

ngle bill idea a dorm”
' dent Wilson' s indOrsement
11m before submitting their

, _ ongreSsP
1:}! "senate, however, there is al—

"and wool, will ﬁght the i

add 15 per cent duty on
’1; into the bill by the
ﬂee.

genraI tarii'i bill is in- ‘

With the approval of Presi-
W on, it is thought that the
4: mocratic‘ leaders will be
’1; Wield to the demand for

..otes on these two sched—

eat Wilson’s attitude toward
' of duties on agricultural
, V high comprise the so-called
‘bﬁske” list, wll haVe a.
e upou the votes of

ye Republicans in both

Many of these 1

the senate and house are

o‘ultural products, they
., om their constituents
sin The house committee

oti’cally in half the tariff on
ey, oats and other farm

While meats have , been '

this, committee to come in

' .. f}. 5 'NDREW CA‘RNhGIh said:

your eggs into one
7 » watch that basket. ”
_. the truth of the old adage:
’ , your eggs into One basket.”
farmer today:
on a thread! market.
higher.

demand.
._ stock to consume it.

So .you farmers quit raising live
oats and eighty cent corn.

and forty cent corn.

7 Wane.

Your cheap hay, corn and oats,

spring

 

On the other hand meat ‘prices were never
Not enough live stock to supply the
Plenty of cheap feed, but no live

preVaili'ng prices Would have netted you proﬁtable prices.
had better think this over before you open up shop for business this

III/ﬁr

; 1’? 7&1er ﬁoﬁ/

PONE CENT PER COPY (

“Put all 01'
basket," and then
We still hold to
“Don’t put all of

Here is the situatiOn that confronts the
No market for feeding hay.
Corn, oats and all grains selling at low prices

If we had the live stock to feed, hay, corn and oats
, would ﬁnd ready sale at proﬁtable prices.
was scarceiwe had a surplus of live stock.

When feed

stock and started

out after twenty—ﬁve dollar per ton hay, sixty cent

After two years of work in this direction, you take
an inventory and yen have $10 hay, thirty cent oats
Yes, and you haven’t got steers
which you ’c0u1d sell at $—- per cwt. or pork at s— ,
,. ..istslﬂw {armies

, ‘ he” on't take. 01! a gOOd pro
0 everyth 115. e raises every year; but he does make
p a proﬁt on something he raises every year.

worked up into beef and! hogs at
Boys, you

 

marketing and consumers price of
food stuff.

I also believe if one farmer in each
toWnsh had a short form of the bill
along th a few Suggestions of why

they should support it with room for
signatures that they could swamp the
legislature with farmers endorsing it
-—John Bird, Davison, Genesee Co,
Michigan.

 

Last Moment Market Flashes

 

 

very latest quotations are:

Oats, Standard
Rye............ ..
Beans

Butter........
-Poultry...........

coo.

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

Wheat, No. 1 White (large mills paying) ...... $1. 07%
Wheat, No. 2 Red (large mills paying) ....... . 1.08%
36

Hay (best market today, New York), at. . . . . .
* Potatoes (best market today, Pittsburgh), at.

ket).

olceootooccoououu

. Dressed Hogs (Detroit Mar

.60
1.90
20.00
.48
.33
.18
.11

.18%

.Iooe,nooou

 

B

’lset’s unmade “1‘11
mot,

 

Y Way of explanation the prices quoted:
refers to the prices paid 1'. o. b, mills for the quality quoted We
give you the “best market today” merely to show you what prices
‘could be secured for commodities quoted 11 same Were .on track at mar-
1ego Quotations,- carefully considered, give you the drift '

“Large Mills are paying”

._within its territory mus t; ,
Tuberculi‘n tested snug.

‘ growth,

 

 

'1! l' I

50 WEEKS
OR MORE

WILL MAKE ATTACK
0N PURE MILK LAWS-.1

A TEST CASE ON MUNICIPAL
REGULATIONS CONCERNING
FREE MILK TO BE MADE.

The United States Supreme Court is
to be Asked to Rule on the Consti»
tutionality of City Laws, Demand
ing All Milk be From Tuberculln ”
Tested Cows.

What promises to be a very inter-
esting test case for dairymen will

,.’ probably be taken up when the Unit-

ed States Supreme Court convenes
next Monday. A large number of
cities have passed very stringent laws
on the kind and quality of the milk
that can be sold Within their bound-
aries. The justice of many of the
provisions in these laws has been
questioned, and there is no doubt
that there have been too many con-
ccssions by municipalities to alarm-
ists who say that all the babies in
the country are in danger of death
.from,‘ impure milk from 'unhealthy
cows.

The test case is to be made in an
ordinance of the city of Minneapolis
which requires that all mil‘k fsold‘

e sues“
tion will concern the constitutionality
of such an act. _ >

On the same day the court is ex-
pected to announce Whether it will
review a. case in the local courts
wherein it was held that milk con-
taining more than a certain number
of bacteria was forbidden the cham
nels of interstate commerce by the
federel pure food law.

The milk supply'of several cities,
in addition to Washington, crosses
state lines. Many other cities, in-
cluding Chicago, Boston, Syracuse,
Portland, Oregon; Rochester, Tren-
ton and St. Joseph, Meg, have ordi-
nances ﬁxing the maximum number of
bacteria which may be in milk sold
within their respective limits.

That point is not urged in! the
printed argument just' ﬁled in court
on behalf of John Quincy Adams, a
farmer \who is attacking the or’di-
nance. His attack is limited to trying
to prove that the ordinance is class
legislation in that it applies to cows
outside the city and not to those
within the city, and that it would
conﬁscate his property in that it au-
thorizes the immediate destruction of
milk brought into the city from cows
that have not been “‘tuberculined.”

ARMOURS PLAN BIG RICE FIELD

One of the largest rice ﬁelds in
the world is to be planted by the
Armours on a large part of their
holdings on the Feather river, near
Nicolaus, Cal. At present more than
3,000 acres have been plowed and
checked in readiness for the planting
of the seed, and before work is ﬁn-

ished it is planned that 12, 000 acres _ , "

will be devoted to raising rice. A

laxge force of men is engaged in sink-‘1
ing Wells to insure“ an abundance or :3

water as, at certain periods of its

growing, and it is expected thdt the

- crop will bring a large income

 

 

.9312; "

rice must be under water
The land is low and adapted to rice


 

 

The whole commercial situation

“ that; felt the blow dealt Our
. *‘i'brothers and sisters in the

0 ed sections In every direction
aliens} of communication with the out-
:side have been effected to the extent
that busi ess has been of a very in-
liter nature during the past
’ ask. We mention this in conneci
i‘itl'on‘»with\our market notes because
‘of the natural sympathy that a con-
,«v-dition of this kind will have on the
,E’s'general Commercial situation for at
3 least a temporary period“ Just how
'V long this sympathetic feeling will be
' manifest is a question which time
‘ . Only can show; but we do know that
‘with transportation" in its present
hampered condition that outside mar-
?” kets will'become in a‘ bare condition
for a time, at least. If the extenua-

' tion of the present ﬂooding situation
does not result in a baring of outside
market centers it will certainly have
a tendency to make them become
alarmed as to the ﬁlling of their fu-
ture requirements. This sympathetic
feeling and its result is already show-
ing itself on certain markets. The
New York market gives us a wire,
dated Saturday, March 29, to the ef-
feet that prices‘ on hay will be tem-
porarily boosted by virtue of ﬂooded
conditions existing. An embargo has
been placed on the Pittsburgh market
affecting the receipts of all shipments,
not only hay, but produce, etc., as
well._ Right now if our readers had
their hay positioned so that it could
be loaded on cars and shipped to the
New York market there is little ques-
tion but what an enhanced price
would be the result. This feature,
which is visiting us at the moment,
demonstrates the necessity of the po-
sitioning of your commodities for the
market. Today a number of you haVe

' a carload of hay or a number of car-
loads of hay l baled ready for ship-
‘ment, but p ed in your barn some
‘ miles from the railroad. With roads
«in their present almost impassible
condition, you could not haul that
hay to the railroad regardless of the
price you could get. Suc'h lessons as
these, dear readers, should set you
to thinking—show you that through
these different angles looms up an
avenue of escape, a real necessity in
order that your commodities can be
placed on the market to the best ad-
vantage. It is with keen pleasure that
I receive advices. Local dealers re-
garding the disposition on part of the
producer to hang back on good hay
and to make disposition of common
qualities to the best advantage. One
of my old friends called on me this
last week, relating an incident that
happened on his local market, and
the condition which generally exists.
To me, personally, he conﬁrmed the
attitude taken by the producer in the
above manner of handling as the only
way in which the general situation

could be ‘improved. We do notiish .
to go on record as advising you that ,
the price on hay is going to be at ,
any deﬁnite point, either advanced f
or declined, but we do want to say to i
you that we are Still hanging to the =-

line of defense we established Way
back in September of this season,
that the only way in which we could
beneﬁt the general situation was to
be constantly bullish on our high class
stuff, with a tendency to being bear~
ish on our low class stuff. Personal-
rly, the writer of this article has faith;
it’s great” stuff; even if it doesn’t get
you anything, it makes life werth liv—
ing, and if anyone needs it in God’s
world, it is the man who produces a
. crop and tries to sell it on basis of
,‘VcOnditions that exist today. I believe
hat this good high classed stuff is
log to show an advance over the
scent market situation, I also feel
. ' at the under current is Working
ifright new. .that very soon you Will

gees the ”surface of the commercial sea “

. -ee.tji71er
. ' , it will pay.

13 r
Getonyor“

Nb. l—Good. subst
_ market. at ﬁroﬂtable p"
predicted.

(:93.

hour” proposition. No. >
lower but we would take a. chance.

 

ed. No. 4—No refit at ruling prices.
1 p B—lietter‘. keep in p6

ntial demand. and present condition( favor steady V,

.N —-Mark'e be“? D. rites. "jf_

3—Market Very quiet; has every appearance of hen: nif‘ovgg, .
th is is an “s

t clearing up and’be

yAnth

If you can hold.
rt. Prices may do

Storm on.

 

 

show little bubbles of inspiration. We

are not going to look or expect any

geysers, but we are going to look ~

for, and hope to see, a general bub-
bling of advance all along the com-
mercial stream.

to the last ditch.

’x

 

HAY—MICHIGAN ZONE PRIGIC.

Michigan. . . . . . . . £10.00
Michigan ...... . . . 11.0.0
Michigan ..l..... 11
Michigan. . . . . . ., 11.30
Michigan. . . . . .

Zone No. Michigan. . . . . . . . . 11.30
Zone No. , Michigan ......... , 12.20

NOTE—The priced lven are on o
hull. of No. 1 Tlmot yhoy In the
lites-ent Michigan trelxht soled.
.Thle give. you the price that Michi-
gan dealers should be able to pay
for this commodity. t. e. h. their old-
tlone, under existing market condi-
tie-d.

Zone No.
Zone No.
Zone No.
Zonc’ No.
Zone No.

Have faith; fight .

 

 

 

VDETROIT.——While there has been
no sales made this last week above
regular quotations, still we do feel
that the situation is gradually clear-
ing up. Receipts have been very
much lighter the latter part of the
week, with the trade stirring about
just a little looking for receipts. This
situation, which is visiting us, from
a local standpoint is caused largely
by road condition in the state. While
we appreciate that the individual is
very anxious to get his hay away, it
is a grand thing to have the market
checked for a short time so that" a
cleanup can be made. The situation.
naturally, will improve; then we will
be in position to take advantage of
that improvement if We only regulate
disposition properly.

HAY—DETROIT MARKET.
No. 1 Timothy. . . . . ........... $14.00
No. 2 Timothy ...... . ......... 12.00
No. 3 Timothy ................ 9.00
Light mixed ..... , ............. 12.00
No. 1 Mixed 11.00
No. 2 mixed .................. 8.00
Rye Straw 9.00
Wheat and Out Straw .......... 8.00

PITTSBURGH~We have already
reCeived advice that the Pittsburgh
market has been embargoed. There
is no real change in the situation, so
that we have a right to get eXcited
at this time, but with an embargo
placed on any market you can natur-
ally expect an advance on the same.
The outside conditions affecting this
embargo will be watched most care-
fully. lt is simply a matter of manip-
ulation of the situation as to the price
current existing in Pittsburgh.

 

 

 

 

 

HAY—PITTSBURGH MARKET.

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, 1 Glover hay ............. 12.00
Fine Prairie Packing Hay. . . . 10.00
No.10at straw.............. 0.00
No. 1 Rye straw ....... . ..... 10.00
No. 1 Wheat straw ........... 0.00

 

 

 

CHICAGO—NO. 1 and choice tim—

,,othy hay is in very light supply at

the present time. There is a good

, demand for practically all grades of
hay, sales being effected readily at,
. quotations.

While many sales have
been made at 50c to $1.00 over quOi
tations, it was based on exceptionally
highic'olored shipmentS, and we hard—

ly feel like using this as a ‘founda-V

tion for an expected advance. On ac
count of the southern situa
little hey may be same

«a... it this is done there W111 be
a natural effect on thisimarket.

 

‘HAY-u-OH'ICAGO ' MARKET.

Choice Timothy . . . '. .317. 00
No. 1 Timothy ..... 15-00
No. 2 Tlmothy........‘....... 12.50
Light Glover Mlx‘ed,....l...... 12.50
No.2Mlxed hay............. 11100
No.8'l‘lmothy........... .
Clover . ..
Threehed Timothy . .. . .
Marsh .teedlng hay.
Pa cnldt
Choice Alfalfa. . ..... .........
_No. 1 Alfalfa ...... .. . ......
Rye . .
Ont. . ......

 

 

Wheat

 

BOSTON—Boston has ﬁnally prick-
ed up its ears just a little when every
other market was in high spirits. We
are pleased to see the situationVin
our New England teritory even show
the slightest sympathy with existing
conditions. On the other hand,‘we
appreciate what they have been fac-
ing, and that they have done all pos-’
sible in face of conditions. There

will 'be a little advance on this mar—

ket, at least of a temporary nature.

 

HAY—BOSTON MARKET.

Lord-e emu

holed. holed.
...... . .. $21.50 $20.50
‘- 19.50
17.00
14.00
15.00
15.00
18-00“

12.0.

VHay, choice
Hay, No. _ 1
Hay, No. 2 ............
Hay, No 0. 8......... ..
Hay. clover ......

Hay, clover mixed.

Hay, .tock ...... . . . . 1
Long rye straw ..... .
Tangled rye dtrnw. . . .
Ontetrow............ 11.00

NOTE—Large holed welsh from

 

 

' York representatives.

200 to 250 pounds; mediu- hole-
lrom 80 to 100 pounds. .

 

NEW YORK—BelOw is a telegram
dated March 29, from a'New York
representative:

“Account ﬂood anticipate high
prices temporarily. Ship quick
via N. Y. C."

The above is an actual telegram
received from the New York market,
We are not going to show any ﬂuctu-
ations in quotations, but the telegram
ShOWS the expectanCy of-' the New
The situation
is fast cleaning up on high qualities
of hay and a noticeable decrease has
been effected in common qualities.
We hope to be able to show about
$1.00 advance in our next week’s quo-
tations, which will mean that hay
will be selling during the week to
come at 50c to $1.00 over the pres-
ent.

 

HAY—NEW YORK MARKET.

New Hey: LII". lull
Tlmothy— holed. lulled.
Choice. per ten. per ton.
................ $21.50 $20.50
. . 10 50 19.00

14.00

No. 1

No. 2

No. 3 ..

Shipping . . .

Light Clover Mixed. . .

No. 1 Glover Mixed. . . .

No. l Clover ........... 1

No. 2 Clover Mixed. . . .

No. 2 Clover. . . .» ......
strnw— > “

No. 1 B’..........-o..

No. 2 Mom

No. 1 Ont............. 1

No. 1 Who-tun...” 1
MOTIF—Large hole- welsh

no 80 pend-1 medium

from 80 to 150 ponndd,

.......... 14.00
17.00

 

 

 

‘ quite

impassable roads pe
L.: We 1:11an theta--

for shipment Simply «pill
ybu can take advantage ..

tion that comes up, ff

cause. The situation

periled lives and aim
transportation of com od§ .
also Communications Wit ' ‘ ‘
markets. There is no

what a great sympathy wt.
tended to this commodity.

of- the conditions which". ._ .
front us. Some are going ~to

to take advantage of this b y if?“

and based on natural condition
is no improvement to give out

. today on the potato situation

advised you from week to wee»

as distributors of potatoes, on
along well regulated lines , .
study of the ﬁght before us in ’, id
that we may maintain even out: ,
ent standard of levels. Armed;
we receive will be by viirt’.
regulated efforts or unexpect,
ditioni, like tOday, visits 113.

get e cited, don’t loosen your

or derail your encouragement, in
stead, :go right straight dow
track as laid by the “Pink Sheet’.’
you will receive the best possibl '

of this season’ s crop. We almOSt? .
that unless you put up a well‘
ulated ﬁght for a maintenance of
ditions, that the potato market wed!
almost be destroyed. If. you feel" sat
isﬁed with a certain lev_,el regs. V

enough. There is no sense in
ing this level to be reduced,; '-

you can. The situation 16.111 y,
hands; it is up to you If you let the;
present situation get by you- witho'
aking advantage of it, without I

you are losing an opportunity a" "
most assured that the future“ .1)
bilities of the potato marketr
mighty slim. That means jus _
that with the ﬂooded situation).i
paralleled with the almost impala
roads in the country, you shou
able to advance the market
of these potatoes. If you can
it, or if you don’t do it during a;
time, and basedon these con V
what are your chances later
these assets to the situation,
inated? , ,

 

PRICES.

:Zone No. 2 Mlchltan“
Zone

Zone

dluone, leedl doom 1!
Jones should pay

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

  
 
   
   
  
 
 
  
  
   

'ﬁte‘l‘ih‘ﬁﬁt

    

 

 

. he Tweak ”before, and
is .5 than 7 the corresponding
,9; ...year' : ago. The ..tbtal , for
.s'jiast'iweekrwas 234, the week
51,225, last year 34:4; The mar-
no'éimore than steady, anything

winery; quality . meeting With

 

 

dcscdunt'édlec to 30‘ per bushel.
on .;co,mmon ”quality ' stock is
4'00 to. 430, good high colored

’ f murals; "going, at 4-7.0. to 48c._

 

" 'i "ﬁght—enhance» MARKET»
, ' :f’ on; egg-,‘per hm... .48to.48
Elton on. per ”bum «snow
i‘: ...-.....o‘ «at f "h
‘ Maﬁ“ “‘7." .... . .

CINClNNATI—There was a fairly

   
  

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‘tiationgin general only moderately

this. There is' no real tone to the

thaﬁog,.buYers of an indifferent n'a-

gaggshowing little disposition or at-

',nti§n to this, commodity at the pres-
'me. - .

 

 

eéfQErO‘lea—omcgmnl

 

I.

, ~ 4:; ”giggling: car, per bn ..... . .46 to .48
Q ncked Item car, per bu. . .47 to .52
Inch mint he even weight, 180

91:55:31”: a in 1 a t 1 ck,
“ . _ M e 1! II O. C.
db!!!“ 10350 each. ' e an

    
  

 

 

 

PITTSBURGH—Receipts continue
:"='be'__ comparatively liberal 0n the
.; .1 tsburgh market, lWith ithe trade
§®mpamfively active on basis of nor-
‘f (gh’conditicns. “it is impossible, how-
Teize‘r" to advance prices, only in ex-
]efases of high quality.."General
editions “are about normal, fairly

    
    
  
  
 
 
  
  
 

      

   

96d tone to the situationy receipts
being “taken care of quite readily.
The present embargoed conditions
“may result’in effecting much higher
cos,- at least of a temporary na-

 

 

"P'orArors—Plr'rseune
- MARKET

. car. per bu. . . .45 “.48
_01_n car, per bu.. .46 to .52

 

 

gtoﬁnd-‘iiSc to 46c, someffancy

;,,ﬁ§i§tsd‘.-démand. and; actual sales '

.. ,l‘ysupply of old stock potatoes -
’ the Cincinnati market, with the _ ,

~ Hui; deli-very“ ".‘ . . . . . .

 
   
 
    
  
   
  
  

  

,é, dorms the" nest
ﬁnalist-and also genéral

business is : light: It- séémsitwe

2: testimony receipts at "most primary
2 it (”points 3151;9st $01116 falling on; but

, thereto still greater. than these, of a
year Iago; In, face "at? this we have

large reserves still to “come forvtar'd.

ﬂ- It-‘is’ barely possible the winter wheat

 

WHEAT—DETROIT MARKET.
. No, 1" wmte.*-...._.... ........ entries
No;2Red._-........‘ ........... 1.08%
_ Speculative Prices. _.
~ " ' ...."J $213.4
‘Mny'deiiiyery ......t....n..1.06%-

"rh‘e ' rice- .iven er comer
- and Mey'lenver‘y “ment the th-
, ‘ ‘, prince. The inter-
nation merely give. you the future
Julie at this annuity e- lured
by the-e whe’ nee-late. on future
prospects. ,

 

 

 

crop“ may have been. damaged by
recent storms; as yet we have re-

‘aceived no claims along this line, With

the result that prospects are about
all that could tie/desired. While this
appears a little bearish the Liverpool
market continues the same, with the
general feeling that caution should
be exercised by sellers. The above
goes to show that the wheat market
is just about holding its own.

 

WHEAT—CHICAGO" MARKET.

and May delivery repreeent the tn-
tnre delivery prices. This Interme-
tion merely give. you the future
bllil at thie commodity ne lured
by these who emulate on future
prospects.

 

 

 

."I enclose stamps to /pay for
’Michigani Business Forming, the
little ‘pink sheet,’ which I think
is a very good market paper.”—
(Jhas. Anderson, Gaylord, Mich.

: ’ BEANS

 

 

 

' We think all holders of beans
R today ought to feel compara-

tively Well pleased with the
actual situation that confronts us at
the moment. We have previously
demonstrated to you the reasons why
the bean market and situation in gen-
eral is in its present depressed con-
dition. The question before us now.L
and the problem to solve is, how can
We better the present conditions, and
next, are we bettering them? We be.
lieve that the bean market today is
in a much better condition than it
was one week ago. The position of
the bean dealers over the State of
Michigan makes the writer think of
a ball game, a man'on second and

  
 

wheat
.‘ohangs‘d but

No.“ 2 Red .................. $1.07
SpeculatIVe Prlcee.
*Jnly delivery .............. $ 39% /
*May delivery ................ .9095; ‘
'The price given for July

   

éﬁ ._ , ,, , , , , iota-mans
gored-inf- ' _hqle§~t0day; , They-,,claim
they; are“ iii the hole became of hav-
, ing: the ielei‘iat‘ors over the state pret-
ty weiliilled with high priced beans,
based on today’s. market. .
angle they tell us they are ina hole;

 

rt ome-

   

they’don’t state whether they think-

,Ty Cobb,.:Ss'Zm Crawford or LajOie is
coming to hat, but they simply\lay
,_ stress .on having done everything they
can to help the producer of beans, by
takingtheir beans into their eleva-
tors at the prices they have paid.

,xThey don’t come out openly, and ad-

mit that they themselves are the real
cause of the situation today—“don't
come out and tell us the manner in
which theyhandled the crop from its
very inception—they don’t want to
.make public that they were drawing
about 50 cents margin on everybush:
el of the early beans that went into
the market; they don’t want to admit
that by virtue of their greed for this
50 cents per bushel margin they
placed the bean market on its present
condition. No!" They are always do-
ing just what they should in the in-
terest of the farmer. Going back to
the ball game, I want to tell you that
neither of these Sluggers are coming
to bat, instead, a very weak hitter.
that means just this, that the bean
dealers over the State of Michigan
are not in a hole, that the general sit-
uation is not at all hazardous. All
they have got to do is to regulate the
disposition of these beans on hand

' and the price will seek a level which

is in line with our former expectancy.
You need not think for a minute that
these local bean dealers are not going
to make a ﬁght to put these beans
up where they are going to get a. prof-
it out of their holdings. While they
are making this ﬁght we want to ask
you to keep in close touch with the
situation, watch the manner in which
they manipulate and see if you can-
not extract from‘the same a study
which will do you great good as an
individual disposer. If these men
handle the situation in a given man-
ner to get big results, you must han-
dle the situation in much the same
manner to get individual results. To
conclude, if you have good dry, white
beans, make a ﬁght; don’t be alarm-
ed; if you have damp stock you have
cause for worry, and we would sug-
gest making disposition as best you
can‘ and as quickly.

 

BEAN5—DETROIT MARKET.

White hand-picked basis ...... $1.90
Red Kidney ................... 2.00
MICHIGAN ZONE PRICES.
Zone No. 2 Michigan ........... $1.70
.zone N0. 3 Michigan ........... l 80

Zones 4. 5. ii and 7 Michigan. . . 1.80

NOTE—We give you above the
price. that Michilnl dealers should
be able to pay you (or hen-l. hand-
picked hull. in the lilerent freight
some: of Michigan. The Pink Iheet
ha- eet the price for beans, hund-
pieked has!» at the nverlto Michi-

 

 

 

gan points, at 82.40 per bushel.

  

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From this

       

‘~ out... is Sui ‘vlar'y "little. . if;
g to- report" in thesoiiefal’ ,in

 

 

tion and outlook for them

.ma-rket. The situation could be‘ ff .3.
healthy! tOne to the situation'normgl.’

but nothing of a. really spirit'a'dlna- r
ture exists, neither has it 'had'any. ,
given tone during the «season; ,The“ '

market has fought along and mm,
tained about a certain level, very lit—

tle change one way or the other. The. '

  
     
    
 

tendency should be for just alittIO " ,.

advance of a steady nature started
with sympathy created by conditid‘ne
and gradually growing into result as
based thereon, ‘ ‘

' one-Demon MARKET.

Standard ..................... .
No.3white .................... .5
No.4White................. '
No. 2 Mixed.................

No. 8 Mixed......

 

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CINCINNATI—There was real ﬁrm-
ness on the Cincinnati market the
past week. Noticeable was this the

condition on high class shipments.

Arrivals were of a moderate nature
with a demand just about of an equiva-
lent nature.

OATS—CINCINNATI MARKET.

 

 

 

Standard .................... .36
No, 3 White ................ .35
No. 4 White ................. 33%
No. 2 Mixed .................. .35
No. 3 Mixed ................... .35

 

PITTSBURGH-—Owing to light re-
ceipts the market was slightly im-
proved. There is no great improve-
ment in actual demand with a very
narrow market existing. The general
advance is about 1/20.

 

CATO—PITTOIURGH MARKET.

Standard .................... 36%
N 0. 3 White ................ .3534:
No. 4 White ................. .34
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“We are pleased with the paper
‘ and it is looked for as much as
every paper that comes with the
mail.”——Wm. H, Robbins, Bata'via,
Michigan.

CLOVER 8—

Each week brings us one week
a lnearer actual seeding time, a—

time when the real basis will
be expected to be set by this com-
modity. It begins to dawn on us that
no material change can be looked, for.
It is reported that we have plenty
of seed for our requirements, that
there is no real cause or need for
excitement to exist or a noticeable
advance made in demands. It isva.
situation which still continues to re«
main in the hands of the large dis-
tributors of seed over the State. We

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. ICHIGAN FREIGHT ZONES .. Um ...
, _, in.
f Dior-def to keep in touch with the Pittsburgh. for instance, show that Nt. Zone 3—Day City. "‘
' "‘3an“ conditions You should know 1 Timothy hay is worth $16.00 per ton. New York City , 27%
r the. freight rate 1mm your shipping The freight being $4.40, would show that Pittsburgh """""""""" '17 r -
.gtatlon to th. 1084111: market com the dealers in Tuscola. county should pay Cincinnati """"""""" '1‘
ﬁg. iiyou have the freight rate you $11.60 per ton, less handling charge. The Chicago """""""""" ‘13 MIEHIEAN WITH
_ are: t e .key which places you in a. po- minimum weight 01' a. car of hay is Dem,“ """""""""""" '10 APPROXIMATE
”onto knowwhether your local dealer l 20,000 pounds; the minimum weight~ of a """""""""""" ' ,
i Elﬁn: you .the mlrket price for your car of potatoes is 30,000 pounds: the Zone 4—Greenvllle. FREIBHT w RATES TO
13704119!!! 01' 110t In connection With minimum weight or a car of beans is New York City ................ .29 LEADING
, 40,009 pounds: and you will have to pay Pittsburgh .................... .17“ ZONES ~ . - m
. for that number of pounds in each car. Cincinnati ........... . ........ .16 - "' MARK
, .00.. that thll map ll divided into so be sure and ship a. full carload. The Chicago ...................... .13 —
even-freight zones. Your farm is locat- . rates given cover hay. potatoes and Detroit ....................... .11 “"" “ “" (555
rendition of these zones. and by reter- beans only; all kinds of grains take a TABLE
' $91110 table Elven below you Will ' diﬂerent rate. We will be glad to fur- Zone 5—Sandueky. Wk“- 9-
epproximatelywhat it costs for car- nigh you with full information with ref- New York City ................ .2755 BELOW)
ehipmeats to the different market erepce to the maximum and minimum Pittsburgh .................... .22 - .. .... ....
tags. The. rate' given is per 100 oar-lots, or you can get-this information Cincinnati ------------------ -13
“f an I... .and ,lt‘jhould‘ be remembered from your looal agent. Chicago ----------------------- -15 ..., _, .. __ s. "‘
,6- is} an in. ”proximate rates , Detroit ...... . ........... .13 I .. ..
, lingo: course. other e um. from Zone 1-8nolt‘8to. Marlee Zone e—vmkaburg. ~~ - *“"
. ~'.point,- In; the several ”new New York City.. ..... . ......... .32 New York City ......... .29
.j...ro~.it.,.ii‘ndvl:lablo.memos «We Pittsbursh ..... .28“ Pittsburgh ......'.'.I..IIZ ...... .17 “' ‘ - «—
”i: ..loesl-station-assume correct “Cincinnati. ..... .. .29 Cincinnati ........ ........ .15 "' "“ “'1
ram: '5 «m ' o “‘1 ° the Chicago "1 Chicago ........... .. . .1035 " .... v
4' Detroit. -33 Detroit .................. .11 "‘ "r ...—
.1 Zone lek‘lkﬁo . ' , ‘ N Zonogféronﬂm. ‘ w
M,i¥sru-eity,;.....~.j.,. 1.3m! ‘ New got-k City .
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"They copied all my could follow but may could!) to
And I lsfr’ em sweating and 111111115 .11 your and 11 Mi",

gnenher friend nor enemy, if they would “verve it from the sin;le 1111111
'11 {or itself to solve the greatest problem that confréints the farmer ‘
_OSING‘ OF HIS CROP FOR A GREATER PROFI Tl "

.~ assist them in receiving at their own local market the prices which shouldbe theirs.

. ﬂ MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING maintains a Service de artment, under con"

' patent and experienced direction of men, whbse duty it- is to 11 our readers inn“?

-’ part of this state to secure fair prices and good markets and if the local buyer will 3
oat meetkﬁtfse conditions to aid, i possible, in the disposing of his produce on a film
a e mar e ‘1

ii In the unpretentious little “pink- sheet” which you hold in your halide, the tuners-2'-
'lof Michigan will ﬁnd a militant strong- arm, ready and anxious at all times to defend *
their rights and to right their wrongs wherever and whenever they lie found. N6 inde-

publication, at any time, if it can be of assistance to them.

I MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, let’ it be clearly understood, represents 110
single t’organization, be it Cleaners, Grangers, Farmers’ Clubs Society of Equity or
whatever its creed or title It does, however, stand for orgamzed farming, because in
this way only do we believe the farmers of Michigan can come into their own. -

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SEND 50c FOR 50 WEEKS

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HOME OFFICES: 95 WEST FORT STREET, DETROIT, MICHIGAN.
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Entered as 2nd Class Matter, Oct. 13, 1912, at Detroit, Mich, under Act 'of Mar. 8,1879.

EDITO'RIAL

.The news item following has appeared in- different newspapers:
“‘Reccnt change of ownership of the Jersey City Stockyards and the
sale of other large realty holdings nearby have given rise to reports
that Chicago packers contemplate establishing large stockyards here,

should Congress remove or materially lower
A, SHORTACE the tariff on beef. It 13 statec} to be the packs
OF ers s’ intention to establish slaughtering plants

CATTLE, here for killing beeves shipped from the Ar-

gentine republic’

Which, brieﬂy stated, means that the United States must sooner
or later look to foreign countries for stock, if not breeding cattle.
No one advised can deny the statement that there is a marked

 

 

 

Scarcity of all kinds of cattle and the present tendency is towards a '

greater decrease.

While the p0pulation of our country has rapidly increased, cat-
, tle production has not kept pace, but has actually decreased
V It will be a surprise to many to know that our imports of cattle
now exceed exports. In 1904 we imported but 16 ,000 cattle, valued
at $310 000 In 1912 imports had grown to over 300, 000 cattle with
a value of over $5, 000 ,.000

Exports of meat, particularly of fresh beef, have fallen off even
more than exports of cattle. Last year there were sent out of the
country only 9,000,000 pounds of fresh beef as against 354,000,000
pounds in 1901. The total value of meat and: dairy products exé
' ported last year, approximated $145,000,000 as against $209,000,000
in 1896. .

Authorities maintain that it will require ﬁve or six years to
build up the cattle raising business to a point where a material re-
duction in prices will be had. Hogs can be raised and ﬁnished
within six months, not so with cattle.

. No one seems to be togblame—neither the packers nor the farm-
ers—and high prices for beef are the result absolutely of supply and

’ ~ ,’ demand and will continue so, unless the supply increases or the out-

' let for beef decreases.
The fact that no cattle are going for export is conclusive that
prices are high by reason of a light supply. If exports were being

,had, under high prices here, the consumer could maintain plausibly

' that supply and demand was not making the price.

And this brings up the question: “Where are we going to get
' our ‘supply of beef cattle?” Again we hear about people letting cat-
the in from foreign shores to supply this demand. A feeder sug-
’ ,gestcd the other day that we ought to have Canadian cattle to con-

St as soon as prices get normally high; just as soon as the '

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pendent farmer or group of organized farmers in this state need hesitate to call upon thing ,

noon, and the
for the suffering farmers made home-'-

r The rivers .rlse above them, ,

Our brothers starve and 519,... .:

. , And we Who deeply love them;
Must answer to their cry; '
“MN-0 thought or gain must Nerve

. 3 , From m5God’s most tender creed
, or, love and help and service
- To those'in better'need
Our brothers want assistance,
But not of gold alone;
They call across the distance .
With all the strength they own
For faith that daes not falter,
. For love that understands
-- For hearts that do not alter,
‘ For strong and Willing hands.

The rivers rise above them,
They Strive with ﬁre and ﬂood.

We and~because We love them
And they are of our blood——

A11 thought of self is banished,

, Lifted the pal] of greed;

The barriers are banished,
IOUR BROTHERS 3 ARE. IN

NEED.

Our Readers Are Quick to Respond
to Cry for “Help” Coming From
Homeless Ohio Flood Victims.

Although this is but Wednesday
“pink sheets” ' appeal

less by the ﬂood which swept Ohio

and parts of Indiana, has been ingthe.

mails only since =Sat1'1r’day, the Re-
lief Fund is swelling to prOportions
which will go a. long, way in lending
a helping hand.

The business farmers of Michigan
were quick to catch the spirit of this
appeal, and every man, woman and
child who has contributed to this fund
can feel that glow of. Satisfaction
which comes with knowledge of un-
selﬁsh help to a. brother in distress.

Up to 12 noon, ‘Wednesday, April 2,
’we acknowledge with deep thanks

and our promise of a distribution to
the best of our ability, to deserving
farmers in the ﬂood districts of Ohio
and Indiana, the following contribu-
tions: ,

OHIO RELlEF’FUND.

Grant “Slocum, Detroit. . ; ...... $25. 00
Rural Publishing 00., employees 13. 50
Frank Mueller, Custer ..... 5.00
George Stevenson, Gaines ..... 1.00
Willi-am Keyes, Petoskey ....... 1.00

,Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Klein, Parma 1.00

Mrs. Geo.
Ledge

"7S. McMullen, Grand

Country Aid Society, Ravenna.18:00

F. M. Doty, Jerome.

A. R. Doolittle,,Jerome. .....

John P. Hansen, Stanton ......

Peter Helps, Evart ........... ..

Robert Gamble, Evan... .......

Mr. and Mrs. Mable, Cedar
Springs

Joel Johnson, Tustin..

Mrs. A Cross, Lawrence. ,

George H. Sitter, Melvin.

Sivort Bauer, Elbert-a ....... ‘...

J. B. Rhoades, Edwardsburg.

Jesse James, Edmore.. ‘

1:00
2:00

, R. H. Phalan, Croswell..
VEVF‘rom a. reader at the --

Sheet.” ' ‘

‘iving soars—then the Old tariff agitation comys‘to life, ., Thel', _
. " us , C,

, .

W. T pal-rung, Tyre,-
Mrs. Carrie-Sm

- Total received to 1100 A, I

We will forward this ..
sponslble distributors by, in,
just as rapidly as it on
proper use 012 There is ye, _
additional contribution to», .
and we appeal to those wh '
heeded the cries of their br ;,
across the state lines-t ‘
amount they can alto d o
help small the fund and .,
suffering ‘ :-

be sent in money Order

and addresssed: “Mr.- Go: -.
for Relief Fund, 95 Fort 3519615
trolt, Mic-h."

RURAL nompspmﬁé
Jonathan Bourne, Jr., rece
tor from Oregon, has under
"solve an interesting rural roe
lem without charging the sov‘fﬁ‘li
anything for his 501111101114

19111 18:11! the rural- mail 112%

the TUnlted States total ‘

lion -mlles length, 11'

wheelbarrow ipatrolman

to keep these roads in ‘gooiF

Bourne was made chairman

joint good roads committee

gross”, but his salary as senator

cut off last inauguration day
He had learned from _F

glneers that wheelbarrow-

are the secret of economy.

keep of rural highways. .

and a barrow are all the

necessary.

of the 42, 006 rural mall

the United States for a. data!
port as to the length’an

of roads they cover.

cost or construction and.
nance.

. her the joint committee ;

to report a. complete p~ ,,
way- cOnstructlon and reg,

 

 


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untied last, week When
pted on the bill.
.. voted for it and forty-
~ t takes 1ixti- seven
such a resolution, and
i, , not. making Michigan
whim’ plates are ‘doomed
ahﬁb sent the Straight bill
Mmhiganm dry state by stat-
.-athe committee, where it will
3.53365 a natural death. One of
' able things about the de-
he prohibition bill in the
‘ “the absence of oratory.

    

 

  
 
 
 

 

 

 

  
       

“land new that the legislators
8‘ .. ,jen.fr0n1 us the oppor-

 

, , " room; on, the question
Emilia: or not We want Mich-
55 Ldry state, perhaps

. f more than ever
, equal::suffrage. We Wonder
i... r . Vauld. dare do this sort of
it they: knew that their jobs

    
   

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and wires who make up so large
. orthm of population of our

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76b" to the present, the supporters
the uniform text book bill have
attempted to bring it from its
,- 93‘ place in the committee. In
Meantime it has been revealed
Mr. Quinn who helped frame
{Silk and who has been here dur-
-, the session trying to get its pass-
3““ is” in reelity not a representative
5 organized labor as he claimed to
Iii. fact, it has been learned that
grilles tried to get other states to
' ﬁ uniform laws and then has at:
.. , . . gto get them to buy non-union
. f , It looks more than ever as
,i 31...?“ ugh the text-book trust Was back
:92 the uniform bill, and We wonder

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in. the ﬂight of these facts, our

ital; give the measure their honest
0!!
' a c I.

sou had tWelye million dollars
rest, to what kind of people
__f'.you entrust it?- That’s the
.It that our legislators intend
yfpsnd this year. Think it OVer!
.. is: Your money, and you have
,t. em to dispense with it to the

advantage or. the state at large.

     
   
 
  

 

 

 

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ﬁleial Tex pt 5

oil: for statg’wide pro-
ﬁFlfty- '

upon the clean mothers, 313:0

resonatives will have the com--

Limit for drinking-"cup vending
ﬁlth was tabled in, the

t
. ate this bill
'mse is diﬂcult to

‘1 i

" bread stands at present: Its
real property value is about ten mil-
lion dollars.

 

paying interest. In: about twenty mil-
1101: dollars thﬁ-t doesn’t really exist.

time it comes . .
the Bore" Mar-5

its stocks amount to
nearly thirty Million delete In other,
Words the..peeple a: Michigan are

What do you“ think of this sort or"

;' --l:rusine£ls? There is considerable agi-

tation to turn the road over to the
state, and it seems that something

ought to be done to prevent this sort'

of watering of stock, because in the
end the poems have to suffer for it.

It took a" little stretch of the con-
stitution for the legislature to pass
the appropriation for $25, 000 to relieve
the sufferers in the ﬂoods of Ohio
last Week. According to the law, ten
days must intervene between the ap-
propriation and the availhbility of the
funds. However, this .would have
been too long to wait for the suffer-
ers and the money was advanced re-
gardless of the constitution. The ap-
proprlation was passed unanimously
by both houses.

t I t

Just four senators opposed the cor-
ru‘p’c practice act, which has already
passed the house. These senators

\

are Weado‘ck, Wood, Fitzgibbon andV

. G. G. Scott. Attempts were made to
I extract the teeth of this bill, but only
one a endment was added. It still
has to . use third reading.
' t
While '.he house was passing
routine bills last Thursday, Rep. --Cat

  

. lin introduced a resolution to invite,

Theodore Roosevelt to speak before
.that body while he was in Michigan.
Before the members awoke the resolu-
tion was passed. Attempts were made
to reconsider it and kill it, but they
did not succeed. However, the whole
matter was taken as a joke '
t I #

One of the unusual bills of the ses-
sion is that introduced by Rep. Santo,
of Traverse City, which provides for a
state insurance fund out of which the.
state would meet its losses on state

~ buildings through ﬁre, ﬂood and storm.
The funds would be under the direc-
tion of the State Insurance Commis-
sioner. No objections to the bill were
raised in the committee of the whole.

' t t I

The committee of the Michigan Leg-
islature which met with a similar
committee from the Wisconsin Legis-
lature has ﬁnally decided upon the
boundaries of Green Bay. This has

een a matter of discussion between

the two states for years on account
of its importance to the ﬁshing in-
dustry.

:‘ in Canada. Den

"poraturos.
crease for more precipitation and higher temperatures.
590. Count one to three days earlier for west of that lin
.‘for east of it, In proportion to distance from that Merldl
through St. Louis.

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Less than usual raln.‘

good crop weat ‘er month.

Washington, D. -.,C April 5,—Last
bulletin gave forecasts of distur-
bance to cross continent April 7 to
11, warm wave 6 to 10 cool wave 9 to
13. The worst of the storms will
have come but the storm forces will

still be above normal, therefore, while

no one should have a nervous chill
about it, better continue to be cau-
tious throughout this month. One for-
Destruc-
tive storms seldom pass over the
same sections except at long intervals
and the places that suffered so great-
ly in February and March will prob-
ably be exempt for balance of 1913.
Next disturbance will reach Paciﬁc
coast about April 12, cross Paciﬁc

slope by close of 13, great central

valleys 14 to 16, eastern sections 17.
Warm wave will cross Paciﬁc slope
about April 12, great central valleys
14, eastern sections 16. Cool wave
will cross Paciﬁc slope about April 15,
great central valleys 17, eastern sec-
tions 19. ..
‘ A northern cold wave, with unusu-
ally low temperatures, will precede
this disturbance two or three days
and about one day in advance of it
the temperatures will go up rapidly.
The storm forces will be greater than
their general average but not So great
as in the recent past.

During ﬁrst half of this month the
rain forces will change and the loca-

tions of rainfall for the next ﬁve

months will differ greatly from the 10-
cations of the rains for the past ﬁve
months. Since August, 1912, we have
continuously located the greatest
rainfall on the eastern and western
sides of the continent and the minus
rains in the great central valleys.
From April to August inclusive this
year an entiirely new arrangement of
the rainfall may be expected.

April will average warmer than
usual; coldest week of the month will
center near April 13. This will vary
about three days because the warm
waves require about ﬁve days to cross
the continent. In a similar way the
weeks centering on April 6 and 24
will be warmest of the month. Storms
may be expected for several days
centering on those dates.

The press owes it to these bulle-
tins to editorially mention the impor-
tant forecasts and warning quoted be-
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The Market Service Bureau

The market quotations in the
to Wednesday noOn of the week of issue.
Market Service Bureau to handle requests from our readers for
. quotations “by wire or telephone at any time.
.7 ask Our advice or give your suggestions as to how we can improve
the present market service; you realize We are tackling a big
aproposmon never before attempted as a service to the farmers of
by any publication, anJ your suggestions as to bow
' it m l' ablenio you will be appreciated '

“pink—sheet” are corrected up
We are perfecting the

Do not hesitate to

 

April will be‘ warmer than usual and good crop weather will come in ctr! , ,
Most rain in northeastern states, western Kansas and; g'
on. storms April 1 to 9.. '
Late frosts are not probable.
”roarlymaturlng' crops very early in the sections where we predict dry for Apri-
In above chart the treble line represents normal preclpitatlon and tom?
As temperatures and precipitation lines rise probabilities will ln- ~

' 1912.”

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DE? are for Morldiau
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“Dangerous storms and earthquakes
are expected in many plaées all»
round the earth near October' 11j,‘
November 30 r—“Ohrlstmlahr
holidays are expected to have about; .
normal temperatures and less than;
usual precipitation.” January 259-1-
“Dangerous storms may be expected}
February 20 to 27.” February 1.—-,
“We place February 23 as the central
day of the dangerous storms of that»
month” February 8.——“Dusturbance
Will cross continent February 19 to g,
22. It will be a dangerous storm’ _
February 15.—“We still warn all to
avoid the dangerous storms 'Febru- :-5
ary 20 to 28.” March 1.———“Again we.
hang out danger signals for March
16 to 28 According to our calculus,
tions, made about middle of January,
clearing weather may be expected for t
the inauguration.” March 8.——“D'ls- ‘
turbance will cross continent March“,
18 to 22.” February 15.——""We .still '
warn all to avoid the dangerous- '
storms February 20 to 28 ” March 8. 5.

—--“Disturbance will cross continent
March 18 to 22. This will be a very
dangerous storm period.” '

Those forecasts and warnings were
repeated several times in earlier or
later bulletins and all were strenu-5 5
ously urged to seek safety. We knew.
that the ﬁrst quarter of 1913 would
bring some of the most dangerous
storms of the century and did our
part in trying to save lives and prop- 9%
erty‘.

     
    
       
   
   
  

  

 

 

DIPPED FROM THE STREAM.

We are constantly being'told by
railroad ﬁnanciers and others that
farmers are robbing the soil of its
fertility and that something ought
to be done to prevent our country
going to the dogs. Meanwhile these ,
same men are busy watering stock .
and robbing the people right and left. , ‘
Is it worse to rob soibt-han to rob‘
people? We would ham a. mighty
hard time discovering in Michigan 9
or any other state a farm so misman- .. 'f}
aged and so run without thought of
the future as the Pere Marquette '
railroad has been. If some of these , ‘
self-appointed advisers of farm folks -
could only see the motes in their .~
own eyes they would ﬁnd life too.5 »
short to give them time to advise,
others if they attempted beforehand,
to reform themselves.

It has been estimated that bad
roads cost the farmer at least 60
cents per acre each year upon every
acre of his crop. Good roads cost.”
money, but bad roads cost more. 11‘
you want to know what our bad‘mads
cost us remember that we are, boy'-
ing 23 cents a ton for hauling, when
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‘ prime .feouoonaZ-e .
m ............--...._12.00v
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ugthlnlc the paper ﬁlls a lang
goaM, as the selling of farm

 

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The apple situation continues
along in about the same chan-
nel. A market groove seems to

ate been created into which the,

marketers of the same have gradually
vdrifte'd. This groove gradually leads
. up to a. betterment of general con-
ditions and a corresponding advance
in priCes available.
‘, betterment of conditions and gradual
i is the advance possible to bring about,
but still there this possibility.
Everyone seems lsto appreciate its
healthy condition, that the general
.trehd and tone of the market is just
’1 a little better, with the result that
among the high class of handlers there
exists activity constantly. It will be
only high class stuff that will be
leoked after with favor and which
will draw the reward. Low grade
stuff will not be affected from day to
day by what would naturally be
termed, a general improvement.

APPLES—GENERAL MARKET.
— may, per barrel]: ........ 1001.03.50
‘ , nrdi'mll'v. per barrel. . . . 1.00 to 2.50

 

 

 

. , '~ “I am 'well pleased with the paper;
can’t get along without it. Please
‘send me some sample copies and I
ywil‘l hand them to my neighbors.”—

"‘ Henry Sulcer, Climax, Michigan.

CORN

, This commodity has certainly
D put up a ﬁght to be proud of so
far this season. In the face of
the depressed condition existing on
other food commodities it is no less
-than wonderful that corn has kept
up to the level as shown. Everything
at the moment points to the present
level and, a gradual improvement be-
ing easily brought about. The situ-
ation remains healthy. There is a
constant demand which possesses rare
tone so that we have every right to
expect that the closing of this sea-
son will be highly satisfactory as
based on our expectancy at its in-
ception.

 

 

 

 

 

CORN—DETROIT MARKET.
No. 2 white..................
No.3wbite. .....

No. 4 white ......... . ........

“No. 2 yellow.................
, NJ) 3 yellow ................. .531/2
..N.o 4 yellow ................. .52
‘ ' .No. 2 mixed 52
No. 3 mixed .................. .51
'No.lmixed. .....

' CORN—(HNCINNATI MARKET.
,No'. 2 white .................. .57
LNO. 3 white .................. .56
._No, 4 white .................. .54
' No. 2 yellow ................. .57
"Nb. 8 yellow ................ .56
“NIL 4 yellow ................ .55
.5634.-
55

, No. 2 mixed .................
3-180. 3 mixed .................. .
_ 'No‘. 4' mixed ................. .54
.vcoR'N—H'rrsuu no MARKET.
‘3 white..................

:‘wutoOﬁliltllllhlllollt
4wbitc............

yellow ..... .........
’r’u’w.‘l..‘l"..ﬂ.l‘lit

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Gradual is this '

 

 

are going to' e" dump thid ye

of your onions just as quickly as. you _
can. There' is no use for the producer-

trying to hang back and benefit the
general situation because the general
situation means onions he'l
receivers. If yo )1 hold back at this
time you would simply be beneﬁting
the situation for them to reap the
reward, therefore, you might just as
well dump your stuff into the market
and get what you can out of it. The
dealers did net do one solitary thing

_ to help the onion situation earlier,

therefore why should you as producers
hold back our stuff now to beneﬁt
them—nothi’g to it—don’t you do it.

 

omens. ‘

Detroit.

Yellow Globe, sacked. per cwt.$ .50
Red Globe, lacked. per cwt.. . . . .
Yellow Globe, bulk, per cwt. . .
Red Globe, bulk, per cwt.. . . . . .

Clnclnnatl.

Yellow Globe, sacked. per cwt.
Bed Globe. lucked, per cwt..
Yellow Globe. bulk. per cwt.
Red Globe, bulk, per cwt.. . . . . .

Pittsburg.

Yellow Globe, sacked. 'per cwt.
Red Globe, sacked, per ewt. . .45
Yellow Globe, bulk, per cwt.. .45

 

mposslble to market ‘t 6111 I
. therefore regardless of prlbe, dispose

 

 

 

 

by large“ 9

' “Your paper is all right and what
evgw farmer needs. ”--—E'. P. _PMI’.
lips, Honor. .

 

POULTRY

 

 

 

 

Red Globe, bulk, per cwt ...... .30

 

“I would not like to be without
the ‘pink sheet.’ I think every
farmer ought to have it in his
home.”-——John Mcharrte, Mariette.

 

BUTTER

 

 

 

No material change can be re-

ported on the butter market.

Well established seems to be the
standard of levels as prevdously set.
There is just the least variation in
conditions from day t-o day, which
is paid little attention to by the
actual handler. Large handlers, of
course, take advantage of these day
to day variations, but from a gen-
eral standpoint there is no real
change. The market is healthy, and
the tone to the situation all that
could be asked for.

BUTTER -- GENERAL MARKET.
Creamery No. 1, per pound. .. . .33
Fancy Dairy, per pound ........ .33

 

 

 

 

“I am more than pleased with
the paper.”—Lewis Lindner, Wil—

' EGGS

Weather conditions have been
such as to cause quite a liberal
ﬂow of fresh receipts. We can

 

 

 

 

expect this, but still at the same time ~

we also might hope or receive weath-
er conditioﬁs that would moderate
receipts, thereby having a tendency,
at least, to cause an advance. Going
back to a conservative estimate of
our expectancy along price lines, the
market today at 18c to'19c is about
where we‘can look for it at this time
of the Year. Conditions are normal.
healthy, with a good tone to the situa-

tion existing. We are experiencing*

everything that we can expect to at
this time. Storage eggs are going to

be '«looked after urgently during April. _

During this time, and for “this pur;
pose eggs will be looked over, graded
as to size, cleanliness and in Some
cases natural color. We Would not

' advise the individual to. ﬁgure
shipping: eggs to an outside!!! ~
. t"

The readers Of the “Pink

Sheet” must give us credit for

having regulated the disposi—
tion of poultry this season so that we
have experienced, not only the most
uniform market conditions, but the
highest point that we have experi-
enced for years. It is really wonder-
ful how Wellregulated ,the disposition
of the poultry crop has been. '
can all see the beneﬁts of it. You
can all see that disposition is the

' solver of the problem as far as our

natural markets are concerned. Spas-
modic dumping haphazard marketing,
will bring about the opposite results.
We haven’t experienced one week
this entire season so far when condi-
tions were not running along very
smoothly, not a single shipment
should hays been subjected to sacri-
ﬁcing. The market has constantly
been just a little ahead in demand of
actual receipts Today We are away
behind‘in the matter of receipts. It
would be possible to put almost. any

'price on poultry today. Good hens ,.

and yearlings Selling at 180, live
weight; that’s a pretty good market,
ought to be pretty satisﬁactory.

 

MARKET.

.19 to .20

.14 to 18
.17 to .18 "
.14 to .16
.17 to .18
.13 to 15

POU LT RY—DETROIT

No. 1 Turkeys. ........
No. 2 Turkeyl ........
No. 1 Spring Chickens
No. 2 Springlohickcns.
No. 1 Fowls ............
No. 2 Fowl: ............
No.»1 Geese ............ .15 to .15%
No. 1 Ducks. .' ......... .19 to .20

POU LTRY — CHICAGO MARKET.

No. 1 Turkeys.............. .17
No, 2 Turkeys...............

No. 1 Spring Cbickenp....

No. 2 Spring Chicken. .......

No.

No. . . . .

No.1 Ducks .................
Note.——A wire from any of our

readers will bring last minute quo-

tations. Use' care in making ship-

ments and be sure the consignee is

ﬁnancially responsible.

 

 

 

“I think this little paper is aﬁne
thing for the farmers.”———C’lifford A,
Symons, Sterling.

 

LIVE 310011

 

 

 

Cattle—Detroit.

'Receipts of cattle for this week.
were 1229, last week 1522, a decrease
of 293. Sympathetic with this decline
in receipts, best steers and heifers
were good at $8 to $8.25,’1,000 to 1,-
200 lbs., $7.50@$8, 800 to 1,000 lbs.,
up to $7.50, 500 to 700 lbs., $7. There
was a fairly liberal run of good
choice fat cows with an advance of
about 250, fancy stock going at $6@
$6.75, average fat cows $5@$6, com-
mon $4.50@$4.75. .The run of can-
ners was comparatively light with
sales affected on basis of $4@$4.25.

There were a few choice heavy bulls . .
in the market which sold at $6. 50@.
$7, good belugna kind going at 35. 75

I - t; 5@ “

 

 

You ‘

parisons

Last Week
Previous week.
Four weeks. ago

Owing to the washout co
railroads, eastern» shippers lei
much alarmed over «this week”

was to stay out of the market
ers took quite freely to ligh.
handy weight sorts around
$8. 50. Heavy stuff showed-til
pronounced sales strength

‘ was set at $9. 05 with severah

going at $8. 90; most of these w
New York houses. One New
house had forty- ﬁve loads. or ,
held up at Fosteria; Ohio on the B
& 0. on account of washout condi
tions ahead. Had it not been '
real keen demand in every dir is
trading would have. been ”miﬁty
light this last week, based on “
ditions that QOnfronted them?"

were taking long chances to get their
cars to destination. Local shippers
understanding the situation show
a tendency to hold back. The 1'9'3
ceipts of good cows on the market
was just about ample for packer r ‘ ‘
quirements, going along steadily
The sales of prime corn-fed heifers
went on a basis of $8.10@$8. 40,;
average ted heifer beef going at ,
$7. 75. There was a heavy tone to
the bull market in general owing to
the eastern condition. ‘The disti‘ “
e'ry bulls found a place at 87. 25@

an indifferent demand for (:0me
grade canners, bulk of sales going
$4. 50@$4 85, medium $3. 75@34.10
Veal caIVes got! a rap in the way of:
decline in this week’s run, the to
being set at about $9.75. Sines Oh»
and Indiana cuts quite a ﬁgure in the
feeder and stocker class the runs .
this class were too liberal for
remainder of the market. The d.
eral cut was around 15c to 40c.

 

CATTLE—CHICAGO STOCK
YARJDS

Beet “corny good to
prime heavy ........ $8.00 to! 0.10
Ice! steers. medium to
good
Beet steer-a, common to
fair '
lee! cowl.
selected
Fat heifers.
choice
Gunner-s and cutter...
Good to prime veals. . .

8.30to

common to ,

 

Bun. ..« shalom;

 

_ Cattle—~Buﬁalo.. ,
Mondays reseiigts Wereiﬁ .

 


Wer, some. can..- =

96. 2‘5@$,7_. 25.

,511
”(@8140 With light sup-

mil hers“ 11d springers, these» , ;
. "Hoes—CHICAGO STOCK YARDS.

, fancy ones selling up to
”.06 There was. not the

"ers sold from $8.75@$8. 95,
ﬁgndyf weight butchering steers up to

 

GATTLE—BUFFALO OTOOK
‘ YARDs.

dium to fair heavy

3.00 to 8.40
' 7.50 to 8.25
5.00 to 7.00

7.60
4.50

steers
[I 0y weight hutch-
. 11¢ steers
Fatheiters, interior to

3:75 to
, ' ' 5.0010 7.25
tickers and feeders. . 5.00 to 7.75

frames, oops sell:

' . Lightweight:

 

”Wt-ﬂit

~While there was quite some 66varia— 4 1
_ if n in the trade tram day to day,
‘st if the real trend of the market
3 was to an advanCe 01 about 250 A
, conservative top for the week could
--‘.,be placed at about $9. 40. Railroads
having given .aésurance to shippers
, .v-actiVity ’was
..C&1188.'
that $9. 40 is “the highest point set for

manifest from this
You- will please appreciate

hOgs since October 15th last. On
this date a small sale was made on
basis of $9. 42

 

Mixed Packing . ..... .. . $8.90 to $9. 90
Medium and Butchers. 9.17 to 9.25
Poor to good heavy

packing- 9.10
9.45
_Selected 200-300—111. '
packer-s 9.62

Fix: and throw-outs. . .

 

 

cher- and sprinzers 35. 00 to 85.00

 

“Your ‘yink sheet’ is a ddndy,
and we all like it ﬁne ”——Franlc
heisen, Gaylord.

Calves—~Buffalo.

Monday‘s Buffalo supply was liberal

1400 head—and under a good ac-
t1ve demand, prices ruled steady with
cast week’s close, tops selling from
$1150@$12, bulk $12, with one lot
,~$12_.25. Fair grades $10@$11, oulls $8
.Q59 50 ‘3de fed calves and drinkers

 

calf Quotations.
Calves, choice to extra. ..11 50@12.25
Fair to good .

ed calves ........ , ..... 5.00@ 6.50

 

 

“We feel as anxious to get the
. fpinlc. sheet’ as we do any of our
:- reading matter.”—Alrred Tiffany,
., *7 QannOnsburg.

Hogs—Detroit. .

>The receipts for the week 3,779, '

last week: 4,292 There was about

1 {Side per cwt. advance all along the

lite. There was real activity to the
market frdm it’s very inception, with
yard-s cleaning up quickly. While it
.as impossible to get a line up on
other outside markets by virtue of
telegraphic conditions, still it was ap-
Went that receivers expected the
div-ance that was set by the Seller.

 

{Hoes—person MARKET.
to Choice butchers. . . . .‘ . . .99. 45

‘occoidinxto
800t08.25

 

scnbgr to the .‘pink ..
fall? talc ‘

 

. 3:75 to 9.75

 

“Michigan Business Farming is
all right and a good paper for'the'
farmer and not the jobber or the
m.iddlemen.”—M. J. Reid, Belleuue.

Hogs—Buffalo.

. Sellers Were handicapped at Buf-
falo for the opening day of the week,

. on account of last week’s abnormally

high market 11 Friday and Saturday,
when light h 5 sold up to $10.75@
$11, the highest price since April 10th,
1910. Light runs, caused by the heavy
ﬂoods, were attributed as the cause.
Monday. of ,‘this week, receipts ﬁgured
75 cars or 12,000 head and the mar-
ket was $1@$1.25 lower than last =S-at-
urday. Chicago had one of the heav-
iest runs of the season—GO, 000 head—
and. this operated to a. lower trade
here. Local packers started the mar-
ket Monday, landing their. kinds at
$9.70@$9.75 but towards the middle
of the morning session order buyers
received a‘few late orders and sev-
eral decks of mixed around that time
were placed at $9 85, few $9 90, with
some 180- lb. kinds at $9. 95 Best
yorkers $9. 75@$10, latter ﬁgures tak-
ing kinds weighing mostly from 150@
160 lbs., those selling at $9 75 being
taken along ‘with large strings and
general price for light yorkers and
pigs was $10. Rougs $8.75@$8.85 and
stage $7.50@$8.

 

HOGS—BUFFALO STOCK YARDS

Extreme heavies, 280 up. .9.65@ 9.75
Heavies. 240 to 280 ...... 9.65@ 9.75
Mediums, 220 to 240 ...... 9.65@ 9.75
Mediums, 190 to 220 ..... 9 65@ 9.75
Mixed, 180 to 220 ......... 9. 65@ 9.90
Yorkers, 150 to 170 ...... 9.75@10.00

Do light, 130 to 150. ..9.80@10.00
Pigs, 120 down .......... 9 90@10.00
Heavy ends

 

 

 

“Will drop you a few lines and
let you know that I like the ‘pink
sheet’ all right I am passing them
around among my frinds. '.’—Wm
Goﬁnett, Mt. Pleasant.

Sheep and Lambs—Detroit.
Receipts for the week were 2,,718
last week shoWed 4,079. Even with
the decrease in receipts, as shown, it
was impossible to raise qhotations.‘
While the trade seemed to be fairly
active, tone to the situation compara-

_ tively healthy still the advance that

 

we would naturally eXpect as being in
9HEEP— DETROlT 9TOCK
. ”AY, 3208.
98501113835
3.0070 708.211

Last 'week

was of a dull nature.

wMixe

sees and the range for l1qu

5 sales of sheep and lambs:

. op-B'
..:....$5 75 $6. 006$. 50 5
Week

ago..’. ..... 5.75 6.25 65
. .. . .75 .65
~ 6.50 5. .

.dspes.s

8.50

There was real indifference manifest
on the part of sheep buyers from
every angle. The tendency of the
trade Was to hang back, buyers con-
stantly insisting upon gettingJOWer
quotations."
Yearlings were
easier from the very ‘outset. Packers
were constantly using every means
and tactics possible to enforce a re-
cession in prices. This is really one
of the meanest sessions of the season.
There was no real competition on the
part of the outside buyers. The re-
sult of the week’s operation was close
to a 50c lowering of price. No one
feels that there is any real reason
for this condition other than the gen-
eral conditions about which we are
-s::rounded at the moment. The top

some very desirable western weth-
ers was around $6. 50, good classy ewes
$6. 00. The unsettling‘of the Whole
situation for the week is traceable to
the ﬂood and its devastation.

 

SHEEP—CHICAGO STOCK '
YARDS.

Lambs, good to choice. .38. 25 to $8.50
Do fair to good ...... 8.00to 8.2
Do cull to common . 5.00 to 000

Yearling lambs, choice. 7.00 to 7.75
Do call to fair. .4 ..... 6.10 to 6.90

Wethers, choice ........ 6.00 to 6.85»

Ewes, choice handy
weight
Do choice heavy ......

Cull

Bucks

6.50
6.50
5.00

sheep
5.00

 

 

 

S. W. Shultz, Marshall; Mich—“I
haven’t seen a pink sheet’ for so
long I have almost forgotten how
they look. I hope you will not dis-
continue to publish the paper. We
farmers appreciate it so much.”

Sheep and Lambs—Buffalo.

The ﬂoods throughout Ohio and In—
diana had little effect on the sheep
and lamb trade at Buffalo, big end
of the supply in this division coming
from Michigan. Monday’s receipts ﬁg-
ured'80 cars or 16,000 head and the
trade was 10@15 cents lower than
last week’s close,market after the ﬁrst
two or three hours, being slow and
weak. Heavy and weighty kinds at
no time of the day showed any life,
some bids on kinds weighing better
than a hundred pounds, being made
as low as $8.25, ’though around noon
some heavy lambs were placed at
$8.65. Bets handy weight lambs
brought $8.90@$9, bulk of the early
sales $9 and one very fancy load frOm
Ionia, =Michigan, topped the market at
$9.10. Cull lambs wer active at a
dime to ﬁfteen-cent decline, selling
from $860 down. Supply included
only a few odd lots of: shorn lambs
and top for these was $7.60. , Year-
l-ings were steady, best handy weights,
which were all wethers, going at $8.25,
some weightyones $7.85. Sheep were
scarce and buyers paid strong prices
for these, best wethers selling at $7.25
small lot or two $7.50, top ewes $6.25
@675 and cull sheep $5.50 down.

 

SHEEP— BUFFALO STOCK
YARDS.

Lambs, good to choice. . . .8.90@9.10
Do fair to good ......... 8.65@8.85
Do cull and common. . . .8.00@8.60
Do skips 7.00@7:50

Yearling wethers, choice. ‘.8.00@8.25
Do coil to fair. . .

choice. . ...... ' '

' , 7.00@7.25'

..0.50@0.85

Ewan, choice handy vvght 0.50@0.75

__ Do choice heaVy. 5.. .., . . 0.0100050,

.. shoe ‘5' .........4.00g5.50V

. D9 ewel.
Wet rs. choice
sheep

 

 

Trade from start to ﬁnish '

through from some localities.

ing to be made of the tariff

some stability or basis on Which
work is established will we have
thing of a very deﬁnite nature to

out. The situation abroad is 1?
much better than in 1894 when
GilsonGorman bill became a law, be—
cause at this time there is no large
stocks of goods of wool to be forced
on the market by foreign holds
This feature in itself gives us a lit.
protection. The foreign market at
moment continues very ﬁrm with 11g,
supplies and high prices The pas
year having been a period of keen
activity all along the line. Individua
ly we do not look for enough advan’c
in tariff regulations to affect the gene,
eral situation. Don’t sell on opening
price; hang back. The market will.
not ”go backward; should improve as»
season advances. No price basisto . ~
give out yet. 4 ' '

“I am reading the ‘pink sheet’.
and I am well satisﬁed with it.-—-”
D. Rademache, Mt. Pleasant, Michi-
gan, No. 6.

COAL.

Owing to the recent ﬂoods it has
been impossible to get shipments
This .
has made it possible to handle all}.
surplus coal that was already on track,
in the large cities. By the time~the,.
necessary repairs are made by the
railroad companies and mines navi-
gation will be open, and we antici- .
pate the coal business will be some
what stimulated with some varia-
tion in prices. ' 7

The preSent labor trouble in the
Virginia ﬁelds is causing some anx-
iety among the large operators Who '
employ union men. The miners now '
show an inclination to ﬁght and so
do the operators. If the operators 7.
and miners cannot come to an agree-
ment within the next 30 days the
chances are pretty good for a pr-o~’
longed labor trouble which will nat-
urally decreaSe the output of coal
and lead to higher prices earlier in
the season. A great many jobbers.
are arranging to stock up well with ,
coal between now and June 1. “

The anthracite situation is still un-
settled, although the operators have
put out a circular price for April, with
the expectation of establishing a sea-
son's circular price about May 1.
April buyers of anthracite coal are
the ones that are going to save the
money.

April Soft Coal Prices.
Kind of Coal.

F.O.B.
Mines.

Hocking 3—inch rescreened lump.i$1.75 J

Hocking lye—inch screened lump. 1.60 .
Ohio 4—inch special lump ....... . 1.753
01110 11/7-inch special lump ...... 1.60 1'
Pomeroy 21/2-inch lump ........... 1.65
Cambridge ll/z-inch lump ....... 1.60»
The above grades of coal take a ‘
Hocking freight rate. 7

Virginia special 10inch block..$1.50
Peerless White Ash 4-inch block."l.'75

Virginia Logan 4-inch block ..... 1.65241,“
Yukon 3-inch splint ............. 1.55 ’

Yukon egg ...................... 1.5.0..
The above coal takes a Virginia 01‘"
Kentucky rate, or 25 cents over Hock-
ing. :
Michigan 4- inch lump .......... .$2. 75‘
Michigan 3- inch lump ......... .265,
Average freight rate to Michigan'-
points, 70 cents per ton. ,1, '
,Pocohontas lump or egg...... . 1.85
Pocahontas stove. . .' ...... . . . . . . ‘ 1 65
Freight rate, 45 cents over Hock-
ing rate.
Anthracite Coal. ,
Chestnut hard coal, gr. tons. . . “.861. .
Equivalent to, net tons. . . . . . . _. . . 5'.
Egg and stove size, 25 cents. is"

 


also with the exception};

. contains a large pertion'f .

Moots which must advance

Price _’

per bb1.

, flour, 116-Daper 5110113.”..3525
t

4.50

Per ton. 7 7

e corn meal ..... I ......... 23. 60
' 1' 24 00

. . . . .......... 22.00
. ...... . ....... . 24-50
as, ran. (standard) ...... 21.50
The above prices are 1’. o. b. De-
. it, MIc11., on car lot shipments. ,
‘Thnkage, averaging 60 per cent
retain, $41 per ton f. o. b., Chicago.

.‘HOW TO DRESS AND SHIP HOGS.
3:1: Hogs properly dressed and ‘kept
clean and neat always command good
1119 when the weather is not too
warm—say from November to June.
. Hogs should be killed by bleeding
ifreely. Stab in the throat. Put in
.596ca‘lding hot water and allow to re-
"main until the bristles get loose. Re-
.'move all bristles and have them
diseased perfectly clean. Cut open
“from the stem to head. Be careful
and do not get outside of carcass
Jblood stained, as appearance goes a
long way toward getting best prices.
”Remove all the entrails except kid—
neys Leave head and feet on Al-
low carcass to cool off thoroughly
before shipping. Shippers should be
careful and keep hogs as clean as
possible in getting them to the sta-
itinns, and also see that they are
"Placed in clean cars if that can be
done. Placing a little straw un-

der them in the cars would help to

V ’ keep them clean.
Fasten a shipping tag, with your

" [name and address marked plainly

thereon, to one of the hind legs

‘ A' PLAN TO WORK VACANT FARM
LAND.

Twelve farmers at Kenmare, Minn. .,

have followed up the plan of the

.Kenmare Coal club to fill vacant farm

“"110 C an
merce association has "tm'ne

. fers over to the Associated

and Humane society.

Nearly 60 applications have been

oration.

received in Minneapolis tor COESId-

ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN WIN FIGHT...
At a meeting of representatives of .

the Illinois Milk Producers' associa-
tion,
stand by- the association price of $1. 50
per hundred pounds of milk deliver-
ed at the Country bottling plants but

an offer Was extended to the 'Borden'

Condensed Milk. company to arbitrate.-

Members of the committee, retires
senting farmers who deliver milk, to
the Borden plants, passed a resolu-'
tion offering to accept the Bel-den
price of $1.40 5-6 per hundred pounds,
and leave the matter of a fair test
to arbitration. Dairymen “claim that
3.5 per cent butter fat should prevail
in summer milk, while the Borden
concern holds that no milk testing
less than 38'per cent butter fat
should command the 10 cent «pre-
mium.

Thus the matter is put up to the
Borden people and theirs is the next
move. Milk producers say they will
make no further concessions, and in

the meantime farmers who depend

on the Borden plants for an outlet
for their milk are still working on
plans for handling their own, pro-
duct. Much money has been raised
to build Icommunlity .Idairies and
creameries, and funds will be avail-

able for those who need assistance"

until they are constructed.

The Bowman people and all other
distributors who offered satisfactory
prices have contracted for milk with
practically all of their former patrons
and in addition have secured many
other farmers on their list who for-
merly dealt with Borden, and a few
other concerns whose offers were re-
jected. The farmers’ victory has had
a wonderful effect, and enormous
strides have been made in organiza:
tion work.

 

:.Will YOU add just one
name this week?

The “Pink Sheet" asks YOU to help this week by adding just ONE
.NAME to the rapidly growing list of real business farmers here in
Michigan who appreciate what this little paper can mean to them when

' IT GROWS UPI

IF YOU ARE ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER, ask just one of your
farmer friends to use the coupon below—show him what YOU ,LIKE
. ABOUT THE PAPER—tell him every farmer of the 10,000 who receive
.It now every week HAVE PAID JUST WHAT YOU ASK HIM TO
"PAY—no more or no less—just a penny- an issue, FIFTY CENTS FOR

. A FULL YEAR!

IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER, then for goodness
sake place your name on this list of the REAL BUSINESS FARMERS
.J‘OF MICHIGAN. The coupon below is a personal Invitation for you to

., Join us!

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MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, DETROIT, MICH».

Dear Sirs: I enclose 50c for your paper for one year.

 

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anxious to get into the .3311111 and not” .7
‘sumer’s Thrice for that;
cry 0! #111311 cost .of
living” Which 6611163 fréo’nr the ”cities",
it was unanimously voted to:

nearer the .310
“'1‘

has Caused the producers to mess;

gate ceuditions, and they hays fauna
‘ that 65 Coats of tne consumers. dol- "
_ lar goes into the pockets of the mid
-4 dlemen. Realizing that under present
conditions they are not getting even '

136.11- returns for their labor, the pro! .—
ducers are vain-1y striving to ﬁnd ‘
some plan to reach the consumes-- "

While casting about for scale .assist-

ance in this direction they are very

liable to listen to the Piausibl‘e plans

of the professional promoters In

Several states these prempters have
organized associations, and in almost

. every instance they hays proved a?“

failure.

Fruit growers. and farmers must~
not expect to solve the problem of‘

reaching the consumer without ﬁrst"
organizing at- their end of the 111w. .

The whOIe foundatIOn of such an as— ’

soclation must ﬁrst; rest with the pro-
ducers. After the, producers have got:
ten together, and are ableto handle:-
the shipping end of the business, it is
a mighty easy proposition to ‘ oper-
ate the sales end of tha' business. The
demand exists always; it is the sup-

ply that causes the trouble.

A special dispatch from Rochester

New York, which tells of the troubles
of the Growers and Shippers’ Ex-

agp06-pound bale ion a
In one you

ﬁre cf the 31‘eat
Chickens and geeSo in

Navy Department

upon to answer , ,.

ter from a. woman on the W ,
coast near Cape Henry charm '~

as

change in that city will give sumcient "

reason for our words of warning at
this time:

Edwin W. Catchpole, president of
the Growers and Shippers’ Exchange,
ﬁled a voluntary petition in bank-
ruptCy Tuesday, placing liabilities at
$53, 009 66, and assets at $11, 261..58
Of the liabilities, the amount of $48,-
171.66 is unsecured claims which in-
clude 400 small creditors who are
owed for produce bought or taken
over by the exchange for shipment.
These small amOunts aggregate $25,-
086.10. There are also 550 claims
against the concern for damages,
losses and destruction to produce
that was being handled for» shipment.
These items total $23,103.56.

The assets include $6,923 in open
accounts and $3 in cash. The bal-
ance is made up of notes, equipment,
machinery, etc.

Franklin H. Smith, attorney for
the exchange, has issued a statement
declaring that the reason for ﬁling
the petition is because of ﬁnan-‘
cial difﬁculties growing out of the al-
leged mismanagement of . a former
manager who was discharged on
January 1. After his discharge, claims
the attorney, the directors began to
look into the ﬁnances and found them
in such shape that bankruptcy pro-
ceedings were thought advisable. -

Harvey W. Baxter was formerly
secretary, treasurer and manager of
the exchange. He was arrested in
Chicago last week one charge of

,‘ violating the law in over issuing

stock of the exchange. He was ar-
raigned lure and upon pleading not
guilty was released on $2, 000 ball.

A REMARKABLE CASE OF INTEN-
SIVE FARMING.

ing grounds apparently

the slightest degree affect ‘t
which were hatched and , ;
great numbers as close as 400 a?
from the guns , _

MICHIGAN RANKS HIGH IN
GROWING. '-
The statistics of the consis- us
regarding the fruit 11111113th-
igan show that the value ’
in 1899 Was $3, 676,000, an d“ ' i
vthe value of all fruits was $9323.?
An increase ol.’ nearly six. 1111111
dollars in ten years isn’t a bad
0rd for the fruit growers 91. M’
igan. In the production of all _ ,.
California stands ﬁrst, New Yer.
and and Michigan third. In _ '
duction of apples New Yoﬂ:
and Michigan second For.
the standing is California,N
Georgia, Michigan;. _
California, ' New York, Mich
Michigan ranks eighth in the 11:061.,
tion of plants and prunesand gf '
in cherries, third in grapes and
in small fruits. Followmg is a
the production and the resulting.
for fruits in Michigan for 190

12, 332, 296 bushels of apploa

1, 686,586 tbushels of peaches-
brought .............. .

The.— pear crop brought. . . .

Plums and prunes brought

Cherries . . . .~..

"Apricots ...,...

Qulnoes

14 218 quarts of air W129"
brought

Raspbermes

Blackberries .

gap 0 o_‘,_v‘ h

A remarkable example of intenﬁivé; »

McCall

_ farming :is- given in. the case 61'; Sam- " ' ‘ '
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