
50c PER YEAR (Egg

 

 

, 1» s:
the, action was taken

ppointed by 1,500..

,5 the farmers oom-
”counsel is that the
Wars duped into pay-

. 3,515 and $25 above.

V‘ “in a concern touted by

"”“t‘rust buster. " They further
they are being duped by gross
ment of the corporation on

_ the missionaries who sold ;

1 ’21s directed principally
W 0. Thompson, president
{roller of" the voting stock

Demand Accounting.
me ask that Thompson

‘1. losses in stock" sales and
“departments, that the cor-
be audited; that

oney unlawfully received The
are there has been much money
.. .1 ally appropriated.
~‘as'bilijasks that Thompson be
rout ofﬁce, that the corpora-
' eerganized along co-opera—
, _,iines,~; and that the holders of
ing stock be given the privi-

'o and his agents who did missionary
‘ throughout the country. They
ht they were getting into a co
tive concern, they allege, and
110W,
’zthe corporation is a gigantic
-.selling‘ proposition and not a

e International Harvester Com-
" and at the same time make a
t in dividends from the sale of
machinery '

ed machinery discount stock.
' thought, they state in the bill,

after years of promises,‘

Tone piece of
. ferred to th’éfi

 

 

 

‘ . very latest quotatiOns are:

Beans OOOOOIICIOotoon

’ Butter

Broilers

on the several commodities from the principal market centers. A
. detailed Statement covering conditions, our predictions and special
advice, will be found with each commodity on the following pages.

THE LAST MINUTE before going to press we secure quotations

a Wheat, No. 1 White (large mills paying).
7-‘7Wheat, No. 2 Red (large mills paying). . ..
,0ats,Standard ..*
Rye

too-o-

Hay (best market today, New York), at. . . . . .20. 00
Potatoes (best market today, Pittsburgh), at. .
‘Pouitry'IIZIIILZIIII.IIII................... .17

I'ooooooooooooooooo-

..Eggs 1. .18

The

...$1.osy,
1.06%
381/,
641/2.
2.15
.45
.30
.25

 

 

few weeks.

 

SPE'C‘IAIr—We want you to watch the Bean Market for the next
Just keep your eye on the indicator, and if you have good,
dry, marketable Beans you are going to ﬁnd that they are in good de-
mand. Special information may be had for the asking

 

 

The Independent Harvester Com-
pany was organized in 1905 to buck
the trust. It was evolved from the

.xKellogg Harvester Company of Plano.

It never has paid a dividend, although
the bill states stock solicitors have
represented that it soon was to pay
one of from 10 to 25 per cent.

Start of the lndignation.

Trouble began when the plant‘at
Plano could not manufacture enough
machines to meet the orders. Indigna-
tion meetings were held in several
states. The ,greatest number of
s ockholders .live in Illinois, Iowa,
Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota.
A committee was appointed to inves-
tigate, but it is alleged little satis-
faction was received.

The last directOrs’ meeting was
held in January in Maine. At that
time _members of the committee
asked for an accounting. The di-
rectors, of whom Thompson was the

leader, voted against an accounting,'

says the bill.

It is said Thompson receives a
salary of $12,000 under a resolution
which authorizes the payment of not
more than $118,000 to the president.
More than $50,000 has been paid to

‘him under this resolution, it is al-

leged. He also has received, accord-
ing .to the bill, expense money to the
amount of $10, 000 a yeai, in all $40,-
000, for which there has been no ac-
counting.

Says Salary is Excessive.

The bill says. the salary is exces-
sive and ‘that‘ the president of the
company is a stock broker and knows
nothing about manufacturing.

Thompson is accused of getting
money fraudulently through the trans-
fer of land from himself to the com-
pany The bill states that he has
bought property and then transferred
it to the corporation Without giving
a statement of the cost to him of
such land. It alleges he is renting
d be bought and trans-
arvester company and
that the rent is inadequate
farmers alleged he also made money

, from the carporation through? deals;
5. . .

d timber lands

The;

All of the time of the ofﬁcers has
been used in selling stock, the plain-
tiffs allege, instead of manufactur—
ing machinery to compete with the
trust, although the company is de-
clared to be possessed of sufﬁcient
money and a plant.

' Stock Selling Chief Business.

More than $3,000,000 worth of stock
has been sold during the last two
years.

The bill says that While the of-
ﬂcers represented the plant as run-
ning economically and successfully
during 1912, the company expended

$1,200,000 in manufacturing and pro- ‘

duced goods selling at $800,000.

One of the propositions outlined by
the company was this, according to
the bill: The ofﬁcers said they could
manufacture a grain binder for $45.
The trust (International Harvester
Company) was selling the same ma-
chine for $100. The independent
company was to sell it for $130 and
turnover the balance of $85 as proﬁt
to the stockholders.

Thompson carried on his corpora-
tion books as assets, the bill goes on
to say, $1,282,000 which was not as-
sets, but expenditures for ofﬁce help,
agents’ commissions, advertising, etc.

“Barred in Certain States.”

“The mismanagement and fraudu‘
‘lent misrepresentations of the of~
ﬁcers of the company,” reads the bill,
“‘so injured the reputation of the
company and its products that ad-
vertisements are being refused by
farm “journals. The‘ company has
been barred from doing business in
certain states.”

It is alleged that the plant at
Plano is merely a show place to help
the sale of stock, that While there
is a little manufacturing, there is
more jobbing and assembling of ma-
chines manufactured in other plants.

The bill states that Thompson is
contemplating the erection of another
large plant “merely for making an im-
pression on prospective stockholders
and 'an injunction preventing him

from doing this is asked.

' raised in

URGES HIGH

cussed pretty thoroughly down.
Washington these days. During
past week several congressmen,,

the agricultural districts have
ﬁghting for a retention of the pres
tariff duties on many of the .f
products. Under the new bilI.
tariff on beans will be reduced

450 to 250 per bushel Whi

see no necessity of even reducng
the tariff on beans, We are not at a}!
afraid that the farmers will so

to any great extent through compo
tion on this commodity iwth that.
Canadian brothers, so long as th‘
250 per bushel is retained. Congress‘-
man Samuel M. Smith, of Pontiac,.'
in addressing the House the other day
said:

"‘Tlhe bean crop is one-of the
most important in the state of Mich-,
igan. This bill reduces the tariff
on beans from 45 cents to ‘25 cents
per bushel. If the bill is permitted:
to become a law in its present form, '.
I fear that Canada, whose border line
is just across the river from Michs
igan. and produces beans in great
abundance, will take possession of the
Detroit and other markets, as she did
under the Wilson- Gorman bill, ”and...

gieatly injure, if not practically ruin , ~

the industry in Michigan

“Michigan raises 70 per cent or
more of the bean crop in the United
States, or more than 6,000,000 bushels
out of the 10,000,000 or more bushels
the United States. The
farmers of Michigan receive a hand-
some return annually aggregating be-
tween $10,000,000 and $15, 000,000 each
year for their bean crop

“Scattered along the railways at
many stations throughout my dis»
trict, one can ﬁnd bean houses where
many women are employed at splen-
did wages. I fear that if this bill
becomes a law, that not only the "
farmers and local buyers Will be.
greatly injuied, but that the Splendid:
wages which have been paid to wo-
men for work in the bean houses
will be gleatly reduced.”

DRY FARMING TO BE TRIED.

E. B. Payne, the “Peach King,”’of_
Hope township, and a. prominent meme
ber of the International Dry Farming,
congress, who represents the organ-v
ization in this state, will endeavor to
interest Gov Ferris and other state
ofﬁcials in dry farming methods, by
which he is certain that thousands
of acres of lands may be rescued for
cultivation Mr. Payne, who has or-
iginated means of scientiﬁc farmin
and“ horticulture, which has able
him to create a peach of he own,
has applied dry farming methods on
his farm with success. “Plow deep
andSFthen follow with scientiﬁc farm
ing,1s his method. By the conserva-
tion of moisture, Mr. Payne says, the
sandy lands of this state may be eas—
ily rescued. Dry farming methods.
have been so developgv in the was 1
Mr. Payne says, that ithin 10 years
they will entirely replace ,‘-.‘
farming, as wheat raised b

of protein, and brings 22 cents more:
a bushel.

 

 


_ above is correct,

 

 

ohmsis seems to (imam

use something of a spasms .

W exists. We say s
e we really believe theta
mutton of this with indefiniteness
1. mild almbst completely show the

esent position of hay relative to its _'

1, esaibilities from a marketing stand-
. It appears 0! a spasmodic na-
vbecause‘ from“ the different mar-
mtens which cover every avail-

s. avenue of escape for our hay.

o'mee a very wide difference in tone
to the situation and actual results pos-
~sible to get out of the present situ-
More and more spasmodic does
_. this appearance become when we can
- actually experience and see as a re-
sult of actual trades being made from
day to day, that said trades are sub-

ject to such a wide variance in selling '

. strength. From one market center,

for instance, thesituation one day is
very strong, in sympathy’with which
a much longer price can be drawn for
”receipts available; only a day or two
laterand the situation on this par-
' ticular market becomes the reverse,
the market sluggish, the condition
from all angles handicapped from a
selling strength and greatly reduced
values in actual evidence. At the
time this market showed its spirited
form, some other market of like mag-
nitude was the opposite. When our
ﬁrst named market is in a sluggish
condition, our neighboring market has
showu a reversal of form and is per-
mg a prem1um.

We think this will demonstrate to
you, at least, we hope so, that the
situation today is both spasmodic and
because of its being spasmodic, is of
asomewhat indeﬁnite nature. A spas-
~angelic condition from a commercial

or marketing standpoint always f01ms
an asset to the general situation in
the following manner.

Its tendency is to cause an excite-
ment to exist on the part of traders.
It shows up a given possibility in
some given direction. This injects
real spirit and tone on the part of
the dealers in hay, therefore, the nat-
. ural result is that you, as a producer
or raiser in hay, will see better con-
ditions existing locally as well as on
the outside. We are giving you these
conditions so that you will appreciate
'1 not only your position, as a grower,
but that you will also understand the
position of the man who is trading,
»1w.hich means nothing else or any
other than your local dealers. This
is the basis on which they are trad-
ing today.“ The above conditions act
as a real stimulus or opiate. The one
injects real tone, life and spirit to
conditions existing, the other produces
a‘sleepy effect on which and-out of
which a sluggish market is the result.
We do not contend that the above
affects you in a monetary way as to
the disposition of your this season’s
hay crop, but we hope that it contains
something of: an educational feature
along the lines of conditions affect-
ing those Who are working with you,
to the end of placing your commodi-
ties on the market, therefore, if the
it should be-found
of some particular value to you. ,.

The acon’crete example before us to-
day is but little different and shows
but slight variance over the one con-
stantly before us from the inception
of the season. It shows but slight
variance, because of our having gotten
at the real meat of the problem at
_ the outset. Results have proven that
Wovwere correct as to the surplus
of hay this year, that we were also

correct as to the very small percent--

age of high-class goods Our outline
‘for this season’ s operations has been
4 eat value and assistance to the
stars 0! bay ever the state be

com-

No.
market. at proﬁtable price s.
predicted.
fed. No i—No proﬁt at ruling prises
hour" proposition.
lower but we would takol a chance.

 

l—Goo'd, substantial demand 1ﬁend present so cobalt "
No 2a—4Market clearing it on
No. 3——-Markot very quiet; tires ovary

No. ﬁ—Better keep in port.

fmw

' .114, _.

 

‘high—class hay which we have'been;

advising you contained some strength

in fact, the only kind of hay which

had any strength whatever, is today
showing and demonstrating just what
merit-s it has. The trade- on the out,
side is making a call.

* demonstrated in this article, this call

is of a spasmodic nature, but at the
same time, it is a call and shows that
on this particular‘kind of hay there
is a decided revelation of form over
that which was facing «us. at the. out-
set of the season
of hay excepting high qualities are
held in any favor whatever. It is still
self-evident that we will be unable to
place all of our low g1 ade or common
qualities of hay on the market. It
also demonstrates that we
have a. surplus of desirable qualities
This cornbination must work put to
the result that high-clas hay will show
a tendency, if properly handled; to at
least maintain its preSent standard of

level with a keen possibility of show-

ing a further advance. We must be
careful when seeding time is over not
to dump all of this hay, onto‘ the mar-
ket at one time. If you do this, it
is possible that the above reasoning
will not hold true, neither could you
expect it, but if you regulate the dis-
position of the remainder of this good
hay, it will show a dividend based on
former conditions

 

HAY—~MIC‘HIGAN ZONE PRICE‘.

Michigan .......... $10.60
Michigan .......... 12.20
Michigan ..... '7'. . . . 13.00
Michigan ......... 12.80
Mlchigu-n .' ......... 12.40
Zone Michigan .......... 12.80
Zone Michigan .......... 13. 70

NO'I‘Ev-The prices quoted are for
No. 1 Timothy in the “different
freight «ones. «This givos you the
price dealers should be u e to pay
for this commodity f. o. 1).. their
station, under existing. market eon—
(lltlons. Handling charge not in—
eluded.

Zone
Zone
Zone
Zone
Zone

 

 

 

DETROIT—~The situation in Detroit
is not at all dependable What de—
pendence there is in this market is
based on good stuff. Last week the
situation based on common qualities
of hay began to look very much de-
pressed Sellers of these characters
of hay were having very much trou—
ble to place them on basis of quota—
tions. With any accumulation at all,
this market will show a keen reduc
tion in values on anything below nice
No.2 fancy light mixed or No. ]
timothy.

' HAY—DETROIT MARKET.
No.1 Timothy ................ $15.00
No‘ 2 Timothy ...............

 

Rye Straw .............. . ,. . . 0.00
Wheat ‘and 0st Straw. . ....... 8.00

PITTSBURGH—The last week has

 

experienCed comparatively heavyr runs '

of hay to the Pittsburgh market, with
a- percentage'of this run being of hay
far below No. 1 in quality. This has

put the situation in a temporary de- ~

pressed condition. ' We do not feel it

.rwarrantable to quote this market as
‘jbeing. dangerous, because if receipts
should happen to react, they will be,
‘i'able to come out from

‘ «"No. 1 Timothy buys. ..', ’

As‘was ﬁrst an.

Nit-other grades '

will not '

 

~No .‘Tlmetby hay
:NO. 3- Timothy”;

1 3*:

7',an pram. Packing Hey .
No... Out litmuuunumnui-
no. 1 Rye Straw...

 

 

..No. 1 wheat straw:

 

CHICAGO—«The situation which we ‘
, reported in Chicago lasttwseek cleansed
No one apaprsmtly:

up very nicely.
got hurt with the increase in receipts

reported Sellers, as a rule, held 0113;”
and worked out of it in that Way. Chi‘

cage last week experienced only mod-
erate receipts,

Quotations as shoWn’ are
being maintained with actual trades.

 

HAY—CH'IoAGo uneasy. .

Choice Timothy .» ........ _-. ; . ‘. .817.”
No. 1 Timothy ..... , ...... . . . 15.00 *
No. 2 Timothy ' .
Light Glover Mixed ...... ' ...... 13-00
No. 2 Mixed hay ....... 1. . . .. 10.00
No. 3‘ Timothy. . . . ..‘ ......... . 10.00
Clover

Thanked My ...... . . . . .
“Morel tending bay. . . .

 

 

 

der- the con- *

BOSTON—Receipts fer,
week were 386 carsof hay, seven. of
straw, 16 cars of this hay were billed
for export The corresponding week
last year shows 274 cars of hay, seven
cars of: straw, with 45 cars of this
hay billed for export. Receipts of bit}!
during the last week were really
more than the trade Was calllng for.
with the spot situation rather weak
This was more noticeable, of course,
on the poorer grades. The situation
on very cemmon hay was really seri-
ous, there practically being no de-
mand whatever.

 

HAY—IDITON MARKET.

Sud!
Duos.
Haw,
Hay. No.
Hay, No. 2 ........... . 17.00
Bay, 14.00
HIV.
Hay,
Hay.
Long. m snow. ..
“It!“ 170‘- much. . .

stock . . .......... 13.00

18.00

12;”
1.

'NOTE—Lnrgc hue- weigh m,—
200 to m pounds; mediu- isles
It“ 9. to 1.0 you“ ,, a.

 

 

 

 

HAY—NEW YORK MARKET

Linn shall 0
' bales.
. _”t ion. per ton.

$21.00 $2 L00’

 

 

with the result, that”
the tone to the situation is quite Sal;
.isfactory.

; modity.

the past ‘act 8.000

NEW YORK-Thesituation during

the past week in New ankhas been an ce..

‘ fellowed it and it may

11.00 ~ --

a 60611.
So and so. ,elt it

‘,assets in excess .‘

to pursue that course
that there is an indeﬁnit

We know at; .
angles to m about net

7’ can ﬁgure out
" .liainty.
more as we become more g

t
We appreciate

fore, we can only take, a ﬁe

course of action, based on a

line oi? reasoning and pessib ‘
Let us ﬁrst take

igan, Maine and. new so

= a limited Supply-81 1301231191

These three states con

talc crop train the -. ,.
’ Would be that the old-—
Would advance around 25¢.

because of the natural com
now confronts us from an,
tatoc-rop point. They could g
because as reports show, W

the eastern markets the a

sibilities are the result. . .

Secondwl’otsaoes

their own mar .
Theyrhave,

ply longer, until the end

Third—Potatoes oculd go may;

 


. “.1”, sum... 46
. can; per ha. .43
unit is one "on“ 180

' llolulu con .1 not:

The

There is a heavy call with

the tone it“ the notation quite much

P0TA~T0§§1P1T¥S4BU HG.
NET .

the dis. 4

_. -’ the assets
o' inborn given you
yammave an edual
in the ﬁght scheduled
asset we have is: po-
present standard of
below. normal mm a.
~-T%hey are so cheap
to not only

' 1: will in— .

. Reaping a

1013 7'1. S
. :goe;

potato situation.
be optimistic, but

drawing at the line " same time” closed steady at the finish,

life’s real test.
market the past
keé'n nature
fronix every direction.

been

at least momantarihﬁ,

action {on will take

1: t has

with

casting on most other
This market has
omﬁmousky for

this mnmdint con-
i: will be in an over
condition indeﬁnite-

 

.3].

Mn: hem ear. per 191:. .
backed from our, per 1111..

‘~TTTTT

.40 to’ .45
.45 to .49

 

 

 

 

: .‘It has been. the Contention of
- many large dealers in wheat,

that it was by- virtue of foreign

strength that our values have been
maintained, but ”this view of the situ
~ation has been shattered an more
oneasion‘s than one. We actually know .

of times when Liverpool closed with
aides and the Detroit market at the

with nora‘c‘tual loss for the day’s trade.
This-being absolutely a. true example,

" Shows that the. foundation for our
‘wheat market situation was not au‘

 

WHEAT—DETROIT MARKET.
No" 1 White .................... $1.07
7 No. 2 Red ....... . .............. 1.08

Speculltlvo Prlca‘I.
July delivery '
*Muy deﬁvery _: ................ 1:08
‘ “at. m 3m tor Rum
and lky 11‘1va tho i.-
, tum deHVe priced. Tb]: tutor-

:I‘ g; $0 on
age of. the season- on which”.
. them. You will have to admit
‘ we were “In right" on the future

WHEAMI‘KGMO m7.

'5‘“ 2 non” .............. -.s1.oo
: - _ , BpIoulatle Prices. -
"July delivery . .- ........... .0295
1‘an delivery ...... .'. ...... . . . .9296
‘ Q'llhe poke uls-on ta July
in] Max: dollar! I'm-out tho tu-
tun. do]! very uric“. nu Inter-o-
not merely gives you the my.
~ boot. at this commodity u

by those. who amount: on Int-n

 

iii, 'lPITTSBUﬁGHw-Theroqs quite some”. m
toxic to the Pittsburgh market.
. as; Weeks sir‘ading has run at a- high
fjrtenﬁxon and slinost continuously Not
goodly; halve- they taken care or very

heavy magpie, but at an advanced
. p e

‘ rantable or not.

 

 

 

Ltrhentically based on the foreign situ—

ation, because when the foreign situ-

atlon, slipped out from under us, we

ﬁnd that we had the Michigan situ‘
attain and with a foundation just as
secure tend which held us up. It does
not look to us as if the beans had

very much of a chance in reducing

wheat levels The milling situation

~BEANS

We think it has dawned on you
that it is not only possible for
a commodity to become in a de—
pressed condition, sluggish from eVeI‘y
angle, rejected in the eyes of the com-
mercial world and to be forced into

 

 

’this'po-siti‘on regardless of its being,

warrantable. We believe you appre-
ciate your individual weakness in be-
ing able to determine as to whethex
the position of a commodity is war-

confronted you when
beans gradually dropped to $1.80
basis. When on $1.80 basis, every
dealer in the state claimed that their
elevatorsuwere full to the roof, im—
pressed you that if they took your
beans On that basis, it was through
genuine courtesy, that they were mak-
ing a genuine good fellow of them-
selves when so doing; that the rea‘
chances were that they would take a
keen loss after having so done, sim-

ation which

’ply handing you a Xmas present in

advance. That was about it, and that
is just about the way the average
raiser of beans on basis of his nat-
ural understanding of the situation.
helped along by the information re-
ceived, had the real results doped out.
Right at this point is when this lit-
tle “Pink Sheet” of only eight pages
came to you and showed you the situ—
ation that actually existed in the state
of Michigan and on the outside, proved
to you with a good concrete example,
made up of good logical conceptions,
that the situation which we Were ex—
periencing at that time was thorough-
ly of an unwarrantable nature, as
based on the general outcome of the
general situation. We gave you the
angles to thexsituation which would
bring about'lthe depression felt. \‘2'(“
showed you what was contended to
haVe caused it. We believe that the
contention shown would have a great
bearing on the outcome, which was
a. $1.80 base. We advised you that
not one dealer in beans over the state
of Michigan was alarmed over the
future situation. They
themselves most fortunate in being
able to secure your beans at a $1 ‘
base, when, at the same time, they
had their cover off' their salve box
and were trying to make you believe

:"i"?‘é‘”fIGAN FREIGHT ZONES

in. touch with the

you should know

Mr, lb! ”In;
no

you

Wrap?”

doctor - -
"x car of nut-Mo

5 minimum with of I.

\Pittsburﬁ. m Instance. show ring Nt.

1 Timothy W is worth $16. 00 p81- ton.
Thho freight bun: $4.40 mum show that

o (lo-1m in Til-con. bounty should pay
$11: 60 per ton, l.“ handling char-u, The
car or my in
minimum Weight of a
1.330.000 pounds: the
t 01 a, car of bean: is

20, 000 pounds; the“

minimum or

i (.0 000 nouns: and. you will have to pay

~ from yours” oven.

'7.” for that Win!
an be gum slim Iﬁ‘toll unload. The

pounds in ouch car,

I and

a: [mains take a
vﬂll be “ad to fur-
m with hub.

unites -. min.

‘ Tim and mlmum‘
in. of m can at this tutor-motion

Zone S—Bay City.

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

Cincinnati

Chicago

Detroit

Zone 4~Grocnville.

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

Cincinnati

Chicago

‘ Detrolt
Zoné b-Sandnsky.

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

Cincinnati

Ch‘

1W
. . . . Detroit
1" 3 . Zone 6—chsburg.‘

New York City ........ L ....... .
Pitt-burgh .
Cl Wotan i

That was the situ- ‘

. your beans.

considered

FREIEHT

0‘1 ’ that
market with the

sibﬂities of the bean situation
will have to give us credit
saved the producers of
state of Michigan thousands
ands of dollars in the last
weeks.
Today, instead of the sluggish
depressed bean market Which we ThaY'
experienced, we have a situation

solutely spirited, a situation on Whit:
. culation is going right and , left;
S e are even overstepping the

acting what might be termed,

on the possibilities of beans”

twenty has been paid for carsof beans

you that actual trading has been way
above the standard of quotations
shown in our daily periodicals It fist
a real spirited and speculative.“ game
today.

We mentioned the possibilities
the writer being crazy in our issue
dated April 26th, When daring to as
sume that beans might top $2 40-36?
as'Sured you at that time that it 'was
great to be crazy Don’t worry abbut
getting crazy, but just study the pos-
sibilities and get the price out .01:
We never know what?
some one else is trying to do,‘ but We

demonstrated to you two months'agowf;

that it was very possible that the

great manipulators of beans in the
State of Michigan were pul g 01!
the same stunt that they did 11.1911
There

bunch of money made when they are
going back up 40c.
something stirring on the market is
when there
made. We do not want to come out

‘ on track this last week. That .830 . ‘3' "

is some money made11 when
beans drop 40c and there is another -

When there "is; _:

is some money being

today and say that beans are going

to $2.40. We have never deﬁnitely
stated that $2.40 would be the result,
but let us tell you one thing, these
beans are very, very strong, with very

great possibilities as we go to press. ,.

 

BEANFDETROIT MARKET.
\Vhlto,
Rod Kidney ....................

MICHIGAN ZONE PRlCE&_‘ ‘
Zone No. 2 Michigan ........... I.“

Zones 4, 5, 6 and 7 Michigan.
The abOVe values repreoent what ‘

o. b. your station In zones hm “ .
This is m basis of
beans.

 

 

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during the past week, still- the

tendency being to just a. little ﬁrmer
feeling constantly existing. Trader;
Conﬂudoal’m Six

Jon—u.

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WITH 7
APPROXIMATE.
RATES 1‘0"

LEANNG,

IEH'IGAN

ZONES
(E2?
TABLE

Zone No. 3 Michigan ......... ‘.. 1.99., ’
. 2.02

hand-picked

hand-picked basis ...... $2,151 .
2 ,

dealers are obtaining for be:nl, 1.,"

particular advance in quotations 5,

tone to the cat situation has 3a. 11t»"‘_j"
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“They copied all they could foam, but they couldn’t copymy
And I left’ em sweating and stealin’ a yur and a half behind "i-sdfiplutg

I ‘This "pink- sheet” has no creed, 1101' party, plays no [favorites’ and W‘ its best!
to neither friend nor enemy, if they would swerVe it from the single path. which it has
laid for itself to solve the greatest problem that confronts the farmer today, THAT 0F

, . "that the manuf’du (1E ,

tiotr 0f proﬁts iS 11

And now we get , attk 1:Q the preposmon"?
'to be taXed to foster an industry 11121: labor a

:DISPOSING‘ OF HIS CROP FOR A GREATER PROFIT!

I The market reports are written directly to serve the ﬁrmer: of Michigan, and to
insSist them in receiving at their own local market the prices which should be their: ,
I MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING maintains a Service department, under com 5
-' p’étent- and experienced direction of men, whose duty it is to aid our readers in‘ any
part of this state to secure fair prices and good markets and if the local buyer will
not meet these conditions to aid, if possible, in the dispOSing of his pruduce on a favor-
able market.
I In the unpretentious little “pink- sheet” which you hold in your hands, the; farmers
of Michigan W1“ ﬁnd a militant stron‘g- arm, ready and anxious at all times to defend
.‘their rights and to right their wrongs wherever and whenever they be found No inde-
:, . pendent farmer or group of organized farmers in this state need hesitate to call upon this
publication, at any time, if it can be of assistance to them.
-I MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, let it be clearly understood, represents no
single 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. ‘ A . ~ ’
ONE- CENT— PER- WEEK (when ordered for 50 weeks or more) C FARMERS CAUGHT

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- (In remitti 3 it is to your advantage to write full name and address carefully and
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A TAN CLED

TO BE SURE.

-‘fretain the tariff;”
' $1.67 per hundred ta

EDITORIAL.

HAT a tangled net we weave, when ﬁrst we practice to
deceive.” If the new tariff bill passes, sugar will be
placed on the frce list in 1.916. At the present time the

’ ' good housewife contributes one dollar and sixty— seven cents to the
manufacturer on every one hundred pounds of suga1 the family
consumes.

One dollar and sixty—seven cents repre~
sents the duty—the tariff tax. Who gets the
$1.67? A11. there’s the, rub. If the consumer
must contribute $1.67 on each one hundred
pounds of sugar his family consumes, in order
that the manufacturers of sugar may be able

WEB,

“4:0 pay the farmer a living wage for growing sugar beets and sugar
cane;
of the sugar factories a reasonable, living wage

if the tax of $1. 67 per hundred is needed to pay the employes

And leave just a reasonable proﬁt for the manufacturers-then
so say all of us. BUT—if we are paying this

Michigan farm and toWn folks alike,
seem to be equal believers in “spooks"
of various kinds, as evidenced by the
crusade being waged against the
fraudulent practices of so; called “clair-
voyants” by the: authorities in Chi-
cago. '

Recently we read how. a Michigan...’

woman had separated a. number of

men from various portions of their
, bank rolls, by advertising in a matri-

monial paper that she Was looking
for a husband. She was already mar-
ried and lived on a smallfarm, but
she and her husband had found it

easier to persuade men to yield cash ”

under the guise of lovelthan to per-

suade the soil to yield prbﬂtable crops '

by means of hard labor. After she had
received traveling expenSes, which in
some cases, amounted £0 generous
sums, the expectant bridegrOOm failed
to hear any more from his mail- order
bride.

- Supported By the Foolish.

This woman, of course was not a
clairvoyant, but her fraudulent prac-
tice had much in it of the nature of
that used by the men recently ar-
rested in Chicago Both are the prod-
not of unscrupulous newspapers that
publish advertising which on the taco
of it bears every evidence of fraud.
Neither could exist but for the num-

bers of silly men and women who are
/

are “Prof. ” ' GharIeSjR.

l amounts. the various} 1)
., ”spooks”_ lost through theséy

over $25, 000.- We have .not

the Michigan farm folks

money to these clairvoyants the
they believed on “spir1ts,”a.n

. had, We would not publish it"

sharpers, ought 16* be too 1
ashamed ofthimselzf for its to W ‘
add to his mlsery

caught are as nothing to the 11.
who are still at large. ‘

_ eral hundred of these So—called "1

who believe in, and are swindled~
them, is amazing

vestigation has shOWn that the

a trust among clairvoyants. Luri, a.

vertisements were mixed as exhibi

against the three men. These ad

tiseménts and others, clipped“

newspapers accepting these adv

ments, were used by the grand

in their report... 3‘
The reCOmmendations madé W

f0110ws: '

<,'

that the millionaire sugar manufacturers may pay larger dividends
:47 on watered stock—well, that’s a horse of another color.

I 1 Why not? If we are required to pay $1.67 on each one hundred

*pounds of sugar we consume, over to the manufacturer as a bonus
,_«——-to protect from the pauper labor of the countries across the seas——
., we ought to have the right to look over the books and see whether

the farmers and laborers are re ally getting the protecting we are

trying to afford them.

, As the discussion has proceeded, a doubt has bbeen raised in
. the people’s minds as to who is getting the beneﬁt of the tariff.
The evidence of President Charles B. Warren, of the'Michigau

Sugar Company, before the Congressional Investigating Committee,

showed that for at least a few years the sugar business was mighty

yproﬁtable. In fact, the farmer could have been paid more for his
ribeets and the laboring man higher wages and a reasonable proﬁt
remain for the manufacturers.

This investigation showed that duling the ﬁrst four years of
the co’mpanys existence, it actually had a surplus of over three
million dollars, besides paying dividends amounting to about a
‘million dollars. President Warren further testiﬁed that the method:
of manufacturing had been so simpliﬁed that the manufacturing

“ - cost was less than when the industry was in its infancy
” SO great was the company’s proﬁts during the ﬁrst four years

 

 

HAVE been looking for a real novel-
' ty to offer my friends who are. help,
ing me to add new business farm
names to th rapidly growing“ .‘pink ,—
. sheet” mail] list, AND I HAVE
FOUND IT! Here is a genuine Swish
Cuck—oo Clock, made 111 the Swiss m .
tains by the peasants who curve thém'
from the brown wood of the forests ﬁﬁcd
with machined cl welt-works and operat-
with pine-cone weights. Every half 1103111
the clock strikes and the cuckLOO b ,d
‘chirps a cheery little note from his "
under the car'Ved bird and leaf de
The clock itself is .a full 10 inches
height, 5 inches wide and. has ’a;;- ',
dial with ivorize‘d ﬁgures ‘and hen,
want every “pink-sheet” reader wh
ever wanted a 'cuckm clock to '
ANY READER‘ .

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has porters of seeing into the future,
of telling you all about the coming
invents of 'yOur life and to forth. Some

also guarantee to put you in communi-
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money dn mining or other Stocks.

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gave forecasts of distur.
. ‘ cross continent May 9 to
1 19:4 to 18, warm Waves 8 to
nd 13 to 17, cool waves 11 to
“end 15. to 20. This period of about
.1 colts will average warmer than
ai’and Will be followed by a great
”511,111.: temperatures. Storm. forces
11 be greater than the usual average
1... ' severe weather may be expected
3 to 12 but dangerous storms
it probable. Most rain is ex-
” ~ dJinwgr'ea-t central Valleys not far
eta/May 9 and in eastern sections
tajnd following May 20 -
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(trees Paciﬁc slope about May

stables should be protected}
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I. Dangerous stor‘ms- May 21 to June 3.
Week centering on May 9 and in eastern sections 18 to 31.

Ta 'a'bo'Ve chért- the treble line represents normal precipitation and temper-
'As temperaturerand precipitation lines rise probabilities will increase
mm“ precipitation and higher temperatures.
. 111 one to three days earlier for west of that line and as much later for
get (if it, In proportion to distance from that meridian which runs north

(3,, May 10. 4...:

m 21 to 23, eastern sections 24. _
gym wave will cross Paciﬁc slope «

Cool wave -~

Ides} weather of the month

May will bring a drouth to large sections
.M°St rain in northeastern states, east Gulf coast and south-

   

Dates .are. for Meridian 90.

gerous‘.,storms' as those of recent
months but it is advisable to use
care and not go into unprotected
places while this storm is passing.
Our danger signals will hang out
from.May 20 to 31 and our readers
may expect the most severe storms
to occur close in front of the warm
waves and not far from the places
and- dates noted for‘the disturbance
dates.

Indications favorable to a general
shortage of rainfall and some indica-
tions of damage to crops by drouth.

' That is expected to be the general
conditions but some places, on ac-
count of the severe storms will get
.too much rain. The middle south-
eastern states will have some heavy
local rains and-similar conditions may
be expected in. parts of Pennsylvania,
New York, the New England states
and the eastern provinces. But large
sections between meridian 85 and the
..Rockies will be too dry for good of
: growing crops.

Much will depend on amount oft
moisture in the soil middle of April.

,Where the soil was well wet at that
time the crops may come through
the droiitth good shape Oats will
probably suifer more than other

j. crops.

Prof. Hopkins of the University of
Illinois severely attacks two errors
~"made‘ by. the United States Agricul

:years. «He*- says"— that : the optimistic
: rotary permitted '
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Most rain in great central

the; errotie‘ous-
t“;- that. farm:---
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1._turalch Department in the' past few11

   
    

. . end ‘ ' '1':
meat reports more:'. carefully made

. Fora scientific department to declare
e that farm soils- do not wear out is'

so ridiculous that we can ﬁnd no ex-
cuse fOr it. . .

WANT PARCEL POST EXPRESS.

Ge'Orgeg P. Hampton of New York 1

icity, secretary of the Postal Express
Federation,

. which is Composed of
about two million business men and

.farmers, addressed a meeting in De-

troit. In an interview he said:
"Detroit particularly is interested in

.the parcel post because its business-

' the two following examinations, 131!"

men have been the leaders in getting ‘

the service. Now. that the service
has been obtained we are after im-
provements.

-- “We want the rates lowered, weight

‘limit increased, onerous restrictions

against packing removed and insur-
ance lowered. _‘The rates are 500 per
cent above cO'st. in some cases and
could easily be cut in half in the city
districts. The weight limit, which is
now 11 pounds, should be raised to
100 pounds, which is logic-a1 because
it would cover the gap between the
present limit and the freight unit.

“The present restrictions against
the shipment of liquids should be re—
mOVe-d and the government should
furnish hampers..for the shipment of
bottles," as it now furnishes bags for
other matter.

“The government should allow in-
voices to be inclosed With the ma-
terial sent and permit 0. O. D. deliv-
eries both on the delivery cost and
the goods. There is no reason why
the government could not collect for
the goods and make the return the
same as express companies do. That
is what we are trying to do—make
the parcel post the equal of the ex-
press service." '

The total for the United States, in
round ﬁgures, shows that in January
there were 40,000,000 packages mailed;
in February 50,000,000, and in March
60,000,000.

 

NEW HORTIOULTURAL COLLEGE.

A horticultural college for Traverse
City is to be one of the next steps
in the development of the western
Michigan region. The setting of fruit
trees in the 20 counties reaching from
Ottawa to Emmet has been so great
during the past few years, and is
continuing at such a pace that it is
apparent that many horticulturists
are needed to care for the orchards
in a. scientiﬁc manner.

In the past it was believed that
any man who knew the difference be-
tween the apple tree and an oak was
sufﬁciently wise to be in chargeof
an orchard. But now it is different.
It is admitted that successful or-
charding requires men With special
training.

Because of the heavy tree settings
these men are going to be needed in
the early future. At present the
larger orchard propositions are hir-
ing men Who have been trained else-
where, some in the west.

Last fall the proposition of a coun—
ty agricultural school was laid be-
fore the supervisors of Grand Trav-
erSe county, who appointed a com-
mittee with instructions to report at
the annual meeting to be held the
coming October. In the meantime the
subject is being discussed by the
farmers’ organizations of the county,
and the arguments for and against
the proposition are being carefully
analyzed.

AN INTERESTING RULING.
Judge Smith“ of Pontiac, has set
aside assessments levied in Addison
against farmers for cutting weeds
along the roads. The taxes were un-

¥Da1d and the land returned for sale,

N11

*%.The objectors to the tax ﬁled their

, appearance and the court held with

e "them that such a tax is not assessable ‘

individual property, but must leaf-1., ,
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, :J-1v vs" him; instructions while ’
~1 stool: judging, soil testing, _
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The society will my all on
posses. 1 ,
The selection of the boy villi ..

each county. County commission
of schools, president of rumors to
stitute society and the master at
Pomona Grange. ,
The committee will meet to .
the boy on June 2: or at the can
of county commissioner of schools.
The selection will be made from

en by any boy in the county, betWeen
the ages of 14 and 20.

First—The regular county eighth
grade examination, to count 50 per
eent.

Second—~Examinations on 20 1111:
tions prepared by state fair 1113,1158
ment, to count 50 per cent. 1..»

The second examination to be "ta ké
on by applicants on afternoon as
May 16 With regular eighth grad
examinations

Second examination questioner"
be sent to each commissioner, about
May 1. The boy in the county, be;
tween 14 and 20, having the highest
average standing, will'be selected
by the above committee. Any boy, in
the county between the ages of 1.4
and 20 who wishes to attend the state .,
fair must take both examinations and "
committee will select one boy frpm
this number. .
GRAND RAPIDS-KALAMAZOO IN--

TERURBAN. _

Work is progressing rapidly on the
new interurban between Kalamazoo .7.
an-d Grand Rapids. Towers for the,
high tension wires‘are being set up,._
and rails and ties are distributed
along the right of. way. The grading
is practically ﬁnished. The roadbed
will be among the ‘ﬁnest if not the
ﬁnest in the state. In no place airing?
the distance does a curve exceeds. 1.7-
per cent curve and the same is true;

of the grade.
BARRED ROCKS, big-boned, '

MAMMOTH not brassy eggs 15 for $1 100

for $5 50, orders ﬁlled as they come in, alley“
from farm-raised birds. MRS. GEORGE PETIT,
Rfd. 3, Port Austin, Mich.

A $20 per Week Job to
Open to one live man in each county 111
Michigan who will act as our local man-
ager in placing the “pink-sheet” in every
business farmer’ 8 home. Man with horse,
who crn cover county and appoint local;
agents can make double this amount. We

want only clean men. of good reputation. .
but every man who “makes good our re--
quircmcnts will make BIG MONEY, that

we absolutely guarantee. Address today .-

Agcncy Department

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING --
DETROIT, MICHIGAN - ‘

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MCKNCINNATI—«A general steady
in e characterized the Cincinnati mar-
., for. the last Week. The trade
birth;‘iies to make a call for the bet-
qualities
31" change, quotations show a lit-
8 Motion in let'els but we do not
,Ii'e‘ve that a real warrantable tone

. to the situation has changed.

OATS—CINCINNATI MARKET.
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PITTSBURGH—Receipts haVe been
just about equal to the demand, with
quality running fairly high. The re-
sult of trading shows that the market
is in just a little better shape than
' was reported in our last week’s issue

‘ CWTﬁe—PITTUI URGH M A R KET.

 

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GLOVE SEED

D The cloverseed game is in real

 

 

 

 

 

and actual play at the present

time. Last month showed the
heaviest run of cloverseed that the
largest handlers of seed in theState
1.11am experienced for some time. The
situation has maintained itself just
about as we anticipated it would.'The
tone to the situation has been keen
but conservative throughout This
demonstrates that the trade in gen.
eral expected that the present stand-
ard of levels could be ﬁgured on with
conservative accuracy, therefore,
trading has been easy to maintain on
this basis.

 

CLOVER SEED—DETROIT
_ ' MARKET.
plume, ................. 022.00
12.00

._ Mammoth. prime
p; .Mllke, prime

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APPLES

While there is no par»

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'1 ; ‘ There is going to be areal shuf-
‘ D fie around storages for there

mainder of this month. Not
very many Michigan apples can be
ﬁgured on for disposition locally atfer
the ﬁrst of June, and but very few
holdings can be maintained until this
time with any degree of proﬁt, be
Cause the shrinkage feature is in
The market
is ﬁrm, bears every evidence of good
tone, but there is a limit possible to
get at the present time and we doubt
-very much if it is going to be pos-

' ' sible to advance this level to speak

of._ Only occasional varieties in high
class condition and of color could
belﬁgured on as working.

, APPLES—GENERAL MARKET.
, Fancy, per barrel ........ 2.50 to 4. 50
Ordinary, per barrel. . . .1.00 to 2 .50

 

 

 

 

 

 

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CORN—Pir'row so MARKET.
No. 1 “to. .................' «
No. 8 wine. .. . ..
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From an Elgin standpoint, we
D can see that quotations are grad-

ually loWerin‘g on- butter. We
would like to have some one explain to
us why this reduction. is rwarrantable'at.
this time. We know there is a heavier
season of the year andwe also know-
ﬂow of milk usually. expected at this
that this ﬂow of miIk'is created ate.
less expenseto the producer otmilk
than during winter months, and we
also feel aware that the handlers of
milk take this one feature of cost of
production into consideration and'abé
solutely pay you for your milk ac-
cordingly. To back up their lower-
ing of price, it just appears to us
that they are working through the
Elgin scheme of reducing the level,
thereby, making it appear to you as
a just reduction to make. Now, the
size of it is, that not but a Very
small percentage of creameries over
the State or buyers of whole milk or
otherwise handlers of milk, in any
way, are making butter at the present
time to speak or, neither will they
be making butter to. speak of during
Summer months. The demand and
call for cream, ice cream ﬁller, etc.,
is so- extensive that your milk can
go through that angle to better ad-
vantage than by putting it into but-
If you are

be made at your creamery, the skim
milk made into an ice cream ﬁller
vhich will net more money than
when they could only make butter
on basis of 36c.

IUTTI‘R— GENERAL MARKET.
Creamery No.1, per pound: .3)
Emmy Duh-y, per puma

EGGS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

, It has been some time since we
have experienced such a uni-

form price on eggs during the
month of April and so far into May.
We must appreciate that April affords
the best run of eggs possible to get
for storage purposes. L Next comes-
May. With present indications, we
will continue to see prices run along
It Mil de-
pend, of course 011 the supply We
would not be so very much surprised
if the supply along the middle to the
latter part of May Would be curtailed
to the extent that‘rcoeipes wean be

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Catﬂe~Detroit

“Receipts fer the week m we:

crease of 521 head there being 13222
this week against 1 ,743 feet Pram
cally a new market level has been es-
tablished on this market. Trading
:3th in this last week on about the

.1 basis of the week previous, While there

has been -a- tendenCy to not quite
touch the premium notches as shown
in last week’s quotations. Practically
nothing this week in steers touching
over $8; with steers and heifers 1 ,000
to 1,200 pounds, $7. 50 to $8; 800 to
1 000 pounds going at $7. 25 to $7. 75;
nice classy fat stuff weighing 500 to

'700 $650 to $7, so that the actual

trading for the week demonstrates
that the natural and conservative
level on which to ﬁgure is around $8
top, with the bulk of sales being made
between $7 50 and $8. Even with the
decreaso in receipts, the trading was

not more brisk than one Week pre-'

vious There was ‘some little tone
manifest in the curw department with
good choice, fat, classy stock going at
$6. 25 to $6.75; good fat cows, $6 to
$6. 25; common, $5 to $5. 50 Practical-

,ly everything in the canner depart-

ment cleaned up at $3. 50 to $4. 25.

Choice heavy bulls more than held~

their own, with last week’s sales
touching $7 to $7. 25 as against $6.75
top last week; fair to good bologna
bulls, $6. 50 to $6 75; stock ”bulls $5 50
to $6.

There was a comparatively good
tone to the feeding department, with
choice feeding steers» 800 to 1,000
pounds going at $650 to $7; good
straight stuff, not ﬂeshy. .800 to 1,000
pounds going at $6 to $6 75, choice
stockers weighing 500 to 700 pounds,
$6 50 to $6 75, fair stockers, weighing
500 to 700, $5. 50 to $6; nice run of

stock heifers, $4. 50 to $5; good large

young milkers, $65 to $75; cominon

run, $40 to $60.

 

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Maw ................ 97’ K 1018.25

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daté as to threw the par: ers‘
pars into; the markef

about 15. to 2516 lower
of a Week proﬁting..." . ‘
The real selling value "
handy steers for the -.
least 50 to 65c under 1: 1661;;
effeCt ten daXs ago.
0

The deal Was eteady, With
orders. The trade was

- closes This leaves the

ket in shape to start in '
a fresh slate Killers 3,

the spasmodic and New
the same. " A holding hack~
applied to none; for the
they are prescribing...

About m top for y
week. is $3. With- the b.1113! it,
ing around $7160 to $8.50., ’1‘
against sales or the Week.
from $8 to $8.85. Go basis ~

strictly choice stair in. thew
land $6 56 t0 ‘7' W
bring $8. 25 and better; rig

cows were selling at
$6.25;deceu1.t to strictly £0

 


 

 

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(1 FE‘

vy cows $8@8. 10,
"5.1713611 m

.2 33011911908

was fer "the very

At this .pia‘esunt 11mg]
{h _ ‘

(fenced rthe very best high class stuff
“ .2 to show the heaviest decline.

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range ‘61 hog .izalues top
end into: ' -
Heavy 2- Light
_ Packing, Packing 2 Packing
' . Medium & Selected &Selected
shawButchers, Shipping, 5111 ppln'g,
195g2651b3625$58moow~1bs ghglgg 128
7 ,.
$2836" 91:2 8:88:32 65 .
30:08 70 ; : .20@8
zoos.

.825@8.65
,nayq' ..,.~, 8.30@870.
3M.” 333”...” 8.25m.”

1912 ........ $7. 2m. 70
1011 ........ '. 00

sis-ii
on car
1!

8.1 8.50 _
$7 257511721687. 15
5.500163674189010

06%
18"10 ......... 9. 35@9. 65 9. 30cm 721,7, 9 40@9. 70
21909 6 85@7: 35 6. 85m. 35 6. 80@7. 20

The hog market for the week seems

 

to" demonstrate that a. real unevenness

and indeﬁniteness has existed The
market started out at the outset of
the week in comparatively good tone,
With a. saggy condition coming into
the situation about Wednesday.
Thursday’s run shows a reaction in
the form of a real comeback hog mar-
hot at 51: higher. 011 this date every-
thing inﬂicted, _
butchers stock 'was cleaned up readi-

The shipping orders were fairly
liberal, which caused action in the
early market. Packers were good
buyers ‘3. ‘;little later at the advance
caused. Light hogs continued sales
and met full strength of advance.
Quite a number of heavyweight hogs
we're held ov.er from Thursday’s run
Friday shows the hog market very un-
even with sales being effected at 5
to 150 lower than Thursday. The gen-
eral market at least 10c lower 2

Light weight oﬁerings showed most.

“decline, butcher weights met less call
and shared less reduction. in price
The trade was a little low at the
start but fairly active later at the
chIine shown. Offerings were pretty
well clieaned up; quite a quantity of
stale hogs were held over until Mon-
'day. A few speculatOrs and shippers

were the only buyers until late, then

packers stepped in and secured their
Ireduirements at low prices. This

 

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8.40 to 8.02-

 

 

7 .“Yorker‘s,

150 to 170
D0 light 130 to I50.

 

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Sheep and Lambs—Detroit.
‘ There is a liberal falling off in re-
ceipts for the last week Figures
sh‘ow" 3,106 against 4,838, a decrease
of 1,732. The market has run along
steady for the week, with sales being

comparatively easy to effect on basis

of quotations as shown There is but
very little difference in the actual
tone and trading level as based on
last week. About the top for’ good

handy weight and classy lambs was
. 87.752.

This was the basis on which
trading was effected last week. Fair
lambs going at $6 50 to $7. 00, with
light to common stuff moving around
$4.50 to $6. 00 The range of values

_ on sheep was established around

to $5.00 as top, with culls and com
mon stuff sagging around $3.00 to

'$41.00. There was no keen attention

shown to this department.

 

SHEEP —- DETROIT STOCK
“ YARD/8.

Lambs, good to choice. $7.00 to $7.50
Do fair to good 2 0.00 to 7.00
7. 25 to 7.50

5 250

Yearling lambs, choice..
0.25 to
4.00

Mixed sheep

 

 

Cull sheep

 

Sheep. and Lambs—Chicago.

Top prices and the range for bulk of sales
of sheep and lambs

This week . $6.80 $6 16611650 $8. 85 $7 25@3'so
Previous week. 710 6.15@@6.50 8.90 7.50@8. 823
F‘Ourwecksago 7.40 616@6.35 9.00 8.50@8. 75
800 67..5@7501060850@1026

3.90@4.30 6.50 5.00@5.40
”(@150 9.10 8.26@8.90
5.75@6.25 9.40 7.65@9.00

. 4.2573590 7.75 6.65@7.55
Sheep and Yearlings opened about
steady, with buyers of a bearish dis-
position, only taking a few of the
most desirable lots offered. The
week closes with the market some-
what of an indeﬁnite nature, with
business being transacted on about a.
10c lower basis, while there was sev—
er‘al bunches taken which showed 15
to 20c decline over Wednesday‘s run.
In face of sellers putting up a desper-
ate ﬁght against the decline, condi—
tions Were evidently against them
and forced them to accept the weak-
er bids. Packers seemed the only
competitors in this division, with none
appearing to have urgent orders.
Eastern dressed market was reported
to be in badnshape. This had a bear-
iSh effect upon the trade at Chicago.
The general quality of receipts fairly

good, while but a few strictly prin.

arrivals were to be had. Low dressed

‘stuff received the greatest setbsl

while there was a little inquiry for
ﬁnished handy—weight lots. Prices
were generally 15 to 250 lower than
the close of last week, Moderate
receipts are needed for the next week

or more, if sellers are to check the

rage of buyers.

 

IHEEP —- CHICAGO STOCK
YARDS.

Lambs. good to choice. .57 50 to $8.65
Do fair to good ...... 7.01010 8.25
Do cull to commOu. . . . 4. 00 to 5. 00

Yearling lame choice. . . 7.50 to 8.00
.130 dull :to fair. . . . . . . .. 4.00 to5.00

Wethors, choice ........ 6.00 to 7.00

E77". choice handy ’

; weight 8.00 to 8.75

*Do choice to heavy . 6.00 to 6 75

0,111] n 1)., .......... 3.50to,4.50
Belg: . .. 4.25 to 5;002ﬁ

 

 

 

. i; y
changed hands at 86 40,2: rvviii ;
a very choice handy class of wethe

sheep to bring $6. 25i@6 35"

sheep $5. 75@6, top for ewes $3
With majority selling from 8 Q
and cull sheep mostly 84 down?

 

SHEEP— BUFFALO Srock 3:
- 2vAsos. 2

Quotatlons—Wool Stock
Lambs, choice to extra. $8.00 to $8.23
[Do fair to good. . :.

Clipped Stock. WA
Lambs, choice to extra. .87.“ to 8215
Do fair to good 7.2 stow.“
Do culls and common. 4.50 to 7100
Yearling, choice ....... 6.75 to 7.2%
Do cull to fair .......
Wethors
lilixed sheep
Ewes, choice
Cull sheep 41:5
Bucks ......... ' ........ 300to 4’75

4.00 to 5:2“

25ft) 7.00 ,4 2

 

 

 

Wool.

The wool market continues 011.511

unsettled basis as a result of the dis
cussion of the T3110? Bill by Congress,

which provides for drastic cuts} in 5

the duty on goods and state free
wool The trade did not expect
a total removal
wool, it being generally held that
the bill passed by the Democratic

House of Representatives last year '_ _
marked as great a reduction as would ., ~

be proposed at this time During the
Democratic campaign last year free

of the tariff on;

wool was not advocated. This brings
President Wilson’s free w001 demand?

as a decided surprise The result of
the elbows upon manufacturers has
caused them to cease buying only
such stock as they need for immedi~
ate use.
market are light. This is given cut
as having prevented a. still sharper
decline in piices It is plain that the
tendenCy is towards lowex prices. It
is believed by some that the bill will

be so amended in the Senate as to ‘

provide some measure of protectiOn
for the wool growers

The Underwood bill not only pro
vides for a removal of the duty 011

wool but also places on the free 118th
partially manufactured products, such‘.‘

as Noils, Top Waste, Ring 2W2aste,
Garnetted Waste, Shoddies and "Car-
bonized Wool. These partly manufac-
tured products will certainly We

a laige amount of sh01t staple domes- :

tic wool and as a result, provide com-
petition for domestic clothing would.

The selling value of wools of last

year runs about as follows on the dih
forent grades: 1/11 and 1%; wools, 27c
to 271/313; 1/2 Blood, 24c to 250;»
Delaine, 22c to 24c.
of opinion is that with free W001,Am---
erican bright 1/3 and % unwashed will
sell at 200 to 221:, with ﬁne Delaine
wools in the same range of values.

coAL. ””8“

The coal situation

Stocks of old wool in the 2

_ ﬁne,
The concensus ‘

is respondmg

quickly and ﬁrmly as the season 3111’

advancing. Even though the domes-

tic trade is quet, the lake trade opens?
up and the output of the mines. 1‘35"

handled without creating any surplus:
of the good grades of coal

From all indications, labor trouble
is going to have a big inﬂuence upon
coal prices, throughout the year. We
must not consider alone, strikes in

this country, but those in foreign coun- .
At the present time there to-

tries.
a strike in Belgium,
room for American coal.
in the West Virginia ﬁeld is 12111011

thus making

closed, but just how long thoseﬁll , 3

will be satisﬁed is hard to tell.
large buyers are placing thei

hundred of the price of coal "30'
lower and about one hundr'e

to one of circular ,

 


‘ protein $41 per ton f.

free movement 3
this monthuv‘ « ‘

<

118
1113 1%-inch-screened lum1),, 1.260
. o 4-inch special lump. ’
Whit) 1%.-inch special lump ...... 1.60
Pomer- 2%-inch lump...
ambridge 11/1)- inch lump . ..... 1.60
”The above grades of coal take a
Hocking freight rate.
Virgin-1a special 10-inch block. $.1. 50
«Restless White Ash 4inch block. 1. 75
Vf ginia Logan 4~inch block ..... 1. 65
V-ilkon 3-inch splint ............. 155
u’on e’gg ............. '....'.....1.50

The above coal takes a Virginia or

entucky rate. or 25 cents over Hock-
nlg
“Michigan 4inch lump ........... $2. 75
Michigan 3-inch lump ........... 2.65
VA'Verage freight rate to Michigan
points, 70 cents per ton.
{Pocohontas lump 0r egg

1j-lﬁ‘reight rate. 45 cents over Hock-
yin‘g rate.
., V. Anthracite Goal.
5 Chestnut hard coal, gr. tons....$5.95
*_ Equivalent to net tons ........ ,. 5.35
Egg and stove size, 25 cents less.
The prices are 1'. o. b. Buffalo.

FLOUR AND FEED.

The market on ﬂour and feed is
practically the same as last week.
yAThe mills report sales are made with-

’ out any great effort from the sales-
man standpoint and conditions in gen-
eral point favorably to a larger vol-
ume of business in the feed and ﬂour
line, for the. next 30 days.

Shelled corn is selling basis 601/20
per bushel. delivered on a Detroit
freight basis. Price

Kind, per bbl.
"Blend" ﬁmm %~paper sacks..$ 5.25
Spring patent
Towelins: sacks or

20c igher.
Coarse corn meal
Cracked corn
Chop feed ‘

Coarse middlings ..............
F‘ine middlings
Bran (standard)

The above prices are i o
tloit, \iich on _car lot shipments

Tankage. averaging 60 per cent

0 I). Chicago

wood barrels
Per ton.
24.60
25.00
21.00
22.00
24.50
21.00
Dc-

. F..0B. Mines
ﬁnch rescr'eened lump $1 75 »

1.75.

. plans.
in plots not smaller than 2x4 rods in- '
stead of the acre as for corn and:

3,113) garden predicts, poultry an931111
1 be open to both beys and ‘1

.while Sewing, baking, canning c.911- ,
tests will be held for girls. . «.

' It is hoped that the corn and beet ' "

. contests Will be cared for by the coun» ‘
ty Y M. C. A. The other plant can"

test will be conducted along similar
The garden products must be

beans. .

Next fall the contest will be .held '
in Middleton and many liberal prizes '

will be given. The complete list. oi
prizes is not ready to'be given out
but the following are a few of them
Others will be in proportion.

Best 10 cars of corn ten ($10)» 1101-.

lars cash.

Best 12 sugar beets ten' ($10)" (1111»

lars cash.

Best results from one acre of beans?

ﬁve ($5) dollars cash.

Best display of poultry ﬁve ($5)
dollars cash.

Best display of baked goods ﬁve

* ($5) dollars cash.

Best display of canned fruit and
vegetables ﬁve ($5) dollars cash.

Best display of fancy work live
($5) dollars cash.

Best dressed doll (girls 10 yrs. of
age or under) ﬁve ($5) dollars cash.

These are all cash prizes and all

boys caring to compete in the county _

Y. M. C. A. will be allowed torretain
their corn End beets.

In addition to these suitable 2nd
and 3rd prizes will be given. A com-
plete list will be furnished later.

Any boy or girl in the four named
towuships under tWentyr years of age
that is not at the head of a family is
eligible to compete. All that needs
to be done is to see the teacher in
district where you are living and sign
an enrollmentblank, pay a fee of ten
cents to help meet the running ex‘
penses of the association and go
ahead with whatever line you are
interested. For any further infor-
mation write or see W. A. Roberts
of Middleton, who is the Secretary“
and Treasurer of the organization.

 

"Will YOU add justone
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 up:

'which here abounds.

T'because of the -
in tile judging“ pavilion, ,. '
to hold a.- show efiino‘re than one claim
of live Stock
cided to put on a lamb Show. next win-1‘ ..
‘ter in place of the barrow show held.
this. year. ‘-

limited Sp-

ch year,

it was tie-- _‘

Three prizes Will‘spe offered for the ‘ d

best wether lambs sired by purebred
rams ef each one of the renewing
breeds: Southd'own, Shropshire, Hemp
shire, Oxford, Dorset
Cotswold, Linéoln and Leicester, mak-

ing in all 27 prizes to be competed "
‘for by native lambs. '

In addition to- the above,

for the best white-faced western

-» lambs. ..

WILL SAND PRODUCE CROPS?

This is the question which is inter-
esting the owners of thousands of
acres of western Michigan land just
now, and if energy and science can
answer it, it will mean the rapid de-
velopment of this territory. -

'lhe Muskegon. Chamber of Com-
merce has just decided to take a hand
in solving the problem. A part of
louis P. Haight’s farm in that vicin-
ity is to be used for experiments and
the work will be pushed as fast as
possible. .

Uncle Sam is also at work on the
farm, and has been for the last three
years, trying to solve problems con—
fronting every settler in the Jack Pine
and Scrub Oak regions of this part
of the state. Two or three years
more of this work is expected to dem-
onstrate just what crops, and, what
form of rotation, will ‘produce the
most money frothhe sandy soil,
The Muskegon
men behind the new movement, are,
to be congratulated on their breadth
of view. The development of this
land means the development of the
neighboring towns, and the closer we
"knit the rural district With their local
township-s, the more likely we are to
see real progress in both.
THINKS WOOL PRICE WILL GO

UP AGAIN.

The price of wool at Corunna is
quoted at 20 cents a pound, three
cents less than last year and two

' ‘cents less than the average price of

1'

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the last four years. Dealers attribute
it to the uncertainty over what con-
gress will do with the tariff.

~PACKING PLANT FOR BAY CITY.

The Chicago corporation which
holds a large tract of grazing land in
Otseg‘o county, Michigan, has through
its agent, D. D. Young, purchased a
big tract of land in Bay county near
Bay City, and it is said that a. large
packing plant will be erected thereon
tis year. ' /

RIGHT OF WAY ALL SECURED.
It is said that all of the right of way

‘ at Allegan for the proposed interhr- ’

ban road from Al'legan to Battle Creek
has been secured. The option on the
Michigan Central line is good until
August 1, by which time the Michigan
United Traction Company would -be
ready to “hook up.”

HORSE TRADERS TO MEET-

The Central Michigan Horse Trad-
ers’ association will 81111131 its annual

three:
prizes Will be offered for the best
black-faced western lambs and also:

‘ the tract.

percentage of the proﬁts.

Rambouille't, '

more, which he just pureha
has also bought a tractor at
which turns four furrows,
away with the work of six ...
The farm is a good produce,
enue, largely due to th
of scientiﬁc methods. .-. _
Mr. Thomas is supervisor .
nin’gton township. ‘ ~ .

FOUR ACRES FOR 'schl'
The board of education‘i‘hf,’
ing has closed a. deal ~for ﬂ?“

part of the city. VV

tilled by schoolboys. _

boys from the high school and e ,

grade have signiﬁed their intentiq ..

of taking part in the cultivation. .

The land is well adapted

for farm purposes. All or the w

will be done by the boys, who is

plant, harvest, and market the crop

and in return will receive a c

will be planted this spring.

Vé m

intended to plant :fruit tr,

strawberry plants in the ta! 1

Ishpeming Y. M, C. A. had a farm .
(1'

Each boy was allotted a certain an
and the seeds were provided by 1:11
association. The scheme will ‘
tried again this year.

 

About thirty days ago we maxed a ..
order for 500 Limoges Thirty one .
Piece Dinner Sets to distribute am _ '
the friends of the “pink- sheet”
well our readers appreciated tit, ‘
can be told by fact that the:

81 Sets Left!”

If you would like one of these dinnpr sets be,

fore they‘are all gone, just Write us on a po .

saying: 'You may reserve one of the 81-3 ..
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yearly subscriptions to the pinkQ-sheet’
each. " One lady writes us: ‘ The
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ing and I must Wifmth to tell growths
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