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Food Administration ‘Refuses to
Commit Self as to Knowledge
of Michigan Situation or
Opinion as to Worth
of Beans

 

On October 8th,, we sent the 131110119E
mg telegram to Herbert 0. Hoover,
ahainnan 01 the Food Administration
committee:

“Is report true that Armour & Co.
have tendered food administration thru

17. J. Orr, Chairman U. 8. Bean pure

committee free use all mun-
bouse facilities for gathering in bans
from all over world to keep U. E. and
particularly Michigan price dam
Have you knowledge recent cable pur-
chase in Orient by big Michigan can-
ning company of eight hundred tows
beans at price seventy-ﬁve cents un-
der price set by Michigan producers!
Is it true that California, Colorado
producers have agreed tovsell beans
to Government at sis: dollars? Our
belief mat jobbers using under-handed
methods to scare farmers into selling
beans at loss. Price of eight dollars
based on average yield seven bushels
this date gives grower no proﬁt. Em-
plain why farmer should not have
small proﬁt on beans Government
takes into consideration production
costs when determining price of coal,
steel copper. Why not give farmer
same , treatment 1'”

Receiving no reply to this telegram
we wrote the Food Administration un-
der date of October 11th, giving copy
of our wire, and concluding as follows:

“In view of the sensitive relations
now existing between producer, dis~
tributor and consumer, we believe that
the readers of our publication are en-
titled to an answer to these questions
and a little explanation of the Food
Administration’s attitude upon the
bean situation in Michigan, with which
I believe you are conversant. May we
not have this information by return
mail?"

The only response We have receiv-
ed to either the telegram or letter is
merely a statement thatvthe food ad-
ministration had received a communi-
cation from the Lewellyn Bean Com-
pany, offering the use of its elevators,
etc., as told in last week’s issue of M.
B. F. On the subjects of the western
bean price and the supposed Oriental
bean purchase, the administration
maintains a discreet silence.

OHIO. PRODUCERS GET
$3.20 FOR OCTOBER’MILK

The Ohio, Dairy Company annéunces
the condensaries in the section will

 

pay the $3.20 price. This is 20 cents

more than the price asked for by the
Michigan Milk Producers’ Association.

The price to be paid in the vicinity
of Pittsburg is $2. 60 and throughout
the country in general $2. 50 to $3. 00.

The result of the raise has already

been felt in Toledo where the retail’
price of milk has advanced to 13 cents

a quart and six cents a pint.

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SHOWING UP THE SPECULATORS

In an eﬂ’ort to verify the statement that was published by
the market manipulators that the bean grOWers of California
and Colorado had offered to sell their beans for $6, we sent a
telegram to the California Lima Bean Growers’ Ass’n, asking
Below is their reply:

“OXNARD, CADRE, OCT. 16, ’17
“MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING,
“MT. CLEMENS, MICH.

ANSWERING TELEGRAM ARE ADVISED COLOR-
ADO BEAN GROWERS ASKING NINE TO TEN CENTS
FOR PINTOS WHICH ARE COLORED BEANS.
RECENTLY RECEIVED AS HIGH
AS THIRTEEN CENTS FOR LIMAS, TWELVE HALF
CENTS SMALL WHITE. MARKET DULL PAST FEW
DAYS. EXPECTED SETTLE AT HALF CENT OR MORE

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Why the Second Liberty Loan

Few people are thoroly conversant
with all the details of the Second
Liberty Loan of 1917. For the bene-
ﬁt of these the U. S. Treasury depart-
ment has issued a. primer of questions
and answers which cover-the subject
completely. We reprint the more im-
portant of these below:

Q. When I lend my money to the
United States Government, what do
I get in return!

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interest. This note is
called a. bond.

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Government bond?

A. It is the direct and uncondition-
al promise o the United States of
America to pay upon a certain date
a speciﬁed sum of money in gold, to«
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Wednesday, October 24th, has been designated by President Wilson as “Liberty
Day” How many of the 200, 000 farmers of Michigan will be ready on that day to
buy their Liberty bond and help win the war?

1 PER YEAR,- -No Prank;
$ Free List or Clubbing“ one:

ANNUALMEETING

MILK PRODUCERS 5

Concensus of Opinion Among the ‘

 

Members of Michigan Milk
Producers’ Ass’n That
Milk Cannot be Pro-
duced for Less
Than $3.

The outstanding feature of the
Michigan Milk Producers’ annual
meeting, held at East Lansing, Oct.
16th, was the statement of Ex-Gov.
Fred M. Warner, speaking in behalf
of the Michigan Milk Commission, that
milk could not be produced in Michi-
gan for less than something over $3
per hundredweight.

Over 400 people were present at the
meeting. Addresses, stripped of all
verbiage, and conﬁned strictly to the
problems now confronting the dairy
interests, were given by President N.
P. Hull, Field Secretary R. C. Reed,
Ex-Governor Warner, Milo D. Camp-
bell, and D. D. Aitkin.

President Hull spoke brieﬂy on the
rights of the farmer to have some-
thing to say as to the price received
for the products of his labor; he urged
the producers to watch their costs
closely and keep them as low as pos-
sible; he warned them to be careful
of the methods they might select in
their price-ﬁxing program, citing the
case of the Illinois Milk Producers’
Ass’n whose ofﬁcers are now before
the grand jury, as an example of how
farmers might unconsciously violate
the laws of the land.

“Look to the herd and cull out the
star boarders if you expect to do
future duty to the dairy interests and
the country at large,” said Mr. R. C.
Reed, the ﬁeld secretary. Mr. Reed
claimed that as a direct result of the
efforts of the association there had
been a total increase of over $2,000,000
in the milk receipts. He urged the in—
auguration of immediate plans to take
care of the surplus milk around De—
troit in the event of the Detroit deal-
ers refusing to pay the prices asked
next month.

Ex-Governor Warner stated that
the Commission appointed by the Food
Administration to investigate the cost
of producing milk in the state, had
failed to agree on all items of cost,
but were unanimous in their opinion
that the total cost would be somewhat
in excess of $3 per hundredweight.
It is the belief of Mr Warner that
the dairyman is entitled to not only
a clear 10 per cent proﬁt but an addi-
tional 5 per cent for managerial ser-
v1ces.

In speaking of the trials of the II-
linois producers. Mr. Milo Campbell
of Goldwater. president of the Nat-
ional Fedeation of Milk Producers.
laid all the blame at the door of the
Chicago middlemen and scouted the
idea that anything serious would come
from the grand jury investigations.

D. D. Aitkin, Michigan’s veteran
dairyman and live stock breeder, de-
clared that the price of milk should

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POTATO PRICES

Evidence Submitted by Various
Agencies Indicate that Potato
Price Should not Fall B‘e—
low $1 per Bushel

 

 

We have stated repeatedly in the
columns of M. B. F. that the potato
price this year should not fall below
$1 per bushel and many farmers will
lose money at that price. Following
is a summary of opinions from pro-
ducers and those interested in the
marketing of the crtg, as compiled
by Jas. N. McBride, state market di-
rector:

At the present prices for wheat,
beans and other food products it
would seem to me that the whole-
sale price of 1917 crop of potatoes
would not be less than one dollar a
bushe1.—Gco. A. Prescott, Federal
Food Administrator.

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In most of the markets today pota-
tatoes are selling at the rate of about
$2.00 per hundredweight, equalling
$1.20 a bushel but I was in hopes that
the Market Reports, both government
and state, will from now on use
hundredweight instead of bushels or
packages, as barrels, crates, etc., and
if in the beginning of the harvest the
prices to the farmer will be $1.00 a
bushel or a little better and we can
get a fairly even ﬂow of this year’s
crop to the market, distributing it
over the 9 1-2 to 10 months that it
will be used as food, we are in hopes
of having the price run fairly even
throughout the season—U. S. Food
Administration, Lou D. Sweet.

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The report of the Michigan Crop
Growing Commission says that grow—
ers must have $1.00 per bushel for
bulk carlot potatoes. Government
Grades Standard No. 1 at. Grand Rap-
ids.~—Jayson lVoodman, Chairman.

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Below is the itemized account of

my cost in raising potatoes per acre.

Rent of ground .............. $10.00
Plowing ................ 3.50
Harrowing .............. 2.50
Discing ................. 1.00
Seed ..................... 20.00

Cutting seed, marking and
planting ................ 3.40
Cultivating .... .............. 2.50
Hoeing .... .................. 1.25
Spraying ................ 10.00
Digging ................. 15.00
Hauling to market .......... 8.00
$77.90

I charge $10.00 in rent because,
While that seems high it takes four
years of preparation to get, and keep
potato ground up. This year my po—
tatoes are very disappointing. They
looked before digging like a bumper
crop—200 bu. per acre. I now have
them dug and my early ones—3 1-2
acres, went about 135 bu. per acre.
My late 13 acres about 90 bu. per acre.
My hay was a normal crop—25 acres,
25 tons. Corn very poor, silage, no
ears. Killed by frost, 15 acres. Buck-
wheat, frost-killed 5 acres; beans
grasshoppers injured, may get from
5 acres 20 bushels. This is about the
average of farms in this township.
Potatoes are the main cash crop. Ev-
eryone around here tried to make a
crop. We were led to believe we
would get $1 per bu. Here with that
price this fall we might pull through
and raise another crop, but if pota-
toes drop below 80c there will not be
50 per cent of a crop planted in 1918.
The farmers are just as patriotic and
just as willing to do their hit as any
others, but we simply cannot put $2
worth of hard work into $1.50 worth
of produce. If it were not for the

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matrimonial
REPORTS ON

long hours the farmer puts in and
the help lie gets from his wife and
children, but few small farmers would
be in business today. When farmers
get so we keep track of our.hours of
labor and give our families credit for
the time they are employed and de-
mand the pay such labor ought to
bring, the problem of keeping the
boys on the farms will be settled. If
we are to have a normal crop of pota-
toes next year s'ee that we get oround
$1 per bu. this year.——0. F. Carroll.

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MANCELONA—Justice C. A. Lane
held court in a bean ﬁeld so as not to
force ﬁve game law violators to stop
work. The ﬁve men were ﬁned with-
out losing more than two minutes’
time.

MENOMINEE —— The Menominee
conference of wool growers, which

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western sheep men, has decided to
raise funds to assist raisers to bring
their stock here.

PORT HURON—The ﬁrst step to-
ward a municipal coal yard was tak-
en Monday by the Trades and Labor
council. The fuel administrator was
asked where coal could be purchased.
The city commission will furnish the
funds for the yard.

MENOMINEE — Operations have
been started at the Menominee beet
sugar factory, and while the season
is late this year, the supply of beets
is much larger than in 1916, due to
the résponse of the beet growers in
this section to the request of the gov-
ernment that more sugar be produced
this year.

LANSING —— Food Administrator
Prescott may make war against the
purveyors of ordinary chicken feed.
They are charging too much for it,
and‘ as a result many poultry raisers
in the central part of the state are
feeding their chickens straight wheat.
This is hardly compatible with the
“save the wheat" idea. Chicken feed
at prices in Lansing and vicinity,
costs about $4.50 a hundred pounds,
while the same amount of wheat can
be bought for slightly less than $3.50.

DETROIT—The 57th Annual State
Sunday School Convention will be held
in Detroit Nov. 6-8. Among the 50

    

 

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speakers. will be Marion Lawranoe,
Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner, Eugene C.

Foster, President W. D. Schemerhorn,

Mitchell, S. D., Dr. S. D. 'Price and
Dr. Christian F. Reisner, New York,
E. K. Warren, E. W. Halpenny, Tor-
onto, and C. D. Meigs,vIndianapolis.
Features of the convention will be a
concert given by a chorus of 1,000
voices, a great patriotic meeting, and
a free automobile ride for the dele-
gates. Programs can be obtained
from Michigan S. S. Association, Al—
bion, Mich.

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Average prices being paid in Mich-
igan this week show little change
over last. Potatoes seem inclined to
rise a little, the lower markets which
were paying around seventy-ﬁve cents
having come up to ninety cents and
$1 per bushel. The dealers are un-
questionably puzzled over the pota-
to situation. They cannot reconcile
the Government forecast with the
small receipts on the primary mar-
ket and it Will undoubtedly be anoth-
er thirty days before they will be
able to see the situation as it really
is and buy accordingly.

Other average prices for the week
are as follows: Hogs, 17c; eggs, 380;
butter, 41 1—2c; rye, $1.72; hay, $13.50;
oats, 58 1-2‘; wheat, $2.07.

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ATTENTION_ CROI‘ REPORTERS

Last week a special crop report
blank was sent to all crop report—
ers. It is important that these be
ﬁlled out and returned AT ONCE.
There is much dispute as to the
average yield of the principal
crops in the state. Our crop re-
porters are the only ones in a po-
sition to give this information

readily. Let's have these reports
by return mail.
“'ANTED, CROP REPORTERS.

We have crop reporters in near—
ly every county in the state. We
want one to four farmers in EV—
ERY county to send us a weekly
crop and market letter, Who will
volunteer? Drop us a postcard
and let us tell you how you can be
of great service to M. B. F. and
to the business farmers thruout
the state, by acting as our crop
reporter.

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Some sex or seven months ago this paper showed that the Leading Creamery
Company of Detroit was earning nearly $1,000,000 a year, in spite of its claims to

the contrary.

The producers of the state have always suspected the existence of a '

huge combine, a “gentleman’s agreement” between the principal distributing companies

of that city.

Their suspicions have been borne out by the simultaneous action the

dealers have taken to boost the price of milk to the consumer whenever they were

obliged to pay the farmer a little more,

Always this price has been the same for

all companies and apparently agreed upon by them prior to their public announce-

ment of the raise.

Now that the consumers of the city have hinted at the existence

of a combine among the milk dealers something may be done tending toward a grand

jury investigation.

M. B. F. is now conducting a rigid investigation into the Detroit

situation and hopes to have somethng of a deﬁnite nature upon the subject to pre-

sent to our readers in the near future.

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ELEVATORS no '
BIG BUSINESS

Shiawassee County Co-Operative
Associations Pay Out to the
Farmers Over $128,000
In Less Than Six
Months’ Time

The success that attends most co-

operative ventures among farmers can-
not be better illustrated than by what
has been accomplished by the farm-
ers of Shiawassee county since last
May. .
The Co—Operative Stock Shippers’
Ass’n of Bennington and Laingsburg
began business the middle of May and
has paid to farmers for stock shipped
over $45,000. '

In August co-operative elevator as-
sociations were organized at Corunna,
Bennington and Laingsburg, and up
to the close of business September
28th, these elevators had paid out the
following amounts to farmers.

Corunna, $35,171.27; Laingsburg,
$26,777.61; Bennington, $21,359.94;
total for the elevator, $83,298.82; to-
tal for both elevators’ and shippers'
associaton, $128,298.82.

Shiawassee county is one of the
most forward counties, agriculturally
speaking, in the state. It is the home
of some of the most prominent men in
the state’s agricultural circles. Many
a co-operative idea has been born
there, and many a movement for the
betterment of the farmers in general
has had its inception there.

RECOMMENDATIONS OF
STATE MILK PRODUCERS

Your committee on ways and means
and program cf the Michigan Milk
Producers’ Association recommends
as a means of ﬁnance that a member-
ship fee of at least $1.50 be estab-
lished of which $1.00 shall be re;
mitted to the State Association. Such
other additional means as the local
organizations may employ is hereby
authorized. We recommend. that the
Board of Directors make suitable pro-
vision for the equipment of'the Secre-
tary’s ofﬁce.

We recommend that a committee
be appointed to inquire into the cost
of establishing cheese factories in
certain portions of the state to care
for any surplus milk. and that this
committee shall make its report to the
Board of Directors who are authori7p
ed to act in accordance therewith.

We recommend that the Board of
Directors select one man who shall
be known as the Milk Salesman who
shall have authority to determine
prices and market conditions based
on cost of milk production.

We also recommend the continua-
tion of Governor Sleeper’s committee
appointed to investigate the milk con-
ditions, namely, Fred M. Warner,
chairman; I. R. Waterbury, A. C. An-
derson, Fred L. Woodworth, James N.
McBride, Geo. A. Prescott, as a com-
mittee on investigation of milk pric-
es and milk conditions and to advise
in such capacity as questio‘ns may be
referred to them. ~

We recommend that in the case of
the milk producers of Illinois now
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the law that these conditions be tak-
en into consideration and that there
be no effort made to further embar-
rass or disturb the dairy industry.
We express our sympathy with every
effort made to conserve the dairy in-
terests and provide an adequate sup-
ply of milk and pledge our efforts in
this direction.

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WASHINGTON,
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“" ‘ Wilson has named
Wednesday, Octo-

. erty Day” and
urges all Liberty loan committees to
make special efforts on that day to
dspose of ther allotted share of the
Liberty bonds. It will be well for
our readers to keep the day in mind
and arrange for their purchases of
these bonds.
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In response to appeals from milk
producers and consumers in all parts
of the country, Herbert C. Hoover,
food administrator, will begin an in-
vestigation into the costs of milk pro-
duction and distribution. He has
namedas chairman of an advisory
committee on the' subject, Dr. Clyde
L. King of the University of Pennsyl-
vania and chairman of the Tri-State
Milk committee 'of Pennsylvania, Del-
aware and Maryland. Hearings will
be conducted at which producers and
distributors will be quizzed on the
costs of conducting their respective
businesses and the methods they ems
ploy in determining their selling
prices. Everybody, with the possible
exception of the big creamery com-
panies, Will welcome such an investi-
gation at the present time. Produc-
ers have been getting too little and
in some instances consumers have
been paying too much for their milk;
governmental regulation may prove
a. good thing at this time.

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Interest in the “investigation” pro-
ceedings against Senator LaFollette
wanes as it becomes apparent that
there is no real basis 011 which to con-
vict him of disloyalty. Both the
friends and enemies of the Senator
predict that the charges against him
will be dropped.

In a letter to Senator Pomerene.
LaFollette denounced the committee’s
proceedure as “extraordinary and
unprecedented,” and demanded spe-
ciﬁc information on the 'charges
made against him. those controvert-
ing any of his statements and a
thorough-going investigation.” He
declared he would not subject him-
self to examination until he received
the specific information requested.

“The public has been led to believe”
said Senator LaFollette’s letter, “that
the action of your committee is the
initial step in a proceeding involving
the title to my seat in the United
States Senate, and that the investiga-
tion you are making is .for the pur-
pose of determining the validity of
the charge of disloyalty made against
me. If this is not the purpose of
yo‘ur investigation. then it seems to
me both the public and myself are
entitled to know it now..

“If the charge against me is of- suf—
ﬁcient importance to be investigated.
it is of sufﬁcient importance to be in—
vestigated thoroughly. I insist upon
the right to meet. face to face and
cross-examine any person who chal-
lenges the accuracy of any statement
in the speech.”

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Arrangements are under way for
the ﬁrst international conference in
Which all the allied nations, including
the United States, will participate.
The conference will be held in Paris
and many important matters con—
cerning the future conduct of the war
Will be discussed. Among these is the
Russian situation. Russia has not
been considered as a real factor in
the war for a number of months, and
the unsettled civil conditions existing
there are a constant source of anxi-
ety to the rest of the allies. Unless
Russia’s internal affairs can headjust-
ed satisfactorily within the near fu-
ture, little additional help may be ex-
pected from that, empire. if indeed,
there is not open rebellion against
further participation in the war. It
will require the combined diplomacy
of the other allied nations if Russia is

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other matter that requires immediate
and combined attention is the sub-
Effective means for
combatting the underseas terror con-
stitute a real problem for the Allied
nations. Whether ,or not the subject
of peace will be taken up at all is not
yet known, but peace advocates are of
the opinion that the best opportunity
yet presented for a calm discussion of
tentative peace plans and the early
end of the war will have been lost, if
the delegates to this conference do
not make such a discussion one of
their primary objects.

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bond matures, or is called for re-
demption.

Q. thn are bonds of the Second
Liberty Loan dated?

A. November 15, 1917, is the date
they will bear, because that is the
date on which they will be issued by
the Government and the date on which
interest begins.

Q. When will these bonds be paid
by the Government; that is, when will
they become due?

A. November 15, 1942; but the
Government has the right to pay
them any time after 10 years from
date of the bond.

Q. Do I have to hold my bond un-
til the date it is due before I get my
money back?

A. aNo; you can sell your bond any
time you desire. There is always a
ready market for United States Gov-
ernment bonds.

0. How can such (l sale bc 'madc?

A. Any bank, trust company. re-
liable bond dealer. or broker will be
glad to sell your bond for you at any
time.

Q. If ncccssary. could I borrow
money on thcsc bonds?

A. Yes; United States Government
are the best security which can be of-
fered in borrowing money. They will
obtain for you the best terms possible.
Ask any bank if you desire to bor—
row money on your liberty bonds.

Q. Do I get any interest on my
money ichilc it is louncd {o my Gov-
crn m on t :7

A. Yes; the Government will pay
you interest at the rate of 4 per cent
a year.

0. H020 oftcn (lo 1 act this intcr-
csi?

A. Every six months. This inter-
est will be paid to you every May 15
and every November 1:") during the
life of the bond.

0. Can [ lcnrl any amount to thc
Govcrizmcnt and ycl (l bond in rclm‘n?

A. No; $50 is the smallest amount
that the Government will accept in re-
turn for a bond. Coupon bonds are
issued in the following ﬁxed denom-
inations: $50, $100, $500, $1,000, $5,-
000, and $10,000; registered bonds are
issued in ﬁxed denominations of $50,
$100, $500, $1,000, 5,000, $10,000, and
$100,000.

Q. .11 llnitcd Statcs (iovcrnmcni
bond is frcqncntly spolccn of as “bcst
security in thc urorld." thy is this
true?

A. Because the promise to pay a
Government bond is backed by the
faith and honor of the United States
of America and by the taxing power
of this whole country, which is the
richest Nation in the world.

Q. Has thc United States issucd
bonds bcforc: and if so. has it (”Ilt’i‘
farilcd' to pay all of its bonds when
lhcy become due?

A. This Government has issued
bonds before, and has never failed
to pay every bond debt when it be-
came due with all of the interest on
same. Even after the Civil War,
when the country was suffering from

1mm ‘

, to be kept in line to do her share. An-

a heavy débt and was not nearly as
it is today, all of the Government
bonds were paid when they became
due. _ ‘

Q. Are Liberty Bonds ccrempt
from taxation?

A. The bonds are exempt both as
to principal and interest from all taxes
imposed ’by the United States, any
State, or any of the possessions of
the United States, or by any local
taxing authority, except:

(a) Estate or inheritance taxes.

(b) Graduated additional income
taxes, commonly known as surtaxes
and excess proﬁts or war-proﬁts tax-
es now or hereafter imposed by the
United States upon the income or
proﬁts of corporations, individuals,
partnerships, or associations.

The interest on an amount of bonds
and certiﬁcates, not in excess of $5.-
000 in one ownership. is exempt. from
taxes provided for in clause (b) a-
bove.

Q. Docs this moon that the bonds
are frcc from all local taralion?

A. Yes; the local assessor or tax
collector cannot assess these bonds
as personal property.

Q. How much do bonds of thc
Second Liberty Loan cost?

A. From $50 to $10,000, whatever
their face value calls for. The law
states that these bonds must be sold
at not less than “par”; that is, their
faCe value—100 cents on the dollar.

Q. How can I buy the bonds of the
Second Liberty Loan?

A. By ﬁlling out an application
blank and handing it to any bank or
trust. company, bond dealer or broker,
or to one of the Federal reserve banks,
or to the Treasury Department at
Washington.

0. Ithn can this application for
bonds bc nimlc.’

A. At anytime from the let of Oc-
tober to the close of business on the
27th day of October, 1917.

Q. Must thc full pricc of bonds be
paid on application?

A. No; only 2 per cent of the a-
mount. you want. to buy is required
when application is made.

Q. thcn nil/sf thc 'rcnminrlcr be
paid?

A. In installments as follows: 18
per cent, on November 15, 1917; 40
per cent on December 15, 1917; and
40 per cent on January 15, 1918.

Q. Can I buy a, bond on, ihc install-
mcnt plan by payiny for it iccckly or
monthly?

A. The Treasury Department will
not accept payments in this manner,
but many banks and a great many cm-
ployers will sell you a bond and allow
you to pay for it in partial payments.
If you desire to pay for your bonds
in this way, consult your employer
or any banker.

0. 7’0 ichom shall I mulcc pay-
mcnts?

A. Payments can be made to the
Treasury Department, at Washington
or to one of the 12 Federal reserve
banks in cash. by bank draft, certi-
ﬁed check, post-ofﬁce money order.
or express company order, but sub-
scribers are urged to make all pay-
ments on their bonds to the bank with
whom they placed their subscriptions.

Q. What prorision is nzdllc for the
intci'cst '(zccruing/ on the bonds from
Noycmbcr 15, 1917. to May 15. 1917,
(l sizr months” pcriorl. zchcn final pay-
mcm‘ on lhc bonds is not mmlc until
January 15, 1919.

A lntcrcst from November 15, 1917 _

to date of full payment must be made
added to the last payment. Credit
will be given the subscriber for inter-
est at the same rate upon all the pay-
ments. Tables showing the amount
of accrued interest payable on Jan—
uary 15, 1918, and on various interest
days after payment has been made,
will be distributed through the banks
by the Treasury Department.

Q. AS' a practical matter, will I
have any difficulty in attending to
these details?

A. Noné at all. Any bank, trust
company, bond house, or broker will
gladly give you full instructions at
any time without charge.

 

WASHINGTON——The treasury de-
partment has announced an additional
loan of $15,000,000 to Great Britain.
This makes a to 1 advance to that
country of $1;‘2li5,0 0,000 and the total
loans to the allies now ambunts to
$2,253,000,000.

WASHINGT N~:fl‘lfe enemy pres-
sure along the eastern,f;ont has been
relieved by the strong allied offensive
in Flanders. No engagements of more
than local importance are reported in
the east. The German advance in the
northeast has apparently weakened,
and the Russians have been able to
re-organize their positiOns in the Riga
sector. '

* >l= it

ROME—In the Italian war zone
unsuccessful attacks by the Austrians
on the Italian positions in the Monte
San Mariele sector are reported. The
enemy's efforts to gain ground in this
sector in every case failed. In an—
other powerful drive the Italians cap-
tured the high ground south of Pod-
laca, taking 1,409 prisoners, includ-
ing 49 ofﬁcers. Intermittent artillery

ﬁre is reported from other sectors.
5!: *

*

CAM“ CUSTFiRs—Jl‘he ﬁrst batallion
of the Thirty-third Michigan infantry.
commanded by Major Gansser. has
left for Waco. The people of Battle
Creek turned out en masse to bid them
good-bye. The Mothers’ club of Bat-
tle Creek distributed Dies, cakes, can-
dy and fried cakes. Ofﬁcials are now
working on the task of locating men
with special qualiﬁcations and getting
them established where they may be
of the most service. There are many
gifted men in the ranlm who will come
under these assignments.

AMSTERDAM \Tutin‘.‘ Whom: the
crews of four battleships of the Cer-
Illall {100* has mwnrrwl :21 Il'ilhnlmg—
haven. The captain of one of the bat,-
tlcshlps. tho 11'c:‘i‘:x‘cu. was thrown
into the son and rlro"'1m", The crews
landed and marines romsml to tire
on them. The 811111;", .crn surround-
ed by soldicrs and .71‘11‘1wwlcrcrl. it is
also reported. that tho crews of the
German bnttlcrhiu ‘v'ut‘ibmwr mulined
at sea, sicwcd the otiiccrs owl proceed-
cd toward Norway. The ship was
pursued by lerman destroyers and
forced to surrender. Several of the
mutinccrs were executed and many
received heavy prison sentences.

ANNUAL MEETING STATE
MILK PRODUCERS’ ASS’N

(Conlipucll from page 1.)
not be determined by the cost of pro-
duction, but by its worth as an ar—
ticle of food. In Mr. Aitkin’s opinion,
money expended in advertising the
food value of milk to increase con-
sumption would be well invested.

The following ofﬁcers were elected:

President, N. P. llull; vice pres-
idcnt, (“has Ilainlinc; llcld secretary,
It. C. Reed; treasurcr. llorace Nortin,
Sr. Directorswhl. Ii. Noon, Jackson;
Milo Campbell, (loldwatcr; Juo. U.
Ketcham, Hastings; Frank .1. New—
man. Birch Run: M. W. Willard,
Grand Rapids; Chas. Evans, Belle-
ville; F. F. Consul, Mt. Pleasant; C.
S. Bartlett, Pontiac: John C Near,
Flat. Rock.

A crisis is approaching in the re—
lations between the milk producers
and the distributors. The producers
feel it coming. ‘x'crv soon now, the
dairymen will lay beforc the creamery
companies and condensaries thc'r ti-
nal ultimatum on the price they must
have for their milk. If contracts are
to be entered into at all they will prob—
ably not be for a longer duration than
one month, and the distributors will
be impressed with the desirability
of making adequate future provisions
for friendly relations with the produc—
ers. The time must come and it is
near at hand when producers and
distributors will decide upon some
ﬁxed basis for determining the price
that is to be paid for milk during
certain stated periods. Until that
time, it behooves every producer in
the state to remain loyal to the state
association and abide by its decis-
ions. In this way only can ultimate
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1.

How Beans Milst he: Prepared
and Packed .ior Sale and
Shipment to the U. S.
Government

The long Batista depeciﬁcations on
the Government’s bean purchases have
at last arrived, and altho still a ‘ittle
indeﬁnite they will give the bean
dealer and the bean growers, perhaps,
some idea of what the conditions are
under which they may sell to the
.Government. The speciﬁcations are
in the form of correspondence be-
tween the Government authorities and
Mr. Orr, chairman of the bean pur-
chasing committee, and follow:

White Beans
Beans to be choice; must be sound,
dry, well screened, well cleaned, and
must not contain more than 1 1—2 per
cent of discolored and split beans and
not more than 7 per cent of large or
medium beans, in double sacks, 100
lbs. net. ‘
Colored Beans
Quality to be No. 1 choice, small
and medium, re—cleaned, to consist of
dry, bright beans, cleaned through
regular bean cleaning machines and
shall contain not over 1-2 of 1 per
cent of foreign matter and not over
1 1-2 per cent split beans and not
over 6 per cent discolored or rain
damaged beans, in double sacks, 100

lbs. net.

“For your information,” writes
Mr. Orr, “I desire to state again,
as already stated to you, that
I have been attempting since

August 21st, to have our government
standardize the kind of beans they
would accept for army cantonments,
navy and for export, and the above is
the result. Recently I have been work-
ing hard to have them advise as to
bag speciﬁcations. Some time ago I
submitted a sample in order that
same might be approved or disapprov.
ed, so that any grower, shipper or
dealer in beans throughout the United
States would understand exactly the
Government’s requirements. I receiv-
ed the following reply this morning:
“WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD,
“ ‘COUNCIL or NATIONAL DEFENSE

“Washington, Oct. 8, 1917
“ ‘Mr. W. J. Orr,

“ ‘Saginaw, Mch.

“ ‘Dear Sir: Referring to the new
bean speciﬁcations callng for 100 lb.
double bags, we have had this matter
up with the Quartermaster General’s
Department and attach herewith re-
ply.

“ ‘It would appear from the reply that
the question of packages is for the re-
spective quartermasters to decide up-
on. Our former interpretation on
bean package or container is that
beans intended for exportation or
extremely long shipment should be
in 100 lb. double bags, and until dif-
ferently advised this will probably
be the attitude of this committee.

Yours truly,
COMMITTEE ON SUPPLIES,
By H. B. Collins.”

“Now you will note 110w indeﬁnite
this is. According to this communica-
tion, it depends entirely upon the
judgment of the Quartermaster at
each particular station as to the qual-
ity of containers that are to be used
for bean shipments, which makes it
very indeﬁnite. However, the writer
will continue to attempt to have this
matter determined, so that every in-
dividual, whether he is a grower, or
dealer, can readily understand our
government’s requirements, because
|l|lill|lllllll "W “WWW" '”“"""“""”"Ii|lil

IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY

a subscriber, this is an invitation for
you to place your name among the
real business farmers of Michigan.
Send a dollar bill in an envelope to
day and keep up to the minute on the
markets and what’s happening in your
state for a full year.

sncntillONs

 

engaged in a big undertaking" W, J.
Orr

SEC. BAKERJWILL. ASK 170R, '
. SOLDIERS’ MORATORIUM

 

rLegislation to protect ,the civil and

property rights of~soldiers, viii-effect a
moratorium for the duration of the
war in behalf of men who are serving
their country on the ﬁring line, may
be placed upon the Administration’s
program for this session of the rais—
ing ofa citizen army. The soldiers’
and sailors’ civil rights bill to carry
out this purpose already has been in-
troduced in both houses, having been
framed in the ofﬁce of Judge Advocate
istration inﬂuence be brought to bear
to obtain early enactment of the meas-
ure. To save soldiers and sailors from
all kinds of legal injustices in their
absence from home, the measure would

all must be pa ent, because" We are" . ‘ -
. enjoin the carrying out of cert

”warm 1's‘"i'vow,BE1N0

  

511?
ll court actions until after the close:

‘ of the war, and establish as a legal,

excuse for failure to carry out certain,

contracts, the fact that a man is in" '

the military service.

’ FED TO LIVE STOCK.

Oklahoma City, Okla—Half a mil-
lion bushels of wheat will be fed to
live stock in Oklahoma this fall, it is
indicated by reports reCeived here by
the state council of defense from 23
western counties. In most of the coun-
ties an increased acreage of wheat
planted is indicated, but no hope is
held out that planting will be further
stimulated by an increase of a few
cents a bushel possible under new
marketing arrangements. In Grant
county alone, it is estimated that 1500
bushels of wheat is being fed to live
stock daily. _

 

NATIONAL CROP REPORTS

Mt. Carmel, Ill.—The apple crop
here is about half as large as a year
ago with two or three cars for ship-
ment.

Mapleton, Me.——Most farmers have
ﬁnished potato digging. There is
about 40 per cent of a 0r0p. No rot
to speak of is shown. Stock is selling
at $3.

Goldenridgc, lite—Growers are al-
most through digging their potatoes.
Shipments will not be more than 50
per cent of last year when the out
put was 02 per cent less than normal.
Contracts are being made by some

,dealers to take stock from the station
, delivering in December and January

at $4.25 barrel sack.

Rivcrhead, L. I.——Potatoes moving
into market slowly, just the opposite
of last week. The price has been $1. 50
per bu. at Riverhead and $1. 60 east
of. here. Market, however. dropped
back to $1. 50 by Tuesday. Good many
potatoes being stored and large num-
ber of growers have ﬁnished digging.
Cauliﬂower coming in slowly and
bringing $3 to $3.50 per crate for
good stock.

New York—Receipts of cheese in
New York were lighter in September
by considerable than in the same
month in 1915-16, being 69,456 boxes,
abainst 74,656 boxes in 1915, and
94, 841 in 1916 First color and white
specials both averaged 25.30, while the
same color, average run, averaged
24.730 last year. The averages were
19.530 on specials and 19.110 on av-
erage. In 1915 the ﬁgures were 14.630
and 14.260.

Covington, N. Y.-—Potatoes are, an
average crop. Some rot is reported
because of the rainy spell. Onions
show a good yield, but the acreage
was small and not enough for ship-
ping will be harvested. Beans are
about half a crop as the early frost
caught the late crop. There will be
2,500 bu. from the station. Hay was
a large yield but poultry is scarce.
There will be no cabbage to be ship-
ped. Apples were poor.

Seattle—With the big rush of sum—
mer fruit over, jobbers are now con-
centrating their attention on the fall
and winter staples. Onions are ﬁrm.
California freight rates by water are
double those of a year ago and ship-
pers are reporting great difﬁculty in
securing cars for rail shipments. Wal-
la Walla onions are arriving in suf-
ﬁcient quantities to undersell the Cal-
ifornias by a shade, with Oregons a
trifle higher due to the difference
in popularity and quality. Few on-
ions except from the Walla Walla dis;
trict are coming from Eastern Wash-
ington.

New York—Shipments of peaches
from New York stations fell off nearly
one thousand cars during the past
week. With reduced arrivals jobbing
prices are about steady. It is estimat-
ed there are about 1000 cars in storage
at Rochester. Total grape movement
unchanged, but Michigan’s was nearly
doubled. New York crop moving
heavily now, although movement way
below a year ago. California shipped
twice as many as any other state.
Most of Maine’s white potato crop is

 

stored .and only 2,500 cars shipped
against 5,000 a year ago. Eastern and
New Jersey sweet potato shipments

less than last year.

New Orleans—The egg market con-
tinues ﬁrm with only moderate re-
ceipts in and a good demand. Fresh
candled Louisiana and southern eggs
sell at 40c to 41c per doz., and west-
ern fresh candled at 450 to 460.

Claremont. Va.——Irish potatoes are
looking favorable andthe weather is
right for a big crop where the stand
is good. Digging will not begin be-
fore Nov. 1. There is no blight or
rot. Buyers are paying $1.50.

Arcade, N. Y.—No potatoes dug here
yet. Heavy rains and late blight
started rot. Crop on low land rotting
badly. There will not be more than
50 per cent of a yield. There are no
apples, and beans are only half a
crop

Cohocton, N. Y.—Potato digging is
on in full blast and farmers are get~
ting $1 a bushel at loading stations.
The yield is averaging 40 to 60 bu. to
the acre but there is considerable rot.
Beans were greatly damaged by frost

Oct. 2. Help is scarce in the potato
ﬁelds.
Coachella, Calif.—Onion growers in

this valley held a meeting last week
to discuss marketing plans and to or-
ganize. No deﬁnite idea was arrived
at. Another meeting will be held at an
early date when it is believed an or-
ganization will be formed.

Stetson, Ila—The potato crop in'
this section is turning out much
lighter than anticipated. Many grow-
ers will not dig. There is quite a var-
iation in the crop, some ﬁelds will
only produce 13 bushels to the acre
while others will go up to 100. Quite
a few of the growers will not get the
seed back but are digging just the
same.

Sacramento, Calif.—The Paciﬁc Rice
Growers’ Association in session here
has ﬁxed the price for the 1917 rice
crop at 40 a pound. Representatives
of several milling companies as well
as rice growers attended the session.
Prices on the lower grades of rice will
be ﬁxed at later meetings. This is
the ﬁrst season of operation for the as-
sociation.

Trumansburg, N. Y.——Apples are a
light crop and are selling around $2
a bu. for the best picked. Drops are
bringing $1 100 lbs. Pears are an
average crop, but there are lots of
peaches, which meet a good demand.
Potatoes were blighted in late Aug-
ust and are now rotting. There are
not many beans harvested yet, but
the acreage was above normal; Good
weather is needed to bring them thru
properly.

St. Louis—An active call is shown
for red onions of quality which are
ﬁrm. Offerings are light. White on-
ions are slow and about unchanged.
Iowa and Minnesota sacked red globes
are bringing $2.50 to $2.60 per 100
pounds and Missouri red globes $2.00
to $2.25. Cabbage is ﬁrm with prices
considerably higher. The demand is
very good for the light receipts. Nor-
thern bulk cabbage is selling at $30
to $35 per ton.

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Kansas City—Uniting d
ies, both home-grown and shipped,
nioved Well here this ”Week. Frieda

ago. Ohio red- globes jrbbed at $2. 65

i ‘were not much changed from 'a week ,

per 100 me, While yellows brought:

$1. 40.
ions held steady at $L90. Nearby of-
ferings 0f onions dropped off consid-
erably and the few brought in were
higher.

reds and yellows were slightly lower
at $1. 35 to $L40

Chicago—News was received here
Monday that the proposed increased
rates on potatoes in this territory,
which were to have become effective
Oct. 10, have been-suspended by in-
terstate Commerce Commission. The
new tariffs proposed increases ranging

from 10 to 130 per 100 lbs. on pota—p-

toes from Wisconsin, Minnesota, up-
per Michigan, North and South Da-
kota, Iowa, to all points in the mid-
dle west and south. Suspension holds
good until Feb. 7 next and investiga-
tion is being made as to reasonabiltiy
of the rates

New York—Receipts of dressed
poultry in New York during Septem-
ber were lighter than the same month
in 1915- 16. This year they were 46,-
566 packages compared with 69, 431
packages last year, and 57165 pack-
ages in September 1915. This year
fowls averaged 25. 25c; broilers, 27.18;
fryers, 24.750; roasters 28. 310; froz-
en fowls averaged 24.880; broilers,
27.170; fryers, 23. 63c; roasters, 27.63;
turkeys, 30.500. Last year the fresh
fowls averaged 19.920; broilers, 25.72;
fryers, 25.100; roasters, 25.310. No
ﬁgures were given on western frozen
but in 1915 frozen turkeys averaged
19.500; roasters, 19.640; and fowls,
15.27c. Fresh fowls averaged 15.440;
broilers, 20.400; fryers. 18.760; roast-

' ers, 19.580.

.The most recent and accurate re-
ports obtainable are to the effect
that the apple crop is about equal to
that of last year, when approximately

680,000 bbls. were produced. Due,
however, to the British embargo,
something like 400,000 bbls. which

last year were shipped to English
ports, will have to be marketed this
year in Canada and possibly in the
United States—Commerce Reports.

APPRECIATES NEW
FEATURES IN M. B. F.

“As per your request about the Av-
erage Jones stories can say they are
enjoyed in this home. Your editori-
als are ﬁne, too. Also wish to express
my sincere appreciation at your being
able to secure Mr. Colon C. Lillie as
contributor. Mr. N. F. Simpson’s
“The Old and the New Way of Farm-
ing,” is just hitting the nail on the
head. Will close with the Irish wish
granting more power to your elbow."
-—C. F., Brant.

STANDARD OIL DIVIDENDS
GAIN $1,800,000 IN YEAR

The Standard Oil Company of Indi-
ana, which supplies the Michigan ﬁeld
earned last year 52 per cent on net
capital investment, or about 100 per
cent on nominal capitalization of $30,-
000,000. The company closed the year
with a proﬁt and loss surplus of over
$53,000,000. Dividends of 3 per cent
quarterly were paid during 1916, or
a total of 12 per cent for the year
amounting to $3,600,000. Quarterly
dividends of 3 per cent and 3 per cent
extra have been paid each quarter
this year, amounting to $5,400,000, as
compared with total dividends for last
year of $3,600,000. Standard Oil of.
Indiana has increased its authorized
capitalization to $100,000,000, indicat—
ing a capital readjustment is contemz
plated. As earnings this year are said
to be running as well as last year, it
should close the year with a proﬁﬁr

 

and loss surplus of more than $70,~‘

000.000.

Grated imported Spanish in:

Homegrown whites sold at . ' I
$1. 50 per bushel for large stock, while

 
    
     
 
 
 
 
        
    
          
      
    
   
     
      
        
      
       
         
   
      
      
      
         
       
 
      
       
         
    
     
      
     
    
    

   

   
      

   
  
   
   
 
     
 
    
   
   
   
   
    
 

 

       
 
     
     
    


    
  

 
  

 

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Conditions in the wheat market
have changed very little smile our
last issue. Receipts are still only
moderate and the demand increases.
The slight increase in deliveries has
relieved the ﬂour situation to some
extent. Hills are doing a capacity bus-
iness. The price of ﬂour has been
slightly lowered. No doubt the move-
ment will be greatly increased as the
fall seeding is ﬁnished in the west-
ern wheat states. Kansas has now
just about ﬁnished fall seeding and
other states are as well along. The
Government guarantee of a basic price
of $2.00per bu. for every bushel that
can be raised in 1918 has resulted in
a heavy increase in acreage. Taking
the element of uncertainty out of the
1918 market has had the desired ef-
feet.

The great amount of labor necessary
to prepare for such an acreage of
seeding has no doubt been one of the
prime factors in delaying deliveries.
Many of those who have been free
with criticism during the period of
light deliveries will no doubt ﬁnd that
as usual the growers have gone about
their own aﬁairs, regardless of the
clamor, and have taken care of this
year’s crop under great difﬁculties,
and have prepared an acreage of
wheat which another year, will prove
that they are right there when it
comes to doing their hit toward win-
ning the war.

A letter just received from the U.
8. Department of Agriculture states
that they are receiving reports of agi-
tation looking to the suspension dur-
ing the war of the enforcement of the
United States grain standards act,
and the grading system established
under this act. A conference be
tween ofﬁcials of the U. S. Food Ad-
ministration Graln Corporation and
the U. S. Department of Agriculture
has resulted in the following an-
nouncement:

All purchases of wheat over which
the United States Food Administra-
tion Grain Corporation has control
will be made according to the grades
of the oiiicial grain standards of the
United States from No. 1 to No. 3,
and below No. 3 after examination of
ma] samples of the wheat. The
enforcement of the grain standards
Act will not be suspended by the
Government, but on the contrary the
1111‘ States Food Administration

Corporation and the United
States Department of Agriculture will
cooperate in carrying out its provis-
ions so as te obtain the most beneﬁc—
ial results to all concerned. It ap-
pears that confusion has arisen on
account of the unfamiliarity of many
persons in the grain trade with the
new standards and also on account of
unwarranted practices that have aris-
en recently, such as the arbitrary as-
signment of a lower numerical grade
to wheat by reason of the presence of
docknge, notwithstanding the fact
that dockage does not properly enter
into the assignment of the numerical
grade. Every effort will be made to
eliminate these abuses, to bring about
the just application of the oﬁiciai
standards and to establish fair deal-
ings. It must be remembered that
the Food Administration Grain Cor-
‘poration is compelled to buy within
the limits of ﬁxed prices, and that the
Department of Agriculture must see
that the standards are correctly ap-
plied. Cooperation of producer, the
grain trade, and the milling interests
With the Food Administration and the
Department of Agriculture is required
in handling the situation which has
arisen as a result of the war crisis.

Thus it will be seen that for the
period of the war the Federal grades
as now established will apply regard-
less of any protest. "

 

 

DETROIT
so short on hay as it is right now.

‘ ward control of the price.
for increased buying in near future.

are diminishing.

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SPECIAL—Not in many months has the Detroit market been
Advise shippers to get in on it now while
the supply is short and demand exceptionally heavy.

NEW YORK WIRE—Beans are slightb' inclined to work lower,
seem to feel that the Government is about to take some action looking to-
Exporters awaiting developments.

PITTSBUBG WIRE—Demand for potatoes increasing and western ship-
ments ﬁnding better market owing to fact that shipments from local growers

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No. 3 ms. .61 1.4 .90 1.4 .6614 No. 2 911er 1.99 1.91 1-2 2.00
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Oats continue to range in price,
with slight variation, at about the
same level. The market in some re-
spects lacks tone, and at times ap-
pears to weaken. But with only min-
or changes the price continues to hold.
We would not be surprised to see the
market decline as deliveries become
more general, but we feel that any
decline will be but temporary. Oats
are worth the money and the great
demand should more than counterbal-
ance any surplus which might accu-
mulate at any time.

Export sales have fallen oﬁ just
a triﬂe. Arrivals of Canadian wheat
at the seaboard are now of suﬁicient
quantity to furnish cargoes and as
this wheat is greatly needed by the
Allies it has been given preference
over oats. But remember that this
will only result in a later renewed de-
mand for oats.

The United States crop summary
for October gives the estimated yield
of cats for 1917 as 1,580,714,000 bu.
This compared with the 1916 pield of
1,251,992,000 bu. shows an increase
of 328,722,000 bu. This is not such
an enormous increase and when .the
increased demand is taken into con-
sideration, and the decreased produc-
tion in other countries outside of
Canada, it will be seen that American
growers have little cause for worry
as regards price.

    

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WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 20.—
Last bulletin gave forecasts of dis-
turbance to cross continent Oct. 21
to 25, warm wave 20 to 24, cool wave
23 to 27. This will be preceded by
colder and followed by warmer than
usual. No great storms are xpected
with it and not much precipitation.
An old aphorlsm said: “The calm pre-
cedes the storm." During this calm is
the time to get your out doors work
done, In many sections this is the

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growing weather is expected between by close of Nov. 1, pains sections 2, it
this and Nov. 15 meridian3 90, tGreat tlakes 4and (12.11“) E
Next warm wave will reach Van— valleys, , BEDS ern 500 ions ,reac mg 5
couver about Oct. 25 and temperatures Vicinity 0f Newfoundland about NOV. "ii
will rise on all the Paciﬁc slope_ It 5, Storm wave will follow about one 5
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of Oct. 26, plains sections 27, merid- about one day behind storm wave. -_::
ian 90. great lakes and Ohio valleys This storm will be similar to the pre- g
Oct 28. eastern sections 29, reaching ceding, but not so fierce. _ A cold 2
vicinity of Newfoundland about Oct. wave is expected to come in Sight east E
30. Storm wave will follow about of Rockies in Alberta. near Nov. 4 E
one day behind warm wave and cool and follow the usual course with less :3
wave about one day behind storm force than the preceding. Heavy 3
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ortant feature will be a slow rise in Following these great storms we E
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ing to ‘the top on meridian 90, as it of November and during that quiet 2
moves eastward. about Oct. 28, near spell farmers should make good use E
which date the mutterings and other of the time for another very bad week 5
warning features of war in the ele- that is expected to center on Novem~ g
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The Government report for Octo-
ber places the estimated corn yield at
3,210,795,000 bushels. This, compared
with last year’s estimate shows an
increase of 627,554,000 bushels. Com-
pared with the ﬁve year average of
2,754,164,000, it shows an increase of
456,631,000 bushels. Thus it will be
seen that the corn crop this year is
excellent and that the harvest so far
this year has been satisfactory des-
pite the early frost and certain other
adverse conditions. The weather for
the past week has been generally fair
over the corn belt.

The Michigan corn crop has been
taken care of and silo ﬁlling has been
general for some time. Michigan is
not a corn exporting state, but raises
a great deal for home consumption.
The crop in central and northern
Michigan suffered generally from the
early frosts. Silos haVe come into
general use in Michigan and this year
of all years they have demonstrated
their usefulness. Much of this year’s
crop in this state would have been a
loss without the silo as many have
found who were without them. Far-
ther north in the state the crop got
a. very late start and was far from ma-
turity when the ﬁrst killing frosts
came. Our crop reporters from that
part of the state say that many silos
are but half ﬁlled aud that some
ﬁelds of corn will never be cut.

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THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK

As forecasted by W. T. Foster for MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING

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The storm may not reach you, but
you will know it is at work, for it
will be one of the greatest storms of
the year,

South of this storm path the weath-
er will be unusually warm and north
of it unusually cold. Heavy rains or
snows will be general and a great cold
wave and blizzard will afﬂict north-
ern sections. Don’t be so reckless as
to risk your life on the great lakes
during that dangerous storm.

The great storm period comes near
the end of the hurricane season, but
we expect one of these ocean mon—
sters to organize, about the last days
of October, east of the West Indies
and come into telegraphic sight of
the U. S. Weather Bureau not far
from Nov. 4. Near this last date an-
other cold wave will begin operation
in ‘the northwest.

Another warm wave will ereach
Vancouver near Oct. 31 and temper—
atures will rise on all the Paciﬁc

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future market is not as strung as is
only to be expected in the light of the
latest Government report. It would

  

surprise us to see the cash market
work just a little higher, as we have
said before, until time for the new
crop to move.

 

Under a very light demand the rye
market has eased off considerably.
Deliveries at originating points have
increased materially. Shipments have
also increased in consequence. This
together with the fact that exporters
have not been active in the market
for several days no doubt accounts for -
the lower price. No. 2 rye is quoted
on the Detroit market at $1.80 and
Chicago quotes $1.79 per bu. ‘

Buckwheat

On Sept. 1 the promise of the grow-
ing buckwheat crop was 21,000,000
bu., as compared with 12,000,000 last
year and a ten year average crop of
about 16,000,000; but heavy killing
frosts during the month in practical-
ly all buckwheat producing states re-
sulted in such serious loss as to ma—
terially reduce the yield of milling .i
grain. The current reports from all 2
territory now indicate a crop of no
more than equal to the ten-year av-
erage and possibly much less.

This year the Government‘s ﬁxed
price for wheat has established a
certain standard of minimum value
for all other ﬂour cereals. Therefore,
with the crop of buckwheat certainly
no larger than will be required for

  
  
   
  
   
 
  
    
  
   
  
    
  
    
    
  
  
   
   
    
  
    
    
 
   
   
   
  
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
    
   
  
  
   
 

normal domestic demands, the price
can hardly be expected to be lower
than its value as a substitute
wheat, while it may be considerab
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No. 1 Standard No. 2
Markets Timothy Timothy Time 3
Detroit 20 50 21 00 19 50 20 00 18 00 19 00 _‘
Chicago 20 50 22 00 20 50 22 00 20 00 21 50 E‘
Cincinnati 23 00 23 50 22 50 23 00,21 50 23 00
Piﬂlb > 23 00 23 25 22 50 23 00 21 75 22 50
New 021: 24 25 23 50 24 22 23
Richmond 23 25 23 50 22 50 23 22 75 23 25
No. 1 No. 1 No. 1 ‘
Market! Light Mixed Clover Mixed Clover
Detroit 19 50 20 15 50 15 75 14 50 15 00
Chan: 22 50 22 50 22 25 23 00 22 22 75 .
Cincinnati 23 00 23 50 22 50 23 00 22 50 2: v
Pittsburgh 20 75 21 25 20 20 50 19 50 2 '00 .
New York 22 23 20 22 18 20
Richmond 22 25 22 75 22 25 23 00 20 50 21 M
There is an exceptionally strong

demand or hay right now on all west-
ern markets. Detroit, Chicago, Cin-
cinnati, St. Louis and other points
report a great call or hay and re-
ceipts away short. Old hay seems
to be just about cleaned up at all
points and as yet growers have done
but little baling. The markets have
all shown advances, with the excep-
tion of far eastern points. The De-
troit demand is mostly for the better
grades of hay. Straight clover hay
will perhaps ﬁnd a better market at
Chicago or St. Louis. Cincinnati al-
so seems to have a very good demand
for clover mixed and N0. 1 clover.
The Cincinnati market is showing
particular strength right now owing
to the fact that Ohio shippers can-
not get hay at all. The local growers
have as yet done very little baling
and much of what has been baled has
gone east rather than south into Cin-
cinnati. Shippers from farther west
and north have likewise found a mar-
ket at Detroit, Chicago and other
points, leaving the Cincinnati market
practically bare.

Eastern markets seem to have fared
better in the way of. supplies and the
price remains about as it was last
week. While there is a fairly good
demand for the better grades, others
ﬁnd rather hard going at times. York
State growers have been doing more
baling than growers farther west and
so far a considerable portion of their
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iﬁnd a meet satisfactory market right
;’ in Detroit at the present time, and
:that now is the time to gét some hay
:moving so as” to 'catch the present

3high range of prices. A little later,

i'h'ay will be moving freely and~ the
:price is almost sure to work lower.

-.Looks as though those who got in on '

:the market during the next week or
1' so would catch the top and secure a
.better price than will be realized on
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New York
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j Prime 8.85 9.00 8.90
{ Red Kidney! 6.50 0.50 7.00

 

Reports continue to reach us from

3 our corps of reporters relative to the
Ibean harvest. If the writer is any
3 judge of conditions the ﬁnal yield will
; be a great surprise to those who have
-looked for such an enormous crop
’ this year. One report after another
, states that the beans are immature
and but few in the pod. Many ﬁelds

are still out and it is keeping all

'hands busy turning them between
rains. Now any one at all familiar

with bean growing in Michigan knows

what effect this will have on the crop.

: It will mean many discolored beans,

culls in other words. which will great-
ly reduce the ﬁnal commercial pro-
duction. Right at this time it looks
as though the average pick for Mich—
igan beans would be from 10 pounds
up. In making this statement we wish

. to add that we are not trying to bull

the market. We are simply trying
to get at the truth. During the past
two or three weeks the air has been
ﬁlled with all sorts of claims regard-
ing the present crop. Elevator men,
jobbers, canners, consumers, butchers,
bakers, candlestick-makers and agents
of the Allies have all had their say as
to what the crop Would be and what
the price should be. The farmer, for
setting a price based on the actual
cost of production per acre has been
damned by everybody in general and
yellow newspaper reporters in partic-
lar.

All the growers want established is
the truth. That is what we have set

. about to get an we have planned to
‘get it in the ogical way, through

personal reports from all sections of
the state. from reliable sources. If
there is such an enormous crop no
one is more anxious to learn the truth
than the growers. On the other hand
if the crop is short it will be to the
interest of dealers and consumers to
know it. We will soon have these
reports compiled for each county of
the state. and then—“the truth, no
matter who it helps or hurts.” In
the meantime our ﬁrst paragraph will
give you the present trend of the
reports. And. by the way, the writer
has personally inspected a few ﬁelds
in different parts of the state, just as
a matter of veriﬁcation.

A great deal has been heard of late
regardinLr importations of foreign
beans. They were to be imported in
sufh quantities as to knock American

bean prices into a corked hat. ‘Nell.
here is a report from Los Angeles.
which will tie a can to at least one of

these fairy tales: “A large shipment

of Rangoon rrr lnrma beans. grown
in 1,,At-._ which arrived from across
the l’awitic ocean this week. was con-

demned by federal ofﬁcers because
found to contain hydro—cyanic acid.
It was hoped by importers that the
beans grown in India would prove
satisfactory and thus help to reduce
the present price of beans. (get that?)
The presence of the hydro‘cyanic ac-
id is explained by Government chem-
ists is this way: While the beans
are in process of growth, deteriora-
tion sets in and the poisonous gas
develops.”

Wouldn’t be surprised if that hy-
dro-cyanic acid gave some of those
importers a pain in the small of the
stomach. even though none of it was
taken internally. One more boost
for Michigan beans. They contain
no hydro-cyanic acid. They are worth
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HOW CAN I HELP M. B. F.?
‘Fhat’s easy, brother; show this copy
to a neighbor. He wants this weekly
just as you want it, out probably he
has never seen a copy. Tell him.

We believe Michigan shippers will

    

 
 
 
 
 
 
  

 

 

 

 

 

' Choice round Medium Round

M""°“ white-sacked while-lacked
- Detroit 1.50 1.45
Chicago 1.40 1.35
Cincinnati 1.40 1.35
New York 1.50 ’ 1.40
Pittsburgh 1.30 1.25

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Detroit potato market is very ac-
tive' at present quotations. The price
still remains about the same with
some 0 the dealers expecting a slight
decline as shipments increase. We
would not be" surprised to see a few
of them get left on thj prg osition.
The farmers have ma 3 11 their
minds as to about What price they
must have for this year's crop and
when the market drops below that
level shipments will cease. There is
a good steady demand on the Detroit
market and those who are making
shipments at this time, either bulk or
sacked in car lots or sacked in less
than car lots, will ﬁnd satisfactory
conditions. But keep your eye on the
market. Watch it carefully and do
not overload it. The price variations
will indicate the supply.

Chicago market is in good condition
with a fair demand and only moder-
ate receipts. The supply has slightly
increased but additional buying has
more than counteracted any tendency
to lower prices.

Boston market is quiet and unchang-
ed at about the same level of prices.
Maine shippers are not shipping free-
ly. Some western arrivals are. quick-
ly taken at top of the market.

Philadelphia market, under light re—
ceipts and good demand, continues
strong. Pittsburgh market is ﬁrmer
under increased demand and only mod-
erate receipts. Dealers there expect
greatly increased receipts and lower
market. While the receipts may in-
crease somewhat we believe that a
lower market will bring about: a light-
er shipment which in turn will pre-
vent the price from much of a decline
at any time.

There is a very decided upward ten-
dency in the New York market with
a heavy demand. Not nearly so many
potatoes arriving there as is usual
for this time of year. Consumers,
fearing higher prices later on, are buy-
ing and storing for winter use. The
heavy rains have prevented digging in
nearby territory.

The United States Department of
Agriculture has arranged a potato
week from Oct. 22 to 27. Three pur-
poses are expected to be accomplished
by the nation-wide observance of this
period at which time a special effort
will be made to increase the consump-
tion of potatoes. The ﬁrst of these
purposes is to encourage the eating of
the tubers because at that time it is
expected that potatoes will be the most
available and economical starchy food;
the second is to save wheat during
this period; and the third is to en-
courage the general use of potatoes as
a wheat substitute by the American
householder.

It. is proposed that consumers make
a special effort to eat potatoes prepar—
ed in different ways, recipes for which
can be obtained from the home econ—
omics departments of the various

state colleges of agriculture. or from ~

the I’. S. Department of Agriculture.
It, is not, proposed that this potato
week will of itself have much effect
on the potato situation, but it should
call the attention of the people to the
fact that there is a plentiful supply
which should be used in domestic
commerce, leaving the more readily
transportable grains for export trade.
In shipping potatoes about four-ﬁfths
of the weight is water; in shipping
wheat only one-eighth is moisture.

    

Detroit onion market remains un-
changed. Car lots of good Yellow
Globe onions are selling at $2.60@
$2.70 per cwt. Local sales of small
lots still reported by certain dealers
as high as $2.90@$3.00. It is not well
to ﬁgure on this price however, as it
cannot always be obtained. Shippers
will ﬁnd a good market at Detroit for
the next week or so at least and per-

haps right along. We will. endeavor
‘to keep you posted. , . .

Chicago market is cleaning up some
but is still not quite so strong as it
will be a little later on. Local grow-
ers are disposing of their stocks. They
can afford to sell for less than those
who pay transportation charges al-
though they make a mistake by doing
so. No. 1 yellows are selling aroung
$2.50 per cwt. Some sales reported
at a somewhat better ﬁgure.

Pittsburgh market reported only
fair. A great deal of stock arriving
is of inferior grade and this holds the
market back. This will soon clean
up at which time dealers expect the
market to take on a more healthy
condition. Yellows are quoted $2.50
@$2.75 per cwt.

New York arrivals have increased
this week. The bulk of the receipts
heft: hgegjrgﬁ the west rather than

from local “ rigs. Medium~ rades

seem to be in the ‘majori‘ty'ih ,_ these
sell slowly. Cool weather has helﬁd
the demand. Fancy yelIOWS have sold
as high as $3.25 per cwt. Red onions
not so much in demand and selling
considerably lower than yellows,

    

Detrmt cabbage market would not
stand any heavy shipments. There is
a fairly good demand for smalt quan-
tities or an occasional car. Quoted
on the market at 600 per bu. Prices
range from $15.00@$16.00 in the
wholesale way.

Eastern cabbage markets are in
good healthy condition. The increas-
ed demand has resulted in better pric-
es. New York reports the heaviest
arrivals of the season during the past
week. On Tuesday there were 24 cars
on track. The best of it sold around
$22.00@$25.00 per ton. Barrel lots
selling at $1.00((D$1.75. Red cabbage
arriving in limited way and selling
around $2.50 per barrel. A few cars
of cabbage were marketed as early as
August 15th, but the kraut factories
did not begin operations until Sept.
10th, and the real harvest began at
that date. With no supply of kraut
left over from the preceding year,
the demand for cabbage has been keen.
As a result some has been cut'before
it was fully matured but the general
quality has been very good.

Vegetables
Carrots, $1 per bu.; beets, $1 per
bu.; turnips, $1 per bu.; green onions
20c per doz.; hothouse cucumbers,
$1.65 per doz.; garlic, 14c@15c per 1b.;
radishes, 500 per doz.; green peppers,
$2 per bu.; parsley, 25c@300 per doz.

    

1k .. -
., assess ~ as s as
Shipments of apples to the Detroit
market are exceptionally light for
this time of year, and there is also an
exceptionally strong demand. We see
no reason for any lower prices and
shippers will do well to look toward
Detroit when planning on shipments.
Quotations 0n Jonathans, $5.75 ((9
$6.00; Wealthy, $5.00@$5.50; Alexan-
der. $4.50; other varieties, $4.00 @
$4.50; No. 2, $3.00@$3.50 per barrel.
Chicago has had slightly increased
receipts but the market is active and
strong. Arrivals still mostly of the
early varieties. Shippers are ﬁnding
conditions very satisfactory there as
on all other markets. Quotations are
about the same as last week. Jona-
thans, $5.50; poorer color, $5.00;
Wealthy, $4.00@$4.50; Grimes’ Gold-
en, $4.50@$5.00; Maiden Blush, $4.50
@$5.00; Alexanders, $5.50; 20 02., $5
@$6.00; Greenings, $5.50@$5.75.
Pittsburg market steady with good
range of prices. The market has re-
ceived a great deal of inferior stock
but the demand has been such as to
clean it up rapidly without material
effect on the general market. Quota-
tions as follows: Smokehouse, $4.25
@$4.50 bbl.; Maiden Blush, $5@$5.25;
Va. Pippin, $3.50@$5.00; Jonathans,
$5@$5.25; Baldwin. $4@$4.50; Red
Streak, $4@$4.50; Rambo, $4@$4.25;
20 oz., $5@$5.25; Wealthy, fancy, $5‘
@$5.50: ungraded, $4.25@$4.50; black
Twig, $5.25@$5.50; Box apples now
moving and demand good. Winter
bananas. $2.50@$3.25; Jonathans,
$2.15@$2.90, according to size.
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firm. "The" demand is far; in excess of
supply. . Fancy Jonathans sell around
$6@$7‘with No. 1 «stack bringing $5
@36. York Imperials, $4@$4.75; fan-
cy Greenings, $6; A grade, ‘$4@$4.75;
Grade A King, $4@$5.50; Wealthy, $5
@$6; McIntosh, $5.50@$6.50. All
poorer fruit of these varieties, $1.50
@$4, depending'on quality and‘ vari-
ety.

Grapes. Peaches, Quinces '

Chicago—There were more black.
grapes coming and prices had to be
forced down to move them. There has
been no snap to trading and prices
will have to be shaded further. Con-
cords, Delawares, and Wordens in
unlabeled baskets sell 19@20c, and
labeled, 20@210. There are a few
Isle of Pines pineapples, but little or
no demand, and they are dull, $2.50,
@5275. Michigan plums are about
3%“!!! h; only Damsons sell well; 16
q 2' '65 "es, $1.75; lipJ "baskets 3. Green

gages and Bradshaw'sf ﬁ‘e‘ dyﬂ ; 16 qt. .

cases, $1; bushele, $2@$2.25. .. m. ,

The crest of the peach movement
is over, demand slack and lower pric-
es rule generally. New York State
stock shows poor quality and is most-
ly soft. A great deal of western stock
is over-ripe. Colorado Elbertas, $1.75;
New York Elbertas, $1@$1.50; Michi-
gan Late Crowfords, $1.25@$1.75;
Proliﬁcs, $1@$1.25; Smocks, $1@$1.50

Crab apples have cleaned up well.
Barrel Hyslops, $9; bu.; $3@$3.25;
barrel Transcendants, $7.50; bu.
$2.75@$3.

The ﬁrst quinces meet with slow

sale, $1.75@$2.50 bu. Cranberries are

dull, $10@$10.50 bbl. The melon sea-
son is about wound up. Michigan
cantaloupes are'about done. Color-
ados are doing fairly well, consider-
ing the cold weather. Standards,
1.50@$1.75; white meat ﬂats, 80@85c
pink ﬂats, 75c@$1. Both Casabas and
Honeydews are meeting with better
sale now that the heavy cantaloupe
movement is over, selling on a basis
of $1@$1.25.

Fruits

Plums, $2@$2.50 per bu.; Lemons,
$8@$8.50 per box; cranberries, $4 per
bu.; oranges, Valencias, $4@$4.75 per
box; peaches, AA, $1.50; A, $1@$1.25;
B, 75c per bu.; dates, Fards, 19c per
1b.; Dromedary, $4.25 per crate; Cal-
iornia fruits, plums, $2@$2.25; pears,
$3.50 per box; Malaga grapes, $1.75
per case; Tokay, $1.75 per case.

    

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No material change in Detroit but-
ter market. Arrivals not heavy and
consist principally of creamery stock.
Very little r011 or crock butter arriv-
ing and what is received is not gener-
ally of. such quality as to sell well.
Creamery extras are quoted at 44c;
ﬁrsts, 421/_»c@431,éc.

Chicago and other middle western
markets report a fairly active situa-
tion with some storage butter moving
New York reports receipts showing
poorer quality than two weeks ago,
but the deterioration about normal for
this season. Consumption greatly
curtailed by high prices and the use
of oleo. Held butter shows a fair-
ly good movement but the market
is easier. Most of the withdrawals
are of the medium grades, holders of
ﬁne Junes holding until later in the
season. When extras struck 441/30
the conﬁdence in the market was re-
stored and buyers began to operate
more freely. This has made a more
steady market for arrivals of stock
from interior points. Extras are
quoted 44%c; ﬁrsts, 431/2c@44c; sec-
onds, 43c@44c.

Cheese

Michigan ﬂats, 24 1-2c.; New York,
ﬂats, 26 1-2c; brick, 32 1-2c; long
horns, 27 1r2c; Michigan daisies,

25 1-20; Wisconsin daisies, 26 1-2c;
Wisconsin double daisies, 26 1—4c; do-
mestic Swiss, 30c@36c or prime to
fancy; limburger, 28 1—2c@29c per lb.

    

Receipts are very light on the De-

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This of? course, is for eggs of uniform
color and size,i.strictly~ new Laid and
desirable in every way. Regular run
of fresh gathered ﬁrsts. are selling
this week around 39c per doz., deliv-
ered" Detroit The market here is in
a better condition this week than it
has been for some time.

-New York—The fresh egg situation
has shown some improvement this
week. It has not been so hard to sell
stock. near quotations although gen-
eral trading is light. The large
amount of held stock is cleaning up,
but there is still much to move. Deal-
ers feel that the market will do bet-

ter after it is out of the way. Con-
sumption continues light. Stores
generally report sales light for this

season of the year. It is rather a dif-
ﬁcult market to quote as prices in
many cases depend on the bargain
made between the buyer and seller.
Extras are selling around 46c per doz.;
current receipts of ﬁrsts, 390 per doz.

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ly satisfactory market but much light-
e demand than usual fothis time of
year. '

   

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Springer: 20-11 n-n 20-73
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No. 2 Grade 2 to 3 Cents Less

While the Detroit poultry market
is good for the better grade of offer-
ings, well ﬁnished stuff, the majority
of arrivals seem to be in poor condi-
tion and as a result the market has
been somewhat inclined to become un
settled. Some of last week’s re-
ceipts of thin stock still reported on
hand by dealers. Receipts are some-
what light but just about sufﬁcient
to take care of the demand. Not
many ducks, geese or turkeys com-
ing. Ducks moving somewhat more
freely than a week ago.

Chicago poultry conditions are
about the same as those in Detroit.
Rather free receipts of stock of poor
quality has somewhat affected the
market. -

An easier and lower poultry mar-
ket prevailed in New York this Week
because of limited trading. Some
shipments intended for last week’s
market arrived too late and had to
be carried over. Buyers refused to
meet the ideas of receivers as they
wanted to secure poultry at lower
rates. Before trading was general-
ly resumed the prices had shown a
slight decline. The receipts are not
increasing to any great extent as was
anticipated. Fancy small broilers
are hard to ﬁnd. A premium has been
paid for large roosters. Old roosters
more plentiful. Good fat hens sell

well but a great deal of the stock
offered is thin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

GRADE 1 Detroit ‘ Chicago ‘ Buffalo
Steers, good to prime>10 50-11 0‘ 7 0112 00 8 00-12 00
Steers, con. to fair 9 00710 23 9 00 11 00! 8 75-10 75
Heifers,xoodtoprime 8 00 8 501‘ 7 75- 8 75 7 80 8 90
Cm, average 6 75- 8 00} G 70- 8 25 7 00- 8 00
Cannery—Cutters 5 00- 5 501 5 00- 6 00 4 50- 6 25

,averuge 600. 7251 650 750. 675- 775
Ved,fur to good 11400-15 00 14001525114254.5011

 

The Detroit market is in a good,
healthy condition. The better class
of offerings are firm at about the for-
mer range of prices. Others slightly
lower. There is a good demand how-
ever for all grade; and the yards
clean up quickly. Shipments this
week have been of about the usual
volume and shippers as usual were
well satisﬁed with returns.

The Buffalo market has been just I

a little slow this week with prices in-
clined to work a triﬂe lower. Certain
conditions have tended to lessen the
demand and at the same time arriv-
als have been more plentiful than
those of the preceding week. No
doubt this is but a temporary condi-
tion.

‘On Monday of this week our Chica-
go reporter states that the precel':;g
week’s receipts of cattle at seven
Western markets aggregated approx-
imately 378.000, a new record and a
supply 23,000 in excess of the week

 

     

i'pr'ev'ious" and . about 70,000 moral-than

the corresponding week last year.

Following this unprecedented mar-
ket'ward movement there was a tre-
mendously heavy run around the
market circuit again on Monday, the
seven points considered reporting a
total of 146,500 cattle. Chicago lead-
ing with 43,000, the ﬁfth largest day’s
supply on record, and Kansas City re-
porting 41,000. Thespeed with which
the trans-Missouri regions are un-
loading is indicated by the fact that
Monday’s Chicago receipts included
10,000 from‘the western range country
and by a supply of 23,000 cattle at St.
Paul, a record run for that point.

The fact that this is the heart of
the season for the movement of the
range cattle and the period of the
year when producers in most all sec-
tions invariably show a disposition to
stampede marketward, in order to
get ahead of bad weather, makes a
liberal receipt at this time. season-
able. While resultant declines in
values will doubtless tend to check
the marketing somewhat in the fu-
ture, the fact that a car shortage is
operating at this time to prevent an
even heavier movement is suggestive
of generous supplies for some weeks
ahead and until liquidation subsides
the trend of values will probably con-
tinue downward.

With so many cattle at their dis-
posal, buyers on Monday were natur-
ally slow to get into action early. At
the noon hour the trade was only be-
ginning to get fairly under way. Ex—
tra good to prime beef steers of all
weights held up well, being about
steady with a week ago, and a $17.50
top was made, but such kinds were
scarce and their sale no criterion of
the general mar’ at which showed ir-
regular 25c, and'uOc declines from last
Wednesday. the high time of last
week, the bulk being 25c to 40c low-
er.

Now, when supplies are coming
freely. such an c‘: 'nllenl, selection is
available and the market depressed

through sheer veight of numbers, is a
good time to lay in your stockors and
feeders. The fact that the fat cattle
market. has held up well as it has un-
der such heavy receipts clearly evi-
dences the great breadth to demand
for beef. ("urrcnt liouidation can
only lead to scarcity in the months
ahead. Young cattle will be high and

hard to buy next spring, and we feel
that thin yearlinge and two—year-old
cattle at present prices should be a
good investment for those who have
pleuiv of rough feed.

 

 

GRADE |

Detroit Chicago 1 Buffalo
Heavy 240-290’ 17 7518 00117 0018 30’ 18 0018 50
Medium 200-240 17 7518 00|17 5018 00118 0018 25
Mixed 150200 17 5018 25' 17 0017 50117 5018 00
Packers 100-150 17 30 18 35 ‘ 15 50 17 25:; 17 25 18 00

 

 

118 7.516 7514 5015 7516 0017 25

Hogs on the Detroit market have
shown an inclination this week to
work lower. The arrivals have in-
creased somewhat on this as on all
other markets, and the immediate
result was a small oversupply. All
offerings are cleaning up each day,
however, and the price is such as to
prove satisfactory returns to ship-
pers. There is still a heavy demand
for well-ﬁnished stock and the arriv-
als seem to run to the thin order.
Shippers who have to feed to ﬁnish
their hogs or at least to put a little
more weight on them, will be well
repaid in additional receipts.

Conditions on the Buffalo market
have shown some improvement and
with lighter supplies the prices may
work upward. On the other hand
much depends on the condition of
western markets. Declines there us-
ually mean heavier shipments east-
ward with a resulting oversupply 011
eastern markets. This is a condition
which requires close study on the
part of the shipper.

The supply of hogs on the Chicago
market shows a steadily increasing
tendency and average weights are fall-

”in 100 down

 

ing as the market movement of the
spring pig crop gains volume. Last
Week’s receipts of hogs at Chicago,

though totaling only 76,000 head, were
the largest in about two months and
the average weight, 215 pounds, the
lightest for the corresponding period
Monday’s hog receipts at Chicago
were 24,000 and the market 10c to 250

m: amass «me its”

‘IO‘Wer than the close of last week.
Bulk of the best shipping hogs sold
from- $18.00 to $18.40;
$17.50 to $18.00.

good mixed

 

 

 

GRADE Detroit Chicago Buffalo
10]) Lamb: 16.75—17.00 16.00-17.25 17.00-17.25
Yearling: 15.50-15.75 15.50-16.00 14.00-15.00
Wetllen 10.00-10.50 10.00-11.C0 11.00-11.75
Ewes 10.00-10.50 9.50-10.75 10.00 11.00

 

 

 

 

Not much change in the sheep and
lamb market. Conditions just about
the same on all markets as they were
last week. The Detroit market is
ﬁrm and steady. Good demand and
arrivals only moderate and cleaned
up fast. .

Buffalo reports conditions a trifle
better with slightly increased de-
mand and offerings only moderate.
Buyers are looking for good fail lambs
although all grades ﬁnd ready sale.

Cli'cago received about 30,000 sheep
and lambs on Monday of this week
and prices worked off somewhat.
Those sold for slaughter did not go
above $17.50, but feeder sales were
reported as high as $18.25 for the
more desirable weights, and there
were not enough sheep in the run to
adversely inﬂuence trade. The mar-
ket has since regained its strength
and shippers will ﬁnd it satisfactory
in every way.

Hides

N0. 1, cured, 200; No. 1 green, 16c;
No. 1 cured bulls, 15c; No. 1 green
bulls, 12c; No. 1 cured veal kip, 23c;
No. 1 green veal kip, 19c; No. 1
cured murrain, 18c; No. 1 green mur—
rain, 15c; No. l cured calf. 28c; No.
1 green calf, 24c; No. l horsehidcs,
$6; No. 2 horsehides, $5; No. 2 hides,
1c and No. 2 kip calf l 1-2c lower
than the above; shccpshins (as lo
amount of wooll, 501-0182 each.

SHIPPERS REPORT ON
TURKEYS, POULTRY, EGGS
L’zmlrcr Hill. 11’. I'7(Iv.*"'1)01111.1‘y crop

in this vicinity will be one-third smal-

ler than last year on account of the

high price of grain. Probably 500

head of turkeys will be shipped in

addition to four coops weekly of oth-
or poultry. Thc supplv of eggs will
be about the same. About 40 cases

a week will be shipped from here:—VV.

B. C
lamps. W'. VarAThc shipments of

poultry from this vicinity will be less

than last year. Probably three or
four cars of turkeys will be shipped
during the season and about 12 coops
weekly of other poultry. The full
production of eggs will be smaller.
probably 25 cases a week being ship—

ped. O. O. 0.

Falling l/Vafcv‘s. ll’. l”(/.-l’0ullry
crop in this Vicinity is one—third small-
er than last year. About 25 coops of
chickcns wcckly will bc 1hc output.
About tho usual amouul of cggs will
be shipped. not to exceed 15 cases a
week.ri.l. \N. E.

Lcon. 1V. 1’70.”’r1‘111'1{():\' crop here is
one—half smaller than last year with
about, one car for shipnnnt. Other
poultry is 50 per cent less with ﬁve
coops per week to ship. There will
be lcss eggs this full: probably (on
cases a week to chips 1“. A. S.

Rccdy. W'. V(I.~ml’<uilfry crop in this
section is smaller than last year.
There will be about 1,500 to 2,000 tur—
keys for shipment, while the output
of other poultry will hp about half
as compared with lost your. Probably
30 coops a week will be shipped. The
supply of eggs will also be short;
about 60 cases a week will be the out-
put from here—R. P. Co.

 

Woods, W. I’m—wl’oullry crop is
smaller in this sect ion as compared
with last year. There will be one

carload of turkeys shipped during the
season and would judge ten coops
weekly of other poultry. The out,-
look for eggs is about the tame; prob-
ably 25 cases a week will be shipped.
—J. P. Co.

Gaplrmd, Md.—Pou1try crop in this
secticn will be about half as com-
pared with last year. About 500 head
of turkeys will be shipped in addition
to average weekly shipments of 250
head of other poultry.There will be
one-third less eggs produced than last

 

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year and 50 cases a week will cover

the output.—D., M. R.

' Meat Situation

The world is facing a scarcity of
meats and the problem today is not
one of prices, but of production. The
Government report on hogs in the
country on Sept. 1 showed there were
5,427,000 fewer than two years ago.
Figuring about 160 pounds of dressed
meat to the hog this gives about 860,-
000,000 lbs. less hog meat available
than a year ago and about 1,280,000,000
lbs. less than two years ago. The
Government Bureau of Markets re-
ports that 51 markets‘ of the country
received for the ﬁrst eight months of
this year 24,326,038 hogs, 2,676,490
fewer than received in the correspond-
ing eight months of 1916. Figurlng
about 161 lbs. of dressed meat to the
hog, they would equal 3.9.10.4!)2118
lbs. of meats. This will give a fair
idea of what hog products were avail-
able in pounds during the ﬁrst eight
months of 1917.

It almost staggers one's imagina-
tion to figure what the future require-
ments of meats will be. The average
yearly exports of meats for three years
pr’or to the war were 2.574.632 lbs.
of fresh pork and 377,667,667 lbs. of
hams and bacon. The exports for the
year ending June 30, 1917, were 50.—
420275 lbs. of fresu pork and 933,-
811,642 lbs. of hams and bacons. The
average annual shipments of all kinds
of meats for the three years preceding
the war were 486,837.83?) lbs. For
the year ending June 30. 1916 the ex-
port of meats totaled 1.223.779.731 lbs.
and for the year ending June 30, 1917.
the exports of hog products alone
totaled 14.99.476.444 lbs. Undoubted-
ly. prior to our entry into the war,
considerable of our exports found
their way into (lcrtunuv and Austria
through neutral countries, such as
chrlcn. llo‘lund. llcmcark, Norway
and Switzerland. Our (Wucrumouf may
be rclicd upon to «:co that iho (‘onlral
l‘owcrs 1:01 ‘iolhil'i from now on.
but our \llicu‘. u‘uu? bo suppliod wuh
nimble and the l'nilcd Stalcs must
furnish if. (Eur own (lovcrnment, will
be u big buycr of meals lo food the
large army we must misc. '

Our domestic consumption will bc
up lo the limit, because owing to the
industrial conditions prcvuil’ug. labor
will be employed to its fullest capac—
ity and the working num will not
only have the appetite. but also the
pocketbook with which lo gratify it.
VVi’rh these facts before us. it is impos-
sible 10 {ll'l'lVO ﬁll any 01110]- (“0110111-
sion lhun that lhcro will be for the
coming 12 months a boon demand fol-
cvm‘y pound of lllOEll this mummy can
Dl'fﬂlllPC. 115“ 11 “3‘ “'011111 H011 the neu-
li‘ul countrios all they would buy,
lhcre would he n (10111171111. for more.
than We could possibly produce, lllcre-
l'W‘O. we are forced to the conclusion
that meals and hog- products of all
kinds will rule very jlinh in price for
3 “”153 lime to comes- 1’. (l. (imin Rc-
par/('1'.

 

 

Finest Grain and Bean Elevator
ond hay business in Michigan.
Splendid territory: not proﬁts,
$1.000 to $10,000 annually. (1n ac-
count bcing away on olhcr business
will consider active pariucr to run
elevator; will sell on terms or trade
for farm.
ness.

This is a woudcl‘ul busi-
Proposition will bear the
c10scst investigation and inspection.

Goodells Elevator Company
GOODELLS, MIClilGAN

 

 

 

 

. ()lt Sg\i.IG-—~lia.rred Plymouth Rock
(locks, Hens, Cockrels and l'ullcts
brcdrlrom winncl‘s :Ll «lr'uucl Hopi/ls ind
ionic l‘i'cck. My birds WM“ .7 first; ’
sci-(unis, 2 lliirdri, 2 fourlhs and cup for
luspluy of Slut» .'l.l‘..‘x, show at
(‘I'cck lutd lhec. You got your
nioncy back if birds (in: not onllrclysat—
1sfaclory. \Vrifp at once. Arthur J
\Voml, Middlevlllc, .ncn. ' "

 

N ENGLISH Sllllllz‘ S'l’Ol‘Ii HORSE
For Sale at a bargain if taken soon.
well brokcn to work single or double
The sire of more ﬁrst-class (JoltSthlall
any other horse in the county. Has ncv—
er becn beaten in the show ring. A horse
of“ (11111117? affgnexcellent ﬁnish. inquire
o' F 0 TE, Charle ' L i '
R. F. D. No. 2. wow. Mich,

 

1(‘r Type PC. Boars. March, April and

May furrow ready to ship. Sircd by
Grand Superba, and I’ctersx Jumbo. Mouw
Bred Boar. (‘. l«‘.. (formant, lCaton Rapids,
Michigan,

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Mr. Orr Errs

N A RECENT communication to M. B. F., Mr.
W. J. Orr makes two very serious errors in
judgment.

Error No. 1. “I am just as much inteested in
the welfare of the growers of beans in this state,"
he writes, “as the editor of MICHIGAN BUSINESS
FARMING can possibly be.”

Error No. 2. “Will you kindly answer thru the
columns of your paper as to why you should not
accept my every statement or intend that your
readers should?”

It is with the utmost pleasure, Mr. Orr, that we
challenge your statement and answer your ques-
tion.

You have never been, are not now and never
can be as much interested in the welfare of the
bean growers of this or any other state as the
editors of MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING.

You have been for years and are at the present
time a dealer in beans. You are in that business
to make money—to make all the money you can.
It is natural and legitimate, so far as the laws
of the country are concerned, for you to buy
beans from the grower at the lowest possible price
and dispose of them at the highest possible price.
By the very nature of your business, if for no
other reason, you cannot be unselﬁshly interest-
ed in the welfare of the bean growers. We grant
that every year you and your association have
encouraged the growers to plant more beans,
plant more beans, and have painted glowing word
pictures of the vast amount of wealth that would
come to them; yet we know, and the farmer
knows, that you speak once for the farmer and
twice for the bean jobbers. The larger the bean
yield and consequently the greater the trading in
beans, the more money the jobbers make. Will
you say, Mr. Orr, that we are wrong in our con-
clusions?

We do not accept your every statement nor in-
tend that our readers shall for the simple reason
that it has not been safe to do so in the past.
Will you deny, Mr. Orr, that there has been a
single year during your incumbency as president
of the bean jobbers that you did not cause to be
circulated thruout the state erroneous reports
of the bean yield that would have the logical re-
sult of inducing many growers to sell on the
opening market? We do not know whether you
intentionally deceived ”the growers; we only sus-
pect that you did; but that is quite immaterial
so far as an answer to your question is concern-
ed. Regardless of your motives the facts remain
that your reports have been invariably wrong.
Take your forecast of the bean yield for the
present year, for instance. Early in the spring,
thru the columns of this very paper, you fore-
casted a yield of over 8,000,000 bushels of beans
for this state. Having committed yourself to
that ﬁgure you stuck to it thru all the summer
months, in spite of all facts to the contrary, and
the daily press was quoting you as still claiming
that the yield would be over 7,000,000 bushels, at
a time when as an acknowledged authority on
beans, and with ready access to the true situation,
you should have known better. Since you are so
almighty interested in the welfare of the bean
growers, Mr. Orr, please tell us and our readers
why you persisted in giving out these false re-
ports?

Have we answered your question to your satis-
faction? If not, We call your attention to a press
report that was published in the Detroit News of
October 8th, under the caption, “Armour to Smash
State Bean Prices.” That dispatch came from
Saginaw, the home of Mr. W. J Orr, president
or the Bean Jobbers Ass’n, and chairman of the
Government’s bean purchasing committee, logi-
cally supposed to be the highest authority of the
day upon all phases of bean marketing and
consumption. The names of only two Michigan
men were mentioned in that report, viz., Mr. Fred

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'he was responsible :for' the statesient that
sages from California and Colorado where 13, -'
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‘year, state that growers will accept $6 a bushel?’_'
Please set us right on this, Mr. Orr.
not the gentleman who sprung this little tale on
the bean growers, pray tell us WHO WAS.

As you- doubtless know, Mr. Orr, the statement

was a, pure fabrication. 'The author may have re-
ceived such a report from some source, but it
would seem that ordinary, discretion would have
prompted anyone who insists that we make a
public explanation of why we cannot vouch for
the veracity of his every statement, to take the
pains 'to determine the authenticity of the “mes.
sages from California and Colorado” befone giv-
ing them out to the 'public. Don’t. you agree with
us, Mr. Orr?

That Liberty Loan

F MICHIGAN is to subscribe the entire $125,-
000,000 of its Liberty loan quota it will have
to be with the united assistance of the farm-

ers of the state. The city'of Detroit is having a.
hard time raising the $65,000,000 allotted to it;
Henry Ford’s subscription for $10,000,000 worth
of bonds is the only thing that has to date saved
the campaign in Detroit from ignominious fail-
ure. Reports from other cities in the state are
not at all encouraging, and with less than a week
left in which to raise the desired amount, the
Liberty loan committee now looks to the rural
districts to subscribe the remaining millions.

The average farmer is not a stock or bond-
buyer. He prefers to invest his surplus earnings
in good old Mother Earth which is permanent
and unmovable. Some times money invested in
this commodity yields handsome returns; other
times the dividends are not so attractive and high
taxes are an annual levy against the investment.

We do not, as a rule, urge our farmers to in~
vest in stocks and bonds. Many of them have a
distressing habit of ﬂuctuating in value and the
most of them depend too much upon the ﬁckle-
ness of Wall Street. But a bond that is backed
by the guarantee of Uncle Sam and the resources
of the richest nation on earth is quite another
matter. It offers at once to both the small and
the large investor the maximum in security and
above the average in dividends.

When a farmer buys a Liberty Bond, he per-
forms a service both for himself and for his coun-
try. On the one hand he makes a safe and proﬁt-
able investment; on the other, he helps the Gov-
‘ernment to buy clothes and food, guns and ammu-

nition for the hundreds of thousands of soldiers /

who will ﬁght to preserve the honor of the United
States.
If this country is to wage the war it has en-

' tered to a successful conclusion it must have

money—a great deal of money.‘ Inasmuch as
Congress, composed of the representatives of the
people, has declared this war, Congress will see
to it that the war is ﬁnanced. There are two
ways to raise money to meet the expenditures of
war—by the levying of taxes and the selling of
bonds against the resources of the country. Some
taxes have been levied, and distributed in such
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loan their money at interes and after the war

is over the money will be paid back to them. ”
That is Why the “Liberty Bond” issues have come
into being and that, is why every man who has

. money to invest is asked to buy these bonds. It
the people afathe country do not want to LOAN
their money to the Government, they; will be

forced to GIVE it thru increased. taxes, upon the

.. commodities of life. .
Millions of people are subscribing to the Lib-
. erty Loan because of patriotism;
others subscribe solely because it offers a good ‘

millions of

investment '1 but the great majority are actuated
by a combination of these motives. Arnong the
latter are the farmers of the nation.

The second Liberty Loan campaign closes 0c-
tober 27th. As we haVe said it devolves upon
the farmers whether or not the,loan is to be a
sorry failure or a glorious success in this state.
If the loan fails the farmer will be blamed; if
it succeeds he will get at least part of the credit.

We urgently request every reader of this paper ‘

who can spare $50 or more during the ensuing
year to see his local banker at once and arrange
for the purchase of one Or more Liberty Bonds.

The Heel of Achilles

CHILLES WAS the name of the Greek hero
we believe, who possessed only one spot
on his entire body that was vulnerable to

fatal injury. That was his left heel. An arrow
thrust there, and the warrior must needs give
up the ghost. And history records that a certain
enemy of Archilles discovered this point of vul-
nerability and did wound him there, and Archilles
did straightway yield up the ghost.

Not quite so strong and noble and manly per-
haps, but at least possessing the vulnerable heel
the average jobber in farm products plays the role
of a modern Achilles. As a distributor of an im-
portant article of food, the bean jobber has been
immune to the targets of his enemies. ,In the
guise of a public benefactor he has bought beans
cheaply, picked them closely, hoarded them care-
fully, manipulated the market successfully and
sold out at exorbitant prices. ' He has system-
atically “beared” the producer and “bulled” the
consumer, always smugly satisﬁed that he could
get by with his bluff that he was a necessary
medium between the two.

But he could not hide his vulnerable heel. In
spite of his protestations to the contrary, the av-
erage bean jobber is a speculator of the most pro-
nounced type and therewith lies his weakness.
The producer knew he speculated; the consumer
suspected it, but to catch him at his little game,
that was the rub!

He could not fool his Uncle Sammy, however.
In the food control law the Government took a
pot-shot at the bean manipulator along with all
the other seventeen different breeds of market
manipulators, and inﬂicted an all but mortal
wound on his vulnerable point. “No more specu-
lation” is the edict that has gone forth, and this
means ”no more exorbitant proﬁts.” Henceforth
or at least during the duration of the war, the
jobber in beans and other farm commodities will
be permitted to ﬁgure only a nominal proﬁt for
his distribution purposes. From now on the pro-
ducer and the consumer divide the cream, while
the erstwhile speculator gets the skim milk.

Feeding the Hungry

N THIS issue we begin the publication of a
series of three articles dealing with the food
situation in France and Belgium. They con-

vey only a vague idea of the gravity of the food
shortage in all the European countries now at
war. They give only a hint of the dire needs of
the belligerent pe0ples and the prohibitive cost,
to some at least, of many of the most common
articles of food; they suggest only conservatively
something of the responsibilities resting upon
this nation of feeding the hungry and wretched
people of Europe. But for all their moderate
wording and calm conclusions, they are sufﬁcient
to open the eyes of the American farmer to the
huge demand that exists abroad for the products
of his farm.

It is safe to assume that the average farmer
does not comprehend the true conditions affect-
ing food'production and consumption now exist-
ing in the nations at war. If he did he would
require no urgings from the government to in-
crease production;_ if he did, he would entertain
no doubts as to the demands of the immediate
future and the prices which his products might
command.

Let us try to visualize the situation that exists

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high prices which prevail in spite of food control
legislation is the plainsest evidence that we can
have that the demand is larger than the supply
and that unless we raise more the next two or
three years actual hunger will prevail in even
this land of boasted plenty.

Even if the Great War should cease tomorrow,
we can see no reason why the unprecedented
world demand for American farm products
should not continue without abatement for sev-

ers have been killed in battle; and this means
that from ﬁve to ten times as many millions of
consumers will have to look to other farmers for
their food supplies. It will be years before the
great scale of supply and demand comes .to bal-
ance again; till then the American farmer need
have no fear of over-production or proﬁtless
prices.

The farmers of the nation have made greater
progress toward securing equitable prices this
year of 1917 than in any ﬁve year period of the
last half century. If they but knew it they stand
now in“ a position to insune proﬁtable prices for
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is president of the Bean Growers’ Association, and by using strict business methods
has made a splendid success of the business of farming.

The “hard knocks" you get at training camp here illustrated.
of the exercise is to wallop each other so hard with the padded club that
one falls from the barreL Such exertions keep the boys in physical trim.

“Fatty” War-Profits almost makes a getaway.

The Consum-
er lies in the dust at the rear.

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parture for training camp.
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'THE FARMER AND CONSER-
VATION OF FOOD SUPPLIES

That the fa1mers of the country
should be requested by the nafoaal
food administrator to go without n:eat
every Tuesday and without any form
of wheat food stuffs every Wedneiday
is a condition never before tllO.'.{Z,‘llt
of. It is extremely extraordinary.
America has always been the land of
cheap and abundant food and farm-
ers especially have never thought of
scrimping on either of these two
products. Wheat products and meat
are the main stay for the farmer's
table and yet here at this day and
age our President informs us that it
will not only be policy but that it will
be necessary for us to conserve these
two products that we may have a suf-
ficient amount to ship to France to
supply our armies and the armies of
our allies.

We are told that England,
and Italy are short of wheat, meat,
sugar and fats. It is-absolutely neces-
sary that this country do everything
possible to supply the armies of our
allies with these necessary tools be-
cause unless an army is well supplie'l
with provisions it cannot ﬁght, and
the more ﬁghting our allie'; do the less
ﬁghting the Americans must. do for
we are in this war to win. We have
got. to win; and we are going to win!

France

Under the circumstances. w'th these
extraordinary conditions before us it
seems to me that every citiv'en of this
,c‘reat republic ought to be willing to
deprive himself of these perms-(113v
foods to a certain extent, in order to
increase the available surpiu: to be
shipped abroad. It looks to 11:1: like a
patriotic: duty. Of course it is hard
for many of 11s to believe that, such a
condition exists and yet it has been
presented to 11s so ilainl'y from all
sources thot we cannot help but be-
lieve that, it is true. and 'f it be true.
I ltelie‘c it is the duty of every farm-
er and all members of his family to
comply with the request that Food
Administrator Hoover has made and
abstain from meat and wheat products
on each Tuesday and Wednesday.

it isn’t much of a sacrifice. While,
these products figure largely in a
farmer’s bill of fare, to give then 11p
for one day each week is not a sacri-
ﬁce worth mentioning Some of us
may think such a wall amount will
be saved that it will have no percepti-
ble effect upon the total amount ll‘tl’li‘.
available for shipment abroad. Of
course, what is saved merely from one
person abstaining from their use isn't
much. but when you multiply that, by
over a hundred million. the number
of people in this country. and we can
hardly realize the amount of these
products that are saved just by this
little sacriﬁce by each person,

At, our house we have begun to com-
ply with the request of the food ad-
n‘inistrator and we have formed a
resolution that will not be broken that
now and hereafter as long as it is nec-
essary thew w'll be no meat on Tues-
day nor any wheat products 011 Wed-
nesday. Of course. there has only been
two or three weeks so far and thus
far it has been no sacriﬁce at all. It
is not worth mentioning. There are
so many substitutes that can be used
in the place of wheat in this country
—~rye, buckwheat and corn meal es-
pecially-r—sthat' one really is better off
to abstain from it one day in the
week. It gives a greater variety. It
may make a little more work for the
women folks because they will have
to make corn bread and buckwheat
cakes and perhaps rye bread when
they haven’t been used to doing so,
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not mind it. and I am sure. that the
women will be perfectly willing to
make this little sacriﬁce in order that
the American army abroad may be
provided with these necessary foods,
and also our allies.

So far as the meatless Tuesday is
concerned, it doesn’t matter whether
one tries to ﬁnd a substitute or not.
Of course, meat is rich in protein but
where one only has to abstain from
its us e one day this is not important.
The most of us consume m01e protein
than necessary and to abstain from
the use of meat rich in protein would
really be beneﬁcial instead of a detri-
ment. Beans can readily be substi-
tuted for meat on Tuesdays and the
necessary protein furnished in this
food. I am positive that if the Gov-
ernment ﬁnds it necessary for further,
abstinence on these important foods
that the farmers at least will be wil-
ling to make greater sacriﬁces and
abstain from eating meat and wheat
products two days each week instead
of one

Some seem to be puzzled to know
why our government asks us to save
wheat by substituting corn when corn
costs as much or more. It is not to
cut down our expenses that the re-
quest is made but to save wheat.
Wheat is war food For this purpose
there is no substitute. We can util-

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THE BUSINESS FARMER’S CALENDAR

Reminders Of the Things That Should be Done
On the Farm This Week

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1. Invest some money in' Liberty
otit‘ duty.

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nice lot~of craps in and had a No. 1
man working for me, he was taken
in the draft, and it leaves me in a ser-
ious condition to take care of my crops.
The Government appointed ————,
of Millington, .Michq to consider the
exemrtion. He was over to see my
wife and she gave him the circum-
stances as near as possible and he
agreed to furnish another man in his
place, but i have not heard from him
since and my man was kidnapped
Sept. 27. Now I will say that _-___

is out of place for the position
that the government gave him. 1’. S.
—I have at present about 15 acres of
beans to harves , 7 acres of potatoes
to dig and my intention was to sow
about 40 acres of fall crops. At pres-
ent I have sexual 12 acres and am left
alone and impossible to get a man.”—
J. L. B.. Mag/ville.

U. S. SUGGESTS 100 POUND
UNIT FOR POTATOES

No standard measure for the hand-
ling of potatoes is uniformly accepted
in the United States. In certain states
various units of measurements have
been established through usage. For
instance, Maine has adopted the 165-
pound barrel; Washington, the ton;
New York, Michigan, Wisconsin and
others the bushel; and Colorado,
Idaho and Oregon, 100 pounds as the
basis. The confusion caused by the
wide difference of units of measure-

   

 

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4. Now is the time to plan on a good lighting systenr
prised how reasonably one may be installed.
yisit the school.
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5. Mothers—Find an afternoon to
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ize the corn at home but it can not
well take take the place of whoa? 1‘or
the army or for the people of Europe
who know nothing about this food
prejuct. '

Sugar is also a war food as well as
meat. We can scrimp a little on this
and not hurt us. and have more t'; ex-
port. I haven‘t used sugar in my cof-
fee since the war began and i shall
not as long as it lasts. If everybody
would do that it would help out inr
inensely.

Many of us are deprived of the hon-
or and the privilege of going to the
front and defending our country in
this great crisis. The only thing left
for us to do is to stay at home and
provide for the army in the field and
the millions who must make ammuni—
tion and other war supplies, and see
that they are properly taken care of
so that they can do their work well.
We can do this, and this with what
we can do in the purchase of Liberty
Bonds to help the Government ﬁnance
this great question will be about the
only things that we can do for our
country—4701071 C. Lillic.

GOVERNMENT TAKES THIS
MAN’S ONLY FARM HELP

“I will send you my complaint to-
wards the way I feel about the draft
ing of farmer boys and hired help,
As the Government advised me and all
farmers to grow all the crops possible,
and that the farmer will be exempted
it really. needed on the farm, I am
working 160 acres of ‘and and have a

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ments has led to the demand for a
uniform standard to be adopted for
the entire United States.

A joint committee representing the
growers and the shippers and distrib-
utors held a conference in W'ashing-
ton recently. This committee went
on record as recommending that the
bnieiu of standards be iiiged to take
the necessaiy steps as soon as possi—
ble toward the establishment of 100
pounds as the unit upon which
price. quotations and buying and sell-
ing of potatoes shall be based thru-
out the United States. T

11011 D. Sweet and E. P. Miller, pota-
to experts with the United States Food
administration, heartily endorse this
action. Such a unity will facilitate
handling and will be fairer to produc-
er and consumer alike.

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SOME POTATO PARINGS

Good seed potatoes. free from
blight and rot. are always worth
saving for one’s own future crop,
or to supply others.

Feed the cull crop to the hogs.
(Took the potatoes thoroughly and
mix with corn meal, shorts, or
bran. Skim milk is a good addi-
tion.

(wading potatoes for market
increases the possibilities of sales
and raises the price received. Keep
the culls on the farms and save
the cost of hauling

Potatoes add succulence to the
dai1y iation Where corn silage is
not available and there are plenty
of small potatoes a peek at day
will giV’cx a marked increase in milk
ﬁow. They should be introduced
into the ration gradually. and
should be run thru a root cutter
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NEW SETTLER MAKES NO
PROFIT ON $1.00 POTATOES

“Enclosed you will ﬁnd $1 for my
subscription to your valuable paper.
In my opinion the farmer who would
refuse to invest one dollar in a paper
like the M. B. Elias a mighty poor
business head on his shoulders. I
am a’so sending in the names of three
neighbors who want the paper. I
think I will have a few more later on.

“Corn in this section was badly hit
with the frost. No ripe corn. Many
ﬁelds of beans spoiled entirely. Some
ﬁelds have been plowed up and put
into fall grain. Potatoes mostly go-
ing from 25 to 50 bu. per acre; a fey
ﬁelds as high as 100 bu. or better; and
some not worth digging.

“In my opinion we should gét $1.25

per bushel for potatoes this year and .

at that many farmers would lose mon-
ey on the crop up in this neck of the
woods. A good many men have bought
wild land, cleared up a nice piece of it
and paid $3.50 per bu. for seed pota-
toes to plant it with, thinking the
price would be 'very high and they
would make enough to build a little
house and barn and get a start on a
little home. Some even bought the
lumber on time and built a small
house and barn, but their hopes are
mostly gone glimmering. The frost
cut their crop short, and at a dollar
a bushel they won’t more than get
pay for their labor and many will
not ('o that. The writer and 11's bro l1-
er cleared up about l 1 acres and plant-
ed it to potatoes. Ve are very lucky
as they ale :1 fairl‘ good crop, but
we can t iigino out how We are gong
to make much of a p1oﬁt ﬁguring the
cost of clearing, the price of seed and
3.00 per day for men to dig them.
We are wondering where the money
is coming from to pay for the two
barns we had to build and paid $28
per thousand for the lumber we put
in them.

“No doubt Mr. Bale, Mr. Woodman,
Mr. Allen, Mr. Cook, Mr. Scully and
the other men who were called to help
ﬁx the price on potatoes can raise
them for $1 per bu. on their improved
farms with all modern machinery to
work with, and their farms in a high
state of cultivation, but what of the
men, and there are hundreds of them,
who are raising their crops on new
land, where they have to clear the
land, work around the stumps and
grabs all summer cultivating with one
horse, paying $13 per (lay for digging’
them with a six-tined fork, making
payments and paying interest 11.1
their land, paying for teams and tools,
building house and barn and making
other improvements 011 the new ‘arm
that these men on their improve'l
farms don’t have to do. They say the
price is based 011 the average farmer.
Now ‘I take it that that would be like
taking the man half way between the
best improved farm and the fellow
who is just start 11;: in and paying
them all the price it costs the middle
or average farmer to produce his crops
with a small proﬁt added.

“The average farmer makes a small
proﬁt, the big farmer makes a big
proﬁt and the little fellow makes no
proﬁt at all, while if there is any man
who should have a good profit it is
the man who is taking up the wild,
waste land of our country, clearing it
up, making homes of it and helping to
feed the nation.

“But, as in other business, the big
fellow gets the big proﬁt and the lit—
tle fellow gets a lot of hard work and
no proﬁt.

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MAINTAINING HEALTH IN
SWINE WISE PRECAUTION

 

During the fall and winter, disease
of some kind is apt to break out
among the hogs. The changeable
weather and new feed make it nec-
essary f01 us -“.0 watch the animals
closely when they are being crowded
for the market. There is perhaps no
other animal on the farm which suc-
cumbs more readily to disease than
the hog. The health of the animal
is one of the necessary requirements
for proﬁt. An unhealthy hog is un-
proﬁtable even though the disease
from which it is suffering is not con-
tagious. We should therefore take
every care to preserve health.

One of the helpful things to do is
to keep the premises in good sanitary
condition. Hogs feed with their noses
to the earth and are ﬁlthy where they
are compelled to be so. If we provide
‘ them with clean quarters and pens

they appreciate it. All the pens, yards
and surroundings should be thorough-
ly cleansed, disinfected and limed with
fresh air slacked lime to fertilize and
increase productiveness. The fences,
partitions and all of the wood work
both inside and outside and all posts
need to be thoroly whitewashed. In
this way vermin and the germs from
" mange deposited there by the hogs
rubbing against them will be destroy-
ed. While this is not a sure guaran-
tee against disease it is an excellent
preventive. Even a healthy herd with
clean surroundings may have the
germs of disease introduced or carried
into it by other means, but this is a
proper precaution which we can ex-
ercise and at little expense. It is
very beneﬁcial to the hogs to be in
clean pens, with clean bedding, and to
have clean feeding troughs. It is like
a tonic, it is appetizing and better re—
sults are obtained from the feed.

A feature of much importance is to
furnish proper protection for the an-
imals during the winter. On some
farms, however, this thing is overdone.
The animals are given a tight build-
ing well banked up with windows and
doors that can be closed, shutting out
all cold air. An expensive hog house
is built in which the thing aimed at
is to exclude the cold. This idea car-
ried to the extreme is a wrong one
and may bring more disaster in its
train than protection. Hogs are pro-
vided by nature for withstanding the
cold. It is protection from the cold
currents of air and the storms that
they require. Thorough ventilation

t is important always. A dozen big fat
hogs in a tight room will raise the
temperature to a degree that will
make their sudden dash out into the
outer air extremely dangerous. Fresh
air i's not to be excluded, but all
drafts should be. No animal while
sleeping should be subjected to a
draft of cold air.

Another danger in a hog house is
from dust. Dust in the sleeping place
cannot fail to get into the bronchial
tubes and lungs of the animals caus-
ing coughing and irritation. For this
reason it is necessary to supply good
clean bedding and change it frequent-
ly or whenever it becomes chaffy or
ﬁlled with dust. In a well construct-
ed hog house comparatively little bed-
ding is required. In a ﬁoorless house
the dust problem may become a ser-
ious one. The ground will become
hard and dry and the sharp boots of
the animals will grind the hard earth
into dust which will become mixed
with the bedding material. If the
house is on a well-drained spot the
dust can be swept out when occasion
demands, but this continued for a
time will make the ﬂoor of the house

‘ lower than the surrounding surface
of. the yard, and in rainy weather

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water will settle therein. This must
be guarded against and I know of no
better way of doing it than to make
a good wooden ﬂoor and keep it bed-
ded with straw or other material.

I keep charcoal in reach of my hogs
at all times. Free use of it is a goozl
way to rid hogs of worms, and inas-
much as it has no medicinal proper—
ties the effect must be purely mechan-
ical. Hogs have insatiable appetites,
especially when being given such feeds
as corn, for burnt corn cobs, slack
coal, wood ashes and charcoal in ev—
ery possible form. All this indicates
that these meet some requirement of
the animal system. What is palat-
able seldom does the system any in-
jury and then only when taken in
excess, which is likely to be if the an-
imals are not accustomed to it espec-
ially if they are hungry. The very
fact that hogs, when on a full feed of
corn, eat all forms of charcoal with
avidity and never get too much of it,
is sufﬁcient grounds for providing it
in abundance and keeping it within
their reach at all times.

Charcoal can be made conveniently
by digging a pit about two or three
feet wide and as many feet deep, start-
ing a ﬁre in the bottom then ﬁlling up
the pit with corn cobs and when they
are thoroughly charred covering the
pit over and smothering the ﬁre. Then
if some salt is mixed with this corn-
cob charcoal and put where the hogs
can have free access to it their re‘
quirements both in the way of salt
and charcoal will be met. This mix-
ture will help a great deal in main-
taining the hogs in good health.——John
Underwood.

KEEPING DAIRY RECORD
HAS HELPED PROFITS

 

A good many years ago I found that
it was a good thing to keep records of
all my farm operations. They may
seem trivial at the time, yet some day
are sure to be of great value and are
a great help and satisfaction in clear—
ing 11p difﬁculties that frequently
arise. It requires only a small amount
of work to keep them if the work is
done regularly and systematically.
The very fact that records are kept
makes one careful of details and inter-
ested in making the things of_which
the records are kept turn out the best.
It helps one to have a ﬁrm grasp on
his affairs and to know just where he
stands in all his work. He knows
whether he is running his farm or
any branch of his farming at a profit
or at a loss.

In no branch of farming are records
of more importance than in dairying.

Yet in going among dairymon one
would be surprised to ﬁnd how very
few keep records. It is of actual
money importance to know whether

a cow is making a profit on the feed
she consumes or is eating more than
she is paying for. It is also a good
thing to know when cows are bred
and when they are expected to fresh—
en. The creameryman knows to a
fraction of a pound what he is taking
in and what he is selling. He must
keep accurate accounts. He would
not know just where he stood and
would be involved in all kinds of dif-
ﬁculties if he could not give a deﬁnite
account of every item of his business
at any time. What is true of the
creamery or any other business opera-
tion is similarily true of dairying.
There are a great many dairy farmers
who do not know just how their busi-
ness stands. They may be losing in
some operation and yet not know it.
simply because they have no definite
knowledge of proﬁts and loss of the
operation. Their cows may be mak-
ing them money, or they may be eat-
ing more food than they are paying for.

In my experience I have found it
a very easy matter to keep a reliable
record and to know just how each cow
in my herd is standing all the time.
The ﬁrst essential in keeping a record
of this kind is a pair of scales with
which to weigh the milk. There also
ought to be another set of scales to
weigh feeds. A chart placed on the
wall of the milk room receives the
daily record of the amount of milk
given by each cow with the total for
the month. These monthly totals are
credited each month or week to each
cow in a book and on the same page
she is charged with her feed for the
time. If whole milk is sold the debits
and balances are simple. If the milk
is made into butter either at home or
the cream sold to a creamery or cream
buying station from the butterfat test
of each cow her actual producing pow-
er can be determined. It is necessary
to Weigh the milk at each milking
and record the number of pounds on
the chart. With feeds the weighing
need not be done so often. For in-
stance. a mixture of grain for one feed
may be weighed and then measured
and the same amount measured out
for each feed till a change of ration
is desired. By this method the quan-
tity of feed each cow consumes each
week may be determined approxi-
mately and the account entered in
the dairy record book at the end of
each week. When the ration is chang-
ed a new weighing may be made for
a single feed and the account of this
made at the end of each week till the
ration is changed again.

In order to give the cows credit for
all they do an account of the loads of
manure hauled from the dairy stables
should be kept and its value estimat-
ed approximately. If cream is sold or
butter made the cows must be given
full credit for all the skim milk either
at some standard market Price or for
what it actually makes by feeding it
to calves. pigs and poultry. It" the
skim milk is all fed to pigs its value
may be accurately determined by
weighing the pigs, weighing other
feeds consumed by them and the
skim milk given for a week or some
given period. By weighing the pigs
at the end of the given period the
gain and value of the skim milk may
be determined almost to the cent per
100 pounds. This value will of course
be partially determined by the cur-
rent price of hogs.

After a little experience in keeping
a dairy record methods of making en-
tries will suggest themselves as well
as methods of iiguring balances or

profits. The Work will become easy
and more perfect \Vrl'il practice. The
cows aro to be charged with feed.
shelter and service. They are to be
given credit for butterfat. skim milk,
calves and manure. if accounts of
these :{l'o accurately kept it will be
easy to determine what each cow is

doing and whether the dairy in gener—
al is making a proﬁt or is run at a
loss. ——J07m Underwood.

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, [EDITOR'S NOTE. Thisis the. ﬁrst
of ‘a series or art-ides by- Fred B Pitney

noted foreign correspondent, on the
food situation in France. Mr. Pitney not
only had at his dispositio‘n the ofﬁcial
‘ figures of the French government on the
food supply of France, but he has lived
in France during the war and speaks
from personal experience and intimate
ﬁrst- hand knowledge Of the conditions
there.‘ Statesmen and politicians have
had the mistaken belief that they are the
only ones wise enough and strong- -heart-
ed enough to face the entire truth. Con-
SGQUently when the nation is hard- -press-
ed and its man- -power is low and food sup-
plies nca ing a low ebb they wish to
keep this information from the people and
endeavor to reassure them with false
hopes Politicians have also officially
denied reports of meagre resources in
order to giVe France greater prestige in
peace councils. This, the writer shows
is a. dangerous policy since it‘results in
conﬂicting reports and weakens conﬁ—
dence of the people in their government_]

ELLING THE truth about the
I food situation in France is an
extremely difﬁcult thing to do,

for one comes immediately in—
to contact with so many coun-
ter currents of opinion. There is

no question in the mind of anyone

conversant with the facts that it is‘

not only Germany, but with the Allies
as well, that the food situation is ser-
ious and needs prompt and effective
treatment. But in the endeavor to
deal with this question one ﬁnds con-
stantly in the ofﬁcial mind an attempt
to reconcile two irreconcilable posi-
tions. . , . . .
GOVERNMENTS ALONE CANNOT WIN
THE WAR

On the one hand there is the open
and full recognition of the serious-
ness of the situation, of the demand
for prompt, full and efﬁcacious co-
operation and coordination of effort
among all the nations warring against
Germany in order that each may be
able to sustain its striking power at
the point of highest efﬁciency. This
must be a war of the Allied peoples
against Germany. And this opinion
sees the necessity of laying the situ-
ation fully and fairly before the peo-
ple so that they will voluntarily adopt
the conservation methods necessary
to victory.

On the other hand, confused in the
same minds with this opinion there
is an idea that if the peOple are told
too much they will become frightened
and will weaken. This is a bald
statement, very plainly put, but that
is what it boils down to. The state-
ment and politicians have a peculiar
idea that they are the only men who
are farsighted enough and strong
enough to face the whole truth and go
on ﬁghting. So they try at the same
time to arouse the people and to re-
assure them.

We ﬁnd a ﬁne example of this in
t h e submarine
On the one side
we are told the
submarine is a
failure and it is
to laugh at the
German threats.
In regard to food
we are told that
the Allies must
guard their every
resource and im-
mediately on top
of that we are
told they have
reserve 5 t o c k s
for the next three
years. We are
told that it is vi-
tally necessary
for America to
put a great army
in the ﬁeld at
once and in the
same breath we
hear that the Al-
lied preponder-
ance in man pow-
er over Germany
is increasing ev-
ery day.
WHOLE TRUTH

MUST NOT BE
KNOWN

How can one ex-
pect to arouse 9.

Being the First of Three Articles on the Food Shertage in
' ' European Countries and the Duty Devolving upon the
Amencmﬁamer to “Feed the Hungry '
By FRED B. PITNEY

nation to war with such a stream of
contradictory statements? My own
opinion-is that the peoples of all the
Allied nations are strong enough to

know the whole truth and that know- ,

ing it will only make them more de-
termined, and ﬁght harder, while at
the" same time their collective action
will be muCh more intelligent. I do
not believe in any government trying
to win this war. I believe that only
an aroused nation will be victorious.
And I believe that the way to arouse
the nation is to lay every shred of
fact fully and completely before the
people. .

In France, however, one meets with
a third phase of ofﬁcial opinion that
further complicates the situation.
France has borne the brunt of. the
ﬁghting on the side of the Allies for
three years. Her‘resources in men
and material have been strained to
the uttermost, and everyone realizes
that France cannot go on bearing the
brunt of the ﬁghting for another three
years. Yet, French statesmen are so
afraid of thepossible effect at time of
the peace conference of an admission
that France needs assistance now
that immediately the idea is suggest—
ed there comes an ofﬁcial denial in
one form or another. French states-
men, perhaps with reason, are ob-
sessed with the idea that France will
get an extremely short end of the
stick at the/peace conference, if there
is a suspicion that she does not go
into them stronger than she went into
the war and able to ﬁght on for anoth-
er million years. But how is she
going to get anything at the peace
conferences if the Allies are not the
victors? And how are the Allies to
be victors, unless the people of Amer-
ica know the full truth about the task
imposed on them?

This complicated situation makes it
cxtremedy difﬁcult, however, to tell
the truth about food conditions in the
face of the imminent probabilities of
thereby injuring susceptible ofﬁcial
feelings.

AFFECTs THE
IN FRANCE

AS IT INDI—

VI DUAL

F001)

As I have kept house in Paris dur-
ing the war, I can speak from experi-
ence 011 the food situation in France
as it affects the individual.

And let

'ﬁnds that one must have a

me remark in passing that one learns
a great deal, when keeping house, of
which one gets no inkling, when living
in a hotel and eating in restaurants.
One can always go to a restaurant and
order a meal and get it. I have heard
many visiting Americans, who lived
in France in that way, poo-pooh the
idea that there was a food shortage
in the country. If those same per-
sons had had to search the markets
before they had their meals, they
would have gained a very different
idea of the food situation.

Sugar offers an excellent concrete
example. In a restaurant one is fair-
ly .certain of sugar for one’s coffee.
Three lumps to a person is the rule.
Formerly, the sugar was put on the
table in a bowl and one helped one’s
self. Now, the ration is served to
each person separately. Still,,one is
fairly sure of one’s sugar in a restau-
rant.

But if one is keeping house, one
“sugar
card”, permitting him to buy a stipu-
lated amount of sugar in a month.
The allowance is 1 12 pounds of sugar
a month, if three meals a day are tak-
en at home, 1 pound if two meals are
taken at home and 1-2 pound if only
one meal is taken at home. This
means for the person who takes three
meals a day at home 18 pounds of
sugar a year. The annual sugar con-
sumption per person in America is
85 pounds.

One would not be likely to ﬁnd this
out, if one were living in restaurants
in France, but one ﬁnds it out very
soon, if one is keeping house.

It is soon learned, also, that the
“sugar card” does not mean that one
can demand a pound and a half of
sugar a month, but only that one is
permitted to buy that much, provided
a dealer can be found who has it to
sell. A dealer who‘has sugar will not
sell it to anyone who comes in. He
sells only to his own regular custom—
ers. \

We paid last winter in Paris 11
cents a piece for eggs and $2 a pound
for butter and there was frequently
neither butter nor eggs nor milk to be
had. Private families were allowed to
buy one-eighth of a pound of ﬂour at
a time. The grocers could not sell
ﬂour, Only the bakers. The ﬂour mills

 

Distributing Bread Tickets to the Hungry Populate in wretched Belgium.

, fallen off radically.

 

could not“ choose their own customers,
nor could the ﬁbakers and restaurants
choose the miliﬁ they would buy from.
Lists were made out, telling each mil-

ler to whdm he could sell. This was
in order that one section should not
be able to eat up the stock of ﬂour
belonging to another section, or one
baker deprive the customers of an-
other, when all were short.

.WHEA'l‘ SITUATION IN FRANCE

Let me give you the ofﬁcial ﬁgures
on the wheat situation in France,
so that there can be no question.

It is estimated that there will be a
deﬁcit of approximately 5,000,000 tons
of wheat in France over the period
from September 1, 1917, to September
1, 1918. ,

The normal consumption of wheat
is from 9,200,000 tons, or slightly less
than the consumption. Since the be-
ginning of the war her production has
‘ In 1914 it was
7,700,000 tons, in 1915 6,065,000 tons,
and in 1916 5,840,000 tons, while for
this year the crop is estimated at 4,-
000,000 tons with a possibility of ris-
ing .to 4,500,000 tons, leaving for the
period from September, 1917, to Sep-
tember, 1918, a deﬁcit of nearly 5,-
000,000 tons, which must be made up
by imports.

WHEAT MUST COME FROM AMERICA

Where can those imports come from
except from America? Italy by rea-
son of her pasition in the Mediterran-
ean takes the ﬁrst toll from the wheat
of the Far East, while England, of
whom the Far Eastern wheat pro-
ducing countries are colonies, takes
the remainder. France can get a little
from South Africa. Argentina has
stopped the exportation of wheat.
This country is the only resource left
to France.

I have spoken of the scarcity of
ﬂour, resulting from the shortage of
wheat. Let us try to see what this
means to France. In the ﬁrst place,
it must be realized that there bread
is the staple article of food. It is the
base of all meals, especially among
the working population. Luncheon is
bread, soup, coﬁee and often, though
not always, some meat or ﬁsh and a
vegetable. The big dish is bread.
Bread is again the base of dinner or
supper, however, the meal may be
called. Bread and cheese will make
an entire meal for a French peasant,
with a glass of wine to wash it down.

BREAD ALLOWANCE AND “BREAD
CARDS”

The French soldier’s allowance of
bread was a triﬂe over a pound and a
half a day. On
account of the
shortage of wheat
it has been nec-
essary to cut this
ration to a pound
and a third a day.
And it is not
necessary to say
that only dire ne- »
cessity willdcoun-
tenance the cut-
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that has happen-
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cards” in some
localities. There
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France as there
are "sugar cards"
but in some parts
of the country it
has been necess-
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mind several let-
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ly A3,11 cut, , but . it was damaged some by
frcst. Beans-are being pulled, they are
not, very ripe, r damaged by frost. I um

derstand that in the east part.. of the‘

unt» they were very badly damaged
ii; tbs; frost. Late potatoes are being
dug and they are yielding fairly well.
Fall seeding being done. As much rye
and wheat being sold as usual. 81103 are
nearly all ﬁlledwith corn that is none
too ripe. Soft coal is being sold at Alden
for $8 per ton.-——C. F. W., Alden.

OTTAWA ' (Northeast)—Fall plowing
will be next, as silo ﬁlling is nearly over
with. Corn crop is short this year as
silos are only about half full, Had a
heavy frost Oct. 5 and it has been cooler
since. Some farmers are selling hay and
a little wheat—J. P,, Coopersville.

GRAND TRAVERSE—Everything is
frozen here. The early potatoes are
nearly all dug and some are digging the
late ones. Most of the beans are about
half or three-quarters ripe. Not many
pulled yet. It is wet and cold now: The
buyers at Traverse City paid 900 for pc-
tatoes when they were $1 at Bates. On
Friday the prices at Bates ran from
31,05 to $1.10. Many of the farmers are
storing and holding for more money.—

H., Acme. ’

BAY (North)—Farmers in this vicin-
ity are still harvesting beans; only about

‘ half of the crop has been taken care of

owing to the frequent showers. A few
are harvesting sugar beets but this crop
is nothing extra this year. Some farmers
are fall plowing—J. E. McK., Pinconning.

OGEMAW (West Contain—Beans are
mostly harvested but none are threshed
yet. The yield will be light, Potatoes
are being dug with yield running from
50 to 100 bu. with a few acres going
over the 100 mark. A lot of rye' is being
put in. Weather is too dry for plowing,
Milch cows at recent sales went high
and horses cheap. Butterfat brings 49
cents at creamery,—W. N., West Branch.

OTSEGO (“'th (‘entral)——The rainy
weather is making it hard for farmers to
get their potatoes out of the ground. The
farmers are paying from $3 to $3.50 per
day for help with board and it is hard
lto dget help at that price—C. A., Gay—
or .

. LIVINGSTON (Northwest)—-Farmers
in this vicinity are threshing, sowing
Rosen rye and digging potatoes. The
weather has been cold and wet; the soil
is Just right to work good. Farmers are
selling some wheat and oats and some
hay, and they are buying their winter’s
supply of coal at $10 a ton for chestnut
Size—G. A. ., Fowlerville.

. JACKSON (West)—I am still harvest—
ing beans. I began the ﬁrst day of Oc-
tober. The weather was cloudy and wet
and they would not dry. I kept at it
and now have the whole 70 acres in
the bunch and it is still cloudy—B T,
Parma. . .

MACOMB (Nortliwest)—Farmers are
still sowing wheat and rye, a good many
acres being in. The weather has been
bad for beans, rainy and cold. The soil
is in good condition for fall plowing. The
farmers are selling some rye and wheat.
Farmers are starting to dig potatoes as
the frost has about ﬁnished them. We
have had two hard frosts this week. A
number of farmers are reporting blight
on potatoes—H. D., Almont,

CALHOUN_ (Northwest)—Farmers are
seeding, It is rainy and cold. The soil
is in nice shape. Farmers are not selling
much at present as they are busy with
their corn cutting. Potatoes are a fair
cropsrbutcbeans arte a failure in this vi—
c1m . cm is o oor u ' .— 3.
B., Battle Creek, p q ality C. 1

BAY (Soutlieast)——Vei‘y bad weather
for a week. Sugar beets very poor. Bad
for beans. Wheat growing slow.~J C.
A., Munger. .

. LAPEER (North)—Farmers are cut-
ting corn, some are sowing rye. Weath-
er very nasty. Soil very good condition.
farmers selling some hay and grain,
holding oats, some hay and potatoes —-F.
S., Union City. '

OSCEOLA (Nortlieast)—Cold and rain
all the past week. Farmers are busy
building silos and digging potatoes, pull-
ing beans when weather will permit, The
bean pods are not very well ﬁlled. Po-
tatoes are advancing slowly. The pota-
to market is acting strange, for some
buyers are offering 750 while others are
paying as high as 80c and $1. The ma—
jority of them are paying $1.—W. A. 8.,
Marion.

GENESEE (South)—The armers are
ﬁlling their silos, sowing rye, cutting
corn and harvesting beans, The weather
has been cold and wet and the bean har—
vest is progressing slowly. The soil is
in good shape for fall work. Farmers
are selling medium amounts of grain.

Live stock will be put on the market be— .

fore the animals are ﬁnished, on account
of the high cost of feed, Wheat is most-
ly all sown. Heavy frost Monday night
froze most everything. The majority of
the beans have been harvested but there
is still quite a number of acres to be
harvested yet. The yield will be low
and the quality not very good with a
considerable pick in most localities on
account of the green beans being frosted.
No potatoes have been dug to speak of
but it looks as tho 3. good yield will be
secured, There will be a severe shortage
of good seed corn—C. W. S,, Fenton.

MIDLAND (Nortliwest)-—-We have had
bad weather the past week; lots of beans
out in the ﬁeld. Beans that have been
threshed are running from 2 to 9 bu. to
the acre. A few farmers have been pull-
ing beets the past few days. The beet
business will be in full swing next week.
A few farmers are selling hay. A num-
ber of farmers are putting out small

pieces of rye.-—_F. A. L., Coleman,

,MONTCALM (Southwest) —— Farmers
are busy -at this report. Digging and
drawing potatoes seem to be the order
of the day there'being a large acreage,
but averaging about, ,85 bushels per acre,
The price is higher than last week’s re-
port, $1.16 to $1,18 at Miller’s Station.
Beans are,being harvested slowly, being
hit heavily by frost which did heavy
damages. Cold rains were received the
fore part of the week, preventing farm-
ers from drawing beans; there was a.
large acreage but poor average. Corn
is mostly cut. It was hit by the frost
and some damage resulted; the acreage
is medium. A large amount of grain is
being put in this fall, the new seeding is
mostly Rosen rye and Red Rock wheat,
as they seem 'to be more satisfactory for
the farmers now. Rain was received on
Thursday afternoon and night; weather
is cold and damp. .The soil was medium
before the rain but is too wet to work
now. Potatoes are moving fast; grain
is moving slow. Farmers are not hold-
ing produce for higher prices—W, L..
Greenville,

MANISTEE Northwest)-—The frost of
October 5 did a lot of damage in this
county; it froze everything dead, there
are lots of beans and potatoes that are
not worth harvesting and lots of buck-
wheat gone entirely. and we have farm-
ers who will have to buy potatoes or go
without them. The farmers are sowing
more fall grain than usual this fall, rye
has a large acreage and more wheat than
last year. Some are aning Red Rock
wheat at $2.50 per bu,—C. H, 8., Bear
Lake.

GRATIOT (East)—Farmers are busy
turning their beans and drilling in wheat
between the ’rows. The weather condi—
tions have been bad for bean harvest.
Corn is rather thin—J. W., North Star.

MIDLAND (Southeast)———Grain thresh-
ing has just been completed in this neigh-
borhood. Crops have turned out better
than was expected. The weather is very
cold and wet, it being bad for late beans
that were not harvested before the last
heavy frosts of Sunday and Monday
nights—A. B,, Midland.

MONROE (East) The frosts of the
past few weeks have ﬁnished harvesting
the late crops. About half of the corn
has been cut and the silos are now being
ﬁlled. Most of the wheat is in, but very
little of it is up. There are very few
apples in this neighborhood.——E. H. M.,
Monroe.

GRATIOT (Sontheast)—The farmers
have about ﬁnished sowing wheat. There
is some corn to cut yet and some beans
to harvest, The weather is cold, cloudy
and rainy, The soil is working up nice-
ly since the rains. Wheat and oats are
the principal grains going on the market.
——J. E. C., Bannister.

VAN BUREN (East)—Picking grapes
when the weather will permit. The weath—
er has been cold and wet and a little
snow has fallen with the rain. Concord
grapes are selling at per 4 qt. baskets
180; bulk, $50 per ton. Help is scarce
and most growers could use from three
to eight more hands.———V, T, G., Matta-
wan. '

HURON (“'est)~Hard frost Monday
and Wednesday nights froze corn, beans,
potatoes and all the garden stuff, Most
of the corn was out before the frost.
Some of the early beans are harvested.
Beans are going to pick heavy this year.
A number of cattle and hogs shipped
from here this week. Sugar beets are
being harvested now. Bro. li‘armer,,re-
port every acre you have sowed to beans
to your thresher if you want a fair
price for what you have to sell.——G. W.,
Elkton.

GRAND TRAVERSE (Soutli)——~ The
farmers are ﬁlling silos and digging po—
tatoes. Weather not very favorable.
Ground in some sections rather wet for
digging potatoes, A good many pota—
toes are being held for higher prices.—
R, E. 0., Buckley.

HILLSDALE (Central)——The frost of
September 10 hurt part of the corn and
the late beans. On Oct, 5 another frost
came, and it killed the rest of the/corn
and late potatoes and tomatoes, Corn
is the nearest a failure that I have ever
seen in this part of the country, and in
consequence the farmers are feeling pret—
ty blue. M. A. Robbins of Adams town-
ship is ﬁnishing a stock barn .30 L\ 7“;
one of the best in that U1\Vll.\‘lll1).-~ _\ .l,
B., Hillsdale,

TUSCOLA (Northwest)—~VVO are hav-
ing hard frosts now and beans that were
not matured are lost, and there were a
large quantity here that were about half
ripe. 1 see the bean johbers report twice
as many as last year, but there are no
more in this community than there were
last year.——VV. J... 11,, Akron.

MONROE (Nortlieast)—The farmers
are cutting corn and ﬁlling silos. 'i‘he
frosts of Oct. 8 and i) were hard ones,
everything being frozen to the ground.
Some farmers are selling a little wheat.
and some hay is being sold. Not many
cats are being sold at this times—«“7, ii,
L., Dundee,

ST. CLAIR (Soutliwest)—Sowing of
wheat and rye is about completed here.
although some are still sowing rye. l’o—
tato digging is on in full swing. Farin—
ers are getting scared because of the
hard frosts we have had recently. as
the ground has frozen to quite a depth.
E, J., St. Clair, Mich.

WEXFORD (South Central)——li‘arni—
ers are digging potatoes and sowing rye.
The weather is cloudy and rainy; some
Snow has fallen, very little sunshine.
Considerable increase in rye acreage.
Several new silos have been built, The
farmers are selling potatoes freely. There
are many beans in the ﬁelds yet. Some
ﬁelds have been plowed under. l’ota
toes yielding 75 bu. per acre, of a fair
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up yet—M. S. G., Hemlock,

MISSAUKEE (North Central) -— The
weather continues cold and wet Every-
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wages from $3 to $4 per day. Farmers

are letting their beans stand to see if
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“ “I Haven’t Time.”

HERE ARE many burdens added to the
weary shoulders of the busy mother;
sometimes almost more than she can

Small wonder 'that the little toddler
is often greeted with an impatient, “Go
away! I haven’t time.” And then the tiny
one who creeps and pulls at her skirts to be
taken up for a brief rest in those loving
comfy arms! It is hard to resist him, but there

bear.

isn’t always time to love him, is there, mother?

At least, you think there is not.

I used to think that too. My little one- has a
habit of creeping to me several times during the
day, and climbing up on my knee for a kiss and
a cuddle. I admit there weren’t very many
times that I repulsed him; but once or twice I
“shooed” him away impatiently when I was deep
in the mysteries of making jelly or some fancy
dish for supper.

But that was before I stood and looked at the
wax-like, angel face of my little niece who was
snatched out of our arms before eight months had
passed over her curly, ﬂaxen head. She was ill
such a pitifully short time; not a moment of
warning was given us before she was gone.

I have time for my small son now, always. He
will never come to his mother for sympathy, for
comfort, for rest after his play, and find me
wanting. I will answer his questions patiently,
when he groWs old enough to ask them. I will
care for him tenderly, watch over him nightly,
and never complain because of loss of sleep, or
busy hours of care.

For always I see that beautiful baby face, so
still and peacet'u“. that, dear body so heart-break-
ingly little and cold, those brown eyes, closed
forever, and they plead with me, and with you
to be patient and loving and kind to my boy and
every baby in this broad land.

Rainy Days

N OCCASIONAL rainy day is a decidedly
A “comfy” thing! Don’t you agree with me?
A person feels, somehow, just like brows-
ing around in the sewing room, doing some mend-
ing, or catching up with the children’s clothes.
Rainy days always make me feel like sewing or
reading, both favorite occupations, by the way.
It’s fun to braid rugs on rainy days, or to tat, or
crochet. There are always quilt blocks One can
piece, or rags to sew for that new rag rug we’ve
been planning. It seems to me that there are in-
numerable things to do on rainy days, aside from

our regular housework.
instance, there’s that; old black suit of
yours. You could wear it this fall again, if you
had some new collars and cuffs for it. A rainy
day is just the day to sit, down and make a set
or two. White broadcloth or felt makes very
pretty sets. These can be ﬁnished by simply
cutting scallops around the edge, instead of hem-
ming them. Very new collar and cuff sets are
made of colored organdie, with three, four and
ﬁve rows of white or cream val lace, 0f the very
narrow variety. White with cream lace is also
seen, but the colored ones are the most popular.
The collars are generally cut circular, and the
rows of lace are sewed around the edge. Narrow
black ribbon with bead pendants at. the ends,
matching the color of the organdie. give a chic

touch to these collars.

For

It’s really not too early for the woman who is
going to make Christmas presents, to start get-
ting busy. Towels, with an edge of tatting, make
pretty gifts. Tatting edges are used a, great deal
on dresser scarfs, too. it‘s sometimes hard for
us country folks to ﬁgure out what to send to
our city cousins for gifts of "various kinds. ,1
was entertained in the city this summer very
extensively, and felt that I was obliged to make
some return. As 1' love to tat, I conceived the
idea of sending my cousin. a luhcheon set made
with this dainty edging for the only trimming.
It isn’t done yet, and that's the way I’m spend-
ing my rainy afternoons. I’m making it of ﬁne

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ANNE CAMPBELL STARK. EDITOR

white linen, the doilies in circular shape. The
tatted edge is made of'No. 50 crochet cotton. The
inner loops extend in over the linen, where they
are tacked in place. I know the whole set is
going to be dainty and lacy. I think she’ll like
it, don’t you?

Hallowe’en Entertainments

O ENTERTAINMENT is more enjoyed

N by young or old than a Hallowe’en party.

This is an easy party to give, too, as the

house can be trimmed with the colored leaves

from the woods, and the cornhusks and pump-
kins from the ﬁelds.

A friend of mine who is giving a Hallowe’en
party this year is requesting all her guests to
wear a sheet and a pillow case. She is going to
make jack-o’-lanterns from pumpkins and squash,
and over the~door entering the house she will
hang a skull and cross-bones. She gave this kind
of a party last 'year, and has black and yellow
cheese cloth left, with which she is going to con-
coct a booth for the witch who will tell fortunes.

The fortune teller at the Hallowe’en party adds
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OU ought to see Main Street on Sat-
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of their might.

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guise herself so they will not recognize her. This
will add to the mystery, as they will wonder where
she got, the power to tell them so much about
themselves. ,

She is going to use black paper for her invita-
tions, and write on them with white ink. The
dining room will be in total darkness, except for
the light given by the Jack-o’-1antern3, until she
seats her guests.

On a little table by the dining room door will
stand a large pumpkin, from which hang as many
ribbons as there are guests. One end of the
ribbon is attached to a small card in the pump-
kin, which is decorated appropriately. On this
card is a number. She intends to have a red
ribbon for the girls and a yellow ribbon for the
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. SPREAD THE MEAT FLAVOR
Spread the meat ﬂavor and so economize
on the amount of meat-consumed, says the
United States Department of Agriculture. Here
is one way to utilize left-over meat by spread-
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Meat and Bread-Crumb Cakes . 2*
To four parts of chopped or ground meat
add one part soaked bread crumbs, a small 3:
quantity of chopped onion, and salt and pepper i;
to taste Mix and form into small round cake 4. :
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draws a ribbon from the pumpkin and ﬁnds their
partner by number.

We were talking about the party the o‘her day,
and wondering what would be a goo. idea to
start the fun. My friend said she would like the
fun to start the moment the guests stepped in
the door. I told her about a party I attended
once, where, as we stepped in we were greeted
by some one dressed as a ghost. This scary look-
ing person extended his hand which was covered
with wet salt. You can imagine the sensation it
gave one to feel that clammy handclasp!

We compiled a list of games to play at the
HaIIOWe’en party, and because I am sure they
will be appreciated by you folks, too, I am passing
them on.

BLIND APPLE SEEKERS

This is a game which does well to start the
evening. Blindfold several guests. Then hide
nuts or apples in various parts of theroom or
house. A small prize can be given to the person
ﬁnding the most nuts or apples.

an; BARREL noor (unr;

Suspending horizontally from the ceiling a
barrel hoop on which is fastened apples. cookies.
candle ends and candies. Guests gather around
the hoop, and as the hoop turns around each in
turn tries to bite one of the good things to eat;
the person who bites the candle pays a forfeit.

APPLE GAME

When we were children we greatly enjoyed the
apple game, with which no doubt you are all fa-
miliar. Suspend apples by means of strings in
the doorway or from the ceiling, to be caught
between the teeth. The ﬁrst successful player
can be given a prize. Pin cushions of silk. rep-
resenting tomatoes, or apples, or pen-wipers rep-
resenting cats, witches, etc., make good Ilallowe’—
en prizes.

JUMPING mon'rnp CANDLE

In the middle of the floor place a lighted can-
dle, not too securely. Have each guest jump over
it. Those who clear the candle will have a happy

I year; those who‘ knock it over will have a year

of trouble.
HIDING GAME

Hide a ring, penny and thimble somewhere in
the room. The one who ﬁnds the ring will be
married soon; the thimble denotes a life of sin
gle blessedness; the penny is a sign of wealth.

nucxuxt} FOR APPLES

This is another old game, which is always en~
joyed. Into one tub half ﬁlled with water, place
apples, to the stems of which tic slips of paper

containing the names of boys present at the
party. Across the room have another tub, in
which the names of girls are placed. Tie the

guests’ hands behind them and have them cu»
deavor to pi” the apples out, of the water with
their teeth. ’1 he name‘ upon the slip denotes the
future life partner.

This Week’s Menu for the School Lunch Box

MONDAY—~Sandwiches tree. the Sunday l‘nngf;
sweet pickles, one tomato, two cookies and a baked
apple.

TUESDAY—«Corn bread and jelly:
eggs. nuts and raisins, celery.

WEDNICSDAY~~COItage cheese, plain or mixed
with pimentm or nuts, madc sandwiches.
graham crackers, and an orange.

TI’lURSDAY——Baked
of. pork sliced thin, pickles.
cake.

FRIDAY—Salmon sandwiches, or chopped eggs,
mixed with grated chese, butter and vinegar, on
rye or brown bread, pear and gingerbread.

hard boiled

made
and

beans, sandwiches
stewed apples

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One day last week the John Smalley
threshing outﬁt ran through for John
Pinkham 1,692 bushels of oats as the
product of 28 acres of land—Orion
Review.

 

The Carsonville Creamery was-com-
pelled to close up its business last
week as its owners Archie and Fred
Thompson, are both drafted—May-
vilw Monitor.

 

The Ohio Dairy Company announces
that it will pay $3.20 for October milk.
This is the highest price ever paid
by the company, the price one year
ago being $2 and the highest previous
price being $2.75 for September

this year. It is understood that all

 

This ofﬁce acknowledges receipt of
a dish of strawberries from Mrs. Jas.
Cowman, picked out of her garden in
this city Sept. 29. The berries were
luscious and show that they ripen
here until late in the year, as she
had many more like them.———Mam'sttq-
ue Pioneer-Tribune.

 

A company of Charlotte men have
joined hands and formed a company
with $5,000 capital, in the growing of
ginseng and other medical herbs. They
have acquired about four acres of
land for the purpose south of the
Charlotte Manufacturing Company’s
plant—Charlotte Leader.

 

Representatives of the Hires Con-
densed Milk Co. are at Akron canvass-
ing the farmers of that community
with the object of establishing a cash
station in Akron for the purchase of
milk if sufficient farmers can be in-
terested. In the event of establishing
the Akron milk station, the milk se-
cured at that point will be hauled by
trucks to the Hires plant at Cass City.

Northern Michigan’s apple crop is
a failure this year says a dispatch
from Traverse City. Buyers say the
crop is only 20 per cent normal. The
heavy snow storms late in the spring
are responsible. The short crop will
mean high prices. Apples are being
harvested now. Plums and peaches
were unaffected by the storms and
the crop will be normal. Early va-
rieties are being marketed now.

Mr. A. H. Chipman of DeGroff St.,
has made a discovery that will mean
th“ saving of many dollars to people
at times when the price if seed pota-
toes is high, the same as last spring.
On June 9th Mr. Chipman planted
potato sprouts in several hills, and
this week he is exhibiting some very
ﬁne large potatoes that he dug from
these same hills. Mr. Chipman says
he has not dug his potatoes yet, where
he planted the seed potatoes, but if
they yield as well as did his potato
sprouts he will be perfectly satisﬁed.
—(lrand Ledge Times.

County Agent Bentall says that
nearly or quite 3,000 acres of Red
Rock wheat: have been sown in Allegan
county this fall. About 8,500 bushels
of this wheat were produced here this
year, of which 4,500 were retained for
seed. The returns from this were
$12,000 above what could have been
obtained from the same quantity of
any other sort of wheat. The crop of
1917 gave to its growers about $29,000
for it sold at $3.50 per bushel. The
extra proﬁt. from this wheat amounts
to three times all the money Allegan
county has put into its farm bureau.
~Allegan Gazette.

At a meeting of'the Patriotic League
a scheme was put on foot to take bet-
ter care of the crops that are still out.
Many farmers are ‘unable to secure
help when they need it and there are
often many men who are idle for a
day or half day. This help should all
be conserved for the securing of the
creps—men who go out for a day’s
work, business men who are willing
to help and older high school boys.
The secretary, J. L. Cathcart, will keep
a list of names of those Willing to

work, and arrange with farmers for
the number of men they may want.
At present farmers are paying $2.00
Ier day and board fer men who un-
derstand the work.—0’ass City Chron-
68.

 

of,

An egg market is a new industry at
Lawrence.

 

The Barry county board of super-
visors has before it the proposition of
engaging a farm agent. The farmers
of that county have asked the board
to look into the matter.

 

Ezra Taylor brings in 10 pounds
of potatoes for the Jeffersonian exhib-
it. There are but six potatoes in the
ten pounds and all are mighy ﬁne spec-
imens.——0roswell Jeffersonicm.

 

The Wolf kraut factory at Lawton
is now in full operation with cabbage
shipments covering points 40‘ miles
distant. The enterprise is consider-
ed a good addition to the town.—
Portland Observer.

 

Robert Wright raised 100 bushels
of mangle wurtzels on 14 rows nine
rods long this season. Some beets.
Mr. Wright says he did not sow his
wurtzels seed as thick as usual.—
Memphis Bee.

 

N. Estelle picked 100 quarts of
strawberries on his farm in West
Olive last week and they found a
ready sale at fancy prices. The fruit
was picked from plants set out last
spring—Holland Sentinel.

 

A Cass City banker of 31 years ac-
quaintance with the territory sur-
rounding that thriving little village,
predicts that the establishment of the
condensary there would enhance land
values from ten to twenty dollars an
acre—Almont Herald.

 

A goodly number of farmers gath-
ered at the ofﬁce of the Co-operative
Elevator Co. recently to consider the
advisability of sending for feeding
cattle to be distributed among the
farmers. After due consideration it
was concluded that the farmers could
handle from two to four carloads.—
Latngsburg News.

 

The Helvetia Milk Condensing (10.,
which has a branch in Wayland, an-
nounced a record price for milk. The
October schedule calls for payment of
$3.20 per hundred weight of milk
testing 3.5 per cent butterfat. A bon-
us \\ill be paid for milk testing more
than that. This is the highest price
ever paid for milk in this section.
—«’l’hc Laingsburg News.

 

The wandering dogs
work ten days ago on the farm of
Clinton Nelson in Home township,
where they killed 26 sheep. The dog
tax in Home is hardly enough to pay
for such a slaughter, and therefore
the taxpayers will be called upon to
make up the delicit. We want to ask
now if our friends remember what
John Taylor said about wandering
dogs and the farmers’ slieep.--~Ilrccn~
ville Independent.

got in their

A few years ago L. W. Lovewcll
would pay the farmers of this section
about $500 for a carload of line's, (‘m
Tuesday be shipped 27 hogs in miXed
corload of stock, and had paid our
farmers $884 for the 27. In this
bunch was one raised by Master Ford
Jones, of East Lyon, that weighed 240
pounds and for which he paid $43.20.
Eight brought in by Alfred Travis,
brought $806 and eleven brought in
by Mr. Naylor of Worden brought
$340.——South Lyon Herald.

 

F. G. Cleveland, one of the good
farmers of Arlington, always keeps a
small ﬂock of sheep and considers
them one of the best money-makers
on the place. This year he started
with 24 including one ram and three
young ewes, which left him only 20
breeding ewes. His clip sold for $173
and from the 20 producing ewes he
sold 31 lambs that brought him $438,
making a total of $611 off his ﬂock,
and he has his original flock left. He
would like to hear from someone who
can beat this record, but he says that
what makes him maddest is to think
of the time and trouble he has been
to this summer feeding a bunch of
hogs that ~will not net him near as
much, while all he had to do was to
salt the sheep once a week While they
were in pasture—Bangor Advance.

  

 

 

  
 
 
 
  
 
  
  
 
   
 

 

 

 

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RAILROAD PROFITS ARE
STILL INCREASING

Further increases in net revenue
from railway operations throughout
the country have been reported to
the Interstate CommerCe Commission.

Returns from 180 of the chief roads
covering July operations and made
public this week, show net revenues
of $106.337,406, as compared with
$101,170,216 in July, 1916. Operating
revenues increased nearly $44,000,000,
totaling $333.407,171, while expenses
increased about $41,000,000, reaching
a total of $227,069,765.

Eastern roads ran slightly behind
last year’s July record in net revenues
with a total of $43,928,112, although
operating revenues increased about
$18,000,000. Dimunition of net rev-
enues was due to the increased cost
of supplies and labor. another item of
operating expenses.

Southern roads recorded an in—
crease of about $2000.000 in net rev—
enues, with a total of $1-i.242.106, 0p~
crating revenues of these roads in—
reased nearly $10.tm0.0ml. totaling
$49,441,608. or more than 23 per cent
within the your.

Western roads showed increased
operating rcvcuucs of about Slocum
000. totaling 331226289902. and llb'l'e‘ns-
ed net revenues of about 52.300000.

Operating revenues and Mpcuses
for the seven months ending with .luly

are the highest cvcr rocordM. being
$2.144.454,I167 and 31.316.131.38! re-
spectively. leaving net revenues tor

this period of $628,299.33.

THE FOOD SITUATION
IN FRANCE

((‘onttnuwl from page 12)

Brittany. telling ‘ of the privations
they were enduring because their
bread was cut down so much. Re-

member that bread is the chief artiJ
clc of diet among those people.
FRANCE sUFFERs Ix summon
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people in the world than the French
peasants. They are heroes among a
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and right could demand could wring
a, complaint from Josephine Herve.
one of the grandest women among a
grand race. That simple peasant wo-

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