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Vol. V - No. 16

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22nd, 1917;

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lNSlDE FACTS 0N
‘ POTATQ_ GRADING

Editor Slocum Finds That Dealers,
and Shippers Were Laigely to
Blame for Putting New
Grading Rules in
Practice

If we can but dispel the. air of mys-
tery which has befogged the several is-
sues in connection with the untimely,
unjust and unfair potato grading
rules, we shall at least have accom-
plished something. And now get
ready for a surprise: Neither the De-
partment of Agriculture, the United
States'Food Administration or any of
the other authorized national or state
ofﬁcials or departments, has estab-
lished compulsory grades of potatoes.
“Then," you ask, “why all of this
trouble; this tremendous loss; the en-
forcement of certain grading rules by
the potato buyers?” The dealers are
acting upon the suggestion of the U.
S. Food Administration; they are fol-
lowing the line of least resistance, re-
gardless of the loss that may be borne
by the potato grower.

Before me lies a little four-page bul-
letin issued by the Bureau of Mar-
kets, it was printed on September 10,
1917, and distributed about October
1st. “Potato Grades Recommended
by the United States Department of
Agriculture and the United States
Food Administration.” Just keep in
mind the word “Recommended,” while
we examine this little bulletin a little
closer. The grades as recommended
are as follows:

U. s. GRADE No. 1.

This grade shall consist of sound po-
tatoes of similar varietal characteristics,
which are practically free from dirt or
other foreign matter, frost injury, sun-
burn, second growth, cuts, scab, blight,
dry rot, and damage caused by disease,
insects, or mechanical means. The min—
imum diameter of potatoes of the round
varieties shall be one and seven-eighths
(1%) inches, and of potatoes of the long
varieties one and three-fourths (1%)
inches. In order to allow for variations
inexdent to commercial grading and hand—
ling, ﬁve per centum by weight of any
lot may be under the prescribed size, and,
in addition, three per centum by weight
of any such lot may be below the remain-
ing requirements of this grade.

U. S. GRADE No. 2

This grade shall consist of potatoes of
similar varietal characteristics, which are
practically free from frost injury and de-
cay, and which are’free from serious
damage caused by dirt or other foreign
matter, sunburn, second growth, cuts
scab, blight, dry rot. or other disease. in—
sects, or mechanical means. The mini—
mum diameter shall be one and one-half
(1%) inches. In order to allow for var-
iations incident to commercial grading
and handling, ﬁve per centum by weight
of any lot may be under the prescribed
size. and, in addition. five per centum by
weight of any such lot may be below the
remaining requirements of this grade.

Three reasons are given for rec-
ommending th'L adoptioon of these
grades: ' ,

(a)—The prospect for a record-
breaking crop of potatoes this season
and the general situation with regard
to food supplies.

(b)—The over-taxed condition of
the transportation facilities of the
country.

(c)-The recent ruling of the Fed-
eral Reserve Board with reference to

being put into effect this year.

rules.
buyers of other states have not.
observe the rules this ‘year.

their conscience will permit.

matter and probably won’t have.

deny this.

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securing loans against warehouse re-
ceipts.

The ﬁrst reason (a) given for rec-
ommending the adoption of grading
rules, would do very well indeed, as a
means of penalizing the potato grow-
ers for their obedience to the express-
ed wishes of the President of the Unit-
ed States, and the insistent demands
made by the Food Administration,
working through the Agricultural col-
leges and their agents. The farmers
have worked early and late to loyally
and patriotically comply with the na-
tion’s demands; they have, through
the sweat of their brows,‘ brought
forth an abundant harvest; and this,
too, Without even a guarantee of a min-

' imum price on the part of the Govern-

ment. Shall we now dismiss the
whole matter, by establishing new
rules for grading, which will make
from 20 to 40 per cent of the farmer’s
crop unmarketable? Has the general
situation changed as regards the
food supplies? Are the workingmen’s
families in the large cities provided
with all of the potatoes they need, at

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THE CAUSE—THE EFFECT—THE OUTCOME

Investigations to determine the responsibility for the putting into effect of
the potato grades this year, disclosed the following facts: ‘

FIRST—The potato grades were recommended by the Department of Agri-
culture and approved by the Food Administration, with no thought of their

SECOND—No attempt has been made to enforce the observance of these
The buyers of some states have acted upon the recommendations; the
The organized buyers of Michigan elected to
The farmers of Michigan are suffering as a result,
while the farmers of other states are putting every potato on the market that

THIRD—Mr. E. P. Miller of the commission ﬁrm of Albert Miller of Chi—
cago seems to dominate the situation, and to date has succeeded in winning over
practically all the dealers of the state. The farmers have had no say in the
Mr. Miller claims to have authority to compel
observance of these rules; certain persons connected with the Bureau of markets

FOURTH—Tho outcome is doubtful. The dealers of the state, rather than
the government, seem to be largely responsible for these grades being adopted
this year, and the growers will have less inﬂuence over the dealers than they
have over the government. However, Michigan Business Farming has not yet
If the potato growers of the state will stay by the ship we will cor-
ratl all the forces and make one last mighty appeal to the Foot] Administration

Situation interferes

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“record—breaking crop” prices? Well,
hardly, when on the public markets of
HM Fitv of Washington, I this day paid
at the rate of $2.40 per bushel for po-
tatoes, and every potato in the pur-
chase Would have fallen headlong
through the screen, the use of which
Michigan dealers claim, in many in-
stances, is required by the govern-
ment.

We can dispose of the second (b)
reason very quickly. In the name of
common sense, what has the grading
proposition to do with the “overtaxed
condition of the transportation fa-
cilities of the country? No attempt
has been made to enforce these grad-
ing rules. There isn’t a single mar-
ket in the United States today that
is conforming to any established
grades for potatoes. On the Wash-
ington market potatoes of all kinds
and sizes were being sold; and if you
wanted the large potatoes the dealer
would pick them out for you; but in-
variably he would make this sugges-
tion: “Most people like the smaller

(Continued on page 12)

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BEANS RETAIL At
$12.89_ PER BU.

Farmers of Michigan Get $7 per
Bushel for Beans That Sell
at 40 Cents per Quart in
Washington

The lowly bean is selling in the
city of Washington today for exactly
40 cents per quart, or $12.80 per
bushel. This was the discovery of
Editor Slocum on his recent visit to
the Capitol city.

It is apparent that the “huge” crop
of Manchurian beans that have been
on their way to this country since the
ﬁrst of September must have met up
with a submarine and now repose on
the bed of the ocean. Any way. they
haven’t reached Washington. Neither
have any of those cheap California
and Colorado pinto and kidney beans
put in an appearance. About the only
beans that are selling in Washington .
today are an unpicked, nondescript
variety, which might have come, so
far as our editor was able to deter-
mine, from Michigan. He bought a
quart of them—at 40 cents good U. S.
money—~and shipped them home. If
you watch these columns next week
you will see an interesting photo—
graph of these beans.

Mr. W. J. Orr has been sending out
some more “bearish”,——very “bearish”
warnings to the members of the asso—
ciation. They read something like
this:

Saginaw, Michigan,
Nov. 30, 1917.
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE MICHI~
CAN BEAN JOBBERS ASS’N.:

Dear Sir:

l have just received the following wire
from Washington D. C '

"Army and Navy have elected con—
tinue present bean prices until December
ﬁfteenth.

“(Signed) Food Administration."

The present bean schedule provides
the following prices for Michigan whites
in double bags—~11 5-8. The Army and
Navy have full requirements of colored
beans for present use. Same are offered
at any price the Government may care to
make.

The Government price of ii 5—8 for
Michigan whites to December ﬁfteenth
doesn’t warrant present paying prices un—
less you have them sold as fast as pur—
chases are made. December, l9i7 may
long be remembered by many bean deal—
ers. All speculation eliminated. who will
hold the BAG. Have frequent interviews
with yourself as to the wisest course to
pursue.

I unhesitatingly recommend buying
only as you can sell. This will be most
satisfactory to all interests concerned. In
fact your license practically means that

on this crop.
W. J. ORR.
President.

Now the facts are that the govern-
ment has made no attempt to requisi-
tion beans from dealers. They have
been buying in the open market like
any consumer, and to date have been
able to purchase sufﬁcient to meet
their needs at their stipulated prices.
We are inclined to believe that the
numerous warnings that have been
given to the jobbers to refrain from
paying more than the government
price to farmers is largely “bunk,”
and not based upon actual facts. In
any caSe they do not seem to have
much of an effect upon the dealers,

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The

THE MOTE IN
MCBRIDE’S EYE

Attempt of State Market Direc-
tor to Oust Grange Editor,
Pure Spite, Declares
“Tim” Helme.

There has been much ado about the
attempt of State Market Director Mc-
Bride at the recent state Grange meet.
ing to oust Jas. Helme from the rudder
of the Michigan Patron, the Grange’s
oﬂicial publication, on the charge of
disloyalty to ‘the government, but a
closer scrutiny of the affair shows that
it was much ado‘ about nothing. Mr.
Helme claims that Mr. McBride is af-
ter his scalp for no other reason than
because he is “sore” at some of the
things Helme has been telling the
farmers about McBride’s administra-
tion of the State Marketing depart-
ment. In a recent issue of the Adrian
Telegram. Mr. Helme defends himself
as follows:

“Newspaper dispatches do not give a
full account of. the proceedings of the
late State Grange so far as it affected
me. The inside of the whole matter
is as follows: For the last two or
three years Thc Patron and the Glcan-
or. ofﬁcial organ of the Gleaners have
severely criticised the state market de-
partment, conducted at the Agricultur-
al college by .I. N. McBride. This has
been irritating to the college board and
a motion to dismiss McBride recently
resulted in a tie vote. McBride was
then called in and informed he must
stop the attack or lose his job.

“McBride came to Jackson to get my
goat, armed with an August Patron
containing the ad. of a peace meeting
which he claimed ‘came near to treas-
on.’ He went to the state master and
demanded that he appoint a committee
to consider certain grange matter and
threatened the state master that if he
did not do this he would raise a row
on the ﬂoor of the Grange. He also
‘11an a list of names to be appointed on
this committee. This list was compos-
ed entirely of men who had been ﬁght.-
ing me for years and most of whom
were not delegates to the state Grange.

“The master very foolishly appoint-
ed this committee ‘for harmony’s sake’
althou sh he openly told the Secretary
not, to record it in the minutes.

“The master added to this list of
names the executive committee of
which I am a member and a meeting
of this committee was called for 1 pm.
Thursday in the basement At that
time only four members of the execu-
tive committee showed up but nine of
my bitterest enemies were there with
their hatchets. McBride led the at—
tack, ﬂourishing the August Patron
and talking about ‘near treason.” Some
bitter recrimination followed and it
soon developed that the worst treason
T had been guilty of, even more than
the famous ad. was criticism of the
Agricultural college. This committee
ﬁnally passed a resolution deposing me
as editor of the ofﬁcial organ and or-
amwi 11 to be reported to the state
Grange at its evening session. I told
them to ‘go to it’ and arranged my
forces for battle. During the supper
recess an emissary was sent. me advis-
ing me to ‘resign and promote har—
mony.’ I said. ‘nothing doing.’ Again
I was approached and shown a resolu-
tion, which was afterwards passed, re-
pudiating the ad. I told them I hadn't
the slightest objection to their repud-
iating any ad. in the paper. I was next
asked if I would control my hot-headed
friends and agreed that they would not
attack the resolution when it, was pre-
sented. I told them I would try and
did. although my friends thought I
made a great mistake, as they thought
I ought to show up the inside of the
whole business I was there when the
resolution was presented and there was
no discussion

“A few minutes after a resolution
was passed without dissent to contin-
ue the Patroa for another year ‘on the
same or similar lines as at present.’

ENT MICHIGAN

 

 

 

“Yesterday the executive committee
by a unanimous vote appointed me
manager of the paper for the ensuing
year.

“At no time was there ever a discus—
sion of me or the Patron at any session
of the State Grange. All the so—calle‘d
attacks on me were made in committee
rooms and hotel lobbys by people who
were not delegates to the state Grange.
“J. W. Helme.

BENZIE GLEANE—Rs OFFI- ,
CIALLY PROTEST GRADES

To the Secretary of the State Federa-
tion:

We, the members of the Benzie County
Federation of Arbors of the Ancient Or-
der of Gleaners do hereby

Resolve, that the present system of
two grades of potatoes is unjust and not
fair to the farmers.

Therefore, we respectfully petition our
State Organization to further use their
influence to correct the injustice of the
present potato grading law.

Second, that the Government establish
a minimum price to be guaranteed to the
farmer for his products, and that such
price be sufﬁcient to Cover the high cost
of production and to guarantee the pro-
ducer at least ten per cent proﬁt on his
products the same as is now done for the
manufacturer

Third that the Government take more
vigorous steps toward providing trans-
portation at marketing time for all farm
products at a minimum price and also
provide a penalty in case of failure to
provide cars within a reasonable time.

Respectfully,

A. C. WILSON.

F. WEIF‘ENBACH,

GEORGE SNELL,
Committee on Resolutions

BELLAIRE SITES—613131212
AND HIS TRUSTY MULES

Subscriber C. W. Brunger of Bel-
laire sends us in the photograph that
appears below of himself and his two
trusty mules. “Follow these fellows

and the advice in MICHIGAN BUSINESS
FARMING," says Mr. Brunger, “and.
you won’t go very far wrong." Which
leaves it up to us to prove ourselves as
dependable and trustworthy as Mr.
Brunger’s mules. ‘

 

 

 

 

 

It is always a pleasure to receive
photographs of our readers or scenes

about. their farms. They brighten up
the page, and add a spice to the other-
wise rather dry and essential same-
ness of market reports and crop con-
ditions. We wish every subscriber
who’s got a few kodak pictures tucked
away in the bureau or writing desk
drawer, would fish them out and send
them to us for publication. All prints
will be returned upon request in good
condition. Let‘s hear from you, please.

“You can see that the Elevators want to do

the Speculating,”

A McBain subscriber sends us the
above clipping from his local paper
and for the enlightenment and amuse—
ment of our readers we have repro-
duced in reduced size. Our subscriber

DON’T SPECULATE

On Those Beans—-

’The quality is not good enough, on account
of excess moisture and heavy pickage.

There is too much difference between
the price of Colorado. California and Man-
chierian beans and the price of Michigan
beans. Either the former must, go up or
Michigan down and the odds are against
Michigan.

We are buying both yvet and dry beans,
but we do not. hold them. We are offering
you more than the government will pay us.

GET THE MONEY WHILE THE GETTING IS GOOD
When you have anything to sell, be friend-
ly; come and see us.

RED ELEVATOR

McBain Grain Co

Both Phones McBain, Michigan

 

 

succintly remarks: “You can see they
want to do the speculating.”

Now, dear reader, just read this ad.
carefully and ask yourself if you are
really the durn tool that the McBain
Grain Company must take you for if
it expects you to swallow such sugar-
coated stuff and nonsense as this. Note
that the elevator springs the same old
gag thatﬁthe jobbers have been chew-
ing on the last three months about
western and Manchurian beans.
If that old threat won’t jar McBain
farmers into selling, why we’ll use a
little persuasion.

“We are offering you more than
the government will pay us.” What’s
the answer? You farmers are not
supposed to know. You are expected
to believe that out of the pure good-
ness of heart the McBain Grain Co.,
and other individually or corporation
owned elevators, are Willing to pay

says a McBain Subscriber

you a pro :;1i1.1111 price for beans and
then tuin around and sell them to
the government at a loss. ‘v'oll, do
you believe it! (‘crtainly you don‘t.

The i111cllai11 Grain Company wants
your be his; they want them badly;
they 11.21111 them NOW. They are us-
ing subterfuge and playing upon your
fears to get them. Why? Not to sell
to the government at a loss; no, sir— _.
ee; but to ﬁll some good fat eastern
contract that needs immediate atten—
tion, or else to hold them as long as
their g0v>rnment license will permit
.ilnally to dispose of them on an ad-
vancing market.

“Don’t, speculate on those beans,
Mr. Farmer.” Sell ’em quick before
that hu<r c Manchurian crop arrives
and knocks the maps from the mar-
ket. The elevators don’t want to see
you lose any money, bless your soul,
no. They want to get the beans off
your hands; as long as you are safe,
money they may lose. S0, farmer
friend, if you are moved by the pleas
and the teears of the elevator men,

-- perhaps you’d better sell those beans.

They no doubt are looking after your
interests in the same solicitous fash-
ion as in years gone by. And you
know how that was.

But if we had some beans to Sell,
and the McBain Grain Co. came to us
with tears in their eyes and said, “Be
friendly; sell us your beans now; we
are willing to pay you MORE than
the government will pay us; remember
that huge crop of Manchurian beans;
if there is to be speculating done, and
losses to be had let us hear the bur-
den.”—well, if they said that to us
we’d go home and put our beans un-
der lock and key and buy an auto-
mobile on the strength of the addi-
tional proﬁts which we would logi-
cally expect within the next couple
months.

“PROFITEER”
Public Unanimously Indicts Farm
er of Proﬁteering Before Hear-
ing the Arguments he has

to Present for Higher
Milk Prices

“I hold that the farmer is guilty
until he is proven innocent,” said a
Flint consumer to the writer this
week during a discussion of the prob-
able increase in the price of milk to
the producer.

This is the reverse order of crim-
inal court proceedure yet it is the very
‘method Flint consumers are using in
trying the fairness and reasonable-
ness of the farmers’ demand for a price
for their milk that will equal the cost
of production plus a legimate and rea-
sorable proﬁt. ‘

Instead of giving the farmer the
reason of a doubt, the city consumer
starts out charging him with guilt.
Guilty of what? Proﬁ-teering. He
must prove his innocence.

I know of no better, no more co-
vincing method of establishing his
innocence than to take every l-.st con-
sumer who maintains that the dairy-
man, who asks for a price for his milk
that willl equal the (10st of production
plus a reasonable proﬁt, is guilty of
proﬁteering, and put him out on dairy

farms. Let "em take care of the cows
for a week. Let them pay the cost. of
the feed they consume. Let them

set a price on the value of their labor.
Let them get, 11p at four or ﬁve o’clock
in the morning and do the milking.
Let them work on dairy farms that
are short handed, and that will be al-
most any dairy farm‘ in Michigan.
Then, when they have done all this
for a. week, let them sit down in the
house and ﬁgure out the cost of a
hundred pounds of milk just. the same
as they would in their private ofﬁces
hack in the city. “'0 know 1"ght well
what the verdict would be. “Not
guilty,” of course

But Flint producers are going to
have a mighty hard row to hoe to
prove their innocence. They laid
themselves open when Leonard Free-
man, one of the largest. distributors
in Flint, hired the best hall in the city
and invited all h’s producers to meet
with him. They fell into an unsus-
pected trap, cleverly baited. and at-
tended the meeting About 2110 of them
got entangled in the ﬁne mesh of this
distributor’s clever trap. He got them
to say they were satisﬁed with his
price. Just what enticing methods he
used. I don’t know. Some of the pro-
ducers now think he used chloroform.
He accomplished the feat and now he
is chuckling to himself. He has de-
tracted attention from himself and at
the same time has cast an uniuust re-
ﬂection on the producers.

To the average consumer it looks
as if the farmer was entitled to an
increase in the price for his milk.
Because the farmers are beginning to
organize-00-operate if you pleaseH
for the purpose of applying business
methods to the milk industry. they
are adjudged to be guilty of proﬁtcer-
ing. —D. L. Runnels.

 

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Dec. lst, 1917

There is quite a few of our

good friends who promised

to send in their dollar on

that date. It is now the 15th,

and if you have neglected to

do so before now, send a dol-

. lar bill today, either with the
card we sent you or with the
address label from the front

cover of this issue.

  
      

 

   
   
  
 
   
 
 
   
   
    
  
 
  


     
 

  
   
  

    

 

 
   
 
  
   
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
  
 
 

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'ped this year 4,871 cars.

”"APO’TATO’ " :‘

 

Maine Farmer, Says That prop
Will Not Average Better Than
30 'per cent of Last Year’s

Below we republish a letter written
by C. S. Grifﬁn, a potato grower of.
Kingman, Maine, to the Bangor (Me)
Commercial. It gives Michigan grow-
ers a new light on the eastern potato
situation and affords additional evi-
dence that Government crop reports
are not always reliable:

“The potato,situation is at a stand-
still here with only now and then a
carload going out. Those who were
watching the market are of the opin—
ion that those who raised gardens last
summer must have put them largely
to potatoes and that their crops are
not yet exhausted, otherwise the ship-
ments into the city markets would be
larger.

“This state is shipping more pota-
toes this year than last compared with
the size of the crop we have to ship
from. It is a large estimate to say
this year’s crop is 30 per cent of last
year’s cr0p,.and the shipments are 40
per cent of last year’s shipments. By
U. S. report of Dec. 5 Maine has ship-
Up to this
date last year Maine shipped 12,043
cars. The report that Maine farmers
are holding back their potatoes is not
justiﬁed. This locality did not raise
over a 20 per cent crop as compared
with last year. The formers did
their part and the fertilizer was prob-
ably as good as can be made when no
potash is to be had. Only gravelly
soils that would not hold water yield-
ed well this past season. The season
was so wet that witch grass grew un-
usually fast and to choke that off the
farmer smothered much of his crop
that will not survive deep burying
with wet soil and no hot sun to force
the top up through their ﬁrst hoeing.
Practically all seed planted came up
well and had the soil been dry and hot
when the tops were covered under at
the ﬁrst Loeing a normal crop would
have resulted.

“Potatoes smothered at their ﬁrst
hoeing lost their entire top and are de«
pendent upon new spropting for a top
and this cuts four weeks out of their
growing season. Most of the repro-
ducing power of the seed was lost in
the ﬁrst sprouting and the young tops
smothered out. It pays and pays well
to cover the young tops at the ﬁrst
hoeing, if this is done wisely, which
means, cover only with dry, hot earth
at a dry time. That is, try to_be reas-
onably sure the soil will stay dry for
24 to 48 hours offer the young tops
are covered, then the tops roll out
strong and put out new roots above
the original roots. This practically
doubles the vigor of the plant. The
new gardeners probably beat the old
farmers this year by not knowing
enough to bury their young tops and
made the hoe kill the weeds when the
farmer smothers his weeds. This
year’s lesson will no doubt insure a
better crop next year even with an
eonally wet season, but many of the
farmers can not put in the usual crop
next year without outside help in the
way of ﬁnances. It takes ﬁve barrels
of seed and about a ton of fertii’ney-
to put in one acre. At present prices:
Potatoes, $2 per barrel. fertilizer, $55
per ton, spray material, $5, makes
$75 per acre for material alone. Our
average crop this year was about 20
barrels large and small together and
about half are marketable. If we
Planned to use next spring only mar-
ketable sizes for seed the state of
Maine could not spare a single carload
for shipment out of the state.

”N0 (1011“ many new seed will be
shipped in from the North and West
where the crop is said to be good and
it is probable that some Maine farm-
ers are selling now with that idea in
view. Seed last spring were $6 per
barrel. Not half the farmers in this
locality will get the value of their
seed back if they must sell their mar-
kctable potatoes thisiwinter at $3 per
barrel; and the fertilizer and spray
must be a total loss. Maine farmers
are justiﬁed in demanding a better
price—O. S. Gi’ifj‘in, Kingman, Me.

   
  

 

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OREGON HEN LAYS EGGS
WEIGHING FOUR OUNCES

 

Dr. L. E. Straight of. Eugene, Ore.,
is the owner of a hen that lays eggs
weighing four ounces each. Dr.

[Straight states that an egg is pro-

duced every other day, and that all
are of uniform size.

The hen is of the Barred Plymouth
Rock variety. The eggs, when broken,
apparently are normal in their pro-
portions, aside from their great size.
Dr. Straight said that he may experi-
ment with a setting of eggs to see if
a large egg laying strain of chickens
can be developed. .

This biddy must be a direct descend-
ent of the “hen that laid the golden
eggs.”

MILK PRODUCTION COSTS
IN NEW ENGLAND

 

The Boston Chamber of Commerce
has been making a study of the milk

- business of New England for several

years on the various phases of pro-
duction, transportation and distribu—
tion. The detail account of the results
is printed in.the Nov. 30 issue ‘of
Roard’s Dairy/man, from which the
following ﬁgures are taken:

Cost of milk production,
ber 15, 1917:

Septem-

Maine ................... 0696 per qt.
New Hampshire ......... 0595 per qt.
Vermont ................. 0619 per qt.
Massachusetts ........... 0812 per qt.
Connecticut ............. 0718 per qt.

These ﬁgures were compiled from

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850 farms, 15,000 cows, and 40,000,000
quarts of milk. They represent costs
at the country railroad station and
are ﬁgured on year-around basis.

THE FRENCH WHEAT
REPORT DISCOURAGING

 

Scarcity of workmen, poor climatic
conditions and a large decrease in the
acreage are chieﬂy responsible for the
small French wheat crop which in-
tensiﬁes the agricultural crisis new
confronting France. Reports gather-
ed by the statistical division of the U.
S. Food Administration show that an-
nual wheat production in France has
fallen to less than half of the pre—war
average.

COST OF POTATO GROWING
IN GRAND TRAVERSE CO.

We planted two acres of potatoes
last spring and here is the way it
ﬁgures out: We got one hundred bu.
and half of hose will go through the
1% inch screen. The price now at
Traverse City is 60c per bu. for No. 1.

 

Plowing and dragging... .....$ 8.00
20 bu. seed at $2.50 bu ......... 50.00
Land rent, $4 per acre ........ 8.00
2 lbs. paris green at 600 per lb... 1.20
One day to paris green ........ 2.00
Cultivate 4 times ............ 3 M
Digging and pitting ........... 7.00
Man and team to market ...... 4.00

Total ................. $82.20

Where do we come in?——D. H. (7.,
Grand Traverse county.

ILLINOIS MILK COST INVESTIGATIONS
SHOW POS_Sll_3II_.ITY OF $4 MILK

Constantly Increasing Costs Make
it Necessary That Farmers Se-
cure More for Milk if
They are to Continue
in the Business

Continued investigations by the Food
Administration's special milk price
commission into thecost of producing
milk in the Chicago area indicate a
possibility if not a probability of milk
prices going as high as $4 per hun-
dred weight.

“Prof. F. A. Pearson of the Univer-
sity of Illinois presented detailed re-
sults of cost accounting work on sev-
eral dairy farms in northern Illinois,
showing that it takes 44 lbs. of grain,
188 pounds of silage, 50 pounds of hay,
39 pounds of other forage, and 2.42
hours of man labor to produce 100 lbs.
of milk. The value of manure, milk
used by the family, and calves raised
just about offsets the cost of horse
labor, interest, use of buildings and
equipment, insurance, etc. Later evi-
dence on cost of labor and feed show-
ed that the dairyman would have to
get close to $4 per cwt. for milk to
break even. In order to secure a
steady supply of milk the year around.
it is necessary to pay a premium in
the winter months, when production
costs are higher. Prof. Pearson’s for-
mula gives the average cost for the
year. To get the correct price for
each month, it is necessary to mul-
tiply it by the following percentage
for each month, which is based on the
monthly variations actually paid for
the past 10 years: January, 119; Feb-
ruary, 114.3; March, 106.5; April, 94.2;
May, 73.2; June, 70.6; July, (3.7:
August, 94.2; September. 96.7; Octo—
ber, 96.7; October, 109.2; November,
118.3; December, 120.3.

“Dr. C. G. Warren of Carncll lini—
versity gave ﬁgures from New York
state which veriﬁed those given by
Prof. Pearson for Illinois. His labor
ﬁgures were, higher. He stated that it
takes 150 hours man labor per year
to care for an average cow, or three
hours per cwt. of milk.

“On 56 average farms in New York,

Dr. Warren said 142.262 hours man la-
bor was used during the year, 7,739
hours woman labor, and 8,531 hours
child labor. Gov. Deneen brought out
the point that about two-thirds of the
man labor was the work of the owner
of the herd. and was worth more than
the prevailing wage for hired hands.

“Dr. Warren stated that because of
greater proﬁts in grain raising than in
dairying, much hay and pasture land
in New York is beinog plowed up. The
annual normal slaughter of dairy cows
is 17 per cent. The slaughter in New
York last year was 14 per cent above
normal. The experts of butter, cheese
and milk were 33 million dollars great-
er this year than last. There is a
world shortage of dairy cows and dairy
products. We must pay enoough for
milk so that dairymen can aﬁ'oord to
raise heifers to make good this short—
age. The price of milk must be in
proportion to the price of other farm
products or we will get the other
products instead of milk.”

The developments in the Illinois
situation are, of course, of acute in»
terest to the producers of Michigan
whose costs are doubtlessly just as
high as those of their neighbors across
the line. If the Food Administration
commission ﬁnds that the producers
of Illino’s are entitled to $4 per cwt.
for their milk during the winter
months, there is no reason why they
should not similarly recognize the
rights of Michigan dairymcn for at
least as hicb a price. The salvation
of the Michigan dairy industry de—
pends upon the developments of the
ensuing few months. A price com-
mensurate with the cost of production
plus a fair profit will hearten the da-
irymen to stay by the ship and con-
tinue to build up their herds for milk
production purposes. but failure to
secure a sliding scale of prices in pro-
portion to the advancing costs of feed
and other raw materials will effectual-
ly smother the little spark of hope
that has kept, the producers going the
last few doubtful months, and will
surely drive them into some other
branch of husbandry.

\UNFllllel-EALINOE , ,
lNVliSTlGATEDi

Grain Corporation Assures M. B.
F. of Desire to See That Farm-
ers Get All They are En-
titled to for Wheat

 

A large number of our readers have
referred to us instances where local
elevators were.not paying all they
should for wheat. In all cases the
matter has been referred to the U. S.
Food Administration Grain Corpora-
tion who have been more than an-
xious to co-operate with us in secur—
ing better treatment for the farmers.
A typical situation is that which ex-
ists at Buckley, Wexford county, and
which was referred to us by Mr. John
Seeley, as follows:

“The Buckley Grain Company, at,
Buckley, Wexford county. claims that
the U. S. government gave them or-
ders how to buy grain from the farm—
er. I would like to know if this is
true, that they are to test all wheat
and any wheat that doesn’t test 60
pounds, to dock three cents off on the
buying price for every pound that
tests under 60. They say they are
paying $195 per bushel. This is where
I get it on Mr. Farmer. They cla'vn
to pay $2.75 per 100 pounds for buclc
wheat that tests 48 pounds, but they
take off of the buying price for every
pound that tests under 48. The way
they clean it they can make the tcst
whatever they want to. I heard the
manager say so. If it, tests more than
48, should they not pay ﬁve cents more
per hundred? The same company
tests beans; will clean them up and
then take a test and charge a certain
price per pound for picking. They
take this out of the price they pay
for the beans and then charge the
farmer the buying price per pound
for enough good beans to make up for
all they pick out so they will have 60
pounds. They claim to pay a certain
price but when they get thru our beans
bring about half what they say they
are paying. They say this is just as
the U. S. government, gave them or-
ders. Is this so?”

The fore part of Mr. Seeley's letter
was promptly laid before the Grain
(‘orporation who advised us under
date of Dec. 10th, as follows:

“Your inquiry covers Buckley. Mich,
where rate of freight to New York for
export Is 21 cents per hundred, hence
a shipment of No. 2 Red Wheat from
there would net shipper about $2.11.

“In elevator trade with farmers.
they should maintain fair practices
and reasonable proﬁt. All their ship—
ments are inspected. so. they must
maintain Government standards. For
No. 2 Red Wheat. I think they should
pay there about $2.06 to $2.08 and for
No. 3 Red 3 cents less. I have writ-
ten them to this effect today.

“I hope this will correct the rli’li-
culty of which you complain. Fend
Administration Grain Corporat’on."

For some weeks past we have been
conducting an investigation into the
alleged discriminating and unfair prac-
tices of many elevators in the manner
which they ascertain the bean tests.
This investigation is now near com—
pletion and all the facts will be laid
before the bean committee at ‘Wash-
ington. It Will be to the advantage
of all our readers who are dissatisﬁed
with the pick given by the local ele-
vators to lay the facts before us at
once.

FARM LOAN ASSOCIATION
IN OSCEOLA COUNTY

 

Do you know whether there is a
farm loan association operating- in OS-
ceola county?w('. B.

The Federal Farm Loan Bank at
St. Paul advises us that an association
has been organized at Marion, of which
F. I). Elliott is C‘«ocretary—Treasurer.

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—-“OVER THE TOP” with ten
thousand new soldiers means
victory for Michigan Business
Farming and the farmers of
Michigan.

     
 
 

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ance men have worked for, that drunkards'have hoped for,
' and drunkard’s 'wives and children have prayed-fon—the
day when the fangs of the liquor trafﬁc should be severed
once and for all time,—seems now to have dawned.“ '
By a vote of' 282 to 128 the house of representatives on-
Menday passed the resolution which proposes an amendment to the Federal Con-
stitution forbidding the «manufacture, sale and importation of intoxicating
liquors for beverage purposes in the United States and territories. To become
effective the resolution must be ratified within seven years from date by two-
thirds of the states. .

There are already twenty-seven dry states in the union, where the dry forces
expect to encounter little opposition in securing ratiﬁcation, but they must
win over nine additional states Within the time allowed. This they anticipate
little difﬁculty in doing. . '

Michigan may Well be proud of her eleven congressmen who voted “yes”
on the measure. They are as follows: Louis C. Cramton, Lapeer; Gilbert A.
Currie, Midland; Joseph W. Fordney, Saginaw; Edward L. Hamilton, Niles;
Patrick H. Kelley, Lansing; James C. McLaughlin, Muskegon; W. Frank James,
Hancock; Frank D. Scott, Alpena; John M. C. Smith, Charlotte; Carl E. Mapes,
Grand Rapids, S. W. Beakes, Ann Arbor. Charles 0. Nichols, republican, and
Frank E. Doremus, democrat, both of Detroit, voted against the resolution.

As soon as the vote became known the galleries rang with applause, and

there was a wild demonstration of approval which centered about the ﬁgures

of Wm. Jennings Bryan and Representative Webb, who have been among the
most able leaders in the prohibition ﬁght.

The measure was formerly voted upon favorably by the Senate who ﬁxed a
six year period for ratiﬁcation. Committees of the two bodies will immediately
confer and no difﬁculty is anticipated in securing the concurrment of the
Senate to the longer period of time.

No political or moral issue of modern times has been fought more bitterly
than that of prohibition of the liquor traﬂic. Thousands of men have dedicated
their lives to the struggle against booze, and as many more have led in its
defense. Organized booze has in times gone past controlled elections, domin-
ated legislatures and muzzled courts. Backed by countless dollars, it has
pursued its ruthless slaughter of characters and lives and laughed at the
efforts of “reformers” to put it out of business. But the loyalty and persever-
ence of its enemies have at last triumphed, and booze has been ﬁnally brought
to justice and condemned to pay the penalty of its crimes.

* =k *

VER SINCE the overthrow of the Kerensky government in Russia and the

succession of the Bolsheviki to.the head of RusSian affairs, your Washing

ton correspondent has urged the advisability of the Allied governments tak-
ing the representatives of the new government into their conferences, if for no
other reason than to prevent them from rushing into a German peace council, and
to show them that our sympathies were really with Democracy. But the Allies
have stubbornly refused to have anything to do with the struggling Bolsheviki
forces, believing, no doubt, that counter revolutions would shortly unseat them
from power. But the principles declared by the new government appealed to
your correspondent as of such sameness, conservatism and soundness, that it
became his instant belief and contention that. the revolution was the expression
of something more constructive and enduring than anarchism, and that the
power upholding these principles would survive.

Time has proven the wisdom of our opinions. The Bolsheviki have been
left to ﬁght their battles alone, without a single word of advice or fr1endsh1p
from the Allied nations. And now that it has proven itself stronger than all
the combined factions arrayed against it, the Allies have been compelled to
open their eyes to the fact that it has the support of the great mass of people
and constitutes really the de facto government of that nation. Despite the
charges that Lenine and Trotsky were the hired agents of Germany, sent to
Russia to spread discontent and stir up revolution that the country might be
reduced to a helpless state and made easy for German domination, events have
prOVen the utter fallacy of such views. Had the Bolsheviki been accountable
to German authority, a separate peace would have been formed weeks ago. and
it is largely because Lenine refuses to let Germany dictate the separate peace

terms that the Allies have awakened
to the true state of affairs.

WASHINGTON—The day that Christian‘ and temper; ‘

  
    

 
  

up their .hands' in, ii _ ,
season. ; -The...9nly i-sone—-\t11stf.;18lvés
them comfort, in’return' for he sac
riﬁces they are making is that this
war will be the last war. .As long as
instruments of death are manufactur-
ed and our youth are taught to use
them, there will. be war, Universal
training, standing armies and navies
can never give to smaller nations the
power to protect themselves against
the larger. Complete disarmament pf
all nations, large and small, is the
ONLY insurance against war. And this

'may even be so in spite of Mr. Roose-

velt’s arguments to the contrary.
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ASHINGTON is greatly heart-
V‘l ened by the success of the Un-

ion candidates in the recent
election in Canada, which gives as-
surance that the Dominion will stay
in the war with her vast resources
of men, money and food supplies.
The biggest issue involved in the
campaign was that of conscription.
The Laurier forces were opposed to con-
scription, and had they won, Canada
would have doubtless withdrawn from
active participation in the war. For

Canada early learned that armies

could not be raised without con-
scription. Not only does Canada’s de-
cision mean Unlimited material sup-
port to the war against Prussian
barbarism, but it has the additional
effect. of strengthening the wavering
morale of both the civilian and mili-
tary population of the other coun-
tries. With Sir Robert Borden re-
tained as premier of the Dominion,
the United States may feel assured
that her neighbor will be in at the
ﬁnish—of Kaiserism.
III III It

Congress has adjourned until after
the holidays, but will be back on the
job January 3rd, to tackle some of
the toughest problems yet laid be-
fore it ' ~

MICHIGAN DRYS TO
PREPARE FOR BATTLE

Following immediately upon the
action of the House of Representa-
tives in adopting the national prohi-
bition resolution, Michigan drys have
already announced their intention of
taking an active part in the election
of men who will sit in the next legis-
lature. It requires a two-thirds vote
of both branches of the State legisla-
ture to ratify the national amend-
ment, and the drys will leave nothing
undone to secure such a majority.

 

Many believe that nothing can pre-
vent Russia from making a separate
peace with Germany providing the lat-
ter guarantees the rights of Russian
people. Russia is tired of the war,
and there is no individual or political

power in the country strong enough ) , \ NOHT
to revive the spirits of Russia’s ﬁght- , , . éEfT NO MORE
" moans no
HE was A 6°°°
THiNé WHiLE. —/
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ing men and get them back to the
trenches. The main thing now is for
the Allied nations to counsel with the
de facto government, and exert all
inﬂuence possible in saving it from
a separate peace dictated by the Kai-
ser.

 

0 I I

EDDY Roosevelt has been heard

from again. This time T. R.

booms his disapproval of the
recommendations made by Secretary
Baker that the country make no pro—
vision for universal military training.
and the cit-president charges that
President Wilson supports the Sec-
retary of War’s views. The public at
large is getting very tired of Mr.
Roosevelt’s frequent attacks upor. the
Administration. While no one ques-
tions the inference that Mr. Roosevelt
and the Kaiser are the twin peers of
war propagandists and the highest
known authorities on how war mach-
inery should be operated, it does not
necessarily follow that we should be
entirely subservient to their wishes
with respect to the policies of the na-
tions after the war is over. There

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purpose of launching a' 'gen‘eral attack
' and smashing the entente forces before
American troops become an important
factor; in the situation; Allied airmen
report great activity all along the Ger-
man front, troop tra-ins .constantly‘arriv-
ing with additional German forces ' and
huge supplies of ammunition. being made
ready for the attack. When this blow
will fall only the German authorities
know. The Allied forces are preparing
to ‘meet it and with unfavorable weath—
er constantly increasing as winter ad-
vances, the success of any general offen-
sive is a matter of doubt. The roar of
big guns, somewhat lessened after the
British offensive in the Cambrai sector,
is again swelling into a continuous roar.
The present winter promises greater ac-
tivities all along the western front than
have been witnessed at that season since
the war began.

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Despite occasional reverses, the Italian
line continues to hold against the com-
bined Austrian and German forces. These
forces are being constantly increased with
troops withdrawn from the Russian front.
It is evident that the Austro-Germans
are preparing for a resumption of the at-
tack in Italy as soon as they have had‘
sufﬁcient time to consolidate the terri-
tory already won. With the reinforce-
ments received from her allies, both men
and guns, and with the time which her
men had in which to recuperate and re-
cover their morale, Italy is conﬁdent of
her ability to withstand the coming re-
newed offensive and even to later take the
initiative herself. Winter is expected to
soon become an effectual ally of the Ital-
ian forces, making difficult the transpor-
tation of supplies from Austria, through
the mountain passes to the Italian plains.

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During the past week more than 1.100
additional men have been sent from
Camp Custer to other camps. It is ex-
pected that about 3,000 more will leave
in'the near future. These men are being
used to ﬁll up the ranks of the regular
army and the National Guard units.
Thirty thousand pounds of .turkey have
been purchased for the Christmas dinner
of the boys at Camp Custer. Many of
the men will be given passes so that they
may visit at home over the holidays and
for those who will remain in camp spe-
cial entertainments are being arranged.
Owing to lack of fuel it is expected that
“lightless nights” will soon be the regu—

lar thing in camp. '

I! It I

British forces operating in Palestine
have not only taken full possesswn of
Jerusalem but have advanced about one
hundred and twenty miles beyond without
meeting with any material remstance
from the Turks. The time must be at
hand when Germany will be compelled
to send reinforcements to her Turkish
ally. The effect of the steady British ad-
vance is now apparent in the morale of
the Turkish troops and the Mussulmans
generally. With reinforcements and fresh
supplies the British forces will be in po-
sition to threaten Constantinople. The
operations against Turkey should soon
have an appreciable effect on other fronts.

as at: =11:

Latest reports from Russia indicate
that the Bolsheviki forces have defeated
the counter-revolutionary forces under
General Kaledines and that the general
has himself been captured. General Kor-
niloff. also a leader of the counter rev-
olution, has been severely wounded and
for the time at least the Bolsheviki re-
gime appears to be in the ascendancy.
Japan is said to have landed troops at
Vladivostock for the protection of war
supplies stored there and deep signiﬁ-
cance is attached to this move by mili-
tary authorities. -

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Major General Goethals has been re-
called to active service and detailed as
acting Quartermaster General to succeed
Major General Sharp. Some time ago
General Goethals resigned as head of the
Ship Building Commission after a.
lengthy controversy with Mr. Denman as
to the advisability of building wooden or
steel ships. His present appointment
again brings him into the limelight. His
success in putting through the building of
the Panama Canal undoubtedly qualﬁes
him for the responsibilities of the pres—
ent position.

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Nineteen Americans lost their lives on
Monday when the American submarine
F-l was rammed and sunk by submarine
F-3. The collision occurred in home
waters, the result of a heavy fog. One
Michigan man was among those lost.
This is the second serious submarine dis-
aster in the United States Navy during
the 'last few years. the other being the
sinking of the F-4 off Honolulu harbor
in March. 1915. The sinking of the F-1
is the ﬁrst accident of the kind. due to
collisron. in the Tlnited States Navy.
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Both houses of Congress are now en-
gaged in a searching investigation of the
conduct of the war during the 8 months
since America’s declaration of hostilities
against Germany. Committees have been
appointed to inv’estigate both army and
navy conditions. equipment of troops, prog-
ress made in the manufacture of airo-
planes, guns, and other munitions, ex-

penditures on the various cantonments,

and so forth.

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The English Coast was again raided
by German aircraft on the night of De-
cember 18. Some of the raiders reached
London and succeeded in dropping
bombs on the capital. Advices from the
British War Department fail to state
whether or not any casualties occurred.

 

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No. a ltd. 2114 . 2.22
No. 2 White 2.15 2.13 2.23
14.. 2 Mixed 2.15 2.13 _ 2.23

 

Growers in Michigan are now con-
fronted with the very situation we
have feared, elevators" ﬁlled so that no

. more wheat can be taken in until cars

are available to move stocks now on
hand. The coal shortage and the ex—

treme winter weather which has come.

at an unexpected time, ,are adding to
the difﬁculty caused by the car shortj
age. During the balance of the win-

ter this condition will no doubt con-1

tinue to give trouble.

Realizing that the price of wheat
is established and will not change,
growers generally are anxious to dis-
pose of wheat now that they have
time to haul it, wishing to avoid loss
from shrinkage, mice, etc. We believe
this is a good idea and advise our
readers to get their wheat into the
elevators, as fast as it can be taken
in and moved by the dealers. No ad-
ditional proﬁt can come from hold-
ing wheat. We wish to emphasize
this because there seeme to be some
confusion in the minds of our readers.
During the past week some of our
farmer frieuds who live near us
here have dropped into the ofﬁce to
discuss this very thing with the mar-
ket editor.

We are not receiving so many’re-
ports of must in wheat now arriving
as we did a week or so ago. No doubt
the cold weather has helped this con.
dition in a great measure. We do

note that there is some difference in
terminal markets and growers should
familiarize themselves with this part
of the business and watch their sales
accordingly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
No. 2 White
Shndlrd .80 .76 .89
No. 3 White .79 1-2 .75 1-2 .88
No. 4 Whiﬁte .78 .74 .861-2

 

Movement of oats is greatly inter-
fered with at all points and until this
condition is relieved no one need fear
for the oat market. The price, under
heavy trading and an exceptionally
strong millingr demand, has advanced.
The condition is one hard to ﬁgure
out and just what the future may hold
for oats no one even tries to forecast.

There are enormous stocks in the
country and the elevators have plenty
on hand but the question is to get
them to where they are wanted. In
the meantime spot stocks are in such
great demand that buyers bid up the
market to get them. It would seem,
the longer stocks are held back and
theshorter the time left to dispose of
them before another crop, the greater
would be the decline 'when they do
move.

To offset this is the fact that the
restriction of wheat consumption is
greatly increasing the consumption of
oats for human food. Europe is also
in need of great amounts and this ex-
port business will help greatly. The
recent embargo will make it necess
ary for domestic users of oats of the
Illinois-Indiana line to secure their
supplies in Indiana and other states
east of the embrago line until it is
raised. This should help local grow-
ers and perhaps result‘in some further
advances there. Just how this embar-
go and zone system will work out is a
matter of conjecture and everyone hav-
ing any connection with the oat mar-
ket seems to be ”Up a “96." 80 t0

speak, and uncertain as to the future,‘

although the general opinion is that
lower prices will later prevail.

Corn is going to exert more inﬂuence
over the oat market before a great
while and it will be well to take this
into consideration when ﬁguring what
the oat market will do later on in the
season”

GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
No. 2 Yellow 2.07 Nominal 1,64
No. 3 Yellow 2.05 Nominal 1,63

' No. 2 Mixed 2.02 1.50

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The market on this grain, continues
to work down as the movement in—
creases. The Government has been
making a strong effort to supply cars
and about ten thousand have been
delivered durino the past two weeks
to the corn states. This will have a
beneﬁcial effect on the movement to
market and enable growers to dispose
of their grain while it is in a more
marketable condition. The cold weath-
er has helped the movement of the wet
stock and with any kind of a car sup-
ply conditions should become more
normal.

At the suggestion of the Food Ad‘
ministration the Railway War Board
has 'placed an embargo on all ship-
ments east of the Indiana-Illinois line.
This will have the effect of forcing
an accumulation of stocks at Chicago
and other western points, where more
liberal supplies are needed to take
care of future demands. This is quite
a change in the attitude'of the Food
Administration. This ruling will les-
sen the congestion on eastern lines
and by keeping the cars in the west
for a time will enable shippers there
to get their stocks onto the primary
markets.

There is a great deal of talk all
around regarding next year’s supply
of seed corn. There is no doubt but
what there is a supply available in
certain parts of the corn belt where
the weather conditions were not as
adverse as in others. The problem is
to have this supply properly conserv-
ed during the winter and made ready
for distribution this coming spring.
We advise our readers to give this
matter attention at this time. Good
seed corn will be worth some money
next spring.

Should your corn not be such as to
make it available for seed purposes,
there is a possibility that your neigh-
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WASHINGTON. D. C., Dec. 22.—
Last bulletin gave forecasts of dis—
turbances to cross continent Dec. 22
to 26, warm wave 21 to 25, cool wave
24 to 28. Moderate weather will pre-
vail during this storm period with av—
evage temperatures inclined upward.
No indication of severe storms or bad
weather for the holidays. A lack of
snow is expected. Of course northern
sections always want snow for Christ-
mas.

Next warm wave will reach Van—
couver about Dec. 27 and tempera:
tures will rise on all the Paciﬁc slope.
It will cross crest of Rockies by close
of Dec. 28, plains sections 29, merid-
ian 90, great lakes and Ohio-Tenne-
ssee valleys Dec. 30, eastern sections,
31, reaching vicinity of Newfoundland
about Jan. 1. Storm wave will follow

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CHICAGO WIRE—The corn market is developing bearish tendencies. being
strongly affected by the weak under—current on oats. Reports are current that
cars are more plentiful in the oats districts and that. shipments are increasing
fast. Looks right now like a loweHevel in the out market.

PITTSBURGH WIRE—Advise holding back potatoes until after Christmas
as market is now Well supplied and inclined to drag. More frozen stock arriv-
Cabbage looking up but market is still far

DETROIT SPECIAIr—Potato market steady but no additional strengh. .Rua-
bugus and carros slow sale. Apples moving well his week but supplies adequate
for the demand. Hay still arriving in quantities too small for the demand.

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has corn which can be used for this
purpose. It will pay to look around.

 

The market on rye shows very lit—
tle change. Conditions are ﬁrm at
present quotations but the demand is
just about sufficient to take care of
the daily offerings. The market at
many points is rather uncertain. De—
troit quotes No. 2 at $1.82% per bu.
Chicago, on the other hand, makes no
regular quotation at this time, the
market being nominal.

 

 

GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
C. H. P 7.50 3.25 8.40
Prime 7.45 8.20 8.33
Red Kidneys 8.00 9.00 9.00

 

 

 

 

 

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THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK

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During the past week the bean mar—
ket has dragged along, the price re—
mainng about stationary. Buyers
are taking on only such supplies as
are absolutely necessary. Country el-
evator points are also slow buyers.
some dealers having ﬁlled their house
with the wet stock and are unable to
take on more until present supplies
are dried and out of the way. The
wet condition of the stock has proven
a great draw-back to marketing. It is
also causing much dissatisfaction be-
tween country buyers and the grow-
ers. It is an unfortunate condition all
around, especially for a year such as
the present when smooth relations and

a satisfactory movement are needed.

It is now ﬁrmly established that the
Michigan crop will be very heavy pick-
ers, some dealers placing the average
for the entire crop at around twenty
pounds or more. We believe this is
none too high. We have advised our
friends who have wet beans to leave
them in the straw until the good cold
weather sets in. The additional time
given them before threshing will as-
sist in drying them. Many growers
report that beans which have been
threshed and placed in bins are now

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about one day behind warm wave and
cool wave about one day behind storm
wave é;

Temperatures Of this storm will av—
erage above normal. Not much force
to the storms and less than usual rain
and snow. We are promised a long
spell of good winter weather from De-
cember 22 to Jan. 12 and then no
very bad weather during balance of
January. lu‘ven February does not
promise much bad weather.

Another warm wave will reach Van-
couver about January 1 and temper-
atures will rise on all the Paciﬁc slope
It will cross crest of Rockies by close
of Jan. 2, plains sections 3, meridian
90. great lakes and Ohio-Tennessee
valleys 4, eastern sections 5, reaching
vicinity of Newfoundland about Jan.
6. Storm wave will follow about one
day behind warm wave and cool wave
about one day behind storm wave.

Not much of a storm. A little in—
crease in rain and snow. with down-
ward trend of temperatures. Like the
Missoouri mule the weather is being
good preparatory to a vigorous kick

later on.

    

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in bad condition and it looks as tho
many growers would stand a loss from
this very cause. Our advice is to get
these beans spread out thin wherever
possible. Let the air circulate thru
them freely and give them a turning
every few days.

The bean growers over the country
feel strong on the situation and after
the ﬁrst of the year the condition

should become more established and
a better market prevail. We are right
at the time now where a quiet market
is usually experienced.

 

 

No. 1 Standard No. 2

Huh“ Timothy Timothy Timothy
Detroit 24 50 25 00 23 50 24 00 22 50 23 50
Chiaxo 27 28 00 26 50 27 50 25 00 27 00
Cincinnati 29 00 29 25 28 50 29 09 28 00 28 50

 

Pittolmlth 29 50 30 00 27 50 28 75 27 00 28 00
New York 20 00 27 00 24 75 25 50 23 24 00
RiChllond 31 00 32 00 31 00 31 50 31 00 31 5.
No. 1 No. 1 No. 1
”"4"“ Light Mixed 1Clover Mixed Clover
Detroit 23 50 24 20 00 21 00 19 00 20 00
Chicago 20 22 00 19 00 21 00 18 50 20 50

Cin Innati 28 50 28 75 28 00 23 50 28 25 28 50
Pitt‘ihurxh 28 28 50.29 00 30 00 29 00 30 00
New York 21 23 19 50 21 00 18 20
Richmond 30 00 {ll 29 00 29 50 28 50 29

Not much change in the hay mar-
ket. Still light receipts at all points
at about the former level. Some
points have seen a slight advance but
prices generally are such as to make
a further advance just about out of
the question. We have talked with a.
great many hay buyers and dealers
and haVe sized up the situation thor-
oly and we do not expect to see the
market work much higher than it is
at present. 011 the other hand we look
for considerable declines whenever
hay moves more freely. This may not
come until late in the spring.

Looks right now as though all cars
which can be put in condition will be
used to haul grain, coal and war sup-
plies and as though hay would have
to take what was left. Growers are
ready to sell and baling has been get-
ting well along. Shippers are about
at their limit so far as storage facil—
ities are concerned and we are of the
opinion that some of them have load-
ed up on this high priced hay will get
their ﬁngers burned before they get
through with it. lvcu though the
price at terminal points should keep
up until spring, it will do them no
good unless they can get the bay to
market. Sooner or later there is bound
to be a break. There is a large crop
of hay which must move to market
eventually. From now on growers
will do well to dispose of hay as they
may be able to haul it to market.

Some of the eastern markets have
had a weak undertone this past week,
caused by increased arrivals, but the
storms and severe weather have fur-
ther curtailed shipments and this
should help some. This goes to show
however, (”at there is no real strength
in the market and that even slightly
increased receipts will have a serious
effect. .

 

 

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Choice rouud Medium Round
Market: white-sacked white-naked

Detroit 2.15 vt. 2.05 cwt.
Chicago 1.75 1.60
Cincinnati 2.20 2.10
New York 2.25 2.15
Pittsburgh 1.75 1.60
Nortolk,Vn. 2.25 2.l0

 

 

 

  

The potato market remains in much
the same condition as it has been for
several weeks. Still a great deal of
off grade, frozen and decayed stock
coming to all markets and a reluctant
buying attitude evident with the buy-
ers. We are now right into the dull
period which the potato market has al-
ways experienced during the height
of the holiday season. At the same
time there is a stronger undertone.
Shipments generally are not so plen-
tiful since the real winter weather
has come, and there will no doubt be
less during the remainder of the win-
ter. With a gradual cleaning up of
markets and less of the poor stock of-

  
   

 

  
  
 
  
  
 

 

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fered we should see better conditions
all around. -‘

Detroit prices continue about ' the
same as last. week and the same is
true of Chicago. Some sales of prac-
tically good stock at a little better
ﬁgure than formerly were reported
this week but on the ordinary run of
offerings there is no change. The se-
vere cold weather of the past few days
caught many shippers unexpectedly
and some of the cars cam‘. in showing
signs of frost along the bottom and
sides.

Eastern markets are slow. New
York reports much fewer cars arriv-
ing but still sufﬁcient to take care of
the limited demand just at this time.
Not much Maine stock moving, ship-
pers from that section being able to
get bettetr prices nearer home than
on the New York market. Heavy
snows generally over the state of New
York have curtailed shipments from
the near-by territory and as local
stocks clean up we would not be sur-
prised to see better r‘onditions there.

 

There is very little movement in

the onion market. The prices re-
main about the same on all markets.
We note however, a slightly better 11n-
dertone at certain points and a clear-
ing up of accumulated stock. Would
not be surprised to see a better con-
dition all around after the coming of
the new Year. Colder weather has
cut off shipments and stock now mov-
ing is out of cold storage rather than
the leavings of the ﬁelds and tempor-
ary storehouses. Good No. 1 yellow on-
ions are selling in Detroit at around
$2.50 to $3 per 100-lb. sack. New York
is quoting the same grade at $2.50 to
$2 75 per cwt. ('lhicago is about in line
with Detroit.

Better Onion h’larket
St. Louis—Receipts of onions are
light, and the market, is ﬁrm with val—
ues higher. The demand is only fair.
Sacked red Globes are quoted $2.50@
$3 per cwt., white $3.25@$3.50, and
Spanish onions $1.509

Lost Money Stioring Onions

Seattle~A few of the jobbing hous-
es 011 Western avenue in late Septem-
ber and October stored California on-
ions at a cost to them of 3@3l§c a lb.
The market has since declined, con-
sumers refusing to buy at the high
prices. in the meantime new stock is
now quoted at $2.10 to jobbers fob.
Seattle. For a time an attempt was
made to hold the market at cost, but
this failed, and every bag sold out of
the stored holdings moved at a loss.

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The apple market has been just a
little inclined to drag during the past
week. Arrivals have not increased to
any extent but some stock. has been
caught in transit, by the cold Weather.
and has shown signs of frost. There
is still a very good demand for the
better grades of fruit and there is no
reason for any serious decline. De
troit is quoting from $5 to $7 per bar—
rel for spies, greenings, snows and
baldwins. Seconds selling at $3 to
$3.50 per bbl. Chicago market is just
a little lower at the present time.

 

 

Fewer Apples Held

Washington——According to the Dec.
1 report of the Bureau of Markets,
holdings of apples on that date in 552
storages were 3,306,037 bbls. and
4,574,076 boxes. The 520 storages re-
porting for Dec. 1, this year and last,
show present holdings of 3.031.941 bar-
rels and 4,194,091 boxes, a decrease of
4.2 per cent in the barreled apples and
an increase of 5.5 per cent in the box-
ed apples, which is equivalent to a
total decrease of 1.4 per cent in the
total apple holdings.

Government’s Apple Report

Washington—The Government Crop
Reporting board estimates this year’s
apple crop at 58,203,000 bbls., which,
on the basis of a farm value of $3.66
bbl.. is figured as worth $213.057,000.
The production in 1916 was 68,194,000
bbls., valued on the farm at $2.74 bbl..
or $186,575,000. The 1911-15 average
apple crop is 71,857,000 bbls., valued
at $152,399,000.

       

 
 
 
 

 
           
 
   
   
   
   
   
  
   
   
 
  
  
     
    
  
  
   
 
   
     
  
   
 
   
 
  
  
    
   
 
    
   
 
 
  
   
     
  
  
   
   
   
 
   
   
   
  
    
 
 
    
     
    
  
   
   
   
   
  
   
   
   
     
   
   
    
   
 
 
  
 
   
  
   
   
    
  
      
 
  
  
    
    

The feed market in Detroit has
been showing additional strength and
prices have picked up a little. The

demand continues strong both for 10- ‘

cal sales and for shipment. The
wheat shortage which for-so long a
time was experienced at all mills, has
affected the market up to this time.
Supplies ran away low and in fact
many mills were entirely cleaned up.
Stocks have been slow to accumulate
and at present many mills have orders
ahead for all'the feed available from

day to day. Quotations at Detroit,
jobbing lots, 100-1b. sacks: Bran, $44;
standard middlings, $47; ﬁne mid-

dlings, $50; cracked corn, $.84; coarse
cornmeal, $77; chOpped $60 per ton.
Milwaukee—The tone of the mill-
feed market continues strong and ad-
vances of $1@$1.50 per ton are noted
all along the line. Milling operations
still are restricted by the car short-
age, reducing feed offers. while the
trafﬁc congestion makes it difﬁcult to

ship that which is available. The de-
mand is active. Current quotations
are: Sacked bran, $42@$43; standard

middlings, $43@$43.50; white do.. $49;
red dog; $57@$58; cotton seed meal,
$53.50@$55: oil meal. $58@$59; glut-
en feed, $54.55 Chicago; all in 100 lb.
sacks.

Barley

Milwaukee—sBarley prices in the
Milwaukee market have advanced 8
@10c during the week under a brisk
demand for good multing, especially
for milling and pear-ling. Receipts
continued limited, although slightly
in excess of the previous week, but far
below 191.6. Current quotations are:
Choice big-berried Wisconsin and cast-
ern lowa, testing 48 to 50 lbs, per hu.,
$1.45@$1.48; 45 to 47 lbs, $1.41@1.44;
Minnesota, western Iowa and Dakota,
48 to 50 lbs, $1.44@$1.47; 45 to 47
lbs, $1.40@$1.43; all states. 42((044
glis§5$1.35@$1.39; feed mixing, $1.256}?

Buffalo——Barley dealers seem to
have: dropped the malster from his
list and is working for the miller, who
does not care a rap for germination or
color. The maltster will not listen to
reason and is now paying the price
when he can get the barley. At the
close today spot barley was quoted at
$1.52@$l.62 in store.

Cottonseed Products

Cottonseed products manufacturers
in the cotton states west of the Mis-
sissippi River, at the request of the
U. S. Food Administration, have adopt-
ed a uniform mill price. on cottonseed
meal and cake as follows: Forty—three
per cent protein, $53.50; 41 per cent
protein. $51.50; 38 1—2 per cent protein
$51.50: 38 1-2 per cent protein, $49:
30 per cent protein, $46.50, Prices ap-
plv to carioad lots. f.o.b. shipping mill
wherever located in the specified ter-
ritory. Dealers or other trade inter-
ests are allowed a commission not ex-
ceeding $1 per ton over the ﬁxed mill
price.

With freight and taxes paid, the
Food Administration price schedule
will result in the following prices be-
ing paid in Kansas City: Thirty-six
per cent protein, $51; 38 1-2 per cent
protein, 353.50; cold pressed cake.
$19.50: linseed meal, $59.

A large number of contracts made
prior to agreement with the Food Ad-
ministration, at higher prices, have
not yet been disposed of, and millers
are allowed to ﬁll such contracts where
buyers are willing to pay the old
schedule of prices, according. to assis-
tants of Herbert C. Hoover.

The embargo against shipments of
cottonseed meal and cake from Texas
remains, except to the drouth strick—
en territory of New Mexico.

Toledo Seed Market

Cloverseed was active early in the
week, but toward the close the prices
eased off a bit. Alsyke reported very
steady, While timothy showed very
weak during the week. The products
seemed to be in a rut and moved muk
narrow range. Clover. prime, $16.27“;
($616.30; closed. $16.30: Dec. $162719
617916.30; closed, $16.30.

Alsyke, No. 2, $13.75@$14.00; No. 3,
matter/swam: rejected, $12.99@13.10.

Timothy, No. 2, $3.40@$3.45; No. 3,
$3.30@$3.35; rejected, $3.10@$3.25.

 

      

£sz WW

Detroit and Chicago butter mar-
kets continue about as they have been
for some weeks. Detroit is quoting
fresh creamery ﬁrsts at 43 1-2@44c
per 11).; fresh creamery extras, 45 1-2
@46 1-20; storage creamery, 41@43c.

Eastern markets are in somewhat
better shape this week than they have
been for several weeks past. Freight
blocades on account of blizzards have
delayed shipments and this has help-
'ed the storage and held stock which
has been moving more freely. There
has also been some call by the Govern-
ment for fresh and held for European
export. It is said that now the Gov-
ernment is absorbing the entire out—
put of some of the largest western
creameries.

New York is quoting creamery as
follows: Extras, 50@51c; ﬁrsts, 44@
49c; held extras, 45 1-2@56c. Phil-
adelphia market quotes creamery ex—
tras at 500; ﬁrsts, 45@47c; seconds,

41@43c.
Cheese

New York—The export movement
this week was the heaviest in some
little time, as 3.000 boxes were sent
abroad. This was stock which had
been here for export for about two
months. Outside of 600 boxes of Young
Americas shipped to Glasgow, the bal-
ance of the shipments were of skims.
There were no new shipments export-
ed because of lack of steamer room.
The export outlet gave the trade a
ﬁrmer tone, but business was rather
quiet, although receivers are looking
for an advance
shown freer movement. Nearly all of
the state factories have closed for the
winter and there will be practically
no fresh cheese from new on. This
has driven holders to used held.

Receipts for the ﬁrst ﬁve days this
Week were 10,506 boxes, last week
5,622 boxes. and 12,574 boxes the
same week a year ago. "

State, Whole milk, ﬂats, held spec-
ials, 24166324340; average run, 231/;
@24c; fresh, colored and white, spec-
ials, 23%@24c; Wisconsin, whole milk
ﬁne to fancy twins, held, specials,
23l/J@24c; Young Americas, held.
261/1@261,4_;c; fresh. 26c; State skims,
twins and ﬂats, held specials, 19(1)
1915c; twins and cheddars, fresh, spec-
ials, 171/_.@181/_)c.

Egg conditions have greatly chang—
ed on all eastern markets and own-
ers of storage stock are ﬁnding it pos—
sible to sell at better prices and in some
cases to move stock at a reasonable
proﬁt. The storms of the past week
and the cold weather which produc-
ing sections have experienced for some
time are further cutting down produc—
tion and decreasing supplies. At the
same time the high prices are curtail-
ing demand and many families have
removed eggs from their bill of fare.

Detroit. is quoting fresh—gathered
ﬁrsts at 5061755c per doz. This. of
course. is for the strictly fancy arti-
cle. Ordinary run of ﬁrsts sell around
45®50c per doz. Storage stOck is sell-
ing around 34617361".

 

“'estern Market

Los Angelessw'l‘he egg market is
ﬁrmer. with extras selling around 500.
This is apparently lOc lower than at
this time last year. Several dealers
who have supply contracts are pay—
ing 42c for storage, whereas the same
class of goods sold a few weeks ago
for 36c. There are quite a few east-
ern inquiries here for fresh eggs, that
cannot be ﬁlled on account of the
stronger local demand absorbing all
of the receipts.

   

 

LIVE WT. ’ Detroit Chicago New York
Turkey 20-23 21-22 20-22
Ducks 1 25-26 18-20 22-24
Geese 1 20-21 17 18 20-22
Springer: l 20-23 19 20 22-24

en: | 19-22 I‘ 18—20 21-23

No. 2 Grade 2433 Cents Less

Christmas buying this week has
helped the poultry market at all

   

in held, which has‘

 

points and: the trade has however?

' sentient-ﬁery." Stocks seem to have
cleaned up well there is very little in-
dication of such a""heavy hold-over as

_ was experienced after Thanksgiving.
The Detroit market has proven satis-
factory to shippers and at the time of
writing this article dealers are hav-
ing a good trade and all stock arriv-
ing, if in any kind of satisfactory con—
dition, is ﬁnding ready sale.

Shipments to the east have been
somewhat delayed and there is a
chance that some shippers of carlots
will not get them to destination at
eastern points in time to catch the
crest of the Christmas buying. At
the same time there will be a fairly
good market the following week to
provide for the New Years festivities.

Poultry and Rabbits

Pittsburgh—Four cars of live poul-
try were due to arrive here this week,
but there was no assurance When de-
livery would be made on account of-
the cold weather and the congestion
of the railroads. Prices of live poul-
try have advanced from 25c to 27c per
pound. Live turkeys have also been
advanced 30@32c. There was no
movement in this market during the
early part of the week, but the receiv-
ers expect a heavy business starting
next Monday.

There was a. scarcity of rabbits ear-
ly this week, and the supply was far
less than the demand. The market
advanced to 60@70c per pair. A lot
of squirrels Were received here this
week, but had a very slow sale on a
basis of $1.25@$1.50 per dozen.

 

CATTLE-

 

 

GRADE Detroit
Sleen, good to prime H 50-12 0 10 130-1550 13 05-13 50
Steers, coll. to fair 9 00-10 (‘0 9 2540 75 12 00-12 50
Heifen,¢oodtoprime 8 50- 9 00, 8 00- 9 25 8 00-10 00
Cows, nmxe 7 50- 8 25! 7 25- 8 0° 9 00- 9 50
Conan—Cutter: 5 25- 6 001 5 00- 5 75 5 50- 5 00
Balls. average 7 00- 7 503 7 00. 7 50 7 00» 8 00
Veal, fair to good 13 00-15 003l4 5045 25 14 00-15 50

Chicago Buffalo

 

 

 

 

 

During the week the Detroit cattle
market has been just a little dull at
times, even on the best of the offer-
ings. Much trouble has been exper-
ienced by shippers in getting in late
owing to delays enroute. The storms
and cold have had a decided affect
and we would not be surprised to see
a lighter run for a week or so. Can-
ners have enjoyed a ready sale. over
and above other kinds. The price has
been well maintained despite the
somewhat slow market and there is
no indication of any material decline.

The Chicago market has been in,
a somewhat chaotic condition during
the past week owing to cmbargoes,
heavy receipts of cattle and the in-
auguration of the zone system The
market has declined irregularly, h‘ut
sharply at times. improved traﬁlc
conditions and moderating weather,
together with the fact that the cast
is relatively bore of beef through being
cut off, in large measure. from sup-
plies during the past week, give prom—
ise of a healthier trade. However,
cautious marketings are advisable
during the holiday period. Chicago
received 92.000 cattle the ﬁrst ﬁve days
of last week, or 15.000 more than dur—
ing the like period of the previous
week .a supply that proved very ex-
cessive owing to the restricted ship-
ping outlet available. The market on
beef steers closed the week in semi-
demoralized and badly congested con—
dition with prices largely 75c to $1.00
per cwt. lower than on Wednesday of
last, week, high day of that period.
With the storm and serious delays in
transit sellers were at a decided dis-
advantage.

Light cannery steers are being tak-
en by killers down to $7 and 80.25 to
$10 is taking a plain to decent killing
class of warmed up steers and $10.25
to $12 a fair gra‘de of short-feds. Most
everything in the butcher cattle line
showed for the week declines of from
50 to 75c from Monday’s prices. Bulk
of bologna bulls have slipped to $6.75
to $7.25. Canners are now selling
around $5.50 to $5.75.

Countr‘y buyers of stock and feed-
ing cattle have been in much smaller

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son a limited number of Strong Vigor-
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good size, well covered and ready for
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Howbert Stock Farm

Six year old granddaughter of “King of
the Pontiacs" from a 231—11) granddaugh-
ter of “Sadie Vale Concordia’s Paul-Dc—
kol" that has 2]. A.R.O. daughters. To
freshen Feb. 20. 18 from “Maplecrest De—
kol Hartog," a 30-1b. son of “Friend ch-
gerveld Dekol Butter Boy,” that has
many high yearly record daughtcrs.
Weight 1200 lbs, mostly black. Price,
$260.00 F.O.B.. crated. Howard T. Ev-
ans, Eau Claire, Mich.

 

Registered Hogs for Sale!

DUROC JI1‘RSI1YS—3 Bears 10 weeks
old. Sire, Hoosiei J. 0. ,77465; Dam,
Vedna Austindale‘ 210560.

HAMPSHIRES—Z Boars, 1 sow, Aug-
ust fari‘ow; Sire, Goble, 20907; Dam,
George‘s Girl 1st, 82292.

HOLSTEIN BULL—6 weeks old. Sire,
Bell Boy Rosalind, 148544; Dam, Queen
Caroline 211d, 161807, H. F. H. B. Three~
quarters white, well marked. Write for
description. .

Ready for immediate delivery. Please
write for full description. All stock guar-
anteed.

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ARRED ROCK COCKEBELS for sale,
$2. 00 to $5 00 each for strain with
records to 290 eggs a year. Circular free.

 

 

Fred Astling, Constantine, Mich.
BARRED ROC (‘OCKERELS from
Prize Winning stock
Thompson strain, $3 and $4. Yearling
breeding hens, $2. Well Barred. Sam
Stadel, Chelsea, Michigan.
()HN’S BIG BEAUTIFUL BARREI)

Rocks are hen hatched and sold on ap—
proval $3 to $10 each. 1 male and 4 fe-
males $12.00. Good layers. Circulars,
Photos. John Northon, Clare, Michigan.

 

CHICKS We have shipped thousands of
day-old chicks each season
since 1904 different varieties 01dc1s
bookrd now for spring delivery booklct,
stamp appreciated 11reeport Hatchery,
Box 1.0, Freeport, Mich.

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Live Stock Commission

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Consign your live stock shipments to

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Live Stock Commission Salesman

M. C. Stock Yards, Detroit, Mich.

 

 

 

 

HAVE FOR SALE a farm of 86 acres,
located in one of the best grain and po—
tato growing scclions of Lapeer county,
warm gran-11y soil, good dwelling house,

line barn, 32—11, with basement under
entirc barn : hog—pen. sheep—shed, tool
bai n, 5 acies ol apph orchard pears,

ptaches and small fruit, 7 acics of wheat
on glound, also 7 aCIes of r,ye over 80
acres of plow land under high state of
cultivation; a bargain at $4,000. Owner
wishes to sell on account of poor health.
For particulars write Box 82, Dryden,
Mich.

 

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attendance during the past week. Sales
made toward the week end were large—
ly Within a range of. from $7. 25 to
$9.25.

Merry Monarch, the pure bred Short-
horn steer exhibited by Purdue Uni-
versity, which won the grand cham-
pionship of the International, dressed
64.7 per cent, according to the ﬁgures
made public by Armour & Co. The
steer weighed 1,610 lbs, and the
dressed carcass 1,042 lbs. Ed. P. Hall's
yearling Angus cattle, which won the
grand championship in thecarlot di-
vision dressed 62.9 per cent. The
steers averaged 1,090 lbs.
dressed carcass 686 lbs.

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GRADE Detroit 1 Chicago Bnl {do
Heavy 240-290 15 75 15 253“; 0016 25 17 0017 25
Medium 200—240 15 75 l5 25 15 50 l5 lo 16 00 l7 0i?
Mixed 151L200 15 50 l5 IO 15 0‘.) 15 75 is 75 IS 01
Packer: 100-150 15 00 15 75 14 75 15 40 l5 25 15 50
Pils l”dnwn H 75 IS 00140 "'0 12 21 15 001550

 

 

 

 

The Detroit hog market has been
slow all week and at times there has
been a tendency for stock to accumu-
late. Pigs especially have been hav—
ing hard going. Much off~grade stuff
has been coming and it seems to run
in bunches. lt will pay to put a little
more of the wet corn into some 01'
these hogs before placing them 011 the
market. lVe advise shippers to go
just a little easy until after the 11011-
day season.

The trade at. Chicago was higher
early last week despite curtailment, of
shipping demand by reason of rail em-
bargoes, receipts running lighter than
were expected and packers giving mar—
ket excellent support. An expanding
nmv-lrn’1‘mwl movement. later. however
with Thurquay's receipts the largest
for a single session since last Fob-
1‘uary, liberal receipts at outside
points and 21 break in provision fu-
tures, were strong bearish factors. At
Friday’s close sales were being made
at a derlinc of 85' c to $100 per (wt
A, general (101111" A? (0 to 751mm
shown for the 1.‘.'c"‘.‘ as comparcd with
the preceding~ week.

  

 

 

GRADE Detroit Chicngo Buff-lo
TOD Ll-bl l7.00-17.25 15.50-16.75 19.00-19.25
Yearling: l4.59<16.00 13.754450 15.00—l6.50
Wetlicrs 9.00-1 1.00 l2.50-l3.00 lZ.50~ 13.00
Ewe: 8.754050 "10011.00 ”.75 “3.00

 

 

 

The Detroit sheep market is strong
and has advanced since last week.
There is a good demand for all grades
and the Well—ﬁnished offerings of top
lambs are eagerly sought and paid for
at a premium. Transportation con—
ditions have prevented any extensive
shipments to this market from others
which are not quite so strong and
this has added strength to the mar-
ket. All arrivals have cleaned up fast
all, week, there is every indication of.
a good brisk trade the coming week.

Despite an increase in receipts of
about 15,000 head. as compared with
a week ago, the Chic-age market shows
little change from the close of last
week. Owing to theYr inability to
get cars for some localities. country
buyers are not so active as they were
last chk, and feeding lambs are about
$1 per cwt. lower than they won» a
week ago. Butchers and slippers
paid $17 on Thursday‘s 111111‘k1“ list
wcck for prime. handy-Weight lambs
though the bulk 01‘ such stock sold
Friday from $16.50 to $16.75 Fair to
medium lambs are bringing from Q10
to $16.40 with culls and (‘011111‘011
kinds from $12 to $15.

Strictly prime handy—weight year—
ling wethers are selling up to $14.50,
the bulk of the kinds rearhinc; that
market, however, going: 1mm $13 . 7. lo
$14.25 with strong Weight yez‘hiilngs
from $12.50 to $12.25 according to
weight and quality. Choice maturcd
wethcrs are selling 11p to $13. the bulk
of the good kinds 901111.: at $11. 75. but
very few offered good enough to bring

$11.50. The bulk of the {zddd ewes
have sold this week at $11.25 to
$11.50.

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all it costs to be a Booster.

popular breeding.
lbs-0f butterfat.
foundation cows.

1917 shows.

State 11 air ;

souri State Fairs, 1916.

011 request.

Sale starts at 1 o’clock
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ichigan Holiday
,, Guernsey Sale!

Fair Grounds, Jackson, Mich,
Dec. 2 7, 191 7

A consignment of about seventy-ﬁve cows, heifers and bulls of
Advanced Registry cows with records of 675
Heifers open and bred and also many

good

Among the bulls will be imp. Westmoreland, a May Rose; Gold-
en Secret, a Hayes bull, winner of first-prize Wisconsin and Minne-
sota, 1912, also champion and grand champion Michigan State
Fair, 1912; L’Aiglon of Bon Ayre 33664, a May Rose bull, winner
Young bulls by the above sires and by such sires as
Walbridge’s Glenwood Boy, ﬁrst, champion and graml champion
Michig 111 State Fair; ﬁrst, champion and g‘and champion Illinois
first, champion and grand champion Missouri State
Fair and ﬁrst at \Natcrloo, 1a., 1916, and Pride’s Hambro 3:39:33, 21
May Rose, winner at Ohio, Illinois,

l\licliigzm, New York and Mis

Several daughters of Glenwood’s Champion, King Bell, George
Washington of Fairﬁcld Farms, Lord Waukesha, also rich in thc
blood of Stranford’s Glenwood of Pinehurst, Glenwood Boy of
Haddon, the Sequels and Governor of the Chene.
fcmalcs are from Show herds of 1916 and 1917.

Sonic of those
Catalogs mailed

G. W. ALLEN, Sales Manager

GRASS LAKE, MICH.

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Onions, llay, Beans and all lines of

meal, binder twine,
ilics used on the farm.

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by shipping your Poultry, Butter, Eggs,

chl Valves,
produce to a large

GET THE EXTRA DOLLAR

Dressed Hogs, Potatoes,
consuming: market.

You do the shipping—We do the selling

\Vith our three—story building fully equipped for ﬂu-
shipments and a force of compclcnt salesmen,
chock right back the day following date of sale.

YOU CAN ALSO BI'Y A’l‘ \VHUIJCSALIC
fertilizer, paris grccn, auto tires and many other commod—

i‘ccoiying' and handling
assures you of good Silll‘S and

PRICES mill feed, cotton sccrl

Extra dollars are earned by shipping direct and buying at wholesale prices

CLEARING HOUSE ASSOCIATION

N. F. SIMPSON, General Manager
323-327 Russell St.

DETROIT

 

 

 

 

 

RAILROAD STATISTICS

FOR MONTH OF OCTOBER
steam rail~
million
million

Gross earnings of all
roads for September erc 3671
dollars compared with 3?:
dollars a year ago, the incrciisc being:
more than 10%, while 11111 warnings
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pared with 121 million dollars a roar
decline of 6"}. Preliminary
()ctobcr show gross carn—

age. 21
reports for

ings 01' 99 million dollars for 43 rail——

roads compared with 81 million (101»
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increase being about, the same as in
891‘ .1'1cmhc or approxnnatoly 109?. For
the 1111.1,11111e months of this year. rail—
road gross earning were 3,024 mil-
lion dollars compared with 2.700 mil<
lion dollars for the some period last
year, an increase of :.2-1 million dol—
lars, while net earnings were 901 mil-
lion dollars compared with 9113 million
dollars for the same period last year,
a decrease of 16 million mollars. While
gross earnings have increased tre-
mendously, operating expenses have
increased still more, bringing about
a considerable reduction in the net
operating income.

 

Sandel, Stacy, Beadle & Green

Live Stock Commission Merchants

Michigan Central Stock Yards,

Detroit, Michigan, respectfully

solicit your consignments. No
shipment too small to receive

our best care and attention.

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mentsto

Bishop, Bullcn
& Holmes,

Detroit
the largest Live Stock Commis- -
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SATURDAY. DECEMBER 22ND, 1917

 

GRANT SLOCUM
FORREST A. LORD

ANNE CAMPBELL STARK
Dr. G. A. CONN ' - \-
WM. E. BROWN o

EDITOR

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EDITOR WOMAN'S DEP’T
VETERINARY EDITOR
LEGAL EDITOR

 

Published every Saturday by the
RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
GEO. M. BLOCUM, Boc'y and Bus. Mgr.
Busineu Ofﬁces: 110 Fort. Street. DETROIT
Editorial Offices and Publishing Plant. Mt. Clemens. Mich.
BRANCHES: CHICAGO, NEW YORK. ST. LOUIS, MINNEAPOLIS

 

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Lwo Stock and Auction Sale Advertising: We offer lpecinl low rates
to reputable breeders of live Itock and poultry, write us for them.

 

OUR GUARANTEED ADVERTISERS
We respectfully ask our readerl to favor our advertisers when poslible.
Their catalogs and prices are cheerfully sent free. and we guarantee you
against Ion providing you lay when writing or ordering from them, “1 now
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Entered a. second-clan matter, at Mt Clemens, Mich.

 

 

The Farmer’s Patriotism
HERE is no more misused and abused word
in the English language today than “pat-
riotism.” It is used as a cloak to smother
all argument in which the common rights of men
are concerned; hypocrites and incompetents seek
shelter within its protecting folds. Patriotism as
practiced now-a-days is a habit and a hobby with
the well-to-do, but a mighty expensive luxury for
those who have their living to make.

The farmer is continually admonished to be pat-
riotic. “Raise more crops” is the cry of the Food
Administration; it is the patriotic thing to do.
Take what the government offers for them; you'll
be a slacker if you kick. We get sick and tired of
the unjust subterfuges employed by the various
governmental branches to enlist the farmer's aid
in their worthy enterprises.

Does the government ask the laborer to work
in the shipyards and munition factories without
pay, in order to put his patriotism to the test?
Not much. Mr. Laborer is hired and paid the
biggest wages he ever received. He works eight
hours a day, and so long as he performs his work
satisfactorily is practically his own boss. It’s a
business transaction, pure and simple.

Does the government go to the steel manufac-
turer, and say: “We need your product; turn your
entire output over to us at cost; you’ll be unpai-
riotic if you don't?” Not on your life. When the
government needs steel, bullets, arms and other
war supplies, it calls in the manufacturers and
says to them: “We need your product; turn your
entire output over to us; we will pay you cost
plus ten per cent." And the manufacturers, taking
no chance, assured of their high salaries and a
clean ten per cent proﬁt, “patriotically” sell to the
government.

Does the government go to the farmer and say:
“The allies need your product to WIn the war;
speed up your farm factories; we’ll pay you cost
plus ten per cent"? Well, we should say NOT.
When the government needs food, it sends its hired
specialists out over the country; it calls upon the
agricultural colleges and extension departments.
upon the press and pulpit, the lecture platform
and the Chautauqua to spread the gospel of in-
creased production. lt says to the farmer: “The
Allies need your product to win the war; speed
up your farm factories; we’ll pay you $2 a bushel
for your wheat. but you’ll have to take your
chances on the other crops. If you don’t in-
crease your production you are unpatriotic.” And
so if Mr. Farmer is a wheat farmer and luck is
with him. he may make his ten per cent over the
cost of production and mingle with the patriots;
but if ho is a potato. bean or sugar beet farmer.
then about two million of his specie take chances
of going into bankruptcy or being classed as
slackers. ,

It is cruelly unjust to make the appeal for in
creased production solely on the grounds of
patriotism. The crops the farmer raises
are his bread and butter; no one pays him for
the long. hard hours of labor which he must per-
form three hundred and sixty-ﬁve days out of the
year in order to feed and clothe himself and fam-
ily. The year’s sustenance; the upkeep of the
farm factory, the wages for labor, the proﬁts must
all come out of the crops and the livestock. No
one can secure him immunity to disastrous weath-
er conditions; no one guarantees him a proﬁtable
market for his crops.

If the farmer is a slacker, We want a new name
for the so-called “patriots” who are working on

 

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near!”
For those who give their mead of kind-
ly cheer , ‘
With aching heart and brave unfalt’rmg
gaze;
For those whose household echoes never-
. more ,
The sound of feet that wandered Heav-
onwards!
For hearts bereaved and comfortless and
sore,
Thy pity give, oh God, on holidays!

—ANNE CAMPBELL STARK.

government contracts at cost plus ten per cent.
If the farmer is a slacker, what do you call the
able-bodied “increased production” experts who are
running around the country spending the peo—
ple’s money to tell him so? _

We want a new deal for the farmer. We want
those who can’t tell a sheep from a hog to‘mind
their own business and quit libeling the man who
feeds them. We want the government to forget
increased production until it gets a distributing
machine that will take care of normal production.
We want the experts to build a short, straight road
from producer to consumer, cutting out a half
dozen jobbers and dealers and commission men
and speculators who ﬁll one pocket at the ex-
pense of the farmer and the other at the expense
of the‘consumer. Then retail prices will automat-
ically go down, and prices at the farm will go up.
Result, increased consumption, increased produc-
tion, and a lot of proﬁteers out of a job.

Hisctory does not afford a ﬁner example of loy-
alty and patriotism than the spontaneous response
of the American farmer to his government’s pleas
for increased production. It wasn’t necessary to
draft him into service or call him into conference
and make him glowing promises of “ten per cent”
contracts. No! The word was spoken that the
American farmer must feed the Allies; without a
grumble he shouldered the solemn responsibilily
and bent his back to the task. Seed was high.
machinery was high, labor was high. But the farm-
er never wavered in the performance of his duty.
If he didn’t have the money be borrowed it. In
many instances he put every last penny to his
name into those crops, taking fearful chances
against crop failure and low marketing prices.

And then what happened to this loyal soldier of
the soil? A price was set upon his wheat; an at-
temptwas made to set the price upon his beans;
arbitrary rules were established for the grading
of his potatoes; the labor on which he had de-
pended to harvest his crops was drafted in army
service. And if. this were not enough to discour-
age any mortal man, he was spat upon and called
slacker because he could not contribute all that
a few city bankers and “ten per cent” patriots thot
he ought to contribute to the Liberty Loan and Red
Cross campaigns. He already had done his part
when he put practically every idle dollar he
possessed into crops.

The farmers of the United States are doing their
best to be patriotic but it’s up hill work. Theirs
is a practical patriotism and ﬁnds expression—
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quietude .of‘the’ir environment, the farmersar-e
working industriously‘, unselﬁshly' and _ Well, givé
ing all and more to their beloved country-than
any other class of people, uncomplaining of many
unjust discriminations and asking nothing more
than the recognition of their common and inalien-
able rights. ,.

A Note of Warning

HILE THE various administrative depart.-

ments at Washington are under the ﬁre of

congressional investigations, it might be
well for the farmers of the United States and
particularly of Michigan to urge their senators
and representatives to ﬁnd out why every branch
of the Food Administration which is attempting
to exert control over the production, grading and
marketing of farm crops is dominated by repre-
sentatives of organizations which prior to the war
were inimical to the interests of the producers.

To clarify our'point, We need only mention that
the bean department is under the active charge
of Mr. K. P. Kimball, formerly associated and still
claimed to be afﬁliated with the Isbell Bean
company of Detroit. The present active head
of the department is Mr. E. P. Miller of the Albert
Miller commiSsion house of Chicago, buyers and
shippers of potatoes. Associated with Mr. Miller,
however, is Mr. Lou D. Sweet of Colorado, a cap—
italist by trade and a farmer by fad. Undoubtedly
they are capable men, sincere in their desire to be
of service to the nation and earnestly striving to
perform to the satisfaction of all the work that
has been laid out for them. But it is not to be
expected that any of these men can appreciate the
problems confronting the average farmer or know
What is best for his interests. Not to our knowl-
edge is there a single representative farmer sit-
ting in the councils of the nation to give the
farmers’ viewpoint on the many important meas~
ures that are being passed from time to time
affecting his welfare. Prices have been set upon
his products, arbitrary grading rules have been
established without his knowledge, counsel or
consent, and the control that has been attempted
over his products begins to infringe upon his
rights.

The farmers of so important a bean and potato
growing state as Michigan should have a repre-
sentative upon the bean and potato committees at
Washington, and all future control over these
commodities should reﬂect the sentiments and pol-
icies of the growers.

The Food Administration had innumerable and
stupendous tasks to perform during the brief per-
iod of its existence, and it is not surprising that
mistakes should have been made. We can pardon
the errors of the past, but there can be no further
excuse for the Food Administration’s failure to
give the farmers of the country representation on
the boards and committeeswhich are attempting
a control of the farmer’s products. It is of the ut-
most importance that this be done‘. The farmers
must have a voice in the control of their own bus-
iness, less ignorance and the poor judgment of
unsympathetic minds continue to heap injustice
upon them and ﬁnally drive them to des¥
peration. Mr. Hoover, the welfare of this.nation
depends upon the welfare of the farmers. Take
them into your conﬁdence, your conferences; give
them a hand in the administration of affairs in
which they are vitally Concerned. Make them
your partners, and you’ll ﬁnd what loyal partners
they can be. But denv them longer their right to
a voice in these important matters and production
will surely slump. It is a note of warning we
give.

Merry Christmas

HE PUBLISHER, the editors and all Who

have a hand in the making of MICHIGAN

BUSINESS FARMING wish you all, dear friends,
a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We
are deeply grateful for the thousands of new
friendships we have formed the past few months;
no Christmas offering that money can buy could
bring us greater pleasure than the expressions of
conﬁdence and approval which you have given
us. and we will consider the new year especially
kind if it gives us the opportunity to be of con-
tinued service to the men and women of the farms.

One Prof. Wilbur told a gathering of farmers at
Lansing recently that they ought to forget prices
and proﬁts, and put every acre to work. If the
Professor will hand his next pay-check back to
the government, put a mortgage on his house, and
get out in the ﬁelds and help to increase produc-
mission basis, his judgment may be
worth something.

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' on Jersey Men. '

I will endeavor, as you requested, to give you
some of my views on the milk commissioners' re-
port. I have been very much interested in read-
ing the report of the men appointed by the gover-
nor to investigate conditions and also to ﬁx prices
on market milk.

I think that the most of their ﬁndings and de-
cisions are fair to all parties concerned, but there
are some points that a. great many of us who pro-
duce high-testing Jersey milk, are very much dis-
satisﬁed with; the main one is the limit of butter
fat content for which they will pay, to 4.2 per cent.
Now, while they have raised the price to one cent
a point, yet the limit of 4.2 per cent makes a
lower price than the old price of 3 cents a point
for all there is in it. Butter fat is bringing a
pretty good price at present, considerable more
than 4 cents a point, which makes it only 40 cents
a pound.

I, for one, should like to know why we should
not get pay for ALL we furnish. If those com-
missioners have an idea that the consumer will get
a better quality of milk on account of the change
they have another guess coming, for the distrib-
utor will skim out that extra fat with the rest
that he takes out, and Mr. Consumer will get the
same old blue milk that he always has.

It is'a pretty good boost for the Holstein breed-
ers’ Association, but a hard knock for us who have
spent years in building up a herd of high-testing
Jersey cows. I notice that the gives the
price decided upon as $3.35, while MICHIGAN Busr-
NESS FARMING gives it as $3.25; which is right?“
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Potatoes Once Too Big; Now Too Little

Would say that I am more than pleased with
your paper. Enclosed you will ﬁnd a one dollar
bill for subscription. In regard to the grading
of potatoes as No. 1 and No. 2, would say that I
think if they would pay within a very few cents
for N0. 2 as they do for No. 1, it would be all right.
I think if they will recall a few years ago, not
more than 5 or 6, if the crafty buyers will think
back that far; I can well'remember, as I had
3,500 bushels of ﬁne potatoes. but every load I
drew to market they would pick out, from 5 to 10
bushels that were too large for them. They said
the consumers wanted smaller potatoes. It is just.
a game of the buyers to make a good big proﬁt
off the farmers. The farmers around here are up
in arms over this grading business. I think if the
government don’t do something about it they will
go hungry for potatoes another year. I read a
little article in the Press the other evening that
kind of pleased me, Where there was a big gun
giving a little advice to the farmers. He said
they did not want to stop and consider the price
of anything these times, that they wanted to grow
more to win the war
and I’ll bet a bushel
of potatoes that the
getting
from two to three
thousand per.

In regard to the
beans would say that
they are a pretty
poor crop. Was at
the elevator today
and saw a man bring
in the yield from six
acres in one bag.
Some crop! Have
not threshed my crop
yet, hardly dare to.
Ought to have $10 a
bushel for them this
year. Here is good
luck to you. Go af-
ter the speculators’

hides—0. H. W.,

Williamsburg.

Mus‘l' Have $8 for
Beans

Enclosed ﬁnd my
check for $1 for M.
B. F. for one year.
We are very much
pleased with the pa-
per and are glad to
read the letters of
other farmers in re-
gard to the potato
grades, and also
the price' of beans

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‘ ,v Now,"'If think the farmers are very anxious to co-

operate w‘ith the Food Administration in every
way and to increase their acreage where possible,
but they certainly have got to be compensated for
their labor or else they would not be able to farm
more than one season, and it is sure that they
can’t raise potatoes at all, and have them run
over an inch and‘seven-eights screen with the price
of No. 2’s only 60 per cent of No. 1’s, when the
No. 2’s are really the best eating potatoes. The
majority of the farmers in Michigan this year Will
not make expenses out of their beans unless they
receive at least $8 for them very soon. Beans thru
this part of the county went from 2 to 5 bu. per
acre and some were not pulled at all. The wages
this fall were from $2.50 to $3.50 per day and help
was very scarce at that, so it seems to me it
would be very easy for anyone to see that the
farmers are not asking anything unreasonable.
They must make at least a living. The prices at
the elevator here Dec. 6th were: Beans, $11.75
per cwt.; potatoes, $1.25 per cwt. for No. 1; red
wheat, $2.05 per bu.; rye, $1.70.——E. H. G., Fair-
m‘ew Farm, Mecosta county.

The Farmer Should Get a Proﬁt

I enclose one dollar for the MICHIGAN BUSINEss
FARMING. The farmers around here think it hits
the spot. A farmer should try to get a good price
and a fair proﬁt and also help a brother farmer
do the same thing, and do it without so much
strife. I do not know so much about ﬁgures and
details but will refer you to your paper where it
tells about the champion cow. I keep from ﬁve to
six cows all the time and I never had one that
could anywhere near compete with her. and then
I will ask our city cousins if they think the farm-
er is getting rich. I should think that some one
has “put one over” on the spud raisers. as the one
which goes thru the screen is the best. I have just
threshed 12 acres of beans and they went over 14
bu. to the acre, a little better than the average——
J. 17., Breckenridge.

What About the UD-State Milk Problem?

I am an interested reader of your paper I just
noted in your last paper that the milk producers
around Detroit were getting a raise in price of
milk. They are organized. What about the ma-
jority of the farmers of Michigan who are uncr—
ganized and are selling their butter fat to the
creameries‘? My question is are they getting paid
for costs when they get 50c or less for butterfat?
We’ll take the Detroit commissioners’ ﬁndings as
a basis for costs and then allow a little. as it prob-
ably doesn’t cost the average farmer unite us
much as the man who sells milk for upkeep and
the like. It. takes a good bunch of cows to {ivor-
agc over 47 per cent. At 50c pcr ll). it makes our
milk bring $2 per hundred. Then we have the
skimmed milk. But we can buy a lot of mid-
dlings for the difference in price. Now, what I
would like to have some one tell me is how we
can afford to feed grain to cows at present prices
of feed and butter? If this deserves attention I

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would like to hear from others.- Also I would
like to know What‘the commission men are mak-
ing—D. 3., Levering. ,

A Splendid Editorial by a Woman Reader

Will you kindly tell us how we, who are living
on a run-down farm, are to get our land seeded to
clover, with clover seed at the price it is climbing
to? We wanted to buy it with our potatoes, and
have but a few to spare. There are several things
we would like to do to help out in this undertak-
ing, namely-the increase of food for ourselves
and also the supplies needed by othernations, but
with the seeds of all kinds needed on the average
farm, which we did not raise nor can we raise as
yet, until land is properly fertilized, so scarce and
high, where are we to look? The frost destroyed
our seed corn entirely. We had no corn at all, and
potatoes are a poor quality and only a small crop,
owing to frost, wire worms and scab, and our hob-
by is good seed and good care. We hand-picked
our own beans last winter, as I did the former win-
ter; had excellent beans in 1916, but this year,
with the frost and too much rain, the quality is
poor and only 35 bu. from 10 acres; threshers'
bill $10. We have to give handsome prices for
dry goods. The merchants cry, “Oh, but we Will
have to pay a big price to ﬁll our shelves when
these are sold.” When these same goods were
bought at the low prices. I suppose they think
farmers don’t think any farther than that. Of
course they don’t make any proﬁt on the new
goods. They compel us to send to the catalog
houses, while they might have our trade by sell-
ing at a reasonable proﬁt. They feel so badly at
having to charge us such prices, “but boo-hoo, we
can’t help it.” They do more complaining than
the farmers so to make us feel good. I feel just
good enough to say “please kindly lay the poor
thing on the lowest shelf and give it another good
smoking.”

We are heartily glad of the chance to read such
a stirring paper. We enjoyed the Jackson edi-
tor‘s side of farming. Our paper arrives promptly
Saturday and you can write this down in your
memory, that it don’t get to be waste paper at our
home, it’s too crammed full of goodies like the
ginger cooky jar. I think we could overcome the
1% inch potato screen trouble by using more of
those good cheap( 7) seconds for seed. Bring them
home. they arc. generally free from scab and are a.
good size to cut, or peal or to plant, or bake. You
would think we farmers were Germans. the way
we have to ﬁght. with the difference that our
backers are loyal to our interests instead of their
own.~Mrs. IV. A. R. Picrson.

Many Farmers Will Cut Potato Crop

live the former a chance and he will do what
is right and fair. Last winter and last spring they
urged the farmer to increase the acreage. We did,
we plowed up our good mcadows to raise beans and
potatoes and had a had summer, early frosts and
a lot of bad weather. We paid all kinds of prices
for help and did not get a half crop, and then to
spring this potato grade on us was a rotten deal.
——.4. J. 8.. Rockford.

Holdino for High-
er Prices

In regard to the
potato screen: This
part: of the country
is quite a. potato sec-
tion, but the early
frost did the crop up
fully one—half, and 50
per cent would be
No. 2 on an average
for the whole coun-
ty. The farmers are
disappointed, they
looked for $1 per bu.
and all the buyers
are paying is $1.25
per hundred for No.
1. Most of the buy-
ers are holding for
better prices. They
say they will feed all
of the No. 2 grade
and cut down their
acreage next. year if
something is not
done soon.

Beans were poor,
only about half a
crop and they were
badly damaged by
wet weather. At $8
per bu. we will only
come out. with a
small proﬁt—0. L..
Isabella county.
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EDITORIALS BY OUR IIEADERS

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The matter of two grades of potatoes has been,

“cussed” and discussed until there seems to be
nothing original one can say on the subject, but
I will say that I am opposed to the present method
of grading. It is certainly detrimental to the
grower and is of no beneﬁt to the consumer; the
only one beneﬁtted is the buyer.

I have noticed that each man who operates a
bean thresher has to send in a report each week of
the number of bushels threshed, evidently to give
the food commissioner a line on the number of
bushels raised in the state this year. Now beans in
this vicinity will test from 4 to 30 lbs. per bu.
and I presume they are not much better in other
parts of the state. When these reports are all in
how much of an idea can they have of the number
of bushels that will be ﬁt for human consumption?
It seems to me that each lot of beans should he
tested by the man operating the machine and the
test sent in with the report, then they would know
how many good beans were produced, and if this
method had been carried out all through the
threshing season they would have found that Mich-
igan had a very light crop of beans this year.—
W. 1).. Tnstin.

Why Don’t Government Sethrice on Both
Buying and Selling

It would be a good plan for the government to
set the price on both buying and selling in our
towns. Bread flour is selling for $14.50; bran is
selling for $2.25 per hundred; middlings $3.00 per
hundred. Wheat is $2.00 per bu., it should be $2.10.
Beans are $6.50 per bu. We poor people have bills
to meet and the banks will not renew our notes,
and thereby force us to sell at these low prices.
On account of corn and beans being a failure I
have to sell my cows and some have had to hold
auction sales to sell their stuff to meet their bills
and notes and they discount the latter 5 per cent
besides charging 7 per cent interest. If Mr. —-~——
had not promised the farmers $6 per bu. for beans
up in this country where it is not adapted to
beans, we would not be so shy for hay, and I am
one of the d—— f— who plowed up 5 acres of good
meadow, paid $10 for seed and got 3 bu. This has
caused a shortage in the hay and we have there
fore been compelled to sell our stock—F. A., Scars.

What it Cost Me to be Patriotic

In regard to the potato grading, I think it is a
hard blow to the farmers. Something has got to be
done or the potato acreage will not run more than
one-half another year. Last spring the farmers
were urged by the government to increase their
potato acreage which was done with a will, and
now to be let down with the new potato grades and
the price running far below a dollar a bushel,
which we expected to get. At this writing pota-
toes are selling at Wyman at $1.25 per cwt. for No.
1 and 70c per cwt. for No. 2. It is not an easy mat-
ter to raise 10 acres of potatoes when you planned
on planting only ﬁve, as some of those fellows on
the Food Administration think, as farmers all
plant crops on a three and four-year rotation plan.

I will give the Food Administration a few facts
about ﬁve acres of potatoes which I planted last.
spring in answer to their call. I turned down a
crop of new seeding about the middle of June,
which would have made me two

and we as farmers will do our best next year. I
would recommend a 1%; inch screen for potatoes
with no second grade—J. D. M00" South Isabella
County.

Protests Against Potato Grading

I see by your last issue that Editor Slocum is
going to washington on business, therefore I am
writing you a letter in regard to the potato grad-
ing. We, the farmers of Mecosta county, do hereby
protest against the unjust and unfair way the po-
tato dealers are grading and screening our pota-
toes, and as we understand, the Food Administra-
tion is back of the same. What we farmers de-
mand in this grading business is just one grade,
and the use of just one screen and that 114; inch.
The way it is now by using the 17/8 inch for the
No. 1 grade, most of our potatoes Would screen half
second grades, which we get just ﬁfty per cent
of ﬁrst grade price for, and the second grade is
the best. stock. We would like to have the Food
Administration show us how we can live by get-
ting about sixty bu. to the acre and then-have
them screen half of them into seconds, and then
get ﬁfty per cent less per bushel for them than we
get for the No. 1 grade.

I think I am safe in saying that I am speaking
for the farmers of the State of Michigan as well
as for those of Mecosta county, and I am sure if
they do not change the grading the Food Admin-
istr-ation will see the potato acreage cut ﬁfty per
cent next year. The farmer is not going to ra’se
a crop and lose money by doing so. Now, Mr.
Slocum, we would like to have you represent us
at Washington, for we don't know of anyone who
can represent us so well as you can, for you know
by the many letters you receive just how unfair
and unjust the farmers are being treated—F. D.,
Rodnei, Mich.

Who is the Anarchist—Farmer or Speculator?

I noticed a small article in your paper about
graham flour, in the Dec. lst issue.

This is a fair sample of the condition the people
of the U. S. are up against; it is also an example
of the cause of Armaggedon—PROFITS!

About a month ago you published an article,
“Who Gets the Proﬁt?” Prices were quoted by the
Traverse City Milling Co., as follows: Selling
price of Graham ﬂour, 5 1-2c a pound, $3.30 a bu.
Buying price of wheat, $1.90 per bu.”

NOTICE! $3.30 minus $1.90 leaves $1.40 for
grinding a bushel of wheat! Nearly SIX TIMES
as much as the law allows.

November 22nd a friend of mine went to Copem-
ish to the grist mill. They charged six cents a
pound for graham ﬂour and were paying $1.85 for
wheat, which is $1.75 for grinding a bushel of
wheat. over SEVEN times as much as the law al-
lows.

Who said ”Anarchist?” I have understood that
it meant. a person or combination of men, who have
utter disregard for the law.

The last price list of T. C. M. Co. gave graham
flour selling at 5c a pound. Wheat, buying, per
bushel $2.00, which equals one dollar for grinding
a bushel of wheat; that is, they add 50 per cent to
the cost of wheat.

Now, if the government wants to add $1 a bushel
tax to wheat I don't kick, but to have our “com-
mercial patriots" collect it, it don’t look good to
me. What’s the remedy? Listen, Mr. Consumer
in town and Mr. Farmer in the ﬁeld, unless you

' are willing to vote to have the state own the ﬂour
mills, pay your tribute to commercial piracy or'

go hungry. ,

P. S.—Did you say private ownership spells
“SERVICE and EFFICIENCY?

Yours for the rights of men and hungry children
as against the rights(?) of man well fed. —F. S. H.,
Frankfort.

All We Want is Just Compensation for 'Labor

For the beneﬁt of a score or more of farmers in
this section of the county of Osceola, I would
most respectfully ask you: Is it a fact that
this potato screen was ﬁrst put into use this fall
by the request of the government and is now in
by and thru the order of the government?

“Is that a fact,” or in other words, does this
government sanction and advise the potato syndi-
cate to deal with the poor farmers in such a dam-
nable, ruthless, unmerciful way, as they have
started in the past few weeks? We, as farmers,
are a class of hard working men, our families as
a rule are industrious! and saving, and as free to
give to the Red Cross, or to aid the government
to help put down this unholy warfare as any other
class of people on the face of God’s green earth.
We as farmers and loyal citizens did as We
were advised by government agents last spring.
We did all in our power to get the crops in and
care for them, but as we all know, our season was
most unfavorable for corn, beans, as well as pota-
toes to quite an extent. We have no corn at all,
and a small crop of beans, considering the acre-
argc planted. The farmers in this country as a
rule, are in the worst plight for paying their taxes
and getting through the winter with a "decent
shirt, that I have known for years. We do not
want to sell poor, scaly, miserable potatoes by
any means, but what we do want, is a just com;
pensation for our labor and not be made to suffer
at the hands of contemptible sharks.

I value the MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING publi—
cation, the highest. of any other paper I read. I
glory in just such metal as is displayed in its
editors. I would like you to publish my letter for
it voices the sentiments of a score of my neigh-
bors. We will not calculate on planting any more
than potatoes enough for our own use next year
if the devils succeed in carrying out what they
are trying to this winter.

Now, we would like to hear what you think of
our idea, hit or miss.,—H. B. 0.. Dighlon. Mich.

A Thresher’s Experience With Beans

As one of my neighbors and myself own to-
gether a threshing machine and are thus in a po-
sition to know something of the conditions of the
bean situation of this community, I am taking this
opportunity of stating the facts gathered from my
experience, and since the new law which compels
all persons operating threshing machines for hire
to take out a license and report weekly to the
Secretary of State the number of acres and bushels
of such kind of grain threshed, I consider I have
vVhat may be considered somewhat of an inside
track on the facts compared to What the individ-
ual farmer may have. ’ On all beans threshed so far
the average yield has been 5.06 bushels per acre,
and with the exception of one job, my own beans.
were the best we have threshed this year, and I
sold 30 bushels of my best ones, for I had them
graded into three different grades before thresh-
ing and those tested out 15: pounds
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tons of hay per acre, and planted
it to late potatoes, and I lia1"I'c~:!eIl
900 bushels. Now. then. that may
sound big to them, but that is not,
all. They must understand it is
some expcnw to raise a crop like

this. I plril‘lt‘tl :12 bushels of seed
worth $300 per bu. at planting
time; used‘ 0 lb , pari” grccn at 60
cents per pound and paid a boy

$2.25 for cultivatin" while I fought,
potato bugs. ’l‘hc" it ( amc d gg. ng
time. with ten acre; of potatoes to
be dug by hand with no help to be
had (as the draft tool: a number
of boys from :ll'tillllti here.) I went
at it myself and worked from day-
light until long after dark through
rain and snow, Sundays and all,
until at last I got them taken care
of with no time to market, until I
was through digging. Then came
the new so-called government grad-
ing, ando the price dropped from
$1.15 per bushel to $1.35 per 100
pounds for No. 1 grade, which is
good sound stock that will go over
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square deal for this year’s crop.

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The Absorbing Topic

over the bean machine in the ele-
vator, which takes out all shrunk—
en beans and ﬁne dirt; then they
docked Inc. lf‘. pounds to the hun-
dred for moisture. 1 think I am
safe in saying that the niaimit) of
the beans we have thic bed so far
this season will p (k :l\\:l_V onohzilf.

I hope that the Food Adminis-
tration will not only note these
facts but also hear in mind th'It
when we ’sell our beans the buyer
not only deducts the amount of
pickers but also charges the grow-
er four cents a pound for handpick-
ingr the beans and then turns around
and sells the cull beans for nearly
or quite as much as he allows the
grower for the beans machine run.
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the beans I sold:

Five bushels, 24 lbs. deducted for
pickers, $12.96 deducted for picking
2.24 lbs. deducted for moisture, and
remember, these were good ones
and mine were about the best grown
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President of National Milk Producers’ Federation Shows Why Farmers
Must Receive More Remunerative Prices for Product

A few weeks ago the editors of
MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING wrote to
Milo D. Campbell of Goldwater, presi-
dent of the National Milk Producers’
Federation, and asked his views on the
National Milk situation and future des
velopments. Our letter chased Mr.
Campbell half way across the contin-
ent and back again, but ﬁnally over-
took him, and we are pleased to give
the following sensible and complete
resume of the milk problem, from the
pen of this very busy and able man:

Your request of some days since
ought to have had attention before,
but things have been moving so rapid-
ly of late along the milky way. that
time has not offered a minute for com-
pliance.

You ask the outlook upon the milk
situation and the probable outcome of
the investigations now in progress.
I would be inclined to shake my head,
if it could be done in a letter. There
are so many angles to the problem
that must be considered that it re-
quires some guessing of course. But
here are a few facts to be considered
by producers. for in them I am pri-
marily interested.

Along in August this year. there
were called together in Washington,
representatives of Milk Producers. as-
sociations from all over the United
States. At that meeting a conference
was had with Mr. Hoover, and an
agreement. made that an investigation
he made by the Food Administration
into the cost of producing milk.

He insisted that the data upon which
such investigation should be made
must be in before the ﬁrst of Septem-
ber, or within a very few days: there-
after. The data was gathered from
Agricultural colleges from experiment
stations and from most reliable sourc-
es over many states, and was in on
time. There was not a word of biased
or unofﬁcial testimony produced.

To consider this testimony, to
weigh or reject it, Mr. Hoover appoint-
ed a committee of eminent experts,
not one of whom was suggested by the
producers. Within a few weeks this
committee had found the facts as to
the cost of milk production. but, up to
this day that report has never reach-
ed the public, though it is now in pro-
cess of publication. As a matter of
fact the cost was found to he so much
higher than the consuming public

had been paying, that many produc-
ers, who had no means previously of
knowing even approximate cost, would
have quit the business, unless ascer-
tained cost could be realized. It was
for this, or some other unexplained
reason that these cost ﬁgures were
not given to the public, while the de-
lay has caused widespread comment
if not criticism.

Mr. Hoover had before him a great
problem. In the cities there were
the poor who must have milk for their
children, and for their sick, and the
charge was being freely made that
the farmers were taking advantage of
the war to proﬁteer.
states elections were coming on and
ambitious politicians seized the op-
portunity to make this a campaign
cry. They ﬁlled the public press from
day to day with columns telling the
sins of the farmers and of their or-
ganized trust.

Suits were begun W Chicago and
Wisconsin, and many others were
threatened over the country. It is not
through the ignorance of the consum-
ing public, nor through their over
credulity that they fully believed the
farmers were undertaking to put one
over on them. If the Hoover report
had been published, as I believe it
should have been there would yet
have been many doubters about the
cost of producing milk. They would
have charged the investigation as hav-
ing been one-sided, and that it af-
forded the consumers no opportunity
to be heard. To remedy this it, was
agreed that there should be regional
hearings over the country, at various
points, and that such hearings should
be open to everybody, to producers,
consumers, federal, state and local of—
ﬁcials, and that the commissions
should be appointed by the Food Ad
ministration. Such commissions have
been appointed in the cities of New
York, Chicago, and Boston. The hear-
ing in Detroit was by agreement, but
under like directions as those above,
and just as fairly and openly conduct,-
ed. No report from these three cities
ﬁrst above named has yet, been made.
but probably will be by January ﬁrst.

It was thought that when such re—
ports were made, that they would have
the effect, to control prices pretty gen-
erally over the country. These com—
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The grand champion barrow and. the grand champion pen of barrows exhibited at
the International Live Stock Show, were purebred Berkshires shown by Hood Farm

Lowell, “am.
The grand champion weigher 600 lbs.

They were senior year-lingo,

and two of them weighed 625 lbs. each.

The grand champion carload was a load of Berkshires bred, fed and sho“ 11 by T.

E. Bruner, Augusta, 111., in class 250- and- under- 350-11”,

and was the heaviest load in the Show.
This is a new record price for all times.

load of show hogs.

This load averaged 33). lbs.

They sold for $21. 25 per hundred pounds”
The price paid by Miller a 11m for this
(hampion load was $3. 85 above the market pnce

and $1. 00 higher than any other

In the carcass contest Berkshires won ﬁrst, second and third in the heavyweight
class on three barrows entered by \V. S. Comm, White Hal], Illinois, that were also
the ﬁrst prize pen of Berkshire barrows on foot, in the under one- -year class and that

weighed 1 ,436 pounds, an average of 478 pounds each.

In some of the,

  

who are not producers. They are men
of high standing, and represent all
classes of our people; and unless they
shall be inﬂuenced by other consider-
ations than the evidence produced,
will render a verdict that ought to
have great weight. The prices they
will ﬁx will be such as can be adjust-
ed to varying conditions. This has
already been explained in most of the
farm journals. There will be a form-
ula, making it easy to know what is
the cost of producing milk, when
grain, hay, silage, labor, etc., are dif-
ferent in value than they are at pres-
ent.

No class of men in the country, now
or ever before, who have made a fair-
er offer to the public. or to the pub-
lic authorities than have the milk
producers through their organizations.

Where is there another article of
food. of clothing, of household use,
of any class anywhere. that: has of-
fered itself to the ex-ray of investiga-
tion. and has said that all that was
asked was simply the cost of produc-
tion, plus such reasonable proﬁt as the
government should ﬁx? Of course
there are some proﬁts over cost. guar-
anteed by the Government in other
lines, but none where the business is
put upon the gridiron for cross-exam-
ination and investigation as in this
case.

l believe the public will accept wii-
lingly the result of these investiga-
tions. They must. or the world will
lose the dairy cow and dairy products.
Between thirty and forty millions of
dairy cows have gone to slaughter in
European countries since the begin-
ning of the war and more will go. \Vc
have many less than we had 21 year
ago, and they are rapidly going Far-
mers are just like other manufactur-
ers, for milk is a manufactured prod-
uct. They will quit the business when
it ceases to pay cost. Altruism with
them is just as deep as with the
other class, but no deeper. They will
contribute as much as the people of
the cities: to provide starving babies
with milk. but cannot afford to starve
their own children by doing the whole
business.

When the people of the cities ﬁnd
out that it really costs the farmer
what he is asking and getting for
his milk, they will be satisfied with
him and willing to pay such cost plus
a reasonable proﬁt.

I believe that a day of better under-
standing is coming. and that it will
not be long. before the demagogues
who fatten upon the misunderstand-
ings of people along such lines will
be obliged to ﬁnd other vocations.

Another important, matter is
worthy of mention. The people are
just awaking to the fact that milk
at the higher prices is yet the cheap
pert food that the people can get.
That it must be had for the children
and sick, if not for all. That with—
out an abundance of milk children
cannot develop healthy bodies, that
they will become stunted, sickly, pre—
disposed to tuberculosis and many
other ailments, and that the race de-
mands the help and life producing as-
sistance of the dairy cow.

When consumers know that the
price obtained for milk does not begin
to follow the advance in cost of pro-
duction; when they know that the
increase asked of them is fully jus-
tiﬁed. they will not only acquiesce,
but will be reasonable, as the Ameri-
can people always are, when fully in-
formed. Otherwise democracy woiiid
not be worth ﬁghting for.
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u. H. coNN n. v.. Editor ‘
Will you tell us through the columns of

M. B. 14‘. what makes a cow give blue
milk? It seems all right in all ways but

that. She is quite thin in llcsh all of the
time. Was dehorncd a year ago and was
quite sick for a few weeks, but seems

well now. She is 5 years old—A. Reader.

You failed to state whether or not
the milk this cow gives is blue upon
standing. If the latter it is due to
a germ that gets into the milk usually
thru the water that is used in wash-
ing the milk vessels or may be from
the cow getting the teats wet with wat-
er that contains these same germs. if
the milk is extremely blue this is no t
doubt the cause and if you will wash 1
all the utensils with water that has i
been boiled and wash the teats before : ,
milking you can eliminate this trouble. 5 .i
If the milk is but slightly blue it may
be due to the absence of fat or cream 3.
in it, thus it would look watery blue. ' “
I would advise a good diet for this cow
and at each meal give her one table-
spoonfnl n’ Fowler’s solution of arsen- - \
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Forty-Sixth Annual Conven-
' tion a Splendid Success

 

 

The State Grange held its forty-
sixth annual convention in the city
of Jackson on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday of last week with a
large attendance of delegates. Un-
swerving loyalty to the government—-
the speeding of efforts, wealth and
lives if need be, to win the war—-
were pledged to President Wils!on by
telegram. And this spirit of patriot—
ism was further emphasized in Mas-
ter J. C. Ketcham’s address.

The routine of the convention was
disturbed by the ﬁreworks which
Market Director McBride aimed at
Jas. Helme, managing editor of the
Michigan Patron. a full account of
which is given elsewhere in this is-
sue.

The Grange adopted resolutions
urging international arbitration and
disarmament after this war, indorsed
equal suffrage and national prohibi-
tion, asked prohibition of exporta-
tion of whole grains or their products
which are generally used for dairy or
other live stock; and asked the sec-
retary of agriculture to investigate at
once the advisability of introducing
some form of crop insurance.

The convention also indorsed all
pure food laws and urged the labeling
of perishable foods to protect the
consumer. A demonstration agent in
each county was also favored and it
was recommended that a course in
home economics be formed in all pub-
lic schools.

A two per cent tax on the value of
all unused or inadequately used land.
urban or rural. was urged. As a
means of obtaining money to carry
on the war the grunge also favored a
tax on all incomes in excess of $2,000
annually and especially a tax on war
proﬁts. ~

The convention also adopted a reso-
lution urging the government to ﬁx
prices on products turned out by
manufacturers, and corporations. par-
ticularly products of grain mills and
manufacturers of farm machinery.

7

five of the agricultural interests be
given place’bn this board.

Saginaw was selected as place of
holding the 1918 convention which
will be held for three days commenc-
ing the second Tuesday in December.
Grand Rapids also sought the conven-
tion but Saginaw won by a small ma-
jority.

A. W. Thompson, Houghton; N. H.
Hull, Diamondale, and Burr B. Lin-
coln, Lansing. were elected trustees
for two years.

A tonnage tax resolution which
would tax copper and ore on a per-
ton—mined basis, was tabled.

 

INSIDE FACTS ON
POTATO GRADING

(Continued from page 1)
and medium size.” The same applies
to Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, and other
cities. So long as these grading rules
are left in their application, to the
conscience of the dealer and the local
distributor, you are not going to re-
lieve the transportation facilities, for
the simple reason that all of the po-
tatoes both ﬁrst and second grades, go
to the market. From my personal ob-
servation the second-grade “spuddies”
will not have time to get lonesome,
for they will soon join their big broth-
er spuds after they leave the growers’
hands and take a slide over the so-
called government screen. ’Tis worse
than folly to argue otherwise; buyers
and dealers are human, that’s all.
Suggested grading rules, left to be ar-
bitrarily enforced by men who proﬁt
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-again‘st the interests“"of both: producer

and consumer. . ~ ,. ,
01' all the lame and lamentable ex—
cuses the third (c) is the limit. lfow
get this: The ruling here made was
secured by a member of the. U. S. Food
Administration, and your attention
is called to the deﬁnite manner in
which the proposition is handled:

"Potatoes, properly graded and packed
and stored in a weatherproof and respon-
sible warehouse, as evidenced by its re-
ceipt, would undoubedly constitute a
readily marketable,_nonperishable staple
within the meaning of the regulation.
The member bank making loans against
warehouse receipts for potatoes properly
insured *would, of course, have to satisfy
itself as to the margin of its security
and the conditions of warehpusing, but
after having done so, and making the
loan, it could rediscount such paper with
the Federal Reserve Bank for periods not
longer than 90 days.” ’

Get the words "would undoubtedly”
and then consider the restrictions re-
quired. We submit that there is not
a single section of the middle-west
where the potato growers could take
advantage of this provision of the
Federal Reserve law. Possibly certain
dealers might be able to hold their
potatoes in “weather-proof and respon-
sible warehouses" for ninety days in
order to speculate, but how foolish to
even suggest that the potato growers
could in any way be beneﬁtted thru
such a line-up.

qo far we have been trying to locate
responsibility; to ﬁnd, if possible, the
reason why the farmers of Michigan,
and the middle west should be sub-
jected to these new grading rulesat
this particular time. The origin of
the recommendations have been traced
to the Department of Agriculture, and
all will admit that ﬁnally grades must
be established on all farm products——
in no other way can we determine val-
ues on terminal markets. But try as
you may, you can’t locate the fellows
who started the campaign for grades,
when the farmers were harvesting
their crop. If new and untried grades
were to be established for the 1917
crop of potatoes; the time to have an-
nounced the grading rules was before
the farmers planted their potatOes; not
after the work had been completed
and the farmers had every reason to
believe that former established grades
Wm.” be adhered to.

'lhis much responsibility the Food
Administration must assume: “We
recommend and urge the adoption of
the following grades. which in our
opinion will meet the needs of the
Federal Reserve Board, as well as
those of the dealers, growers and con-
sumers.” Surely the Food Adminis-
tration was mild in its request; it
stopped short with ”recommending and
urging." The needs of the Federal
Reserve Board were thereby immedi-
ately satisﬁed; the dealers certainly
would have no kick coming; all they
had to do was to comply with the
recommendations. and thereafter wash
their hands from any and all troubles
with the potatoes that found their
way through the screen. And as for
the grower and consumer, they could
well take their chances between the

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grewe {if he 11-
his second grade;
named by "tlie’buyeri. Nocther way or
esCape; it’s either “home to the hogs,
or over the top into the dealers’ no-
price-land—for the second grades. And
the consumer, peor fellow, all potatoes
look alike to him ; he never heard of
grades, and he never will, unless the
government establishes grades, makcs
them compulsory, and watches both
the buyer and the dealer.

And now for a summing up. We
have potato grades in theory, none in
practice. The government suggested
certain grades; the buyers adopted
the suggestion, named these grades as

 

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those demanded by the government,

and now sorrowfully look the grower
in the eye, as they shake the screen;
“W—a—l-l, if you have any kick coming,
get after the government, the Food
Administration established t‘h ese
grades.” Four weeks ago a potato
dealer over in Gratiot county was put-
ting the potatoes from’ the farmers'
wagon over a new screen. Isn't that
mesh pretty large?” asked the farmer.
“Nope,” answered the buyer, “just
bought it, it’s Government screen.”
You will be interested in this little in-
cident which occurred in the Bureau
of Markets, during my interview. A
bright young man, in Government
employ, said: “I found many Michi-
gan dealers were using the square
screen. In one place a wagon load was
run over this kind of a screen, and the
percentage of small ones was quite
large. I asked the dealer, after the
farmer left, to run the screened pota-
toes over the semi-circular screen, and
we saved just ﬁfty per cent of the
seconds for-the ﬁrst grade.” The
young man then apologized for mak-
ing this investigation, saying that he
realized that the department had no
right to make suggestions as to shape
of screens to be used. His superiors
evidently felt that the young man had
exceeded his authority, but changed
the subject. Think of it! Authority
to suggest grades! Authority to rec-
ommend the adoption of these grades:
but—perish the thought—no authority
to say how these grades may be le-
gally and fairly secured!

Will the grades be modiﬁed or aban—
doned?

It is doubtful. I do not think pres-
sure enough could be brought at this
time to bring order out of chaos. The
die has been cast; the injury, so far as
the grower is concerned, is, in my opin-
ion, irreparable. For years the De-
partment of. Agriculture has been
working upon grades for all farm
products. In the past congressional
action could not be secured. Now the
nation is at war and into the hands of
the Food Administration has been
placed full authority. It will be a bold
step for the Food Administration to
make grading compulsory, when no
price guarantee is established, and
yet, in my opinion that is what will

be done. .
I see no other way out of the dilem-

 

~must tags the price i '

grading rules, and the other half pay-
ing~ no attention to their recOmmenda-
tions. ‘The Food Administration ,can-
not expect the potato growers to be
satisﬁed when they alone are to carry
the ﬁnancial loss. When, it you
please, grading is made compulsory to
the grower, because of the united ac-
tion of the dealers; and the dealers
and grocers left to use their own dis-
cretion when it comes to dealing with
the consumer.

From thishodge-podge, this belat-
ed, unwarranted and unnecessary

grading wii’l come something ’deﬁnite.‘

Either the recommendations must be
withdrawn, or enforced grading- de-
manded. In my opinion the Food Ad-
ministration will enforce the grades

promulgated, and if such is the case,.

let the decapitation take place at once.
Under present conditions the second
grade is Without a market, except
where mixed with the ﬁrst grade.
There surely is no use of temporarily
separating the spud family; if separ-
ation it must be let it continue on to
the local grocery and into the homes,
then No. 2 grade will establish its
own price according to its intrinsic
value, and not be subjected, to the
whims of the local buyer.

BEANS RETAIL AT
$12.80 PER BUSHEL

(Continued from page 1)
many of whom have been paying
twenty-ﬁve to ﬁfty cents more than
the government’s prices on its own
purchases.

When beans are retailing at $12.80
per bushel, it is pretty conclusive evi-
dence that the supply is limited and
the demand brisk. The only reason
that beans are not commanding $8 or
$9 per bushel today in Michigan . is
because enough farmers are dlsposmg
of their crops at $7 per bushel to par-
tially satisfy the demand. Were all
the farmers of the state to suddenly
cease selling beans, the prices would
immediately. mount. Dealers can safe-
ly pay more than $7 when they can get
$10 and $11 from the dlstributing
houses. But in this connectlon, we
wish to repeat what we have said be-
fore, that we believe it is the duty
of the farmer who can make a fair
proﬁt on his beans at $7 per bushel or
less, to sell them at that ﬁgure instead
of holding them for larger proﬁts. But
we as nnhesitatingly say to the farm-
er who must have $8 or $9 per bushel
for his crop, that we do not-believe
he is taking a single chance in hold-
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WEXFOBD (Central)—-—A full Sized
blizzard caught us last night and enough
snow for sleighing caught us if it was
equally divided. Some farmers are se-
curing their winter’s wood supply. Wood
in this community will soon be a thing
of the past. People are restricted in the
way of buying sugar, at some places you
can only purchase 250 worth at a time.
I see where our county food commissioner
C. R. Smith, is trying to make the con—
sumers buy two pounds of meal with
every pound of sugar. Meal has been
selling at’ 10-1b. sack for 60c. Such ex-
tortionate prices are beyond anyone’s
comprehension. It is skinning the con-
sumer out of the last cent. Now, in re-
gard to the railroads not being able to
handle stuff, or the lack of cars; it is
their own fault, as 'they have not repair-
ed the broken cars until this fall. The
last report we got was to the effect that
they were 50,000 cars short. Evidently
they collected the dividends, shoved them
down and consequently there was nothing
left to make repairs with. I presume
they expected the government would take
the railroads and then of course it Would
have to repair them. They are quite
full of schemes, and they always have
some excuse to ask for a raise of rates.
The fact in the matter is they have fallen
down on their jobs. As the president of
the Santa Fee R. B. said, "If the gov-
ernment don’t take hold of some of the
roads the people will never get any ser—
vice.” And it looks that way to a man
up a tree. Last year they had to re—
sort to motor trucks to get stuff from
New York to Chicago. Things that were
shipped in January did not arrive until
April. One of our farmers, Mr. Chas.
Dehn. raised quite a few sugar beets
and he is making syrup from them. Tt
is real nice syrup and tests 90 per cent.
Mr. Dehn says it beats paying $1 per
gallon for glucose. The way things look
now quite a good many farmers will
raise sugar beets next year in this vi—
einity; they can beat the sugar trust and
the syrup trusts and that will help some.
S. H. S., Harrietta. Dec. 10.

WEXFORD (South Central)-—-A ﬁerce
storm has been raging since the 8th, the
temperature on the morning of the 9th
was 5 below zero, and we have had a
heavy fall of snow. A few farmers are
selling wood, which brings around $3.00
per cord for 16 inch; others are cutting
wood for their own use. while still others
are just caring for their stock, and 1
think nearly all of them are doing some
deep thinking these long stormy evenings
about how they were taken in by the cry
to plant all the potatoes you possibly
can. They surely won’t bring less than a
dollar a bushel_ they said and they also
said “you can contract your crop right
now for that." A lot of farmers that
swallowed that ‘kind of talk are feeling
pretty sore, at the present time. with fall—
ing prices and the two grade scheme
that has been worked on them, T think
the farmers would be satisﬁed with the
use of a single screen of 1% inch mosh.
‘t least T have never heard one of thorn
obieot to it—A. A. PI. ‘Roon Dec. 10

GRATIOT (Sontheast)—The farmers
are not very busy these cold days. About
three inches of snow fell last night and
it is snowing quite hard this morning.
Farmers are not selling much of their
grain—J. C, Bannister, Dec. 13

MONROE (West Central)-——We have
had some real winter weather; the 9th
it was 10 below zero with a hard wind
blowing the snow in drifts, making the
roads almost impassable in places. The
farmers are busy doing chores and look—
innr after ﬁre wood. We are in need of
11 few r-ar loads of coal, both soft and
hard—W. H. L._ Dundee, Dec. 11.

MACOMB (Northwest)——The farmers
are not doing much nowadays. Some are
getting up buzz piles. as most all farm-
vrs have to burn wood now as coal is no-
where to be had. Farmers are selling a
little wheat. Bean threshing is not all
ﬁnished. Beans that were harvested
early are not such a bad crop but late
("es average about 3 to 5 bu. to the
acre. A few farmers sold their hay a
whiln ago for $18 a ton. now it is $21.
but in another part of the county it is
"‘llimr for $24 at auction sales. Lots of
"frmcrs are selling out. Farm life is
ri‘qcouraging, three poor years and a big
shortage of help for another year. A
case of hog cholera has been reported
on the county line, on the farm of Will
llol‘min. several of his herd having died.
W U. Almont, Dec. 12.

MOVTf‘ALM (Northwest)-—The farm—
ers are wading in snow now. The road
work has slackened a little, but gravel is
still being hauled. The potato crop has
started to move a little and the price
dropped again. It looks to me as though
the buyers were afraid to buy, and they
are trying to get allthey can for less
money._for they paid as high as $1.75 in
Creenvd‘e last week but went down when
theV got a load or two. Lakeview is
a bum potato market. They will take
your potatoes if you will sell them for
from 25 to 50c cents less than thev are
at any other place. My potatoes will
stay m 'the cellar until spring T am
git afraid of the price—n. w". pom]

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BAY (Southeast ——'[‘he ‘
about the same a)s last 3'23? 1182:1211}:
hard to get right here near the mines
They refuse to sell it to farmers and oth:
ers at the mines. The last week was un—
usually cold here. The snow is making
the. roads bad—J. C. A., Munger, Dec, 15_

GLADW'IN (Southwest)—Public sales
are the order of the day with feed selling
at high figures, some hay going at $24.00
per ton. Horses are not selling well, as
some good young ones have gone at $75
to $100. The cold snap of Saturday and
Sunday was felt as there is no coal and
wood is getting scarce, but we will live

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SAGINAW (Western)-—14 below zero
and about 8 inches of snow. Not much
doing at present except doing chores. O.
W. Stevens, who settled here shortly af-
ter the civil war, died at his home in Ow-
osso, Wednesday, the 12th.—G. L., St.
Charles, Dec. 1

CALHOUN (Ween—Farmers are not
moving much now except hay. Potatoes
are at a stand-still just now ,beans are
not much good around here. They are
paying $7.20 a bushel. Hogs are a little
slow now, there are not many A1 hogs
left. Soft corn does not fatten hogs very
well. Beef is also slow—C. E. 3, Battle
Creek_ Dec.

BENZIE (North)—The weather since
Sunday has been one continual snow
storm; worse today than ever. Roads are
drifted and trains all delayed. Farmers
are drying their b'eans and holding them
for $8; The Federal Farm Loan Associ-
ation is beginning activities thruout this
neighborhood; refused loans on some of
the best securities however, leaving some
farmers very much discouraged indeed.
I for one will be unable to farm next
year unless I can raise the necessary cap-
ital—G. H., Benzonia, Dec. 12.

CHEBOYGAN (W'est)——The ground is
covered with snow to a depth of eight or
ten inches, and the thermometer regis-
ters around zero much of the time. A
great many beans are still in the stack
and some ﬁelds of corn are stnl unhusked.
L. E. B., Conway, Dec. 12.

GENESEE Farmers have been thresh—
ing beans, husking corn and cutting wood
up until last heavy snow, now they are
not doing anything to speak of except
their chores. The weather has been very
cold for the past several days and we have
had quite a lot of snow and in some plac—
es it has drifted in the roads so as' to
make them nearly impassable. Soils that
had a cover crop or anything to hold the
snow are well protected but those that
did not are mostly without any protection
at all. Farmers are not selling or buy—
ing anything at this time on account of
stormy weather and condition of roads.
Several hogs and other live stock were
marketed the fore part of the week. A
number of the farmers had their potatoes
frozen in the cellars during the first of
the zero weather.——C.l W. 8., Flint, De-
cember 13.

BIONTCALM (“'estern)-—-1<‘:L1‘mel‘s are
still threshing beans which are yielding
poorly but are a nice quality in this lo-
cality. Most every home is in need of
coal in this vicinity, also the city of
Greenville which has not a supply of
wood. Weather is very cold with a large
amount of snow on the soil. Produce is
moving very slowly. The meeting which
was held at the D. B. S. hall last Friday
evening was very interesting. Mr. Lord
certainly hit these produce gamblers right
and we all hope he will continue to do
this and try to get the farmers together.
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hope to see him there—ll. in. (lrm-nvillv.
Dec. 14

BENZIE (\\'est)——Most farmers are
cutting wood. Bean threshing almost

cleaned up. (line machine operator says
he thrashed 7,000 bushels of beans with
an average of about 4 bu. to the acre.
3,000 bu. of them were saleable. A big
snow storm started Dec. 8 and continued
until the night of the 14th. with the
thermometer 7 below zero on the 16th.
followed by almost continuous heavy
snow, until there is now about 18 ins,
of snow on the ground. Farmers are
selling a little hay. holding beans and
potatoes. Horses not selling at. all. Cai—
tle very slow. We see in the Press that
the latest way for the government to
economize is to do away with the RED.
If this proves to be true it is 0an one
more slap in the face of the farmer. and
that is all we are getting for our efforts.
Where will they hit us next?———F. M. 1m-
berta, Dec. 15. '

MIDLAND (Northwest)—’l‘he weather
has been very cold and stormy the past
week. Farmers are not selling much of
anything Just at present. The hav is
pretty well cleaned up around here. Most
of the stock has gone into the winter in
good shape. The farmers in general are
busy getting up wood and hauling in
feed—F. A. I... Coleman. Dec. 13

BRANCH (North)———Farmers are cut-
ting wood and doing chores. Verv cold'
some report 15 below. Some snow. The
farmers are selling some hay and grain
no stock his week. Farmers not holding
much—F. S, Union City, Dec. 15

 

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Liberty Christmas Candies

HAT ABOUT Christmas candies? Must

‘1‘! candy be omitted fiom Christmas boxes for

the boy at camp and the girl at school or
from the little ones’ stockings?

Before answering let’s face a few business facts.
Our allies, France and Italy, are now dependent
on the Ameiican sugar bin and the bottom of the
bin is in sight. According to an authoritative
bulltin, “the present peIiod is one in which stocks
are nearly depleted in the United States and the
countries on which it draws.”

Do these business facts mean no Christmas can-
dy? Not if you are clever in combining fruits
and nuts. Such sweets keep fresh a long time
and are just the kind for Christmas boxes. They
are delicious for deserts, aie wholesome and uni-
versally liked. One cup of white suga1 is enough
f01 ﬁve pounds of these Liberty candies.

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syrup or corn syrup may be used instead of sugar.
To one cup of syrup allow one tablespoon of vin-
egar Boil togethei until syrup hardens when
dropped in cold water. Pour over freshly popped
corn and mould into balls or fancy shapesfor
the Christmas tree. Little pop—corn men will
please the children. Mark in the features and
outlines with melted chocolate.

your own preserves.
Peach, pear, apple, quince or watermelon rind will
Drain from the fruit all syrup possible. Cut
any size desired, sprinkle with sugar, and dry in
the warmer or a very slow oven. It may be nec-
essary to sprinkle the fruit again with sugar dur-
ing the drying. When dry enough not to be at
all sticky, sprinkle with sugar and pack in layers
with wax paper between. This fruit may be used
for dipping in bitter chocolate for bitter-sweets.

Bitter-Sweets—An attractive variety of candies
may be made by dipping sweet fruits in bitter
chocolate. Use for this purpose dates. Citron, can-
died onange peel or crystallized fruit. Melt 11n-
sweetened chocolate in a double boiler. Keep the
chocolate just warm enough to prevent solidify-
ing. With a silver fork drop pieces of fruit in
chocolate. See that each piece is completely coat-
ed. then remove to waxed paper to harden.

Stuffed Datc.9~TTSe the best dates. Remove the
stones. Fill with peanuts. walnuts. hickorynuts
or any nuts available. Peanut butter makes a
good ﬁlling that is different. Press dates in shape
and roll in granulated sugar, chopped nuts, or a
mixture of cocoa and powdered cinnamon.

Fruit Paste—Put through the meat chopper
enough cherry. peach. or quince preserves to make
a half pint with the juice. Heat, fruit and add
two tablespoons of gelatin, previously softened in
a very little cold water. Stir well'and continue
stirring until it begins to cool and thicken. then
pour into oiled dish to make layer one inch thick.
Let, dry slowly, sprinkle with sugar and place in
box with waxed paper between the layers. A mix-
ture of dried apricots and dates may be used for
this paste. Wash apricots and soak over night in
enough water to cover. Pour off water. bring to
a. boil, pour over apricots and let stand until cool.
Put apricots and dates through meat chopper,
and proceed with the proportions as given.

Chocolotc Dointicsil’ut, through the meat chop-
per one—half cup each of dates, ﬁgs and nut meats.
Add one tablespoon orange juice. a little grated
and one square of melted unsweet—
ened chocolate. Mould into balls and roll in chop-
ued nuts or granulated sugar. This mixture may
be packed in an oiled tin, put under a weight until
firm. then cut in any shape desired.

Maplc Crcams—Boil one cup maple sugar with
one cup water until it forms a soft ball when drop
ped in cold water. Remove from the ﬁre and stir
1':11)i(ilV until it becomes creamy. Form into balls
the si7e of marblcs and put nut pleats on either
side. Lay on wax paper to cool.

Chris/mos [[ohcydropmrrllalf cup butter, half
cup granulated sugar. one cup honey, beaten yolks
of two eggs. grated rind of lemon, three table-
spoons lemon juice, the whites of two eggs beaten
dry, three cups of sifted flour. one teaspoonful
soda. more flour if needed. Ilix as usual. Drop
the dough by teaspoonfuls into a, buttered baking
pan, shaping into smooth rounds. A half cup or
more of cocoanut added makes an edible cookie.

Some Last Minute Christmas Gifts

orange peel.

For Grandma: A bag for her knitting. Wide
satin ribbon, red. sewn into the shape of a Red
Cross, makes attractive bags.

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A Christmas Greeting
DEAR friends and neighbors, everyone,
I wish you Merry Christmas,
A heap of 7'01, a lot of fun,
A merry, m611y Christmas!

Though troublc'scems just everywhere.
And war disastcr's in the a1r

Let’s us just 1116 (end that skies are fd r
And have a merry Christmas!

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For Father: If you' have not knitted a mufﬂer
for him for Christmas, start one for his birthday.
This makes an ideal cold weather gift for a. man
Father might like a bill fold and is always glad
to get ties and handkerchiefs.

II or Mothm: A hot roll holder. This is made
of ﬁveeights of a yard of linen, cut in the shape of
a cross, pointed on each end. If you can crochet
a piquot edge this makes a pretty ﬁnish; other-
wise it can be scalloped or bound. Either the
words, “Hot Rolls,” “Biscuits,” or “Toast,” may
be written or embroidered in blue at one of the
ends of this hot roll napkin.

For Big Sister: A fancy corset cover would
make a hit with big sister, who is very particular
about her clothes. A yard and a quarter of crepe
de chine makes four corset covers by combining
with three-inch lace. Cut perfectly straight. Sew
lace on upper edge of silk and hem down sides.
Use narrow elastic at bottom and lace beading
sewed on the under side of the top of the lace so
as not to show where it is sewed on.

For Brother: A drum would please small broth-
er, and a big brother always likes something in
wearing apparel. A knife is always welcome, of
course.

For Aunt Lou: There are six in Aunt Lou's
family, including herself, so she would appreciate
six single napkin rings made of linen. Cut the
liner. in str'ps three inches wide. Hem and feath-
eI stitch and embroidei each with a small initial
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and bothcr for.
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' day, I guess.
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first stockings hung,
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ish songs they sung.
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days of yore!
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boys have gone to war.
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For your Girl Friends: Tea or fudge aprons
are always appreciated by young 'girls. Take two
and one~half yards of linen eighteen inches wide,
scallop or bind bottom. Cut hole for neck. Make
box pleat and two side pleats at the back. Make a
belt to cross in the front. A little design may be
worked in the front and on the pocket. Natural
colored linen worked in blue makes an effective
combination.

For your City Cousin: A box of home-made
candy, packed in a fancy little basket.

For the New Baby’s Mother: A very inexpen-
sive gift for the new baby is a pad of bath
aprons. Turn one-fourth of the material, or per-
haps a little more down, and stitch across the top,
allowing a half inch hem. Run this through with
quarter-inch elastic. Hem the rough edges and
featherstitch. Put ribbon on for ties. You see
the idea is to lay the infant across the lap, using
the under piece of ﬂannel for a blanket, and the

over piece to pat her dry.
I kerosene lamp. Collect all your lamps. Have
ready a basin of water with ammonia, a
soft cloth, paper, and the kerosene in a can hold-
ing not more than two quarts. Remove all the
lamp chimneys, and wash them one at a time, wip-
ing and polishing each one with soft paper. Fill
each lamp, using a small funnel for the purpose.
Rub off the burnt portion of the wicks with paper.
Do not cut the wick. Then every part of the lamp
that can be reached should be washed off with -
soap and water, and dried. When one of the :3 /"
lamps begins to have a little odor, take the burner
out, remove the wick and put into the stove to :f t.
burn, and put the burner into an old pan with 53 i
a solution of washing soda and water to boil
until it is perfectly clean. Let it stay all day and
put the wick in toward night. ,
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How Our Women Readers Can Help

ANY LETTERS have been received from
women readei . of MICHIGAN BUSIans
FARMING asking me to name some way in

which they can help us spread the gospel of bus—
iness farming and efﬁciency on the farm and in
the farm house. To most of these I have said:
“Your loyalty and friendship are enough; to know
that you are with us in thot and heart gives us
greater encouragement than the performance of
any material act that I can think of.”

But now I can suggest a. way you can perhaps
be of greater service. The editors have told me
that they have decided to name a day on which
every loyal reader who has expressed a wish to _
be of service will be asked to devote one or two 7
or more hours in telling their neighbors about 7
MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING and trying to get
one or more subscriptions. And just as soon as
I heard it, I said to myself: “Well, here is a
splendid way in which the women folks can do the
thing they have wanted to do. I’ll just tell them
all about, it.”

Now, there isn’t a doubt but what every one of
my readers are as busy. busy, busy as they can
be right now. but judging from some of the let-
ters I’ve received from them, I know the most of
them will somehow or other ﬁnd a few moments to
render this service to MIIIIIioAN Bl'sIans FARM-
INC and the thousands «if farmers and farmers‘
wives who read it. each week.

So then I would suggest to those who want to
contribute their m'te to the great cause for which
we are all working that keep this Booster
(lay in mind, and at every opncrtunity try to get
someone who does not take the paper to become
interested in it. If you ﬁnd it impossible to get.
out of doors to do this. why not use your tele-
phone? Call up some of your neighbors and tell
them they ought to have this paper. Like as not . 1
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friends and subscribers to MIcIIIcAN BI'sINIcss

FARMING, I am sure. And no matter what you do, ,
whether you encourage one or a dozen people to ‘ i
become subscribers to this paper. your effort will
be sincerely appreciated by the folks in the M. B.
F. ofﬁce. How many of my women readers can I 7'
count upon to help go “over the top” in that ten '
thousand new subscription drive? I’ll be glad to

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PROTEST BEFORE HOOVER

Below is a. copy of the resolutions
passed by the committee appointed at
a farmers’ .mass meeting at Green-
ville and sent to the Food Administra-
tion:

To the Honorable Herbert C. Hoover,

U. S. Food Administrator:

WHEREAS: Your potato department
has seen ﬁt to make certain rulings
relative to the grading of‘ potatoes,
and

WHEREAS: The potato growers of
these United States were given no
voice in the deliberations of this de-
partment, and ‘

WHEREAS: At a meeting of_ﬁve hun-
dred potato growers of Western Mich-
igan at Greenville, Michigan, on Dec.
7, 1917, the sentiment was unanimous
that the rules of said department in
regard to grading potatoes are unjust
and unfair to the potato growers, and
the potato growing industry of this
country. and

WHEREAs: We, the
were appointed at the
meeting as a committee to place
before your commission the pro-
test of the potato growers of. Western
Michigan against the size of the mesh
of the screen now in use in grading
No. 1 potatoes. be it therefore

Rcsolocd. That we respectfully pe-
tition your honorable body to make a
rule requiring the use of a screen hav-
ing a round mesh one and three-fourths
inches in diameter for round potatoes
to replace the large screen now requir-
ed and to make it a misdemeanor to
use a larger mesh in grading US Gov-
ernment No.1 potatoes for the purpose
of removing the hardships imposed up-
on a great many growers having a
large percent of potatoes that go thru
the large mesh now in use. and for
the Dlll‘DOSn of getting a fuller co-op-
eration of the growers with the Gov—
ernment in raising the 1918 potato
crop.

Resolved. That in the future the
farmers of this country be given a
voice when radical changes are contem-
plated by our Government affecting
the farming industry,in order that our
Government may get a clearer idea of
how the contemplated change will at-
fect the representative farmer.

L. A. SIPLE.
E. W. LTVCOLN,
CLAIR TAYLOR
D. H. FISHER,
J. E. TAYLOR.

undersigned.
aforesaid

REVIEW OF NATIONAL
MILK SITUATION

(Continued from page 11)

But consumers are not the ones
most to be feared, it will be the fel-
lOWs batman“ the producers and the
consumers. Not that they are bad
fellows, nor because they are doing
more than we would do if acting in
their places; but, from the very nature
of conditions. When there are no or-
ganizations of producers or consum-
ers, the rivalry. competition, and un-
derstandings are all with the middle-
man. They ﬁx any price they please;
and then go out to make their proﬁt.
And why shouldn't they? Why boy
at the moon when the remedy is at
hand? That remedy lies in organiza-
tion, and in that alone. It has been
only through organization that the
dairy herds of this country have been
saved thrmmh the present year. llad
not many hundred thousands of milk
producers organized for their own pro-
tection and obtained the hope of pro
duction cost, the cows of America
would have followed the dairies of
Europe to the shambles long before
this. Those warring countries are al-
most without cows today: and ours,
notwithstanding our increased price,
have rapidlv lessened in number.

The reports of these commissions
will not be binding 11D0n individual
farmers, nor upon consumers, they
will be advisory and directory only,
Farmers without organization win
again be at the mercy of the buyer
and compelled to accept his offer, for
milk is perishable and cannot be
stored by the producer.

Organization is imperative. It may
be interesting to the producers to know

 
 

that the organizations of milk pro-
ducers in this country have been in-
strumental in saving, not-'alone the
herds of the country from slaughter,
but in bringing to the farmers for
their milk and milk products during
the last year, not less than two hun-
dred and ﬁfty millions of dollars that
they would not have received without
such organizations. This does not
mean that so much proﬁt has been
made, for otherwise the cows would
have gone to the butchers. .

We produce about one hundred bil-
lion pounds of milk annually, and
more than one-half of this is sold
from the farm. If but one-half the in-
crease in price be credited to organiz-
ation, we will ﬁnd that our estimate
is low. No man who sells milk for
distribution, for creamery, condens-
ary or cheese should be outside an
organization. It is his duty to en—
courage and support the organization
that is working for him. He should
not be a slacker and allow his neigh-
bors to make the ﬁght for him. If
he has no organization near, he should
form one in the neighborhood. The
cost is nominal, and there can be no
money so well and proﬁtably invest-
ed.

The milk producers do not want
inordinate proﬁts, they only ask, dur-
ing the period of the war, their cost
of production and such reasonable
proﬁt as the government or the con-
:umers themselves would approve.

If every other occupation and in-
dustry would show like patriotism
and willingness, there would be little
cause for complaint.

The hour is calling every man,
woman and child to “face frent:” to
abandon selﬁsh proﬁteering, to make
sacriﬁces and to be considerate until
facts are made known.

What we as milk producers have
demanded of the consumers and of
the public, we in turn must grant to
Mr. Hoover and to the Government, in
the conduct of the war. To do other-
wise will create conditions approxi-
mating those of Russia. We need not
overlook wrong-doing, nor fail to cor-
rect mistakes, but we must not, breed
national distrust, or lose sight, of the
ultimate goat—Milo I). Campbcll.

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Philadelphians get coat on physicians'
prescriptions.
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Colorado in 1916 produced 70,914,087
pounds of lead.
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United States pays $800,000 daily for

food for soloiers.
as at: at:
3crmuda expects a 1017 potato crop
in excess of 00,000 .bushels.
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Ttaly this year exported 67, 204 boxes
of lemons to the United States.

United States last year exported 128 -
755 tons of sulphur, valued at $3,505,
857.

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tlak Park, Ill., prohibits automobiles

being driven by children under 10 ycars
of age.

ilk >)i< =li=

will raise

hospital

$500,000 fol‘ ll

Milwaukcc . '
to be built mi-

Ncw (‘olumbia
mediatcly.
at: at as
Up to November 1,~United States has
ginncd 7,150,254 bales of cotton of the
1017 crop.

at at at
New Zealan’s wheat crop has been
purchased by the government at $1.41

per bushel.
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The Curtis Aeroplane and Motor Cor-
poration is turning out eleven complete
aeroplanes a day.

at: at: at:

The island of Cuba offcrs every resource,
it possesses to the furtherance of a com—
plete American victory.

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Fifty—nine banks and trust companies
were admitted to the federal reserve sys—
tem during the month of November, rais—
ing the total of state institution mem-
bers to 176.

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The Food Administration advises that
thesugar used in the United States for
candy making alone, is sufﬁcient to meet
all the needs of England under the ration-
ing system adopted there.

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St. Louis has added $19,498,364 to the
manufacturing capital represented in the
industries in the city. They have re—
OOOPDicd over 2,200,000 square feet
which was vacant during the ﬁrst ten
months of 1917 and have erected and oc—
CUDY 3,300,000 square feet of industrial
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IF you could feed today’s $20
pork on yesterday’s 50 cent corn,
your proﬁts would automatically increase.
If you could run your gas engine today on yesterday’s
10 cent gasoline, there would be another immediate increase
in your proﬁts because of an immediate decrease in your cost

of’ production.

With the new Evinrude Oil Engine you use kerosene and low
grade fuel oils—the cheapest fuels obtainable—and realize a
clean saving of four—fifths of the fuel cost. Every atom of fuel

is converted into energy.

Consider what that means. You get the same efﬁciency and power from
these low priced fuels that you do from costly gasoline, yet four-ﬁfths of the
cost is saved, a four-ﬁfths which goes directly into your pocket as added proﬁt.

Combined with the economy factor are other features which make this the

ideal farm power.

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The fuel is introduced directly into the cylinder by a patented spraying
device and ignited by the high temperature generated by compression. The
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(‘anudzt has become a crcditor nation
since thc wzu‘, although shc is" hcuvily
indcbtcd to the l'nitcd Status.

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'l‘hirtccu tlrcat liukcs stcamcrs owucd
by Ann-ricau shipping intcrcsts and six
ships of thc (Tanndizui Steamship liucs

havc bccu ordcrcd to the coast. The thir—

tccu ships, having :1, gross tonnage of

32.708 loos, will bc cut in twoviu ordcr

thcy can bc takcn thru the \Vclland canal.
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’l‘hc t‘ullilluc automobilc cililt'cl'li is
doing ib bit to i'clicyc I'lllll‘utttl cougcstiou
by transporting complctcd cars to their
dcstiutitioo umlcr thcir own powcr. \
i'cglil.ti‘ driving N'llclllllc is mulutulucrl
betwccn thcir llcti‘oli factory and t‘hi~
cago and also Hruud ltapids, not :t cor
bciugr scut by l'rcight to cithcr point.

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Mrs. Maurice llcwlitt, wil'c of [Ho

novelist, was the ﬁrst, woman to sum

an air pilot‘s license in l‘lnglond. and :hc

has now become the lirst \vomau hcml of
2111 ziii'plziuc factory. The factory cmploys
girls and womcu almost t‘Xt‘llerchlN. Girls

and womcn cannot tly during; thc war as
thc plum-s cannot be spared to tcach thcm
but thcy can make planes, and they are
doing so by tho scorcs, according to Mrs.
llcwlclt.
a: at at

St, Louis, Mo, is taking cztrc ol' the fucl
shortagc by selling the entire output of
two mines to the poor people of that city
at, 10c pcr bushcl. .\ maximum of live
bushcls is :Lllowcd to each person and
thcy are obliged to carry it homc. The
lease of these mines was originally made
by that city for thc supply of its civic
institutions, but in ordcr to relieve the in—
yards have been opcncrl for the distribu-
tion of this coal.

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Enclosed tind one dollar to pay
my subscription to IVY. B. F. which
is the best paper I ever took. '9.
Change my address from Harriettu,
Michigan, to lt‘ranklinville, N. Y,
R. No'. 2, right away as I don't
want to miss one copy. I am cs—
pccially interested in the potato
news as I have quite a few to sell.
Why is it a government doings,
grading the farmers’ potatoes?
They don't do it in all states. They
do not here and the price is $1.50
t $1.75 a bushel.

I hope you have good success
with your paper H. A. IL Frank—
linvlle, N. Y.

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ANTIHM (South)---»—~lt‘ztrmcrs are kept
pretty busy doing chorcs and g‘cttiug Wood
ttho cold (lays, as snow: is about eight
inches deep and thcrc is vcry good swig-hi

ing. [Varmcrs zii'c sclliug thcir hogs :llltl
czittlc as pricc: arc prctty good. Two
corlouds ot‘ hogs and cultlc wcrc shipped
ycstcrday the 15th. 'I‘hcrc lich bccn scy-
r-i“il cm" of stock shippctl from hcrc this
fall. Ilay is SOllllli: hcrc :it 3113‘} ocr ton.
‘.‘itp' :ii'c lit-ing: murkctctl :It ubout $1
pcr hundred, sorted over the large scrccn.
t‘oal is much nccdcd hcrc in .\l'lcil, and
wood is not \‘cry plcntit‘iil.~~~(‘. l”, V\'., Al— -

den, Dec. 16.

ISABELLA ((‘cntruD—Vchitlici' is
vcry cold. l“armcrs kccp busy cutting
\vood owing to tho Rolll'cily of Hull, The
farmers seem to llp holding back thcir
potatoes and bcnus. owing to the dc—
crcase in price. Some t‘armcrs beans
crops were put in stacks so wet that hun-
dreds of bushels have been \\':l*'ll"l. .\
number of farmers in my immediate vi—
cinity have. not been able to get a bean
machine to do their threshing :is yet, I
am one of these myself. Not much doing
on farms at present.»hl+‘. “7., Mt, l‘leas—
ant, Dec. 19.

\VEXFORD (South (‘entraU—(lne foot
of snow and lt‘cbruary wcathcr has put
farmers on the retired list. unless they
have had to hustle for Wood or run all
over the country for a little sugar. The
wheat and rye ﬁelds are covered \vcll
with snow. Potato buyers are moving
out some stock which they have liccu
holding for some time, but are not buy-
ing any new stock.——A. A. ‘Fl., Tloon, Dc-
cember l7. "

SAGINAW (Wash—Farmers are gct—
ting up wood, doing chores. attending
auction sales which average three or
four a week. 12 below zero this morn—
ing. Great deal of corn standing in the
shock. Saginaw county goes under the
county road act state road law. in Jan-
nary. Gleaner rally and installation of
ofﬁcers at Nelson Dec, 22,—M. S. (l, Hem—
lock, Dec. 15.

\VEST CENTRAL NIONROE—We have
had a. week of old fashioned winter and
it is with us yet. it keeps the farmer
pretty busy doing his chores and looking
after the wood pile. We are having fair
sleighing at this writing. Some hay and
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. Jackson State Prison Head Wants

 

Government to Give Him Au-
thority to Can Wet
Beans

Some time ago Edward Frensdorf,
acting warden of the Jackson state
prison, sent to Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture Carl C. Vrooman, a re-
quest that immediate action be taken
to save Michigan’s vast crop of moist
beans by canning. He asked for auth-
ority to use the canning facilities of
the state prison for this purpose. Mr.
Vrooman referred Mr. Frensdorf’s re-
quest to the Food Administration, ask-
ing that immediate action be taken.
Such at least was the substance of a
statement made by Mr. Vrooman to
Grant Slocum upon the latter’s recent
visit to Washington.

In an interview with a MICHIGAN
BUSINESS FARMING representative Mr.
Frensdorf laid great emphasis upon
the immediate necessity of taking
steps to prevent the utter waste of
thesa beans.

“There are $5,000.000 worth of beans
in this state which might be saved
for human consumption," said Mr.
Frensdorf, “if immediate action was
taken to can them. Four months from
now they’ll be worth about ﬁve hun-
dred thousand dollars as hog feed.
These beans are slowly going to waste
just because those whose business it
ought to be to prevent it, are negli-
gent of their duty. There are alto-
gether too many men “holding” a job
in the Food Administration, instead
of ﬁlling it. I’m willing. like all loyal
Americans, to put in twenty-four hours
a day if necessary to help Uncle Sam
win the war, but it, peeves me. and that
is a mild word to express my feelings.
when fellows who ought to be getting
down to business and solving some of
these production and conservation
problems sit idle with hands folded.

“If the producers of this state are
ﬁnancially able to hear the loss of
their wet beans. and if the consum-
ers are so plentifully supplied with
foodstuffs that they don’t need these
beans, why it’s something I don’t. know
anything about. I don’t believe any
such situation exists. But I can tell
you one thing. that if the Food Ad-
ministration doesn’t get a hustle on
itself mighty soon, there’s going to
be a tremendous waste of beans in
this state Which can’t be prevented
after another couple of months.”

A. B. coox NAMED
LABOR ADMINISTRATOR

 

Mr. A. B. Cook. president of the
Michigan Bean Growers’ Ass’n, has
been named labor administrator for
the state of Michigan. Mr. Cook’s
principal duties. it is understood, will
he the solving of the farm labor prob—
lem. and the securing of sufﬁcient help
to take the place of farmers and farm
laborers. drafted into army service.
Another responsibility he will share.
it is stated, is passing upon agricul-
tural exemptions. Under the new draft
regulations, skilled farm laborers are
exempted from the first call, and it
will doubtless devolve upon Mr. Cook
to determine as between skilled and
unskilled labor,

“EAT HORsEfiwnow
URGES VETERINARY

 

Increased use of horse meat in place
of the flesh of other animals as a
means of lowering the cost of living
was strongly advocated by W. Horace
Hoskins, dean of the New York Veter-
inary college. He declared there were
2,000,000 horses in the west too small
for army use which could be killed,
Dean Hoskins said he served horse
meat, which cost 15 cents a pound, at
his own family table.

 

 
   
   

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On Boosters Day, Monday, Dec. 31
F riends:-: , . . 1

' Have you read the stories from “over-there”, of how the
tedious days andlweeks and months of drillling—j-the =‘Ceaseless,
monotonous grind of make-believe war behind the lines are ﬁn—
ally rewarded by being brought down to the ﬁrst-line trenches
——of more days or weeks and often months that pass until ﬁnally one day
down the line comes the thrilling command—“,OVER THE TOP!”——-and

then how they rush maddened by menths of waiting, headlong toward the
enemy! , ..

  
 
   

 
 

 
   
       
   
     
 

If you have, then you know what we mean'when we ask every farmer
or farmer’s wife who believe in what Michigan Business Farming is ﬁght.
ing for to Go-Over-The-Top for this weekly, and bring back ten thousand
new names before January ﬁrst; 1918! I

    
   
   
    

.Can it be done Can we multiply the ﬁghting force of Michigan busi-
ness farmers by ten thousand in a single day ?——From every corner of this great peninsular state
have come the letters—the response that says “yes! you set the day and we will show what the‘
farmers of Michigan can do for a proposition they believe in! ” ~

And so the day has been set—we are going over the top, Monday, December 3lst, and the new-

year will ﬁnd Michigan Business Farming more fully entrenched than these four eventful . months
have made it!

. Will you do your share—we know you will—We know we can count on every loyal supporter of
this paper and the principles it represents—for after all a publication is not just so much white paper
and black ink——at least, we know you will agree this weekly it not!

Michigan Business Farming is more than a paper—it is a living, breathing movement among
the farmers of one great state in this Union to get honest prices for what they have to sell—to get
part of the war-time prices which are being paid for what they raise—to be represented as a body
at every council which concerns the farming interests and to have behind them a force in numbers
SO Powerful that they can demand, not beg for that which is their rightful share!

So when you go over-the-top for Michigan Business Farming between the hour you read this
and the Monday night you mail in your report, you work not alone that your neighbor may receive
the same beneﬁts as yourself, but that he, é’nlisted in a common cause with 37011, Will help YOU get
what you are striving for!

Every business farmer and farmer’s wife in the state of Michigan are vitally concerned in the
successful growth of this weekly and the cause. it represents as you, yourself. They are as anxious
to lend their hand—to help with their hit, and therein lies the great secret of this Booster ’s Day!

We ask YOU between now and Monday night, December 3lst, to show this copy of your weekly
to every neighbor within riding or driving distance of your home! Tell them what we—and this
includes you who already have lent your support—are trying to accomplish. How in these few
months we have shown up how badly Michigan needed a real publication, around which all the
farmers of the state, irrespective of their creed, organization or local interests could rally! What
this kind of a paper is going to mean to every farmer in Michigan in dollars and cents!

You know what you like in M. B. F.—now tell your neighbors, for they want what you want and
they will thank you for telling them!

Surely we do not ask that any business farmer or his wife should appear as a canvasser—you
are not asked to act as our agent—we ask only in the name of the farmer’s cause that you secure one,
ﬁve, ten volunteers from among your neighboring farms who will in turn help furnish the ammuni-
tion for Michigan Business Farming!

We set the price at a dollar for a year, so that every farmer, rich or poor, can afford to take it
and proﬁt by it! The dollar a year will hardly more than cover the bare cost of paper and printing
of the 52 issues, but we’ve dedicated the largest ..

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and supplied with your ammunition in the
shape of dollar-subscriptions it becomes a giant
Howitzer in the defense of your rights.

BOOSTER DAY COUPON

(Pin this to your report mailed if possible before 1918)

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING,
Mt. Clemens, Mich.

I’ve gone over the top for M. B. F. and the cause it
represents!

Enclosed ﬁnd check, or money-order or currency to

In this December 22nd issue, an envelope is
enclosed which you are to return with your re-
port a week from Monday night. How many
names can you be proud'to have enlisted in this
cause? We ask only that you do your best!

(P. S-—If any farmer you call on for any
rcason desires to pay later, 30, 60 or 90 days,
simply have him write—“I want M. B. F. and

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