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Turn to their Washington Representatives
in Final Appeal against Arbitrary
Potato Grading Discrimination

 

On January 18. the following telegram was sent
to Herbert C. Hoover, Food Administrator, Wash-
ington, D. C.:

“FARMERS OF MICHIGAN IMPLORE YOU AS
NATION’S CHIEF FOOD AUTHORITY TO TAKE
ACTION WITH POTATO COMMITTEE TO FORCE
ABANDONMENT POTATO GRADING RULES CUR
RENT YEAR. GROWERS THIS STATE BEING
DISCRIMINATED AGAINST REASON RULES NOT
RIGIDLY ENFORCED OTHER POTATO GROW-
ING STATES. MICHIGAN GRADED POTATOES
SOLD ON MARKET IN COMPETITION WITH ()TI-l-
ER STATES UNGRADED STOCK AT NO HIGHER
PRICE. FORTY PERCENT MICHIGAN’S CRCI‘
THIS YEAR GRADES NUMBER 2 WITH PRACTIC-
ALLY NO MARKET. FARMERS’ RIGHTS DE-
MAND SITUATION BE THORULY INVESTIGATED
AND REMEDIED. WILL YOU DO IT?~—FORREST
A. LORD EDITOR MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARM-
ING.”

A telegram of similar import was also sent to
Senators Wm. Alden Smith and Chas. E Townsend,
and to Representatives Frank E. Doremus, Mark R.
Bacon, John M. C. Smith Edward L. Hamilton, (‘arl
E. Mapes, Patrick H. Kelley, Louis C. Cramton,
Joseph W. Fordney, Jas. (3. McLaughlin, Gilbert

A. Currie, Frank D. Scott, W. Frank James, Chas.
A. Nichols. .
To date, January 23rd, Senator Smith. and Rep-

resentatives Cramton. Smith, Kelley and Fordney
have replied, all advising tha‘: they would take the
matter up at once with Mr. Hoover and report on
the outcome. We anticipate "hat Michigan’s other
senator and congressmen will do likewise.

Under the same date as abOVe telegrams were also
sent to the Departments of Agriculture 11' Pennsyl-
vani. and New York respectively, asking whether
all potato dealers of those states were abiding by U.
S. potato grading rules and it" so what prices were
being paid growers for number one and two stock.

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture re—
plied as follows:

“We have just
and in answer

received your wire this morning,
would advise you that 111111))(1111I1'M11/

few, if (1111/ Pcnnsulzunia 111011 ms of polofocs mode
then pquIoc.1«(co/ding Io Iltc (7. N. poor/o wad
ing rule.

“Potatoes are now being sold in Penn -VlV min tor
from $190 10 $2.10 pcr hundmzluciahi tor the usual
No 1 grade, not fioze and f01 extm Ian< V stock
prices are still highei probably not. exceeaiig $2.35
pei 11th at am shipping point."—7(Signed), J. Wal-
Iocc Halloucll J) As's't. l)i)(c Bureau of MIII‘IVI‘HIS'

The New York Department of Agricultu e VViied
us that they had referred our inquiry to New Y01k
and Ro hostel and the veiv same day we received
to.) following wile from the NEW YORK POTATO
SHll’l’lCRS’ ASSN: “0111' association to ope ates
with the U. S. L:overnment. with regard to grade
and price of No. I and 1’. potatoes, and glad, too."
This was followed up a day or two later with : let-
ter. apparently written under the impression that
we were in some way atliliated with the dealers in
potatoes. This let‘er explained that the chief gm-
vantage of: the gr: des to the dealer was the ability

to force 3((Clhani'e bV (ity \VL‘ L951). OPS. :‘he only
thing now lacking." continued the letter, “is to
have. mg. grades made compulsory. We I“. ’ieve this

grading will be a benefit to the SHIPPER, RECEIV_
19R and PURCHASER."

Suspecting that the New York Potato Shippers)
Ass’n. was of the same “ﬁy-by-night” char-after
certain socalled “groweys” associations, we again
wired the Department (it-Agriculture for more de-
tailed information. The important part of the letter
received in reply is the following:

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“My information is that very few of the counties
have adopted the United States rules.”——(Signed)
George C. Atwood, Chief, Bureau of Plant Industry.

Replying to a telegram which we sent to Mr. Garry
A. Root, of Frankinville, New York, who is a valued
subscriber to this paper, Mr. Root; wired as follows:

“ARE NOT GRADING POTATOES? PRICE,
DOLLAR TEN.”

These various ofﬁcial communications from the ag-
ricultural departments of New York and Pennsylvan-
ia absolutely prove MMHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING o's
contention that the grading rules have not been made
compulsory or general, and for that reason the farm-
ers of Michigan ARE BEING DISCRIMINATEI)
AGAINST. . tt'onItnucd (m pagc 7)

SUGAR MANUFACT’RS
OPPOSE $10 BEETS

Conference Results in Disagreement, After Man-

 

ufacturers Offer Nine Dollar Basic Price
With Sliding Scale, in Lieu of $10
Minimum Asked by Growers

 

The following telegram was received from John C.
Ketchum, master of the State Grange and chairman
of the Beet Growers’ executive committee, just be-
fore this issue went to press:

SAGINAW, MICH. (i: 2.") AM JAN.
MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING
MT. CLEMENS, MICH.

CONFERENCE BEET GROWERS, MANUFAC-
Tt'RERS LAST NIGHT AGREEMENT NOT REACH-
Ell. GROWERS ASKED TEN DOLLARS. MINI-
Mt'M. MANUFACTURERS OFFER NINE BASE
PRICE WITH SLIDING SCALE. FURTHER ("ON-
FERENCE EXI’ECTEl).~ JOIIN (‘. l{l<l’l‘('l9I.-'\;\I.

It was thc understanding of this publication that
the growers’ committee was to lay their .laims be-
fore the Food Administration. and abide by its do-
cision. What has happened to change the, mode of
attack, we have not. been advised, but it. is evident
from the above telegram that an effort, was made to
induce the 111a11ut‘acturcrs to grant the desired price
without the necessity ot’ a trip to Washington. This
has failed. of course. and the beet, growers will watch
the next. development: with interest.

lf we may be permitted to ot'I'cr a word of advice
in this connection wed simply sugg est that the g1 (1\V~
ers stay by their guns, renew theii tonhdcnt e in the
committee which they have chosen, and make it a
practice to be “out" when the 111:1nufacturer's booking
agent. comes along with a $9 contract

23, 1918

Next Week’s Issue:

WIFT & COMPANY are paying S-l ccnts :1
pound for buttert‘at in a certain section of
Michigan. In another section they are
paying 4.") cents. A farmer’s co-operative c1'ea111—
cry operates in the first section; in the sec—

ond there is no competition;ethereby hangs :1

tale. Read it in next week‘s DIH'IIHIAN Bcsr
NIcss FARMING.

Two weeks ago a “’l‘l1.111b" condensary was
paying,r $2.91") for it?) per cent milk Today
that. coudensary is paying $3} III for 3.5 per
cent. milk, and $3.30 1111' 21.7) per cent milk.

Read l\ll(‘lllt;.‘\.\' lil'slxizss
next week

"There's a Reason.”
IdAizulxo. the road to farm proﬁts"
and Ilnd out. all about. it.

The bean and potato situations are approach
ing a crisis. The "February 2nd issue, will
contain last, minute reports on developmcnts.
which every grower ot‘ thcsc products should
read.

- Just. as the herd so111otin1c needs “new blood"
" so does the 1:11'111 paper net-d “new ideas."
llrecdors and dairynu'u will Ilud ‘em and good
ones, too, in the I1‘cbruary 211d issue. See that
you read it.

A new feature! A weekly
letter from the leading bean.
beet states, written especially
BUSINESS FARMING readers.

crop and markct
potato and sugar
for Miclqux

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Unfavorable weather conditions and crippled tran»
sportation service made it impossible for farmers
and breeders to reach the 27th annual meeting of
the Michigan Improved Live Stock Breeders'
ciation at East Lansing January 16th and 17th.
to take pait in the iiist day's program By Wednes-
day evening, however, incoming tiains began to
bring in groups of breeders and feeders from various
parts of the state in numbers sufﬁcient to make tho
meeting one of the most successful ever held at the.
Michigan Agricultural College.

‘ The late arrival of trains from all direction. made
it necessary to make several changes in the program .
Among the addresses made at the meetings that.
seemed to appeal particularly to present conditiom
were those made by Dean Alfred Vivian of Ohio
State University and J. J1 Ferguson of Swift & (‘11.
Dean Vivian is camous as an authority on soil man-
agement and his travels in many lands make his
observations of present conditions of particular value
to farmers. Mr. Ferguson. although connected with

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one of the big tht‘klllg house concerns, is recog—
nized as one of the world’s experts 011

breeding feedingr and marketing.

(>111 aVexagc V'cnrly export, of grain has been 5,000 — . I

not) bushels and our average yearly export of bect’
20.000.000 pounds.“ said Dr. Vivian. “Our averaee
production of wheat is BOILOOIMIIIIII bushels. Last year
i1 was only misoooooo. Our average yearly consump-
tion is SHUJWV’UNHI bushels. This left us last year

(100.001) bit-hols to export. ‘

Why should we send our wheat to the people own
therc‘.’ livery article of t'ood is regulated. All the
ﬂour over there is war ﬂour. England mills 80 per
cent of her wheat, Franco 8.") per cent, and Italy 90
per cent. In addition to that they are compelled to
put in 50 per cent of other flour. Now taking 'his
into consideration they have been able to save lit").—
I‘IOODOO bushels by substitution. Theyuneed 266,001).—
IIOO bushels and we have only 78.001’10110 bushelg 1.;
send them. We must provide our allic'; with IRS.—
tltltltltlt) bushels more if we are to keep their armies

11p to fighting strength. And remember that every
soldier over there. whether he is English. French or

Italian is lighting for you.
Some idea.

ﬁgures for expor—

“Now let us look at the meat situation.
can be, obtained by giving you the
lotion. Iet'ore tl1<1 war we exported 1,000,000.001)
pounds of pork. Last year we exported 1,500,000.—
ooo. Last average yearly export was 4.500.000 pounds
before the war. Last; year it was 27,000,000. We
formerly exported 3,750,000 pounds of cheese. La”,
year we exported 66.000000 pounds. Our condensed
milk exports increased from 18.11110,IIOII pot. .ds before
the, war to L‘I‘VIH‘IIHIOOI‘) pounds last year.

“All the time that, the allies are losing in biotin;-

live stock 3

tion Germany is increasing her production because
not :1. foot of her land has been overrun. lormany 1
is actually producing more) t'ood today than ever
bet'orein her history. She 11: using he prisoners to 1
help produce, she has organized all her man and:
woman power. '
“As far as we are. conccrncd we vill not starve.

We have an excess of one billion bushels of grains
other than wheat. I said to Mr. Hoover the other
day. “I would simply take that 180.000.110o inrsheﬂs of
wheat, and scnd it, chr to the Allies." ltut Mr. HooV<
er does not want to be arbitrary. He thinks the
people. will respond when they are. educated to it.
This demand for food is not roinv' to (ease when
the war ends. This war is "o 11" to last for sev-
eral years and there is going to be a demand for
food after the war is 0 e1

    
   

 

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atefs attempt to Create a duper-war
douncil to supervise all War pre-
paration activities is meeting vigor-

OHS Opposition from President Wilson, who doubte

less, and probably justiﬁably, feels that it is a
direct reproach upon the manner in which his
chosen subordinates have conducted war affairs to
date. Senator Chamberlain, the same gentleman
who is sponsoring compulsory military training,
has introduced a bill providing for a war cabinet,

'to be appointed by the President, “with the con-

sent and approval of the Senate,” and to consist
of three citizens of “demonstrated executive abil-
ity,” whose duties would be to “consider, devise
and formulate plans and policies, for the effectual
conduct and vigorous prosecution of the existing
war, and to direct and procure the execu-
tion of the same. To supervise, co-ordinate, direct
and control the functions and activities of all ex-
ecutive departments, ofﬁcials and agencies in the
judgment of the war cabinet, it may be necessary
or advisable To consider and determine . . . all
differences and questions that may arise between
any such departments, ofﬁcials and agencies cf the
government."

Many look upon the agitation for the establish-
ment of a supervisory cabinet as purely a polit-
ical move, intended to hamper the administration.
Some'of Mr Roosevelt's friends who are baCk of
the move are accused of trying to create the cab-
inet for the expiess purpose of providing the ex—
president with a political job which he may use
to further his own future aspirations, it being
freely admitted that Mr. Roosevelt still has aspira-
tions. The fact that some of the most ardent
supporters of the bill, are warm friends of Mr.
Roosevelt, would seem to afford ample proof
that the suspicions as to Mr. Roosevelt’s ambi-
tions are well founded.

We can see no goOd coming out of theSe efforts.
They are so patently intended to embarrass those
upon whose shoulders the responsibility of success-
ful war prosecution rests, that they should be em-
phatically defeated. It does not tend to increase
the conﬁdence of the people in the chief men of
the nation when such petty insinuations are made
against their integrity and ability. Moreover, the
playing of politics at a time like this, when the
very life of the Nation is in the balance, will in-
evitably result in a total revulsion of feeling on
the part of the Nation’s citizenry, and a “devil-
may-carc" attitude toward the continuance of the
war. if we have been taught correctly, and it is
true that precious principles of life and liberty
are at stake. then the actions of the critics of the
Wilson Administration savors strongltv of near-
trreason.

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Senator Stone of Missouri caused a furore when
he appeared on the floor of the Senate recently
and launched into a passionate tirade against
Thnodme Roosevelt, Whom he characterized as
“the moqt potent agent of the Kaiser, and the most
seditious man of consequence in America.”Q110t'
ing freely upon the conduct of the

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‘1 prising that the order was greet d With .11. ~:
The Garﬁeld order came
as a climax to a long period of Coal shortage, dur- .

hllf an
of protest and criticism.

ing which time many industries operated at half

capacity, and many homes were without fuel. The.

movement of sufﬁcient coal to meet the exigencies

of the moment, was well. under. .v'vay when the T
great storm swept down upon the country, 1111-.

prisoning thousands of carloads of coal on snow-
bound sidings, and crippling the entire transporta-
tion facilities of the country? Many sections fac'ed
actual suﬁering from want of fuel, and as a ﬁnal
measure the Fuel Administration issued its order.
Suspending of operations for the period hurt no

one, and it is_ estimated that at least 30,000,000

tons of coal were saved by the curtailment. The
coal situation continues desperate. Another big
storm within the next week would be a tragedy.
Until the Nation’s new train dispatcher can un-
tanglethe snarl in' the country’s transportation
lines, we need look for no great relief from the
coal Crisis. About the wisest and most patriotic
thing the people can do now is to keep their ﬁres
burning low, and conserve fuel.
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Perhaps some of the readers of this column
wonder why we devote so much of our comment
to the Russian situation. From the very day that
the Bolsheviki assumed control of Russian affairs,
it has been our firm conviction that their obscure
leaders would play the most “important part of
any of the world’s diplomats in bringing the great
war to a close. We are of the same opinion.
Our convictions, if anything, are stronger now
than ever, despite many undemocratic and harsh
measures which Lenine and Trotsky have been
accused of imposing upon the people. They have
proven themselves the strongmen of Russia; if
they were to fail there are no leaders of the oppos-
ing factions who possess sufﬁcient resourcefulness

and courage to save Russia from the brink of the-

ruin on which she has tottered for so long. Rus-
sia was the ﬁrst of the Allied nations to embark
in this war; she will be the ﬁrst to precipitate its
conclusion The Bolsheviki doctrines, necessarily
harsh and arbitrary in some respects, are fasten-
ing themselves upon the hearts of the Russian
people and will survive. All Russia is being drawn
within their inﬂuence, and it will be surprising
indeed, if a strong, dominant government with
Lenine as its chosen head, does not arise from the
chaos that prevails. Russia will never form a
separate peace with Germany on terms dictated
by the Kaiser. Recent events prove this. But
Russia will be a consistent contender for an early
peace, and the Bolsheviki will strike thru the
German socialists straight at the heart of the
German people, and arouse them to arise against
the militarists who now control their destinies.
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Congress is already looking forward again to
“vacation days.” It has been generally agreed to
let “school” out about June 1st. That’s rather
long—distance planning for these strenuous days.

, portant part when the great offbnsive starts?

There is now no doubt in the 1111th military as. . ,

authorities of the Allies, but. what. the Central Powers

are preparing for what will perhaps be the greatest”
offensive of the war.'— The closing of their northern,-

frontiers, the tightening of the censorship, informa-
tion obtained from priSOnera and direct from Ger-
many together with observations of Allied. ﬂiers, show
this preparation to be in progress. There is some di-
versity of opinion as to where the blow will fall.
Some authorities say it is sure? to come along the
French front, the Huns feeling that the French have
about reached the limit of their man power. Others
except the blow to fall on the British front, the ene-
my fearing a. French counter offensive less than one
along the British front, should the French be attack-
ed in the ﬁrst' Hun offensive. Again there are those
who think that the blow will not fall in the West
at all, but rather in the Southeast Where it will fall

, is known no doubt to only a few of the Austro-Ger—

man high command. Operations will no doubt open
at an earlier time than usual this spring, the invad-
ers wishing to make a ﬁnal trial of strength before
America arrives in force. They have been enabled
to withdraw a, large number of troops and heavy guns
from the Russian front, and these will play an im-
On the
part of the Allies their commanders feel that they can
withstand any offensive which may be launched
by the enemy, and believe the one now considered
impending will be the last one on the part“ of the Cen—
tral Powers. .
O I! t '

The peace negotiations between the Central
ers and » the Bolshevikl representatives of Russia
have again been suspended, and the opinion among
foreign observers in Petrograd is that these negotia-
tions are rapidly approaching a ﬁnal ending. The
German authorities insist on retaining their hold
upon certain Russian territory and refuse to return
the deported population prior to the ending of the
war. The Russian delegates insist that this be done
and this has proven a continual obstruction in the
way of the peace negotiations. In the meantime the
Bolsheviki program in Russia is travelling adifﬂcult
road. The ﬁrst meeting of the Constituent assembly
has precipitated a. crisis. The very ﬁrst vote of the
assembly revealed a small anti-bolsheviki majority
which .elected its candidate for chairman. ”This was
followed by the withdrawal of the extreme social rev—
olutionists and the bolsheviki and there is now every
possibility of the Bolsheviki attempting to reorganize
the assembly along lines moreto their liking. There
are those well informed regarding Russian conditions
who predict a bloody dictatorship as the next step

in Russian politics.

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The Turkish warships Sultan Salim and Midullu, to-
gether with destroyers, were engaged by British forces
off the entrance to the Dardanelles, on Sunday morn-
ing, January 20 The action resulted in the loss of
the two warships together with other units of the
Turkish ﬂeet. The Turkish warships were formerly
the German ships Breslau and Goeben. They have
been active in the Black sea and Russian reports of
actions theie haxe often made mention of them. The
Biitish lost the monitor Raglan and the small monitor
M— 28.

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The American Red Cross society has issued a call
for volunteers and it is said that an enlistment of
30,000 more women in the service is necessary with-
out delay. The age limit has been reduced to 21
years and in special causes over 40 may be accepted.

This is to meetthe prospjective needs of the govern-

ment. .
I II

t
H. Gordon Selfridge of London, England, has es-
tablished a convalescent home for American soldiers
at Highcliffe Castle, near Christchurch, Hampshire.
Mr. Selfridge is a Chicago man who now operates one

of, the largest department stores in London.
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Advices at Camp McArthur, received

 

war. Senator Stone proclaimed: “The
hcart of tTis man is afiame with am-
bition and he runs amuck. On my
responsibility as a senator I charge
that since our entrance into the war
Roosevelt has been a menace and ob-
struction to the successful prosecution
of the war. His chief thot has not
been to solve the mighty problem, but
always his thot has been for Roosevelt.
I inquire why Roosevelt may say these
things when citizens of lesser conse-
quence dare not repeat such thought,
for danger of being charged with dis-
loyalty.”

In December lst issue we comment-
ed in this column upon the same sub-
ject as follows:

“Washhgton representatives of the
country‘s various peace parties who.
have been told to refrain from discus-
sions of the war are at a loss to un-
derstand the wide latitude of freedom
granted to Theodore Roosevelt and
other war preachers who are denounc-
ing the administration for its failure
to declare war 011 Austria and Turkey.
It is possible that the government dis-
criminates between anti-war agitators,
and pro-war agitators?

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The severest test to which the loy-
alty and patience of the people have
yet been put was the order of Fuel
Administrator Garﬁeld in closing all
manufacturing industries not engaged
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from Senator William Alden Smith, are
to the effect that Major Gannser and oth—
er officers of Germanbirth will be allowad
to accompany their commands to France.
Under a general ruling that no German—
born ofﬁcers should go to France, these
ofﬁcers had about given up hope of ac-
companying their commands. Strenuous
wory on the part of our representatives
at Washington, however, has resulted
as above.
I t 0
Former Congressman, Edwin Denby,
Detroit, who enlisted in the Marine Corps
as a private shortly after the declaration
of the war, is now Sergent and has been
recommended for a. commission as a pjro-
visional” second lieutenant. He is now
on duty at the Port Royal marine recruit
depot.
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A general strike is reported on through-
out Austria. The strike has resulted in
120,000 munition workers quitting their
jobs and is said to be directly anti—Ger-
man. Public demonstrations have been
held at many places, denouncing Ger-
many for trying to force Austria to
continue the war. .
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British navy gunners have bombarded
()stend, on the Belgian coast. Ostend
is' one of the submarine bases and as
such an objective point of the Allies.
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Will you be short or. labor again next. summer,
Mr. Farmer? Will you hesitate to plan: your us-
ual acres because you know not whence will come
the help to care for your crops? You can prepare
against such-shortagenow by writing to the U. S.
Boys’ Working Reserve.

What is the U. S. BOys’ Working Reserve? It
is an army of patriotic youths of between sixteen
and twenty years of age, organized under the De-’
partment of Labor, for the purpose of meeting the

agricultural and industrial labor shortage caused

by drafting laborers into army service.

The Reserve was'organized last May. ’ Since that
time state organizations have been effected in
forty-one states. The Michigan Division is in
charge of Charles A. Parcells, with headquarters
at 922 Ford Bldg, Detroit. Mr. Parcells has al.
ready enlisted the support of leading farmers and
public men of several of the counties, and it is be
lieved that before spring every county in the state
will be completely organized. ‘

The principals of schools are secured when pos—
sible, to act as enrolling ofﬁcers. They encourage
all young men between‘the prescribed ages, attend-
ing their respective schools, to join the Reserve.
and to study the rudimentary lessons of shop and
agricultural work that is given. As soon as va-
cation comes these boys will hold themselves in
readiness to go out on the farms or into the shops
and help with necessary labors during the summer
months. '

Every farmer who anticipates that he will need
additional help when planting time comes is re
quested to make application either thru the coun-
ty director, or if unknown to him. thru the state
director at the address given above, and arrange-
ments willlbe immediately made for ﬁlling :he
need when the time comes.

We know that there are a lot. of farmers who
haven’t got a' use whatever for the boy power
which the government is perfecting to help them
out of the present circumstances. Many believe
that a mistake has been made in not giving more
liberal exemption to farm laborers. So do we,
absolutely. But knowing the pressing needs of
war, and of industry the world over. for able-bod-
ied men, we do not anticipate that the government
will extend more general exemption even if it were
so inclined. This publication and all other lead—
ing farm papers, in conjunction ’with farm organ-
izations in every section of the country have re-
peatedly petitioned the military authorities. Con—
gress and the President, to relieve farm laborers
from military 5 v'vice, but to no avail. It is true
that the new draft regulations place the farm
laborer in a deferred class, but even that helps
but little. It seems useless to argue further upon
the subject. The world must be fed, and farmers
of Michigan must. do their part, acute as the labor
situation is.

We urge our readers who anticipate difﬁculty in
securing farm labor next spring and summer to
make application early thru MICHIGAN Brsrxicss
FARMING. or direct to Mr. Parcells. for help from
the Boys’ Working Reserves No one expects
that these youths ‘can take the place of skilled and
hardened laborers on American
farms. or perform every kind of
farm work intelligently and satis-
factorily, lit under the careful sup
ervision of the farmer they should
and will render valuable help in
the planting, cultivation and mar-

ing of next year’s crops, and

eir ability to help the farmer
thru the labor crisis must not be
underestimated. '

If there is anything about this
plan that M. B. F. readers do not
understand, we wish they would
write the editor for further infor-
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To Live Stock Men

Owing to the late arrivals of mails
and the demand for space made
just before going to press We regret '
that we' are unable‘to give reports
of all the breeders’ meetings held
at the Michigan Agricultural Col-
lege last week. In our next week’s
issue, however, we have space re-
served to 'conclude these interestin". ch
reports.

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OTTAWA (Northeast)—The poor farmers are try-
ing hard to sell their potatoes in order to raise some
money for everyday expenses of living etc. Potatoe
buyers are yet a little shy, although now and then a
farmer is fortunate enough to sell a load or so. Most
everyone is contented if he has fuel enough to last a
few days, and chores and snow shoveling is about
all one can do. Some are sawing wood—R. J. K.
(lonklin, Jan. 19.

SAGINAW (Northwest) Everybody
cutting wood and putting up ice.
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doing ores,
Weather is extreme—
rye are generally well covered.

Not much farm produce moving. Farmers' institute
at Saginaw Jan. 18—19..was well worth attending,

but crowd was not very large. importance of good
seed was strongly emphasized; Many horses are be—
ing purchased here for war purposes—M. S. (3., Hem-
lock, Jan. 19.

PRESQYE ISLE (Central)—The weather was very
cold the past week, it was 25 below zero Saturday.
the 19th, and has hovered around 15 to ‘30 below all
the week, with about 30 inches of sncnv.']i‘ariners are
not doing much but getting up wood." which is in good
demand at $2.55 for green hard wood. Most everyone
is complaining about cheap beans and potatoes, and

most all will cut down their acreage next year. Some
have told me the pa~t wcek they would plant only
enough for their own use. Some have looked in the
pits where they have stored their potatoes and say
they have found lots of them frozen, and some pota—
toes have frozen in the cellar. Several of our farmers
paid $3 and $3.550 for seed last year and the dry
wweather and early frost ruined their crop, and this
year they will try something else that is not so per-
ishable. I think there is a good chance for some
sugar company to get a good acreage for beets here
if they care- t0.—D. D. S., Millersburg, Jan. 21.

VAN BITREN (Southeast)——Not much doing in this
section. Weather cold and roads bad. Thermometer
around zero most of the time. Very little hay mov-
ing and bedding scarce. Trafﬁc. being stopped on
Fruit Belt and M. C. R. R. increased the anxiety of
the fuel proposition. Wood selling for four and
four and a half per cord. Tuesday, the 15th the Wol-
verine Fruit/Ass’n met in the Memorial hall, Paw
Paw. The manager’s report was very satisfactory.
showing through (Jo—operation a saving as comrarcd
with an increase of 60 per cent of last year’s crop,
of $10 on bulk and 30. on 4 qts. Voted to handle sup-
plies for growers. A general discussion on co-opera-

tion which proved a success the past season. The
North American Fruit Exchange handling the crop
from Van Buren and ("ass counties. A move is on foot
to get the New York bolt to co-opcrate. The w. thcr
cold and roads had. only a few wex‘c present. The
Southern Michigan l“l‘l.ll Ass‘n met in me town hall,
Lawton, Jan. 19, for their annual meeting. the zit-

tendance was small but interest good. The marketing
was the main feature discussed. AI ﬁrst they wore
undecided as to thi success of the co—operntive markct~
ing system, but after duo explanations of certain fea—
tures and conditions that had to he met the past season,
a vote was taken and ‘ nanimously carried to continue
with the North American another year. All agreed
that co-operation was a move in the right direction.

The pressure of the war is being felt by all and we
are becoming to take it seriously—Y. l‘. (l, Matin—
wan, Jan. 22.

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FRENSDORF IS RILED AT
THE GOVERNOR’S SUBTERFUGE

“The Governor knows the bean situation as well
as I do." declared Edward Frensdorf, acting war-
den of Jackson state prison, to MICHIGAN Busmnss
FARMING over the telephone the other day, apropos
the newspaper clash between those two gentlemen
over the warden’s recommendation that, the Gov-
ernor act to remedy the bean situation.

“I did my duty as an American citizen when l
reminded the Governor that there were hundreds
of thousands of bushels of beans going to waste in
this state, but that Jackson and Ionia prisons
could be equipped with drying and canning facil-
ities to save them. if funds for the purpose were
provided out of the state's war emergency fund. I
don’t know what the governor means when he
says l did not present the matter ‘oﬂicially.” I
have had it up several times with State Market
Director McBride. who is really the man to act
with the governor. It isn’t my place to suggest
how these beans shall be taken care of. That’s up
to the state authorities."

Time flies. Several million dollars lie idle in
Michigan’s war fund, while nearly a million bush-
els of beans lie wet and moldy in Michigan barns
waiting for capital to provide the means for dry-
ing and canning them. Somebody tell us. please.
whyinh—d, SOMETHING isn't done to SAVE
THESE BEANS?

CHAIRMAN AGR. BOARD SCORES
OVER-PRODUCTION TALE

Robert D. Graham. chain l'dn of the state board
of Agriculture. is credited by the (from! Rapids
Prcss as having taken a lling at the county agents
and others who have been at pains to emphasize
and greatly exaggerate the potato supply of the
country.

“Somebody has been trying to throw an awful
scare into the potato growers." said Mr. Graham.
“The stories of an enormous crop still in the hands
of the farmers and of millions of bushels likely
to rot. seem to me to be especially designed to
frighten the farmers into selling at any old price.
The potato crop still is largely in first hands. it
is true. because the harvest last fall was so late
only a small part could be marketed. but it is not.
true the production was abnormal.

“in my opinion there will be a mnrkct for the
potatoes in the country, and at fair prices. There
certainly would be no surplus it tho season for old
potatoes in the north could be extended by shut-
ting out the southern grown until the ﬁrst or the
middle of June. But the potato growers should
not allow themselves to be thrown inlo a panic.
They should not throw their holdings upon the
market all at one time. lood, common sense is
needed to meet the present situation and much
can be accomplished through cooperation between
growers and shippers.

“The real problem is not the market for the
potatoes. but how lo get them to the market .and
this is a matter of more cars."

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Wc are advised that the Food All
ministration has taken favorable
action upon a resolution that was
passed by the Glcaners at. their re
ccnt convention zit lialznnnzoo, por-
laining to the bean situation in this
state. The folowing telegram has
been received from Washington:
Grant Slo um,

Supreme Secy. Gleam-rs Nat’l
Convention,
Detroit, Mich.

"lv‘ood Administration realizes
growers’ situation and appreciates
must not grower reasonable profit
in order to stimplate production
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will receive immediate justice.
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by Michigan an New York farm-
ers to reserve‘dry well matured
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NO LICENSE NEEDED FOR . '
' FARMER TO SELL m MWE

Enclosed you will ﬁnd check for the M B. F.
for one year. I never have taken your paper but
have been reading the neighbors’ for about three
weeks. I don’t see how a farmer can get along
without it. I am a small farmer; have been ship-
ping potatoes apples and beans back 0 Indiana
for about four years, sclling some Wholesale and
some retail. I have not shipped any this year but
would like to commence at once. I would like to
have a little information in regard to license
Will I have to have a license to ship in this way.
Over two weeks ago I wrote to Washington to
the U. S. Food Administration but have received
no reply. Will you please advise me what step
to take to get this license?——0. A. M.. Copemish.

Regarding the license proposition. will say that
it is our understanding from your letter that
what you are going to ship is just the produce
which you have raised on your ownfarm. ’In
other words. that you have ’a few beans. potatoes,
apples, etc. which you wish to ship. and if that
is the case, we do not think it will be necessary
for you to procure a license. If you were buying
these commodities and dealing in them gener-
ally, you would have to secure .a license, bilt‘it is
not necessary to have a license to sell your own
product in a small way.

HOW BEAN DEALERS’ ASS’N
DEFINES “PRIME” BEANS

I am a subscriber to your valuable paper and
see by your market quotations m1 beans that you
quote a grade that is called prime. Now we farm-
ers do not know what a prime bean is on the mar-
ket as we have to sell on a strictly choice hand-
picked basis. Would you be kind enough to ex-
plain the different-MAL. 3.. Sic/ling.

:rs’ Ass’n.
bean is deﬁned as fol-

According to the, b‘li‘chigan Bean Jol.‘
graduling rules, a “prime."
lOWs: “I’r’me. hand-picked pea beans. Michigan
grading, must be fairly good, average color of
crop year, sound. dry, well screened, and must not
contain more tiltn three per cent of discolored and
split beans or more than ten per cent of large or
medium beans.” In marketing these beans. the,
elevators take a certain reduction ,under choice
hand-picked.

LEGAL WEIGHT OF BUSHEL
OF BEANS IN MICHIGAN

The legal weight of beans in Michigan is 60
pounds. Our law makes no distinction between
different classes of beans. in other states the.
legal weight of a bushel of red or white kidney
beans- and agricultural wax beans and others of
the larger sizes is 58 pounds. Every beau of
these sorts is shipped out of Michigan at 55‘ lbs.
per bu. That means that the bean buyer makes
a clean steal of . lbs. of this class of beans. and
has been doing it for years Mr. Orr. of course.
doesn’t, know anything about this. And all bean
buyers are ignorant of this fact. when they buy.
but. when they sell they keep out, the 2 pounds
all right. The catalogue houses that handle beans
make the distinction in weight between these two
classes of beans.—~(‘. II’. (‘.. McBride.

The lawful weight of one bushel of beans in the
State of Michigan is 58 pounds. In the great ma-
jority of cases this is the weight; taken per bush-
] by elevators. and if any elevator is not follow-
ing this rule they are taking what does not belong
to them. and they are liable to see trouble. It is
a. very casy matter for the grower to watch this
and see that the elevator takes only 58 pounds
for a bushel. There, is no argument whatever in
this case. as they have no right to take more than
that weight. Should your elevator man insist on
tzliking 60 pounds of red kidney beans to the bush»

before you make a settlement with him have.
blim give you a written statement to that effect
Then send the statement into this othce and we
will see that the matter is investigated.

CAN THE GOVERNMENT
CONFISCATE FARMER’S SUGAR?

i see by the Saginaw daily paper that t.,ey are
going to send a man from house to house and if
they ﬁnd you have any more sugar than to last
you a few days that they are going to take it.
Can they do so? We raise sugar beets and so are
entitled to 400 pounds. Can we keep it? Has any
one any 1ight to take it? My husband takes the
M. B. F. and it is the best clean paper we ever
took; so full of business and good advice. Long
may it live. As soon as it is a little warmer we
will get you some. subscriptions. Please answer
the questions by letter or thru the columns of
l\‘i2c111(1.\;\' BK‘HINEEHH FARMING. as it is a question
we beet growsei are all anxious about —Mrs'. J W.
B.Brc1kcm1’doc.

We do not believe that the Michigan Food Ad-

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administration law which

minist-rator has any intention of sendmg his agents
, into private James to explore the sugar bin. 1L
“is our madman mat any annomncments to. this, 4

meet are "amended only as a Warning against the
hoarding or sugar, and that there is no intention
Altho the power""of
the Food Administration is practically unlimited
in some directions, there is nothing in the food
either creates or con-
templates the authority to enter private homes
for such purposes. This is a practice which was
permissable and popular two or three centuries
ago, but the rights of the twentieth century indi-
vidual are held in greater respect.

We are referiing this matter to Mr. Prescott,
,the food administrator, for an ofﬁcial opinion.- In
the meantime. Mrs. ’B., don’t worry. Your sugar
is perfectly safe.

WHAT CROPS WILL YOU

PLANT THE COMING SEASON?-

The big question before farmers of Michigan
right now has to do with the planning and plant-
ing of next year's crops. Many farmers have be-
come discouraged over the disastrous grading
rules; the near-failure of the bean crop; the labor
shortage; high prices of machinery; and not the
least the constant struggle they have been obliged
to make in order to secure even a fair profit on
their crops and dairy prouucts. These and num-
erous other difficulties have left them in a state
of indecision as to how much of their land they
will cultivate the coming season. Other farmers.
however, despite the uncertainty of the times are
laying their plans for bumper crop production.

No one need fear but what the farmers of this
state will produce their entire share of the na-
tion's food supply another year. We predict that
they will do their loyal duty in this retpect just
as they have the present, year. However, if the
farmers of every state of the union are in the
same frame of mind as those of Michigan. there
will be no danger of. over-production.

lVIH'l-IIUAN BUSINESS FARMING firmly believes
that some effort ShOllld be made by the govern-
ment to make a survey of the nation‘s contemplat-
ed crops. and be able to determine before the
planting what crops are liable to be, over-produc-
ed and what will fall below normal production.
Anticipating, however, that no such .an effort will
be made. we are attempting to gain some idea of
the probable planting of the various crops in this
state, and ask our readers to help us gather this
information. If we can get ﬁfty to a hundred
representative farmers in every county of the state
to advise 11s the approximate quantities of the
crops they expect to plant, we should be able, by
the law of averages. to make an’approximation of
the total acreage to be planted to these crops, and
a comparison with last year's production. We
wish you would help us. friend farmers.

The coupon below will show you how to do it.

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Am 1011 planning to 1 misc more or to raise l
less of wheat oats barley ry.e c',01n potatoes. I
peas, beans sugai beets, vegetables fruits hay
horses. beef cattle, daily stock, sheep swine. I
poultry, or for feed carrots, m‘angels, rutabagas. I
silage?

Please ﬁll out this coupon, sign your namel
and postofiice address and mail to the editor
of MicHioAN BITHlNlCHR FARMING, Mt. Clemensl
Mich. Your name will be held in strict. c011-
tidcuce if yo‘u so request.

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(Importantm—If you a1e unable to give this!
information now, please keep this coupon until:
your plans for next year’s production have been
completed.)

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Mr. C. W Grum, Secretary and treasurer of the
Central Michigan 81101 thorn Bneeders’ Associa-.
tion, submits the following scheme for the drying
of beans. The method originated with himself,
and he believes other farmers can use it to equal
success. MICHIGAN Busmnss FARMING is not pre-
pared to say whether Mr. Crum’s plan is a prac-
tical one for the .ayerage farmer or not. For the
drying ofa small quantity of beans it might work
to advantage, but it hardly seems possible that a
farmer with ﬁfty or more bushels would ﬁnd it
either practical or economical. However, we are
glad to present the‘ plan to our readers. and let
them try it out if they so desire. We should be
interested in learning of the outcome of their ex-
prience with Mr. Crum’s “dryer.”
some ‘scientiﬁc ex-
water-

“I have been waiting for
pert' to tell the farmers how to dry their

soaked beans.” writes Mr. Crum, “and have thought

lately that possibly the plan I had ﬁgured out for
handling mine should' be made public. Not that
it is the best way. but it is one way to take care
of some of these beans.

“I had beans out 5 or 6 weeks in rain and snow.
Turned them *8 to 13 times. and ﬁnally set 8 ft.
poles in the ﬁeld, threw pieces of wood at the
bottom and piled the beans in stacks around the
poles. making stacks about 4 ft. in diameter and 7
ft. high. capped with straw and muslin caps. Vthn
hulled they had stood in these stacks two or three
weeks. and I expected them to be so wet that they
would mould and spoil. This is the plan I had
worked out:

“To cut round wheels from 10 or 12 inch boards.

and tack around them wire cloth (window screen).
making the roll long enough to tit into any box.
such as a cracker box. Remove enough of the
bottom of the box so that this wire roll will set
into it. Drive a spike in the center of each wheel
that the wire is tacked to. to keep roll from going
clear into the box. But 11 hole in one of the
wheels near the wire. to pour the, beans in at
about a peck at a time; Put your box over a
ﬂoor register, if you have a furnace. and place
the wire cylinder in the opening you haVc made
in the bottom so that the spikes rest on the bot“
tom of the ends ‘of the box. The heat will be
forced thru and around the beans. which in most
cases will become plenty dry in an hour to} an
hour and a half. You can turn them by rolling
the cylinder as a peanut roaster. You must be
careful not to take too much water out of them.

“You can sit this rig on four ﬁat irons on your
stove if you do not have a furnace.

“Before buying the wire to make these driers
of. i experimented by drying some very wet ’bchns
an a small sand screen about, 2 ft. square. I put
66 lbs. and 2 oz. of Wet beans on this screen, set
it on irons over my wife‘s range one evening, stir-
ring the beans occasionally. The tire went low
and I left them there until morning. and found
5 lbs. and 14 07.. 1 lb. and 4 oz. of water had been
driven out of them. But they were left too dry.

“This convinced me that it would do the busi-
mess, but when I hulled I found my beans (lid not
need to be dried. I still have the wire screen."

BLAME THE RAILROADS IF
THIS ISSUE IS DELAYED

If this issue does not reach your hands prompt-
ly Saturday morning, please do not conclude that
the fault is wholly ours. The mails are in a state
of congestion, many trains have been taken off
and the continued tie-up in the transportation sys-
tem causes endless delays. Papers of national cir-
culation which ordinarily reachsMichigan readers
on Thursday do not arrive now until Saturday and
Monday. We are doing our best to get Ma 1111;.“
Business F.\1:.\11.\'1; to you 011 time. but we can’t
control their deiivery after we turn them .over to
the postofiice.

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The facts submitted further prOVe that New
York and Pennsylvania ungraded potatoes are
settling MUCH HIGHER than Michigan graded
stock. The week ending January 12th, farmers
of Delaware county, Pa, were receiving $1.25
per bushel for ungraded stock; Cattaragus county
New York, $1.50 per bushel; Oneida county, N.
Y., $1.25 per bushel.

The information presented in the foregoing
paragraphs should convince any man that the
farmers of Michigan are. the innocent victims
of one of the most damnable conspiracies ever
set on foot. Who the instigator is we do not
know, but the plain, unvarnished facts seem to
indicate that certain Government “experts” and
every member of the Michigan Potato Shippers’
Association are either innocent or willing par-
ties to the..conspiracy.\

We charge that Prof. C. W. Waid, as secretary
of the Michigan Potato Growers’ Association,
and that Mr. J. W. Hicks, and J. G. Milward,
president and secretary, respectively, of the Wis-
consin Potato Growers’ Association, have it With-
in their power to remove this discrimination
against the farmers of their states, but for some
strange inexplicable reason they refuse to act.
In previous issues of this publication we have
shown that the attitude of Prof. Waid is decidedly
one of indifference, it” not positive opposition to
the growers’ interests. In further substantiation
of our claim that the responsibility rests largely
upon the shoulders of sovcalled “experts” and “spec-
ialists,” we quote as follows from a letter which
was sent to Senator Wm. Alden Smith, in response
to the protest he ﬁled with Mr. Hoover; and which
was forwarded to 11s by Senator Smith:

“Mr. Ho'ver has requested that I acknowledge
your letter of, the 10th regarding the matter of
grading potatoes about which there seems to be
some misunderstanding in your state * * *

“The writer has been in charge of the Horti‘
cultural Department of the Michigan Agriculture
College for the past nine years, being temporarily
assisting the Food Administration. Our college
and those in charge of the potato work there
have been persistently trying for years to estab—
‘lish a grade for the farmers and potato growers
of the state, and now that if is possible to estab-
lish these 1176 how: been doing everything possible
to bring it about. I have been in. constant touch
with our men at East Lansing and they are heart
and soul in favor of sticking to lhcsc grades.
(Signed) H. J. Eustace.”

Certainly there is no attempt made ll. the above
letter to shift 'he blame from guilty shoulders.
Mr. Eustace f1ankly admits that certain men
at East nansing have been doing everything with-
in their pcwer to bring these grading rules about,
and that despite the apparent injustice, they are
HEARTAAND SOUL IN FAVOR OF STICKING
TO THE GRADES.

We have glossed over our words long enough.
The farmers of tlhis state are facing a million
dollar loss because of the infamous and discrim-
inatory grading rules. Their rights have been
grossly violated by a handful of incompetents
who are prostituting sacred privileges, born of:
the exigencies of war, to force upon the farmers
of the nation the acceptance of petty theories
and twisted judgments. There is no authority
on earth in peace times. excepting the Congress
consisting of the people’s chosen representatives
that would have the power to compel the farmers
to do what two men on the food administration
are now compelling them to do against their will
and to their detriment. Shall a matter which
so vitally concern the rights and interests of the
farmers of Michigan be subjected to the whims of
those who have little knowledge of the farmers’
needs and no sympathy with his Viewpoint?
Which is to govern the potato situation, the hob~
bies of a few commission merchants and “experts”
or the wishes and rights of a hundred thousand
farmers? '

We have exhausted both our efforts‘and patience
in trying to persuade those responsible for the
present potato situation to do sometliing.~—a11y
Uhing, to make amends for the damage already
done. 1 ref. Waid has been given every opportun-
ity to come out like the champion of the farfners’
interests that he ought, to be, and to use his in-
ﬂuence with the overlords Who preside over the
potato committee at Washington. He has confess-
ed knowledge of the injustice, but his whole atti-
tude has been one of compromise and indecision.

Justice having been denied by the potato dictat-
ors, the growers turn now to those whom they have
elected to 1'cp1escnt their interests at Washington.

Here is what thee say to them.

IS FARMERS DEMAND

 

   
   

“The leading. crop industry of Midhigan is the
growing of potatoes. 100,000 farmers are engaged
commercially in this enterprise. For ears we
have sold our potatoes according to prescribed
methods and customs When we planted the big-
gest crop in the state’s history last spring, we had
every reason to believe that these methods would
be in use when we harvested our crop. But it
was. not to be. Without our knowledge or con-
sent, arbitrary rules were established for the grad-
ing of this product that we grow. Had we been
convinced Uhat the new rules were for the beneﬁt
of the country. and had they been put into immedi-
ate and compulsory effect in every section of the
United States, we would have patriotically silenc-
ed our personal views, and made no protest. But
we have shown you gentlemen that we have been
discriminated against, our graded product is being
sold today in competition with ungraded stock,
and at lower prices. Many of us are facing great
loss, if not ruin, and now absolutely convinced of
the vicious imposition against us, we protect vigor-
ously against this tresspass upon our rights.

“We helped to elect you gentlemen to the po-
sitions you now ﬁll, because we believed you would
represent our interests to the best of your ability.
We still believe so. We petition you, as repre-
sentatives of the people of Michigan, to investi-
gate the claims we have laid before you. and to use
your inﬂuence immediately to remedy the situa-
tion.

“Speciﬁcally, we ask that you go in a body be-
fore both the pttato committee and if necessary
before Mr. Hoover, and ask that the discrimina-

 

 

 

A Summary of the Potato Situation

1. Grading rules recommended by the
Department of Agriculture, without in-
tent or power to enforce at the present
time. have been established by the pota-
to committee, which consists of Lou D.
Sweet, 11 (,olorado millionaire, and E. P.
Miller, a Chicago potato dealer, and thru
the Michigan Shippers’ Association. or-
ganized by Mr. Miller, are being made
compulsory in this state.

2. The farmers Were not consulted.
In order to salve their co'nscience, those
responsible called in Mr. Waid and cer-
tain other potato “experts" who claimed
to represent the opinions of the growers.
,, and secured their approval of the plan.

This was after the 191.7 crop was planted.
The farmers had no inkling of 1V hat had
been done, until the time came to mar-
ket their potatoes. Then they learned
the truth. W'ith much of the crop under-
sized. due to early frosts. resulting in
the classifying; of from thirty to forty
per cent of their crop as No. 2 grade,
with little and in some sections of the
state, absolutely no market value. the
farmers plainly saw that they were fac-
ing loss and in some instances practical—
ly ﬁnancial ruin. and that some unknoWn “
dictator had robbedthem of the year’s
livelihood.

3. Some of the farmers. in immediate
need of money, sold. Others could not
afford to grade and sell at ruling prices.
They held their potatoes. Millions of
bushels were kept back from the mar—
kets early in the fall because the farmers
could not believe but what the grading
rules would be removed and they would
be able to sell their crop later at 11 proﬁt

4. Growers of othei states unham-
pe1 ed by the grading rules. began to- put
their stock 011 the market. The demands
were met, stocks accumulated at 1e1e1v-
ing points. and pr. "es declined.

5. Hundreds of farmers in every potz1-
to growing county of the state, begged
this publication to do something to bclp
them out of what appeared to be 11 most
desperate situation. We attempted to
pursuade the potato committee to cilhor
revise or abandon the rules for the pres—
ent year, and showed very clearly that
the pieduct ol' the f111"meis of Michigan
did not have-an cqual 1111111111 witht those
of othei states Our appeals have been
met with indiftcrcnco 11nd 1ebui‘f“ the
opinions of thc t"111mcrs have been scorn-
ed and to this daV not 11 single ellettive

' effoit has been made bV the l‘ ood Admin-
'istiation to rottil‘y the incouzili ie. fo1
which its agents 1110 rcso '11 iblc

6. It has been cstablisacu without the
shadow of a doubt that 111 demand ex—
ists among consumers for guided pota-
toes. Consequently graded stock com-
mands no higher prices than ungraded
stock, and while the farmers of Pennsyl-
vania and New York are ﬂooding the
markets with ungradcrl potztior‘s. at good
prices, farmers of Michigan are having
a (l (1 hard time to ﬁnd a market for
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tions against the tarmers of Michigan beremoved
by abandoning the grades for the present year. It
will not do now to enforce compliance to the rules
in other states in an effort to equalize the discrimr
inations. It is too late for that now. Farmers of
those sections have already placed their stock up-
on the market ungraded. We ask the same right.
Please understand that we are in favor of a sys-
tem of grading and sorting which takes out all
diseased, frozen and inferior stock. It is the clas-
sifying of edible potatoes, frequently our BEST

“stock—as No. 2 grade. with little market value, to

which we are opposed.

' “We ask that you also determine, if possible,

why the organized dealers of Michigan are pay-
ing the LEAST for potatoes of the dealers of any
other state. We wish to know, and we believe
it is our right to know why farmers of New York,
for instance, are receiving from twenty to forty
cents a bushel MORE for potatoes than we. We
wish also to know why we receive only 750 to .111
per bushel for potatoes that sell on the markets
less than a hundred miles away at $1.40 to $2.00
a bushel.

“it should be very clear to you that the rights
of tlhe people of your state have not been given the
same consideration as those of other states. You
will not, we know, permit this discrimination to
continue if you have it within your pov er to pre-
vent. Your judgment will not be swayed by the
glib explanations of the theorists and “.experts"
to whom you ‘ ill "e referred. You will be gov—
erned. we believe. by the FACTS we have placed
before you and will act accordingly."

POTATO. DEMAND STRONG
AND PRICES ADVANCING

As we go to press the potato market is showing
signs of unusual activity. The demand is normal.
but the supply is light, owing to car sh 'tage and
exceptional weather conditions. The Detroit
market has advanced forty cents a l‘undred durv
ing the past week, and with very few potatoes to
be had at. that price. It is an indication that re-
serve stockg, have been pretty well cleaned 11p and
that buyers are waiting for incoming country ship-
ments to meet the demand.

As the marketing season advances, and the
price of potatoes remains high. those who have
been talking so much about over—production, be—
gin to scratch their heads and wonder, and many

market authorities are beginning to believe that.
the production ligurcs have been greatly overv
estimated.

011 Wednesday, January :L‘h'd, the Detroit mar-
ket was quoted at .13.:20 per cht., or $1.38 per
bushel. The average price to the farmer on that
day thruout the state was $1.23 per cwt. We
know our farmers would be intereste1. also, in
learning that potatoes were so‘d out of Mennt
Clemens stores on Januaiy 23111, at $1.60 per
bushel.

We just wish to advise our readers to hang on
to their spuds a fed days longer, pending the out-
come of their ﬁnal appeal on the grading proposi-

tion. unless of course, the price goes high enough
in the meantime. to enable them to sell at a
proﬁt.

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Agricultural College. Shown at the Breeders’ Meeting.

THE PART OF AMERICA’S AGRI~
CULTURE IN WINNING THE WAR

It!‘ i.

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(Continued from page 3)

“We will ﬁrst of all increase our acreage of
wheat as much as we dare. I am not going to
tell you to plow all your acres and plant to wheat.
We should plant all the acres to wheat that we
dare and still save our rotation and our fertility
and make very acre count. Don‘t plant Door seed.
Raise only efﬁcient animals. Don’t decrease your
(locks and herds. Some of our farms are selling
off their producing stock. Keep your herds in
the best condition because we have to supply not
only our own needs but those of our allies. We
have dairy cattle that we have improved over the
the dairy cattle that we have imported. We have
Belgium horses which are an improvement over
those raised in Belgium. We must rehabilitate
lelgium's horse herd ofter the war.

“The most. serious factor with which we have
- to contend is the labor problem. The sad part
‘ ' of it is that we are not geing to have

any better conditions while the war
lasts. It is unavoidable that in a. situa-
tion like this we will have labor disturb-
ances which will last for years to come.
You must organize your forces to do the
best, you can with what you have. Your
farm is your individual problem and no
one can tell you how to run it. Any
man who does anything leSs than his
best is lacking in patriotism. I know
what you have had to face. i know
this draft is working an injustice on the
farmer. I think this reclassiﬁcation
will help you. But just remember that
nobody else‘s mistake is your excuse.
Any man, woman or child in this country or state
who lives thru this war and does not suffer is a
slacker. You cannot got up in the morning and
say, “Today I will not make any sacriﬁce for the
cause,” and any man who lives thru a day without,
making a sacriﬁce is not, doing his share.

“But: I know the farmer will do his part. He
did it in the Revolutionary War when we did
not ﬁght England, but a German kingr seated on
the English throne. He did it again in the Civil
War. And in 1918 history will repeat itself.
Uncle Sam will say to the American farmer,
“You must help, you must be patriots,” and you
will promptly say to Uncle Sam, “We have not
failed you in the past. and we will not fail you
now.”

  

THE LIVE STOCK INDUSTRY
PRESENT AND PROSPECTIVE

"With the domestic, and foreign food supply
situation as it is today. every discussion of livc
stock matters must, be' a Help-Win-the-lV-ar argu—
ment,” John J. Ferguson told the livestock mcn.

“Our people at home. must be fed-uthe Army
and Navy and those of our Allies must have
abundant supplies of nourishing food, of which
meat must be the principal factor.

“The basic appeal of our national Food Admin-

: istration is more meat and more wheat. Given
" these two primary foods in ample supply, our
' lighting men can and will ﬁght to sure and cer-
tain victory. The duty and burden of supplying
the world’s commercial supply of -meat depends
most directly upon farmers and stockmen of the
United States.

“Since September 1, 1917, all old,\established
standards, prices and values have been swept
away. Since then, the inexorable law of supply

  

  
 
 
 

 
 

Four pure-bred mares and stallion, Conquest 39333, on farm at Michigan

tablished an" entirely-
new order of things
in»M ‘the' production, .
marketing and dis-
tribution of live
stock and these pro-

ducts.
- “The following in-
formation {recently

compiled by Swift 6’:~
Company gives a
concise review of
live stock. production
and prices for
year 1917, which was
the climax year in
the live stock situa-
tion: _

.“1917 has been a

year of abnormally
-high prices in gen-
, eral and although

the prices of live
stock and meats
have not risen as
much as those of other commodities, record prices
have been the rule in the live stock market.

“The highest prices paid for livestock in C-hi-
cago, together with dates on which they were
paid, were as follows:

Cattle September 19, $17.90; hogs. August 21, $20;
sheep. May 12, $16; lambs, May 17, $20.60. .

“These prices, however, were for choice 'lots
that topped the market on the respective dates.
The actual payments per hundred-weight by Swift
& Company at; all plants for live stock for the ﬁs-
cal years 1915, 1916 and 1917, were as follows:

 

 

1915 1916 1917

(Tattle ........ $7.10 ........ $7.21 ......... $ 8.66

Hogs ......... 7.09 ........ 8.49 ........ 12.89
Sheep ........

and Lambs . 7.85 ........ 9.16 ........ 12.79

“The rapid increase in prices is further brought
out by the folloing statement which shows the
average prices paid by Swift & Company in De-
cember 1916, and December '1917, and the per-
centage of increase:

December December Percent
1916 17 Increase

Cattle ........ $ 7.10 ........ $ 8.81 ........ 24.
Hogs ........ 9.78 ........ 16.67 ........ 70.3
Sheep ........ 11.58 ........ 15.06 ........ 30.1
Average ..... 8.69 ........ 11.70 ........ 34.8
issued by the Chicago Drovers’

“1917 ﬁgures,

 

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No animal possesses greater ability to convert farm wastesnnd dairy by-
products int.» valuable food products than the hog. .
yntion is so essential it. would seem wis‘te policy for the farmer to take up this
side line of the farming business.

Journal. show that during the past ten years, the
price of native beef cattle has doubled; that the
price of sheep and lambs h s more than doubled;
and that the price of hogs has increased two
and one—half, as shown in the following statement:

Native beef cattle Sheep Lambs Hogs
1917 . $11.60.... $11.00.... $15.60.... $15.10
1907.... 580.... 525... 75... 6.10

“The year was also marked by record receipts
of cattle, which were the largest in the history
of the country. When the 1916 marketing of
cattle showed such on increase over previous
years, it was commonly believed that this was
done at the expense of the number of cattle re-
maining on the farms, but the Secretary of Agri-.
riculture stated in his annual report that the
number of live cat-
tle on farms in

January 1917, had
increased in spite
of the greater slau-
ghtermgs of the
previous year.

“We learn from"
the recently issued
annual report of
the Secretary of

Agriculture t h a t
the record - break-
ing marketings of

1917 have again
been accompanied
by an increase in

the number of cat.-
tle on farms, and
than January 1918
ﬁnds more than
there ere a year
ago.

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for greater hag production in the near future.
The number of sheep'marketed also showed ’a.‘ de-’
Cline as comjared with 1916. V; ’ »

“1917 prices-for cattle and 11.088. were much

higher than for the previous year after an almost
steady increase for the past 15 years. The price
of, cattle has doubled—prices for hogs have’much
more than doubled since 1917. ‘
_ f‘W‘hile wholesale prices for meats have necessar-
11y gone up with livestock prices, the+increase
has not been re‘ ‘tivelye so great. This saving
to the consumer has been made possible through
better utilization of by—products which permit
packers to pay better prices for livestock. -

“From 1915 to 1917, the wholesale price of meat
has increased only 20.7 percent ‘Whereas the price
of livestock increased '39 percent. ‘

. “Receipts of cattle, hogs and sheep at nine prin-
c1pal markets for. seven years——1911 to 1917, inclu-
sive (years ending September 30) were as follows:

Receipts of Cattle at nine principal markets years

ending September 30, 1911-1917.
Ygelalr Ngnﬂead

. ...... , 6.374 1915 ...... 8.464 18
13}; ...... gggéégg 1916 9.650:003
. ...... , . 191 ...... - 2 '
1914 ...... 8,193,856 ' 7 12' 78‘000

ending September 30,4 1911-1917

Receipts of Hogs at nine principal markets years
Year No. '

Head Year No. He (1

1911 ...... 19,217,508 1915 ..‘....21.366.02(l)0

131% ...... £3,335,000 1916 ...... 25,258,000
...... , .000 1917 .....2

1914 ...... 19,176,000 5'049'000

Receopts of Sheep at nine principal markets ears
ending September 30. 191121917. y

ear .» 1N0. Head Year No. Head
1911 ...... 13,530,000 1915 ...... 11.994.000
1912 ...... 14,148.000 .. 1916 ...... 11,741,000
1913 ...... 14,146,000 1917 ...... 11,415,000
1914 ...... 14,702.000

“The most important fact in these ﬁgures is a
pronounced increase in receipts of cattle in 1.917.
Hogs show a slight decrease as compared with
1916—otherwise receipts of” hogs were greater.
than for any previous year, and receipts of sheep
show a. continuous decline. ,

“While it is true that livestock production has
not increased in pr0portion to the increase/of
human population in this country, ﬁgures indicat-
ing that the livestock situation is not so serious
as the public generally suppose.

“We have good authority for believing that the
number of cattle on farms in this country is
greater today than ever before. in spite of the fact
that the number sent to market for slaughter in
1917 was the greatest in our history. It
is not generally realized by the public -
that the record marketings both in 1916
and 191.7 have been accompanied by a
decided increase each year in the num-
ber of cattle left on the farms.~ '

“The number of hogs has shown a
slight decrease in 1917—both, in the
number on farms and the number sent
to market. The short pig crop in 1917
is undoubtedly due to the high price of
corn, which encouraged sale of breed-
ing stock. Also, the unfavorable spring
of 1917 caused very heavy mortality
among little pigs. In spite of the de-
crease in 1917 as compared with 1916,
it should be remembered that produc-
tion has been greater than for any pre
vious year, with prospects of its increasing in 1918.
Hog production, although it has not quite kept
pace with population, has shown a continuous
actual increase. Sheep are the only important
kind of livestock which have shown an actual
continuous production decrease.

“Every man in the livestock business would like
someone to tell him what is ahead. Will supply
and demand continue to operate in such a way
that reasonable proﬁts will be assured to the pro-
ducer? On this matter, no one has any deﬁnite
knowledge, but perhaps a survey of the situa—
tion might be of interest.

“It is apparent. that when the War ends, Eu-
rope will require quantities of American meats

(Continued. on page 23)

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Pres. Jay Smith of‘Ann Arbor Called the 27th.

. , fgthe Michigan Shorthorn Breed-
ers’- Association to order at .4: 30 p. 111. Thursday,
January 17th.. The report of the Seeretary, W.
'W. Knapp of- Howell was read and accepted.

The following oﬁlcers were reelected for the
coming year: Pres. Jay smith;"Secretary and
Treasurer, W. W. Knapp; Vice President, George
A. Prescott. .

After a short discussion it was voted to hold a
public sale at Flint the ﬁrst Tuesday in June.

Numerous breeders promised to put some of their .

best stock in the sale and to co-operate in every
way possible to make the sale a success.

Immediately after. the meeting about 1-00 mem-
bers of the Association marched to the Masonic
Temple where a banquet had been prepared for
the occasion.

Mr. 'Stephenson acted asioastmaster. Before
introducing the speakers of the evening. Mr.
Stephenson urged all of the members to produce
as much as possible and: to forget the money
side of their farming until‘aiter the war. He said:

“Our boys at the front and those in training
’are not thinking of the dollars and cents they are
making. They are ﬁghting for our cause and
it is up to us/to see that they are well fed. We,
as breeders of Shorthorn cattle, can do our bit
and it is up to us to produce all thebeef, pork,
beans, wool and everything else we can rather
than to think of our farming in dollars and cents”

Capt. Robson responded with a. brief address

in which he urged breeders to hold on to their'

good females. He pointed out that in Europe

3 ”there is a. shortage of more than thirty million

head of cattle and that after the war is over there
.is going to be an enormous demand for breeding
stock and beef.
present with several songs.

W. W. KNAPP OF HOWELL

“We ﬁx the price on our cattle by what we
let the good animals in our sale sell for tomor-
row. I Want to impress upon each member of the
association the importance of having every one
who contributes cattle to our sales to have their
pedigrees before the sale date.” .

M. P. COOK OF FLINT
. “We are sure to have a sale here tomorrow and
I want to tell you that the prices that cattle will
,sell for tomorrow will gauge the prices of the
cattle in your herds. Do not let any of the good
animals in the sale go for less than they are worth.

"As I sit down here tonight and look into your
faces and realize that you have everything your
hearts desire I am ﬁlled with thoughts of the ﬁre-
less and foodiess homes in our country, and with
what is going on in France and Belgium.

“It is up to 11s to raise every pound of pork,
beans, beef. dairy products, in fact, everything
we possibly can. Gentlemen we have as great
a dufv 1n perform as the boys at the front. If
you could see things as I have seen them in trav-
elling in the East and hear men tell of conditions
as I ham: you would see things differently. My
wife and I, while visiting a young doctor, who is
a friend of our family, in Rochester saw two
young Belgian children who had been mutilated
by those who profess» to have German Kultur-
If you could see brave Canadian soldiers pinned
to the sides of houses with bayonets and left to
die you would realize the importance of making
things as pleasant forour boys who are ﬁghting
in France. While we are surrounded by all the
good things here tonight let us go home and make
resolutions to do our bit at home. I am buying
corn and doing all I can to back the boys at the
front. Russia has backed down and if she fur-
nishes food for Germany we do not know how long
this war will last As I saw the French and Bel-
gian refugees in New York I resolved to do my
bit Gentlemen it isn ’t my desire to cast a gloom
On this meeting but I want you to swear to do
your bit to back the boys who are somewhere
in France to ﬁght our battles."

PROF. BROWN OF M. A. c.

“Breeders and farmers are making no large
proﬁts but land, stock and crops are worth more.
The business looks good compared with other
lines of business. Industrial stocks have gone
down and the markets for many products have
gone down, and many a good business man is
close pinched by the present conditions. Other
business ‘as been hit harder than farming.

“The one thing to do is to do the best we can
in the same old way raising more food, beef,
pork, mutton and so forth to feed our people.
Do just a little bit more and do it just a little bet-
ter. And there is no animal that will help to do
it better than the red, white and roan "

At theconclusion of the banquet it was unani-
mously decided to donate the proceeds from the
sale of one of the animals entered in the following
day’s sale to the Red Cross fund. The Associa
tion bought Princess Hampton from Mr M. Wag-
nor, of Fremont, Ohio, after which she was sold

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The editors acknowl-
, edge their indebted-
. nose to Mr. W. Milton
Kelley, the well known
live stock and dairy
authority, and agricul-
tural. writer, for 1‘ his-
capable assistance in
the gathering and ed-
lting of the live stock
features 101 this issue.
We hope to retain Mr.
Kelley’s services in
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ask our readers to
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at auction to E. A. Stevenson Port Huron for $325,
proceeds going to the Red Cross. This heifer top-
ped the sale.

COMPLETE LIST OF suonTnonN SALES

. Baroness Hudson 6th, Geo Doster, Doster ...... $160

Lavender Maid 203303 and B. C. John Hisler,

Charlotte . . . ............................ 325
Luverne 465677 D. S. Bristol, Royal Oak ........ 170
Lorna K 620826, V. M Shoesmith. Bailey ........ 165
Royal Sultan 620824 W. H. Campbell Alpena. . 155
Roxie 514663 Chas. Findlay, Albion ............ 170
Bonnie Lad 620823, Jed Waldo, Grand Ledge. . 205
Golden Prince 601574, C. Richman, Doster ....... 300
Bray's Sharon 485101, Ollie Cross. Plainell ...... 235
Pioneer, Ruby 485105, Ralph Safford, Fenwick... 200
Lily Bloom 585453, John Crawford, Dowagiac.. 235

Moplewood Eclipse 584878, T. D. Smith, Oxford. 250

Roan King 6th 611951, J. H. Sim Williamston.. 140
Roan King 7th 611952, E. VanSickle, Albion . 100
Snow Queen 591184 Geo. Doster, Doster ........ 100
Hazelwood Lady 491183, Harry Nearnberg Albion 165
Highland Prince 609913. I. J. Baitley, Homer. 300
Lady Bismarck 56026, Xavier Barnhart, St. John 225
’I‘ulip’s Victor 619164. Peter Kuntz. Hastings. 145

Mysle's Pride 619162 W B. McQuillan, Howell. 220

Prince Victor 619163, Clifford Rhodes, Charlotte . . 168
Prince Henry 620455. Max Ifer, Williamston. . 105
Bob Boy 620454, John Spearmaker. Riley ...... 125
Invincible 505137, W. S. Wood & Co., Leslie.... 110

Hughey 590523, A. Voss, Luther ................ 280
Huron King 585810, John Hisler, Charlotte ......
Prince Archer 619343 John Bickel, Freeland.
Baron Archer 619340, A. E Stevenson, Pt. Huron
Young Mary’s Lad 2nd 609150, Y. R. Merrill,
Hamburg ..

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Princess Hampton, the Red Cross Heifer
White Chief 627260, C. A. Bray, Okcmos ........
Blackwood Prince, M. H. Alban. Willis ..........
King Lavender 621128 Aaron Hagenbooth,
Three Rivers . . . . ...................... 225
Rosy 235156, Ralph Safford, Fenwick ........... 205
Spotlight 624695, J. E. Rubbeit, Perry .......... 80

Pat Light 624693, Henry Perry, Charlotte ...... 75
Redman 624694. Ivan Briggs, Bellevue .......... 6
Princess Royal 618049, Bristol. Royal Oak ...... 120
Village Princess 603851, Geo. Doster, Doster.... 160
Mary Mollie 2d 571146, R. J. Fellows .......... 170
Duchess' Master 603848 R. J. Fellows, Jackson. 135
Duchess’ Major 603847 H. and C. Shutmaat,
Hamilton ........................ 180
Village Judge 500581, Geo. Doster, Doster ...... 110
Princess Hampton 510624, A E. Stevenson ....... 325

Young Lady 478234. Geo. Doster, Doster ....... 150
Lavender Maid 603327, W.H Pearson. Merle Beach 280
Bachelor Cumberland 531693 V. l\I.Shoesmitl1
Bailey . . .
Prince Cumberland 544923 J. F McCansev
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FIXING THE PRICE of wheat at $2.20

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per bushel proved a severe jolt to the
live stock industry. To set one great
branch of agriculture over against another. :
- giving it undue advantage, is to invoke dis- :3
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uine. patriotism is founded on equal oppor—
tunity for all, come what may. It inspires
courage and gives men strength and vision
to work all the harder. Stock growers
should be given equal opportunity with
grain growers in the matter of ﬁxing prices
so that they may fortify themselves and
plan accordingly.

,Bunkoing‘ one class of farmers to the
»ben~eﬂt of another will avail nothing. Un-
doubtedly the wheat acreage should be in-
creased. It seems an altogether logical thing
to do. But pulling on one oar will merely
takeus around in a circle and we will get
nowhere. It is a mistake to allow the winds
of passing stress to blow farmers from ﬁrm
and safe moorings in a diversiﬁed agricul-
.ture. Man .shall not live by bread alone.
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HOW TO STIMULATE INTEREST
IN ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE

‘fOVershadowing every other item of importance
is the fact that the United States is at War, and
that we have a victory to win before our democrat-
ic form of government is safe. In the words of
the President, ‘Qiir present and immediate task
is to win the war.” ‘ These were the opening
words of President Alexander Minty’s annual ad-
dress to the Aberdeen-Angus Breeders.

“Farming is one of the biggest of this country’s
big guns that must be used 'to win the war; and
of all forms of farming, live stock production is the
most important when present and after—war prog-
ress of the United States is considered.

“The ﬁrst step in stimplating interest in Aber~
deen—Angus cattle in the State of Michigan at the
present time is to point out that the quickest so-
lution of the'growing labor problem is by beef
production on our farms. One man can handle
more acres of a farm under beef raising that
under almost any other form of farming. In other
words, with war and new immigration laws cut»
ting down the country's labor supply, the tendency
is towards extensive, rather than intensiv", farm—
ing. The average farmer must handle less acres
because of lack OI an adequate labor supply it
keep up his acreage and herds and ﬂocks, or he
must change his farm management system. He
may introduce more labor-saving machinery for
a time to take up the slack and hold onto his
dairy herd, cultivated acreage or whatever form
of farming he is following. Estimates now place
the number of men under arms in the war at
50,000,000 or over. From 7,000,000 to 10,000,000
more have been killed. Another 10,000,000 have
been permanently disabled, so that their value as
laborers, especially on the farm, is practically
nil. Here, then, We have in round numbers close
to 70,000,000 men whose lives have been changed
from productive to destructive effort. Not only

are a large proportion of these farmers, but as"

warriors they eat more than they did as civilians.

“In looking over the list of war foods, both in
the present conﬂict and in other wars, beef and
wheat are the two outstanding foods for soldiers.
and just as long as to as great an extent as possii-
ble, the armies and navies get fresh beef 1 1 their
daily mess. In the last few months, the demand
for American foods has become so great that food
laws have come into effect, and a call for hogs.
more hogs and still more hogs has gone out to the
farmers because the hog is the quickest producer
of meat and fat. Beef for meat anu hides is
just as important, more so, when a perioid of ten
years is considered. The leather shortage can be
made 11p only by increased cattle production. and
cattle hides cannot be produced in a year.

“The United States has become the food depot oi”
the world, and more and more as the war drags
on. American foods are becoming the main. and
in some cases almost the sole, source of food sup-
ply for both neutral and allied Europe. There is
wheat in Australia, India and Argentine. There
is beef and mutton in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil
and Paraguay. But the transportation systems
of the world have broken down under the strain
of war, and no longer does the consuming world
draw its foods from every corner of the globe.

“Furthermore, after the war, live stock, particu-
larly beef and sheep, will not slump with the
let-down in grains and later hogs. The herds
and ﬂocks of Europe are being eaten up. Al-
ready the world is 115,000,000 head short and ev-
ery day that war lasts and the shortage increases
with leaps and bounds. Germany and Austria
are eating their insides out in an attempt to
last till war brings peace Without deieat. They
have stripped Belgium, the mom densely populated
110g and dairy cow section of the world, until
it must be rebuilt from the live stock of other
nations after the war ends. Germany’s neutral
neighbors—Holland. Denmark, Switzerland. Swed-
en, and Norway, particularly the ﬁrst ”two—
are cutting down their cattle holdings by millions
of head this winter in order to put their herds
on a self—feeding basis forced by the United States
embargo. '

“World demands plus a serious labor problem is
bringing the country back to beef production.
With changing conditions on the range and the
added depressing droughts of the past three years.
the production of this beef from start to ﬁnish
must largely come in the corn belt. Michigan,
while not such a corn producer as some of the
states to the south, can raise silage even in its
northern extremities, while its grasses and hays
are ideal for‘ cheap beef production with a mini‘
mum of labbr.

“In selecting the breed of beef best suited to
our needs, there need be no hesitation. At the
Chicago International Exposition; the individ.
ual Grand Champion-ship for steers has gone ten
times out of sixteen to the “Doddies.” What’s
under the hide naturally is the ﬁnal test of what’s
what, and in the carcass Grand Championships,
in ﬁfteen shows out of sixteen, Aberdeen- Angus
steers have won it. ” (Continued on page 29)

    
 

 
  
      

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FORCINC HICHER PRICE

Attacks on Milk Producers by City Press
Wholly Unwarranted; N 0 Business in
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The action of Bay City authorities to indict of-
ﬁcers of the Bay County Milk Producers’ Assn
and the resultant publicity in the city press has
aroused the ire of Milo D. Campbell, president of
the National Milk Prod cers’ Federation, and he
writes M. B. F. as follows, upon the subject:

“The advance price of milk has been necessi-
tated because of the advanced price of feed labor
and every element entering into the production of
milk. Corn has raised from 70 cents per bushel
to $1. 70; oats from 35 cents to 80 cents; hay and

: salfalfa from $8 per ton to $25 and $30; farm labor

from ten cents per hour to 25 and 30 cents. Thesa
are some of the principal factors that make up
the cost of milk Every newspaper conveys this
information and every consumer has the proof
at hand. The bitterness that has seemingly fol-
lowed the milk producers is most. anomalous be-
cause there is no other industry or business in
this country of any kind or nature that has off-
ered itself to such analysis and to such public ex-
aminatimi and moss examination by the public and
its ofﬁcials to ascertain the actual cost, as that
of producing milk.

“In Boston. New York. Chicago. and San Fran-
cisco. the II. S. Food Administration has conduct.-
ed the most searching separate inquiries through
as many different Commissions for this purpose.

These Commissions have been selected and ap-
pointed by Mr. Hoover. Food Administrator, and
have been made 11p almost wholly of city consum-
ers in no way connected with farmers or with milk
producers. I11 BOston the Commission found that
the farmers should have. for milk testing 3.5, 8 1-2
cents per quart or $3.95 per hundred lbs. The
consumers of the city to pay 15 cents per quart.
In New York a similar Commission found that the
farmer should receive for 3.5 milk. $3.72 per hun-
dred pounds. and the consumers in the city to
pay the distributo'rs 17 cents per quart for Grade
“A" milk and 15 cens per quart for Grade “B”
milk. In San Francisco where cows pasture great-
er portion of the year and cost production is low
compared v'i‘“ Wormhound states. the price to the
farmer was ﬁxed at 7 cents per quart or $3.26 per
cwt. In Chicago the Commission has not yet re-
ported. The Food Administ ‘ation has also with-
in the last week through an appointee of Mr.
Hoover and one of his assistants visited the fol-
lowing cities and has arranged prices to farmers
In Cleveland the farm-
er getting for milk f. o. b. Cleveland. 8 cents per
quart. milk testing 3.7 and 4 cents a point for ev—
mgvrtenth above that, or $51 72 per cwt.: in Pitts.
burgh and Columbus. I am informed that the
ﬁgures have been made the same as in Cleveland
but that the dealers in those. cities have agreed
to charge to consumers but 12 cents a quart or 7
cents a pint. It should be known that in these
ﬁndings the Commission has ‘not given to the
farmer one penny of proﬁt above cost of prod'iw
tion. The evidence has been the most conclusive
ever produced upon the cost of milk production.

“It has been gathered from the, investigation ot‘
the. thousands of farmers covering years of time
and made by experimental stations of govern:
ment by the Department of Agriculture and by
other unprciudiccd investigators.
expressly chnrgcrl by

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the Food Administration to
farm'er (11' producing milk. I11 Ilctroit the Com-
wigsion appointed by the gt‘wernor, a most reput-
able and rcprczcntative onc. found that the price
should be $3 05 per cwt. At these hearings. sev
eral of which I have personally attended. there
has been the fullest opportunity for anybody
and every body to appear and be heard. Boards
of Health. prosecuting officers. mayors. depart—
ments of state and individuals have all been i11-
vited and have been represented. The most search-
ing cross-examination of witnesses has been con-
ducted in most of them. In the interest of fair
play. I desire to ask where is there another com-
modity that has undergone such investigation?
Where is the industry. business or profession that
has so openly and conﬁdently submitted itself
to public inspection?

“The average farmer has not known heretofore
and could not. know the cost of producing milk;
and fo1 that leason has submissively taken what
the. dealer or manufacturer has offered

“0f the past w e do not complain, but why should
public ofﬁcers except through criminal prosecu—
tion to force the farmers of this country to take
less than cost of production; why through in-

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itimidation, undertake to prevent their organizing

to defend themselves against bankruptcy.

“Such Fm thods must and will m1. ‘ The milk
producers this country are asking nothing but
cost and such reasonable proﬁt as the government
shall say is their due. ‘

“I may be wrong, but I am inclined to think that
when 'our consumers, think it over, they would
see that after all, under the circumstances, the
farmer is not quite so culpable as painted _.

“I do not chargethat these attacks and threats
against milk producers are the result of ambition
in order to gain local popularity, but I think they
are largely the result of misinformation or per-
haps an entire lack of it. The federal government,
through its constituted authorities, have not pros-
ecuted milk producers for crudely organizing, and
I believe chiefly because no business in this coun-
try has so openly submitted itself to the govern
ment investigation as have they.

“Again, the government is demanding and en-
couragin organization everywhere, and in all
kinds of usiness, not to facilitate inordinate gain,
but because it has been found necessary in the
conduct of governmental and other affairs. It
has taken over the railroads, it required the can-
ners and condensers of the farmers milk to or-
ganize and it deals directly with their association
for canned, condensed and powdered milk. If
there is a reason why the farmers who sell to the
canners and condensaries should not enjoy the
same privileges of organizing, it is high time that
this reason for discrimination should be explain-
ed; for just such threatened prosecution as that
at Bay City is doing more to sow the seeds of
distrust among farmers right now, than any other
kind of sedition. The antitrust laws. under which
these prosecutions are threatened Were never made
nor intended for such purposes. They were en-
acted expressly to reach the combinations of great
corporations. but they have lain dormant and no
oﬁﬁcial of a great business or corporation has ever
in jail because of them. Their
combinations and understandings have gone on
unhindered, and so long as the milk producers of
this country shall ask from the consumers noth-
ing but cost of production plus such reasonable
proﬁt as the government may ﬁnd to be their due.
we doubt very much the wisdom of such threats.
and-under such challenges of governmental ﬁnd-
ings as those threatened at Bay City. It. must
not be forgotten that we are living in war days.
that these ﬁndings have been made by war com-
missions, and that to challenge them by such pro-
cedure or threats of procedure is not far removed
from Rusian methods.

MILO D. CAMPBELL.
President National Milk Producers Federation.
Coldwater, Mich. Jan. 17, 1918.

CHICAGO MILK COMMISSION
STILL IN COST SESSION

The milk commission appointed by the Food
Administration to settle the differences between
the milk producers of Illinois and the distributors
of Chicago, have been in session for several weeks.
and the end is not yet. Much bitterness has been
injected into the hearings before which produbers,
distributors and consumers have testiﬁed, by the
sensational tactics of State’s Attorney lioyne. but
the preponderance of the evidence submitted thus
far so fully substantiates the claims of the pro-
ducers that the Hoyne person has taken refuge in
silence.

Practically every cost ﬁgure submitted by the
farmers was substantiated by the federal experts.
None of the figures were higher. but several were
lower than those given by the, government men.

No more cxhaustiyc investigation into the cost
of producing and distributing milk was ever made.
The leading authorities 'of the entire country have
appeared before the commission; cost ﬁgures have
been checked and compared over and over again;
every phase of the industry has been scrutinized.

One of the important points under consideration
was whether or not hay and silage should be
charged at the market or at cost price in determ-
ining the cost of production. Prof. W. F. Hand-
schin of the University of Illinois declared that
the farmer was entitled to charge such feed at the
market price, on the grounds that he would be
able to secure the 111arkeL price were he to sell
it instead of feeding it. A representative of the
consuminginterests thought that much of the hay
raised on the farm is not good enough _to sell and
must therefore be fed. Such hay, he argued,
should not be charged at the market price of good
grades. ‘

Will MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING readers ad-
vise us whether‘they charge 11p hay and silage at
cost or at prevailing market prices, and their reas-

ons for the practicethey follow?

  

0F DAIRY INDUSTRY

Consuming Public Must be Educated to the
Value of Milk as Food, if Increased Pro-
duction is to be Made Desirable
. and Proﬁtable, Says

.R. C. Reed.

It is with the keenest feeling of solicitation
that I bring this message to you. Your state as-
sociation has exerted itself to the utmost in the
past for certain principles. Everywhere and at
all times we have been contending for that prin-
ciple which must be the basis, the foundation for
every stabilized business industry. We have con-
tended that the business of manufacturing, or
producing, liquid milk shguld receive the same
consideration in the business world that the man-
ufacturer of every other product receives. We
contend that the only thing that can stabilize
this industry is to receive for this product a
price that equals the cost of production plus
a small proﬁt. No other business can long exist
unless it has beneath it this irrevocable business
principle.

Johns Hopkins and some of the other great
universities of the country are making a special
investigation concerning not only the food value
of the dairy product, but also concerning the spe—
cial quality that it possesses which is the most
active of all healing agents for broken down or
injured tissues of the human body. Milk is
the only indispensible food product. There is
some substitute fOr every other food product but
no substitute for milk to the growing child. There
is no other food product that contains all the ele~
ments necessary for the growth and development
of the normal human body.

In our struggle to stabilize this industry we
have had the most helpful co—operation of every
agency to which We have applied. Our Michi-
gan Agricultural College has given to 11s a most
important service in getting us down to the basic
principle of all manufactming piojects namelx
cost of production. We know today w hat it costs
to p1oduce milk. Those splendid and patriotic
citizens composing the Michigan Milk C)? mis-
sion and the Detroit Area Milk Commission have
given of their time and thought to assist us to
stabilive ”its business by helping us to establish
a price for the product that 11115 the rest of
production plus a proﬁt. These very imnortant
steps have been taken in laying the foundation
for your business but this is not all that must be
done. .

It matters but little how much yc‘ know about
your own cost, and the price you can obtain if
this other and greater element is ignored. namely,
public demand. If there is not a sufﬁcient de-
mand for your product to stimulate output. then
a surplus and a glut of milk will follow that, Will
unstabilize the entire dairy industry. and hero
is our next problem. We are looking forward to
the time when the producer. the distributor and
the manufacturer of milk products in Michigan
will unite in one great educational campaign to
let the, people know of the food value of milk.
Many of the great distributors and 111anufz1ctur-
ers and the people of some of the, mndensaries
have signiﬁed a willingness to co-operate with us
in this service.

The press of the country is anxious to co—oper~
ate with 11s in this Your secretary has talked
with many publishers and they are, ready to do
more than their share in this great work. To
accomplish such work we must, use the new~pap~
ers. We must carry paid advertisements. In
this way alone can we increase the consumption
to meet the needs of the growing manhoods. One
or a few milk producers cannot accomplish this,
but by united effort. each one doin’r. his bit. we
can raise a sufﬁcient sum to enable 11s to do con-
structive pioneer work. We are not asking you
for a single dollar in advance, for its conceded
by the very best authority, by men with broad
vision, that the work of the Michigan Milk Pro-
ducers’ Association has resulted in so raising the
proﬁts of your business to a. level with other
business industries so that you now obtain cost
of production 1'us a small proﬁt and that the
average income of all the cows in Michigan has
been increased more than forty dollars per cow
per year as a result of this organized effort.

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Simpliﬁed Questionnaire Form Punished for
Beneﬁt 6f. Michigan Business Farming
Readers Who Will be Called pron
to File Income Statement

 

A number of our readers have asked us for
information about the new income tax law under
which every unmarried farmer with an income
of $2,000 and over, are required to ﬁle a state-
ment with the Internal Revenue Collector, and
with certain exemptions to pay a tax on all
incom' in excess of these minimum amounts.
We asked Mr. James .I. Brady, Internal Revenue
Collector for the First district of Michigan to
provide our readers with a simpliﬁed form of
the law so that it might be easily understood.
Mr. Brady submitted to us the following ques-
tionnaire, which covers the law in the following
clear and complete manner.

If there are any‘ readers who do not” and»
stand any provisions of the law, as explained
below. they should" at once communicate with
this office and we will. be glad to supply the ad-
ditional information. Inasmuch as severe pen-
alties are provided for failure to compl. with the
law, we would suggest that every farmer and
farmer’s wife who suspects that he or she may be
obliged to ﬁle statements, should lose no time in
ﬁnding out for a certainty.

1. Am I rcqu'ircd to rcnrlcr (1 personal incontc
tax return for the year lfll7r’

Yes, if unmarried and your net income for that
year equals or exceeds $1,000. 11’ you are married
no return is required unless your net income,
including that of your husband or wife, equals
or exceeds $2,000. * * * *

3. When. “may my 1917 return be filed with o,
Collector of Internal Revenue?

On any day up to and including, but not later
than March 1,‘1918.

4. Will failure to ﬁle my return within the
time prescribed by law render me liable to any
pcnally ?

Yes. You will be liable to a speciﬁc penalty of
not less than $20 nor more than $1,000 if you fail
to have your 1917 return in the ofﬁce of the Col-

lector of Internal Revenue for your District before

the close of business on March 1, 1918; and, you
will also be liable to 50 per cent additional tax.

5. Is a married man entitled to a personal
cremption of $2,000 and $400 additional on account
of two dependent children. whose total net income
does not emceed $2,400 but does equal or ('J'cccd
$2.000, required to render a return?

Yes. While he will not be required to pay an
income tax, he is required to render a return on
his net income equals or ex'ceeds $2,000.

6. Where can I get the blank form upon which
to render my rcturn?

From the Colle’ Lor of Internal Revenue for your
District. ‘

7. V‘Vhat personal incomc (arcs arc imponcd
upon income rcccivcd during Ihc colcmlur t/(‘tll‘
1917? ' ‘

Under Section 1 (at of the September 8. 10“;
Act, a normal income tax of 2 percent, is imposed
upon so much of an individual‘s net income, ex-
clusive of that derived from dividends on the
capital stock. or from the net earnings of corpo-
rations, joint—stock companies, etc.. subject: to like
tax, as exceeds the amount of personal exemption
to which he is entitled under Section 7; and so
much of his total net income. including that de-
rived from dividends and net earnings of corpor—
ations, as exceeds $20,000. is subject to additional
income tax.

Under Section 1 of the Act of October 3, 1917.
so much of the individual’s net income, exclus-
ive of dividends, etc., as exceeds the amount 01‘ per-
sonal exemption allowed by Section 3, is subject
to an additional normal tax of 2 per cent, and that
portion of his total net income, including divid-
ends, as exceeds $5.000. is subject to the addittion—
al income tax, at the graduated rates, speciﬁed in
Section 2, Act of October 9, 1917.

8. In rcndcring a rcturn, what items 0, int-

comc must 1 rcport nndcr gross income.
_ Under gross income should be reported every
item of income derived from any source what,-
ever except salaries and compensation of an cm-
ploye of the State or any. political subdivision
of the State actually received during the calendar
year for which the return is rendered, whether
received in cash or the equivalent of cash in-
cluding: ' ,

(a) All amounts of salary, wages commissions
or compensations.

(b) All amounts of gain, proﬁt or income
derived from a business. trade. commerce, or
from any sale of property, 1'eal,' personal or mixed.

(0) Rents, interests on notes, mortgages, deeds
of trust, or other securities.

(d) Interest on bonds, mortgages, deeds ‘of
trust, or other similar obligations of corporations,
joint stock companies, associations or insurance
companies, and interest on bank deposits.

I“ All income received from earnings of es-

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_' (f) 'Proﬁts of partnerships Whether distrib-
uted or not. 1

- tg) All items of foreign income of any nature.
' (h) Royalties from mines, oil and gas wells,
patents, copyrights, franchises, or other legal-
ized privileges. ,

(i) Dividends on stock or from the net earn-
ings of domestic corporations, joint—stock com-
panies, associations or insurance companies.

9. What income, if any, is exempt?

(a) The proceeds of life insurance policies
paid to individuals upon the death of the insured.

(b) The amount received by the insured, as a
return of premium or premiums by him under
life insurance, endowment, or annuity contracts,
either during the term, or at the maturity or
surrender, of the insurance contract._

(0) The value of property acquired by gift,
bequest, devise or descent. It must be under-
stood, however, that the income derived from
such property is taxable.

10. What amount of personal (-urcn'zption is
allowed by each of the two 0963?

The Act of September 8, 1916, allows a person—
al exemption of $3,000 to unmarried persons.
plus $1,000 is allowed it the person making the
return is a married woman with a husband liv-
ing with her, but in no event shall this additional
$1,000 be deducted by both husband and wife.

In addition, a further exemption of $200 is al-
lowed for each dependent child under eighteen
years of age, or over that age if incapable of

,self support because mentally or physically de‘

fective, and this is allowed in computing normal
tax liability under both Acts. * * ‘l‘ *

    
 

 

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10 return for Income Man’s Tar Mon 3 for.
(.r " I‘)OS(’.S‘ 81,000....
7', Mi, . 2.000.... 320
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c r01) .5- (l n d 4,000. . .. 21%)) 1:28
. -- ~ , ._ 5,000.... -.
5,0,0” 1mm“ 0.000. . .. 130 170
"‘75 7.000. . .. 1st) 220
,. 8.000. . . 2:15 275
.The ”I“? 9,000. 20.) 335
0 l 8‘ 1‘ a 1 1L 10,000. . . . 35.5 2.05
stock and of 11.088. . . 23.? 40:)
2, . . ’3. )
other produc- £3800. . . 5700 010
t 3 produced 14,000. . . . 050 000
on a farm is 15,000. . . 7:10 770
- 16.000. . . 830 870
nor’ consul?“ 17.000. . 030 930
ed taxable 1n- 19,000~ , 1,030 10518
c ' 19.000. . . 1,130 ,
.0 1111 8 until 20.000. .. 1,230 1,210
1 e‘ u “3‘1 to 21,000. . 1,300 1,400
cash or the 22,000 . . . 1,490 1,538
e ' . 213.000. . . 1,020 ,g)
equivalernt 0f 24 000. 1,750 1.190
.as 1. . here- 05,000. . . 1,880 1.000
fore, 1f crops , 26.000 . . 2(1)}18 00.638
. - 27.000. . .. 1., L.
and S t O C k 28 000.. 2,270 2.310
were DTOduc— 29.000. . . . 2.400 2,440
cd in 1916 011 » 30,000.. . 2,530 2,570
. -' ' :1, .... 2,000 2.700
‘1' mm] owned 132,888. . .. 2.700 2.5130
by you and 33,000 . 2.020 2.008
t h c y were 34,000 3,000 3 00
q01d in 1917 35.000. . .. 3.1s0 jaggo
‘ , 30,000. . .. 3.310 3.3.10
l 11 e t o t a 1 37,000. . . . 3,440 4.310
amount r - 39.000. , .. 53,300 . .15
0in 1 [I ,6 40,000. . . . 3.530 0,541)
.‘ e.‘ “31“” 41,000. . . . 3.000 4,030
for Is to be «12,000. . .. [4.150 $200)
inc . 43,000. . . . 4.310 - ,._.1t
1 luded “n 41.000. . .. 4.470 4,010
( 91 gross 111- 45,000. . .. 40:50 4,0.0
Come in your 40.000. . .. 4,70.) l $11318
. . 47,000. . 4 05.1 . ,: .
1191.7 lemm' 40.000. . .. 5 *7 5.310
t, 1 ops and 50.000. . .. 5.430 5.4m
stock produc. 75,000. . .. 10 1so to M)
ed in 1 91 7 100.000. . .. lhxtflt) 10,410
' ‘ ' 150,000. . .. ALOHO :11 0.0
and on hand 250,000. . . . 00.930 130,070
Dec. .‘l of 500.000. . . . 102.030 109.070
th 1t , , 1,000,000. . . . 473,430 47.71.4110
‘ y e ‘1 1 ~ 10,000,000. 6,490, 1:10 0,100,410
laced not, be _ ‘
c on S itlcretl “CHARGE IT TO THE ItAISER.’
. but the 3111- This includes new and old income
01ml receiycd tax. Earned incomes over $6,000 will
therefor must also pay an 8 per cent. tax on the ex-
be included cess, unless this clause is repealed.
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turn for the year during which they are sold.

14. I rcnt ((1 form on. slut/ms. ll'l/cn is my .N‘IIIII'I’
0f I‘hc crops and stoclc to bc toll‘cn in/o conxtda‘lt
ution.’

Only for the your in which sold.

1:3. Is 11 formcr rcqnircd to H'lml‘l Ihc rdlnc oI
thc form prooncc which is ('U/ISIIIIIt’I/ by lll/I/Nl’lf
and jnmily.’

No. but any amount oi' expense incurrcd in pro—
ducion garden truck, or othcr products so con-
sumed. cannot be claimed as a deduction.

10. What (o/ﬂ'litntcn (III itcm (II/(III'GIIII’ m; '.
dcdnc/ion nndcr IIIc hcdd of bnsincss myths-c."

All amounts of expenses actually paid during
the tax year in the conduct of a busincss. Irudc
or protession.

This includes all amounts actually paid by a
farmer for labor ill'prcparing~ his land tor a crop
and tho cultivation, harvesting and marketing
of the crop, thc cost 101‘ the ‘sccd and l'crtilizcr
used, the amounts cxpended for labor used in
caring for live stock and the cost of thc food. the
cost of stock purchased tor the purpose of resale.
(It should be understood, however, that. it such cost
is claimed as a deduction, the entire proceeds re-
ceived upon a sale of the stock is to be returned
as income.) The amounts actually paid in making
repairs to farm buildings. (but not the dwell—
ing house;) repairs to fences, farm machin-
ery, for immediate use and farm tools‘which are
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hinding'twine, stockpowders, ptteh‘ﬁoekst spades.
etc., and theamount ofrent paid for a farm may

also be claimed. The amounts paid for live stock

which is to be used for breeding purposes are meld
to represent investment of capital and are not
allowable as deduction.

Items of personal expense or items connected
in any way with the support,’ maintenance and
well being of a family are not allowed; neither are
the amounts paid for tools, implements, vehicles,
machinery, or surgical instruments which are
more or less permanent in character, nor the cost
of medicalylaw or other professional books, nor
amounts expended in making permanent improve-
ments or betterments of any kind whatsoever, al-
lowable in deductions.

17. I employ a man to assist me in operating
my farm and a woman to assist about the house.
Is the compensation paid to each allowable as a
deduction?

Unquestionably, as to the amount paid to the
male employee, but a line must be drawn as to the
amount paid to the female employee“ If her
time is employed entirely in taking care of milk
and cream produced for sale, in the production of
butter, cheese, etc., the care of milk cans and
churns, or, if a separate table is maintained for
laborers employed on the farm and her services
are used entirely in the preparation and serving
of the meals furnished the laborers and in caring
for their rooms, the compensation paid her con-
stitutes an allowable deduction. If, however, she
is employed to assist in caring for the farmer’s
own household, no deduction can be claimed.

18. If I employ a minor son or claughtcr to (1.9-
sist me in my business- or trodc and I pay a salary
or wage for such assistance. may I claim thc
amount as (t (lcduction?

No. If. however, the son or daughter has at-
tained his or her majority. the amount of com-
pensation paid for his or her services, may be so
claimed.

19. .-lrc Ihc itcms of c.1'pcnsc incnrrcd III’III paid
by mc‘dm‘iny Ihc calcndar ycrtr in cmmcr'tz’on with.
(I form which I chxc to (Inotlu'r on It cash or crop-
.s-I/orc rcn/dl basis. .s‘nch. as rcpoirx Io Icnccs. form
building/.9. ('Ic., allowable as dcdtu'ttons.’

Yes.

20. If I lmrc (r ccrtain sum of moncy inccstcd
in. a form. or business, may I claim as (1, reduction.
undcr Ihc hcod of interest. an estimated amount
of intcrcst which might have accrued to me had
the money bccn deposited in a banlc or invested
in int'crcst-puyiny securities-f7

No.

21. What forms of taxes cannot bc cluimcd (IS
dcd notion s .’

Taxes assessed against an individual on property
owned by him to pay for the paving ot' a street
contiguous to his property. the construction of a
sewer, sidewalk, etc... the sprinkling or oiling ot‘
a street in front. 01' his home, the construction of
levees to protect, or ditches to drain, property
owned by him. cannot be claimed “as deductions.
In short. such taxes as are not general in nature
and are levied on account of some work or privil»
cg: the benetit of which accrues to a limited num-
ber of property owners. of which the taxpayer '
one, are not. allowable deductions.

22. Supposc I buy «I form which is much run-
down. with thc intcntion. of making it (I. pro/lt-
puyjny property. To do this I am obliged to crpcntl
laryc amounts for labor in clcrzriny away brush.
for fcrIilizcr. limc. ctc.. and for sctzt'rdl ycors the
c./'/H’)I.S‘4’.S' will orcotly crcccd thc cross rcceipts.
('on tln- (zrccss of crpcnscx ozrcr rccctpls for each
two," bc clotmcd (1.9 (l loss?

No. The amounts so expended are held to be
investments of tapital, llhe result of which is an
improvement or betterment, and, until the farm
becomes a paying proposition no portion of the
gross receipts is to be reported as income, and no
portion of the expenses can be claimed as a re-
duction. either under the head of business expens-
es or under the head of losses.

This same ruling is equally applicable in the
case of a young orchard. If, after the farm or or-
chard has been placed upon a prom-sharing basis
a bad year follows and a loss is sustained during
that year, that loss maybe claimed as a deduction.

2:}. If cattle or othcr lirc stock orc p. JJIIH‘WI on
1/ form. which I own or opcrdtc. and are Ihcn lost
thronyh (Iist’tlm‘. may I claim their valetc at the
Iimc of (It'd/I1 c. on (II/owoblc rlt'tluction?

.\'o. lt‘ the stock which died was purchased and
the cost has not becn claimed in a. previous return
as a deduction. that cost may be claimed as a de-
(lllt'llml in your return rendered for the year dun
111;: which the loss occurred.

:31, If a crop which is rctldy to bc :rocstctl
but hos nol bccr y/dthcrcd. or (I. crop which has
ln'cn horrcstcd but lum- not bun sold. is dcstroycd
IAll .s-Io/‘m. flood or ﬁrc. can the' calm: of that crop
tw claimcd as d dcdnction.’

No. it is understood, of course. that the actual
cost.017 producing or harvesting a crop which has
been so destroyet'l may bc claimcd as a deduction
under the head 01’ Business Expense.

25. Wear and tear of buildings. machines or
other equipment owned by taxpayer and met in
farming Or in business, not ol't'sct by repairs, in. y
be added to the actual cost of repaint turiir,‘ the
year. Wear and tour should not exceed cost of
property divided by its probable life in years. Do
not report, Wear and tear or r" >airs of dwelling
occupied by taxpayer or of his household equip
ment. " '

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WORLD SHIPPING REVIEW SHOWS .
EFFECTIVENESS OF SUBMARIN'E

 

Striking ﬁgures on the present shipping sit-

uation with regard to the submarine menace
have been publishéd by the Patriotic Education
Society. The following facts are outstanding:

Total oceanwgoing vessels now aﬂoat number
about 30,000 having a gross tonnage of about
45,000,000 tons. Losses of shipping during the
war have totalled about 8,783,080 tons and the
supply of ships is about 20 per cent short of,
normal.

The enormous war needs for munition ships
and troops ships added to those bottled up in neu-
tral harbors leave a relatively small number of
ships for carrying food;

Shipbuilding in France has been at a standstill
since the beginning of the war; England’s out-
put is less than normal; Japan is hampered by
lack of materials, and the American ship supply
is only beginning.

This grim condition places additional stress
on the importance of sending to Europe foods
of concentrated nutritive value and those most
urgently needed — especially meat, wheat, fats
and sugar.

FOOD FIGURES GATHERED
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A new Italian food regulation limits the amount
of bread in restaurants and public eating places
to 2.8 ounces per person. at each meal. The bread
must be untoasted and slices must not exceed
three-fourths of an inch in thickness.

* * * it

Early in November, Mississippi was the only
state showing an average retail price of less
than 10 cents for a pound loaf of bread. For
the week ending December 8, the average state
quotation for a pound loaf was less ’han 10
cents in Idaho, Louisianan, Mississippi, New Jer-
sey. Washington and in the District of Columbia.

* >1: * *

Owing to poor seed and scarcity of labor. the
wheat acreage of Italy is expected to be some-
what smaller than that of last year according to
the l’. S. Food Administration. which is closely
studying foreign food conditions. Present sup-
plies of wncat are short and great economy is
being practiced in the use of ﬂour since imports
are inadequate for needs.

* * * *

The ﬁnal report on 1917 crop conditions is-
sued by the United States Chamber of Commerce
credits the south with an unusually large pro-
duction of orn of good quality, an abundance
of velvet beans, alfalfa, peanuts and other le-
gumes and a large planting of winter oats. Stock-
raising is gradually becoming a more i' -
portant part of southern farming, as a conse
quence of the increased amount of feed grown.

3!: >1: * *

Due to extreme drouth which prevented seed--
ing, Kansas and Oklahoma show a reduced ac-
reage of winter wheat, according to a report just
issued by the I'. S. (‘hamber of Commerce. in
Missouri and southern states as far as south-
ern Georgia the acreage is greatly increased.
The U. S. Department of Agriculture estimates
the total acreage of winter wheat as 4 per cent
more than that of last year. .

1- * n- 4:

Prices of livestock in Switzerland are about
double those of the United States according to the
November report of the American consul t'
Geneva. In the case of cows and calves the price
is more than three times as great. Swiss live-
stock quotations on November 15, 1917 were: Ox-
en, each $230; bulls, each $170; cows, each $260;
calves. each $180; young pigs. each $14; sheep.
each $14; fat hogs, per poqu 32 cents,

REP. CRAMTON URGES MINIMUM
PRICES ON THE FARM STAPLES

Those who have read the editorials in MICHIGAN
BUSINESS FARMING setting forth the need of min
imum prices for all farm staples,pwill be interested

in knowing that Hon. Louis C. Cramton, Lapeer
congressman, has sent a letter to Herbert G. Hoov-

er, requesting federal relief for Michigan potato

Read this copy. Then hand it. to

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growers and‘urging— the ﬁxing of minimum prices
on this particular commodity. Mr. Cramton is
quoted as follows:

“I believethat if the food administrator would

turn the white light of publicity on the middle- '

man’s proﬁts, it would have a salutary effect. I
am advised that consumers in large cities are

paying $1.40 to $2.50 per bushel for potatoes of‘

all grades. 0n the other hand Michigan farmers
are not getting what they should. There are -up-
wards of 20,000,000bushels of potatoes in'the state
that have not reached the market.”

As MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING has previously
stated there is no provision in the Food Adminis-
tration act which gives Mr.,Hoover the power of
ﬁxing prices" on any commodity except wheat even
if he so desired. But Congress has that power.

‘ If Mr. Cramton has been quoted correctly and he ,

is really desirous of securing such legislation, we
think we can promise him the backing of our read-
ers. What do you‘think about it_?

DOU-BLE GRADING ADDS TO THE
’ HANDLING EXPENSE OF POTATOES

 

At the meeting of the Potato Shippers at Grand
Rapids on January 11, the question was asked by
the M. B, F. representative if the'use of the
Boggs sorter which grades potatOes in accordance
with the’grading rules, added to the cost of hand-
ling.

“Yes,” replied Chairman Hinyan, “very mater-
ially. I should say that it increased the cost by a
third to a half.” N 1.

.Here's a new and interesting phase of the
grading Situation. At a time when conservation
of every kind is urged by the government, when
the farmer should receive the largest possible re-
turns on his crop, and the consumer should pur-
chase his needs at the lowest possible prices. and
the dealers should handle commodities at the least
expense, the potato committee compels observance
of‘ a set of rules which not only defeats the spirit
of the times, but adds largely to the normal
burden.

Potato shippers present at the meeting stated
that it cost in the neighborhood of 27 cents a
bushel to handle potatoes. If it does, all we've
got to say is~ that the system is criminally waste-
ful and Should arouse the opposition of every po-
tato grower and consumer. If Mr. Lou D. Sweet
and Na E. P. Miller of the potato committee are
really sincere in their desire to render a service
to the cmmtrv, let them bend their efforts toward
simplifying the marketing system and reducing
the cost of potato handling instead of making it
larger. Inasmuch as the organized dealers have
made all their money thru the present costly
method of potato distribution, we may well sup-
pose that any efforts along the line suggested
would he met with vigorous and effective op-
position.

UTAH SUGAR BEET GROWERS
HARVEST BUMPER CROPS

 

For the amusement or chagrin or beneﬁt of
Michigan sugar beet growers we present below an
article which gives some idea of the bumper beet
crops grown out in Utah. It might be well for
some of our Michigan growers to write to one or
two of the farmers mentioned below and ask him
“how he did it”

“The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company has announced
the award of the $100 prizes offered for growers
harvesting the largest acreage and delivering the
largest tonnage of beets in its several factory dis-
tricts, as well as the award of some of the other
prizes.

“Prize winners for delivering the largest ton-
nages were: ‘ Elsinore, Daniel Peterson, 403 tons
from 28.5 acres; Garland, Rasmus Hansen, 1.050
tons from 75 acres; Spanish Fork, Erastus Han-
son. 418 tons from 22 acres; West Jordan, Helmer
Holmgreen, 417.22 tons from 30 acres; Idaho Falls
M. Hirono, 722 tons from 80 acres; North Yakima.
Glen Campbell, of Sunnyside. 270 tons from 10
acres; Fallon, J. Tanisaki, of Standish, Cal, 1.600
tons.

“Prizes of $50 for the largest average tonnage on
ﬁve acres or more were won at North Yakima by
A. Capistran, of Moxee. who averaged. 82 tons per
acre on ﬁve acres; at Grants Pass by R. A. Pierce,
who averaged 20.18 tons on ten acres; and at Gar-
land by J. H. Stokes, who averaged 24 tons per
acre on ﬁve acres. '

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THERE'S A FORTUNEPF’ORSSOME-I 77:" _
ONE IN BEET-THINNINGMACHINE;

A Writerin a California farm" paper dwells up— '.
on» the need of _a beet-thinning,_machin‘e to take;
the place of hand labor. Don't chuckle..Rem_emb,er
the “moss-backs” who ridiculed the steam-boat;
scoffed at the railroads; laughed at theteleph‘one.

 

the telegraph ”and the wireless; derided the aero-
_ plane—when” these remarkable inventions were
_still in the making. Nothing is impossible in this

remarkable age. We recently heard of a machine

that pulls max—successfully and satisfactorily,

and we know of lotsgof ﬂax growers who used to ~
say that it' couldn’t be done. But read what our

California writer has to'say about the beat-thin--
ning machine: I .

“The condition of uncertainty that now faces
the farmers and fruit-growers of California in re-
lation to a solution .to the problem of help to
grow and _harvest the» 1918 crops of fruits and
cereals is one of increasing intensity as the seas-
on when certain work must be done approaches. ,

It is needless to reiterate the expressions
made at the state'fruit-growers’ convention at
Sacramento that we may be able to produce food
enough on our farms and orchards to feed our
own people in California, and forego any proﬁts
from the land until another year or two, but we
haVe been urged by our government to produce
not only .enough for ourselves and the usual
amount to sell, but to increase the output of food
products to thegreatest possible amounts as the
greatest possible help in winning the war.

“This we cannot do with the help now available
in our state. Many of our best young farmers
have been drafted, a fact that makes our condition
worse because it will require more help, that must
be taught, to do the work that those W110 were
familiar with it have done.

“A case in point is that of growers of sugar
beets. It was stated with authority at the Sacra-
mento convention that growers of beets in the
southern end of the state were unable to get
enough help to properly hoe, thin and harvest
their 1917 crop, a fact that greatly reduced the
tonnage per acre as well as the sugar content.

“Herein, therefore, lies an opportunity "for some
good patriot of a mechanical turn of. mind to in-
vent a beet-thinning machine, that will rapidly,
although somewhat refighly perhaps, eliminate
say three-quarters or nine—tenths of the hand work.
Such a machine need not be either complicated or
expensive and might be expanded to a width that
would enable a tractor to thin a large number of
rows at one operation.

GOVERNMENT OFFERS TO BUY
WHEAT DIRECT FROM FARMERS

Since harvesting time innumerable complaints
have been laid' before MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARM-
ING on alleged unfair practices of elevators in
their dealings with farmers. Particular fault has
been found with the prices certain elevators have
been paying for wheat. Every complaint has been
laid before the Food Administration Grain Cor-
poration, and efforts have been made to remedy
the speciﬁc cases. In all cases the Grain Corpor-'
ation has shown the utmost willingness to help,
but it seems quite probable that no power has
been placed in their h-andss to compel dealers to
pay stipulated prices for this product. The com-
plaints have become so numerous. no -ver,' that
the Food Administration is now encouraging the
farmers to sell their wheat direct to the govern-
ment, as evidenced by the following statement just
received from them:

“Farmers and shippers of wheat unable to ob-
tain satisfactory service from country dealers or
commission men may utilize the Food Administra-
tion Grain Corporation. This agency is'not desir-
ous of undertaking to sell grain or to enter the
ﬁeld of the dealer. and offers its services as sales
agent only to cure dissatisfaction and where fair
treatment can not otherwise he obtained by farm-
ers. In such cases where wheat is of carlot vol-
ume the Food Administration will ﬁnd a market
at a commission charge of 1 per cent.

“In cases of disagreement between farmers and
local buyers or between country dealers and mill-
ers as to grade. the zone agent of the Food
Administration is empowered to settle differences-
and will render this service when a 2 pound sample

 

. is sent him for examination.”

Write this publication for further information.

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Restrictions are becoming more and
more stringent as regards wheat, as
time goes on. The government is now
"to take 30 per cent of all wheat pro-

ducts manufactured, the same to be
' distributed to the army and to our al-

liés in‘Europe as conditions may re-
quire. It is stipulated that a suﬂic-
cient supply will be retained to take
care of any shortage which may devel-

. op in any section of this country. The

balance of the production will be al-
lowed to go into domestic commerce.

The call of Europe is for more wheat
and wheat products. It is said that it
will just about be up to this country

‘ to feed the Allies after March. lst.
1 Their supplies are running short and
before another harvest our wheat sup-

ply in this country will be at about the
It is now esti.
mated that wheat consumption in this

‘ country has been reduced 25 per cent

through wheatless days and the con-
servation campaign generally. This
will prove a big factor in helping to
furnish the amount which the Govern-

. ment is about to release to Europe,

' cate some frost

90,000.000 bus. in addition to the nor-
mal exportable amount, which had
been exported by the middle of De-
cember.

Crop prospects are said to be mater-
ially improved in this country owing
to the heavy snows of the past two
weeks. Reports from Argentine indi-
damage to the new
crop, but how serious this may be re-
mains to be seen. The damaged sec-

_ tions are in the south and west while

the northern districts are predicting

an enormous crop. The harvest is now

on. over the greater portion of that

; country and threshing will soon start,
at which time it will be possible to
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The oat market is still showing ex-
ceptional strength and there is no im-
mediate change in sight The price
is just a little better than- 1t was last
week and all arrivals are taken quick-
ly. Dealers are still looking for that
receipts and we are in-
ciined to think they will have some

ait for it. The storms of the past
week or so havh certainly tied 11p
trafﬁc in ﬁne shape and with the con-

. tinned cold weather it is going to take

some time to get back to such Condi~
lions as prevailed before. to say with
ing of any great improvement.

Stocks of oats in country elevators

. are larger than for some time, and the
. growers are free sellers. but the prob-

lem is to get the grain to terminal
markets and to Newport News and to
other exporting points. It is said on
good authority that cars of oats load-
ed away back the ﬁrst of December are
still standing on side tracks waiting
for locomotives to move them to H112
coast. Discussing this question with
several grain men on one of the grain
exchanges the past week. they placed
gr1 at stress on the fact that the gov.
erument would speedily bring about
different conditions and that February

, would see oats moving in much larger
.- volume and greater accumulations at

1erminal points and primary markets,
We agree with them'ln part. Eventu-

.al‘ly this condition will be brought

{crop will keep when the
‘ weather comes, but we
.1 crops which will not.
will ﬁrst take care of the corn situa-
' - tion as Otherwise a large part of that
- crop is going to be lost.
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about but it will not be for some time.
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and strenuous efforts on the part of

the government, we should see better
conditions along toward the ﬁrst. of
March. But we belieVe the market is
a good safe bet for another month.
We are going to go just a little fai-
ther and say that .with the present
great shortage of coal, giving move-
ment of that commodity precedenc:
over all others, and the constantly
increasing demand for cats and oat
products. we are very liable to see U1:-
market advance considerable before
supplies increase. And after all is
said and done we do not believe there
will be the great decline expected by
many. Back in the fall we were in-
clined to expect this drop. the same
as other friends. basing our opinion
on the crop in this country and Can-
ada. but since then conditions have
changed entirely. Remember, we are
not advising our readers to hold oats
for higher prices. There is a got-d
fair price now. and there isalso the
chance of a maximum price of 80 cents
being established. But if some of you
fellows have'oats and want to take a
chance 011 them until the middle 0"
February. you may be able to make

up some of the loss on your beans. in
the meantime 1 watch
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The car situation is 'much better
over the corn section and until the
last blizzard blockaded the road eu-
tirely there was a much freed move—
ment of. corn to the different pri-
mary markets. The roads are rapidly
getting back to normal conditions and
unless another storm should again tie

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“ of weakness and inclination to work downward. The future of the market de- ~=

DETROIT SPECIAIr—The vegetable market is feeling the eﬂ‘oct of a. scarcity
Accumulations are about exhausted and dealers are ﬁnding difﬁculty :
Potato marloat depends on whether or not railways
mo1e supplies. Now inclined to go higher.
Hi“ supplies growing short and market strengthening.
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11p traffic we look for a greatly in-
creased movement. The Government
is giving the corn situation its im-
mediate attentiou, realizing that fur-
ther delay will result in a staggering
loss to producers. The great ques-
tion now is to relieve the congestion
at eastern terminals. There is an
immense amémnt of freight held at
eastern points, waiting ocean tonnage
to transport it, and none is forth-
coming. However, with the cars
which the Government has ordered
wet, and which will undoubtedly
remain there for some time, there
will be a greatly increased move
to points where
drying facilities are available. This
will indeed prove a boon to growers.
The grain can be dried and stored
against the time, perhaps six months
hence, when the Government ship
building program will begin to make
itself felt. In the meantime these ac—
cumulated stocks will act as a bal«
ance wheel on the market. something

which has so far this season been
lacking.
Cash corn values have again de-

clined. due to the prospect of a heav—
ier movement. There is very little
future dealing, due to the small pro-
fit, and stocks are so light, that short
sellers are timid. Trading will be
much more active with an increase in
stocks at the different primary points.
Buyers of corn should remember
that the crop this year is one which
goes bad very quickly. All purchas—
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erings being light and- demand very
good. As stated last week, there is ‘
not-the supply held at country points-
as is usually the case at this time of
year, and quite spirited buying dur-
ing the past week has not resulted
in any increase in the volume of
sales. Looks right now as though
there might be a shortage of this
grain later on, with correspondingly
higher prices. It is difﬁcult to tell
just at this time what amount may
be back in growers hands, but coun-
try elevator stOcks are becoming
more reduced each week.
No. 2 rye is quoted at
on the Detroit market at $1.87.

this time
The

Chicago market is quoted nominal.
Barley
There is an increased interest in

barley, due to the fact 1hat the larg—
er mills throughout the country are
turning their attention to the milling
of this grain and barley flour is be-
ing turned out in large quantities of
the grain daily. Many mills are now
installing machinery for the same
purpow

Milwaukee repoits the barley mai-
ket there as unchanged this week
and all supplies cleaned up. Trad-
ing has been rather quiet. due to.
smaller receipts since the blizzard.
There is a strong demand for good
malting barley, but on other grades-
the demand is only fair.

Minneapolis reports a very good
demand with buyers in the market,
every day for anything of good mill-r
ing quality. Feeding grades are in
good shipping demand. Most of the-
oft'erings there are cleaned up on the-
day of arrival.

Milwaukee is quoting as follows:

Choice bigberried Wiscorhin and

eastern lowa, testing 18 to :30 lbs...
per bu., $1.55@1.:’18;-l5 t.) 47 lbs.,
$1.50@1.55; Minnesota. western Iowa.

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Judging by letters received during
the past week, also different conver-
sations the market editor has en—
joyed with reprosentativ..s of the-
growers, jobbers, grocers, etc., the
bean situation is the observing topic
of conversation among those either
vitally or remotely intcrested in this
industry. And well may this be so
The industry. particularly in Michi-
gan. is at a crisis in its development.
Wet am. untavorablc weather has been,
the rule rather than the cxception,
during rcccnt years. This year has
just about added tho cap sheaf, and
something must be done at once or
thcrc will be 21 mighty slim planting
this coming spring.

Mr. ()rr. l’residcnt of
Bean Jobbcrs‘ Association,

the Michigan
in a letter

to members under date of November
30. among o1her things athlsed them
to “Do everything possible to assist

in having the largest crop planted in
their respective communities that was

ever planted.” Very good; we agree
with Mr. Orr that this is mething
very much to be dcsired, in view of

the fact that there is every posibility
of the war going on into 1919. Now
then, bearing in mind the fact that
this is not by any means the ﬁrst year
of wet weather we have had. we claim
that the elevators of Michigan, despite
their desire to have the growers of this
state produce still larger crops, and
to handle these crops mainly through
the membership of the Michigan Bean
Jobbers’ Ass’n.. are not prepared to
take care of these crops under ad—
verse conditions. They have absolute—
ly failed to prepare for such an even-
tuality as has occurred this year. With
over 400 elevators in Michigan, no less
an authority than H. E. Chatterton
states that there are» not over 25 drieis
in the state. How under the heavens
do the members of the Michigan Bean

   

 

  


   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Jobbers’ ‘Ass’n; expect growers”. so. in

crease their prouducetiion when they
themselves have miserably failed to
make preparation to handli'the crop
in a wet year? ’ ‘

What assurance has the grower. that
this coming year will not be similar
to last?
bers’ Association members he prepared
to handle his crop under better condi-
tions or will he be compelled, .as in
many cases this year, to ship his
beans outside for drying or have them
spoil on his hands. We commend this
matter to‘ the Ass’n. for their earnest
consideration while in convention at
Detroit, January 31.

Conditions of the market remain-

about the same. Rather a quiet de-
mand and not a great deal of stock
moving. Prices at about the former
level. We should be about due for
a period of increased buying,,a.nd
when it comes, unless stocks are mov-
ing much more rapidly than at pre-
sent, there should be a much better
price. It is estimated that the major
portion of the California pea beans
has moved. Colorado pintos have been
moving freely, perhaps better than
sixty per cent of the crop having been
marketed. It is estimated that from
sixty to sixty-ﬁve per cent. ofthe New
York crop has moved. This should
leave a fairly good running for Michi-
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No. 1 Standard No. 2
Markets Timothy i Timothy Timothy
Detroit 24 25 00:23 50 24 00 22 50 23 50
Chicago 30 - 31 00i29 00 30 00 28 00 29 00
Cincinnati 29 50 30 00329 00 29 50'28 50 29 00
Miburgh 30 00 3t) 50§27 50 28 00 25 00 27 00
New York 39 00 :36 00 39 D0 31 35 00
BEL-11L 32 00 i3] 00 27 00
M rk t No. 1 No. l ‘ No. l
- e ' Light Mixed Clover Mixed i Clover
Detroit 23 50 24 20 00 2| “0'19 00 20 00
Chico‘o 25 27 00 23 00 24 00 21 00 22 00
Cincinnati 29 50 30 00 29 00 29 50 30 50 31 00
Pittsburgh 28 28 50 29 50 3° 50 2! SO 30 50
New York 31 35 31 00 35 00 30 50 32 50
Richmond 31 00 30 00 30 00

 

 

The hay movement has been excep-
tionally light during the past week.
The recent storms have about tied
up traﬂic and train movement has
been directed mainly toward reliev—
ing the coal situation. Coupled with
this was the effort to move perishable

commodities and hay has been left
to shift for itself. This has resulted
in many markets being about bare

incrcnscd demand for
shipments from country points. The
chances are however. that the nich—
inent will be. very limited until the
carriers get back on their feet. and
conditions become normal. And with
the prospect of more storms, the win-
ter being still in its prime, we look
for good steady markets for some
time. One noticable thing is the fact
that markets generally, while needing

and a greatly

hay badly. have failed to show any
material advance. This clearly indi--
cates that buyers feel that the price
is about at its limit, Some special
sales have been reported at higher
lifgures than last week but the gen- ’

eral price. range has remained about
stationary.

St. Louis reports a brisk demand for
timothy and clover mixed. The ulfal«
fa market there is slow and prices are

inclined to work lower. (‘incinnati
reports a good active market on all
grades with very light rereipts. Pitts-

burgh is having great difﬁculty in
making final deliveries (11 account of
freight congestion. Quite a quantity
of hay reported in transit to thzn
market and shippers should keep this
fact in mind when making shipments
for the next Week or so.

The New York market is away short
of sufﬁcient supplies to meet the daily
demand. Values there at the present
time are really nominal and the quo-
tations given herewith represent bulk
of sales. Buyers at BOston have been
expecting a lower market and have
been holding off as a result. Storage
rates there are also very high. This
has to a certain extent prevented
the purchasing of future supplies. Con
sequently the recent decrease in ar-
iivals caught many buyers with light
supplies.

Arrivals have been held up at De-
troit. and it has been difﬁcult to deliv-
er cars from the outer yards. The
supply has ‘neen steady up until he re-
cent storm and will no doubt assume
normal proportions very shortly, [)lO-
riding be‘t'er weather prevails.

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have

Po-tat i
cleaned up well during the past week,

markets i.- general

owing to much lighter arrival. The
storms have greatly delayed deliver-
ies and shipments have been much
lighter for some days. This has giv-
en accumulations a chance to clean up
and a much better condition now pre-
vails than for some time.

The Chicago market is ﬁrm and not
nearly so much stock moving. Most
arrivals Show considerable frost dam-
age and have to be sorted after being
taken into the warehouses. There is
a good demand for the right kim. of
stock. londitions there are said to
be better than for many weeks.

Pittsburgh reports plenty of stock
but a great portion of it. is so badly
frozen as to show a complete loss to
the shipper. Other stock, showing
less frost damage, but still not free
from it, is selling at a wide range
of prices, according to the amount
of damage.

Philadelphia reports fancy unvfrOst-
ed stock in good demand and a good.
firm market. Damaged stock moving
very slowly at greatly reduced prices.

New York has had a very strong
market. all week. Adverse weather
conditions seriously effected arrivals
and supplies cleaned up fast under' in-
creased demand. Some of the receiv-
ers, with Government contracts. were
put to it to find stock for delivery and
some spirited buying resulted. Our
latest report, at the time of writing
this indicates that better weather con-
ditions are resulting in increased re—
ceipts and a market not quite so

active but still ﬁrm and strong.

 

Onions are in only moderate de—
mand, although some stock is mov-
ing and changing hands every day.
A considerable amount, of frosted stock
is reported and buyers take such off~
erings at, only a considerable discount.

Detroit is quoting yellows at $3.75
(fl/100 per 100~lh. sack. Red onions
are scllillg considerably under this
figure. Chicago is quotink on yel-
lows at. $2.00@2.23 per l00—1b. sack.
New York quotations on yellows are
around $3.75@:l.00 per 100-ll.. suck for
fancy offerings. The Detroit market.
is about the best in the country but
it would be very ceasy to overload
that market.

 

Receipts of apples on all markets
have been light since the recent storm
and most markets report. ﬁrm condi-
tions with good stock in fair demand.

Detroit quotations: Greening, $ti((il
0.25; Baldwin, $5; No. 2, $36,021.50 per
bbl.; western, Wt. ‘35 per box.

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TH h) WEATHER

Jan 27%293031eb 2 1918

j. . Severe
O Storms
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WASHINGTON, D. (2., Jan. 26.—
Last bulletin gave forecasts o fdistur-
bances to cross continent Jan. 25 to
2!), warm wave 24 to 28. cool wave
27 to 31. The warm wave will cause
warmer than usual and a cold wave
will bring severe cold. Storms will be
of. greater than usual force. Most
precipitation from great lakes east—
ward and on northern Paciﬁc stone.
Severe. storms about and following
January 26.

Next warm wave will reach Yan-
couver about Jan. 31 and temperatures

 

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dispose of firsts and seconds.

‘ aver-age force.

. ‘ .50‘; autumnasum
5; qurﬁimet, $5.; mus-moss»:
Talman Sweet, $45431); 3033mm,
$5@6; -GrmMs.55.50@6; murd-
son, $4@4.5'0; Winsap, $4.59‘@'6; Ben
Davis, $3.25@4; Starks, $4.50@'5;
Northern Spy, $5.50@6; Ganos,'$3.75@
4.25; No. stock common, ordinary,

small depending on variety, $2.50@
3.50.

 

New York, January ’19, 1918
Because of severe storms in the Cen-
tral West which delayed freight traf-
ﬁc "and made the supply of fresh
strong and as there Is very little
prospect of increased supplies for

creamery inadequate to supply the den

mand, there has been during the past
Week a gradual strengthening of the
market. Buyers have exceedingly
been active but could not secure e-
nough butter tovrsupply their needs.
The situation may be less tense after
delayed shipments have arrived, but
the output of fresh butter is below
normal for the season, hence, so sud-
den breaks are expected.

There has been a strong demand on
storage goods but practically none of
the high grades of held butter have
been sold, there being a tendency to
This
situation is due to the ﬁxing of the
maximum price of held goods at 46c,
many of the holders being willing to
part with their high grades at that
price. ,

The market on creamery extras dur~
ing the past week has varied from 50
1/2(-. at, the beginning to 53c at the
time of writing. Higher scoring has
run from 51c at the beginning to 54c
at the time of writing. Receipts for
the week have been 38,287 packages.
For the same week last year they were
41,710 packages. ‘

 

 

LW Detroit Chicago ' New York
Turkey 29.30 7-28 20-25
Duck: 27-28 25-26 27-30
Geese 25-27 23-24 27 32
Springer: 26-28 25-26 28 30

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1N0. 2 Grade 2 to-3 Cents Less

The poultry situation may be l.ief-
1y summed up by saying that receipts
on all markets are extremely light,
owing to weather conditions, and there
is a very good demand. Shipments
billed to Chicago have in some cases
been as much as a week late in arriv-
ing and some of the roads during
the. past, week have declared an em—
bargo on shipments of live stock of
any kind. There is a very active
demand there for heavy fowls and
all other grades are ﬁrm and steady
at prevailing prices. The lack of
live stock has made an exceptionally
good market for dressed. Storage
stock has moved freely. but has not
brought the price of fresh dressed.

(‘onditions at Detroit are very sini-
ilor to those prevailing on other mar-
kets. Receipts of live poultry dur—
ing the past, two weeks have been
very light and at, times were not suf«
ticient to make a market. The de-
mand has been somewhat lighter here

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As forecasted by W. '1‘. Foster for MICHIGAN BUSINESS Farmer; '
, .

will rise on all the Paciﬁc. slope. it 1
will cross crest of tockies by close
of Feb. 1, plains sections.2,Hmeridllzin f
5'0. great lakes and (lhio—Iennessee
vullcvs ii. eastern sections 4. reaching
vicinity of Newfoundland about Pen.

5. Storm wave will follow about one
day behind warm wave and cool wave
about one day behind storm wave.
This storm will be of greater than
Most precipitation east
of great lakes and on northern Paci-
tic 'lope. 'l‘emperzitnrcs will go to ex-
tremes but the average will be about
normal. Another disturboi‘ice not quite
so severe, crossing continent Feb. 7
to 1], will be described in next bulle—
tin. Severe weather is expected Feb.
12 to 20. Very severe weather is ex-
pccted ﬁrst \vcek in March and dur'nil‘
the ﬁve days centering on March l5.

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e‘ t. reclaims at eastern

pollen ‘mu'aOd some of the highest
pulcoson record. Bothd'ive and dress-
ed haw been in good demand and there
have been days recently when only
a. verynfew cars were~~unloade¢ The
New York 'market

strong and as there is very. little pros-
pect Jot inenmsed supplies for some
time, untilthe railroads are in better
shape, we look for a continued satis-
factory market.

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The egg market, in the opinion of
many receivers, is about due to work
lower. Prices have reached a point
which has set a reccord for some time
to come and the scarcity is such as is

. not remembered by the oldest men in

the business.
Offerings are said to be more lib-

is exceptionally ‘

eral from the south and west and this .

is taken as an indication that receipts
will increase from now on. Dealers
do not anticipate any great decline
immediately. but rather a gradual
decline to lowe“ levels. 1

Fresh Michigan nrsts are quoted
on the Detroit markets at 54c@58c
per dozen. The Government has ﬁx-
ed the price on storage eggs at 44
33c car lots; large lots less than cars,
45‘éc.t

, Cheese
New York Letter, Jan. 19, 1918
Despite liberal holdings, aggregating
somewhat more than 10,000,000 pounds,
and slow movement, the market has
shown a slight advance. This is un-
doubtedly due to a small make during
the present season and because the
export trade, while there is none at
present, is soon expected to develop.
Held specials during the past week
have ranged in price from 24-340, to
255420; held, average run. from 24 to
24%; fresh specials from 23%(3 to 24%
c; fresh, average run, from 23c to 23
l/‘i‘ZC. ‘
Receipts for the week were 7,653.
For same week last year, 12,485.

 

Trade in foodstuffs has been only
moderate, so far as the Detroit, market

is concerned. during the
Quotations as follows:

Feed in 100-“). socks, jobbing lots:
Bran, $114.50; standard middlings.
$36.50; fine middlings, $43.50; cracked
corn, $79; coarse cornmeal, $77; chop
$60 per ton.

Detroit. llour quotations:

Flour per 190 lbs. in eighth paper
sacks: Standard patent, $11.10@ll.15;
straight inter. $10.90; spring patent,
$11.20; rye ﬂour, $10.50@10.70 in job-
bing lots.

Pittsburgh reports prices as un-
changed and the market dull. Quota-
tions are largely nominal, as follows:

No. 2 white middliugs. $4860.49;
standard. $10.31)@41; coarse winter
bran, $i:9.5tl((1>lt); spring bran. $38.50
@3950. Prices are off about $1.

Milwaukee reports a firm market
with the following range of prices:

Sacked bran. $37; middlings $39;
white, $15; red dog. $52}; oil meal, $58
100-lb- sacks Chicago.

past week.

  

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Thte past week has seen an unus-

   

ually active market in both clover:
and timothy. Price seems to cut but
very little ﬁgure when buyers are

out after the seed. The Government
report made the red clover owned or
controlled in terminal markets on No-
vember 15th, 97.000 bags ind alsike
56,000 bags. Stock red clover at T0-
ledo has decreased only 2.500 bags.
Seaboard markets show a larger de-
crease, owing to exports. Contracts

for future are made subject to war-

meas-ures. The seed market gener:
ally is’ in an exceptionally healthy
condition and additional
are expected.

Toledo is quoting prime clover, spot
$18.85;

advances '

March. $18.65 bid; prime al-,

sike. $15.50: prime‘ timothy seed, $4.5

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spot, $1t8. 8105“ March, 0$158.t5; Pyme
alsike', $15.15; timothy seed, prime
spot, $4. 30 per bushel.

Hides

Hide prices have again declined on
certain kinds. This decline has been
Cur-
rent quotations: No.1 cured, 17c;
1 green, 1410,; No.1 cured bill-118,13ﬂa;
No 1 green: bulls; 11c; No.1 cured
veal kip, 200;-N0. 1 green veal kip,
18c; No. 1 cured murrain, 17c; No.
1 green murrain,14c; No.1 cured
calf, 26c; No.1 green calf, 240; No.
1 horsehides, $6; No.2 horsehides,
$5; No. 2 hides 1c and No.2 kip and
calf .1 1- 2c lower than the above, sheep-
skins, as to amount of wool, 250@$3
each.

Furs

There is a very strong demand right
now for furs of all‘kinds, 'many of
them being now at their best. There
has been an advance in the price of
No. 1 skunk. Detroit quotations:

No. 1 skunk. $5: winter muskrats,
800; No. 1 mink, $7.50; raccoon, $4.50.

Wool

After a rather quiet period the
wool market was just beginning to
show increased activity when the pres-
ent Government closing order came,
shutting down the mills for ﬁve days.
Adding other troubles to this it seems
as though the wool market has had its
share of difﬁculties. Present eastern
quotations: Michigan and New York
ﬂeeces-ﬁne unwashed, 63@64c; delaine
unwashd, 730; 1-2 blood combing un-
washed, 75@76c; 3-8 blood unwashed,
76((977c.

 

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dressed hog market

The is firm,
with only moderate receipts. The best
are selling at 21@22c per 1b. This

prouct of the farm sells well in c0111-
pet‘ition with that of the packing com-
panies and where the offerings are
covered 'so as to arrive with a nice
clean appearance they are frequently
given'the preference.

_ East Buffalo Prices
Choice to prime weighty steers, $12.-
50,to $13.00; medium to good weighty

steers, $11.50 to $12.25; plain and
coarse weighty steers, $10.00 to $10.-
75; choice to prime handy weight and
medium weight steers, $11.25 to $11.-
75; fair to good handy weight and
medium weight steers, $10.75 to $11.-
25; choice to prime yearlings, $12.00
to $12.50; fair to good yearlings, $11.-
75 to $12.00; medium to good but-
cher steers, $9.50 to $10.00; fair to me-
dium butcher steers, $8.75 to $9.25;
good butcher heifers, $9.00 to $9.50;

fair to medium heifers, $8.00 to $8.50; 1

good to choice fat cows, $8.25 to $9.00;
medium to good fat cows, $7.50 to
$8.00; fair to good medium fat cows,
$6.75 to $7.25; cutters and common
butcher cows, $6.00 to $6.50; canners.
$4.50 to $5.50; good to choice fat bulls,
$8.50 to $9.00; medium to good fat.
bulls, $7.50 to $8.00; good weighty sau-
sage bulls, $5.75 to $7.50; light and
thin bulls, $6.25 to $6.75; good to
best stock and feeding steers. $8.50
to $9.00; medium grades of stock and
feeding steers, $7.50 to $8.00; common
to fair stock and feeding steers, $6.75
to $7.25; good to choice fresh cows
and springers, $90.00 to $120.00; me-
dium to good fresh cows and springers
$75.00 to $85.00. ,

Chicago Live Stock Letter
_ _ January 21, 1918
Due to interruptions in the market-
ward movement of live stock holidays
car shortages and subsequently by

.storms of unprecedented severity at

Chicago and throughout the greatest
portion of the area from which this

: market draws the bulk of its supplies

at this time of the year, the trade

' has been dominated the last few weeks

, by (onditions

 

altogether at no1mal.
To what extent supplies at tthe market
have been shortened by the above con-
ditions only surmises can be made,
but that the run has been cut probably
to half the proportion it would have
reached had a normal situation as
regards trafﬁc facilities prevailed dur-
ing this period is believed by many

 

'w-ell posted traders: That the coun-
try is in a liquidating humor because
ofvhighfeed cost andr‘the failure of the
cattle and lamb market to live up to
the expectations of those who laid in
feeder supplies at such unprecedented
high levels last summer and fall is not
to be doubted. When the storm clears
and the railroad; are once more able
to answer the insistent clamor for
cars with which to move supplies to
market a heavy movement of cattle
and hog'r: representing, in. part, an
‘accumulation through the storm per-
iod ,is certain.

While the cattle and hog markets
are exhibiting evidence of a broad
general demand, current prices, par-
ticuiuarly in the case of hogs have a
top—heavy appearance. While no one
in close touch with conditions fore-
sees any serious, lasting declines in
prospect, the situation seems to war-
rant holders of cattle, hogs, sheep or
lambs that are in good marketable
condition and which they expect to
market within the next 40 to 80 days
letting them come at their 'earliest
opportunity.

The zone system of loading has
better equalized receipts and no doubt
from now on the showing will be much
better, as the ﬁrst or 300-mi1é zone
has been lessened anywhere from 50
to 75 miles. This will give more ship-
pers an opportunity to arrive here on
Monday and Wednesday. On these
days we have always had a good east-
ern shipping demand.

Last fall there were thousands of
cattle bought and shipped into the
country from the various markets to
consume the immense amount of soft
corn that was on hand.

The great demand for beef cattle at
the present moment is for steers cost-
ing anywhere from 10 to 11 1-2 cents
per pound, also all grades of butcher
stock. The best heavy grades of cattle
are badly neglected. How long this
state of affairs will last is difﬁcult to
say. We think, however, the market
will show some improvement after the
middle of March.

We believe during the month of
February (the later the better), a
good class of warmed—up steers weigh-
ing anywhere from 900 to 1,100 lbs.
can be bought and fed to good advan-
tage for the May, June and July mar—
kets, or as early as the last half of Ap—
ril. In buying this class of cattle
the purchaser would have to hold them
only ﬁve or six weeks before they
would be in good weather. and in dis.
posing of them he would have two
opportunities—that is. if the May mar—
ket did not suit him, he could feed
them corn or grass, which would re-
duce the cost of feeding, and carry
them along for the July, August or
September market, at which time we
look for both a good demand and a
good market.

At the present writing market con-
ditions are so upset by the tie-up of
transportation facilities and receipts
today are so seriously curtailed (only
330 carloads all told being scheduled
for arrival today, the smallest Mon-
day run, it is believed, on record)
that quotations which would apply at
this particular time will probably be
subject to such fluctuations before
this letter is published as to be entire-
ly worthless as a guide to producers
and prospective shippers.

 

PUBLICITY GREAT NEED
OF LIVE STOCK INDUSTRY

 

(Continued from pug/c it)

That the stabilizing of the industry
will greatly increase production is al-
so conceded. Now We must increase
consumption or there will be an over-
production which will demoralize the
industry, and you will lose what has
been gained. Your state association
is' already taking up this work. We are
entering the ﬁeld and planning the
campaign, and we call upon you who
are most vitally interested, not for
all you have gained in the last year,
forty dollars per cow, but We appeal to
your manhood, your patriotism and
your fairmindedness.

It is up to us now to move forward.
All that has been accomplished in re:
cent months will be lost unless we
move forward into the next trench and;
occupy new positions. W'e must adver-

tise the food value of milk. Every
man who owns a cow in Michigan

should be a member of the Michigan
Milk Producers’ Association. Write
this ofﬁce concerning your hoods and
assure us of. your cooperation. i.’.
(7, Reed. Field Secretary Michigan Milk
Producers’ Association,

-. lbs. Dam’s granddam, 17 lbs.

7 Burke.

 

 

 

 

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Established 1886 I

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P ontiac
“Where the Champions Come from.” I

offer the following bull calves:

   

\ No. 575. Born Nlarch 17, 1917. Price $250. 7 Sire Pon-
tiac Carlotta Burke. Site’s dam, 26 lbs. Sire’s granddam, 23
and 21 lbs. Dam Pontiac Genius, 25.05 lbs. Dani’s darn, 18.80

No. 577. Born I\/Iarch 21, 1917. Price $250. Sire Pon-
tiac Korndyke Lad. Site’s dam, 22 lbs. Site’s granddam, 15 and and 26
lbs. Dam Pontiac‘Quadroon, 26.75 lbs. Dam’s dam, 19.38 lbs. Dani's
granddam, 26 lbs.

No. 578. Born March 24, 1917. Price $250. Sire Pontiac Carlotta
Sire‘s darn 26 lbs. Site's granddam, 23 and 21 lbs. Dam Pontiac
Hester, 25.04 lbs. Dani's dam, 16.98 lbs. Dani’s granddam: 17.75 lbs.

No. 579. Born April 1, 1917. Price $250. Sire Pontiac Korndyke
Lad. Sire,s dam, 26 lbs. Sire‘s granddam, 23 and 21 lbs. Dam Pontiac
Bethena 24.075 lbs. Dam‘s dam, 23.37 lbs. Dam‘s granddam, 22 lbs.

No. 587. Born June 7, 1917. Price $350. Sire Pontiac Rochester
Burke De Kol. Site's dam, 23 lbs. Site’s granddam, 21 and 22 lbs. Dam
Pontiac'Nyx, 27.696 lbs. Dani’s dam, 27 lbs. .Dam’s granddam, 19 lbs.

Others ranging in price from $50 up. Ask for extended
pedigree which will be cheerfully furnished. “Pontiac” is
the place to buy your next sire.

PONTIAC STATE HOSPITAL

PONTIAC, MICHIGAN

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Our Live Stock Annual

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING presents its
ﬁrst annual live stock number. We dedi-
cated it to Michigan’s allied agricultural
inte1‘ests,——dairying and the breeding of pure
stock. ,
Little has been said the past few years of the
rapid development of these industries, or the im-

portant place they occupy among the other agri-s

cultural pursuits of the state. Indeed, it is fair
to assume that comparatively few people of Mich-
igan, or the neighboring common wealths have any
conception o" the position which the peninsula
state holds among the nation’s leading dairying
and live stOck sections.

These industries have now assumed a promi-
nence that can no longer be ignored by the agri-
cultural press. The value of the live stock of the
state is variously estimated at from $225,000,000
to $300,000,000, and the annual dairy products
have a value that is somewhere in excess of
$100,000,000, making these industries the most im-
portant of the state’s agricultural pursuits.

The expansion of the live stock and dairy busi-
ness has been accomplished practically without
any encouragement from the press of the state.
The industries have been without a champion.
without a spokesman, without; a single dependable
medium for the dissemination of facts and ﬁgures

that should be in the hands of every actual and

potential live stock owner of Michigan.

MrcrrrcAN BUsiNicss FARMING desires to be of
service to those engaged in those great branches
of agriculture.
live stock men, regardless of preference for partic-
ular breeds, and with all producers of dairy prod-
ucts to help in the solution of the grave problems
incident to these abnormal times. How can we
better advance the interests of these associated
industries than by keeping the farmers of the
state informed of the progress that is being made.
and by opening our columns for the discussions
of all matters pertaining thereto?

We want every breeder and milk producer of
the state to feel that this publication is his friend
and intensely interested in the success of his en-
terprise. We want you to feel that no individual
problem is too trivial to receive our respectful and
immediate attention. We extend an open invita-
tion to all associations intended to further the in-
terests of live stock breeding and dairying to use
these columns for the publication of their ofﬁcial
notices and of all activities in which they may
be cngaged.Wifl1 your help we shall make MICH-
1GAN B1 smnss FARMING the recognized farm, mar-
ket and live stock journal of the state.

The issue we hand you now represents our ﬁrst
effort to give you the recognition and encourage-
ment, you deserve. but it will be by no means our
last or best. From this time on we pledge our-
selves to devote a certain portion of thesepages
to your industry, and ‘we know we can thereby
render you a constant and valuable service. »

Problems of the Milk Producers

NE OF the immediate problems which con-
front both producer and distributor of milk
is the decrease iii-consumption that accom-

panied the recent 1'ai8e in price. The Milk Pro-
ducers’ Ass’n hope to stimulate consumption by
an advertising campaign setting forth the value
of milk as a? human food, and showing why it is
among the cheapest and best foods procurable even
at the present high prices. This will be supple-

.111 the Detroit area.

_people to use more dairy products.

It wants to co-operate with all'

stimulated suﬁlciently to assimilate a‘II the‘mil
that is being produced for city sale by dairynien: _
Eyentually the public may, '
become accustomed to fourteen cent milk but that ‘.

time is not in the immediate future. Despite all

shorts to encourage greater consumption, the av- '

erage consumer will continue for a time at least
to regard the use of milk in eXCessbf thoseyquan-
titles that have been purchased. and consumed

according to long established needs and practices"

as a luxury and will buy only enough to provide
for actual wants.

It is an anomalous and altogether ridiculous sit-
uation that prevails. The high cost of milk to the
consumer;- is due to admittedly eitravagant and
wasteful methods of distribution, and has resulted
in decreased consumption. But instead of the dis~‘
tributors getting together and swapping routes
so as to avoid duplication and thereby reduce the
price of milk so that normal consumption will
again rule, they are expecting the producers to
either bolster up the demand thru an advertising

campaign, or if this fails, to cheerfully accept the.

role of the goat.

We are glad that the members of the Michigan
Milk Producers’ Assn have decided to inaugurate
an advertising campaign. The public ought to
know more about milk. Men, women and children
should drink twice as much milk as they do. Suc-
ceeding generations would be stronger and more
healthy if. the present would use larger quantities
of milk in its food rations. We hope and believe
that the campaign which is about to be launched
will produce results, and will eventually induce
But we cannot
believe that any amount of persuasion will in-
crease immediate consumption of milk to any ap-
preciable extent.

We do apprehend, however, that were the price
of milk to dr0p back to its former level of 12
cents per quart, consumption would increase. No
one has yet argued that the charges the Detroit
distributors are making for pasteurization, bottling
and delivery of milk are fair charges for expenses
legitimately incurred. It would seem that the easy
and logical solution of'the problem lies in the
distributors’ hands. They should make immedi-
ate changes in their distribution methods and
bring the price of milk back to normal, thus
serving the interests of all concerned. If they are
not willing to do this of their own volition, then
they ought to be forced by the law to do it. It
ought to be a crime [and some day will be to
penalize the public by employing extravagant
methods in the handling of a necessity.

Perhaps this is a reform, however, that is wholly
outside of the producers’ control. If so, and the
distributors are left to continue their present
methods, we feel sorry for the producers. In the
meantime, it would seem good business judgment
for every producer of milk to align himself with
the producers’ association and bebrganized and
ready for the crisis that seems inevitable.
dairyman can afford to chance the vagaries of
this abnormal period of economic uncertainty, by
standing alone against those who control the mar-
keting of his product. For the safety of his bus;
iness he should afﬁliate himself immediately With

the state organization, which is in a position to'

give him the'protection he needs,

Gettir': Ready for Prohibition
TATE DAIRY and Food Commissioner Fred

L. Woodworth is greasing up the machinery-

of his department preparatory to enforcing
Michigan’s new prohibition law which goes into
effect on the ﬁrst day of the coming May. There
will be no division of responsibility in the putting
of the new law into effect. There’ll be no pulling
and hauling between a half dozen departments
and legal authorities; there’ll be no shifting of
blame The whole accountability for compelling
obedience to the law will be charged to the State
Daiiy and Food Commisioner.
must report sales'of intoxicants, and from him
sheriffs,
will take their orders insofar as violations of the

prohibition law, and their prosecution, are con-

cerned.

Michigan will not become immediately bone— dry 4

the instant the saloons CIOSe their doors. In fact the
law does nor, contemplate such a condition
viduals 11110 simply must take a big swig once in
a while and have hadgthe foresight to lay in a
little supply of “licker” may guzzle in peace. But
they should be careful about inviting too many
of their friends in. The authorities will molest
no one who drinks in the seclusion of his own
home, but when the authorities suspect that he is
running a free bar for the beneﬁt of the neigh-

No‘

To him druggists .

prosecutors and other police executives’

Indi- .

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will enter. a long period

‘ t lid." dry, dreary
'days are ahead of ”the “occasional imbiber,” the
"‘godd fellow " the “disciple of the cocktail ” the
"‘eohﬁrmed drinker," and the “Meaty-eyed sot.” . ,1 '

Why Net Co-Operate With the Farmer?

S THE word “agricultural” as applied to the in-‘,
stitu't'ion of learning at East Lansing, a mis- ..

. nomer? Does the Michigan Agricultural Col-
lege, as an -institution,.extend or attempt to ex-
tend any assistance to the farmers of Michigan
that can be called either practical or helpful? We
ask these questions in all seriousness, andvdo not

intend to Inter that the answer will necessarily be.

a negative one.
The fame of the' Michigan Agricultural College

as a school of par excellence, reaches acress the

continent. Practically every state in the union

sends. onecr more of its sons or daughters to this
school. The stud of instructors are among the very‘

beet obtainable. They include many men listed
with the nation' s leading authorities upon the sub-
jects in which they have specialized. They are g'iv-
ing the choicest years 01' their life in a poorly
paid service to teach Michigan’s youth the Science
of farming and of the trades. And all honor is
due to those who are sacriﬁcing undoubtedly bril-
liant business careers for the mediocre profession-s
they are now following.

It is a pity that an institution so well equipped
with master teachers, with modern far-m appurb
enances, with every facility for the best and most
efﬁcient instruction it'is possible to give along the
chosen lines, should be so wholly out of sympathy
with those whose interests it professes to repre-
sent. We speak as always, of the institution, and
not of the men who head its varied departments
We speak of a policy, established and controlled
by the Board which directs ‘the ofﬁcial affairs of
the College, 'and which is most discernible in a.
certain aloofness from the men of the farms, and
a disinterestedness in their gravest problems

Afﬁliated with the college is the Extension de-
partment, partially maintained at federal ex-
pense, for the purpose, presumably, of rendering
more personal service to the farmers than the col-
lege is able to do. But this department has grad
ually come under the dominating inﬂuence of the
college board, not only in Michigan, but in other
states as well, so that its usefulness has been
greatly impaired by the same political inﬂuences
that hamper th work of the college itself.

Instead of being the servant of the farmer which
those who created these institutions intended

them to be, they have aspired to become his mas-'

ters so that their usefulness has become greatly

impaired, and they are decidedly out of harmony

with many of his views and needs.

The Michigan Agricultural College and the Ex- ‘

tension Department could render to the farmers of
Michigan a much greater service if they were
only so inclined. There are innumerable problems
confronting the farmer of today which he cannot
solve unaided. Does it not seem that these two
institutions are the logical forces to take up the
cudgel in his behalf and help to solve his econom-
ic problems as well as his production p10blems?
Something ove a year ago the junior editor of
this publication sought an interview with Dean
Robert S. Shaw to ascertain why the farmers of
the state were not kept advised of the important
observations of the experiment station. The Dean
frankly admitted that there was a lack of proper
co-operation with the farmers in this respect but
laid the blame to lack of funds, and expressed the

‘ hope that a remedy would be found for “he trouble.

The farmers of Michigan would give much great-
‘er encouragement to the extension work that is
being done by the college specialists and the coun-
ty men, if they could feel that these gentlemen
were free agents and in a position to represent
their every interest. The opportunity was never
greater than now for those who labor in the name
of scientiﬁc agriculture to sweep 'policy and prec-
edent aside and get right down close to the real
problems confronting Michigan‘ farmers. If it be
true1that their actions are controlled by certain
individuals who burden the board of agriculture
thru the fortunes of politics and who cannot pos-
sibly have theslightest interest in the welfare
of the farmers, then it is useleSS ”to hope for this
closer sympathy on the part of the college men.
But if they are _free- to choose their own policies
every agricultural inﬂuence of the state stands
ready to lend its co-operation with them for the

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z : Plutocrats; 'Detriment to Common People

Born and educated in the land of. schools and
barracks, I feel conﬁdent that I know a few things
about compulsory universal military training and
» its effects onecapital and labor; and let me say in
the beginning, that this'institution is a ﬁne thing
for capital. It is a safeguard to the wealthy para-
s1te and a'scourgei to the man who earns his bread
’by labor, with his hands or brains.

Isn’t it rather queer that the curse of the toiling
maeses originated in the new-born republic of
France, among people risen in arms against auto-
crats and aristocrats? When after the fall and
murder of King Louis XVI and his family the
neighboring nations attempted to interfere with
the regiment of the Commune the Council of De-
fense forced eyery able-bodied man of France into
the national army to beat back the foes of the re-
public. That‘ would have been the proper thing
if after‘that taskwas accomplished, that war meas-
ures had been discontinued. But alas! An am-
bitious usurper. Napoleon Bonaparte, got hold of
the army. History tells the rest of a story of
blood and hardships, poverty and want, where
plenty reigned before. Not until after the treaty
of Tilsit, 1807, did Prussia dare to force that duty
on her citizens, of course. in a more reﬁned and
effective form, called sometimes “Progress!” The
other European nations had, by necessity, to fol-
low suit.

.Who advocates universal service? Not the lab—
oring masses. Well they know to what use and
missuse a standing army can be put. by an ambi-
tious usurper. Here again we have to turn to the
largest republic of Europe. France. Whenever a
large strike of railroad or postal employees or any
other large industry in any, even remote, degree,
concerns the public or military service. threaten-
ed, these institutions were promptly placed under
military rule and run by soldiers commandeered
for that work. thus defeating any attempt of the
ill-paid employees to better their lot. What will
the over-bearing army ofﬁcer do after a successful
war I hate to think of.

‘When mama to get‘their fair share
their labor creates, the toiling mas- .
ses attempt to use more fOTCible
means. the law, backed by a million
bayonet: stands as a wall between
them and the money-plutocrats, pro—
tecting the robbers’ den. Consider-
ing this, we do not have to guess at
the source of» this movemen’. to
create the largest. standing army
and a military despotism in this
fair land of ours—a land of plenty.
Nor is there any difference in this
respect between a monarchy and a
republic. Beautiful France has been
misruled and exploited by." the big
banking interests and the Military :g‘
Ofﬁcers’ despotism. It’s not many
. years since General Boulanger came
within a reasonable chance of mak-
ing himself dictator of the republic,
simply because he had the powerful
class of army ofﬁcers as his associ-
ates, clamoring for war and glory
at the toilers’ expense in blood and
treasure. Germany’s intervention
saved the republic from war and
civil strife.

What good have the large stand—
ing armies ever done for the nation.
supporting them? Has it preserv—
ed the world’s peace? No! But
having the armies ready for action.
the blow was struck before the
words of explanation and possibly
conciliation could be uttered; and
it has brought sorrow and hardship
and ever increasing burdens of ser-
vice and taxation Into the cottage
of the toiler. the mainstay and the
true wealth of every nation.—-P. R..
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Government Should Make Price
on All Foodstuffs.

I have been greatly interested in
the editorials in the M. B. F. in re-
gard to the potato grades, and bean
prices, and in fact all things con-
cerning the farmers. I have been
farming for the last 35 years and
have come to the conclusion that
supply and demand is not the prop-
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and make it possible thru cold storage plants to
take care of perishable stuffs, and in so doing
there would be a stable price for the consumer
the same in summer as in winter. I can say that
the farmers of Michigan are very much disturbed
about this sorting of potatoes and the price ﬁxing
of beans and wheat, but no prices ﬁxed on what
he has to buy to produce these things, and I do
believe it will work out seriously in next year's
cxops unless he is guaranteed proﬁtable prices
the same as the manufacturer. I should welcome,
and I believe 90 per cent of the farmers would,
the ﬁxing‘of prices, say $1 for potatoes over 11/;
inch screen; $7 for beans, hand-picked basis; $2
for wheat; $1.50 for rye; 60c for oats, fob some
central point in the state. I would also recom-
mend the ﬁxing of the price of all machinery that
the farmer has to buy to enable him to produce
his crops. .

We farmers are a very peculiar set of people.
We are in the game for proﬁts the same as all
business men. We can change our plans much
easier, however, than the manufacturer, and if
potatoes were high last year we all want to raise
potatoes this year, and the result is too many
potatoes and: no price, and not enough beans and
the price is too high. Now, if we knew that we
could get certain prices for all produce we would
to a man. plant a. more even acreage each year, for
we could handle 15 acres of beans, 5 acres of po-
tatoes, 10 acre-s of corn, 10 acres of whet-.t..10 acres
of oats and balance of 30 acres to hay and pasture
on an 80-acre farm, with much better results and
less help than if we put the whole farm to beans
or potatoes, and our income would be sure for
there is never a year but what some of the crops

" are good, and I can see that it would settle for all

time the uncertainty of both producer and con-
sumer; just what he would get for his crop and
just what the consumer would have to pay, and it
would shut out this gambling by the middleman.—
J. B. T.. Grant.

Believe; in Reasonable and Just Gradingr

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING is being read by
neariy'all of my neighbors and it is appreciated
by all. My father is 83 years of age and delights

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think. ‘I believe in a reasonable and honest'gl‘ad-

ing. ' .1 would like to sell just as I would like to
buy. I am sure I would never throw a No. 2
grade out if it was round and smooth and sound;
it is the very best potato. It is true our boys am
going to war and we must help to win the war.
Probably the No. 2 grade of potatoes Would help
to win it. If the small potatoes will help to sus-
tain life they would be better to feed to the sol-
diers than to feed them to the livestock. I saw a
load of 8 bu. going home from the grader today;
they were graded out of a 50-bu. load—J. S. 11,
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Loses Entire Bean Crop

Please ﬁnd enclosed $2 bill ’ pay for my sub-
scription for one year and to Wm. Lang one year,
and I think it the best dollars we farmers ever
spent for paper. I sure do enjoy the arguments
put up to the middle man, especially the bean
and potato deal.
ﬁne, looked like 20 bushels to the acre and when
the frost struck and I lost the crop. Seed cost
$41 besides a lot of hard work. The farmer is
sure getting rich. Nit! I think there is a good
chance for the food administration to get busy
around here on the wheat deal. I have good
dry red wheat tests 60 pounds in Avoca offered
$2.05; in Yale $2; in Emmett $2.05 and in Lambs
$2.10. Now I think it would be a good time to
look after these fellows. Will send sample of
wheat to test under separate cover. Not much
wheat sowed around here, about 1-2 not up when
winter came. It looks like no beans around
here next year.——S. J. L.. Avoca. Mich.

Has Not Made 1% on Investment This Year

I am aware that many of the pretended farm
papers are “manufactured" instead of edited, and
their counsel is disastrous to follow. The farming
question is acute today; 75 per cent of Lake coun-
ty crops were killed by frost. Many lost their
entire bean crops and all corn was frosted. I
doubt if there are 25 bus. of: seed corn saved in
the county. It took 35 acres of corn to partly ﬁll
a 37x16 SllO that I usually ﬁll from 20 acres. and I
ﬁnd its feeding value about 60 per cent of the us-
ual quality obtained from glazed
’10 com well taken care of. From 20
acres of beans I received 70 bus,
picking 5 lbs. I ﬁnd butchers and
buyers paying,r 5 to Sc, per lb. for
cattle. Market prices here for meats:
kettle roast, 15c; steak, 22 to 260;
Pork, paying 13 live. 17 dressed;
pork cuts from 22c to 30c per lb,
still the press is crying. “the farm~
ers are getting rich.

I have not made 1 per cent on my
investment the last year, and have
kept a strict account of all receipts
and expendtures.—A_ A. M.. Luther.

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I am an old farmer of the Up-
:3 per Peninsula. and I think if there
- is any class of farmers who need
the services of the Food Adminis-
f tration it is the farmers up here.
3 especially those along the line of
thi IC. & L. S. RR. I went to my
3 local dealer and tried to sell him
some steers and when we could not
come near on the price your paper
quoted he said the paper was just
printed to sell. I asked him if he
didn’t get the prices from the paper
and he said he did, and also that
he “formed his own opinion” and I
guess he does~and pays what he
likes—:4. I”. FL. Northland.

Must Have $8 for Beans

I wish to say to you that your
paper is simply a cracker-jack. The
best farm paper I have ever taken.
The farmer may not be buying as
much Liberty Loan stock as some
other classes. but his heart is on
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simply keepsthe farmer guessing
in Clare county. I had 32 acres of
beans and got 184 bushels. Have
wit-cal on the same farm 28% bush-
els to the acre. Farmers should get
$8 per bushel for their beans. Keep
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Seine Entirely New—Thots on Potato Deal
_ '1 am satisﬁed, in my own mind‘, whom the nig-
we. in this potato grading are I have no pos-
itive proof, but the circumstantial evidence that
has been accumulating for a- long time convinces

me, whether it does any one else or not that the

Banking Association is at the bottom of all these

,cynpaigns aiming at over production'to the end

that farmers are forced to sell below ,cost and walk
up to the bank counter and renew their notes.
I am satisﬁed that this gang furnishes the cue to
the Agricultural Department and the Agricultur—

’ al Colleges and the whole machinery is set into op-

eration. It was that way last fall and winter and
spring as to potatoes. The Extension Agents of
the Agricultural Department, the Agricultural
Colleges. the Farm agents, and Institute workers.
the Press, farm weekly and daily, were all loaded,
cocked and primed to boost the yield of potatoes.
Agricultural agents were sent “without cost," in-
to all counties where they had not been installed.
and their chief work for the farmers was to aid
them in getting potato and bean seed and introduc-
ing them to bankers where they could borrow all
the money they wanted to pay for these articles.
If .these agents did anything else it escaped by
attention. This movement was uniform from one
end of the country to another. T have in mind
a county in Nebraska. where barely potatoes enough
have been grown for home use. in fact nearly ev-
ery year they have been imported. The “Potato
Campaign” was carried on in that. county the
same as in Montcalm county, with the result that

in that. county potatoes were grown this year for
export. _
Last, fall the “wheat campaign" was put. in op-

eration in all the winter wheat sections of the
country. and it will be boomed in spring wheat
sections in the spring and this winter in farmer
meetings. Next fall she. report. of a. great crop will
cut the price. if possible below cost of production.
This is sche:l 1.1.1 and will materialiye unless the
good Lord sticks his mit in the (leal and spoils
the crop. as he has sn ed the potato g1 owers sev-
eral times the past 10 years with drowth. blight
and rot. No sir. I am no prophet nor prophet’s
son. You don’t have to be if your eyes are open,
and you see these movements incubate. and swell
and extend year after year until the crop is grown.
and then contract and shrink when ready to put:
on the market.#I say you don’t have to be a pro-
phet to see these things.

They are just. starting a “Hen Campaign”. It
has been given out. “by the food administration,"
that every farmer must shape himself to keep 100
hens, and where he already has that number he
must increase his flock to 200. Certainly. He
must do something that will mean incurring ex-
pense of housing, etc. Hundreds of thousands of
farmers will fall into line and borrow money to
carry out this object.——especia.lly when all the
machinery gets into motion and the advantages
of hen growing and egg producing is properly
held up to their eyes this winter and spring. Re-
sult. Over-production of eggs and hen ﬂesh. Man
ket over—loaded. Farmers over-loaded with cheap
stock. Notes at the bank to be. renewed. Don’t
fail to consider this last item. That1was and is
the real object of the campaign: To kccp a. lot of
(I d fools poi/1'11” imcrcsL

Watch the “hog campaign" that is just being
gotten into operation. \Vatch the bottom fall out
of it just when a big crop is ready to market.

You know what was done to the Dairy interests.
You know that the, dairymen were fed hot air for
years and produced milk and butter fat at a loss.
and that while herds of dairy cattle were sacri-
ﬁced. A year ago the dairy business was down and
The, dairymen lost millions of dollars, and
are today paying interest, on the loss. Within
the last eight months millions of money. mostly
borrowed, has been put into the rehabilitation of
the dairy business. besides one and a half million
dollars (fact) for advertising. It is working dan-
dy. Practically every neWspaper of any standing
is dra’wing or has drawn from this pot. A move-
ment is on foot to stop vealing dairy heifers. It.
ﬁve years yet to put this deal
thru to the ﬁnal “bust—up,” such as the dairymeu
experienced last year. Just watch the “big fel-
lows" just before the’bust unload onto the unin-
itiated, and then watch the uninitiated walk up
to the bank window and beg for renewals for
their notes.

In the west it is a different deal with the same
results. Farmers can borrow all kinds of money
in the spring. In the fall money is close and the
banks are. forced to pull in. The farmers are
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crops on the lowest market
the bank. is turning that money over to EM
buyer and stock feeder. Plen ..y of money
them . In the spring. they go thru the bank. wring.-
ervand the money is loaned again to the farmer.
Easy. Simple. No complications such as have to
be worked out with special crop booms in spec-
ial regions, such as Michigan.

This is. what I recommend: A meeting of. no.
tato and bean growers in every county oliMichi—
gan. A good big delegation from each county to
a district meeting in each congressional district.
A set of red hot resolutions that you would need
rubber gloves to handle, and that. recite the sub
stance of the above, and demand that our congress-
man and senators demand an investigation into
this vast conspiracy against the farmers of the
country. It might not get us anything. It might
compel the show-down of some weak hands. It
would do no good to educate the farmers to look
ahead when those deals are being worked on
them. And the powers that are putting them thru,
might not be quite so bold in putting these deals
across as in the past.

A point: Borrowers are as necessary to a bank
as logs to a saw mill, or drinkers to a saloon;
The retailers were formerly heavier borrow/ers
than at present. The record of past years was
that. 08 per cent of retailers went busted. Of
course the local banker shaped things so that in
most cases he got his money. and the jobber and
wholesaler were left holding the bag. These par-
ties have organized and are advising and directing
the retailers more. closely than ever before, to the
end that the retailer has practically no compe-

tition. and where possessed of reasonable business
ability has become largely independent of the
banker. He is not using the amount of bank

money that he used formerly. In. agricultural
regions the banks have fallen onto the farmer to

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é Have You a Tractor?

7' UR IONIA county crop rep rter writes
that there are over a hundred trac-
tors in his county at the present time.

and that the quantity is rapidly increasing
owing to the shortage of labor. Undoubted g:
ly, the tractor farmer is the coming farm-

._ er of Michigan. There are only one or two

states which claim a larger number of

these iron horses than Michigan. Have you
in: a tractor? If so. won’t you tell MI1'11111;A.\‘

Buerlcss FAmnxo and its readers what

you think of the tractor as a practical and

economical motive power for the farm?

Please tell us in your own words what your

experiences have been with the tractor.

advising make, horse power, fuel consump— L's

tion, adaptability to the various kinds of ‘.

gézj farm labor, and whether or not you are en- 2?:

' tirely satisﬁed with what. it can :ccomplish.

Your experience may prove of value to some-
one else. Address your letter to Editorial
Department, M. B. 10., Mt. Clemens, Mich.

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supply the lost borrowers, and to keep their

money drawing interest.

Don’t. tell me~ the bankers have not figured these
things all out. Bankers have originated the move—
ment and headed the list for placing farm agents
in every county that I have known anything about.
Has this “just happened so?” I have known of
bankers “casting their bread upon the waters."
but they don’t, take any chances on its returning
“ after many days.” They always have a cable.
attached to it; and it. returns. They (largely the
bankers) have just organized a Farm Bureau and
we are to have a farm agent. I was not at the
meeting, but I see by the papers that I was elect-
cd one of the directors. I always did hate like the
dcvil to turn a grindstone. I wonder if it will
be any more pleasant to turn it to sharpen the
knife to cut my own throat with? 011. I know that
11 good farm agenier if the, farmer: owned himweis
'.1 valuable asset. and we need him. There are
hundreds of things he can do that a farmer with
all of his work cannot ﬁnd time to do. But when
you conside1 a force of .1.100 of them turned against
the faimeis interests as in potatoes last spring.
and it becomes a. question if they are not a mighty
costly luxury. But really this does not seem to
be a question at all, for they are being forced upon
us whether we want them or not—0. W. 0..
McRridcs.

Thinks Selective Draft is All Right

At last we have a farm paper in Michigan which
is ﬁrst, last and all the time for a square deal
for the farmer. Success to the MICHIGAN Bust.
mass FARMING!

I want to ask a little of your space to reason
with your Reader from Osceola county, who crit«
icises the policy of the gover11nicn‘1. upon its so-

 

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Jam.\12th'{iilssue. I think the farmers are treated
with porter: fairness in this draft, If. the mm»
or is the. s l'e- head. of the enterpri's‘e- he goes- into
class four and stays on the job. If he is a skilled
farm worker he goes into class three and is con-
sidered of more use to. his country than he' would
be in the army. He also has an equal chance with
any-other industry in class two, to serve his coun-
try by producing food for our soldiers and our
allies. The fact. that some farm Workers prefer
to. go into the army rather than» askcllassiﬁcation
is not the fault of the government. In fact a farm-
er who is of any use on the farm cannpt now get
into the army unless he lies in his answers to the
questions put by the govern-ment. He can enlist
under the mistaken notion that to enlist is 'the
most honorable thing to do, but the government
is not to blame for this mistaken r 'tion. \It is
a relic of the war of theStates and mistaken ideas
of patriotism. We must remember that Uncle
Sam is paying pretty good wages in the mind of
the average farm hand. «Thirty dollars a month.
ﬁne clothes, good board, splendid fellowship. the *
chance for promotion, life and health insurance.
and the chance of adventure and travel, and
many other things appeal to the young man. Do
not criticise Secretary of War Baker, he is the
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The Dealer Always Gets His Proﬁt 2; ~

. I have read your M. B. F. paper With interest

and am more than pleased with it. It'goes right
to the point fearlessly and now I want to ask you
a few questions. I had a good wheat crop. Wheat
that tests 63 and 64 lbs. per bu. I sold some for
$2.12 per bu. Our miller says that he can only
let us have 1.00 lbs. of ﬂour per month and if we
take more wheat than enough for“the 100 pounds
of flour we have to sell it, take credit or cash. and
if an advance in price of flour we have to pay it.
He says at when he can't buy wheat of the
farmer he will have to send to Cliicago and pay
$2.20 per bushel plus the freight. but at the same
time he can only pay me $2.12. Is that a fact?

 

Now. about corn. We had a hard hail storm in
July which set the corn back; in September a hard

frost, so we, have no corn. The dealers bought
No. 2 yellow early at $1.30 laid down here, and
want $2.00 per bu. now. Now I want: to be patrie
otic and do the best I can to help win the war,
and do you think I ought to sell my wheat at $2.12
and give $2.00 per bu. for corn ‘.’r~~rJ.lé1'J).. ’I’ckonslm.

“If the Government Wants Us to Raise Beans
It Will Have to See That we Get Paid
For Those We Raised This Year.” p

I get the M. B. 14‘. regular and am much inter—
ested in it. Hope it may continue. I like to read
what the other fellows say about their bean crops.
I am going to tell you about my experience with
beans: Last spring I paid $57 for seed beans. I
sowed 5 acres in good time and a heavy rain came f;
and rotted nearly all of the seed, but before the ii
ground dried out it was too late to replant and I
let them go. When I threshedl got 10 bu. of.
beans that the elevators pick 40 lbs per hundred
lbs. Later I planted the balance of my seed on
four and a half acres, but they were no good and
I plowed them down., Now the best I could do if
I sold my entire crop would be $30. I lost the use
of my land and my labor and $27 in cash on seed.
No wonder the farmers are getting rich. The ele-
vators are paying $10.50 and $11.00 per hundred
for beans, hand—picked. It means every bean that
is colored the least bit is picked out. and the farm-
01's. lose them. It is hard to tell what to do with
my beans. as they are all of good siZe but about
half of them were frozen enough to color them
just a little bit; they are just as nice to cookas
any beans; we have used them for a couple of
weeks and none of us have died from the effects
of eating them. and none of 11s have been sick.
but when we take them to the elevators they pick
those out and charge lls 101 a pound for all they
pick. that. is‘ if our beans pick 10 pounds per hun-
dred, and therefore. if beans are bringing $11.00
That is what, I call
getting it in the neck right. but the farmers are
all used to that. Beans in this vicinity will not
average over 3 bus. per acre, that is those that
were threshed. and there were hundreds of acres
that were never threshed.

Our seed beans will cost us $10 or $12 per bu.
next spring. Does the Government expect us to
try it again? If they do th 1y had better see to it
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year. I claim we should get. $9 a bushel for our
beans and the frozen beans not pirked out. They 5
claim there is going to be a scarcity of food. Why Z

pick those frozen beans out and feed them to the
hogs when they are good for human beings?—-~VJ. B.

  

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Uncle, Sam’s Thrift Thought —

EAT THE CHEAP ROOSTER

It is good farm economy to eat the 100ster.
For roast-mg, of course, the housekeeper wants
a good fat hen, but for chicken dishes that call
for slow cooking let the iooste1 go into the pot.
He is full of meat and ﬁavory, nutritious juices
Slow cooking and the right seasoning will con-
vert the low- priced rooste1 into dishes that are
universally liked—there is pot- pie and chicken
stew and a host of others. If a rooster that is
not wanted for dinner is “eating his head off"
in the barnyard, can him for future use and
save the stock for soup.

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Chicken “Piluu”

5;? :: The rooster is the foundation for that famous
dish of chicken and rice which the French call
‘If’ilau.’ The combination has remained an
Ameri an favorite through all the changes of
spelling. The Florida boys, who love to con-
coct this stew when camping in the woods, call
it “Perlew.” Make it 11y boilingthe chicken
until the meat comes off: the bone. Season well,
and add enough rice to thicken the stew. (look
until the rice is soft. The stew should be
thick enough to eat with a fork.

’l‘his stew served with a green salad or stewed
fruit makes :1 complete meal, as the rice takes
the place of bread. The Spanish, who are very
’_, fond of this chicken and rice combination, add
,_ pimentos just before removing the stew from,
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Contentment Depends Upon Ourselves

Dear Editor:—I read your last paper and am g0-
ing to tell my experience.

I was raised on a farm. took .up nursing and
married a city man, as I supposed. But my health
was poor and city life did not help matters.

We moved on a rented farm. Then in two years
went into business again, but my health became
worse again. In the fall we bought a little farm.
There my health broke down and I wasn’t expected
to live. In four months I was out of the hospital
and beginning to feel a little like old times. When
I left the hospital the doctor said, “Be jolly, like
you used to be and you will be all right."

We have a boy living. A boy and girl dead.
We expect to meet them again in heaven, so what
need we wish we had them here on earth when
God is so much more capable of caring for them.

I have decided life is what we make it. If we
wish an ideal life we have to be the one to make
it. I believe our home life is as ideal as any home
is and is what, God intended it to be. If a woman
is- a crank I believe it upsets the home life, but
of course I have an ideal husband and that helps
some, you know.

But, I know when I had poor health and could
not do my housework as I wanted it done. I was
very apt to be cranky and then my good man
would be apt to speak a little cross. so I believe
a mother has to be the leader in the home to a
great extent.

We all have our troubles, but I believe if we
pleasant about it we get over them so much on
that has been my experience.

We are still on the farm and we expect to stay
here, and we have had failures in’ crops but ex—
pect to pu‘ in a larger crop than ever next year.

Don’t you sometimes believe that a contented
heart can be cultivated? I know from experience
it, can. I was so disappointed when we could not
live in the city that I made myself miserable and
everyone near me and now I am 32 years old and.
can see ahead and proﬁt by my past. I have made
myself believe I can be jolly wherever I am.

We are not seeing the. cash roll in as we would
if in the city. but cash doesn’t make contentment.
You may print this if you wish, but please don’t
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It certainly is a. pleasure to receive the kind of
a letter you write me, Mrs. A. I think your phil—
osophy of life is the correct one. As you say, “1i ‘1
_ is what we make it.” It has been my experience,
; and I believe itrhas been yours, that happiness
comes from wihtin. I know of a case where a
woman has had poor health and has driven her
. husband fromher. She is so querulous, so cranky,
Lia-nothing suits her; she never has a smile or a good
word for anyone. Even those who'pity her be-
cause of her physical ailments are repelled by her
unpleasant personality. A person has to submit
to the inevitable in this world. It’s the spirit that
counts and shines out above poor health, discour-
agements, and everything else. Marriage is too
often a one-sided proposition; sometimes the man
expects everything. sometimes the woman is the
unneasonable one.

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ANNE CAMPBELL STARK. EDITOR

Take the subject we have been discussing: the
city girl who marries a farmer. Both have to
give ‘up a great deal. Both have to, as one of our
readers so aptly put it, “swing their lives into
harmonyiwrith each other.” And if they can con—
quer their enemies, the little things. this can be
done. It’s the little every-day little annoyances
that creep in and undermine lots of marriages.
Little criticisms that end in making a woman nag,
little worries and bothers that will make her soul
petty, if she doesn’t watch out. Haven’t you seen
married lives that started out well enough abso-
lutely ruined by little things that were almost too
small to name?

Now folks, let’s draw our chairs around the
kitchen ﬁre, and gossip some more! We have re-
ceived some good letters from a great many read~
ers which we have all enjoyed immensely. Per
haps your experience will help some other wand-
erer in the thorny path of matrimony! Write to
Mrs. Anne Campbell Stark, Editor Home Dep’t
MICHIGAN Busmnss FARMING, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

An Excellent Washingr Fluid
I received a request this week for a washing
ﬂuid which has been used with great success in
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When Shirley Has a Birthday

HEN Shirley has a birthday,
Ma starts the week before
To polish up the windows
? And the brass on the front door.
The big house is so shining,
It seems to smile and say
“I hope you have a jolly timc
With your little friends today!"

    

HEN Shirley has a birihday,
The invitations go
To all her little cousins
And the friends who love her so.
And say, they're glad to gct ”cm.
And the night before they dream
01’ sign pink birthday candles
.1 nd the loveliest ice cream!

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sequcntly dirty children. would like to hear of a
ﬂuid which would lighten their wash day burden
I sent Mrs. It. who lives at Swartz Creek. 1\lich~
igan. the recipe. and now I am going to tell you
just what I told he1.

Many housewives 211c afraid to use a fluid for
fear it will “10t the clothes;" although there is
absolutely no danger of. this if used correctly. Here
is the recipe:

One box Babbittfs potash, 2 oz. carbonate am-
monia, 2 oz. salts tartar, 2 oz. borax.

Have a gallon jug, in which place the above in»
gredients. Have your teakettle full of boiling
water and ﬁll the jug with this, holding the kettle
at arm’s length so the fumes will not be breathed
into the nostrils. Let this liquid stand until cool.
then cork.

Put your clothes to soak in clear cold water over
night; dissolve soap by boiling. In the morning
put on your boiler and let the water come to a
boil. While this is being done, you will have
time to straighten the house. or make the beds.
When the water boils. put in your soap and the
ﬂuid in the proportion of two-thirds cup of the
ﬂuid to a good big boiler of clothes. W'ring the
clothes from the cold water and put right in this
boiling suds int boil for twenty-minutes,

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This Week’s Tested Recipe

Rice Stew
Boil together one can of English peas, one-
half cup of of rice one teaspoonful salt, pepper
to -,taste one tablespoon of fat, and one cup of
sweet milk. Thicken with flour. Serve very
hot in a hot dish. Cover the top with grated
cheese before sending to the table.

  

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Add two cups cold chopped chicken to two
cups white sauce; season with one teaspoon cur-
ry powder. heat thoroughly and dish into the
rice. Mushrooms and a little celery top, chop—
ped ﬁne, may be used instead of curry powder.

Stock in which the chicken has been cooked
may be used instead of white sauce in prepar-
ing this dish. Thicken the stock as for chicken
gravy; season to taste, and add chopped chicken.

\Vhite Sauce.

For many of these dishes cream sauce is
used. To make this, stir two tablespoons ﬂour
and one half teaspoon salt into two tablespoons
bubbling hot fat; add small amount of milk,
mix VI ell then add icinainder of two cups milk:

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for it to begin boiling after putting in the clothes
and then allow to boil for the length of time start-
ed. Take out the clothes and you will find that
they are clean. I have the board in the tub, but all
the rubbing I do is simply a bluff; just souse the
clothes good to make sure the dirt drops away
and wring into your rinsing water.

Give two rinsings, one of clear and one of bluing
water, and hang out. You will ﬁnd that you have
a line of beautifully whiteclothes. For the sec-
ond boiler if more water is added, add ﬂuid in
proportion and soap. If no water is added, sim-
ply rub some soap on the clothes and drop in the
same water. no matter how dirty it is. For lace
curtains. wash them by themselves 1'11 the same
way; soak in the clear. cold water over night.
drop in the boiling water and let boil. They will
come out snowy white and need not be rubbed at .
all, which saves Wear. The wear and tear of the i 1‘
rubbing is what Wears out the clothing. I have 7' I
found that {tunnels can be washed in this water
very easily alter the boiled clothes are out of the
way. 11in<od in warm water and hung immediately
on the line and it docs not shrink them. Neither
(loos it fade colored clothes that would not fade
anyway: in fact, it' anything. the color is brighter. _ .,
My light colored clothes I wet in cold voter and :7 ‘ 3:
stick in the boiler for a few moments and the, dirt H
simply falls from them. Even some of the dark
clothes can be handled in this way, particularly
blue house dresses and the men's rough shirts. i
There is omx thing to remember in using this
ﬂuid, and 111111 is not to save soap because of the
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Suggestions for School Lunch Basket i

1. Sandwiches with sliced tender meat for ﬁll-

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2. Slices of meat

loaf or bean loaf; bread and

butter sandwiches: stewed fruit; small frosted
cake.
:‘1. (‘I'isp rolls. hollowed out and ﬁlled with

chopped meat or fish. moistened and seasoned, or
mixed with salad dressing; orange, apple, a mix-
ture of sliced fruits or berries. cake.

4. Lettuce or
jelly sandwiches.

celery sandwiches; cup custard;

5. Cottage cheese and chopped green pepper
sandwiches, or a pot of cream cheese with bread
and butter sandwiches; peanut sandwiches; fruit
cake.

6. Hardboiled eggs; crisp baking powder bis-
cuits; celery or radishes; brown sugar or maple
sugar sandwiches. ’

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7. ’Bottle of milk;
dates, apple.

8. Raisin or nut bread with butter;
ange; maple sugar.

9. Baked bean and lettuce sandwiches;
sauce; sweet chocolate.

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753.38 THE practice of 5 growing
more of the food for the
cows on the farm where
more
common throughout the great

ers of pure bred dairy cattle are
sure to awaken to the fact that economical pro-
duction of milk and butterfat is of greater impor-

tance than 1' enomenal production of a small pr"-

tion of the herd without regard to its cost.

There are three things that we should know
about our cows. First, 110w much milk they
give, not in 7 days or 30 days, but in a year, be-
cause We have to feed them a year; second, how
much butter-fat there is in the milk in a year,
and then last but not least we should know how

"much feed these cow’s eat, how much it costs to

feed them a year. If there is any one point where
farmers and the breeders of pure bred dairy cattle
are Weak it is their neglect to keep accurate rec-
ords of the cost of feed. We hear a great deal
about phenomenaly milk and butter-fat yields made
by some of our cows in 7 days, 30 days and a year.
These records are valuable as a guide in buying
breeding animalsrand in estimating prepotency,
but it is seldom that we hear what it costs to
make such yields. It is time for breeders of
dairy cattle to discover that the dairy farmer is
in the business to make his living. If the net
proﬁt doe snot count, what in the world is he in
the busienss for? It is important that we have
cons in our herds that will give a large amount
of net proﬁt. not necessarily an

It Sometimes Costs too Much to Produce the Last Few my?
Pounds of Milk the Cow Gives. More Praiitdble F eed- '
ing would also Help StabiliZeProduction, Breed
Better Cows and Grow Soil Improving Crops

W. MILTON KELLEY

very best conditions and kinds of feed that will
insure maximum production. The wider use of.
pastures, forage crops, hay and silage reinforced
by small amounts of grain and by-product feeds
may not give maximum yields of milk, or even
normal yields, but they may be utilized infeeding
for economical production so that they will re-
turn greater proﬁts than when too heavy rations
of rich concentrates are used. Although in gener-
al it is desirable to have high production to sort
of counter-balance the cost of maintenance, the
cost of the last few pounds of milk from many
cows costs too much. Often by feeding less grain
and not attempting to force to the very limit a
cow will produce somewhat less .milk, but the
total amount will be made at proportionately less
cost. Records of production costs, especially in
these days of expensive grain feeds, will show
which cows are making the most net proﬁt and
how much it is costing to feed the others, or
even 110w much the proﬁts of some months are
consumed by this expensive forced feeding of
the cows , during other months. ‘

  

To buy feed ‘_' "
ment the home-grayin- supply' is
entirely proper -previded the
right kinds are bought; chieﬂy
those standard feeds? of. com-
merce rich in digestibles'protein,
as cottonseed meal, oil meal
gluten feed and brewer's dried grains; these are
the true supplements as they supply the compounds
that 3r deﬁcient on the best managed dairy farms.

In growing food crops for dairy cattle particular
emphasis should be placed upon crops that yield
the greatest amount of feeding nutrients per acre

——particular1y protein—or crops that are best

' adapted to the successful feeding of dairy cows.
Timothy‘hay, a favorite 'crop on many dairy farms.

does not yield more than oneeighth the amount of

.,dige‘stible protein that the same area of alfalfa

would. Regardless of this fact mahy dairy farm-
ers continue to grow and feed timothy hay to their
cows. An acre of timothy yielding one and one-
half tons of hay should yieldas much as three
tons of alfalfa, and in three tons of alfalfa hay
there are 3,204 pounds'of digestible nutrients, of
which 666 pounds are composed of protein mater-
ials. An acre of clover that yields tw0 and one-
half tons of hay will furnish 2,320 pounds of
digestible nutrients, of which 340 pounds are pro-
tein materials. It is hardly necessary to point out
the many advantages of growing alfalfa and clover
instead of timothy; the ﬁgures explain themselves.

In comparing the feed-producing powers of an
acre when used for growing grain

 

enormous forced yield, but an econ-
omical yield.

Let me tell you where we may
drift if we do not give this matter
of economical production more at-
tention. The past summer I spent
several weeks in a locality where
the dairy farmers have fed excess-
ive quantities of rich grain feeds
for years. When this year’s grain
prices compelled them to depend
Lore upon pasture and silage these
cows began to fall away in ﬂesh
condition and milk produ tion un-
til they looked more like race hors-
es than dairy cattle. They had
been fed heavy rations of concen-
t1ates for years until they lad lost
their ctpacity. The farmers in
some of these milk producing reg-
ions fed as high as from four to
six pounds of digestible protein a
day to their cows. Roughage is
scarce and of inferior quality and
they have fed concentrated feed in
an effort to make a heavy yield of milk. Now that
grain prices have advanced they have a class
of cows without capacity for taking pasture grass-
es and roughages from their farms and turning
them into milk and butter-fat for them. There
is where thousands of our dairy farmers are drift-
ing because they do not consider the matter of
economical production. We must have a cow that
will take our feed. our roughage and some grain,
and convert it into the most proﬁt for us. That is
what the average farmer wants and I believe it
is the kind of cows the breeder should produce.
We have got. to have such cows to make our dairy

farming proﬁtable. and the only way to ﬁnd them

is to ﬁnd out how much milk they give in a year,
how much butter—fat it contains. and how much
feed they eat in a year. We have to keep produc-
tion records to ﬁnd out what they do with the
feed they eat.

The fact that . few b1 eed rs of pure bred ‘ai1y
cows have. by expensive methods of feeding, been
able to make a few at their best cows prodmc
enormous yicl of milk is not sufﬁcient reason
for dairy farmers to jump at the conclusion that
they should accept such ﬁgures as a. mark to shoot
at. In the ﬁrst place it is rather a difﬁcult under-
taking to breed up a herd of grade cows capable
of producing more than 8.000 pounds per year of
4 per cent butter-fat milk; it is difﬁcult to hold
them there after they have reached it without in-
juring them; besides at the present prices for
grain feeds it is much easier and far more proﬁt-
able to maintain a moderate yield of milk thru
the wider use of pastures, forage crops, hay and
ensilage. reinforced with just enough grain feed
to enable the cows to make proﬁtable use of them,
than to hold them up to a higher forced yield.

The majority of agricultural college instructors,
the farm press and institute lecturers have em-
phasized methods of milk and butter-fat produc-

' tion that result if the cows are surrounded with

not only shown in the economics of the milk pail,
toward the depletion of soil fertility

 

The great netcssity for a wider growth and large use of home-grown foods is

These arguments are not presented to discour-
age dairy farmers from improving their herds, nor
to encourage the feeding of inferior cows, but to
show that the old stock argument to feed for max-
imum production is not a safe rule to follow un-
der present conditions and prices for protein
feeds. During the past few months the high pro‘
ducing cows that have been fed enormous quan-
tities of rich grain feeds have been pushed down
into the middle class by those that have the abil-
ity to produce from 7,000 to 8,000 pounds of milk
a. year from cheaper rough feeds. The great
problem in dairy farming, it seems to me, is that
of breeding a herd of large. vigorous cows capable
of giving heavy yields of milk from homegrown
foods with just enough grain to give them the
proper balance. Feeding too much grain lessens

the (apacity to make efﬁcient use of the cheaper

feeds that must be 0111 chief dependence in future
feeding operations

Two important questions confronting dairy
farmers at the present time are feeds and fertil-
ity. These questions are so closely related that
they cannot well be separated; the higher the fer-
tility of hte soil the larger the crops and the
more cows can be fed and the more manure can
be made. The growing of food crops for dairy
cows means better cultivation, better “rotations,
continuous occupation of the'soil by a growing
crop, an increase in soil residue and a consequent
gain in fertility.

The great necessity for a wider growth and
larger use of home-grown foods is not only shown
in the economics of the milk pail, but in the pres-
ent tendency toward the depletion of soil fertility.
In too many cases the fertility ‘of dairy farms is
not improving; the farmers are'growing too little
and buying too much, both of feeds and fertility.
Dairy faimers are annually buying thousands of
tons of mixed and other kinds of feeds, not to
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crops we ﬁnd that grain from a

50-bushel crop of oats containsabout '

1,000 pounds of digestible nutrients.

of which 147 pounds are protein
~ materials, and as usually very lit-
i... tle of the straw can be proﬁtably
' fed, this is approximately the value
of the oats per acre. Land that will
yield 50 bushels of oats per acre
should yield 555' bushels of corn,
which will furnish 2,500 pounds of
digestible nutrients, of which 240
pounds are protein materials. If
in addition the whole cor-n plant
can be fed as in the case of silage,
an acre will yield nearly 4,000 lbs.
of digestible nutrients, or about
four times as much as an acre of
oats, when the grain alone is fed;
nearly three times as much as an
acre of timothy hay, and about the
same as an acre of alfalfa. The
acre of alfalfa, however, has a great-
er feeding value on account of its
higher protein content. Thus it
will be seen from these ﬁgures that corn
and alfalfa are the two most valuable crops for
the dairy farmer to grow. Clover and oats, while
not so valuable from the digestible nutrient stand-
point, serve as a complement to the rotation of
crops and help out in the distribution of labor.

Alfalfa and corn silage make a pretty good ro-
tation for dairy cows, while timothy hay and corn
silage make a poor ration. When timothy hay and
corn silage are the only rough-ages at hand it be-
comes necessary to buy protein feeds to make pu
efﬁcient rations. There is no escape, and there
is very little‘pr’oﬁt left after paying for these
feeds. Most dairy farmers can save a vast amount
of expense “by growing alfalfa and clover hay
crops to improve the roughage ration. Clover
works well in rotation with corn» and oats, much
better than alfalfa, and although it does not yield
so great a quantity of digestible nutrients it is of
great value in furnishing protein to balance up
the corn and also aid in maintaining the fertil-
ity of the soil. Alfalfa and clover should be grown
extensively onevery farm where the soil condi-
tions are favorable. Experiments indicate that
b7 growing alfalf and clover in place of timothy a
gain of approximately 100 per cent and 33 1-3 per
cent respectively will be attained in the ,yield of
digestible nutrients. In other words growing
these crops in place of timothy would increase
the efﬁciency of the home—grown feeds for milk
production 100 per-cent and, 33 1-3 per cent re-
spectively; Such an increase, will mean about the
same as doubling the yields of the cows without
additional expense for grain feeds.

A'n acre of. pasture grasses will furnish 850 lbs.
of digestible nutrients, of which 160 lbs. are pro-
tein materials. on farms where the land is
cheap and labor scarce and high it will pay to
utilize considerable land for grazing and allow

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One can sow sweet clover almost
any time of the year. The plant seeds
itself by dropping the seed in the fall
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on ground that is even slightly acid as
well as red clover or alsyke. If
the soil shows any acidity at all, lime

should be applied before you seed
sweet clover.
It is practically safe to sow red

clover anywhcr in Michigan because
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sweet clover growing along the road-
side all over Michigan. This is un—
doubtedly due to the fact that some-
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where there are plenty of nodules on
the roots to inoculate seed and the
best way is by the glue method. Thor-
oughly dry this soil away from the.
direct rays of the sun, make it every
ﬁne by crushing or rolling it, then dis-
solve some glue in warm water. mix
your sweet clover seed with it and
then sprinkle on this earth and stir
thoroughly until every seed has some
of the soil adhering to it. Now, if
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oughly incorporated with the soil you
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season on well, prepared land that
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just like common red clover and in
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Never has there,been a more fav-
orable time for farmers to develop
ﬂocks of proﬁtable poultry and ‘make
them a dependable branch of diversi-
ﬁed agriculture. Comparativ-ely few
farmers are making the most of their
opportunities in poultry keeping. A
few farmers have taken up the busi-
ness seriously, but the majority have
not given it the attention its income
merits. Recently the'writer has had
occasion to study quite thoroughly the
effects of the high prices of grain
feeds and by-prod’ucts upon the poul-
try industry, especially in the Eastern
states where the business is highly
specialized. As a result of restricted
range and/ soaring prices of feeding
materials the business is in a state of
chaos. The efforts to build up a
proﬁtable poultry industry, without
making provision for an ample supply
of suitable foodstuffs have failed.

To make poultry keeping proﬁtable
enough hens should be kept to make

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it a serious undertaking, one worthy‘

of painstaking effort, the success of
which will bring results s11ﬁicient_to
stimulate enthusiasm. The small
flock should be kept if that is all the
conditions will permit, butlhe larger
numbers will make it possible to de-
vote more time to looking after the
poultry and ﬁndng better markets for
the eggs and poultry.

The choice of breeds depends upon
the demands of the trade one is sup-
plying. Mixed ﬁocks do not produce
uniform products, and mixed products
sell at a. disadvantage on any market.
It is folly for farmers to attempt to
work up a fancy trade for eggs or
dressed fowls while keeping a ﬂock of
mixed fowls. With a. ﬂock of uniform
well-bred fowls one can sell eggs for
market, a few eggs for hatching. babv
chicks for breeders and the old stock
for market or for breeders. While
those who keep mixed ﬂocks must de-
pend upon the sale of eggs and stock
for market. These face should be suf-
ﬁcient to prove the value of the well-
bi'ed ﬂock in ﬁnding proﬁtable mar-
kets for the products. "

it is useless to talk to some farmers
about the superior qualities of pure-
bred stock, or to try and convince them
that egg or meat production will be
greater from pure-bred than from
grade slick. So many of them have
had disgusting experiences with pure-
bred stock of low vitality and infer-
ior breedng that they are ready to
condemn pure-bred stock in general.
if such a. belief or experierce is true
it is the result of selecting the foun—
dation stock of breeders whose birds
lack stamnia. size, bone and maturity.
The man who is buying foundation
stock should know what to look for.
Vigor or vitality is of ﬁrst importance
in establishing a ﬂock. Never buy
eggs for hatching or birds for the
breeding pens from ﬂocks that, con,-

  

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or poorly developed; when“ .
.VBuy of some poultryman who has
plenty of range for his fowls and who
.has established a. reputation for breed-
ing along utility lines. Buying eggs
or breeding stock from some nearby
poultryman is often better policy than
sending away for culls of low vitality
from some fancier whose only claim.
of distinction is the fact that a few of
his birds have won prizes at poultry
shows.

The ability of the different breeds
as egg producers seems to be a matter
of care and feed more than of breed.
As a general rule it may be\said that

 
  

the more active, smaller breeds are.

more proliﬁc layers than the heavy
birds, while the intermediate breeds to
a certin extent combine the laying

tendencies of the smaller breeds with '

them beat producing tendencies of the
heavier breeds. In studying condi—
tions on various farms, it may be said
in a general way that pure bred ﬂocks
are given more attention than mixed
ﬂocks. The pride which the farmer
has in a uniform ﬂock whose breed
type is to his rarticular fancy is a
very good reason for this, and the
better care is usually the key to he
better performance. A uniform ﬂock
of poultry is a farm asset. It adds
to the interest and attractiveness of
the business.

Let any farmer who grows corn.
oats. buckwheat, kafﬁr corn, clover
and alfalfa and who keeps cows get
pure bred hens of good strain; thn
breed does not. out any ﬁgure,—-feerl
them these feeds in proper propor.
lions along with sour milk, feed the
grain mixture both ground and no
ground once a day, give the hens ﬁne
clover and alfalfa shatterings to pick
over during the winter, furniish them
with good houses and abundant range.
grit and pure water and he can make
tl.em produce an average of 150 eggs
in a year or something like $1.50 pro-
ﬁt for each hen in the ﬂock. Get
the pullets out in April, keep them
growing so they will be ready to lay
in the fall and the next fall :iave
enough pullets to take the place of
one-half of the older hens. selling the
two year old liens and inferior year—
lings in the market at the time the.v
begin to moult, and he can make more
not proﬁt from his 300 hens than
from any other similar investment.

In his efforts to prmluce as much
of the feed as possible the farmer
poulti'yman may ﬁnd it peoﬁable at
times to buy a limited amount of
certain feeds, such as scratch feeds.
chick feed. meat scraps and the like,
to increase the efﬁciency of his home
grown feeds, but with the exception of
meas scraps very little purchased feed
will be needed to maintain the flock
at maximum egg production during:
the year. The-logical solution of cheap
growth and egg production is the
growing of suitable feeding materials
and proportioning‘ them in such way
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Silver Fly 4th 58358. Born Oct. 31, 1901. Has. dropped ﬁfteen calves, having
dropped twins at. two different times. Now in her 13th milking period, Ill] has
produced to Dec. 1, 1917, l39,771.7 lbs. milk, and is. still going good. She is; again

in calf and is due to freshen in May.

8110 has a sister that has produced over

169,000 lbs. of milk. She has four A. R. 0. daughters, three [with records of over
20.1bs butter in 7(luys. Her own ofﬁcial record is, milk 7 (1., 521.2 lbs.; butter,_

21.174 lbs. Owned by R. Bruce McPherson. Howell, M’ich. '

  

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Farmiers are demanding to know
whether livestock Will return a proﬁt
at“ present prices of feeds. “Heavy
and Light Grain Rations for Patten
ing Steers,” “Cost of Production of
Management of‘Hogs," and “Various
l'ses of the Self-Feeder for Fatteriing
Hogs" are experiments which are un-
der way at the University of Misouri
College of/Agriculture. These inves-
tigations will answer the questions
which hundreds of livestock produc-
ers are asking.

Forty head of cattle and about 100
head of hogs were placed on feed De-
cemeber 15. A meeting of producers
will be held in Columbia, Mo., dur-
ing the latter part of April when these
hogs and cattle will be ready for mar-
ket. They will be appraised and“the
results of the experiment will be avail-
able at that time. This meeting will
be of interest to every livestock pro-
ducer, because the data which will
_be presented will have been obtained
under conditions with which practic-
ally every feeder has to sontend.

The pigs which 'are'be’ing used in
this experiment were farrowed in the
spring of 1917 and were carried thru
the summer on a light grain ration.
They weighed about 100 pounds at
the beginning of the experiment. These
pigs are a part of a lot used in the
experiment to determine the cost of
production. Some of the 1917 pigs
were fattened and were sold Novem-
ber 26. These experiments will give
some idea of the relative cost of mak-
ing pork when pigs are marketed in
the fall or in the spring.

Seventy—two head divided-into live lots
are being fed as follows:

LOT 1. Shelled corn 9 parts. Shorts
2 parts. Tankagc 1 part.

The shelled corn is fed dry. The shorts
and tankage are mixed with water just
before feeding and fed once daily as a
slop.

LOT 2. Ground corn 9 parts, Shorts
L’ parts, Tankage 1 part.

This lot. is fed exactly the same man-
l'It-l‘ as Lot 1', and she. only difference in
the rations is that the corn is ground for
lint 2. _

LOT 3. Ground corn 9 parts, Shorts
L’ parts, Tankage 2 parts.

The ration is fed as a slop twice daily
and 1is mixed with water just before it
is fer.

LOT 4. Ground corn 9 parts. Shorts
2 parts, Tankage 1 part.

This lot is fed just the same as Lot
f: .and in adition has access to a self—feed—
cr which contains the same ration.

LOT 5. Self-fed, Ground corn. Shorts.
and Tankage.

Each feed is paced in a separate fecrlcr
so that the hogs can eat what they they
desire. .

The cattle feeding work is a contin-
uation of the last three years‘ work
a report of which is given in Missouri
Bulletin 150. The object of the test
is to determine thc economy and efﬁ-
ciency of rations containing different:
quantities of shelled corn and old pro—
cess linseed oil cake when fed in con-
nection Willi corn silage and clover
hay for fattening steers. The cattle
are divided into ﬁve lots of eight
head each. They received the follow
ing rations:

“LOT 1. Shellcd corn, full fccd. Corn
S. 21111".

'l.insced oil cake (1 lb, to 6 lbs. corn.)
(‘loycr hay.

TNT 2. Shelled corn (one—half ration.)
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- aye.) Corn. snag, .

Linseed oil cake. (same amount as Lot
1.) Clover hay. '

LOT 4. Linseed ol‘l cake (same mount
. Com silage. Clover hay.

LOT 5. Linseed oil cake (average 5
lbs. per head daily. Clover hay. Corn
silage. _,

The test is to be run about 1.30 days,
at the close of which the cattle will
be appraised and sold in the market
by lots as fed.

The cattle are allowed all of the
corn silage and clover hay they will
eat. With a light grain ration it is
found that the consumption of rough-
age is increased and generally more
economical gains in live weight are
made. The extent to which the grain
ration may be proﬁtably limited will
be of interest and should he observ-
ed by cattle feeders at the close of
the test.

PRESEET AND FUTURE
LIVE STOCK INDUSTRY

(Continued from rage 8)
to feed her people. She will probably
also require numbers of livestock to
replenish her depleted ﬂocks and
herds. The demand from Europe for
live stock products should continue
good at fair prices.

“Of the producing countries, Mexi-
co has been rapidly exhausting her
supply of meat producing animals,
pending the restoration of stable gov-
ernment. It will probably be some
years before Mexico becomes a con-
siderable factor in the exportation of
livestock or livestock products.

“Canada. suffering from an acute
shortage of labor, has been reducing
the number of cattle. sheep and hogs
on her farms. Canada will not have
much livestock other than hogs for
export in the near future.

“Australia and New Zeeland are re-
covering from the effects of several
seasons of scarcity of rainfall, which
greatly depleted their ﬂocks and feed.
Their production of sheep and mut-
ton which formed the basis of the
world’s supply of these products has
been greatly reduced. /

“Live stock conditions are far from
normal in South African producing
countries. Money has been scarce in
Brazil and Argentine, which coupled
with the high price of live stock, has
checked the increased production.

“This survey indicates that produc-
ers need not fear for an over-produc-
tion of‘live stock ini this country for
several years. .

“it is reasonable to expect, when
this war is over there will be a world
market at fair prices for whatever
livestock they produce.”
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it certainly hits the nail on the head ev-
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It is a splendid up—to-date paper and
one that should he in every farmers’
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Your paper is simply iinc. Every farm—
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t Elzovere Korndyke 208387, owned by A. F. Loomls of ‘0'wosso. She has a seven-day
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GRASS LAKE, MICHIGAN
Breeders of
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During January and February we offer for sale

GUERNSEYS, heifers, a few cows and
young bulls of popular breeding.

BERKSHIRES, young sows ready to

breed and sows for fall and summer
p1gs, no boars left.

POULTRY, We are selling out our S.
C. White Leghorns and will breed
only S. C. Buff and are offering several
hundred hens and pullets that are
now laying and that are first class in
every way. .

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We realize that the 1917 crop of Michigan Beans is showing
the Bean growers of Michigan low and inadequate returns This
is due to low yields per acre and the poor quality of the crop
combined with the fact that California, Colorado, and ,New Mexico
having three times as many beans as Michigan and beans of ex-
cellent quality are keeping the price of all beans from advancing
The above western states enjoyed almost ideal growing conditions
last summei and the growers of these states are getting a good
proﬁt on their crops altho dealers are buying their beans at from
$6.00 per cwt. to $11.00 while in Michigan growers as stated above
are receiving poor returns notwithstandingthe fact that elevators
are offering them $10.50 to $11.50 basis for their stock.

From our years of experience in handling beans we know
you must dispose of your Wet Beans before warm weather if you
wish to realize anything from them. Our advice would be either
sell or feed your Wet Beans during the next 1* o1ty Days. They
will not freeze dry but they will mold and spoil as soon as warm
weather comes. Make the best of a bad situation and either sell
or feedvthem before Spring else they will be a dead loss to you.

We will buy your Wet Beans.

At our following elevators where we have moisture testers and
scales to determine their actual value on any market: Chat-

   

Mam Ofﬁces, Mount Pleasant Mich

-wish to do their “bit” in the c0nservation of food by helping the farmers
' H ' of Michigan to save their

WET BEANS

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terton, and Son, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, Chatterton and 8011,
Grand Rapids, Michigan; 'Mesick Grain .00., Mesick, ”Michigan;
Buckley. Grain ‘00., Buckley, Michigan; Ellsworth Produce (30.,
Ellsworth, Michigan; Charlevoix Elevator Co.,Charlev01x,Michi—
gan; Copemish Bean and Grain 00., Copemish, Michigan; Delwin
Elevator 00., Delwin, Michigan; Wm. Allwede Elevator, Sanford,
Michigan; Shepherd Elevator 00., Shepherd, Michigan; Clare Hay
and Grain Co., Clare, Michigan; Chatterton and Son, Toledo,‘0hio;
Centerville Elevator Co., Centerville, Michigan.

If you do not live in the vicinity of one of our elevators write
us how many beans you have to (offer and the name of your local
elevator to whom you usually sell. We will take the matter up
with them and see if we cannot make arrangements to handle 3’ our
Wet Beans thruthem. ‘ Better act before it is too late. If you w ish__
to know anything about our reputation for square dealing and our
1eliability, we refer you to any bank or bankers or the publishers
of this paper. We are now operating three large and modern
dryers located at Mt. PleaSant, Grand Rapids, and Toledo, Ohio.

Speculate 011 your dry beans if you think the market will be
higher in the spring but sell your Wet Beans now or soon.

Seed Beans will be scarce. Do not wait too long to get your
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We are state distributing agents for all feeds manfactured by this Company and if you can-
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cattle and hogs), Sterling Horse Feed, Red Star Feed (for cattle, horses and hogs) Green Cross
Horse Feed, Sterling Scratch Grain or Prize Winner Scratch Grain for Poultry, Sterling Chick

Feed or Prize Winner Chick Feed, write us, giving the name of the feed you wish to purchase
and the address of the elevator or feed'dealer with whom you wish to place the order and we will
arrange to have you supplied. These feeds are not surpassed by any other brands on the market»

CHATTERTON & SON

State Distributors, Mt.

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2‘ »-BREEDERS '

meg to the delay of trains the
annual meeting and banquet of the
Holstein- Friesian Breeders', held in
the parlors of the Lansing Plymouth
Congregational c‘ urch, Tuesday eve-
ning, Jan. 15, was attended by only a
medium- sized crowd.

Mr. Pelletier, being held up some-
where between New York and Detroit,
Prof. Anderson of M. A. C. acted as
toastmaster. The ﬁrst speaker, Dean
Shaw of M.” A. 0., said in part:

-:‘The situation that confronts us to-
day is very unusual. It is a regret-
table fact that only those \.ho are on
the land and ﬁnancing agriculture
realize what the farmers of today are
facing. The general tendency of our
agriculture is unbalanced and we have
an unusual situation so far as live
stock is concerned. There never has
been a time when there were so many
big problems in farm management as
at the present time, and many things
that were true a few years ago W111
not apply to conditions today.

"You people Will ﬁnd lots of room in
Michigan for good dairy cows and it
is. to be supposed that the majority
will not become interested in pure
bred dairy cows. The more I study

the present situation the more I be-'

come impressed with the necessity of
producing a system of diversiﬁed ag-
riculture in which the dairy cow is
concerned. In our future dairy farm—
ing we must regulate the size of the
dairy herd and the—farm to meet the
great labor problem in keeping cows.
We must make the business sort of
a family proposition.

“Small farms well tilled do not ﬁt
the situation very well. Overhead
charges diminish as the farm increas
es in size. The farm which is ideal
in size permits of keeping at least 8
or 10 good dairy cows and maintain-
ing a suitable rotation of crops; a
place for the progeny of 2 to 4 brood
sows and from 75 to 100 hens The
farmer has a great advantage over
the small poultry farmer in feeding
his ﬂock at a low cost.

“In keeping black and white cows
the farmer can make good money by
growing a few beef animals. Adi-
versiﬁed system of farming by which
a variety of animals are kept so as to
provide labor distribution and permit
soil improvement and a steady income
seems to us a little softer than special
crop mowing

“With only one cow to 24 acres of
land in the state of Michigan we have
hoof fo1 more dairy cOWs and when it
(omes to the farmer the black and
white cow ﬁts in very nicely. ”

1m. nrxrny. STATE VETERINARIAN

“This is a serious time in the his-
tory of the country. 'It behooves ev-
ery one of 11s to produce everything
that will sustain 11s or our allies to
the best advantage. Many dairy farm-
ers are selling their cows because
they can ﬁnd a ready market for their
feeding crops This is to be regretted
and I feel that we ought to be willing
to sac1iﬁce a little money, in order
to help produce foodstuffs.”

3“. W. \VENTWORTH, BATTLE CREEK

“1 got most of my knowledge of ag-
riculture thru experience in handling
a check book. I feel that, at the pres-
ent time we should view farming in
the light of what we can raise. We
must view the problem from‘the stand-
point of our boys who are ﬁghting
our battles, for all of these boys and
our allies are lookin to us for food.
I think that we all ought to improve
our waste land and to get all we can
out of it. Not by g10w1ng too many
acres of special crops, but by doing
the best, we can. There is a lot of
land and a lot of ways in whirh we can
do a lot better by utilizing 11 aste land
and not trying to do more than we can
do right.”

M. LI. HARPER

“It seems to me that the Holstein-V

Friesian breeder has passed thru two
or three unproﬁtable years and that
the times have been discouraging, and
I believe it is up to us to stock because
there are better times ahead. Mone
than 15 per cent of the common cows
in the state of Michigan have been
sold the past year and I believe that
a larger per cent will be sold this

' (Smiths-J ear. I believe that we have
the greatest sterage of dairy pro-
ducts that we have ever faced I
look for better prices for dairy pro-
ducts and dairy cattle for the next few
years than we have ever experienced
before.”

SHALL I FEED OAT STRAW
TO MY DAIRY COWS?

“I have plenty of oat straw and sil-
age, but my hay crop was light. Would
you advise feeding straw to my dairy
cows or buying hay at $20 per ton?
Also advise me your ideas of econom—
ical winter feeding.”——L. H. D.. Lifch-
ﬁeld, Mich.

Oat-straw is not generally recogniz-
ed as a valuable food for the dairy

‘ cow; yet if given in moderate amounts

every two or three days they will
clean it up with a relish, whereas
if given them exclusively as a rough-
age they will push it over the man-
ger and become as thin as a string
of shad. We have seen the weak,
emaciated, straw-fed cow that had to
be helped on her feet in the morning
in the early spring, and if grass-grow-
ing was delayed too long the only
pay she could give for her winter’s
feed was her hide. Yet well-fed dairy
cows relish a light feeding of oat—
straw after a big mess of corn silage.
Feed experts tell us it is too much
work for the cows to get the nourish-
ment that is in the straw, and the
emaciated condition of the straw-fed
cows in the spring substantiates the
claim, but that is not the whole story
Every observing feeder knows that
except in rare cases, the roughage
grown on the farm is the cheapest
part of the dairy cow's ration, and a1-
so that the dairy cow is especially
built to handle large quantities of
roughage. \.

If the roughage ration is made up
largely of clover or alfalfa hay and en-
silage, with a little oats and pen—hay,
corn-stover and other roughage to
make up three-fourths of the dry mat-
ter of the ration, the cows will come
out in the best condition and we will
secure the most proﬁts of dollars and
cents. Heavy feeding of grain may

‘make a better showing on the milk-

sheet but not in the net profit, except
with those dairy farmers who live
nearby desirable markets where they
can sell their hay and dairy products
01' higher prices than those who live
farther back. If the roughage is tough
and ﬁbrous, the proportion of concen-
trates must be larger. Just how to
proportion the rou hage and grain ra-
tions depends in ﬁgreat measure up-
on the cow's capacity to handle it
properly. About tWenty pounds of dry
matter may be derived from a good va-
riety of roughage and from six to ten
pounds from the. concentrates. With
these proportions in mind, and with
a table giving the digestible nutri-
ments of the various other materials
used in feeding. it should not be
troublesome to make 11p rations that
will give good and proﬁtable returns.

The various feeding tables are valu-
able and we need them in making up
suitable rations for our cows;. but un—
less we study the individual needs of
our cows and try and approximate
them, we are sure to be dissappointed
in the results. A nation may be 11ear~
ly right from a. mathematical stand-
point, but if not palatable the cows
cannot give their best returns. The
wide variety of feeds and by-product
materials on the market makes it
Very important that dairy farmers
devote attention and study to making
up palatable and healthful rations.

In all our home grown grain-feeds
the proportion of pure food nutri-
ments is associated with crude ﬁber
in such a way as to make them heal-
thy and palatable for our animals.
The manufacturer, on the other hand,
removes more or less of oné or more
of these nutriments which therefore,
leaves. the proportion of the constit-
uents greatly unbalanced

(No'rn: Questions on any dai1y or
feeding problem will be gladly answer-
ed by our Live Stock Editor. Address
communications to Live Stock Ser-
vice Bureau, M. B. F., Mt. Clemens.)

 

 

R‘OBT R PONTE“ & sour;

Breeders of Regulated Holstein-Fawn Cattle
Stock for sale at all times DEARBORN, MICHIGAN

References: Dearborn State Bank, Wayne Savings Bank, Wayne Mich. Dime
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DO YOU \VANT A GOOD BULL CALI“, A HEIFER OR A COW?
CORIE AND SEE US.

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Jersey Cattle

\Ve have daughters of Majesty ’s Wonder 90717, as son of Royal
being bred to MajeSty’ s Oxford Fox 134214, a gr.
son of Imp. Oxford Majestys, the daughter of this cross are bred to
Eminent Lady’s Majesty’s a son iof Majesty ’s Eminent Lady, a
daughter of Royal. lIIajesty, the sire of 52 tested daughters.
constantly 011 test for R. of M. and regularly tested for tuberculosis.

When in need of a sire to head your herd get a Majesty that

means type and production.

ALVIN BALDEN

CAPAC, MICHIGAN

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Fred Brennan, Capac, Mich.

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His dam produced 737.7 lbs. of butter as :1 Jr. 2 yr. old.
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offers 1500 bushels of. choice worthy oats
for spring seeding. Bright, clean and heavy,
treated for smut last year.

OUR PRICE $1.25 PER BU. RECLEANED F. 0. B. HOWELL
Bags extra. Write

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Michigan Business Farming Will convince you that it pays to ad-
No publication ever received a more
cordial 1eception than has been acunded this paper during the
brief period of its cxistance. There care thousands of land farmers
in Michigan who ought to be raising live stock commercially.
up to the breeders to acquaint these farmers with their live stock
This cannot be better done than thru the columns of
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Extracts from Addams by George S Taylor delivered before the

Michigan Jersey Cattle Club, East Lansing, Jan.16,1918

In recalling the different states and

. the things for which they are noted
‘ agriculturany, we ﬁnd that each state,
. as we recall it, is noted for some one

thing. For instance, as we think of

‘ Illinois, we think of soil research

work. As we think of Iowa, we think

of corn breeding work.- As we think of?

Wisconsin we think of dairy work,
among dairy breeds. As we think of
Michigan we realize that Michigan was
the founder of the cooperative testing
associations, and Minnesota, from
whence I came, is noted for co-opera-
tive creameries and many other things
done in a cooperative way, a few of
which I am going to tell you.
Minnesota is the mother of the co‘
operative creamery. Years ago Minne-
sota was in the hands of the central-
izers. They had the state divided up
so they didn’t tread upon each others’
toes, and they paid the farmer for his
product just what they pleased. Then,

a few Dane farmers in the neighbor-'

hood of a little town known as Clark’s
Grove, conceived the idea of making
their product up in a co- operative way
and thus putting it on the market. The
Minnesota University took up the mat-
ter later and encouraged other com-
munities to follow this one until with-
in a few years the largest part of the
creameries in our state were built on
the co- operative plan This was back
in 1891 and 1892.

There is another cooperative enter-
prise that was launched later in that
state with which I am more conversant
for the reason that it was launched in
the town in which I live. Litchﬁeld.
Minn. is given credit by the United
States Department of Agriculture for
having organized and maintained suc-
cessfully the ﬁrst livestock shipping
association. I happened to be directly
connected with the club under which

‘ it was founded. and know of all the ob-

stacles with which its founders had to
contend. For instance, I remember
duringthe ﬁrst year of being offered
more money than my stock was worth
at the terminals by shippers who wish-
ed only to be able to say that they had
purchased stock from an ofﬁcial of the
shipping association and thus break
down the organization.

Over in Wisconsin there is a little
organization known as the Waukesha
County Jersey Cattle Club. This was
founded some ten years ago by about
a dozen breeders who wished to bring
their stock before the public eye and
thus help themselves and their breed.
Today. that club numbers 12:"; mem-
bers. has some overt4.000 head of cat-
tle, and has sold cattle all over the
world. What they have done any oth-
er breeder’s association can do it it
goes at it in the right way.

Now. to bring this club down to our
own club and our own way of doing
business. I want to tell you what the
American Jersey Cattle Club has been
doing and is doing at the present time.
Years ago the words “Jersey Cow" and
“dairy cow” were synonymous. It was
then the only real dairy breed, and the
members of the club had all they could
do to supply and demand for their cat-
cle. As time went 011 they became
very conservative. They thought the
breed didn‘t, need advertising nor ex-
ploiting in any way. and they didn't.
do any of the things which we call a
purl of publicity. This lead to a grad-
ual relaxation on ‘Ihe parts of the
breeders and when newbreeds came
in and were exploited. the breeders
who were coming on at that time. took
lip with these new breeds to the det-
riment of the older breed. However.
within the past few years the ofﬁcials
of' that club have seen their mistake
and have gone resolutely to work to
remedy it.

Now. in order for this extension
work to do the most good and in fact,
where it would be of any use at all.
it is necessary that the state clubs, the
county clubs. and the individual breed-

, ers co-operate in the best possible man-

ner with the parent. association. In
this matter of co-operation. I wish to
mention several things. The ﬁrst. is
a matter of advertising in the different
farm 'papers. You will notice on read-
ing any of these farm papers that the
ads. of the Jersey breeders are collect-
ed in one place and are preceded by
good- sized ads of the club calling at-
tention to the advertisers below Now

the mane advertisers, the more atten-

tion. wilt be given this space. Then
it seems to me. that another way in
which this can be handled is by arti-
cles written for focal papers by indi-
vidual business cards, by the use of
prmted letterheads, and many such
other ways. Last, but by no means
least, is the Registry ct Merit work.
If we are going to advertise we must
have the goods to advertise, and we
must know what those goods are. and
how We can tell the other fellow wh‘at
we have unless we are dead sure our-
selves? Therefore, we must test our
cows and know whereof we speak.

The American Jersey Cattle'CIub is
doing a great work. but it needs the
help of all of us. and it is only by viv-
ing our best thought and\our best work
to aiding it in its advertising scheme
that we can hope to gain the ends for
which we are all striving.

BRENNEN FARM PURE
BRED JERSEY CATTLE

 

 

Brennan Farm situated three miles
northwest of Capac, Michigan began
the breeding of pure bred Jersey cat-
tle about ﬁve years ago. While this
herd is comparatively small in num-
bers the owners pride themselves on
the fact that they have some of the
highest producing cows in St. Clair
county. During the month of Novem-
her 1M" they maintained a herd aver
age of 45.56 pounds of butter fat, and
during the month of December they
did even better than that because
when the association cow tester pre-
sented his ﬁgures they showed that the
herd had gone over the 50 pound but-
ter-fat mark.

These cattle are milked twice a day
and are housed in an ordinary dairy
barn where the conditions have not
been favorable for heavy milk pro-

, duction.

The aim in breeding at this farm is
that of breeding strictly line bred Maj-
estys. Eminent Lady’s Majesty heads
the herd: his dam as a two year .old
Jr. heifer produced 737 pounds of
butter fat in one year.

While they are only doing co-opera—
tive cow testing work this year they
are making plans to go into Register
of Merit work. and while to them it.
is going to be a new ﬁeld they are
conﬁdent that they have the cows that
will go well above the 000 pounds of
butter fat mark.

MAXIMUM PRODUCTION
NOT ALWAYS PROFITABLE

(Continued from pagc 20)

the cows to gather a large share of the
food. Now, my point in our new dairy
farming is this——Ihat we want to talk
more about soil culture and crop grow-
ing and less about milk records and
balanced rations until we get our
dairy farms squarely on a self-support-
ing basis. When we succeed in doing
this we shall be in position to make a
fair proﬁt from our business.

Under our new dairy farming in
which the farms feed the cows. an
acre of ripe corn will yield from eight
to twelve tons of silage. A cow will
eat :10 lbs. of silage a day for 250 days.
which means about six and one-fourth
tons. or the corn from about three-
fourths of an acre of land. In addi-
tion to the silage she will eat. say ten
pounds of hay: this will call for 2.500
pounds. or the product. of one-half acre
of fairly good land. For the same per-
iod of time she will need six pounds .of
grain a day. as a safe. proﬁtable
amount. or 1.500 pHunds for the 250
days. Fairly good. average land will
yield ﬁfty bushels of outs to the acre.
of thirty—two pounds each. if fertiliz-
er is used. Better land will yield more.
This calls for one acre. We have now
a total of two and one-fourth acres. In
other words, a twenty-cow dairy can be
kept on 45 acres for .2550 days. The
one hundred and ﬁfteen intervening
days will require grass or soiling crops
from one acre to one and one-fourth
acres. This gives us a total of just
three and one—half acres required to
beer] a cow under just good, wholesome
farm conditions. Suppose we put an
another half acre and call it four acres
to the cow and make the farm self—sup‘
porting. Many farms are doing this.
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The Bay City ‘Poultry Show opens '

January 24th and continues unt" the
' evening of the 29th. ,
Village Farms, Grass Lake, Mich

consists Of 400 acres of land devoted
to raising Guernsey cattle and Berk-
shire hogs. In a recent letar to our
Live Stock Service B11reau,- Mr. G.
W. Allen, General Manager reports
his stock in ﬁne condition and sales

satisfactory.
O

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One of our new advertisers M. A.

F. Loomis oi Owosso reports that two

of. his cows have made records of
29 42 pounds of buter and 20. 62 pounds
of butter in seven days. The latter
record was made by a. three year
old heifer. Mr. Loomis used a
milking machine during both tests
and states‘ that it gives entire sat-
let-action.
O 0 I

Palatabli and'_ nutritious rough-
age is the hope of the future for milk
and meat-making stockw Grainr' for
human food can not be spared for
stock feeding. Feeds formerly wast-
ed on many of our farms, ust now
become the reliance for maintaining
our herds and ﬂocks.

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Seed shortage is confronting farm—
ers. It: is not onlya ashortage of seed
corn, but of small grains. clover. 11111—
let and alfalfa. While some of the
country’s experts claim the 1 is suf—
ﬁcient to avoid a catastrophe there is
danger of many farmers being unable
to secure good seed if they delay
buying it until just before planting
time. There will be no shortage of
seed for those who put in their sup—
ply in season.

1' $ .

At present prices for grain feeds
and labor sheep are sure to ﬁnd new
homes on many forms where other
live. stock cannot be kept at a proﬁt.
No other animal can make so proﬁt-
able use of cheap home-grown feds
without running feed bills and labor
charges up to a point where proﬁts
are impossible. With prices for both
wool and mutton soaring to a level
without precedent in the history of
the. trade it is 'no longer necessary to
harp on the proﬁts which accrue from
keeping a moderate sized ﬂock of
sheep on the ordinary diversiﬁed farm.

S n: at 1t

\Vith a decrease in the hog pop-
ulation and the average weigh‘ at
slaughter falling off it is plain to
scc the results of immature 'brced-
1115: 211111 lack of fee It is mighty
oblivious that we need some sane
work on the part of those interested
in our corn and pork problems if
the American hog is to win the war.
Pounds of high grade pork and not
the number of immature pigs market—
ed must be the slogan of any effort
for an increascll production of pork.

*- a: no:

111 discussing his transition from
grade to 1111's bred dairy cattle Mr.
Robert R. Pointer of the well known
ﬁrm of Robcrt R. Point & Son.
breeders of pure bred Holstein-Friesan
cattle, said: “I. had been keeping a
lot of grade cattle on. my farms in
Wa‘yne county for several years. The
29111 of last June I attended :1. public,
sale of Holstein cattle. I lookc'l lhc
animals over carefully and decided
then and there that such cows ould
not consume any more feed than my
common ordinary grade cows. I
therefore proceeded to buy twenty
head at this sale. and I did not pick

out cheap one: either, but the best
in the sale.
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lit at appointing, a Commis-

was the cheapest a ﬁnal I have pur-
chased. She had a record oi? 654.1
pounds of milk and 31.69 pounds of
butter in Seven days;
that I was righ, I sold»this cow re-

cently- for $2,500, so when you buy

Holstein cattle buy those that have a
record that means something. In se-

‘Iecting my foundation here I have

been very careful to purchase animals
with credible records or that have an-
cestors that have made credible rec-
ords, both as milk and butter- tat pro-
ducer-.s To prove that I am- on the
right track in beginning my breeding
operations I invite personal inspec-
tion of my yearlings and two— —year olds.

“I ﬁnd that it is just the same with
a cow as it is with an automobile
You have to. have size and machinery
there to make the milk, if you want to
get heavy production I cordially in-
vite the public to visit my farm and
look over my stock at any time.’

HOGS CAN BE FED AT
PRESENT FEED PRICES

 

Farmers have been asked to increase
pork production by breeding more
sows and by feeding the present sup-
ply to greater weight. Will it pay
to feed hogs at the present prices of
corn and hogs?. This question is an-
swered by the experience of actual
feeding operations. The University of
Missouri College of Agriculture con-
ducted a feeding expcriment last sum-
mer to obtain information which would
answor such questions. Seventy-three
head of Poland-China pigs. farrOWed
in April and May. were placed 1 feed
about July 1 s1 that they could be
marketed during the International
Livestock Exposition at Chicago the
ﬁrst week in December.

These pigs weighed 34 pounds each
when started on feed. They were full
fed on corn, 9 parts, shorts. 2 parts.
and tankage, 1 part. The, shorts and
tankage were fed in a slop once each
day. The pigs were on rape forage un-
til the forage was exhausted. Corn
was Fed by hand twice. each day.

A summary of the grain fed and
gains made shows that these pigs made
a pound of pork on 3.9 pounds of the
grain mixture. Figuring corn at $1.—
40 per bushel on the farm. shorts at
$9 75 per hundred. and tankage at
$90 per ton. the gains cost $11.15 per
hundred. not including the rape pas
ture.

The pigs weighed 202 pounds per
head on the Chicago market. and sold
for $18.50 per hundred. Allowing $2
per head for pasture for ”11 season.
and not including marketing expcnse.
these hogs netted $10.34 per head. or
a. total of $754.82 clear proﬁt. Had
these bogs sold at, $16.50 instead of
$18.50, the proﬁt would have been prac-
tically $7 per head. Figuring mm at
$1.68 per bushel instead of $1.40. the
proﬁt is $7. 72 per head at a selling
price of $18.10 or $4.30 pcr her not
when sold at $16.50.

These ﬁgures do not illtislrulc ey-
tremes. but rather the average of what
may be expected by good feeding :1an
management. The rations used and
method of feeding are common to ev—
ery good feed lot. Following 'ch
practice is the surest way to two'il in
the bog business.

 

 

  

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CATTLE

E. L. SALISBURY

SHEPHERD. MICH.
Breeder of purebred
Holstein-Friesian Cattle
Young bulls for sale from A. R.
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prices. Mark B. Curdy, Howell. Mic. 11.,
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HOGS
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quality. Prices reasonable

Registered free and will ship C O. D. Floyd
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John W.

and bred gilts for sale.

Snyder. 11. 4.. St Johns Mich.
Choice young boars ready
for service; also fall lugs

0. I. C. either sex; sired by 1st

prize yearling boar Mn 11 State Fair 1917
lj;loy\"er {1821f Stool; Farm, Momma Mich.
L. A 0.

 

BULL CALF BORN NOV. 28, 1917

Dam is a 26 lb 4 yr. old Gra ddaughter of King
layne Segls Flus calf‘s dam, site‘s dam. dams site's
dam and sire‘s site‘s dam average 30.13 lb. in 7 day,

PRICE $125.00

JAY B. 'I'OOLISY HO\V’ICI.I.. MICH'

 

 

 

VI' (”A ERIN!" STOCK I".\I{.\I

I‘OR SALE, a beautifully mark»
cd bull (alt’ born Aug. 5’1. 1917. Sirc
JUdgc Walker I’ictcrjc whosc first
five dams are 30 pound ((1\’\\ hi:
dam 21 24 pound i v2'c11—old 1:111111-
duughter of King of 1111 l’io11t21c
and second dam 21 Eli pound 1'(1\\‘.
This calf will please you.

Price, $2011. '

'1‘. I". SP1! \( l l

Route 2. Battle (‘1cck.1\lill1

 

 

 

 

l’ure Bl'cd and

FOR SALE Holstcill

and three yours old.

high grudc
110111 1'-: one. two
Some brcd to l'rcsh—

(:11 this spring? (‘lark lircg'ory. Hood—
11ch, Micl11g‘an_ 11.19.11. .\'o. l. . '

 

ltc gistcrcd Holsteinse -—
or a eliulls1 rﬁady for servicc,
21m 111 calves from .11
1112. 111111 and A 1'. o. 1 - 1 .
of all ages. cams, also females
Wm. Hriliin,

Howell. Miclr, II. No. 5.

FOR SALE
ccnl

FISH Holstein bull calf 90 per
white. A grandson of Maplerrcsl
lxorndykc Iicng‘cwcld who is as good
21stl1ebcst. 1321111 ll‘lS .\. l’. (l 1'c1orll 11;
lbs. butter in smcn day»: 212' tl11cc— 31111—11111
and ’l 111.1111ec \1' old daughter 11' you
\\'2111t_onc. he is chcup ut $.30. \Vritc‘for
ricscrlption.
W. (7. 11911ch & Son.

I’lnckncy. Mich

250 STEERS FOR SALE
01101;. twos. thrces. llcrel‘ords, Anun
21nd Shorthorus. 600 to 12011 lbs. (.‘hoicc
quality sorted to size. ugc 21nd brccd, 111
cur lots. VVrile your wants. C. I". '12111.
l"uirﬁcld, lowu.

HATCH HERD HOLSTEINS
\‘I’SII..\NTI We bayc bcen “hrcl‘lling'
1'11" for the past 1-11'\'1'll
yours. l'ontiac Korodyh
21nd K111}; Ix'orndyhc Sudu-
in service. Sclcl-l your 11cxl

 

 

MICHIUA N

\'21lc bulls
sirc now.

 

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.IE'IRSI'IY FARM"
M.»\.ll').\”l'\": llllc I)l'l’ll 1mg:

 

bulls 21ml lnlt'lls lm' $1111 from 1121111<
:1121' 211':- (111111.12. 1111111 [11'111 '10 lbs l21tp1»1'
1111. \\'1' lll\ll¢' in 1111111111.
l'lwl Iil'cllllall.‘up:11'. Mil-l1
HORSES

 

'1-21 1'—ol(l 1:1211'lt l't’l‘—

Hm- 3—}
or a e chcron Stallion. \ycig'hingz
1300 lbs.

also (1111' .11: ll

Stallion 111110111211' 30017. that has 11111111 .11
the head of our stud for 10 ycurs.

M. A. Rray Estatc. l‘bas. Hl'uy. Mgr.

 

I‘II{(‘H EROS STALLIONS, one 3 y1'2ll';<
. old. driycn single 211111 double. (1111- 11-11
years old. tlmv-oly brokcll singlc and (1111111.

1e. \Vlll work like 21 111:11'1'. llcuvy linlll'll
gentle fellows. Price $11111 :md $31111 1.114..“
N. llandull. hi2111cl1c<tc1h 3111-11.

’1‘ Y I’ I‘} I’OLA N 1)-
March furrow.
hitch.

I'IUIS’I‘I'IRIGI)
('HINA SOW'S.
1.11111- t‘cdur Ii‘urm.

L’Ti'iillil It‘l‘tt,‘,
For Sale .g’H“:.S_ ’ ’ "

lltimunds. Hastings,

BI“
III'I’II ftll'
l’ontiac.

J ERSIQY
Illlich.

 

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LEONARD,S :1(>:\l's.\l:1lll Signs, either 5’19):

211 1'1'21;~'1,1112111lc price. 1']. 11. Leonard. St.

 

Louis. 1\licl1.. R. No. :1.
O BRED GILTS
'l‘o VVlu. 1).. .\'o. 470-111. Imugl'cllow
pl‘iizc \ourzz

I No. 18.37") Si1'.c of lst

1221171111 1111\21 S12. 19 Pair.

C breed sclwh cubic 11021114.
J. ( -\Rl. Jill“ I) T'I

lull 11:11; 21nd

Maison, Mich.

SHEEP

OFFER. FOR KI'JM\I\DI) R ()l‘ SE. -

son a limited numbel of Strong Vigor—
nus licgislcrctl Shrop: 11111 1'21111 lambs.
good size, well coycrcd and I't’illly for
service C. Ilcmen. Dexter. Mich

A limited 1111111bcl' of
ShroPShire Ewes brcd cu'cs ; bred
right! 1’ riccs 11ght ' A son of Tanner's
ltoyul in sc1'\11c1{.1“. Mouscr. Ithaca.
Michigan.

 

 

 

Y()l‘.\'(i 111-: l. \.l\'() IWI'LS, bred. and

)‘1-1211'li11g 1121111. 5111) 00 to quick buycr.

S, ll,S:1‘1111‘lc1'.'. It No. 2. \shlubulu. (11111.1.
POULTRY

 

or Salc—j bons- 21nd
AISL) cock-

l\' 1 $71. ' .‘
COCkerelstl'i‘bl 13:2 111 $3. VVl‘lle

 

\V l‘. “csl .\ S1111. 1.21:4 housing: 11.101). 1
ARRI'JI! RIH'K ('(H'KI‘LKI'JLS {‘Ol‘ stile.
23.00 to $31111 1-211-l1 for strum wuh
«words to 21111 eggs :1 your. (.‘irculur free.
["1'cd \-'Ili!111, Constantino, Mich
BARRED ROC ( (H KI‘) RIC IS from
[’1' izc W inningr stock
Thompson strain. 213.; and $1 Yearling
l11'ccrll11u l1c11s, 182. Well Barred Sum

S’ 71111-1, (‘hOlSl'éL Michigan.

 

BIG BI'IA ("I‘IFI'L “A RR I'll)
l1c11 l1z1tcllcd 21nd sold on up—
111u|1y 211111 4 le—

()IIN'S
locks 211'1'
orovul ,1; to $10 cucll. l

 

unites $12.00 (loorl layers Circulars,
l'lll1t11>:. 1111111 Nortbon. (‘1211'c. Michigan.
USI'I (‘0.“1‘. RIIOIDI'} ISLAND R131)

(111- km Is 1111 111111-1111 g Purposes. I 1111c-
\\'11111'111g S11): 1; 5.1211111 c I>l three 1'.” $1.11”
I p21y tol' <1 1111111“. “111 .l Him-11c, Al-

 

 

 

pinc. blltll.. [‘11. No l.
MISCELLANEOUS
SIILI'IH. lilo pcl' cont
BE purity. Sumolc and
price on rcqucsl.
M'n"c1' \ I’ .1111 Nursery. Alcrrill. Mich.

 

 

Choicc seed l’cu beans. $8
S21111pllr-s on request. Otis

 

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pcr bushel.

 

it. ’l‘1'ipp, Mount l’lcusunl. Michigan.

FOR SALE FRANCIS Full — bearing
Strawberry plants $1.501) 1'

100' 1114100 [1111' 1.00”. \V. I". 'l‘indtlll,

lioync l'ily, Mich.

 

 

ford to pay.
tion.

herds. —

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DUROC JERSEY SWINE .
of good breeding and individuality,
Pairs not akin at prices you can at-
We guarantee satisfac-
VV rite us your wants.

J. G. & M. L. Noon, Proprietors

United

JACKSON

 

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80.000 00111—411111

Healthful, Convenient

Eliminates the out- house
open vault and cess moi,
which are breeding places
for germs. Hove a warm.
sanitary odorless toilet right
lnyour house. No oingout
in 03113 “39%" db 8
nva1 11.11 orse y tote
Boards of Heel th.

A 38 O LUTELY ODORLESS
Put It Anywhere In The House
The germs are killed by a chemical process in
water in the container. Empty once a month.
0 more trouble to empty than ashes. Closet ab-
solutely guaranteed: Guarantee on ﬁle in the
ofﬁce oft is publication. Ask forc .1tulog and prit e
ROWE SANITARY MFG. £0. 12401 6111 3L, BURNT,
All: obout th e Ro- Sn 1 Wuhamnd- -Hot and Cold ”m
Running Water Without Plumbing H.

 

 

 

Est. 1853 Capital $600,000.00 Inc. 1389"
Highest Prices Paid For

RAW FU RS

. Write for Fur List and 830k
on Successful T r a 9 pin 3

TRAUGOTT SCHMIDT & SONS

136-164 Monroe Ave. Detroit. Mich.

 

 

 

TRAPPERS AND SHIPPERS OF
R A W F U R S

I pay the HIGHEST PRICES on all RAW FURS. I pay
Express Charges.

I remit on receipt of goods. [also buy HIDES, TAL—

LOW. FELTS and CRACKLINGS. hides tanned

for Robes and Coats. Write for prices.

Q. HA . PP TOLEDO, OHIO, ZZZ Vance Street

REI'ERIVNCE. ---0hzo Savings Bank and Trust (,0

Dun or Bradstreet.

 

 

“’rite for special low rates on live
ftock advertising. It pays to advertise
In Michigan Business Farming.

 

 

BIT—v.- More Comfortable, 37

 

 

 

U p-to-Date Fashions

Nothing is so

uscl’ul its :1 knitting
bug. I know young mothers who 11 1~
them instead (>1 pupcr bundles 111‘ small .
\‘ulisca when they tukc llicir littlc huh-
ics Visiting. Ursulc‘x 11111: on; uscl'ul
to curry >«'\\'lllf_‘,' ILH‘lC 111111 forth lroni
the indice' .‘..11. mud on :-o lurgc illzll
tl‘H ._’ 1:111 in 11-11111 for knitting and
Emeral otlnr things 21L the rhino tinic,

No. 8.387 is :1 pretty style, cu<y to l
make. it is cut in onc hl(lt.‘, zinrl ihcr: ‘1
IS 2111 cxlru piccc of 11111111..r on onc '

side which pulls out to form .111 apron.
Thus it is 21 knitting bug and an apron
at tho sumo time. This Would make
an approprizttc birthday gift.

llavc you cvcr tried {(1 Work in over—
alls? 1 had a neighbor “now who al—
ways did her house Work in her gym—
nasium suit. and shc said if I eye-1‘ got
used tum wearing bloomers to do my
work in work in l’d ncvcr wcztr zany»
thing cl<e. She always had a bunga—
low apron to slip on in ('39? anyone
came. The overall pattern numbered
8583 comes in sizes 2. 4. 6. 8. H1, 12.
14 and 10 years. The bloomers may
be long or short and they are button-
ed all around to the short waist. The
garment buttons down the front.
These make excellent play garments
for children

Here’s a coat that has exceedingly
gOod lines. It is numbered 8561. it
comes in sizes 2. 4. 6 8 and 10 years,
The coat is double—breasted and the
fronts are turned back to form rc-
,veres. This is a good style for either
'girl or boy.

These patterns are only ten cents
each.

Address. Fashion Department Mich—
igan Business Farming, Mt. Clemens.
Mich

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Dairy barns

ROSEWOOD STOCK FARM.
HOME OF HOLSTEINS

RoseWOOdS Mock Farm, the property
of D. H. Hoover, situated on the Grand
River road, one mile west of Howell,
Michigan. is devoted to the breeding
and feeding of high-class Holstein-
Friesian cattle and the growing of the
necessary food crops. to support a prof-
itable breeding and dairy businet

The dairy barn it: :1 modern building
36 x 100 ft.. well lighted, well ventil-
ated and equipped throughout with
modern st.alls..calf-pens, bull-pens, a l
labor-saving devises to facilitate the
handling of the cows and milk. An-
other modern barn. which is used for
horses. tools anduhe storage of f1 od
frons adjoins the dairy barn. This
building is 56 x 34 ft. The buildings
and silos provide comfortably for
about, 00 head of cattle, six horses and
other farm stock.

Mr. Hoover is one Of the very few
nromineut breeders of high-class dairy
cattle who have started with very little
money and depended upon his cows;
alone to pay for a farm and put the
breeding business upon a substantial
foundation. He began the‘ breeding
of pure bred Holstein cattle about 11
years ago on a rented farm in Monroe
county, Michigan At the end of 7
years: of painstaking. constructive
breeding he sold by public auction and
private sales more than 313.000 worth
of Hnlstein cattle and had a small.
but select, herd left with which to be-
gin the building up'of auo‘iirer bet ‘
Hwont. ﬁve years ago he purchased the
farm he is operating at the present
time. erecting new buildings and be—
gan breeding up his present herd. Put-
ting the story in Mr. Hoover’s own
words: “That is what the Holstein-
Friesian breed has done for me.”

Mr. Hoover’s present herd sire.
FairvieW'Colantha Rag Apple 141.297.
was born April 16th. 1914. Mr. Hoov-
91PWaS present, at. the famous Syra—
cuse sale and when Rag Apple Korn-
dvke 8th was sold to Mr. Cabana for
@5000 he was impressed with the fu-
ture of the youngr Sire and having a
little ineide knowledge of the future
opportunities coming to his sire. pur-

chased his son for $1,000. Recent
events have proved the wisdom of the
purchase of this young sire. Some of

his calves Show that Mr. Hoover is on
the right track for one of his dough—
let's took ﬁrst place and grand cham-
pionship for junior yearlings at the
Michigan State Fair in 1917. in two
entries at this fair Mr. Hoover took
ﬁrst and Junior championship with

Guernsey Cows are
prepotency and may be used to advantage in “building up" Common dairy herds. .

 

unexoelled as economical producers of butter-fat.

 

   

at Rosewood Stock Form, D. 11. Hoover, Howell, Mich. ' ..

each animal,
es.

On account of the diﬂ‘iculties in se-
curing competent help Mr. Hoover,
like many other breeders, has done
but little ofﬁcial testing during the
last few years. His records vary from
16 pound yearlings to 28 pound ma-
ture cows.

Mr. Hoover’s former herd sire, King
Pierteje Pet Canary 78,422. at the time
he purchased him, was the only 30-
pound bull in Michigan owned. bred
and developed by a Michigan man. At
the present time 'six of his daughters
are in the Rosewood farm herd. They
all show type. quality and possess the
ability to produce profitably. Other
cows in the herd are strong in the De
Koll line of breeding.

The junior herd sire at Rosewood
farm is Utility Hengerveldt Segis, a
son Of Johan Judge Hengerveldt and
Clover Farm Mercena Segis. This
young sire comes from a double cross
of the King Segis blood and gives
promise of developing into one of the
great bulls of this popular line of
breeding. He is an outstanding indi-
vidual. of ﬁne type, color-markings and
general make up.

Mr. Hoover is a practical dairy
farmer as well as a. progressive breed-
er of pure—bred cattle. At no time
since he began his breeding business
has he lost sight of the milk produc-
ingr end of the business. His ﬁrst rule
is to make his cows pay for their feed
and labor charges in production at the
pail.

in their respective class-

HATCH HERD OF
HOLSTEIN-FRIESIANS

The well known Hatch herd of H01-
stein-Friesian cattle was established
about eleven years ago by William
B. Hatch. Since that time Mr. Hatch
has consistently followed a systemat-
ic plan of breeding up his herd. By

keeping accurate production records
and selecting individuals of proper
type and conformation and mating

them V1 ith a high class sire the cows
and Vining thing 5 in the herd SllOW
wonderful uniformity and at: the same
time they are earning large divid-
ends at the. pail.

For several years back Mr. Hatch
has been using as a herd :qire 'a, son
of Woodcrest Girl Dc Koll Sarcastic
Lad. :1 son King of the Pontiacs and a
daughter of Pontiac Korndyke. The
female offspring of these matings'is
to be mated with Mr. llatch‘s new Sire
a son of King Korndyke Sadie Vale.
After studying the problem from its

many angles Mr. Hatch decided that
this was the most desirable crosses
he could make to continue his breed—
ing up policy. King Korndyke Sadie
Vale has won great distinction thru
the high average performance of his
daughters. He is sired by hing Segis
De Kol-Korndyke, a son of King Segis
anu Pontiac Clothilde De Kolldnd
His own dam is Sadie Vale Concordia
4th the largest cow of the»breed.

The dam of this new sire at Hatch
Farm has a seven day butter record
Of 34.16. She is fiom a daughter of
Sir Veeman Hengerveld and Sir Korn—
dyke Pontiac Artis. Mr. Hatch be—
lieves that not only the bull should
have a good dam, but that he should
have a balanced pedigree. King
Korndyke Artis Vale the new sire
meets these qualifications. The av-
erage seven day butter records of his
dam and sires dam is 37.61 pounds Of
butter; and of his dam and two near—
est dams 37.48; of his six nearest
dams 33.39; Of his seven nearest dams
31.71 and of his twenty nearest dams
27.83. Being over one year Old he is
in active service at the Hatch Farm.

Mr. Hatch is Secretary and Treas-
urer of the Washtenaw County Hol-
stein-Friesan Breeders’ wub which
held its salt at Ypsilanti in November.
He also represented the state on the
American commission which studied
European Clo—operative Agriculture in
1913. He was sent to study dairying
in Holland the home of the black and
white cattle for more than six hun-
dred years.

The present Outlook for beef pro-
duction in Michigan is very favorable
for many .armers who have the land
and cauital needed to maintain their
herds during these times of high—
priced grain and by-prOduct feeding
materials. Skillful feeders who take
advantage of more economical meth-
Ods of feeding have a: better chance
to make money feeding beef cattle
than under the old prices.

* ’0' t .

Country bankers should make every
effort to furnish good farmers with
funds for carrying breeding stock thru
this emergency period. Breeders of
good stock must, be encouraged and
protectedgaided and assisted that the
food supply of the country may be
conserved and increased in the RllOl‘l-
est time posible. Many farmers save
sold live stock because they have lack—
ed the necessary capital to ﬁnance
their feeding business.

 

 

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Fairvlew Colantha Bag Apple 141,297.

 

 

The senior sire at Rosewood Stock Form is

a son of Bag Apple Korndyke 8th, the famous $25, 000 bull at head of Pine Grove Farms.

STIMULA’TING INTEREST IN
ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE

(Continued from page 9)

as Canada's cornless pastures have
furnished two Grand Champions, and
some (if the ﬁnest imported and na-
"ve herd in America are produced
up there where climate and feeds are
similar to much of our upper pen-
insula.

“Of course, each and every breeder
of Aberdeen—Angus should be a boost-
er. Nothing succeeds like success,
and nothing is so contagious as
optimism ir radiated by a success-
ful breeder. Advertise with both 10-
cal and state farm papers, and let
them know when you buy or sell

ery breeder in this state to help boost
these clubs. They can help the local
high ‘school students with sugges-
tions, and perhaps in some cases can
furnish calves for responsible boys to
feed, allowing the boys to furnish
notes. or part cash for the calves, to
be repaid when the calves are market-
ed.

“Show your cattle at every fair. both
local and state if they are good enough
to win at the county fairs and are in
condition. At the fairs you advertise
both the breed and yourself, and you
meet the people who are interested in
the breed. ‘

“Carry a camera and become a good
amateur photographer who can snap
pictures good enough to use in the
farm and home papers. Perhaps you

 

 

Part of the Prized Holstein Herd of

something. If: a. load of your black-
topped steers top the market see that
the papers get an accurate account
of it. Write your natiOL al secretary
at Chicago for literature to pass a-
round among your neighbors who are
thinking about starting a. herd.
“Baby Beef Clubs are a great stim-
ulant for the younger generation our
farmers of tomorrow, and we should
.not overlook them in seeing that the
boys learn which beef cattle are the
best for their conditions. The na-
tional association will contribute priz-
es to the baby beef clubs this ear
wherever they are organized and push—
ed on a booster scale. We want ev-

 

 

 

Robert R. Pointer,” of Dearborn.

have a boy or girl who will soon
become an expert if given a camera.
and you will ﬁnd that good pict .res
sell lots of cattle by mail, adding
considerable to the pulling value of
advertising run in the farm papers.

“Briefly, raise beef cattle because
it is patriotic and pays while solv-
ing your labor problems and putting
a greater acreage of Michigan to help-
ing win the war and producing wealth.
Choose Aberdeen-Angus because they
are the beef cattle supreme as proved
by showin:r records where all breeds
have competed 011 an equal footing as
individuals and as carlot feedlot pro
ducts.”

 

 

     
   

   
  
 
 
  
   
 
  
  
  

 

 

 

 

Bessie Canary \ ale 2nd, whose record at. 4 years, 9 months wns' 489. 6 lmttndq 0‘; milk .

and 22. 64 pounds of butter.

She is a daughter of 3‘25 pound cow and brought $410.10

being the top price in the' sale October 25th, 1917 by the Howell Sales ()0 of Living-

ston County.

“rinonn Pet No. 214812 made the ﬁne 'recOrd 3o! 545 pounds of milk and

27.64 pounds of butter in seven days at '4 young, 3 months.‘;. She is from a good A. R

‘ .'-0. new and is a granddaughter of Pontiac Jewel Butter Boy.

Tooley, Howell, lilichlgun.

She is owned by Jay B.

 

 

 
 
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“We have a very good lot of young bulls comingion
that will be ﬁt for service in a few weeks.

of the" great Rag Apple Korndyke 8th.”

“We always have a number of choice females from which to make your
selections. They are all daughters of 30 pound bulls, the only kind we
use at Rosewood Farm.”

Rosewood Stock Farm
D. H. Hoover, Howell, Mich.

   

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CLOVERDALE FARM

Owosso, Mich.

Offers for sale a registered Holstein cow, 8 yrs. old. due in freshen
in April. She has a 7—day A. ll. 1). record of 18.116 111x 111111111 211111 1743.11 ll». milk.
Her dam has a record of 26.28 lbs. butter and 2nd dam El 78 lbs. S1111 also has
a 4 yr. old daughter with a record of 18.85 lbs, built-.1 and 196. 'l lbs. milk. ’l‘his
COW is a large, strong constituted animal and has given birth to 5 heifer calves

A. F. Loomis, Prop.,

“We are also offering 2 ﬁne bull calves.

Calf No. 1 born Mar. 7th, 1917 a splendid indiVidual. straight as a line and
W811 grown. just a little more black than white. She. King Sngis l onti: m Howell
3rd. No.16188OIWhose dam h: is a rec'md of 29 12 lbs. oi butter. and 6891 lbs.
milk. Dam, Elzebere [(Ullldyke l\o 208387 whose photo and record appears
elsewhere iii this paper.

Calf No. 2 born Nov. lst, 1917. mostly white, a line follow. Siro’s dam is a
25 1b. 2 yr. old. Dam is a daughter of a Ill) lb. sire and a 29,112 lb. 1111111.
Write for further information and prices.

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and Hogs from Accident and Disease.

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age of over $8,000 per month to cover losses from Fire, Theft or
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owners outside the cities, more than a Million dollars in premiums
during 1917!

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by one of the state’s best known gradu-

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tive practice for over 15 years. He Wi
welcome any inquiries from readers 0
Michigan Business Farming and will give
complete reply and advice in these col-
umns. Address all questions to Veterin-
ary Editor. Michigan Business Farming»
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I bought a cow that, has what seem-
ed to be sore teats caused from the calf
sucking, but have been unable to heal
them There seems to be lumps just
beneath the skin on her udder just at
the base of theteats and a scab forms
over these. The cow that stands next
to her in the barn seems to be getting
the same thing on her udder. —H. B.,
Hillsdalc.

Your cows are affected with a cow
pox. Milk your two affected cows af-
ter you have milked all the well ones.
Wash the udders of all the cows with
a one per cent solution of lysol both
before and after milking. This is a
valuable preventive against the spread
of the disease. After milking the dis-
eased COWS, apply a little of a benzoat-
ed zinc oxide ointment t othe ulcers on
theteats and udders. It takes from
two to three weeks for the disease to
run its course.

* at it

I have a Holstein heifer coming two
years old, expecting her to be fresh
in March. She has been in the best of
health until the past week. We have
been feeding bran and chop and also
alfalfa and hay. She began tolpass
blood in her excreta and ﬁnally it be-
came very thin and mostly blood. Her
appetite has remained good until to-
day. Can you advise what is her
trouble and what to do for her?——C. J..
M'muiclona.

Mild cases may be successfully treat~
ed with boiled ﬁaxseed or slippery elm
solutions; also give the following ev-
ery four to ﬁve hours: Salicylate of
soda; creosote. one dram! chloride of
iron. one dram. One teaspoonful cre-
olin to two ouarts of warm soft water
used as an iniection once to twice a
day is also beneﬁcial.

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l have a horse that is run down and
out of condition; eats well but (ices
not, gain. I see in M. B. F. veterinary
department you advise, giving Fowler’s
solution of arsenic one tablespoonful
fl times daily. Please tell me thrw the
M. B. F. llO".' long to keep up that
dose and what affect it will have on
them when you stops—B. F‘.. Ourosso.

Fowler’s solution of arsenic is es-
pecially useful in all debilitated condi-
tions, it should not, be given during
the progress of acute diseases. partic-
ularly when the lungs are involved.
Moderate-sized doses promote appetite
and digestion. increases cardiac ac-
tion and is especially indicated in run-
down conditions in old horses. In
anaemia it, increases both red and
white blood corpuscles, given as a
tonic i would advise one .ablespoon-
in] on the tongue with a syringe or
small bottle morning and night for
two or three weeks and no bad ef-
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We have a 3-year-old heifer that
lost her second call! about the third
month last August; was bred again
about the middle of November.
two weeks afterward she became a
little stiff. several days later her

  
  
   
 
  
  
   
    
    
   
    
   
 
   
    
    
     
     
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
 
   
    

‘ front legs became badly swollen, and
then her hind legs, the swelling being.

worse around the hoofs. Within three
or four days the skin oozed a. dark.
bloody substance; now the swelling
has gone down and skin is cracking
and peeling off. We have applied sev-
eral remedies without results. Please
advise me.—W. H., Saginaw.

The cause of this is not positively
determined from your letter. ' We
suspect you have been, applying some
instant liniments. Where skin is
cracked», apply a little lard. Keep cow
out of wet places and apply a little tar
and lard to the feet.

SHORTAGE OF HORSE .
POWER IS IMMINENT

Comparatively few persons realize
how seriously the high price of grain
feeds and the scarcity of farm labor
is effecting the supply of available
horsepower on American farms. But,
few farmers are keeping any extra

i horses or feeding the ones they have

so that they are capable of perfornr
ing a full days’ work in the ﬁelds. A
few farmers are raising colts, but
many have abandoned all breeding
operations. Some economists claim
that power-driven vehicles are respon-
sible for the slump in the horse indus-
try, but if the cost of feeds and labor
could be reduced the farm demand
for good work teams would claim any
surplus that would exist in the market
at any time.

Thousands of farmers could use
more horses to advantage if they could
afford to buy grain feeds and have
the necessary help to drive them This
shortage of horsepower is a factor
which is sure to limit the possibilities
of increasing the production of foe"l
crops for years to come». Powendriv-
en implements and vehicles are go-
ing to help out on many farms. hut
eyperience shows that, horses must be
used to supplement tractors and mo-
tor trucks. even on larva, farms. it‘
crop yields, are to be maintained and
increased. I

There never was a time when there
was a greater opportunity for the
farmer to breed 900(1 draft horses than
now. The country is short of horse-
power and this shortage is becomingr
more notir-able as the demand for t‘ood
products increases. The farmers. of
this country can raise much larﬂer
crops than they do now. ivith no cth
change in policy than more, thorough
tilling ot' the snil. in no small mea-
sure thcir production is curtailed at
present by lack of teams. The great
bulk of work being planned on our
farms all calls for more, horses. Where
are they to come. from?

 

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GENBSEE (Southeastiwb‘armers are
not doing mob except chores this cold
weather. Some are threshing beans and
others are getting up wood for themselves
while others are selling wood in the cities.
There has been an extremely large de-
mand fer wood of all kinds during the
past few days and only a small portion of
the demand has been ﬁlled. The weather

' has been extremely 001d. 20 below zero

631a day during the past week and we had
a heavy snow storm that has drifted the
roads badly. On some of the railroads
there was no train. service tor over two
days. The markets are practically dead
at this time'and nothing is movmlg. Quite
a number of auction sales are being held
this month. The fuel shortage is very
serious, some stores are running abort
hours while others are closed entirely.
The Grand Ledge milk condensary gave
out notice today that they would not
handle any more milk until Wednesday,
Jan. 23 on account of orders from the
State Fuel Administratorto close. They
have been paying $3 per hundred—C. S.,
Fenton, Jan. 17.

LENAWEE (Central)——-Bllzzard ovor
over entire county Saturday and Sunday.
Trains and electric cars annulled, which
is the ﬁrst time within the remembrance
of oldest settlers. Wheat condition is

about normal when snow came. No in-
creased acreage. Not many potatoes
were raised for market last year. Cattle
feeding and dairying principal business
of the farmers. Milk at condensary_ at
Adrian $3.20 and 18c out for hauling.

Some sheep in northern part of the coun-
ty. L. C. Judson. who completed a large
barn 40x80, last fall, had the misfortune
to lose three of his horses last week.
Four of them were taken ill and one was
saved. Investigation discovered that they
had died from arsenic poisoning. We
have not learned the particulars yet—J.
F. C., Palmyra, Jan. 14.

(JIIEBOYGAN (Wotan—Not much do-
ing here just now on account of the se—
ycre snow storm which we have been
having for the past several days. There.
are a few farmers drawing logs to the
saw mill. Wolf Bros. began operations
at their mill the lStli. They have about
350,000 ft. of maplc and beech logs to
saw this winter. The snow is about 22
inches on the level, and in some places it
is six feet deep im the roads—O. 1W. 8.,
Riggsville. Jan. 15.

GLADVVIN (Southwest)—-leorything is
snowed under. We have had one of the
worst storms in years. No trains in
Beaverton for ﬁve days and still snowing.
All the farmers can do is to shovel snow
‘and dig up wood, which is hard to ﬁnd in
this section. Some corn is being shipped
in and sells like hot cakes. Butterfat is
a good price. so is feed. so the farmer
isn’t much ahead at that, and what we
are losing on our beans and other crops
I think most of us will ﬁnd we are in the
hole. I know I am. I know of one man
who plowed under 5 acres of hay and put
the land to beans for Uncle Sam. I-Ic got
four and three—quarters bushels of beans
which picked 16 lbs. The other 5 acres ho
left to buy from which he cut 11 loads or
at least 8 tons, at the present price, $31,
and beans at $6.75. You can see how lm
came out. He said that he was done with
beans forever, i think if some of tho.
folks who are telling us to raise more
crops would come out on the farm and
take a try at it they would ﬁnd they have:

a lot to learn about farming.—-V. V. K,
Rcaverton, Jan. 17
ALLEGAN (Southeast)~—Farmers are

kept busy doing chores and shoveling the
snow to keep the roads open. Vi’catlmr
most severe with snow and wind. Farm—
crs here are not building or buyingr or
selling anything—W. F., Otscgo, Jan. l9

S.\Gl.\'A\V (\\'est)—Evcrybody shovel-
ing snow and breaking roads. Successful
furmcrs‘ school at Hemlock last Thurs—
day and Friday. They told the farmers
how to produce more and how to conserve
what they producc, but not how to make
.‘l proﬁt on what lhcy produce; that is
wlici‘c M. l2. 1“. coincs iii—M. S. G., Hom-
lock, Jun. l2.

()(‘E.\N.\ (.\'orlh)——Cold and’bluslcry.
_l,‘.o:id\' sire almost impassable John Or:-
uizin has ﬁnished 11. lino now barn. Soars
.\" Nickles Canning (To. ol" l"cnthttcr was
to have given a frcc lunr-h and coffee at
the town hall .lnn. lOlh. lo got 2i(‘l‘(’fl,l.fl‘
m the coming scuson, but on account of
laid roads the lunch and mccting was
lmHlpOlH‘tl to :1. litter daic. Evans arc bp—
iug iln-cslicd in tho ncighborhoml, VV. '\\',
(‘i'ysiul Valley. Jan.

LAPICIGR (‘West (hentral)———The wcatli~
or has been pretty cold and rough for the
past week and farmers are keeping close
to their homes getting necessary fuel. The
fuel situation is being felt rather keenly
111 this section as well as others. Most
any sort of wood is bringing a good price.
Rail wood is bringing $3.00 per cord. The
roads were closed the ﬁrst of the week
on account of the blizzard, but they are
open agam now. No produce moving and
many of the farmers are having their
beans hand—picked. The farmers in this
section are studying the income tax law
ycry can-chilly and are very much inter—
ested, but met altogether satisﬁed with it.
——(). l’., Lupcer, Jan. 1

JACKSON (South)——The worst storm
in years visited this section last Satur-
day and the roads were soon impassable.
Mail was not delivered for three days,
or until the roads were shoveled out Some
beans have been marketed at $6 a bu..
band—picked basis. Coal very scarce and
:ilmost imposible to get. Jackson grocer’s
are OlISt of sugar again—G. 8., Hanover,
. an. . ’

MONROE (\Yest Central)———The farm—
ers are busy shoveling snow and taking
care of their stock. Last Saturday, Jan.
12, was. one of the worst blizzards ever
known in southern Michigan. The'cold

 

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ranging from 16, to 20 below zero. The .

roads are blocked with ' snow in some
places to the depth of 6 ft. and it will be

some days before all cross roads are shov-V

eled out—W. H. L., Dundee, Jan. 15.
OCEANA‘ (North)——Plenty of snow in
this part; the blizzard of last Saturday
and Sunday ﬁlled the roads full again
and everything at a standstill. Not much
doing in any line of business except bean

threshing—W. A., Crystal Valley.
Jan. 18.
1A CKSO N (West ) ——The farmers are

getting up wood, drying beans and cut-
ting ice. It would look as though this
was a good year for the bean jobbers be-
cause of the heavy pick. They charge 20
cents a bushel for every pound pick. At
that rate, with beans at $6 per bu._ and 35
lb. pick one would be obliged to pay the
jobber $1 per bu. for taking them. It
looks to me as though everyone was try-
.ijng to “get" the farmer.—-B. T., Parma,
an.

HURON (Northwest)—We had a bliz-
zard on the 8th, while the rest of the
week gave us fair weather. The Farmers’
Co-Operative elevator at Elkton recently
installed a bean dryer and it is in opera—
tion. Farmers are selling their damp
beans. Auction sales have started again.
Hay and rough feed is selling high. Horse
buyers were around this \\'€€li.——G. VV.,
Elkton. Jan. 11.

LAPEER (Southeast)-Farmers haul-
ing hay and cutting wood. Weather very
cold and lots of snow. We are recover-
ing from the worst storm in years. Wheat
pretty well covered with snow; ground is
frozen very deep. Farmers selling nay.
but holding beans for higher prices. Not
many hogs being fed, no hard corn on
hand. A few steers being fed: hay and
grain too high in price for proﬁt—C. A.
13., lmlay City. Jan. 18.

TUSCOLA ((‘entraD—thd storm has
swept Thumb country. Farmers have
been two days cleaning out roads. some

frozen ears and feet.
it was from 10 to l8 below Zero ior two
days. There is nothing moving now but
cattle and sonic hogs. Farmers arc hold—

report stock with

ing oats and beans for mom iiionngnw-Tl.
B. C, Caro, Jan. 18.
BRANCH (Vorili) barium-s Slinti‘lillg

 

F2ll'lll(‘l‘< arc selling
.\'o mull for llll‘i‘t'
ali‘ S. ('2:-

snow, doing ('borcs.
some stock and wood.
days on account of the drifts;
ion City, Jan. 18.

NION’I‘CAL’M (Southwest)ﬁr'l‘lu‘l‘w i4 a
great demand for wood in this lhl‘ulll)‘,
as a small amount is being sold. receiv-
ing $3.75 and $4.00 per cord. Sonic um is
being cut and hauled for summer use, but
owing to the condition of the roads it is
moving slowly. Weatlicr is \‘cry cold.
with soil frozen to the depth of about 3
feet. Farmers are not holding pl‘oduco
except potatoes for higher prices, which
are moving slow.—H. L., Grecni'ille. Jan—
uary 18. '

IHGNZIE (Southwest)—r~'ai'mers are do—
ing chores: not much else can be done on
account of the bad weather. Farmers are
not selling anything; holding beans and
potatoes. We can't understand why po—
tatoes are 25 to 40 cents higher in other
markets than they are lll-‘l‘t‘, \Vc, can only
get $1 per hundred for No. 1 stock. Beans
steadilv going down,~—F. l\l.. Elberia, Jan-
uary 17,.

KALKASKA (SouthwesU—A severe
blizzard has swept over Kalkaska county
which has blocked trafﬁc. A good many
of the farmers have to buy food. They
are selling their stock. There is a great
scarcity of seed corn in this (’Oilllty.T-li.
ll). 8., South Boardmun, Jun. 10.

GLAD‘VIN (“'cst) Cutting wood is
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below zero this morning: clay loam is
frozen deep. Nothing much swaying :it
tho present time. li‘nrmcrs are- holding
buy, grain and beans for liig‘lini' in‘h'cs.
They are building gai'ngos and buying
autos. F. F” (Ilzidwin. .lun. IR.

BAY (Soutlicust)—-—'l‘liis lci'i'iloi'y llilS
just cxpcricnccd one of the worst bliz—
Zill'llS in its history. lionds lizu'c lit-on
blocked and no mail dclivcrz-d. Farmers
arc selling wheat and outs: buy is in
good demand. Barley ul-

3 and outs bum- :
\‘mwod 1n 1]..,-(.4....‘[3 (‘3 .\..

Jun. 18.

iiimxcu (North)—l“£tl'uml'>‘211‘“lllillllg
\\‘mui and doing (‘llill'<*>«', \‘vi'illllf‘l' Hillii'l‘
cold. About 12 lIlClll'H ol‘ :»llH\‘.‘. i“?ll'lli<‘l“i
Rollin}: some stock and grain; not holding“
anything, Green Wood is soiling :1: 4-13.00
per cord in the woods._1“. S, l'nimi il‘li‘.
. an.

CASS (NorthwestL—VYQ luid oln- of Lllt‘
worst storms we ever had in these parls
on Jan. 12. It caused grout suffering
among humans and stock, roads blocadcd.
Farmers all turned out and helped to
open the roads. No mail for two days.
Farmers are kept busy getting wood, as
,we cannot buy coal. Some farmers are
hauling green wood to town, getting $25.50
per. cord for it. Farmers are just doing
their butchering for their summer’s moat.
HVV. H. A.. Dowagiac, Jan. 18. b
_ ()TSEGO (Central)—We are still buy—
111g cold weather. The snow is about 3
goggkgéi fthe tllevel. The roads have been

or is as we ‘ '~-— ,."'
A., Gaylord, Jan.p18. ek by dmftb. C

IONIA (Ween—The storm of the 12th
and 1.3th put a damper on the markets.
No produce moving.‘ A carload of 'Ohio
corn on cob was shipped into Saranac last
3753231,; Ssceqllicng atd$2.00 (per 70 lbs. Coal is

‘ c an woo is high, runnin
from $3.50 to $5.00 per cord. Ionia counpi
ty has more snow than it has had. for
years. All roads are badly drifted and
have required shoveling. The mail car—
riers are unable to make their whole trips
in one day—A. W..\Gsv Saranac, Jan. 15).

MAooMB.(Norunvest)——One of the

bl'icc i\lun_<.:vr,

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