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Bean Committee at Washington Explains Why
Farmers’ Beans that He Sells for $11 per
Hundred Jumps to $17 and $20 per
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Ask the average city dealer who Is to blame for
the high cost of living and the invariable answer
will be “the farmer.” You smile at his ignorance
and seek to set him right, but you ‘might as well
talk to the winds. Mr. Consumer KNOWS, the city
papers say the farmer’s to blame and besides “look
at the high price of potatoes in spite of the bumper
crop, The farmer’s a ‘proﬁteer, and that’s all there
be to it; b—gosh.”

The writer has a few bushels of potatoes in excess
of his own needs, and a few days ago he called up a
local groceryman and asked what he would pay for
them. That same day potatoes were retailing at
Detroit stores for $2 a bushel. “Well, you know,”
conﬁded the storekeeper, apparently not knowing
that I was more or less familiar with the marketing
situation, “I don’t dare load up on high priced pota-
toes. (I had 28 bushels for sale, enough to last the
retailer probably a week.) These high prices are on-
ly temporary. They’re going down in a day or two.
There’s a whopping big crOp of potatoes this year,
you know. But the farmers are holding on for $3
and $4 a bushel and that’s why the price keeps high.
But just you wait, when spring comes and those fel-
lers see that they aren’t going to get any such price,
the market will he swamped. In another two months
I’ll be buying potatoes at 75 cents a bushel.”

Honest, folks, it was no use arguing with that man.
He knew all about the potato situation,——from read-
ing the daily newspapers.

When will the consumer ever learn that the farmer
is not to blame for the high prices of foodstuffs?
When will they ever show enough interest in the
economies of food production and distribution to
learn the truth? This publication has for months
been trying to discover why consumers should be
compelled to pay 20 cents a pound for beans when the
farmer was getting 10 cents, or $2.00 a bushel for po-
tatoes when the farmer was getting only $1.00 and
less. We ﬁnally asked the bean and potato commit-
tees of the Food Administration to supply this in-
formation if posible. The bean committee advises us
as follows:

“It might be interesting to you to know that this
Division has been investigating several complete
transactions from the Grower to the ﬁnal consumr
er on beans, and when we have found a high retail
selling price, in checking it back through its vari-
ous channels we have generally found that they were
old beans carried over from last year.

“One particular investigation that has been made
here in Washington, in which the retailer was sell-
ing Michigan Pea Beans at 170 per pound, the check—
ing back listed up about as follows:

Cost of Beans to Grower .................. $11.00
Elevator expense and proﬁt about 10%.... 1.10
Freight 400 per 100 ........................ .40
Brokerage 10c per 100 ...................... .10
Wholesale grocer’s proﬁt about 121/2%..u 1.55
Retailer about 20% ......................... 2.85

Total net selling price to consumer, per cwt.. .$17.00
“On another transaction we made, wherein an ele-
vator took a proﬁt of. $2.40 per hundred, in investi—
gating his complete cost, we found in an investment
'of an elevator of $14,000, salary to owner and one
man, and? a superintendent in the picking room,
so far this year they had only bought and shipped
1100 bushels, and the total‘expenses ran about $4,600,
or.a little over $4.00 per bushel, so that even in
charging $2.40 per hundred, as he did, he was losing
nearly $4.50 to $5.00 per hundred on the transaction.
»“If you know of any particular instances where
goods havl been high we would be very glad to have
you give us the exact names and we assure you that

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The Independent-

   

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd, 1918.

we will take pleasure in investigating it from the
producer to the consumer.”
“UNITED STATES \FOOD ADMINISTRATION
Per K. P.,Kimba11”

POTATO AND BEAN MARKETS
snow CONSIDERABLE STRENGTH

 

As we go to press, the potato and bean markets
show signs of renewed activity. The Detroit mar-
ket on potatoes was still Quoted at $2.70 per hun-
dred and beans had advanced to $12.50 per cwt.
Demand was strong and supplies light in both in-
stances, and market authorities look for no immedi-
ate slacking of either demand or prices.

It is our ﬁrm conviction now as it has been since
the opening market that beans will continue to
advance slowly as the season grows old. Despite
the alleged increase in production of this commod-
ity, the demand is greater than the supply, and with
the wheat shortage becoming more pronounced, both
the civilian and military population °~will be obliged
to turn more and more to beans.

No two authorities seem to agree upon the potato
situation. Some Believe that spring will usher in a
period of low prices, while others are as ﬁrmly con-
vinced that the demand will take care of the entire
supply. MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING wants to be
frank in saying that it has no suggestions to offer
this week as to the future of the potato market, but
we are now conducting a series of investigations
which should give us sufﬁcient information upon
which to base an opinion within the next couple of
weeks. If there is an over-production, arfd cars are
to be had to move the stocks to market, we may as
well resign ourselves to lower prices, but if tile pro—
duction is only normal, as We have contended right
along, prices ShOUld rule comparatively high. Before
another fortnight has passed we hope to show our
readers in What manner the government has over-
estimated the production, and why a more vigorous
demand may be looked for with the approach of
spring.

TO OUR LOYAL CROP REPORTERS

We weren’t prepared to handle the avalanche of
crop reports that sWept in upon us this week from
nearly every county in the state, and were obliged,
much against our will, to leave out some which were
received after Jan. 28th. So if you don’t see your
report in this issue you’ll know it is because we
just couldn’t use it. Next week we are going to get
out our usual “bang-up’ issue and we want a report
from every county. We’ll promise to use every one
that comes in on or before Tuesday, Feb. 5th, but
get them in before then if possible. PLEASE mail
your report not later than Saturday morning, so
we’ll get it Monday. And if your supplies are run-
ning low, write for MORE.

 

AVERAGE. MICHIGAN PRICES,
WEEK ENDING JANUARY 26

 

Wheat, $2.05; oats, 79c; rye, $1.69; hay, $24.74;
beans, $11.11; potatoes, $1.37; hens, 18c; butter, 450;
eggs, 490; hogs, 15c.

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’ WE WANT EVERY FARMER

who is a reader of. this paper to tell us by
next mail what stocks of potatoes are being
held by the farmers in his vicinity. We are
making a comprehensive survey of. the stocks
still in growers’ hands, not only in this but in
other states as well. Please tell us approx»
mately what percentage of the farmers you
know still have their potatoes in pit or bin,
and how do their holdings compare with those
a year ago. You can render us, our readers
and yourself an inestimable service by giving
your careful and immediate attention to this
matter. (Jo-operate with us in ﬁnding out
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BY BEAN SITUATION

 

But Food Administrator has yet to Make
Practical Plans for Saving Michigan’s
Million Bushel Crop of Wet Beans
Altho the Warm Weather is
Dangerously Near

 

It is reported that Food Administrator Hoover
was greatly “stirred” by the reports that a million
bushels or more of wet beans would go to waste in
this state unless something was done at once to
save them. That was fully two weeks ago, and so
far as we have been able to learn, nothing has run-
terialized by way of a remedy.

State Food Administrator George W. Prescott rec-
ommends the canning of these beans for army and
navy use and says they are as good when canned as
the dry product. Under the commissary regulations,
however, wet beans cannot be purchased by the
government, and the rules will have to be altered
if Mr. Prescott’s suggestions are to be carried out.

There is no question but that the utilization of
the wet beans in this state is a matter for the fed-
eral government to settle. The large acreage was
planted, in the ﬁrst place, in response to the gov-
ernment’s pleas, and now that so huge a quantity
are in imminent danger of going to waste, pre-
vention methods lie with the federal conservation
authorities.

MIcIIIcAN BUslNIcss FARMING would like to gain
some idea of the number or farmers having wet
beans. Write us this information, will you?

The State Food Administrator is much concerned
also over Michigan’s alleged surplus of potatoes.
There is considerable talk about Michigan’s enor-
mous spud crop, but we have never yet seen any
reliable ﬁgures to show that the crop was in excess of
the demand. However, it will do no harm to look
about for additional markets, and we commend
Mr. Prescott’s efforts in this respect. —

One suggestion has been made by Robert D. Gra-
ham, chairman of the state board of agriculture. that
the state place an embargo on southern potatoes
until the Michigan crop has been consumed, and the
proposal has been taken under serious consideration
by the state food administrator, it is stated.

GREAT FLOODS ADD TO GRAVITY
OF THE COAL SITUATION

Millions of dollars worth of property have been
destroyed in Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia from
the ﬂooding of the Ohio river and other streams!
tributary to the Mississippi. Warm weather had
converted billions of tons of ice and snow at the
source of these streams into water, and broken up
the ice in the rivers, changing them into tcrrents
that have destroyed everything before them. ‘

The catastrophe is not local by any means. Scarce-
ly twenty-four hours had elapsed after the breaking
of the ice gorges before the fuel administrator was
sending out telegrams all over the country conveying
the tragic"news that no more coal could be mined
or shipped out of these states until the ﬂood had
subsided and the damage repaired. Reports from the
upper sources of the ﬂooded streams indicate that
melting snows will add to the danger and nothing
short of extremely cold weather will stay the pro-
gress of the unloosened ﬂood.

What effect the temporary suspension of coal
shipments from that region will have upon an already
acute shortage situation can hardly be estimated.
The nation’s coal bins are very low; hundreds of
Michigan towns have used their last pound and wait
in shivering and fear for additional supplies. De-
troit factories are shutting down by the scores, pub-
lic utilities of every description are in a bad way,
and unless relief comes soon Michigan will be wholly
coalless. '

  
     

  
  
   
    
  
  
  
 
 
  
  
  
    
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
   
   
   
   
   
  
  
   
  
  
  
   
   
   
   
 
    
   
   
 
 
  
  
  
    
  
    
  
   
 
   
 
   
  
   
  
  

 

 

 

 

        

 

 

   


 

 

 

 

 

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. Not all of the associations ‘which makeup the
Michigan Improved Livestock Breeders and Feed-
ers Association were able to elect ofﬁcers, for snow-
bound trains and waist-deep country roads pre-
vented most of the breeders organizations from .
convening a quorum. .In all cases where this hap-
pened, the old ofﬁcers continue in service. .

Those associations which were able to elect
chose the following: '

Michigan Improved'Livestock Breeders and Feed-
ers. AssociatiOn—Pres‘ident, I. R. Waterbury, De-
tr0lt; vice president, Colon C. Lillie, Coopersyille;
secretary, Geo. A. Brown, East Lansing; ass’tﬁ
secretary, W. _E. J. Edwards, E. Lansing; treasur-
er, C. P. Reed, Howell; executive committee, J.
Fred Smith, Byron; Jacob De Geus, Alicia; H. H.
Halliday, Clinton; P. P. Pope, Mt. Pleasant Geo.
Prescott, Tawas City. '

. Michigan Horse Breeders’ AssociatiOn——Pres
ldent, Jacob De Geus, Alicia; secretary, R. S.
Hudson, East Lansing.

. Michigan Holstein-Friesian Association—Pres
ldent, M. W. Wentworth. Battle Creek; vice pres-
ldent, Peter Buth, Grand Rapids; secretary and
treasurer, Chas. Daniels, Okemos.

Michigan Aberdeen Angus Breeders’ Association
~President, A. Minty, Ionia; vice president,‘G. A.
Prescott, Tawas City; secretary, Ward Hathaway,
QVld; executive committee, C. Buttles, Lewiston'
M. Kelley. Charlotte; Sidney Smith, Pontiac. I

Michlgan Guernsey Cattle Club—President,
Harry Ballard, Niles; secretary, C. G. Parnell
Jackson. :-
-dMitch£gan. H§reford Breeders’ Association—Pres-
1 en , ewxs orton, Quimb ; secreta
McCarty, Bad Axe. y m Earl 07

Michigan Sheep Breeders’ and Feeders’ Associ-
atlon—Prelsid-ent, E. G. Read, Richland; vice
pres1dent, Amos Welsh. Ionia; secretary and treas-
urer. W. A. Shantz, Hastings; Executive commit-
tee, H. E. Powell, Ionia; shropshires, R. A. Kyser,
Lowell; Hampshires. S. S. Wing, Kinderbook;
Ramboule. H. H. Halliday, Clinton; Feeders,
Bert Smith. Charlotte; Lincolns, I. R. Waterbury.
Highland; Oxfords, E. M. Ball, Hamburg; Ameri-
can Marinos, Carey V. Edwards, Hastings.

Michigan Swine Breeders’ Association—Presi-
dent, J. B. Hibbard, Bennington; secretary 0.
F. Foster, Ann Arbor. ,

Poland China Swine Breeders’ Association——
PreSldent, P. P. POpe, Mt. Pleasant; secretary,
Wm. J. Clark, Mason; executive committee, W. E.
Livingston, Parma; L. L. Chamberlain, Marcellus‘
E. H. Leonard, St. Louis. ,

Duroc Jersey Swine Association—President—F.
g. Drodt, Monroe; secretary, C. F. Foster, Ann Ar-

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County Crop Reports

 

 

 

 

 

 

. MONROE—Farmers are cutting wood and butcher—
ing. Weather cold, damp and snowing, ground frozen.
14 armers selling hogs cattle and grain; those who have
anyal'e holding corn. No building going on. Some are
buylng hay and straw.There is not much sugar here
and we can only get ten cents worth at a time. No
coal; some have a little but not enough to last very
long. Herman Heemsoth had a very mysterious ﬁre
some tune ago. He buys steers and feeds them. His
corn Cl'lb caught fire about midnight and burned the
contents. about one thousand bushels of good corn;-
also his granary, some machinery, half a beef and dif-
ferent articles which were stored in the building.—
R. H., Carleton, Jan. 26.

EMMET—The weather is cold with lots of snow.
Beans are not all threshed around here yet and are
a very poor grade. Farmers are holding their pota-
toes for a better price; also they are feeding lots of
potatoes to their stock. No logging is being done. Our
Vlcmity is well supplied with wool—16 inch sells for

2.50 a cord. There seems to be a good demand for
good seed oats here—H. W., Levcrillg.Jarl. 25.

MONTCALM—Most of the farmers are shoveling
snow at the present time. Some are hauling spuds to
ilreenVllle, but not very many. They are paying $1.50
down there and only $1.20 at Lake View. Some of
the big farmers around here are talking about this
dealer grab and say they will not raise any more than
one~tenth of the spuds they raised last year.———E. W..
Coral, Jan. 24.

. CALHOUN (Northeast)——The farmers in this local-
lty seem to be weather bound. Can hardly get one to do
anything. The weather is very cold and stormy now
with_snow about 18 inches deep in woods; roads in bad
condition, not \much trafﬁc. A small amount of hogs
and cattle are going to market, a few being held for
better prices which don’t come very fast—G. R., Olivet

BAY (Southeast)——There is not much doing now
among the farmers. Taking care of stock, shoveling
snow. and some are selling their wheat. Hay is in
good demand now but some farmers can’t haul it now
on account of the bad roads as it would tip over. I
hope the farmers will try and have a. law passed to
make sleighs and wagons track the same. We would
have better winter roads for all kinds of rigs—J. C.
A., Munger.

ST. JOSEPH ‘(North Contain—Where is the fellow
that predicted an open winter? We are having the
time of our life shoveling snow (gratis)_ for the‘ town-
ship, as our highway fund has been over-drawn, and
of course the farmers haven’t much else to do this
time of the year, at least this is the way it hasvbeen
doped out to us. It has been reported that‘a good
many farmers have had stock perish from the severe
weather of the past week. The fuel situation has
assumed more severe proportions from day to day,

and there, is actual suffering for want of -.coal‘ and

wood. ‘ People are anxiously waiting. for the promised"
relief, Some farmers; are putting‘up ice, audait meas-

ures about 20 inches and, it free. from slush.‘~ Very lit-*
tle gram being marketed-on amount of, ca shortage,
beans are moving slowly too. '-It L5 m opinion that
,the farmers of Michigan will 'lose’heavl y on the 1917
bean crop both on account of theatret condition and,
price. They surely ought to bring no less than $8.00

and even at 310.00. ' Seven-eighties of the growers

would lose money. Farmers in this part of the coun-

try, are short of feed, as a rule, and it looks like a

hay famine in this section later on.“ Most of the

people m this section visited the scenevof the big pas-r
senger wreck last Tuesday which occurred on the

G. R. & I, 20 miles south of~Kala~mazoo, and the\wa.y

cars were smashed, derailed etc.,H_is a miracle that out

of the 200 passengers, only four were injured, and,
these not seriously. The coaches were being drawn

by a double header and a broken rail caused the

trouble. Oh, .yes, keep after the founders of potato

grading, and I might add that I don't see how those

county agents could speak for the farmers they repre-

sent, if they don’t see each other ofter .r than” I see

our county agent. Here’s hoping you. have “a. little

coal, and warmer‘weather than we are having.~——-A. A.

H., Mendon, Mich. . ‘

KALAMAZOO (Enst)‘——The farmers are all busy
shoveling snow, but as‘ the snow keeps ,coming and
blowing, they make but little headway. The snow
is so deep that it stops the wood cutting, and we are
having another blizzard today. All business is at a.
standstill on, account of the Snow. Some think that
we had a cloud burst, but it was full of snow instead
of water. I saw a piece in the Battle Creek Inquirer
that after February lst at Manistique, Mich, each
person will be entitled to three pounds of sugar and
20 pounds of flour per month. I wonder how they
think a hard working man can live and raise more
food stuff at that rate. I was always told from noth-
ing remains nothing, so if they want the farmers to
raise more food stuff, they ought to be willing to put
the food to the farmers so as to keep them strong
and willing to do their part towards raising more.
There is quite a talk that if the camps would 6 more
saving it would be quite a help to the pee e, but
might make a. shortage in their hog slop. If yo want
to get the measles, mumps, or chicken pox send in
your order to Climax and have it ﬁlled—H. H. F.,
Climax. .

CALHOUN (Northwest)—-—Roads pretty well block-
ed Wlth snow and roads are made in the fields through
the door yards or anywhere it is convenient to get
through. One of the mall carriers came through
our yard stopped and inquired the way to go. Said
he needed a blue print to know where to make his
route. The, farmers are harvesting ice and cutting
wood. some hauling wheat. The beans that were
grown in this section have not been thrashed yet—V.
H. J., Battle Creek.

ARENAC (Eden—Farmers shipping wood and re-
ceiving $2.00 per cord'at switch. Weather cold mak-
ing it ideal for lumbering. Some farmers ,. re sell-
ing hay receiving $20.00 per ton at track; Some are
getting out logs and timber for barn frames, some
trading their farms for city property. I am sending
you $1.00 for M. B. F. for Arza Pennwick, who says
he has received a few sample copies which has made
him beleive that the M. B. F. is the best farm paper
ever printed—A. D. F., Alger. _ ‘

CHEBOYGAN (Northwest)—-The farmers in this vi-
cinity are hauling logs and wood and some are haul-
ing hay for which they are getting $20.00 per ton.
Yuell Bros. of Vanderbilt are taking out about 2 500,-
000 feet of hard wood logs in Munro township this
winter. It is very cold here at present. It was 20
degrees below zero this week and we had a severe
storm‘ the 25th of this month. It piled the snow up
.in the roads in some places to the depth of eight feet
so that it stopped the traﬁ‘icfor a couple of days.—
0. W. B., Riggsville. '

HURON (Northwest)——The even winter waather has
not hurt wheat this month. A lot of farmers are pick-
ing their beans instead of giving them to the ele-
vator and then pay three cents per lb. for their culls
back again. The shortage of coal is causing the farm-
ers to get out and dig up wood in the drifted snow and
blizzards, with no regard for the amount of chores
there are to doTA. F. C., Pigeon.

The following are the ofﬁcers of the U. S. Boys’
Working Reserve in Macomb county:

Director. R. G. Potts, Washington; Vice Director,
V. E. Chase, Romeo. Enrolling oﬂ‘lcers. Principals
of schools: B. B. Ellsworth, Richmond; C. H. Mann,
Mt. Clemens; R. C. Lunger, Utica; V. P; Peirce,
Memphis; S. Dick, Washington; V E. Chase, Romeo;
W. H. Hart. Armada; A. H. Clark, New Baltimore.

Enrolling begins Monday, February 25th. One hun-
dred Macomb county boys received Federal recog-
nition—1917.

MACOMB COUNTY MILK
PRODUCERS WILL MEET

Announcement is made of an important meet-
ing of the local branch of the Macomb County
Milk Producers’ Ass’n, on Saturday, Feb, 2, at
Lowenstein hall, Mount Clemens. The meeting
will be called to order at 2:30 o’clock. Every
dairyman in Macomb county whether a member
of the association or not is wanted to be present.

 

 

 

_ AL Apology

WING TO a number of combining cir-
O cumstances wholly outside of our con-

trol it was necessary for us to issue a
smaller sized paper this week than usual.
One of these causes is a, shortage of paper
stock. A carload of paper that was shipped
out of Minnesota over a month ago is still
cnroute or tied up in some snow-bound sid-
ing. The coal situation is also partially to
blame. We know that our readers who
have appreciated something of the tremen-
dous amount of work connected with the
publishing each week—cf a paper like MICH-
IGAN BUSINESS FARMING, will pardon ‘us for
the temporary shortcoming, and will watch
with their usual interest for the coming‘
week’s number, brimming over with good
things for Michigan business farmers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
     

  

 

 

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' great injustice dond’to the" farmeht“ ot'HMichig'ﬁzh.‘

' .done' at Woodville‘, Newa’ygo county; and I. expect,

and I thought'l would 10$, yougkn’o‘ifr'Whrt is being

this is being done at othérvpo'intsalso; A certain

produce dealer has bought several'thouSand' bush! '
els of potatoes before the. 'socalled government

sereentwasused and has now loaded out two car-
loads of these potatoes and has been rte-grading
them over an inch and three-fourths screen for the

ﬁrst grade and an inch and one-half screen for.
If a potato company can, use ,
a smaller screen for their own, potatoes and abide‘

the second grade.

with the law, then- why should the farmer be
compelledto‘use an inch and ﬁfteen-sixteenths
screen?——‘A Subscriber. . . _

The Michigan dealer who ships stock not con;
forming to the U. S. rules, takes about one (Chance.
in a thousand of losing liisflicense. .Many deal-
ers‘in this state have .shipped ungraded stock.
much of it undoubtedly having been purchased

as such, but tLere 'is amply evidence to prove.

that many of them have mixed the grades in load-
ing out. Because of the fact that there is no

demand for graded. stockf and that the majority

of the commission houses, retailers and consumers
don’t give a hoot whether they get graded‘or un-
graded potatoes. those who are doing their darn-
dest to compel people to buy by grade, _-have found
it necessary to, send inspectors into leading term-
inal markets to detect any violation of the rules
by the country dealers. This method is admitted
by the Food Administration’s representatives to
be-haphazard, as only a' very few of the cars are

inspected. Consequently a 100phole is left for any ~~

dishonest dealer who’s got the nerve, to ship un-
graded stock.

You might be surprised to know that it has only
been within the last fewweeks that dealers have
been compelled to ship st’ock ungraded. Up to
that time, they were free to buy stock graded,
which they did, and to mix the grade in the car
if they so desired—which many of them did.

Answering your speciﬁc question, a potato deal-
er cannot use a smaller screen than an inch and
ﬁfteen-‘sixteenths and abide by .the rules. He can
demand grade stock from the farmer, because,
he holds the whip-lash over the farmer, and if
the latter doesn’t want to have his stock graded,
he’s got a perfect right, of course. to ,haul ‘em
back home ungraded. But when it comes to
shipping the spuds, Mr. Dealer can use his own
discretion as to whether he ships by grade or not.

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HOW, DO YOUR POTATOES
GRADE, MR. FARMER?

There has been considerable discussion and dif-
ference of opinion, as to the proportion of the Mich-
igan potato crop which is graded as No. 1, No. 2
and cull stock. Prof. Wald of the extension depart-
ment estimates that the crop will not run higher
than 15 per cent. The average for the state is,
he believes about 12 per cent. Members of the
Michigan Potato Shippers’ Ass’n. also try to de-
lude themselves that e percentage will not run
any higher. But the FACTS are that the 1911 crop
will grade anywhere from 10 to 60 per cent, with
a state average or probably 30 to 35 per cent. This
is the average which’ we estimate from variOus
statements that have been received from farmers
telling of their own experience.

We have something more authoritative than this
however, which comes from the leading and most
representative potato county of the state, Mont-
calm. A few weeks ago, Mr. L. A. Siple, one of the
most prominent farmers of Montcalm county, sent
out a questionnaire to several hundred farmers ask-
ing them to report the percentage of their crop
grading N0. 1, 2 and cull, respectively. We asked
Mr. Siple for a report of his ﬁndings, and he writes
us as follows:

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FIVE percent culls.” . .

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crop will grade as follows: 19 1—2 million bushels
No. 1; 9 million bushels No. 2 and 1 1-2 million
bushels culls. The‘lii 1-2 million bushels of No. 1
stock will be sold as low as the ungraded stock
from New York and Pennsylvania, if they ever get
to market, and the 9 million bushels of No. 2,—
sound, edible food,———will be fed. to the hogs or left
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.17,” : ‘1'. xihasbroken, and all Congress ﬂoun-
deifftiﬁ Its seething bosom; Ambition-bloated p01-
lucians scramble‘fer a hold on the years of the

ship,»01,state, seeking'iiotning but personal honors

and self-gratification by guiding whence their
own conceited judgment tracts. Of. all the lot, the
pilot—the President—stands serene and unmoved
directing the craft safely thru the‘treu-bled wat»
ers. It now appears t" at the med-diesome senate
investigation Was hatched some months ago, and
was, a part of a well-preconceived plot, to harrass
the President and his cabinet and to place them in
bad repute with the people. Despite Senctor
Chamberlain’s erstwhili appcrint frien‘line 3 to
the-administration,’it now develops that he had
been gathering stray data and “evidence” for
months tending to show tuatt' e war preparation-s
had been badly handled. He had submitted photo-
gra1 be taken at training camps showing soldiers
practicingwith wooden equipment for want of
something better. It’is pat n“. that these photo:

and that the Senator, backed up by Roosevelt, is
playing them LOW tomdiscredit the government.
It is not exactly clear what the politicians expect

cannot blind the people to the marvelous progress
that. has already been made. The military depart-
ment heads cannot quite be the personiﬁcation of
inefﬁciency that Citizen. Roosevelt would like to
have the. people believe. It. need cause no one to
wonder that mistakes have been made; the unex-
plainable thing is that greater mistakes have not
been made. The enemies of the adm-inistraiton
take great care iii avoiding any mention of What
has been accomplished; they play up the triﬂes
that have been overlooked simply because physical
limit was reached in solving the monumental
problems that hamper war progress in every na-
tion. I do not question that the President has been
a bit hasty in dismissing so peremptorily the very
suggestion of a super-war cabinet. Possibly the
creation of such a body ight have much to do
toward silencing the government’s critics. On the
other hand, the President may have had absolute
knowledge that the agitation was purely of a po-
litical character, and his opposition was therefore
justiﬁable. The clash had to come. Better by far
that there personal. partisan differences, between
the egoists, the cranks, the ofﬁce-seeking politi-
cians be settled now while we are only on the
verge of the war. than six months hence when we
will be hearing the brunt of the conﬂict. We have
no fear of the outcome. The Shakeup will bring
the big men to the top and those mean in spirit
and Shallow in patriotism, will rattle to the bottom.
* III a:

We LOW have a clear and concise statement of
the German war :i‘ms. They coincide 1m 3t ex-
actly with the conception we formed some time ago
of that nation’s ambitions. They give the lie to
Germany’s repeated assertion that she wtls ﬁght-
ing for her existence. They are express-

   

   

ing inWashington formant‘hs 3:“ wants patios; or’that. the war will scan end.

graphs were gathered fora very deﬁnite purpose, .'

to gain by their sudden onslaught. They certainly ..

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; '1}. N peep! ' 5‘13“ United.81ates..can :1
dis 1, any ‘ldea'k’they may, have that Germany
If it

is‘for the protection of the» smaller nations and
for‘democracy; that we ﬁght, Germany must b’ev
pushed back on every front and decisively beaten
so that there ,may not be a single question as to
the fate of the unhappy nations now writhing un-
der the Kaiseﬂs heel.

    

The eyes of the World. during the past week. have
been turned toward Austria-Hungary, and the intern—
al revolutionary conditions prevailing there. That the
dual monarchy has reached a critical stage in the
great war can not longer be doubted. Conditions
there are such as to make the most 'stringent meas~
ures necessary if the present war government is to con-
tinue as an ally 01' Germany, and not be overwhelmed
by the rising tide of revolution. The censor—
ship is so strict that reliable information is difficult
to obtain, much of it being obtained through the B01-
sheviki government at Petrograd, coming from Aus—
tro-Hungarian soldiers on the eastern front. Some
of the leading factors contributing to the present un—
rest are hostility toathe government’s servility to
Germany, famine and distress caused by the war. and
last, but not least sociali‘stic inﬂuence exer‘ed by the
Russian Bolsheviki.

It II! t
.. The 'l‘eutonic-Rolshevil;i peace conference has been
adinurned until Jan. 29. it now appears that no (lef—

i‘n’tc settlement can be made except thru a complete
backdown of the Russians. Gen. Hoffman inuius on
lermany’s annexation terms and while reluctantly

consenting to the adjournment stated that it would be
the last postponment. and that failure to comply with
Germany’s terms would result in the occupation of the
Russian city «of Revel, within a week. He also in-
sisted that the future Russian frontier be the shores~
of the gulf of Finland to the east of Moon sound
islands, thence to west of Minsk and thence to Brest-
Litovsk. This means loss to the Russians of a large
territory and such terms are not likely to be accept-
ed. One redeeming feature of the Brest-Litovsk meet—
ing is the fact that Germany has revealed her lust
for conquest and desire to retain enemy territory now
in her hands.

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Count Terauchi. Japanese premier, speaking at the

opening of the Diet. outlined Japan’s position in the
following way: “Japan holds herself responsible for
maintenance of peace in this part of the world. and
consequently in the event of that peac~ being endan-
gered to the inevitable detriment of our intercfts, the
government of Japan will not hesitate a momcpt to
take. proper measures. As the friend of Russia. Japan
earnestly hopes that country may soccesruxlly scttlc
its difficulties without much further loss of limp and
establish a stable governmcnt."

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(illicial reports indicate unusual activity for winter

months along the western front. intensity of artillcry
ﬁre has increased and raiding parties and air ﬁghting
are of daily occurrence. i‘en (lcrmun airplanes “‘i‘l'l'
brought down in two days by the French. The lini—
ian war oﬂice reports intense artillery ﬁre along the
entire front, also several minor engagements along
the right bank of the Piave river.

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Belgium, in her reply to Pope Benedict‘s peace note.
has laid down her ﬁnal peace terms. They include,
“a. just peace, So far as concerns Belgium, her integ—
rity and that of the colonies. Reparation for damage
done, and guarantees against a renewal of the 211;»
gression of 1914.”

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The potato situation in Maiiie at the bsginning
he prices re.-
ceived by the growers are not enough totempt
them to a large production the coming season, and
if a further decline sets in as the season for plant-
ing draw; near the plant in Maine will be ma-
terially cut doyvn. ‘,

I have talked with growers from pretty much
all over the. state during the last six weeks and if
the plant is‘cut asgper the opinion o‘ these grow-
ers at the present time the matter will be a serious
one. This will be especially true in our eastern
markets it the cengested freight situation is not
cleared up before the winter of 1918 and 1919.
allowing a freer movement from western points to
our eastern cities, which usually get the bulk of
their supplies from Maine. Not one of the growers
l have talked with but what believes the govern-
ment report as to the 1917 crop in Maine is very
much too large.
the Government report of our 1917 crop is. at least
30 per cent too high. Neither do the market con-
ditions warrant a belief that there is the enor-
mous crop as given out by the Government report.
If this report is true the growers stand to lose very
heavily as the amount up to date that has moved
out of Maine is way below that of a year ago and
the time is coming near when the old crop must be
moved or lost.

Let the reader take a map of Maine and draw
a line westerly from Bangor through li‘armington
and that portion of the state south of this line did
not begin to produce enough potatoes for its own
use. This was true also in 1916. A low YOJl‘H ago
this section produced hundreds 02' car loads, lor
export besides feeding its own people. From the
present indications l'dcubt very nun-ll if it ever
again becomes an exporting section.

There is but little doubt. but what the acreage
planted to potatoes in Maine the. coming season
will be much below the past few yours. Several
Aroostook growers have informed me than the cut
in acreage in that county will be in their opinion
40 per cent of 1917. Some claim as high as 60 per
cent decrease but this ﬁgure will not be touched
unless the market goes all to pieces and the grow-
ers lose outright a large portion of the stocks they
now have on hand.

There are several rcasons for the great decrease
in acreage that will undoubtedly take place. Some
farmers claim that the local draft boards with a
desire to make a good showing as to exemptions.
are refusing to exempt many young men who are
badly needed on the farms it' production is to be
maintained. But. little help can now be obtained
from over the line and hundreds of Aroostook
growers have got to cut their acreage on this ac
count. It is little use to get a large acreage plant-
ed and be unable to take proper (‘al'c of it, or worse
still, be delayed in the harvesting of the crop.
Aroostook weather cannot be depended upon after
the middle of October. Two years out 01' the last
ﬁfteen has the temperature dropped to nearly zero
bel'ore October LOth, practically ruining all un-
(lug tubers. This makes it ne-cssary if the grow-
er is to play safe, to have-bis crop dug before
October 15th. and he must be easonably sure of
having competent help.

This shipping of city labor to h'ilp harvest a
potato crop may appeal to theorists in the 'city but

hardly one out of every (10ml) of .uch help is
worth the food they consume; their backs sim—
ply won't stand the strain of picking

 

ed in bold wordings that cannot be
misunderstood. Germany is after
more land and more subjects, and it
is for the attainment of these ambi-
tions that half the world has been
brought into the inferno of war. Dis-
cussing, resident Wilson‘s latest re-
marks on this country’s peace terms,
Count von Hertling, the imperial Ger
man chancellor, asserted bifore the
German reichstag that there would be
no difﬁculty in coming to an amicable
understanding on the President’s ﬁrst
four proposals, viz., abolition of secret
treatiies, ireedom of the seas. equality
of trade conditions and reduction of
armaments. But the Count was sure
dilﬁculiies would be met in the adjust-
ment of terri‘orial claims. along the
lines laid down by Pres. Wilson. Ger-
many does not inlend to force the in-
corporation of Belgium as a German
state, but believes that the disposal of
l’oland's future is a matter that Ger-
many and Austria should decide With-
out interference from theMAllies. Set.-
:lemenlgol? boundary disputes between.
Erance and Germany and R3151?! and‘
Germany should be settled by the na-
tions immediately concerned. Strip-
ping ihe Count’s speech of all camou-
ﬂage, we have the substance that Ger-
many will be perfectly willing to con-
cede the wisdom of President Wilson's
recommendations on all matters gen-
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up ,potatoes all day. Next the fertil-
izcr shortage is a very scrious one to
the Maine groucr. The great major-
ity of Main growers use 21 ton of fertil-
izer per acre. Belorc po‘ash got so
high in price from (S to 10 per cent was
used. This grade of commjrcial fer-
tilizer cannot now be had at any price
and the growers must content them~
selves with one or two per cent. and at
a. price more than twice as much as
before the war. it takes some cour-
age to apply from sixty to seventy-ﬁve
dollars worth of fertilizer for an acre
and at, even the present. prices from
twanty to twentyﬁve dollars won» for
seed. Most Maine growers use from
14 lo 20 bu. of St‘t-BLl per acre. probably
an average of around 1G to 18 bu. when
seed is reasonable cheap. Add to this
lhecost of materials for spraying l'or
blight and insects and we have around
a hundred dollars per acre without ﬁg
uring any labor cost. Were this all he
had to contend with the Maine grower
would not cut his acreage 40 per cent
as now seems probable. there are two
other serious reasons which I will take
up next week. At present, there is no
frost in Maine ﬁelds. Snow came early
18 inches along the coast to 4 feet of
snow as one goes north.

(Editor‘s note: The above is the first
of a series of weekly letters that Mr. E.
A. Rogers. of Brunswick. Maine, has
agreed to write for the readers of Mich-
igan Business Farming. on Maine crop
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1311131 SITUATION

Manufacturers with Customary ”Short-sight-
edness and Bull-headedness would
Comp’el Growers to Raise.Beets .
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The annual tug-of-war between the beet grow-
ers and the manufacturers is on. The farmers,
thru their committee have said that they would
not take less than $10 a ton for their beets, and
the manufacturers are equally positive that they
won’t pay a cent more than $9 minimum, with
a sliding scale attachment, which represents a-

bout $1 per ton over the price paid for last year’s '

crop.

“The growers’ committee cannot endorse the
nine dollar contract and will not endorse i,t”
said A B Cook, of Owosso, one of the members
of the committee. We failed to get an offer from
the manufacturers that we believed good enough
to assure a fai1 proﬁt on our beets, and we refus-
ed to accept any offer made by them. We did
succeed in getting an increase of one dollar over
the ﬁrst contract submitted, and I believe that
about one more meeting will get us what we
should have.”

State Food 1 uministrator George A. Prescott
has been quoted as saying that he was not in
sympathy with the “$10 contract or no beets”
ultimatum of the growers. In Mr. Prescott’s
judgment this is the time to think only of pat-
riotism and not of p10.ﬁts It is our candid opin-
ion that Mi. Prescott has either been misquoted or
that his knowledge of the sugar beet industry
is very limited. Mr. Prescott is too good a bus-
iness man. we know, to argue that a manufacturer
of munitions of war, for instance. should con-
duct his )usiness at a loss or charge him with be-
ing unpatriotic if he threatens to close up his
plant unless he be assured of a fair proﬁt, even
tho the article he manufactures may be indis-
pensable to the conduct of the war. Why Mr.
Prescott should ask that the common rule of
business, be suspended when applied to the farm
factory. is totally beyond our ken.

We would like to aSK if Mr. Prescott knows What

it costs to grow an acre of beets, or if he has any ,

idea of the proﬁts that accrue to the manufactur-
ers from the slicing of $9 and $10 beets respec-
tively. We don’t believe he possesses this know-
ledge. It looks very much as if Mr. Prescott in
the role of mediator, did the easy, rather than
the just thing. and recommended a price half way
between the p.‘ asked by tile growers and that
offered by the manufacturers. irrespective of

Mr. Prescott. as state food adn inistrator, believes
that the farmers of the lower peninsula should
accept $10 per ton for beets, its a dead sure thing
that the manufacturers won’t pay a cent more
than that unless they’re absolutely obliged to.
The government’s price on sugar enables the
manufacturer; if assured of a good acreage. to
ﬁgure to a "T" just how much he can afford to
pay for the beets and still come out with a fair
proﬁt. The growers have as0ertained from re-
liable sources that the manufacturer can make
a very good proﬁt on $10 beets. They know
that it will cost themselves, even in a normal
season. verv~nearlv the $10 they
ask, to produce beets, and they [gr—“f“,
are merely asking and with fair- .
mess that the manufacturers give
them a portion of the proﬁts.
Here are two facts that the
growers of beets should keep con-
stantly in mind. The manufactur—
er knows what his selling price is
to be. and he can estimate very
closely What it will cost him to
convert beets into sugar. He bases
his cost ﬁgures very naturally. 11p-
on a conservative estimate of the
probable acreage and yield, so that
if the acreage and yield be larger
than anticipated his proﬁts are in-
creased in proportion. But con-
sider the farmer. His selling price
of $10 per ton is based on an av-
erage yield. Any yield even slight-
ly under the average. may mean
a big loss on his crop. In asking
$10 for his beets, the farmer not
only fails to secure an even fifty-
ﬁfty share of the proﬁts, but he
takes a mighty long chance of be—
ing left in the soup without any
proﬁt at all '

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GrOWers of Colorado and California are getting

$12 per ton, of Wisconsin $10 a ton. and it is
stated that the Menominee River Sugar Company
of Menominee, Mich., has its own volition offered
upper peninsula growers $10. George W. Mc-
Cormick, manager of that concern, has been quot-
ed as saying that the farmers Were entitled to

' $10 'per ton and that he had given contracts at

this price even if he did not make a cent of proﬁt
from the factory. It was this same George W.
McCormick, who a year ago, voluntarily paid over
to the growers 50 cents per ton more than his
contract called for, on 1916 beets. Such acts as
these inspire conﬁdence and friendship, and aid
very materially in the upbuilding of the sugar
beet industry. We cannot refrain from drawing
a comparison between this constructive policy
of Mr. McCormick’s and the narrow and arro-
gant attitude of the lower peninsula managers.
It would appear to us that the demands of the
growens are just and reasonable, and we see no
reason for their backiing down on the ultimatum
they have given. If the abnormal conditions

. mean abnormally high production costs and there

is no proﬁt in growing b‘eets at less than $10 per
ton, it is silly to argue that farmers who prefer
to grow some other crop in their stead are un-
patriotic. One of the reasons why the beet grow-
ers have been so much at the mercy of the manu-
facturers is because so many of them have pinned
their faith to beets year after year as their sole
“cash” crop. We honestly believe that the best
thing that could happen to Michigan’s sugar beet
industry would be for the growers to turn to some
other crop for a few years and show the manufac-
turers that they are not altogether dependent
for their living upon sugar beets. There is a
great a demand today for beans and wheat as for
sugar, and these two staples can be grown in
many of the sugar beet sections with equal suc-
cess and possibly greater proﬁt.

 

WHAT ABOUT THE FUTURE
OF THE BEAN MARKET?

How does’the bean market look to you? Do you
think they will advance in price before March 1st?
The market seems weak now, but I can hold my
crop until March lst, but I am undecided whether
I had better sell now or not.——N. G.. Alma.

We always hesitate to advise a man deﬁnitely
one way or another when it comes to holding
his product, but .it is our personal opinion that
the bean market will be better later on. There
is a great deal of wet stock. at the present time
and after this has a chance to clean up we believe
the market for good dry beans, except those which
may be used for seed, will show material advance.

 

FROZEN BEANS SHOULD
NOT BE USED FOR SEED

I would like to ask the question about wet beans
that are frozen. Is it safe to plant them for the
next year’s crop?—J. N. R., Ithaca.

We do not advise the planting of wet beans
which have been frozen. During the spring of
1917 the Writer saw this tried out in a number
of cases and it usually proved entirely unsatis-
factory. The beans /wou1d frequently germinate
and grow for a few inches above the ground and
then seemingly‘lacking vitality, would shrivel up
and die. We advise the planting of good beans

in all cases, and while wet beans may be dried cut
and used as seed, we believe that after a bean
has been frozen the germinating qualities, or at
least the vitality, has greatly deteriorated.

 

_voices the price shall be on" the basis of cash or

loads.

“Lady Giant 2nd” at home with her family of nine. Her
A. Newton, a prosperous farmer of Liberty Township, Van
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MILL FEED REGULATIONS
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By nevir regulations obvering mill feeds, the
U. S. Food Administration has established a rela-
tion between the price of mill feeds and the price
of wheat. The plan guarantees to farmer a di-
rect relationship between the price he receives
for his wheat and the price he pays for feed. The
regulations apply to all mills engaged in the busi-
ness of milling ﬂour and feed from wheat and li-
censed by the U. S. Food Administration.

The price of bran, bulk, f. o. b. mill, in carload
lots, for one ton (2,000 pounds) is in no case to ex-
ceed 38 per cent of/the average cost to such-mill
of one ton of wheat at the mill. The price .at the
mill is determined by the average cost to the mill
of the wheat, ground during the previous month
plus an administration fee of 1 per cent paid by
the mill dn the wheat so purchased and ground.

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This is the price,‘in bulk at the mill in car-
Ali invoices, moreover, shalf show the bulk
price at the mill plus the price of sacks, items of
freight and interes‘ , if any, when goods are sold
on extended terms or credits.

The other grades of mill feed are established on
a ﬁxed differential taking bran as.‘he basic price.
For shorts or standard middlings, the maximum
charge may be $2 per ton over the‘price of bran.
Mixed feeds may be $4 per ton over the price of
bran. Flour middlings may be $9 per tcn, and
Red Dog $15 per ton over the price of bran. In
the case cited, the maximum price for these feeds
per ton bulk, f. 0. b. mills in carload lots, would
consequently be as follows: Shorts and standard
middlings, $28.60; Mixed feeds, $30.60; Flour mid-
dlings, $35.60; Red Dog, $41.60.

Until further regulations are issued, a maxi-
mum of 50 cents per ton differential on feed sold
and shipped in less than carload lots will be per-
mitted.

In arriving at the price several things should be
borne in mind. While the price f01 grade wheat
at the point where price determination is being
estimated should be the Chicago‘price of $2.20
per bushel, with proper freight adjustment, at
the same time it may be necessary to move this
grain from a source involving heavier transporta-
tion charges. This may be due to difﬁculties in
transportation or the lack of wheat supplies. Fur-
ther, mills not operating under voluntar; agree—
ment with the Food Administration are not oblig-
ed to observe the basic price. It is ab: lutely es-
sential therefore to know the price paid for the
Wheat by the mill. If your miller is not working
in agreement with the Food Administration, use
your inﬂuence to help him to do so.

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NO, MR. FARMER, THEY DON’T
" GRADE POTATOES IN N. Y.

Do they grade potatoes in New York? What-
dyumean, grade potatoes? Thatﬁs a new one on
old New York state. Judging from the tone of
the following letters, one might judge that they
never heard of graded potatoes “back east." Mr.
Garry A. Root of Frankinville, New York, asked
the county agricultural agent if farmers. would
have to grade potatoes. Well,
that was a poser for Mr. C. A. He
never had heard anything about
grading potatoes. and so he asked
the New York Bureau of Markets
for the information. Below is the
correspondence. The ﬁrst letter
was written by Mr. H. K. Crofoot,
Agricultural agent for Cattaragus
county:

“Some little time ago you wrote
me asking if there was a law here
on the grading of potatoes. In
this communication I beg to enclose
copy of letter received from Mr. G.
G. Atwood, chief bureau of plant
industry, state department of farms
and markets. I think this ans-
wers your questions and GIVES
YOU NO CAUSE FOR WORRY.”

Mr. Atwood’s Letter

“There is no statute (potato grad-
ing) in this state that I am aware
of; however, the Federal govern-
ment has been attempting ‘to get a
standardization of grading of pota-
toes and may have made rules 'to
that effect. I think possibly the
Board of Health of the city of New
York may have had some legula—
tions on this subject on what No.1
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ADE. Detroit Chicago New York
No. 2 Red ’ ' 2.17 i 2.15 2.25
No. 3 Red 2.14 2.12 - 2.22
No. 2 White 2.15 2.13 2.23
No. 2 Miami ‘ 2:15 2.13 2.23 .

 

 

 

 

 

Movement/of wheat has been much
lighter during the past week and it
will perhaps be another week, with
favorable weather, before shipments
will move as they did previous to the
recent ‘stor s. Flour movement also
has been restricted although mills

. are turning out theingular quota.
, With two wheatless daysper week,’

and the introductionw‘of war ﬂour, it
becomes more and more apparent that
America is going to be called upon
to relinquish claim on every posible
pound of wheat which can bespared
to Europe: Few people outside of gov-
ernment employes, really realize the
seriousness of the situation. Let our
watchword be conservation of every
pound of wheat.

 

 

 

GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
No. 2 White
Standard .89 ~ .871-4 1 02
No. 3 White .88 1-2 .851-2 1.01
No. 4 White .87 3-4 .853-4 .99 1-2

 

 

 

During the past week the oat mar-
ket has advanced and the end is not
in sight. Our readers will remember
that in our last article we stated it
as our opinion, despite the opinion of
many dealers on tile different grain
exchanges to the contrary, that oats
would reach a higher leveldiefore sup-
plies would be snﬂicient to seriously
,effect the market. That we were not
far wrong is shown by the latest
advance in the market. Under pres-
ent conditions we do not see how sup-
plies can possibly increase sufﬁciently
to effect the market before the last
uf February, and perhaps not then.
We believe there will be a still further
advance in the price of this grain, be-
fore any decline takes place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
No’. 2 Yellow 1.85 1.611-2 1.82 3-4
No: 3 Yellow 1.84 1.60 1:81 LZ
No. 2011er 1.80 1.56 1.77

Storms have again delayed corn

shipments and at the time of writ-
ing this weather conoitionsc are far
from 'favorable. The market for the
next thirty days depends entirely on
the weather and the clearing of east-
ern terminals. With better weathc"
conditions in the corn belt, there will
be a greatly increased movement to
primary markets. Dryers there are
running now about. to capacity and
will continue to do so, providing the
grain reaches them. With the present
congestion in the east, and the ina-
bility of the Eastern roads to move

' further Stocks until this is renw
,it will

not be long until western
points have a surplus of sufﬁcient
proportions to effect the market. Dur«
ing the next six weeks a great portion
of the corn crop must move or become
a loss with the coming of warmer
This would indicate a lower
and we. believe improved

this about.

 

The rye market is exceptionally

strong at this time. Not much grain
moving, and the increased use as a

. wartime substitute for wheat has plac-
‘ ed it among the most active on the

 

lisé. The Detroit market has advanc-
ed until nowI No. 2 rye is quoted at

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$2.05 per bushel. '/This advance has
been mostly by bids as but few cars
have‘actuially changed hands. The
Chicago market is quoted nominal.

Barley

The barley market continues very
ﬁrm and receipts at all points are ex-
tremely light. Barley is being used
now in many different ways and more
extensively for domestic consumption
than ever before. There is every pros-

. '«pect of higher prices, considering the

limited supply moving and the con-
stantly increasing demand.
Choice barley is bringing around

$1.59@$1.60 on the Chicago market.
Buffalo prices run from $1.60 t» $1.79.

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 1 Standard No. 2

Markets Timothy 1 Timothy l Timothy
Detroit 25 50 26 00:24 50 25 MIL? 50 24 00
Chicago 29 30 00128 00 29 00327 00 28 00
Cincinnati [31 00 31 5030 50 31 00 29 00 30 00
Pittsburgh :30 00 30 50l28 50 29 50:27 50 28 00
NewYork 38 00 ‘37 00 37 5035 37 00
Richmond , ‘32 00 32 50 31 50 32 00 31‘00 31 50

No. 1 No. 1 l No. 1

Markets l Light Mixed Clover Mixed " Clover
Detroit 324 50 25 23 50 24 00,21 50 22 00
Chicago ,‘28 28 50'27 50 28 00l27 50 28 00
Cincitnati 30, 0) 31 0028 50 30 50,31 50 32 00
Pittsburgh l28 28 50,29 50 30 50 29 50 30 00
New York l31 33 lso so 32 oo 29 so 31 so
Richmond I31 00 31 50 30 00 30 50 28 00 28 50
There is still a very light move-

ment of hay to most markets, the ef-
fects of recent sorms still being felt.
Right now the weather is the deter-
mining factor in the hay situation.
Good weather and a liberal movement
would undoubtedly mean somewhat
lower prices. At the time of writing
however, heavy snows are reported and
weat r conditions give promise of
littl improvement during the next
week.

Supplies at Detroit are only mod»
erate, storms prevent‘mg the hauling
of. hay to loading points. The market
is ﬁrm at prevailing pjrices.

Offerings at Chicago are very light.
that part of the country having been
exceptionally hard hit by recent bliz-
zards. For days the movement of
freight was almost entirely at a stand-
still. The market is inclined to be
somewhat irregular, depending on the
supply moved from day to day.

Eastern points report a somewhat
easier situation and receivers state
it as their belief that any material

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DETROIT SPECIAL—Oats are showing additional strength on a. purely
supply and demand basis.\ Supplies not sufﬁcient; to
(Rood demand for rye and supplies insufﬁcient to‘meot same from day to day.

CHICAGO WIRE—Corn market quiet under light receipts. Improved weath—
er conditions give promise of an increase in stocks and perhaps an easier mar—
Hay in good demand and supplies‘only moderate.

Butter market ﬁrm and receipts lighter.
increase in ibgg supply although same is expected.
ate quantities and market satisfactory.

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meet consumers’ needs.

No
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increase iin supplies would result in
lower prices.

 

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GRADE ‘ Detroit Chicago ' New York
c. H.P. l 7.50 7.75 7.65
Prime 7.45 1.65 7.58
Red Kidnevs l 3.75 9.30 3.75

 

 

 

Conditions generally for some time
have been such as to make the bean
market quiet. Lack of transportation
facilities has made trading difﬁcult.
Any improvement along this line
would undoubtedly result in a much
better bean market.

State authorities are cooperating
with canners with the idea of getting
as much of the wet stock as possible,
into cans before the coming of warm
weather. Present prospects are that
a great deal of this stock will be left
on the hands of growers when spring
comes and it is almost certain to

spoil. Driers in the state a": run-
ning to full capacity. The trouble
is there are not enough of them to

take care of the crop.

Don‘t loose sight of the fact that
good dry seed beans are going to be
worth some money next seeding time.
Those of you who have them will do
well to hang onto them.

   

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ar e white-tacked ! white-tacked
Detroit 2.65 cwt. 2.55 cwt.
Chicago 2.15 3.02
Cincinnati 2.60 2.47

New York 2.90 2.80
Pittsburgh 2.90 2.78
Baltimore, Md. 2.70 2.60

 

 

The potato market, the same as all
other markets. has been effected by re—
cent severe weather conditions. Re-
ceipts on all markets have been much
lighter than during the early part of
the winter. This has given accumu-
lations an opportunity to clean up
and most markets have shown an ad-
vance in prices. A continuation of
present conditions will no doubt result
in further advances.

(I‘onsiderably more stock went into
pits last fall than is usually the casc.
There is much speculation as to what

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Washington, D. (3., Feb. 2—Last
bulletin gave forecasts of disturbance
tocross continent Feb. 1 to 5, warm
wave Jan. 31 to Feb. 4, cool anc Feb.
3 to 7. This will have a little greater
force than usual, wiith moderate pre—
cipitation, most of which will be on the
northern parts of Paciﬁc and Atlantic
slopes. .

Next"warm waves will reach Van-
couver about Feb. 6 and 11 and tcm—
Deratures will rise on all the Pacific
slope. They will cross crest of Rock-
1es by the close of 7 and 12, plains
sections 8 and 14, meridian 90, great

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near I] and 17. Storm waves w1l1 :3
follow about one day behind warm 5'
warm; and cool waves about one day

behind storm waves. . .
For these two wccks the prccipua—
tion will be well distributed and most

agricultural scntioins will dirt. fair ,
amounts but beforc b‘cb. 10 ll -\v11l bc, 73
lieayicsl on northcrn Atiantlu and

Pacific, slopcs, while aflcl‘ Feb. 10 the
precipitation will incrcasc 111 all the
cotton slatcs.

Storms will be. of grcatc:t force and
precipitation greatest durmg ﬁve days
centering on Feb. 13 and 28. W1t11
only a few cxceptions February crop
weather will be good but for the ﬁve
days centering on Jan. 31 and Feb. 28
unusual cold has been expected. Most
sevcrc we her of the winter was cal-
culated to the weeks centering on
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the condition of this stock,will be
when it comes 'out. Many seem“ to
think that the proportion of wastage
will be great owing to the severe weath‘
er. This would have an effect on
the market and the outcome will be
closely watched.

There is still much stock back in
rowers hands and held at originating
501nm. Dealeres feel that the price

‘is too‘ high and that as soon as this
stock moves freely
decline in price.

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The onion market is steady and
ﬁrm at prevailing prices. There is
no oversupply at present at either
Detroit or Chicago. Eastern points
report rather free supplies but prices
there are satisfactory and conditions
fairly ﬁrm. Detroit is quoting yel-
lows at $3.75 to $4.00 per 100-lb. sack.
Red stock at $3.00 to $3.50.

 

The apple market remains lirm. re-
ceipts being light on account of block-
ades, while the demand is fairly good.
Detroit notations: Greening, $6@6.-
25; Baltwin, $5; No. 2. $3603.50 per
bbl.; western. $2ﬁ‘2.75 per box.

 

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New York Lcttcr, J2111.'26, 1918
Butter receipts have been much
lighter than for last week. This has
undoubtedly been due to congested

trafﬁc conditions and to severe storms
in the central west. Quotations on all

grades of butter advanced one cent
during the week and the market re-
mains nrm with a rising tendency.

Buyers have been extremely anxious to
get fresh goods but have been unable
to secure enough to supply their needs.
The demand is so keen that prices
will without a doubt remain ﬁrm even
with the. influx of considerable quan-
tities of buitcr that has been enroute
for several weeks. -

Mun/(slim: {o ('x‘cunzc/‘icx.~~The ap-
pearance of some of the tubs of butter
coming into the markcl prejudice buy-
ers against the butter. Many tubs
coming in are without one or more
hoops and'ln sonic instances some of
the slaves are out of place. Tubs
should be, soaked thoroughly before
putting butter into them and it would
be advisable under present transpor-
tation conditions 1:: put one or two
small lill'lls‘ through the hoops to keep
zlmm from falling off. Tubs should
be ﬁlled leycl full with the top and
smooth, as a rough or concave surface
detracts from the appoaranc. and hin-
ders sale.

Quotations for the first half of the
week beginning January 21 were 540
for extras and 5415_.@5Sc for higher
scoring grades. ’l‘he‘range of firsts
was Stlﬂhfilg; seconds, 46@491,Qc and
there were few lots in that grade to be
had below 47((7‘148c. On Thursday be—
cause of a considerable influx of butter
all grades declined one-half cent in
price, that, however, being consider—
cd temporary.

    

   

      

 

 

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Turkey 26-27 l 18-24 20-25

Ducks 27-28 25-26 29-30

Geese 25-27 24x25 2930

Springer: 27-28 ‘ 25-26 28—30

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tryiroads are in such shape as to make
delivery to shipping points very dim-

Receipts of poultry on all markets
Coun-

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ANNE CAMPBELL STARK 1 EDITOR WOMAN’S DBP’T
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Michigan s Sugar Beet Industry’s Future
AS BETWEEN the grower of sugar beets and
the manufacturer there is much needless
friction. Each seems blind to the fact that
the other is indispensible to the success of the
iespective enteiprises This conﬂict of opinion
and lack of co- -operation has put a clamp on Mich-
igan's sugar beet industry. and while the indus-
try of other states has developed rapidly, encour-
aged by a sympathetic understanding between
grower and manufacturer, that of Michigan’s has
lapsed.
We do not hesitate to place the onus of this

’condition upon the shoulders of the manufactur-

ers. They have not viewed the industry with any
breadth of vision; their plans have been made to
meet the needs and opportunities of the present;
they have failed to appreciate that future success
depends upon the ability of today’s foundation.
The only thing that can possible insure the per-
petuity of Michigan’s sugar beet industry is the
payment of a profitable price to the grower of
the beets. There have been many seasons when
the farmers lost money on their crop and the man-
ufacturers made good proﬁts, but the latter have
never been disposed to encourage the growers
and protect the future of the industry by sharing
Lilcll‘ proﬁts with them. A succession of unproﬁt-
able years not only hurts the grower of beets
but eventually spells ruin for the manufacturer.

Last year the farmer was paid the highest he
ever received for his product. Need We remind
.hc manufacturer that it was only after numerous
conferences. both costly and worrisome to grower
and manufacturer alike that the farmer ﬁnally
received the price he asked last year. Altho at
that time, the manufacturers protested that they
couldn't afford to pay that price it is new 11 mat-
ter of record that their profits on las1 season’s
acreage were ample and satisfactory. What would
their profits have been and what would have hap-
pened to the grower had he not demanded and re-
ceived the larger price?

Comes another season. The growers want $10
for their 1918 beets.’ Their priCQ is fair. based
upon the largely increased cost of production.
The manufacturers refuse to pay the price, even
tho the price set by the government on the manu
fucturcd article would permit them ‘10 do so and
still have left a fair profit on an average acreage.

What will the outcome be? To whom shall the
growers turn to champion their cause and lead
them to victory? State/Food Administrator Pres-
cott has already spoken for the federal govern-
ment, and urged thc growers to compromise on a
$9 basis. Last year the growers sought the gov-
ernor's aid but it is unlikely that Mr. Sleeper
will care to make any recommendations this year
supplementary to those of Mr. Prescott's And the
legislature is not in,session. so there can be no
threat of a legislative investigation into the proﬁts
of the sugar business.

This thing must be fought out between the grow-
ers and the manufacturers themselves. We will
not speculate on the outcome. No matter who
wins'the other over, both lose by the long delay
and the attendant bitterness.

The farmer who is convinced that it is necessary
to have $10 to pay him a nominal proﬁt on his
venture,
accept a penny

less. Mr. Prescott’s contention

that the farmer ought to compromise on $9 beets

whether that price affords a proﬁt or not, is in our

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There are sumcient farmers of the sugar. beet
sections in sympathy with the demands of the or-
ganized growers to force the manufacturers to pay
the price asked. But the manufacturers will be
extremely short-sighted to permit. the teens to be
decided in this manner. "If. there js proﬁt in;$10

. beets, they should for the protection of theirown

interests, agree to that price‘and quit ’duibbling.

If there is no proﬁt in $10 beets, the growers'will '

be grad of the chance to examine the proof.

There are two courses open for themanufactur-
ers. They cah follow blindly the path they are
now trodding and force hundreds of sugar beet

growers to turn permanently to the growing of

some other crop. This will cut down the season's

acreage and have a bad effect generally upon the

industry in this state. But the constructive, pat-

riotic thing for them to do is to take the growers

into their conﬁdence, pay them a sumcient price
for their». beets that will insure a fair_proﬁt, and
show thereby that they are willing to co-operate
in making sugar beet farming a. desirable and pro-
ﬁtable pursuit to follow. Let the manufacturer
do this thing and this publication and every other
agricultural agency in the state would co-operate

in every way possible to secure the biggest acreage

of sugar beets ever planted in this history of the
state.

There need be no fear of a sugar famine. Mich-
igan’s. sugar beet industry. it given any kind of
encouragement, can double, if not treble its pro-
duction the coming season, despite the labor short-
age. The opportunity lies broadly before the man-
ufacturers to give the industry the impetus it
needs. We hope for the sake of everyone concern-
ed that they will not ignore it.

The Cat that Came Back

EOW! The old black cat that the voters of
Michigan threw out of the back door by
the tail last fall, has come mewling back

and scratches once more to be let in. Talk about
the cat that had nine lives; it hasn’t got anything
on the demon rum. .

Last fall something over 70,000 sane sober cit-
izens of Michigan pronounced booze a public nuis-
ance, passed sentence forthwith, and supposedly
consigned it to a permanent grave. But they reck-
oned without their host. .

Booze wants to come back; its friends are mak-
ing strenuous efforts to resuscitate and restore
it to its old position of power and prestige in the
social and political affairs of Michigan. Petitions

. will be sought to bringebout the re-submission of

the question to a vote of the people, in the hopes
that they may have repented their action last fall
and will forgive the scapegrace forhis crimes.

The proposed amendment is full of pitfalls for
the unwary. To delude the farmer, a provision
is made that $250 of the license money it turned
over to the state highway department for expen-
diture on the roads. This is a bribe, pure and
simple for the farmer's vote, and is an insult to his
intelligence. That he will recognize it as such
when an ex-saloonkeeper of his nearest village
sticks a petition under his nose, is our candid
opinion.

Booze can’t come back. County after county
and state after state have black-listed it. Con-
gress has put a ban upon it. All the constructive
forces of the world have reared themselves against
it. But be ever watchful. Like the bedraggled
cat, it slinks along under cover of darkness. purrs
plaintively upon the threshold and rubs a soft paw
against the door. But look out for the claws
when it gets inside.

Military or Physical Training

HE ADVOCATES of military training are
putting in their best licks these days to con-
vince Congress that it ought to pass a univer-

sal, compulsary military training law just as soon
as the ponderous Wheels of our legislative mach-
inery can be set in motion. No doubt remains
but what they will take advantage of an unnat-
ural state of the nation’s mind to saddle a dan-
gerous doctrine upon our_law books, unless the op-

ponents of the proposal bestir themselves.

The proponents of military training argue that
the enforced drilling of‘our youth will develop
his physical powers and assist in the building of
a stalWart and courageous race. If this be the
only motive of the military propagandists, why not
substitute the word ‘physical” for “military”, and
we will have all the advantages-of the one with-
out the dire possibilities of the other.

mention of how the $10 price with 113131;: thei’rj'
proﬁts. They have merely Said that they. won’t .‘ ,
pay it, and let it go at that. ' "

'.in the arrogance of the" mthtariat. .

mental effect upon trade conditions.

are being instructed in physiieCal welfare that theY

‘ may develop into. strong men and women to per

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111m dissertation on the Cost of form pro- .

ducts and the reasons therefore, we are in-
stantly reminded of the bull in the china shop.
There are undoubtedly some metropolitan editors
who can write with intelligence and unbiased
judgment upon the problems oI food Iproduction
and marketing, but. they. ar ow and far betWeen.
A‘Lincoln subscriber w e us recently, enclos-
ing a clipping from an upstate paper, Whiich laid
the blame for the high cost (if potatoes against the
farmer. Writes this Subscriber ,"‘It wduld be proper
to acquaint the Michigan farmers how that sheet

feels toward them, so that when they send their-

solicitors thru the state looking for subscriptions
they will meet the reception they “deserve.”

Now we don’t feel at all like that toward our
fellow editor up-state. The bovine who wandered
into the open door of the crockery store had no
grievance against [the brleabrac 'nor Its owner.
And so it‘is with our city editor. He really has
nothing against the farmer, and we rather admire
his courage for his convictions, even tho they are
wrong Our editor friend has merely stepped out
of his sphere, and, he writes error instead of truth
without knovving it. ,

The sum and substance of this editor’s cry is
that the farmers held back their potatoes last fall
expecting to get exorbitant prices before spring
and now that they have failed to materialize, the
owners of the spuds are crying for help from the
consumer and the government.’

Our editor friend wholly ove‘io0ks the fact that
the farmer like any other business man, must se-
cure a price for his product that will pay hima
proﬁt, and he is certainly justiﬁed in .holding his
potatoes on the chance that the price will go high
enough to give him this. Most of the buyers,
like the city editors and consumers, believed that
the prices would be lower before the ﬁrst of the
year, and the prices they have offered have ranged
far below those paid in other states, and did not
hold a proﬁt for the farmers.

It is proof enough of our city friend’s ignorance
of the potato situation that he failed to mention
the fact that this year 35 per cent of the farmer’s
crop is graded as No. 2 stock and taken back to the
farm, so that it was necessary for him to have
much higher prices than formerly in order to save
him from loss.

We challenge this up- state editor to show us a
single dealer in the state of Michigan who had
cars “in which to ship potatoes when he had no pota:
toes to ship. ‘We would like to have him point out
thes “proﬁteering” farmers who refused to sell
when a fairly proﬁtable price was offered them.
We'd like to have him analyze his statement that
“these farmers who are now complaining will get
no sympathy from consumers.” Brother editor,
the farmer doesn't need or want your sympathy or
the sympathy of the consumer. If you and your
fellow editors will tell the truth just occasion—‘
ally about the crop and market conditions, the
costly and wasteful marketing methods over which
the farmer has no control, the arbitrary grading
of his product, and a few other “ins and outs” of
the farming business which are total secrets to
the average consumer, much of this bitterness
between producer and c’onsumer will be swept
away and you will be performing a real service to
the public.

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The federal trade commission is slowly uncov-
ering the sinister inﬂuence that the giant packing
concerns exert over .many of the nation’s most
important utilities and nnancial interests. It is
said that they own railroads, street car systems.
and control many large banking institutions. A
few weeks ago a number of prominent Detroit
bankers sent a telegram to President Wilson urg-
ing that the investigation into the packing busi-
ness be abandoned, as they were having a detri-
It is now
charged that this telegram ,was inspired by the
packers. It is not probable .that the administra-
tion will be frightened into abandoning the inves-
tigation, however. That it will lead to government
control, if not ownership of the big packing cen-

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pen you a few lines and let you know that this
Whole potato community is with you. Of course
you know that this county and also neighboring
counties are potato growing centers and therefore

» know that you are putting up a just ﬁght to pro—

tect the rights of the farmer. Referring to your
issue of January 12011; 1918, in your cohtrbversy
with Messrs. Wald and Waterbury, I notice those
gentlemen refer to “patriOtic duty, ” and “increas—
ed' production” as a basis for their argument in
favor of these unjust grading rules, also that Mr.
Waid makes the assertion that the progressive
farmers are in favor of it. Maybe Mr. Wade had
better make a public statement as to what he
means by.‘ “Progressive farmer.” Apparently the
farmer who agrees with Mr. Waid is the progress:

ive one and the one who stands up for justice is"

the unprogressive 'one, but- believe me, if that’s
the case this state is overrun with unprogressive
ones, and we feel proud of it in this particular
case. If Mr. Waid would take a couple of weeks
and travel around to the community centers of
the potato'sections and inquire as to the growers'
opinions about the grading rules he would ﬁnd
out that next to Kaiser Wilhelm his pet idea is the
most despised thing in Michigan

A s to th e
sale,and price
of Grade 2 po-
tatocs there is
no such thing
as G1 ade 2 in
Otsego county,
a county which
y o u k n o W
makes a spec-
ialty of pota-
toes. If the
gentlemen who
are ‘3 a c k i n g
the g r a d i n g
rule don’t be
lieve this,"let
them visit the
potato storage
houses run by
d e a l e rs and
they will ﬁnd
that potatoes
which droppe1
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cuils and were
thrown back in
the f a r m e rs’
wagon, to be
taken to the
farm and fed
to the hogs and
cattle. Grade
1 is the only
grade w n i c h
the d e a l e r 3
would quote a
price on.

M r . Water-
bury says it is
“our patriotic
duty to all turn
in and help en-

‘ courage more
as e d produc ilians from the invaded districts.
t1on. Isn’t It along the road to safety.

funny what‘;

eal's are -’Dlanketed With ‘the words

I-Iavje: read your’ many articles which uphold ,
Ihe farmers’ claims and thought over their truths,
. fulness so much that the only relief I’ll have is to

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as oral ' - :1
y he know that manure, fertilizers and
ﬁne 3 ve increased produ'ction; that’s been drilled

"into them fer years, so advance them into another

class and educate them how to eliminate some of

the middle-sharks and get their share of the con-

Sumer’ 15‘ dollar whidh they certainly are entitled to
after doing the bigger share of the labor.

Potatoes are quoted around here at 72 cents per
bushel. It costs from 75 cents to 85 cents togrow
them. Wonder if the steel mills are running at
such a loss? Still the .cry is that the farmer must
win the war; All rig ht, we want to Win it, and will

.go the manufacturing industries one better, inas-

much as We won’t ask a certain pe‘r cent proﬁt
over all running expenses. Give us wages for our

‘labor and we’ll be waving the ﬂag at the ﬁnish—

A Subscriber, Otsego County.
We Can’Pr'oduce; Help'Us market Our Crops

I am glad you believe in the follow-up system,
because if you ‘did not I would probably not be
sending you the enclosed check for a year's sub-
scription to M. B. F. As soon as I read the ﬁrst
sample copy I said that is the paper every farmer
needs. Most farmers understand their business,
and are as efﬁcient in the production end as any
other producer, but I am sorry to say that they
are away behind the others when it comes to dis-
posing of their product.

I will not accuse any farm paper of giving the
farmer false advice on raising crops, etc, but ybu
know as well as I that a farmer gets disgusted
having some one who probably never saw a farm
except from an auto, tell him how to be. more ef-
iICient. Your paper tells the farmer how to sell

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The soldicrs who rctrcntcd across 11n-

‘“ not afford to waste mod, it ease too much, and
They have .1.
' been practicing econOmy for years, and the lesson

their wages buy too little as it is.

is not a. new one that must be dinned so persistent-
1y into their cars. What these people need is low-
er prices that will enable them t’o enjoy more food,

, pressure to make them eat less.

If there are certain kinds of food that are most
necessary to supply our allies and our own sol-
diers these foods can very well be conserved in
reasonable amount for this purpose. But there are
other kinds of food that are not so necessary;
there is .food that can be had in plenty without
interfering with the provisioning of the war; per-
ishable foodstuffs that cannot be shipped abroad.
Denial of certain things should not mean general
under feeding. ‘

We are earnestly desirous of seeing food control

‘made a success, as it ought to be, in this war; of
‘ seeing the principle vindicated among the people.

so that it will be continued after the war; but
this cannot be the case unless food control results
in feeding the people, whatever other necessary
and laudable objects it may achieve, they will
count for little with the masses of the people if it
fails to achieve this last.—S. H. 8., Harriette.

The Present Potato Grading Rules Will

Never Beneﬁt the Consumer "

I am a subscriber to IVIICHIGAN BUSINESS FAth
ING, and I have been reading the articles about
potato grading with interest. M. B. F. surely is
doing a lot of good for the farmer. It is one sure
thing that the way the buyers are gracing the
potatoes never was and never will be a benefit
to the farmer or the consumer. The buyer and the
middleman are
the only ones
to proﬁt by it.
I should not
be opposing
the grading if
it was done
right. Now if
they were us-
ing a 134 inch
screen in place
of the big one
they are now
“Sing. I think
it would be _a
fairei way. I
think that po—
tatoes that can
Dass ver a 131;;
inch screen are
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, M. 13. F. that
: Mr. VVaid said
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ers are in fav-
or of the grad-

ing. I think
the “progress-
1v e” farmers

must must be
7 very scarce as
g1 have never
seen a farmer
3% yet who didn't
. condemn the
grading the
way they are
doing it, but I
hear a lot of
them say they
will not raise
many potatoes
next. y‘ar if
this grading is
not changed to
a fairer way.

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are blanketed with those words “patriotic duty!”
Wonder if Mr. Waterbury thinks it is patriotic
to encourage an experiment which means ﬁnancial
destruction to the potato grower at this critical
time, and which most assuredly will discourage
the farmer in responding again so loyally to the
Government’s plea for increased acreage- If they
don’t believe this grading rule is going to act as
a boomerang to their increased production plea let
them go into the potato centers and inquire from
growers as to what kind of acreage they will put
in next; year. I notice their intentions are to ed-
ucate the consumer into buying by grade. The
consumer always was satisﬁed when there was
only one grade, what he was kicking on was the
dealer’s prices. Maybe they consider it a patriot-
ic duty to stir up the public into buying by grades
and practically discarding a size of potato which
they previously relished. When Mr. Waterbury
says you are stirring up the farmer on this grad-
ing rule he is wrong, and being a farm paper ed-
itor," ought to know his subscribers better than
that. The farmers were stirred up when they
were handed this grading lemon at potato digging
time and the truth of it is MICHIGAN Busmnss
FARMING is the only publication which has had
the backbone to uphold the farmer’s rights If
this grading rule is so justiﬁable why don'r- Mr.
Waterbury come out in his paper and state where
it is a beneﬁt to the grower. H6 shouldn't forget
that the farmer is the backbone of his paper and
should defend their rights instead of hiding be-
hind the plea of "patrfgtic duty.’ _

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his products to the best advantage and also helps
him get a just price. That is the impression that
we farmers know all the best ways to farm, etc.,
for we are always on the lookout for better ways
to do our work, the same as any other manufac—
turer. We must. also do the same as they do. sub-
scribe for our trade papers and discuss problems
with others in the same business, and if we had
a little more leisure we might write to different
papers and tell the butcher, the baker and candle
stick maker how to conduct their business. I ex
pect they would thank us—nit.——F. W. 0., Peters
bzlrg. ‘

Government Should Control the Food Supply

of the Country

We know that Government control of the na—
tion’s food supply, if applied in a large and logi-
cal way, will go a great way toward sol-dug pres-
ent high cost living problems for the people. This
control should be applied by special legislation at
the real source of high prices, to all the private
interests who directly handle the country’s food
supply and take advantage of war opportunity to
deliberately charge unreasonable and extortionate
prices for every article of living necessity that the
common man or woman must have. Waste of food
would be eliminated. Waste of food is bad under
It should be said, however,
that it is not among the workers, the poorer clas-
ses, the common people, that food waste is to be
found in any alarming degree. These people can-

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The price paid
for potatoes is not satisfactory, when one considers
the high price the consumers have to pay, and also
the price the dealer gets for them, as he sells them
for nearly a dollar more than he pays the farmer
for them.

One thing more is wrong: A dealer in Greene
ville is paying $1.40 to $1.50 per cwt in Green-
ville, where there is some competition, w‘iile here
25 miles from Greenville. the same men only pay
$1.20 per (-wt. 1 should think the oealer would be
made to pay the same price at the different sta-
tions he is buying at, except the difference in the
freight rates between this place and Greenville.—~~
N. P. 19., Howard City.

Too Much Red Tape and .Bull-Headedness

in Potato Grading Scheme

I am one of the 01d Lincoln boys of ‘61-‘65. 76
years old. Two sample copies you sent me I gave
to my neighbors. I do not know the outcome of
the potato business, but one thing I do know, I
will keep mine until the weather is hot enough to
bake them in the cellar before I will take leSS than
a'dollar a bushel-for them. Somebody is to blame
for the present potato muddle; there is too much
red tape or bullhea-dedness at the bottom of the
whole thing.

Yes, I am a staunch friend of MICHIGAN BUSI-
ans FARMING. It is worth ﬁve times its subscrip-
tion price to any man who amounts to a. hill of
beans anywhere —H. B. 0., Dighton.

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think the market is just a triﬂe eas-
ier but receipts are so small that the
price keeps up despite reports of in-
coming shipments from the southwest.
Michigan fresh firsts are quoted at
55@590, Detroit.

Eastern markets report fresh eggs
very scaimce Prices are inﬂated but,
buyeﬁs are available for all fresh
stuck that appears Within a week
17 cans of California stock have arriv-
ed at New York and assisted very-ma-
terially in supplying the market. Most
of the stock during the past week has
sold at 72c. Storage stock is selling
around 46@47%c without much regard
for quality.

Cheese

New York Letter, Jan. 19, 1918
The market has been somewhat more
active than heretofore. This is prob-
ably due to the small make and also
because the army and navy have been
buying cheese during the past week.
Michigan and Soft Michigan grades
are not popular on the eastern market
and will not bring 10p quotations.
Held specials are quoted generally
at 24 3-4@25c; held, average run 24
@250; fresh specials. 231/26524 fresh
average run, 2314c. The total hold-
ings are in neighborhood of 10,000.000
pounds.

 

Prices on all 111111 feeds remain firm
and the market is strong. Some points
report a. shortage of supplies while in
one or two cases they report quiet con-

ditions. The reverse is‘li'ue of most
points, however. and at Detroit con-
ditions are ﬁrm at following *quota-
tions: In 100-lb. sacks, jobbing lots:
Bran, $34.50; standard middliugs, $36.~
50; ﬁne middlings, $43.50; cracked
corn, $79; coarse cornmeal, $77; chop,
$66 per ton.

Flour per 196 lbs. in eighth paper
sacks: Standard patent, $11.10@$11.-
15; straight winter, $19.30; spring
patent, $11.20; rye flour, $10.50@10.70
in jobbing' lots.

CLOVER SEED

The clover seed market continues to
show additional strength. Toledo quo-
tations: Prime cash, old $19.75; new.
$19.85; March, $19.10; Alsike, Prime,
January, February and March. $15.95.
Timothy, Prime cash, old $4.25, new
$4.35; March, $4.45.

 

  
     

 

 

Tees

      

 

curing cars .1151 shipments

tle to their feed lot to await cars at
a later date. Best'heavy~ steers are
going at aroumd $11.26@11.50. Offer:
ings of the real fancy-article are not
so plentiful as might be desired. Ham
dy weight butcher steers are running
at $11@11.50, with mixed steers and
heifers bringing $9.75@10.25. Best
cows are selling $8.5‘0@8.75 while the
ordinary run of butcher cows are sell-
ing $7@8. The best of the heavy bulls
are selling $9@9.25. There is a good
steady market for veal calves, prices
ranging from $14@16 for the better
grades while others go as low as $8@9.

The Chicago market has been rather
quiet during the past week, lack of
shipping demand affording an oppor-
tunity for local packers to bear the
market. Steers displayed same
strength at the beginning of the week
but a severe decline followed and clos-
ing prices on the bulk showed a decline
of around $1.00. Eastern buyer'ls
were unable to’move purchases freely
owing to the car situation and after
the ﬁrst few days of the week were
about out of the market. Quality of
arrivals was not so good’toward the
close of the week. Tott'al‘ receipts
for last week were 85,300, an increase
of 64.100 over the previous week and
22,600 over the same week a year
ago. -.

Buffalo reports a steady market with
receipts of 20 cars on Tuesday of the
present week. Medium weight and
heavy steers are in light supply and
strong demand. Butcher steers and
handy weight steers are steady at a—
bout last week’s range of prices while
fat cows and heifers SllOW. an advance
of 10 to 15c. Bulls of all classes are
liikher than last week while canners
and cutters, while in light supply, are
from 15c to 25c lower. Stockers and

feeders are in light supply and at pre-
vailing prices.

 

 

GRADE 1 Detroit Chicago Bui falo
Heavy 2411-290” 15 00 16 25H15 50 16 50 17 00 1710
Medium 200- 240 16 00 16 25 15 50 1610 17 00 1710
Mixed 150- 200; 15 75 16 00' 15 50 1610 16 50 17 25
Packer1100'150H15 50 16 00 15 20 16 00 16 25 17 00
P115100 down 15 00 15 75l12 50 14 50 16 00 16 75

 

 

 

Detroit 110g market has been rather
quiet and slow all week. Embargoes
are still in effect on M. C. and P. M.
and arrivals are very light. Not much
active trading. A better supply ex-
pected during the coming week and the
market is in good shape to i-eceiVe
delayed shipments.

The Chicago hog market has rule-d
slow during the past week. The close
of last week saw the general run of
mixed packing hogs going at around
$1@1.10 lower than the close of the
preceding week, sales running $15.15
@1540. Medium and butcher offer-
ings were even throughout, closing
around 300 lower 011 Saturday than 011
Friday. The bulk went from $15.40 to
$15.50. Heavy packing stock has been
somewhat neglected, buyers wanting
the better offerings. Sales from $15.10
to $15.45. Light grades also came in
for a reduction, selling around 30@
35c lower on Saturday than at Friday’s
close. Sales were from $14275 to $15.-
25 with the bulk going at $15.00. Sales
were plentiful at that price and un-
derweights went as low as $14.00.

Buffalo reports fairly good receipts
on most days and a good healthy tone
to the market. Receipts 011 Tuesday
of this week were 40 cars and buyers
were in the market ready to take all
offerings. Bulk of the well ﬁnished
offerings sold from $17 to $16.75.

1‘ Many .
Michigan shippers. during the p931: "
1 week have made ready to load and

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GRADE Detrdit Chicago Builder
Top Lamln 17.75 13.00 17.00 17.85 18.25 18.50
Gatling: 14.00 15.00 15.25 15.50 15.00 15.71
Wetllere 12.00 12.50 10.50 13.00 14.00 14.50
we: E.” 12.25 10.00 13.00 12.50 13200

 

The sheep and lamb lﬁarket has
ruled steadyat all points and values

have been Well maintained. This is'

especially true with regard to sheep.
At certain points lambs were inclined
to rule weak at times but no material
declines were registered. The Detroit
market has been strong on all grades.
Chicago at times has been out of line
with eastern points, especially so on
lambs. Trafﬁc conditions prevented
eastern buyers from ﬁlling orders,
few cars being available, and eastern
,markets showed additional strength
owing to lack of supplies.

Chicago receipts on Tuesday of this
week were 14,000. Buffalo on the same
day received 10 cars, lambs selling
there from $16.75 to $18.50. Chicago
prices ranged from $14.75 to $18.00.

‘

Hides . _
No. 1 cured, 17c; green, Me; No. 1
cured bulls, 30; No. 1 green bulls,

110; No.1 cured veal kip, 200; No. 1
green veal kip, 180; No.1 cured mirr—
rain, 17c; No 1 green murrain,14c;
No.1 cured calf, 26c; No. 1 gleen
calf, 240; N0. 1 horsehide, $5; no.2
hides, lo and No.1 kip and calf 11/.)
lower than above; sheepskins, as to a-
mount of wool, 25c@$3 each. ‘

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Please don't.let us miss a copy of your
valuable paper. Its the best paper out
in the interest of the farmer. We are
very much against the prcsent grade of
potatoes—Mrs Ralph lmsl\ett, Mont—
calm county.

I hope this letter will iemind you that
I am looking fox the best faim paper
that even “as published. And I wish all
editors of all faim papers would try to
help the faimers as much as you do
1 think there would be a big change-—
E. J. Weinberg, \Vashtcnaiv county.

' Music furnished for all
506181 orCheStraoccasions. 484 Drcxel
Ave., Detroit. Phone Hickory 1085—M.

OR SALE—Shorthorn Cattle

Shady Hill Farms for 24 years.
the blood of Avondale. .lohii
Reed City, Mich.

brcd , at
Rich in
Schmidt,

 

 

READ WHAT MR. HOOVER SAYS

We have a very good lot of young hulls coming on
that will be fit for service in a few weeks. '1 hole bulls
are sons of l‘uirvlew Colaiithn Rag Apple 141, 297, a son
of the great Rag Apple Korndyke 8th.‘

”We always have a number of I: lioicc females from
which to make your selections. "clhi y me all daughters
of '10 pound hulls, the only kind Wt use at Rosewood

l‘iiII.iI ” h’USl' W001) S"l()(‘ K PAR“ Howc ll, Mich.

Robt: R. Pointer & Son

Dearhorn, Michigan

Breeder of Registered Holstein Friesian
Cattle. Stock for sale at all times. If you
are looking for some of the best see us.

“TOP-NOTCH” HOLSTEINS

Milk produttion is an inherited iibility. Good cows
must be lIrI dto good pure bred bulls if progII so in dairy-
ing is to he iIiIIdc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Extrmtll. S. Dcpt. oiAgriI. Bulletin.

 

Buy this youiigliull and give your milk and butter pro
duction a pus 2

King Colnnthn DcOIikdiilI, N01828:”, Born \0v. 4 1015_

His Sire’ s 3 names! Bllllt’l ’7 days 30.87

Dams average Milk 7 days 570.60

Butter 7 days 30.50

His Dani’s Dani’s {Milk 7 days 505.00

Record Butler :10 days 124,19

Milk :10 days 2430.60

(She heads one of the ten only combinations of three

dircrt generations of thirty pound cows.)

. , Butter 7 days 23.33

H is dum 3 record at 3 years { Milk 7 days 42940

. Butter 7 days 29.30

11111 five nearest dams average {Milk 7 days 548.68
(lllllll(111182-- “Bundl— 41 2y.r 0ld,)

ldcully niurkcd, about half and half. Price $250.

McPherson Farms Co., Howell, Mich.

 

 

GRADE Detroit Chicago 1 Buffalo
Steen, good to prime 112‘) 1150112 0013 50 12 50 13 75
Stem, coin. to fair $1100 1150115012 50112512 50
Heifers, goodlopriine 9 75 10 25in 00 ll 90 11 25 12 00

Cows, avcrage 8 008 50 ll 00 ll 90 8 25 10 50
chum—Cutter. s so 6 151 s 75 s 75 s so 7 00
Balls. average 8 00 3 75l 8 00 8 75 8 25 9 00

14 5015 7514 001': 0014 5018 50

 

 

 

Veal, fair to good

The past week has been very quiet
so far as the different cattle markets
are concerned. Embargoes at many
points have held up shipments and
the storms have delayed those enroute
to such an extent as to cause consid-
erable shrinkage and make deliveries
away late. ‘

The Detroit market is steady but
business is quiet owin to embargoes
and the difﬁcultnes of shippers ‘in se-

 

 

 

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at present quotations.

or any commodity used
SHORTAGE OF RAW MATERIALS
\VILL HANDICAP DELIVERIES.
eral information.

N. F. SIMPSON, Gen. Mun,

 

Reap the benefits of a high market

LET YOUR SHIPMENTS of veal calves, dressed hogs and poultry come for~
POTATOES—market way above normal—only early arrivals will sell
GngANER BUSINESS FARMERS own a. three story
building which is used exclusively for handling farm produce.
is assured of personal marketing service.

Reap the beneﬁts from buying at wholesale prices

IF YOU ARE GOING To $UY fertilizer, binder twine,
ing materials, feed, corn, oats, grass seed, fence posts auto tires, paints, oils
in your business—PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW.

WRITE US TO DAY for prices, and gen-

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parts gi‘een, spray-

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-_,ErI.Es,FOR THE .4
‘ HOME GARDEN

Gardeners of 1918 are now studying,

the new edition of seedsmen's catalogs
trying to frame the season' s" seed- order
but many are puzzled by the dozen or
more varieties offered under each kind
of vegetable. There is not‘very much
in a name when one comes to seed
catalogs, and still less can one de-

pend on the glowing descriptions and I‘

pretty pictures. The home gardener
wants a different variety, generally,
from that which the commercial grow-
er in the same section uses, for quality
is the main object with 'the home-gard-
dener. Then too, the home—gardener
wants a continuous supply instead of
a heavy crop lasting a few days only.
Shipping quality and even appearance
mean little to the homegardener, while
keeping quality may be very import-
ant to assis gardeners in selecting va-
rieties of vegetables in the home gar-
den, the following list is suggested
by J. T. Rosa, Jr., of the University
of\ Missouri of Missouri College of
Agriculture. - ‘
Rhubarb, Victoria, Parsley, Dwarf
Pecfection; Unions, Yellow Globe sets
for early, Southport Red Globe seed
for late crop of dry onions for winter
storage; ,Spinach, Savoy; Mustard,
Black Chinese; Turnip, Purple top,
White Globe for both spring and fall
plantings; Lettuce. Grand Rapids for
early, leaf type, Tennisball for hot—
bed, heading type; Radish, White-tip-
ped Scarlet for early. White Icicle for
later and White Chinese for winter;
Peas, Gradus f01 early Potlatch for
late; Irish potatoes Irish Cobbler for
early, Ruial New Yorker for late and
Winter use; Parsnips, Hollow Cr own;
Beets, Detroit Dark Red for early and
Edmond's Blood Turnip for late and
storage purposes; Carrots, Half-long
Danvers; Cabbage. Copenhagen for
early, and Savoy, Rock Red. or Dan-
ish Round-head for‘late; Beans. String-
less Green-pod for early, Refugee
Wax for second early; Sweet corn, Gol-
den Bantum for ﬁrst early, White cob
Coy for second early, Country Gentle-
men for main crop and canning, and
Stowell‘s Evergreen for late; Toma-
toes, Earliana for ﬁrst crop, Bonny
Best and Greater Baltimore for late
crop and canning; Sweet Peppers, Ruby
Giant; Lima Beans, Burpee Bush Li-
ma, and Sieva of the pole type;Cucum-
bers, Long Green for slicing and Gher-
king for pickles; Muskmelons, Rocky
Ford(green ﬂeshed) and Netted Gem;

Watermelon. Keckly sweet (early)
Florida Favorite (late) ; Summer
Squash Early White Bush; Winter

squash, Warted Hubbard. Golden Cu-
shaw; Eggplant, Black Beauty; Okra,
Long Green; Sweet Potatoes, Nancy
Hall and Southern Queen of the sweet
juicy type. Big Stem Jersey of the dry
mealy type.

These varieties are not expected to
make good everywhere, or under all
conditions, neither will they meet with
the particular tastes and requirements
of every gardener.

'130 SPRAYED TREES
NETTED OWNER $1,813.55

Thousands of acres of apple orchards
which have never been profitable can
be converted into an asset by spray-
ing and pruning. These orchards, are
a potent source of food supply which
should not be neglected, especially
during the present emergency. The
University of Missouri College of Ag-
riculture is urging that every orchard
be put in bearing condition. This is
much more satisfactory than planting
new orchards which would not come
into bearing until after the war~ is
over. Furthermore, the land which
would be devoted to a new orchard
can be cultivated more conveniently
and more proﬁtably if it is planted
to some other crOp.

An example of the proﬁts from
spraying is illustrated by the experi-
ence of Charles Tanzberger of Jeff-
erson Barracks, Mo. Mr. Tanzlterger’s

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-110 feet down the center.

orchard is 17 years old and was never
sprayed until last year. He Offered
his orchard of 130 apple trees. for a
spraying demonstration. In 1917 as
a result of proper spraying, the 130
trees produced $1,897.55 worth of fruit.
The total cost of spray materials, to-
\gether with the cost of labor, amounted
to $851. Thus, the net proﬁt resulting
from spraying was $1,813.55. The or-
chardhas never been proﬁtable before,
For example, the same orchard of 130
trees, was set just as heavily with
fruit early in the season of 1916 as it
was last spring, yet it produced with-

out spraying only enough apples for.

three barrels of vinegar.

ENCOURAGING NEWS
FROM OAKKLAND COUNTY

Just a word to the M. B. F. I cer-
tainly enjoy reading your paper, but
that isn’t the point; it is the good we
get that counts. I am up here in the
northwest corner of Oakland county.
I ﬁlled my silo before the corn was
frozen and haven’t opened it yet but
will as soon as my corn in the ﬁeld is
nearly gone. I see in your paper that
the most of the reporters claim that
it is not worth as much. I never had
my cows do better than they have this
winter. I put the corn in a day ahead
so it will thaw out and feed three
times a day.——O. H. 8.. Holly.

[Eniron's Nor1«::—What experience
have the restof our readers had with
this season’s silage]

GOOD SHOWING BY U. P.
HOGS AND CATTLE

A record made by an Upper Penin-
sula farmer in the cattle and beg
raising industry which has been sub-
mitted to the Upper Peninsula De-
velopment Bureau is ample justiﬁca-
tion of the representations made by
that organization in its efforts to in—
crease these industries in Cloverland.

This record is considered so good
that it is probable it will be brought
to the attention of the sheep and cat-
tle men of the western and middle
western states through the' press of
these sections of the country. accord-
ing to ofﬁcials of the bureau. Fol-
lowing is a summary of the record:

The net farm receipts of this man,
whose farm is in Luce county',’ during
the year 1917 are $5599.26. This is
after the expenses, such as freight
and all other charges in connection
with the shipping end of the work,
have been deducted from the total.

The following extract from the let-
ter submitted to the bureau will ex-
plain tlie situation.

“Now this stock was all 1aised on
my farm. We keep three or four
mares. forty to ﬁfty cows, and about
'20 brood sows. Our shipments Of
1917 were six head of young horses,
thirty-four fa‘t cattle and 87 fat hogs.

“0n the horse: we realized $975.
On the cattle. $2595.12. On the hogs.
$5599.26.

This fact is supplemented by the
announcement that “We have never
shipped any ‘feeders’ of any kin1.”
Our hogs are thoroughbred 0. I. C.
and our cattle are all grade cows.
with a thoroughbred Shorthorn sire.
of the beef type. Our horses are Bel-
gium and Percheron.

“The hogs are fattened on ground
rye and barley mixed and fed dry in
the self feeders.'l‘hey are win’tered
on rutabagas, middlings and ground
rye. oats and barley.

“The cattle are fattened on the cut-

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over lands and they are in grass up to 1
their knees all summer with plenty of1

clear cold spring water. We winter
them 011 hay, oat straw and rutabng-

as. They run in a large, Warm shed.

which has a rack running full length

is stored above and fed directly into
their rack. The roothouse is at the
end of the shed.

“Rutabagas are a sure crop here
and yield from 500 to 1000 bushels to
the acre.

We are now wintering 115 head c"
cattle, 85 head of hogs and 15 head of
horses and colts.”

This is an illustratiOn of the kind
of practical information the Upper
Peninsula Development B reau will
submit to the Salt Lake ity meet-
1ng of practical sheep and cattle men
in the near future( and which it is
hoped will result in an inﬂux of these
these men to Cloverland.—Fowlcrm‘llc
Rcview.

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SAVE THE CHICKS,
LABOR AND FEED!

I want one farmer or poultry—raism in
each locality to build and use a leily
Improved Brooder this season. It is
easy to build and operate. light on feed.
Plenty of heat out Of doors, equally as
, * good with hen hatched as incubator chicks.
'l“l1c1e is a heatm room and feed 1011111 hens do not bother feeding. The heater is
undm oven and 1-‘ent1al hcat no (iowding of Chl(l(S. No over heat no going; out in
the wet to cal,1-:1ies fm 150 chicks as quick and as easy as one hen Unce used
you neier will be without one or moie. Save the 111an11fa1turei’s proﬁt by sending
one dollar foi iight and complete plans to build and operate. 1 will send copy of
patent instinctions and license fol building and opeiating. It can be. made any size
you wish and at one- half the expense of any you can buy. Just send a dollar
bill todnv and have your bioodex ready f0] early chicks. This paper guarantees I
will do as l agIec. Buy no“ and we will give you a chance to build and sell under
our license and give YOU license tags to attach on each brooder you make. Address.

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MICHIGAN GROWN SEEDS in Michigan is by far the most cinnnlcm
13’1‘actically every reader of M. B. F. and attractive they have ever isﬁm-q,

lives within the. first or second parcel post It is in reality more than 21 catalog: it
zone of Jackson, Michigan. so the Seed
Annual which the S. M.
1030 Mechanic St., that city, Offer to send
free on request is of more than 11:111le in—
ter-est.
company’s 3.0th year in the seed business

.niig'ht well be called an "Encyclopedia of
Michigan (,lrown Plants. . Fruits and
Flowers." “'8 hope every one of our
readers who have not yet received their
1' my will 111-311 a card to (be Isbell people
{L'iixllig for 1.113111" sued annual.

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. (in-n Meal Gingerbread

()ne cup cornmeal, 1 cup wheat ﬂour. 1 tea—
spoon soda, 59/4 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons ginger.
1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1,5 teaspooncloves, — cup
sour milk. 1 cup molasses. 2 tablespoons short-
ening. Sift together the dry ingredients. Com~'
blue the milk, molasses. melted shortening and
beaten egg. Add the liquid ingredients to the
dry. Stir well, Bake in moderate oven.

Two cups buckwheat ﬂour may be substituted
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will have the characteristic flavor of buckwheat.
If it is too strong use only one cup of buckwheat
and one and a half cups of white flour. Two
and a half cups of rye and white ﬂour may also
be substituted. In using the rye and white ﬂour
a larger quantity is necessary because these
flours absorb less liquid than do the cornmeal
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Farm Life as Bad as Being in Prison

1 have been reading the letters in your column
and would like to say 1 am another one nearly in
the same class with the lady who wrote ofmarry-
i‘hg the farmer's son. 1 too, had lived in town all
my life, when one day I met a certain young farm-
er who was very nice to me. Our meetings be-
came more frequent and ﬁnally ended by us being
married. It has been nearly twelve years since
then. We still live on the farm of 50 acres. which
we own. We have three children. We live ﬁve
and onehalt’ miles from town and it seems I
can‘t help being lonesome and discontented how-
ever hard 1 try. Farm people have not the time to
visit and go places. There are always chores and
things which have to be done. Those who have
been raised on the farm are. used to it and think
nothing of staying at home and seeing nothing of
other beings and doings, while one who was raised
in town if taken to the country is always more or
less lonesome. and it is almost as bad as being in
prison. T, for one, say if there was some way of
keeping the girls of town or country either from
being transplanted from one to the other it surely
ought to be done. Or at least have them see the
trap. they are stepping into. it really is as bad for
one as the other to change. i hope the girls who
read this will have better foresight than I had and
marry one who lives and does as you are used to
doing if you would be ha].>py.e~Mr.s‘-. 8.. Indiana,

Never Disappoint a Child

R "’ ti’l‘llliit WAS going to town, and little Dor—
i othy \ras weeping. as children usually do
.on mother's departure.

"th'cr mind." promised Mother. ”I'll stop and
bring you a little dolly if you'll be a real good
girl.”

Dorothy smiled through her tears. and promised
to he as good as gold. Ail afternoon she thought
about the doll, and hoped it would have yellow
hair and blue eyes. She dreamed about the kind
oz' dresses she would make for it. for Dorothy was
just learning to sew, and she sorted her pieces
out and had an attractive little pile of gay prints
on which she was going to begin for her new dolly
when Mother came home. >

Mother, in the meantime, was busy down town.
She had a great many thugs to do, because she
lived six miles from the village, and went down
only once in two weeks or so. Then she met a
great many friends and chatted with them, and
had a soda at Herb llennes‘sey’s drug store. and
the upshot of it was that she was three miles out
of town before she thought of Dorothy’s doll.

I know you think that she disappointed Dor~
othy. but this little story did not turn out that
way. She was a. wise mother, and she knew that
ithe only way she could build a ﬁrm foundation
for her daughter's character was to always keep
he." promises to her. She knew how keen was the
childish disappointment, and how it lingered, and
often left an effect in after years. So she just, turn
ed old betsy’s head toward town and went those
extra three miles to make good her promise to
Dorothy. '

And wasn't she rewarded when she came home
again? When she saw the little pile of materials
Dorothy was saving to make dresses for the little
new dolly, and felt her warm grateful arms around
her neck, she was glad she went three miles and'
back again out of her way to save her little daugh5
ter a disappointment.

I think she was a wise mother. It never pays to
lower a child’s ideals. A child’s ideal of her moth-
er-is high, but after mother has broken a few
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ANNE CAMPBELL Sunk. Barron
her word, even mother seems more like other pee:
ple. and not entirely to be trusted.

Never break a promise to a child, and n‘everlie
to one, even in fun, for the great tragedy of child-
hood is tolose faith.

To Clean Irons ,

NSWERING a note from Mrs. A. P. R., ask-
ing how to clean irons, I wrote the follow-

'11 with .

ing, which I thought might prove of inter-h

est to other readers of our page:

A geod way to clean irons is to scour them with

ﬁnely-sifted coal ashes, and occasionally to wash
them in strong sOapsuds. When thoroughly
cleaned rub with sweet oil and, stand aside in a
dry place for several days.

Before you use them again~ wash with soapsu'ds,
rinse with hot water, adding a little borax or gal»
soda and wipe until perfectly dry.

To remove rust from 'ﬁartirons, rub the spots
with emery paper. and if not successful then cover
the spotsmith sweet oil and powdered quicklime.
allowing this to remain on for several days.

Next wash with hot water, adding a general .sup‘
ply of sal soda and wipe until perfectly dry. If
not entirely smooth after this, rub again with em-
ery paper. ‘ "

Dear Mrs. Stark:—

I wish you would write an article advising the
young people to stay at home more. When 1 was

young there never was such carryings on as there

 
    

The Little House Where Love Lives

HAVE no china dishes that cost ’a for-
tune small;
I have no famous paintings aAhang-ing on
my wall; _
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But I'm a urcolfh of happiness and love
‘ HA VH no solid silver in a velvet pad-
! (led chest,
I havc no grand piano. as perhaps you
' may have guessed,-
I him: no comforters of silk; my liuen‘s
not so ﬁne. .
But oh. the wealth of happiness, the store
i of 701;!) all minc.’
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Y HOM It) is very simple. just th e plain-
cs‘i sort of things. '

But {here's a sense of commdship that
reaches out and clings;

’l'hc furnishings arc Shabby. but there‘s
peace and comfort there.

And loving deeds and loving hcm'ls and
loving thoughts to shore.

    
     
   
    
    

HAVE no gold or silver: I'm sort of
poor you see;—

l'ha! is. ['11) poor in everything that makcs
no odds with me.

Somc folks believe, their home must be (l
symbol of succcss.

But my little house where love lives is
justfillcd with happiness!

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is now. The young folks in our neighborhood
meet once or twice a week at the school house, and
have a singing society, a knitting club, and put on
plays and entertainments and I don’t know what
all. it seems to me that‘ there is hardly a night
when they are at home. And when they are home,
it seems as if there are always young folks here.
We never are all together for a quiet evening any
more; or at least seldom. When I scold them,
they just laugh, and say the country is getting
more civilized than when I was young ,and-keep
on having their good times—Mrs. Rose M.

My dear Mrs. M., you should be a happy woman!
I have received so many letters asking me what
to do to keep the young folks on thexfarms, and
here comes your letter, telling them just how to
do it! You should'be very glad, indeed that the
boys and girls are having such innocent, whole-
some fun, and nstead of sco‘iding and nagging
about it. should join in rand‘h‘ave fun too. If they
cannot have a good time in their own homes and
their own neighborht d, thy will soon become
restless and want to join the arm: 0; rural young
folks who are hunting employment in our big cit-
ies. It is as necessary as breathing for young
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' ,"' BREAD _ ’

Americans have almost forgotten some of the
best‘thlngs we eVer knew. Corn bread IS one of
them; oaten corn bread is another. How manV'
times you have said, ‘l‘that’s good. why don't you
have it oftener 2’” Well, we are going to» have corn
and oat bread more often, v‘gry often, everyday
in fact. We would do it Whether we liked it or
not, because our government needs more. wheat
to send abroad—wheat that can be had only as
we let it go. Well made. there is no breadmore
wholeSOme, more nourishing or better flavor,
' than the mixed loaf of corn or oats. There are.
any number 0f good rules in every old recipe
book. Here is one for quick cornmeal bread
which has been tried. Every time you eat bread
made with corn and oats you do well by your

self—and more, you help to win the war.

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Com-meal Quick Broad

One and one-half cups cornmeal, 4 teaspoons
baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, ,_1 tablespoon
flourL 2 cups milk,‘ 1 egg' (omitted if desired), 1
tablespoon melted fat. -Mi .and sift the dry in-
gredients. Combine the ilk beaten egg and
melted fat, and add to the dry ingredients. .Mix
well pour into greased .muﬂin tins and bake in
a hot oven about 20 minutes. This bread should
be served hot. If the softer, bread is desired the
cornmeal. salt and milk may be brought to a7
boil and cooked for 10 minutes in a double
boiler or over hot water. Cool, add'the beaten
egg, melted fat‘ and baking powder. The ﬂour is
not necessary. Beat and bake in a hot oven.
This same mixture may, be baked as griddl
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great cri e its babes grow dull” someone said, and
something to the effect that young souls shou..t
not be stunted until they have their fill of joyous
youtthful pleasures. , They just have to play and
gambol, and settle down to responsibilities and
make better men and women for it“: More power
to the young folks in the neighborhood! They
have the right spirit. They are happy in their
youth, which is only natural, and Hey should
be commended and encduraged in their happiness.

Sugarless Fruit Cake

Fruit cake can be a patriotic cake. “But fruit
cake is expensive," says the prudent housewife.
That’s just the point. To be patriotic a cake need
not be expensive, but if-she chooses~an expensive
recipe it can still be in line with national food
needs. These recipes omit sugar. thereby releas-
ing an important food of which both America and
the Allies are in serious need.

Fruit Cake (uncooked)-—Half a pound each of
nuts, dates, ﬁgs, raisins. and citron. Put dates.
ﬁgs and raisins through the food chopper. Grate
in the yellow rind of one lemon. Then add the
juice of the lemon and blend with a wooden spoon.
Chop nuts ﬁne. Cut citron into ﬁne strings. Pack
closely into an oiled tin, alternating layers of
fruit with nuts and citron. Press down closely.
weight and leave at least 24 hours. Keep in clos-
ed cake box and slice as needed. Serve in small
slices with a simple gelatine desert. This can be
varied in [many ways. Candied orange peel or
grated cocoanut may be used instead of citron.
Orange juice or extract of cinnamon may be used
A drop of oil of cinnamon or
ground cinnamon may be used with the
recipe. This fruit loaf may be cut in strips, rolled
in powdered sugar. and used as candy.

Dricd iv‘ruit Cake———Two cups dried apples, peach-
es or any kind of dried fruit; 2 cups Orleans mo-
lasses, 1/; cup shortening. 2 eggs, 1 cup milk, ﬂour
for-stiff batter. l teaspoon'soda. 1 cup seeded rais-
ins, 1 teaspoon nutmeg. 1 teaspoon ground cinna
mon, 1/; teaspoon ground cloves, juice of a lemon.
Soak the fruit over- night. Then chop very ﬁne
and simmer in the saucepan with the molasses
for two hours and a half. Let it ceci. Add beaten
yolks of eggs to shortening and beat until light.
Add the milk, then the fruit and molasses. Baal
hard for ﬁve minutes. Now add enough flour for
a stiff batter and soda dissolved in a teaspoon of
hot water. Mix well. Then add the ﬂour, raisins
and spices and beat vigorously. Add the juice of
lemon and ﬁnally the whites beaten to a stiff forth,
The batter must be stiff but elastic enough to
drop from, spoon. Bake in moderate oven two
hours. ”

Liberty Fruit Cake—One cup molasses, 1 cup
water, 1 cup seeded raisins, 1/4 cup citron out ﬁne,
1/; cup shortening, 1/3 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon n’ut—
meg, 1 teaspoon cinnamon. 1 cup corn flour, 1 cup
rye ﬂour or white ﬂour,'5 teaspoons baking pow-
der. Boil molasses, water, fruit, shortening, salt
and spices together in saucepan three minutes.
When cool, add ﬂour and baking powder. which
have been sifted together. Mix well; .bakelinloa'f
pan in moderate eyen' about 45 minutes.

         
   

    
  
   
  
 
   
  
   
  
    
   
   
  
   
   
  
   
    
  
  
   
    
   
  
  
   
    
   
  
  
     
 
   
   

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L- . .,1A‘BE§AC-’—'(North)"——The writer was at

Sterling recently where the farmers gath-'

meted from near and; far the object was

.they- are. finisgdng the organization of a.

hipping association. They
seemed to be taking a lot of interest. We
county a live stock associa-
tion. ~ Shipped about 20 cars"this fall and

gwinter. Made some money for those who
shipped. Not many beans sold at the
- present. . The local 'elevators are paying

$11.50 per hundred weight; rye. $1.75. The
roads are in very bad condition an ac:
count of..,driftin'g snow. There is a strip
of‘cbuntry here in Clayton township, Are-
rl'ac county where we were not hit byrthe
.frost as hard as in some other districts,
and we have some very nice beans for
seed. I have at present about 60 bus.
that will not pick over one pound to the
bushel from the machine. Would like to
get in touch with someone needinngood
need. I know of a good. many ﬁe ds in
this neighborhood just in the same condi-
tion, nice and dry. There was an agent
from the vicinity of Almont here looking
for seed corn, last Week and he picked
up about 50 baskets and has the promise
of more. I have sold 70 bushels of seed
cor‘n this fall at one dollar‘a basket and
have orders for all I have at $1.50 per
basket—W. R. 8., Sterling.

MONROE (West (‘entrnl)——Farmers
not doing much these cold days. The
deep snow and zero weather keep us very
busy doing chores. There is quite a lit—
tle trouble in the milk business these days
as the snow has blocked the roads
and made the trains late and milk inspec—
tors are making the farmer do some think-

ing. The only remedy is to stand ﬁrm
and pull together.——W. H. L., Dundee,
Jan. 21. "

ANTRIM (Northwest)—-Very stormy

weather for a week. Most farmers are
hand—picking their beans and holding
them for higher prices. Very few pota—
toes being sold, as the price is too low.

and farmers are not in love with the pres—'

ent methods of grading. Hefe is an il-
lustration of what we receive up here:
\Ve took a bag of hand-picked beans to

Ellsworth last week and the elevator
man said thi-y would test 24 per cent
moisture. We took the sample to Phelps

the next day and they said the beans
were ﬁrst-class. The farmers say $8.50
per bu. for beans. There are hundreds of
acres of beans not threshed yet and lots
of them rotting in the mow. One elevator
man from this section sent out ﬁve car—
loads of potatoes and only sent one man
to five tnem. When they reached their
destination two cars were frozen. If that
had” been a farmer who shipped those
potatoes the public would say he was
destroying foodstuff and was responsible
for the high cost of 1iving.-G. A. D.,
Charlevoix, Jan.

CLINTON (Ween—Unusually severe
winter. Snow drifts from 2 to 8 feet in
height. Everybody hunting for wood as
coal cannot be bought. A car of coal is
brought in once'in awhile but the quality
is very poor and on account of the pat-
riotism is sold for from $9 to $10. Beans
turning out fairly well but threshers re-
port to Secretary of State is worthless as
they report culls. dirt. stones and every—
thing. About 1—3 should be deducted from
the amount reported. Farmers have no
corn to feed and are unable to buy any.—
T. B. Fowler, Jan. 22 . ,

WEXFORD ((‘entraD—Snowing every
day and snow is-two feet deep in the
woods. Business with farmers is pretty
quiet; some are buying hay at,around $26
per ton. No produce being sold—A. A.
.'~l., Boon, Jan. 22.

SHIAWASSEE ((‘entral)—-I“armers are
busy shoveling snow from the roads. cut-
ting a little wood, which has a ready sale
at $3.50 to $5.00 Di'l‘ cord. Not much coal
in sight and very cold weather—W. P. B
()wosso, Jan. 22.

INﬂHAM (Northeaut)——Snow piled up
mountain high; roads in bad shape. but
getting better now. Some are preparing
to‘build inthis vicinity, but not to any
great extent. the war problem is caus-
ing too much tax. it looks as if the
beans were up against something this
season. After passing thru ten or twelve
middlemen there is not much left for the
farmer. If I could see them put out of
busmess it would seem good for once.
The weather has been very cold which has
retarded business somewhat. The mer—
0111‘3’ has been down to from 10 to 18. I
see by the report they have elected a
COUDtY agent to help the farmers raise
more potatoes and corn. 1 rather think
hf? WONG get a poor reception in this vi-
einity. If a man has farmed it thirty.or
forty years and don’t know how, its time
he'lltld help. but not a paper man—W. B.
TVilliamston, Jan. 24.

BENZIE (Southwest)—We have had a
1very hheavy fsrgxw storm and farmers who
'lV‘e ac< o e main roads are snowed
in.~G. H., Benzonia, Jan. 20.

. )[ANISTEE (Northwest)—-—The farmers
\ll’l this county are busy doing chores and
breaking roads. We are having a con—
tinual snow storm, the snow is two feet
on the level and in drifts from 4 to 10 ft
and it is still snowing. There is nothing
in the line of selling anything. The pr'ces
quoted on potatoes is $1.00 per cwt and
on beans $10 per cwt. Hay is scarce and
sells at $25 to $30; oats, $3 per cwt—
C. 7H. 8., Bear Lake, Jan. 20.~.‘ '

OSCEOLA (Northwest)-Most farmers
areckept busy now-a-‘days shoveling snow
and doing chores as it, has snowed—nearly
every day for the last two weeks. Sheep
sold at a sale here for, $29 a head—A. S.
‘S., Lewiston, Jan. 22. -

GRATIO'I‘ ('Southoast)—The farmers
are cutting quite a lot of wood and are
drawing some grain to markets ' The

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,, weather isﬂne now. only a little too much .

snow. 'Oa-ts are the main grain the farm-
ers are selling although some wheat an
a few beans are being put on the market.
Some grass seeds are being bought, which
are pretty high; June clover, $20 per bu.,
timothy, . $6; alsyke, $17.00.—J. E. C”
Banister .Jan. 24. ‘ ‘

NE1VAYGO\ZNortheast)——Mu_ch of the
corn crop yet in the ﬁeld, not being of
much account only for the fodder. Snow-
Very deep. Farmers are having a bust-
ling time to keep the mail route open.
Stock in good condition. Hogs are very
scarce. Farmers who have Wood lots‘are
busy cutting and hauling, wood to Cities
to relieve coal shortage; dry wood. $4.00
per cord; green wood, $3.00 per cord.
This will be a good year for the farmers

,to keep a. book account of their business.

as the Federal census will be taken in a'
little over one year. Some of the ques-
tions are hard to answer.——F. S., Big Rap-
ids, Jan. 24.

BAY (Northeast)——Farmers have dug
themselves out of the snow, which was
piled up by the storm, which prevailed
over the greater part of the country. The
weather is still very cold. Farmers are
kept .sy with the chores and obtaining
fuel. A very few have wood but a greater
part of them are depending on coal. Coal
shipped in at the station is not sold to
farmers any more so they are forced to
go to the mines for it. . This makes a. very
long haul and if one isn’t real early he
will perhaps ﬁnd 40 or 50 teams ahead
and the chances are he will have to re-
main until next day or return without
coal. Those burni hard coal will have
.to resort to coke if they do not have a
sufﬁcient quantity to carry them over. No
selling to speak of; the market has been-
dull since the blizzard—J. E. MCK., Pin-
conning, Jan. 21. .

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OAKLAND (North)——~Not much doing
but chores and hunting for fuel, most of
the people are burning green wood. The
roads were badly blocked with snow but
are mostly cleared out. Very little pro—
duce .going to market. Some prospects
of moving some potatoes, but it is un-
certain about cars. A good many farm-
ers are looking for seed corn wh'-h is
very hard to ﬁnd. A good many auction
sales and everything selling well but
horses—E. F, Clarkston,' Jan. 25.

ARENAC (Ewan—This week the weath—
er has been quite moderate. Lots of
snow in the ﬁelds, which is a good thing
for new seeding and fall grains, but bad
on getting around. The scarcity of feed
has made it necessary for many farmers
to dispose of their stock. Hay is selling
at the farm at from $16 to $22.50 a ton.
and some of it a very poor quality. You
can buy ﬁne big horses at nearly your
own prices. Beans advanced 500 a cwt.
last week. Farmers are marketing some
oats, beans, wood, hay etc. Tuesday.
Jan. 22, Mrs. Henry L'llman, a pioneer of
East Arenac County, passed to the great
beyond. She was a resident on one farm
for 40 years—M. B. R., Twining, Janu-
ary 25.

IONIA (Northwest)——-The ’weather for
the past two weeks has been far from

tropical, and the winds much like a step-
mother's breath. Saturday, Jan. 12, was
the severest day ever experienced by most
residents of this county. The wind blew
45-55 miles per hr., at a temperature 14
below zero. Snow drifted everywhere
there was an opening, ev‘en thru the key-
holes in the doors. Stock without extra
warm quarters suffered much, as moder-
ate shelter was very little protection. The
roads are ﬁlled with drifted snow from 4
to 12 feet deep, making them almost im-
passable. Many days the rural mail 'car—
riers were unable to make their routes.
Some farmers are already out of feed and
few that sold hay in the fall for $8 to $12
per ton are now buying at $22 to $24.
It has been almost impossible to receive
shipments of cottonseed and linseed meals
as they have been held up by the rail-
roads, and in some cases where these
feeds were contracted before the .\'m'. or
Doc. advance in prices. some companies
refused to ﬁll their contracts, claiming
that these feeds were not obtainable.
Bran and iniddlii‘igs are much cheaper
since the. last Government ruling on flour
and feed an are now selling for $28 and
3537 respectively. Very little wheat in
farmers’ hands, as there can be no possi—
ble advantage to them by holding for a
higher price. Some have kept a few bush-
els for chicken feed; it being cheaper and
better than corn. Wheat and rye have
suffered very little. if any from weather
conditions. and the early sown went into
the winter in ﬁne shape. but by far the
larger part of the acreage was sown verv
late, much of which never germinated.
Acreage of wheat very small; not more
than 35 per cent of last year’s crop—S.
W. K.. Lyons, Jan. 24. .

MONTCALM (Southwest) — Farmers
are not as busy zis‘usual; many are cut-
ting and hauling wood, receiving $3.50
to $4.00 per cord at the station. A small
amount of potatoes are being purchased,
owing to the shortage of cars and the fact
that mosUwarehouses are ﬁlled} Ice is
moving slower than last week on account
of most roads being closed. Weather is
very cold with a large amount of snow
on the soil. A very small amount of pro-
duce is being held for higher prices—W.
L.. Greenville, Jan. 25.

10800 (Southeast)———Farmers are cut-
ting wood and putting up ice. We have
%‘ood sleighlng and very cold weather.

armers are selling some beans, hay and
straw. Hay is bringing from $20 to, $22
per ton and straw $8 to $10. Quite a
number ofour farmers have bought silos
to be put up the coming spring—A. L.,
Tawas City, Jan. 25.

0TB!) ‘0, (West)-—NVeather here has
been vex cold...\ Some of the farmers are
gaulirég 1: 1 and wood—C. A., Gaylord,
an. . . \

 

(Write Advertising Department, Mich-
igan Business Forming, 110 West Fort St.,
Detroit, for rates in this column.)

   
       
     
     

 

0 I C BOABS and SOWS of ﬁne
' ' - quality. Prices reasonable.
Registered tree and will ship C.0.D. Floyd
H. Banister. Springport, Mich.

 

 

 

CATTLE

WANTEnz—Pig feed cull beans let me
know. Chas. Bromham, Hubbard Lake.
Michigan.

 

 

E. L. SALISBURY

SHEPHERD, MICH.
Breedernof purebred
Holstein-Friesian Cattle
Young bulls for sale from A. R.
O. COWS with creditable records.

 

 

 

SHEEP

 

' A limited number of
Shropshire Ewes bred ewes; bred
right! Prices right! A son of Tanner's
Royal in service. H. F. Mouser, Ithaca.
Michigan.

YOUNG nELAlNO EWES,_bred, and
yearling Ram. $60.00 to quick buyer.
S. H. Saunders. R. .\'o. 2. Ashtabula Ohio.

 

“’OLVERINE STOCK FAR.“

FOR SALE, a beautifully mark-
ed bull calf, born Aug. 3, 1917. Sire
JUdge Walker Pieterje whose ﬁrst
ﬁve ‘dams are 30 pound cows, his
dam a 24 pound 3 year—old grand—
daughter of King of the Pontiacs,
and second dam a 26 pound cow.
This calf will please you.

Price, $200.

T. W. SPRAGUE

Route 2, Battle Creek, Mich. '

 

 

 

 

 

F FOR SALE
INE Holstein bull calf 90 per cent

White. A grandson of Maplecrest

Korndyke Hengeweld who is as good
as the best. Dam has A. R. 0. record 16
lbs. butter in seven days as three—year-old
and 21 lb. three yr. old daughter. If ‘vou
wantlone he is cheap at $50. Writevfor
dewription.

C. Hendee & Son, Pincknoy. Mich.

250 STEERS FOR SALE

Ones, twos, threes, Herefords. Angus
and Shorthorns. 600 to 1200 lbs. Choice
quality sorted to size, age and breed. in
car lots. Write your wants. C. F. Ball
Fairﬁeld. Iowa. '

HATCH HERD HOLSTEINS

 

FOR AUGUST DELIVERY 50 Register-
ed Shropshire Yearling ewes and 30
Registered Yearling Rams of extra qual—
ity and breeding. Flock established 1890.
(f. Lemen, Dexter, Michigan.

 

 

POULTRY

For Sale—2 hens and
COCkeI‘elS cockcrrl $5. also cock-
erels $2 to $5. Write

W C. West & Son. East Lansing RF 1.1.1

BARBED ROCK L‘UCKERELS for sale,
$2.00 to $5,011 each for strain With
records to 290 eggs at year. Circular tree.
F‘red Asiling Constantine. Mich
BARRED ROC (EOUKERELS from

Prize Winning stock
Thompson strain, $3 and . Yearling
breeding hens. $2. Well Barred. Sam
Sladel. Chelsea. Michigan.

OHN'S BIG BEAUTIFUL BARREI)
Rocks are hen hatched and soil! on up-
proval $3 to $10 each. 1 llltliu and l rc-
inales $12.00. Good layers (‘iri-iilars,
Photos. John Northon. ("lure .‘JilPl’liR‘Rll.

()SE (‘ODIB RHODE ISLAND pR'HI)
‘ockrels for breeding Purposes. Prize-
winning stock $3 apiece or three for $8.00.

 

 

I pay for sending. Win. .1. Rinclie, A1-
YPSILANTI We have been “breeding pine. Mir-h, RR \'o. 1.
MICHIGAV Up" for Pthe past eleven
L years. - 0n_tiac Korndyke U'ITERCUPS llimilcd niimlierday—old Chick’s.
. ~ and .ng horndyke Sadie B‘Orders listed now, 20c each. Hatching
Yale bulls 1n servu-e, Select your next eggs. Member A. R. P. Roy id. Mathews,
51m "OW \w-i-mlmrviiie. Mich. Bx 157.
“BRENNAN JERSEY FARM” . .
STRICTLY MAJESTY“ line bred reg. Will Save Your CthkS!
bulls and heifers for sale from '

_ dams

that are domg better than 50 lbs. fat per

mo. we invite in‘-=pcction.
Fred Brennan, (‘npzitx

FOR SALE

bull calf.
ing. For

Alit'li

 

eglstered Holstein Bull
Ready for service; also
These bulls are of Choicc breed-
particulars write Fred Lord.

Stockbridge, Mich.

 

HORSES

 

ERCHER-ON STALLIONS, one 3 years
old, driven single and double, One ten
years old, thoroly broken single and doub—
le. Will work like a mare, llczivy boned
gentle fellows. Price $100 :mil 8:100. l"i'i‘(l

 

N. Randall. Munvhir-stcr. Mir-h.
(mo 3—year—old Black l‘er-
or a e Micron Stallion, weighing
1800 lbs, also our aged

Stallion Ingomar 30047, that has been at
the head of our stud for 10 years. M. A.

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Anv reader of this magazine who writes
P. 'J. Kelly, the Poultryman, at 109 Kelly
Bldg. No. 2 N. 2nd St. Minneapolis, Mimi.
will receive a Free (‘opy of his new book-
let “White Diarrhoea in Baby Chicks." It
tells how to prevent, remedy and save the
whole hatch. lt‘s free. Write ofr it at
once. (Adv.)

 

Superior Farm, White Wyandotts
Good winter layers, and ﬁt for any show
room. .A. few good cockerels, $3 and $5
each. Eggs after Mar. 1st. C. W. Hon-
eywell, Plymouth. Mich.

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

SEED, 100 per cent

B E purity. Sample and
price on request.

Mayor‘s Plant Nursery. Merrill. Mich.

 

(lit SALE—Choice seed l’cn beans, $8

 

 

 

 

.. . « .\. ,. ,, .. wr bushel. Samples on request. Otis
Bid) l..‘t., ( 11.1.. DIAY. Mgr. l.an.~.ii,...\lil ii iii 'l‘i'ipp. Mount Pleasant. Michigan.
i FRANCIS Fall — bearin
HOGS 1 FOR SALE Strawberry plants $1.50 perg
100: $10.00 per 1,000. W. l“. Tindall,
LEONARD, POLAND CHINAS Bred ‘wyvm City. Mich-
sows, fall pigs, either sex,
Leonard, St. that will grow. $10.00 a

at reasonable. price. E. R.
Louis, Mich. R. No. 3.

 

B RE D GIL T S
Wm. B. No. 47049. Longfellow
18575 Sire of 1st prize young

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herd at Iowa State Fair. Fall pigs and ,

C breed serviceable boars.

J. CARL JEW’ETT, Mason, Hirli.

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SEED CORN bushel. Sample on re—

quest. .l_ A. Rhodes, Prairie Depot, Ohio.

OGEMAW COUNTY FARM LANDS

Very productive. Small payment down.
No further payments interest or taxes
for ﬁve years. Harry 0. Sheldon, Alger,
Michigan.

 

 

0 I C Choice young boars ready
' ' ' either sex; sired

prize yearling boar Mich. State Fair 1917
(llover Leaf Stock Farm. Monroe, Mich..
11. No. 1.

 

BOARS
John W.

llAMPSHlRE
for sale.
Johns. Mich.

EGISTERED
and bred gilts
Snyder. R. 4.. St.

 

 

 

CHOICE REGISTERED STOCK

Percherons--Colonel 10483}, a grand—
son of Morse and Olbert; a great
grandson of Besigue and Calypso, at
head of stud. ” Holsteins~Senior Sire,
son of Pontiac Aaggie Korndyke and a
28.22 pound dam. Aberdeen—Angus—
Senior Sire. Black Earl of Woodlawn
152209. A Blackbird. Shropshires—A
small but choice ﬂock, large, and wool—
ed from nose to toes. Durocs~The
large, proliﬁc money—making kind. It
in need of a ﬁrst-class sire, write me.
DOBR D. BUELL, Elmira, Mich. B. 1.

 

 

 

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for service; also fall p.gs >
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Co—operative Buying $53,703,;

Saves Money. Delivered cailoi quotations

furnished.

GRAIN GROWERS GRAIN C0. Minneapolis, Minn

STRAWBERRY PLANTS distal}

plete and nicely pictured book, tells all
about my vigorous stock grown best way.
Mayer‘s Plant Nursery, Merrill, Michigan.

C OLD

 

FORDS START EASY LV

WEATHER if you use our 1918 carbur- .

etor. 34 miles per gallon guaranteed.
One-third more power. Use cheapest gas-
oline or one—half kerosene. Quickly starts

cold motor even at zero and moves right '.

off .with full power. No spitting or pop-
ping. Slow speed on high. Fits exactly.
Attach it yourself. .30 off list where no
agent. Big proﬁts selling our goods. We
ﬁt all motors. Write for 30 day trial of~
fer and money back guarantee. The Air-
Friction Carburetor Company, 559 Mad-
ison St., Dayton, Mich.

    

 
  
 
    
  
  
   
    
  
  
 
 
   
    
 
 
  
  
 
  
 
  
  
   
 
   
  
  
  
  
   
 
   
 
  
  
    
  
  
    

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SHALL I PLANT?" ’

“I w‘buld like to ask your advice on
what would be the best cash crop for
"I us to plant this next season. We have

160 aeres of land and it is mostly of
a: gravel loam, some sand loam but not
light, also quite a ﬁttle clay .and some
muck. We have about 30 acres in new
3 seeding, about 14 acres in fall crops,
.' and expect to plant 15 acres corn and
20 acres oats and barley and now I

would like to know what your advice

would“ be to plant on the balance of 30
.acres as a cash crop, taking all the
‘ marketing regulations and price pros-
‘ pects into consideratioil."——-Subscliber,
= Gooderich.
' Taking into consideration the crops
‘ already planted and to be planted on
' this 160 acres of land which includes
. 13 into grass, 14 into wheat and the
: proposed 15 to corn and 20 to oats and
barley, there remains 30 acres to be
' planted into cash crops. Also consid-
: ering the soil which a sandy, gravelly
loam, and the location, I cannot recom-
' mend anything better, everything con-
, sidered, than beans and potatoes for
. this land unless part of the area be
devoted to sugar beets. This would
depend more on the hauling distance
of the beets.

If the land is located near a shipp-
ing station, with the present price
' offered for beets, I think it would be
-. wise to grow a portion of this land to
; sugar beets because it is an absolute
._ cash crop. All you have got to do is
to get the tonnage . the market is es-
tablished, there is no question about
the money and, besides, the world
needs sugar. It is a patriotic thing to
grow sugar beets if one is favorably
located and has suitable soil, but of
course one cannot advise a man to
‘ grow sugar beets if he has to haul
them four or ﬁve miles to market.
This costs too much. Neither can one
recommend sugar beets ii the soil
is not of the right nature or in the
proper condition to grow a good crop.
A. loamy soil that is in quite fertile
condition will produce a paying crop
of sugar beets.

Beans and potatoes will certainly
, be good crops to raise in this lecality
‘ on this kind of soil. The amount to
I be planted to potatoes will be govern-
ed largely by the problem of market—
ing. How far they must be hauled
to market. I would think that the
commercial city of Flint would furnish
almost an ideal market and it would
be within hauling distance. i should
think it would be no particular trou-
ble to sell potatoes in wagonload lots
to families in this city of Flint next
fall at a good fair price. This ought
to be one of the best home markets
for potatoes in the state. But where
potatoes have to be hauled a consid-
erable distance and then shipped by
rail to far away markets the grower is
handicapped and the proﬁts are not
apt to be as large as where they can
be disposed of in a nearby home mar-
ket.

I shOuld judge from the discription
that this would be an ideal soil for
beans and I know too that large areas
of beans are grown in Genesee county.
One doesn’t have to- ﬁgure as much
on the market for beans as the hauling
to market counts little ﬁgure compar-
ed to marketing a crop of potatoes or
sugar beets and unless the market con-
ditions are favorable for the sugar
' beets and the potatoes as suggested
above, I think it would be advisable
to put a large part of this land to
beans. With a favorable season, on
this soil, a man ought to get a very
proﬁtable crop‘at present prices and
there is no question but_what\ the
world will need the beans and but
what they will bring a. fair price for
1918 crop.—~Colon 0. Lillie.
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I think your paper is a good one. I
would not be without it for three times
the price. —John Booth, Sanilac county

We are certainly well pleased with
the M. B. F. It is the only paper we can
ﬁnd that has the interest of the farmers
in mind. ——Wesley Dell, Grand Travercse
county.

 

United'States has 350,000 IHdians.‘
‘ I! I ‘

Iro’n money is passing in Germany
and the Siamese are using porcelain.

More than 44, 000, 000 acres of coal
lands in fourteen states of the United
States are to be opened in 1918.

‘ t t t "

Castor oil is ‘a taverite lubricant

for aeroplanes because it is little ef- '

fected by changes of temperature.
' ' t t 1.

Imports in undressed furs and skins
for the nine months ending September
30th last were valued at $19,458,181.

II 0 0

Nothing is wasted in war but noise.
A steam roller is run over empty tin
cans to ﬂatten them then they are

put into a smelter.
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The population of the United States
is now estimated at 104, 863 thousand,
compared with 103,145 thousand a
year ago.

t t 0

Michigan has been called upon to
enlist 11,734 men for shipbuilding work
as her quota, provided they are needed

for this branch of the service.
i t t

Prompted by the warmest December
on record, farmers in Western Mon-
tana are plowing by night, railroads
lending them headlights, and wheat
acreage will nearly double that of a
year ago.

New York City eats 100,060 pounds
(of horse ﬂesh weekly. .

Kansas City schools will teach food

gardening. .
t l 0

Pennsylvania railroads states that
the shippers could save $2,000, 000 a
year by more carefully packing fruit.

The United States Government will
expend $1,000,000,000 during the com-
ing year in military buildings.

I t O

From Amsterdam comes the report
that a number of Allied airplanes drop-
ped 1, 000 copies of President Wilson’ 3
me5sage to Congress over occupied ar-
eas of Belgium recently.

a:

The third elevator ﬁre to occur in
the Thumb district within the last
ten days, burned one of the storehous-
es of the Bad Axe Grain Company to
the ground Monday night, entailing a
loss of $20,000. '

t O t

The new Washtenaw Co-operative
association of Ann Arbor, held its

ﬁrst business meeting in the Super.

visor’ s room in the county Court House
a few days ago. Partial arrangements
were made at them eeting for making
the ﬁrst shipment of stock to the De
troit market under co—operative meth-
od of handling. Forty new members
were taken into the association at this
meeting. .

 

,

John G. Newman. former Portland
produce dealer, believes more Ionia coun-
ty farmers would raise cabbage if they
realized that there is ordinarily good
money in the crop when the grower goes
into it on a large scale. Mr. Newman,
who Spends his winters in New York
City, dealing in produce, writes the Re-
view that domestic cabbage is selling in
New York at $58 to $60 a ton, red cab-
bage bringing $100; potatoes are $4. 25
to $4. 50 per 180 pounds; onions $3. 25 per
hundred pounds and table beets $3. 00.

t

F E. Langdon has 25 Rhode Island
pullets that p1 oduced 409 eggs during the
month of December. The pullets were
hatched the 26th day of April and began
laying the lst of November, but from the
lsth to the end 0 fthe month they pro-
duced 14 dozen eggs. Mr. Langdon takes
good care of his ﬂock and says he aims
to keep them busy. He is sellin gthe eggs
at 50c per dozen so even with the high
price of feed he ﬁgures that the chickens
am paying a good proﬁt. ——Lawton Lead-

er.
I- t a

Ed. DeVries of Dighton sold :1
beans to the Dighton Grain Co. for which
he received $455.00 This is the largest
amount of money received for a load of
beans in this section and shows that beans
can be successfully grown around Digh—
ton—Osceola Press.

3 6
Ed. Chamberlain and. son of Brighton
are milking 14 cows and selling the milk
to the Detroit Creamery Company. For
December they delivered nearly 700 lbs.
daily for which they received better than
$20. 00. -—South Lyon Herald

Will McCrory sold to F. J VanAtta
seven hogs that Weighed 2289 pounds and
for which he received $480.69, or nearly
$70 each—South Lyon Herald.

The creamery at Grove City, Pa., oper-
ated under the management of the Dairy

Division of the Bureau of Animal Indus-

try, United States Department of Agri-
culture, is cited in the bureau’s annual
report as an excellent example of the in-
ﬂuence that a well—managed creamery
has upon a locality. When it was opened
in 1915, it had only 54 patrons the ﬁrst
month, but at the close of the ﬁscal year
it had 579 patrons, from whom 378.000
pounds of butterfat were purchased dur-
ing the year at a price well above that
generally prevailing. In addition to the
manufacture of 4255,084 pounds.of but—
ter, the products included 139,585 pounds
of cottage cheese, 1,504,025 pounds of con-
densed milk, and 5,441 pounds‘ of casein.
—Sanilac county Farmer.

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There was a. distinct object lesson at
the recent unloading and delivery of the
corn shipped in here by the Union City
branch of the Farmers’ Co-Operative
Company. This corn was purchased sev-
eral months ago since which time prices
have advanced greatly. Had the farmers
sold this corn when it arrfved, the proﬁt
would have been about $670 on the entire
consignment.’ Co-operation seems to pay
well and the management suggests that
the work be enlarged -—Union City Regis-
ter- Weekly ,
o o _ c

Bert Closson sold a hog that weighed
625 pounds to Jones and Shurte for 16
cents a pound or an even $100. The an—
imal was shipped with other stock to
Chicago—National Democratl Cassopo-
113.

g. . .

Joseph Duvall, a. farmer of LaSalle
township, Monroe county, sold one pig
Jan. 18. 1918 that weighed 535 lbs. dress-
ed, at 200 per 1b., receiving for it $107.44.
How is this for 3. Monroe county farmer?

 

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’ the boost.

It causes one to inddlge in. an ironic V
smile wheﬁ he ﬁnds tucked away in
one corner of the Detroit Free Press]
the following item: .

“Healthy ﬁnancial condition and a. -'
satisfactory volume of busineSs dur-
ing the "year were reﬂected in reports
submitted to stockholders of the De-~
troit Creamery Company at their an-.
nual meeting, Thursday, January 24
in the company’ 3 general omces, Grand
River and Cass avenues.” J .

One of the directors reelected was.
Mr. E. D. Stair, who incidentally, holds
a cantrolling interest in the Free Press.

We are reminded that the Detroit.
Creamery Company similarly rejoiced
a year ago over the gratifying proﬁts, '
but at that time the public was let in
on the good news. This Year,\howev-
er, in view of the attitude of the De-
troit consumer against 14 cent milk,
it wouldn’t be very good policy to
talk very loudly about the dividends.

BRIEF NOTES FEOM THE
FOOD ADMINISTRATION

Shortage'of wheat in France is
becoming more adarming each week.
Pastry is now classed as a luxury --
and its manufacture or consumption
is now suppressed except on Sun,
days and holidays.

The U. S. Food Administration
wishes to place the Irish potato every
day in the. year on ‘every table in A-
merica. Potatoes furnish nourish-
ment, bulk, mineral salts and a cor-
rective alkalinity in the diet. They
are plentiful this year and cheap.

Fifty thousand tons of linseed cake-
originally consigned to Holland will
be sold at request of the consignee
for consumption in New York, Penn-
sylvania and New England accord-
ing to an announcement authorized
by the U. S. Food Administration

MR. CITY CONSUMER
. SPEAKS H‘IKS OPINION

Hyman Winegarden, who. it is re-
lated to us came to Flint about ten
years ago with a little gocart of
fruit and established a small business.
is said to have grown rich in that
time and. is now reported to be worth
three—quarters of a million, an dthis
has been made in the commission
business. He now tells in the Flint
Journal that “one dollar a bushel is
too much to pay the producer for no-
tatoes.” He tells an \awful tale of
woe about trying to buy potatoes on
the Gneenville market and says when
he tried it that potatoes were worth a
dollar a bushel, but ovneﬁ he came on
the market the price was boosted to
$1.25 and he lays it to the farmer for
He forgets there are a few
buyers hens in town who just lay for
some interloper to come in and outbid
them on the market. He goes on to
tell about handling costs and says it
costs 43 cents a bushel to put potatoes
on the retail market. From the state-
ment made to us that he is worth the
better part of a million of dollars
made in the commission business it is
easy to see where a large part of the
costs to the consumer gets into the
potatoes he handles. He says “they
can raise potatoes around that sec-
tion of the country (Greenville) for
25 cents a bushel”, He adds): “I
have personally bought a lot of pota-
toes there and I know the minute a
fellow comes in there and wants to

buy som epotatoes they boost the

price 10 cents on him. This would
make us believe that Mr. Winegar.‘
den’s grievance is against the buyers
and not against the growers. We
have heard of some of this race of
people having the belly ache before
when they thought someone else was
getting a piece of the money.

Mr. Winegarden forgets that lost
year the grower could have sold ev-
ery bushel of his seed potatoes for
$3.00 per bushel and that it takes 8
bushels to plant an acre. , Further,
labor cost'$3.00 to $3.50 a day to bar-
vest and paris green 50 cent sper
pound and that the average crepewas
not more than 75 bushel per acre.
Farmers doing business at this rate
wouldn’t have got as rich as the Flint
man on his little commission. This
is the duck that takes no “chances.”—
Greenm‘lle Independent.

 

