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The Independent

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16th, 1918.

Farm, Live Stock and Market Weekly

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1 PER YEAB,--No Premiums.
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SUGAR MANUFACI’URRS
/ ’ AGREE T_0_$10 BEETS

Organized Growers’ Committee Wins Great
Victory for Michigan Beet Industry
and Pave Way for Biggest and
Best Year in its History

Victory for the sugar beet growers! At a con-
ference held this week .at Bay City between the
sugar manufacturers and State Food Administrator
Prescott, W. H. Wallace, manager of the Michigan
Sugar Company, urged the factory managers present
to grant the growers’ demands for $10 beets. And
such action was forthwith unanimously taken. To
be speciﬁc, the manufacturers did not concede ex-
actly what the growers had asked for, viz., a $10 min-
imum, with an advance of $1 per ton for each cent
per pound that sugar might advance over its pres-
ent wholesale price. What the manufacturers did
agree to do was to pay a $10 minimum and a. slid-
ing scale beginning at 9 cent sugar, at the New York
market.

At ﬁrst the growers' committee was not prepared
to accept the manufacturers’ substitute, but after an
all day session at Lansing on Wednesday, ﬁnally
agreed to do so. Reporting the action of the commit-
tee, to MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, Chairman John
C. Ketcham, said:

“The beet growers’ committee accept the terms of-
fered by the sugar managers, and urges increased
acreage of beets. Altho the manufacturers did not
grant all the growers’ demands, they did concede
the $10 minimum price which was the main point
in dispute, and showed a ﬁne spirit of patriotism in
thus helping to meet theworld demand for more
sugar. The committee urges the growers to make
every effort possible to increase their acreage. With
a good season, and a proﬁtable price, the growers
ought to have one of their best years.”

Thus ends the annual, and let us hope, the last
controversy between growers and manufacturers up-
on the price of sugar beets. The growers have con—
ducted a clean campaign from start to ﬁnish. Their
demands have been absolutely just, and‘they have
made every reasonable effort to compromise with
the manufacturers. The committee, consisting of
John C. Ketcham of Hastings; A. B. Cook, Owosso;
L. W. Oviatt, Bay City; Fred Gosen, Saginaw; R.
P. Reavy, Caro; C. H. Bramble, Lansing; Jas. N.
McBride, Burton, handled the entire proposition,
we believe, in a very fair and capable manner and
should have a large part of the credit for the con-
cessions that have been made.

The way has now been opened for rapid and sys-
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industry. $10 beets assures a fair proﬁt to growers;
a fair proﬁt assures an increased acreage; and an
increased acreage means larger proﬁts for the manu-
facturers, who will learn from experience that it
pays in actual dividends to see that'the farmers
receive not only this year but in future years, a
proﬁtable price for their product.

It is fortunate that the differences between grow-
ers and manufacturers have been settled with so little
of the bitterness which usually characterizes such
contests. The manufacturers have been wise in re-
fusing to let the issue run its logical course, and the
growers' committee have likewise shown good judg~
ment, in receding from a stand which it maintained
indeﬁnitely despite the manufacturers’ concessions,
might easily have been construed as arbitrary or
unpatriotic.

There is a world shortageaof sugar. A bumper
crop of beets in Michigan this year may be the only
thing that will prevent actual want. The growers
now have the greatest incentive in their history to
increase production and let us hope that they will
see their duty clearly and plant a huge acreage.
They can aﬁord to take bigger chances this year, for
the stakes are larger. Let’s make 1918 a year to re-
member and be proud of. in the history of Michigan’s
beet growing industry.

REPORT YOUR POTATO HOLDINGS

Hundreds of farmers have responded to our plea
for stimates of the potato holdiings still in their
own or neighbor’s hands. These reports contain
some unexpected and astounding information, but
they are not complete. We urge every reader of this
paper to go to the telephone at once and ﬁnd out from
his neighbors what their holdings are, not neces-
sarily in bushels, but the percentage of their crop,
and particularly as compared with the 1916 crop.
Report, PLEASE, the following:

1. What percentage of the 1917 crop remains on
hand in your vicinity.

2. How does that percentage compare with the
holdings a year ago?

3. How did the total yield of your vicinity com-
pare with that a year ago?

4. What percentage of potatoes still in pit and cel-
lar have been damaged by frost?

5. What prices are being paid? What percentage
run No. 2? Are dealers buying N0. 2 grade? Are
farmers feeding any potatoes to stock?

6. WHAT DO FARMERS SAY ABOUT THEIR
NEXT SEASON’S ACREAGE? Will it be more or
less and WHY?

Let us have this information by RETURN MAIL.
If you can’t get the FACTS. give your OPINION.
Be one of the ﬁve hundred farmers to help us com-
pile this report on potato holdings, and we’ll tell you
within the next ten days whether there’s a surplus
or under production, whether the price will go lower
or higher, and whether you ought to sell at once at
unproﬁtable prices or wait a little later. It depends
absolutely upon our readers whether or not we can
make this survey complete and reliable.

FOOD ADMINISTRATIONT
EXPLAIN_S_ BEAN DEAL

Denies M. B. F. Charge That Responsibility for
Delay in Providing Facilities for Canning
Michigan Wet Beans, Lies With
Food Administration

Attention: Governor Sleeper, State Food Admin-
istrator Prescott, Warden Frensdorf.

Why haven’t steps been taken to provide drying
and canning facilities for taking care of Michigan’s
huge crop of wet beans? Don’t all answer at Jnce,
please. The U. S. Food Administration says “pol-
itics” are to blame. What does that mean? Can
any of you gentlemen answer? If warm weather
comes on and a million bushels of Michigan beans
go to rot, we ought to have a more substantial ex-
cuse than “politics” on which to base an alibi.

Is Mr. Kimball of the Food Administration right
or wrong when he writes us as follows:

“We note one particular point in controversy be-
tween the State War Board and the farmers' good
friend, Ed. Frensdorf of the Michigan State Prison.
we would like to make this statement and would
appreciate it if you would publish same in your
paper.

“The United States Food Administration appreci-
ated from intimate knowledge the situation re-
garding wet stock in Michigan long before we re-
ceived any application from the Department of Ag-
riculture. We at once advised all canners in the
States of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, lllinois, Pennsyl-
vania and New York. and even states further away
that although the tin plate situation had caused a.
restriction in the canning of dry bonus, as a conser-
vation measure, we would gladly issue special per-
mits to can any wet beans that were laying in
Michigan and York state. We went further than
hat and wrote a letter to every canner who could
possibly can this wet stock a nd told him that it
would be a distinctly patriotic, as well as a food con-
servation measure, if they would conﬁne/their efforts
entirely to this wet stock. This action was taken
several weeks prior to the time when a release
was made allowing canners to pack 25 per cent
of their indicated pack of dried beans.

“Regarding the State Prison (COIliI‘OVOl‘SY, as soon
as we had heard from Mr. Frensdorf that there was
a possibility of the prison canning wet stock, we ad-
vised him that we would very gladly issue special
permits to do business. We also wrote Governor
Sleeper, Banking Commissioner Merrick, and Food
Administrator Prescott, asking them for their co-op-
eration and assistance in securing action at Lansing.
We followed this up again this Week in special
detail, and therefore, it seems unfair that in some
of your issues namely that of December 22nd, you
should indicate that the United States Food Admin-
istration was negligent in its duty. as the whole
trouble in this particular instance lies entirely with
the political situation within the State of Michigan."
~—U. 8. Food Administration, By K. P. Kimball.

 

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MICHIGAN STATE BRIEFS

Hart—A drive in the Interests of small fruit
growing and more and better dairy herds has been
instituted by County Agricultural Agent B. F.
Beach of Oceana county. Mr. Beach is convinced
that the soil and climatic conditions of Oceana
county make that particular part of the state ideal
for the two branches of agriculture mentioned.
He‘is urging the farmers to concentrate on small
iru1t raising or dairying, instead of diversiﬁed
farming, or specializing in some other branch of
farming for which the county is not so well suit-
ed. Mr. Beach is making an effort to get farmers
together and affect some kind of an organization
for the small fruit and dairying interests. He
emphasizes the necessity of better marketing con-
ditions for the small fruit farmer, and hopes to
accomplish something tangible in this direction
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Corunna—The Shiawassee County agricultural
agent has a new method of treating ‘wet beans.
He recommends mixing the beans with about an
equal amount of oats. If the moisture in the beans
cause the oats to become musty they should be
separated with a tanning mill and mixed with dry
oats again. This method has proved very satis-
factory where tested.

()il‘OSSO-AMA. B. Cook, federal farm labor director
for Michigan, is authority for the statement that
there is not an appalling shortage of help in the
state at present, as the public has been generally
led to believe. Mr. Cook admits, however, that
there is bound to be an acute shortage as soon as
spring opens up, and counsels the farmers of the
state to “order their farm help early.” “Men can
be lined up now for the spring rush,” says Mr.
Cook. “The farmers who neglect to stir them-
selves until the last moment may ﬁnd the getting
befraught with difﬁculties."

Rogers City—~The Fred Fisch Brewery will make
beer no longer. It will soon be the home of the
Koepsell Brothers Creamery Company, and instead

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out a high-grade of creamery butter. The brew-
ery building was purchased last week by Martin
and Theodore Koepsell, of Abbotsford, Wis. The
present engine equipment of the brewery will be
utilized by the creamery, it only being necesary
to purchase equipment other than the power plant.

Blissﬁcld~Announcement that a new elevator
is to be built by the Blissﬁeld Co-Operative Com—
pany was made at the annual meeting last week.
The annual report showed that the company ship—
ped stock amounting to $262,835.80 during 1917.
The proﬁts for the last year and a half were
$2,574.75. After all debts have been paid, they
have on hand $1,552.75. The sum of $5,000 was
subscribed at the meeting for the purpose of con-
structing an elevator.

Coopersville—Ottawa county is to have a second
agricultural agent. B. O. Hagerman, a brother of
D. L. Hagerman, the present county agent will as-
sume the duties of assistant agriculturalist in a
short time. The assistant county agent will de-
vote a large part of his time to boys’ club work.
relieving the county agent of this work and per-
mitting him to give his entire attention to the
problems affecting the farmers of the county.

(Faro—County Agent McVittie of Tuscola is
making a campaign for seed corn testing. He is
registering all farmers who have seed corn or
seed beans for sale. Mr. McVittie has issued a
statement warning farmers of the county against
planting wet beans.

(‘harlotrc—A total of $381,040.31 was received
during 1917 by the Square Deal (To-Operative asso—
ciation by the sale of cattle, hogs, sheep and calves
for its members. according to the annual report
made public at a meeting last week. The report
shows the number of farm animals shipped to
have been 28,312, as follows: Cattle shipped, 2502;
hogs shipped, 12928; sheep shipped, 11461; veals
shipped, 1421. Forrest King of Carmel was elected
president.

Charlotte—Farmers of Eaton county found their
market for milk suddenly gone when the Dry Milk
company was forced to shut down several weeks
ago on account of the coal shortage. The plant
ﬁnally resumed operation last week after two of
the company’s ofﬁcials had gone on a coal hunt,
one bringing back two cars from the Illinois ﬁelds.

Ann Arbor—Washtenaw county farmers have
formed a co-operative selling association to ban-
dle livestock and other produce. They will ship
direct to Detroit in car lots instead of working
through small members. The organization start-
ed with 40 members.

Laingsburg—The Union (Jo—operative Shipping
association has completed a successful year as
shown by the annual report of the organization

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tribute a story to the

just made public. The ﬁrst shipment of livestock
was made May 7, 1917, and from that date until

Jan. 1, 1918, 3,—104 hogs, 2,591 sheep, 444 head of»

cattle and 402 veal calves have been shipped The
weight was 1,149, 380 and brought $147 372. 50. The
largest shipment was Jan. 23, when 10 decks were
shipped to Buffalo 71/; of which were loaded at
Laingsburg and the rest at Bennington and Bath,
where shipping stations are maintained The
present membership of the assciatlon is 300. Theo
Jorae heads the association as president.

WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR EXPERI-
ENCE WITH THE TRACTOR '9

In your issue of January 26th you request those
of us who have tractors to tell you our experience
etc. Well, I happen to be one of these so-called
tractor farmers and after reading your appeal feel
it my duty to state my experience to date.

Last spring I bought from the Tractor
Company, an attachment to convert my old
Ferd into a tractor, My Ford was worth about
$100.00 and the attachment cost me $125.00 f.o.b
Detroit, so my tractor cost me less than $250.00.
I took the body completely off and mounted a
spring seat. When I ﬁrst got the tractor of course
it used gasoline, and I found it took from 12 to
13 gallons per day, about the same as it did run-
ning all day on the road as an auto. For some
time I had had in mind a way by which I
could make a Ford use kerosene, but had never
taken time to try it out, however after getting
the tractor I decided the ﬁrst rainy day that I
would go to experimenting on it. Well, I did not
haVe to wait long last spring for a rainy day. The
outcome‘was that my idea was a success and since
then 8 to 9 gallons of kerosene does the same work
as 12 to 13 gallons of gasoline and my home- made
carburetm attachment cost me less than $2. 00.

I ﬁnd the tractor equal to three good horses, or
four common ones. I can pull a 14 inch plow thru
the stiffest of sod and two 12-inch bottoms through
stubble ground; also a 4-section spring-tooth har-
row. I have not tried it on any other tools.

At ﬁrst I had considerable trouble from the mot-
or heating, however I overcame that by better rad-
iation. I would advise any one in buying one of
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SAVED !

“Oh Joy," says the Conklin Enterprise, “Mi< h-
igan potatoes are saved. That bafﬂing p101)-
lem of saving Michigan 5 enormous crop of tuli—
ers has been solved Hot (orn poms a la po—
tato; delicious potato mufﬁns, nutritious potato
soups body building potato bread tempting
potato pancakes, (wont Hoover smile when he
reads this) potato doughnuts, potato pie etc.
This was sure one big potato meeting” quite.
a Waid meeting, some two hundIed farm peo-
ple were present making it by far the largest
farm rally ever held in Northeastern Ottawa,
etc.

So you see farmer friends it’s no use to wor-
ry about grades, markets prices or consump-
tion for plain and fancy dishes will solve the
potato problem.

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anteeing it not to heat. Of course a regular trac-
tor is better than one of these make-shift attach-
ments, but some of us have to buy according to
our pocketbooks, and for the size of my pocket—
book I have found my investment a very good one.

My repa_1' bills have been light, in fact I do
not ﬁnd any more wear on the motor and gearing
than I did when running it as an auto.

Now is the time my tractor is saving me the
most money. It is not eating my $20 hay or 80c
oats, and I now have only one team.~R. R. M.,
Ingham County.

[EDITOR’ S NOTE: The above is the first of a ser—
ies of letters from honest— to- (lod faImels telling their
experiences with tractors and 11210101 attathll’ltlIIS.
Others will he published in succeeding issues We
invite every farmer Who has owned a tractor to con—
column. Send along a photo-
graph if you have one, to illustrate your article]

AT WHAT PRICE DO YOU FIGURE
YOUR HAY AND SILAGE FEED?

In reply to your question in the issue of Jan.
26th in regard to the charge of hay and silage in
the dairy cow’s ration, will state that we ﬁgure
them in at market price less the cost of market-
in

It is our belief that there is always a market for
these products. and that the only gain in feeding
them on the farm is the expense of marketing, in-

asmuch as the value of the manure produced is .

stated in the cost of the milk production.———-A. L.
Van Sickle & Sons, Walnut Run Farms, Maple
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CENTRAL MICHIGAN SHORTI—IORN
BREEDERS’ASSOCIATION IS ALIVE

Our associaticn, was organized ﬁve years ago
and held its sixth annual meeting January.29th

.‘ at Greenville. The object ofthe association is

to assist small breeders to dispose of their sur-
plus stock at a proﬁt. Our members are mostly
owners of small herds. Before organizing they
had no market for their surplus except to the
local stock buyer at prevailing canner prices, and
bulls bought at long prices from the larger
dealers went to bolona prices when they- could
be used no longer. It was a matter of changing
these conditions or stopping the breeding of pure
breds with the most of us.

The State Shorthorn Association was the dead-
est thing on the continent. You know when most
things die they smell badly for a while and then
dry out. Well, the State Ass’n. had gotten into
the dry stage. The bunch of large dealers in
control of it were satisﬁed with conditions. They
were sellirg their surpllus to the small breeders
and M. A. C. referred inquiries to them, and it
was impossible to interest them in any movement
for the betterment of the small breeder.

We ﬁnally decided that it was up to us to do
something for ourselves. We worked out our
plan, got in touch with all breeders in the county
and called a meeting. Nine breeders came and
we organized the :Centnal Michigan Shorthorn
Breeders’ Association. The name was the big-
gest part of it. ”Montcalm County and adjoining
territory” was our place of business. All out
doors.
strict our membership ‘to “Montcalm and adjoining
counties” because of becoming too scattered and
cumbersome and too much business to be managed
by the then facilities. We are now considering
a further restriction of territory, or the open-
ing of the Ass’n. to general membership and hav-
ing a man put his whole time to the business.

Five years ago there were 16 owners of Short-
horns in Montcalm county. Last year the cen-
sus showed 75. This year 122, and the secretary
has a list of 32 farmers desiring to buy and start
herds. For seven years before organizing one
member had kept up his little herd, with no other
pure shorthorn nearer than 9 miles from him.
Today there are 18 Shorthorn bulls in service
within that distance of this member. Not a single
animal desirable for breeding purposes,.owned by
a member, has been sent to the butcher since or-
ganization. We receive hundreds of inquiries
for breeding stock that we cannot supply every
year, and have shipped into nearly every county
of the state. Four-ﬁfths of our sales are made
on description to men at a distance and in only
one case has there been expression of dissatis-
faction. Every man who has joined our associa-
tion is still a. member except four, three having
died. We doubt if any other organization can
show such a record. We have not solicited new

'members for three years, but take those who ask

to come in any our membership is increasing. ”‘ *

We soon learned that the general farmers of
Michigan were demanding a cow that would pay
expenses at the pail and produce beef at a proﬁt,
the dual or general purpose sort—a milk-beef cow.
Our members went out and bought some of the
strongest milk bred bulls to be had in Ohio, N. Y.,
Penn. and Vermont. The product of these ani-
mals is now being offered by the Ass’n and we
have every assurance that this stock will give
satisfactory results to the men who buy them.
We found that in nearly every community of the
state were men sore on the breed and disappoint-
ed in their shorthorn experience because of t‘ai.-
ur to get milk in paying quantity. This was
because they had in most cases used Scotch bred
beef bulls or Scotch topped stuff that had had
the millking ability beefed out of it. No man has
any right to expect milk from a cow with 20
generations of the most careful selection and
breeding for beef only behind her. He may as well
expect a two-minute trotter from a Belgian draft
stallion. The hardest thing the breed has had
to contend against is the sale of. beef bred bulls,
Scotch, milkless strains, for milking or dual pur-
pose shorthorns. Ninety per cent of. such sales
have brought disappointmbent to the general farm-
er who has used them. The great mass of Mich
igan farmers are general farmers, and want a gen-
eral purpose cow. They are not ﬁxed to tie up
to a strictly dairy or beef proposition. _I have

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,President Wilson has replied to
.the peace offers of Count Hertling.
premier of Germany, and Count
Czernin, the Austrian premier. He
,ﬁnds the offer of Austria to have been couched in

’the friendliest‘of language, and believes that it

expresses a sincere desire for peace as well as
opening up a practical avenue to attain peace. But
Germany’s peace offer is as vague and misleading
as all her other utterances upon peace, and the
President clearly shows why this country can give
her few concessions only scant consideration.

“This war,” said the President, “had its roots
in the disregard of the, rights of small nations and
of nationalities which lacked the union and the
force to make good their claim to determine
their own allegiances and their own forms of
political life. Covenants must now be entered
into which will render such things impossible for
the future; and these covenants must be backed
by the united force of all the nations that love
justice and are willing to maintain it at any cost.”

In Germany’s peace discussions, she has repeat—
edly ignored the basic causes of this war, and
when she claims that the territorial boundaries
and indemnities for France, Belgium and Poland,
can be settled only according to the wishes of the
nations immediately concerned, she wholly disre-
gards the economic conditions involved which are
of international concern.

“After all ,the test of whether it is possible for
either government to go any further in this com-
parison of views is simple (and obvious. The
principles to be applied are these:

“First, that each part of the ﬁnal settlement
must be based upon the essential justice of that
particular case and upon such adjustments as are
likely to bring a peace that could be permanent.

“Second, that peoples and provinces are not to
be bartered about from sovereignty to sovereignty
as if they were mere chattels and pawns in a
game, even the great game, now forever discred-
ited, of the balance of power; but that,

“Third, every territorial settlement involved in
this war must be made in the interest and for the
beneﬁt of the populations concerned, and not as
a part of any mere adjustment or compromise of
claims amongst rival states; and,

“Fourth, that all well deﬁned national aspira-
tions shall be accorded the utmost satisfaction
that can be accorded them without introducing
new or perpetuating old methods of discord and
antagonism that would be likely, in time, to break
the peace of Europe and consequently of the world.

“I should not be a true spokesman of the people
of the United States if 1 did not say once more
that we can never turn back from a course chosen
on principle. "

“I have spoken thus so that the whole world may
know the true spirit of America—that men every—
where may know that our passion for justice and
for self-government is no mere passion of words,
that passion which, once set in action must be
satisﬁed. The power of the United States is a
menace to no nation or people. It will never be
used in aggression or for the aggrandizement of
any selﬁsh interest of our own. It springs out of
freedom and is of the service of freedom."

* * *

The sinking of the U, S. troopship, the Tuscania,
by a German submarine off the Irish coast with a
loss of 150 soldiers, has stirred the nation more
. than any other single catastrophe since our on—
trance into the war. We have rested in a fan-
cied security and tranquility. The war fever
has not, yet burned hotly in our veins, despite
the fact that we have sent over one hundred
thousand troops to France, and that the entire
social and economical fabric of the, country has
been torn and made over. We have accustomed
ourselves with singly good grace to the many
inconveniences war has made necessary, without
any marked disturbance of our mental equili-
brium. We’ve got along day after day preform-
ing the somewhat interrupted and restricted du—
ties of life in much the same careless and per—
functory manner as in days of peace. We have
felt only a subconscious effect of the tragic events
that, transpire every day across the seas. We have
been good, but not enthusiastic patriots. Now,
however, all this is changed. We have positive
knowledge now that American youths on their
way to the ﬁelds of duty, have lost their lives
to the ruthless hand of the enemy, and the cable
that rushes the news back home seems to be a liv-
ing, throbbing artery that carries an appeal to
every American heart and quickens our sympa-
thies and spurs us on to greater effort.

Ofﬁcial Washington does not View the attack
on the Tuscania with any great alarm. The feel—
ing does not seem to be general, as has been in-

 
   

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to be supposed that Germany would have permit—
ted this country to land so many troops and sup-
plies in France, had she really pOSSessed the
power to prevent and the sinking of the Tuscania
may be looked upon as merely a New of good
luck for the attacking submarine. We may ex-
pect, of course, to hear of more frequent sink-
ings as the nation’s war prepartions reach frui-
tion and larger numbers of men are sent across.
Germany will have her eyes more watchful than
ever now that she has learned something of
this nation’s war preparatiOns, but the troopships
are so securely guarded by convoying battleships,
and the means of combatting submarine warfare
have become so perfected that we need have no
unusual apprehensions over the ﬁrst disaster to
a United States transport.
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The administration's bill to perfect government
control of railroads was the principal topic under
discussion in both houses of congress this week,
and it was learned' that the proposal to extend-
government control for a period of eighteen months
to two years after the wars would meet with vig-
orous opposition. The railroad heads have been
very docile thus far, and ostensibly have given
the government their fullest co-operation. There
have been ugly hints, however, supported by more
or less conclusive evidence, that their ready sub-
mission to government control is only a subter-
fuge and that ‘aitually, they are doing everything
within their power to handicap McAdoo and his
plans of operation. It has been, charged that many
road chiefs have been guilty of wilfully permit—
ting the rolling stock of their respective lines to
deteriorate into a crippledl and well—nigh irremed-
iable condition, for the sole purpose of disorgan-
izing the entire transportation systems and de-
moralizing trafﬁc of all kinds, that the public
might be led to believe that government control
was a failure from the start and to oppose gov-
ernment. ownership after the war. If this be true.
the action of the rail chiefs is nothing short of.
criminal. for to it, may be charged all the suf-
fering due to the coal shortage, the huge ﬁnan-
cial losses incurred thru the curtailment of manu—
facturing, and the holding up of needed food and
war supplies. If the charge be true, the rail heads
have themselves furnished the very best argument
in the world why. the people of the United States
should not let their transportation facilities revert
again to the hands of those who have so grossly
violated their trust.

 

'l‘lic British transport 'l‘uscania was torpedoed :ind
sunk off the irish coast, Tuesday. February 5. Aboard
:it, the time were 2,179 American soldiers, composed
chiefly of Michigan and Wisconsin National Guards-

men. The torpedoing occurred just aﬂter sunset,
nothing being seen of the submarine previous to the
delivery of the blow. The death list is variously es—
timated at from 100 to 125, no detail list having becn
given by the War Department up to this time. The
fact that the sinking took place while the sea was
comparatively calm accounts for the small numb-“r of
lives lost as compared with those aboard l<‘ivl't‘i,‘_"ll
newspapers generally comment on the heroism shown
Americans. many of them in the, service but it fcw
months. lmmcdiatcly after thc explosion the men
were lined up on deck and while cooly awaiting their
turn to enter the lit‘cbozits the Sammies siruck up
“The Star Spangled Banner." It is unofﬁcially ru-
mored that the submarine which delivered the death
blow was afterward sunk by destroyers. 'l‘he Sill"
\‘ivors were landed on the. Irish coast and every pro-
vision made for their comfort.
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It is announced that American forces now in France
number 212,000 men with more in transit. ’I‘hc From-h
War Commissioner to America announces that France
has made great strides in the manufacture of cannon
and artillery supplies and that by .luly she will be
able to manufacture sufﬁcient guns and ammunition
to supply 20 American divisions of 500,000 men. There
are in France today more American troops than coni-
prised the entire American army at the outbreak of
hostilities betw'cen this country and Germany.
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Much commcnt has been caused by the congratula-
tions cabled to the German Kaiser by President (lar—
anza of Mexico. The occasion was the birthday of the
Hun ruler and this extract. “to your n'iajcsty, who
celebrates his anniversary today with just cause for re-
joicing, etc.," gives the general tenor of the congrat—
ulatory message. While this custom of exchanging
felicitzition is harmless enough ordinarily. it is point-
ed out that it possibly has a double significance at
this time, when Mexico’s nearest ncighbor is engaged
in a life and death struggle with tho powcr “hose
emperor is the recipient of the incrsage. and con—
gratulated as having ”just cause for rejoicing."
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Increased artillery activity is reported along the
French section of the Western front. The French
war office reports that artillery on both sides is
particularly active on the Aisne and Verdun fronts.
The Germans have attempted to carry out many
trench raids but these have been repulsed with se-
vere losses to the attacking partie::.

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- WEEKLY NEW YORK LETTER _

[EDITOR'S NOTE: Below we publish three let-
ters from New York farmers and two from Maine farm-
ers. We are also arranging for weekly letters from
Wisconsin, Colorado, California and Minnesota farm—
ers, so that our readers nfay keep in touch with crop
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New York Potato Holdings Below Normal

(lohocfon, N. Y., Fcb. 5—~The market conditions
this weels show no improvement over those of
last week and in fact the potato market is some—
what lower. For ﬁrsts the dealers are paying
$1.70 per hundred pounds. but very few are mov-
ing on account of cold weather under which this
section is suffering.

It would be hard to estimate to any degree of
certainty what percentage of the 1917 crop yet
remains in the hand-s of the growers but it is
certain that it is still large but many of those
who are holding their stock are waiting for better
weather conditions more than for. higher prices.

But for other farm produce, the farmers are re-
ceiving comimratchIy more money. For No, 1
timothy hay we are receiving twenty dol—
lars per ton with poorer grades in proportion.
Oats are selling for $1.00 per bushel. rye $1.80 to
$1.90 for 60 pounds. The price for beans in this
section runs around 11 cents per pound for Yel-
low Eyes and 12c for Red Kidneys and the crop
in general, was very poor.

In regard to the use of the 1 12‘10 inch mesh
grading chain for potatoes, I will say that this
very question has been the subject of consider
able discussion among the. potato growers in this
State. The buyers claim that the governmen'
food administration say all potatoes must be grad-
ed With this size chain, but, nevertheless a few in;
dependent buyers have been using a size snmllcr
chain and have paid the same prices as others who
used the 1 15-16 inch.

If Mr. Atwood, says very few counties of this
State are grading under the new rule, this is in-
deed news to us. llcre in Steuben county which
potato producing
county in the State. I think it is safe lo <:iv lilil'
80 per cent of the potatoes are gradual undo" thi
rule, and we have been led to believe by the
buyers, that. it is so, all over the Side. 'l‘i'uly.
tile is a matter which should have, the co—operzc
tion of the growers. In this county it appears to
be unjust for the reason that. the growers only
receive about one cent per pound for the seconds.
when in reality they should bring nearly as much
as the ﬁrsts, for generally speaking they arc of
a very nice size and quality for general lls‘c.
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Frost Spoils Many Potatoes Stored by New
York Farmers

('ohoc.‘on, Sicnbcn county. N. Y. —— Although
the township of (‘ohocton producces more potatoes
than any other in the county of Steuben, which is
one of the largest potato producing counties in the
entire country, the crop of 1917 was below the
nvcragc in quantity. This was due to different
causes. among which was the extreme and con
tinuc'l rainfall, making proper care and cultivw
tion impossible. and causing blight. and rot, to :1
larger extent. (‘oniinuous rains, early freezing
and shortage of labor combined to make h1u=
vesting of the crop in prime condition ilnpoﬁsibh‘,
and part is still in the ground. ’l‘hen no little
damage has been done by the intense cold wcatlr
er, which has prevailed for several weeks, by
which thousands of bushels stored in the collars
of farmers in this and adjoining towns, have, been
fro/en, so that they will be hardly lit for cattle
or hog food. During this time many farm ccl-
lars that have always heretofore been considered
frosteproof. lulVo had to be provided with artiﬁ—
cial heat. and yet in spite of all precautions, most,
of the farmers have. lost more or less of the outer
layers of tubers. One farmer southwest of Co—
hOcton reports a loss of 500 bushels in a cellar
free from frost for the past 2.") years. Buyers have
been scarcer than usual. and farmers have been
obliged to carry much of their crop until now.
The price now is about $1.80 for 100 pounds,
which is less than most of the growers feel they
'an afford to sell for. as this price is for only
the tubers above a certain size, below which the
price is about half that amount.

PEA BEANS NOT A VERY GOOD
CROP IN NEW YORK STATE

After receiving and reading a recent sample
copy of M. B. F. I am convinced Michigan bean
growers are in about the same predicament as we
in New York are. The early frost ilujurcd all

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Senators and Representatives Ask Food Ad-
ministration to Revise or Abandon Ob-
noxious and Harmful Grading Rules
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Despite the many burdensome duties now de-
volving upon our representatives at Washington,
which require their undivided attention, most of.
them, we are glad to say, found the time and took
the trouble to investigate the grading. complaints
laid before them and to take action with the Food
Administration tending toward a modiﬁcation or
abandonment of the grades. We feel especially in-
debted to both Senators Smith and Townsend, and
t0 Congressman Louis C. Cramton, Gilbert A. Cur-

rie, J. M. C. Smith, Patrick H. Kelley, J. M. Ford—
ney, Carl Mapes, E. L. Hamilton, Frank E. Dor-
emus.

All of those who have gone into the matter at
all are convinced of the impracticability of the
present grading methods and say they will do
everything possible to help, but entertain little
hope that action will be taken this year.

Below arepletters received from Hon. Gilbert
A. Currie, and also copy of a letter which Senator
Townsend sent to Mr. Hoover upon the subject,
and which we believe expresses the situation in
a nutshell. Congressman (Tramton has also shown
unusual interest in Michigan’s potato situation,
and next week we hope to have a complete report
from him.

(‘ONGRESSMAN (‘l‘ltltlld’S LETTER

I have conferred at length with Mr. Eustace
of the Food Administration, and with various
members of the Michigan delegation concerning
the controversy over potato grading rules. Mr.
Eustace claims that the great factor in causing
disparity in prices between Michigan and other
states is caused by the transportation difﬁculties.
I presented as effectively as I knew how the
Michigan situation, and suggested that it would
be wise to do something to alleviate this feeling
even though it were done only as a matter of
policy, and to effect the further marketing of the
present crop. However, Mr. Eustace was very
positive that no chage should be made. I regret
to make this report—(I. H. (hirric. 10th. District.
Michigan.

SENATOR Towxsnx'n's LETTER To MR. HOOVER
\Vashington. D. (7.. February 2nd. 1918
Hon. Herbert E. Hoover. Food Admini.‘rator,
W'ashington. I). C.
My dear Mr. Hooverz— .

I have received many protests from Michigan
farmersmuand especially from the leading agri-
cultural paper of our state “MicchN BusiNicss
FARMiNc" against the order issued by your de-
partment relative to the grading of Michigan po-
tatoes. I have contented myself by submitting
a number of these protests to you, with the re-
quest that your attention be directed to the mat-
ter. I have now taken time to look into the sit-
uation as fully as I can, ant it seems to me that
the grading system as established by you does
not result in good to a11y,one unless it be to
the jobbe1.I ce1tainly am not opposed to the
grading of any food stuff which is fair at once
to producers and consumers. The consumer has a
right to buy what he pays for and to know what
his product is. I am satisﬁed. however. that by
making a N0. 1 and No. 2 grade. based largely
upon a screen mesh scheme, is not a. troper test
of the potato product. The elimination of small
potatoes practically unﬁt for t'oodm—or of” defec-
tive or injured t11bel‘s,~ris of course most desir-
able. Your test does not, in practice. amount to
that. Its result in our state has been to give
the jobbers an opportunity to grade practically
all of our stock as No. 2,—at least has given
them an opportunity to buy the product, as much
at 40 per cent less than what the No. 1 grade
would bring although one was quite as good as
the other to the consumer who paid practically
the same price for both._ Cannot this order be
revoked and a more practical scheme adopted?

Michigan is a great potato state. In many sec—
tions of it. the potato is the staple product. The
effect of grading upon the producer’s market this
year has been most discouraging and I fear that
next year’s acreage will be much less than it
ought, to be.

If. there is anything about this matter which I
do not understand. I wish you would set me right
upon it. for as the matter now stands I can see
nothing but disaster to the potato growing inter-
ests of Michigan under the present order of
things. Respectfully yours—Chas. E. Townsend.

MILK SURPLUS CONTINUES
TO BE A VERY GRAVE PROBLEM

Nearly every local branch of the Michigan Milk
Producers’ Ass'n was represented at the meeting

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Th’e shortage of tin and the possibilities of the
big condensaries of the state being obliged to
close, was declared to be one of the latest and
most alarming phases of the milk situation at the
present time. These condensaries are now absorb-
ing about 90,000 pounds of the daily surplus be-
ing shipped into Detroit, were they to close, not
only would the market for the Detroit surplus

be eliminated, but producers outside the Detroit’

area who are now selling to condensaries, might
Un-
der the new arrangement between producers and
distributors whereby the average price to produc-
ers for February is reduced to $3.29 per hundred,
the surplus is being taken care of. satisfactorily.
The association does not anticipate a surplus for
March.

An important action of the delegates was to in-
crease the assessment of one-half cent per hun-
dred pounds voted at the annual meeting for ad-
vertising and administration expenses, to one cent
per pound.

Speaking before the association, Presid‘ent Hull
said: “The United States government has ap-
proved our plan of arriving at both the buying and
selling price in fact it is being quoted in the lead—
ing milk centers of the country. In fact, the offi-
cials admit that we have come the nearest to solv-
ing the milk problem of any city in America.
Where all branches of the industry are not work-
ing together there is demoralization and they are
not getting as much for their milk as we are
around Detroit.”

FOOD ADMINISTRATION ISSUES
WARNING ON SEED BEAN SUPPLY

 

There is a matter that seems very important to
the Food Administration and that is the seed
situation in your State.

Local ﬁnancial conditions, owing to Liberty
Loan issues and the quality of the stock in Mich-
igan, are such that all dealers are having difﬁculty
in securing sufﬁcient Capital to handle their ac-
cumulation of beans and the result is that in
order to keep their bank balance On the right
side they keep shipping out the good stock that
comes from the farmers as it can be handled
more quickly. The poor beans accumulate and
are not ﬁt for seed. The Michigan Bean Growers’
Association and the State Ofﬁcials together with
the Bean Jobbers’ Association should take im-
mediate action to see that a sufﬁcient quantity
of good seed is stored to take care of planting

requirements this Spring.

The United States Food Administration will
gladly furnish special permits allowing the stor-
age of these beans for seed—United States Food
Administration, By K. P. Kimball.

FILL OUT THIS COUPON
AND MAIL TO M. B. F. TODAY

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A1e you planning to raise more or to raise l
lless of wheat, oats, barley, rye, corn, potatoes
peas, beans, sugar beets. vegetables, fruits, hay,
horses, beef ca.,ttle dairy stock, sheep, swine
poultry, or for feed carrots, mangels, rutabagas, I
silage?

Please ﬁll out this coupon, sign your namel
and postoﬁice address and mail to the editor'
of M1(HIGAN BUSlNllSS FARMING, Mt. Clemens
Mich. Your name will be held in strict con-I
ﬁdence if you so request.

I am planning to raise this coming season
(Please state approximate number of. acres oil
the principal crops, or head of the principal]
live stock.)

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. wrote of the help and fertilizer situation as to its
bearing on a probable decrease of 40% in the Maine.

potato acreage There is another phase of the
fertilizer question which will have a more criteria

direct bearing on‘the decrease in acreage in 1918.

For the last few years a good manyvfarmers
have practically lost their potato crop through
poor or adulterated fertilizer, until there is a fear
on this point that makes many timid about plant-
ing. For the grower to plant with a fertilizer
and seed cost of around $100.00 per acre and ﬁnd
as the season advances that his crop will be more
or less of a failure owing to poor fertilizer is to
place a burden upon him that he is not able to
carry. The writer is personally acquainted with
many who have lost their crops by this means.

One case of two neighbors whose farms ad'jo-ined-

who lost around $12,000.00 in a single season from
This entirely ruined one of these
men and forced the other to sell his farm. Sev-

eral suits for damages were brought but in no

case did the farmers obtain any redress for the
loss of their crops. but were obliged to pay full
price for the fertilizer. This would be of no in-
terest to the Michigan potato grower, except as
one of the reasons for a decrease in the Maine
acreage in 1918 and a further decrease in the ﬁnal
yield by reason of light crops on a portion of the
acreage planted.

The fear of price ﬁxing by the food adminis-
tration is another factor which will cut down the
acreage planted here in Maine.

If the law of supply and demand could be let
alone as far as the farmers were concerned, there
would be much more produced on our Maine
farms this season.

The food administration could do a tremen-
dous amount of good in reducing and eliminating
the expense of getting the products of the farms
to the consumer, but the fact that a price on
potatoes will be ﬁxed next fall so low that it will
leave the grower in debt, is a powerful factor
in the 40 per cent probable reduction in Maine
1918 potato acreage.

Aroostook county probably could raise potatoes
this year and get out whole for $2.50 per hundred
Weight._ The balance of Maine cannot for less
than $3.30 to $3.40. To make a price that would
give the Aroostook grower a good profit would
mean a great and deadly loss to the growers in
the balance of the state.

It is this fear of price ﬁxing by those who have
no knowledge of general conditions that is keeping
hundreds of farmers from making plans for in-
creased production in 1918‘.

Local prices $1.75 per bushel with $2.00 being
paid the farmers for good stock by customers with
good demand—E. A. Rogers, R. F. D. 3, Bruns-
wick, Maine.

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Augusta, Maine, Feb. 4th.—At this date the
farmers of Maine are unsettled and undecided
as to what acreage they will plant this coming
season. For at least three summers conditions
have been unfavorable to best crop development,
and we have suffered total losses in numberless
crop instances. Last season under pressure from
government ofﬁcials more acreage was planted
than usual. Late spring and an unusually early
frost spelled disaster to many farmers. Now we
are undecided. We are not guaranteed even the
cost of farm operations, say nothing about proﬁts,
as many other businesses are, and the simply truth
is the average Maine farmer isn’t able, ﬁnancially,
to stand another off season. In many cases it will
be hard to buy necessary seed and fertilizers so
that sufﬁcient acreage for his own use may be
planted. Contrary to ofﬁcial belief we in the East
do NOT have grain enough, and what grain we do
buy is so exorbitant in price that farmers are
selling off appalling large numbers of cows, swine
and poultry as well as everything else that must
be fed grain. Talk of raising $50,000,000 to buy
seed and fertilizer to sell out at cost to North-

'western farmers!—We in the East; need this

service just as badly, and unless SOMETHING
is done production will remain low, or go lower.
If this appropriation is raised, then every farmer
in the U. S. should be given the same opportunity.
Maine farmers do not lack patriotism, nor ambi-
tion, nor industry, but we must somehow live,
and, therefore, we cannot again risk everything
we possess in planting all we possibly can, while
market conditions are an uncertain proposition“
as uncertain as the weather.

Potato situation is a gamble. The crop of
1917 was much below normal and owing to wet
spring and early frost the crop was damaged in
many places; some report complete loss of crop.

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No. 2 Red 2.17 2.15 2.25
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much less than they have been at this
season, in many years. The Govern—
ment continues to take a large part of
the output of Northwestern mills and
millsgenerally ﬁnd it very diﬂicult to
supply the demand for ﬂour. The sub-
stitution of other grains for wheat
is constantly increasing and the price
of the substitutes advances from day to
day. The price of rice ﬂour has ad-
vanced from $8 to $18, according to
bakers reports to the state food admin-

istration. Other substitutes, while not

showing such an advance as rice
flour are increasing, and the price
will soon be almost prohibitive, so far
as the average family is concerned.
This appears to be a matter for im-
mediate investigation by the author-
ities. ‘ .

With the worlds available wheat
supply away short and our people
having to practice every economy to
insure a sufﬁcient supply untill anoth-
er harvest, it is a matter of regret that
Australia should have two wheat crops
piled up on her wharves, being de-
stroyed by rodents and the elements,
with a third big crop about to be de-
livered, and no available ocean car-
riers to transport the grain to where
it is so sadly needed. It is unofﬁ-

cially reported that Japan is making
arrangements to move this grain for
her allies but whether she has suf-
ﬁcient tonnage which may be diverted
for this purpose remains to be seen.

 

 

 

 

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No. 3 White .89 .85 .97
No. 4 White .88 .83 1-2 .95 1-2

 

 

 

Operators generally expect the oat
market to show the effect of improv-
ed weather conditions. Country deal-
ers seem anxious to sell, the only draw-
back being their inability to.secure
cars for shipment. Considerable fu-
ture selling is reported. Considerable
grain has been sold for 30 and 60
day shipment, the general feeling be-
ing that oats at the present time are
higher than actual supplies warrant.
The Government’s report on stocks
still back in the country will be issued
in March, but there is no doubt but
what they are large. Oat shipments
all during the fall and winter have
been much less than usual, due to
transportation and other difﬁculties,
and this, taken into consideration with
the fact that the crop in this country
and Canada was exceptionally large,
lead terminal market receivers to ex-
pect heavy shipments from now on,
providing weather conditions continue
favorable.

It should be remembered however,
that markets are bare of oats and the
eastern demand will require a large
amount before there will be any sur-
plus on hand. While the eastern ex-
port demand has been lighter than us-
ual during the past few weeks, it is
no doubt on account of the congestion
of eastern terminals. Much export
grain is going south for shipment via
the Gulf. The substitution of oat pro-
ducts for those of wheat is constantly
increasing, and this will have a great-
er eﬂect than is commonly supposed.
We do not feel that any material de-
cline will occur in the immediate fu-
ture, opinions of receiver and operator
to the contrary notwithstanding. Later
on, with a material increase in deliver-
ies of both oats and corn, we may see a
reaction. It will be some time, how-
ever, before deliveries increase sufﬁ-
ciently to affect prices. Until that
time comes we may expect a fairly
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No. 3 Yellow 1.85 Nominal 1 821—2
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The immediate future of the corn
market is one diﬂicult to judge. The
Government is keenly awake to the fact
that a great portion of the crap still
in growers hands must move during
the next four to six weeks or the loss

will be heavy. Every effort is being '

made to furnish equipment for this
purpose. Improved weather conditions
are helping this movement, although
there is still too much snow over Illi-
nois and nearby states to permit of
extensive hauling. A week of good
weather will help this condition ma-
terially. Farther west conditions are

'better and growers are hauling as

fast as the elevators can take care of
the grain and move it from their
houses.

Eastern roads have delivered over
5,000 cars to western lines during the
past week, but a certain percentage
will be used to move grain other than
corn, in the Northwest. This move-
ment of cars westward is being rushed
and will increase steadily with better
weather conditions. Eastern markets
are short on corn and as is the case
with oats, it will take some time to
acquire any surplus. There will also
be a much better export demand as
the eastern terminals clear. While we
may look for possible lower markets
later on, it will still be some time,

under most favorable conditions, be-

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Rye continues active and a further
advance is noted. Trading is limited
however, owing to light receipts. There
is very little prospect of an increase,
unless grOWers or country elevators
should be holding greater stocks than
are now apparent. The milling of rye
ﬂour has increased many fold and this
commodity will soon be classed with

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THE WEATHER FOR THE WEEK

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

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WASHINGTON, D. 0., Feb. 16——
Last bulletin gave forecasts of distur-
bance to cross continent Feb. 17 to 21,
warm wave 16 to 20, cool wave 19 to
23. This will be a more severe storm
than the preceding, temperatures going
higher in the warm wave and lower in

the cool wave. Moderate rains or
snows will be fairly well distributed
and the week will bring fairly good
cropwea 1-.

Next arm wave will reach Van-
couver about Feb. 22 and temperatur-
es will rise on all the Paciﬁc slope. It
will cross crest of Rockies by close of
Feb. 28, plains sections 24, meridian
90h great lakes and 'Ohio-Tennessee
ya eye 25, eastern sections 26, reach-
ing vicinity of Newfoundland about
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DETROIT SPECIAL—Receipts of fresh eggs are increasing but the demand
is brisk and whlke prices have declined they are still very satisfactory to ship-
pers. Potatoes are in liberal supply and the market is easy.

CHICAGO WIRE—The market weakened early today under favorable weath-
er conditions and reports of our deliveries to originating points and heavy ship—
ments of oats and corn. Later in the day there was a reaction, the belief be—
coming general that it would take some time to make a surplus. Cantonments
all over the country are badly in need of oats and corn, especially the farmer.

NE‘V YORK—The hay market has cleaned up again and is strong and actlvr“.
Receivers report free consignments to this market and their arrival may have
some affect but conditions are very satisfactory. _
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the luxuries unless a maximum price
is established.

Detroit is quoting No. 2 rye at $2.18.
Chicago market is nominal. The Min-
neapolis market reached a point of.
$2.21, due to excitement over the Gov-
ernment ﬂour regulations, which at
ﬁrst seem to have been misunderstood
there, but later a reaction set in and
the market was brought into line with
that of other points.

Barley

Chicago—Extraordinary and persist—
ent buying by the millers made a
strong barley market all week and
forced the cash up to record ﬁgures.
Offerings were only moderate. There
was a better enquiry by the malsters
than for a fornight, but the milling
demand was the real strength of the
market here as also at all the outside
markets. The market on Monday, as
reported by E. C. Butz Grain Co., was
again decidedly strong and prices were
1c to 2c a bushel higher on nearly
everything available for both malting
and milling account, although the mil-
lers and shippers seemed to be the
more anxious buyers. The tap for
the day was $1.76, for something very
choice, but the majority of the trad-
ing was between $1.70 and $1.75, with
the lower grades selling from $1.65 to
$1.70, when suitable for mallting. Feed
barley was steady, with the Coast types
quotable around $1.61 to $1.65, depend-
ing upon quality; offerings were mod-
erate for Monday, and everything
promptly cleaned up.—Pricc Current
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C. Hf. 12.50 13.00 14.00
Prime 12.40 12.85 13.85
Red Kidnevs 13.50 14.50 x 13.75

 

 

 

 

 

After many weeks of severe cold and
storms the weather has moderated
greatly and we may reasonably expect
higher temperatures from this time
on toward spring. No doubt, with
the exception of an occasional cold
spell, this will be the prevailing con-
dition, and it brings with it grave dan-
ger to the wet beans still in growers'
hands. We have discussed this mat-
ter more than once, in our different

one day behind warm wave and cool
wave about one day behind storm
wave. ‘

This will be an important storm lll
many ways. It will cause a great
high temperature wave and a general
thaw in middle latitudes—near, north
and south of latitude 40. Followmg
the warm wave will come severe storm
and cold wave, rains fairly well dis-
tributed thru northern and southern
states, well to southward in Texas
while in northern states and Canada
the rains will be followed by snow.

While these storms will be unusual-
ly severe the precipitation will be best
of the Winter, particularly where .11;
has been too dry. Growing wheat lll
southwestern part of the Winter wheat
section will be much improved by this
precipitation. Farmers should .get the1r
grain to market before this storm
comes, as it will cause ten days of
bad weather for shipping. In part of
the best corn sections preparations
will begin in earnest for the commg
crops soon after this storm.

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bean articles, but it will do no harm
to mention it again.

Conditions in Michigan are diﬁerent
this season than they have ever been
before. Lack of transportation faciln
ities, Government regulations, etc.
have hampered elevators in handling
grain and beans. Many of them now
have their houses full of stock and any
great inﬂux woulld simply bury them.
In fact many of them at the present
have discontinued buying wet beans,
having no facilities fdr drying them
at their plant and being unable to se-
cure cars to ship them to other plants
having a drier.

Now then, with the warmer weather
coming on, growers who have wet
beans on hand are going to experi-
ence trouble. The chances are that
this trouble will come to the greater
portion of them at about the same
time, bringing about a desire to dis~
pose of their holdings. A general rush
on the part of the growers, to market
their stock, could have but one result
and that a disastrous decline in price,
and the possibility of their not being
able to sell at any price, owing to
inability of the elevators to handle
the wet bean stock.

Under present conditions, we feel
that it is not best to hold wet stock,
and many of our friends are doing
this very thing. Let it go gradually,
but get rid of it. Of course if buy-
ers should attempt to take advantage
of the situation and lower present
prices materially, then discontinue sell-
ing; might as Well be hung for a
sheep as a lamb. On the other hand,
if you have good dry stock, hang on
to it for a time. Good seed beans
will be worth more money later on for
the supply is going to be short.

Should the local elevator be unable
to handle wet beans for any of our
readers, the market editor will be glad
to give them the address of different
concerns operating driers. They could
then get in touch with the station near-
est them and no doubt make satisfac-
tory arrangements to have their beans
dried.

  
  
 

  

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atoms

The clover seed market seems to
gain additional strength each week
and the demand is excellent. The T0-
ledo market during the past week ad-
vanced to $20.10, high mark for the
season up to this time. Alsike also
made a fair advance, while timothy,
under liquidation, experienced a set
back but the market was not weak at
any time.

Detroit quotations: l’rime red clow
er, $20.30; March, $19.80; alsike, $17;
timothy, $4.10.

 

 

 

No. 1 Standard No. 2

Market- Timothy Tmothy Timothy

Detroit 25 50 26 00 24 50 25 00 23 50 24
Chicago 30 00 31 00 29 00 30 00 28 00 29 0.

Cincinnati 32 75 33 00:32 00 32 50,30 50 31 5.
Pittsburgh :31 oo 30 50,29 00 29 some 00 26 so
NewYork ‘37 00 39 0033 00 37 00,30 00 34 00
Richmond ‘33 00 32 00 1211 00
M rh b No. 1 No. 1 No. 1

‘ 9 Light Mixed Clover Mixed Clover
Detroit 23 50 24 00 22 00 22 50 21 50 22 .0
Chic-(o 28 00 28 50 27 50 28 00 27 50 28 00
Cincinnati ‘32 00 32 50 31 50 32 00 35 00 35 5.
Pittsburgh 29 5) 30 00 30 50 31 50 30 50 31 50
New York 134 00 36 00 31 00 34 0° 32 00 3d 0.
Richmond 32 00 31 00 29 00

 

 

There is still a great scarcity of hay
and the demand is even better than
that of a week ago. The markets
are in shape to take on considerable
hay before any reaction may be ex-
pected. The improved weather condi-
tions are faciliating deliveries and
with a continuation of same we may
look for much more satisfactory con-
ditions, both for shippers and receivers.

Detroit dealers all report excellent
conditions, a good clean market, free
from any accumulation of any grade,
and a strong demand. This market
should prOVe attractive to shippers.
Prices are at the former level should
remain so for some time.

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week on account 01.110011 condition

The plugging tracks have been under
six feet of water, making operations
there out of the question. Many cars
intended for the plugging yards are
also in the ﬂood zone. This has just
about prevented trading and the
iitarket has been stronger in conse-
quence, and an active market is ex—
pected when conditions resume nor-
mal. .
llostozi has been receiving only light
supplies owing to continued embar-
goes and bad railroad conditions gen-
Tlie better grades particular-
ly are in very light supply and prices
rii'o amordiiigly. Receivers are ask-
.ing higher prices and while buyers
are forced to take or. a certain quanti-
ty from day to day. The trade ex—
1‘19"? the market there to rule lower
with any increased receipts, but these
are not in sight at the. present time.
The Baltimore market is ﬁrm un‘
der light receipts and a good demand.
Receivers report only light shipments
due to arrive and do not anticipate
{1.11 immediate change although they
fuel that it will come later on and per-
haps result in somewhat. lower prices.
"‘he New York market has been
lfn lined to work lower on receipt of
quantities of hay which were held
up on route. The Garfield closing or-
d111- allowcd the roads to make deliv—
cry of much of this hay and a sur-
11‘11114 resulted. The price is still very
sat ist’actory despite this condition, and
with a more even delivery of cars from
now on the market. there
come steady and more
from every standpoint.

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Detroit 2.00 cwt.

Chicago 2.00
Cincinnati 2.60 2.47
New York 1 2.50 2.40
Pithhurgh ’ Z 6'.) 2.45

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The potato market has ruled steady
and firm during the past week, de—
mand being fair and supply only mod—
erate. The severe weather of the past
month just. about eliminated ship—
mmits from the market, and as a re—
sult trading was mostly in storage
stock. This has brought about a bet-
ter condition 011 all markets, cleaning
them up in fairly good shape.

The demand is still far from what,
dealers would like to see it and from
what it should be from this time on.
The Food Board is doing everything
possible, to increase potato consump-
t on so as to conserve the wheat sup-
it» The consuming public is being
urged to use potatOes at every meal

11d in many different ways. This

Liould have a certain effect 011 con—
>1'ill])li(lll and increase demand.

The next, few weeks should give us
;. lair idea of what amount of stock
"11.11'0 is still to be marketed. We are
l‘. 1"(1l‘tr’lllg iiiaiiy «ports of severe frost
'11: 11:11 from all parts of the state.
.1114 ‘ liittzli1t1xtciit of this damage
is: will not be known until the pits 11c
and the stock in collars has
tit-on gioiic 0101'. There is no doubt
lioucici but what (onsideiablc loss
11:11.»: l)! on (aused by the severe weathei
of the past month.

improved weather conditions will no
doubt bring about an increased move-
ment and the market should soon
have an opportunity to show either
its strength or weakness.

1.}1t.lil‘t'ii

markets

Supplies of feeds on all
are exceptionally low just at this time
The milling of the war ﬂours of diff-
erent kinds result in a lighter produc—

tion of bran. There is a very strong
dt-iriand at, most, points and prices have
shown 1111 adyaiice.

't‘lio t‘iiitcd States Food Administra~
tit-,1.) r‘ziiiiii: thit we have nearly 1,000.-
(lilithHtl bus-hots of feed more than we
had lttr‘t year, for which we have no
corresponding number of animals to
feed. [3' this be the case. and no doubt
the ofﬁcials know what they are talk—
ing about, we may expect to see feed—
stutfs lower in price as soon as the

should be?

' . ’ Detroit-arsed in 101%
lb. sacks, jabbing lots: Bran, $24. 50;“

Standard middlings, $36. 50; ﬁne mid- _

dlings, $43. 50;
coarse cornmeal,’
ton.

Flour: Per 1:16 lbs., in eighth paper
sacks: Standard patent, $11.10@11.-
15; straight winter, $10.80; spring
patent, $11.20; rye ﬂour, $10.50@10.70
in jobbing lots.

There is an excellent demand for
cotton seed meal, a demand in excess
of the supply. One manufacturer ad-
vises us that his ﬁrm has been unable
to care for more than 10 "per cent of
the orders received.

chrocked corn, $79;
$77; chop, $66 per

No change in the onion market. Not
much stock moving and what supplies
there are on the different markets are
ﬁrmly held. Receivers are expecting
increased iupplies with the warmer
weather of the present time, but with
the demand as it is at present, consid-
erable stock can be taken tare of be-
fore there Wf’tlld be any accumulation.
With stocks as low as they are report-
ed at. all country stations there is very
little danger of any material decline
at. this time. Detroit is quoting No. 1
yellows at $3.75 to $4 per lOO-lb. sack.
This is for fancy stock. The general
run of receipts bring around $3 to
$3,530. Other markets are ﬁrm with
only moderate supplies.

Apple receipts are extremely light
at this time and the market is ﬁrm.
There is a good demand for all grades
of apples but ﬁrst-class fruit is partic-
ularly wanted. During the cold per-
iod considerable fruit offered was frost-
ed This stock is (leaning up and
that coming in the 1:1 st few days has
been much better in that respect. East-
ern markets are in good shape with
only moderate receipts, although ar-
rivals have increased somewhat since
the warmer weather.

Detroit quotations: Greening. $667
$6.25: Baldwin. $5; No. 2, $t‘.@$3.50
per bbl.; Western. $2@$2.75 per box.

BUTTER

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This week has seen very little
change in the butter market. The
supply has been coming in regularly
and has increased so that dealers are
fairly well stocked. The market re-
mains ﬁrm however. due to the fact
that dealers generally feel that the
increased receipts are but the tempo—
rary result of the Garﬁeld cloting
order, which allowed the roads to de—
livor many shipments which has been
delayed enroute.

New York quotations: Extras, 5l
11311.; firsts. 1‘5lﬁ‘510; FO“!l"i(l:<, “VJ." i‘iléc;
thirds, ”AW-131‘, packing wot-k. 396?
391.1312

Boston: ltlxtras,50@51(1;
@4911: seconds, 4660470..

Philadelphia: Extras, 520;
((711811: seconds t5@46c.

Detroit. Extias,49<1;

Cheese

The cheese market. has been some—
what inclined to weaken this week al-
though it might generally be described
as steady. Wisconsin shippers were
more anxious to sell than they were
a week ago, and the market also receiv-
ed a cconsidcrable volume of ship-
ments which had been held up by
blizzards. New York quotations about
the same as last week: State whole
milk, ﬂats, held, 26lé@261/2c; lower
grades, 20@23léc; daisies, 261/’_)c@;
Wisconsin, twins, 95t/_.@26(:; daisies,
2611'.’_.c@; Americas, 281,4@28%c; State
skims, specials, 19@20%c; fair to good
130150.

Detroit quotations: Michigan ﬂats,
2c,1,4@2612_’.c; New York ﬂats. 27c;
brick "8V ((1128“:(:; long horns, 285510;
Michigan daisies, 27c; Wisconsin dais-
ies, 271/;ic; domestic Swiss, 35@420 for
prime to fancy; limburger, 301/4@3114c
per lb.

firsts, 48
ﬁrsts, 47

firsts, 48c.

Receipts‘of eggs‘have increased at
nearly all points and lower prices

now prevail on the majority of m-ar- ,1

kets. The exclusively high prices of
the past two months have tended to
curtail consumptive demand and this
is also having an effect upon the mar-
ket. With the warmer weather we are
now having egg production will start
in earnest, and will i‘iicrease as spring
draws nearer. As the price works low-
er we may expect a great increase
in consumptive demand and this will
be satisfactory to the producer.
Detroit is quoting fresh ﬁrsts at
52c@53c. Off grades takes the usual
discount. New York dealers are hav-
ing diﬂiculty to secure 54@55c for
fresh gathered extras and no donl‘:
the price there is due to work lower.
Chicago is quoting fresh gathered
ﬁrsts at 500 and ordinary ﬁrsts at
47@48c. .

 

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The poultry market generally is
quiet and ﬁrm. Receipts are very light
at all points, the crest of the ship-
ping season having been passed. There
is a fairly good demand 011 all markets
and this will increase next month as
the time approaches for the ﬁrst Jew-
ish Passover.

There is a movement on foot to stop
the shipment of hens during the
months of March, April and May. This
is the period when many fowls are
shipped and this year authorities of
the Department of Agriculture feel
that the loss of laying hens would be
a serious one at a time when the
country is conserving every resource.
Every hen should perhaps represent
the loss of thirty eggs on the average.
The matter has been referred to the
Food Administration and we may ex-
pect something deﬁnite in the near
future. Poultry dealers declare that
this will piactittilly mean clOsing up
their business for the time being, the
majority of ariivals during the time
named being fowls.

Furs and Hides

No.1 skunk, $5; winter muskrats,
800; No 1 mink, $7. 50; N0. 1 racccoon,
$4. 50.

HIDES—No. 1 cured, 17c; No. 1
green, 140; No.1 cured bulls,13c;
No.1 green bulls, llc; No. 1 cured veal
kip, 20c; No.1 green veal kip, 180;
No. 1 cured‘ murrain, 17c; No. green
niurrain, 140; N0. 1 cured calf, 260;
No. 1 green calf, 24c; No. 1 horsehides,
“51,; No. 2 horsehides, $5; No. 2 hides
1t and No. 2 kip and calf 11;,(1 lower
than the alioie; sheepskins, as to a.—
mount of wool "51 ((1)$: 1 earli.

Dressed Hogs and Calves

The market on dressed hogs is firm
and receipts on sufﬁcient to take care
of the demand from day to day. The
general run of receipts bring from 21
to 22c but sales fancy offerings are
reported at 23 to Bill/Lie.

The veal market, is a'tritle weak,
fancy offerings bringing around 18 to
20c. Ordinary choice stock is worth
170 while thet common, ordinary kinds
are selling at 16c per 1b.

Rabbits

There is a fair demand for rabbits
when in good condition and fresh.
Badly shot rabbits are not wanted at
any time. Michigan rabbits in good
condition will bring $2.75 to $3 per doz.
on the Detroit market. Western rab-
bits selll $2.50 to $2.75 per doz.

' Vegetables

Carrots are selling in Detroit at $1.80
to $2.00 per cwt. Turnips, the small
yellow cooking variety. are selling at
about the same price as carrots. Pars-
nips are bringing around $2.50 per cwt.
All vegetables must be well cleaned and
trimmed.

~.

. improved situation as

- at Quotes;
at the highest point since the let up
in trade last fall. The springtrade
will be on soonpand dealers expect
good chuncky horses to show steady
gains in values. During. the week
the best quality of heavy green draft-
ers sold at a range of $325 to $375;
good quality, medium weight green
drafters sold at $275 to $325; chunks,
fram $275 to $350; heavy wagon and
express horses from $150 to $225; sec-
onds, fr 1m $40 to $185.

Live Stock Letters

' .CHICAGO, Feb. 11,1918—The arriv-

al here today of 15,000 cattle, 60,000
hogs and 25,000 sheep. following a run
of 68,568 cattle, 225,117 hogh and 69,-
774 sheep here last week indicate an
regards trans-
portation facilities which, with an
absence of bad storms from now on,
is likely to result in further swelling
of the marketward movement. We
are looking for liberal receipts, partic-
ularly of cattle and hogs, all winter
and well into the spring months. We
anticipate, at the same time, a broad
general demand and believe that the
coming summer will provide a good
market for well ﬁnished heavy beeves
owing to the scarcity in the country of
aged cattle to throw on grass in the
spring and to the discouragement feed—
ers preparing that kind for market
have suffered in recent months. As
we have advised for weeks past, how-
ever, we can see nothing to be gained
by owners in holding back any class of
stock that is fat and ready to come or
that is not responding to care and
high priced feed with good weight
gains.

Todays cattle’ market was generally
steady with the close last week, but
good; heavy cattle continued the
underdogs of the market, owing to a
slack shipping demand. We sold two
carloads of choice heavy cattle today
for Foster Bros, Earlham, Iowa, at
$13.80, the day’s top. These good,
heavy cattle are generally 250 lower
than a week ago. Steers of class to
sell from $11.00 down, however, are
about as high as last Monday and
kinds of desirable feeder grade are
higher owing to the development of a
broader country demand as the weath-
er lias moderated and the car situation
has improved. The bulk of the good
to choice steers 110w sell from $12.50
to $13.50, medium to good kinds at
$11.50 to $12.50 and cheap killers all
the way from $10.00 to $11.00.

Butcher cattle trade opened this
week on a steady basis with the close
of the week previous, but the calf mar-
ket was generally a dollar lower than
early last Friday, with the practical
top on vealers $14.00. Ordinary light
heifer stuff is relatively the poorest
sale. Most of the fat, cows and“ heifers
are now selling between $8.00 to $9.50
for fair to strictly good,' but choice to
prime beef cows and heifers are reach-
ing $10.00 to $11.00 and occasionally
higher. Canners and cutters are sell—
ing largelly from $6.50 to $7.25 and
bologna bulls from $8.25 to $9.25,
prime heavy beef bulls on up to $10.50
to $10. 75.

lnquirers llll‘lltzlfetl that many cattle
will be needed this spring to ﬁll pas-
tures. At present the demand is light
owing to the high price of feed, severe
weather and uncertain car service.
Moderating weather, however, the la1:t
few days has given the trade a better
feeling. A few choice fleshy feeders,
suitable for short feed- and the kind
that meet with killer competition. are
selling from $10.25 to $11.00 per cwt.,
but they are hard to get because of
strong competition from packers and
the bulk of the good quality, ﬂeshy
feeders weighing 800 to 950 lbs. are
selling from $9.50 to $10.25 with good
cattle weighing 700 to 800 lbs. from
$8.25 to $9. 25 and poor to medium 600
to 700 lbs. stockers from $7. 00 to $8. 00,
with inferior kinds of 500 to 600 lbs.
from $6 25 to $6. 75

Today’s hog trade opened 15 to 250
lower to speculators and closed 25 to
40c under Saturday. A11 early top of
$16.45 was made but the packer limit
for choice butcher hogs was $16.25
Today’s later market was around‘ $1
lower than last Tuesday. high (lay of
last week. Bulk sold at, $16 to $16.25,
with pigs and underweights from $14
to $15.50. A free marketward move—
ment is now expected and prices may
work lower but it seems reasonable to
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$15.50 minimum on hogs the market
will be on a’ very high and satisfactory
basis right along.

Sheep and lamb trade was in bad
shape today, matured wethers declin-
ing generally 25c and lambs 50c from
last week’s closing under a run of 25,-
000_head, the largest supply for some
time past. Best handy weight lambs
sold at $17.25 but $17.00 brought a
very good kind and ﬁnished 94 1b.
weights took $16.25. On the high spot
last week best fat ewes sold up to
$13.50, wethers to $13.85 and light
yearlings to $15.85, but today’s selling
basis was fully 25c below these levels
and a good fat class of ewes sold at
$12.50 to $12.75. A free movement of
Colorado fed lambs during the next
six weeks is on the market horison
and the immediate future of the mar-
ket does not seem favorable for ad-
vaiices.

EAST BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 12,
1fllS——Receipts of cattle Monday, 100
cars, including 20 cars left from last
week’s trade. Trade opened 25c low-
er on medium weight and weighty
steer catle which were in light supply;
butcher steers and handy weight
steers sold 25c lower than last week;
fat COWS and heifers sold 15 t0 25c low—
er; bulls of all classes sold steady;
canners and cutters were in light sup—
ply. sold steady; fresh cows and
springers were in very light supply.
sold at strong last week’s prices;
stockers and feeders were in light—sup-
ply, sold 15 to 25c lower. A: the close
of the market around 15 cars of 031th
including 10 cars left, from Monday’s
went over unsold.

Receipts of cattle Tuesday, 15 cars.
including 10 cars left from Monday’s
trade. The market opened 15 to 25c.
lower on all grades and trade was very
slow.

Receipts of hogs Monday at this
point totaled seventy double decks or
11,200 head', and with heavy receipts
at all Western markets, buyers had
control of the situation and prices
were again on a lower basis, a decline
of twenty—ﬁve cents, compared with
Saturday’s average, catching the bulk.
The top of $17.15 was made, while the
bulk sold at $17.00; pigs, $16.00;
roughs $15.50; stags, $14.00 to $14.50.

Receipts of hogs Tuesday totaled
2400 head and the market opened
steady on all grades and closed a
quarter lower on account of only a
few order buyers being in the ﬁeld for
hogs and as soon as their orders were
filled the market weakened. The ear—
ly hogs sold up to $17.00. and pigs at
$16.00, and at about ten o’clock about
ten decks of hogs arrived and the
packers bid $16.75 for the best hogs.
Pigs were a very slow sale and what
few were sold, sold on a basis of $10.
and at ten o’clock about three double
decks of pigs were going over unsold.
Roughs sold from $15.25 to $15.50;
stags. $14.00 to $14.50.

The receipts of sheep and lambs
Monday was called 25 cars, or 5.000
head. The market opened steady with
Saturday’s close and choice lambs sold
from $18.25 to $18.50, but the market
closed very slow and a few loads went
over unsold. It would not be surpris»
ing to see the market on good lambs
go still lower, as this is the beginning
of Lent. Heavy lamlbs sold no better
than throwouts. This class of lamb
is a hard seller, as buyers do not. want
weighty lambs. Throwoutg sold from
$17.00 to $17.25; yearlings. $16.00 to
$16.50; wethers, $13.50 to $14.50; ewes
$13.00 to $13.50 a sto weight and qual-
ilv.

The receipts of sheep and lambs on
Tuesday totaled about 1400 head. The
best lambs sold at $18.25 which was
25c. lower than Monday. We under-
stand that there were a few sold up
to $18.35. All other grades sold about
steady.

THERE ARE GOOD MAR-
KETS FOR SOFT CORN

The closing of many distilleries un-
der the food control act has not de-
stroyed the marketTor soft corn, ac-
cording to a statement from the Bu-
reau of Markets, United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture, which has made
a survey of grain-drying plants now
in operation and under construction
at 30‘ terminal points.

The survey shows 154 grain driers
in operation and 17 under construc-
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tion, aside from .the'few distilleries
still running." The combined capacity
of the grain driers is about 3,000,000
bushels of corn every .. hours. The
department states that this survey
probably does not include all plants,
but is inclusive enough to allay rum-
ors that there would be no market for
soft corn.

An unusual amount of soft corn was
harvested in 1-17, because of early
frosts and cool, wet weather in Sep-
tmeber and uctober. It can be sold
direct to grain driers, says the de-
partment, or in many markets can be
dried for the producer at a cost of '
threequarters to two and one-half
cents a bushel and sold in dried con-
dition. Owing to present transporta-
tion difﬁculties, it is recommended "
farmers and country shippers delay
the movement of soft corn unless con-
ditions at the terminal market are fav-
orable. .The greatest return for soft
corn is said to be received when it is
fed to stock on the farm.

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WEEKLY MAINE LETTER

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Some say that they will not sell a
tuber at less than a price that wil‘
er costs and give a slight proﬁt.
growers, however, are holding, 1101
to come out somewhere whole. Some—
how the government fails utterly to
get the farmer's viewpoint.

Apples moving a bit aster. ”Farm
prices average $2.50 for No. 1; $1.50
to $5.00 per barrel. Potatoes slow;
from $2 to $3. Grain scarce and high;
bran, $2.45; cottonseed, $3.00; gluten.
$3.20; linseed, $3.25; hominy, $3.45;
oats. $1.10; corn meal, $3.75 to $1.00
per cwt.; hay, $11 to $13 for loose tim-
othy; butter, 45 and 50c; eggs. 60c;
onions, $3.75 and $4.00 per cwt.; dress-
ed fowls, 25 to 30c per 1b.; chicken,
nearly the samew—I). M. (1.. Wis-cas-
sett, Maine.

POTATO SHIPMENTS AS
REPORTED BY DEALERS

Amble, Mich—So far 40 cars of po-
tatoes have been shipped from here
and about that many are yet to be
marketed. Last season 100 cars in
all were shipped. The frost last sea-
son cut down the crop one—fourth.
Quality of present, holdings, however.
is good and more potatoes are held
than a year agoer. I”. B.

('olc'man. Mich. Five cars of po—
toes have been shipped so far from
here this season. ﬁve remain for ship-
ment, and ﬁve were shipped last sea-
son. (lrop was damaged 25 per cent
by frost. Three—fourths of the hold
ings are table SlOCk."’"0. E. ('o.

(lat/lord. .llich.~~So far this season
about. 115 cars of potatoes have been
shipped from here with about 150 cars
yet to move. Total shipments last sea-
son were 190 cars. The crop was dani-
aged 20 per cent by frost but the stock
is as good as the average for size, and
quality. Ten per cent of the holdings
are seed. 30 per cent less of this being
held than a year ago, but ttible stock
holdings are 50 per cent more than a
year agost‘. & (lo.

hum. M'it'li.w—So far 50 cars of pota-
toes have been shipped from here with
about 20 cars remaining. Last season
four cars were shipped from this place.
(‘i‘op was hurt 5 per cent by frost.
Holdings are larger than a year ago,
20 per cent of them being seed. Stock
is of good qualityx 71.. IV). (‘0.

.\'u.\'hm'.I/c. .‘llichsw’l‘cn cars of pota-
toes have been shipped out of here so
far this season with about nine yet to
move-move. Last year none as shipped
but two cars were shipped in. Crop
was damaged 10 per cent by frost but
quality of stock held is ﬁne. Five
times as much seed held as a year ago
and about the same quantity of table
stOCerV. A. S.

Vassar, MichrJl‘wo or three cars
of. potatoes have been shipped from
here this season, none remaining for
market. No potatoes were shipped a
year ago. Crop was badly damaged by
frost. About enough here for home
consumption—M. G. 00.

West Branch, Mich. —— Holdings of
seed potatoes in this locality are about
the same as last year, with perhaps
twice as much table stock on hand as
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Handing it to the Farmer

HAT CITY newspapers and people say about

the farmer would ﬁll many large volumes;

what they really know of his problems
could be written on a postage stamp and carried
in the vest pocket.

The farmer is the most misunderstood individ-
ual in the world. But unfortunately, the lack
of understanding does not always deter those
who elect to discuss men and issues in the col-
umns of the press, from talking learnedly upon
the farmers prices. products and patriotism. This
ignorance leads many into frequent tirades of
criticism and abuse for conditions for which ac-
tually the farmer is blameless.

Some of the stuff that is printed now-a-days in
the city newspapers about the farmer’s lack of
patriotism, his refusal to buy liberty bonds or
assist with the Red Cross, and his proﬁteering
propensities,——is most unjust and misleading and
aggravates an economic situation which is bad
cnough as it is.

Recently the Michigan Manufacturer sullied its
pages with a column length libcl against the sugar
bcct growers who refused to grow beets for less
than $10 per ton. Said this editorial in part:
“The nation is gotting a very good training in
patriotism of its farmers just now, because, juggle
with it as one will, those high prices that are pre-
vailing for beef, for pork. and for other meat pro—
ducts, for beans and wheat, for wool and for all
other things that are being used at double price
to carry on the war, and to provide food and cloth-
ing for combatant alike, are the produce'of the
farmer, and he is getting the money for this high
cost of living. He does not appear to be making
any sacriﬁces. It does appear that he is setting
prices without rhyme or reason and that he is
playing the agricultural Shylock to get the pounds
of ﬂesh nominated in his bond. There will be an
accounting some day when the farmer begins to
re-echo his claims for consideration. It may be
very well to take notes of the situation while it is
present so that we may not forget what the farmer
is doing to 11s.”
written against anyone
but the farmer, the author of it would be
mobbed before the ink was dry on the paper. He
ought to be. The ignorant incompetent who would
essay to vent his personal spleen thru the columns
of a publication upon an individual or class, with-
out “rhyme or reason", and with a total disregard
for the truth, becomes a ﬁt candidate for tar and
feathers. Such an editorial as above, spread be—
fore thousands of people as ignorant as the perpe-
trator of the farming business, causes incalcul-
able harm. it is such irrational and irresponsible
mouthings as these that destroy conﬁdence, arouse
class hatred, and remove the barriers of re—
straint between capital and labor. The metropol-
itan press is doing its best to lead the country
straight into a class war.

Yes. my friend, you are right. Some day there
will be an accounting. Some day the full light of
publicity and reason will shine upon the farmer
and his business. and you shall know the truth.
Some day the farmer will come into his own, and

If such a libel were

those who have come to curse and to ridicule, will‘

stay to pray and worship at his shrine.

There have been periods in the world's history
when individuals have controlled the destines of
nations; for the last half century capitalism has

socialism.
ical upheaval and readjustment... the farmer has
gone with the title. But new conditions have in-
truded ‘ themselves into this scheme of living,
and it becomes increasingly necessary for the sake
of self-preservation that- he exert a larger interest
and inﬂuence in- affairs which in the past he has
been content to leave to others. The farmers are
organizing, not to secure special dispensations nor
to usurp rights that belong to others, but to pro-
tect themselves and business from the selﬁsh mon-
opolies that are slowly shaping about every branch
of. the farming business. "The time will come and
soon when the farmers, united and organized, will
have somethingto say, not only as to the price of
their raw material, but the price of their ﬁnished
product as well.

The farmer has been taking note of the situa-
tiOn for years. Never fear, he will not forget what
the speculators, the market manipulators, and the
professional patriots have done to him.

Heney Will Throttle the Packers’ Trust

RANK J. HENEY, the man who handled the

land graft cases in the west, sent one U. S. sen-

ator to the penitentiary and secured indict-
ments against hundreds of prominent citizens of
the northwest, is in charge of the investigation of
the packers’ combination which has been running
things with a free hand since 1912; when the com-
bination was ordered bythe courts to disband. In-
stead of dissolving the combination, it was reor-
ganized under many different interlocking con-
cerns and has been more brazen in its operations
than ever before.

Heney has already produced proofs from the
packers’ own ﬁles which show how they evaded the
dissolution order of 1912, and have since contin—
ued to divide the meat business ol.’ the country in
exactly the same proportion as had been agreed
upon previous to that date. Heney has presented
for the consideration of the court, the packers’ own
record showing the “percentages” on the basis of
which they were to divide the meat buying busi—
ness, and have even secured copies of the check-
ing sheets, where the several companies checked
the total number of head of hogs, sheep, and cattle
against those percentages to see that none of the
boys were hogging the market.

But the trial of the combination does not stop
with the business end of the proposition, as evi-
dence has been submitted showing how the pack-
ers used their inﬂuence with Congress to block
legislation, take the teeth out of the Federal con-
trol bill as affecting their business, and even secur-
ing the appointment of their own men to very im-
portant positions in the Hoover administration.
The Federal Trade Commission which is conduct-
ing the investigation, is not exempt from the touch
of the combination, one of. the employees of the
Commission having already been dismissed because
of his friendliness to the packers.

Before the investigation is completed the trial
will lead down through the Chicago Live Stock
Asociation and the Live Stock Exchange, where the
combination ﬁrst gets in its work. Facts so far
disclosed prove that this combination not only
robs both producer and consumer, but uses its in-
ﬂuence to corrupt Congress and invades the ad-
ministrative departments of the government. Frank
J. Honey sent Abe Ruef, the biggest man in Cali-
fornia to the penitentiary, and kept up the ﬁght
against the grafters even after he had been shot
down in court by a gun man. He’s just the type of
man to follow the trail, and before he gets
through the Federal Government will ﬁnd it quite
necessary to take over the affairs of this combina-
tion and opelate the business in the interests of
the people of the nation.

Another Remarkable Discovery

RULY, we live in a wonderful age. Scarcely

a week goes by but what the scientist, the

botanist, the inventor, or the agricultural
expert, makes some new discovery which is pass-
ed on to an expectant posterity. A recent Wash-
ington dispatch announces a most remarkable
ﬁnding, presumably by the agricultural depart~
ment. We pass it on to our readers for what
it may be worth to them:

“The farmer cannot plow while the ground is
frozen, and neither can he prepare the ground
for next year’s crops. But‘he can do many things
which he used to put off until the time when he
might have been plowing or planting. He can
mend the harness, repair the barns, out the next
summer’s supply of wood, ﬁx the farm tools, and
do all the other odd jobs which will make him

laying foundations for an impractical order ‘01 .
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and wheat-and hay and potatoes. sorting pots
es in the collar is not a. bad job when the thermom-
eter is hovering around zero, but who wants to do
it when the robine are Singing outside the win-
dow. On the return trip trom town he can haul
.his supply of fertilizer or feed or lime. There
never Was a farmer who cannot remember at least
onetime in his life when he had to unhook from
the drill to go down to town to get more fertiliz-
er or more seed.

“No man can afford this year to miss the chance
of hauling when the roads are good. And the
country roads are never quite as good for hauling
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snow. Any farmer who has had the doubtful,
pleasure of wallowing through a' mud road when.
a ton seemed like a mountain to his team, knows »

how much more fun it is to ramble along with
two tons on a. good stout pair of bebs.”

Warming Up to the Farmers
RESIDENT WILSON has agreed to give his

most careful consideration to the petition'

presented by sixteen national farm organisa-
tions urging appointment of an advisory commit-
tee of nine farmers to aid the government in fram-
ing measures to speed up agricultural production.

Why is it that the government has taken every

precaution to enlist the sympathies and help of.
every class and trade in the United States with
the exception of the farmers? Not only has the
farmer not been invited to take part in the im-
portant discussions pertaining to food produc-
tion, but he has been practically given to under-
stand that his advice is not wanted. And yet,
despite rebuffs of all kinds, he is expected to
throw himself body and soul into the nation’s
cause and make sacriﬁces not asked or looked for
from people of. other trades and professions.

The government should be seeking the farm-
er’s aid and advice, instead of the farmer beg-
ging to have voice in the control of his business.

This war can't be won without the enthusiastic
co-operation of the farmers, and the President and
the Congress might just as well take time enough
off right now to ﬁnd) out the truth about farming
conditions and ascertain the real reasons why it
seems well—nigh impossible to stir the farmers up
into a state of eager support.

Make the farmers to feel that they have as vital
an interest and part in this war as others, and
they will respond without being cajoled and
threatened.

There is every evidence as we go to press that
the manufacturers will concede the beet growers’
demands for $10 minimum prices and a sliding
scale increase according to increases in the whole-
sale price of sugar. If this proves to be the out-
come. we urge every grower to show his good
business judgment, his appreciation and his pal;-
riotism, by growing as many acres of beets as he
can possibly handle. There should be a small
proﬁt in $10 beets, and if the weather conditions
are at all favorable, Michigan’s beet growing in-
dustry should enjoy one of its most proﬁtable and
encouraging years. 1918 will be a good year for
the growers to prove to the manufacturers that
they are not the stubborn, unreasonable and pro-
ﬁteering individuals they have been painted.
Likewise the manufacturers will have a splendid
opportunity to show that they are really interest-
ed in the welfare of the industry and the men up-
on whom its developments depends.

t at It 1|!

“Three cheers for the farmers” says the Detroit
News in commenting upon the statement of the
income tax collector at Detroit that the farmers
are paying theif income taxes cheerfully if not
eagerly. “This is the right American spirit” con-
tinues the News, “and it is not surprising, consid-
ering the sturdy patriotism which always has
characterized our agricultural population, that it
is found in special vigor among the farmers.”
—-Editor of Michigan Manufacturer. please copy.

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“You can’t keep a corporation alive on patriot-
ism,” was what George D. Baldwin, manager of.
Hog Island ship yard, told the senate commerce
commission. “Our stockholders must have their
dividends." Quite true, quite true, the only man
in this country who is supposed to forego proﬁts
for the sake of patriotism is the farmer.

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American millionaires who have their money
invested in war supplies hanufactories are making
a harvest under the government’s “cost plus”
plan. If it costs the government ten billions of
dollars a year to make war, we may safely estimate
that a hundred million of those dollars ﬁnd their
way into the vaults 01' the money kings. War
may be a great leveler of caste, but it is also a
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Scientiﬁc Experts Should Study the Real
Needs of the Farmer and Help Him
to What is Right and Just

It‘ has been charged that Mr. Waid is not gov-
erned by the sentiments of the growers of farm

products but what is, apparently, personal ambi-

tions. This can also be said of “expert” or other-
wise, County Agents that are being forced on to
the farmers in a good many different ways. They
have in the past proved to be willing to agree to
anything that will make them loom up big and
important in the eyes of those who are in the
realm higher up and likes to use these “scientiﬁc"
persons for the express purpose of working the
farmers for their easy way of making a living and
enjoying the luxuries of life regardleSS of what
the farmer has to say. It is true that the Sec-
retary of the Michigan Potato Growers? Associa-
tion and the County Agents could be of great value
to the farmers if they were servants of the farm—
are; if they would favor what they know the farm-
er wants and needs and if they didn’t know what
was needed, try to ﬁnd out and act
accordingly.

The time has come, and recent ac-
tions by Mr. Waid and a number of
County Agents have impressed it
so thoroughly on our minds that
they will in time—sooner or later,
and I hope sooner, see the hand:
writing on the wall. The MICHIGAN
BUSINESS FARMING is just the thing
the farmer has been in need of for
years. Every farmer should take
this paper and in this way all farm-
ers would work in one unit. To il—
lustrate this unit of farmers it is
necessary to tell a. story of a fath-
er on his death-bed and his nine
sons. He wanted at this time to
give them some impressive advice.
He asked them all to his bed-side
and asked eadh to bring a stick, and
each went out and returned with a
stick, and the father took each
stick and broke it easily one after
another. Then he said, “my sons,
go and bring me each another stick
like the ﬁrst ones,” and each son
went out and brought in one more
stick apiece similar to the ﬁrst
ones. Thistime the father received
the sticks all at one time and he
tried to break the nine at one time
and could not even bend them. “Let :5
this be a lesson,” he said, “that as 1
longras you stand separately you
are easily broken up, but when all
stand together you stand forever.”
If we farmers practice this we will 5
not be bended and twisted at will *-
by anyone. :

If Mr. Waid does not fill the place
he has to the entire satisfaction of
all of the Ass’n the solution is easy
——ﬁre him and let us put in a real
farmer and take our chances on his
being scientiﬁc. An honest man
whose integrity and fidelity is per- ,
soniiled thru him is of more real
value to us than all this expert I
and scientiﬁcness. Moving picture i.
slides are all right at the movies and '
this is as true of Mr. Waid’s slides
as of any, so the patrons of the mov-
ies can learn about the pests and
diseases the farmers are at war
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for potatoes at a time'when he can least afford it.

-—F., C. Rasmussen, Greenville, Montcalm county.

Same Regulation Cannot Apply to City and
, ' Farm People Alike

Allow me. to bring to your notice a situation
in which farmers are ﬁnding themselves and in
which they are very much in need of advice.

The needs of the Nation call to each and every
farmer for greater production the coming year,
and, you know, the more intensive the system
of farming employed, greater need is for labor.

Farmers, unlike other business managers or
owners, are confronted ﬁrst, by the necessity
of housing and feeding their laborers. Under
new food regulations, limiting the amount of pro-
vision that one can have in his possession. to the
quantity sufﬁcient for thirty days, increased
farm production, and increased acreage is made
impossible. Before we hire, we must be sure we
can feed the help. Before we plant, we should
have an ordinarily clear road to harvest, else
we are burying grain, not planting it.

Since it is a common custom of grain and po-
tato and bean farmers; those upon whom the
army and nation are most dependent to buy a

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the farmer is at war all the time to
keep up the food supply that feeds
the world. We Farmers, know all
about the potato pests and diseases
and we are the ﬁrst to ﬁnd out
about them, too. Our Minnie.”
Businnss FARMING will help us ﬁnd 3%
remedies for all our troubles if we '
stand all together, each member is one more stick
to be broken together with the ﬁrst nine as in
the illustration above. Just think what strength
we have when our forces are combined.

Let us not tolerate any one to‘stand in the
way of what is right and just no matter what
kind of a cloak they hide behind. Sdentiﬁo ex-
perts and county agents have something to learn,
too, and that is to learn the needs of the farmer
from what the farmer says he needs and then
learn to act in accordance with his wishes thru
thick and thin. It pays to keep the farmer con-
tented. The farmer wants one grade of potatoes-
sound, perfect in skin and shape and that grade
can be got by running over a 1 and 3-4 inch screen.
This will satisfy the farmer and consumer. But
Lord! how the dealers and middle-men will groan.
Well, who cares? They are an unnecessary evil
anyway. Who is_it that has asked or wanted
two grades of potatoes both grades to be No. 1
in quality but to be bought of the farmer for two
diﬁerent prices? Does it reduce the cost of po-
tatoes to the consumer?
Sam who protects you someone answer these
questions. I know the farmer ha’s40 per cent less
dollars to buy implements with and they are

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breakfast. Taking no chances on viands being poisoned, the~prisoners were
invited to partake of the repast.

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supply of flour, sugar. and other stziplc groccr—
ies, when they sell a money crop to last until
another harvest, and as this custom is the best
management for them, since this class of l'armcrs
rarely keep many cows, thus releasing the small
income from the cows during the spring and
summer to help in paying wages for labor, and
implement repairs, etc., we want your candid
opinion and advice upon this:

Which does patriotism consist in. living on the
allotted amount suggested and buying no more,
or planning for tomorrow in view of our country’s
need of greater farm production.

Can the same food regulation do justice to both
city and farm people? Should means be pro-
vided for the farmers to be able to buy now, or
assured the chances to buy later, sugar needed for
canning fruits the farmer prouuces, thereby con-
serving all its food products and flour for feed-
ing farm laborers. Should we not. be sure of
these before planting time, not for the sake of the
farmer, but that he may answer to his nation’s
call? If we happen to be able to ﬁnd help on
the farm for a few days at a time, and we often
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This isn't written in a spirit of criticism. We
are coming for advice to onein whose judgment
we have faith. Kindly tell us in the Mrcmm
BUSINESS FARMING what our patriotic duty is?

Also in regard to this question which is often

discussed among working people:

, A Hooverized menu means an additional 33 and
1-3 per cent to living expenses. On every hand
we are confronted by the desire to help. To give
to Red Cross, Y. M. C. A, Liberty bonds, Savings
Certiﬁcates. Now, if one’s means are limited
and the Hoover method requires his entire in-
come, making giving to the other things impos-
sible.‘ Which is the most important, judged by
the need and work accomplished?—-A. K.. Lake.

The Farmers Will Have to Organize to Get
What Belongs to Them

I have been reading your valuable paper for the
last couple of months and I will say that it is just
what we farmers have been needing in every state
in the Union to wake us up. You are showing
your good will toward us farmers not only in your
paper but also by action. The farmers have al-
ways been easy marks for the speculators and
middle-men. They would always make the price
at both ends for our produce, and no one asked
us the cost of production.

The M. A. C. is sending its agents
out trying to teach us farmers to
grow two blades of grass where
,2 only one grew before, but I think it
:9; is very little if any at all, that they
can teach us in that direction. The
fact is, that it, is not by any means
the bumper crop that is bringing
the most, money or the proﬁt to the
farmer's pocket. The individual
farmer can work his land to the
best advantage. raising pork, beef,
potatoes, wheat nndso on, but when
it comes to market this produce
then hc is up against it, and here
is where the small farmer gets
iiccceel every time. and here I think
is where those gentlemen from the
M. A. (‘. could do us some good, in
helping to get the farmers organ-
ized. and help to ﬁnd a market for
our produce, cutting out the mid-
dlemen who are living high at our
expense, by inducing the farmers
To hold back our product, until there
is a demand for ii in the mar-
ket at a fair proﬁt. and if there is
anything 1ch ovcr food it on the
farm. Right today 1 Ihink pota-
toes are worth 5m? a bushel to fccd
to live stock. and i think right
more we have 21 good pint-c for \Vil‘lf,
we can not sell in the opcn market
at a. fair price. Try it. fellow farm-
ers and I’ll bet you 104) to l we will
soon see, the results.

Around here the stock buyers
are buying on a two cent margin
for our hogs and caiilc, so there is
where our profit goes. but so long
as the farmers are standing isolnt.
cd thcrc is no hope for us. There
is only one way out of the present
condition and that is through or-
ganization for both buying and sell-
ing. and here is where the agents
could do us the most service. But
durc they?

li‘cllow farmers, I think we will
have to go a step further to get re-
lief. How are we as a class. rep—
resented in our legislature and in
congress? My opinion is that un-
til we get Liitci'osfcd in the running
of our government, us much as we
are in our farm work there will
not be any relief. and not until then
can we expect to get what. we are

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There are not any more than enough potatoes
in this section of the state than for our own use,
and there have been quite a few frozen in the
cellars. Beans are not raised here vcry much so
I don’t. know much about them only the fact that
they are from 180 to 20c per lb. i hope you suc-
ceed in knocking out the grading of potatoes in
Michigan. I don‘t think the government can look
for as many to be raised as last year. They did
not do as they agreed, they advised the farmers
to raise extra acreage and they would see that
they got a good price and would have plenty of
help to harvest their crops, and then they took
the farmers’ boys about the ﬁrst thing. Now why
did they do this? They might just as well keep
their county agents at home this year; the farm-
ers will plant what they can take care of and no
more. There is no use to plant a lot to go to
waste. Success to your paper and long may it
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Farmer Gets Robbed Either Way.

A short time ago I had a c-nservation. with a
potato buyer. The grading question came up. He
gave his opinion as follows: “In some way I am
In favor of the two grades and in some ways not.
For instance, I ship a load of spuds, (say to De-
troit). They are No. 1 stock but have not gone
over the Government grader. I am informed that
they have arrived but will not be accepted as they
are not No. .1. Now the son-of—a-gun knows they
are No. 1 stock, he also knows he has me on his
hip, as that car load is there at my expense. Then
the only thing I can do is to sell at a discount.
I am the loser and he has my proﬁt as well as
his own. Now if this load had been run over the
Government grader and he had turned them down,
I would get the Government agent to inspect them.
He would pronounce them 0. K. and the dealer
would be compelled to take them at contracted
price. For this reason I am in favor of two
grades.”

Now this looks to me that in order to protect
the shipper from dishonest buyers there has to
be another, dishonest scheme to rob the farm-
ers. What is wrong with that same government
agent that he cannot tell a car of No. 1 potatoes
from another unless some one informs him they
have gone over the so-called government screen?
Why can’t he tell if he isn’t a rogue himself or
else hasn’t enough judgment to tell No. 1 spuds
from No. 2?

The farmer has been a good mule, but it’s time
he quit kicking over the proﬁts of his load to cover
the greedy graspers.

Let us rather have one grade potatoes or else
the same price for No. 2, and let the Government
protect us in time that the bean door may be
locked before the horse is stolen—S. T. G., Fife
Lake.

The Farmer is Always the “Goat”

I see in your paper you are urging the bean buy~
ers to arrange to dry the farmers‘ wet beans. We
have two elevators here and they haVe each built
dryers, but we find they are no benevolent, insti-
tutions. Thy will dry just what they buy and
‘bev weigh them up and charge sixty cents per
bushel for drying tlnm. i sold them
short time ago. Their price was $0.60
for dry beans. and $0.00 tor we? ones. Mine were
wet. They picked them and weighed what they
picked out and claimed they picked 15 lbs. They
charged me 14 cents per lb. for these and then
treated the beans as to excess moisture and made
12 per cent excess. so they took 12 per cent out of
the weight of the whole load. but they did not de—
duct anything for moisture in the culls they
picked out; so after they got all through I had
$3.70 per bu. for my sharc. i paid the elevator
man $10.00 for seed. I think the farmers might
better either dry the beans themselves or else
feed them to the pigs at home rather than to fatten
the elevator hogs. That isn't all l had to pay
them l'or picking out those cull beans. for they
kept the cults. or one—quarter of my load I didn't
get anything for.

I see at a meeting of the milk commission they
were agitating the high cost of milk to the con»
sunicr. Th" oncstion was asked if they raised the
wages of the men who dclivcred the milk and they
said they il‘lti. A man who drove a milk wagon
now got $6 for cight hours work. That is all
right. but show me the farmer who gets six dol—
lars clear for his ﬁfteen hours work, but I notice
the farmer is always the “goat.”~Subscribc')‘.

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Let’s Co-Operate; be Our Own “Middleman”

ICnclOsed ﬁnd one dollar for my subscription for
one year. It is the best yet. Most farm papers
tell you how to raise the stuff, but not how to get
rid of it, and that is the most, important part of it.
There has always been too many ”toil nots.neithcr
do they spins” living off the farmers.

Farming is the largest business on earth. and
yet shows an increase in general under the past
and present conditions. lut. wake up. brother
farmers! We are pulling our own boat against
the stream and the other follow, the middleman,
is floating his down stream. Let’s co-operate and
be our own middleman. own an elevator, a pro—
duce company. etc.. and instead of selling at whole-
sale and buying at retail. we can do like the man-
ufacti rer. he buys at wholcsale and sells at retail.
That's" why he has the moncy. and the farmer who
has the least to sell is the man who is most, in need
of co-opcration. Some say we cannot ﬁnance the
undertaking. We are financing it every time we
take a load of grain. produce, live stock, hay, etc,
to market. but we don’t, realize it because we do
not. know what. the other fellow gets. There is in
this town a farmers’ independent produce Co., and
Grangers’ stock shipping assorziation; both pay-
ing good dividends to stockholders and patrons,
and what we need now is an elevator, a real farm-
ers ’elevator. We are facing a critical time and
what: we need to do is pull together. “A house
divided against itself cannot stand.” Go to it M.
B. F. We'll stand by you—~we’ll stand by anything
tthat’s rigl1t.~—H. L. 0., Clare.

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Only” Hope. for the Farmers is to: organize

I had ﬁve hopies of your paper, sent to me by
one of your subscribers, and after. » reading the
same saw that; it was justwhat I and many other
farmers have been looking and, hoping for, namely,
a farm champion.

The consumer, middleman and manufacturer are
all landing on the farmer from above, below, be-

hind and before, and the farmer being in an un- .

organized state can not prefect himself. If it was
possible to organize the farmer into a corporation,
union or some political or social organization and
get him to stick by it, he could rule the nation,
and make the rest of the world come to time.

At this critical period of our nation’s history
we have all been asked to be patriotic. The farm-
er has been asked to put out more crops to feed
the suffering world. Has he responded to this ap-
peal? He has. because he was trusting and thot
the nation would protect him ﬁnancially. The
price of what the farmer raised was set and what
he had to buy increased 100 to 300 per cent. Was
the price of co"1 set? Yes; but when the coal bar-
ons began to balk they got a generous raise, and
seeing 110w easy it came they tried it again and the
coal administration, being vaccommooating, re-
sponded with a raise. The same with the railroads.
When they wanted the freight rates raised they
sidetracked coal and other necessities and said,
“there they stay until we get what we want."
They got it quick. Why can’t the farmers do this?
Because they are not organized. So here is hoping
that the farmers may learn a lesson from these
times and soon organize and by so doing may the
MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING be the champion of
the Michigan agriculturalist.—W. N. H., Three
Rivers.

It is Time for the Farmer to Wake Up.

I received a sample copy of your paper and read
it with great interest. 1 think if every farmer in
this great state of Michigan wouldeut his shoul-
der to the wheel and with a good farm paper
like the M. B. F. to help we can turn the wheel
and get our share of what is coming to us. I
think it’s time for the farmer to wake up and not
let the middleman rob him of his proﬁt any
longer, and not let one or two men make a law
and tell the farmer what to do. This potato grad-
ing is the biggest robbery that was ever perpetrat-
ed upon the farmers. I am not a large raiser of
potatoes myself, probably from 500 to 8“0 bushels,
but the most of the farmers here raise from 500
to 1500 bushels, They won’t do it next year unless
this grading is cut out. They might foo; the farm-
er once but not any more. I have all of my pota-
toes yet and will not sell them under present con-
ditions. I have started to feed some cf them to
the hogs and cattle.

We were urged last spring to plant potatoes,
“the Government would buy all we could raise at
$1 per bu.” and now where are we at? We would
be in the. hole if we sell at present prices.

Now, about the county agents. For my part I
do not think the farmers need them. The way I
look at, it I think that every farmer knows his
business and knows best what his soil needs with»
out having somebody tell him. Give him a square
deal—~what is coming to him—s0 he can go ahead
and do things. But as long as we have to farm
without proﬁt, or at a loss, we might as Well lay
down and quit. and no county agent can do him
any good. I do not mean that we have to have $2
or $3 per bu. for potatoes, but if we have to sell
them below $1 under the present condition, con—
sidering what we have to pay for labor and seed,
and paris green. we cannot do it without a loss.
I do not think there is a farmer who wants any-
thing unreasonable. What the farmer wants is a
square dealtw .i A'clr Subscrilu'r. FreesoiL

Give Us Price and We’ll Give Production

I enjoy the articles coming in from the different,
farmer readers. l‘t, seems this year that we should
do more than complain; there is too much money
going to the hot-air shooters. One thing in mind
is 5385.000 appropriated by Congress to encourage
more meat production. Give the farmers a little
raise in price and they will respond cheerfully
with production. $15.50 minimum] price on hogs
at (‘hicago means around 12c at country shipping
points. At this price farmers are not going to
show up any increase. We as farmers have swal—
lowed a good liberal dose of hot-air unrewardcd.
Just watch us. Give us a little proﬁt and we will
show you increased production in all lines—(I. A.
M.. Osceola county. ‘

Give the Farmer Insurance Against Loss

I do not think we ought to ﬁnd fault but it seems
almost impossible sometimes. Sometimes I am op-
posed to this price—ﬁxing proposition altho I said
alright when they ﬁxed the price of wheat 30 or
40 cents too cheap. Bread is one article that all
classes have to have. But I think they should have
stopped them. It seems now that they have? left
no inducements to the farmer at all. It looks
as tho they had made a division in the business
and labor. The manufacturer of munitions and
war supplies have the preference and can pay
the wages. That if the other manufacturers and
farmers had to pay the same wages and raise
wheat and beans or hogs and cattle to pay them
with they would have to double the prices they are
paying the farmer now. They would begin to real-
ize what the high cost of living really was. I say
foodstuffs are too cheap according to manufactur-

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will workthardship 0n the consumer.
strong tendency to lessen the production. The
supply is not up to standard" now and I think
supply and demand ought to govern the pricelf
we could get better prices we could pay better
wages, more on a level with the manufacturer.
Uncle Sam says to the manufacturer produce me
war materials and I will pay the cost and give you
ten per cent proﬁt on the output of your plant.
Ho! Ho! If he would say, “Old Boy, produce
me wheat, beans, pork and beef, I will pay you
cost and ten per cent proﬁt,”how we would hop to
it. We would never go to church. We'could
install a] kinds of modern conveniences and we
could have night and day shifts and pay ourselves
good salaries and come on a level with rest.
But no the prices and barley at cost, many instanc-
es below, consequently there is a shortage and will

be 'a greater shortage because the best of farmers ‘

are quitting and the help we can get is less efﬁ-
cient. I believe the prices of so-called food
stuff ought to go along with the other stuff and
it would stimulate production which would cheap-
en it more on a. fair basis, we could afford to.
hire more. Of course, it might touch the setters.
a little hard but We have to support them anyway.
But I think it would be better for the common
laborers that can not get jobs in the high priced
plants . I am sorry that we have to have a nation-
al election during this awful war. I think we
would be better off if we would be better off if we
could leave our Congress, Senate, Preside and
all head oﬂicials right as they are till the 0 se of
the war.
they are all smart men and they could and would
do so much better if we did not have to have an
election during the we“. To mix the corruption
of politics in war is bad enough, but politics is
hell which we can already see by the talk at Wash-
ington. I think those men that are wrangling
down there are all wrong. They will be so p0-
litically prejudiced they won’t do what is right,
if they know—G. R., Ulivet.

Oh N o, Beans are Not Going to Waste!

I am a subscriber and much interested reader
of M. B. F. Not seeing in the M. B. F. from
Sanilac county, I thought I would try my hand
in the game and if this don’t ﬁnd the waste has
ket I will come again. I take a number
farm papers but the M. B. F. has them all beat for
business and that is what we want. The bean
situation in this section of the country is ﬁerce.
I see a few days ago that, Mr. Hoover says there
are no beans going to waste in Michigan. Let~ a
few soft days come and our friend Hoover will
see one of the softest messes of beans he ever
has seen. The cold weather is the. only thing that
is saving them. Beans in ithis section of the
county have yielded from 1 bushel to 10 per arm
with the average about 5 bushels per acre and in
most cases a soft mushy lot. Yesterday the writ,-
er saw one man sell his beans for $2.00 per hun—
dred. We paid $10.00 per bushel for seel b-aus
last spring with the understanding that they would
be a big price this fall, but got our ﬁngers burnt

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again. Of course, we were tools to help the
bean men get. a big price t'or beans. They paid
a small price for in 1916. The writer knows
one man who planted his beans three times
costing him $30 per accre and got nothing. Yes,

there is a lot of money in beans. I am drying my
beans in a similar way of Mr. C. W. Crum and
ﬁnd it, works well where you have only a few.
r—L. .lI.. ('rosu'cil. Michigan.

Beans are not Worth Threshing

\Ve certainly like to read M. B. F. We are
watching the bean prices the same as hundreds of
others. I think if the government would hay"
said to the threshers to turn in the number of bllré.
of beans that might be used for food we would be
getting somewhere near what we farmers ought. to
have for our beans. We live just. across the road
from the Evelyn fruit farnrwhere they planted
$00 worth of seed and I don’t think they will saw
one bushel. 'l‘hny threshed until they had 50 bus.
which were turned in as beans, and then quit as
they knew they would not get enough for them to
pay the thresh bill, and another neighbor who
threshed .‘10 or 40 bus. thought to get something out
of them fed them to his bogs and he lost the hogs.
We did a little better. Abut we have to hand—pick
them to save ourselvesf We would lose all if we
sold them as they are for they would take all of
the good ones for picking out, the bad ones; ’7]. .1.
(7.. Hos-l Jordan.

Isabella Buyers Holding for Higher Prices.

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

Beans were poor, only about half a crop and
they were badly damaged by wet weather. At $8
per bu. we will only come out with a small proﬁt.
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Spanish Rice

‘2 This is a deservedly popular dish and like g:
. rice farce is excellent to serve with beans for
meatless dinners. 7'

'1 teaspoons fat;

(-11; 1 cup rite;

2 g1een peppers; 1 onion slic— f.
9% tablespoon paprika; bit of bay E;

leaf; 4 laige ripe. tomatoes or 1/. can tomatoes

2 tablespoons sug‘wai 2 teaspoons salt; 1/. tea-

1:11:11)“ white p:pper; ground thyme.

Heat the. f: t in a heavy frying pan and in it
luown d be '1111ly the peppers and the onions
ltemoye and brown the 1ic11 Add all other
ing111dients. (‘o\e1 and l1t simmer on the back
of the stove until rice is soft; add boiling water

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and desserts have not been tou1hed A whole
volume could be ﬁlled with recipes 011 1'i1e
cookery. Less meat and less wheat, more rice
might be adopted as the eonseivation program
“i 1\mer--i1a while th- world shortage of food
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He Who Loses His Life Shall Find It.

IL 011‘ the old philosophers contended that it

A was only by forgetting oneself and thinking

of others that we could gain happiness. Mrs

- 11., whose. letter we publish today, hits on this truth
when she expresses her sympathy for Mr. S.

l have never seen anybody who was always
complaining, always discontented, always seek-
ing pleasure and happiness far from their own
iiresidc, who found it. And I have never seen
H‘l‘t‘llG—fat'tf'fl old ladies whose lives had been ﬁlled
with toil and trouble. who had absolutely sacri-
ficed themselves to their families. often need-
lessly. I admit, who seemed to have found the bid-
den springs of contentment and peace.

Too many. women think only of what is due
them. of the attention their husbands should pay
them; they never seem to see the other side. A
man likes a little affection and kind treatment.
too. It gets tiresome, I imagine, to see a long,
discontented face every night after his day’s
work is done. A little tact and cheerfulness goes
a long way[ A person can resolve to make the
best of their marital situation, no matter if the
scene is laid on the farm which to some folks.
is like a prison. After a while, when they have
forgotten to consider their own happiness, so
busy have they been in making others happy,
they will find the truth of the old Biblical truth.
Having lost their own idividual lives in service
to others, they will be astonished to ﬁnd that they
have found contentment. and happiness. .. Just try
forgetting yourself for one day; think of the
comfort and happiness of everyone who comes in
contact with your life. See if you do not, go to
bed that night with a fuller feeling of happiness
than you have had before. beam to appreciate
life’s true values. Surround yourself with good
books; take the l)(-‘.:.t magazines and enjoy them.

(let a phonograph and some. entertaining rec-
ords. Have music, good books. a canary, some,
potted plants, some comfy armshairs, the daily
paper, cheerful pictures on your walls, pretty cur—
‘1ins at, your windows! Make your house a real
'11-.11111. \1ith the soul of hospitality and good cheer
liming out of its windows You will be, sur—
prised how the very atmosphere of the place will
bring contentment to your heart.

Make, :1 confident of your husband. There is
'1 way to every man‘s heart. Find the way to
yours. He‘s a human soul you know. He used
.1. he :1 little boy. just as dear and cunning as
your own little baby boy. He, grew up. and is
just what his life, and environment made him.
Perhaps his early life. His narrow and he has
never known what :1 real. cheery happy home is.
Show him! Walk hand in hand with him. It is
worth while, for after all, there is no happiness
as complete as the happiness gained from marr-
iage where love and congeniality abound.

Of course. you should let him know that, you
expect consideration from him, too. The time
has passed when :1 woman is man’s slave. I
would adviSe every woman to follow 111) some pet
hobby or interest of her own. He inteiested in
‘01nething—~anything. Your lodge your church,
and now of course, there is something which ev-
ery woman should give all hei spare time to.
That’s the RED CROSS! I‘have been rolling
bandages, making pneumonia Jackets. knitting,
and giving all the time I can to it 1nd every
woman should give all the time she possibly can.
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ANNA CAMPBELL STARK, ED.TOK

out how to go starting one. Get the neighbors
together, and do some work for your country.
Get outside of yourself; lose yourself in service,
and you’ll ﬁnd that instead of a selfish, narrow
woman whose mind travels in the circle of her
own discontent, you will be broad, unselfish, busy
and happy!

You’ve heard the old saying “Tell your troubles
to a police man!” Well, tell them to me instead.
We’ll draw our armchairs up to the, kitchen
ﬁre, and gossip about them together, Surely, so
many ideas on each different subject will bring
help to all of us. No names are, published and
every letter is strictly conﬁdential. Write, to
Mrs Anne Campbell Stark, Editor Home Depart-
ment, NIIUHIGAN Bt'siNEss F'AnMiyo. Mt. Clemens,

Farm Life is What You Make It.

HAVE JUST read the letter from Mrs. S. of
Indiana and must say that Mr. S. has my
sympathy, for I imagine he has not I '11l a very
cheerful companion all these years.
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WHAT were the words that the 1'1nsor
out

From your letter to me today?

Are you ill or in danger, boy of mine."

Are you sorry you went away?

Baby of all. only scocmccn.

You cnI-islc/l, although, I plcod.

You loved me well, but you must
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READ your letter, and wonder where

You sat when you wrote to me?
Were you deep in the mud of tho

trcnchcs, lad?

chro you sailing across the ecu?

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as 011 the person himselt‘. i know a woman who
lived in town all her life until she was 111111'1‘i111l
and who makes the best kind of a farmer’s wife.
and on the other hand, I know another woman
who lives in the. country and has lived there all
her life and who thinks that town is the only
place to be happy. Furthermore l know an-
other woman who lived in the country until she
was married and who is living happily in town.

It seems that Mrs. S. thinks that clod-hoppers
are clod-hoppers so keep them so. and no doubt,
holds herself aloof from her country neighbors

who by this time. don’t care to visit with her.
I should say that Mrs. S. had better stop

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Uncle Sam’s Thrift Thought

“OLD GLORY” OR “NEW GLORY.”
(111.11 woman is making what she calls her war—

bread. a combination of one cup of rye flour to
eight cups of white ﬂour. She calls 111 ‘()ld
tiltil')’

l1ll11ven per cent rye substitution, and she, calls

it, "(1111 Glory." ()ur European companionsjn
arms are eating a 25 to 710 per cent combin—
ution.

lay it away and hang

ll' that is "()ld Glory" ..
“New (lloiy

out the. service flag of 11.111131111111-
flag.

\Vhen America
fought for herself alone.
World in a brotherhood of
Stars and Stripes tloat as “New Glory." ,

Europe has been eating l1 1' war-bread‘for
three y1—ar4. America will not 1'1'i'll<11 her portion;
for we are not half way in tin: war, we are all
the way in.

To America is granted the privilege of boat-
ing the l1‘.11rope:1ns in the game of wheat saying
without suffering any hardship. L111 corn-bread

fought for “(lid Glory" sh:-
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be our war bread.
Here's to the “New tilwry" bread ltttl per cent
patriotic—corn-bread.
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look to the disposition of the girl you intend to
marry. more than whether she came from town

take, your chances on the
you live in town or country
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or country. However,
country girl whether
unless you are W02tltlly.rli'8.

Rice the Food of Millions

ICE, supplemented with be: 111s and salt fish to
balance the 1li11t,torms the prin1ipul food of
half. of. the population ot t'1he 11'11.',11h and is an

impoitant aiti1ie 111' diet Willl the other half. A
single year’s failure of the world’s rice crop
would practically exterminate the populations of
India, China and Japan.

The rice production of the. world for 1917 is es-
timated at l530,11110,otltl.0tltl pounds of cleaned rice.
However, only about two—thirds of the crop is
covered by accurate statistics. as it is impossible
to get tigures from (‘l1ina. the great rice growing
and rice. consuming country.

l‘he rice crop of the United States is recorded in
steadily mounting figures. According to the ﬁnal
crop estimate, the yield for 1917 is 1,tl04.900.600
pounds of cleaned rice. This is an increase of
43.6 per cent over the 1911—15 average. The ac—
reage planted has doubled since 1905. In the last
five years (‘alit‘ornia has been numbered among
the, rice growing states, and is now surpassed in
acreage only by Louisiana. Texas and Arkansas.
There are. splendid opportunities to extend the
111'1'11:1;:1~ planted in this grain which. because of
yield and crop certainty, is the hope, of a hungry
world.

The consumption of rice hoWever has not kept
pace, with production, and Americans. do not; su—
llcienlly apin'eciate its food value. In 1911-13
our average yearly 1'1'111sumpti0n of rice was only
eight pounds per capita. England's was 14.14 and
.\111~ttrnlia's 15.227. While the food shortage does
11m suggest that, we imitate the Oriental and con—
:.lllllt1 tln'ee-fourthg of a pound a day. the present

rate might. be doubled.

Rice offers :1 nutritious and relatively cheap
food 111‘ almost universal adapiibflily in cooking;
1:1 1:11-11; the. 1.1;11-11 of bread in the (lrient and cuts
1l11 umpti 1111 of wheat bread in our Southern
511111.11: it is th~ natural accompaniment of fowl

When 1111-1111 in combination with beans,
l)11l‘llil]l:<, the cheapest food ration. In
housekeeper should study rice
with the variety and ex-

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tent 121‘ its use.

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Some Pie and Pantry Pointers

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1.1" 11111111'i11g pic might be ot' interest to our readers.
I always add a little corn r~l:li‘t‘ll to the crust. ()ne
teaspoont'ul to a pie, will prevent, the undercrust
from being heavy and soggy. I mix the, st gar and
flour and add it to my fruit before putting the
pie 11111111111111. it is more evenly sweetened then.
and your folks- won't bite into any lumps of ﬂour.
Do not stretch the top crust tight and in press—
ing the edges togeth 1111‘ push the edge of the top
crust 1111111111 the under of the pie. This allows
plnty of 100m foi the fruit to cook and prevents
the crust fro‘in bursting open and the juice es-

caping. I never put my hands in a pie any more
than is absolutely necessary.
Save the round pasteboard boxes that 11011611

oats comes in They are fine to keep sugar in.
When you get a ten pound bag, empty at once,
as there is less waste in using from a box than
from the bag, besides keeping your pintry much

for the soldiers. Also learn “The. Little House neater. I use the larger pasteboard boxes to keep
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Enrron’s Nora:
of our other readers desire information as to how
to organize a farm loan association, we will glad-
ly supply it. We have on hand a large number
of government bulletins and blanks describing
the federal loan act, which explains in detail how
to organize local associations. These will be sup-
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ST. CHARLES FARMERS INTERESTED
IN FEDERAL FARM LOAN PLAN

 

I saw in your paper about thet Federal Loan '

association. Can you tell me if there is one in
Saginaw county and if so, can you explain to me
wdere it is?——D. M.. St. Charles.

Our records do not disclose that an association
is located sufﬁciently close to St. Charles to per-
mit a resident of that vicinity to join. As you un-
doubtedly know, the Federal Loan Board has
ruled that no application can be made thru an as-
sociation by an applicant living. outside of the
territory of that association—W. K. Jennings,
Federal Land Bank of Saint Paul.

FARM LOAN ASSOCIATION FOR
GRATIOT CO. AT RIVERDALE

 

Will you please tell me where the nearest
Federal Loan AssOciation is located, that is, the
one nearest Alma, Mich.? I should like to get in
touch with one nearest my home. You will ﬁnd
one dollar for one yearly subscription for M. B.
F. Think the paper is just what farmers need.
——J. R., Alma, Michigan.

Our records disclose that an association has been
organized at Riverdale in Gratiot county, the
territory of which, however, does not embrace
Alma. It may be possible that your subscriber’s
farm is located within the boundaries of the
above association inasmuch as the eastern l 1rd'er
of the same is the township line close to Alma.
If you will give us the description of your sub-
scriber’s farm, we will be able to give you fur-
ther information in this regard. Incidently the
name of the Riverdale Association is The Hard
Scrabble National Farm Loan Association—Fed-

eral Land Bank of St. Paul.

GOVERNMENT HAS TAKEN NO AC-
TION TO REGULATE GASOLINE USES

 

Can you tell me whether the government has
made any ruling forbidding the use of gasoline
for pleasure cars? Would it be right for the gov-
ernment to prevent us from using our cars after
we had bought the license for same?——Subscriber.

Thus far no restrictions or regulations pertain-
ing to the use of gasoline have been issued, nor are
any contemplated at this time.———M. L. Requa, Di-
rector Oil Division U. S. Fuel Administrction.

SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ON POTATO GRADING QUESTION

I had an argument with one of our local dealers
and I told him I could prove everything I had said
by MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, and he said that
newspapers were made to sell. The questions I
would like to have you answer are as follows:

No. 1. Who is responsible for the present meth-
ods of grading, Mr. Hoover or Mr. Lou D. Sweet
and Prof. Waid?

No. 2. Is it a law or just a ruling established
among the buyers?

N0. 3. Are potatoes graded in any other state
besides Michigan and Wisconsin?

No. 4. Is it not a fact that the ungraded stock of
New York, Maine, and Pennsylvania are bringing
a bigger price than the graded stock of Michigan?

No. 5. Are potatoes being placed upon the mar-
ket as graded potatoes?

No. 6. Is there a Government inspector for the
grading of potatoes?

No. 7. Is the present screen a Government
screenf—G. A. D., Charlevoix.

1. It is impossible to point out the particular
individual who is responsible for establishing po-
tato grades this year. Everyone who had any-
thing to do with the proposition, is trying to shift
the blame to someone else, and we have yet to
place our ﬁnger on the man who starts-cl the thing.
It is not necessary to do this, however, in order
to ﬁx responsibility for the present state of af-
fairs existing in the potato situation. Every man
who gave his approval to the plan, without con-
sulting the wishes of the farmers themselves, is

 

 

 

FARMERSSERVICE BUREAU? - A ’ ..
‘ ' “ 7 appointed a committee in whom he apparently
had conﬁdence to handle the potato question to ,

 

We are here to nerve -

If our correspondents or any.

the satisfaction and best interest of all concerned.
That he made a. bad mistake in his choice may or
may not be Mr. Hoover’s fault. It is beyond un-
derstanding, however, why he failed to appoint a
single representative farmer on a committee which

* P
Ucent, depending upon the rate of interest which

the bonds or debentures of the Federal Land Bank
obtain Loans may run from ﬁve to forty years
at option of borrower. The borrOwer is required
to make semi—annual payments to the secretary,
which pays the interest and principal in the given

was to exert so arbitrary a contrOl over the farm- «time.

er' 3 business. As nearly as we can ascertain, Mr.
Lou D. Sweet and Mr. E. P. Miller of the potato
committee have very pronounced ideas on the sub-
ject of grading potatoes, and took advantage of
their position to try out their pet hobbies at the
expense of the farmers. However, they did not
wish to assume the entire burden of responsibil-
ity so they wisely called into consultation among
others, Prof. C. W. Waid secretary of the Michigan
Potato Growers’ Ass’n; the president and secre-
tar of the Wisconsin Ass’n, all of whom are in-
structors, or “experts” aﬂiliated with the agricul-
tural colleges of those two states, together with
various other gentlemen, with hobbies and. theor-
ies as to how the farming business ought to be
run. These gentlemen, having nothing. at stake
in a ﬁnancial way, gave their approval and
straightway the grades were put into effect,-——in

,some places. Therefore, answering your question,

Mr. Hoover is to blame for his shortsightedness
in appointing a committee out of touch with the
farmers; Mr. Sweet is to blame, and Prof. Waid
is to blame for asuming to give his consent as a
representative of the potato-growers of the state.

2. The grading was established by a ruling of
the Food Administration, and is not a law. Its
compulsory operation comes to an end the day
that peace comes. Dealers may then/if they choose
buy and ship ungraded potatoes as formerly.

3. When the rules were first put into effect they
were NOT compulsory and Michigan and Wiscon-
sin were the only two states in which the dealers
unanimously agreed to grade.
they were organized and in sympathy with the
movement. As has already been noted in these
columns VERY FEW of the dealers in New York
or Pennsylvania have been grading potatoes. At
least this is the information given us direct by
the departments of agriculture of those two states.
Letters received from Steuben county, New York,
show, however, that some, but not all, the dealers
of. that county are grad-ing potatoes, whereas less
than twenty-ﬁve miles away in Cattaragus county,
none of the dealers are grading. The potato com-
mittee admits that the grading was not made gen-
eral and compulsory when it ﬁrst went into effect,
and therein lies the great discrimination against
the farmers of Michigan and Wisconsin.

4. It is a fact that ungraded stock of New
York, and Pennsylvania are bringing, and have
been bringing, MUCH HIGHER p1 ices than Mich-
igan graded stock.

5. We have conducted many investigations to
ascertain whether or not Michigan graded pota-
toes were being sold on the market in a graded
state, but we have yet to ﬁnd a single instance
where dealers are selling U. S. grades No. 1 and 2
as such.

6. Inspectors have been appointed to examine
cars at terminal markets to ascertain whether or
not dealers have been conforming to the regula-
tions. Mr. Allewelt, a representative of the US.
Bureau of Markets, admitted that the inspection
was ineffectual because of the scarcity of men for
the purpose.

7. The present screen is a “government" screen
in the sense that it was recommended by the De-
partment of Agriculture and the Bucau of Mar-
kets several years ago, who, however, had no
authority to compel dealers to use that screen.

SOME INFORMATION ON THE
FEDERAL FARM LOAN PLAN

 

I would like to get some information about the
farmers’ rural loan business. Where can I write
for full particulars regarding the same?———A Sub-
scriber, Merrill.

The federal farm loan proposition has been fully

outlined in M. B. F. on various occasions. Bulle~
tins giving full details of the proposition may be
had by writing the Federal Farm Loan Board,
Treasury Department, Washington, D. 0., or MICH-
IGAN BUSINESS FARMING, Mt. Clemens.

Brieﬂy the essentials of the farm loan act are as
follows: Ten, or more farmers may apply for loans
aggregating $20,000. They must organize accord—
ing to the requirements of the act. No farmer may
borrow more than $10,000 or less than $100, and
no association may start with less than $20,000 in
loans. Fifty per cent of the appraised value of the
land may be borrowed and twenty per cent of the
insured permanent improvements. First mortgag-

This was because,

This by no means covers all the provisions of.

the act. Every farmer who is interested should
Write for Circular 5,- "The Farm Loan Primer,"
which gives a brief outline of the law, or Circular

4, “The Federal Farm Loan Act,” for a more de-»

tailed account.

FIRE LOSSES MAY BE DEDUCTED
FROM ASSETS IN TAX STATEMENT

 

I noticed an article in your paper about the in-
come tax, and I would like to know if I can deduct
the expense of rebuilding my barn that burned
down by lightning last spring. I had a heavy
loss, including seventeen head of cattle, two hor-
ses, hay and grain. I had to build again to take
care of my crop and stock this winter. Do they
allow me to deduct the expense from the income
or not? We farmers have got to keep our build-
ings up, and our tools so that we can farm and
raise food. How can a farmer make a correct
statement when he doesn’t keep a book account?
I never have, and don’t know how to go about
it, and think that it must be lots of bother.——Jos.
Witg‘en.

You failed to state whether your loss was cov-
ered wholly or in part by insurance. The in-
come tax law appears to be very clear on the sub-
ject of ﬁre loss the clause reading as follows:

“Losses by ﬁre, storm, other causalties or theft
may be deducted only to the extent that they
are "not covered by insurance, or made good by re-

pairs reported as expenses.”

If your loss was not covered by insurance, the
total loss or such part of it as was not covered by
insurance may be deducted from your receipts in
making up the report.

If you have kept no books, and a great many
farmers neglect this important d‘uty, it will
be necessary for you to determine as nearly as
you can what your net income for the year was.
If you have any way of determining your gross
receipts, you should deduct your expenses in-
cluding repairs, etc., investments for new equip-
ment, etc., for everything except money expended
on your house, which is not considered a part of
the business.

Your banker may be able to give you some as-
sistance in making out the report. The report
must be received by the internal revenue oﬂice
of your district by March 1, or you are subject to
penalty.

PEA BEANS NOT A VERY GOOD
CROP IN NEW YORK STATE

 

(Continued from page 3)

large varieties, and almost continual rain at bar-
vest time damaged them so that good seed will be
very scarce—pea beans.

The kind I raise ripened quite well—were well
matured when the frost came—will make good
seed. It was my second year with this crop, the
I will plant again. Beans in this locality are
just being threshed; no sales as yet, though are
retailing from stores at from 160 to 220 per 1b.

On account of the severe cold no potatoes are
going to market, dealers stopped buying at $1.80
per 100 pounds. There is considerable dissatis-
faction among farmers over the change in grad-
ing; we are not getting what we should for the
seconds.

Acres of potatoes were frozen in the ground;
a great many were dug after the freeze and are
not keeping. Produce men tell us the country is
full of potatoes, and that Michigan is holding the
bulk of a large crop of ﬁne potatoes. I think the
crop in farmers’ hands in this locality away below
their estimate. At present I think potato acreage
will be below our average on account of change in
grading, also the prospect of price being ﬁxed at
a lower ﬁgure than the actual cost of production.

Judging by my own locality I believe Steuben
county will have seed corn enough, and some to
spare, especially of the ﬂint or giazed corn. Oat
crop was gaad, plenty of seed. Winter wheat was
sown late, ground has been covered with snow
since Thanksgiving, so we have hopes of a crop.
Hay is good, farmers getting from $16 to $20 per
ton—0. K. T., Avoca, New York.

Holland is now consuming only one-third her
normal amount of wheat ﬂour. This is partly
due to rationing which has reduced daily con-
sumption from 14 to 9 ounces per person, and
partly to mixing rye and potato ﬂour with wheat
ﬂour in bread making.

    
   
 
  
   
      
    
     
   
  
  
   
  
  
   
   
   
  
   
  
 
 
 
 
    
  
 
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
   
  
   
   
  
   
 
  
    
 
  
   
  
   
  
  
  
  
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
   
   
 
 
    
  
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
   
   
  
  
  
  
   
   
    
     
       
       


 
   
   

         

There are many "advantages the hog;
grower will have in raising June pigs.
First, as everyone knows, the brood
now must have plenty of exercise if
she is going to be able to farrow good
strong pigs. The sow to farrow in
June has the advantage of at least two
months of warm weather, most of that
_ time“ she can: run on grass pastures,
consequently geting this necessary ex-

ercise. Little, if any care is required

at farrowing time during the month
of June: Two of the fatal pig troubles
that every man has to ﬁght where pigs
are farrowed early, scours and thumps,
are practically escaped by the June
pig. There is always plenty of sun-
shine and the weather is warm, allow-
ing the .little fellows to get out and
take plenty of exercise which almost
entirelyeliminates thumps. There is
not the cold damp weather, with wet
bedding and chilly winds; which very
often brings on a case of scours with
exceedingly bad results.

By the time the June pig begins to
eat grain, he can have the beneﬁt of‘
.new oats and barley, two mighty good

pig‘feeds, thus getting away to a

considerable extent at least from the

high prices generally necessary to pay ..

for either corn or any of the small
grain foods. With the beneﬁt of these
new small grain. and grass pastures,
he can be carried along at a minimum
expe'nse until weaning time, when new
corn can be had. This is especially
true’ if the hog grower will plant a
small acreage of ninety-day variety.
This generally gets ready for feed
from the 20th of August on, and by
sufﬁcient planting, the hog grower can
have good new corn until the main
ﬁeld crop is hard enough. Under pres-
ent conditions, it certainly looks like
good business for the hog grower to
breed at least a few sows for June
farrow.

 

RAISE GOOD STOCK AND
TAKE GOOD CARE OF IT

Raising good stock and taking good
care of it nets the farmer the greatest
gains, according to M. Baumann of
Remus, whose success at raising pigs
with a minimum of corn has been giv-
en considerable space by the country
press in his vicinity. Mr. Baumann
writes MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING
as follows regarding his methods of
feeding:

“Enclosed ﬁnd itemized statement of
a bunch of pure-bred 0. I. C. pigs,
which I undertook to fatten without
the regular feedcorn. I wish to state
that for the past three years I have
made it a point to weigh all feed and
weigh pigs every week after they are
three months old. I found in every’
case at the weight of 100 to 135 lbs. a
pig makes the most proﬁt. After that
the proﬁt gets smaller. Last winter at
the weight of 165 pounds they just
broke even. Two years ago it was the
same. This winter’s experiment was
an exception. At the weight of 170.
the eight pigs had a net proﬁt of $1.98
in seven days. The highest point of
the proﬁt reached was at $1.98 in sev-
en days. The highest point of proﬁt
reached was at 128 lbs. The pigs had
a net for seven days of $7.77. I have
been just as successful this winter
with middlings as I have been other

 

. _. Mi: ,. , ,
M 8.39109 to ‘o’rs would be to

raise gé'oa stock and take care. of it,
' unless We get the correct range with

our“ heavy artillery of the “skunks"
who are giving us a merry chase on
the bean and potato question.”

Mr.- Baumann sold 8 pigs at the Re-
mus stdck yards January 22, aged 5
months and 10 days, average weight
172% lbs.; price received 15‘zéc per 1b.,
total $213.90. FoOd consumed by the
8 pigs: .

Middlings, 1850 lbs., $50 ton..$ 46.25

 

Ground cats, 16 bu. 23 1b., 800. . 13.50
Corn, 15 crates at 750 crate 7.50
Skim milk, 400 at 30c cwt. 12.00
Feeding and care 96 hrs. 20c.. 19.20
Value of pig at 6 wks, $3 . 24.00
Hauling to market .. . . . . . . . . 2.00

Total ........$125.05

Netproﬁt.... ......$ 88.85

Manure for barn rent. . . . . . . .

 

 

RAISE MORE TURKEYS TO
MEET INCREASED DEMAND

 

In the present campaign of the U-
nited States Department of Agricul-
ture to increase the production of poul-
try upon the farm, the turkey raiser
is particularly well able to respond.
The turkey is a farm bird, ﬁrst and
last, and is especially suited to the
grain and stock forns where there is
ample ranging ground abounding in
such turkey food as grasshoppers and
other insects, Weed seeds, waste grain,
such as is left in the ﬁelds after har-
vest, and nuts of such varieties as
beechnuts, chestnuts, pecans, pine nuts
and acorns. On such a farm, the pres-
ent; prices of grain affect the turkey
raiser but little, for with the exception
of what is used at fattening time, the
feed consumed is largely of such a
kind as would otherwise be wasted.

With but little addlitional outlay
to the farmer, many more turkeys
could and should be raised. The small
number of turkeys per farm in the
United States is surprising. Accord-
ing to the census of 1910 which is the
latest census that has been taken, only
13.7 per cent of the total number of
farms reported any turkeys at all,
and on these farms reporting turkeys,
an average of but slightly over four
breeding turkeys was found per farm.
There are some farms which by the
nature of the crops grown on them
or because of unfavorable surround—
ings are not adapted to turkey rais-
ing, but most farms are adapted to
turkey raising and could easily handle
a breeding ﬂock of from 10 to 1:") hen
turkeys and a tom, raising from 7.»
to 150 turkeys each year at a good
proﬁt.

Good prices were paid to the turkey
raiser during the past marketing sea-
son. On December 15. 1917, the aver—
age price per pound live weight paid
to the farmer was 30.5 cents in New
York State, 23.7 cents in llllinois. 25
cents in Georgia, 193 cents in Texas,
and 27.1 cents in California. The av-
erage price throughout the United
States was 23 cents.

Farmers’ Bulletin 791. “Turkey Rais—
ing,” describes the most successful
methods of breeding, feeding and man—
agement. This bulletin may be ob—
tained free upon application to the

United States Department of Agri-
culture. Washington, D. C.
I didn't want to disiigure llw paper

you sent me by cutting the Coupon but
I want the paper. It hows to the line
and let the chips fall whore they will
and I hope the chips will bury some of
those middllemen that are culling our
beans and potatoes—“ﬁn. it. l-lnrris, Bul-
Zie county.

“This is the picture of my Jersey cow and her six heifers," writes N. I). McDonald

of East Jordan.
arrived too late for this photo.

“Sin is nine years ‘old and has seven heifer calves.
The old cow stands to the right.”

She has one that

prncipo feed. ‘ '

 

Bataan—Up to 14 lines or one inch and
for loss than 13 insertions under this
heading, ﬁfteen cents per line. Title dis-
played to best advantage. Send in copy
and we will quote rates. For larger ads
or for ads to run 13 isswes or more we
make special rates which will cheerfully
be sent on application to the Advertising
l)ept., 110 Fort St, Detroit.

 

 

CATTLE

“TOP-NOTCH” HOLSTEINS

”Milk prodlll'tl-rll is an inherited ability. Good cow:
man be bred to good purebred bull: if progress in dairy»
in: is to be made.”

Extract U. 8. Dept. of Agric. Bulletin.

 

 

 

Buy thin young hull and give your milk and butter pro-

duction u "push."
King Colanthn Dc Oakdale, No. 1828157, Born Nov. «1, Wm,

 

Hie Siro's 3 nenrest{ Butter 7 (luv: 3» s7
Dams average Milk 7 mm; 579.05
Butter 7 Alay-i INT!)

Hie Dani’s llnm’s Milk 7 days 5'1..th
Record Butter Ito days 131.”!

. Milk 1m llnyn 21's; so

(She heads one of tho tcn only couminations of three
direct gcnerntions of thirty pound cows.)

His daln'a rccord at 3 your! { “W“ 7 days ”‘33
Milk 7 days 120.40

Hie ﬁve nearest dams merngo {Butter 7 (my. 29'3"
Milk 7 days 546.68

(Including g...3 and l-~-4 1.2 yr. old.)
Ideally mnrkcd. about half and half. Price $250.

McPherson Farms Co., Howell, Mich.

 

 

E. L. SALISBURY

SHEPHERD, MICH.

Breeder of purebred
Holstein-Friesian Cattle
Young bulls for sale from A. It.

0. Cows with 'ireditable records.

 

One 2-year-old Black Per-
or sale cheron Stallion, weighing
1800 lbs, also our aged
Stallion lngmnnr 30047, that has been at
the head of our stud for 10 years. M.
Bray Est, Chas. Bray, )1ng Lansing,Mich

OR SALE—l’crcln-ron Stallion, black,

NO. 121705, fouled .lunc 2.4, 1915; No.
131951, foaled June 21!. lillo‘. J. F. Glady,
It. 7, Vassar, Mich.

HOGS

 

LEONARD’S POLAND (‘lllNAS Bred
sows, fall lugs, either sex,
at reasonable price. ii}. 1:. Leonard, St.
Louis. l\lich., it. No. 3.

l’J). Boars, March, April and
ready to ship. Sired by
and Peters Jumbo, Mouw
‘ (lnrnunt, l‘htton Rapids,

It} Typo
May l‘urrow
Grand Supcrlla
lired Bout". L‘. la.

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Michigan
0 B RE D Gl L T S
\\'m l’). .\'o. 474)“). Longfellow
I .\'o. 13:77:”) Slrc of 1st prize young
herd ht [own Shite l<‘uil‘. Fall pigs and
C lil't‘l‘il >‘cl‘\'l(5‘*lll)ll‘ hours.

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J. (‘.\iti. .il‘2\‘i'l‘2’l"l‘, Mason, Mich.

(‘IIOH‘IC Rl‘lHlH’I‘l'llil‘ll) STOCK .

l'crclu'rons~—l Toloucl ill-13:41:, :L grand-
son ol' Morsc :Llnl Hllu-rl; it. great
grunilson ol' itcsiirul- ullrl (‘ulypsm at
llt‘illl ol' stud. Iiolsivins rchior Sire,

Hull of l'ouliuc Anguil- l\:Ill‘ll(lyl\'t‘ and a.

39.23 pmunl Ilum. .-\licrilN-n—Angus—
H- nior Sire liluck l‘1.:rl ol‘ \Voodlawn
1333””. .\ liluwlilvil'il, Shropshires—A

smull but l‘llwll'I- limit. lux'g‘c. and wool-
wl I'roul llom- 'o loo“. i)urocs—~The
luxury p-nliliw Illinli‘)'»llllll\'lll}.'; kind. ll
ill Howl ml~ u 131‘ lr-n'iue's >il'c, write me.
“UR“ l). Bl'l‘IIJ. l‘llnlirn, “it'll. R. I.

 

 

 

 

“’OLVERINE S'NH‘K FARM

FOR SALE, a beautifully murk-
ed bull calf, born Aug. 3, 1917. Sire
Jlldg‘c VVIllkcr Victoria whose lirst
live dams are 30 pound cows, his
dam a. 24 pound 3 year—old grunil—
daughlcr of King of tho l’ontincn'.
and second rlum 2t 20 pound cow.
’l‘his calf will plcztse you.

Price, $200.

’1‘. \\'.
tattle Frock.

Hl’li.\(ll'l'l,

llulllt) 2, Mil‘ll.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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John W.

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linl‘
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uinl ln‘ml nuts
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(nullity l'rnc: l'casonable.
ltcgisre-rwl fin-t. um! mil ‘lnp <‘.l).l). Floyd
ll Hnnisrci', Spl'inuport, Mich.

(l. I. C.

prize ycul'ling' hour Mich

i‘llillt'i‘ _\'Ullll;_',' lHlHJ'H read)

for ‘l‘l'\ll'l’.; also fall pugs
cil‘li‘l‘ : .; :iil‘wl by lst
rilulc li‘uir l9l7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘“ ; l‘lrwcr l.:-.-ii' Slot-l. Harm, .‘lloilroe, Mich,
250 STEERS FOR SALE l“ *" ‘ 7
ans. iwos, thrccs, lll‘l'i‘l'(>l'(l‘~, Angus 3
and Slioriliorn:-=. 1300 lo lion lbs. (‘hoicv j SHEEP
spiuliiy r<<»i'lc<l to lec. ago and ln'cml in ,
('ill‘ liltﬁ‘. \Vi‘lli‘ your \\‘ltlll.~'. l‘ l“, lilill. i (' _\ iiniIl-(l [number of
l“uii'iicl«l. lowzt. lSthPPSlllle Elli/€35 by,“ “were: bred
right? l)l‘ll'l’.\' right! .\ :ton of 'l‘unner’s
{H‘Hll ill :ﬂ'l‘Yli‘“ ll l“. .‘xlnllrfill‘, ltllktt‘a,
HATCH HERD HOLSTEINS Michigan.
"S .. N"l VVX. hav~ lwn “i Hl' r ., , , _
H u \ I but" 1m. ‘1‘“,"(WN ":‘lf'ﬂ‘, \‘ol M; um..\|.\() IJW'luh‘, bred, and
Vll(‘lll(l\\' \n-ui~ l’ontiui- lx'ol‘nilvkc I ~‘“'I"'li““ “1”” NEH-U” [0 ””in 1)”-V"‘r'
’ ' ' and King lx'orntlvko New“, ; S. ll, Suundciw, I: No. L’. Ashiuhula. Hhio.
Vale bulls in scryicc. Sclcct your nl-xt ‘ ' .
Sire 110W. . UK .-\l'(ll.'N’l‘ DELIVERY 51) {eglslcr-
: ml Shropshire Yourling‘ cwcs and 30
' . ‘ ~ . ‘ ' i l’wu'ish-red Ycurling ltuins oi‘ cxtra qual-
"BKICN\:\5 'H‘ll‘l‘h‘ 13‘" 3" l ily null hrccding. Flock established 1890.
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(\11 “gr-:4, Some females. t", W, <‘rum.
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Association. McBrides, Michigan.
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FOR SALE Ready for service; also

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whose dam, grand dam and great grand dam each made over 30 lbs. of
his dam. and grand dam each making better than
1200 lbs. of butter in a year, and the only mother and daughter ever
He already has 13 advanced registry
He was sired by Friend Hengerveld De K01 Butter Boy
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Maplecrest Korndyk'e Hengerveld is probably, for long dis-
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Junior Herd Sire—KING ONA, whose dam made 1345 lbs. of but-
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Thus the dam and grand dam of the Junior Sire have an
average production of over 1200 lbs.
of a novelty when the great effort is being made on short records.
The Junior Sire mated with the daughters of the Senior Sire rep-
resenting four dams with an average of more than 1200 lbs. of butter

Why should not their yearly production be the measurement of
We have to keep them the full year and it is at the
that we make our return on net income.

A few heifers coming two years old in calf to King Ona will be
sold at reasonable prices as we will have no pasture for them during
If purchased they can remain with us until May 1st.

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“I am seeking information concern-

ing the merits of the pea bean and'

navy bean. Can you tell me which is
the earlier and which -' the heavier
yielder? Our soil is a clay loam. The
beans I grew last year must be a mix-
ture as they ripen very unevenly.
They are also a late bean. From
what part of Michigan would I be
able to secure seed that would ripen
early in this locality?”—W. N Turner,
Huron county.

The so- -callled pea bean and the na-
vy bean are one and the same. It is
quite often called *he navy pea bean.
Thisis quite a small bean, somewhat

round in shape and more nearly re- ,

sembling a pea than other beans, hence
its name of pea bean. Another vari-
ety‘of white bean is known as the me-
dium white bean. This is larger and
somewhat more kidney shape in form.
The pea bean; is considered by most
growers the best bean to grow in Mich-
igan. It is a few days earlier than the
medium and equallly as good a yielder
and has splendid quality.

In order to have them ripen ev-
enly it is necessary to have the soil
in the ﬁeld of uniform character. If
the soil varies in character the beans
are apt to ripen unevenly. For in-
stance, a black. sandy soil of a some
what dry nature will ripen beans
earlier than clay soil in the same ﬁeld.
This will produce quite a percent of
cull beans. A sandy loam good and
rich is considered the best kind of
soil for beans but you can raise a good
crop of beans on quite heavy clay: If
the soil is the same all over the ﬁeld
they will ripen together very well.

The season has quite a lot to do
with the early ripening of beans. Last
year was a bad season in this respect.
The maturing or ripening of the beans
was delayed by unfavorable weather
so that many of them were caught
by frost and bad weather at harvest-
ing. In an ordinary season, however,
the navy pea bean or the medium
white bean ought to ripen if they are
planted on time in the spring. Just
the right time to plant beans is hard
to determine because here again the
condition of the season has much to
do with the time of planting. In an
average season about the tenth of
June is considered to be the proper
time to plant beans and if the season
is normal there is very little danger
that they will not ripen before frost
and we usually have some very good
weather the early part of September
in which to secure the crop but, no-
body can advise with any satisfaction
when to plant because the character

of the season may throw everything
out, of joint.
My advice about securing proper

seed would be to take the matter up
with your local county agent. The
county agents all over Michigan are
paying particular atention to secur-
ing proper seed for the crops in their
counties and I think this would be the
most reliable source to get the infor-
mation you require—Colon (l. Lillie.

IS IT WISE TO GROVJ
BEANS AFTER BEANS?

“Would it do to plant beans after
beans on good clover sod where only
one crop has been taken off? Should
beans be billed tip or kept level? What
kind of fertilizer is best and how and
when applied? Will it do to continue
to cultivate when in blossom? Some
Others say culti-

 

say don’t do it.
vate till ripe. (I. 1. Miller, Ingham
county.

While it is not a good practice to
grow beans after beans or, in fact,
have most any crop succeed itself in
a rotation, it can be done in numerous
instances without any serious loss.
The bean crop is very exhaustive to
the organic matter in the soil because
there is no crop residue to replace this
organic matter. When you harvest
beans you dig up roots and all, prac-
tically, and there is nothing left in
the soil like there is with wheat or
oats and so if one wishes to grow beans
after beans he ought to take particu-

' lar pains

. us there is no

     

with vegetable matter and afterwards
to replace this vegetable matter as-
soon as possible. If you turned under
a heavy clover sod you could plobab-
1y get a. good crop of beans again this
year although the conditions are not
as favorable as they were last year.
If you had stable manure so that you
could top dress this land now this
would help out very much but if you
haven’t you are probably safe in plant-
ing it again to beans but I would,
want to seed it down soon after so as
to get some vegetable matter into the
soil as soon as possible.

Beans ought not to' be hilled up.
You should give them level culture.
On most Michigan soils, acid phos-
phate is all that is necessary to pro-
duce a good crop of beans.‘ Where
clover sods have been plowed down or
where stable manure has been used
recently there is almost sure to be
sufﬁcient nitrogen to make a good
growth but you must have available
phosphorous in the soil to develop and
ripen the bean. Some soils are bene-
ﬁted by a small per cent of potash with
the phosphorous and again if your
soil is deﬁcient in nitrogen it would
be advisable to use a complete fer-
tilizer but on most soils phosphorous
is the limiting factor. and with this
supplied, not, only the yield but the
quality of the bean is usually very
much improved.

I wouldin‘t pay any attention to the
blossoming period of the beans about
cultivating the soil. If it needs cul-
tivating I would cultivate. We should
not allow a heavy crust to form on
any cultivated land. It you do there
is liable to be a lack of moisture fur-
nished the growing plant which is nec-
essary in its development. Early in
the season the ground should be given
a good, thorough stirring but later.
cultivation should be shallow. in fact.
the shallower the better, preventing
the evaporation of the moisture. Now
if you have this condition in the soil
provided you have no weeds then
there is no particular need of culti—
vating but if the beans are in blossom
and you should have a heavy rain on
clay ground which forms a heavy
crust, don’t pay any attention to the
blossom but get the ground in condi—
tion for the development of the plitlli.
but don’t cultivate when the land is
too wet.——('oIon. ('. Lillie.

CO-OPERATIVE MARKET-
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repeatedly asked farmer audiences to
vote on this question. and invariably
90 per cent of the audience stood up
for the dual purpose cow. M. A. C. tells
A such cow and teaches
our boys that they must either be beet
men or dairymen. They place all
Shorthorns in the beef class. At the
Shortliorn sale at East Lansing the
animals are lined up and judged from
the beef standpoint alone, and the dairy
strains are-shunted to the tail end of
the line. This is another case of “Col-
lege Theory” vs. the practical needs
and demands of Michigan farmers.
They work out a theory then hold the
farmers nose and ram it down their
necks as they are now doing in the po—
tato grading deal.

Suppose there was no dual purpose
cow. Then it is the business of the
College and breeders to make such a
cow to supply the needs of farm con—
ditions in this state. This is what
the Central Michigan Shorthorn Breed-
ers are doing. The grand old llur—
ham cow is not only ”coming back"
but she is back. She is back in the
corn belt as the greatest beef propo—
sition on earth. She is back in New
England where she has been bred for
milk only, for the past 80 years as a
dairy proposition. And she is back
in many bends in this part of Michigan
as the “farmer’s cow,” paying her ex-
penses at the pail and producing beef
at a proﬁt to her owner‘. rum,
Secretary Central Michigan Shortho‘rn
Brecdcrs’ Association, McBrides, Mich.

           

   

 
 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SAGIN'AW (Western) Not quite 'so
cold as it has been. The farmers are sell—
ing a few beans at $7 pcrbu. In regard
to the potato situation, there isn't enough
in this vicinity to supply local demand.—
G. L., St. Charles, Feb. 9. .
ST. JOSEPH (North Centrat‘.)—-Weath-
e rat present is ﬁne, but roads Wlll con-
tinue bad for some time, as the snow is
three feet deep in places and some has
softened so horses step in badly. The
coal situation is better, but far from nor-
mal; last week Mendon received two cars.
which sold for $10.00 per ton on board
cars. This was soft coal. Some different
thin the promised 5 or 33 dollar coal. The
farmers are selling some wheat. Hay is
scarce at $25 per ton in the barn. Am
looking for a hay famine later on, as
most farmers are shy on hay. EnJoyed
your biography of H. Winegarden, the
Flint Commission man. ﬁne. I think you
diagnosed the case 100 per cent. _I dont
think he stated all the facts in 1113 coni—
plaint. The farmers do not claim they
cannot sell their potatoes, but they do
claim they are unable to sell their crop
so as to realize a small profit. There are
several factors that have had a depress-
ing inﬂuence on the potato market, name-
ly: Last fall certain people. claimed that
on account of Michigan’s record(?) yield
potatoes should sell at retail for $1.00 or
less. and scores of city people, who real—
ly believed it, refused to lay in their
winter’s supply unless they could get them
at $1.00 or less. You know what kind of
a price litis meant to the grower; conse-
quently he pitted his, or put them in the.
cellar. These same city people have been
paying from $1.50 to $1.80 for their po—
tatoes this winter. Other reasons for the
conditions have been car shortage. un-
just grading rules, and the much heralded
report of a bumper yield. I think when
pits are opened this spring that a big

surplus will be lacking—H. A. H., Men—
don, Feb. 9
(‘HEBOYGAN (South)—T0day is the

first real warm day since December. Jan-
uary passed without a thaw. All quiet
along farm lines. There will be aspell
of quietness now for it will be impossible
to do anything until the snow settles. We
said some time ago that 90 per cent of
the potatoes buried in the ﬁelds were
frozen. and now some farmers tell us we
can add the other 10 per cent and be
safe. We hope it is not as bad as that.
but it surely will be bad enough. If this
is so the acreage planted in Cheboygan
county this spring will be cut in the mid—
dl‘e. There will be a cattle breeders’ meet—
ing at (Theboygan on Saturday, Feb. 16.
State speakers will be present—Wolver—
inc, Feb.

(‘HEBOYGAN (Northwest)——There are
lots of potatoes frozen in the cellars. and
nearly every farmer has lost some. A
good demand for hay but the farmers
are not hauling any on account of the
snow which is piled up to the depth of
eight feet in the roads in many places——
n, W'. R, ltiggsville. Feb. 9.

GRAND TRAVERSE (Northeast) ——.-\t
present cold weather still prevails. Not
much doing on this account, except wood
cutting; a little bean threshing but the
beans are in bad condition; farmers are
obliged to sell them to canning factories
for whatever they will bring. Feed is
high. such as corn and oats, can not get
cars to load cattle and hogs on account
of car shortage and blockadiiig of trains
lvy snow—4,3. L. B., V‘Villiamsburg, Feb. 5.

All])LA.\‘D~~The weather has been e-x-
ti-cniely cold. Farmers are busy doing
(‘lial'vrw‘ and getting up buzz wood. A
few beans are going to market. A num-
ber of farmers are trying to get tile to
lay in the spring and they seem to be
scarce on account of shortage of cars to
ship them inﬁeld. A. l... Coleman, Fcb. 8.

B.\\' (Southeast)—VVeathcr very cold;
roads filled full of snow. Four houses
burned here this week—VJ. C. A” Feb. 7

(ll-)NESIGI‘} (SoutheasM—Farmcrs are

not do‘ing anything except necessary
chores. The. weather has been extremely
cold, between 25 and 530 degrees below

zero in several places Tuesday morning.
The ground is covered With snow, vary-
ing in depth from a few inches to several

feet, making a good protection for fail
planted crops. Farmers are not selling
any grain or potatoes at this time. Cat—

tle and hogs are moving quite freely. A
big demand for hay and straw and corn-
staLks, but there is not much to be had at
any price.—-C. W. S., Fenton, Feb. 7.

M'ANISTEE (Northwest)—Thel‘c is a
very litic activity in the moving of farm
produce here now, as the roads are almost
impassable. The local dealers are, hand-
ling a few beans if hand—picked. If we

sold them as they came from the machine.

we would not have anything left, so the
most of us are picking our beans. The
potato market is dead here. I do not
think there are any more potatoes in this
county than there was a. year ago today,
and we are feeding some of them. I be—
lieve there is still half of the potatoes
in the farmers' hands in this township.
1f we do not get something for them soon
we will have to count on something else
next year or go to the wall. We can not
stand two years of this kind of a deal.
There are lots of farmers who are doing
without hay now because they broke up
meadows last spring to plant beans and
potatoes; they see their mistake now, but
it is too late-C. H. 8., Bear Lake, Feb. 7.

MONTCALM (Soutluaast)—-There is a
large demand for all kinds of feed except
corn in the shock, which we are unable to
draw on account of its being frozen to
the ground. "Not so much hay is being
sold, owing to the condition of the roads.
A large amount of potatoes are being
hauled and some are being stored in the
warehouses until buyers receive cars. A
small amount of produce is being held
for higher prices. Weather is very cold
with a very large amount otsnow on the
ground.—-—W. L, Greenville, Feb. 8.

LAPEER (Southeast)~—Auction sales
have started; stock and tools selling very
high; good sheep selling from $18 to $25
a head, cows around $65 to $75, horses
not so good. Everybody eating Liberty
bread and they seem to like it. \Ve will
eat anything as long as it helps us win
the wan—C. A. B., Imlay City, Feb. 0.

Missaukee (Southwest)———Nothing doing
except chores. been snowed in four or
ﬁve days without mail.——H. E. N., Cutch-
eon, Feb. 7.

LAl’EER (West Ventral) Farmers are
hauling all the wood to town that they
can get cut. Many have been holding po-
tatoes but they are now being frozen in
the cellars. The cold weather the past
couple of weeks has frozen many calves
and chickens. Lambs in feeding nearly
all.\sold.—E. R. S., Lapeer, Feb. 10

MECOSTA (Southeast)———Nothing much
to report in this part of the county as
the cold weather and snow have tied up
business. Feed is scarce. A good many
farmers would have been ahead if they
had knocked their stock in the head and
sold what feed they had. It makes one
disgusted with the Whole thing when one
reads of men starting out a few years
ago and becoming rich in buying and sell—
ing the very things the farmer is toiling
fourteen hours a day to raise and barely
managing to keep body and soul together.
Potatoes are moving slowly at $1.20 per
cwt. There are very few potatoes left in
fariners’ hands here. They may change
the grading rules or not just as they
please, but it has already had the effect
to determine the farmers here to cut the
acreage at least 50 per cent—F. M. E.,
Millbrook, Feb. 8.

EMMET (Ewan—Wood cutting
order of the day here. The farmers are
not selling much, all seem to think there
is a better day coming. There is a good
demand for clover hay, it is selling at

 

$18 a ton. Most farmers here will raise
only from one to five acres the coming
year. Barley will be about the main
crop, to take the place of corn in hog

feeding—H. W., Levering.

LAPEEB (Northeast)———There is nothing
doing in this part of the county. the snow
is so deep the farmers cannot get around
to do anything but chores. The trains
have their hard times as well as the
farmers for they are blocked about half
of the time. Farmers are talking of put-
ting in more beets and less potatoes and

beans this year. They do not like the
potato grading system.—~—I. G. 8.. North
Branch, Feb. 9.

TUSCOLA (Northeast)~—Weather has

been very cold; many potatoes frozen in
the cellars. Not much grain being sold.
Some farmers are picking beans. (foal
still scarce and wood in good demand at
K375 to $3.00 per cord.——S, S. (lass City,
Feb. 9. ‘

LAI‘EER (“'est (lentrnl)~~.\'o produce
or stock moving in this vicinity on ac-
count of the condition of the roads. \Vheat

is well covered, but some farmers are
afraid the wheat is damaged already.
Some farmers have been forced to dig

some. of their corn out of the deep snow.
Reed. is very scarce in this locality, espec-
ially seed (NHLVAU. R. l’.~ Lapwi‘, Feb. 9.

TUSCOLA (Central)»—l<‘arniers are do-
ing nothing but chores here. it is report—
ed that most of the potatoes were frozen
in the cellar. Farmers are holding what
beans they have for seed; there are not
many left. There is going to be a scar-
city of seed corn. A wagonload which
came. to Caro last week sold for $4.00 a
bu. in the ear and only tested 66733. it
came from north of Carox—v—R .T’,. t‘_. (Taro.
Feb. fl.

CASS (Northwest)*—Farmcrs are, about
done butchering for their summer’s meat.
Roads are in bad shape. Sonic farmers
are hauling grain to market. Not many
hogs left in these parts; some fat steers
left. Some farm sales being held; (‘zllllv
hogs and sheep and machinery are bring—
ing good prices, but horses are slow sale.
Some farmers are buying.r tractors. 7W. ll.
A., Dowagiac, Feb. 0.

lVl'ACOMB (Northwestl-e Farmers arc
busy cutting wood. drawing in iced tor

stock, etc. A few farmers are having
their beans dried. they get a better price
for them. Not many farmers :‘nltl their

potatoes and the most oi‘ them have ln‘t'll
frozen in the cellars.—--»ll. ll, .\luiont. Feb—
ruary 9.

CLARE (Southwest)~—Farmers are get-
ting wood and doing chores. Nothing is
moving to markets on account of the bad

weather. Wood is selling at $2 a cord.“
D. 13., Lake, Feb.
OCEANA (Soutlieust)—The roads are,

in bad condition; no produce. being mar-
keted. only a few beans. Farmers are.
cutting wood and doing chores—A. F.
M., Hesperia, Feb. 7.

ARENAC (East) Some produce is bp—
ing marketed. Draft is taking a lot ol’
our farm help. Gething out wood is the
order of the day. hipments are being
held up by lack of cars. M. B. it. Twin—
ing. Feb. 9.

EMMET (Southeast) ”This county has
taken a step forward and now has a
county agent. Alanson Arbor had an open
meeting last Saturday evening and invit-
ed in the public. County Agent K. K.
Vining was present and he gave us a good
talk, telling What he. hopes to do and how
he hopes to do it. Doing chores and cut—
ting wood is the occupation of the farm—
ers now.~W. H C_ Alanson, Feb.

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stock. I don’t think there will be many
for sale around here in the spring. The
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. (‘LKNTON (“'esl (‘ontrnl)#llallas and
\Vestphalia townships are not heavy po~

talo producers. liast year about 20 car
loads were imported for the two town-
ships. This year there might have been

a small surplus if it had not been for the
unusually cold winter. The prospects arc
that from 5 to l5 per cent of potatoes will
freeze and will be useless for human food.
As it is the western part of" Clinton coun—
ty will probably h:i\'~ inst cuough for its
own use s ’l‘. ll.. i<‘owl-.i', Feb. ‘3.

Hlll.\\\'.\ls'h‘l‘llil (\‘i'csl (Vp‘lirrihl)”"laill'lil"
or: are hauling sonic ice which is of \‘ci‘y

good quality. .\ little grain is bcing |;il.~
en lo ll’llll'léct; Houn- bonus being hwlrl.
Auction malts \vcll (liltlltled and (WM)
lhiu}: sells \vrrll cXI'r‘llt horses. Most :lil
cv-l'ars in thch parts have been visited by
.lack Frost. doing some, damage to pcsa-
trvcs and other V'egclalilcs.-~-l\'. l’. li..
flwosso, 'lt‘cb, ll.

'l‘llSt‘OLA (“’e:«~t)~-~.\Jot much doing: on
account of the stormy weather. ’l‘bi'csh—
ing and corn husking at a. standstill on

account of roads being buried with l‘rniii
three to five. feet of snow. 'l‘lu-rc is about

10 per cent of the corn yet in the lit ld :.
Sugar beet (tullil‘ﬂa‘illlgz‘ going slow; look..-
like small acreage in this locality. Stock
for the co—operative elevator at Ree-w is
being freely taken by the fill'lll(‘l'S.—-—(‘. lL.
Reese, Feb. 2.

LIVINGSTON (Ventral)vwlt‘armers arc
not selling anything are, having lrtllllvl<~
to get dairy fem.- (l. A. \V., Fmvlcrvillc.
Feb.

HURON ((‘ientralrr We have, had lrt‘lul‘
weather this week. Farmers are, at illl‘
same old job, getting up wood and some
are looking for feed which is scarce and
high.———G. W., Elkton Feb.

ANTBIM (Southwest) Not much l'ariu
produce. is being marketed on account of
the bad weather; potato marketing is
very quiet, what are being sold are bring—
ing about 80c a. bu. Not many beans are
being sold; most of tho threshing has
been done and the bean crop has proveu
a very poor one and of very poor quality.
No. 1 hay is selling for $24 a ton; cats at;
750 per “ll.; eggs at 45c a doz.; butter
40c to 450. Cattle are very high: good

 

cows are worth from $65 to 90. We. are
having a sugar-less communi our vil—
lages Without sugar.—C. H. B., Alden.

Feb. 3.

SANILAC (Southeast) Markets
dull. Some new iiiilch cows and hay are
being sold at. high prices. Sonic oats and
llvll‘V being licld for higher prices—N l
\. (‘., (‘rosyvclL Feb. 2'. i .-

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(llti‘i’l‘l’O’l‘eﬁ'l‘lie l'ni‘nici's arc :‘clling
their grain. Quite. a lot of cats ziru being
sold, 84o looks pin My good to most tarni—

ers although I know one who is holding

loi' $l.~i.l. l‘I. 1‘, lTannislcr. li‘cb. l3.
105(1) (I‘Iust) \VcdHh-i' cniisitlwl'ubl‘.’

warmer and the rillu\\ :cllllzzit‘. l >aw nii

Ilciii iii onc of our lcciil
Ict'L that lllt‘)’ \\wi‘- n
ol dispensing with Hun

lullwl‘S to the cf-
m run: the. matter
rmzil illitll routes.

Another crawl. at lln- llii‘nici'. I wonder
n hat w1ll (‘I'lllt‘ n *\l .‘. l.., ’l‘awxis City
lv‘cb. ll. "

HRANFH (North) l~‘.ii‘nier.s are. doing
chores and curing wcml. \Vcalher rather

unsettled. Soil well covered but frozen
(loefx' lt‘ill‘llll‘l‘S selling sonic stock and

nood: ai'c llt-l, holding anything; neither
are they building ”1' b lying niuch. Sen.“
al sales this ‘d’w‘lx'. l'h-d is getting ycrv
high and is hard to gait-(fay, S. Union
Wily, Feb. I , '
MONROE (Hasnw-t‘tild weather
and very little produce moving to
Itch—41}. ll. 31.. R'ltilll‘tlt“ Feb. 8.

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this place and farmers fcai'
trccs are badly (lztlll'rlge‘tlr "(1, I]
in. Feb. 4.

siNILAC' Hurst)» Farmers are busy
trying to get wood; no coal to be had
Several people in this vicinity have a con;
sidci'able bit of wood but you can‘t buy a
stick of them for any price; one man in
particular has near lo ‘(tt‘l‘t‘s ot‘ good wood
and will not sell. There. should be some
way of making such a, man sell at least
in such times as this when ,

hci‘e
inar—

that fruit
., l'iellZOIls

fuel is so
scarce}. 1 liast yea r pine roots were quite
pen 1 u )U[ lhcy are. verv sca
winter. .. rce this

Not much li‘iy moving on ac
. . t _ CO

of the car situation; railroads in this pill]:
of the country are in bad condition on ac--
count of the. severe storms. Beans have
i‘fzicheg $13.00 per cwt., and not much in
i or ie armors at that ricc.—~ -
hictii‘egol‘, li‘cb. D H. A. B"

OTSI‘JGQ (Solitliwcst)——VVeather is bet»-
ter than it has been. The farmers are
still busy hauling logs and wood.——C. A.
Gaylord, Feb. 9. ’

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portant that £211 get ev ounce of butter-
_ fat. Never fore shoul you save as much

time and labor as possible. With cream and butter
commanding top prices you actually throw good money away
,. when you waste the smallest particle of butter-fat by old-fashioned
methods of separating or by using an out of date model separator:

“f’Gallowaylg‘ll Sanitaryasepa‘ralo

Then you know positively. that you are getting all the rated capacity. But in the splring and summer when
cream. _A seientiﬁc rinciple I [employ makes ssible the grass is . on and the m1 .
skimming clean, mg 1'. down to the last drop. y new a separator ike the Galloway. Then time counts. A
1918 se arator is not just a warm weather skimmer. few minutes saved in the morning and evenin mean
But w en ur cows are on feed this New Sani- just that much more time in the ﬁelds. And ’ some-
tary Mode .Wlll skim just as ose as when the cows thing turns up and you cannot skim when the milking
are pasturing. Then, too, in cold weather you are is done the milk gets cold. You should have 8 Gal]-
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skimmmg qualities, is that the price is right. Yes, I know there are lots of sepa- ‘
rators at about the same price as mine and even less. But the Galloway is not

to be compared with them. A too cheap separator is not economy. It’s just as ‘
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Times are too strenuous to depend on just-an average separator. Gets Galloway and play safe.
Examine a Galloway thoroughly. Test one for 90 days. Note its strong, sturdy base with just '
enough touching the ﬂoor for a perfect brace, yet sanitary. See its big, roomy seamless supply , ."
tank of pressed steel: Heavy tinware ; Sanitary bowl ; its self-centering neck ._' -
bearing and simple but effective two-piece lower bearing. Then look at the
discs which separate from each other for washing. Takes only a few of
them toskim a lot of milk. Note the cream pail shelf and bowl vise combined
in one. with hinge for lowering. Examine its helical drive gear; high crank
shaft (just 50 revolutions per minute); its high carbon steel worm wheel
shaft; big. durable worm wheel; oil bath and sanitary drip pan.

These are features that make the Galloway supreme.

Mall _Coupon for My FREE Book!

Dothis at once. Get the big spring edition of my 1918 Catalog. Find
out how much on can save when you buy direct. And not only on
Separators bu on SpreaderaEn ines.T1~sctors.andotherim laments
alwell. ﬂare is proof that my unitary Separator does all claim :
// “ I had some of the milk skimmed by our New Galloway Sanitary (keen Se
/"/; to: tested b’bm State Farm Bureau man and he found only .01 of lper cent
/ 0/ or utter-fat in the skim milk." —C. 8. 1100011135, New Pa.
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WI“. Galloway (0.

4147 Galloway Station. WATERLOO. I0

    

   
    
   
   
 

 
  

   

        
    
    
     
  

 
    
   
 
 

  
 
 
 
  

     
   
   
   
   

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