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Present Policy of Government Holds Out
.. Little Hope to Farmers for General
Deforment from Draft for
Skilled Farm Laborers

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That farmers will ﬁnd it increasingly difﬁcult
to secure deferred classiﬁcation, late call or fur-
’louglis for their farm help of draft age, is our
ﬁrm conviction after a lengthy conference a few
days ago with Adjutant General John S. Bersey,
' at Lansing. ‘

The Adjutant General listened very courteous-
ly to our arguments for a more liberal exemption
of‘skilled farm help. He readily granted that the
taking of farm help was a serious inconvenience
if not a positive handicap to the farmers, but he
did not believe that the farming business was hit
any worse than any other business. 4‘

“‘Local boards," he said, “have been fairly gen-
’ erous in their treatment of farm laborers. As a
rule a relatively higher} percentage of men have
been taken from the cities than from the country.
As a matter of fact, I ﬁnd on the average only
about one out of ﬁve men of draft age have been
taken from the farming centers ” And the Ad-

jutant produced the ofﬁcial ﬁgures to show that

he was right.

‘fLoeal boards must provide their quotas. Un-

der an earlier ruling they have been permitted to
pass the number of men actually engaged in farm
work at the time their numbers were reached, but
only so long as there were others in the ﬁrst class
to call from.
end of their Class 1 list, they must then call upon
those whose numbers they have passed, in order
to ﬁll their quota. But even this ruling is to be
restricted. .
_ “The facts are that the government is not se-
1 curing as many recruits out of. the ﬁrst class as
: expected. ,There have been more exemptions on
.the various grounds than anticipated, and a large
number of men of draft age have enlisted in the
navy. There’s one draft board I have in mind,
Z’for instance.

When the boards have reached the-

suffer, but it is inevitable. Manufacturers are
up against the labor problem just as hard as the
farmers, and I am afraid that the situation is
going to be worse instead of better.”

It will be remembered by our readers that we
quoted A; B. Cook, state labOr administrator, a

. few weeks ago as saying that the government posi-

tively would not take any man into service so
long'as he was actively, completely and assidu-
ously engaged ,in farming. Subsequent develop-
ments and the statement by the Adjutant General
were so. much at variance with Mr. Cook’s assur-
ances that we asked Col. Bersey for an explana—
tion. He laid the blame fer the misunderstanding
to a lack of co-ordination between the war and

labor departments. .

There is no desire among the farmers to back
down from the job that the nation has undertaken.
They are willing, every man of them, to give their
strength and support without stint. But they have
been told repeatedly that it is as much a patrio-
tic duty to grow crops as to ﬁght; they have been
warned time and again that they must increase
production or the world will suffer from lack of.
food; they have been admonished times without
number that “food will win the war.”

But‘crops cannot be grown without labor, and
labor cannot be had if it is drafted into military
service. The only question raised by patriotic
farmers, who know by experience the difﬁculties
of farming without help, is whether the Allies’
food supply can stand the curtailment that must
come to some extent with the drafting of farm help.

The farmers of Ontario are very much aroused
over the indiscriminate drafting of their help, and
have sent a delegation to the Canadian parliament to
demand more liberal exemption of their farm hands.

The farmers of the United States are willing to
work sixteen hours a day as many of them have
always done; they are willing to sacriﬁce pleas-
ures and recreation in order to help Win the war,
but there’s a limit to human endurance.

We repeat our former statement that more men
are being taken from agricultural communities than
can be safely spared this year. It would seem a wis-
er policy for the government to either increase or
decrease the age limit in order to secure its re-

quired number than to take so many of those

now needed to train in unskilled help that must be
trained for work on farms if the war continues
another year or more, and food is to be grown in
sufﬁcient quantities to meet all needs.

BEAN SITUATION CON
TINUES UNCHANGED

Promise of Food Administration to Provide
Remedial. Measures has Not Yet Been
Fulﬁlled and No Intimation Given
of When it Will.

Nothing new in the'bean situation. We have
endeavored to get something tangible on the situ-
ation for our readers, but at the hour of closing
the market section, there have been no new de«
velopments. It will be remembered that the Food
Administration promisd the committee from
Michigan, that the market would be stabilized
thru the purchase of a quantity of white beans
for Government use, but so far no purchases have
been made. A wire from Grand Rapids asking
what action was contemplated on the part of the
Food Administration, remains unanswered, al-
though sent last Saturday.

The situation is becoming desperate. and some—
thing will have to be done soon, or the conse-
quences will be more serious than has been con-
template'd'. The banks throughout Michigan have
loaned farmers an immense amount of money,
payment to be made when beans are sold; the
elevator men in many instances are heavy bor—
rowers on the bean account; and it is for this
reason that farmers simply can’t get the money
to ﬁnance their spring operations. On account of
the weather last fall, beans could not be handled
rapidly by the elevators; and many farmers were

obliged to hold their crop until the elevators could

market and make room for the additional supply.

On top of all this came the purchase of the en-
tire pinto bean crop by the Food Administration;
the campaign of publicity carried on extensively
by the bean division, and as a natural outcome, the
bottom has been driven out of of the bean market,
and the growers are to be made the “goats.”

At this time, after having gone fully into the
situation, this is the most encouraging advice we
can give: If you have obligations which must
be cared for, sell a sufﬁcient quantity of beans to
care for present needs. Do not get excited and

dump your, entire

 

Which has already
exhausted its quo‘
ta because ' s 0
many of its regis-
trants have en-
listed in the navy.
\They have asked
for instructions.
We. must have the
men we are _ de-
pend i n g u p o n
from that section,
even it 'We have
to reconsider some
of the deferred"
classifications
. granted to skilled
workers.

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crop on the mar-
ket. If you
can hold your
beans for a more
active market do
so, ' but he sure
they are thoroly
dry. The acreage
to be planted will
be forty per cent
less than last year
according to pres-
ent indications;
there is a demand
for navy beans,
and if the bean
., division 0 f t h a
Food _Administra-
tion will keep
their hands off,
the market will
rally. Last min-y
guttequofations are" ‘ '
$10.50 cwt., and
a lifeless market, ‘
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bv“ Ebert/Contra: Act, engaged in the‘imporba-
.' tion,;‘vmanufacture, storage and distribution of
tools,'ut:enslls, implements, machinery and certain
‘ not later-than June»20,.1918.‘ '- -

The Secretary of Agriculture is directed to carry.
out the provisions of the proclamation and the
regulations thereunder. Licenses are required to
furnish information regarding their businesses
whenever it is thought necessary by repr'esentas
tives designated by the Secretary, and must per-
mit such representatives. to inspect the property
and records pertaining to their business. , Infor-
mation obtained in this manner is not to be dis-
closed without authority. Unjust proﬁts. re-sales
within the trade without reasonable justiﬁcation,
attempts to monopolize, unreasonable increases of
prices or restriction of supplies, and willful
waste of farm equipment are prohibited. Also,
licensees are forbidden to sell farm equipment to
persons known to have violated the Food Control
Act.

The President’s action follows closely upon his
declaration a few weeks ago that there was much
justice in the farmer’s complaint that the prices
on his products were ﬁxed while prices of the
things he was obliged to buy were still regulated
by laws of supply and demand. Whetheror not
this control over the prices of farm machinery
will tend to reduce their cost is a question. No
amount of licensing can keep down the cost of the

ot’heri‘l‘at'hif' equipnﬁmt’, ‘to Secureiml license

completed article so long as the material which,

enter into the making of the component parts
commands such high prices. With the price of
steel where it is. the price of labor constantly ad—
vancing, and every other cost entering into the
manufacture and selling of farm implements
greatly advanced, it would not seem that farm
implements can be sold much cheaper. No doubt
the licensing of dealers will take care of isolated
cases of proﬁteering, but farmers should not an-
ticipate any marked reduction in prices.
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An additional million men are made avail-able
for service by the signing of the bill which provid-
es for the registration on June 5th next of all
men who have reached the age of 21 since last
June 5th. The new registrants will be placed at
the bottom of the list of men now in class one, and
will be called in that order. Class 2 men will not
be called until Class 1 is exhausted. There is
some speculation as to the probable time the new
registrants will be called to training camps, a
subject that army oﬁicers refuse to venture an
opinion upon. It is believed by some that none
will be called until the ﬁrst of the year, while
others believe that the progress of the shipbuild-
ing program. if continued, will be sufﬁ-

tion with” an! . heads: in“ "granting? "the ”necessary

funds for the improvementbf the roads.
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legislation as fear f‘mea’sure? 'Tlgieli'hous'e Tues-
day. voted a75vlrtual demand for prohibition. ‘An
amendment to the administration food produc-
tion bill, directing that the eleven million appro-
priationlbe mode unavailable unless the president
issued a proclamation prohibiting the use of grain
and fruit for the manufacture of alcoholic liquors,
was passed tentatively by a 09 to 59 vote. The
amendment was introduced by Rep. Randell of
California. It is believed that this is the opening
wedge for war prohibition, although dry leaders
do not expect that Rep. Randell’s measure will be
pressed at this time. Administration leaders do

not luck with favor on any .measure which will
'embarrass President Wilson in his war plans.
They state'that the President will hide his own
time to irisue such'a proclamation, and will not
hesitate once he is convinced that the proper time
for such action has come.

 

The French soldier is paid $20 a year; German $38
a year; British $89 a year, and the American gets
$360 a year.

The importation of crude rubber into the, United
States has. been restricted about one-third by the
War Trade board.

The minister of agriculture of Brazil has been auth-
orized to establish modern experimental farms and
colonies, especially for the education of orphans and
abandoned children. ,

As part of Mississippi’s drivefor a 100 per cent
increase in hog production durin!r 1918, efforts, are
under way to enroll a total of 20.000 boys in ’corn
and pig clubs.

A new substitute for gasoline has been invented
and is being tried out by the government experiment
stations, which, if practicable, will be manufactured
at a cost of about eight cents a gallon.

The local market at Traverse City was ﬂooded with
potatoes recently owing to a boost in price of ﬁve
cents made by a potato products company of that
place. These potatoes have been held all winter.

A planing mill company in Oregon has recently
received an order for 1,000,000 tent pins from the gov-
ernment. They are to be made of maple and ash and
are to be 24 inches long. Four months will be al-
lowed the ﬁrm to complete delivery.

Arrangements have been made for the lease of a
site on the Lincoln Highway just outside of Bustleton,
Pa. for the postal service aeroplane landing ﬁeld. The
ﬁeld will be ready this month when aeroplane postal
service for New York. Pliilndc‘phia and W'ashington
will, be in operation.

Spain is practically out of gasoline and alcohol, al-
though .a poor substitute is being used instead. Spain.
like England, France and Italy imports all of her
gasoline It is not so much ash‘ortage of the product.
but the impossibility of importing it when ocean
transportation is needed so much more for food and
other necessities.

.Ente’nte allies; and“

. the" Americans were not fighters.

' those from 21 to 23.

. emf! ms ' stag-sung
missions from 'the‘ Gem press; Since Amerjcng

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‘Wi‘ll congress ”makedt’he United States dryby

tion. ‘ﬂ’i’ey have assumgIr-W ., p
that American wouldzbe‘ a negation ﬁctor athatv the .
U-boat‘s would prevent the tremor-tattoo of American ‘
troops inznumbers sull‘lcient so turnthe tideyaud that
. ‘ Being a democracy:
the 'United States government lacked the efficiency to
organize and train great-armies, the German "A "1'
were told. Now that the German high command is“,
aware that we are sending troops by t“m i‘ “ d '~
thousands, and that the presence of Our troops will
soon be felt in no uncertain way. the order has «V4
dently gone out to prepare the German public for the
worst. German newspapers ace even admitting that
the Americans can ﬁght.

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poigntofuentue the emece'ot-ithgsicounuy’s model

Italy, it is understood unofﬁcially: is anxiousto
have a few units of American troops sent to, the
Italian front. Even though a. comparatively Small

[number of men were sent. the presence of American

ﬁghting men would greatly improve the morale of x
the Italian soldiers. Due to a campaign of German
propaganda. the populace of the southern kingdom
has become rather antagonistic, to the United States.
In spite of all the efforts of the Italian government
to supp-tees this subtle propaganda it is rapidly in-
creasing. The story is being circulated that Italy
has been abandoned to its fate by the Entente Allies.
The Americans, according to the stories, got into the
war for the sake of gain, and are now holding back.
arid only sending suﬂ’icient men and supplies to main~
tain a. semblance of taking‘part. The Italian govern-
ment believes that the only way that this growing
prejudice can be overcome is the sight of American
ﬁghters gong to the assistance of Ita‘y. Already
there are a number of Red Cross units on the Italian
front.
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The farmers of Canada are dissatisﬁed with the
way the government is enforcing the Dominion draft
laws. Farmers make the claim 1h)! Premier Borden
and his political supporters promised the farmers dur-
ing the campaign last fall that the draft would not
be used to take men wanted for farm work. especially
Few exemptions are being grant-
ed in Canada, and many formerly exempted for farm
work are being called to the colors. Premier Borden
according to recent dispatches, while admitting that
promises were made in good faith, now states that
conditions have forced a change in policy. Five thou“—
and farmers from every part of the Dominion invaded
Ottawa last week to protest this stand on the part of
the government.

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Former Czar Nicholas of Russia is to be tried by
court-marshal at Moscow. The trial will be secret.
Following the revolution over a year ago, the members
of the Romanoff family were sent as prisoners to To—
bolsk. Recently a plot was discovered to rescue them.
and they were taken to the Ural mountains. The
Soviet has made no announcement as to what charges
are made against the former Czar.

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The Entente allies appear to have a clean—cut su-
periority in the air. The German eyes are thus
blinded. as the Allied airmen are able to keep Ger—
man observers from making a close inspection of th‘
front. Scores of German planes are destroyed every
day. American airmen are taking an important part

in the air ﬁghting.

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cient to move many men to France for
training and thereby relieve the conges-
tion in the home cantonments. Deferred
classiﬁcations for physical, industrial
and agricultural grounds will be allowed

the new regstrants the same as the 01d.
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Rep. J. C. McLaughlin does not pro—
pose to encourage federal employes of
draft age to seek deferred classiﬁcation
by boosting their salaries. He has an
old—fashioned idea that it isn’t exactly
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The national army composed of men from
every walk of life. representing every race
and creed, is beginning to make itself felt
in France. A few of the ﬁrst to go. espec-r
ially those drafted men used to ﬁll out reg—
ular and national guard units, have already
had a taste of the ﬁghting. The drafted
men have proven that they are fully as
brave and as eager to get into the fray 3..)
their enlisted brothers. Negro troops which
are being sent to France in large numbers,
are also proving their mettle as ﬁghters,
General Pershing recently made public'a
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non into mlitary service at $30 per month
and at the same time increase the pay
of those deferred. For that reason he has
protested strongly in the house against
using any of the money provided in an
eleven million dollar appropriation meas-
ure, for increasing the pay of some 2,000
employees of the department of agricul-
ture Who have been given deferred cllassi~
ﬁcation. * , .* .

Director General of the Railroads Mc-
Adoo has announced a tentative program
for the rehabilitation of roads which were

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The Germans for some time have been
using tanks patterned after the famou.;
British land—ships. The Huns, as usual
claim that they have added a number of im-
provements and that the tanks which they
now use are superior to those of the Brit-
ish. A chance to settle this point came a
few days ago when in a minor engagement
six German tanks were completely outfoughi
by a smll squadron of British machines.

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permitted to deteriorate when the war
advanced the cost of building materials.
Investigation and experience have al—
ready proven that much of the equip-
ment of some of the biggest lines are in
a sad state of neglect and that if the
roads are to handle the constantly in-
creasing shipments of war supplies, many
improvements must be made ‘at once. It
is estimated that fully a. billion dollars

probable that before this is read, the daily
press will be publishing accounts of more
severe ﬁghting. It is known that the Ger—
mans have concentrated two million men
along the F‘landers front, and are starting
a movement to force evacuation of Amiens.
American troops will doubtless take a large
part of this battle. ._
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navy is well illustrated by the recent re-
ports of U-boat activities. Last month not
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moasasas WHEAT PROSPECTS

Wheat: harvest in the United States is less than
thirty da‘ys .,off and every day of good Weather

Tinalres millions of bushels of winter wheat and rye.

Indications are that there will be over 600, 000,000

' bushels of winter wheat, and some statisticians

believe that with a continuation of perfect weather
'it will be around 640,000,000 bushels. Cutting has,
already commenced in the extreme south.

Should spring wheat prospects continue as fav-
orable as at present there will be over 300, 000, 000
bushels raised, and on the basis of 640, 000. 000 bu
of winter wheat 51 total of 940 000, 000 bushels of
.all wheats. or nearly 300, 000, 000 bushels more than
last year. Canada has good prospects, as the wheat
went in early and in most years under such con-

ditions a good crop is raised The acreage there is

longer than last year

The production of wheat in" the leading countries
“of the world outside of Russia and the Central
powers" last year as estimated by the International
Institute of Rome was 2.242,477,000 bushels, com—
pared with 11.173.162.000 bushels in 1916, and
2,479,519,000 bushels the average for three years,
1314-1916. Consumption in the same countries
from'August 1, 19,17, to July 31, 1918, at 2,157,082.-
000 bushels. '

Foreign statisticians in estimates sent, out last
fall said that Europe could get along by importing
only 450,000,000 bushels for the year ending July
1, 1918. Regardless of the fact that the 1917 crop
smaller than 1916, it is ﬁgured
that they have only imported 326,000,000 bushels
for the ten months ended May 1. On this basis
the average monthly shipments from exporting
countries were 32,000,000 bushels. Should the
same basis be “continued for the two months to
July 1, the total imports would be 391,000,000 bu.,
which would leave a carry-over of the world of
around 466,000 090 'bushels.

World’s stocks of ﬂour are extremely low in
North America and Europe, and will lie-lower by
July 1. A carry—over of 460,000,000» bushels is re-
garded as large, considering the war and high
prices. The high price and the war have greatly
reduced production in the warring nations, and
11so restricted consumption. Shortage of ships for
carrying wheat from the southern hemisphere to
Europe has enforced a saving, and while the carry-
over July 1, is large. it is mainly in countries that
are unable to ship freely. V

The carry-over in North Amrr‘ra July 1, 1917,
and the surplus in the southern hemisphere. com-
bined with the available supply from the carry-0v-
cr in North America and the exports during the
year ended July 1. 1918, is given as follows:

 

Export Export
surplus to May 1 Surplus
N. America $186,000,000 237,000,000 149,000,000
Australia .. ..208.000,000 38,000,000 170,000,000
Argentina .. .12.000.000 , 37,000,000 83,000,000
India .. 143.000 000 14,000,000 129000.000
Total bu. .749,000,000 326,000,000 531,000.000
‘Vinter wheat acreage in Europe is estimatc'l

at less than last year’s, much of which is poorly
seeded. Weather conditions, however, have been
exceptionally good, and the promise is better than
could. ordinarily be expected. The spring wheat
acreage has been greatly increased in Great Brit-
ain, France, Sweden, and Norway, and crop condi-
tions are of average promise. Taking the world’s

promise on the whole, supplies will be much larger

than for several years, and all will he wanted. 0w-
ing to the exhaustion of the reserves.

THIS MIGHT EASILY HAVE
HAPPENED 111 MICHIGAN

A correspondent in .“Facts About .Sugar,” states
that the Colorado sugar beet acreage for 1918‘ is
20 per cent less than the 1917 acreage. The de-
crease, it is claimed, is due to the delay of the
sugar manufacturers and the Food (Administration
ﬁn coming to an understanding as to the prices
that were to be paid to the growers. ,

“Undoubtedly,” says the report, “the appoint-
ment of the Food Administration’s investigating
ommission. coming at the late date it did, had the
effect of holding many growers back from signing
iontracts until they found out what th.n govern-
meat was going to do. Meinwhile the season was
a vanc' 1g and other crops were promising proﬁts

pa rtmcnt thru bids.

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as good as those to be obtained from beets. The

result was that many of the farmers decided not .

to wait for the outcome of the investigation. When

the commission ﬁnally reported and the companies

adopted its recommendations. much of the form-er
beet'acreage had been turned over to other crops.”

The situation that ﬁnally developed into an un-
derplanting of beets in Colorado was identical with
the situation prevailing in Michgan for several
weeks prior to the capitulation of the manufactur-
ers. The farmers wanted a certain price for their
beets, based upon cost: of production. The manu-
facturers at first refused to meet the-5e demands.
The farmers, in both cases, threatened to cut their
acreage and plant some other crop. Everybody
Winked their eye and said the farmers were bluf-
ﬁng. After much valuable time had been wasted
in Michigan, the manufacturers wisely acceded
to the growers’ wishes, and thereby forestalled a
last-minute investigation by the federal govern-
ment which would have delayed the signing of
contracts with the inevitable result that much
sugar beet land would have been planted to other
crops. The outcome in Colorado must be taken
as a criterion of what may be expe ted in tho fu-
ture when farmers cannot secure what they believe
to be a proﬁtable price for their paoduct.

GOVERNMENT SEEKS BIDS ON
ONION AND POTATO NEEDS

The immense quantities of potatoes used by the
various military camps. suggests a possibie means
of disposing of part of the big Michigan crop still
on hand. According to information just made
public by the Quartermaster General’s ofﬁce, thru
the Department of Agriculture. 17,915,002) towns
or 198.600 bushels of potatoes are consumed in
the 38 larger camps of the country every month.
The greatest demand comes from Camp Dix.
Wrightown, N. J.. which uses 1,200,000 pounds, or
20.000 bushels a month.

Camp Custer at Battle Creek uses 600.000 lbs,
or 10.000 bushels of tubers a month. These po-
tatoes are purchased by the quartermas‘er‘s de-
Purchases are made in a
similar manner of all supplies for the various
camps.

Just now the department is asking for bids on
potatoes and onions. All quotation: for tutors
must be made on the basis of 100 pounds. delivered
at camp, subject to inspection and acceptance at
Payment is made by the individual
camp quartermaster on the basis of net weight at
the time of delivery. Shipments must be made
as ordered by the camp quartermaster. Potatoes
shall conform to the speciﬁcations of tl.e U. S.
grade No. 1, shall be put up in even weight sacks
or barrels. ‘

While nearly all potatoes are being ft nished
by commission houses, there is no reason why
farmers cannot dispose of their tubers in this
way, providing they have sufﬁcient stock to war—
rant carlot shipments.

Informal -quotations for furnishing pota'ccs
from June 1 to June 30 inclusive. must be made
by telegraph before 11 a. m. on May 21. The bids
must indicate whether for old or new stock, and
what camp delivery will be made to at. the price
quoted. The telegraphic address is “Wood. Sub-
sistence. Dunning, Washington. D. (7.”

Quotations for furnishing onions in sacks or
cra‘cs. will be received up to the same time. The
various camps of the country use 1.295.000 pounds
of onions every 30 days.
40,000 pounds monthly.

HOLSTEIN BREEDERS WILL HOLD
ANNUAL MEETING IN MILWAUKEE

 

Milwaukee will entertain the thirty-third an—
nual meeting of the Holstein-Friesian Association
of America on June 5. This association. which
is one of the largest organizations of cattle breed-
ers in the United States, is headed by a Michigan
man, Hon. D. D. Aiken of Flint, and a prominent
breeder of Holstein cattle.

- The program will include an. address by Gover-
nor Phillips of Wisconsin.
sion, besides the election of ofﬁcers, a number of
amendments to the by-laws of the organization
will be considered. The place of the next annual
meeting will be designated. Under the laws the
next meeting must be held at a point east of Erie,

Pennsylvania

Camp Custer requires-

At. the business ses-'

FOOD ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNC-i
ES NEW MILL FEED MARGINS

A new schedule of maximum prices which mills

may charge for wheat byproducts has been an-.

nounced by the U. S. Food Administration. The
margins show a general reduction downward.
compared with those previously in force.

The maximum bulk price of bran per ton bears
the same relation to the price of wheat as former-
ly—38 per cent of the average cost to the mill of.
a ton of wheat; The price of flour middlings
which before was $9.00 per ton over bran prices
has been reduced to a $2.00 differential. Red Dog
has also been reduced to a maximum of $2.00 per
ton over the price of bran whereas the former
difference was $15.

Mixed wheat feed prices, according to the new
schedule must not be more than $1.25 per ton over
the price of bran. The former difference was $4
per ton. These new price margins are the out-
come of an investigation into plesent methods of
milling. With the larger percentage of ﬂour now
being milled from wheat, the quantity of flour
middlings and red dog is considerably less and
these products have been placed in the same by-
product. group as shorts. standard middlings, gray
shorts and gray middlings. The bulk price of
all these feeds must not exceed bran prices by
more than $2. 00 per ton.

Although these new price margins, are already
in force. the Food Administration emphasives that
they are not for bulk carloads at the mill. Per-
sons buying in quantities at retail should consid-
er freight, dealers’ profit and cost of sacks. The
last item alone is at present between $5 and $6
per ton. Both jobbiug and retail proﬁts have been
limited however, to a moderate ﬁxed maximum.
and as soon as mill feeds now in dealers’ bands
have been moved. the new stocks milled after
May 7 will reach farmers on the basis of the subs l-
ule announced.

The total amount of wheat mill feeds is admin
ted to be small in proportion to the demand and
the most practical means of reduc’n': teem lug
costs lies in a more general use of the (nurse
grain by-products of which there is now an abund-
ance. Mill prices of hominy feeds have la‘cly de—
clined by from £95 to $20 per ton. rye and barley
feeds in proportion. Oil meal is particularly low
in price when compared with other feeds on :1
nutritive basis.

Far-seeing formers may advantageously plan to
secure their winter supply of feed in September
and October when danger of spoilage is past {1111
avoid the uncertainty of deliveries during the
winter when the demand for feed usually exceels
the output of the mills.

WINTER WHEAT LOSS IN FOUR
STATES GREATER THAN MICH.

 

 

Twenty—four per cent of the winter wheat acre
age if Michigan 1138 been abandoned according
to information made public by the l‘. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture. Texas and Wisconsin have
each lost 45 per cent, New Mexico 35 and Knu-
sas 29 per cent.

The acreage abandoned amounts to 5.778.000,
which is 13.7 per cent of the total acreage. This
leaves 36.392.000 acres to be harvested. This com-
pares favorably with 27 340.000 acres harvested
last year and 34,059,000. the average for the last
five years.

During a period of ten years the average per-
centage of acreage abandoned has been only 10
per cent. The large percentage this year is due
not only to winter killing. but to the dry
last autumn and this spring, which prevented
growth after a weak germination.

The production of 572.000.000 bushels of winter
wheat is forecasted. Last year’s production of
winter wheat was about 418,000,000, and
erage for the premding ﬁve years was 553000003.
The largest production recorded was 685000.000
in 1914 and the smallest in the last ten years.
400,000,000 in 1912.

The producers of winter wheat are doing their
part to help win the war. Indications are that in

spite of unfavorable fall and early spring, the

crop is going to be one of the big assets of the
country in its efforts to feel the world and con-
tinue the war to a successful conclusion.

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MICHIGAN MILK NEWS FROM

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E FIELD SECRETARY

'7 MILK COMMISSION MEETIVGB ‘

There W311 be a meeting of the Detroit area"
. milk commission on Friday, May 31st,
E' . All parties having busi- '
noes with the commission should be on hand at

in the

MAY MILK PRICE AND SURPLUS
-' The May milk prices and surplus as ﬁxed by
the Detroit commission committee are as follows:
.. 80%- at $2.45 per hundred pounds.
2 201%, surplus, at $2.00 per hundred pounds;
Average. $2.36.
It had been hoped in the early part of the month

that there would be no surplus for May, inasmuch

as some of the buyers had: closed some of the up-
.state plants, thusshutting 'off a large amount of
milk from the Detroit market. But later on the
ﬂow increased and when the survey was made by
the committee it was found that while many or

‘ the smaller dealers were wanting more milk, some

of the larger distributors were having a large
amount of. surplus; in one instance as much as
Other large cities about us are ob—
taining their milk supplyat prices ranging from
$1.80 to $2.30 per hundred pounds, and in one in—
stance. to a large milk buyer in a nearby city, the
producers have said, “take our milk and use it to
the best advantage and give us what you can at-
ford to for it."
THAT ABOMINABLE TEST

Perhaps there is no one source of annoyance
that is so manifest at all times as the milk test.
Many times the apparent difﬁculties are imaginv
ary, and a little consideration and Ea little char-
ity would save a vast amount of criticism and un-
rest. Sometimes, however. there is a reason for
the unrest. criticism and accusation on both sides.

The Michigan Milk Producers’ association is
continually on the alert to forestall any trouble
and to iron out the difﬁculties that have arisen
For this purpose both Commissioner VVoodworth
of the State Dairy and Food Department and
Prof. Anderson of the M. A. C., have been appealed
to and both departments have detailed a man to
assist in establishing an equitable basis of ad-
justment. Both departments now have a man
in the ﬁeld working with us. in the name of the
state. to help solve these problems.

It is the sincere desire of the Association to
cause both the buyer and the seller of milk to
come close to the riglv line—the line cf fairness
and justice in this great problem. While we de-
sire and propose to see that our members receive
a fair compensation for their milk, and a fair
test for the butterfat. yet we realize that if this
great industry is stabilized and gives the dignity
that it should have is Michigan, it will req1ire
good milk and honest dealing from the milk pro-
ducers of the state, and your association is going
to exercise itself just as energetically to weed out
the dishonest producer as we are the dishonest
buyer.

Recently a producer was very insistent upon an
equitable adjustmest with his buyer. He demand—
ed, and received. the co-operation of the represen—
tative of the Michigan Milk Producers’ Associ-
tion. The buyer 'yielded to a settlement far in
excess of the Milk Commission's ﬁndings. VVith-
in Six hours after the time of this settlement
this milk producer boasted that he had “pulled
one over" on the Michigan Milk Producers’ As—
sociation and the buyer. and that he had been
skimming his milk the entire month past. This
kind of contemptible petty thieyery is ruinous to
our market and will bring the entire milk indus-
try into disrepute. It is the purpose of your asso-
riation to protect the great majority of its mem—
bers, who are honest. against dishonesty either
within or outside of its own membership. The
fellow who is skimming or watering. his milk
need expect no quarter when he is caught.

We are fortunate. indeed, as an association, to
receive now, as we have in the past. the most
earnest co-operation and counsel of the broad-
minded mcn of the state for the elevating and
stabilizing of Michigan‘s great dairy industry.

Prof. A. C. Anderson of the M. A. C., and Pres.
N. P. Hull spent a large portion of this week in
Detroit with Field Secretary Reed.

Milk meetings were held last week at Morenci,
Metamore and Birch Run, and a commission meet-
ing at the hotel Cadillac.‘

It is now a good time to be real producers for
the dairy industry. All should at this time be de—
termined to improve their herds by the weeding
out of nuprOﬁtable animals and the holding,

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ﬂed in the future”. ' ' ' '

U. S. BOYS WORKING RESERVE

MEMBERS MAKE coon"

Last summer. seventy Chicago high—school boys
of the United States Boys working Reserve were
sent to the ﬁrst camp at Thompsonville, Michigan.
They were hired by nearby farmers for a period
of ﬁve months.

led a farm tool before. The old foot-ball team—
spirit was in them, however and in a few weeks
they began to be an asset instead of a liability.
They wanted to learn.

This spring 90 % of these boys are hired for the

'season about the country at wages from $30 per

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Lansing Vitriﬁed Tile Silo with Lansing steel hip-
roof and chute after a $2,500 lire. 0n the farm of 305.
“'itgen, Fowler, Alichigan.

 

 

I have hired ten of them and (trusting they will
not see this account) would not lose them for con-
siderably more than theabove minimum.

One particular example of faithfulness: Last
Fourth of July the Cadets had a base-ball game
in town and they all went but one crew of four
who were spraying trees. The leader appreciated
the necessity of ﬁnishing the spraying that day
so he prevailed on the rest to stick and they ﬁn-
ished the orchard but missed the game. They
didn't have to write to me for an 1918 job, I wrote
to them.——John Neuihall. Manager Betsy River
Orchard.

BEAN ANTHRACNOSE IS ON THE
RUN SAYS AN M. A. C. MAN.

Anthracnose, a disease of the bean crop the t in
past years has been 1.118 souicc of immense loss
to Michigan farmers, is on the 11m, in the opin—
ion-0t Dr. G. H. Coons, plant pathologist at M. A.
C. It can be kept that way, he adds, if Michigan
bean growers will caiefnlly pick their seed be-
fore planting this spring.

‘As a lesult of the last two dry summers,” Doc-
tor Coons declares. “the percenmge of anthrac-
nose has been so reduced that not more than one
sample in 50 of the thousand we have examined
within the past winter showed heavy infestation
by this disease

“Anthracnose is now in retreat, but if wet
weather keeps up thi: yeai it can make a stand

and retrench itself unless the precaution is taken‘

to plant clean seed beans. The seed stock should
be free from weathered beans and as clean and dry
S. possible. All beans shewng spots ,on

should be thrown out ”-'

,and Grawford county farmers.

A number of them worked on the,
Betsy Rive-r orchards and the writer can truthfully I
say that from all appearances, none had ever hand-

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'1 county agricultural agent to secure well. . ’V ‘

stein’ calves from Barrington, 111.. for Be

At Barrington it;
company has gone into the calf salvaging busines‘
As that is a’ dairying country nearly all the calves
are vealed.- The female" calves are bought whe

only_a fewd‘ays old, taken to the calf nursery and?"

kept until ten days to three weeks old Carefully
selected female calves are sold for foundation

stock, and are shipped all over the country. All

most without exception they are from registered;

Holstein bulls of the King Segis and: Pontiac'j';
strains. These strains predominate in white coloEr._'E

1,8 i

Rogers—Local potato buyers were 'called off the:

market by the commission houses last week. al-
though they were paying only 30c per bushel.
There are still many thousands of bushels of last
“year’s crop still in the hands of the farmers in
the northern counties.EE
$1 a bushel on jobbing markets. have injured the
demand for old potatoes in spite of the pledges
made by ,many Michigan people to use no new
tubers u’ntl July 1.

1|: , III Il‘

Caro——Farmers in Saginaw and Tuscola coun-
ties are interested in a p1oject which has the sup.-
port‘ of the Michigan Good Roads association to”
construct a pike between Saginaw and Port San-
ilac, a distance of seventy miles There are sev-
eral stretches of improved roads on this route,
and it would only be necessary to connect these.
W. S. Linton. former congressman, is behind the
plan.

. 3!: III 4: ' ~

Gladwin—.‘Eleveu head of 10 months old grade
Herefords shipped from Gladwin by Hickey &
Schlichter were as ﬁne a bunch of “baby beef” as
has ever been seen in this part of the state. The
price paid Harold Detweiler for the—bunch was
also rather fancy, $88 a head. showing that it
pays to produce a ﬁne grade of stock. It was
claimed that this was the ﬁnest lot of beef ever
shipped from Gladwin

. :3 ﬂ: *

Rogers—A large number of men employed on
farms will be called in the next d1aft quota from
Plesque Isle county. Fifteen or twenty farm
laboiers will be taken in the quota which leaves on
01 about May 25. It is necessa1 v to call these
men as there are not enough of other class 1 men
for the reourements. More farm laborers will be
taken in the next quota,"

1| * * ~

Benton Hrn'borw—Roland Merrill of Benton Har-
bor, has the plants ready for 200 acres of cante-
loupes this year, a part of the acreage being near
this city and a part near Constantino, St. Joseph
county. Mr. Merrill has never had any trouble
in ﬁnding a market for his crops..tlle Pullman
company being one of his chief patrons for use'
on its dining cars.

ll! * *

Saginaw—County agricultural agents from 14
counties Were in session here last week. Prob-
lems affecting the counties represented, which are
all in theSaginaw district. were discussed. Dr.
Eben Mumford was in charge. and was assisted by
several M. A. C. extenson workers and Prof. Fish-

. er of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
. =6: It:

i:

Scmduskz/ —— “Corn planting is
ant now than court busine ass,” observed Judge
Beach Wednesday afternoon. “Every man called
for jury duty wanted to plant corn. and when the
ﬁrst case called was settled I decided to excuse
the jurors. Probably they will return in two‘
weeks.” '

more import-

RECORD 1918 TOMATO CROP IS
THE FORECAST FOR MICHIGAN

A record crop of tomatoes is in prospect in
Michigan this season, according to reports coming
to the Michigan Agricultural college from Owosso,
Grand Rapids Fr,emont Coloma and a number of
other canning factoxy points The increased acre—
age is declared to be due in most instances to the
placing by the government of conside1able orders
with Michigan canners. at a guaranteed price.

But while the cultivation of tomatoes is being
undertaken more extensively within the state than
ever before, the opportunities for establishing a
proﬁtable business with this crop are still ﬁar
from being exhausted, a new bulletin issued by the
experiment station declares.— The bulletin, which
is entitled “Tomato Growing in Michgan," is be-
ing printed by the college for circulation a'mong.
commeiriial growers.
mailing a card to 'he experiment station 5y hi
request for Special EBulletin":{N

Copies of it can be had by.-

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exempt.

“Whether others are being taxed;
that his property remains untaxed.

"(led to the cost of producing utilities,

,merchants will also be lessened;

shaman, Site Value Tax comb , Please 11i--»f
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off; the M. I}
affect

of'Michlgan £111: of the ample "
.. . ', {Or that matter, need to put a great"
‘i more thought on the taxation problem as"

1 infects their individual in erests. The attempt
to 39 word our tax laws as to “tax the other tel-
01%? has proved a' dismal .failure. The little tax-
Watch
I; proceedings in the probate court, when big
estates are parceled out to the heirs.
en discovered thousands of dollars’ worth of
1301131 property which the assessor heretofore
ad no knowledge of. Immediately it is placed

on the assessment rolls, only to disappear as soon ‘

'as the estate is settled up.

What the farmer needs is to have his pal sonal .
roperty and impr‘ovements exempt from taan

This is feasible. Some values are already
It is only necessary to increase the ex-
In this way he can measure his im-

tiOn.

emptions.

.proved ﬁnancial condition in dollars and cents.

from the very start. He need no worry as to

he need only see

This is practically what the Michigan Site-Value
League is trying to accomplish. It is soliciting
signatures t?) a petition to exempt entirely from
taxation a thousand dollars’ worth of personal
property for each taxpayer, and a thousand dol-
lar’s worth of improvements in and upon land;

and also to assess other personal preperty and

improvements at 50 per cent of their assessed
value. Ifthis works well in the shape of relief
from taxes on industry and enterprise, the legis-

lalture is empoWered to increase the exemptions.

Under this system, the farmer will no longer
be taxed extra for building a silo, or a new barn,
or draining a swamp, or planting an orchard. or
painting his home, or doing any- other thing to
improve his farm. He will'be taxed no more than
will the farmer who neglects to do these things.
In short he will no longer be “ﬁned” for his de-
sire to raise big. crops or keep improved herds of

. cattle.

Of course taxes must be raised on some kind of
property, else government woud go to smash. Tax-
es properly levied and properly spent beneﬁt
property holders generally. For in this way the
community does collectively things which would
be much more expensive ifihc endeavor was made
to do them individually.
and money-saver.

Providentially, it appears, society itself creates
values frOm which to pay the expenses of govern-
ment. And these values are entirely independent
of the individual exertions of the units of soci-
ety. These values ale known as “site values”
They arise from increase of pOpulation, and ap«
ply equally to unimproved as to improved land.
Look at two farms side by side. each equally fer-
tile. One is well cultivated; the other lies idle.
or is worked in a hop—hazard way.’ One represents
an industrious and enterprising farmer; the other

“slacker,” who idles.

Under site value taxation each farm will be
'9v'c'l lust alike. Industry and thrift will be re-
warded, and sloth and shiftlessnc’s propcry pcl'al—
ized.
no longer pay to keep good land idle.

But. it. is inquired, will not big manufacturing
plants worth tens of thousands of dollars be ben-
eﬁtted by this exemption from taxation? To be
sure; but taxes on manufacturing plants are ad-
and the-
Taxes on the goods of
which will en-
able the merchant to sell on a closer margin; the
consumer will get the beneﬁt. But'taxes on sites
cannot be shifted. It sticks. '

Who are consumers? Fifty per cent Of the pop-

consumer pays the tax

ulation of Michigan are farmers or immediately 7'
. interested in farming. 'So "

reducing taxes on
products means that farmers,~ as consumers, will
be beneﬁtted. Their dollars-«will go farther. A
bushel of wheat, ,ora bag of potatoes, or a sack of
beans Will exchange for 'more manufactured
goods. " ' .

Already .thirty thousand Michigan voters have
signed the petition now being circulated for site
value taxation in this state. These-signers are
1110111 all classes in the community, except the

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1': Fruit Belt, and the. ofﬁcial mouthpieces of organ-I,
Such a. strong man in. the state as,

stands by it.. The United
States'distrlct attorney, Hon. Myron H. Walker,
is on the’executlve‘board of the state organization.
business men 'and manufacturers are
supplying the funds to push the campaign. Every
man who works for a. living—who is a real wealth

”producer, will be beneﬁtted; only the speculators

and the r$_hirkers and the monopolizers Will be pen—

. alized.

Every farmer ought to be anxious to see circu-
lated in his locality a petition for site- value tax-
ation; or at least he should be glad of-an Oppor-
tunity to sign it- He should send to the secretary
of the League for a petition and literature, and he
should not rest content until every voter he can
reach has had an opportunity to attach his sig-
nature. When site-value taxation in Michigan is
an accomplished fact, it will mean the saving of
tens of thousands of dollars in taxes annually to
the farmers of the state, besides making a better
market for his products. He is beneﬁtted both
as a producer and a consumer. And no harm can

come to any vital interest in the commonwealth.

VASSAR SUBSCRIBER ASKS FOR
DIGEST OF MICHIGAN DOG LAW

I am a subscriber to your paper and like it very
much.' Could you publish the real digest of the
dog law? It has appeared 'in a local paper three
01 four times and always differentzeG. N. M.,
lasso; Michigan.

NIICIIIGAN B1 HlNhSS FAumm. has had a numbel
of inquiries relative to different pi ov1sions of the
state dog laws. The act vas passed by the last
legislature. and is known as No. 347 of the Public
Acts of, 1917. The. following is 1a brief resume of
the law, giving only the most salient points:

Dogs must be kept on premises of the owner,
or on premises on which they regularly belong in
such a manner as to make escape impossible. un-
less accompanied by OWIQer, caretaker or custod-
ian, except. when the animals are wearing tags
as provided by law.

It is the duty of the owner of every dog over

"four months old on or- before the ﬁrst day of Feb-

ruary to secure from the village or township clerk
of the village. or township in which the ownm ic—
sides a metal tag showing name of township o1
viHage license year. and registry numbe1 The
dog must wear this securely fastened to his collar.
unless conﬁned. The clerk is required to keep a
record of the tags withthc registered number, to-
gether with the description of the dogs.

The license feels $2 for a male dog or a spayed
female (providing a certiﬁcatevfrom a Veterinary
is presentedstafing That the :Wimol has boon
spayed) and $5 for each unspayod female. provid-
ing that animals kept forabreeding purposes and
properly conﬁned the fee shall be’$l.00 for males
and $2 for females.

Tags shall not be transferred either from per-
son to person or from dog to dog. and are good
only for one year after the ﬁrst day of January
after issue. I

And sheriff. deputy sheriff. constable or polico
ofﬁcer shall have the authority to destroy (Ingr:
found roaming without the proper tag. and it shall
‘110 their duty to destroy dogs found at large in vio-
lation of this act.

In case of the loss of livestock through the at-
tacks of dogs. the owner of such live stock may
call on any justice of the peace residing in the
township where the stock was killed or wounded.
and who is not kin to the parties interested. who
will view the livestock and make a just appraisal
of the damages. if any. The justice is allowed a
fee of $2 and mileage of 10c a mile by the nearcst
traveled road. He may examine witnesses under
oath. The report. is turned over to the clerk who

. . if damages are allowed issues an order made pay

able to the owner of the live anck for the amount
of the damages if there are sufﬁcient funds. The
law also provides for the disposition of surplus
funds derived from dog license fees.

Persons violating the provisions of this act. shall
upon conviction be deemed guilty nf‘a misdemean—
er. and are liable to: a ﬁne of $25 or 30 days in
jail or both. .

Persons presenting false claims in nonnnann
with this act shall upon convict'on be liable to a

‘ ﬁne of 31 mm or two years conﬁnement in state’s

prison. or both.

There is nothing in the act which shall be con-
strued to limit the common law liability of the
Owner for damages caused by a dog

The act does not annlv to cities which have
dog ordinances and. which may provide for a dif—
ferent use of the license mone‘v’. ‘ '

“Some of 1.11.; banks are fairly 115.1911 I,

3'. taxation is systematically endorsed;
of: the Gleaners, the..Glra.nge,, the»,

. do to get 'this back9—Subscmbel

most OI thiem soak us good and hard.

pay, but if there’s any law under heaven that’ll

help me get back a bonus that I paid for the use
I ﬁgure
that my bank has charged me ~something like a'

of my money; I. want to know what it is.

What can I
Midland 00.

The usury law does not make the charging of
usury a criminal offense. If it did, the practice
would be short- lived. The law is merely for the
guidance of judges and juries called upon totry
civil cases arising from the practice. If you have
been forced to pay usurious rates of interest, you

hundred dollars 1n illegal interest.

can recover your money by suing for.it, providing .

you can ﬁnd a local attorney who isn’t tied hands
«and feet to the bank, and can pick a jury that
doesn’t owe the bank money. But remember, if
you sue the bank, it’ll ruin your credit with that
bank and most likely with neighboring banks.
So if you ever hope to borrow money again in
your community, consider well before you- start
your suit. The usury law is the cleverest little
joker ever passed by a Michigan legislature. It
recognizes the principle that usury is wrong, but
places the burden of prosecution upon the individ~
1131 instead of upon the state.

MICHIGAN Btsmuss FAImm;
almost similar with yours up before the state
banking department which assures us that it
will use its inﬂuence with the offending bank to
pay back the illegally collected money without
forcing the complainant to sue. If the bank re-
fuses to return the money. our subscriber swears
he will sue, and we hope he will. A few lawsuits
scattered judiciously about the State. with their
resulting publicity. should serve to discourage
the proﬁteering propensities of other Shylock in-
siiiutions.

now has a case

CAMP CUSTER OFFERS MANURE
FOR SALE TO THE FARMERS

I have read somewhere about the government
selling manure from (”amp (,‘uster to farmers in
that section. Do you know anything about, it?
What prices are charged and who shall I apply
io'IA—E. 19.. Barry 001111111.

We are advised that the government is selling
the manure from its various cantonmeuts, but
we are unable to advisc the present prices. We
understand. however. that they have been reduced
within the past several Weeks. If you will write

’10 the botany department at M. A. (3.. East Lan—

sing. you can secure full particulars.

THE LEGALFFDITOR ADVISES

What is the authority of the drain commis—
sioner in establishing a drain?-Subscribcr.

The drain commissioner has full authority in
the exercise of his discretion in passing upon the
necessity or desirability of a drain, and the pe-
litioners are bound by his determination when
fairly and honestly made. I see no redress except
a different. commiSsioner when one has refused
or neglected to act.

:k =l< *
the liability of an elevator for stored
consent?—L.

\Vhat is
potatoes. sold without the owner’s
IF. Lc'rcl‘i'ng.

H the elevator has well—known rules concerning
storage. or gave 11 card or receipt with the rules
on, the one who stored the potatoes would be
bound by these rules in the absence of a special
agreement.

lf there was no speclalagreemcnt and no rules
governing the same. prepared by the elevator.
then tho clevator would be liable to the owner of
the potatoes for their value at the time they were
demanded of the elevator. less the fee for storage.
If the owncr desired the potatoes. then the dam-
age would be what it would cost to replace them
at that place at the time of demand. if they were
desired for sale. it would be the market price on
the day the demand was made, less the storage.

LATE COUNTY CROP REPORTS

VAN IH'RIJN (Southeast)—<‘or11 planting time
“-gm the f111'1111-1's. The warm .wcather is bringing tho
buds out very fast. and the rains have put the soil in
good condition. Potato pits are opening very good
and tho tubers are selling at from 40 to .0 cents a.
budlcl. but a slow market. Grape buds on y showing
about so per cent of normal, and the cherry crop prom-
ises a failure. Strawberry and raspberry prospects.
also apples, are good—:V. T. (1.. Mattayvan, Way 18.
INUIIA“ ((‘entrul)-~IIdeal weather for fanning. at
pit ent. anl c'-'\mytl1ing is coming 0:1 quite fast Corn
about half plallttd next week \v1ll ilmsn it.Fa1m91\
not selling mmh Thcrc seem< to be no maiket ,for
beans. Elevators bold feed high bran $2 50; Imid-
dlings $2. 75 to $3. 00. Is that in
ment pric cs? Wheat rxe and giass need rain.

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Continued favorable weather over
the entire wheat belt, and showers in
' that portion of the southwest reported
suffering from drouth, have further
improved conditions, and it now looks
as though nature had allied herself
with those who are ﬁghting the battle
of liberty, to the extent of relieving
the food shortage after the next har—
vest. Reports coming from other
countries indicate very' favorable con-
ditions as to wheat and an increased
acreage, even in blood-drenched France.
Add to this the prospect of additional
shipping facilities to move the Aus-

tralian surplus and we have every.

reason to believe that soon the great
demand on the American people for
cereals will be relieved. During the
‘ few weeks which must elapse before
the new crop is available we can well
afford to curtail our wheat consump-
tion with the assurance that in time to
i come the American people will look
' back with proud retrospéction to the
sacriﬁces made for the great cause.
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‘ of wheat at this time and use only
such quantities as are absolutely nec—
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The oats market has declined since
our last article was written and were
it not for spirited buying by Chicago
shorts there would undoubtedly have
been a still greater drop in prices.
Chicago, during l‘ past week, has
be“ the high market and shipments
have been made to that point from
markets to the eastward. This is a
peculiar condition and was brought
about by anxious shorts seeking to
cover May contracts. May deliveries
have been heavy during the' past week.

Deliveries of oats at New York City
during the past week were 870.000
bushels, mostly for the account of the
Government and the Grain Export
('ompany. The ex1 ort clearances were
slightly increased but the demand
from dealers was limited. Purchas-
e< during the next week or so will
be only for actual needs.

wnv oars DECLINE»-

Gentlemanz—My neighbors and my-
self still have a quantity of oats to sell
and would like your opinion as to
whether or not it is best to hold for
higher prices, and what do you think
has caused the present, fall of prices?
» —J. (7. R.. (‘ros-wcll. Michigan.

("Herr .4nsu‘c'r2——Seve1'al factors have
contributed to the lower prices on
oats. if you have been reading the
market articles in lVlH‘lllGAN BI'siNicss
ll‘xmnxo you will remember that we
is:‘-.ie(l several warnings during Febru<
arj.‘ and March. stating our belief that
tho market would work lower. Dur-
ing the winter months, while there
were plentiful stocks of oats back in
the country. primary markets were al-
most bare, owing to lack of transpor-
tation facilities. We pointed out that
this condition would be changed wi‘h
the coming of better weather and that
with increased supplies we would no
doubt see lower prices. It was just
a matter of getting the grain to nor-
lzt‘". Another bear factor is the far-t.
that we are nearing another r'r'm
ivbieh promises in be an exreptiouel‘v
large one. We do not advise ho‘d‘nr
for higher prices and it is our rand”
opinion that. with the'évecp‘ion ,.~
occasional slight reactions. the n‘ﬂrket
will work‘lowe-r as the niarlr’iiug of
the new crop becomes imminent.

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NEW .YMKEWIBEL—éiean markets, slaw under plentifulreooipten l'i‘he past

."WQ¢k h‘asj-bebn “annual of 5,9, cm to: western stock- but a considerable por-

tion of those vwere government: controlled and went nto storage.-

PITTSBURGH' WIREe—No. ‘1 and N o. 2 timothy in good supply and mat-
Thm' la .- o‘yonupply of the lower .gradoo‘ “Where

ket fairly satisfactory.

has been for some time and such stock is diﬂlcuit to dispose of.

scarcely be disposed of at oil.

CINCINNATI WIRFr—llay 'market still unsatisfactory and advise with-'
holding shipments for” a few days longer. ' ,

DETROIT SPECIAL—Hay in good supply and market inclined to weaken.
Bean'domand unchanged from that of past two weeks.’
in good demand.

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Past week has seen a. rather slow
draggy corn market, very little inter-
est being shown in. the deal. Prices
on the better grades have worked low-
er and shipping sales have been few-
er than for some time.~ Favorable
crop weather, together with the weak-
er oat market, have had a depressing
inﬂuence. Movement from the inter-
ior continues of considerable volume
although the planting season is at
hand and growers are busy. Priées
are still high, although down consid-
erably from‘high point of the season.

There will be a reduction 'of acre-
age in the leading corn states, the
planting now being behind normal.
There is plenty of moisture in prac-
tically all sections of the belt and
many have held up the planting‘until
the ground becomes warm, not wish-
ing to take any risk when good seed
is as scarce~ as it is this year.

As mrecasted in our last week’s
article, the rye market has reached
the even money. Detroit now quoting
No. 2 at $2.00. The market appears
to be just a trifle ﬁrmer and inquiries
are more frequent Since the decline.
The market generally may be describ-
ed as inactive with very little interest

being shown. compared with that of

a few weeks ago.

Barley
The barley market during the week
has been very dull and buyers have
about had their own way in the deal.

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The poorer qualities found a very slow
market if they foundany at all and
on only the better grades was it pos-
sible to interest buyers. 'Millers are
not in the market to any extent, the
dark ﬂour and bread seemingly being
unpopular. Choice western grain is
quoted at $1.30 to $1.50; lower grades,
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The Detroit market continues to de-
velop weakness or at least the price
is being steadily forced ~down. We
cannot think for a minute that De-
troit dealers are justiﬁed by present
conditions in their continued bear
tactics. It is true that there has been
some increase in the marketward
movement of beans but the quality
has not been such as to warrant the
recent drop in prices. The Food Ad-
ministration has agreed to withhold
the pintos until the Michigan growers
have had. an opportunity to dispose
of their holdings at so-called competi-
tive prices. Looks as though certain
of the big Michigan jobbers'had made
up their minds that these prices shall
be as low as they can possibly make
them and the country elevator men
and growers left to hold the bag.

From reports reaching us right now
from all parts of the state we believe
the acreage this year will be below the
average and considerably less than that
of last year. Some sections report a
normal acreage but the majority of
our reporters say that the acreage
is being cut down quite considerably.
Hope springs eternal in the human
breast and the same is true of the
Michigan bean grower. Here’s hop-
ing his crop this year may be raised
under more favorable circumstances
and that Jack Frost and Jupiter Pluv-
'ius may acquit themselves as gentle-
.men and friends of the Allies.

New York
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Next warm waves will reach Vancou-
ver near May 28th and June 3rd and
temperatures will rise on the Paciﬁc
slope. They will cross the crest of
the Rockies by close of May 29th and
June 4th, plains sections May 30 and
June 5, meridian 90, great lakes and
Ohio-Tennessee valleys May 31 and
June 6. eastern sections June 1 and
7. reaching vicinity of Newfoundland
near June 2 and 8. Storm waves will
follow about one day behind warm
waves and cool waves about one day
behind storm waves. The above para—
graph will correct some typographi—
cal errors occurring in last bullet‘n

Severe storms are expected nrar
May 27 in great central valley. but
not so destructive as those that oc-g- n-
red May 9, But all should be on
guard for them as they are expected
to be dangerous. Following these
storms unusually cool weather is ex-
pected and frosts where they Some-
times occur at this season. / From June
3 to 12 temperatures will make a great
rise-and not much rain during that
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FOR THE WEEK
l‘or lV'Iﬂ‘HlGAN BUSINESS FARMER

expected from June 10 to end of month
and not much rain, but thunder show-
ers with heavy local showers in a
few localities near June 11 and 26.
June will average warmer than usual
with less than usual rain. Some good
rains are expu-ted during five days
centering on June. 28.

Above are general forecasts. The
expected local changes in cropweather
following June 12, are less rain in all
eastern sections, an increase in rain
in Canada and our northern tier of
states West of the great lakes, a de-
crease of rain within 400 miles of a
line drawn from Denver, Colorado.
to Jacksonville. Florida; an increase.
of rain southwest of the Colorado river
in Texas and in northern Mexico;
a decrease of rain in Europe and an
increase in South Africa and South
America cast of the Andes.

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May 4, ample and urgent warnings
of very dangerous and destructive
storms near the. great lakes and near
May 8 were published in this and
many other papers. Many lives and
much damage must have been saved
by these frequent and: earnest warn-
ings. Such accurate forecasts have
never before been made and indicate
that my persistent study and hard
work are bringing results. I expect to
accomplish another great and very
important. advance in weatherology

by the end of July.
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’ The grass: seed marinade somew ‘
ﬁrmer although. quotations _ built

, the same as ‘thoseﬂofla'stwe

troit is quoting spot prime 3 ‘ ,

There is a lair demand fol-.001: ,
seed at around $14.50. Toledo reports"
timothy active with tree selling-of.
September at $4.47 and ,OctobEr at;
$4.15., Spring weather was never belts;

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Detroit 19 00 '19 50 ".00 i8 00
Chic!!! 22 M l‘ 0. [8 00
Cincinnati 23 00‘19 00 21 00
“mull Zl 50‘l5 5. ll 00
NW York 27 00 23 0. 25 “
Richmond 25 00 22 00 23 00

The general condition of the hay
markets of the Country is such as to
make it advisable to withhold ship-
ments for a week or so.
plenty of time to. clean up the old
hay before the new will seriously af-
fect the market. All markets at this
time are suffering from an cver-sup-'
ply, especially of the poorer grades
and there seems to be a sort of a pan-
cky feeling among shippers and grow-
ers to get rid of their holdngs with-
out a moment’s delay. This tendency
is ﬂooding the markets and causing
a generally demoralized condition.

Quotations at Detroit remain about
the same, but there is free supply and
the possibility of a further decline in
prices. Chicago reports a light de-
mand and plentiful supplies. Dealers
there are advising shippers to hold

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back the movement of bay for a week}

or so until the market has opportun-
ity to clean up. '
The Cincinnati market is still in an
unsatisfactory condition so far as any-
thing but the ﬁrst grades are con-
cerned.
receiving altogether too much hay
and an embargo has been placed, mak—
ng it necessary for shppers to wire
consignee there and secure a permit
before shipment may be made.
Eastern markets are cleaning up
to a certain extent but the supply is
still plentiful. The poorer grades es—
pecially are in plentiful supply and
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white-sacked

Choice rouuo

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Cincinnati. . 1.05
New York . 1.00
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Just at this time there is a strong
er feeling in the potato market. Grow~
ers who have stock to sell are busy on
the farms and have not been making
much of an effort to ﬁnish deliveries.
The decline in prices has also had an
effect, both in increasing cousumptiox
and in cutting off receipts at the prin-
cipal markets. There is no doubt but
what there is still a large amount of
stock to come on the market and thy

season for it is now limited. We be- 1" ‘

lieve it advisable for those still hold:
ing potatoes to get then on the market
at this time. A concerted effort is be-

.ing made to increase the consumption

of the old stock in preference to the

new pota’oes now arriving from‘fthe~

south, and! growers. in Miehigankwii
do well to. take advantageofthe it;

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There is still‘

The market there has been'

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‘ retty‘w‘ell' cleaned up in (this

_ -."Bnyers hare been offering

’y, ' ..per' hundred pounds loathe
0,411 fgnde.‘ "The potato acreage will
“smaller, [here thisyear as growers

.Vlo's’t from Quito 75 cents per bushel last”.
'7 year;1So far there have been around

3‘00 cars shipped from this station and

a”. rew- more will ﬁnish the deal. “.
Granville, Mich, May 20.—oNot so

many potatoes‘coming to this market

' ' (an runners are busy on the farms and -

the price is not attractive. Price
ranges from 55 to 60 cents per hun-
dred pounds. There is still quite a
lot of old stock to move and some of
it will be left on growers’ hands.

at

There is now a better demand for
onions in Detroit and the supply is .
light. No 1 yellows are selling for_‘$1
per cwt., and dealers there advise the
shippers to market the renainder of
their crop at this time. ' "

Chicago reports that old onions have
just about given way to the new and
are ﬁnding a poor market. No. 1 yel-'
~lows are nominally quoted at. $1.25
per cwt. but it would perhaps be a dif-
ﬁcult matter to get that price for
them. One dollar would perhaps be
nearer the price. Red onions are a
drag on the market and sales are few
and far between.

The supply of butter is increasing at
Detroit and the price is inclined to
work lower. Receipts have been rath-
er heavy during the past week and
. indications point to still heavier ar-
rivals during the coming week and a
possible further decline in quotations.
Fresh creamery ﬁrsts are quoted at
401/20; fresh creamery extras at 411/2
to 42c. Our New York correspondent,
under date of May 18, writes as fol-
lows:

“At the close on Friday quotations
were as follows: Extras, 46 to 4613.0;
higher scoring than extras, 47 to 47l/_.
cents; ﬁrsts, 431/2 to 451/2c; and sec-
onds, 381/: to 421/.c. Unsalted contin—
ues at a differential of about two
cents above corresponding grades of.
salted. Demand for butter has con-
tinued active this week and there
are few accumulatons. Lower grades
do not sell so readily as earlier in the
season and a greater range of price
can be expected. Wecdy and garlicky
ﬂavors have been quite in evidence in
many lots which very naturally af-
fects the grading of such butter. The
prevailing opinion among dea‘l’ers is
that butter prices will remain high
throughout the season.

The Chicago market is more or less
nervous and responds quickly to de-
mand or lack of dgnand. Trading is
dull, buyers waiting for the drop
which they feel is bound to come with
an increase in production. Creamery
extras are quoted at 4114c; ﬁrsts,
39.to 41c; seconds, 34 to 37c.

Cheese

New York, May 20.——The market has
been steady on fresh ﬂats the past
week. Receipts have not been excess—
ive and since more of the large local
cutters have now changed from old to
new the domestic demand has been
aboutsuﬁicient to care for arrivals.
Fresh white ﬂats have been in light

supply, the manufacture of these hav- ,

ing been discouraged by the unsatis~
factory wind-up on old white. The few
lots coming have cleared at about same
prices as prevail on colored. Prob-
ably most sales of fresh ﬂats this week'
have been at 22 3—4 to 23c. though some
lots of very desirable stock have been
sold to the Allied Commission at
2215c, and occasional lots of less desir—
able quality have been picked up for
less. Fresh twins are chiefly ‘going to
the Allied Commission at 221/2c. Re-
cently round lots have been offered to
local trade in the west at prices slight-
ly“~bel’ow a parity with that ﬁgure, de-
' " livered in , New York. Fresh Daisies
' ~-nbt in large supply but fresh Wiscon-'
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meal, $65; chop, $53 per ton.

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The Cart Before the Horse

HE PRESIDENT has ordered the immediate .

licensing of all manufacturers of and dealers

in farm machinery. This Will give the fed-
eral government authority to examine the books
of such manufacturers and dealers at any time
it desires in order to ascertain whether exorbitant
proﬁts are being made. It is not true, as. has
been reported from some sources that the govern-
ment has “ﬁxed” the prices of farm machinery.
It has merely acquired the means of ﬁxing prices,
if it later desires.

Will the President's action result in lower pric—
It is not likely. These
prices are high, but so are the prices of the raw
materials that enter into their manufacture. If
farm machinery proﬁts were only reasonable be-
fore the war, it is not to be supposed that they are
unreasonable now, as the advance has not been
any greater than on other articles, the compon-
ent parts of which are made up largely of steel
and iron. .

When we discuss prices on farm implements
we are led back to the subject of ﬁxed prices on
farm products, and the theory of price-ﬁxing in
general. As we understand it, prices are ﬁxed
for one or all of three principal reasons, viz., to

enc0urage production. to prevent proﬁteering, to '

protect the consumer from exorbitant prices. In
putting this theory into practice, it is essential
that the ﬁxed price cover the cost of. production
plus a reasonable proﬁt. Anything less than this
would defeat the prime purpose for which it was
intended.

It is a well-known fact that government prices

.on manufactured articles cover every item of cost

plus a proﬁt, in most cases, of ten per cent. The
most trivial variations in the cost are carefully
accounted for so that the manufacturer is abso-
lutely assured at all times of his ten per cent
proﬁt.

When the legislators attempt to.ﬁx prices on
farm products, however, they invariably place
the cart before the horse. The constantly chang-
ing costs of production are quite ignored. At
least, such was the case in the ﬁxing of the wheat
price six months to a year in advance of the bar-
vest. Had the government the same careful con-
sideration of the farmers’ interests as of‘ the man-
ufacturers, farm machinery prices would have
been scrutinized and regulated before the wheat
price was ﬁxed instead of a year or more after-
wards. , _

To determine the cost of growing wheat, it is
quite necessary to know the cost of the mach-
inery employed in its cultivation. To know
the cost of machinery it is necessary to know
the cost of the bolts, the screws, and the castings
of which the machinery is made. And to know
the cost of these it is necessary to know the cost
of the raw material that enters into their manu-
facture. So then, a pat of the cost of growing
wheat can be traced‘way back' to the source of
metal supply, and a ﬁxed maximum price can only
be fair that takes cognizance of the original cost
of this raw material.

It would be a ridiculoug piece of business for
the government to order the implement dealer to
conﬁne his retail prices to certain limits, if the
price was not sufﬁcient to cover the cost of the
And it is equally ridiculous
forage-government! to *set'alpriceon wheat or any

,Austrian extraction.

HE. Kamila wam; a. doubt feel high’ly"

complidiented if he" could but know the
crimes and outrages in this country that _,
- I“ 611 for luxuries and pleasures; thousands of oth rs: ,.—

are laid to his devilish ingenuity“

A Harlem lady, whose imagination has been

kindled by newspaper Stories of German propa-

ganda, bites on a raisenseed in a fruit cocky;

and immediately phones the police that she has
discovered ground‘glass in the food. Detectives
arrive posthaste; the cooky jar is conﬁscated, its
contents microscopically examined, and the ground
glass theOry vanishes in thin air.

, Similarly, a Detroit lady buys a cheap face
paint from a persistent canvasser and applies it
vigorously to her countenance. Her face begins
to 'smart, and assumes the hue of a barn-red paint.
Not knowing that an over-zealous manufacturer
has placed an' over-abundance of caustic in the
cream for the purpose cf giving the complexion a
ruddy glow, the lady is convinced that the paste
was poisoned by the KaiSer, and she instantly re-
calls that the agent had a fat stomach, upturned
moustaches, spoke with a German accent and ,‘wore
an unmistakable military air.

Let-a farmer’s barn burn,‘or a team of horses
die, and the Kaiser gets the credit. Let a work-
man drop a match in a powder can and send a
quarter of a million dollar plant up in smoke,
and the old alibi of carelessness is substituted by
the more popular one of Kaiserism.

An unavoidable delay in war manufactories;
a mention of peace by a public speaker; a ship-
yard strike; a protest against discriminatory prac-
tices—all are inspired by the German propaganda
that we are told is so actively and insiduously at
work in this country.

It is signiﬁcant that secret service agents have
failed to trace a single case of glass in food to
German agents, and hundreds of accidents, ﬁres,
explosions and outrages, conﬁdently believed to
be of German origin, have, after exhaustive in-
vestigation been ascribedto natural causes.

It is well for loyal Americans to keep their eyes
and ears open for signs of pro—German activity.
Every community has its citizens of German and
Undoubtedly the sympathies
of many are still with the enemy country. Indis-
criminate criticism of the United States, and praise
of Germany should be frowned upon, not that it
detracts from the loyalty and patriotism of true
Americans, but because as true Americans we
should resent disloyal remarks against our coun-
try. But to take the law in our own hands and at-
tempt to administer punishment is un-American,
and should not be countenanced by law-abiding
citizens. Open deﬁance of the Government and
downright sedition. should be immediately report-
ed to the authorities at Washington.

Because a neighbor or a resident of a commun-
ity is of German birth, it does not always or usu-
ally follow that his sympathies are German. In
fact some of the most loyal and active patriots in
the United States once lived under German rule.
Instead of casting the eye of suspicion and venting
loud criticism upon those of German name and
blood in order to show what a good American you
are, it would be a better proof of Americanism to
play fair, and give your German neighbor the
beneﬁt of an occasional doubt, for he may be as
good an American as you.

Prepare to Sacriﬁce

F IT WERE NOT for the newspapers many
I people would never realize that the nation is
at war. Occasionally a community turns out
to hon-or a quota of recruits departing for the train-
ing camps; thrice only has the Liberty Loan com—
mittee called at the house of Mr. American Citizen
to sell. him a gilt-edged, interest-bearing bond;
twice, only has he Opened his door to, the Red
Cross solicitor, but these are about the only phys-
ical signs to indicate to the average citizen .that

there is anything unusual taking place.
We, are pronehto smile when we read of the
“sacriﬁces" that are being-made by w"e11-to~do peo-
ple such as eliminating a servant or two, dispos-

' ing of one of their motors... simplifying their men-
' ues, and otherwise curtailing.the superﬁcial lux-

uries and'extravagances to which they have be-
come accustomed. It is neither patriotism nor
sacrilace, for any man or woman to dispense with
a single luxury in War time, and they are entitled
to no special credit for so doing.

The time is coming. very soon when people in

.mo‘de‘rate circumstances are going to feel the pinch' _ _
Up to the,

of war, in their every day existence

save. .
you don’ t need. The judicious saving of food, olo- ,

to do so Thousands continue to spend heir :11

continue to live item hand to mouth, with no that -

of the future or what it portends. Learn 110w to
Buy. what you need, but go without what

thing, fuel, and money is not only a patriotic duty . .

but an insurance against sacriﬁces which may.

pinch you hard before the war is over. - .

» . The Bean Canipaign .
MICHIGAN BEAN dealers are afraid that the

farmers are not going to plant their nor——
Their.

mal acreage of beans this year.
fears are well feunded. Reports received by M.
B. F., and the -.comparatively light demand

for seed indicate that the acreage will not be near.

what it was last year. Some'elevat'or men esti-
mate the decrease at forty to' ﬁfty per cent.

The bean market is much like a bull in a china
shop. only it has bearish tendencies. It apparent-
ly doesn’t know whiCh way to go.. The Food Ad-
ministrationhas shaken the red rag of pinto prop-

aganda so persistently in its face that it has be-'

come angered, bewildered, and reStless; Whether
it will ever quiet down is a question.

In view of the persistent publicity that, has
been given the pinto beanand the large eytent
to which it has already supr"anted the navy in the
markets of the east, it ismmost difﬁcult to predict
what the future: of the navy bean market is to
be and also to estimate the .amount of acreage
that can safely be planted in Michigan this year.

We are positively assured by 'certain bean job-
bers who, know the preference of the trade far
better than we that the pinto cannot permanently
take the place of the navy bean. If this be true,
and there is a chance that the old-time demand
will reassert itself another year, we are convinced
that Michigan farmers should plant their usual
acreage.

We must remember that as the war goes on
lessening the food producing ability of the bellig-
erent nations across the sea that the demands
upon our own country‘will become larger and
more insistent. Wheat and beans are essentially
“war foods.” They are the most easily exported,
contain the largest amount of food nutrients, and
form the principal part ofthe soldier’s diet. Of
all, foods grown in wartimes, we should say that
next to wheat beans are by far the most necessary
to the nation’s welfare and the most proﬁtable for
the farmer to raise. Every farmer can afford to
take a chance this year on beans; let’s boost that
acreage to normal at least. . ,, .

The house of representatives is confronted with
an amendment, the purpose of whichc is to force
President Wilson to prohibit the manufacture and
sale of all alcoholic drinks during the war. Every
M. B. F. reader who is ag’in the liquor trafﬁc and
wants to see prohibition made a success in Mich-
igan should take time enough to write his con-
gressman AT ONCE to support that measure. Let
your representatives at Washington know where
YOU stand on this question. The other fellows
are letting them know where THEY stand. A few
letters from ‘fhome” on a matter like this will
often give your congressman the courage to carry
conviction.

Mob rule and lynch law scored a victory over in
Shiawassee county the other day when the prose-'
outing attorney, according to theipress. publicly
proclaimed that he would take noaction against
anyone who tarred and feathered his neighbor on
grounds of suspected disloyalty. Thus the indi-
vidual instead of the state'is’ made the arbiter of
right and wrong; justice is mocked, and every rogue
in Shiawassee county invited to assault his neigh-
bor. The voters everywhere in Michigan should
not fail next fall, even if the state does, to re-
move from ofﬁce all those hyperpatriot’ic ofﬁcials
who so far forget their oath of. oﬁce and the laws
of the state of Michigan as to put their ofﬁcial
0. K. upon crime.

We’re mighty‘proud of Michigan. She was the
ﬁrst state in the union to reach her Red Cross

quota and went over the top the FIRST day. The,
patriotiSm of Michigan felk is not conﬁned to an '
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.1111 and truthful presentation- at the wheat situa-
ti6n.
_ us yOur comments on it.

It‘ Is a well written, force-
It’s Worth any farmer’s attention. Write

The new generations have to item by eXperien_ce
the old truths. The teaching 02 dead and gone

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eloquence akin to runnng water uphill

solute. Who reads Adam Smith today? Who
'believes him? How many ever heard of him?
And yet he demonstrated to a mat-hematemic'al
certainty the immutabllily of the law of. supply
and demand, as ﬁxed a law and on the same
principle as that nature abhors a vacuum. Con-
'gress established a minimum price for wheat The
administration converted it by license method into
_a maximum, and 1,700 millers‘agreed, as one con-
dition of license;.not to grind more ‘thang75 per cent
of 1he‘ wheat they had ground the year before.
The Administration, as an eXcuse for this, re-
plied to inqui1y that one miller should not be al-
lowed to make more money than another. I be-
lieve the ma] reason was to- secure more wheat
for our allies—~21 most commend-able reason. which
would have been better than the one given. How
did. it work? To save valuable space I will elim-
inate names and places and agree if any statement
is questibned to submit the evidence.

A mill had its quota of wheat; 17 leads came
to the door later and was sent home; it was fed
to stock with. many another load. This was re-
peated all Over the milling section of the country.
A farmer shipped 900 bushels of wheat to a mill;
it was closed, having ground do 75 per cent The
wheat was shipped back, and the farmer getting
no bran or middlihgs fer his stock, ground Ihe
wheat and fed it. The trouble with th administra‘

' tion is that it does not understand the situation

of the plain common farmer; no one does who has
net chored by lantern light toiled in the ﬁeld by
daylight and sought to pay taxes and wrest a liv-
ing from'the soil, despte the enemies that lurk at
every turn to defeat him. The forum endeavms
to produce something that will yield him 11 pioﬁt
to buy clothing, machineiy and groceries, pay tax—
es and labor and doctors’ bills He selects the most
promising article he can, and the result depends
on many varying conditions over which he has
no control. If the crop is small generally the
law of. supply and demand will enhance the pi ice
otherwise old age will ﬁnd him a public charge,
for he must be paid in some way, so that the order
depriving him of his natural proﬁt on wheat is
nugatory. The invincible law of supply and de-
mand exacts retribution for its violation

Go back to the English food laws of 1765. They
began with a voluminous statute concerning biead
which had to be followed by so many other laws
that the whole industrial system of the nation
was in confusion. Rioting ove1 these stringent
regulations did not wholly cease until 1846, when
the last of them was repealed. The common Amer-
ican farmer is not iiotous, and he is 11 112111101, but
to have to feed wheat to hogs and see his family
restricted in the use of it and our allies not bene-
An incident in point is that
crackers were on the table made according to reg-
ulation. so the label stated They sickened all at
the table, includng growing children, save the
writer and spoiled the dinner I did not deﬁle my

soup with them, and dined heartily. The family '

cow indignantly declined them and the chickens
refused them. All the hogs were sold or I should
have tried them on the hogs. Doubtless the hog
would have looted them to one side. The Food
Administration has enabled the 110g to live sump-
tuously on the king of cereals while poor mor-
lality gnaws the hard and bitter concoctions of
swivel chair chefs and society ladies. The hog
is now an epicure like I was, while the genius
homo is in the Lazari 5 class. This does not add
too the efﬁciency of the farm worker or the sturdy
growth of children to 1‘ place us; it does not help
our soldiers overseas nor aid ou1 aJlies. It is the

’ terrible penalty the nation pays for exalting met-

oric over common sense. It is the penalty Eng.
land pays today for ceding Heligoland to Germany
at the instance of a posing statesman ”intoxicat-
ed by the exuberance of his own verbosity.” This
nation walked through “the valley of the shadow
of death,” led by its talkcis. until a silent man
a doer, replaced the garrulous and so it will be
again When the froth at the top has been blown
away by disaster ‘

The reduction of the price of wheat and the
increaSe of its production require a. hydra-lie of
It will not
work; it has not worked, to any appreciable ex-
tent.” Verbose propaganda may intoxicate the or-
_ iginator but not the toiling farmer, slipping back-

'ward, ﬁnancially. ——M. T. G.

~ ' Glad M B. F. “Shows its ‘Colors”
.~. I amglad to. state that I have expeiienced
' ' on this advertising investment.
" make this statement because,

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6 5154‘s}: for one. 311115 or the other.
1. which side, he will have my respect it he will get

Club m£h,’r:t ‘8..- the accuser-retire . 1' like:- a man

_‘ , trhas the backbone; and character
.0 stand out sonarely in the open and put up- a
Don’t care much

out and fight i r something he believes 111.5311
ﬁght hard enough to get thru the hog in human
nature deep “enough to make?“ the‘ fellow on the
other side squirm and cuss. You saniti. develop
much. manhood or do a lot of good in thirst-old
wOrld without making some folks mad. ".Woe
unto you when all men shall speak well of you.’

“Love Your enemies.” How in thunder are you
going to love them if you don’t have some to love?
With all thy getting, get enemies, for they will
keep your grave green long after your friends
‘have forgotten you. Jesus Christ knew what he
was talking about when he Said, "Love your ene-
mies.” He knew it involved the effort of making

4’ them. He could not preach ten minutes ’wlthout

making someget so mad they wanted to kill .him.
and ﬁnally they did. But he kept right on stick-
ing his bayonet into greed, hypocrisy, injustice
and rot.—a good deal like the M. BI F. has been
doing with “Shylocks,” etc.

There now, I have no business sitting here this
beautiful spring morning and writing this sort
of stuff to you when I have plowing and planting
and a. hundred other things calling me, and the
house—tops covered with hiper-super-patriots yell-
ing their heads off at me to “dig in."——C. W. Cram
Scc’y Central Michigan Shorthorn Breeders’ Asso-
cmlion, 1103711163.

A Satisﬁed Tractor Farmer

.Last spring we had so much work to do that
we got an 8-16 tractor to help us out, and it cer—
tainly did. We plowed 32 acres in seven and one
half days and twelve of it was vhere we had
stumped the fall before, but it didn’t make any
difference, it plowed just to same. In dragging
we put two 1'T-tooth drags behind it and dragged
30 acres in 10 110 s.' When disking we put two
lZ-lG'discs and put grain sacks ﬁlled with sand
011 each section and then set them up in the last
notch and pull the bar and go to It for ten hours
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It doesn’t make any dif; :‘ence how hot it is, it
goes just the same; when it is the hottest the
tractor works best. In doing our heaviest work
it used from 17 to 20 gallons of kerosene and :1
quarts of cylinder oil, thus making it run not far

"V1 $2.25 per day for doing 0 1- heavy work, and
it did the work of six good horses. A number of
nights in the rush we ran it until 10 p. 111.

Any one who has lots of hard work to do would
not make a mistake in buying a tractor. And'l
would advise anyone who is thinking of getting
one to get a 10-20, not but what the 8—16 is a good
one, but a 10-20 will do the same work easier.
One might better have a little power to spare than
to have your engine working to its capacity all
the time—E. S. S., Blanchard, Michigan.

From a Farm Woman Patriot

We take your paper and think it ﬁne. I noticed
the article “Play Fair, Mr. Farmer,” written by
Louis Albert Lamb. I am a farmer’s daughter,
also a farmer’s wife. and believe in equal rights.
In defense of the ﬁarmer I will say I think the
article the most stinging blow any one ever tried
to deal to the farmers. I think that fellow must
be a blower of hot air and can do that more easily
than he can go to the front or to the farm. Of
course there might be a few farmers that would
neglect their duty. the same as any other class of‘
people, bu-t on the average they are doing» their
share, and more. For instance, will say I have
a brother, worked very hard to get a farm, team
and tools paid for. With ‘.is surplus money he
bought Liberty bonds, then he enlisted before
he was called to the army. What boy can do more
than this. He sacriﬁced everything most dear.
I Wonder how much such as Mr. Lamb has sacri-
ﬁced? Many more of our boys have done as
much. and many more to go, and we women have
to. work and to a great extent, try to talm their
places. I am not ﬁnding fault but am glad to do
my part. And if my brother is lucky enough to.
return, which we must continue to thick- he will,
it would be one of the proudest and happiest days
I could ever live to see. If not he has done his

{and God’s Will not ours, be done. ——Mrs. J.
’ "*Mt'cht'gan. '

Looking at the Farmer Thrbugh a City Fe
,- . paper’s Eyes '1 ‘

Subscriber Frank Dovey of Union City sends,“.
us the following clipping from the. Chicago. Hé’rv-zf
11111411711111.1113?" We publish it heiewith because it P
roﬂocts an unusual attitude of the metropolitan .-
press toward the farmer, and because it is upon _
a subject that has been mum discussed in these;

columns:

' LET THE FARMERS onGANIZE

When you' look at the groups of men who are
running public affairs you will see that almost
every great occupation is represented in those
groups EXCEPT THE GREATEST AND MUST
USEFUL OCCUPATION OF ALL. '

Educators are represented by the President and
by department heads~—Dr. Garﬁeld, for example.
Lawyers are at the head of the Department of
State, the Department of Justice and the Depart.-
ment of the Interior, and are in the majority in
the Senate and in the House

Steel manufacturers and shipbuilders and rail«
way men have their representatives in executive
places full of influence and authority.

The labor unions are represented by Mr. Gom-
pers.

In short, every class—educators, bankers, manu~
facturers, merchants, railway men. lawyers and
labor organizations—is represented
places of authority.

But where are the representatives of the most
numerous and the most useful class of all classes?

WHERE ARE THE FARMERS?

Of course there is a Department of Agriculture,
and of course this department does some very
good work in the way of educating farmers and
stimulating the production of’crops. But all that
is mere routine work. which goes on in normal
times of peace precisely as it goes on now in this
abnormal time of war.

The point we wish to make is this: That in
the make-up of the new commissions and boards
called into existence by the exigencies of war
every class of citizens has been recognized by the
selection of one of its members for some post of
great importance and great, authority, EXCEPT
THE AGRICULTURAL CLASS. '

Now, of course, the reason for this is not far

to seek.

The reason is that the farmers ARE NOT OR-
GANIZED; that they have not recognized their
class interests.

See how the politicians in Washington and out
of Washington sit up and pay attention when a
labor organization speaks; when the railroad
men’s unions, for example. say something.

And the reason why the railway employee re-
ceives deferential consent lo HIS DEMANDS for
a higher price for his product and the farmer is
thrown out of the door by the Congress when HE
demands a higher price for his product is that the
railway employees are all organized and all speak
together through their leaders. while the farmers
axe NOT ORGANIZED and have no recognized
leadeis to speak their collective voire

We have but one word of advi1e to you farmers
——one word that sums up the whole matter. That
word is—

ORGANIZE!

’Nother Cull Bean Argument

I notice in a recent issue of M. B. F. some of
the “overhead expenses” thesc elevator men quote
It reminds me of. the average butcher who goes to
some farmer’s place to butcher hogs or beef. He
takes the liver, heart, tongue and seldom leaves
even the head for the dog. He pays for the car-
cass and hide (if it is beef) and takes the liver.
heart and tongue gratis and says it is the custom.
At the prevailing prices of meat it can readily be
seen that he is making a neat proﬁt off the pri-
ducer. Well, the way it looks to me this will ap-
ply to the cull bean question. The elevator man
don’t take into consideration the fact that possi-
bly the farmer might have some overhead expenses
connected with raising the bean crop. When a
bean crop picks as heavy as it did this year the
overhead expenses have been more than trebled.
It has meant handling them more times, both be-
fore and after threshing. Now, I personally know
of one elevator that has been fortunate enough
not, to have such a heavy “overhead expense,"
as people called at the elevator for the beans and
picked them in their homes at 5c 21 pound for
the culls. This same elevator has charged the
farmers 5c 21 pound for picking and offers the
culls back to the farmers at the modest sum of
$60 per ton. It looks to me as tho the farmer has
the short end of the lever. When we have to
stand the picking expense and buy the culls back
at $60 a. ton, spend valuable time and high~priced
ftel to cook them for hog feed, I can’t .1gure out
how we are getting much out. _of our cull beans.
Please ask some of the “progressive” farmers it
they consder every potato that goes over the “gov-
ernment screen’ ﬁrst— class. If the farmers have
to abide by this grading another year they Will
naturally draw potatoes ﬁeld run to the loading
station. In among these potatoes will be scabby,
over- grown ones that W111 pass ove1 base gr devs
and into sacks, and will be labeled as No. 1 stock.
New will they really be No. 1?———H. A. H., Mendon.

So long as the boys are at the front diﬂiculties
are to be subdued, impossibilities are to trampled
down.

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my readers are mixing to" the request- for l'et- ’

tors 011 home Conveniences. They have really
exceeded my expectations in both quality and
quantity. The contest closes this week, and the
ﬁrst prize will be awarded within the next ten
days to the one who has written the best letter
upon the subject. Everyone else whoae let-
ter has been used will receive a dish drying rack.

I hope the close of this little contest will not
be used as an excuse for writing nomore letters.
There are so many subjects upon'which farm
women are qualiﬁed to express their opinions, and
there are so many day to day experiences that
can be written up to form interesting and proﬁt-
able reading for us all. Write me whenever you
have a few spare moments, won’t you, about your
children, your husband, your garden, your chick-
ens, your automobile trips, your home, your social
activities, your church life, your joys, your sor-
sows,——anything and everything that even remote-
ly affects your daily existence. Dear readers, you
can help me make this page a page of service to
every one who reads it. Will you?—PENELOPE.

A Home-Made Fireless Cooker
Dear Penelope:—Enclosed is a description of
my ﬁreless cooker, a home convenience, which I
made myself, and which I have used for three
years, especially in hot weather.
I took a wooden shredded wheat box, cost ﬁve
cents at. the rgrocers’. I ﬁlled it one—third full of

" excelsior, packed tight, I purchased two enameled
‘pails with aluminum covers and clamps, one two-

quarts, the other four quarts, at a hardware
store. These I placed in the excelsior equal dis—
tance from the ends of the box and each other.
Around them I packed excelsior as deep as the
larger pail. I carefully removed the pails and
tacked denim (some I had once around the edge
of a carpet) around the edge of the box, letting it
sag over the excelsior and carefully folding it and
tacking in the corners. Then I made a mattress-
shapped cushion, just large enough to ﬁll the re-
mainder of the box. I cleated the top together,
hinged it to the box and put two screen door hooks
and eyes on it. I then painted it like my kitchen
woodwork. Later I found some asbestos that we
once had back of a stovepipe up stairs. From
this I cut a circular piece large enough to ﬁt the
bottom of each hole and a rectangular piece large
enough to ﬁt the sides of the hole.

The box works prefectly. I put castors on it
and I shove it under my work table. Many a meal
we have eaten from the contents of that box on
a hot summer day at noon. Moreover the house
1 take a piece of meat, put it in the
larger pail, put hot water and seasoning in it and
let boil ten minutes on the stove while I am wash-
ing my breakfast dishes. I put potatoes in the
other dish and let come to a boil on the stove.
Place in cooker and forget them until dinner time.
I usually thicken the water on meat before plac-
ing in box. At other times I add sliced potatoes
to meat and have the other pail for stri.1g beans
or peas. I Oat meal brought to poiling point and
placed in the box at supper t‘me and cum
reheated at breakfast time is de-

slightly

Communications fol" this page should lbesnddrossed" to
Penelope, Bor-

’- have a few useful ideas I shOuld like to enter as '

home kitchen conveniences. As the kitchen is the
room most occupied by housekeepers, I hope these
will help someone else as much as they have me.
I wish the M. B. F. would give more work to
be contributed by the readers, as it is so inter-
esting. I am sure that dish drainers must be a
great help. I already have an ironing board hang~
ing on my wall made from directions giVen a
short time ago in M. B. F. \
nlar for stir-
ring things while cooking. An ordinary spoon
slips into the kettle so easily and l was always

                                 

‘ burning my ﬁngers, so I bent the handle of this
one. forming a hook. and now hang it in the side -

of the kettle. ‘

No. 2.——I take two baking powder cans of dif—
ferent sizes and punch holes in the tops. These
I keep ﬁlled with salt and pepper and keep them
on top of my stove.

No. 3.—I have a stool about four inches higher
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The Hands That’s Windin’ Bandages
HE evenin’s that you’re spenalin’
Makin’ blessiu’s for our boys,

In your thoughts—in years that’s comiu'——
will come back to you as joys.

And teh glory that you’re gainin’

Will be yours forever more

For the hands that’s windin’ bandage

Is a-helpin’ win the war!

AND our boys what's goin’ over _

Won’t feel bad when they get shot,

Fer there‘s lots 0’ nice white bandage
Au’ a nice hos—pi-tal cot

Where they'll dream about the girlies
Who are windin’ more an’ more—

For the hands that‘s 11:-indin’ bandage
Is a helpiu' win the war!

0U are givin’ every moment

That. you can— It don't seem much,
But your bit you sure are (lo'in’

Fer to help to whip them “Dutch."
While we hope they won‘t be ueediu’

What’s already in your store,
We will always know you’re windiu’

Is the thing-that won the war.“

-——ALFRF.D J. SAUNDERS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

dishes or baking pancakes and things needing
constant watching while co‘oking.’ I keep this
under my pantry shelf.

No. 4,—1 keep about four holders made 6x6
inches, handy. to use about the kitchen. These
save many towels and burned lingers—Mrs. G.
K., New Haven, Michigan.

Wash-Dav Suggestions

Dear Penelopez—Your offer of a dish-drying rack
alone is enough to tempt me to try to give some of
my conveniences. The onesrwhich I consider my
greatest convenences are a gasoline iron and a
power washer. With four small children you
know there seems to be an endless wash. Un-
doubtedly all know how much a gasoline iron will
save in steps. fuel and also time. The power wash—
er is run by a gasoline engine and has also a
swinging wringer so I can \Viing f1om three dif-
ferent. tubs. I’m-hops a word as to how I wash

Hon-7.0 Department, linoleum”, Itch.

G. McN., Rockford, Mich.

' barley ﬂour instead of wheat flour.

  

'would help» those whr think of purchasing one. '1

I sort them as you not to put them into the
boiler; table cloths, ﬁne xwaists,- etc” ﬁrst, then
towels just as you would by hand, Dissolve a bar

"of soap and put with. ﬁrst clothes ‘in Washer, ﬁll

up to water line with water and start the engine.
While they are rubbing I wash out all soiled bah)
clothes, using the wringer as they are not dirty and
do not need. much rubbing so I do it all by hand as
I ‘do not like to‘. mix them with the others. I
then wring out first clothes and put in boiler and
put the second batch to rub up. As soon as the
ﬁrst are ready to take out of the boilerI put in
baby clothes and wring out the towels e-tc., and

scald them in'a large kettle which I use for that

purpose._ Empty washer, and put in ﬁrst clothes.
ﬁll with water, let rub while preparing rinse water.
Then put in baby clothes which have been scald—
ed. Let rub while‘wringing out ﬁrst of rinse water
separating the starched clothes as they come thru.
Repeat until all the wh te clothes are either in the
basket or in the rinse water; then add more soap
and the colored clothes. Let rub while hanging out
the white clothes. Woolens and light colors are
washed with the white clothes, omitting the boil—
ing and rinsing the woolens in soft water. We
also have running water with a faucet on the reser-
voir, which is very convenient.

Then just another that .we can all have is a
strip of wood fastened about two or three inches
from the ends of the cupboard to hold the cake and
pie tins, etc, so they won’t get mixed up" as they
are apt to when mixed with the basins.

This seems dreadfully long, but sometimes our
way of using things is as helpful as the conven—
iences and I do so enjoy reading the woman’s page
and applying all the helpful hints and thank all
for them, and I leave it to you, dear Penelope to
print or discard any or all as you see fit—Mrs.

Baking and Scrubbing

Dear Penelopez—Seeing your request for sug-
gestions for home conveniences, I will endeavor to
give you a few which have been a very great help
to me:

No. 1.—As this is the day of Johnny cake. use
The Johnny
cake is just as nice and you can‘t see any differ-
ence in it. "

No. 2.—Put Rex lye in water you use to scrub
ﬂoors and porches. It saves time and lots of hard
scrubbing. . 1

No. 3—When washing windgows use Bon Ami.
You can buy it at any grocery store. Wash the
windows with clear water. apply the'Bon Ami to
the cloth and rub on the Window, when dry polish
with a clean cloth. Try it; it saves time—Mrs.
0. W.. Elwcll, Michigan.

Three Helpful Hints

Dear Penelope:——Seeing your request in M. B.
F. for some inexpensive conveniences in the home.
I will give a few that I have tried.

When you wash windows that are too high to
reach, just put your clean cloths in a mop handle
and very often it saves lots of climbing up a step
ladder. Have some of your upstairs Window
screens on hinges and it saves a lot of steps when
you want to shake a dust cloth.

Freshly mixed mustard will remove ink stains.
Simply apply to stain and let remain one hour.
and then rinse in clean water.

This time of year old potatoes

 

licious. Navy beans are good, too.

One learns to use it more and
more. Sometimes I go to spend
the day with my mother, placing
the meat and vegetables in the box
I set the
table as much as possible, leaving
the “other half” to add bread, but-
ter,'etc. All he has to do is to dish
up out of the box, while I can spend
a long day free from worry, with
my two little girls and my mother.

I assure you it 'is worth any
farmer’s Wife’s while to make one
and use it if she hasn’t, the money
to buy a better one—Mrs. L. A. R.,
Linden, Michigan.

Kitchen Conveniences
Dear Penelopez—I am very glad
that you have extended the time

A little American “doing his bit. "
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few drops of vinegar is added to.
the water in which they are cooked
they will be a good color .—.A Farm-
ers W ifc.

Built-In Wood Box

Dear Penelope:——The one convex»
ience to me, which seems to he one
of the very best, is the built-in
wood box. It can so very easily
be put in any home, too. Cut
an opening in outside wall most
convenient to the stove, of desired
size. make box same as a tilting
ﬂour bin. The front, of course.
ﬁlling the cut-out wall space. An.
ordinary drawer pull makes an easy
way of opening. This is ﬁlled from
the outside, thus eliminating the
dirt from shoes and wood as when
brought in in the usual way. .-——1{rs.

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PRODUCE MORE HONEY
INCREASE YOUR PROFITS

With the prevailing su‘g-
ar shortage, honey is in
great demand and high
prices prevail, Make your
bees produce more this
year. Send for our cat-
alog for prices on Bee
Hives, Section Boxes,
'* . Comb Foundation, Smok-
.«.,j . ers, etc. —everything for

. - the bees. Our beginner’s complete out-
ﬁts are furnished with or without.
bees. Beeswax wanted.
BERRY BASKETS

We advise that you
place your orders ear-
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and 16-qt. crates be-
. cause the demand will
. exceed the supply. Let .

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quote you prices. We can make im—
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TESTED SEED BEANS

I have 125 bu. of. beans tested by
‘3, . the Lewellyn Bean Company of Grand
fry-1:- Rapids The test was 94 germination
* 1 ' of 50 beans planted. These beans are
one 1b. pickers. I will give 61 lbs,
which would give a man 60 lbs. of
stock all right as they are to plant
1ecleaned. Bags extra or send bags.
Beans 1 lb pick recleaned 61 lb1. per
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dross. These little slips are So easily
made and require a very small amount
of material,'1‘hé collar and cuffs of.
contrasting . material and the two
points, which form the fastening on
the front, make the dress suitable
for many oceasions; and yet it may

be simply a slip- -on, work dress. The-

stripped or ﬁgured calicos and per-
cales. are used a. great deal for these
,dresoes.

No. 8837—The yoke effect in child-
ren’s coats is becoming to almost ev-
ery type ofchlldron, whether tall or
short, ﬂeshy or slender, and it is equ-
ally as becoming to boys: This pat-
tern shows a yoke both in front and
in back, onto which the lower sec-
tion is shirred or may be pleated. It
has a tailored appearance so popular
in many children’s clothes of late. We
are beginning to realize how imprac—
'ticable it is to try to keep the “fussy”
dainty clothes on chldren. They are
made miserable while wearing them
for fear they will soil them, and moth-
ers are constantly cleaning and re-
pairing when their time is so badly
needed elsewhere.
checked shepherd’s plaid in black and
white, with either collars of same or
starched linen make the most service-
able coats and require but very little
work to keep them looking well. No.
8837 is cut in sizes 2, 4,.6, 7, 10 and
12‘ years. This pattern may also be
used for a dress. by cutting the neck
band a little different. I have used it
for a 2-year-old boy, making it of
white pique with large pearl buttons
down the front and smacking the skirt
section down three rows from the
yoke.

No 8840—This ladies’ shirt waist
is cut in sizes 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches
bust measure. The narrow shoulder
yoke is fashioned by gathering the
front edges to the back. Isn’t that a
clever arrangement in the collar? Be-
sides being a shawl collar it gives
popular vest effect and makes a very
simple fastening. The deep turned-
back cuffs show the same material of
the collar and vest. The corded or
closely woven fabrics are more suit-

able for such collars, as they keep
their shape much better.
No. 8825—Nurse’s dress and cap.

It is not necessary to be in training
in order to wear a nurse's costume;
so often sickness comes into our own
homes that this costume would be a
valuable addition to any mother’s
wardrobe. They are plain and‘com—
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pattern prosents a comfortable apron

A blue serge or a.

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The pattern is out in

The skirt is four-gor-
ed and gathered across the waist line
at the back.

No. 88444—«Ladies’ ﬁve-piece skirt.
This dye-gored model is made espec-
ially for stout ladies. The front gore
ﬁts smoothly into a, narrow belt of
same material. .The back gore are
slightly gathered. The skirt fastens
on the side front, a feature greatly
favored by many”. This pattern is cut
in sizes 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 ana‘. 42 inch
waist measure.

No. 8813—Ladies’ house dress, out
in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inch
bust measure. The surplice effect is
given in the'waist by the double-
breasted fastening and the large shap-
ed collar which extends to the waist
line. The button trim on‘ the sides
of the from:. gore and belt. give a
military effect and with its long, ﬂt-
ted sleeves this little model is as ap-
propriate for afternoon wear as a more
strictly house dress. The plaid ging-
hams and stripped or ﬁgured poplins
or voiles would make a very attractive
dress in this style.

Childrens’ Week

Remember June 8th——-the second
week of June—is to be children’s
week in the M. B. F. There will be
something of interest for everyone,
from the wee little tots to the older
children of school age, and I am ask-
ing you boys and girls to help me.

Surely you boys and girls who will
soon perhaps be Michigan’s farmers
and farm Wives, have plans for doing
your bit for Uncle Sam. Won’t you
write me a letter and tell me all
about yourselves and whatever you
are doing? Other children of M. B.
F. would like to know and they may
want to do the same. 1

And for the little folks who are too
small to write, won’t mother or older
sister send us a kodak picture or a
particularly clever saying. In short,
send anything of interest concerning
children.

We want to all get better acquaint-
ed, for in the near future I have a
surprise in store for you boys and
girls, and I am sure you will all be
glad to help. Affectionately,~—Punn-
LOPE.

Items of Interest to Women

The assistant paymaster of the navy
is Miss Dorsey, and so well does she
perform her dutes that Admiral Mc—
Gowan recently referred to her as the
“most valuable woman in government
service.” War emergency is discovering
many women who have peculiar
ability in administering governmental
affairs. The number of women in im-
portant war work is surprising. Per—
shing’s Wireless operator is a Denver
girl, Miss Kathleen Mitchell. She
operates the huge 2500 horsepower
plant just back of the American army
in France. Miss Mitchell easily han-
dles more than twenty words per min—
ute in continental or general service
code. As a Colorado voter, Miss Mit—
chell is the professional and political
equal of any operator in Uncle Sam’s
service. Sergeant Marie Dupree is
the only woman recruiting ofﬁcer in
the United States.

It as :1

Same old story of coeducational
institutions. (klumbia university l'ur-
nishes the record this year. More than
half her fellow/ships have been won
by women students. so it has been an-
nounced in the report just. issued The
gem of the prizes was that won by
Miss Clara Estelle Mortenson of San-
ta Rosa, California. She was award-
ed the Garth fellowship in political
economy which carries with it a net
income of $16 2!’ )0. It may be because
Califmnia women are Voters that
Miss Mortenson is so proﬁcient in
politcal economy.

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’The industrial chairman of the
National League for Women’s Servce,
Miss Marie Obernauer, deplores the
action of the United States Senate in
delaying the vote on the Federal Wom—
an's Suffrage amendment. She said,
“It lakes four men to maintain one
ﬁghting man'at the front. Just about
one man in each of these four is a .
woman. Why should the fourth man
be denied citizenship?” The answer
must come from the United States
Senate.

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sizes 36, 38, 4‘11: 42, 44 and 46 inch‘
‘ bust measure.

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500 bun. WHITE STAB SEED CORK; '
Early maturing, good yielder for sil-
age or husking $4 bu. bags free. Spec-
ial price on the lot. Sample for stamp.
Empress only. Harry Vail, Warwick.
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Nearly forty bushels of ﬁne navy
beans for sale; perfectly dry, barre-t.
ed before rains, and not exposed to
frost; price $9 per bushel cleaned and
picked.

A. R. Levey, Elsie, Michigan

  

 

 

 

  
 
 
 
 

 

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WONDERFUL FEED BEANS
The beans we are offering are worth
50% more than the average run of Mich—

igan Culls because they are absolutely

dry and free from clay and stones.
Grind two parts beans and one part

oats or bran and you will have :1 won—

derful ration for homes cattle hogs or
sheep

Price $50.00 ton delivrred Michigan
points, sacks included

The cheapest and best feed you can buy.
Order today before stocks are exhausted
Port Huron Storage & Bean Co.
Port Huron. Mich.

141‘1'8834 Bartlett Pr. 5 Montmorency

Chy. 5 Lombard Pl. All nice
on! 2 yr medium trees or half
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POTATOES

Plant a smaller .11 rouge and get a bigger
old. Writ to
THOMPSON W. NICHOLS, Hobart Mich.

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I have a good quality

navy beans tested, har
vested early. Price $9. 00 per bu. 1.0.0
St. Johns Send sacks parcel post.

E. Gegler St. Johns. Michigan.
FOB SALE—Choice Pea Beans. tested

98% stron,: g rmin tion 38. 00 per bush-
el N R Brown Grant. Michigan.

SEED BEAN

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Good germination. Wm
not frosted or wet. 39‘
A. Mosey, Barryton Midl.‘

FARNIS AND FARR! LANDS

 

FOR SALE—A large tract of good land
for farming when cleared Sufﬁcient for
a small colony. (‘an be purchased in'
tracts to suit the p11rch.1scr. Price and'
terms favorable. Also improved land
with good buildings thereon. All Situ—
ated on main lending line of road, to Lho‘
city of Chcboygan. No tornadoes, ﬂood:
or glasshoppers hem to harm life or
property For further description, if in—
terestcd write me. hJ. B. MacArthur, 680
Duncan avenue heboyg‘an Michigan.

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160 acres 1%) miles from

on main pike, level not
under culthatirm rest pas-
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who feme good grain and stock farm,
new 9-rm. house furnace, toilet bath:
Large barn. new granary machine shed

etc. 100 ton silo, young orchard, near
school. Telephone. R. F D.
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Michigan say the only real success and
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ply only on our present stock which was purchased before
he recent advance. POs tively no SECONDS and every tire "
guaranteed to wear and stand the same test as any other
high grade tire on the market; Order early as the stock is
.moving fast. Terms Cash.

CLEARING HOUSE ASSOCIATION
From Factory to You- »

Telephone Cherry 202i. 3234527 Russell 51..

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IISWe have a limited quantity of Contract Grown Seed Corn.’ On tests

just made this corn tests 80% and better. We can make immediate
shipment by express.

Reid’s Yellow Dent

All shelled com, 56 lbs. , price per bu. $8.00. f. o. b. Ypsilanti, Cash VVltll
\\ e ship immediately.

lmproved Leaniing Dent

order.

MARTIN DAWSON COMPANY, Ypsilanti, Michigan

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Piles Cured WITHOUT the Knife

 

The Largest Institution in the World for the
Treatment of Piles, Fistula and all Other
Diseases of the Rectum (Except Cancer)

WE CURE PILES FllSTl LA and all other DISEASES 0f the RFC-

TUM (except (anteI) by an original PAINLESS DISSOLVENT METHOD,

of 0m own WlTHOU T CHLOROPORM OR KNIFE and with NO DANGER
WHATEVER TO THE PATIENT. Our treatment has been so sumessfnl
that we have built up the LARGEST PRACTICE IN THE WORLD in
this line. 0111 t: eatment is NO EXPERIMENT but is the MOST SUC-
CESSFUL METHOD EVER DISCOVER RED FOR THE TREATMENT OF
DISEASES OF THE RECTUM. We have cured many cases where the
knit" failed and many desperate cases that. had been given up 1 die. WE
GUARANTEE A CURE IN EVERY-CASE WE ACCEPT OR MAKE NO
CHARGE FOR OUR SERVICES. We have cured thousands and thous-
ands from all parts of the United States and Canada. We are receiving
'1etters every day from the grateful people whom we have cured telling
us how thankful they are for the wonderful relief. We have 1,.
book explaining our ticatment and containing several hundred of these
letters to shew what those who have been cured by us think of ouI tiea.
n:.ent We would like to have you write us for this book as we know it.
will inteiest you and may be the means of RELIEVING YOUR AFFLIC
TION also. You may ﬁnd the names of many of your friends in this book
We me not extensive advertiseis as we depend almost wholly upon
the gratitude of the thousands whom we have cured fOI our advertising
You may neveI see our ad again so you better write for our book today

before 3 u lose our address.

Dr. Willard Burleson, Manager

Grand Rapids, Michigan

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heavier Igrades. A

 

'dresSed hogs until 'next»:.fall
shipping weather is; more favorable.

21c according to quality The same

‘ conditions apply to them in a large

measure as apply to dressed hogs.'.

‘ -;HQWever shipments of veal sent to;
market from nearby points, and prop-_
erly cooled before shipping, will ar-I -'

rive in good condition unless. the

. weather is too hot, as in midsummer, .3‘

Be sure that all. animal heat has left
the carcass before shipment.

Hides and Furs
No. 1 sured, 14c; No. 1 green, 130;
No. 1 cured bulls, 2; 'No. 1 green
No.1 cured veal kip, 22;
No.1 green veal kip. 20; No.1 cured

'murrain, 14, No. 1 green murrain, 13;
No.1 cured calf, 35; No 1 green calf,

35; No.1 hersehides, $6; No 2 horse;
hides, $5; No. ,2 hides, 1c and" No.12
kip and calf
above; sheepskins, as to amount of
wool, $1 to $3.50 each.

Wool

No ofﬁcial announcement has so far

been made regarding the price of wool ~

in the smaller producing sections of
the country such as Michigan. While
wools from the larger producing sec-
tions will move On consignment only,
it is generally understood that dealers
in this and other states producing
wool in similar quantities, will be al-
lowed to buy outright lots of less than
1,000 pounds. Until such time as a
deﬁnite plan is announced however,
this cannot be taken as a certainty.

The Boston quotations on Michigan
ﬂeeces for the current week are as
follows: Fine unwashed, 62 to 630.;
Delaine unwashed. 73c; half— blood.
unwashed, 75 to 76; three-eighths
blood unwashed. 75c; quarter-blood.
unwashed. 74c; half. three-eighths and
quarter. clothing. 67 to 690; common
and braid, 66 to 670.

Live Stock Letters

(VIII-arm. May 20, 1918.——Under the
lightest receipts of cattle last week
that (‘hicago has seen for some con—
siderable time the general market ail--
vanced 40 to 60 cents per cwt, All
grades participated in this improve:
ment and the advance was purely the
result of the material falling 01f in re-
ceipts. Two loads of prime 1400 lb.
beeves reached $17.75 the letter part
of the week, creatng a new tap for
the year.

Yearling cattle were in particular~
ly good demand and their advance
was Ieally more than that upon the
notable sale of
yearlings was that of 120 head of
985 lb. Texas bred Herefords at $17. 25
for E. B. Griﬂ‘m of Grant Park. III.
This is the highest price that was
ever paid for a string of yearlings of
so large a number in the history of
the market.

The advance made last week is being
well sustained today, when with 15.-

.000 cattle on sale the market 5 fully

steady. As the great bulk of the corn
fed beeves have undoubtedly been mar—
keted and it will be some consideable
time before there will be any material
supply from the western grass regions
it would appear to be pretty strongly

I 'ticulIarIy good "j cuties

As the Weather gets warmer year-

lings‘ ﬁnd much favor with the buyers" .
iand while prime heavy cattle still
command the premium we would not

be surprised to see them have to give,
place to the yearlings. A good many,
yearlings are in course 01‘ prepare--

'tion for the June and July markets”?
but at the same time them is not much .
prospect of any very large supply of

cattle from rany source. There has

been good Outlet for young Cattle to.

take back and put on grass as also tO.‘

"feed corn or grass .the coming seas—
on. The best class of feeders have sold ‘ ;

as high as 131/“: but the great bulk
of the young stuff.- that is going Out

I now testing 600 to 800 pO‘unds aver-
_ j age are costing largely- 111/, to 123/40
11/.i_,_c lower than the ~

per pound- Grazing conditions are
so ideal that naturally the demand
has been. stimulated but at the same
time the prices paid are not out of line

; at all when the general condition of

the fat cattle market is taken into
consideration.

Followng the Food Administration’s
announcement last week concerning
certain regulations applied to the
packers there was a slump n provis-
ion values and this was immediately
followed by a drop on the market for
hogs; This occurred largely on Wed-
nesday the 15th, but was followed by
a recovery in its practical entirety of
the decline. Today hogs were prac—
tically 100 higher than Satuday, al-

' tho the run of 36.000 could not be

called light. Best hogs sold at $17.90,
the highest price since' May 11th.
Packers have not been inclined to take
the initiative in the market, leaving
that to the speculators and some of
the small packers. Hog supplies are
not falling off in any such measure as
cattle. In fact the May movement is
practically twenty per cent. heavier
at Chicago than a year ago. and there
woul'l seem to be no indication that
the run will decrease materially, nor
will we probably see much ﬂuctuation
in value for some little time.

The past week has seen some little
ﬂuctuation in value-s for sheep and
lambs but these are not material. At
the present writing the best wooled
Colorado lambs are selling at $20.50
and the best shorn at $16.25. These
in .fact are the same ﬁgures as we
quoted in our letter of a week ago.
The runs are decreasing as the Colo-
rado stuff is pretty well in now and

= quiet conditions are expected to pre-

vail in thig branch of the industry
for a few weeks.

Detroit, May 21.—Best heavy steers,
$15. 50@$16 50; best handy weight
butcher steers, $13. 50@$14. 75; mixed
steers and heifers , $12 50@$13 50; han-
dy light weight butchers, $11.50 @
$12.50; light butchers, $9@$11.25;
best cows, $9.75,@$10~75§ butcher cows
$8.50@$9.25; common cows, $8@$8.25;
canners, $7@$7.50; best heavy bulls”
$9.75@$10.25; bologna bulls, $7.75@
$8.75; stock bulls, $7@$8; milkers and
springers, $55@$115.

Veal calves—Market
ldither: best, $14@$14.50;
63313.50.

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O ‘ MORE BEANS
  THIS YEAR!

Michigan is the heart of the great white or navy bean growing sec—

tion of these United States ofAmerica, no other section of the

world grows a“bean of such food value as here.

The navy bean is, as you know, one of the greatest heat and strength producing

foods which comes from the soil—and OUR SOLDIERS WHO FIGHT THAT
. THIS WORLD MAY BE MADE SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY FOR ALL

TIME, must have beans as part of their rations.

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The case is therefore clearly up to YOU, the men and women who till the beanland

of Michigan, TO GROW MORE BEANS THIS YEAR!

An average of three acres of beans to eVery farm in 'Michigan with a' minimum crop
“would mean six million bushels, war or peace, for only half the world is being culv
itivated this year and people in every warring nation except the United States is on
restricted diet.

Be Sure Your Seed Beans will Germinate!

This year of all years, the bean growers of Michigan cannot afford to take any»
chances with the seed they plant. The battle started right is two—thirds won and
so you must be sure of your seed. _

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The Production Division of the War Preparedness Board, will gladly arrange thru the M. A.
C. to test any seed beans which you have, of which you are not certain or they will put you in touch
with tested seed if you" are having-anydiﬂicultyin securing the quality and quantity you need to

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HIS beautiful new ofﬁce building. erected during the past year, now

, opened as headquarters of Michigan's pioneer mutual auto insur-
ance company, and our friends and members will always ﬁnd the
welcome sign hanging out for them. ’

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Be Sure the Company You Insure
With is Solid!

Of course you are going to insure your automobile against ﬁre, theft
and liability this year—-—no thinking man will drive any car a mile without

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this protectionmso the important point is to be sure the company you,

insure with is safe, trustworthy and amply able to care for the losses
which are bound to occur, so that you may be sure of protection when the
emergency comes!

The Citizens’ Mutual Auto Insurance Company is the pioneer in its
ﬁeld in Michigan. It begins its fourth. successful season wth more than
30,000 auto-owning members, not one of whom is a resident of Detroit or
.Grand Rapids, so that our losses are minimized. Every member of a
mutual, such as ours, add-s one link in the chain of security by which
your own auto is protected, so look to the number of members in the
mutual you insure with.

What We Did in 1917

Last year. 1917, we added 15,786 new members, and thus increased
the strength of this pioneer mutual by just that number. Auto insurance
is a mighty risky business. in the ﬁrst three months of 1918 we settled
132 claims amounting to $21,185.54, last year, (1917). we paid out a total
of $58,938.91. so the company you insure with must be well ﬁnanced and
ready to meet the heavy losses which are sure to come.

Why take a chance? You know the Citizens' Mutual, you know the
men behind it, you know that you share your liability with 30.000 other
auto owners and that back of your company always is a large reserve
fund of actual cash to meet any emergency. '

When the accident happens, you want protection. not excuses!

Don’t take a chance. when it is unnecessary, insure with

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KING SEGlS MOOIE

His Six Nearest Dams Average 33.03 pounds

His dam has made three records—each above 31 lbs._ Her highest mark so
lar is 32.55 lbs., 509.5 lbs. milk. She is slated for a big increase in record.

The Second Dam has a record of 30.75 lbs. butter. .487.6 lbs. milk. The
dam’s sire is the oldest son of the former World‘s Champion, Grace Fayne zds
Homestead (35.55 lbs), who is a grandson of the 50-lb. cow. The Sire
is King Segis Pontiac Alcurtra.

Let our splendid young sire raise the individuality and production of your

herd. . _ .
A few approvedcows will be accepted for servnce. SerVICe fee, $100.00.

Watch for our larger space and picture of thiswvonderful young bull

ALFALFA STOCK FARM

THOS. PHOENIX 8 SONS, — HAGLSAW, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We want these Registered Hol-
ste'm Bullsjowhea’rLQrﬂe Herds .

gle Comb White Leghorns.

Korndyke Clothilde of Serridale,
Born june 24, 1917. Price $100

Korndyke Ormsby of Serridella.
.Born Sept. 19, 1917. Price $85

Prices f. o. b. Oseoda, Mich.

SERRleA FARMS

Oscoda Michigan

. Immediate shipments.

25 chicks, $3.50.
50 chicks, $6.50
100 chicks, $12.75.

Specially mated stock.
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“’OLVBBINE CHICKEIY
711 Delaware St. SE.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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BABY CHICKS

Young’s Heavy Laying Strain Sin-
Delivered
direct to your door by mail prepaid.

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‘ . _' been ground
res. .. The weather .:isr;very,

‘w- m and some showers. .The Windstorm
of. the; 19th of May did quite a, lot' of

5. ainageto barns and. stlosllnthis‘vlcmity.

._.ats and,,bar’ley‘are growing ﬁne and a
arge acreage soWn. The-toll
were paid at Imlay Ci'ty'last we

‘=~£7$‘2.25‘; oats," 7o; wheat. $2.10“; y,- $1
to. $16; rye straw. $6 to $7; wheat-oat"

straw. $5 ‘to»$6; beans, $11; butter, 45;
butterfa‘t, 41; eggs,- ‘32:; sheep, $7 to.$9:
lambs 12 to 13; hogs. $15; beef steers,
$12; beef cows, $8; veal calves, '$.14.——C.
A. B., Imlay Cty, May 18.

ALLEGAN (Southeast) —Farmers . are
busy getting corn ground ready, a few
havmg already' planted." Good' corn
weather. This week will see about all of
the potatoes in this section cleaned up;
55 and 600 per cwt. being offened.-—W. F..
Otsego, May 18. ’

)IISSAUKEE (Central)——-Farmers are
gettingready to plant corn. Oats coming
up nicely. Early potatoes are planted
and ardent: are burly all planted. The,
west r is ﬁne and so is the condition of
the soil. Potatoes are being sold at the
cellars for any old price they can get,
around 20 and 25¢ ‘a hundred. Not much
market for anythng: buyers claim there.
IS not enough for sale to bother with.—
H. E. N., Cutcheon, May 18. '

CALHOUN (Southwest)—Farmers ane
very busy'getting their corn in. A large
acreage Will‘ be planted around here this
year. The ground is in the best of con-
dition and the weather is very favoraile.

' The Fordson tractor has been working

around here and some sales are looked
for. Oatslooking good as is also rye.
The followmgmrices were paid at Athens
last week: Wheat, $2.05; corn, $2.00;
oats, 72; rye, $2.00; butter, 35; butterfat,
44; eggS, 34.—E. B. H., Athens, May 18.

ARENA!) (East)——Thisweek has been
an exceptionally good one. Everything
growling good. Corn. beans and potatoes
being put in. Produce is on the decline.
The following prices were paid at Twin—
ing this week: Corn. $1.70; oats, 70:
beans. $9.50; potatoes, 60 bu.; butterfat,
41; eggs. 28.—-M. B. R. Twining, May l7.

MOISROE (“'est' .(Tcntral)~The corn
crop 18 about two-thirds planted; the
ground worked up in ﬁne condition and

,a warm rain will help the corn sprout.

Hats and meadows are looking good. The
farmers are not selling much these days.
Some have a few fat hogs, but they are
getting very scarce. The following prices
were paid at. Petersburg this week: Oats,
72; rye, $2.00; corn, $1.75; wheat, $2.10;
buckwheat, per cwt.. $4.00; barley. per
cwt., $3.50; butter, 38; eggs, 33: hogs,
$17; veal calves, $11.——W. H. L., Dun-
dee, May 18.

BUDL/‘ND (Northwest)—-We have
been having extra ﬁne weather the past
week. Several barns were destroyed by
the storm last week. Farmers are busy
plowing and putting in sugar beets and
corn. Sugar beet seeding will be about
completed this week. \Iever saw oats
and barley look better. there is prospect
for a. big crop. A number of farmers are
selling their beans- The beam acreage
will not be much over half what it. was
last yearn—F. A. 1.. .("olemait May 17.

LAPEER (Nortlrenst)——Farmers are
busy planting corn and getting ready to
plant other crops. The. weather is fine at
present and everything is about out of
the farmers’ hands except a little hay.
and the buyers are not buying hay at
present. Nothing moving except cream
which is bringing a good price. The seed-'
ing will be about done here in a week
more- Wheat will be about half a crop;
farmers are plowing up many ﬁelds that
were seeded last fall and putting in bar-
ley or some other crop. No change in
prices from last week—I. (l. 8.. North
Branch. May 16.

MONTCALEVI (Northeast) - Farmers
are planting corn. Weather conditions-a
favorable in the day time but frosts at
night. Farmers have been drawing po-
tatoes and the price has been going down.
Hay and oats very scarce. The following
prices -were offered at Six Lakes this
week: Wheat, $2.03; corn, seed. shelled.
$3 00; oats, 68; rye $2.25; hay. $30:
beans, $10; potatoes, 50c cwt; butter. 41 -,
butterfat, 41 ; eggs, 30; hogs, $16.50: veal
calves. '12; wool. 65.—C. G.. Edmore.
May 15.

BRANCH (Koran—Farmers are plow-
ing for corn and some are planting. The
soil is pretty heavybut is getting better.
The weather has been ﬁne the pat week.
Farmers have nothing much to sell there-
fore they are holding nothing,» but wool
and there seems to be no price for that.
Some repairing being done to old build-
ings. One of the worst windstorms here
in years did lots of'damage to- property.

Prices aﬁered, at Union Cityr 1Hairy 16:
Wheat, $2.16; oats, 70; hay, $15 to $18;
potatoes, 600; hens, 200; buttrr. 3520;
butterfat_ 43c; eggs, 33c; lambs, 15c;
hogs, 161,4; beef steers. 9; beef cows. 7;
veal calves, 13.-——F. S., Union City.

HURON (W. C.)——-We had a bad wind—
storm on the 9th which tore down barns,
and windmills and some stock was killed.
Since then we have had some rain which
was much needed. Wheat and grass are
picking up some. Most‘of the wheat here
has been worked up and sown to barley.
Lots of farmer boys aregoing to training
camps‘. You can't get a man to work at
all. Men that are any good for farm work
are all picked up. . .

Prices offered at Elkton, May 17:
-Wheat,. $2.05; corn, $3.25; oatS. 68c;
rye, $2.05; hay, $16; buckwheat, cut. $3;
beans, 39.50; potatoes. 5%: eKSS. 33: hogs,
$15—41“. W., Elkton, May 17'.

GENESEE (Soutli)—most of the farm-
ers are getting their corn ground ready
for planting and some are already plant-
ing their corn this week. Others are

~ plowim and working their ﬁelds for pota-
toes and beans. The weather has been

warm and .we have had some rain, mak— ,
,Hmnhemu szﬂne for working.‘ Therein ,

\

i sure ._'

ﬁne” and .

owmg prices '

and I .

. ‘ Fiﬁ. , . tiherhave helpeil'pa:
and‘the"‘hay cropis lookinggbettet vey .

day. oats are, looking prett good...“

rye incoming 'lon ' "fairly wel but when:
, g F“ , .

is not’looking as oodgas..it should. ,
more are not sellmg or buying mu‘chof ,
anything, as they are :too busy just now.-
Prices offered “at Flint May 15: Wh, ,' ,_, ~
$2.10; corn, shelled, $1.75 ;* oats, .770';.'rge,y
$2.15; hay, $18 to $23 according to W
lty; 'beans $10- per cwt; red kidney beans
cwt. $12.50; potatoes 81 Per cwt; onions '
$1.25 per crate; can e. 2:: 2. 1b.; hens
17c; broilers, 20c; creamery. butter, 44c;
dairy butter, 35c; butterfat, at Fentonj,
450: eggs, 36c; sheep_' $9 to $10; lam.
$14 to $15; hogs, $16.50; beef steers, $13;
beef cows, $8; veal calves, $11; wool. 5‘5:
apple: $3.75 to $5 per bbl.——C. S., Fens
ton, May 16. ' ,

AMONG THE BREEDERS
By KtﬂtsflKétffﬂlffdimi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Holstein cattle sold 'well at the Howell
sale May 16th. One hundred head includ-
ing a number of bull calves and young ‘
heifers brought an average of something
over $240. Two cows-bold above $800.
both going to Robert R. Pointer & Son
of Dearborn, Mich. These young cows
were from the Seth Robert consignment
and were from some of the best lines of '
blood to be found in the country today.
Musolff Bros.’ offerings were of high
quality and sold for a high average. The
fact that they go to a Wisconsin buyer
is pretty good evidence that animals of

'the kind the Musolff boys are breeding

are appreciated in regions where they
breed the best Holsteins. (.‘luny Stock
farm had one or two offerings that brot
good prices and were worth all they-sold
for. Altogether the sale was a big suc-
cess and should do much ’tc help maintain
the prices of Holstein cattle in Michigan.
Breeders from Indiana, Colorado, Ohio,
Kansas and Wisconsin were in evidence.
but Michigan breeders made the sale in-
teresting by going after the best animals
to breed up their own herds.
III 0 C

At the Grand Rapids sale May 15, 'a
mixed offering of young animals and old
cows made a very low average for the
sate. A few of the eoncic'nments. more
"particuﬂariy from Lake Odessa and Lan—
sing. were well ﬁtted and animals of suf—
ficient merit to bring good prices. Dud-
ley Waters of Grand Rapids had one bull
calf in the sale that attracted a lot of at—
tention. The young bull consigned by
Weed and Ruebs. Lakeside Dairy. lake
Odessa, topped the sale at $600. This
ﬁrm’s offerings were of high quality and
in gcmd condition. F. Jenkins and
Sons of Okemos presented some excellent
animals that. made a "Md average for the
sale. Several other breeders had some
good animals in the sale and better pric—
es would have ruled had they had their
animals properly ﬁtted.

t It t

Holstein breeders! W'atch for next
week's advertisement of King Segis Mooie
the young bull recently purchased by
'l‘hos. Phoenix & Sons from John Art‘man
of New York. Mr. Phoenix has agreed to
accept a limited number of approved
cows for service at $100. He will keep
the cows at his farm and give them good
care until they are safe with calf. King
Segis Mooie’s six nearest dams average
above 33 pounds of butter in seven days.
Roth his breeding and individuality are
unsurpassed by any young sire in the
country today and this ﬁrm is to be con—
gratulated and thanked for bringing such
a. bull to Michigan and giving their fel-
low breeders an opportunity to use him

‘with some of their best cows.

II t *

One of the outstanding offerings in the
Holstein cattle sale at Saginaw May 27th
is the two—year-old bull King Pietje
Champion from the herd of Thos. Phoe-
nix & Sons. This young sire’s thirteen
nearest dams have. production records
above 30 pounds of butter in 7 days. His
dam made her two-year-old record under
unfavorable conditions and with no spec-
ial ﬁtting. and there is every reason to
believe. that this record Will be increased
when she is again tested. Those looking
for a vr\ung sire of great breeding and
individuality should plan to attend this
sale and bid on this fellow.

II C 0

One of the coming events in Michigan

Holstein circles is the sale of Robert R.

'Poi'nter & Son of Dearborn, Michigan. In-

cluded in this sale will be found many
animals of superior breeding and of good
quality. This firm has been liberal buy-
ers of the Met animals produced in some
of the leading herds in Michigan and
their herd should make a good average
If you are looking for animals of high
quality and approved blood lines plan to
attend this sale.
C t ‘

Serridella Farm of Oscoda, Michigan.
has. two pure-bred Holstein bulls that
they want to place at... the head of good
grade herds. These bulls are of good
breeding, good individuals and will be
priced right for quick sale. Anyone wish-
ing this class of bulls will do well to get
in touch with the management of this
farm.

o c o _

At the Grand Rapids sale the bull calf
donated to the Red Cross by Dudley Wat-
ers sold for $50 to Ruth Bros; who
pron-Wit]v donated the calf to be sold
again- The second sale netted another
$35, which with the collection made a
very m'bstantial present for the Red
Cross.

' if“ his ' a. trend":
think your paper won. be _. p o.
thank “Emmet-Em.“ .

Received ‘2 do; a:

 

 


 

 

~of . 5033101?
"by “Bull. ‘,
Pontiac, son ~o
Emil: ofﬁfotir. Tatt Topsy ,Da—wn. _
111' yea: old“ Dam 'a ti three Daughr
4311‘s from'nthlsr herd, is for sale. Also
mimeriCows and Heifers. ,. -
‘ Several young Bulls sired by King
.Ze'r,1a'Al’cartra Pontiac. are for sale.
‘ Jase Holsteins are one of the V9”?
be herds in Michigan..Dams have high
mil and butter «records. . - ‘
~ _'_We as]: the readers of Busxness
Fanning to .write us. stating 311511
What. is wanted, and we will send de-
scriptions and photographs.
Jiomestead Farms is a. Ito-917613-
1W9 work, founded on a federation of
interests.
HOBIESTEAD FARRIS,
Bloomingdale, Michigan

 

“Top; Notch’
HOLSTEINS

The young bulls we have for sale
are backed up by many generations
of large producers. Buy one of these
”bulls, and give your herd a “push."
Full descriptions, prices, etc. on re-
quest.- . - ‘ ,

McPherson Farms Co.
Howell, Mich.

 

 

 

‘1: King" ‘
Pontiac Aglcartra, the $50,000 bull.‘

heading, amen cents per line.
- we will quote rates. '

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E. L. SALISBURY

SHEPHERD. MICH.

Breeder of purebred
Holstein-Frieeian Cattle
Young hulls for sale from A. l‘..

0. Cows with -reditable records.

 

 

 

 

lilllh‘TERED llOLSTElN BULL 11
Rgont‘ns old. Grandson of Hengerveld

,9 K01. Sired by Johan Hengerveld Lad
who has 61 A.R.O. daughters and out of
a granddaughter of Pontiac DeNijlander
35.43 lbs. butter and 750.26 lbs. milk in 7
days. 3090.60 lbs. milk in 30 days. Price
$125. F.O.B. Flint. Write for Photo and
pedigree. L. C. Ketzler.

RAINBOW HOLSTEINS 13255355, (333?:

' ’er calves, g. daughters and g.g.d. of Hell-

gerreld DeKol (best bull in the world.
Large herd. Perfect Aug. bull calf for
8150. marked half & half from 15 lb.
yearling daughter of 26 1b. b., 600 lb. m.
cow. \Vill ship subject to approval. Cows
$150 to $175 heinr~ $75 to $125.

ROBIN CARR, FOWLERVILLE, MICH.

 

THE RINKLAND HERD

- ' Registered
llOLSTl’GlN-FRIESIAN CATTLE.
John A. Rinke, Warren. Michigan.

 

 

 

(“’ASHTENAW FARM HOLSTEINS
‘ 30 1b. bull in service. No stock for
sale at present. Carl F. and Ben N.
Braun, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

.WALNUT GROVE

STOCK FARM

Offers an exceptionally good bull calf.

at once.
Mich.

Write for pedigree and prices
“I \\'. “'YPKOIPF, Napoleon,

 

 

 

 

 

 

One Car-load Registered Holstelns
Yt'ﬂl’lll’lg‘S sired by 30 pound bull and
from heavy—producing cows. Also some
choice Duroc open gilts.
2.1. Hubert Brown, Byron. Michigan

 

 

HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN CATTLE

FOR SALE—Young Holstein bulls from
good A. R. O. dams and sired by 30 lb.
blll. few females whose dams have good
A. R. (,1. records. bred to a 30 lb. bull.
Howbert Stock Farm. Eau Claire, Mich.

-' CATTLE FOR SALE

2 Loads feeders and two loads yearling
steers. Also can show you any number
1, 2 and 3 years old from 500 to 900 lbs.
lsaac Shanstum. Fairﬁeld, Iowa. R-s.

Hoistem-Fneslan CattIe
l'nder the present labor conditions
I feel the necessity of reducing my
herd. Would sell a few bred females
or a few to freshen this spring. These
cows are all, with calf to a 30- ound
hull. J. Fred Smith, Byron, “in {gun

 

 

 

 

. "CHOICE REGISTERED STOCK

PERCHERONS,
' HOLSTEINS, \
SHROPSHIRES,
ANGUS. ‘
DUROCi
noun. 31.1w. m1. was.
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RATESw-L-tlp to 14 lines-or ’one inch and for less this

special rates which grill cheerfully
”0 Fort».St., West,._'Detroit.

HOLSTEIN: BULL CALVES .
She’s dams average 37.76 lbs. but-
ten? das. [45.93 lbs. 30 (33.8. testing
0,525"; fat. Dams good A. 'R. backing.
halves nice straight fellows ~34 white.
Przce $65.00 each while they last.
l-Ierd tuberculin tested annually/I
“Dill'dmun Farms, Jackson, Michigan.

 

MUSOLFF BROS.’ HOLSTEINS

We are now 'onking orders for
Young-bulls from King Pieter Segis
Lyons 170506. All from A. R. O. dams
with credible records. "We test annu-
ally for tubercu10sis. W’rite for pric-
. es and further information.
tilusoltf Bros., South Lyons, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

WOLVERI NE STOCK FARM

Breeders of Holstein-Friesian Cattle.
Battle Creek, Michigan. Senior Herd
Sire, Judge \Valker Pieterje whose
ﬁrst ﬁve dams are 30 lb. cows. Young
bulls for sale, from daughters of King

Korndyke Henge rveld Oronsby.

 

 

 

HICKORY GROVE , STOCK FARM
Offers for immediate sale 12 daughters of
King Hengerveld Palmyra Fayne bred to
Mutual Pontiac Lad. All of the cows in
this herd are strong in the blood of Maple-
crest and Pontiac Aggie Korndyke. We
can always furni.-h carloads of pure bred
and grade cows.

D. Owen Taft, Route 1, Oak Grove, Mich.

SUNNY PLAINS HOLSTEINS

Purebred Holstein bulls, 7 months old
and younger. Korndyke and Canary
breeding. From A. R. O. dams with
good records. Choice individuals. Also
a few females forﬁ sale. Right prices.
Arwm Killinger, Fowlerville, Michigan,
Phone, 58F15.

 

be sent op application to?

 

 

 

 

JERSEY

 

THE WILDWOOD JERSEY FARM
Breeders of Jersey cattle strong in the
blood of Royal Majesty. We have stock
for sale from R. of M. dams and Sire. ’
Herd regularly tested for tuberculosis.
Herd ave. proﬁt per year $100 over
cost of feed. The kind that pays. We
invit inspection. Satisfaction guaran-
teed. -ALVIN BALDEN. Cnpac, Mich”.
phone 143-5. _

 

 

 

 

0R SALE—Registered
and heifers. C. A. ‘
Fenton. Michigan.

Jersey (‘ows
0

l'lstol, ltoutc No. .l_

 

HEREFORD

250 STEERS FOR SALE
Ones. twos, threes, lleret‘ords, Angus
.and Shot-thorns. 600 to 1200 lbs. Choice
quality sorted to Size. age and breed. in
car lots. Write your wants. C. F. Ball,

li‘airﬁeld. lowa.
8 bull calves Prince

Herefords Donald and Farmer
Breeding. ALLEN BROS, Paw Paw, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title displayed to best adv“ 3 .. .
For larger ade‘or for ad: to run 13 Issues; at more we will. malt ,
" the Adw‘érﬁui‘ng» 1109112..

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FOR "SALE
Two Registered Guernsey Bulls.
_7 months old. -
R. B. JACKSON
“RUDGATE FARM”
- BlRMlNGHAM. . MICHIGAN

 

-HORSES

 

 

BELGIAN

‘ BELGIAN STALLION
3 year 0

for sale. Can be reg—

istered in purchaser’s

name. Price $300.00. Geo. M. VVilllams.
Route No. 1, Big Rapids. Michigan.

PERCHERON

()lt SALE, l'crrhcron Stallion 121705.

Black, Heavy bone fellow—fouled

June 21111. 1015. .1. 14‘. (llady. Vassar.

Michigan. Route No. 7.
SH “TLAND PONIES
SHETLAND PONIE s... Writ-e
for description &

prices. Mark B. Curdy, Howell. Mil-h.

 

 

HOGS

O. I. (‘.

Bred Gills

Serviceable Boar's
.I. Carl Jewett, Mason, Mich.

 

 

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Half Ton—O. I. C.s—Half Ton

Spring pigs sired by the Five great-

 

 

est boars in use in one herd in Amer-
ica and from the sows that were unde—
feated at 111.. Mo, Ohio and Mich, slate
fairs. Write for our catalogue, it’s
free, we want you to see it before you
buy. We guarantee satisfaction.

(,‘randcll's Prize Hogs, Cass City, Mich.

 

 

 

 

l. C. sows of line quality.
Floyd H.

()UNG O.

, Bears and bred Sows all sold.
Banister. Spl‘ingport, Michigan.

for service; also fall p.gs

0. I. C. either sex; sired by lst

prize yearling boar Mich. State Fair 1017
Clover Leaf Stock Farm, Monroe Mich,
'1‘..\' 1.

Choice young boars ready

 

DUROC

 

[KOO SOH'S lllld (llI/l‘h’, lllvil for
D June farrowillg, to (ll'lhl'l li‘zint-y King
32:857. llli‘ liiggcst pig for his age
shown at illli‘l'lllllltﬂllll l.i\‘<- Stock
Show. Also l“:ll hull-.4 l't‘tllSlt’l'i'd l'lzltml
and (lclivcrl-il ulna. in state.
Newton Iiill'lllllll'l. St. Johns, Michigan.

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HAT DO YOU WANT? 1 represent ~11
sliORTHURN breeders. Can put you in
touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages. Some females. C. . Crum,
Secretary Central Michigan Shorthorn
Association. McBrides. Michigan. ,

 

OK SALE—B Re .

from 9 to 17 No.

Monarch a son of
dalc who has 3 sons & 2 .daughtvrs that
have won the Grand Championship at
the International and American Royal. as
well as won 1st Prize on get of Sire 4
times at the above named shows. Herd
just tubercaline tested without a single re-
actor. John Schmidt & Sons, Reed City.
Michigan. '

Shorthorn Bulls
By Maxwalton
the noted A von—

* GUERNSEY

[’ERNSEYS for sale—One

Yearling Guernsey Bull,
calf for sale. H. F.
McBrides, Michigan.

GUERNSEYS “’3 HAVE A new

Heifers and con's for
sale, also a number of well bred young
bull-s write for breeding. Village Farms
Grass Lake, Michigan. ‘ '

\

registered
also one Bull
Nelson, R. No. 1,

 

 

lll'KlH‘ JERSEYS HI. til" llcuvy
boned typo. Sl-rvlci- boars and Spring
Pigs for sale. also licg. Sliol‘illorn llull
("zllycs of ‘\'1i|1<ill;:: Strain 4 mos. old,
lll" lll'im- is $100 val'h.
)1 .\. Bray Estate, (‘lntw l-zl'ay, Mgr,
(llielnoi Mil-ll‘gan

 

 

 

 

ZICAt‘II HILL FARM——lieglslr-rcd lltll"
or Jersey Swim: We arc booking or—
ders for wranling boar pigs $20 1‘ilt‘ll at
weaning lime. Excellent growthy indi—
viduals. lllwood Bros, ltomvo, Michigan.

1 yearling boar sired to Brookwater
’l‘ippy Orion and out of a Brookwater
Cherry King dam, also spring pigs. Best
of blood lines and splendid individuals.
L. J. UNDERHILL. Salem. Michigan.

Draco J‘nnsnys Bred sows all sold.

 

POLA N D CHINA
Brood
pigs.
Son.

1“ TYPE POLAND (‘HINAR

sows all sold. Have a few fall
Prices right. L. \V. Barnes &
Byron, Michigan.

 

LEONARD, POLAND (‘HINAS. Noth—

ing for sale but fall pigs.
Orders booked for spring pigs. E. R.
Leonard, St. Louis. Michigan

 

 

. 100 REGISTERED HOLSTEINS 100
A herd of high producing females from the breed’s best
Herd headed by Dutclilnnd Colantlla Winalla Lad
114067, Senior and Grand Champion Bull at Michigan State
Junior sire
son of Friend Hengerveld De K01 Butter Boy
. and whose dam and %
yearly butter-records.
months 01d for sale. ~

amilies.

Fair 1917.
132652 a 35.16

Maplecrest Application Pontiac
sister hold 6th and 7th highest
Sons of these great sires up to 15
Prices and pedigrees on application.

 

 

‘ .34. BRUCE McPHQBSON, KGWELL, MICH.'

 

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lama]: ,

for sale. John Snyder.

Johns, Michigan

R norm-1c tum unnmumx - no.1 gt
. W. 4-.
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SHEEP

 

=For: AUGUSTB-D’ELIV'EBY 50. Register-

ed Shropshire Yearling ewes and ‘10
Registered

1!, xter, Michigan.

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POULTRY ,

PLYMOUTH BOt'K

 

ISHLAND'S WHITE ROCKS—«The di-
rect blood of a well-known 20041;:
strain. Eggs for hatching $1.50 for
13; $5.00 for 50; $9.00 per 100.
L Seamans & Son, Belleville. Michgan.

BARRED ROCKSThr t'urnu‘r's» kind.
Eight ycar< of care-
ful breeding. large.
Eggs $5 for 50; $10 for 120.
Cook, Fowlervil‘e. Mil'h’gan.

Chas. I.

“'YA .VDOTTE

ILYER, (SOLDFN and ,Vi'l'IITlil Wyan-
dotth of quality, ﬁne large cockel’els.
$3.00 each. Eggs, $3.50 our 15. Clartnce
Browning, R ..\’o. 2, Portland. Michigan.

LEGHORN

3000 STRONG, \"I(x_‘x()l€()L'S CHICKS

7 for June. “'llllc Leghorns. .1311;
Anconas, $13 per 100; ll‘incst stock ill the
country. Prompt shipment by mail. Ar-
rival and satisfaction guaranteed. Order
direct. Catalogue. l-lollrxnd Hatchery,
R. No. 7, Holland. Michigan.

 

we HAVE THEM
if you want l'.eghorns that will pay
for their feed a dozen tim-s over, write
us. We havc cggi for [latching and
Breeding Stock, h- n< and pullers only,
HILL (‘REST I"H'LTRY FARM,
Ypsilanti, Alix-high“.

 

 

 

ROFI’I‘AB LE' BI} FF LEGHORN S—We

have twenty pens of especially mated
Single Comb l:luffs that or- 1101 on y mat-
ed for exhibition but, above all, for prof-
itable egg production. liggs at very reas-
onable price. Our list will interest you
——pleasc ask for 11. Village Farms,

(ll'ass Lake. Michigan.
CHICK each season, different
varicties. booklet and
testimonials, stamp appreciated. Freeport
Hatchery. Box 10. Frecport. Michigan.
CHICKS Young’s Henry Laying Strain.
S. C. White Leghorns. 25 chicks
$3.50; 50, $0.75; 100. $1.00. Safe deliv-
ery guaranteed. ()l'dcr from this ad. Full

count. W'oh'criue (Thicket-y, 711 Delaware
St., S 1‘). Grand Rapids. Michigan.

' from our Brcd—to-Lay
Day Old CthkS White Leghorns, Fer-
ris and Youngs strain, $12 per 100; from
our Thompson strain of Barred Rocks, $18
per 100.
Russell Poultry Ranch, -Petersburg, Mic-h.

HATCHING EGGS

LEGHORNS

(‘HH‘KS

 

We ship thousands

 

 

 

 

 

 

for immediate dclivcry from our
mrron English bill—egg strain white
layers,
and raisers, quick
egg—2s $0.00 per 100
100 chicks. Sal—
llovrics Leghorn
leelnnd. Michigan.

HATCHING EGGS and Day-Old Chicks

llcgliorns. ll<-avy winter large
birds. czisy llatcllcrs
grmw-rs. Matching
and (‘llli'li‘l $13.00 pcr
isl'al'iion ,L.'.:1l‘lllllt't‘tl.
Farms A" Hatchery.
130); 172223.

l’L‘i’MOl'TII ROCK

 

EGG .s' From I’ri zc-VVin-

.\"I‘(‘H-I.\'(l
H lung Barred Roi-ks. Thompson strain.’

Hundred; $3.25 Fifty; $2.00
Special mating $1.51) per 15.
Sam Sindll. Chelsea. Michigan.

l<rlm strain w th
Barred ROCk Eggs records to 290 parks
per year. $2.00 per 15 Prepaid by 1, r-
cel post. Cruular free. Fred Astling.
Constantine. Michiz'an.

$13.00
’l’im'iy

(ms FOR HA'rt'lnso from Pure bred

Ringht Strain Barred Rocks 15 for $1.
50 for $2.50; 100 for $5.00. Mrs. G. M,
Weaver, Ffe Lake. Michigan.

 

ORPINGTON

 

HAMI’ION Black and Buff Orping-
tons. Stock and hatching eggs for
sale. James A. Daley, Mohawk, Mich.

 

RI’NNER DUCKS

 

ENCILED RE‘NNER DUCK eggs, $1.00

per 13. Buttercup eggs $1.25 per 15,
$2.00 perp30. Good Hatch guaranteed.
Roy Mathews, Vermontville_ Michigan.

SALE DATES CLAIMED

Saginaw. Valley Breeders’ Holstein sale
May 28. Saginaw, Mich,

Michigan Shorthorn Breeders’
Flint, Mich, June 3.

Robert R. ’Pointer’s Holstein-Fri ~
Sale at Wayne. Michigan, June 3., my:

v, .

Yearling Rams of extra quai- 1:
it? and brggglng. . Final; established 139». .a

hoary-laying fowls. ‘

sale at

 


 

dec1ded to quit the-cattle-ralsmg
business and diSpOSe of my herd of

Concordia 'Huuwtjo Sunlight De K0], No. 2034‘."
Butter 7 Days 31. 69. Milk 7 D2133 654”]

60 HOLSTEIN- F ’IESIAN CA

Sale 'will take place at my farm

One Mile East of Wayne, Michigan, on -Michigan
Ave., Ann Arbor car line, 16 miles west of Detroit

Monday, June 3 f 1918

The herd contains some of the very best Holstein strains, including

one son and two daughters of the famous “Concordia Houwtge
Sunlight DeKol.” Concordia made a seven-day butter record of
31.69, and 654 1-10 lbs. of milk in seven days. It would be hard
to find a better lot of registered cattle. than are in this herd. If you
are looking for a good calf, heifer or cow, come to this sale. There
are also three herd bulls with records.

An extended pedigree catalogue of the herd willbe ~provided, and
all stock will be given a tubercular test and are guaranteed from
all contagious diseases.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Concordia Korndyke Sunlight 360720, t mn-urdm llouwtje Sunlight Do KIM 31111 30M“. Hduwtjer Butter Boy 214105,
Born Man-h'la, 1916 Born April 16, 1915 Born Feb. 5, 1917

ROBERT R. } POINT

_ DEARBORN, MICHIGAN
S. T. WOOD, Sales. .. Director I

 

 

 

