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rofit by last years experience. r Unless you
have a Silo. an early frost will leave you
short of feed to winter your stock. Stock
feeds'are found to be high. The Silo will
make up for the clover which was killed last
winter and lower your feed bills.

WHY?

THE SILO increases the feeding value
of the corn crop from 25 to 30 per cent.

THE SILO helps the farmer make the
best possible use of frosted corn. Even
immature corn can be saved by putting
it in the silo.

THE SILO gives insurance against
short, drought-stricken. pastures.

THE SILO provides juicy feed in win-
ter which helps to keep the cows healthy
and productive when green feeds are
lacking and dairy prices are high.

THE SILO furnishes the cheapest win-
ter feed. Three tons of silage are worth
fully as much as a ton of good hay.

THE SILO aids in fattening stock.

THE SILO enables the farmer to feed
his stock from less acres.

THE SILO should be a partner of
every creamery and cheese factory pa-
tron. Good silage does not in the slight-
est injure the quality of milk, butter or
cheese.

What Crops can be put in the Silo?

Corn, oats and peas, pea cannery waste, so
(better it mixed with, corn), green clover and

fodder or stover.

y beans and corn, ﬁnely chopped clover
timothy, sugar beet tops cut with corn

U. S. Department of Agriculture Says--

“Less corn can be fed by many dairy-
men without reducing milk production.
providing they feed more silage and le-
gume hay.

Less corn will be available for feeding
the cattle for much more. than usual is
,needed now for human food.

Succulence is just as essential to the
cow as to the human being.

Silage provides succulent feed during
the winter when pasture is not available.

Silage is palatable and no other feed
will combine so well with dry hay and
a little grain to produce maximum and
economical results.”

If there isn’t a Silo on your farm, build one this

summer.

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EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN

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Success of Producer’ 3 Organization Depends

Upon Loyalty of Its Members to the
Terms of the Ass’n’s Contracts

This is the time for our people to consider
seriously, and take action, upon the-future of this
very important industry. '

Very unusual conditions confront us. We would
not suggest to our people to be unpatriotic in
any way. We want to go the limit in a patriotic
endeavor at this time, but the government has
ﬁxed—as a basis upon which to place every com-
mercial activity—a cost of production plus a 10%
proﬁt, and while it is conceded, and by many
accused, that the action of the ofﬁcers of the
Michigan Milk Producers’ Association has been
ultra- conservative in all of the past (and we be—
lieve that safe business action depends upon con-
servative thought and action), yet we must come
to that basis where we will be like other busi—
ness interests, receiving for our product the cost
of production plus a 10% proﬁt.

No one deplores the erratic ways and lack of
stability of some of the milk producers more than
does your ﬁeld secretary. It has come to be con-
ceded by all good thinking men that in order to
do the best constructive work we must be steady
to our purpose and hold to every agreement we
make. “'0 must not allow any petty grievances
or imaginary evil to swerve us from the absolute
discharge of our every obligation, and in order
to obtain the business principle for which we
contend—of a price for our product that equals
the cost of production plus a proﬁt—which is the
foundation for every other industry. we must not
be vacillating and turn aside from our agreements
by any call that might be presented to us to yield
to that temptation.

This is the time when the buyers, who are
anxious for the milk, will go onto the territory of
other buyers and offer an inducement of a few
cents a hundred pounds over theeommission price
in order to get more milk. After they have in«
duced our producers to violate their contract
then the word comes back to me that they have
been able to buy our men at a few cents per
hundred pounds on their milk

A TEST CASE

In pursuance of the above outlined thought,
and with a knowledge of the vacillating nature
of some men, and what may be before us, we de—
sire to call your attention to the fact that within
a few recent days we have been put to our utmost
endeavor to avoid suits being brought before us
in the courts, where the selling agent of the Mich—
igan Milk Producers’ Association, and the patron,
who put his product in the hands of. the Associa~
tion to sell, would be co—defendants in a suit be—
fore the court for damages. It has been the
fortune of your ﬁeld secretary, through all his
business career. never to have been either a
plaintiff or defendant in a suit at law. contending
that one had lost in a ﬁnancial way in a suit at
law 11s soon as the suit was start1d'u hether the
suit was decided for or against him.

The buyers all o1er Michigan have our con—
tracts. \\'e have sold the products of our pat-
rons to them and if we fail on this contract we
a1c liable to suit and damages. Don’t let anyone
persuade you that these agreements do not carry
with them in any 11111rt ol law 11 111111111310 1onsid-

eration in case 11f fail me for their performance.
\ot only his but w1 are ﬂying to establish the

Ia1t in the minds of all good people that the milk
inoducer will hono1 his1o1111111twhetl1e1 he pains
(11 los1s by so doino Should otl1c1 ol 11111 pat—
rons do as some have in th1 past, w11m11y not be
as fortunate in avoiding suit and damages in our
11<ljust11111nt as we have been in the past.

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Dont attempt to chanm to 111111111111 buyer with—
out 1onsulting the agent. ‘

Don’t think that the' patrons of other buyers
have not just as great grievances as have. you.

Don't think that by changing you will relieve
yourself of the annoyance incident to busi«
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\\ h1 11 you attempt to change you \\ e11ken _\"Olll—
s1ll in the estimation of your buye1 and also of
the one to whom you would sell. This is always
the case.

More than this—the Detroit patrons should be
well satisﬁed with the ruling of the Detroit Com—
mission. ,

I’R[(‘ ES IN OTHER CITIES

\\ hen we compare the prices received by the

milk producers of the Detroit 111ca with those of

o».-

i . {citiesgi‘ "

very fortunate in the decisions” of the DEtrbit"
, The ﬁlms. (plated in
othei cities are laid- down at' the city receiving'

Area Milk Commission

station (mostly) The price quoted in the De-
troit area is in the-15c zone. Add to the $2.56,
the Detroit price on milk, the 15c zone freight
rate and you have $2.71 in Detroit as compared
with thefollowing quoted prices in other cities:

Philadelphia ..... '. . . . . .................. 12.47
Chicago................... ........... 2.30
1 Carlyle, lll ........... .1. .- .............. 2.30

It will thus be seeii tli. at the Detroit area pro-
ducers .1ave 1ecei1e1l better considciatim in the.
hands of the C ommission than have the producers
of other cities.

\ COMMISSION MEETING

Two very important problems will come. up in
the near future before the next Commission meet-
ing, which we trust will not be very distant. One
is concerning the gallon shippers' problem. These
men are making strong contention concerning a
better price than the station shippers \Ve are
not at all certain but that their position is justi~
ﬁcd and that they should receive, probably, 1th
per hundred pounds more than the station ship-
pcrs.

THE 'I‘Bs‘T PROBLEM

The test problem is ever before us. \\'11 have.
at the present time, 1111111 sent by l’rof. Anderson
who are devoting their time to the territory of
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lege, and the buyer remits to the college. These
Do You Like Your Silo?
Hundreds of readers 11f MICHIGAN BUSI-

NIISH 13‘1111111‘11. own silos. We know that
some of you like silos and some do not. We
want to give your experiencess both p10 and
1-,on to the 19st of our readers.

We will give $3 in cash to each writer of

the four best letters giving actual silo ex-
periences. To w11ters of any letters used
we will give a year’s fiee subs1ription to
M11 IIIGAN BUSlNESS FARMING.
l The length of the letter will be left to you.
It must give your actual experience with the
silo. We hope to receive letters telling of
the kind of SllOS which we satisfactory and
unsatisfactory. Some of you have had
‘unfortunate experience with wood, concrete
or underground silos. If. so, write us fully
about it.

We hope some of the letters will tell of the
cost of ﬁlling, and would like these to in-
clude all the items of expense contributing
to this cost. Doubtless some have had ex-
} perieme with community owned silo ﬁlling

outﬁts. If so, be sure to describe these

their original cost, cost of up- -keep and their
method of operation.

Particularly do we want letters on farm
results of feeding ensilage. Do you use it
for feeding dairy cattle. beef cattle, breeding
herds, sheep, hogs and chickens? Tell us
all about it so we can pass your information
on to the M- B. F. family.

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men are under no obligation to the buyer—only
being told where to make the test. \Vhethcr this
will be further extended or whether another
agreement between the milk organization and the
buyer, whereby the agent will supervise 11nd direct
the tester. are problems for immediate consider—
ation.
PRESIDENT HULL

l’residcnt llull is giving quite a portion of his
time to the work in the Detroit area, co—operatiug
with thc ﬁeld
work is calling him, not only to the Detroit area,
His dates are arranged
strength and money,

secretary. The ﬁeld secretary’s

the entire state.
time,

but over
as carefully, to save
as can well be done.

l.11st wc11k meetings were. held at Eureka,
rich and l"cnton. This week meetings will be
held at Cadillac, City, .\'l11niste11 and
Honor. Many buying centers in the state are
asking the State Association to l11‘1‘11m1' the sell—
ing agent for tl‘/‘ir product. It is only because
of the lack of available help that w1111r1' not enter—
ing into a broader ﬁeld of usefulness and in a
short time, if we continue to demand the respect
of the buyer and the public, the Michigan Milk
Producers' .'\sso1iation may be a great factor in
price, methods and position of this great indus—
try in this state. 'lrnsting for your continued
cooperation, I remain, very truly yours—~13. 0.
Reed, Field Secretary, Mich. Milk Producers’ Ass'n.

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According to the Tuscola C ounty Courier the
Caio Faimers" Co- Operative Elevator Company
has just closed one of its most successful sea-
sons, despite the many. difﬁculties encountered
in handling grain and beans because of the wet
condition.

A proﬁt of $8,821. 3‘.) a sum only slightly less
than the best of the four years the company has
been doinp business, was distributed as interest
and dividends amongr the stockholders.

During the four years .the amount distributed
to sleek holdeis in interest and di\idends totaled
$133,258.01, which to tl"
appear to prove the success of co—opcrative enter-
prises whcn managed by capable, men of former
snc1cssful experience.

The company now has a membtrship of Over
300111111 during the last ﬁscal yea1 did a gross
business of $406 811. 136 011 a paid in capital stock
of $24,100. lhe salts exceeded those of the pre—
vious year $87000.

Changing conditions in the business world
caused the company to go on a spot cash basis
early in 1918, and so successful was the 1csult
of that moxe that since May 4, it has not been
necessary for the company to borrow a single
dollar.

Under the plan adopted by the company, stock—
holdeis are fust paid 6 per cent on the stock
owned, then the surplus proﬁts are paid on the
basis of the amount of business done by each.
This year it amounts to 2/ per cent and the
ac1ounts of the“) persons given below will indi—
cate the amount each bought and sold through
the company. and the amount of the check each
will receive for the interest and dividends:

\mi C.’l1-'1ry..-. ............... $4 (119 99 $132.30
Henry I ane ................... 4. (‘60. 04 l07.50
Mrs Jennie Esler .............. 40.1198 107.30
Dwight Turner. . . . . . . . . . . . .. .3 (3).07 00 103.67
Claude Cole. . .'. ................ 3.8314 48' l04.86~
Ed C oler ........................ 3,i92. 98 90.82
David Taylor .................. 13 17.7 518.- 91.44
Wm. ( arpenter ................ 3. 127. 40 79.98
Henry Patt1son.. 3071.25 88.78
Rudolph Montei ............... 2 “91107 78.77

 

MY EXPERIENCE IN RAISING MY 1
CHAMPION CROP OF CORN.

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in the state the year before and it came up quick
and grew to beat the band. I thinned it to from
2 to 3 plants to a hill. I cultivated it 8 times, also
hoed it once.

The ground before planting was top dressed
with a light coating of barnyard manure.

The early frost caught the corn before it was
ripe, otherwise I would have had a lot of seed eorn.
As it was I harvested 88.7 bushels of shelled corn
and my proﬁt was $98.95.

My exhibit in the county won ﬁrst prize and was
sent to Lansing where it won second prize in the
state. I am in the game again this year and of
course you will guess that my ambition is to get
ﬁrst but time and attention to business will tell.
——(Ilenn H. Whidby, Dclton.

Caro- The ﬁrst calf club in Tuscola county was
organized here July 20th. under the supervision
of C. A Spaulding of the M. A.

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PARTlSAN

Can this New Political Organization “Deliver
the Goods” to Farmers of. Michigan
After it has Secured F oothold

If an organization that had been charged time
and time again with disloyalty and pro-German
leanings,.shou1d publish a portion of its official
organ in the German language, what would be
your conclusion?

We ask this question advisedly. for it is closely
related to a subject upon which the farmers of
Michigan will undoubtedly be called upon to make
a decision within the near future. This decision
:must be right, for it will have a tremendous in-
ﬂuence upon the future welfare of the farmers of
the state.

We are referring to the Non-Partisan League
and its ofﬁcial publication, the Non-Partisan Lead-
er. Are they loyal? Are they 100 per cent Ameri-
can? Can they successfully carry out their pro-
gram without seriously hampering the nation’s
war work? And lastly, can they “deliver the
goods" that they are now trying to sell to the
farmers?

There has been much opposition to the Non—Par-
tisan League, most of which no doubt has been
inspired by selﬁsh motives. Wall street views
with alarm any movement tending to disturb the
,normal social and economic conditions of‘ the
country and would stop at nothing to check such
a movement in its infancy. In considering the
charges that have been made against the League
we must not overlook their sources nor the mo-
tives that lay behind them. On the other hand,
we have ample evidence to show that while the
League may not have been openly disloyal. it has
been at least lukewarm in its support of the gov-
ernment and does cater to a class which is
either distinctly pro-German or lacking in the
proper American spirit.

Figures are not available to show the number
of German reading people who are members of the
League but the fact remains that the Non-Parti-
san Leader has found it necessary to publish a
portion of its news for the beneﬁt of its subscribers
who do not read English. While this is. of course,
a perfectly proper service for a publisher to ren-
der to his subscribers, at this particular time the
entire nation naturally looks with suspicion up-
on any publication that gives such open evidence
of its German support. Moreover, we cannot, help
but entertain a. suspicion that many of these
subscribers were secured by reason 'of the pro-
German sentiments.

MICHIGAN Busmnss FARMING will endeavor to
secure all possible information concerning this or.
garnaization that its readers may be guided intelli-
gently in making a decision. We have wired the
Non—Partisan League of North Dakota for an art,-
icle setting forth the League's program for the
Great Lakes states, and have been assured that it
will be provided. Pending its arrival, we publish
below two letters setting forth both pro and con
arguments. They are used thru the courtesy of
the Idaho Farmer:

11‘ 2! *

“Granville Lowther writes in the Former of June
0. that he has investigated the nonpartizan league
from several sources and that he must reject it as a
result of his investigations.

“Mr. Lowther has investigated the League from
every source of information except the North Da—
kota This great body of progressive men,
who are pointing the way to farmers of other states.
Lowther directly insults by refusing their testimony
and swallowing whole the words of their enemies.

“The business and political elements in North
Dakota have had hard sledding. They fought the
Equity exchange by slandering its leaders and by

farmer.

breaking up its meetings with mob violence. Hut
the lfquity grew in spite of them.
“When the Non—Partisan League appeared. the

same tactics were used against it. Mr. Townley
was attacked on all sides and painted as a monster.
If the Equity had frightened the politicians. the
league threw them into a terror. int they had shot
their wad during liquity days and their assaults and
slandcrs fell harmless in North Dakota. The farm—
crs replied to 'them' by a vote of 87,000 to 22.000.
leaving no doubt that in this state the minority would
no longer swing the majority. and that the former
would not be able any longer to use the power of
government to exploit the lattcrf ' '
“Then the war came on and this discredted mi-
nority seized" on the loyalty issue in the hope of re—
habilitating themselves. if any farmer in Washing—

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North, Dakota are disloyal and only the money
sharks, the corrupt politicians and the get-rich—quick
artists in that state are loyal, thatis his'privilege,
but he is doing it at the behest of the gang that
wants to keep on exploiting him. So long as the
farmers let the other fellows do the thinking for
them wewill have laws giving the farmers'the worst
of it.

“So long as the unorganized farmers allow the
organized business men to dictate not only their
political actions but their belief, we will have pol-
itics run in the interest of the organized business
men. ‘ '

“Mr. Lowther doesn’t think the people should be
divided during the war. His idea of unity is for
the farmers to take all of the insults and mob vio-
lence of the proﬁteers and pretend that they like it.
But wouldn’t the better way be for the business men,
being in the minority, to go with the farmers in pa—
triotic endeavor? Then after the war was over and
it didn’t matter so much the business men could rc-
sume their rotten egg tactics.

“If the bankers had a succesSful organization in
North Dakota would the bankers of W’ashington
go to the farmers of North Dakota to ﬁnd out
about it?——National Non-Partisan League, by 1V.
W. Liggctt. Publicity Agent.

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St. Paul. June 21.

The article on the nonpartizan league by Granville
Lowther. published in the Farmer of June 6, to
which W, W. Liggett refers, follows:

“From several sources I have had inquiries about
the nonpartizan league. “What is it? What is its
purpose? Should I join it?” Many other ques-'
tions are generally connected with the inquiry,
most of which I do not feel sufficiently informed
to try to answer. About six months ago. I was
solicited by an organizer to join the league. I
had previously read something about it on both
sides of the question: but had not reached a con—
clusion. The talk of the organizer was plausible,
and in ordinary peace time. 1 have no doubt. I
would have joined it. There is no question but
they embody in their statement of principles many
things the people need and will some time be able
to obtain. The question in my mind was, “How will
these good things be interpreted and used by the
leaders. in the great crisis through which we are
now passing?"

“There are many things that should be different
and many wrongs that might be rightcd. l'lowever.
we are now in the midst of the greatest war of
history. a war for universal democracy as opposed
to a world—wide autocracy. The one. great. all—
absorbing issue is to win the war: and all minor
questions. all political differences. all family quarrels
should be held in check until the world is made
safe for representative governments. and the pro—
tection of free peoples from international robbers
and murderers. interpretation and the application
of principles are very important factors. For in—
stance the Bible is a good book: but I could never
respect its teachings as interpreted by some very
good andrdevout rcligionists. l could not respect
the principles of the nonpartizan league as inter—
preted by l. W. \V.. pro—Germans and
Senator l.al7ollettc. all of whom l am informed are
operating through the league. This is not because
I am in favor of war instead of peace: but because
I know the only way to have peace is to compel
the disturbers of the peace to respect the rights of
others. This can not be done by writing essays.
philosophizing on social ethics or by making con—
tracts that the disturbers regard as “scraps of
paper," to be broken at will. hi the hands and
under the leadership of intelligent and loyal farm—
ers or laborers. 1 would want to be counted in. In
the hands of German pacilists. who are the most
warlike nation on earth. except in countries they
want Germany to conquer and rule, I want to be
counted out. in the hands of the l. W. \V.. whose
methods are impossible. count me out. In the hands
of men of the views on the war expressed by La—
l’ollettc. at a meeting of the league members. count

pacitists.

me out. In the hands of real workers like the
average 'farmer and wage worker. count me in.

llccausc l was in doubt about its direction and the
use of power by its leaders I did not join. How—
ever. my action is not intended to be a guide for
others: it was only satisfactory to myself, with my
present understanding of the subject ” -

litnton llarbor.~| ic I mergency larm Labor
Resrryc of Berrien county has been organized.
and the city folks who have been in the habit
of sptnding their vacations at the lake resorts
are already volunteering their services for farm

 

Marquette—It is expected that there will be
35.000 sheep and 5.000 cattle brought into (‘lovcr—

land this summer. Seventeen grazers have al—
ready located in this scctiou and the available
grazing lands are going fast. The ﬁrst "ship-

mtnt of sheep from the “HST arrived ”two weeks
ago . and consistul of 12,000 Wyoolics.

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MICHIGAN BRIEFS.

Milan—The Washtcnaw county war board has
issued a warning to farmers to beware of the
stranger who comes to the door and asks for a
crust of bread. Some slick rogue has been visit—
ing farm homes of this county. and alter secur-
ing a piece of bread, declares that it was made
entirely of wheat, announces himself as a govern—
ment agent and tells the people that the on];
way to avoid arrest and imprisonment is to pay
him the probable amount of the ﬁne. or $25. The
stranger has victimized several families in this
manner. The war board cautions farmers that
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manner. It is a good idea in such cases to de—
mand the visitor’s credentrals——-and use sub—
slitutes.

Coldwater—Thc Detroit Board of Commerce
has made arrangements for motor truck freight
service between Detroit and this city. the freight
beingr carried by ﬁve-ton trucks which will run
every other day at ﬁrst: oftencr as the busmess
increases to warrant. The ﬁrst truck load arrived
in the city last week.

Lexington—Surveyors are at work on the
Huron shore pike, working north from the county
line. The contract for building the pike has been
let and construction work will start as soon as
the su‘vey is, finished.

Milan—The eastern WashtenaW' 1-3000 roads

district commissioners have let the contract for
three miles of the Detroit and Chicago paved way
between the city line of Ypsilanti and the tountj;
line between \Vashtenavv and \Vaync. The con
tract price is $71,800. The road will be 18 feet
wide, of concrete.

Milan—The joint drain deal beingr entered into
by \h'ashtcnaw and \r\‘a_vne county gives \\’:tshtt
naw six joint drains. with Monroe. l.cnavvet,
Jackson. Hillsdztlc and lngham, Negotiations are
also under way for joint drains with Livingston
and Oakland counties. \Nashtcnavv county is
claimed to be the peak of a watershed and HM
water from that county flows in all directions.

Sandusky—l.0cal thrcshcrmcn are charging at
the following rates for threshing: Hats. 4 cents
per bushel: wheat and barley. 5 cents; rye and
peas. 7 cents. and a minimum of $7 a set; beans.
12 cents per bushel. and $10 per set; timothy. .35
cents per bushel.

 

Ashton—Last “elk H5500 head of sli<€p were
placul on a large ranch near here by New M(\1L(’
parties. ll’lt owners stated that grass in tlu
southwest had dried up as a result of the drought
and that cattle ale dying for want of food.

St. Johns—( lintou t0lllll\ boys and j'irls haw
begun the canning of 6000 quarts of fruit and
vegetables as their share of the national cauniut
quota of l 250000.000 Michigan young men and
women are urged to can 400000 quarts and the
boys and girls’ club dcpartmtnt of the Kl. A
has taken on the responsibilitx of organizing tlu
youngr folks and assisting them in the work.

‘ Manistiqucﬁ~Farmers of Schoolcruft county.
are taking a large interest in sheep—raising. an
industry for which this ction of the state
seems admirably suited. County Agent Kinstiu;
has advised all farmers intertsttd in starting it
ﬂock of sheep to se< him b( fort August lst.

( aro..w~1\ IllCtlillU is on foot in l‘uscola county.
fatbtrtd by county agent M: lc \ ittw, to organize
a county bcekeepers’ association.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE HOLSTEIN
ASSOCIATION MET AT DETROIT

In response to a. call issued by President 1). I).
Aitken. the ofﬁcers and directors of the Holstein‘
Friesian Ass’n. of America, met, Monday in execu-
tive session at the Hotel Statler. Detroit. The
following were present: Pres. D. D. Aitken of
Flint. Mich; vice—president, G. Watson French.
Davenport. Iowa; secretary. Frederick L. “0qu
ton. Brattleboro. Vt.; treasurer, Wing R. Smith
Syracuse. N. Y.; superintendent of advanced reg
istry, Malcolm H. Gardner. Delavan, Wis; and the
board of directors. consist.ng of nine members
and representing the leading dairy sections of
the country. '

At, the present time the Holstein—Friesian Ass'n
has a total membership of 10.739 and is rapidly
growing. During the past year the membership
increased about ten per cent. Memberships are
held in every state of the union. in ﬁve province:
of Canada, in Cuba, Hawaii. Phillipine Islands.
Mexico, South America and Switzerland. To the
efforts of the association must be given the credit
for the tremendous growth of the Holsteins’ pop-
ularity.

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. lambs this winter or spring?
Have you a bunch of native lambs
that will bring you a handsome
proﬁt on your initial investment?

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year at sixty- -ﬁve cents per pound?- "
are interested in guessing just how highw

and "mutton will go and how much woolsygd wl‘I-I
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ter suit will actually have in it.

the sheep business: either. feeding a Ic'ae' 6r tw6
of western sheep this c6ming Winter or picking

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double proﬁt of mutton and wool. I
-...If you are already in the sheep business with-
out using a silo. you are not making the maxi-I
'- mum proﬁts possible. If you are planning to
"try. a bunch of: sheep. get a silo as a part of the
equipment; The silo will enable you to stay in
the business much more proﬁtably.

The sheep is an animal "adapted to use considw

erable quantities of roughage. It is also an ani—
mal that returns the maximum proﬁts when given

goodI rations and the best of care. Succulent feeds .

in the ration keep breeding ewes in the best con-
dition for successful lambing, and aid in return-
ing the most mutton per pound of feed in ﬁnish-
ing sheep for the block. Corn silage is the suc—
culent palatable roughage that can be provided
by almost all farmers in this section

The Silo and Mutton Production.

The farmer who is in the habit of feeding sheep
in the fall. winter and early spring for the mar—
ket, should be interested in the increased proﬁt
in lamb feeding due to the addition of corn silage
to fattening rations. For the last seven years,
the Purdue Experiment Station has been feeding
western lambs on different combinations of feeds,
and fed in different manners. In all cases, the
lots fed contained twenty-ﬁve lambs. These lots
were so divided as to get uniform lambs in
weight, in quality and in gaining ability. All
of the trials were repeated several times so that
a poor ration would not accidentally show results
better than good rations. The following table
show the result of several years’ work in adding
corn silage to a ration of shelled corn, cotton—
seed meal and clover hay. This ration is used
to Show the proﬁt in using corn silage even in
such a good fattening ration.

Value of Com Silage in Lamb Feeding.

Corn silage and

Ave. per lamb Clover hay lots clover hay lots
Initial weight .............. (>0 4 lbs. 60.3 lbs.
Final weight. .............. 90.7 lbs. 89.9 lbs.
Average daily gain ........... 0.364 lbs. 0.356 lbs.
Average daily feed—

Corn . . ................. 1.14 lbs. 1.12 lbs.
C. S. Meal ............... .16 lbs. .16 lbs.
Hay . . ................. 1.69 lbs. .93 lbs.
Silage . ............... 1.31 lbs.
Feed required per 111. gain“
(‘orn . ................. 3.14 lbs. 3.17 lbs.
C. .S. Meal ............... .44 lbs. .45 lbs.
Hay . . ................. 4.93 lbs. 2.65 lbs.
Silage . . ............... 3.68 lbs.
Aicrage selling piite ......... $6.72 $6.73
Average cost of g.1ins ........ 6.26 5.53

Even in such a good ration as shelled corn,
cottonseed meal and clover hay. the average
lamb in the lots receiving corn silage in addi—
tion to clover hay as roughage made more proﬁt.
I11 making one hundred pounds of mutton. 368
pounds of corusilage .replaced 233 pounds of
clover hay. From this replacement value of
corn silage, the following table showing the
value of a ton of corn silage is made:

    

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wash, at 1.5.90 9:411,
w_.I1.é“n' at 20‘ .00 12.66'

146111. at $1. 50 per bushel and clover hay

approx1mately a dollar per ton Over and above
the cost of the corn in the silage and the cost
of putting the silage into the silo. A ﬁfty bushel

corn crop will inake t’eInI tons of silage per acre Ten'

dollar51per acre more 1161.. his corn crop will
mean more real money. ;i -

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The; 8110' and the Sheep. Breeder. . . I

The farmer who is maintaining a ﬂock of breed- 5

ing ewes‘ upon his farm is interested in the cost
The

of carrying his ewes through the winter.
silo offers an Opportunity to such a man. in cut-
ting the cost without injuring the lambing per-
centage and the vigor of the lambs or milk flow
of the eWe-.s

The Purdue Experiment Station duIIrin'g the
three winters from 1906 to 1909 fed breeding
ewes 011 rations containing corn Silage and check
rations with no corn silage. The ewes were fed
'during the winter of 1906-07, mixed hay,c corn
stover and corn silage as roughages and oats as
grain. During the Other two winters clover hay
was used as the hay and the grain mixture was
Cats and bran. The ~f15'llowin'g
table gives interesting data upon the value of
corn silage for a breeding flock:

Winter Breeding Ewes—Purdue Experiment
Station.

Average per ewe Without Silage With Silage
Feed eaten daily——
Grain . . ................. .9 lbs. .86 lbs.
Hay . . .................. 4.191bs. 2.84 lbs.
Silage . . ................ _ 3.33 lbs.
Total gain .. . .' ............... 13.75 lbs. 6.0 lbs
Per cent of lambs ............ 105% 114%
Birth weight of lambs ........ 8.9 lbs. 9.09lbs
The measure of good rations for breeding

stock must be made from a consideration of loss
or gain in weight, effect upon the percentage of
offspring, the vigor of the offsming, the milking
qualities of ewes and the economy of the ration
fed. The addition of silage is a beneﬁt. The
succulence furnished by corn silage is especially
valuable in a ﬂock of breeding ewes. Silage is
probably the best substitute for roots. Corn
silage can be had anywhere in Indiana for the
trouble of erecting a silo and ﬁlling it.

The farmer who now has sheep or is planning
to get into the sheep business either feeding
sheep in the fall or winter months or maintain-
ing a breeding ﬂock for its four—fold profit——
wool, lambs, weed eradication, and manure—will
ﬁnd the silo a very necessary part of his sheep
equipment. Couple :1 silo with the Golden Hoof
and the farm will grow richer and the pocket-
book fatter. G. I. CHRISTIE,

Purdue University.

WHY SOME FARMERS PROSPER
WHILE OTHER FARMERS DO NOT

HY is it that in every community, certain
V» farms are pointed out to visitors as those
not paying while often just across the road
are farms that are paying a very excellent in-
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vicmi.ty .The amount of income derived. from:-

at. $1500 .‘per ton, the sheep feeder can make.
* to pay? taxes, to .pay grocery bills, to pay- for.

horses must be boarded through seasons of idle-

Ithe crops of thefarms, the soil fertility of these

- period of 23 years, from 1890 toI1912, is approxi~

-Ihighcr.

ifarrﬁers is aptly illustrated by the study of Mon—

I".waStviinted. and the farm records taken“
found that the farms that had Only :18 acres to
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- cow or- horse, returned an average income above
.aIIllI. expenses, taxes 'and iIn'tere

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The '
'cerisus returns from any Corn Belt state show
the results of unproﬁtable systems (if agriculture

In the past few years, studies undertaken lfli
representative sections in different states lift-V?
thrown a great amount of light upon why some
farms make money for their owners and why
some make little or even lose money. There has
been a surprising degree of agreement upon the
general factors underlying proﬁt and loss upon
all of the farms in every section,- In every case,
.the'averages taken from all of” the‘farms in a
township or county have.'showi1 that the live
stOck farmers have been the men who have been
enjoying the greatest return from their opera-I
tions. By the term—live stock farmer—is meant
the one whose income is made largely'fr'om the
sales of live stock products. His grain sales form
a very small part of his annual}, cash proﬁts. In
wonking a farm, a live stock system of manage-
ment has advantages that are inherent to that
business. The labor demands are scattered
throughout the year more uniformly so that
there is no great overwhelming rush at one sea—
son and nothing to do at other times. If the
farm is large enough for employment of labor
other than that of the owner or tenant, the live
stock farmer has steady work and consequently
is able to hire a good class of labor at fair wages
per day. The grain growing farmer must be c011-
teut with a less desirable class of labor and pay
higher daily wages since he is forced by his
,system of farming to hire men at the‘busiest sea—
sons of the year. The horse labor has been found
to be a source of large losses upon many farms,
whose system of management is such that many

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ness. This condition is less apt to occur upon
live stock farms.

Another source of income that is enjoyed by
thelive stock man is that Iextra proﬁt de1ived
from the conversion of the raw products of his
farm—corn, oats, clover, alfalfa, straw, etc.—
into the ﬁnished products of milk, cream, butter,
p01k beef, mutton and wool. This proﬁt com—
pares with the proﬁt of the steel mill that con—
verts raw. iron ore into iron and steel. The live
stock manufacturer has the advantages of. the
producer of raw materials in obtaining higher
prices for his products.

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live stock farms are more, easily retained or en-
hanced. Under the bestconditions, when farm
cropsrand purchased feeds are fed to live stock. 5' ‘ a
it is estimated that two—thirds of the nitrogen, .
three— fourths of the phosphoric acid and four— '
ﬁfths of the potash contained in the crops 6r
feeds may be returned to the soil. This means
that in addition to the actual money ieceived
above the cost of the raw materials, the ;manure
resulting from live stock. is.a very considerable
item in the ultimate returns from live stock
farms. The average value of a ton of manure
when judg (red by the increased crop yields ob-
tained by the Purdue Experiment Station over a

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of crops and fertilizers, the value w6uld be still

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EoW EXPERIMENTS EAVE PROVEN
VALUE OF SILAGE FOR QA‘TTLE

The total output 'of beef herds in thisstate is
. not suﬂicient‘to- begin to supply the number of
feeding calves, yearlings and two-year-olds that
are required to annually ’ﬁll’ the lots of the
”cattle feeders. Upon the western range country and
Irougher portions of" the central" west, has
fallen largely "the task’ of supplying the number
idesired above home supply. 'For some years,
this .,,has. werked to the advantage of the
:cattle feeder. Stock'and. feeder cattle could be
purchased at some of the public markets or upon

the rangefor less than the same cattle could be '

produced upon the states farms. Recently, how-
ever, the shortage in supply of western cattle
has caused a general advance "in prices so that
Stock and feeding cattle have become very high
in' price and also often difﬁcult to obtain. At the
present time, on many Michigan farms that have a
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The pride of Tuscola at the present time in silos is
the 12x32 Liberty Hoiilow Wall Redwood Silo which was
recently erected on the farm of Mrs. E. Mueller at
Richville. This was the ﬁrst silo of this kind to be
erected in that vicinity and has attracted a great deal
of attention.
cows can be and are proﬁtably used. In many
cases, the pastures that are now existing are not
used to their best advantage, either because of
not enough live stock or of the poor quality of
the stock now used. In many counties in this
state, there are considerable areas of hill land
that should be used for grazing purposes. Many
of these ﬁelds have been washed badly when
used for cultivated crops.

In a recent publication of‘thc"Departmcnt of
Agriculture, the results of some researches into
the proﬁts of farms in the Blue Grass region of
Kentucky appear. The farmsstudied in this
region are more or less hilly with soil inclining
The general description of the
farms ﬁts very closely farms in many southern
Indiana counties.

The author says: “The most successful farm—
ers visited seldom had less than 1,000 pounds of
live stock for each six acres of farm land. Farms
that had labor incomes below $500.00 and were
rated as unsuccessful had an average of 1,000
pounds ‘of live stdck to about ten acres of land.”
The following sentence is a rather striking illus-

-‘ tration of the importance of beef animals upon

these farms. “The study made of these farms

3‘shows that when 50 to 60 per cent of the live

stock was in beef animals the greatest proﬁts

‘ were realized.”

,EOneaoi the reasons why there are not more
of: herds upon farms is that the annual

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JW‘ i‘i’eéx‘i ed much that
" there has been but little
proﬂt.T1ie feeds used 13i-
winter maintenance have
this excessive cost _. Beet
cows carried through
. the Winter 611-- clover Aor- .

off. . ,

The silo is now afford.
ing a means of cutting”!
this" ‘winter maintenance 51‘ ’
cost. The use of! silage V
in the breeding herd
does not cause any bad
effects upon the strength
of the coWs. the per-
centage of calves, or the, I
milking or the cows
after calving. The cows
come through the winter
in good shape, drop
strong calves and suckle
them in good shape.

During the winter of
1904-05, the Illinois Ex-
periment Station car-
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ferent rations. Lot 1
received silage, clover hei, or (111mm,
hay and oats straw; Lot him-

2 received shocked'eorn,
clover hay and oat straw;
Lot 3 received corn stovcr and oat straw, clover
hay being fed for the last 82 (lays in addition

The following tables gives the results of these
three rations

“'1ntering 30 Beef (lows for 140 Days
Shock Corn

Average Cow Silage Lot Lot Stover Lot
Initial weight ........ 860.33 lbs. 858.5 lbs. 859.83 lbs.
I‘inal weight .......... 1010.43 lbs. 964.69 lbs. 916.36 lbs.
Average daily gain. 1.07 lbs. 0.758 lbs. 0.41 lbs.
Average daily feed——

Silage . . .......... 16.651bs.

(lover hay ........ 3.5011)s. 3.50 lbs. 3.501bs.

Oat straw ......... 9.56 lbs. 10.83 lbs. 8.191115.

Shock corn ........ 8.60 lbs.

Stover . . .......... 13.7 lbs.
Acres needed to supply

feed for 140 days for

1 cow ............. 0.95 acres 1.03 acres 1.14 acres

The lot receiving corn stovcr (lid not winter
well. Their hair was in poor condition, they did
not relish their feed and gained very slowly. In
feeding a herd of twenty cows through the win-
ter it would have taken 19 acres to feed them with
the silage ration, 20.6 acres with the shock corn
and 22.8 acres with the corn stover. The silo,
bcside making the highest and the most economi—
cal gain required lcss acreagc to provide the feed
needed by the cows.

For the last several years, the beef hcrds at
Purdue University have been maintained during
the winter upon rations containing considerable
amounts of corn silage. There have been no
lots fed other rations to be used as'check'lots.
However, the amount of feed eaten and gains
in live weight will be of value in indicating suc-

"cessful silage rations for wintering beef animals

The ﬁrst table shows the rations used with
yearling heifers. The reader will' notice that
some grain has been fed. Yearling heifers
should receive some grain or concentrate so that
they may make suitable growth. ..

“’intering Yearling Heifers

1913-14 1914»15 1915—16

No. of heifers ............ 14 13 12
Total average gain ....... 142. 8 lbs. 225.7 lbs. 179.4 lbs.
Ave daily feed per heiferw

Corn silage .......... 13.77 lbs. 12.77111: 21.43 lbs.

Oat straw ........ 2.98 lbs. 4.64 lbs.

Corn stovcr ........... 5.77 lbs.

Corn . ............. 1.99 lbs. 2.91 lbs. 3.4 lbs.

This Saginaw Steel—built Redwood Silo saved its owner,
Tuscolu county, over $500 which was more than the silo cost
The frost cut his corn last season before it matured and without this silo
his corn crop would have been a total waste; as it was he fed a canoud of cattle
making a. profit that exceedod his expectations.
building on the farm is the statement of this ’l‘uscoln. farmer.

 

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The silo is the most important

("lover hay ........... 3.58 lbs.
()il meal 1.901115. 2.91 lbs.

Thc next table is for two—ycar—old hcifers. The
heifers in the majority of cases wcrc bred to drop
calves in the spring. In one casc the animals
lost the pounds per head and in thc othcr g llilC(l
slightly over two pounds per hcad.

wintering Two—year-old Heifers

191415 191546

No of hc‘ifcrs ................. l4 . 12
Total gain or loss ............. 141557001115. (iaan7.5 lbs.
Ave. daily feed er llt‘ift‘l*~

(‘orn silage ............... 24.3111s. 27.0 lbs.

(lat straw ................ 5.71115.

(“om stover .............. 6.251118.

The next table 15 that ol wmtermg cows, calv—
ing in the fall and nursing calvcs. (irain and
concentratcs are needed by wet cows in order
to maintain a good milk flow in winter. The
objcct in feeding thcsc cows, as well as in the
case of the heifers, was to maintain them as

cheaply as possible but with care so that their..f11—
tnrc usefulncss and the propcr growth of their
offspring be nuiiiitaincd.

“'intering (‘ows with Suckling (‘ulves

1911.314 1914-15 1915~16

No of cows ............... 10 10
Total gain pcr co“ ........ 109 0‘ lbs. 11.2.5 lbs. 83.0 lbs.
Avt. daily fctd pcr con

( orn silage ............ 26.331115: 26.35 lbs. 31.4 lbs.

Oat straw ............ 4.51le. 51.8 lbs.

(‘lover hay ........... 5.0311»; 2.041113.

Corn stover ............. . 6.25 lbs.

Oats . . ............... 5.03 lbs. (1.0 lbs. 4.0 lbs.

Shelled corn .......... 4.4111114. (1,0 lbs. 4.0 lbs.

Bran . .............. 3.51 lbs. 2.0 lbs.

A furthcr illustration of the imporiancc of corn
silage with the beef man is the carrying,r of dry
cows through the winter on liberal amounts of
silage. During the winter of 1915—16, ten Ilere—
ford cows were wintcred at the Purdue farm on
corn silage and out straw, consuming approxi—
mately thirty pounds of silage and ten pounds of
oat straw daily. During the wintcr of 1016—17.
the same cow ate corn silage and stover. The calf
crop averaged 100 per cent both ycars. The cows
and their offspring wcre in good condition and
the calves have grown satisfactorily.

I.ive stock means permanent agriculture. The
question can aptly be asked: “What is a live
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(A clearing department for farmers' everyday (rollb-

les. Prompt and careful attention given to all com-:.

plaints or requests for information addressed to this
department. We are here to serve you. Call upon us.)

 

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GRAIN CORPORATION BELIEVES
WHEAT FEEDS WILL BE PLENTIFUL

 

Sometime ago the Detroit Milling Company
\xiote us the following letter upon the probable
growing scarcity of wheat feeds and asked us to
present the information to our readers:

“The United States Grain Corporation, which
is the grain division of the Food Administration,
has put out tentative rules governing the milling
and handling of wheat next year, and apparently
the plan is to export a great deal of wheat. This
is shown by the fact that a very low rate of
freight has been arranged 011 wheat from the Pa-
citic to the Atlantic coast. The rate is about 011e-
hull‘ of the rate 011 flour so that it would appear
that the wheat millers of the Paciﬁc coast will
he put out of business. Also the buying of all the
cxport flour of the country is to he in the hands
of the Grain Corporation.

“'l‘hc plan also involvos the use in this country
of only three pounds of wheat flour per person per
week, This all conﬁrms 11 c opinion that wheat
will be exported very largely, therefore no wheat
feed. or a very small amount, will be available for
sale in this country. and while the regulations
call for a low price on wheat feed there will be
no more for sale than there has been this past year.
As the oat and Co’l‘ll crops are not made yet, mill
feed is very essential to the farmer. ..nd we be-
lieve that the farmers should be interested in these
rules as affecting their supply of wheat feeds.

"lt, will do no good to have low prices on wheat
iced if the farmer cannot get it. The farmer is
very much interested in the price of wheat. feeds.
because from it he produces butter. milk and ani-
mal products."~—I)clroif Milling (‘0.

This letter was referred to the Grain Corporation
who replied as follows

”1 would say ﬁrst. with reference to the Paciﬁc
coast, that this entire question has been the sub-
jcct of a vcry exhaustive inquiry and every interest
affected has been able to present its side of the
question, and I am quite satisﬁed that, the final
plan applicable to the Pacific coast will be found to
\xork no special hardship on any industry or inter-
est. and that fears to this end will be dissipated
quickly once the plan is thoroughly understood and
becomes operative.

"Speaking broadly as to wheat. mill feeds. I think
it only reasonable to expect, that, with large wheat
crop there should be an increase. in the amount of
feed available in the United States. Will cheerfully
give you any speciﬁc information you may wish.“
l'ootl .ldminislmtion (.‘rain Corporation, H. D.
[Hf/1 1, M. mu] Vit c Pu .sidcnt.

 

WHAT PRICE DO FARMERS
THINK RYE SHOULD BRING

 

I think the M. B F. is doing more for the farmer
than any other paper. I don 1, want. to be without
it. I enclose a dollar to pay up. Is there a price
on rye? If not. why not, if the government wants
it'F—(r'. 12'. l’., Hcspcrio.

The government, has not set a price on rye al-
though there has been considerable agitation along
that line. Any price that the government might
set, however, would probably be lower than the
price might ordinarily go according to the law
of supply and demand. We infer that you are not
satisfied with the present prices on rye,' What
do you think would be a fair price‘.’

SHALL I SELL MY CHICKS FOR
BROILERS OR HOLD THEM?

l have about three hundred young chickens and
would like your advice about marketing them.
Shall I sell at the broiler stagc or keep them
till roasting size. I am paying 5‘ch a pound for
thick feed by the llllmlrctl pound lots; paid 7‘rt-c
rolled oats; -1‘~_-c for barley, and will not. have any
grain of my own until after the new crops are
harvested. From the Hoover standpoint it would
seem better to kccp them until late fall but I do not
want to lose out on them. I am offered 3141' for
broilers now. 1 don’t think that will leave me
much for my time after expenses are de'luctcd.—~
1/12». 11‘. (I. ('.. .trlrian. ‘

lt is very difﬁcult, for us to give our readers ad—
vice upon this subject. The amount of time one
has to give to the feedins and care of the chicks.
local feed prices, and many other local factors
with which we are not familiar
very material effect upon one's proﬁt. in either.
case. The Food Administration has asked the
farmers as arpatriotic measure to raise the chicks,
and many will be guided by this request rather
1ban a desire to gain the most: proﬁt. In our
judgment. the Food Administration would have
placed the poultry raiser in a better position if it

had sanctioned the sale of at least a portion of _

the spring ﬂock as broilers. for many, if not the

--~wer11.1qusj11m..-:1 -~,.5,...4.\,-1..1..1,,(,1 .

-. majority will make more money dispos1ne of brOi-l-
l-ers right now than they will in selling roasters.
next fall.

tion.”

over ﬁfteen million dollars.

might have a,

While it is generally expected that peo-
ple engaged in other businesses will naturally Sell
their'product when it will bring them the most
returns, even in war time, for some reason or
other the rule does not seem to apply to farmers.
The meat supplies of the Allies are on the increase
and we do not believe the future supply will be
at alljeopardized if farmers who do net“ desire to
carry their chicks thru till fall and dispose of them
at an uncertain price, should sell their chicks for
broilers now. But you ought to get more than
33c a pennd for them in Monroe county._ The
week your dealer offered you that, broilers were
bringing ~10 to 45 cents in the city of Detroit.

NEW GOVERNMENT BULLETINS
THAT FARMERS SHOULD HAVE

Below is a list of the bulletins that have been
issued by the United States Department of Agri-
culture during the past couple of weeks. Farmers
desiring to secure copies of these may do so on ap.
plication to the Division of Publications, 1'. S.
Department of Agriculture, Washington, I). (7.

Bulletin No. 9151. “Transferring Bees 10 Modern
Hives."

No. 915:1, “Tractor Experience in Illinois.”

No. 952, “Breeds of Light Horses ”

No. 972 “How to Use Sorghum Grain”

No. 984, “Farm and Home D1ying of Fruits
and Vegetables.”

No. 688, “Marketing Berries, and Cherries by Par-
cel Post.”

No. 918,"Peach Varieties and Their Classiﬁca-
.No. 9-19. “Dehornins‘ and Castrating Cattle.”
No. 926. “Some Common Disinfectants.”

No. 921.“The Pinciples of the Liming of Soils."
No. 967. “Purple Vetch.”

No. 964. “Farm Household Accounts."

No. 977. “Hay Caps.”

 

 

 

From the Morning’s Mail

()ne of my friends says the M. B. IA‘. is the
best farm paper he has ever seen and would
like to take it.—*.Il. J. M._ ('crcsco.

\Ve like the M. B. 11‘. ﬁne and look forward
anxiously to each copy. We are doing all we
can for the paper and will get subscriptions
whenever we can but are so busy now. Wish.
ing you the best of success, I am yours for
right prices and a square deal.——(7. L. B.,
'll"£ll'imn.s-burg.

I like your paper very much as it is one
I think is deeply interested in farmers and
their rightsﬂd. M.. Iv‘owlcrvillc, Mich.

The M. B. F. is by far the best farm jour—
nal I receive.~»—M. L. [1,. Sunny/side Farm.
(‘olhoun County.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRICES GROCERS SHOULD CHARGE
’ FOR THE SUBSTITUTE'FLOURS

I would like to know if the grocer charged me
too much for the following:

10 lbs. corn flour .................. $ .90
10 lbs, rye flour. . .. ................ L40
25 lbs. wheat flour .................. 1.85

~—Subsc-ribcr. (y'crmask,

Eight cents per pound is the retail price of corn
flour today in the lowest; sections of Michigan.
The wholesale price is $5.25 per cwt. This price
should be general for Michigan. The price of
wheat: flour seems to be at least 20 cents too high
and the price or rye is also above what would be
a fair price in most of the markets in Michigan.
It is possible that transportation and other ex-
penses connected with securing stocks of food in
Germfask are unusually high and it is impossible
to positively state what the prices should be
without knowing the cost of the products to the
dealer.w(lcd. .-t. Prcscoit. chcrul Food stdminnis-
tmfor.

THE ALPIAN TUNNEL IS THE
LONGEST IN THE WORLD

The Simplon tunnel is the longest tunnel in the
world. being ovcr twelve miles in length. The bor-
ing of this famous tunnel through the Alps occu:
picd ten thousand men almost ten years. and cost
The wonderful feature
of this tunnel is the immense distance below the top
of the mountain through which it runs. The tunnel
climbs up into the heart of the Alps. and yet at the
highest point there is over a mile of the lofty peak
above it. It could have run nearer the top of the
mountain but that would have made the grade too
steep for the trains to climb. On the Swiss side the
entrance to the tunnel is 2,249 feet above sea level,
and on the Italian side it.is 2,079 feet. The Alps
are pierced by two other tunnels. the Saint Gothard
and the Mount (Tends—Young People.

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FACTS ABOUT ROSEN RYE

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Many times during the last few weeks the writer
has heard farmers make some such statement
as, “I wish I had known that. Rye cross fertilized
and I would have kept my Rosen Rye farther
my field of common’

This fact has been given conside1able public--

ity in the past and stress has always been laid
on this point in the sale of pedigreed Rye. But
the majority of people have not realized the necess-
ity of‘growing Rosen‘forty rods or more from
common with the result that the most of the form-
er is badly creased. '

Rosen Rye has yielded phenomenaly and yet
consistently better than common rye from Menom-
inee county in the Upper Peninsula to the ex-
treme southern Michigan, and moreover, its val-
ue has not been confined to his state alone. For
two years now, it has proven its worth in Northern
Indiana, and this year reports are now coming
in from more than a dozen different states ove:
a wide range, commending the variety.

The: is no longer a question in the mind:.
of lVIichigan farmers, who have tried this rye. as
to its superiority over common varieties. Prac-
tically the entire acreage of the state this year.
will be sewn to Rye, bearing the name Rosen.
It is the chief purpose of this article to point out
the necessity of buying the genuine article in
reality as well as name.

Pure Rosen Rye has heads bearing four complete-
ly filled rows of kernels. This condition is
rarely found in a field of common rye. The. latter
very seldom pcllinates properly and a; a result
there are usrally a number of blanks in every head
where there should be grains.

The result is common rye ordinarily has about
two thirds :18 many grains per head as Rosen.

Now the pollen for rye is wind-borne, like corn,
and if common rye is grown within 40 lOdS of Ron
e11 especially on the side from which prevailing
winds come cross fertilization of the varieties
occurs As far as Rosen Rye is concerned this
is about as productive of results as attempting
to increase the milk production of Holstein cattle
by crossing with Polled Angus.

Practically all the Rosen Rye in the st tate is
now more or less mixed, so in sclectJig Rosen
Rye for seed this fall, try and examine the field
from which you intend I.) get seel and use from
a source bearing the largest proportion of perfect.
heads or obtain Registered Inspected Seed Require-
ments of the Michigan Crop Improvement Asso-
ciation.

Improvement can be made by field selecting
perfect heads from a. fie‘d not too badly crossed.
These of course, will have some bloc: of common.
but will be a great improvement over the average.

Rosen P A. has proved a boon to thousands of
Michigan farmers, especially in the ,..1ndy and
sandy loam section.

Now if the satisfactory yields obtained during
the past. four years are to be maintained, more
attention will have to be given to seed selection
from now on.

As to Red Rock Wheat this variety has firmly
intrenched itself in favor of farmers in practically
all the clay and clay loam wheat growing sections
of the state. This variety is not especially adapted
to light sand or infertile sand 1011 us, its long
hard berry tending to produce more shrunk
and yellow berry grains under 1.1cse conditions
than some of the softer wheats.

But on good land its winter hardiness. its high
yielding ability and good millng quality have
won it a deserved reputation as a desirable
wheat for Michigan, and placed it in five years
since it was first distributed, as the most exten-
sively sown single variety of wheat in Michigan.

As wheat does not cross fertilize, this factor
has not influenced the purity of Red Rock. How-
ever, a great deal of it has been badly mixed

‘through’common threshing practice and cleaning

in public elevators, so that the securing of pure,
clean seed is also an essential factor with this
variety. vl. M. Nicholson. la‘J-Icnsion Spcciolist,
M. .1. (’.

Lansi11g:~’l‘hru the efforts of Chas. A. l’arcells.
Michigan state director for the Boys' Working
lx’cscryc, it is expected that a numbcr of farm
training camps will be established in Michigan
this fall for the purposc of training boys for
work on farms next summer. The success of a
camp at \Nixom, Oakland county, has prOmptcd
Gov. Sleeper to give his‘cndorscment of the
idea. '

J. M. Preston writes that; silos can be erected
as late as September tenth in Michigan and
still be in time for cutting. He advises however
that owing to present railroad conditions your
order be placed through your local agent right
away. or you may be dissapointed.

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re
the 33rd annual inset

Mr. Aitlcin owns a large dairy farm near Flint,
this state, Where he has bred. and developed some
celebrated cows. Butter Boy Rosina was the

‘world’s champion 3- year-old in 1908 and Flint

Bertjusca Pauline was the world's champion sen-
ior‘ 2-year-old in 1915. Mr. Aitlcen’ s eﬂ’orts of later
years have been in developing a herd of long dis-
tance animals. His senior herd sire now has a dam

and granddam each with a recdrd of better than

1200 lbs. of butter in a year, and his junior herd
sire has a dam and granddam with an average of
better than 1200 lbs. of butter in a year. Mr. Ait-
hen is well qualified from a long personal exper-
ience in the breeding of Holsteins to write with
authority on any subject akin to dairying.

He has consented to write upon other

dairy subjects for the benefit of MLCHIGAN BUSI-

NESS FARMING readers, and his co- operation will
help to make M. B. F. a .thoroly representative
organ for the-promotion of the varied dairying
interests of the state.

 

I have noticed recently that you are giving spe-
cial attention to the dairy interests, and I am con-
vinced that no branch of agriculture offers great-
er opportunity for proﬁts than that of dairying.

The want of more proﬁts in dairying in the past
has been to a certain extent the fault of the farmer
himself. He has not adopted the practices that
were calculated to bring him the best returns and
has not, in my judgment, given the dairy depart-
ment the consideration to which it is entitled.

When I-was a boy at home on the farm in this
county ﬁfty years ago we kept scrub COWS, we cut
the hay 'with a scythe and the wheat with a cradle.
To' punch the cradler with the end of the rake
stale while binding up his swathe required not only
skill but quick movements, and during the harvest-
ing period that was one of the important functions
I performed as I grew older. My youngest effort
was spreading the hay from the swathes of‘the
mower. Later on we discarded the scythe and
used a mowing machine. The cradle was discarded
for the reaper, and the crude machinery ﬁrst offer.
ed has gradually developed into our presen-t ma-
chinery for handling the usual and ordinary pro-
ducts of the farm, but the scrub cow still remains.
Thousands of the good farmers of Michigan are
using that same scrub machine. It may have im-
proved slightly but still represents the intellectual
parallel of the cradle and the scythe.

There have been just as great advancements in
dairy industry machines as in the tools for hand-

ling hay and grain. The old scrub cow that made
from 4 to 7 pounds of butter in a week was the
best to be had in that period. 250 to 300 pounds of
butter in a year represented good dairy husbandry
of that date and was far beyond the average of the
state. The dairymen of the country, however,
have been improving. There has been evolved
by correct principles in breeding milking ma-
chines called dairy cows, that are producing from
two to ﬁve time as much product as did the'scrub
of ﬁfty years ago.

The Holstein-Friesian Association of which I
am president, has what we call the advanced re-
gistry, where teSts are made of the production of
these dairy animals. We have reco-rds that show
that a cow has produced as high as 1500 pounds
of butter in a year—three—quarters of a ton! That
cow has produced as high as 50 pounds of butter
in one week. Other purebred dairy milking ma-

. ,fg, of the Holstein-n
5"Fr-tesian Associationmf America, June 5th, D D.

:‘:Aitken was raj-elected president (ii. We association,
for his ﬁfth consecutive term a well merited hon-.
nor and 'a recognition of the tremendous growth
{of the association during. the four years of. his in-
.xcumben’cy

, at persons, each selecting their
choice. have improved their herds by using pure-

bred sites and turning out What is knOWn as grade 5
~ milking machines, a tr‘émendous’ improvement
* over the scrub.
"reaper as” compared f'W‘ith the cradle.
great majority of the butter producing animals of

likened to, We might say, the
Still the

Michigan. are today grades, preducing not less than
250 pounds of butter 1111 a year. That is why Mich-

1 igan is not the ﬁrst dairy state in the union.

There is not a‘state better calculated for dairying

‘than‘Micliigan; there’s-no state that contains more

ﬂowing wells and other sources of pure water than
Michigan; there’s no climate better calculated for
the developmentof the dairy cow and no state with
less pests to harass them. With alfalfa and corn
ensilage produced in as liberal amounts and of as
high quality asrany in the land there is absolutely
no excuse, for us being out of the front ranks, ex-
cept the use of poor machinery in the production of
our product, and that is the cow, the milking ma-
chine,

You ask for the remedy and my answer is,
that the farmer must have imprOVed machines.
If he does not feel like using pure—breds then he
should use a pure bred sire and by evolution im-
prove his dairy machinery. I believe, however,
that any farmer who is operating his own farm,
supervising his work, could gain not only increas-
ed satisfaction but increased financial returns if
he will start with a few pure bred animals of the
breed of his choice for good families, keeping the
females until in a few years his entire herd will
be pure-bred and of a family .and a strain calcuL
ated to produce the dairy products at the lowest
possible cost.

The theory that the farmer cannot afford to
have better dairy cows, cannot afford to have pure-
bred milking machines, to me is an idle argument.
My contention is (and I know I am right) he can-
not afford to have anything else if he is going to
produce milk, butter and cheese. The only machine-
ry that will produce these commodities at a proﬁt
and with efﬁciency is that calculated by nature
for that purpose, and nature’s instrumentality has
been animals from certain lines of breeding, for
generations utilized and operated for the produc~
tion of milk. How idle it would be for a man oper-
ating a farm to say that he could not afford a
mowing machine. or could not afford a grain bind-
er, and attempt to cut his hay and grain with the
scythe and the cradle. Still there is just as much
argument for it, for while we only use the scythe
and the cradle a few days in the year we use the
milking machine nine months in the year, and
when you are only producing a pound of butter or
25 pounds of milk when you ought to be producing

2 pounds of butter or 50 pound-s of milk at prac?

tically the same cost, then you are demonstrating
to a moral certainty that you cannot afford 0 keep
these low producing animals.

I am acquainted with a number of farme-rs in
Michigan who keep scrub cows and feed and care
for them in ﬁrst-class manner, and get as good re-
sults as it is possible to get from that character
and class of tools. Those same men, however, and
wih the same care and the same amount of feed
with genuine dairy animals could double the pro-
duction and triple the proﬁt, for I am ﬁrmly con-
vinced that if they were to count their labor at the
present prices the average scrub cow would be kept
at a loss, and it is only because the farmer does
not appreciate the value of his own services that
he keeps these inferior animals.

I think, therefore, Mr. Editor, that it is up to
the farmer to install different machinery for the
manufacturing of milk, butter and cheese, and I
want to congratulate you for the assistance you are
giving in that direction—D. D. Aitken. President,
Holstein—Fricsian Association of America.

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Michigan Hampshire Ram of the Parsons Flock at
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By ROMEYN C. PARSONS

Sheep are like rabbits in nature and need a va-
riety of feed, therefore frequent change of pasture.
Low lands are dangerous except for a short period
in summer when very dry. They do best where it
is dry underfoot at all times with high land fo-r
their resting place. They. should be protected from
cold rains in the fall if you would avoid sickness.
Provide good winter shelter with plenty of air,
without direct drafts. Spray the walls, feeding
racks and ﬂoors with some good disinfectant.
Plenty of feed is necessary for success; roots are
needed, clover, alfalfa, beats and bean pods, ﬁne
grass and corn fodder, all much better than tim-
othy hay.

Grain, ensilage, or some succulent food should be
given the ewe flock beginning January 1 st, until
grass time. It’s up to you so don’t fool yourself, if
you feed and care for your ﬂock wel1, you will be

  

satisfactory records,

There is only one way—be a good feeder, be careful,

be thoughtful of your flock in advance, before they
are hit by neglect. Do‘ not let the little lambs
stop for a moment in their‘growth, from the time
they are born until'they are one year old.

At weaning time lambs must have'the best of
pasture, clover preferred,‘ but later beware of
frosted grass. Put ewes on short feed until dried
up. All eweslwith- teeth gone should be disposed
of regularly eachhfall before winter sets in, and
have cabbageo. roots on hand to ease off the de-
cided change from green pasture to green hay.
Learn at once to tell a sheep’s age by its teeth; it
means more-to the ﬂeck-master than you think.
Rams should not be with the ﬂock except through
the breeding season. Build the right kind of feed-
ing mangers that will keep the hay dirt out of wool
and remember that sheep want their feeding
troughs kept'clean. Supply water fresh throughout
the winter. Sweep out each day if necessary and
disinfect every thirty days.

Look out for ticks and lice. If your ﬂock has
them shear before lambing time or if afterwards
be sure to dip the lambs, as the ticks will immedi-
ately go from the old sheep to the lamb. If you
haven’t time you can afford to pay some man or

boy $10.00 a day to do it for you and you will then.

boy $10 a day to do it for you and you will then be
many dollars ahead; it costs a lot to feed ticks.

Beware of stomach worms—the lamb’s worst
enemy. More lambs and sheep die in summer,
fall and winter from effects of worms than from
all other causes combined. Ticks and starvation
take their toll in late winter and spring.

If your lambs or sheep look gaunt and dull with
ears dropped and some scour without good cause
you can be quite sure that the trouble is worms,
which should be removed at once or a big loss will
result. Don’t delay to drive the ticks and worms
from the sheep or they will put you out of business.
Remember the law of reward and punishment is
certain with sheep. They will pay you back
in lambs and wool for all the good you do for them.

The good ﬂock—master sees that the new born
lamb gets nourishment from the ewe as soon as
it is dry and in no case should the little one be
chilled. You can’t earn higher wages than by sit-
ting up nights at lambing time. The tails on lambs
should be bocked before four weeks old; cut tails
one inch from the body. All rams, unless pure
bred, should be castrated.

Many unexpected early lambs are lost each win-
ter by carlessly leaving a neglected ram lamb in the
ﬂock During the mating season which is from
August 1st to February 1st, and some few breeds
of sheep mate any time of year, but no matter
what kind of a ewe ﬂock you have, it can be im-
proved and it should be your job to do it with care,
feed. and high class rams. A safe rule is to buy a
pure-bred ram whose value is four times the av-
erage value of. your ewes, that is, if your ewes are
worth $12.50 a head you should expect to pay $50
for a ram Hot house or show sheep are seldom
good sires and many times not even good sheep.
They would only look good to the inexperienced.
The deceptive part of the show ring will some day
pass away to be superceded by the products of
our scholars in the true art and science of breeding.
Also I hope to see our government establish an
experimental station for the scientiﬁc development
of Sheep and the study of sheep diseases. It has
been my experienc and I think it is common know-
ledge that even our best veterinaries know very lit-
tle about doctoring sheep and I know of no school
where a special course in this line can be bad.
This prevailing condition has caused me to estab-
lish an experiment station at “Leona Park Farm,”
Grand Ledge. Mich. The commendable work being
done with plant life by Luther Burbank at Santa
Rosa, California, is not impossible to duplicate in
animal life. although the short space of one life-
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, ' algfeelin'g between the'north and the
- south again to be revivedat this
critical period when all minds of all

sections ‘Should be planning for the common.

good. . Unconsciously at ﬁrst, but latterly with
studied intent, northern and southern congress-
men and senators ,have arrayed themselves
against each other upon the issues of cotton and
wheat prices. The south has stood solidly back
of the President in his opposition to a higher
wheat price. but until recently has been violently
opposed to any control whatever over the cotton
market. As a result of the government price on
wheat, growers are obliged to sell that cereal at
from $1 to $2 per bushel less than would have
prevailed had the law of supply and demand been

permitted to take its course, as it has in the

cotton industry. Naturally. the subject is one
calculated to arouse (lisension between the two
sections of the country and one that requires
the utmost diplomacy in dealing with.

Northern senators have repeatedly scored the
southern members for their self-interest, claim«
mg that they do not have the good of the country
at heart by taking such an attitude on two of
the most important commodities. lf price—ﬁxing
on wheat is a good thing, price-ﬁxing on cotton
should be equally good and the nation’s legisla-
tors should unite on a program which will treat
both commodities alike.

Last year’s crop of cotton, consisting of 11,000,~
000 bales was less than an average crop. With
limited supply and increased demand, the price
has naturally advanced very rapidly, and has
brought a steady stream of gold into the pockets
of southern planters and manufacturers. The
price of cotton advanced over 70 per cent during
1917, whereas the price of wheat declined about
.70 per cent under government control. The cur-
rent year's crop looks like a big one. The forc-
cast is for 16,000,000 bales. and the planters are
beginning to worry lest bumper crop presages
a period of low prices. As a result there is some
agitation for a ﬁxed price on cotton as on wheat,
a subject upon which the south itself is divided.
However, no one claims that any part of the
south would be willing to see a price ﬁxed on
cotton that would reduce the present price.

Senator Core, in attacking the president's veto
of $2.40 wheat, offered a comparison between the
advances in cotton prices and wheat prices, as
follows:

Cotton
Year. Wheat. cents.
1012 ......................... $ .76 11.52
1913 ......................... .700 12.80
1914 ......................... .986 11.13
1915 ......................... .919 10.14
1916 ......................... 1.603 14.45
1917 . . ...................... 2.009 23.49

The market price of cotton has been as high as
36 cents this year.

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American soldiers are now being sent overseas
at the rate of 100,000 per week. If the supreme
war council decides to continue if not to increase
this rate, troops soon will be leaving the train-
ing camps in much greater numbers than draftecs
are entering. At the present rate of movement
it is estimated that class 1 of the draft will be
exhausted in September.

The figures on the number of men remaining
in Class 1 are:

Number remaining on Aug. 1 next from

the 1917 class..........................277,35‘)
Estimated additions from reclassification,
etc. . . ................................2oo,000
Estimated additions fronl class of 1918
registered June 5 last ................... 400.000
Total . . . . . . 877,339

At the present rate of shipment 80000011161) will
go over seas between August lst and Sept. 30th.
\Vhat will happen when Class 1 is exhausted. no
one seems to know.

Secretary Baker insists that the deferred alas;-
ﬁcations will not be called upon, and announces
that he has a program which calls for the raising
of an additional 5,000,000 men who will be secured
by extending the draft age limits. Congress
will have to act immediately upon reconvening
in August to change the age limits else the deter-
red men will have to go or there will be lag in
our shipments.

* *

National prohibition received a hard bump
when in the discussion of the new revenue bill
it was shown that the abolishment of alcoholic
liquors would deprive the federal government
of a round billion dollars of tax money which
it sorely needs at the present time. Like the

  

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~‘No ﬁgures are Submitted. to show

the tremendous saving to the,gov;ernment and to
the peeple when the money that is now spent in
a useless drink, in enforcing the liquor laws, and

in administering the liquor tax laws thatwould
‘be diverted to. the -war_ chest.

This sudden “dis-
covery” may stave off prohibition for the time
being. but as soon as the American people have
recovered from the shock and begin ouce'more
to use their brains, they will see thru the shal-

low argument without difﬁculty.
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Herbert C. Hoover has gone to England.
There he will meet with the food representa—
tives of all the other allied countries to discuss
the food needs and supplies for the ensuing year.
All the vast food resources of these great agri-
cultural countries will be pooled and each will
contribute its portion to the allied world’s table.
America will be the great reserve supply house.
\Nhat the European nations lack the coming year
in making up their food budgets will be supplied
by America.

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Congressman Cramton has gone to Europe,
leaving his political fortunes in the hands of his
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Moths are destroying Massachusetts cranberry
bogs.

Denver has a new company which will can rabbit
meat.

United States has 268,000 Civil War veterans on
the pension rolls. '

Los Angeles is producing-glycerin enough for
1.220 shells daily from garbage.

Up to June ’29th United States had expended
$13,800,000,000 to fight Germany.

Independence hall, Philadelphia, has abolished vis-
itors’ register. Too many callers nowadays.

Clairton, Pa. claims the largest coke oven plant
in the world; 650 ovens of twelve tons capacity.

Negro women of the United States raised about
$5,000,000 for the Third Liberty Loan, according to
a report from Mrs. Harry B. Talbert, President of
the National Association of Colored Women.

Flaxseed and Linseed have been placed upon the
list of restricted imports. All outstanding licenses
for the importation by sea of this commodity have
been revoked, except for such goods as are now in
transit or to be sent by boats which are now loading.

Sugar planters in the Hawaiian islands are facing
a shortage of bags used as containers for raw sugar.
These bags have been imported from Calcutta. Re—
cently machinery was sent to Honolulu from Wash-
ington for manufacturing the bags from the ﬁbre
of banana tree trunks.

The preliminary estimate of the Rice Millers As—
sociation, published recently, gives the total rice
acreage in the south this year as 1,130,717, compared
with 978,107 acres last year. The acreage of the
three principal rice producing states. Texas, Loursx-
ana and Arkansas, exceeds the entire 1917 acreage
in the United States, according to the estimate.

The Government asks everyone to be careful and
pass the word along to all that stray pigeons
are being trained to carry messages and the loss 01
such would be. a severe loss to the Government. .So
try to impress upon your family and your acquaint:
ances the necessity of heeding the request. This is
a very easy but efficient manner in which to aid in
becoming victorious.

NEW YORK BEAN SITUATION
CLOSELY RESEMBLES MICHIGAN’S

It is reported that, under the direction of the
State Farms and Markets Council, that a check
is being made on the bean holdings of growers
and dealers in the Western New York territory.
Questionaires have been sent out in large numbers.
Coupled with this effort is the statement that an
effort will be made to increase the consumption
of beans, but growers have had false hopes raised
several times already and some seem inclined to be
skeptical of the plan.

The bean market is still so quiet that any
prince vhat, might be quoted would be nominal.
However, despite the fact, that the few beans
that have been sold in recent weeks have gone at
decidedly lower figures than prevailed early in
the season, retailers maintain the same high prices
to the consumer. The ruling price at the stores
now is from 16 to 18 cents a pound for state
beans. This. it is held. retards sales and reduces
consumption. There is some agitation against
this short—sighted policy but it has never developed
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vicinity of the Marne river which has brought Ger-
many a few minor gains at a terrible loss of ‘life.
is turning, and the counter-offensive, launched
by French and American troops has forced the
Germansback airing the entire 60.mile front to a

depth. in some instances of eight to ten miles.

Many towns and guns have been taken by Ameri-
can forces, in addition to about 20.000 prisoners.
The presence of American troops in such large
numbers has taken the Germans by surprise and
greatly weakened their morale. The present Al-
lied drive is but a. minor operation. we are remind-
ed, and that the big smash will come later on.
It at
The Kaiser’s U-boats‘Monday sunk the tug Perth
Amboy and four barges off Cape Cod. The ﬁring
attracted thousands of people to the beach from
where the battle could be plainly seen. A number
of poorly aimed shells fell inland. No one. either
on the boats or on shore were killed during the
action, altho three sailors were injured.
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The U-boats bagged their biggest game off the
Atlantic coast last Friday when they attacked and
sunk the armored cruiser. San Diego. The ship’s
entire complement of 1,187 ofﬁcers and men were
saved. The San Diego was by far the biggest boat
lost by the U. S. during the war. It is reported
that the gunners remained on the boat until the
water was in on them in the hopes of getting a
shot at the submarine.
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“The Americans are only cannon fodder and not
the equal of our war-seasoned, unconquerable
troops,” is the way the German ofﬁcial mouthpiece

summed up the American troops only a few days,

before they smashed into the German lines and
sent the Huns retreating. After being repeatedly

fed on such stories as these, it is not to be won-

dered at that they go into battle over—confident of
their superiority over the Americans, or that they
are surprised i-nrto surrender when they ﬁnd the
Americans are fully their match.

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Secretary Baker has decided that base-ball is a
non-essential occupation and orders that all men
of draft age playing professional liaseball..get into
some useful occupation or ﬁght. Owners of the
professional teams profess to see a menace against
the entire future of the national pastime in the Sec-
retary's order as it will take from 85 to 90 per cent

of the League players, and it will be impossible to '

continue the game with the small number of re.

maining players over and under the draft age.
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A Michigan boy, Assistant Pa‘ymaster'Robert-

Herbert Halstead of Lansing. is among the miss-
ing from the army supply ship; Westover, which
was torpoed and sunk in the war zone, July 11th,
while on its way to Europe.

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Six Custer Soldiers‘wgre killed Sunday when. a
freight car telescoped a D. U. R. limited near Chel-
sea. snufﬁlnsr out the lives of 13 people and injnn
ing 47.

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The death of Lieut Quentin Roosevelt, son of
Theodore Roosevelt, who fell inside the German
lines during an engagement with a Hun airplane.
has been conﬁrmed by enemy dispatches. Young
Roosevelt died like a hero and was buried with
military honors by German airmen. who discover-
ed his identity from the name on his pocket cases.
The young man’s personal belongings are. being
kept to be sent later to his relatives.

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As we go to press the ﬁrst authentic dispatches
come from overseas showing the total German lors
during the nine days engagement on the wes-‘ern
front. During this period between 60 and 70 div-
isions have been employed, with a loss of 180,002)
men killed wounded and taken prisoner.

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A Berne. Switzerland. dispatch commenting on
the health of the Field Marshall von llindenburg
would seem to give the lie to the story wide‘v
circulated last week that the general was dead.
The dispatch claims that the German war lorzl
has been unable to take active part in any of the
military operations of the present year.

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An Austrian newspaper comments upon the
superb organizing genius of the American people
which has put over a million soldiers in France
during the ﬁrst year of its entrance into the war.
“All latest reports,” says this paper. “are in agree-
ment that there is no longer any doubt about the
fact that one million Americans are in France
today,” and it goes on to point out, that Germany
is now facing three nations whose population is
three times as great as hers and whose talents for
organization and economic power are equal to
those of Germany.

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CHERON BREED IS GROWING

During the last 19 months the Percheron breed-
ers of the United States have sold more than 1.000
Percherons to Canadian buyers. 611 of these were
purchased during the last 7 months by 91 different
Canadian buyers. 32 purchasers were located in
Alberta; 4 in British Columbia; 12 in Manitoba;
1 in New Brunswick; 7 in Ontario; am 35 .in
Saskatchewan. 239 out of the 611 sold this past
season were mares. It is believed that this con-
stitutes a record for the exportation of any kind
of purebred livestock into Canada. These very
heavy exportations are signiﬁcant of the growing
popularity of Percherons in all parts of the Do-
minion. and of Canadians' ﬁrm belief in the pros-
perity in store for breeders of good draft horses.

Measured by the total number of registrations
made last year. Illinois and Iowa are far in the
lead of all other states in Percheron production.
Out of the 10508 Percherons recorded during the
last ﬁscal year. Illinois recorded 2.386. or 22.7%
of the total; Iowa. 2,110. or 20.07%; Ohio 864. or
8.22%; Kansas 759. or 7.22%; Nebraska 52“.. or
4.97%; Minnesota 447. or 4.25%; Indiana 440. or
4.18%; South Dakota 392. or 3.73%; North Dako-
ta 370. 3.52%; Wisconsin 353. or 3.35%; Missouri
308. or 2.03%; Pennsylvania 244. or 2.32%; Mich-
igan 223. or 2.12%; Oklahoma 108. or 1.50%;
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FOOD ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES

NEW FLOUR MILLING REGULATIONS

With the end of the milling year on July 1. the
Food Administration reviews conditions which have
prevailed in‘the ﬂour milling industry and also an—
nounces new regulations to be put in effect.

Under the original regulations. the millcrs were

barrel. based on their annual business. The busi—
ness is recognized to be a seasonal one and cannot
be judged on profits determined upon a few months"
operations. nor can annual profits always be accu—
rately forecast at the beginning. Millers ﬁnding
themselves at the end of the fiscal yearvwith an
amount in excess of 25 cents a barrel profit have
been notiﬁed that they release themselves from the
difﬁculty by selling a sufﬁcient amount of ﬂour at a
nominal price to the Food Administration to liquid-
ate any such surplus proﬁt. Millers’ accounts are
audited by representatives of the enforcement divi-
sion of the hood Administration.

Under the new plan of mill regulation now being
organized, trade will be free but proﬁts closely
3 limited. Speculation will not be permitted. but no
" limitations are placed upon the freedom of flour
mills or traders to buy or sell in any market. The
mills are. however. under restrictions to reflect the
government price within the proﬁt limitations upon
ﬂour. The whole plan has been approved by the.
Agricultural Advisory (‘ommitteta the board of 24
members which confers with the Food Administra—
tion on matters affecting producers.

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AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF
IMPORTANCE TO AGRICULTURE

It is now possible to summarize the shipments
of foodstuffs from the United States to the Allied
countriesmrluring the ﬁscal year just closctl-evpt‘zlc-
.4; tically the last harvest year, These amounts include
7; all shipments to Allied countries for their and our
' armies, the civilian population. the llclgian Relief
and Red Cross. The ﬁgure< indicate the measure
of effort of the American people in support of Allied
food supplies.

The total value of these food shipments which
were in the main purchased through. or with the
collaboration of. the Food Administration. amount
to. roundly. $1.400.000.000 during the ﬁscal year.

The shipments of meats and fats (includes meat
products. dairy products, vegetable oils. etc), to
Allied destinations were as follows: ‘

Fiscal year 1‘)1(i~17 ........ 2.166.500.000 lb 1.
Fiscal year 1017-18 ........ 3.011.100.0011 1b.»:
Increase . . ............ 844.600.0001bs.

Our slaughterable animals at the beginning of the
last fiscal year were not appreciably larger than the
year before and particularly in hogs; they were
:probably less. The increase in shipments is due to

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by our farmers. The full eﬁ'ect of these efforts
began to bear their best results in the last half of
the ﬁscal year when the exports to the Allies were
2.133.100000 pounds. as against 1.266.500.0th pounds
in the same period of the year before. This com—
pares with an average of 801.010.0110 pounds of total

 

‘exports for the same half years in the three—year

pre-war period.

In cereals and cereal products reduced to terms
of.ccrea1 bushels. our shipments to Allied destina—
tions have been:

Fiscal year. 1916-17 ...... 259900.000 bushels
Fiscal year. 1917—18 ...... 340800.000 bushels
Increase . . . ......... 80.900000 bushels

Of these cereals our shipments of the prime
breadstuﬁ's in the ﬁscal year 1917—18 to Allied desti—
nations were. wheat 131000.000 bushels. and of rye
13.900000 bushels. a total of 144.900lll0 bushels.

The exports to allied destinations during the ﬁscal
year 1916-17 were. wheat 135.100.000 bushels and
rye 2.300.000 bushels. a total of 137.400.0011 bushels.
In addition. some 10.000.000 bushels of 1917 wheat
are now in port for allied destinations or en route
thereto. The total shipments to allied countries
from our last harvest of wheat will he. therefore.
about 141000.000 bushels. or. a total of 154900.000
bushels of prime breadstuffs. In addition to this we
have shipped some 10.000.000 bushels to neutrals de—
pendent upon us and we have received some imports
from other quarters. A large part of the other ce—
reals exported have also gone into war br iad.

It is interesting to note that since the urgent re—
quest of the allied food controllers early in the year
for a further shipment of 75.000.000 bushels from
our 1917 wheat than originally planned. we shall
have shipped to Europe or have en route. nearly
85.000000 bushels. At the time of this request our
surplus was already more than exhausted. This ac—
complishment of our people in this matter stands
out even more clearly if we bear in mind that we
had available in-the fiscal year 1916—17 from net
carry—over and as surplus over our normal cow
sumption about 200000.000 bushels of wheat which
we were able to export that year without trenching
on our home loaf. This last year. however. owing
to the large failure of the 1917 wheat crop. we had
available from net carry—over and production and
imports. only just about our normal consumption.
Therefore your wheat shipments to allied destina—
tions represent approximately savings from our own
wheat bread.

These figures. however. do not fully convey the
volume of the effort and sacriﬁce made during the
past year by the whole American people. Despite
the magnificent effort of otir agricultural population
in planting :1 much increased acreage in 1017. not
only was there a very large failure in wheat but
also. the corn failed to mature properly and our
corn is our dominant crop. \‘Ve calculate that the
total nutritional production of the country for the
ﬁscal year just closed was between 7 per cent and
9 per cent below the average of the three previous
years. our nutritional surplus for export in those

years being about the same amount as the shrinkage

last year. Therefore the consumption and waste in
food have been greatly reduced in every direction
during the y *ar.

1 am sure that all the millions of our people. agri~
cultural as well as urban. who have contributed to
these results should feel a very deﬁnite satisfaction
that in a year of universal food shortages in the
northern hemisphere all of those people joined to-
gether against Germany have come through into
sight of the coming harvest not only with health
and strength fully maintained. but with only tem—
porary periods of hardship. The European allies
have been compelled to sacriﬁce more than our own
people but we have not failed to load every steamer
since the delays of the storm months last winter.
()ur contributions to this end could not have been
accomplished without effort and sacriﬁce and it is
a matter for further satisfaction that it has been
accomplished voluntarily and individually. lt is
difficult to distinguish between various sections of
our peopltuﬁthe homes. public eating places. food
trades. urban or agricultural populations~—in assess—
ing credit for these results but no one will deny
the dominant. part of the American women.m-rllcrb-
crt lloorcr.

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silo. because there is not, a neighborhood in
Michigan where you cannot easily answer this
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New England.~el:0ston: llrtyin;r general. but re-
tarded by frequent shooters: crop rather light» ()ats
and rye good. "l‘oo cool for corn. Potatoes good:
generally in blossom: some blight in t‘onneeticut.
Tobacco rather uneven. but tttl‘dllt)’ good; harvesting
Havana begun. (‘ranberry bogs mostly in full bloom:
apparently setting well.

Pennsylvania.—l'hiladelphia: Moderate local ﬁlms
with considerable hail. ()ats ﬁlling well and ripen-
ing; harvest begun in some southern counties. Dam-
age to potatoes by blight and green aphis continues.
Growth of corn slow on account of cool nights. but
improving. llarvest of winter wheat in southern and
in a few central counties; condition and prospects
excellent.

Minnesota. Minneapolis: Spring wheat and oat
harvesting July 20 in southern to August 10 in
northern portion. Barley and rye harvesting now
general in southern portion. begins in northern por-
tion August 1; yields good. Pastures poor. Pota-
toes fair to good. Corn is fair to good. Spring
wheat is in good to excellent condition in the south
and fair to good condition in the north.

Illinois —~Springﬁeld: Dry and cool: favorable for
harveating antd threshingr oats. but pastures and
gardens in southern division suffering from contin—
ued drought. although good to execllent elsewhere.
Irlarvestinng, threshing and haying continue. (‘m'n
made excellent growth in north and central portions.
but poor growth in the south as result of the corn
tinned dry Weather; the conditions were favorable
for cultivation and this work was nearly completed.

New York. Ithaca: First half of Week cool and
showery: latter half warm and dry. Rains very
beneﬁcial. but haying delayed temporarily. (.‘oru
somewhat checked. but looking good. Spring wheat.
oats. barley, beans. and other crops doing,r well. l’o—
tatoes being.r sprayed. as bugs and blight troublesome
in some sections. Apples dropping badly. llye har—
vest will begin in upper Hudson Valley this week.
llaying begun in northern counties.

Indiana.~—lndinnnpolis: All growth slow on account
of cool Weather. {11in again needed in many places.
(hits henvy'to medium generally: harvest not yet
general in north. but finished in some places in south.
early potatoes below average. Lute potatoes, truck.
pastures. and unrdens fair to good. Yield of winter
wheat genernlly much above the average. Corn
made good growth generally. but is in fnir to poor
condition in n few localities: growth was retarded by
low temperatures and in places by lack of moisture.

Wisconsin. Milwaukee: Hood weather for hay and
rye harvesting. which is general. Harvesting barley
and curly outs begun in south: barley and winter

 

 

wheat harvest begins in llrown county about the
35th. Much needed rains at close of week. Picking

izlspltt-rl'it’s. eurrnnts. and cherries begun: crops very
light. Sonic barley and oats lodged in south. (torn
tusseling: laid by in south; condition only fair on
account of light rain and low temperature. \Vinter
and spring wheat are ﬁlling We” generally.

Nebraska. Lincoln: Continued dry Weather fawn--
able for threshing harvesting and haying. Second
cutting of alfalfa progressing; crop light. llye har—
vest well advanced. and spring wheat and oat begin—
nini.r in north counties. Pastures exceedingly short
and potatoes damaged in central and southeastern
counties and rain 1111M“ needed. (‘orn is generally in
fair condition as a result of moderate rainfalls. but
some ﬁelds made poor growth in southern por‘ions.
due to dry weather: tassel appearing generally.

Oklahomanwtlklahoma: Hot. dry week. unfavorable
for all crops. Beneﬁcial rains in north portion July
15. Sorghum grains suffering. Sweet potatoes and
peanuts holding up well. Pastures and truck failing:
fast. (‘orn made very poor growth generally because
of the lack of rainfall and the excessive heat: in
some parts of the northeast. howevm'. where light to
moderate. rains fell. it made a fair development.
t‘otton continues in good condition most places. but
is only fair in portion of southwest account of dry
weather. Some weevil are reported in southeast por-
tion.

Arkansas. Little

 

 

llock: lice good to excellent
Where watered. but considerable lost because not
watered. Meadows. pastures. and truck seriously
damaged by drought. Lute potatoes being planted.
Sweet potatoes. peas. beans. melons. cantaloupes.
peanuts. and sorghum good. linrly corn in poor con—
dition. except in central and southwest. lute corn in
fair condition. Threshing winter wheat well ud-
vancr-d. Showers were beneficial and cotton gener-
ally made good growth: condition good and fruiting
well.

Ohio. t‘olumbus: t‘onditions generally unfavorable
for growing crops. but favorable for outdoor Work.
Oats good to excellent: harvest progressing in south-
west: will begin next week in northwest counties.
Having practically done; large crop. Tobacco. pas:—
tures. and late potatoes need ruin. \\'inter wheut
excellent: havesting practically completed. except A
few lake counties: thrashing progressing in western
central. and some northwestern counties and will be
general by next week. (‘orn made poor growth due
to dry weather and low temperature. It is tasselin:
low and appears imperfect in some sections.

Texasrwllouston: Pastures. feed crops. sweet potu~
toes. and peanuts deteriorated in most sections. but
revived in a few scatterer] localities. liice generallv
good. but locally injured. Late corn made pcor
growth due to dry Weather and high temperature:
early corn in fair to good condition and was matured
previous to the dry weather. t‘otton deteriorat'td
in the central. western. and south Western portions
from the continuwl dry. hot weather. but is still fnir
to good north. cast. and coast portions. l’ieking gen-
eral in south. Amarillo: The condition of the cattle
and the range throughout the l‘nnhandlt- is good. ex—
ccpt in the region of the south plains country. where
conditions continue poor.

Kansasrr-Toiiekn: Harvest over. except in north-
\vc"t and threshing hull" done in east and south-cen—
tral portions. with yield good to (\xt‘t-llt‘l'll in those
districts. Pastures. hay crops. potatoes. and g:trd.»us
poor. 'l‘emperature was below the normal in most
ofathe State. while the rainfall was light except
moderate locally in central and southwost portions.
(‘orn made good to excellent advance in important
producing counties in central and northeast portions.
and is standing the drought well in most other
places. It is generallv laid by. and is silking and
tnsseling: will be in roasting—cur stage in about two
weeks.

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'WHEAT. The mills in many sec-
tions are getting all they need .to run

full tinie. On account of the grand
rush for flour, the mills are accepting
only the best grades at the govern-
ment price.

fer ﬂOur that the mills are not taking.

time to blend the ﬂour.
Threshing returns continue favor—

‘ able and the ﬁnal returns will probably

Show larger than the government July
estimate. The quality so far has
been excellent, grading No 1 and 2,
with a small percentage of No.3. The
those
three grades; other grades sell On
their merits.

The ﬁrst export 'sale was made last"

Week of 25, 000 bushels at Chicago.

'Within a few weeks new grain will

begin to move to foreign channels
just as fast as boats are obtainable
for handling the shipments.

A very well illustrated cartoon re-
cently appeared in a Chicago paper.
The cartoon showed a mother and
father with head bowed. “Give HIM
this day OUR daily bread—if need
be,” with a shadowgraph in the back—
ground of their son in France.

 

 

GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
Sludlrd 77 1-2 .78 .85 [-2
No. 3 While 77 .77 1.2 .84 1-2
"0. 4 While 75 .77 .83

 

 

 

 

 

OATS. New oats are beginning to
move in large quantities. A year ago
the stocks of oats on hand were
small, but this year it is quite to the
contrary. Buyers are buying the old
stock in preference to the new. We
believe the market will soon adjust
itself and the volume of business will
increase and all markets will develop
more strength and buyers will be pick—
ing up the large lots. With the de—
mand for feeds and all oat products
there is going to be a place for every
oat.

 

 

 

 

There is such a demand -

improvement.

demand for of grades.

_ ., the market.

-BOSTdNr—Bean market situation hetive and steady.
up; satisfactorily and expect demand for C. H 1?. white pea beans will my some

' CHICAGOa—Jl'he situation on .ha'y very ﬁrm and aetive.
hay odght to get busy and get in on present marketing conditions. .-

rrr'rsnuncp—nn’y market min and food" on boat grades. nil-mink no

DETROIT.—Pro¢lnce market ﬁrm and steady.
lower. 'lj'resh eggs bringing premium prices; butter steady at quotations.- 5-. ..
SPECIAL NOTE: Do not ship veal when .wopther is hot unless located near-n.
Play sofa and hold on to the ﬁsh] tor odolor weather. ’ I .

01" grade! closure;

SEMI-tion}

Potatoes easier and Idling

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
No. ZYellow 1.72 1.70 1.91
No. 3 Yellow 1.70 1.66 1.81
No. 4 Yellow 1.60 1 60 1.75
CORN. The movement of corn has
been heavrer than was anticipated

some time ago. So far cars have not
been reserved or given preference for
shIppIng wheat. and the movement of

all grain has been put on its own
footing.
Hot weather reports covering the

chrn belts have offset the heavy re—
ceipts, brrt at the same time the exist—
ing conditions have brought on 1111—
settled condition of the markets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

r ' T'" I No. 1 Standard No. 2

I “(3‘ ' Timothy Timothy Timothy
pencil 20.00 .2 so ram 21 so I7 00 17 so
C'hicog‘o‘ 22 oo 24 oo 19 oo‘ 22 oo 16 oo 17 oo
Cir-anus 2275 24 to 19 oo 23 so 16 oo 19 0»
guns 26,00" .27 502051 23 so 1550 19 so
Haven. 23’ oo' 30 oo 23 oo 23 oo 18 00 _2I oo
Ridnonil 24 oo‘ 27 oo 72 or z: oo I7 M. Is on

No‘r No. ‘ No.

ﬂuke“, ._' Light Mind Clover Mixed Clom
bdroii' 13011, 13501300. IIooIzoo Izso
' ' 19 oo" '19 5411100 13' oo‘ 10. oo 11 oo
'25 601900 19 so 19 on 19‘s.
‘Ioo 18 to 1500 Is to

 

M, HAY Duringrthe past season some

211'.) remarkable chaﬂg’osshave taken place,‘ '

apparently going from one price ex-
treme to another. During the close of
1917 and the earlier part of 1918 the
demand for hay was unlimited and no
limit to prices but it simply was only
a matter of getting the hay as the car
situation was very bad. That was

. why the market Went out 'of sight. At

one time the- government was buying
considerable hay and their orders were
given preference so far as shipments
were concerned. So much hay was

purchased by the government that

they discovered that more hay had
been contracted for than they needed,
resulting that a large tonnage of this
hay had to be diverted to the different
markets resulting in markets being
overcrowded and the situation contin—
ued for about thirty days.

In order to give you a range of
prices paid during the season we will
quote the average monthly sales on

the Detroit Market. During the
month of
Per ton
September ................ $17.00
October ................... 22.00
November , . .............. 25.00
December . . . . ............ 2500
January .................. 27.00
February ................. 28.00
March .................... 20.00
April .................... 25.00
May . . . .................. l0.00
June .................... 17.00
July ..................... 19.00

The above prices apply on sales of
No. 1 timothy. Other grades sold ac-
cording to quality. The market on
low grade hay was so demoralized
that the sale would hardly pay trans—
portation and the cost of handling.
7 he change in the market was so sud—
den that no one was anticipating the
change, consequently a great many
buyers lost heavily. Shipments made

direct by the growers brought back

disappointing returns.

The present market situation is ac—
tive and reasonably ﬁrm with no de—
mand for off-grades. The markets are
fairly well cleared of the surplus and
are now bidding freely on arrivals of
No. l timothy. -

PITTSBURG. Gobd hay scarce and .
bringing top prices. This applies on.

No 1 timothy,- No.- 2 timothy and No.

1 light mixed. Grassy and low grade ‘
‘ hay almost unsalable. -. ;

RICHMOND Reperts show right“
receipts with a moderate demand

leaving the market 111 Such shape that

" , the market may show better develop-

ments although we are of the opin-
ion that the’ trading will be on new
hay. Of course there will be a de—
mand for old bay for some time al-
though the selling prices may not be
attractive. It is a market that’needs
to be followed closely and make bon-
iﬁde sales befOre shipping.

ST. LOUIS The market forlti'm—
othy and clover mixed hay grading
No. l is steady and strong. The re-
ceipts are not of the quality that most
buyers want.

NEW YORK. It is quite a difﬁcult
matter to judge this market on ac—
count of the receipts running heavy to
the poorer classes of hay. All buyers
are more or less skeptical in bidding
on hay until it is on track for inspec—
_tion. They bid up on the choicest
grades and the market is considered
ﬁrm and active. There is considerable
hay at the Harbor rejected by the
government on account of quality. We
say if you are going to New York with
hay, ship the very best you have and
in large bales.

CHICAGO. This market is in need
of good timothy and light mixed bay.
The present supplies will not go
around Poorer grades are selling but
buyers are able to get plenty at the
old prices. The whole thing in a nut
shell is that if you have just an ordi-
nary No. 3 grade or lower the best

' thing to do is to work it off locally

through feeding and then by shipping
the better grades you will make some
money off the hay. Every market
wants the best hay produced because
that is what the buyers demand dur—
ing the summer months.

DETROIT. The supplies are hard-
ly adequate to supply the trade. Thrs

 

 

 

THE WEATHER

As forecasted by W. T. Foster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Storm: ’ n. ‘ . ., ' C4191:
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WASHINGTO, D. C.,———July 27
last bu’letin gave forecasts of distur-
bances to cross continent July 29 to
August 2 and Aug. 1 to 5 warm waves
July 28 to Aug. 1 and July 31 to Aug.
4, cool waves July 31 to Aug. 4 and

Aug. to 7 Temperatures of this per-
iod will be moderate endin with cool-
er than usual Storms 0 these dis-

turbances will be unusuall
Thunder storms in the drout
will bring some relief but they
develope dangerous storms.

The limit of the 1918 drouth cannot
be deﬁnitely located but on the cmp~
weather map a line was drawn from
Helena, Montana to the "Atlarrt'.c-,'l a
little southeast of Richmond, Va... pape-
ing near Piere, S. D. between l-corla
and Chicago thr’u Dayton Ohio 'lhls.
line -op)roximates the northeastern
limits 0 the great drouth area. The
abOVe described storms are expected to'
bring some relief to the drouth'lsec- "
tion and 18b to the country northeast
of 11.111an middle provinces of
' ..,Canai1ar . Rae
‘ toned Within the. drouth area and the '

lu' '4“ 1.1. .

severe.
sectrons
may

for MrcrrrcAN BUSINESS Farmer:

. and cotton crops of 1918 than you now
. _;do Man

 

c slope Is not neck-"I '

FOR THE WEEK

eastern sections are doubtful. Aug-
ust will cover the most critical period.

With these uncertain cropw earner
conditions for August before us it
would be unwise for farmers to dis
pose of 2311' their surplus corn and nits
before they know more about august
Weather. As the writer sets :t the
corn and CI tton crop; will b: d: Imnged
by the August drouth.

Next warm wave \Illl re-3h VnnCcu-
ver aboht August 5 and temperatures
will rise on all the Paciﬁc slope. It
will cross crest of Rockies by close of
Aug. 6,- lains sections 7, meridan 90,
great la es‘ and Ohio—Tennessee val-A
1eys 8, eastern sections 9 reaching
vicinity of Newfoundland about Aug.
1 Storm wave will follow about
one day behind warm wave and cool
II avc aLo .t one day behind storm "are
- This disturbance wlll start with low
temperatures preceded by showers in
many places Temperatures will r'ISe
after July 5 as the disturbance 2p-
proach'es your vicinity and When you
see these conditions coming in VJU may
expect a two weeks hot wave, relieved
in. crime places by thunder storms and
ShO‘VeI‘Sﬁ When you are at the end

f that expected hot_ wave—near Aug.
30—min will know more about the corn

of- you will also he anx-..

itous out inter grain. Dont forget
wheat and corn crop; sel-'

dom‘: come in the same crop season. ,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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65:19.“. .h‘ ; ' .
.

win-.23- -. 11- a. .s." ‘.‘

is partmlly .due to farmers bemg very

busy and very little loose hayliﬁ cornﬁ-
ing in: In facuwe know? there is very; .
little old 11a "’nehr Detroit and- £1?cm _

the fact. that ybuyer-s will notbuy 1111117
hay In quantities for at least: thirty

days, we beiIeVe the market w'ilt “coin- '
m until the newo hay takes. the. .. ~ ‘

tinue
place of the old Now is the time to
move the old my and we 21113713311111
proSpective shippers to getbnsy, «yen
thought they have to take. a. day or.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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£152" 1 i 77 13 rush-1
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The bean situation appears to be more
encouraging. The demand 15 picking.‘ up
a little and buyers are bidding up a lib-
tle on the best grades.

endeavoring to move certain grades.-
This is especially true of foreign c014
ored- beans and California Pinks a very
large stock of which is in ﬁrst hands
and offerings in some cases rather-111*.
gently.”

Keep your eye on the beans if stored.
Some farmers report beans are heating
in the bins. They should be stirred up.
occasionally.

 

Market continues ﬁrm and active.
New potatoes selling at a range from
$6. 00 to $625 per barrel. We do not
anticipate a higher market new potatoes
will be coming in more freely from
near by shipping points. A few of our
Michigan readers advise that they ex-
pect to L. C. L. shipments in about two

weeks .

Berries

Receipts have been very light and all
berries in good demand. Red curramts
selling $5.50 to $6.00 per bu“ Michigan

cherries $4.00 to $4.50 per 16 qt. case,
raspberries $7 50 to $9. 00 per bushek,
blackberries $7 00 to $8. 50 per bu.

 

In good demand price ranges from
$1.75 to $2.50 per bushel according to
quality Be sure and ship apples in
crates or ventilated barrels.

 

DETROIT—The market has displayed
considerable weakness during the past:
week although quotations have been well
maintained on the best grades. The
only butter thathas been scored so far
as price is concerned is the poorer
grades.

Receipts have been running. heavier
but do notanticipate they. will runuany
heavier. The .accumulated stock. will
not depress themarket; because. bums
are anticipating their. supplies a little:
ahead of time.

Creamers ﬁrsts selling 425/5 to 43¢;
extras 43 to 43%6,‘ good dairy 40 to 42c.

JulyZO 1918—The Market: Receipts
have been heavy this week, running
somewhat higher than those of last

week. - ~The large- receipts of the week;

are not. due to increased producti on but

because many double shipments arriVed,

here early In the week and because sev-.—.
eral earload lotSI purchased recently,
have come fer-ward. As a whole the

  

‘ week has not been as active as 1113 and

The New York: '
market is cleaning up and sellers are

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‘_Iminy beans and let's 01.05111 Ibulf-jm
all efatiiese are suffering, greatly from
1110:- y weather. ..N'e ariy as many su-
'...:I’l;'here Were not

   
  

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layman's trade.:',l‘rade opened~steady '1 I " '

  
  

   
 

 

   

   
 
 
 
  

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will be on to your trail.
ministration is out with _a rule that all;:
eggs mustbe candled or- in other words”:
must be fresh when shipment is made.
As. a rule the majority of farmer ship-
, pers will play the game safe but to those

I, who have been making a practice Iof

‘ ﬁnding a new hens nest with twelVe or
”ﬁ'fte'en' eggs un'dei' the" supervision of a
hen that- is determined not to' move,
you had better let- the hen Stay and do
her bit rather than to take these eggs

piand ship them- with good- eggs.

The market continues ﬁrm and espec-
1:11le So on newly laid country receipts.
There is a call for Poultry Farm eggs

"10311 stay/@143,

. - weight steers. sol

' on' native medium weight and weighty: .
..Isfee'i' cattle which 'were 111 very light

butcher steers5 and handy
500 t0 $1". 00 Tower
at cowg arid heifers

Supply -,

than last week;

1- sold 50,0 lower; bulls of all GlaSSes sold "
. 25c to 500 lower; canners and cutters
'.1 were in moderate: supply; sold 25c to
Stop Shipping bad eggs or Uncle'SIam :
The food. adv-1

500 lower than last- week; fresh cows
an deprihgers were: in light supply,
sol $10 to $15 100001 per head; , stock:
ers and feeders/were in' moderate sup-
ply,,,s _old,5,0c lower; yearlings. were in
very light supply and mild steady.

' At the close of our market about 35

cars went over unsold.
With about 500 cattle on sale. Tues-I
day, the market was 15c to 25c lower

" than on Monday. 1:. .

Receipts of hogs Monday' totaled

.2560 which was very light, and the

market opened 50c higher, with the
bulk of the hogs selling from $19 75
to $19.90 with heavy ends, which were

~ medium fat cows, $8.00@8.50;
and common butcher cows, $7.00@7.50; '

   

steady with Moifday. " .

We quote: Choice to prime weighty
steers, $17.50@18I. 00; medium to good
weighty steers, $16. 50@17; plain and
coairse Weighty .s't'eers, $14. 50@15‘00;
choice .to prime handy Weight- 111111 me-
dium weight steers,~ $14. 50@15. '00;
fair. to' gogdhandy weight. "and medium
weight steers, $13. 50@14. 00; choice to
prime yearlings,
Ito goOd yearlings
dium to good butcher steers, $11. 50@
12. 00; fair to- .medium butcher steers,
:11$10. 50@11 00; good butch‘er heifers,

$11.50@12.00; fair to medium'butcher'

heifers, $10.50@11.00; good to choice
.fat coWs, $10.00@10.50;
good fat cows, $9;00@9.50; fair to good
cutters

canners, $6.25@7.25; good- to choice

.. garl

.. Tuesday, with 5110111 5110 sheep, avg I
lambs on sale, everything 811111211110

   

51450511500; fair ,_ .
13. 00@13. 50; me- pf.
than last year but not so good Not

medium to “

ts as lasti'yea ,
~ tQWnsh'ip as usual.

 

  

1.010511: sew" this year and is .look-
'ing pretty good on the ﬂat lands, but

it will be hard ”to tell how it will turn

’Idiit 011‘ account of the dry“ weather.

Seems to. bedots of early apples but not
so many. 11110- ones. There seems to
1);... help gnough. in CuSte'r' twfship,
’l'fu’t aé t0 the 'whole county, cannot say.
Everyone in every farmer’ s family has

"to do all they can.

"Monroe. —More pctaIItoes arOund'g here

many beans raised but good. More

Icorn'than in 19171and better, but it is

very 'dry'. ‘ I don’t think Sugar beets
ever were so good; more than 1917.
Oats good and a large“ a’creage. Not
much fruit but a few apples. 1We
need rain very badly. This last draft
or call of the 21’s will pull'hard on
the farmer. Right around here there

thrown OlltI 0f decks; selling as low -fat bulls, $10.50@11.00; medium to isn’t much help hired ."but I myself
anfllgtIhose thatacanblship that call 0f 'eggs " as $1925? roughs, $17@17.25; stags, good fat bulls, $9.50@10.00; good have 160 acres and expect my man to
WI ave n0 trou e In selling them at $11,00@13.00. . 'weight sausage bulls, $9.00@9.50; go in August. '

attractive prices.

  
  

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Tuesday, with about 1600 hogs on
sale, the market opened steady to 50
lower. with the .bulk of the boss selling
at $19. 85; york'ers $19.90; roughs, $17;
stags, $1I1. 00@13. 00.

The receipts of sheep and lambs
Monday were around 1000 head. Best
spring lambs sold for $17.00@17.50.

light and thin bulls. $7.50@8.00; good
to best stock and feeding steers, $10.00
@1050; medium grades of stock and
feeding steers, $9.00@9.50; common to
fair'stock and feeding steers, $8.00@
8.50; good to choice fresh cows and
springers, $80.00@100.00; medium to
good fresh cows and springers, $65.00

 

Saginaw—Acreage about same as
last year; conditions 90%; need;rain.
Acreage of beans larger than last, year,
conditions 75%. Too cold nights, for
good growth. Corn acreage less than
last year. Conditions 75%. Very 1111-
even partly from poor seed and big
rain. More sugar beets than _.last

“LIKE WT. 12141112211 (1111112112.. Nlesv-ZXork which was 50c lower than last week s @7500, year. Conditions 85%. A few piec‘eS'not
Duh . 30-32 21-15 29-30 llllHIIllIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllII|IlllHI|IllIIll|IIllIllIllll|lllII|lllIllIIIIHIlllillllllllllHllllllllllllllllllllll properly cared for from lack of; h'elp_
33:3“: iii: . iii: 21%;: = Acreage of oats larger than last year,
110.1 _ 29-30 ‘27-29 28-30 2 conditions 95’7' , a good crop, beginn-

2 2 .. 3 I MID-SUMMER CROP, LABOR SURVEY ..

 

The market has been a little easier
althoughI'selling prices have been well
maintained. Receipts of hens are show-
ing very little increase but on broilers
receipts are a triﬂe heavier. The market
is lower on broilers but do not antici-
pate another drop of any consequence
for at least two weeks. However, the
priée oh broilers will all depend on how
fast they come in. Some farmers put up
the argument that it is more proﬁtable
to ship broilers when they weigh from
11/2 to 2 lbs and sell at present prices
than to feed them along until fall and.
sell on basis of the fall prices.

In all probability poultry will sell at
high prices this fall due to prospective
high prices on cattle, hogs, sheep and
veal and the difference in price between
hens and broilers is approximately
6 cents. By mereasing the weight of the
chicken from 1% to 4 pounds you will
realize approximately 60 to 75 cents
more for each bird. As the fall season

' advances the price on broilers gradually
gets in line with the price on No. 1 old
hens. Shall I sell now or shall I feed
and sell this fall? If you can ﬁgure out
the approximate cost of the feed that
it will take to feed the chicken until
fall; you will then be able to solve your
own problem.

Wool

The'handling of wool is gradually be-
ing adjusted by the government and the
present movement is heavy. Dealers
have realized that 1n order to make any-
thing in handling wool that they must
handle the same in large quantities. The
result is car load shipments are mov-
ing to the large receiving markets.
Dealers are more anxious than ever to
speed up their shipments to the mills in
order to make more room for receiv-
ing and storing. Medium wools are in
especial demand, the need being so keen
that the wool administrator has asked
the importers to specify what wools
they have either in transit or awaiting

1 shipment from the River Plate.

Live Stock

LIVE STOCK—«Detroit. The gen;
eral' trend of the market is active but
’[HWith a shght undertone. When the

' Weather is warm it has a tendency to
depress buying HoWever the situ—
ation as a whole looks reasonably
good and the following prices ought
to be a basis to work on. Best heavy
_steers $14.00 to $16.00; handy weight
, steers $10.50 to $11.00; mixed steers
and heifers $8.50 to $9. 00; light butch—
ers $7.50 to $8.50; cows $7. 00 to $9. 00;
:canners $6. 75 to $7.;00 feeders $9. 50

I :to’ $110.50; stockers $7.50 to $8.50, and

. milkers $60. 00 and up.
Best lambs $17. 50p to $18. 50,. light
lambs $14.00 to $15. 00; yearlings $10. 00
to $14. 00; sheep $10.00 to $11. 00 » .
Hogs, market strong and higher
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11113117115114.5010 $17. ‘00, market 1
‘ '- . r- em early oats; fruit, small fruit poor _>

When Governor Sleeper recently an-
nounced thru the press that Michigan
crops were in grave danger for want
of labor to harvest them, he was not
well groomed in the facts. IFarm la-
bor is scarce, it is true; almost, but
not quite as scarce as the hen’s prov-
erbial molars, for it is to be had.
From over a HUNDERD REPORTS
RECEIVED FROM NEARLY EVERY
COUNTY IN THE LOWER PENINSU.
LA THERE WAS NOT A SINGLE
SUGGESTION THAT CROPS WOULD
SUFFER FOR LACK OF LABOR TO
TAKE CARE OF THEM. In fact,
EVERY correspondent stated that the
help was hard to get, farmers were
managing with each other’s help to
take care of their crops in good sea-
son.

Of course, the U. S. Boys’ Working
Reserve has given substantial help in
many sections, particularly the beet
sugar counties, but the farmers them-
selves seem to have solved their own
problem to a large extent by tractors,
night work, and the assistance of
their women folk and their neighbors.

As We go to press, all Michigan is
in the throes of a drought which is
causing a serious setback to beans and
potatoes and will affect the corn and
oats unless rain comes soon. Local
thundershowers Tuesday night gave
relief in some sections. but the fall
was not enough to revive the crops to
any material extent.

Below is a digest of a portion of the
crop and _labor reports received to
date. Correspondents _who have not
reported are requested to do so before
the coming week that we may make an
estimate of the acreage and condition
of the principal crops for the entire
state:

Arenac County—Potatoes, about the
same as last year; beans, 25 per cent
less in acreage but better condition
than last year; corn, 50 per cent in-
crease, condition just fair; sugar beets,
50 per cent more condition that much
better;-oats, acreage 150 per cent
condition good promises to out yield
191,7; fruit, scarce but ahead of 1917;
help is scarce and high especially in
eastern portion. The draft continues
to take the helpaway from the farmers
and wages are from $2.50 to $3.50 per,

,day and hard to get at. that. .

St. Joe C'ou'nty—pdtatoes, 75 percent
of 1917 acreage. Present prospects
1100;101:1100 about 50 percent of 1917
acreage, condition poor. as many far-
mers have less than half stand; corn.
looking fair, not far enough along to
make any safe estimate; oats, just an
axerage crop, frost did some damage

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yield, some young orchards have some
apples. Farmers are working short
handed and a great part of the help is
inexperienced and high priced, many
asking $4.00 to $4.50 per day. Far-
mers generally feel opposed to potato
grading and justly so, for the 1918
crop will have to all go over a grader
so buyers say. This grading beneﬁts
the shippers only .

Newaygo County—potatoes, acreage
60 percent, condition 80 percent; beans,
acreage 80 percent, condition 90 per
cent; corn, acreage 100 percent. c0n~
dition 110 percent; oats, acreage 100
percent, condition 110 percent; fruit,
condition 60 percent. Not much help
to be had but farmers go it alone.
Wages are too high. can’t pay it out of
crops. The estimate is given on 10-
calities not hit by frost in June. Some
small parts can be reduced by 50 per
cent on corn and beans, but most, of
county will recover if frost does not
come before normal seasons. Sept. 20.

Presquc Isle county—potatoes, about
10 percent less acreage, 75 percent as
good as last year; beans, about the
same acreage, plants look good. are
blossoming now; corn, about the same
acreage and looks good; hay, good on
the good land but is generally poor;
oats, looks like a good crop on the best
land but poor on the low land; fruit,
strawber'ies short crop, no cherries 01'
plums, lots of apples; there seems to
be plenty of help but there is so many
that wont work only in the cedar
swamps—D- D. S.

(70.98 County—potatoes, 1-4 short of
last year, just fair; corn, about the
same as last year; oats. large acreage
and looking good; fruit, we have a
short crop this year, very nice what
there is, apples are a short crop. Far-
mers are having trouble to get help
this year. Some crops have not been
planted on account of short help, far-
mers are changing work this year in
order to get their work done. Thresh.
ing just commencing, wheat turning
out just fair, about 20 bu. per acre.

Cameos—About same acreage of.

,potatoes as last year, but not very

good; too dry: Not as many beans
planted as last year; not looking very
good as the dry weather is hurting

rIthem. About same aereage of corn;

very uneven; lots of poor ﬁelds. A
large acreage of sugar beets; looking
good. Large acreage of oats; good.
Not much fruit. Labor scarce and
hard to ﬁnd. 13 '

Clinton. —Acreage of potatoes as

.compared with 1917, 60% , beans, 90%;
'ce-rn, 100%; sugar beets. more than

1917; oats 100% Not so much fruit
as in 1917; too much frost and drouth.
Farmers are getting along very well
with help they can get from boys and
students. Hay very light.’

Sam'lac. —.-There seems to be more

potaioiﬁ. plfgtidith‘i‘l‘ “3“.“ . Heel-1.11s

pears very few.

Tuscola —Beans not so mnth as last
year but look good. (‘orn looks. like
a good crop. Sugar beets look good
but need rain very badly. ,A.good
fair crop of oats are expected. There
are quite a lot of apples i don' t know
what to say about labor, there is none
to be had except the boys from town
and they are not what we need.

Eaton—About half the acreage of
potatoes; looking good. Three-fourths
of a crop of beans, looking ﬁne. Ra-
ther more com, doing ﬁne. About. the
same for sugar beets but they look ﬁne,
25% more oats, than last year; good
crop. Berries a short crop; fair crop
of apples.

’l'uscolo.—~About the same acreage
of potatoes and about the same con-

, dition. Acreage of beans 70%; present

condition 25% better. 10% larger
acreage of corn. condition 100% if it
will get. ripe as about half of the seed
was bought through a, local elevator.
15% larger acreage of sugar beets;
condition 25% poorer on account of
black rot and late sowing. Oats are
about the same acreage: 30% better.
50% more barley, a No. 1 crop. Help
is scarce, wages from $2 to $3 a day
but on account of ﬁne weather con-
ditions farmers are getting along very
well.

(hummer—Half a crop of beans;
75% crop of corn; 100% of cats and
barley. Fruit is no good. Help hard
to get at $3.50 a day.

Midland—Acreage of potatoes about
the same, condition a little better
Beans 25% less condition 25% better.
Acreage of corn about the same. condi-
tion some better, not a very good stand
in places. About 15% more sugar
beets, condition about the same. The
same acreage of cats, condition a little
better. Prospects look good for fruit.
Barley about the same as to acreage
and condition. I can’t say that any
farmer has experienced any great dif-
ﬁculty in securing extra help. The
harvesting is coming along just ﬁne.
Haying is nearly all done and up in
ﬁne shape. I don’t think any crop
has suffered much on account of labor
shortage. Most of the farmers are
putting in just a few extra hours and
getting their work done just. the same,
although long hours make some of us
look a little gaunt, we will come thru
0. K. The weather has been greatly
in the farmer’s favor this season and
helps out considerable in getting the
work done

Clare. —'About the same acreage of
potatoes, good. Same for beans, condi.
tion good. Corn. 25%. less Sugar beets

less, condition fair. Oats, 25% more,
Condition goOd. Apples iri abundanCe.

Help scarce but crops will not suffer
much .

(Eorron’s No'rn) More I01 these re-

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“We Came, We Saw, We Conquered”

HAT TRUE American hoart docs not

quickon with pride and gladncss as tho
nows oomcs ovor tho wiros that tho Amorican
troops arc driving tho l’russians back to their
bordorland!

Tho. tido of infilc is turning. 111).»: four
long, woary hopolcss yoars tho French and
English havc fought a stubborn but losing
fight; stop by stop tho lluns have pushed
thoir way across Bolgium and laid in ruins
tho fair provinccs of Franco. All the cruel
doviccs of torturo and tcrror that tho dcvclish
minds of tho llun militarists could conceive
to bring tho civilian population to their knocs
and dostroy tho moralo of tho Fronch pooplc
havo boon brought into play.

But tho reign of torror is passing. The
llun has mot his match. Tho Yankcc has

shown a courago and a skill and a dotormin-
ation equal to his own. Victory is turning
to dofoat. Tho rotroat back to the Rhine
has bogun.

()h, wo arc glad for tho mothors and child-
ron of Franco and for tho littlo pooplcs of
Bolgium. and for civilizod mankind cvcry-
whoro that thc Amorican soldior has boon truc
to tho traditions of his forcfathors and has not
l'altorod in tho faco of pcril.

\Vc aro glad for tho war-worn soldiors of
Franco and England. Thoy havo facod tor—
riblo odds; they havc tastcd dcfoat more than
victory; thoy havo gono thru tho dark char-
nol houso of droad and doubt Little-to be
nond1 rod that thoy havo woakcnod under the
torrific onslaughts of tho Prussian hordes.
llittlo to bc wondorcd that they might have
shrunk back in hopoloss surrondcr, despairv
ing of broaking tho llun's tightoning hold
upon \vostorn Franco. But likc tho wine
that rushos tho blood. tho Ann-rican troops
have rcvivod tho couragc and tho hopcs of
tho alliod soldiors, and shouldor to shouldor.
thcy go forward in a solid phalanx, unafraid
and confident now of ultimato victory.

Wo are glad for tho l’rosidont and tho poo—
plo of tho Unitod Statos that mon with whom
they havo ontrustod tho nation ‘s honor havo
so gloriously vindicatcd tho confidonco placcd
in thorn. \Vo arc glad that thoy ha vo provon
thoir right to ho oallod tho dofondors of domoc-
racy.

And lastly, wc arc glad for tho principlos of
right and justico. (icrmau might has had its
day. llato and grood aro boing vanquishod.
Lovc and rightoousnoss shall yot rulc a world
Inado froc of dospots and military mastors.

Standardization of wages.

T IS NOW proposed to standardizo wagos.

lu othor words, cvcry worker in the Unitod
S‘tatcs shall receive the same wage for tho
sumo hours as every other man performing
tho samo kind of: labor. “Congross, ” wo Ell",
told, “thru the taxos on cxcoss profits, the
\var industries board. thru its priccfixing;
tho prosidcut, thrn tho voto of $2.40 whcat,

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of wages. Additional methods of keeping
down the coSt of living are being investigated
at this time.’

Standardization of wages would help ag-
riculture providing agriculture has a say in
fixing the scale. Farmers in, Michigan are
paying unreasonable and unheard of wages
for farm hands. With the growing scarcity
offarm help, there is no limit on what far-
mers may be called upOn to pay unless some
check is put upon labor’s demand. ‘

The wages that farmers are compelled to
pay are way out of proportion to the wages
paid for common labor in the cities, and in
many instances the help is not of the most
dosirablc. \Vagcs iin cities like Dotroit run
from $2.50 to $3.00 a day, and thoro are
many farming sections in Michigan whoro a
farm hand cannot be had for loss than $3 to
$4. Farmers are paying $7 a day for man
and toam, whcrcas municil‘mlitios aro ablo to
hiro tho samo, labor for $5.50 to $6.00 a day.

\Vo boliovo labor as woll as capital should
bo justly cmnponsatod, but Wo do not holiovo
that oithor should tako advantago of an ab.
normal condition to profitoor. Tho only way
to otfoctually control wago scalos with justice
to all is by a universal wago standard which
may be incrcasod or loworod over tho cntiro
country as a confcronco of tho intorostod
partics may from timo to timo diroct.

Why Your Farm Help was Taken

ARMERS cannot understand why one

branch of the government urgod him to
plant a large acreage last spring, only to have
another branch of tho governmcnt tako the
mon ncodod for cultivating and harvesting
those crops. Sonic light is shod upon the
subjoct by Provost Marshal Gonoral Crow-
dcr’s roply to tho coal mino operators who ap—
poalod to him to dofor calling coal miners.

“Do you realize.” said Mr. Crowder, “that my
job is to raise an army that will win the war? Do
you know that General Pershing is urgently ask-
ing for more men to stem the German horde that
is slowly battering its way to the gates of Paris?
Do you realize that right now American boys are
ﬁghting for their very lives against heavy odds on
the bloody ﬁelds of France? I want to help you and
I realize your position in this matter, but I must
ﬁrst of all listen to the call of those across the
seas who need our men, and need them more than
they ever needed anything in all this world * * *
Upon my shoulders to a large extent rests the
responsibility of victory or defeat. The Army
comes ﬁrst~++everything else comes after.”

While wc realize that Mr. ()rowdcr’s task
is one of first magnitude and importanco, we
cannot overlook the fact that thousands of
young farmers were induced last spring to
buy machinery and rcnt land for the purpose
of helping out tho nation ’s food production,
upon the absoluto promise that they would be
left on the farm until after the crops were har-
vostcd. Not of thoir own promptings, but.
upon the appoal of tho govornmcnt and its
agonts, thoso mcn have gone into dcbt to buy
tools, sccd and labor; thcy have spout the best
part of tho sununor caring for thoir crops and
now they must loavc thcm to tho toudcr mor-
cics of tho wcathor and tho, ncighbors.

'l‘hcy havc appcalod to us to intcrvono; wo
havo appoalod to (‘olonol B1 rso tho adjut—
ant gonoral: (Iol. Borscy has appoalcd to tho
Provost Marshal (ioncral, but without avail.
Mr. ('rowdor cannot issuo blankot instructions
to loavo farmors until after harvcst, and at tho
samc tiino socuro tho mon who arc nocdod ovor-
soas. And, of courso, thoro can bo no oxccp-
tion in individual cases.

Adjutant (ionoral Borsoy calls our atton-
tion to tho fact that ho has omittcd all farm.
ing districts in making up tho noxt quota of
l,000 inon who aro. callcd to ontrain for li‘ort
Thomas, Kontucky, during tho. ﬁve-day por-
iod boginning August 5th. All of thoso mcn
will ho callod from tho. city of Detroit.

Until Mr. Bakcr and Congress decido to ox-
tond the draft ago limits, Provost Marshall
General Crowdor must ﬁll up tho. ranks with
minors who arc noodod in the? minos; workors
who are needed in tho factorics; and farmcrs
who aro noodcd on the fari'ns. Thorc is no

appo d from this decision

have prepared the way for standardization

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Helping or Hindering the Farmer

OMEBODfY HAS SAID—we think it was '

Jason Woodman, former member of the.
state board of agriculture—that the agricul-
tural college is purely an educational institu-
tion and not supposed to mix in the farmers’
marketing troubles. The college is perfectly
regular. It will not break any precious tra-
ditions nor establish any precedents, and .33
value to the farmer will continue to be a mat-
ter of speculation.

It’s an age—old theory that education for
the farmer should be conﬁned to the produc-
tion of crops. That is-a matter of rote and
rule, to be taught from the books and the ex
porimcnts of the laboratory But the market-
ing for a proﬁt of the crops produced thus
sciontiﬁcally always has been and is now sub
jcct to inﬂuences over which the production
ists have had no‘control because they feared
to vonturc forth into the mysterious realm oi
farm products distribution.. To disturb the
traditional, the complex, system of marketing
farm products was to invito oconomic disas-
ter, and no mind has been big enough and no
heart strong enough to plungc the present
wastcful and absurd marketing system into
the revolution which would purgc it of its
weaknesses.

Evcn farm papers and farmers themselves
have subscribed to the idea that the farmers‘
business was to produce, and that it was some-
body olsc‘s business to market. There arc
farm papers contcnt to travel along the samc
worn pathway and afraid to give the farmoi
a new idea lost ho forsake the old, which ac
tually, tho covcrtly oppose all agitation for :1
bcttor markcting system. They think they
are kcoping the farmer out of trouble by bid-
ding him stay by thc plow handles and lot
thoso whose talents and cxporionco ﬁt thom
for the job, pcddlc the goods that the farmer
has producod. But in reality they are his
worst onomios, for they hinder the approach
of the great reformation that must and will
como in the nation’s system of distribution.

Mankind novor grows too old or too wise to
loarn. Farmors who have schooled thom-
solvos in tho ncwor methods of farming havo
d ‘awn many dividonds from thoir knowledgo.
But since wo know by expcricnco that ovor-
production may send the prices of farm pro
ducts so low as to wipe out all proﬁts regard-
loss of the economics practised in producing
tho crop, we have come to know that increased
production may mean decreased proﬁts, bo—
tauso of our present inability to distribntc
the surplus ovonly and cheaply thruout tho
contors of consumption.

Everv instrumcntality for the advancement
of agriculture should bond its present of
forts to a study and a solution of tho trcmon-
dons problems now blocking tho road from
tho producor to tho, consumor.

The Bean Market

lllﬁ BEAN MARKET is looking up.
()no of tho largost oporators in the stato
advisos us that he has had more orders tho
past two wooks than for several months, and
boliovos tho markot will continuo ﬁrm and
possibly highcr.
li‘aJ'i'norS who havc boon holding their boans
arc gottiing a bit worried. But thorc was 111'
hopo for any improvomcnt in tho navy boan
situation until tho big crop of pintos that had
boon bumpod onto tho oastorn markets was
out of tho way. Those havo boon protty woll
(lo med up, honco tho growing domand for
navios.

Wc again caution farmcrs not to hold
thoir bcaus for a price beyond what will pay
thorn a fair proﬁt. for it is speculation puro
and simplc to do so. If the market advancos,
and it looks now as tho it will facmcrs should
watch it carofully and sell whon tho pricos
ott‘or od insure a suﬁiciont proﬁt. Tho now
crop will not,bc on the market for over sixty
days, so there is plenty of time in which to
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EDITORIAISABY OUR READERS

(This is an open forum where our readers III-y ex-
press their views on topics of general interest. State-
ments appearing in this column will not necessarily
indicate our own editorinl opinion. Farmers are invited
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Farmer’s Automobile a Necessity

I nete your comment on the automobile pro-
position The farm automobile'classiﬁed as a
pleasure car is most surely a misnomer. I have
yet to know a single farmer who uses his car for
pleasure only. One of the strong 'pOints in favor
of the auto on the farm is the time saving it
means to the farmer in his business-and the sav—
ing of his horses too, for other farm work. not
mention the large amount of marketing of their
produce which many farmers do with their autos.
Of course he and his family get occasional pleas-
ure rides, when they can ﬁnd the time, but the
same is true of many other cars owned and used
by city men in the business. I am very glad you
are taking this matter up with the Washington
oﬁicialsffor to classify the farmers’ automobile as
a pleasure car seems to me to be wholly unjust#
George .1. Waterman. Washtcnaw County.

Where It Started!

It is often interesting. and at the same time.
highly instructive to think about how many of
the great fortunes of today were founded “in the
good old days.” How many a bosom, heaving with
pride at the ancestral wealth, has been made to
collapse in shame and unbelief at the sudden rev-
elation of just where that wealth came from and
how many fortunes are being founded today on
the grief and fears of a nation? In a book recent-
ly written on American slavery (not the wage slav-
ery of the white man, but the chattledom of the
negro before the Civil war) the author points out
110w many families ﬁrst started their fortunes
from proﬁts off human flesh and blood. Indeed.
Dr. Oelrich Bonnel Phillips is rude enough to give
in his work the names of more than one family
in a. state like Rhode Island, for instance. who
can trace their wealth back to traffic in the blacks.
Many of their names are still high in the society
lists of today. Now, a little more than a half cen-
tury later, we view these facts with a certain hor—
ror. yet if we. as a nation. were consistent, with
how much more horror would we view the more
numerous fortunes that are being founded upon the
slavery of the white man. Is slavery any the less
slavery because the power above is wielded by
cnonomic prez'mre rather than a visible whip?
Is slave driving any less reprehensible because
its motive power proceeds from a gentleman in
dress suit rather than from a Simon Legree?
How many an innocent white slave of today reads
the history of black slavery and pities. his black
brothers of days gone by, when no might well re
serve a little of that pity for his own plight and
better now; ﬁrst of fall there is more education.
and knowledge is the social dynamite that will
blow away the unjust. institutions that capitalism
has consecrated. .

The workers are becoming more conscious of
their power. They are receding from the posi-
tion that they had no country to ﬁght for; they
have a county to ﬁght for. and they love that coun-
try so mighty well that they intend to Win it and
own it. Because they are doing the work of keep-
ing it going in the ﬁrst place. Once the shackless
of the mind are shaken off the shackles of the
body ﬂy away too. There will come a day when the
people of the future—and is it so far away?—
will look with horror at the way modern fortunes
were made—‘8. H. 8.. Hurrictta.

“He Who Steals My Purse Steals Trash.”

511 said the hard of Avon when he complained at
having his reputation sullicd and La Follctte may
wcll join him in that statement. On page 2 of this
issue we are printing an article fiom la l‘ollette's
Magazine showing that as we stated months ago.
the Wisconsin senator was being unjustly con—
demned. .\ great many of our readers took issue
with us. claiming we were supporting a traitor, but
not so, we only refused to condenm a man before
a fair trial was given him and because we know
thc jackals that were interested in crucifyiug him
\\ by should la lollcttc of l‘rcnch dcsccnt. and a
constant hater of iinpcrizilisnr suddenly become pro—
(icrman? \Vc could see no reason therefor, but
remembering how the senator. when governor of
\Visconsiu. made the railroads pay a prOpcr tax. put
an income tax through. and in the U. S. senate
worked and voted for proper child legislation, for
the scaincn's bill and for excess profit taxes, we

could see why thc railroads. the steamboat lines. thc -

big manufacturers and capitalists generally had a
grievance against him. not because he was pro—Ger-
man but because he 11 as p10— A'.mc1ican and insisted
that they carry thcir shame of tl1c_wa1’shurdcns and
so the daily press “as ordered to de:tro_1 him and

all but succeeded. as the people. as usual. are ready.

to cry “Hosanna” one day and “Crucify .him” the
next. But is it not about time that we reserve our
judgment until we can at least have investigated the
people who are back of the accusations made?
Further to show how damnably rotten our daily
press works. bear in mind that while everyone pub—
lished the false charges against the senator only a

half dozen were big and manly enough to retract
and apologize when they saw that they were wrong.
Also remember that the very charges made by La
Follette against big business have since been sub—
stantiated by the Federal Trades Commission and
form the backbone of the president's demand for
higher income and excess proﬁt taxes

Let this case prove a lesson to you to be more
careful before passing iudgment on a fellowman.—
Organized liarmer.

(Editor’s Note: The article referred to was
published by the New York Evening Post, and is
as follows):

“The Associated Press has handsomely and
promptly admitted its grievous fault in misreport—
ing Senator La Follette. Whereas he said in his
St. Paul speech that “we had grievances” against
Germany. and was so reported the next day in the
St. Paul newspapers. someone Slipped the fatal
word “110" into thc sentence in the Associated Press
report and made it read: “Vi/'1‘. have no grievances.”
Whether this was done maliciously or accidentally
will probably never be known, but the fact remains
that irreparable injury was done to the senator, and
that a large part of the outcry against him was due
to this misstatement in the one thousand newspapers
which are served by the ."\ssociatcd l’rcss. Senator
la l“ollcttc declared at the time that thc prcss had
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The American’s Creed

BELlEVE in the United States of America

as a government of the people. by the
people, for the people, whose just powers
are derived from the consent of the gov-
erned; a democracy in a republic: a sover—
eign Nation of many sovereign States. a per-
fect Union, one and inseparable; established
upon those principles of freedom. equality,
justice, and humanity for which American
patriots sacriﬁced their lives and fortunes.
l therefore believe it is my duty to my coun—
try to love it; to support its Constitution;
to obey its laws; to respect its flag, and to

defend it against all enemies.

This t‘rccd, prepared by William Tyler Page, a
descendant of President Tyler and also one of the
signers of the Declaration of lndcpcndcnu won the
thousand dollar prize offered by the city of Baltimore
for ‘the bcst summaiy of the political faith of Amer
ica. ' April 3, 1918 in the presence of members of
the Senate and House of Representatives “The Amer-
ican’s Creed" was formally accepted in the name of
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to thc attention of the Associated Press until Mr.
Gilbert 15. Roe, his attorney, stated the fact bcforc
the senate committee of inquiry 011 Tuesday. Vbe
the senator delayed so long is a mystery; but thc
serious wrong done by the error needs no expatiat-
iug. No amount 11f apology can undo it. Thc
thought that unintentionally so extreme an injusticc
may be done to a public man is one to sobcr all
responsible journalism."

To Dodge the Doctor

\\'11rry is about as deadly a poison as arsenic, if
less rapid 111 its action. l’ut worry 1111 your list
of things to bc avoldcd.

.1d1l t1 the same list anger, envy, jcaluusy. hatred.
and indecision

As someone has well said indecision and doubt
are poison to the nerve.

Keep your head cool and your feet dry. ‘If your
feet do get wet, kccp movmg until you have a
chance to change your socks and shoes; Never sit
still w1tl1 wet fcct.

Also make it a point to wear comfortablc shoes.
T1ght shoes ahd lugh hcels brmg morc money to
the doctor than to thc shoemaker.

Ovcreatiug invites colds. colds invite more serious
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Thc farm—(3r brokc his wagon
When his horse bcgan to buck;
But he was most rcsozn'ccful
.l 1111 used his {1111-11171 (ruck.

A redbreast robin is said to kill on an aver-
age about. 800 ﬂies a day. A sparrow is said to de—
stroy at least a hundred and fifty worms and cater-
pillars in a day.

Officer (in disgust to not over-bright beginner)
,,,-.“[S that your Tight face?’ "

Embarrased rookie—“Well I can't help it. i
was born with it,”~—J1ul_17c.

They had plighted their troth and were talk—
ing things over. They both decided to be quite
unlike other married couples—forbearing and long.
suffering and patient with each other.

“No!" said the man. “I shall never be like other
husbands who get cross and bang things around
if the coffee is 10111!”

“If you ever did" said the gi1l sweetly. “I wonll
make it hot for you!"

And the man wondered what she meant!

In eve1y business the1e a1e a lot of things to be
lubri ated—vnot only goods but a little of the right
kind of lubricating ointment applied to people at
the proper time and occasion helps business. it
is a great art to know just when to use a lubricant
Then of course all of us have heard of the‘ greas
ed plank that tilts outward ” that has been care
fully luincated in advance Some ot‘t the boys who
hide behind the stairs and roast" the boss some
times unexpectedly step on this well gnu sod plank
When they land on the outside of the institution
they sit 11p and take noti1e. 'l‘ hen they 11e sorry.
They see things differently. But the mom] of this
page is to keep your tools, your machinery and
you1 business well oiled so it will 11111 smoothly,
with as little rattling around or noise as possible.

~~himl1f

Let us then stand by our constitution as it. is.
and by our country as it is, one, united, and entire;
let it be a truth engraven on our hearts; let it be
borne on the ﬂag under which we rally in every
exigency. that we have one country, one constitu-
tion, one destiny.—l)11nicl Webstcr.

A Pittsburg paper has been gathering a list of
synonyms for human whiskers vhich will make a
valuable addendum to Rogets Thesaurus But
its list isn’t half completed. All our 111ntemporary
can think of is: Spinach, grass, ﬂax. ﬂora. sedge.
foliage. downpour, geranium, cold slaw, curtains.
portiers. plush. alfalfa. jungle. feather duster.
shrubbery, ambush. fringe, screen, hedge. angoras.
moss. Lake Mahonks, and bush.

Allow us to add lamhrequins, timothy, soup
strainers. ensilage, underbrush, turkey feathers.
and daubers. And if We had more time we could
think 111' more synonyms. all in more 111' less com-
mon sense. Have our readers any that we have
missed? 7('I1'1*cl11nri Plain llcalcr.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ford are the proud posses~
sors of a 94b. Ford, which arrived a few days ago
in tine condition and was accepted at once. it,
has all of the attachments that the other Fords
have.

There was an old man from Milo

Who said, i dont need any silo!

For farming don‘t pay, so 1'“ just stick to hay»-"

P. Smile was buried without. any stylo.

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The Eternal Question “Does the Farm W0-
1 ~.- . man Want. to. Vote?” -. :. 1‘

T IS A real.-pleas11re for me to publish a letter.
from our old friend, Anne” Campbell Stark,

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broader ﬁelds. Mrs. Stark was born in the country
and lived there‘ as a girl, but the past erWI years
she has spent in the city. She. has had. ample

, opportunity to compare urban and rural. life? and

she is never happier than when she gets back on
the farm for a few weeks’ visit among the folks
that used to trot her on their knees, er the young-
er ones with whom she played. Mrs. Stark has just

I,returned from sﬁch a visit, and I am Sure you will
.all be interested in what she has to say about it

Such friendly, hear-to-heart letters I have receiv-
ed the past week from my .readers! I seem almost
as well acquainted with those who have written
as though I had sat on their front porch and talk-
ed with them for hours. And that is really my big

ambition, to meet the women of the farms,.to~ talk
~ with them about the scores of things in which
' they are

interested. Would you be surprised
some day if I drove up to your dooryard and in-
vitéd myself in for a chat? Well, if I ever do such
a thing, I’ll try to come on a day when you’re
not busy. and I know you’ll make me welcome.
‘Shall I bring the childern?

There s one subject in which I know you are in.
terested and should be discussed in these columns
That is equal suffrage. You know the voters of
Michigan are soon to have an opportunity to

vote on this question. Mr. Grant Slocum. one of
our editors, has been appointed chairman of the
state—wide federation to support the amendment

' and every effort will be made to carry it.

I would really like to know what the. farm wo-
men think about_ woman suffrage. Do you want
to vote? Would you vote if you had the privilege?
Do you think that woman’s place is in the home.
and nowhere else? I Wish you’d write me what
your opinions are on this topic. It's been pretty
mu uch discussed 1 know, but there’s always some-
thing new to say, and I dont know that the farm
women have ever thought much about it.

Affectionately, PENELOPE.

How Farm Women are Doing their “Bit”

EAR PENELOPEz—I have just returned
D from a visit to the farm where I was born,

and I know if the woman who looked out
of the window and saw nothing but ﬂat country
every (lay, had gone with me, she would have
received help and inspiration from the women
whom I met. The memory of the scene from
my aunt’s window has stayed with me since I
returned home, and when I am tired from the
incessant turmoil of the city, I sit down and

' visualize it again.

My aunt says, “One never tires of the coun—
try.” And when I feasted on the green ﬁelds,
the feathery trees, and the golden sunsets, I
agreed with her. My aunt does not need a
a beautiful painting on her walls. She looks
out of the big window in her (lining room and
sees a grass-grown field, in which the white
mare and her little colt are grazing. On the
other side of the fence a lazy stream winds its

banks' overgrown with low—hanging
Afar off is the road to town, where the
automobiles, tokens of the prosperity of the
farmers about, Iwhiz by.

The beauty of the nights, with the big sky,
ﬁlled with stars, the stillness of it, the promise
of peace in it, the ever-brooding beauty and quiet
of the country—how can one tire of it?

I tell you,
born haven’t time to tire of it. They are too
busy thinking of the boys “over there.” I, my—
self, had to let the loveliness of it sink into me.
I certainly didn’t have time to stand and gaze
'afar’off, and think about it! There was too much
to do! The Red Cross unit of the place where I
was born meets every other Friday afternoon.

bushes.

But that doesn’t mean that is all the work they __
She knits,‘
andII don’t-

tdol- Every woman works at home.
jknow what all. The president of the Red Cross
unit read to us the list of things that were re-
quired by the women of that county and the:
little group of women who gathered in the town,
hall that day got their. heads together earnestly
and ﬁgured out just how much they could do.

- And they were mighty generous in assuming

their full share of‘ the quota, I can tell you.

   

whose talents as a writer have taken her to’ i?

the folks down there where I-was'

There are no slackers iii the little place where I
was born. ’ ‘

Red Cross; .And there are. few who stay at
heme. Even the hired man, who works all day

’ Communications for this page should be addreséed to i
‘ Penelope, Farm Inome Department, Mt. Clemqqs, Mlch.~

:much getI busy! Eill. ,Ievery spare moment yvith -

1. writing ahd doing. for. the boys “over. thereil”

. There a'rze dances in the fewnhall every other"
Thursday night, too, and the proceeds go to the .

in the ﬁelds, “shakes a willing foot" at the Red ‘

Cross dances. One dollar is charged each man.

The ladies are free, and no: charge is made forI

the babies! They are all accommodated nicely
on the long table in the. townhall where the
obliging ones go to. sleep, and the naughty ones,
who are just bound their mothers won’t dance a
single set, blink and stare juSt as long as they
can, but surrender at last to blessed rest.

There is always some one who can chord on
the organ, and if the hired musician doesn’t come,
Mrs. C., who is the mother of lovely twins, can
play the ﬁddle as well as the next one. And she
does it, too. It’s fora good" cause and, anyway,
being a mother of twins rather increases onc’s
capacity for enjoyment doesn’t it? Though it
isn’t as much fun to play the ﬁddle for other
folks to dance as it is to dance oneself!

One mother of a 16-year—old sat and held one
of the babies most of the evening. She doesn’t
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The Giant Flower
ROM the for ﬁelds of Plcardy,
Across the miles of land and sea.
Borne on the flying winds along,
I seem to hear a mighty song——
A mighty song a crash of song !
It is the clear stupendous cry
Sent from the souls of men who die.
Through all the thundcrs of the fray
It pierces like an arrow ray.
Life‘s own eternal harmony.
From death‘s red ﬁelds,. in Pleardy.

UT on the ﬁelds of Picardy

The march of death goes royally;
Through highways of supreme despair,
With huddled forms tossed here and there,
The standards of immortal life
Float proudly over waves of strife,
Bearing the Spirit’s recompense—
Where, standing to that high defense,
A living wall of destiny,
Men hold the lines, in Picardy.

SACRED ﬁelds of Picardy.

O dread tumultous Calvert,
Through your incredible stress appears
A, vision of the golden years
When from this seed. in God‘s own hour,
Shall spring at last the giant flower——
Rose of the world, serene and free,

Sewn on the ﬁelds of Picardy—
,The red scarred ﬁelds of Picardy.

——-MARY Cou'ruouv SMITH in the New
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the fun she can, and she wouldn’t miss one of the
Red Cross dances for the world. I think it is
splendid the way folks in the place where I was
born are waking up to the fact that young people
simply must be amused. They know in order to
keep them on the farms, they must have the
enjoyment which is as necessary to the human
being as to romp and play is a part of the kit-
ten’s development.

And Saturday night in town! When to shop
is a secondary consideration, and one saunters
about the busy village streets visiting all one’s
friends who have come from miles around! How

much moregfun itIis than to shop in the cityl

There you 'never meet anyone you know, and the
very crowds make you homesick.

The automobile, too, is doing so much to unite
the farms with the villages: And it is only the
old-fashioned farmer who makes .his wife work
in the ﬁeld nowadays.

“There is nothing which gives me such an up—
lifted. peaceful, at—one-with—God feeling as the
count-"ry, said my aunt. “I like the city for a

I,little while, but someway it seems to crowd down
on i e, and stiﬂe me.’

’And I agree with her, and
to the woman who gazed out of her window and

saw "nothing but the ﬂat, erntful monotonous

country, I would say

Learn to know the country,- andggto 10ve it, and
to appreciate it.
farms of France, and devastated Belgium, and
instead of thinking so. much, and Worrying so.

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- cookies.

Do you know there is a cookie jar at the Army
and Navy- Club: iii’ Detroit, that they just 'can’t

keep ﬁlled up? The hungry soldiers and sailors

are like so many youngsters in their fondness for
Why.InoIt.write them and offer to send
them a batch of: cookies a‘week or a month.
And knit, knit, knit,- a’nd sew and Work, and use
barley flour, and dbn’ t waste a single thing! Make
yourself felt in your community. I10 your bit
for your God, your country, -your family and
your neighbors,- and you ’11 soon forget" to com—

plain about the monotony of your days, so ﬁlled

with blessed service for others will they. be!
II know that’s how ”the folks

country, where one has time to live; and love, and
think, and be kind—Anne Campbell Stark-
Recipe for Canning I Chicken
EAR PENELOPEz—In one of your. issues
(you ask for a recipe for canningrchicken.
Season the chicken well while - it is
cooking. Take out every bit of the bone, leaving
meat in as large pieces as will go into the can.
Have the liquid boiled down enough so when cold
it will be jelly. Fill up the cans with the meat to
within two inches of top. Cover with boiling liquid
that has been strained thru wire strainer to over-
ﬂowing. Seal. If tops of covers are previously
boiled it will keep it kept in a cool dark place.
May I send my recipe for canned corn? Gather
the corn, husk and silk and throw ears into boiling
water about 4 or 5 minutes just to set the milk.
Take out, shear off the cobb and to 9 quarts of corn
add one cup of sugar, one cup. of salt and cook like
any fruit and can leaving two inches. at top for
juice. .In winter take out what corn you want to
use for a meal. Place in a colander'and slowly
pour a couple of quarts of water over it. Let drain
5 minutes and you have a dish ﬁt for a king. The
juice on the corn is too salt to use but the corn is
just right to season the milk that it is cooked in.
Have canned corn for years and never lose a can.
When canning season comes around I boil, for
10 or 15 minutes. two or three dozen can covers
at a. time. Then they just need heating same as
cans. This kills any germs that may be hidden
under the porcelain.
keep good if not well covered with juicevM. (3.,
Thompsonm'lle.

Wanted—Directions for Knitting Mittens

Y DEAR PENELOPEz—I see that the time
M has been extended for giving the dish dry-

ers, and as I have a few spare moments this
morning I will try for one. I take four cloth sacks.
rip them and sew them together so they are in a
square. And I make an inch hem around them
on the outside, and work a cross stitch around
the hem, and on the seams in the middle with
red thread. This I use to spread over the dishes
on the dining room table. I ﬁnd it saves many
steps, as I can leave the dishes on the table, and
feel they are free from dust or dirt, and I also
feel it is a good way to use up some of the flour
sacks I also rip them up and hem them and use
them to dry the dishes with. Sometimes I get an
exceptionally nice flour sack, then I hem them
and cross stitch the hem with red thread, and
this I use on the dining table as a centerpiece for
everyday use. It helps keep the tablecloth clean,
also makes a big improvement in the looks of
the table. In the summer I put my oil stove out
on my back porch (which I have screened in),
and as the wind sometimes blows in so it bothers
the burners when in use. I have my clothesbars

by the stove and hang an old sheet, on them, and .

ﬁnd it a big help. It also acts as a screen, and
others cannot see what you are doing. I have
what I call a potato chopper to. use. for cutting
up boiled potatoes when I want to fry them. It
is just a baking powder can with the bottOm cut
out, and a wooden handle cut to ﬁt in the‘t'Op of
the can and tacked in.

steam and let in air. I put the potatoes in the
frying pan, then chop them up. I think, Pence
lope will think this letter long enough. So I. will
bringcit to a close by saying I think the Farm

Home the best page in “the Business Farming for .

Women, although I read nearly every article in the
paper I wish every woman and girl wOuld learn
to knit so they can knit for the soldiers
like to see directions for knitting mittens IorI men.

—Mrs. W. H. 13., R I, Paw. Paw, Mich 4.; .'

     

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band, Which I count aboYe all else in making life

easier iand pleasanter fer 1221‘s... We help each other.

He does the heavy lifting in the house and I do
little things out of doors Which are not hard but
take, time. I- have a regular Weekly program
which gives me Thursday as a kind of off. day
when I do some of the many odd jabs for which
there is no time on other? days.

A double wall pocket behind the kitchen door
0163 my' wrapping paper and paper bags while

another. in the cellar way between the joists is;
I have a.

large.- enough to hold the ﬂour sacks.
eheli behind the kitchen stove where we throw
gloves and mittens in the winter time, and hooks
screWed near the wall on the under side to hang
spiders and sk‘illets’ 0111' A shelfgin the Vsinkﬂjcup4

'board"hol'ds"'ali mycleaners, snob as soap,,borax,
“’etc” yvhile another one above the sink holds all

necessary toilet articles.
At cigar stores they 'will give tobacco pails

double boiler are very handy for many other
things. As all our rain water has to be draWn and
one has to go under the house to do it. my husband
always gets it for me and I am very saving of it,

ally isn't for dishes for two—I even save it to
mop with We hope to have our pump ﬁxed soon.

~We were married only last fall and the house had
been vacant for ten years so there were same thing,

that with the hard winter and busy spring, did

not get done. .I am just as saving of well water as

that has to be pumped by hand.
We have a woodbox that ﬁlls from the outside.

' I would never have one inside.

Just a hint about an easy way to make ﬂower
beds. Have your ground spaded early'in the spring;
let the hens scratch in .it a while if they want
to; in other words work it well to get rid of the
weeds and plant it Then place a piece of poul-
try netting over the plot and weight it down and
after the ﬂowers are well up it will not show very
much. I like the looks of it much better than a
fence of the same material and I’ll guarantee that
the hens will not scratch it up.

I would like to thank personally the sisters
whose letters on conveniences have appeared in the
paper. Some of the conveniences I have alieady

   
 

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holding about two quarts which I use fer l’ard and '
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cold meats.

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cinnamon, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon pepper. 1 tea-
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salt, 1 pint vinegar. Simmer slowly until thick, bottle
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Items of Interest to Women

Hudson Red Cross has issued a call for kid?
gloves and bits of leather for aviators’ jackets.

In its annual report the Calumet Laurium Com- :
forts committee announces the completion of I. 370
sweaters, 452 mufﬂers"; 462 Wristlets, 1,247 pairs '01"
socks and 319 helmets. This includes 500 pairs
of sockssent to local companies in France to sup- ;
ply copper country men 'with Company A. Engin-~ 2
eers. Comfort kits have also been supplied to
many men.

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ploymen-t department of the woman’s committee .
Council of National Defense. when the draft to :k
away many men. The employment bureau adver-
tised for women chemists. Miss Kolb answered
She is now assistant chemist and metallurgical
analyst for the I R. Hunt Company in the Insur-
ance Exchange Building

According to Mrs. Lilla S. Walter, head of the
state employment bureau for women, there is still
a great shortage of good stenographers,‘ as the
demand from Washington is increasing. “For
other positions." said Mrs. Walter. “We seem to
have more women. than we need. Every mother,
sister, and distant cousin of a soldier wants a war

job."

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The Kodak on the Farm

FTEN AS I work the mem-
O cries of other days come

pressing upon me. and I
cannot resist the temptation to
sit idly for a moment medita-
ting upon the days and the dear
on:s.who have gone before. On
such occasions as these I invar-
iably dig out the old family al-
bum. The pictures of the folks
I used to know, some of whom
have 'gone to the great beyond,
and some of whom have moved
to other parts, light up the whole
curtain of the past in vivid col-
ors, and I smile or drop a tear
as I think of the scenes of which
they once formed a part.

It was truly an event. when
any member of the family went
to town to get his or her pic-
ture “took”,- and it caused quite
a stir in the neighborhood when
the photographer came out one
day, and with much focusing
and squinting and shifting from
one position to another, secured
a “foggy” exposure of the farm
house, the general outines of
which bore a striking resem-
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possible for anyone to‘ ‘snap” a
far superior likeness of objects
about the farm than the old- time~
camera- could secure 'under the
most favorable cenditions. , I
am glad to knew that so many
:01? my readers own' ko'daks, and I’
am happy to receive the pictures
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pets. As space permits I hope
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EAR CHILDREN: At last, the

D00 Dads! Y0u have waited

. very patiently, my dears, a long
time for the D00 Dads and I hope you
will not feel disappointed. They‘re very
funny little folk and I can’t begin to
tell you here all the interesting times
they have in the Wonderland of Doo.
But Mr. Arch Dale. the man who draws
them and writes stories about them.
will let them visit us once a month

.so you’ll soon get acquainted with all

the little Doo Dads. I want you to
write and tell me how you like the
D00 Dads, and whether you would like
to see them‘ again.

As I promised last week I am pub-
lishing this week. the prize winning
"Thrift. Stamp“ letters. together with
the names of the boys and girls who
wrote them. Did I say “boys and
girls?” Well. that's a mistake. It can't
he that any boys are saving their
money to buy Thrift stamps because
not a single boy wrote me. How about.
it. boys? Aren't you good patriots
enough to help your Uncle Sammy by
buying Thrift stamps and telling us
how you (lid it so other boys can fol-
low your example?

I want to thank Elmer l'ilnier of
Buckley for his poem. “Save and Buy
Thrift Stamps,” and I am going to send
him a thrift stamp for being thought—
t’ul enough to send us this pool“.

Your Aunt Penelope wanted to hear
from some of you boys. and she hopes
you’ll yet write her a letter about your
Thrift stamps. But the girls have done
nobly. They are helping to win the
war, and I am going to send their
names and letters to Mr. McAdoo so
he will know what splendid patriots
we have among the boys and girls of
Michigan.

The winners of the Thrift stamps
are: Bernice Schneider. Lake Odessa;
Nora Wilson. Bellaire; Cora E. Mit—
chell, Clare; Edith Arbuckle. Gladwiu;
Grace Sherburn. Scottville; Blanche
Ward, Boone.

Quite a number of the boys and girls
have sent the pictures which they have
drawn themselves. Lack of space pre-
vents me from printinng all of these.
but I will show you some of them at
least. The bird whose picture you
see here was drawn by Elise Snowden.

If you will read May Coutchie’s let-
ter on the next page you will note that
she wants a name tor a little mare
colt, and I think it would be nice for
you all to help her out. '

There are many little ways that
you have never thought of in which
you can help father and mother. and I
am going to mention some of them. I
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The D00 Dads go a-hunting in the Wonderland of Dec

The D00 Dads are out on a hunting
expedition—all but Flannel Feet, the
Cop. and he is fishing. They are not
after big game, however, but are giv—
ing most of their attention to frogs
and insects It isn’t very often that
thc Cop is caught napping, but he
was so comfortable in the shade of
that big mushroom that he dozcd off.
That young Doo Dad thought it was
a good chance to play a trick on him,
lic is fastening a hook to another
youngr Doo Dad. who is so much in‘
tcrestcd in catching a water bcctlc
that he hasn’t noted what is going on.
The young rascal will give a tug on
the line and lilannel Feet will think
it is a bigr fish that he has caught.
.l’ercy llaw Haw, the lludc, was
flirting with a young I)oo Doll. They
wcrc playing “Love inc—love me not”
with a flowcr when Sntilcsfthc Clown,
stirred up that hit: nest of ants, which
iimneditacly attacked thc gallant little
gcntlcman. The twins are in trou-
blcl That big insect was on l’oly’s
head when Roly made a sweep at it
with his nct. The insert was too
quick. however, and got away. and
the nct swept down over Roly’s head.
'l‘hose youngr fellows on the knoll are
trying to capture that snake. See how
onc is holding a mouse over the hole
to tempt it to come out. It is coming

out, alright. but not where they cxi
pcctcd. Unless the Boo Ilad with the
fork succeeds in pinning the snake
down it will swallow that other little
fellow up. Those two Doo Dads on the
branch thought it would be fine to
catch the two little birdies but just
as they were crawling out to them the
mother bird got back. She is attack»
ing‘ the littlc fellow who holds thc net
and he wishes he had left her birdies
alone. flld Doc Sawbones. fora won—
der. thinks that there is no danger
of anyone getting: hurt this time, and
so hc has joined in the sport. lie is
catching caterpillars in his net while
that \‘cnturcsome little fcllOW in the
tree throws salt on their tails. Here
is Sleepy Sam, the Hobo, Snoozing
away soundly as usual. He must have
been sleeping a long time for that big
spider has spun a web over him. He
must be sleeping soundly. too, for he
doesn’t notice the mosquitoes which
are buzzing around him. That littlc
fellow was having a fine. time splash—
ing: around in the water when that
terrible looking thing hit him on the
too. See how he is calling for help.
The l>oo Dads are so interested, bow—
cvcr, that they do not notice him.
\N'hcn the Boo Dads come home for
supper they will havc a great time of
it relating their adventures on their
big hunting trip.

gestions. I would be glad to have you
tell us about themﬁ

I want a lot more letters from the
children who are saving and earning
to buy thrift stamps. and for every
letter published giving your experi-
ence, I will give a stamp book with
one thrift stamp. So get busy, boys
and girls, and write that letter. With
love from your AI'N'I‘ PENELOPE.

How I Can Help

I can sell old iron to make money for
the Red Cross.

I can help my grandma so she can
knit a sweater for my brother when he
goes to camp.

I can get in my wood without hav-
ing to he told. *

I can ask my parents not to buy me
an expensive Christmas present.

I can save my clothes by not letting
them get torn.

I can be careful not to twr my
clothes so my mother will not have
to patch and can knit.

I can care for a pen of chickens to
conserve the beef and pork supply.

I can stop using “bean shooters."

I can sell old brass, copper and
zmc.

I can save money to go through
school so I can take the place of some-
one who has gone to war.

I can send Bibles, paper and envel-
opes to soldiers.

I can do mother’s work so sh“ can
knit.

I can hold yarn for mother whiic
she winds it into a ball.

I can get along without cats and
dogs. They eat, too much.

I can make scrap-books of funny
pictures and stories for the soldiers.

»I can kill rats and mice because. .hey
eat grains:

I can save my shoes by not skating
on the soles of them.

I can pray God every night that we
may win this war.

I can write cheerful letters to rel~
:itives in the army.

I can get along without scuillying my
t'eet,tsave she ‘s‘l.

I can collect tin foil for it is very
valuable . I

I can teach others to be thrifty who

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Dear“. Aunt Penelopez—J am a' it] 13
* years of age and live on'an 80-;acre'farm
in the western‘ part of Michigan. I
passed the eighth'grade this year and
will be in the: ninth next year: My par-
ents take the M. B, F. and likeit very;
well, but the part I. like best is the
children's department. I am helping to
win this war by washing dishes. feeding
chickens, helping in the fields, doing
housework, and doing all sorts of little
things that I can. I have two brothers
and one sister. The Fourth of July
father asked me if I wanted some ﬁre:
crackers and other ﬁreworks I said I
would take mine in Thrift Stamps,— be-
cause the soldiers need the powder and
the money from my Thrift Stamps would
help, too. So father gave me a dollar.
1 do enjoy earning and saving money to
buy Thrift Stamps. It seems as if I am
determined to help “Democracy" along
and I am going to all I can. 1 often pass
the candy store but I don’t go in, be-
cause I am saving my money to buy
Thrift Stamps. Nowadays our family
has lots of brown bread and johnny cake,
I am getting so I like brown bread as
well. almost better, than I used to like
white bread. Johnny cake is my favor-
ite, too. I would just as soon as not
have johnny cake and butter for dinner.
as well as ice cream and lemonade. I
have been studying for a time for a good
name for our page. and I like the topic
of “Do Your Bit." I have one \Var Savj
ings Stamp and eight Thrift Stamps. I
want to have my eight Thrift Stamps
changed into a V‘l'ar Savings Stamp by
January if I have to pick potato bugs
at a penny a quart. I haven't written
before to you, Auntie, but I think I have
made up for it. Yours truly—*Bcrnicc
Schneider. Lake Odessa. Mich,

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Dear Aunt Penelope:.—I am a girl 12
years old. I have two brothers. ll‘rancis
is 14 years old and Elmo is 8 months
old. I help my mother in the house be—
cause our house burned last year. Every-
thing burned, even our cats, dogs and
birds. I saw in the M. B. I". that we
children could name the page. I think
that “Aunt I’enelope's Little Farmers"
wouldbe a nice name for it. I cut the
cow out but did not get around to send
it to you. Our cattle's names are Baby,
Nigger. Rose. Daisy Lea, Cherry, Birdy.
Beauty, Honey. Brindle, Goldie. White
ll‘oot, Brownie, Constance, Star, Darkic,
Coal Black, Jimmy, Buck, Polly and
Ladybird. \I'e have a registered Jer-
sey master. His name is Constance Jubi-
lee Lad. We also have four horses.
Their names are Storm. Dan Patch,
Topsy and Ginger. We have two
dogs. Their names are Guard and Bus—
ter. I am trying to help my country. I
have a Vl'ar Saving Stamp and I am
raising Belgian hares. I have a
large garden. I am going to pick black-
berries and raspberries to can and am
going to pick huckleberries to sell. I
am going to save my money and buy p0-
tatoes for next year, and when I sell the
potatoes I am going to buy War Savings
Stamps. I sold arbutus and bought War
Savings Stamps. I am going to buy a
sheep next year. I am going to sell
strawberries, rhubarb and green onions
next year. This is all for today—Cora
Nephew, Lovells, Crawford County, Mich.

Dear Aunt Penelope:—I have been
reading some of the other letters in the
M. B.>F. and thought I would write. I
am‘a. little girl 8 years old. I have gone
to school two years and ‘will be in the
fourth grade next year. I began in the
chart class and passed into the third
grade and I passed this year'into the
fourth. “'e have four cows. Their

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names are Spot, Jersey, Nig and Baby.
1 am learning to milk. VThe last time I
milked] get. tour quarts. “'9‘ have a
little calf. \Vekcall it Patsy. It is black.
It is three weeks old. I have a little
brother. His name is Eugene. He‘ will
be a year old the 6th of July. I \help
mamma and papa lots. I have a half
mile to-go after-the mail. When papa
is working in the lieldl have to take
him waiter. Eugene, and l are buying
Thrift Stamps. \\‘e each have two War
Savings Stamps and we have started on
another book apiece. I' think “Little
Helpers’ Corner" would be a nice name
for our page. because we are trying to
help our Uncle Sam all we can by help—
ing our mother and father raise the
crops—From Blanche \Vard, Boon. Mich.

 

Dear Aunt Penelopez—I am 11 years
old and in the sixth grade. I have live
sisters and four brothers. My oldest
brother will -be 18 in August. My young—
est sister is 1 year and 1 month old. I
live two miles and a half from school.
I have three brothers and three sisters
that go besides myself. \Ve sometimes
drive or“ walk. I have many pets. l
have two cuts. but no dog. The cats'
names are Tom and Nigger. \\'ell, I saw
in the paper that you wanted a name
for the children’s page. \Vell, I think
a good name for it would be “Children's
Cozy Corner." The way I am going to
help mother is by helping in the house
and in the garden- \\'e have quite a num—
ber of strawberries. \l'e live near :1 re—
sort. Mamma said that we could have
five cents for delivering and picking
them. I sold I do not know how many,
but I have $1.32 and am going to put it
all in Thrift Stamps. Papa rents an—
other farm besides ours. He is farming
160 acres. \Ve will not have very many
cherries this year. But the apple trees
are just loaded with apples. \I'e did not
have very many apples last year. \Vcll.
I will haVe to close now. But will write
ugain.~Nora \Vilson. Bellaire, Mich.

My Dear Aunt Penelope:——As I saw in
the M. B. I“. that you wanted all of us
children to write you a letter telling you
how we are saving or planning to save.
our money for Thrift Stamps, so I
thought I would take. the pleasure to
write a few lines. I am now saving all
of my spare money that I am earning
to buy Thrift Stamps and am planning
to work during my vacation of school.
I have 28 pets, which are rabbits. and
when they get large enough I am going
to sell them and buy Thrift Stamps. I
think it would be a. very good idea for
all boys and girls to save their money
and invest in Thrift Stamps, and I know
we all want to offer just as much help
as we possibly can to help our dear
Ilncle Sammie, who is trying to win this
war and “can the Kaiser," which We all
hope and know he can do. You asked
us to suggest a name for our page. I
think “The Happy Hour with Aunt
Penelope" would be n‘ice.~—Cora 1‘}.
Mitchell, Claire, Mich.

Dear Penelope1—I have not written to
you before. so I thought I would write
this time. I am in the ﬁfth grade and
11 years old. I have four brothers and
one sister. I have a war garden
and apatch of potatoes. I am going to
buy Thrift Stamps with the money. I
wash the dishes every day. I get 401‘
every month to buy Thrift Stamps. I cut
thistles in the ﬁeld and sweep the ﬂoors
in the house. I have a War Savings
Stampand I am going to try to get
enough Thrift Stamps for another one.
I will have to close for it is time. for
dinner—Grace Sherburn, Scotlvillc.
Mich.

Interesting Letters from Our Boys and Girls

Dear Aunt Penelopez—I did not get
the cow cut out but if you don't care I
will name her. I think a pretty name
for her would be Daisy Lee. \\'e. have
a 280-acre farm. “'e have 15 head of
cattle, and five. horses; each of the five
people in our family bought :1 $5 \V. S. S.
Our school did not close until the 28th
day of June. so you see my sister and I
did not have time to plant :1 garden. Ilut
mothcr planted :1 large one :111d “'o hpr
licr nearly all the time in it. This spring
mothcr gave me a, setting hen and 14
eggs, I set the hen and I have six

little chickens and I have a little
pullet and tw0 old hens. This full I am
going to scll one of them. I have

a large cow a11d~calf. The cow's mum»
is l’ansy :111d thc. calf‘s 1111mc is llukc.
I like to lch on the farm. 1 would likc
to have our page named "Aunt I’enclop1-
and Her Children" on it. I Would likc
to have continmd stories. lettcrs 11nd
puzzles and cutouts. \\'cll. I have writ-
ten enough for ihc lirst Iimc. I wish
some. Of the Children would writc to me.
Twelve years. sixth grade—~Ilolen 1‘]. ll.
Gehrig, Vanderbilt, Mich. It, I“, I). 1.

 

Aunt Penelope: I am 13 years of age
and live on a farm. I have been i‘cuding
your letter in the paper every week, but
neglected writing. I try to help I'nclc
Sam all I c.1111, so I suggest “Uncle Sam's
Childrcn” as :1 name for our page, as I
think we all ought to help Uncle Sam
that We may be proud to be, called
Uncle Sam's children. Therc are many
amusements that we could write for our
page. such as puzzles. jokes. slorics.
tricks. experiences and many othcrs. I
have been to Red Cross mcctings :1 I'cw
times and intend to go more us it has
just begun this spring around herc. I
have only one sister and we are paticnt—
ly waiting for the "Doc Dads.” but when
they appear they will be all the more
funny. Let‘s stand together and make a
good success from our page.—~(.‘atherine
Pasch, Farwell, Mich, R. F. D. No. .,

Dear AuntPenelope: My parents take
the M. B. F. I have been reading the
letters that the children wrote, so I
thought that I would write, too. I think
“Uncle Sam's Little Helpers” would be
a nice name for our corner. We live on
a 100—acre farm. 1 have just two broth-

 

ers. We have 39 head of cattle. X of
them are covvs. I am :1 years old and :1111
in the fourth grade at school. I help
my mamma in the. house a lot. I likw
to ride horscback.~l€dith Arbucklc, Illud<
win. Mich. R. I“. I). No. 4.

Dear Aunt l’enelopezv—l :1111 :1 boy 1::
years old and live on a farm of ‘10 :1crcs.
“'e takc thc M. 1:. I“. “'0 likc it ycry
much. \‘Vc have livcd hero llll‘l'c yours
lust April. \\'e have about 111 more
acres to clear yct and then u'c will have
it all cleared. \Ve livc three milcs south—
c:ist of I'lucklcy. I :1111 in thc sovcnth
grade and have, 131 miles to go to school,
\\'c have one cow and two lieil'crs. thcir

11:1.mcs arc Ilosc. I’unsy 11nd I’.o1111ic. I
have been working on the 1‘111‘111 this
summer. \Vc 11:1vc iu'o hogs :111d 11:1\'1-
1W1 litllc chicks. I have 111111- 1111111
chicks. I huvc :1 war gurdcn. I know
:1 good numc for thc childrcn’s pasc. 11'
is “(‘hildrcn's (‘ozy (‘orncrﬁ' I drcw :1
bird for you. It is :1 rosc—brcnstcd gross»
beak. I hope to win :1 Thrift Slump. I

like to read Vorses and give riddles :111d

draw. I have onc acre of polutocs in. It
irostcd Saturday. It hurt our corn. \\'1:
hch been huvmgr sand storms bore.

Here is :1 verse I made up.
SAVE AND BUY THRIFT STAMPS

Save and buy ’I‘hril‘t :111d \Var Savings
Stumps.

And they will
camps;

And they will make him drop his guns
and lancc.

ICVcry Thrift Stump that you buy

Mukcs more of thc I\':1isc1"s men dic.

And take out Libcrty Iloaus,

.\ud the Allies will not .Ilill's Ilcsh :111d
bones.

And for the Allics we must save the
wheat

So the Allies will have plenty to cat.

Ilccuusc We don't want .Ilill‘s men to
beat.

Save and buy stamps.

\\'e should buy stamps in this dreadful
din,

And the Allies will be sure to win.

Every War Sayings that you buy

Soaks the Kaiser in the eye.

We must have our meat and wheat

So the Allies will have plenty to eat.

When the Kaiser gets beat

The'guns will cease to roar.

send bullets into Bill's

”mum- ....W...m.m.~m.-.....................s .
All,
' When the Wan'is'won. ’

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do“? boys'Wﬂls come
‘. opposite shore.

hometfnomsthe .

We will see what the War Savings'has

one.

Vl'e willrsee our soldiers come marching
down the street

And those that bought “'ur Savings will
be glad.

And those that didn't will be sad.

So you had better buy War savings and
be glad.

' ——I"rom Elmer I’llmer. Buckley. Mich.

Dear Aunt Penelopez—I think I like
experience letters. I‘pick strawberries for
mamma and pick potato bugs and help
do chores for papa. I am sending you
one of my pictures. That is my slcd
in front of me. The tree I run standing
up against is a (‘ntalpzi lrcn; thw bush
is a lilac bush. Those are oak tree; back
of me. The clothes line is just back of
the Catalpa tree. That was in the win-
ter timc. My sister Mabel took my pic-
ture. There are a lot'of hills around
our house so in the winter I take m."
sled and slide down them, Ilown south
of our barn is always :1 big pond. thn
it is frozen I go round it. Sonniime: I
take my sled on top of a hill 11nd slide
down onto the pond. It is :1 lot of fun.
We chopped places for thc cow< to drink
around the edge (1' it. There is :1 little,
creek by our house :111d \th1 the water
is warm I go wading in it. There is» a
gravel pit in :1 ﬁcld of ours. 'I‘hcy gct
gravel out of it for the road. Hucc in a
while Mabcl and 1 go Iishing in 1111- creek
in papa's boat.-l<‘crn Ilcnnis, (lrccnvillc.

Age ten years.

Dear Aunt I’enelopcksl :1111 :1 girl ll
years 01‘ use. I live on :1 farm with my
grandpa :111d grandma. I 11:1V1- two
brothers and one sister. I rc:1d in the

M. P». I“, that you \vouId like some boy
or girl to suggest a nzlmc for our pngc.
I think this Would bc :1 nice name for It:
My Reader's l'uge. To help win this
great war I 11111 going to save my pen—
nies and buy thrift stamps. I 11:1vc r111—
atives in the \\':11~-th11 cousins and a
stepfather. One cousin is in Franco and
my stepfather is about to s:1il across
the great sca. My grandpa has tWo
cows. thrcc horscs. two colts, ouc dog,
two ducks. one cat, and :1 lot of chick-
ens. \\"c live on a farm of 83 acres. It
is 5% miles from town, IV‘ell. I will
have to close :1s I can‘t think of any
morcfi'l‘hclmu ,I.. I“re:1r. Mason. Mich.

Dear Aunt I’cnelopez—HI saw in the
M. II. I“. that you wanted every one to
write to you that hadn't yet. so I thought
that I would enclose a picturc I drew
with :1 short letter. also :1 name for our
page. “The Children's I‘irclc.” I think
would be :t nice one.

I am a. tall girl of 13 years, with red
hair. and freckled face. and in thc sev—
enth and eighth grade at school.

I live on :1 60—acre farm. “'9. have
ﬁve cows. eight calves and two horses.
The horses‘ names are Billy and Dick.
The cows are named Daisy. Molly, Roxy,
Minnie :md Dolly. We have :1. little
kitten. She is yellow and white. 1191'.
name is Creamy but we call her Keemy.
She is very playful—I'Clise Margaret
Snowdcr. Spruce. Mich. II. I". D. No. l.

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Summer Styles

No. Mum—Child's UnderWear Sct cut 111
sizes .1/9, 1, 2, 41.5, _ 10 and 1'3. years.
A girtrude petticoat is so cool and com-
fortable for little girls. The weight hangs
from the shoulders, and does away w1th
all bands and buttons. This pattern is
equally as suitable for the six months ba—
by as the. little girl of 10 or 12 years.

The closed drawers are simply gather
ed to straight bands. One can casily r1111
elastic into the. waist band and use Ihcm
for bloomers. For the younger child these
are very handy since tlicy need so many
more pairs of drawers than waists. The
hot summer days my little girls wear slur
ply a band, bloomers and dress made 111
one-piece slip-on style.

No. 8S)2~l~r~(lirl’s Dress. I‘ut in sizcs
I}, 8 111 12 and 11 years. The panel cl‘fccl
is herc shown in most becoming stylc for
young girls. The panel front of thc skirt
is cut in onc with the from of 11111 waist.
making the dress very simple in construc—
tion. The remainder of lhc skirt is one
piecc, guihcrcd lo the wuist :111d joining to
the pancl :11 thc~ from.

The fancy shaped collar :111d buttons
:lrc tho only lrinuning rcduircd :111d givc
thc most ordinary drosscs :1 vcry dressy
effect. The surplicc cicht shown in cro
ing of thc collar curls :nakcs sister‘s dross
look just Iikc 11111tl1cr's.

.Vo. Xi)l§~~l.:1dics‘ Illousc, quaint 111
style and so “comfy" is this simple» :il'tcr—
noou blousc ol' doth-d swiss with :1 (loop
I'ichu of cmbroidcrcd 1111111. lump cull's
cdgcd with 11:11'1‘ou' \':1lcncicncs lacc, 1111—
ish lhc long full slccvcs :111d 111cs:1111ccdu’c
:111d inscrtion :11‘c uscd to form :1 small
Vcsl ii‘ dcsircd, Anything in this drupcd
iichu cffcct is \‘cry popular this ycui'. both
in blouses :111d drcss waists. This hattcrn
is cut in sizcs :III, 38. >10, and 11: inches
bust meusurc.

No. 89177771.:11111-s' llrcss. 1‘111 in siztns
36, 38, ‘10, «13 and 11 inchcs bust uninsurc
Anothcr conscrvulion puttcrir cusily used
to rcmodol :111 old garmcni or co111biuing
two different materials.

.\ pancl hangs from Ilu- 11cck to below
ihc waist linc in front and tits into the.
bclt in back. Thcsc pancls 21nd the lower
scciion of the skirt are of contrasting 111:1—
tcrial. The squarc sailor collar ﬁnishes
the neck and :1 wide crush bolt is shown
:it the normal waist 1111c. The closing is :it
lhH left sidc from.

No. 8921 1.:1dics' Two (lored Skirt.
(Tut in sizes B-I. 21$. L‘h‘. 311, .‘i‘l, ill, and ill;
inclus waist 111c:1s11rc. The back gorc cx—
lcnds \\'cil over the hips to the front and
is much widcr than the front. Thc i:1t.tcr
is clll',’cd from lhc waist line to hip at
each sido :111d two small inset pockcls add
a tailored effect. This style is exception-
ally good in wash matcrials as 11111 bias
seams are so nearly straight towards the
lower edge. The wide crush belts are
shown on almost all the late summer
Skirts and drcsscs.

No. twill—Homo Work Suit, (‘up :111d
apron cut in sizes 36, All) and All inches
bust measure. The cap is just the plain
dutch stylc. :1 large circular piece shirr—

  

 

 

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«- 1_Dear «Aunt Penelopeze—l‘v was verysgl'ad -
to 'see your letter in the Michigan .
I love to write letters;

Business Farming.
. I live. on aninety-ucre farm. “'e have
Six cows and four heifer calves. which
father is raising for cows. Their names
are Buttercup, Molly. Daisy. Fanny. Bell.
Rhona. Topsey and Snowball. Daisy is
the cow 1 call my own. She is so gentle.

» it just seems that she would like to ml

to me. ’
I am ten years old and I am in the
sixth grade. Bcsides myself I have
three brothers and three sisters. two of
them are out working. My smallest sister
is ﬁve years old, she is the baby of the.
family. she has six pretty curls. \Ve
all think much of her. Her name is
Dorothy.——May Coutchie. Fremont. Mich.
..

I>c:1r Aunt I’enelopez—I have cut out
the puzzle of the cow. but I will have
to think a little before I ﬁnd :1 good name
for it. I think Bluebell is a pretty name.
“'9 have six cows. ’I‘hc breed of our
cows are. Jersey and Holstein. My father
and my brother milk them. My broth—

er’s name is Maynard. I am glad thut'

we live on a form bccaus‘c. We c1111 have
all the milk and cream We want to make
butter with, We got two cows that are
tome. I can not think of any more to
say-«Catherine 1*]. V'. l‘otcher. Pontiac.
Mich.

11":11‘ l'cnoloperal :im naming the (tow
lieuuiy. ()11 this form we have nine
cows, (1111' cows are Holstein and com-
mons.

I :1111 1'.’ runs old, I help my parents

hoe now :111d pull Weeds.
. 0111‘ cows' names are. Hos-“V. llolh’.
Spoty. I’lory. Nancy. .Iulia, Rosy. Nellie
21nd. Fancy. .\II of our cows are big
:111d fut. Soillc give 1! quarts of milk,
but some :ll'c milked from full and tlv‘v
give less. .\I:11‘_\’ \':1\'idonskc, Slundish.
Mich.

.\I_v Ileuy' l‘onclopc:~~l :1111 intereslcd
in your part, :111d lhc pogo you urc go~

 

,ing to start. I may be too old to join

it, but will write onc Iettcr.

I 21111 12’. years old, 11nd when school be-
gins ncxt yo-ir I will be in the eighth
grudc. I like 1o \\'(Il‘l( outdoors and help
raise food for 1111‘ soldiers. I also
have chickcns, .

I 11:1Vc lu'o brothcrs younger than I
am, who work on the I':11‘1n.r~—(‘.I:1dy:~‘ R.
Il‘isk. II:1I‘II'o1‘d. .\licl1.

hour Aunt I’cnclopc: I 11:1V1- put the
cow puzzle together :111d 1 think that
Blossom Would be. :1. good 11:1,: for her.
W'c h:1\'c three cows—tum .Ic scys. lhcir
names are Belle and Quccn, and one
Ilol~:ici11 her name is Daisy. I have to
go after the cows every night. I :1111 only
eight years old and will soon be big
cnough to milk the cows.——.\Igcr Hubbard,
Rollairc. Mich,

l’cnclopotvl am sending
I think (lover is a
IVe have three

Dear Aunt
the cut-out puzzle.
nice name for the cow.
Jersey cOWs.

I help momma by wiping the. dishes.
feeding the little chickens and then
we hoe in the garden—Earl L. Kennedy,
Central Lake, Mich.

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ed onto a straight turned back fore—piece.
This cap always ﬁts the head snugly
when desired and yet 11 becoming style
for morning wear. The one-piece apron
is cut to fit plain in front and gathered
to the belt at the back. Two large hip
pockets hang from the belt and will be
found most, convenient on cleaning days
to slip thing into as one picks up the scat-
tcred odds and ends thruout the house.

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I’ricc of patterns ten cents each. Ad—
dress, Farm Home Dept. Michigan
Business Farming. Mt. Clemens, Mich.

  

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I think M. B. F'. is a live paper, and
should have the hearty eo— —operation of
every enthusiastic faxme1.—Arthur
Grubbs, Wexford county

 

Received a copy of your paper. Like
the remarks concerning the markets_es—
pecially the bean situation—Port Cov1116,
Alcona county.

 

Michigan Business Farming gives the
farmer more good advice than any farm
paper I ever read. s—Wm. Gooch, Tus-
eola county.

 

I like your paper very much; it is
surely something the Michigan farmers
have been needing—Allen Bookwalter,
Osceola county.

 

I enclose one dollar for my subscrip-
tion. The Michigan Business Farming is
the greatest little paper I ever saw.—-S.
K., Montcalm county.

 

I think your paper hits the nail right
on the head—Paul Lehmann, Newaygo
county.

 

We think it a ﬁne paper. Couldn’t do
without it.—-B. A VVorthing, Gratiot
county.

 

The paper is just what the farmers
should have had a longr time ago—R. D.
Miller, Isabella county.

over Michlgan
look fine!

It will surely be a bountiful harvest
and a much needed One for we have
suffered many losses during these war-
years that NOW can be made up, 1F
YOU GETTH E HIGHEST SELL.-
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WHEN YOU SELL!

That’s the big problem, but it’s the
one that this weekly wants to help
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Keep the ball rolling; do not sell out;
we farmers need you.~—-F. L. Disbro,
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The Business Farming is just what ev-
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espin, Branch county.

 

The paper is ﬁne and I admire the
work you are doing—C. Frank Coven,
Eaton county.

We greatly appreciate the steps of the
M B F. towar‘ the good of the farmer.—
Anton Balint, ‘iscola county.

 

Am very much pleased with the M. B.
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We think it is the best farm paper we
ever had—Wm. M. Easton, Jackson Co.

 

I think every farmer should take M.
E—William W. Karnitz Gratiot Co.

 

I think your farm paper is the very
best printed—Gale Caswell, Mecosta Co.

 

Every business farmer should take this
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MT. CLEMENS, MICH.

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ingredient in Bordeaux ,
farmers who are conﬁiel

black-rot of grape, and. bitter-
blotch of apple are asking at“
States Department of? Ag
“What can we us'e1-as .a Stib
Bordeaux mixture?” Ther
stitute, according to spec”. .
department—Bordeaux mixture :is the
only reliable preventive for Isiich die.
seases. ~
Every package of commercial Bor-
deaux mixture carries a label on whiCh
is given its content of copper. This is

usually given in percentage, and by mul- “

tiplying this percentage by 3.93 the re-
sult gives the amount of crystalized
copper—sulphate, the bulletin explains.
If the percentage is given in terms of
copper oxid, multiply by 3.14; if in cop-
.per hydroxide, multiply by 2.56. In
order to calculate the copper suiphate
when diluted ready for application, mul—
tiply the number of pounds of the con-
centrated Bordeaux mixture to be added
to 50 gallons of water by the percentage
of copper sulphate.

Physical properties, such as adhesive-
ness, texture, spreading quality, and

i rate of settling, also are important fac—

tors in determining the eﬂiciency of
Bordeaux mixtures. A preparation con-
taining 21 large amount of copper, but
coarse and granular in texture, with poor
spreading and sticking qualities, can not
be expected to give good results in
cases where a good fungicide is re-
quired. To test the physical properties,
dilute the mixture and place a small
quantity in a glass tube, and watch the
speed with which the solids settle to the
bottom. If the copper is held in sus-
pension for a great length of time the
physical properties of the mixture may
be regarded as good.

In order to reduce the cost of spray
material some growers are using a
weaker mixture than is commonly ad-
vised for the various diseases which re-
quire Bordeaux treatment. When the
disease attacks are mild, a Bordeaux
mixture containing considerably less
copper sulphate than is commonly ad—
vised may give very good control, pro-
vided its physical properties are good
and it is thoroughly applied, the bulle-

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Hebrew holidays of interest to the
trade and especially the live poultry
trade for the Hebrew year 5679 which
Commences Sept. 7,191.8, and extends
-—t'o Szept. 24 1919, are given below, to-
gether With the live poultry most in
demand and the probable best market
days:

New Year’ s—Sept. 7- 8, 1918. Best
market days: Sept. 2 to 5. Live poul-
try most in demand; Fowls, turkeys,
ducks and geese.

Day of Atonement—Sept. 16, 1918.
Best market days: Sept. 9 to 14. All
prime live poultry wanted, especially
spring chickens and roosters. , —

Feast. of Tabernacles—Sept. 21-22,
1918. Best market days: Sept. 17 to
19. Kinds most in demand: Fowls,
ducks and fat geese especially.

Feast of Law—+Sept. 28- 29 1918.
Best market days: Sept. 23 to 26. Kinds
most in demand: Prime quality of all
kinds wanted.

Purim—March 16, 1919. Best mar-
ket days: March 11 to 14. Kinds most
in demand: .Fowls and prime hen
turkeys.

Passover—April. 15—16, 1919. Best
market days: April 8 to 12. Kinds
.most in demand: Turkeys, heavy

fowls, fat ducks and geese.

Last Passover—April 21, 1919. Best
April 15 to 19. Prime
quality of all kinds wanted.

Feast of Weeks—June 4,1919. Best
market days: May 28 to Itine 2. Good
fowls especially wanted.

I think the paper is just what we need.
-—-R. J. Hackstra, Montcalm county.

 

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paper for the farmer and I cannot let it
go. —Arthur W. Stephenson Midland Co.

 

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best farm paper in the world I believe.—
Mrs. Orval Walker, Clare county.

 

Your paper is the best farm paper I
have ever seen and I wish you may be
successful in the work you have started
for the farmers, as they need some one
to stand by them for they fail entirely
when it comes to standing ﬁrm for their
rights as a who.le ———James Cowil, Huron
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promise nothing.

Any good banker in Michigan will loan any good farmer
money with which to buy a silo—if you ﬁnd a banker who won’t,
send us his name, we’re looking for his kind.

Want a Silo? Put Us to Work.
We have pledged this weekly to encourage the building of 500 ,
silos in Michigan during the. next two months.
This means that we will aid in every possible way any reader
of this weekly who wants to build a silo and

If you have no silo or if you need another, ﬁll out this coupon
and get it into the next mail—there is no obligation for you to buy
now or later——but we will help you all we can in getting the best
price and the earliest possible delivery and erection of the silo on
your farm in time for this fall’s use. ,

If necessary we will help you get the necsssary funds through
your local banker by pointing out to him the patriotism of aiding
in this necessary war conservation measure.

We would also like to know of any new silos being erected
by our readers, the kind, capacity, etc.,
you who are silo boosters; let’s make this a big‘successful drive
that will place a silo on every Michigan farm!

Use this coupon, the obligation and expense are ours, you

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MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, .

Mt. Clemens, Mich”

I would like to build a silo this year, and would be glad to have

you help me in getting information, prices, etc., altho it is under— .

stood that I assume no obligation in asking for and receiving this
service, which you gladly render your readers free!

Signed : . .

PORFD ,.

Cdunty State

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Grand Traverse ' '( Northeast ) ——Every-
thingr looks fairly :well except corn and.

beans. Corn is backward on account
of so much cool north wind and beans

all look yellow. Hay is good in most“

places. Rye wi‘nter killed some and
oats on high landsare not good; wheat
looks fair. Everyone is busy even
women and girls; help is scarce and
some cattle and hogs are being sold.
Eggs are 35c per dozen; butter is 30c;
butterfat is 430. A farmer had his
barn struck by lightning a short time
ago; lost quite alot in it.- C. L. B..
W'illiarr.sburg, July 15.

Branch (North Central)w—Fariret's
cutting'grain and hay and tending
corn. Weather ﬁne days, cool nights.
Soil in ﬁne condition for growing
crops. Farmers selling some stock:
not holding anything. Prices at lTn-
ion City. July 18: Wheat, $2.08; oats.
65c; hay, 106015; new potatoes. 1.50;
butter. 3); butterfat. 42; eggs. 37;
sheep. 9@10; lambs. 16; hogs. 16.50;
beef steers, 9‘ beef cows. 7; veal calves
16.50; wool. 60@67.—-F. S., Union City.
July 19.

Kalamazoo—1.1'me1‘s are cutting
their grain. most of the wheat is very
poor. Rye 'and barley are good. oats
are extra good. The corn is fair; we
got a nice rain last night. The hay
crop is the lightest it. l-as ever been ex.
cept. some few fields. The soil is, in
good condition now with plenty of
moisture to help the corn and nota-
toes for the present. There will be
quite a lot of stock sold this fall on
account of short hay crop and high
price. No grain going to market at
present as most people are short of

-t'eed.~F. H. H.. Climax. July 16.

Saginaw (South Central)~Labor
putting in long hours, the weather is
extra good so they have accomplished
a lot of work. Haying is about done.
The wheat harvest will be short as it
is only about half a crop. Oats are be-
ginning to turn and are good. Pota—
toes are looking good but will soon
need a rain. Beans are a good stand
but they look as if they had the fever
and ague. the bottom leaves are yellow
and 1 think they had a chill these cold
nights. we have had."G. L.. St. Charles.
July 20."

Snnilnc (Ct’ntr‘al)~blost of the far—
mers are into their hay. which is in
general rather light. Most of the
new seeding is good but the old mead-
ows are rather light. Early planted
potatoes are looking pretty good; there
are some new potatoes among the far-
mers. and there is some garden stuﬁ‘
ﬁt to use so that will help out the food
question. There was one of the neigh.
bor's sons drowned at Camp Custer
last Saturday while in bathing. He
got fn a hole and never came up. A
diver got him and he is being brought
home today. the 25th. His name was
John Falconer. (hits and barley are
looking good so far as to the length of
the straw on the flat land. on the high-
land are not. so long in the straw but
we need some rain at. this time and
some. cool weather for the oats and bar-
ley are 'all out in head.——A. Rhian—
dusky. July 23.

Lancer (Sourhmst )~»Farmers are

new busy ﬁnishing up their haying

and cutting rye and spring wheat.
Some ﬁelds are quite ripe and serve are
real green yet. Oats and barley are
turning fast as it is quite dry. We
need a good rain or the late potatoes
will be a short crop here. Prices at
lmlay City, July 20: Wheat. $195611
2.05; oats. 6561770; hay, timothy, 12;
light mixed. 10: beans. $ti.50@8.50;
hens,18; springers, 20@25; butter. 41;
butterfat. 43; eggs. 37; sh 3). 56178;
lambs. 96MB: hogs, l3@1650; beef
steers, 96‘0“): beef cows, 5@7; veal
calves, .14; wool. 67.»~~C. A. B.. lmlay
City, July 20. *

Arcnac (Ii‘rzsl)~~\Vell. I’m glad to
state to my neivhbors that this week
has been a fine grm’ing week and with
some showers has made the farmers
smile. Corn, beans. peas, potatoes and

in fact all. crops. are good excepting.

hay which is light. Auction sales

good. We expect to black both the
Kaiser’s eyes.—--W. B. 3.. Twining,
July 19.

Vanburcn (East Centrall—~'l‘lie gold-
en grain is being put into shocks. The
rain Tuesday night and Wednesday

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revived everything. Corn is looking
good. Marsh grass is being cut. Road-
work is being done. Grapes are look-
ing good where not hit by the frost;
some rot is showing in places. The
Welch Juice Company has bought
property in Lawton and contracted
for 2000 tons of grapes at $55, or the
market price. Raspberries have held
price at $4.00 per crate but are about
gone—V. T. G., Mattawan. July 20.
()cncsec (Southeast)~The majority
of farmers have nnished haying and
The rest will probably do so in a few
days. Some farmers are cutting grain
and Others are cultivating t'Ol'l and
bt-ans. ’I he weather has hem hot for
the last few days; no rain for several
days and the crops need it badly.
Most farmers have their hay in. good
condition this year due to the dry
weather we had for haying. Wheat.
rye and barley are ripening very fast
and most farmers will start at their
grain next week. (‘orn and beans are
are looking good. Bitlnvieat is grow.
ing very slow on account of dry wea-
ther. Prices at Flint. July 17: Wheat:
$2.17; red wheat. 2.19; corn.1.70; oats.
82; rye 1.50; hay. 1261316; 1neans, R cwt:
red kidney beans, 9 (wt; potatoes 00;
Cabbage. 300603.25 bbl: cucumbers.
$1.00 dozen: hens. 25; springers. 3260
40; ducks. 286030; geese. 1861710: tur-
keys. 2461725; creamery butter. 4"
dairy butter. 40: eggs. 42: sheen. 0 W
10; lambs. 1461715; beef steers. 861710:
beef cows 4.506138; veal calves. Elf/nil;
wool. Grief. W. S.. Fenton, July 19.

Mom‘ocerarmers are short of help
but the weather is favorable. and if
such continues hay. wheat and oats
will be harvested in good shape. The
wheat threshing commenced and is
yelding from 121/1: to 35 bushels per
acre. Early potatoes are mostly a
failure and the late planted ones will
be unless we get rain. I do not think
that Monroe county ever suffered so
much droughth. W. H.. July 22.

Sf. Cloth—All grain. potatoes, beans
and corn are suffering for rain; unless
we get rain within a few days the late
potatoes will be a failure. Corn is 31-
so starting to show the lack of rain,
and I do not believe the rye. wheat and
oats will ﬁll properly with this con-
tinued hot weather and no rain.

Jacks-on (Ronthl-*Weather dry and
hot. Wheat and rye nearly harvested.
Corn looking good but rain neetie'l.
Huckleberries are selling for $8 pcr
bushel at the marsh. Blackberries
are ripe but not vary plentiful owing to
hard winter. Threshing out of the
ﬁeld to start this week. Not a prom-
isin-g yield of wheat looked for.
farmers have, been offered $3.75 a hi.
for beans. There seems to be, no de-
mand for them at present. Good de-
mand for fruit which is scarce. Dry
weather damaged raspberries/4}. 3..
Hanover. July 20.

(Yrawfortlp Potatoes are looking
good. Garden truck of all kinds is
doing very well.. Farmers are cut—

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old seeding is poor. Farmers are doing
their own work as there is no help to
be had outside of their own families.
Some pieces of corn are looking goOd;
and some is spotted. that is short in
places and big corn in the same ﬁeld.
and it is not in tassel yet. Early
sowed oats are lorking the best;
'later sowed oats went in when it was
very dry and did not get the start.—
D. F. 8.. Frederick. July 22.

Southeast Livingston and northeast.
WnshtcnawL—Shortage of labor in this
vicinity has not been felt as many of
the young men were left on the farms
for the present. Another reason is
that. we haven’t had a rainy day for
two months so farmers have lost no
time and'no extra work on account,
of rain. The hay in this locality is
about two-fifths of ave-age crop; some
farmers harvested ‘heir hay with no
help at all doing all the work alone.

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ting their hay; - new seeding is good,

   

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nodanger ofrain: so one had..plenty of
time to do his “work. Bean cultivating
did not interfere as a rule. because
beans did not come up for two or
three weeks on‘ account of lack of-
moisture. “Many ﬁelds have not been
cultivated at all and some on clay land
have not come up. The outlook for
both potatoes and corn is very, very
discouraging unless rain comes im-
mediately—G. C., Rushton. July 22.-

()gemaw.-We had a heavy rain on
June 30; none since-y we need rain
bad for potatoes and beans. Oats are;
headed and looking good; must have
rain soon to ﬁll well. Rye and barley
are pretty well advanced; will be
fair. Early planted potatoes are set.-
ting. Labor is scarce. Hay was a
short crop but weather was so dry it
was secured in good condition. Some
of the boys that were exempted until
tall are being called now so it will
make help still more scarce.~~W’.. N.

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’Tis true. Michigan never fell short in her duties to the coun-
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and those of the country at large.

We must send to the senate men who are real American.
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“:is IOOé'acres of the entire township
would produce. The live stock farms
required only 91 acres to produce the
same amount of crops. Here is a dif-

The average number of live stQCk upon
the best paying farms in thirteen rep-
resentative counties in Indiana has been
.found to be 25 per cent greater than the-
average of the entire number of farms.

is seen that the largest proﬁts both in
the past andin'the future, will be found
in pursuing Some form’bf lii'fe stock
.farming. ‘When the live stock farming
system is adop-fed uponany farm. in the
Corn Belt States, immediately Lthere
should arise the question of”the' maxi-
-mum proﬁt from that system. All live
stock men do not make money. Through
wrong methods of management it is
very easy to lose considerable money.
The Silo Factor in Proﬁtable Live

Stock Farming.

establishing a proﬁtable live Stock sys-
tem is the silo. Upon practically all live
stock farms that possess animals suit-
anle for the utilizationa of corn silage,
the silo has a very important part to
play. The farmers who have been de-
pending upon the sale of milk products
or beef and mutton and who have been
operating upon a rather extensive scale
have seen the economy of the silo and
are provided with from one to a dozen
“COrn canneries.” The average farmer
in Indiana has not invested to any great
extent in the silo. This average man is
the one whose income is made from
several sources. He sells annually 3 colt
or two, ten to ﬁfty hogs, a few calves,
perhaps a dozen lambs, some wheat and
a part of his corn crop. If he is lo-
cated upon a cream or milk route, he
will often be milking from three to ﬁve
cows. If his farm has considerable pas—
ture land and is remote from a milk or
cream station, he will be selling the
produce from a small herd of beef cows
and from a small ﬂock of ewes.

Many of these men have never con—
sidered purchasing a silo. A few now
possess one. It is often felt that the
farm is not large enough to support
sufﬁcient live stock to warrant the use
of a silo. Often there is a timidity about
venturing into the live stock business,
because of lack of knowledge or be—
cause some neighbor has gone broke
when stocking—up heavily. Sometimes
there is an aversion to doing much
work in the winter, the person feeling
that winter is his holiday. In some
cases, the lack of enough silos in a com-
munity to make silo ﬁlling a possibility
is the limiting factor.

After a careful consideration of their
farms, the past proﬁts and future pros—
pects, many of these farmers will ﬁnd
that it will how their ultimate proﬁt
to purchase a silo this year and begin
the use of silage.

The silo will provide more feed for
live stock than the majority of the 11011—
owners will believe. When it is con-
sidered that the average forty bushel
corn crop will make eight tons of a
palatable succulent feed, that is keenly
relished by live stock, the economy of
the silo can be understood. As an
illustration of the increased live stock
capacity it a farm when equipped with
a silo, it has been found, using eight
yeafs’ cattle feeding data from the Pur-
due Expcrimcnt Station, that the acres
needed to grow the feed needed to feed
a two- -year— old steer for 150 days could
, be decreased from 20 to 40 per cent by

' ‘- the use of silage 111 the ration. In feed-
ing a car load of twenty steers; it 9re-“

‘ quireﬁ approximately. 38%, acres to grow
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of corn fed to two- year-old steers,‘at.__
Purdue Experiment Station when sil-

age was used in the ration was 38 cents.-
43%; _n‘ the silage was removed from the
, leaving corn, cottonseed meal
1and Clover hay as the ration, the proﬁt
dropped off 22 cents per bushel. The“
average proﬁt‘per steer in all of the

{silage lots at the experiment station for"
{the last eight years has been $15.24.

TNhére the silage was removed, the proﬁt

has been but $8.85. The extra proﬁt of _

$6.39 per steer can represent what a silo ~

will do in feeding one steer for 150

days. .
Upon many farms, the farm cows are
wintered upon a dry ration of com, com
stover and hay. The owner expects'
them to return milk for family use to
pay for the feed. The addition of from
twenty toforty poundsof silage with a
protein concentrate to balance the ration
will return much more milk and agreat—
er proﬁt. The farm bull with the dry
cows and heifers can be more cheaply
taken through the winter by the use of
considerable amounts of corn silage
added to oat straw or bay. The reader
is referred to the leaﬂets upon “The
Silo and the Beef Cattle Breeder” and
“The Silo and the Cattle Feeder” for a
more extended discussion of the silo and
cattle.

The small ﬂock of ewes will relish
the addition of silage to the ration. With
corn silage and clover or alfalfa hay
the ﬂock can be carried through the
winter at the minimum expense with
good results upon the ewes and their
subsequent offspring. The leaﬂet, “The
Silo and the Sheepman,” will give the
reader a comprehensive idea of the im—
portant part silage plays in producing
the maximum proﬁts in sheep hus—
bandry.

The average farm possesses some
brood sows. One of the troubles ex—
perienced in securing the best results
with sows is the tendency for hogs to
become constipated in winter when
forced to subsist upon dry concentrated
feeds. The use of small amounts of
silage will tend to prevent this trouble.
It should be remembered that silage is
very watery and bulky. Small pigs have
small stomachs and cannot handle silage
to best advantage. Matured hogs are
best adapted for use of silage. These
will pick over and cat considerable
amounts of silage each day.

Silage has been accused of killing
many horses and mules. but in the last
few years, when silage in horse feeding
has become more common, more care is
being expended in feeding the silage and
not as many bad results have been re-
ported. Many farmers use from ten to
twenty pounds of silage daily for their
horses and mules. Recently some men
have been feeding mules with silage
added to the ration with good success.
Hard working horses cannot use the
amounts that can be safely used with
horses that are being boarded through
the winter.* Care should always be
taken that no moldy or rotten silagejs
offered to the horses and mules.

It only requires the daily removal of
from 300 to 500 pounds of silage from
the top of a ten foot silo to keep the
silage in good condition. Many farms
that do not now possess a silo main—
tain more than enough live stock to
consume this amount during the winter
It is a very interesting fact that as a
general rule the farms possessing a silo.
in any community, return the largest
net income. The'average farms pos-
sessing silos in six representative couri—
ties in Indiana returned an annual net
income of $577.:00 The farms in the
same communities that did riot have a
silo returned only $259.00.

-; .The silos assisted in returning two.

times more annual net income. The
moral is plain. BE A LIVE STOCK
FARMER GET A S‘ILO. YOU CAN— '
NOT AEFQRD TO DO WITHOUT

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* \Vritc us today for silo information. Ask for circular N0. 186, or wire or phone at our expense.

      

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Gives you a 12 h. p. engine for less than the eostof
a 2 h. p. Ford burlds the best engine in the world-
it will outlast the car — and you might as well save
your money and use it. to do all your farm w
in wear on (In. or transmlssion. Hooks up in 3
minutes. No permanent attachment to car. Cannot
injure car or engine.

Friction Clutch Pulley on end of shaft. Ward Gover-
nor, run by fl. l belt gives perfect control. Money back
If not satisfied. Ask for circular and special price.

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that relieves rupture
will be sent on trial.
No obnoxious springs
or pads. Has auto-
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Binds and draws the
broken parts togeth~
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limb. No solves. No lies.
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trial to prove it. Protected
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and measure blanksmuiled
tree. Sand mum and ad
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A Ego-RBI N E
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Reduces Bursal Lnlargements.
Thickened. Swollen Tissues,
Curbs, Filled Tendons, Sore-
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stops Spavin Lamcness, allays pain.
Does not blister, remove the hair or
lay up the horse. $2 50 a bottle
at druggists or delivered. Book 1 R free.
ABSORBINE, JR., for mankind—an
sntiscptic Iinimcnt for bruises, cuts, wounds,
strains, painful, swollen veins or glands. It
heals and soothes. $1. 25 a bottle at drug-
gists or postpaid. Will tell you more if you
write. Made In the U. S. A.
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Diamonds, old false teeth,
etc. Send us what you
have and receive check by
return mail. If offer is not
satisfactory we will return
goods at our expense.

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31 2 SMITH BUILDING

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Sold in every stutc. I’riceonly $25 with fodder hindcr.
the only self gathering corn harvester on the InnrkI-tthnt
Is givmg universal satisfaction. _,. Dexter l.. Woodward.
Sandy tfrcek. N. Y. writes: ”15 years ago I purchased your
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IIIIIchIIII- if I could not get another one,” (Hurt-Inc l".
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equipped with milk route, fifty gallons
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for sale in (lgtmaw (‘0 on (my terms.
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WHY’EGG DEALERS
SHOULD CANDLE EGGS

Buying.r eggs during the summer is a
gamble. Bad eggs are sure to ﬁnd their
way into the egg basket and as long as
they continue to ﬁnd sale the farmer
will continue to bring them in. In some
cases there is deliberate intention to slip
them past the groceryman. In others,
it is because of carelessness and ignor—
ance. Such buying is unfair to the con-
scientious farmer who is honest and
careful. It is necessary for the price
of eggs to be less in order to make al-
lowances for the bad eggs for which
the dealer has no sale. Buying on a
“loss off" basis and paying for only
those which are good permits higher
prices at the point of production. It is
thus seen that candling‘ eggs by the
dcaler works in a just manner for the
producer. But there is another reason.
ligg dcalers statc that as soon as they
commence candling, the number of bad
cgg s dcc1casc.ln other words the farm-

("1 takes better care of his eggs as soon

as he finds no sale for the bad egg.
This probably is the most important rea—
son why the dealer should candlc. Other
reasons are that he is unable to ship
bad cgg's in interstate business without
violating.r thc purc food and drugr act.
From an C(‘(lllOllllC standpoint. it is usc—
lcss cxpcnsc to buy cg}; cascs, utilixc
shipping.r space and pay transportation
charges on worthlcss products. 'l‘hc
sooner all dcalcrs rcalizc that thc only
safc practicc is to caudlc ('ggs‘ as thcy
arc bought. the sooucr will thcrc bc a
marked improvcmcut in thc quality of
cups brought in by the farmcr. In this
day of careful food conservation. egg
(lcalcrs should co—opcrate in a campaign
to rcducc thcsc losscs. it is patriotic.

THE VALUE OF SKIMMILK
FOR FEEDING PURPOSES

What, is the value of skimmilk for
calves and pigs, as Iompared with oth-
er feeds at. present prices? Will it pay
me to sell butterfat and feed the milk,
or will it he better to sell the whole
milk at retail at 10 cents a-quartiahe
work of bottling, etc. to be considered?
Nubxcribcl‘.

For growing pigs between 50 and 200
pounds in weight we I'I nsider skimmilk
as worth about, 3'10 cents per cwt. under
present conditions. This is assuming
that corn is around $1.50 to $1.75 per
bushel. 11nd tankagc $100. a ton. For
newly-weaned pigs or suckling sows.
we believe it has :1 value greater than
this. For calves. during the ﬁrst six
weeks of their existence. skimmilk is
almost essential. and we would give it
a value at that time of close to 21 (lol—
lar per cwt. For calves between the
ages of two and four months. we
would give a value. undcr I'I‘cscnt
conditions. of around 60 or 70 cents
per cwt. This is a rough cstimate.
and we do not know of any exact ex-
periments.

Generally speaking. it does not pay
the average farmer to retail milk. Re.
tailing.r milk is a business in itself,
which is almost as complex as farm-
ing. It is complicated with questions
of bottle losses. bad debts. surplus
milk. shortage of milk. sour milk, and
a number of other things. Ordinarily,
it costs just about as much to get milk
to the consumer as it does to produce
it. When milk sells retail at 10 cents
a quart. the chances are that, it costs
just about 5 cents per quart, to produce
it and -5 cents to distribute it. But, in
spite of all the troubles of milk «lis—
tributiou, there is an occasional farm-
er so situated as to make his greatest
proﬁts by selling milk at retail rather
than selling the butterfat to a cream-
ery. A1 the present time, milk is sell-
ing: a little closer to its real value
than is butterfat. and in many locali-

 

Jim 21111 selling of whole milk is much

 

more attractive than the selling of
buttergat

LEGUME BACTERIA NOT
NUMEROUS IN MANURE

From a review of some of the pop-
ular articles on inoculation, the farm—
er would undoubtedly be led to believe
that the legume bacteria are found in
in manure from alfalfa in much the
same way as 'they occur in certain
soils. The following quotations are
typical. ’ ‘

“Alfalfa has been grown so long,
the soil is so thoroughly inoculated
with the bacteria from the manure
made from alfalfa hay fed to horses,
cattle and hogs . Excellent
stands have been secured where alfal-
fa hay has been fed in large quanti-
ties to stock and the manure spread on
the ground.” These statements sug-
gest the possibility that legume bac-
teria occur on the plant tissue. are
taken into the digestive tract of the
animal. and later may be found in the
feces.

Through curiosity the writer has
made a study of the behavior of al-
falfa bacteria in the digestive tract of
the cow. In connection with certain
feeding experiments at the Wisconsin
Station opportunity was afforded to
carry on this work. Water suspen-
sions of alfalfa bacteria containing
billions of the micro-organisms were
poured on the roughage and this fed
to the cows. All manure supplies were
caught in pails free of the alfalfa bac-
tIria. Prior to the feeding 01’ the cul—
tures of bacteria the manure In" them
cows was tested for the presence of
alfalfa bacteria. In every case these
control samples failed to show the
presence of the alfalfa organism. For
one week before and during the ex-
periment the cows were fed on alfal—
fa hay and corn stoyei‘ moisrened
with the culture of legume bacteria.
Ten gram composite samples were tak-
en from the excrement of each day and
from this a water suspension preparer].
The manure water mixture was used
to inoculate triplicate plots of alfalfa
seedlings in sterilized soil. Eight
weeks after inoculation, these alfalfa
plants were- removed carefully and
the roots examined for nodules. In
every case except one, no doubt a con-
tamination. the plants treated in this
way failed to show nodules. while the
checks inoculated with some of the
culture before it passed thru the (:ow
showed numerous nodules. In addi—
tion to the pot tests. mannito agar
plates were poured repeatedly from
this manure suspension. but in no case
could the identity of the alfalfa organ—
ism be proven.

ln view of the reaction of certain
portions of the digestive tract and of
the fermentation processes taking
place. it is not surprising that, the al-
falfaoi'ganism is killed in passage
through the animal. At least the re—
sults-of previous study would indicate

 

Horses at. work on farm of E. H’. ()lilenis, Thompsonville.

‘Oblenis needs a tractor.

IDYI Gk BEEF Ppoaucr/ON
BREED/N6 PROBLEMS

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stomach accouts.for the absence of
nodules when alfalfa manure is used
to inoculate soil.

These results do not indicate that
manure as made on the fafrm is free
of legume bacteria. In fact the feed—

.ing of legumes from a well inoculated

ﬁeld will most probably cause a slight
distribution of' the nodule organism.
Small particles of soil and bacteria
may be carried with the hay and thus
become mixed with the manure with-
tract. No doubt these soil particles
found on the hay serve‘ to distribute
the legume bacteria. However, it is
unlikely that the alfalfa bacteria and

.. other legume bacteria actually pass

through the digestive tract of cows
and are present in the manure in not-
ive form.—E..B. Fred. Wisconsin Col-
lege of Agriculture.

PLENTY OF SHADE FOR
LATE HATCHED CHICKS

 

One reason why late hatched chicks
fail to thrive is because of failure to
kcep them well supplied with shade.
Chicks that are compelled to remain in
a close hot coop in the boat of summer
bccausc of no other protection are not
getting the best possiblc conditions. The
air under shade tI‘ccs is fresher and
cooler; there is lcss danger from mitcs
and they are closer to grccn food and
insect lifc. Now is tlic iimc to prepare
for the protcction of thc chicks during.r
the hot days which arc to follow. If
summer shadc is not providcd by trccs
and bushes. thc ncxt best thing to do is
to .plant patches of sunliowcrs or corn.
It is of course necessary to keep the
chicks away from it until it gets a fair
start. After the plants have grown to
a sufﬁcient height chickens can l‘llll in
them with practically no injury to the
crop. In fact thcrc is no objection to
growing.r a crop of chickens and corn on
the same piccc of ground. This can be
easily donc by crccting temporary fences
and conﬁningr thc chicks to a portion
of the yard or it may mean thc removal
of the chickens to Iicw yards moi'c
suitable for summer growth. ()11 thc
farm this latter mcthod can usually be
employed. Many deaths can be avoided
latc by foresight in providing com fort~
ablc quarters. Not only will the chicks
make better growth but the hens will
lay more eggs.

The Michigan llii iIII s Farming is cer—

tainly a paper (‘\'('l'_\’ oIIc ought to have.
A—llottlcib llubII‘ \V'wlitI-Imw county.

 

Like your papI-r liIII-'ll1111k it the
bcst papa'r for thc lllliltl l cyci‘ read.—
Alyzi Hutchinson. losIo county.

The Michigan {ii inI-ss Farming is
the host papci' in MiI his 111 for the farm-
cI‘ that I know of. Long: may it livc and
pr'ospci‘ in it: lillitil'\ for the [curring-3‘-..“
.\. Ii. HI-njamin. Mason county.

 

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Yours is the best pain-r We cycr had and
we feel fortunatc for thc opp'II'tunity of
being olic to pledge our subscription last
ycar whcii you got started with your
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nonbri‘miv nun. .
Astricﬂy hi b (319.33 29 Ind-19’1“???
Bu 1, Daisycres King; Princess, 2.48! it.
born January 27, 1,917. is offered or
sale. Sire. King Zerma Alcartra P011“
tiac; grandsire, King Segis Pontiac A -
cartra, the 350000 bull. Dam. Pr"?
cess Paﬁline'Ruﬁne 2nd. This year:
ing promises to be one of the ﬁnest .
qualityi bulls in'the state. If you are
interested, will you please wr te for
descriptiori 'and ' photograph? Also
other and younger bulls. _

Bred cows and heifers, and cabes *
from a herd of 50 high class Holsteins.
We will send you photos and descr D'
tions which will present theSe animals
accurately. If you want HUISU’WS-
will you please write us?_

Duroc Jerseys and Hamvﬂl'ire"

We offer a number of ﬁn» young
spring boars and sow pigS. b‘lth Duroc
Jerseys and Hampshires, from partic:
ularly well bred stock. Write t'i us
for description and prices. Each
animal is guaranteed.

BLOODIINGIM‘LE FARMS

Bloomingdale, Michigan

 

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‘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 “DUSh-
Full descriptions, prices, etc. on re—

quest.

McPherson Farms Co.
Howell, Mich.

 

 

 

E. L. SALISBURY

SHEPHERD. MICH.
Breeder of. purebred
‘ Holstein-Friesian Cattle
Young bulls for sale from A. 1‘.
O. Cows with wreditablerecords.

 

 

 

 

sired by a son of
Bull calve Friend Ilengerveld
1) K01 Butter

Boy and by a son of King Segis De K01
Korndyke, from A. R. O. dams With rec:
0rds of 18.25 as Jr. two year old to 28_.25
at full age. Prices reasonable breeding
considered. ,

\VALNU'I‘ GROVE STOCK FARM‘
W. W. Wyckoff, Napoleon, Mich.

months old, grandson of Hengerveld

De Kol. sired by Johan llengerveld
Lad who has 61 A. R.; 0. daughters.
Dam is an 18 lb. 3 yr. old granddaughter
of King .Segis who has a sister that re—
cently made 33 lbs. butter in 7 days; as a.
4 yr. old. This calf is ‘1ight in color,
well grown and a splendid individual.
Price $100. Write for photo and pedigree.
L. C. Ketzler, Flint, ll'Iichigan.

REGISTERED HOLS’I‘EIN BULL 6

 

 

We want these Registered I-Iolstein
Bulls to head Grade Herd;

Korndyke Clotliilde of Serridale,
Born June 24, 1917. Price $100
Korndyke ()rmsby of Serridella
Born Sept. 19,. 1917. Price $85
Prices f. o. b. ()scoda. Mich.
. SERRII)ELLA FARMS
Oscoda, — - - Michigan

 

 

 

MUSOLFF BROS.’ HOLSTEINS

\Ve are. now mkiug orders for
young bulls from King l’ivier Segis
Lyons 170506. All from A. It. 0. dams
with credible records. V\'w tcst annu—
ally for tuberculosis. V’Vrilc for pric—
es and further information.

.‘Iusolﬁ' Bros” South Lyons, Michigan,

 

 

 

 

nicKoRY GROVE S’l‘Ot‘li FARM

(lifers for immediate sale 12 daughters of
King Ilengerveld Palmyra l~‘ayne bred to
Mutual Pontiac Lad. All of the cop's in
this herd are strong in the blood of Maple-
crest and Pontiac Aggie Korndyke We
can always furnish carloads of pure bred
and grade cows,

D. ()wen ’I‘aft, {onto 1, Oak Grove. Mich.

 

 

WOLVERINE STOCK FARM

’ireeders' of Holstein—Friesian Cattle.
Battle Creek, Michigan. Senior Herd
Sire, Judge' Walker ’Pietcrje whose
first ﬁve dams are 30 lb. cows. Young
bulls for sale, from-daughters 01' King
Korndyke Hengerveld Oronsby.

 

 

 

 

 

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CHOICE REGISTERED siocx

PERCHERONS,
HOLSTEINS,
SHROPSHIRES,
ANGUS.
DUROCS.

DORR li—BUELL, ELMlRA, M1CH.
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heading, fifteen cents per line; Title displayed to best; advantage. Send in copy and
we will quote rates. For. larger ads or" for ads to run )3 issues or more we .will make
special rate» which will cheerfully be sent: on application to the Advertising "PM,-

no Fort-St" “'est, Detroit.

 

Holstein Heifers

The cows and bulls advertised have
been sold. I have 6 or 8 registered
Holstein heifers from heavy produc-
mg dams, 3 mos. to 2 years old at
$125 apiece.

ROBIN ' CARR

F0 WLERVILLE, DIICHIGAN

 

 

HOLSTEIN BULL CALVES
Sires dams average 37.76 lbs. but-
ter 7 das. 145.93 lbs. 30 das. testing'
5«53% fat. Dams good A. R. backing,
Calves nice straight fellows 1% white,
Price $65.00 each while they last.

Herd tuberculin tested annually.
Boardman Farms, Jackson, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

Holstein-FriesIan Cattle
Under 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 calt’ to a 30-pound
bull. J. Fred Smith, Byron, Michigan

 

 

 

S ymaim STOCK FARM offers 1

_ young bull (old though
for light service in a short time). llam's
recordas a senior 3 year old 22.48 butter
5.38 milk. Sired by a ‘grandson of Pon-
tiac. -torndyke. Price $100. F. 0. B. Fowl-
erville. Also a pair of large rangy
grade Percheron geldings, 4 and 5 ycars
old. Phone 58F15. Arwin Killinger.
Fowlerville. Mich.

 

1)e K01 HortO'y whose dam is a 30-11).

YEARLING DAUGHTER of Maplecrest ‘

cow, 30 days, 120 lbs., a son of Friend

Hengervald De. K01 Butter Boy, four‘

daugliers with year records over 1,000

lbs. Dam—Young Hazel De 1(01, 7 day ‘

record 494.8 lbs. milk, 19.67 lbs. butter.
IIt'liOl‘ well marked, good individual. price
£13011). Howbert Stock Farm, Eau Claire,
. ici

 

AST BULL advertised sold. Here is an—

other Reg. Holstein bull .0 months old.
M. A. (?. bred sire. Dam 18.76 lbs. of but-
ter, 406 lbs. of milk. A. R. 0. at 3 yrs. old.
She has a 30 1b. sister. Price $83. 1‘. 1..
llulctt & Son, ()kenios, Mich.

 

0R SALE—Registered Holstein Show

Bull, service age; Pontiac Korndyke‘

breeding. Price right. John A. Rinke,
Warren. Michigan. .

One Car-load Registered Holsteins
Yearlings sired by 30 pound bull and
from heavy-producing cows. Also some
choice lluroc open gills.
.l. Hubert Brown, Byron, Michigan

 

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8H0. .l!t)RN

on SALE, pure bred Shortliorns and

O. I. C. pigs. Five young bulls,‘ ‘,

to 9 months. $125 to $1530 eaca. Ra)
Warner, R. No. 3, Almont, Michigan.

HAT no you WANT? 1 represent ‘11

BHOBTIIORN l reetiers. ({m pm YOU ”1
touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages. Some females. C. ‘0’. Crum.
Secretary Central Michigan Shorthorn
Association, McBrides, Michiﬁtlll-

GU ERN SEY

 

 

FOR SALE
Two Registered Guernsey Bulls.
7 months old.
R. B. JACKSON
"RUDGATE FARM"
BIRMINGHAM. - MICHIGAN

 

 

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Spring pigs pairs and trios. Gilts bred
for fall farrow. at prices that will 91015“
CLOVER LEAF STOCK FARM:

.. .Mon‘roe, Mich. .

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DUROC

 

EAt‘ll HILL I'ARBI. Herd tciel Du-
roc Jersey bred gilts. sprang pigs and
serwce boars.

IN “'OOD BROS ,

Romeo, Michigan.

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FOR SALE 1 "“0" “Freya, both sex.

>Marz-" 6 and , .arrOw.
long. big bone, large litters. Pi‘.c3 right.
Close out males cheap. All pure..rcd, tine
individuals. Am in market for registered

Holstein bull. 6 to 12 months old. B. E.‘ '

KieS, Hillsdale, Mich.
50 "UR‘H' SOH'S AND (ill/I'H for

 

fall litters bred to ()rions Fancy
K1113 83857. the bigg st pg of his
age .‘JH‘I‘ shown at the international.
1 mile northeast of town Visitors-
“:"lb‘l’mt‘ 7 day: in week.
Newton iarnhnrt. St. .lnlint, Michigan

Rt‘l-riStcreil Illiroc Jersey Swine.
Forsa‘le Yearling and spring boars of
quality. also bred sow. Aug. and Sellt. far-
"0W' Shring g.lt:. Write Ior peligree
“Nd. [Wives Satisfaction guaranteed. L.
.1. lrnderhill Ra‘em. Mich.

 

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I“ 'I‘YI'I‘I I’. F. FALL SOIYH' bred for

JU'Y and August farrow. \Veigh 250
lbs. Spring pigs. ('all or write E. R
Leonard. St Louis. Michigan.

 

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GUERNSEYS He‘i‘éé‘i. "2.3.3“ 3‘“?on-

sale, also a number of well. bred young
bulls—write for breeding. Village 1‘ arms.
Grass Lake, lVIichigan.

H E R. E F0 RI)

“(EISTI‘IIII‘IIl II;\.\‘I[’SIIIRI‘I PICKS DOW
ready. .\ bargain in boar pigs. JOh"
W. Snyder. R \'o 1. St, Johns, Mich.

SHEEP

SII ROI'SII IR I'IS

 

 

 

 

81m“ calves Prince
Herefords Donald and Farmer
Breeding. ALLEN BROS., Paw Paw,‘Mich.

 

II ROI’NIIIIEI‘IS. --- Sonic line ycarhn'

ll‘ims and Ra ll Lambs. one 3i .\'1‘. "if
Farmers" price. lian Roolier. Rf 510.44-
1Cvart. Michigan.

 

 

 

IIA R\VO0I) H E R E F0 RIIS . ‘

Yearling bulls and a few licifcrs
from choicc bred cows _ .

Jay Harwood. 1:. .\'o. 3, lonia, Mich.

 

 

 

OR AUGUST DELIVERY 50 Register-

ed Shrop<hire Yearling ewes and 3'0
IU‘X-{istcrcd Yearling ltams of extra qual-
ity and breeding. Flock established 1890.
(7. Lemon. Dexter. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

HORSES ,

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prices Mark R. (‘urdy liowell. Mich
HOGS

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C .I. Carl Jewett, Mason, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
   

   

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[Producuo Fair 1017.

R, BRUCE

I . 1.00 REGISTERED IIOLSTEINS 100 ‘

A herd of high producing females from the brecds best
families. Herd headed by Dutcliland Colantlia ‘VVinana‘Lad
114067, Senior and Grand Champion Bull at Michigan State
Junior sire Maplecrest Application l’ontiac
132652 a 35.16 son of Friend lleiigerveld lle Kol Butter HUY
and whose dam and if; sister hold 0th and 7th highest
yearly butter records.
months old for sale.
McI’IIEItSON, II()\\'ELL, .\II(‘II.

Sons of these great sires up to 13
Prices and pedigrces on application.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watch this paper for
Announcement of

Robert R. Pointer & Son
—~SALE—-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

paper—its service and its strength——
—will you do this?

Ask your next door neighbor or

. to his mail-box every week.

-—(leo. )I. Slocum, Publisher.

 

 

I know tlicrc are a whole lot of you folks who want to see this weekly in
every one of the 200,000 farm homes in this state.

You know what it would lllt‘llll to have cvcry farmer in the state back of
the movements We have started in the

Many of you have written asking how yoii could help us and this is to tc'l
you, FOR MARKETING IS NOT MANY \VEEKS‘ OFF .\.\'1) EVERY “001)
FARMER [.V MICHIGAN ()l’Ull'I‘ TO HAVE IIIS.‘ N.\ ME ON ()I'R LIN’I‘.

This year Andrew ’I‘. Dirr, owner of the )liiplecrest Holstein Farms at Lake
Odessa, wrote that he made just $750 by following our market advice!

Yet «very name you add to our list gives us an opportunity to better our

call your best: friend on the phone and
ask him if he reads Michigan Business Farming, tell him to send us the dollar
or tell us he will send it this fall after harvest and we'll start the weekly going

This is the favor we ask of every man or woman who believes in MRI“!

Of course, if you can act as agent for us and accept new and renewal sub-
scriptions we Will gladly pay you a cash commission on every on one you secure.

\Ve are helping you ﬁght your battles. help us ﬁght ours!

1'armci's’ interest 5.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

POULTRY

 

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Silver Laced, Holden and \Vliilc \Vyan—
dottcs of quality. Breeding stock after
()c‘t. 1st. Engage it eary.

Browning. 1t. 2, Portland. Mich.

(‘arenco

 

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300 Fine, strong, vigorous chicks for
2 June and .luly delivery. White
l'mgliorns now at i110 a 10’); $5 for 50.
Finest stock in the country. Prompt ship-
ment by mail. We guarantee safe arrival
and satisfaction. Order direct. Hatalog.
Holland Hatchery. Holland. Mich. 1t. 7

 

 

WE HAVE THEM
If you want Leghorns tlia‘t will pay
for their feed a dozen times over, write
us. “'0 havn- cggs for Hatching and
Breeding Stock. hens and pullets only
IIILL (‘ltES’I‘ POLLTRY FARM,
Ypsilanti, Michigan.

 

 

RUFI'I‘AISLE Ill'h‘l“ I.I°ItlIIOICNSv—V\'--

have. twenty pens or especially mated
Single (‘omb Buffs that are not only mat-
cd for exhibition but. aboic :ill, for proxy.
liable egg production. 1023;." at very reas—
onable, price. (1111‘ list will interest you
7 ~p10ase ask for it, Village Farms.
Hrass Lake. Michigan.

 

('IIIt‘KS

BABY CHICKS

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50 chicks ............ $1115 !3
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11M chicks ............ M:
L Ily niilil prepaid.

Hrdcl‘ (lir‘ppt from ad. lnmiwliatc

 

sliipim liiS.

WOLVERINE CHICKERY

711. Delaware St. SE.
(iraml Rapids, Mich.

 

f1
\Ve- ship thousands
CHICK cach season. different
\‘arictics' booklet and

testiizionials, slalllll illlln‘cciated, 1“l‘t‘e])t)1‘[.
Hatchery. Box 10. l~‘rccporr. Michigan.

H. ICHING EGGS
I’LYNIOL'I‘II ROCK
1‘ r-Hn strain w th
Barred ROCk Eggs records to 290 e 3
Der year. $2.00 per 15 Prepaid by pa .

cel post. Circular free. Fred Astlmg.
Constantine, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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()ne pen Siimatras. Ten birds
For sale $120. Chicago Coliseum win-
ners. Some. fine females in black and
Buff Orirnstons at $5 each. James A.
Daley, Mohawk, Mich.

  
   
   
  
 

  
    
       
   

 
   
   


    
   
   
   
    
  
   
   
  
  
   
  
    
       
   
 

THE 511.0
BEAUTIFUL
THAT LASTS FOR AGES

You might as well own a silo that will beautify your farm and last as long as you live to run it. It costs '
no more, but 13 worth more in good appearance year after year—and in saving upkeep cost. You get this
durable construction in the

 

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LANSING ‘ 511.0   

This silo is built of material that lasts for centuries. Never needs painting—no hoops
to tighten—withstands summer heat and wint er cold like Father Time.

 

But more than good material, you get a better formed block in the Lansing Tile Silo.
The blocks are made to get a more solid grip in the cement binder. One block is braced against the
other—and each row of blocks is reinforced above and below with twisted steel. This steel lays in an
extra thick layer of cement with only a thin line of cement exposed between the blocks. Note the ex-
tended shoulders on the upper and lower edges of the block. These shoulders cover up most of the
cement and make a stronger and more beautiful wall. This means less chance of frost—a smooth wall
inside with better settling of silage which means better food for stock. Also note the ﬂuting on the
end of the block which prevents the block from slipping. Lansing blocks are all the same shade too,
which adds to the beauty of the ﬁnsihed job. ‘

 

The door construction is also made extra strong. Twisted steel rods run up through the cement
which ﬁlls the ﬁrst partition of each door block. This gives you a solid column of cement in the
blocks on each side of the doorway. No silo could be stronger.

   
  

 

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Don’t wait until the last minute and be caught Without a silo this fall.
BIDWELL BEAN THRESHERS Place your order NOW and avoid delay in the rush season. You need a. silo
Save the beans for the Allies. more than ever this season. You must produce your own cheap feed for stock.
The Bidwell is the standard for all bean and pea threshers. It has been on the - - -
market for thirty-ﬁve years. Made in three sizes, from. six to sixteen horse power. The 5110 Is the only answer to your prOblem‘ Send for our catalog—and order
A self feeder, Wind stacker, and recleaner can be attached. \at once
We carry a full line of machines and repairs. Have some second hand and re- ' . ' ‘ .

built machines on hand.
1 Write for catalog and state size of power to be used. .

.1... W W J M PRESTON COMPANY -
The thresher for gas ower. Made in four sizes; requires two to ten horse power. 0 o ‘ ~ ~ .

Been on the market f5 years and used in all grain growing countries. Sold moun- , , ,f, .31

ted or unmounted with hand feed or self feeder, no carrier, or with plain carrier . g
or wind stacker. “4 . . _
It will thresh and clean your small grain equal to the largest machine 3 and with Dept’ 4 ’ LANSING’ MICH' . V , .1;

bean attachment it takes care of all your threshing

   

