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League.» Followmg the meeting amacqnaint‘

' “Twenty-ﬁve dollars a day and expenses,”
she‘- replied ‘ ,.-

necessary to disc10se the identity of the faith-
an, farmerTQan, patriots who for twenty-
"five dollars per diem are leaving their crops
tQ languish the While they t011r the country-

as tQ the personnel of the great high bishops
Who are directing the Work of salvation .of this
state,
Ail-High one, from. whom all this money
ﬂows. Great, indeed, must be his 10ye for the
farmers of Michigan that he summons his
prophets to go forth among them and
warn them of the dangers lurking behind the
great farmers’ organization that is sweeping
eastward

Reform movements never
reason. Just grievances gay'e birth to
Non- Partisan League.
prejudice, helped along by the opposition of
these Who should have been its friends. It
has gained ground raipidly From its birth-“
place- in North Dako a it has extended into
.Not an election has been
ese states since the League
entered than that has not felt the powerful
Inﬂuences of the organization.

Big Business, Little Business, every kind of

the

business except the farming business,——are
, afraid of the Non-Partisan League.

Their
fear has blinded their senses. They are fol—
lo " in the footsteps of the North Dakota
politicians who tnld the farmers to‘ go home
and- stop their hogs.”

 

- stand that the fundamentals of this farmers’

ance, suspecting that his friend’s interest was 1
not. entirely altruistic aSked him hoW much *
he Was paid for lecturing against the League. -

start Without,

- f ‘f ’dilearnedly and fervently»: ,
fagamst the .menace” of the Non-Partisan ‘

*For the pilrposes of. this article it is not

side, missionaries of anti—nan- partisanship, -
' halleIgJah' Neither are we greatly concerned

But We are mightily interested in the '

It fattened on“ class-

f - ,1 Wall Street Hands off Michigan

‘3 Farmers will Decide Fate of Non- Parti— .

san Movement in this State without
Interference of Outside Com-
' merciql Interests
By FORREST A. LORD

new political Organization are sound; that a
seed'has been planted that is bound to grow;
that like the plant which splits the rock or-
ganized non- -partisan movements will burst
thru the stone wall of selﬁsh opposition.

The big commercial interests of the coun-
try, centering about Wall Street, have always
taken’a keen interest in politics and are known

.to maintain “Slush funds” to which political
parties ‘and their candidates friendly to Wall

street haveaccess. No national. election has
takenplace in recent years in which Wall
street has not had a very effective hand. Even

'Inany state campaigns have not been without

their taint of Wall street funds. It pays Wall
street to help elect men to congress who will
interpret the tariff in terms satisfactory to
Wall street, and who can be, depended upon
to aid the Special interests in their occasional
raids upon the country’s national resources.

It follows then that a strictly non- partisan

rmovement, parading a socialistic program call-

ing for State and government— owned utilities,

They cannot under~,.

tearing aWay old party lines, and stalking
half way across the continent in less than two
years’ time, is to be viewed With alarm and
distruSt by these same commercial interests.

”It also follows that they would be Willing to
spend any amount of money to bring such a

m0vement into disrepute and thereby kill it
That they are spending this money and that
an organization is being builded for the pur-
pose of coping with the League is pretty
clearly established by the number of “lee--
turers” Who have appeared at farmers’ meet-
ings the past summer, to say nothing of the
propaganda put out under the name of a
certain “reverend” gentleman and‘othcrs.

‘ paid emisSaries in this state are making a big-

. fools.

. secure better prices for the-farmers of Mich-
- igan, greater recognition befOIe the state and

Wall street is making a big mistake, and its

gir one. The farmers of Michigan are not?

They didn’t cut their eye-teeth yes~.
terday. They can see thru a doughnut when
there’s a big-round hole in the center. *They
are sufﬁciently endowed by nature ’to settle
this matter for themselves without any assis—
tance from the moneyed interests of the east
or of their own state either for that matter.

Individual interests, next to national, are
paramount. If the Non-Partisan League can

national governments better public servants, ,
there is no reason why the farmer should not
give the movement his support. And the
farmer need be only half— convinced of the
ability of the League to delivci the goods it
sells, to be forced into an acceptance of its
program by the very efforts Wall street is
making to induce him to reject it. For the
farmer knows that Wall street never goes out
of its way to help the workingman. or‘ the
farmer, and when in the face of fancied dan—
ger Wall street cuddles to the farmer, the lat—
ter very properly turns a cold shoulder to
its advances.

There may be any number of good reasons
why the farmers of Michigan should not sub-
scribe to the program of the Non—Partisan
League, but it is not. for the great ﬁnancial
interests of the east to direct their judgment.
If Wall street will keep its shirt on, and-go,
on about .its business, leaving the farmers of
Michigan to decide this matter for themSelves,
there need be no fear of the outcome.- In the
ﬁrst place Michigan farmers are 100 per cent
LOYAL ; they’ll. do nothing While this warvis;
going on to worry the government. After the
war when the great work of reconstruction
is ushered in and the farmers need fearless
champions in the national and state law-mak- '
ing bodies ,—well, that’s another matter. But
in the n1ea11time,Wall street, keep your hands
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' 914s of the natiOn are expected to subscribe the

THE FARMER’S PART IN THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN

.fuse to LOAN his money to the government at this time is to deny
- that son or that relative or that acquaintance who is facing death in
France the food and supplies which may save him from that death and

the nation from defeat.

uncertain.

When the last Liberty loan Was ﬂoated, the future was dark and

   

 

 

  
 
 

 

 

  

  
 
 
 

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tide of victory turned. But today all that is changed. Our boys haste
"met the foe and for two months haVe driven him before them. The
' enemy already seeks peace, but there’s not a man in America today
who loves justice that would accept such an ignoble peace as- German
I‘proposes ‘
. ﬁnance it. Ultimate victory and lasting peace are in sight
’51-.dollar loaned to the government Will bring that peace a lit ‘

e4 time. Neither “Will”

many American sons would be placed upon death’s altar before the

 

The war, therefore, must go on, and money mdét b

Michigan steed Well in the last Liberty;
"stancbbetter in the ﬂour

Casualty lists had just begun to come in; no one knew how . .

    
    

 

    
    
   
   
   
 
   


L‘ , n bordé’r’, “the enemy its/bring

diplomatic powers into play to coax the and”?

a ‘pagee conference. In a document addressed

3333_3lgium the Imperial Government 01' Austria- ‘

' 'indemnities for the terrible, terrible wrongs that
Germany has heaped upon the little nation.
" _exact terms of the proposal are:

" en‘mh‘at Belgium shall remain neutral until the

3 of the war; that thereafter the entire econom—-
c nand political independence of Belgium shall be

reconstituted; that pre- -War commercial treaties
3between Germany and Belgium shall be again
put into operation after the war for an indeﬁnite
period; that Belgium- shall use her good Oﬁices

'3t03 secure the return of German colonies; that the

73Flemish question shall be considered, and the
Flemish minority, which aided the German in-
vad'ers, shall not be penalized "

. The ,‘proposal advanced by the central powers
is in effffect an admission that they greatly desire

3 peace The message, however, disclaims any in-

tent to stop the ﬁghting but believes that an ex- '

7 change of views would do much toward bringing
about a better understanding between the com-
batants and an earlier end of the war.
_ arms winning some Of the greatest battles of the
war and the German Rhine only a few miles from
the allied front line trenches, the allied powers
scorn _tO nibble at the bait which Austria has
"placed before them, knowing that it is nothing but
a subterfuge to gain time for bolstering up the

moraleef the retreating armies.‘ President Wil- '

son announces that he stands squarely where he

did at the entrance of this country into the war,
which means in substance that the last vestige of
the German military menace shall be wiped from
the earth before this nation can honorably dis-
cuss peace terms with Germany. '

PRESIDENT WILSON MAY FIX
COTTON PRICES AFTER ALL

' Despite the opposition Of the entire south to
ﬁxing cottonrprices, it is now believed that the
President will authorize such. a. step. Cotton
priceshave ﬂuctuated widely. during the past
year and the unstable condition of the market
has caused considerable confusion and dissatis-
faction among government buyers f"! the allies.
The plan Of ﬁxing cotton prices will I low much
3 along the same line as that of wheat- -price- ﬁxing.
Grades will be established channels of distri-
bution taken over by the government, and if
found advisable after an investigation fair prices
wil‘ be established.
- _Current wheat prices were reducedat least a

third when the government ﬁxed price went into.

" eifect. Cotton is now selling at 33 cents per
pound. Wil the government controlhave a sim-
ilar effect 11 n the cotton market or will the pre—3
sent high price he made the minimum?

ORGANIZED LABOR GETS ITS

ORDER FROM THE PRESIDENT -

If there has been any discrimination showed
3 any class Of people since we entered the war, or-
ganized labor has undoubtedly received the favors.
With big chief Samuel Gompers on the job at
Washington every minute, organized labor has
been very kindly dealt with. Strikes and wage

the draft has dealt very3 leniently with its mem-
bers, and wages have far exceeded the dreams of
labor’s most sanguine leaders. In‘ many instances,
it has seemed to the average citizen, labor has tak-
en a. 'more or less insolent attitude toward its em-
3~3§=ployers and the government, and it has ﬁnally be-
come necessary for the President to put his foot
down and tell organized labor exactly what it
MUST and m‘us‘ not do during the War period.

The President’s order is issued to striking machin-
iSts at Bridgeport, Conn, who refused to abide by
the ﬁndings Of the NatiO-nal War Labor Board in
a wage diSpute‘f. an/d directed that the 5,000 men
either return to work at once or become subject
to the draft} - 3.,

wssmueromonnsns INVESTIGA-g

The .f‘

With allied ‘

upon such a resolution : lest theireewn campaign

expand. ,cdme under scrutiny Anyway, the res:

elation will proiahly go thru gird. federal inves-
'tigat‘ion be made a ' 3 -
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General Crowder is‘ losing no time in classify-
ihg the 6, 000, 000 men between the ages of 19 and
36 who registered last week Local draft boards
were instructed the ﬁrst‘Of the week to send out
questionnaires immediately to these men, and it is
believed that by the end" of the coming .week every
,man between these ages will have received his
q‘uestionnaire. The work of classifying these “reg
istrahts will follow speedily, as it is Crowder’s
intention that the men who are placed‘inClass 31

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,shall be called to training Camp long before the .

ﬁrst of the year, in order that the stream of sol-
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Work 01' Fight

INOE’ Uncle Sam’s so energetic
Indeedthe case is most pathetic,
Says be, “you hie for ‘uscful,3labor~—
07' 'join the fray and plunge the sabre.”
Now an those bragging, husky follococ
Who chiefly use their lungs as bellows,
.Whlle holding chairs on Easy street
Are all afflicted with cold feet. ,

They used to talk in tones commanding
Of bumper crops we should be landing_

To feed our boys across the sea.

They’ no changed their tune of late I see.
Now smce they’ we asked to join the tussle,
And use their idle bones and muscle
They weakly cry while knees are cracking.
“For factory grind my trunk I’m packing.”

0n farmers’ snaps did they enthuse,

While we were howling with the blues;
O’er sundry rules and regulations

That governed other occupations.
. They straightway dubbed us all as slackers
And said, “you’re worse tr an all the packers;

You cry for gold to line your pockets;
Your junk’s the highest in the market.”-~
“Go work or fight." was" Samuel’s, word-
A funeral, knell they’d rather heard.
And feebly' cry “I’ll face the front,‘
Before I’ll try the farming stunt ”

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Texas is abandoning ostriCh growmg.
The United States in 13917 used 5,100 pounds of
peat in stock foods.

Baltimore, Md” is to have a school for blinded
soldiers.

Salt Lake City believes Great Salt Lake is be-
coming saltier. -

New Orleans is clOsing many saloons for mili-
tary reasons -

United States has sent 1,600 locomotives to
France.
, William H. White, prehident of the Richmond.
Fredericksburg & Potomac railroad, has resigned.

A collision of two German railWay trains be-
tween“Scheidmuls and Landsberg resulted in the
death of 30 persons. 3

Captain Sa1 rat, a Fremh aviator, dropped 800

yards with a parachute from a moving airplane ’

behind the battle line.
Documents taken £10m German prisoners cap-

“ tnred 0311 the ernch front show that a pillage n13-

tem has been organized.

‘ MajOr General mann. former commander of the
Eastern division ,withhcadquarters at Governor' 3
Island, was retired.‘

Ira Nelson Morris, U. S. ambassador at Stock-
1101111, said in London that Sweden was strictly
neutral. He is on his way to Washington.

.~ A freight steamer in the Cape Cod canal ran
into the .Sagmore Highway Bridge during; a

heavy fog "131.11111 dbmolished the structure, 5...:
7:511:11 fam 03?

~ near Tetsc
in Gm”!

"“hungér stone‘ in (well: v01 15th,
which according to pepular helicf.~3.
edicts famineghas been seen ageing;

Tailors pine sections of the country she

has intr need. 3: making a s singly!

rimany expenses 03f

ideas re c 01111

Bean Company 0:30 -3 ,3
jobbers have more '01" teens right now
than they have had at any time curing the past
twelve months, which is the best been news we’ve
heard for a. long time. Inoreased activity, ﬁrmer
market, and probably higher prices The. hes
offers that more are getting new airex mun
$7 to $7. 50 per hundred. It goes without sayin
that not many beans will move at these figure
Prices will have to advance to at least $8 or 3'
before growers will feel disposed to sell, for the
simple reaSon thht not many of them can sell for
less without standing 3. loss. ~Beans can 'go to
high for the farmer’s best interests, and they
should avOid holding their crop fer abnonnal
prices. -At the same time, jobbers should not ex:
pect growers to sell at a loss.

3 Mr Llewelyn cautions farmers agairi‘St mix 11g
old,and new beans. While We believe the farmers

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“are pretty well informed on thisﬁmint already, and '

most of them will undenstan-d the danger3_o3f mix:
ing, it is ,well to emphasis the ’warning again"
Old and new beans cook differently, and: positive-
fly will, not be bought ina mixed condition at me
veiling market prices. Therefore friend bean
grower, DON’T mix your last year’s beans with
this year’s . 33 3 3, . . g'

“GOOD ROADS” EARLE HEADS U S.
- _BOYS’ WORKING RESERVE

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Mr. H. S ,“‘Good Roads" Earle has accepted the

‘ appointment of U. S. Boys’ Working Reserve

State Director, to ﬁll the vacancy "caused by'the
lresignation of Chas A. Parcells who was Called
to Washington to help at the national headquar-
ters.~“My}1urpose” says Mr. Earle,_“will be to
in‘duCe the farmers of the state to feel that they

have a double duty to perform, teaching the city
and village 1103's agriculture and patriotism by
giving them a chance to work at growing the
food necessary for the boys overseas ” ‘ .

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GRAND TRAVERSE FARMERS ,‘.
APPROVE COUNTY AGENT WORK

The grangers of Grand Traverse county
have endorsed the work Of the county agent an 1111
have asked the board of supervisors to reengage
County Agent M. E. Buckles fer another year.
Mr. Du33ckles was hired a year ago as a sort of ex‘
perimeht, and while there has ' naturally been

' some dissatisfaction the farmers for the most

part are pleaSed with his work and are willing to.
stand the sliglt expense which the county is
called upon to pay. ..

German ignorance and conceit is fortunately
blinding the German people” to the danger of the
American aerial ﬂeet. Apparently the Off-men-
tioned possibility of American ﬂiers bombarding
German cities has also occurred to the Teutonic
mind for there has been much discussion of the
subject among the German people. A high mil-

itary ofﬁciﬁal however, seeks to allay the fears 01 .

the people by ridiculing the idea of peril from
the American aeroplane. .

“Every practical airman,” says this authority,
"knows that the American threat 0!? 20 .000 ma-
chines coming over is humbug. Neither the
Americans nOr their machines are equal to the
Germans. ” .

I have read in your paper that you Wished to
know if we used our. car for pleasure. We own a
Ford car and take our eggs to the wholesalers
every week. We. run a grocery store and_.,ca‘rry
ﬂour, etc” from the mills, and groceries from the
station. I am sure this would not bﬁcalled a

3 pleasure car —"—-W_. N A. Shaman, Allegeu county.

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The agricultural adviser to be appointed by
the hop rtment of Agmculture on the special ad-
vieory'_ ft bps-rd“ in each draft disxtri’ct will
furnish to this, board sfaets relative to farm-
labor requirements, not (only of his own district,
but 0; the whole country.- He should be the re-
[godtory or all facts having relation to the de-
ferment of agricultural Workers, whether these be
necessary farm laborers, managers or operators.
He will be. expected .to-edvise the district boards
as‘to'a'shortage or surplus of necessary farm
workers for any given district, as well as for the
entire Nation.

‘ The adviser may also concern himself With in-
.dividual cases that come before the district board.
, He will havethe right, under certain cenditions,
’ to examine the questionnaires and other records

in the files of the local board for the purpose of

ascertaining whether persons entitled to deferr-

-eti' classification have actually claimed it. In

case. he ﬁnds the names of such registrants he

may .ﬁle' for them a 'claim'for deferred classifi-
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. consideration. .Reasonable time will be given for
the. purpose or obtaining information and supply-
ing the affidavits required.
termines to consider a case for deferred classid.
cation because a registrant is engaged in a nec-
eSsary occupation, notwithstanding no claim for
‘deferred classification on that ground has been
made, it shall endorse the recommendation on
.the questionnaire of the registrant and forward
it to the-distriCt board having jurisdiction. The
district board will thereupon consider the case
and proceed to .claSsify the registrantynotwith-
standing the fact that no claim for deferred class-
ificatllon by or in reépect of the registrant has
been made.

CLAst IN BEHALF OF NECESSARY EMPLOYEE
A further duty 'with which the adviser is
charged is to confer with employers of necessary
farm workers, and to] instruct them as to. their
1’ ', right under the regulations to 'file a claim for
L deferred classification in respect of any registrant
who has’ failed or refused to file a claim for de-
ferred classiﬁcation in his. own behalf. This,
in- the opinion of the war department, is a very
important mattep The apparent injustice of
placing many registrants in Class 1 is often due
to the factwthat employers have failed to, make
claims for deferred classiﬁcation on behalf of nec-
essary workers. It is to avoid a —repetition 'of
thistrouble that farmers shouldsee that all of
' their" necessary employees ' whether sons or other
inherers, of the draft age have made for them just
claims for deferred classiﬁcation. .

One important explanation is made 111 the new
Selective Servlce Regulations in connection with
the expression“‘skilled farm laborer "' The ques-
tionnaire provides deferred classiﬁcation for the

“necessary skilled farm laborer in necessary ag-
ricultural enterprise.” The new regulations pro-
vidthhat'in Class‘ll 'shall be placed any registrant
found to be engaged In a “necessary" agricultural
enterprisey and found to be necessary to such en-
ferprise in the capacity of a farm laborer— espec-
i'ally fitted for up; work in which he is engaged. "
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ﬁitjA'INE' BEANS‘$9. 00 PER BUSHEL,

, j'~ ' SAYS A'N M. B. F. REPORTER

West Paris, Maine, September 10th,1918.——The
hay crop has proved to be much below last
year and harvested at a much greater expense.
Wheat is about an average in yield and quality.
Oats and all other small grains have done well.
Corn will be about 20 per cent of an average c1op
providingwthe frost holds off two weekgionger. or
until the 25th of September. Beans were planted
more freely than for many years but have not
done very w,ell the crop will not be above last
year. Apples are very scarce and of poor quality
I doubt if there will be more than 10 per cent of
an average crop. Potatoes were not planted in
‘Iiearly as,large'quantity as last year, but have
done much better in general although many have
rusted badly. I think the total cr0p for Maine
will beﬂbelow last year. Live stock is getting
very scarce and high, average cows selling readily
at $100 each. Hogs are scarce and worth $20 per
cwt. live weight; beef, $26. dressed. Fall apples
are from $3.50 to $6 a barrel.

Beans are $9 per bushel with a fair prospect for
a, sharp advance in the future unless the govern- .
ment forbids, which may be looked for to accom-
pany some of the other rulings. Potatoes are being
shipped out of seacoast places for $3.00 per bbl.
for Cobblers. I think if supply and demand are
let alone the price will be much higher before
long.

Unless farmers are given more encouragement
there will be many idle men in 1919, despite the
great need for food production—R. L. Herrick,
Oxford county. Maine.

Jack FroSt Hits the Potatoes

Killing frosts have stopped the growth of po-
'tat0es in many important sections of Wisconsin,
Minnesota and other states lying to the northwest,

according to the government crop and weather
1 survey for the week ending Sept. 10th. Inas-
much as these trusts occurred after the govern-
ment forecast for September was issued. they\
will undoubtedly and materially decrease the es-
timated production of'384’million bushels. Grow-

ers should bear in mind, when harvesting their
potatoes this fall that the present government ﬁg-
ures are «only 25 million bushels in excess of the
5-year average. If frosts, drought and. blight

' damage continues until potatoes are ripe, there

can be “no question but what the 1918 yield will
fall below the 5-year average. '

The following brief reports from representa-
tive agricultural states will give our readers a
fairidea of the national crop conditions.

Soaking rains 4th material-
/ly improved pastures. truck, beans and cow—peas. Re-
ports continue favorablc for buckwheat. sorghum and
tomatoes, but latter ripening slowly on account of
cool weather. Young clover improved except where
killed by drouth. Some wheat souing in n‘mth: es-
timates indicate. increased acreage for the stale. Corn
made poor to excellent progress; ripening fast; about
40 per cent safe from frost in central and notth por-
tions. and 20 per cent in south; ensilage Icing made.

Okla—Columbus: Pastures and much garden truck
greatly'improved. Fruit crops being harvested in ex-
cellent condition: quality good to excellent: yield
poor to good. Buckwheat promising. Fall plowing
progressing under highly fax o1able conditions. Seed-
ing winter wheat begun. Corn made satisfactory
progreSs; 1ipemng" well, except in cast and northeast
cutting in prog-
rose in many western counties, and silo filling is gen-

liaising—Indianapolis:

eral.
. Karisas.——Topeka: Good rains in mOSt parts fur-
nished abundant moisture for ptesent needs 1mp1 oved

pastures greatly insured anothei (tilting of alfalfa
in many parts. and put ground in fine shape for sow-

‘ ihg wheat Which is progressing 'm scatteied localit-

ion and will be general anOthet week Greater part
of corn cutting completed in eastern two4hirds. Grain
sorghums and broom-com improved; bettet prospect
for bulk of grain sorghums maturing grain. -

hMina.-~Ok1ahoma: Drouth relieved in south—
. ‘rtlon. Favorable for kamr, mile maize. cane
pastures. Rapid progress in preparation of
“land; soil in flue condition: seeding beginning
"ov'ide winter pastures. Condition of corn
\ee poor ~ nearly all matured and being harvested.
W fl" [istur' _ was ample. the cotton top cr'op made
" rt‘ce "‘ on account of cool weather and picking

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little damage. Ample sun-
as temperatures favorable for corn-

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The Department of Agriculture has announced;
the arrival in England of a committee of men -
familiar with food production and agricultural
organization and activities in the united States ,
The personnel of the committee is as follows: Dr. .
W. 0. Thompson, chairman, president ._Ohio State
University. Columbus, Ohio; Mr. Carl Vroomang‘
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; .‘vlr. RpAr;
Pearson, president Iowa State College of Agriculw
ture and Mechanic Arts, Ames‘, Iowa; Mr. T. F.‘
Hunt. director of Agricultural Experiment Sta-
tion and dean of the College of Agriculture, Uni-
versity of California. Berkeley, California; Mr.
D. R. Coker, farmer and member of National Ag:
icultural Advisory Committee. Hartsville. ,South
Carolina; Mr. Wm. A. Taylor, chief Bureau of
Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture; .
Mr. George M. Rommel, chief Animal Husbandry ..
Division, Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture; Mr. George R. Argo.
Specialist. in Cotton Business Methods, Bureau of
Markets. U. S. Department of Agriculture; Mr.
John F. Wilmeth. administrative assistant, Bur-
eau of Markets, Department of Agriculture.

The committee will secure general information
regarding food production conditions in England,
France and Italy, so that when they return they,
will be able to reveal the needs more effectively
to the leaders of agriculture in the I’nited States
and to farnkers generally. They will also study
agricultural problems in England, France and
Italy, including the use of machinery and the as
signment of labor in farming operations, the live-
stock situation. the depletion of herds and the
probable extent to which Europe may call on this
country for livestock to replenish herds. the seed
situation and the probabilities of securing sup‘
plies from Europe, and similar matters.

  

    
    
    
   

 
 

  
 

 

 
    

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falfa. Too dry for pastmcs and late mops Potatoes
below normal and small Cabbage and 011191 truck necrl
rain Good 010;) of prunes being gather-ml. Corn
growing well; maturing and some (-111. Soil too dry
for seeding winter wheat.

New York—Ithata: Libetul l'dlIlS gnttth improv—
ed soil conditions and furthered dov:elop11ent of late
potatoes buckuhcz.11 (abbage, and ('Hl'll. Buckwheat

good growth and generally well filled.
in full swing; early g1'.apes peaches. pears and plums
of good quality. Late f1uit tipening' fa\01'abI\.Late
truck crops doing well. Pastures greening up \\ ell for
fall fmagc.

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pletion. Potatoes and gardens badly damaged in:
frost in north. Fall plowing ptogtessing rapidly
Frost damaged corn \ery much in no1th, caused some
damage locally in west- centtal portion. and all ght
damage in south: cutting in progress; yield excellent '
in south. but in north crop mostly for fodder. Yield
and quality of spring wheat continues (xccllent. '

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Pcnusylvnniu.—Philadelphia: Rains ample; at most.
places and conditions generally fa\01'ablt.l’tatoel<
being (lug: yield light; quality fai1;lateiﬁeldsq'better
in some places. Pastures and Meadows short but im-
proving. Condition of corn fair; cutting in progress:
one—half beyond frost danger. Wheat seeding begun 7r
in a. few places. '

Illinois. *Sliringﬁeld: Cool week. with rather heavy
mine in much of southem two—thirds. Meadows and .
pastures improved and now good to excellent. Plow- , L
ing for winte1 wheat, seeding begun. Corn made ex-
cellent 51",outh but needs high temperature thy weath“ ,
er. and sunshine for ploper ripening in some places
silo ﬁlling begun

, YUM onslll.—1~Ill“"ukeei Rain needed over southern. .
half of <tate and badly in places. Progress of corn-

satisfactory in most places, but poor in others on ac
count of mouth and low temperature; considerable
cutting and silo filling in progress. Considerable dam- _
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Iowu.——l)es VIoines: Potatoes poor: blighted in all
sections and rotting in north Pastimes excellcm'
north and east. Plowing for wintex wheat. though my“
soil makes this di ﬂicult in southwest; seeding begun
in Scott and Mills counties. Corn making ext‘el’lent,
tlexwelopment silo ﬁlling and fodder cutting beginning
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South Dakota—Huron: Plowing and seeding
progress; threshing advanced rapidly. Flax good
largely harvested Potatoes being dug and yiel
well. Pastures drying in localities; stock in fine .,
dition. Advance of corn good due to dry max “
prospects good to excellent: mestly safe. Yle "
quality of spring wheat continues good to excell‘ .

New Meitco.—Santa Fe: Light frost on
of 6111 in few higher northern districts wit
use. Fairly general showers cause drought ‘
fall and winter range; generally godd in no
seeding done Earlv com-1 being cut nudge
beans harvested ..

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pairing done amonthhe producing factors of the
‘ farmer’s. crops—that would interfere
pocketbook pf the commercialist, and he could not

11 me would be the commercialist.

commermahst up East street.

V,mission merchant, banker, broker, an eXecutive

Of some capitalistic unit, or In. whatever other
capacity, is the man who ﬂoats thepolitical stock
' of the oﬂice- seeker. The politician who is hunt-

3‘1an the easy job goes to the commercialist with

However the electors are not the voters; they are
,the men who make it posssible
voter ‘by “donating” the campaign funds.
the man who, out of reverance for the purity of
true American ideals refuses to buy the support

or the commercialist, who will not purchase news- 7
' paper space for political advertising; nor allow
-“friends to donate his campaign funds."

when
the money is in such extreme need to back the
boys in the murderous trenches, nor even allow
them to take time to electioneer for him when the

.this man seldom gets even nominated and even

- more rarely does he get elected, for money talks.

It then, it being conceded that the ofﬁce-holder

represents those who put him in ofﬁce and who .

alone, are able to keep him there, how is it to be
expected that the unorganized farmer and artiﬁo
er are to be represented? The organized indus-
tial worker has a club with which- he1 can force
the'commercialist to recognize and consider his
demands, but not so with the unorganized. The
unions control but a very small per cent of the
American vote. So laws are enacted, decisions
made, plans are carried out; but alwaYS in the in-
terest of' the commercialist. And we see:

The potato grading rules of last winter—~even

with the favoritism shown to some of the eastern
po toato ﬁclds~opcratcd pezhaps millions of dol-
la are into the hands of the commercialist (potatoes
varying in price as much as $1.50 per bushel in a
distance of 200 miles). and the public never saw
and U. S No, 2 signs on the potatoes they bought,
which after being bought from the farmer might
by law be again mixed with the ﬁrsts, and were.
The proﬁteering farmer!

The attempt to ﬁx wheat prices- to proﬁt the
farmer—failure tho it was—is simply an example
of the usual salve handed out. to the farmer As
if wheat represented a percentage even to be
considered. of the total agricultural investment
of the country. Corn alone is over twice as much
by the statistics of the last year—book of the
\There was no price.»

with

afford to do business at a loss (It might here be
noted that the actual servicegperformed by the

comm‘ercialist class could probably be done with-"

in business hours, or rather working hours, by a
tenth of their number or even fewer so that

penile and graft, but?

The artiﬁeer‘ commercialist

and the farmer are the ox team that draws the"

to inﬂuence the'V
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the ,

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' business is classed with the pleasure car, of:
,oil magnate.

In the appointment of Liberty Loam committees?

. other than local, as ,well as in other important V
appointments, the farmer is utterly ignored” the .

perhaps half the money must come from him

America once bled seven years over taxation with. .» » -

o11t representation. And tho in the campaigns he
is wdrse than insulted, We are mighty proﬁd to

be able to say that the agricultural/states were ’
‘ the very ﬁrst to "go over the top,” with the com}

mercialist states trailing along the hind end. The
commercialist may monopolize the executive posi-
tions, but he cannot monopolize the patriotism.

We must save sugar as one of the concentrated V. .
foods for the soldier boy, but to make the farmer .

do all the saving while the men in the city can
get his sweets other than coffee, and breakfast
food sugar at "any. confectionery store or bakery
on the Way to or from Work four times a day, and
without limit is tough on the farmer.

We must save gasoline and again it is the
worker’s Sunday half-gallon that is taken, while
the commercialist, after his six or eight hour
day can use as much as he likes.~ , ,

Shall we call it irony when the commercialist

'newspaper speaks of “our small sacriﬁces?”

Of course, when the farmer decides to support

neither political party, but puts up'his'own repre

sentative under a non- partisan ticket, as they
have done in some parts of the west, the commer—
cialist puts up a holler, and at present the only
popular names are slacker, pro-German, traitor.
Our admirable secretary of war, Mr. Baker, says,
“The man who is yelling ‘sedition’ to land party
politics above all others is aiding our enemies.”
——R 7) R. Tamas (Ii-#21. Michigan

P ..S I am putting in a postscript what» I feel
is extraneous to the above letter, but I believe in
giving credit where credit is due. I did not real-

12c when 'I subscribed forUM. B. F. nearly a year _

ago that it was a new. publication, but I was;
struck with the apparent sincerity of it and sub-
scribed for it on that ground. I do not know of

a paper anywhere in the country that seems as _

sincere and ardent a friend of the farmer. The
farmer does not need so much nor greatly appre‘
ciates being told by the cityaman how to grow two
blades of grass where one grew before, but to re-
ceive real, sincere help in the taking care of the
one that did grow. That is a real service for
hearty appreciation. '

I have already seen articles in the paper writ-
ten by several of my persOnal acquaintances in
differentlparts of the state,,,tho nothing within ‘my
memory from this part of’the state. How many.
then of my acquaintances must take the paper, and
how many‘then, ’of .the. farmers over the state
must have subscribed for it. hA't‘rue friend is
quickly recognized. Yoursuccess‘has been won-
der'ful, and may it even increase. Wishing the
very best for a. true friend of the farmer. —R..D R.

‘ How Many Farmers Make the Same Mistake

This Mentcalm Farmer Confesses He Made

‘ Mr. Editor2—After reading-L. C. Gardner’ slet-
ter and approving the contents I will give you my
experience, only it aplies the other way. I own a
farm of 80 acres. Have all new tools and ﬁve
herses, 20 sheep, 28 hogs, 3 cows and 13 feeders,
besides hens, geese and ducks.

Now, I had an interest in my boy, who was 25

" years old, married, and the cutest baby there ever

was, but I'also had a’bigger interest in my" own

Tside, otherWiSe I was selﬁsh; I wanted to make allV_V.

the money and him make none, and him to work’

. his darned head off—I had to when I was young,
1‘ and I ﬁgured he was no better than I.
and of course we had row No. 1. He says he was,
willing to do a day’s work and more when bad ;
eather threatened, but every day, he couldn’t— »~

Well, he bought an. auto and I told him:

He kicked .

the car. Then we had row No.2. Settled 0. K.. ‘I
hired a man to help son with the work and told
him I would pay the man’s wages to kind of even
things up a bit, and when we settled up in the
spring of 1918 I asked him to pay the hired man.
01! course I made an awfulmistake, but I ﬁgured
the kid was making too much money. rHe has.
been on the place twoyears and knows the’con-
ditiOn of every ﬁeld in regards to the crops it Wiil,
raise. and he wants to put certain crops in cer-

.V-ta'in places to kind 'of take care of a few thistles'

we have, but I kick and there you are. My son

the army “411 is getting his 330 per month,- every-

' in which you place the furnpce.

'a stoy‘e jblisters your face while the

' coal man and save the coal for the mills,

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Have you a good cells)- under your house? Then
a pipeless furﬁaee is what you want and you can,

install it with little or‘_ no outside help in a; day’ s

time at the mosh—providing, 61 scores, that you
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There is no .reason why anyr good farmer in
Michigan should any himself the comforts ofa
warm houSeénot warm in one room or two where
cold chills
run up and down your spine. But warm all over,
and yet the hundreds of letters from every part
of the country which I read in the Ofﬁce at Cin~~
cinnati, the plans of their homes which were;
shown me, proved that it is possible to warm~
every room in the average farm house from a 110-,
pipe or one-register furnace and with less con-
sumption of fuel "

I am not boosting the business of the manufacs -_
turer or any one of. the many undoubtedly good
pipeless furnaces which are now on :the market
and for which there are agents in every part of
Michigan, but I am passing along to you folks a
suggestion for comfort which I believe is worth
much more than the initial cost and “I know of no
reason why any geod business farmer should de—
prive’ himSelf'and his family» of the common cam.
forts that practically every city home enjoys.

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WOOD FOR FUEL. -——-Talk“ing of furnaces
brings up, of course, the matter of available fuel
for the average Michigan farm home. Now, I;
don’t blame the old man a bit, ,if he kicks 111:3th—
ing up with a cross-cut and book saw. the wood»:
for the winter’s heating supply. Mother and the
girls seem to have no consideration for dad when "
they keep the stove red hotfwmlo the. wood pile
seems to shrink like a cake of ice on a hot day?
It’s a lot easier ‘to drive to. tOwn for a load of
coal—but wait, have you got a fair- sized station
ary engine or a faithful Henry 011 the place? Then"
Why not a little saw rig that will: buzz up all of
the wood you can feed it in no time? 'At the state .~
fair this year I saw one of the attachments they,
have brought out to make your auto earn its salt.
even when it’s standing still at home by mkui‘g _'
it a regular belt- -power plant, and they had it
hooked up to a light portable saw rig that should
not cost more than ﬁfteen or twenty dollars. Now.
look around your place, have youVVa wodd,lot,e-an~
old worn-out orchard or a torn doWn rail. fence—w;
get it into ﬁrewood, saw it up for yOur pipeless _
furnace in big chunks, with some green ones
mixed in that will -hold the ﬁre these long winter
yights, let’s burn wood this Winter; cheat the
the '
trains and the _boats that are helping our Uncle—

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ALCOHOL FROM WASTE—Has any farmer in '
Michigan ever made denatured or wood alcohol
from the waste vcgctableV matter on his form? It I
can be done, we all know this-.~
every ten oh beet tops and leaVes ought to go to: ,
make alcoholwunﬁt, of course,- for human gen-VQ
sumption, but suitable for use in piece”. ofngaso
line, which now sells for from 23 to 29 cents 'per
gallon 111 Michigan. The average gasoline engi

_ will delive .vfrmn 10 per cent 11123 per cent

power :11

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that: they are destroyed Below we quote a typi-
cal letter and an opinion rendered by the attor-
nay general with respect to the duties of a high
way. commissioner to enter upon any land own-

owner himself has refused to cut. In this case
or 111 any similar case, it would appear to be

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farmer to request his highway commissioner to
enter upon the property oLanother and to destroy
the weeds that are growing there in menace to his
own property. we quote the letter and the opin-
ion as followv

“Is there any law to compel a man to cut his
,noxious weeds? We have always out ours and
kept our ﬁelds and roadside as clean as possible,
but a number of our near neighbors leave their
.weeds to flourish and the wild carrots are es-
pecially; bad. One woman a .mlllionairess, has a
farm which she uses as a country home. She
would not cut her weeds nor allow the highway

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barberry bushes of “the purple leaf var-
' got a sample laSt. spring and sent to

fulI ed the blink stem rust’s’p‘oré and should be
destroyed at once; Also an inspector called on’
Mrs. S.. and told «115;, to destroy them, but they
are stillmtanding —We are putting out about 36
acres of wheat and rye for next year and don't
like to: run {anY chances. "'4‘”. L E 1)., Law-
reuse; Michigan ; - ..

“Section 3. of chapter .24 pt not No. 283 of the
Public A;cts of 1909 makes it the duty of every
owner, possessor or occupier of land, etc., to cut
or cause to be out down and destroyed all noxious
weeds at least twice in each Year once before
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iners that certain of their‘
have neglected or refused to cut. their ~'

ers' property and destroy the weeds which the ‘

within keeping with the spirit of the law for any .

commissioner to cut them. and when he went to _
So ’because she will not '
ots that are ﬂourishing, and we who try to keep .
This woman also has about thirty of ,,

the Icoilegav They- sen-thus word that they were "

day of, September and as much oftene'r as may he --

ity and duty, of the highway Commissioner respect-

provision is speciﬁcally

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goats, is: taken care of by the last provision of

not be liable to be sued in any action of tres-
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. by golf- players in order to save gasoline is
the Suggestion of Fuel Administrator Wil-
119.qu Prudden, himself a golf player, an
auto driver and at the same time a man who
’ is supposed to be try-
ing to save all fuel pos- .
sible.

“Many men drive to
the golf grounds in our
cities alone in a big
car," says the admin-
istrator. “It would be
the simplest thing, for »
one of these men to
take three or four of
his friends, fellow play-
ers, who always go out
in the afternoon, and
thus save gasoline. One
'car could do the work of half a dozen if the
players themselves would use the telephone
a little before heading for the links and
gather up a crowd of their friends. 7

“One man’s car could be used one day, that-
ofvanother the next and so on. In the end
a lot of gasoline would be conserved and at
the same time the golf game would be un—
interrupted. Of course, I am speaking
only of week days, for if a golf player
wants to go to the links on Sundays it is
' his business to walk,» or ride in the street
car as far as he can go, then hoof It. ,

“Such a combination,” 'says Mr. Prudden,
"‘would convince some of the skeptics and
doubting Thomases that the richer class are
also trying to obey the government’s re-
quests regarding the saving of gasoline ”—
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'Will you please allow 'a woman to say a few
words? In these strenuous times of war, I sup-
posed it was everybody’s duty to strain every mus-
cle to work to win the war. We farmers’ wives
and daughters of this vicinity have donned the

Loveralls and taken the place of our boys, who, by '
,. the way have gone to ﬁght for the liberty of the

people of the United States Then to know we

‘ have thousands'of strong able-bodied men that

have time to so foolishly spend as to play golf;
,then I think that such men of leisure have it in
.their p0WeI‘ to make laws against the hardworking
masses. , Why don’t Mr. Prudden forego the
driving of his auto entirely, the way he has com-
pelled the over- worked farmer to do Mr. Hill and
myself arerpeople near 60 years of age, and have
,80 acres of land'and are giving every cent we
earn to the war funds. We have even gone with-
out'an- auto for the sake of giving all to the war.
‘We‘raised nearly, 500 bushels of grain this year,
and Len old woman, helped pitch every bundle
of‘lt, while in every little town there are lots of
'big, strong,.a--ble bodied men, 38 to 45 years old,
who sit in an easy chair looking for some woman

- to crime in so he can weight her out a half— pound

of sugar or hand her out a package 0f yeast cakes
‘a‘ job anylG-year-old girl could do, while we old
women. have to do mens’ work. Yours for right
and justh Mrs. W. M. H.. Howard (7in

DETROIT FIRMS ARE IN MAR-

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cation- Could you kindly give me the
‘ addresses of some ﬁrms Who Would
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tions the crop is In when .I served it I intended to

.. dummiesloner for entering the land of an-’ _
other and cutting weeds in a crop of growing

vacation 5 of the Act which states that ‘he shall.

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cut it to feed it to the shock'. Where anyone sows
a mixed grain would he have the. right to keep it
to feed or pastime It oat—c. E.- 3., Oopemich. .

In answering the elbow inquiry Food Admins,
istrator Prescott sends us a copy of. instructions
issued to millers regarding the grinding of rye
and mixed grains for feed. - ~

To all licensed mills and all licensed elevatdrs
having feed mills:

Owing to the scarcity of feed for stock in Mich
igan, the following general permit is issuedi

1. You are permitted to grind for feed rye that
IS unﬁt to be ground Into ﬂour, whether because"
the. rye was frosted while growing or for some
other reason. In each such case you muSt keep
a record showing the name and address of the
farmer for whom you grind the rye, and the num-
be of bushels ground.

2. When rye has become unavoidably mixed
with other grains in the growing, to such an ex-
tent that it cannot be used for grinding into
ﬂour, you are permitted to grind it for feed, but
in each such case you must require the farmer to
sign a certiﬁcate that the grain was mixed in
growing. These certiﬁcates must be ﬁled by you
for our inspection.

3. You are permitted to grind good rye for
feed for hogs if the farmer signs a certiﬁcate
stating that he has not a sufﬁcient amount of
other feed for his hogs. Under this permit you
should not grind for any farmer an amount of
good rye in excess of his requirements, for feed
for his hogs until December ﬁrst.

In giving this general permit you will see that
we are largely putting this matter up to the judg-
ment of millers and elevator men having feed
mills, in order to save all the trouble ofvsending
for a separate permit for each farmer. All we are
asking is that proper records be kept and proper
certiﬁcates taken from farmers.

I am enclosing forms of certiﬁcates that- you
should use. If you desire some of these forms,
they will be sent you if you will specify the num-
ber wanted.

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cember lst, 1918.

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Place and date ....................

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We are in receipt of several bulletins recently
issned by the U. S. Department of Agriculture;
upon subjects of interest to Michigan farmers.
Bulletin No. 974, is a complete and illustrated
treatise on clearing land. Farmers on cut-over
lands will ﬁnd this of especial value to them.
“The Soy Bean: Its culture and. uses," is the '-
name of bulletin.No. 973. While soy-beans are a7
native of more southern climes and do best in,
warmer regions, they have been found to grow
successfully and proﬁtably in states as far north
as Michigan. Bulletin No. 682 contains many val-
uable references and much information on the
“prices and quality of creamery butter.”

A fourth bulletin issued by the department. con-
tains a list of all graindrlers inthe United,
States. Following is a liSt of those in Michigan.
Union Elevator 00., Caughey ‘Jossman Company.
Detroit; Cass City Grain 00., Bay . -
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Where The Fault Lies

HERE ARE. two kinds of critics of.

the government’s conduct of the ‘war.
One of them criticizes to hurt the government
or the administration; the other criticizes to
help them. One of them harps continually
Upon the things the government failed to do
or persisted in doinga year ago; the other
conﬁnes his criticism to existing conditions
in hopes of bettering them. Partisan news-
papersand politicians out of the running
generally belong to the ﬁrst class of critics.
They prate of patriotism and“ Americanism
as they stick the dagger of political hate be-

‘tween the ribs of the nation ’s best men. They

are helping America to win the war about as
effectively as the I. W. W. To the other class
of critics belong many independent news-
papers and independent thinkers who, from
a different perspective, believe they can see

‘a better way of doing things than the way

that is being employed at the time being by
the government. They may be wrong; per-
haps in the majority of cases they are wrong,
yet their motives are strictly patriotic and
sincere.

Among the latter class may be listed the
hundred or more agricultural papers of the
nation and the scores of farm organizations.
\Vhilc it is of no special credit to them that
they have been among the most active critics
of the. government since the nation entered
the war, it does .not follow that their critic-
isms have not been valuable. On the con-
trary, there is ample evidence to prove that
the mistakes pointed out to the administra-
tion by farm papers and farm organizations
have prevented: many grievous discriminat—
tions that could only have resulted in misun-
derstanding and a lack of cooperation on the
1:1: I of the farmers.

The farmer has not always received the

fairest kind of treatment £10m the govern-
ment. As a western contemporary points
out, however, the mistakes that have been
made in this respect were of the head rather
than of the heart. Government authorities
have no doubt meant well,
mains undisputed that their ignorance has
frequently lead them into making hard and
fast rules which have called for much greater

’ sacriﬁce from the farmer than from the city,

dweller. Naturally, this error of judgment,
occurring more than once brings forth the

,farmer s resentment and protests from his

organizations and farm papers.
No true patriot will ﬁnd fault with his

it may bring him. And we cannot believe

,_ that there is alarm paper 1n America that

rseiy upon goVeﬂment regulations.
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voice in the shaping of the domestw policies
of the nation that no more than his just share
of the war. burdens shall be placed upon his
shoulders, this criticism must continue and
honest efforts be made to correct existing in-
equalities. . ~ .

McAdoo Makes Good ' _ ’l

I SIX MONTHS before the g0vernment took

over the railroads, it required from ﬁfteen
to thirty days fer us to get a carload of paper
from the mill. In one instance last winter
we were obliged to send a man to watch our
car and see that it was promptly transferred
from one road to anothher That particular
car was exactly forty days coming, from Min-
nesota to Mount Clemens. Other shippers

“had the same experience.

Compare: On August 24th a car of papei
was consigned to us from a point in New Eng-
land. On August 31st We were notiﬁed of
its arrival. The explanatiOn? McAdoo would
say, “government control.” The V‘average
railroad president would say, “pure luc '.”

In answerto a criticism of a New York
paper, Mr. Mc-Adoo recently issued a state-
ment showing What government control had
done for the railroads and for the shipping
interests of the country. The report is quite

too long to reproduce here, but one is amazed.

at the revelations it contains. A million dol-
lars saved here; two million dollars saved
there; useless salaried ofﬁcers cut off the pay-
roll; a score of economies aggregating a huge

. sum of money,—all effected within theshort
space of eight" months, and simultaneously

with an astonishing, increase'in efﬁciency. as
shown by'prompter shipments and a much
larger volume of freight and passenger traf-
ﬁc handled. ' »

If the government can successfully bring
order out of the chaos that. reigned in our
jumbled and broken down transportatiem sys-
tems during the past winter, without causing
a further halt 1n the shipping program, what,
might it not do when peace is declared and
the nation’ s best efforts can be focused upon
this great public utility?
trol is surely vindicating itself and paving

the way for permanent government owner,
ship. Let the good work goon until all pub-"

lic utilities are OWned by the people who pat-
ronize them.

Are You One of Them? ‘

' VERY FARMER in Michigan who
doesn’t believe in Fair Play;

Who has no faith in the self-made man;

Who has no use for charity, no applause
for kindly deeds,

Who prefers American aristocracy to Amer-
ican democracy; ,

Who exalts the man botn with a silver
spoon in his mouth, and belittles the man who
has pros‘fpered by the labor of his own hands,

Who measures patriotism by words rather
than by deeds; .

Who believes that the laws shall be violat-
ed with impunity , ,

Who wish to encourage the buying of pub-
lic oﬁices; _ ~

Who place policy above principle » and
party above melt:— .‘

mEvery such farmer will deny the right of

Government con- ..

The Proﬁteemg Farmer .
FEW WEEKS ago, driving from Mount"
Pleasant to Ithaca; I; met a threshmg

outfit. The driver of the threshing engine
”took no notice of‘ my approach. Perhaps he
owned the road; I do not know Anyway he ..

kept it all to himself. I attempted to pass;

_ the road was crowned quite high and the
f banks dropped steeply off to ditches on either
‘ side.

When the OE wheels Of my car struck
the wet grass on the Side of the readway they
began to slide toward the ditch The folks
promptly climbed 0111,1111; threshing outﬁt

"Went serenely on its way; and I went 111 search
. of a farmer to haul me out of the ditch. For-

tunately, I fohnd a young farmer just hitch—

' ing up his team about ten rods away and he
' verkaindly consented to give me a hand. In

short order he had the car out of the ditch
and safely in the road. With Visions of the
proverbial farmer who Soaked everybody ﬁve

dollars for pulling their car out of the mud.

I reached my hand in my pocket and said
“how much 2?” “Oh, whatever you think is

right, ” he replied. After considerable argu- -

ment he accepted ﬁfty cents! Another case

of proﬁteering l
A Bloodless jVictory

HE ACTION of the supreme court in

refusing to permit the amendment pro-
viding for the sale of light wines and beer, to
be submitted to the people this fall, effectual-
Iy kills all agitation for the return of the sa-
loon. Thus are the good temperance people
of Michigan deprived of another opportunity
of showing their love for the liquor business.
Reminds us of the Irishman who was taken
up by a policeman m a street ﬁght._ “Lemme
give ’im just wan; more; just wan more ," he.

pleaded. .

Farmers should bear in mind this fall when
they market their potatoes that the size of
the grading screen for No.1 stock has been

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‘changed from one and ﬁfteen-sixteenths inch

to one and seven’eighths inches. Exaxhine
screensclosely to see that they conform to
this size. The Michigan standard potato
should not be less than an inch and three-v
fourths in size, of good quality. If farmers stick
to this grade, no difficulty will be found. in
diSposing of their stock at premium "prices.
Michigan potatoes are alWays in good de-
mand and b1 mg top- notch prices when qual-
ity and grade can be assured

The Liberty loan campaign will soon be on

‘in earnest. Let’s hope that every community

can ﬁll its quota without disgracing itself by
mobbing some of its luke— warm patriots Tar-
‘a'ndieather parties are out Of date, and the
Prcsident doesn’t approve of them. Report
slackers and seditious utterances to the fed-

eral offioials

Let’s see the $176, 000 that were paid by

the Newberry campaign committee for Mr '

Newberry’ s: nominktmn would have? bong ‘
176 thousand dollar Liberty bonds.

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this pubhcation to tell Henry Ford’ s story," ,

and will turn a deaf ear to his defenses

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presenting Mr Ford’s Story To remain, ell-v

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or Vay any campaign bills.j :I have noti-

 
  

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“ to the Senate they need not loolf to me
for' reimbursement they can :pay it out of their
oWu pockets. I do not "care anything about par-
ties or politics or politimans I would not walk .1
across the street to be elected President of the

United States. I certainly would not make a
publicfl speech to get the nomination or to be
elected

If I am elected, however I shall go to Wash-
ing'ton- and work with the President, with every-
thing I possess; ﬁrst to win the war and then to
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jE- alone; if need be I shall take my whole organiza-
, tion with me, the men I have about me who are
hi, used to working with me and with whom I have
he ' been able ,to do things. We will go (1de there’to
[11 serve the people of the United States and the
ch world, and I will spend whatever is necessary of
he": my own mbney to serve them. That is what
70‘ _ money is geod for; it has no other vaiue. That
. g :_ is what people give me money f01 They do not '
d- E give it to me for myself. If I did not serve the
Id E people in the ﬁrst place by giving them the best
is E z car they can get for their money they would not
uLVVuE : give me any money at all. They give me more
S3 ‘E than the car costs to make,land that proﬁt I must
I, V' E use tofido other things for the beneﬁt of mankind.
,IE If I can do some things forfthe‘gOOd of all the
-, E people better in Washington than I can here, then
_ E I am willing to go to Washington for that reason
I! E "w-that and the President’s request. _
‘0‘.»‘E A request from President Wilson. to me is
“5% a command I beleive that he was put into his
‘1‘; E present ofﬁce to put an end to the war, and that
aqE under his leadership we are going to administer
Rig to militarism, and its champion such a thorough
t and crushing defeat that no nation will dare to
y :E starta war so long as people remember this one.
l“- E And long "before this war is forgotten we will
”1E have found a better Way to settle questions
18E that arise between nations, and will have made
WEE at least some progress toward giving every man
E . an opportunity to get ‘what he wants with the
. ,- E least amOunt .of labor and without robbing any
Vn'E ; one else. ,Once that sort of opportunity is un-
EVE iversal‘ and all men know it exists there will be
yn'ﬁE no excuse or desire for war. ‘
51173;: :- “I Hate War. I Am Willing to Fight Only
long : '1 to Put an Endto AllWar.”
WE HATE WAR. I am a paciﬁst, if to bélieve that
‘9; 1 war is the worst'thing in the world is ‘to be a
3w";- paciﬂst. I am willing to light only, to put an end
:1: E to all war. I beleivethiswill bethe last war;
11,-: E I think the President beleives that, too. That is
3’; E why/I have placed myself,‘my resources, my or-
E‘E ganization, in fact everything I haVe, at the com-
[.1 E mand'of the Governmentwto‘do everything pos-
E sible to makevthis the last‘war, I wish we could
E ﬁnd some other way to end this. war.—-—a_nd all
E warewithout killing a lbt of fine young men.
n E There oughtto be a better way. It was on the
y; E _ chance thatlnthere might be a bettgl‘ way that I
y E 1. took the'peace expedition to Stolkholm. I do
; E not regret that effort. I would send another
'- {E peace ship or sp'enda million dollars in any other
9 E way if I'thhought by doing so, I could shorten‘the
1" .3 war-asln'gle day. It would do no good to stop
la}; this-war, however, unless it could be stopped in

a way that'.would provide a guarantee against
future wars. Now that we understand how lm~
possible it is to negotlite with a nation that de-
liberately‘ breaks as pledges, and know how Ger-V
. many has been responsible for the most outrage-
ous treachery, there does not seem to be any way
' as but to tight it mit to a ﬁnish ‘

to win the war and by winning
" show the enemy and the Fear
001“]! ft lb to think that it

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DI’I’OR’ S NOTE

jERE BEGINS the ﬁrst of a series ‘*
. - éof articles about Henry Ford. They.
~ are mostly the wordings of Mr. FordV
himself: These articles appeared orig-
inally in the World’s Work, a magazine
' of national reputation. Later, following
the primary election, they Were copied
in the Detroit News. They are. repro-
duced here for tWo leasons. First, be-
, cause they are probably the simplest and
clearest declarations of a man’s princi-
ples ever put into print, denoting a keen
_ mind, an. unaffected speech, an honest.
humanity- loying‘heait; they tell a won—
derful, fascinating stOry in Words that
every farmer can understand. Second,
because we feel that it is every news—
paper’s dutyto tell. the truth about
Henry Ford, or any other man in the
. public ’s eye, and to correct thetllousaml
and one erroneous impressions that havc
resulted from the lies and insinuations
spread by political scandal—mongers. The
people of Michigan do not really know,
Henry Ford, the man. But we are very
sure that if our readers will follow these
articles carefully to the end they will be-
come better acquainted with him and
better able to judge his character and
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ped to defeat her: When you have great indust-
ries whose business is making war materials, and
a great army of professional soldiers whose bus-
iness is fighting, war is bound to come sometime;
they cannot earn a living without war. If there
was no profit in war for any one. there would be
no war. It is because people can make money
out of War that war occurs. I do not believe in
killing men for money or to get something that
belongs to some one else, whether it is money or
land" or the right to live in liberty and peace.
That is why I will not take a cent of profit out
of the war work' I am doing. Liberty motors,
Eagle boats, Helmets, Tractors, Ambulances.
Trucks—everything we are making for the Gov-
ernment will be made without profit; I will ﬁnd
some way to give those proﬁts back to the Gov-
ernment, for I cannot prevent the proﬁts from
accuring. since it is impossible to determine in
advance just What the cost of everything will
be and the prices had to be ﬁxed in advance.
But. personally, I am not going to touch a dollar
of war profits. My share will be carried baCk

into the United States Treasury, and I am hoping

that other stockholder." will do the same. I
cannot think of anything worse to accuse a man
of than of being a war proﬁteer.

.Has No Use for Dollar Patriotism

DO NOT believe in the kind of nationalism that

tries to set one country up against another. That

is what causes wars. It keeps people from under-
standing each other. If the German people under-
stood the French people, do you suppose they
would be at war today? But the men who con-
trol governments for, their own proﬁt ﬁnd it to
their interest to hoist the flag and rally their
subjects ~around it and make them believe the
people of other, nations hate them and are try~
ing to injure them. Then secret diplomacy comes
in and the people are led to believe their liber-
ties are threatened and they are ready to go to
War,
Of course.

People couldlnot be made to hate each other if
there were absolute freedom of intercourse be-
tween them, if they were. not lied to by those
‘with selfish interests to serve. There are no real

differences except those ‘caused‘ by environment ’

and opportunity between the peopie of America
and the people of the rest of the world. The
,4)hrase “Made in America" doesn’t mean anything
unless it means that the thing it is stamped on
is; the best of its kind. The only thing that counts

in the long run is quality, and it some fellow in "

Germany or Russia or China can make a better

'y:_ on than the Eord and sell it cheaper, let him do'

The .nation they attack has to ﬁght back,

   
 

Quality is What counts,,and notliln
but quality. The men who want high protective
tarigf are the ones Who are trying to get away ..
with poor Quality 80065 or to make a larger pro-

ﬁt thanthey are entitled to. So long as we
keep people from buying the best goods in the
cheapest market by setting up artiﬁcial barrierst
so long we will be maintaining conditions that
tend inevitably to wa1. A maulcan loye his nat.
ive land-as I love mine, without feeling obliged
to ,talk patriotism'all the time. I have no VmOre
use for patriotism that is measured by dollars
than I have for war itself. Dr. Johnson said
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Wants the Big Estates Broken Up

HE WA'Y to end war permanently is to give

everyone in the world a chance to get what ' _

he wants at a price he can afford to pay. Huo
man nature is essentially selﬁsh. We all want things
forourselves and we want to get them with as.
little trouble and labor as pessible. I am for
that. I think it should be made as easy as pos-
sible for people to get what they want. The prim
cipal things pe .ple-want are life. liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness. They cannot hope to be
happy unless they are sure of a comfortable liv-
ing with leisure in which to enjoy themselves.
if all the people of every country were sure of
that. if they had it within their reach in return
for a reasonable effort to get it. there could be
no war. because war is caused by people trying to
get something they can’t. get. think they can’t get.
by any other means. Almost everywhere people
have taken their governments into their own
hands and have real liberty within their grasp;
they will take the government into their own
hands in Germany and Austria. too.

Then they must take the land into their own
hands. When a few people own most of the land
there cannot be real liberty. They are breaking
up the big estates in England and before they get
through nobody will be allowed to hold more land
than he can put to the most profitable use. The
big estates in Germany must be broken up. too.
What we must do is to give everyone a chance to
own his own piece of land and teach him how to
live on it. The key of the whole problem is edu.
cation. We must teach men that they can live
well and comfortably without spending every wak-
ing hour in drudgery. and provide the means by
which they can do this. 1“ * *

The solution of the world's economic problems
will never be complete until the problem of liv-
ing in freedom and happiness has been solved
for every individual. for all society rests on the.
individual. To accomplish this we must connect
up the three basic arts of agriculture, industry;
and transportation and supplement these by
education. The Ford car has done more than
anything else to help solve the transportation
problem, but the same principle that has been
applied in the construction of the Ford car must
be applied to railroad transportation. That prin-
ciple is to reduce weight where ever possible 1
without sacriﬁcing strength.

Now. what the railroads need to do is to apply
the same principle to their rolling stock. They \
must use better steel and build their cars and en-
gines lighter. The ordinary freight car in many
cases weighs more than the load it carries; pass-
enger cars as many times heavier than their
loads. A Pullman car, carrying 50 peOple, weighs
between 120,000 and 150.000 pounds. This. means
that the equipment of a railroad costs too-mach,
in the first place, and that there is a terrific waste
of power ~ln hauling the empty cars. Rails and _
roadbeds have to be beaver and more expensive»
than they should be. bridges and trestlos too
heavy and costly. The average movement of
height trains is between 25 and 28 miles a day.
undet normal conditions. They could move ire»
ight much faster and at less ,cost if they were
built lighter, and the difference could be expended,
in increased power and terminal facilitiesw—th'e'7v
lack of which has been so apparent during th
last two years. “
times faster and passenger trains could move
safer speeds. It would not cost so much.

  

   
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    
  

 

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' to; be born quite so soon; an’ once or twice we've
3‘ made up our mind to try an’ git in on some pre-

text or ’nother ’an’ see some of the scrimmidge

see, We’ve got tellers 'here—-—you-ng men——some of
’em would-be lawyers an’ sich who’ve been shoot-

in" off their mouths to the boys whenever they’ve .

been called on to go, tellin’ these splendid boys

accomplished. 3

What a wonderful thing it was to ﬁght for one’s -

country, an’ how they envied them their oppor-
tunity, an’ a lot of hot air like that (said lawyers
in class 3, I suppose felt safe in
sayin’ such things,
called.) But now lissen: Our draft board. after
.hearin’ a lot of this envyin’ stuff, and thinkin’
the young fellers really meant What they said,
jest in a kindly way dropped the young bucks
back to class one an' thus gave them opportunity
to take their places with the very boys they had
been envyin’ in such a splendid way, spreadin'
themselves all over the stage in doin’ it, an folks
thot they were truly wonderful young men an'
sort 0’ looked up to ’em an’ believed in ’em an’
respected ’em, too. ,.

But lissen again: When they found themselves
in class one with their splendid opporturﬁty open
To ’em, what did they do? ,Well, they ﬂew to

-Lansing jest as darned quick as they could get

there an’ by some sort of tale, told as lawyers
know how to tell it, they got put back in class
three. while useful men—farmers an’ others are
in class one an’ are goin’ to the front every day.
an’ these young fellers are walkin’ the streets,
heads up in the air an’ seem to be quite proud of
what they've done. But b’gosh. they ain't in the
envyin’ business quite so much as before, just
take it from me! '

Well, mebby‘it’s all right at that but what will
these tellers an' others like ’em say to our boys
when they come back from “over there?” Now,
.let me tell you something: I know what ails these
chaps,
-—it's cold feet.

As I said in the beginning of this letter, some-
times I think I will try an’ git into the game
some way, an' then I get to thinkin’ of them d——
German cut- throats an’ how they shoot bullets
right into men ’s faces; of the trenches an’ things

thinkin’ they would not be-

eible to make the people apIp
the dairy products as flood They.- doInot seem to

- be willing to pay more for milk: so

paid ﬁve or six years a‘gm other commodities

’and foOds have advanced, some tWo, three and

four-iold, but an increase of 25 to 35 per cent 011,. 1

whole milk is looked upon as robbery, simply be-
cause it has never been considered a necessity, ~
it has always been considered a beverage and not;
a food.

The fact is now with the research and experi-
ments made by Dr. McCallum of the John Hopkins
UniverSity it has been demonstrated beyond all’

peradventure that if we have healthy children ‘

we must give them milk. He has demonstrated-:5 {I
by hundreds of experiments that without milk : :

the young Will not grow. - ’ -1

II am anxious to get the farmers or Michigan i‘

interested in the dairy I’industry in time to take
advantage of the tremendous demand that is going
to be made by the warring countries of EurOpe. I
do not know of anybody who could render better
service than MICHIGAN BUSINESS MRMING and I

just believe you Icould take 'thisIODDOI‘Itun‘ItY’YOUF'I

selves to get a place in the respect, conﬁdence
and affection of’ the dairy farmers of Michigan. —‘
D. D Attic-€71 Pres.

)America Flint, M 1071 won.

‘.

’cause I’ve got the same complaint myself .

Gasoline Conservation

Why does the government try to shut d0wn on
the running of autos on Sunday? That is the only

time farmers have to get away from home. They”-
have to work and be right 611 the job six days in .,
You don’t see many farmers go to. II
the lake and stay from one to two weeks““a”s the, I.

the week

merchants do, and when it comes Sunday they
like to get away for a little while. If they want
to save gasoline why don’t they anew the car.
owners to draw, say 15 gallons of gasoline a Week,"

and if they want to use it in one day let them do -

so and then go without until their time comes
again Of course, we are all anxious to help in
every way we can, but it does not look right to,
set down on the farmers all\ of the time. Of
course there are a lot of pleasure Icars run for-
nothing else, while the farmer’s car- is used for
business. I am simply asking for information,

not to kick but I think it would be better to allow
so much gasoline per Week than try to shut off
entirely on Sunday. Now don’t you think so?

Put it on a card system, as sugar, and/ let the“
I am ;

tourists taker-theirs as well as the farmer.
not the only one who feels this way abOut it?—
0. L. B. Paw Paw. -
Where Does The Farmer Come In
Your valuable paper the M. B F has got the

'Imost good horse sense in it of any paper I ever ,,

read. Here is a clipping from the GrandRapids
Herald of September 10th. Please compare it With,
the farmer, who from now until

like that, an' then my feet commence to git celd yam get up at 4 30 or 5. 00 in the morning» and work 1

an’ a Sort of chill runs right up an’ down along
my back-bone, an' by ginger. I feel so kinda down
in the month an’ all. that I yank off my shirt an’
back .up to‘the lookin' glass to see if there ain't
a yellow streak along my \spinal column, an'
when I see that color,
jest buckle down to my work a little harder an’
tryto git rid of the yellow feelin’, an’ sometimes
I sort 0’ wear it off that way, but I know if I was
ten years younger than I am an’ had done as
much envyin' as some. that. darn streak would be
a permanent ﬁxture an’ don’t you fergit it. either.

When we see our farmer boys, who are workin’
to keep the world fed, an’ useful, taken, an’ a lot

- of fellers like these I have mentioned, Whose only

callin’ is obtainin’ divorces for disgruntled men
an’ women who want to shirk their matrimonial

IIv'obligations left here to be fed-an’ clothed by the

already over- -worked farmers, it kind 0’ looks as
some of

. this class put under the work or ﬁght order, an' I

.111 the ”last two or three drafts in the countyI,-,_I_
me than half of the selected men have been

boys, taken right out ofthe ﬁelds, where ,

even slightly, ‘b’gosh I!

, thousands on spectacular dinners, while the lower ,
class barely gets along The upper crust raise

f‘j‘I'thi-nk ﬁghtin’ would be about the right dope, don’t ,
" "you? I -I

like a slave until 9:00 or 10: 90 o’clock at 1113111,
and do this six days in the week. Then- when he

gets all of his stock taken care of on Sunday he. '
may want to go to church, he has— to go and hitch '-

up the poor horse that has worked hard all the
week and drive him ﬁve miles to church and back,

while his auto stands idle in his garage. I’d like‘
to know Where the justice in such doings are.

This is the exact thing my neighbor has done.

If he dared to take the auto out the mob gang,
which is in every town, would have done himI
damage, for this man is a German. but a loyal

citizen —~W. H. Howard City Michigan.

The Idle R-iCh

‘One of the strange things about the capitalise
tic system is the queer' contradiction to which~
it gives rise. An upper class preaches thrift to
a owler one and then goes ahead and spends

their hands in horror at a shorter Work day 1.5
the lower class and Would themselves feel

rounding it IIi such

. 1101.1

Holstein-Fricsian Ass’n of.

snow ﬂies has '

elation to live here so.- cient to justif gih’e ex_-

_ bense of keeping a fort at this ‘place ”

. In 1893,11ij years later, the place where

that fort stood had a po

a halt a‘pd 27,090, (100 people visited her exposi-
I rater of course, to Chicago. ' ' -

Man-yra‘ bride Who thinks she Will own her own

er. , g

'I . TOO MUCH BIVALRY . "- '
“HoW is your wife making out With those on-
10118 Ishe is raising in a ﬂower-pot?'_’ . 4
“They’ be drooping.
hairpin was: all very well, but I don’t think per-

,fume'irom an atomizer is the sort of irrigation
they need” . -_ .

IIIE BOILEI) run IIrEAIs '71:

automobile is often satisﬁed with a vacuum clean-

lation' of a 1111111011 and...

Stirring the soI11Iw‘1‘111 aII

IIIPaIt andI Mike, having been to confesssion, had to;

so aisy‘ an’ niver a
bit do ye complain of yer feet boil? sore?"

"Begorry" answered Mtké,-“an didn’t ye boil

yer peas before puttin them in yer shoes? That‘ e
What I dic. " - . _ ,

I. "

I AN AWAKENING

,do penance by walking several times up and'
- - down a steep hill with peas in their shoes.
, they had; done so several times, Pat said to Mike:
"mike. hoW is it ye can well!

‘After .

The Wife of a congressman had two sons .Wh‘o '

II Were in the habit of takiii'g the pretty nurse maid

out for. a good’iime The boys, WOuld not own up

,- to it Lwhen She tried to caution them lest chei.’

father learned of the situation.
She'- théh‘ Went to the pretty nurse and by I_Ia

little ﬁnesse disarmed he'r of thinking she was

. ,.-. displeased

- “Minna ’-'I she- said~-
‘ ‘Welllt—baid‘the maid,- 3‘1 think I prefer Harry.

.m 1 I.

but. for a real good time I like your husband

best.” . . ~
~., Wan TIIME was“ '
A11 anaemic elderly woman, who looked as if

.._.«.-

IIIsIhe might have as much maternal affection as an
I. -. incubator, sized up a broad- shouldered cockneyI
I Who was idly looking ~11-1’to a window

Strand, and in a rasping voice said to him: .. .
“‘My good man, why aren’t you in the trencheaI‘?I
Aren’t you Willing to do anything for your coun-

’ try?”

Turning ardund slowly, he looked at her a sec-I:
0nd and replied contemptuously:
f‘Move ',=on you slacker! Wheres your war;

, which Iof the ‘boys do you ‘
: liketo go 0111 With beet Tum or Harry?”

on the “

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a which all dealers are so familiar.

, hay at this time are perfect-
Within their rights to withhold

pments for subsequent advances. ,_

"c. lave alu‘ays insisted that supply
, and‘ilemand and resulting prices Will
automatically Lring hay to market at
the proper timer Busmeas is 'not to-
day conducted along normal lines,
however; and hay shippers in both
country and terminal points Who pre;
' {or to store ‘t’dday’s receipts in Ware-
houses againSt anticipated price ad

~~r~vaucea ivill do well to recognize the

following suggestions. Last year’ s
congested, transportation situation—-
limited car Supplies, particularly fer
ha}. g‘Which‘ is a bulky, ‘ inexpensive
commodity and not attractive to the
carriers-18 of c'Ourse, recalled. This
situation will doubtless be aggravated
rafher than alleviated this winter, and
leases through deterioration or pose!-
ble price levels made 011 glutted mar—
Rate for hay, which may be shipped in
midwinter months, may more than
discount the difference in price on
todays market and the anticipated
value after thefﬁrst oi the year. It is
not particularly suggested, therefore,
that patriotism is the sole considera-
tion expected by. the government ‘in

the intensive use of. box care now, id

92119131“ conserve, space next. Winter.
.101: esSent‘ials which may not be moved
as canythe hay crop at this time, but
it is put up to the dealer, however, on
a business basis whether it it is really
Izi8e to, tie up a‘ considerable invest-
ment in warehoused hay, chalice its
oration and, long delayed dellv.

~ sﬁn'ally, decided to load

f‘and the many other details with
We
9111a}; remind our readers in this con-

nection of the regrettable experiences . ~

' it 01"th winten When? hay. was loaded

‘ “ in some inhtances two or three months '

: hetero it was ﬁnally delivered and
unloaded The condition of it was
awful, and so .11 other considerations

‘ are iii your opinion now favorable, it
“ Iiay. be safe to urge the advantage or ,.

prompt shiMent before the ﬁrst of
the year. —-—Price Current Grain Re-

 

 

 

 

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.- an other, advance. Bay 82 higher.

moss 106 higher.

I) r
-

{rite the advancing costs of produc-
latch-,1; record acreage will be planted
.to wheat this fall. The government
price on 1919 wheat, whet-her it will
give to all growers a proﬁt or not, at
least protects the grower from the
low prices of over— prodt ct1on, which

is 'no mean assurance in these abnor-.
There will be plenty of '

mal times.
Wheat next year, probably enough to
g0 around the allies’ big table with-
out scrimplng, providing the growing
seasons are at all favorable
for Wheat prOducts continues about
normal the expectation of the trade
would
stimulate buying, not having been
Justiﬁed as yet

 

. Chitin New York
No. 2 Yellow . ' .
o. 3 Yellow

0. 4-Yelloiv’

 

 

" ,The corn market has been very much

‘ unsettled the past week and is quoted

at fullyﬁve cents less than a week
ago. This ﬂuctuation was largely due
to improved weather conditions, al-
tho ﬂoat visited some sections of the
corn belt last week, to freight embar-
goes that are hampering the movement
of the Crop, and to ample supplies of
both old and'new corn. Dealers in
corn tutu-res were not eager buyers as
the Austrian peace note, indicating a
possible early terminatiOn of the War,
scared them off from heavy purchas-

ing Of course, all markets with the '
.eXCeption of wheat, hinge

more or
less upon the war, but with a big
shortage of corn, it would appear to
be a wise policy for the farmer who
must purchase com for his livestock

to buy early for the price is surely ,
going higher.

, How anyone can ﬁg-
ure the market any differently is a
mystery, to us Last year at this time

markets 011Lthis page are corrected up to 10 o ’clock Wednes-

, Spatial Tuesday night wires give us the most! com-

' news and. prices tWen'tfy-four hours later than quoted
other farm paper Circulating in Michigan.

QI'I‘. 905th higher, government buying 1arge.quantities.
Blight activity in beans.
CHICAGOa-e-All grayins steady: hay demand continues to exceed supply; po-
Live stock steady.

Demand ‘

 

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corn was selling at better than $2. 00
per bushel,
sight

than a year ago, and the man who has

~ to buy corn ought. to know what that

means.

 

Chic-1n hrw 11.11

73 . 73
. ' 72 1-2 .72
No. 4 Whit. u 1.2 .70

Standard oats have advanced a full
three cents over last week’s quota—
tions. Liberal government purchases
for both domestic and foreign account
have taken the excess supplies and
as we go to press the market rules
ﬁrm with a tendency toward still high-
er prices. Whether this condition
will continue as the marketing season
advances we are unable to say. Be—
~cause of large foreign oat crops. the
export demand is expected to fall off,
in fact, it has already diminished to
a considerable extent and the effect
eventually can only be of a bearish na-
ture. The southwest, usually a large
producer of grains for home consump-
tion. will be compelled to call upon
other states for supplies as much of
its own crop was ruined by unfavor-
able weather. This is frequently the
history of a market, that while one
inﬂuence weakens another strengthens
so that. the normal condition is sus-
tained without much variation. ~_

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The rye market continues steady.

Both demand and supply are light.
(Continued on following page)

 

 

 

THE WEATHER

As ferecasted bv W '1‘. Poster for MICHIGAN Bustnss FARMsn

Dangerous
Stem

has

Last bulletin gave forecasts of dis-
turbances to cross continent Sept. 22
to 26, warm wave 21 to 25, cool wave
24 to 28. This will be the last of the
great storms of this month; they have
repeatedly anticipated and described.
It will be followed by a severe cold
wave that will carry frosts further
-south than usual Frequent showe1s
will precede th1s~001d wave and freez-
ing weather in- northern sections.

It ls‘full time to sow winter wheat
in nor-ther‘n parts of winter wheat sec-
tion, but I not a’dvi'sing every one
to Sow winter wheat I could not do
’ so without knowing some of the de-
ta1lsoabouththe ki ride; soil each farmer

 

 

 

'wave about one day behind

_ d1 y weather.

. \ 3.1108.

FOR THE WEEK

ssee valleys 30, eastern sections Oct.
1, reaching vicinity of Newfoundland
about Oct. 2. ,Storm wave will follow
about one day behind Warm wave, cool
storm
wave.

This, will develop higher tbsp usual
temperatures and the storm forces will
be fully up to the average. followed
by a cool wave that may not reach
very low temperatures but unusually'
cold weather is expected from Oct. 10
to 1‘1. This will be the coldest part
of October. Temperatures will go
high again about Oct 19 and be fol-
lowed by moderate weather to end of
month

The gr eat drouth will not end during
Octobel. Some rams we expected,
but they will do less good than usual
and the moistuxe will rapidly evapor-
ate. The Mexican drouth ended in
May 1918 and the great drouth be-
gan in June following. Some are dis-
couraged about the long continued
These bulletins will.
continue to announce cropweather
conditions a month or more in ad-

Very dangerous storms and most
precipitation are expected during the"
nine days, centering on Oct. 2 Can—
ada Will get most rain during that
per d and much of «the Canadian Boll
wi be put in good conddtion

 

 

 

With a record crop in.
This year’s‘crop is estimated ,
*vnow at ,fully 500,000,000 bushels less

Figures Show Michigan Crap is ' L ‘
Twenty-Two Per Cent Larger .
Than 1917, But 136,000 - '
' Bbls Less Than the ‘
L Aug. Estimate
The bureau of cr0p estimates has is-

sued a special commercial apple to-
port for September showing an esti-

mated production of 2 million barrels n" .V
as compared to 22 and a half million .

in 1917 and 25 million in 1916. F01- ,
lowing are some of the regional re-
ports:

New Yo1k with a promised produc-
tion of 6, 623 000 barrels or 41, 394 cars
as compared to 14 900 cars in 1917 is
the outstanding feature of the apple
situation this yeai. Western New
York on account of 1ecent rains and
favorable conditions has advanced
over the August estimate while Hud-
son Valley has shown a decline from
lack of rain.

The New England crop has shown
a rather sharp reduction, the Maine
crop now being estimated at 23 percent
as compared to 31 percent in August,
the Baldwin crop in the more impor-
tant counties of that state approach-
ing a complete failure. ,

The extreme hot, dry weather of.
August caused heavy damage to the
Apple crop in Kansas, Missouri, South-
ern Illinois and Indiana. The small
production in Oklahoma and Texas
was nearly wiped out by ’he drouth.
Dry weather extending in Michigan
also caused a reduction in that state.
in some sections the stems of the ap-
ples were dried up thus causing pre-
matme ripening and a heavy drop of
1711111. Apples in most orchards are
below normal in size. The orchard
that has been well pruned, well spray-
ed. well fed and cared for is bringing
to maturity the only crops approach-
ing normal in size. color and quality. ,

The southern Ohio district promises
259,000 barrels as compared to 121,000
barrels last year. Apples are small
in size, due to drouth during August;
otherwise good quality Other parts
of Ohio have a spotted crop and for
the most part the fruit will go on,
local markets, with the exception of:

Columbiana county which has a few

hundred cars. .

The dry weather in Michigan. of the
past month has caused a further ‘de—
cline in the apple crop. -The state as
a whole shows a decline of 136,000
barrels over the August lst estimate,
but an increase of 421,000 barrels or
22 percent over the 1917 crop. Part of
western Michigan winter crop will'be
marketed in bushel baskets.

Good crops in Washington, Oregon
and California. although somewhat
under 1917 production for these three
states; a very light crop amounting
to almost a failure in Idaho, and 'a
considerable decline in the conditl‘n
of the apple crop on. the western slope
of Colorado during July on account of
worm injury and smaller size, Sum-
marize the western boxed apple situ-
ation on September 1. The production,
in Washington, Oregon and Idaho is
estimated at about 20, 666 cars of 750
boxes each as compared with 24 ,900
cars in 1917.

MONTANA TO VOTE'ON :7
STATE OWNED ELEVATORS

The people of, Montana will he:
called upon Nov. 5th to vote: on, the
question of issuing bonds of $250099
to build a terminal elevator at ’ "
Falls, to be controlled and one

.by the state authorities «Pliny:
2 they come to omit voting;

 


  
 

  
 

 
 

   
  
 

 
 
 
  
 
 

least make up for the fall-
melting st. k demand. Ex-
date are practically double

 
 
 
   

     

 

No. l Stud-rd No.
Timothy Timothy Timothzy
29 50 30 00 28 50 29 00 27 50 2. 00
32 00 34 003! 00 32 0° 30 00 31 59
325‘ 33 003200 32 503100 3150
‘ 30 SO 31 00 30 00 30 50 29 00 30 00
33 00 34 00 30 00 32 00:29 90 30 50

 

No. No. No. 1
Light Mixed Clover Mixed I Clo'ver
28 50 .0 24 50 25 00|73 5" 24 0°

32 503100 '32 103100 31 so
.31 50 30 00 :11 50125 00 26 oo
29 so 21 00 23 0027 00 23 00
31 oo 29 00 3100123 00 30 oo

3! 00
31,00
28 50
30 00

 

 

 

 

 

 

New hay is now coming in to the

« V eastern markets more or 1e55, freely,

but sells at about the same prices as

‘ " offered for old hay. The demand con-

tinues fairly good, and the supply of
the better grades is limited. Several
cars of hay were sold in New York
last week at $33 per ton. Poor hay
is not wanted and goes begging at $11
to $15 per ton. Detroit: has reported
daily for several weeks that hay was
soarce and ﬁrm and offerings of N0. 1
timothy may be expected to bring any-
where from $27 to $30 per (on. There
is nothing in the present trend of the
market to indicate that hay will be
much lower even when shipments of
new 'hay are flush.

  
   

 

i Chic-[o I New York

, 10.50 ,1 12.50

I 9.59 “.50
i2. 00 10.00 12.50

 

 

For the ﬁrst time in several weeks
the bean market again shows, slight
signs of activity. Disastrous weather
conditions in bean sections during
harvesting have had a slightly bullish
effect upon the market. This has not
yet been felt to any degree in the De-
troit market, but Pittsburgh reports
a little better demand. Our predic-
tions a few weeks ago that the market
on' new beans would start in at a low

,ﬁgure have been veriﬁed, and we ex-
-pect that by the time threshing is
completed and the quality and quan-
tity of the crop is known. trading
.‘will become more active and prices
will advance. If the bean market is
going to be as unstable this year as
.last, it will require close watching.

 

The'potato market was never in a
more healthy condi.ion. Of course,
there is tendency toward over-cau-
tionsness on the part of buyers who
lost money last year, but even this
has not forced the market down to a
level where it might be expected to
‘ "g’o, in view of the liberal receipts on
the primary markets and the com-
paratively large crop estimated by the
government. A much larger part of

Mike 1918 crop has moved to market

favoring the past three weeks than dur-
irig the same period a year ago, and
‘,yet:. prices remain steady. Minneso-
ta-h'as already shipped thousands of
cars and the movement from Wiscon-
.sin' is increasing rapidly. Little Mich-
' M'n stuck has yet found its way to
‘ hot, and a couple more weeks are
hired to mature the crop. Prices
’ Chicago mark t closed last
lightly higher ban the Week
There is much room for be-
the government estimate of

New York and Maine have
prospects to quite an ex-

 

' from the lake belt of

{01116, Arkansas, and also her'N

land states, I1»,:11nois 11111111112; 1:,

, tucky, Iowa, 11111111191111.1111 Kansas 9-.

  

are almost total failures. the south’
ern production, where the bulk or the»
.crop was locatedthis year, is now en-
tirely off‘the 'market. The'bulk of"

the far west crop has moved, as has '
states. .

that of the middle Atlantic
Western \‘ew York,‘ Ohio and Mich-
gan are the only extensive peach pro-
ducing centers yet to be harvested,
the crop of wh ch in most sections

» approaches a failure.

Still further decline over August
estimates in the northern states em.
phasize the exceedingly light crap in
the northern peach belt, cdmprising
the states of, Michigan,_.0hio, New'

' York and New England. These states ‘
1600 to 1800\

promise to ship from
cars this year, 1300 of which will come
Western' New
York. Last year this group of states
shipped about 10,500 cars despite the
very light 1917 crop in Michigan and
Ohio. A normal commercial produc-
tion for these states would be about
15,000 cars.

Interest in the New York crop cen-
ters in the Lake Ontario counties. The
state will ship from 1300 to 1500 cars
Of commercial peaches which will all
come from the lake belt, which last
year shipped about 7200 cars. Other
parts of the state are a total failure.
Niagara county promises to ship a
little better than 500 cars, the same
county shipping 2500 cars in 1917. On
account of the very large size and ex-
cellent quality of the peaches the quan-
tity may slightly exceed 1300 cars.
Elbertas are now moving in quantity
from New York state.

Ohio with 6 percent of a crop, will
ship not to exceed 200 cars this seas-
on and practically all of these will
move in small lots.

Michigan now promises only 5 per-
cent of a crop,‘and the 60,000 bush-
els commercial will practically all go
to market in local express shipments
and very few, if any, cars will be load-
ed for interstate shipment. Dry wea-
ther reduced earlier prospects. New
Proliﬁc, Carmen, Champion, Engles’
Mammoth. and Gold Drop are variet-
Very few El-

ies hearing this year.
bertas are found.

   

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ﬁcult to find a proﬁtable market for
his milk may soon ﬁnd it to his ad-
vantage to get out the old churn and
make butter providing butter market
‘continues on its upward climb. City
consumers are today paying 59 cents
per pound for creamery butter. Dairy
butter is hard to secure at any price.
The government has taken over 60
per cent of all\storage butter and the

    
 

 

 

 

 

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\ Following the Jewish holidays of

last week which abOut cleaned up the
accumulating supplies, the demand. for
poultry has declined very largely and
as a result the supply is somewhat in
excess of needs. All markets roport
poultry inactive, with prices, lower
than prevailed fthe ﬁrst part or the
past week. This sluggishness is be-
lieved to be only temporary.

for the balance of the year should be

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Allied government purchases of
eggs in Chicago and New _York have
had a most invigorating effect upon
the market, and the price in Chicago
advanced nearly a. cent a day all last
week which failed, however, to secure
all the supplies the trade could take
care of. The order of the food admin-
istration that all eggs must be can-
dled, thereby insuring a somewhat
better keeping quality, has had much-
to do with stabilizing the demand.

East Buffalo Live Stock Letter
East Buffalo. N. Y., Sept. 17, 1918.—

Receipts of cattle Monday,- 265 cars, ‘

including 70 cars ~oif Canadians and
26 cars left from last week’s trade.
Trade opened 40 to EOclower on med-
ium weight and weighty steer cattle
which were in moderate supply; .but-
cher steers and handy weight steers
sold 500 lower than last week, fat
COWS and heifers were in good sup-

' ply, sord 50c to 750 lower; bulls of all

classes sold 40 to 500 lower; canners
and cutters were in very good'supply,
sold 50c lower; fresh cows and spring-
ers were in moderate supply, sold $5
to $10 per head lower;
feeders were in good supply, sold «ful-
ly 50c lower than last week; yearlings
were in very light supply, sold steady.
Receipts of cattle Tuesday totaled
30 cars, including 22 cars left
Monday‘s trade. The market
steady on all grades. V
Receipts of hogs Monday totaled
9000 head. The market opened steady,
with the bulk of hogs selling at $21.25
to $21.35. A few choice light mixed

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sumption of all meats and the demand .

stockers and ‘

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, M few. bunches ”of
choice W9 weather lambs sold 111!
to $18. 75; ' $15. 50 to $16; year-
lings, $1410 .615, as to weight and
quality; v'vethers, , $13.25 to $13. 75;

    
    

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and Quality.

The receipts cf sheep ‘and lambs on
Tuesday were about 600 head. Choice

ewe and weth-er lambs sold from
$18.25 to $18. 50; all other
about steady with Monday.

Choice to prime weighty steers,

$17. 50 to $18; medium to good weigh~
ty steers, $16. 50 to $17; plain and
coarse weighty steers, $14 to $14. 50;

choice to prime handy weight and
medium weight steers, $14. 50 to $15;

fair to geod handy weight and med-
ium Weight Steers, $13. 50 to $14;

choice to prime yearlings, $15. 00 to
$15 50; fair to good yearlings, $14 to
$14. 50; medium to good butcher
steers, $11. 50 to $12; fair to medium
butcher steers, $10.50 to $11; good but-
cher heifeis, $11.50 to $12; fair to
medium butcher heifers, $10 to $10 50;

good to choice fat cows, $10 50 to $11;

medium to good fat cows, $9 to $9. 50;

fair to good medium fat cows, $8 to
$8 50; cutters and common butcher-
cows, $7 to $7. 5;0 canners. $6 to $6. 50;

good to choice fat bulls, $11 to $11 50;

medium to good fat bulls, $10 00 to
$10. 50; good weight sausage bulls. $9
to $9150; light and thin bulls, $7 .50
to $8; good to best stock and feeding
steers, $10 to $10. 50; medium grades
of stock and feeding steers $9 to $9. 50;-

common to fair stock and feeding
steers, $8 to $8. 50; good to choice
fresh cows and springers $90 to $120;

medium to "cod fresh cows and spring-
ers, $75 to $90.

VDetroit Live Stock Market

Detroit, Sept. 17. ——Cattle: Market
steady; best heavy steers, $12 to $14;
best handy weight butcher steers,
$10.50 to $11.25; mixed steers and
heifers, $9 to $9 50; handy light but-
chers, $8 to $8. 50; light butchers,
$7. 50 to $8; best cows, $9 to $9.25;
butcher cows, $7 to $8.50; cutters
$6. 25 to $6. 50; canners, $6 to $625;
best heavy bulls $8. 50 to $9. 50; feed-
ers, $9 to $10; stockers, $7 to $9.

Veal calves~Market steady;
$19 to $19 50; others, $7.5 0to $17.

Sheep and lambs—Lambs, 25 to 50c

best

higher; sheep steady; best lambs
$17. 25 to $17. 40; fair lambs, $16 to
$16 50; light to common lambs $13
to $15; fair. to good sheep, $10 50 to
‘ $11; culls and common, $5 to $7 .10
Hogs—Pigs steady; other grades.
15 to 20c lower; pigs, $20.25; mixed

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HIGHEST HAY PRICES
WEEK ENVDIVIVVG SEPT. 14

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New York ..... . ........ $83.00 $27.00
Boston . . . ........ 31.00 20.00
Philadelphia . . ‘ 32.00 26.50
Baltimore .. . . . . ....... 33.00” 11.00
Providence 29.00 20.00
Pittsburth . . ...... 31.00 26.00
Pittsburgh: prairie . . . 18.00 '
Richmond . ..... 35.00 29 0.
Chicago ................ 33.00 16 90
Chicago prairie ...... 28.00
St. Louis... . .1 .......... 33.00 27 ()0
St. Louis Prairie . . 30.00 ,
Vgulutih . ‘ ...... 28.00 I‘ _
' etrot .. . ...... 28.00 18.
Kansas City . ....-.. 29:50 233:
Kansas City prairie». .. 27.00 "
Minneapolis . . . . ....... 27.00 24 00
Minneapolis prairie ,. . 25.50
St Paul ... .......... 28.25 22.75
_ VV stpaul prairie .. . . . 26.2.5
"‘» Jacksonville ’ ......... 37.50 ”1
Cleveland . .' . . . 1’. . . "30.50

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Wheat at'
Lake City this week was quoted at

.‘ftrotn $1. 80 to $2; oats, 650; rye, $1. 50. ~—
-_‘;."H.- E N.. Cutcheon.

Oheboygon (Seuth) —— Threshing is

'_; in full blast and grain yielding good.
,,,'Weather ideal.
T ‘, seine already being cut.
. of. buckwheat is also being harvested
" Considerable fall wheat and rye being

Corn maturing ﬁne;
A good crop

sO‘Wn. Early potatoes a small yield, -

- very few in a; hill; late ones very little

No froSts' to
Lots of fall apples

better, about half crap.
any extent as yet.

'Vgoi11g to waste; people are canning

drying and using them in all kinds of
ways, but still many will rot on the
ground and no market for them. Farm
melp very scarce, farmers changing
work and trying to get their work
done. No county fair here this year;

peeples minds are on other things.

A number of farm auctions are being

held, farmers are selling cattle very

close" on account of the scarcity and
the high prices of feed. —~—Wolvem‘ne.

sowing
Wheat and rye and cutting corn. The
weather shovvery and cool. Selling
stock and grain. Very much in need
Qf two weeks of good warm weather
for late corn and beans. Union City
quotations this week Were: Wheat,"
$2.10; oats, 60c; rye, $1. 70; hay, $15
to $22; potatoes, $1. 75; hens, 22c;

butter, '40; butterfat, 43; eggs, 40;

sheep, $9; lambs, $15; hogs, $18; beef,
steers, $9;- cows, $7; veal calves, $17.

-—F. 8., Union City.-

Lepeer (detonation—Farmers are
busy sowing wheat, the ground work-
ing very good; had plenty of lain
lately, more than needed. Some of
the farmers have their beans pulled,

and they have had no weather to dry

them; most of the oeans are green
yet. Lots of hay and oats going to
market with very good prices The
following were the quotations at Im-
lay City this week: ”Wheat $1. 95 to
$2 .;05 oats, 60 to 62; Lay, $19 to $21;

.rye: Straw, $1 50; wheat straw, $5. 00;

beans, $6. 50 to $8. 50; hens, 20 to 220;
springers, 22 to 24c; butter 450; but-
terfat, 500; eggs, 40c; sheep, $5 to $9;

- lambs, $12 to $14; hogs, 17 to $18. 50;
\beef steers, $9_ to $12; beef cows, $5
,to $8; veal calves, $13 to $14; wool,

65; apples, 50; peaches, $4. 50; plums,
$2. 50..—«O’ A. B.,In11ay City.

Calhoun (Southwest)——Lots of rain,
for
cloverseed threshing and getting up
beans. Some ,w‘heat sown, but the
most of it to be sown yet. No frost

.as. yet and late potatoes are growing

some now. Silo ﬁlling has commenc-
ed; ground in ﬁne shape for seeding,
and a. good acreage will be sown to
Wheat and rye.——~E. B. H., Athena.

(Grand Traverse (Northeast)——Farm-
cutting corn
and hauling sweet corn for the can-
ning factories. Had a light frost a
feWh’ights ago but it did not do much

damage? The following quotations
at Traverse City this week: Oats, .60;
rye $1. 35; beans, $7. 25; 'potatoes,
$1.30 per th.; butter, 35; butterfat

eggs, 85; apples, 1. 25 to $1. 50 per.
Jt~0 7‘L.; 3. thhamobnrg

gramme»: «Sour east) --‘*- Farmers."
' b no

wheat and rye,

sown .

1 The Lake City cow;
'erative association has purchased
we warehouse and elevator 0f. Fred
ﬂoss and intend to do business right
drop: threaten. The association has a
thembershp of nearly 200.

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The fellowi
this week: heat, $2.08; corn! $1. 75;
seats 52c; rye, $1_;51 springers, 20c;
butter, 42 to 44' eggs, 36 to 38; sheep,
$10;la1nbs, $15; hogs, 171/2; beet
cows, $7 to $9; Veal calves, $9 to $11.
w—W. L. _Greenville

Inoham (Central)—Soil in fine con-
dition for seeding. Threshing about
dune until beans and buckwheat are
ready. Early beans are about har-
vested; late ones very green yet. Some
late potatoes are in blbom; too,late
to ripen. Some have sown rye and
others. are ﬁtting ground. Silos most:

' ly ﬁlled; much corn too late to ripen;

/young seeding.

, corn cutting.

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scorn, beans and potatoes.

some early corn sound and good for-

seed. The following prices were paid
at Mason this Week: Wheat, $2.02 to
$2.07; corn, $3 per cwt.; oats, 60c;
rye, $1. 50; hay, $2p;-be'ans, $7.50 per
cw-t‘.; potatoes, $1; hens, 22 to 25c;
ducks, 20; butter, 49; butterfat, 49;
eggs, 32 to 38c; sheep, $3 to $7; lambs,
$16.50; hogs, $18.50; beef steers, $7 to
’$12; beef cows, $4 to $7; veal calves,
$14.——0.’ I. M... Mason.

Calhoun (North Cannon—Farmers
are very busy just now; Wheat about
half in; cutting corn and ﬁlling silos
in full blast. .About the usual amount
'of wheat will be sowed. ‘Think there
will be, more rye put' in than usual.
Corn from the native seed is ripe but
the western and eastern seed green
yet. Bean harvest and wheat sowing
has been held up the past week on ac-
count of frequent rains. Not very
manybeans in this locality, clover-
seed well ﬁlled but thin on the ground.
Fall pasture is booming now. Seem
to be plenty of apples-here. Prices at
Bellevue this week: Wheat, $2.10;
oats, 63c; rye, $1.50; beans, $8 per
cwt. hens and springers, 26c; rough
hogs, $15; hogs, $18.50.—G—. R., Olivet.

Cass (Northeast)-Farmers are busy
sowing wheat, ﬁlling silos and cut-
ting corn. Corn crop cut short by
drouth thru July and ﬁrst half ' of
August. The yield will be light, but
quality good providing frost holds off
another ten days. Early potatoes were
a complete failure, but late ones are
looking well’at present and promise
a good yield if frost stays away this
month. The acreageis not over 70
per cent of the 1917 crop. We have
had an abundance of rain for the past

three weeks and pasture has been im~ .

proved wonderfully. Hay a short
crop and will be less another year for
the drouth burned up nearly all the
Farm help ,is almost
impossible to get and what little we
can get is not up to standard—M. R.
P., Dowagiac.

St. Joseph (North)—Weather.at the
present ideal for the maturing of
Some corn
in, shock, but most farmers too busy
with seeding to spe 1 much time 011
Corn is down badly,
some ﬁelds ﬂat from the recent storms.
About normal acreage going into
Wheat, with rye acreage somewhat in-

creased. The iollowing quotations
were made at Mendon last week:
Wheat, $2.10; oats, 600; rye, $1. 50;

rye straw, $6.50; potatoes, $150; hens
24c; eggs, 36c; sheep, $10 to $11 hogs,
$18; beef steers, $7 to $12; beef cows,
$6 to $9; veal calves, $15 to $16;
peaches, $4. 50; grapes, $1.—H A. H,
Mendon.

Allegan (Southeast)-—A large per
cent of the farmers in this section
will sow" their wheat this week. A
few have ﬁlled their silos. Plenty of
showers 110w and soil is in ﬁne condi-
tion for Working. .Corn and potatoes
doing well. /Potatoes are retailing at
the stores 'in Allégan at $2. 80 per bu.
$2. 90 paid at. .Alleg'an condenser)? for
September milk. Following quota—
tions at Allegan <this week. when;

$210; oats, 65 to 80:1'Ye, $1. 455.1133); ,

4. 322110 $30; beans,- 37’; potatoes. $2. 00»
'.,:';onio11s, $1 .5’0Mcabbage, 412.cucummrs’* 1,,
.151 per bu.; 115113.20 #25“ $11,159“! 1. . J . ‘
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HAD THOUGHT 11a wé had pretty thorbiy
discussed the subject of “home cenvenie'nces”
"in these columns and that. it could be Bagel!»

w aid away for a time. But it seems not to beI

Last week I received a letter £10m- a reader hearkt "
eh111g- right back to the topic, so we’ll go over 11'..

' again and see it there's anything iwe’ v5e missed
.111 our discussion.

'beged the thousands of farm homes right here in

'Michigan that are absolutely devoid of men the- ,

simplest kind of conveniences and I am glad to
let my readers know how this one woman, at least,
_5 feels about the slavish lives that so many ofarm
women lead simply because their husbands are

too selfish or thotless to provide them with labor-- -

savxng conveniences

There’s a great demand now- -a-days from oer-5

tain types of women for “woman’s rights,” refer—
ring to the ballot. And its an interesting bit-of
psychology to me that those who are demanding
more rights are the very ones who enjoy the most
at the present time Do you know what I mean?
I mean. that the woman who is indubitably the
“man of the house” and runs the whole farm or
store or whatever business her -“1esser” half may
be engaged in, is the very woman who pleads long-
est and loudest for women’s rights." But the poor

soul who trudges meekly to the pump half way '

between the house and the barn four or ﬁve times
a day and lugs the slop pail off to a corner of the
barnyard mor‘ning. noon and night. because her
husband is too indifferent to her welfare and com-
fort to provide the house with a storage tank and
a kitchen sink, is the one mostly in need of
“rights” and the one who thinks the least about
them. / _

' Women ,need more rights, we’ll all agree, but
the ﬁrst and most essential rights are home rights.
There are too many farm women who are merely
wives and helpers, and not enough who are part-
ners with their husbands. I don’t know 501‘ any
reason why a woman should be expected to put
" up with all kind; of inconveniences in running'her
house while husband is making his own/work eas-
ier and more efficient by the use of modern equip:
ment. There may be good reasons why some t‘arm
homes are without ordinary conveniences, but.
in the majority of cases, it is pure selfishness on
the part of the husband that the wife is forced to
perform her work under distressing and laborious
conditions.

I just wish every woman who is dragging her-'

self out in needless steps would tell her John or
Bill or Henry this very night that she’ll expect
some of the farm proﬁts this year to go for home
improvements, and having once. so spoken to Set
her foot down and keep it "sot” till hubby gets
busy. Is that the way yOu feel? —_—Penelope

Give the Woman Equal Rights

EAR 5PENELOPE:—-—I have been thinking
‘ for some time that I would write and tell
5 you that. I received my dish drainer all
' right. and wish to thank you for it. This has been
such a busy season. With so much Hooverizing
to do besides the extra work that always comes
at this time of the year. We have been talking
about home conveniences, I thought I would
change the subject a little and.write about some
of the‘non-conveniences. I am like the'lady who

wrote" and said that she never saw anyone who‘

Was serene and happy was ill.' Neither have I.

And 'I believe there is always a cause or reason for'

anybody being discontented. grouchy and tired
out. Now let us step into one heme. We ﬁnd‘a
woman who should be in the prime of life. broken
down in health Do I wonder why? No, I do not.
She has raised a large family and worked far be-
yond her strength. Then they have lost several
dollars each year by not having a good cellar.
But the man couldn’t afford one. If he wants any
, farm tools he gets them some way. I step into an-
5 other home.

always working. Wonder. what is the trouble
' there? I take hold‘of the pump; it ﬂows about

as large a stream as would ﬂow thru a half-inch

5 nel; By the time that man has pumped the
511th for his livestock he is tired out and perhaps
tl‘e grouchy tho. He.is also a mason by trade

in} shots perhaps in his slifetimé built as many 1113

When I ﬁrst read, the letter -
V‘thattollowS .I said to myself this reader was malt-i5
ing a terrible fuss over triﬂes, but later I» i‘emem»

They seem to be tired and grouchy, 5

,l‘getsv-them and pays for them wli

adittle further down the line "I

It wouldn’t of cost anyX more ‘
on the north side where it is" .
doesn’t shine The houso is 1:11 sad about ﬁve 61'.

six geet from the ground and the pump is 011 1116.755
There is "also a handy tool shed on
the ground level for the man of the house Eo put " '
his tools in, while his’wifemust run up and down.
ﬁve or six Steps every time she wants a pail oi-ﬂ
water or something out of the she‘d Or a place to
I consider every ﬁve minutes saved is":

ground level.

Wash in.
economy Who wants to be wasting a whole hot 0!
time for nothing? ‘

ler, and the sun

_ Especially when the hammer"
and a few nails and perhaps a good dose of am- ..5,

around‘our 5 '
and next Fine wdlsend
She is» lets ’ ' “

natured baby an
trouble . _

bition powder Would save a lot of work and 5

drudgery besides. Let 115 step into a home that is

 

 

The Gold Star

HE star upon their service flag has '

changed to gleaming gold

It speaks no more of hope and are as once '

. it did of old,

. But splendidly it glis‘tens now for euery eye
to see

And softly Whispers: "Here lined one who
died for liberty."

“Here once he walked and played. and
laughed, here oft his smile was knoWn, '

Within these walls today are kept the toys
he used to ’own

he who fell, _
Of service once I spoke, but now, of sacriﬁce '
I tell

“ho richer home in all this land is there
than this I grace,

For here was cradled manhood ﬁne. Within
this humble place ‘

A. soldier for the truth was'born. And here
beside the door

A mother sits and grieues for him who Shall
return no more.

“Salute me stronger as you pass! I mark
a soldzer who ~

Gave up the joys of living here to dare and
die for you!

fought for you and fell,
This is a shrine of sacriﬁce where faith. and

, courage fell ”' '
~(Copyright,1918,by and”. A5. 'Gnnsr. By
Special Permission.) ‘

1

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Now I am he who marched away and I am ' '

This is the home that once he knew who '

 

 

well arranged, with plenty of sunlight and a. few“
Do we ﬁnd them discon-

conveniences at least.
tented, grouchy and tired out? No. We do not
as a general rule. I hear someone say:' “I don’t

believe in a woman" scriniping and saving, man--

aging, every way she can, .and let the man have
everything. If a man wants any tobacco or any-
thing he generally‘gets it, and why can't a woman

have the same equal rights?-——Mrs. E. I. Bellm‘re.

Little Sugar. Stories ’ 1;.

All fruits can be canned‘successiully without
sugar for future jelly making,_pie ﬁlling, and
marmalades. Can in bet water in their Own
juice, or the concentrated juice of apples, pears
or grapes.

For dark cakes, and- chocolate, coffee, or oar-a-
mel ice cream use half and halt sugar and molasv
ses.
sugar and white syrup. 5 _

Serve very ripe,. :sweet peaches, pears and ﬂgs

'without «the addition or sugar, or with; cream"

whipped up with a little white syrup or honey
Too much sugar is used‘ on 1116’

of ﬂavor. The nutty {l vorgt
sweetness of coi'nbrea‘ ‘

undred cisterns or mere But his wile ha " '

For light cakes and light. creams use half

American" table, 5
1 with a consequent loss of mri y- and picquancy“' '
531955;, the natural

newer been sick except on “look she had whooping
~coUgh, but was $0011 bver. the worst :part of that,
-as we called a doctor as soon as she began to hav

a fever. Margaret has three W S.- S and we have.
pledged tWo more for hen-7111's. L B D., Lawrence.

‘ " Putting Down Eggs 5
. 5E OLD-FASHIONED "packed egg”
. winter use is a Ihing of the past. 5
es soaring and; the neCessity of using f_'
in place airmeats, science has been ‘ '
with the preservatidn, -3133 today we are; ,,
drdp fi-esh eggs into a crock (pf-water glass.

‘ remove them ﬁve or ten- months later, equally'as, 5

fresh as on the day they were [aid

The water glass may be purchased from your
druggist and mixed at home, in the proportion: of
ten parts of Water to one of Waterglass. PO11;
the 'solution into the crooks in which yOu desire
to pack and? drop your eggs 511116 it. - If the eggs?
have not been candied they may be tested in this
solution the good ones sinking 5u§der the sur
face of the liquor.
1y covered with the solution. ,
_ When you wish to use them .nent winter aim-a
my take them as needed eand wash. The water
glass and water have such an effect on the shells;

' that it is necessary to pri'é-k the Shells with a

needle before putting. into boiling water to boil ‘.
If this is done they can be boiled as well as when 5
fresh. ‘ ' ‘ ' ‘ .

 

Be sure all eggs are complete-


suit. and

by . haydn'

 

 

‘ , ore appropriate it told in the
spring, but I beleive you will re-
member it until next spring and the

Robins come flying back to us.

1 3e ‘
-.baby waist
_ nd the only trim-
, I scalloped cellar.
.3868 sees‘ingw t in sutfrlipe effect.
,Bﬁmﬁt» this style is too severe
- gantry. summer dress for 3
Mid Lhaye seen this same idea
carried out in; bol and fveleet ‘with a silk
but er than was very attractive ' '
was of. black velveteen with [white
e satin. caller, tJ am
«colon “with a
sin: material,

lip-on waist Cut 3 '

Ladies ,s

in sizes 36 -38,. 40,. 42 and "44. inches bust
measure The yolie effect in blouses is
show‘ gteat deal this summer, espec-
ially n making up .the heavier silks and
.winter. blouse theterials. The yoke is
prettll she d across. the back .. and
shou rs Ian extends into a yoke down
- the front This may be of same :or con—
tra'sting material. to the body part of the
blbuse, Deep flare section's correspond—
in: to the yoke are set into the sleeves.
giving. them the ‘ kimona effect The
wealst's are much fuller than they have

for» some months. If desired a’ clos:
ink may be perfected in the back.

No. 898.7—-Ladies house dress. Cut
in sizes- 36, 88 40 and 42 inches bust
measure. Whatla comfortable but smart-
looking frock! If ever we desired loose-
fittinggco comfy afternoon clothes,- it is to-
day when thousands or us are spending
our I.ouly‘ leisure hours serving as hard as

“be This little dress" is ottin .
the plain tallored waist, large arm- bles
with three-quarter kimona-style sleeves,
which are so much favored today, and a
three.gOr‘ed gathered skirt set. on at the
normahvgagtlﬁf in surmise and made ..
i a e 1.!
ed on g eterial, together wit th

- rt; strap belt,

lend}; a note of distinction to the dress.

.- Nb“; 8995 “separate skirt. Cut in
sizes 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32 inches waist
'- With palrlietl “Ergntf and bacifr,’
resentin the muc ~ 9. e .o apron e -
lgect congerts this plain gathered two-'

f~fore tl'fe Robin realized

The long, narrow rol- '

only aCrosa the front. . ’

This is the story of how Robin- Red
Breast got his name-—

Once upon a time there was a little
boy who Ilved wth his daddy away all
by the North Pole. They lived in a
house made of snow and toe and in
the center of their but they had to

‘ keep a ﬁre burning, night and day,

in order that they wouldn’t freeze,
The little boy always watched the

ﬁre day times while his daddy was a-

way,- and then when night would come

he Would go to bed and his daddy,

would watch the ﬁre.

Ione;_,daylhis daddy was very sick
andfvvaslunable to get up‘ and watch
thegﬁreat all, so the little boy must
Stay aWake nights too Of course this
little fellow tried to be brave and he
stayed awake just as long as he pos-

‘ :sibly could, bubafter a while he drop-

ped, off to sleep.’ Now you all know
that up in that country there are lots
of. polar bears. One “old white bear
had often looked at the little boys
house and wished they would go
away so that. he might have their
house, and so when he came prowling

. around that night and discovered the

little boy, andIhis daddy bot‘h sound
asleep he said to himself “Now‘here
’ is My-Chance, I shall, go in and put the
ﬂreueutso. that they will freeze and
then Loan-have their house.” And"
Carefully and "quietly in he stole and-
with his oldﬁ‘cold, icy paw put out the
ﬁre, and then went away.

But someone else- was watching this
little boy, and who do you suppose it
was? ,' Well it “mean old'robin and
when she saw the bear come out of
the but she flew in and said—“Oh. I

, don’t want this little boy to freeze, and
I must build this ﬁre up again.” So
she peeked around until she found a
coal and thenIﬂuttered her little wings

.3 and fanned that coal into a flame. The

ﬂame rose higher: and higher and be-
it she had
burned her breast.

Pretty Soon the little boy awoke and
when he saw poor Robin with her
"breast all red, he said,oh~ Robin dear,
,what is thematter with your breast?"
Oh, said ,Robin I burned myself try-
ing to make a ﬁre again after old
polar bear had put it out. "
4 And you can imagine how sorry the
little-Iboy felt” for Robin and he nursed
-the burn all winter long and he al-

' ways called her Robin Red Breast.

, So that, dear boys and girls, is how
all the Robin Red Breasts who come
to see us every year got ti eir name.

'Now_~ tell _ me the best and prettiest
story you know. . With love, AUNT
PENELQPE. ' "

Dear Aunt Penelope -—I saw the let—
tors in the M .B F. but I have delayed
writing until the present time. I am in
the seventh grade. I go to the Plaisted
school. ,My teacher’s name is - Miss
Watson; I like her. real well. I am 11
years old. have one sister and two
brothers. I live on a 160sacrte farm We
have six horses, their? '

Belle Nellie. [Prince T

For pets- I have ‘a :dog and two kittens,
and a little pet colt, her name?" s molly.
m do ’3 name is- Cu and I“ call the kit-

tte' - Ram-

" dog and a catf'

l

“training. 3
would be a nice name for our page— I‘

.beets and carrots.

1

My dog's name is Rover.
and the cat’s name is, Daisy
7 cows and 4 calves/I
ers but one was killed in France in July

He was 19 years old,‘ so now I have Only 1

The oldest one is in Columbus in
I think “Uncle Sam’s HelperS"

two.

Lila. Wakeﬁeld, Avoca; Michigan.

OUR ORCHARD‘ ON.- THE FARM
It is ﬁlled with oldfyet graceful trees:
The grass is tall and green.
The air is sweet with the summer breeze.
‘- 'Tis a very pretty scene.

‘Each summer when the days are warm.
The robin sings upon the wing,

The baby colt runs here and. there.
He’s a lively little thing.

The chubby pigs lie in the sun,
They roam from tree to tree, .
And eat the apples, one, two, three.
Until the day is ,done.

‘ And as the day fades into night,

The sunset gilds the blossoming boughs.

' The milkmaid in her gown of white

Goes thru the shadows for the cows.

—Ethel Chapin, 15 years old, Battle
Creek, Michigan.

Penelope: —I hope you
but I have been

Dear Aunt
have not forgotten me,

. so busy helping mamma that I have not

had any time to write. I ironed all of
the colored clothes for her yesterday. I
have been reading the children’s page
every week. I thank you \ely much for
the Thrift Stamp. I have my card half
full. and have the money to buy the rest
as soon as we go to town. Our little
colt died about a week after I wrote to
you. We‘threshed two weeks ago. We
are Coming along ﬁne with our house;
we have the sheeting and roof on, and
we are ready to put theﬁsiding on and
windowe‘and doors on. After this I will
try to do better. Please do not forget
your loving friend—Runh Wise, (Thesau-
ing, Michigan.

Never fear, my dear little reader, I

never forget my friends. PENELOPE.

Dear Aunt Peneloper—My father sub-
scribed for the M. B. F. last March and
we all like it very much. "-I especially
enjoy the letters from the girls and boys
of Michigan. We live on an 80-acre farm
and have ﬁve cows and six calves. The
cows’ names are Daisy, Molly. Polly.
Beauty. Cherry; and the calves’ names
are Goldie, Rosie. Bobby, Duke, Baby
and Max. We have two horses and a
colt. The horses’ names are Jesse. Dolly
and Pat. We have about 120 little
chickens ’and about 20 hens and .one
rooster. We have ﬁve cats, three kittens
and two old ones. Their names are Tom,
Loddy, Loany, Tuttey Flossy. My fath-
er has ﬁve pigs; my brother watches
them and he named them Skunk Mud-
turtle, Woodchuck, Longnose and Sugar-
b.owl We harvested our rye “heat, oats
and barley. My father raises chicory,
cucumbers, beans, corn, ﬂax. potatoes,
Mother has a gar—
den with vegetables and ﬂowers. I have
two brothers in the army so we put up
a service ﬂag. School will begin next
Tuesday. I will be in the seventh and
eighth grades. Our teacher's name is
Miss Marie Quimby. I am sending you
a. drawing of one of our chickens. I love
my home and my father and mother;
they are very kind to everyone. We have
eleven buildings on our farm. We have
lived here seven years My father built
six of them. I think this will be all
for this time.——Jennie DrozarmWSki. Mt.
Pleasant, Michigan. .

Dear Aunt Penelope:——This is the
second time I have written to you. I
hope you will have the D00 Dads in every
week. How do you suppose I am going
to earn money for Thrift Stamps? I will
help pick pickles, help mamma in ‘the
house and run errands for her I have
48 Thrift Stamps and 3 War Savings
Stamps I have eleven little (whickens I
am going to send you a song I found in
a Sunday school paper. I will have my
three War Savings Stamps when you
get my letter. My kitten is nearly as
large as her mother. Well, I will close;
with love, from yourniece—ld'ther V.
Buser, Grand Junction, Michigan.

Dear Aunt Penelor)e:~—This is my sec-
ond letter to you. but as your page is
so interesting I couldn't help/writingr
again. I think a nice name for a. mare
colt would be Midget. I read in the M.
B F‘ that you are going to give a Thrift
Stamp for the best letter from a boy or
gn-l telling about the state fair_ but I
did not get to go. I am picking be1r es/
this summer and 'my mother pays me
ﬁve cents a quart, and I am going to
get Thrift Stamps with my money. WeZ
have no teacher yet for our sch‘ool. My
sister is staying in town.going to high
school; we miss her \ery much, as this
is the ﬁrst lime she has been away from
home very long I have two brothers
and one sister: their names are ‘.,Tohn
George and Bella. Tohn is 22. George is
20 and Bella will be ﬁfteen the tenth or
September. - Aunt Penelope I, think It,
Would be nice for vou to have a booth ,

‘At the Gleaner» temple next year at. *he 13
hfld

as day, and you be. ther-r
moonld meet you, .

We have 3
I had three broth-

1liar Michig and the north ern states.

as yie 37 bushels avemge p‘cr - .,
acre at» t e Michigan Experimental. .1. .
Station. ecbrd yield of nearly ﬁfty. ‘
bushels per acre.

Rose); Rye

Is a new variety thlt will y you weyll to grow. he
ields cumruon Rye 10 f9P201b bushels per acre. glee , - .
ong heads well ﬁlled with [we kernels. Ordinary .

yield 30 to 40 bushels. " ‘ "

fall planting. .
Write for Iron samples and fair price list.

Fall Bulbs

Beautiful new Darwin Tulips. Hyacinths Narcissus, 3
Lillies, Crocus etc Plant these bulbs this fall for
winter and spring blooming

ltbcll's Full Catalog Fm gives full information.-
Write for it today.

. s. M. ISBELL a co.

Box 11 Jackson, Mkh.’

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PAINT SALE at
WHOLESALE ‘ PRICES,
SPECIALS
$1.75

Guaranteed House
Paint. per gal on only
Ve1vo Flow on 2 25
. .
2.00
10.00

Flat Paint. per gallon only
Elastic Floor Varnish, dry)~
2000

hard over night. per gallon only

Dutch
Process Lead , cwr.

Pure
Linseed Oil, per gallon

ONLY AT
Paint Supply House 3
420 Michigan Ave. Detroit

 

 

 

 

 

Don’t Wear a Truss

ROQKS' APPLIANCE
the modem scientific
invention the wonder-
ful nei discovery
. that relieves rupture
will be sent on trial.
No obnoxious springs
or pads. Has auto-
matic Air Cushions.
Binds and draws the,
broken parts togeth-
er as you would a broken
limb. No selves. No lies.
Durable, cheap. Sent on
trial to prove it. Protected
by U. S. patents. Catalog
and measu re blank! mulled
free. Send name and ad-
dress today.

C. E. BROOKS, 463-3 State St., Marshall, Mich.

 

 

(n and l.
. Mir hi

 

A1 FARM FOR SALE CHEAP. I will
sell my farm of 320 acres 3% miles
from Walkerville in Oceana county, Mich.
It is a sandy loam underlaid with clay.
Fenced and cross— —fence in center. 20
acres in cultivation. 700 stumps pulled.
2 acres of young orchard beginning to
bear. Small house of 2 rooms and a ce— .
ment foundation for 2 more rooms. Cel-
lar 14x16 ft A driven tubular well,
in. 71 ft deep water 30 ft. of top. 'A,
good stock and grain and general farm-
ing barn 20x30 ft. Granary, chicken house
10x12 ft I am getting old and health
not good, so I will sell cheap for $4,500; ’
$2, 000 down, the balance on good time. A
big bargain for you if you are interested.
Address, G. W. Utterback, R F. D. No.
2, Walkerville, Michigan. .

 

Strictly Pure Rosen Rye cleaned ready
to sow. $2. 50 per bu, 5 bu. or over, ,
Write for sample. A. D. Gregory, Ionia. '
Michigan.

Ffrom certiﬁed seed.
$2. 25 per bu., less than 10 bu., 52.50-11e1‘
bu., subject to prior sale New bags? see
each, or send your own bags

- GOODWIN & MOORE, * ..
R. F. D. No. 2, Ionia, Michigan
.YOU

CAN SELL .YOUR. FARM Dir,
rect to the buyer without paying '
mission through my coronerativ
and be free to sell to anyone,
anyone, anywhere any tim'e,‘
price or terms. Write for'l

 

 

LAND SUITABLE 1P
, for‘ sale in Ogemaw C

'yVerv productive and well loowtéa

Sheldon. Alger;: Mich

Seed Ry“

Sample for stam'fi..-
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Clover, Timothy, Votch. and all dependable seeds for; , t

2.,,.

on SALE—1200 bu Rosen Rye grow}, _
10 bu. or ovcrgj .


   

UNION. CITY

THOS B. BUELL AND SON

Con31gnments by Mr. Sidney Smith, William

Tase, John Gintling and Ray Parham.

 

FIFTY -F IVE HEAD

HERD BULL—2 yrs. old. Grandson
of King of the Pontiac-s and Pontiac
Aaggie Kornkyke, a combination Of

30 lb. breeding never before offered.

EIGHT 2 yr. old daughters of a $3000 . '7
son of King of the Pontiacs, just ready
to freshen.

A 24 lb. cowthat made 96 lbs.
milk her best day and 17,000 lbs. in,

a year; and two of her daughters. '

A daughter ofa 26 lb. cow.

 

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cf

A 22 lb. daughter of Pontiac Aaggie
Kornkyke.

THREE grand-daughters of Pontiac
Aaggie Komdyke.

All the animals are from the best

blood of the breed guaranteed free from
tuberculosis and contagious abortion

, ,vfor 60 days.

 

 

COL. B. V. KELLY, Auctioneer

S. T. WOOD,‘ in the box.

 

 

 

Sale October lst, 1918

(Sale starts at 12 noon)

\

Union City is on Air Line of Michigan Central. Jitney
Service from Battle Creek arid Goldwater.

 
 

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The second highest record cow in,

“the world is. Segis Hengeryeld anne 3

Johanna who produces 011 test 2, 59-7. -
20 pounds of milk in thirty days. She'

can produce more than 47 pounds of};
october 17. ' ; . _ 5""

butter in a week. She is the (laugh

I ‘ tor of ;the only 50-1b. cow. "

In feeding a cow for milk produc-
tion
should be, considered:

1. Palatability.

2. Digestibility.

3. Proper proportion of digestible

protein, carbohydrates and fat.

4. Variety.

5 Suitability of feed to animal and,
milk. , '

6. Bulk.

7. Cost.

. / .
' 1 ,A'good rule to follow is'to include.

at least three cereals in making up
every ration.

Do not underfeed your cows. The

cow which will eat the most, genera.

ally makes the mostmilk.‘
Livestock, especially dairy cows.
should be fed mainly upon the by-

products of cereal manufacture after i

the human food has been largely util-
ized, supplemented by home-grown
roughage, silage and pasture.

It is entirely possible to double the
milk ﬂow of a good cow. No feed is
cheap which does not produce re:
sults. It is exceedingly diﬁ‘icult for
feeders to obtain separately. the neces-
sary feed stuffs {mm the local feed
man. There are many excellent
branded feeds whichgare maintained
uniformly by the manufacturers, who
can obtain ingredients which will pro-
vide the necessary nutrients in‘ the
absence. of’bran, barley feed, malt,
and distillers’ grains, which are not
often easily obtainable.

In order to avoid the disastrous
feed shortage of last year, tarmers’
associations should make arrange-
ments through their local feed men?
to'ship in their supplynwhile cars and
transportation may be bad. There is
no help for you when the blizzards
tie up the railroads. County agri-
cultural agents should immediately
get busy and locate feed for the com-
ing winter

DAIRY snow ENTRIES
CLOSE SEPTEMBER 25TH

 

Dairymen and farmers generally
should know that the oﬂicial dates for
closing entries of cattle tor the Na)-
tional Dairy Show at Columbus, Ohio,
has been ﬁxed at September 25. There
is every prospect of a very large list
of entries this year.

’Canada which by
suffering far more from the. war than

the United States, will be represented

by a, number of ﬁne herds. 'Experi-

e“ 1 has shown that the war teaches _

as ' "tithing else, has ever taught the
importance of a dairy industry- to
humanity at large. It ‘is not behaved
that American cattle breeders will be

, behind their Conadiambrothers in rec}.

icing the importance of their own in-

dustry and patriotic duty for aggreéa— '

ive work which it imposes on them.

The attendance of the leading breed- ‘

ers and their herds at Columbus is

comparison is ’

 
  

milk in thirty days £1113 may sound r I '-
'_like a fairy story to those who get a
’ small pail full at a milking. -

I

there are seven factors which '

,9, large per cent of scrub and mixed

[Jackson city limits. ,\

9 Swiss, Monday, Oct 14; Jerseys, The».

erE VALUE or PoHE BRED

.snch a condition exists. - ""- ff

'ing good grade Holstein cows to ship

7 The price this year ranges from $125

v females.

  

 

    
 
 

 
   
 

day, October 15:» Guernsey's, W611i 1 2
day, Oct. 16, and Holsteins Jlﬁhnrsday, '

    
      
 
   
      
 
   
  
   
   
  
   
  
   
   
   

BULLS IN MICHIGAN

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Travelling over Michigan I see such

 

herds as to cause one. to wonder why

"All of us know'that using a’pure
bred sire of oneﬂireed continuously
for a period of yeafs will make a uni-
form herd good to look at and far .
more préﬁtable than a mixed herd
Buyers in our IOCaIit‘y have been buy-

to other states for a number of years.

to $140. One buyer has nearly clear-f-
ed the locality cf such cows

High grades are .far more proﬁt—L.
able to milk, look betten and are al-
ways more salable at an advance of at
least $50 Why mix them and raise
mongrels, using ﬁrst one bull then
another and gettingnowhere? In the
region of condensaries audlarge cities
there is one cow that is sure to please
and make money, and that is the Hol-
stein

What earthly excuse is therefor
keeping a grade bull? Certainly. not
one of cost. Look over the advertising
columns oft'he M. B; F, and yourwill
ﬁnd bulls from 20-1111. dams of good" .
breeding, of serviceable age, for $100 .-»
or less. .Bull calves. from $40 to $59..
No model an association; anyone can ,- ‘ -
own one, knowing that he will make
at least 100 per cent on his invest-

» iii OPQNN —IE‘ML‘II’:1::-1mdls—L--——-IIHH<1Anos-iH.—dl

‘ment if he sells for beefaiter he is

thm with him.

Think of the breeder who is trying
to help the community by'selling at .
these prices and take advantage of
the most proﬁtable investment of a
small amount open to the farmers—v
0 L Hulctt Ingkdm County. '

4.

TWO BIG DISPERSAL
s’SALES SCHEDULED

On Wednesday, Sept. 25th. the Board-
man Stock Farm of Jackson will dis-
perse its entire herd-Gt Registered
Holsteins and Guernsey males, and
Established in 1906. this
herd is rated as among the best of the
state The reasons given for selling
are the ill health of the owner and it!
the absence of his son in France A . H
certiﬁcate or health will be inmished/ ‘ YE
with each animal sold guaranteeing In"
it free {roman contagious diseases. '
The sale will begin alt/one o'clock at
the torn. located just within the

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Another dispersal sale or consider:
able note will take place at the farm
of Ties. B Buell & Son, Union City,
Tuesday, October list, When ﬁttydive
head of, choice Holsteins wilt. go .un-
der the hammer The sale will ta"

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areaoible 53?“?8' vﬁtefsgraggg l wax-tho? .-. Rl'ice £90 Cgagql mil: SHELLAND PQNIFS i'nr «wipe? &
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3531' information , 1616 $17. Price $2 50yper bushel‘ yield- ”we“ “aﬂ' R Ont-6y 0 ‘4
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AN SHORTHOBN breeders. Can put you in C
FOWLE'RVH“ Ff' MIOHIG time); with best mﬂkor beet strains. Bulls 1 Carl Jewett M150. Mich,
, .. is g“ 3:33:93 gamete came. -.W Crhgm. 1 ‘ ’ ’
:ed 4- IN BULL 6 ec 1‘? antral Mlch 11 Short Tn
by" ﬁgﬁfgﬁ? grﬁaggggnof gangervefg A5800 t'0’1- . MOBFMGB' Mihhizan - . C
L7; i b Johan 3iengerve .
f “ Lad whooha. ssréB y 0. daughters. OR .SALE,1_pu31e bred Shorthorns and LARGE TYPE 0' l' d
' ' ‘ T'Dajm is an 18 slslb 13 yAri 91:1 granddaughter O. I. C tpogs Five younz bulls. 7 “ Spring pigs pans. and tries Gilts l1re
we 01‘ King Seg‘fls who has a. slster‘that_1‘e;* to 9 m0" 3 3&12. 2.5 to $150 each Ray for fall farm“, at 111 lots that will Dk‘lSe-
ﬂy" cently 13121“ 33le3. btiéter 3133131 313 tam-10.33% Wilmer -- lmont Michi gan- _ 1171.0111121; $11.“; 3333*“ FARM «
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ni- we? grown 91113129; spinal? individual SHORTHOBNS and POLAND CHINAS
’ar' Price $1.00 Write for photo and pedigree Bulls. heifers and spring pigS eithel ' DURO"
d L- C. Ketzler, Flint, Michigan if} ftOtI‘ 8:53.186. atharinexs’ pricea 1“- M. 1 '1‘ m 11c
r . 1ggo on on er Michigan. SWIS 1). o 13;
[y 3 BR 38 R DUROC'JERSE 100"] for Illly fa3ll lllt:
' ‘NL ' ' ' ED H0 THOBNS- A I h ve r'ced for quic< $411 1
Lip given“! 30¢ Farm J Bates few cows for sale J7 3- gigng boirs ll'oleroolm ater Tippy Orion
rs ‘Oﬂers two sons about 1 yr. old, sired 7 Hummel Mason Michigan. No 55421 out of dams by the Prinnipal
26 his {Edge Ellgell 3511:3313}: liqu‘lltleffel JERSEY 4th and B1r1ggkwate1ufjhpr1pylsgfngbon:$31123
.u1 cave are n m a rea oar w1 l) en
13010? and are. he 1nd1‘viduals erte glitch and me gumanteed to please 01
“‘2. for prices andp digrees. Pr ttle Creek. ' "010E “Gigi-”feted Jersey bull cakes money back First Choice 373543210110
. " Mich, R. 2. nearly ready for service Shed by 65 This offer good till Sept 2.73. Home
Oxfmd’s Flying Fox Champion at 11 & Son, PropS.
[Tl-I. . - Kalamazoo Fair. Register of Merit rec- gaff.“ ﬁlgﬁimlyderh' ’
31- 11111111113111 ’DAUGHTE 3o! Mamba“, 0rd of dam 13792 lbs. milk 788 lbs but- "‘ m ""

De K01 Hortoy whose am is a 3-0 1b ter. Dams of these calves are high plo- Dun”. “new. both , x.
at cow, 30 days, 1201bs.,a son4of Friend %U.Cing' priZe winners. C. . Bassolt FOR SALE Man-h (‘1 ”ha 8 furrow,
159 Hengervald eKol Butter Boy, four rexel Place Kalamazoo Michigan long big bone 1.1m» 1111,1175. l'rmu right.
. daughters with year records over 1000 Close out males 1.119211). All ”mama 1111c
en ' lbs Dam—Young Hazel De KOI’ 7 day GUERNSEY (1 id ls Am in mallet for regiFIPl‘ed
he ﬁeCﬁrd 49:1.8 lbi 5:11:13, (ill: 6; lgiafuddiecre .GU \VE HAVE A 1I-Illollszvteilha‘Dull 6 to 12 1111\111ths old B. E.

er we mar e O n 1V1 FE . , .

Lee S e Howbert Stock Farm. Em: Claire. mle£§l§SEYs Hgifers and cows :3: Kles’ HIIISdaI" M“ h'
' 7 . o a num er of well bred oun ' -., _
188., bulls—-write for breeding Village Fyarmsg, DUROC BOARS 31"? "133:; t1:3l3l3,l3gr::3\3vl3
01- lred by a son of Grass Lake, Michigan _ 3 , . .1 3 3 _
' add Size and grouih to youx l1e1d. 311:
a vesjlgrlend Hengerveld _. _31 .0. . th> mum
~ K01 Bum 1.3mm... Est 3311:: 211.1915: 7.11» .. ‘7
For EgrngﬁePlérgnson .30; Kfngafsgi2il€§ ﬁg} 73, 3 Newton Barnhart, St. Johns, Michigan.
lOt' ordso'fl .2553 1'. two year old to 28.25 ‘ 7 . , . , ,
. at full age. Prices. reasonable breeding HereerdS 8 bull calves Prmce , 1 01.5311 1 "INA
“87 considered. Donald and Farmer . . .
ill w “133111115meer erooKlFAnnrg h Breeding. 'ALLEN BROS. Paw Paw, Mich. ‘
c off a eon ic . 4 - -
0‘. *g y no \ . Large Type Poland Clnna Swme
00 7-7 ' HORSES ‘ ' '
50. HQLSTBIN BULL CALVES . , , A mm 71117121,: 13.3 o. 333311113351th £1173:
Sir s dams 5sword e 37. 76 lbs but- '9 and ready to S in. 1 “'8‘
an.- ter 76‘das.15.931bgs. 30 das. testing PERCHERON to 33685 {1011333833 Will ﬁprrogvgnspéiﬁgg.
. 5.52 rat.1Dams 00d A. R. backing- J 3 am epi 1 aso s a
he. Calvzjs nice straighgt fellows 91 white, yaﬁcblliEEON STALIJONS 4 yea-1‘5 ,Old. boars Fall sale Nov 29.
. 'Pr‘ h 11.1 th 1 t ac ﬂne style and high breedmg. . h
st- 106 $6.570 8&9 W 18 63’ as Price right it take - . Wm. J. Clarke, R. No. 7, Mason. Mm -
Herd tuberculin tested annual] 11 soon E' P‘ Kinney. -
lis‘ 30151171111131. Farms, Jackson, )Iidlulgan. Lansing, Michig.an 7- ‘ i
ng HEICKORY‘ 36 "E STOCK FARM.
at Offers for imm ate sale 12 daughters of
“ King Hengerveld Palmyra Fayne bred to
of Mutual Pontiac L.ad\ All of the bows in ﬁ 8 ein i
a-., this, herd are strong in the blood 01' Maple-
crest ‘land Ppntiach Ag'glie dKorpdyke b e
—- can aways urms car 0a 8 0 pure red w d C l h K d k N 142346
u... m... c..,.....,.n¥11 enneere 0 ant a 0m y e o.
D. Owen Tart. Route 1. Oak Grove, Mich.
Holstein-Friction Cattle \ .A 4 Year old brother of the 42. 65 pound C011
b d t ’
‘D 1 glegisthghengggztg 2,? 22.13%"; ‘23; W andermeere Belle Hengerveld that sold for
'- ’herd Would sell a few bred females $18 300-18
tor a few to. tre‘shen this spring. These
rd- f‘cows are all with calf to a 30. -pound
is bull. J, Fred smith, Byron Michigan .
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ad SUNNY PLAINS HOLSTEINS
gig A. few young bulls left. Also a. yonngvﬁ i at a sacriﬁce be-
h pair heavy draft horses. Phone 585‘15. We are selling this great S re
e 7 ARWIN .KILLINGER , ' ‘ cause we have so manyof his daughters in our
“3 Fowlerville Michigan. herd that are old enOugh 'to breed. We also
11 I - , ' n f01 5 le.
A FOR SALEEIW” head or Holstein . have one of his eight— months— old so 5 a
_ 3 cows and heifers 7 Three
96/; .mrﬁngs mt bred: the re... to freshen F or Prices Particulars and Descriptions,
[lg thisgfaltlfand Winter. % goeod start reés- ’ F
, 0M e or some one. rt ‘A’ ‘ h]!-
es.‘ CHendee as: So-n, ‘i’lnckney, Michigan. . ' rite or ViSit arm 3
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on. SALE—Registered Holstein Slam {T3 FOWLE & 3C0 B C' MIC]!
M F' ”ill-l)". ﬁg? rv‘lce 336' Pontiac Korndylte 30,3 , ay . lty, w. So, 3 .
7‘ br eding. (PM right. ﬁche A Blake. 7. .3 _‘ - _ ,
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We have real bargains in3 .
Spring pigs and you will be surprised at. _3; 7
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COmDare them with the pedigree
Gus. Thomas, New Lothrop, Michigan:
REGISTERED HAMPSHIRE nos now '
reWily A bargain 111 boar pigs John
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ewes. Write fol prices or come to the
farm. Dan Booher, R. 4, Evart, Mich.

   

 

  
    
  
    
  
   
      
   
  
  
    
  
  
  
 
   
  
  
   
  
   
 
    
   
      
   
   
      
  
      
   
  
    
   
    
   
    
  
 
 
 
 
   
  
 

FOR AUGUST DELIVERY 50 Register-
ed ShrOpshire Yearling ewes and 30
Registered Yearling Rams of extra qual-
ity and breeding. Flock established 189“.

C Lemen Dexter. Michigan
SHROPSHIRE RAMS

REGISTERE of quality. One im—

ported three- -year— —old Ram Priced right.
l-larxy Potter & Son lmvi. on. Michigan.

 

 

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Registered Hampshire Ram Lambs

F01 Sale. Weighing up to 130 lbs Aug.
llltl1,ut $05. 00 and up Also a'l‘cw year-
ling rams Clarke Haire, \Vest Brunvh,
Mulligan

 

\‘ON HOME'YI‘ER RAMBOL'ILLI'I'I‘

 

0K SALE {vegistered l’ure \‘on Ho-
'meyer Rainbouillet Ram 3 years old. A
sun breeder, and 21 good individual. Also

Pure Boson Rye $2.15 pe1 bu.
Ira B. Balduin, Hastings, Michigan.

 

 

LINCOLN

 

(£001) LINCOLN RAMS
and Ram lambs, also a few

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good ewes gred if desired. for sale.
Eph Knight, (ingulown. Michigan.-
“ELAINE
MPROVEI) Black Top “Mains. 'Slxty
Reg. Rams 1o whoow from. Newton &
Blank, Hill 1‘1'1751, 11‘111‘111, l’errinton,
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Middleton.
FOR SALE l’l'Kli) Blil‘ll) and regis-
ten-d Anwrican .Delaine
sheep. Young. Both sexes.
F .171. Conley, Maple Rapids, Michigan.
A. M. and “ELAINE NHCKINOS, large
size, long, staple. well covered, heavy
shearers. Rams that please. Write
S. H. Sanders, Ashtabula, Ohio.
OK SALI-Iaol'legistel'ed yearling Hams.

 

improved
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Black Top Delaine Merino.

“(ink lollralnwlwr, Laing‘sbur , Mich.
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'TlX— TON MlX’ with salt the
mud keeps flock healthy and free from
worms and ticks. Sivan you big mpney *I‘
331. 00 sample box by parcel polt will mod"
ic_lte .k Ibearrel 131f N’sML Write for club o'ﬂer
re and Care of Sheep.

” PARSONS °1lx 01"011 co., cma Ledge. M'lé

  

 

 

 

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“v“- Laced. Golden and “hite Wyan»,
dottos 0f quality. Bleeding stock afteg:
Oct. lst. Engage it ( .ulv Clarenoe ‘ .
Browning. R, 2 Portland. VIlCh. . l.

 

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ROFl'l‘ABl l“ lll'FF LI‘JUHORNS S—Waﬂ
have twenty pens or especially mated
Single Comb Buffs that are not only matey;
ed for exhibition but, above all, for pref»
ltable egg production. Eggs at very reas-~ ‘ 7
onable prion. Our list 1111! interest you

 

 

 

—-please ask fox it. Village Fla’frms,
Grass Lake. Michigan
(‘IIICKS

We ship thousandd/J
CHI K each season, different

varieties booklet and
testimonials, stam apprepiated. Freeportg.‘
Hatchery, Box 1 Freeport. Michigan.‘

 

 

 
 

HAg‘CHINo EGGS

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From strain 1 w '
Barred Rock Eggs redo,“ U, 29.! 9,3,“
er year. 32. 00 per 15 Pre aid 1131,9111.
e1 post. Circular free red Astling.

  

Constantine, Michigan.

   

 

   
     
 
  
 
 

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m guans exp FEMALE
ack Orpington‘s, 33131311! ()3
tons, Rhoda; Island Reds.
James A.Da1ey, Mohawk Migh

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1stered
i l JACKSON MICHIGAN
WEDNESDAY Std-P

"‘60 Head of healthy, tuberculln tested, free from

disease females in working cond1t1on ---- no old cows or crlpples,

Headed by King Korndyke Orlskany Pontiac ‘

a magnificent 4 year old grand-son of K- P-Pontiac LaSs Who has a44lb
Butter Record 1n a week and his dam has a Record of 31 lbs in a week
and 3 A. R. O. Daughters above 20 lbs.

In addition to the Registered Holsteins there are a feW B1g
Milking Grades and three 4 year olds.

Registered Guernsey Cows
A few Young Holstein Bull Calves, Sired by the Herd
Bull and out of well bred Dams

The sudden decision to sell these cattle has been made because of the failing health

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of the owner and his son being with the troops in France. V “ . . 1 , - -

The herd 18 one of the oldeSt and best 111 MiChigan; Establlshed m 1906 and has
many Advance Register Record Animals 1n the herd which can be materially Increased by
further testing. . 1 ' 5"

A Certificate of Health of all cattle approved by the State Authonties Will be .fur-
nished and are guaranteed to be free from all cOntagious diseases.

Sale will take place at the farm, located Just within the City lelts and may be
reached on Lansing Ave. car line going West.

Sale Begins at one oclock

Boar
‘J. W. Boardman, Prop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

