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Why Farmers Should ApprOve Bond Issue

B UT A FEW days remain in which to discuss and consider
the most important question ever placed before the farmers
of. Michigan. Itlis true that the farmers'pay less than fifty per
cent of the taxes, and that therefore all tax payers are vitally in-
terested in the proposed amendment, yet it. is equally true that
greater benefit froma system of national trunk roads will accrue
to agriculturists than to any other class.

Michigan Business Farming has considered the proposition
from every angle; avery thorough investigatidn has been made;
figures have been secured from the State Highway Department;
plans adapted by other states have been considered, and as a fin-
al conclusion we not only advise, but urge every voter to cast his
ballot FOR the good road amendment next Monday.

Michigan must be lifted, out of the sand and mud. No state
in the Union is in greater need of a trunk system of good roads
leading to centers of distribution. Michigan is a state of diversifi-
ed farming. Hauling from the farm continues throughout the
year, and the greater tonnage at a season when roads are almost
impassable. The grain growers dispose of nine-tenths of their
crop immediately after harvest. Not so with the farmers of Mich-
igan. They must reach the weighing station in the late fall with
their immense tonnage of sugar beets; the condensary and cream-
ery must be reached with their milk; the bean crop is moved in
the late fall; rotatoes are a bulky product and these must go for-
ward during the unce ' weather and more certain bad roads
of the late fall. Three-fourths of the hay, crop is moved during
the months' of November, December and J anuary—from Sept-
ember lst to March let the farmers of Michigan are using the
highways for heavy teaming daily. . .

7 Michigan started some years ago on a trunk system of high-
ways. -Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been expended.

MoVement Launched

. _ HE FARMERS of Michigan will have a candidate for gov-

' ‘ ernor in 1920. This was the unanimous decision of agricul-‘

tnral representatives who met in conference Monday evening. at
the Hotel Kerns, Lansing. Flushed with the victory won at the
Republican state convention when they nominated their two
candidates for the Board elf-Agriculture, the farm organizations
and the farm press Which took a part in that notable accomplish-

. ment have been quick to pursue the advantage thus gained and

will throw their undivided strength behind the man who comes

nearest to meeting the speciﬁcations laid down by the farmers.
Who the candidate willbe is not, yet known. The names of

several men prominently identiﬁed with the farming interests

have been suggested but it' was the unanimous verdict that it _

was yet too early to pick the man. ..
‘ The conference was preceded by a banquet and was attended

; by heads of the {farmer organizations farmer members of the

legislature and the farm press and bona ﬁde farmers. C. H.
Bramb‘ overseer of the State Grange, was chosen chairman, and
Forrest , rd, editor of M. B. F., secretu'y. After an exhaustive
round table discussion of the purposes of the meeting and the
character of the man to be named, the following resolution was

‘ unanimously adopted: . .

“Resolved, That it is the sense of this informal conteﬁnce repre-
gentmg the agricultural industry of 0 State. that the farmers of
Michigan shall actively project themse es mtg the campaign of, 1920
especially for the 'governorship. To this end we invite" the sugges-
tion of names ”.mdldates for governor and pledge ourselves to
tio'n‘s around the strong-

who will'glye agricultural square
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MT. CLEMENS, SATURDAY, APRILVSth, 1919

' united support to a candidate that he

Tax payers have contributed heavily wherever such roads have
been built, and to what end? We have a patch of good‘roads here
and there; no regular plan, no uniform specifications—a patch-
work proposition is all that ca‘n‘be said for them. And these roads
are not maintained. No official, agency or community or com-
monwealth assumes responsibility for upkeep after the money
is expended and the tax payers enjoy one season of good roads
gravel is thrown outside the roadbed, ruts and drainage neglect-
ed, and those who have paid the cost have reason to complain.

What Michigan needs and what the farmers must have is a
trunk line of roads leading to distributing centers. Then the
cross roads can be improved and where tonnage is light to the
trunk lines this improvement will not be burdensome and the one
great problem of distribution will be solved. Under present con-
ditions Michigan farm products go to the market when the roads
are good-—and a glutted market is the result. Never will the
farmers secure a steady market so long as there is but one sea-
son of the year when farm products can be satisfactorily and
economically moved to the markets—a glut must follow; and
the fellow who can store will surely get the proﬁts when bad
roads shut the farmer off from the markets. ‘

And we can’t have good roads and get them so that the pres-
ent generation can have the beneﬁts unless some plan is devised
for immediate action. Under the plan of government aid, Mich-
igan will be building government post roads; roads in which the
United States has a ﬁnancial interest.
uniform system will be constructed. We will have a trunk line
system built to stand what the trafﬁc demands; built by govern-
ment experts working in conjunction with our own state high-
way department; and what is of greater value than all else is
the fact that the Government will aid in maintaining these trunk
lines when once completed. (Commued on page 8)

for Farmer Governor ..

The conference was in no sense a secret caucus. Every man
present had a say, and every man spoke heartily in favor of the
objects of the meeting. The conference was absolutely devoid
of such cautionings as “just between ourselves,” “this is confi-
dential,” “the newspapers must not get hold of this.” Whis-
perings, innuendos, secret diplomacy were absolutely barred. On
the contrary it was urged that the utmost publicity be given to
the sentiment and the proceedings of the conference. This radi-
cal departure from the usual “back room caucus” must have
been a disappointment to the reporter who had his ear screwed
to the key-hole during the entire conference, in the fond belief
that he was a hearer to something intended to be strictly con-
ﬁdential.

~ The conference decided that no attempt would be made to
name candidates for positions other than the governorship, altho
undoubtedly farmer candidates for the legislature, state ofﬁces
or vacancies in congress will receive the support of the farmers'

organization. _ But all eﬂorts will be centered upon the governor-

ship, and other ofﬁces will receive secondary consideration.
'The type of man to be presented brought forth many opin-
ions. Some-insisted that it was not necessary that he should be
closely, identiﬁed with agriculture in order to insure his giving
agri _; a “square de .” If his past record showed him
to be a mo! broad sympathies and fair dealing, and absolutely
fredw'r'nnﬁiendly political entanglements, he might belong
._ to somhimgol'ass and still be trusted with the interests of farm-
.iers. . T ‘ he not the popular attitude, however. The major-
ity beleive

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fFOOD SURVEY OF MARCH 1, 1919 SHOWS ,,
» ' A LARGER THAN AVERAGE STOCK

Commercial stocks of wheat reported in a sur-
vey made by the Department of Agriculture for
March 1, 1919, amounting» to 197,277,688 bushels.

'T'hese holdings, reported by 11,499'ﬁrms—elevat-

ors, warehouses, grain mills, and wholesale deal-

" "ere—were more than three times as large as the

stocks held by the some ﬁrms a year earlier, the

" ' actual percentage being 808.9 per cent. of the 1918

stocks. The ﬁgures refer to stock. actually re-
ported, and do not represent the total commercial

,. stocks of the country, nor do they include «stocks

on farms.
The commercial visible supply ﬁgures, as pub-
lished by the Chicago Board of Trade for March

1, 1919, show 118, 219, 000 bushels of wheat, as _

against 9,739, 000 bushels a year earlier Corre-
sponding Bradstreet ﬁgures show 127,207,000 bush-
els, as against 15,484,000 bushels for 1918. As com-
pared with the same date of last year, these ﬁg-
ures, as well as those obtained by the more ex-
tensive survey, show a very great relative in-
crease in commercial stocks of wheat on March 1,
1919.

The commercial stocks of other cereals reported
for March 1, 1919, according to the department
statement, were as follows: ‘ Corn, 24,403,393 bush-
els; oats, 71,255,951 bushels; barley, 82,418,594
bushels; rye, 24,547,505 bushels. These stocks rep-

resent the following percentages of the correspond- ,

ing stocks on March 1, 1918: Corn, 62.9 per cent.
oats, 101.8 per cent; barley, 154.8 per cent; rye,
454.1 per cent.

The commercial stocks of ﬂour and corn meal,
as reported for the survey were: Wheat ﬂour,
white, 7.077.976 barrels; whole wheat and graham
ﬁour, 94.115 bbls.; barley ﬁour, 128.420 bbls.;
rye ﬂour, 268,618 barrels; corn ﬂour; 19,662,024
pounds; corn meal, 59,935,891 buckwheat flour,
28,718,521 pounds; mixed ﬂour, 58,427,148 pounds.
These stocks represent the following percentages
of the stocks on hand a year ago: Wheat flour,
white, 160.6 per cent; whole wheat and graham
ﬂour, 100.4 per cent; barley ﬁour, 98.7 per cent;
rye dour, 117.2 per cent; corn ﬁour, 187.5 per cent.
corn meal, 105.7 per cent; buckwheat ﬂour, 351.8
per cent; mixed ﬂour, 800.6 per cent.

Elevators, warehouses and wholesale dealers re-
ported stocks of beans amounting to 8,305,887
bushels, while wholesale grocers and warehouses
reported the following commodities in the quanti-
ties indicated: Rice, 126,460,982 pounds; rolled
oats, 72,916,730 pounds; canned salmon, 137,415,-
599 pounds; canned tomatoes, 274,516,169 pounds;
canned corn, 132,288,018 pounds; sugar, 200,320,-
552 pounds. These stocks represent the following
percentages of the corresponding stocks on hand
March 1,1918: Beans, 146.9 per cent. , rice, 129.4
per cent. ' rolled oats, 180. 8 per cent; canned sal-
mon, 103.8 per cent; canned tomatoes, 188 per
cent; canned corn, 167.8 per cent; sugar, 187.9%.

Stocks of condensed and evaporated milk were
reported by condensaries, cold storages: ware-
houses, and wholesale grocers, as follows: Con-
dened milk, 30,347,106 pounds, evaporated milk,
85,317,877 pounds. The holdings of condensed milk
reported for March 1, 1919, represented 121.9 per
bent. ei the stocks held by the some ﬁrms 9. year
earlier, while the holdings of evaporated milk
represented 85.4 per cent. of the March, 1918,
stocks.

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FOURTEENTH AGRICULTURAL CEN-
SUS COMMENCES JANUARY 1, 1920

Uncle Sam has decided to take the fourteenth

' census on farms January 1, 1920, instead of col-

lecting this data as of April 15, as was don. in
1910. ' The date was changed because farmers or-
dinarily are very busy with the rush of spring
work about the middle of April, also because the
April 15 date comes during the midst of the brood-
ing season when the number of young stock is not
comparable between northern and southern reg-
ions, and ﬁnally because the returns on the crepe
obtained during the winter are more accurate
than those obtained later and comparable with the
December estimates of the Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates.

The questions include information on the ‘acrea

age and production of the“ crops, amount sold or

to be sold, live stock-classiﬁcation both by sex and

5 age, acreage of woodland, and the amount of land

11' farms drained and needing drainage. Special
nsideration will also be given te matters of land
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amount of land and acreage of crops irrigated,

numbers of young live stock sold, purchased,
slaughtered, and died on the farms, and quantity
of dairy products and wool produced. ~0wing to
the fundamental importance of th'eSe ' statistics,
which provide basic information relative to farms
and farming in the United States, it is heped that
farmers throughout the country will assist the
census enumerators in every way possible in se-
curing accurate reliable, and complete informa-
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FIFTEEN MILLION LOANED‘ TO THE
FARMERS IN MONT]! OF FEBRUARY

During the month of February, 1919, 814,799,,-
788 were loaned to 4,209 farmer of the United
States by the Federal Land banks on long time
ﬁrst mortgage; according to the monthly state-
ment of the Farm Loan Board. The Federal Land
bank of Omaha, leads in amount of loans closed,
83 895, 400, with the Federal Land bank of Saint
Louis, running second in amount, 82, 055 ,955. The
other banks closed loans in February as follows:
Houston 81,863,213; St. Paul, $1,506,600; Spokane,
$1,251,720; Wichita, 81,019,800; Louisville, 8757,-
300; New Orleans, $735,800; Columbia, $505,500;
Berkeley, 8473.800; Baltimore, 8386, 900; Spring-
ﬁeld $347,000

On March let the total amount of mortgage
loans closed since the establishment of the Feder-
al Land banks was $182,897,964, numbering 75,384
borrowers. During February 5,990 applications
were received asking for 823,720,593. During the
same period 4,879 loans wereapproved, amounting
to $20,137,009. Altogether 179,784 have applied
for loans under this system, aggregating $471,455,-
362. .
The grand total of loans closed is distributed by
Federal Land bank districts as follows:

Spokane, $27,131,035; St. Paul, $25,645,500; Om-
aha, 821,817,540; Houston, $19,236,434; Wichita,
817,963,500; St. Louis, $13,886,365; New Orleans,
812,811,215; Louisville, 811,621,300;-Berkeley, 810,-
487,000; Columbia, 88,817,140; Baltimore, 6,904,-
850; Springﬁeld, 9,578,095.

} STATE AGRICULTURAL BRIEFSW

Jackson—The Jackson County Federal Farm
Loan Ass'n 'was recently formed here with the fol-
lowing odicers: President, Fred P. Marshall.
Jasckson; vicenpresident, Wm. M. Hankerd, Mun-
ith; secretary and treasurer, Wm. E. Bullard,
Central State Bank Jackson. Directors—E. W.
Hopkins, Spring Arbor; Thos. J. Falahee Jack-
son; Joseph Taylor, Parma; W. M. Hankerd, Mun-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ith; Maynard May, Horton. Loan committee—
Joseph Taylor, E. W. Hopkins and W. M. Han-
kerd.

St. Johns—A meeting of the Short Horn Breed-

ers of Clinton recently the hollowing were elected,

as ofﬁcers of the Short Horn Breeders' association
for the county of Clinton: President, W. G. An-
derson; ﬁrst vice-president, Frank Noble; second
vicepresident, J. F. Clemons, third vice-president,
W. Winﬁeld; secretary and treasurer, Ralph Bot-
tum. After the election of oﬂicers a complete con-
stitution and by-laws were formulated and adopt!
'ed by the association, and plans were discussed
for the work in the future. Twenty-three charter
members were taken in at this meeting.

Caro—At a meetin held in Care Saturday, Mar.
15th, a Livestock Sh pping association was organ-
ized for the purpose of shipping co-operatlvely
stock and such other commodities as seems nec-
essary. A board of ﬁve directors was chosen, con-
sisting of W. F. Dowling, Sr., Akron; Floyd Turn-

er, Caro; Henry Uane, Fairgrcve; Preston Rich-
ardson, Elli on: Wm. Slack, Almer. The di-
rectors el M. Dowling president, Mr. Turner

as secretary-treasurer, Nate Patterson as manager.

Bessemer—The Farther Elevator and Milling
Company's ﬂour and feed mill at Bessemer Mich-
igan, is one oi the best equipped of its kind and
is a credit to the'Upper Peninsula as well as to
Gogebic county It consists of a t .0 story struc-
ture 52 feet long and 22 feet wide, with a base-
ment.

EscaMbo—C. ‘B. McKinney, of Bluffton, Ind, is

an Escanaba visitor looking over the possibilities

of the sheep business here. He has a thous-
and head of ewes in Montana which he wishes to
bring here this summer, if satisfactory arrange-
ments can be made. ’

Dundee—An enthusiastic meeting of Holstein
cattle breeders was held at Dundee recently, and

an organization with the iollo‘wing emcers was

perfected: President, E W. Morris, Merl-res; vice-
president, A. T. Bordine Dundee; Secretary and
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,_ claims and services;
accounting;

STATE LIVE STOCK SHIPPING ASS’N
ORGANIZED AT LANSING RECENTLY

The Beard of Directors met at East Lanainz
on the 27th of March and organised by electing

» C L. ‘Harrison of St. Joseph county, president'

"Mr E. C. Beamer oi Lenawee county, treasurer;
Mr. L. E. Willet of ShiaWassee county, seeretar'"
and Mr. H. T. Gleezen of ‘Oheboysan county, via

president.‘

Committees covering the following divisions
were appointed: Membership. railroad rates
88111118 service in markets:
insurance; shrinkage; marketing:
grievances. No manager has, as yet, been selected,
the board being of the opinion that it would be
advisable to wait until some idea of the tonnage
controlled by the association could be secured.

The organization is to be ﬁnanced by a member
ship fee of 810 for each local association and a
charge of 50 cents per car for each carload of live
stock shipped by local member-associations.

A salient feature of the by-laws adopted is a
provision empowering the board of directors to

I make reciprocal arrangements with other federa-

tions and exchanges as to membership and ser
vices. The main intent of this provisiOn is to co-
ordinate and unite the efforts of all the large co-
operative organizations in the state, as for in-
stance: A live stock shipping association in Gen-
esee or Branch county may, through a reciprocal
arrangement between the Michigan Live Stock Ex-
change and the Michigan Potato Growers’ Ex-
change, receivo all the beneﬁts of the Potato Grow-
ers' Exchange without expense except the actual
selling charges. .

A membership campaign is now being put on to
line up all the live stock interests of the state be-
hind this organization as it is realized that ,in or;
der to be effective and serve the live stock inter-
ests in the most efﬁcient manner, it should repre-
sent the combined live stock organizations of the
whole state. Every farmer interested in the pro-
duction of live stock and all local live stock ship-
ping associations aro especially requested to as-
sist in this membership. campaign.

It is generally felt that the live stock industry
one of the largest, if not the largest, agricultu

industry of Michigan, and it is the principle pur-l

pose of the Michigan Live Stock Exchange to se
unite this industry that it can bring the great
prestige and ﬁnancial power which the industry
represents to bear in the solution of the many
problems that are now confronting the live stock
organizations.

It is the urgent request of the board of direct-
ors of the Michigan Live Stock Exchange that all
local live stock shipping associations take up this
matter at once and if any point should arise on
which further information is desired, an effort
will be made on the part of the exchange or some
representative in the Markets Department to visJ

it the organization and furnish any desired infor. ,

mation .—-HicMgan Live Stock Ewchange.

GOVERNMENT REPORTS BIGGEST V ‘ ‘
DROP IN WOOL CONSUMPTION
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Less wool was used by

manufacturers in February of this year than in

any month since monthly consumption reports
have been issued by the Bureau of Markets, De-
partment of Agriculture. February consumption
was 27, 500, 000 pounds, grease equivalent, compar-
ed to 68, 700, 000 in February a year ago a decrease
of over 50 per cent.

Consumption of wool during February, 1919, in
classes by pounds, was: Grease, 17,772,920:
scoured, 8,467,457; and pulled, 1,846,441. Massa-
chusetts used the most wool, followed in order by
Rhode Island, Pennsylvania New York, New Jer-
gey, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Ohio and Maine..

Strikes and the inability of small manufactun,
ers to secure wool because government auctions
were on a cash basis, are two of the reasons given
for the decline in consumption during February.

 

HARRISON COOPERATIVE ELEVATOg R
A00. DECLABES 10. PER GENT DIVIDEND

t?) meeting of the stockholders of the Han-
risen o-oporative Elevator 06.. held recently, it
was decided to declare a 100 per cent. dividend.
During the past several weeki emoials of the com-
pan have been lave-tinting the desirabﬂity of
liaising hoonnection with the el-
evater. Wh lall» itis
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suppose you have your farm all paid

to win the personal property and are out of debt.
Y want to Zbuild a barniyour farm needs tiling:
’must make improvements, and to do this you
must have money. But through some legal tangle
1 can neither mortgage your farm or secure
:_ money on your personal credit. You could not get
. very far under this handicap, neither can the
State of Michigan. ’
The fact that the amendment passes does not
. make it necessary for the State of Michigan to
issue bonds. In fact on the question of bonds we
_. shall have much to say further on in this article.
1 But without giving the legislature the right to
‘ authorize bonds, in an emergency, the whole plan
of government aid will be lost; and good roads
will be delayed for a decade. Suppose, for in.
stance, that for the first Year the state tax rate is
low, and it is decided to raise the necessary 5-
ll mount required for the good roads program by
taxation, it can be done and there will be no in-
terest on bond to paW Suppose that next year

 

, hopes of" putting the legislature on ree-
ord as against the issuance of bonds when the
necessary funds can be raised in some other

1- way. And we intend to make a ﬁght along this
line We have talked this matter over with m»-
,‘ious farmer members of the legislature who-

are. With us, and when the matter of issuing

“bonds comes up, M. B. lit, the farmer members
. of the legislature and the leaders of farm or-

ganizations will be prepared to ﬁght for the
method or ﬁnancing road building that will
mean the least burden upon the taxpayers, and
the least amount of interest to pay.

This bonding issue has been a perplexing one
t6 us. So many ﬁgures and opinions contributed
by the legislature, the governor, the highway
department and others were at variance that we
have not known where we stood half the time.
But an-exhaustive study into the objections
against and the arguments for the issue, and
the compilation of ﬁgures that have been veri-
ﬁed by the best authorities in the state convince
us that the bonding issue will be no burden on
the farmer. Were it otherwise, we could never
advise our farmer friends to vote for the amend-
ment. They know us well enough to believe that
statement, and when after this careful study we
give our unreserved opinion that the farmers
and their wives should vote “Yes” on the bond-

ll in! amendment, we believe that a lei-g

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MOVEMENT LAUNCHED FOR FARM-

ER GOVERNOR 0F MCHIGAN'H-J

(Continued from page 1) must be ﬁrst of all: ‘2
either a bona ﬁde farmer, or else so closely at-

tached to their interests or having such». record, >.:
‘ef service to the farmers that there can be no

question as to his understanding of or his 'sym’a". _‘
pathy with their problems '

Another conference will be called before their} A‘

present session of the legislature ends, the date to

be determined upon by the committee consisting ' "‘

of A. B. Cook,, Grant Slocum, John C. Ketcham. i.
appointed for that purpose. * «
It is possible that the candidate may be named;

at that meeting. Possibly not. Anyway, the

farmers of Michigan can be positively assured
that a candidate will be named in due season,
and" that every man interested in Michigan agri-
culture will take oil his coat and work for his-
nominationand election. 80, M. B. 1". readers,—
you are asked to make no pledges to any man,
but wait for the announcement of the man who
has been selected from the suggestions that it is
hoped the farmers will make. Get busy. Sound
out your neighbors. Take the matter up at

your meetings. Tell us whom YOU would like to '
see Governor of Michigan.

  
 
  
     
       
     
    
   

   
   
  
 

  
    
  

  
  
   
   
   

taxes are high, and to continue the program bonds
are sold maturing twenty years hence, the good
, roads program will go on uninterruptedly.

When you vote for good roads remember you
are voting on a proposition in which the federal
government matches your dollar No matter what

_ . \, some may argue, the fact remains that if this

‘ state spends $100,000 for good roads and the Unit-

. ‘ ed States government hands over another $100,000

we will have $200,000 worth of good roads, with

Uncle Sam to help boss the job, and aid in future
“maintenance.

We do not believe that it will ever be neces-
sary to issue any bonds for road building pur-
poses, except possibly for the very ﬁrst year.

' But our readers will agree with us that they,
thru their representatives, should have the pow-
er to sell bonds if the good roads program can
_be ﬁnanced in no other way.

We object to the issuance of bonds when suf~
ﬁcient road building money can be secured by a

~direct tax at a rate no higher than the bond
issue would require. We have already advised

the legislature of our position on this matter,

5.. ‘l ' and four different plans, drawn up by the editor

of this paper, have been submitted to every
' member of the legislature in an effort to con-

‘ . vince him that tho the legislature may have the

authority to issue bdnds it will not be necessary

' to exercise that authority in the majority of
years. Auditor General Fuller 'in an interview
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WHERE THE LOCUSTS WILL APPEAR

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Ques. What Will be the rate per thous-
and on farm property if $50, 000, 000
worth of bonds are sold in ten years and
retired in 25 years?

Ans. TherateasM. B. F. ﬁguresitie
an average of $0. 679, or about two-thirds

by the State Tax commission and the
State Highway Department. This rate pays
"" _ both principal and interest.

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this issue and they build a road past my

, farm that the tax will be $5 an acre. Is
this true? ‘
Ans. No. it’s a lie. The author of such

_ a statement is trying deliberately to mie-
lead. It a trunk line road is built by your
farm, the government will pay half the

 

50 to 00 per cent of the balance and your
county will pay the remainder. Now sup-
pose the state should decide, with the ap-
proval of your board of supervisors, to

road inyour county (St. Clair) this

men-ad the entire length‘ofyourmm
. berderedonthatrM. momma
thatroedwonldboaboutmooo. 0!
-.ﬂiatameunttheied Wtwould

  

   

. of one mill. This ﬁgure has been veriﬁed,

Ques. My neighbor says if I vote for

cost. The state will .pay'. anywhere from .V

build ﬁve miles of concrete trunk line

by the federal government would cost you
nothing. The share spent by the state
would cost you $0.679 per thousand of
your valuation. If. your farm is assessed
at $4,000, your TOTAL annual share of
the State's expense would be $2.72. St.
Clair county is assessed at nearly $5.0.-
000.000. The cost per thousand then of
that $62,500 that the county would have
to pay would be $1.25. On a total valua-
tion ofvu,000, the TOTAL of your county
cost to you would be $5, making a TOTAL
'MAXIMUM charge against your farm for
the FIRST year of $7.72. If your county
built ﬁve miles more of trunk line the
next year the cost would be the SAME.
But if it. builds main market roads every
year it will soon have its roads ALL built.
and then your TOTAL share of the cost of
construction will be merely the $2.72 per
{a Everyfermerintheetatecanonthis

ﬁgure out approximately the cost to
himefﬂieeemadsaecordingto hisvalua-
ﬂon.11theroadietobeofgravelinstead
ofconmte.ﬂ1einitialeostwillbelees.
of course. 'But your small share of the
state expense will continue until ALL the
main roads are built. No county will prob-

,‘W um the above more
‘M .. a season. so the cost

    

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,. Answers to Some Good Roads Questions you May have Asked

Ques. But what about the maintenance
of these roads? Won't that be a big
item?

Ans. No! The best part of this plan is
that the state pays half or more of the
cost of maintenance. At present the state’s
total contribution toward the maintenance
of trunk line roads is $75 per mile. The
county has to pay the rest. Under the new
plan, the county pays only half or less of
the maintenance. The state’s share of the
maintenance costs you nothing extra;
that comes out of the auto license money
or the bond money or a direct tax that
will not exceed the rate above mentioned.
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Ques. What will happen if the bond
issue is defeated?

Ans. The legislature will still have the
power to spread a direct tax. It may do so
It may not. If it ddes not, Michigan will
lose over $7,000,000 of federal money
now available, and possibly many millions
more that may be appropriated later.
Road building will receive a set-back
from which it will take years to recover.
he roads will eventually have to be built.
I! the state and the federal government
erenotgivenachance‘toHELP build ,
ﬁreseroadsmhecounﬂesgwillhavetobear.

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the individpal farmer and are helpful in as-
certaining the economic status of farming
as an industry says the report of committee ap-
pointed by the secretary of agriculture to consider
a plan of organization for the omce of Farm Man-
agement, and outline the ﬁeld of operation, and
especially methods of proceedure in making cost-
~of-production studies. The primary purpose of
' cost-of-production studies, says the report, are:

' -1. To record the details of the farm business

for reference.

2. ' To give an insight into the elements and in-,

terrelations of the different farm activities.

3. To furnish information that may enable the

. farmer to reduce costs, or otherwise increase pro-

ﬁts.

4. To make possible a comparison of the pro

‘ ,ﬂ'tableness of the different enterprises and combin-
ations of enterprises.

From the standpoint of the public, cost-of-pro-
duction studies provide the facts which give a bas-
is for intelligent judgment upon the probable ef-
feCts of any given legislation or other public ac-
tivity upon the farmer as a producer and as a cit-
izen. Cost-of-production studies are therefore one
of the means of providing the basic facts needed

by legislators and price commissions in compar?

ing the proﬁts of competing lines of production
and estimating necessary price.

Men of ripe experience in various fields of ag-
ricultural research constituted the committee.
They are: H. C. Taylor, Agricultural Economics,
University of Wisconsin; Andrew Boss, Agrono-
my and Farm Management, University of Minne-
sota; J. A. Foord, Agriculture and Farm Man:
agement, Massachusetts Agricultural College; J.
I. Falconer, Rural Economics, Ohio State Univer-
sity; R. L. Adams, Farm Management, Universi-
ty of California; G. I. Christie, Assistant Secre<
tary of Agriculture; and representatives of the
Bureau of Crop Estimates, the Bureau of Markets,
and the Ofﬁce of Farm Management of the De
partment of Agriculture.

Three Methods Recognized

The committee recognizes three ways of obtain-
ing cost data—cost accounting, the survey method
and the questionnaire sent by mail. The ac-
counting method is based on complete records of

all farm work and business transactions. Ar-.

rangements are made with farmers to keep detail-
ed records of all operations and transactions in
connection with the farm business. The work is
supervised by personal visits to the farm. It is
desirable, the committee says, that cost accounts
he kept to obtain basic data, and cumulative re-
sults of such work become increasingly valuable.

By the survey method trained investigators ob-
tain the necessary data, some from the farmer's

, books, some from the books of persons to whom
the farmer sells and from whom he buys, some
from his bin, silo and building capacities, and
some from estimates made by the farmer. One of
the advantages Of this system is that records are
obtained from all classes of farms after the close
of the farm year, so that, when desired, areas
more representative of normal conditions may be
chosen.

Either method, the committee says, is useful
and reliable when the work is carefully conduct-
ed but preferably both should be used. The de-
tailed cost accounts serve as a check on the sur-
vey work, which in its tuln shows the relation-

ship of the farms on which cost accounts are kept .

to the average farm.

The speciﬁc items to be considered in cost-of-
production studies, the report continues, will al-
ways depend upon the enterpriSe under considera-
tion. When the survey method is used, it is es-
sential that the list be complete enough so that
no item will be omitted either by the farmer or
the investigator. When the accounting method is
used a classiﬁcation is needed that is broad
enough to include all charges, but the cost items
will be developed in the working out of the rec-

7 ords and will vary with the enterprise. The fol-
lowing grouping is suggested:— -
Labor—Man labor (including labor of men,

,' women and children); Animal labor; Mechanical

Materials—Crop materials. Seed, Fertilizer,‘
twine, sprays: Stock materials: Feed, Bedding.
Caulk—Selling, insurance, taxes, threshing, vet-
actuary, breeding fees. '

‘ Investmentd—Depreciation of investment in live
'vgtock; interest on investment in live stock. ‘ .

 

OST OF production studies are of value to

 

 

EORETARY HOUSTON of the Department
of Agriculture, has fat. last aWakened .from
his lethargy, and is. apparently making some
very decisive steps to‘ investigate and deter-
mine the cost of producing various farm crops.

The accompanying article sets forth at some

length the scope of these plans. The names of
those who have been selected to supervise this
work are all well-known “experts.” The com-
mittee is uncontaminated by the presence of a
single farmer so no embarraSsing questions are

likely to arise over the method of proceedure ‘

that is to be followed. Read the secretary’ s
plaiis. Tell us what you think of them.

 

 

Use of Mechanical Equipment—Labor, mater-
ials, cash and investment charges pertaining to
mechanical equipment. *

Special Charges—Manure, lime, breeding males,

perennial crops.

 

Indirect Charges to, E
~(Consisting of labor, material, cash and invest-
ment costs that cannot be charged as such to en-
terprise accounts, but whisk may be assembled
under deﬁnite headings and distributed on the
basis of use.

Use of Buildings (and similar imprOVements)
',—Lab_or, materials, cash and investment charges
pertaining to buildings, . y
Use of Land and Land Improvements-Labor.

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materials, cash and investment charges pertain- x

ing to land and land imprOVements‘.

-Gencral Expenses or Overhead—«Labor, mater- I. I

ials, cash and investment charges that cannot be
Labor—Man labor (including labor of men,

women and children); animal labor; mechanical,

. labor (tractor and truck).

Materials—Crop materials: Seed, Fertilizer.

charged direct or assembled under the other In- ' ' In

direct Cost headings.

Cramton Says. Farmers’ Interests _' Demand IuveStiéation

HE SPILLMAN charges against the conduct

I .of the Dep’t of Agr'l by Sec. Houston are

fundamental in their nature. They consist

of statements made by Spillman concerning mat-

ters Within his own personal knowledge and they

come from a man who, for many years occupied

a position of very high respbnsibility in the De-
partment of Agriculture.

Charges from such a source on matters of such

importance cannot be ignored. The general pub-
lic and in particular, the farming interests of
this country will’not be content until such charges
are thoroughly investigated by an impartial com-
mittee, armed with full authority, and the charges
found to be either false or well founded.

The matter is so serious that it appears to me

that Secretary Houston should be the ﬁrst one to ’

demand such an investigation as I have proposed
in House Resolution 611. At once on opening of
the next session of Congress, I shall re-introduce

'that resolution and press for its adoption and I

ircerely hope that in’that matter I may have the
upport of Secretary Houston as well as Dr. Spill-
man and the Agricultural and farm organizations
throughout the country.

The Spillman charges create a situation. which
cannot be cleared up except by such an investiga-
tion and report.

does not profess to have personal knowledge of
the facts at issue but only repeats hearsay, exceut
where he indulges in personalities concerning Dr.
Spillman will not sufﬁce.
rambles along on hearsay and- inuendo and by vi-

tuperation of Dr. Spillman for tWeLve pages. And -

of course, this subordinate of Secretary Houston
selected by Secretary Houston for that purpose
ﬁnds Secretary Houston not guiltyand condemns
Dr. Spillman to everlasting punishment. That is
not the kind of an investigation of this important
matter, and that s not the kind of a report and‘
decision that the public wants.

The efﬁciency and effectiveness of the work of I

the Department of Agriculture is at stake. What
is needed is a thorough investigation at which Dr.
Spillman, Secretary Houston, and every other of-
ﬁcial or individual that knows anything of the
facts, shall be heard directly and under oath and
the real truth ascertained impartially and relent-

lessly—Gong. Louis'o. Oramton, Washington, D.0. '

Macomb County Milk Producers’ Locals Organize

NE OF THE really big steps in the history

of Macomb county milkindustry occurred

when delegates from 12 milk locals met
and organized under one head known as the
Macomb County Dairy Council.

This organization has for its purposes the uni-
fying of the problems of the entire county and the
dealing of the same from the standpoint of a
county unit rather than from the individual local
idea. It is an organization to render the greatest
amount of efﬁcient service to the 1,094 men in-

volved and the eﬂicient handling of the 25,630 ‘

gal, of milk shipped daily in the market of De-
troit, also to make possible a closer contact with
the state Organization and its ofﬁcers, Mr. N. P.
Hull and Mr. R. C. Reed. ‘

From this one the problems of the county will
be carried to the commission meeting by one or
two delegates representing the entire'1,094r men
involved, these same delegates instructed as to
the method of procedure. This step alleviates the
old objectionable plan of sending delegates from
each local with no deﬁnite idea of where each one
stood on questions of importance.

One question, which created considerable inter-
est, was the fact that Detroit, standing as one of
the, largest milk consuming centers of the United

,States, the section of Michigan which practically

established the price for the rest of the state, Sus-

taining a United States Bureau of Markets, minus 7
‘ come the watchword of the hour. The producer is

a dairy division The trouble with the present
system of inspection on the Detroit market; is the
fact, that there is no careful. analysis made of the
situation. The time has arrived when the produc-
er desires to follow his product through to the
consumer, and the only way that“; can be accom.
plished, is to have a careful daily analysis of the
situation, and the producer kept posted by daily
bulletin. If there is any one man, who should be
conversant with the details of the Detroit Milk
Market, it should be the producer and he shOuld

' be 3ust as canversant with the details 923 is the dis-

tributor or dealer.

The surplus, questionhas _oc<‘.upied.the attention. _

of every local in Macomb county for some time,
and there has been a great deal of discussion as to
ways and means of taking care of it. If such a
surplus exists in. the alarming quantity, which del-
egates have been led to believe, then surely the
producer does not wish to grab Miss Detroit by
the hair and drench her with milk. On the oth-
er hand, if no surplus exists certainly Macomb
county or any other county does not wish to hold
back one quart of milk that can be consumed by
the citizens of Detroit and the producer today
questions seiiously whether there is a surplus
existing today or that it has ever existed. It was
the opinion of the Machb County Dairy Coun-
cil that the proper point of attack for this analy-
sis lays in the bureau of markets. '

These and a multitude of like problems devel-
oped during the meeting and the gratifying fea~
ture was to see twelve separate and distinct sec-
tions of the county get their feet on common

ground and set their shoulder to the wheel for the .

express purpose or getting out of the rut. The of.
ﬁcers elected are competent men of long acquaint
ance with the milk question and the county is
backing these men to the limit

Mr. Gidian Bryce of Romeo, was elected presi.

dent; Mr. John C. Miller, Mt. Clemens, vice- -p1esi- ,

dent, and Mr. L. Kamlowske, Washington, secre.
tary- treasurer.

Eﬂiciency in production and distribution has be-

ready and willing to go half way but from now on

he feels that it should be part of his problem to :

familiarize himself with the business from a bus-
iness man's standpoint. ’_ _

We are in hopes that every county will follow
up, and form like organizations We believe that.

  
 
 

by properly unifying our problems and taking ‘-
them up and dealing With them from an eﬂcie'nt 7; :r
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coders, that has been carefully

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‘ V Hereford blood predominates the calf crops

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.e of forage of the west of England and
, gee beef, the Hereford is- recognized today,
'I-Vae‘it was a century ago, as the premier grazing
animal, attaining a higher ﬁnish and producing a

a: better quality of beef, on grass alone, than any
"Other beef animal.
‘ . the record prices at the market centers for grass

Practically without. exception,

cattle have been made by cattle showing a pre-

' ponderance of Hereford blood.

The Hereford can be ﬁnished and marketed as

‘ prime beef at an earliereag‘e and with a greater

weight of carcaSs than any other breed. The meat
of the Hereford V“baby beef" is not veal, but ma-
ture beef, but lacking in the excessive fat of the
older animal. Repeated tests have shown that

   
  

developed to meet the demand 161‘s
- or conVer‘ting the luxuriant grasses and _ to each of the AssOciations, representing the three

 

Please advise us the best stock castle for this
state of the following breeds: Hereford, Shorthorn
and Aberdeen Angus " -—A. K., Coleman, ifich'.

(Editor’s note: The chore question was referred

breeds of cattle mentioned. The Hereford Associa-
tion responded first, and we give herewith its ar-
variants in favor of the Hereford breeds. Other
articles Will be published in early issues setting
forth the qualities of the other breeds.)

 

 

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the best of mothers, dropping strong calves and
rearing them well. Prepotency, or the ability'to
transmit their characteristics to their offspring
when mated with females of other breeds or men-
‘grels, is a marked. characteristic of Hereford
males.

In testing of cattle for tuberculosis there are
fewer reactions among Herefords than among any
other breed of Cattle, beef or dairy. This is sub-

gain can be put on a young animal at a less cost / stantiated by the ofﬁcial records of the cattle of-

per pound than it can be put on one of mature
age, and therefore that there is more proﬁt in
feeding a young animal than an old one.

' Herefords endure extremes of climate and with-

stand hardships better than any other breed. They

. are more rugged of constitution as a breed. They

'are more active and energetic in the pursuit of a

livelihood, and will keep in better ﬂesh where feed
is scarce and difﬁcult to get, than any other breed.
For this reas0n they hays practically supplanted
the other beef breeds, in the sections where cat-
tle are grown under range conditions.

Proliﬁcacy is a characteristic that was early ﬁx.
ed in the Hereford breed. In. range herds where
are
uniformly larger than those in herds where the
blood of other beef breeds predominates. Here-
ford'females are not only proliﬁc breeders, but are

Mishigan Potato GroWers are Selecting Better Seed for this Year’s Planting

" MANY 01" the potato growers of the state are

of better seed potatoes.

taking an active interest in the development
One which has been started more particularly to
beneﬁt a large number of growers than to secure
high prices for seed potatoes for a comparatively
few growers.

Last fall a good many of the, growers through
the state hill selected at least a few~bushel ,of
seed which they expect to plant this season. This,
of course, is the very best way to get started with

better seed, and the men who took pains to bill '

select seed last season will be ahead of those who
did put forth this effort. However, those who,
for any reason, failed to hill select last year, do
not need to wait until another season before get-
ting a start along the line of improved seed. They
will ﬁnd it proﬁtable to select some of the best
shaped tubers from their present stock, and plant
a few bushel of these in a portion of the ﬁeld by
separate ﬁeld
where they can be planted closer and later than
is Common practice with a general crop. ‘

All seed p,otatoes whether. hill selected or not,
should be treated to reduce the danger of injury
from Scab, Black Scurf and Black Leg. Corrosive
Sublimate is the best material to use for this pur-
pose, as it will have a greater inﬂuence on all
of the diseases mentioned than Formaldehyde.

- which is a remedy more particularly for the Scab.

Speciﬁc directions for the use of the Corrosive
Sublimate may be secured in printed term from
any county agent, or directly from from the Ag-
ricultural College.

Potatoes, which are planted for a seed plot:

Vote “No” on Amendment to Permit Legislature to Increase Judges’ Salaries

NE AMENDMENT to be voted upon at the
Gaming election is framed to deceive. It is
the so-called Salary Amendment. The section
to which an amendment is sought, is upon the

‘statute books as follows:

Article XVI, Section 3. "Neither the legislature

, nor any municipal authority shall grant or auth-
o‘rize extra compensation to any 1111blic
agent-ample” or contractor after the" service has

codex-ed or the contract entered into. 89.1.
1 of ‘ blic ofﬁcers, except circuit judges. shall

sed after election or appointment "‘

  

The movement is '

, 3011.

officer,

 

shed, nor shall the salary of any" public ‘

.V ter of fact

fared for export from England to the United
States, and by the records of numerous State and
private veterinarians. The practical immunity of
Herefords from tuberculosis is due to their char-
acteristic hardiness of constitution.
Being more uniform as to quality and color, and
possessing superior qualities as feeders, stocker
' and feeder cattle showing a preponderance of Her-
eford blood command a premium over those of
other breeds at the market centers. When ﬁnish-
ed, both as baby beeves and as mature beeves, the
Herefords command a higher price at the hands
of the packers. Seventy-ﬁve per cent. of the top
sales made at the market centers of the past year
have been of cattle showing a preponderance of
Hereford blood. This applies to dry-lot baby
beeves, grainfed medium and heavy beeves and
grass beeves.

By C. W. WAID
Extensidn Specialist, M. A. C.

whether they were hill selected or not, should be
planted on some of the best potato soil available.
If it is practical to do so, so far as the conven-
ience of cultivation is concerned, it is a good plan
to plant'the seed plot much closer one way than
_the other. If the rows are 32-36 inches apart, the
plants in the row should be from 12-15 inches
apart. Closer planting, however,_should not be
done on soil which is deﬁcient in fertility.

If the planting is done from the middle to the
last of June, or even the'early part of July in the
southern part of the state, the crop will be much
more “certain to continue strong growth until
frost occurs than if the planting is done earlier.
This is one of the advantages of late planting.
Seed which is" somewhat immature when the
ﬁrst killing frost occurs, has been found to be su-
perior to thoroughly mature seed.

It has been a common practice in many parts of
the South, more particularly Kentucky, to plant
what is known as “second crop” potatoes. These
potatoes are still growing when hit by frost, and,
while the tubers are small, they have proven of
superior merit, when used as seed the next sea-
We cannot follow this same practice in the
North, but we can plant the potatoes at such a
time that they will continue to grow until killed
by frost.

' If it is diﬁicult, as it frequently is, to keep seed
until such a time for planting, in the cellar or

- other storage place, this disadvantage may be

overcome in a large measure by what is known as
green sprouting or tubers. As soon as warm

“Neither the legislature nor any municipal au-
thority shall grant or authorize extra compensa-
tion to any public ofﬁcer, agent, employs or con-
tractor after the service has been rendered, or the
contract entered into. salaries of public ofﬁcers
except supreme court justices, circuit court judges,

, probate court judges probate judges and judges

of courts of like jurisdiction, shall not be increas-

111 nor shall the salary of any public ofﬁcer be de-

creased after electiem or appointment.”

  
   

  
  
  

is intended. to.

' Being hardi‘er of constitution, greater. rue
. and less fastidious in regard to their food, ~
fords make better use of the products of the aver ,
age farm, than any other breed. They will 11111 .j.
129 feed and forage that other breeds will not eat,
converting it into high priced beef. For this rea-
son they are best adapted to beef production on» ;
the farms.

Former Governor Crapo, of Flint, experimented
with several beef breeds including the Hereford,»
a few years ago When Herefords were not as well,
known nor as popular as they are now. 3',

A contemporary writeup by a leading agricul— '.
tural journal of the time follows:
breeds were treated alike as to food and‘ehelter. i
The ﬁrst year sixty heifers were purchased which -
grazed on the same ﬁelds in summer, were fed out
of the same racks in the winter, and twenty bred _-
to 'each of the three purebred bulls represented.
The result was that after twelve years’ experience
with these °three most prominent and distinct
breeds of cattle, giving them all an equal, chance
from ﬁrst to lase Governor Crapo adopted the Her"
efords, and bred the other purebreds and their
grades to registered Hereford bulls.

He was convinced that for farmers and breed-1
are the Herefords were more proﬁtable than'the V
others because they mature earlier, are more har-
dy, less liable to disease, better feeders and graz-
iers, fatten on less food in their stalls, keep in
good ﬂesh at all seasons of the year, when killed
produce a. higher percentage of dressed beef, and
alive or dressed command a more ready sale at a
higher price than the other beef breeds.
periment was carried on when the other breeds
were the most fashionable and commanded the
highest prices for breeding stock. Gov. Crapo’s
foreman and herdsman were admirers of the other
breeds and did not take kindly to the “white
faces” but the Herefords worked themselves up
to a tremendous popularity from every quarter.”

If you desire to receive a more lengthy article
or any information at any time, we will consider
it a favor to have you call on us.

weather comes, the potatoes may be spread out 011‘
a barn ﬂoor or in any location where the light
will get ’to them freely, and where they will not
be molested by live stock. The crates should be
ﬁlled about 1/; full of potatoes, and . stacked in
such a manner that the light will get to all of the
sides of the crates. The potatoes will keep in this

way for a number of weeks, although, of course,

they will shrivel. Heavy green sprouts will form

on the potatoes. and when such tubers are plant-

ed they will come up quickly. The ones which

Show a weak growth or 110_\g1‘0\vth at all can be

discarded, and as a result a much better stand

will be secured than where no effort'is made to

green sprout them

Anyone who expects to plant a seed lot of pota-
toes the coming season ,shculd notify the county
agent in his county. An effort will be made dur-
ing the season to have extension specialists or
county agents inspect as many seed plots as it
will be possible to do. at least once during the
growing period. The purpose of the inspection
work will be to deduct and remove the mixtures -
and diseased hills if the grower wishes to have _
them removed. In some cases ﬁeld meetings of '
growers~will be held where the work is done in
order that the growers in the neighborhood may
become better acquainted with the diseases and
methods of control. In every case the owner of
the plot will be shown the nature of any disease _
which may be found in his particular seed plot
or ﬁeld.

At digging time a comparative record will be
made between results secured from the hill select-
ed and the other seed. The growers will also be
encouraged to bill select for another season.

advance the salaries of the judges as it may do-
sire. When it is considered that the legal class of
the state exert a predominating inﬂuence in the
legislature, we .can better
conveying to the legislature this additional power.

Men who become candidates for ofﬁces within _’
the gift of the people, or who accept appointments
to salaried positions, do so with a full knowledge
cf'thevsalaries attached thereto. No ofﬁce everf
goes begging for someone to ﬁll it. There are 111'
ways enough aspirants and there always will '
enough to insure a fairly wide choice by the vet
era. It you believe this way, vote “no" again;
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the individual farmer and are helpful in as-
certaining the economic status of farming
as an industry says the report of committee ap-
pointed by the secretary of agriculture to consider

' a plan of organization for the Ofﬁce of Farm Man-

a'gement, and outline the ﬁeld of operation, and
especially methods of proceedure in making cost-
-of-production studies. The primary purpose of
cost-of-production studies, says the report, are:
' .1. To record the details of the farm business
for reference.

2. To give an insight into the elements and in-
terrelations of the different farm activities.

3. To furnish information that may enable the
farmer to reduce costs, or otherwise increase pro-
ﬁts.

4. To make possible a comparison of the pro-
ﬁtableness of the different enterprises and combin-
ations of enterprises. '

From the standpoint of the public, cost-of-pro—

, . duction studies provide the facts which give a has-

is for intelligent judgment upon the probable ef-
fects of any given legislation or other public ac-
tivity upon the farmer as a producer and as a cit-
izen. Cost-of-production studies are therefore one
of the means of providing the basic facts needed
by legislators and price commissions in compar-
ing the proﬁts of competing lines of production
and estimating necessary price.

Men of ripe experience in various ﬁelds of ag-
ricultural research constituted the committee.
They are: H. C. Taymgricultural Economics,
Andrew Boss, Agrono-
my and Farm Management, University of Minne-
sota; J. A. Foord, Agriculture and Farm Man-’
agement, Massachusetts Agricultural College; J.
I. Falconer, Rural Economics, Ohio State Univer-
sity; R. L. Adams, Farm Management, Universig
ty of California; G. I. Christie, Assistant Secre-
tary of Agriculture; and representatives of the
Bureau of Crop Estimates, the Bureau of Markets,
and the Ofﬁce of Farm Management of the De-
partment of Agriculture. ‘

Three Methods Recognized

The committee recognizes three ways of obtain-
ing cost data—cost accounting, the survey method
and the questionnaire sent by mail. The ac-
counting method is based on complete records of
all farm work and business transactions.
rangements are made with farmers to keep detail-
ed records of all operations and transactions in
connection with the farm business. The work is
supervised by personal visits to the farm. It is
desirable, the committee says, that cost accounts
he kept to obtain basic data, and cumulative re-
sults of such work become increasingly valuable.

By the survey method trained investigators ob-
tain the necessary data, some from the farmer’s
books, some from the books of persons to whom
the farmer sells and from whom he buys, some
from his bin, silo and building capacities, and
some from estimates made by the farmer. One of
the advantages of this system is that records are
obtained from all classes of farms after the close
of the farm year, so that, when desired, areas
more representative of normal conditions may be
chosen.

Either method, the committee says, is useful
and reliable when the work is carefully conduct-
ed but preferably both should be used. The de-
tailed cost accounts serve as a check on the sur-
vey work, which in its turn shows the relation-

ship of the farms on which cost accounts are kept .
to the average farm.

The speciﬁc items to be considered in cost-of-
production studies, the report continues, will al-
ways depend upon the enterpriSe under considera-
tion. When the survey method is used, it is es-
sential that the list be complete enough so that
no item will be omitted either by the farmer or
the investigator. When the accounting method is
used. a classiﬁcation is needed that is broad
enough to include all charges, but the cost items
will be developed in the working out of the rec-
ords and will vary with the enterprise. The fol-
lowing grouping is suggested:——— -

Labor—Man labor (including labor of men,
women and children);jAnimal labor; Mechanical

labor (tractor and truck).

Seed, Fertilizer, '

Feed, Bedding.
{lash—Selling, insurance, taxes, threshing, vet-

erinary, breeding fees. , . » .

Investment-Depreciation of investment in live

Materials—Crop materials :

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ECRETARY (HOUSTON, of- ale Department

of Agriculture, ,has atll'ast aWakened .rrom

his lethargy, and is apparently making some
very decisive steps to‘ investigate and deter-
mine the cost of producing various farm crops.
The accompanying article sets forth at some
length the scope of these plans. The names of
.those who have been selected to supervise this
work are all well-known, “experts.” The com-
mittee is uncontaminated by the presence of a
single farmer .so 'no embarrassing questions are
likely to arise over the method of proceedure
that is to be followed. Read the secretary’s
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Use of Mechanical Equipment—Labor, mater-
ials, cash and investment charges pertaining to
mechanical equipmerﬁ. ’ ~

Special Charges—Manure, lime. breeding males,

perennial crops.

Indirect Charges teFarmEnterpriseAcc
—(Consisting of labor, material, cash‘and. invest—

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ment, costs that cannot lie ﬂléargeil. en’suChto en-'.
terprise accounts, but "Which, ma; he »las3embled ,
under deﬁnite headings and; distributed on the?

. basis of use. ‘

Use of Buildings (and, similar-improvements) 1
investment charges

'V—Labor, materials, cash and
pertaining to buildings, . .

Use of Land and Land Improvements;Labor. ‘ V I
materials, cash and investment Charges pertainr

ing to land and land improvements.

. General Expenses or Overheade—Labor, mater; .

ials, cashand investments charges that cann'ct be

Labor—Man, labor (includingplabo'r of ‘men,.
women and children): animal labor; mechanical,

labor (tractor and truck). _

Motertalse—Crop’ materials: _ Seed. Fertilizer.
charged direct or assembled under the other'In-
direct Cost headings. ‘

Cramton Says Farmers’v Interests, Demand ; InveStiéation

of the Dep’t of Agr'l by See. Houston are

fundamental in their nature. They consist
of statements made by Spillman concerning mat-
ters within his own personal knowledge and they
come from a man who, for many years occupied
a position of very high respOnsibility in the De-
partment of Agriculture. ,

THE SPILLMAN charges against the conduct

Charges from such a source on matters of such

importance cannot be ignored. The general pub-
lic and in particular, the farming interests of
this country will'not be content until such charges
are thoroughly investigated by an impartial com-
mittee, armed with full authority, and the charges
found to be either false or well founded.

The matter is so serious that it appears to me

that Secretary Houston should be the ﬁrst one to '

demand such an investigation as I have proposed
in House Resolution 611., At once on opening of
the next session of Congress, I shall re-introduce

‘that resolution and press for its adoption and I

ircerely hope that in that matter I may have the
upport of Secretary Houston as well as Dr. Spill-
man and the Agricultural and farm organizations
throughout the country.

Macomb County Milk Producers’ Locals Organize _

of every local in Macomb county for some time,

NE OF THE really big steps in the history

of Macomb county milk industry occurred

when delegates from 12 milk locals met
and organized under one head known as the
Macomb County Dairy Council.

This organization has for its purposes the uni-
fying of the problems of the entire county and the
dealing of the same from the standpoint of a
county unit rather than from the individual local
idea. It is an organization to render the greatest
amount of efﬁcient service to the 1,094 men in-
volved and the efﬁcient handling of the 25,630
gal, of milk shipped daily in the market of De-
troit, alsa to make possible a closer contact with
the state organization and its ofﬁcers, Mr. N. P.
Hull and Mr. R. C. Reed. '

From this one the problems of the county will
be carried to the commission meeting by one or
two delegates representing the entire 1,094 .men
involved, these same delegates instructed as to
the method of procedure. This step alleviates the
old objectionable plan of. sending delegates from
each local with no deﬁnite idea of where each one
stood on questions of importance. .

One question, which created considerable inter-
est, was the fact that Detroit, standing as one of,
the, largest milk consuming centers of the United
States, the .sectionbf Michigan which practically
established the price for the rest of the state, sus-
taining a United States Bureau of Markets, minus
a dairy division.
system of inspection on the Detroit market is the
fact, that there is no careful. analysis made of the
situation. The time has arrived when the produc-
er desires _to follow his product through to the
consumer, and the only way that it can be accom-
plished, is to have a careful daily analysis of the
situation, and the producer kept posted by daily
bulletin. If there is any one man, who should be
conversant with the details of the Detroit Milk
Market, it should be the producer and he shbuld
be Just as conversant with the details as is the dis-
tributor‘or dealer. , , ' ' .
The surplus 911681210! has .g’ciiupiedlhe attention

The trouble with the present f

and delegates. immaturithem‘ asgto‘ith

. ty .Agricﬂt’urel. Agent.

  

The Spillman charges create a'situati‘on- which

cannot be cleared up except by such an investiga-
tion and report. '

does not profess to have personal knowledge of
the facts at issue but only repeats hearsay, exceut

where he indulges in personalities concerning Dr. '
The Ousley statement...

Spillman will not sufﬁce.
rambles along on hearsay and inuendo and by vi-

tuperation of Dr. Spillman for twelve pages. And '-

of course, this subordinate of Secretary Houston
selected by Secretary Houston for that purpose
ﬁnds Secretary Houston not guilty and condemns
Dr. Spillman to everlasting punishment. That is
not the kind of an investigation of this important
matter, and that s not the kind of a report and-
decision that the public wants.

The efﬁciency and effectiveness of the work of u

the Department_of Agriculture is at stake. What
is needed is a thorough investigation at which Dr.
Spillman, Secretary Houston, and every other of-
ﬁcial or individual that knows anything of the
facts, shall be heard directly and under oath and
the real truth ascertained impartially and relent-
lessly—Gong. Louis'O. Oramton, Washington, D.0.

and there has been a great deal of discussion as to
ways and means of taking care of it. If such a
surplus exists in the alarming quantity, which del-
egates have been led to believe, then surely the
producer does not wish to grab Miss Detroit by
the hair and drench her with milk. On the oth-
er hand, if no surplus exists certainly Macomb
county or any other county does not wish to hold
back One quart of milk that can be consumed by
the citizens of Detroit, and the producer today
questions seriously whether there is a surplus
existing today or that it has ever existed. It was
the opinion of the Macaub County Dairy Coun-
cil that the proper point of attack for this analy-
sis lays in the bureau of markets. '

These and a multitude of like problems devel“
oped during the meeting and the gratifying fea-
ture was to see twelve separate and distinct sec-
tions of the county get their feet on common

ground and set their shoulder- to the wheel for the ~

express purpose of getting out of- the rut. The of-
ﬁcers elected are competent men of. long acquaint-
ance with the milk question‘and the county is
backing these men to the limit. ‘

Mr. Gidian: Bryce of Romeo, was elected' presi-
dent; Mr. John C. Miller, Mt. Clemens, vice-presi-
dent, and Mr. L. Kamlowske, Washington; secre-
tary-treasurer. -

Eﬁiciency in production and distribution has be -
come the, watchword of the hour.
ready and willing to go half way but from now on

he feels that it should be part ”of his problem to ;
familiarize himself with the business from a bus-

iness man's standpoint.

  
  

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up, and form like organizations. We believe that‘

  

bi’ properly unifying our probldms and $335138 :4

them up and dealing with them item an emcie’nt
standpoint, carefully choosing; eunrepresentation
to take on all, matters,_'~that inﬁnite.
suit to as, parties conclusions—93;} 751:;

cunts y.‘ K

A whitewash of the Secretary "
applied by a subordinate in the Department who .

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is, a; characteristic that has never been lost sight
g9t or Hereford breeders, that has been carefully
"damped and become ﬁxed to the extent that it
is transmitted from generation to generation.

medium for converting the luxuriant grasses and
. . _abundanc9 of forage of the west of England into
' . high class beef, the Hereford is recognized today,
- as it was a century ago, as 1he premier grazing
animal, attaining a higher ﬁnish and producing a

better quality of beef, on 81'3“ 310”» than any

‘ other beef animal. . Practically without. exception,

"V ' the recOrd prices at'the‘ market centers for. grass

' cattle have been made by. cattle showing a pre-
*'ponderance of Hereford blood. .

The Hereford can beﬁnished and marketed as

x prime beef .at an earlier-age and ‘with a greater

weight of carcaSs than any other breed. The meat

of the Hereford ,“baby beef” is not veal, but ma-’

' ture beef, but lacking in the excessive fat of the

older animal. Repeated tests have shown that

gain can be put on a young animal at a less cost

» per pound than it can be put on one Of mature,

age, and therefore that there is more proﬁt in
feeding a young animal than an old one.

. Herefords endure extremes 'of climate and with-
, stand hardships better than any other breed. They
are more rugged of constitution as a breed. They
are more active and energetic in the pursuit of a
livelihood, and will keep in better ﬂesh where feed
is scarce and diﬁ‘lcultto get, than any other breed.
For this reason. they have practically supplanted
the other beef breeds, in the sections where cat-
tle are grown under range conditions.

Proliﬁcacy is a characteristic that was early ﬁx-
ed in the Hereford breed. In range herds where
Hereford blood predominates the calf crops are
uniformly larger. than those in herds ‘where the
blood of other beef breeds predominates. Here-
ford‘females are not only proliﬁc breeders, but are

 

originally developed to meet the demand for a _

Sec. Amer Headaches/Breeder. A» n

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. “Please advise us the best stock cattle for this
state of the following breeds: Hereford, Sherthorn
and Aberdeen Angus" ——A. K., Coleman, inch.

(Editor’s note: The above question was referred
to each of the Assoctattbns, representing the three
- breeds of cattle mentioned. The Hereford Associa-
tion responded ﬁrst, and we give herewith its ar-
guments in favor of the Hereford breeds. Other
articles Will be published in early issues setting
forth the qualities of the other breeds.)

 

 

the best of mothers, dropping strong calves and
rearing them well. Prepotency, or the ability to
transmit their characteristics to their offspring
when mated with females of other breeds or mon-
lgrels, is a marked . characteristic of Hereford
males.

In testing of cattle for tuberculosis there are
fewer reactions among Herefords than among any
other breed of‘cattle, .beef or dairy. This is sub-
stantiated by the ofﬁcial records of the cattle of-
fered for export. from England to the United
States, and by the records of numerous State and
private veterinarians. The practical immunity of
Herefords from tuberculosis is due to their char-
acteristic hardiness of constitution.

Being more uniform as to quality and color, and
possessing superior qualities as feeders, stocker

" and feeder cattle showing a preponderance of Her-

eford blood command a premium over those of
other breeds at the market centers. When ﬁnish-
ed, both as baby beeves and as mature beeves, the
Herefords command a higher price at the hands
of the packers. Seventy-ﬁveper cent. of the top
sales made at the market centers of the past year
have been of cattle showing a preponderance of
Hereford blood. This applies to dry-lot baby
beeves, grainfed medium and heavy beeves and
grass beeves.

Being hardier of constitution, greater rustlei'b
and less fastidious in regard to their food, Here-
fordsmake better use of the productsof'ﬂle aver
age farm, than any other breed. They will utila
ize feed. and forage that other breeds will not eat,
converting it into high priced beef. \ For this 1'9an '
son they are best adapted to beef production on :
the farms. ‘

Former Governor Grapo, of Flint, experimented '
with several beef breeds including the Hereford,
a few years ago when Herefords were not as well
known nor as popular as they are now.

A contemporary writeup by a‘leadlng agriculo'
tural journal of the time follower "The three
breeds were treated alike as to food and shelter.
The ﬁrst year sixty heifers were purchased which
grazed on the same ﬁelds in summer, were fed out

of the same racks in the winter, and twenty bred . V

to 'each of the three purebred bulls represented.
The result was that after twelve years’ experience
with these three most prominent and distinct.
breeds of cattle, giving them all an equal chance
from first to lase Governor Crapo adopted the Her-'
efords, and bred the other purebreds and their
grades to registered Hereford bulls.

He was convinced that for farmers and breed-
ers the Herefords were more proﬁtable than the
others because they mature earlier, are more har-
dy, less liable to disease, better feeders and graz-
iers, fatten on less food in their stalls, keep in
good ﬂesh at all seasons of the year, when killed
produce a higher percentage of dressed beef, and
alive or dressed command a more ready sale at a
higher price than the other beef breeds. This ex-
periment was carried on when the other breeds
were the most fashionable and commanded the
highest prices for breeding stock. Gov. Crapo's
foreman and herdsman were admirers of the other
breeds and did not take kindly to the “white
faces” but the Herefords worked themselves up
to a tremendoua popularity from every quarter.”

If you desire to receive a more lengthy article
or any information at any time, we will consider
it a favor to have you call on us.

MiChigan Potato GroWers are Selecting Better Seed for this Year’s Planting

of better seed potatoes.

taking an active interest in the development
one which has been started more particularly to
beneﬁt a large number of growers than to secure
high prices for seed potatoes for a comparatively
few growers.

Last fall. a good many of the growers through
the state hill selected at least a few~bushel of
seed which they expect to plant this season. This,
of course, is the very best way to get started with

MANY 01" the potato growers of the state are

- better seed, and the men who took pains to hill'

select seed laSt season will be ahead of those who
did put forth this_ effort. However, those who,
for any reason, failed to hill select last year, do
not need to wait until another season before get-
ting a start along the line of improved seed. They
will ﬁnd it proﬁtable to select some of the best
‘ shaped tubers from their present stock, and plant
a few bushel of these in a portion of the ﬁeld by
themselves, or better still in a separate ﬁeld
where they can be planted closer and later than
is common practice with a general crop.

All seedpotatoes, whether hill selected or not,
should be treated to reduce the danger of injury
from Scab, Black Scurf and Black Leg. Corrosive
Sublimate isthe best material to use for this pur-
pose, as it will have a greater inﬂuence on all
of the diseases mentioned. than Formaldehyde.
- which is a remedy more particularly for the Scab.
Speciﬁc directions for the use of the Corrosive
Sublimate may be secured in printed farm from
any county agent, or directly from fram the Ag-
ricultural College.

Potatoes, which are planted for a seed plot,“

The movement is '

. 3011.

By C. W. WAID
Extension Specialist, M. A. C.

whether they were hill selected or not, should be
planted .on some of the best potato soil available.
If it is practical to do so, so far as the conven~
ience of cultivation is concerned, it is a good plan
to plant‘the seed plot much closer one way than
-the other. If the rows are 32-36 inches apart, the
plants in the row should be from 12-15 inches
apart. Closer planting, howeverfshould not be
done on soil which is deﬁcient in fertility.

If the planting is done from the middle to the
last of June, or even the early part of July in the
southern part of the state, the crop will be much
more ’certain to continue strong growth until
frost occurs than if the planting is done earlier.
This is one of the advantages of late planting.
Seed which is somewhat immature when the
ﬁrst killing frost occurs, has been found to be su-
perior to thoroughly mature seed.

It has been a common practice in many parts of
the South, more particularly Kentucky, to plant
what is known as “second crop” potatoes. These
potatoes are still growing when hit by frost, and,
while the tubers are small, they have proven of
superior merit, when used as seed the next sea-
We cannot follow this same practice in the
North, but we can plant the potatoes at such a
time that they will continue to grow until killed
by treat.

'If it is difﬁcult, as it frequently is, to keep seed
until such a time for planting, in the cellar or
other storage place, this disadvantage may be
overcome in a large measure by what is known as
green sprouting or tubers. As soon as warm

weather comes, the potatoes may be spread out on
a barn ﬂoor or in any location where the light
will get ”to them freely, and where they will not
be molested by live stock. The crates should be,
ﬁlled about 1/1 full of potatoes, and _ stacked in
such a manner that the light will get to all of the

sides of the crates. The potatoes will keep in this

way for a number of weeks, although, of course,

they will shrivel. Heavy green sprouts will form

on the potatoes. and when such tubers are plant-

ed they will come up quickly. The ones which

show a weak growth or no \growth at all can be

discarded, and as a result a much better stand

will be secured than where no effort is made to

green sprout them

Anyone who expects to plant a seed lot of pota-
toes the coming season ,shculd notify the county
agent in his county. An effort will be made dur-
ing the season to have extension specialists or
county agents inspect as many seed plots as it
will be possible to do at least once during the
growing period. The purpose of the inspection
work will be to deduct and remove the mixtures ‘
and diseased hills if the grower wishes to have
them removed. In some cases ﬁeld meetings of
growers~will be held where the work is done in
order that the growers in the neighborhood may
become better acquainted with the diseases and
methods of control. In every case the owner of
the plot will be shown the nature of any disease
which may be found in his particular seed plot
or ﬁeld.

At digging time a comparative record will be
made between results secured from the hill select-
ed and the other seed. The growers will also be
encouraged to bill select for another season.

Vote “No” on Amendment to Permit Legislature to Increase Judges’ Salaries

NE AMENDMENT to be voted upon at the

Ospring election, is framed to deceive. It is

the so~called Salary Amendment. The section

to which an amendment is sought, is upon the
statute books as follows:

Article XVI, SectiOn 8. “Neither the legislature

ﬁner any municipal authority shall ant. or auth-

rest red or the contract entered into?“ We,
c omeers, except circuit judges. shall
ed, nor. shall the salary of any- public
ediafter election or abpointr‘nent '.’

 

extra compensation to any public ofﬁcer, ,
._ ht employs or contractor after the service has .,

 

“Neither the legislature nor any municipal au-
thority shall grant or authorize extra compensa-
tion to any public ofﬁcer, agent, employs or con-
tractor after the serviCe has been rendered, or the
contract entered into. Salaries of public ofﬁcers
except supreme court justices, circuit court judges,
probate court judges probate judges and judges
of courts of like iurisdictiOn’, shall not be increas-
ed nor shall the salary of any public ofﬁcer be de-
creased after election’ or appointment. "

Without knowing how the law now reads, the
voter’s natural conclusidn is that the amendment
is intended to restrict the legislature. As a mat-
the purpose of the amendment is to de-

advance the salaries of the judges as it mayda-
sire. When it is considered that the legal class of
the state exert a predominating inﬂuence in the
legislature, we .can better appreciate the folly of
conveying to the legislature this additional power.

Men who become candidates for oﬁices within
the gift of the people, or who accept appointments
to salaried positions, do so with a full knowledge
of the salaries attached thereto. No ofﬁce L
gO’es begging for someone to ﬁll it. There are
ways enough aspirants and there always Win be
enough to insure a fairly wide choice by the vet-
ers. If you believe this way, vote "no" again;
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I Consolidated February m, 131s with
,THE CLEANER
Founded by Grant Slocum in 1894

Summer, Ann. 5, 1919

Published every Saturday by the
RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC.
MT. CLEMENS, Mien. .
Detroit omce: no Fort St. Phone. Cherry 46”
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FORREST ......... Vice-President an Editor
GEO. M. SLOCUM. Secretary-Treasurer and Publisher
ASSOCIATES
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tisers when possible. Their catalogs and prices "'0
Cheerfuux sent free, and we guarantee you against 10"
Brovld‘ing you say when writing or ordering, from them;
Mr ad. in my Michigan ’Business Farming.

Entered as secund-class matter, at Mt. Clemens, Mich.

 

The Warehouse Amendment

THE WAREHOUSE amendment still re-
poSes in the protecting. arms of the
House committee on revision and amendment
of the constitution. Will it ever come out!
Not if the reactionary members of the com-
mittee and the unfriendly farmer members
of the House can prevent.

This committee is composed of the following
gentlemen: Ivory, Farrier, Woodruﬂ, Wal-
lace, Weidenfeller, Mol, Glaspie, Case and
Haan. What interests do these gentlemen
represent? Wm. E. Ivory is a farmer of La-
peer county, home, Elba; believed in favor of
submitting amendment. Nelson G. Farrier is
a newspaper man of Atlanta, Montmorency
county; believed in favor of amendment. Ari
H. Woodruﬂ is an attorney of Ford, Wayne
cOunty; believed hostile to amendment. Rob-
ert N. Wallace is a son of W. H. Wallace, the
sugar manufacturer, interested in a number of
elevators and warehouses up in the Thumb
district; believed opposed to amendment, but
reputed to be in favor of submitting. Chas. A.
Weidenfeller is “retired”; former occupa-
tion unknown; attitude toward amendment
unknown. Jas. M01 is a merchant of Grand
Rapids, the home of the Michigan Potato
Shippers’ Ass’n and certain large bean ele-
vator interests, believed opposed to submit-
ting amendment. Andrew B. Glaspie is a
newspaper publisher of Oxford; attitude un-
known. Wm. J. Case is a lumber dealer of
Benzonia; attitude unknown. Wm. A. Haan
is an insurance agent of Grand Rapids; be-
lieved opposed to submitting amendment.

We have it on good authority that the worst
antagonists of the warehouse amendment are
' a few farmer members of the House who seek
to avoid a vote on the measure by inducing the
committee to refuse to report it out.

Here is a measure that has been scrutinized
and aproved by the senate for submission to
the voters, tied up in a committee of the lower
branch of the legislature. It is not necessary
that the majority of this committee shall fav-
or the principle of this measure in order to
report it out. It is not necessary that the

House of Representatives itself shall favor the '

principle in order to vote to submit to the
people. But this committee, composed of
representatives of the people, is asked and
expected to report out this amendment so that
the House may vote upon it, and the House,
composed of representatives of the people, is
asked and expected in turn, to go thru the
formality of voting to submit the measure to
the voters. If the voters don’t want state-
‘ owned warehouses, they will reject the meas-
ure. If they do want them, they will accept
~ the measure, and their wishes must rule.

.Out in North Dakota the politicians sat on
the pet measures of the farmers. Now in
North Dakota farmers are sitting on the poli-
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it that ‘dm’tkwo’l‘k: organize “a'little ’-‘-‘§it-

ting” club~ in your community next election

and sit down so hard on the‘fellows who now
defy your wishes that they’ll-grunt with re-
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_ The Spring Toni
THERE ARE tonics and tonics, “pink
pills for pale people, ” “little liver liven-
ers,” and “Kidd’s Kandy Kidney Kures,”
but the one never-failing, free—of-charge, guar-
anteed-to-cure elixir is the balm of nature
which pe'rvades the atmosphere, invades the
body, tones up the liver, reddens the corpus-
cles, and sends a surcharge of energy, ambi-
tion and an "isn’t-it-good-to-be-alive” feeling
thru every nerve center
Have you seen the crowd on the city street
along toward the end of March? It' shuifles
\along without evincing much .of an interest
in things about It seemsto be going some-
where all the time, but there is no joy in the
going. It is’ in a waiting, expectant, half-
hopeful, half-hopeless attitude, like the young
man on the eve of his proposal to the lady of
his choice. .
And then spring, and a seemingly ever-
lasting summer, for the city crowd,——and yes,
the youth, too. There is a disillusionment in
store for both, of course, but that’s another
story. When spring is come and distributes
its tonic, man throws oif his sluggishness. He
sniﬁ's the air, takes in the ozone and the dirt
and the germs of the city street in great gulps.
He straightens up his back. He puts a chip
on his shoulder. He walks like a millionaire,
and feels likeone, too. And he is one, as rich
in the bounties of nature as any man who
walks by his side.
But even at that, the spring that ﬁnds its
way in amOng the skyscrapers and fondles
the folk of the city, after a valiant struggle

with the odors of garbage and gas, and the-

shadows and rushing air currents about the
giant buildings that impede its way, is a very
poor substitute for the spring that extends a
lavish hand-unhindered over the open ﬁelds
of the country. For here spring is at her best
and her breath is pure and sweet. And bless-
ed are those who dwell upon the farms and
live and work and sleep in her soothing arms.

 

Why Not Organize?

FIVE YEARS ago it was complained that

the farmer was the hardest mortal on
earth to organize. Today he is the hardest
man to keep from organizing. Not a week
passes by that does not see the organization
of some new farmers’ co—operative enterprise.
Some of them are good, some indiiferent, some
positively bad. The majority of them will
succeed, but many will fail. The desire to
organize often exists where the need is lack-
ing. It’s like putting the cart before the
horse, this organizing without a program in
the hopes of writing a program later. Organ-
izations must to succeed, be founded upon def-
inite needs.

In some respects the state of Michigan is
over-organized. In other respects, it is un-
der-organized. It boasts of many organiza-
tions, all of which are trying to exercise sim-
ilar functions. All declare their faith in co-
operative marketing enterprises; all swear by
the need of more favorable legislation; all
would wish for a better banking system, etc.
With such a unity of opinion it is too bad
that there is such a division of eifort. The
pressing need is for a predominant leadership.
Either some well-established ;_organization or
some widely accepted leader should gather up
the reins of these diversiﬁed ’assOciations, and
direct them in cencert. The power of Michi-
gan farmers will never be felt until this is
done. ~. . ~

The Press and Political Advertising ‘
THERE IS still a chance that the corrupt
practice bill of Sen. Baker will survive

the pp tion of thcr‘politiciansﬁand the mere

 

 

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peruse ‘o "the ., eturally,,the politiclans
don’t want such" a law. gThey usually have all
the coin that is necessary to buy the ofﬁce they
seek and they want to spend it to suit them-
selves. lf they have to place all their ail/yer:
tising in the state pamphlet at a charge'pre-

scribed by "law their money will give ' them

no advantage user the man who has none.

Naturally the newspapers, or at least many of

them, to» W cm a dollar looks bigger than the

League of ations, don’t' like the Baker bill

any better for it would deprive them of a Very

lucrative source of revenue. Ten years ago

the entire press of the state would have let out

an awful howl over this proposed legislation,

but merits of the Baker plan are so unmistak—‘
able that only a comparatively few are openly

lamenting such trespass upon the “privileges

of the press and politicians.” And most of

these are the reactionary, a la Newberry, class

Whose only interest in political campaigns is
the amount of money they get out of them.

Yes, the Baker bill means a sacriﬁce for every

newspaper in the state, but the newspapers’

loss is the electorate‘s and the poor man’s

gain. Let the Baker bill become a law.

 

A Farmer, Candidate

‘ ‘ 7 E PRESUME that the state pressend
other prejudiced and misinformed agen-
cies will characterize the decision of the farm—
ore to name a farmer candidate for governor
of Michigan as “another Non-Partisan League
movement.” And as usual, they will be mls-
taken. .

That the campaign will be along non-par-
tisan lines is true. If the man named is a
Republican,- as he must be to win in-this state,
every farmer embracing other political falths
will be expected to split his ticket when ‘he
comes to the governorship and stay behind
the farmer candidate. That the campaign is
intended to emphasize the class distinctions
and arouse the bitter class enmity that has
heaped odium upon the North Dakota Non-
Partisan League in the conservative east is
positively not true. ’ _ '

The man’who is to receive the support of
the farmers must be not only big enough to
have a grasp of the farmers’ problems, but he
must be big enough, broad enough and sym-
pathetic enough to have a clear conceptiOn of-
thc needs of the state as a whole. _He must
be fair in his dealings with farmers, fair in
his dealings with labor and fair in his deal-
ings with the commercial and manufacturing
interests.‘ As one speaker» at the Lansing con-
ference put it, “The farmer‘does not want
domination. but merely recognition. ’ ’

The state press and the people of the cities
need view with no alarm this decision of the
farmers to take a hand in state politics. The
movement is rational, quite devoid of bitter-
ness, wholly constructive, and entirely friend-
ly to all interests looking to the future welfare
of the state. The only interests that need
tremble at the farmers’ political strength are
those which live by special privilege and cherL
ish selﬁsh aspirations. _

Some of Michigan’s greatest governors have
been farmers. And there are many men who
stand high in the agricultural ranks today
who would dignify the gubernatorial ofﬁce by
their presence. With such a sane, broad-
minded and intelligent .conception of the
qualities which‘ the farmers say their candi-
date must have, who shall fear the election of
a farmer governor?

 

Rep. Arlie Hopkins of Manistee county
told'the members of the farmers’ conference
at Lansing that they shouldﬁnite ,under the
banner of the Michigan Farm Bureau. Then , '
Mr. .‘Hopkins shattered» whatever conﬁdence "
the members ht have had in the Bureau
and its leaden “ y. resenting a statement of
Mr. N. P. Hull that the farmers’ legislative
committee would scrutinize every 1any in-
crease allewed by- the legis ,

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7, _. , HERE ARE thbse about the state capitol
’ w ,wh‘o throw a ﬁt every time they hear the

W‘North Dakota Nan-Partisan League men—

: T ,ti-oned. The writer assumes that the farmers'
" 1 ‘j. A. movement in North Dakota is a manifestation .

of their desire to rid themselves of the parasites
that peanut politics had fastened upon them,

and to arrange matters so that the state gov?
g ernment shOuld function in the interest of the
producing, rather than the predatory classes.
I. This, of course, is all wrong.
. conﬁne their activities to making two blades of-
. grass grow where one blade has grown hereto-

Farmers should

fore, and leave political matters to the poll-ti-
clans. To do otherwise is to overrun the “es-

ltablish‘ed order/f and to bring about uncertaﬂtty
(and confusion (among the pay roll patriots and

the beneﬁciaries of special privilege.

This non— —partisan business in North Dakota,
while bearing the republican label, is none the
less objectionable on that account It is repub-
licanism with an “if,” and as such we are ag ’in
it. That it is such is evidenced by the large
number of “true blues” who in that state, have
been turned out to grass and their places ﬁlled
with hyphenates The instinct of self-preserva-
tion impels us to denounce non-partisanship
whenever it rears its head at a distanCe. Bifur-
cated republicanism is nOne the less objection-
able. The writer has had his try at party irreg-
ularity and has learned his lesson. We insist
that none but “true blue” republicans be put
on guard or upon the pay roll (in North Da-
kota.) Like William Alden Smith, we believe
in them. We “have no criticism of any real
republican that is, has been, or is to be” (in

North Dakota) and we insist that they must ,

again be permitted to come into their own and
that the “Nons’” and the “bi's” shall be cast
into outer darkness (in North Dakota.) or
course, in Michigan it is diiferent. Here a little
non-partisanship now and then is a good thing.
It may be taken either as a laxative or an em-
etic. In either case good results are assured.

Extreme caution should be exercised by ama-

teurs in its administration Old Liners, howev-
er, may prescribe it with impunity. Witness:
No serious criticism has been cecasioned by the
Governor’s appointment of his Democratic busi-
ness partner, Mr. Merrick, of Huron county, as
banking commissioner. There has been no up-
roar among the simon-pure over the appoint-
ment to a life position as commandant of the
state constabulary of “Colonel" R. C. Vander-
eook, well known as a democrat. In fact it'is

generally believed that the Governor has some

perfectly good reasons of a
nature for choosing “Colonel" Vandercook
as , commandant of the state constabulary
in preference to some of the many army oﬂicers
now returning from overseas service, wearing
decorations which bear witness to acts of hero-
ism under ﬁre.

Another instance of high—grade idealistic non-
partisanship is to be found in the appointment
to the $3,500 secretaryship of the securities
commission of H. N. Duff, graduate of the Penn-
sylvania Polytechnic Institute of Machine Poli-
tics, blatant democrat and chief lobbyist for the
passage of the bill permanently establishing the
state constabulary.

The appointment of democrats to'these impor-

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By. HERB. BAKER

tant positions and the appointment of other
democrats as oil inspectors and to other subor-
dinate places is an exhibition of a highly ideal-
isfic non-partisanship that has the additional
merit of strengthening personal political ma-
chines, but the North Dakota brand that has for
its object no higher purpose than to pry a few
parasites from the backs of the producers,
Abas! Raus mit itt!

MORE CAMOUFLAGE

HE" FALSE alarm of "thief”, “thief," some-

times used by shrewd criminals to distract

attentibn from themselves; while they are
getting away with something, ﬁnds its analogy in
the methods of those in every walk of life who dis-
tract attention from their personal or selﬁsh mot,
ives by loud clamor about some irrelevant matter
that can be used to clothe their ulterior motives
with a pro bona publeco appearance.
state was being saddled with a $500,000 a year
silk stocking standing army of one hundredﬁfty-
four men and ﬁfty ofﬁcers. As a permanent
state institution it was camouﬂaged with the pre-
tence that it was necessary to stop the rum run.
ners from bringing liquor into Michigan from
wet territory and they got by with it in spite of
the fact that within four months of the day of its
enactment there would be no wet territory in the
United States or Canada.

Certain members of the state senate who do not
believe that the legislature is a body whose chief
duty is to creat new jobs and to boost salaries for
everyone in sight, have made a determined ﬁght
against the inauguration of a new system of ﬁx-
ing salaries whereby the salaries of the oﬂicials
in each department shall at each session be made
a part of the appropriation for that department
recommended by the budget commission. They
have held that the question of salaries should be
separated from appropriation bills and considered
by itself, that from start to ﬁnish it is a matter
for the consideration of the representatives of the
people rather than of a budget commission ap-
pointed by the governor., This ,contention, of
course, did-not harmonize with the plans of the
state machines. It was the unpopular side here.
It was poison to the salary grabbers and their
name is legion; and they also have their friends
in and out of the legislature. The budget commis-
sion plan which substitutes log rolling for open
and above board methods of ﬁxing salaries ap-
peals, of course, to all the “boys" with “axes to
grind.” Naturally in each legislature there are
those with other axes to grind than securing jobs
or increased salaries for friends, and this admin-
istration has not been known to frown on any of
these. Naturally the recognition of a real com-
munity of interest on the part of these results in
a cohesiveness which it is diﬁicult to disturb. The
aggressive of this class are able to frighten the
weak-knead among those not really in sympathy
with them and thus establish a dominant force
composed partly of those to whom the end justi-
ﬁes the means and partly of those too weak to
withstand the pressure of organized greed. Such a
combination has gradually deveioped in the sen-
ate. Senator Chas. J. Deland of Jackson, is its

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recognized leader. He is serving his third term
in the senate.
good fellow. He claims never to have opposed cre-
ating a new ofﬁce nor to have opposed an increase a
of salary. He is admittedly a candidate for See-
retary of State and1 his candidacy is said to be ’
agreeable to those who have assumed the respon-
sibility of arranging the “succession” in the state
ofﬁces.

Several clashes have come over these bills mix- .
ing appropriations and salary increases, between
Senator DeLand and his followers. On one side and
those opposed to his methods on the other. In ev-
ery clash the DeLand forces have carried the day.
He put the constabulary bill across in record time.
and for reasons heretofore stated on this page, so.
cured the adherence of “Colonel" Vandercook’s
newspaper friends who promptly proceeded to col-
or their reports in his favor——DeLand’s opponents
made a ﬁnal stand on the salary-appropriation bill
for the Drug and Food Department, partly because
in it the bone of contention appeared with greatest
force and partly because of specially vicious fea-
tures of the bill. In 1917, this department cost the
state a. little over $50,000. In 1918, it cost $85,000.
but this bill ﬁxing salaries and appropriations for
1919 and 1920 carries an appropriation of $495,000
for the two years. It enables the commissioner to
appoint seventy-one “inspectors” at an aggregate
cost per year for salaries alone of $104,000 with
a limitation on the salary of only sixteen of them.
The bill also carries'an appropriation of $75,000 a
year for traveling expenses.

or course all this expense and that of the

estate constabulary is put up to the people as

being necessary to stop rum running after the
manufacture and sale of the stuff has been
stopped in the'whole United States. Of course
those fellows are interested solely in the sup-
pression of the cursed demon, rum, and the pro-
tection of the public morals. They have no
thought that these “inspectors" spending $75,-
000 a year running about the state might be
used to inﬂuence the public in the choice of a
candidate for governor who would have it in his
power to say how long these parasites should
hang on to the public teat.

Nine senators, Aaron Amon of Mecosta, Her-
bert Baker of Cheboygan, J. Mark Harvey of
Constantine, William Lemire of Escanaba, Wil-
liam Hierd of Bay county, Thomas McNaughton
of Kent, George W. Miller of Greenville, Vincent
M. Brennan of Detroit, and Duncan McRae of
Harrisville; stood resolutely against this vicious
measure, and while they could not prevent its
passage they did stop its getting immediate ef-
fect. Senator Deland,at once became excited
over the moral effect of leaving the administra-
tion’s political “board of strategy” a few days
without funds. Charley is a prince of a fellow;
he believes in safeguarding the public morals
adequately, even if it takes every man in Huron
county to do it. As a step in this direction, last
week he introduced a bill to legalize betting on
horse races!

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CREAMERY TEST BILL

Senator Davis of Lawton, one of the farmer
members of the Senate, has introduced the fol-
lowing bill, in the hopes of overcoming the fre-
quen variations in the creameries’ test.

‘A Bill to provide for oﬁicial county cream test-
ers, the purchase of testing equipment, and pre-
scribing their duties.

Ths People of the State of Michigan enact:

(Continued on following page)

 

 

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SENATOR T. H. MoNAUGHTON

Senator T. H.
McNaughton o f
I Kent/county; a
r e a i honest-to-
goodness farmer,
who‘ has been

. , connected with
. the Grange for
many years. Aux-
thor of' the Ter-
initial Warehouse

. propositipn. . H s
has served two-
' ; terms in

House and ‘ is

thsv'w

SENATOR WILLIAM A. LEMIRE

Lemire of Escan-
aba senator from
the 80th district,
with the farmers
all the time. He
has served one
t e r m i n the
House and is
serving his ﬁrst
term in the Sen-
ate.
author of consti-
tutional amend-
ments giving cit-
ies the right" to establish municipal fuel yards,
and for giving cities control of all public utilities.

 

'Imtos- William A. ’Lemlrs

Dr. William A. '

He is the'

SENATOR E. ‘J. BRYANT

Senator E. 5.
Bryant of Lena-
wee and Monroe
district, is one of
the real farmers
of the Senate.
’ He is serving his
second term in
the Senate and
has served two, '
terms in the ".l‘
House. He is 9
chairman of “the
co m mittes on
roads and has
charge of many important road matters pend- 1
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‘ .ples as shall be submitted to'him by residents of
-the county in accordance with the provisions. of ,
this act; 'Provided That the total expense of such

’ ‘ “, HESE ARE wonderful days. Birds singing; the lark skimming over

the pasture lotwith his note of welcome; the robin back from the
. . - south land, wearing his breast-plate of red; the “kill-deer" uttering his

shrill call as the sun drops behind the cloud bank and the night birds are
‘ 0n the wing.

The breath of spring is in the air; nature's resurrection is
near—oh, wonderful, wonderful days of spring!

Owen park is a beautiful spot on the Detroit river, just inside the limits“-

Of that Erect city. There you will ﬁnd a‘touch, of green fringing the som-
bre grey; there a place where one can hear, feel and see, Yes, and away from
brick and mortar paved streets with their clatter; houses and houses and

. people here, there and everywhere-

} You have lived in the'great-out-of-doors, and you realize how these glor-
ious days must have tugged at Anna's very heart strings. How the very air
awakened thoughts of her girlhood days in the country and on the farm,
where sun, air ﬁeecy cloud and gentle breezes lure one on and on, over hill,
through valley to the banks of shimmering pond, or along swollen stream.

Anna was a nursemaid, and into her care had been placed two little
boys, Duncan and Johnny. A great responsibility; but Anna soon had the
little fellows ready and with one in the cab; the other trudging along by 'her
side——his wee little hand in hers—they were soon at Owen park. 0h, won-
derful days of spring!
promise: “And the dead shall live again."

As they approached the river little Johnny hurried along the cement
pathway. He was toddling toward the deep blue waters; Anna took her hand

from the cab for. an instant and caught Johnny; but the cab with little Dun--

can rolled on and plunged into the river. Without a moment's hesitation
Anna plunged into the river to save the baby boy.

Men with a boat located the cab, but little Duncan was dead. Grappling
hooks ﬁnally caught into the clothing and Anna's body was brought to the
surface. Poor girl; her ﬁrst thought was “duty." Dear little boyl—Their
bodies were soon resting side by side in the parlor of a wealthy home on Ir-
oquois avenue. Anna’s face bore a calm expression; “eyen Duncan’s own
mother could not have done more to save him.’,’

The sacriﬁce, of which the Gallilean spoke, had been willingly laid on
the altar of duty; the great sacriﬁce had been made. These days we say
much concerning devotion to duty; bravery on the ﬁeld of battle; of heroes;
Let the reader join me in offering a silent prayer in the mem-
ory of this brave girl from the country; this heroine who gave her life that
one of God's little ones might be saved. And, too, a tear of empathy for the
little mother, who one spring night, waited under the stars 0n the depot plat-
form at Alpena for the train which should bring back home the body of her
dear little girl, just ANNA KOEPKE.

T OCCASIONALLY happens that . public ofﬁcial is sent after a certain
thing which he is not expected to‘ﬁnd. And occasionally it happens that
the official sent after a certain thing keeps right on looking until he ﬁnds
the “thing,” and gets himself into trouble by so doing. This very “thing"
happened to Doctor Louis Levine, professor of economics in the University
of Montana.
Doctor Levine was engaged by the university in the fall of 1916 and hav.
ing made a study of the question of taxation, Was soon set at work by Chan-

" cellar Elliott of the university to collect data and prepare same in support of

a bill, through which the educational interests of Montana were to be ﬁnanc-
ed. This young doctor took up the work enthusiastically and later aided the
tax commission in securing data for an income tax bill. (
Within the year he had accumulated a whole lot of figures and some
startling facts regarding Montana’s
system of taxation. With‘ the data at

God’s own miracle, the fulﬁllment of that gracious.

“the university should avoid active participation. in questions which sharply ‘
divide the people; including the question of taxation," ., ‘ _v
Levine asked the privilege of persona-llypublishiug the pamphlet. Chan-
cellor' Elliott is said by Levine to have put it this way: .“If you publish that
pamphlet you will be dismissed for insubo‘rdination. The newspapers of the
state will not give. you a fair hearing; they, will becloud the issue in ever!
possible way and ybur professional reputation will be so destroyed that You
will not be able to get another positiOn anywhere in this country." DOCtOI' '
Loving did what any honest, law-abiding citizen would have done under like
circumstances—he published the book at his own expense. ‘

- And he was relieved of his work at the Montana university the charge
being “insubordination.” And now the taxpayers of Montana are demanding 4
that the spineless governor and the meek chancellor give good and sufﬁcient

reasons why they should not be thrown upon the scrap heap. Doctor Levine

had no right to suppress the factshe had gathered as a public ofﬁcial. And

from an ethical standpoint all facts ascertained by scientiﬁc men, belong not

to the investigator but to the people whom they serve. ' ‘

Dr. Spillman, for twenty years a valued ofﬁcial of the department of as-
riculture at Washington, Was‘ﬂiischarged because he had secured data as to
the cost of producing certain farm products and was willing to give the re-
sult of his investigation to the people. Secretary Houston, like Chancellor >
Elliott, decided that the public was not entitled to facts, gathered by a gov-'
ernment employee, especially when such facts might establish the people's
rights, to the detriment of the interests whom these ofﬁcials‘seek to serve.

And this reminds us that we don't hear very much about the tonnage tax
in this state any more. Millions of dollars worth of copper is taken from the
mines of the Upper Peninsula yearly; and hundreds of thousands of dollars
in dividends are paid to Boston capitalists, who “toil not, neither do they
spin." The people of Michigan are giving away these natural resources, for
the taxes paid under the present plan, represent nothing tangible. And‘ soon
all that will be left to tax will be a “hole in the ground.” Perhaps, if Gov-
ernor Sleeper knew that Doctor Lo'uis Levine, an expert on mine taxation,
was out of a job, he might engage him to look over nature’s wonderful store-
houses in the Upper Peninsula. Will somebody kindly inform the governor

that Louis is out of a job?
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nounced to the world that they would ﬁght the "League of Nations,”

and that they represented the people of the United States, ought to be
proud of the resultscf their interference, Uncle Sam has called for 50,000
volunteers for service in France and the news from “over there" is not very
assuring right now. Michigan has one senator/and expects to have another
——when the legality of the election is determined. ,7 Both the senator Michi-
gan has and the senator Michigan has not—lined up and tied up with the
thirty-eight Republican and Democrat insurgents. Great company you are in,
Senator Townsend; great! line up for the ﬁrst try, Mr. Newberry. And yet
we wonder why people are thinking seriously about a government by, of and
for the people.

THE THIRTY-EIGHT senators, Republicans and Democrats, who an-

AST WEEK I had something to say about Senator Sculley's income tax

ill. Yes, we discussed the bill in the committee and many questions

were raised. No one questioned the provisions of the bill; no on. sug- _
gested that it was unfair or would work an injustice to anyone. But much
was said about “earned and unearned increment;” about “exemptions," and
many knOtty problems soon became involved. There was not a single knot in
the whole question; but neighbor, did you ever see a string so straight, that
a laywer could not tie a knot into it?
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hand he took up the work of prepar— MRGENT
ing his report, and in due time pre- 5‘”
sented his ﬁndings to both the govern- \

_‘

or and Chancellor Elliott. Doctor Le-
vine wanted to give the facts as . he
found 'them to the people, and asked
that his report on the taxation of
mines in Montana, be published in
a pamphlet for general distribution.

Time passed and his report remain-
ed in the pigeon hole of Chancellor
Elliott’s desk. Levine had worked
hard on his report, and he again press-
ed his demand that the pamphlet be

over to Governor Stewart later, and.
in January of the present year a de-
cision was handed down, in which
both the university head and the gov-
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Bee. 1. In every coun of this state having
a county agricultural agen , such agent shall also
be known and designated as “Ofﬁcial-Cream Test-
er,” of that county and shall be invested with pow-
ers and duties as provided for in this act.

Sec. 2. Upon petition of no less than twenty-
ﬁve resident dairymen of a county, presented to
the board of supervisors of such county at any reg-
ular or special meeting of such board, said board
of supervisors shall as soon as may be thereafter
cause to be purchased and delivered to said official
cream tester of that county the necessary appara-
tus and equipment for the proper and efﬁcient
testing (for butter fat) of all cream and milk sam- ,-

   

 

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testing apparatus and equipment shall not exceed
the sum of one hundred ﬁfty dollars.
' Sec. 8. Such oﬁioial cream tester, or his legally
authorised deputy, shall, on Friday of each week
throughout the year hereafter, receive and proper-
ly test all samples of cream and milk which shall
be submitted to him under the provisions of this
act, and shall immediately after such. test, report
to each person submitting samples, the results of
the same as relates to the quantity of butter fat
. contained therein. All receptacles of sample milk
’ and cream shall be returned to each owner thereof
when transportation charges for such return are
advanced by such owners. ' , \ .
Sec. 4. Such' ofﬁcial cream tester, or his deputies
or assistants shall receive no compensation or fees
for services rendered under’ this'act. ' '

 

der. Its father was proud of it; it ap-
peared healthy and tbok the bottle un-
hesitatingly. The bill found its way
into the senate committee's hands, and
strang to say, no wet nurse was found
for it here. Finally it came out
from the committee’s hands, emaciat-
ed, and hardly recognizable. The son-
ate took charge of the Scully Income
Tax Bill, and the M. B. F. cartoonist
has assisted me in illustrating to you,
just how the senate proceeded_,"to car-
ry out" the provisions 'of the bill. Poor
little “Income Tax Bill,” your » name
was your undoing—:now that you are
so soon done for,

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JUDGES’ SALARIES '
AST' WEEK’S paper contained a misleading .
statement regarding one of theconstitutionai ‘
amendments to be voted on this spring. i
The constitution now provides that the salary of .
no public ofﬁcial may be increased or diminished
during his term of ofﬁce except circuit judges. The
amendment on which we are called to vote April i
7th proposes to change this so that the limitation _ i
shall be taken off justices of the supreme court,
judges of superior and recorders tourts and judges .9
of'prebate. These m mum Judges in_a class
by themsetvos “We the limitations of the consti—
tution whose 61 can be continually lobbying the
legislature and the board of supervisors feat, in- _
'mdﬂuymmtqoathisameude 2.‘
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THE BIBLE ANI)‘ m Liquors TRAFFIC

Have just been reading the article, "Why is

,2 Michifg'hh lilry?" I am certainly surprised to
, hear the liquor question defended by a lady who

professes to be a christian. Now, I wish to say
right here that while I can lay no «claim ,to

' being a christian, I admire it in those who live

it, and I hate to see the good old Bible used to

T defend such an unholy cause. This lady writes,
"Everyone must admit that there Is no com-

mand of God prohibiting the use of tobacco, or

ﬁfwines. and similar beverages.”
.‘ understand the drift of her argument.
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I really do not
She hash

going to punish people with the sword, pestil—

: lence, famine, etc. ., but not one scripture to up-
‘ hold the use of intoxicants.

If she will take
her Bible and turn to Proverbs XXIII- 31, she
“Look thou not
its-elf

his color in the cup, when .it moveth

, aright.” Again Romans XIII-1344, reads that

“We are not to walk in rioting and drunken-

I ness, and make no provision for the ﬂesh to ful-

ﬁl the lusts thereof.” This woman seems to
think that we should make laws for men to sat-
isfy the whiskey lust. In Romans XIV-19, “Let
us therefore follow after the things which make
for peace.” I would ask does the saloon make
for peace?

In the 21st verse, “It is good neither to eat
ﬂesh nor.drink wine nor anything whereby thy.
brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made
weak." Galatians V-21, in " speaking of the
works of the ﬂesh reads, “Envyings, murder,
drunkenness, r’evellings, and such like; of the

- which I tell you before, as I have also told you

in time past, that they which do such things
shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.”

I am afraid Mrs. Baerwolf is not very famil-
1a-. with the Bible, for I believe every christian
man and woman' in Michigan who votes will
vote dry, because in Corinthians VI—16, in

‘ speaking of Christians it reads, “1 will dwell in .

them and walk in them and. I will be their God
and they shall be my people. When we get
near enough to God for Him to walk in, and talk

_ to us we will vote right. -——R. L. Cartrlght.

 

' 2 W. A. DEFENDS WHEAT PRICE STAND

In writing a letter a few weeks ago and re-
cently published in M. B~ F., I anticipated a great
deal of criticism on the stand I took, but I see
only two of the M. B F. readers come to me—Bro.
Theo Bengal of Clinton county in February 1st
issue, says he bought a binder in 1902 for $95;
hired man far-$17. per etc. Yes, Brother, you did.
You paid for them, selling hogs for $3.15, cattle
31/2 and 4c, wool 15c, lambs 4c,your oats 18c, corn
28c hay about $5. 50 or possibly $6. When you took
say I thought wheat was too high; I said I had no
sympathy with the ﬁght for higher than the gov-
ernment‘ﬁxed once for wheat during the war, and
I still think I was right. Everything considered,
the farmer was well taken care of on the wheat
question during the war, and the prospect at
your butter and eggs to your merchant he didn’t
know what to do with them but you were a good
customer so he allowed you about 10c per pound
and 80 per dogen, etc. Yes, those were the good
old days. Along'about that time the writer sold

. three goOd cows and yearling heiferfor $100. The

same quaxtet today would bring $350 or over.
Again Brother, you misunderstand me; I did not
present that the government will have to pay a
billion dollars this year to make up the price
guaranteed us, hear me out in my Opinion. The
trouble, Brothers, is this: ‘Too many of us are
trying to raise Wheat on land that should be rais-
ing potatoes, beans, cow peas, .etc.
sandy land can’t compete, nor ought he even to
think of ﬂguring-inthe cost of raising wheat in
competitiou With the clay, loam or timber land

d prairie land farmer. Another time if our ed-

or will permit, I would like to give the methods
1used by two farmers side by side, putting in on

, same kind of land the same number of acres of

crops, the cost of raising the same number of
bushels of grain on each farm is so, far apart that

 

, itLis startling—W. A, Kalamazoo county.

~

, UNION MAN SPEAKS -

It is with some interest and with some can-
“ t‘t‘hat one reads the continual wailing about
the farmer in our agricultural press.
‘ meme plan through polit-

tempers conditions of

.that can be applied universally.

The man on’

living will be improved. Why do the farmers
expect the lawmakers of the country to cater to

,them? It would not be the right politics names

it was based on universal principles. This gov-
ernment is constituted as much for one class of

- laboring people as it is for another, as much for

one class of any people as it is for another, as
much for the City folk as it is-for, the country
folk. If one is going into politics they must
accept some underrlying principle of government
Like Democ-
racy, Republicanism, Socialism or even Mon—
archism, however I pity the person who would
try to advocate such a doctrine as the latter one.
And then even this Non-Partisonism is a good
underlying principle insofar as it is intended to
purge the corruption of political organizations.

But when the farmers cry “make laws for the
farmer,” their. intentions are not only wrong, but
their efforts are in vain usually because by so
doing they prejudice other elements of power
against them and in that way laws that may be
proposed for the general good and yet redound to
great beneﬁts to the farmer, are quashed by this
prejudice. The city folks do not continually holler
”make laws for us,” but they act direct. But not
by political activity. They have their labor or-
ganizations and their business associations and

 

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they act collectively and directly for their econ-
omic needs. Why does not the farmer act direct-
ly? Because they are getting the wrong guidance
by these political maniacs who control the agri«
cultural press. This may sound strong, but think
it over and ﬁnd an agricultural journal, periodical
or paper advocating unionism and if you ﬁnd one
you can ﬁnd one hundred talking for laws for
farmers. When the farmers organize to ﬁx prices
on their products in accordance with costs of pro-
duction they will better their living conditions
and also put agriculture on a ﬁnancial basis, in-
viting both capital and labor, whose interests are
mutual, to patronize it.—A Member of (1 Labor
Organization, St. Helen, Mich.

ANOTHER ANSWER TO MRS. BAERWOLF
Editor MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMINoz—May I be
permitted to reply to Mrs. August Baerwolf of
Sanilac county? My dear lady, since Jesus Christ
was led of the spirit into the wilderness to be
tempted of the devil, we have all known that Sat-
an could quote Scripture. And we have often
heard his agents quoting glibly from Holy Writ
in an attempt to justify any evil they chose to ad-
vocate. Hut 'if‘ I can read» my Bible aright, Jesus
replied to his tempter: “Thou shalt worship the
Lord, thy God, and Him only shalt "thou serve.”
Does this good christian lady mean to tell us
that we can serve our God by voting to bring

”booze back into Michigan? Well, I am glad to
contradict the statement that there is no com-
'mand of God against the use of wine and similar

From cover to cover the Old Book
Thank God, the

beverages.
sounds warnings against booze.

» day has come when We are heading the warnings.

But even if there were no commands against it,
what difference would that make? There was no
command against murder before Cain ‘slew Abel.
But I don’t see that he proﬁted any by that ex-
cuse.

 

W: to their skirts, waiting outside

the saloon while papa got one more drink and,
swapped a few more coarse jests with the boys};

and parted with his last dollar, regardless of the
fact that his wife and little ones were half-clothed,
half-fed and utterly heart-broken. I have k '
kind loving father who would cheerfully h e laid
down his life for his baby girl, to take from her
ﬁngers the money she had saved, a penny at a.
time, for a pair of shoes, and shoot it over the li

censed bar to pay for a little more of the accurs—
ed poison that was killing him soul and body. And
afterwards I have seen him suffeiing the tortures
of hell in his self-shame and remorse. Sorry for lit-
tle Nellie? Yes, but ten thousand times more sor-
ry for the poor father so hopelessly enmeshed in
the devil’s snare

I have taken money from the hands of a no: gh-
bor, the father of a large family, with the request
that I buy food and clothing for his wife and chil.
dren. “For,” he said, “I dare not‘ trust myeslf to
go to town with all those bars running. The last
time I tried it I swore I would do my errands and.
go right home but I met some of the boys and
when I got one drink I stayed with them till I
was broke. My family had to actually suffer in
consequence.” Since Michigan went dry that man
takes his wife and children to town with him and
they are happy together. I could tell you hun-
dreds of instances within my own personal knowl-
edge where Prohibition has changed poverty to
plenty, sorrow to joy, and shame to self-respect

nd eﬂiclency. And, if I live till Election Day I
33:1 vote to keep our state a ﬁt place to live in,
as red in my own mind that I am serving God
in so doing.

And, Mrs. Baerwolf, if you so dearly love your
wine and beer and are certain that they do you
no harm, being a good christian, can you not em-
ulate the example of the Apostle Paul who declar-
ed, “If meat make my brother to offend I will eat
no ﬂesh while the world standeth; lest I make my
brother to offend.” This is my idea of the spirit
of Christ which the Good Book says we must have
or we are none of His—Another Michigan Mother.

: a nu

(Editor’s Note: We very much regret that it is
impossible to publish the score or more of splen-
did letters received in indignant response to the
article “Why is Michigan Dry?” We have used
such letters as we could. taking them in the or-
der received...but the many we are obliged to omit
contain just as convincing arguments against
booze and the saloon as those we have published.
Vote “N0."’)

VIEWS ON ROAD BONDING AMENDMENT

Just read your article of March 22nd, “Road
Amendment Will Cost Farms Little.” Note the
following: (1) Government will‘pay one- -half of
all expenses of Good Roads constructed. Why did
not you say of all Trunk Line Roads Constructed
Under Federal Road Aid Act and Supervision?

(1) a You say other half to be borne as fol-
lows: One third of one- -half by Wayne county?
How by tax? If so, why not levy the tax nowand
not bond?

(1) b. The other two thirds of the one-half by
cities and villages then tax them also, and not
bond, and I am sure the farmers would not kick
on the measley small sum of 80 to 90c per thou.
sand dollars valuation. Now, let me punch a hole
or two in this article. In the ﬁrst place, Federal
Road Aid Money must be spent on main trunk line
roads according to the bill passed by congress ap-
propriating $200,000,000 for trunk line roads in
the United States, of which Michigan will get as
follows: 1919, $1,447,213.80; add to that our share
of the $75, 000,000 appropriated in 1916, which is
$872, 708 53; total to July 1,1929 $2 31,9921. 33;
July 1,1920 to July 1,1921,1916 appiopriation
$578, 885. 52; 1919 allotment, $2,170,820 70, making

up for the two years a total of $5 069, 627. 55 Then

_the third year the government has given us $723, -

606.90 allotment of 1916 and $2 170, 820. 70 1919 al-
lotment; total per third year, $2,814,427.60 or a to
tal for three years of $7, 964, 055 15 instead of $7,-
500, 000 in two years as your article says.
Further, if the largest amount is less than three
million for one year, why bond for 10 million?
Further light for us farmers look up the House
Bill No. 49, called “The Aldrich Road Bill” and
see what that says about who is to pay the larg-
est part of the other half of cost of building these
trunk line roads. Space forbids me to go into de-
tail. But that says county or townships as the unit
may he, shall pay from 10% up to 75% of said
cost. Who are they, villages and cities? No, but .
farmers will do. They put in that Wayne county '
has her roads all built, therefor under the Aldrich _
Bill they will not haVe to pay for building cry"
help build trunk line roads. ~
Farmers, don't be fooled. They put one over on
Rural Carriers and the Postoﬂice Department in

‘ 1916; don’t let them put it over the farmers now,

 

 

 
   

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Mrs.A1 Al'B.

It is my intentiou to prove a differ-
ent opinion on the subject.

As far as laWB are concerned it is
an undisputable fact that they are
necessary in all ‘good ‘government.
Paul, in Rom. 13:2, says, “The powers
that be, are ordained of God. Whose-
ever, therefore, resisteth the powers
resisteth the ordinance of God: and
they that resist shall receive to them-2'
selves damnation. Let us now search
the Scriptures and see it we can ﬁnd
any arguments against tobacco, wine,
and strong drink.

Mrs. A. B. says that tobacco is not
mentioned in the Bible. That is be-
cause tobacco was not then discovered.
Also, it is impossible to' name every
sin one is apt to commit. We have
therefore 9. general term to cover sev-
eral things. In the instance of tobaoy
co, turn to 2nd Cor. 7:1. It says, “Let
us cleanse ourselves from all ﬂlthiness
of the ﬂesh and spirit.” Tell me,

please, if there is a habit that will '

compare with tobacco in ﬁlthiness.
Ask the wife of~the habitual user, or
the user himself for a reply. surely
the use of it deﬁles the temple of God,

-which act is forbidden in 1 Cor.3:18:

17.'When used as it was. intended: it
feeds a horned specie of worm. Brew.
ed, it is good to destroy vermin. So
much‘for tobacco;

Is there harm in beer and wine?
Christ, himself was a user of wine on
certain occasions. The apostle Paul ad-
vised his friend, Timothy, to use wine
in place of the water which did not
agree with him. You will understand
however, that it was not intoxicating,
causing them to do the shameful acts
which are done when under the in-
ﬂuence“ of alcoholic drink.

The Bible strongly declares against
intoxicating liquor. The world’s Wis-
est man, Solomon," says: “Wine is a
mocker, strong drink is raging, and
whosoever is deceived thereby is not
wise-Proverbs, 20:1. He alsosays it
is the little foxes that spoil the vine.
The big fox, whiskey, has been ban-
ished. Shall we allow the little foxes,
wine and beer, to appear in our midst
to accomplish by lesser degrees that.
which Whiskey could do in less time?
The ﬁnal ending must be the same.

Even the there were no Bible, it
seems that the nobler nature of hu-
manity would revolt at so degrading a
practice as alcoholic drink. Moreover,
it doesn't seem possible that any per-
son can conscientiously promote the
liquor trade when they know full well
it is the cause of more blasted hopes
and. wrecked lives than any other de—
stroyer. Would like to add that as I
believe a rum-soaked race is inferior
to an abstaining people, I shall cast
my vote in opposition to the liquor
interests at the coming April election.
—-J. W. B., Calhoun county.

“\VORKETH NO ILL TO THY
NEIGHBOR"

Inasmuch as the editor has invit-
ed an answer to Mrs. Baerwolf’s ar-
ticle on “Why is Michigan Dry," I
would say that in I. John 5:17, we
read that “All unrighteousness 1:-
sin.” Then it is only necessary to es-
tablish the unrighteousness of the.
business. Mark you, I am not talk-.
ing from a legal standpoint, but
Scriptural. In Matthew 19:19, we
read, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor
as thyself." Rom. 18:10, “Love
.worketh no ill to his neighbor." Now
I am going to ask one question and
I. have not the command of lan-
guage to express my feelings in re-
gard to it, in the light of boasted iu-.
teliigence, of this twentieth. century.

Can anyone, after a little careful, ﬂ

thought, sa‘y‘that the men in the 11-7
quor business is not working ill to

his neighbor? Under God I eat Ills

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Wound-“me: interdiction about

. .4: rays: and scarring. for trait trees.
. ,_ Signet ’wgou'ldyou usevior this method?
”gal-low. would you apply it?- I amnjusta
~2."?Jgreen,hand"and. amjasking your ad-
_;,‘-y§l‘ce about this ? matter before I start.

, -~u—.J.,‘s.‘,‘Edm0re, Mich,
' ~' ‘To describe intelligently all the dif-
ii‘teren't‘ sprays'required for the differ-
ent kinds (if pests and diseases, to-
"f¥gether with method of making and ap-
ffplyin‘g w0uld 'require several pages.

The Michigan" Agricultural College

" r has embodied all this information in

.a’treatise just off’the press. H J.
Eustace and 'R'. H. Pettit are the au-

‘ grhors. «The bulletin describes the dis-
eases common to this state as. they af— '
feet the various kinds of fruits and I

vegetables? It als6 gives-very com-
pleté‘ instructions for making the
sprays, and how to use-them. . If you
are a fruit grower- you cannot afford

to be,vVith0ut Special Bulletin No. 93. .

it may be had free for the asking. Ad-
dress Experiment Station. M. A. “0.,
last Lansing, Mich. '

In this connection it might be well
to state that the U. S. Department of
Agriculture has just issued a. bulletin
on “Growing Fruit for Home Use,”
which contains many points of inter-
‘est to the commercial fruit grower.
For copies of Farmers’ Bulletin No.
1001, address Division of Publication,
Department of Agriculture, Washing-
ton, D. 0'. ' ‘ ,

HOW THE GALMON BONES ARE

. , SOFTENED

Can you or any reader tell us what
the salmon canners use to destroy the
bones in the ﬁsh? And low much do
theyuse to the pound of ﬁsh? In
this locality we catch quite a lot of
suckers in the spring, and believe
they could be canned for future use.
The M. B. F. is a. real farm paper and
deserves to be in the home of every
farmer in the state—0. N. 0.. Thomp-
‘Smrf‘ille, Mich.

\Ve beg to inform you that nothing
is speciﬁcally used in the'process of
canning the ﬁsh to soften the bones.
During the process the sealed ‘cans of
ﬁsh are submitted to cooking at quite
a high temperature and pressure in
order to sterilize, or destroy the bac-
teria so the ﬁsh will keep. It: is dur-
ing, this cooking precess that the
bones are softened. small bones are

- softened much more readily than larg.

er ones—F. G. Weber, Chemist in
Charge Animal Physiological (Themi
cal Laboratory.‘ -

BALANCED RATION FOR HORSE

“I ~Would like to ask thrn your col-
umns what constitutes a balanced ra-
tion for a. horse nine years old, weigh.
lug 1,000 lbs., and how much of ”1 this
feed to a mess.”—-Subscriber..

Ten pounds oats and 12 pounds of
mixed hay, per day, would constitute
a. balanced ration for a 1,000-lb. horse
when at light work. With the increase
or work, narrow the ration by feed-
ingmoré protein in such feeds as
bran and "oil meal. For an idle'horse,
“more, roughage may be used in propor-
tion‘to the grain and roots, or a small
amount ofensilage (not over 15 lbs.

”.per day)‘ added to keep bowels in

healthy ‘condition.-—R. '. 3, Hudson,
, Farm Superintendent. ' _ -

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FEATHER EATERS
Can same one tell me through Bys—

mns‘s FARMING what causes chickens
They arefed

shellsg'topr‘gritf The pallets are the
rst Pl e give me cause and cure.
" , 3.; 'St. Louis, Mich.

    

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their-\ration. As a preventative, isolate

"those who have formed this, habit,
. from other birds and, give .them' milk

or meat scrap in, their rancher-70. H.

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FOR INJURY T0 COW’S BAG

For injury to a, cow’s bag, where
there is'heat and swelling, mix qui-
nine with ﬂour, say about one spoon-
ful to ﬁve or six spoonsiul of ﬂour. It
will take out the inﬂammation when
Regulate the
amount mixed by the surface to be
covered. Paste it on almost a fourth of
an inch thick. It works well on hum-
an ﬂesh but mix with lard. If used
too- strong on children it will blister.
~Mrs.7R., Newbem, Mich.

P. S. I think M'. B. F. is the most
earnest; helpful farm paper' I ever
read and I have caught your watch-

.word. It is “Organize.” I Wish more

people would talk "co—Operation, unity,
organization. Our county agent talks
it. I say I wish he could‘pound it in.
It doesn’t seemto sink very'fast but
if he keeps it up he~ may wear the
hard old shell away. It can’t be hard-
er than rock.

 

CORN AND BEAN FERTILIZER'

.I want to ask a few questions about
putting fertilizer on corn and beans.
How much do you put on per acre and

_ what kind of preportlon? I have a

corn planter with fertilizer sower on

. it that I was going to use—A Reader.

The same fertilizer will do very
well for both corn and beans. For the
average soil, that is soil that has not
received special treatment, a fertiliz-
er analyzing 2-10-4 for sandy soil, 2-
12-2 for loam and 2-12-0 for clay, is
about right.

The ﬁrst number in the analysis re-
fers to the percentage of ammonia in

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. .Ithyou want to raisemoxo
this year, build a Perr B, e!“ ,
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lumber. Send me $1 for full .1113
license and right to build for others) , 3 1
your neighborhood. You'll say 1 vi?
the best dollar you ever lnveste . ’ "
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patio otrpotash “Should-Io

" or be unable to get the exact analysis,
eiforta.,sheuld be made to secure a. ,
fertiliser. as near the above analysts
as possible. " ‘ ‘

It is'well to keep in mind that
where large quantities of manure are
used it is not necessary to use a ter-
tilizer containing as much ammonia
and potash as is necessary on land t 1 t 1
where, large quantities are not used. PetOSkeY 601d” Russet“ are n° ‘ ° °.'

For best results not less than 200 3%‘il"1§§.°al%ut"l’1‘il‘lﬁlh, illlﬁsénm‘élilg-

ounds t0 the a r sized potato, secured only by 8619a“;
p c 9 should be used and heaviest yielding hills for eight yrs? , An

better results will? be secured if. 250 did you know that this is the cheap -:

pounds to the acre are used. However seed 0“ the market today, and “1‘“ ‘ 'E
. -, ’ supply is limited? .

when high-grade fertilizer such as 2- Twin Boy Farm

12-2 are used, smaller amounts may C. D. Post, Prop. Alba. Michiﬂ-l

be applied per acre, which will sup-

ply the same amount of plant food as SEED POTATOES
will larger amounts of a lower grade -
fertilizer. Incidentally, the plantfood FOR SALE

in the fertilizer can be purchased ‘

cheaper in hi h- rade " ally grown Late PetOSkeys °r Ru"
in low-grade agnai’sis analysjs than lall),rigoanssett Seed Potatoes, ﬁeld run, grad-

. . ed over 11/2 inche screen. Field 'ins acted;
The fertilizer can be applied very grown on new ground, practicaly dis-

' - , 1.25 er bushel sacked
well through the fel‘illlzer SOWer of §aseS§§gly$liinitgd. Arder early.

the corn planter.~~J. W,‘ Henceroth. A, M, SMITH, Lake City. Mich.

SPRING WHEAT , .

No.1N0rthem “MARQ'UIS” Type Seed

$3.25 Per Bushel F. O. B. Ypsilanti
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immediate shipment.

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Here it is --tl1e CrOSs-Truss— absolutely the greatest develop-
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makes it the strongest and most practical silo made. 0

The illustration tells the story. As you can see, it shows a
series of trusses that unite this silo into a tower of strength.
This is a new application of bridge construction.

But it remained to the McClure Company to bring this prin-
ciple into silo building. By its use a rigid frame work is
secured—nothing could be stronger. A heavy wind could
strike one side of this silo but due to the silo Cross-Truss
the strain is distributed evenly.

Then this silo is securely anchored to the foundation. So strong
is this construction that no cables are necessary. In addition to
this new feature, there are many other advantages of the
Saginaw Liberty Silo with its hollow-wall. which have made
this silo popular wherever introduced. Its heavy inner wall, the
dead air space between that and the outer wall, assure perfect
insulation—no more frozen or spoiled silage.

The fact that this is a Saginaw silo is sufﬁcient guarantee ofits con—
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Write us for additional information. We build a silo that ﬁts
your own particular needs and pocket-book. Write now.

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Saginaw, .Mich. Cairo, Illinois.

   
   
       
      
      
     
     
   
     
   
     
   
   
    
    
   
     
       
     
 
 
  
 

 
 
  
 
 
 
  
  

 

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' prices.

There was little trading in grain on
lack of
supplies and a waiting demand tended
Despite the
grtac’t, there was a strong sentiment
«among the bulls that prices would be
higher and bids on May and June
grains were higher all along the line.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GiAEi Detroit Chic-go New e
No. Zled 2.45 2.50 2.5]
go. 3 Red
o. I'lhlte 2.43 2.41 2.48
_ No. 2 II__ix_u 2.43 2.47 - 2.48
Demand for wheat is very active
.and more mills are running today

than for many months. Large quan-
tities of ﬂour are being exported in
preference to the whole grain. This
is a good thing, for it keeps the mills
going and increases the domestic sup-
ply of grain feeds. The speculators
still persist that the wheat price must
come down, but the wheat prices still
persist in going up.

A subscriber recently asked us the
question if the government would pay
its 'guaranteed price on spring wheat,
he having read a statement to the con-
trary. ‘The government will pay its
guaranteed price on" every bushel of
1919 wheat, whether planted last fall
or this spring. Those who believed
that'the government should yiolate
its contract argued that such a dis-
crimination should be made in order
to prevent farmers from forsaking
other crops for spring wheat. It was
soon discovered that it would be utter-
ly impossible to carry,out such an ar-
rangement, as there was no way to
keep the two grains separate when
checking up time came.

We hope Michigan farmers will not
be foolish enough to pin all their
hopes on spring wheat. It's an un-
certain crop for Michigan. Some years
it does well; other years it yields poor
returns. Farmers who are in the hab-
it of raising spring wheat will be jug.
tiﬁed in carrying out their practice

.this year, but it is no time for exper-

imenting. Oats is a far more depend-
able crop this year than wheat. There
will unquestionably be a greatly de-
creased acreage of cats, and the farm-
er who includes a generous acreage of
cats in his crop program will be wise.

 

 

GRADE Detroit Chicago New York
No. 2 Yellow 1.79
No. 3,Yo|1ow 1.65 1.59 1.78
No. 4 Yellow 1.02 1.54 1.76

 

 

 

 

 

 

The “bulls" have the “bears" back-
ed off the boards. Every day scantier
supplies and higher prices have come
to mock the speculators who have
been banking their hopes on lower
The spectre of an Argentine
grain surplus that has hung over the
Boards of Trade and frightened the
buyers has faded away, leaving an act.
ive demand with no supplies to fill it.

": A Chicago report says: “There is not

enough grain coming forward to meet
current demands of manufacturers.
Corn traders are at the mercy of the
farmer and unless he releases his grip
on holdings the situation will contin~
us to favor the man who believes in
higher prices. Liverpool cables re-
ported corn scarce there."

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
  
 
 
   

 

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The out market is developing 9.

Mb that is a surprise to even its

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All grains reported advancing and strongest tone of season
revails. Beans steady and slowly advancing. Potatoes ﬁrm and
' her. Live stock steady. Butter and. eggs higher on all markets.

prices expected. General tone of all markets very encouraging. j

  
 

 

  
    

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ply in the hands of farmers is one of
the greatest on record, it does not
seem to keep the price down. On the
contrary future deals are now being
made at a considerable advance over
any previous futures, and demand
takes care of all the supplies as they
come in. '

The Price Current-Grain Reporter
speaks of the cat and corn acreage in
the following manner:

“The "defeat of the amendment to
the guaranty bill that the bonus
should not be paid to farmers grow-
ing spring wheat this year who grew
none a year ago was a further tempt-
ation to plant spring wheat on corn
lands. But at present advices the corn
acreage is not likely to suffer so much
from that cause as is that of oats and

barley. This is encouraging. "The corn .

crop is this year far more essential
to the rounding out of our agriculture
than the production of wheat or even
of cats and barley; and every dealer
should put in these last days Of seed
bed preparation urging corn and more
corn. Feed will be the great need of
next fall and winter, and without corn
the feed bin will be scant indeed.
There is an ample supply of good seed.
If your local supply is not enough, get
into touch with the wholesale dealers
and see to it that your patrons have
all they shall need.”

RYE AND HARLEY

Both these grains are in stronger
demand and higher. As we go to
press rye is quoted at $1.05 per
bushel and , barley at $2@$2.20
per cwt.

 

 

GRADE Detroit Chicago N ow York
C..H.1’. 7.90 7.00 7.25
Pn-e‘ 7.00 0.5 6.50
Red Kidneys 10.25 11.00 11.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beans went up another 15 cents a

The Month’s Market

hundred the ﬁrst of this week, mak-
ing the total advance over ten days
ago of 90 cents a cwt. The demand is

still rather slow, but the market is in.

much better shape than it has been
for several months. Talking with
Frank Dreese, secretary of the Bean
Jobbers Ass’n., in Lansing Tuesday,
he said, "‘The beans are beginning to
mayo. We have been trying for some
time to open up some export business
outside of the Grain Corporation, and
have been partially successful."

The Michigan farm paper, which
wept crocodile tears over the bean sit-
uation a few weeks ago, seems to have
recovered its equanimity. We don’t
know exactly what happened. One
Vweek it charged M. B. F. with being
in collusion with the bean jobbers to
manipulate the bean market, or some-
thing. The next week it admit-ted
that it was mistaken, that the bean
jobbers were deserving of credit for
the manner in which they had hand-

 

 

OVER-ZEALOUS PATRIOTISM

Federal Food Administrator
Wilson of Minnesota has ad-
mitted that the administration
was a little too. previous in
compelling farmers to produce
their wheat under threat of
penalties provided. in the case
of boarders, and between 200
and 300 farmers in southern
Minnesota who were caught
with wheat on hand last July
._ and were squeezed to contrib-
ute funds to the Red Cross to
escape prosecution now expect
to have their money returned
to them. Altogether as a re-
sult of the activities of Vidien
B. Vye of .St. Paul about $84,-
000 was exacted in penalties
and under a recent ruling of
the Food Administration all
these cases are about to be re-
viewed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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HE MONTH of March witnessed an'improvement in nearly all business,

commercial and market lines.

Says a trade letter issued by the Detroit

National Bank of Commerce, “Nothing startling appears from an analysis
of the business operations of the country during February, the current opera-
tions for March and the prospective operations for April. The transition of bus-
iness to a Peace basis is going forward with few serious jolts 0r hitches. Released
and available labor is being absorbed faster than we had any right to expect and
the danger of a great surplus of idle labor is growing less." Over 62 per cent.
of the representatives of the various lines of business in Detroit, when asked
their opinion, reported that business conditions were improving. Less than 9

per cent. believed conditions were declining.

During the month of February

Detroit bank clearings were $262,243,636.92, over $50,000,000 larger than any

previous February's clearings.

This trade letter speaks encouragingly of the crop and market conditions.

Its attitude is much different than the
says:

"On the first of March, corn still on
ed with 41% on hand a year ago of the

commercial interests usually asume. It

farms was 34% of the last crop compar-
previous crop; wheat still on farms was

14% of the last crop compared with 17% of the previous crop on handa. ear

- ago; oats still on fem totaled 88 % of the last crop compared with 38% o the

previous crop on hand a year ago; barley still on farms totaled 82% of the last
crop compared with 21% on hand a year ago of the previous crop.

‘Tho quantity of grain still on the

forms from last year's crop represents a

much smallerppercentage than was on hand a year ago of the previous year’s

crop. The grain surplus of the coun
believed to be before the issue of the

is much smaller than it was generally
sport of the Department of Agriculture.

The world needs all of the grain we have and all we can grow. There is little
likelihood of an over-production of anything in the line of foodstuff: in the
world for several years to come. In ﬁguring the wheat crop of 1019 it should be
remembered that the wheat crop is not yet made and one-third of it is not even

in the ground."

During the month of March there were sharp increases in the prices of

grains. Beans and potatoes took on a
prices. .
form and uncertainty was succeeded by

steadier tone with somewhat higher

The export demand that had been slowly shaping itself took definite

confidence.

We have no reason to believe that these conditions will become-any the less

favorable agvsummer advances. We still
foodNand at as good ifgnqt, better; 'ri
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led the bean situation; and the next
week the Been Jobbers Aso’n sent'out
. bulletin to its membersurging them
to ' subscribe for the aforesaid» farm
journal. Truly, the laborer is worthy
of his hire.

    

 

 

“I...“ .1 No.2
Tine thy “nth! “moth;
Detroit ;20 290.215.100.205! 20.
Clio-go 33003000 31am” 3|”
Cheheeti ”253115 3425332! 337!
III-bush 3: 33003150 32502900 3000
lowYork 350033" 30003100 3200
lid-ad ‘ ‘
No. I No. 1‘2 No. 1
"fm unwind cumin"; Clover
Detroit 2050 27002550 20002550 2000
Choose. 2000 31322500 27002300 2400
'Cilcilnetl 282530 2875 28752575257
Pittsburgh 20 50 290028 50 29 50 29 50 30 00
NewYorh 3100 33002700 20002400 2500
Eidunond '

 

 

 

 

Hayfmarkets have again advanced
under continued light supplies and
good trade. Country loading is small
owing to highway conditions and
although rail deliveries are prompt,
there is not much stock moving. Rec-
ord prices are the rule in the west—
ern markets, and eastern points show
advances aggregating at least half
the amount of advance shown in the
west. Visible stocks are small in

many producing points and the move-
ment wil be light from all points un-
til the spring planting is completed.
——Hay Trade Journal.

 

 

 

“0i“ rend loud White
”"h' vim-ache- 0th
Detroit 1.80 cwt. .70 cwt.
Chicago 1.00 .70
Clothe“ 2.00 1.00
New York 2.10 .00
Pitiehlllh 1.88 1..

 

 

 

 

The action of the potato market
the past three weeks has upset all
the dope of the speculators who in-
sisted that the increasing shipments
would send the market tobogganing.
Every day for the past three weeks
has shown new strength to the po-
tato market. It is true that prices
have not advanced considerably at
primary markets, but local dealers
were obliged to advance prices to
growers anywhere from 10 to 40
cents a cwt. in order to secure
enough supplies to meet the de-
demands. This is most encouraging,
and lends strength to the belief that
,potatoes are due for much higher
prices.

M. B. F. was the ﬁrst farm jour-
nal in this section to call the farm-
ers’ attention to the decreased pota—
to acreage in the South and the ef-
fect it would have upon the late po-
tato market. The advance of new
Bermudas from $10 a barrel a month
ago to $15 a barrel this week gives
us some idea of what effect this de—
creased acreage may have on the old
potato deal. Certainly the produc-
tion of the early crop cannot be cut
40 per cent without having o. great
effect upon the demand for old po-
tatoes.

The Bureau of Markets gives an
excellent report of the potato market
conditions elsewhere in this issue.
Be sure to read it.

 

Eggs are again higher/ All parts
of the country report an active do
mend. The east is ﬂooded with eggs
of a poor te-nediurn quality which do
not find a ready market. If you ship
any eggs to New York, he sure they.
are A-No. 1 quality, for the best
eggs are going at premium prices".
It is the sentitment of the. dealers
that eggs will 7. not go, below

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"about" 61 to 52o per

_ Poultry
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: ~Detroit market quotes the following

prices: No. 1 springs, 34085c;
stage. 270280; hens,»34@350; sm’all

; hens and leghorns, ”@840; roost-
' ers, 24025c; geese, 25@260; ducks,
~ .28@40o; turkeys, 35@36c per lb.

’ Leather Market Strong

_» Relative to the .commercial- leather
market, including an varieties of the
leather belt used in elevators, Babson

.. says this week:

"While we do not know at the pres-
ent time just how long the hide and
leather market willcontinue as strong
as it is at present, nevertheless the
facts surrounding the situation are as
follows: Altho the receipts of ani-

-'mals at the primary markets are ex-‘

ceptionally heavy, hide shipments are
running comparatively large, stocks
are not burdensome, and leather is
ﬁnding its way to consumers about as
fast as it appears on the market? This
demand is probably due to the activity
on the part of manufacturers to re-
plenish stocks of staple shoes. Al-
though admitting thevpresent strength
we hardly advise heavy commitments
at the present high plane of values.
On the other hand, we sanction a buy-
ing policy that will at least insure a
constant supply. Looking further
ahead, by the latter part of the year,
after the rush of peace orders is over,
the tendency should be unmistakably
downward." ' '

Hides—No. 1 cured, 18c; No. 1

”green, 160; No. 1 cured bulls; 13c; No.

1 green bulls, 100; No. 1 cured veal
kip, 23c; No. 1 green veal kip, 20c;
No. 1 cured murrain, 18c; No. 1 green

*murrain, 16c; No. 1 cured calf, 40c;
‘ No. 1 green calf, 38c; No. 1 horsehides,

$7; No. 2 horsehides, $6; No. 2 hides
1c and No. 2 kip and calf Jyéc lower
than above prices; sheepskins, as to
amount of wool, 50c to $2.50 each.

’BREADSTUFFS EXPORTS

Breadstuffs exports in the ﬁrst eight
months of this ﬁscal year increased
50%—$577,850,285, against $382,190,-
789 a year ago.

Last month out of the' $587,900,000
total exports $256,600,000 were agri-
cultural products leaving $33,300,000
for other commodities. To understand
what that means, it must be observed
that the largest ﬁgure ever reached
by experts prior to the war was $198,-
800,000. 'That is to say even if we
leave out ef consideration the food-
stuffs and cotton which the outside
world must take from us, our month-
ly shipments of non-agricultural
goods is running $132,500,000 be-
yond the pro—war maximum. '

 

Detroit, April '1.—Cattle: Canners
and bulls steady, others 25 to 35c high-
er than last week’s close; best heavy
steers, $14 to $15.50; best handy
weight butcher steers, $13.50 to $14;
mixed steers and heifers, $12 to $13.25
handy light, butchers, $10.50 to $11.50;
light butchers, $8 to $9.50; best cows,
$10 to $11; butcher cows, $8.50 to
$8.50; cutters, $7 to $7.50; canners,
$6 to $6.75; best heavy bulls, $9.50 to
$10; bologna bulls, $8.50 to $9; stock
hulls, $7.50 to $8.50; feeders, $9.50 to
$10.50; smokers, $8 to $9; milkers and
springers, $60 to $120. Veal calves:
Market strong on good grades; com-
mon dull: best, $17 to $17.50; others,
88 to: $15. Sheep and lambs: Market
steady; best lambs, $19.50 to $20.10;
fairﬁlambs, $18 to $18.50; light to com-
mon lambs, $15 to $16; fair to good
“sheep, 8 to $18.50; culls and common
10. Hogs: Market 250 higher;

 

$18.75 to $18.80; few heavy,
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Kent (N. EJ—At this ‘writing it
looks as though March might go out
like a lion. It was getting quite sum-
mer-like and grass and wheat were

looking green. Now they will suffer a

set-back. The ground froze quite
hard last night and today northwest
winds prevail. Farmers have been
drawing manure and working on
their oatground. Many believe in get-
ting their oats in as early as possible.
Most farmers will treat their cats for
smut as they have done for a good
many years. Some farmers are selling
potatoes in Greenville. Grand Rapids
is plugged full of spuds. Stocks of
potatoes are exhausted close in to the
big place, but trucks are continually
picking up the scattering holdings
twenty miles and farther out and
keeping the market in bum condition.
It seems to me that later on they’ll
want potatoes pretty .bad in Grand
Rapids. Farmers' holdings of potatoes
in this locality are far below those of
last year at this time. The following
prices were paid at Greenville recept-
lyz—Wheat, $2.30; corn, $1.50; cats,
60; rye, $1.53; beans, $6; _potatoes,
$1.15; hens, 20; butter, 50 to 55; eggs,
35 to 36; sheep, 10; lambs, 15; hogs,
live, 16; dressed, 20 to 24; beef steers,

  
 
 

10; beef cows, 8; veal calves, 9 to. 11. ’-

—G. H. W., Granville, Mich, MM. 28.

Vaanren, (calm—Farmers are ﬁn-
ishing their. grape-trimming, drawing
out brush, setting in posts, tightening
wires. Some; have commenced tying.
The weather has been ﬁne‘and most of
the work is up in good shape. The
winter being open leaves the barn
yards pretty‘ well cleaned out. Hay
still holds to $30; oats are 55c or bet-
ter; eggs, 35c and butter, 45c--——-V. T.
0., Mattawan, Mich, March 29.

Wezford, (west)-—-A. little flurry of
snow this week and a cold north wind,
but we anticipate it will not continue.
At present it looks favorable for nice
weather. Some farmers have started
to plow. Charles Julian has tomato
plants in his hot-bed three or four
inches high—so much for a, spring
starter. The following prices were
paid at Cadillac March 27z—Ccrn
shelled, $3.25 cwt.; cats, 80; hey, 25
to 80; potatoes, $1.20 cwt.; hens, 21
to 24; springers, 19 to 23; butterfat,
64; eggs, 35; hogs, 20; beef steers, 10
to 14; veal calves, 19,—8’. H. 8., Har-
rietta, Mich, March 26.

Calhoun, (N. W.)—Farmers> are
drawing manure and plowing for oats.
There is some spring wheat being

Ive-reek March 28.-—Wheat, casement

   

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.. orohﬁﬂl. Th
lowing prices were paid at

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6.5: rye. 81-40:» her. 80; potatoes. Slit
hens, 25 ; ‘springers, 25; butter, 52“
eggs, 32; lambs, 14; hogs, 17; beef,
steers 7; beef cows, 6; veal calves»
11.-— . E. 3., Battle Creek, Harsh .28.

Ogemaw, (neutron—No farm work
being done here. Still freezing hard at .
night and thawing in the day time,

which makes it hard on winter grain. .' V

and new seeding. Roads are in
condition, almost impassable in some
places. Feed is getting scarce. A good
many farmers are looking for hay.
Clover seed is getting scarce and high.‘
Beans are low. Butterfat is off again. .
Th. following prices were paid ' at
West Branch Mar. 292—Wheat, $2.10;
oats, 65; rye, $1.50 per 100' hay, 20
to 22; potatoes, 75; hens, 26; butter
45; eggs, 33; hogs, $22 dressed; veai
calves, 12; butterfat, 50.—W. N., West
Branch, Mich. Hmh 29.

Calhoun, (ween—Fine weather for
the time of year. A. number of farm-.
are are starting the plow for cats. The
subsoil is very wet yet but the surface
seems to be in pretty good condition.
Wheat and the new seeding, I do not
believe, is injured to any great ex-
tent. Ths following prices were paid
at Battle Creek March 20:——Wheat,
$1.15 to $1.18; oats, 55; rye, $1.45;
hay, 28; butter, 45; eggs, 40; lambs.
12 to 14; beef steers, 7; beef cows, 7;
—V. II. J., BattleCreek, March 21.

 

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good work during the last hour of the season as
during the ﬁrst, and know that you are saving
money at every turn of the ﬂywheel.

.Work With All Farm Machines

The steadiness and dependability of Interna-
tional or Titan tractors are due, not to chance,
but to skill and experience. We know farm ma-
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88 years. We know the work you expect iyour
machines to do and for twelve ears have con
selling tractors designed and bu t to furnish use-

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farm power machine you have requiring power
up to 15-H.P. draw bar or 30- . P. on the belt,
and do good work with it.

tractors operate on common coal oil, which costs
about half as much as gasoline. Even if our
tractors were superior in no other way, the fuel
saving would make it worth while to own an
International. ‘

Tractor Service

Every tractor owner needs service at one time
or another. When that time comes our Service
Organization of 89 branch houses and thousands
of dealers reSponds quickly. Think what it may
mean to you in a rush season to get a repair part
or have an adjustment attended to within a few
hours. Every International or Titan tractor owner
who needs service gets it without unnecessary
delay or trouble.

Our tractors are made in three sizes, 8-16, 10-20
and 15-30-h. All operate on kerosene, or any
other oil fue down to 39° Baume. We will send
catalogues with full information about tractors
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THE RESTFUL HOME

HE DAYS of bric-a-brac, ornamental cush-
ions, useless vases, etc., is rapidly passing
and no one who enjoys a restful home, will
mourn their loss. Those were days when we h'é’d
’ them, for
goodness knows one couldn’t be comfortable and
live with them all every day. Today the parlor

has disappeared and in its stead we have the one

large, general living room, with no space for these
“extras" which have to be relegated to the attic.
And how much more restful is the home which
contains only the required number of comfortable
chairs, the table which holds the daily papers and
up- -to- date periodicals, and the furniture which
has an actual practical value

And the walls too are apt to become over-fur-
nished, if we may be permitted this expression.
Pictures, like bric—a-brac, have a habit of accumur
l-ating along With calendars. etc. until sometimes
one has to search to ﬁnd the color of the wall pa-
per. This only serVes to make the room appear
much Smaller.
room where one enters to ﬁnd. perhaps, only two
or three very good copies of famous works of art;
of pictures which uplift and cheer and these pio-
tures cost no more than the inferior, highly col-
ored prints so often seen. Color can always be
added by the bunch of freshly cut ﬁOWers, arrang-
ed just as they grow, and even in the winter it is
usually possible to keep at least a single blossom
in a small vase. It is in a room such as this that
the very atmosphere invites you to drop down in
the comfortable chair by the reading table and
pick up the paper near at hand and rest a while.
The bare room is not attractive, but a room which
holds all the furniture necessary for the family
use, the victrola and the 'books is surely never
bare.

Spring is a good time in which to take stock of
the rapidly accumulating things which aren't
really necessary to the comfort or beauty of the
home; articles which have perhaps been given to
you as presents and which you haven’t had the
heart to put away. It would be better even that
an “accident” happened to some of these in the
spring clean-up than that the already overburden-
ed mother should have them to dust and care for
all summer. -,

'CONTRIBUTED HELPS
READ IN a recent issue of the M. B. F., that
you had a hard time trying to make your
page a help, so I am sending you some
“Helpful Hints" which I have found of value—A
Willing Helper, Carp Lake, Hich.

Boiled cabbage is very much sweeter if water is
changed while boiling.

To have a custard pie 3 nice, even brown color,
sprinkle a little sugar over the top before putting
it in the oven. ..

If a cake cracks open while baking, it is a sure
sign that you have used too much ﬂour.

Sour milk makes spongy, light cake. Sweet milk
makes it out like pound cake.

Do not warm butter. if it is too hard, mix it
in a warm bowl or with warm sugar.

Boil fresh, young vegetables in hard water, A
little salt will harden it at once. Salt also makes
water heat faster. ’ '

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we will show next week, and

the guest chamber.
petals in sa‘tin stitch.)

Edited by MABEL CLARE LAEE

A small cake needs a hotter oven than a larger
one.

Don’t use soap suds on windows.
water.

To dry-clean a shirt waist, put four quarts of
corn meal in a 24 lb. sack or pillow slip. Put Waist
in this and knead gently so that the meal will
come in contact with all parts of the fabric. Leave
two or three days, then shake well and press with
a warm iron. Furs may also be cleaned this way.

Use clear

 

 

THE ANNOUNCEMENT

RECEIVED a tiny missive, \
From whom you cannot guess—

Indeed ’twas not from Gracie;
Nor yet from laughing Bess.

‘Twas from a tiny stranger,

A most surprising thing—
Scarcely a seven-pounder

With hair like a raven's wing.

She claims to be very busy

‘ Writing letters, too—-

A task I deem astounding.
For such a mite to do.

I strongly suspect her of cheating
,Not thinking that I would guess

That papa was doing the writing.
You dear little culprit, confess.

’Tis a dear oldname you’ve chosen

_ From out the common lot.

I fear it will waken for grandma
Memories long forgot.

’Twill recall a golden- haired maiden,
Who lived long years ago;

Your dad was her little brother,
As Donald is yours, you know.

She must have been good, for Jesus-
Called her in Childhood’s years.
That’s why I fear for grandma
'Twill waken a flood of tears.

Now you must take her place dear,
Proving both kind and true,

Helping and cheering grandma—
As she would have loved to do.

And for you I discern inthe future— .
Happiness none can destroy,
For Lillian stands for purity
And Gertrude meaneth joy. .
——C. SHIRLEY DILiENsACK.

 

 

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LESSONS IN HOME. COOKING

(Conducted by Miss Elizabeth Matheson, of the Val-
loy City Milling Co.) -

A Few,Suggestions on Bread

DOD BREAD is indeed the staﬂ of life, and
we all agree that good home-made bread is
more tasty, more appetizing, and more nour-
ishing than any baker's bread can be.
Bread-making need- not be burdensome and one
is justiﬁed in having.a feeling af pride over a per-
fect loaf of delicious bread.

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THIS DAINTY embroidery design is used with ﬂlet inserts which '

is very effective for either the
boudoir set as illustrated, or can be used for the day pillow slips;

in fact it will be found that it can be employed in many ways.
ﬂlet insert will be shown next week.

The small sketches here shown are the nightgown case and pillow,
though the other pieces such as scarfs, pin cushion, etc‘., can be added,
using the same design so that a very attractive set may be made for
The ﬂowers are eyelet and satin stitch (three
The center of the ﬂowers are eyelets; the
leaves satin stitch, and the stems are merely outlined.

_ Successful bread-making is a question of main-a »‘
taining the correct temperature. The yeast is a ,’ '
delicate plant, and mullet be kept neither too Mt ,
not too cold. Bread that feels warm to the hand '5

while rising is too warm. . A wooden pail makes

an ideal dish for bread-making, for it is impossi- '
. ble to overheat the bread and it is better to lots. g
bread “climb up" than to spread out as it will in} x ‘

a ﬂat pan. . .
The quantity of salt depends upon. personal
taste, but one level teaspobn to- each lost is the
usual allowance.
growth of the yeast.
Sugar is a food for the yeast, and while

little nicer with it, and the yeast acts a- little
quicker.- The amount will vary according to taste,
but a teaspoonful for each loaf is suggested.

A little fat added to the bread makes it a little 2'-

tenderer. Some can be kneaded in, though it is a
good plan-to rub a bit lightly over the bread When
putting it to rise, as. this prevents'a crust

putting into the tins. .

The liquid used 'may be water, potato water,
part milk and part water, or milk alone. A water
bread ramains moist longer than a milk bread
and at its present price few of us use milk entire-
ly for our bread.

Potato water makes a moister bread, due to the,

particles of potato in it, but much might be said
in favor of using freshly boiled water with_ some
finely mashed potato, rather than the water in
which the potatoes were cooked.
, Part7 milk and part water insures
brown than an all water bread.

Compressed, or soft yeast, makes bread-making
a simpler problem, and also a much shorter one
than the dry yeast. One third of a cake for each
loaf is a good allowance of. yeast, though more can
be used. In using dry yeast, one half cake to a
quart of liquid, making three large loaves, is an
ample allowance of yeast. Even more liquid can
be used but the process of bread making is a lit-
tle slower.

Potato added to the bread gives a moister loaf,
but the more potato used the stiffer the loaf must
be for the potato is practically four-ﬁfths water.

' a prett ier

Make the loaf a little more than half the size '

of the tins. Let rise until level with/the top of
the. tin, then put it into the oven, where it should

‘ continue rising until it is double its original size.

Do not have your oven too hot. At the end of
ten minutes the bread should have completed its
rising, and be browned. Bake from forty-five to

sixty minutes, depending upon size of loaf. A lit-

tle water in the oven during baking makesa ten-
der crust. "Remove tram tins immediately and
put upon a rack to cool, or turn frequently to

avoid while cooling.

The question of the ‘ﬂour to use is always an
important one, but more and more millerg are
manufacturing a ﬂour blended from differen‘ts va-
rieties of wheat, and containing both the-hard and
soft wheat in correct proportions to insure suc-
cess for all purposes. ' Once the housewife be-
come accustomed to using a blended ﬂour she can-
not easily be persuaded, to return to- the use of‘

two ﬂours.

straight bread ﬂour; and as it contains the cor-

rect proportion of soft Wheat to insure its being

The

 

Too ,much salt hinders the

good,“
bread can be made without it, still the bread is a .,

" from
forming. Also grease the tops of the loaves when ,-

A blended ﬂour gives a tenderer, .
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'No. 2797—-Girl’g Dress. ' Cut in 4
Zand 14 years. Size 12 re-

Ian 4 yardls of 40 inch material.

No. 2772—4Ladies' House Dress Cut in 7‘

em: 84, 36, 38 “'1; 42. 44 and 46 inches
“bust medsure. Size will require 694
yards of 86—inch matleial. Width at lower
.edge is- about 2% yards.

No. 2786~Ladies' Waist. Cut in 7
sizes: 66, 88, 40, 42,46 and 48
inches bust measure Size 82 requires 2%
yards of 36-inch material.

No. Bison—Ladies Dress. Cut in 6
sites: 84, 26, 38. 40. 42 and 44 inches
bust measure. Size 88 requires 7% yards

of 44-inch material. The skirt measures
,about 2 yards at the foot.

No. 2776—Girls’ Dress. Cut in 4 sizes:
4, 6. I anle' years. Size 8 will require
2% yards of 26-inch material. >

No. 2600—A Comfortable Breakfast

Costume. Cut in 7 sizes: 34 36, 38. 40, 42"
44 and 46 inches bust measure. Size 3d-

456 yards or 38- inch material.
Wdth of skirt at lower edge is about 2

yard 3.

No. 2777—Ladies' Skirt. Cut in 7
sizes: 24. 26, 30 32 34 and 36 inches
waist measure2 8Size 24 re ulres 3 yards
of 36- inch material. The s in measures
about 2% yards at the foot. with plaits
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always have, but keep the dough a lit.

tle softer; than you did when using a
hard wheat ’ﬂour.
kneaded in makes a bread that is too
solid and dries- out quickly. But one
or two trials will insuﬁ success.

It you wish a special recipe, here is
one for three loaves . Lily White
Flour:

One pint potato water, one pint
milk, three quarts Lily White Flour,
measured before sifting, one cake
compressed yeast, two tablespoons
Sugar, two tablespoons shortening,
one tablespoon salt.
your yeast, one-half cake of dry yeast
in one quart of liquid will give the
same results.

Soak yeast with one teaspoon of
sugar .in enough luke warm water to
cover, scald the milk. Plgce the rest
of the sugar, the salt and the shorten-
ing in the mixing bowl and pour the
scalding milk and potato water on
them. The water‘in which two or
three medium sized potatoes have
been boiled may be used if one has
not saved the water in which the po-
tatoes were cooked for dinner. When
cooled to lukewarm add the yeast and
about half of theﬂour. Set to rise in
a warm place for a halt to three-quar-
ters of an hour, then add the rest of
the ﬂour, enough to make a dough
that will not stick, when kneaded
with but a slight sprinkling of ﬂour
on the kneading board. Stir in the
mixing bowl or knead until the ﬂour
is well worked in. A cup of mashed
potato will improve the quality of the
bread. Let it rise in a warm place un-
til almost double in volume. then
knead until smooth and veIVety and
mould into loaves.

Putin tins and when. it has raised
so that the volume or size has about
doubled it it is ready for the oven.
Bake‘about‘ 45 minutes in a moderate
oven.

This produces six small loaves of
deliCious home-made bread, or three
very large loaves.

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The Government’s aggregate ex-
pense in the 22 months of war were
recently placed at $26,356,000,000. This
includes 67.875.000.000 loaned to the
Allies.

It is estimated by the United States
Department of Agriculture that road
building throughout the country this
year will involve the expenditure of
$1, 000, 000, 000. .

The state of Illinois recently voted
11 $60, 000 read bond issue while over
$600, 000 is to be spent for concrete
roads in Arizona, and Governor Rob-
ertson, of Oklahoma, is endeavoring to
promote for a $25,000,000 State High-
ways bond for that state.

The Belle Fourche irrigation dam
in, South Dakota is the largest earth
embankment in the world. Its con-
struction was authorized by Congress
at a cost of $5,000,000,000. From an
engineering standpoint this project is
one of the most interesting which the
government has undertaken. The res»
ervoir created by this dam covers
about 9,000 acres and will be the larg-
est lake in the world.

Because of the scarcity of leather.
strange developments are being made
in this industry. It has recently been
ascertained that the skins of frogs
and toads can be tanned and turned
to account for card cases and other
fancy articles. The Government fish-
-eries bureau says the skin of the cod
ﬁsh furnishes an excellent leather,
tough as parchment and very dura-

'-ble. The saute is true oi salmon skin.

Eel skins are employed in Europe for

. binding, books. and in Egypt shoe
soles are mad. from the skins of cer--

tain ﬁshes. Caught in the Red sea.
Sturgeon skin affords a handsome or—
namental leather, and the hide or the
armored garﬂsh is much valued in
Europe, being covered .with horny

 

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Give trees more care and they yield better fruit. Spraying ,

is the best protection for your trees and your profits. How
free your crops are from blight and blemish depends on how
j carefullyyou spray and how reliable are your spraymaterials.

Exercise the same care in protecting your trees and plants
as you would in buying them. The names of spray materials

are the same but the quality differs. Buy Orchard Brand

and you buy the best quality. Orchard Brand is the trade
name of a complete line of insecticides and fungicides that
do the work. The name on the package 18 an assurance of
full money’s worth of crop protection.

  
     
   

   
 
    

     

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. EAR Children: Interest is run-
ning high' in our guessing con-
test. of ten great ,men. I am glad

to report I have received over 200 .

correct answers to the last one, which,
if you have not guessed it, you will
ﬁnd correctly given in several letters
which we are printing in our page this
week. Remember you must guess all
V ten if you are to secure the prize, so
just keep busy and I am sure that
with a little work you can succeed.

' lame of the children expected that I
would print all the names of those
who guessed correctly each time, but
we can't do that as if we did we
wouldn't have room for any letters or
the Doc Dads and I am sure that
ou would rather see your letters than

t a list of names. However, rest
assured that I am keeping them all
carefully in a little book, and that I
will publish every letter we have room
for every week. And one of our little
club members asked lor some games
, to play at her birthday party, but she
only gave me a few days, and the
postman delayed her letter so that it
did not reach me until the day before
her party ;too late for me to send her
the games asked for. Remember if
you want anything like this, you must
write your letter-.at least two weeks
.ahead.

This week we have the D00 Dads
again and next week we are to have
another one of our great men.

Affectionately yours,
"Laddie."

(Send all Stories and letters’for this Don't direct to “Laddie,” oars Rural Pub. 00... Mt.

Dear Laddie—I .am sending you the
story I romised to send. I can knit.
tat, croc st and embroider. One girl saw
my letter in the pa er; Her nameis Im—
ogene Klingaman. ghe wanted to make
friends with me so he wrote to me and
I am answering her ltoday. We have lots

of ice around here but not ve. mUCh
snow. I have a pair of skates. e have
lots of fun. I to school eve 6317- A8

I haven’t muc to write ton ght will
close—Bertha Kulish, Minden City. Mich.

The Story of Cinderella
Once there was a king. He married a
queen who had two danghters and they
were very proud, but Cinderella was
more beautiful than they so she was
made to sit on ashes behind the stove.
The older sister used to call her Cinder

but the younger one was kinder and
called her Cinderella. One night there
was a dance and the two proud girls

went, but Cinderella didn’t go because
she had no nice clothes to wear, so she
sat down on the ashes behind the stove
and began to cry. Her godmother heard
her c ing and came and asked her why
she or ed and Cinderella replied, “I want
to go to the dance and I haven’t any
nice clothes to wear. Her godmother told
her that if she would be very good she
might go to the dance so she told her
that in the garden was a bi§ pumpkin
and to bring it in the house. 0 Cinder-
ella brought the gumpkin in but just as
she did so the go mother changed it into
a very nise gown Then she told Cinder-
ella to go and get some rat tails and
these were changed into golden slippers.
Then the godmother told her to go to the
dance but be home at 12 o’clock or there
would be no pretty gown. So Cinderella
went to the dance and when she got
there she saw the two proud rls danc-
ing with princes, but when t e princes
saw Cinderella they sto ped dancing with
the sisters and dance with Cinderella.
The sisters didn't dance again that ev-
ening. Cinderella danced until nearly 18
o’clock and all the rinces there wanted
to take her home ut none wanted to
take the other girlss home, so one took
Cinderella home and just as she got by
the door it strcuk 12 and the pretty gown
and ”slippers changed into the pumpkin

  
 

and the rat tails.
0in ever after. . .
Dear Laddie—I have

Clemons, Mich.)
Afterwards a prince-
married Cinderella and they lived hep-ﬂ

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ants take the M. B. F. and I alwa 3 like
:0 read the letters. We live on a B-acre
9 years old and in the 4th
0 our h ‘18 scholars. Thehnaine of
You before and so I thought I won d 9° °°1 ‘5 the Long Lake so 00 '

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mma ter." a: hearts: Stair? 5W6 i333°3331a 1....
four cows and ei. ht calves. For a pet I cats. The 0‘ 5 name 1‘ Heiney. One day

have a'oat name Bobb .
brother and‘on sister.
igan Business

much. I t e lessons on the piano every
Baturda . a mgoing to send you the
stor o ' e Snow House That Jack

Buil "—Haael Williams, Elise, Mich. .

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e take the Mich; ”mu“
arming and like it very

we then ht we would silha
. eine‘y is Duto ‘, but he

named that when we got him.

like the D00 D

nge his name

was

We that .
we would call him Bob. but every time .1
we called him Bob he would bark and
“Ct mad, so westill call him Heiney. I
ads very much. I think I
have written quite a long letter for the

The Snow ones That Jack Built ﬁrst tirne. Hoping to see my letter in ,
Jack was a gpy boy when he awoke rint soon—Gertrude A. Berryman. Fen-
one morning to nd the ground covered on. Mich.
with the first Navember snow. Billy Ev- ‘ ‘ ‘

ans, who lived next door, came running ' Dear Laddie—I have never written be-
over after break ast, all lee. “Hello, fore. I like to read the letters the he s
Billy! Jack crie . isn tuth 3 great: Lets and 1.13 write. I am 9 years old and n
build a ,snow house. . A1,} r1 ht, said the th grade. My birthday is the m
Billy, 111,!“ my shovel. " out new of ay. I have not missed a day 0 . .
any shovel, replied Jack, who was mak- school this term. This is only in third
ing a snowball as large as his two .hands ar of 5911001. I like to r cad t e Doo

could hold.
for it."

"I see " cried Bill
lowing

ropped
them over an

"We’ll make a lot of balls
, quickly fol-
aEmmi)“ .‘Both boys their
handm e ll: into the snow and rolled

over. At each roll more

ads very much.
Ralph, is .in the arm
angel, Russia, M
was at Fort San

; he is at
ct er broter.

My oldest brother.
Arch-
Leslie
ouston, Texas. He die
October 18th last. I have one sister;

her

and more snow stuck to the original ball, _ d. He hue-
and In a short time several hu .6 balls {31:11me 11:3 igeBEz-Vanggevéfse 1:13;: the M.rB. 1r.
stood ready for use in bulldin t e snow now—Edwin Theodore Bennett, Coopers-
house. With a stick Jack mar ed out on ville Mich.

the snow the size and she. e of the house. ' o t -

Jack and Billy then rolle

balls which

the balls into
place on this line. In the wall that form-
ed the front of the house a. space equal
to the width of one ball was left for the
doorway. The first I'OW‘ of balls in place,

- Jack and Billivhset to work to make more
ey placed on top of the

ﬁrst row. A third row was soon on top
of the second row with one ball left out
in end wall for a window. For a roof a—
cross the top the boys laid some old bean

stories in the M. B. F. this forenoon

clear across the biggest pond.

thought I would like to write one too.
live on a farm of 120 acres. I have 1
rabbits, four ducks and two cats.~We have
three ponds on our farm and we can get
up to the top of one of the hills' and go
I have a»
bout a. quarter of a mile to go to schoo
I come home to my dinner every day.
much. Our schoo

Dear Laddie—I have been reading the

and
W

oles that the £0 nd in t ' , like to go to school ver
RHurrah !” the; both shouted“ ”gags; was not closed for the flu and all the chll.
dashed into the cozy house. “This is the dren were glad. There are Just 20 in our

best house this side of the North Pole.”
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Dear Laddie—I have neverlwritten

you before, so am writing now. My par-

to in the . .
SchOolcraft, Mich.

school. I am 10 years old and in the 5th
grade. I will close and look for my story
M F.—Maynard Burdick.

 

 

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Doc. Sawbones is always looking
after the health of the Doc Dads.
Things had been rather quiet in the
'Wonderland of Doc for a few days
and so he had no operations to per-
form. But he felt that he must do
something. He got the notion that
some of the Doc Dads were getting
toe fat and that others were not
keeping themselves as clean as they
might, and so he set up a Turkish
bath. Here it is in operation. First
_ .he has to steam th. Doo Dads. See
how those little fellows over the ﬁre
are sweating. As soon as they are
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Doc. Sawbones’ Turkish Bath

hand. See how he rubs and punches
them. No wonder that little fellow
on his back is so frightenedalooking.
Percy Haw Haw, the Dude, is wait-
ing his turn in his bathrobe. He is
wondering how he will be able to
stand 'Poly’s treatment. The next
stage ‘is-to jump off that spring
board into the icy cold water. Old
Doc. is right 01: hand to see that no
one escapes. One of his helpers is
right there in the water to give the

Doc Dads a good scrubbing. Smiles,
the Clown, is feeling the water. He
thinks it is pretty cold for taking a
plunge bath.
how it feels for that young rascal be-

hind him is going to push him 'in

head ﬁrst. In the last part of the
treatment the Doc Dads have to take
that wonderful shower bath. From

. the looks of the Doc Dad who is in

it now it cannot be very pleasant.
Roly is also helping Doc. ‘_Sawbones.

H. will soon know-

I-Iis part is to give the Doc Dads a
plunge" bath with that wonderful
contrivance. He was just letting one
of them down‘when a young rascal
with a catapult let ﬂy and struck
him on the hand with a stone. He
had to let go, with the result that
the Doc Dad is getting an awful

ducking. See the horriﬁed look on

Sleepy Sam’s face. Flannelfeet, the
cop, thinks if there is anyone in the
Wonderland of Dec who ‘n'eeds a
bath, it is the dirty little" hobo. Af-
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weeks However, such was not the
case, as only 15,000 cattle arrived. De-
mand was good and the market prov-
ed active at generally 15 to 25c higher
prices, making quotations from 75c to
$1. 25 higher than those prevailing a
week ago or practically highest rates
of the year. Bulk of the steer supply,
whieh consisted of medium and short-
fed .Offerings, sold between $15 and
$18, while a strictly top- -notch class
wasquotable upward to $20.50.

The stress ot’spring work and scarc-
ity of offerings ready for market were,
in a large measure, responsible for
the decrease in receipts. Last week’s

- run of 40,800 cattle proved 18.000 less

than the receipts of the previous week
while for March this year approxi-
mately 197.000 cattle got in, a de-
crease of about 50 per cent, compar-
ed with last March. February’s re-

> ceipts were about 61,000 heavier than

this-month's total.

The advance in prices of late is
hearing out our statement made re-
cently that we did not think supplies
would be. of generous volume for some
time, and we' repeat that we think the
market will at least sustain a highly
remunerative basis until sOme reac-
tionary force, such as large runs of
grass cattle, arrive at the market.

Trade on the. better class of cows
and heifers now stands generally 50c
higher than a week ago, while canners
and cutters are only 15 to 25c higher.
Prime yearling heifers and heavy
kosher cows are ﬁnding outlet as high
as $16 per cwt., while best cutters are
stopping at $7.40 and best canners,
$6.25., Bull .trade is about 25c higher
than a week ago, best best bolognas
selling as high as $10 per cwt.

Last week's supply of calves, num-
bering 20,800, came within hailing dis-
tance of setting a record and prices
declined sharply.

ago. Bulk of the desirable vealers are
selling at $14 to $15, with hand-pick-
ed specialties going at slightly higher
rates. Stocker and feeder cattle are
of limited supply and met with good
call from country buyers, prices ad-
vancing 25 to 500 since last week.

On the midweek session of last
week best hogs sold at $19.60 per cwt.,
a decline of 25c since our last. report.
Since then, however, receipts’ have

' Jest wee

- to $19. 90;

Present rates are
.practically $1.50 lower. than a week

so that farmers could get busy with
their spring work and traders are of
the opinion that runs will continue
light for seme time to come as yet
Top 0n the Monday market was $19. 90
within 5c of the banner price of the
,year. The following quotations pre-
vail on other grades: Heavy, $19 75
medium, $19. 60 to $19. 85;
light-light, $18 to $19 50; smooth
heavy packing sows, $18. 65 to $19. 25;
roughs, $17. 50 to $18. 60; pigs, good to
choice, $16. 75 to $18.

Predications are‘ being made quite
freely that $20 hogs will be ushered in
soon. Shippers and big packers were
very eager competitors on the initial
session this week, and with prospects
of only very meager runs the chances
of establishing new record rates for
this year are quite bright.

The sheep market maintained a

- fairly steady basis the most part of

last week. However, towards the close
a severe decline was enforced, a drop
of 65 to 750 being registered from
Wednesday to Friday. This big de-
cline in values automatically curtail-
ed receipt Monday and the trade re-
sponded with a 25 to 35c advance
which made best lambs quotable up to
$20.10 per cwt. Some 95-1b. offerings
reached that price.

Shorn lambs are showing up. more
freely now and are quotable up to
$17.25. Hardly enough aged sheep are
coming to make a market. Prime ma.
tured wethers are selling as high as
$17.15 while yearlings are quotable at
$18.50 and prime fat ewes as high as
$15. Demand for feeding lambs is
very limited and the trade slow. A
medium to pretty good light kind of
feeders sold at $16 to $16.50 while
choice, grades are quotable higher.
Lambs of good shearing c'apacity had
value as high as $18.50.

 

After reading it one ear I am con-
vinced that it is a valua le asset to any
farmer who is interested in his own and
his brother farmer's welfare —-M J.
Smith. Jackson county. ,

 

Think yosurfgaper ﬂne Pleased you
havo the ' to go after the middle-
men as well as out political grafters.
Now if the Non- Partisan League has any
new tricks in the graft game which our
two grand old parties haven't learned
they ought to be rewarded with a gold
medal I am expecting to see the two
old parties wakeu up some ﬁne morning to
find themselves shaking hands with each
other, wondering how it happened. Yours
for a howling year. ——G M. Grant Huron
county.

 

 

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write. Mae neth

W. EYOUNO. '- es.“ 5.160 lsmls 8t. Ssrlnelsld. lass.

£17
FLORIDA LAND FOR SALE. 80,
200 or 800 acres good garden soil near
Broo e at $7 per acre Write
Owner. ”M Hall, Los Angeles, Calif.

 

 

 

  

  

 

 
  
 
  

  
 
 

  
 
  

 

 

 

 

   
 

 

 

(Readers are incited to ciaistribiitet. 0 this 0% tie“ v_
of labor-saving devices will be paid far My :0 length and practicability ). .

department. Jam and can

 

 

when they become worn and cracked?
The sketch shows a. method of repair-

 

ing them and making them give much
more service. ‘Lay the shovel on an
anvil and with a cold chisel cut notch-
es in it as shown. Then ﬁle the edges
of the notches and ﬂatten any irregu-
larities that may have occurred by
pounding them on the anvil.—A Read-
er, Big Rapids, Mich.

PIG GUAIﬁ)

This guard is fastened out from the
wall to prevent the sow from crush-
‘ing her young and is moved back a-

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gainst the wall when not in use. It is
made of iron and thehorizontal bar
can be adjusted as to height. (Hunt-
Hc‘lm-Ferris & 00., Harvard, Ill. U.
S. Patent 1,283,712).—0. J. Lynda,
Canada.

RUBBER WASHERS SAFEGUARD
EMERY WHEEL

A very good way to prevent fractur-
ing or the emery wheel due to too much
tightening of the nuts is to use rub-
ber washers as shown in the sketch.
T h e two rubber
washers are cut
from rubber 1,5 in.
thick and somewhat
larger than the met-
al washers. A hole
for the shaft is then
made in the wash-
er. Then place one
ot the rubber washers on each
side of the emery wheel and then the
metal washers. The nuts are then put
on and tightened. When rigged up in
this manner the emery wheel will give
better satisfaction and stand greater
strains. The rubber allows a certain a-
mount 0! ﬂexibility and at the same
time holds the wheel ﬁrmly. The
sketch shows everything clearly.——P. A.
G., Big Rapids, Mich.

HAME FASTENER _
The advantages claimed for this
fastener are: that it can be readily ad‘-

 

 

justed vertically, that it ﬁts collars of
any size, and that it is very durable
since it is made of metal. (7. W. Wil-
son, Brooklet, Georgia. U. 8. Patent
1,285,530.)—0. J. Lynda, Canada.

TO RING HOGS
For those who
have had trouble
in ringing large
hogs here is some—
thing to help. Take
8 feet 01 94 inch
pipe. Put a 5-16 in.
rod through it and
bend the top for a.
handle and drill a
hole thru the bot-
tom large enough
for bailing wire.
Drill one about 2
inches from the bot-
tom of the gas pipe
— same size. Now
'make a loop about
(0' 6 or 7 inches long
\ by fastening a wire
"ﬁr from the hole in

rod to hole in gas pipe. About 9 inches
of wire. To use—Slip the wire over

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the hog's upper jaw then pull up on
the rod—W. G. If... Hoscow, Mich.

 

REPAIRING WORN-OUT SHOVEIE'
What do you do with your shovels '

 

HANDY BROOM

A handy broom for the
garage, lawn, barn, etc., is
shown in the illustration.
Secure 50 to 60 twigs and
carefully trim them at one
end; tie them securely with I,
a strong rope and drive. the 1"
pointed end of a. broom stick , '
into the tied and. The‘
other end of broom is left

  
 

untrimmed as shown .—P. G. Big Rap-~

ids. M ich

HANDY TOOL BAG
A convenient tool bag for use when

,garage, tractor, au-
\_ to, machinery, etc.,
' is shown in
sketch. It consists
of an old grain bag
cut off ‘ about 15
inches from the. bot-
tom.
sewed across 6 in-
ches from the bot-
tom. ‘The pockets
for the tools are
next made by sew-
ing up and down as
shown. The upper
pockets are larger allowing larger
tools to be carried. A strap is attach-
ed to the top for carrying the bag and
the whole is complete. --P. T. G., Big
Rapids Mich.

. TRAILERr
.. This invention provides a trailer
connection which keeps the ﬂoor of
the trailer horizontal no matter how
high or low the connecting device on

     

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the puller may be. This is done by
making the trailer tongue in two parts
which may be bolted together at any
angle vertically. (Warner Mfg. 00.,
South Beloit, Ill. U. 8. Patent 1,,285-
929)—0. J. Lynda, Canada.

FORK HANGER

You will save many
a broken fork hand-
le by having one or
'I more of these handy
l fork hangers in every

 

part of the barn

where the fork is

used. Take an old

horse ,shoe, cut oil

the toe, calk and bore

\ a hole through the

, \ center for a nail or
A | spike. Bend up ends
V.’ and faster to a

beam by putting two nails or spikes
in each side and one in the center.—
W. G. 12., Moscow, Mich.

GOOD HARNESS HOOK

 

Take an old buggy step. Cut 01! the
step as shown in illustration and fast-
en to beam with spikes or screws ..—-W
G. 1%., Moscow, Hick.

 

FARM HOUSE ,

The construction of this farm house.
and others, is described in a bulletin
on “Farm Houses” issued by the Nov
tional Lumber Manufacturers Associ-

ation, Chicago, Ill. Write for it it.

working about the,

the _

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Kreso Dip No.1,

FARM SANITATION

will keep Livestock and
Poultry healthy.

KRESO DIP No. 1

' EASY TO USE.
EFFICIENT. ECONOMICAL

Kills Sheep Ticks, Lice and Mites;
Helps Heal Cuts, Scratches,
and Common Skin Diseases.

rksvms soc CHOU-IRA. “

Warm son ms sooxurrs on
POULTRY AND uvrsrocx.

AnimslhdnstryDcpertneatel

PARKE, DAVIS & 1C0.

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For style and. comfort

wed

Hononsm
seocs “523.11..

, Ask your dealer for Mayor
Shoes. Look for the trade-
mark on the sole.

F. Mayor Boot & Shoe Co.
Milwaukee. Wis.

soon SEEDS

' oooo A8 CAN It onoms
y, 3 Prices BelowAllo

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loadin
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tal In
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sales
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bulk :
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"Upward:
@— Active

Potatoes, cabbage and sweet pota-
toes advanced, ] Apples, oranges and
onions ranged steady to ﬁrm. Most
leading lines of southern truck tend-
ed « slightly to _ moderately upward}. To-
tal movement increased to 7,143 cars,
most of the gain being in potatoes and
oranges- Gains in sweet potatoes,
lettuce and strawberries were more
than offset, by decreases in movement
of apples, old cabbage, celery, grape-
fruit and onious. Other lines showed
little change in volume compared with
last week. Commercial stock of mis-
cellaneous dried fruits January 1 were
11 per cent. less than on January 1,
1918. .

     

. 6nd Movement is

Potatoes Much Higher

Early potatoes starting tram San
Benito, Texas district. Movement
from Hastings district, Florida,, ex-
pected to begin this week. General
advances of 10 to 40 cents occurred.
Markets were especially strong in the
Rocky Mountain section. Colorado No.
1 sacked white stock gained.40 cents,
closing $1.65 to $1.75 f. o.'b. Greeley
and gained 25 to 35 cents in south
central carlot and jobbing markets
ranging $2.25 'to $2.50 per cwt. No. 1
sacked burbanks again advanced 10
cents at northwestern shipping points,
closing at $1.60 to $2 f. o. b. No. 1

. sacked white stock strengthened fur-
and Minnesota -

ther at Wisconsin _-
shipping points, eleging at $1.50 to
$1.65 f. o. b. Minnesota Red River
Ohios advanced fully 10 cents rang-
ing $1.30 to $1.50 f. o. b. shipping
points. Trackside and warehouse
sales by growers in western and
northern producing sections gained 15
to 35 cents, ranging at the close $1.35
to $1.55. Northern stock strengthened
slightly in Chicago carlot markets,
closing at $1.65 to $1.80 per hundred-
weight and advance in leading jobbing
markets to $1.85 to $2.10. New York
round whites advanced 10 to 20 cents,
closing at $1.82 to $1.87 per cwt. in
bulk and continued to advance in con-
suming markets, ranging 25 to 30
cents higher at $2 to $2.45, reaching
top point in Philadelphia. Maine
Green Mountains vadvanced about 5
cents in shipping sections, reaching
$1.60 to $1.68 f. o. b., sacked and gain-
ed 10 cents in leading distributing
markets, ranging $2 to 3235. Nearly
all markets closed the seven-day per-
iod strong and active. Shipments in-
creased With 3,339 cars compared with
2,901 cars last week. There were also
3 cars of new potatoes. Canadian im-
ports were light.

 

Cabbage Advance Continues
Prices of old northern stock made
further gains in leading terminal mar-
kets, ranging $55 to $80 per ton bulk,
an advance of $20 and New Orleans

quoted top of $110. Similar gains
were made in values of new stock,
southern California Winningstadt

reaching $70 to 85 bulk f. o. b. ship-
ping points and ruling $90 in St. Lou-
is. Various. California stock advanc-
ed about $2 in consuming markets,
reaching $4 to $6 per crate. New Flor-
ida, cabbage advanced moderately in
producing sections, ranging $3.50 to
$3.60 per barrel crate i. o. b. and gain-
ed about 25 cents in northern consum~
ing markets, ranging $3 to $3.25 per
11,5 bushel hamper. Texas stock ex-
ceeded $100 per ton in several middle-
western jobbing markets. Shipments
of old stock decreasedto 61 cars com-
pared with 108 last week, and ship-
ments of new stock were 279 cars com-
pared with 261 cars last week.

Onion Market Slightly Weaker;

A few scales of. sacked yellow stock
from cold storage in western New

York shipping sections were quoted

at $4 per cwt. f. o. b. General range
of good sacked yellow stock in con-
suming markets was $3 to $4.25 al-
though quotations in a few markets
weakened to a range of $2.50 to $8.
California Australian Browns still
ranged $3 to $3.50, per cwt.. f. o'. b. ship-
ping points, with conﬁdent tone pre-
Range in consuming markets
steady at $3.50 to $4.25 for
' $t5hte $6.50 for sales
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tter Tone Prevailing in the Bear:
- v . Market .
Values strengthened slightly. with
many advances of 25 to 50 cents per
cwt. Michigan white stock, handpick-
ed basis, advanced 25 to ‘50 centers”
ing 5 to 6 per cwt. cash to- growers.
Eastern handpicked. sacked white pea
beans strengthened to a range of $7 to
$7.75 in. consuming markets, advanc-
ing slightly in New York, Philadel-
phia’ and Chicago. Southern Califor-
nia sacked small whites also advanced
25 to 50c., closing at $0»to $6.85 to
growers and ranging $7.50 to $7.75 in
leading [terminal markets. California
Limas advanced to $6.50 to $6.75 cash
to growers and ranged ﬁrm in consum-
ing markets at $7.50 to $8.50. Colorado
Pintos ranged ﬁrm at $4 per cwt. in
bulk to groWers and continued nearly
steady in consuming markets. 1' lip-
ments were 109 cars compared with
120 last week. Stocks of dry beans

held by wholesale dealers, manufact-I

urers and storage establishments Jan.
1 were 12,711,539 bushels. Compara-
tive stocks were 41.5 per cent. more
than for Jan. 1, 1918. Stocks of dry
peas-were 2.8 per cent? less than for
Jan. 1 ,1918.

Apples Continue Dull and Steady

Markets were rather inactive, but
tone was ﬁrm and values held about
steady for good stock. New York Bald-

' wins, A—21/2, from cold storage ranged

$9 to $10.50 in most leading consum-
ing markets. Southern Bendavis A’s,
from cold storage, tended slightly up-
ward, ranging $8 to $9.75. Northwest-

‘ ern extra fancy boxed Winesaps were

ﬁrm in consuming markets at $4 to
$4.75, While sales of small lots in
southern and south central markets
ranged $4.50 to $5.50. Shipments of
barreled stock decreased to 218 cars
compared with 293 cars last week and
252 cars the corresponding week last
year. Boxed apples decreased to 87
cars compared with 103 cars last week.
Total shipments of apples to date 56,-
008 cars, compared with 58,926 the
corresponding date last year.

BUSY DAYS FOR MILLERS

Flour markets are humming with
activity. Instead of the situation
noted a few weeks ago, when the
larger buyers, and the smaller ones
to a great extent, Withheld purchas—
es in the hope of witnessing declin—
ing prices or» because of fear that
the market would suffer a sharp
break, the trade is buying eagerly.
Consumers are gathering in a con-
siderable quantity of ﬂour to tide
them over a period that is expected
to witness sharply higher prices than
now prevail. The attitude of. the
trade on the whole is bullish, the re-
sult, no doubt, of the surprising
strength of the cash wheat markets
of the country, particularly the wint-

‘er wheat belt of the southwest.

Trade activity prevails in both do-
mestic and export markets. The
Food Administration Grain Corpora-
tion has purchased a total of more

' than 4,000,000 barrels of ﬂour since

the middle of February, at which
time export buying by -the govern-
ment was resumed. Winter wheat
millers are sharing only to a very
small extent in the purchases of
ﬂour by the Barnes organization,
southwestern ﬂour producers consid-
ering the prices at which the govern-
ment buyers obtain their supplies un-
satisfactory and unprofitable. Do-
mestic trade has improved to a point
where mills quite generally are re-
quired to operate at full capacity to
meet the needs of their buyers.

The present period of activity in
ﬂour hadﬁits inception about a
month ago, or soon after the Grain
Corporation resumed ﬂour purchases
for export. At the outset of the re-
newed federal ﬂour buying, the low

prices tended to depress mills and '

their customers, as the Grain Cor-
poration obtained supplies actually
below the cost of production. But,
as the buying for export proceeded.
prices advanced gradually and then
sharply. In the meanwhile, consum-
ers 'who had deferred purchases be-
gan to regain confidence, and now
the milling industry is enjoying an

active and proﬁtable demand for

ﬂour. No cessation in this activity

see; ',s' probable within the nggt 09...

MWRG‘WM

 

 

l UrnuOlyPreYucatan ,

Sisal Bindchwine

tied. Use on

 

the PURE YUOATAN SISAL TWINE. Do not
nee mixtures, or insects will destroy the mixed parts. Insist on the
PURE YUCATAN. It costs less and saves labor and expense.

If you cannot get it from your dealer, we want to know it, be-
cause we are the co-operative organization of the Yucatan farmers
who grow Sisal. We control and sell the whole Sisal production of
the States of Yucatan and Campeche.

Write 'for sample of Pure Yucatan Sisal Twine, so you can
know the real Yucatan Sisal twine, when you see 1t. -

Comision Reguladora del Mercado de Henequen
Merida, Yucatan, and 120 Broadway, New York

 

T OPERATES smoothest in the machine, cuts cleanest, ties
' tightest, and is not aﬂected by insects. Your binding remains

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  
    

  
 

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We‘ are also paying extremely

 

The world looks to us UP
for its supply of Muskrat. T0

We have a tremendous
demand now, prices run-

ning as high as $2.50 each for extra ﬁne For extra ﬁn.
skins. Ship us all you have—take ed. skinsj! shi
vantage of the high market today] géfym

' . Whether you ship extra large or average
skins, blue pelted or prune you will get the most money from FUNSTEN

Civet Cat, Wolf, Marten, Otter, Ermine, and Lynx. Don’t wait until season
closes. Ship to FUNSTEN and make big proﬁts new!

UNITE”

FUNSIEN BROS. & C0. grazizzglwmrunsun slag. St. Louis, Mo.

 
  
   
 

  

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Here’s How to Knock;

the High Cost of Coal

full color in the b no Free
Catalog. Wadi” all height
she (to. icesetoyou P cpl. who com lained about the ex-

ee ve cost of 00 during the past w
teHnd that inc udes about every co
user in the country—will, be lad to know
of a p1 which will enable em to save
many ollars a year on their coal bills.
The plan is to have the coal shipped di-
rect from the mines, eliminating all the
middlemen's proﬁts—saving hauling ex-
enses, also. This has been made possi-
le by the Bernice Coal Co., 803 Come

Bldg, Chicago. This concern has been

Mn“ c Cequ 1? t
yell Com an selling in carload lots to manu ac ure
.Wu‘.‘ Deliclsgcmgaz: owners cf ofﬁce buildings, departmerrrt

    

 

Don’t W car a Tru'ss
B R O O K S ’ APPLIANCE,
the modern scientific
invention, the wonderful
new discovery that re‘
lieves rupture will be
sent on trial. No ob‘
noxious springs or pads.
Has automatic Air
Cushions. Bin d s and
draws the broken parts
together as you would a
broken limb. No salves.
No lies. Durable. cheap.
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Protected by U. S. pat'
°“"sl.ﬁii‘.t’il‘.°a‘§§.“§tii
$e and address today, SPECIALS
Brooke Appliance Co., 4OLCSW3h-Imm G118. nteed House Paint, all colors,

 

stores, greenhouses, and other large con-
sumers all over the country, and now en-
ables the small consumer—the house-
holder, storekeeper, etc.——-to avail himself
of the same economies and advantages in
coal buying. ‘

All kinds of domestic and steam coal
are supplied, being shipped from mines
located in the West. the East and the
South The purchaser pays for his coma}
after 'its arrival. Quality, uantity an
service are guaranteed. As t is is an op-
portunity to save considerable money,
and as spring is the most favorable time

Is. in the winter’s fuel supply, every
gal uyer should write the Bernice C03
00.. at once, stating What kind of co

he uses and how much, and asking for
quotation—(Adv)

 

 

2. er llon. Red Barn Paint,
1.38 or Ian. Dutch Process white
letd. $9.5; per 100 pounds. Send for
00 or s.

IAIN! SUPPLY HOUSE
42" Michigan Ave.. Detroit, woman,

 

 

 

 

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ENTS A WORD PER ISSUE. momma thisJ‘ow tailgate
pe ed to eliminate. all book-keeping. Therefore. our terms on .e
v uising are cash in full with order. :Count a. one word each - _ , .
eeéh group of ﬁgures, both in the body of the “ed and in the odds-eon The. I”
cents a word for each issue, regardless of number of times
Copy must reach usﬂby Wednesday of
will help us continue our low rate by making your remit
Michigan Business Farming, Adv. Dep’t, Mt. Clemens,

  
  

     

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FARMS AND LAND

FARM FOR SALE—130 ACRES, AT
60 per acre; 8-room house 2 good wells.
am 45 by 76 ft., granarg hog house and

hen house and sheds, 3 0 bearing fruit

trees, 90 acres of clay loam under culti-

vation free from stumps and stones, 30

acres pasture and sugar bush, well fenced

all level land, good school and store on
the same corners, good gravel roads to
all towns. All buildings are on stone
foundations; good basement and wind

1r

mill. in Oceana county, Mich. Reason for '

selling is old age. Box B. in care of Bus-
iness Farmer, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

FOR SALE—lOO-ACRE FARM; MIX-
ed black loam and clay, easily tile drain-
ed; ﬁve miles from market on good
roads; 80 acres under plow and 7 acres
in wood-lot, the remainder in ’pasture.
Good barn, house, tool shed, granary 20
x30, 1,5 story, and other buildings; a
splendid ﬂowing well of sweet water. I
have two orchards in bearing and other
small fruit. Write L. K_ Hendrick, Hem—

 

 

lock, Mich., for fuller description and
terms.
FOR SALE-r—SACRIFIC-E; A GOOD

80—acre farm for home.
Manton, Michigan

MY HOME OF 40 ACRES FOR SALE.

Greeley Hutzler,

 

 

Price $1,100. A. Neal, owner, White
Cloud, Mich.
80 ACRES. ABOUT 60 CLEARED

and stumped; good gravel clay loam soil;
fences fair; on good state award gravel
road, live miles from good market; short
distance to school' good orchard; timber
for fuel; small frame house; small barn;
good well. PrICe $2,500; 51,000 down.
Write W. F. Umphrey, Evart, Mich.

 

FARMS FOR SALE—BIG LIST OF

farms for sale by the owners, giving
his name, location of farm, description,
price and terms, Strictly mutual and co-
operative between the uyer and seller
and conducted for our members. GLEAN-
ER CLEARING HOUSE ASS’N., Land
Dpt., Gleaner Temple, Detroit.

$1,200 DOWN sncunns 159 ACRES,
pair horses, 10 cows and wagons, harn-
ess long list implements, hay, straw, seed
grain, potatoes, etc.; 80 acres loam ﬁelds,
clay subsoil, spring, creek-watered 30-
cow pasture, valuable wood, timber, great
amount fruit; large two—story house, big
basement stock barn. silo, three hay
barns, granaries, tenant house, hog, poul-
try houses, all good ~repair, only 1%
m les to creamery and town. To settle
now, $4,600 takes all, easy terms. e-
talls page 33 Spring Catalog Bargains 9
states, copy free. Strout Farm Agency,
814 B. E., Ford Bldg, Detroit, Mich,

I HAVS A 400-ACRE PARA“. I “’ISH
to hire man and wife by the year; good
ay and good job to right parties. Chas.

edges, St. Johns, Mich, R. 3.

FOR SAI.E:-—l§20-A(3RE FARM, 90
acres improved. good buildings, good wat-
er, good young orchard, 80 rods from
school, 6 miles from good market on good
road. Would take as part payment some
good grade Holstein or Durham cows.
For. particulars write, Bert B. Pierce,
Mackinaw City, Mich., Box 96.

 

 

 

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STORE FOR SALE “'I'I‘II FIVE LIV-
ing rooms above; warehouse ﬁxtures
complete; a bargain if taken soon.
Cook, Fowler, Mich.

EEEDSKRWS

PURE BRED SEED—WIS. BARLEY
(6 ROW) and College Success Oats, pass.
ed inspection in ﬁeld and bin. Worthy oats
not inspected this year. These rains
took 4th prize at M. A. C. Grain ,how.
Write for prices, Earl C. McCarty, Bad
Axe, Michigan.

WORTHY SEED OATS. PURE SEED
not inspected last year but treated for
smut. Acreage yield of 80 bus. per acre;
wt. 42 lbs. measured bushel. $1.20 to
$1.40 per bu., accordin to quantity. Sax
ree f.o.b_ Elmer E. Sm th. Redford, MlCh.

PURE WORTHY OATS—FREE FROM
any foul seed at $1.00 or bu., sacks at
cost. Write A. A. Patul o, R. F. D. No.4,
Deckerville, Michigan.

FOR SALE, WISCONSIN PEDIGREED
Barley, 5 to 24 bushel lots, $2.15 bu.;
bags extra,‘ Member of Michigan Crop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Improvement , Association, Lee Fowler.
Fostoria, Mich.
SEED OATS. BEST LIICHIGAN

northern oats. Buy good seed and grow
80 to 100 bushels per acre. Price, 900 per
bu. Sample free. Mayer’s Plant Nursery,
Merrill. Mich. .

I HAVE 1,000 BUSHELS OF WORTHY
Oats to offer at $1.50 per bu. Sacks ’free
f.o.b. They are nice bright oats and free of
weed seeds, 10 acres of these cats ield—
.ed 90 bushels per acre—Elmer E. mith.
‘ Redford, Mich. .,

YELLOW DENT SEED CORN;
heavy-yielding; butted and tipped; shell-
ed '56 lbs, $5;,sacks free with 2 bushel
or‘more. Germination test above 90%.
Leo M, Worden. Ionia. Mich, R. F. D..
No. 4. ‘

 

 

Enron sn'rs CHOICE HAND sn-
lected, reds. ostpaid. 2 lbs, 3503 .6
7:5 .- .quantity price on application. ,
‘ ' or on. melt,

   

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Peter ‘

FOR SALE—SWEET CLOVER PUB:
white; ofﬁcial list 99.94% pure 39" '
No foul seed. Price $13.50 er busheﬁ 750
for new bag; Ref. J. W. icolson,
. C. A. Thomas, Shepherd, Mich.

 

SEED CORN—“PICKE'I‘T'S” YELLOW
Dent. early maturing selected seed. 53 101
56 pounds shelled corn. E. N. Ball. Ham-
burg. Mich.

CHAMPION BEARDLESS, MANS-
bury. Silverking, Bearded Early Scottish
Chief White Oats, prices cheaper for the
best seed. A little pure Marguis Spring
Wheat. Get circulars and prices. Frank
Bartlett, Dryden, Michigan,

STRAWBERRY PLANTS, CHOICE
rural collection. 50 early‘, 50 everbearing,
60 late, all postpaid, $2.00. Strawberry
Farm, Niles, Michigan,

 

SENATOR DUNLAP STRAWBERRY
Plants—Money-Makers. 3.00 per 1,000;
500, $1.75; trimmed. . E. Hampton,
Bangor, Michigan,

 

SALE—ITO SAN SOY BEANS.

R
F0 G. P. Phillips, Bellevue,

Fine quality.

 

EVERBEARING STRAWBERRIES,
Progressive and Superb; 10(l_ plants $1.60
ppstpaid, 17 Spring Varieties at 500
per 100. Send for catalog of Small
Fruit Plants. Hardy Shrubs, Roses, etc.
George H. Schenck, Nurseryman, Elsie.
Mich.

 

PEDIGREED GRAINS—W’ISCONSIN
Pedigreed Barley (6 rows) and Worthy
Oats. Pure, cleaned, sacked, ready _to
sow. Fifth successful year in growxng
pedigreed grains. Prices and information
on request. Fertiland Farms, R. 4, Mt
Pleasant, Mich.

 

I HAVE 100 BUSHELS OF GOLDEN
Wine Seed Peas to offer. They.are a good
variety; will yield 25 bushels per acre.
Price, $3 per bushel; sacks at cost. A. M.
Caverly, Prescott, 'Mich., R .

 

FOR SALE—PERSONALLY GROWN
Late Petoskeys or Rural Russett Seed
Potatoes, field run, graded over 1%
inch screen. Field inspected; grown on
new ground, practically disease free.
$1.25 per bushel sacked F.O.B. Supply

 

1i it d. Order earl ,
Ar.nME.3 SMITH, — yLake City, Michigan
MISCELﬁiNEOUS

 

OVERLAND ROADSTER BARGAIN...
4—cylinder, 1917 model, good condition
mechanically. Can be repainted and new
top put on for $50, but is perfectly servic—
able as it stands. Electric-starter, new
battery, two extra over-sized tires. Three
hundred dollars takes it, here at Mount
Clemens. Box Michigan Business
Farming, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

FOR SALE—COBIBINATION 2 AND
3 bottom tractor gang plow. Plowed less
than 25 acres. Cheap for cash. Wm. C.
Howe, East Jordan, Mich, R.F.D. No. 2.

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FOR SALE—COMBINATION TWO
and three Tractor gang Plow. Plowed
less than 25 acres; cheap for cash. Wm.
C. Howe, East Jordan, Mich, R. 2.

 

FOR SALE —— A SECOND-HAND
Belle City Incubator and Brooder in good
gcondition. Price, $7. E. J. Allman, La-
chine, Michigan, R.‘3.

 

TOO LATE TO CLAssmn'

 

FOR SALE—FIVE FULL BLOOD.
red Bulls, 3 Short Horns, and 2 Polled
Durhams; 1 Polled Durham, 18 months
old; 1 Polled Durham, 6 weeks old;
Short. Horns, 12 months old; 1 Short
Horn, 6 weeks old. Clarence Wyant,
Berrien Center, Mich, R. 1.

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gram too you .
possesses a very o , .
breath smells the some as their milk.
They are somewhat off their food, and
have shrunk. more than half in the
amount of their milk...- I am feeding a
scant bushel of ,ensilage' with it little
cotton seed meal sprinkled on” it
morning and night, and clover hay at
noon. The cows referred to, have
rather gone back on the ensilage, but
out the hay very well. What is the
trouble, and what shall I do. for it?—
0. G. D., Charlotte, Mich./

” There is something about the ensil-

age which has caused the condition to

which you refer; you should give a

good saline purgative and follow up

with internal antiseptics; I-'would rec-

ommend the following: Magnesium

sulphate, two lbs. dissolved in two

quarts of hot water; let cool and give

slowly to each cow. When bowels be-

come normal the following prescrip»
tion will 'do the business: Nux Vomi-

ca F. E. ounces two,_Salollounces one,

Aqua, add , sufﬁcient to make ‘eight

ounces and give two tablespoonfuls

morning and night. Discontinue the '
ensilage fora few days. , '

 

I have two calves about tWO months
old which have‘the scowers. Could
you give me’ through the columns of ‘
your valuable paper. a remedy for
same and oblige—147-131., Gagetown.

White scours in calves is a dis-
ease which, if neglected, terminates .
fatal in a great many cases. The
cause is an internal infection and can
only be controlled by a powerful anti—
septic such as Diluted Aromatic Sul-
phuric Acid and Camphorated Opium,
equal parts. Calves two months old
should be given two teaspoonsful of
each thoroughly mixed in one half
pint ﬂour gruel every four hours till
bowels are normal.

I have a horse which caught a very
bad cold when coming down- with the
distemper. His throat swelled so near
shut the doctor put in a tracheotomey
could
breathe. He appears nearly over the
distemper, but when holding the hole
shut it is rather hard for him to
breathe and he makes a slight roaring
noise. Can you tell me if there can be
anything done? Can you give me any
preventative for distemper?-——S. M. G.,
Sanilac county, Mich.

Have your veterinarian examine the
opening ma in the trachea; should
there be a s ll‘portion of one of'the
rings of cartillage forced in the open-
ing of the trachea you would get a.
whistling sound similar to what you
have described; should it be in the
threat a strong blister should be ap-
plied to regain the lost power of the
cartilages there. The only preventa-
tive treatment for distemper is ,vac—
cine which in injected subcutaneous-
ly. Obtained from Parke-Davis,Co.-

Will you please publish in your,
next issue of the M. B. F., what causes
lump jaw and the remedy for it? Is it '
contagious? and should the cow be .
taken from the other animals? Is such
an animal ﬁt for market?——-Lee Will-
iams Wheeler, Mich.

Actinomycosis (“Lumpy Jaw”)- is
an infectious disease, although only
one cow in a herd of dairy cattle may
have the disease in a well marked
form and not another animal in the
herd become affected; but often more
become affected, the number some-
times including twenty-ﬁve per cent.
of large herd~s._ When the» disease
makes its appearance at'the angle of
the jaw it is in the form of a smooth
tumefaction or lump, or “bunch.” In
the early stages .this bunch increases
in size, becomes more ﬁrm, and usual-
l-y tends to become ﬁxed to the bone.
Later‘the center becomes necrotic and .
the typical, narrow-coloredypus is dis-
charged. If the case is not Checked at .
this time it may progress until. the
bone itself _ becomes involved and ,_
treatment then becomes difﬁcult. In

the early Stages treatment is _' ioten
.1 very > satisfactory-,3 T41!“

    

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‘ dram\dosjeg of Potassium Iodid" morn;

ing and night This treatment should
be kept uptor at least a monthgﬁ‘s
this is a local disease the affected part
' should be" removed wherethe carcass
is, used for food. In‘ cases wherethere
is a discharge the affected ‘ animal
should be; isolated. . ‘ 7-

 

I have a ﬂock of 15 sheep. They“ are
pulling» their wool out in bunches.
Would like to know what is the
cause and is there‘s. remedy for it?—
J. A. Bartlett, Capac, Mich. ,. .

Your sheep are affected with a dis-
ease known as “Alopecia.” commonly
known as Baldness; the only symp-_
tom noticed is the falling out of the
wool; this is‘frequently‘nseen on the
range, and to the inexperienced, looks.
like scab. Ewes that have lost their
lambs, had severe attacks'of mammit-
is or “blue bag” arecommon victims.
Sometimes lack of food andexposure
are the contributing factors. No treat-
ment has been found successful, ex-
cept to let it alone, and in‘ case or old
ewes. prepare them for market.

 

-I notice you an‘sWer some questions
of live stock ailments. Please answer
mine in your valuable paper. I have s
horse that seems to be rather weak
in the hind ankle joints. As he goes to
take foot forward the ankle jerks for-
ward' some. Have heard that eggs in
strong vinegar was good. I also have
a heifer with warts; one wart on
breast has a neck about one inch long,
wart 1% inches across it..—W. 1L,
Middleton, Mich. -

The weakness in ankle joints causes
your horse to knuckle; this-does not‘
materially injure an animal except
that the joints become enlarged; the
condition can usually be overcome by
applying a. suitable olister and allow-
ing a short rest. Use the following:
Pulv. canth., Hydrag. iod. rubr_aa.,
dram 2, Adeps ounces 3. Apply all
around ankle loints rubbing well in
for ﬁve minutes; after forty-eight
hours apply lard once daily till hair
starts.

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Can you through the columns oi
your department advise me in regard
to a heifer that I would like to breed.
but does not come in heat. She is
a young animal; has had two calves
with no trouble either time and seems
to be in a healthy condition. I have
fed,her a box of the much advertised
Kow Kure but it has no effect in this
case.——0arl B. Middleto’n. Kalamazoo.

You should have this heifer examin-
the
uterus may be displaced, or she may
have cystic ovaries. There is another '
and quite common cause of this condi-
tion, namely, infection of the uter~
us from retained afterbirth; this is
usually characterized by a fetid dis-
charge for some time after calving;
an afterbirth should never be left
longer than twenty-four hours without
proper attention.

 

We have had a. nice big cow die. sl-
so a fat sheep and I want to prepare
them into beef scraps for my chickens.
The sheep was hurt and died after
giving birth to three immature lambs.
The cow slipped on the ice and her
death was due to the same cause, so

the meat isn’t-diseased. I do not know

how- to prepare themeat for scraps
and the warm weather will be on be
fore I can feed it all up so if you can
let me know how to cure it I will ~
surely appreciate your kindness.—
Mrs. J. D., Lincoln, Mich. ‘ ‘ .
To prepare meat properly for scraps
for chickens requires specialized me»
ohinery. First, the meat must be than
oughly cooked and then all ‘moisture,
and grease extracted ‘by pressure.""ii~j ‘
terswhich the meat is driedm will
then keep. " It Would be" extrema , S ‘
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i'here - are .pth'ousands' of stock keep-
er! in this country Who- need a silo
and have needed it' for several years.

They- ‘either have not answered . this

question or have answered it in the
negative, or it. may. be they have post-
poned the matter, or felt that they
could not afford the investment. The
9110 should be considered a part of the
necessary equipment of a dairy or
a stock farm tor it has to do with the
success of the business. The largest
item of expense in keeping a herd of
cattle ll the food bill and therefore it
is. the ﬁrst‘question demanding our

attention. Labor comes next but the -

feed bill is generally twice that of lab-
or, andthe silo strikes directly at this
overhead. making a big saving in the
cost of feeding. It also ’produces bet-
ter ydung stock and increases produc-
tion.'- Practically all of the great milk

and butter records of the country are ,

held 6y cows thatfhave been fed sil-
age.- Large, growthy, vigorous young
stock are easily and cheaply obtained
by the liberal use of silage. If you
have a silo you may need to answer
this questiOn in order to ﬁnd if you
need another. It is surprising to ﬁnd
on our best stock farms not one but
often ﬁve and six silos.

It is 'diiiicult to determine accurate-
ly the saving made by the‘ silo when
the cost of the ration is considered for
so many conditions enter in which
makes a variation in the result, but it
is safe to assume that from ten to
twenty-five dollars can be saved in the
cost of feeding a cow one yeai‘ by the
use of tho silo. It is also safe to say
that with silage the cost of butterfat
can be reduced from six to twelve
cents per pound and the cost of re-
ducing a hundred pounds of milk
from thirty to ﬁfty cents, a hundred
pounds of beef from a dollar to two
dollars, and a hundred pounds
mutton from seventy-ﬁve cents to a
dollar and a half. With such a saving
it can easily be ﬁgured that a silo
would soon pay for~ itself' where ten
or twelve cows are kept.

The convenience of the silo is well
recognized by men who have given it
a thorough trial. By properly arrang.
ing the silo and the barn it is ‘possi
big for one man to feed forty cows in
thirty minutes and the work can be
done with ease and without the use
of a horse or WagOn. The silo can be
considered .a time and labor saver.

The silo is the most economic equip-
ment forvthe storing ‘of silage. When
space is considered eight trmes more
feed can be kept in a silo'than - in h
haymow. It would be difﬁcult indeetd
to construct a barn which would hold
two or three hundred tons of forage,
While it is an easy and simple matter
to put up a silo that would hold this
amount. There is less deterioration
in holding over silage than in bold
ing over dry fodder. I have seen ex-
cellent silage that was six years old
and this same silage was fed succes—
fully to cattle who seemed to relish it
more than new— silage.

The silo stands ever as. insurance
against forage failures, epecially dam-
ages by frost and drought. Any kind
of-teed which can be grown, can be
saved in the silo though it'_.,may not
mature a grain crop. It makes farm-
ing more secure and warrants a cheap
and exoellent forage for all kinds of
stock is both winter and summer sea-
sons. . —

The heavy bulk feed on a stock farm
should'be produced at home, and the
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' yuan isjalwaysfound on

” . Macros! of. forage
‘is not uncommon“ to
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rushed into the silo and the bulky ra-»

tie for the year is. supplied.

Silos should be provided for both
winter and summer. .‘Consider' care-
fully the earning of your pasture. Six
times more feed can be furnished on
pasture ground if it is put in the
form of corn and siloed. The pastur-
ing of land worth a hundred dollars
and' up per acre is questionable, espec-
ially in sections‘ where summer
droughts are frequent. As Mr. Van
Pelt recently stated, “The summer
s‘eason is more severe on our dairy
cows than the winter.” It in fortunate
that our summer is only four months
long for if it were eight the chances
are we would force our herds dry or
starve them to death. The summer si-
lo in many sections is needed more
than the winter. It is- better to build
two or three silos than one big one.
Like canned fruit, make your silos so
you can'fe’ed‘oif a good layer each day
and thus keep the forage fresh and
sweet. Why a Silo? can be answered
by considering all of these items, con-
sidering the cost of feeding an animal,
the cost of production, the cost .of
your land, the earning power of your
farm. Scientiﬁcally stated, the silo
will lower the cost of digestible car-
bohydrates, it will make. your acres
earn more, your stock earn more, your
work easier, your storage greater, the
production of your coWs higher, your
farm richer, and with these advan-
tages you will derive more pleasure
and proﬁt from your labor.-—A. L.
Haecker.

 

GOVERNMENT DAIRY HERD 'HAs
NEW QUEEN

A new queen reigns in the herd of
Holsteins on the Government Experi-
ment Farm at Beltsville, Md. She is
as unassuming and peace-loving as
any of her subjects, although she
hears the name Calamity Wayne Paul-
ine 2nd., and has just completed atest
in which she produced in a year more
than 11 tons of milk. In 365 days she
produced 22,5473 pounds of milk
which averaged 3,805 per cent. butter
fat, the total fat being 855.4 pounds.

This animal was selected by dairy
specialists of the United States De-
partment of Agrciulture from a Mich-
igan herd in July, 1917. She was
brought to the Beltsville farm, where
she produced a heifer calf and was
started on her test December 7, 1917,
at the age of 8 years. The test was
run through the coldest winter that
section had experienced in 40 years,
and a summer‘that was extremely
hot. The test for advanced registry
was conducted under the rules of the
Holstein-Friesian Association. During
the year the/animalwas handled by
two different herdsmen.

A son of Calamity Wayne Pauline
2nd has been placed at one of the gov-
ernment substations, and one of her
half-sisters is making a ﬁne record at
the Michigan Agricultural College.
Calamity’s 305-day record was 19,24i3.6
pounds of milk, averaging 3.7 per
cent. butter fat, making a total of
718.14 pounds of fat.

All the dairy cattle on the Belts-
ville farm are used for experimental
purposes and will be given at least
two advanced registry tests to deter-
mine their capacity for production.

DEAD OF WINTER BEST 1‘1th 1‘0
‘ p _ OUT POSTS ‘

Years of the 8th, where “a subscrib-
er asks when to cut oak posts to make
them‘ resist decay. Mr. Lillie seems
to think it makes no difference as ‘to

the time of year, but my'experienee-

-is that posts “cut in the dead cryin-
ter, frozen hard, will last longer. than
posts cut when the sap‘forms' in them.

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turn those into feeds of high val-
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the food value of 100 pounds of
cornmeal.

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FEED TO DOGS, HORSES

  
 
     
   
  
  

  
    
 

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6'0 Holstein-Friesian

Dairy Cattle

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Two Daughters
Concordia Sunlight
Korndyke DeKol. But-

on his farm one mile east of Wayne,
- Michigan, on Michigan Avenue, Ann
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Monday, Apr. 21

This herd contains some of the best
Holstein strains. Two daughters of
Concordia Houwtji Sunlight DeKol
made a butter record of 31.69 and
654.10 lbs. of milk in seven days.

50 . FEMALES . 50
A few young Bulls from well bred dams

All animals are tubercular tested.

This entire herd butter-fat tested
by Huron Valley Creamery was 3.08.

Transfer papers same day of sale.

Robert R. Pointer & Son

Dearborn, Mich.
Col. D. L. Perry Harty Robinson

Auctioneers

Send for Catalogue, 824 Ford Building,
Detroit Mich.

One . Daughter
.Flint Ferndale Ag-
g1e. Butter record 7
days, 31.05; milk rec—
ord, 487.90.

 

 

One Daughter
Pontiac Agnes
Korndyke. Butter rec-
ord at 2% years old,
2.05; milk record,
326.50; avereage but—

ter fat test, 4.91.

 

 

One Daughter
K. P. Queen Burke.
Butter record 7 days,
28.85; milk record,
503.80; average but—
ter fat test, 4.58.

 

 

One Daughter
Princess Sunny
Mede Siegcs, 5 years
old. Butter record 7
days, 31.40; milk rec-
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A Federation of Intel-m e

Our new Catalog of Pure Breed Practi-
eel Poultry is now ready, Some breeds
are 33141 out for a number of weeks. 0r-.

ers. or Chicks are still being booked for:

Ban-ed and White Books. '

Bose and S. C. Rhode Island Beds.

White Wynndotbes '

White Owingtens.

Single Comb Black Minorcae.

Single and none Comb White 140311.011“-

Single and Bose Comb Brown *Leghorns

Single Comb Anoonas.

EGGS FOB HATCHING
Eggs from any of the foregoing breeds
for sittings or in quantities for incubators.
33:33:21 page on E500 t? logo eggs during
. on g s or roilers. Eggs
from White Pekin €3ucks and Gray Tou-
louse Geese.

Hares—Belgians and Flemish Giants.
Orders should be sent now. in advance
so that your order will not be crowded

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BLOOMINGDALE FARMS ASSOCIATION
Bloomingdale, Mich..

. ‘ DARRED BOOK

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OHN’S BIG BEAUTIFUL BARRED
Rocks are hen—hatched, quick growers,
good layers; 30 eggs, $3.00; 100, $8.00.
Postage paid. Cockerels, $4.00. Circu—
lars, photos. John Worthon, Clare. Mich.

 

,ARRED ROCKS. Winners at Chica-

go, Detroit and Battle Creek Shows.

Four pullets layed 950 Eggs in one
war. Eggs, $3.00 for 15; $5.00'for 30.

. C. Coffman, Benton, Harbor. Michi-
gan, R. F. D. No. 3.

 

T HOROUG‘HBRED BARRED ROCK
Cockerels and females. Vigorous
stock; good layers; eggs for hatching.

Satisfaction guaranteed. Robert Bow-

man, Jr., R. No. 1, Pigeon, Michigan,

BARRED ROCK WINNERs. Won 1

Pen, 2nd Cockerel and 4th
Cockerel at Chelsea Big Show. Hatching
Eggs from Pen 1 $2.50 per 15; Pen 2
$2.00 per 15, or $5.00 per 50.
ost. Carrier returned.

AM STADEL, - Chelsea, Mich.

LEGHORN

 

BRED-TO-LAY WHITE LEGHOBNS.
leading M. A, C. Demonstration Farm in
1918. Average production for 150 hens
last year 185 eggs each. Eggs for hatch-
ing, $2 per 15 or $10 per 100. Anna R.
Lindsay, Glenburnie Farmstead, Romu-
lus, Mich., R. 2, Box 54.

P ROFITABLE BUFF LEGHORNS—We

have twenty pens of especially mated
Single Comb Bui‘rs that are not only mat-
ed for exhibition but, above all, for prof.
itable egg production. Eggs at very reas-'
enable prices. Our list will interest you
-—please ask for it. Village Farms.

Grass Lake, Michigan.

COMB WHITE LEGHo
SINGLE Bred to lay. English 5333'
Large healthy, vigorous stock, farm range.
Hatching eggs and day—old chicks. Sat.‘
isfaction guaranteed. ,Bruce W. Brown
R. R. No. 3. Mayville, Michigan. '

\Vhite Leghorn Cockerels f -

S. C- ris Best Strain $3.00 to $5?0ri)l Iggy
old Chicks April and May $15.00 pm! 100
Herbert Hammons, Williamston, Mich-Z
\VYANDOTTE

ILVER LACED GOLDEN and White
’VVyandottes. Only a. few Large Golden

Eggs in
$3.00 per 15, $5.00 per 30. Season

Clarence Browning, R. 2, Portland Mich.

WHITE WYANDOTTES

for 15 years.
Keeler's strain,
100, $6.50. Cockerels, $2.00.
Nick Fleck, R 6, PIymOuthI Ind.

RHODE ISLAND REDS

_ “Exclusiv l "
Fine Birds. Sign
Eggs. 15. $1.25;

REDS THAT ARE REDS—S. 0. COM-
bined with high eggs—producing quality
eggs, per setting, .15, $1.50. F. F, Whit-

myer, Williamston, Mich.

’R. C. B. 1. White. Lar
COCKEREl-s pur. white husky fellows;
prices reasonable, satisfaction guaran-
eed. E. Hawley. Ludington, Mich.

  

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By parcel .

 

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”Yardagﬁoute ﬁber-lam Michigan"?

Tunings

 

.1919. have two grade-pens mated. ‘1,
will hatch my winner from these mating.
I will have a lirhite _ .
spare at $3 per 15. If. youﬁwant seine
settings; they will please you.
tion guaranteed. Irvin Shepard, Chesanv
ing, Mich. .

 

MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS -—

Strictl thoroughbred. for sale. Gob-
blers we ‘gh 15-38 lbs., Hens 9-16 lbs.
Price, $7.00 to $25.00, according to
weight and beauty. Eggs,

 

CHICKS

CHIC WE SHIP THOUSANDsran-
ferent varieties; .Brown Leg-
horns, $13 hundred; booklet and testi-
monials. . Stamp appreciated. Freeport
Hatchery, Box 10, Freeport. Mich.

HATC'HING EGGS

HATCHING EGGS FROM PURE Blood
S. C. R. I. Reds. Prices 15, $1.50; 50,,
$4.00;.100. $7.00. Mrs. J. A. Kellie, May-
bee, Michigan.

ARRED ROCK EGGS; WINNERS VAT

Chelsea show. ecial pen, $2.50, 15;

Second, $2, 15; 5.50. P. P,'Prepaid.

'ﬁarﬂier. Returned. Sam Stadel, Chelsea,
1c .

HATCHINGEGGS FROM PURE-
bred Barred Rocks,.
Ringlet strain; 15 for $1.50; 30 for $2.50.
P. P prepaid; also a few cockerels left at
$3 each, two for $5. Mrs. Geo Weaver,

Fife Lake. Mich.

EGGS FOR HATCHING. FROM MAB.-
tin strain, white Wyandottes.

$1.50 per 15. Postpaid. William Kampen-

ga, 152 Washington avenue, Muskegon,

Mich. .

 

 

 

 

 

 

HATCHING EGGS -- PLYMOUTH
Rocks, all varieties, and Anconas. Illus-
trated catalog, 3c..Sheridan Poultry Yards

Sheridan, Mich., R. 5

EGGS FOR IIATCHING, FROM FARM
raised S. C. White Leghorns, 151

eggs, $1.00; 26 eggs, $1.50.

Sumner Simpson, Webberville, Mich.

WHITTAKER’S STRAIN R. 0.
Rhode Island Reds; eggs, $1 per 15.
Earl 'Steinbrink, Mt. Clemens, Mich., 'R.
EGGS - FOB HATCHING FROM 'rrron-
. oughbred S. C. Leghorns.

'260 E s Strain $2 per 15.—-'Julius Pom-
merenlgr,g Rogers, Mich., R. F. D. 1.

 

 

 

SINGLE COMB RHOD‘E ISLAND
Reds' thoroughbreds eggs for hatching; $2
for 15; postpaid. Mrs. Wm. Vandevant-
er, Mesick, Mich., Wexford county, Rt. 1

 

hatching eggs from superior matings of
bred-to—lay White Wyandottes and Barred
Rocks at $1.50 per 15._ White Runner
ducks $1.50 per 11. White Chinese Geese
40¢ each, $3.50 per 10.Dike C. Miller,

Dryden. Michigan,

FOR SAL BARRED PLYMOUTH
Rock Eggs for hatching. A

Bred-to-lay strain. 13 years careful se-

lection. Cockerel and Pullet matings. Se-

lected pens, $3.50 per 15 eggs; utility

pens, $2 per 15 eggs. H. E. Hough, Hart-

ford. Mich.
From strain with»
Barred Rock Eggs records wag? eggs
ar. 2.00 per 15 Prepa y par-
Eeelr 3351:. Circular free. Fred Astiing.
Constantine, Michigan.

 

STRAIN SINGLE Cgngg
' 'Le horns. Hatching eggs, .
gillii; $7g per 100. Lida Brooks, Mid-

land, Mich., R. 3, Box 73.

FOR SALE—EGGS FOR IIA'I‘CHING
from Barron Single Comb White Leg:
horns: 300 eggs strain 7—1b. cock, $1.60
per 15' by mail; $4 per 50; chicks, 20 for
$5. R.

FERRIS

S. Woodrui’f, Melvin, Mich.

EGGS FROM HIGH GRADE UP-TO-
the-Standard Light Brahmas; $2 per
setting of 15. Mrs. E. B. Willits, Read-

lng, Mich., R. 1. . .

BOSE COMB RIIODE ISLAND REDS.
gs for hatching; prize-winning stock;

 

EE75 for 15 or $6 er 100 postpaid. Wm.
3, Rnsche, Alpine, ich., R. 1.

 

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stallion coming 4 years old.

’Millzi‘ng Shorthorns

2 Bull Calves to offer; one roan and one red.

REGISTERED PERCBERONS; mares in foal, ﬁllies, and one black”

DUROC JERSEYS, Fall and Spring Pigs of bothpsex.
SHROPSHIRES; a few good Ewes to offer.

   

 

 

 

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you are a reader of Michigan; Easiness ’F ‘ ‘

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snnrhnns' nun, nouns; rmz‘nf
winnersI at the.‘big Detroit Poultry Show—1’3

number of eggs to;

good But: Rocks order one or two oi: these .
Satisfac- .

$4.00. per
setting of ten. John Morris, R.'7. Vassar.

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and poultry will be sent on request. Better
you what it will cost for 13, 26 or 52 times. You
one week before date of issue. Breeders’ Auction

    
  

 

 

 

 

' CATTLE Reg- calves for sale. Come and see
nonsrmxirmﬂ sun iahlec'ﬁ c. L HULETT a SON, Okemos.

 

nons'rnm cows, bull and heifer

 

 

m. 1'. Salisbury Breeds High Class
Holstein-Frieda: Cattle

Twenty dams of our herd sire
Walker Lyons i ven

average 30.11 lbs. of butter n so

days. Nothi for sale at this time

but? young bu calves.

E. L. . Salisbury, Shepherd, Micki!!!“-

MUSOLFF BROS.’ 110131th

We are now booking orders f2:
oung bulls from King Pieter Set: as
yons 170506. All from A. R. 0. mn-
with credible records. We test at!!!1
allyfor tuberculosis. Write for Dr C“
es and further information.
Musolﬂ Bros., South Lyons, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BULL SPECIAL ,_ ’

A 2~year-old son and a 3-months—01d
son of twin anddaughters of in
Fayne Se is w 1511 25 lbs. butter each an
547 and 72 lbs. milk. The sire of the
bulls is a 27-1b. Hengerveld Butter Boy
bull whose ﬁrst daughter to freshen (an
own sister of the 3-months calf) made 19
lbs. butter, 385 lbs. milk after havins
twin calves; also her bull calf fo§ sale.
These are show bulls with all ki ds of

show backln _and records and I would
to a roval. Price 10 ,
ship them ”Ct Iage, Robin Carr.

$150 $200 in order 0
Fowierville. Mich.

TWIN BULL CALYES
Born October 29, 1918; sired b ,Sir
Cal-antha Se is Korndyke 104008; ams
record, 24.3 lbs. butter and 621 lbs. of
milk in 7 days; fine strai ht calves. Send
fonparticulars.——C. d: A. uttman, Fowl-
erville, Michigan.

BEGIST BED HOLSTEIN BULL SIX
months 01 for sale, 134,. white a ﬁne calf.
A liar-gain for som ne. Inquire of Frank
S. 011, Capae. Mm.

Woodland Border Steel Farm
Offers a splendid two— ear-old
son of the great sire Du and ream}-
elle Lad; dam a high producer and wil
be tested thi ring. Bull is a very good
individual, as y marked. and priced to

sell; also a - onth’s‘old bull calf whose
young dam is 51:1“ by 40-lb.'bull. He is a
W n

rand-

iine wthy early white. Cheap,
$131]. en soon. °ime Lord, .Btockbridge,

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Sir Pontiac ge-ﬁol whose dam at yr .

has a record {351:8 and 750.20 lbs. in

7 Price, 3 0 0.3

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eatest demand, future
{its}! ever known. Start
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always for
Farm. Plan

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Michigan.

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sired by a. son. of

a ves Friend Hengerveld

De K01 Butter

Boy by a son tag-Kins Segis De Kol
Kornd gem A. 0. ams with rec-
ords o t. as Jr. two year old to 28.35,

at full at e. Prices reasonable breeding

cons dere .
WALNU GROVE STOCK FARM
W. W. Wye on, Napoleon, Mich.

LANGHURST STOCK. FARM

Oifers yo Hols in-Friesiaﬁ Bull
recor s up to 24 lbs. an

from d s w
sires’ £3? to 40 be. Write for ped-
ﬁt gees. Fred J. Lange, Sebe-

ﬂew

 

. dyko Segis," a son of Kinf of the Ponti-
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., the daughters of Judge Walker Pietertje.

   
 

- sale, also a number of well bred young

wonvnm’nn s'roox FARM

I want‘ to tell you about our Junior
Herd Sire, “King Pontiac Lunde Korn-

acs, his dam is Queen So of Brookside.
a daughter of Pontiac lothilde De Koi
2nd and Prince Segis Korndyke, a great
combination of breeding.

We are breeding this young sire to

our Senior Herd sire whose ﬁrst ﬁve
dams each have records above 30 lbs, he
also has two 30 lb. sisters. How can
you go wrong by buying a bull calf of
this popular line of breeding?

T. W. Sprague, Battle Creek, Mich.

 

F0“ SALE 7 PURE BBED HOLSTEIN.’

Friesian Heifers. These heif-
ers are yearlings sired by 24-lb. Bull and
from heavy. producing dams. Nicel
marked and well grown. If these hel -
ers are sold within the next 30 days will
price them very cheap.—I-Iarry T. Tubbs,
Elwell, Mich. '

 

 

 

 

 

cables REGISTERED srocx
PERCHERONS,
HOLSTEINS,
SHROPSHIRES,
ANGUS.
DUROCS.
noun 1). sum, MIRA, Mlcll.
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her even more fal-

TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
FOR SALE —- SHORTHOBN AND
Polled Durham Cattle. Herd bulls are
grandsons of Whitehall Sultan and Avon;

 

dale, C. Carlson, Leroy, Mich.
FOB SALE—SHORTHORNS
Of Quality, Scotch and Scotch top ed.

Maxwalton Monarch 2nd & Maxwa ton
Jupiter in service.

John Schmidt & Son, Reed City, Mich.

HOBTHOBNS and POLAND CHINAS
all sold out. None for sale at pres-
.ent. F. M. Piggott & Son. Fowler, Mich

WHAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41
SIIOR'I‘HORN breeders. Can put you in
touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages. Some females. C. . W. Crum,
Secretary Central Michigan Shorthorn
Association, McBrides. Michig:.n.

FOR SALE—Two Shorthorn Durham
bulls. Bates strain and good individuals.
One 3 years old; one 6 months. Geo. W
Arnold, Bates, Mich. ‘

THE VAN BUREN CO. Shorthorn
Breeders’ Association have young stock
for sale, mostly Clay breeding. Write
your wants to the Secretary. Frank
Bailey, Hartford, Michigan.

F01. Sale SCOTCH TOPPED

SHORTHORNS, roans
and reds, both sexes. At head of herd
grandson of famous Whitehall Sultan.
Write for prices and description.

S. H. FANG-BORN. Bad Axe, Michigan.

HEREFOBDS

LAKEWOOD HEREFORD S

Not how many! but how good! A few
well-developed, beef young bulls for
sale, blood lines an individuality No. 1.
If you want a prepotent sire, that will
beget grazers, rustlers, early maturers
and market—toppers, buy a registered
Hereford and realize a. big proﬁt on your
investment. A life-time devoted to the
breed. Come and see me.—E. J, TAY-
LOR, Fremont, Mich.

 

 

 

 

The American Jersey Cattle Us.
357 West 23rd St. low Ierk us

The Wildwood Jersey Farm

Breeders of Majesty strain Jerse Cat-
tle. Herd Bulls, Majesty’s Oxfo Fox
£84814; Eminent Lad s Majesty 150934.

erd tuberculin-test . Bull calves for
sale out of R. of M. Majest dams.

Alvin Balden, Capac, ichigan.

GUERNSEY

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bulls—write‘for breeding. Village Farms.
Grass Lake. Michigan.

' ' VGUEBNSEY COWS.
Regﬂtend ready for service April.
Bull calves, best of breeding. Write for
particulars and prices.

A. M. SMITH, - Lake City, Michigan

ABERDEE N-ArNGUS

ABERDEEN ANGUS CATTLE
We are offering at attractive rices, a
number of. high-class young bu ls, well
able to head the best herds in the land.
Best in blood lineage on either side of the
ocean. Write for priCe list, or call and
see us. "
Woodcote Stock Farm. Michigan.
ANGUS BULLS and HEIFERS from
choice registered stock. Also
have some nice Registered Duroc Boars
ready for service. Will crate and shi
for 50.00. Geo. B. Smith & Co., Add -'
son, Michigan.

Ionia.

 

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" OAKWOOD FARM SHOBTHOBNS
Bull calves of Barton Br eding.
COLLAR BROS, .. No. , Conklin, Mich,

 

 

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. , QUALITY. Two as
$135 u er in ~ 'da u.vel!)'(:l.tgheaCan"):
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milk. 111. A. hester, Mich.

E6. 301':ng nm ‘0 {’61:
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. Alexander.

sum runs H0131!!!“

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roll ‘SALE mean 3% mu-

m e5 m four
months to four ears 21d. 1. cs stra
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Also some large China
months old, br ran! a sow 33?“ he)

jut “Wgﬁgx, I,é’isl'liamston, Michigan.

TWO BOAR 8110]:
FOR SALE Bulls one year old. gig?
ornerstone 805500 son of Avon
i Camplbell.—Claret

mare an
igan.

gyoun
urst, Or on, Mic

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MILKING SHOBTIIOBNS
Maplelane Laddie N? 584725, a Grand.
son of General Clay 55 20, at head of
herd. Young stock of both sexes for sale;

' Can spare a few cows.
'A. W. Thorne, Fife Lake. Michigan

ROUTE 8, ALMONT.
red Sorthorn Cat-
Orders taken for

AY WARNER

Mic ., breeder. of reb

‘ and O. I. C. , ne.‘

March and April 918's.

D :L were“: enema-Roan Bulls.
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10:” IM.I¢WHIII'II0W you HORSES

u"... “3%.: TESL 5.;

. an “ FOB SALE—FIVE REGISTERED

m'ﬁﬁﬁ‘f‘wﬂﬁnﬁﬂm Percheron horses, three stallions, two

been: Jersey feet-.free. mares all blacks and riced to sell.
C. S. ‘foung, Shepherd, M ch.

 

SHE'I‘LAND PONIES

SHETLAND PONIES For Sale. Write

'nr description A
prices. Mark B. Curdy. Howell. Mich.

HOGS ‘

POLA ND CHINA

FA]! PIGSSPECIAL SALE NOW ON

Butlerjs Big Boned, Pro-

liﬂc Poland Chinas. How would you'like

one out of a litter of 14? We are pricing

them for a quick sale at $25 and 53
each. A pedigree with every pig.

Jno. C. Butler, Portland. Michigan.

 

F ALL BOAR PIG will weigh 75 to 100
lbs, are extra ood Pigs and Priced
so you can buy t em. C. E. Garnant,
Eaton Rapids, Michigan.

L. S. P, C. BRED GILTS, ALL SOLD”
two boars ready for service and one bul
boar. H. O. Swartz, Schoolcraft, Mich.

Large Type Poland China Hogs

Write that inquiry for L. T. P. C. serv-
iceable boars to Wm. J. Clarke,
Ra ids, Mich, instead of Mason. I have
sol my farm and bought another, one
mile west and eight and one-half miles
south. Come and see me in my new home.
Free livery from town.
WM. J. CLARKE,
R. No. 1,

Eaton Rapids. Michigan

BIG- TYPE POLANDS, GILTS ALL
sold, one yearling sow bred to farrow
May 29th for sale. 0. L. Wright, Jones-

Eaton

 

, ville, Mich.
1 IO TYP P. 0., I havr 3 few extr
C
351.1. 2.3%? ﬁﬂﬁis rio’rol‘ig s23.

Eel roe in traces to t s best erd in
BETR‘N Neb. .
A ANT, Eaton Rapids, Mich.

BIG TY E 1’. 0. BOABS, all ages, the
kind t t make good. Meet me at the
fairs. ll. R. Leonard, St. Louis. Mich.

IG TYPE P. O. gilts, bred for Ap

f o , the bi smooth kind. A.
W018; 2 SON, S'aline, Mich.

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINAS. Spring
, boars all sold. Bro s

{sad}? for sh ment. Inspection te
. L. Chamb lain. Marcellus. Michigan.

WALNUT ALLEY ”‘9 ""- 11*-

ali sold.

watch of 1919 crop sired y Arts Se
tor and Orange Price. ,1 t my
formers for their patronage.

A. D. GREGORY, - Ionia, Midi.

 

BRED GILTS now 1:41" to.

I” s. P- C- ship at prices any go a
er can afford to pay. Also dealer in g
Furs. Write for prices.

H. O. Swartz Schooicraf't. Michigan.

 

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' Sh‘adowland Farm
I O. I. C’s.

‘ ' in May and June.
Bred Gil“ Booking orders for
Spring Pigs. Everything shipped COD.
and registered in buyer’s name. If
you want the best, write

J. CARL JEWETT, Mason, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIG TYPE P. C. Choice bred slows from
Iowa's Greatest herds. The

big bone proliﬁc kind with size and qual-
ity. Elmer Mathewson, Burr Oak, Mich.
O Headed by C. 0. Michigan
Boy, son of Grand Champion

1 Schoolmaster and Perfection

5th. February pigs for sale.
C John Gibson,
0.l.C.

 

 

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Bridgeport, - Michigan.
FALL BOARS AND GILTS;
Extra large boned. Best I ever
raised. Priced to sell, also good grade
Holstein bull calf. Will Thorman, Elm
Front Stock Farm, Dryden, Michigan.

RAY WARNER, Route 3, Almont, Mich.
Breeder of Pure Bred Shorthorn Cattle
and O. I. C. Swine. A few Oct. pigs
on hand.

DUROC

I) BOO, BRED S WS AND 50
f l pilgs. You no a litter by Or-
ions ancy King, the bi est pig
of his a e ever at Internat one] at Stock
show, atal tells all.—-Newton Barn-
hart, St. Jo s, Mich.

FOB SALE—TWO BE

Jersey boars, 1st 0
weightaﬁlso lbs.‘ sire by rion Cherry

Kin h No. 75981; dam b efender.
C. §.18L, R. 1.
MAPLE LANE FARM

avis A Son, Ashley,
Registered Duroc Jersey Pigs, either sex.
J. E. NEUEAUSEB,
Imlay City - - - - Michigan
Duroc: Sprin Bears and gllts. Ten years
exper ence.

ew black top
Rams left. Newton

ULAB DUROC
c ber farrow;

B k Hill Crest
Farm, 4 miles south of Mddleton. Mich.

DUIOC-JEBSEY SWINE

Bred cows and gilt: all sold. Nice
bunch of f 1 pigs, both sex, srgd by
Brookwater lpp Orion No. 554 i, by
Tigpy 01., out 0 (18.13 by The Princi a1
4t an Brookwater herry King. so
herd boar 3 yr old. Write for pedigree
and prices. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Thos. Underhlll a Son, Prop., Salem, Mich.

PEACH HILL FARM

' Registered Duroc Jersey fall boar pigs.
Also two choice last spring boars. Write
to us. Our prices are very reasonable.
Visitors welcome.
IN WOOD BROS, .

DUROCS SPRING GILTS and brood

sows. Gllts by a good son of
Panama Special. Newton dc Blank, I~lill
Crest Farms, Perrinton, Mich. Farm
miles 3. of Middleton, Gratiot county

MEADOWVIEW FARM

Registered Duroc Jersey Hogs.
your spring pigs now.
J. E. Morris, Farmlngton, hilch.

 

Romeo, Mich.

 

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. BERKSIIIRES
RICGORY FARR! BERKSHIRES for
Profit. Choice stock for sale. VVi‘i’s
your wants.

w. S. CORSA, — \Vhite Hall, is:

 

CHESTER “'IIITES
. "_ /
RIARCH AND APRIL PIGS,
Chestersfrom prize winning stock; in

p rs or trios; at reasonable prices—11‘.
.- Alexander, Vassar, Mich,

 

J P. Weetfall

reeder of hi e Chesterﬁeld swine.
317 art! is hea e by Petrolium King
51.00 and he by Petrolium Giant 87,115,
and he six times grand champion. Some
ood October mtalllesl for sage. ﬂ Write nae
or or par on are an p ces. J. .
Wesiitilil‘ll,1 Breckenbridge, Mich.

 

HAMPSHIRE

HAMPSHIRE BOA]! PIGS 0]“ JAN.
00th furrow only, for sale now. Book your
order for Spring Pigs now. John W. Snye -
vder. St. Johns, Mich. R. 4.

A EIRIPIING Bganllg and bred ilts
Orion 8i? f e endcr Bree ing

a e or pr ces.
rm M {ED No. 1. Honor. Mich.
gr) gALl'p—V Silo-EGG CYPHERS IN.
tder gtsed 4 matches. New’tlon Colony

ove. goo as new. - on Mot

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lla- ”WWW, mushy; V
math“ Where 8004 prices await the farmer. , ‘S:

"Is there a man or woman in Michigan blind. to this will-11686?

Is there one voter who blinds his eyes with silver dollars and prefefs‘to It
drag himself and his children after him through the hub-deep mud ’
of impassable roads? ‘

‘We will not believe it.

For thinking business farmers and their wives know that the value at
their farm depends upon its access to proﬁtable markets-

-—that the price they receive fer what they raise is meaSured by where
they sell it. *

—-that any farmer on or near a paved road can aﬂord a motor truck 1
that measures miles in minutes, that. one he counted in hours. ‘

4that schools, churches, enlightening amusements,‘ libraries and
countless advantages lie at the end of the good ‘road from their gate!

And yet this is Michigan’s privilege next Monday!

How fortunate, too, that the noble women of Michigan should for the
ﬁrst time be permitted to vote on a question which is so vital to their ‘
interests ' “

-—-to whom can the good road nearby mean ‘more than it does to
mother?

——broadened of mind with the coming of good roads, she radiates that
inﬂuence to her children——

—0, the wonder of good roads to wives and families of Michigan’ s
business farmers!

-W e hope every voter now knows that when he votes YES (X) for the
Good Roads Amendment he is not levying a debt of $50, 000, 000 on
his state, as at ﬁrst he was led to believe.

1’
0 ads ' , . —for this is only an enabling act, which empowers the legislature to-
. ’ sell bonds if necessary, to build good roads which all know Michigan

needs.

—as it is today, 'our legislatureis povVerless to accept .the (lullabfor.
dollar which the U. S. government, has offered to give our state for
every dollar we expend during the next three years for good roads !'

—-a1ready plans have been suggested which may mean that‘never "a
dollar of money need be raised for thispurpos'e by the sale of bonds!

’A VOTE YES (X) FOR GOOD ROADS on Monday next, means sim- ‘
ply that you, for one, as a citizen of Michigan, want good roads. '

—that you are glad to have the help of Wayne, Kent and other coun-~
ties that have their own paved roads largely completed, but are wil-
ling to help the poorer counties, in order that the whole state may be
linked from top to bottom and side to side

-—that you are too frugal a citizen of our state to let Michigan lose 5’
the good roads millions which Uncle Sam says he will give us if we g3.
- meet him half way .

.._that you are for good roads ﬁrst, last and always, and that you .4
have enough conﬁdence in the men responsible to know that they will
in the end adopt the best means of carrying out your wishes.

Next Monday above all, go to the p0115, you forward thinking men and=' .
women pf Michigan and VOTE YES (X) FOR GOOD ROADS, for}

there will be enough selﬁsh interests who care-not how long men andi
women drag themselves through hubudeep mud to defeat this amend.
ment, unless you vote. .:

. . W. E. ROBB, Secretary 2 . , -_ 1 _
IZENS MUTUAL-AUTO INSURANCE .
' Fire - Theft - Liability-Collision A
HOWELL, ' MICHIGAN 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

