
The only ‘lndependent‘Farmer’s .Weekly owned and Edited in Michigan

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\ MT. CLEMENS, SATURDAY, MAY 3rd, 1919

 

 

 

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I The Legislature KlllS

‘ _ . .S A LAST minute coup to remove his polit-
ical goat from the dangers that encompass-

ed it. as a re'sultof his opposition to the ware-
house amendment, Rep. Ivory hastily called his

arehouse Amendment

Dafoe, Daprato, Dunn, Fitzgerald, Glaspie, Gowdy,

. . ’ . Blinn, Brower, Brown, Chase, Copley, Croll, Curtis,

e l Ives Griggs, Harris, Hartway, Hopkins, Ivory, Jackson.
James, Jerome, Koovers, Leighton, McGillivray,

Martin, Merriman, Franklin Moore, O’Brien, Olm-

‘ I ' ' ' ’ stead, Edward G. Read, Reutter, Robinson, Ross, John W. Smith, Toepei.
committee together during the wee horns of last Friday morning s Ward, Warner, Wells, Welsh, White, Woodrum .

session of the House, and reported out the Warehouse amendment. It Nays—Aldrich, Braman, Byrum, Chapin, Chew, Coleman, Dehn.
, had ﬁnally percolated through Mr. Ivory’s dome that he was. Deue1, Drummond, Evans, Ewing. Farrier. Galloway, Hail-n.
. not the only citizen in Michigan holding the inalienable and . Hall, Hollend, J ensen, Johnson. Kappler, Ladd-, Leland, Len-
' ' i ' ' nen Lew1s McKeon, Miles, Miller, Mol, Nagel,, Sink, Frank,
constitutional right to possess and express an oplnlon. . A Smith Newman Smith, Town, Wallace, Weidenfeller,
Perhaps the arguments that have been given In these 001- Weissert,’Willey, Young, speak“

‘umns‘ and by farm representatives who have talked Absent or not voting Bryan, Case, Crawford, Howe,
With Mr. Ivory had their effect. This we doubt, how- Hunter, Liddy, Macdonald, J . M. Moore, MOSIGI'. Pasco,
' ' ' Person Rose, Sawyer, Stearns, Vine, Watson.
ever! as It. appears from gOOd eVIdenoe that the enlg- Those, who voted in favor of tabling. the resolution
. matlc Chalrman 0f the House commlttee on rev1s1on thereby declared their opposition to the amendment.
and amendment of the Constitution is quite imper- Those who voted against tabling thereby declared them-
vious' to logic. Be that as it may, the amendment came selves in favor of submitting. _ .
out, and the House tabled it by a vote of 45 to 38. ‘ , ‘ ~ ”1-" An analysis of this vote discloses some interesting

The report of this action by'the daily press tells us ' . v things. It appears that Rep. Ivory ’s alibi, as an excuse
that “as the House, betWeen midnight Thursday and 1 ' , for not reporting out the amendment, that a poll of the
o’clock Friday morning, closed its next-to-the-last ses- , house showed 66 members opposed and only 23 in favor,
sion. Rep. Wm. E. Ivory fsmilingly’ asked to make a re- REP. PETER LENNON is not in accordance with the facts. Anyway, it was a

' port out of order. He reported out the warehouse amend- Genesee County Farmer- pretty lame excuse. The vote shows that only 45 were
~ment, ‘without recommendation.’ ' "’ Rep. Franklin Iﬁﬁiﬁ’glxlt‘ J‘gaﬂ" against the measure and 38 for 1t. Mr. Ivory solemnly
Moore of St. Clair county, promptly moved to table the house Ameildment ‘ denied to all with whom he talked that he was the “dog
_ resolution. Many ”Yeas” were heard. ‘Smilingly’ Speak- in the manner.” He insisted that a mall of the members
‘ » er Read declared, “It’s unanimous. No need to call for those opposed.” of his committee showed the majority against the measure ;' therefore,
i , , , Do you get the f‘smiles‘l” Te-hel Ha-ha! Ho-hol Funny isn’t what was the use of his calling his committee together to take a'form-
it? Quite a circus the ' a1 vote. Uonvnicing
boys over in the House « ' logic, was it not? But
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“WORK” llEHHUHLED ll , DESHlWKlll

cry will account for the
fact lhzlt FIVE mem
. that crude, “go home
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hers of his committee,
——l<‘arrier, Haan, Moi,
stuff. The Michigan
stand - patters show
their contempt for the
farmers in a' more re-
ﬁned manner than than
~ ,They coddle the farm-
- or along and try to
make him think they
are tremendously inter-

ested in his welfare,

when it comes to get-
ting down to business
x on ,matters involving
his interests, they have
naught but a smile and
a merry jest, shadow
for the substance, chaff
for. the grain.

‘ There‘ were dome in
the House who did not
smile over the impend-
ing fate of the amend-
ment. Rep. Braman,
Kent county farmer,
asked for the ﬁnal roll
call and Speaker Reed ’8
"generous attempt to
s are the opponents of
_ e measure the amber-
' arassment of going on
' - record, was thereby
: Circumvented.'1‘ho ayes
and nays ‘wero talcum.
and hero is how they
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Home Tdbles State Warehouse
Amendment Despite Two
Bitter Battles.

GOVERNORSHIP PLOT
~ BY HELME, IS CHARGE

Legislators Accuse Adrian Man
of “Stealing Non-Partisan
League’s Stuff."

RY JHON H. DUNNEWIND.

Free Press Sud Correspondent._

Lansing, Mlch., April 25.——Tho
Michigan legislature of 1919 ended
lts regular session this afternoon
with what amounted to an explic-
slon over the last attempts at Ben-
'ators McNaughton and Baker to
‘have the house pass their proposed
constitutional amendment to per-
lmit the state to engage In the con-
‘structlon and conduct of were-
houses for farmers.
I The Non-partisan league.“ North
'bgkou. which has boson spreading

its Inﬂuence rapidly over many.

‘vostorn states. and is now prepar-
’ :- work in Michigan, came
85:12:“: attention m the outer .
mission. on the measure.

! t 0 auto warehouse:

F: 0 ﬁrst groiocts

(ill b’orth DB ot ..

l ohlgan propos

plan put Into

partisan l o in its homr '-

“You may quote me as saying that, the warehouse amendment would to do
probably have been reported Out of committee sooner had Ivory called a

meeting’of the committee. ‘ I' wish to be quoted as being in favor of this

 

 

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more talkative agrlc

the legislature.

. FlHMBﬂl/IBINE

WM. E, IVORY

A farmer! publication recently
publlshed a statement that the com-
mittee was equally divided on the
mutter of reporting out
and that the chairman. Mr.
had cost the deciding v
the measure in commlttee.

Mr. Ivory denies this and declares
standing unani-

lnd him in his decision

‘ rt out the measure.
d is ba‘sed largely be said.- on
the poll, which showed
overwhelmingly

some

the measure

etc to keep

0
o!
ulturollsta

Wallace and \Veidvn—
feller,-—v0ted FOR the

WAREHUUSEH‘IH

REPRESENTATIVES A S K' roll was taken? The

, nature of the vote leads
FOR CHANCE W us to believe that llilll

ill/0R3! YTANNNI‘ Pull ““~*“<v‘"mlittee reported

out the amendment a
l“\\'efdo.not want you w take m. week earlier when all
ame or this" 'x _.
riii iivory' "ReqiSiiriiégiﬁi ”.3; ififi the members of the

" on the ﬂoor or (he hous. It i ' W’ '
,3 no, “gm mm you MM Sgoum House we present,
and freedom of debate

hﬁ'llVQ lo b;~z}r the barge? o; 5!” as
l xl '_ .
ﬁrm-‘52; e a e “‘ y°“‘ W" had been allowed, the

35 um behind} you if you report .o '
necessary two - thirds

out and the resolution wlll.not my.

gill“: Lancer le lsla r h w v vote for submitting
SI 5 a: l - _

My an 1 "g t "h “'3’ run- would have been so»

 

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a ghost of o. cha'nce."
n ‘ rlday of the regular ses- ,
l-»;t’3.2°'2:i"l:§'blt was: "a cured-
wo-u
b .. . . ~-~ —P—”' All summed up the

evidence shows beyond

i‘WlH-EHUUSE all m 0. a m

S that Mr. Ivory is di-
l

l
. rectly chargeable with
.' U ' the defeat‘ of the
" amendment. It was

his duty as chairman
of the committee to call
his committee together
for the purpose of tak-
ing a vote on the im-
portant measure held
there. This he refused
Farmers must
not ignore the fact that
Mr. Ivory very prompt-
ly reported out the

amendment with
i 0 recommendation

. MTNAURHIQWM “hheciflﬂl‘v

I explained. Only one member, ,a-
\-{armsr has asked me '.to reporx, out
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amendment at all times’.”-Rep. Nelson C. Farrier, Merrber Committed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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hi the Independence pleads:

the demand, at any price.

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’ I ‘ _ as certainly “moms Manon:
, the pump follows the motion of the handle. g -'
4 ' Here are some of the things the farmer needs, and for which a writer

H Better schools in the rural districts—school that will make better far-_
mere, instead of city dwellers, 'out o: the children of the soil.
State or federal control in the, matter of shipping produce, to prevent
the unnecessary over-head of cost and the enormous waste. f
Warehouses. state or federal, where the farmer can store his produce
and put it on the market as it is needed, instead of periodically glutting
i the market, accepting low price, then falling for another, period to supply

  
 

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that it be submitted to the people. Of course,
that was diﬁerent. The legal pro’ession had
asked for the salary amendment, while only
farmers and consumus had asked for the
warehouse amendment.

Some day Mr. Ivory may regret his lack of
perception. He will wish that his eyes and
his wits might have been.a little sharper to
have better discerned. and understood the
handwriting on the wall. Had Mr. Ivory
performed his duty as a representative of the
people he would still enjoy the respect of the
farmers and the farmers might have had a
chance to vote on the amendment thru legisla-
tive action. As it is Mr. Ivory has a life-long
job on his hands explaining his position to the
farmers, and the farmers Will still have a
chance to vote on the amendment.

The attitude of the metropolitan press on
this proposition is amusing. As though to
cloak, the warehouse amendment with repug-
nant notoriety, its enemies and the “kept”
press,—as they call it in the west,—charge
that it was born of the Non—Partisan League.
And in Michigan, you know, where well-paid
servitors have sown the seeds of suspicion and
hatred against the Non-Partisan League, a
suspected oifspring of that wicked institution
is, indeed, an outcast. We imagine that hence-
forth every movement to better the conditions
of the common people will be stigmatized by

 

 

FARMERS PETITION mNGRESS NOT TO
INTERCEDE IN MEXICAN AFFAIRS

The following petitions are being signed by
the leading farm organizations of the country
and will be submitted to the next session of
Congress: 5'"— 4

“We, the signers of this statement, have all
signed appeals to the farmers of America to
subscribe to the Victory Liberty Loan and to
the preceding liberty loans and we have our-

selves subscribed to these 10:: as to our ﬁnancial .

limit. We have to the utmost of our ability
supported the “war to end war." We know
that this war will not have been completely won
and we cannot claim the victory unless we have
crushed militarism in this country. The pre-
datory and monopolistic interests of America
seem to have learned nothing from this war.
Many of them rendered only lip allegiance to
the purposes for which our country entered the
war. An effort is being made to establish in
this country a system of universal compulsory
military training. Such a system would mean
that we had lost the war and this we will not
concede. We respectfully and solemnly warn
the Congress of the United States that the Amer-
ican farmers willnot permit any such militar-
istic system to be fastened on this country, be-
cause we know what ,it means. Farmers’ sons,
farmers’ wives, farmers’ children and the farm-
ers themselves have given their lives and their
labor that we might crush militarism in Europe
and we will not allow it to gain a foothold in
this country. .

“A movement, heavily ﬁnanced, adroitly on-
ganized and cleverly manipulated, has been
started in this country to attempt to embitter

vAmericans against the Mexican people and the

Mexican government, in the hope that the abort-
ive effort made a few years ago to force this
country into war with Mexico may be successful
at this time. We respectfully and ﬁrmly serve
notice on our Congress that the American farm-
ers will not be a party to such a war against

Mexico or against any other country. We have '

heartily endorsed the principle of the League of
Nations to prevent war. If this war does not
end war, the futility of war has been completely
demonstrated. American holders of concessions
in Mexico and large investors in that country
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the privileged few’with the label of Non-Par-
tisan Leagueism (or Bolshevism. . '

 

 

_“They Cannot Trust'the People”

These are the “Farmers" who voted “all!“
submitting warehouse amendment to DGOPI"

Orville E. Atwood, Newaygo; Harrison II. Av- H
erill, Coopersvilie; Chas. 0. Blinn, Caro; Bill“
hey E. Brewer, Jackson; Henry Croll. Jr» 30"
verton; Miles 8. Curtis, Battle Creek; Herbert.
l‘I. Gowdy, Union Pier: Albert G. Grlxlso Pon'
tiac; Will 0. Hartway, Mt. Clemens; Ariie L.
Hopkins, Bear Lake; Wm. E. Ivory, Lapeel‘i
John L. Martin, Corunna; Joel 0. Merriman.
Deokerville; Edward G. Road, Richland; Henry
" T. Ross, Milford; Fred B. Wells.‘ Dowagiac.

at as

“They Can Trust the People”

Here are the farmers who favored submitting
warehouse amendment to people:

Frank B. Aldrich, Longpoint; ’Oscar M. Bram-
ar, Grand Rapids, R. F. D. No. 2; Warren By-
rum, Leslie; Theodore N. Chapin, Bellaire; Jac-
ob E. Chem, East Jordan; Hammond J, Cole- ~
man, Marshall; Chas. Evans, Tipton (Mr. Ev-
ans talked against the amendment but voted for
it when the roll call was taken) ; Wm, S. Ewing,
Marquette; Nelson G. Farrier, Hillmnn; Edward
R. Galloway, Beading; Ezra S. Hall, Lake City;
Milo N. Johnson. Northvillo;, Fred'k Kappler,
Lake Linden; Emmor 0. Ladd, Old Mission;
Geo. Leliand, Fennville; Peter B: Lennon (Law-
yer-Farmer) Lennon; Jae. E. McKeon, Pincon-
ning; Frank A. Smith. Luther: 0. Jay Town,
Parma.

The following farmers favored the amendment
but were absent at the time vote wastaken: Si-
mon 1). Bryan, Charlotte; M. J. Howe, Amelia;
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Even though the warehouse amendment has
been tabled by the House of Representatives,

AGRICULTURAL

enable them to secure some special privilege in
Mexico or in any other country.”

FARMERS’ UNION OF KAWKAWLIN TOWN-
smp sums THRESHING PRICES

In times past the threshers have told the
farmers what they would charge them for
threshing, but now the farmers are using the
same tactics employed by those who buy things
from the farmers. They are telling the threshers
what they will pay them. -

At a recent meeting of Kawkawlin Twp. Farm-
ers’ Union of Bay County, the farmers decided
that they would pay no more than the following
prices for threshing: Wheat, 40; oats, 30; bar-
ley, 3c; rye, 50; peas, 6c; buckwheat, 10c;
beans, 10c; with recleaner, and 8c without; set
job, $5. And if the threshers don’t want to do
business at these rates, the farmers declare
they'll organize a treshing association and do
the threshing for less.

NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN FARMERS
CONTRACT TO GROW SUGAR BEETS

As a result of experiments instituted by W.
P. Hartman, agricultural agent of the G. R. &
1., which satisfactorily proved that sugar beets
could be successfully grown in Northwestern
Michigan, the Holland-St. Louis Sugar Co. is
contracting with farmers of the section to grow
beets in 1919. None of the sugar companies
have had any difﬁculty this year in signing up
all the acreage they can take care of in their
immediate territories, but the above named com-
pany is desirous of trying ’ut the sugar possi-
bilities of Northwestern Michigan with a view to
establishing a factory in that section at a later
date. '

 

PRES. POTATO GROWERS’ EXCHANGE
ADVISES NORMAL PLANTING FOR 1919
At a recent meeting of the directors of the
Michigan Potato Growers’ Exchange, the year’s
business and prospects were thoroughly _dis—
cussed. A few of the local associations, it de-
veloped. had lost money, but the majority of

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has use telling ﬂannel:- _ -shout~sthem.,, f
pleading was packages of frg‘ seeds; and adricieahpu in (p

rtage‘ of labor, and th'ecertainty that thecost of
machinery and all necessities (not usable fresh from the soil, cow or hen-
house) will stay up for some time, the farmer’s plea is as righteous-es it

With the present she

If it is heeded there is no doubt that the beneﬁts to' him will equally

beneﬁt the general consumer. .
Let Congress, or the states, strengthen the arm that works the pump- .

handle—Detroit J camel.

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' lions of acres of plains and cut‘aover lands, now.

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it is not dead. Indeed-it is more alive today. ‘
than at’ any time" since its birth. The steam- *’

roller tactics of the. House committee have won

the amendment friends by the thousands who i

eagerly await the opportunity to show by their
vote that THEY are sovereign and the Legisé
lature is but an instrument of the sovereign.
This opportunity they will have. The farmers
will deserve the contempt of the entire state
if they shrink from the challenge the legisla-
ture has thrown down to them. The time has
come for the farmers to show their strength,
to take the ﬁrst steps necessary to simplify-
the present system of marketing. Terminal
warehouses, built at state expense for the ben-
eﬁt of those who make up the state and pay
the majority of the taxes to support the state,

will bring the producer closer to the consumer. "

Therefore, we ought to have terminal ware-

houses, and every farmer in Michigan should

make a vow today that he will do his utmost
to bring about the submission and adoption of
a constitutional wendment that will enable
the state to build warehouses. We do not
speak with authority, but we understand that
initiative petitions to submit the warehouse ‘
amendment to a vote of the people will be pre-
pared and distributed within the next few
months. Farmers who are willing to circulate
these petitions among their neighbors are re. '
quested to advise us without delay.

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them were well satisﬁed and amply repaid for
their investment. The early part of the ship-
ping season was a declining market very unsatis-
factory to the new associations. But the latter
part of the season has been better and many of
the associations-are showing remarkably good
results.

Speaking of the acreage for 1919, President
Buel says: V ,

“I can see no reason why the 1919 potato
acreage should be either increased or dimin-
ished. I certainly do not look for the latter,
and if prices keep up or get better this season,
would not be surprised to see an increase. The
fact that the war pulled down consumption, due
to an effectual conservation program, and that
consumption is gradually increasing, may be im-

. portant elements that will work for an increase

of acreage.”

CORPORATION ~WILL GRAZE CATTLE
AND SHEEP 0N OTSEGO 'COUNTY LANDS
In the southern part of Otsego county a few
years ago Henry Stephens, millionaire lumber-
man, built one of the largest and ﬁnest stock
barns in the state of Michigan. - But he did not
carry out his plans for placing cattle and sheep
upon the several thousand acres of grazing land
which “he owned adjoining his farm. Recently
his entire holdings were sold to a group of men
who organized the Michigan Cattle and Sheep
company and are laying plans for importing
large numbers of live stock from the west rte
graze upon the grassy and well watered plains.
While the soil in that section of Otsego county is
light, it has successfully grownJeguminous crops
which plowed under have enriched the soil and
made it suitable for general farming. It is be-
lieved that one of the largest agricultural en-'
terprises in the state will develop at this point,
and 11 successful. will undoubtedly be the means
of encouraging similar utilization of the mil-ﬂ

lying dormant and unused in the. northern see-g3
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be released in ample time to‘ help care for the

5 spring farm work. But demobilization has been
' very slow and while thousands of soldiers, inex-

perienced in trade or occupation, have been releas-
ed and now seek work in the cities, the farm
hands are not ceming back as fast as needed.
There must be a. reason for this. Perhaps farmers
make better soldiers than the city lads and can
not be spared

There has been no conceted demand from Mich-
igan farmers for the release of their farm hands,
but other states, particularly those of the middle
west, have been trying for some time to convmce
the government of the mistake of letting out men

who are not needed and retaining those who are

needed in civilian life.

Rep. Smith, of Illinois, has acted as the farmers’
spokesman in Washington upon this subject and
in a. vigorous letter to Acting Secretary of War.
Crowell, he has voiced the demands of the farm-
ers- and their lack of comprehension of a demobil-
ization system which releases thousands of men
without jobs whom the government is expending
hundreds of thousands of dollars to aid in procur-
ing employment, while retaining in the service
thousands of farm hands clamoring to be discharg-
ed in order to return to the jobs waiting for them.

Mr. Crowell has not replied to Mr. Smith’s rep-
resentations, but the war department has contend“-
ed hitherto that only indispensable soldiers were
being retained in the service and that the war
emergency is not ended. Oﬂicial utterances have
broadly intimated that as a large army is still nec-
essary to back up the president in forcing the en-
emy to conclude a satisfactory peace, it is a little
shert of unpatriotic'if not of disloyalty, to de-
mand discharges so numerous as to weaken our
forcés under arms. '

The‘ farmers retort that the forces could not
be' weakened, if men returned from overseas with-
out jobs in sight were assigned to army camps
to replace the farm hands and others with jobs
awaiting them.

“The government is calling upon the farmers to
produce food and more food; it is spending hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars advertising the need
to send food abroad. We are also spending hun-
dreds of thousands urging school children to grow
vacant lot gardens, when one soldier held in the
service at $30 a month could grow more food upon
a sixty-acre farm in my district than a thousand
school children will ever grow on a thousand back

V yards or vacant lots,” wrote Representative Smith.

“Each case in which the discharge of a soldier is
asked to enable him to return to farm work is an
emergency case—a desperately urgent case at this
time, because the planting season is here and if a
farm is not planted within the next few weeks, it
must lie idle. It is up to somebody to do some-
thing, and do it quickly. Farmers have waited pa-

 

getting up afﬁdavits and waiting for discharge
boards to act in each separate case. There must be
relief at once or the food production of the coun-
try will be dangerously reduced, not only but there
will be widespread dissatisfaction with the gov~
'ernment."

Mr. Smith said- he is ﬂooded with appeals from
farmers for relief but that “there is an increasing
tendency upon the part of all ofﬁcers—and par-
ticularly those of the regular army establishment
—-—to disapprove all such applications.

A farmer seeking discharge of a farm hand sent
an aﬂidavit that he could get no other help, but
the commanding oﬂicer replied:

“It is impossible to discharge him as his ser-

' vices "are urgently needed in helping to care for

the animals at this depot. " L

In regard to a provost guard, who owns a farm,
but who has no one to cultivate it, a major gen-
eral wrote to Congressman Smith:

“I appreciate the fact that this man is needed
on his ‘farm, but at the same time, the interests of
the service do not warrant his discharge, so long
as his services are needed by the government and
a’ substitute is net available.”

HERE IS PROOF THAT CO-OPERATION
AMONG FARMERS PAYS GOOD DIVIDENDS

Often times the question is asked me “How
much good in dollars and cents are these
co-operative associations anyhow?“ I ﬁnd that

that is a hard question to answer depending upon
the locality. In some places the buyers have been

running so close to the wind all the year in compe-
tition with our local co—operative associations with
a view of putting them in a bad light on account
of the price they received when selling the pota-
toes compared with the price they, the buyers paid,
that it is hard to explain to the members of that
particular association that there is as much bene-
ﬁt as they expected. We have to cite examples in
different localities or make comparisons with the
localities in which there are no co—operative asso-
ciations. Some interesting facts and ﬁgures have
appeared in the Bureau of Markets daily report
the last ten days. According to this report the
price received by the growers for the eleven days
prior to and including April 22nd, was on the av-
erage, $1.624 per hundred and the price received
by the dealers on the average for the same period
of time was $1.935 or a spread of $.311.

A year ago for corresponding days the price re-
ceived by the growers was 3.712 per hundred and
the dealers sold for $1.169 as an average or a dif-
ference of 3.457 or a spread of nearly 150 per hun-
dred more last year than this year.

Now sacks were somewhat higher last year at
this time thanthey are now. Say that it costs 05c
per hundred more to sack last year than it did
this year,——it still leaves a difference of over 90 per
hundred difference. _

Now if there is any reason why the dealers are
running closer to the wind this year than they
have in the past, it must be the co-operative asso-
ciations being in competition with them. Figure
it out for yourself. There have been shipped out
according to the Apil 22nd report 8,114 cars. How
much have the associations been worth. and if
anyone can tell me any other reason for the dif-
ference in price I would be glad to hear from
them thru the columns of this valuable paper.—
By Dorr D. Buell, Pres, Michigan Potato Grow-
ers’ Evchange.

 
 
 

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Larger Movement of American Food Products
to Europe as Result of Improved Ship- ‘
ping Situation, Reﬂected in Ad-
vancing Prices of Grains

 

The latest ofﬁcial statement on the world’s ocean
Shipping situation is very reassuring and clearly
indicates that before the present year is far ad—
vanced the world’s merchant ﬂeet may be as large
as prior to the war. This will not mean an
abundant supply of tonnage for all needs be-
cause a number of ships still will. be required
for military purposes, and a larger proportion of
world’s shortage of foodstuffs will be moved longer
distances, owing to the shortage in eastern Eur-
ope. However, the general position will be great-
ly improved and is expected to grow better.

Allied and Neutral Tonnage

On August 1, 1914, the tonnage of non-Teutonic
countries, amounted to 42,441.379 gross tons. The
total losses (not including those of the Central
Powers), due to submarine and all other war
causes, from August 1. 1914, to November 30, 1918.
amounted to 15,067,851 gross tons, of which
amount the United States lost 6 per cent, Great
Britain 60 per cent, other allied and neutral -na~
tions 34 per cent. The total gross tonnage built
during the same period, excepting that in the Cen-
tral-European countries, was 10,849,527. To this
may be added the enemy tonnage in the possession
of the Allies, totaling 2.392.675 gross tons, which
would leave a' net loss to the trade of the allied
and neutral world of 1,825,649 gross tons. The pres-
ent rate of construction for the shipyards of the
World is estimated at 600,000 gross tons per month,
at which rate the world’s tonnage would be re-
stored to the pre-war basis by the ﬁrst part of
March, 1919.

German and Austrian Tonnage

In addition, a considerable merchant tonnage
now held by the Central Powers will be released
supposedly when peace is signed. The steam ma-
rine tonnage of Germany on June 30. ’14, amount-
ed to 5,291,533 gross tons. The losses by seizure,
capture. war, and marine loss, sales, etc, amount-
ed to 2 705, 133 gross tons leaving in the possession
of Germany at the close of the war 2 586 400 gross
tons, which was distributed as follows: In trade
with enemy ports 1,522, 776 gross tons; sheltering
or detained in neutral ports 764,669 gross tons;
employment or location unknown 289,955 gross
tons. Additions to the German ﬂeet during the
period of the war amounted to 721,241 gross tons,
to which may be added 187.798 gross tons captured
from the allied and neutral nations. The latter.
according to the terms of the armistice, must be
released. The total marine tonnage in possession
of Germany at the time the armistice was signed
was 3,307,641. gross tons.

The steam ﬂeet of Austria on June 30. 1914, was
1,038,835 gros 5 tons. The losses from all causes
was 392.713 gxoss tons, leaving 6116.122 gross tons
in the possession of Austria at the close of the
war. which was distributed as follows: 502.937
gross tons in trade or in Austrian, German, and
Turkish DOTtS; 1231861 (0071117111ch on page 8)

 

 

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Watch for these Timely Topics as presented from the Farmer’s Viewpoint

M ‘

people.

B. F. has explicit faith in the intelligence and the judgment of the
It is never afraid to tell the facts about any proposition. The
‘farmers are as ignorant as children of many things thaLhave been

done and are being done contrary to theii interests because they have had

no newspaper to tell them the truth.

the next few months.

ta have accomplished you should read this series.

He says:

beans un-not'i

The time has come when the farmer
' must have a better understanding of the. great social and political deVelop-
ments that are taking place all about him. These and many other timely sub-
Jects of special interest to farmers will be discussed in these columns during
They should be read by every farmer who wants to be
thoroly posted on the most talked-of topics of the times.

. . “Facts About'North Dakota’s New Laws”

You have read many conﬂicting stories about the Non-Partisan League.-
Beginning in an early issue we will publish serially the story of the farmers’
legislative program in North Dakota. This will be an impartial setting forth
of the FACTS. If you really want ‘to know what the farmers of North Dako-

“The Bean Future as seen by a Market Expert”

This author puts forth a most convincing argument that beans will be '
”Can any sane, well-informed per-
riously believe that every other food pioduct can advance to high levels
d and unchanged? Quite true they are slow to move

but the advance is nevertheless inevitable and when it comes it is the more
11kely to be rapid because of the delay in commencing." If that logic interests
you be sure to read the complete article beginning in the May 10th issue.

“The Origin and Purpose of 'the Farm Bureaus”

How did the' county agent and farm bureau idea originate? Is this organ
ization wholly responsible and responsive to the farmers?
does it perform that existing organizations cannot carry out? These and oth—
er questions have been asked us by farmers all over Michigan. It is a big sub-
ject, but we have gone to the bottom of it and will have some interesting facts
to present to our readers.

What function

“Resume ofSleeperAdministration and Legislation of 1919”

A tremendously important subject treated in a digniﬁed and constructive
manner. We want the farmers to know more about the laws that have been
passed; the bills that have been killed; the money that has been spent;

the

commissions that have been created and the salaries that have been 1aised-

on EVERY measure.

ers
. series.

We intend that they shall know how theii lepresentative and senator voted
We believe that future legislation will be of greater
beneﬁt to the many than to the few if the legislators know that the people
who sent them there are watching their actions.
resume to be one of the most important matters ever placed before the farm-
See that you and your neighbor get the M. B. F. issues containing this

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LOVERLAND, t h 6

upper peninsula of

Michigan, has prov- .
on its worth as a grazing country. The story of

' what has been accomplished in the upper penin-

sula of Michigan is the story of a band cf fear-
less men who had the strength of their convic-
tions and made the most of it.

“Know that you are right and then go ahead,”
were the words of that famous American eman—
cipator, Lincoln. No better phrase could have
been coined for the men who went west and told
the grazers of that great country what Clover-
land was and what it could produce.

They told them at the convention at Salt Lake .

City, January 15, 16, 17 and 18, 1918. Their
words took root and the plant’grew. It started
at Escanaba, spread to Menominee county, Mar-

quette county, Luce county, Dickinson county

and other counties in Cloverland.

And this little band of men were conservative.
They did not paint pictures of a Utopia. _ They
did not work on the basis of the old time land
man. They went to the grazers with a well or-
ganized plan. They had something deﬁnite for
him. They took him aside and told him exactly
what Cloverland was. They talked English.

They played all their cards face up and on top

of the table.

Their honest methods won. A little ripple of
enthusiasm started at that convention in Salt
Lake City and now it is coming in the form of a
great roar of thunder. The stream, with its
head in the south and north and its mouth in
Cloverland is gathering force and volume daily
and sheep and cattle are going to ﬁnd themselves
in Cloverland when the
feeding season begins in
great numbers. This
movement is not a
boom. The grazers who
go to Cloverland stay.
And they take their
friends and they stay.

Those men won be-
cause they had a real,
live, legitimate proposi-
tion. They told the
truth. They wanted
grazers in Cloverland to
make money. They knew
they could. And they
did.

T h e s e missionaries
had no lands to sell.
They were working un-
der the supervision of
the Upper Peninsula

Speltz and Emmer Are. Profitable Crops for the Poorer Lands of the State V '

NCREASING INTEREST has been taken of
I late in the growing of speltz in Michigan. The

term “speltz” is commonly applied to both the
true spelt and to emmer. In fact, the greatest
proportion of the grain termed speltz in Michi—
gan is emmer. The true spelt is characterized
by a greater amount of chaff per bushel. After
being threshed the chaffs adhere to the grains.
In spelt the spikelet or group of kernels and en—
closing chaff, carries a blunt piece of head stem
attached and is broken off in a blunt fashion.
In the case of emmer the spikelets have sharp
points Where once attached to the central stem
of the head. The kernels are harder and are
curved or arch shaped. Both .bearded and beard—

less varieties of each are grown, and also black
and white varieties. White emmel is most wide—
ly grown in Michigan:

I have this spring ordered speltz from six dif-
ferent sources and have received emmer in each
case, and have noted that emmer is morewidely
growu in the field than the true spelt. Spring
varieties are planted for the most part in Mich-
igan. Winter varieties are seeded to a small ex-

tent.
Where Spelt is Best Adapted

Threshermen’s returns for the past season
show that speltz is grown to some extent in each
county in Michigan, the leading counties being
Ogemaw, Alcona and Huron, each of which re-

ported approximately 11, 000 bushels. Tuscola,

Gratiot, Berrien, Branch, Cass; Calhoun, Genes-
see. Kalamazoo, Lancer; Lenawee, ,Shiawassee,
St. Clair, Bay. .San‘ilac and Arenas counties all

reportmorethan 5.0.00 bushels during. 1918. The

 

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Both Peninsulas Attract Western Cattle Owners
By WALLACE A RQWELL

 

 

 

Sheep, Ghatham Ewperiment Sta. Ghatham, Mich.

Development Bureau of Marquette, Cloverland,
Michigan, an organization formed for the pur-
pose of advertising Cloverland, kept up by pri—
vate and county subscriptions, without an acre

'of land to sell.

Success went with these men and when the

.season for grazers opened in Cloverland a few

western sheep men pulled up stakes and started
for the little peninsula. This was the beginning

of the sheep industry in Cloverland.

The men_,who turned the trick were Leo C.
Harmon, president of the Upper Peninsula Devel-
opment Bureau; Geo. W. Rowell, its secretary-
manager, and Chas. R. Hutchesou, its extension

 

men went to the West
, however, they made ver
sure that Cloverland was ,a very, good
grazing country. They invited Mr. Frank J.
Hagenbarth, president of the National Wool

Growers’ Association to visit them in their own

back yard. He did and they talked it'over.-
After studying. conditions

States—i; not in the world."

And now that country has its own otestimOn- *

ials. They are from sheep and cattle man now
located there. They are from men who have
taken the chance—end won. , V
" Francis R.. K. Hewlett, who brought -
head of Shropshire and Rambbuillet yearling
ewes into Cloverland from South Dakota, July
24, 1918, said, “The results I obtained are
astounding. Western operators will hardly be-
lieve them, yet they are true. "

Mr. Hewlett’s yearling ewes gained for the
ﬁrst 30 days 12 pounds and the next 30 days 21,

pounds, making a. total gain of 33 pounds in 60
days. These gains were made entirely on the
food they picked up in the pasture.

J. L. Gray, who brought to Cloverland his
herd of sheep from Idaho on June 24, 1918,
said that his sheep were in very good condition
the early part of July, “ although they had no
feed worth while in Idaho before shipping.” He
predicts that Cloverland will be a “wonderful
sheep country. ” .

There are other sheep men from the south
and west who went

 

 

 

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Shecp at Lake Ives Ranch, Upper Peninsula, Francis R. K. Hewlett, Proprietor.

By J. F. COX
Professor of Farm Crops, M. A. C.

 

 

Can you give me some information about
spelt? When should it be sown and how,

and if the straw is any good for feeding
purposes?—M. B1, Milford, Michigan.

 

 

 

present state acreage is 9,425 and the yield is
256,857 bushels, giving an average yield of 27.25
bushels.

Large yields of— speltz, from sixty to eighty
bushels per acre, are frequently reported. It
must be kept in mind, however, that the grain
is bulky. The weight per bushel ranges from 32
to 42 pounds according to the amount of adher-
ing chaff and stem. ~

Both emmer and spelt are better adapted to
adverse conditions than barley, oats, or wheat.
Their place in Michigan is therefore on light

' soils, or in fertile or poorly drained soils, or un-\

der conditions where preparations of land . or
seeding is'delayed. On poorly drained soil, al—
so, spelt and emmer will 'give comparatively
good yields.

011 soils, which arein condition to produce
average crops of oats, barley, or wheat, emmer
and spelt are of comparatively little "value.

. The spring emmer, which is most largely seed-
ed, should be planted in early spring under the
same conditions that eats are planted. 3 The

ground should be plowed in tall or early spring,-
.. or prepared by a thorough dissing after a culti-

1.

pithy, particularly near the head.

,mer or spelt straw as from oat straw.-

to Cloverland in 1918
and they made good.
They made 'more than
good and are increasing
their ﬂocks for the com-
ing season. '

And now grazers are
on the way, getting
ready to leave the south
and west and take up

‘ erland. 1

These are the re*
sults of a few men who
knew What they were
talking about. They
made sure of the ven-
ture before going ahead.

They played honest
and fair, and won.

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rated crop, and the seeding made as early as
weather conditions will permit (in April or early
May)

~Two bushels per acre of seed is advisable.
Clover seed may accompany the seeding as in
the case of barley or oats.
the clover one bushel of emmer or spelt is ad-

vised. The seed should be treated with formal-7
dehyde for smut in the same way that oats or '

wheat are treated.

Speltz as a Feed ‘7

Since spelt and emmer both carry the chaff
after threshing they ”are fed in much the same
way that barley or oats are fed. They are some-
what too bulky to use as concentrate fer fatten-
ing animals unless mixed with corn or ground
barley. '

The feeding value is somewhat less than that
of corn. The grain should be ground for best
results in feeding cows and’ pigs. Excellent re-
sults are reported from feeding whole emmer to
sheep and chickens.

The great majority of the acreage of grains"

commonly called speltz is white emmer. This
variety is of some promise in Michigan, and will

undoubtedly prove a usetul food crop for grow-

ing on soils which, owing to lack of organic mat— ,
ter, sandy nature, poor drainage, infertility, or “

poor handling are not Well adapted to the pro
duction ot barley or cats.

The straw is somewhat lighter in ash and pro?

It is inclined to be mos

About he
same results can be obtained from feeding e

tein than out Straw.

 

thoroughly _' and";
looking over the land and weather charts, Mrf‘
Hagenbarth said, “Cloverland is the grea’i‘nst,~

- dairying and livestock; region in the United»;

 

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cut—over lands in Clov-gl

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the early winds of the reconstruction period
“ Lhave subsided?

These are questions the—farmers
:"of the state would like to have answered.

Street, who have been preaching against the Non-
Partisan League, would like to have answered.
But we cannot answer them.- Two months ago
:we .would have laughed to scorn' the suggestion
f" that the farmers of Michigan could be banded to-
gether under a new political banner. ,But now we

Uarenotquite'so sure For since then the legisla-

ture and the governor have shown very plainly
that they do not serve the people and cannot trust
the people. So the complexion of Michigan’s po-
litical situation has been somewhat changed, and
we do not profess to know what the farmels would
do if asked to join in a strictly farmers! political
movement

The speed with WhiCh over ﬁve hundred farmers
of Bay county organized four fa1mers’ unions al—
most takes our breath away. It is a surprise to
all thatfarmers who have been so hard to organ—
ize in the past should take up so quickly with an
entirely new movement, lacking in both leader-
ship and program. Yet it is a fact that in less

"than two weeks after Farmer George Forster
called together a handful of farmers and or—

ganized Williams’ Township Farmers’ Union,
No. 1, The union became the talk of the
county and three other unions were ( organized

in quick succession. The rapid spread of the
movement alarmed the ofﬁcers of the Farm Bur-
eau who immediately sought to take the new un-
ions under the wings of the Bureau. But the un-
ion‘ membership was so much larger and more act-
ive than the bureau membership that it refused to
be mothered in any such fashion. Awkward as
the i'oundling is and without guide or precedent,

it is nevertheless determined _to keep tree from ,

“tangling alliances” and blaze its own trail.
But what .is its program? Aye, that’s the rub.
What would you say if We were to tell you that it
has no program? Then it will fail say you. But
don’t be so sure. It may be likened unto a ship
at sea without a pilot. It ﬂounders around a bit,
buffeted by the waves, but it has form, strength

“We- Couldn’t Get Aleng Without Our Trattor” say J.

E BOUGHT a tractor through the State
War Board last spring. It did not arrive
till after the cats were sown so we did
not use it quite as much as we might have other-
We used the tractor forty-one days, count-

The timer wore out and
we had to get a new one and put it on.

Now that we are familiar with the machine we
keep an extra set of spark plugs, and an extra tim-
er handy in case we should need them.

We used the tractor for all kinds of work and on
all kinds of soil except muck, On one ﬁeld of ﬁf-
ty acres we did not use a horse till we started
drilling. The tractor plowed, rolled, disced, drag-
ged twice and wenever had a ﬁeld ﬁtted in better
shape. We hauled some large stones from the ﬁeld
and also pulled oak grubs. Where the tractor has
good footing (which is all important) we found it
much more satisfactory than horses for this work
because it was much quicker and handler to get
around and in' starting large stones or rolling
them out Of the holes it was much steadier than-
horses. At the same time, with good footing it
would handle as large a stone as we wanted to
move with a four horse- team and it didn't have to
rest every ﬁfteen or twenty rods. We used- the
tractor on some steep hills but have come to the
conclusion that it would not be practical to make
this general practice. Our tractor does the work
‘We couldn’t get along

during the summer. We‘now keep six horses.
During one week preparing'oat ground this

fias‘pring, four horses. and the, tractor were working
in“ the same field as much as weather would per-

The tractor did much more work than the
and the cost for fuel was a few dents more

offal-mar shbuld
. L” we will do

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and all the acc'outrements for sailing. Give it a
chart and a. master pilot and it will take its course
- unerringly.

' You can’t tell. the farmers, who founded the
movement, that it will fail. They can tell you
in a few words why it is necessary for farmers to
organize politically, and they are just as sure as
anyone can be that the movement will prosper
under proper leadership and sooner or later em-
brace all agricultural sections of the state within
its grasp.

“Farmers aren‘t fairly represented in the gov-
'ernment,” said Mr. Forster to an M. B. F. repre-
sentative. And that expresses the need whichthe
Farmers’ Union was organized to supply. “We
aren't saying that the farmers haVe been inten-
tionally mistreated. Maybe it’s their own fault
they are not better represented. But i. want to
tell you that so long as the lawyers and the com-
mercial classes make the. laws the problems of
farmers will never be solved.

“There’s too .big a stretch between the farmer
and the consumer,” continued Mr. Forster. “It's
always been that way andl want to know when
there’s ever been any attempt made by our legis-
lators to investigate this problem of distribution
and remedy it. Hasn’t the time come when the
farming business is big,r enough and important
enough to demand the attention of the govern-
ment and for it to see that the farmer gets a
square deal and the middlemen are cut out?

“The reason we call our organization ‘Union’
is that we wish to cooperate with other unions
politically. You know that a union man will vote
for any union man sooner than he would for a
non-union man. We epect a lot of aid from the
unions. No person who is "not really earning his
living by farming can hold an ofﬁce in the union."

Mr. Forster is not entirely clear as to the exact
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Editor’s Note: This is the ﬁrst of a series of
letters we will publish from tractor users. The
name of the tractor will not be published with the

. article, but will be supplied with full details as to

price, manufacturer, ctc., upon request. If you
Want to know what success others have had. wi/h
the tractor, be sure to read this series.

 

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that a tractor should be kept busy at least forty
days a year. Otherwise interest and depreciation
charges make the cost of operation too high. There
never will be Work enough on an ordinary forty or
eighty acres to keep the machine busy anywhere
near th time.

First cost should be carefully considered be-
cause ﬁrst cost determines interest and deprecia-
tion charges. Too many like to forget those in-
terest and depreciation charges in counting costs.
However most light tractors run fairly close to
gether on ﬁrst c-ost now. An important item to
look at in choosing a tractor is versatility. We

 

 

“Eastern

Movement Threatens to Become Political Factor

 

 

 

stance, to bring about the
happy condition he des’
cribes. But he says that is
secondary. Elect your farmers to ofﬁce ﬁrst and
they’ll soon ﬁnd out what is necessary to do to
bring greaterprosperity to the farmers and in-
cidentally to the entire state.

The farmers expect to see every township of .
Bay county fully organized within the next few
weeks, and they see no reason why the movement
should not spread over the entire state before an-
other state election. They believe that the organi-
zation is the one through which all the other farm
organizations, Gleaners, the Grange, the Farmers’
Clubs. the Farm Bureau, etc. may function polit-
ically without endangering any of the special DI‘O-
jects which they support.

The Farmers’ Union has not progressed far
enough yet to enable us to make any predictions
as to its future. It' the farmers of the state are to
have terminal warehouses, better credit facilities,
and other things «for the encouragement of agri-
culture, they realize now that they can secure
them only thru a legislature in which farmers are
represented proportionately with people of other
occupations. It is a waste of time to listen to the
promises of the politicians. Mr. Sleeper promised
over his signature. during his ﬁrst campaign that
he would work for some kind of state rural r-red—
its. That promise was an excellent vote—geiio 1 and
that was all that it was intended for. In the lower
branch of the legislature this year were quite a
number of men who were listed in the legislative
hand-book as "farmers.” Investigate the votes of
those men and you will ﬁnd that in many (cases
they took exactly the opposite stand that their
farmer constituents would have had them take.
investigate the business of those men and you will
ﬁnd that while many Of them live on farms they
derive their major income from other sources of
revenue. You can call a lawyer who lives on a
country estate and employs a gardener a “farmer"
if you Want to but that doesn’t make him one.
You know and I know and every farmer knows
that, a man must live on a farm, derive his living
from a farm or his interests must llt’.Wil0“Y de~
pendent upon the welfare of the farmers it” he is
to have the viewpoint of the former.

The farmers of Michigan are surely going into
politics. It the several organizations go it alone.
they won’t get anywhere. but if they unite under a
state federation or speak through a stale “Farm—
ers’ Union,“ they will carry out lbs-i:- program.

C.’ 81 J. M. Stafford, Van

like ours because it will “trot" on the road or to
the ﬁeld and back. Short turn and easy handling
are important. We do not believe that the four-
wheel type of tractor will ever be practical for
light work such as cultivating, nor for haying un-
less it is too hot for the home. There must al~
ways be horses on the from and the) must be kept
busy to earn their boaid. The trattm does’ nt have
to be fed unless it works.

There may be some tractors suitable for haul~
ing loads on the road to market etc, but we never
had any trouble marketing our crops with the
horses. If there is other work the tractor is bet-
ter suited than to road work, and if there is no
other work the horses ought to be doing some-
thing.

There are a number of tractors of var-ion. makes
within a few miles of us and most of them giVe
good satisfaction where they are in the bands of
good operators. But there are some of them that .
are a. money-losing proposition to the owncrs be-
cause the iarm unit where they are 1sed is too
small. We have no pulley for our 11‘2ll‘lOI' yet bllt
expect to equip it this years-J. O. & J. M. Stafford.

 

 

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The Sleeper Administration

 

QOME DAY, the historian will take his pen
1»; in hand to chronicle the deeds of the Sleep-
111~ administration. In fancy we can see him
now. Before him lies yards of foolscap. He
(11 is his pen, knits his brows, then starts to
' . He frowns
some more, and pauses some more. 1*0r in
t1 1th what shall he say? Boy, page Mr. Sleep—
1 1 s press agent!

Perhaps we expected too much of Mr. Sleep-
or. We were so fed up by his pre- -election
promises that we were all primed for the best
business administration the state had ever
known. But the state’s money has never been
spent more lavishly or recklessly than during
the two and a half years of Mr. Sleeper’s ad-
ministration. We shall show that the Sleeper
regime was the costliest, if not the most un-
business-like in the entire history of the state.

Perhaps Mr. Sleeper was ill-advised. We are
quite sure that the character of some of the
advisors he gathered about him was not such
as to inspire the conﬁdence of the rank and
ﬁle of the people. Perhaps if Mr. Sleeper had
depended more upon his own judgment and
less upon the judgment of those who sought
favors at his hands he might have done less
for the politicians and more for the people.

Dir. Sleeper has been quite outspoken in his
advocacy of measures calling for appropria-
tions intended to beneﬁt his personal and po-
litical friends. The ﬁnest grease for a politi-
cal machine is state money and patronage.
But Mr. Speeper as engineer of the machine
quite properly frowned on legslation that
might gum up his machine and interfere with
its efﬁcient operation. On matters of legisla—
tiou to which the people were strongly oppos-
cd but the members of his machine favored,
or vice versa, Mr. Sleeper‘has been ab-so-lute—
ly neu-tral. In such instances it did not be-
come the gubernatorial dignity to “interfere
with legislation in either the House or the
Senate.’

Mn. Sleeper ’s confessed neutrality on meas-
ures involving the public welfare is disgust-
ing to those who believe public ofﬁcials should
stand four-square. His. professed ignorance
of the provisions of the warehouse amend-
ment, his attempt to disclaim knowledge of
why it was held up in House committee, and
his refusal to take a stand for or against the
measure are typically unworthy characteris-
tics of the present governor. How can' you
expect a state’s chief executive to protect the
people’s interests fearlessly at all times who is
afraid—yes, afraid,——to speak gut and tell the
people where he stands on such important
measures as the warehouse amendment?

We intend to show the farmers of Michigan

                                    

.~, . that the steward of their interests Whom they

   

show Wthat he has emﬁe guided by men. looking
for special privileges at the expense of the
taxpayers. We intend to show that great.

promises have been forgotten and great prob;

lems ignored lest the interests of the few might

be disturbed. And, by the eternal, we intend
to help elect a governor in 1920 that will have
vision, ability and courage enough to give the
old state a real business administration, with
favoritism to none and a square deal for all.

Its Real Name is Militarism \
E NOT deceived. They may call it What
they will. But the real name of universal
military training is militarism.
Nearly every newspaper in the United
States that opposes the president’ s plan for

a League of Nations to prevent war is strong ‘

for compulsory training. That is no coinci-
dence. It doesn’t just “happen” that way.
The same policy guides both actions. That pol-
icy is as militaristic as though made in Ger-
many, and because it is dictated by Americans
is no sign that it is any the less dangerous
to American institutions. -

Why military training? .Because it pro-
vides a partial excuse for a large standing
army and navy. Why a large standing army
and navy? Because it provides business for
certain manufacturers at the expense of the
taXpayers. But the militarists laugh. “Mili-
tary training,” say they, .“is to develop the
physique and discipline the habits of the na-'
tion’ s young men, to protect our glorious in-
stitutions of freedom, and keep the ﬁres of
patriotism burning.”

Sounds good, doesn’t it? But can we not

develop the physique of our youth by physical '

training in the common schools. .And as for
disciplining the youth at the hands of arro—
gant, ignorant, aristocratic ofﬁcers, God for-
bid that we should want any of it! School and
home discipline where every boy and girl can
be given individual attention is a hundred
times more desirable than the discipline of
the military machine that creates false values,
destroys initiative and ruins character.

To protect our freedom? From what, pray}
Foreign aggressiOn? But, good sirs, know you
not that the League of Nations which you op-
pose is our protection against foreign aggres-
sion. Your insistence that there will be for-
eign aggression notwithstanding conveys a
suspicion that you desire foreign aggression.
Yes, that you may even invite or inc- to for-
eign aggression. Are we far from the truth?

Patriotism? Do we have to have war or
play with the instruments of war to foster
love of country and patriotism. Is such a

thing as a patriotism of peace impossible?
Samuel Blythe writes from France that the
American soldiers will have none of compul-
sory military training. He discovered this
after many months of fraternizing among the

 

troops. Is it at all strange that they who have
gone through the hell- ﬁre of war to destroy
the military machine of Germany should 0p-
pose the building up of a similar machine in
this country?

“But,” say the deceivers, “this is not Ger-
many. There is no danger of militarism in
this country.”

Liars and hypocrites! Danger of militar— '

ism? The air is surcharged with it. The edi-

torial columns of newspapers reek with it. The '

proﬁteers and the politicians who serve them
exude it. Think yOu that army ofﬁcers who
blundered from obscurity into the ﬂattering
limelight and positions of authority wish to
retire again to private life? Many of them do,
but thousands do not. They devoutly hope
for universal military training, not that the

youth of the nation may be physically better-
ed, but that they may have a life tenure upon

their jobs; All honor to those who enlisted as '
privates and earned this; rank thrn merit.-

of them. They and their friends enthusias

then commissions? T ,eygwho won
tion Will abuse position, and the army is full

cally endorse compulsory military training
Millions of dollars will be spent in propa-
ganda in behalf of military training and a

great ﬁght will be staged in‘congress when the _ ,.
bill 13 presented, We know where the farm- ~—

ers will stand. But standing will availeth
nothing. They will have to move and act if

they keep these institutions of freedom unfet~ ,
Militarism ’

tered and uncontaminated. /
brought on the Great War. And militarism,
if permitted to masquerade under the cicak
of universal training, will bring on a- still

greater war. Be not deceived. Militarism is :

seeking a foot-hold in this country of peace
and democracy. Kill it, before it fastens its
fangs, and the poison enters the system.

Daylight Saving

 

. EBBE YOU can forgive the Democratic

administration for smashing some prec- '

edents and traditions but when it substitutes
“daylight saving” time for “God’ s time,’
you prefer to let Jehovah do the pardoning.
At least that’s the way some farmers feel
about it.

The new time may be very convenient for
the city chap who goes to work at eight in the

morning and knocks off at ﬁve in the aftei-
noon, but it is not so kind to the farmer who
goes to work at ﬁve and quits at eight. No
law is required to compel the farmer to con-
serve daylight. He has always gotten up in
the morning with the sun and gone to bed
with the sun, and it’ s a bit unfair to make him
change his life- time habits and let the sun do
as it dang pleases. ‘

The new time does not affect the farmer
who employs no help. He may go to work
when he pleases and quit .when he pleases.
But the farmer who employs hired hands who
insist on more daylight for their evening
amusement ﬁnds the time a nuisance and is
protesting against it. The new time forces
the farmer to go to work when everything is
wet with dew. It is impossible to work among,
the fruit trees and berry bushes, and it is
unpleasant to do any kind of work. Conse—
quently an hour is often wasted waiting for

the sun to dry things off. Then the stock is.

routed out an hour before the usual time; the
children are hustled out of bed with sleep
still in their eyes; and the old family rooster

dies of sorrow at ‘being deprived of his job of _.

waking up the family every morning.

“It’feeds the nation’s live stock too early
three times a day,” says Jewell Mayer, score”-
tary of Missouri state board of agriculture.
“It overworks the women and the men on the
farm, and upsets the permanent program of
thousands of years of agricultural industry.
There is no excuse, no logic, and no sound
sense in forcing such a measure on the farm-
ers of the nation.”

Sen. Arthur Capper, Kansas farm paper

‘ publisher, Will introduce a bill at the next

session of congress to repeal the daylight- sav-
ing law. He has asked M. B. F. to join in
the ﬁght. Our coat is always OR to help the

farmer. Flash us the S. O. S., and we’ll rush V
to the rescue of the good, old “summer” ‘-

time.

In reviewing the deeds and misdeeds of men‘_ ,1 l ;

in public places we are always impressed with

the futility of trying to make square pegs ﬁt 1
round holes. Good -h,earted genial fellows, all {j ’

—perhaps. You hesitate to criticize. Y

 
    

vate positions. But having placed themselves

in the range of the critics’ gunsﬁre by at

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OF NEWAYGO

Mr. Atwood is
a real farmer and
is‘ serving his
first term in the
’House. He', was
one of those who
followed the p.
be (1. leaders in
their successful
onslaught on the
Warehouse Am-
endment. He will
have some ques-
tions to answer
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REP. n. n. AVERILL. OF OTTAWA COUNTY

Mr. Averill is
a real farmer,
living at Coopers—
ville, and he 1'8""
serving his ﬁrst
term i n t h 6
House. He will
be bus-y this sum-
mer explaining to
his farmer con:
stituents why he
voted against let-
ting the people
vote on the Ter-
minal Warehouse
Amendment, which he helped kill in the House.

 

 

REP. ARLIE L. HOPKINS, OF MANISTEE CO.
- M r . Hopkins
lives near Bear
Lake and owns
, and operates one
of the l a r g e
farms 0 f the
state. H e i s
serving his third
term in the house
and has exerted
m u c h inﬂuence
in shaping legis-
lation. He . is
what is known
- as a “safe and
sane" legislator, and one whose mental attitude
is decidedly conservative. He spoke and voted
against the Terminal Warehouse Amendment.

 

REP. M. J. HOWE, OF MONROE COUNTY

Mr. Howe is a
farmer member
of the House who
lives at Azalia.
He has Just fin-
ished his “ first
term in' t h a
House where he
was successful in
passing some leg-
islation. Weight
and length of
loads on trucks
and trailers and

, , limiting the num-
ber of trailers to be used on the reads, an im-

portant matter to those who travel the Toledo—
Detroit road in his county. He was for the Ter-
minal Warehouse Amendment, but absent when

 

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By HERB BAKER

WHAT THEY DID

N A FRIENDLY discussion of the record of
I the legislature just closed with Henry Croll of

Beaverton, Gladwin county, Knight of the Red
Tie, thirty-second degree, standpatter, and “hit-
man” of the House junkers, he was asked to name
the things this legislature has dene beside to. make
new jobs and boost salaries for which he thought.
the people would give it credit, and heres his
list:—-—-

Budget bill.

Workmen’s Compensation Amendments.

Lemire public utilities bill.

Establishing State Constabulary.

Changing personnel of board or Equalization is a
tion so that tax commission shall control it.

Central Purchasng Agency.

Lewis Prohibition bill.

The budget law whose advocates claimed for it
that it would effect a saving for the people of the
state instead, the first year of its operation will
show'by far the highest state tax rate in the his-
toy ,of the state.‘ The workmen’s compensation
law amendments increased allowances made those
who have suffered industrial accidents.

The Lemire bill establishes a Utilities Commis-
sion to supplant the present Railway Commission
with powers broadened but little over those now
exercised by the Railroad Commission. The sal-
ary of the commissioners has been increased 100%
having been raised from $3,500 to $7,000 and the
number of commissioners was increased from
three to ﬁve With the understanding that not more
than three of them shall come from Huron coun-
ty. The junkers wanted to pass a bill that would
abrogate all franchises and agreements and lodge
with the commission the authority to ﬁx rates
without regard to local conditions and in spite of
local authorities. The Lemire bill which the junk-
ers ﬁnally had to swallow while smiling, preserves
not only existing franchises but preserves the
right to enter into new contracts under whicn
franchise may be granted. The passage of this
measure was a notable victory for Home Rule
and a splendid tribute to the Escanaba senator.
While Rep. Croll included this bill in his list of
meritorious measures he admits that its meritor-
ious features were put in it over his protest.

The State Constabulary has been pretty ‘weli
discussed on this page and I am only asking you
to remember that this little circus cost us only
about $350,000 or $400,000 per year.
very important measure and its results will be
more far reaching, perhaps than any other act

of the present legislature. The state board of .

equalization at present consists of auditor general,
secretary of state, state treasurer, supt. public in-
struction and secretary public domain commis-
sion, beside one member or tax commission. These
are all elective state oﬂicers except tax commis-
sioner. They are nominated at state conventions
in which Wayne county has nearly one-third of
the delegates. Men holding the ofﬁces mentioned,

wish to retain them and Wayne county politicians '

(Continued 071. following page)

. the House and is.

REP. JOHN Y. MARTIN, OF SHIAWASSEE

Mr. Martin is
a farmer, living
near Corrunna.
He is serving his
second term in

Chairman of the
important com-
mittee on State
Affairs, and as
such has render-
ed valuable ser-
vice. , He voted
against the Ter—
minal. Warehouse
Amendment, probably on account of his en-
vironment. ‘

 

 

REP. HENRY T. ROSS, OF LIVINGSTON

Rep. Ross is
:he farmer mem-
ber from Living-
ston county who
threw the House
into an uproar by
asking that his
bill affecting a
state department
be held over for
a day or two that
the department
affected m i g h t
have opportunity
to lobby several
members whom it had missed, against the meas—
ure. Mr. Ross is serving his second term. He
voted against the Warehouse Amendment and I
take it he has no further political ambitions.

 

REP. FRANK R. MOSIER OF ALLEGAN 00.

Rep. Mosier is
a real farmer,
living at Bravo,
He has just ﬁn—
ished his ﬁrst
term in the house
He has made
good and if the
farmers of Alle-
gan county wish
to reward their
friends they will
keep Mr. Mosier
in the legislature
as long as he
cares to serve in the capacity of representative.

 

 

SENATOR CHARLES TUFTS, OF LUDINGTON
Senator Tufts .
is a successful
farmer of Mason
county. He spent
some years in life
saving service on
the Great Lakes
in which service
b e secured his
title of ”Cap-
tain.” He has
s e r v e (1 three
terms i n t h 6
House and two
in the Senate.

 

 

 

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T IS REPORTED that members of the House gave Mr. Ivory an
ovation for his “courage" in defying the farmers and refusing to
let the members of his committee vote on reporting out the ware-

Conscience-stricken, perhaps, because they had
used Ivory as a tool to shield them from an unpleasant situation, in a
final moment of bravado when all chance of passing the resolution
was gone, they rushed heroically to Ivory’s rescue and urged hi

let the amendment out of his committee. And Mr. Ivory, still obedient
to their wishes. responded. Deaf as he was to the petitio
farmers‘he always listened and obeyed when his colleagues in the
House spoke. Then, as though to repay him' for his faithful service
to them, they landed him to the. skies, and promised that'”if any "at-

tempt was made to invade his district by outside agencies and defeat
' ‘hlmfor re—election‘ he would get plenty of support from his House col-

leagues." :While Mr. Ivory’s colleagues may dominate the House at Lan-

.”.1n'g;fungqxftunately they do not dominate the‘ballot in Lancer. county.

"‘If Legislature Cannot Tllustlthe Peeple, How can the People Trust Legislature”

No question at all but what Rep. Ivory is a “good fellow.” He demon-

strated it beyond peradventure. But “good fellows” and "good legis-
lators" are not synonymous terms. Are we sending men to Lansing
to make “good fellows” of themselves or to represent the people?

, Every voter in Michigan who believes in government of, for and
by the people should repudiate at the next election the men who voted
against giving the people the right to vote on the warehouse amend-
ment. If they cannot trust the people, how can the people trust them?
That'is the all-important issue now before the voters of the state. The
farmers should think a long time'before they vote again for any man
who denied them the right to vote on the warehOuse amendment. NO‘
matter how much faith they might have had in these men in the past,
they can never trust them again. Play safe. At the next election, elect
men to office whom you know can be trusted. To do what? To vote
for class legislation? No! ‘But to trust all the people all the time to
exericse their right to make laws and amend the constitution.—~The

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H 'FOR A MOMENT just let your mind'run beck to the autumn of the

year 1916; for in that year, and in. that particular season of the year;
my story" has its beginning. Zeb Weaver and Jas. J. Britt Were; can-

didates for Congress at the 1916 election; each desired to represent the"

10th district of North Carolina.
and here my story begins.

“Jim" Britt instituted a contest, and the} matter m placed bemra:
the proper. committees of Congress; Now Congress has three separate
committees to handle election~ contests—and the machinery was set in
motion. On Saturday, March 1st, 1919, it was determined by Congress—-
and the verdict was solemnly rendered, to-wit: That the said James J.
Britt'had been legally'elected back in 1916, and that he, and not “Zeb."
Weaver, was entitled to represent the 10th North Carolina district in the
65th Congress. ' ~

And this. is what “Jim" Britt was privileged to do: He represented
his district in Congress from the evening of March 1st, 1919', .to- the
evening of March 4th, 1919, making four full: days, including Sunday.
Please bear in mind that the verdict was rendered by Congress just two
working days before the 65th Congress became a thing ,of the past.

Custom or rule, or some sort of a provision, provides that while a
contest is on, both contestants draw their salaries. » Mr. Weaver, there-
fore, drew his full ﬁfteen thousand dollars and his mileage for twO years’
service, lacking two days. James J. Britt drew his ﬁfteen thousand dol-
lars for his two days’ work and a mileage charge of $191.60; making a
total of $16,191.60.

Now that the war is over and the last Liberty Loan provided afor,
should I be accused of being unpatriotic suggesting that such manipula-
tion, such downright “damfoolishness,” is all rot; a disgrace to the law—
making body of the nation and unworthy of the men who assist in playing
the game. .Why should not these election contests be decided promptly;
not only that the districts may be legally represented, but to save this un-

called for waste of money as well? And here my story ends.
0 t *

HY NOT A PEOPLE’S LOBBY? It would seem that whenever and

wherever a few were gathered together to make laws, there will be

found a “lobbyist" in the midst of them. The sugar trust main-

tains its elegantly furnished ofﬁces in Washington, with a high—salaried of-

ﬁcial always in charge. In fact the moment a law is presented which af-

fects any of the combinations, the lobby representing the particular inter-
est, is on deck instantly.

Among the fellows stirred up during the Packer investigation, was
one Thomas E. Logan. He was asked if he represented Swift & Co., and
he answered, ”Among other employments, I am an adviser of Swift & Co.,
in all matters relating to their public policy.” Here he tripped himself;
for he was next asked, to explain what he meant in mentioning “other em-
ployments." '

And then he gave this surprising list of companies, for whom he was
acting and from whom he was receiving retainers: Swift & 00., $6,000;
Standard Oil Company of Indiana, $6,000; Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey, $6,000; General Electric Company, $6,000; Freeport Sulphur Com-

"Zeb" secured the certiﬁcate ot'election,

“m9”$6§m; Atlantic (Reﬁning Company; $8,600. "Thetotal'r .
modem thirty~eight thwzsix. hundred. dollars; annuallx. . -' y .
Thomas is not aﬂ‘doubtihg Thomas,” for he shure do know whar his

bred, and butahxanr comin' from. And who shall say that a lobby isn’t _, 1
necessary; far from me'to even suggest‘that all interestssheuld‘not have , '

a man or many men to represent their particular interests, in Washington.
What is bothering me is “why is there not a poem lobh'y'at Warm?

tea?” The. We Morest Ought to be ‘a important. is the other ten-was. ‘
1 . . .. . ~ . > . :3;‘:“,ﬂv‘:

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‘ “I S A CANDIDATE for Governor Albert R. Sleeper went about. the
_ state asking for support. on the strength of": promise to give the 1 i
people a business administration. ~ At the: close of his ﬁrst term 3'
, ~V‘Tere ,
mightily interested in the work at hand, and he wt given m .01" '_

some felt that he had not made. good; but the- m was. on,

portunit‘y‘te show- what he could accomplish. ‘
During his ﬁrst two years as Governor his basinm administration

increased the tan budget from $10,500,000, under the schoolmaster Gov- 7
Many excuses werevmade for this enormous in- «
crease. The real work of the second Sleeper administration is new ones,-

ernor to $17,700,960.

and the voter can size up the situation with some degree of accuracy.

_ The Governor has not only given us a “business administration,”
but has more than made good, for the ﬁgures will show that we have
indeed had a “Big Biz”_a,dministration. The tax budget for the present
year will reach about $25,000,000, or an increase over the ﬁrst business( ?)»
administration of seven million two hundred thousand dollars.

Or let us put it this way: .Take the tax budget of'$10,500,000 of four
years ago; now double it, making twenty-one, million dollars; now add
four million dollars and you .have the total budget provided under the
“Big Biz” administration of Governor Albert E. Sleeper.

use the axe on some of the appropriations, but such action’is not probable.

rIowever, you should not get excited, Mr. Tax Payer, for 'one admin-
istration organ has already ﬁgured it out.
has been increased about six hundred million dollars, therefore the tax
rate will be about the same as last year. In other words in order to raise
the extra millions the tax commission has raised the valuation of your
farm; if it was worth $8,000 last year, presto, it is worth $10,000 this year.

And the extra rate on the extra two thousand pays your portion of
the extra millions. Easy, isn’t it? And mind you this budget does not in-
clude the proposed road bond issue; and but interest payments on the more
than three mil-lions paid out for war purposes during the past two years. A
study of Michigan’s present condition wil be of interest, in preparation for
the surprise you have in store when you ask for your tax receipt next De-
cember.

Perhaps it is better to close. by quoting from Whipple: “A politician
weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for the politicians tenacious-
ly in the wrong. You can not. by tying an opinion to a man's tongue,
make him the representative of that opinion; and, at the close of any
battle for principle, his name will be found neither

among the dead or wounded, but among the missing." 4; a 7W1-

 

 

   

The time limit '
for using the vote power has not yet expired; possibly the Governor may -

The valuation of the state;

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LIFTING THE LID AT LANSING~

(Continued from preceding page)

have been shrewd enough to take advantage of
this situation.and as a result, it has been pointed
out, the equalization last made in spite or the
protest of the tax commission, unloaded $750,000
of the legitimate taxes of Wayne county and dis-
tributed them over the other counties of the state.
In other words everybody outside of Wayne coun-
ty paid more money for taxes because certain of
our state oﬁ‘lcials wished to make good fellows of
themselves with Wayne county politicians.

Under the new law the state ofﬁcials will have
no power to favor Wayne county for political rea-
sons and the rest of the state will 'get a square
leal regardless of its vote in the state convention.

The central purchasing agency is a move of
which much is expected. and it‘s work will be
watched with interest. It is a new job of course
and much will depend on which particular citizen
of Bad Axe the governor selects for the position.

THE WAREHOUSE AMENDDIEN T AGAIN

HEN SENATOR Boulanger‘ arose in the

senate and after reviewing the ﬁght made

by the friends of the movement to provide
better marketing facilities for farm products as
exempliﬁed in the proposed terminal warehouse
constitutional amendment, and admitted defeat of
the amendment at the hands of the house commite
toe on constitutional amendments, and announced
that all further efforts for the amendment would
be abandoned and advised those concerned that the
responsibility for the failure of the amendment
and any consequencees which might entail, would
rest with those responsible for its retention in
the committee he opened the way for a record vote
on the matter in the House. It ﬁnally dawned on
Mr. Ivory that the other fellows who wanted the
resolution stopped had made him the goat and the
resolution Was reported out. Diamond Crystal
Salt Moore of St. Clair, moved to lay it on the ta-
ble, which meant to kill it. The speaker called for
a vive voce vote and there was a great preponderm
ance of “‘ayes." Braman of Kent, however,, do-

" 'Semrinr Bazaar-{s nom de plume

manded a roll call and on that the motion carried
45 to 88. Sixteen farmer members voting to kill
it and ﬁve lawyers and all the labor men voting
to save it, and so it went on the table by the votes
of farmers scared by call of “Wolf, “Wolf” by
those who will proﬁt by, its defeat. It would have
stopped right there if it had been left to the farm.
ers in the House. They have been eating out of
the hands of the salary grabbers and junkers so
long that there seems to be no initiative and» little
self-respect left among them. It remained for Pet-
er Lennon, a lawyer member from Genesee county,
to move later to take theresolution from the table
which he did after making a strong speech giving
reasons why the matter should go to the people
for their decision. Ameng other things he said
"The divergence in price received by theiarmer
and that paid by the consumer discloses a very
faulty marketing system which this is intended in
some measure to remedy.” And “there will be
eighteen months for discussiOn of this matter be-
fore the people will be called upon to vote on it,
and if it has no merit, its enemies can surely, in
that time show the people its faults."

Fred Kappler, the farmer member from the Cop-
per country, made some telling points in its favor.
Then George Welch, publisher of The Fruit Belt
of Grand Rapids, started out like a man who had
been paid in advance to do a dirty piece of work.
He advanced no argument but conﬁned himself to
billingsgate. He said the proposition was the
child of a disordered brain; that it involved bolshe-
vism, anarchy, socialism, non-partisan leagu‘eism,
Ku Kluxism, damnatiou and death. He warned all
the devotees of special privilege to avoid it as
they would avoid the sirens of the sea. He extoll-
ed the gentleman with the Ivory dome as a self-

. sacriﬁcing patriot and sat down amid cheers with

the air bespeaking conﬁdence of having done what
was expected'of him. Bramar of Jackson, Hop--
kins of Manistee, and Fitzgerald of Detroit, threw
a few 'gas shells at it and then Evans of Lenawee
the only farmer to open his mouth, got up and
stabbed it in the back though, he had promised to
support‘it‘ . When the Lennon'moti‘on was put no
one asked for the “ayes and nays” and it was lost
in a chorus 'of “No’s.”

 

BIG INCREASE IN AGRICULTURAL mm
(Oontbuwdiﬁ'mpayeil) gross» tons sheltering :er
detained in‘ neutral posts; and 19,324 granite!!!
not located. Additions to the Austrian ﬂeet dur-
ing the war' were 56,672 gross tons, making the» to-
tal merchant tonnage in the possession of Austria
at the time the armistice was signed 702,794 gross
tons.

Britishlmport Restrictions on Agricultural
Products Removed

This would leave in possession of the Central '

Powers on November 11, 1918 a grand total of 4,-
010,435 gross tons to be added to the merchant

tonnage of the world. A portion of this has been ‘

turned over already to the Allied Government for
operation in exchange for foodstuffs.

Condensed Milk

The consul general also reported that the Brit-
ish food controller on May 31 will release all con-
trol of canned condensed milk, except thu, the
maximum retail prices ("$0.23 to $0.29 per tin of 12

to 16 oz. for full cream) still will be retained. Af- ~

ter June 1, general licenses will be issued for the
importation of condensed milk.

Bacon, Ham and Lard
The existing stocks of imported bacon, hams and

lard boughthy the Food Ministry will be sold '

through approved agents after March 31. Agent.
will be allotted not less than 200 boxes of bacon

or ham. or 10 tons of lard, and will receive a cam- '

mission of 2 shillings 3 pence ($0.55) per cwt.
Additional Foodstuffs under General Moon-e __esf
The consul general reported that the following
agricultural products, which formerly were re-
stricted, may now be imported freely into United
Kingdom under general licenses:

and preserved fruits; hams; tallow and vegeta- g
The articles in

bles, except gherkina' in brine.
the. foregoing list are either additions to: previous
geared-license lists. or are amendments to those
lists. x i (To be concluded) ' "

    

 

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done of the Detroit dailies has a correspondent
“111 Washington who has been telling the farmers

; , of" the country how prosperous they have been
’3 since the war began.‘
age farmer has, in the past four years, been able

tells us that the aver-

to add ﬁve thousand dollars to his bank account,
and in addition to that add ﬁve per cent on his
investment; put aside twenty per cent to main-
tain machinery, and ﬁve per cent for repaiis on
buildings, feed and clotlm his family, pay his’
taxes, probably pay off the mortgage or at least
cut a hole in it, paid the highest wages and
highest prices known, and in addition to all this
the value of his property has climbed out of

I sight.

' Will some one please passthe hat and take up

a. collection to reward that bright correspondent \

forth-is discovery? It was very fortunate for him

thathe went directly to headquarters for his .in— .

formation instead of going out in the country
and interviewing the farmers themselves. Had
he gone to the farmers he never would have
learned any such fairy tales as he has doped out.
The Correspondent did happen to stumble on a
bit of truth, for'the farmer has had to pay the
highest wag-es and prices known, but where the
rest of his great prosperity comes in is beyond

. the ability of the average farmer to ﬁgure out.

I wish he had been a little more speciﬁc, so
that the farmers could tell in what line they had
been making such undreamed of proﬁts. It
might have helped to a continuance of the pros-
perous days for a While longer, but he failed to
specify whether the farmer made more money by
raising stock to enrich the packers, or beans to

1 make money for a government official and his

friends. He leaves the farmers in doubt, and
should proceed to impart some more of his Wis—
dom.

It gives a farmer “that tired feeling” to read
some 'ofthestuff that is sent broadcast over the
country thru the medium of the daily press. We

, are told that Secretary Lane asked a crowd of

poldiers how many of them wanted farms (at
government expense) and they all held up their
hands. Naturally they did. Suppose the gov-
ernment offered you and me a good city lot with
a nice residence on it. Would we refuse? We
might want to stay on the farm and work from
twelve to ﬁfteen hours out of twenty-four, but
we could rent or sell the city place and be able

to pay off the debts we owe or to start a bank

account.
In another place we are told that the govern-

.ment' is planning to buy four million acres of

Michigan’s cut-over lands to be used to provide
farms for the soldiers. The most of these lands
are held by the big lumber companies and they
have been asking from twelve to twenty dollars

.an acre. for“ them if a prospective settler wanted

to buy. (To digress a little, I would like to in-
quire at what price these lands were assessed
" for taxation purposes). If the plan is carried
out the government will pay‘several times what
the lands are worth and then not one soldier
in a hundred and I doubt if one in a thousand
could be induced .to live on such lands and try
to make .a living from them. I say try advised?
1y, for how many of the young men from the
cities would know the ﬁrst thing about farming.
For the sake of argument we will suppose that
the government buys the four million acres and
divides it up into forty—acre farms, and that a
hundred thousand soldiers can be found willing
and 'able to- work these farms at a proﬁt. Do

. the farmers’of Michigan who are already trying

none too successfully, to make a living and get
.a little ahead for old age, want the competition
of a hundred thousand more farmers in the
state all at once?

The farmeis of the country did their best to
supply the world with .food during the war, and
:at a great disadvantage becauseit was almost
impossible to secure adequate help. The gov—
«zernment helped (?) them out by limiting the
{prices on wheat, beans, corn, etc., and now the
farmer is to be made the “goat" by having a
;mill:ion returning soldiers, more or less, oom-
..;.;1ete max him in the markets of the country and
the world.

A majority of the returning soldiers would
" , , r to go into “business in the cities and towns.

never have worked in such stores, but they

.would know as much about running them as they
.. would about running a farm,
vwould cost less than the farms.

and the stores

One idea is just
as sensible as the other, but imagine the govern-
ment starting a few such stores in the average
small town, and :listen to the howl that would go

up from those who are already doing business in

those places. .

Let the soldier choose for himself; if he
wants a farm then put him on one, and if' he
wants a store, put him in a store. Many of the
soldiers have learned a lot about motor cars and
trucks, and some of them might like to start a
repair shop and do something they know how to
do, rather than to try to run a farm that they
know nothing about.

Last of all. I do not believe there is any call
for" Seeretary Lane, or anyone else, worrying
about jobs for the returning soldiers. The most
of them had jobs before they went away. if they
wanted them, and the most of these W311 ﬁnd
their old jobs waiting for them. Many of the
“boys, owing to the training which they received
before being sent across are better able to do cer-
tain lines of Work than they were before. Then
there are many men urgently needed on the

_ farms at once, and there Will be jobs for many

thousands of them in building the good roads in
Michigan and other states. Apollos Long, Weav-
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FARMER ASSESSED ON IMPROVEMENTS AL-
MOST TO EXTINCTION

If the U. S. Government attempts any whole—
sale buying of farmyland, it is inevitable that
it will stimulate speculation in farm land—~not
only in the farm land the government wishes
to buy, but in all farm land on the market that
can be put to this use. Possibly the government
might “condemn” the land it wishes to acquire,
when a jury would decide on its value; but the
simple fact that land was required would raise
the price of such land wherever it might lie.
And the jury would'so decide.

Put say, 50,000 more people 011 the land in
any county in Michigan, and what would be the
value of that land the day this was done com—
pared to the day before this movement was
thought of? Wouldn’t it have the same effect

-es had the announcement that Mr. Ford was

going to employ 20,000 more workmen in his
factory at Highland Park on the area in and
around his great plant? The price of every
available lot in that vicinity “went to the sky”

almost instantly. And naturally so. It increas-
ed competition for lots'available for workmen’s
homes. And just so, when the government steps
into the market for land to make over into
farms, upwiizl go the price of farm land.

By the way,'a1m-ost simultaneously with. the
announcement of the increase in the number to
be employed by the Ford plant, the wages of
common laborers were increased to $5.00 per
day. But the increase in land values actually
absorbed more than the increase in wages. That
is to say, the speculators in vacant land were the
ones who proﬁted most by Mr. Ford’ s apparent
generosity. .' ~ '

Stanley Warner of Doster should also con-
sider another thing. There is not today too
much land being used, as he suggests. There is
a market for everything the farmer can raise.

 

recOllection of getting three adequate meals a '
day; yes, even once a day. That is the fault
with our inequitable system of distribution—«a
system under which farmers as well as other
wealth producers suffer. But that is another
story. _ ' 1

Mr. Warner has guessed right. I have “more
capital invested in improvements than in land. ”
But so has every farmer in Michigan Take away

.his improvements and he would have only wild

land left. And Wild land in Michigan today is
not worth on the average $5 an acre. I am of-
fered partially improved land for $12.50 an acre.
The farmer has little value except labor value.
unless heis located on one of Oakland county’s
beautiful lakes, when he has, in addition to
labor value, site value——land someone in De—
troit wishes to buy for a summer home. But
as the farmer does not make site value, why
should he be allowed to obtain something he did
not earn? Wouldn’t it be m01e equitable to
return this site value to society in the shape of
taxes?

The farmer is assessed on his improvements
almost to~extinction; most of the taxes in the
country are on improvements. The large owners
of improvements in congested districts have a
way of hiding them, or shifting the taxes on
them. In the present tax system the poor devil
of a farmer who pays more than his share of
taxes, and the shifter of taxes who pays less
than his share are partners—Judso/J (,l-rcncll.

ANOTHER FRIEND OF THE CAT

I am a reader of your valuable paper and have
been glad to see two letters in your paper in
defense of the cat. I have lived on a farm all
my life and never lost a chicken yet by a out,
not even by a stray one. Our cats get all the
milk they want and other food if they want. it
and they never offer to touch my chickens. If I
have a young kitten around I keep watch a lit—
tle when the young chickens come, and if I see
the kitten watching the chickens I just scare it
away by either cufﬁng its ears lightly or chasing
it away with a small switch, striking the switch
against a board or something that will make a
noise. A few times will be all that is required.
\Vhen they grow up then they pay no attention
to the chickens. I raise my chickens with hens
and the old clucks are pretty good themselves at
scaring a kitten away. In fact I had to rescue
one kitten from an old cluck. It was so sur—
prised and frightened it didn’t know what to do.
Now, if a war of extermination, cruelty and ter-
ror is started against the cats, the next thing
would be a rat and mice plague. and when the
rats get good and thick there will not be much
poultry or rabbits either raised. Rats are too
cute to be caught in traps very much. Dogs
might kill a few rats but all they would get
wouldn’t keep them down much. And as for us-
ing poison, that is disagreeable and dangerous,
-and if very much of it were used would likely
destroy a lot of birds too. I think there are
other reasons for the scarcity of birds besides
the cat. Cats have always been kept and about
25 or 30 years ago there seemed to be plenty of
birds. Now cats seldom if ever get. a swallow,
yet they are just as scarce now as the other nice
birds. The English sparrow has crowded them
out. The crows and hawks are thick as ever.
The timber is gettingthinned out and the ex—
tensive spraying of fruits and vegetables that
is done now is not any beneﬁt to either birds or
bees—Mrs. W. J. Parker, Lupurr «mm/u.

THE BOARD OF TRADE AN'D THE li‘Ai‘lM
BUREAU

Odd combination, is it not? One is supposed
to represent the farmers and their interests.
the other to work in the interests of the City
business men; the very class that is plucking
the farmer With one hand and the consumer
with the other, to feather their own nests. A
sort of lion and lamb gathering; not of the mil—
lineum order as the lion showed no disposition
to “eat grass,” so what was he there for? Did
the farmers call him in to run their business?
Not at all, for he plainly said that the Board of
Trade told him he must come and he told the
farmers the purpose of the meeting and who
would be the chairman of it, and thus depriving
the people of their right to elect their own men
for chairman and secretary, co; trary to all right
usage. This is not hearsay, as I was present at
the meeting and heard Mr. —— say the B. of T.

 

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Now shall I tell you why these men acted so"
high~ ~handed with the fa1n1e1s’ rights? The
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cured his helpers to help him 'herd

the farmers and keep them out of mis-

chief. But the herding was not very
successful as the most of the farmers
broke loose from their herd, saying
that they did not think city men had
any business to run farm affairs any
more than farmers would have to run
city affairs. Evidently the city men
do not object much to the little‘ship-
ping societies that the farm bureau
has been organizing as they serVe to
take attention from the bigger farm-
ers’ societies that might get strong
enough to inﬂuence state and national

,ry rrregular for farmers. t_.And then,._,,

"they might even fav‘or "terminal el‘e- .

' vators," toe, owned by the state ' or.

. “some other thing against the interests
1 ”of their oppressors, so a man was sent
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ether, state and interstate societies
that have been worrying the trusts
some and hope .to Worry them much
more. If the farm bureaus are to
amount to much they must be freed
from the control of opposing interests
and united under one head that will
enable them to work together and in
harmony with other farmers' socie-
ties and perhaps the consumers in the
cities would make common cause with
us*against unjust prices for the dis-
tribution or farm and other products
that we too are consumers "of. '/ Natur-
ally'it is the business of farmers to
raise foods and of the city men to dis-
tribute it to the consumers. We have
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the only things that count.

Price is secondary. The Grant Six has never been sold on price. It has
been on the market, a tremendous success for ﬁve seasons. Sales enlarging—

popularity growing each season.

Yet. we say judge the Grant Six either way.

Price or quality!

Every known economy in production that does not reduce quality is

employed in the big Grant factory.

It is well known that Grant "overhead"

is much lower than that of most factories.

Thus we are able to give you the advantage of both quality and price. We
don't have to talk about it. Our dealers don't talk about it. They simply
point to the Grant Six which 13 a perfectly convincing "proof" of these state-

ments.
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One of the advantages of Grant quality is the low operating cost of the

Grant Six.

OWners average 20 miles to the gallon of gasoline, 900 miles to

the gallon of oil and 7000 miles to the set of tires.

Price of the
Five-Passenger Touring Car is $1 nil—Roadster Slum—Coupe $1625

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more foods so it will be cheaper When W .

the trouble is not on the farm- but ‘

right in the city as the distributors
charge all they can get no matter, how
cheap they buy. If the city men will
do their part as well as we have done
ours they will get their foods cheaper
and we might get a living price for
production and that would increase

the amount of stuff formorethan a.‘

little smooth talk can when we have
already more stuff‘than we get paid
wages for raising.

Then it is rather weak for the city
consumer to expect the farmers to do
everything and him nothing to make
his foods cheap to him. If they 'can

not buy right through present chan-
nels let them help pass laws to favor
other ways of distribution—Francis
G. Smith. Rlanchard, Mich.

 

 

 

HENEVER I want to look on-

to real money, feast my eyes

on it, so to speak, I most al-
ways step into one of the banks here
in town—banks mast always have
quite a little bit of money on hand
you knoW—an', while it's easy to see
it’s darn hard to git, but I like'to
see a little of it once in a While, an’
so the other day, havein’ a hanker-
in' to look at some of the ﬁlthy stuff,
I went into One of the big banks to
get a squint at it.

There was quite a crowd into the
bank, talkin’ an’ some of ’em tradin’
pieces of paper with a little writin’
onto ’em, for what looked like real
good money. After watchin’ these
purceedin’s a few minutes I wrote
like this:
“Please gim’me 2 hundred dollars.
I’m kinda busted ﬁnancialy an’ need
it.” Well, I handed it to the feller
that was givin'. away the money an’
he looked at it an’ then at me an’
:sez, sez he, “Well, Uncle, when did
you git out o’ the ’sylum?”—Well,
what I started to tell about was a
man I see walkin’ around in the
bank. He was dressed up, slick as
could be, nice suit of clothes an’ coln
lar an’ everything. Why even the
hairs on his head was numbered, an’
it would’nt take a feller long to
count ’em either. Well, this man
seemed to know everything an’ most
everybody. He’d take folks by the
hand an’ show ’em ’round an’ tell
’em what they wantedto know—oh
gosh! he was a wise guy, believe me,
an’ useful too. Well, purty soon a
man stepped into the bank that I
know the minnit I clapped my eyes
onto. He was a farmer an’ this
slick lookin’ feller knew he was too
an’ he rushed clear across the room
an’ grabbed him by the hand a-n’
asked him all about his folks, an’
crops, an’ everything, an’ then sez,
“do you know, Mr. Brown, I wish I
knew how to farm—you bet I
wouldn't be here a minnit,” he sez.
Now Mr. Brown seemed to have quite
a little money by him but I guess he
didn’t care for it much for he give it
all to the teller standin’ back where
the bank’s money was kep, an’ all he
got for that whole bunch of money
was jest a little slip of paper—.‘Lthey
told me afterward it was a receipt

for money he had paid, onto a mort-
gage on his farm. Well, after he went
out, wantin' to be sociable, I asked
the slick little man why he wanted
to be a farmer. “ ’Cause,” sez he,
“the farmers are jest a gittin’ rich,

makein' money hand over ﬁst, ” he~

sez. “Jest see what that man jest
mortgage—Why at
that rate,” he’sez, “in ten or ﬁfteen

years he'll have his farmall paid for -

an’ be independent for life. ” “An’

then, " see he, "jest see how easy he

gets the money—Why his stud grows
while he sleeps," ~—-tal_ked jest he

makes the
city people surest bloodto h"
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you knew enough to go onto 8; arm
an’ was obliged to do it—take i
as this man did——-have to pay for) it
take his chances on everything, be.
robbed by banks as he has been, be
held up an’ skinned by every darned
scalawag that comes along to buy
from him .or sell to him, pay ”fthe‘”

 

     
   
       
 

‘ taxes as he has to pay ’emr—an’ then

I got hot up a little an’ I sez, “Why ..

gash sakes! Here you fellers be, per;
tected in every way by laws, able to

git any land of legislation you want ‘ ‘3:

’cause you’ ve gpt the money to do
it—an’ what
Dirt, by gosh!" I sez.

“Yes, " I sez, “darned if I wouldn't" '

like to see a lot of you hifalutin'
tellers be‘ compelled to go right out
an’ make your livin' on the farm;
then, mebbe you would know some-
thin' about what the farmers are up

does the farmer git?

against; know that they have no bed .

of roses an’ that their money don’ t
grow on bushes. You mlght then have
a little mite of sense an’ would see

that the farmers are up against a

hard problem. With everythin’ work-
in' agin ’em, even our legislaturis
made up of lawyers, bankers ,an'
capitalists from the cities,” I sez, “an'
the farmers an’ their interests stand
’bout as much chance there as a
snowball in—well I might have said
more 'but the darn fool ha‘d fainted

an’ I wanted a little air anyway so .I ' V

went out where money wasn’t ,so
free but the air was purer. —Uncle
Rube.

 

TIME TO CALL A HALT .
Thermometer down to 20 this
morning. That is going some for
.the last of April. Spuds sold at Tru-
fant yesterday at $2.16. Why don’t

"that committee at Lansing report'out

the farmers’ Warehouse bill? Can’t
they see the handwriting on' the wall?
Don’t they know that the farmers
and farm women and farm employees
now have the controlling vote in our
state? Looks as though they wanted
a job of “slopping the hogs,” don’t
it? If they would play the role of
servant, which they are supposed to'
be, and not that of master, they
might be able to put off the ‘lhog- ‘
slopping” job for some time yet.

Why don’t the farmers of our state
raise a fund to advertise in some of
the leading city daily papers to ed-
ucate the city people as to where the
farmers are at; what it costs us to
produce the various farm commodit-
.ies andthat we are not hogs nor
proﬁteers, just want cost, of produc—
tion and a living proﬁt.

Here is a serious question that
’oughtto be put up to producers and
consumers of farm produce; it is
this: As things are going at pres-
ent and have been in the past, how
long will it be before farmers and
consumers will become Bolshevists?
Are we not rapidly coming to that?
If I can understand what I read, con-

ditions in Russia are similar to ours ,.

only of longer duration is what has
driven the people to. Bolshevism.
There have crept in between the
farmer and the consumer so many
middlemen and food speculators that
they take pretty nearly the whole

' hog.

Political economy teaches us that _-
it is better to have a division bf la-
bor. Every man work at and pro-
duce that for which he is best ﬁtted

by nature and buy the products of , I

the other fellow. That would work ,_ p
out nicely if every man could sell.

his product for enough to cover cost
of production and a living profit.

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TIME DOEs NOT LEGALIZE MAR-
4: ,_ - RIAGE . H

. If a couple were married thirty-one
Fryears and he had a wife living from

  
  

‘ga‘ny married? _D‘6‘es the passing of
“ “:5- «time make them lawfully married be.
’fgcause‘they lived together? Does her

1 will hold good saying to my husband I

,_ will, and her only child by a former
‘ Smarriage (she has none by the last),
i is to have $500 at the death of said
Blank. If he uses all the money how
could her son be said to be left any—
fh'thing? The realrestate was left to
TV'Blank his lifetime and to go to her

   
 

out _ ' “I: up the taxes and take care of the
er; “ ,g-property while he has it? Your opin—
)me- ; .gion' would be. greatly appreciated.—
3.111.): Mrs. F. E. R., Newberry, Mich.

bed , ' The lapse of time does not legalize
out a marriage made while an undivorced
lave wife of the husband was living; but,
see ‘ _ if the ﬁrst wife dies or is divorced, the.
t a " . continuation in the marriage relation
ork- * with the second wife makes a lawful
r 'is marriage of the husband with the sec-
;an' " and wife. I am of the opinion that
“an' the will of the second wife to her'“hus-
and band” would be good to the one who
i a stood in that relation and was known
said " in the community .as such. The life
ited ; tenant has to keep up the ordinary
so ,I ' taxes and keep the property in good
so condition except natural wear and
mm: , tear. I am unable to advise concerning

the estate in the $500 from the brief
statements of facts, but a life estate
. ' may be created in personal property
this by proper words; and, also, provision

for _ may be made that the devisees may
l‘ru- ’ use the whole personal estate and if
on’t ;. $500 is left it goes as provided in the
out will—W. E. Brown. legal editor.

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all ?
‘ TENANT’S RIGHTS

Iers
7663 Being a subscriber to your valuable
our . . paper I would like to have you answer
ited r the following questions: According to
on’t the laws of Michigan, would a tenant,
_- f . who was renting a place on shares, be
‘ O, entitled to remove his share of the
l to straw, at the expiration of said lease?
they Would bean pods come under the same
108- “ status as other straw? Please answer
these questions through the Legal De—
tate partment of your paper. I must say
, of ‘ that the publishers of MICHIGAN BUSI-
ed- NESS FARMING are rendering a most
the valuable service to' the farmers of
L to I" . Michigan—II. F. B.,’ Whittemorc.
dit- ' Unless atenant on shares has agreed
nor . to leave or to feed the straw or bean
luc- ‘ pods upon the premises he has a right

. to remove "his share upOn the expira-
hat l t‘ion of the term of the lease. Straw
and bean pods are a part of the

and .

is . "share.”—W. E. Brown, legal editor.
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[0W l SUPERVISOR MUST BE RESIDENT
1m} 1 AND VOTER OF TOWNSHIP
:2; Can a man. hold the oﬂice of super-

' visor in a township if he owns a farm,
on— .the personal property and machinery
urs " \ on his farm .in this township, but
[135’ rents the farm on shares to his son—in-
11. law, while he and his family live in a
the . city in another t0wnship, excepting a
my , .. few weeks in summer or a week or so
hat ‘ before election? This man has held
ole the ofﬁce of. supervisor in this town-
' . "ship, bu': has made his home in the

' l .. city of Midland for the last three
hat” , .' . years and it seems to measthough
18- » something could hedone about this
rro‘ ' ,3; . - matte ‘.—~J. D.,‘ Merrill, Mich.
ted " “A supervisor must be a resident and
.101; veter of the township in which he
”.3”. ~-holds\the ofﬁce of supervision The
:31: -Rv-'~qnestion of residence very largely conn

. trolled by one’s intent. 'The supreme
court has said, “‘A citizen who-has
T‘é’fected his domicile Is entitled to en-
‘5 it. The only question is as, to the
ar ieularJac‘tion which indicates his
Wee. ' .There can. never in the eye of
e". oretltan ope domicile of
BREW '_that' {nannies .in-the '

  

  

 

  

Emmi ioiéjturmors’ everyday troubles. _
ﬁ’ given to all cm'npldin'ts 6! requests for information addressed to» this depart-

:: whom he had no divorce, are theyle- .

‘ “No one will contend that a party lose
, Vi grandchildren. Does he have to keep '

~‘ot‘ years. The intention of the party,

' note and the article. Can 0 recover
half or any from D?——-D. S. A., Durand.

_ty to an instrument places his signa-

'the following rules:

to the order of a third person he is .
liable :to the payee and to allsubse- ‘
, lqnentparties. ' 1 ” h M

. Prompt, careful "nt-

cile is not lost by mere absence in the,

state 0r out of the state, whether with-
in .or’without the United States. Mere
bodily presence or absence can have no
effect in determining residence when
once existing.“ In another case a
man’s family resided at Royal Oak and
had resided there for some years and
he had been in the habit of going there
Saturday night and spending Sunday
there but was himself employed in
Detroit. The court said of such a case:

his residence and rights as an elector
because himselfand family temporar-
ily reside in some other city, township
or ward even though such temporary
residence should extend over a series

coupled with certain other facts is
vwhat governs."——W. E. Brown. legal
editor. '

NO DISEASE OF ALSIKE SEED

“Will you please inform me as to
whether‘there is a cure for diseased
seeds in alsike clover and what the
cure is?”—Rcader. ..

There is no disease recorded which
causes disease of alsike seed. It may
be that your correspondent, has in
mind hard seed or shrivelled seed.
This seed is slow to germinate and
perhaps scariﬁcation—scratching—of
the seed would remedy the trouble. I
would suggest that a sample be sent
to the state seed analyst at the Michi
gan Agricultural College for analysis
and test.——G. H. Coons. Plant PathoIO-
gist, M. 4. 0’.

WHO PAYS THE TAXES?

I have 80 acres of land purchased
from a land company on contract. An-
other man bought 80 acres adjoining,
making a square one-fourth section
formerly assessed to land company as
one description yet to this company.
One man-has improved 40 acres on his
80 acres. The other man has scarcely
any improvement but Wants the other
to stand one-half of the taxes on this
land, which is not a just tax as I
understand it. The county clerk is
supposed to notify the supervisor of
each township of the transfers of land
in his department. The supervisor of
this township has lived here for years
and has known the owners of this
land. And it looks like neglect of duty
on his part. Can you inform me what
to do in this matter?——-F. 8.. McMillan,
Michigan.

The tax law provides that:

“Any person owning an undivided
share or other part or parcel of real
property assessed in one description
may pay on the part thus owned by
paying an amount having the same re-
lation t0 the whole tax as the part on
which, payment is made has to the
whole parcel.” I would :be of the opin-
ion that this would mean the acreage
and not the value—W. E. Brown, leg-
al. editor.

ENDORSEDIENT BRINGS TROUBLE

I would like to have you answer this
question through your service bureau.
A purchased an article from B and
gave B a property note. C backed the
note- with the understanding with B?
that D, the fourth party, would back it
too and D did back it. A is in the army
now in France and he failed to take
care of the note. B started suit against
0. C paid the note and now has the

_ Where'a person not otherwise a par-

ture in blank before delivery he is lia-
ble as an indorser in accordance with

First, if the instrument is payable

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2.70 2.50 1

N00 3 Red. . . . I
No. 5- White . . 2.68 2.47 2.48
No. R Mixed . . 2.68 2.47 2.48

' HE ANTICS of the wheat mar-
ket constitutes perhaps the big—
gest surprise of any of the late

velopments of the grain deal. Neither
producers nor operators are able to
understand the apparent lack of sur-
prise and the strength which the mar-
ket has shown. during the past two
months. Speaking of the situation
a welt—known trade paper says: .

"At the rate wheat is leaving this
country indications are that the car-
ry-over into the new crop will not
much exceed the 28,000,000 bushels
on hand July 1 last year. Strange
as it may seem there has been a.
remarkable disappearance of grain in
the last few weeks, far beyond what
almost everyone in the trade had any
reason to believe. It is quite appar—
ent now that practically all the com-
mercial grain of the country was in
1h; show windows, and while mills
LU} fairly liberal stocks of wheat
early in the year the great rush to ﬁll
the export orders for ﬂour from the
Food Administration absorbed this
and when the domestic call com—
menced in volume efforts to secure
'more from the producer developed
the. fact that there was little to be
had. The Government promptly re-
leased its surplus holdings, probably
around 40,000,000 bushels, but this
'has already been sold, and W,hat lit-
tle is received from the interior is
passing out of sight rapidly at the.
highest ﬁgures on the crop, and at
close to the record levels of two years
ago.”

The renewed and unsatisﬁed de-
mand for this grain from many Eur-
opean countries is rapidly overcom-
ing the fears of the alarmists that
the 1919 crop would be far in ex-
cess of the requirements and makes
the possibility of a government loss
very remote. Perhaps nothing has
better illustrated the world shortage
of foodstuffs than the rapidity with
V; ich an apparent surplus of wheat
has; been dissipated by domestic con-
Li...ll)tl0n and export. The strength
of the wheat market has been one
on? the most important factors in
keeping other grain markets in good
condition.

We learn from many sources that
many. farmers are planning to plant
spring wheat instead of beans this
3. ear. The certainty of a fair price,
1: 11d the now apparent need for every
lushel of wheat grown are the de-
ciding factors. In view of the latest
developments in this market, we
think no farmer need let his con-
science bother him if he takes advan:
tage of the guaranteed price and
plants wheat. Perhaps even, as Mr.
Barnes has intimated, the price of
wheat may go to $3.50 a bushel be-
fore the European countries are in a
position to again raise the bulk of
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GRADE Detroit Chicago N. I
No. 2 Yellow . . 1.84
No. '3 Yellow . . 1.74 1.70 1.83
No. 4 Yellow 1.71 1.65I 1.81

 

 

 

 

Up to the ﬁrst of the present week
the corn market has shown unusu—

’ ally strong tendencies .and prices

have jumped at little each day. The
ﬁrst of the week ﬁnds the market
slightly erratic and less ﬁrm. This
is due to some extent to the desper-

ate attempts of the bears who have»

been foiled at every turn so far to
iujeCt uncertainty into the market.

‘ Their efforts are bearing fruit tem-

éporarily. Farmers. should not be-
"come alarmed at occasional slumps
They must know
“that desperate attempts are. being
,mad’oa’w held-prices down and that
:3 cos only advance because in‘the
analysis people 'must be fed! and

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Beans slightly ﬁrmer. Potatoes ﬁrm in good demand, prices
_ Productmg sections quote $1 to $1.25 per
Dressed live stock in poor demand.

. s weaker and prices slightly lower.
DON’T SELL GRAINS ON THIS DE-
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there is none. too much wherewith to
feed them. The price- of wheat and
hogs keeps the corn market in good
condition. Little if any corn is be-
ing exported, the Argentine supplies
taking. care of most of the European
demand. But pork raised on Ameri-
can corn is being exported in enor-
mous quantities and will continue to
be. It makes no difference to corn
growers whether corn goes over-seas
as a grain or via the pig. The results
to the farmer are the same.

We are much amused at this ad-
mission by one of the nation’s leading
grain papers which has persistently
talked lower prices and overproduc~
tion of the grains:

“The action of the grain markets
in persistently ignoring the routine
news, which has been almost entirely
of a bearish character, has created
considerable surprise. The secret of
this is found in the fact that there
is always a sympathetic action be-
tween corn and oats and wheat. The
latter is to all‘practical purposes
“cornered,” and while the Govern-
ment has been talking lower prices
for foodstuffs, the wheat has persis-
tently advanced. It commences to

look as though the last wheat crop
was somewhat overestimated.”

    

 

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Standard .. .70 ‘ .7434 .81
No, 3 White .. .7599 .7315 .80
No. 4 White, .7414. 32% .73
Strength and extreme optimism
rules in the cat market. The low

price of cats as compared with other
grains has caused many farmers to
turn to spring wheat, and it is pre-
dicted that the cat acreage will suffer
materially as the result. Present
prices of oats, while the. highest 01!
the season, are not attractive at all,
and there is no question but what the
price will go higher. Visible sup-
plies, that is, supplies in hands of
local elevators, in transit and at ter-
minal points, are the smallest of the
year, but farmers are holding back
large supplies for higher prices.
There has been no expert activity to
speak of in oats, but because of the
guaranteed price for wheat and the
certainty of a decreased acreage the
feeling is strong. We still believe
that Michigan farmers should grow
more oats this year.

Rye and Barley

Rye is not showing the strength
so much in evidence in other— grains.
With plenty of wheat in sight rye is
not in the demand as substitute that
it once was. However, there is not
expected to be any declines in this
grain. The market is quoted ﬁrm
and steady at $1.76 per bushel, De-
troit. '

Barley is looking up and there is
an active demand for all grades.
Prices range, $2.30@$2.40 per cwt.

 

There is no change in this market.
Exportation to Europe continues freed
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'Monthly‘ Market and Financial Review

M ICHIGAN went. over the top in the Victory loan without any fuss a‘nd
. Farmers 'and City people alike joined hands, and no especial credit is

With ﬂying colors—the ﬁrst state in the union to raise her quota
due to anyone for having done the job in so prompt and thorough a manner:

Inasmuch as other sections are ﬁnding it difﬁcul
remarkable success of the campaign in this state is
business conditions are good, and the people fairly

t to meet their quota, the
‘taken to indicate that
prosperous.

Analysis of reports made by 4,400 industrial establishments comprising
the National Assocxation of Manufacturers in a survey of conditions and

outlook is- as follows:

Present Conditions,

1 9 1 9 Prospects,

Per cent. Per cent
Poor .......... 31.14 14.36-
Fair . ...... 34.27 33.86
Good .. .. ...... 23.82 89.41
Excellent .. ....... 10.86 12.38

The association's membership is divided into 22 groups, 16 of which
reported bus1ness below 50% of prewar normal, 5 reported prosperity and one

reported its trade about equally divided between fair and good.
the leather and the leather manufacturing trade.
are jewelry and silverware, Innslcal instruments, vehicle groups,
automobile manufacture, rubber and tobacco.

luxuries, truly.

The month of April was very good to the farmers.

This, was
The “prosperous ﬁve”
including
The country is running to

It witnessed the

greatest increases in the prices of his products of any previous month sine.

before the war.

This is taken as .an indication that there is a market for
all his surplus at as good if not better prices than now prevail.

During the

month the shipping situation. cleared up considerably. We have been given

a much better understanding of the world’s food needs, information based“

on facts and not on guesses with which we have been formerly fed up. Ex-

cept for the nation-wide shortage of

farm help, the farmer approaches the

planting season with optimism and conﬁdence that it will be a good year.
Farmers have delayed purchasing much of their supplies for the summer

months, owing probably to the depressed conditions of the market.

Now

that things are looking/”up shit we expect to see him become a much heavier

purchaser. >
mer since the war cam (in a’ close.

Industrial prosperity is now peculiarly'dependent upon the far-
Unless the farmer buys his usual needs

and what luxuries he can ward. the industries of the nation will suffer, and

this: in turn will react sachet the farmer.

began to think of things-.111. their normal. pre-war right and conduct, them-

    

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...... 7 25 7.50 8.020
Prime . . 6.50 7.00 1,25
nod Kidney/. 10.25 11.00 10.75 ._
' during the winter months have not

yet been cleaned out and the weSl-ern .
states withihe possible exception of-
California are offering their cheap
beans at almost any ﬁgure. The feel-
predominates
this market will strengthen and prices
will be higher by mid-summer. We.
concur in this belief. . ’ . .'

We‘were much interested in a re-
port that was made to the Price Our-
rent Grain Reporter by a. Michigan
elevator, as follows: -

“We doubt if there are over 800 cars
of beans left in Michigan. In our
opinion 300 of these are owned by el-
evators while the balance is in the
growers’ hands. At the present time
elevators are reluctant to se , inns.
vm'uch as their stocks are being car-
ried at an average cost of.25 to 75c
above what they could obtain for beans
today, and as they cannot replace on
today's market at a proﬁt by addition-" '
al purchases from, growers. Growers
have been advised by their farm jour-
nals to, hold for higher prices, and as
they realize the Michigan crop is get-
ting pretty well cleaned up and as they
feel as do many of the country elevat-
ors, that [as soon as peace is signed
there will be a demand for beans for
export, they are ﬁrm holders.

“There has been considerable talk
around the state of the possibility of
another Government purchase within
the next few days. While all the Mich-
igan shippers feel that California
would be given the bulk of an addi-
tional order, they have been led to be
lieve that Michigan will not be over”-
looked and will possibly receive about
the same percentage on a future order ‘
that California did on the last order
when Michigan was awarded 350 cars
and California 150 cars. ‘

“There is little business at .the pres.
ent time; still, we believe recognized
jobbers' stocks are well cleaned up and
should they sell any volume of stock
it would necessitate their buying-in
from country elevators. They would
meet with diﬁlculty in buying in any
quantity at present. A little demand
therefore, in our opinion, would show
us a better market. However, if lack
of demand continues for two or three
weeks longer, it may be some coun-
try elevators who are ﬁrm holders at
present will have ”a change of heart.” '

THAT BEAN ACREAGE

A contemporary takes exception to
the advice given by M. B. F. to farm-
ers to reduce their. bear. acreage. It be-
lieves that because it is still following
in the same rut worn out by its early
founders that the farmers should fol-
low suit. As an argumert for an av,-
erage acreage of beans, it presents the
theory that because grandfather plant-
ed beans and dad planted beans, that
thou should go and do likewise. The
matter of proﬁts should not enter in-
to the matter at all. It would, inthe
judgment of our contemporary, be sui-
cidal for any farmer to plant less than

-ten acres of beans in a ten-acre ﬁeld,

and quite out Of keeping with long-es- .
tablished and honorable custom to di~
vide the ﬁeld and put some other crop"
on two or ﬁve acres of it. Now per-
haps the primary reason why men till
the soil is to maintain a. perfect sym-
metry of vegetation, but we don't think
so. We have a new-fashioned idea that
"the'reason farmers till the soil is to
make money. And if the-planting oi

. an entire ﬁeld to beans means less

money to them than dividing'the ﬁeld
and planting part to some other crop,
that good business will lead them to-
adopt the latter course. Mebbe we are
wrong. ,
Just because farmers 01 . Michigan
have always grown beans in certain
quantities is nary an argument why
they must always grow beans in the
same quantity. To. all appearances the ‘
acreage of beans last year was excess: '
hrs and the production too large. ' H

., every bean-growing state in the union, '

fools itself into thinking that every
other bean state is going to cut its
acreage and that is a reason why it
should not the acreage wontbs cut
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- may desire to plant their regular acre-
. age. But the majority‘ will cut their
acreage, perhaps not one-half or one-

third or one- ﬁfth, but some. This will

.not be because we have advised them
~to do but because as business men they
, can see for themselves that this is the

logical thing for them to do.

The bean jobbers held a meeting in
Detroit a couple weeks ago to which a
representative of M B. F. was invit-
ed. On account of other engagements
he was unable to attend. The sole pur-
pose of that meeting was to inaugutate
a campaign for increasing the bean
acreage And to the sentiments ex-
pressed there by the bean jobbers our

- critical contemporary has apparently

fallen a victim. When the bean mar-
ket is in such a chaotic condition as
it is today we refuse to join hands
with our contempmary and the bean
frobbers to urge the farmers to in-_
crease their am page Over large pro-
duction as a rule means mere money
for the jobber: and less for the farm-
ers. We are quite willing the jobbers
should do a larger velume of buSi—
ness and make a larger proﬁt by rea-
son thereof, but we are ot willing to
lend our efforts to bring this about,
unless we have better assurance than
i: now available that farmers will
make greater proﬁts also. When pop-

ularity of the Michigan bean has been

reestablished and we have some as-
surance that the crop will 'not go beg-
ging we shall be in a better frame of
mind to co- operate in an increased
production campaign. Wedon’t have

.to advise our readers this year not to
increase their acreage.

tend to anyway and we know that not
a few of them are going to reduce
their acreage even if they have to
break into that ten-acre
some other crop.

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Chicago 37.00 38.00 30.00 37 00]35 00 42. 00
Cincin. 39.50 410.00.39.00 3!). 50 38. 00 39 00
Pitts. 38.00 38.501303“ 34 “50'34 50 35 50
N Y. . . 5330 42.00-11.00 41.50!40 00 4l.00

Markets
Light Mix, Clov. Mix. Clover

Detroit 35.50 80.00 34.50 35.00 31.00 32.00
hicago 35.00 30.00.33.00 35.0031.00 83.00
lnc‘in - 37.50 38.50l36.50 37.50 33.00 34.00

Pitts 35.50 36.50 36.50 37.50 35.00 35.50

N, Y. . . 40.00 41.00 38.00 39.00!34.00 34.00

HAY VERY SCARCE IN THE EAST

Widespread surprise is manifest
over the scantiness 0f? hay supplies in
the East. Dealers having orders are
ﬁnding difﬁculty in ﬁlling their con-
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crop supplies will be indeed welcome '

to them. In many quarters heavy
losses are resulting from the scarcity.
The secret is the recent buying by the
Government to meet calls from the
American Expeditionary Forces in
France: Canada has been unable to
meet the full needs of the army for
over-seas shipments. The Atlantic
coast has been called upon for sup—
plies, and it is busily engaged ﬁlling
orders. Prices have worked up to
higher levels, and the situation in the
market gives no promise of a turn un.
‘til the army contracts are filled. De-
mand for civilian purposes is being
held down to a minimum, but there is
always a volume of hay trade passing
for domestic purposes at this season
which must be ﬁlled at any price; Per-
haps the best reﬂection of this fact is
the report from the Southwest that

prairie hay has sold as high as $41 a
ton lately. Eastern prices have been
ruling at the highest level of the year.
——~Roscnbanm Review.

  

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Detroit ...... . . . ’3 i0 cwt' 2.20 cwt.
Chicago . . . ..... 2 lo cwi. 2. 05 owt.
Cincinnati ...... 2 30 (wt, 2. 26 M.
New York . . . . . .| 2.56 cwt. 2 35 cwt.
mt hump $.50 «.th 2. so cwt.

 

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.WASHINGTON, D‘. 0., May? 3, 1919.
-—Last 'Bulletin gave forecasts of
warm wave to cross continent May2
to 6, storm wave 3 to 7, cool wave 4
to 8. This will be-
above average force; temperatures
will average above, rainfall below;
but some localities will get good rains
The géneral trend of temperatures
will be downward till near May
and some good rains are expected in
limited localities but too much
'scattered to be forecasted. The gen.
eral average of rainfall will be less
than usual to the end of May and
temperatures will be near normal or
the average of forty years

Next warm waves will reach Van~
couver about May? and 12 and tem—
peratures will rise on all the Paciﬁc
slope.

 

 

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in by close of May 8 and 13, plains '
sections 9 and 14, meridian 90, great
lakes. middle Gulf States and Ohio—-
Tennessee valleys 10 and 15, eastern
sections 11 and 16, reaching vicinity
of Newfoundland about May ‘12; and
17. Storm waves will follow about
one day behind warm waves.

This storm period will begin, near
May 8, in a. moderate way and all
weather features will be of little im-
portance. Its forces will slowly in-
crease and its weather features grad-
ually become more important till
near May 13, when it will begin to
develop great storms and increasing
rains followed by a cold wave an
frosts that will go farther south than
is usual for the season. During the
ﬁve days centering on May 16 severe
storms will prevail, followed by cold,
dangerous storms are expected. ,

Balance of May will average warm-
er but during the week centering on
May 28 great weather extremes and
bad weather.

ceipts. Much higher prices
pected as the summer advan,

      

  

     
   

 
 

war is very much in evidence. ,
troit quotations are 42%; @43 1,5- to
fresh eggs, and 441/4 @45c for at r»
age. A subscriber wants to know“
why storage cg _s are quoted hi ,

than fresh eggs. ..

     
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
 
     
  
    

There is little change in this mar; '
ket. Supplies are small but demand.
is not heavy. No. 1 springs, 33 to
340; stage, 29 to 300; fat hens, 37
to 380; small hens and Legghorns, 34'
to 35c; roosters, 24 to 25c; geese, 27

 

 

 

 

an element of weakness in it. We have
communicated with various potato
marketing authorities and they all
agree that the future of the old potato
deal can be nothing but a series of
advances. Potatos went up to $2.35
per cart, in Detroit on April 23rd, and
there they have stayed. All other con-

suming markets which reached their »

high point about that time show no in-
dications of a slump. Developments
are all of a bullish nature, and higher
prices are» expected, thOugh none be.
lieve that they will reach the top
prices of 1917. Early potatoes are
reaching the market in» fairly sizable
quantities and are generally of good
quality, but the prices are too high
to attract many from old potatoes.
Florida Rose have been jobbing in
Detroit around $5 a bu., which means
more a peck than a bushel of old ones.
to the consumer. Of course, as ship-
ments increase the southern varieties
will drop but the abnormally small
yield will not permit prices low
enough to offer much competition with
old stock.

The Packer says:"Potato prices are
working higher as predicted.
seems to be a strong feeling among
Western New York dealers that the

age, eggs are ﬁrm and in great de-

 

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advance has only begun and that be- f
fore the wind- -up of the crop potatoes ,

will command a round price. This is

based on the narrowing stocks availa- .
ble, which are considerably below ear- 1
Her estimates and the belief that the 2-
Southern crop will be below average I

and rather late. ”

Farmers should have their
pretty well off their hands by May
20th or June lst at the very latest
Prices should reach levels
enough to make it unsafe and unwise
to hold longer

The Braman potato grading bill pro-
viding among other things fox licens-
ing of warehouses to prevent discrim-
ination, has become a law. We will
publish this bill complete in a later
issue.

  

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>New York, N. Y., April 26, 1919.—— _
The week just closing has been fairly ‘

tree of strikes although there Was a
strong rumor on Wednesday that the
dock workers were dissatisﬁed and
might walk out. at any time. That
had the usual effect of causing a net-
vous feeling on the Exchange and,
without doubt, was partially responsi-
ble for the strengthening of the mar-
ket that took place during the last
part of the week. Receipts havebeen
unexpectedly light during the week as
there have been fewer accumulated
shipments and practically no stock
for export has been received from in-
land cities. Advance notices indicate
that production is increasing greatly
and that the coming week will see
greatly increased receipts. Exporters,

high .

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while they have been in evidence dur- i

ing the week have purchased vely lit-
tle butter but have talked principali y

. about their needs at a little later date.

However, there is a. scarcity of avail-

. able shipping space in ocean-going ves-

sels at the present time which tends
to curtail any buying that exporters
might do. Something like 32 ,000'pack-

_ ages were shipped to Europe during
"' air but a high percentage of that .1!
ﬁgs» .. W

    
  
   
  
    
  
 
  
 
  
   
 
 
  
   
   
 
  
 
   
  
  
  
  
  
 
 
    
   
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
 

to 28c; ducks, 38 to 400; turkeys,
38 to 400 per pound.
(Continued on page 17)

About 15, 000 packages more are said
to be held in store awaiting shipping
facilities.

Eggs - I put off sending before. I am glad you.

' - - sent another copy. You have the best pa;-
meg to_ act1ve buying for stor- per 1- the farmer l have seen in a long

time.——Hugh Watson. Isabella county.

 

 

W

’ Until All Roads
Are Concrete-—

——ruts will continue to send
thousands of tires to the junk
pile :before their time.

For this reason, the side-wall
toughness of HORSE—SHOE
TIRES is particularly valuable.

N o motorist should drive in ruts
habitually. They act like grind—
stones on the sides of his tires.
But he cannot always avoid them ~-
therefore, extra care is taken to make
the walls of Horse-Shoe Tires as tough
and durable as possible without undue
stiffness.

So if you have to drive over rutted
roads a good deal—

“Remember the Horse-Shoe Tread ”

Guaranteed, for 5,000 miles but gives
more. See your local dealer or write to

Brown & Sehler

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THE NEW HOME

'f‘A cottage, if God be there, will hold as much hap-
piness as might stock a palace "—J Hamilton.

OR TWO years now all thoughts of a new
home have been abandoned; plans in the
making were stopped while we turned all
the material and labor into war work, but now
once more
-w e -.c,a n
turn on r
a ttention
to the joy
of design-
i n g o u r
’ new home.
And per-
haps our
ideas o_f
that new
homehave
changed a
bit while
we wait—
ed; cer-
tain it is
that more
and more
we see
0 u t lined
. plans for
| the house all on one ﬂoor, designed to save steps
for the woman who does her own work as most
of us do.

A good farm is worth good buildings but this
does not mean that they shall be great rambling
mansions which will tax the strength and take
all the time of the wife and mother to keep in
order. Probably there isn’t a homekeeper alive
who hasn’t at some time in her life made the
statement “If I were to build, " I would do thus
and so, and now that the time has come, just
spend a few evenings with the family carefully
planning the little details which later will mean
such a saving in time to you, for a new home is
rarely ever built more than once or twice in a
life time, and it is so much easier to plan for
the conveniences before the carpenters get to
work. The home is woman’s realm; it is there
she spends most of her time and it should be
her right to plan her home; especially so far as
the arrangement of the rooms, ﬁxtures, etc.,
are concerned.

One of the ﬁrst considerations should be the
site. If the present home is on the best site ob-
tainable, then it should be moved so that the
ground will be available. The ideal site” is one
which is higher than the surrounding land so
that it will have a natural drainage;- then the
plans should be laid so that each room will have
outside air and sunshine; nature’s own tonics.

Then will follow the general outline of the
house with arrangements of rooms. The two
houses shown on this page will commend them—
selves to the prospective builder who is fortu-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

nateenough not to be able to hire an architect; ‘

for then you will have the joy of'making your
own plans. These houses were both designed by
the Bureau of Public Roads in Washington, D.
C., and will lend themselves to a different ar-
rangement according to the taste and require—
ments of the builder.

In the smaller of the two, the arrangement is
such that it is not only a compact little cottage

but does away with the separate dining room, al- ..

though in order to keep the dining room in the
cooler part of, the house, there is no reason why
the dining and sitting rooms should not be com-
, bined instead of the dining room and kitchen,
simply by having the living room made the
- larger of '
the two.
0‘ n e o f
t h e very
good fea- .
tures of
this cot— '
t a‘gg .e i s
t hie a r-
r a n g e—
m c n t of
the: kitch—
en: sink under the win-

 

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(lows, so that light will
, always be pouring in on ,
this very necessary work ’"
spdt. And another very '
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Edited by MABEL CLARE LADD

here, but whichyour carpenter and plumber can .

help you to plan is that ofet-he built-in wash tub,
under the-drain board: Many city apartments
have this feature. It saves carrying the big
heavy tub from the basement or outhouse every
time you want to wash, and is very easily at.—
tached to the same drain pipe with the sink. The
drain board cover lifts on hinges and fastens up
to the ‘window'sill above by a hook while you
wash. This is one of the biggest savings in time

. that can be devised as it obviates the necessity

of carrying the heavy wash tubs of water out,
when the clothes are washed. Just pull the
stopper the same as in your wash basin. It is
then only necessary to provide for the rinse and
bluing tubs, and these can be emptied into this
tub afterwards instead of being carried out.

Another feature which 'every housewife
should insist upon when making her plans is
that this kitchen sink be high- enough so that
the back won’t be half broken when the dishes-
are washed. These little thinks are “First
Aids” to a healthy and happy life for the woman
of either town or country. » 5

The second cottage illustrated is somewhat
larger, and has a separate dining room. A very

 

 

PHILOSOPHY

E LIVED a calm, contented life"
here with his children and his wife,
And though his home was small and plain,
He loved it more than fame or gain.
He had a curious notion, which
Kept him from envying the rich.
And many a time he used to say:
“These walls keep every wind away.
These chairs and tables are not ﬁne,
But they serve every need of mine,
And love abides within our door,
What man of wealth possesses more!

“At night when I turn into bed

Peace pillows here my weary head.

I soundly sleep the night hours through.
Can more than that a rich man do!
We’ve all we wish to eat and wear
And mother, in her rocking chair,
Sings nightly all the lullabies

Which soothe and close the baby’s eyes,
More sweetly mother couldn’t sing
Within the palace of a king.

Here let me live and let me die,

No millionaire has more than I.

“A rich man’s home is ﬁne to see.

But it would not be home to me,

Nor would I ﬁnd one touch of cheer

That is not mine to know right here.

The sunbeams ﬁnd my window panes,

My roof is shelter when it rains,

And when the winter brings a storm

As all the rich, we’re just as warm.

Here love and laughter ﬁll the day,

H ere we can sing and romp and play,

Here we have all that gold can buy, -

No man of wealth has more than I.” .
(Copyright, 1919, by Edgar A. Guest.) '

 

 

 

 

 

 

nice arrangement of rooms has been attained
here in planning for the bath room. Many of
the bungalows and. cottages are so arranged
that one has to go through either the living or
the dining room in order to reach the
room, but here, the small hall provides the nec-
essary space so that access may be had to this
bath from any one of the three bed rooms with-
out entering another room. Then" there is the
added attraction in this larger cottage of the
separate laundry which lends itself to a good
wash room and room where the boots and over-
alls worn around the barns and in the mud can

be hung before the men folks enter the clean .

living or dining room. And then provision is
made for the fuel to be placed into the kitchen
from the outside, thus saving many steps. Note
the fact that the trees and shrubbery do not ob—
scure the view or shut out the air and sunshine
from the front rooms. The porch on this low
type of house provides alllthe shade necessary.
The old fashioned idea of the built-in cupboard

.. . between kitchen and dining room has again tak-
en a new lease on life and it certainly is a step--

savers The dishes are washed and put away in

the kitchen and the table is set in the dining ’

room without entering the kitchen except for.
the hot food. ‘ ' '

bath-

   

“ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE”
Questions Asked and Answered by Readers of
~ This Page

“Can some reader of Michigan Business Farm-
ing tell me how to remove old paint from Wood-
work? I have recently bought a house and I am
doing over the inside, which has several coats of '
paint which .I am anxious to remove.

You have asked a question which has been ..
asked by many amateurs, as it is difﬁcult to do
so successfully. We painters usually burn 'it
off with a blow torch, but no one should attempt
that unless they are absolutely familiar with the ,
torch and the process. There are several patent
paint removers on the ma1ket but they are ex-,
pensive if used on a large job. And then, in or-
der to secure the right one, you must now.
whether you are removing White Lead and Oil,
Ready Mixed Paint or Flat Finish, asall these
require a different treatment. To remove paint
without burning, you must ﬁrst soften or dis-'4
solve the paint. But remember, what will pen-
etrate and dissolve paint will also go through '
and penetrate into the woodwOrk, ,and if it is
not soaked out and washed off, it-will eat up
and loosen the new paint. Here is one way to
remove paint:

Make a batch of starch, same as for starch-
ing clothes, then add caustic soda, dissolved in
water. Apply to paint and in a few heurs,
paint‘ can be scraped off. Apply with an old
brush or wad of cottonron stick, being careful
not to allow the hands to come in contact with
the mixture. After removing paint, wash the
woodwork to remove caustic soda.

Another formula is: Dissolve six pounds of
salsoda in 5 gallons boiling water. Add 1 pound
carbonate of Potash and 1/1, pound bichromatio
of potash, then add 3 gals. more water, When
the mass should be the constituency of jelly.
This may be applied with a brush, cleaning it
off with a sponge. If the first treatment fails,
try a second. If this does not succeed, use less
water, thus making the remover stronger, but
be sure and wash wood thoroughly after remov-
ing paint. Use clear water only to wash woods-
Thos. H., St. Clair county, Michigan.

it I]: *

“I have a problem in painting kitchen wall. It
is Grand Rapids pulp plaster and has been on
two years. How shall I begin?

I also have a bedroom of pulp plaster. Can
I remove the paper, (it has been papered just
once) and put on some of; the new wall ﬁnishes
we have now?———Mrs. J. L. J., St. Johns,»Mich.

If plaster is- smooth and hard, go ahead and
apply paint directly on plaster. The ﬁrst coat
may look cloudy or spotted and the second even
may look.the same but generally the third coat
will result successfully. Be sure and give am-‘ ,
ple time for paint to dry between coats. or the
next coat will sOften. Do not use glue size or
water ﬁrst as the ﬁrst coat is your foundation
for the next coat and you would not think of
building a ﬁne house on a poor foundatiOn, so
don’ t use glue size as a foundation for your
paint.

Question No. Z—To remove paper make' a
heavy paste like you would fer paper hanging,
of ﬂour and water, and apply a heavy coat of
this over paper. Allow it time to soak through
paper. ‘If one coat does not loosen it, apply the
second. Paste is better than water as you can
apply it hot and it will penetrate better and not
run off all over the room like water. When
paper loosens, scrape off with a ﬂat knife, be-
ing careful not to gouge holes in the plaster. If
you make holes‘ in the plaster, you will have
dull spots in your wall ﬁnish. It paperis on
wall solid and there are no strong colors in it
like red, blue or greenLyOu can do a'very nice
job by applying ﬁnish right over the paper, but
be careful if you do this to not use a ﬁnish too
thin or brush it out much, but put it 'on, as
quickly and evenly as possible—Thea. H., St‘
Clair county, Michigan. . , -.

O 1. O

-“Could you please give me good advice for
falling hair? For years my hair has been fall-
ing, and it does not grow in again as rapidly as
it falls. I have a little dandruff and rave used
several preparations but do not seem to get ally '.
lasting good ”—J‘ W., DeWitt, Michigan ‘ ,

     
   
   
   
   
    

   
   
   

 

 

 
 
  

 

 

 


   
  
    
 
 
 
   
  
 
    

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*Skrt '8'
80.12 and ,
- 22.24 requires’8,%'-‘yardis of 36 inch material.
, , ‘ about 12-3 yards at the
1 lower edge. fifwo separate patterns. '
i. f ., .‘ No. ”(lee-Girls Dress; Cut in 4 sizes: -

. "34.6. 8 and-:10 years. ‘Size 8 requires 2%.

‘ "Skirt measures

- drawn out.

. bust measure.
of.” inch material.
22. 24, 28. 28.
Size

res ,8 yards- .
I nutri‘n. 7. sizes‘r
34 inches waist measure.

- {are in good. - physical

Thefsssentiai needs lot the hair, like
the’lreste-ot the body. are cleanliness,
air and‘triction. We bathe frequent-
ly. allow the air to reach the body
. when bathing and the brisk rub with
thetowel insures. the ﬂow or blood to

   
 

”as. or so me}, material for the dress the surface of the skin. The scalp

g“ 9nd 1% was 1°” “1° Wimp? .. should have the same treatment.
No', 2812—Ladies' House Dress. Cut in W . '

.1 sizes:'- .34; 36. as. 40. 42. 44, and~48‘- .- “h it mama", “O“gh 5° that.

inches bustmeasure. Size 88 re uires the 8031p and hair are clean, wear no

"warden! 36 inch material. e (skir “rats" and refrain from wearing any

‘ . measures 2.yards at the foot

No. ”lie-Girls! Dress. Cut'in 4 sizes:
. 8. 10 and 12 years. Size 10 requires
.435 yards of 27 inch material.
Nos. 2824-2616—A Strut?
‘Walst 2824 cut in 6 sizes:‘ 3 , a
42 and 44 inches bust measure.
2616 out in 6 sizes: 22. 24
82 inches waist. measure.

Costume
0. ,38 40.
Skirt

The skirt meas~

urea 2 yards at the lower edge. with plait’s
It will re uire. tor the entire

costume 6%. yards 0 40 inch materiel

Two separate patterns.
No. '2829——Cut in 6 sizes: 4. I I. 10 and
ears
pnch material.
No. 8811—=Ladles'
sizes: Smali. 32-34: edium. .
Large. 40-42; and Extra Lar e, iii-46
(aches bust measure. Size Me um will
require 4% yards of 44 inch materiel,
No. 2689—Giris' Dress. Cut in 4 sizes:
. lo. 12 and 14 years. Size 12 renulres

12
44

9‘ yards of 36 inch material.

 

Herewith ﬂnd‘ . . . . . . . . cents for which
out me the following pattern at 100‘ each:

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...’:‘.‘..‘:‘~'"‘. 8“. .'....;.o

26. 28. 30 and ’

Size 6 will require 3 yards of

Neﬂigée. Cutaolgst‘ I

false hair it possible“ as this heats the
head, and‘ then when you take it down
at night. with the tips of the fingers.
rub the scalp thoroughly and end by
brushing the hair There are good
tonics. but these should only be used
under the advice of a specialist. it the
above treatment tails ‘

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HOW TO COOK FISH

"I saw an inquiry as to how to’cook
‘ ﬁsh so that the bones would be soft. I
have taken suckers and packed them
in a gallon 'i'ar, preferablya ﬂat one,
seasoning with salt and pepper, as
they were put in. Then I added one
cup of good vinegar and baked several‘
hours—at least one-half day—and the
bones will 'be soft like canned sal-
mon."—-A Subscriber, Levering. Mich.

 

HANDY KITCHEN TABLE
First get a large bread board, a 2
inches wide strip as long ‘as your
board is wide, a couple of 1% inches

   

r resistors. be“ 3 1'54”“

   

M q, strips. Whichwill be the
only. legs,j’\‘aitld cut them the desired
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and when you wish the table out of
the way just take hold of the front
side and lift up. By fastening a
hook and eye in the wall'and a
screw eye in the edge of the board
you can fasten _the board up.

STATE FAIR DATES
G. W. Dickinson, Sec-Mgr. of the
State Fair, says that Aug. 12th to Sep-
tember 7th inclusive, have been select-
ed as the dates for the 1919 exposition.
At a recent meeting of the board of
directors, Mr. Dickinson was unani-
mously re-elected as head of the fair

  

$511.18" X13081 ‘
the ”history of .,
Fair. The 1918 fair leap
lead of state fairs throuhliiii
country, with the largest sin
attendance, the largest‘ gro‘fi
ance of any ten days" exhibitionﬁ,
an outstanding payment oi'premi‘.’

. During the past two years the's
of Michigan has assumed a leaders
among the states of the union in
riculturai, industrial, and live 3,- .
activities. As the state‘has DIOR”!
ed. the State'Fair has increased its ' ‘
hibits and attractions in both null!
and quality. until it is now recogn ”-
not as one of the ﬁve leading fairy we
the country, but as the leader: ‘

“There seems to be no limit. is
what the State Fair can do this year.”
Mr. Dickinson said today. “While we
have one of the greatest exhibition
grounds of the country, indications
at present point towards their being
too limited. The exhibitors are ﬂood,
ing us‘ with requests for space. .

“We are receiving hundreds of re
quests for premium lists from farmers
and others who have not heretofore
exhibited. This condition exists in
every part of the state.

“01! course this is partially occasion-
ed by the fact that the people through-
out the country are awakenng to the
advantages of fairs. They see they
can beneﬁt from their neighbor's ex-
perience. Then. our premiums are
such that the producers of the state
can not afford to keep out of the com. p.
petition. Last year, we paid nearly -'-
$75.000 in prizes and this year the
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_ ‘ “EAR CHILDREN—Some, of my
2 . :liiftle' friends had a hard time
ﬁrtrying to guess the" great man
_" “the white hair and whiskers,
Mt KW of our little friends have
Mitten some good sketches of his
wieﬂhic'h appear below. John Bur-
Wghs, for. he it was, is one of the
most interesting aswell as one of
the most noted men living in the
Waited ‘States today. He recently
passed his eighty—second birthday
d yet last year he spent hisvlvaca-
0n. travelling by auto with friends
through the country, spending two
, weeks in this way, sleeping in a
tent nights and proving to the world
"s . ﬁat the men who live the simple,
:.out-of—door life are the healthiest,
' longest-lived of all men. He has
made a study of plants and vegeta-
' bles and soils and has given - many
_‘ wonderful discoveries to the world
through his books on these subjects.
The answer to last week’s puzzle
appears below, together with a new
puzzle and the D00 Dads and then
'we will crowd in all the letters we
'have space for. Aﬁectionately yours,
' “Laddie.” -

ARITHMETICAL PUZZLES
Take 1 from 9 and make it110.
Answer—IX; take 1 away and leave

Place three twos together so as to
'make 24. '
’ Answer—22 plus 2 equals 24.
What number of three ﬁgures mul-
tiplied by 8 will make exactly 10?
Answer—114 or 1.25.
Add 1 to 9 and make420.
Answer—IX; cross the I and you
iii? have XX.

 

(Send all Stories and letters for this Don’t direct to “huddle," care Rural Pub. (30.. Mt. Oleméns, Mich.) . .

 

 

 

 

Letters from Our Boys and Girls

 

 

 

 

Dear Laddie—I am a girl 12 years old.
My birthday was April 14th, The “answer
to the last sicture ls "John Burroughs.
I could not nd much to write about him
except that he loved Mother Nature and
wrote about birds. He was called a great
naturalist. Some of the books he wrote,
were “Wake, Robin," “Birds and Poets,
“River by Winter Sunshine."—Vera Cam.-
ﬂeld, Buchanan, Mich.

 

Dear Laddie—I guess this man is John
C. Burroughs. He is a great man. He
likes to watch birds building nests and
he writes it all down in a book. Though
he is an old man he sits down on a sand
pile and watches ants carrying their eggs
running back and forth, He made a study
of ants and birds. They call such men
naturalists There is another man like
him and his name is J. Muir. Both men
have done great good for the world.—
Anna McGuigan, Fosteria, Mich.

 

Dear Laddie—The man we had for this
week was born April 3, 1837 in the state
of New York. He was a great lover of
nature. His father was a farmer and
the only work that appealed to the son
was the making of maple sugar, because
it brought him closer to nature. He used
to sell sugar in ~the little village in which
he lived. He bought his ﬁrst algebra and
grammar books with this money. He also
was a hunter. His life as a farmer boy
had much to do with his love of nature.
He wrote many essays and some poetry,
—-—Celia D. Allen, Mason, Michigan.

 

Dear Laddie—This is the ﬁrst time I
have written to you I am 9 years old
and in the 4th grade. I have one broth—
er 13 years old. My papa takes the M.
B. F. I read two letters in this paper
from two little girls I used to know. Dor-
ohy and Muriel Walton. They live in
East Jordan. I like to go to school and
have passed in every grade so far. We
live on a 40-acre farm, a mile and a half

. ily,

from a store. There are live in our fam-
frandma, papa,
and . I wei h 87% pounds and am four
feet tour no es high. My cousin, Ther-
sa Lamb, my chum. She is in the 4th
grade too. I am three months older than
she is. We have live horses. four cows
and two little calves. Mv brother has a
big pair of bobs b
down hill this winter very much, I go to
Sunday school every Sunday, except
when I'm sick, have a bad cold, or some-

times when it is very stdrmy.———Gladys

Norton, Manton, Mich.

 

Dear Laddie—As I have hever written
before I would like to see my letter in
print. We take the M. B. F. and like it
very much. When it comes I always get
it before any other of the children. I
like to read the D00 Dads, also the boys’
and girls' page. As I have never seen any
letter from Cassopolis I thought I would
write one. I am a. girl 12 years old and
four feet three inches tall. I o to school
and am in the 7th grade. T ere are 15
scholars in our school. The name of our
school it Mt. Zion school. I have seven
sisters and three brothers. There areonly
four' girls at home, the others being mar-
ried. I live on an 80—acre farm. We have
35 chickens, two geese, ﬁve
pigs, three turkeys three Cows and a lit-
the calf.——-Esther doker. Cassopolls, Mich.

 

ANIMAL PUZZLE

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I THINK it a shame that I
Must sit here» on the floor
'T'll my clothes are washed and dry
And 1 get dressed once more.
Without a thing to cover me
07 keep the cold away,
I have to sit here as you c
Each blessed wasting day.
My mistress often will declare
She loves me fond and true;
1 think she’d get me more to wear
If that was so; don’t you!

 

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HIS IS A very windy day in
I . the Wonderland of Bee. The

Bee Dads are having great
fun ﬂying their kites They are on
the cliffs, where the wind has a
great sweep. An old Doo Dad and
. his wife have their house on one
fro! the cliffs. They thought they
"*were’ saf‘ely removed from .the

  

  

. were greatly mistaken. The old
‘ ‘ 'ladygis doing the family washing.
See how theKtail of Roly’s kite has

 

     

 

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caught in her clothes line. Here is
Percy Haw Haw, the Dude, and
Poly, playinga trick on Sleepy Sam.
Percy is holding a kite while Poly
is tying the tail to Sam’s leg.
Wouldn't it be fun to ’see the little
hobo ﬂying away over the Wonder-
land of Doo? Three of the D00
Dads have been caught up by a

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strong kite. It has also whisked off
the old man's chimney. Flannel-
feet, the Cop, just let go, in time. He
was arresting that little codger, but
if he had not let go in. time he
would have gone up too. See what
a wonderful aerial tramway” they
have ﬁxed up. The young Don Dad
with the umbrella is having; ﬁne

   
 

 

 

 

ride on it, and Smiles, the Clown,
with his telescope in hand, seems
to be enjoying himself immensely.
The young fellow with the catapult
doesn’t seem to be afraid of falling.
He is aiming at Old Doc Sawbones.
Poor old Doc’s whiskers. are playing
about with the strong wind. He ex-
pects there will be several accidents

"before ‘the'iiay is over'and is look-
ing forward to having a'lotof brbk- ,'

  

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' strawberries and

 

easy Dressed huge, 21: to 24¢. Tone

easy ”and demand light.

 

ammo, Hominy, April 28.———The
steady advance in corn prices and the
decline: in cattle rates of late have
caused feeders to lose conﬁdence in
the future cattle trade and the result
has. beena largeoutpouring of cattle.
Dast- week’s receipts numbered. 58'3300,
20,000 in excess of the previous week,
while a run of 25,000 the ﬁrst day of
this week was the largest one day sup-
ply in Quite a long time.

Last week's trade closed all” the
way from 25 to 65¢: lower, light
weight and half fat steers suitering
most of the decline, while added to
that was a fresh reduction of 25 to
500 on Monday of this week. The
drop in values made it doubtful
.whether prime steers would now

' reach the $20 mark, while bulk of

the offerings are selling at $14.50 to
$17. Cows and heifers have suffer-
ed about the same price recession as
steers. Strictly prime cows and heif-
ers, ﬁt for kosher outlet, are quota-
‘ble at $15.50 and $16 respectively,
while cutters are new quotable as
high as $7.75 and good: - strong
weight canners as high as- $6.50.
Bulls were 25c lower Monday of this
week and showed about that decline
as compared with prices in force a
week ago. Calves are 25 to 50¢: low-
er today, making values $1.50 to $2
lower than a week ago. Prime veal-
ers are now selling as high as $13.50.

The hog trade ﬁnally exceeded the
record price of $21, which was es-
tablished last September. Short ad-
vances up to Wednesday of last week
established prices highest in 'trade

history and a new record of $21.15

was'made on the mid—week session,
this price being paid for a load of
prime fat-backs which had been fed
in an experiment test by the Iowa
State College.

The dizzy highest attained by hogs
Caused a large outpouring of pork-
ers last week-end and Monday of
this week resulting in a reaction of
25 to 400 since Wednesday of last
week. Best price on the initial ses-
sion of this week was $20.95, while
bulk of the very best hogs sold at
$20. 65 to $20. 90, with a less desira-

rble kind at $20. 25 to $20. 60; rough

and throwout packers $19. 50 to $20.
Pigs are forming only a very small

quota of the supply hardly enough '

arriving to make a. market. Those
getting in, however, are sellingg at
17 to 19c according to weight and
quality.

The sheep trade has not apparen-
ty struck bottom. A decline of 40
to 50c on wooled lambs and 75 to
$1 on shorn stock last week was
thought to have brought values down
to a rock-bottom basis. However, on
thetrade of this date a fresh decline
of 10_ to 15c was in force. Best wool-
ed lambs are now selling as high as
$19. 50, while a week ago $19. 85
was taking the best. Best shorn
lambs are quotable as high as $16. 50
while today $16 stopped the best.

The run of wooled sheep is practi-
cally over for this season and very
few shorn offerings in the aged line
are coming.

U. S. WEEKLY
MARKET REVIEW

Market Fairly Steady, Shipments

. Increasing
Price changes were moderate. Po-
tatoes and celery advanced. Onions,
lettuce, declined.
airly

 

Other prominent lines were ‘

' steady. carlot movement increased to

 

7,456 cars compared with 6,561 last
week and 7,689 a year ago. In-
creases included old and new pota-

toes, dry beans, new onions and cab-

bage also cucumbers, celery and
strawberries. Principal decreases
were inlettuce, spinach, stringbeans
and in apples, citrus fruit, old on.-
lons and sweet potatoes.

01d Potatoes Advance Further
Price gains of 5 to 25 cents were

unite general. N011 northern sack-

 

steady,

advanced 10‘ to 25 cents in Tens
carlot markets, closing at $2. 40 to
$2. 75. Western track side and ware-
house sales by growers averaged at
least 15 cents advance, ruling at the

close $1. 50: in Idaho and $2 in Mich-

igan producing sections. New York
round whites in bulk strengthened
slightly reaching $2.52 to $2.57 f. o.
b. shipping points, while consuming
markets gained 20 to 50 cents, clos-
ing 'at $2. 55 to $3.15. Sacked Maine
Green Mountains also advanced
slightly in producing sections 'to
$2.88 f. o. b. Presque Isle, and gain-
ed 30 cents in consuming markets,
closing at $3 to $3.25. Shipments
2,651 cars compared with 2,269 last
week and with 2,950 the correspond-
ing <week last year.
over 600 cars and Michigan 467.
Movement from other states was
moderate. Imports from Canada in-
creased to 101 cars. New Florida
Spaulding Rose declined nearly $3
in leading northern markets, reach—
ing $8 to $9.50 per barrel and clos-
ing in producing sections at $7 to
$7.50 f. o. b. shipping points compar-
ed with $9 last week. Texas Bliss,
triumphs declined slightly in Chica—
go to a range of $3.75 to $4 per
bushel hamper, but held at $4 in
New Orleans. Shipments of new
stock 39-8 cars, compared with 186
last week. Movement still mostly
from Florida. Acreage of potatoes
in North Carolina only about 50 per
cent of last year according to the
Bureau of Crop Estimates. Active
shipping season begins about June 1

t' _.‘¢ ‘>

 

¥ ‘ - 1.1.

. 0. Co orado No.1 sacked

‘ white stock rang ed nearly
closing at 51.270 to $1.15 1. 0. hi but

Maine shipped ,

timaies at 3, 200 acres.
Onions Lower

Declines were .most noticeable in

western markets, apparently on ac-
count of increasing supplies of new
stock. The range of old yellow on-
ions weakened slightly in leading
eastern consuming markets, ranging
$4.50@$5.75 per cwt. sacked, but
ranged lower in middlewestern cities
at $3.75@$4.75. Texas No. 2 yel-
low Bermudas declined about 50c

'in producing sections, closing $2.40 @

$2.60 per crate f.o.b. cash. Eastern
consuming markets ranged $4.25 @
$5 per crate and middewestern $3.7 5
@$4.75. Shipments more than
doubled with 483 cars compared with

' 212 last week and 633 for the corre-.

sponding week last year. Shipments.
of old onions 48 cars, a decrease of
twenty-two.
Bean Markets Steady
Eastern handpicked sacked white
beans contined steady in consming

markets at $7.50 to $8 per cwt.
Sothern California sacked small

whites were also steady in consuming-

markets and sold unchanged in pro-
ducing sections at $6.25 to $6.50.
California Limas showed slightly
stronger tone in terminal markets,
ranging $8.25 to $8.75. Colorado
Pintos still ranged $4.50 per cwt. in
bulk cash to growers and were steady
in Kansas City around $6 for jobbing
sales. Shipments increased to 192
cars, a gain of 62, with 157 cars from
California. Exports of beans during
the four months, November, Decem-
ber, January and February were
990,693 bushels. Shipments have
been liberal to France, Italy, Eng-

mt: than last year;
being reported to Bureau of Crop Est

'inﬁai'e with exports
m years as folloWs: - ' '
els in 1914, 1, 210, 281 1)
191,5 1,760, 383 busholam

  
     

  

    
 
 
 

  
  
 

supplied with Asiatic beans ‘ ,
can beans continue to go fol-"wad! \
Europe in substantial quantities; ‘
port demand fairly active; andi-i-
(Continued on paper 19) “f, "

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To avoid conﬂicting dates wq 1;"
without cost, list the (late of any”
stock sale in Michigan. ll“ yom are!
considering a sale advise us .atl one:
and we will claim the date 101! sion
Address Live Stock Editor,- M. B. 1".
Mt. Clemens. ‘ ~

 

May 13, Helsteins—Mark‘H. Pipes, L.
C; Ketzlcr and Floyd Pierson, mm.
Mich.

May 21, Hol‘steins—Livingston County
Breeders" Sale Co., Howell, Mich.

 

  

Deni. G The Dayton Rubber Mfg. (in. Dayton; 0.

 
 
  
      
 
    
   
   
  
    
   
   
  
 
 

 
 

5- 'Avrog 1.151%553

Can’t Puncturo
Can’t Blow Out

Piers of live, elastic rubber
built about one inch apart inside
the casing and vulcanized or
welded to it take the place of an inner
' tube. Nothing can happen but went.

30:3 and 30x35 sizes only—Ford Sizes. More
than 50,000 can quipped with them in 6 years.
in becouimg our exclusive

Big Money dealer 1n your county. Tire

experience unneceuary. Write today for terms.

     

 

 

 

 

---what other
don-surely

~read these three

ladies can

YOU can do!

recent letters:

  
 
    
  
   

 

Shiawassee county
March 16, 1919
Dear Sirs: I. have received
the set of dishes which I order-
ed from the subscriptions sent
in. I received them Friday, the
14th, and am very much do-
lighted with them, and I thank
you very much for the very
beautiful set sent me. If I
can get some more subscrip-
tions I will send them in imme-
diately.
Yours sincerely,
MISS MYRTLE KRIESCH.

 

 

Lapeer county.
'April 10, 1919.
Michigan Business Farming.
‘ Dear Sir: I am writing to
tell you. that I received the
“Blue Bird” dinner set. It ar—
rived in ﬁrst-class condition.
It is a beauty. ‘It is everything
you said it would be, and all
that it could be.

I have the promise of more
subscribers and will probably
send them in soon.

The set was well worth the

work.
MRS. SYLVESTER SOBER

 

 

 
   
   
   
  
 
 
 
  
   
    
  
 
 
 
 
  

Livingston, county.
March 11, 1919

Michigan. Business Farming.
Dear Sir: I received the set
of dishes yesterday and I am
very much pleased with them.
When the roads get better
again I would like to get
enough signers for another set
just like them if you still have

them 011 hand.
Yours truly,

MISS THELMA LAHRING,

 

 

 

BEAUTIFUL SET OF DISHES FREE!

, One cannot read these three recent letters from Michigan business farmers’ wives and daugh-
ters who have earned a beautiful set of dishes, without admiring their ambition!
the kind of women who are always wanting something—wishing for it, begging for it, or paying
for it———they saw our way for them to get a new set of dishes free, without spending or asking .
for a penny of their own money and they got it!
samples of the kind remarks that come in from women and girls all over the state who are earn-

ing an M. B. F. Dish Set.

MANY BEAUTIFUL PATTERNS TO PICK FROM !

When you send in the coupon below,‘we send you Color Plates showing how each of the differ-
ent patterns look, We also send you sample copies and everything necessary to distribute to your neigh-
bors, so you can start earning the set right away, and pick out the pattern you want at your leisure.

~ It is not hard to get subscribers for this weekly—you know every farmer in our state ought to
have it, if he wants to make farming a proﬁtable business.

free, these you hand out and the paper sells itself so you really

The dishes come to you safely packed, by prepaid express—we pay all the express charges and thoro'
is not one penny’s expense connected with this simple plan to give every lady reader of our weekly a.

chance to grace her table with a
brand new set of glistening,
beautifully designed and up-to-
date dishes. If you want to earn
a set just as easily as these la-
dies and many others have——
stop right now, .1111 out this
coupOn and get it in the next
mail!

Send in. (301111011 New M

   

DO NO CANVASSING !

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING,
Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

l I would like to earn a new set of dishes by getting a few new sump-5‘
‘ ers to your weekly. Send me color plates of the sets you offer and you
I terms, free, and I’ll do my best to win a set.

M —v.
P. 0.

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Let Your Repair
Man Go _

Youwon’t need him with a Red
River Special threshing outﬁt.
Red River ”Special construction
stays in good condition year after
year. It’s the threshing outﬁt
that saves grain for the farmer
and makes money for its owner.
It has made a reputation for it-

self wherever grain is threshed.
Get a

RED RIVER
SPECIAL

and get the cream of the thresher busi-
ness in your territory. You don’t see
owners of Red River Special machines
losing business. It‘s because they don‘t
lose the farmers’ grain. Their threshers .
titres}; clean. The big cylinder and the
"Man Behind the Gun'? beat out the
grain and save it. Other makes wait for
the grain to drop out.

It Saves the Farmers’
Thresh

If you want a thresher for your own
use. ask about our Red River Special
Junior.

The Nichols & Shepard Co. steam
and gas traction engines are the strong-
est and most substantial built today.
They are built for service. For the man
who buys or makes an ’nvestment they
Will pay him big retur s.

Nichols & Shepard Co.

In Contlnuoue Inelneaa Since 184!
Builders exclusively of Red River Spe-
cial 'l‘hreshers, Wind ere, Feeders,
Steam and Oil-Gas Traction Engines

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and on a plan whereby they earn e
own coat and are by what they aave. Portal
bringa Free atnlog Folder. Buy in the
manufacturer and nave money. [9 J

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(Readersrare invited tacontribute to this department. .Ideoa'uiid descriptiona IV” ’
of labor-saving devices will be paid for according to length and. practicability.)

   

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A RAT GUARD

To keep rats and mice from any-
thing that is hung up, the followmg
simple method may be used: Procure
the bottoms of some old fruitcans, by
melting the sodder which holds them,

 

upon a hot stove. Bore holes in the
center of these dishes, and string. a
few of them upon the cord, wire or
rope upon which corn, other grain,
bags, and so on is hung. When a
mouse or rat attempts to pass upon
the rope by climbing over the tin
disks, they turn and throw the animal
upon the ﬂoor. This plan will be found
very effective—E. B., Sheridan, Mich.

DISK HARROW

This invention relates to harI‘OWS in
which the gangs can travel at varying
angles fore and aft, and also vertical-

 

ly. The improvement is an adustable
spring which controls the up and down
movement of the inner end of the gang
relative to the frame. (International
Harvester 00., Auburn, N. Y. U. S.
Patent 1,221,230.)—0..J. Lynda, Can.

 

TO GRIND THE MOWER KNIVES

When grinding the knives ot the
mowing machine one’s arm usually
tires of holding one end up when
grinding the other end of. them. It is
a hard task also to get them ground at
the right angle. All of this can be

 

 

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«amp Kai ugs hens,

 

overcome by means of a rope as
shown. Tie one end at the rope to the
sickle as shown and pass the other
over a beam or tree limb or whatever
happens to be convenient, and grasp
the other end or the rope with the
band together with the knives. The
knives are then easily held and can be
adjusted to the right angle for grind-
ing and held there without the arms
getting tired.—-—P. A. 0., Big Rapids,
Michigan.

FERTILIZER SOWER

The new device here is the agitator
which shakes down the fertilizer. It
swings lengthwise in the hopper and

 

 

 

. is operated by means ’of‘iﬁ eccentric

or. the ground wheels.
(American Seeding Machine 00.,
Springﬁeld, Ohio. U. 8'. Patent 1,276,-
047.)——0. J. Lgnde, Canada. -

on the axle

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CORN PLANTER shore
The runners of corn planters have
formerly been attached to the shank
by two rivets, and it has been neces-
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sary to take them to a. blacksmith for
any repairs. The runner shown here
is attached by means of a hook bolt
which enables anyone to attach or de-
tach it quickly. (Gale Mfg. 00., Albi-
on, Michigan.
—-0. J. Lynda, 0anada.

SPREADER FOR AUTO SPRINGS
When oiling the springs on the auto
the spreader shown in the sketch is

very handy. The construction is clear-_

 
    

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ly shown. The size of the spreader
will depend on the size of the springs.
-—A Reader.

PLOW ADJUSTMENT
This plow has one lever which ad-
justs the relation between the furrow
wheel and the land wheel, ~and thus
adjusts the depth of. the furrow; and
a. second lever which lifts the plows

 

out of the ground without altering the
depth adjustment. (Vulcan Plow 00.,
Evansville, Ind. U. S. Patent 1,217,-
864).—-0. J. Lynda, Canada.

REEL FOR THE BAY SLINGS

The time and annoyance caused by
twisted ropes on hay
slings can be avoided by use of this
simple and easily made device when
drawing hay, grain, corn, fodder, etc.
It consists of a wood frame as shown

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and a pipe thru the middle which also
serves as a crank. It is fastened to the
front standard by passing the pipe
thru holes in the sides of the standard.
The front end of the sling is fastened
to the reel and the sling wound up.
The number of reels will depend on
the number of slings used for each
load.-——P. A. 0., Big Rapids,.Mich.

DEHORNING CATTLE
Methods of dehorning and castrating
cattle are described in Farmers’ Bulle-
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Cattle" issued bythe U. S. Department
of Agriculture; Write for it to Die“-
ion of Publications, U. S. Departmt

Of Agriculture, Washington, D. 0.—0. 7

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and Elevatee to any height with
nine wer. Has a egfecity

to 20 one per hour. oweren
Cutter on one wheel—- e of
cast steel and unbreakab . Can't,
choke or ' blow up". A dong
other oodfeetureson 1919mod
makes machine the eimpleet, Info-t,
moat etheient machine youcenbuy.Wrife
(or catalog and complete detail:

Ann Arbor Machine Co.
Box 242 Ann Arbo-. Mich.
Manufacturers“ -

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Bleacher Colony
Better thunBoards

This broad band of‘water-proof
paper, held up by arches, excludes
all light from the stalks and keeps
them clean.

The Areanddee
Celery Bleacher

is applied to the rows ﬁve times
as fast as boards, is a whole lot
cheaper, and will last for several
seasons. One trial will convince
you that this is a trucking necessity
and a time- and money-saver.
Sample and circular mailed to
you free upon request.

The Russelloid Company
’ Dept. M Harrisburg, Penna.

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good shape; need very little; 700 lbs.
capacity. $45 takes‘lt. G. V. Newcomer.
Waldron. Mich.

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the county where they are now
living, taking subscriptions for
this weekly. ,
Hundreds of farmers are
only waiting for someone to
ask them to subscribe for the
Weekly, that is the talk of all
Michigan. > .
We want earnest, and above
all, honest men and women
who will devote all or part of
their time to this work, we
can make any arrangements
satisfactory to you. and will
‘give you all necessary equip-
ment and help without a pen-
_ny's outlay on' your part.
Write us fully about your.-
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of year. The cold was Intense

"-Vwith'va high northwest wind. the ther-
‘mometer registering 22 degrees at 6.
It has" been report-

a.’ m., on the 25th. ‘
ed. that Wheat ‘has been severely dam-

, - aged as 'well as the fruit especially the

peaches. Very little produce being
sold ,besides butter and eggs, also
cream. The following prices were paid
at.Munith April 26—Beans, $6; butter,
50; eggs, 39‘ to 40; hogs, $20.25, to

$19.50; wool 50 to 55.—A. F. W., Mun-

‘ithﬁ April 26.

Calhoun, 4(east)—-—Farmers are try-
ing..hard to get their oats in between
'showers. The weather is very cold.
The ground froze hard Friday night.
The soil is cold. Wheat and rye are
looking ﬁne. There is not much mov-
ing. All the prices are going up.
The following prices were paid at-Bat-
the 'Creek .April 25—Wheat, red, $2.40;
white; $2.38; oats. 68; rye, $1.40; hay,
timothy. 30; light mixed, 30; pota-
toes, 80; hens, 32; springers, 35;
butter, 55; eggs, 40; lambs, $12 to $14;
hogs $18; beef steers, $7; beef cows,
$6; veal calves, $11.-—G’. E. 3., Battle
Creek, April 25. '

Genesee, (cente‘r)——The farmers are
very busy at this time. They are plow-
ing, sowing oats and also spring
wheat, trimming trees, shearing sheep
and doing other jobs. The weather
has not been very good, with the ex-
ception of a few days. Yesterday we
had some rain but today it is freezing

and we had a slight snow. The soil is

extra wet this year and is very slow
in drying out, especially on the heav-
ier soils. Farmers are not selling much
at this time, although a few are selling
potatoes. The price of potatoes has
weakened and dropped in Flint this
weeks This seems odd when prices are
going up in other sections. Farmers
are ordering binder twine and a few
are getting fetilizer, but farmers as a
rule are not buying much. Not much
cloverseed being sown on account of
high price of seed. The following pric-
es were paid at Flint April 23—7Wheat,
$2.50; corn, $1.60; oats, 67; rye, $1.55;
hay, timothy, $22 to $25; light mixed,
$20 to $22; beans, $6.50; red kidney,
$9; potatoes, $1.25 to $1.30; onions,
old. $5; cabbage, 100 1b.; cucumbers,
$2.40 per doz.; hens, 29; springers, 29;
ducks, 26 to 30; geese, 18 to 22;. tur-

keys, 32 to 34; butter, creamery, 64;

dairy, 55; eggs, 43 per doz.; sheep,

”$8; lambs, $14.50 to, $15; hogs, $18;

beef steers, $10 to $11; beef cows, $6.30
to $8; veal calves, $15; wool, 50; ap-
ples, $1.50 to $2.50.-——0’. W. 8.. Fenton,
April 24.

Monroe, (east)—Are having very
bad weather for farming. It rains

before it gets dry enough to work on

land. Very little oats or barleysown

     
 

Eda—The past week.
on a very severe storm for this ~

above zero. Ice, on
on tub. Apricots and
“out in bloom. ,.Muddy roads and very
few can travel: on them now. The fol-
lowing pri‘Ces were paid at Monroe on
April 23——Wheat, $2.45; corn, $2.15;
cats, 65.; rye, $1.55; hens, 28 to 30;
butter, 35 to 50; eggs, 39 to 40; sheep,
$8 to $9; lambs, live, $14 to $16;
hogs, live, $19 to $19.15; dressed, $23
to $25; beef steers, $6 to $14; veal
calves, live, $15 to $16; dressed, $21 to
$22.-——E. 0. 111., Monroe, April 25.

 

WEEKLY MARKET LETTER
(Continued from page 17) ,

ereasing. Special efforts are being
made by California bean interests to
develop an export outlet for their
large surplus stock of beans from the
crops of 1917 and 1918. Commercial
stocks of dry beans April 1, includ-
ing-holdings of dealers, wholesale
growers, warehouses and grain ele-
vators were 7,635,539 bushels, equiv-
alent to about 73635 cars. Compar-
ative increase is 52.5 per cent over
April 1, 1918.

Detroit—Cattle: Market 25 to 35c
lower than Monday; prospects lower
remainder of week; best heavy steers
$14 to $11.75; best handy weight
butcher steers, $13.50 to $13.75;
mixed steers and heifers, $12.50 to
$13; handy ight butchers, $11.50 to
$12; light: butchers, $8.50 to $9.75;
best cows, $11 to $12; butcher cows,
$9.50 to $11.25; cutters,‘$7.50 to
$8.25; canners, $6.25 to $6.75;
best heavy bulls, $11 to $11.75; bo—
logna bulls, $9 to $9.75; stock bulls,
$8.50 to $8.75; feeders, $10.50 to
$11.50; stockers, $9.50 to $11; milk-
ers and springers, $80 to $165. Veal

calves: Market dull and 50c lower;
best, $14 to $14.50; others, $9 to
$10.75. Sheep and lambs: Market,

25 to 50c lower; best lambs, $15.50
to $15.75.; fair lambs, $14.50 to
$15; light to common lambs, $10 to
$13; wool lambs, $16.25 to $17.25;
fair to good sheep, $12 to $12.75;
culls and common, $7 to $8.50. Hogs;
market 250 lower; pigs, $18.50;
mixed hogs, $20.

DO YOU KNOW A SOLDIER

or sailor back from service, who for
physical or other reasons is ﬁnding it‘
hard to adjust himself to old condi-
tions. He does not want to go to the
city to ﬁnd work, yet he cannot stand
hard labor. We have a plan that will
make his time proﬁtable, particularly
if he can have the use of an auto,
horse and buggy or bicycle. The work
is all out-of-doors and can be conﬁned
to his county where he can get home
as often as he desires. If you know
such a soldier or sailor, who has se-
cured an honorable discharge and
whom you think would like this kind
of work, have him write Mr. F. R.
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Fit up the farm home with IDEAL-AMERICAN heating
so that the young man will want to stay on the land.
He has fought hard for us and deserves to enjoy every
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running water in order to operate an IDEAL
heating outﬁt. There is no need to burn high
{priced fuel because IDEAL Boilers burn any
(ital fuel with great economy and development
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Send for our Free Heating Book
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WesternCanadafor ‘
. years has helped to feed
~ _ . the world—the same responsi-
. . bility of production still rests u on her.
While high prices for Grain. Cattle on Sheep
are sure to remain, one: of land is much below its value.
Land capable of yleldlng 20 to 45 bush-
els of wheat to the acre can be had on
easy terms at from $15 to $30 per
acre—good grazing land at much less.
.. Many farms pa (1 for from a single year’s cro . Raising
\ cattle, sheep an hogs brings equal success. The ovemment ,
encourages fanning and stock raising.
Cos. offer unusual inducements to Home Seek-1
. ers. Farm. may be stocked by loans at moderate interest. '
. Western Canada offers low taxation, good markets and ships.
‘- ping; free schools, churchesand healthful climate.
For particulars s- to reduced railway rates, location of land, illusn;
in literature. eta. apply to Supt. of human. Ottawa. Cam. or
M. V. McINNESS
Detroit. Mich.
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pulled to eliminate all hook-keeping.
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help us continue our low rate by making your remittance exactly right.—
Address, Michigan Business Farming, Adv. Dep’t, Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

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' FARMS AND LAND

FARMS FOR SALE—BIG LIST OF

farms for sale by the owners, giving
nie name, location of farm, description,
price and terms Strictly mutual and co-
operative between the buyer and seller
and conducted £01 our members. GLE AN-
ER CLEARING HOUSE /'.ASSN Land
Dpt., Gleaner Temple, Detroit.

1 HAVS A 400- ACRE FARM. I_ II ISII
to hire man and wife by the year: 3:00d
pay and good job to right parties. Chas.
Hodges, St_ Johns, Mich R. 3.

 

 

BARGAIN IF SOLD 'SOON—7 ACRES
root and celery farm. Get particulars
from J. Nickless, Box 116, East Jordan,
Mich.

STORE FOR SALE IVI'I‘II FIVE
ing rooms above; ﬁxtures complete;
warehouse. For further particulars
write Peter Cook, Pewamo, Mich. This

store is located at Pewamo, Mich. in a
ﬁne farming region and this would sure-
ly be a good place for a co—operative cen-
~ter. This building is 18x54 (two-story):
24x24 near end extension and a 20x30
warehouse all in good condition

FOR S.ALE-—-—GOING
ness——Blacksmith shop, tools and stock;
also seven—room—house, well equlllled
W611, cellar, water in house; 1174 acre" for
garden; cheap. to sell quick. Terms on
application; ’phone 22. Van Buren'Co.
Telephone Co. A. W. Shannon, Covert.
ville, Mich.

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FOR SAIE—I‘IGIITY ACRE FARM;

good land large basement barn, silo,
tool house. Six miles from Evart; five
miles from Hersey: gravel road. Price

$3,000- Jas. McLachlan, Evart, Mich.
IF YOITVIVAV’I‘TO SELL OR EX-

change you1 p1operty, write me. John J.

Black, 100 St. Lhippewa Falls, Wis

WWANTED — 'I‘O RENT—EQUII‘I’ED
farm—on Shares. By reliable industri-
ous man. John Walsh, 20 Sproat St..
Detioit, Michigan.

FOB SALT-“80 ACRE FARRI; Oli-
chard, good water buildings, hay, grain,
crops, stocks, tools; everything to work
w.ith $4, 500. Owner, Hattie Carothers,
Fife Lake, Mich” B 1.

FOR SALE—dzio-ACRE FARM ALL
fenced 80 acres under cultivation, good
land, good buildings. With or without
stock and implements. Paul Hamann,
Alger, Michigan

$2,500 DOWN SEC URES 308 ACRES,
28 cows and other stock, hay, etc. Two
miles RR town. 100 acres smooth ma-
chine-worked ﬁelds, hal land cutting 100
tons, spring— watered wire—fenced 50 cow
pasture estimated 2, 000 cords wood, 100, -
000 ft.ti1nbe1;60 apple trees; good 8-
room house, big basement stock barn,
horse barns, granary, corn houses, etc.
Owner’s interests elsewhere demanding
quick sale, $9.350 takes all, easy terms.
Details this big money—maker page 35
Catalog BaIgains 19 States, copy flee.
Strout Farm Agency, 814 BE Ford Bldg,
Detroit.

 

 

 

FOB SALE—FINE‘ PRODUCTIVE
farm, 138 acres, clay loam; good clay
sub-soil; 100 acres under cultivation,

balance in pasture. wood lot, and sugar
bush; fenced, stumped; orchards, new
and old; 13 acres Fall grain; 40 Fall
lowed; hay crop alone in year 1917

grought over $1,000; new seeding done
every y;ear
painted and ﬁnished throughout, spacious
orches, hot air furnace, sanitary c em-

cal closet, big fruit and vegetable ce lar;

a part of this large house has, for over
- 30 years, been used as a general store
and postoﬁice, making a. very attractive
addition to the general income, and is al-
so a stopping place for transients; two
large barns, connected in an L shape,
with stalls for six horses and ties for 25
head of cattle, basement of solid stone
construction; a cement frost-proof root
hay track and waterworks are
other desirable features, pure, cold wat-
er pumped by windmill; outbuildings con-
sist of tool house, ice house, hen and beg
houses, double corn cribs, also ware-
house 16x29 attached to rear of store
part; row of beautiful maples down front
of farm and shrubbery on grounds:
school house ' across from farm, near
- churches, lodge halls, etc. , good, prosper-
' ous neighbors; near five summer resorts,
"’ insuring fancy prices for produce; four
' miles from M. C. , nine from county
seat, 28 from Petoskey, Bay View and
Mackinac Island; telephone and daily
mail; have Registered and Grade Short-
horn cattle, 0.1. C. pigs, etc" also hay,
oats dai' dependable home-grown seed
e list or best farm machinery

hewvlly for quick gal:

    

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{IO-ACRE FARM FOR SALE, 1

miles from St. Louis. Mich. Good schoo s

and churches; good soil, 55 a. cleared,
balance pasture and wood lot; lo-room
house, basement barn 36x48. Price.
$6,500; $3,500 cash, balance easy terms.

Chas, Monroe, St. Louis Michigan.

FOR SALE -— 6,600 ASPARAGUS
Plants. $20 takes the bunch, F. J. Strat-
ton. Three Oaks, Michigan. .

SEEDS AND PLANTS

FOR SALE—ITO SAN SOY BEANS;
ﬁne __qua1ity G P. Phillips, Bellevue, Mich.

I HAVE EARLY RECORD, ROUND,
White Seed Potatoes and will paV postage
in Michigan at $3 per bu. C. J W
Aldrich Falmouth, Mich.

PURE BRED SEED—“'18. HARLEY
(6 ROW) and College Success Oats. pass-
ed inspection in ﬁeld and bin. Worthy oats
not inspected this year. These grains
took 4th prize at M. A C. Grain Show.
Write for prices Earl C. McCarty, Bad
Axe. Michigan.

SEED CORN—“PICKETT’S” YE LLOIV

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘Dent, early maturing selected seed $3 for

 

56 pounds shelled corn. E N. Ball. Ham-
burg, Mich.
I HAVE 100 BUSHELS 0F 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. 2.

 

SEED OATS. BEST \IICHIGAN
northern oats. Buy good seed and grow
80 to 100 bushels per acre. Price, 900 per
bu Sample free.
Merrill Mich

 

I HAVE 1,000 BUSIIELS OF IVORTHY
Oats to offer at $1. 50 per bu. Sacks free
f..o h They are nice bright oats and free of
weed seeds 10 acres of these oats yield-
ed 90 bushels per acre. -—Elmcr E. Smith
Redford Mich

 

YELLOW DENT SEED
heavy yielding; butted and tipped;

CORN, .
shell-

ed 56 lbs” $5; sacks free with 2 bushel
or more. Germination test above 90%.
Lleo 4M, Worden, Ionia, Mich, R. F.

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ONION SETS, CHOICE, HAND SE-
lected reds; postpaid, 2 lbs, 35c;
lbs, 750; quantity price on application.
Thelo Gifford, Winn, Mich.

 

WANTED—POSITION ON FARM BY
man with family, 15 years' experience,
references State wages or would rent
ﬂurryshﬁdz. farm. Frank Adams, Copemish,

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large, modern residence, well -

“Results came
quickly
from the V‘

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hepherd, Mich,
M. B. F.: You may take out my
ad. for sweet clover seed for sale.
I am about sold out. Results came
quick from the ad. _
C‘. A. THOMAS.

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Apr. 1, 1919

If it is anything the farm
folks want or need a little ad
in M. B. F. ’s Classiﬁed Farm-
ers’ Exchange will sell it for
you.

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To Subscribers

When sending a change or
correction of address—or when
Writing us about anything con-
cerning your subscription,
please be sure to send the yellow
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AWOULD like to ask you": thru as
any law that prevents a State bank;

In Michigan from making loans on

breeding cattle for one year.

I know that many of our banks are
carrying farm mortgages for a long-
er period. The farmer’s herd of dairy
cows 'on many terms in Lenawee
county is worth as much as the farm
itself or nearly so and many pure—
bred herds are worth more.

In order that farmers might be
encouraged to improve their herds
and to carry, as many animals as the
farm should carry with proﬁt to the
other, it would seem that some meth-
od should obtain, whereby a farmer
could borrow 011 long time paper on
his herd of. cows, at least.

Some years ago, having grown
weary of strenuous business life in
Chicago, and mindful of the tranquil

days of my youth on the farm, I pur-

chased the half section, on which my
grandfather settled near Addison in
1838.

Desiring to be an up—to—date farm-
er I purchased some pure—bred Aber-
deeu Angus cattle and some Duroc
Jersey Hogs also pure- -bred and car—
rying the best blood lines that I
could afford to buy. '

Looking back over these years I
ﬁnd that my days have been» full of
trembling and my nights of terrible
dreams because of these ever recur-
ring four months’ renewals, and the

your legal; department if there is";

"could. have been handled Leas," - “if

  
  
 
   

On a smaller term pie

ever, on a halt section I could anally
carry $20, 000 worth of cattle .ln—9 .
voiced at grade beef prices.) The cat?
tle were making more meney
grade cattle wOuld make and natur-
ally I wanted" to keep them. ., ,

I believe the system should be rel-7‘
adjusted so the future generations of
men who wish to keep breeding

stock may borrow on longer notes. 1
wish to ask another question.” Not
many farmers like to give a. chattel
mortgage. Could a note be drawn
with spaces for the registry numbers
of the animals included in the secur-
ity, which on ﬁling with the register
of deeds would become adieu on the .
property like a mortgage? Idiope
some plan may be devised. We have
the Federal Loan System-which en-
ables the farmer to borrow on-his
farm, and the Federal Reserve Sys—
tem which facilitates marketing and
feeding operations and has, no doubt,
contributed largely to the present
position of the United States among
the nations of the world as a com-
mercial factor, but in order to stim-.
ulate the greatest internal agricultur-
al advancement some method should
be devised for loans on breeding
stock for a longer period than six
months—Geo. B. Smith, Addison.

 

 

PEAS AND OATS MAKE GOOD

PASTURE

I would like to ask thru the col—
umns of your paper what would be
advisable to sow for summer pas-
ture for calves and spring pigs. I
have ten calves about eight weeks old
as I have no clover, I would like to
sow something that answorsfor sum-
mer pasture. I also expect to have

“six or eight spring pigs and would it

be advisable to pasture the pigs with
the calves thru the summer? How
much pasture would that many stock
require ?— Subscriber, Leroy.

For real early spring pasture a
mixture of peas and oats, sown at
the rate of from four to ﬁve pecks of
each per acre, furnishes as good a
pasture as can be obtained for June.
The peas and oats can be, sown earl—
ier than anything else and comes on
quicker than does rape. The only
objection to this crop is the fact that
it once eaten off it will not come up
and made asecond growth; Conse-
quently, it is not available for pas-
ture much after the middle of July.

At this date I would advise to de-
pend entirely upon Dwarf Essex rape
which may be sown broadcast at the
rate of ﬁve to six pounds per acre or
drilled at the rate of from two to
three pounds per acre.

It would be advisable to put in
about two to two and one—half acres
for the ten calves and pigs, and, if
possible, it would be well to divide
this into two lots alternating them
from one to the other each three or
four weeks to insure a constant sup-
ply of fresh green feed thruout the
season—Geo. A. Brown, Prof. Animal
Husbandry; M. A. (7.

\VOULD NOT ADVISE RAPE FOR
HORSES

I am very short of hay for my
horses and would like to know if it
would harm them to pasture them
in rape ﬁeld in evenings after they
have been working hard and then
work them the next day during the
summer.

Would also like to know if I can .

feed them good marsh hay cut fresh
every day. Would they do all right

. by feeding that, and a good feed of

cats three times ‘a day while work-
ing?

If these two substitutes will not do
what can I sow that will be ready to
pasture in June? I have light, sandy
ground—M. B.. Milford; Mich.

I would not advise pasturing work
horses on rape, as it is far too succu-
lent. They would need dry matter in
the shape of hay or‘ straw in addition.
Fresh marsh hay, along with cats.
would make a very good feed, it you
did not have too far to go to get it.
‘ 'If you have an area close to the
barn which you can pasture, I would
suggest that you sow spring barley at
the rate of two bushels per acre and
use it for your horses instead of rape

‘as you suggested. Barley has been
found to be well adapted 'to horse
feeding and of particular value for
brood mares nursing foals. I am sure
you will ﬁnd it better than anything -
else you can use to take the place of,
hay.—-—R. 8'. Hudson, .Farm.8uperin-
tendent, M. A. 0.

 

 

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I have a two weeks‘ old heif-
er ca‘if perfect in. all respects
but born minus her right fore-"
leg. She is as active as any
calf with four legs, and I wish
you’d make an item and put in
M. B. F. I wish to sell her as
a freak for she is a beauty.—
Courtney M. Howe, R. No. 1,
South ..Haven, Mich. .

 

 

 

 

 

 

SHROPSHIRES WANTED_

Mr. Wm. S. Grow of Co'nandaigua,
N. Y., an M. B. F. subscriber, writes
us as follows: “COuld you put me;
in line where I could buy some reg-
istered Shropshire ewes with lambs
by their side, or some yearlings that.
have not been bred?”

If any of our'readers have Shrop-
shires for sale will they please write
to Mr. Grow?

 

 

 

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TRACTOR EXPERIENCE WANTED : ‘ ‘ ‘

E HAVE received a number of very interesting tractor letters. .
The ﬁrst of these, from a Fordson owner, is published in this 193116. ‘
Next week we will give the experience of C. M. Lampkin & Son 0! .
Saranac, with their I. H. 0 Titan 10. 20 This exchange of tractor. expert» 5
shoes will be of value to every farmer who uses a treetor or contemplates
the purchase of a tractor. We oﬂer cash prizes for tractor letters all p
Tell us your experience, giving name and“ model or tractor
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- ~“usnsoii'mlm sILo ’
' ' HE FIRST and most important
‘ use of the silo, is to store suc-

, cul‘ent forage for winter and
v'summer’ use.q Some farmers get a
large service from their silos by
keeping-them employed as storagge

""”for fodder." I know of cases where
- the silo has been ﬁlled in the fall.

1’ with corn,_fed out during. the? late
fall-and early winter months, ’and
" ﬁlled, in January with shocked corn

- With water added. This, if properly -

. made from good fodder, produces an
excellent silage and very much better
results can be obtained than feeding
the fodder dry. An early planting of
oatsand peas in March or early April

in June,

..which can again be put in the silo
and fed out during J uly“ and August
when pastures are poor and feed
scarce. In this way it is possible to
use in a practical and' economic way
the silo three times a year. Few
farmers or stock keepers aim to put
all their corn’ in the silo.- -This means

_ that a large amount of corn stalks
must eitherbe left in the ﬁeld .as
stalks or cut and put in shocks as
fodder.

The prevailing high prices for hay
demand that fodder should be care-
fully saved, and it is very practical
and wise policy to cut up the earn in
the fall before it becomes dry or

. frosted and put in.large well-built
shocks. It can then be fed as fod-

der, shredded, cut up, or putin the .

silo.

It sometimes happens that a silo
will not‘be used for fodder where
herds are sold or stock disposed of.
The silo in this case can be turned
to excellent use as a storage for
grain. It is the best kind of gran-
ary and many of them are being used
for this purpose. I have a friend who
makes it a point to put up ice in his
large silo each spring. ' He has two
winter‘silos; feeds out the large one
ﬁrst and the smaller diameter later,
then ﬁlls his large silo with ice,

which supplies him during the sum- “

mer months. By using sawdust
around the edge, the silo will prove
-an excellent ice house. - '

There are many farmers who feed
cattle only when conditions are fav-
orable. The market may favor their
decision in this venture, or it may be
they will have a surplus of fodder or
feed which they Consider can best be
marketed thru cattle. These men
.certainly need a aim, or two even
though they use them only once in
three years. It will give them an
opportunity to save forage crops
which otherwise might be wasted,
and the silo. in this case serves as a
forage insurance and stands ready
to make a feeding operation proﬁta-
ble. I

With these many uses, the silo
should be considered as one of the
most important equipments on the
farm, and for the stock farmer; he
should build it as he builds his barn.

' _ Several years ago the statement was

'made that a silo was needed wher-
ever a corn crib was found, but pres—
ent day experience has proven that a

. silo is often needed where a corn crib"

is not. There are large sections in
the northern states where corn sel—
dom matures but the silo is depend- -
ed upon to harvest the crop. There
are also cases where the bulk of the
corn raised in a community goes into
the silo. We now say, a silo for ev-
ery barn—A. L. Hawker.

 

'" _ nauseous HORSE SITUATION _.

1 E‘CANawell liken the horse bar

7 ainess to an ocean. At times
' : f carpeting, at other times
.methe‘ebh'ﬂow. .lust new, the tide
setting 1? strongly in one‘direc;

‘production in this manner, what' is.

  

'ﬁnd I one dollars—Chas
.co nty, ' ‘ .

 

prices to follow the liarge increases in
prices of. wheat, corn, pork, beef and
mutton, many farmers have quit the
horse business. 'Their mares have
beenfoi‘ sale to the horse buyer, in.
many'casesand even'though mares
were held, breeding hag‘ been neglect-
ed. The ebb flow of the ocean is just
upon us.

It'takes a very strongly anchored
person to stand against the ﬂow of
tide. It is also usually a rather thank-
less job to advise gorng against any
popular or well nigh universal prac-
tice or habit. But there is always a
tomorrow to be considered.

To illustrate the way the draft
horse business is going, a short re-
view of the history of the last several
years in Tazewell county, Illinois, can
be cited. Tazewell.” county has earned
the fame of having more purebred
Percheron horses per square, mile of
area than any other county in Ameri-
ca. Old Louis Napoleon made history
for the county in early days and the
draft horse interests have always been
very large in the county. To obtain an
accurate opinion as to the decrease in
breeding in Tazewell county, the Taze-
well County Percheron Association a
short time ago canvassed the men
owning stallions for the years 1915,
1916, 1917 and 1918. Direct questions
were asked of each stallion owner as
to the number of mares bred_ per stal-
lion during these years. Enough re-
plies were obtained to furnish reliable
estimates. In 1915, there were record-
ed 155 stallions for public service. The
average number of mares bred per
stallion was 65. Counting a ﬁfty per
oent. colt crop, there should have been
5,036 colts of the 1916 crop. In 1916,
the number of registered stallions de-
creased to 140 and the average num-
ber of mares per horse also decreased»

‘to 55. This would be 3,850 colts for
1917. ~In 1917, the stallions again
dropped to 115 and mares per stallion
to 451/2. According to this only 2,616
colts could be expected in 1918. Last
year, 1918, the stallions only number-
ed 88 and the owners reported an av-
erage of 41 mares per stallion. This
year we can expect about 1,800 colts.
From 1915 to. 1918 the stallions de-
creased from 155 to 88. The number
or colts decreased from 5,036 to 1,800
or almost 180 per cent. Here is food
for thought. If one of thevbig draft
horse counties cuts down its horse

the
three

going to happen to
horses for market
years from now?

A like decrease can be seen in the
decrease in stallions registered in the
entire state. In 1912, there were 9,677
purebred and grade stallions licensed

of
four

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or makin’s cigarette—without a comeback! Does that

sound like the goods to you? ..
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tidy red tine, handsome pound and half pound tin humidars—and

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to stand at public service. In 1918,
there were 7,120 or a decrease of 36
per cent.

The result is already becoming ap-
parent in Tazewell county. The other
day,. the secretary of the County
Percheron Association was trying to
ﬁnd’ some real geldingg to price to a
buyer. In the course of his search, a
considerable number of men were con-
sulted. No one knew of any big sound
geldings of market age. A buyer of
express horses told the secretary a
short time ago that he was ﬁnding it'
very hard to ﬁnd any horses suitable
for his trade. Last August in response
to an inquiry for grade mares to over
500 men in Tazewell county, only 29
mares for sale were located.

In the light or these ﬁgures and
from» recent history, it begins to ap-
pear that there will be practically no
horses soon. When that happens what
will we do for work stock? And we
need work horses three, ﬁve, ten years
from now.—-—0hester G. Starr, Farm
Adviser of Tazewelz County, Illinois.

 

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Sales advertised here at 'special low rates; ask for them. Write to-dayl,

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E. L. Salisbury Breeds High Class

Holetein-Friesian Cattle

Twenty dams of our herd sire
* Walter Lyons

average 3011 lbs. of butter in seven
days. Nothing for sale at this time
but young bull calves.

E. L. Salisbury, Shepherd, Michigan.

 

 

. dam has a 33.105 4-yr.—old record.

 

MUSOLFF BROS.’ HOLSTEINS

We are now booking orders for
young bulls. from King. Pieter Segis

ons 170506. All from A. R. O, dams

th credible records. We test annu-
ally for tuberculosis. Write for pric-
es and further information.

_ Musloﬂ' Bros., South Lyons, Michigan

 

 

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PERCHERONS, ' '
HOLSTEINS,
SHROPSHIRES,
" ANGUS.
‘ DUROCS.

DORR D. BUELL, mum, MlCH.
R. F. D. No. l

 

 

 

 

HOLSTEINS 015‘ QUALITY. TWO near-
est dams of herd sire are both above 33
lbs. butter in 7 days, average 700 lbs.
milk. E. A. Hardy. Rochester. Mich.

EG. HOLSTElN BULL’CALF from
good producing Cow and sired by a
No. 1 bull. Price $50.00 for quick sale.
F. W. Alexander. Var~ar. Michigan.

 

 

1200-"). Bred Young Bull H

Ready for service. The sire Maplecrest De
K01 Hengerveld own brother to a world’s
champion junior 4-year—old, 1,263 pounds
butter in a year. Brother, in blood to the
ex-champion cow, record 1322.93 lbs. but-
ter in a year. Write for pedigree and

price.
IIILLCREST FARM, F. B. Lay, Mgr,
Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

T‘VIN BULL (‘ALVES
Born October 20. l918: sired b Sir
Calantha Segis Korndykc 104008; am’s
record. 24.35 lbs. butter and 621 lbs. of
milk in 7 days; ﬁnc straight calves. Send
for particulars—C. & A. Ruttman. Fowl-
erville. Michigan.

 

“’oodlund Border Stock Farm

Offers a splendid two-year—old grand-
son of the great Sire Dutchland Cream-
elle Lad; dam a high producer and will
be tested this spring. Bull is a very good
individual, nicely marked, and priced to
sell; also a 5-months-old bull calf whose
young dam is sired by 40-lb. bull. He is a
ﬁne growthy fellow nearly white. Cheap,
it‘ taken soon. Fred Lord. Stockbridge,

 

 

Mich.

33—1.“, ANCESTRY
FOR SALE Bull calf born Feb. 6,
1919. Sire. Flint Hengerveld Lad whose

Dam,
17 lb Jr. 2-yr.—oid. daughter of Ypsiland
Sir Pontiac DeKol whose dam at 5 yrs.
has a record of 35.43 and 750.20 lbs. in
7 da. Price, $100 F_O B. .

Write for extended pedigree and photo.
L. C KETZLER, - Flint. Michigan

 

 

PREPARE

For the greatest demand
prices t: r has ever known.

 

  
 

 

future
Start
now with the Holstein and convince

yourself. Good stock always for
sale. Howbert Stock Farm. Eau
Claire, Michigan. ‘

 

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sired by a son of

F ‘ d H
Bull Calve K...

, Boy and by a son of King Segis De Kol

Kori.‘yl<e. from A. R. O. dams with rec-
ords of 18.25 as Jr. two year old to 28.25
at full age. Prices reasonable breeding
considered.

WALNUT GROVE STOCK FARM .
W W Wyclmf‘f. Napoleon, Mich

LANGHURST STOCK FARM

Offers voung Holstein.Friesian Bulls
tron) dams with records up to 24 le, and
sires' dams up to 46 lbs. Write for ped-
igrees and ,prices Fred J Lang; Sebe-
waing. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

BEAUTIFUL BABY BULL

Calf advertised in last issue is sold.
This baby bull born March 11, 1919,
Sire’s dam's average 37.76 lbs. Butter
7 days, 145.93 le. Butter 30 days,
testing 6.52% fat. ”Dam, a ﬁrst-calf
granddaughter of Ring Of the Ponti-
acg and PietertJe Hengerveld's Count
DeKol. Write for Dl‘lCe and detailed
description. Herd tuberculin tested an-

nually BOARDMAN FARMS.

Jackson, Michigan,

 

 

 

R HOLSTEIN COWS, bull and heifer
88'. calves for sale. Come and see
them C L. I-IULETT & SON, Okemos.

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FOR SALE-FIVE MONTHS—OLD!

Registered Holstein bull calf; color
about half white, nicely marked; sire’s
dam has 4 years’ record of 7 da. B.,
33.11 lbs.; M., '723.4 lbs.; 10 months B.,
1,007.76 lbs.; M., 21,419 lbs. Calf’s dam
has 7 da. record of B., 22.72" lbs.; M.,
560.6 lbs. Price $125 if. 0. b. Write for
pedigree, and photo. Floyd G. Pierson,
Flint. Mich. ~

JERSEY

 

    

    
     
  
    
       
    

Dollars in proﬁt go with
Jerseys. They actually “ milk
money.” 'l'hey feed less. ’l‘heylook real
value. Jerseys are a gilt-edge investment
for the one-cow home or . .
the hundred-cow dairy
form. There are a thou-
, sand proofs olSuperiority. '
Write to Breeders for prices
and pedigrees. Let us send
you “Jersey Facts",free.
The American Jersey Cellla
Club,3(,7 West 23rd St.
New York Cily w

The Wildwood Jersey Farm

Breeders of Majesty strain Jersey Cat-
tle. Herd Bulls, Majesty's Oxford Fox
134214; Eminent Lady's Majesty 150934.
Herd tuberculin-tested. Bull calves for
sale out of R. of M. Majesty dams.

Alvin Balden, Capac, Michigan.

 
  

      
  

   

   

 

 

GUERNSEY

WE HAVE A FEW
GUERNSEYS Heifers and cows for

sale, also a number of well bred young
bulls—write for breeding. Village Farms.
Grass Lake. Michigan. '

 

 

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Registered 33:?33 “ 3
One born April 2, 1918 Price $76
One born Dec 1, 1928 .i’rice $60
one born April 7. 1019 Price $50

Wm. T. Fisk, Vestaburg, Mich., R. 2

heading to honest, breeders’of livestock and poultry will sen , n_ ,
t and tell you What it will cost for 18, soon pa times. Toni
to of issuehvBreedersl- Auction

, President

1

FOR SALE—FIVE FULL 31:009.-
red Bulls, 3 Short Horm, and 2 Polls
Durhams; 1 Polled Durham, 18 months
old; 1 Failed Durham, 6 weeks old: 3
Short Horns, 12 months old; 1 Short
Horn, 6 weeks old. Clarence Wyant.
Berrien Center, Mich.. R 1.

Fun SALE FIVE HEAD REGISTERED
Durham Females from four
months to four years old. Bates strain.
Also some large Poland China Boars, six
months old, bred from a sow that has
just farrowed 16 pigs.
Wm. Cox, Williamston, Michigan.

 

MILKING SHORTHOBNS
Mapielane Laddie No. 504725, a Grand-
son of General Clay 255920, at head of
herd. Young stock of both sexes for sale.
Can spare a few cows.
A. W. Thorne, Fife Lake, Michigan -

 

FOR SALE —— SHORTHORN AND
Polled Durham Cattle. Herd bulls are
grandsons of Whitehall Sultan and Avon-
dale, C. Carlson, Leroy, Mich.

 

HORTHORNS and POLAND CHINAS
all sold out. None for sale at pres-
ent. F. M. Piggott & Son, Fowler, Mich

 

HAT DO YOU WANT? 1 represent 41.

SHORTHOR‘N breeders. Can put you In
much with best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages. Some females Crum.
Central Michigan Shorthorn
Association. McBrides. .Michi' l.

 

FOR SALE—Two Shorthorn Durham
bulls. Bates strain and good individuals.
One 3 years old;.one 6 monthi. Geo. W.
Arnold, Bates. Mich.

VAN BITREN CO Shorthorn
Association have young stock
for sale, mostly Clay breeding. Write
your wants to the Secretary Frank
Bailey, Hartford. Michigan.

For Sale

 

THE
Breeders'

 

SCOTCH TOPPED

SHORTHORNS, roans
and reds. both sexes. At. head of herd
grandson of famous Whitehall Sultan.

Write for prices and description.
S. H. PANGBORN. Bad Axe, Michigan.

 

HEREFORDS

 

LAKEWOOD HEREFORDSS

-Not how many! but how good! A few
well-developed, beefy young bulls for
sale, blood lines and 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

Clemens, Michigan.

    
 
  
  
  
     
    
  
  
  
  
   
    
   
      
   
    
  
    
   
    
   
    
   
  
  
  
  
    
 
 
  
      
     
  
     
   
    
  
     
  

    

FOR SALE —- SOME OF THOSE,
lar e rangy big boned Poland China
ma es are left yet. Very proliﬁc. One
registered roan Durham cow, four years
01 . Wm. Cox, Williamston, Mich.

 

Blgrx$§PI¥hP'bf' gilts, brﬁd dfor April
. e g smooth in . A. \
‘WOOD & SON. Saline. Mich. t

L. S. P, C. BRED GILTS, ALL SOLD:
two boars ready for service and one bull
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, Eaton
Rapids, Mich, instead of Mason. I have
sold my farm and bought another, one
mile west and eight and one-half milu:
south. Come and see me. in my new home.
Free livery from town. .
M. 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, Jone -
Ville, Mich.‘

WALNUT ALLE BIG TYPE, Gm.-

‘ all sold. Keep
watch of 1919 crop sired by Arts Sena—
tor ~and Orange Price. I thank my cus-
formers for their patronage. '

A. D. GREGORY. - lonia, Milli.

 

DUROC

DUROCS, FEB’Y, EARRO'W, READY
to ship May lst. $15, two for $25 f. o. b
crated. Bankers' satisfaction or mont v
back. Papers for registry furnished. f'l
farrowed in threelitters; big bone type.
B. F'. Kies, Hillsdaie, Mich., R '

 

 

_I)UROC ‘BOARS READY FOR S 3?.
Vice, also high class sows bred for Huan-
rner farrowmg to Orion’s Fancy‘ King, tho
biggest pig of his age ever at Internation-
al Fat Stock Show, Newton Barnhart.
St. Johns, Mich. ‘

 

TWO YOUNG BROOKVVATER, DUR-
oc Jersey Boars, ready for service. All
stock shipped; express prepaid, ivns=pec~
tion allowed. Fricke Dairy Co. - Address
chke Dairy Co., or Arthur W. Mumford.
Perrmton, Mich. '

 

DUROCS; BRED STOCK ALL SOLD.
Will have a limited number of yearlingr
gilts bred for August farrow. Order early.
Newton & Blank, Hill Crest Farms, Per-
rinton, Mich.

 

"TWO YOUNG BROOKWATER, lu'R-
co Jersey Boars, ready for service. All
stock shipped; express prepaid, inSpH'lion

 

investment. A life-time devoted to the allowed Fricke Dair a
. , y Co. Address liri -
breed. Come.and_ see me.—E. J- TAY‘ ke Dairy 00., or Arthur W. Mumfor-(d.
LOR. Fremont. Mich- Perrinton, Mich.”
120 HEREFORD STEERS. ALso' DUROC JERSEY swrN-E. 1m an

know of 10 or 15 loads fancy quality
Shorthorn and Angus. steers 5 to 800 1..DS'
Owners anfous to sell. Will help buy 00c
oommiSSion. C. F, Ball, Fairﬁeld, Iowa.

 

THREE HEREFORD BULL CALVES,
about eight months old; one horned and

two polled; best of breeding. Prices rea-L

sonable. Cole & Gardner, Hudson, Mich.

 

ABERDEEN-ANGUS

ABEL.-'EEN ANGUS CATTLE

We are offering at attractive prices, a.
number of high-class young bulls, well
able to head the best herds in the land.
Best in blood lineage on either side of the
ocean. Write for price list. 0: call and
see us. '
Woodcote Stock

ANGU BULLS and HEIFEBS from
choice registered stock. Also
have some nice Registered Duroc Boars
ready for service. Will crate and ship
for $50.00. Geo. B. Smith & Co._ Addi~
son. Michigan.

SHORTHORN

 

Farm. Ionia. Michigan.

 

SIIORTHORNS, 5 ROAN BULLS, 4

to 7 months old. pail-fed; dams’ good
milkers; thefarmers'kmd, at fnmersn
prices. F. M. Piggott & Son. Fowler,
Mich.

 

FOR. SALE—SHORTHORNS
Of Quality. Scotch and Scotch topped.
Maxwalton Monarch 2nd &- Maxwaiton
Jupiter in service.
John Schmidt & Son. Reed City, Mich.

 

 

WOLVEBINE STOCK FARM
I want to tell you about our Junior
Herd Sire. “King Pontiac Lunde Korn-
dyke 30:19," a. son of King of the Pontl-

. acs, his dam‘ is Queen Segis of Brookmde,

a daughter of Pontiac 'Clothilde De K01
2nd and Prince Segis Ixoz‘ndyke. a great
combination of breeding. ~

We are breeding this young 51,-, to
the daughters'of Judge Walker Pietertje,
our Senior Herd Sire whose ﬁrst ﬁve

. dams each hays records above 30 lbs, he

also has two 30 lb. sisters. How can
is opular line of breeding?
T. W. Sprague, Battle Creek. Mich.

- {rou- go Wrong by buying a bull call of
Q

 

  

non sALE—Two s-nmmoxms;

', mvy producers; have been milking 65

  
 
   
 

ﬂesh in Janna P
m J: Wu-

per day; bred to 4071b. bull; were

 

ch.

  

“7911:, .

SdORTHORN FOR SALE AT mm-

sonable prices. The
prize-winning Scotch Bull, Master Model
576147, in many states at head of herd of
50 good type Shorthorns.

Parkhurst, Reed City, Michigan.

For: SALE—4 DOUBLE STANDARD
Polled Durham bulls, a e from 7 to .14
months. Edw. Gunden. igeon, Mich,

 

 

 

 

HORSES
FOB. SALE—FIVE REGISTERED
Percheron horses, three stallions, two
mares, all blacks and priced to sell.

C. S. Young, Shepherd, Mich.

 

AT HALF PRICE—REGISTF'HQD
Percheron Mare, dapple gray, 7 years old;
weighs a ton show ﬁt; heavy in foal to an
imported stud weighing 2,160. Price $300.
A good worker; prompt._Also stud colt, 2
years old ready for servxce; color brown;
from a ton mare and imported ton stud,
Price $250. A show colt, a great actor.
J. C. Butler, Portland, Mlch

BLACK PERCHERON

Hugo; recorder number 99855;
2.100 E. Zingrebc. Latty. Ohio.

HOGS

POLAND on INA
HOMESTEAD FARMS.

weight.

 

 

 

 

POLAND

China’s are the large, big-boned ‘prolific'

kind. Wm. Cox,
Michigan.

Prop,, Williamston,

 

[6. TYPE P. 0., I have a few extra
good Fall Boars left, sired by Grand
Superba and out of Big Prolific Sows.
Their breeding traces to the best herd m
111., Iowa and Neb.
C. E. GARNANT, Eaton Rapids, Mich.

 

MICHIGAN CHAMPION HERD OF
Big Type P. C. orders booked for spring
pigs. E. R. Leonardu St. Louis, Mic .

Wichita, Brandon, Ft. Worth, Denver, Buffalo, Oklahoma City

Aberdeen-Angus steers and Baby Beeves have won over all breeds
year. .
for single steer went to the "Doddies" at Brandon‘and Kansas Na- ~
Best cariot at Buifalo's first show was a
_ The Boys’ and Girls'
Fort Worth, Oklahoma City and Brandon were al “Doddies.”
ver's cham ion of the grades and crosses was a California Aberdeen-
An'gus. Wr to for list of breeders and literature.

at these points since the ﬁrst of the

tional Fat Stock Shows.
load of “Doddie” heifers.

 

rlced to sell. Harry IT. .

 

AMERICAN KBEBDEEN-ANGUS BREEDEBS’
181'! M. B. Exchange Ave.. Chicago -

   

Grand championships

    
  
 

  

rand champions at
Den-

    
  

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STALLION,

 

 

 

 
  

Sows and Gilts all sold. Nice bunch of
fall pigs“ both sex, sired by Brookwator
Tippy Orion No. 55421, by Tippy 001., out
of dam by the Principal 4th and Brook-
water Cherry King. Also herd boar 3 yr.
old. Write for pedigree and prices sat-
isfaction guaranteed. Thos. Underhill &
Son, Salem, Michigan.

 

fall, pigs. You need a litter by ()9-

1ons Fancy King, the biggest pig
of his age ever at International Fat Stock
show, Catalog tells all.-——Newton Barn-
hart, St. Johns, 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. -

INWOOD BROS. -

5 DUROC BRED SO‘VS AND 50

 

Romeo, Mich.

 

FOR SALE—TWO REGULAR DUROC
Jersey boars, 1st of October furrow;
weight, 150 lbs.; sired by Orion Cher-y
King 6th No. 79931; dam b'y Defend-r.
C. E. Davis & Son. Ashley, Mich. R. l.

MEADOWVIEW FARM ..

Registered Duroc Jersey Hogs.
your spring pigs .now.
.1. E. Morris, Farmington, Mich.

Buy

 

A FEW SPRING BOARS and bred gilts .

of Joe Orion and Defender Breeding
at a bargain. Write for prices.
John W. Esch. R.F‘.D No. 1. Honor, Mich.

0. I.“ C.

 

 

 

O Saginaw Valley] Herd
Headed by‘ C. C. Michgu Boy

son of Grand Champion

Schoolmaster and Perfection

5th;-February pigs for sale,
C John Gibson,

Bridgeport, -

 

 

Michigan

 

 

 

01C FALL BOARS AND GIL’E‘Sx
- 0 0 Extra large‘boned. Best I ever.
raised. Priced to sell glee good grade
‘Hoistel bull calf. Will Thurman, Elm
-Front tock Farm, Dryden,‘Michigan. .

any WAaNna, Route 8341mm "MI. 11’
gBreeder 1°.f VP ‘ Bred "£13,130“ ’

 

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read . Book > Our order for Spring
Boar? P e rims.y John W. Snyder. St.
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{ BERKSEIBES

 

'Proﬂt. Clioiee stock for sale. '
ur an s.
o COESA, - White Hall.

onEs'rEn wm'rme

MARCH AND 'Arnn. PIGS,

Chestet‘from prize winning stock; in

airs or tries: at reasonable prices—F.
. Alexander, Vassar, Mich,

J. '1‘. Westail, .

Breeder of big type Chesterwhite swine,
My herd is headed .by Petrolium King
51.003 and he by Petrolium Giant 87,115,
and. he six times grand champion. Some
good October males for sale. Write me

‘ HIRE! M
G REGOBY FARM BERKS WT“.
W

 

 

for further particulars and prices. J. '1‘.
Westall, Breckenridge, Michigan.
DOGS
FOB SALE—COLLIE PUPS. CHAS.

Wolff, Walkerton, Indiana.

CHOICE STOCK .COLLIE PUPS FOB
sale; mother natural heeler. J, Ses-
sions, St. Johns, Mich., R. 8 '

RABBITS

PEDIGREED RUFUS RED BELGIAN
Hare bucks. Prices reasonable. Satis-
faction guaranteed. Hanley Bros., R. 8,
St, Louis, Mich.

POULTRY

HOMESTEAD FARMS

Orders for Chicks have been too manY-
We must have three to four weeks to 1111
further orders.

Order only Barred Rocks: R. C. Rhode
Island Reds; White and Silver Laced (in
small 'auantities) Wyandottes: S. C. Black
Minorcas; S, C. and R. C. White Leg-
horns; S. C. and R. C_ Brown Leghorns;
Anconas. Eggs for hatching,

Hares—Belgians and Flemish Giants.

A catalog will be mailed to you.

BLOOMINGDALE FARMS ASSOCIATION
Bloomingdale, Mich.

PLYMOUTH BOOKS

 

 

 

 

 

 

MUD-WAY-AUSH-KA FARM 0P-
fers for May lst shipments our breeders
in Parks bred-to—lay Barre Rocks (Pulr
let mating) yearling hens, :3 to $5 each;
eight hens and cock bird, $ 0 ' Rock eggs,

1.50 per 15; $4.50.per 50; hits Runner

uck eggs, $1.50 per 11. Dike 0.. Miller,
Dryden, Mich.

 

G. A. BAUMGARDNEB'S BARRED
P. Rocks are famous for winners, layers,
and yellow legs and beaks. Eggs by ex-
press, $1.50 per 15; by parcel post, $1
per 15. Middleviile, Mich., R. 2.

 

OEN’S BIG BEAUTIFUL BABEED‘

Rocks are hen—hatched. uick owers.
good layers; 30 eggs, 3.0 ' 10 , 8.00.
Postage paid. Cookere s, $4.00. ircu-

lars, photos. John Worthon, Clare. Mich.

THOROUGHBRED BARRED BOOK
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
Cookerel at Chelsea Big- Show. Hatchin
Eggs from Pen 1 $2.60 per 15' Pen ,
$2, 0 per 15, or $5.00 per 50. B‘y parcel
post. Carrier returned.

SAM STADEL. - Chelsea, Mich.

SHEPARDS' BUFF ROCKS; PRIZE
winners at the big Detroit Poultry Show
1919. I have tWO gra e pens mated. I
will hatch my winners rom these mating.
I will haVe a limited number of eggs to
spare at $3 per 15. If you want some
good Buff Rocks order one or two of these
settings; they will please you. Satisfac-
Eion uaganteed. Irvin Shepard, Chesap-
ng, c .

 

. LEGHOBN

SINGLE-COMB WHITE LEGEOBNS;
bred to l y: Bergen strain; hatching e gs
er 15, f.50' 0 $2.75' 50, 4; of;
$.50; 3 o. :21. rder d ct om th
No'sdheck. Bruce W. Brown, May-
villo. M - ._

-TO-LAY WHITE LEGHOBNS.
leaiiiliinlinm. A. C. Demonstration Farm in
1918. Average production for 150 hens
1.3:; year 185 eggs each. Eggs to; hitch-

$2 per 15 or 10 or 1 0. 11113 R
'dsay armstead. Romu.
111.. Mich-v R. 2! Box 54 " '

 

' P ROFITABLE BUFF LEcnonNs...w’;

nt ens of especially mated
ENE-35$ Byufiis that are not only mat-
ed , or exhibition but, above all. for pro:-
game-'-egg‘production. E838 at V6?! reas— ,
enable prices. Our list will interest you ,
.s—‘pieaser, ask 1 r it. Village Farms,
Grass 14536-1119 133“ ‘ ~

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try supplies will please refrain from send-

 

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9 ﬁrm

with this company since February} 225 .19_ . .

 

were renames. we
no w. 'r , , . 0
638s. per settihg, .1 . $1.50. F. F. Whit.
‘myer, ;Will_ianiston, Mich.

 

. " "' .vn'r.wmto.nai
.COCKEREIS n‘urfwhiu‘ husky tellosrv‘:

riees reachable satisfaction aren-
i’eod O. In. Hawiey. LudingtonFlMich.

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sunny), GOLDEN AND wnrrn

Wyandottes; eggs from especial mail—
ins’. $3 perIS; get 30; $8 per 50; by

 

 

 

cell , st repai . Clarence Brown! .

gran , Midh, R. 2. ' ng
' CHICKS

CHICKS WI .8111? THOUSANDS, DIF-

ferent varieties; Brown Le -

horns, $13 hundred; booklet and test-

monials. Stamp appreciated. F
Hatchery, Box 10, Freeport, Mich reeport

TURKEYS

MAMMOTH BEONZ' TURKEY EGGS
for hatching, 35 cents each. Mrs. Walter
Dillman, Dowagiac, Mich., R 5.

MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS —-
Strictly thoroughbred, for sale. Gob-

blerS' weigh 15-38 lbs., Hens 9-16 lbs.
Price, $7.00 to $25.00, according to
Weight and beauty. Eggs, $4.00 per

setting of ten. John Morris. R. 7. Vassar.

HATCHING EGGS

S. C. B. BLACK MINORCAS: EGGS
from pen No. 1, $1.30 per setting of 15;
pen NO. 2, $2 per setting. Selected eggs
from main ﬂock, $7 per 100. R, W. Mills.-

Saline, Mich.

R Br. Leghorn eggs $1.50 per 15; $8
° ° er 100. Pekin duck, $1.50 for 8.

W. Ch nese goose eggs 40 cents each. Mrs.

 

 

 

Claudia Betts. Hillsdale, Mich.

 

S. 0. WHITE LEGHORN EGGS FOR
hatching. Flock is culled by M. A. C. ex-
pert who recommends them as an excep-
tionally good laying strain Roy C. Ives,
Chelsea.

 

BARRED ROCK EGGS FROM LAY-
ing strain, $1.50 per 13, Custom hatching
fort people who would not have to have
chicks shipped. Mrs. George C. Innis,
Deckerville, Mich., Route 1, Box 69.

ABBED 'ROCKS. Winners at Chica-
go, Detroit and Battle Creek shows.
Four pullets layed 950 Eggs in one

war. Eggs. $2.00 for 15; $3.50 for 30.
, C. Oﬂgailf genton Harbor, Michi-
. o. .

 

gan, R.

HATOFIIEiGBEgGS SOETITINGS 111' #5
eggs pospa . . . . 11 one .1 ;
White Guineas, $8. Odd-ii ﬁnold, Cole-

mhn, Michigan.

 

EGGS FOB MATCHING. S. O. WEE?!
Leghorns: 7 Michigan Agricultural -
lege-bred trap nested roosters with our
ﬂock at present' eggs, :0 each. Geo. Mo-
Kay, Hersey. M ch.

EGGS FOB BATOHING

raised 3. e. White

eggs, $1; 28 eggs. $1.50.
Sumner Simpson, Webberville, Mich.

FROM FARM
Leghorns, 15

HATCHING EGGS FROM PURE Blood
8. 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 AT
Chelsea show. Special pen, $2.50, 15;
Second $2, 15; $5.50. P. P. Prepaid.
ﬁarger. Returned. Sam Stadel, Chelsea.
c .

HATCHINGgggs FROM PURE-

Barred Rocks,
Ringlet strain; 15 for (£1.50; 30 for $2.50.
P P. prepaid. Mrs. eo. Weaver, Fife

Lake. Michigan.

EGGS ﬁg]! sgég‘oﬂlNth F¥VOM MAR-
n, w e d .

$1.50 per 15. Postpaid. Williamyﬁrhncipieerij-

Mai, 152 Washington avenue, Muskegon,

 

 

HATGHING EGGS —- PLY
rocks, altl 1varigtiesharig AnconasiuoIIlIl'iigf
rae caaog c. or anPol
Sheridan, Mich., R. 5. u try Yards

- From pure b t
Hatching £883 Rocks Fisheisd 32321;
and Mammoth White Pekin Ducks. Chas.

Kletzeln, Bath, Michigan.

HATCHING EGGS WANTED

Hundreds oi! readers of Michi an Bus-
iness Farming want to buy etching

88‘s.
It you have any to spare, a little ad in
this column will sell them in a hurry

 

Write out our and send it in.'
will set it in and tell you what it
cost to ru

Address ni’oultry Dept. M. n F.
MISCELLANEOUS

EARN $60 WEEKLY DISTRIBUTIN
the Adapto Tractor ..ttachment for For
cars. Guaranteed not to injurgnyom- Ford.
Write for free circular to D0”- u u Gen-
eva Tractor Company, Geneva, ‘ o,

NOTICE—rUnonAsEns or ‘rOUL-

 

   
 
 

   
  

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The Livingston COunty
Breeders’ ‘ Sale Company

Willbe at

HOWELL, MICHIGAN
Wednesday, May 21, 1919

At 12 :30 o’clock P. M.

70 Head of High Class

O ' e
Registered Holstelns
‘ will be. offered
A large percentage of the offerings either have A. R. 0.
records or are from record dams. ‘

Among the lot are three daughters of 32-lb. cows-and a 25-
lb. 3-year-old daughter of a 28-lb. cow.

A few high-class young bulls will be included.

Many of the females are bred to bulls whose dams have
records from 30 to 35 lbs. I .

P. M. TAF T, Secretary

Oak Grove, Mich.
Catalogs ready May 10th

 

Col. J. E. MACK, Auctioneer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great Dispersion Sale!

of the Entire Herd of 55 Head Owned by

MARK H. PIPER

and 22 Head of Similar Breeding From the Horde of
L. C. Ketzler and Floyd Pierson

77 Choice Registered Holsteins
FLINT, MlCH., MAY 13, 1919

\_ The sale includes the two herd sires—-

ADMIRAL RAG APPLE, 234267, a yearling son of Rag Apple
Korndyke 8th. His dam, at 4 yrs, and sire ’s dam average 35.26
lbs. butter and 612.7 lbs. miik in 7 days. A remarkably bred
young sire and a ﬁne individual.

FLINT I-IENGERVELD LAD, 124989, senior herd sire, a son of
the former VVorld’s Champion, Flint Bertjusm Pauline. His
dam, at 4 yrs, and sire ’s dam average 32.7 lbs. butter and 735
lbs. milk in 7 days. A Show hull with a remarkable pedigree. 17
daughters of this great sire will be included in the sale. .

53 COWS AND HEIFERS‘ in calf to these two great herd sires, in-‘
cluding 11 ‘A. R. O. heifers ranging from 17-lb. yearling to 27.8 .
lb. Jr. 3 yr. old records. A 31-1b. cow and a 34.8-lb. cow and 11
others from 22.5 to 29.5 lbs.

A few choice bull calves from high record cows.

Tuberculin-tested by approved veterinarians.

Michigan’s Greatest Opportunity .

Sale held under cover at the Piper Farm, 1 mile north of Flint,
starting promptly at 12:30 p. m., Tuesday, May 13th.

Sale headquarters at Hotel Bryant, Flint.

Write for a catalog to

Mark H. Piper, Flint, Michigan

 
    

 

 
       
 
       
     
     
       
        
 
    
      
     
 
       
       
    
      
 
          
      
        
     
       
 
 
  

   
  
 

 
  

  

 
 
  

  

 

 
  
 
 
  
  
   

 
  
 
  
  

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It is not enough to know your
auto is insured—today the question is

“WHO INSURED YOUR AUTO?”
Read the experience of this Michigan auto- owner who would
have saved $3, 275 if he had been particu1ar about the com-
pany he insured with, and had a policy which prOteCted him-
up to $5, 000 liability in case of personal injury to another
person! » A c - '

KALAMAZOO, MICH., April 2, 1919.——In the circuit court today the jury brought in a verdict of
$4,07 5 against J. Allen Snyder to recover for injuries sustained by Frederick Uithoven as a result of an
automobile accident in which it is claimed that Frederick Uithoven has suifered' injuries of a serious na-
ture. J. Allen Snyder was insured in one of the small insurance companies which gave him protection
for $800 for liability and he will have to pay the amount of $3,275.

As a result of this verdict automobile owners are much interested in the policy of insurance they take.
The big mutual automobile insurance company of Howell, protects the owner of the car against damage
claims made against him above $25 up to $5,000. During the ﬁve seasons that the company has been *
operating no member has had to pay to exceed $25 upon a claim, as the policy has been sufﬁcient to take

care of large claims.

 

 

 

 

Insure the Day
You buy!

Don’t wait a minute before you
get in touch with our nearest agent,
the ﬁrst days of auto driving are
risky, more than ever you want to
be protected. Most good auto deal-
ers in Michigan will tell you how to
get insured in the Citizens’ and will
advise you to do it the day you get
your auto, whether it be a brand
new or used car. The kind of a
dealer who advises you to get pro-
tected immediately is the kind you
can trust because he is looking out
for your future!

 

 

 

 

 

Look at this Record:

The Citizens’ Mutual Automobile Insurance Company V was the pioneer. Michigan company
and was formed to protect the interests of auto owners who live outside of Detroit and Grand
Rapids and were therefore entitled to the saving of a great amount which was being assessed
them from the great losses in these two cities.

This company has now written more than 46, 000 policies, paid over 1, 650 claims against its
members amounting to over $215,000 and has today in its treasury assets of more than $70 0001
An income sufﬁcient to pay $15, 000 in claims monthly!

The rates are so low that no man can afford to own and drive an automobile which is not in;
sured against Fire, Theft and Liability. A collision policy is also now available at a low cost.

Don’t put it 011 another day, if you do not know our representative in your neighborhood,
tell me on a postal card the name and number of your auto and we will tell you the cost of mar-
ing by return mail. Address,

America’s Largest. Mutual
Auto Insurance Company. ‘ "

w. 11511033,. Secretary

 

 

 

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