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' to oifenders is merely forfeiture of interest.

HERE IS law upon our statute books

against the charging of usury. But it 9
does not prevent usury. Why? Because the burden of
proof reSts upon the victim of the usury instead of the
state. ’And the severest penalty that may be meted out
We need a
The law as it now stands rec»

usury law with teeth in it.
It seeks very mildly to dis-

ognizes that usury is an evil.
courage usury.

If usury is wrong in principle, the law ought to pro-
vide heavy penalties against it. It might perhaps be going
a little too far to argue that usury should be made a crim-
inal oifense, and yet we cannot help but feel that it is a

diction and should take the responsibility of proving and
punishing the oifense.
' Other states are not so lenient with usurers as is
Michigan. In none of them, in our judgment, does the
punishment ﬁt the offense, but in most of them it comes
nearer than that rovided by the. Michigan law. Below
we give extracts om the laws of other states and com-
mend them to our legislators and prospective legislators.
Some day we want to see this usury law torn out of the
statute books and one put in its place that will mean some-
thing and be a protection to those who must borrow from
banks.
A Visitor’s Revelation

NE COLD DAY last winter a farmer Walked into our

ofﬁces at Mount Clemens and asked to see the" writer.

We do not have many visitors. Occasionally a Ma-
comb county farmer drops 1n to renew his subseription or

By FORREST LORD

matter over which the civil authorities should have juris- -

Court Protects Farmer, Victim of Usury
Decrees all Interest Charges on $1200 Loan for Five Years are Void

an up-state farmer visiting relatives or
taking the famous mineral baths 01' Mt.

Clemens comes in to size up the place where his
farm paper is printed. In all cases he is met with a cor-
dial welcome and invited to make himself at home. 1401'
some reason my visitor immediately aroused my compass-
ion. There was an air about him which bespoke sorrow
and worry His shoulders were rounded with toil and his
rough hands trembled as he unwrapped a little bundle of
papers which he took from his pocket. As he proceeded
With his story, recalling to mind the tragic details of a
struggle to clear the farm from debt, of the illness and
death of a beloved wife, and of the persistent and dishon-
orable efforts of a usurious money lender to wrest his prop—
erty from him, his voice became husky and his eyes moist.

Fred Sears, though that is not the real name of the
man who came to seek our counsel and protection, owned a
little farm in central Michigan. Like many other farms in
the newer sections of Michigan the Sears farm was bur-
dened with a mortgage. It was one of those kinds of mort-
gages which seem to defy all eiforts to pa). During a good
crop year you pay the interest and a hundred or so on the
principal, but the very next year the crops fail and may-
be you have to give a note for the interest. It was the kind
of mortgage that hangs like a shadow over the farm home
and exacts from every member of the family every ounce
of effort and every possible sacriﬁce. Fred Sears was a
hard working farmer. What he may have lacked in busi-
ness judgment he made up for by persistent application
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‘H‘ow Other States Punish Shylocks Guilty of the Wrong of Usury

NEW YORK

The legal rate of interest
is ﬁxed at 6 per cent. All
notes.- bonds, contracts, se-
curities, etc., whereby a
greater rate is reserved, or
taken, or agreed for, are ab-
solutely void, and the lender
can recover rieither principal

' nor interest in such cases i

b u t corporations 6" a ﬁ ii 6

; plead usury as a defense.
§ Usury in certain cases, such
; as loans on household furni-

ture, etc, is also punishable
as‘a misdemeanor by ﬁne or

, . imprisonment or both. State

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=are thereby exempt from”

*the same footing as national
banks as regards usury, and

the extreme penalties men-
tioned above. 9’1"»

Interest is at 6 per cent

1hr manna. If any person, ,

upon any contracts, receives

at a higher rate than .6 per
cent, he forfeits three times "

the excess paid. to the person
aggrieved and suing there-
for; but no Contract is inval-
idated by reason of any stip-
ulation for usurious inter—
est; the money actually ad-
vanced may be recovered
with legal interest. Interest

.upon all judgments is at the
_ratg of ‘6 per cent per an-
ﬁii'm. ‘

NEBRASKA

Legal rate is 7 per cent
and contract rate 10 on
cent Judgments draw same
rate as speciﬁed in the in—
strument on which judgment
obtained, otherwise 7 per
cent. A centract is not
avoided by usury, but in ac-
tion thereon all payments

* are deducted from the prin-

cipal aiid plaintiff recovers

. . only the balancevwithout in-

terest and pays all costs.

MISSISSIPPI « ’
-Le'gal rate 6 per cent per

‘vannum, and is exempt from .
any taxes, but parties may;-

contract in writing for 8
per cent; when more is stip-
ulated or collected all in-
terest is forfeited. When
above 20'per cent interest
and principal forfeited and
payments forfeited.

MINNESOTA

Six per cent is legal ra'te,
but by special contract any
rate not exceeding 10 per
cent may be enacted. Usur-
ions contracts are void.

'GEORGIA
The legal rate of interest

in Georgia is 7 per cent, but _

8 per cent is legal when con-
tracted for in writing. Par-
ties charging usury forfeit
the excess if usury is set up.
And usury will render a
deed void, and will in a con-
tract or mortgage render a
waiver of homestead, or con-
tract to pay attorneys’ fees
void.

DELAWARE
. .Legal rate is 6 per cent.

Any person who takes more

for the use of the loan of
money shall forfeit and pay
to anyone suing for the same
a sum equal to the money
loaned, one-half for the use
of the state, and the other
for the party suing.
ARKANSAS

The legal rate of interest
is 6 per cent, but parties may
contract in writing for not
exceeding 10 per cent. In-
terest exacted in excess of
ten per cent forfeits the
debt. In computing the in;
terest commissions paid to
the agent of the lender are
counted as interest. Where
usury is charged the bor-
rower may go into equity
and have the debt and se-
curities cancelled Without
tendering the amount law-
fully due. Judgments bear
the same rate of interest as
the obligation sued on. J udg— ,
ments against counties bear /
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as six per cent by a writer. last week, whereas

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ﬂ. woman-of the community,ime mortgage
, is “slowly dwindled. ‘ ’ ' ' ‘

. i e' sickness. The wire, over-burdened

“work and' cares, broke down. .Week after

" ' the doctors came. and administered tc,her.‘

, 6'5‘>bi‘l'ls were large and 'the few savings soon

“disappeared. 'After a year or so the physicians

said there must be an operation. After the op-
“etion there was more sickness, and more bills.
he interest on the mortgage was not paid and,
the bank foreclosed. This was in 1913. The time
01 redemption was “about to expire when Mr. Sears
applied to Jae. R. Postal, cashier of the Evert Sav-
ings Bank of Evert for a loan of enough to redeem

”the mortgage and save his farm, offering to give
,. the same land as security and twenty additional
acres, all assessed at upwards of $3,500, for secur-

ity. At ﬁrst Postal refused to make the loan from

the bank of which he was cashier, but‘being a
shrewd business man and appreciating the ex-

tremities in -which Sears found himself, Postal
ﬁnally agreed to get the money for Sears from his

(Postal’s) wife, upon condition that Sears would

pay a bonus of 10 per cent and interest at the rate
of 7 per cent. As though that were not a hard
enough bargain, Postal refused to take a mort-

gage but demanded a warranty deed of the land

redeemed and also the twenty acres besides. Wor;
ried over the sickness of his wife and harassed by
the need of money Sears submitted to the propos-
al. The amount necessary to redeem was about
$1,231 and Postal took two notes from Sears pay-
able to Postal's wife, for about $1,359, or about
$128 more than the amount actually loaned. “
Bankers’ Tyranny

Mrs. Sears did. not get better and the ﬁnancial
troubles increased.‘ From time to time Mr. Sears
made payments of interest and several times re-
newed the notes with new ones each new one in-
cluding more interest, until they amounted to near-
ly $1,600. Mr. Sears, who was not well posted on
business transactions, thought a good deal about
the bonus he has paid and about the deed he had
given, and one day went to the bank to ask Post—
31 to explain them. But Postal refused to discuss
the matter with him, claiming that all was in good

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him. Hr; Sears '
ﬁnally reaching the s

parently. Postal's exﬂination was satisfactory to
the commissioner for when the writer met with

Gov. Sleeper and Mr. Merrick-a few months later ~

in the hopes of securing their co,operatlon to
bring an end to the charging of usury in this
state the. commissidner seemed to know all about
the Sears case and was Inclined to defend Postal.

Banker Postal became angry at Sears' sitar-ts to
learn of his correct status in the transaction and

according to Mr. Sears he was called. into Postal’s .

oﬂlce and, threatened ,into signing a. paper declar-
ing that no usury had been charged. A few months
afterward Mrs. Postal deeded the farm to one
William F. Umphrey, an Evart attorney, who com.
menced foreclosure proceedings claiming that the
warranty deed and notes given by Sears consti-
tuted a mortgage. , . .

Mr. Sears saw that unless immediate steps were
taken he would be dispossessed of his farm. Know-
ing that the lawyers of a community are usually
friendly to the banks or engaged in business
relations with them. Mr. Sears hesitated to place
his case in their hands. Instead he came to Mt.
Clemens and asked us what he should do. We ap-
pealed to the State banking commissioner without
result and ﬁnally turned the case over to our legal
editor, Hon. W. E. Brown, of Lapeer.

The case came to trial before Judge Hal Cutler,
circuit judge for Osceola county on February 4,
1919. The court room was crowded with interest-
ed and sympathetic farmers from all parts of the
county, many of whom had themselves been the
victims of usurious banks.

It was the claim of Attorney Brown, in behalf
of Mr. Seers, that the ten per cent bonus charged
by Postal was usurious interest and as such in
validated every dollar’s worth of interest that had
accumulated on the loan from the time it was no.
gotiated. Postal attempted to defend the charge,
putting up the claim that its was not 9 bonus upon
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”aslto his rights in; the , ﬁtter and these inquiries
. banking: com‘missidne’r,’
he asked Postal concerning the transagtion. Ap- ,

' court applied upon the principal.

‘ nominal and legal interest.

  

matron-Postal‘se‘mitto‘aihat he was acting for his, .

W119: and the. 301111? ruledthato-havins availed her-1.-
sel'f of. the eﬂorts‘ajnd acts of her husband, Mrs._
Postal was boundipy‘those acts, and that if. the
bonus were ‘ usury, , the 'entire' transaction:,was p
usurious and-'in' ‘violatipn‘of the law. , ‘ : _,

A pathetic, incidegit' tack place during ,the’trial '
when the ‘defet’ndan was asked what had become
of his wife. He started- to‘ answer; then broke
down and erie’d'like a child. saying through his ‘
tears that she had died a year before. And to the
audience that was the sad climax of soars long g
struggle to save the life ’of his, helpmate and at
the same time keep the farm intact. , .

In its ﬁndings upon, the right of the plaintiff 'to’
foreclose the mortgage and upon the charge ,of'
usury, the court said :“It necessarilyfollows the,
decree of this court ought to be: That the deed be
construed to be a mtorgage, and that an order of
sale be made in accordance with the prayer of the
bill, and accounting had. That inlieu of the face
value of the‘l'oan, the amount to be realized upon
the mortgage foreclosure sale should be the sum
of $1,231.29, minus the amount that has been paid,
or $235.07. I make that $996.22, and the decree

should be made for that amount."

As a penalty for his usury, Postal not only for- ~
felted the usurious amount but all interest as well,
and all the sums that Sears had paid to Postal as
legitimate interest were, by the verdict of the
Instead, there;
fore, of the Posta‘lsreceiving the sum of nearly
$1,600 which they claimed was due them and to
which they were entitled to reCeive from the pro
coeds of the mortgage sale, they may only receive
the sum of $996.22. Sears had the use of the Post-
al money for nearly ﬁve years without cost sim-
ply because the Postals were not satisﬁed with
‘ It is understood that
the Postals have ﬁled a repeal to the Supreme
Court, and having the money with which to foot
legal costs they may make some more trouble for
our friend, Sears. ,

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Argument made for Old Dobbin Against Invasion of Tractor into Business Farming

RAO’TORS are splendid things, apparently reo-
olutiomim’ng agriculture. But breeders. of

horses have an argument all of their own gt en-

herewith. M. B. F. doesn’t claim responsibility or
the figures. For instance, the writer of this a

ole seems to forget the important item of difﬁ-
culty of getting farm laborers when they’re want-
ed. The elements 0 speed and personal comfort
tion on a tractor was ﬁgured

Mr. Starr puts it at twenty per cent.
here’s a plea for the “hose.”

ATE IN THE WINTER and early in this

spring, some research work as to what tract.

ors were really doing was accomplished.
Fairly representative areas in
many counties were taken in Mich-
igan, Illinois and other states, and
efforts were made to see each farm-
er who had operated a tractor for
one year or more. In Tazewell
county, Illinois, the townships of
Morton, Tremont and Delavan were
selected. At the time the canvass
was made, the roads Were rather
bad and the time was somewhat
limited but in the three townships

Anyway,

six tractor operators missed. It
must be remembered that only per-
sons owning or operating tractors
for one year or longer were sought.

Through the courtesy of the De-
partment of Farm Management, the
Tazewell County Farm Bureau is
able to give a short discussion of
the results of the investigation. It
must be clearly stated that there is no effort made
either to knock or boost tractors. Only such state-
ments are made as are clearly shown by the re-
sults of going out and talking to the actual own-
are and operators of the tractors.

One Hundred Farms Studied

Tractors on one hundred different farms were
studied. The average farm size was 294 acres.

' ”In Tazewell county, the average size was exactly

300 acres. For the entire number of tractors, the
average use has been 2.2 years. This point was
valuable. After two years of use, an operator
should have a rather clear idea of what the tractor
has really accomplished. -_

The number of days of actual use in 1918 per
tractor was 35 days, divided into 24.9 days for
traction work and 5.1 days for belt work. During
the 24.9 days of traction work, there were 117
acres plowed, 94 acres disced, 38 acres harrowed,
29 acres of grain cut and 1.2 days of road work.
Substracting the days of road work there appear.
to be the fact that the average tractor covered 11.7

acres per day, including the faster work of disoing, ,

harrowing, and cutfing grain. This work of not
*qnjte 12, acres per day was done in assisting in

    

 

 

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planting and harvesting 120 acres of com, 76
acres of cats, 27 acre of wheat and 23 acres of
hay. In order to get thgalctor in shape for run-
ning each day there was r uired about one hour
of labor.

How many horses did the average tractor re- ..

place? This isthe great question, especially in
horse-breeding districts like Tazewell county. Ac-
cording to ﬁgures from the 100 farms, the average
tractor replaced 2.38 horses. Turning the ﬁgures

around, the tractor allowed the remaining horses
to cover 5.6 acres per horse more of crops during
the year.

In Tazewell county, the tractor replaced

   
   

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nonooonnnnnnorioo, working in the multiple-
hitch, compete with thertraotor, the breeders our.
Jld Dobbin may be doomed, but he dies kicking, accord.

ing to the aoompanying article. ’

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' cess‘ful cron’? .

2.25 horses per farm and the remaining horses
covered 5.6 acres more per horse during the year.
Fimring Up the Cost "

Suppose we ﬁgure costs a'bit. It is a“ conserva-
tive estimate of the cost of feeding a horse, of in-
terest charges, or death losses and other incident-
al costs that $150 per year would be required. - If
2.28 horses were replaced per farm, a replacement
saving of $367 would appar. 0n the other hand,
the average tractor‘s, not counting plows, discs,
etc., cost was $1184. Figuring interest at 0% and
depreciation at 20%, the overhead cost of the tract-
or would be $294.80. We will say, for an estimate,
that it costs $4 per day to run the tractor, count-
ing oil, kerosene, repairs, etc. the operating costs
-would be $140 for the. 25 days of
use. The total cost then of the av-
erage tractor would be $434.80 as
opposed to the horse saving of $357.
If this be true, the tractor would
have cost the average owner $77.80,
more than if’he had done the ‘work
with horses. ‘

Of course, this tractor survey did
not include any tractors put out
' last summer and fall. It is planned
by the Department of Farm Man—
agement to Continue these surveys
each year, going back over the
same areas. '

It will be real interesting to fol<
low these ﬁgures in later years. Ap-
parently, so far, the farm horse has
not been entirely displaced. Our
Tazewell county horsemen need,
not, as yet, pin funeral wreaths to
their barn doors.

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‘ POOR QUEEN RESULTS IN BIG LOSS )

EAST LANSING, Mich—Many beekeepers 01.
the state are losingoas high as one-third of their
possible income because of the use of old queens
and queens of poor stock, declares B. F. Kindig of
M. A. 0., state inspector of Apiaries. Michigan
queens are as a rule rather low in quality, and the
importation of good breeding stock is necessary.

“I know of one beekeeper in the state who lost
not less than $2,500 last year because 0f poor
queens and black blood,” says Mr. 'Kindig. “The
proportion of scrub bees is as large as the'pmpor-
tion of scrub cattle, and a similar loss results. The

queen is usually the deciding factor in the honey .

busineSs. and Micnigan farmers cannot afford to
bread from anything except good Italian stock. ,
“It is out of the question for beekeepers to buy
all the queens they need. 1 They must raise most
of them “from breeders which have been bought

,-, mm the best of Italian Stock. A young Italian,

queen at the head of a} colony will control Europe-~
an Foul Brood. and practically/guaranteed '3‘1‘3“?

   

 

    
  

    
 

 
  
 

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ROPS of nearly all kinds are reported to be
coming along in ﬁne style in nearly all
counties of Michigan. Recent reports from
- many county papers and correspondents tell of
, good stands everywhere.
Recent reports from Washington tended to give
' the impression that Michigan conditions were bad,
especially in the fruit belt. But more recently,
‘ Verne H. Church, a ﬁeld agent of the U. 8. Bureau
' of Crop Estimates, has given to the press favor~
able crop reports which seem to accord pretty well
‘ with conditions as they actually exist in this state. 3
. ' Hot and dry weather during the latter part cf
May was favorable for the growth of most crops,
Mr. Church says, and for the planting of corn, po-
tatoes and sugar beets. Corn is germinating
quickly and is making excellent growth. '
Winter Wheat Above Average

The condition of winter wheat is 97 per cent,

one per cent below last month, 16 per cent above
the 10-year average, and A2 per cent better than‘
one year ago. The crop is estimated at 21,063,000
‘ bushels. If to this is added 1,261,000 bushels the
estimated production or spring wheat, we have a'
total wheat crop for Michigan of 22, 324, 000 bush-
. els
1‘ The condition of rye is 97 per cent, 21 per cent
higher than one year ago, and 9 per cent above the
10-year average. This indica a production of
9, 360, 000 bushels from the imated acreage of
571, 000. p»
_ 1 Because of unfavorable weather a considerable
‘ acreage of oats on heavy soils was not seeded This
, loss of acreage amounted to as much as 15 per cent
or more in a few southern cohnties, which was
partially compensated by an increase in others,
the net loss for the state bein 6 per cent. The
acreage planted is estimated t 1,559,000 which,
from the present condition of 8 per cent, will pro
duce 51, 618, 000 bushels. .

The acreage of barley is estimated at 280, 000
which is odly slightly more than last year.
There was a decrease in some sections and an in.
crease in others. The condition is 89 per cent, the
same as the 10-year average, and represents a
production of 7, 851, 000 bushels.

Clover seedings suffered severely from drought
last year which reduced the acreage and lowered
the condition of the hay crop, especially in the
south- central and southwestern dis-
tricts. Meadows and pastures have
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of $2. 26 per bushel. ,
There are 5, 000 farms in Lenawee county. UDOn
every farm Mr. Colleen estimated there would be

. an average or 10 acres of grain which would bring

the total wheat acreage in the county to 50, 000

acres. The farm director estimated that if favor-

able weather continued and more rain came, the
grain would average 25 bushels to the acre.

That the grape situation in the fruit belt of
Michigan is not as good on the whole as some
have been led to believe, was brought out at a
meeting of grape growers which was held at Law-
ton, Mich, and which was attended by County A8-
ent Harry J. Lurkins of this city and Fred Gleas-
on of Sodus, the above named being the only Ber-
rien county representatives.

Several thousand' cases of strawberries were car'-
ried from Benton Harbor to Chicago each night.
The continued warm weather is ripening the crop
fast and it is coming on with a rush. The growers
are handicapped only by pickers. These are in good
demand and anyone wanting a job berry picking
need not look far.

Prospects for an excellent crop are bright this
year, says Clark D. Mason, Wexford agriculturist
In most parts of the county recent rains have put
the soil in the best of condition and the warm
weather has brought crops right out of the ground.

Corn and oats look especially good, said Mr.
Mason. This section has a goodcorn crop only
every few years, and this year will be one of the
good ones.

A state fruit specialist is quoted as having said
in Traverse City recently: “The crop of buckle-
berries alone will be worth one and one-half mil-
lions to Western Michigan this year, and these
berries require no cultivation nor care.”

The American Steel and Wire Company, which
conducts a very good crop report service, re—
ports'as follows:

Northern (Luce County). Pasture and clover good.
Cats, wheat rye and peas g00d. Dairying condi-
tions good. Hay is beginning to need rain.

Northeast (Iosco County): Pasture and clover
good. Haylands very good. Cats coming on
good. Wheat good, but this is not a wheat coun-
try. Rye and peas good. Dairying very good.
Conditions ﬁne.

Eastern (Tuscola County). Grasslands good,
clover fair. Oats and rye good. Wheat extra
good. Sugar beets extra good. Dairying condi-
tions good. Oakland and Genesee counties:
Wheat, rye and hay looking ﬁne. Corn and p0-
tatoes planted. Best and bean land being pre-
pared. Dairying carried on more extensively.
Cattle scarce. Hogs high and in great demand.

Michigan Crop Conditions Discredit U. S. Reports

Except for a Few Districts Nearly Everything Good

based ﬁpon the payment of the government price

     

Southeastern (Monroe County). Pasture and .clov

" or fair. Haylands good. Cats very poor and .
some seeding still going on. Wheat good. Dairy-
ing conditions good.

Southeast (General). Crops in general looking-
ﬁne, being pushed by the hot weather of the past‘

_ week. Corn coming up. Livestock looking ﬁne,

Southwest (Kalamazoo County): Pasture fairly}
good . Haylands and clover half a crop. Wheat}
pretty fair. Rye good. Apples about half a
crop. Dairying good.
Western: Fine rain did a great deal or good.

, Wheat and oats ﬁne. Corn coming on in good .
shape. Everything doing well. .

   
    
     
      
       

      
     
      
       
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
  
  
  
 
  
  
  
   
   
    
  
 
  
   
  
    
   
   
    
   
  
  
  
   
   
  
   
 
  

 

 

 

RYE is only one of the crops which are coming along ‘
ﬁne in Mchigan. Farmer A. B. Cook is standing
ing upright, but even so the rye tops wave above his
head, some of it being 7% feet high.

STATE FACES CLOVER TROUBLE

The red clover situation in Michigan is serious,
being one of the few sorry spots in our crops. A
seed shortage is likely during the coming season
owing to decreased acreage stands. Every effort
should be made to produce more seed in Michigan. ,_ ,_
Early cutting of the ﬁrst hay crop of June clover.
tends to increase the seed yield in the second crop. v
The grazing or clipping back of mammoth before
blooming increases the set of seed. The ﬁrst crop
of June clover should not be allowed to get too
ripe. Cut for hay when only a small percentage of . _
the heads show brown, or while in full bloom and
before the heads begin to turn. The early cutting
or pasturing tends to control the clover seed milge.

.Future yields of corn, beans, potatoes and grains
depend on good clover sods grown in rotation.
Unless suﬂicient Michigan grown seed is produced
our clover acreage, and hence our crop production
and livestock production will suffer severely.

From all indications a very good
price for clover seed will be receiv-
ed next spring.

Sweet Clover

 

The condition of other crops is as
follows: Alfalfa, 94; ﬁeld peas, 93;
cabbages, 84; onions, 91; sugar
beets, 91; apples, 60; peaches, 64;
pears, 70; and blackberries and

~ raspberries, 95 per cent. The pros— .
pect for fruit is generally good in
’the central and northern counties,
where excellent weather prevailed
throughout blooming period. The
April freeze, which occurred during
the blooming season in the south-
western counties, left only a partial
crop of fruit, particularly in Ber-
rien county where the loss was
much greater than in nearby coun-
' 1 ties.

~ This is all right but reports from
Washington recently spoke. very de-
preciatingly of the fruit crop in
Michigan.

Local Reports Encouraging

G. 0. Adams, implement dealer or
Olivet and Charlotte, states he nev-
' 5 er saw such crops as are to be seen
I - l by a survey of the county this year.

, .‘ He says wheat is looking ﬁne. Corn,
thoﬁg‘h late, germinated well and
there is a good stand generally. Rye »
prospects are the nearest for a 100,
and barley are looking ﬁne. The

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Many farmers are growing sweet
clover for the ﬁrst time. This is a
crop that is ﬁnding great favor on .
the lighter soils of the state, par- ,
ticularly in the northern part. A
common practice in the handlinﬁof ,
this legume is to cut the ﬁrst crop
or the second year for hay and then 1
a crop is cut for seed.

Experienced growers practically ‘
all agree that this is one of the
most successful and proﬁtable ways
to handle sweet clover providing
the ﬁrst cutting is made some time .
before the ﬁrst blossom buds appear '
and providing the cutting bar of the
mower is adjusted so an 8 to 12 inch
stubble is left.

As the second crop springs from
buds on the lower part of the old
stalk be sure and leave enough of
these buds to insure a good second‘
. 1 growth. It will probably be neces. .

sary to use a larger Wheel on the

outer end of the cutting bar and to
have a special sole made for the in.
side shoe.

Some good bulletins on swee
clover are, Mich. Exp. Sta. Circul j
No. 23 and U. S. D. of Agriculture ‘

, Bulletin .820 and 836 at M. A. O. ,

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well with favorable weather. The
beans are just being put in and the
. acreage of corn and beans is larger
than usual.

Despite the fact Lenawee county
had somewhat" of a backward
spring and considerable wet weath-
er, 0. L. Coffees, director 01 the
LenaWee county farm bureau, esti-

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ity is good and should turn out'

ROP REPORTS from Washington, D. 0., don’t always give one the correct

impression. At any rate the Federal reports for June would lead folks to
”HMO that Michigan’s 070198 were in a rather poor condition, whereas nearly
every county sends in news refuting such; ideas. Most Michigan crops are
splendid this year.

Of course, certain zla'rts 01‘ the st to have lacked rain, for instance just south
of the thumb district. ~From 50 milIes north of Detroit, a farmer criticizes us
lhmply for being tea sweeping in condemning the government reports, because
his farm has lacked rain and his crops are not doing well. But our criticism is
based on reports from the greater part of the state, whiCh tell 01 ﬁne conditions.
In the last week the government reports speak more highly of Michigan condi-
tions, but the early th reports from Washington gave a somber impression
which was contradtc ed by local conditions.

I As for fruit, very somber reports came from Washington, concerning Mich-

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quality of hay, sweet clover shou "
be cured in cocks.
Concerning Use of Rye

As rye harvest nears it woul .
well to look up the purest ﬁelds
Rosen Rye as a source for
fall’s seed. Mixtures can
properly identiﬁed when the a
nearly mature and still uncu

The Michigan Millers’ Ass
draws your attention to
that Federal Regulations
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V 4; mous sentiment among workers in
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“stock, and GEBTRUDE’S noes

”other bran- Gertrude, daughter of Dr. W. A.

~ch‘es. Ewalt, veterinary surgeon, is mighty
The 890- popular around liIt.‘ Clemens these

days with her father’s litter of pure-
bred Scotch Collie. puppies. They may
be entered in the dog
Diichi'gan State Fair this fall.

and Annual
_ Am e r’ican
.Kennel Club
'L i c e n sed

"State Fair on August 30, 31 and September 1.
7 This department of the exposition, which will be
. in session at Detroit from August 29th to Sep-
tember 7th, was established last year when the
largest and best dog show of the summer and
' autumn season was staged. Present indications
'point toward one of the greatest shows in the
country.
the greatest fair year in Michigan’s history.
The show will be held in the new Poultry

' - building, which was erected last year; but in-

stead of one-half of the second ﬂoor used in
1918, the entire upper story will be comman-
deered. George F. Foley, of Philadelphia, the
veteran dog show superintendent of the country,
will have charge of the department. The judges

land.

ing at fall fairs are gratiﬁed to learn that the
United States Railroad Administration has re—
cently issued rules governing the handling of
exhibits for expositions and fairs, whereby live
stock used for valuable breeding, racing show
purposes and other special uses will be granted
what amounts to a half rate in making the fair
circuit. This applies to horses, cattle, sheep
and swine.

Michigan Farmers Joined

ETTERS FROM farmers against daylight sav-

ing laws have poured into M. B. F. The fol~

lo'wing opinions on the subject give an idea
how the rest of the nation dislikes it although ex-
ceptions are mentioned.
' t‘If'the controversy over the attempt to repeal
daylight saving boils down to what one writer calls
“a Contest betWeen rural and city workers," then
it is well to know just where organized labor
stands; The farmers have shown themselves solid
for repeal, and their representatives in Congress
have introduced more than a score of bills design-
ed to sweep away ‘this freak legislation,’

“A repeal rider, it will be remembered, nearly
slipt through the House in the Agricultural Appro-
priations Bill. Some opponents of daylight saving
delare that they are ﬁghting the ﬁght of both urb-
an and rural labor as against the

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shows at the-

Dog-Show will be held this year by the Michigan 1

The interest shown indicates by far,

selected are Enno Meyer of Cincinnati, Paul C.‘
Blass ofNew York, and Charles Grosse, of Cleve- '

Live stock raisers, who contemplate exhibit?

The rules stipulate that when exhibited atone
exposition or fair, and then returned‘direct to
point of origin, said livestock will be carried at
full tariff rates goihjgl’a‘nd free returningpif re-

' turned within thirtyr‘days after the close (if the,
exposition or fair at whiCh they areyexhibited

: and the bill of lading‘thereof is accompanied. by

certiﬁcate of "the secretary of such expoSition
that-such articles were exhibited and have not
changed ownership. This will apply where ex-
hibitors make only one fair. "‘ ‘ ' .
The rules further provide that when movin

over a circuit of expositions or fairs, the arti- ,.

cles will be ay-billed at the regular ,tariffjrate

toveach point of exhibition, and at the close of "
each fair, on presentation of a certiﬁc’ate‘frdm i
the secretary'of the fair that, such tarticles’iwere »

exhibited'thereatand that no change (if owner-
ship has occurred, the inbound charges will be
reduced to one-half of the tariff rates, and when
reshipped from the last point of exhibition to
the original point of shipment via direct routes
and the bill of lading is accompanied by similar

certiﬁcate from the secretary of the’last fair or -

exhibition, one-half of the tariﬂ! rates will be
applied on this final shipment home. This per-

mits all exhibitors-of pure-bred live stock to .
make a single fair» or a "circuit of fairs atwo‘ne- '

half the cost heretofore encountered, for the ma-

jority of shippers, particularly horsemen, have"

had to pay full fare both going and returning, in
years gone by.

The "‘joker” in the rules is’a stipulation that .

the animals will be carried at this reduced rat-
ing only when carriers’_ liability is limited to
certain speciﬁed. valuations, to—wit, $150 on
horses, $75 on bulls, etc., dowu the line. This
will make it necessary for shippers to either ‘run
their own risk of loss or carry insurance on exhi-
bition stock in some of the regular insurance
companies, but it will‘be far cheaper to insure
exhibition animals and thereby take advantage
of the reduced rates than to pay pull freight
rates going and returning. '

All shippersshould proceed at once to see that
their men in charge of exhibits have copies of
the freight tariﬂ giving full details, ' to—wit,
Boyd’s No. 145 showing rulesgoverning the
handling of exhibits for expositions and fairs,
page 5. Any local railroad agent can obtain
this for shippers.

Time to Choose Prize Grain

Turning to grain‘exhibits, one gets the fol-
lowing plea from the MyA. 0.:

Just before or during harvest is the time to

that ‘workers don’t lose or gain anything by it, so
the beneﬁt thereof does not concern the workers.’

“It seems to the Washington correspondent of
the New York World that the controversy over
daylight saving ‘has boiled down to a contest
between rural and city .workers.’ ' Congressman
King put it somewhat differently. before the House
Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce,
saying in part: ' ’ ,

“The ﬁght has simmered down to a struggle be-
tween the Common people and representatives of
the large ﬁnancial interests. .

“It is the forerunner of a series of readustment ‘

struggles in which the common people are clash-
ing with capital.

“The charge that electric-light companies are
back of the movement for the repeal of the law

your. leisure? as? sheaffsamplesg for ;,.the-.,,.t§ir§ﬁ
Store where» not ’dajmp sadness than, extremely ] _ p .
dry place, away fromabijﬁspndmire-E; a”- ,

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savea few bundlesjof, grain toxbek ﬂxedup at

Local Reports Enema-Es

That the Jackson deunty fair.- Sept. 8 to, 13. ' , . '
. will be the greatest in every sensethat has ever ‘ " '-
‘ been held in this city is th‘e'opinionlof W:-R. .
Over» $6,00.0~worth of com .. _ ‘ "

Burris, manager.
ceSions have already‘been sold which is'm‘breﬁ
than the total concession ,privilegednettedetha
association for. the whole‘ season last year. From: .

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$12,000 FOR NEW ,FAIn Gnaxns'rann ‘

, IONIA reports a storyof big fairimprovement .
in'the following dispatch: .. g . “
“What camenear being a \knockout blow for ’

the three members of the Ionia Park commission

was only‘an incident in connection :with' a. meet-

ing ‘of that city board, held at the ofﬁces of the
Ypsilanti Reed Furnituretfactory, , ' ,
“Mayor Green called. the , park commission.

“E. F. Gallagher together: and started a discus-t.

sion relative to the great- need for a new grand

stand at the fair grounds. The mayor said the
sum 1 was not Only needed but ‘the Ionia fair:

‘ management wanted it for the‘coming :fair‘ in

August,» It would cost a.,mere twelve,.thousand

'or so. and the commission nearly overcame. itself

wonder-in where it could dig up that little sum.
“The dfscussion went on while‘the' commission ~.

was regaining its composure. and it was then
that th .mayor, withﬂusual suavity relieved the
tensio by announcing that the Ypsilanti‘Reed:

Furniture company. «:vveuld" donate the stand to.’

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iums and value of prices have been increased
from 30 to 50 p cent and unusual exhibits are
being planned for the annual event.

A meeting of the boardlof directors ’ or the‘
Gladwin County Fair association was held re-,
cently, when it was decided to ,revise' the fair.
premiums on all registered stock and pedigree
seed 100 'per cent.

 

The greatest event of the year, to the residents
and farmers of Genesee county should be. the
Genesee county fair that-will be held this year.
in Davison. The Davison Agricultural and Her—
ticultural Society is going to do its part, this
year, in making the fair the best from an edu-.
cational standpoint and should receive» the full,
support of every resident of Genesee county. .

by Many Others in Prete Against Daylight "Saving Law

is a simple, plain, unvarnished falsehood The de-
mand for the repeal is universal. Hundreds off
thousands of pOunds of foodstuffs are lost on the‘
farm because of the necessity of working in wet
ﬁelds.” . .
The chairman 0: the House AgriculturalCom—i
mittoe is quoted as asserting.that'ninety-niné per?
cent. 0" the farmers .favOr the abolition 'ofgdafv-
light‘saving. Some pf the farmers'mobje'ctions to;
daylight saving have already. {been 'pre'sented‘in?
our columns in a poll of thefarm press. Senator.
Arthur Copper, whose papers haveledin the ﬁght
against .daYUE’hi saving, has received ‘ petitions"
from scores of thousands of farmers praying fox-3-
a repeal of the Delight-Saving Law. He is coug
vinced, he says. in astatement in the New l’orve~
Commercial, that- . ' ' . -, ‘
”The demand for repeal is based
on sound, economir reasons. Waste

 

professional and propertied men
Who like daylight saving because it
gives them-more time to play golf
or ride about in their motor-cars.
Congrsseman King, Of Illinois, one
Of the leaders in the ﬁght fq re-
peal in the lower House, asserts
that there is “a. virtually unanimous
demand from the farmers and lab-
oring people for the repeal of the
insane piece of legislation known
as the Daylight-Saving Law," and
Mr. King is convinced by his talks
‘ with working people that “this law
reduces their eﬂiciency and Vitali—
ty.", But the president of the Day—
light Saving Association insists
* that .“there is a practically unani-

j“When we turn to the evidence ,
that labor is against daylight sav-
ing we ﬁnd but little among the re-

. plies to our queries. From the head-

  
  
 
   
 
   
 
  

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comes the assertion that the heads
the
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amounting in the aggregate to a
billion dollars a year results from
the operation, of the Daylight-Sav-
ing Law, it has been estimated. pn
farms, in mines, in packing eStab-
lishments, in numerous large indus-
tries the law operates to curtail
rather than increase production.

the worker."

The repeal rider;to the Agricul-
tural (Appropriation Bill

' aroused SO much urban ire is usti—
ﬁed by the National Grange Head-
quarters as due to the necessity for
getting the law repealed before_har~
vest tithe. Cappcr's Weekly (Topev

. ‘ ka)’, which hasdevoted columns to
.~ ‘ protest '_‘against daylight ”saving;

Show “What'mmen think 0“ “£5" ‘
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~ tians ﬁves. launched.” fecenﬂx at...“ .- :.‘I

‘ conference of 11716er County; as-

-. ,sociations. Three co-operatiis shin"; .

{ping ‘clubs are fhei‘ng, termed. Lina .. ,

;’_Chippewa county this'we‘ek. Sash. .I -

- naw county iarmers around: MaﬁkA-r - *

enmuth- are. organising .to improve, - '

_ not only the-marketing, conditions .

._ butalso to study‘the‘iarmefrs' great-

_, est needs. , , , -

IAt Spaulding, the -;Saginaw Valley
Produce Exchange, was also organ-..

‘ .ized "for handling produce. » It may '
gcinto. buying later'on. Z "
-- Anyagricultural,committee has

‘ been formed ‘ in ‘Houghton county
by the, board or supe‘rviisors; partly
inorder to afford county~a8sistance
:to farm projects. ' . ’ ~ . _

In Pontiac .11 quiet campaign 5 go-

are organizing in the vicinities of

,, Metz and «Bancroft to conduct co-_
operative‘work of various sorts.

InPontiac a quilt campaign is go-
ing on to raise tunds for a commun- .
ity market as a go-between for Oak-

‘ land farmers and Pontiac consum-
ers. .

'Montmorency county farmers are
establishing at Lewiston, a co-oper— ‘
ative marketing center.

Escanaba papers tell of 80 farm-
'ers of the Ensign vicinity meeting
at the Alton Grange hall approving

‘a potato shipping association. Fifty
farmers apprOVed a similar move at
Perkins and many have signed the

‘ charter. . L ,

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pert in that work, All local,iruit' f . '

_« men are welcomed.

  

- AVE you ever. seen the, ,oarni'val '
» , stunt of, the. sledge hammer 'n‘n'd'-
’ (the bell-ringing? Business. farmers’rin >
. Mehigan are surely .rn'glng the boil in .
forming co-operative. associations, es-

'-“=D_elto'n and .Cressey marketing as

' church" in 'Hastings recently and

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‘ sociations met at the Methodist ‘

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. considered the beneﬁtswhich might

   
 

be derived-from a county-wide and ‘
’ state organization. _
Mr. Tanner, on being introduced
:by’ ~ “the temporary chairman, ‘
at this meeting, explained it was-
the ﬁrst work of the Farm Bureau "
in connection with the Live Stock
Shipping associations. >A-fter.\con-.
suiting with three of the directors '
from as many associations, such a
meeting was considered advisable; ;
The men present were representing '
1,332 shippers from Barry county,.g
who in 1918 shipped 460 decks val-rig
ued at one million dollars. This;
quantity will be easily doubled, in .

   
 
    

 

  
   

 

  
 

 

    
       

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past must be realized. Such‘a meet‘
ing as «this brings the different as-
sociations in closer contact and,’
brings about mutual beneﬁt;

Mr. Raviler, of the State Markets
Department, explained that the
work of the state in this connection
was the result of a meeting in Lan-
sing in the late winter where all as-
sociations got together and agreed,
to work out mutual problems. He
stated that there were one hundred
and ﬁfty local associations in Mich-
igan, and they proposed to work out
especially the railroad problem as
it confronts the shipper. One of the
things coming ﬁrst is that of taking
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sociation by farmers of Ceresco. , '
Emmet County is out for better live stock an
business men are cooperating with the farmers to
bring this about, chieﬂy by. making loans. to aid
buyers of choice stock. . '
Jackson county farmers have met to talk over

ESTS ARE by no means so bad as in some

years, but many farmers report their- ﬁghts

against locusts, corn stalk borers, berry ye].
lows or curl, peach curl leaf, onion blight and
many kinds of worms, etc. This is not a pessimig.
tic report—it is rather cheerful, in fact, because'it
. indicates the vigorous,_scientiﬁc waybusiness tar-
me'rs are going after pests.
ing in this big ﬁght to increase proﬁts and com4
{arts for. farmers.

The forty-ﬁfth message, to Governor Sleeper sent
to the legislature during the extra session" appear.
ed in the house to urge poisoning of grasshoppers
and similar pests.” . "

With the bulk of important legislation stillbo-
fore the legislature, the house paused long enough
for this meissage from the governor to be read and
suspended the rules to have the grasshopper bill
introduced by Representative William L. Case con-
sidered by the agricultural committee and jammed
through on third reading without further proceed.
ure.

. forpoison or other means to kill grasshoppers and
other pests. . '
Railroad Joins Campaign ,
The Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad,_ through
' W. P. Hartman, its agricultural agent, has also
joined the farmers in the ﬁght against pests. Mr.
Hartman writes the following letter to Prof. R.
H.’ Pet‘tit, of M. A. 0.: ~ ’ 1
“Several of the county agricultural agents ask-
ed me if the G. R. & 1. Railroad would co-operate
in spreading pOisoned bait on its right-of-way in
districts in which farmers lan an organized
' carapaign. I at once took the matter up with our
, general manager who has been pleased ,to author-
' ' Jae cooperative work on the'. following basis: ‘ ,
‘ , {Recognizing-that proper mixing’votthe bait is“
_ .-. cfﬁrst importance and harm: been advised that
saw cost would ,be in the neighborhood at ,12c-
rhiishiel; and that it would require about eight
mile of track: It the county, under the
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j is. it“ to our section foreman at
’ foremen' have , their i headquar-

 

The state is co-operat. I

,It authorizes township boards to expend money ,

‘elingi’tfhe' dry
amnesty mixed

uthcrized agent, Will prepare the mix. '

the problem of standardizing weights, measures
and prices and methods of handling produce. The
farmers aren’t satisﬁed and are going to get the
things ﬁxed the way they wish.

'Fruit growers already have organized in Oceana '

Farmers and State Join. in Fight Upon Grand Army of Pests InVading Michigan’s Crops

ers, we shall pay for the mixture at the rate of
150 per bushel; and our section' men will spend it.

“I am sending copy of this letter to county agri-
cultural agents, to chairmen of boards of supervis-
ors and to chambers of commerce in Wexiord,
Grand Traverse and Kalkaska counties, where the
greatest organized effort will be made. We shall,
of course, pay for bait and apply it at points along
our lines in Antrim, Emmet, Chlarlevoix and
Missaukee counties where abutting land owners
participate in the program.”

Plan for Fighting Grasshoppers
CaldWell township in Missaukee county, writes
H.‘\S. Barnum, agent of Missaukee county, is a
good illustration of what may be done in the way

~ of systema’tizing the ﬁght against grasshoppers.

Every farmer in this township, with two excep-
tions, received a supply of poisoned bait, and this
bait was applied on the grass land in the township
during twO days. About twelve hundred bushels of
the poisoned bait were used.

The Caldwell Town Board took charge .of the
campaign against the pests this year. Missaukee
County furhished the white arsenic free, but the
township paid for the other ingredients in the
bait, also the cost of mixing. The work was all
done in the town hall at Arlene, and each farmer
in the township was notiﬁed to appear on a
certain date and take away his share of the mater-
ial. So impressed were the farmers with the ser-
iousness ofthe situation that they turned out as
requested, almo'st to .a man.

At the town hall the process of manufacture
ing theahait'was‘ carried out according to a well
plannedrsystem under, the direction of the town-
ship} supervisor, Mr..Frank ‘Bowerman. Screened

saw-"(inst wasfshd'ieled thru a window from the

wagonsf._.jou}t§idef‘and was measured and mixed
with’thedny poison: in ﬁve bushel lots. After shov-
. , .. ... .~_.,R1¥PEI9.P.1$0 an 01d sap pan, it W35
wet‘witnthemo ‘ again salt dissolved in water,
. andifthen sacked, up for use.
So "carefully was the work systematized that a

  

'continualgstream‘ of saw-dust passed in thru the

window, thriifythe’ mixingboxes, and out or the
door _to;the_ waiting farmers. .
, Fighting grasshoppers is not an individual prob-

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burrowed into the stock, the farmer sent the pest
to Mr. Sheap for an explanation.
“The borer works largely within the stem or ‘ 1

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the rates .on mixed cars where the,
minimum is not considered, but
shippers must pay for the maximum weight on
the highest class of freight in the car, and the
maximum rate on the highest class of freight. This
brings about considerable loss which there appears
to be no Justice for.

lem, and the method used in Caldwell township
shows how much more effective the attack may be
made when the community meets the problem as
a whole.

e

Corn Borer Pest Arrives

Farmers in and near Jackson county are on the.
watchout for a new pest which has just appeared
in the corn. ' '

The discovery of a new pest to the corn crop was
reported to J. V. Sheap, county agricultural agent,
from‘the William Schmidt farm in Napoleon,.8um-
mit townships. The pest is a worm, known to age
riculturists as the “Larger Corn Stalk Borer" and
its appearance in Jackson county is said -to be
phenomenal in that heretofore it has inhabited the
southern corn ﬁelds, never having been seen be
fore north of Virginia or Kansas. . .

One of the men employed on the farm noted
something was damaging the young corn shoots
soon after appearing above the surface of the
soil. The ordinary grub was at ﬁrst given credit
for the damage but upon ﬁnding one of the Worms

the plant,” 'said Mr. Sheap in discussingthe insect,
“and is so concealed that in most cases, unless
weather conditions make it conspicuous, the pres-
ence of the pest passes unnoticed.”

Barberry Campaign Active

To illustrate the state-wide ﬁght against bar-
berry, we chose a. typical» county report. "

The barberry eradication campaign which has
been carried on in Macomb county during the last-
tew months with County School CorOnissione'ri
Will L. Lee co-operating with the state and gover’
ment barberry men, has resulted in the ﬁnding ' _
the disease-carrying bush in nine townships, .899:
locations being reported from over the county, Th8
number of bushes found in each location has
ied from one to 100. ‘ r ?

School children or the county have done "
work of the campaign, covering their 1009.}
tricts under the efﬁcient direction of their” ‘
The work will prove or great value to
farmers of the county, as the native barb

spreads the destructive wheat "rust. '

  

 

 

 

The growers are depending f
upon the directors of these associa-
tions to so ship and work out their , -
problem that a proﬁt exceeding the

  
   
 
  
  
 
    
     
  
   
    
    
   
   
   
  
   
    
     
 
   
  
  
   
  
   
    
 
   
   
   
   
    

 

  
      
   
    

 

 

  
  

 
   
  
 

  
 
 
 
 
   
   
 
 
 
  

   
 
 
    
    
    
   
 

 
 
  

   
  
  
    


    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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Abusing Appointive Power

, .N CONFIRMING Governor Sleeper’s ap-

" pointments to the Utilities Commission, the
Senate ave scant heed to the interests of the

' state. f the legislature created the commis-
sion for no other purpose than to prov1de jobs
for ﬁve politicians, then Mr. Sleeper’s ap-
pointments and their conﬁrmation by the Sen-
ate are both in good form. But .if this com-
mission was created to serve the people and
exercise intelligent jurisprudence over the
public utilities of the state, no manner of ar-
gument can justify the governor’s selection
nor the Senate’s conﬁrmation thereof.

Here is a commission having broad powers
of control over every public utility in the
state. Some of its members at least should
have both‘technical and practical knowledge
of the operation of these utilities. The legis-
lature which passed the law creating (this com-
mission felt keenly the need of experienced ex-
perts to serve upon the commission. More-
over, they were satisﬁed that these experts
would come high and so ﬁxed the salary ac-
cordingly, at $7,000 per year. But instead of
appointing men who possessed some training
for. the job the governor passed the plums
around to his political friends, four of whom
are lawyers and the other a merchant. The
applications of trained engineers, eminently
qualiﬁed to act upon the commission were
turned aside in order that Mr. Sleeper might
fulﬁl political obligations at the expense of
the state.

Whatever the personal qualities of the men
appointed may be, their unfitness for the
jobs to which they have been appointed is
beyond question and generally acknowledged.
The majority of the legislators agree that
Mr. Sleeper made a “punk” selection and
their sentiment is pret well expressed in
the following remarks 0 Rep. Lennon who
fought so valiantly for the warehouse amend-
ment. '

“It looks to me that this legislature is be
ing asked to swallow something. As a mem-
ber of the private corporation committee, I
tell you we were given to understand that big
‘ men, experts, would be named. I do feel this
legislature has been double-crossed. We were
informed that at least two experts would be
named. I proposed in the amendment which
I wanted to present to this bill that salaries

-; illiquid be cut to $3,000. This is a blanket bill
,' and the ‘sky is the limit.’ I protest against

ri'tha double-crossing methods perpetrated in
this house.”

-.Members of the Senate who voted to con-
ﬁrm the appointments offer various excuses,
but the fact remains that they have aided Al-

, bert E. Sleeper to put the ﬁnishing touch to
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has consistently and assiduously builded dur-

- ‘ ing hisadministration, and upon which Mr.
carry him-to further -

. Sleeper will depend to
political heights. ,
‘ We complain of high taxes and ineﬂiciency

' in, the administration of our state affairs and,

her and

~ appointed to once. More commissions: have

been created during” the Sleeper administra
tion than any other in our recollection. And”
for the most part the members of these com-
missiops are men who are in a position to
some. day repay Mr. Sleeper for his favors.
Which is the precise reason why Mr. Sleeper
appointed them. ' ’ ~ . .
Has the time not come for the voters to

frown upon these practices 1. Must we go on, .-

forever, slaves to a system of patronage which
ignores the welfare of the state and distrib-
utes responsible public positions to men
whose only qualiﬁcations are that they are
politicians with inﬂuence? If we are truly in-
terested in economy in the administration of
our public affairs we shall be very careful in
the future to. support bnly men 'who have a
clear co’nce tion of their duties to the people
and who wi give proper assurances that they
Wlll not prostitute their appointive power to
selﬁsh ends. «

 

Reduced Acreages

ARMERS WHO have reduced their, bean

and potato acreage this year have shown
good judgment. While the war lasted and
millions of men were under arms, there was
practically an unlimited market for beans, the
greatest of all war foods. 'But the demobili-
zation of these armies sent millions of men
back to civilian fare and the more fancy foods.
Soldiers who lived for months upon a diet
composed largely of beans, welcome a change
to other foods and should the demands from
hungry Europe be satisﬁed before another
harvest, we predict that the demand for beans
next year will be very limited. Bean growers
everywhere have sensed the situation and ev-
ery bean-growing state reports a large reduc-
tion in acreage.

The potato situation the past year was fair-
1y satisfactory, the majority of ‘Michigan
growers securing fair returns from their
crops. The total production» was somewhat
larger than the average and the large num-
bers of potatoes which have appeared upon
the market of late convinces us that the sup-
ply was larger than the country needed. It
will be for the best interests of the farmers
if the acreage this year is reduced. '

The acreage of Wheat is large, many farm-
ers taking advantage of the government guar-
antes of. a ﬁxed price to plant this crop, the
only one with the exception of sugar beets,
the price of which they know before the har-
vest. The crop looks good in all sections and

‘ barring a visitation from the army worm

which is causing such depredations in some of
the other states, Michigan farmers will receive
the largest returns in their history from their
1919 crop of wheat.

The acreages of other crops appear to be
about normal. There has been possibly a
slight decrease in the plantings of oats and
rye. The sugar beet acreage meets the maxi-
mum requirements of the sugar manufactur-
ers and the contracts this year were secured
Without friction or parley over the price.

Fortunately, there is a considerable in-
creaSe in the acreage of hay and pastures. The
farmers of the state have paid out during the
last six months a sum variously estimated at
between ﬁve and ten million dollars for high-
priced hay. In many instances the value of
the hay purchased exceeded the value of the
crops grown on the hay land. This situation
shows the folly of forsaking the crop rotation
system. Farmers who persistently rotate
their crops and maintain an even proportion
year after year between the various crops
grown usually win out in the long run.

_ The Farmer in Politics
HE FARMER. will be an outstanding

ﬁgure in the state and national campaign

 

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the maltose of themen'h'e has.

 

. training ‘haainiade them" sympatheticwith the

of 1920. _Hitherto he has contributed. a con-

 

 

upon' to rap
farmers or who are . absolutely "pledged to a
deﬁnite program. In nearly every agricultur-
al state things have, transpired during the

past several years to arouse the farmers'lmd‘

convince them that it ighi'ghly essential for
the protection of their interests: and in behalf
of good government totake snore active par
in‘political affairs. ‘ 7 ' . ,
Within a few months .the national cam-
paign will be launched. Great issues will be
involved which are of [vital interest to the
farmers. These issues must be studied and
men elected to omce who are capable and hen,

est enough to solve them according to the

wishes of the majority. . _ .

Here in Michigan the fewers eagerly'await V»
the word to launch themselves into the state ,

campaign. We have never before observed so
great an interest in an approaching election
as is shown today in the state election of 1920.
The farm organizations have announced‘their
intention of drawingup a legislative program.
and will pledge their support tothose candi-
dates who look with the most favor upon that
program, and whose records show that they
are to be trusted to do as they promise. . The
strength of the allied farm organizations was
shown 'at the state cenvention last February
and it will be a mighty factor in the campaign ‘,
of 1920.

The'farmers of Michigan will be in politics
next year because they can’t help themselves.
Even those who have criticized M. B. F. for
indulging in political discussions will ﬁnd
themselves swept along with the tide, and
forced to take a hand in the 0°mp aign. Good
government is the foundation of our social
and economic life and should command the
serious thought of every’individual. We can-
,not have good government unless we "elect
good men to oﬁice, and many good men are de.
feated because a large number of the people
take no interest in political matters. It is cer-

' tainly the part of good citizenship to study

the state and national issues and to investi-
gate tho claims and the records of the men
who seek public ofﬁce. If the farmers and
their wives cast their votes the coming year
strictly according to the merits of the candi-
dates men will be elected who can be depend-
ed upon to give the state an administration of
which we may well be proud.

 

Whooping It Up

ORE THAN 20 live stock shipping asso— ‘

ciations are reported to have been or-
ganized in community centers‘in Michigan in
the last several weeks. That brings the total
number above 150. The goal is 200 at least,
and the way the farmers are whooping it up
from one end of the state to the other indi-
cates success of a state-wide movement.

G. C. Raviler, assistant federal director in
this state for the bureau of markets, is giving
the farmers material assistance in organizing
live stock shipping associations, and will help
to federate the local associations into county
organizations which will in turn afﬁliate with
the state organization formed several. months
ago. The risk involved in the formation of
live stock associations is very slight and in
nearly all cases the results obtained here have
been up to expectations. *

Live stock shipping associations teach at a
very. slight cost the value of co-operative en-
terprise and pave the way for more ambitious
projects. When farmers unite to buy and op-

erate elevators and warehouses a much larger.

risk is taken and it is well to proceed cau-
tiously. The past year many farmers’ elevat-
'ors got “bit. ’ Poor management was the

fault in some cases, but the highly speculative ,,

     
     
    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
   
    
   
    
    
  

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limits UNION"‘PEAO_TIOAL
I’ve been reading 911 your paper in
:regard'to farmers? unions. The farms
21ers have got to orgapize to protect
themselves. think -95 per cent of

them ten years ago would have laugh-s

ed .at.‘ you for. talking ,iarmer organiz-
ing._ We have a farmers' stock ship-
pingassocfation here and it has prov-

ed a'success, also a farmers’ elevator
If there 'is"

in which I am interested.
anything I can do to help organize the
farmers, please let me knows—Fred
McNeil, Huron County.

 

NO FREE U. S. D¥NAMITE1I

Can you tell me how to get dyna-
mite furnished free from the govern-
ment for blasting. stumps?——Reader.

In reply to your letter, I may say
that I have no information regarding
the use of dynamite being furnished to
farmers by the Government.

I t t h e r e i s '

 

familiar." Ogahize-each industry as a
separate corporation, owned and man-
aged by those who work in it, under

- such regulations, as may be necessary
to protect the rights of those employed
in other industries.

4 These regulations ,should be estab-
lished .-by an industrial congress in
Which each industry is represented.
Each member should be provided with
run, up-to-date statistics concerning
his :own industry. Together they could
ﬁgure out with reasonable accuracy
the relative cost 01 production and
transportation [and establish prices
and, wages which, would be near
enough to absolute justice to satisfy
all concerned. '
As Mr.-Shultz intimates we cannot
expect to solve all the problems in-
stantly and establish the new order by
magicr~ Opinions will honestly.,.differ
' as to the best way to begin and what
to do ﬁrst. Think

 

s o m e in o v e of .
this kind on foot,
it has n o t come
to m y attention.

 

.A mountain FRIEND

collective ba, r.
gaining shOuld
be ﬁrst, because
through it we can

 

—H. H. Mussel.
man. Professor of
*Farm Mechanics,
M. A. C’.

 

NOTICE OF A
MEETING

There will be
a meeting 01' the
Farmers’ Union
0 1' W i 1 l i a m s
township on Sat—
u r d a y evening,
June 28, 1919 at
the town hall in
Auburn to hear
[the report of the
elevator commit-
tee, and to take
s o m e action in
regard t o t h e.
raise in charges
of the Bell tele—
phone 00. Every
farmer, business
In a n a n d sub'~
scriber to the‘
Bell telephone is
invited to attend
t h i s meeting.—
~Irving B., Dav-

 

AN BOOHEB,

 

    
   

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D of

has this proﬁtable friend, a
big giver of wool. It was posed, as
{3. you see, before the hot spell. Sheep
are proﬁtable for many youngsters

ease up on the
high cost of liv-
ing without wait-
ing 1’ o r m u c h
radical legis-
lation. I believe
that we, farmers,
instead of organ—'
izing by coun-
tie s, ,should or—
ganize by c o m-
munities in con-
nection with our
shipping associa—
tions. These as—
sociations should
extend their ac-
tivities until not
0 n l y live stock
buyers and ele-
vator m e 11, but
hardware dealers
dry goods merch-
ants and grocers
as well, work on
salary as agents
of their custom-
ers. City work-
ingmen can or—
ganize along sim—
i l a r lines until
producer con.
sumer and trans-
portation ~~ c o m-

 

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RE mmND —-yes, and old folks, too. .
O u r neighbor
Smith, of Utica, has the mental

attitude of 50 years ago, when he won»
rise about a paper favoring one party
or another. The M. B. F. certainly
whacked the Democrats good and hard
when trying to do something for the
Michigan bran and potato growers. It
also goes after Houston, the secretary
of agriculture, when he needs it. Yes,
it did support Henry Ford in a Way
and so did a large percentage of 11s,,
Republicans. Don’t get politically hide-
bound, Neighbor Smith. There are
about a hundred issues of more im-
portanceto us ’farmers than the tariﬂ.
—John 0. Staﬂ'ord, VanB/uren County.

SOCIALISM PAST DEBATING

“A Farmer’s Wife” and Mervin
Shultz have been thinking to some
purpose. In my opinion the question,
“Shall Socialism be established in the
United States?” is no longer worth de-
hating. The question now is “How and
in what form shall it be established?"

Shall beer—soaked theorists terrorize
us into accepting a genuine imitation
Russian Bolshevism "(made in Ger-
many) or shall wework out for our-
selves, by free public discussion and
experiment, a truly American system
and establish it'with the least possible

. injustice to all concerned?

The weak point in government owns
ership is the possibility that business
managers who know nothing about the
business they are to manage may, be

'appointed because of their views on

the tariff or their services to some

. slick politician. To have all industries

managed by 'one big corporation might
I should
hesitate 'to let railroad engineers and.
ctory .workers vote on the‘ manage:
out; .01 the‘larming’industry. Neither
.1168ch , baton to vote on the man-
004 s or factories: Let

' manage thebxéarj »

v has . en, ,
“6331s he is '

  

   

  
  
  
  

‘ poration, along

service and

.road thrift stamprsystem, use the

 

. panies deal di-
rectly with each other and the
risks of'merchandizing (for which
every consumer now pays dearly) are
mostly done away.

While doing this we should agitate
for scientiﬁc price ﬁxing, standardi-
zation of wages, and the organization
of at least one great industrial cor—
the lines suggested
above.’ I should pick therailroad
industry, not because railrotd work-
ers are more needy or deserving than
the rest of us, but because their bus—
mess is a natural monopoly, public
ownership of which is already advo—
cated by many who still shy at the
term ‘fsocialism?’ Let the national
government buy the whole outﬁt at a
fair valuation, organize it for public
ﬁx rates high enough to
pay all necessary expenses, including
interest on the investment. Then
lease it to the workers, organized as
a corporation, and let-them buy it
from the government. Not being a
corporation lawyer I will not venture
to prescribe the exact details, but
it occurs to. 'me that the government
could collect theirsavings by a rail-

money to retire the bonds given for
the origginal purchase and, when
enough had been retired to make the
propOsition safe, sell to the corpora-

tion, taking its bonds for the balance
due. - , L '

Once get ha ﬁrst corporation
ﬁrmly on its fee nd the rest will be
easy. To accomplish this ﬁrst step.
however, will not be easy. Those who
undertake it will be bitterly criticis-
ed at every turn, whatever they do.
It is too big an idea to be worked; out
by human' mind-s without some-blun-
ders being made. The worst possi-
ble blunder, however; would bé- to

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$500

IN 1916 two 4o-acre ﬁelds of com grew side
by side in Illinois. On one an International
spreader had been used consistently for three years.

The other had seen no manure for seven years.

That was the only diii'erence between thosetwo ﬁelds. One
produced a matured cro runnin 1151: over 80 bushels to the
sore, the other averag barely bushels of soft com. If
both crops sold ‘at the same bushel price the fertilized ﬁeld ,
produced $2,000 more than the unfertilize one.

Was that spreader worth $500? Yes, because Just scattering
manure on a ﬁeld will not accomplish the same results. That
ﬁeld of 80-bushel corn was properly fertilized by a man who
knows his business. He feeds his crops a be anced ration.
He feeds just the right amounts at the right time and that
cannot be done without a good, wide-spreading manure
spreader. A Low Corn King, Cloverleaf or 20th Century
will, do it. That is one reason Why we sell so many of them.

It pays to study fertilizing, to know what to do and to
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what you raise!

—.—lt is a practical paper written by Michigan men close to
the sod, who work with their sleeves rolled up!
-—it has always and will continue to ﬁght every battle for
the interest of the business farmers of our home state,

no matter whom else it helps or hurts!

Michigan farming; never

get the best prices for

' One Subscrip- ONE YEAR. . . . . . .$1 No Premiums,
tion price THREE YEARS. . .$2 No free-list, but worth
to all! FIVE YEARS ..... $3 more than we ask.

"

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, Mt. Clemens, Mich.
Dear Friends:— ‘ t, _4
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(or which I enclose herewith Q. . . . . . . in money-order, check of

   
  
  
 
 
   
 
  
  

  
  
  
 
 

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”is .OUT or ‘ THE HOME THAT
THE NATION IS BUILT

5UST BEFORE another year’s cele-
bration of our nation’s birthday, it
3, 'is well for us .to stop'and think
Xi‘vhat a wonderful opportunity and
grave responsibility lies with the
mothers of the land in the matter of
keeping our nationa free land.
It is the mother who makes the
. , home life attractive so that the chil- g
' ' dren will be loathe to leave, and once
away, will always, feel a tugging, at
the lheart ' strings—re wish to return.
Children's idea of home is what, will
. give them their ﬁrst feeling 'ofipatrioi”
; tism",for their country. The child of
“ thewo’r‘phan asylum, with no memories
of a-real home, Will wander from coun-
try to country without being homesick
but the boy. Or girl who has had a
happy home. life,“ may travel far, but
always—always he will feel a'tighten-
ing o'f-the musCles in the throat when
he’jthinks of home and when that home
hasbeen‘in the United States, then to
. him America-stands for home, and to
i be a'good clean citizen means to him
protection of his country. for his home
is not safe if his country is not safe.
._ The responsibility lies also with the
teacher and proud, indeed ,are those
' teachers,- who in after years, can look
back to the days when they taught this
, boy or that, to be patriotic—to respect
1;" ‘ his (home and his ﬂag—and then that
'3‘: boy has gone out into the world and
‘1? become one of our foremost citizens.
There is still another phase to this
.37, question of home. And that is the
,Ee'. environment. Cannot you picture a
g; ' tiny little farm house where the own-
3' or may not have much of this world’s
. goods, but that farm is neatness it-
self. ' The fences are well kept up, the
., yard is neat; the trees trimmed, and
trees, ﬂowers and. shrubs make a set-
13‘, , ting for the little cottage, which set
‘ " " out in a lonely ﬁeld, would be most un-
attractive. You may not know who the
people are who live beyond the gate,
but this you are sure of; that they
are neat, and that they love their
home.‘ And loving their home, they
love their country,
Let's take time this year to cele-
‘ brate the Fourth. And .if the nearby
town has planned no regular celebra-
tion, call up your neighbors and ar-
range;‘ for a picnic together. These
community gatherings get us better ac-
quainted with our neighbors——give us
a stronger feeling of fellowship, and as
naturally as night follows the day,
bind ’us more closely together, as a
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THE STATUE OF LIBERTY

EVER BEFORE in our lives have
we heard so much or read so
Imuoh about the Statue of Liber-
ty as'within the past eighteen months,
and it seems ﬁtting therefore, while
we are celebrating our Independence
Be that we take time to read the his-
tory of this statue. .
“The Statue of Liberty was present-
ed to the United States by France in
commemoration of the good will which
existed between the two countries.
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was the
artist, and the statue was unveiled on
Bedlow Island, New York Harbor, Oc-
' l tober 28,1886
‘ The ﬁgure is repousse, 0r hammered
copper, 151 feet high, is crowned with
a diadem and holds in its extended
1 _ hand a torch, while the left hand
‘ . " . ' clasps close to the body a tablet bear-
. M ' ing the inscription, ‘July 4, 1776.’
f‘T'ihe statue weig'hs' twenty-ﬂve tons
and cost $200,000, whichwas raised by
popular subscription in
France.
. .,.,.The pedestal is 155
feet invhelght and is of
‘ ' _ granite an d concrete.
.- “ ‘1 'Itscost $250,000, which
’ 'was paid for by popu--
lar subscription in the 1'«
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feet in circumference,

and the head is fourteen feet in height.

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EXPERIENCE WITH

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ﬂDeoarmImMn‘ﬁe 116m
Edited by MAI’B‘EL CLARELADD. , , . ..
have used two kinds will give my ex- “GOVERNMENT AND FARM WOMEN"
peri'ence.
range, short burners
the ﬁrst year, except that the Wicks
had to be replaced about every four
weeks, due I think to the. intense heat ‘
range, short burners.
ed they gave me much more heat for
cooking than the long burner, which
my friends who have 'used them seem
to experience by their usex But after a .

t foreﬁnger is eight feet

on STOVES
«'“inﬁyeuri‘ssue of;Ma‘y,17{, Mrs.» B. S.
if 'zMich‘ig'an.‘ requestsihiorma- -
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I ﬁrst purchased an _;9.il
It worked well

It worked well -

year's use the stove began to produce
a gas that was so offensive I had to
discard it. entirely. No amount of
cleaning'lthe‘ stove‘ would do any good. -
I then purchased an oil stove, wick-
less, that had to be generated withegas-
oline, and it has proved very satisfac-
tory-and has been in use three years.
,It is easily generated and easily clean-
ed, and so made that I think will out-
last the wick stoves. - ,
To soften the bones of ﬁsh in cook-
ing, in answer to C .N. G., of Thom-
sonville. After having them prepared,
lay on a white. cloth, fold over, then
lay on another fold again until all are

swag

“What do the women of the farms

want?" is .the question that. the'Dé?‘
.partment of Agriculture wants to ._

know about all of’ a‘sud’den. Farm .

women can vote now, remember. Theyﬁ

can organize; they hold any election
in the balance and can turn the scales
in the way they will. ’ -._-

We’ don’t just like theigovernmentis
attitude in its investigations, although
the idea is splegdid and we hope the
farm women will let the world hear
their ringing reply to the secretaryof
agriculture-’s challenge; “Whatdo (the
farm women want?” .We know many
things the. women of the farm want.

'But. help us to know moree—tp hear

from all sections and kinds of farm
life. ‘

Do you want some concreteroadsso
that your children can get to school
and you to town, in all sortsof weath's
er? Now, that 1.3 getting closer to
facts. Women vote and can win any
campaign, you know. - ‘

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H AVE you thought when feeling weary
With the trials of the day,
Of the thousand wasted chances
“'hich the hours have borne away;
Of the useless lmprecations
You have uttered to your shame,
‘Vlien it was your lack of foresight
\Vhich alone should get the blame—-

HAVE you thought about the blesssingg
That surround you alktlie time,
And that grumbling in their presence
Is a weakness, nay a crime? ’

Precious gifts of sight and hearing,»

» ' Have You

Thought?

Active brain and loving heart;
0f the wide, free world before you,
There to make another start—-
' Have you thought? ,

AVE you thought of all you miss

“’hile you waste time and complain
And what. fortune may await you,

If you only try again? .
ﬂow that all you o'er can hope for

By yourself you may achieve,
If you only strive to gain it

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thus wrapped. Place in a kettle and
cover with water, salt, cook three
hours or more, until bones are soft.
The object of the cloth, is to keep them
whole when taking them out. 'Serve
with a butter or cream sauce—Mrs. E.
A. N., Kingsley. Mich.

 

SOME GOOD RECIPES

’Here are a number of ﬁne recipes
where there are small children as they
are easy to digest—A Subscriber?”

Oatmeal Drop Cakes
_ Two eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup shorten—
ing, 2 cups oatmeal, 1 cup raisins, 2 cups
ﬂour, 4 tablespoons sweet milk, 1 tea-
spoonful s a 1 teaspoon cinnamon, .1
teaspoori sa t.

Graham rockers

One cup sugar. 1,4 cup shortening, 2-3 '

cup sour-cream,‘ 2-3 cup milk. (One cup
of milk may be substituted in place of
sour cream.) 1 teaspoon soda, 3. little
salt and vanilla.

Mix very stiff with graham ﬂour. Roll

htin and cut in squares with a knife.

HOME NEEDLEWORK ‘
Last week we gave a design for a 22-

inch centerpiece with insets of diet

lace. Above you will ﬁnd the'
block pattern for this center—
piece. No. 70 Crochet cot-
ton is used, and when com-
pleted, the piece .

is very attractive, ““—
and every lady.
will be proud to
one.

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turers in the nation to address your
meetings? Theyran be bad if you
only say, so.
national extension services and many
others. ‘
Do you want to have your neighbors
organize and join with many other
similar organizations to get state or
nation reforms? The political libera~
tion of American women can include
all these things and many, many more

which we have not mentioned 01‘ have .

stated with incorrect emphasis.
Let: MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING be
one of'the means through which the

farm women of Michigan'will reveal ‘

their greatest wants to each other.
And,,by Glory, whenthe women go out
united toward a deﬁnite goal,iall the
gumshoe peanut politicians and reform
haters in the world can't stop 'em.

    

‘ No. 2866—Girl's Dress.
6, 8, 10 and 12 years. ‘Size 10 requires
3%; yards of 36-inch materiaL

32-34:
40-42;
44-46

Cut in 4 sizes: Small,
Medium, 36-38; Large,

and Extra Large,

inches bust. measure. ’Size

Medium requires 31/2 yards
of 36—inch material. .

No. 2864. Ladies'
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years. . _ .
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No. 2870. Ladies’ House Sack.

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Large,” 40-42 ; and _ Extra,,,Large, , 46 .
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quires 6% yards of 36-inch; material.
No.2869—A Smart Guimpe. andﬂSleeve-l
less Jacket, Cut in risizes: _
34'; Medium, 3.6-i38; Largey'iio 4233:1151 Ex-_
tra Large, {ii-is inches (hush measure. --.A'.
Medium ’size will require 1%'_ yards ‘of
de-ihch’ material for they guimpep‘anﬂ 2% ‘

yards of 30-inch material for ‘the’ "jacket. '

No 28904444. Ladies" costume. waist
2890‘-cut in? sizes; 3'4, .36., 38,"40,_ 42 M.
and 46_-inch'es .bust measure. Skirt-Hint"

cut in 7431225: 22.24, '26, ‘28, 30,432 any”,

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EAR Children—Before another
'suexeaclies you. you will be all
nxiously preparing to celebrate

hheiFonrth .91! July. And What 3. won-

 
  

dental primege is ours this year, be:
pause We are a tree country; because
' We live beneath the folds of a ﬂag

Which has never be J1 conquered. -
«The next prize gi 311 will be tor the
best- story or "How I spent the Fourth

oi d’ulyél and Why I Especially Enjoy

that H oiday. "' " »
There were so many. good letters re-
ceived giging an Outline of the h'Opes

and ambitions 01- our Club members,

that I hays awarded another prize this
week. a11¢ I am- not sure but there Will
hare to be another lyet before we all
get through With this contest. I am

- so glad that so inany‘ oi our little folks »
are planning to help. themselves and ’

earn eir“ own liylng We can't al-

really gr’owf up,.a11d we do something
towards our plan, it Won't be hard to
be what we Wa’nt to be and do what
we plan to do?"

This week the prize of a Thriit
Stamp has; been awarded to Helen
But there are
many other good ones and we will pub-
lish all We have room for. ‘

Then too _'we' have our contest of the
Great Men, one of whom is shown this
week. In guessing who he is, tell me
What you know of him, and why it is
particularly appropriate that we pub-
lish his picture at this time.~—-Affec-
tionately yours “Laddie.”

 

FIRST PRIZE

Dear Laddie—I read about you giving.

a. prize for the best story so I. thought I
Would write you a letter. I wrote you
two letters before but I think you would
surely not be so unkind as not to publish

this one. I hope they have reached you»

by this time I hear how good and kind
you are to children and hope you will pub-
lish,my letter. I am in the 7th grade
and am 11 years old. I had pneumonia
81) bad this winter I haven't been to school
since February, so I can’t write very well
T really hope I get the prize but don’t
thlnk- Ilell. I would like to get it. Well,
I will Write my story now. ——Helen Guinn,
Cas‘eville, Michigan
‘ When I Graduate

After I graduate I am going to Monroe
college and I am going to get my father
to give me enough until I’ m through high
sohOol and college and then When I get
so I can earn my own living or be of
some use in this world and make my own
w es I will pay my father back for his
kin ness'.‘ I want to teach school he-
cauS‘e it is helping children- to learn to
be or so 8 use to the world. But I don’t
want to torget he poor because my mother
used to help the poor and everyone likes

her now. And we all want to remember

our mother, as she helped us when we
Were in need and we want to please her ,in

every way we can. In my vacation I will ;

take care of the garden for mother and
raise little chickens to help. n.1,.

Dear Laddie:

We have 16 head or catle in
which are in the woods and
" run in a pasture, and a‘ little
out with 11v ohﬂin. We have

 

('Send letters tor. this Dept. direct to

V _ Dear Laddle:

' at 'our church.

known only one

and if we plan each day.
~what we are going to do when we

As I have never written 1‘

Cato you before I thought I would write. I
;m a farmer girl and live on a farm or

 

name is Miss Helen Sobeslav. Here s a
riddle. J‘Round. as an apple, busy as a
bee, prettiest little thing you ever did
see. Ans.———A Watch. I will close —-—Hilda
Clank, Buckly, Mich. ~
I have written you be-
fore but I did not see my .letter. in pprlnt

.I am a girl 11 years of age .and am in the

sixth grade. My school was out the 29111
of May and will- begin the second week
i 11 September. I live on a large farm.
For pets I have a eat. We had exercises
I had a song to sing with
my dollie sitting in a chair and I'm going
to take her picture. I enjoy reading the
letters of the boys and girls and thought
I'd like to write, too, an of course,l like
the Doc Dads. They are certainly mis-
chevibus felloWs, and so comical They
do their best to create fun, disturbance
noise and all sorts of thin s. I haven't
little glr that was
among those who Wrote letters. Well, I

think I will close, for my leter is getting

rather long. With lots of love to the boys

and girls. -—-Marguerite Simmons, Gowen,

Michigan.

 

I have never written to you before, so I
will now. I live on a four hundred acre
farm. We keep about 65 cattle, 27 old
sheep, 68 lambs and seven horses. I am
13 years old and will be in the ninth
grade next year. We have taken the M
B F. to: only two weeks but we used to
take the Gleaner. I once wrote a story for
it and had my name put in honorary men-
tion. I have one brother and one sister,
my brother is older than I and my sister

“Laddie," care Mich. Business .‘FnrmiulP

 

is younger. I hope to see my letter in

. print. —Gertrude Layton, Howell Mich.

 

Dear Laddie: I have never wcltten to
you before so am writing now. I am a
girl 14 years of age and am in the 11th
grade next year. Our school let out the
16th of May. I have about three and

one-half miles to go to school. I_ have
three brothers. One is in France. We
have eight horses and four cows I be-

long to the Red Cross. We ‘take Michigan
Business Farming and like it very much.

My letter is getting long, so I will close. ,

-—Iva May Tracey, Allen. Mich.
What 1 Am Planning to ’ DOWWIHm I
Graduate

When I graduate I am planning to be
a school teacher. I want to ﬁnish up high
school and then go to summer school at
Ypsilanti, then go to teaching in a country
school. I have money of my own which
I have saved, in the bank, and twenty dol-
lars in War Savings Stamps to pay my
expenses. Why I wish“ to do this work is
I have always liked to go to shool and

wanted to be a teacher.

 

Dear Laddie—~—This is the ﬁrst time that
I have written to you and'I hope to see
this letter in the M. B. F. I am 11 years
old and am in the 7th grade. I live on a
[lo-acrefarm. We did have 80 acres, but
we sold 40. We have four horses and
[our cattle. For pets I have a cat, named
Tommy Tucker. We named him that be-
cause he sings for his supper; and we
have a dog named Rover. He plays with
me very nicely. I enjoy looking at the

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Doo Dads in the M. B. F., and reading
the letters that:the girls and boys write. I
have one brother and no sisters. My
brother plays on the violin and I play on
the piano. I take music lessons of Miss
Bernice Whitney and I like her very

' much I hope my letter is not too long to

be printed in he M. B. F.~—Mlldred Chap-
man, Breckmrldge, Mich.

 

Dear Laddie—In my near future I
hope to go to high school, and prepare
myself for a teacher. I will take sub-
jects which I will need in school. When
I graduate from high school, I will
teach one year in a district school then
go to college. When I graduate from
college will teach in a high school. When 3
I save enough money I will buy a farm
and have ﬂower gardens, vegetable gun.

-' (ions and fruit orchards. ~Jocelyn Free- '

man, Plymouth Michigan

Dear Laddle: I am 10 years old and in
the 6th grade and taking music lessons;-
When I graduate I think I would like
to be a music teacher -—Ethel Albrecht
Cedar Springs, Michigan.

Dear Laddie: I have never written to
you before so will write now. You asked
us all to write to you telling you about
what we are planning to do after we“
graduate. Well, I am going to be a clerk"
until I get enough money to learn nursing, .
then if war happens to break out again, I 2
can go for a Red Cross nurse over to

France and care for the wounded soldiers. 1

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Do Not Waste
T imc and Money

They a e precious and it is a crime to waste either.

If you have the money to spare and time to give, employ both in-recrca—
ton or benevolent " ‘enterprises.

Then you or semebody else is deriving beneﬁt from the expenditure.

Don’t waste them by purchasing inferior quality geods because they may
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good and plenty expensive enough.

When you buy ﬂour insist on having-

Lily White

“The Flour the best Cooks Use”

When you buy ﬂour you want ﬂour, all ﬂour, and that is just what you
get when you buy LILY WHITE, “The ﬂour the best cooks use "

"Furthermore, spoiled bakings and disappointments because of unsatis-
f factory results will be a thing of the past.
. ’Be contented, be haippy, be richer by using LILY WHITE FLOUR, “The
, When: the best cooks use.”

VALLEY CITY MILLING COMPANY

Grand Rapids, Mich.

The ﬁrst cost is generally a little higher but when the totals are all
ﬁgured up you will ﬁnd it less expensive than the lower priced ﬂours.

There is no waste to LILY WHITE FLOUR. It is all ﬂour, every bit‘

. All undesirable material is eliminated during the process of making. Of
course if the cheaper material were to be left in the ﬂour instead of being
separated the ﬂour would sell for less money, but it would not all “be ﬂour.

    
   

  
    
     

 

 

 

 
   
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
  
  

  
   


 

 

 

ME AND TRADE CONDL
" " " ‘ 'TIONS

3" Business in general is encouraging
and the public optimistic. Detroit at
last has all the" labor it needs and
Michigan farm labor maybe much
easier to get if the present tendon:
cies continue.

The Government gives out a rath-
er somber report as follows: ‘
j 'the declaration (by the
Reserve Board that more than
$3,000,000,000 of new funds must
be provided during the next few
months .to finance the foreign trade
and assist those European countries
which require American exports but

Federal

lack the funds to pay for them has ..
afforded not only food for thought

but an incentive to deep study. The

'board estimates that from. $3,000,-

000.000 to $3,600,000,000 must be
raised to finance new ‘obligations
and perhaps $600,000,000 of old
ones must be renewed, if the export
trade of this nation is to be main-
tained at its present high level.
This the board truly described as
“a gigantic, probably an unprece-
dentedpfinancial problem.” Will it
be possible to ask the financial ex-
perts, to devote this vast sum to
ﬁnancing foreign nations without
sorely depleting the capital require—
ed for industrial development at
home. On the other hand, if Europe
is not loaned the funds with which
to buy American goods, must there
not ensue a period of industrial cur—
tailment with seriously detrimental
effect on the demand for labor, to
say‘nothing of the deterrent effect
on Europe’s economic recovery.
While the bankers and financiers
are devoting their best thought to
this grave problem, the one point
which is declared to be clear to all,

including the members of the Re-

serve Board, is that rigid economy
and extensive saving on the part of
every individual in this country are
essential to any successful solution.
Reduced to homely phraseology, the
injunction of the Government ﬁnan-
cial experts is, “Don’t spend pen-
ny needlessly. Buy more Govern-
ment bonds. Invest your coupons in
War Savings Stamps. Nothing short
of united effort will enable the na-
tion to weather the stress of the
reconstruction period and insure its
own safety by defending Europe

‘ from industrial and pecuniary chaos

and Bolshevism.”

 

Quotations on wheat in Detroit re-

.main the same as last week, though

the Chicago market fluttered up a lit-
tle with hopes Germany would sign
the peace treaty.

Detroit prices a year ago were
$2.17 for No. 2 Red Wheat, show-
ing a 3.27 increase for 12 months.

Deterioration in both wheat belts
is. reported. Harvesting was check-
ed by rains in Oklahoma and some
wheat is tough in consequence. os-

ses are noted in Nebraska by or- "

ange leaf rust and further deteriora-
tion is feared. Red rust is also
prevalent. Cut worms and grasshop-
pers have damaged wheat in Minne-
sota, South Dakota, and sections of
North Dakota. Damp weather has
been favorable for army worms and
invasion is feared in States east of
the Rockies. Inadequate rains in
Montana have caused poor condi-

' tions of wheat and rye. Wheat is

heading in Iowa and Nebraska. Cut-
ting is on in Southern Kansas.—

, Modern Miller.

     

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. GRADE IDetroitl Chicago! Toledo,
ﬁmcxenow ”l 1.34 I I
150'. 3~Yellow .. 1.82 1

Increased confidence that the
Peace Treaty would be promptly
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U. S. High Prices for Choice Who—l: Report

High prices are being maintained
on choice wool, particularly medium
and finer grades, according to the
detailed wool market report just is-
sued by the Bureau of Markets, De—
partment of Agriculture. Buyers are
showing a willingness to pay for
quality. Some large operatcrs have
new clip at prices asked by the pro-
shown a hestitancy to purchase the
ducer, while others are free pur-
chasers. In some cases, lower prices
prevail in the seaboard markets for
the same class and grade of wool
than at country points. That condi-
tions are again approaching normal
is indicated .by the fact that on
May 1 about 83 per cent of the
woolen cards and spindles and 75
per cent of the worsted combs and
spindles were in operatiOn compar-
ed with approximately 73 per cent
and 65 per cent, respectively, for
April. The machinery on Govern—
ment orders is a negligible quantity.
Wool consumption decreased steadi—
ly from the time the armistice was
signed until April. The figures for
April exceeded all previous months
32 per cent .over the preceding
this year and showed an increase of
month. The May series «of London
Wool Auctions closed with advances
from five to ten per cent for choice
combings, and crossbreds recovered
and finished firm. During the May
series,
and only a small portion were with-
drawn.

The wool quotations follow:
Bright fleece wools, Ohio, Pennsyl-

Chicago market. Buying was also
encouraged as a result of a sharp_up—
turn in the valueof hogs. Realizing
sales on the part of holders operated
as something of a check against any
tendency toward a radical advance.
Detroit markets raised during the
last week, but in general were quiet
and ﬁrm.

 

GRADE Detroithhicagol Toledo
Standard . . . . .75 .75
No. 3 White .. .7434, 31%

Oats are quoted above the prices

 

107,000 bales were offered -

.vania, West Virginia, Michigan,
New England States and similar
wool—Fine Delaine 69 to 73 cents,
a Blood Staple 62 to 70 cents, 56
Blood Staple to 60 to 65‘ cents, 56
Blood Staple 58 to 63 cents, Low 36.
Blood Staple 40 to 47 cents; Indiana,

Missouri, New York, Illinois, East- ‘

ern Wisconsin, Southeastern Iowa,
Northern Arkansas, and similar
wools—Fine Delain 60 to 66 cents,
1x5 Blood Staple 59 to 65vcents, 96
Blood Staple ‘56 to 63 cents, 34 Blood
Staple 55 to 60 cents, Low 34 Blood
Staple 39 to 46 cents; Semi-Bright
wool, Wehtern Wisconsin, Western
Iowa, Minnesota, parts of Kansas
and Nebraska, and North and
South Dakota—Fine Staple 52 to 60
cents, it Blood Staple 59 to 65
cents, 96 Blood Staple 49 to 55
cents, l4 Blood Staple 48 to 53,

cents, Low 1:4 Blood Staple 37 to 44‘

cents; Southern wool, Clear wool——
55 to 59 cents, Light Burry 50 to
53 cents, Medium Burry 37 to 40
cents, Hard Burry 25 to 35 cents;
Territory wool—Idaho, Wyoming,
Montana, and Utah, Graded it Blood
Staple 55 to 63 cents, Graded it
Blood clothing 44 to 52 cents, Grad-
ed % Staple 51 to 55 cents, Graded
% Clothing 42 to 49 cents, Graded
1/4. Blood Staple 46 to 53 cents,
Graded Low 54 Blood Staple 40 to

44 cents; Texas 12 months Fine 35 ~

to 49 cents, 6 months Fine 39 to 48
cents, California 12 months Fine 46
to 57 cents, 6 months Fine 44 to
54 cents.

of a week ago. The same news af-
fecting the rise in corn boosted the
oats market last week-end, ,but the
week

opening this witnessed ' a

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g St’nd. Tim.| 'Témostg‘ﬁo
VIM-trait l36..”.0- 39.00 37.50 38.00 36. .
Chicago 34.00 86.00 33.00 34.00 32. 33.00
N Y 46.00 410014530 40.00 41.00 43.00

Markets] |
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Markets LightMix, Clov. Mix. Clover
Detroit 87.50 38.00 35.00/36.00 32.00 33.00
Chicago 83.00 34.00l32.00 33.00117430 27.00
N. Y. .. 44.00 46.00l40.00 43.001

 

 

 

 

 

THE WEATHER'

Foster‘s, Weather Chen for 191.

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WASHINGTON, D. C. June 28, 1919
-—Last Bulletin gave forecasts of
warm wave to cross continent July 8
to 7, warm wave 2 to. 6, cool wave 5
t0 9. , \

Next warm wave Will reach Van-
couver about July' 7, and tempera.-
tures will rise on all the Pacific slope.
.It will cross crest of Rockies by
close of July 8, plains sections 9,
meridian 90, great lakes, middle Gulf

eastern sections 11, reaching v cinity
‘ of Newfoundland about'July 12. Storm
wave will follow about one day be-
hind warm wave and cool wave one
day behind storm wave. _

These. two disturbances will affect
all parts of the continent and be the
month; probably the most important
most radical "and important of- the

 

 

As Forecasted by “7. T. Foster for MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING

 

States and Ohio Tenneseevalle s 10,.

FOR THE WEEK

cropweather period of the season. It
covers July 2 to 14 inclusive. Un-
usually severe storms are expected but
these dangerous storms wi not
“strike more than one count out of
a hundred. Most rain of the month
expected reaching about half the
counties east of Rockies crest and
a’larger amount than usual west of
that ,line. Temperatures will go to
extremes, averaging near normal.
Temperatures are expected to be high-
st or the month just bfore first of
thee storm waves reaches yourrdocal-
ity. Falling gradually and varying up
and down, lowest temperatures 0 the
month are expected during the week
centering on July 16. ' "
those Sates very heavy rains, in other
During the 14 days mentioned above
more than usual rain is expected in
the cotton States ‘; in some parts of
parts less than normal. From latitude
37 to 45, east of Rockies. same kind
of weather but less rain. in either of
the more southern’reeotions. On Pacific
slope same as in the_ other three
sections except less than usual .rain.
era] average of crop-Weather will

be fair.

 

 

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An easier feeling prevails iii near-g,‘

1y ialli the hay markets. Supplies

it is becoming increasingly. difﬁcult?
to effect sales at outside figuresn

The prospect .of a large hay crop ,

h 3 caused buyers to resent the
pr' ent high prices and in the past,
two weeks, since the ﬁgures were
given out, trading has" been, reduc-
ed as much as it Was possible for“
consumers to do‘ so. All reports in-‘
dicate a crop of unusual size and
of good quality; the growth has
been heavy and rapid and‘there are
some reports or early ripening and
lack of time 'to harvest.-——Hay
Trade Journal. .
REPORT ON MICHIGAN

June prospects for the, new crop,
of hay in Michigan are reported by
dealers to be excellent over the

greater part of the-state, from 90"

to 100% normal. The acreage” is
somewhat smaller but the yield will
be above normal, due to excellent,
weather conditions.» Work of harvest-
ing the new crop of hay will com-
mence about July 1, and no great
movement will take place. until the
last of August or ﬁrst of Septem-’

ber. It is probable that some hay .

will be baled from the windrow
and placed on the market to relieve
the situation in some sections. Clov—
er withstood the cold open winter

and is reported in excellent condition.‘ '

Grain crop conditions of wheat.
oats, rye, and barley are reported
very favorable. The acreage of
wheat and barley-is reported larger
than for several years—U. S. Dept.
of Agriculture.

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reports
demand.

market
light

Detroit’s rye
steadiness and a'
Michiganls rye crop is coming along
splendidly, promising to have con-

siderable eﬁect on Michigan
kets. ~ .
Rye Cash No.” 2 is quoted at'$1-48.,
showing no change from the iweek
before.
Barley is quiet and scant news is
available on the market.

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Little of special interest has marked
the bean market for the last week in
Michigan. ' >

San Francisco’s bean market is re-
ported as easy with prices practically
unchanged. Carlct shipments from the
market to Eastern points are reported
by dealers as being moderate'whlle
the quality of the 'receipts are princi-
pally of the smaller sizes. During the"
week 27,476 sacks arrived at this dis-
tributing point. Quotations per car-
lots for Limas are around $9.50. Large
whites about $6, small whites, $6.75,

Blackeye about $3.45, pinks about $6, ‘

Red Mexican about $5.40; Cranberries
about $5i Red Kidneys. about 310;,
Tejaris about $2.50.

.Chicago gives the ~following quota—
tions:

Beans: Green La. hpr., '50 to 31:
Miss, '50 to 51; Ill. bsk., 50 to 60;
Tenn. bsk., 50 to 60; Wax, La. hpr.‘
25 to $1; Miss, a to 60; Tenn. 50'“
60; Ill. hpr., $1.25 to $1.60; Ill .bsk.,
50 to 60. Beans, Dry—per 100 lbs.

Hand-picked, $7 to,$8.26; Brown Swod
ish, $5 to $6; Red ‘Kidney, $11 “to
$11.50. 0 .

 

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cerd1n8tethc Detroit market 1'

have increased. to acme extent, but /
trading is decidely easier. Prices do'- '1
not show. any market reduction but .

  

 

 

   

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timetopqynzourthrefhilnl.

._ 'l‘hsree work about
this. 'lbeR

River Special is
”the thredher with the famous
“Man Behind the Gun. "

ft m Out the Grain
instead waiting foritto fall out.
it alone s more clean se ar-
tion than some other thte ers

get from end to end. ‘

‘ _ . tyour thresherman the
name 0 his outﬁt. Tell him you
want your grain threshed with
the Red River Special; Don’t
let him expenment with some
unknown machine when it costs
no more to be sure of saving all

our grain
y If u went a thresher your own'

for
use. earn about our "Junior" Red
River Special.

Writefor Circular:
Nichols & Shepard Cc.
l.ullders exchmlvely of Red River-alga.
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lint. Mich... June 17.—The four
autism-kiln that were in the garage

the Citiueu’s Mutual Automobile In-
surance Company of Howell.

The adjuster for the company met
with the owners of the automobiles .
and male a satisfactory settlement,
making a total cash settlement of-
83,140..00. The owners of the cars
were very much pl with the
prompt and satistactnry adjustment.

The Adjuster for the company said
theywezm able to pay in cash because
they had accumulated a surplus dur-
ing the ﬁve seasons and had on hand.
over $30,000.00. Automobile own—
ers who take a policy in the Big Mu-
tnnl know that when a serious loss
occurs the company has the money on
hand to pay promptly, and the fact
that the company has written over
45,000 policies gives each member
thebenontofaverylowrate ofin-
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things. . cuter. : rubbish are the

‘ out» that an seduce-producing new

stock are shipping at once. _snd‘a1so
because of__ the oversupply of cheap
old stock that is still-on the market.

The old‘ potato market was pretty
well- shot to pieces. this week with
continued liberal receipts and much
of the oﬂerings_comlng in badly
sprouted and otherwise in an inferior
condition.

Chicago’s quotations read:
Potatoes—{arias Wis, white,
round, bulk, 75 to $1540; Wis. white,
round, skd. 76 to $1.40. New Pota-

' . toes. Tex. Triumphs, 100 lbs. Skd.,
.. 32: o 83; La. Triumph, $2 to $2.50;

Ark. Triumphs, $2.75 to $3; Va. Cob-
blers, bbl., $8 to $8.60. '

 

NEW YORK BUTTER LETTER

The butter market during this
week has been one of uncertainty
and irregularity. There continues to
be anincrease in the receipts, and
the flush of production has proba-
bly, been just reached. All reports
from butter producing areas indi-
cate that conditions could not be
better for a large production; but
it is anticipated that within the
next week or two there will be
some shrinkage in the amount of
butter made, as hot weather has
prevailed in some sections. The ef-
fect of the hot weather is already
apparent in some sections. The ef-
fect of the hot weather is already
apparent as the quality of the but-
ter being received at present is con-
siderably lOWei' than that of the
butter during the ﬁrst days of
June Naturally,
quality is quickly noticed under
present conditions as buyers are ex-
tremely critical when there are
large stocks trom which to make
their purchases.

To the butter receiver the week
has been rather discouraging. On
some days there would be no buy-
ing at all. During the week' there
has been a decline in the price of
most grades of butter of about 1 ,Ac.
Considerins the weak feeling that
has prevailed all the time it is sur-
prising that there has been no
greater decline than that. The
reason for the small decline is that
with each tailing on' in price, theru
would be a renewal of speculative in—
terest, which would have a tendency
to keep the price up. It seems that
speculative buying is somewhat be-
low normal this year as compared

with other years but without doubt“

the great production of this year
causes it to seem that way as three
million pounds 01' butter each week
are accumulating in the warehouses.
Mold is very prevalent and is caus-
ing receivers a. great amount of
extra work and worry. It is very
apparent that the shortage of ice
this year is having a marked in-
ﬂuence on the condition of the but—
teras it arrives in the market, as
much of the butter is very soft upon
delivery, which shows that railroads
are rather sparing. of ice.

The week opened with a very in-
active market and on Monday the
quotation 461! 1c. There was a fur:

ther decline of 1c on Tuesday, but,

on Wednesday a better tone devel-
oped and 1-2c was recovered but
that gain was lost on Thursday and
since that day there has been no
change in quotation. There was con-
siderable activity on Friday, as spec-
ulative Operators picked up consider-
erable quantities of butter for stor-
age The market closed on Friday
with quotations as follows. Extras,

‘ 51 1A @51 1he; Higher: scoring than

extras, 52@52%c; Firsts,
51c; and, Seconds, 47 lie.
has been a very active trade in un-
salted butter as large quantities
have been placed in storage by he
cream manufacturers. The price dire
’ferential oi unsalted butter over
corresponding grades of salted burr,

ter’is 2@2 12420.

49 no

to 'severni' i

any lowering of .

There ‘

market is reported with decreasins
receipts and fair buying. Butter is
a trifle lower and is dull.

. Fresh candied eggs, current, re-
ceipts, 400; fresh ﬁrsts in '

in new cases, 43c per doz.

 

EAST BUFFALO—Cattle,—-— Re-
ceipts, 250, slow. Calves—Receipts,

450, 60 cents lower,
Hogs—Receipts, 2,400; 50 cents to
65 ce’hts higher. Heavy, mixed and
yorkers, $21.65; light yorkers and
pigs, $20.00 roughs, $19.00@$19.—
50; states, $12.00@$16.00. Sheep
and lambs—Receipts. 800; slow.
Lambs, $12.00@$18.25; yearlings,
$10.00@$15.00; others unchanged.

CHICAGO—(United States Bur-
eau of Markets)—Hogs———Receipts,
3.000;” desirable mixed and light
butcher hogs, fully 50c higher; few
packing hogs s01d; top, $21; bulk,
$20.25@21; heavyweight, $20.40@
$20.90; medium weight, $20.40@
$21; light weight, $20.30@21;
light lights, $18@20.80; heavy
packing sows, smooth, $19.65@$20.—
25; packing sows, rough, $19@
19.50; pigs, $17@18. Cattle—Re-
ceipts, 500; compared with week
ago, choice heavy steers about
steady; medium and light weight
mostly 25@50c higher; choice heif-
ers, 50@70c higher; other she-
stock 25@50c higher; salves, 50@
750 higher; bulls mostly 25c lower;
good light weight feeds and. stock-
ers mostly 25c higher; others slow
and 250 lower. Sheep—Receipts, 8,-
000; all direct to packers; compar-
ed with week ago, lambs and aged
sheep mostly 75c@$1 lower; year-
lings around $1.50 lower.

DETROIT DRESSED MEATS
Detroit gives the following quo-
tations on dressed meats:

Dressed hogs — Choice country
dressed under 150 lbs, 24 @25c;
over 150 lbs, 24c per lb.

Dressed calves—Fancy country
dressed, 23 @ 24c; choice, 24 @ 250;
common, 19 @ 20c per lb. ’4

QUQTATIONS ON WOOL

BOSTON—The Commercial Bulle-
tin says: “While there has been no
marked change so far as prices at
theseaboard w001 markets are con-
cerned, the tendency of values is
still upward, more especially on fin-
er wools. ’

“The markets aboard are in. firm,
especially in England, except on me-
dium ’wools grading below fifties.

“Buying in the West has contin-
ued steadily with prices firm for
the best wools and in the fleece
wool sections a. little higher for de-
laines.”

LONDON WOOL AUCTION
The offerings at the wool auction
sales amounted to 9,000 bales per day
last week. Choice greasy combings
were often ﬁve per cent dearer and
seconds advanced 1d a pound. New
South Wales scoured touched 6s ill/ad.

 

A merger of the Grand Detour Plow
Company 0: Dixon, ,Illinois, in the J.
I. Case Threshing Machine Company
of Racine, Wisconsin, has been an-
nounced by the latter concern, all ar-
rangements having been completed to
take effect as of July 1st. »

The J. 1.. Case Threshing Machine
Company has handled Grand Detour
plows for several years past, and the

— line has proves so entirely satisfac-

tory that it has seemed the part of
wisdom to merge the two concerns. By
this transaction the Threshing Mm
chine Company acquires the plant and
the entire property and assets of the
Plow Company‘. The Threshing Ma.-
chine Company will continue the oper-

' ation “or the plant at Dixon; Colonel
,Brinton, former-head or the Plow Com-

pany, his son, Major Bradford Brinton,
and A. ~W. Leland will continue with
the business at Dixon under the new

ownership in practically the same ca-

pacifies as heretofore.

— In the Detroit eggx'marke-t" til." 4
is more activity or late. A firm; '

. new ,,
‘ cases, 42c; candied storage packed

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. C9W3- 3 “Homes, ~» and . Manure: Spreader,
- reaper, drill, potato digger, mowing ma-
chine, rakes, sulky ' and walking plows,
. long ,list implements,’ in heart
’ high-grade farming section, short walk
* 's_cho()l,'1 3-4 miles RR’town. . Loam til-
lage for good crops, wire-fenced, spring;
watered pasture for 30 cows, home—use
wood, fruit. 10,-,room house, 110-ft. stock
barn, horse barn, corn house, etc. Owner
retiring makes,quick sale price. $5500,
easy terms, gets all. Details page 35
Catalog Bargains 19 States, copy free.
SFROUT FARM AGENCY, 814 B 13.,
Ford Bldg, Detroit, Mich,

 

 

PAY FOR MY RANCH on FARM
ﬁmd with clover seed. Money loaned for
to

via stock'at 6 per cent, in amounts equal .

ﬁrst payment made upon purchase.
Jno, G. Krauth, Millersburg, Michigan.

.,_FOR SALE—160 ACRES 1,9, MILE
east and % mile n‘orth of Morley, Mecos-
ta county, Michigan. Nearly all level,
gravel loam soil: Nice place for tractor
farming. 130 acres under cultivation;
80 acres wood lot and pasture. Nice or-
chard; good seven-room house, cellar, nice
shade. Windmill, water in house;double
.garage; good barn; silo and other build-
ings; good fences. Nice location. Buy
direct from owner. Price, $11,000 half
cash. For particulars write, Route 2, Box
2, Morley, Michigan.

 

 

FOR SALE—67.85-ACRE FARM, 0N
account of poor health, for quick sale in-
cluding crops; will take $2,150, $1,000
down, from one to five years on balance;
3:6 acresdcifarﬁd,1 balance easily cleared.

ome an 00 t over or writ .

Rose, Billings, Mich. e John

 

FOR SALE OR TRADE—280 ACRES
of land in Ogcmaw county; mostly rivcr
ﬂats, 40 acres improvements, 200 tame
pasture, 40 timber, good roads, 1% miles
to general store; frame house, timber for
barn; some fencing. H. A. Benjamin, Rose
City, Mich.

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farms for sale’ by the owners... V193,,
his. name, location I of :farm, 568C. lit-193v?
price and terms .Strictl mutual and co-
”operative between the . ’ uyer and 511%:-
and conducted for our-members;<GL , 5'
ER »QI~.‘.EARING HOUSE- SS. N.. Lang
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I “on” ACCOUNT on ‘AGE 'WIL'L " sELL
40-acre farm 12 miles 'from Saginaw, on
stone, read. . 34 acres improved; 6 acres
pasture. Boil for mostall crops. Excel-
lent fencln‘g, good buildings, and good or-
chard; 3" wells. 1' mile to school 1-2
mile to store. 011 rural route. , rice,
$100 an acre, or $5,000.00 for crops and
personal. Address Ben Le Grow, Swan
Creek, Michigan.

Fo‘n SALE—100-1101“: FARM, Three
miles east Milan. Rich soil, running water.
20’ acres heavy timber; iO—room brick
house, brick horse barn, 3 other good
barns; granary, corn crib, other out build~
ings; 30 acres ﬁne wheat hay, oats, corn,
potatoes All goes for $14,000 if taken
s-on. Address owner, Gustav Seleska,
Milan, Mich., R.F.D. No, 5

200 ACRES—IMPROVED 120; WELL
fenced and watered; orchard, 10-mom
house, good buildings; well located, near
county seat, church and convenient to
school; $60 acre. ALSO 120 acres 50
clear; good house; suitable for cattle
farming; $1,800 takes it.
29, Harrisville, Alcona Co., Mich.

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CORN HARVESTER-ONE-MAN, ONE-
horse, one-row, self-gathering, Equal to a.
(forn binder. Sold to farmers for twentyr
three years. Only $25, with fodder binder,
Free catalogue showmg pictures of har-
vester. PROCESS CORN HARVESTER

CO., Salina, Kan.

WE CAN FURNISH RED ROCK.
Wheat and Rosen Rye in carload lots.
Write us for prices. Coopersville Crop
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MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

ifOne dollar is enclosed herewith for which send Michigan Business I
Farming every week for one" year to " ’ .

THIS IS A POPULAR ONE

The well known Hawkeye combination pliers

   
 

This handy combination plyers will cut and splice wire, pull
staples, grip pipe rods and nuts, and has a screwdriver attachment
The “Hawkeye” is drop forged and case hardened, highly nick-
It will work in closer quarters than any wrench, and is
light, compact and easily carried in the hip pocket.

.. ' YOU CAN GET IT EASILY

All that is necessary is to send us $1 for only one NEW subscrip-
tion to Michigan Business Farming and the plyers will be mailed
to you postpaid. Call on a neighbor or two, show him a capy of the
paper and ask him if he doesn’t want to‘subscribe to the only inde-
pendent farmers’ weekly owned and edited in Michigan.
will be surprised how easily you can get his order.

_ Then send us the subscription on blank, below and mail it to us with
the dollar bill. The plyers come to you immediately after we receive the
order. Remember the subscription must be a NEW one—not your

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TWO “I? tori ratiﬁcation senditioaeds
um op clears. .nnderstandins use
Covenant’s meanihg.- -‘One: was non.

posedi. , , _ . .. .

In» reporting the results ot,this,can-'
vase, Pref. Campbell says that it is
more convincing even. that .the long
list of several hundred favorable reso-
lutions adopted by granges and other

ﬁle at the National Headdua‘rters. of
the League. Many editors wrote that
in their stand for the Covenant they
voiced the opinions of the vast maj'ori-
ty of their readers. The sixty-six, par
pers represent a constituency covering
forty-three states. Six of them, all fav-
orable to the League, report a combin-
ed circulation ot 2,100,000. .

MORE DAIRY CATTLE T0 FRANCE

Following the recent arrival from
France of'a'commission to negotiate
for several thousand head of dairy cat-‘
tie, the United States Department of
Agriculture points out now breeders
in this country may help the farmers.

 

imal'industry cf the United States.
The number of cattle to be supplied
will depend upon the ability of Ameri-
can dairymen to furnish suﬂiciently
good animals at the prices the commie-
sion is prepared, to ' offer.

The department has received notiﬁ-
cation that probably 8,000 cows and
heifers will be purchased the ﬁrst
month and the number will be increas-
ed if the animals are satisfactory

This is the second purchase of dairy
cattle for the devastated regions of
France; the ﬁrst, last [fpriL consisted
principally of 104 pureybred and grade
cows and four pure-bred bulls purchasr
ed by the French high commission.
'Iihat importation by France ‘was in
the nature of a trial order. Those cat-
tie and the others wnich will be ob-
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herds for the devastated sections of
France. Two per cent of the total ship.
ments, as specified by, the French of-
ﬁcials, are to be bulls. " ' ‘-

'Iihe Bureau of Markets, through its
foreign trade division, has arranged to
have the animals transported under
the classiﬁcation of “relief," which
makes immediate shipment possible.
Inspectors '01 the Bureau of Animal In-
dustry. will make the necessary certi-
ﬂcation to the health of the export cat-_
tie and an oﬁicial health certiﬁcate
will accompany every shipment.

The success of live stock exporta-
tons from the United States, the de-
partment states clearly, depends prin-
cipally on the co-operation of breeders.
It appears, that, orders are being plac-
ed with other countries, including Can-
ada, and repeat orders will depend on
the measure of satisfaction given. The

French ofﬁcials have indicated their “

desre for large anmals of good milking
quality. The United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture lays stress on the
need for sending the French people
only the kind oi.’ stock thatwill be a
credit to the American cattle indus-
try. The bulls especially will determ.
the largely the future reputation of
our conformaton and breeding that,
will insure better herds in the next
generation. ‘ _
According to the ofﬁcials the, export”
trade in dairy cattle can he established
for years to come by. ﬁlling the orders
with animals 0: excellent quality; on
the other hand, the ﬁltrade . may be
quickly lost by shipments of, inferior
stock. Oﬂlcersf, o! dairyvcattle asso-
ciations are being asked to”, acquaint
, their membership .with these policies,
and alsc,,to_'impress on them the 1m:
pprtance' of" building up abrasions};—

t‘esmv not; only for American cattle but "

will. 11. racorﬂij9M rinsing.

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,reCentlysent outbyggthe 1938116. Sixty-1 f
. twp 0;! 'theseuhoiieliﬂedly; tattered ".3“? ;
,ﬂcatitm of . the Covenant as . #:8391198-

commital; and onlyVon'e absolutely op: :l,

agricultural organizations and now on ,

of France, and likewise beneﬁt the an_ ,

W .noed"s€ve.i‘ei’.,ii1§te s ,

. .ssﬁistrwta'mimm sane
.A-Mola. lis "cl-"pure stim' {Tissues
2 masses». go'm. for“: ‘ smut:

, .teedjng. :" A" ton crease- Molag .,

. qunalmastpnmtoorp meal in: 3

‘v _ . summit.“ amtlwnem nixed i .

. 1 anyways 1060.15 “or rota:.;..;~ ,
‘7' age “it"mak'es them"‘paiatable‘; .,

' 2— ’ and, digestible.”’Not a stem: .. V

led)!" but 1a “straight" teed :7 the; ~.

J most .ec'onomic‘al steed. live—i

1 stock ownersfcari buyi- . 2 -‘..

  
   

   
    

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clean records .who rvknpw ,
. somethingcot livestock - and? xi _
who can sell.~ They will- sell ' ' -. "M
to livestock o'wners'hpd ago» '
' 'appo‘iptr agents. . Will have
several counties as exclusive
territory.‘_ Backed by sover— ~-
- tising. Should oWn auto...
This is a-.;life'=jo'b£,f‘or men, ‘1
whomake good. ifsaiar'y an'dfi " '
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W'rite for,f1ill, details. can
reference and past‘..record. 1,-
Enclose photo which will be
returned. Write today. '

. Pure Cane Molasses Corp.
16 Exchange Place , .
New York City
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30 x 4 23.30 35.50 5.33
at x 4 1.2 20.00 30.35 5.00
35 x 4 1-2 33.00 - 30.70 0.70
. 30 x 4 1-2 33.00 31:15 6.00
37 x 4 1-3, 30.00 30.30 5.70
33 x 5 30.00 33.30 ' 0.00
30 x5 ”:33.“ 30.75 7.05
37 :0 33.70 35.05 7.16 -

Thousands of cm- satisﬂed customers are etti ‘
gram 4300 to 6000 milu' service—why no you
$3! Altar Exémlnaign. 8%jbiseouni for cash no Order.
01.]; .0. . lub ttoins ti. Wh
ordering state if Clincherfcq. D. or Bing. :r: desire‘tail.I
ORDER TODAY-e prices may jump. Full infor-
mation on request. Add: ,

Philadelphia M30: Tire Co.,

244 N. Broad Street, . PHILADELPHIA, rs.

 

 

 

 

 
 

   
 

    
  

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Price Price

,§ 8,0111 Best Granulated Sugar 60c 150
“1.12; ng Powder ............ 50c 390
a lack Pepper (ground). .25c 150
“ Cinnamon (ground) ..... .250 150
f4 lb Ginger (ground) ......... 25c 150
lb. Mustard (ground) ......... 25c 160

2 bars Kirk’s White Flake Soap. .160. '90
1 bar Fels- Naphtha .......... . 50 80
1 lb. Breakfast Cocua ..... ‘ ..... 360

tail Price, $2. _.91 Our Price, 6310. 62.

You Save 81. 29.

‘ are appearing in neWspapers through.
' out the country over the names of lit-
. tlaknown houses: in large cities, ac-

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- \ AdVertisements similar £0 th? above»

we believe such advertisements are
destructive 01! conﬁdence in advertis-
’ ing’ and that it is unfair‘ to a. newspa-
pérls legitimate advertisers and its
readers alike

UNKINDNESS VS. CRUEL'I’Y

I wish \to ask if I were separated
from my husband on account of his
unkindness, what, according to law,

 

should he do in regard to the support 5.
of my two children, a boy and, a girl?-‘

My health . is poor.

He says he will not help me in any.
way unless I leave the children with.
And if be

him, WhiCh‘I will not do.

Were arrested he would spend his time
in jail rather than help them. Please
give me full particulars ——M. B.

 

 

 

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’ ”cording to a warning sent outby the
t’Associated Advertisers' Club. M. B. F.

has been after the scaips of bogus ad- .

Lv‘ertisers itself.
One such advertisement, investigat-
ed by the National Vigilance Commit-

flee; revealed that the address given '

jwas a lawyer's oiiice and the trail led
’to a wholesale grocer who is supposed
to ﬁll the orders received.
Anyone knOWs that granulated sugar
costs much more than three cents a
.. pound wholesale. The same. thing is

1true of a few other articles mentioned .

in the “trial order," but no one knoWs
how much the baking powder, ground
pepper, cinnamon, mustard and ginger
' - included in this ordex are worth ‘14;
is safe to state, however, that the pro-

‘-’ ﬁt on these unknown articles which ‘
the customer also has to buy to get the
sugar at three cents a pound is sufﬁc-

lent to give the advertiser a proﬁt on '

~4the transaction.

Further loss is likely to result from
. the fact that many householders who
r .. bite at the low- priced sugar bait will
' .Wthus‘ buy ginger, pepper, mustard or
' . - other items which they do not actual-
" ' ‘ "ly need‘ at the time—yet they must-

. .. ' take the whole order
Unfortunately comparisons of val-
use obtainable from houses like this on
‘1 the one hand, and from the local food
‘ distributor on the other, would hardly
_‘ ’b‘e possible, because there are few 10.
' cal food distributors who would have
natock the kind and quality of un-

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wn merchandise such as these sup~ ;
‘ ‘fcnt rate" houses handle. 4

Pro 1101: advertising appears
their local merchants 1:
verticals 111 the papers

Manta. that it \-
competition they

ems :manager of-

- certain amount and requiring him to

- be given an opportunity to see What
» the inside of a jail means. And may.

-‘ in a few days. —-W. E. Brown, legal ed-
. itar. _ .. ,

‘ «suggest to Vigilance Commit- .

Not all unkindness on the part of a.
husband is a justiﬁcation for a wife
leaving him. The unkindness must.
amount to cruelty as deﬁned in. . the =
law. before the wife would be justiﬁed 1

in leaving him. The husband and fath- - ’ '

or is bound to support his family, but
this can be compelled in two ways,
only .

By the wife ﬁling a bill of complaint 3
for divorce or separate maintenance,
and obtaining an order from the judge
requiring the husband and father',‘ to‘
pay a certain amount each week for
the. support of his wife and children.
The rule will apply before and after
the granting of the decree of divmce.

It a bill for a divorce is not desired,
then complaint may be made under the
statute for his failure to support and
provide for his family. The court up-
on conviction of the husband, will.
make an order requiring him to pay a

give bond for the performance of the
terms of. the order. Upon failure to

comply with the order, the party will ~

be committed to the Jail, there to re-
main until he complies with the order

If the husband refuses to support his
family and says he will go to jail —
rather than to support them, he should

be he will be willing to comply with
the reasonable order of the court with-

 

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When yen have an umbrella with a

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move the handle. heat the end of um;
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Replace the handle; this will
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INDEMNIII‘IES Owners of Live Stock—Horses, UattlefSheep and Hogs
Against Death by Accident or Disease

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What are You in the Market for? Use this coupon!

Every render of M. B. F. will be In need of one or more of the following?
Items before spring. The next few months is the time you will do your bu ing
for the coming season. Check below the Item- you are interested in mail t to'
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VEAL

No Kind or Quality of Veal is so
much in demand as that of the Hol-
stein—Friesian breed. It is an impor-
shut source of revenue to Holstein

airyrnen, adding an ungrtat item to
the, credit side of the lry farmer‘s
account. Holstein calves weigh 100
to 185 lbs. at birth.

HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF
AmlCA, Box 295 Bratﬂebm, Vt.

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E. L. Salisbury Breeds High Class
Holetein-Friesian Cattle

Twenty dams of our herd sire
Walter Lyons
average 30.1] lbs. of butter in seven
days. Nothing for sale at this time
bUt young bull calves.

E. L. Salisbury, Shepherd, Michigan.

MUSOLF F BROS.’ HOLSTEINS

We are now booking orders for
Voting bulls from King Pieter Segis
Lyons 170506. All from An R. O, dams
with credible records. We test annu—
ally for tuberculosis. Write for pric-
es and further information.

Musloﬂ Bros., South Lyons, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

FOR SALE--HOLSTEIN BULL CA

from good producing cow and ﬁrst qual-
ity sire. $75 for quick sale. F. W. Alex-

ander, Vassar, Michigan.

 

A REAL BULL

Just old enough for service. His sire is
one of the best» 31 lb. bulls in the state;
his dam a 23 lb. cow of great capacity.
His three nearest dams average, fat, 4.46
per cent; 514.6 milk 7 days. Priced at
$200 if sold soon. Harry '1‘. Tubbs, El-

 

TWIN BULL CALVES
Born October 29, 1918; sired by Sir

, Calantha Segis Korndyke 104008; dam’s

record,v24.85 lbs. butter and 621 lbs; of
milk in 7 days; ﬁne straigiit calves. Send
for Particulars—C. & A. uttman, ,Fowl-
ervi le. Michigan.

38-LB, ANCESTRY

FOR SALE—Bull calf born Feb. 6,
1919. Sire, Flint Hengerveld Lad whose
dam has a 33.105 4-yr.-old record. Dam,
17 lb Jr. 2-yr.-old, daughter of Ypsiland
Sir Pontiac DeKol whose dam at 5 yrs.
has a record of 85.43 and 750.20 lbs. in
7 g3.‘tP;ice, ttloodli'iOB.1 d it
~ r, e or ex on e ped ree an oto.
L. C, KETZLER, - p

 

 

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PREPARE

For the greatest demand and future
prices that have ever been known. Start
now with the Holstein and convince
yourself. Good stock always fer
sale- Howbert Stock Farm, Eau
Claire. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

E. L. Salisbury Breeds High Class
Holstein-Friesian Cattle

Twenty dams of our herd sire
Walter Lyons .
average 30.11 lbs. of butter in seven
days. Nothing for sale at this time
but young bull calves.
E. L. Salisbury, Shepherd, Michigan

 

 

 

 

TEN-MON TH SoOLD-BULL

Bull last advertised is sold. This
one born June 7, 1918. Sired by best
son of famous $30,000 bull heading
Arden Farms herd. King Korndyke
Pontiac Lass. Two nearest dams to
sire of thls calf average 37.76 lbs. but-
ter. 7 days and over 145 lbs. in 30
days. Dam, 8 Branddaughter of King
of the Pontiacs, Sir Gelsche Walker
Segis and DeKol Burke, A P8311)
Herd tuberculin tested annually_ '

BOABDMAN FARMS, Jackson, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

wonvmurin ‘srocx FARM

I want «to tell you about our Junior
Herd Sire, “King Pontiac Lunde Korn-
dyke Segis," a son of King of, the Ponti-
ucs, his dam is Queen Segis of Brookside
a daughter of Pontiac Clothllde De K01
.2nd and Prnce Segis Korndyke, a great
combination of breeding. .
We are breeding this young sire to
the daughters of Judge Walker Pletertje,
our Senior Herd Sire whose ﬁrst ﬁve
dams each have records above 30 lbs., he
also'has two 30 lb. sisters. How 4'can»
, on go ' wrong by buying a bull calf of
if ‘ . 4,. ofibreeeins? , , '

int, Michigan '

  

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CHOICE REGISTERED m
PERCHERONS.
nous-rams, .
meanings,
mus

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non a. now. one, men. 7

l. r. o. la. a .

' sired by' a son of

a veSFriend He erveld

a a. b .i iii as. will“;

oy y a' son

Kernd ke from A. R. 035nm. wi‘h' ree-

ords o it.” as Jr. two year old to 28.25

at full a e. Prices reasonable breeding
consider-e .

WALNUT GROVE STOCK FARM
W. W. Wyckon, . Napoleon. Mich.

REGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULL OLD.
enough for service. Sired by a grandson
of Colantha Johanna Lad; his dam has
a good A. R. 0. record. Write .for prices

 

 

 

 

 

$150 and $250,

C. L. Hulett & Son, Oke-
mo, Mich. ~ _

 

JERSEY

The Wildwood Jersey Farm

Breeders of Majesty strain Jersey Cat-
tle. Herd Bulls, Majesty’s Oxford Fox
134214; Eminent Lady’s Majesty 150984.
Herd tuberculin-tested. Bull calves for
sale out of R. of M. Majesty dams.

Alvin Balden, Capac, Michigan.

 

 

 

GUERNSEY
GUERNSEYS WE HAVE A FEW

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 Farm: ‘1 /
Born April 26,1919 Price $50
Last one left! All the others adyertis—
ed in M, B. F. have been sold.
Wm. T. Fisk, Vestabnrg. Mich., R. 2

ABERDEEN-ANGUS

ABERDEEN-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, or call and
see us.
Woodcote Stock Farm. Ionia. Michigan.

 

SHORTHORN
SHORTHORN FOR SALE AT REA-
sonable rices. The
prize-winning Scotch Bull aster Model
76147. in manz states at head of herd of
60 good type S orthorns. -
E. M. Parkhurst. Reed City. Michigan.

 

snon'rnonns, 100 HEAD 1‘0 {513'
lect from. Write me your wants. Prices
reasonable. Wm. J. BellrrRose City. Mich.

 

THE VAN BUREN CO. Bhorthorn
Breeders’ Association have young stock
for sale, mostly Clay breeding. Write
your wants to the secretary, Frank Bai-
ley. Hartford, Mich.

'SHOR'I‘HORNS and POLAND CHINAS

 

all sold out: None for sale at pres-
ent. F. M. Piggott & Son, Fowler. Mich

 

WHAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41
SHORTHORN breeders. Can put you in
touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages. Some females. . W. Crum,
President Central Michigan Shorthom
Association, McBrides. Michign.

NO STOCK FOR SALE AT PRESENT.
Shot-thorn Breeder. W, S. Huber, Glad-
win, Mich.

 

 

I nnnnroans

120 HEREFORD STEEBS. ALSO
know of 10 or 15 loads fancy quality
Shorthorn and .Angus steers 5 to 800 lbs.
Owners anxious to sell. Will he]? buy 500
commission. C. F, Ball. Fairlie d, Iowa.

LAKEWOOD HEREFORDS

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
b et grazers, rustlere, early maturers
an market toppers, buy a registered
Hereford and realize a big proﬁt on your
investment. A lifetime devoted to the

breed. Come and see me.—.E. J. TAY-

, LOR, Fremont, Michigan.

 

RED POLLED CATTLE

Both Sexes ’ .

   
 

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RAM!
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and pedigree. Also a few females. Ver-
non Clough. Parma, Michigan.

HEIFER CALVES SOLD. BRED
Yearling and young cow for sale. Price,

heading to beneﬁt breeders
. , ype, show you a
stormy as‘ often, as you wish... Copy
Sales advertised here at special low rates; ask for them. Write to-‘ayl,

BR"EDERS’ DIRECTORY, MOBIGAN B

     

      

   

of mm mi

canvass mama. Mt. Clemens, mm .

HOGS , '

POLAND CHINA

. paws! wins-mm...
Proof and tell you what it Will cost for .13, 20 or Bantlm'es. ,Yon . -.

or changes inn-the recdve’one week below date of issue. Breeders’ Auction .

 

BIG TYPI P. 0. SPRING HOQ."IITH-
:- sex. From choice bred sows and sired
a grandson of Grant Buster and other
are-winning boars. Prices r ble.
W. Barnes and Bonunyron. M ,

Aungfgt mlgi g. GILT! BIRD FOR

a arrow.

Son, Saline. Michigan.

POLAND MIRA now 3
ed A it

 

D EIGHT

i . . sired by
gamma by the . to Big not. Price
if“. “mural; 3°”‘i’iztm‘k'diamé‘i’i3
O I I , as are

«can. 0.1.wmeJonmniem.

A. A.- Wood ﬂ

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SAGINAW VALLEY mum 01', 0.1.0:
Boar pigs, grandsons of ‘ .
Perfection 5th. Scws all sold.
Gibson, Bridgeport, Michigan. ..

HAMPSHIRE ' “

8784. runsnmns RECORDED. .:

1 the association fro Jan, 1 to Anal.) .
Did you ﬁrst one; oar pigs only for

any?! .1: W. nyder. St. Johns. lieu.
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. . onns'rnn wanna ,[ ..

REGISTERED . CHESTER ‘_WHIT
PIGS for sale at prices that will
you. Either sex. rite today.
0080M Levering, Mich. '

RABBITS

 

 

WALNUT ALLEY m mn- Gm
, . all sold. Keep

watch of 1919 crop sired by Arts Sena-

tor and Orange Price. I thank my cus-

tomers for their Ypatronage.

A. D. .GREGOR . .- Ionia, Mich.

Bull, calved Sept. 25, 1918. Write for
price, or call on Eldred‘A. Clark, R 3,
St. Louis, Michigan.

MICHIGAN CHAMPION HERD OF
P. C. orders booked for spring
E. R. Leonard. St. Louis. Mich.

L. S. P. C. BOARS ALL SOLD. HAVE
a few nice fall Gilts, bred for fall far-
row.———H. 0. Swartz, Schoolcraft, Mich.

EVERGREEN FARM BIG TYPE P. 0.
Bears all sold, nothing for sale now, but
will have some cracker jacks this fall.
Watch my ad. I want to thank my many
customers for their atronage and every
customer has bebn p eased with my hogs.
Enough said. C. E. Garnant, Eaton Rap-
ids, Mich,

 

 

 

Write that inquiry for L. T. P. C. serv-
iceable boars to Wm. J. Clarke. E310“
Rapids, Mich, instead (if Mason. I have
sold my farm and bought another. one
mile west and eight and one—half miles
south. Come and see me in my new home.
Free livery from town.
WM. J. CLARKE, .

R. No. 1, Eaton Rapids. Michigan

DUROC

REGISTERED ABERDEEN -ANGUS'

“Large Type Poland China Hogs—l

PEDIGREED nor-us man nmdifi
Hare bucks: Prices reasonable. Satin-
faction guaranteed. Hanley Bros, R. 8.
St. Louis. Mich. . ' ‘

’ . DOGS.

WRITE DR. W. A. EWALT, Mt. Cletu-
ens; Mich, for those beautiful Sable and

 

are from farm-trained stock; also a few
purebred Scotch Collie Puppies; sired by
“ alt’s Sir Hector,” Michigan Champion
cattle dog. ,

 

POUL'l‘RY .
4oo WHITE. LEGHORN ,

Yearling Pullets .
S. C. Leghorns with colony laying reeor
will be sold in lots of 6, 12, 25, 50 an,
loo—August delivery. ~
Fall Chicks for Spri g layers—White and
Brown Leghorns; arred Rocks.
Cockorels, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys.
Belgian Bares, New Zeelands, Hamill
Giants.

 

chicks. ,
BLOOMINGDALE FARMS ASSOCIATION
Bloomingdale, Mlch..

PLYMOUTH ROCKS

CHICKS—ROSE AND SINGLE-COME
Reds and Barred Plymouth Rocks, 25 for
$4.25; 100 for $16; July and August do.
livery. Circular free. Interlakes ..Far;n,
Box 4, Lawrence, Mich. . ‘ .'

 

 

 

MEADOWVIEW FARM. REGISTERED
Duroc Jersey Hogs. Spring pigs for sale;
also Jersey Bulls. J. E. Morris, Fanning-
ton, Michigan.

 

APRIL REGISTERED DUROC PIGS.
nice growthy bunch. Prices reasonable.
H, W. English, RED. 2, Rochester, Mich.

 

DUROO JERSEY SWINE. BRED
Bows and Gilts all sold. Nice bunch of
fall pigs, both sex, sired by Brookwater
Tippy Orion No. 55421, by Tippy 00]., out
of dam by the Principal 4th and Brook-
water Cherr Kin . Also herd, boar 3 yr.
1d. Write or no 1 no and prices. Sat-
isfaction guarantee . Thos. Underhill &

n, Salem, Mich. .

 

DUROO BOARS READY FOR SER-
vlce, also high class sows bred for sum-
mer farrowinfg to Orion's Fan? King, the'
biggest gig 0 his age ever at nternatlon-
al at tock Show, Newton Barnhart.
St. Johns, Mich.

 

DUROCS; BRED STOCK ALL SOLD.
Will have a limited number of yearling
glts bred for August farrow. Order early.

ewton & Blank, Hill Crest Farms, Per-
rinton, Mi’ch.

"TWO YOUNG BROOKWATER, DU -

 

 

00 Jersey Boars, ready for service. Al

 

   

stock shipped; express grepaid inspection
allowed. Fricke Dairy. 0. Address Fric-
ke Dairy Co.,' or Arthur W. Mumford.
Perrinton, Mich."

 

REGISTERED DUROC BOARS FR
prize-winning Golden Model family,
smooth type, adapted for mating with the
coarser—boned females for early maturing
pigs. Subject to immediate acceptance
and chan e without notice I will crate
and shi or 25c per (pound. Papers if de-
sired $ extra~ Sen 850. Will refund
difference or return entire remittance if
red???offeiisolsibcancelzlsg, b Pi s will
we rom s. to . l s. so B.
Smith, Addison, Mich. '

PEACH HILL FARM

REGISTERED DUROC JERSEY GILTS,
bred for fall farrow. Protection. and Col-
onel breedi Our prices are reasonable.
Write or bet or still, come and make your
own selections; Visitors welcome. In-
wood Bros" Romeo Mich.

T' . o. 1. o.
‘Sha'dowland Farm“

 

 

 

 

J enabler prices.

MUD-WAY-AUSH-KA FARM OFFERS
Hatching Eggs fro Parks bred-today
Barred Rocks and “ egal Dorcas" White
Wyandottes at $1.50 per 15; White Run.-
ner ducks, $1.50 per 11; White Chinese.
geese, 40c each. Orders ﬁlled in turn 8..
received, Order now. Dike C. Hillier.
Dryden, Mich. “ ,

 

Lnononn

BABY\CHICK Best Grade. Heavy

laying strains. White
Leghorns Slsvper hundred. Barred Rocks.
Reds, $17. Postpaid. Live arrival gear.
anteed. 25 or 50 at same rate. Triangle
Poultry 00.. Clinton, Mo.

 

 

30,000 FINE, HUSKY WHITE LIO-
'horn chicks of grand laying strain for
July delivery. Shipped safely everywhere
by mail. Price, $12.00 per 100: $0.50 for
50. Order direct. Prompt shipment. Full
satisfaction guaranteed. Free catalogue.
Holland Hatchery, Rv7, Holland, Mich.
For best-results ship your farm products to
LE DUFF LEOIIORNS—Wo
P £3?ng pens, of especially mated
Single Comb Buffs that are not only mat-
ed for exhibition but, above all, for prot-
itable egg production. E888 at V637 reac-

' Our list will interest.on .
Village

 

—-— ace ask for it.
Graig; Lake, Michigan.

WYANDO'I‘TE ’

GOLDEN AND afﬁxing:-
' d ttes; eggs from espec _ . ._
333;; cper 15; $5 per 30; 38 p 60., by
parcel post prepaid. Clarence rowning,
Portland, Mich, R 2

 

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CHICKS

011me all]! THOUSANDS. DI,-

rent varieties; Brown f
horns, “go hundred; booklet and :35-

1. Stamp appreciated. Fre
'ﬁgtgheiy, Bo: 10. Freeport. Mich. -

nucﬁmo}, EGGS ‘

MY BARBED P. ROCKS ARMS”! >

 

‘ 188'

winners extra layers. and yellow .
' s by express, $1.50 pet.

ﬁn} bbeaks. Egsg, $2 r 15. G. A. Bauxite

rcelpo ,
‘gardnyerwlﬂddleville, ich, R, 2.

FOR SALE—EGG! FOB EATON...
fro Barron Single Comb White. ,
horrgs; 300 eﬁgs strain 7-111. cock. 321--

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'TO' DEW?! AGRICULTURE IN

A station opened recentl! near
Grayling, in Crawford county. I: the
ﬁrst of a series of demonstration
tracts Which are to be established
throughout the counties of Nor-thorn
Michigan for the purpose of develop-
ing the ‘agricultural " possibilities of
the section. The work is being on —
ried out under the directidn o! D .
M. M. McCool, head of the soils section
of the experiment station it the Ag«
ricultural College, working in co-op-
eration with the northeastern Michi-
gan Development Association. .

The work will demonstrate the prop-
er agricultural practices for" the
“sand plains” of the northern part of
the state. Proper cultural methods;

the ‘most, successful forage and other.

crops for the medium sand lands; and
the fertilizer requirements for the
adapted crops are the phases of the
project which will be pushed.

Oscoda, Crawford, Roscommon. and
adjoining counties will be those reach-
ed ﬁrst by the demonstration work.

SHEEP ‘DECLINE SINCE 1914

Before the war the United States
had approximately one-tenth of all the
sheep in the world. Since then the
total‘number of sheep has decreased
from all Causes about one-tenth, pos-
sibly more. That makes the world de-
cline in excess of 50 millions of sheep,
or slightly greater, than the number
of sheep in the United States.

The Canadian Food Board places the
probable decrease in sheep in Europe
alone in excess of 54 millions. That is
considerably higher than other esti-
mates. but it is fairly safe to conclude
that at the time the armistice was
signed there were fewer sheep in the
world by many millions than when
Belgium was invaded. -

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day.

 

Any man or woman who has
the use of a conveyance can
make that amount right in
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
weekl that is the talk of all

Mic igan.

We want earnest. and above
all, honest men and women
who will devote all or part of
their time to this work, we

' can ake any arrangements
sati actory 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-
self, in conﬁdence, if you pre.
fer, and let us make you
deﬁnite and fair propositiom
to act as our agent in- your
locality during the next few
weeks or months. , .

Address, Circulation Manag.
er, Michigan Business Farm-
mg, Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

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“——I sure did get lots
of orders from ‘
your paper!”

Michigan Business Farming. .
x 'DeanSir: . , ﬂ 7
Please stop my ad.’ I can- '
not “fill "any more orders.
Bronze Turkey Eggs fer _
sale. . I sure did get'lots
._ of orders fromlvyour paper, .
@1151, ll .thank you—Mrs.
; ,. Walter Dill‘man, Dowagi-

‘y 0%,.1‘4191113943- ‘

  

 

   

_Livingston,‘ a member of the

. partment of Agriculture since 1903

(Ioniaconnmwhﬁe . ‘ West Mich,
. ‘lt‘tn consignment so not, registered

nia.

Beach had
$685. ' ,

Mr. Smith and Mr. Beach are
building up very tine high class herds
‘ of registered Holstein cattle which are
3 becoming more popular “year after
year With their high production of
- milk and butter. Mr. Smith's herd sire
Butter Boy Pontiac ,Alcartre, Duke. is
one of the best herd sires in this pant
of the country. His dam has a rec—
“$0032.26 pounds of butter and 662.6
pounds ,of milk, in seven days . and
110.33 pounds of butter and 2,680.6
pounds of milk in 80 days, and sold
for $1,200 at the Central Michigan con-
signment sale last February. She drew
better than $26 of national prize mon-
ey for milk and butter in 1917. '

He also has a full sister who has
just‘completed a 3-year-old record of
29.33 pounds of butter and 525 pounds
of milk inseven' days. His sire is a
son of King Segis Pontiac Alcartra,
the $50,000 bull and whose dam is also
a 32-pound cow with great ’individuab
ity.

Mr. Beach’s herd sire is a grandson
of the noted century milk sire Colan<
the. Johanna Lad which has 117
pounds of butter in seven days and 1,-
315 pounds of milk in one year and he
has 24 daughters above 30 pounds of
butter in seven days, and more daugh-
ters above 600 pounds of milk in seven
days than any other sire.

 

RABBIT RAISING HINTS

Rabbits do not do as well when per-
mitted to run on pasture as they do
when kept in neclosures, C. S. Gibson,
secretary of the National Breeders and
Fanciers' Association, writes to M. B.
F.

During the summer months it is
possible to have small portable hut-
ches, with one end containing a nest
box built a few inches 01! the ground
to protect them from dampness and
storms. The bottom of the hutches
could be made of one inch poultry
mesh, which would make a self clean-
er, and also permit them to eat the
grass through the wire. They should
have some grain, as thus the ﬂesh is
ﬂrmer and better for market.

It is possible to raise rabbits for the
‘market at a cost of 10 cents per pound
even though all the feed has to be .pur-
chased.
Our members in different parts of
the country have made experiments as
to the cost of production, and we ﬁnd
that 14; of a pound of grain and 1-16 of
a pound of hay will produce good meat
stock in the winter. During the sum-
mer we greatly reduce the cost by
feeding dandelions, carrot tops and
the tops of. nearly everything grown in .
the garden. We do not recommend
cabbage, as it is a very poor food.
Rabbits for the market should be

.. Hammers-Ms cattle held at'ConIr
stock Park. Grand“ Rapids, in which
there were ”58 head of very choice
high bred, animals sold. bought over
$17,000 accoéding to reports from Io-
In this sale Mr. Smith had four
head which brought $1,125 and Mr.
four ' head that brought

  
 
 

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A DITCH IN A HURRY

In these times of labor supremacy,
when everybody wants a “think" job
bossing somebody else, it is next to
impossible to employ ditch diggers and
any labor-saving method of. ditching
deserves serious consideration.

A description of the way the ditch
shown in the accompanying picture
was recently dug on the farm of F. M.
Gaines near Dothan, Alabama, should
prove of interest.

The ditch is 750 feet long and aver-
ages 7 feet wide and from 3 to 5 feet
deep according to grade. It was cut
‘ through a bay and gum swamp covered
with water and a great many logs lit_

 

 

dressed at 90 days or age, and weaned
at about ﬁve weeks of age. ‘

 

GRANGERS CHOOSE MICHIGAN
The National Grange of the United
States will hold its national convention
for 1919 in Grand Rapids during the 10
days succeeding November 16. .

This is one of the biggest ath
which Grand Rapids has evir hailing:
its calling list. Not less than 5000
visitors, representing 10,000 subordi-
notes grange in 33 states, will‘ be in
attendance. - ’

 

U. S. MARKET CHIEF QUITE

Charles J. Brand, chief of the Bur
can of Markets, U. S. Department of
Agriculture. since its inception in 1913
has resigned, to take eifect at the close
of business on June 30. He will be-
come vice-president and general man-
ager of a commercial concern, With
headquarters. at Pittsburgh, Pa. Geo.
bureau
staff, will be designated to act as chief
of the, bureau until Mr. Brand’s suc
cessor is appointed. ‘

-Mr_. Brand has been with the De-

and had charge of the forage crop
and. paper

 

 

 

 

tered the surface and were submerged

throughout its course. There were al-

so many cypress, pine, bay and gum

stumps, also many small saplings in

the line. None of the logs, stumps, or

small growth were removed by hand.

The ditch was blasted with forty per ‘
cent ammonia dynamite. Holes were
punched in the'earth 30 inches apart
and 21/2 to 41/2 feet deep depending up-
on desired grade. The shallow holes
were loaded with a halt” to threequnr-
ters of a pound of dynamite and the
deeper holes with from a pound to a
pound and half of the explosive. No
ptaming was necessary as water ﬁlled
the holes. An electric blasting cap
was inserted in, each charge and the
charges connected together in series
by means at the cap wires. As a No. 3
blasting machine was used to ﬁre the
charges, it was necessary to do the
work in thirty hole sections because
that is the capacitl of the blastng ma- I
chine used. . l
j The total 00st of the ditch including

labor was $105 or 30 cents Der lineal

yard. .

Mr. Gaines had been trying for some

time to secure laborers to dig the ditch

but failed for reasons well known, to

all who have been endeavoring recent-

1y to employ men for hard disagree-

 

 

able tasksz .

 

“ Good Low-Priced Farms

can be had in Vermont. The tide is
running back to the fertile, home-like
valleys of the Green Mountain State.

Right at the door of the great eastern .

markets, with productive farmlands at

surprlsmgly low cost, Vermont holds
big opportunities for industrious farmers.
Vermont's average yield per acre for nine
staple crops are nearly two and one-half
times the average return for the same crops
in the United States. Ver-
mont is among the leaders
in per—acre production or
corn, potatoes, wheat,
buckwheat, barley and
Area and popuA
o o n s i d e r e d .
Vermont is the ﬁrst
dairy state in the Union.
Learn about your big farm
opportunity by writing for
free book, “Vermont Farms
A for Sale"——published by the
; ' State of Vermont.

Harry A. Black, Secretary of state
Publicity Bureau, Montpelier. Vt. ’

     
   
  

 

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new discovery that re-
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noxious springs or pads.
Has automatic Air
Cushions. Binds and
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together as you would .1
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No lies. Durable. cheap.

 

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urc blanks mailed free. :3 ...l
ounce an address today.

 

Mr. POULTRY FARMERv

We make a Specialty, of White Hennery'
Eggs and have created a profitable mar- ‘

ket for-your eggs the year around. We
pay the highest premium for your Hen-
nery Whitest—We remit same day hip-
ments arrive, Snip Often. Ship by It's-press
GEO. R. ELDRIDGE (‘0.
494-18“: Street, Detroit, Mich
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from $600 to. $6000 catches fire from some one of the
many causes and aided by the many gallons of gasoline contained in its tank
becomes in a few minutes a charred mass of junk. ‘ I
One-half of the automobiles you see on the road are insured.

Last year, says the New York Journal of Commerce, uninsured ﬁre and the theft
losses to automobile owners in the United States amounted to

' Over $13,700,000.00 ] >

Will you run this risk when our big mutual company stands ready to insure your
automobile againist not only Fire, but Theftand Liability for $1 policy'cost and 25¢ per
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