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The only Independent Farmers Weekly owned and Edited 111 Michigan

 

 

 

 

Vol VI; No. 51

MT. CLEMENS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23

1919

 
 

OF. ONE YEAR
yrs 82; 6 s. 8

$11? (3

 

 

 

Part of a Panorama of the Calhoun County Demonstration, Marshall

hat the Tractor ShOws are Doing 1n Michigan

RACTORS, which are a strong arm of
machine farming, are jumping ahead by
leaps and bounds, both in the interest of busi-
ness. farmers and in actual production and
successful use. When 5, 000 people, mostly
farmers representing nearly all counties in the

‘ southern half of Michigan, turned out at the

big tractor demonstration near Marshall the ‘

other day, there was no doubt as to the inter-
est—of farmers in the new mechanical Wonders
of agriculture.

There are other tractor shows being held in
Michigan and nearby states Which exhibit the
same thing. Not only is there a great amount
of interest in tractor shows, but there also is a
Many

Old Dobbin for most of the plowing and try
cut a tractor of Some sort. So by actually see-
ing what the various makes of tractors can 'do
when competing in the same ﬁeld, the pros-
pective farmer- buyer can better decide the
kind he wants. One farmer may prefer speed;

_. another, :low costs; another, excellence of the
'maChi‘nery; another, smallness and ease of

handling; another, great bulk to cover the

largest amount of ground. Of course, these

haphazard desires may not be technical, but

'- they represent Some of the things buyer’s look

for and demand.

Now when a farmer sees a dozen tractors of
all shapes and sizes and prices and kinds run-
ning about on deﬁnite'parts of a ﬁeld with ac-
curate results tabulated and with the privi—
lege given to him of examining and having
special demonstrations made—why, he will be

j twice as likely_ to be satisﬁed as he would be
from studying Several catalogs.

Shows Bring Farmers Together
One of the ﬁnest things abOut these great
tractor demonstrations is the getting together
of farmers frOm all parts of the state. Natur-
ally many farmers will be present who have

Qt .

Here are Some of the Tractors which Showed Up Well B.

 

 

 

 

already had experience with tractors and
know them from A to Z. So there will be a
helpful exchange of ideas and suggestions. A
tractor show is a sort of experience meeting.
If one make of tractor is a ﬁzzle, farmers who

 

Some of this Issues’ Contents:

WHAT THE TRACTOR SHOWS ARE D0-
ING drives home a dollars and
cents lesson to many farmers, as
'shown by the demonstration in
Calhoun County . . ....... pages 1, 5

FARMERS AND THE PACKERS—are in
battle royal over the Kenyon Bill
to curb the packing combine . .page 3

GRANT SLOCUM, in his “Just Between
Ourselves," rips open the food
. question.

AGRICULTURAL DIGEST tells what bus-
iness farmers in many parts of
Michigan are doing . . . . . . . . page 2

News of the State Fair, editorials, letters
from readers, service bureau, depart-
ments for women and children read-
ers and other valuable material round
out an issue you can’t well afford to
miss.

 

 

 

have used them have the frankness to say so;
and they have no incentive as a rule, to praise
machinery unless it is tried and true. Just
getting together to rub elbows with one an-
other is one of the things farmers want to
crystallize their views on public and business
matters. It has always been hard for many
farmers to get together in one place so that
they can get really acquainted, due to the way
the farms are spread out. But the coming
universal use of the auto, rapid railways and
so on, is eliminating space, and business farm-
ers can. turn out at least 5,000 strong to just
one of the tractor shows.

 

ere 5,000 Farmer Spectators.

August 8th.

Monroe county is. another center which held
a tractor show during the same week that the
Calhoun affair appeared. Other counties have
been holding similar demonstrations and many
more are taking shape. The expressions by
many business farmers who attended one or
more of these shows should prove to all the
value of breaking away from the hard farm

duties once in awhile to attend one of these

manifestations. The tractor industry is still
an infant. There are still fewer tractors in
all the nation, we are told than there are farms
in our own state. With more than 30,000,000
farmers in the United States alone the poten-.
tial ﬁeld of the tractor is enormous. The busi-
ness started just a few years ago, and already
there are scores of great tractor plants boom-
ing up the industry which is expected to be a
great factor in making farming a really pay—
ing business.

Little Giants Compete

The throng wliich came out near Marshall
several days ago saw what is declared to be
the largest tractor demonstration ever held in
Michigan. Tractors still are a curiosity to
many farmers, and they eagerly watched the
little giants plowing up the big ﬁeld, each ma-
chine doing the work of several horses. The
demonstration was simultaneous with the an-
nual farm bureau picnic, which aided in the
drawing of the big crowd.

Paul C. J amleson, county agricultural ag-
ent for Calhoun county, was responsible for
most of the great success of the event. He had
arranged for plenty of publicity throughout
the lower part of the state, co-operating with
farm organizations. And once that the crowd
was present, the agent had seen to it that none
would be disappointed. About a score of
tractor companies accepted the invitations to
be on hand with machines and demor'lstrators.

The event was given pep in the nature of a
contest to prove the (Continued on page. 5)_

 

 

 

 


 

  

 

 

  

STATE FAIR PREPARES .

‘- -3 FOR MAMMOTH UROWDS
Record crowds, totaling consider-
‘ably more than half a million per-

‘ Pious, are expected by the Michigan

State Fair to be held August 29 to
September 7, at Detroit. Farmers
4have been showing great interest in
’ placing exhibits.

. The Michigan exposition has just
secured a sweeping victory through
G. W. Dickinson, secretary-manager

“of the State Fair, as the moving
spirit Of the committee of the Inter-

national Association of Fairs and Ex-‘

positions. Through this work the
government railroad administration
has broadened largely its ruling of

the railroad return free privilege for ‘

fairs. The administration also has
yielded to the ﬁght which has been
conducted for several years,.and-i-t
has announced that the railroads
wbuld give a one and a third fare to
all passengers to county and state
fairs.

Prior to 1915 the railroad return-
ed free, exhibits to fairs when the
ownership had not been changed.
During that year the privilege was
taken away and full rates were lev-
ied up to last year, when Mr. Dick-
inson succeeded in having the return
free privilege reinstated. However,
the new reduced rate for exhibits, as
now granted by the Railroad Admin-
istration goes farther than anything
ever before obtained.

Under the old return free privi-
lege an exhibitor making a circuit
of a number of fairs was allowed to
return free only from the last fair in
the circuit to the original starting
point. The concession obtained by
Mr. Dickinson and other members of
the committee this year is such that
the exhibitor pays only half the fare
when making the circuit or visiting
a single fair. Horses were not in-
cluded under the ruling of last year;

Practically every feature of the
Michigan State Fair has been en-
larged and improved this year. Free
exhibitions especially will be more
numerous and the management will
enter more to the farmers, who are
really the sum and substance of any
fair. a.

 

Monroe Elevator Stops Buying

Monroe farmers and farmers in
neighboring counties are left with this
year's grain crop on their hands, un-
less they can find a new market he-
sides the chain of Amendt mills
which have refused to purchase any
more until the present price agita-
tions have quieted down, according to
reports from Monroe. Geo. A. Amendt
of the Amendt Milling 00., with mills
in Monroe, Ida, Petersburg, Ypsilan-
ti, Norvel, Trenton and Delta (Ohio),
made the startling statement that he
would not accept any more grain un-
til the present lower price agitation
settled and until freight cars become
more available.

Under the existing conditions it is
the only safe course we can pursue,
said Mr. Amendt in connection with
making the anoucement that the
Amendt mills would receive no more
grain. He further stated that it was
almost impossible for mills-rs to do
business nowdays, citing such rea-
sons as shortage of cars and permits
being necessary before shipments of
grain can be made.

 

(haul-c Man Buys Oakley Elevator

The elevator at Oakley, formerly
owned by G. W. Detwiler of Detroit,
formerly of Owosso, has been sold to
a Mr. Dean, of Cadillac, who has tak-
en possession. Mr. Detwiler owned
elevators at Oakley and Henderson
for about 40 years. This deal dis-
poses of all of his holdings in that
vicinity.

Dona Farmers Hold Round-Up
. Delta County farmer, in the North-

ern Peninsula, to the number of about '

two dozen, made arrangements to at-
, ‘ tend a novel farmer get-together
known as the Farmers:
‘ _ the Upper Peninsula Eminent Ste-
_ ﬂea, Cbatham, August 14. The pro-
“ gram included a land clearing demon-
stration to show the most economical
method of clearing cut-over lands.

  

 

section of the state poured down what
was as good as geld dollars to‘ many
farmers in Michigan during the last
twn weeks. A few sections may have
had a little too much, and the forest
ﬁre regions need millions of tons of
rain. But many crops thought lost
have been saved. Calhoun county is

one of the chief centers of farming.

which is congratulating itself.

P. C. Jamieson, county agent of
Calhoun, as that it rained a mil-
lion dollars worth just for the Cal-
houn farmers alone. He also stated:

“It would be difﬁcult to estimate
the real value the rains have been to
the garden stall? and the late corn. We
raise a great deal of the late corn in
Calhoun county and this season with-

b

Rain Pours Down Golden Dollars en F arms! in Michigan

Rain, rain, rain—over nearly every

 

out the rains made it look as though
the crop was going to be a failure.
“But I believe now thatthe down-

.pour will mean thesalvation of the

late corn crop. The early corn was
hard‘hit by the dry weather. The
clover and alfalfaseeding and‘rye and
wheat also suffered from the drought.
A great deal of it was burned up but
these rains may prove a saving on
some of the seeding.

“It will also be of help to the late
potatoes. While we do not raise
many potatoes in this county there
is enough that we do not like to lose
them through dry. hot weather. The
early potatoes did not amount to
much. There is a probability the late
potatoes will turn out fairly good af-.

’~ter this rain which has reached every

part of the county. "

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Here is the opinion of the Detroit News on one int/resting phased the
coming Governorship race. The News manifestly honors the integrity of
Herbert Baker. often suggested as the Farmer Candidate. above that of cer-
tain men who have climbed into power, leaving a strong suspicion of pre-

datory wealth in their wake.

University Aids Better Roads

,Better highway work was given a
boost at the last meeting of the reg-
ents of the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor, when they created the
chair of highway engineering, to be
headed by Prof. A. H. Blanchard, for-
merly of Brown and Columbia uni-
versities. He is considered a great
expert and the appointment is said to
be the most important effected by the
regents for some time. John H. Bate-
man, an engineer with the Michigan
State Highway Commission. has been
appointed as an assistant in the work.
The highway laboratory will be ex-
panded, new equipment will be add-
ed, and all testing of asphalt, oils,
tars, stone. gravel, brick, cement and

other road materials for the state

highway department and cities and
villages not provided with their own
laboratories will be done free of
charge.

 

Highland Park Bounds W

As an anti higheost-of—livtng meas-
ure, Highland Park city council vot-
ed to establish a temporary public
market to enable grocers to get fresh
vegetables without being tamed to
travel ﬁve miles to downtoWn Detroit

markets. Denier 8; Dealer, 0. High-v

 

land Park real estate company, in a
letter to the council, donated to the
city the use of a half-block site on
Woodward avenue, between Beresford
and Grand avenues, for the establish-
ment of the market.‘l‘he offer was ac-
cepted, and the superintendent of pub-
lic works will be instructed to begin
work of grading the site immediately.
At the council meeting it was said
that many Oakland county farmers
go through Highland“ Park on their
way to Detroit markets with produce,
because Highland Park has no facili-
ties for handling their wares.

 

Armada Boys to Judge Stock

The. Armada Duroc Breeding Asso- ’

relation held a special meeting recent-
ly at the home of John Corbin. Mr. H.
V. Kittie, the county agent. was pres-
ent. The when of the local club

amen- hter. atdp
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lineman-11,, thwbcrethebcyuwm
demonstrate lutheartofiudging The ..

state leader will arrive in about two
weekstopauupontheirwork. Any
boybetwmtbew ofunandetght-

teen years may enter the club and be-_

gin the work at once.

 

ms mime Fonns'rs
‘ ' IN NORTHERN Stream

Both the northern part of the low-r

er Peninsula and especially the north-
ern Peninsula hare been suffering ter—

rible forest ﬁres. Chippewa county is
one of the chief sufferers this year ‘

from Demon Fire, Sault Ste. Marie
be practically shut oil from the
wo d, and the splendid lock system
being closed to trafﬁc.

The worst tie-up of business ever

experienced in the straits as a result
of forest ﬁres has occurred. The city
has had practically no wire cominuni-
cation and not a boat passed through
the locks. Many vessels anchored in
the river because of dense smoke
hanging over the section. Three

large freighter-s are reported ground- .

ed in the river.

Lighter Reliance released the
steamer. A. T. Kinney which went a-
ground near Detour in the smoke and
fog. The Kinney is reported leaking
but mainland no serious damage. .

Telegraph and telephone wires were
cut as ﬁne swept along the trachnear
Soc Junction, but the Trout lake ser-
vice was partially restored. No vil-

lages are‘ reported in danger, although ‘

800 Junction was menaced for a
time when one house was reported
burned.

Forest ﬁres have been at a [all \for
two weeks but again assumed threat-
ening proportions in several locall-
ties.

Bad ﬁres are reported
nadian shores of Lake Superior.

 

City G. O. R's Want {lineup Milk

Milo D. Campbell, of, Goldwater,
Branch county. in his recent defense
of iii-cent milk in the Detroit area. so

that farmers could get at least cost '

of production, brought down the
wrath of the Detroit Republican Club,
which sent him a httnr promising
war to the knife on milk pmﬁieerlng.
The club assures Mr. Campbell that
the fact he is a Republican will not
shield him from their wraith, says a
Detroit paper. They say they will in-

sist on a grand jury investigation by ,.

state authorities. That's the very
thing that’s needed, say farm leaders,

, a thorough airing of the milk situa-

tion so that city folks can see how
most farmers have been producing
milk at a dead loss recently. Then
maybe the farmers can get a fairer
price. ,

 

Farm Bureau Finances Discussed

Financing schemes for providing
for the Michigan State Farm Bureau
were discussed at a recent meeting of
the executive bureau in Grand Raps
ids. A membership fee of $5 was con-
sidered. Recommendations included
having the state board of agriculture
provide an ofﬁce or building with
stenographic service for county ag-
en-ts, leaders and assistants, the ad-
visability of the state bureau helping
the statewide membership campaign
for county bureaus a new system of
ﬁnancing state and national organi-
zations and individual memberships
in the state bureau.

 

Kent Men Buy Plainwell m1]

J. F. Eesley, who has been engaged
in the milling business in Plalnwell
for the past thirty. years, has sold his
entire business, including flour and
buckwheat mills, to Messrs. Hansen
and Warner of Grand Rapids, who are
now in charge. When Mr. Eesley
came to Plainwell he had but 50 cents
in his pocket but by had work and
close application to business and hon-
est dealing he has built up a splendid
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‘ Eederal Trade ‘Conimlssion into
.» the activities at the "Bic Five”
we has led to the introduction
. chill in Congress Known as the
com bill, Which proposes: to li-
' the Do-

ce‘nnﬂe'tle packers and give
. ., ‘01 , Agriculture
9' brood-powers: over them. The facts
disclosed by the investigation have

  

wary toga mar them again. The

conclusions that are well-justiﬁed by

the, testimony of the packers their

calves. 'are that the pnactfces of the

packers tend to restrain trade. in-

‘ . . " 5 crease. the cost of living. and consti-

" ~ tub in effect a virtual control of the

'1"- nocaess-aries of life. That such a man--

* opoly as exercised by the packers is

- a menace to. the people, if not to the

. , ,_ very government, seems to be the

opinion of many. They ’ disagree

‘ ' "however, as to thesteps that should
be taken to curb this monopoly.

Such of the farm organizations as

have studied the Kenyon bill. thru

, ' . their representatives at Washington,

‘ #- seemto be generally in favor of the

' ' bill. The Farmers’ National Council,

, ‘ which claims to representthe larg-

est groups. of organized farmers in

‘ the United States, is particularly

strong for the bill. Its spokesman,

‘ Mr. Benjamin Marsh, has contributed

a "numberof articles upon the dis—

‘ closures of the Federal Trade Com-

' mission, and has urged the immedi-

" ate adoption of legislation that will

make it impossible for all time for

large corporate interests to secure

virtual monoply of the things that

are necessary to the welfare of the

' ' . nation. Swift & 00., one of the “Big

. V Five," takes exceptions to Mr.

" ' Marsh’s statements and has asked

" us to publish the following letter in

rebuttal thereof:

 

' July 11, 1919.
The Editor, “Business Farming,”

Mt. Clemens, Michigan.
Dear Sir:

"Mr. Marsh appears to be securing wide
publicity for his syndicated articles and
we notice that Business Farming" in
‘ its June 7th issue has lent its columns to
this. destructive propaganda.

..‘ .- I “Mr. .Marsh apparently has become a

publicity agent of the Federal Trade Com-
mission for all of his articles merely re-
peat the charges in the original report of
the Commission. ‘That Mr. Marsh has
given close study to this report is evidenc-
’. ed by the fact that he has adopted Mr.
" - Honey's methods and style. All of his

alticlen are filled 'with unwarranted in—
‘ sinuxtiong. and misrepresentations of
facts designed to place the packers in

the vast possible light.

“The following two quotations
fm’ his article show an inclination to
draw" unwarranted conclusions and to
warp innocent statements Any fair.
minded reader will draw his own con-

,- . clusions . The quotations follow— the
. '. ' italics being inserted by ourselves:

C" . ’ (I) “The packers have made every ef-
' " ‘ (on to swing in live stock producers so
,. _, , that they would Join hands with the
‘\ makers in mulcting the public On Sep-
' tember 8th 1916, Mr Arth-r Tl \Vhite
publicity agent for Swift & Company,
wrote to some of .the packers: ‘It seems
that most of our trouble in the past year
or so has come through misunderstanding
by stock raisers and feeders of the pack-
ers’ economic position, and it is deemed
expedient that a. campaign of education
with paid advertising be directed partic-
ularly toward this class of public.’ ”
"The above recommendation was based
.- on the fact that a great amount of preju-
dice has been built up against the packers
during the last ten years and they felt
that in order to get the facts regarding
the'buslnese before the public it was
necessary to use paid advertising space,
to tell the story. An honest effort of this
kind should not be criticised or any sin—
ister motive read into the recommenda-
. t on.
' (2) “Mn. Butler’s other statement,—
‘If a small part of what the Commission
says about the packers be true, the De-
. partment of Justice ought to be im-
J, ' poached from the attorney—general down'
‘5 -; L—‘s'hows that the packers themselves feel
- they no guilty ' “ *”
“It is a discouraging task at best to
,. attempt to get together with producers
/ and/consumers and solve mutual prob—
lems. But the task seems at times al-
mo t hopeless when magazines/[land news.
papers lend their columns to the publi-
cation of such obviously unwarranted
charges and destructive propaganda as
this article. -' p
,3 “M1919 Marsh’s article is filled with gen-
allzations and broad charges entirely
1.!" "-ed by evidence and absolutely
' ' - the ﬁe’stimony of experts. For
says—“A study of

 

 

   

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’ssion rec0gnizes. the

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is placed upon Mr.'Ar-

 
 

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poses to Put Big Manopoly Under.
Wing of Dep’t of Agriculture

house without heavy overhead expenses.
transportation charges, etc., can operate
in a mall local territory at less cost than
can the large packing house conducting
a national and even international busi-
ness. The point is that small local pack-
ing houses could not begin to serve all
sections of this country, and the big
packers are needed to supply dressed
meats in congested centers of population
for from stock raising sections. The big
packers arc’ performing a. specialized serh
vice which the small packers cannot meet.
Both and small units are essential
said each ﬂlls an economic need.

“Mr. Marsh criticises the amount of
money spent for advertising by the pack-
ers. he a matter of fact the total amount
spent by SWift & Company last year for
both commodity and institutional adver-
tising averaged about l-lSth‘of one cent
on each dollar of sales, which is probably
a far smaller ratio than any business do-
ing national advertising. It is entirely
too small to affect prices in the slightest.
The public in general welcomes .the evi-
dent desire of Swift lit-Company and oth-
er Iarge corporations to explain their
business methods and policies.

“Mr. Marsh charges that although the
packers claim that part of their efﬁciency
is due to their ownership of stock yards.
they have not established any stock yards
independently, but they have forced the
owners to sell their yards to them. Par-
enthetically it may be remarked that this
use of the word ‘forced’ is a good example
of his attempts to lead the reader. to un-
warranted conclusions. .

“It is perhaps true that, with one or
two possible exceptions, the packers have
not established the original yards at any
of the principal points. These livestock
markets developed naturally as the result
of their stragetic location, and when the
packers established their plants some sort
of yard facilities had aheady been pro-
vided. Usually these- facilities proved in-
adequate for large-scale marketing and
the packers helped to provide modern
yards which would permit future devel~
opment of thebusiness. 'Absolutely no
pressure was brought to bear upon the
owners. .

Several paragraphs of this article are
devoted to the testimony of Mr. Wm. F.
Bode regarding the special railroad ser-
vices and transportation privileges en-
joyed by the packers. Space does not
permit a. detailed reply to all of these
more or less technical points. Sufﬁce it
to say that the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission was appointed to correct just such
cases of alleged unfair discrimination.
The wholesale grocers are at liberty to
present their case to the Commission at
any time with the full assurance that all
interests will be given a fair hearing. It
would seem that charges of unfair prac-
tices of this nature should be tried before
the Interstate Commerce Commission
rather than in the columns of agricultur—

 

“May we quote once more from Mr.
Marsh’s article,—‘The labor. leader. who
organized the employees in the Chicago
stock yards and elsewhere two years ago.
stated to the writer that if all the direct-
ors and managers of the packing plants
above the superintendents dropped out, the
business could go on just as well, pro-
viding it was ﬁnanced.’ Mr: Marsh is
apparently impressed with the principles
of socialism and communism. Perhaps
the readers of ‘Business Farming would
do well to study. Mr. Marsh’s article with
this thought clearly in mind.

"It is obviously impossible to answer
in detail in this letter all of the points
brought up by Mr. Marsh, They are
merely extracts from the original report
of the Federal Trade Commission, and
have been answered fully by Swift &
Company in pamphlet form. Copies of
our analysis will be sent to any of your
Beaders who will write to our Chicago od-

ce. ,

“We give the editors of ‘Business Farm-
ing’ credit for being sinCere in their de-
sire to give their readers the truth con-
cerning all important national questions.
In the interest of fairness we believe that
the“ readers of ‘Business Farming’ will

. wish to know the facts on the other side

of the case.
Very truly yours,
“SWIFT & COMPANY,”
Per L. D. H. Weld, Manager Commer-
cial Research Department. ,

Would Business Suffer?

The claim has been made that
congress would establish a precedent
dangerous to other legitimate busi-
ness enterprises should it put such
a control about the packers as pro-
posed in the Kenyon bill. The argu—
ment is that capital would hesitate
to engage in large business enter-
prises lest in the course of time they
be construed in the light of monopo-
lies and placed under governmental
handicaps. The answer to this is
that the packers have been proven
a monopoly, guilty of many unmoral
if not-illegal practices. They have
had a fair hearing. They have been
given every opportunity to show that
their business was not a menace to
other competitive enterprises or to
the public at “large. But they have
failed to produce the evidence, and
having so failed they stand convicted
in the court of public opinion which
says that in the interests of the
many a curb must be placed upon
their activities. And any combina—
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G. E. Eaton, of Lansing, is explaining to a. good Calhoun (Bounty business
farmer, why the Bates “SteeLMnlc” basal! the “kick” when it comes to power, but

none from its owners.
for this popular tractor.

Of course he is prejudiced being the successful state agent

. Tractor Sales in the United'States

To determine the allotment of
steel to be made to manufacturers
of tractors for the. year 1919, the
War Industries Board of the United
States Government made a thorough
investigation of the output and sale
of a tractor concerns from Janu-
arya 916. to December, 1918. in-
elusive. The ﬁgures arrived at by

that investigation are given you be-
low—and these ﬁgures are on tract-
ors made and sold in the

United
States and do not include tractors

 

Tractors Made, Sold and on Hand

1916 .(made and sold) ......... 27,819
1917 (made and sold) .......... 49,504
1918 (made and sold) .......... 85,866
1918 (on hand Aug. lst) ...... 11,388

Total ....................... 174,577

All available data. including gov-
ernment reports and reports and es-
timates from many leading tractor
manufacturers, was used in the com-
pilation of the above analysis of
tractorsales and, it is generally
agreed that it is as nearly accurate
as it is possible to secure at this
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hold upon the necessities of life that .
it may control the prices at‘will must ..
be similarly controlled. .
In a letter to "Business Farming”
Rep. Ranger, who is chairman, of the
Agricultural committee, before which
the Kenyon bill is now pending, adv
mite the need of remedial legislation,
but is not sure that the Kenyon bill
is the proper thing. He says:
“Attention should be given to the pack-
ers’ trust. The Federal Trade Commis-
sion’s‘report clearly indicates its practice
and open violation of existing laws. As
to What can be done or just what should
be done in the matter there are divers
opinions. In view of our recent experi—
ence I seriously doubt the advisibility of
continuing government control under the
license system as has been done recently.
“For instance, railroads were taken
over and controlled by the federal gov-
ernment. As a result hundreds of millions .

  
     
    
          
     
     
 
    
    
 
  
 
  
  
   
 
  
   
    
   
 
   
  
  
   
   
    
   
 
   
  
  
   
    
   
   
   
  
     
      
   
      
  
   
    
   
   
      
   
    
 
 
 
  
   
  
   
    
 
  
   
  
   
  
 
  
   
   
   
 
 
  
 
    
   
    
   
   

excess of a fair compensation, and a
billion dollars of additional transports,
tion charges have been added annually
to the burdens of the American people,
an amounheqlual to the annual expendi-
tures of the federal government prior to
the recent war.

“The report of the Federal Trade Com-
mission regarding proﬂteen’ng, June 29,
1918, reports the excess proﬁt of four
meat packers in the three years of 1915,
1916 and 1917 to be $121,000.000 over
their pro-war proﬁts, and points out that
they are soon to come under further gov-
ernmental regulations approved by exec-
utive order_ ,

“That government report clearly indi-
cates two things: ﬁrst that they are open-
ly and persistently violating the law of
our country; second, that under govern-
ment regulation they are exacting more
proﬁts than ever.

“Attorneys having the matter in charge
tell me that by proper and vigorous pros-
ecutions our anti—trust law-s can be en—
forced and that its violators, including
the packers, can be made to pay the pen-
alty, If our laWS are inadequate, they
should be strengthened. Instead of lax
proceeding, acquitting and abating ﬁnes,
it seems to me that what should be done
in the matter is to prosecute, to enforce
penalties and the collection of ﬁnes—40»
enforce the law instead of licensing them,
thus making it possible for them to do
the things condemned.”

 

The National Marketing Commit-
tee advises us that it is receiving a
great many requests for copies of
Part 1 of the Report of the Federal"
Trade Commission on the Control of
the Meat Packing Industry. The Na-
tional Marketing Committee has no
way of securing this book in large
quantities except by paying for them,
and it advises all who desire a copy
td write to their United States Sen-
ator 07' Congressman at once, as oth-
erwtsc, owing to the large demand
for this exhaustive investigation of
the packer food monopoly they may

wand fthat all copies have been dispos-
(’ . 0 .

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FRENCH FARMERS ASK It-EFOR‘R

Four existing organizations of-
farm laborers have federated under
the name of the Federated Land Un—
ion and joined the General Labor
Confederation. They have asked for
an 8-hour day. but it is recognized
that this would present many dirli—
culties, owing to the varied require-
ments of the different seasons.

The alternatives are therefore of—
fered of an 8—hour day, a 48—hour.
week or a 2,400~hour year, always
on the condition that no day even in ’ ' I
harvest time shall exceed 10 hours.

For administrative purposes
France will be divided by the farm
unions into districts forming agri-
cultural units.

Questions of detail such as the
distribution of the hours throughout
the week to give the laborers a (lay
of rest, or, if possible ,a day and a
half, are to be left to the regional
councils composed of representatives
of the laborers and employers, pro-
viding always that the arrangements
do not conflict with the existing re-
gional, national or international la-—~
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RAJN HARMS POLISH CROPS

From reliable Polish and Ameri-
can sources we have received reports
indicating that the excessive rain- -'
fall in June and July in various parts; '
of Poland caused serious damage to
the crops, thus complicating. the
food] situation. This situation al-
ready was serious because large;’
tracts of land were not cultivated;
during the war and which wererolJ'
shevik refugee areas. The return of ‘
thousands of helpless peoples " to i
these regions draws heavily on the 7
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FOR THREE WEEKS I have been earan
"aly, striving to get an insight into the food

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situation as aﬂecting the""great consuming cen-

’ ters of the East—and again I have gone round

Ordinari-

ly. but little wheat is grown in the East; aui
yet, stimulated by the government guarantee

'» -_.the acreage last fall was doubled. . I drove for
, several days“ through ~~West Virgima, Maryland
, Pennsylvania, New. Jersey and New York, and

saw thousands~ of acres of wheat in the ﬁelus,

the shocks tuﬂed-with :the green of the growing
grain-f—a’total‘lossI ‘The result of an" unusual

Ihihielliand'no help to get the grain from the
shpckito thebarn or stack. “One man and a
team can .cutthe wheat, but to draw and “place

in"the stack~or barn, we must have help, so. we .

visited to thresh in the ﬁelds, and there you
are,” was the reply of the farmer .as he point-_
ed toward the ﬁelds of blackened shocks, now
tuﬂed with green.

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Eastern Farmers Out of Luck

This complaint is heard everywhere. Right
here, in the very center of the consuming pop-
ulation of the United States, there Will be
found ten idle acres, for every untilled acre in
the middle west. Oats are an utter failure——
late spring and no help to rush them in. Corn,
the best-looking crop, and yet but little more

, than knee-high, and liable not to mature. Late

for want of help, weak for want of care. Pota-
toes, fair and selling at round a dollar per bu.
for the farmer—not enough to pay the cost of
production. Vegetables offered for sale at the
roadside by farmers; prices low; but the mo—
ment you ask prices at city retail stands, the
“high cost of living” shows its horns. No more
do you see cattle grazing upon a “thousand
hillsiz‘” Dairy herds are as scarce as hen’s
teeth all through the East. " Ask the reason for
this condition, and again comes the reply———
“no money in the business—help scarce, feed
high; we can’t get the cost of productiOn let

alone a proﬁt. ’ ’
IK‘ it 1% III

Wilson Out After ’Em

The other day President Wilson stated that
he was going after the “high cost of living,”
and Congress will be asked to enact a law en-
abling him to remedy conditions, as soon as he
locates the real cause of the highhpriee of all
food products. After‘weeksof wrangling Con:
gress has ﬁnally approved plans-for selling the
surplus feed products purchased for the army

and navy,.and eastern papers are ﬁlled with

artiCles which recount the wonderful saving to
consumers through/this plan of distribution
which is to be made by the postofﬁce depart-
ment. All food products secured by the gov-'
ernment Were purchased at war-time prices
through speculators and if sold at cost, would,
no doubt, require a price above current quota-
tiOns. But great is Uncle Sam; if he can ap-
pease his clamoring cousins by the taking and
giving process—let it be done as a temporary
expedient, while we patiently await the decis—
ion of the “Wise—men” who are to come out
of the East, and tell us why farmers will not
continue to produce food products at less than
cost of production.

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Rome fled the Same Trouble

'In the long ago, Ro'meh'ad a Wenderful ex-
perience, and sometimes I have been foolish

' enough to think that we, of this age, should

proﬁt by therise and fall of that mightyw'na-
Wonderful progress wasmade in agri-
culture during the earlier years of Roman his—

! . ~"jtorY- ,‘And then‘came the era of commerCe;'

he time when barter and trade offered the

"greatest inducements for "men"of initiative, in-
net-"r3r and ability; In the course of tithe-great 1~
’ at population ‘grew and thrived," [and
.dﬁewrthe‘ perm—the presume-like.

the ﬁe. ..Af*generation'rpaelse:d; and;

   
 
      

    

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. \Vhile bearing his heavy burden of high

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investigate? 2 "'SO“;'5'the;_/wise , guys next/[to f the
thronegot busy and after many weary years,
came to the cOncl'usion- that'the reason. why the

cost of living was sO‘high,‘Was because the cost,

of living was high-Tithe, farmers had" left the
farms and had 10cated inthe cities.
, 03*”0‘0 ,
. ems Nibs" GotBasy .
.“Weu, well." said .his.-“:‘:’Nibs:‘-”' “this will
never do ; . the! farmers must remain upon the
farms.” . “W-a-l,” said-the wisegmen, “to.

ed farmers; then'they Will‘be happy and'c‘on-
tented to toil on.” And Roman history records

that his “Nibs” was true-to. his word, and all
these things were done for the farmers. But

the community gathering” places fell into dis-
use; the learned men failed to show the farmer

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The farmer in solving the food problem is
making a steep climb on the hill of production.
costs
many forces ﬁght him and hold him back. .

how he could make farming pay; so long as the
cost of production was ignored and countless
thousands of human parasites were carried on
his back. And the young men continued to
leave the farms and become city dwellers.
. a 1, I: ' 0 ‘ '
Kultur Used on Farmers _

And those “who toiled not, neither did they
spin”—for there were such even in those days
—-again held counsel. “The farmers are unap-
preciative; they want the earth; look what we
have done for them and still they will not re-
main upon the farms.
they 3 “a law shall be passed that no person
born on a farm shall leave that farm, and
enough able-bodied men shall be taken from
the cities and placed upon the farms,'so there
shall net be an idle acre”—~a head in the bas-
ket—~the reasonable penalty. And so the high
cost of living was solved—4but through the so-
lution of this little problem, Rome, the might-
ieSt of all nations, brought about its own dis—
solution: Farmers, peasants; ' serfs—classes,
clashes, self-,destroyed—Roman progr\e8s pois—

ed for a few generations on the brink, then ~

tumbled into seething caldron she had so pains‘
takingly prepared. _ . . .
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higherélips” said:~"."‘ We Will ‘

from which to" start ,.
' the president, or» "tof-
knowstha actual cost

-ducins.~.._ood preﬁuets; .-that'~.mo ._ j.
7 in"'a1*’1’°3~‘ﬂ°n ‘0 ilmte'the robber, pro

This will we do,” said.

one rof the most dangerons pastimes we-lknoy
. . I, Spot - ’ . , " "
" ' Over in the Departrneiit “of Agriculture'at ' ’
' ‘ “"th could,»
gerdﬁolvmg'
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to <16} with the " "'
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have: the. “ﬁrst .cost ﬁns ‘13"-

erf'jhas nothing man ,_ .
No other manufacture e’

vkeeputhe farmers on the farms, you mnst<make « investigation 01 1113 manufacturl
”farm-life more ,j attractive.:’ ’ ' “Good,” ‘sai'di'liis
. ‘fNibs,’"we ,Wﬂl .‘bllﬂd community? 11911338. We
will have bull ' ﬁghts, _ ,mnsic - and dancing, sea
learned men to tell them show. to farm; xwewill ~
take the city bright lights out tothe’se benight-

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' It’s an age-Old problem, "and. yet we dealawim —
ﬁxed and unalterable principles, 38...,01'd ”the
problem- we seek to solveuMen will befattraet-
ed to that place, position or occupationwhieh _
oﬁers the greatest pecuniary ‘reWard-é'aﬂgli
things considered, Men. engage in famin§:;for{ j ,-

 

proﬁt, a livelihood. Farmers appreciate our?

door life, the glories of nature, andall those;
things ;'but these do not fully compensate them .i 75
- for raising food products to be sold at less than ' : 7
the cost of production. Many things need adﬁ ‘ '
justing; proﬁteering and gambling. must- be
eliminated; but ﬁrst and foremost in the 80111-' '
tion of any and every problem‘or question 113— .‘ --

lating to ﬁnal prices, is to determine, as near as
human agencies will permit, the “cost of pro-s

duction.” But meanwhile ”King David”sits
in his. spacious ofﬁces in the department of’a'ge-ff‘

riculture, contentedly ‘ ‘ﬁddling. ’ "
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The Prince of Wales is going to Visit ”us—.- ._-I
,he is scheduled to spend some time with thy

nabobs of the East, after a tour through Can-5'
ada. Ruler by divine right—not by a darn

and prince stuif?
Uncle Bill of Berlin? .

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‘ sight. Isn’t it about time to cut out, this king! ,
,What’s the matter With"' ‘

of pairs of shoes, tons of“, clothing; millions of

sox. and tram loads of blankets on hand. Have
you heard any great demand for the saleand

distribution of these necessities at "cost? One; I

would judge from the commotion that all ‘peo- ,v

ple needed these _ days was farm products.
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There ~'ought to be 'a law against 1 tire », b16653
One blew out in an eastern city' a few
.The.,.

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outs.
days ago and nearly started a panic. -.
crowd thought it was a Bolshevik. bomb. They.

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must have been reading'the newspapers. f . ,.

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Fifty cents buys you a license that Will per-'2 5,

mit you to drive an automobile; 365 days, out of
the year, providing youare sober; You have
to purchase your own gasoline, however. '

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A writer in the Saturday Evening Post says

folks used to be opposed to railroads 'on the;
ground that the trains would scare the hens :

and keep them from laying. Well, aren ’t eggs

mighty scarce? . , y _
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' The happiest persons in the World are no.

the richest. Nine times out of ten a millionaire-j,
. with the/limousine is not as happy as}; hard-g

working farmer with his ﬂivver. ,7 ~
g It must. take lots of courage to‘ drive along‘aj '
main highway at night without a light ’1ng .

One philosopher '~ says, .
just Exactly how sea '
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tones £1141 mi 01: plows do the work as Oliver plows -,-should
entire general In charge of this
. tones that had never been touched by, the old horse-drawn outﬁt in the

shell.”

é (meme frhm page 1)
emc‘ieney of the various makes of
With the reﬁners as judges.
ll;- ﬁeld was Chosen which was nearly
11 dare, being 1000 test leng and
' 939, feet wide The soil Was a me?
dim sandy loam. There were a few
,lase stones which Were responsible
e1. e breaking of several pins. The
land” had been carefully divided up,
so thet each tractor would have a
£3.11 share of the land to plow. Tract-
ors pulling two-bottom plOWS plowed
one , and three—tenths acres each.
MTrsctors plowing with three bottom
frplW8, Were allotted a full two acres
=r'to handle. ‘
. . . Farmers Pick Favorite
Although most of the tractors
showed up well, some showed up do
eidadly better than Others, and farm-
or: Were able to judge their favorites
some of the tactors which did not do
the best work were hampered in the
jtest 1because of poor operators, and

usually it is thought that the farm-
618. present were keen enough to de-
’ tool: that fact. 30, all in all, the farm-
'. er could just about size up fairly the
best and the poorest makes. The

‘ lCleveland tractor showed a great deal‘

of surplus power. The International
’ and Case did very good, work and won

.ICHIGAN’S APPLliJ CROP. us-

, ' ually one of ~the largest and
1* best in the nation. is turning
but poorly this year, only 828, 000
barrels being in prospect. Last year
Michigan had 1, 495, 000 barrels.
”Pile apple crop in Michigan this
. year will not. exceed 36 per cent. of a
" full crop as compared to 62 per cent
a: a full crop in 1918. Baldwins and
Spy! are generally light throughout
the state. Greenings, Russets and
Wagoners have the best prospects for
ac’rop of all winter varieties The
winter crap for the state Will not ex-
coed one—third of last year’s crop.
early apple crop is about the
» . With fewer apples and pears
in the nation the year, better prices
‘ stilliopedm for. ' ‘

Some Counties Producing Well

Western Michigan, comprising the
counties of ,Van Buren, Berrien, Al-
219mm. Kent, Newaygo, oceans, Ma-
son. Ottawa, Muskegon, Manistee,

enzie. Grand Traverse, Leelanau,
Antrim. Charle‘voix, Emmet and Che-

husky: stair. The plows dug up -"a

W._ L'. ”

p The “Cletruc” has made an enviable record for itself in Michigan.
“tank” or caterpillar, crawling type, and keeps the crowd running to fol‘. ow it in
Their tent and- the fourteen Jovlal boosters who manned it was a popularl

.the ﬁeld.
place at the blnrshall demonstration.

1A Tractor Show That Made a Ten Strike

mighty‘well. on run. Moline, Heid-
er, Hart-Parr. Bates Steel Mule. Ford—
son and Samson are among the tract—
os which were praised for good work.

The tractors which competed were
set up along their headlandslike rac-
ers at 8:30 in the morning, by ﬁeld
manager. Mr. John Wendt, county ag-
ent of St. Joseph county, and his as-
sistant, Mr. C. L. Nash, county :1}?
ent for Branch county. The fuel
tanks were ﬁlled and the engines ﬁll-
ed up, and everything put in- readi-
ness for the plowing.

The signal to start plowing was at
length, given, and every tractor start—
ed off in its plot. The great crowds
of people surged out over the ﬁelds
in the wake of the tractors. No roll-
ing was needed—the thousands of
spectators packed the ground down
after it was plowed. Mr. Hills, own-
er 0: the ﬁeld, was well pleased with
the excellent plowing,.which he con-
sidered unusual for a tractor demon-
stration. ‘ .

Big Program Enjoyed

In the afternoon, following the
close of he tractor show in the morn-
ing, the crowd adjourned from the
ﬁeld to the fair grounds, where the
annual Farm Bureau picnic dinner

and program were held.

Dr. Eben Mumford, state county ag-
ent leader, gave an inspiring address
on co-operation and organization. Mi-
lo D. Campbell, of Branch county, na-
tional leader of dairymen, gave an
address in which he urged farmers
all to get into some farm organiza-
tion or other. He told Of his experi-
ence in Washington, where too few
farmer representatives are at work.
He showed the great need of organi-
zation and more organization among
the farmers of the United States.

Monroe Show Enthusiastic

“At least three thousand farmers at-
tended the * tractor demonstration
which was held in Monroe county on
August 9. The. demonstration was
put on in connection with the. farm
bureau picnic of the county and
brought out a big. enthusiastic crowd.

Edsel Ford superintended the work
of the Fordson tractor in person at
the demonstation held in Monroe
county on‘ August 9. Other makes
represented were the Heider, Moline,
Hart Parr, Indiana, Sampson. Cleve-
land and Titan. Three thousand peo-
peo, the largest number ever ga thercd
for a farmers’ meeting in Monroe
county, attended the meeting. which

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was held as the summer picnic of
the county farm bureau. H. H. Mus?
selman, head of the Farm Mechanics
Department at the Agricultural Col-
lege, superintended the'demonstra—
tion. Fifteen acres in all were plowed
two-thirds of an acre being assigned
to each plow bottom. The meeting was
held on the farm of Will Nickel.
More Tractor Shows for Michigan

Harry K. Wrench, of the 'M. A. C.,
writes that there are other tractor
demonstrations in sight in Michigan,
which many farmers are expected to
attend. Mr. Bishop, county agent
for Lapeer county. was planning a
tractor show to be held in connec-
tion with the farmer’s picnic, August
21. The Imlay City fair and the
Greenville Fair have been suggested
as places to hold demonstrations.
Prof. H. H. Mussulman, head of the
department of farm mechanics at
the M. A. C. at East Lansing is to
give further information on these-
subjects.

County Agent C. L. Coffeen, of
Adrian. writes that a tractor demon-
stration has been planned for Deer—
ﬁeld. August 19. Farmers or others '
knowing of proposed tractor shows
are urged to keep their neighbors far
and near informed by sending in
notices to M. B. F. a few weeks ahead
of the affair.

Peach Crops Fall Below Prospects

boygan. produces nearly two—thirds
of the total commercial apple crop
for Michigan. The crop in Van Bu-

.ren county is estimated at 29 per

cent of a full crop, Berrien at 25 per
cent, Allengan at 33 per cent, Kent
at 44 per cent, are total production
from these counties of 246,000 bar-
rels this year as‘compared with 485,-
000 barrels last year, centers of
production in thesecOunties being
Fennvill‘e,‘ SOuth Haven,*Benton Har-

, bor, Hartford, Watervliet and Grand

Rapids. Oceana, Mason, Manistee
and Benzie have highest percentage
of a crop of any counties in the state
this year. Probably 65 per cent of
a full crop or 178, 000 barrels will be
produced in these counties this year
as compared with 116, 000 barrels or

' 45 per cent of a crop last year.

The production in these counties
centers around Shelby. Hart, Luding-
ton. Mauistee, Bear Lake. Arcadia
and Elberta. The Dutch-ass and
Wealthy crop in Western Michigan
is estimated at 75per cent of a full
crop or approximately "195 000' bar-

‘ where grown.

rels as compared with 82 per cent of
a full crop in 1918 and a yield of
213,000 barrels. Baldwins and Spys
are very light, being a failure in
many orchards. Wagoner, Steeles
Red and Greening are fair to good
crop. Jonathan is generally good
Quality and size of
the apples is good, although extreme
dry weather has done some injury.

The salient feature of the August
apple report, as issued by the Bureau
of Crop Estimates through it fruit
crop specialists, is the very large crop
indicated from the Northwest states,
which have shown increase over the
July lst estimate, On the other hand
conditions throughout the east have
declined, particularly in western
New York, New England, Ohio and
the Virginias. The Maine crop, how-
ever, holds up well above the aver-
age. The Middle West has also shown
a decline, with the exception of Ar-
kansas and the Ozark section which
have a good crop. The commercial
production for the United States is
now estimated at 23 075 000 barrels

as compared with 24,700.000 barrels:
in 1918.
Michigan s Peaches Beat 1918

Th condition of the commercial
peach crop in the United States has
shown a decline over July estimates
of about 300,000 bushels. This de-
crease has been throughout the east
and north, Michigan, New York,
Maryland, New Jersey, West Virgin-
ia anu Deleware. all declining a few
points below July estimates. On-the
other hand the Georgia peach crop
has held up to earlier estimates.
while the Texas and Arkansas crops.
due to excellent growing conditions
have shown an increase, the Texas
crop over—running earlier estimates
by more than 300 cars. The Elberta
crop in Colorado and the northwest
promises to be heavy and the move-
ment will be particularly heavy the
last ten days in August.

The United States crop is now es-
timated at 29.784 000 bushels as
compared with 20,597,000 bushels
last year, or a 45 per cent increase

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 23,1919

Published every Saturday by the
RURAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inn.
Mt. Clemens, Michigan
. GRANT SLOCUM” .President and Contributing Editor
‘~ . FORREST LORD .. ......... Vice-President and. Editor
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The Plumb Plan

HE Plumb plan

fo r government
acquisition and public
operation of the rail-
roads i s constructed
upon the theory that
every man is entitled
to a share of the pro-
ﬁts which he helps to
create For that rea-
son, if for no other, the plan will make a tre-
mendous appeal to the average individual who
works with either hands or brains for a busi-
ness in which he has no ﬁnancial interest.

There are two things necessary in industry,
capital and labor. Each receives a certain re-
~-. turn for the service it renders. To capital is

‘ , » paid interest. To labor are paid wages. This
’ is an equitable arrangement. But when this
combination of capital and labor earns income

 

its interest, and labor its wages, all of that ex-
cess is given to capital. This is not equitable.

The railroads of the country employ up-
, wards of two million men, none of whom re-
' ceives any portion of the railroad’s earnings.
" These men have now embraced the principle
that all men are entitled to a share of the pro-
ﬁts they help to create and are asking that the
railroads be operated in the future in such a
manner as to permit the employes to partici-
pate ‘in these earnings: This principle, it
seems to us, overtops all other considerations
in the settlement of the railroad question, and
will form the issue upon which that question is
eventually disposed of. The railroad employes
have a powerful inﬂuence, not only because of
their great numbers but because of their gen-
erally high intellectual and moral standards,
and if it be true that they unanimously en-
dorse the Plumb plan, they are in a position to
force the country to accept that plan.

How far the public opinion of railroads may
go in settling industrial disturbances, such as
wage disputes, strikes, etc.,
jecture. It is the claim of the railroad men
that the adoption of the Plumb plan will for-
ever settle industrial questions as affecting
railroad employes. According to the nature of
things, we may readily agree with this conclus-
ion, but it will require several years of actual

score. If the Plumb plan is tried and accom-
plishes all the wonderful things it promises, it
will usher in a new era of industrial freedom
in which wage disputes and working condi-
tions are settled by arbitration, strikes are un-
known, and class friction is supplanted by
friendly cooperation among all concerned. It
seems that the possible social and economic

  
     
   

. sogreat importance to the future well-being
of the country, that the plan may well be given

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in excess of what is necessary to pay capital ,

is a matter of con?

trial before the plan can justify itself on that,

beneﬁts that may lie in the Plumb plan are of,

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business have been thoroughly dissected.

The great American public has always been
woefully ignorant .of- the source, the cost of pro
ducing and the cest of distributing the things

it eats. It 13 only in times of hysteria such as ‘

we are new passing through that it shows a
faint interest in the beginnings of such com.
monplace things as pork and beans. So it must
be charged with neglect of duty when it per-
mits middlemen and speculators to seize upon
and hoard the necessaries of life. That it has
been recalcitrant in its duty in the past is as
plain as the nose on the face.

The government and the public will learn
two important lessons as a result of the pres-
ent investigations. They will learn for one
thing that they must pay the penalty for hav-
ing neglected so important a matter as the dis—
tribution of food. They will learn that they can
not overthrow in a single day a system that has
taken years to build up. But more important
still, they will learn that the farmer is not a
proﬁteer that he suffers as much from the cost-
ly “overhead” of the elaborate enterprise of

_ distributing farm products, as does the con-

sumer; that the great consuming public is as
‘much interested as the producer in simplify-
ing this process. a,

They will learn these things but will they
proﬁt by what they learn? The opportunity
is presented for the government to revolution-
ize the system of marketing farm products.
The information that will have been gleaned
from these investigations will give it all the
excuse it needs to make an exhaustive study of
this great question of economics and pass such
legislation and disseminate such knowledge as
may be required to bring about the desired re-

forms. .,
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Frost cFear

UGUST FIRST usually ushers in a period

of frost fear. August of this year was 'no
exception. The month opened with cool days
and cooler nights. The days gradually became
warmer and the nights colder. The lowest
temperatures for the month were recorded on
the nights of the eighth and ninth when the en
tire state narrowly escaped a killing frost.
Traveling through a dozen or more counties
from the south to the north we were unable to

ﬁnd any evidences of wide-spread damage from '

frost. There were brown spots here and there
which looked as if they might have been touch-
ed by the ﬁnger of the hoary visitor, but lack
of reports of frost damage from our crop re-
porters, indicates that the state passed safely
through a period of low temperatures fraught
with considerable danger.

There are few‘ things that take the tuck out
of the farmer more than a killing frost. It is
like the assassin that creeps up in themiddle
of the night and sticks a dagger in the back of
his victim. It heralds not its coming. It can
not be prepared against. With a single linger-
ing caress it stills the life of plants that have
required months of constant care at the hands
of the patient farmer to maintain. There is
no tragedy visited upon mankind by the ele-
ments more complete in its ruin than the trag-
edy of the frost.

To insure against the losses occasioned by
this common enemy is not an easy matter. The
risk is so great that private capital hesitates to
underwrite it. The adjustment of losses would
be an extremely difﬁcult and delicate task.
Many obstacles stand in the way of a practical
plan of insurance against frost, yet it is a
much needed insurance and should be given

the close attention of farmers and farm mam .

zations. The question has frequently some up
as to whether the state should carry insurance
on crops against not onty damage from frost
but other harmful visitsﬁms of the elements.
Some of the western states have my «case
1117 insurance. innocevermglemfrombsﬂ and

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1 _ y a prominent, albeit un-y:
' comfortable, posmon under the public’ sf micro-

~ scopic spotlight, and let us hope that the pub-

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Peace and Plenty *
EACE AND PLENTY” is th-c (:0me
ing slogan of the Michigan State Fair ,
this year. And it is a time of comparative .'
peace and plenty. The Great War Which shock; ,-
our country seamely a few months ago, is rapt“
idly becoming only a memory. Its ingﬁu ‘
are far less than what Jive thought they w“ p y,
be, and the great scar is almost healed. Th
are those, of course, who suffer from the less. ,
of dear ones in the _,war to whom each new (1113
~ brings fresh stirrings of grief and tumultuous ~, ”
heart-throbbings. But all in good time, oxen' '_
they. shall wrap their sonrows in the. winding
sheets of forgetfulness and all shall be as be-
fore. So for the most part there is peace in ' '
the heart of the individual and of the natim. ' .j

There is plenty, too. Fret as we may about .
the seeming hardships of our lot and the never- , _
ending struggle to keep the larder full and the '
balance on the right side of the ledger we must , ~
realize that what" we have today is great plen- ' ,2" j": ._ ‘
ty compared with What our forefathers had. _’,j_; "‘
And for that plenty we Should be grateful if ‘ '
not satisﬁed.

, It is a year for rejoicing. It is a year for
merry— —making. It is a year for the renewing

of congenial fellowships. It is a year for, fair-
going, the one great annual eyent which brings ,' p . y, p,
more farmers together to look and talk upon
things of agricultural interest than all other
affairs of the year combined. The big state fair

this year will eclipse any fair ever held in the '
state. The management is taking advantage-pf? '4
the times to swell the eyhibits and pack the list.

of free attractions with events that should
bring the farmers by the thousands. from every
section of the state. To educate, to instruct, as
amuse and entertain,—these are kindred ob- . ., *
jects of the great State Fair. No man, woman
or child who has the capacity to be instru'dnd .
or entertained can attend the. Fair- 1511'; year _
without being richly reWarded. V

Nearly everyone we talked to who lives any- .
where near Detroit is going to get to the Fair f“ . f
thi 8 year. Join the processionwthe more the 5 3’7" ‘
merrier. 1 * 1

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Prison Vandals-

SN ’T IT about time that the people of Mich— _ « . .

igan ferreted out the scamps who periodical— ""1
1y raid the state prison at Jackson and try to ’ ,_ ‘ 'V
undermine the industries that ﬂourish there. It
is by no chance stumbling upon blind leads
that the enemies of prison industry get their
material for their sensational charges. It ap-
pears on the contrary to be a part of a dclih
crate plan to ruin the good name and the good
work of the prison, and the miscreants stop at
nothing to trump up charges which will insure
a nauseating parading of half—facts and
groundless accusations in the columns of the
press.

The outcome of the recent farcical grand
jury investigation into Jacksm1 pr son affairs '
ought to convince the" good people of the m
that the investigators of Jackson prison are the I
ones who need to be investigated.

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ENRY FORD has been subjected to the

 
 
    
     
     
 
         
       
    
  
      
 

   

   

    
   
 
   
  
  
   
  
 
  
  
   
   
  
   
   
   
  
   
  
   
  
   
   
 
  
  
 
  
   
  
    
 
  
  
 
 
 
  
 
  
   
  
  
   
     
   

 

 
       
       
    
    
    
    
     
   
     
    
      
  

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. tit-high prices." It Would seem
ter tho, if Congress would
nascent letter postage, as it
”maid easilyco'nld do if it
cut out the‘Fralﬂting and Free
raft. They are both pure gran.
, {hing else. .- The congressmen
sir-speeches to the people Who
\ them and, I doubt it one inwa
mired, if one ina thousand, reads
,, but the Government has to
”to money to print the stuff, and
Mews“ more to deliver it. lithe
EC. yﬁad to dig up the postage he
grow not send a fraction of what he
W nailed; the; tmails with. and the
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mm to do. n er would have a .lot
;. ﬁnds, for the free seed graft it is -a
. ' , was to the country. The Gov-
ernment doubtless pays big prices for
, _ _ seeds, and the congreSsman sow
, themgbroadcast over ,the country, and
pWﬁbBOﬁle who receive them do not
.sow. them’at all, in ma—ny'instances.
«Spine congressmen own farms
tho and like the free seeds. .A certain
Michigan congressman has a large
., farm and a year ago last, spring I was
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W to "he saddened in these.

wind breath; sparing "nothing pure
or moved, left in its path ,but ruin
and death.

' Crushed in its Coils, now westward
creeping, were friend and neutral;
from our land "their lifeblood’s
stream in arteries keeping, undaunt—
'ed still they made their stand.

When haughty foe for world do-
minion sought to destroy our liberty,
rose in defense on eagle’s pinion,
thou. Spirit of Democracy!

Soul of the Nation! all thy glory
reﬂected shone in form and face of
man and maid, whose wondrous
story on angel's page shall ﬁnd a
place. . ,

In air, in trench, ’neath starry
banner unfurled o’er watchdogs of
the sea, in hut and ward with quiet
manner, in service of humanity.

Thou gavest ,to our sons and
daughters courage. vision, strength
and zeal; undismayed by cannon’s
slaughter, they turned the tide of
foemen’s steel. ,

From Belleau Wood and Marne’s
fair valley, from Argonne’s hills to
famed Sedan, where heroes came
their friends to rally, the cheering
cry of “Victory!” ran.

 

 

  

To thee was highest honor given;
to bear the news on other Waveto
souls immortal, free in Heaven, who
their liVes for freedom gave. .

Comfort their loved, the home ﬁres
keeping, kindled by-hearts now laid
to rest, with comrades ’neath ,their
crosses sleeping in Flanders ﬁelds,
forever blest.

Shall we forget, for pride’s vain
splendor ambition’s snare or languid
ease. the precious gift of our defend-
ers, the price paid for our liberties?

Shall traitor tongue with poison
reeking pollute the wellspring of thy
life? Destruction of they virtues
seeking, sow seeds of discord, hate
and strife?

One in heart and thought and ac-
tion; ne’er in defense did spirit lag;
our motto still, thy soul’s attraction:
“For God and Country, Home and
Flag!”

Shall we withhold from friend and
brother thy larger service for man-
kind? Leave cau‘Se of world war for
another, With scourge of dead and
maimed, and blind?

Hope of the nations! all the yearn—
ing of human kind for life and peace
and human welfare, now is turning

favor wooing” their.
ﬁrm due. a- mother he.“

 

‘ kindred, souls the pest
pursuing of' truth and
~ right and liberty. ‘_

Our Father, grant us, too, thy .
blessing; with larger, broader vision
to see; in patient faith our Soul pos-
sessing, in service to become like.
Thee—Martin Trapp, Benzie County.

Prepared for the Worst

Just as two Irishmen were in the
middle of a large ﬁeld, one of them
turned and saw an angry bull mak—
ing for them.

With a yell of warning, Patbolt-
ed, and just managed to clear the
hedge. His companion, Mike, less
nimble, ran wildly around the hedge
to ﬁnd an opening.

Twice Mike went around without
escaping. Then, as he passed his
anxious friend for the third time, he
shouted:

“Pat, tell the missus my insurance
policy is in’the bottom drawer. This
is my last time round.” '

You cannot hope to succeed withw
out teamwork AND harmony. Simon
Legree had teamwork but no har- ;
mony.

Investigate a well-established law ‘

carefully before condemning it.

 

.. .cupied by rhis tenant farmer, and saw
‘ the mail man deliver mail each day.
_. one day the R. F. D. carrier piled the
.. large mail box heaping full of govern-

pment seeds,/ in packages large and
small, a good, half bushel, or more,
,_ and a few days later he drove in by

the house, and carried a sack to the
: porch, and untying it he drew out
a , .qt. bags of seed corn,.32 of them. at

the expense of the government. As

  
 
  
  
  
  

 

good seed corn, at that time. was al—
most as scarce as hen’s teeth, and
. dealers in town were selling a bushel
115- ' . stem at $4 and some of the ears so
kg” - .. . - poor theywould have been classed as
011-5 ”.1: ”pulls in ordinary. season._ It is prob-
. .. , able-that the Government paid a good
my .- ’3 big price fOr the bushel the congress-
?! .. .. gen Igot ffei’h iragsportation includ-
. - . - - . s no - a RAFT
6;” capital letters? spelled in
int « Why should not the Gleaners,-the

' {-52 Grpnge'and the farmers’ clubs take

1d. - «up the matter? If they tackle’ " \

, _ _-_ ,icbgint earnest they could forc~ f” ‘l-

. grass 0 abolish both those grafts and

. save hundreds of thousands of dollars
yet-ht}? are now wasted.’ .

. etter postage ‘ has always been

.1." proﬁtable for the Government, and If

‘ ; it were reduced to one 'cent it would

, wstiil yield a proﬁt, so there is no val-

,3, ,‘id’reason why we should not have

i , ’fgfﬁm letftter postage but let’s abol-

_. .,_' I. - e g'ra anyway—A ol
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rim SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY“

Born of freemen’s faith and dar—
ing, heroes’s hopes and mother love,

h—ﬂ-j. g thou camest to bless the '

_ _ 1 _ , patriot,
d4 ,,, bearing Heaven’s gift on wings of
to dove.

_ . ,. Into homes where prece

. _ _ _ . pt hol
[t -I . . . governed thought and deed, th;
' grace came with claim of service low
a. ly, found within true hearts 9. place.
3- ‘ Pilgrim sires from stony pillow in
:F ‘ . __ patriarch’s vision saw beckoning
d , ». : 'll‘andb cralflled thee on ocean’s bil-

g . pw, mug is thee to thei ’

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, - Them to shield fr
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with’tender care their chief posses—
sion nourished at a nation’s breast.
‘Graced with Childhood’s charm and
., beauty. thy life into the nation’s
D'Itgll‘oiwnd tthine to defend from foe
._ ‘er uyour fatherssa' ‘
their own. . W, and freed
, .Nei‘ghb‘oring shores thy fr
_ ., p . eedo
seeing, bade tyranthalt, they spirrirl
,r -_.ca‘lled; a continent from oppressor
.xreeuilg. and fairest, isle with_ca‘stle‘s
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There are only a few days when plowing,
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To be able to take care of these opera—
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between a big proﬁt and, perhaps, no proﬁt at all.

The uncertain factor in ,most cases is the
amount and kind of power the farmer has at his
That is where the Titan kerosene
_ You can depend upon it to
furnish tén horsepower of drawbar power, or
any time you need it.
Many a farmer has told us that even if his Titan
cost him twice as much as horses he would use
the tractor by preference because of‘this one
advantage of being able to get his work done at

tage.

disposal.
tractor comes in.

twenty of belt power,

the right time.

Instead of costing twice. as much as horses,

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, than horses or any other kind of farm power.

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useful for ﬁeld and belt work, it is also cheaper.

After harvest most of your power needs will be for
belt work. The Titan makes it easy.
pulley, high enough to keep belts from dragging,
giving the proper belt speed, easy to line up, to start

and to stop. . ‘

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HAPPINESS _
“It is not how much we have,

but how much we enjoy, that

makes. happiness.”——Spurgeon.

GEN-WITH false pride surround-
ing her, it was no wonder that
dainty little Louise grew up, an
only child, demanding everything she
saw and forever longing for the
‘ things not within her reach. Early
in life her father. died, leaving her
a very modest inheritance, which had
it been invested, ~would have proved
suﬂcient possibly to take care of her
later. in life, but never having learn-
f9 says” Ishe spent it as fast as it was
received, while. the widowed mother
accuraged her in her folly, the chief
ambition of both being to “make a
good match” for the daughter. And
to. this .end .every effort was bent.
Small wonder then that ﬁnally a
young English boy, alone in the coun-
try, should fall into the net woven
for him. For while in his own right
he had nothing but what he earned
from day to day, he came of a won-
derful old English family whose
name you would immediately recog-
nize should I tell you it. And wealth
would one day be his—for the pres-
ent he had'the name—and sufﬁcient
unto the end this seemed to the
mother and daughter who exerted ev-
ery inﬂuence to the end. Parties
were planned, week—ends were in-
dulged in at the beach always ﬁnan-
ced by the mother who acted as chap-
eron, and it was not long before the
wedding date was set.

This little girl who couldn’t even
boast of a home, coaxed a rich uncle
into letting her be married 'in his
beautiful home. The night of the
wedding came—ﬂorists had decorat~
ed the rooms—awnings were spread
from the door to 'the entrance where
a carriage man opened the doors of
the vehicles which brought the guests
——a door man silently opened the
door and motioned the guests to the
chamber where a colored maid deftly
helped the ladies with their wraps.
Caterers served the perfectly appoint-
ed supper following the wedding, and
the couple left amid shewers of rose

- petals, furnished by the mother to
take the place of confetti——

A couple of years have passed—-
this young couple are still endeav—
oring to live up to the standard she
set for them—her fortune has been
used—~was all used in fact on that
last “splurge"—called a wedding——
and he is earning the wage of an of-
ﬂce man—and not an ofﬁce manager
eitherewhile rentals and price of
" food continues to soar.

Their little matrimonial venture
is about to ﬂounder on the rocks—
the pretense cannot longer be kept

 

.Lehrly in life,

    

up——»and the man at least realizes j
' that could he but get his wife to re-

linquish the elaborate apartment and
take a less expensive place, did she
not want as pretty clothes as 8. mil-
lionaire’s wife has—they might yet

be happy—but she won't give up—- '

she insists that he should be clever

and earn more—oh, of course I for-' '

got to mention that she thinks they

cannot afford to have children, and .

so with nothing to do all day,_ she

. simply waits for night to come and '

then demands to be taken to a danc—
in'g party or a theatre. A little child
might have bound the tie—ef—as it is
there is nothing to 'fasten to and

nothing but a miracle can save the

home. .

c . .o _
" From Sunny~ Cdlifornia comes a
letter from a friend who has been
teaching in the university out there

   
 
 

F LIFE were always pleasant

with never-a care or loss

Hidden upon our pathway to
check us as we cross——

If there were no joy or sorrow
but always that placid calm

What joy would there be in the
morrow. or need of the
healing balm!

What proof would we have that
our metal was pure enough
to stand——

No matter how ﬁerce the battle
were all at our command?

If there were no temptations to
lure us from the way——

Or losses or disappointments, or
the price of sin to pay,

Life would be scarce worth liv-
ing were there no higher goal.

0r promise of home in Heav-
en—wz‘th rest for a weary
soul.

 

.-any time.

MMMJLX'AJLEAJMJMLMMMEL‘MML‘QJMMLL'EL

If we willingly learn God’s les-

WASHTENAW ‘COUNTYI‘BOYS' .
AND GIRLS’ CLUB WORK

HE EXECUTIVE Committee of

the Washtenaw County Farm
Bureau has in previous years

felt and seen the need of Junior Ex-

tension work with the boys and ‘Igirls
especially in the rural

the county. The boys and girls in

the; city are well organized in various
lines as Y. M. C: A;, with the large Y — .
buildings, Boy Scouts, GirlS' Y.- W.
‘C.A.,IsIew1ng clubs and other. organ-f»
"sizations that are open to them; get
The boys and girls in mr- 1'.

al- districts were unable to relish the

-.Icity organizations, so by the lack of», - --
some rural organized work they Were‘....._
~ deprived of some form of organism"

tion..Tl1-e parents- of the buys .and

girls are members of some rm§«w«2,Iﬁ 9 ﬂ
Fannie rs’

ganizations as- Grangers,
Clubs and Cleaners. ’
The big, busy and progressive xter-

     
         
     
     
         
     
     
       
     
         
     
       
         
   
   
 

Each bitter care and sorrow is
only a hidden wall. -'
0f strengthening for the mar-
row—the heart that is weak:

today
How. trivial the heaviest bur-
den, and how much light-

er the cross——

sons and count them as
gain not loss; I -
And how much sweeter the

blessing if only we learn to -

think; .

That each little addedbnrden
is only another mm

In the cable ofLifc’s path’umy

‘ (if we will, a; golden strand)

thich leads from earth to
Heaven and a seat at God’s
right hand.

By SHIRLEY DILLENIBACK

 

 

now for ﬁve years—a jolly, red-
headed, fun- loving girl.
Thrown on her own resources

she worked her way
through a normal. training and each

summer since has taken special sub-

jects to ﬁt herself the
work she did.

And because every penny counted,
and expenses. were climbing, four
teachers went out in the country—wa
short trolley ride from the scity,
bought a. lot near the water, and
built their owu house. Of course, it
was only a two-room house,' but
build it they did. There was 110 base-

(Continued on. page 15)"

' better for

 

DEUCIOUS and REFRESHlNC

imitations.

QUALITY tells the difference in "
the taste betweenCoca-Cola and
counterfeit imitations.

Coca- Cola quality, recorded in the
public taste, is what holds it above

Demand the genuine by full name
-—-nicknamca encourage substitution.

THE COCA- COLA C9.
, Atlanta. Ga.

   
  

    
 

  

  

   
 
    
 

mers of our Farm Bureau saw this
great need of Junior Extension Work
To start the boyS’ and girls’ werk,
Would need a great deal of ﬁnancial
backing. The only possible means
for securing the necessary funds?” was
by county subscriptions.
Bureau called a mee ing of all. the
bankers in the County and every
bank was represented. This meeting

* resulted;w~i-th each cf the county

banks paying thrn a plan of assess-
ing each bank according to its last
years’ earning capacity. The money
ranged from ﬁve dollars from the
smallest banks to three hundred dol-
larsxto the largest bank. The to—

.tal amount of money for. this source

was one thousand dollars. The rest
0f the funds for this work came thru
the county and state. The bankers
did not stop with such liberal aid but
also offered any boy or girl in the
country ﬁnancial aid in securin;
their pig, their call.
and theirismall seeds.

The funds and the citizens back
of the Farm Bureau. work started

late this spring to .secure a cou‘tV-

leader for the Extension W'.ork Mr.
R A Turner, state club leader, found
this man in Ernest F Lyons, who
had graduated from the Michigan Ag-
ricultuial College in 1917. He was a
fermer agricultural instructor in this

state. Mr. Lyons. served in the army.
for ﬁfteen months and was discharge‘
The coun- '

ad from Camp McClellan
ty club leader started the‘ boYs’ and
girls? club work in the county April
15,1919. From this date to June 15,
beys' and girls’ clubs. as Pig clubs,
Garden and Canning clubs were or;-
gauized. The summer club work in

the rural districts Was scIatt rod 111';
- -' . all directions in the county.,I I
' I. clubs were formed by. the ding laid}

The

er .-iIn such-'2 a manner that wow

districts in

- frbm twelve boys and girls near this}.

«a trip of 125 miles with a Ford truck ‘

‘ and girls Would cheese his or her --

The Farm ‘

their poultry,._

‘ ords, feeds and feedings.

   
 
     

  
       
    
 
     
     
 
      
             
   
 
        
        
 
     
       
   
  

 
   
 
       
         
    
     
 
      
 
 
      
    
 
 
       
 
     
 
     
     
 
     
 
   
   
 
        
     
     
       
     
        
 
     
 
        
     
           
     
 
        
       
         
   
   
       
 
      
    
 
   
   
   
   
    

The, Eivboro Registered Duroc "
Jersey Pig club, one of the ﬁrst clubs. -
to be organized is a good example of I
our Pig clubs. The boys and girls in
this purely rural district 1ange from "
the age of ten to eighteen years. The
club was organized April 22,1919.
with six-teen charter members. The
next morning there were applications'

community to join their club. IAt
the following meeting theSe boys 1511‘."
girls applying were given an oppor—~
Itunity and voted into the club‘ The
breed and the purpose of raising the
pigs having been decided, means-were
taken to buy pigs as soon as possible
see that the club may get a good u
growing start before June 15th, at.
which time the contest starts. The ..
‘county leader and the president cf '
the Pig club, Ivanr Galpin, a graduate
of the Ypsilanti High. School, and- ‘9. ~ ,
member of the agricultural glass, took ' ”

and purchased thirty-one March far- i
rowed pigs. eligible for registration ‘
The members of this Pig club, both-
boys and girls, assembled at the Gem-
munity church prepared with bagsf’
boxes and crates for their pigs. The
young pigs Were distributed by D130.- _
irrg numbers in a hat and the boys,

nix: by the number drawn in rota“ ion.
Different prices were paid for the'
pics .The ave age price was eighteen
dollars per: head. At the club meet- '
lugs which are he‘ 6 twiCe per month,

such topics as”; Care of Pigs, Feeds. -.~‘
and Feedings, and Registration areivv’

fully discusised. There Were 82 per" ’ '
cent of; this club who took the lul-
vantage .of gi their netes fer the
purchase Of It iii? 01' pigs to the lo,
cal bank in the county Malarity of
these pigs are being registered. '

 

Specialist Scored County Pins

On June 16th,} Washtenaw county “
Club pigs were scored by Professor .
W. E. J. Edwards of the Animal Hus:
Ihandry Department, M. A. C. Two
days were spent in this work. The ‘ _.
various clubs arranged to centralize
their pigs at their meeting place at --
an hour scheduled by the county: 1‘
leader. Professor Edwards County
Agent H. S Osler and the club 19“-:
Gr visited these c‘ubs. Each pig w
weighed and oﬂicially scored at this
meeting. Lectures and demonstra—-
tions were given to the eager groups
Special attention was given to rec.
The pur—
nose of- the scoring of the club pigs
in the county is to give each boy or
girl an equal opportunity to develop
the best pig. " _ ‘

City Garden Club

I Washtenaw. county city boys and '57
girls are organised into Garden ind
Canning clubs. ‘ Ann- Arbor CithI

 

   
  
 
 
   
  
  

  
   
  
  
 
        
      
    

 

     
  
         
  

School Board furnished dye in
gardens in 1; "city limits at var! W
points. Three 1 these Icityfi g

are located public park

garden

  


 

 

 

CHILDREN : e—Vaoa‘tion' ‘i

est oven—soon .v'aga’in will

We $01118 to school, and take

gtn‘dije's which willf'aid you

‘r place” in life semen. and
men.-_; 7 .

”W :qyeﬁbe‘en studying the lives at
" Q; who. with (no "more: [wealth than
an ,of.-you7,h._ave :to begin with,.and,
Withz-gpnOIhetter;opportuities still made

heir vliv_,s,f_-,.something so big that ,

W‘Mk’ing at their pictures. Let us try
ﬁll-intake the most or every opportun-
"Kgmso that, when, we plan what-Ive
anttohefwhen wegrow up, we shall.
Roth tolthe-s-end, doing the tasksset

peters us each, day, for it we shirk the .

..._flitt,le,;t'asks.weghave now; we .never
,_ shall-he able to: do “the big. things.
{As 'YQII beg‘i'n 'to” 80 to school again.
_ you will undoubtedly- walk‘past the
_ houses of manywho do not'take M.
"TE-TF- Now it you want to earn some
vehristmas ‘presents, 'just write to
"Laddie" and ask. how. you can do it.
by getting subscriptions for the very
Lbest farm paper pub‘ished.
stake much’work.'and any farmer Who
, doesn’t already take the paper ought
.to begglad to get it. Does it seem ear-
.1yto begin’to plan- for Christmas? By
the time you write in and ask for the
_ information and get the letter giving
you details, auweekxor two will have
-.passed‘and ninety days slip by very
rapidly...If you wish to know more of
this plan, just ,put our ‘name' and ad-.

 

_ this: .éal‘y~_..e'lfew gitéélgs since the
-'L,;;,_Doo 'iDad's .hadl‘a‘mterrible: time 01 it

' clearing the. spakesQopt offithe Wond-
erland of Do " .When they soft rm

5 But they weremis‘taken‘
u thinkhappened? A

:i vade. their

as as; they arewequal

l,

‘and it-blew a lot of trees down.

It won’t ,

thought their. troubles

,i; .p
“t

"‘drss'ion the slip below and send it in.

.Aﬂectionately. yours—“Lactate.”
“Laddie,”' ‘ .
%‘ MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING,

Mt. Clemens, Mich.

Please send me particulars about
getting subscriptions for M. B. F.
andﬁearning [Christmas presents,
by return mail;

.- Signed ________________ ..

P. .0. Address _____________ R. D.--
State ______________

Letters Fromv Our Boys and Girls.

" Pigeon Mich.-.*July 21, 1919'
' Dear Laddl'e—We-md a big storm here
We had
a little pet pigbut it is just about dead.
We have 12 goslings with the big geese.
I was down to Owosso but I come back.
I had quite a nice, time. Werhave six
horses and one edit. My sister and I
drive the horse on the hay load. When
are we‘golng to have the Doc Dads in
the paper again? We are going to camp
meeting this year. Will you put my sis-
ter's and .my letter in’ the paper. From
Miss Lucile Kleinfeld.

Dear Laddie—-This is the ﬁrst time I
have written to-the M. B. F. My father
takes it and the.lik.es it very much. I
have four' sisters and two brothers. 'I
live right close to a. lake called Lincoln

and We go in swimming most every day.’

Papa has caught lots of ﬁsh this year.
We live on a. 180-acre farm. We have
ﬁve cows and three horses.

Mary Nowland, Cedar Springs, Michi-
gan, R. F. D. No_ 1, Box 83.

Laddie—This is the ﬁrst time I
I am. a boy six

Dear
have written to you.

M

years old, and in the ﬁrst grade at school.
My school lets out the 23rd of May. "

I live on a farm of 100 acres. We have
four horses and seven cows and six
calves. ‘

I have eleven little chickens. For pets
Ihave four little kittens and one rabbit
My father takes the- M. B. F. and I like
the see the D00 Dads. My letter is get-
ting long so I will close. Thomas Bowen.

Plymouth, Mich., July 25,1919

Dear Laddie—Thls is the ﬁrst time I
have written to you . I am eleven' years
old and will be in the sixth grade at
school. -

I have one sister and two brothers. My
oldest brother takes the M. B. F. We have
one hundred and sixty acres of land..We
have ten horses and twenty-one head of
cattle

My brother has two rabbits. I will
close hoping to see my letter in print—
Mabel Greene.

Hartford, Mich
Dear Laddie—I have never written to
you before so thought I would write now.
I am a girl ten years old and in the sixth
grade when school commences. I have
two sisters and two brothers. I live on
a hundred acre farm. My father takes

the M. B .F. and I like it very much.
_ ,We have seven horses, 12 cows and a
pony which I:ride. I like the D00 Dads
very much, they are so funny. My let—
ter is getting long so will close, hoping to
see it in print. Yours truly, Aline Day.

Dear Laddie—This is the ﬁrst time I
' have written to you. I am a girl, ten

- old_

years old and in the ﬁfth grade at school. '

My scuool let out the 23rd of May.

I live on a. farm of 100 acres. My
father takes the M. B. F. and likes it
very much. We have four horses, Honey,
Bunny, Polly and. Pet. We have sewn
cows whom we call Boss, Blossom, Red
Heifer, Nig, Nelly, Spot and Pete For
pets I have one little kitty called Nigger
:md one rabbit. I have three brothers

' ' //714

' The Doc Dads Trap [invading Host of Fleas

they are all clustered together Roly
and Poly will drop the big pan doWn
,over them and they will all be cap—.

trap in operation. Wherever they

"found the pup is a mystery. He looks
gas it he had strayed away Erom home.
. But-belies a short, stubby tail, just
’ «the grind they were looking for. They

"thei'him, that if. he Would -. help
catchﬁallthe fleas they would
.He thinks he

‘- turned. Then they will take the
.pup away to his supper. See how
2 Smiles, the Clown, .is petting the pup
.so that he will not run'away. That
young rascalr-with his catapult is
1 takingaim‘at one of theilea‘s. Sandy,

-‘ the Piper,’ is ~iiurn’ishing the music fer
.; the, proceedings". ' ‘2'5Heii’has germs '

called James. Lewis and Themes. As my-
letter is getting long I will close.-—Ber-
nice Bowen, Brown City, Mich.

Dear Laddle—JI‘his is the ﬁrst time I
have written to you. I am a girl that
lives on a 180-acre farm. I am 1.0, years ‘
My school left out the 1st day of

I am in the 5th grade next. year.
i love to read .
and girls >

May.
My uncle takes M.- B. F. ,
the stories and letters the boys
write _ .

I guess my letteris getting long. Will}
some of the girls write to me? Goodby.
Oping to (see .my letter in print. _,Misa_
Rosa Morgan, ' Chesa‘ning, Mich. ._

STATE NICKNAMES ‘ - ‘, ,

1. ——-Which is the Hoosier State? ‘(In—- -.
dian.) - > .
2. —The Wolverine State? (Michigan).

3. —The Nutmeg, State? (Connecticut)

4. ——-The .KeystOne State? (Pennsyli
vania.) -"
5. —The Buckeye State? (Ohlo}_- 5,
6. —The Palmetto State? (South Car-
olina.)
7. ——The Pine Tree State? (Maine)
8. ——The Prairie State? (Illinois)
9. ——The Sucker State? (Illinois)
10.——The Lone Star State? (Texas)
11.——The Lumber State? (Maine)
12,—The Mother of States? (Virginian)
13.—The Mother of Presidents? (Vir-
ginia.) . , .
14.——The Old Dominion? (Virginia)
15.—The Old North State? (North
Carolina.)
16.——The Buckeye State? (Iowa)
17.——The Green Mountain State? (Ven-
mont.)
18.—The Granite State? (Vermont)
19.—The Firestone State? (Connecti-
cut.) _
20.—The Empire State? (New York;
21.——The Diamond State? (Delaware.-
22.——The Creole State? (Louisiana)
23.——The Corn Cracker State? (Ken-
Lucky.)
24.—-The Blue Hen State? (Delw-aare.
25.-—Thc Bay State? (Massachusetts;

 

/_“.::_ c H < 7,..L'Y7—ﬂ .

Flannelfeet, the Cop, is peeki"
around the stump to see what is'g

ing on. He thinks that he shuns.
arrest someof the D00 Dads T
cruelty to animals in torturing: th
puppy so. Percy Haw Haw, the

is running for his life for tear s

of the invadvers'will get on ‘hi- , ,

it here isn’t Sleepy Sam, the II"

that flee onih'imtoeugw

“ﬁne it the Doo‘ Dads assoc ad» ,

ing the invaders outer

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, amass AND TRADE, -

W unrest is still widespread
m strikes affect many thous-
,3 of workers; the agitation 0782‘
price condaitio‘r, continues. accom-
panied by numerous seizures 0! food
in" warehouses or stores and the pric-
as 01 many staples, especially in spec-
ulative markets, are still unsettled.

“0n the other hand, however, there

seems to be rather less tension in

the situation as a whole, the stock
markets appears to have reached
something like an equilibrium, the
,ohopmen’s strike, .
volved in the way of checking the
current of of the country’s trade and
industrial life has been called off,
“some or the weakness in prices, as
for instance, in corn and hogs, has
been ‘aided by the better trend of

‘ ; crop reports. The great mass or trade
‘ reports, while testifying to the con-
' siderable unsettlement ruling, partic-

ularly in the markets for foods, are
almost unanimous in showing that
distributive trade in many lines has
not been greatly checked and indeed
is of a very full volume for on main-
arily quiet mid-summer perica.

Warning was given by representa—
tives of farmers’ organizations testi-
fying before the House and Senate
that unless conditions from prof—
iteering ir goods and wages, and from
strikes were settled soon, the coun-
try would face a far worse situation
from the high cost of living next year
than at present.

Farmers, they said, were preparing
now for next year’s crops and under
,present conditions they could not es-
timate what the probable market
would be. Fear was expressed tb'r‘
there would be decreased production
both on this account and because of
President Wilson’s statement. in his
message vetoing the repeal of the
daylight. saviu" law. placing industri~
31 production ahead of farm output.
Michigan has been having its share
,.of unsettled condition due to food
disturbances. More than eight mil-
lion eggs were seized in Detroit in
one day by investigators. Sales of

army surplus supplies will no doubt.

have a further depressing affect in
some lines.

with all that it.

 

 

 

——By courtesy Chic ago Tribune.

 

From the crop phase of the situa—
tion, there is some encouraging news
for many farmers in Michigan, where
z'rops have fared better than in the
average run of the states, although
E‘vlichigan’s prospects were too high

New news comes that wheat in some:

Western states is bringing only 3 to
"x? bushels per acre. while Michigan is
Well above that. Utah is suffering
i s longest drouth, while the dryness
has been broken in most parts of
Michigan by good rains. The crops
51 the east have failed badly, so Mich—
igan enters bulish market with
Iv‘retty fair crops, excepting a few
.tonis like fruit and oats.

 

 

 

 

 

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is fuel in the tank.

12 H. P. on
Draw Bar

25 H. P. on] ‘
Belt Pulley

 

 

 

 

Weight5.000pounds:
pulls three 14” hot—

plows; 12 h.p.
_, ' dtothcdraw-
git; 25 11.1). at the
» 't; Waukeshnjgu-
@1de r motor; er-
f’ ‘Iiadlator; 'Hyatt
er Beg. rings;

twenty years.

’ It works all day—every day

The Mill Wheel turns as long as there is water in the chute.
‘ .You must know that your tractor Wlll “go” as long as there

TH E
UBE
W

is known for its dependable service. A steady stream of powenﬂows from
its mighty motor through all spur gear direct to the draw bar. Light tractor
weight combined with great traction power; high wheels that roll casxer and
increase the amount of surface “grip"; center draft on all loads, preventing
'loss of power from side pull. The combination of all these—.W1th a dozen
other Huber featuresfmdkes the Light Four the last word in tractor de-
pendability——aml fuel economy, too. .

Write for “The Tractor in the Making”, an interesting
story of the development of the tractor as reﬂected m
the successive. models of the Huber for more than

THE HUBER MFG. COMPANY

225 Center Street
. Canadian Branch, Brandon, Manitoba

'Makers of the Huber Junior Thresher

 

Draws three
bottoms

Turns an acre
an hour

Marion, Ohio

 

 

 

 

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'. H ‘tfwo ‘ a.
,, riﬂe

Good territoryittﬁlopeii for live dodgy. > 111 ' "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHEAT -
7 Grade I Det’ot I (lha'o N. Y.
No. 2 Red . . .. 3.23% 2.34
No. 2 White ...... 2.21% 2.32
No. 2 Mixed ..... 2.21% 2.32

 

The. report-by Coleman C. Vaughan,
Secretary of State, and Verne Church
is so good that We are reproducing it
here:

~From .the excelent prospects that
prevailed on July 1, a marked decline
in all‘ crops has taken place since.
The droutn that began in June con-
tinued until after the-20th of July be-
fore general rains came to relieve the
situation In the meantime pastures
had dried up, the growth of all culti-
vated crops checked. the, ripening of
hay and grains he”1ed, and fruit
prospects decrease? {his is the sub-
stance of. the joint report issued by
Coleman C. Vaughan. Secretary of
State, and Verne H. Church, Michigan
Field Agent, U. S. Bureau of Crop
Estimates. Harvesting is nearing
completion and threshing is in prog-
ress. Yields of wheat are generally
good, but rye is disappointing many
growers. Oats and barley are light
in yield and short in straw. Corn,
potatoes, beans and sugar beets— with-
stood the severe drouth remarkably
well and are in a condition to improve

except in occasional local areas.
Fruit prospects show a further de-
cline.

The estimated yield of winter wheat
is 19.5 bushels per acre, which is con-
siderably above the ten-year average
and the largest crop in the last ﬁf-

teams except that or 191‘ T11 -
total production is placed atliﬁflﬂb.‘ g
bushels; Extremely hot; Weather. j
rust and smut have produced some
shrunken grain in localities but, on
Based upon the reports of mills min
' the whole. the Quality is tairly good.
elevators, 990,000 bushels of j wheat
which
practically cleans up the 1918 crop;-

 

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were marketed. during July.

The condition of spring Wheat is 06
per cent, indicating a crop at 915,000
bushels; the yield per acre is 1430
bushels. as compared with 19.2 last

 

 

 

year.
. '. CORN \

‘ Grade I Dot’o’t I Ch’uj’l‘olcdo
No. 2 Yellow . a . . 2.” 2.0‘ 2.35
No. 3 Yellow ..... 2.00 2.01
No. 4 Yellow . . . . . 2.02 1.97

Corn withstood the'ei‘fects of the
dry weather to a remarkable degree.
and only small local areas "tired”. to
an extent beyond recovery. The con-~
dition during the month declined
tom 97 to 8-5 per cent. Allowing 40
per cent of the acreage to be cut for
silos, the estimated grain production
on the remainder is 34,000,000 bush-
els. - '

 

 

OATS
S_tandard ........ I .81 .76 I
No. 3 White l .80- .74 I
1‘14 WWhite“ ..... .79 I

 

The condition of cats has declined
11 points to 62 per cent since July
lst. This represents a yield of 24.5
bushels per acre and a total produc-
tion' of 38,180,000 bushels as com.
pared with 66,320,000 last year. The
crop with unfavorable weather con-
ditions from the beginning. develop
ing a thin stand, short straw and
light heads. The estimated amount
of last year’s .crop still in iarmers'
hands is 4,642,000 bushels.

.‘a

BARLEY
Barley suffered similarly with
oats,, the condition declining from

76 to 65 per cent during the month.
The yield will be about>19 bushels
per acre, which will give a total pro-
duction of 5,359,000 bushels. The
estimated amount of last year’s crop
remaining on farms is 250,000 bush-

els.
RYE
The threshing returns on rye show
disappointing yields. There is an
abundance of straw but the- hot

weather during the ﬁlling period re-

. duced the quantity and lowered the

quality of the grain. The estimated
yield is 16 bushels per acre, giving
a. total production of. 9,166,000 bush—
els. ' This relatively large production
is the result of an abnormal acreage
rather than of. high yield,

BUCKWHEAT

The acreage of buckwheat is esti-
mated to be 20 per cent less than
last year, and the hot and dry season
has given it a poor start. From the

 

 

 

 

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WASHINGTON, D. 0., Aug. 23,
1919—Last bulletin gave forecasts of
warm waves to cross crest of Rockies
Aug. 22 and 27, meridian 90 23 and
28, eastern sections 24 and 29; storm
waves about one day behind warm
waves and cool waves about one day
behind storm waves,

Next warm wave will reach Van-
couver about Sept 2 and temperatures
will rise on all theVPagciﬂc slope. It
will cross-crest of RookiesSept 3,
plains sections 4, meridian '90, great

Tennessee. valleys 5,, eastern sections
6, reaching vicinity. of ‘Newtoundland
about Sept, 7.‘ Storm wave will fol-
low about one day behind warm we.

~ and 0001 .Wave about one day behind
storm wave . . ,

I The three disturbances described in

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THE‘ WEATHER FOR THE "WEEK
As Forecasted by “K '1‘. Foster for MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING

    

lakes, middle Gulf States and Ohio- '

weather of North America from near
Aug 22 to Sept '7. An extensive warm
wave, coming from extreme northwest,
will be central over meridian 90 near
August 30, temperatures rising for
several days before and falling .for
several days after. These conditions
will cross continent during the ﬁve
days centering on Aug 30, An ex-.
tensive cool wave will Similarly cross
continent during the ﬁve days center-
mg on Sept. 2, Moderate rains are ex-
pected Aug 23 to Sept 7 in about same
sections as for last half of July.
Temperatures and rain for Septem-
ber will be about the average of many
years past for the continent, but the
locations of the rains will be about as
for middle of July to middle of Au-
gust 1919. Middle of September will
be its cooles part and some frosts are
expected during the five days center-
ing on 16. near meridian 90, in, north:
ern tier of states and mldde Canada,
First and last woekaot .months will
be warmer than middle week. Storms.
are 'not expected to befsevere. Fair
crop weather for harvesting, thrash-IV '
in: and sowing .wmerzrafn. . _ .

 

    
 

 

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some improvement in the prospezts.

\ cellent condition,

The Outlook weslreduced during the
month from a crop of ‘-.:.' 25.0 000

dbushels to one of 27.5-15.4100

HAY

 

Light Mix. [Stir]. Tim. Tracts?

Detroit l3l. 50 32. 00i80. 00 32. 00 25.09.30.110

Chicagokfis. .oo 40. oolss. 00 38.00 34. 06 1.6.00
N Y. 43. 00 46. come. 00 44. no 33. 00 42. 00
[Light MIL! Clov. Mix.) Clover
bet’rolt 29. 00 30. oo] 27 was .00 736. 00
0mm as .00 32. ()0
N. Y. .24. oo 40. 00126 00 36. 001

 

' The hay crop was secured in ex-
and is estimated

to be 5,282,000 tons. The total acre—

'1 age is ﬁve per cent less 'than last

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H Int conditic‘m is 72 per cent as com-

'10,342,000.

year and that of clover is“ per
cent less. The yield of clover is 1.15
tons per acre. The conditions of the
several markets throughoutgthe coun-
try have not materially changed
from that of a week ago. Supplies
of the old crop have generally moved
forward and have become
and nearly exhausted. .The conges-
tion at the pricipal terminals of
Greater New York have been reduc—
ed and with the raising of all em-

. bargoes at that point, the remaining

stock of old hay will be moved
promptly, with a possible recession
of recent high levels. There is a
disposition on the part of manv ship-

, pars to start in 'the new crop. but ow-

ing to lateness of the securing of the
crop and weather conditions unfav-
orable will retard the movement of
same for a short time at least and
it may be well to exercise precaution
in early shipments. Prices of the
new crop are not yet established and
a wide range of poinion still exists
between the buyers and the farmers.
There has been reported purchases of
a few small lots of new hay at $30,
although this seems like an exhorbi—
‘snt price. The labor diﬂiculties of
is several different. roads, prevent—
ing the prompt movement of hay
tamed to influence the recent ad-
vance in prices. The opinion a: many
of the trade is that under normal
conditions hay must rack 11 lower
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BEANS

Beans have suffered less than most
of the other crops. only occasional
ﬂeidsshowing yellow leaves which is
the ﬁrst sign of maturing. The pres-
ent outlook is for a 1'? per cent crep,
or 3.262.000 bushels, a decline of
13 points during the month The
condition declined in New York one
point, to 90; Colorado, four points
to 70; New Mexico, two points to 90;
and California, four points to 78 per
cent.

FRUITS

There has also been a decline in
fruit prospects. Apples are now es—
timated at 39 per cent of a full crop;
peaches, 26; pears, 50; grapes, 85;
and raspberries and blackberries, "5
per cent. Winter apples are scarce
except in occasional well-kept or-
chards and where the crop happened
to be light last year. Earl y apples
particularly Duchess Yellow 'lmns—
parent and Wealthy varieties are
more plentiful. The prospects for
peaches, apples and pears are the
best in Oceana, Mason, Manistee and
Benzie counties the percentage of a
crop decreasing in all directions from
this area. The commei .ial apple
crop of the United States is estimat-
ed at 23,100,000 barrels as compar-

ed with 25.404.000 last year; the

commercial peach -crop, 29.800,000
bushels as compared with 38,969,000
and the commercial spear crop 8,-
400,000 bushels as 00mpa'red with

SUGAR BEETS

The condition of sugar beets is

excellent in “portions of the “Thumb”

district, but they have suffered more
Or less in other sections from dry
weather, insects, disease. and a short.-
s'ge of labor for thinning. The pres-

last month and- ‘39 one

smaller ,

In ' fact, 1111111: “For
part of the week, it was extremely
sensitive for the reason th it the Disr

trict Attorney subpoenaed all deal-'

6
early -

are guilty of hoarding to appear be— ,

fore‘him to testify as to the reasons
fer their having such quantities of
butter in storage. As. a result of

the action of the Federal Agent, the

market became 'very weak and irreg~
ular at the outset of the week. .After
a day or two when receivers had had
time to think the matter over it
dawned on them that the methods
employed this year were practically
those that had been in vogue in the
market for several years and that the
government could not reasonably ex-
pect that no butter would be placed
in storage. It is not generally expect—
ed that any investigation which the
Department of Justice may instigate
will have any material bearing on
the price of butter. Under practical—
ly any conditions, the law of supply
and demand governs the price of the
commodity. That will undoubtedly
apply as far as -he price of butter is
concerned this year unless some ar-
bitrary price is ﬁxed by some agency
of the government during the period

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There is a marked shortage . of
fancy fresh creamery butter which
has a tendency to cause a. stronger
feeling in the market. In_ addition,
shipments were embargoed last week
and the delays in transit held back
the arrival of a large quantity (f
butter which ordinarily would have
been received. Jobbers have been
active during the latter part of the
week and many outside orders have
been placed. Last week Saturday,

witnessed a weak market, because of
the agitation against high prices. On
Monday that weakness developed

still further and the price declined
one full-cent and the tone of the
market was decidedly unsettled. On
Tuesday, however, receivers had re-
covered from their scare and the
price recovered 1-2 cent. The quo—
tations continued the same on Wed—
nesday and Thursday, but on Friday
because of the scarcity of good but—
ter and the appearance of marked
buying strength, the price advanced
another 1—2 cent. At thc'close es—
tablished quotations piece as follows;
Extras, 5'4 1-20; higher scoring; than
extras, 55 and 65 1-2 cents; ﬁrsts.

LIVE STOCK MARKETS
EAST BUFFALO—Cattle. slain!r
Calves active, $1. 50 lower; $6" a
23. 50 Hogs, 501: to 75c lower.
heavy. $21. 75; mixed,
yorkers, $22; light yorkers and pigs,
$20.50 @ 21;. roughs, $18.50;
$12 @ 16. Sheep and lambs—~lambs
slow; other active and steady. Lambs
$9@$18.25; others unchanged.

DETROIT Cattle dull; best heavy

 

steers-,-$14; best handy weight butch- -

er steers, $12.50@13; :nixed etc-ere
and heifers, $11@11.50; handy light
'butchers, $9@9.50; light butchers
$8.25@8.50 best cows, $9.75@10
butcher cows, $8.50@9; cutters, $7
@750; canners, $8; best heavy bulls
”@9593 bologna bulls. $8638.50;
stock bulls $7@7.50; feedes, $10@
$1.50; stcokers. $7.25@9;
and springers $75@125. Veal calv-
es dull; best $22; culls $14@18;
heavy $8@10. Sheep and lambs

steady; best lambs $16.50@17; fair 1’
light to common .

lambs $14.50@15;
lambs $12@14;» fair to good sheep,
$8.50@9; culls and common,$5@
6.50.
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Get this Information

Write us now so we will know how ~
many to print, because the book will .
be sent ﬁrst to those who send for it.
Don’t delay.

Remember, too, our thirty-ﬁve years ex-1
perience and our big factories at Louisvillc,~
Ky., Columbus, 0., and Nashville, Tenn., are
at your serv1ce.

Federal Chemical Company .

4 Incorporated

I ~ “ Columbus, Ohio

information rightly used

made available, for it is a

record of how it has been done—the
actual experience of a hundred men
who did it!

.You want this information—and it
Will be yours if you will only ask for it.

See for Yourself

At the State Fair samples of the
wheat these men raised, with the
actual record per acre, Will be displayed
for your Information.

Gathering these experiences and making
them available for you is a part of the service
we are oﬂ’erlng the farmers of this State. We
are getting together the best possible informa-
tion from the leading wheat growers of the
State and sending it on to you that you may
make your ﬁelds pay you better.

Don’t fail to see the exhibit at the Federal
Booth of the Michigan State Fair.
learn something that will pay you for your 3
trip to Detroit over and over again when you ‘
put it into practice.

You will

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Michigan Business FanningpAdv. Dep’t. Mt. Clemens, Mtehignn- .

An illustration helps greatly to‘sell farm property. By adding
810 extra for each insertion of Your ad. you can ‘have a photo-.
graphic reproduction of your house or barns printed at the head
of your ad. Be sure to send us a good clear photograph for this

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rather dry. oats less than:~ half. crop.
Wheat. rye and beans fair. "Apples light
crop.
lng fair. ,H. __ , -.-' .
NORTHEAST“ 'Pasture, hay and clov-
er very good. ' Oats, sugari‘beets, fair.
. - Apples not very good.“ Wheat, 1' ehbeans,
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FARMS AND LAND

 

344-ACRE STATE ROAD MICHIGAN
Farm $5,000, with splendid 10-room res-
idence, steam heat, house alone estimated
worth $7,000, large barns,_ &c., nearR'R.
,town, 8 minles large city. Productive
town, 8 miles large city. Productive
ber, orchards. Borders river, motor bus
passes door. To settle now. low price
$5,000. only $1.00 down, gets all. Details
page.” Catalog Bargains 19 States copy

 

free. STROUT FARM AGENCY. 814 BE
Ford Bldg, Detroit.
FOR » SALE Accgggn'lj 68 acreq

health. good 78 acre
cleared, 10 acre: Site
74room frame 0 . . _ ll. Two
lCellar and wood shed. Fine we

On good
.. 0x50and30x35. .—
might: mile to market. Price $g£800r
$3.000 down. balance payment; rrlsville
write to Fred Kruger. R 1, a ..
Mich.

re, good orchard.
Stustone foundation.

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FOR SALE—SO-ACREST‘yEvgeEtANgé
Genesee countyGaines Dion. Metho-

2 1-2 miles to RR stat .
iiaigg'and Polish Catholic churches.1 Emit:
chool Wire fenmd. l,)l‘l\'(-‘ \H.‘.l tune $4 __
mill. No buildings. Used as pasturCreek
5““ Thos. Martin. owner, Swar z ,

Mich.

FOR SALE—~60 ACRE FARMdCbIAA:
loam all improved. Good house an k-
Running water: good schools and ’95”,-

ets. $5,000. .

NEBRASKA FOR THE FARMER “7H0

. a new and better location 18 pic-
3112? and described in a new 1i000]:i ﬁrst
issued by the UgitfgeStSattziat: Riggir‘ghltural
Idléiiieséémog‘agtg about different sections
of the.state, proﬁtable crops, sail, on-
mate rainfall, irrigation. Ranking;I hjgi'h
in production and increasing rap y n
wealth there are still chances for the
man of limited capital and the book tells
how success is to be won. Ask for Ne-
braska book. Give name and address
plainly. J. L. Edwards. Manager Agrl-
cultural Section, Room 653. United States
Railroad Administration. Washington, DC.

ADVERTISEMENT

65 acres good loam land. located one—
half mile from Edmore. Excellent loca-
tion. All stumped. Seven room house.
Large new barn, garage, corn-crib, «1.18“-
house, hog-house and windmill._ Water
in the barn and automatic watering dis 1—
es in stalls. Four acres of corn and two
acres of potatoes and all straw included
if sold at once. Write or see, Andrew W.
Orr, Blanchard, Michigan.

IS FOR SALE—BIG LIST OF
33:: for sale by the owners, giving
nis name, location of farm, description,
price and terms Strict] mutualang co—
operative between ’the uyer and “X‘s;
and conducted for ourmnumbers.’ GLE Ad
ER CLEARING HOUSE ASS N.. Lan
Dpt.. Gleaner Temple. Detroit.

HAVE A SMALL COUNTRY PLACE
to: sale. 8% acres, 5% miles of Ply-
mouth. S. and W. Good soil. 8 room
house in good repair. Good cellar. Horse
barn; wagon shed; corn house; new gar—
age. Small chicken house. All in good
condition. Running water on west end.
Fine location. Lots of nice shade. Price
f 33,500. Will take half down. 0. H. West-

fall, R. F. D. No. 3, Ypsilanti, Mich.

FOR SALE—82% ACRES IN THE
best farming section of Northern Mich-
igan. With or without crops. Nice loca-
tion. New 5 room bungalow with fire-
lace and 3 closets Good barn and out-
uildings. Price $2.000 Come and look
it over yourself. (Will also sell imple-
ments and 50 swarms of bees.) _Schreiner
& Veitengruber, R 4, Charlevoix. Mich.

 

FOR SALE-—90 ACRE IDIPROVED
farm, good land. For description write
owner. Albin Beckstrom, Tustin, Mich.

EIGHTY- ACRES OF. LAND FOR
sale cheap it taken at once, Write for
terms. C._J.' Smith, R 3, Gladwin, Mich.

PAY FOR FARR! 0R RANCH LAND,

showers, although it needs good, thorough
rains. ~.Qats and barley are light. Wheat
and rye good. Early potatoes not very
good. Much- hit by blight. Corn looking
productive clay soils, with Alsike clover fine- Fruit .15 a light crop. Wheat and
seed or Canada field , peas. Only small rye harvest about. over. Barley
cash DaYment required. Money advanced ’ Oats being cut. Wheat and rye threshing

 

 

for live stock at 6%. Jno. G. Krauth. in' full blast.. mo'stlyfrom the 'field.
owner, Millersburg, Mich. - * Weather, warm and seasOnable.
CENTRAL—Pasture, . I-hay, wheat,
FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN—120- beans. notatoespsood. AOats .rxe.susar "
acre improved farm; good soil; good beets fair. Sugar beets 0901‘ standsSo‘me.
buildings. 1% miles from village. For rain. 1 . f . ‘7 .- . :'
particulars write Theodore Andreas. ,WESTERN—Pasture, wheat, dairying,'

rye,_be'ans and potatoes good- Hay, clov-
. ‘ _. , er, pears fair. Oats short, but well ﬁlled.
FOR RENT ON SHARES 'ro ,IRES— Apples half crop- Grapes extra 300d.
ponsible successful dairy farm)? 200 acre Individual CI‘OD.I‘eDOI‘t8 IOHOW:
dairy farm convenient to pu 0 schools, ’ > '
colleges and university, with or ‘without MONTCALM’ _. (Sj W')_The
tools, equipment and registered Holstein. tﬁreshing 0f grain ‘SUH continues in
Two. good homes, imme late possession. t is vicinity linil'is being done very
William B. Hatch, Ypsilanti, Michigan. rapidly. - The rye is being sold direct
MISCELLANEOUS from the separator and the hauling

AUTOMOBILE FOR SALE

Walkerville, Oceana County, Mich.

 

 

 

small acreage of buckwheat was sow-

I want to sel: my 1918 series, six-cyl- e t
mder, seven-passenger Studebaker. I have ngw lggdycall‘. ill/{hich is in blossom
driven this car one season only. It is Is 00 mg ﬁne' The farm;

er is busy plowing for wheat with a.
medium acreage being sowed. the
soil was very dry and many had dis-
continued plowing on account Of
this reason, but a heavy rain —was
received Wednesday night last week,
so this work will be cotinued again.
Beans are in about the same condi—
tion as other crops except the early
beans which were affected by the dry
weather and the yield will be poor.
The following prices were offered at

in fine mechanical condition, was painted
dark grey two months ago; looks and
drives like a new car. Cord tires, all in
good condition, will last easily five to
eight thousand miles. This car is easily
worth $1,250 (to duplicate it in size,
power and appearance with a new car
would cost more than $2,000); but I will
se‘l this car for $975 cash, or $1,050
terms and take Liberty bonds or bank-
all]“. paper. I will deliver and demonstrate
the car to purchaser anywhere in the
lower peninsula. This is a bargain for
any farmer with a. large family who
wants a big car at small car price, If

 

you are interested write at once to Box Greenville on Au t, 13-' .

12, care Michigan Business Fa ' gus ' Whedt’

Clemens, Mich. rmmg’ M" $2.06; corn, $1.95; oats .73; rye.
$1.40. Poultry: Hens, .20; spring-

CORN HARVESTER—ONE-MAN, ONE-
horse, one-row, self-gathering, Equal to a
corn binder. Sold to farmers for twenty-
three years. Only $25, with fodder binder
Free catalogue showing pictures of harl

ers, .23; butter, .50; eggs, .40. Live
Stock: Beef steers, .10; beef cows,
.08: veal :alvas, .ll-mW L.

MANISTEE—J‘armers

 

vester. PROCESS CORN HARVEST “R . are now
00., Salina, Kan. b busy picking their cucumbers. We
have an acre of, nice ones which

SEEDS WANTED made $50 already from same. Some

Michigan Grown

Winter Vetch. Rye and Vetch, June
and Mammoth Clover, Alfalfa, Sweet
Clover, Alsike and Field Peas. Known
Varieties of Garden Peas, Beans and
other Garden Seeds, oi! High Germination
and 1919 crop. Send samples for test.
The C. E. DOPuy 00. Pontiac, Mich.

are plowing, threshing and picking
apples. Weather is moist. .Farmers
are selling cucumbers and some po-
tatoes. The farmers have most of
their rye and fall crops to sell later.
Not much building being don!
around here now.~H. A. -

GRAND TRAVERSE (W.)——Farni»
ers in Peninsula township are most»
1y all busy. with their fruit and 1181"
vesting their grain. Some plowing
being done for fall wheat and rye,
but rather dry for plowing as yet.
Cherry crop all marketed. About
200,000 16 quart cases were sold in
large lots, besides'the local trade and
express and parcel post shipments.
Apples, pears and plums are looking
good. but the crop is light—about '60
per cent. Corn and beans are doing
well. Potatoes are a poor stand
generally on account of seed rotting
in the hot ground after planting. Po

 

FOR SALE—RED ROCK SEED
Wheat at $3.25 and $3.50 per bushel. .M.
C. I. A. inspection. Class 1, registration
No. 9012. Recleaned at “Fertiland
Farms,” ready to sow, Slacks at cost. W.
T. Bandeen, R 4, Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

 

ENGINES FOR SILO FILLING

16 h.- p. Huber Steam Traction.

16 h. p. Stevens Steam Traction.

15-30 Bates tractor.

Here is a chance for you to get a good
serviceable engine at a bargain ﬁgure.
Description and prices sent on request.
THE HUBER MANUFACTURING CO.

Lansing, Mich.

 

BUY TAMARACK FENCE POSTS DI-
rect from forest. Delivered prices. Ad-
dress “M. M." Michigan Business Farm-
ing, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

 

tatoes need rain badly. Wheat and

hr'ANTEIzi—EXI’EiltlleNCﬁDf. illlELtI- rye fair crop, oats very short and
a e marrie man W sma am y 0

work on dairy farm, wages $60 per month, light. Gaugidera’ble building and

good house, garden, milk, etc. Must be repairing being (1039' 3-150 1OtS Of

well recommyﬂgdeGood {thalgceD for farm machinery and autos coming
right man. . . arnes . . . No. . ‘
.2, Washington, Mich. , into the township. The following

prices were offered at Roadside (or

 

 

 

RED ROCK WHEAT GROWN FROM
certified seed free from rye, no foul stuff,
10 bushel lots—$3.00. Bags, extra. Val-
ley phone. Bruce W. Brown, Mayvi,lle,
Mich, R. 3.

taken to Traverse City by . truck)
on Aug. 11: Beans. (C. H. P. Pea)
$7 ,cwt.; Potatoes, $2.00 bu.; Apples,
$1 bushel; plums, $2.00 bushel;

 

«is YOUR farm for sale?

, Read this letter

pears. $2.00 bushel.——A. C:

SANIL'AC (N. E.) “'Harvesting
progressing nicely. Grain mostly
all cut. Some farmers”*-‘ preparing
land for tall wheat. Some threshing
being done—mostly wheat, samples
seem.to be good, but yield notso
good as expected. The bean crop
which is small through this. locality

 

40 inquiries to the ad.

 

. , . Monroe, Mich., May 15, 1919
Gentlemenz—eI sold my farm near Wolver-
ine._through the ad in M. B. F'.

Yours respectfully. ,\

promises to be bumper crop. Corn
looks good. If early frost does not
destroy, it will yield some .goo.d,‘hard
ears. The army worm has showed
up in ’Township‘ of .Wheatland do-
ing damage to late crops—G. A?
MON ROE—Quite dry. again. rains
did not do much mung goodgrarm-

I received over

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E. S. GRISWOLD.

 

 

 
 

-» M..n. ,F. brbiight‘MiJGnswoid assume.
it can clothe same for YOU. “

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. ers busy. .threshing,v,jyields no: better
‘ > than, before reported- Wheat "geing

 

NORTHERN+Pastureg ’iiaTy and cloVei‘.

Peas acreage light, ‘ Potatoes .IOOk-.

$310” are‘tl‘fé' best t ey havelbeen Vin‘

SOUTHEAST—This section has had

and ,

is being done mostly by trucks. A-

401.50;

 

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' seed ,. growers“ {of the

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.ing their ﬂelds"_"vfreeing .them hum-v mili—
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spec‘idon for presence of itorLany‘othcr
disea'eorimpumy‘. ' '
Grow Red Rock n'iieat'lnmeha‘nnd Ap-
‘ proved'hy' the "4‘
Michigan Crops Improvement ~Ass’n
Write for, the

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ments and for a. lie of grow , to
Ass’n g Sec’y. ' 'i

~J. W. Nicholson, East Lansing, Mich.

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take it., No one will'buy oats. cor
or barley. some elevatorswill - i.
buy wheat. Dairy "farmers are look-
ing up corn fodder. silo, corn" and
hay. Will not be any'feed to '_s»h‘ipf_
out of this territory, as _‘ . there" is
some who need What others have to
spare._ Most farmershave given a
plowing as the ground is too hard.—'--'
G. L. s. , ,.
CLINTON." (W.)-’——Some farmers r
are selling wheat-at; present. -~ , Some .

. wheat may be fedt'ltofjhog‘s as it his I

warn; from smog-to 33 for read lac.
the present pri‘c‘es‘bfi'hogs.‘

   

age is'sinalle‘r than‘ilast ‘year.~, We .
have had a‘jsoakii .rairi’“wh'ich,‘was‘_
of great benent'i‘to‘all? ‘ cr

    
 

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prices were 'off . , ,
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”WE one]: REMEDY.
, lathe M. B. -.F. that a reader
‘ If she will

    

will stop. the trouble for, her.
to ducks have to have some
'Ineat and they don’t get bugs
‘ enough to. supply their
e of any kind of meat in
1ll save them .—-’-Mrs. Full-
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GAUGES on BLOODY MILK

..As 141111 a reader of the M. B. F.

Iguana}? on) will-I answer my questions.

”havens: cow 6 years old that; came

trash two months ,_ago and was all
right ant-Ii a few days ago when she

ka- began to givebloody milk out 61 One
front adder. . She runs in pasture.
Hoping to‘ hear your opinion and
mastions for a -' remedy. —_Lizzie
Macro Bay County.

In regard to blOody milk which
y6ur cerrespondent asks about, .I
will say that bloody milk cannot
be prevented or stopped by a specific
remedy as it is caused by the rup-
turing of small blood vessels in the

1 cow’s udder.
f. 3. . injury of some kind such as a blow
or having the udder stepped on by
-another cow or injury from heavy
brush while at pasture. The presence
of bloody milk is very common al—
though it generally escapes detec-
tion because it is only present in.
very minute quantities. Small blood
clots may frequently be seen in sep-
arator slime left in the bowl after
the milk has been run through.
Q , ‘ Bloody milk does not indicate an
’“ , unhealthy cow or a diseased condi-
' tion. It usually stops in a few days
althdugh certain cows may continue
f". ~ several mouthed—J E. Burnett, As-
sistant Professor of Dairy Husban-
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'17:-» . r ’ THE MORTGAGE TAX LAW

' As you will see by the enclosed
clipping I have been trying to do
something about the Mortgage Tax
Law. Senator M. H. Defoe, of Char-
lotte. tells me that the Senate and
House think it all 0. K. as it now
stands and no chance of repealing it
in any way Would you write me
your opinion on it?—W. H. D., Eaton
County.

Supervisor Dodgso‘n offered the fol-
lowing resolution and moved its
adoption: .

Which motion prevailed.

Whereas, we, the members Of the
Board of Supervisors for the county
of Eaton, do consider the present
mortgage tax law of the state of Mich-
, igan to be unjust, unfair, and unsu 1—
' able in that it does not permit the
T _ , V taxation of personal property on an
~ equal basis, and
Whereas, we believe the said mort-
gage tax law should either be repeal-
ed or so modiﬁed that mortgages
should bear their just propertion of
the taxes of the state of Michigan, .

Be it therefore resolved, that we re-
, quest our Representative and Senator
> in the State Legislature to use their
“* inﬂuence, work to; and vote for any
measure that may bring about a more
equitable method of taxing real est
tats mortgages.

supervisor Dodgson offered the fol-V
lowing resolution and moved its adop-
tion:

Whereas, a resolution: was adopted
by this Board asking that our Rep1 e-
sentative and Senator in the State
LegisIature be urged to use all honor-

” . able methods to repeat 61- amend the
present Mortgage 'I‘ax_ laws, during
the past week, and

 

 

 

 

 

 
  
    
 

 

 

  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
   

to send a copy or this resolution to.

 

 
  

‘tion and have
mail a copy to each;
of the present Le‘g- ‘

(A clearing Department for tamers’ everyday troubles.

Prompt, careful at-

tention given to all complaints or requests for information addressed to this depart-

ment. We are here. f0 serve you.)

 

' a} legal question, but only a question

of policy, as to what and how you
shall levy a tax. I believe the legis-
lature has the right to levy the mort-
gage tax, in the matter in which it is
row levied ..—W E. Brown, legal ed-
tor.

 

TENANT MUST CUT WEEDS
Where a farm is leased on shares,
but nething staid in the contract as to
who .‘should cut the wee in the crops
on the lands leased? s the tenant

bound to do so?-——_P. E.

Ans.——Yes. There is an implied

covenant in a lease or- in the- absence

or- expresss coVen‘ant or promises in

‘ the contract, that the lessee 0r tenant
.‘will not Commit wa.ste and that the
land shall be farmed in a husbandlike

manner and that the soil shall not
be funecessarily exhausted by negli-

gent or improper tillage. ~—--V'ictor H.

Hampton, associate legal editor. '

SHEEP VS. TRESPASSERS

vines. B complains because his sheép
will be poisoned if they go on A’s land
and eat the potato plants. The sher-
iff ordered A to build a fence against
the sheep and the prosecuting attor-
ney says that stock can run at large
in the state. Kindly advise me as to
the law. -——W. H. E.

Ana—Section 7,285, O. L. 1915, pro-
vides, “That from and after the year
1867, it shall not be lawful for any
cattle, horses, sheep or swine to run
at large in any public highway of this
-st ttate Provided, That this act shall
be inoperative only in those counties
or? parts of counties in which it shall
be so determined by resolution passed
by the board of supervisors of such

county-__ ___ Under this section un—
less‘ the board of supervisors have
passed the resolution mentioned

"therein- it would not be lawful for B’s
sheep to be on the highway running
at large without restraint. If the
sheep went upon A's land they would
be trespassing and A is under no ob-
ligation to fence against them. B

, board of supervisors it is the dutyof-
.th'e overseer of highways to
. take into custody animals

any person to take into custody auiﬁ.“

 

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forbidden
to run at large and it is lawful fer

 
  
 
    
      
     
 
    
    
      
      
  
    
     
    
     
 
    
    
 
 
   
     
      
    
       
       

mals running at. large in any public
highway, and appeals the land owned
or occupied by him and animals tres-'_
passing upon premises owned by him.
The law further provides for the sale
at public auction of animals so taken .
by complying with the procedure-set
forth in the statute Space does not
permit the setting forth in this part
of the statute. a

Section 2050, C. L. 1915 prevides? V'
that the inhabitants of each township
may at any legal meeting by a vote-of
qualiﬁed electors make all such .or-
ders and by-laws for determining. the
time and manner in which cattle,
sheep, horses, swine, etc. shall be re-
strained from going at large in the
highways___ _

It should be ascertained what steps
have been taken by the board or sup«
ervisors of the township relative to
animals in the highway before. tak—
ing action. '.

Even in the absence of statute cov-
ering the subject the Common Law
rule would make it incumbent upon
B to keep his sheep uponhis oWn .
premises and A would not be bound I
to fence against them. We do not.

    
     
      
      
      
      

This is caused by an. and put poison to kill bugs on the

Its Savings Pay Its

Whereas, it appears: to be advisable
each and evory member of the State ,

i
the,
.

-A and B live across the road from must keep his sheep upon his own
He can use the highway to
drive them from place to place. He is
not entitled to use the highway for
a pasture not to pasture opposite the

each other. B's sheep go on A's land premises.
who has fenced against cattle, but
not sheep. A has planted potatoes

The savings which Lalley Electric
Light and Power makes, in money and
time and labor, actually do pay its
way on any farm.

We make this statement, not on any
say-so of our own, but entirely on
what Lalley owners tell us.

Right now the opportunity to save
by installing the Lalley without delay
is greater than it ever was before.

It will pay you to see the Lalley
dealer at once, and learn why farmers
are buying Laney-Light at the rate of
almost 1000 plants per week.

No farmer, we believe, has ever
considered Lallchight a downright
expense.

Most of our owners possibly in-
stalled thc Lalley primarily for its
Comforts and conveniences. V

They ﬁgured that these advantages
more than oﬁ'sct' the investment.
And So they do. f ,

’ But these men soon discovered that
electric light was only one of the
beneﬁts of Lalley ownership. ‘ ,.

They had an‘amplc supply of elec-
tric power. They turned it to use in
churning and cream separating, fan—
ning, out grain, and other light work
about the barns.

Their women used it to sweep with
suction cleaners; to run the washer;
to do the ironing in less time.

Then the Lalley savings began to
. show. The men could begin the day earlier, and
do more after dark, because of the ﬁne light.
Certain tasks were done in a third or a half the time
they used to take.

So the preference for Lallcy grew greater and greater,
until now. as we have said, it is expressed in sales of close
to 1060 plants a day.
The least you can do' is to see the Laney dealer at once.
It is actually true that the Lalley will begin to save for
you the day. you put it in. Therefore you can’t afford not
» to have it.
Go to the Lalley dealer now, and he will install the plant
without undue delay.
.. Laney-Light Corporation
‘ i797 Renovate Avenue ' Detroit, Michigan

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agree with the prosecuting attorney I
or the sheriff and advise that a good
lawyer be consulted to protect A's
rights in the matte1x—Victor H._
Hampton, associate legal editor .

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See the bailey-Light Exhibit in the Machinery Building
at the Michigan State Fair—Detroit—August 29th—
September 7th

 

 

Laney-Light Distributors for Michigan

Ann Arbor Garage
~Arm Arbor, Mich.

Electrical Warehouse Company
136 Lamcd Street West. Detroit

Elmer R. Paige \
llkton, Mich.

May nerd L. Smith
1112 Center Street, Bay City, Mich.

  
    
   

     
      
  
 


      
   
  

 
     

  

 

 

   

 

   

 

,To .avoid conﬂicting dates awa will.
without cost, list the date of ”any live
stock sale in Michigan. If you are
“onsidorinx I sale advise us at em
and we will claim the date for you.
Address Live Stock Editor, M. B.'F.,

t. Clemens. ’

 

 

Oct. 6-8 Holsteins. Quality HOIStem'
Chicago, Ill.

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CATTLE

HOLSTEIN-FRJESIAK

still, write out what you have to offer, let us put it in: . ,
can change sine! ad. or copy as often as you wish. Copy orchantes must be receivedone mekhetore data
Bales advertised here at special low rates; as]: for them. Write May! ‘ ’

, , BREEDEBS’ 131311010335, M1

64% ﬂat} 6W

      

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WOLVERINE STOCK FARM REPORTS
good sales from their herd. We are well
pleased with the calves from our Junior,
Herd Sire. “King Pontiac Lunde Korndyke‘
Segis" who is a son of “King of the Pen:- ‘
tiacs” from. a daughter of Pontiac Cloth-
ilde De .Kol 2nd. A few bull calves for,
saleﬁ T. W. Sprague. R. 2. Battle Creek,
Mic . ‘

 

Holsteins of Quality
AVERAGE RECORD OF TWO NEAR-
est dams of herd sire is 35.07 lbs. butter
and 816 lbs. milk for 7 days. Bull for
sale ‘with 31.59 lbs. dam and 10. nearest
dams average over 31 lbs. in seven days.

E. A_ HARDY, Rochester. Mich.

 

inns
$150,000 for Pr .
\ Publicity and Exten-
sion Service.

Breeders of Hol-
steins unguimousliy
voted to quadruple the fees or recor -
ing transfers of their cattle sold, and
spend the income therefrom to place
the merits of this greatest of dairy
breeds before the public. If interested in

HOLSTEIN CATTLE
send for our booklets and inform your-
self on how to make money in breed-
ing dairy cattle. - . _ ‘

Holstein-Friesian Association oi
America, Box 295, Brattleboro, Vt.

 

 

 

 

SIRE IN SERVICE

Jthan Pauline De Kol Lad. siredwby
Flint Hengerveld Lad, a son of Flint
Bertiuscia Pauline (553.1111).) and from
~10th Pauline De Kol twice 301b cow
and second highest record daughter of
Johan Hengerveld Lad and mother‘of
Pauline DeNiglander Mich, champ!on
two year old (26.131b.) at 26 months.

Have for sale a. Grand-son of Maple-
crest Korndyke, Hengerveld from a
19.96 lb. daughter of Johan Hanger-
Veld Lad. A show Bull and ready
for light service. Average for four near-
est dams 24.23 lb. Dam Will be re-
tested.

ROY 'F FICKIES Chesaning,Mich.

 

 

 

 

MUSOLFF BROS.’ HOLSTEINS

We are now booking orders for
young bulls from 'Klng Pieter Segls
Lyons 170506. All from A. R. O, dams
With credible records. We test annu-
ally for tuberculosis. Write for pric—
es and further information.

Musloii’ Bros., South Lyons, Michigan

 

 

FOR SALE—HOLSTEIN BULL GALE
from good" producing cow and ﬁrst qual-
ity sire. $75 for quick sale F. W. Alex—
ander, Vassar, Michigan.

BULL CALF5 MONTHS 0LD85A133

A BEAUTY. _
cent white, straight as a line. ‘Sired by
31-]b. bull and his dam is just one of the
best cows I ever milked,-a granddaughter
of Colantha Johanna Lad. Price $150.00
for immediate sale. Harry T, Tubbs,
Elwell, Michigan.

TWIN BULL CALVES ‘

Born October 29. 1918: sired by Sir
Calantha Segis Korndyke 104008 dam‘s
record. 24.35 lbs. butter and 621 lbs. of
milk in 7 days; ﬁne straight calvgs. Send

.for particulars—C. & A. Ruttman. Fowl-

erville. Michigan.

$150 BULL CALF

Born June 3 . Well marked, very large
and ﬁrst class individual. Sire, Flint
H‘éngerveld Lad. Whose two nearest dams
have records that average 32.66 lbs. but—
ter and 735.45 lbs. milk.in 7 days. Dam
of calf is a granddaughter of King Se-
gis and a perfect individual with a rec-
ord of 20.66 lbs. butter in 7 days. For
description write to

L. c. KETZLER, Flint, Mifh.

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PREPARE

For the greatest demand and future
prices that have ever been known. Start
how wi'h the Holstein and convince
yourself. Good stock always for
sale. Howbert Stock Farm. Eau
Claire. Michigan

 

 

CHOICE REGISTERED STOCK

rascal-mom.

HOLSTEINS,
SH‘ROPSHIRES,
-‘ ANGUS.

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A bull calf from a. healthy herd
where A. R. 0. work is being done. The
dam to have a 35 lbs ofﬁcial record,
and the sire preferably of Hengerveld
breeding. '

Serradella Farm Oscoda Mich.

 

 

 

, sired by a son of

u a ve Friend I-Iengerveld
De Kol Butler

Boy and—by a son of King Segis De Kol

Kornlyke, from A. R. O. dams with rec-

ords of 18.25 as Jr. two year old to 28.25

at full age. Prices reasonable breeding

considered.

WALNUT GROVE STOCK FARM
W. W Wyckoi’f, Napoleon, Mich.

 

HEIFER ADVERTISED TO FRESH-
en in September is sold. I now have the
heifer to freshen in January and the 4 mo.
old bull. Also 3 heifer calves. Herd un-
der State and Federal inspection. Pedi-
grees on request. Vernon Clough, Par-
ma, Mich.

 

STOP! READ AND INVESTIGATE!

For Sale—Two finely bred registered
Holstein cows; good individuals; bred to
a 32—lb. bull; due soon; ages 3 and 4
years. Price $300 and $325. C. L. Hu-
lett & Son Okemos, Mich. '

 

 

 

TEN-MONTHS-OLD-BULL

Bull last advertised is sold.
one born June 7. 1918. Sired by glee?
son of famous 630.000.bull heading
Arden Farms herd, King Korndyke
Pontiac Lass. Two nearest dams to
sire of this calf average 37.76 lbs. but-
ter 7 days and over 145 lbs. in, 30
days Dam. a granddaughter of King
of the Pontiacs, Slr Gelsche Walker
SegiS and DeKol Burke, A bargain
Herd tuberculin tested annually, '

BOARDMAN FARMS. Jackson, Mich.

 

 

 

JERSEY

 

The Wildwood Jersey Farm
Breeders of Majesty strain Jersey Cat-
tle Herd Bulls, Majesty‘s Oxford Fox
1342,14; Eminent Lady’s Majesty 150934.
Herd tuberculin-tested. Bull calves for
sale out of R. of M. Majesty dams.
Alvin Balden. Capac, Michigan.

FOR SALE—REGISTERED JERSEY
bulls ready for service, and bull caives
Smith & Parker, R 4, Howell, Mich. '

~ ABERDEEN-ANGUS

ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE
We are offering at attractive prices. a
number of high-class young bulls, wen
able to head the best herds in the land.
Best in blood lineage on either Side of the
ocean. Write for price list. 6. call and

. us. .
ﬁgodcote Stock Farm. lama. MlChigan,

 

type, show you aproofland tell you what.

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omen Business FARMING, Mt. Clemens. Michican.

SHORTHORN
'.: NO STOCK FOR SALE AT PRESENT.

Shorthorn Breeder. W. S. Huber. Glad-
Vln, Mich.

SHORTHORNS i‘lﬁmimﬁlé‘ei “it;

prise-winning Scotch Bull, Master Model

 

 

-. 576147 in many states at head of herd of

50 good type Shorthorns.
E. M. Parkhurst. Reed City. Michigan.

 

'TH’E VAN BUREN CO. Shd’rthorn
,Breeders' Association have young stock
for sale. mostly Clay breeding. Write
your wants to the secretary, Frank Bai-
ley. Harttord. Mich,

 

THE B A B B Y O 0. SHOBTHORN
‘Breeders‘ Association wish to announce
their new sales list for about October 1.
of the best beef or milk strains. Write
your wants to 'W. L. Thorpe, Sec'y., Milo
Mich, '

SHORTHORNS, 100 HEAD 'rov SE-
lect from. Write me your wants. Prices
reasonable. Wm. J. Bell. Rose City. Mich.

 

HAT DO YOU WANT? 1 represent 41
SHORTHORN breeders. Can pm you in
touch with best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages. Some females. C W Cru‘m.
President Central Michigan Shorthorn
Association. McBrides. Michi: .i.

H EREFORDS

HEREFORDS BOB FAIRFAX 494027

AT HEAD OF HERD
11 heifers for sale; also bulls any age;
either polled or horned. Earl C. McCarty,
Sec‘y H B Association, Bad Axe, Mich.

 

120 HEREFORD STEERS. ALSO
know of 10 or 15 loads fancy quality
Shorthorn and Angus steers 5 to 800 lbs.
Owners anxious to sell. Will help buy 50c
commissxon. Cl F, Ball. Fairﬁeld, Iowa.

LAKEWOOD HEREFORDS

Not how many but how good! A few
well-developed, beefy, young bulls for
sale, blood lines and individuality N0. 1-

you want a prepotent’sire, that Will
beget grazers, rustlers, early maturers
and market toppers. buy a registered
Hereford and realize a big proﬁt on your
investment. A lifetime devoted to the
breed. Come and see me.——E. J. TAY-
LOR, Fremont, Michigan.

HOGS

POLA N D CHINA

 

 

 

BIG TYPE P. 0. SPRING PIGS. EITH-
er sex. From choice bred sows and sired

‘by a grandson of Grant Buster and other

prize-winning {boar-s. Prices reasonable.
L. W. Barnes and Son. Byron, Mich_

 

BIG TYPE P.'C, GIL’I‘S BRED FOR

AUEUSt and Sept. farrow. A. A. Wood &
Son, Saline, Michigan.

 

BIG TYPE POLAND CHINA PIGS,
sired by Bob-O—Link, by the 2nd Big Bob,
Michigan Buster by Giant Buster, and
Big Des Moines 5th, by Big Des Moines.
Also sows bred to these boar. O. L.
Wright, Jonesville, Mich, Jonesville is lo-
cated 25 miles north of the Ohio and In-
diana line. .

WAINUT ALLE BIG TYPE, Gilts

all sold. Keep
watch of 1919 crop sired by Arts Sena—
tor and Orange Price. 1 thank my cus-
formers for their patronage.
A. D. GREGORY, -

 

lonia, Mich.

MICHIGAN CHARII’ION HERD OF’

Big Type P. C. orders booked for spring
pigs. E. R. Leonard. St. Louis. Mich.

 

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

I HAVE A NICE FALL GILT

will farrow in September. priced at $100.
Also a yearling sow, had 9 pigs this
spring, price $150.00, that will farrow in
September. '
C. E. GARNANT,’ Eaton Rapids, Mich.

 

 

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“More than double the ‘
replies than from any
; other paper.”

  

   
 
 

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. . July 14, 1919
Michigan Business Farming, .
Mt. Clemens, Mich. .
Dear Sirs: Our ad. in M. B.
P. was very satisfactory, receiv-
ing more than double the replies
from it than from: any other pap-
eriused, ' . '
Sheridan Poultry Yard,
,- , Sheridan, Miclf.

 

 

 

 
        
   

  
 

rt 18.26 are». ‘
ellipses. Breeders" , ‘

. roa SALE—LARGE rum ”LA

China boars, April and May (army: -
fanner’s kind atitart'nerls prices, Il‘
Piggott & Son. Fowler, Mich.

Large Type 'Poland (3111113301:
Write that inquiry for L. $1320.86“-

iceable boars to"‘Wm..J., , ,
Rapids, Mich-.3 instead of Mama I hays

 

sold my term and "bought another. one
mile west and eight and one-halt'miies .

south. Come and see me in my new home.
Free livery from town. , , ‘ '

‘ WM. J. CLARKE.-
R. No. 1,

Eaton Rapids. Michigan
BI G TY P E >WITH ,QUALITY,
Pigs, from L’s Big Orange 291817. W11

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sex, for sale. Prospective buyers met at;

St Johns. .J. E. Mygmi'ita. St. ‘ Johns.
Mich. _ _ » 2 .

 

DUROC

Dome JERSEY SWINE. an. on
Sows and Gilts all sold. Nice bunch of
fall pigs, both sex. sired 91y Breakwater
Tippy Orion No. 55421, by ippy 001.. out-
of dam by the Principal 4th and Brook-
water Cherr Kin . Also herd boar. 3,yr.
old. Write or pe igree and mil-es Sat--
lsfaetion guaranteed.’ This. Underhill- &-
Son, Salem, Mich. . , ,

 

 

DUROC BOARS READY FOR SE8.
vice, also high class sows bred for sum-.
mer farrowing to Orion’s Fanc King. the
biggest pig of his age ever at nternatlon-
:11 Fat Stock Show.
St. Johns, Mich.

DUROCS: FOUR .AUGUST BOARS
ready for heavy sex-Vice. Pedigrees sent
on application. Newton & Blank. Hm
Crest Farms, Perrlnton, Mich. ,Farm, 4
miles south of Middleton. ' -

 

REGISTERED DUROC BOARS FRQM
prize-winning Golden Model family,
smooth type, adapted for mating with the
coarser-boned females for .early maturing
plgs.’ Subject. to immediate acceptance
and chan e Without notice 1 will crate
and ship or 250 per pound. Papers if de-.
sired $1 extra. Send 350 Will refund
difference or return entire remittance.“
reduced offer is cancelled, Pits“ Will
weigh from 150 lbs. to 200 lbs. Geo B.
Smith. Addison. Mich . _

MEADOWVIEW FARM REGISTERED
Duroc Jersey Hogs and Jersey Bulls. J.
E, Morris, Farmington. Michigan.

 

PEACH HILL FARM "

anoiszrmian inmoc JERSEY GILTS,
bred for fall farrow. Protection and Co}.
one] breeding. Our prices are reasonable.
Write or better still. come and make your
own selections. ‘ViSitOI‘S welcome. In-
wood Bros.. Romeo Mich. _ ., ,

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SAGINAW VALLEY HERD 01" 0.1.0,}:
Boar pigs, grandsons of Schoolmaster and
Perfection 5th. Sows" all sold John
Gibson. Bridgeport, Michigan.

Sh ado‘wian‘d Farm
0.1. C’s.
and June.

- — in May
Bred (‘1th Booking orders for
Spring Pigs. Everything shipped C.O.D
- and registered in buyer’s name if
you want the best. write
.1. CARL JE‘VETT. Mason, Mich.

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KAMPS “IRES

8734 HAMPSHIRES RECORDED ’IN
the association from Jan, 1 to Apr. 1, 19.
Did you get one? Boar pigs only for sale
now, John W. Snyder, St. Johns. Mich.
R. No. 4 4

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GREGORY FARM Banxsnmns FOB

f‘t. ChoiCe stock for sale. Write your -
wants. W. S. Corsa. White Hall, 111.,

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11GISTERED CHESTER_ WHITE
PIgS for sale at prices that Will interest

you. Either sex.‘ Write today. _Ralph ‘

Cos-en". Levering. Mich

CHESTER WHITE MALES.
Big type Chester White spring male pigs.
Registered. Write, for reasonable terms.
J. T. Yaukie Breckenridge, Mich.

 

 

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V351”_Shepherd Pupppies; natural ,heel-
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’ ‘~pur'éb‘re¢1 Scotch Collie Puppies; sired by

~ cattle. dog.

Giants
' sale. Sheridan Rabbitry. R.

 
  

 

figurine; 'w. A. EWALT, Mt. clem-
coexistent, fOr those beautiful Sable and-

ftOm tametralned stock; also a few

Ewalt’s Sir Hector." MichiganChampion

RABBITS

norm men BELGIAN HAnns, PED-
igreed-‘andregistered stock. Prices right
and,sat-isfaction guaranteed or money re-
funded upon return of stock. Write the
Vermin” Hill Rabbitry. Lock Box 546.
Clare; Mich.
BELGIAN RABIES AND FLEMISH
. Healthy and well-bred; Stock for
5., Sheridan.

 

 

Mich.

SPECIAL SALE 0N PEDIGBEED
Red Belgian Hares. All are pure—bred
and in perfect health. Write for special
sprices. Claude Greenwood. R 10,
Johns, Mich.

POULTRY

Yearling Hens, Pullets & Cockerels

"S. C. White Leghorn and S. C..Brown
Leghorn Yearling Hens now laying at
$1.50 each. 9. C. and Iggse C‘or‘nb thgngol
Leg horn'twelvewee so piles; .
each. thriller-e13 of above broods at $1.00
each _ Will ship on approval.

VALLEY RIDGE POULTRY FABM‘
From Miller, Prop. Bloomingdale Mich.

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COCKERELS AND PULLETS

All standard breed Cockerels, Ducks,
Geese, Turkeys. Yearling White Leg—
horn Pullets and a few other breeds. Rab-
bits-Belgian; N,eW' Zeelands; Rufus
.Reds; Flemish Giants . Send for price
list and catalog.

STATE FARMS ASSOCIATION
Bloomingdale Mich.

' mmcnnsr FARM ormns A
limitea number of May hatched Barron
8.0. . Le horn Cockereis 275 egg strain
0 $1.50 to 2.50 each. Order direct from
this ed at once, Satisfaction guaranteed.
BRUCE W. BROWN, Muvﬂl", Mich" Ra

SACRIFICING 3,000 PURE DRE!) EN-

S. C. White Leghorn year-
ling pallets with long-deep bodies large
combs at $1.75 each. Weight ’5 lbs. each.
Most proﬁtable layers. Records from 200
to. 272 eggs pr year. Large valuable cat-
alogue free. Write us your wants. Fruit-
vale Leghorn Farm, Zeeland, Mich.

Iron oALE: SINGLE COMB wnrrn
leghorn Cockerels; 12 weeks old, $1.00
each. R... E. Terry, Remus, Mich.

RHODE ISLAND. REDS

~ MARCH HATCHE'D R. I. RED COOK-
erels. Both Combs. Write for prices and
order early. Interlakes Farm, Box 4,
Lawrence Michigan.

WYANDOTTES "~

SILVER. GOLDEN AND WHITE
WyandotteS: eggs from especial mat-
mg 33.9..- 15; tiper 30; $8 per 50; by
parcel post prepaid. Clarence Browning.
Portland. Mich.

HATCHING EGGS '

FOR SALE—EGGS FOR HATCHING
~from Barron Single Comb White 1.93.

 

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’ were gathered and

.“it wouldn't have seemed in keeping

‘stories high, and decorated with the

 

h ms; 300 eg s strain I7—lb. cock, $1.65
pgr 15 b mails; $4 per 50;.chlcks, 20 for
$5 R. g. Woodruf‘f. Melvm. Mich.

HAPPINESS.
(Continued from page 8)!

ment or cellar for that was not neces-
sary in Californiaybut these energet-
ic girls simply made black sateen
bloomer’ suits, and went to it, calling
on a real-honest-to-goodness carpenter
,to do the very heaviest work, which
was only twd days. Needless to say
the resorters all around came to gaze
and advise, and sometimes moved to
admiration, to lend a' helping hand.

The house ﬁnished; vacation was
spent canning fruit to boat the high
cost of living during the coming win-
ter. And in- the eveninls. after the
hard day’s work was over, the girls
attended the Chautauqua, or a mov-
ing. picture show—or perhaps just en~
tertelne'd the many girl,friends who
came down from the city. Gradually

the boys hear-d at it too and begged to

 

amended—:39 a chaperon was pre-
ded- and thistllttle cottage was the
" W e- along the beach.
my nearbY—ﬂ brother
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'know that without exception every

guests was the post— p

, m t where’_ "we
tun,"-eeid she i ‘ , “It

 
     
 

will: seem like“ ,
right, and besides it will be cheaper.
Anon, with thehelp‘ of. her pupils,
and_h'er teacher-friends, the wedding
was arranged. Using the nearby
woods as a background, wild roses
made into an arch
far the couple to stand under. Then
pupils “made a daisy chain, between
which the couple walked to their.
places. “And," wrote the happy bride

at all to have had a satin wedding
gown, so I just had a. dainty, ﬂowered
washdress, and all the girls . wore
their pretty .summer' wash dresses.
Fruit punch w ' made by my chums,
who also madeﬁll my cakes, and that
was all we had to cute—served picnic
style—in God’s own out Of doors. The '
girls had a Wonderful surprise for me
in the shape of a wedding cake, three

choicest of California's roses.”

A modest little bungalow with wil-
low furniture, all' bought and paid for,
was where the groom took his bride,
and it is safe to say that they now
have more money saved than the oth-
ercouple had to start with, but they
have it all saved now—and the wed-
ding is over. _ ‘

Can anyone imagine anything but
happiness in store for this last couple
who will live together—for each oth-‘
er—and be content with what they
have?

 

APPLE AND PEACH CROPS
FALL BELOW PROSPECTS.
(Continued from page 5.)

over the crop of 1918. Michigan’s
peach crop is nearly four times that
of last year; but only 135,000 are
now expected for this state.

Continued drop, on account of
dry weather, through the peach coun—
ties, has lowered Michigan prospects
in the last month. The cariot move—
ment out of the state will not ex-
ceed 250 cars of 400 bushels each,
the balance of the commercial crop
going to market vie. truck or express.
Movement will commence about Au-
gust 20 to 35. Berrien county, which
normally produces 45 per cent of
the state’s commercial crop, will haVe
a production of not to exceed 23,000
bushels or about the same as last
year. Allegan and Van Buren coun—
ties which together normally produce
33 per cent of the state's crop will
have less than 22 per cent of a crop.
Oceana and Mason counties promise
better than 65 per cent of a crop com—
pared to a failure last year. '

Pear Prospects Improved

The commercial pear crop of the
United States shows a. ﬁve point in-
crease over last month, “and the
commercial crop in the important
states is now" estimated at 8,351,000
bushels as compared with 7.589.000
bushels last year, or 110 per cent of
last year. The feature of the report
is the very large crop in California
and the west generally. California
has the largest commercial pear crop
in its history. and the production is
estimated at considerably over 4,-
000,000 bushels.

 

Thinks Her Dishes Just Fine !

“I received my set of dishes which
you sent me for getting twelve new
subscribers to Business Farming and
was very well pleased with them. I

think they are just ﬁne. I thank
you very much for them." So”writes
Mrs. Fannie Johnson of Amadore,

Michigan, in a letter dated August
ﬁfteenth. We are mighty pleased to

reader of Business Farming who has
worked for a set of dishes has been
pleased with them and surprised how
easy it was to get the twelve new
subscribers from among her friends
and neighbors. - .

There is no reason why any home
which our- weekly reaches should not
be graced with a beautiful new set
of dishes in one of the modern pat-
terns which we offer and which are

the very latest on the American mar:

ket.

If you would like to earn a set,—
simply write the Circulation Man-
ager, cares! Business Farming, Mt.
Clemens. Mich, and lie will send you
everything necessary and also color

 
  

beginning 3 our ,, 71M. .

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order now" " Tomorrow may
. be; loo late » Write today

McClure Company, Saginaw. Mich.
Salinas! Silos and Whirlwind Silo, Fillers -

 

 

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LIVE STOCK COMMISSION

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INDEMNIFIES Owners of Live Stock—Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs
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Bold from factory to eon-met.
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84 x 41- 80.85 165
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All other elm In Plain and N.S.
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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!

One Subscrip- ONE YEAR ....... $1 No Premiums,
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to all! FIVE YEARS ..... $3 more than we ask.

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When the accident happens—and accidents will happen to all of us ! What will you do?

Of course, you didn’t mean to—no one ever means to have an automobile accident, but they come to
good drivers and bad drivers,alike,—a child darts out from back of a wagon, or roller-skates out in front
of you—You try to stop, but too late,—she is under your machine.

Will you add to the anguish of that moment by the knowledge that you are in no way ﬁnancially
able to do all you should for the person injured? , . I

Then, there are the thousand and one minor accidents which WILL happen that destroy the prop-,
erty of another person. The courts say that the auto owner guilty MUST PAY every dollar of the dam- ‘
age—what if you ran into a $6,000 limousine and wrecked it? Such things are pOSSible to YOU, because
they are happening to other auto owners just like you every day.

OUR STANDARD POLICY IS WRITTEN FOR FIRE, THEFT
AND LIABILITY! .

At a cost of One Dollar for the policy and 25c per horse power you can be insured against all of
these calamities which are liable to happen to your automobile. '

 

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mobile mutual insurance company. . , ‘

YOU [SHARE YOUR RISK WITH 46,000 ‘ :
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We do not like to present ugly pictures of, calamity, but they become necessary to drive your atten.
tion today to the need of auto insurance.

Don’t drive another day and risk it I

Write us, giving only the name and model of y0ur car for fulfinformation which we will place in
your hands without any. cost or obligation to you. -

WM. E. ROBB, Secretary,

Citizens’ Mutual Auto Insurance ‘ Co.,

Michigan’s Pioneer and Largest Mutual Auto Insurance Company in the World _

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