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J. l... HOWARD
President American Farm lureau Federation

HE GREATEST conference in

the history of American agri-

culture held at Chicago perfect»-
ed the organization of what is now
known as the American Federation
of Farm Bureaus.

Before the meeting was called te
order the exact purpose of the ses-
sion was known but not until every
delegate in the hall argued and urg-
ed point after point was the proposi-
tion made a reality.

At each session about 500 were in
attendance. Thirtyufour states were
represented by voting delegates. Rep—
resentation of states by individuals
varied. Illinois having the largest
representation with about 200 fann-
ers and advisors present during the
sessions. Delegates came from all
sections of the country,‘Massachu—
setts on the east, California on the
west. Texas on the south and Dakota
on the north, taking in all corners of
the nation and making the confer-

. ence truly national in its scope.

The conference was opened by an
address of welcome by Harvey L.
Sconce, president of the Illinois Ag-
ricultural Association. He spoke for
half an hour in Which he emphasized
that the permanent organization
should stand for pure Americanism.
This remark was followed by vigor-

v‘ous applause, also When he said it

should be the policy of the dual or
. ganization not to align in any way
' with destructive,. radical movements

at this time. He added that the or-

; ganlsation should see that farmers
. are fully represented where they have-
, interests at stake.

If the government
hoped to get a permanent solution
for the difficulties of the times it
must give farmers real representa-
tion.

Mr. Sconce closed by remarking
farmers must be prepared to so
their labor as other classes do. Farm-
ers must have intelligent and accu-
rate information on the world's food
production. Find what the world

i wants and produce it, rather than
, farm the soil to the limit. ‘ Above all.

farmers must keep control of ﬂair
products till they at nearer the cen-
sumer than now, e added.

A response for the eastern farm-
erswasmadebys. L. Strivings ed

' New York, president of the fun: be-

I'm ,

.- By JOSEPH M. CARROLL
(Special correspondent am» Business Forming)

Auterican Farm Bureau Federation

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California, Oregon, Washﬁi
ifornla; W. Jamieson, Coo

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333"!" ‘movements promot the

ing
Welfare of American institutions.
“rm—w. desire to point out
o factor in theh cost 0% ivi§
is he curtaiing of production u
shorter hourl. lessened efficiency
labor, and strikes.

—‘ approve the Federal Land
13th . uestthat the maximum
irbdoivid’.“ 103W be changed from 810-
0 to

VIP—We reocognine that land owner-
:hipm is stewardeh

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neas to be under Feds Charter and
all other oraticns to be incorpo-
rated he laws of the state in

which utheir principal business is 10-
oated.

XII. —We are opposed to Govern-
ment ownership of public utilities. We
demand the early return of the rail-
roads to private control. mid such

ditions and regulations as ren-
gonad ate service at just and equi-
table es. We particularly demand
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( MOWyoming, H. Wailmr, Cal-

Resolutions /

Outstanding among the twenty-eight resolutions adopted by the Ameri—‘
can Farm Bureau Federation are those opposing a. farmer-labor alliance
posing government ownership of utilities, favorin

the packers,
The resolutions brieatttllied thet spirit of Amer
l u from all quacrso ecounry
bugging" r’eaders will be most interested in are as follows:

I.-——We declare our independence 2f ‘

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as
the early return of e‘
rndlcalism and
ﬁn that is
which we

enounoing

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ishable t ortation.
equipment train schedule lee.“l
XIII ecognizing the economic
law that pals the consolidation of
P re lief from
on of mono ly in manu-
scture commerce sto be found

sic-operation, in enforced publicity
bus records, and a just u-
ated income tax rather thru in erfer-
ence with e economic law upon

which great dustries are founded.
XIV— e recommend mm
tion of purveyorsho o uffs, in-’
olud packers, who
mm 2: men and sin: in-
ustries or as, be
Just and fair to users and con—
sumers as well as te the industries.
xvrrr—w. deny of ‘
some gresemen that
mand seed distribution

practice.
XIX—With few

40 years. the m. 11.11;
t‘ytakeoﬁog the msomdorgm him"

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and an id labor

hildren. e igllt
theses." l timate factors coste
food produ on. and must be so rec-

ognized by the commercial and en-
erai public. ‘

women “and

XXr—W We assert the farmer is entit-
led to a junta-profit on a cost of o-
duction on products with tgre ‘
items pro riy accounted for,
due oonsi oration to the hazardous
risks he encounters andwi
allowance for his own laborth anad abii-
i commensurate to that received in
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reau of that state. He spoke for
sane, intelligent policies, free from
radicalism. He said a practical,
workable plan must be adopted if it
was to have the whole support of the
rank and file of farmers.‘ There was
a wide range of conditions in the dif-
ferent states and it would have to be
a give and take proposition if a
strong, eﬂeetive organization was to
be formed. one of the big things the
organization can do, he said was to

give the nation the beneﬁt of the

concentrated loyalty and saniu of
farmers. Th talk it around the
farms and s. but it is not ex-
grossed in a united voice which must

farmers and ﬁtted, “the trouble with
farmers in as past is that we have
not had time to look over our line
fences. The farm bureaus helped us

    

 

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Io get a little broader view of our
business and its relations ,to other
lines. The state federations came
and helped now we have met togeth-
er on a nation-wide basis. We now
sell in the markets of the. world and
in world terms."

The speaker said he hoped the fin-
al organization would succeed in
breaking down these forces which
are antagonistic to the best interests
of the nation, and that farmers could
go ahead on a sane basis, exerting
the inﬂuence they should at this and
all times.

 

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a. L. ermvmos.

Vice. Amerlcsn Famlureau Federation

tion of this kind, my organization has
been ﬁghting for everyone. I will
say that this is the most promising
child of agriculture the country has
Vigorous applause fol-
lowed these remarks.

The convention was harmonious in
spite of differences of opinion. Re-
ports that delegates, alleged to be
radicals, would attempt to, start some-
thing proved false. There was no
outbreak of any kind on the red order
although several times there were
bits of spicy repartee between dele-
gates, but it was good natured.

Article ' 2,was practically rem
and the revised wording gave the
jest of the federation as follow:
objects of the American mm
of Farm Bureaus are to correlate and ..
strengthen the farm bureaus of the
several states, and to promote, pro-
tect and represent the business, so-
cial. economic and educational inter-
ests of the farmers of the nation.

There was quite a row started over .
the question of representation on the
board of directors. E. B. Oanwali
,of Vermont literally threw a bean!

Pres.

into the meeting when he suggee
that each state have only one d
or and one vote in the national body.

The original draft of the cox-titu—
tion called for a vote from each state
with an additional vote for “a
membership at £0,000. The ‘
was revamped to make the manhun-
ship read 20, 000 as a means .01 arbi-
tration.

Discussion lasted more thanan

, hour and practically every delegate

in the room voiced his opinion on the
subject. 0. A. Bingham, secretary of
the state organisation of Michigan
spoke stroneg in favor of the 2.0,-
000 member plan and considerable
talk was heard that his remarks car-
ried considerable weight in

.the attitude that had been form
against it. »

Thepropositionoarried seiose
margin Atterthebattle been
woubythe westsrustatss,
mmmmmmenber-

Maths eastern states

in favor of the proposition. de-
ehringitthebestbasisofrepresen—
tatiousoerall.

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unit made upon it and 1121191!-
in; so diesel? after the one made By
Ohirt'es Cole it makes one almost
wade r whether

anticipation of ﬁnding the Holstein-
Friesia‘n Association in a, weakened
condition because 0: the Cole'episode.
The second assault is contained in the
fellowing action:

“Resolved That we the American
Dairy Sclenca Association, petitiion
the erican Association of Agricul-
tura Colleges and Experiment Sta-
tions to request that the Colleges be
relieved of all advanced registry test-
ing work for periods of less than 300
days on and after October 1,1920."

While, it may be denied, and prob-
ably will be by interested breeders of

- other cattle that this is not an assault
on the Holstein-Friesian breed it
may be argued and probably will be
by genus of the selfgloriﬁed profess-
ors_and their adherents, that it is not
an assault upon the Holstein-Friesian
cattle, but the fact remains that no

his hid mother . .

the second was in

other cattle are being tested in short '

term tests, no other cow but the black
and white has ever, to any considera-
ble extent, been tested for 7 and 30
days and the fact that some of those
at this meeting said they proposed to
put it over the Holstein-Friesian cow
before and after the adoption of this
resolution, is a self-evident fact that
the whole plan is one to injure the
Holstein-Friesian breed and is the
outgrowth of jealousy and spleen on
the part of others interested.

.Thoro are just two motives for this
conduct. One is, those prejudiced
against the ,Holetein-Friesian breed,
some of whom are in the open, others
behind them egging them on the main

cuse being that the Holstein-Fries-
cow is ‘becoming too popular and

‘ nemething must be done to give the
other breeds a chance; and the other
in, these American Dairy Science As-
sociation members have not the time
._to answer the great number 0: in-
quiriee that come to their depart-
ments - om those interested in these
Ihort 0' tests and do not want to
be bothered and annoyed by“ what
they term useless contact with farm-
ers and dairymen who want to get in-
formation from the professors of
dairy husbandry, because, try as we
may and argue as we will, this short
time test has become a source of tre-
mendous work to the agricultural col-
lege of the United State. I venture
the assertion that for the last ten

years there has been more inquiry

made of dairy husbandry in the agri-

It Has Shown Thousands of Small Dairymen the Way to Bigger Proﬁts

By D. D. AITKEN

 

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The short test has wooded out the

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cultural colleges of the dairy states
by people who want to make short
time tests. than all other correspond-
ence combined; that there are more
people interested in making short
timetests who milk their own cows
many times over than all other in-
terests combined. I make the asser-
tion that there are more persons tak-
ing the short course in the colleges of
the dairy states because of the inter-
est that was awakened by this nurs~
eryof the Holstein-Friesian cow than
all other reasons. I can remember
years ago (having always been inter‘
ested in the Agricultural College of
Michigan) how hard it was to get in
touch with the farmer. He had a. feel-
ing of‘spleen against theAgricultural
,College and did not like the idea of
the college professor assuming to
tell him how to run his farm. but
things have, changed. In the dairy
states today there are thousands of
young men from the agricultural col-
leges boarding in the homes of, the
farmers who own black and white
cows who are anxious to ﬁnd out
what thosa cows can do, and they are
testing them for seven days, but the
Agricultural College has a representa-
tive in the home. If he is a bright
young man, as a great many of them
are, he carries tidings to that home of
what the college has accomplished.
He tells them about how John Henry
Jones fed his cows and how he got
the best results. He is a source of
great information to that home which
has been 1” lated all these years, and
the boys an i-‘girls Of that farm home
near him tell of the accomplishments
of the college, and all the time that
farmer himself is paying the cost; he
is boarding that young man; he is
paying that young man his wage for
coming there and testing his black

and white cows and telling him and
the boys and girls about what they do
at the Agricultural College. In the
meantime that same college is spend-
ing hundreds of thousands of dollars
trying in some other additional way
to get in touch with other farm
homes. That same supervisor oft-
times tells the farmer about the Hor-
ticultural Department or the college,
and what that has accomplished; in
fact if there is anything worth while
around te college that is unusual that
a bright young man would naturally
ﬁnd out, he imparts it to the farmers,
the men who support the agricultural
colleges and Tor whose beneﬁt the ag-
ricultural colleges are maintained.
But these gentlemen representing
other interests under the name of
The American Dairy Science Associ-

ation, etc, want you to discontinue

letting these farmers have these
young men from your institutions
even though the farmer pays all the
expenses. Why they want to deny
the farmers this right I am unable to
understand.

I do not want anyone to imagine
that I prefer the 7-day test, or I be-
lieVe in it over the semi-ofﬁcial. I
think the breeding in my owu herd is
the best reply to that. My senior herd
sire has a dam and grand-dam that
made better than 1,200 lbs. of butter
in a year. My junior herd sire has a
dam and grand- dam that average bet-
ter than 1, 200 lbs. of butter in a year
and every animal on my farm as she
freshens now goes into the long time
test, because for the ﬁrst time I have
been able to get men whom I felt
would stay on the job and work out
this problem of developing these cows
under this long test system. I thor-
oughly believe in it, but I am not un-
mindful that the gruf bulk of the

owners; of Holstein-Friesian cattle ,
cannot make successfully this long-
time test. It is too expensive and he
just now' is not able to accomplish it.
Between 40 and 60 per cent Of all the
men Who test Holstein-Friesian cat.-
tle milk their owu cows. Now imag-
ine, if you please, the average. farm-
er with not sufﬁcient help to operate
his farm, attempting to milk a cow
four times a day and then three Home
a day to get the best result. Imagine
that farmer in the harvest time cut»
ting green stuff and drawing it toili'e
cow, getting beets where he has had
to keep them buried so they would
not wilt—he wants to keep them crisp
and fresh—and spending practically
all his time looking after four or live
cows. It is simply idle for us to ass"
sume that the average farmer gener-
ally will be able to go into the ..
1y or 300 day test.

Listen to what that grand old war-
rior at Dela Ian says, the man who
knows morc (about ofﬁcial testing and
its effect 115 .1 the breed, than all of
us:

“I have always regarded the short
time test as the very best preparatory
school for the long time test. I
have styled it the nursery or kinder-
garten. My reason for this is that up
to the present time not 2% of those
who take up the long time testing are
beginners in testing, as almost all of
those who take up the long time test
have had their preparatory testing in
the short time work.”

During the last ﬁscal year we had
about 1,750 breeders making short
time tests of which about 150 b
ers were also making long time tests.
There were only one or two breeders
making long time tests who had not
previously made short time tests, and
I ﬁnd it very difﬁcult, indeed, at the
present time to induce men to begin
testing with the long time test. Last
year there were some 800 cows on
long time tests while now there are
over 1500 cows on long time test.
Within a. few weeks we shall have in-
creased the number on test by 100%.
In the short time testing the increase
to the present time is 50% over “last
yea1, while the applications for per-
mission to test are fairly pouring in
upon us. We are hard put to it to
handle the work and considerably be-
hind, but we are breaking in new
clerks as fast as possible.

I realize the great difficulty many
of the colleges labor under in provid-
ing supervisors, for it is a fact that
under normal conditions the state that
requires most supervisors can obtain
those supervisors easiest.

(To be continued)

The International Live Stock Show-German Exports-4929 Census

When the International Live Stock

Exposition was held last year, the
European war had just been term-
inated by an armistice; 4this year
peace has been ﬁrmly established as
far as the United States is concern-
ed. all uncertainty having been re-
moved. The country has been thru
a period of readjustment from which
it is emerging on a safe, sane
substantial democratic basis.

Fian therefore is the dual cele-
" bration planned at Chicago-the ﬁrst
week of December. Victory being no
longer in doubt, the great livestock
industry disturbed by. war’s uncer-
tainty will move forward to even
greater success. Fitting also will be
the reunion of live stock raisers who
during he past twenty years have
' pal-tic ated in theseannual exposi-
tions, ’together— with such alternate
prosperity and vicissitude as the in‘1
dustry has encountered. A victory
and twentieth anniversary obser-
ence will attract the largest con-
ecuree of live stock raisers and oth-
ers ever seen within an Internation-
ii, Live Stock Exposition arena. For
$00!!!! We will have a show
shoes on a scale
or precedent, both
an lit

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important does an agricultural en—
terprise have to be in order to secure
recognition in the census as a. farm?
A small vegetable garden or a chick—
en yard accommodating a few busy
hens will not be allowed to qualify
as a "farm” in the census no matter
with what pardonable pride and sat-
isfaction the proprietor may view his
agricultural enterprise.

But if the garden or chicken yard
expands until it covers not less than
three acres of ground, or until it
requires for its care the continuous
services of at least one person, or
yields products annually to the value
of $250 or more, it comes within the
census deﬁnition of a farm and will
be recognized as such and counted.

The agriculture schedule contains
many questions regarding farm val—
ues. expenses and live stock as well
as the acreage and quantity of crops
raised in the year 1919. Census bu-
reau oﬂicials are urging farmers ev-

erywhere to prepare for the census

euumerator by”looking over their
books and records so that accurate
answer‘s inlay be furnished to ques-
tione.

In this connect-ion the Bureau of
the Census emphasizes the fact that
the ink: obi «furnished to census
conﬁdential,"
81,6118 and that
can any ouch

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.. gratin: lists to be found in use

Top Prices for Iosco County Cattle

Just what raising the right kind
of cattle on the right kind of range
will bring the stockman was exem—
pliﬁed on the Miller ranch. in Iosco
county, a few days ago, when L.
W. Oviatt paid 12 1—4 cents a pound
for a carload of Hereford’s directly
off the range, which be shipped to
his son’s farm near Bay City for
winter feeding.

With thousands of cattle hitting
the Chicago and Buffalo markets at

this season of the year and at
prices as' low as 6 cents for feed-
ers, the *Oviatt purchase shows

what Northwestern Michigan range
will do for ﬁrst class stock and the
money it will put into the pockets
of the man Who runs his ranch in—
telligently. ‘The diﬂerence between,
the 6 cents paid at Buﬁalo and Chi-
cago for the poorer grades of cattle
and the price paid on the ranch by
Mr. oviatt for high grade stuff is so
marked as to make one wonder why
farmers and others who bother with
the cheaper stuff, which costs just as
much to feed as the high grade an-
imals, and also to wonder why more
men, both those already settled in
Northeastern -Michigan and those
who are farming and raising stock on
$200 to $400 per acre land else-
where, don't wake up to what can be
done with the censmtively cheap.

 

-theIr state is pitiful with.

German Exports Not EZmrouraging
Reports as to actual conditions in
Germany conflict so often that au-
thentic information is of value to the
American producer or agricultural
products if it indicates the state of
Germany’s manufacturing activities
and need for raw materials. The fol-
lowing statement of the President of
the British Board of Trade to British
manufacturers, taken -ln connection
with the supercargo reports published
in reports on foreign markets No. 31
and 32 probably mdlcate the true
state of affairs:
“Germany has only small stocks of
goods accumulated for export; there
is no great manufacturing activity;

the costs of production are enormous:

Germany cannot cbmpete for a long
time.

“The Board of Trade were watch-
ing carefully the movement of goods
into this country They saw no sign
of devasting torrent of imports.

"Whatever fears you have and
whatever temporary spurt of goods
may come from Germany in the 1111- .
mediate future, all the information
we get from Germany is absolutely

contrary to that which you have been :-4

giving—and our information is from
better sources.

“There is no great manufacturi
activity in Germany. Industry is:
not moving, but is very stagnant
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7 "v‘ several great national issues.
tates _were-_represented. ' The; dele-
_on;..Tuesday last by special train and
, omblished headquarters at the Pant-
‘- lind- Hotel. Ohio. Indiana-andPenn-
nylvania representatives , were accom-
panied by large delegations of Grang-
ers and on Friday Michigan Grangers
'1 , began to pour into the city Jirom‘ all
‘ ‘ sections of the state, swelling the at-
‘ tendence to well over 3,000.

l ‘ TV‘The principal sessions were held in
the Armory which was beautifully de-
corated under the guidance of Kent

W county Pomona Gnange. Here Na-
tional Worthy Master Oliver Wilson
delivered his annual address. It was

.‘i-a'brief but very forceful document
and bristled with pointed truths. Mr.
'Wilson hasbeen connected with the

‘order for thirty-four years and has

Just concluded his eighth and last year

38 national worthy master. In his ad-

dress he briefly reviewed the work
' of the order, commenting upon its
substantial growth and accomplish-

. tnents. He cited the following legis-

lative matters in which the Grange

has played an important part: Di-
' root election of U. S. senators,
federal land bank law, parcels post
by zone system, repeal of oleo tax law
defeated, Smith Lever bill, federal aid
, for roads, non—partisan tariff commis-
' sion, oificial grain standads act es-
tablished, woman suffrage amendment
adopted, national‘prohibition amend-
ment adopted, daylight savings law
repealed twice after being twice ve-
toed by the president. .

National Master Pleads for Protec-

.. , tion of Property
,:.=: Delving in the futu're activities of
a ithe Grange, Mr. Wilson said: “The
greatest need of American agriculture
~ .from now on‘is neither su’bsidies, pat-
} ronizing, nor uplifting; not further
campaigns-ref” investigation, literature
or other superficial or useless camou-
flaging, all costing great sums of mo
ney, employing an army 0f non-pro-
ducers at the expense of the public
treasury, and all getting us nowhere.
The time has come to simply classify
agriculture as one of the great indus—
tries that make up our economic struc-
, ture, and to treat it as one of the vital
parts of that structure. This means
ouch an adjustment of prices for our
farm products, such a recognition of
* production costs. such a scale of the
hours and wages as. shall‘enable the
farmer to run his business exactly as
does the manufacturer of every other
, commodity—selling prices to be based
‘1 = upon the cost of. production, plus such
" reasonable margin as shall provide
for depreciation of equipment, for in-
terest on investment and for a fair
“refit over all. When agriculture is
. _ 7 us classified and thus rewarded,
“there will be no shortage of farm in-
, yestors pr farm workers, no scarcity
either by the government or by any
' one else, to “popularize agriculture”.
, lio'snbsidies of any kind, no Lane re-
' olamatan schemes, nor other fictitious
“inducements’ﬂto insure an adequate
foOd supply for America and for the
, world. for one year or for any year.
, ‘ If all the money .pent the last twen-
. ty-ﬂve years in the United States for
., popaganda work, in the name of agri-
‘ p. , culture had been devoted to building
'. good roads between the farm and-its
" market town; to extending rural mail
j];’_ﬁ-qervice to thousands or more farm
homes; to substituting a system of
reliable crop reports for the present
worthless and misleading guess-work;
lto create efﬁcient , garketing bureaus

* that do more. than, s impalyatheorize on:

_;' "the great problem‘ of-eConomic'aland
" ' business-like distribution of foad from _
producer to consumer, and had saved ‘
‘enough of th‘e'propaganada "money to
;’_,jj.educ_ate consumers-:on-wwhat; costs en-v

.madbeen done, we mighteahave—zgotten
'IOmewhere on “the ‘hig-hr-cost of liv-
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Grange conVention :at' Grand-
s last' week. and locked horns»

j..__rty-one of the thirty-three Grange,
.1;th arrived in the Furniture City

‘ter into the raisinguobdoodiii zl—frthis -

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gainst “the wild orgy of radicalism,
nationalization and "anarchy Which is
sweeping the land'anq theatening to
destroy every industry,__eve_ry farm
and every home.” He emphasized the
“sacred rights of property” saying, “a
home-owning nation is a strong na-
tion, but unless individual property
rights are eternally safeguarded, no
home will be safe”. Thrift and fru-
gality, said Mr. Wilson, are still es-
sential to the growth of posperous
people, and reminded his audience
that the Grange Declaration of pur-
poses discountenances “every system
tending to prod-igality and bankrupt-
cy". ‘

 

 

JGHN c. KETCHAM
Master Mlchlgan State Grange. Unanimously
re-elected Lecturer National Grange
—Courtesy Detroit News

 

 

 

Oppose Farmer-Labor Alliance

~ In none of the public session of the
Grange was there anything but the
most harmonious sentiment in evi-
dence. But among the little groups
of Grangers which formed occasion—
ally in an ante room or in the lobbies
of the hotels red-hot discussions were
indulged in Over the several resolu-
tons which it became known had been
introduced. The topic which excited
the‘xmost interest and comment was
a letter written by Samuel Gompers
to National Morthy Master Wilson in-
viting the Grange to participate in th
labor conference in Washington on
Dec. 23rd. Although up to the time
of our going to press no action had
been taken on the proposition,, It
was the general opinion that the in—'
vitation would not be accepted. An-
tedating the receipt of this invitation

, Grand Rapidsﬁm one of Grané _
~ - mm .. ’S- 1.. Lowellof- New York electéd, National Master

Milo Campbell who is prominent in;
Grange circles. made__p,ublic a letter
he had written to Mr. Gompers in:
which he voiced a strong'objection to
an alliance between labor and agri--

_ culture, and'it was generally felt that

Mr. Campbell expressed ’the senti-
ment of the majOrity of thedelegates.

Interest in the matter was pitched
to the highest point when Gifford
Pinchot, former chief forester of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture, ar-‘
ried at Grand Rapids to take issue
with Campbell, and use his influence
to win the Grange Over to the labor-
ites. -~“Both Pinchot 31nd Campbell
are active leaders in the National
Board of Farm Organizatoons which,
it is understood, would like to parley
with labor. But Campbell is unequivo-
cally opposed to such a. union, and
because of the popularity and strength
of the two.men in national Grange
circles a bit of tussle was expected.
grange divided- on railroads

Grange Divided on Railroads

Conservative Grangers were quite
shocked by the recommendations of
State Master John Morris of Colorado.
who declared emphatically for gov-
ernment ownership and «a general non-
'partisan league program, including
state banking and insurance. An-
other strong advocate 0.f government
control was William Bouck, master of
the _Washington StateﬁGrange, who
wanted the Grange to oppose the re-’
turn of the railroads to the private
owners until after a better plan-for
their future control and operation
had been worked out. While it is un-
likely that the Grange voting delegates
will come out for government OWner-

”ship, it was thought that the Grange

might take some action along the line
suggested by Mr. Bouck. '

Wm. Alden Injects Politics

At the Friday forenoon public ses-
sion, former Senator Huntley Russell
led the great gathering in a» songfest
that made the Armory ring from cor-
ner to corner. Brief remarks were
made by former State Master George
B. Horton of Michigan; Mrs: Dora H.
Stockman, state lecturer; MiSS Jen-
nie I. Buell, state secretary; and oth-
ers. Former Sen. Wm. Alden Smith
gave a fine talk on Americanism and,
received frequent applause, but in the
ardor of the occasion quite forgot
where he was and» launched forth into
a tirade against Pres. Wilsonand the '
League of Nations. Later in the busi- _
ness sessions the delegates passed
strong resolutions favoring the League
of Nations, with reservations that
would preserve the honor and integ-
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“Farmers and wage earners, have “nothing in common,” said ,Milo .
Campbell in politely declining Pres. Gompers invitation to afﬁliate the-
National Federation of Milk Producers with the AmericanFederation of

“The interests of farmers andrwage, ea;ne_rs’_ are identical.” .re-
torted Gifford Pinchot. in recommending that theqraéngennjtewith or- .

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{eipected to,take some actionon the
TOWnsendhig'lhwayTbillwhich aims [to
place all main highwaysundér- the
.sypervisioﬁ of the- federal govern-
ment to be built and' maintained
wholly at federal expense leaving the

states to bear the total expense of the-

minor highways.
Degrees Are Conferred

A large class of candidates were
given the fourth and fifth degrees on
Friday last, and in the evening a class
of 1600 assembled at Powers’ theater
where the seventh degree, “theHigh
Priest Of Demeter", which is the high-
est degree of the order, was conferred
under the direction of Chas M. Gard-
ner of Springfield, Mass.

The general sessions closed on Sat-
urday and the current week has been
occupied in business sessions at which
only the offiCial’ delegates were prese-
en . .

Grand Rapids did itself proud in
welcoming and entertaining the visi-
tors: Many of the store windows were
handsomely“ dressed for the occasion,
and such a friendly, get-together spir-
it pervaded the city that those who
had come as delegates from far states
were made to feel entirelyaat home.
Michigan Grangers showed their loy-
alty to the order by turning out in
large numbers to greet the visitors
from other. states and assist in the
ceremonies. Some counties sent over
a hundred delegates and there was no
county in the state Where the Grange
is active that did not send a goodly
number of members to take partin
the convention.

Lowell of N ewYork Elected National
‘ Worthy Master ‘

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$91er “1% the Grangers

_' At the election of officers held Tues- I

day forenoon, Nov. 18th, Mr." S. J.
Lowell, Master of the New York State
Grange and chairman of the National
executive committee was elected Na-
tional Worthy Master,,‘to'succeed Oli-
ver Wilson. Prior to the election it
was \qui-te generally rumored- that
John K'etcham ‘would ‘be 'the‘ choice
for National Master, but Mr. K‘etcham
was not ‘a candidate and made no
solicitations to secure the office. Mr.
Ketcham was unanimously re—elected
lecturer of, the National Grange. A
picture of- Mr. Lowell, the new Na-
tional master will be found 'on the
following page. He is the central ﬁg—~
ure in the group of the three gentle-
men just‘above the panoramic scene.

.It is impossible for one to mingle
in a crowd- of farm folks such as at-
tended the Grange convention with-
out feeling that security and content-
ment which comes to one when he
knows he is among friends. All
thought of the dangers that threaten
the national life disappears for some-
thing tells a man that there can be
no insecurity in a country. where
dwell such great numbers of honest
intelligent, level-headed m‘en ,and
women. ' -

MICHIGAN” BUSINEss FARMING is
gratiﬁed that Michigan has done so
well in receiving the National Grange
and showing its respect for that
great order. It is the hope of this
publication that the Grange may con-
tinue to grow and prosper and per-
form its allotted duties in the agri-
cultural communities. The aim of
all human endeavor should be help-

ffulness and co—operation, and these

we understand are some of the mo-
tivating influences of the Grange.
There are vost numbers of farmers
who‘belong to no organization and it
should be the'purpose of the Grange
and the other farm organizations to

" gather. themin under their wings and

show them the way tothe right .kind
of organized effort. But before-“that
can be done, the Grange, th‘e Glean-
ers, the Clubs, the Unions, the Farm
Bureaus and all other existing farm-
ers’ organiza-tions should attempt to
ﬁnd a; common gro‘und and work in
harmony and union. We'shall count
no day in agriculture greater ’Lthan
shall become

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No. 1———Three Generations of Grangers who took the Seventh Degree together. Miss
Etta Parks, Mrs. Daisy Parks and Mrs. Sarah Lord of Berlin (Marne), Mich.

z—George B. Horton, Past Master Michigan State Grange.

3—Mrs. Dora Stockman, lecturer, and Miss Jennie I. Bueli. Secretary Michigan
State Grange. Mrs. Stockman is also a member of the State Board of Agriculture-

4—Lesile R. Smith, Master Massachusetts State Grange.

B—T. c. Atkeson. Washington representative National Grange; s. T. Lowell, chain-
man national executive committee; Oliver Wilson. Master National Grange.

e—Mrs. Olive J. c. Woodman. for twelve years Chaplain Michigan State Grange.

7—clm of 1600 candidates who took the seventh degree. “The High Priest of.

Demeter."

8—State Master and Mrs. Walter R. Havens, New Jersey State Grange.

9—State Master and Mrs. B. Needham, Kansas State Grange.

10—State Master and Mrs. 1'. W. Williams of North Dakota State Grange.

11—Peter A Kleas, gatekeeper Michigan State Grange.

12—T. E. Niles, steward and A. E. Illenden. in charge, of arrangements, Michigan
State Grange.

13—Sen. Jas. McNaughton. Michigan State Grange loader. author of Farmers!
Warehouse Bill. . . /

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”factor which would most likely boost

United States, but today a different
set of causes most often furnishes
“kick” in the. markets. One of tn;
chief things now affecting prices,
» mostly upward, is COAL.

Coal miners" for the most part seem I

to be going back to work, but the
production still is below what it has
been. and the losses through the coal
strike in Mich. alone result in loss of
more than 50,000 tons of coal and the
great coal states have lost hundreds
of thousands of tons. All this has
done much to hold up industry and
railroad movements. The shortage
of cars made much more acute by the
lack of coal has been the bullish fact-
or in Chicago, Detroit and other mar—
kets for a considerable while. In
spite of bearish news of every des-
cription the ﬁrst days of this week,
grains gained because of the coal sit-
nation. ‘

From New York an encouraging bit
of news tells of the resumption of
'export'trading, new that the long-
shoremen’s strike seems to be com-
pletely healed. The European crops
1 turned out short and authentic sourc-
es state that their exports will be far
less than have been expected.

A slight disturbance in the stock
exchange has been roused by the gov-
ernment mix-up with the Southern
Paciﬁc. But the big government
news of interest to the markets is
just over the horizon—the senate and
presidential aiction on the Peace
Treaty which is bound to break soon.
The president threatens to throw
over the entire treaty unless the res-
ervations which “cut the heart out of
the treaty” are omitted. With the
treaty question out of the way a
great deal of the present uncertainty
in business ought to vanish.

WHEAT CLIMIBS HIGHER

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Several days ago various high

grades of wheat took a hard tumble
when the United States Grain Cor-
poration announced that it was go-
ing to help “relieve” the high cost of
living by reselling some of, its stocks
of wheat in order to keep the prices
from going too high. No. 1 dark
northern wheat was selling at some
points for $3 at that time and the
news brought about' a drop of 15
cents. In the last few days, however,
the grain public has come to believe
that the Grain Corporation has only
a limited supply which it may resell
and that it is especially short on
spring wheat. Accordingly the high-
er grades of wheat have soared to
higher levels and Chicago quotes No.
lidark northern at $3.16 per bushel
with the demand good.
0! course, few farmers have such
high quality wheat to sell, but the
general effect on the wheat market
is strengthening. The Detroitwareé
houses are known to have stocks of
[77.000 bushels against 23,000 bush-
els last year at this time, and the re-
ceipts are somewhat smaller than a
year ago. Shipments were also small-
er. Nevertheless the Detroit wheat
market ks strong in keeping with the
general tendency. Chicago wheat
markets appear especially strong at
this time and the demand is good.

 

BNIONS SCARCE AND FIRM "

, :0n-ions, due to car shortage coup-
(ed with small production, are very,
scarce and arm in an glues in De-

 

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DETROIT, Nov. 19._-.Si{..sg. of coal and cars "drives all

  

 
 
  
  
   
  
  
 
  
  
 

.. Produce of all kinds short and demand strong. Fresh eggs,
butter and best chickens in demand, turkeys rather quiet. '
CHICAGO, Nov. 19. —— Live stock business more active with
prices.ﬂuctuating with an upward tendency. Sheep not in demand.
Good demand for heavy horses and mules. '
Grains of all sorts boosted by car and coal shortage.
butter and eggs in demand. Top wheat price at $3.16.

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The above summarized wires are received AFTER the balance of
They contain last minute information up to
within one-halt hour of going to press .——Editor.

 

 

R. R. Administration, Explains Car Shortage

ROM A number of sources we

hays received complaints of a

shortage of cars, and the charge
has several times been made that the
railway administration was discrim-
inating against Michigan in the allot-
ment of cars. Que correspondent
pointed-out that the smaller number
of shipments of potatoes. out of Mich-
igan as shown in comparison with
those of other states by the Bureau
of Markets reports was evidence
enough of discrimination. Investiga-
ting this claim. however, we found
that the potato movement had not
been materially delayed because of a
lack of cars, and that the smaller
shipments were accounted for by the
fact that the farmers were not sell-
ing their potatoes as freely as in oth-
er states.

Nothwithstanding that newspaper
reports show that all sections of the
country are suffering from a car
shortage, we wrote to the car service
section of the Railroad Administra-
tion asking the reason for the short—
age and when some relief might be
afforded, particularly here in Michi-
gan. We received the following re.
ply: '

“In a general way permit me to
say traffic generally throughout the
country is very heavy, principally due
to the fact that during the first six
months of the “year there was prac-
tically no business moving and new
business in all lines is trying to make
up for the deficiency o fthe first part
of the year. You may be assured that
everything possible is being done to

meet the enormous demands of all
classes of traffic, but you must also
hear in mind that the railroad trans-
portation machine’s ability to handle
traffic is limited. Railroads today
are quite generally handling traffic
much in .excess of even last" year
which was an exceptionally heavy
year, and‘a number of things are mil-
itating against the railroads at this
time which under war conditions
they did not have to contend with. I
refer now particularly to the heavy
loading of freigk equipment. Un-
der the stress of war conditions ship-
pers were generally co—operating and
loading all cars to their'maximum
capacity. This permitted of burden-
ing industrial centers and terminals
with a minimum number of cars, al~
lowing traffic to flow freely through
the congested centers of traffic. With
the war over shippers have fallen
back in to the old practice of lightly
loading cars. putting no more in them
than the minimum allowed under the
tariff and still give them the benefit
of carload rates. This results in re-‘
quiring three cars to do the work of
two, and in numerous instances two
cars doing the work of one. You
will appreciate the effect this has on
the movement of traffic. Congested
terminals and - industrial centers
slows up traffic, and the light load—
ing of equipment ties up a lot of cars
doing one half or one third of the
work they ought to be doing, besides
taking up valuable terminal track-
age space. (Concluded ‘on page; 17)

Apple Harvest Exceeds All Expectations

There has been too much dumping
of apples into the markets to keep
apace with the demand, and the re-
sult is a dull condition with prices
down to as low as $1.25 per bushel
in Detroit, although the best quality
bring as high as $2.50 per bushel.
The government crop report has been
pretty bearish inasmuch as 1,239,000
barrels increase has been reported
over the total for the month before
the present statistics were gathered.

The commercial apple crop of the
as of November 1, and shows an in-
crease of 1,239,000 (barrels-aswcom‘
pared to the October estimate of’23,-
United States is now estimated by the
government ‘at 24,416.000 barrels.
This estimate is based on conditions
177,000 barrels, or a decrease of
308,000 barrels from the 1918 crop.
The salient feature of this report is
the large increase in the crop thru-
out the west, notwithstanding a se-
vere freeze the latter part of October

in Washington and Oregon. which re- ‘

duced the total tonnage by approxi-
mately 1, 000 cars.
for all the Western States. with the
exception of Utah, is far exceeding all
former estimates. It is now estimat-

ed that these states will produce an

The production . .

increase of 2,943,000 boxes over the
October estimate. The barrel apple
states show an increase of 258,000
barrels over the October report, and
are now estimated at 13, 590 000 bar-
rels. Slight increases are noted in
New England states, New York, Vir-
ginia, Missouri and a decided increase,
in Arkansas, the Arkansas crop being
the largest in the history of commer-

cial apple growing in that state.

Excellent yields are . reported in
Oceans, Mason, ~ Manistee,
Gd. Traverse and adjoining counties
in Michigan. Quality, color and size
reported good to excellent in this re-
gion. In southern and. eastern coun-
ties of Oakland, Livingston. Ingham
and adjoining couties the crop was
light, quality fair to poor. Consider—
able codling moth damage reported. _
A large part of the production in this
territory is trucked to local markets.
Berrien. Van Enron and Allegan
counties are estimated at 34 per cent
crop as compared to 65 per cent in.
1918 *Considerable damage from
codling moth is reported in these
counties. The use of the bushel bash-
at as an apple package was more g’en-
eral throughout Michigan this year
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Corn is temporarily easier
prices eased off a bit at the 010110 of
last week We rather expect to see
this easier condition continue for the
major part of the current week,

the weather is fair all over the corn,
belt, cars are to be had in greater

quantities and farmers who have
been holding back part of their crop
are showing a disposition to sell. We
do not anticipate
drop in price, however, and we want
to again remind our readers who
must buy corn that the present is
the time to make their purchases.
Those who acted upon our advice
when the corn market reached its
lowest point several weeks ago now
see where they saved considerable
money by so doing." The fellowing
statement from the Rosenbaum Re-
view ls of interest to farmers:

“We shall remember that the sur-
plus producing corn states yielded
this year, just an average crop; prob-
ably a total yield in all states of 2,-
900,000 bushels. Texas has out-
corned herself this year‘but the sur-
plus is not available for big feeders
in the Mississippi Valley. Farmers
who own surplus corn are in most
instances not disposed to sell at pre-
vailing prices. Our oats crop is over
300,000,000 short of last year. and
our barley crop is more than 50,000,-
000 short. Country bankers tell us
that farmers have never had so much
money as now.
lators who know just exactly what
the farmers are going to do, but the
farmer himself has not advertised it.
These and other facts leadms to sug-
gest that we may expect to see May
corn reach $1.50 per bushel.”

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Oats have crept up since last week
and made an additional gain of one
half to one cent on the opening days
this week. Shortage of coal and. re-
sulting lack of cars in the face of
good demand was perhaps the most
bullish factor this week, and‘ the up-
ward move of corn reflected its trend
as usual upon cats. The export de-
mand for heavy weight oats contin-
ues strong, while light weight cats
have been selling at a discount un-
der the December. The demand in
America for eats has been holding up
remarkably well due to the shortage
of the oat crop. When the Peace
Treaty is settled. it is believed. that
foreign credits will be extended which
will makethe oat marketers-rumors!
bullish. A threatened rail strike has '
also made the buying pretty eager.

 

RYE AND BARLEY STRONGER
Rye jumped upward as much” as
two cents lathe markets the open-
ing days of this week, but even this
gain did ‘not bring it back to
level it had attained a week before.

The gain this week was partly due to ~

0 general boost in the grain markets
due to rail and coal dimcuities. Eye
in Detroit is quoted: Cash No.- 2.
31—36.. Barley also showed arm this
week and is q'uoted the same a a
week ago in Detmit, while smog.)
report‘sagsiuofaconts, with a
strong demand from More in ovi'-‘

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“THE use of Goodyear Cord Pneumatic Truck Tires on my

truck has saved me a great deal of time and money. They
are an economy all around' 1n general farm work and livestock
hauling—especially over farm land and rough, slippery country
roads.”——Mr. W H. Daley, Livestock Farmer, Starks, Maine

, THE photograph above was

taken January! 3rd,1919,
'on the livestock farm of W. H.
Duley, ten miles from Starks,
Maine.

At that time Mr. Duley told us
that he had been hauling on
Goodyear Cord Pneumatic
Truck Tires during weather
that had stopped local solid-
tired trucks-

The tractive Goodyear Cords
had enabled his truck to over-
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and, in addition, to pull solid-
tired trucks out of mire and up
stifl grades.

The easy-rolling Goodyear
Cords had enabled his truck
to average three and four trips
to town per day, an amount of
hauling which would have re-
quired three teams.

The cushioning Goodyear

Cords had enabled his truck
to deliver decidedly good mile-
age on gasoline and oil and to
remain in excellent mechanical

order despite the bad going.

On top of all this, the tough
Goodyear Cords had outlasted
neighbors’ solid tires which
wore down rapidly due to Spin—
ning in the gravel on the steep

liills.

This latter performance par-
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pioneering work with which
Goodyear has developed Good-
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New Laws Put into Effect at Opening of: Hunters"

RAPPING and. hunting are now
well under way in Michigan and
other states famed for the game
7 in their forests. With the opening of

the season this fall, every fan of the

great- sport of trapping and hunting
is aware of the fact that there was
never before so great a demand for
furs as at present. The farmer and
his sons may be seen in almost any
section these days" planning ahead
for the sport and paying business‘of
outwitting the crafty inhabitants of
the wild nooks and crannies of the
country.

Just to show the interest which the
public and the public servants show
in regard to game, forty—one of the
forty-four states holding legislative
sessions this year passed legal regu-
lations concerning game. Twenty-
11ine states enacted laws relative to
fur-bearing animals. It is well that
every trapper or hunter in the state,
no matter how little he goes into the
business. know just what the laws
are.

Farmer Smith might make a lot of
money from selling beaver which he
traps this month. inasmuch as the
season opens November 1 for beaver
and continues until April 15, the
close of the beaver season.
neighbor may be so pleased with the
idea that he too goes to work trap-
ping beaver. But he doesn’t get a
license, which the law requires; and
presto, he is all out of luck, just
because he was ignorant of the state
law. And, of course, ignorance is
no excuse before the law.

The dates just mentioned for the
limits of the beaver season were
among the new regulations passed
"by the Michigan Legislature. The
season on otter, mink, ﬁsher and
marten is shortened one month. by
closing February 15 instead of
March 15. October 15 to December
31 is prescribed as the'open season
on racoons, under the new laws in
Michigan.

Anyone who wishes to go into
‘. trapping to any considerable extent
would be on the safe side if he would
write to the Commissioner, Game,
Fish and Forest Fire Department, at
Lansing, Michigan. From the Com-
‘missio-ner’s ofﬁce any special inform-
ation would be furnished to trappers.
In certain cases the trapper should
furnish himself with a range map,
as in the following instances.

The new game laws of Michigan
include the provision that the open
season for muskrats, one of the best
known of all the trapper’s acquaint-
ances, shall be October 16 to April-
14 north of Range 20, and December
16 to March 31 south of Range 21.
Up until this year, trappers may re—
call. the open season for the state as
a whole had been ﬁxed at November
16 to March 14.

Just a word of caution in regard
to trappers living near a city which
has a big woodland park. According
to the new regulations, badger, beav-
er and muskraJt are not to be meddled
with at any place Within two miles
of any city public park containing
over 200 acres of which 50 acres or
more are woodland.

That Valuable Little License

TATE ofﬁcials have authority to
be pretty harsh with offenders
against the state laws. So the
trapper ﬁnds it a mighty important
thing not to get trapped himself by
a game warden. One of the most
important things, of course, is that

every trapper go forthLarmed with a

state license as well as a trusty set
of traps or a regular gun, or bot-h.
The precious little lifesaver in a
secure trapping business, otherwise
known as the license, costs various
amounts according to the kind. If
you’ve out after big game, namely
‘ ' the trapping or hunting license
Wred is only $1, provided you are
a 1'35!th of the state. If you are a
as «client the: licensehcosts $10.-
N a licensed beﬂfvevr trapper.
' wxsquires :1 paymehiiof $10 by
, min. of thei‘stateg 'i'ﬁ-This beaver
ermits gém‘ﬁke 15 beav~

ason but not more

Smith’s.

and ‘5’» V

~ _ " Bymmnnumm

mu completely. ._ It is unlawful
to destroy beaver dams or houses or-
to have the carcass or skin in your
possession without the license sea-l
attached. Inasmuch as the beaver
fur is of great value, it is important
that the trapper keep within the. law
and reap somereai ﬁnancial harvest
out of his labor.

 

The raccoon is harder to trap than the
skunk. Sets ought to be made in water
whenever possible. Coons havewa keen
sense of smell. However, when sets are
made for the ’coon, it must be remem-
bered that nothing smaller than No. 1 1-2
traps ought be employed. So far as pos-
sible avoid stakes for fastenings. In-
stea , wire the chains to logs or rocks
Weighing- about twenty pounds. Such
fastenings do not permit a pull on the
jaws as fixed ones do. Therefore, there
is less chance of the raccoon getting
out. The raccoon likes timber. Small
streams, .shallow lakes ponds and
marshes are good places to look for
signs. The tracks of the ’coon resemble
the imprints of a baby's foot and once
seen are never forgotten.

Large hollow logs furnish good places
for sets when anchored in shallow wat-
er. close to shore. Traps ought to be
placed near the entrance If too deep,
make bases out of mud, sticks or sod
if too shallow, scoop out excavations for
the sets. Have the jaws under about
three inches of water. Eradicate, so
far as possible, boot tracks and other
signs of man. Dash water over every-
thing with which the hands may have
come in contact to destroy human odor
After this, sprinkle bait on the log so it
will not be washed away.

 

The Stone Age is Gone

NYONE WHO visited the State
Fair this fall could get some
ridea of the odd variety of wea-
pons used in killing fur—bearing ani—
mals in Michigan. The display
which might remind one of the crude
implements devised way back in the
stone age when it was “everybody for
himself” and so on. In the stone
age, they say, animals wei‘e often
killed just from habit or for the fun
of it, without regard to the maintain-
ing of as wild game supply
for our children and for our
great grandchildren.

 

. chemicals .

their dens, says the law.

_ But the stone age is gone,
the trapping sections, Where
order is- spreading out their tentacles.

The la‘w in Michigan forbids the use ’

of. spearﬂor instance.

Along with‘ the stone age, the ter-
ribleness‘ of modern warfare meth-
ods are also ta'booed. Explosives and
are declared unlawful
when. used to molest dens of fur-
bearers, You are no longer all-Owed
to use smokers to drive animals from
It is un—
lawful to destroy the dens or homes
of beaver, muskrat or skunk.

It goes without say that one is not
supposed to have in his possession a
carcass or pelt of an animal killed
inlaclosed season. But here is a
regulation which many trappers
probably do not know. .It is unlaw-

ful to set a‘ trap within six feet of

the home of a muskrat. Youare al-
lowed, of course, to shoot-a beaver
which is destroying your property.

 

 

 

 

 

Skunks are not hard to trap and may
be taken in almost any kind of a set
Skunks prime ﬁrst in fall and for this
reason the beginner will ﬁnd them pro-
ﬁtable to catCh. Skunks generally stay
close together. Often as many as ten
of twelve may be found in a single den
The burrows are not hard to ﬁnd and of—

ten may be discovered under old houses,-

near sheds, around straw piles, in weed
patches. Good sets may be arranged in
territory which the animals frequent, at
the mouths of small dry culverts under
roads.

Goodwbait is a necessity to the skunk
trapper. It will lure the fur bearers to
sets long distances. ,

Traps may be placed near entrances of
dens. No decoy is necessary. However,
if- this method is employed, only one
skunk can be expected from the hole
during a night. For this reason. pen
sets are generally preferred by the pelt
hunters.

 

Money from Bounties and Farming

OW AND THEN a trapper may
stumble into a streak of luck
by getting a bounty. The state

provides a bounty of $35 for a wolf,

.and certain localities give a big ad-

ditional‘bounty. Then by
ﬁnding the den you

 

 

 

More trappers take the muskrat than all the other fur bearers put together. The
animal is widely distributed and seems able to adapt itself to encroaching. civilization

where others have become almost extinct.
skill is required to get the pelts. especiallyif
the best torrent to look for signs—in

5111 ﬂash
places the rimskrat generally builds houses and where
However, houses are some

current, excaVates dens in banks.
creeks: burrows in banks along lakes andpo

rather than the rule and accounts for the belief that thorn are twod

the? fur“ bearers.

The

Wait i‘m ‘sék'tu‘t‘iﬁN 1.
goo a 13 amp ow water
teams. Milk In then

9s a comparatively swift

es seen in rivers and

This by thigwaymis the exception

:_~ .. ».~- Sets for muskrat ought to be under water from ewe
When this is done, the animals are taken by theiri ‘

than by the shorter and weaker front one:

. :0: cﬁmgg-L?’

.00‘

No groan

erent species of .

g-vget an additionad bounty of $135 for
Leach "Viol! bub ﬁnd local beauties are
sometimes 34
”course. the“ far.

in addition. , 91
trainees is too lucra-
ﬁve, Just now to make
bounties mean much in case of sev-
eral of the rich. fur animals. But the
beauties are“ interesting to know:
coyote, same bounty as wolf; wild:
cat or. lynx, $5; fox, 81;

paid by the county and half refund—
ed by the state.

The laws of Michigan and many
other states have recognized a very

, important phase of the trapping bus-

iness. or rather, the fur business. "Fox
farms, deer farms, and many shapes
and descriptions of fur farming are

springing up in America, notably 'in

Michigan“. The West and all the
North of the State is known to have

/here and there, the various sorts of

fur farms. Species of fox, for ex-
ample, which possess great fur value.
are penned up often on, large tracts
with the natural environment main—
tained. There are risks in the bus-
iness, to be sure, but sometimes one
season has been. known to bring a.
fortune to breeders of silver fox. for
example. ‘

In order to raise fur-bearing ani-
mals lawfully, a fur farmer is re-
quired to pay an annual license fee
of $5 to the state. Another require-
mentis thatall live animals and
skins of animals raised in capdtivity
must be tagged. There is a fee of
ﬁve cents for each of these tags. The
purpose is said to be protection of
animals raised in captivity.

The business of fur farming is 111,
creasing so rapidly that there must
be many just entering the business
Who will be beneﬁtted by the follow-
ing booklets furnished by Uhe govern-
ment. By writing to the United
State Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C., yen can obtain
free: Raising Belgian Hares and
other? Rabbits. (Farm-ers’ Bulletin
496.) The Common Mole of Eastern
United States. (Farmer’s Bulletin
583.) Econo’mic Value of North Am-
erican Skunks. (Farmers’
587. )' The Domesticated Silver Fox.
(Farmers’ Bulletin 795.) Trap—
pingi Moles and Utilizing Their Skin.
(Farmers’ Bulletin 832.) The Musk-
rat as a Fur Bearer. = (Farmers’ Bul—
letin 869.) Fur, Farming as a Side
Line. (Yearbook Separate 693.) An.-
nual Report 'of the Governor of Al-
aska on the Alaska Game Law, 1918.
(Biological Survey Document 110.)
Directory of Ofﬁcials and Organiza-
tions Concerned with the Protection
of Birds and Game, 1919.
ment Circular 63.)

The following are for sale by the
Superintendent of Documents, gov-
ernment printing oﬁice, Washington.
D. C.: Deer Farming in the United
States. (Farmers ’ Bulletin 330.)
Animals in the U. S. price 15 cents.
Price 5 cents.

The interesting subject of ‘fur
farming, its laws and possibilities,
will be left for later issues; But here
let it be said that it can be just as
much a regular business as any oth-
er form of farming. In fact, fur
farming is already ahighly develop-
ed business. The writer is acquaint-
ed with men with excellent business
training who have gone into fur
farming as one of the most practical
of business ventures and they are
succeeding.‘

In the limited space allotted here
for the subject of laws on' trapping

and fur farming, it' has been possi--

ble to furnish only the most limited
survey.
ested in any special part of the regu-

lations regarding the subject is in-

vited to write to Business Farmin,

and ans'Wers will be obtained for al
queries. Not only questions but also
comments and stories about yang.

trapping adventures are. sought he- » ' ~

class of the great interest' among

many thousands of our readers 9M":

ing the trapp’lt' new Infect ‘13.

15131.0:

Bulletin '

(Depart—"

But anyone who is inter—'

the state

weasel. I
'woodchuck,‘ howk or owl, 60 cents.

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All the old ~ Trappers
and Dealers
Know /
~ Will Vreeland
Harry Blake
Will Vreefhnd was born in Rock-
iwood, Mich. He has trapped and
shot every fur animal in Michi-
can and he knows the Trappers’
troubles. Harry Blake was born

in Harrisonvllle, Ohio; and he,
too. has been a Trapper.

-Both~have bought furs in Mich-
lgan—Vreeland for 30 years and
Blake for 16 years and they have
a host of friends among the Trarp-
were and Dealers because of their
square deal policy.

 

 

&

LAST YEAR
& WE BOUGHT

l . A / 5

$702,603.63

MICHIGAN’S BIGGEST
FUR BUSINESS

During the 1918-1919 season we
bought raw furs for which we paid
Trappers and Dealers a total of $702,-
603.63.

That’s the biggest fur business in
Michigan and, what’s most important to
you, everybody that dealt with us was
satisﬁed.

We’ll make it our business to see that

you are satisﬁed when you send your

furs here this season.

 

Trappers:

Every fur you send us will be
examined and priced by Will
Vreeland or Harry Blake PER-
SONALLY. You’ll get personal
service just the same as if we
could call on you.

Dealers:

Drop in to see us, if you’re near
Detroit—we’d like to talk over
‘with you the prospects for this
season’s business. If you can’t
get in, write, and we’ll try to see
you later in the year.

If you haven’ t dealt with the Vreeland Fur Company

 

before, ask someone who has. If others say they’ve had
a square deal, you’ll get a square deal, too.

Send your furs this year to

RE LAND F UR COMPANY
41 JEFFERSON AVE, DETROIT MICH

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"has done for the dairy-

. the association in the last

‘ now 65 per cent of the re—

  

The following article is ,
successful efforts of {the milk...
the vicinity of vancouver, 0., to
séll‘ their milk direct to the consumer- It
was written by Mr.

can‘t issue of the Grain Growers’ Guide.
-.-Editor. .

'N THE two and a half» years; that

the Fraser Valley Milk Preducw

ers’ Association has been at work

~ it is estimated that the association

has saved its 1, 400 members just
$1, 000, 000 which would otherwise
have gone into the pock-
ets of the middleman, or
11 ve been wasted by in-
e. cient methods and
oVerlapping distribution.
A What this association

man in the fertile bottom
lands of the Fraser Val-
ley, lying between Chili-
wack and Vancouver. is
one of the most striking
examples of successful
co-operation among farm-
ers that can be found in
Canada today. During the
past summer. to the pro-
ducers, the association
has brought just 25
cents per pound butterfat
more than they could
have got had the associ-
ation not been in exist—
ence. In 1918 more than
2.000.000 lbs. of butter
fat were handled through
the association, and this
year’s total will be con—
siderably larger.
Wonderful Progress
The progress made by

30 months is nothing
short of wonderful. Dis-
cussing the present status
of this lusty young organ-
ization, H. W. Vander-
hoof, a member of the ex-
ecutive committee said:
“Our association at the
present time controls the
local manufacture of but-
ter and cheese practical—
ly entirely, while we have

tail milk business of
Vancouver,in our hands.
We have displaced the
capital of the middleman
with our own capital, and
we are able to give to the
consuming public of Van-
couver their milk at a price which
is considerably less than any other
coast city. Not only that, we have
progressed in a sane way. Our d‘is-
tributing plant in Vancouver is be-
ing remodeled, and in a short time
it will have sufficient capacity to
handle practically the whole of the
retail business in the city. In the
ﬁrst few months’ operations in Van—
couver, we have. besides writing off
a considerable amount for deprecia-
tion, been able to make a substantial
proﬁt which will go towards retiring
the investment. And as time goes on

' we will be able to further narrow

the margin between the price paid to

. the producer and the price paid by

the consumer. That has been our
goal from the start and still is. So
far as the middlemen still in busi—
ness are concerned it is just a ques-
tion as to how long they will be
able to stand the margin being con—
stantly reduced.

“Of course our association has had
to face a good deal of misrepresen-
tatiOn at the hands of our enemies
and some of this misrepresentation
was believed by the public. How—
ever, the public had t0‘be educated
just in the same way that our own

“producers had to be educated at the

start. In the way our association'is

handling the product,- we are able to ,. '
divart any surplus over night into a
,‘aew market, thus eliminating waste
[and maintaining the price to the pro-

ducer. . Our milk, of course, has the

~"?1Qllowing'markets: whole milk. con-
i doused milk, ice cream, butter and
' cheese.

we are now the main fact-
"is. a-ll the markets with the ex-

 

H. Higginbotham of
Vancouver and was published in a re.‘

near Vancouver.

involve a very heavy investment cf “
capital and We have‘ beenab-l-e to get
,a. fairlycommensurate price from the
,condenSaries because we control the
However. the price at the‘

supply."
condensaries is not yet what it should
be, mainly because Ontario is not or-

ganized and Ontario, beingva large’

"producing province, and having sev—
eral condensaries, really sets the

price on condensed milk in Canada.
The price that we are able to get
from the condensaries at the coast

ﬁ
. a
D

Mzchlgan DazfymenMay Learn a Lesson From Canadian Farmers Efforts to, Market Their Own Milk

year to their own association, being "

   

of Vancouver made a very m

producers at Chiliwack
away, in competition with those
around Vancouver This- brought
home to the producers near Vancouv-
or very forcibly the fact that they
could not expect to hold the high
milk market for themselves unless
they were willing to meet the com-
petition of men who were'able to ship
from a distance.

Attempts to complete the organiza-

 

Illustrnting Some of the Activities of the Fraser Valley:Dalrymen.

l—Farm house of J. W.‘ Berry, President, Fraser Valley Milk Producers’ Association
a Fraser Valley dairy farm 3—One of the large milk plants in Vancouver taken over by the company
4——W. Park: and 5—H. W. Vanderhoof two of the mainsprings of the association.
7—One of the 47 rigs used in delivering milk to consumers in Vancouver.

is therefore based on the price of
condensing milk in Ontario plus half
the freight rate from Ontario to the
Paciﬁc.

“In twelve months time we will
probably be handling 90 per cent of
the city milk distribution in Vancou-
ver. By that time we hope to have
a utility plant just outside the city
where we can handle by-products,
such as skim milk, to the best ad—
vantage."

Organization Was Not Easy

This association grew out of a
Milk and Cream Shippers’ Associa-
tion, which was carrying on work
along the same line as the U. F. A.
Milk and Cream Committee is doing
in Alberta at the present time. The
agitation for improved conditions
among the dairymen supplying the
Vancouver market began to take def-

tion were not very successful, and
after a short time the promoters de-
cided that the majority of producers
were not quite ready for such an or-
ganization. It was necessary to “let
the shoe pinch” a little more, before
the farmers were ready to organize.
In 1916 a second attempt was made
to get the organization on its feet,
and this time [with not much better
success than the ﬁrst time. Finally,
in the spring of 19171. a third at-
tempt was made and this time the
conditions were ripe for success.
Owing to the war conditions, costs
of milk production had been steadily
increasing and with the return of
spring, the milk companies were pre-
paring to lower prices to the produc-
ers. Notices had been sent out that
the price of milk would be 55 cents
per lb. butter fat, commencing with

 

 

the world over.

 

 

I‘LK PRODUCERS’ marketing problems are about the same
Various solutiOns have been tried but the only
one that stands the test of timé and approved business ethics is the
plan here discussed. Milk associations may cut and try and com-
promise, but we predict that their experience will eventually lead
them to the "direct-from-producer-to-consumer" system Which has
, been tried with much success by our Canadian brothers.

 

 

 

 

inite shape in 1912. and in 1913 a
charter was secured from the pro-
vincial government to incorporate
the Fraser Valley Milk Producezsi
Association. At that time Vancouv-
er was not going very far aﬁeld for
milk, and ChiHWack Was not supply-
in; any. milk term?! on m

  

amused into action.
th

June 1. the season of flush produc-
tion.
had not been remunerative, and the

- producers Who had been slew to turn

as the' proverbial worm, were at last

 
  

 

,ference‘ and immediately placed Fillet.
75 miles .4

2—Buildings on
6—Collecting milk

The ’winter and spring prices .

given‘ the asSurance that they would
:not be held to their contracts unless
75 per cent of the milk produced in
the Fraser Valley was contracted to
the association. The campaign was
successful, and the required amount
of‘milk was signed up, although it
afterwards turned out that there was
more milk in the Valley than had
been estimated '

Armed with these contracts, ‘the
ﬁve provisional directors of the as
sociation interviewed the
milk companies” and in-
stead of 55 cents they se—
cured 65 cents per lb. but-
ter fat. This practical
demonstration of what co—
operation could accom-
plish turned the scale, and
farmers began to’ flock
into the association unso~
licited.

were asked to sign con-
tracts for one year, and
to take , stock on a can
basis. Subsequently they
were asked to sign three
year contracts and were
simply assessed on the
amount of butter fat they
had shipped during the
year. On the amount of
milk signed up at the
start, the shares at $50
per can gave them a cap—
ital of $140, 000. Today
the capital is $3,50 000.

The association has
been very fortunate in
having some able and far
sighted leaders. Both the
present premier of British
Columbia, Hon. John
Oliver, and the present
minister of agriculture,
Hon. J. D. Barrow, were
on the ﬁrst board of .di—
rectors. both being farm—
ers chiefly engaged in
dairying. Mr. Oliver at
East Delta and Mr. Bar‘-
row at Chiliwack.

The association’s early
efforts at ﬁnancing a large
business did not meet
with any better support
from the banks than some
other farmers’ companies
have met. The ﬁrst loans
they secured at the bank
were secured on the farm-
ers’ notes, on which the banks would
only loan 50 cents on the dollar.

Later on they secured a credit at
the bank of $10, 000. The associa-
tion’ s business was growing very rap-
idly and much larger credit soon be-
came necessary. The ofﬁcers of the
association 'went to the bank and
asked for $150,000. offering farmers’
notes as security. They were,met
With a refusal. “You know the
bank’s rules,” stated the manager,
and he oﬁered to loan up to 50 per
cent of the value of the notes.- The
ofﬁcers of the association believed
that they were entitled to the credit
and they appealed to the higher of-
ﬁcials of the bank and found there
a. business ‘man with some faith in
farmers’ organizations, with the re-
sult that the credit was forthcoming
to the full extent of the notes. At the
present time the organization has
one- half million dollars invested.

Ten per cent of the paid-up capital
goes into what is called a redemption
fund, out of which at any time any
member who is going out of the

dairy business may receive the full

value for his shares Twhich he turns
in to the association, plus six per cent
interest on his money. This fund was
started mainly for renters, of whom
they are a fairly large number among
the dairymen and who might at any
time be obliged to sell out. It has
been an important factor in getting

the support of these men. . Up to the '
present time, however. there has been.
-morethenenonghdomandfor '

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Proﬁteering

HIS IS one of our new words. It became

very popular during the war and still
has its 11scs.Thc only people in the good old
l' S. A. who we not proﬁteering are I and
then and even thou wouldst proﬁteer if thou
hadst the chance.
learn that labor, faimer, manufacturer, store
keeper, and landlord are all proﬁteering. If
that’ s the case, why grumble? /

We go to labor and say: “You are accused
of proﬁteering? What have you to say for
yourself?” Labor replies: “True, wages
have gone up but no higher than the cost of
living. Some 1n our ranks are making big mon-
ey but the most of us are barely making a de-
cent living.”

We go to the farmer and say, “The consum-
er says you are a proﬁteer. Can you aﬁord to
cut down your prices?” The farmer answers:
“No. Higher prices for my products mean
nothing to me if the cost of producing them in—
creases the same ratio. I still work early and
late and have no more, if indeed as much, as I
used to have when wheat was 80 cents and corn
60 cents a bushel.”

To the manufacturer we say: “How is it
that the prices of your commodities have ad-
vanced one hundred per cent in the last three
.3 cars? Surely you are proﬁteeringi’.’ But the
manufacturer denies it. “Wages have increas—
, ed; materials cost more;; production is less
and the purchasing power of my proﬁt dollars
is only one-half what it usedrto be. In order
to secure a fair return on my investment I have
to charge double for my product,” he says.

The store keeper also denies the charge that
he is laying away big proﬁts. “My overhead
has increased enormously, but my number of
customers is about the same. Competition is
, so strong that I ﬁnd it hard to increase my
margin enough to pay the extra cost of doing
business. Look up the number of failures in
my line of business the last year or so and you
Will not think that I am proﬁteering. ”

These are all good arguments and for the
most part they are borne out by the facts.
Here and there is a laborer ﬁlling a very im-
portant position requiring skill and experi-
ence. He is earning $25 a day. In comparison
with his fellow Workers he is proﬁteering. In
. other words he is making more money than he
requires to live comfortably and save a suf-
ﬁcienoy for old age; Here and there is a farm—

t pugs him large pro-
.. With his less for-~
‘ 'roﬁtes‘r. Yet it

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From different sources won

for who by rare good luck- and exceptional fore-,7 -

fannem “profit-1

  

the oil octopus, the steel trust, the coal combi-'
nation, the packer__ ring, and that mysterious
,monster which has a ﬁnger in eyery pie that is
cut and is known by the indeﬁnite title 6! W511
Street. Cut the talons and clip the Wings of
these and the cost of living Will come down
with a thud.

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Canadian Dairymen Take Lead

VERY ONCE in a while we are painfully
reminded that the farmers of Canada
are about two jumps ahead of American far-
mers and gaining every jump. We may as well

 

look the truth in the face and acknowledge -

that we are mere pikers 1n the co-operative and
political game as compared with our Canadian
cousins. ,

The biggest farmers" co-operative success in
the western hemisphere is the United Grains
Growers of western Canada. We -Wouldn’t
dare to tell you the volume of business this as-
sociation did last year. The ﬁgures would give
you a head-ache. And tli'lit is only one of scores
of big co-operative agricultural ventures across
the border. We think of the ‘Non-Partisan
League as a tremendous political power, but it
doesn’t hold a candle to the united political
power of the agricultural forces of the several
Canadian provinces. In Canada the farmer is
a force that is mightily respected and feared.

In this issue we present the story of another
example of Canadian agricultural progressive-
ness. It is the story of how the dairymen of
Vancouver, B. C., tackled a quarter of a mil—
lion dollar milk business, busted the milk trust,
tried the direct-from-producer-to—consumer
system, and made it PAY,——b0th the farmer
and the consumer. Like all other cities of siz-
able proportions Vancouver bought its milk
from twenty to thirty different distributors
Who paid the farmers what they pleaséd. But
after the farmers came to their senses and de-

cided to conduct their own business, Vancouv- ‘-

er has been buying most of its milk direct from
the farmers’ organization, the consumer pay-
ing less and the farmer receiving more. And
so far as the farmer is concerned he is free at
last from the dictation of the milk trust. -
The plan adOpted by the Vancouver farmers
would work admirably in many Michigan 10-
calities. Properly organized and ﬁnanced pro-
ducers’ associations COuld very proﬁtably
market milk of their members in such citiesas

Detroit, Grand Rapids, Jackson, Lansing, Kal- '

amazoo, Saginaw, etc. All that is required is
leadership, vision, backbone and capital The
farmers have all these eSSentials to command.
The opportunity is here. The iron is hot.
Strike before it cools.

Will It Stand the Test?
HE AMERICAN Farm Bureau Federa-
tion has arrived. Ithas been introduced
to the world in sundry ﬂowery speeches illume
inated with ﬂambouyant and extravagant su-

. per‘latives. One enthusiastic admirer modest—

ly proclaims that J‘it is the most promising
child ever born of agriculture.” Another that
“it marks ﬁregresteet epoohfin the'h-istoly-of
agriculture.” Whm the winds of. reason have
dissipated the gas clouds and we are able to
see this“child” in its naked imn'laturity, we
shall ﬁnd many interesting things about it.

The ﬁrst thing that will impress us is that
its leaders represent the highest type of Amer-
ican citizens. They are strong for American:
ism. Amen for that! - They are well-educated,
intelligent, successful. All are good qualiﬁes-
ti.ons ‘ Leok at their hands. " Some of them
shoW callous'e’s ,——signs that they «11.11150
good"

Trace the farm bureau back to its origin

and we ﬁndthati-t didfnotspring from the

farmers: It was an idea that came out of the

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and squeezed competitmn to death. There is—

,is not impossible to oppose the Plumb Plan and ' ‘

our farm leaders and organizations. _ If they. .

ffactory ‘solutlon they. should leav
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, the Federation 13th out
under the handicap of debt, -——a debt, both of

' chef and money,—_-— (Wing to large corporate
interests. Perhaps tile state farm bureaus‘ff‘
can pay their obligations of money and go on '
their way rejoicing, free and unencumbered.
But we doubt it. The debt 'of honor still
remains, and those Who hold that debt, will e <-
aét their pound of ﬂesh. In fact, some of the
resolutions passed by the American Faun
Bureau Federation would indicate that they ,
have already'exacted several pounds of ﬂesh.

If the American Farm Bureau Federation
can become an independent agent, acting sole-
ly and at all time in the interests of the farm- g ,
ers, we shall expect great things of it. But .
it Will have to stand the test. If it wavers or -
shrinks ffom its duty to the farmers; if it
compromises where victory only is honorable
and just; if it accepts orders from the same
source it has accepted money,——-it will not,——-
it cannot survive. 'It will pass aWay to” the
bone-yard "Where rests the remains of many a
farm organization, conceived from high ambi;
tifms and ideals, but blasted sooner or later
by corruption.’ ' .

We are willing to make liberal concessions '
to the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Mighty potentialities lie dormant in the
infant prodigy. Let us hope that they may
be developed properly that the child may grow
in strength and power to become a stalwart
and a never- faltering champion of the farm-
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HILE western representatives to the 1"

National Grange at Grand Rapids were
submitting resolutions favoring government
ownership and a continuation of federal con-
trol for aothern two years, delegates to the
convention of farm bureaus at Chicago passed '
strong resolutions against government owner-
ship and demanded the early return of the.
roads to the private Owners.

The Grange is the oldest farmers’. organiza-
tion in existence. It is also one of the most
conservative. Ten years ago the Grange mem-
nershipwvould have held up its hands in horror
at the mere suggestion of government owner-
ship. But the Grange tries to keep abreast of
the times, and we” are not surprised to ﬁnd a
strong sentiment prevailing among the voting
delegates favoring rigid go'vernment control of
the transportation systems. .

The resolution adopted by the farm bureau
federation reads as 1l1ough it might have been
. enned by a railroad corporation attorney. It
is_.of the stereotyped form that has made its f ’
frequent appearance in various conventions
and has been guided safely through resolutions
committees and voting delegates under the
special tutorship of corporation agents train- ..
ed and paid for the job.

A simple Way of getting rid .
proposition is to “resol ." 7in it, but it' 5“
seems singularly inapp ‘ " ”" for an or- ‘
ganizstion that claims to represent the farmers
who pay thefrelghtbmhways- to vote for a-
return of the old policies and conditions of
railway amputation. '

Dr. T. C. Atkeson, Washington representa-'
tive of the National Grange, who is personally
opposed to tMFlumb Plan, has said to us: “It

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, __ , furrows long.
., ‘ #518111: and deep, with such a. crazy
’ and bulky animal as the so-called la-
.bor beast seems to be. Or is it that
the ~i.'ool drivers have got their lines
crossed? Many a splendid outﬁt has
-_ been put into the ditch because the
.. driver got- his lines crossed. There
are more tool drivers than balk? an-
imals and that seems to he the case
here. ' ,

For instance, when. the war start-
ed the farmer was told to go ahead
and plant corn. sow wheat, etc., and
to hump himself generally. He knows
his business and would have done it
anyhow, and did do it, and only when
the-great hooks are opened will it be
known how” much suffering was
averted, how many months were fed
in a starving world. Did they deliv-
er the goods? They certainly did.

Now look at the other side, organ-
ized labor. Did they call their men
together and say. “now boys, we are
in trouble up to our; knees head ﬁrst
and need your help. Thousands upon
thousands of our sturdiest manhood
have been called from the various in-
dustries to rescue a bleeding world.
Your .brothers’ lives and the life of

. this nation depend to a large extent
on the ships, the guns, the aeroplanes
and the thousands of other things
that you may produce and upon the
speed with which you-deliver them.
Come, get busy; put in two, three or
four more hours per day, thereby do-
your bit.” '

Did they do this?
life! When they pulled the lines
and clucked, it sounded like this,
"Whoa, Emma. you are working too
hard. You’ll get some guns and aero-
planes and other things over there
before the war is Over. Go slow.
Now is your time to skin your Uncle
8am; go through his pockets; more
money and less work. (Your uncle
will have to stand for it.)

Well, our boys and our allies ate
American food, our boys used guns
of British manufacture (from Ameri-
can models) and used. French and
English aeroplanes. f -

" 'What, hitch agriculture with or-
ganized labor and let President Gom—
pers drive?
tors Uncle Sam, not Sam Gompere.
Kickhim in the bread basket Dob-
bin. if he touches the lines. Politi-
cians are falling on over themselves

Not on your

‘ to pass ls‘wscgsi-nst chlld‘ labor for

fearof competition in the labor ranks
(and at the some time putting up post-
' credit-sing boy's to join the farmers’
working reserve and save the world
from starving. Surely they have got
their lines crossed—H: L. 3.; Union-
ville, Mich. w

While it is undeniably true that many

‘ labor lenders and,ma “patriotic work-
men took advantage 0 they": to force
higher wages. do u think that it is fair
to hold all labor 0 account on
charge? 15 it not possible ﬂint
mg manufacturers) and Isle

, may hm . eemas'much'to me:
for rl .production. as manned
workmen? e ‘think. the. rank and. ﬁle
of labor showed itself patriotic
in: in win the‘war. True. 'w es
were Evoluntarily increased; all with
the exception of a handful otmnufac-
tux-era. no chatof peo ‘ more
from them than 6 r. If we.
wens dealing today with the rank and ,ﬁle "

teer-
‘ poli-

, or labor our industrial mumwmld. b

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v ' lrnple. but‘j‘slnce We are chutedto:
gov the-same radical lobar leaders
at!!! bushy engaged in the same pursuit.
the problem is very GOmplcx. [admire
‘ argument and am sure the majority
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only caution is thatwe do not , rmit the
unauthorized and extreme act
or «leaders turnpns . large-age a
body and wise us to forget!” -it‘may
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raised hell during the war and are ‘

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less bureaus, committees, yea investi-
gations, and more individual cour—
age of convictions and real backbone.
Where is the much "new power 0!
“get together" when the test comes,
that is while store prices are simply
soaring and farm produce going?
.'.Maybe you are not enjoying this, but
neither do some of us. The contin-
ual harping on organization when we
know that Big Business has every-
thing in its keeping and that to or-
ganize will really work more hard-
ships upcn children, widows and the
‘poor and defenseless. Awake, ye
sleepy editors, the rocks upon which
,_ Rome foundered are near in the
channel. A full stomach, it {at bank
- account and smart city clothes will
not quiet the farmers’ conscience or
kill his sense of fair play to all: The
time is doubtless coming soon when
farmers will have to take over active
management of affairs in general,
only let that come before others have
ruined everything—R. L. Lamm,
Litchﬁeld.

 

Your rebuke stings as you intended it
should. Here's the other cheek. Smite
it as hard as you please. It cannot hurt
any worse than the ﬁrst blow. To a pub-
lication that has lost thousands of dol-
lars worth of business because of its un—
yielding defense of the farmers' rights,
there is a grist of irony in your remarks.
It is easy to criticise, brother Lamm.
You‘d do better service to M. B. F. and
the farmers’ cause ifvyou would sit down
tonight and tell us exactly what YOU
would have done to what you call the
“Hog Trust." and how you would pro-
ceed to release the world from the clutch
of “Big Business.”——Edltor.

IS FARMER CAPITAL’S MONKEY?

Your very able articles against af—
ﬁliating with organized labor calls
for a word of caution. “Once upon
a time a fox had some chestnuts
which he wished to have roasted be-
fore he ate them. There was a nice
ﬁre to roast them in but no way to
get them out of the ﬁre once they
were roasted. without drawing them
out with the ﬁngers. This the fox
disliked to do. So he called 3. mon-
key andpshowed him the chestnuts
roasting and told him that he could
have half of them If he would pull
them out Of the fire. The monkey
promptly pulled the chesnuts out. of
the ﬁre‘but burned his ﬁngers so bad-
ly in doing it that the fox had disap-
peared with the chestnuts before the
monkey could use his ﬁngers.” So I
am suggesting that “organized capi—
tal may be the fox in the case, labor
may be the chestnuts and we farmers
may be the monkey. If we farmers
were organized we could take sides
' either‘way that suited our interests

and our ideals of the morals and
patriotic motives involved. Until we-
are organized it seems as though we
are spending too much energy in wor-
rying about the closed shop, labor's
demands and the patriotism of strik-
ers. It seems to me that we would
better'spend all our energies in or-
ganizing our organizations.

 
 

It was'my privilege while attend-I
ing the Farmers’ National Congress
last week to spend two days travel-
ing among the striking coal miners.
I went there expecting to ﬁnd than
living in ﬁne houses with Fords at
least to travel in, but I found them
living in shacks and the only vehicle
they owned seemed to be a dilapidat-
ed baby cab. I thought they were
striking to work only 30 hours a.
week but they were striking to get a
chance to work that long and as much
more as the operators (mine own-
ers) would allow them to work. I
found that the miners had been lied
about in the world’s greatest newspa-
pers and that the farmers had been
lied to by the same papers. I came
home with the ﬁrm conviction that
the ”world's greatest newspapers”
are the world’s greatest liars. That
these newspapers are in the pay of
proﬁteers who are robbing both ag-
riculture and labor and that we
farmers are being deceived by them.

Let’s go a little easy in putting our
foot on anybody’s neck but if we
must put one foot on the neck of
labor let us get the other ﬁrmly on
the neck of the proﬁteers. The mine
owners have been giving their men
only enough work to keep them alive
and by so doing have been able to
keep the price of coal very high. This
has caused “unrest” among the min—
ers and unrest among the consumers
and has given government owner—
ship a black eye because people have
believed the false claims of the mine
owners that they could not get cars.
Seldom before this has a group of
rich proﬁteers been able to fool the
public in three different directions at
once to their own proﬁt—John 0.
Staﬁord. Lawrence, Mich. ~

You ought to know, friend Stafford,
that M. B. F. and the majority of Amer-
ican citizens are heart and soul with lab-
or in its constructive efforts to secure
fair wages and working conditions.
When has the purchaser of the products
of labor shown so keen an interest and
sympathy in the welfare of labor_ as to-
day? We all want labor to receive the
highest possible reward for its work. but
so long as the public and the government
are responsive to the needs of labor and
willing to see that it gets a square deal,
why encourageirresponsible labor lead-
ers to get their clutches on industry and
agriculture and wring from them the
fruits of their own efforts?

We are face to face with this fact:
Organized labor. representing about one—
ﬂfteenth 0f the nation’s laboring men. we
in the hands of leaders whose ideas and
methods represent only a. small fraction
of those for whom they essay to speak.
These leaders, realizing that the general
public will never stand for such unAmer-
ican, cut—throat principles as the “clos-
ed shop." "sabotage," etc., are ap-
pealing to a special class, the farmer.
whose ignorance of strikes, walk—outs.
picketlng. etc, make him an easy prey
to their wiles. The question is, “Shall
the farmer take the bait that has been
offered?" ‘We say, “God forbid." The
coal strike could have been arbitrated.
The government was willing; the operat-
ors were willing; the public was willing
and perhaps some day when we know the
truth we will ﬁnd that the majority of
the coal miners were willing. But .a group
of stubborn labor leaders was not will-
ing. They wanted to show their power.
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One Moses Lee was up before the
33m .01! a charge of cruelty to an-
?illm'r- "
, J” Deed I wasn’t abusin’ dat mule,
laden.” the old man demurred.
" “Did you not strike it was a club?"
"Yes, ledge.” " "
“And do you not know that you

speaking kindly to them and coaxing
them?!”

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ant."ﬁegam so due! dot he can't
heel! me when I speaks to him in the,
one: way; so [has to communicate
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UNFAIR COMPETITION

From a plot a couple of Irishmen
were ﬁshing one afternoon. McIn-
tyre wagered McGuire the sum oi! ﬁve
dollars that he would catch thesilrst
ash; and the two continued earnest-
ly to ﬁsh until late in the day.

It was a warm afternoon, and Mc-
Guire, overcome, by drowsiness, fell
into the water, which accident arous—
ed McIntyre, who had also been doz-
ing.

Whereupon he jumped to his feet
and called down to McGuire?-

"See here, Mike; if you're goln’. to
dive either thin, the bet’s o! l” ‘

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Shoeless. he climbed the stairs, .

opened the door of the room, entered,

and' closed a after him without so; '
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to get into bedjhls “twink-aroused;
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"In that

   

“were; m ”can
_ oupu o amines. ‘ '
think that any other employer of cap’i’tal .»
aside from the mine operators themselves
{gene in empathy with these methods of

e operators? Would it not be to their
selﬁsh interests to have the grievances of
the miners adjusted to the satisfaction
of the miners rather than risk a long
strike. There was every reason in the
world to believe that the coal miners
could have practically dictated their owu
terms at a. conference table, but the lab- ~
or leaders rejected the idea. It was ' ’
power they were after. ‘ 4

Take the steel strike. Have *We a
acre. of evidence to show that the steel
wor etc were mistreated or underpaid! ‘
A little group of men decided that their
gower would be enhanced if they forest! 3 ‘-

e steel manufacturers to “recognise." ;
their union. One of these men we!”
named Foster, formerly secrete of the
Syndicalist League of America. which
capacity he preached such doctrines as
these, ‘The syndicallst proposes to bring,
about a revolution by a general strike,
“The syndicallst goes on strike to tie up
industry. If his striking fails to do this.
‘ ‘ l. ‘ ‘ he accomplishes his purpose 1) ,
“putting the machinery on strike” tlu'u .
temporarily disabling it. ‘ ’ ‘ ‘ ‘ .HI‘
cuts wires, puts cement in switches. 8 ‘J
nals, runs locomotives into tumtﬁbo
pits. '* " " ‘ ‘ [the lee machinists)!-
factory worker, and hasn’t ready access
to the machineg he will hire out as 3 ‘
scab and surre ltiously put emery dust
in the bearings of the machinery or'othz- ~
erwise disable it. ‘ ’ ‘ ‘ ‘ b . '
stealing, or destroying some small lndla-
pensable machine part which is difﬁcult
to replace.” etc, etc.

And the scamp who wrote this is co-
cupying a high position in a treat 18.er
union with which farmers are asked to
afﬁliate. But the farmers who fall for
it should remember that “chickens come . .
home to roost" and that the time may ‘i
come when they will have to protect
their own machinery from the destroy-
ing hand of the rural syndicalist.

Let the farmer "organize his organ-
zations” as you suggest and he wi 31:
not need to seek the protection of any 'i-
other organized class—Editor. “5

THEWORD

The one harsh word we hear so :7»
often these days of chaos is Bolshe-
vism. and the deﬁnition I am told
“is to destroy,”——and in most cases
the word is used in connection with
property. But to my mind there is
a more cruel bo‘lshearism than the
destruction of money values—the
system that by oppression crushes the ‘3
joy and happiness out of life. '

Any business or system that by its
nature destroys men’s minds and
sou-1s, the customs that rob one of
their just share in the things God 73
meant for his entire human family.
The scathing rebuke; the scorching

  
 

  
  

 
 

 
  

 

  

 
 

     
    
  
   
   
  
   
   
 
 
  
   
  
  
   
     
  
   
   
   
    
     
    
 
   
   
       
    
    
  
   
     
    
  
  
    
   
  
   
   
  
   
   
  
   
  
 
   
   
  
     
  
   
  
  
   
  
   
   
   
    
  
 
 
  
  
     
    
 

 

scandal; the cold hearted contact ‘3
with hardened souls. the greed of ,
gain which stops at nothing, the

desire for force and power over oth‘
era. The stem which does not ap-
ply the gol on rule and which we see
have such undisputed sway on all
sides, which reaches from the places
in our land on down the line to the
very humblest door, the system so
dwarfing in its working that would
make the poor man a slave in every
sense of the word.
Modern business methods are pro-
ductlve of bolshevism, for it is im- ‘ 3‘."
possible to keep pressing down on '
any part of humanity and still ex- .29;
pect that humans will never reach t
the limit of endurance. _
We all know for every street there
is a cause, and it does not require a - ‘9
scholar to see the cause of bolshe-
vim. Each of us should do our
share to help remedy this conditibn.
and then when right does triumph as
it surely must, the 'tis slowtearth
will be what it was ﬁrst intended to .
be.Y9TngOd- ’ - r-‘V
It the luxury living part of human— '
ity will but see, and that soon, and be
brothers and come across with a“
smile and play the game of‘lite fair,-
it will be far better than to..wait and ..
be compelled to come across, for,”
then they would not feel like smiling. I
Let us each see our duty and do
lt.—E. G. 13., Bear Lake.
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. THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION

_. President Wilsonhas ,set aside
Thursday, November, 27th .as
Thanksgiving Day. He has as ed.

only gather to gve
thanks but that we conseor'ate our-,
selves anew to the ideals which make
for a true and lasting Democracy.
The proclamation follows:

“By the President of the United
, States of Amercia.

“A proclamation:

“The season of the year has again
arrived when the people of the
United States are accustomed to
unite in giving thanks to Almighty
God for the blessings which He
3 has conferred upon our country
during the 12 months that have pass-
ed. A year ago our people poured
. out their hearts in praise and thanks-
-'giving that through Divine aid the
right was victorious and peace had
come to the nations which had so
courageously struggled in defense of
human liberty and justice. Now that
the. stern task is ended and the fruits
.of achievement are ours, we look for-
ward with conﬁdence to the dawn of
an era where the sacriﬁces of the na-
tions will ﬁnd recompense in a world
at peace.

“But to attain the consummation
of the great work to which the Am-
erican people devoted their manhood
and the vast resources of their coun-
try, they should, as they give thanks
to God, reconsecrate themselves to
those principles of right which tri-
umphed through His merciful good-
Our gratitude can find no more
perfect expression than to bulwark
‘ with loyalty and patriotism those
principles for which the free peoples

1 of the earth fought and died.

“During the past year we have had
much to make us grateful. In spite

, of the confusion in our economic life

. resulting from the war, we have pros-
; pered. Our harvests have been plen-
l tiful. and of our abundance we have
been able to render succor to less
favored nations. Our democracyre-
mains unshaken in a world torn with
political and social unrest. Our tra-
ditional ideals are still our guides
in the path of progress and civiliza-
tion.

“The great blessings vouchsafed
to us for which we devoutly give
thanks, should arouse us to a fuller
sense of our duty to ourselves and to
mankind to see to it that nothing we
may do shall mar the completeness
of the victory which we helped to
win. No selfish purpose animated
' us in becoming participants in the
world war, and with a like spirit of
unselﬁshness we should strive to aid
by our example and by our co—opera-
tion in realizing the enduring welfare

of all peoples and in bringing into

being a world ruled by friendship
and good will.

“Therefore. I, Woodrow Wilson,
president of the United States of
America, hereby designate Thursday,
the 27th day of November, for ob-
servance as a day of thanksgiving
and prayer by my fellow country—
men, inviting them to cease on that
day from their ordinary tasks and to
unite in theirhomes and in their
several places of worship in ascribing
praise and thanksgiving to God the

, author of all blessings and the mast-

er of our destinies. '

“In witness Whereof. I have here—
._ unto set my hand and caused the seal
, ' of the United States to be affixed. ’

“Done in the District of Columbia,

this iﬂfth day of November, in the.
. ar‘ of 0111‘ Lord, one‘t'housand ninef
‘ red and nineteen, and .of the,

 

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Edited by MABEL CLARE LADD

 

Home Cooking 'Depar'tm‘ent
(Conducted by Miss Elizabeth Math-
eson, of the Valley City Milling Co.)

 

 

 

There" has been much cause for
complaint through the country be-
cause of sour bread, some’ housewives
claiming that it was‘the flour. Miss
Matheson wants you to test out your
yeast, as she has found this to be the
biggest source of trouble. .

The question of providing good
bread is one of vital importance to
every good housewife. Most of us
feel if we have good bread and but-

  

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By C. S. Dillenback.

time of you? that makes me n

feel so glad— i
The crib is ﬁlled with ears of

gold, the ﬁnest to be had,

The apples and -the ‘taters' too
are safely stowed away

And the barn is Just a bulging
out—with the bumper crop of

But somehow those don’t count
so much; I can’t just tell you

As the feeling that creeps
heart
time draws nigh.

yeast seems to have changed!
The yeast will come up beautiful-

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pes for the best of home made yeast.

ly. and the bread will appear as us-.

_ ual until about the second kneading

Many women have found they get the

bread into the tins or eve‘ng'as far as 9
into the oven. when it refuses to rise
and the result is a heavy, dark coarse ~

grained loaf. So far as taste goes,
it is all right, but it certainly is a big
disappointment to have such a result
after all the hard work entailed. Now
that trouble is more than likely- to
be a- yeast trouble. ‘ Sometimes by in-
creasing the quantity' of yeast .used
one’s trouble is over, but' that is
something that must be done cau-

       

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ter we have the foundation for a
good meal, and if necessary we can
do without much else beside that.

But bread-making. during the past
few months has had problems of its
own and many women, who have al-
ways made most excellent breadpare
at a loss to know the reason of their
failure.

It has been my experience that the
reason does not lie primarily in the
flour as many are inclined to think.
I grant you that there is some poor
flour upon the market—even some
war flour has not yet been absorbed
by the trade and due to the condi-
tion of the western whea-t,‘some of
the western millers are not making
the same high grade flour they did
before the war.

- Millers, as well as housewives. are
having their difﬁculties with ﬂour
this year.’ There seems to be an un-
usual condition for'ﬂour that tests
out, perfectly chemically and looks
. and feels all right,‘ DOES NOT bake
out well. And thus far no one seems

able to make any explanations re-_,

garding the diﬂculty.

_. But frequently the trouble does:
not lie in the hour at all, but in thegb

yeast; :Now. «1011’ t sayé f‘ye'u can tel!
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tiously or the bread is Sour.
think it necessary to use one and one—
half cakes of yeast where we'former-
1y used one.

Many 'women tell me they make a
point of using two, but I would ad-

vise a little experimenting before
adopting that rule. It may be found
advisable to shorten the process of
bread making, omitting one knead-
ing. Your bread will not be so ﬁne-
grained as formerly but it will be
edible at any rate. We formerly lik-
ed to give our bread an extra knead-
ing to have an especially ﬁne—grain-
ed loaf, but often these days that
process is fatal. The yeast seems
to lose all its strength, or vitality,
and the bread refuses to rise again.

I wish I were able to give a posi-
tive remedy to each of you, but con-
ditions are so variable thatit “is
impossible. So the best I can'do is
to point out some of the causes But
I am thoroughly convinced that the

chief reason is due not" to“ the ﬂour

but to the variable quality of the
yeast appearing upon the market

Many have proved this to their

  

   
  
 

  

  

' did it?

' If you have h dimculty and ham ,
been-abie toi- so 9 the problem oth- ‘
'erWise, ,won’t you tell us how you
For many women need your
help and what seems to you but a
little suggestion may be justwhat
another woman needs sadly.

“Potato” Yeast

‘Soak four cakes of yeast for sev- -
eral hours in one pint of luke warm

water. to which has been added 1-3

cup of sugar. Boil about 2. medium
sized pptatoes and mash thoroughly.
Strain the softened yeast onto the po-
tatoes and add enough freshly boil-
ed water, which hasbeen cooled to
luke-warm, tor make a quart. Add
two level tablespoons full of salt and
let stand. at least 24 hours before us-
.ing. Keep in a fruit jar in a cool
place. This yeast must be used at

least twice a week to insure success

n

in ‘ _

in. baking.

Hop Yeast

Steep two rounded tablespoons full
of compressed hops in a pint of wa-
ter. Scald 3-4 cup of flour with this
hot water. Boil six medium sized po-
tatoes and ash thoroughly. Add to
thescalded lour, and enough freshly
boiled water to make ,one quart.
When luke warm add two yeast cakes
which have been thoroughly softened
in a little luke warm water. Also
add one 1- 3 cup salt. Let stand 24
hours before using. When fresh, a
cup will be necessary for a baking of
5 or 6 loaves, but after standing a
few days 1 2 cup is sufﬁcient for that
much bread. A stronger ferment»
tion is secured by using three yeast
cakes. I frequently use 4 these
days.

ELIZABETH MATHESON.

Winter Styles

W2596—Girls' Dress.

Cut in 4 sizes: 4, 6, 8 and 10 gem
Size 6 requires 23-4 yards of'i3 -
material.

2681. Girl's Dress.

Cut in 4 sizes. 6, 8, 10 and 12 y
Size 12 will require 33- 4 yards of
inch material. Price 10} cents. «

2986—2865. A Pretty Gown.

Blouse 2986 Cut in 6 Sizes: 34, 36,
40, 42 and 44 inches bust measure. -
2865 Cut in 7 Sizes: 22. 2.4, 26, 28, 8 .
32 and 34 inches waist measure. A med '
um size requires 71- 2 yards of 44-111
material. The width of skirt at lower

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I. ' '.ﬁj_.rigli.t now, the one we celebrate
ﬂit week is "that of Thanksgiving,

. "end it is a good thing for all‘ of us;
, no matter how small, to ,realize what
def} wonderful country we have and

what our forefathers did for us when

’ they braved the perils of the sea and

life in an unknown land, to come to
. this country and begin life anew,
f where they could worship as they
_ thought right. They were grateful
. tor the new found home, and so we
1 today should be grateful that we are
! lvileged to live in a country that is
es and we should be doubly thank-
ul this year that the war is over and
3 all our brothers are home again. To
' show that we are truly thankful,
[means that we do something for
someone less fortunate than ourselv-
es. In all the pleasure of family
gatherings with heaps’ of good things
to eat. let us not forget those who
‘ haven’t so much, and share our good
.‘ things and our blessings with them.
1 Such a lot of wonderful letters
' reached me during the past two
i. weeks from children competing for
the prizes for the best Thanksgiving
stories. Some were very good in-
deed but were so long that they
would have taken all our space so
we could not print them, one was
written by three little girls, but as
they didn’t sign their names, that
one could not be counted, for of
course prizesz couldn’t be awarded
when we didn’t know the names. The
two which were awarded the prize
—.of a Christmas package of cards. la-
bels, tags, etc., are those written by
Elsie Burnett, of eford; and the
pretty little fairy story of Thanks-
giving by Florence Homes, of Ithaca.
The ﬁrst one is a story of the First
Thanksgiving while the second is an
original story. Both are printed be-
low, and we li’ave asked the print-
ers to crowd in just as many others
as they have space for.
I can’t close my letter this week
without tblluing you that a whole lot
f you people are busy earning the
hristmas prizes and one of the most
repular prizes has been the pencil
axes, another of which I just ship-
£1 out today to Philip Machek, of

ringLake. Affectionaitely yours.—
, DDIE.

 

First Prize

Dear Laddie:-—-I have never written to

11 before, so would like to see my let-

r in print. I am 12 years old and in

e 7th grade. My teacher is Mrs.

arke. I have two brothers. I enjoy
reading the Children’s Hour page. My
father owns 120 acres of land. We have
two horses and two colts, six cows and
about 60 hens. For pets we have two
cats and two dogs. I am writing a story
about Thanksgiving.

."T-he First Than sgiving in America".

In ‘1620 a hundred Pilgrims sailed for
America. in the ship, Mayﬂower. It was
e long, rough passage across the Atlan-
ic. On November 11, 1620 they saw

(1. They landed on the northern ex-
tremity of Cape Cod bay.

The Pilgrims 'set to work to build the
log cabins for their little settlement and
caled it Plymouth. During that winter
half of the little band died of hunger
and cold. ‘

Some of the Indians were very fr/iend-
ly to the Pilgrims and taught them how
to raise Indian corn; (they call it maize)
and to fertilize their ﬁelds with ﬁsh.

f A da was set to give thanks to God,
, which snow called Thanksgiving Day.
. The Pilgrims were to have a ﬁne dinner.
4 me of the men went hunting. and
rought home a fat deer and some tur-

.l s. Th boys went ﬁshing and caught
,great a ’undanoe of ﬁsh. When the
, ,y came there was no good thing left
m. The Pilgrims invited some friendly
ians to ceme to the feast. They had

es of banana foot races. The Indi-
- could 'run very fast, butthey did not

how to play ball very well. The In-
, he seemed just as happy as the Pil-
3. They gave thanks to God that

Hymn a. home of their own;
’ his was the ﬁrst Thanksgizing in
American—Elsie Burnett. \Defor , Mich.

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‘ ~ Second Prize ..

' egg Daddies—I have never written to
u; , thought I would write now. » I am
f.~¥.6¥rﬂ.:1ml ."and a in the. 6thgrade.
; gishlh's. ,

ts, two bantam chickens.

' it'tle‘ calves and one little

, -, vs ”Operas of land and nine
‘ ,6 I have three sisters and
Well/I an writing a
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,. When the Turkey’s on the
' Table

When the leaves have turned and
fallen, leaving branches black
and bare, .

When the signs of coming winter
can be noticed everywhere,

When the squirrels and the snow
birds are a-Jumpin' in the trees,

And your blood, ‘13 ill a-tinglln' in
the frosty autumn breeze,

Then I love to wake up early on e

' bright Thanksgivin' morn

And to hear .the horses whinnyln'
to get their food of corn;

But what I like the best of all
when that day comes aroun'
*I.‘ the turkey on the table and the

folks a-settln’ roun'.

Oh! it’s Jolly fun when daddy
takes his place up at the head.
And he smiles around at Jimmy

and at Susan and at Ned;
Then he rubs his knife against
the steel until it's like it’s ground
Well, it kinder helps your appetite
——that old, familiar sound—
There's a drumstick here for Jim.
my and a piece of breast for‘

Jane, .

And some dressing here for mama
——when you’ve ﬁnished come
again.

I tell you what, it’s hard to keep
a fellow’s spirits down

When the turkey’s on the table
and the folks are settin’ roun’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

for two with a lot of good things to eat.
They ate until they could hold no more.
Then they went into the parlor. There
in the corner was a little Pathe machine
and a lot of little records, and in another
corner was a little piano and a piano
bench. Then the two girls noticed that
the room had electric lights and looking

on the table they saw a small note
which read, “For Rachel and Gladys
Copperhead : look at the calendar and

live up to the day. From your fairy
god-mother." Rachel looked at the cal-

 

 

endar and saw it was Thanksgiving Day.
£3111 day the little girls were very thank-
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Good

A“ “A Very Happy Thanksgiving”

It was turning cold and leaves on the
trees were falling fast. A young couple
who had just got married before winter
had made themselves a. home in the
woods. Their house was made of huge
logs\hewn at each end so as to ﬁt snug-
ly. At one end of this house was a. big
ﬁre-place. They had very little furni-
ture. It consisted of a table, a bed, two
chairs and a home-made cupboard.

The man's name was John. and one
morning he said to his wife named Mary,
“Say, Mary, I a going to go hunting

.. for some wild tur ey because tomorrow
will be Thanksgiving.” “Ver well," said
his wife, “since tomorrow wil be Thanks-
giving Day I will do some extra baking."
When night came John came home with
two wild turkeys, a rabbit and a nice
large box. They both went to bed happy
as they thought of the feast they were
going to have the following day. They
were awakened early the next morning
by a faint cry at the door. “What is that
noise?” said Mary. "I don't know,” said
John, “quite likely it’s a squirrel." Jqut
then they heard the noise again. “John,
go to the door and see what it is." John
went and opening the door saw a small
basket with something all rolled up in it.
He brought it in the house. “Let me see
what‘s in it," said Mary. She took the
cloth off the top of the basket to ﬁnd a
little baby. “See this paper all folded
up.” she said. She opened it and read
as follows:

”Dear Mary and John:—

“I shall not tell you who gave you this
little one. But I s all give it to you as
a Thanksgiving gi. .”

It was a happy Thanksgiving for
them, indeed—Clark Kerr, Sterling Mich.

Dear Laddiet—This is the ﬁrst time I
have written to you and hope this let-
ter will be in print. I live on an 100—
acre farm. We have ten head of cattle.
eight of horses, ﬁve head of sheep. 116
chickens and 144 geese. I have three
pets, two cats and a dog. I live three
and one-half miles northwest of Sterling.
I attend High School at that place and
am in the 10th grade, and am 14 years

 

"then-aims” home and. farm

\

V’ ’ém. name womb Kira s
.gqvigp‘the‘-M.~A. C. at'Lansing for

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sill-patch of. potatoes this sunshier
'j j vacant/"35: square feet and I}:
bushelsw; “ell I must close as my
ter is get‘t' g, long. My rather get
M. B. 133;. 1 'Will write my Thanksg‘
story this 'week and send it in the
of the week—Clark Kerr. r

  

A Thanksgiving Story :7 .
There is a day called Thanksgiving: 3
The
Pilgrims had a thanksgiving feast in the"
olden times and invited the Indians to.
share it with them. That was the ﬁrst.

is the last Thursday in November.
the day on which to give thanks.

Thanksgiving Day. They had wild .tur-
keyvand ﬁsh and pumpkin pie.

hen the Pilgrims came over to our' ,
country there was snow on the, ground, , 1

They had to live in log houses, and when

'spring came many. of them had died.

Some of the friendly Indians gave them
corn to plant and told them how to plant

it. Some ‘01" the Indians were not very ,
friendly so the Pilgrims had to carry,

their guns to church when they went.—

Mildred Schlemmer, Spencer, Mich. _, 4. ‘

 

Dear Laddiez—I am going to write-a.
few lines and let you know I got the

pretty gift you sent me and I thank you
My little -

for it. I think it is pretty.
sister, Margaret and I are trying to get
enough subscribers so we can
era and I hope we succeed. am writ:-
ing this letter in school. My teacherfis

Miss Zlna Goodrich and I like her. This , ,

year I am in the 8th grade. There are
18 pupils in my room and four grades.
the 6th, 8th. 9th and 10th. There are
eight pupils in my grade. It is getting
colder and it snowed yesterday here so
the ground was white and looked prettv
The other day I counted the weeks till
Christmas and it was only seven so it
will soon come and I will be glad. We
are building a new house and expect to
move in by the last of this week. We had
a Ilallowe’cn program at the hall. I was
in two songs. a drill and a play called
“The Lost Dog," I must close my letter
and hope to sce if in the M. B. F'.—D0ra
Peterson, Bitcly, Mich.

 

 

Dear Laddiet—I read the Children’s
Hour and like it vory much. Wish
some girl or boy would write to me and
tell me how their school is coming on.
Our teacher wishes us to and see What
other schools are doing. I have three
brothers and two sisters. I am 12 years
old and in the 7th grade with my Sister
who is ll. years; her name is Frances.
I hope this will escape the wastenaper
basket. If is getting long so I will say
goodbye—Isabel Stevens, Kalamazoo.

 

 

How to Make Pincers

AVE the boys of today forgot-

ten how to Whittle, or have

they never learned? I often
wonder about this fact, for the boy
with the jack-knife does not seem to
{lie so m ch in evidence as when I
was 3. yo ngster. How I did prize my
ﬁrst knife! And I tried to have it
always sharp, too. Many’ were the
hours that I spent just whittling with
a sharp knife on a piece of white
pine. I did not always make some-
thing, either, for there seemed a. deep
interest in just making nice smooth
surfaces on that piece of pine.

The shop of an old shoemaker in
our little town was a place of much
interest to me. He was an expert in
whittling, or perhaps in his case I
should use the word CARVING, for
he fashioned all kinds of animals
from just a piece of wood by the aid
of a knife. He really was an artist
for his horses looked just exactly like
real horses so far as their shape was
concerned, I never could accomplish
what he did, but I made chains and
various other objects that were equal-
ly interesting to me.

o

This article presents a problem
that I have called a whittling exer-
cise. Not only should you derive
much pleasure in fashioning it, but it
will serve a useful purpose when it is
ﬁnished. I have called it a pair of
wooden pincers or tongs. You will be
able to think up uses for it, but I will
suggest one for you. A great many
boys are interested in photography
and are able to do their own develop-
ing and ﬁnishing. A small pair of
tongs is a convenient tool to have for
this work, but a metal pair is easily
affected by the chemicals used. This
'is not true in the case of the wooden
pair. ~

A piece of pine, straight grained, is
the best material for this problem.
Reduce it to the dimensions indicated
on the drawing, after which carefully
lay out the outline Of the object on
the pine, using a sharp pointed lead
pencil. The layout should be made on
all four sides. The t0p and bottom
will, therefore, have the same layout
and the two sides will have the same.

With a good sharp knife, one hav-
ing a thin blade preferred, cut from A
to B and from C to D, working very
carefully and from opposite sides.
Continue until the two cuts meet.

Next, cut on [all lines corresponding
to X-Y going only oneouarter of an
inch deep and working from opposite
sides. Allow clearance as shou\ and
very carefully round all corners cor-

'responding to K. Next start cutting

on lines I and J, working from oppo- .
site sides and cutting clear through.
My this time you will begin to see
what the object of this cutting is and
can proceed with a better understand
ing. Continue the cutting until par‘
E is separated from part F, that is.
so they will operate like a pair of
tongs. Of course, there will be some
trimming and smoothing to be done
before the tongs will work properly
and this will be evident to you as the
work progresses. Round the upper
parts of the handles to suit. If lonr-
er handles are desired, the origin.",
piece of stock should, of course, b-
longer.

To the average boy it probabl"
would seem impossible to cut out a
problem of this kind from a single
piece of wood, but after following the
drawing and directions carefully, you
will be convinced that it can be don°.
All it requires besides the material
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in: the holiday season is always

the supply. There is always a tend-
ency among iarmers to make their
entire sales of poultry during the hol-
idays which often over supplies the
demand. While it is advisable to
sell during the period from the week
prior to Thanksgiving to New Years,
still some discretion should be used
. in not .glutting the market upon any
holiday.

Often the market is better follow-
ing the holiday trade. Turkeys al-
ways sell well at Thanksgiving but
all shippers should make allowance

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poultry intended for Thanhxiviﬁ."
for dressed poultry during the holi-
day trade but great care should be
taken in dressing so s to retain a
neat and attractive appearance while
displaying turkeys should always be
dry picked and some dry pick chick-
ens bring good results. If shipping
poultry for holiday trade, the same
should arrive a few days before the
holidays.

Much could be gained to shippers
if they would closely study the mar-
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_ Dealers, manufacturers, and the
government held 729,373,000 pounds
of wool, grease equivalent, on Sep-
tember 30, 1919, according to the Bun-
eau of Markets, United States De-
partment of Agriculture. This repre-
sents holdings in excess of those re—
ported in any quarterly period since
the reports were ﬁrst issued. Stocks
on September 30 were 8 per cent
greater than on June 30, 1919, and 60
per cent greater than stocks held on
September 30, 1918.

At the present rate of consumption
the bureau “points out that the total
stocks on September 30 are sufﬁcient
to last for more than a year. Because
Of the great demand for ﬁne wools
the reports show a decrease in ﬁne
and 1-2 blood grease amounting to 9,-
000,000 pounds. Both manufacturers
and dealers hold more of all grades
with the exception of ﬁne wool. A
decrease of 22,000,000 pounds or ﬁne
wool holdings compared to June 30 is
shown for dealers' stocks, while man-

. ufacturers’ holdings of this grade in-

creased 5,000,000 pounds.
Boston holds ﬁrst place among the

' markets of the country with 156,000,-

000 pounds 0: all kinds and classes.
Philadelphia ranks second, followed
closely by Chicago. Manufacturers in
Massachusetts held 91,000,000 pounds
Rhode Island 33 .000 .;000 and Penn-
sylvania, 29, 000, 000.

The government wool auctions have
been the center of attraction, although

1 there has been more or less business

privately as well, chiefly for the half-
blood and fine wools. Prices for the
ﬁner, grades are 20 to 25 per cent
higher, while medium wools are gen-
erally steady and the lower grades
from good quarter bloods down are
15 to 20 per cent lower compared with
June. The manufacturing situation
is very strong and the tendency is for
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ain’t been hearin’ from me lately.

Mebbe you hadn’t noticed it, but
I ain’t been writin’ any way an' now
I’m jest goin’ to tell you the hull
durn reason an’ then, if you like this
kind 0’ litit-ture mebbe I’ll write
agin’wevery week mebbe.

Well to begin. You see I’ve been
workin' quite stiddy an’ been saveins
a. little, as much as I could an’ was
kinda. gittin’ along purty smoothike
’till these darn high prices hit us—
all of us I guess—«an' I could see ev-
ery thing slippin’; takein more to
keep» me livin’ than I could earn, so
I made up my .mind I'd kinda quit
strugglin’, say goodbye an’ quietly
shuffle off this mortal coil, as the
poet said. Of course I wanted to do
the thing up right; didn’t want to suf-

. for much nor mar my features up

with bullets nor puff 'em up with piz-
en. I wanted to keep my attractive

. looks even if i couldn't see ’91:) my-

selI—so to speak.

After considerin’ several things I
ﬁnally decided on my course. I went
to one of the restaurants here more
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Many Attend Clark’s Hog Sale

Mr. William Clark’s sale of Regis-
tered Big Type Poland China Hogs
held Nov. 11 at his farm at Eaton
Rapids, was quite well attended. as
the weather and roads were good and
a great many breeders and farmers
took advantage (if the same and came
from all directions. His offering was
in splendid shape and was well worth
the while of any breeder to attend.
The bidding was rather spasmodic at
times and at others rather slow. and
while some animals sold well, most of
them did not bring what they Were
worth. One Ilttel by Orange Des
Moines and Lady Price sold well, No.
39 topping the sale, bringing $257. 50
going to A. D. Gregory of Innis. Be-
low are all selling over 850. Several
animals were of late Iarrow and did
not sell as high.

' Ben: (IE-sell: Farm.

Hudson, Mic.
Adrien, Mich,

Falkin, Manchester, Mich. 8109. 43.

Gilt.
J. Severance. Mason. Mich" 58. 44>. Gilt. Sal

Mnrkle ,- Eaton Rapids. Mich” 369. 45. Gilt.
Cliffordy Pence, Belleview Mich. 55. 48 Gilt. F
J. Severance, Mason Mich” 897. 00. 49. Gilt.

Sal Msrkley. Eaton Rapids, $61. 50. Gilt. Vern

Swan, Eaton Rapids,$ $71 51.Gilt.Joseph Witt,
Jamar. Mich. 855. 52. Gilt. W. J. iisxelshew,
Augusta, Mich. $77 53. Howard Riley,
Charlotte, Mich, 3611.0

ets at $8. 98 an’ war tax if any, think-
in’ that would give me time to make
other arrangements 311’ then I pur
ceeded to make afcﬁesaid other ar-
rangements.

First, I hired three or four not
overly perticu'lar tellers to act as
mourners; give ’em checks due after
their work Wes done, arranged with a
preacher who had lost his" job ’cause
he kissed ’nother feller‘s wife, an’
made a few other arrangements an’
then I went to the undertaker’s an’
there’s wha'e the hull durn business
busted—that’s why I’m still in this
land of tears an’ high prices, this
world of sorrow an’ hot dogs; that’s
willy I’m writin’ agin an’ workin’ an’
everything. Why, do you know you
can’t take a darned thing with you
when you leave this world? You got
to leaVe everything behind for your
relations to ﬁght over ’cause they
ain’t no pockets in a shroud. I looked
’em all over carefully, from top to
bottom an' nary a. pocket couid I ﬁnd,
not in the new and .up- -to-date ones,
nor in the secondhand ones either; no
place to lug anything away in an’ so I
see, I‘ll jeststick stick, right here an’ sit
the beneﬁt of than?" got myself; '
I've got them meal tickets u’ I’ll sell
’01:: cheap. $1250 or war tax (it

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ginade a fortnight ago. but that’s
abant‘all that can be said of theme:-
ket. One day the market is strong

and bidding is active, but there :30 -
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aIWays a few cars near at hand- to

the gap! and the /market relapses
again'into a stateof coma. The farm-
-ers of Michigan, according‘to our
crop reporters are watching and
' waitingrand itris well. Advices from
New York state are to. the effect that
the farmers there are not over.anx-

, ious either to sell/1t present prices.

.The California people'are also hold-
ing off, and it begins to look as if

. the slack would soon be taken .out of

‘ the market and a better demand and

higher prices show— themselves; There

is nothing to report at this time con- ,

coming the progress of thebean leg-
islation at Washington. The new
congress will convene in another two
or three weeks and the chances are
good that speciaftariff bills will be
taken up shortly thereafter. provid-
ing that congress does not begin work
on/the general tariff bill. In the lat-
ter event relief in the bean situation
might be indeﬁnitely delayed. We are
keeping close track of the situation,
however,.and will advise our readers
of‘all developments. ,

Contributions to the “bean fund"
have apparently ceased. The total
will not exceed $175. The settle-
ment 0f the expenses will be made by
the first of December and a cOmplete
accounting will be made of funds and
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Detroit 3.00 12.30
Chicago . .- .............. 2.85 l 2.75
Plttsburg . . .- . . .1 ........ 3.00 1 2.15
New York ............. 3.09 -l 2.76
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Plttsburg .............. 1 2.20 l 2.00
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Ounpi'edictions of higher potato
prices are coming true fast. The
market has been on the steady climb
upward for the better part of Novem-
ber and the top has by no means been
reached." Both farmers and traders
are satisﬁed that the crop is not suf—

 
  
 
 

 
 

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was .11 satin . , .
. cos as a-cood many are laying in
" their ' winter “supplies. The .car
‘- Buttons is still being felt in some 10-
“. aunties thodgh it is not acute.
. RTiialatelt government. report on
pastes. shows that increased yields
in certnin sections, ‘ notably Michigan,
will offset the loss from rot in other
states. That does not alter the fact.
however, that the crop is way short
of normal; - Farmers are showing re—
markably good judgment in their
marketing methods, and we are glad
that those who have followed our ad-
vice and harvested only a portion of
their crop are to receive better prices
for what remains in their hands.

 
   
 
 
  

  

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The hay markets in general have
continued to show the same lifeless
attitude which has prevailed for
several weeks. The various cities
send reports of steady and quiet to
ﬁrm. 'Receipts in most markets are
slight resulting in a steadying and
bettering of price offerings. Detroit
has been receiving fairly liberal sup—
plies of timothy, and consumers have
been able to take it all. therefore De-
troit reports a steady market. In
New York the hay is taken up just
about as fast as unloaded from the
incoming cars, but there is no snap
to the demand and price conditions
remain just about as usual. Pitts-
burg receipts have improved some-
what, but farmers are not selling
freely and cars are scarce.

DAIRY PRODUCTS FIRM

Due to light supply the dairy mar—
ket is ﬁrming up. There seems to be
a universal shortage of ﬁne, new laid
eggs. New York is the chief market

Hogs and Cattle Sell Higher in Chicago

considerable gains of late, al-

though the market this week
opened 25 to 50 cents lower on some
items. Hog receipts in Chicago in-
creased considerably with the pick-
ing up of prices, and the total esti-
mated receipts for Chicago this week
are 210.000. Although this is an
improvement for the last few months
it is still some 25,000 below the ﬁg-
ure of a year ago at this time.

Last week hog prices were the
highest they had been since the mid-
dle of October, with a top near $17.
Last year the top price was around
$18 and two years ago it was $16.80
at this time. Although certain pa-
pers point out that the farmers will
probably be more or“ less satisﬁed
with these figures, we are informed
of farmers, who believe that present
market prices do not pay for the pro—
ductionncosts with a fair pront. With
a general/113mg flood of prices of
everything else, the price to the
farmer needs to be higher. also.

The advances of late in various

LIVE STOCK has been showing

V lines of live stock was due largely to

 

a loosening up on the part ‘ of. the
packers. who .had refrained from
making considerable purchases in
the past few months. Even yet the

q 2 packers, are-buying some “3000- few-
or has: sci ,wa‘ak than their

certain», at this time-show.“ 1
" Cattle am is in close accord
hogsitnation. A top of

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selling in Michigan for little' or noth-
ing, makes it interesting to note that
Chicago reports a good demand for
heavy horses in the horse markets of
that city. Light horses are of slow
sale. Good mules have been selling
readily, bringing $300 for the best.
Drafters have been bringing $225 to
$300. Farm chunks, $100 to $125.
General purpose horses, $100 to
$125. Contrasted with this is the
report from our crop reporters to the
effect that Michigan farm auction-
éers put up good horses on which
only $10 is bid without being raised.

Detroit, Nov. 18.———Cattle: market
steady, quality some better: best
heavy steers. $12@ 13; best handy
weight butcher steers, $9.7 5 @1075;
mixed steers and heifers, $8.75 @ 9.25
handy light butchers, -$7.75@8.25;
light butchers, $6@7; best cows.
$7.75@8.25; butcher cows, $6.75@
7.25; cutters, $‘6.75@6.26; canners,
$6.25@5.50; best heavy bulls, $7@
7.50: bologna bulls, $607; stock
bulls, $5@5.50; feeders, $9@10;
stockers, $768.50; milkers and
epringers. ~$65@150. Veal calves;
market steady to 31 higher; best
$19®20; culls, $14@17t heavy. $6
69. Sheep and lambs; market is
steady; best lambs. $14®1L25 ; fair
lambs, $12.50@13.50; light to com-
monslambs, ”@1050; fair to good
sheepgﬂ; culls and common, $3©
4.50. Hogs; market «dull, Sullivan
PkgyCo being the only buyers. They
took about 1,500 at_$14.40-f-or mixed
dell;- EEWMi-‘md: Standish & Co.

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' BALLOTS are comingin by the scandal. B. F.’s straw vote .

' .contestfor Governor. Eavej‘IOI‘il voted? If not please do so
at once. No returns will be published for several weeks. Let’s
have YOUR vote in the ﬁrst oeunt. Place a Cross after the name, ‘
of your candidate, or if you prefer someone not mentioned write
in the name on the dotted line. Then clip the coupon and mail it.
to Editor Michigan Business Farming, Haunt Clemens. 1 '

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Milo D. Campbell 'D W. N. Ferris ..... Cl Nathan P. Hull MD ’
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voicing this scarcity, and there was I

an advance of 3 and 4 cents on high—
In Chicago the demand
for refrigerators picked up some—
what, though not yet enough to de-
plete the surplus stocks to any great
extent. Detroit quotes fresh eggs at
63@67 cents per dozen.

Butter is about as scarce in gen—
eral as eggs at some points, although
New York reports great surplus
stocks due to the longshoremen’s
strike. This butter has begun to be
shipped overseas, however, now that
the strike is over. The New York
64@68 cents. Detroit gives the
ﬁgure at 64 cents for fresh creamery
ﬁrsts; for fresh creamery in 1 lb.
bricks, 62@66 cents per lb.

 

CHICKENS IN DEMAND

Anticipating the Thanksgiving
rush, poultry prices edged up some—
what. There is no special activity,
however, excepting in the best grades,
where the demand is excellent. Hens.
on the other hand, are dull and low—
er. Geese and ducks are reported as
ﬁrm. Turkeys are not much in de-
mand. as yet, as the public is holding

01$ for Thanksgiving.

Detroit quotes: Live Poultry:_
Spring chickens, 26@280 for large
and 24@250 for small; hens, 26@
280; small hens, 220; roosters, 19@
20c; geese, 26@27c; ducks, 30@320
turkeys. 35@360 per 1b.

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EXPLAINS CAR SHORTAGE
(Continued from page 6)

“Your letter being general I can. of
course, make only the general state-
ment. the Michigan roads and ship—
pers are and will continue to receive
their fair share of cars. If you have
any specific complaints where would
seem some particular shipper is not
receiving what he thinks is a proper
allotment of cars, I will be glad to
have such cases looked into specially.
-—M. Kendall, Car Service Section."

If any reader has personal knowl-
edge of instances where shippers have
not been allotted cars within a rea—
sonable time after the order for them
has been placed he will do M. B. F.
and the farmers of the state a real
service in placing the facts before us
that we may take the matter up with
the Railway Administration.

 

 

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$17.50 you paid us.

What is it Worth to You .7

ARE YOU going to take another winter’s chances
on Pneumonia, Sore Threats or the awful dread-
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DOCTORS‘ BILLS are not always unavoidable,
and how many times will a Doctor call on you for
$17.50? Just figure it out, then what have you got left
for the money you have spent besides the sickness
which you suffered and then sometimes you never
get well even if you spend hundreds of dollars. Do
you know that a good preventative against sickness
and disease is worth many times what it costs and will
save you many a dollar each year.

Coates Sanitary Chemical Indoor Toilet
which is fully guaranteed at our direct Mail Order
Price of only $17.50 from manufacturer direct to user

No agents’ profits added to a Coates.
Send us your order today and use the Toilet 10

days and if you do not find it everything we claim
you may return the Toilet and we will return the
It’s only a square deal as advertised by us.

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with hair or fur on. and make them
into coats ( for men and women), robes,
rugs or gloves when so ordered. Yeur
lur needs will cost yen less than to buy
them and be worth more.

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e dyeing preeeee on cow and horse
hide. calf and other skins' about the
fur goods and game trophies we sell,
telx‘ildormy. :10.
, on we ve recently t out an-
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devoted to fashion plates of muts,
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with prices ; also iur gel-meme remed-
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SEW BEANS WANTED

If you expect to have any Soy Beans this year we
shall be glad to have you submit samples with the
I amount and variety. Ask for envelopes.
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210 A. 8 HORSES, 11 COWS AND 2
heifers, 4 yearlings, wagons, harness,
grain drills, planters, complete machin-
ery, tools, dairy utensils, winter hay.
corn. oats, potatoes, etc, all included for
only $6,000, part cash, a. real high-grade
sacriﬁce; near RR town, by owner hav-
ing lost his sight. Loam tillage high
state cultivation for big crops, wire-
fenced 50-cow pasture, much fruit, etc;
102—ft. stock barn, water house and barn,
silo, granary, corn houses, etc. > See de-
tails and picture splendid 11-room resi-
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MSCELLANEOUQ

BARGAINS IN SILVERWA'RE. CROM-
well pattern 1847 Rogers Bros. Tea.-
spoons post paid at $2.32 per set of six.
We do watch repairing. Clare Jewelry
00., Lock box 535, Clare, Mich.

 

BUY FENCE POSTS DIRECT FROM
forestx All kinds. Delivered prices. Ad—
dress "M. M.” care Michigan Business
Farming, Mt. Clemens, Mich.

 

WANTED—Small quantity of buck-
wheat honey. Please state price. Ad-
dress Box A, care Michigan Business

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FOR SALE—121 ACRES N0. 1 LAND
in bet of condition;; tile-drained, good
buildings, silo, mostly woven-wire fences;
three miles from Saginaw, onemalf mile
of stone road; will include personal if

"wanted—«Lawrence Hoffman, Saginaw.
West Side, Mich, Rfd. No. 1. ,

 

FARMS FOR SALFPBIG LIST OF
- (amps «for ‘sale by the ownersygiving his
name, location of farm, description, ice
.andpterms. ' Strictly mutual and com er-z'
tive between the buyer and seller and
"g1! cited for our members. CLEARING
:s 0 SE ASS’N, Land Dept, Palmer and
_ ward Ave.

mnﬁ SALE—Anson. ‘hAWni jihad}:
irarm 91-110 acres located in the rich
‘ * . .‘countyixof Livingston, on state re-
, road»? miles from Howell.‘.one-.of
eatest Holstein centers in the U. S.
own soil, very productive, well
good buildings, tile silo and milk-
hlhé. awesome-magnum,

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RAILWAY‘ TRAFFIC INSPECTORS;
Splendid pay and expenses; travel if de-
sired; unlimited advancement. No age
limit. Three months' home study. Situ-
ation arranged. Prepare for permanent
' osition.“ Write for booklet C. M. 62.

tandard ‘Business Training Institute,
’Bui’falo, N. Y. -A '

 

.SALESMEN WANTED—LUBRICAT-
ing oil, grease, paint, specialties. For
~immediate or springdelivery. Whole or
part time. Commission basis. Men with
car or big. .

RIVERSIDE BEFINING COMPANY.

, Cleveland. Ohio.

IXIE Poriable Brag Saw.
ﬁnishinztziintﬁrasﬂma
_ new no vibration; no war wasted. Runs
itse leaving operator gee for ether-work.
Saws 25 to 40 Cords a Day
w and“? orgy 2 gallon: of fuel daily.

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"Farmers crew-eel
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(lit-ions favorable.
sown.

owing to the unsettled
foreign market controversy. Fresh

10: hard $12; stove wood, dry or green,
2.50 to $3.00 on the und' p0 corn.
new, $2 per bushel, od, sz.és.— ., M.,
Durand, Mich. ‘

VAN BUREN—Jl‘he grape harvest is
over and we are waiting for returns.
The Armour Juice Co. and Welch Juice
Co. have decided upon $80 per ton
While J. Hungerford Smith has not yet
reported their pooling price. Grapes
proved a good crop and extra good qual-
ty potatoes are not turning out very
Well and not many were planted. The
soil has beenﬂne for accomplishing fall
work; not much building on accountof
,h h priced, labor and material. Auction
sa es are plentiful.—-—V. G., —Mattawan.

     

 

 

MANISTEE, (N. W.)———Farmers busy
plowing, cutting and also hauling wood,
husking corn and doing other jobs about
the farm. Weather cold most of the
time; .soil wet from frequent .rains;
frosts and some snow. Farmers'are sell-
ing rye, potatoes, some corn, and possi-
bly a. few beans. Most apples sold. Far-
*mers are selling or intending to do so
with the exception of potatoes or corn.
We have husked our ﬁne seed corn;
some grew in ﬁeld and the shock on ac-
count of frequent rains—H. A., Bear
Lake, Mich.

SAGINA.W. (S. E.)—A cold wave has
hit us. It has frozen too hard to plow.
There is a lot of corn out to husk yet.
There is quite a lot of baled hay going
to market lately. Beans are all thresh—
ed but not many going to market 'at
present prices. There are a good many
auction sales this fall. Everything
brings a. fair price except horses—G. L.,
St. Charles. -

 

 

BARRY—The weather in this joint is
rather cold and snow is covering the
ground. The farmers are hauling in
their com and clover. A few are still
husking. The corn crop this year is
very abundant, as are most other crops.
The early sowed wheat is looking ﬁne
and none has been bothered by the ﬂy.
Apples and different fruits are rather
scarce this season, but no one is discour-
aged as we are all orderin trees to set
out next spring. The fol owing prices
were paid at Hastings recently—Wheat,
No. 1 white, $2.05, No. red, $2.10;
oats, 70c; rye, $1.20; wheat-oat, 20;
otatoes,.$1.25: onions. $2' hens, 1 to
0; butter, 55; butter-fat, 6; eggs, 62;
hogs, dressed, 13 to 16; beef steers. live
weight, 7 to 10; veal calves, $8 to $18;
apples, $2.50.—M. D., Hastings.

 

BAY '(E.)—The principal work at

, this time is'plowing as the’ Soil is in a.

good condition. Not much time for husk-
ing com. A few beets going in yet.
Winter. wheat. looks good-at this time
though the acreage is not-very large.
The’ bean cropwgill average from 18 to
20 bushels per. acre and, the pick is not
very heavy. ’Not much selling at pres-
ent. Farmers are holding‘off. The fol-
lowinggprices were paid at Bay City on
Nov.‘ 17z—Wheat, $2.05; corn, $1.40
cats, 72; rye, $1.20; hay, $22; beans,
$6.26; potatoes, $1.25; hens, 18; spring-
ers,,_22; butter, 60; ,butterfat, 64; eggs,
53; sheep, 12; lambs, 17; hogs, light. 14,
heavy, 11; beef steers, 10; beef cows, 9;
veal calves, 19.—A. G., Linwood.

MANISTEE, (N. W.)-—Things are at
a standstill on account of weather con-
ditions. It has rained most of the time
for the last week. Friday it turned to
snow but got too cold to snow much. The
wind blew like- everything. The ground
is frozen too hard to plow. Farmers are
selling some potatoes but a, small per
cent are’ moving yet. One of“ our oldest
pioneers died a few days ago. Auction
sales are still the go. They keep going
one by one. Who-will buy 'what the
last fellow has to sell? Milch cows are
the only thing.bringing what they are
worth. Farmers feel they don’t want to
take any more chances on other things.
The following prices at shipping points
on Arcadia and Bear Lake roads and
other roads northeast were paid Nov.
liz—Wheat, $2; .corn, $1.20; cats, 90;
rye. $1.15; hay, No. 1 timothy, 40, No. 1
light mixed, 35; beans, cwt., $5.65; po-
tatoes, $1.10 bushel," hens, 16; springers,
18; ducks, 21 to 24; geese, 17 to 20:
turkeys, 23; butter, 60; butterfat, 86;
eggs, 54; hogs. 11 t0‘12; beef steers, 6;
beef cows, 5.——C. H. 8., Bear Lake.

 

MIDLAND‘—-The people in this vicin-
ity are ﬁnishing their fall work. There
are a lot of auction sales and every-
thing is selling good, especially cattle.
The weather is rather chilly. the last few
days. A few of the farmers are selling
their beans but the price is rather low
just now. The ground is frozen so the
farmers will hold up on their fall plow-
ing. The following prices were paid at
Midland Nov. lit—Wheat, spring, $2.30,
fall, $2.05; shelled corn 66 lb., $1.40 bu.;
cats, 70; rye. $1.20; ay, $18 to $20;
rye, $6 to $8; beans, $6.25; potatoes, $1.;
onions $1.50; hens, 17;. s ringers, 7'
dairy butter, 60; butterfat, 9; eggspiio;
beef cows, live, $12; veal calves. 20.—
J. H M., Hemlock. *

GENESEE—Farmers .are threshing
beans, husking corn, plowing and et-
ting ready for Winter. The weather as -’
been rain and cold the last few days.
'colder now and we are haw,-
ing. some snow. The soil has been
od condition and 'quite a bit of piow— ,
ng has been do e the lasgtawo week; ‘
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prime condition ‘and weather oon‘r -

W’heet, even the late
has made a good growth—and is in
fine condition to go into winter. Con-
siderable corn remains to be husked yet.
Beans are nearly all thrashed, but ,grow-
ers are holding for a. chan e in prices
cond tions of the
cows
are selling at auction sale from $100- to:
$150 and‘some fancy stock at $180. Coal

 
 

   
  
  
   
 
   

 
   

.time“, 160, good. Auctidn'seles are num-
erous and prices are»,getting lower. The

 

Nov. 17:—— eat, white, $2.11. red, $2.13
corn. $1.50; cats, 78' rye, $1.20; hay ..
1 timothy $21 to $2 ; No. 1 light ‘mlxed,
:19 to s i;;; beans,’C H. P.- remiss, red
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3? $9; potatoes, $1.50; onions, $4
5 bu. ;, cabbage, $2" bbl.; cucumbers.
2 u.; hens, 20; swingers, .20; gee e.
8 to 22; butter dairy, 60 to 65, cream-
ery, 68; eggs, 5 to 46: sheep $710 _4
lambs, 10m 1; hogs, .50 to $15;

of steers, $9 to $10; «beef cows. $6 tr
7' veal calves 15 to 18' apples, $2 to
t2. 0; pears, 52,50 bu.—C. w. s,
. on. »

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GRAND TRAVERSE—Everything is
done here in the way of harvesting
crops except some corn which is to be
husked. Almost all the hauling here is
done by auto trucks this season. Bean
threshers in the neighborhood last week,
but beans are not turning out as good as
last year. However the quality is ﬁne.
Peninsula Township Co-operative Asso-
ciation coming along nicely. Farmers

 

are saving considerable money 011 the]

buying and through co—operation. We
have now taken membersnip. wit the
Potato Growers Exchange. The follow-
ing prices were paid at Traverse City
.Nov. 17—Wheat, No. 1, $2.10; corn, $1.5
cats, 75.; rye, $1.20; beans. $4 bu.; po-
tatoes, $2.20 cwt.; hens, 16 to 18; but-
terfat, 71; eggs, 55; veal calves, 18; ap-
Eles, $1.50 to $3 bu.—A. C., Traverse
ity.

CHEBOYGAN, (SJ—Farmers nearly
ready for winter after a very success-
ful season. Hay, corn, potatoes and full
grain good. Oats are very poor. Magi!
new silos were built this fall and ﬁll .
Potatoes ﬁnd a ready market at about
$1 per bushel. Buyers are held up at
present for want of cars, it being too
cold to ship in common box cars. Quite
a blizzard struck this place on the 13th
bringing about two inches of snow. The
thermometer went down to 20 degrees.
Cheboygan would hold up both hands
for H. F. Baker (our Herb) for goverrr
or. Butter is selling at 65; butterfat,
58; eggs, 65; cats, $1; hay, $25 to $30;
wood, $3 for 16 in.—W01verine.

JACKSON( (S.)——-Weather cold and
windy. Corn about all husked. Corn
good quality this year. No apples in this
section and many farmers are buying
their winter's supply of potatoes, as po-
tatoes did not turn out well on most
of the farms. Shippers paid 14 cents
for hogs this week, and some buyers are
paying as high as 35 cents for turkeys.
Chickens are 20 cents and eggs 70 cents
Farmers .with a. good sup ly of dry wood
on hand are considers fortunate as
there is little or no hard coal. Hay is
scarce, and rather than buy feed, fag

 

ers are sendin their old horses to
glue facto . orses are not in deman
at present nd do not bring a. good price.
Not as many farmers as usual feeding
st‘eers for market.——G. S., Hanover.

GRAND TRAVERSE, N. E.)—We
are having cold, stormy weat‘ er at pro.-
ent. Farmers are hauling in corn, ale:
threshing and getting up wood. Lots 0
auction sales, therefore stock is low
price.—- The following prices were pa.
at Williamsburg Nov.14:——Corn. $1.7
bu.; cats, 85; rye, $1.20 bu.; potatoes
$2 per 100»1bs.; onions, $3; butter, 55‘
butterfat, 71; eggs, 60.—C. L. B.

CALHOUN, (N. W.)—Fa.rmers my:
getting ready for winter, ﬁnishing the
husking and drawing corn stalks.
weather has been cold for a few days.
Soil is in good shape and grain is look-
ing ﬂne. There have been some beans
threshed. They are not a large or
but of nice quality. There is no bull -
ing in this neighborhood this fall.—
following prices were pal at
Creek Nov.
cats, 75; rye. $1.25; hay, 28; potato
$1.50; hens, 20; springers, 20; ducks,
butter, 55; eggs, 70; lambs, 10 to 14:
hogs, 12; beef steers, 8 to 10; beef cows."
5 V) 7; veal calves, 10 to 12.——C. E. B.

MECOSTA. (NJ—«Farmers are busy
husking corn and plowing. Plenty
rain. The ground is very wet. Fe.
grain is looking good. Some farmers are
selling potatoes and beans. The follow»
ing prices were paid at Hersey Nov. 17—4
Wheat, $2.05; corn, $1.20; cats, 64;
$1.20; hay, No. 1 timotlﬁy, 25, No. 1 lig
mixed, 20: beans, C. . P. Pea, $5.7
red kidney, $7; potatoes, $2; hens. 12f
butterfat, 64; eggs, 60; sheep. 3 to
lambs, 8 to 11; hogs, 11.—L. M.

OAKLAND, (N.)-—We have had fine
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corn is the main object now. We have ,

a. ﬁne lot of corn. Potatoes are going to
market by trucks. Very'few shipped on
railroads. Some wheat going to market.
Most of the apples gonexNot many farm
buildings put up in this vicinity. Help
very scarce. We cannot get much coal
and it looks as if we will have to burn

wood. The following prices Were paid
at Clarkston Nov. 14 :—Wheat, $2 to
$2 0 ; rye, $1.25 ; hay, 20 : potatoes,

$1.25; hens, 25; springers. 20; turkeys,
35; butter, 60 to 70; lambs, 12; apples,
$2.50.—-E. F.

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MASON W.)—-Farmers are getting.
things ships . pa, ‘for winter. The sud:
den drop 111‘. temperature found many
somewhat unprepared. j The. ground is
slightly frozen. The cold- weather has,
arrested the movement of potatoes 'to
market. \The association was having
hard- work to take care of the. farm pro-.

   

 
 
 
  

 

     
  
  
  
 

  
       
 

    
  

   
  
 

 

  

 

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cars and partly to " the rapidity with "
Which theymoved tommarketx .The fel- .
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give “in without a struggle. At one
time they attempted to bring in milk
from the United States in an effort to
wreck the producers’ orga ization,
but the producers at Bell ngham,
Wash" are well organized themselves
and, when the heads of the Fraser
Valley organization explained the
situation to them, the Vancouver dis-
tributors found that there was ”noth-
ing doing” in that quarter.

Middleman declared that the farm-
ers’ association was nothing more nor
less than a combine to bleed the corn-
sumer. They went to great lengths
in their efforts to discredit the organ-
ization. It issaid that when the pro-
ducers- ﬁrst began to place their own
product on the streets ofIVancouver
that bottles of their milk would be
tampered with, worms and dirt be-
ing put in and then complaints lodg-
ed with the health authorities.

Forceful advertising had much to
do with bringing about a reaction in
public opinion in favor of the pro-
ducer. Best of all, however, was the
report of a committee appointed (by
the Vancouver city council to inves-
tigate the price of milk. The verdict
of this committee was that the farm-
er would be justiﬁed in charging a
higher price for his milk than he was
getting at the time of the investiga—
tion.

In reply to advertisements which
appeared from some of the privately
owned dairies featuring their inde—
pendence. the Fraser Valley associa-
tion advertised as the only independ—
ent dairy. Combatting attacks on the
association for having eliminated
some of the old dealers, the associ-
ation’s advertisements put the facts
plainly up to the consumer: “Is there
any-logical reason,” asked the asso-
ciation‘ of the consumer, “why the
farmer should not sell his product
direCt to you? Without the produc-

er, how could the midleman exist?’

While thefarmer rises early and lae
bore late, the middleman sleeps and
takes life easy, but demands his
‘pound of flesh.’ \

“Why is the middleman necessary
now the producer is organized to
handle his own product? Owned by
1, 400 Fraser Valley dalrymen, the
Fraser Valley Producers’ Association
is a (re-operative organization. Thru
its efforts the surplus milk supply of
the flush season—the amount of
milk necessary to..supply the winter
demand—rhea been handled in con-
densaries, cheese and ice cream fact-
ories, or made into butter. whw
the middleman was formerly unble
to dispose of the summer milk sur-
plus, resulting in loss to both con-
sumer and producer. The association
has notonly taken care of this sur-
plus in an economical way, but by
making more stable markets has en-
com-aged production and thus low-
and the cost of the milk during oth-
er seasons.”

The predominating position in the
city milk distribution secured by the
producers has brought about a
Change of tactics on the part-10f those
middlemen still in the ﬁeld. Most
of those are new obtaining all their
milk from‘the association at whole-
sale Prices. Some still have a few
independent shippers who for 1 some

reason or other have decided to re- 1

main outside the association. Some
of these are too selﬁsh to assist in
the work of the association, but are
willing to accept the benefits it
brings, while a few others get sore
and preferred tovform part of the ﬁve
pageant of opposition. It has been
Tvery mortifying for these men, in
their determination to stay with the
Incline independents,
er another of the email dair-
or are bought out by. the

‘mnocmoulya
”M80119

0 find that ;

93mins,
W

more of'

. . main independent.
nicked as to the satisfaction which
”the Fraser Valley Association was

' noble to give its members in the mat-

1‘ - waver. These distributors did 11015“? of “as" M’

vanderhoof said:
”What incentive would there be for
an organization controlled by the
producers to take from one producer
and give to another?.
give our members all that was com-

ing to them in the matter of test it'

would simply mean that the balance
would be returned to the members at
large in another form. ”

The plant of the Standard Milk
Company. Ltd., was acquired by"the
Fraser Milk Producers' ’Association
on May 1, 1919.“ This plant now
handles about 6.000 gallons of milk
per ,day for retail distribution in the
city. The association hires auto

' trucks to collect milk from the farm-

ers within a. distance of 30 miles of
Vancouver. About 25 cents per can
on the average is paid by the associ-
ation for collection, the truck owners
taking contracts for the work. Some
of the larger trucks will carry 80 to
100 cans.

Settlements with the producer are
made by the association on the 12th
and 27th of each month. On the 12th
of the month, the producer is paid
an initial paymenton the amount of
milk or cream shipped during the
previous two weeks and after the re-
turns from the actual sale of the milk
are totalled up he is paid whatever
additional amount has been secured

  

11:1: am. carrying 1..." 11111"

If we did not-

Called Condensers Bluff

There are two large condensed
milk factories in the Fraser Valley,

which form the next» best market for

butter fat to the whole milk market.
The condensing process Wastes none
of the product as does butter and
cheese-making, only 50 per cent of
the water in‘ the milk is removed by
evaporation and nothing is added.
Were it not for the large amount of
whole milk handled by these plants
the returns received by dairy farm-
ers of the Fraser Valley would be
considerably less. The condensaries
pay almost as well as the whole milk
market and there has never been a
time since the producers organized
that the condensaries have not paid
considerably more than the butter
factories.

The Borden Condensed Milk plant
at Chiliwack handles from 2, 000, 000
to 2,500,000 lbs. of milk per month.
The manager, Mr. Chevalley, al-
though he put up a big ﬁght against
the producers’ associatiOn in behalf
of his company in the early stages,
admitted that personally he had no
fault to find with the producers’ or-
ganization. “It is the only way,” he
said, “the farmers have got to or-
ganize.” He admitted, too, that the
regularity of supply for" which the
association made itself responsible
was a considerable factor in operat-
ing a condensary, and that the or-

on his next check. The association
limits its own proﬁts to 6 per cent. ,

    
  

s between the condenser"
rmors’ organization

  

Tho Borden plant fought the produc-
ers for three months in their attempt ,
to prevent the producer setting the
price on their own product. Twice
the big milk company closed down
their plant and for a time the stream

‘ran white with the skim milk which

the small farmers creamery could
not dispose. of. The company told
the farmers on the second occasion.
that they could not afford to pay any
such prices as were asked and stay
in business and would have to sell
out. The association, however. slmp-x.
ly wired'the company's head ofﬁce
for their price on the plant, stating:
that they were prepared to pay spot
cash. The plant was opened up
again as fast as instructions from the
head oﬂice could travel. The com-
pany also tried offering higher prices
than the association was paying. but
they did not get a gallon of milk.
A Prosperous Community .

The association owns large cream-
ery at Chiliwack. This was formerly :
known as Edenbank Creamery and
was owned by the farmers of Chili-
wack district. It 'now handles fa.
large amount of the milk produced
from Chiliwack, making it into but-
ter and cheese, when the condenser-
ies cannot handle it. The plant man-
ufactures 115 to 20 tons of cheese
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“How much jor mzik now?”

HARLIE, aren’t you wasting money,
always buying mixed feed?” asked
Nels Pearson, who lives near Mchnry,
111., when he was in the ﬁeld with Charlie

‘Page last September.

known as the best dairyman around.) “I
bought some last July, and it’s no good.”

“Bet you didn’t buy Unicorn, ’ ’
- Unicorn isn’t money
wasted—~it’s money-making. I’ve fed Uni-
corn for ﬁve years and every year my cows
are in better condition; they give more
milk. Unicorn 1sn ’t a cheap feed;
mere per ten, but costs less per pound of
I know I’m ahead of the game by

“Sure—«I knew it.

milk.

using Unicorn.”

'Pcarson believed Charlie Page and bought
6 bags of Unicorn. A week later he bought
2 tons more, and now uses it daily, with

.his home-grown grains.

“Costs more per, ton,

but costs less per pound of 1111111. ” l -- r 7

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with joy when you get your returns for’furs
shipped to the Abraham Fur 00.. the house
that never disappoints .fur shippers. Our
expert era in our 'Take-up" Departs
ment have positive instructions to see that
every shipper gets a liberal grade on every
skin and are held accountable for all furs
taken up by them. Our prices are the high-
est ever known and now. more than ever.
you need the services of an old established.
reliable and experienced fur house. There
are no fur houses in the world which have
these qualiﬁcations to a greater extent than
the Abraham Fur Co.

Ship Every Pelt
You Have—Now

We urge you to send us your next shipment of
furs and let us prove to you that our prices
are the highest—our grading the most 'cor-
rect and liberal and our returns most
prompt. We have been in the fur business
continuously for 48 years and we have
‘ :nade merceeétaunclé tnel‘ida alsd Igave a
argerper a so regunro 3 porn
than any other ur housein the U.S. hese
facts justify our claims that Abraham
, is America’s ing Fur-House. Other
1' ' , furhouses make these same claims,h_ut it
is generally conceded by our competitors
'22:” that the hardest fur-house to light Vast
forbusinese is the Abraham Fur Co. by?
Because 0 rreturns are always top of the
markets an for house that wants to
keep pace wit us will have to go some
and be onithe job early and late.
suppliEs Get one of Abrah am's
wonderful Smoke Pumps
- $2.00 stpaid, thh extra extension
.10. A raham's Animal Baits and Trail
at $1.00 Per bottle. 8 bottles for $2.60.
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figures. Send it in for one, two or three
times. There’s no cheaper or better way
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. simple your experience, so. long as you think
Just send it along to us; ’ ‘
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ever, that this material be sent soon.

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Hints on how to make money are
The time for reaping
- for a few months, but the chances of

some" eipe‘rien‘ce.‘

a home-made trap or home-made
supplies to buy. No matter how
it might help some

by our readers, are‘geiting
Any good letters which do’not‘

now that the trapping season is

especially helpful to y... fel-
the harvest of the ﬁelds is gone
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(Continued from last week)-

In 1059 two French traders and
trappers, Groeilliers and Raddison,
penetrated into the wilderness of the

back a load of wonderful furs to
Montreal. Later the French govern-
ment gave some other traders the
exclusive rights to carry on the fur
trade in Canada.

Groelliers hurried to France to
protest, but getting little encourage-
ment, he went to England and inter—
ested Prince Rupert. which resulted
in the establishment of the Hudson’s

I Bay Company.

In‘1783, Sir Alexander McKenzie
founded the Northwest Company, and
the bloody battles and lawless trick—
ery of these and other rivals are a
matter of history on which we will
not dwell. It is the life of the hardy
_ trapper that we are interested in now.
now. ,

$200,000.00 In 18 Months

The stories of the great wealth to
be made in the fur business became
common in France. How Groelliers
and Raddison cleaned up $200,000 at
the headwaters of Mississippi in 18
months was talked about in every
well-to-do household in France, and
it attracted many adventurous young
fellows.

It required little capital, other
than great courage and the ability
to “stand the gaff,” as modern slang
expresses it. Even in those days
when a beaver sold for $3.00 it was
a common thing for a trapper to
make $1,500 a year—providing he
didn’t lose his life in the wilderness.

Big risks, big proﬁts was the rule,

a canoe in the fall. push off down the
Ottawa through the Soo to Lake Su-

 

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perior or partly by river and partly
overland to the upper Mississippi. It
was dangerous for even a trapper
staked and licensed by the powers
that were; it was harder still for the
trapped who spurned the law and
trapped without license. It went
hard with him if caught, so besides
other dangers the free trapper had
to keep his eye peeled for white en-
emies. ' .

“Take a map Of America—put your
ﬁnger on any point between the Gulf
of' Mexico and Hudson Bay, or the
Great Lakes and the Rockies—ask
who was the ﬁrst man to blaze a trail
into this wilderneSS; and wherever
may be the point the answer is the
same—the French trapper.”

Duluth. LaSallc and Other Great
French Trapper-s

What a great outﬁt of brave men
they were: Duluth trapped in the
region near the great city now bear-
ing his name; LaSa-lle trad-edon the
Illinois and the Mississippi. d’Iber-
ville in his search for furs, traveled
from Louisiana to ‘Hudson Bay and
Cadillac covered an equal‘territory
from Detroit and Mackinac to New
Orleans; LaVerendrys 'ranged , from
Lake Superior to the Rocky Monu-
tains; eRadison from the upper Mis-
sissippi__to Hudson Bay. Each of‘them
made his mark in history before the
» New Englanders ever knew anything

of: theic'bu‘n'try west" of the Alleghe-

nies. - . _ 7 .

._T~hese_- are onlya few of the. better

men; there Were-hupdr‘ede of others.
Once in awhile site"“wonidj‘iinake 1a
competence and go back to France.
but trapping is a calling few give up
.and. many. a‘ breve : fellow

 

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‘ ként sci - into they hit until he

Lake Superior country and brought-

and it required a lot of nerve to load .

‘ against loss of skins.

“ known of that "gr-eat company of brave

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Fur Trapping 'In Ye Olden Times

It was a “he-man’s” game. A slight
miscalculation in shooting a rapids,
and" the trapper was left in the wild-
erness hundreds of miles from aid,
possibly with winter only a few days
off, for northern trappers did not
leave for the trapping grounds until
late in the fall. '

Other accidents were always possi-
ble, and many’s the man who started
out and was never heard of again.
Who can say how many of these free
trappers or voyagers and occur de
bois who went into the brush awak-
ened at night to ﬁnd their little camps
surrounded by drink-crazed savages
stirred up by tho'Se who had exclusive
privileges!

And the wolves were always pres-
ent in bigger packs than now. Many
a man has heard the far away call
of the pack echoed over the silent
places and has hurried toward his
camp after running his line of traps.
Sometimes he reached his shack Safe-

ly; very often to wolves' trailing. cry —

came nearer and nearer as the trap-
per threw away his day's catch and
hurried toward camp. Fast as he trav-
eled' on his snow shoes, the pack gain-
ed. His dog ran ahead and looked
anxiously back at his master. The
wolves sighted their prey and yelped
with glee; it was a case now of ﬁght,

and the dog rushed to the help of the.

man whose hand fed him. The trap
per’s rifle spoke and a wolf, grey and
gaunt with hunger, gave a yelp and
went down to be eaten by his fellows.
But others were there to take his
place and the trapper and his faithful
dog fought their last great ﬁght there
under the stars of a northern night,
with the snow stained red by -the
blood of the savage creatures they
killed, only to be pulled down by the
weight of superior numbers, ﬁghting
to the last breath. ,

Such was the tragic end ofBaptiSte
L’Aiglon (the Eagle) who accounted
for twelve big timber wolves one
night on the McKenzie before they
pulled himand his husky down.

The following spring some trappers
returning to the posts passed that
way and found the skeletons.

GENERAL HINTS FOR TRAPPERS

The good workman must have the
proper tools. The pelt hunter should
not handicap himself with anything
but the outﬁt best suited to his pur-
pose. So far as traps are concerned,
get the best trap to be had. Get a
trap which catches very high on the
leg, thereby assuring the pelt hunter
With furs as
high as they are, one cannot afford
to let even a few muskrats get away,
once they have been taken.

Go'od bait is necessary, Bought
bait will often. do better than the
home-made. A bottle is an invest—
ment which pays big dividends. It
makes no difference whether you
catch furs only in spare time or make
itva business. In each bottle there
is enough for a hundred or more or-
dinary sets. The odors are powerful
and lasting.

A word more:

pend upon at all times. . The interm-
ation must be accurate and up to the
minute. Your.’, name and thoise .of
your, friend‘s ‘shdiild “be“ou seine good

‘tur.;;irm’s list tugpsep co aptly-in-
no.

‘4‘

‘. That‘s ’whaty-we had in mind
when we started this business. The
reason you have given us your cam ‘

ﬁde‘nce fa because this business is
founded upon the principals pf

FAIR DEALING

We wish to acknowledge (-ur ap-
Dreciation of your patronage and
, express our thanks to all our ship-
ers. .We will always, same as ‘
eretoforeﬁcontinue to pay~the top
price for a furs shipped to us. Re-
member there are no changes what-
soever. The prices are net to you.
Always having in mind our cus-
tomers interest

' Robert A. Pieiffer

RAW FURS RAW FURS
52 Shelby so, Detroit, Mich.

l\_’l_ORE CASH j

For Your Raw Furs V
Ship to the
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And get more cash for your Raw Furs. This

the big year—the opportunity to make big

{gorgey trapping. Ship to a responsible house
a

PAYS YOU PROMPTLY
CHARGES NO COMMISSION

Mail and express charges paid by us. You
get the biggest net returns. quickly, without.
wagingt or delay. Send us your ﬁrst catch
an ge

10 PER CENT MORE CASH

More than you can get from any other
house in America. Years of satisfactory ser—
vice to trappers have made us the foremost
fur exchange.

PRICE LIST FREE

Write at once.

Get on our list and keep up-to-date on
latest prices——prlces that enable you~to make
the most money. Send name at once. A
postal card will do.

The Co-operaiive Raw Fur‘Co.

86 Jefferson Ave., Detroit. Mich.

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RAW FURS

Ship to the Manufacturer
Get the Highest Prices
Write for Price List

Resenberg Bros.
Manufacturers of Fine Furs
Raw Fur Dealers

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“ﬁ' :98 is the beaver, a
’ilit's

:gish streams or
lakes. . p .
These places furnish them abund-
fance of their natural foods such as.-
. ﬂagroot‘s. cowslips, bullrushes, lily-
rocts. etc., and material and location
for their homes. In favorable local—
ities they build houses of mud grass
rushes, etc., which resemble a hay
cock in appearance, with entrance be-
low the water.

Others live in burrows in banks
and are called bank rats. In locali-
ties where both are found the rats
living in the house are usually the
best furred though averaging smaller
‘in size. In farming sections the musk-
'rat takes readily to products of the
garden and ﬁeld such as turnips, car—
rots, parsnips. corn, apples, etc. These
make a very good bait for the ama-
teur trapper, who has still to acquire
the experience and knowledge neces-
sary to success with blind sets. The
muskrat' is, how-ever, with the ex-
ception of the skunk and civet cat the
easiest of all fur bearers to trap. The
best sets are to be found around their
feeding places in their trails or path—
ways to dens or, houses and where
they leave the water. In picking
your sets the most important point is
to ﬁnd a place where your catch will
drown or if that is not possible a
place where you can catch your rat
by a hind leg.

In setting in a. trail pick a point
where the rat is forced to pass over
something or where it drops off into
deeper water then place trap deep
enough so the fore legs will pass over
safely then when the hind legs are
dropped to climb the bank or ob-
struction the trap will be sprung and
a good hold of the heavy hind leg will
be secured and you will not be cha—
grined on your next visit to your
traps to ﬁnd you have accomplished
nothing but maiming and torturing
your would be victim-

When possible stake your trap in
water deep enough to drown your
catch and do not use a light trap.
A 11—2 pound Newhouse or Victor
makes and ideal muskrat trap as it
has weight enough to pull your
catch down and -will quickly drown

3 it. And above‘all do not set a trap

all well along in November, and your
catch while maybe» short in numbers
will more than make up in value as
you will notwhave in the neighbor-
hood of 25 per cent kits and light
rats. Also take up your traps in the
spring on the appearance of the ﬁrst
shedders. A few more' live breeders
in your neighborhood are worth
many times the ﬁve to ﬁfteen cents
you get for these inferior skins.

 
   

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' most favored; ;
Lhaunts are open marshes along slug. 1.:
around ponds o'r'

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or‘tsman and-use a tr
:for the protectionof the fur bearers

;jbetiter' ones. It means dollars in
your pocket to do so.

Show me something that will in-
crease faster in value than a‘live
mink or skunk in October. Can you
make money faster than letting them
live till November when one is Worth
from two to three October skins?
How about those kit and light rats
caught in September and October?
Wouldn’t they have been falls and
Winters in November and "December?

Think about this till next fall and '

see if you can put up an argument for

such a short sighted practice as early ,

trapping. Some onenelse might get
them is the only one there is and a
little co-operation will help that. Or
the same protection you would give
other crops will work a complete
cure, killing protected fur bearers
out of season is plain stealing. Sounds
harsh. but it is true nevertheless, for
they are state property until the sea-
son is open. Did you ever stop to
think how many thousands of dallrs
the fur bearers put into the pockets
of the boys in the country? Well
why destroy that source of income,
/and it is being destroyed and rapid—
ly isn’t it? They are destructive
“varmints” are they? \Vhy three
years ago a mink killed ten dollars
worth of chickens for Mr. So and So.
How many dollars worth-of mink did
So and So and the neighbors get be—
fore and since? Or was it a skunk
and did he get into that grubby po—
tato ﬁeld and turn out a few potatoes
to get at the grubs that were ruining
the potato crop. Or maybe a coon hit
up the roasting ears a bit to put a
glass on a family of three dollar coon
skins.

Now a few things to think about;
in February skunk are beginning to be
graded “shedders and rubbers.” Only
got a dollar for that No. 1 you got
under Bill’s hay barn, but know
where there are two or three more
just as poor, the chances are so can
get the price of one good one out of
the bunch.

How about quitting now and let
those two or three produce a dozen
or so top priced ’ones for next fall.
Need the dollar eh? Could scrape up
a few dollars some place else tho’ if
your banker offered 500 per cent in-
terest on a small deposit till Decem—
ber 1st. Couldn’t you? Well, What's
the answer?

Just think these things over and
next fall and winter you may be aids
ed in going into the business of trap-
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Leslie. Mich.

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7 ' CAITLI:

' ‘ . HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN

Calves Last Advertised are Sold

now have a hull calf born September 8th, also
the heifer to freshen in January, 35 1b. backing.

rite for prices and pedigrees. Ml
ch.

VERNON GLOUGH, Perms,
sired by a son of
. u" alveSFriend Hengerveld
De Kol Butter
Boy and by a son of King Segis De Kol
Korndyke, 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. Wyckoff, Napoleon Mich.

   

 

 

 

 

5 Bull Last Advertised is Sold

now offer a yearling bull, sired by Y?-
KING KORNDYKE CAN-
1 ARY, a 28.20 lb. grandson of KING
' OF THE PONTIACS, and from
’ RHODA CLIFDENS CROWNING
4 SHIELD 3RD, a 24.97 lb. daughter of
BUTTER BOY TRYNTJE DE KOL,
{ and one of the most beautiful cows
‘ you ever saw.
1 Price $200

4 nor 1'. FICKIES, Chesanlng, Mich.
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A GAR LOAD

more or less, registered cows and heifers. You can
have your choice of entire herd. All tested that
have gone from our herd have made A. R. 0. rec-
ords. Many are from Woodmont Butter Boy Inks.
withi KSOdt% R. O. tbgczingﬁiiinis ancestry aver-
age 9. cu per son a sires’
was dam of the ﬁrst 44-1b. cow. granddam
BACON BROTHERS. Plttsford. Mich.

$150 BULL CALF

Born June 3 Well marked, very large
' and ﬁrst class individual. Sire, Flint

Hengerveld Lad. Whose two nearest dams
have records that average 32.66 lbs. but-
ter and 735.45 lbs. milk in 7 days. Dam
. of call! is a granddaughter of King Se-

gis and a perfect individual with 8. rec-
4 ord of 20.66 lbs. butter in 7 days. For
I descri tion write to

, C. KETZLER, Flint, Mich.

' TO SETTLE ESTATE

I offer two registered Holstein cows, 8
and 10 years old, latter with an A. R. O.

., almost 19 lbs. Heifer 18 months from a.
14-lb. two year 0111. all bred to a 30 lb.
grandson of King Segis Pontiac Alcartra,
. the 850,00 bull heifer calf born April 18,
, 1919 from a 27-11). bull. Howard Evans,
‘ Eau Claire, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Choice Registered Stock

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ANGUS

Dorr D. Buell, Elmira, Mich.“
R. F. D. No. 1

T”‘HATCl-l HERD

E (State and Federal Tested)
, ' YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN
01ers young sires out of choice advanc-
, " ed registry dams and King Korndyke Art-
: is Vale. Own dam 34.16 lbs. butter in 7
' ."days;; average a nearest dams 37.81, 6
' nearest, 33.93. 20 nearest 27.83.

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bull calves,from good {inducing dams with A. n.
0. records and sired s grandson oi Pontiac.

AUGUST RUTTMAN. Fowlervllle. Mich. .

WOLVERINE STOCK FARR REPORTS GOOD
sales from their herd. We are well pleased with
the calves from our Junior Herd Sire, "King. Pon-
if“. Lunde Korndyke " w of
King a! the Pontiscs” ran: a daughter of Pon-
tiac lothilde De Kol 21:11. A few bull calves for
sale. T. W. Sprague. R. 2, Battle Creekhlﬁch.

 

We are now booking orders for
young bulls from King Pieter Segis
LYOns 170508. All from A. R. O, dams
with credible records. We test annu-
ally for tuberculosis. Write for-“prio-
es and further information.

Musloﬂ’ Bros.. South Lyons, Michigan

 

 

5 MONTHS OLD AND A
BULL CALF BEAUTY. 85 per centwhite
straight.” a. line. Sired by ill-lb. bull and his
dam is Just one of the best cows I ever milked. a
granddaughter of Colantha Johanna 14d. Price
$150.00 for immediate sale.

HARRY T. TUBBS, ,Elwell, Michigan

 

TEN-MONTHS-OLD-BULL

Bull last advertised is sold.
one born June 7, 1918.
son of famous $30,000
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, Su- Gelsche Walker
Segis and DeKol Burke, A bargain.
Herd tuberculin tested annually,

BOARDMAN FARMS, Jackson, Mich.

This
Sired by best
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I"! 82 II. IULL'S DAM WAS ORANO
Champion at the Grand Rapids fair this year.
His sire's dangher won $37.50 prl His
sire is brother to King Segis Pontiac Count. the
leading prise winntgrtzijl the breed. 4 l
cows are sisters e Champion year 0d of
on last year. The rest ire from a 27 lb.
grandson of the great bull Johan Hengemld 1411.
Bull calves for sale at reasonable prices.
HULETT ‘ OOH. Okemts. Mich.

A GREAT OPPORTUNlTY

We have for sale a Holstein Calf born
Dec. 22 last from an own brother to a
world’s champion Jr. 4 yr. old and full
brother in blood to the cow that was
world's champion cow. His own sister
and two sisters in blood have each pro-
duced over 1,200 lbs. of butter in a year.
If interested send for pedigree.

HILLCREST FARM. KALAMAZOO. MIOH.

 

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THE BARRY COUNTY SHORTHORN [REED-
ers Association announce their fall catalog ready
for distribution. Scotch, Scotch Pop and Milking
Slmrthorns listed. ' Address
W L. Thorpe, Sec., Milo, Mich.

y .
Korndyke and Pontiac Pet. Prices-very reasonable.

musorrr Bros} summa-

» ‘ . HEREFORD! ' '
Hﬂﬁfohns acs'r roncnasnp

. »,NEW HERBS. ."— NOW
have 150 head. We offer you anything (16'
elther sex, horned or polled, any 330-
Priced reasonable. The McCarty’s. 3’41
Axe; Mich. ' \

120 HEREFORD BTEEBB. ALSO
-know of 10 or 15 loads fancy uality
Shorthorn and Angus steers 5 to 10 0 lbs.
Owners anxious to sell. Will be] buy 500
commission. C. F_ Ball. Fairlie (1, Iowa.

HARWOOD HEREFORDS

If you want a start from the Grand
Chunpion Herefordnuli of Micki!“ see
us. Young bulls from 9 to 13 months.
Don’t write. Come and see. Jay Har—
wood a: Son, Ionh, Mich .

Registered Hereford Catt}:

10 good bulls now for, sale. From six
months to 2 years old. Come “and see them. they
can't help but please you. We took ' of too
blue ribbons home with us this fall from 8 lead-
ing fairs of the state. '
STORY GREEK STOOK FARM. Pewsmo, Mlch.

LAKEWOOD HEREFORDS

Not how many but how good! A few
well-developed, beefy, young bulls for
sale, blood lines and individuality No. _1.
If you want a prepotent sire-that w11l
beget grazers, rustlers, early maturers
and market toppers, buy a ”tutored
Hereford and realize. a big pro on your
investment. A lifetime devo to the
breed. Come and see me.-—E. J. TAY-
LOR, Fremont. Michigan.

 

 

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wyon went. Poland Chinas of the biggest o’po.
e have bred them 'big for more'than 5 veers:
0 or 100 hes on hand: ‘Also registered Perch-
erons, Holsteins and Oxfords. Everything sold at
" mwnable p co. and a. square deal.

JOHN G. BUTLER. Portland. Mich.

Big Type Poland Chinas

Spring3 boars ready to ship, sired by ‘
Mouw’s lg Jones 3rd, out of granddaugh~ ,
ters of Disher's Giant. None better in ‘
Mich. Gllts will be ready Jan. 1st: Bred
to Wiley's King Bob by Harrison's Bl:
Bob and- out of Samson Lady by Sampson,
by Long King. Priced reasonable. ,
JOEN D. WILEY, Schoolcraft, Mich.

SPRING IOARS AND COWS FOR SALE, OR-
ders booked for fall pigs. Bred sows in Sea-
son. Everything guaranteed. (lgemaw ller‘nf
Big Type P. 0. Roy M. Gillies, West Branch. Mich.

I... T. P.‘ C. SPRING BOAR READY
after Nov. lst. Some few fall plgsstill
left. Better engage your pig selected
now. The longest and tallest lot ever on
the farm. H. O. Swartz, Schoolcraft, Mich.

LARGE TYPE P. O. LARGEST IN HIGH. VISIT i
my herd if looking for a boar pig that is a lit- l
tie bigger and better bred than you have been
able to ﬁnd, and satisfy your wants. Come and
see the real big type both in herd bears and
brood sows. Boers in service L’s Big Orange ; .
Lord Cinnamon. Orange Price and L’s Long Pros- '
pect. Expenses paid of not as represented. Prices
reasonable.

W. E. LIVINGSTON, Farms, Mich.

ARGE TYPE 1‘. C. SPRING BOARS
and gilts now ready to ship. Also one
Fall Yearling Boar and Fall Pigs. Clyde
Fisher, St. Louis, Mich., R. R 3.

  
   
   
 
    
  
  
  
  
   
    

 

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ANGUS

Miss A $100 BABY BEEF

from your grade dairy cow by... use of a-
Thousand Dollar Angus bull. Less than
$2.00 service fee. Write for our co-op-
erative community plan; also our method
of marketing b r and milk, by use of a
cheap home ma e calf meal. There is
money in it for the owners of grade cows
everywhere. Cows of Angus blood not
necessary. If of mixed blood, calves will

 

come black, thick meated and without
horns, like sire. Geo. B. Smith. Addison,
Mich.

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BARTLETT" "M “aggrﬁr
suave cs , . . .
Swine are r‘ hgadand delimiucgt‘i‘ #3:}. Corre-
a an
andencoiRaﬁ IARTLETT, Lawton. m.

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JERSEY

The Wildwood Jersey F arm

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

Alvin Balden. Capac, Michigan.

7 n SALE: REGISTERED JERSEY BULL, 2

years old. Kind and gentle and sure. Write for
n05? ' Morris. Formivmton; Mic .

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SHORTHOBN CATTLE, BIG TYPE
P. C. pigs. Correspondence a pleasure. J.
Hanley & Sons, St. Louis, Mich.

 

SPECIAL OFFER SHORTHORNS —
Cows, $250.00 to $300.00. Bulls, $200.00
to $250.00. Wm, J. Bell, Rose City, Mich.

 

N0 STOCK FOR SALE AT PRESENT.
S‘horthorn Breeder. W, S. Huber, Glad-
wln, Mich.

 

non SALE—ZONE ROAN DOUBLE
Standard Polled Shorthorn Bull Calf born
Apr. 12. One red Shorthorn Bull Calf, born
March 23rd. a beauty, and Two Short-
horn Heifer Calves. born Jan. 6th and
April 3rd, got by York’s Polled Duke X
16884—545109. Paul Quack, Sault
Ste Marie, Mich., R 2, ‘Box 70. .

 

THE VAN BUREN co Shorthorn
Breeders’ Association have young stock
for sale, mostly Clay breeding. Write
your wants to the secretary, Frank Dal;
ley. Hartford, Mich.

 

WHAT DO YOU WANT? I represent 41
SHORTHORN breeders. Can put you in'
touch with ‘best milk or beef strains. Bulls
all ages. Some females. C. W. Crum,
President Central ichigan Sher-thorn
Association, McBrides, Michigan,

summits ”Wra-
so a e
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B 11. meter Model 576—14 in many'statei at.
he‘ad of herd of 50 good tmﬂh rth

POLAND CHINA

WHEN 1N ‘Iifeﬁlrffpéogetlglns right zood in a

oar just come and
see or write W. J. Hagelshaw, Augusta, Mich.

Walnut Ailey Big Type Boats

I will sell 13 head at Ionia Fair grounds
Nov. 5 in the Wes‘ey Hill Sale. 7 sired
by Arts Senator No. 328539; 6 sired by
Orange Price No. 327743. Send for cat-
alogue.

A. n. GREGORY,
L 1' P AM OFFERING SPRING
boars, summer and fall pigs.

F. T. HART, St. Louis, Mich.

BlG TYPE POLAND CHINAS

A few Sow Pigs of Spring furrow. Also Barred
Rock Cockerels. ,
MOSE “308.. St. Charles, Mich.

 

 

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BIG TYPE P. C. SPRING PIGS, EITH-
er sex. From choice bred sows and sired
by a grandson of Grant Buster and other
prize-winning boars. Price reasonable.
L. W. Barnes and Son, Byron, Mich.

‘ever sired by Gia'nt Blister 240657.

kindNthat makes
. E. R.

IVONDERLAND HERD—-LAIIGE TYPE
Poland Chinas. Some cracking good
spring boa.3 and a. few June sow pigs at
private treaty. Holding a few boars and
all my early sows for my sale Nov. 11th
and Col. Ed. Bowers, South Whitley. Ind..
and Col. Porter Calstock, Eaton Rapids.
Come and see the two greatest'boaxs liv-

ing. Free livery any time.
Wm. I. CLARKE
R No. 1 Eaton Rapids, Mich.

 

FOB SALE—LARGE TYPE POLAR!)
China boars. April and May farrow. The .
farmer's kind at farmer's prices. F. M. \"
Pizgott & Son, Fowler, Mich. .

SHOWING 1N FIVE CLASSES s'r

Hillsdale Co. Fair where
seventy eight head of Polands were ex-
hibited I won seven premiums. A litter
of eight under six months. sire Bob-o-
Link, dam Titanic Hazel. Two shown in
under year took lst‘ and, 2nd. Two show-
ing in six months class took 1st and 2nd.
One 1st prize boar and two gilts of this
litter left. Others by same sire also
either sex by Michigan Buster. ~
0. L. WRIGHT, Jonesville, Mich.

OCUTSTAIDIXG BOABS F08 SALE

. . A. KING JOE 290831. sired by King Joe
251257, by King of Wonders 205757, by (Old)
A Wonder 107353; Dam, Monarchis 3nd 622512
by A Monarch 213293, by AJVonder 107353. He
is bred in W. B. Wallace Bounceton. Mo. His
individuality is equal to his pedigree, which a
very critical breeder will have cause to admire.
lie stamps his get, in line with his ancestors.
which fact makes him a breeding boar, worthy.
to go into a very select lwrrl.
DUSTER HALFTON 298225. sired by
Big Half Ton 261243, by Big Half Ton 217217,
by Hillcroft Half 'l‘ou 172551; Dem, Malia
Blister 622612. one oFtlie best and biggest sows
"The Epoch
Mnker,”'by Dishers Giant 240655. If you like the
trp notchers, this great boar has the blood in his
pedigree. Come and look them over .or write for
my price. ,Be quick. fer I have placed them to
move in order to make 1'. om for a new boar I- V
have ordered, to cross their get with. Look for
classy stuff next spring. ‘ .

c. A. BOONE, Blanchard, .Mlch.

 

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A New Herd ‘Boar

(his name)Big Bab MastOdon

“sired by Caldwell Big Bob, champion of

the world in 1917. Hisgdam is Mastodon
Josie; she is a daughter of AS Mastodon
the Grand Champion at Iowa State Fair
in 1917. Ready to ship boars.

(Come and see him.) ‘
C. E. GARNAN'I‘,

Eaton Rapid s, Mich.

LEONARD’S Biz Type Poland China

iiunrs, all ages. The _
good. Call or write. . -
LEONARD, St. Louis, Mich. .. "

 

 

 

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boars from Iowa’s greatest herds.~ Big
boned husky felltws Priced right.
ELMER MATHE €0N. Burr Oak, Mich.

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DUROC

Duroc Opportunity -

We are now.,booking orders for July
and Sept. pigs cheap, Also March and
A’ ll pigs of either sex. .3111 red C. O, D.
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DUBOC JERSEY ROAD
Grands’ons of Breakwater Cherry King or
Panama. gpecialéuk $20 my: 8 weeks. Re
istered. Ann Arbor, '

0R 8ALE-—-REGI8TERED DDROG JERSEY
swine. Both sex. an ages. Rhode Island Red
Barred Rock and White Leghorn! coehrels. 40:.
and 80 acre farms. Easy
W. U. IARNES, Wheeler, Mich.

F0“ SAL REG. DUROO JERSEYS-am,

big rugged spring and fall pigs,
both sexes. Mod ern type and good quality Write
for descriptions, pedigrees and prices. Better still,
come and see for yourself. Satisfaction guaran-
teed. F. Helms & Son, Davison. Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

-Mlchlgans Farm Durocs We can give you the
best bargain in the state in hours. All ages. rSired
by Panama Special. Brookwater Orion Specialty.
and the Princlml. Satisfaction guaranteed.

0 F. FOSTER. Mon. Pavlllon, Mlch.

 

HILLIP'B PRIZE WINNING DUROOS’FOR

ssle——A few good boars of breeding use. also.

a few good gilts, prices right, let me convince you.
HO"?! D. Phillips. Milan. Mich. ‘

 

EG. DUROC HERD BOAR 18 M0. OLD,
wt. 350 lbs. Sire Buskirk's Wonder
102809. Sure Breeder. Gentle. Litter
16. Has big bone, long body, smooth type
kind we all want. $100 quick sale crated,

or will exchange ‘for two good spring gilts"

equal breeding reg. Six choice boar pigs.
Litter 10. Grandsons of Superba King
63263, $16. 00 at 8 weeks. registered, de—
livered Dec. 1. Choice April gilts same
breeding. litter 16 wt. 150 lbs., $50 reg,
pigs and gilt above boar’s get.
Honesty Our Motto
AUSTIN BROS, Bloomingdale, Mich.
Fun 8". BIG TYPE DUROO JERSEYS—
one yearling boar sired by Brook-
ater dei1 Orion No. 55421. 3 spring boars.
Elohim nah. Falleigs of either sex sired by
erry Premier 2nd 0. 1028 9. Albert Eber-
sole, R. F. D. No ,Plymou t,h

YDE'S BIG TYPE DUROGS. 15 SPRING
boa for sale. Good ones, sired 1: Prize win-
here. - rise (1 rig ht if taken soon. all or write
HARR L. HYDE. Ithaca Mich. .. R 1. loll Phone

DUROOTJERSEY SWINE FOR SALE. YEAR-
ling beers ready for service, spring rs, also

 

 

 

yearlinggilts o and bred for spring tt,ers to
Panama Specie 11th. a. amid son of Panama
Special on of Orion Chief Bell 5th. Also fail
boar pigs. rite for description and prices. Vis-

itors always weicom
THOS. UNOERHILL & SON, Salem, Mich.

 

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1'0. nan—Rnoaumn DEBI-
shire giltaand andboars. Mach and April
furrow.- Also Aberdeen-Angus” bull calves.
Bunsen 3135.11,: MerrilLll

GREGOIY FARM BERKSHIBES FOB
proﬁt. Choice stock for sale. Write your
wantLW HS Corsa, White Hall, 111.

 

 

CHESTER WHITES

FARMERS INCREASE YOUR PROF-
its by raising pure bred Chester Whites.
Send orders new for fall pigs. Ralph Co-
sens, Levering, Mich.

 

 

GHESTER WHITEs—A FEW MAY BOARS.

{all in mire or tries from most prominent

bloodlines at reasonable prices Registered free.
F w. Alexander. Vassar, Mich.

 

 

 

Rams all SOLD——
A few choice bred Ewes
$25—v-to—S50 each
J. M. WILLIAIIIS, No. Adams, Mich.

 

Registered Shropshires

20 ewes bred.
20 ram lambs, 1 to 3 years old.
DAN IOOHER. R 4. Evart Mlch.

BLACK TOP DELAINE SHEEP. 50
pure bred rams for sale. Newton &

Blank. Hill Crest Farms, Perrington,
Mich. Farm 4 miles straight south of
Middleton. .

 

coin yearlings, ram lambs, and a few good
ewes for sale. D. T. Knight, Mariette, Mich

 

./ ‘ ‘
REG. SHROPSHIRE BRED EWES 1 TO 3
years old large, healthy, well f1eeced.Represent-
atives of this flock gave satisfaction in 15 states
last season. Rams all sold.C .Lemen, Dexter, Mich

OXFORD - DOWNS

Anything you want in registered Ox-
fords at bargain rices. »—
O. M. YOR , Millington, Mich.

 

 

OB’SALE—z BEG. YEARLING 0X-
ford Down rams. W. B. White, Car-
son City, Mich.

 

0. I. C.

' Sh adowland Farm
and June.

Bred Gilts gookllliagy orders for

Spring Pigs. Everything shipped GOD.
and registered in buyer's name. It
you want the best, write

J. CARL JEWETT, Mason, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

o. I. 0.: AND CHESTER WRITER. ORDERS
booked for fall pigs from the big proliﬁc kind.
Can 1'11 pairs and trios not aldn. All stock
remtcred free and guaranteed satisfactory.

JOHN G. INI.LK R2, Alma. Mich.

 

o I c'ﬁ—FALL PIGS FROM REGISTERED
stock ready to ship now. Priced right if

taken at once

MR8 . W. M. BOWMAN, R 1, Bentley, Mloh.

WILL PAY THE EXPENSE

Rs RECORD IN BUYER'S NAM

AND SHIP c. 0. D. EVERY

boar sold in Nov. and Dec. I have a few choice

Open gilt {or the ones who are particular. My

gm? herd is cholera immuned by double trest-

en

E. O. BURGESS, Mason, Mlch., R a.

. 1.0. BOAB,18 M03.
FM ”LEO old weight about 600 lbs. One

 

Pedigree furnished. Mrs. E. M. Ebeling,
Manson. Mich.

SPRING BOA’BS READY TO SHIP,
:180 bredG Gilts Iand a few fall pigs. Some
the best 0. pigs, sired by Jumbo
tor No. 646879A11 stock shipped C.
D Joseph Van Etten. Clifford, Mich.

Mud-Way-Aush-Ka farm
odors 0. I. GM of Key tam
Ito
3‘3“ and mature bnedeu in “(3th Ygsndyotutg

Runner
:I O. MILLIR. Dryden. Mich.

 

 

 

SHROPSHI‘RE & HAMPSHIRE
" RAMS

In order to ﬁnish the ram trade quick-
ly I will give you your choice of a dozen
verygood yearlings at $35.00

KOPE-KON FARMS, Goldwater, Mich.
S. IV. “’ing, Prop

 

 

 

Hampshire Rams

Registered yearling rams weighing
up to 200 lbs. for sale. Also ram lambs.
A well built growthy lot. Satisfaction
guaranteed.

0. 'U. HAIRE.
West Branch. - ' -

FOR 30 Registered Shropshire Rams.
SALE 40 Registered Shropshire Ewes.
Harry Potter 8: Son, Davison, Mich

Michigan

 

 

 

 

FOR SALE: Improved Black Top Do-
laine Merino Rams, Frank Rohrsbacher,
Laingsbnrg, Mich.

a round 1e?

HOMESTEAD FARMS

Cockerels of strio high qualit —the b t
we thav‘e .u'lgy zﬂere -—— that will {ﬂeece 37091::
prac ice

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-— SHEEP ‘“ ..
Registered Hampshire Sheep

A NICE LOT OF REGISTERED LIN—‘

Catalogs will be ready Nov.

will you be ohm-ed an opportunity to bay is 11
comes you as you will in the complete dispersion or our herd of 45 Holstein
l can and boilers on Dec. 4 at the term one mile northeast of Leslie, rain or
shine. There are only 4 full aged cows in the herd. All 0! breeding age are
fresh or due this tall and winter. Several cows are bred to a son of King
89:18 Pontiac out of a 28 lb. cow.
nine 3 yr.’ bid heifers sired by a grandson oi! Pontiac Butter Boy and out of
Flossie Grant, milk 712 lbs" butter 32. 95 lbs. in 7 days.
DeNylsnder Lillie Green No.158319 whose dam is Lillie Green Hengerveld,
milk 747 lbs.. butter, 32. 67 in 7 days. Sire’ s dam Pontiac DeNylander. milk
7 50 lbs., butter 35 in 7 days. There are seven daughters of Grant Hartog Con-
cordia DeKol No. 130818 whose dam and site’s dam are both former state
record cows and both 30 lb. cows. Every female as well as her dam was bred
and developed on our farm. The herd is guaranteed free from tuberculosis.
20. Autos will meet all electric and steam cars
at Leslie between 9 and 12 a. m. \

He will be sold in the sale.

Sale Starts at 12 o’clock Noon—Thursday, December 4.

HARRY E. COVERT,

 

blood or Mich. Champion

There are

They are bred to

Leslie, Mich

 

 

 

 

or 52 times.

---poultry breeders!

Start your advertising NOW,
haVe anything to sell right now or not, get
your advertising in these pages

. WHERE YOU KNOW IT WILL PAY I
Wnte MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, Breeders’ Directory,

Mt. Clemens,

for special rates, or better still send copy, we
will put it in type and quote you for 13,26,

whether you

 

 

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CONSIGN YOUR LIVE STOCK TO

CLAY, ROBINSON & CO.

LIVE STOCK COMMISSION

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lzitors to control the feed.

- F EED‘ HOGS ON FEEDERS

Do not experiment on Hog Feeders.
that’s been in the market for a number of years.
and will not clog up or waste feed

Order a Farmeis Friend Feeder

A Feedm that is tested out,

It has a simple agitator m1. and two re u-
Write for price list today. g

FARMERS’ FRIEND FEEDER CO.. Bluffton, Ohio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BREEDERS A'I"I ENTION !
If you are planning on a sale this fall, write us now and
CLAIM THE DATE i

This service is free to the live stock industry in Michigan
to avoid conflicting sale dates

LET “BUSINESS FARlVIING" CLAIllI YOUR DATE i

 

 

 

 

PLYMOUTH ROCKS

ARRED HOOKS—Records to 210

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eggs from

Winning. Missouri Pen. Choice Cockerels $6 03611.
J. VERNON SHEAP, Jackson, Mich.

 

 

ARRED ROCK COOKERELS.
great loyaer

BRED FROM
0. COFFMAN, Benton, Harbor, Mlch., R 3

 

 

7 ORPINGTONS

 

s. o‘w
each. White Guineas
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ORPINGTON _GOOKEREL8, $4,

 

 

 

 

 

w dotte Cocks Price 1.11 oto 11.
dd" s. ”a? sensitizes. 111131.135 Mich. ’

n. o. snows!" LnononN oocxnn-
els. Quality guaranteed. Price $2.00.
W. E. CUMMINGS, Coleman, Mich.

 

Fan SALE THOROUGHBRED R. O. IROWN
1“th Price $1.50.

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BETTS, HILLSDALE, lVIICH.

TUEKEYS

. and R. . rich darkb plumage Reds; hid
rpingtona. line t)? e large bir yan- NOLD. Coleman, Mlch.
tea: 8. 8111B Mimircag; A. Wand O.
a . rows 0 arm; nco
We send you our Fa Circular and Price ANC9N§3_
8. 0. ANGONA COOKERELS. GOOD STOCK
STATE. 5:32.: ﬁgﬁﬂ‘fwm at $17.5 Order earl.
‘ emu. Jonusou Reed City, Mich., 111 1. I011 10
LEGHORN DUCKS AND GEESE
I HAVE FORJOALE—A III Heals Strain lull WHITE PEKIN DUCKS AND WHITE
“3501'“ 00‘3"” "d Pun“. "1 lo" mrt— CHINESE GEESE—MBS. CLAUDIA

 

Many good Hexhibltion birds.
prices. 3‘.

Farmer? prim

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Price winners.
“Bowman .Bentley. Mich.

F.“ 3‘“ LARGE. Ila BONED. EARLY

hatched Bourbon Red Turkeys.
Get our bargain
Helms a Son, Darison, Mich.

”at!!! ”“3015 m TWYB
rekln Ducks. Toulouse Geese.

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Farmers are finding this out. Right now in-
creased milk roducuon i
more cows arexlcd h v m Every M
b “MORMILK” DAIRY FEED
ecause it makes for healthier and mo m
ed Ycows. Result-nricher and more midi.“
k" on our recommendation-

ﬁlluLMonnllk" dealer about our guarantee. * -

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:rlere‘iln a locn‘l‘ity. but it there should not be
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That’s what
thousands of Silberman

shippers say—and have
been saying it for over 53 years.

Dal .Punnel, of Kidder, Mo., says he got
$15.00 more than he expected. ‘ \

Harry McLaughlin, of Crawfordsville, Ind.,
says he couldn’t have gotten a better price any-
where else. .1 , ‘

, W . White, of Danvers, 111., sayshe thanks
us f liberal gradingand liberal prices.
' Clifford W. Heintz, of Caledonia, Mich, '
ﬁays, we paid him twice as much for
is furs as he got anywhere else.

Clarence Carpenter, of Clayton,

Mich; says we paid him more
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we could ﬁll this publication with let-
ters from trappers from all parts of thecountry .
and they would all say the same:—- ' *

We Pay More Money .forFurs of All Kinds

That’s a wonderful record we have made—for 53 years. During this period We
have made steadfast friends all over the country. Our shippers have been mi hty
well- pleased With our liberal gradings, with our prompt returns. They got “ he
Check that Satisfies.” So today we are known all over as ~

The Leading House in the Best] Market

Further, because of the eternal satisfaction-0f trappers without larger checks
and honest business methods, we have won their seal of apprpvrl.

. Ship to Silberman ' l -| - ., i 1
A Silberman"Ch.eck is not only larger, but “GOOD” at, any bank or general store 1 ‘
in the country. We have been in busmess 53 years—we have ‘over $2,000,000 invested

in this business, and we offer you an opportunity to share in the-extra proﬁts we pay our shippers. An
. opportunity to make MORE MONEY out of trapping than you ever did before. Don’t miss it.

Write Us for Price List or Ship Today

Writes. SILBERMAN & SONS on a tag or label. Attach it to your shipment“: .

Put slip made Wlth your name and address. Notify us of shipment if you WlSh. ’ ' . ,4

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. .2. - _, \‘ . in a fewdays, back comes the lsr est _ ,

' ’possiblecheck for yourfurs. TRY S. 9 " '

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